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Sep. 19th, 2009
Get out of jail free
Sep. 19th, 2009 06:09 pmThe board game Monopoly was used during WWII to smuggle tools to British POWs that would aid their escape.
Included in the items the German army allowed humanitarian groups to distribute in care packages to imprisoned soldiers, the game was too innocent to raise suspicion. But it was the ideal size for a top-secret escape kit that could help spring British POWs from German war camps.
Included in the items the German army allowed humanitarian groups to distribute in care packages to imprisoned soldiers, the game was too innocent to raise suspicion. But it was the ideal size for a top-secret escape kit that could help spring British POWs from German war camps.
Get out of jail free
Sep. 19th, 2009 06:09 pmThe board game Monopoly was used during WWII to smuggle tools to British POWs that would aid their escape.
Included in the items the German army allowed humanitarian groups to distribute in care packages to imprisoned soldiers, the game was too innocent to raise suspicion. But it was the ideal size for a top-secret escape kit that could help spring British POWs from German war camps.
Included in the items the German army allowed humanitarian groups to distribute in care packages to imprisoned soldiers, the game was too innocent to raise suspicion. But it was the ideal size for a top-secret escape kit that could help spring British POWs from German war camps.
End of summer
Sep. 19th, 2009 07:55 pmIn what will likely be the last of the tomato news for 2009, I had to trash almost all of the fruits I picked earlier in the week. I was able to salvage two Crims, but the rest had either molded or sported the blackened bruising that, from all I've seen, indicates blight. I bundled up the bad tomatoes and stuck them in the garbage--I didn't want to compost them and risk spreading the disease. I may have issues next year as it is--they advise replacing the top layer of soil of a blighted garden in order to get rid of as many spores as possible.
In the "Guys are Sick" category: watching the Royals-White Sox game. Sox at bat. Royals catcher throws to second to catch a runner trying to steal, and in the course of his follow-through, manages to punch the Sox batter in the groin. Sox batter drops like a rock, and Ken Harrelson and Steve Stone, the announcers, couldn't announce the game for laughing--Harrelson said it was the most he laughed in 34 years of announcing. The trainer who came out to check on the batter was laughing. Even the batter was smiling after he got to his feet.
Had a massage today. I needed it. Then I had a haircut, Needed that, too.
In the "Guys are Sick" category: watching the Royals-White Sox game. Sox at bat. Royals catcher throws to second to catch a runner trying to steal, and in the course of his follow-through, manages to punch the Sox batter in the groin. Sox batter drops like a rock, and Ken Harrelson and Steve Stone, the announcers, couldn't announce the game for laughing--Harrelson said it was the most he laughed in 34 years of announcing. The trainer who came out to check on the batter was laughing. Even the batter was smiling after he got to his feet.
Had a massage today. I needed it. Then I had a haircut, Needed that, too.
End of summer
Sep. 19th, 2009 07:55 pmIn what will likely be the last of the tomato news for 2009, I had to trash almost all of the fruits I picked earlier in the week. I was able to salvage two Crims, but the rest had either molded or sported the blackened bruising that, from all I've seen, indicates blight. I bundled up the bad tomatoes and stuck them in the garbage--I didn't want to compost them and risk spreading the disease. I may have issues next year as it is--they advise replacing the top layer of soil of a blighted garden in order to get rid of as many spores as possible.
In the "Guys are Sick" category: watching the Royals-White Sox game. Sox at bat. Royals catcher throws to second to catch a runner trying to steal, and in the course of his follow-through, manages to punch the Sox batter in the groin. Sox batter drops like a rock, and Ken Harrelson and Steve Stone, the announcers, couldn't announce the game for laughing--Harrelson said it was the most he laughed in 34 years of announcing. The trainer who came out to check on the batter was laughing. Even the batter was smiling after he got to his feet.
Had a massage today. I needed it. Then I had a haircut, Needed that, too.
In the "Guys are Sick" category: watching the Royals-White Sox game. Sox at bat. Royals catcher throws to second to catch a runner trying to steal, and in the course of his follow-through, manages to punch the Sox batter in the groin. Sox batter drops like a rock, and Ken Harrelson and Steve Stone, the announcers, couldn't announce the game for laughing--Harrelson said it was the most he laughed in 34 years of announcing. The trainer who came out to check on the batter was laughing. Even the batter was smiling after he got to his feet.
Had a massage today. I needed it. Then I had a haircut, Needed that, too.