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From 'TBH Politoons'
Great Site!
Thanks, again, Tim!
Entertaining Site
'Random Dudes'
from Charles & Adrienne
Random Dudes
Thanks - Charles & Adrienne! These pictures used to be on a site called 'W's Girls', which disappeared. Glad to see them again. Thanks.
Enlightening Link
from Sharon
Ever wonder what your favorite electronic consumer devices would do if
several thousand volts of juice were fired through them?
Voltnet.com
from Alvin
D R I N K
Alvin D
Jenna Bush and pals booze it up at Caves du Roy in St. Tropez, France - where the legal drinking
age is 20.
MIDILink
D R I N K
{Sung to "Sing" by The Carpenters}
As sung by First Daughter Jenna Bush:
Drink...all night long
Vodka shots... make 'em strong
Gawd - I love St.Tropez
Ain't no way like Texas
Drink... all nightlong
Drink up, girlfriends
I'm yearning to drink more
In Texas,I wasn't old enough
To drink this stuff - only beer
I'll drink...'til I'm drunk!
{Sung over instrumentalbreak}
Chug-chugga-lugga
Cha-chug-chugga-lugga
Cha-chug-chug-chugall nightlong!
Chug-chugga-lugga
Cha-chug-chugga-lugga
Cha-chug-chug-chugall night long!
Drink... all night long
Let our friends...drink along
No more rules to stop me
'Cause I'm rich - drinks onmoi!
Drink... all night long
Drink up, girlfriends
I'myearning to drink more
In Texas, I wasn't old enough
To drink thisstuff - only beer
I'll drink... 'til I'm drunk!
Just drink...'til your drunk...
We'll drink... 'til we'redrunk...
Chug-chugga-lugga
Cha-chug-chugga-lugga
Cha-chug-chug-chugall nightlong!
Chug-chugga-lugga
Cha-chug-chugga-lugga
Cha-chug-chug-chugall night long!
~~ Alvin D
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another really nice day. Was overcast til around 1pm, then sunny & mild.
Had to get fresh crickets for the lizards & tarantula today. One of the errands that the kid loves. His tarantula will have been part of the family for a year
in October. Wonder when she's finally going to molt?
The garden is still 'tomato-heavy'. Like that's a bad thing...LOL
Tonight, Saturday, CBS has a fresh 'Big Brother 3', then reruns of 'The District' and 'The Agency'.
NBC pisses away 2 hours with a Jean-Claude Van Damme/Dennis Rodman/Mickey Rourke 'movie' - 'Double Team', followed by a fresh 'She Spies'. 'She Spies' is not that bad of a comic-book-brought-to-life show.
Best of all, it has a sense of humor. The rerun 'SNL' has Josh Harnett as host.
ABC has the James Bond movie 'The Man With The Golden Gun'.
The WB has the movie 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day'.
Faux has the usual 2 reruns of 'Cops', then 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN has the movie 'From Dusk Till Dawn'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Joins Janet Reno's Campaign
Elton John
Elton John has become the latest of Janet Reno's celebrity friends to help her campaign for governor, agreeing to sing at a September fund-raiser in Florida.
The 55-year-old entertainer will perform at a private, $500-per-ticket event Sept. 18 at a suburban Fort Lauderdale hotel, Reno spokeswoman Nicole Harburger said Thursday.
The two met when Reno was U.S. attorney general, and John recently invited the Democratic hopeful to an Academy Awards party, Harburger said.
"He said he'd do anything to support her campaign," she said.
Reno has received help in her campaign to unseat Republican Gov. Jeb Bush from former talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell and "The West Wing" actor Martin Sheen.
Elton John
Newest Star On The Hollywood Walk of Fame
KC & The Sunshine Band
Wayne Casey, a.k.a. KC (C), the lead singer and founder of disco group KC & The Sunshine Band poses with band members for photographers after receiving the 2,201st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a
ceremony in Los Angeles August 2, 2002. Along with the Beatles, KC is the only musician to have four number one singles in the span of one year: "Boogie Nights," "Get Down Tonight," "That's the Way (I Like
It,)" and "Rock Your Baby."
