From gkm at petting-zoo.net  Thu Jan  5 20:05:50 2006
From: gkm at petting-zoo.net (glen mccready)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:05:50 -0800
Subject: Just like Frank
Message-ID: <20060106040549.GP22640@petting-zoo.net>

Forwarded-by: Rex Burkheimer <rex at wmautomotive.com>

A man walks into the street and manages to get a taxi just going by. He
gets into the taxi, and the cabbie says, "Perfect timing. You're just
like Frank."

Passenger: "Who?"

Cabbie: "Frank Feldman. There's a guy who did everything right. Like my
coming along when you needed a cab. It would have happened like that to
Frank every single time."

Passenger: "There are always a few clouds over everybody."

Cabbie: "Not Frank. He was a terrific athlete. He could have won the
Grand-Slam at tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang  like an
opera baritone and danced like a Broadway star and you should have heard
him play the piano."

Passenger: "Sounds like he was something really special"

Cabbie: "There's more"......."He had a memory like a computer. Could
remember everybody's birthday. He knew all about wine, which foods to
order and which fork to eat them with. He could fix anything. Not like
me. I change a f use, and the whole street blacks out."

Passenger: "Wow, some bloke then"

Cabbie: "He always knew the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid
traffic jams, not like me, I always seem to get stuck in them."

Passenger:  "Mmm, there's not many like him around."

Cabbie: "And he knew how to treat a woman and make her feel good and
never answer her back even if she was in the wrong; and his clothing was
always immaculate, shoes highly polished too."

Passenger: "An amazing fellow. How did you meet him?"

Cabbie: "Well, I never actually met Frank."

Passenger: "Then how do you know so much about him?"

Cabbie: "I married his f*cking widow."

From gkm at petting-zoo.net  Mon Jan  9 11:10:58 2006
From: gkm at petting-zoo.net (glen mccready)
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:10:58 -0800
Subject: Mouse sets house on fire
Message-ID: <20060109191057.GI22640@petting-zoo.net>

Forwarded-by: Romain Kang <romain at kzsu.stanford.edu>

http://nctimes.com/articles/2006/01/09/backpage/1806191644.txt

Trapped mouse thrown into fire gets revenge: sets home ablaze

By: Associated Press Wire Reports

FORT SUMNER, N.M. (AP) ---- A mouse got its revenge against a
homeowner who tried to dispose of it in a pile of burning leaves. The
blazing creature ran back to the man's house and set it on fire.

Luciano Mares, 81, of Fort Sumner said he caught the mouse inside his
house and wanted to get rid of it.

"I had some leaves burning outside, so I threw it in the fire, and
the mouse was on fire and ran back at the house," Mares said from a
motel room Saturday.

Village Fire Chief Juan Chavez said the burning mouse ran to just
beneath a window, and the flames spread up from there and throughout the house.

No was hurt inside, but the home and everything in it was destroyed.

Unseasonably dry and windy conditions have charred more than 53,000
acres and destroyed 10 homes in southeastern New Mexico in recent weeks.

"I've seen numerous house fires," village Fire Department Capt. Jim
Lyssy said, "but nothing as unique as this one."

From gkm at petting-zoo.net  Fri Jan 27 14:09:45 2006
From: gkm at petting-zoo.net (glen mccready)
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:09:45 -0800
Subject: Yahoo! Web Beacons: Watching your browsing for our gain
Message-ID: <20060127220944.GL13896@petting-zoo.net>

[...through too many forwards to know the origin...]

If you belong to ANY Yahoo Groups - be aware that Yahoo is now
using "Web Beacons" to track every Yahoo Group user. It's similar
to cookies, but allows Yahoo to record every website and every
group you visit, even when you're not connected to Yahoo.

Look at their updated privacy statement at
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy.

About half-way down the page, in the section on cookies, you will
see a link that says WEB BEACONS.

Click on the phrase Web Beacons

http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html

On the page that opens, find a paragraph entitled "Outside the
Yahoo Network."

In that section find a little "Click Here to Opt Out" link that
will let you "opt-out" of their snooping.

Be careful! NOT to click on the next button shown.(Cancel opt-out)
It is an "Opt Back In" button that, if clicked, will UNDO the
opt-out.

Note that Yahoo's invasion of your privacy and your ability to
opt-out of it is not user-specific. It is MACHINE specific. That
means you will have to opt-out on every computer (and browser) you
use.

Please forward this to your other groups. You might complain, too,
but I'm not sure if anyone is listening.