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[DRiP Guy]

I'd make some sort of humorous comment about how any team named the "Menehunes" is bound to strike fear & trembling into the hearts of their opponents, but our kid is still trying to figure out why I snicker every time she cheers for her high school's "Trojans"...

I remember when I first 'became' one and it was described to me as a tiny Hawaiian warrior, I always thought of the Karen Black "Trilogy of Terror' where this little 6" doll manages to terrorize her pretty dang well...

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[Non sequitur]

Front Page News

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070409/NEWS/704090326

 

[Nords]

Pandemic influenza just begging for a vector:
"Keeper of Coops Ends His Game of Chicken"

I guess it's reason #52 to have a set of CC&Rs. We live on the border of a community subject to a HOA and a couple hundred yards away the local "farmer" is raising over 100 fighting cocks hobby chickens. Their crowing is enough to drown out the noise of traffic on the adjacent highway. I can only imagine what it'd be like next door...