Comments by martymefurstPage 1 of 3 | Next Posted on January 2 at 11:21 p.m. (Suggest removal) It looks like you're not far off, according to this subsidiary site the company was founded by racecar driver Bob Bailey http://www.ggbailey.com/webapp/wcs/store... Isn't Google amazing? Posted on January 1 at 12:09 p.m. (Suggest removal) Excellent piece, however to the writer who attributed "there's a sucker born every minute" to Barnum, it was actually said by a Barnum competitor in reference to the Cardiff Giant hoax. It was actually a hoax of a hoax, as Barnum was displaying a replica of the original hoax and billing it as the original, and people still paid money to see it even after the real original hoax was exposed and admitted. The Cardiff Giant was a purported missing link fossil that was really just a carving made from gypsum. Wikipedia has an excellent article on this bit of Upstate New York history, long displayed at the Farmers Museum in Cooperstown: Posted on December 31 at 7:15 p.m. (Suggest removal) Pssst...I have a little secret...many of Viacom's popular programs are free on the internet, and I'm guessing that this is one of the bones of contention that Time Warner has with Viacom when the networks are asking for a big $$$ increase. Why should cable customers pay for what anyone can get for free? Of all Viacom programming the only thing I watch is The Daily Show, and I watch that online the day after it airs on TV after my bedtime. On Time Warner may lose MTV, Comedy Central over fee dispute Posted on November 17 at 7:37 p.m. (Suggest removal) You can't throw a rock in Philadelphia without hitting a museum. Of course you have the world class art museum as seen in the film Rocky - it's so fantastically ginormous that you need to budget an entire day to cover it all. There's a Constitution Museum, the Liberty Bell (honestly that one is a waste of time - stand for hours to go through airport style security only to see...a bell with a crack in it.) The Science Museum has a majestic statue of Benjamin Franklin, a native Philadelphian and our first scientist of note, and also lots of hands on things for the kids. They had a great Darwin exhibit when I visited. My all time favorite in Philly museums has to be The Mutter Museum - it's a medical collection of oddities attached to the College of Physicians that makes "Ripley's Believe it or Not" tourist traps irrelevant. The Mutter has the plaster death cast of Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese Twins, as well as their pickled shared livers (modern technology could have easily separated the brothers.) There are ancient Peruvian and Bolivian trephined skulls, skeletons of two headed babies, and The Soap Lady. The Soap Lady is something you just have to see for yourself. Posted on November 5 at 6:55 p.m. (Suggest removal) Joseph, while I respect your reasons to vote for a candidate the way you see fit, your concept of how this country was founded is just plain wrong. God is not mentioned at all in our Constitution, and he's only vaguely alluded to as the "Creator" and "Providence" in the Declaration. This is because a number of them didn't believe in a personal god who took an interest in human affairs. Whether you like it or not, our founders held a plurality of beliefs and they set it up so that government would neither support nor diminish any one of those beliefs. The wall of separation is what gives you freedom, not takes it away. On What issue played the biggest role in who you voted for in the presidential election? Posted on November 3 at 9:50 p.m. (Suggest removal) Well aquaorchid, maybe I'm bored but I read them. Dragonemprss seemed like she had a bit of a rant but I can't say I disagreed with much of what she said. McCain really blew it when he picked Palin as his running mate, and the only chance he had of getting my vote was to pick a Veep that was at least as respectable as himself. The Republican Party must have a hundred more worthy candidates, but he went for the cynical choice, probably hoping she'd get him both the Hillary and the bible thumping, gun hugging vote. Instead he's drawn out the nuts in force. Put a fork in him, he's done. On Who do you plan to vote for in the presidential election on Nov. 4? Posted on November 2 at 3:29 p.m. (Suggest removal) I was once issued a ticket on Consaul just after those stop signs were put in. Not for not stopping, because I did in fact stop, but for not stopping "long enough" as the officer put it. It didn't matter that I was at a three way with no one else there, apparently there is a minimum number of seconds you're supposed to count out? "We've had many complaints from the residents," Officer Friendly said. It occurred to me that the only real complaint they had probably gotten had been one from the petty and vindictive Frank Duci that Hannaford had built a supermarket just outside of city limits a little further up the road. Or am I reading too much into those signs, or the suspicious timing of their placement? Posted on October 30 at 10:23 p.m. (Suggest removal) Well if you got anyone hooked with these bytes someone does in fact have the complete works of Lovecraft posted online for free. I think it's pretty much all public domain at this point. Enjoy: http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lov... My first was "At the Mountains of Madness," a sort of Lovecraft primer. I must have been 14 years old and losing sleep over it. Something about Lovecraft I've noticed over my many readings of his works is that he never really delved into what we would call the occult. He wrote about a science fiction that was so far beyond our understanding that it was bound to appear occult-like. His demons and nightmare creatures were really just aliens advanced beyond our comprehension. Posted on October 27 at 7:34 p.m. (Suggest removal) If only one could only have a crystal ball to look back and see who men like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison would have supported. One could pretty easily guess without the need of any scrying device who they would not have supported, and my guess is that they'd have a good belly laugh at a VP nominee who couldn't name one newspaper that she reads, or couldn't say for sure what her job is even going to be once she has it (even thought it's written down in the Constitution, a document that anyone with an internet connection has free access to instantly.) On Who do you plan to vote for in the presidential election on Nov. 4? Page 1 of 3 | Next |
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There's an old saying, "you can't fix stupid."
On Oft-attacked fiberglass horse featured on cable show (with video)