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Tim, yes. Ann, I'm indifferent.

Stranded Parrot ‘Turns Air Blue’ Cursing Out Firefighter During Rescue Attempt [*] Jessie the parrot was decidedly unimpressed when a firefighter came to rescue her from a rooftop in London on Monday morning. The Macaw, who escaped from her owner’s home and perched on a nearby roof for three days, spewed profanity at her attempted rescuer — even after he said “I love you” in a bid to bond with the bird. Jessie also reportedly told the London Fire Brigade crew member to “fuck off.” Brigade watch manager Chris Swallow said the rescue was attempted because “there were concerns that she may be injured which is why she hadn’t come down.” But, “thankfully it soon became apparent that Jessie was fine and uninjured as she flew off to another roof and then to a tree,” he added. Jessie later returned home of her own accord and was filmed sheepishly saying “thank you” to the fire service.

Dexter, the emotional support peacock famously banned from a flight, has died (link)

Couple survives ice cave by burning their hair http://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/zjWWQ7t4LYVXZGueBf0NxLCT8Uc=/1400x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5b747713/turbine/ny-1534359311-bswfuf3qqf-snap-image They escaped with their lives — by a hair. A resourceful couple trapped in an ice cave in Wyoming found a way to survive long enough to be rescued. Spencer Christiansen and his wife Jessica burned everything they had with them to stay warm in the Darby Canyon Ice Cave, including clumps of hair. “You know you're headed down to your death and they found us just right before we had to burn the last of what we had left to survive a few more hours,” Jessica Christiansen told ABC's “Good Morning America” on Wednesday. “We knew we only had about an hour or two before we would've died.” The Idaho couple, both experienced climbers, said they adequately prepared for the trip with a plan to stay in the cave for a few hours on Saturday. They even told relatives to call for help if they did not return the following day. That move may have saved their lives. They got lost, thanks to what they called "incorrect information." They believed they were near death when they were rescued on Sunday, which happened to be Spencer's birthday. “Where we found them they were 25 feet up in a small hole or cavern and one of our team members had to ascend up a rope to get to them, do an assessment on them, [and] build an anchor to help them repel out of that spot,” rescue volunteer K.C. Bess told ABC News. “They were starting to really shiver a lot, shaking, and showing some signs of hypothermia.” A local law enforcement official told ABC News that only expert explorers should consider tackling the cave, which he likened to a maze. “The cave is a series of large caverns and tight crawls and there are areas where you are literally on your hands and toes trying to squeeze through and then that connects to some larger caverns as well,” Teton County Undersheriff Matt Carr told ABC News. “There is a lot of running water, ice cold water, running throughout there that you have to cross to get in.” The young couple said they were fearful during the ordeal that they would never see their 1-year-old daughter again. “It's really scary to think you're leaving a child with no parents and no way out," Jessica told ABC News. "It's really cold and it's really scary to face your death for sure. The scariest part it got to was when Spencer was scared. I had total faith in him the whole time to get me out of there, but when I saw how scared he was I knew it was the end for us.”

Muscular model allegedly tried to kill roommate over sexual advances A musclebound fitness model who came to New York to make cash dancing at a gay strip club landed in cuffs after he tried to kill his roommate for hitting on him, authorities said Wednesday. Geoffrey Tracy, 25, of Gilroy, Calif., allegedly stabbed 50-year-old Gregory Kanczes 16 times after the older man tried to grab his privates, according to police and a source close to the case. Tracy, who has no priors, fled the Hell’s Kitchen apartment Aug. 14 and flagged down a bystander who called cops. He was arraigned Wednesday in Manhattan Criminal Court on attempted murder and assault raps and held on $500,000 bond. The victim is in critical condition at Bellevue Hospital, according to cops. “Mr. Tracy is a gentle soul, who like many attractive young men and women, fell victim to predators seeking to exploit him for his good looks and take advantage of his youthful naivete,” said his defense lawyer Thomas Kenniff. The violent altercation occurred a few days after Tracy arrived in New York. A strip club owner spotted pics of the hunky personal trainer online and lured to him to the Big Apple with promises of easy cash dancing at a gay club. “He told him he could make a ton of money, bought him a ticket and flew him out,” the source said. The owner arranged for Tracy, a San Jose State grad, to crash at Kanczes’ pad on West 49th Street near Ninth Avenue. But by the fourth night in the dingy apartment, Tracy became uncomfortable. The victim allegedly started rubbing Tracy’s legs then moved his hands closer to his groin and confessed to molesting him as he slept, the source said. When the competitive bodybuilder resisted the creepy advances, Kanczes allegedly blocked the front door and threatened to kidnap him, according to the source. The criminal complaint says at 4:49 a.m., Tracy repeatedly slashed Kanczes, plunging a knife into his neck, chest, shoulder and ribs. https://scontent-lht6-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/e4a7e86526e0ef6a1889a3213a937229/5B76F816/t50.2886-16/36510108_213368195884993_7579640902524600320_n.mp4

