Flex Your Mental Powers

[samtzu]

Capn:

The correct answer to "What's the difference between a chicken?" (for some very obscure reason) is "One of it's legs is the same." We used to tell this one at stoner parties all the time.

Flashback to May, 1971, the top of Glacier Point in Yosemite. Approximately 35-40 hippies on a field "trip" using, mainly, mescaline and smokeables, have pretty much taken over the area. We are all sitting in the bleachers at Glacier Point, waiting for the Ranger (Ranger Rick, actually) to give us the twenty minute lecture on Glacier Point and Yosemite. He's nervous, and the fact that he's facing a crowd of tie died, furry, incredibly stoned hippies, isn't helping any.

To break the ice, he asks the group, "Does anyone know what the difference is between the National Park Service and the Forest Service" and a guy named Gary said "One of it's legs is the same" and we all fell out of the bleachers laughing.

Ranger Rick just stared at us for about 30 seconds, not having a freakin' clue as to what we were laughing about, while we just howled! After about five minutes we started to get it back together and the laughter died down. He gave us the 90 second version of his talk and ran off to his truck and drove away in a cloud of dust. He probably quit the National Park Service not long after.

You probably had to be there... or be stoned...

Sam

[DVD Burner]

I am ever amazed by the crazy shit you guys know..

How about this...

Manchurian Candidate


Assume you are the head of the Secret Service and the President is about to arrive in Europe, where he will spend Monday in Lisbon, Tuesday in Madrid, Wednesday in Rome, Thursday in Prague and Friday in Paris. But just before he departs on Sunday night, you received intelligence from a source that an assassin plans to attempt to assassinate the President on one of those five days in one of those five cities. You further are told that you will not know which day or which city before the President arrives in that city on that day.

Assuming the information is accurate, can any of these cities be logically ruled out as the possible place of the attack? If so, which one(s) are safe for the President to visit?

Hmm...

Bombs in Turkey Kill Three, Hurt Eight
Two Bombs in Turkey Kill Three, Injure Eight Before Bush Visit for NATO Summit

The Associated Press



ISTANBUL, Turkey June 24, 2004 — A bomb blast aboard a bus killed at least three people and injured eight, a senior police official said. Earlier, a bomb exploded outside the Ankara hotel where President Bush is expected to stay before Monday's NATO summit.
The Istanbul explosion occurred as the bus traveled in a residential area of the city, the police official said on condition of anonymity. Hospital workers carrying stretchers rushed to the scene in the Fatih district, about five miles from the summit area.





Murat Gulen, a pharmacist whose shop is across the street from the blast, said he heard a huge explosion.

"People on the bus were in a panic. They were trying to escape and the driver was struggling to open the door," Gulen said.

Another witness, Necdet Devrin, told NTV television he saw "injured people on the floor. They were screaming and bleeding. Arms and legs were on the street. It was an awful scene."

About 250 miles away in Ankara, a small bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel, injuring three people, including two police officers.

The officers were injured when they approached a package containing the explosives after an anonymous tip that a bomb was placed nearby, Police Chief Ercument Yilmaz said.

The bomb exploded 75 yards from the hotel entrance, shattering windows of nearby buildings.

One officer lost a foot in the blast, said Adil Surat, head of the trauma unit at Hacettepe University hospital, speaking to the Anatolia news agency.

A second officer had scratches on his face and appeared to be in shock. He was in good condition, as was the civilian, Surat said.

A small Marxist group, MLKP-FESK, claimed responsibility for the blast, private NTV television reported. Police would not comment on that report.

Bush is scheduled to arrive in Ankara late Saturday night and will meet Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Sezer on Sunday.

The NATO summit beginning Monday also will be attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac, among others.

Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin said security would be heightened after the blast. Turkish media had been reporting that 7,000 police officers would be on duty in the capital for Bush's visit.

"There are people with bad intentions who can take every risk to fulfill their goal," Sahin said.

Militant Islamic, Kurdish and leftist groups have carried out past attacks in Turkey, and scores of people believed to be linked to such groups have been detained in security sweeps in recent weeks.

Concerns about security have grown in Turkey since November, when four suicide truck bombings killed more than 60 people in attacks on two synagogues, the British consulate and a London-based bank. Prosecutors say a Turkish al-Qaida-linked cell carried out those attacks.

About a half-dozen small bombs designed primarily to make noise and not cause serious damage have exploded in Istanbul in recent days. Leftist groups have used the bombs in the past. Several people have been injured, mostly by shattered glass.

Security in Istanbul is expected to be extremely tight for the NATO summit. Concrete barriers will seal off a zone in the heart of the city and surveillance aircraft will help monitor a no-fly zone over the area. The Bosporus Strait will be closed to oil traffic ahead of the summit.


photo credit and caption: Turkish bomb squad work at the site after a bomb exploded near the entrance of the Hilton Hotel where U.S. President George W. Bush is expected to stay this weekend, in Ankara on Thursday, June 24, 2004. Two police officers standing near the bomb when it went off were injured. Turkey is one of the United States' best friends in the region, but anti-American feelings are soaring following the invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)





Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Hmmmm, I wonder.