WGFA Breakfast Club Bull Sheet for 07/24/07
Due to a lack of serious preparation, 90% of the following Bull Sheet has been stolen from the preceding Bull Sheet for improved presentation at this time.
TODAY IS TUESDAY – JULY 24, 2007… WEIRD, WACKY, STRANGE, ZANY, ODD, BIZARRE, QUIRKY, UNUSUAL HOLIDAYS! ONLY 153 SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!
- On this day in 1998 a 48-year-old woman told police her dentist stormed into a crowded Wiesbaden, Germany, bar and yanked out her dentures because she failed to pay her dental bill. Police later found the dentures at the dentist’s office. ***JUSTIN: The police had no choice - they HAD to take a bit out of crime!
- Today is NATIONAL POP A WHEELIE DAY. ***JUSTIN: I did it all the time as a kid on my bicycle – but the closest I get to popping a wheelie nowadays is leaning too far back in my office chair.
On this day in 1987, 91-year-old Hulda Crooks became the oldest person ever to climb Japan’s Mt. Fuji. When her team reached the summit, Hulda said, “Hey, dudes — how do I get down from here?” (She really said that!) - Today is COUSINS DAY, a time to honor all cousins. ***JUSTIN: Yeah, we’re all cousins. That’s what I believe. Because we’re all children of Adam and Eve. (“Kissing Cousins,” sung by Elvis Presley)
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
- actress (Rogue in the X-Men movies, Darkness, Finding Forester) Anna Paquin 25
- actress-singer (An Unfinished Life, Monster-In-Law, Selena) Jennifer Lopez 38
- actress (Sydney Andrews on “Melrose Place”) Laura Leighton 39
- actor (Dwayne Cleophus Wayne on “A Different World”) Kadeem Hardison is 42
- actress (“Wonder Woman,” Sky High) Lynda Carter is 56
- actor (Kramer on “Seinfeld”) Michael Richards 58
- comedienne (“Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” ) Ruth Buzzi 71
RADIO PAPARAZZI…
Brigitte Nielson is the latest celebrity to check into a rehab center.
Lindsay Lohan has turned herself in to police, in connection with a Memorial Day weekend car crash she was involved in.
Speaking of Lindsay Lohan, did you know she owns 5000 pairs of shoes? ***JUSTIN: None of which match an orange prison jumpsuit.
Justin Timberlake opened up a new restaurant in New York last Wednesday night. Guests at the new “Southern Hospitality” included Jay-Z, Lance Bass, Seth Green, and ‘Sopranos’ actress Jamie-Lynn Siegler.
Jodie Sweetin, who starred on ABC-TV’s “Full House” Married Cody Herpin on July 14 at the Little Church of the West, a Las Vegas Strip wedding chapel, reports CelebTV.com.
The party of the weekend was in Los Angeles… where Tom & Katie teamed up with Will & Jada to throw a “Welcome to L.A.” party for the Beckhams. It was at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Sunday. ***JUSTIN: He was so excited to be welcoming the Beckhams that Tom Cruise began jumping up and down on his couch.
NEWS KICKERS…
Here’s something enterprising. Many British churches have recently installed the new Hymnal Plus– a karaoke machine designed to help congregations recite verses and sing hymns. ***JUSTIN: The selections even include the ever so risky disco version of “Kum Bay Ya.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is going to publish her memoirs. ***JUSTIN: Yawn.
A new study has found that people who take a short break in the middle of their exercise regime tend to burn more fat than those who exercise non-stop. ***JUSTIN: That is such balderdash. I’m now to the point of continually taking a break from any exercise – and I’m not burning fat at all.
The latest high-tech TV coming soon to a living room near you could also save many marriages. Sharp is coming out with a new TV that can show two different channels, all depending on which angle you view it from. It also means you can surf the Internet with one screen, while watching TV on the other. The only glitch is that the images overlap if you sit directly in front of the screen. ***JUSTIN: Now THAT would be entertaining television! You could see the Energizer Bunny being arrested for battery on Law & Order!
A Missouri man is accused of fraud for offering designer clothes on eBay, then allegedly sending the buyers garbage and feces. ***JUSTIN: Okay, so people bought garbage on eBay – what’s so new about that?
