FRIDAY FUNNIES

What's your biggest pet peeve?

	Talking animals.

	Really?

Yeah. Like in movies, or mascots in commercials. It's just unnatural. Really off-putting.

Going on vacation...see you in a week or so...

CHEAP BEER IS RIGHT!

Competition between independent liquor stores and big-box retailers has intensified in Tampa Bay and around the country.

Discount department store chain Wal-Mart is selling Budweiser,

 Coors and other beer brands at “razor thin profit margins,” Bloomberg News reported.

Consumer companies and retailers “are always on this seesaw between lower prices to drive demand and … higher prices to try to build their margins, ”

 Bloomberg’s   Duane Stanford

              said Walmart aims to double alcohol sales by 2016.

"The chain uses cheap beer to attract customers who are likely to buy other items as well", he said.

The relevant word being ‘cheap’!

FRIDAY FUNNIES

VOYAGER PROBE LEAVES SOLAR SYSTEM

'The Voyager-1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to leave the

 SolarSystem.Scientists say the probe's instruments indicate it has

 moved beyond the bubble of hot gas from our Sun and is now moving 

in the space between the stars.Launched in 1977, Voyager was sent 

initially to study the outer planets, but then just kept on going.Today, 

the veteran Nasa mission is almost 19 billion km (12 billion miles) from 

home.This distance is so vast that it takes 17 hours now for a radio 

signal sent from Voyager to reach receivers here on Earth.' (From BBCOnline)

This is so cool, since I remember when the Voyager took off to explore outer space, and was eventually forgotten by most non-scientists. And now - lo and behold - it's still out there chugging along. And, at the average speed I drive to work, it would take me 31,644 years to go as far as Voyager went in 36 years!

 As long as I didn't run out of gas first...

See how long it would take you...click here

STATE OF FEAR

By Michael Crichton:

 ‘Because although we imagine we live in different nations – France, Germany, Japan, the U.S. – in fact, we inhabit exactly the same state, the state of Fear…this is the way modern society works – by the constant creation of fear’

SOUNDS PAINFUL, DOESN'T IT?

'The BBC has had an "annus horribilis" after several controversies but it will bounce back, says Culture Secretary Maria Miller.' (From BBCOnline)

OUCH!

The Mirror's Edwards scoffs that Watts "looks, acts and sounds nothing like the Princess of Wales.

Wesley Snipes in a blonde wig would be more convincing."

(About the new Diana, Princess of Wales movie starring Naomi Watts)

FRIDAY FUNNIES

BILLY

(bio of Billy Connolly)By Pamela Stephenson:

‘…Billy was terrified of the nuns, and was especially wary of Sister Philomena who had pictures of hell on her wall that looked like travel brochures. Billy assumed she’d been there.’

‘Eric(Clapton)had a great fridge door. There was a picture of Bob Marley on which Marley had written “I shot the Sheriff” with the ‘I’ underlined.’

IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED...

I remember the first time she tried, and now she's finally done it, and at her age, too.