Photo by Jim Ruymen
Video/DVD Rights To Miramax
'The Osbournes'
One reason Miramax was able to land the video/DVD rights to "The Osbournes" is that Harvey Weinstein has known the bizarre rock family since he was a college student in
Buffalo 25 years ago, promoting Black Sabbath concerts. Miramax edged out five competitors for worldwide rights to the hit MTV show with a $7 million downpayment. But
Ozzy and Sharon should pull in many more millions if sales are anywhere near the $75 million "The Sopranos" have pulled in. "It just had to be [bleep]ing Miramax,"
explained Sharon, who negotiates all of Ozzy's deals. The first DVD will hit stores by late November, just as the second season begins.
'The Osbournes'
The British Spin
Colin Powell, Performer
Top diplomats have had a night of fun at their own expense, laughing at the thought of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell losing his job to a rock star and begging India
not to "fry" them with a nuclear bomb.
Satire is not typical in the sober world of international relations but the closing dinner of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations gathering is an annual exception.
Delegations from the 23 participating Asia-Pacific states vie with one another to come up with the funniest skit, singing and dancing their way into a reputation for
self-deprecating humour if they set their egos aside long enough.
At this year's gala in Brunei on Thursday, a serious moment almost occurred when some of the hundreds of diplomats attending thought for a minute that film of U.S. President
George W. Bush ordering Powell to get his act together because of an atrocious performance he gave last year was a live link-up, witnesses said.
The Americans opened the eight-act show with the film, which showed everyone from Bush to the Chinese National Peoples' Congress voting for Powell not to sing.
At the 2001 ASEAN meeting in Vietnam, Powell crooned a version of "El Paso", which is about a cowboy in love -- in this case with a maiden played by former Japanese Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka.
As he played the dying hero, Tanaka flung her arms around his prostrate body and kissed him on the cheek.
This year, Bush and Powell's top aides blamed a wave of governmental protests on the effort last year that prompted a U.S. official to joke Powell had no plans to quit his day job.
Bush said Powell's last attempt made President Vladimir Putin smug. "You ended up rolling around on the floor with some foreign minister. Meanwhile the Russians were
spectacular. President Putin has been gloating about it all year!"
Powell replied by babbling about how busy he was until Bush broke in: "Yeah, whatever. Look Colin, we're a proud nation. I hired you to be the best. Start practising.
Colin, just don't let me down. And tell your staff I'll be watching them!"
Even the threat of nuclear attack was not beyond the pale on Thursday as the Australians, known for past raunchy performances, sang a number at the expense of Indian
Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha to the tune of the song "Spirit in the Sky".
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, in a Hawaiian-style dress, sang: "Yashwant please don't fry us" and that Aung San Suu Kyi was "out of her nest" -- a message to Myanmar,
represented at the gathering, which freed pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi from house arrest in May.
In the U.S. skit, Powell's wife, who accompanied him on an eight-nation tour that ends in the Philippines on Saturday, called him to say: "Colin, you know, after last year's
ASEAN, the children could not go out of the house for weeks.
"Do not embarrass the family again that way and definitely no rolling around on the floor with any foreign ministers. Just don't even think about it," Alma Powell scolded him.
In a new version of Bush's state of the union address -- where in real life he branded three states members of an "axis of evil" including North Korea, present at
Brunei -- Bush pledged Powell "would not embarrass our great nation again".
An aide to Powell popped up as earnest television correspondent "Susie Newsie" reporting on the backlash.
"Rumour has it that the White House began a secret search to replace the secretary of state and several members of his senior staff after last year's performance at ASEAN.
"One administration official told me they even offered the job to U2 lead singer Bono," she added breathlessly as a picture popped up of the Irish band's front man with Bush.
