NEVER JET HOT

Lawmakers aim to cut interest rates of payday lenders Two House bills, one for those in the military and another for everyone, would cap interest rates at 36 percent annually. Our elected representatives are sending a message to the moneylenders, which is "HEY! Screw those people more gently!!"

From the Snohomish County Freecycle Yahoo list. Good grief, what else is fermenting in there? Not that I'm one to talk, I think we have some vintage cola in the pantry. My son came out of his room with a case+++ of misc. pop with dates of 05 & 06. I don't know if that is the mfg. dates or the pull dates. (The diet coke I am drinking now says Dec. 06) He used to have it in the mini fridge in his room but now he drinks no pop at all now & I only drink reg.diet coke! There is: Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper--Never opened 12pk, + 8 single cans--- Sept. 05 Diet Orange Tropicana Twister--Never opened 12pk---July 06 Diet Vanilla Coke--8 cans--Oct. 05 Diet Pepsi--3 cans--Sept. 05 Diet Rite Cola--1 can--Sept. 05 Minute Maid lite Raspberry Passion--1 can--Aug. 06 7-Up Plus Island Fruit--12 cans---Feb. 06 7-Up Plus Mixed Berry--1 can--Aug. 06 Lipton Brisk Raspberry Iced Tea--10 cans--Dec. 06 (this one I know I just bought, but no one is drinking it) If you, or someone you know wou...

Got a customer looking for a giant sized clear piggy bank, at least 12" high. I've also been unable to find for customers; noiseless smoke-eating ashtrays, and those little crates that bounce around and yell LET ME OUT. Also glow in the dark monkeys, but I'm sort of glad I can't find those. Any tips on wholesale or retail sources for those first three items would be greatly appreciated.

Jokesgalore.com keeps sending my these psychiatrist jokes. They are making dream about the old Twin Teepees restaurant in Seattle. (I do that when I get too tense.) Patient: "Doctor, sometimes I feel like I'm invisible." Psychiatrist: "What!...who said that?"

I posted this suggestion at the Netflix site. I hope a lot of other people complain about this too, a "This Movie is also for sale!" box below a large number of the movies in my to watch Queue. Now they've gone and made me use the word "queue". I hate that word. It's a LIST. Anyway, here's that note to the netflix folks. Feel free to use any part. Power in numbers and all that. I love Netflix, just one thing- Hating the new "This movie is also for sale" box below some of the movies. We use Netflix precisely so we WON'T buy watch-once-and-forget movies. It clutters up my movie list. Is there any way I can turn that off? -John

One time in the middle of the week in summer, when the kids were little, we were on vacation in the Cascades, went up a long dirt road to check out a remote campground. There was a couple with a VW bug, no one else up there; and they had a flat, and a spare but no jack. They were trying to do a thing with a log and a rock. I dug all the camping crud out of the way and got the jack that resides under the floor of the cargo area in my SW, and let him use that (He wouldn't let me help; I think he had packets of hashish in the wheel well and didn't want me to see) That was my good deed of the day, it was later rewarded by being inundated with chipmunks at an overlook, and in the evening just before dusk we were driving down a gravel road through a field, and a bunch of (Groundhogs? Moles? Gophers? Prairie Dogs?) whatever they were- popped up out of their little hills to have a look at us. I think that was one of my favorite trips. Someday all this snow, wind, rain, and cold will g...

I have an old metal detector I got at a garage sale... I think it's the cheapest one Radio Shack sells, it is not particular at all about finding metal junk. I was using it on an old service station site my dad owns, it's mostly just woods now (A good place for a Geo-Cache!) - All we found was several oil-can lids, a bent spoon, and a quarter, which I had dropped in there on purpose to entertain my son. Hence a really crummy metal detector would be perfect for honing in on goecaches in metal boxes. I am thinking about putting a more compact telescoping pole on it, maybe even making a smaller control box for it (There's really not much to the guts of it) and adding it to the Geo-caching backpack I plan to make; with swag, extra pens, some plastic bags to fix wrecked caches, EXTRA GPS BATTERIES, a super-bright LED flashlight, what else? That's all I can think of, just woke up.

