Sunday, May 18, 2008
Whiskey Geeks Keep Moonshine Tradition Alive
Making moonshine has gone from a backwoods black art to a high-end hobby practiced by "whiskey geeks" with a taste for top-shelf hooch. Unlike their bootlegging predecessors, who cooked up big batches of white lightning and distributed the illegal booze out of the backs of cars, today's moonshiners focus on quality rather than quantity.
"It took me years, but with practice and dedication you can make any spirit every bit as good as a commercial distiller," says Dave Robison, 42, owner of Pioneer Spirits, a single-batch distillery in Chico, California. "You might not be able to reproduce it exactly, but it will be as good as anything you can buy on the top shelf."
Home distillation of liquor used to be the province of backwoods bootleggers. Up until 1974, when the world price of sugar skyrocketed, commercial moonshiners throughout the Southeastern United States made enough money making hooch that it was worth the risk of getting caught by federal revenuers.
Today, making your own liquor is as illegal as ever, and a lot less lucrative. In fact, it's considerably cheaper to buy it off the shelf.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Real life Garfield
A two-and-a-half stone cat has been hailed a real life Garfield in Italy. Orazio looks like not only the cat that got the cream but who ate the whole cow too.
Just like lasagne loving Garfield, this fat cat grew to such a gargantuan size by guzzling all the food treats that his native Italy can provide.
The three-year-old tabby is such a food fanatic that owner Laura Santarelli finds it impossible to get him to slim down.
The flabby feline is now so large that it's a struggle for Laura just to pick him up.
And, should any of Laura's other five cats get in his way at dinner time at his home in Eupilio, the results can be catastrophic...
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Sunday, March 02, 2008
The World's Tallest Snowwoman
he world’s tallest snowman isn’t a man at all. Creators unveiled a 122-foot snowwoman in Bethel, Maine Friday morning. With skis for eyelashes and red-painted tires for lips, she is a whole-lot-of-woman.
Maine creators named their snowwoman “Olympia” after their Senator who is ironically named Olympia Snowe. Olympia knocked “Angus, King of the Mountain,” the record holder since 1999, right out of the park.
The 1999 record holder was named for Angus King, who was governor in Maine at the time, but Angus isn’t King anymore.
Olympia’s creators made her arms out of pine trees and she too has her share of glitz and glamour as a giant snowflake pendant, more than six feet in diameter, hangs from her neck.
This ice princess will be around for a while; she isn’t expected to melt until May. More pictures here...
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Michigan bar aims for big burger record! mmm Yummy
Where does a bar and grill go when it's looking to top its everyday fare of 6-pound hamburgers and sundaes the size of basketballs?
At Mallie's Sports Grill & Bar, the 240-person capacity establishment in Southgate, the answer is straight toward the record books. After 12 hours of preparation and baking, the 134-pound burger emerged Saturday
he “Absolutely Ridiculous Burger,” made with beef, bacon and cheese, was delivered on a 50-pound bun, The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press reported. It sells for $350, and orders require 24 hours’ notice.
Flipping the burger required three men using two steel sheets.Owner Steve Mallie told The News he wanted to show that he has the biggest and best burgers.
Authenticating Mallie’s claim could take a few weeks. His burger would outweigh the 123-pound burger made last year by Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, of Clearfield, Pa.!
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
Frisky and risky business
It's estimated that up to 70 per cent of workers have met a partner through the workplace, somewhere also rife with infidelity and flings.
Lucy Kellaway is the management columnist at the Financial Times, where she also has her own 'agony aunt' column. She is asked about all manner of office dilemmas – from smelly colleagues to people in a pickle over workplace romances. 'Different types of relationships go on all the time in the office and we often don't even realise it,' she says.'People seem to be in conflict with how they should behave professionally and how they want to behave as human beings.
'In future, if you do embark on a relationship with a colleague you may be legally required to tell your boss. Eemployers are worried that if the relationship turns sour, they may be left with a legal fight on their hands.
