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[Mo1]

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[celtic gal]

Wow..this is the most fantastic picture! It is just amazing to see how far down it reaches!

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Hence the term "only the tip of the iceberg"!

[ValerieUSA]

*LOL* Condiment hell. Pugs deserve it... have you ever heard these things pant?

[ValerieUSA]

I guess dachshunds would have been too obvious.

[ValerieUSA]

Berkeley event to try for mass breast-feeding record

By MICHELLE LOCKE Associated Press Writer
Published 2:55 p.m. PDT Thursday, August 1, 2002

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - In a city that has always kept abreast of the latest in social movements, hundreds of women are plotting the mother of all consciousness-raising events - a mass nurse-in.

The goal is to promote breast-feeding and break a world record. So far, Berkeley organizer Ellen Sirbu has heard from around 700 women who want to be part of the event, scheduled this Saturday.

"It is going to be a happening," says Sirbu, director of Berkeley's special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children.

The city is sponsoring the event and the mayor plans to help verify the count. The number to beat is 767, set Thursday by a group of women in Australia.

Mothers from down under, where mass nurse-ins have been held annually since 1999, welcomed the challenge.

"It's a bit of fun isn't it?" said Lee King, one of the directors of the Australian Breastfeeding Association. "It's really something different and something interesting but it actually is really good for the baby and it's a good way of promoting breast-feeding."

In Berkeley, volunteers from the Bay Area Lactation Association will count the babies in action and two independent observers will verify the record, which will be submitted to Guinness World Records.

http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/3804999p-4830413c.html

[sweetliberty]

Well actually I was thinking about Swervie's pekes, slipper dogs miniature bulldogs.

[ValerieUSA]

I wonder why the kid didn't want to return to "group home" with several men in a van who live there, too?

SUISUN CITY, Calif. (AP) - Police say a suspected child abduction turned out to be a false alarm.

A witness said he saw three men in a white Ford van repeatedly try to lure a boy about 9- or 10-years old into the car Wednesday night. However, it turned out to be a van for a group home where the boy lived.

Suisun City Police Officer Denton Autry said the boy just didn't want to go home.

[sweetliberty]

How's this for an investment?

If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

If you had bough $1,000.00 worth of Enron stock one year ago, it would now be worth $16.50.

With Worldcom, you would have less than $5.00 left.

If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the
stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10
cent deposit, you would have $214.00.

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I wonder if they need any stand in volunteers in case a baby refuses to cooperate.... doh!

[Mo1]

WOW .. that is a kewl picture

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Is there anything beer cant do? (Homer Jay Simpson, actor)

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WOW .. that is a kewl picture

Well, it IS ice!

[Mo1]

FOFL .. you're on a roll tonight

[ValerieUSA]

Smoking can kill your cat, researchers discover


Associated Press

BOSTON -- Antony Moore knows smokers often won't quit to protect themselves or their children. But he hopes his new study tying secondhand smoke exposure to the most common kind of feline cancer will persuade pet lovers people to kick the habit.

"I think there's a lot of people who might not quit smoking for themselves or their family," said Moore, a veterinarian at Tufts University. "But they might for their cats."

In the study, Moore and other researchers at Tufts and the University of Massachusetts say living in a household with smokers considerably increases a cat's risk of acquiring feline lymphoma, which kills three-quarters of its victims within a year.

The researchers, writing in today's issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology, studied 180 cats treated at a Tufts veterinary hospital between 1993 and 2000. They found that, adjusting for age and other factors, cats exposed to secondhand smoke had more than double the risk of acquiring the disease.

In households where they were exposed five years or more, cats had more than triple the risk. In a two-smoker household, the risk went up by a factor of four.

[sweetliberty]

What was that about a snoring problem? Hehehehe....


A man has a dog that snores in his sleep. Annoyed, because she can't sleep, his wife goes to the vet to see if he can help. The vet tells the woman to tie a ribbon around the dog's testicles and he will stop snoring.

A few hours after going to bed, the dog is snoring as usual. Finally, unable to sleep, she goes to the closet and grabs a piece of ribbon and ties it around the dog's testicles, and sure enough, the dog stops snoring. The woman is amazed!

Later that night, her husband returns home drunk from being out with his buddies. He climbs into bed, falls asleep, and begins snoring very loudly. The woman thinks maybe the ribbon will work on him. So she goes to the closet again, grabs a piece of ribbon, and ties it around her husband's testicles. Amazingly, it also works on him! The woman sleeps very soundly.

The next morning, the husband wakes up very hung over. He tumbles into the bathroom to urinate. As he is standing in front of the toilet, he looks in the mirror and sees a blue ribbon attached to his privates. He is very confused, and, as he walks back into the bedroom, he notices a red ribbon attached to his dog's testicles. He shakes his head, looks down at the dog and says:
"Boy, don't remember where we were or what we did, but, by God, we got first and second place!"

[ValerieUSA]

beer... or breast milk? hmmmm... such a choice!

[Mo1]

LOL ..

[sweetliberty]

"beer... or breast milk? "

Can you imagine if womens' breasts produced beer? WE would have ALL the power!

[operation clinton cleanup]

LOL! I would try and remember that one, but I'm sure I would get the punch line wrong....

[.38sw]

Well, good. Everyone keep drinking that Bud. I own a few shares of Bud stock, and I want those dividends to keep rolling in!