Things that make me go

[diabolical_Tanya]

or or or

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Poisonous plant found in Plus market salad
Published: 12 Aug 09 12:29 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090812-21193.html

A customer purchasing rocket salad at German supermarket Plus was surprised to find a poisonous plant in the package as well, the discount chain confirmed to The Local on Wednesday.


As first reported by news magazine Der Spiegel this week, the customer in Hannover discovered a 150 gramme package of rocket, also called arugula, contained senecio, which is commonly known as ragwort or Greiskraut in German. The poisonous plant found across the country has leaves that look similar to the distinctive rocket salad.

“Thankfully, no one has been reported ill from eating this salad and only the one package has been found to be contaminated with this poisonous plant,” Plus spokeswoman Christina Stylianou told The Local Wednesday.

The tainted packet reportedly had 2,500 microgrammes of senecio, but University of Bonn botanist Helmut Wiedenfeld told Der Spiegel that one microgramme is the maximum amount a person could consume.

After being notified of the package’s contents, Plus pulled all pre-packed rocket from the shelves from all stores in Germany.

The Hannover customer was lucky to be a plant expert, and recognised the different leaves right away, saving his liver from potentially life-threatening damage.

Senecio is a yellow-flowering member of daisy family, Asteraceae, with leaves that produce biocides as a defence against being eaten.

Sylianou said the store’s quality department is still investigating how the poisonous plant wound up in the package of salad greens, adding that the chain’s relationship with the supplier will be affected by the outcome.
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[diabolical_Tanya]

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The story - <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A Manhattan Laundromat worker thought the 4-foot-long boa constrictor behind a sack of clothes she was about to wash yesterday was a giant toy -- and then it moved.

&quot;It's alive! It's alive!&quot; screamed Erika Vega, 27, of the slithering critter.

It turns out, the 9-pound boa named Silky escaped five months ago from an apartment three floors above the West 110th Street laudromat.

&quot;I missed her a lot,&quot; said owner Sury Leguisamon, 17, after animal-control workers reunited them.

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and the readers comment

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">&quot;I missed her a lot,&quot; said owner Sury Leguisamon, 17, after animal-control workers reunited them.

And I hope you and/or your parents pay a fine if you didn't report that the boa went missing. At the very least, you owed your neighbors a posting of such.

You careless, reckless snake owners - what if it had crawled into a baby's crib and suffocated it?
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and then
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">First, it would be strangled, not suffocated - I've never heard of a snake holding a pillow over someone's face.

<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Now, how do you know the snake wasn't reported missing? Is that part of the news story that shows up in Invisible Ink?</span></span>

And way to go, stereotyping snake owners as careless and reckless. May I be allowed to stereotype you as foolish and dim-witted?
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[diabolical_Tanya]

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this one gets a and

[Xavier]

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Why are those ladies holding chickens?

[Phatty]

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Because they're Chicken Heads, maybe?

[diabolical_Tanya]

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Dominic Waghorn, Middle East correspondent

Israel is in the grips of mermaid fever after numerous sightings of the mythical sea creature off its coast
One town council is taking the reports so seriously it is offering a $1m (£609,000) reward to anyone who can prove the existence of a mermaid in its waters.

Kiryat Yam municipality, near Haifa, says it has been told of dozens of sightings in the past few months.

They say it is a female figure, it looks like a young girl.

Council spokesman Natti Zilberman

Many people are telling us they are sure they've seen a mermaid and they are all independent of each other,&quot; council spokesman Natti Zilberman told Sky News.


The nautical nymph is only seen in the evening at sunset, according to media reports, drawing crowds of people with cameras hoping for a glimpse.

&quot;People say it is half girl, half fish, jumping like a dolphin. It does all kinds of tricks then disappears,&quot; Mr Zilberman said.

Asked whether a dolphin or large fish could be a more rational explanation, he insisted: &quot;They say it is a female figure, it looks like a young girl.&quot;

The council denied its offer of a reward was a publicity stunt, but said it hoped to nurture the mermaid as something which could bring in more tourists.

[diabolical_Tanya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Xavier</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why are those ladies holding chickens? </div></div>

when you find out please let me know

[loops]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">this one gets a and
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it's the Ozarks version of stepford wives.

