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Driver crashes after bee flies into mouth THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAYS CREEK, Ore. -- A Winston man told police he crashed his car after a bee flew into his mouth while he was singing along with Justin Timberlake's song "Rock Your Body" on the radio. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS? More strange stories from around the globe A Douglas County sheriff's spokeswoman said John L. Nunes, 19, was trying to get rid of the bee or yellow jacket when his car hit a tree. "I kind of panicked and went off the road," Nunes said yesterday. He was taken by ambulance to Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg. "I had to get a stitch in my tongue, and I got a gash on my left ankle," Nunes said. The tongue injury was from his teeth, not the bee, he said. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/140183...beesting18.html

Now if you were truly were expecting...

Still no mention of when she died, but a bit more on the night of his death... Quoted story at bottom of the page.... In January 1972, in a scene straight out of "Frankie and Johnny," trumpeter Lee Morgan was shot dead by his mistress at Slug's, a jazz club on New York City's Lower East Side. Morgan was thirty-three years old. His death—spectacular in jazz not so much because he was young as because it involved a woman instead of drugs—is remembered thus by one of his closest musical associates: "For years Lee had been with Helen [More], an older woman—maybe ten years older than him—who sort of looked after him and had straightened him out a little, helped him stay away from dope. A few weeks before his death, Lee had started hanging out with a younger girl, very pretty; she looked like Angela Davis. He was taking her all over town, showing her off to his friends. One day he dropped by the school in Harlem where I was teaching jazz workshops and introduced her to all of us. "That night in January was one of the coldest nights of the year. It was about five degrees below zero, and Lee was relaxing between sets at the bar with this fine new girlfriend of his when Helen walked in. She came up to him, but lee didn't want to be bothered and he walked her over to a table, sat her down, and told her to wait. Then he went back to the bar. After a while, she came up to him again. This time Lee took her by the shoulders and, without her overcoat or anything, marched her over to the door and put her out in the cold. Now she had Lee's pistol in her pocketbook, and when she came back in she pulled it out and shot him: one of those shots that go straight to the heart. A little red stain came up on his shirt—the bleeding was all inside—and a few minutes later he was dead. Then she realized what had happened and she was crying and hanging over him and screaming—'Mogie'—that was what she called him—'What have I done?' But he was dead. David H Rosenthal, Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music, 1955-1965, Oxford University Press, 1992 http://www.qxmail.com/journal/journal2002dec.htm

Or ones that were good, but damn, you had to stick with just one! 1. Hefty Hootered Hussy from Houston. 2. Straight Eye for the Queer Guy. 3. BJ Clinton. 4. KennyG. 5. Tomatbluenote. 6. Collective Soul Asylum. 7. Department of Redundancy Department. 8. SACD's Suck! Well, it's late/early. NONE of these in any way relate to jazz, how about some of the creative folks here throwing their hats in the preverbal ring?

Still getting the error message on PM's...any news?

