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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
odd news #5
NEW YORK - A dozen rats were caught on video scurrying around the floor of a New York City KFC/Taco Bell restaurant early Friday, running between counters and tables and climbing on children's high chairs.
News crews flocked to the windows of the Greenwich Village neighborhood restaurant, which hadn't opened for the day. By midmorning, the footage was all over the Internet and television news shows, with onlookers giving a play-by-play from the sidewalk as the rodents moved about.
"He's coming for his close-up," one bystander said as a rat came near the window.
Employees came to work, but no customers were allowed in as health inspectors arrived.
There was no answer at the phone number displayed in neon on the store window below the words "We Deliver."
"This is completely unacceptable and is an absolute violation of our high standards," KFC and Taco Bell said in a statement. "This restaurant has been closed and we are addressing the issue with the franchise owner. We will not allow this store to reopen until is it completely resanitized and given a clean bill of health."
The chains said construction in the basement on Thursday "temporarily escalated the situation."
The city Department of Health had inspectors at the site on Friday, said department spokeswoman Sara Markt. She said the restaurant had passed inspection in December, but a violation was issued to the restaurant owner about "evidence of rats" — which meant only droppings at the time.
Markt said the owner of the franchise is listed with the department as ADF Fifth Operating Corp.
Rats have long been a problem in New York City, with such a dense population and such a large and readily available food supply for the rodents. They are frequently scampering through subway tunnels, rooting through trash, dashing across parks and burrowing into the walls of apartment buildings.
But it is rare to see so many rats congregating in one place in such public view.
Yum Brands Inc., based in Louisville, Ky., owns the Taco Bell and KFC restaurant chains.
Last week, it was reported that Taco Bell sales had slumped after a widely publicized E. coli scare, but that international sales helped Yum Brands in the company's fourth quarter.
The E. coli outbreak late last year caused more than 70 Taco Bell customers to become ill. Federal officials said in December that the most likely source of the illnesses was lettuce. Taco Bell took precautions by changing its suppliers of lettuce and cheese in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
odd news #4
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
odd news #3
20 years later a college ring found....
SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio (AP) -- A college ring lost more than 20 years ago by a former
undercover officer for the CIA has been found in an underwater cave off the
coast of Africa.
Steve Ruic, a writer on staff at Notre Dame College,
received an e-mail about two weeks ago from a professional diver from Germany.
Wilfried Thiesen wrote that he had found a class ring bearing the college's name
while diving off Mauritius.
The ring was engraved with the year '76. The ring
was missing the thin portion on the underside that ordinarily carries its
owner's name.
Ruic publicized the discovery in both an e-mail to college
staff and a newsletter to alumni, but no one came forward to claim it.
Then,
while interviewing a member of the class of 1976 for an unrelated alumni
magazine story, Ruic asked Dr. Maryellen Amato Stratmann if she'd ever been to
Mauritius.
"I couldn't believe it," Ruic said. "She said, 'No, but Clare
Cavoli Lopez has."'
Lopez, a 1976 Notre Dame College graduate and former CIA
undercover officer, was stationed at Port Louis, Mauritius, from 1983 to 1985.
During a dive, the ring slipped from her finger.
Ruic sent Thiesen's address
to Lopez. She has exchanged e-mails with Thiesen, she said Monday, and they're
arranging for him to mail it.wow! that's crazy huh?
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
odd news #2
Monday, February 19, 2007
odd news week
i have to find some odd news and post an entry.....
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police investigating why a car
was blocking traffic in the fast lane of a major highway on Sunday found a
couple inside having sex.
A police spokesman said the female driver and
her male passenger gave in to their passions without pulling over to the side of
the road, causing congestion and leaving other motorists having to swerve to
dodge their stationary vehicle.
A patrolman gave the woman a ticket for
holding up traffic.
okay what's wrong with this picture? passion? seriously, i think there was likely more then just passion at play here. so that's my two cents today....i might be back later with more
ODD NEWS
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Thursday, February 08, 2007
stale blogger?