[julie*mango]

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i was thinking the same thing!<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Phatty</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Because they're Chicken Heads, maybe? </div></div>

[chitowngirl]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Xavier</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why are those ladies holding chickens? </div></div>
maybe for the same reason these three are dressed as bears?

[diabolical_Tanya]

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seet deh an dollars to doughnuts it was the wife's idea an hubby did it just to shut her up. Some people really should not be allowed to re-produce

[loops]

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i wonder if they do, indeed, poop in the woods?

[diabolical_Tanya]

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So true!




· More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.

· Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

· I don't understand the purpose of the line, &quot;I don't need to drink to have fun.&quot; Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they've invented the lighter?

· Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

· OK. That's enough, Nickelback.

· I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

· Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the &quot;people you may know&quot; feature on facebook people that I do know, but i deliberately choose not to be friends with?

· Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or faq's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.

· There is a great need for sarcasm font.

· Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what was going on when I first saw it.

· I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.

· The other night I hit a new low at an open bar. I had already hopped on highway blackout when, inevitably I had to find a bathroom. Eventually I decided it was probably on the other side of the bar so I tried to walk over there, but ran into a guy coming the other way. We played that, Both go left, Both go right game to no avail, so I finally put out my hand to guide myself past and that is when I realized, yup, that's a mirror I just tried to walk through. And the guy on the other side is me. Even cats can recognize their own image.

· Now I understand why Michael Phelps eats 20,000 calories a day…

· I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

· I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

· The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text.

· A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.

· Was learning cursive really necessary?

· Lol has gone from meaning, &quot;laugh out loud&quot; to &quot;I have nothing else to say

· I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger

· Whenever someone says &quot;I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart&quot;, all I hear is &quot;I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart&quot;.

· How many times is it appropriate to say &quot;What?&quot; before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

· I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

· Everytime I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in' examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said &quot;Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies&quot;

· What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?

· While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.

· MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

· Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

· I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.

· Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

· I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

· Eating dessert, skipping class, and having sex all have one thing in common. Once the idea crosses your mind it's almost impossible not to do it, and if someone else says it out loud, it's 100% going to happen.

· Bad decisions make good stories.

· Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!

· Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier &amp; sluttier every year?

· You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

· Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.

· There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

· The best thing about sex is that part where I have it.

· I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

· &quot;Do not machine wash or tumble dry&quot; means I will never wash this ever.

· I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'

· I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

· I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

· When I meet a new girl, I'm terrified of mentioning something she hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking. not that I've done it

· I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my itunes.

· Why is a school zone 15 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...

· As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.

· Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

· It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.

· I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

· I think that if, years down the road when I'm trying to have a kid, I find out that I'm sterile, most of my disappointment will stem from the fact that I was not aware of my condition in college.

· Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.

· The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There's nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard before dinner.

· Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet my [censored] everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...

· It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.

· I wonder if cops ever get [censored] off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.

· I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

[diabolical_Tanya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Dominic Waghorn, Middle East correspondent

Israel is in the grips of mermaid fever after numerous sightings of the mythical sea creature off its coast
One town council is taking the reports so seriously it is offering a $1m (£609,000) reward to anyone who can prove the existence of a mermaid in its waters.

Kiryat Yam municipality, near Haifa, says it has been told of dozens of sightings in the past few months.

They say it is a female figure, it looks like a young girl.

Council spokesman Natti Zilberman

Many people are telling us they are sure they've seen a mermaid and they are all independent of each other,&quot; council spokesman Natti Zilberman told Sky News.


The nautical nymph is only seen in the evening at sunset, according to media reports, drawing crowds of people with cameras hoping for a glimpse.

&quot;People say it is half girl, half fish, jumping like a dolphin. It does all kinds of tricks then disappears,&quot; Mr Zilberman said.

Asked whether a dolphin or large fish could be a more rational explanation, he insisted: &quot;They say it is a female figure, it looks like a young girl.&quot;

The council denied its offer of a reward was a publicity stunt, but said it hoped to nurture the mermaid as something which could bring in more tourists.

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*bump* fi Gen