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BofP, you really have to know your music to get this <g>:
One day (just before Christmas, probably), Good King Wenceslas decided that
he was fed up with the food at the palace, so he phoned up his local
Italian restaurant for a takeaway pizza.
"Certainly, your Majesty" says the Manager, "Would you like your usual"?
"Yes please," replied the King, "same as always - deep pan, crisp and even"
DJ Faces Fine for Radio Stunt
Fri Oct 11,11:03 AM ET
CARTERET, N.J. (AP) - What's so funny about a radio personality duct-taping himself to a utility pole to create a "human billboard"?
Apparently nothing.
A judge slapped Gregory Tyndorf with a $500 fine and cited him for disorderly conduct, saying the Aug. 14 stunt could have caused an accident.
Tyndorf, 30, known to listeners of WHTZ-FM in Secaucus as "Greg T The Frat Boy," staged the event in Carteret in a parking lot near Exit 12 of the New Jersey Turnpike.
"He picked one of the busiest intersections in Central Jersey, if not the state," Municipal Court Judge Allen Comba said during sentencing Wednesday.
Tyndorf, who lives about 15 miles away in East Brunswick, said he did not know the site was so heavily traveled.
He said the stunt was meant to show support for Ira Joe Fisher, a WCBS-TV weatherman whose contract was not renewed.
Tyndorf was suspended on the pole for about 20 minutes before police cut him down and handcuffed him.
Sara, I know that, and that's why you and Churak should respond to each other, instead of putting me in the middle, where I have to deal with stuff like this: #msg-533614.
AK
Not to be rude, but where are you going with this? Matt wants to keep this place family oriented.
AK
Right you are Troy. Last night we went out for Chinese food, and that's exactly what our dinner host ordered.
AK
Alternatively, if you mean the plural of croquette, yes, they are very good.
AK
Not really. I don't care for games with other people's balls...
(groan).
Heavy, Troy.
I was just trying to give Churak a new sparring partner. Personally, I don't care about baseball. <g>
AK
Churak, Sara likes baseball; maybe you should address that to her?
AK
(Sara--please save me--now he's down to kindergarten humor.)
Well, I'm certainly glad to see you two together. Churak, watch out, Sara doesn't like sexist jokes but you can talk about baseball. Sara, I'm sure you know all about Churak by now, and I know you are quite capable of handling him <g>.
AK
Isn't that called Oletimers disease?
AK
You mean these look familiar? See #msg-243114
AK
Plagiarist! You should pay more attention when your are in jail. See #msg-527074
AK
Maxwell Smart, Alias Agent 86. Has Slight, Sharp Features. Speaks In Clipped, Piercing Tones. May Be Dangerous.
TV Today - January 1969 - Peggy Hudson, TV Editor, Scholastic Magazines
He's dangerous, all right. He's TV's super-blooper secret agent.
KAOS agents have been after him for years. But he's slippery as a banana peel and hasn't been tripped up yet -- thanks mostly to co-spy, Agent 99.
Smart isn't exactly dumb. He's the original bumbler -- blandly arrogant, naturally incompetent. When the phone rings, he answers his shoe, and he's off on assignment -- if he can remember where he's going.
Despite his ineptness, he's probably the most widely quoted character on TV. His "Sorry about that ,Chief" is frequently more infuriating than no apology at all. And "Would you believe?" has become a transparent cover-up for outrageous lies, such as this one of Smart's:
"I love music. I once listened to three weeks of Beethoven."
"I don't believe it."
"Would you believe two weeks of Brahms?"
"No."
"A day of Looney Tunes?"
Smart is played by 41-year-old Don Adams. Would you believe Donald James Yarmy? Actually, it's both.
One day a young comedian named Yarmy tried to audition for Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts without an appointment.
"They asked my name and I said, 'Don Adams.' A week later I was on the show and won. From then on I worked as Don Adams," Yarmy-Adams-Smart recently recalled.
TV's most popular secret agent got into TV after appearing in a number of big movies -- big movie theatres, that is. As a schoolboy, he found movies more stimulating than classrooms. "I was the greatest truant in the history of the New York City schools," he said. "I spent practically my entire youth going to movies and dodging the truant officer. But they always knew where to find me. In a way, I was going to school there. I was interested and excited by the make-believe world. Seeing Ronald Coleman was more adventuresome than living on 86th Street in New York City in the 1930's."
