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Jabba the Hut Cupcake!

Posted 2011-11-25 14:30:50 | Views: 25,575

Jabba the

Hut Cupcake

Love this. If you eat enough cupcakes you will be just as fat as jabba.

COOL CUPCAKES LIST: NUMBER 200


Rebecca Black Friday, Friday...

Posted 2011-11-24 22:40:16 | Views: 15,471


 

 

Gotta make my mind up. Which TV do I take?

 

70' flatscreen sale in Walmart. 70' flatscreen sale at Target.

Rebecca

Black

Friday, Friday.


Brief History on Black Friday

Posted 2011-11-24 22:18:55 | Views: 14,455

Here's hoping you avoided the food coma: you'll need your wits about you for Black Friday. The traditional day-after-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza has become a full-contact sport, with crazed shoppers determined to find the best deals, sometimes with tragic results. In last year's frenzy, a worker at a New York Walmart was trampled to death when the store opened its doors; two shoppers were shot in a dispute at a Toys "R" Us in California. The ensuing safety concerns may have prompted some shoppers to think twice, but retailers still expect a bonanza: the weekend after Thanksgiving is expected to account for some $40 billion in sales. 


As early as the 19th century, shoppers have viewed Thanksgiving as the traditional start to the holiday shopping season, an occasion marked by celebrations and sales. Department stores in particular locked onto this marketing notion, hosting parades to launch the start of the first wave of Christmas advertisements, chief among them, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, running in New York City since 1924. The holiday spree became so important to retailers that during the Great Depression, they appealed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 to move Thanksgiving up in order to stretch out the holiday shopping season. Roosevelt obliged, moving Thanksgiving one week earlier, but didn't announce the change until October. As a result, Americans had two Thanksgivings that year — Roosevelt's, derisively dubbed "Franksgiving," and the original. Because the switchover was handled so poorly, few observed it, and the change resulted in little economic boost.

 

The term Black Friday itself was originally used to describe something else entirely — the Sept. 24, 1864, stock-market panic set off by plunging gold prices. Newspapers in Philadelphia reappropriated the phrase in the late 1960s, using it to describe the rush of crowds at stores. The justification came later, tied to accounting balance sheets where black ink would represent a profit. Many see Black Friday as the day retailers go into the black or show a profit for the first time in a given year. The term stuck and spread, and by the 1990s Black Friday became an unofficial retail holiday nationwide. Since 2002, Black Friday has been the season's biggest shopping day each year except 2004, according to market-research firm ShopperTrak.

 

Nevertheless, retailers continue to tie one-day in-store sales to Black Friday. In the Internet era, bloggers race to obtain leaked circulars and post them online weeks in advance of Thanksgiving. Many forums and websites chart the deals, helping shoppers make a plan of attack for the big day. And attack they will — the National Retail Federation anticipates 134 million people will hit the stores on Thanksgiving weekend. After the deaths last year, there's an added focus on making sure stores are ready to handle the crowds. Walmart extended hours to keep stores open on Thanksgiving Day to try and handle the crush and had safety experts develop plans for all their stores, a tactic followed by many retailers.



QUICK HISTORY ON

BLACK FRIDAY

A brief history on the morning after Thanksgiving, otherwise known as Black Friday. Where you can get a great deal and run over someone all at one place! Rock on!

A brief history on the morning after Thanksgiving, otherwise known as Black Friday. Where you can get a great deal and run over someone all at one place! Rock on!

Via: TIME


Choose A Side

Posted 2011-11-23 17:26:24 | Views: 13,525

2011 Sunday in the Park

Posted 2011-11-21 13:00:49 | Views: 12,895

Sunday in the Park

with Pepper Spray


Steve Jobs Dissed Bill Gates

Posted 2011-11-18 18:07:30 | Views: 17,094

Fuck 

Bill Gates?

Has anyone read the Steve Jobs book bio? Lord, he has no love for Bill Gates...well...he did. But he thought Billy had no style or any imagination. Ouch. He even said he proudly steals other peoples ideas. What's coolest of all, Bill Gates is all good about it. He didn't mind Steve's harsh words. Why would he mind? He is stupid RICH. 