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
day 14
Friday, January 26, 2007
1993 pop music
the year i turned 18
here we go:
1993's Greatest Hits
1.What Is Love - Haddaway
2.Come Baby Come - K7
3.Hero - Mariah Carey
4.In The Still Of The Night (I'll Remember) - Boyz II Men
5.Have I Told You Lately - Rod Stewart....love this one
6.Can't Help Falling In Love - UB40
7.Dreamlover - Mariah Carey
8.Supermodel (You Better Work) - RuPaul
9.Nuthin' But A "G" Thang - Dr. Dre
10.Cryin' - Aerosmith.....ok now it's stuck in my head
11.Murder She Wrote - Chaka Demus and Pliers
12.Shoop - Salt N Pepa
13.A Whole New World - Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle
14.Show Me Love - Robin S
15.I'm So Into You - SWV
16.Hip Hop Hooray - Naughty By Nature
17.Rhythm Is A Dancer - Snap!
18.All that She Wants - Ace Of Base
19.When I Fall In Love - Celine Dion & Clive Griffin
20.Hey Mr. D.J. - Zhane
21.Just Kickin' It - Xscape
22.That's The Way Love Goes - Janet Jackson
23.T-R-O-U-B-L-E - Travis Tritt....LMAO
24.Please Forgive Me - Bryan Adams
25.No Ordinary Love - Sade
26.I Get Around - 2 Pac
27.Weak - SWV
28.Bad Boys - Inner Circle
29.Whoot, There It Is - 95 South
30.More and More - Captain Hollywood Project
31.I'm Gonna Be (500 miles) - the Proclaimers...love this too
32.I'm Every Woman - Whitney Houston
33.Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
34.I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do that) - Meatloaf
35.Love U More - Sunscreem
36.Knockin Da Boots - H-Town
37.Will You Be There - Michael Jackson
38.Connected - Stereo MCs
39.Passionate Kisses - Mary Chapin-Carpenter
40.Boom! Shake The Room - Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince
41.Baby I'm Yours - Shai
42.Freak Me - Silk
43.Reason To Believe - Rod Stewart & Ronnie Wood
44.Sweat (A La La La La Song) - Inner Circle
45.Deeper and Deeper - Madonna
46.Another Sad Love Song - Toni Braxton
47.Can't Get Enough Of Your Love - Taylor Dayne
48.Ooh Child - Dino
49.Whoomp! There It Is - Tag Team
50.Two Princes - Spin Doctors
51.Informer - Snow
52.Slam - Onyx
53.Man On The Moon - REM
54.Insane In The Brain - Cypress Hill
55.Bed of Roses - Bon Jovi...... just lovely...wonderful ballad
56.Creep - Radiohead
57.Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
58.Cat's In The Cradle - Ugly Kid Joe
59.I Got A Man - Postive K
60I See Your Smile - Gloria Estefan
61.Into Your Arms - The Lemonheads
62.Candy Everybody Wants - 10,000 Maniacs
63.Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
64.Give It Up - The Goodmen
65.Dazzy Dukes - Duice
66.Jimmy Olson's Blues - Spin Doctors
67.What's Up - 4 non-Blondes
68.Kiss Of Life - Sade
69.River Of Dreams - Billy Joel....love some billy
70.Rubberband Girl - Kate Bush
71.No Rain - Blind Melon
72.Feed The Tree - Belly
73.Sex Me - R Kelly
74.I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - Bon Jovi....wow! two! i am happy
75.Mr. Wendal - Arrested Developement...one of fred's fav's
day 13?
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Day 12


I am a silver nut! And I am a silver snob...I only buy James Avery. Almost every time I head to dad's I have to stop by there and see what's new and make a wish list...
pic 1: my left hand ring. A lady bug on a dogwood blossom
pic 2: my wedding ring...Even though we got them 5 years ago... I love it and it's different..
man, my hands are wrinkled bad....lol! a sign of age













