I bet Blizzard never saw this coming! Deckard and Griswold are probably rolling over in their graves, unless they're still in some level of hell...

Friday, January 28, 2005

Maybe if they built a big shoe...

Massive cow manure mound burns for third month

MILFORD, Nebraska (AP) -- Urban dwellers who enjoy dining on filet mignon at five-star restaurants would probably just as soon not know about David Dickinson's dilemma.
Bad for the appetite, you know.
But Dickinson, who makes his living in the cattle business, has an environmental problem on his hands that is vexing state officials: a 2,000-ton pile of burning cow manure.
Dickinson owns and manages Midwest Feeding Co. about 20 miles west of Lincoln, which takes in as many as 12,000 cows at a time from farmers and ranchers and fattens them for market.
Byproducts from the massive operation resulted in a dung pile measuring 100 feet long, 30 feet high and 50 feet wide that began burning about two months ago and continues to smolder despite Herculean attempts to douse it.
While city folks might have trouble imagining a dung pile of such proportions, they are common sites in rural states.
In July, crews fighting a blaze in a three-acre manure lagoon at a dairy farm in Washington smothered the flames with more of the same -- a blanket of wet cow manure.
In December, Montana officials ordered the owner of a horse feedlot to extinguish a large manure fire that sent a stench over a nearby town.
The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality has informed Dickinson that his smoldering dung pile violates clean-air laws and is working with him to find the best solution to extinguish it, said agency spokesman Rich Webster.
Simply dumping water on the heap is not the answer, Webster said, because of concerns about runoff to any nearby water source.
Dickinson first tried using heavy equipment to spread out the smoldering pile and extinguish the fire.
"But the problem was, it started in another spot," he said. "We've also had the fire department out a couple of times."
And still it burns.
No one is sure how the fire started, but a common theory is that heat from the decomposing manure deep inside the pile eventually ignited the manure.
Wilma Roth, who manages a restaurant along Interstate 80 about a mile north of the feedlot, said her customers have complained about the smoke, which wafts for miles.
"I'd just as soon forget about it," she said.
Dickinson said the smoke is not particularly malodorous -- although that comes from a man who works full-time around manure.
"I guess it's just all perspective," he said. "To me, it just smells like smoke. I really don't know how to describe it."
Decades ago, most farmers and ranchers kept their own cows and pigs until they were shipped to market and slaughtered into filet mignon, hamburger, pork chops and bacon.
And with all those animals spread far apart at thousands of farms, it was easier to dispose of the manure.
But huge feedlots -- where animals are shipped to fatten on a high-grain diet for their last several months -- have become commonplace.
Dickinson has an average of 12,000 animals on hand, each eating about 25 pounds of feed daily, resulting in as much as nine pounds of manure a day per animal -- some 54 tons every 24 hours.
Most big feedlots spread the manure over farm fields or compost it to spread later or sell commercially to gardeners.
Farmers in several states are experimenting with using the methane gas from livestock manure to produce electricity. The manure is heated and produces methane gas as it breaks down. The gas is collected and used to power a generator, which sends electricity onto a power grid.
Dickinson acknowledged that while some folks see the humor in his predicament, he takes the fire seriously.
"It's a nuisance, and obviously we are trying to get it resolved," he said. "Everybody's been really patient."

Thursday, January 27, 2005

The Holidays Are Over...Get to Work!


Horadrim bloggers, hard at work on the next funny post


Okay, so I've noticed a downturn in Horadrim traffic as of late. I'm going to assume that it has more to do with personal crisis that have spiralled down into drinking and despair, and not actual laziness or distraction by (God forbid) real life. Whatever it is...get over it! You have loyal readers who crave the unique humor of The Horadrim! And when was the last Goatse mention?? Jeez!

Thursday, January 20, 2005

Man Holds Up Sex Shop, Steals Inflatable Doll

Man Holds Up Sex Shop, Steals Inflatable Doll
1 hour, 1 minute ago

Oddly Enough - Reuters
MILAN (Reuters) - He shouldn't be hard to spot.

Police are searching for a pistol-wielding robber who stole female leather bondage gear and an inflatable sex doll from an erotica store in Milan Wednesday.
The clerk at the "Night Shop" speculated that the kinky crook might have been unsatisfied with the payout of his hold-up, which only yielded him about 60 euros ($78).
"There was just a little cash," the clerk, who declined to be named, told Reuters by telephone.
"Then he took some stuff ... an inflatable doll and a leather outfit for a woman," he said.

