Actually, it started floating down river a little bit. They just got it out yesterday, but they till hadn't recovered one of the engines. they knew where it was but it started snowing too much to get it out.
Some department stores are giving away $175 million worth of free cosmetics as part of a class-action lawsuit settlement.
When free cosmetics are involved, word among women spreads fast.
Donna Harrell was one of hundreds of North Texas woman who heard the news that stores such as Dillard's, Macy's, Dallas-based Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue are giving away free cosmetics.
"My girlfriend from Atlanta called me," Harrell said. "Her mother had called her, and so she called me."
The lawsuit alleges cosmetics manufacturers fixed prices between 1994 and 2003. As part of the settlement, stores are giving away one free product worth $25 to consumers. The items include perfumes, body lotions and makeup from high-end manufacturers such as Lancome, Christian Dior, Clarins and Guerlain.
"I got some COCO Chanel body lotion and my favorite Lancome mascara," one shopper said.
It wasn't hard to find the free products. Stores were ready for the influx of customers. At Nordstom at the Dallas Galleria, the line went out the door as women waited for their free product. Customers signed a waiver saying they'd received their free product and then chose the one they wanted. Even when lines were long, the entire process took less than five minutes.
"I think a lot of us got tied up watching the Inauguration activities, but as soon as she called and it was over, I got dressed and ran out," said Harrell, who went home with a full-sized Ralph Lauren body lotion.
The giveaway ends Jan. 27 or until supplies last. You can see a list of the stores and the products they are giving away at http://www.cosmeticssettlement.com.
I saw a few facebook status updates from some of my friends (mostly a year younger than me and therefore still in high school in Dallas) saying they had gone to the mall in order to get a shit load of really nice perfumes and cosmetics for free. Sounds like they got a lot of really nice stuff too! I just got back into Austin on Sunday, tis a shame; just about every mall in Dallas has all of those stores, and I would definitely be in those lines. Those stores are really expensive!!! This would be the only time you would ever see me enter a Neiman Marcus or a Nordstroms, and walk out actually carrying something from the store.
(CNN) -- Police in Australia have arrested a man accused of breaking into an adult shop and having sex with blow-up dolls, it was reported Wednesday.
The 23-year-old allegedly broke into the Laneway Adult Shop in the northen Australian city of Cairns on several occasions, having sex with a doll named "Jungle Jane," the Cairns Post reported.
It earlier quoted the store's owner saying the burglar always cleaned up after himself, but the dolls were dumped unceremoniously in an alleyway behind the store.
"He has been taking the dolls out the back and blowing them up and using the dolls and leaving them in the alley," he said. "It is totally bizarre."
Police have charged the unidentified man, believed to be from the city's Manunda suburb, with four counts of breaking and entering. They told the paper that DNA samples had been recovered from one of the dolls.
"Following intelligence-based inquiries, we attended a Manunda address and made an arrest," police spokesman Jason Chetham said, according to the Post.
Former French president Jacques Chirac was rushed to hospital after being mauled by his own 'clinically depressed' pet dog.
The 76-year-old statesman was savaged by his white Maltese dog - which suffers from frenzied fits and is being treated with anti-depressants.
The animal, named Sumo, had become increasingly violent over the past years and was prone to making 'vicious, unprovoked attacks', Chirac's wife Bernadette said.
The former president, who ruled France for 12 years until 2007, was taken to hospital in Paris where he was treated as an outpatient and sent home, VSD magazine reported.
Mrs Chirac said: 'The dog went for him for no apparent reason.
'We were already aware the animal was unpredictable and is actually being treated with pills for depression.
'My husband was bitten quite badly, but he is certain to make a full recovery over the coming weeks.'
The former French First Lady did not reveal where on his body Chirac was bitten.
The pet, named after the Japanese form of wrestling, was a gift to the Chiracs from their grandson Martin.
Recent polls have shown that since leaving office Chirac is now regarded as one of the most popular politicians in France, liked by 70 per cent of people.
In the last days of his presidency, he was much less popular, liked by just 50 per cent of the population.
CRAPSTONE, England — When ordering things by telephone, Stewart Pearce tends to take a proactive approach to the inevitable question “What is your address?”
He lays it out straight, so there is no room for unpleasant confusion. “I say, ‘It’s spelled “crap,” as in crap,’ ” said Mr. Pearce, 61, who has lived in Crapstone, a one-shop country village in Devon, for decades.
Disappointingly, Mr. Pearce has so far been unable to parlay such delicate encounters into material gain, as a neighbor once did.
“Crapstone,” the neighbor said forthrightly, Mr. Pearce related, whereupon the person on the other end of the telephone repeated it to his co-workers and burst out laughing. “They said, ‘Oh, we thought it didn’t really exist,’ ” Mr. Pearce said, “and then they gave him a free something.”