Powell, a foreign policy moderate, has faced persistent questioning from the media about whether he might resign because of differences with hawks in the Bush administration.
Powell closed the performance with a version of "Some Enchanted Evening", as his staff tried to silence him, singing:
"Who can explain it, who can tell you why
Fools keep on singing, wise men never try."
The British Spin
The American Spin
Colin Powell, Performer
Colin Powell has a hard time letting go of work, even when he's forced to play — and sing.
Since taking office last year, the ever-dignified U.S. Secretary of State has learned that karaoke is a great leveler in the Asia-Pacific, where he has to perform
a skit-and-song before other foreign ministers at the region's largest security meeting.
It's a meeting-ending tradition for each of the ministers to perform a skit — a song is required, and delegation staff provide needed backup — behind doors closed to a press that always tries to sneak in.
In 2001, bowing to the needs of protocol, a reluctant Powell was coaxed on stage in Hanoi by Japan's vivacious Mamiko Tanaka — since fired for not fitting in at
her country's dark-suited foreign ministry — in a rendition of "El Paso."
The couple showed chemistry — and were captured in a show-stopping pose by a Vietnamese TV tape never meant for international television consumption. It was shown around the world anyway.
Everyone knew Powell was uncomfortable. This year, he riffed on those memories.
The skit opened with Powell chairing a meeting, looking completely at home as he took advice from staffers. "Don't do it," pleaded one. "No rolling on the floor this time," admonished another.
Then, the American president appeared on a huge backdrop video screen with advice for his chief diplomat. "Practice this time," said George W. Bush.
Powell and staff then rose and labored with gusto through the old "South Pacific" standard "Some Enchanted Evening" — with lyrics modified to reflect the arcana
of Southeast Asian foreign relations.
"Once you reach consensus, never let it go," Powell sang in a serviceable baritone. "Once you reach consensus, never let it G-O-O-O."
Loud applause followed. The diplomatic audience agreed — diplomatically, and on background for no attribution — that Powell was "really good."
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov also held his own, making a trip five centuries into the future and returning as a robot. Then he sang, "We Are the World."
Finally, all the ministers lined up to massacre an Abba tune, "I Have a Dream."
"We will be together. It's not a fairy tale," they sang. "We will see the future. We will never fail."
Early reviews were positive.
"Great fun," declared Philippine special envoy Domingo Siazon.
"The Americans were hilarious, the Russians innovative. Powell singing was good," said Syed Hamid Albar, Malaysia's foreign minister. "It was a good break
after all this talk on terrorism."
But the most uninhibited of ministers was Australia's Alexander Downer, who rocked in a '60s style guru robe backed by acolytes dressed like the Manson
Family. His number: a thumping rendition of Norman Greenbaum's counterculture hit, "Spirit in the Sky."
Downer twisted. He thrashed a guitar. And he rasped: "Get together and talk security — Going to the meeting in Brunei."
But what does a minister do when he really, really can't sing?
Indonesia's Hassan Wirajuda put on his wife, who belted with lounge style a perfect rendition of Asia's favorite karaoke number. He stood beside her and
croaked just two words at the very end: "My Way."
The American Spin
Calling All Chocoholics
World's Greatest Job
One of Britain's most exclusive grocery stores needs a new chocolate taster -- and will pay 35,000 pounds ($54,400) a year for the successful candidate.
Fortnum & Mason in London's Piccadilly -- one of the capital's most prestigious addresses -- is looking for a chocolate buyer to travel the world, taste as much chocolate as possible and select only the
best for its discerning customers.
Friday's Daily Telegraph newspaper said the Fortnum's personnel director Cathy O'Neill has already been bombarded with applications after she advertised the post as the "best job in the world."
World's Greatest Job
''Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''
Irish Hookers?
Is "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" a real word referring to Irish hookers?