would be! China 'Open-Crotch Pants' Face Extinction By AUDRA ANG Associated Press Writer BEIJING -- With a look of intense concentration on his face, 21-month-old Zhang Xueyang explores the playground, ducking under swings and slides as fast as his legs can carry him. His head is shaved. His red-and-yellow T-shirt proclaims "Cute Girl!" His loose, white-cotton shorts are grimy with dirt. Suddenly, he stops in mid-stride and squats, the seam of his pants parting smoothly to allow a stream of urine to pool onto the concrete. "Good boy!" his 25-year-old mother, Wu Chunhua, shouts encouragingly as he speeds back to play. The startlingly revealing "kaidangku" (literally "open-crotch pants") have made such posterior peek-a-boo a common sight in China for decades - rain, shine or, in a specially padded form, snow. The principle is clear: no-fuss waste disposal. They're split down the middle - in front and back - and provide what many parents say is maximum convenience with minimum coverage. But in recent years, with China's experiment in capitalism creating a growing middle class, rising incomes and more sophisticated lifestyles have pushed many parents, particularly those in big cities, toward disposable diapers. While the origins of the slit pants are murky, they have been around at least since the establishment of communist China in 1949. In the late 1970s, when Mao-suit grays and dark blues were the norm for adults, children's vividly hued kaidangku were the only splashes of color on Beijing's drab streets. But in Beijing these days, bare baby bottoms are an increasingly rare sight - even on sultry summer afternoons, when kaidangku used to be almost a uniform for toddlers. "They're so uncivilized," says Su Shaojuan, a cashier from the southern city of Guangzhou who has a 2 1/2-year-old son. "People nowadays have more money, so they use diapers. It's more convenient and healthier for the child and parents." Part of it is undoubtedly purely hygienic, a byproduct of the Chinese government's yearslong effort to spruce up its urban areas and, it says, steer people away from unclean practices. Many cities have outlawed indiscriminate garbage dumping, public urination by adults and street spitting. And a country that's inviting the world in for the Olympics in 2008 hardly wants visitors to see public spaces used as toilets. Zhao Zhongxin, a professor at Beijing Normal University's Education Science Research Institute, goes even further: The split pants, he says, have become a social indicator of sorts. "Children in the cities do not wear kaidangku anymore. But children in the countryside still do," Zhao says. "This is the difference between the minds and living conditions of rural people and urban people." "In the past, people did not have a strong sense of hygiene," he says. "Now parents are usually very busy and do not have time to help the children to relieve themselves." Diaper sales have risen sharply in China in recent years, says Yvonne Pei, a Guangzhou-based spokeswoman for Procter & Gamble. Pei says sales of Pampers have grown by 50 percent every year since 1999. The two main reasons she cites: "Economic development and education level." At a branch of the Jingkelong supermarket chain in Beijing, hundreds of multihued diaper packages are piled atop each other in one aisle and brightly patterned samples are on display. Prices range from about $1.80 for a package of 20, to $12 for 60. "They're more popular in winter because it's too hot in summer," says a sales assistant who would give only her family name, Li. "They may not be as comfortable as kaidangku, but the standard of life is rising and sales are rising with it." Yu Min, who has a 2-month-old daughter, sees the benefits of both - convenience vs. cost. "But I use mostly diapers for convenience," says the 32-year-old from the southern coastal city of Xiamen. At the New Mommy Post-Delivery Care Center in Beijing, new mothers are advised to use diapers regardless of cost, says Zhang Yue, head nurse of the facility. "They're cleaner, healthier and disposable," Zhang says. More than 90 percent of the mothers use diapers, she said. But Wu, whose son was playing at the Beijing park, remains unconvinced. "Even if people don't think it looks good, that's a minority opinion," she says. "This is a Chinese tradition." http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll...5/API/309150780

Just back from a 700 km drive! It's frame rust, unfortunately, and it will be too expensive to fix. (It's the cause of death for most cars in these parts of Sweden; the road salt which is used during the winter is the main reason for the corrosion ) Same here in the US! Cursed salt!!!!

Jim, here is a Link to Verbatim, and where to buy them, if it helps.... http://www.verbatim.com/products/products.....cfm?pro_id=379

Let me be the very first to congratulate you....today! Great news! You know what would really please the misses? Sing "She's having my Baby" all day long!

I think the first paragraph says it all.... BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Outside the cinemas on Saadoun Street, groups of men loiter round film posters of naked women, whose private parts are crudely super-imposed with underwear drawn in colored pen.

It looks pretty solid to me! Is it frame rust, or body? Surely you can get some new sheetmetal!