Muscular model allegedly tried to kill roommate over sexual advances A musclebound fitness model who came to New York to make cash dancing at a gay strip club landed in cuffs after he tried to kill his roommate for hitting on him, authorities said Wednesday. Geoffrey Tracy, 25, of Gilroy, Calif., allegedly stabbed 50-year-old Gregory Kanczes 16 times after the older man tried to grab his privates, according to police and a source close to the case. Tracy, who has no priors, fled the Hell’s Kitchen apartment Aug. 14 and flagged down a bystander who called cops. He was arraigned Wednesday in Manhattan Criminal Court on attempted murder and assault raps and held on $500,000 bond. The victim is in critical condition at Bellevue Hospital, according to cops. “Mr. Tracy is a gentle soul, who like many attractive young men and women, fell victim to predators seeking to exploit him for his good looks and take advantage of his youthful naivete,” said his defense lawyer Thomas Kenniff. The violent altercation occurred a few days after Tracy arrived in New York. A strip club owner spotted pics of the hunky personal trainer online and lured to him to the Big Apple with promises of easy cash dancing at a gay club. “He told him he could make a ton of money, bought him a ticket and flew him out,” the source said. The owner arranged for Tracy, a San Jose State grad, to crash at Kanczes’ pad on West 49th Street near Ninth Avenue. But by the fourth night in the dingy apartment, Tracy became uncomfortable. The victim allegedly started rubbing Tracy’s legs then moved his hands closer to his groin and confessed to molesting him as he slept, the source said. When the competitive bodybuilder resisted the creepy advances, Kanczes allegedly blocked the front door and threatened to kidnap him, according to the source. The criminal complaint says at 4:49 a.m., Tracy repeatedly slashed Kanczes, plunging a knife into his neck, chest, shoulder and ribs. https://scontent-lht6-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/e4a7e86526e0ef6a1889a3213a937229/5B76F816/t50.2886-16/36510108_213368195884993_7579640902524600320_n.mp4

