Tips for junk mail
Need something to do with all the junk mail you get? Try this. The company that sends out the mail has to pay postage on returned envelopes, so weigh the envelopes down and send ‘em back.
Archive for May, 2005
Wal-Mart for the Amish
The Amish cannot use electricity, phones, or cars. But apparently Wal-Mart is ok.
I no longer have to worry about money
Well, maybe I shouldn’t quit my job just yet. Turns out I overpayed my Providian credit card by a whopping 4 cents and that sum was just sitting in my account. Yesterday I got a letter in the mail with a 4 cent check attached. So Providian spent 37 cents plus whatever [...]
Pet a virtual chicken
Feel the need to pet a chicken? Don’t have one handy. Researchers have developed a way to pet a virtual chicken. Link from UtterlyBoring.com.
Quote: “It’s hard to put a price on Britney Spears’ urine”
For $5,001 the online casino Golden Palace purchased a pregnancy test claimed to be from Britney Spears. A Canadian radio station claims the test was taken from a dumpster outside a hotel where Spears was staying, but cannot definitively prove the test is from her.
Drew Black, spokesman for Golden Palace, says “It’s [...]
This weeks sign of the apocalypse: Exploding frogs
At a pond in Germany frogs are exploding. More than 1,000 so far. The frogs blow up like balloons until their stomachs burst.
Local scientists have tested the toads and the pond, but cannot find a cause.
Source: Exploding Toads in Hamburg, Germany, Baffle Scientists
No really, it’s just a burrito
Marshall Junior High in Clovis, NM, was on lockdown last week after someone saw a kid walking in with a large object wrapped in foil.
Nearby streets were closed and police officers took to the rooftops.
When the situation ended several hours later Michael Morrissey, an eigth grader at the school, was found to be [...]