Straight Dope Staff Report
Up Against 'The Sopranos' Premiere
'Alias' Premiere
ABC is giving the second season premiere of "Alias" the royal treatment: the network is speeding up production on its buzzworthy Prince William biopic to ensure the movie will be
ready for broadcast Sunday, Sept. 29, as a lead-in to the sophomore bow of the femme spy show.
"Prince William," which stars Jordan Frieda ("Band of Brothers") as the young royal, had been intended as a November sweeps tentpole. Instead, it will serve as the season premiere
for "The Wonderful World of Disney," airing from 7- 9 p.m. "Alias" will follow, with the season premiere of "The Practice" scheduled for 10 p.m.
What's more, ABC will promote the "Alias" season premiere via a 60-second theatrical trailer that will play on several thousand screens nationwide. The trailer, which was approved
by "Alias" creator J.J. Abrams, will play only in PG-13 and R-rated pictures.
Despite strong critical notice, lots of Emmy nominations and solid ratings last year, "Alias" producers will no doubt take all the help they can get. This fall, the Jennifer Garner
starrer will be up against the much-anticipated return of HBO's "The Sopranos," as well as Fox's "Malcolm in the Middle."
Alas ABC, which did not have too much else to smile about last season, isn't yet prepared to give "Alias" the biggest boost it might offer the show: a better time slot.
'Alias' Premiere
''On A Mission''
Jenna Bush
The party poopers who keep getting Jenna Bush in trouble by tattling every time she sips on a beer have driven the First Daughter overseas. Fun-loving Jenna, 20, has been
spotted at the Club 55 beach in St. Tropez and the Caves du Roy disco, where she and two friends supposedly polished off a bottle of vodka and a bottle of tequila at $250
apiece. "It was as if they were on a mission to get very drunk," a witness told London's Daily Mirror. "Jenna took full advantage of the fact it's legal for her to drink in France."
Jenna Bush
Goes Back on Tour
Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne left the 2002 tour to be with his wife, Sharon, while she has chemotherapy treatments for cancer that she recently learned had spread beyond her colon. He had been expected to rejoin
the tour on Aug. 22 in Denver.
But after being with Sharon for her first treatment, he nearly passed out, Osbourne's publicist said Thursday. His wife decided he'd be better off on the road, so she's sending him back to Ozzfest.
Osbourne will rejoin the tour Wednesday in Clarkston, Mich.
Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzfest
Life on the Streets
Heather Mills
Heather Mills, new wife of ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, has described how someone urinated on her head during a period of homelessness while she was living rough on the streets of London.
It was the turning point for the former model who ran away from home at the age of 13.
"There was this stench and I realized my hair was soaked -- a tramp was urinating on my head," she told Prima Magazine.
"That was the turning point when I said to myself 'You've been here nearly four months, its time to get out.' I went and had a shower in Victoria Station for 10p, like I always did,
smartened myself up and got a job in a croissant shop."
In the September issue of the magazine, Mills talks about former relationships and the conflicts with her work.
Despite an age difference of 26 years -- Mills is 34, McCartney 60 -- she describes him as: "Definitely the youngest guy I have ever been out with."
"He's so sweet, energizing -- a kind of Peter Pan character. When you see him walking down the street, he literally skips, just like a little boy," she says.
Heather Mills
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Family Feud
Jon Voight
Actor Jon Voight has taken his family feud with actress-daughter Angelina Jolie to television.
Voight, who won a best-actor Oscar for the 1978 Vietnam War drama "Coming Home," requested an interview with the syndicated TV show "Access Hollywood" to say he is "broken hearted" that Jolie
won't talk to him. When he tried to approach her at a recent party, he said, a security guard turned him away.
"I've been trying to reach my daughter and get her help, and I have failed and I'm sorry," he said in the interview, which aired Thursday.
Voight, 63, indicated he believes he is to blame for much of the trouble between himself and his daughter, acknowledging that when she was a baby, he had an affair and subsequently left his wife and family.
