BLONDE JOKE…
November 26, 2007
Raking Blonde
Q: How did the blonde break her leg raking leaves?
A: She fell out of the tree.
Too much FLAP over Jesus FlapJack…
November 26, 2007
Flap emerges over Jesus flapjack
PORT ST. LUCIE, FlORIDA, A disabled Florida woman who makes a living selling items on the Internet auction site eBay says an outline of Jesus and Mary appeared to her on a pancake.
Dana O’Kane of Port St. Lucie, who has dystonia, a movement disorder similar to Parkinson’s disease, said she was about to sprinkle some chocolate powder on a pancake when she noticed the divine image, the St. Petersburg {Florida} Times, reported Monday.
Her mother, however, thought what her daughter saw as a divine image looked more like a Bedouin and Santa Claus.
O’Kane’s first attempt to sell the pancake online fell through despite bidding that reached $450. So O’Kane decided to try again, the Times reported.
When the second online auction ended Saturday, O’Kane accepted a $29 bid by Stephen Kosmach of Wood Dale, Ill. O’Kane says she’s going to donate the money to the Dystonia Foundation.
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I am sure trhat those Jesus pancakes are high sellers…but just give me chocolate chip or blue berry pancakes and I will be a HAPPY CAMPER!
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
SPECIAL Olympics CHAMPION, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, age 86, has been hospitalized…
November 25, 2007
Eunice Kennedy Shriver hospitalized
From BOSTON, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the 86 year old sister of President John F. Kennedy, who founded the Special Olympics and championed the rights of the mentally retarded, has been hospitalized.
Shriver was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital on Nov. 18 and was in fair condition Saturday, said hospital spokeswoman Emily Parker, who did not release any more information.
Shriver is also the sister of Sen. Edward Kennedy and the mother~in~law of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who said in June that she was recovering from a series of strokes.
Schwarzenegger said that the family had been told that Shriver would never talk again, but that she proved the doctors wrong.
“She’s had a number of health challenges over the past several months,” said Daniel Zingale, the chief of staff for Shriver’s daughter and Schwarzenegger’s wife, Maria Shriver. “In every case, she’s bounced back. She’s a remarkably resilient person. In each case, she’s drawn strength from the good wishes and prayers of people all over the world. I would hope and expect it would be true in this case again.”
Eunice Shriver is credited with transforming America’s view of the mentally disabled from institutionalized patients to that of friends, neighbors and athletes. Her efforts were inspired in part by the struggles of her retarded sister, Rosemary. She founded the Special Olympics in 1968.
Shriver last appeared publicly just two days before she was hospitalized, when her children held a tribute at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston to her work on behalf of special~needs children.
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A champion for Special Olympics and the phyically and mentally challenged, Ms. Kennedy~Shiver has many many improvements
for these special citizens. I know, I am one.
Get well…soon…Ms. Kennedy~Shiver
Special Olympics needs you still.
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
GIANT Hair Ball found in Womans Stomache…
November 25, 2007
It may not be the most appetizing reading before a hearty holiday meal, but the New England Journal of Medicine is devoting part of its Thanksgiving issue to a giant hairball and not the feline kind.
Doctors say this hairball removed from a woman’s stomach weighed 10 pounds.
The prestigious journal details the case of a previously healthy 18-year-old woman who consulted a team of gastrointestinal specialists.
She complained of a five-month history of pain and swelling in her abdomen, vomiting after eating and a 40 pound weight loss.
After a scan of the woman’s abdomen showed a large mass, doctors lowered a scope through her esophagus.
It revealed “a large bezoar occluding nearly the entire stomach,” wrote Drs. Ronald M. Levy and Srinadh Komanduri, gastroenterologists at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.
For the uninitiated, a bezoar is a hairball.
“On questioning, the patient stated that she had had a habit of eating her hair for many years, a condition called trichophagia,” they wrote.
The woman underwent surgery to remove the mass of black, curly hair, which weighed 10 pounds and measured 15 inches by 7 inches by 7 inches, the doctors said.
Five days later, she was eating normally and was sent home.
A year later, the pain and vomiting were gone, the patient had regained 20 pounds “and reports that she has stopped eating her hair.”
Reached at his home in Chicago, Levy said he had no idea whether the journal’s timing of the publication on Thanksgiving was intentional.
Either way, he said, it would not affect the gastroenterologists’ holiday dinner plans, “We don’t get fazed by much.”
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Thank you CNN News
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I don’t know abotu the rest of you…but I am glad I didn’t eat my hair growning up!
If you want to see a pic of this hair ball, here is a link to it.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/11/21/hairball.case/index.html
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
How to deal with threatening letters…thru the mail…joke…humor…
November 24, 2007
Threatening Letters
The fellow stormed into the postmaster’s office in a fury. “I’ve been getting threatening letters in the mail for months and I want them stopped.”
“Of course,” said the postmaster. “Sending threatening letters through the mail is a federal offense. Do you know who’s sending them?”
“Yes,” shouted the man. “It’s those idiots down at the Internal Revenue Service.”
…the English had done a study that says that men react differently to blondes…LOL
November 23, 2007
STUDY: Blonde women make men dumb
From LONDON…Encounters with blonde women such as U.S. film icon Marilyn Monroe make men’s mental performance decline, a study has found.
University of Paris X~Nanterre professor Thierry Meyer said the study he co~authored found that when men are around blonde women, their mental performance declines due to prevailing social stereotypes, The Sunday Times of London reported.
The social psychology professor said study subjects were given general knowledge tests after being exposed to a variety of women, and seemed unconsciously to begin to “think blonde.”
“This proves that people confronted with stereotypes generally behave in line with them,” Meyer said. “In this case blondes have the potential to make people act in a dumber way, because they mimic the unconscious stereotype of the dumb blonde.”
Although the finding appeared to reinforce the influence of stereotypes on behaviors and abilities, “EastEnders” and “Doctor Who” star Michelle Collins had a different take.
“I don’t think it’s to do with hair at all; it’s all about the breasts,” the blonde actress told the newspaper.
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Well, there you have it Baby Boomers…the English had done a study that says that men react differently to blondes…LOL
I could have told them that…with out a case study…
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
The Baby Booper Quueen’s Holiday Apricot Cranberry Chutney…recipe…
November 22, 2007
The Baby Booper Quueen’s Holiday Apricot Cranberry Chutney
I love cranberrys and there are so many ways to fix them…this is one of my favorites…
INGREDIENTS
1/4 cup diced dried apricots
2 large apple diced with the skin on [I like McIntosh apples]
1 (12 ounce) package fresh cranberries
1/2 cup raisins, dark or white
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1 pinch ground cloves
1 cup water
3/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup cider vinegar
1/4 cup of lemon juice
the grated skin of one orange
optional some orange juice~about two tablespoons
optional 1/2 cup of pecan pieces
DIRECTIONS
In a medium bowl, mix together the apricots, cranberries, raisins, apples, gratted skin of an orange, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg and cloves.
In a medium saucepan, boil water and sugar, stirring constantly, until sugar is dissolved. Add the dried fruit mixture leomon juice and vinegar. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat, and allow to cool for 5 minutes.
Serve immediately, or refrigerate in a covered container.
I like this served on my apple, or mince meat pies with icecream.
you can also use some of the juice of the orange as well…not too much you don’t want to cut the apricot flavor.
And last but not least you can add pieces of pecan [or walnuts]…being a Southern cook I always add them. I like the crunch and the flavor that they add…
And last but not least you can add rubbarb to this recipe…I love rubbard…I would add a cup of died rubbarb and delete the apricots {or not…I love fruit!}.
Happy Holidays
~Sharon~
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
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