Emil Kacic, a wealthy Croatian lawyer, says he must be the ugliest man in the world because 5,000 women have rejected his marriage proposal. ***JUSTIN: I’ve done the math on this. To ask 5,000 women over a span of 20 years, he’d have to ask a woman to marry him just about every other day. Sounds to me like it’s not being ugly that’s his problem - he’s just extremely impatient!
If you sleep just one extra hour a night every night for a year, you’ll lose 10 pounds. That’s the claim of “The Duvet Diet,” a sleep-yourself-thinner plan advanced by author Jane Worthington. ***JUSTIN: Beginning Monday, the morning show will begin an hour later. Make that two hours – I have a lot to loose.
FRIGHTENING STORY…
This story happened about a month ago in a little town in Alabama, and while it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it’s not.
This guy was on the side of the road hitchhiking on a very dark night in the middle of a storm. The night passed slowly and no cars went by. The storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him.
Suddenly he saw a car slowly looming, ghostlike, out of the gloom. It slowly crept toward him - silently - and stopped. Reflexively, the guy got into the car and closed the door, then realized that there was nobody behind the wheel.
The car slowly started moving again. The guy was terrified, too scared to think of jumping out and running. The guy saw that the car was slowly approaching a sharp curve. The guy started to pray, begging for his life; he was sure the ghost car would go off the road and he would plunge to his death, when just before the curve, a hand came from out of the darkness thru the window and turned the steering wheel, guiding the car safely around the bend.
Paralyzed with terror, the guy watched the hand reappear every time they reached a curve. Finally, the guy gathered his wits and leaped from the car and ran to the nearest town. Wet and in shock, he went into a bar and voice quavering, told everybody about his horrible, supernatural experience. A silence enveloped everybody when they realized the guy was not drunk and could very well be telling the truth.
About half an hour later two guys walked into the same bar. One said to the other, “Look Billy Bob, thar’s that idjit what rode in our car when we was pushin it in the rain.”
THE FILES OF LAW & DISORDER…
Crime and forgetfulness are NOT a good combination!
FILE #1: A joyride didn’t turn out to be much joy for several San Jose car thieves. After stealing the car, they drove a few hundred miles north to the town of Chico, California. That’s where police saw them trying to break into a car. It was the same car they had stolen. It seems the crooks had locked the keys inside the stolen car. Or, so they thought. When Chico Police Officer Jose Lara frisked the bad guys, he found the keys in one of the men’s pockets.
FILE #2: It must have been good wine. It made a Washington robber change his mind last month. Police and guests at a Capitol Hill backyard-gathering say a hooded man burst in, put a gun to a girl’s head and demanded money. Instead, the girl’s mother offered him some wine. He took a sip and remarked on how good it was, then took a bite of cheese. Then he told the group he must have come to the wrong house and put the gun in his pocket. Police and party-goers say the whole thing ended in a group hug before the intruder walked away. The commander in charge of patrols in the area says once they had him in a hug, they shouldn’t have let him go. Police are still looking for the guy.
FILE #3: A Chicago bank robber came up with a scheme to eliminate that clumsy ‘running to the waiting getaway car’ part of the heist. Police say a man drove up to a bank drive-through window and passed a stick up note to the teller through the tube. Despite the fact he never displayed a weapon or even implied that he had one, and despite the fact that the teller was safe in a building separate from the crook, she handed over the money. The man sped away with over $56,000.
STRANGE LAW: No one may take a bath without a prescription in Boston, MA.
JUSTIN’S MOMENT OF DUH…
Smoking is bad for your health… and we’ll prove that in today’s Moment of Duh.
A woman, visiting a friend in a United Kingdom hospital, chose to ignore the doctors who told her she could not smoke in the hospital. She decided to smoke anyway by puffing out the window. While doing so, she fell out the window dropping 65 feet into an ASH tree. I just love irony, don’t you?
OTHER STUFF…
CAN THEY PROVE IT?
Sean Morton, founder of The Prophecy Research Institute in California has recently produced an audio tape that has nothing but a high pitched sound on it. According to Morton, he did so to “keep aliens away” since “aliens function on a relatively simple, three-level energy system, and this overloads their nervous systems”. So far so good, as he hasn’t seen any aliens since he came up with this theory! ***JUSTIN: Constant high-pitched sounds… couldn’t you also get that at a Sandy Patti concert?