Emotional support pets banned from Royal Caribbean cruises Tourists looking to take their emotional support peacock on their next cruise adventure may be out of luck. Royal Caribbean International, the world’s second-largest cruise line by number of passengers, will no longer allow travelers to bring their emotional support animals with them aboard its ships, effective immediately, a cruise industry blog first reported Tuesday. If passengers made reservations to sail with emotional support animals before July 30, they will still be allowed on board, but subsequent reservations won’t accommodate them. “We are updating the policy to differentiate emotional support animals from service animals that are trained and certified to perform a function for a person with a disability,” a spokeswoman for Royal Caribbean said in an email to MarketWatch. “It is important to us that all our guests enjoy their vacation, which is why we put into practice this new policy. Royal Caribbean’s policy remains the same for service animals traveling with guests that have a physical or non-physical disability.” The company did not say whether the policy would apply to other cruise lines owned by parent company Royal Caribbean Cruises, such as Celebrity Cruises. Royal Caribbean’s ban appears to be one of the first cruise line policies to actively prohibit emotional support animals specifically, said Chris Gray Faust, managing editor of travel website Cruise Critic. Norwegian Cruise Line does not accept emotional support animals onboard its ships, and neither does Carnival but they do allow service animals. “Norwegian Cruise Line accepts service animals that are trained to perform a specific task,” a Norwegian spokesperson said. On Carnival ships, trained and certified service animals as defined by the US Department of Justice can accompany passengers. “Cruise lines have quite strict animal guidelines, only allowing service and support animals onboard most lines,” Faust said. The one exception: Cunard Line, a subsidiary of Carnival, has kennels onboard for pet owners to use to house their pets during their trip. Cunard’s website even features photos of a porter walking a bulldog on the ship’s deck. Emotional support animals have become a hot-button issue, particularly in the travel industry. While state and local jurisdictions may expand further on what can be considered a “service animal,” under federal law service animals are dogs trained individually to do certain work or perform tasks for someone who has a disability. These tasks can include everything from guiding someone who is blind to assisting people with psychiatric disabilities so that they don’t engage in impulsive or harmful behaviors. Emotional support animals meanwhile are typically not trained by professionals. Additionally, emotional support animals are often considered to be pets, whereas service dogs are working animals and not companions in the same sense. People have claimed creatures ranging from lizards to hamsters to peacocks as support animals. “It’s a topic that is quite contentious among travelers, due to logistical issues and the lines’ otherwise tight guidelines regarding animals onboard,” Faust said. “With policies continuing to change throughout the travel industry — whether by air, land or sea — it’s more important than ever to familiarize yourself with the guidelines of your travel company of choice to ensure you’re booking with a company that can best meet your needs.” The Air Carrier Access Act has a provision that requires airlines to allow emotional support animals on planes, as long as the animal isn’t a danger or interference to others and their owner has proper documentation. A number of airlines, including Delta, American and Alaska have tightened their rulessurrounding these animals, which have been known to bite passengers and relieve themselves on planes. Despite the crackdown on four-legged friends, airlines continue are seeing more emotional support animals on their flights. Along with the uptick in emotional support animals onboard planes has come an increase in the number of incidents involving them. A young girl was injured on a Southwest Airlines flight in February after an altercation with an emotional support dog.

Goats enjoy brief escape on way to Brooklyn butcher You gotta be kidding! More than 20 goats escaped from a truck headed to a Brooklyn slaughterhouse Tuesday when the driver pulled over for a nap — and it’s the third time a herd has broken free in less than two weeks, sources said. The animals had been doomed for the dinner plate when they busted out of trailer attached to a pickup truck near the live-slaughter halal market Vivero Primos in Bushwick at around 4 a.m., the owner and witnesses said. “I saw the driver this morning and he didn’t say anything to me. Stupid guy,” said Ali Saeed, who owns the market on Wyckoff Avenue and Hancock Street. “I don’t know why he would come here at four in the morning when we open at eight.” The brave Billys got a taste of freedom — hoofing to a nearby bus stop and chowing down on grass — before a neighbor woke up the driver and helped wrangle the goats. “A neighbor came over and said to me, ‘I caught your goats.’ I thought he was joking. I said, ‘All right thank you.’ He said, “I’d like a free chicken,” said Saeed. “Now I’ll have to give him one.” The animal world jailbreak comes less than a week after 75 sheep and goats escaped from a livestock auction in Hackettstown, New Jersey. And on Aug. 3, 100 goats broke free from a truck renting the animals for a lawn service in Boise, Idaho. Bushwick neighbor Melvin Benton, 58, was leaving his apartment when he spotted the goats in the middle of the street — as cars swerved around them. He tried to wake up the truck driver, who had brought the animals from a farm in Iowa. “The street [was] covered in goats. The driver was knocked out asleep. I was banging on the window but he wasn’t waking up. The goats were across the street from their trailer,” he said, adding he rushed to help round them up. “I called the police…They got him up.” Ciaran Flanagan, a 33-year-old bartender who snapped a shot of the goats, said, “The guy was shouting, ’Yo, the goats got out!’” “I’m from Ireland, so I’m used to goats roaming the roads. I didn’t expect to see it here,” Flanagan said. The goats were safely rounded up before 8 a.m., witnesses said. But Brooklyn neighbors were stunned to see the critters in the urban jungle. Lorraine Fields, 56, who lives next door to the slaughterhouse said, “It was terrible! I thought, Oh my god, get the goats!” Tony Castro, the landlord of a building next door, said the shop has been in the neighborhood for the last decade. “I don’t know how they allow goats to be slaughtered in the city,” Castro said, noting that the shop is “smelly.” Animal rights advocate Chris Allieri pointed to the “cruelty” associated with live poultry markets and slaughterhouses, which are scattered around the Big Apple. “[T]here’s likely no happy ending for these animals,” Allieri said. Saeed didn’t provide the name of the driver or his firm.

