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Thursday, October 14. 2004My OnStar ExperienceOnStar: Hello, OnStar. SaltySeaDog: Hey, so, I got an important package in the trunk, but I think I locked my keys in with it when I was dispatching…er…loading it. OnStar: Not a problem, sir, I’m unlocking the trunk now. SaltySeaDog: [sound of trunk opening] Whooo…Jesus, that stinks! OnStar: Are you OK, sir? SaltySeaDog: Yeah, yeah. I just got to get rid of this package as soon as possible. Say, can you give me directions to an abandoned quarry, or maybe some remote wooded spot where I could leave my package? OnStar: Sure thing. I’m showing that there’s an empty shaft at an old silver mine three miles southwest of your location. SaltySeaDog: Perfect! That’s great, perfect. I’m going to need a car wash, too. Someplace discreet, if you know what I’m saying. OnStar: Absolutely, sir. You and OnStar are speaking the same language. Sunday, October 3. 2004An excerpt from 'Hell's Angels A Strange and Terrible Saga' Hunter S. Thompson's acount of The Hell's Angel's
A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson Porterville police knew by Saturday morning that the motorcycle clan of California might hit Porterville during the weekend. . . .By late afternoon there were riders beginning to congregate at Main and Olive, with the Eagle Club as their drinking center. A few riders were in Murry Park. No one that we saw was out of line. By early evening great numbers had begun to arrive and there was a build-up at Main and Olive. Our phone got hot as people wanted to know what the city was doing about the situation. We were urged to call out the National Guard, to order wholesale arrests, to deputize citizens and arm them with axe handles and shotguns. View Extended Entry Friday, October 1. 2004I Think I'll Have Some TeaFound at http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ enjoy!-drew'A Nice Cup of Tea'by George OrwellTaken from Soc.culture.british 5/28/94If you look up 'tea' in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points.This is curious, not only because tea is one of the mainstays of civilization in this country, as well as in Eire, Australia and New Zealand, but because the best manner of making it is the subject of violent disputes.When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea, I find no fewer than eleven outstanding points. On perhaps two of them there would be pretty general agreement, but at least four others are acutely controversial. Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden:View Extended Entry |
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