Get Cynical

From The Honolulu Advertiser:

Pat Campanella, left, and Affordable Towing and Recovery owner Devin Statts discuss how to get Campanella’s SUV out of Katherine Peacock’s pool in Hawai’i Kai. Campanella was giving his wife a driving lesson when she overcompensated and drove into the pool.

Overcompensated? When you overcompensate while driving it means you hit the curb or maybe side swipe a car. What was she doing, parallel parking next to the diving board?

About two weeks ago I posted about a picture of a mother duck who walked her ducklings over a sewer grate where they fell through. The person who posted those pictures says they were not photoshopped and he rescued all but one of the ducks.

I will be impressed when he figures a way to fit that into a police box.

Some great pictures here.

If you are in PA and hungry for a burger, you might want to try the 6lb burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub. The burger comes with:

• Two whole tomatoes
• A half-head of lettuce
• 12 slices of American cheese
• A full cup of peppers
• Two entire onions
• Plus a river of mayonnaise, ketchup, and mustard

All that for just $23.95! It doesn’t say if it comes with fries or not.

I wonder if Heather from Goofy Girl Blog has heard of that place?

I may have to print this flow chart out.

The Direct Marketing sector regards the telephone as one of its most successful tools. Consumers experience telemarketing from a completely different point of view: more than 92% perceive commercial telephone calls as a violation of privacy.

Telemarketers make use of a telescript – a guideline for a telephone conversation. This script creates an imbalance in the conversation between the marketer and the consumer. It is this imbalance, most of all, that makes telemarketing successful. The EGBG Counterscript attempts to redress that balance.

Good luck with this tip:
Do not panic. Relax and steer the car smoothly.

But the other tips are pretty good.

(via Information Junk)

This kid really wants a Darwin Award.
(via Waxy)

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