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

The Perfect Gift for Any Guy

I know you all hate checking links...but this one is well worth it.


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00067F1CE/ref%3Drm%5Fitem/002-698265/002-3982723-8765625


Monday, January 17, 2005

Got a Poll.

OK, do you think it is gay for someone who is an 11 series (Infantry) in the Army to brag about loving to make creme puffs. I would especially like a female point of view on this so make sure Kev drops his 2 cents in please.

Saturday, January 15, 2005

Dear God!

Who thought this up?



Air Force proposal sought gay sex weapon
Fri Jan 14, 8:35 PM ET

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=101&e=11&u=/po/airforceproposalsoughtgaysexweapon

SUMMARY: The Pentagon (news - web sites) once looked into making a weapon that would render enemy troops sexually attracted to one another, according to a document obtained by a watchdog group.

The Pentagon briefly looked into making a weapon that would render enemy troops sexually attracted to one another, according to an official document uncovered by a watchdog group that monitors research into biological and chemical weapons.
The proposed aphrodisiac was part of a weapons development plan circulated in 1994 at the U.S. Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. An outline of the plan was discovered by the Sunshine Project and posted on its Web site.
The six-year plan included development of several "non-lethal" chemical weapons, including one that would inflict "severe and lasting halitosis" in enemy combatants and a "sting me/attack me" chemical that would cause bees to become more aggressive.
The aphrodisiac chemical would be designed to make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. The resulting widespread homosexual behavior, the proposal suggests, would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal blow" to morale.
A spokesman for the Department of Defense (news - web sites) stressed that the 1994 outline was strictly a proposal that was never approved.
"None of the systems, including the alleged sex bomb, have been developed, nor were they ever considered up for development," Lt. Col. Barry Venable told the PlanetOut Network on Friday.
The proposal estimated that the cost of the project over six years would top $7 million.
Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project said he has seen several dozen similar military weapons proposals, but this 1994 Air Force plan was the only one he knew about that specifically addressed an anti-gay weapon. He added, however, that the sentiment behind the proposed weapon is not uncommon in the military.
"Humiliating your enemy with gay sex sounds a lot like what happened at Abu Ghraib," Hammond said, referring to the prisoner abuse scandal that was uncovered last year in Iraq (news - web sites).
Steve Ralls, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), said, "It is a homophobic and delusional proposition for the Pentagon to assume a gay opponent is any less formidable than a straight one."
Ralls also said that the SLDN, which is fighting the U.S. military's ban on openly gay military personnel, would look into the matter and would consider asking Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to repudiate the proposal.
If you'd like to know more, you can find stories related to Air Force proposal sought gay sex weapon.

Thursday, January 13, 2005

Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't clap!

Hope I get to see this ep.

'Ali G' Comedian Risks Riot at U.S. Rodeo
33 minutes ago

Entertainment - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen escaped a near-riot at an American rodeo while filming his satirical "Da Ali G Show."

According to a report in the Roanoke (North Carolina) Times, a man who was introduced as Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan -- in reality a Cohen character named Borat -- appeared at the rodeo over the weekend after organizers agreed to have him sing the national anthem.
After telling the crowd he supported America's war on terrorism, he said, "I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq (news - web sites), down to the lizards ... And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq." He then sang a garbled version of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
The Roanoke Times reported that the crowd turned "downright nasty." One observer said "If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him."
Cohen and his film crew were escorted out of the Salem Civic Center and told to leave the premises.
"Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot," rodeo producer Bobby Rowe told the paper. "They loaded up the van and they screeched out of there."
It is not the first time Cohen has wooed controversy with his show, which airs on Channel 4 in the UK and on HBO in the United States. In one episode last year, Borat sang an anti-Semitic song called "Throw the Jew Down the Well" at a U.S. country music bar, prompting protests from the U.S-based Anti-Defamation League.
Producers of the Ali G show, Talkback Thames, were unavailable for comment.


Monday, January 10, 2005

I can't get in to post comments

Every time I log in it just takes me back to the login screen over and over again. Is anyone else having this problem?


Silence will suffice as an affirmative, I guess.

This is pathetic...

There haven't been any posts or comments on here or TWM for a week! Get on it guys! There's only so many goatse and LOTR porn pictures Alex and I can post.

Sunday, January 02, 2005

The "merry" elves of LOTR


WTF...no!!


Not quite enough to ruin the movies for me, but close...