Barry Mordsley, of Salans Law firm, explains: 'Employers are worried they will be faced with a sexual harassment case, particularly if the relationship involves someone who is more senior. The other person could claim they were forced into the relationship and were too scared to say no.'
Other worries facing employers are issues of favouritism and sharing confidential information.
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Sunday, January 06, 2008
Couch potato contest lasts 29 hours
A Manhattan librarian emerged as a champion couch potato after three rivals gave in to sleep deprivation or nature's call.
Stan Friedman won the ESPN Zone Ultimate Couch Potato Competition, which began Tuesday morning at the ESPN Zone restaurant in Times Square. The event ended Wednesday afternoon after more than 29 grueling hours of continuous sports viewing - mainly college football bowl games and endless highlights loops.
The four participants, sitting in recliners in front of a dozen 42-inch high-definition plasma televisions and a couple of 14-foot HD projection TVs, could order unlimited food and drinks, but they weren't allowed to go to sleep or leave their recliners except for restroom breaks once every eight hours.
He won a $5,000 prize package including a huge TV, a cozy recliner and a trophy with a potato on it.
"I have a 350-square-foot apartment, so I don't know what I'll do with the TV," he said Thursday. "But I'll make room for the recliner."
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Man Selling Soul On EBay For $1000000
An American man is selling his soul on the internet for $1000000 - to raise money for Christmas.He says the winning eBay bidder will receive his spirit in a glass jar as well as a contract "relinquishing ownership".
He told buyers: "I've got no money for the Christmas holidays, and all I've got left to sell is my soul.
"I'm not really using it lately - and selling it on eBay is better than letting the Devil have it."
The starting bid is $1 million, but surprisingly he has yet to receive an offer.
But he is still hopeful of lucre because the auction has another day to run.
The sale is reminiscent of an episode of the Simpsons, when Bart sells his soul to Milhouse.
Bart laughs at the idea until he finds automatic doors fail to open for him.
The lot is just one of a number of wacky items currently on sale on eBay - including a dollar bill with the face of Jesus on it.
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Sunday, August 19, 2007
Funny Sign at a Mall
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Saturday, August 18, 2007
The Real Story Behind The Ten Commandments
more comics from Bizarro...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Funny Pics
Beached Limo
If you are in San Francisco, Don´t ride in a limousine!
Why people rent super-stretch limos in a city that's mostly hills ???
Ooooppss!!! It's gonna get stinky!!!
Merging traffic...It should be like this...
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day". ~Author Unknown
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Monday, July 23, 2007
10 Craziest Excuses for Being Late to work
Late for work and need an excuse? You're not alone.
Sixteen percent of workers say they arrive late to work at least once a week, according to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey.
One-in-four of all workers (25 percent) admit to making up phony excuses to explain their tardiness.
Here are the top 10 examples of the most unusual excuses employees offered their managers for arriving late to work:
1. Someone was following me, and I drove all around town trying to lose them.
2. My dog dialed 911, and the police wanted to question me about what "really" happened.
3. My girlfriend got mad and destroyed all of my undergarments.
4. I woke up and thought I was temporarily deaf.
5. I just wasn't "feelin' it" this morning.
6. I was up all night arguing with God.
7. A raccoon stole my work shoe off my porch.
8. I super-glued my eye thinking it was contact solution.
9. I was putting lotion on my face when my finger went up my nose causing a nose bleed.
10. A prostitute climbed into my car at a stop light, and I was afraid my wife would see her and think I was messing around... so I got out of the car.
As explanations vary, so do men and women when it comes to being late for work. Males are less prone to tardiness with 41 percent saying they've never been late for work in their current position compared to 37 percent of females. Men are also less likely to lie about why they're late (22 percent) -- while 28 percent of women won't tell a fib, either.
Think you're being sly with the excuse you gave your boss? Guess again. While the majority of hiring managers don't typically question the validity of the reasons provided, 27 percent say most of the time, they don't believe the excuses.
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