To get in the Marines in World War II, Adams had to up his age, and his weight as well. Increasing his age from 16 was relatively easy (he lied). But it took a great deal of eating to gain 32 pounds to top the required mark of 150.
While serving on Guadalcanal he not only got shot but, even worse, sick. He contracted black water fever, a disease which is often fatal. Recovering consciousness long enough to discover a corpsman sitting deathwatch at his bedside, Adams said grimly: "I'm not going anywhere."
Back in civilian life Adams attended an art institution, became a commercial artist, wrote comedy material, and tried to establish a career as a nightclub comedian. It was during this phase that he decided to try to break into Godfrey's program.
When we visited Adams at his luxurious home in Beverly Hills' posh Truesdale Estates, we found him reading Winston Churchill -- and ready to go golfing.
"I never believed in formal education, but I've tried to educate myself," he said. "For a couple of years I devoured about every book I could get my hands on. I was really giving myself a 'mental stomach ache'. Finally I realized that it's not how much you read, but how well you reason things out for yourself that counts."
It was impossible to ignore in Adams a thing we've noted about many comedians when they're off stage: They seem to be extremely serious people. It's as though they get enough yaks just making audiences laugh while they're doing their job. During their leisure moments, they want to relax.
Get Smart is currently in its fourth season on NBC. "I'm not really getting tired of it," Adams said. "Again it's a kind of escape into things I wouldn't normally be doing. It's exciting to find different way to do comedy."
Adams analyzes Smart with a logic seldom found on his program. "Maxwell," Adams said, "is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental."
Is that how Adams sees himself?
"Yes," he admitted.
He indicated he would like to be a director even more than an actor. "I directed several shows last year and the year before," he said. "Writers put down words, but it's the director who takes those words and the actors and puts them together. Actors in most cases are just puppets."
Near the end of our interview, a golfing friend of Adams' dropped by to take him for a round -- a ritual which, Adams admitted, he'd go through more often if her weren't so busy with the series. This fall Smart will marry the series' Agent 99, played by Barbara Feldon -- an event which just might lead to 99's becoming a "golfing widow."
Sorry about that, Chief.
Of course I did. Don't try to slip by getting 86'd from the bar. So, do you know who Donald James Yarmy is?
AK
p.s. Sounds like you should get acquinted with the Old Timers thread on iHub.
Is Agent 86 your bartender?
AK
Churak, take out your decoder ring, and look for the hidden answer to your question:
A man rushed into the doctor's office and shouted, "Doctor! I think
I'm shrinking!" The doctor calmly responded, "Now, settle down.
You'll just have to be a little patient."
AK
That solved the problem. Thanks.
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What's TOS'd mean? Does that have something to do with betsim dreir? Maybe you should direct this question to Matt? AK
Uh-oh, somebody asked for entertainment here?
Evidence has been found that William Tell and his family were avid
bowlers.However, all the league records were unfortunately destroyed
in a fire.Thus we'll never know for whom the Tells bowled.
MRVL. [Briefing.com] October 11, 2002 10:59:00 AM ET
Marvell defended by Wachovia (MRVL) 13.50 -2.33: Stock has sold off this morning after the co announced they would sell their own "Yukon" Gigabit Ethernet controller as a result of amending their product development agreement with INTC; Wachovia says this confirms their view that INTC is coming to market with its own G.E. controller product sooner rather than later, but that INTC does not have a competitive G.E. controller today; expects MRVL to partner with other high-volume players in the mkt, and to see improving gross margins as a result of an "all MRVL" G.E. controller.
Fred, can I get pre-approval for use of the following flame? There is no swearing, but I suppose some might consider it a "personal attack". I want to stay on the right side of the law here. AK
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"You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As they say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly. You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusional self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupidity in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh. The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of your of what you wrote, because, well... it didn't really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn't have been "right". Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you."
From IVP press release,
http://www.ivptechnology.com/news/NewsReleaseJune-27-2002.html
...Mr. MacDonald also announced that IVP Technology Corporation has given notice to Orchestral Corporation, developers of the "PowerAudit" product, terminating its agreement with Orchestral relating to the distribution of "PowerAudit" for the United States and Europe. Mr. MacDonald was quoted as saying that "...with the agreement to distribute PowerAudit expiring in May 2003 it was IVP's board of director's view that a substantial investment in a marketing program could not be launched for a product where IVP neither owned the product nor the product name."...
