Categotry Archives: From the Mail Bag
fwd: 2010 Darwin Awards
You’ve been waiting for them with bated breath, so without further ado here are the 2010 Darwin awards. 8th Place In Detroit , a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys. 7th Place A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who “totally zoned when he ran”, accidentally, jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run. 6th Place While at the beach, Daniel […]
Fwd: Going Somewhere?
This is from the email called Fwd: Russia in Winter. I guess I should stop complaining about the lack of road care here.
13 from Fwd: Russia in Winter
On Mondays I post something I call From the Mailbag. It’s generally the kind of stuff you find in a forwarded email. For example, these:
Fwd: Iced Over
You all have probably heard more belly aching about the weather from me than you want. It really is icy here. But I can’t compete with this. This is from a forwarded email called Fwd:Winter in Russia. It was a long email. I’m breaking it into three parts.
Fwd: POOF and the light goes off
An 86-year-old man goes for a physical. All of his test results come back normal. The doctor says, ” Gary everything looks great. How are you doing mentally and emotionally? Are you at peace with God?” Gary replies, “God and I are tight. He knows I have poor eyesight, so he’s fixed it so when I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, *poof* the light goes on. When I’m done, *poof* the light […]
Fwd: Aircraft Crashes into Four Buildings
Brace yourself before looking at the image below. A pilot at low level has no control over his aircraft. It narrowly misses a crowd gathered for the airshow and slams into four buildings. One can only imagine the horror of the occupants inside those buildings. Gives new meaning to the phrase “oh s—t!”
Fwd: Olympic Tower 2016
Olympic Tower 2016… for Rio de Janeiro This vertical structure will be placed in Cotonduba Island. It will be both a observation Tower, and a welcome sign for the visitors arriving by air and by sea at Rio de Janeiro, where the Olympic Games 2016 will take place. The project is from Zurique, and utilizes solar energy during the day with its solo power panels, to pump the sea water as seen in the model. The movement of the water […]
