Friday, January 9, 2009
Permanent Damage From The Playboy Channel, The Force Trainer & The Vail Photographer Is In Trouble
Thanks to all of you who called in this morning to express your opinion about "Kidney Boy" (see previous entry). Most of you agreed that this guy has no chance of winning this case. We'll see.
Happy Birthday today to Crystal Gayle. She's 58. Also celebrating a birthday is folk singer, protest-singer, anti-war person Joan Baez. She's 68 today. She also represents probably the BEST reason why we should get out of Iraq: so that folk protest songs won't have a chance to make a comeback.
It was on this date, January 9 in 1982, the Johnny Cash Parkway opened in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Also, on this date in 1913, former President Richard Nixon was born. Bob Woodward wrote a book about Nixon called All The President's Men. I hear he's currently writing another book. This one's about Bill Clinton. It's called All The President's Women.
Yesterday (I think it was yesterday), we were talking about the skier who somehow managed to slip through a gap on a ski lift in Vail, Colorado. His pants got hooked and wound up coming down around his ankles. So, here's this poor guy hanging upside down from a ski lift halfway up a snow-covered mountain...........naked from his waist to his ankles. Marty Odom, the resort photographer, who actually works for a subcontractor (not the resort itself), Sharpshooters, Incorporated started doing what he does best, taking pictures of this fiasco. In itself, that might have been OK. The problem is Odom then took the pictures and put them up on the Internet. Well, here's the latest of this. Sharpshooters, Incorporated has suspended Odom. So, at least for now, he's out of work. I assume that's what they mean when they say they suspended him. Unless they suspended him like that skier..............upside down............in the cold...........without any pants on.
In the "Let's See If We Can Hit The Judicial Lottery" department:
How's this for a ridiculous lawsuit? A family in Rhode Island is suing their cable company, Verizon Communications, after they were able to see naked people on their TV via The Playboy Channel. Robert Bourne, his wife, Denise Roy and their minor daughters are suing Verizon claiming they pleaded with them on numerous occasions to stop transmitting The Playboy Channel. But when nothing was done about it, they decided to file suit. I guess they never heard of "changing the channel". Here's the best part. The lawsuit claims, "AS A RESULT OF WATCHING THE PLAYBOY CHANNEL, THE FAMILY WENT THROUGH EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, SO SEVERE, THAT NO REASONABLE PERSON COULD BE EXPECTED TO ENDURE IT. IN ADDITION, THE EMOTIONAL DISTRESS HAS RESULTED IN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DISTRESS"
Wow, sounds more like they were watching The View instead of The Playboy Channel.
Finally, they're coming out with a new "toy". It's called the Force Trainer. It sells for about $100.00. It allows you to use only your brain to move a small object. It consists of a 10-inch tall, clear, vertical tower, with a small ball in it, like a ping pong ball. It also comes with a wireless headset which reads your brain activity very much like an EEG medical test. The circuitry then translates it to physical action. If you focus and concentrate enough, you can actually cause the ball to rise in the tower using nothing more than your brain.
Happy Birthday today to Crystal Gayle. She's 58. Also celebrating a birthday is folk singer, protest-singer, anti-war person Joan Baez. She's 68 today. She also represents probably the BEST reason why we should get out of Iraq: so that folk protest songs won't have a chance to make a comeback.
It was on this date, January 9 in 1982, the Johnny Cash Parkway opened in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Also, on this date in 1913, former President Richard Nixon was born. Bob Woodward wrote a book about Nixon called All The President's Men. I hear he's currently writing another book. This one's about Bill Clinton. It's called All The President's Women.
Yesterday (I think it was yesterday), we were talking about the skier who somehow managed to slip through a gap on a ski lift in Vail, Colorado. His pants got hooked and wound up coming down around his ankles. So, here's this poor guy hanging upside down from a ski lift halfway up a snow-covered mountain...........naked from his waist to his ankles. Marty Odom, the resort photographer, who actually works for a subcontractor (not the resort itself), Sharpshooters, Incorporated started doing what he does best, taking pictures of this fiasco. In itself, that might have been OK. The problem is Odom then took the pictures and put them up on the Internet. Well, here's the latest of this. Sharpshooters, Incorporated has suspended Odom. So, at least for now, he's out of work. I assume that's what they mean when they say they suspended him. Unless they suspended him like that skier..............upside down............in the cold...........without any pants on.
In the "Let's See If We Can Hit The Judicial Lottery" department:
How's this for a ridiculous lawsuit? A family in Rhode Island is suing their cable company, Verizon Communications, after they were able to see naked people on their TV via The Playboy Channel. Robert Bourne, his wife, Denise Roy and their minor daughters are suing Verizon claiming they pleaded with them on numerous occasions to stop transmitting The Playboy Channel. But when nothing was done about it, they decided to file suit. I guess they never heard of "changing the channel". Here's the best part. The lawsuit claims, "AS A RESULT OF WATCHING THE PLAYBOY CHANNEL, THE FAMILY WENT THROUGH EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, SO SEVERE, THAT NO REASONABLE PERSON COULD BE EXPECTED TO ENDURE IT. IN ADDITION, THE EMOTIONAL DISTRESS HAS RESULTED IN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DISTRESS"
Wow, sounds more like they were watching The View instead of The Playboy Channel.
Finally, they're coming out with a new "toy". It's called the Force Trainer. It sells for about $100.00. It allows you to use only your brain to move a small object. It consists of a 10-inch tall, clear, vertical tower, with a small ball in it, like a ping pong ball. It also comes with a wireless headset which reads your brain activity very much like an EEG medical test. The circuitry then translates it to physical action. If you focus and concentrate enough, you can actually cause the ball to rise in the tower using nothing more than your brain.
Jessica Simpson bought one, but she returned it. She said she must have gotten a defective one because it didn't work.
Have a good weekend!
posted by Denny # 4:50 PM 
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