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Watching the news tonight I see a story about a double murder at a poker party. A poker game was going on in an apartment when a guy shows up to rob the game. He shoots and kills the host. Then another player pulls his (legally) concealed hand gun and kills the robber.

Then I notice this was at the apartment complex I used to live in. Oh, but wait for it…the camera zooms out from the apartment door (showing the number) and shows the most of the building. Holy whaaaa??? That’s MY former apartment, not just the complex, but the actual apartment I lived in for more than a year!

Um…glad I don’t still live there, much? Yep.

So this line of commercials drove people away from Quiznos and infuriated franchisees who lost business, I LOVE them.

A MASSIVE 8.8 earthquake hit Chile just a few hours ago. This has triggered a tsunami warning throughout the Pacific region. I was reading the initial warning bulletin and found the verbiage below disturbing. I cannot imagine something like this. Mother nature is amazing, beautiful, destructive, and powerful. My prayers are with all of those in Chile and the areas still yet to be affected by the aftermath of this enormous quake.

Pictures of the Chile quake from the Telegraph (UK)

Full warning text here

I’ve bolded some of the things that boggle my mind…

EVALUATION

A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED THAT COULD CAUSE DAMAGE ALONG COASTLINES OF ALL ISLANDS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII. URGENT ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY.

A TSUNAMI IS A SERIES OF LONG OCEAN WAVES. EACH INDIVIDUAL WAVE CREST CAN LAST 5 TO 15 MINUTES OR MORE AND EXTENSIVELY FLOOD COASTAL AREAS. THE DANGER CAN CONTINUE FOR MANY HOURS AFTER THE INITIAL WAVE AS SUBSEQUENT WAVES ARRIVE. TSUNAMI WAVE HEIGHTS CANNOT BE PREDICTED AND THE FIRST WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST.

TSUNAMI WAVES EFFICIENTLY WRAP AROUND ISLANDS. ALL SHORES ARE AT RISK NO MATTER WHICH DIRECTION THEY FACE. THE TROUGH OF A TSUNAMI WAVE MAY TEMPORARILY EXPOSE THE SEAFLOOR BUT THE AREA WILL QUICKLY FLOOD AGAIN. EXTREMELY STRONG AND UNUSUAL NEARSHORE CURRENTS CAN ACCOMPANY A TSUNAMI. DEBRIS PICKED UP AND CARRIED BY A TSUNAMI AMPLIFIES ITS DESTRUCTIVE POWER. SIMULTANEOUS HIGH TIDES OR HIGH SURF CAN SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE TSUNAMI HAZARD.

THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIME IN HAWAII OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS 1105 AM HST SAT 27 FEB 2010

Several years ago I went to a KISS concert for a friend’s bachelor party. I don’t remember this song being on the set list. Too bad.

While V is about aliens that come to Earth and establish contact, I am pretty sure they would pass us by (unless they needed our flesh as fuel or something). See, I imagine that when they do seek us out, the video below is just the kind of thing they are going to find. They will see the things that amuse and amaze us and classify us as morons.

I certainly hope any extraterrestrials won’t be able to access our internet and see just what all we’ve used it for.

And I am fairly certain you just watched that video all the way to the end, didn’t you?

My daily giggle. This is wrong on so many levels.

via BagOfNothing.com

I miss these commercials…though they almost killed Quiznos.

And here is where Quiznos found “The Sponge Monkeys”.