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This is friggin hilarious. Some dude passes out drunk in a chair. His buddies decide to sling shot him into a pool but pull back a little too hard on the sling.

PHOENIX (UPI) – An Arizona woman was in the process of reporting her stolen car to the police when she saw the vehicle going by on the street.

Police in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa pursued the car and arrested the driver, the Arizona Republic reported.

“I was speaking with the owner when she saw the vehicle driving down the street,” an officer wrote in his report on the incident.

The driver, Franklin Chad White, allegedly admitted that he stole the car to have a joyride. The owner told police she did not know him and had not given him permission to drive the vehicle.

Copyright 2006 by United Press International

Dear Yahoo!:
What’s the difference between Blu-ray and HD DVD?
Chris
French Lick, Indiana

Dear Chris:
Like the legendary (if lopsided) battle between VHS and Betamax, Blu-ray and HD DVD are each striving to win the next format war. It’s too early to declare a winner, but we can tell you the key differences.

Our sister site Yahoo! Tech explains that HD DVD and Blu-ray are different high-definition DVD formats. Both offer huge visual improvements over the current generation of DVDs and both are getting a lot of press, due in part to video game consoles. The Xbox 360 will eventually support HD DVD and the PlayStation 3 supports Blu-ray. But if you don’t play video games, choosing which horse to back becomes a bit tougher.

More large companies (and studios) currently support Blu-ray than HD DVD, but that’s only one aspect of the war (and one that’s debatable). HD DVD players are generally less expensive than Blu-ray players, and while Blu-ray is believed to be technically superior to HD-DVD (each disc holds more data), its higher price may cause consumers to overlook its specs.

As is the case with most new products, it pays to wait and see. Especially considering an “all in one” player may be on the horizon.

http://ask.yahoo.com/20061019.html

This Thai commercial shows why it is important to always pay your electric and water bill.

Dear Yahoo!:
Are words ever removed from the dictionary?
Trevor
Alliston, Ontario

Dear Trevor:
Dictionaries purge their pages annually, adding new words and getting rid of the obsolete and offensive.

This article from the San Francisco Chronicle explains Merriam-Webster’s process. Because languages are “living things” (metaphorically speaking), changes occur and need to be acknowledged. So, every ten years or so, the wordsmiths work on an updated edition. Hundreds of words (like “snollygoster”) are cut, and even more (like “phat”) are added.

The Oxford Dictionary also reexamines its definitions regularly. This article explains how the meaning of a word can change from year to year. Believe it or not, “nice” once meant silly, lazy, lecherous, and strange. Back in the 1300s, if a man told a woman he was “a nice guy,” the lady was liable to slap him and run the other way (or so we presume).

Scrabble, the English major’s game of choice, recently removed several words from its official dictionary due to their offensive nature. The Anti-Defamation League applauded the move, noting there is “no room on the board for prejudice.”

While some words won’t be missed, many antiquated terms are worth remembering. This list of “lost words” from the Phrontistery serves as a kind of memorial to words left unsaid.

http://ask.yahoo.com/20060630.html

It’s important to remember that whenever your friends ask you to do anything that involves being blindfolded you should always say NO.