Perhaps no just for show!!!!! 50 Cent Dodges Bullets by Lia Haberman Sep 11, 2003, 1:00 PM PT Forget nine lives, feline-like 50 Cent has probably used up at least a dozen. Fiddy, who has been shot nine times and survived, was once again marked for death when a couple of unknown gunmen fired at the rapper and his posse on Wednesday. a d v e r t i s e m e n t The former crack peddler turned superstar rapper was pulling into the parking lot of the Doubletree Hotel in Jersey City just after midnight on Wednesday morning when gunfire erupted. 50 Cent, aka Curtis Jackson, took cover in the hotel lobby say police, dodging at least 10 bullets in the process. Cops recovered three casings from a .45 automatic and seven from a .40-caliber handgun, including one bullet found 200 feet away that shattered the window of a nearby tire store. No one was hurt and cops are in the process of reviewing a parking-lot surveillance tape for clues to the incident. They're also interested in talking to Fiddy, who's currently MIA. Cops are curious why hotel staff didn't dial 911 until more than a half hour after the shots were fired at 12:02 a.m. By that time, 50 Cent and crew had hightailed it out of the area in his SUV limo and have remained out of sight ever since. "There are a lot of questions to be asked, the least of which being: Why did they run? Why was there a delay in calling us?" Jersey City Police Captain Ron Sprofera told New York's Daily News. Now, the rapper has five days to turn himself in for questioning or face being issued a possible arrest warrant. Calls to 50 Cent's label were not returned. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Jersey City Doubletree says there's no sinister explanation behind the 911 delay. "It's clear to us that [the police] needed to be called faster and that in the confusion after the shooting they didn't call fast enough and we apologize for that." According to the Daily News, 50 Cent checked into a Doubletree room rented by his label on Tuesday to shoot a music video. (Note to 50: Dude, you deserve a Four Seasons at least.) Also working nearby was rival rapper Ja Rule, who was shooting, er, filming a Queen Latifah-produced movie called Cook Out. Cops have not named Ja Rule or any of his entourage as suspects but the two rappers have been engaged in a very public feud. Last week, Ja Rule's friend and label mate at Murder Inc., D.O. Cannon, was murdered in Queens. The shooting came just days after rapper, Shadaha (Jah) Bey, was gunned down a few miles away. Bey was a member of 50 Cent's crew, G Unit. While there's no official connection, the potentially retaliatory murders are fueling fears of an escalating rap war between Murder Inc. and 50 Cent and his mentor Eminem. http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,12483,00.html?tnews

Very sad! His Dad didn't live to be that old either...... TV Star John Ritter Dies of Heart Problem The Associated Press Friday, September 12, 2003; 5:26 AM LOS ANGELES - John Ritter, whose portrayal of the bumbling but lovable Jack Tripper helped make the madcap comedy series "Three's Company" a smash hit in the 1970s, has died, his publicist and longtime assistant said Friday. He was 54. Ritter fell ill Thursday on the set of his ABC sitcom "8 Simple Rules ... For Dating My Teenage Daughter," said Susan Wilcox, his assistant of 22 years. The cause of death was a dissection of the aorta, the result of an unrecognized flaw in his heart, said his publicist, Lisa Kasteler. Ritter died at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday, Ritter, a Southern California native who lived in Beverly Hills, came to prominence for his role in "Three's Company" and had appeared in more than 25 television movies and a number of films. Ritter, who would have turned 55 on Wednesday, made a successful return to sitcom acting with "8 Simple Rules" last year, and the ABC show was scheduled to begin its second season on Sept. 23. At the Burbank hospital where he died, Ritter was accompanied by producers and co-workers, his wife, Amy Yasbeck, and 23-year-old son Jason, Wilcox said. He is survived by three other children, Carly, Tyler and Stella. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A...anguage=printer

Yo, you down with MP3's???? http://www.kson.com/audio/Bishop.m3u

One of the few cars from that era that doesn't look dated!

Hey Catesta, nothing wrong with 1965 Coupe DeVille, now is there??? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...item=2430862314

Catesta, That is just plain weird that you like small foreign cars, and Large old American metal!!! And pretty cool! Folks either swing one way or the other...well, you know what I mean!

Let me the first to say Congrats! If you don't mind me saying so, she has nice gams!

Ah yes, the Buick Nova! Good cars....Rusty floorboards show up even in Atlanta. I saw a Pretty, Full size Buick Convertible a few years back, but seeing the ground underneath when driving down the road made me pass on it! Even at 800 bucks!

