oh boy have we got a good one for you in this afternoon's Mail Call....

Too bad I can't post it until tomorrow morning!

If you do not get the Daily Mail delivered, consider going out and buying one, the laugh you will get about the dog named Jake is well worth the 50 cents.....

I'm gonna want my money back if I disagree...

Hey, isn't that what they call a teaser in the newsbiz?

second thought...Is it gonna be in the H-M oline mail call tomorrow???

gonna save my 50 cents unless you are running nude pics of Anna Kournikova.

Can't wait to see what it is!

Has the H-M really stooped that low just to sell papers

Thats right I forgot about all them Bucky stories

you peeps are mean! (and cheap)....

anyway.. here is the hinted at section:


One of my co-workers has brought up a good suggestion - we are thinking of converting the recorded messages people leave on Mail Call to a digital format so our site visitors can get the full effect

OMG! Putting the recorded messages on the website would be a hoot! But, if you do that, kindly post instructions on how to get coffee, tea, coke, and half chewed food off our monitors!

I can just imagine what the Jake person's recording must have sounded like!!!

Hoot...LoLoudest

Off Topic.

Hey Greedy, didja' see Catch 22 on the AMC channel last night?
I was a little disappointed they cut one of Paula Prentiss' scenes, though.

What a great movie and great book!

Well now I'm gonna have to clean up the time machine and fire it up to 4/21/04.

shoulda said something before 4/22.

I didn't realize it was even on, until about 5 minutes before it started! AMC usually repeats a lot of their movies, so it'll probably be on again.

Just checked AMC's website: Fire up the TIVO or VCR for 4/22 at 1:15am or 4/22 at 5:30pm. Channel 40 on Antietam Cable.

Glad you pointed out which message you were refering to. Most of today's seem to be pretty comical.

By the way, where's the SPCA? I didn't know they ran a pet shelter in the Tri-State area!

(Sorry Yoss - I know that was a bit cruel. I'm just surprised how many people think the Human Society the SPCA are one and the same.)

It's on Marshall St/Maugansville Rd. Heading out from the city go past the Western Heights Middle School, past Potomac Center. Cross under the I81 overpass and it's on the right side. If you're coming from the north get off I81 at Maugansville Rd, turn left at the exit and it's immediately on the right.

edited:

Ya know, maybe I'm all wrong about this. Maybe I am confusing the Washington County Humane Society with the SPCA. I kinda thought they were one and the same.

Well, I just checked, it's listed in the Verizon government pages as SPCA, 13011 Maugansville Rd. Their web site, http://www.hswc-md.org/, directs to a notice that the domain name was just registered. The original site (before redirection) lists The Humane Society of Washington County. It was apparently originally hosted by Intrepid as washspca.

Now I'm REALLY confused.

GREAT! Now I'm gettin' confused myself...

I thought the H-S was the old SPCA is this correct??

For those of you who never have tasted morel mushrooms DON'T TRY THEM...

more for Greedy

I was right. The shelter is currently operated by the Humane Society of Washington County. Local SPCAs do run some shelters elsewhere in the state, but not any in this area. I found the web site for it via a link from the ASPCA web site to a search on another web site.

It's at http://members.petfinder.org/~MD101/washco.html

They ARE two separate organizations.

Thanks captain obvious! J/K...LOL!

Never heard of a Mushroom dog... but I do have a Mushroom stick.. I wonder how about a mushroom cat???

It's been YEARS since I went mushroom hunting. My daughter has never been. I just don't know where to go around here. Afraid I'll get shot if I go onto someone property .

Yeah, don't go pretending you're a property inspector!

From the 5/14/04 mail call:

"I was just curious why last week a couple mornings, when it was the full moon, like when I'm coming to work at 10 minutes of six in the morning, there was a huge moon on the western horizon - like a big old harvest moon. Yet, after those couple of days - now in the mornings - the moon is way up in the sky again. I'm just wondering why that is. I'd like to know other people's ideas about it."

Would someone please explain to this caller about the signs and indications of the end of the world?



Or maybe we could blame this on the President...

I've got a moon for her...

I wonder about some people.

"Are there any schools that save the Quality Pledge labels that are on Little Debbie cakes?"

"I would like to know why low-carb bread is so much higher in price than regular bread?"



put the little debbie snack cake down and go see for yourself

I thought the person who called in yesterday (5/19) and today (5/20) to remind us not to buy gas on May 19th was pretty funny.

I'm already in Frederick on 5/19 when I see them pleading with me to not to buy gas today. I've got less than a quarter tank, and I've got 70 miles to get home. Does that person think I didn't buy gas yesterday? And to be reminded not to buy gas on 5/19 on 5/20 was equally funny

And besides, do they really think that not buying gas on a particular day when you're going to have to buy it the next day or not get to work is really going to make a difference?