As part of the celebration of the renewal of our annual marriage contract, we replaced our blender, which still worked but required a long period of gravel-truck noise to crush the ice. This new one has a stronger motor and all metal gears, and crushes ice much faster, also it's somehow quieter. It bucks the blender tradition of having as many buttons as possible, just one switch on/off/pulse. The pitcher is pebbled glass. It's really neat! I have to admit that I liked it right away because it has the gray coated steel look of a high school movie projector. Always liked seeing the movie projector set up when I came into a classroom, I knew it would be an easy day, learning about Christopher Columbus, or fire safety, or sex! Maybe all three! Kids today probably watch DVD's, it's just not the same without the clacking of the projector to cover up your side comments, note passing, or snoring. Do you think they thought of movie projectors when they designed the thing?

Ya gotta help me, Doc; I'm completely obsessed with psychiatrist jokes. Even if they're not funny! Patient: Doctor, I have a split personality. Psychiatrist: Nurse, bring in another chair!

So, it snowed. My sisters who live in the hills are all atwitter about the splendor of rural living. I live in the suburbs. Look, I didn't have to plow anything, and we just keep the house warm and pay a big electric bill later. I didn't chop any wood, butcher a hog, or read the bible by firelight; No caroling took place this season, unless you count the neighbor kid's car stereo. We didn't raise any birds or rabbits, shoot old yeller, or mend any clothes. We didn't go to any ice cream socials or barn raisings. The snow makes our nieghborhood looks like Courrier & Ives did a documentary about blighted suburbs; Our nieghbor's car has had a flat tire for weeks, my mailbox is dented, and I don't care. It's convenient and carefree living, the way the master planners planned it. (sort of) So don't be gettin' all snooty about your highfalutin woodchoppin' snow-plowing generator-cranking ways!

We all know that there are only so many actual jokes in the world, and all the others are just variations of same. I categorize this one in the group "Doc, I think I'm a" (AKA Doc my wife thinks she's a..) or just "Psychiatrist Jokes"... Patient: Doctor, I keep thinking I'm a curtain. Psychiatrist: Pull yourself together!

Some may ask why we bother with this whole "Novelty Store" bit- It's not the most profitable endeavor in the world... Here's why... A note I just got, this one was in the comments field of an order this morning. We get emails like this too. ....just gotta tell ya-i had the best time on your site! i laughed and laughed! i had a long day at work today, and i really needed it-Thanks! That's why.

When I was a kid I used to deliver for a small delivery pharmacy in downtown Seattle, the pharmacist liked to say that there were only 876 jokes in the world, and the rest were all just variations. Actually I forget the exact number, but you get the idea. Anyway, I wonder how he would classify this one. A man walks into a pharmacy and asks for a pack of condoms. As soon as he has paid for them, he starts laughing and walks out. The next day, the same performance, with the man walking out laughing fit to bust. The pharmacist thinks this odd and asks his assistant that, if the man returns, to follow him. Sure enough, he comes into the store the next day, repeating his actions once more. The assistant duly follows. Half an hour later, he returns. "So did you follow him?" "I did." "And...where did he go?" "Over to your house!"

Precisely how high can I shim up my side of the bed to make Teresa gravitate toward the opposite side, without having her realize that the bed has been shimmed?

Several months ago, I picked up two books from the "Time Life Old West" series, probably the most common ones, "The Loggers" and "The Gunfighters". I just today got around to reading bits of them, The Logger book is interesting so far, as it focuses on the Northwest, where I live. Those early explorers seemed intent on naming stuff after themselves; Cap't Vancouver sailed around and presumably charted the coast of what is now called Vancouver island; which I'm sure the local tribes appreciated, so they didn't have to refer to it as "That island we don't know what the name of is yet" anymore. Later Cap't Vancouver explored up and down in the sound, which he opted to name after a guy on his crew, Peter Puget. (Hence it's Puget Sound. I'm not making this up.) Later a guy with the last name Douglas found a new species of tree, the Douglas Fir. Fortunately he got there before botanist Henry Hooglemeyersteinski. The part I r...

Found this mysterious list when walking the dog; The last three items seem to indicate that Bob, Dr. C, and Stu, all will be getting pens. The puzzling part is "Cup of Tuna". Who eats tuna by the cup? Teresa thinks it's a Christmas list for a band called "Cup of Tuna". I hope they enjoy their pens from this cheap littering bastard.