20 Feb 2010

COMPILED NEWS

Due to the bad weather I am still locked into my house and when I went shopping, nothing special had happened either, no bank rubbery took place while I was there, and no little terrorist blow himself up while I was in the supermarket.

Therefore I checked the news and found some interesting once.

A website called PleaseRobMe claims to reveal the location of empty homes based on what people post online.

Very interesting ! I only have to increase my household insurance, make myself member in PleaseRobMe and hope that all interesting things are stolen so that I can buy new once with the money I get back from the insurance. Of course for double value.

A German snowboarder stranded in the Austrian Alps for six hours has been rescued after attracting attention by setting fire to his cash. He started with restaurant bills, before he was spotted burning the last of 120 euros in cash.

What do you learn from this experience ? Always take a lot of cash with you ! And don't forget to keep restaurant bills ! Go there very often ! You never know !






Barbie’s so geeky

DIZZY blonde doll Barbie has an unlikely new job - as an IT geek.
Wearing specs and a T-shirt with a binary code design, she uses a laptop, pink of course, and hands-free phone headset.

I am a little doubtful that little girls would like to play with such an "intelligent" looking doll or is she more destinated for business men, managers, bank directors, or politicians ?




A WOMAN in Rumania weighing more than 240 kg (529 lbs) has given birth to her first baby.
Victoria Lacatus, 25, had her healthy 2.9 kg (6.4) baby girl by caesarean section yesterday. Doctors had feared for her health during the pregnancy.But she told reporters at the hospital in Craiova, Romania: "I wanted this child with all my heart, whatever the sacrifice."

Now I only hope she doesn't take the baby with her in her bed ! Her husband probably looks already like a pancake.

19 Feb 2010

SHOW & TELL - Dolls


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In the 80th I have worked for 5 years in a Marketing company called Marlex located in Waterloo, which was very practical for me. At that time they had made a big business probably the biggest one they ever made with "Miss Petticoat" a creation of my American bosses' uncle. You could see her everywhere on plates, cards, clothes, bags, stationary etc.

When I left there I got these 3 dolls as a souvenir. They are very cute. I had given them to my mother for her doll collection, but when she died I took them back. For the moment they are in a bag in a storeroom, because I don't have room to expose them, due to my cat collection ! Or I would need a second house.