Ever notice how it's the little things in life that amuse us so much? More to the point, ever notice how it's the silly little idiocies in life that amuse us more than anything else? Well, this is not as much ''the little blog that could'' as it is ''the blog that enjoys going up the down escalator in your local mall.'' Will it have anything of real importance? No, probably not. But enjoy the ride never the less!

 
Eau d'Poissons, Penguin Dartboards, and Guess This Man's Stomach Contents!

If it is one thing I've learned from Shady (and her 3 siblings), it's that dogs love to roll around in the grass. For some reason they enjoy getting the smell of dirt and grass all over themselves. I know there's a legitimate found-in-nature reason behind this, but my memories of last week's episode on the Discovery Channel are a little fuzzy.

Anyhoo, I can appreciate it when Shady decides that a good roll & romp in the grass is called for. I really can. My appreciation starts to plummet when I saunter over to the grass she's just rolled all over, and discover that she'd in fact rolled all over a fish. Not a scrap of fish or something from the seafood counter at the local grocery store, no, this was an entire fish: tail, gills, eyeballs, mouth, fins and scales. I'm not entirely sure how long it had been there, but it had yet to show any real signs of decomposition.

Shady seemed to think there was no problem with her having just saturated herself with the smell of fish. Dead fish, at that. I'm not even sure what sort of a fish it was, aside from it being small, flat and silver in colour. And so Shady spent part of the day smelling like fish. Ultimately, I had two words to say to her: bath time! She was not impressed. Then again, had it been alive, I doubt the fish would have enjoyed the experience either.

But let's digress, as opposed to digest, since all this talk of dead fish lying on the front lawn for no good reason has robbed me of my appetite. Onwards, to Bogata, Columbia, where someone else had a really...strange midnight craving. Maybe he was pregnant, I don't know.

BOGOTA, Colombia - A suspect swallowed nearly $50,000 in cash in a failed attempt to smuggle the funds out of Colombia, officials said Monday.

Bogota airport police said they X-rayed the suspect because he was acting nervous while preparing to board a flight for Lima, Peru.

The photo showed dozens of latex-wrapped packets inside his stomach and police assumed it was drugs, since such a smuggling technique is used by traffickers.

But as the suspect passed the packages from his body, police discovered they were filled with cash — $47,500.

“We find drugs inside the stomachs of smugglers all the time, but this is the first time we’ve ever found dollars,” the head of Bogota’s airport police, Col. Jorge Luis Vargas, told The Associated Press.

Passengers leaving Colombia can carry up to $10,000 in cash without having to declare it. Police say new anti-money laundering laws have made it more difficult for drug traffickers to send and receive cash, forcing them to adopt the same methods used to smuggle drugs.

Vargas said interrogations of the suspect indicated the money was probably going to be used to pay for a drug shipment.

And as for playing Penguin darts:

http://www.coolegames.com/spelletjes/577-Hit%20the%20pinguin%20(HOT!).html


Today's Lesson: deli-cut pastrami meat will inevitably take over any other smells you might have in your refridgerator. So if you don't mind opening up your fridge and getting your olefactory senses blasted with the scent of pastrami, I highly recommend it.



posted by Phillip at 8:20 AM