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« Reply #30 on: Feb 27th, 2012, 7:36am » |
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I feel bad for the salvage company losing all that money but if it wasn't their's to begin with, they should've just let it be.
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« Reply #31 on: Mar 8th, 2012, 11:49pm » |
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607 can crow about setting animal-nose record
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Thu Mar 08, 10:43 PM
A comedy festival in Michigan is pecking away at chicken-themed world records.
In 2011, organizers of Gilda's LaughFest in Grand Rapids set a Guinness World Record for the most rubber chickens tossed - 925.
On Thursday evening, 607 revelers packed a downtown city block and donned chicken beaks, clucking their way to the record for the most people wearing animal noses at a single venue.
Assuming, that is, the folks at Guinness World Records agree.
Organizers said those who braved the 30-degree temperatures wore the beaks for 11 minutes and 39 seconds, eclipsing the 10 minutes mandated by Guinness.
Since there isn't a current world record in the animal nose-wearing category, if the paperwork checks out, then those who busted a move to the Chicken Dance have set the mark.
"What an event. It really brought the community together. It was incredible," Sharon Irwin, a 54-year-old legal secretary from nearby Kentwood, said as she was leaving the fenced-in area known as "the coop."
The event served as the official kickoff to Gilda's LaughFest, which runs through March 18 and is sponsored by the nonprofit Gilda's Club Grand Rapids. The festival honors the memory of comedian Gilda Radner, who died in 1989. This year's headliners include comedians Whoopi Goldberg, Martin Short and Kevin Nealon.
Radner's brother, Michael, was on hand for Thursday's beak-wearing record.
"It's a wonderful legacy of my sister, and I'm so happy to be a part of it," he said.
Gilda's LaughFest began last year, and more than 55,000 people from 25 states and Canada attended. All proceeds from the festival benefit the cancer, grief and other support programs that are offered through Gilda's Club Grand Rapids.
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« Reply #32 on: Mar 9th, 2012, 8:18am » |
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Now THAT'S just EXTRA CRISPY! 
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« Reply #33 on: Mar 12th, 2012, 10:55pm » |
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Buford, Wyo. - population 1 - heads to auction
BUFORD, Wyo., Mon Mar 12, 03:34 PM
What's advertised as the smallest town in the United States is scheduled to go up for auction next month.
Buford, located between Cheyenne and Laramie in southeast Wyoming, is famous for having just one inhabitant, Don Sammons.
Sammons plans to retire from managing his businesses at Buford and move on. The auction is set for noon on April 5.
Buford traces its origins the 1860s and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and had as many as 2,000 residents before the railroad was rerouted.
Sammons and his family moved from Los Angeles to Buford in 1980. Family members moved away over the years, but Sammons stayed on as sole resident and "mayor" of the unincorporated community. He bought the trading post in 1992 and operated it until last year.
"It was a great life for me and for my family," he said, adding it would be the same for anyone looking for a unique operation.
Buford sits at an elevation of 8,000 feet and is the highest town along Interstate 80 between New York and California. The area offers impressive views of the Rocky Mountains but is prone to extreme winds and frigid temperatures - even by Wyoming standards.
Foul weather shuts down I-80 between Cheyenne and Laramie at least a couple times during a typical winter. Each time that happens, Buford might as well be at the North Pole rather than next to one of the busiest cross-country thoroughfares in the U.S.
Assets up for sale will include a gas station and convenience store, a 1905 schoolhouse that has been used as an office, a cabin, a garage, 10 acres of land, a three-bedroom home, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported ( http://bit.ly/z6dCkL).
Buford has its own ZIP code and post office boxes for people who live nearby.
It's a business opportunity that also offers a romantic lifestyle, said Amy Bates, chief marketing officer for Oklahoma City, Okla.-based Williams and Williams, which is handling the auction. Bidding will open at $100,000, she said.
"We're going to have a variety of people attracted to this property, based on what it would mean to them," Bates said.
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« Reply #34 on: Mar 13th, 2012, 7:19am » |
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Now THAT'S a one-horse-town! 
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« Reply #35 on: Mar 15th, 2012, 10:20pm » |
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Gettysburg gift store pulls Booth bobblehead dolls
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Tue Mar 13, 10:35 PM
Bobblehead dolls of the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln have been pulled from sale at the Gettysburg National Military Park visitors' center bookstore.
The dolls of John Wilkes Booth with a handgun were removed from shelves on Saturday, a day after a reporter for Hanover's The Evening Sun newspaper asked about them, officials said.
"On rare occasions, there's an item that might cause concern, and obviously the bobbleheads appeared to be doing that," Gettysburg Foundation spokeswoman Dru Anne Neil said Tuesday.
The Booth dolls, featuring big heads attached to the bodies by springs so they bobble, were available for only about a week before the park superintendent, the foundation president and the bookstore manager decided they shouldn't be for sale, Neil said.
