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Have ya'll been watching Wing Nuts on Discovery Channel? It's a reality show about a company called MotoArt and comes on Tuesday nights at 10 pm. Why am I putting the guys at MotoArt at the top of my tiny page in the internet universe? Well, I've watched the show from the beginning and love what they're doing. It's the American Dream with the struggle for success. They take old aircraft parts and make beautiful pieces of furniture out of them. Here are a few of their items and prices. Keep in mind that these are not reproduction parts but actual aircraft pieces:
Piston Lamps: Sales Price $225
MK-84 Illuminated Bomb Tables: Sales Price $1,499
MK-84 Non-illuminated Bomb Tables: Sales Price $1,200
(Colors include Black Chrome, Reflective Silver, Metallic Red, Blue,
Black and Purple)
Boeing 707 Wheel Tables: Sales Price $2,200
So go to MOTOART and take a look at their stuff.
Newly declassified documents revealed the United States planned as recently as 1998 to drop nuclear bombs on North Korea if the country attacked South Korea. What would the world be like right now if that had happened?
NASA scientists are studying the man who was the basis for Dustin Hoffman's character in the 1988 film "Rain Man," hoping that technology used to study the effects of space travel on the brain will help explain his mental capabilities.
51 toothpicks, 51, yeah, 51.
NASA scientists are studying the man who was the basis for Dustin Hoffman's character in the 1988 film "Rain Man," hoping that technology used to study the effects of space travel on the brain will help explain his mental capabilities.
51 toothpicks, 51, yeah, 51.
Yoko Ono has a no. 1 hit song???? Good for her. John would be proud. Rock on!!!
A police dog let out into an empty field to answer the call of nature ended up finding an underground drugs stash. Wow.
Cotton farmers in some Indian villages are flocking to buy Coca-Cola and Pepsi, believing that the sugar in the fizzy drinks kills pests. Just makes you wonder what it does while inside us crazy humans.
Angry parishioners chained shut a church in central Mexico on Friday in protest at the firing of their priest, whose habit of tucking a gun under his robes has earned him fame and the nickname "Padre Pistolas." If the priest has to go to church with a gun, you know your neighborhood has....."Gone To Hell".
Ark. Girl Blows 16-Inch Bubble. Bare with me here. I'm struggling to find entertaining news.
An Austrian artist has dug into a project so ambitious not even his great-great-great grandchildren — or their great-great-great grandchildren — will see it completed: tunneling from Graz to a city in neighboring Slovenia. This earned him the Idiot of the Day Award.
Santa Claus Can't Get a Flu Shot???? Don't worry. If something happens to Santa, there is one in every mall just waiting to take his place.
The ball burst on impact when midfielder Walter Baseggio scored Anderlecht's equaliser in their 2-1 home win over La Louviere in the Belgian first division. What sport is this anyway?
A sweatshirt loaned to a friend two years ago led to the arrest of two people for a series of robberies in Indiana.
One ex-wife's $250 million divorce judgment. All the buyer has to do is figure out how to collect from the Saudi royal family. The race is on....
Wal-Mart has opened a store half a mile from the ancient Mexican pyramids at Teotihuacan. Pyramid workers fear that tourism will now aim towards Wal-Mart instead of the ancient pyramids.
In a new Channel 4 reality show on common sex problems, volunteer couples make love on camera while presenter Tracey Cox advises on their performance. Energy, she says, is more important than good looks. Obviously Tracey Cox is an expert. Do we see her have sex on camera to be crituqued?
Actor James Belushi has sued next-door neighbor Julie Newmar for $4 million in damages, accusing the actress of a "campaign of harassment" designed to drive him from his home. "Yeah, According to Jim...."
And in History:
1793 - In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
1864 - U.S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan.
1889 - Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
1892 - U.S. presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
1895 - While experimenting with electricity Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays.
1900 - Margaret Mitchell, American author (d. 1949) She was the one what wrote "Gone With the Wind"
1932 - U.S. presidential election, 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
1939 - In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
1950 - Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dog fight in history.
1960 - U.S. presidential election, 1960: John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon, becoming the youngest man elected to that office.
1965 - The soap opera Days of Our Lives debuts.
1974 - In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.
1987 - Enniskillen massacre : In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead, killing eleven people. The survivors held a ceremony honoring those honoring Britain's War dead. It's a paradox I tell you.
