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This is cute.

Wyeth not, indeed. You may have the Bristol-Meyers Stomp and need Squibb:

Connecticut License Plate

NEWZLND

Long way from home, I wot.

House for sale, cheap:

No one made an offer on the (ex-Atanta Falcon’s Quarterback’s) luxury home in suburban Atlanta at an auction Tuesday. A minimum bid of $3.2 million was required, but only two parties showed up and neither brought the $160,000 payment that was needed just to start the auction.

Sterling Realty Services president Narender Reddy said there is no market for the eight-bedroom, 11-bath home at that price in light of the economy. The whole process lasted less than an hour. Now, a bankruptcy judge must decide the next step for Vick’s house.

Delaware License Plate:

GODDESS

(She wasn’t).

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This site is a hoot.

Ten things the staff does not want to hear under the current economic conditions, from BuzzWhack.

Heartland America just sent me another catalog threatening me that, if I don’t buy something, it might be my last.

If at first you can’t succeed . . . .

It’s official: Middletown will hold what is said to be the state’s first do-over municipal election, after Delaware’s only recorded snow-out of voting in all three counties.

Late Thursday, the Middletown Board of Elections ruled this week’s town election, delayed from Monday to Tuesday, was not legal because it lacked the 20-day public notice required by state law and town charter.

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In these and many other parts, Verizon and Comcast are locked in combat.

Verizon keeps pushing their FiOS; Comcast keeps reminding folks that, outside the house, their cables are fiber optic.

Escalation: My cable bill no longer says “cable.”

It now says, in bold, Digital Cable.

Duh.

Up the road a piece–no, not that road, the other road–in Harrisburg, Pa., freebies for the newbies. And for the oldies.

When they took the oath of office in January, most Pennsylvania legislators placed their right hands on new Bibles and Torahs that cost taxpayers about $13,700.

Now comes word that members of the state House got something else that day as well – a desktop pen set.

It was a gift presented by new House Speaker Keith R. McCall (D., Carbon). But he didn’t pay for it. The public did – nearly $4,000.

In all, 210 of the trinkets were ordered at a cost of $18.95 each. That’s one for each of the 203 representatives with a few to spare.

The bases of the pen sets are crafted from a three-inch chunk of coal and feature a small plaque with McCall’s name and new title.

This is in a state that, like most other states, is having trouble paying its bills.

I think Chris has a marketing opportunity here.

Oh, about those Bibles and Torahs. They get a new one every session, even if they’ve gotten one before. Some of the long-serving ones must have whole libraries.

It’s a nice weekend outing:

And the winner of a public vote for the image to grace Delaware’s next quarter is – drum roll, please – the Wilmington & Western Railroad.

Not among the original candidates, the nonprofit steam railroad, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, won with write-in votes alone.

. . . Now the railroad, along with three runners-up in the voting, will be sent on to the U.S. Mint to make the final selection.

(Somehow, I don’t think they are actually sending the railroad to the U. S. Mint; the Norfolk Southern it’s not, but it’s still kind of hard to box up.)

Therese Winnington and her dog Pickle trudged home after a walk for Pickle and a trip to get some coffee . . . .

That is a great name for a dog.

Snow Video after the Fold

About four inches of snow so far (measured on the tonneau cover of my pick ’em up truck when I picked up my paper from my delivery person who does damned good work) and more coming.

I’ve ranted before about the screwy response of Delawareans to a forecast of snow. They act as if they were packing to explore Antartica. On foot. With no dog sleds.

The local rag did a piece on that today.

What I can’t figure out is why the story started with a report from Lowe’s.

Delawareans can be screwy, but I’ve never heard of one stocking up on plywood and nails and plumbing fixtures before a snow storm.

Addendum:

Bill, in the comments, suggests they were thinking “snow shovel panic,” which I didn’t think of because I have a snow shovel–same one I’ve had for 15 years. I think we had snow shovel panic earlier with one of the snows we didn’t have earlier.

Mithras reports chaos in his home town:

. . . sheer milk-bread-and-egg-buying panic has broken out, with milk-bread-and-egg riots devastating large swaths of the city . . . .

Persons keep learning the hard way:

Kimberley Swann, 16, was dragged before the powers that be on Monday morning and summarily dismissed from her job at Ivell Marketing & Logistics, the Telegraph explains. She was handed a letter which read: “Following your comments made on Facebook about your job and the company we feel it is better that, as you are not happy and do not enjoy your work we end your employment with Ivell Marketing & Logistics with immediate effect.”

Swann described herself as “shocked” at the perfunctory nature of her ejection as a result of the comment “on her personal site”. She protested: “I did not even put the company’s name, I just put that my job was boring. They were just being nosy, going through everything. I think it is really sad, it makes them look stupid that they are going to be so petty.”

Afterthought:

Some jobs are boring, for heaven’s sake. Even the most exciting jobs have boring bits. Even Superman had to do his laundry (at least, I hope, for Lois Lane’s sake, that he did his laundry).

Anyone who enjoys at least half of his or her job is luckier than most.

The company clearly has overreacted, but she’s still out of a job.

A Connecticut man was so engrossed with the tunes on his iPod that he didn’t realize his house was on fire — until his alarm company called.

Now, where did I put my Iriver.

. . . but

“One thing we have looked at in the past and are looking at again is the possibility of maybe putting a coin slot on the toilet door so that people might actually have to spend a pound ($1.43) to spend a penny in future,” O’Leary told BBC television.

He said this would not inconvenience passengers traveling without cash. “I don’t think there is anybody in history that has got on board a Ryanair aircraft with less than a pound.”

Frankly, I think this is going to increase the number of mid-air accidents.

Oh, my.

Via Gene Weingarten.

I double-dog dare you to find a better lead to a news story than this:

A phony cross-dressing veterinarian already in trouble for allegedly practicing medicine without a license was indicted by a grand jury on drug charges, authorities said.

Aside: The drug charges are for having prescription-strength Ibuprofen, for heaven’s sake, for use in his allegely phony vet practice. The DA or whatever they call ’em in New Jersey is guilty of piling on.

Those wild-wild-wild-Wildwood Days:

. . . authorities in Cape May County say a former North Wildwood beauty queen had a talent for printing and using fake $50 bills.

Ashley Fuhrmeister, 21, a business major at Atlantic Cape Community College and Miss North Wildwood 2007, was arrested Friday along with her mother, Kelly A. Nowacky, 44, on charges of forgery and possession of forgery devices.

Via Philly Blunt.