Weekly World Journal … Hasta La Vista Baby

after 28 years of headlines such as this, (see below) the WWN is signing off...........

MUTE DRIVER HONKS OUT A ROAD RAGE IN MORSE CODE — WWN

beep beep beeeeeeep beep
beep beep beeeeeeep
beeeeeeep beep beeeeeeep

Oh man, where are we going to go to find out the important stuff? Inquiring minds need to know:)
Totally weird or fake news, with fabulous headlines created to make your grocery line wait tolerable if not educational..


As Larry Williams of the Hartford Courant said…"it’s a sad day for pretend journalism"

or is it?

Witherspoon..........is it the money?

Ding,Dong .....Bo-Hylurox calling

the unsuspecting first time......

I think it's the he-man 'ab cream' he really wants

What’s that?.....you say

• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
• In the Wizard of OZ Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.
  
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
  
• Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
  
• According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed of light
  
• Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".
  
• Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album
  
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
  
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere
  
• The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
  
• The last NASCAR driver to serve jail time for running moonshine was Buddy Arrington.
  
• St. Augustine was the first major proponent of the "missionary" position.
  
• The first video ever played on MTV Europe was "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits.
  
• The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
  
• If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque.

Way way .... long ago

Today is the first day in fifteen years that our rental house sits empty.... I will always love this house, as it represents a major milestone in my life as a single Mom.... Purchased in 1975, it had to be co-signed with my parents, even though I was able to come up with a 30k downpayment. They didn't trust single women buyers so much in those days, plus I had a fairly low paying job. My mortage payment was $278.00 a month, including impounded taxes. I paid off the mortage eighteen years ago.

We drove over to take inventory on maintanence and repairs....and found these vintage photos tacked to the otherwise bare bulletin board on the back porch.

pictures were taken.....sixty-five years ago. What a great thing to have! You cannot tell by the top picture...but that is a dirt road in front of the house. Evidently, a young soldier rented a room back in the WWII era. He stopped by the house on a visit back to our town and dropped by to see how it looked all these years later and brought photos to share.

The house has not seen too many (exterior)changes... But no longer has shutters, I think we need to get some......don't you?

I'll post a current picture as soon as the place is spruced up a little.......

Wicket W. Warrick

Species:Ewok
Gender:Male
Height:.8 meter
Weapon:spear, sling
Vehicle:hang glider
Wicket W. Warrick was a loyal, curious and adventurous young Ewok scout when he first met Princess Leia Organa in the forests of Endor'smoon. The lone Ewok found a strange offworlder knocked unconscious from a speeder bike accident. Tentatively prodding her with his spear, the jittery scout was surprised to find this strange creature not only alive, but friendly as well.
Galactic historians would be surprised to note that this friendship led the way to an alliance that helped overthrow the Empire.

Wicket led Leia to his Ewok village, high in the trees of Endor. There, the Ewok leaders learned of the Galactic Civil War. It wasn't long before the Ewoks pledged their loyalty to the Rebel Alliance, and helped the Rebels in their fight against the Empire. Were it not for the Ewoks, the Rebels would not have been able to infiltrate and destroy the Imperial shield generator complex on Endor. With the generator down, the Alliance Fleet was able to penetrate the second Death Star's superstructure and destroy the station

Okay, it's true........ I don't have much to write about today

BTW Dan.... if you're reading this.... THIS guy should be your butler.... not big foot. You could 'throw over empires!'.... and hide in trees and stuff

Wasteland….the vast kind

This is how Newton N. Minow (then chairman of the FCC) described television forty six years ago….. well, sort of

First he said it was good…the best actually
Then he pulled the ‘vast wasteland’ curve ball…..with qualifications


All in a speech titled “Television and the Public Interest” on May 9, 1961


read it here

1961….back when there were only THREE channels (networks)
Wonder if Newt new how vast that wasteland would get, or how amazingly wonderful

Roots on ABC Jan. 30, 1977 seen in (36.38 million homes)

third highest viewer ratings from 1950 - 2000

the highest?..................................... last episode of M.A.S.H and television has only gotten better

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.”
-Newton N. Minow

Wahoo! happy dance

I got most of my music library back.....


Received an email from an anonymous reader and they included a link to restore from my ipod...

took some figuring, but I did it....... THANK YOU.... anonymous...(and you shall remain so)

okay... maybe I'm not that happy

but I'm definately

tickled

happy