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« Ummm... Other?: June 2007 | Main | Ummm... Other?: August 2007 » Ummm... Other?For All You Fantastic Chiropractors Who Aren't Dio "I'm just thankful there were no patients in the waiting room," said Ziegler, owner of the Ziegler Chiropractic Clinic. "If it had happened five or 10 minutes later, there would have been patients sitting in the waiting room." Wednesday's accident was the second this year. In both instances, the vehicles were driven by elderly women "totally embarrassed" by the accidents, Ziegler said. The women were not ticketed. Rogers Police Lt. Mike Johnson said officers have the discretion to not write tickets when cars hit buildings. Ziegler said that when his office was in Prairie Creek in 1995 or 1996, a car ran into that clinic, too. No injuries were reported. Ziegler said he would talk to his landlord about erecting barriers in front of the clinic to stop cars. By min | July 20, 2007, 12:59 PM | Ummm... Other? | Link Troika. Troika is a very good word. Say it. Isn't it a good word? It is. By min | July 20, 2007, 11:35 AM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (2)| Link For the record, I eat everything, including Panda veal. By fnord12 | July 19, 2007, 2:22 PM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (1)| Link The cardboard pork buns thing -- all a lie. Or mebbe the government is saying the reporter made it up in order to protect their already ailing food safety image. Hmmm... However, according to Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, food safety is a problem in both developed and developing countries. But at least China's politically motivated to do something about it right now. By min | July 19, 2007, 12:39 PM | Ummm... Other? | Link Have you examined your life and figured out why it is you've never been accidentally shipped free money? By min | July 18, 2007, 2:22 PM | Ummm... Other? | Link It's a sad, sad thing indeed. I love those wigs. Also gone will be the especially elaborate full-bottomed wigs worn on ceremonial occasions; the smaller, cheaper and much less uncomfortable bob wigs that will still be worn in criminal trials will do. And a single, simple robe design will replace the five different sets of formal robes that judges had to maintain for different court sittings and times of year. The white, curly horsehair wigs have been in use in court since the 1600's, when they were fashionable in society as well, and they long ago became the visible emblem of the British legal system. The Times of London reports that they remain popular with the public, and especially with defendants, who are said to favor being represented by "a proper lawyer with a wig." Some feel that the wigs are elitist, emphasizing the distinction between solicitors and barristers. I just love them because they're British. By min | July 18, 2007, 10:33 AM | Ummm... Other? | Link Found this article CNN had from last week. These Hindu widows, the poorest of the poor, are shunned from society when their husbands die, not for religious reasons, but because of tradition -- and because they're seen as a financial drain on their families. They cannot remarry. They must not wear jewelry. They are forced to shave their heads and typically wear white. Even their shadows are considered bad luck. It's disturbing that a person could say such a thing to anyone, let alone their own mother, and simply because she outlived her husband. In the U.S., we don't shun our widows. We shun all the old and infirm. We're a more equal opportunity sort of culture. By min | July 11, 2007, 2:04 PM | Ummm... Other? | Link Shmoo alerted me to this fantastic new product.  Although, i think i still prefer my pickle juice as an ice cold, refreshing beverage rather than a frozen treat. By min | July 10, 2007, 11:25 AM | Ummm... Other? | Link Last November, Po Shiu-fong, 58, accused long-time boyfriend Kwok Wai-ming, 49, of having an affair, the South China Morning Post reported. During the row, Po stabbed a plastic chopstick into his left eye, which she had already blinded six years ago when she poked it with her finger. "Po became hysterical when she saw the wound and mopped it with a towel. The pair then went to bed," the paper said. "The next morning they had another argument in which she grabbed a chopstick and stabbed Kwok's right eye," it said. [--emphasis mine] How do you just mop up the blood and go to bed? And then it took the guy 2 more days after she stabbed him in his right eye before going to the hospital. Mebbe he couldn't find the hospital... By min | July 5, 2007, 1:30 PM | Ummm... Other? | Link And i don't even have any. "She more or less blacked out, she passed out, fell face-first onto the pool decking," he said. The family thought it was a seizure. An ambulance rushed her to Children's Hospital in Minneapolis. Several hours later a surgeon said Abigail was lucky to be alive. "The suction had caused a two-inch tear in her rectum and had basically disemboweled her by pulling out her small intestines, almost all of it," said Taylor. Her father said a search of the pool filter turned up Abigail's intestine. You can all thank my sister this. *shudder* By min | July 5, 2007, 10:17 AM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (4)| Link I have to say, that's pretty impressive. A one-ton safe. That's way better than handing the teller a note. By min | July 3, 2007, 2:10 PM | Ummm... Other? | Link « Ummm... Other?: June 2007 | Main | Ummm... Other?: August 2007 » |