Just got a 'phone call from my housemate, John, "The toilet's crashed through the floorboards"
He was sitting on it at the time...
He really needs to eat less pies!
The stupid thing's been leaking off and on for about three years now; every time the landlord's had it "fixed", the problem comes back again. The constant damp must have weakened the floorboards to the extent that...CREEEAK...CRAAASH!
On 2005-01-19 09:03, Spirit wrote:
It'd be most sad to have a 'comedy death'. A friend one told me of a relative who'd died on holiday from a coconut dropping on her head from a tree...
A friend sent me some "Idiot Awards" the other day:
THE 2004 IDIOT AWARDS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED!
These people are awarded a sign to be hung around their necks so that the world will know they have received this award because of their deeds.
Number One Idiot of 2004
"I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center. Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants. I told her, well, on second thought, she better bring her daughter into the emergency room right away." Here's your sign, lady. Wear it with pride.
Number Two Idiot of 2004
Early this year, some Boeing employees on the airfield decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747 aircraft. They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home.
Shortly after, they took it for a float on the river, they noticed a Coast Guard helicopter coming towards them. It turned out that the chopper was homing in on the emergency locator beacon that activated when the raft was inflated. They are no longer employed at Boeing. Here's your sign, guys.
Don't get it wet; the paint might run.
Number Three Idiot of 2004
A true story out of San Francisco: A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the branch and wrote "this iz a stikkup. Put all your muny in this bag." While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might
call the police before he reached the teller's window So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to Wells Fargo. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he wasn't the brightest light
in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America.
Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, "OK" and left. He was arrested a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of America. Don't bother with this guy's sign. He probably couldn't read it anyway.
Number Four Idiot of 2004
A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all of the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of Scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but the cashier refused and said, because I don't believe you are over 21. The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give it to him because he didn't believe him. At that point, the robber took his driver's license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it over and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and he put the Scotch in the bag. The robber then ran from the store with his loot. The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of the robber that he got off the license. They arrested the robber two hours later. This guy definitely needs a sign!
Number Five Idiot of 2004
A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers. The first one shouted, "Nobody move!" When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him. This guy doesn't need a sign, he probably figured it out himself.
Number Six Idiot of 2004
Seems this guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder
block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. It seems the liquor store window was made of plexiglass. The whole event was
caught on videotape. Oh, that smarts. Give him his sign.
Number Seven Idiot of 2004
Ann Arbor: The 'Ann Arbor News' crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 12:50 A.M., flashed
a gun and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man,
frustrated, walked away. A sign for this guy would just be a waste.
Warning, the following link contains a young male of extreme stupidity (to the extend of being a real physical hasard to himself) and a little dirt too. If this is too much for you (his intelligence level was a bigger problem to me than the dirt), then do not look at this. However, nothing happens without warnings first, so it is pretty safe to give it a try and then just close the window, if you feel something is going to cross your line.
Do remember, that floss can be sharp and under normal use more or less stop blod circulation in your fingers. Also it may be flour coated, and the variations of flour is not really intended to go elsewhere than between your teeth (read: it is bad to you, and some countries demand warnings written in read, if tooth paste contains these kinds of flour).
Man, that guy would be funny even without added sounds. I mean, you can really feel how serious he is, that he really means it and stuff. Those breaks in speaking can't possibly come from anything but ...
(othervice, I am usually pretty cool with whatever people believe in, having friends believing in Jesus, Alah, Buddah and Thor. Personally, I call it the big unexplainable)