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From IVP Technology Corp from 10KSB for 12/31/01, filed 4/15/02
SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES. Since January 1, 2001, IVP Technology
issued the following securities that have not been registered under the
Securities Act:
On or about April 26, 2001, IVP Technology issued 1,200,000 shares of
common stock to Gross Capital Associates for marketing and promotion consulting
services. These shares were valued at $0.14 per share, or an aggregate of
$168,000, on the date of issuance.
On or about April 26, 2001, IVP Technology issued 1,000,000 shares of
common stock to John Coady for financial advisory services. These shares were
valued at $0.14 per share, or an aggregate of $140,000, on the date of issuance.
===================
For the calendar year ended December 31, 2001, we incurred an overall
loss of $(1,211,148) or $(.03) per share, which was 56% less than the
$(2,765,609) loss we incurred for the comparative 12 month period ended December
31, 2000. Loss per share for the 12 months ended December 31, 2000 was $(.08).
REVENUES. We generated nominal revenue during the calendar year ended
December 31, 2001 in the amount of $67,358 from sales of the PowerAudit product.
Sales increased 68% from the comparative period ended December 31, 2000.
Koikaze = Paranoid = anti-Microsoft. Goodness, he's so afraid of viruses he keeps his computer in a plastic bubble. Lucky for him he got that Windex, or Linex, or whatever it is you get at Wal-Mart for an operating system.
Well, I enjoyed the music. A nice interlude, but it sadly reminded me of a recent obituary. I don't usually pass on news like this, but sometimes we need to pause and remember what life is all about.
Larry La Price, the Detroit native who wrote the song "Hokey Pokey", died last week at age 83. It was extremely difficult for the family to keep him in the casket. They put his left leg in and.....well, you know the rest.
AK
Gee Fred, talk about a hidden post to me. Actually I was feeling very bad about recent events on the YAKC board, and was about to get my harmonica out. Get yours, and maybe we can do some blues stuff while you are awaiting new inmates. Try to abide by this, though:
Some basic rules on "How to sing the Blues”
1. Most Blues begin, "Woke up 'dis morning."
2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick
something nasty in the next line, like:
"I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town...."
3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it.
Then find something that rhymes, like:
"Got a good woman with the meanest face in town...
Got a good woman with the meanest face in town...
Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher...
And she weigh 500 pound."
4. The Blues ain't 'bout choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch; ain't no way out.
5. Blues cars are Chevys & Cadillacs & broken-down trucks. Blues don't
travel in Volvos, BMWs or SUVs. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound
bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft an' state-sponsored motor pools
ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in the Blues
lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.
6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet. Adults
sing the Blues. In the Blues, "adulthood" means being old enough to get the
electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.
7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or any place
in Canada. Hard times in St. Paul or Tucson is just depression. Chicago,
St. Louis & Kansas City still the best places to have the Blues. You can't
have the blues in any place that don't get rain... although, officially,
you can get the Blues any place you ain't seen rain in 40 days.
8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues. A woman with male
pattern baldness is. Breakin' your leg 'cuz you skiing is not the Blues.
Breakin' your leg 'cuz an alligator be chompin' on it is.
9. You can't have no Blues in an office, shopping mall or work-out
studio. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the
dumpster.
10. Good places for the Blues:
a.) highway
b.) jailhouse
c.) empty bed
d.) bottom of a whiskey glass
Bad places:
a.) Ashrams
b.) gallery openings
c.) country club
d.) yacht clubs
11. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you
happen to be an old Black man, and you slept in it.
12A. Do you have the right to sing the Blues?
YES, if:
a.) You're older than dirt
b.) You're blind
c.) You shot a man in Memphis
d.) You can't be satisfied
e.) Your first name is a Southern state – like Georgia.
NO, if:
a.) You have all your teeth
b.) You were once blind, but now can see
c.) The man in Memphis lived
d.) You have a retirement plan or trust fund.
12B. Neither Julio Iglesias nor Barbra Streisand can sing the Blues.
13. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of luck. Tiger Woods
cannot sing the Blues. Gary Coleman could. Ugly white people also got a leg
up on the Blues.
14. If you ask for water and Baby give you gasoline, it's the
Blues. Other acceptable Blues beverages are:
a.) jug wine
b.) whiskey or bourbon
c.) muddy water
d.) black coffee.
The following are NOT Blues beverages:
a.) mixed drinks
b.) kosher wine (in reality, a true Blues beverage,
but not allowed in Blues songs)
c.) Snapple
d.) sparkling water.