I can't do this

Posted 2011-11-18 17:59:44 | Views: 12,906

Sperm Whale Explodes

Posted 2011-11-18 10:08:05 | Views: 23,085

 

 

A 56-foot, 60-ton sperm whale died on a beach in Taiwan in January, 2004. Researchers wanted the carcass to perform an autopsy and for research, so they loaded the whale onto a tractor-trailer and set out through the city of Tainan, heading for the Shi-Tsau Natural Preserve. It took 13 hours, three cranes and 50 workers to get the whale loaded on the truck.


Unfortunately, on the way through the city, gasses built up to a critical level in the whale and it exploded, spewing whale guts in the street, on the cars and over pedestrians. According to witnesses, the smell was pretty bad. Residents and shop owners put on masks and tried to clean up the mess. Eventually the whale continued its journey to the research center.


---Check out this story

Gross: Dead Sperm Whale Explodes on Busy Street.

Crazy things can happen when a giant sea creature is already dead, like explode bloody guts all over the place.

   


Seven Deadly Websites

Posted 2011-11-17 22:00:14 | Views: 29,025

The Seven Deadly Websites

Just a little something to think about next time you tweet, like, stream, bid...and procrastinate. Ha


Occupy Walrus

Posted 2011-11-15 22:17:43 | Views: 18,753

OCCUPY WALrus

The Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that the Pacific Walrus, greatly recovering from decades of slaugther but facing stress in the Warming Arctic Climate, merits protection under the Endangered Species Act.

But the species, like others that face rising pressure but are not in imminent danger, will for now remain in the regulatory equivalent of an overcrowded hospital triage department. The Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the petition that resulted in the agency decision, calls the “ warrented but preclued"species status given to the walrus and many other species a “black hole.” -- Keep reading this article


Sweet Dog Revenge

Posted 2011-11-15 13:41:56 | Views: 16,565

Revenge is a bitch 

said the cat.


Disneyland Lets the Cat Kill the Mouse

Posted 2011-11-14 13:08:42 | Views: 19,738

Mickey Yes,

 

Hundreds of feral cats take over the amusement park each night, patrolling the grounds for mice and serving as de facto exterminators

The story: Is the House of Mouse is actually home to hundreds of feral cats? Unveiling 8 secrets about Disneyland, Adam K. Raymond at Mental Floss says that each night, a colony of cats takes over the park (and has since 1955). Park officials, who love them because they help control the mouse population, have set up permanent feeding stations, but still take measures to contain the cats' numbers, spaying and neutering the felines, and putting any kittens they find up for adoption. "After all," says Raymond. "A park full of cartoon mice is more enticing than a park full of real ones."

 

The reaction: This is certainly a "creepy revelation," says The Australian. No one wants to imagine the Happiest Place on Earth "overrun" with hundreds of cats — or actual mice for that matter. For cat lovers, however, says Tina Ferraro at YA Fresh, this just provides more incentive to visit the park. "Next time I go to Disneyland, I'm keeping my eyes open for cats." And it's a brilliant way to handle both the cat and mouse problem. It's "a smart, humane solution," says Chip and Company. "As an animal lover, this warms my heart."

Mouse No!

Irony Alert: Disneyland's no-mouse policy


Jambi from Peewee's Playhouse looking like Elizabeth Taylor?

Posted 2011-11-13 23:15:11 | Views: 21,279

 

Coincidence?

  

 

 

 

  

     

 


A Dog's Love

Posted 2011-11-12 00:33:43 | Views: 198,302

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.


- Josh Billings


White House coming clean about UFO Conspiracy?

Posted 2011-11-11 14:27:17 | Views: 23,694

Will Obama Come Out About the UFO's?

It's not every day that Team Obama talks about E.T. But in a recent post on the official White House website, a high-ranking official in the president's Office of Science & Technology Policy took the time to respond to a burning question from UFO conspiracy theorists. Here's what happened:

 

How did the White House wind up talking about UFOs?


The White House has a petition site called "We the People" that allows users to pose questions. If a petition gets enough signatures, it is reviewed by the White House staff and receives an official response. And two petitions, signed by a total of more than 17,000 people, demanded that the government come clean if it was hiding knowledge of extraterrestrial life. The petitioners wrote: "The people have a right to know. The people can handle the truth."

 

What did the White House say?
"Thank you for signing the petition and asking the Obama administration to acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth," the White House's Phil Larson cordially replied. "The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race." And, perhaps to the dismay of conspiracy theorists, Larson stated flatly: "In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye."

More than 17,000 Americans demand that Team Obama tell the nation exactly what it knows about aliens — and the administration obliges

The White House vs. UFO Believer's