In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Some are mostly amusing, like Ugley, Essex; East Breast, in western Scotland; North Piddle, in Worcestershire; and Spanker Lane, in Derbyshire.
Others evoke images that may conflict with residents’ efforts to appear dignified when, for example, applying for jobs.
These include Crotch Crescent, Oxford; Titty Ho, Northamptonshire; Wetwang, East Yorkshire; Slutshole Lane, Norfolk; and Thong, Kent. And, in a country that delights in lavatory humor, particularly if the word “bottom” is involved, there is Pratts Bottom, in Kent, doubly cursed because “prat” is slang for buffoon.
As for Penistone, a thriving South Yorkshire town, just stop that sophomoric snickering.
“It’s pronounced ‘PENNIS-tun,’ ” Fiona Moran, manager of the Old Vicarage Hotel in Penistone, said over the telephone, rather sharply. When forced to spell her address for outsiders, she uses misdirection, separating the tricky section into two blameless parts: “p-e-n” — pause — “i-s-t-o-n-e.”
Several months ago, Lewes District Council in East Sussex tried to address the problem of inadvertent place-name titillation by saying that “street names which could give offense” would no longer be allowed on new roads.
“Avoid aesthetically unsuitable names,” like Gaswork Road, the council decreed. Also, avoid “names capable of deliberate misinterpretation,” like Hoare Road, Typple Avenue, Quare Street and Corfe Close.
(What is wrong with Corfe Close, you might ask? The guidelines mention the hypothetical residents of No. 4, with their unfortunate hypothetical address, “4 Corfe Close.” To find the naughty meaning, you have to repeat the first two words rapidly many times, preferably in the presence of your fifth-grade classmates.)
The council explained that it was only following national guidelines and that it did not intend to change any existing lewd names.
Still, news of the revised policy raised an outcry.
“Sniggering at double entendres is a loved and time-honored tradition in this country,” Carol Midgley wrote in The Times of London. Ed Hurst, a co-author, with Rob Bailey, of “Rude Britain” and “Rude UK,” which list arguably offensive place names — some so arguably offensive that, unfortunately, they cannot be printed here — said that many such communities were established hundreds of years ago and that their names were not rude at the time.
“Place names and street names are full of history and culture, and it’s only because language has evolved over the centuries that they’ve wound up sounding rude,” Mr. Hurst said in an interview.
Mr. Bailey, who grew up on Tumbledown Dick Road in Oxfordshire, and Mr. Hurst got the idea for the books when they read about a couple who bought a house on Butt Hole Road, in South Yorkshire.
The name most likely has to do with the spot’s historic function as a source of water, a water butt being a container for collecting water. But it proved to be prohibitively hilarious.
“If they ordered a pizza, the pizza company wouldn’t deliver it, because they thought it was a made-up name,” Mr. Hurst said. “People would stand in front of the sign, pull down their trousers and take pictures of each other’s naked buttocks.”
The couple moved away.
The people in Crapstone have not had similar problems, although their sign is periodically stolen by word-loving merrymakers. And their village became a stock joke a few years ago, when a television ad featuring a prone-to-swearing soccer player named Vinnie Jones showed Mr. Jones’s car breaking down just under the Crapstone sign.
In the commercial, Mr. Jones tries to alert the towing company to his location while covering the sign and trying not to say “crap” in front of his young daughter.
The consensus in the village is that there is a perfectly innocent reason for the name “Crapstone,” though it is unclear what that is. Theories put forth by various residents the other day included “place of the rocks,” “a kind of twisting of the original word,” “something to do with the soil” and “something to do with Sir Francis Drake,” who lived nearby.
Jacqui Anderson, a doctor in Crapstone who used to live in a village called Horrabridge, which has its own issues, said that she no longer thought about the “crap” in “Crapstone.”
Still, when strangers ask where she’s from, she admitted, “I just say I live near Plymouth.”
(MusicRadar) Leather-clad Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford earned the nickname 'Metal God' for his tribute to metal music, named after his band's song of the same name. Now, Halford has copyrighted the Metal God moniker for a video game…
"The trademark was filed on January 11 of this year and covers 'computer games; video games; and game controllers for computer games'," reports Kotaku. "
Halford could, of course, just be protecting Metal God from other gaming entrepreneurs. Or - in much more fun reality – he might be considering adding a video game franchise to Rob Halford Entertainment Limited's books.
SEOUL - NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has hailed his troops as 'invincible,' state media said on Sunday, as tensions with the South escalated.
Mr Kim expressed confidence in his troops' ability to 'shatter any surprise invasion of the enemy at a single blow' as he inspected an army unit, the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
'The KPA (Korean People's Army)... has grown to be the invincible revolutionary ranks all members of which devotedly defend the Party and the leader,' it quoted Mr Kim as saying, without giving a date for the visit.
