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Holiday
The word holiday has related but different meanings in English-speaking countries. A contraction of holy and day, holidays originally represented special religious days. This word has evolved in general usage to mean any special day of rest (as opposed to regular days of rest such as the weekend). In the English-speaking world a holiday can mean a period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation (e.g. "I'm going on holiday to Malta next week"); the North American equivalent is...
Dec 22, 2007, 10:40 pm - angelm

My Two Brothers
An Irishman walks into a pub. The bartender asks him, What'll you have? The man says, Give me three pints of Guinness please. So the bartender brings him three pints and the man proceeds to alternately sip one, then the other, then the third until they're gone. He then orders three more. The bartender says, Sir, you don't have to order three at a time. I can keep an eye on it and when you get low I'll bring you a fresh cold one.&q...
Dec 12, 2007, 8:28 am - ochoop17

FDA Links Plant to Salmonella Strain
WASHINGTON (March 1) - Federal inspectors found the strain of salmonella behind a recent food-poisoning outbreak at the ConAgra Foods Inc. plant that made the tainted peanut butter, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. Beyond the Sylvester, Ga., plant, the strain also has been isolated from open jars of the company's peanut butter and some of the 370 people who have fallen ill in the outbreak, the FDA said. ConAgra on Feb. 14 recalled...
Mar 1, 2007, 9:10 pm - LOTTOMIKE

Muslim cleric likens women to 'uncovered meat'
Yeah we really need more of that mindset written into our laws and school books to brainwash our children. Video: Australia's senior Muslim cleric is being asked to resign over controversial comments concerning how women dress....
Oct 27, 2006, 8:41 am - konane

PB-$22.5 million cash
During my off days of lottery when I have already purchased my tickets I like to stare at my numbers and day dream that one of my lines might come in the drawing and I will be able to live a better life. I have been looking at expensive cars and homes in my area that I can not afford now. But one day maybe my dream ship will come in. It will be in the form of a winning lottery ticket for powerball. Boy! would that be nice and life changing to say the least. Just to be...
Jul 3, 2006, 6:14 pm - weshar75

news of the wierd-rock and roll gangs take over austrailia
Australia's The Bulletin is reporting that feuding gangs armed with spears and machetes - and named after such heavy metal bands and albums as Judas Priest, Cowboys From Hell and Fear Factory - have run amok at the biggest Aboriginal settlement in Australia, destroying homes and terrifying families hiding from the violence. On October 23, 2002, after a policeman shot dead a Judas Priest gang member in Port Keats, the JPs - who that day had been fighting the Evil Warriors [photo] -...
Jun 18, 2006, 4:55 pm - LOTTOMIKE

"Defending the Indefensible
This is the organization to which Democrats fully intend to subjugate authority of the US government. Let's see we have these following revelations plus a deepening Oil For Food money pipeline which flowed straight through the UN. Also very recently the UN had a day of solidarity w...
Feb 9, 2006, 2:40 pm - konane

I Just Thought i say this to the world: $100 Billion dollars the World saves & Thoughts..
I call them: Big and heavy cars : they are gas gusslers...Well if the world will stop using them and got themselves gas savers [only the big and heavy cars not all gas gusslers out there]...If the planet did that, the world will save itself: At least: $500 Million dollars per country....
Sep 25, 2011, 12:12 pm - pumpi76

Some ideas & Some Thoughts...
Stuff you should know...If all of the world electricity was shut down for 1 day it will be enough electricity to supply a country like Madagascar or Australia for an entire year....Same is with the water...You charge them, $2 a month and it will be, $1.2 Billion dollars in revenue for the world...For example those, $1.2 Billion dollars could build the bridge that will unite: Japan and Asia or Indonesia and Asia or the bridge that unites africa with Europe or a bridge that will cross...
Feb 6, 2011, 1:29 am - pumpi76

Doctor uses household drill to save boy
Doctor uses household drill to save boy The procedure took just over a minute Updated: Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 9:23 AM EDT Published : Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 9:22 AM EDT MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A doctor in rural Australia used a handyman's power drill to bore a hole into the skull of a boy with a severe head injury, saving his life. Nicholas Rossi fell o...
May 21, 2009, 1:39 pm - truesee