Voight said he wasn't surprised that his daughter's two-year-old marriage failed.
"I never had the feeling that they were going to make it because of both of their serious problems, and they've both been very public about them, so I never really held out any hope," he said.
Jon Voight
Record-Breaking Burp Attempt
'Grossology'
The world's loudest burper failed to smash his own ear-splitting record on Friday when a sore throat forced him to throw in the towel after three attempts.
Solicitor's clerk Paul Hunn, 33, from London was hoping to better the 118.1 decibel mark -- a burp as loud as a pneumatic drill -- a sonic tour de force he set in 2000.
But after chugging back a carbonated drink and gulping mouthfuls of air to build up gas in his stomach, he could only manage 110.5 decibels on a Guinness World Record sound level meter.
The world-record attempt was part of the museum's current "Grossology" exhibition, a look at the good, bad and ugly ways the human body works.
'Grossology'
Island Festival In Budapest
Luminarium
Visitors take a rest in the 'Luminarium' tent, designed by British artist Alan Parkinson, at the annual Island Festival in Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 1, 2002.
Photo by Sandor Katalin
Vows to Contest DUI Charge
Bill Moyers
Journalist Bill Moyers was charged with drunken driving after he left a friend's birthday party, but has denied the accusation and vows to fight it.
"I intend to contest the charges," Moyers said in a statement faxed Thursday to the Bennington Banner, which first reported the arrest.
Moyers, 68, of Bernardsville, N.J., who served as special assistant to President Johnson and publisher of Newsday before turning to public television in the 1970s, was stopped by state police
Saturday in the southern Vermont town of Arlington.
Moyers said he had just left a friend's birthday party about 10 p.m., and admitted to the arresting officer he had drunk a glass of champagne and "a small amount of wine."
A roadside breath test showed Moyers' blood-alcohol level at .10. The legal limit is .08. A follow-up test 90 minutes later showed Moyers' blood-alcohol level had dropped to .079, which is within the legal limit.
Bill Moyers
Interesting Read
Anti-Gravity Propulsion
Boeing, the world's largest aircraft manufacturer, has admitted it is working on experimental anti-gravity projects that could overturn a century of conventional aerospace propulsion technology
if the science underpinning them can be engineered into hardware.
Anti-gravity propulsion comes 'out of the closet' - Jane's Civil Aerospace
Asserts Copyright Interest in TV Cop Shows
City of Los Angeles
No-nonsense Sgt. Joe Friday of "Dragnet" and the clean-cut cops of "Adam-12" never had to do anything like this.
But the City of Angels has made it clear that its real-life police department is here not only to serve and protect, but also to collect licensing fees.
The city of Los Angeles has threatened legal action against the makers of two new TV police dramas if they use likenesses of the city's trademarked police department badges, logos, or even the
LAPD's good name, without city permission.
The municipal government is insisting that producers of the upcoming CBS series "Robbery, Homicide Division," and NBC's "Boomtown" -- both set in Los Angeles -- pay licensing fees for rights to
symbols that "belong to the residents and taxpayers of L.A.," Ana Garcia, a spokeswoman for the City Attorney's Office, told Reuters this week.
With the LAPD now being treated as a brand name, veteran "Law & Order" producer Dick Wolf is likely to get a much different reception as he proceeds with plans to bring a modern version of "Dragnet"
back to prime-time on ABC next year.
By contrast, Wolf said his years of experience as executive producer of the long-running NBC hit drama "Law & Order" and other shows set in New York City have been unfettered by municipal trademark issues.
Legal experts said the city may be on shaky ground by trying to assert a trademark or copyright interest in the use of the LAPD name or its depiction by the entertainment media.
City of Los Angeles
BartCop TV!
CNN At Your ATM<
Bank of America
While they wait for their cash at automated teller machines, some Bank of America customers are finding themselves momentarily trapped while the screen flashes ads for TV shows ranging from "Worst Case
Scenario" to Connie Chung's prime time news program.
