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The Buzz Blog

November 13, 2009

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Don Draper smokes over dinner in “Mad Men.”

Mind if I smoke?

Posted at 12:01 am by Jon Bauer, Herald staff

For the first time in 15 years, the smoking rate in the United States rose slightly, to 21 percent in 2008, up from 19.8 percent the year before.

While the news is discouraging for health officials, it should be noted that the increase likely wasn't among the general U.S. population but solely among the cast of AMC's “Mad Men.”

What about calling AAA? One of NASA's Mars rovers has been stuck in the red planet's sand since April, but engineers say they have devised a solution to free the six-wheeled probe. Basically the plan is this: Put it in “D” and hope for the best.

See, this is why manual transmissions are a better choice; they're easier to rock back and forth when you're stuck.

Give that man a Guinness: A British man has broken the world record for pulling a double-decker bus with his hair after failing to set the record for pulling the bus with his ears.

NASA quickly hired the 59-year-old man and, if its first plan doesn't work, will send him to Mars to pull the stuck rover from the sand.

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I'm not 100% convinced that smokers actually count as humans...
and praise Him for I am not only one questioning their status as one of us.
If you are a lifelong non-smoker (must have NEVER USED tobacco products), STD free, heterosexual, HWP, college graduate (some Bible study credit may be given on a case-by-case basis), that leans dramatically in favor of those that are Right, please come join our friendly and fun group, A.S.H. Association for Smokers Humiliation, to find out what you can do beat this lowlives back into their holes from which they crawled. Vile, just a vile group of 'people', those smokers.

http://web.me.com/jennisiri/Snarky/The_Blog/Entries/2009/5/26_A.S.H._Quarterly_Newsletter%3A_Smokers_Still_Have_Rights!.html
Kala Martin | Nov 13, 2009 2:57 pm | 0 replies | View all | Post reply | Request removal