Monday, April 26, 2010
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126 WWII Grenades Caught With Clams, Detonated In Spectacular Blast
NEW BEDFORD, Mass.-- It's not unusual for East Coast fishermen to find grenades and other old munitions in their traps, but rarely do they find 126 at once.
Workers at the Fair Tide Shellfish plant were stunned Friday to find the World War II era grenades as they began to process a load of clams that had been dredged up off Long Island and shipped to New Bedford for proc More..essing.
Some of the vintage grenades had pins-- others did not-- but all were potentially dangerous.
"Come to find out, based on what the Navy said, they were live. They were loaded for bear so to speak," said Tom Slaughter of Fair Tide Shellfish.
There were entire cases of grenades still intact in their original wooden crates, covered in black muck from decades spent in deep waters.
"We thought they were like big chunks of black coal, the kind used in old ships. When one broke open, we found all the grenades inside. The cases were encompassed in black coal-like marine life," said Slaughter.
The plant was evacuated and the State Police Bomb Squad and the U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal team moved in. They moved the grenades out in a dump truck full of sand.
The slow procession made its way to a nearby jetty, where experts set up an isolated, controlled site to detonate the old munitions.
The grenades were detonated safely in a spectacular blast at about 7:30 p.m. The shockwave from the blast was felt over a mile away, but there were no injuries.
JOKE: YOU STILL MIGHT BE A REDNECK IF
YOU STILL MIGHT BE A REDNECK IF
your blood alcohol content has ever exceeded your I.Q.
you couldn't go to church because your Sunday socks
were being used as your truck's gas cap.
you think the vowels are E..I..E..I.. O.
you clean your car or truck out with a leaf blower.
you think "Meals on Wheels" is the same as road-kill.
you think Wal-Mart is too expensive.
you've ever stood outside a K-mart for more than 1 hour
hagglin' with a manager about the shirt and shoes law.
you have ever written a check for less than a dollar.
you've ever asked your 8-year how to spell a word.
you've ever shoplifted Spam.
Kitty is a World Traveler
Kitty is perhaps the most adventurous cat in the world. She is the beloved cat pet of a French couple/explorers, Guillaume and Laetitia who are on a mission to travel from Miami,Florida USA to Ushuaia, Argentina purely on foot. They are currently in Columbia, heading south.
Their cat, Kitty, is often seen resting in the backpack carried by Guillaume while they are hiking down the road. They even set up a little umbrella on the backpack to give the kitty some shade from the sun.
Kitty enjoys the trip as much as the couple. She often climbs on the shoulder of her daddy to get a good look at every new scenery. She does not seem to be shy or bashful about meeting new people and visiting new places. If we have an award for the most adventurous cat in the world, I'd say Kitty is purr-fect for it. You can see the updates on their journey and more photos at their website. http://enfanceart.free.fr/miami_ushuaia/
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JOKE: the Piccolo Player
There is this preacher who has a big ass revival meeting scheduled. The hall is rented and everything is in place until the organ player has to leave town (something about a choirgirl or boy anyway he had to leave fast). The piano player has a hangnail and can't do it, the guitar player's stoned. He can't find anybody to play for the service that night.
He sets the deacon to canvas the crowd and find out if there is a musician that is willing to play. Right before the service begins the deacon brings up this little old man and says "This guy says he's a piccolo player and he has it with him." There isn't time to do anything but go on with what he has so they set the little old man and his piccolo up near the altar and prepare to make the best of the situation.
Things start out bad. The man doesn't know the hymns that the preacher is calling for and his sight reading is awful. The tone of the instrument is piercing and unpleasant. The preacher determines to soldier through. Ignoring the horrid sounds coming from the choir loft, he continues to preach. They come to another hymn and right in the middle of the song somebody from the congregation shouts out:
"The piccolo player's a motherfucker!"
There is stunned silence in the the church. The preacher doesn't know quite how to deal with this. He tries to start the singing again but before he can make much headway there's another shout from the congregation:
"The piccolo player's a motherfucker!"
Silence again. The preacher is now thoroughly pissed off. He glares out over the congregation and says:
"This here's a house of God. We are supposed to control our tongues better. Who was it that just called my piccolo player a motherfucker?"
Silence.
"Will the man what called my piccolo player a motherfucker, will he raise his hand?"
Silence.
"Then, will the man sittin' next to the man what called my piccolo player a motherfucker, will he raise his hand?"
Nothing.
"Then will the man sittin next to the man sittin next to the man what called my piccolo player a motherfucker, will he raise his hand?"
Silence.
"Then will the man sittin next to the man sittin next to the man sittin next to the man what called my piccolo player a motherfucker, will he raise his hand?"
All the way in the back, a man rises.
The preachers asks "Why did you call my piccolo player a motherfucker in the house of God?"
The man says "Preacher, you misunderstand me. I am not the man what called your piccolo player a motherfucker. I'm not the man sittin next to the man what called your piccolo player a motherfucker. I'm not the man sittin next to the man sittin next to the man what called your piccolo player a motherfucker. I'm not even the man sittin next to the man sittin next to the man sittin next to the man sittin Next To The MAN, what called your piccolo player a motherfucker."
The preacher says "Then why you standin here?"
The man says "Preacher, I want to know, who called that Motherfucker a piccolo player?"
~WHIRLED GNUS~
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