On any given day in the media, there are countless stories of the horrors of global warming. The debate is nearly as heated as the greenhouse gases that fuel it. Is it real, how bad is it, and can it be stopped?
I don't have the answers, and I don't really care as long as I get to see more German chicks that look like this.
Aside from sounding like something that should come from the mouth of a three-year old, George Lucas' comment regarding the story or lack thereof in Spiderman 3 is startling.
"[Lucas] has seen all the summer movies since his company, Industrial Light and Magic, does most of the special effects. The only one they didn't work on was "Spider-Man 3." What did he think of it?
"It's silly. It's a silly movie," he said. "There just isn't much there. Once you take it all apart, there's not much story, is there?"
This coming from the man who brought us 'Jar-Jar Binks,' mangled his own Star Wars franchise into a total piece of CGI garbage with three consecutive disposable movies (and three 'enhanced' versions) that ruined the originial trilogy, and now plans to drop two more Star Wars turds upon the world.
Ghostly apparitions have been seen and photographed on a small stretch of Interstate 4 known as "the I-4 Dead Zone" in which hundreds of people have been killed or injured in crashes, according to a Local 6 investigation...Since 1963, nearly 2,000 accidents have been reported on a stretch of Interstate 4 in Central Florida located between Daytona Beach and Orlando, the report said.
Over the years, people have reported seeing strange things on the stretch of road, according to the report."People are claiming to see all kinds of things -- orbs floating across the highway, apparitions on the side of the road hitchhiking, phantom trucks, you name it," book author Charlie Carlson said. "There are dead people beneath interstate 4."
There was a deadly explosion early this morning on the top level of the parking structure located at the Luxor Hotel. The victim of the bombing was an employee of the Luxor. Another person was injured.The explosion happened around 4 a.m. Reports were that the device was inside a backpack, which was either on the vehicle or adjacent to it.
Buried in MSNBC's account of Al-Qaida tool and bin-Laden lackey Ayman Al-Zawahiri's ( hellfire missiles and artillery rounds be upon him) rambling, mocking new video confessional is an interesting tidbit.
No longer is Al Qaida exclusively a club for disaffected muslim hooligans with IQs lower than room temperature who are afflicted with ADHD and chronic bad moods. Zawahiri has cast open the gates of the Al Qaeda Acres Country Club to everyone.
Al-Zawahri encouraged minorities around the world to join the holy war, or jihad.
“Al-Qaida is not merely for the benefit of Muslims,” he said. “That’s why I want blacks in America, people of color, American Indians, Hispanics, and all the weak and oppressed in North and South America, in Africa and Asia, and all over the world.”
Generosity or desperation? You make the call.
This gave me chills. I hate spiders with a passion; if this had been me, I'd be in an asylum right now.
When a boy went to see his doctor complaining of constantly hearing a faint popping - he did not expect to be told he had spiders living in his ear..."They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said.
This is nightmare material. Ick.
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My average day consists of getting to work at 9am, sitting down at a heavily filtered computer for an hour, then getting a customer.
As I stand to approach the customer, the customer will either greet me warmly, tell me to piss off, or pretend to get a phone call and run away in abject horror at the thought of having to actually speak to a salesman.
After that initial daily re-education in the ways of dealership life, I'll typically be inundated with dozens of calls for our service department and or customers who want to test drive every car on the lot without the slightest clue about what they want.
Some will say they'll be back. Some will buy on the spot. Those who say they'll return are almost invariably lying to buy time for them to escape. This type of routine resets every few hours and lasts until 9pm, punctuated sporadically by runs to nearby fast food joints in order for us to continually feed.
We as salesmen are fascinated with hot young women, and will definitely be making comments about them in the business office while they remain out of earshot. Similarly you [as I will now refer to you my reader, as a potential customer] can rest assured that if you are deformed, lisping, drunk, smelly, flamingly gay, obnoxious, arrogant, filthy rich, or have an astonishingly low or high credit score, there's a pretty high degree of certainty we're saying something about you when we're not within range. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Talking about customers helps us blow off the stresses involved with meeting them and dealing with them for more than a few minutes and can sometimes result in you getting a better price.
So there you have it. An uninvited, likely unwelcome, and unashamed snapshot of the life of a salesman.