The Charlotte-based bank is running the ads on 2,000 ATMs in California through September, with the potential to expand the promotion to some of its other ATMs in its coast-to-coast network of 14,000 machines.
The ads run when no one is using the machine, stopping when a customer inserts a bank card, and during the short periods while a transaction is being processed. Each spot is very brief — 5 to 7 seconds long.
CNN is pleased thus far with the promotion, a network spokesman said.
Bank of America
Tolstoy's Granddaughter
Tatiana Paus
Tatiana Paus, 87, one of two surviving grandchildren of the famed Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, left, looks at her grandfather's photos at the Yasnaya Polyana railway station's museum, 198 kms (124 miles) south of Moscow, Friday, Aug. 2, 2002. Paus has only dim memories of Russia from her
childhood long ago, but the elegant, silver-haired woman couldn't contain her excitement on arriving Friday at Yasnaya Polyana, the country estate of her grandfather, the famed Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.
Photo by Misha Japaridze
Trying To Set New Record For Breast-Feeding
Got Milk?
Got breast milk? Mothers in Berkeley, the famously liberal university town near San Francisco, plan to have plenty of it on Saturday when hundreds of them gather
at a local theater in an attempt to break a world record for breast-feeding.
So far the event, aimed at promoting the health benefits of nursing, has attracted some 800 women, enough to mount a challenge to the 767 mothers in Australia
who reportedly set a new breast-feeding record on Thursday, said Kelly Moore, the co-chairwoman of the event.
Organizers hope to attract as many as 1,000 mothers to the mass nurse-in where the women will go for a new Guinness record in the "Most Women Breast-feeding Simultaneously"
category. The city of Berkeley is sponsoring the event as part of the town's women, infants and children nutrition program.
While the attempt to win the nursing crown has grabbed headlines, she added the event will more importantly promote the health benefits of breast-feeding, which
research has shown reduces a woman's risk of breast cancer.
Got Milk?
Ending Broadway Run Next Month
'The Allergist's Wife'
"The Tale of the Allergist's Wife" will close Sept. 15 on Broadway.
The comedy by Charles Busch will have played 770 regular performances and 32 previews. It transferred to its current commercial run from the Manhattan Theater Club, where the show had its world premiere
in spring 2000. After opening Nov. 2, 2000, at the Barrymore Theater, the production recouped its initial $1.5 million investment in a mere 10 weeks.
Linda Lavin originated the role of Marjorie, a harried Upper West Side matron. Valerie Harper took over for Lavin last summer, followed by Rhea Perlman, who currently stars. Perlman's contract runs through Sept. 15.
'The Allergist's Wife'
At Yasnaya Polyana
Tolstoy's Family Reunion
The famed Russian writer Leo Tolstoy descendants pose for a family photo at their forefather's famous estate Yasnaya Polyana, 198 kms (124 miles) south of Moscow, Friday, Aug. 2, 2002. They are celebrating what great-great-grandson Vladimir
Tolstoy calls the birth of the family and the birth of Tolstoy's literary career. This year is the 140th anniversary of the marriage of Tolstoy and his wife, Sofia, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the writer's first story, "Childhood."
Photo by Misha Japaridze
Cable Companies Drop CNN
Israel
Israel's cable TV companies announced Thursday that they would quit carrying CNN news broadcasts in November, saying they could not longer afford it.
The decision, which comes amid criticism by some in Israel of CNN coverage of the Mideast conflict, means Israelis won't receive CNN news broadcasts via the cable companies starting in November.
The companies applied to the Council for Cable TV and Satellite Broadcasting, a government body, for permission to let their contracts with CNN lapse. The council agreed, said Efrat Shimoni, head of channel licensing.
