FROM THE DESK OF PETE YATES!!!

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8648011.stm

 

Man rescued off Isle of Sheppey after sailing blunder...

Lift that brain...Tote that cerebrum...

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http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/141011.html

 

Canoeist capsizes twice in same day off Blue Hill 

I'm sorry, but it's time to take his canoe's away...For the safety of the general public...

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Shad Sham

http://www.slashfood.com/2010/04/09/shads-not-on-the-menu-at-namesake-festival/

 

Shad's not on the menu at namesake festival

 

Shad may have saved George Washington's army – and countless other European settlers – from starvation, but the bony fish's reputation has declined so precipitously in recent decades that organizers of an annual shad festival in North Carolina are unabashed about excluding it from their festivities.

"We do have fish, but we don't have shad," Grifton Shad Festival secretary Janet Haseley says cheerfully. "We used to have herring, but now we fry commercially raised catfish."
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Okay, if you're going to make counterfeit money, and I certainly don't recommend you do so, here is one place you probably don't want to try and pass your fake bills.  Out of the Quad-Cities area (Iowa-Illinois).

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http://qctimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_f212202e-5300-11df-824a-001cc4c002e0.html

Man pays courthouse with fake $50, arrest records say

 

Yancy Terrell Cochran tried to bail a friend out of jail, but now he's facing charges himself for his effort.

Cochran, 35, of Davenport, went to the Scott County Courthouse on April 21 to post bail for a friend, but he used a counterfeit $50 bill, according to arrest records and officials.

"It's not advisable bringing that in to pay fines," Dinneweth said of counterfeit money.

No kidding?
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