She declined to state the reason for the decision, and messages left Tuesday for the park and the company that operates the bookstore weren't immediately returned.
The Booth dolls, which are about 7 inches tall and come in boxes that look like the inside of the theater where Lincoln was killed, sell online for about $20 each. They have proved to be popular, as more than 150 of the original run of 250 have been sold, and more are being made, Kansas City, Mo.-based manufacturer BobbleHead LLC said.
"There's a market there," sales manager Matt Powers said. "We like to let the customer decide if it's a good item or not."
Confederate sympathizer Booth shot and killed Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington in April 1865, as the Civil War was ending. He fled and was tracked into Virginia, where he was killed.
Gettysburg was the site of a July 1863 Civil War battle in which the Union Army repelled a Confederate invasion of the North under Gen. Robert E. Lee. The battle is often considered the turning point of the war.
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« Reply #36 on: Mar 16th, 2012, 9:33am » |
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"There's a market there," sales manager Matt Powers said. "We like to let the customer decide if it's a good item or not."
WHAT?! You've got to be kidding me!
It's about as tasteful as a Lee Harvey Oswald action figure or a Twin Towers 9/11 playset!
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« Reply #37 on: Mar 24th, 2012, 11:11pm » |
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I Love The 80s...
RIADAS RETORT: NICELY DISPLAYED, DONT YOU THINK?
For women who grew up in the 80s, the mention of "My Little Pony" will often evoke fond childhood memories of ample playtime spent with the brightly-colored horses.
But for 29-year-old Sarah Butler, the Yorkshire native's My Little Pony collection is a continually growing obsession. Butler has 1,000 ponies said to be worth £20,000 ($31,789) that live in "the pony room," which is devoted solely to her collection, reports the Daily Mail.
But her shrine to the toy doesn't stop there. The pony room comes decked out in My Little Pony paraphernalia including stuffed animals, curtains, a bedspread, a lamp shade and yes, that pink and blue Dream Castle every girl always wanted as a kid. To house the ponies, Butler enlisted her father to build custom wooden shelves.
Butler, like a host of women from three decades ago, first fell for the ponies as a child, but decided to give them away to charity after she grew out of the phase, reports the Mirror.
It was only when she graduated from college in 2003 and realized she wanted something to remind herself of her youth that she rekindled her love of the toys.
"It's just a bright, happy, comforting place that reminds me of being a child but also reminds me of now, because even though I just turned 29, I'm a My Little Pony fan and there's nothing wrong with that" Butler told the Sun.
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Re: Human Interest Stories...
« Reply #38 on: Mar 25th, 2012, 8:57am » |
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Believe it or not, my girlfriend's My Little Pony collection is easily that big! 
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« Reply #39 on: Mar 25th, 2012, 9:38pm » |
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James Cameron reaches deepest spot on Earth
HONOLULU, Sun Mar 25, 07:10 PM
Hollywood icon James Cameron has made it to Earth's deepest point.
The director of "Titanic," "Avatar" and other films used a specially designed submarine to dive nearly seven miles, completing his journey a little before 8 a.m. Monday local time, according to Stephanie Montgomery of the National Geographic Society.
He plans to spend about six hours exploring and filming the Mariana Trench, about 200 miles southwest of the Pacific island of Guam.
"All systems OK," were Cameron's first words upon reaching the bottom, according to a statement. His arrival at a depth of 35,756 feet came early Sunday evening on the U.S. East Coast, after a descent that took more than two hours.
The scale of the trench is hard to grasp - it's 120 times larger than the Grand Canyon and more than a mile deeper than Mount Everest is tall.
Cameron made the dive aboard his 12-ton, lime-green sub called "Deepsea Challenger." He planned to collect samples for biologists and geologists to study.
"It's really the first time that human eyes have had an opportunity to gaze upon what is a very alien landscape," said Terry Garcia, the National Geographic Society's executive VP for mission programs, via phone from Pitlochry, Scotland.
The first and only time anyone dove to these depths was in 1960. Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard and U.S. Navy Capt. Don Walsh took nearly five hours to reach the bottom and stayed just 20 minutes. They had little to report on what they saw, however, because their submarine kicked up so much sand from the ocean floor.
"He is going to be seeing something that none of us have ever seen before. He is going to be opening new worlds to scientists," Garcia said.
One of the risks of a dive so deep is extreme water pressure. At 6.8 miles below the surface, the pressure is the equivalent of three SUVs sitting on your toe.
Cameron told The Associated Press in an interview after a 5.1 mile-deep practice run near Papua New Guinea earlier this month that the pressure "is in the back of your mind." The submarine would implode in an instant if it leaked, he said.
But while he was a little apprehensive beforehand, he wasn't scared or nervous while underwater.
"When you are actually on the dive you have to trust the engineering was done right," he said.
