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Anne told us about a lady who was Arrested For A Brown Lawn.

Check out the Most Tattooed Person.

I guess the way some students are these days I’m not surprised this Teacher Wants To Bring Gun To School.

Any idea what this means: idk my bff Jill?

Talk About Cold Hands!  Why would anyone do this?

Here’s a strange punishment:  Man Shaved For Posting Flyers.

At least your clothes won’t stink with these Smokeless Cigarettes.

Not much magic when The Amazing Johnathan… Disappeared.

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1901 - The vacuum cleaner was patented by Hubert Cecil Booth.

1927 - Babe Ruth became the first baseball player to hit 60 homers in one season.

1935 - On the border of Nevada and Arizona, the Hoover Dam is dedicated.

1960 - Debuting in primetime, TV cartoon, “The Flintstones.”

1975 - The Thrilla in Manila, boxing match, Joe Frasier vs. Muhammad Ali.

2004 - Six hundred miles south of Toyko, the first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken.

Maybe this is the same boy Marnie told us about that held onto the airplane.

Early stages of research are showing it may be possible to monitor blood sugar levels in people with type 1 diabetes with just a breath.  The BBC reports that those with type 1 exhale higher levels of methyl nitrates when the blood sugar level is too high.  Sometimes as much as ten times higher then normal.  Work at the University of Irvine in California hope to eliminate the need for sticking the finger to monitor blood sugar levels and use a simple breath test.

There were a few things that I was worried would go right for our wedding since I was not in Las Vegas to see them come along.  However, everything turned out wonderfully.  The Flamingo Hotel services did an excellent job. 

The Garden Chapel was decorated beautifully and ready to go when we got there.  They had people there ready to seat our guests,  someone was in the bridal room with me going over last minute details, and the pianist was great.  The bouquets were lavender and white roses in a hand tied arrangement and they were beautiful.  My bridal bouquet had 16 roses in it and the maid of honor’s had 12 roses.  Someone was also in charge of the flower girl and ring bearer to get them into position and off at the right time.  The photographer, who is hired from the chapel, took excellent pictures and we are very pleased with the way they look. 

We ordered our cake from the catering department at the hotel as well.  We emailed them a picture of what we wanted and they did it.  At first I ordered a 2 tiered cake that said it fed 25-30 people.  Then I remembered we are supposed to take the top back with us so I changed it to a 3 tiered cake.  It said it fed 35-40 people.  The cake was huge and would have fed at least 60 people.  We had so much cake left over.  Room service does offer travel boxes though to take it home.  Unfortunately the airport wasn’t so kind.  With no food allowed through security we had to pack it in our suitcase and by the time we got home it was just a big melted mess. 

1935 - Singer and pianist, Jerry Lee Lewis was born.

1962 - The first Canadian satellite “Aloutte 1″ is launched.

1988 - After being grounded by the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, NASA resumed space shuttle flights.

1996 - Nintendo 64 gaming system was released.

2005 - John Roberts was confirmed by the U.S Senate to be the next Chief Justice of the U.S.

• Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing
• Chorophobia- Fear of dancing
• Politicophobia- Fear of politicians
• Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed
• Coprophobia- Fear of feces
• Keraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning
• Placophobia- Fear of tombstones

Here’s a creative way a fitness company did their advertising: 

 The 14th Annual G.I Joe Collector’s Convention starts in Atlanta today.  This year will be special as the popular childhood toy turns 25!  One of the highlights of this year’s events will be 300 G.I Joe figures that will parachute 47 stories down the atrium of the Marriott Marquis Hotel.     That’s a lot of Joe!!

So like Beau said, we had some ups and downs on our trip to Vegas.  The low point for me had to be The Amazing Johnathan show.  He is a comedian/magician.   He performs at the Sahara, which is on the end of the strip by the Stratosphere.  Not a great part of the strip. 

We purchased our tickets online before we left at $75 a piece.  The tickets have to be picked up at the box office by 4pm that day.  The show isn’t until 10pm.  So we buy monorail tickets to the Sahara, get our tickets no problem and head back to the Flamingo until its time for the show. 

Once again, we buy more monorail tickets, go back to the Sahara for the show.  We are standing in line and 10 minutes before the show is to start an usher comes out and says that the show has been cancelled, “Johnathan called in sick.”  What?  I mean I understand that people get sick but the guy has one performance a day for less than 2 hours.  And 10 minutes before the show starts.  One of the guys in line with us was just on the elevator with Johnathan and he said he seemed fine.

So now our choices are, to see the back up show which is one of the singers of the Temptations, or go get a refund.  Needless to say, everyone headed to the box office for refunds.  Now we’ve got 500 angry people standing in line in the middle of the casino floor and 1 person working in the box office.  This would be the time they should call in for some help.  Target even has back up cashiers, Im sure they can find someone working that night that could come give us a hand.

Its finally our turn!!  He asks us where we bought our tickets.  We said Vegas.com.  He says for us to call Showtime Marketing, they deal with all the refunds and they have already notified them of the cancellation, and gives us the number and sends us on our way.  We made sure we called and got it straightened out before we left the hotel.  So we call and she gives us another number to call.  When that woman answers she says, “What, the shows cancelled?  No one has told us.”  Imagine that.  Now we sit on hold while she calls the Sahara to verify.  After about 20 minutes she gets back on and says yes the show is cancelled and we will refund your money to the card used.  Fine, but that was 3 days ago and we have yet to see the money. 

1901 - Famous TV host, Ed Sullivan was born. He died in 1974.

1939 - WWII saw Warsaw surrender to Nazi Germany.

1978 - Pope John Paul I, died.  He was born in 1912.

1987 - The first episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” aired.

2003 - Philadelphia’s Veteran’s Stadium saw it’s final game.

A creative billboard for Cingular:

Crown 7 has come up with electric cigars, cigarettes, and pipes that the company claims will allow you to smoke in normally smoke-free areas. 

A filter cartridge is inserted in the device and a rechargeable lithium-ion battery activates a smoke-like water vapor that fills your lungs with nicotine and a tobacco flavor.

The idea may not be so great though.  First, you probably wont be allowed to use them in areas that smoking is banned already.  Second, they are pretty expensive.  The cigar unit runs $65, the cigarette $100, and the pipe $150. Cartridges run $10 for a pack of five. Third, do you really want to suck on anything that charges just like a cell phone.