15. If it occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues Death.
Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So is
the electric chair, substance abuse or dyin' lonely on a broken down cot.
You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match, round of
golf, or while getting liposuction.
16. Some Blues names for women:
a.) Sadie
b.) Big Mama
c.) Bessie
d.) Fat River Dumpling
17. Some Blues names for men:
a.) Joe
b.) Big Joe
c.) Little Joe
d.) Willie
e.) Big Willie
f.) Little Willie
g.) Sam
h.) Big Sam
i.) Little Sam
18. Folks with names like Kip, Todd, Patrick, Troy, Muffy, Sierra,
Sequoia, Sunshine, and Rainbow can't sing the Blues no matter how many men
they shoot in Memphis.
19. To make your own Blues name (starter kit):
a.) Name of physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame,
etc.) or size (Big, Little, Tall, Short, Tiny, Slim, Fat, etc.)
b.) Name of mental state (Lonesome, Homesick, Sleepy,
Lazy, etc.)
c.) Name of city or state (Memphis, Chicago, Kennebunkport,
Palm Beach; Georgia, Mississippi, New Hampshire,
Connecticut, etc.)
d.) First name (see a or b above) plus name of fruit
(Lemon, Lime, Kiwi, etc.) -- (Note: We allow substitution of your
1st name or a nickname.)
e.) Last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc.) –
(Note: We allow substitution of your 1st name or a nickname.)
e.g.: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Little New Hampshire, Willie, or
Lonesome Kiwi Fillmore
20. I don't care how tragic your life, if you own a computer, you cannot
sing the Blues. You best destroy it. Burn it, spill a bottle of Mad Dog or
Thunderbird into it, or get out a shotgun. Maybe your big-leg woman just
done sat on it. I don't care.
21. Needless to say, you can't play no Blues on a banjo, tuba, or harpsicord.
SCU, do you receive ANY compensation (money or stock) from Universal Communication Systems, Inc. or a related entity for services you render to them?
SCU, do you receive ANY compensation (money or stock) from IVP Technology or a related entity for services you render to them?
Gimmee Churak again...
AK
Steve should have referred you to the 10-KSB http://www.secinfo.com/dV5Ff.3bpb.htm#wvf
After you sort through all the management and related entity shares, kind of makes you wonder how many "outsiders" are amongst the 94 shareholders <g>. But for real fun, check out how many shares are controlled by management relative to shares issued...whew! See the table on page 19 of the 10-KSB at the above referenced link.
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
At the end of fiscal year 2002, our Common Stock was not quoted on
any national exchange or other public trading market. As of September 2002, our
Common Stock is quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol "YAKC." There
were approximately 94 shareholders of record of our Common Stock on June 30,
2002.
Steve Collings has ONLY one thing to explain, and he ought to do it soon, before someone files an SEC complaint:
"Steve, do you receive ANY compensation (money or stock) from YAKC or a related entity for services you render to YAKC?"
Steve's abrupt withdrawl here, and deleting the references/links to YAKC, sure call for answers. If Steve won't provide it voluntarily, maybe the info will be provided involuntarily.
JMHO, BWTHDIK
Here's still another one to run the SEC filings on. This too looks like a related entity. Notice the familiar iBox format, but not from scu? And see scu's "supportive" posts, but referencing only other posters. This one is worth a little time to review. Wonder if someone is pushing into legal gray areas?
Here's another company worthy of scrutiny of the SEC filings. Bet it will look similar to YAKC, with scu involved too. see #msg-530327
ggraessle, try this. Fascinating reading about management stock options, and the interrelationships with related entities. Looks like the other companies scu is posting about deserve similiar scrutiny. Don't have all the facts yet, but scu may have disclosure issues over his posts on iHub. Churak may have pegged scu correctly. We will see.
http://www.secinfo.com/dV5Ff.3bpb.htm#1stPage
I'm looking for SEC filings, but can't seem to find them. Can you help me? Should make for a good read.
AK
Steve, glad you had the time to post about your trip. Sorry you didn't have time to answer my yes or no question. BTW, while doing my DD, I can't find any SEC filings. Can you help me out here? Thanks, AK
Steve, do you receive ANY compensation (money or stock) from YAKC or a related entity for services you render?
Thanks for helping me do my DD.
AK
The nice thing about a real newspaper is that you can use it to clean up your coffee when you spill it. Sugared coffee makes your keyboard sticky.
You think there is humor in these boards?
AK