CHEAP GAS
The cure for high gas prices could be in your kitchen pantry. 17-year-old Nick Oberlin’s school project of using cooking oil for fuel could someday save you some money at the gas pump. Oberlin, a high school student from Ohio, concocted a fuel made from old canola oil he gets from a hardware store and local restaurants. The fuel is not only cheap — about 32 cents a gallon to make — but also good for the environment. After winning top honors in several local, regional, and state science fairs, Oberlin failed to win any awards at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Detroit. But all is not bad for Nick, who is looking to further develop his discovery. He hopes to get financial assistance from Volkswagen, maker of the Jetta that rolls along on canola-based fuel. ***JUSTIN: Oils well that ends well!
DANGER WILL ROBINSON!
Robots apparently are not vegetarians. Scientists in Florida have developed a robot that is powered by eating meat! Dubbed “Chew Chew the Gastrobot”, a 12-wheeled train-like robot runs on a microbial fuel cell, which breaks down food with bacteria and converts it into electrical energy. The cell works by producing enzymes that break down carbohydrates, releasing energy. Inventor Stuart Wilkinson of the University of South Florida says the ideal fuel for his robot is meat. Chew Chew may be developed into a lawnmower that eats grass clippings. A similar type of robot is being made in England that is powered by eating slugs. ***JUSTIN: And the slugbot makes its own lubricant too!
CLEANLINESS IS NOT NEXT TO GODLINESS!
Some experts say Americans are obsessively clean with our use of anti-bacterial’s. So clean, that it might be counterproductive. The problem is that all that scrubbing and sponging may be weakening our immune systems, killing helpful germs and spurring the growth of mutant strains of super bacteria. Stuart Levy, a Tufts University geneticist, says Americans are being swayed by advertising campaigns to be so clean and use so much anti-bacterial products. Levy says, “Sometimes, bacteria are the good guys, strengthening our bodies’ defenses and warding off germs”. Levy said research has proved that overuse of anti-bacterial’s, like antibiotics, will create stronger, more dangerous strains of bacteria. ***JUSTIN: So, parents… give the kid a break. If he doesn’t want to take a bath for two weeks, just consider it an alternate health plan.
GIANT JURY AWARD
Want to make a lot of money by suing your doctor for malpractice? Make sure you get injured in New York!
As if jury awards weren’t large enough already, New York has a law on the books that was passed back in 1985 to make sure medical malpractice victims are adequately compensated from the date of their injury. What this means is that judges in these cases are required to add mandatory interest payments to all awards. Therefore, in a 1990 case against New York Presbyterian Hospital, which was finally approved by the New York State Supreme Court in 2003, the jury’s original $40 million dollar award had 13 years worth of interest added to it which automatically increased it to $140 million. ***JUSTIN: I’m getting this sudden, indescribable urge to move to New York for a month, get injured, and then go to court!
SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE
Why do stores sell things for a penny under the dollar? Why sell something for $7.99 instead of just $8.00?
Melville Stone, who worked his way up from newspaper carrier to publisher of the Chicago Daily News, first started his newspaper in 1875, the price was a penny. Circulation rose rapidly at first, then leveled off. Then sales started lagging. When Stone investigated why fewer people were buying his paper, he discovered the problem had nothing to do with its quality. Pennies were in short supply. Stone decided he had to do something. First he traveled to the United States mint in Philadelphia and brought about the transfer of barrels of pennies to Chicago. The problem then became how to get the pennies into circulation. So Stone persuaded Chicago merchants to sponsor “odd-price sales,” during which they would sell their merchandise for a penny under the regular price. The odd prices did the trick. People had pennies again, and Stone’s paper flourished. And that is why store items today cost “$8.99,” or $12.99,” instead of even dollar amounts. ***JUSTIN: Sure, it’s an odd story… but it pays off in the end, doesn’t it!
AND I LEAVE YOU WITH THIS THOUGHT…
Actually, I thought today’s program went pretty well until I noticed my engineer climbing the tower and shooting off rescue flares.
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