Sorry , bluenotehata@yahoo.com was my idea of a joke when I first joined the board in March...white hot hate of Blue note back then... I got your PM's a few times! It is a board prob as you most likely know. Thanks! I had a rough day(not as rough as hers) with Mom as she had a port put in her heart to make Chemo easier on her...the "procedure" went well, but she had a fever of 101.4 just as she was about to be let go, so they made her stay, for hours! She was not a happy camper, she was at the hospital for 10 hours when she thought it would be 3-4 tops. She is supposed to start 2 different Chemos later today, but with a minor infection, we don't know if this will happen or not. Anyway, have been trying not to think about this and give myself a breather this evening/morn...will PM you later..... My email ziggyelman@excite.com should work, but let me know if it doesn't..... I use a fake name there, just cuz I am paranoid! And I get soooo very much junk email there, I don't care who sees knows this addy. I think every porn site in the world(and perhaps a few from Mars) sends email to it!

Since My First car buying experience on ebay worked out, last year when I saw this 1970 Buick Wildcat on Ebay for sale in Woodstock(Georgia, you all knew that there is a Woodstock in Ga, right? ) I thought I would take a look at it....The guy selling it had gotten it for his 16 year old Nephew...to be his first car! He thought it had a 350 CI engine. Instead, he found out it had a 455 C.I. motor, 370 Horsepower, 510 ft-lb Torque Tires do not stand a chance! He wisely decided it was too much for a 16 year old. An 85+ year old Farmer owned it, it had only 48,000 miles on it! I bid on it that night. He then told me he was glad I won it, because the guy I outbid had told him he was going to use it as a parts car for his Buick Riviera!! Not much would have even interchanged from a 4 door, except the drivetrain.Good thing I don't mind 4 doors. Got it for $2650,(The deals you see on ebay, you never see in the auto traders, at least here in the south) and since has such low miles, just a weekend car cruise car. Do want to take it to a drag strip some day to see what she would do. No digital camera, so scanning a photo loses something, but you get the idea.....

My daily Driver, my 1971 Couple Deville. Got it on Ebay! In fact, this photo is from the ebay listing in 2001. Payed $2750 for it. No rust, 472 C.I. Lots o' Torque! Never gives me no grief. Bought it with 79,000 miles, now it has 114,000.

Mule, love those Cougers! Ed said.... It's a 1961 Dodge. After that one crapped out, I subsequently picked up 2 others over the years. I had one as recently as 1995. After my first son was born, my wife "helped me decide" that I did not have the time to maintain the car any longer and that I needed something more reliable. Ed, one doesn't own a Chrysler if they care about reliability! Ask the man who owns one! I had a 1966 Dodge Monaco, it was pretty darn nice, till an idiot made a left hand turn in front of me and totaled it!!! He had no insurance of course...bad drivers rarely do....I then got a green lemon, a 1973 4 door Chrysler New Yorker. 440 C.I. Pretty fast for a 5,000 pound car! It only had 65,000 miles, and was owned by a little old lady who only drove it to church! She had a stack of receipts like you wouldn't believe. I payed 1,400, and I was robbed! It has cost me quite a bit of money since 1999. The car has no doubt sucked since it rolled off the assembly line. We have had to have it towed many a time. I "gave" it to my Dad last year. I should have given him some money for taking it off my Hands. Something always is wrong with the car. Engine and trans are bulletproof, but everything else has gone out. Here is the butt of the car, the front is just too ugly! Oh, that is My Mom's 69' Electra (white) and My Dads 68 Wildcat in front of it. They have both since been sold. Both had over 225,000 miles on them, and were dead reliable. Never towed.

Berigan, you're not actually listening to these sets are you? Don't you know that you're supposed to immediately encase each on in half inch thick mylar cases and replace the air with nitrogen to ensure proper storage conditions? These are collectables, not records or CDs! Thanks for the 411, Mr. Moose...I have so much yet to learn!