Tom Danehy: "Things Danehy doesn't understand, volume LXXXVI: DUI lawyers, Ka'Deem Carey, and the Star's copy editing" (Tucson Weekly)
I'm sorry, but if you've got a DUI (and you did it), I don't want you back on the street. I want you sitting in a jail cell for a while, and maybe when you're standing in the lunch line, getting winked at by a guy named Aryan Brother. Maybe then, the next time you've had too much to drink, you might think twice about getting behind the wheel. I know, I know, I'm way too sensitive about this stuff. I mean, I've only lost a sister-in-law, a childhood friend and a college teammate to drunken drivers. That's about average, right?
Hillery Alley: 5 Evil Ways Companies Are Charging You For Doing Nothing (Cracked)
Recently AT&T began collecting what they called an "administration fee" from their customers. They just added an extra 61 cents onto everyone's bill without telling anyone, because it is precisely that easy to do. AT&T customers received nothing extra in return except for an ambiguous phrase on their monthly invoice. AT&T, on the other hand, received an extra half billion dollars, because America is awesome.
What if Barbie Looked Like a Real Woman?
Some people say that we shouldn't pay attention to the body proportions of Barbie because she is just a toy. On the surface, that sounds like a valid argument. But a closer look, through research, suggests that Barbie may lead to the following…
Disney Princesses from a Darker, Grittier World
"Not all princesses are nice. Herr Nilsson, a street artist in Stockholm, painted Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty lying in ambush for unsuspecting pedestrians." -- Neatorama
What Is Everyday Life Like for a Bodybuilder with Huge Muscles? (Slate)
An XXL dress shirt will almost fit me. The arms are always too tight, shoulders too close, the collar will barely fit my 21-inch neck ... and at this size, the shirt is designed for someone with a 50-inch waist, not my 32-inch one. I either have to get my dress clothes taken in by my tailor or custom made.
Jiminy Cricket is the Walt Disney version of The Talking Cricket (Italian: Il Grillo Parlante), a fictional character created by Carlo Collodi for his children's book The Adventures of Pinocchio, which Disney adapted into the animated film Pinocchio in 1940. Originally an unnamed, minor character in Collodi's novel, he was transformed in the Disney version into a comical and wise partner who accompanies Pinocchio on his adventures, having been appointed by the Blue Fairy (known in the book as The Beautiful Fairy with Sky Blue Hair) to serve as Pinocchio's official conscience. Since his debut in Pinocchio, he has become a recurring iconic Disney character and has made numerous other appearances.
The character's name is a play on the minced oath exclamation "Jiminy Cricket!" - which itself was uttered in Pinocchio's immediate Disney predecessor, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Another example occurs in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, wherein Dorothy (Judy Garland) cries, "Oh! Oh! Jiminy Crickets!" when she is startled by the Wizard's pyrotechnics.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
Jiminy Cricket, one of my favorites
Sandra in Bangor said:
jiminy cricket
Charlie wrote:
Well, Jiminy Cricket!
Alan J responded:
Jiminy Cricket
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Jiminy Cricket
Adam answered:
Jiminy Cricket.
mj wrote:
Who better to bug a person than a bug?
Jiminy Cricket, who went on to host the E-N-C-Y-C-L-O-P-E-D-I-A segment of the Mickey Mouse Club, was Pinocchio's noodge.
Sally said:
Sure and begorra, 'tis Jiminy Cricket who acts as a conscience and a good friend to naughty Pinocchio.
I'd say that there are more than a few politicians who could use a Jiminy Cricket sitting on his/her shoulder now and again...
PS: Freaking Heat Wave here, but it's the humidity that become unbearable come late afternoon. I was hanging out my laundry at 6 AM to beat the sun!! (Of course, it's dry in no time...)
Dale of cooled down Diamond Springs, NORCALI responded:
Mr. Jiminy Cricket. See what happened when Pinocchio fucking lied!!! Your nose will grow if you lie!!!
John I from Hawai`i says,
"Jiminy Cricket."
Randall replied:
Jiminy Crickett
BttbBob answered:
Why, that would be ...
... Jiminy Cricket, o' course!
"You buttered your bread. Now sleep in it!" said he... Profound, I'm thinkin'...
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Trout fishing tip - Crickets make great bait. I've caught some fine "brookies" on 'em... and Bluegills (that's 'Brim', to y'all southrons), too! Run, Jiminy, Run!