Cable Companies Drop CNN
Near 8-Year Low
Walt Disney Co
Shares of Walt Disney Co. fell sharply on Friday to their lowest levels in nearly eight years after it posted weak quarterly results from slack theme park attendance and warned of worse conditions ahead.
Disney's tumbling share price also sent stocks of travel and leisure companies downward in sympathy as much of the company's current weakness was tied to sluggish tourism
at Disney's theme parks like Walt Disney World in Florida.
Debt rating agency Standard & Poor's weighed in, too, saying it may cut Disney's long-term corporate credit rating.
Following Disney's fiscal third quarter earnings report late Thursday, Chief Financial Officer Tom Staggs said theme park reservations were down about 10 percent in the
current quarter, leading to lower-than-expected fourth quarter profits.
The Burbank, Calif.-based media giant, with interests in TV, film, music, radio and theme parks, reported a fiscal third quarter net profit of 18 cents a share, adjusted for
accounting changes and operating income of 17 cents a share.
Walt Disney Co
Basic Cable
Ratings
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of July 22-28. Each ratings point represents 1,055,000 households. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
1. Auto Racing: Pennsylvania 500 (Sunday, 12:55 p.m.), TNT, 4.1, 4.27 million homes.
2. Auto Racing: Autotrader.com Post Race (Sunday, 7:47 p.m.), TNT, 3.7, 3.89 million homes.
3. "WWE Raw Zone" (Monday, 10 p.m.), TNN, 3.6, 3.8 million homes.
4. Auto Racing: Pennsylvania 500 track repair (Sunday, 1:14 p.m.), TNT, 3.6, 3.76 million homes.
5. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNN, 3.3, 3.5 million homes.
6. Auto Racing: Pennsylvania 500 rain delay (Sunday, 2:55 p.m.), TNT, 3.3, 3.43 million homes.
7. "Monk" (Friday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.0, 3.15 million homes.
8. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Monday, 4 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.9, 3.05 million homes.
9. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Monday, 5 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.8, 2.99 million homes.
10. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.8, 2.93 million homes.
11. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Tuesday, 5 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.8, 2.91 million homes.
12. Movie: "Every Woman's Dream" (Sunday, 2 p.m.), Lifetime, 2.7, 2.86 million homes.
13. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Monday, 4:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.7, 2.85 million homes.
14. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.6, 2.79 million homes.
15. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Monday, 3:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.6, 2.7 million homes.
Basic Cable
But, It's August!
Alberta, Canada
A hummingbird feeds from a snow covered feeder in Cremona, Alberta, on Friday, Aug. 2, 2002. Over an inch of snow fell on the community 100 km northwest of Calgary.
Photo by Jeff McIntosh)
In Memory
William Mallow
The man credited with inventing clumping cat litter and perfecting Liquid Paper correction fluid was remembered on Thursday by family and friends as a gifted scientist whose work found wide use.
Polymer chemist William Mallow also worked on the space shuttle's heat-resistant tiles, developed a way to artificially age Scotch whiskey and improved the rubber skin used on robot dinosaurs at Walt Disney World.
Mallow, a native of Akron, Ohio, died of leukemia at age 72 in a San Antonio hospital on Tuesday. He worked for the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio until his 1998 retirement.
"Bill was a unique, energetic individual with an ability to use chemistry to create some very practical and down-to-earth products. He was a people's chemist with an enthusiasm and love for invention that he shared with everyone," said Dr. Robert Bass, a colleague at the Southwest Research Institute.
Mallow developed cat litter that clumped together around urine and other waste, allowing the box to be cleaned daily with ease.
While at the institute, Mallow also helped Liquid Paper inventor Bette Nesmith Graham refine her creation.
The U.S. Air Force veteran's latest project was a slippery gel dubbed the Mobility Denial System. Designed to foil attacks on government buildings and control crowds, it can be sprayed on any surface and causes people to slip and fall and prevents vehicles from getting traction.
It could be deployed by the U.S. Marine Corps next year.
William Mallow
'The Osbournes'
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