Why are people so dumb to think that the oil companies are milking our money on purpose.

Mountaineer, I've been trying to make that same argument all week. But I guess few people understand the world oil market and oil industry, and it's easy to envision something devious behind what one doesn't understand.

From 5/28/04 mail call:

"I think the Maryland State Police is putting too emphasis on seat belts and not other crimes. I am a senior and I was caught in Cearfoss a few months ago for not wearing my seat belt. There were two state troopers sitting there watching me with no seat belt. You mean to tell me that this is all they have to do. Since then, there has been two robberies there at Your Country Store in Cearfoss and they are both unsolved. So they should be looking for the robbers, not seniors with no seat belts."


Yeah! Why aren't they out catching bank robbers and eating donuts?

[homer]mmmmmmm, donuts.....[/homer]

Yeah, 5/28's Mail Call is a goldmine. Here's another:

"I'd really like to know why the Sheriff's Department is wasting time investigating a murder case from 1905. It's very unlikely that anyone involved in that case is alive today. Why doesn't the sheriff's department worry more about murder cases and crimes that happen today instead of 100 years ago?"

The article, if I remember correctly, was about a Sheriff's Department deputy who has been studying the case for informational reasons and as a hobby, not an active investigation.

There are a couple of other goodies in 5/28 as well.

As soon as I saw that this mornin' and seen it was a old geezer bitchin' about a seatbelt ticket...I thought of you

He'll probably get picked up this weekend in a prostitution sting

I better not see ya hanging around N Prospect St!

I thought this was a good Mail Call:

"I go to the Rainbow Park down here in Halfway, with my very young little grandchildren. The past few times I have been down here there have been a lot of high school students having their little cookouts and stuff for their graduation. I am amazed about how good they are to these young children, helping them out, swinging them. It just goes to show that the younger people still have the smarts about them."

yeah good one
Thanks for sharing...
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From the 6/10 edition of "Mail Call"



That would be: Zero

Ding ding ding! 10 points to Tom!

That's correct. God is (properly) mentioned and invoked multiple times in the Declaration of Independance. Where we set ourselves apart from other nations by our devotion to and dependance upon God and Christian beliefs. God and Christianity have more to do with our nation's basic characteristics: her foundation. We invoke God's authority to support our nations formation as distinct and separate from all other nations.

The Constitution and Bill of Rights establish our system of government which, though based in large part on Judeo-Christian ethics, need not invoke God's name to establish its authority. The Declaration of Independance defined our nation, while the Constitution etc. gets into the nitty-gritty details of how her affairs are to be ordered. The ordering of her affairs is naturally influenced by her basic (Christian) foundational ethics, but the blueprint for her government need make no mention of the Creator upon whose authority the nation is founded

Did you see the one today where some guy thinks that Ronald Reagan's death is just a diversionary tactic to keep us from paying attention to what the Shrub is doing?

I don't care for the Shrub is doing any more than that person, but Ronald Reagan was our president, he was a good president, and the last years of his life were more challenging than anything he ever did as president. I believe that deserves our respect.

But now he's buried, and I'm sure the news will move on to another subject. And if it doesn't, there are a lot of other stations to watch, or they can even (gasp!) turn off the stupid boob tube and do something constructive like read a book or sit outside and enjoy the summer weather. That person was just a bit too focused, I think - get a life!

There are some really weird, or better yet, nuts ppl in America.

From the 6/16 Mail Call:

"I can't understand, everyone is complaining about the war in Iraq, but in Sunday's paper, they have a re-enactment of the Civil War in Funkstown. Everyone is complaining about the war in Iraq, but they are having all these re-enactments and they were all Americans, too."

I agree, there are way too many Civil War Enactments in this area. People are falling all over the place pretending they've been shot!

"I do not like the new obituary format in the newspaper and it's got me so upset that I'm not planning on dying any time soon."

here is one - hot off the press:

“For the person who wanted to know how to get the cat hairs off furniture. I use duct tape and I rub the duct tape over my kitty to get the loose hair off.”

I wonder what the kitty thinks about the duct tape...

I can see the next caller:

"I just used duct tape on my kitty to get all the loose hair off, like the caller suggested.

"Can anyone tell me now how to stop the bleeding from my arms and face?"

Hmm... someone who uses duct tape to clean up the loose fur...

Haven't people ever heard of a BRUSH!? Or giving the cat a bath?

have you ever given a cat a bath?

Most often you would be lucky to get the bleeding to stop with 45 minutes.....

Most cats flip out and scratch the hell out of anything when they get near water. Wear kevlar if you plan on giving a cat a bath. Actually cat hair gets embedded into upholstery somehow and can be difficult to get out. Sometimes the tape rollers just don't grab all the hair. I use a rubber brush and brute force. It smears the hairs together into wads that are easier to pick up.