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Volume 9 - Number 14
October 4, 2008
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Now in it's eighth year, the QFLEA Holiday Page has been launched. You can see it by clicking here. In each edition, we will highight a number of the vendors who are participating. Here are the first five. Be sure to visit the holiday page to see them all. Why waste time and gas running to the mall when you can sit back and do your holiday shopping with us? 
It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico where she purchased the coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right? Well, here are a few more. Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son. Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun. Third place goes to Amber Carson of Lancaster , Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113, 500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions ? In second place, Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure. This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit. Medication A distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor's office. "Is it true," she wanted to know, "that the medication you prescribed has to be taken for the rest of my life?" "Yes, I'm afraid so," the doctor told her. There was a moment of silence before the senior lady replied,"I'm wondering, then, just how serious is my condition because this prescription is marked 'No Refills'." Visit Nancy at www.belovedembroidery.com. |
Wow Imports Personalizd Jewelry and Fair Trade Gifts Personalized sterling silver & 14k gold nameplate necklaces and name rings in many languages and exclusive styles - A perfect gift for all occasions. Alabu Soaps Relief from Common Soap- Is your soap drying out your skin, causing irritation and itching? Try Alabu natural goat milk soap for dry sensitive skin. Oh My Gaudy! Boutique style in one of a kind custom made garments. We make it in your color choices, to fit your body. No two are ever quite alike, so you will not meet anyone wearing the SAME garment. All styles are available all year. We design our own patterns. Homestead Store & More Can't find that special unique one of a kind gift that you or a friend deserves? Stop at the Homestead Store - most of our gifts can be customized or personalized to suit your needs. Bellybutton Bears Want a Memory Teddy Bear, but need something for ALL the relatives or friends? How about Memory Bear Ornaments? I also make a great Memory Bear, in two sizes (16" and 12") with or without photo vests. Country Critters And MoreGet ready for Fall by decorating with our cute scarecrow dolls and grapevine wreaths. Mumoocie Mumoocie - Helping the world sleep like a baby. Innovative sleep aid/companion for adults and children. I do not know if they are all true, but they are ALL interesting! 
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
In 10 minutes, a category three hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
It is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Almost everyone who reads this article will try to lick their elbow."All my fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them." ... Mitch Hedberg |