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And, Joe S said:
Jiminy Cricket? I believe it was Jiminy Cricket. Highly likely. I saw that movie when I was very young, probably 4 or 5, scared the crap out of me.
I hate crickets.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', followed by a FRESH'Brooklyn DA', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'American Ninja Warrior', followed by a FRESH'Do No Harm'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, hosted by Kevin Hart, music by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Zero Hour', followed by a FRESH'666 Park Avenue', then '20/20'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'MLB Baseball', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has the movie 'Independence Day', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Identity', and 'Shipping Wars'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Walnut Tree
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 1 - La Parra de Burriana
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 1 - Episode 1
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 3 - Bazzini
[10:00AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 5 - Episode 5
[10:40AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 5 - Episode 6
[11:20AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 5 - Episode 7
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 11-12 - Episode 3
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 11-12 - Episode 4
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 05-06 - Episode 1
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 05-06 - Episode 2
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 05-06 - Episode 3
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 7 - Rascals
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 8 - A Fistful of Datas
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 9 - The Quality of Life
[8:00PM] GOLDENEYE
[11:00PM] TOMORROW NEVER DIES
[1:30AM] THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR: 50 YEARS OF BOND CARS
[5:30AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 2 - Daniel Craig, Dame Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Of Monsters and Men (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 3 hours of old 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by the movie 'Scary Movie'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Dinner For Schmucks', followed by the movie 'Role Models'.
FX has the movie 'The A-Team', followed by a FRESH'UFC On FX', then the movie 'Star Trek'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] 1941
[8:30AM] The Three Stooges-Scrambled Brains
[8:55AM] The Three Stooges-Self-Made Maids
[9:20AM] The Three Stooges-Slap-Happy Sleuths
[9:45AM] The Three Stooges-A Snitch in Time
[10:10AM] The Three Stooges-Stone Age Romeos
[10:35AM] The Three Stooges-Studio Stoops
[11:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Zach Galifianakis Wears a Blue Jacket & Red Socks
[11:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Amy Poehler Wears a Black Jacket & Grey Pants
[12:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Jon Hamm Wears a Light Blue Shirt & Silver Watch
[12:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Michael Cera Wears a Blue Denim Shirt & Red Pants
[1:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Seth Rogen Wears a Plaid Shirt & Brown Pants
[1:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Paul Rudd Wears a Red Lumberjack Flannel Shirt
[2:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Ed Helms Wears a Grey Shirt & Brown Boots
[2:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Elizabeth Banks Wears a Red Dress
[3:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Adam Scott Wears a Red Oxford Shirt & Jeans
[3:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-``Weird Al'' Yankovic Wears a Hawaiian Shirt
[4:00PM] Team America: World Police
[6:00PM] National Lampoon's Adam & Eve
[8:00PM] Porky's
[10:00PM] The Virginity Hit
[12:00AM] Porky's
[2:00AM] The Virginity Hit
[4:00AM] National Lampoon's Adam & Eve (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Top of the Lake-Episode 1
[7:00AM] Top of the Lake-Episode 2
[8:00AM] Top of the Lake-Episode 3
[9:00AM] A River Runs Through It
[11:00AM] Transamerica
[1:00PM] Top of the Lake-Episode 1
[2:00PM] Top of the Lake-Episode 2
[3:00PM] Top of the Lake-Episode 3
[4:00PM] Top of the Lake-Episode 4
[5:00PM] Top of the Lake-Episode 5
[6:00PM] Top of the Lake-Episode 6
[7:00PM] Top of the Lake-Episode 7
[8:00PM] Schindler's List
[11:30PM] Lust, Caution
[2:15AM] The Housemaid
[4:15AM] How to Be
[5:45AM] The Spine (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Sinbad', 'Siberia', followed by a FRESH'Sinbad', then a FRESH'Primeval: New World'.
Neil Diamond gestures to the crowd after singing the "Freedom Song (They'll Never Take Us Down)," after the third inning of a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and Milwaukee Brewers at Nationals Park Thursday, July 4, 2013, in Washington. It was Diamond's first live performance of the song, which was inspired by his visit to Boston in the days following the marathon bombings.
Photo by Alex Brandon
American singer-songwriter Sixto "Sugar Man" Rodriguez, virtually unknown a few years ago, opened the Montreux Jazz Festival on Thursday, which American producer and its former co-director Quincy Jones calls the "Rolls Royce of music festivals."