I always thought this son of a president was fairly good looking: http://www.socialyz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/george-bush-unibrow-235x300.jpg

You mean Season 3.

I often refer to Lisa Marie's late daddy as Pelvis Parsley, though I got that from THE PINK PANTHER: Cinderella is a one time character who only appears in the 1969 Pink Panther cartoon Pink-A-Rella Info/Story Unlike many of the other cinderella(s) This Cinderella is a scrawny, dirt-poor young girl who lives in a small shack. After finding a magic wand, the Pink Panther used it to give her a nice house, which at first frightened her but when Pink Panther showed her the wand, he used it to give her a makeover and transform her into a ravishing beauty for a night of dance with heartthrob Pelvis Parsley. However when the Witch, who lost her wand, came to get it back, Pink Panther had to take Cinderella home before midnight, which result in her losing one of her heels and changing back to her poor self. However Pelvis chase after her and after slip on her heel on her foot, returning back to her attractive self and she was carried off with him, to live happily ever after.

A friend once called her that... I've never been able to call her anything else since. Same with Clorox Bleachman (Phyllis Lindstrom)... although that was just a friend repeating what she'd heard Clorox say on a talk show about the funny mispronunciations she'd heard of her name.

Urethra Franklin So did I.

There's a personal irony in Cher recording that song. I often goof around with song lyrics, singing something nonsensical that rhymes. For the part of the song that goes There's not a soul out there, No one to hear my prayer For years I've been singing the 2nd line as Not Sonny and not Cher... I don't know why. I must be psychic!

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Curiously, I hear this... should I be worried?

True, but to be fair, in this case... The small town of Vail, located about 25 miles southeast of Tucson, has an average home price of $258,000 and no apartments within the 425-square-mile school district

Maybe after OMEN II people were just too scared to work with them.

A historical theme park in France has enlisted brainy birds to clean up after pigs. The folks at Puy du Fou in the western Vendée region have schooled six “intelligent” rooks to collect cigarette butts and debris left on their grounds. The gregarious Eurasian crows deposit the detritus into a small box. But these waste collectors don’t work for free. Each time they deliver a piece of trash, the box dispenses a tasty treat. “The goal is not just to clear up, because the visitors are generally careful to keep things clean,” the park’s president, Nicolas de Villiers, told Agence France-Presse news agency, noting that the birds also “like to communicate with humans and establish a relationship through play.” The first cleaners have already been put to work, with the rest set to join them on Monday. Puy du Fou attracts more than 2 million visitors a year, making it the second most popular theme park in France after Disneyland Paris. This is not the first feather in the birds’ cap. Earlier this year, scientists created a vending machine that showed the crows’ prowess solving problems. The machine required a particular size of paper token to release a treat, BBC News reported.

I prefer his brother Even. Much more stable and consistent.

Here’s something to crow about. A historical theme park in France has enlisted brainy birds to clean up after pigs. The folks at Puy du Fou in the western Vendée region have schooled six “intelligent” rooks to collect cigarette butts and debris left on their grounds. The gregarious Eurasian crows deposit the detritus into a small box. But these waste collectors don’t work for free. Each time they deliver a piece of trash, the box dispenses a tasty treat. “The goal is not just to clear up, because the visitors are generally careful to keep things clean,” the park’s president, Nicolas de Villiers, told Agence France-Presse news agency, noting that the birds also “like to communicate with humans and establish a relationship through play.” The first cleaners have already been put to work, with the rest set to join them on Monday. Puy du Fou attracts more than 2 million visitors a year, making it the second most popular theme park in France after Disneyland Paris. This is not the first feather in the birds’ cap. Earlier this year, scientists created a vending machine that showed the crows’ prowess solving problems. The machine required a particular size of paper token to release a treat, BBC News reported.

You mean the CHER song "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" :rolleyes:

When I first got a computer (1996ish) I sent him one of his greeting cards (I collected ones that used porn stars) and told him we were born on the same day, then asked him for one of his jockstraps. I guess I wrote to his business address. He didn't send me one, but sent the card back to me autographed.

My long-lost twin. Born same day. I'm taller, but he's bigger.

Didn't count, but I know about 2/3 of them. Hated her at the start of her career, had a stretch mid-career when I liked her stuff, haven't listened to anything new in years.