[franca]

Originally Posted by Blackmirror

What is a website Frank ????

Who knows !!!!!!!!!!!

[Blackmirror]

Originally Posted by franca

Who knows !!!!!!!!!!!

Not meeeeeeeeee

[franca]

Originally Posted by Blackmirror

Not meeeeeeeeee

Let's Google it..............

[Blackmirror]

Originally Posted by franca

Let's Google it..............

Ok

[franca]

Originally Posted by Blackmirror

Ok

It said they don't know either.......

[poochee]

Originally Posted by franca

Judge: What is a website?

By TOM WELLS
May 17, 2007

A JUDGE stunned a court yesterday by admitting he did not know what a WEBSITE was.

They need another judge.

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A BABY boy was found crawling across a busy main road - after escaping from his home through a CAT-FLAP.

Taxi driver Shahid Iqbal had to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting the 15-month-old tot.

He said: "I thought I was having a daydream seeing this tiny boy crossing the road on all fours. I was shocked.
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"I thought somebody must have dumped him. I put him in my taxi to make sure he was safe and asked around to see if anyone knew who he was. Then I called the police."

Officers arrived at the scene at Crawshawbooth, Lancs, and took the child away until they could locate his parents. Shahid has since been contacted by the mum and dad who thanked him for his help.

Insp Dave Hodson said: "It would appear the tot escaped from his home by climbing through the cat-flap before being found by the taxi driver.

"The baby's mother was at work at the time and was extremely distraught.

"Everyone at the family home is fit and healthy and they have now changed their house security arrangements."

The RSPCA said: "We've heard stories of babies being rescued by firemen after getting their heads stuck in cat flaps, so people should be careful.

"But a tot getting out of his home through a cat-flap doesn't bear thinking about."..

[poochee]

Originally Posted by franca

A BABY boy was found crawling across a busy main road - after escaping from his home through a CAT-FLAP.

Taxi driver Shahid Iqbal had to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting the 15-month-old tot.

He said: "I thought I was having a daydream seeing this tiny boy crossing the road on all fours. I was shocked.
Advertisement

"I thought somebody must have dumped him. I put him in my taxi to make sure he was safe and asked around to see if anyone knew who he was. Then I called the police."

Officers arrived at the scene at Crawshawbooth, Lancs, and took the child away until they could locate his parents. Shahid has since been contacted by the mum and dad who thanked him for his help.

Insp Dave Hodson said: "It would appear the tot escaped from his home by climbing through the cat-flap before being found by the taxi driver.

"The baby's mother was at work at the time and was extremely distraught.

"Everyone at the family home is fit and healthy and they have now changed their house security arrangements."

The RSPCA said: "We've heard stories of babies being rescued by firemen after getting their heads stuck in cat flaps, so people should be careful.

"But a tot getting out of his home through a cat-flap doesn't bear thinking about."..

I assume someone was at home.

[franca]

THE lost ashes of Star Trek’s Scotty were found last night — three weeks after being blasted into space on a rocket.

The remains of actor James Doohan were lost in rugged terrain with those of 200 others while parachuting back to Earth after a 12-day memorial flight.

The 20ft craft has now been found in the mountains of New Mexico.

US space chiefs said: “Now we can say ‘mission accomplished’.”

The ashes will be returned to families. Canadian Doohan died in 2005 aged 85.

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HEADACHE? IT'S BECAUSE YOU'VE HAD THIS BULLET IN YOUR HEAD SINCE 1943
By Mark Ellis, Foreign Editor 19/05/2007

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A GRANDMOTHER baffled by her splitting headaches found she had had a bullet lodged in her brain for 64 YEARS.

Jin Guangying, 77, could not work out why she was plagued by constant head pain.

Finally, as her suffering became unbearable, she went to hospital for an X-ray.

Doctors discovered the bullet lodged deep in her skull and gently removed it.

It was only then that Jin recalled she was shot in 1943 by invading Japanese as she took vital supplies to her guerrilla father.

The gran, of Shuyang, in China's Far Eastern Jiangsu province, said: "I was 13, and living in Xuzhou.

"One afternoon my mother asked me to take a meal to my father and his colleagues. Then the Japanese opened fire."

A bullet shot through the arm of a bystander and hit Jin in the head.

But Jin, who is now recovering well, thought nothing of it after her mum treated her with herbs.