Fresh from the Glastonbury festival in Britain last weekend, Rodriguez gave a Fourth of July concert in the Swiss resort, mixing songs from his two albums that never made the charts with borrowed tunes including the classic rock'n'roll hit "Fever."
Rodriguez, said to be working on a long-awaited third album, suffers from glaucoma and wore dark glasses throughout the concert as he sang and played his electric guitar. He was helped on and off stage by his daughter Sandra.
He supported his three daughters by working in demolition and other manual labor jobs in Detroit's inner city where he has lived in the same house for more than 40 years.
Amina Sboui, the Tunisian member of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen, gestures in a courtroom in Sousse, July 4, 2013. Amina was arrested in Kairouan on May 19 for placing a feminist banner on the wall of a mosque and trying to expose her breasts.
Photo by Med Amine Benaziza
Apollo 9 spacewalker Rusty Schweickart and International Space Station flight engineer Ed Lu have put up for sale flown-in-space mission patches, flags, medals and pins to support the launch of the private Sentinel space telescope designed to discover, map, and track asteroids with orbits that approach Earth and therefore are a risk to humanity.
"We want to literally save the world," said Lu, who as CEO leads the B612 Foundation, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to opening up the frontier of space exploration and protecting humanity from asteroid impacts. "Not only will the money raised by this auction go to supporting the Sentinel mission, but also we hope the increased attention to our cause will help everyone realize that they really can take a critical role in protecting our planet in a real and concrete way."
The eBay auction began on June 27 and runs through Sunday (July 7). All eight lots offered - five from Schweickart and three from Lu - can be viewed and bid on through b612auction.com.
The fallout from the recent wave of protests that shook Brazil was felt even in the bucolic colonial town where the country's main literary festival was in full swing Friday.
In its 11th year, the Flip festival brings a roster of domestic and international writers to this sleepy port city for five days of debates, discussions, workshops and readings.
This year's edition includes talks by top Brazilian musicians Gilberto Gil and Maria Betania, legendary Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos, U.S. writer Tobias Wolff and British essayist Geoff Dyer.
Organizers added three round-tables to debate the protests, which started last month over a 10-cent hike in bus and subway fares in Sao Paulo and quickly snowballed into massive nationwide demonstrations against government corruption, high taxes and poor public services. The protests have since become scattered and small.
Robert Cintron (L) takes notes on a clipboard while Paul Menta reads a tape measure used to determine the diameter of a giant Key lime pie he and three other chefs created in Key West, Florida July 4, 2013. The gargantuan pastry, measuring slightly more than 8 feet in diameter, was the centerpiece of an inaugural Key Lime Festival that concludes Saturday. The pie's ingredients included juice from 5,760 Key limes, 55 gallons of sweetened condensed milk and 200 pounds of graham crackers. The gigantic version of the Florida Keys' signature dessert is being submitted to Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest Key lime pie.
Photo by Rob O'Neal
Caretakers of a deteriorating piece of maritime military history hope to have its future secured by next summer and continue working to ensure it stays afloat in the meantime.
The USS Olympia, a one-of-a-kind steel cruiser from the Spanish-American War, ideally would have been dry-docked every 20 years for maintenance but has not been out of the water since 1945. Since taking stewardship of the National Historic Landmark from a cash-strapped nonprofit in 1996, the Independence Seaport Museum has spent about $5 million on short-term repairs, inspections and maintenance but cannot afford to keep the ship.
A field of six organizations initially vying for the Olympia has been narrowed to two preservation groups - one in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the 5,500-ton warship was launched in 1892, and one in Port Royal, S.C., a strategic support post for the Atlantic fleet during the Spanish-American War.
Officials have said without extensive repairs, the rusting Olympia will sink at its moorings, be sold for scrap or scuttled for an artificial reef. They put out a call in 2011 seeking nonprofits and foundations to take stewardship of the weathered old cruiser, said to be the only steel warship in the world still afloat.
A producer on Friday won a British court victory over Monty Python for a bigger share of royalties from the stage musical "Spamalot" and said that despite the dispute he still found the comedy troupe funny.
Mark Forstater brought a High Court lawsuit against the anarchic comedians over the show, which is based on the 1975 movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
Forstater produced the film, and his lawyers claimed it was agreed that he would be "treated as the seventh Python" financially, entitled to the same share of "Holy Grail" merchandising and spin-off income as the other members.