The film director has been an oceanography enthusiast since childhood and has made 72 deep-sea submersible dives. Thirty-three of those dives have been to the wreckage of the Titanic, the subject of his 1997 hit film.
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« Reply #40 on: Mar 26th, 2012, 7:50am » |
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I'm glad this is one billionaire putting his money to good use to further the understanding of the world's oceans.
Good for him!
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« Reply #41 on: Mar 27th, 2012, 10:22pm » |
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Century-old light bulb from Ohio site still works
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio, Tue Mar 27, 09:44 AM
At least one of five century-old incandescent light bulbs still works after being pulled from the cornerstone of a Cleveland-area building along with a time capsule.
The Plain Dealer reports (http://bit.ly/GUrSIB) GE Lighting began a 100th anniversary celebration of the Nela Park operation on Monday at one of the park's original buildings at the East Cleveland research center.
The lead-box time capsule held photos of Nela founders, journals, a book of technical specifications and a Plain Dealer. The 40-watt light bulbs were packed in sand above the box.
A special socket was used to show off one bulb's longevity. The rest went to a research lab.
The Nela industrial park is the headquarters of GE Lighting, and is listed as an historic place by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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« Reply #42 on: Mar 28th, 2012, 7:03am » |
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I'd love to see what's in the time capsule in the Essex County Hospital cornerstone!
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« Reply #43 on: Apr 5th, 2012, 10:41pm » |
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on Mar 12th, 2012, 10:55pm, Riada wrote:Buford, Wyo. - population 1 - heads to auction
BUFORD, Wyo., Mon Mar 12, 03:34 PM
What's advertised as the smallest town in the United States is scheduled to go up for auction next month.
Buford, located between Cheyenne and Laramie in southeast Wyoming, is famous for having just one inhabitant, Don Sammons.
Sammons plans to retire from managing his businesses at Buford and move on. The auction is set for noon on April 5.
Buford traces its origins the 1860s and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and had as many as 2,000 residents before the railroad was rerouted.
Sammons and his family moved from Los Angeles to Buford in 1980. Family members moved away over the years, but Sammons stayed on as sole resident and "mayor" of the unincorporated community. He bought the trading post in 1992 and operated it until last year.
"It was a great life for me and for my family," he said, adding it would be the same for anyone looking for a unique operation.
Buford sits at an elevation of 8,000 feet and is the highest town along Interstate 80 between New York and California. The area offers impressive views of the Rocky Mountains but is prone to extreme winds and frigid temperatures - even by Wyoming standards.
Foul weather shuts down I-80 between Cheyenne and Laramie at least a couple times during a typical winter. Each time that happens, Buford might as well be at the North Pole rather than next to one of the busiest cross-country thoroughfares in the U.S.
Assets up for sale will include a gas station and convenience store, a 1905 schoolhouse that has been used as an office, a cabin, a garage, 10 acres of land, a three-bedroom home, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported ( http://bit.ly/z6dCkL).
Buford has its own ZIP code and post office boxes for people who live nearby.
It's a business opportunity that also offers a romantic lifestyle, said Amy Bates, chief marketing officer for Oklahoma City, Okla.-based Williams and Williams, which is handling the auction. Bidding will open at $100,000, she said.
"We're going to have a variety of people attracted to this property, based on what it would mean to them," Bates said.
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Buford, Wyo., population 1, was sold Thursday for $900,000, The Associated Press reported. The buyers were two businessmen from Vietnam who flew in for the auction and whose identities have been so far kept secret.
Until recently, the town's one resident was Don Sammons, 61, who managed the town's liquor sales, hardware sales, gas pump and hot dog warmer. Sammons moved months ago, and the phone to the Buford Trading Post has been disconnected.
Buford, featured on "Nightly News" last weekend, is on Highway 80 between Cheyenne and Laramie in southeast Wyoming. The town was originally listed at $100,000. The auction house, Williams and Williams, told NBC News that buyers from more than 70 countries expressed interest.
On the Buford Trading Post website, Sammons explained that he moved to Buford from California with his wife and son in 1980. Several years ago, his wife died, and his son grew up and moved away. Sammons describes himself: "He's a man with his own zip code, his own town, his own gas station and trading post." He encouraged travelers to stop by and say hello.
Buford, Wyoming's second-oldest town, was established in 1866. Years ago, it was a railway town of 2,000 that hosted both the famous and infamous -- Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin D. Roosevelt and outlaw Butch Cassidy. But when the railroad faded away, so did the residents.
Sold on Thursday were five buildings, U.S. Post Office boxes, a leased Union Wireless cellular tower, 10 acres of land and "a parking area previously used by an overnight shipping company for nighttime trailer switches." In its listing, the auction house noted that up to 1,000 customers drive through the tiny town during peak summer months.
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« Reply #44 on: Apr 6th, 2012, 7:14am » |
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You can buy/sell towns?
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