FROM THE DESK OF PETE YATES! and Onion stuff...

FROM THE DESK OF PETE YATES!!!

As a side note, if these were my kids, they'd be barred from Facebook and Twitter. (I don't tweet, but I've been known to toot on occasion.)
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http://www.switched.com/2009/09/08/endangered-pre-teens-update-facebook-status-instead-of-dialing-9/

Tweens in Peril Update Facebook Status Instead of Dialing 911

by Terrence O'Brien (RSS feed) — Sep 8th 2009 at 1:31PM

If you were trapped or lost in a storm drain, but still had cell phone reception, how would you reach out for help? Perhaps call 911, or its equivalent? We're sure you wouldn't rely on updating your Facebook status.

But that's exactly what a pair of girls in Adelaide, Australia did when they wandered into just such a drain Sunday. The 10- and 12-year-old girls used their cell phones to update their statuses on the social networking site in order to let friends know they were lost under the streets of their suburban neighborhood. The Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS) rescued the girls, but only after their friends had called 000, the Australian equivalent of 911.
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http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/10/area_news/doc4aa89a2ba9f51022518206.txt

Police shut down kick-for-cash operation at Triangle Center
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 11:33 PM PDT
By The Daily News

A Rainier man came up with an innovative — if rather painful — money-making idea and decided to give it a test run Tuesday at the Triangle Center in Longview.

The 23-year-old man held a sign inviting people to kick him in the groin for the bargain price of $5.
He got off lightly compared with a Canadian man who, in 2007, asked women in Guelph, Ontario, to do the same thing to him at no charge. According to a Canadian newspaper, one of the women kicked him repeatedly.

I would love to do that to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.There are a couple of women on there I'd like to do that with as well, but I'm afraid they'd like it.

Joe Wilson needs to have that done to him and he needs be slapped by The Speaker of the House.

Nancy Pelosi looked like she was gonna jump out of her seat and run over there and do that for a hot second there.
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♫ Pyscho killer....♫ The onion....

You Follow One Kid Home, Rip Out His Eyes And All The Sudden You're A 'Killer' Squirrel

By Danny the Squirrel
September 3, 2009 | Issue 45•36

I'm a happy-go-lucky squirrel who loves living the good life of climbing trees and eating nuts. Mostly eating nuts. Man! I can't get enough of them. So tasty. But let's make one thing clear, right here and now: I have never killed anyone.

Look at me! I'm a squirrel, for crying out loud. How am I going to kill a human being? Even if I wanted to, it would be impossible. "Killer Squirrel?" Please. It's just a cruel name made up by lazy journalists who want to move papers.

The truth is that the "attack" in question was merely the result of an unfortunate misunderstanding between myself and a young boy with a bag of peanuts, who remains alive and well to this day. Does he have both eyes? No. Is he blind? Absolutely not! They were able to surgically re-insert the left eye, and he has about 40 percent of his sight in the right one.

So you tell me: How does that make me a killer?

Teens Don't Tweet

A survey by Nielsen found that only 16 percent of Twitter users were under 25. What do you think?

Theresa Siegfried,
Desk Clerk
"Isn't that the same percentage of teens who would respond to a Nielsen survey?"

Jody Phillips,
Systems Analyst
"It's nice to know that my incisive musings and humorous takes on waiting in lines, reality TV, and my cat's behavior are reaching the mature and sophisticated audience they were intended for."

Marshall Christensen,
Marketing Consultant
"That's because teens today are too busy texting! I saw it on the news."

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~Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.
John Dykstra~