[poochee]

Originally Posted by franca

HEADACHE? IT'S BECAUSE YOU'VE HAD THIS BULLET IN YOUR HEAD SINCE 1943
By Mark Ellis, Foreign Editor 19/05/2007

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KATMANDU, Nepal

A veteran Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest for a record 17th time Wednesday, beating his own previous record, mountaineering officials said.

Appa, who goes by one name, reached the 29,035-foot summit with seven other Sherpas and a Western climber, said Ang Tshering, president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.

Appa, 46, is one of the most respected climbers in the mountaineering community. His closest competitor, fellow Sherpaguide Chewang Nima, 41, scaled the peak a 14th time last year.

Appa was leading a team calling themselves the ''Super Sherpas Expedition'' on a charityclimb to raise education funds for children of the Nepalese mountain guides.

He and his teammates had set out to make a documentary about the climb and all money raised will go toward providing better education and health care for children in their community at the foothills of the mountain.

Like most Sherpas, Appa grew up in the foothills of Everest, and began carrying equipment and supplies for trekkers and mountaineers at an early age.

He made his first summit of Everest in 1989 and has been climbing almost every year since.

Sherpas were most lyyak herders and traders living in the Himalayas unti lNepal opened its borders to tourism in 1950. Their stamina and knowledge of the mountains make them expert guides and porters for foreign mountaineers.

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A STEWARDESS caused £20,000 of damage on a jumbo jet — when her curry EXPLODED in a microwave at 35,000ft.

The transatlantic flight from Heathrow carried on to Miami after cabin crew grabbed a fire extinguisher to douse the blazing oven.
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Last night British Airways insisted there was no threat to passengers’ safety — although the Boeing 747 needed days of repairs.

The air hostess was heating up a ready meal she bought from a supermarket when the curry exploded. BA has now BANNED staff from using new high-powered microwaves in club class kitchens for non-airline food on its fleet of jumbos.

A secret memo emailed to all BA long-haul crews — entitled “Microwave incident” — warns that grub needs special packaging because the ovens are twice as strong as domestic ones.

It says the incident with the curry had “disastrous consequences”. One BA employee said: “Many cabin crew like to bring their own meals to eat.

“At first we thought the microwaves were a godsend. But this unfortunate incident has left us with egg on our faces.” BA stressed: “At no time was there any danger to passengers or the aircraft.”

[coderitr]

Originally Posted by franca

It was only then that Jin recalled she was shot in 1943 by invading Japanese as she took vital supplies to her guerrilla father.

How do you forget that you've been shot in the head?

[coderitr]

Fire Heavily Damages Clipper Ship Cutty Sark in London

GREENWICH, England — A spectacular fire caused heavy damage to the clipper ship Cutty Sark on Monday, adding millions to the cost of restoring one of London's proudest maritime relics.

The cause of the blaze was under investigation, but within hours officials responsible for the graceful 19th-century sailing ship said they were determined to carry on with a four-year restoration project.

Firefighters responded to an early morning alarm at the ship's dry dock. The flames were out about two hours later.

"At the moment we are treating the fire as suspicious, as we would do any fire of this scale and importance," police Inspector Bruce Middlemiss said. Surveillance cameras showed several people in the area at the time the fire started, but there was no indication that any had been involved in igniting the fire.

"There is no evidence or intelligence to lead us to think this was an arson," Middlemiss said.

The ship is the world's only surviving example of an extreme clipper, regarded as the ultimate development of a merchant sailing vessel. Most of the original hull had survived since the ship was built for the tea trade of the 1800s.

The leaders of the restoration project said the damage was not as bad as they feared.

"I'm relieved. I came here thinking the ship had gone on her last journey," said Richard Doughty, chief executive of the Cutty Sark Trust.

However, "this will have resulted in millions and millions of pounds of damage. This is a ship that belongs to the world, and we're going to need financial help," said Doughty.

Cutty Sark left London on its first voyage on Feb. 16, 1870, proceeding around Cape Hope to Shanghai 3 1/2 months later. The ship made only eight voyages to China in the tea trade, as steam ships replaced sail on the high seas.

Measuring 280 feet in length, the ship weighed 979 U.S. tons and its main mast soared 152 feet above the main deck.

The ship was used for training naval cadets during World War II, and in 1951 it was moored in London for the Festival of Britain. Shortly afterward, the ship was acquired by the Cutty Sark Society.

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