The Distracted Ones
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The weekly newsletter for people that just don't feel like working.
Thought of the Week
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.
Issue  XIX
Monday, Oct 10, 2005
News
(We are not making these up, Honest!)
Kill Bill, and his older brother
Huron, MI (WXYZ-TV) 09/28/2005 - A mother said she was just trying to protect her son when she allegedly slashed two people with a samurai sword. Police say Patricia Hale got involved in someone else’s dispute. She went inside and grabbed her sword after threats were made at her and her son by a teenager and a 26-years-old in a
(gasp) mobile home park.

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London (Sapa-AFP) 10/04/2005 - A British bank employee who stole huge sums from his employer left a note in a safe admitting he had "borrowed" £7-million. Graham Price, 58, faces 43 separate charges and asked for a further 263 offences to also be considered by the court. Asked whether he admitted the charges,  Price said: "Each and every one."  He was found out when a cash audit was carried out at the branch and three boxes taped together were found in a safe. Inside one of the boxes was an envelope containing a note which read: "Borrowed, seven million pounds from the Halifax", signed by Price.
Pic of the Week
Rogue fans understand
!! The original Rogue is now available for download on the Distractions page !!
This Week's Issue
Your Horoscope:*
Today you will wear way too much cologne and make strange unconscious lip-smacking sounds. You've been watching Comedy on The Subliminal Channel again, haven't you? By Thursday you will suddenly and quite unexpectedly become fascinated by fishing. You'll spend all your spare time looking through lures and will tape all fishing shows. Don't lose hope, though. While there is no known cure for your condition, there's a team working on it at MIT.
Archive
Fun Stuff
Pictures
Distractions
Ask the Magic 8-Ball*
Q: Is Keith Richards attempting to achieve immortality by pickling himself?
A: Signs point to yes
Other Stuff
Links
Useless Website of the Week:
Handdrawn clock
Click here to go there.
Your fortune cookie says:*
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through
a suitable application of high explosives.
Surrealist Compliment:
The limpidity of your objections ever motivates my hunger.
Zen question:
What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
Completely Useless facts:
R• The German language did not have have a word for "zero" until the 7th century.
• The song "Mr. Roboto" by Styx, was written about Prince Charles.
• The first commercially available television sets weighed over 700 pounds.
• The first atomic clock was originally set to the time on Albert Einstein's pocket watch.
This week's joke:
Q: What did George W. Bush get on his IQ test?
A: Drool
Other funky stuff:
Marriage Announcements
A word of advice: Before you get married, Think of
all of the ramifications. (Thanks, G!)
I don't know, but the last time I saw them, they...
Hurry, Hurry...
Well, years ago I might have...
The main thing I learned in college was to...
As soon as I get done here
I'm gonna...
The coroner told me that it appeared he had been hit in the head many times with a...
No Comment
Not only has my ass been itchin, on closer inspection I find my...
Definitely no comment...
It figures, just as soon as I gett my Butts-McCraken cleared up, , now I've got an...
Honest Judge, I'm not really a...
My doctor then said that the best treatment for my Aiken Johnson was to...
And for preventitive measure, at least once a week I should be...
And finally...
After all these medical problems, I think I'll go down and get me a...
*The magic 8 Ball, horoscope, and the fortune cookie's responses are for entertainment purposes only. As we are fully aware of the gifts of these seers, if taken literally you could hemorrage severely. But you know you believe it. Admit it. Your life cannot continue until you learn what these oracles have to offer. How pathetic.

Disclaimer:
My mind is so fragmented by random excursions into a wilderness of abstractions and incipient ideas that the practical purposes of the moment are often submerged in my consciousness and I don't know what I'm doing. (My employers certainly have no idea.)
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