The KCNA dispatch came days after North Korea scrapped all political and military agreements with the South, further raising tensions between the two, which still remain at war since 1950-1953 conflict.
Accusing the South of pushing relations to the brink of war, the North announced on Friday that all political and military agreements would be nullified, including one covering their Yellow Sea border - the scene of bloody naval clashes in 1999 and 2002.
Hours later, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak vowed to stick to what Pyongyang has called a 'confrontational' policy on North Korea.
Mr Lee, who took office a year ago, rolled back the 'sunshine' engagement policy of his liberal predecessors, linking Seoul's economic assistance to Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament efforts.
South Korea stepped up its border monitoring and vowed to respond firmly to any violation, but said no unusual activities had been detected.
State Department acting spokesman Robert Wood said the 'distinctly not helpful' North Korean comments would not affect the six-party talks involving North Korea, South Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia aimed at scrapping Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programmes.
Pyongyang signed a deal with its five partners in 2007 calling for its nuclear weapons to be scrapped in return for aid, normalised relations with the United States and Japan and a formal peace pact on the Korean peninsula.
But the negotiations are deadlocked as North Korea, which tested a nuclear device in 2006, baulks at a written agreement detailing ways to verify nuclear disarmament. -- AFP
Swiss authorities announced today that they had found a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the extremely popular free satellite mapping software.
The discovery was part of an ongoing investigation that has so far led to the arrest of 16 people and the seizure of 1.2 tons of marijuana with a street value of $2.5 million USD. Cash and other valuables were seized as well with a value of over $800,000 USD.
The head of Zurich police's specialist narcotics unit, Norbert Klossner, said the field was in the northeastern canton (state) of Thurgau. The plantation is about 7500 square meters and was hidden inside a larger field of corn.
"It was an interesting chance discovery," said Klossner.
The 16 suspects have allegedly sold 7.7 tons of marijuana since 2004, making an average of 6 million Swiss francs a year.
shit, now Google Earth is going to be used for good instead of evil!? How can I use Earth to look at people's houses and call them, saying "I can see you" when I know it's being used for this kind of stuff now?
I've never smoked, so I don't really...care. However, it really seems to bother you guys. Guys! GUYS! ;_; Don't be sad! There is more weed to go around!
You know...Ron Paul supports legalization of all drugs.
I think the google earth story, although a tad amusing, belongs in the fucked up new thread, think of all that weed they just threw away while I continue to spend a lot of money on it. (I regret nothing!)
It's always sad when I hear about big busts, someone obviously put a lot of work and love into that field.
why can't we all just use google maps for fun purposes? Like looking for bums on street view.
On an unrelated note- Someone needs to write a program that allows you to look up places on google earth and then "nuke" them. I could do that shit for hours!
I believe when the police sieze marijauna around here they end up dumping it out behind...well, I don't recall what building but some government building or other. The fence back there apparently keeps getting broken.
(CNN) -- Super Bowl fans in Tucson, Arizona, caught a different kind of show during Sunday's big game.
Just as Cardinals' superstar Larry Fitzgerald watched himself sprint into the end zone on the stadium's Jumbotron during Sunday's Super Bowl, 10 seconds of eye-popping pornographic imagery "flashed" across the screens of those watching at home.
"We are mortified by last evening's Super Bowl interruption, and deeply apologize to our customers for the inappropriate programming," Comcast Cable said in a written statement.
"Our initial investigation suggests this was an isolated malicious act," the statement added.
Comcast, and several local television stations that carried the signal, say they are currently investigating what caused the interruption.
"It appears this material was only viewed by some Comcast customers," local Tucson television station KVOA-TV said in a written statement.
Television station KVOA added "when the NBC feed of the Super Bowl was transmitted from KVOA to local cable providers and through over-the-air antennas, there was no pornographic material," KVOA President and General Manager Gary Nielsen said in a separate statement.
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Dern college education.
Former French President Chirac hospitalised after mauling by his clinically depressed poodle
No Snickering: That Road Sign Means Something Else
He's playing General Whytelyon in Brutal Legend. not starring in his own game.
Oh...
Just ruin all my hopes and dreams why dont you...
N.Korea army 'invincible': Kim
Marijuana field spotted through Google Earth
Those bastards.
You know...Ron Paul supports legalization of all drugs.
It's always sad when I hear about big busts, someone obviously put a lot of work and love into that field.
why can't we all just use google maps for fun purposes? Like looking for bums on street view.
On an unrelated note- Someone needs to write a program that allows you to look up places on google earth and then "nuke" them. I could do that shit for hours!
Heh. I'm sorry, but it almost fits.