1988 - U.S. presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
Birthdays:
1836 - Milton Bradley, manufacturer, lithographer, game maker (d. 1911) I thought he was still alive making board games. So is it Board games of Bored games?
1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish novelist ("Dracula") (d. 1912)
1927 - Patti Page, singer
1949 - Bonnie Raitt, American singer
1954 - Rickie Lee Jones, singer, composer
1992 - Daredevil Jacky Vranken of Belgium set a record for the highest speed ever attained on the rear wheel of a motorcycle. At St. Truiden Military Airfield in Belgium, Vranken reached 157.87 while performing an extended "wheelie" with his Suzuki GSXR 1100 motorcycle.
Deaths:
955 - Pope Agapetus II
1226 - Louis VIII of France
1887 - Doc Holliday, dentist, gunfighter
1978 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator
2002 - James Coburn, actor
A police dog let out into an empty field to answer the call of nature ended up finding an underground drugs stash. Wow.
Cotton farmers in some Indian villages are flocking to buy Coca-Cola and Pepsi, believing that the sugar in the fizzy drinks kills pests. Just makes you wonder what it does while inside us crazy humans.
Angry parishioners chained shut a church in central Mexico on Friday in protest at the firing of their priest, whose habit of tucking a gun under his robes has earned him fame and the nickname "Padre Pistolas." If the priest has to go to church with a gun, you know your neighborhood has....."Gone To Hell".
Ark. Girl Blows 16-Inch Bubble. Bare with me here. I'm struggling to find entertaining news.
An Austrian artist has dug into a project so ambitious not even his great-great-great grandchildren — or their great-great-great grandchildren — will see it completed: tunneling from Graz to a city in neighboring Slovenia. This earned him the Idiot of the Day Award.
Santa Claus Can't Get a Flu Shot???? Don't worry. If something happens to Santa, there is one in every mall just waiting to take his place.
The ball burst on impact when midfielder Walter Baseggio scored Anderlecht's equaliser in their 2-1 home win over La Louviere in the Belgian first division. What sport is this anyway?
A sweatshirt loaned to a friend two years ago led to the arrest of two people for a series of robberies in Indiana.
One ex-wife's $250 million divorce judgment. All the buyer has to do is figure out how to collect from the Saudi royal family. The race is on....
Wal-Mart has opened a store half a mile from the ancient Mexican pyramids at Teotihuacan. Pyramid workers fear that tourism will now aim towards Wal-Mart instead of the ancient pyramids.
In a new Channel 4 reality show on common sex problems, volunteer couples make love on camera while presenter Tracey Cox advises on their performance. Energy, she says, is more important than good looks. Obviously Tracey Cox is an expert. Do we see her have sex on camera to be crituqued?
Actor James Belushi has sued next-door neighbor Julie Newmar for $4 million in damages, accusing the actress of a "campaign of harassment" designed to drive him from his home. "Yeah, According to Jim...."
And in History:
1793 - In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
1864 - U.S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan.
1889 - Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
1892 - U.S. presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
1895 - While experimenting with electricity Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays.
1900 - Margaret Mitchell, American author (d. 1949) She was the one what wrote "Gone With the Wind"
1932 - U.S. presidential election, 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
1939 - In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
1950 - Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dog fight in history.
1960 - U.S. presidential election, 1960: John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon, becoming the youngest man elected to that office.
1965 - The soap opera Days of Our Lives debuts.
1974 - In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.
1987 - Enniskillen massacre : In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead, killing eleven people. The survivors held a ceremony honoring those honoring Britain's War dead. It's a paradox I tell you.
1988 - U.S. presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
Birthdays:
1836 - Milton Bradley, manufacturer, lithographer, game maker (d. 1911) I thought he was still alive making board games. So is it Board games of Bored games?
1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish novelist ("Dracula") (d. 1912)
1927 - Patti Page, singer
1949 - Bonnie Raitt, American singer
1954 - Rickie Lee Jones, singer, composer
1992 - Daredevil Jacky Vranken of Belgium set a record for the highest speed ever attained on the rear wheel of a motorcycle. At St. Truiden Military Airfield in Belgium, Vranken reached 157.87 while performing an extended "wheelie" with his Suzuki GSXR 1100 motorcycle.
Deaths:
955 - Pope Agapetus II
1226 - Louis VIII of France
1887 - Doc Holliday, dentist, gunfighter
1978 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator
2002 - James Coburn, actor
1 Comments:
maybe santa claus will die this year of the flu...christmas just might come to me after all...hm.
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