That amounts to one-seventh of the first 50 percent of income from "Spamalot," but lawyers for the Python troupe said he was entitled only to one fourteenth.
A model presents a creation by German designer Michael Michalsky during the Michalsky Style Night show at Berlin Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 in Berlin July 5, 2013.
Photo by Tobias Schwarz
A federal judge in New York has upheld an arbitrator's ruling that a Pennsylvania beauty queen must pay the Miss USA pageant $5 million for defaming Donald Trump's pageant organization.
Sheena Monnin resigned as Miss Pennsylvania last year, saying the Miss USA contest was rigged. She claimed another contestant learned the names of the top five finishers hours before the show was broadcast. Monnin said she decided to turn in her crown as soon as those same contestants were named during the show.
She posted a series of messages on Facebook and spoke publicly about her claims. Trump's Miss Universe Organization sued Monnin for defamation and an arbitrator ruled against her in December. The arbitrator said Monnin's allegations cost the pageant a $5 million fee from a potential 2013 sponsor.
Earlier this week, U.S. District Court Judge J. Paul Oetken upheld the arbitrator's decision. Monnin had sought to have it overturned based on three grounds: the arbitrator overstepped his authority, his decision disregarded law, and she didn't know the arbitration hearing was taking place. The judge disagreed.
Pope Francis issued his first encyclical Friday, a meditation on faith that is unique because it was written with someone else: Benedict XVI.
Benedict's hand is evident throughout much of the first three chapters of "The Light of Faith," with his theological style, concerns and reference points clear.
Francis' priorities come through strongest in the final chapter, where the Argentine Jesuit insists on the role of faith in serving the common good and giving hope to those who suffer. It includes his first clear statement as pope on marriage being a union between man and woman with the aim of creating children.
Francis also cites his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, as well as Mother Teresa, in saying "How many men and women of faith have found mediators of light in those who suffer!" And he concludes with a prayer to Mary, to whom he is particularly devoted.
The encyclical didn't appear to break any new ground in church teaching; its novelty was entirely in the dual authorship, signed and unsigned, and that it was the first of Francis' nascent pontificate.
This image provided by Heritage Auctions on July 2, 2013 shows the original art drawn by writer/artist Frank Miller for the cover to "The Dark Knight Returns" No. 2, which is planned to be sold at auction in August 2013. It's the first cover from DC Comics' 1986 four-issue "Dark Knight" miniseries to be sold and is expected to go for more than $500,000.
The active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms may erase frightening memories and encourage new brain cell growth in mice, a new study suggests.
Mice given an electric shock, then a low-dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin, lost their fearful response to a sound associated with a painful electric shock much more quickly than mice that didn't receive the drug.
The findings, published in the June issue of the journal Experimental Brain Research, only apply to mice, but they raise the possibility that low doses of the chemical could one day be used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Past studies found that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, could induce mystical experiences that could elevate mood, attitude, and behavior and even permanently alter personality for the better. Other studies show that psilocybin decreases brain activity.
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. (1) The Rolling Stones; $7,969,276; $346.09.
2. (2) Taylor Swift; $2,247,978; $85.72.
3. (3) Kenny Chesney; $1,813,498; $73.88.
4. (4) Bon Jovi; $1,650,577; $106.89.
5. (5) Fleetwood Mac; $1,394,689; $108.81.
6. (New) New Kids On The Block; $836,794; $66.55.
7. (7) Jason Aldean; $780,014; $51.47.
8. (New) Tim McGraw; $575,811; $36.47.
9. (8) Brad Paisley; $566,551; $36.20.
10. (10) Leonard Cohen; $524,987; $106.29.
11. (9) Carrie Underwood; $501,256; $62.31.
12. (11) Green Day; $469,164; $50.47.
13. (13) Widespread Panic; $416,309; $46.05.
14. (New) Barry Manilow; $354,265; $57.72.
15. (12) Motley Crue; $329,571; $75.99.
16. (New) Styx / REO Speedwagon / Ted Nugent; $214,340; $38.93.
17. (New) Jeff Dunham; $209,697; $47.91.
18. (14) Bassnectar; $179,128; $36.44.
19. (15) Diana Krall; $178,041; $82.09.
20. (16) Chris Tomlin; $163,206; $28.29.
Horses are rounded up during the Rapa das Bestas traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo July 5, 2013. On the first weekend of the month of July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia.
Photo by Miguel Vidal
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