Wednesday - January 01, 2014

happy story to start the year … would be robber no longer in business.  buys the farm instead.

Good news to start the year off.  One would be punk mugger dies.
Bullet bounces off victim, kills mugger.
That’s what it says and I am happy to believe it.

by
TOMAS JIVANDA
i news
A 16-year-old mugger has been killed after a bullet fired by an accomplice ricocheted off their victim’s face and shot him dead.
The incident happened when a group of males accosted the man at a housing complex in San Francisco and demanded he hand over his possessions, police said.
The man complied, but as the muggers were taking his valuables, including a mobile phone, one of them pulled a handgun and shot at him.
The bullet struck his face, bounced off, then hit one of the other robbers, 16-year-old Clifton Chatman.
When police arrived on the scene, Chatman was pronounced dead and the muggers’ victim was taken to hospital with serious injuries. He is expected to survive.
The other suspects fled following the shooting, which happened at around 11pm on 14 December.
A second 16-year-old has now been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted robbery. Police did not say whether they believe he was the one who pulled the trigger.
The remaining members of the group involved in the crime are being searched for by investigators.
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Some pointless things read and (possibly) taken as fact.
Just a time waster below for a rainy, chilly, gloomy all day sort of day. Ah ... just the thing.
Strong tea and a whipped cream donut.  Yeah.

The English surnames Temples, Hatman, Rummage, Nithercott, Raynott, Southwark and Woodbead have died out.
Sophie Hannah, the novelist, is promising to write a thriller with characters bearing all those names.

Amazon was at one stage going to be called Relentless. Whose idea was that?
Type in relentless.com, it redirects to the US Amazon page.  Really.  I tried it.

You have a stack of pancakes of different sizes and you want to put them in order, the smallest at the top and the largest at the bottom. You can stick a spatula anywhere in the stack and flip over all the pancakes above that point: what is the largest number of flips required? For a stack of two, the pancake number is one. For a stack of 19, it is 22. But no one has been able to calculate the pancake number for a stack of 20.  Shouldn’t the question be, who’d want to bother?

The only research paper that Bill Gates ever wrote, was on the subject of pancake numbers.

The French for walkie-talkie is talkie-walkie. ….. ? 
French slang for sofa bed is clic-clac because of the noise it makes, although the proper French is canapé-lit, which is almost as good. 

The Welsh for microwave is popty-ping. 

I didn’t research anything to see if true or not.  I simply found the ideas amusing.  Although I must say, with regard to Welsh, I’d be ready to believe anything. Have any of you ever heard that language spoken?  Besides our LyndonB who may have.

Happy day 1 all.

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