Phil Meloy

Paul is this available on CD?

Apparently a law in Fairbanks, Alaska does not allow moose to have intimate relations with one another on city streets.

The British are coming! Underwater bike ride to launch students' eight-week crime spree Gerard Seenan Saturday February 26, 2005 The Guardian As US coast-to-coast crimewaves go, it is not in the league of Bonnie and Clyde. It lacks both violence and avarice and is further hindered by an overabundance of pre-publicity. Undeterred, a couple of students from Cornwall are intent on making American criminal history by spending their summer breaking as many US laws as possible. Starting in the liberal state of California, they hope to evade the attention of local police officers when they ride a bike in a swimming pool and curse on a crazy-golf course. In the far more conservative - and landlocked - state of Utah, they will risk the penitentiary when they hire a boat and attempt to go whale-hunting. If they manage to outwit state troopers in Utah, and perhaps federal agents on their trail, they will be able to take a deserved, but nevertheless illegal, rest when they have a nap in a cheese factory in South Dakota. "There are thousands of stupid laws in the United States, but we are limiting ourselves to breaking about 45 of them," said Richard Smith, from Portreath, Cornwall. The journey, which appropriately enough begins in Alcatraz, will cover around 18,000 miles and take eight weeks - provided, of course, that Mr Smith and his accomplice, Luke Bateman, are not apprehended along the way. Mr Smith got the idea for his transatlantic crime wave while playing a board game called Balderdash with his 12-year-old neighbour. One of the game's questions asks players to complete the phrase: "It is illegal in Florida for a widow to ... " The answer is to parachute on a Sunday. However, as he is not female and has not lost a husband, Mr Smith will be un able to pay homage to his inspiration. Still, there are many more laws to choose from. "I looked on various websites, one in particular called dumblaws.com, and found loads of stupid laws. Some of them there are outmoded reasons for, others just seem to be ridiculous, like banning whale-hunting in a landlocked state," he said. Mr Smith has made some preparations for his criminality - although he thinks the cheese factory owner in South Dakota wasn't taking him entirely seriously - but in other states he admits there will be difficulties in transgressing the law. "Driving round the town square 100 times in Oxford, Mississippi, is going to take for ever because there are no roundabouts," he said. "And I'm rubbish at walking on my hands so crossing the street in Hartford, Connecticut, while walking on them is going to be very difficult." He is attempting to negotiate a book deal, which could help pay any fines he incurs. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1425731,00.html

Obviously, Gary is the real WMD! Absolutely - especially when you consider he was only 12 at the time. A few years later he graduated to beer and continued to amaze the world with outstanding feats of endurance.

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Happy birthday Garth.

Happy birtthday Al.

I reckon my mate Gary could have a decent crack at that burger. When I was a kid in Australia Coca-Cola used to put on contests down the local milk bar to see which kid in the district could drink the most large bottles of Coke. Hundreds of kids would enter the competion but our mate Gary used to win all the time - his record was seven large bottles of Coke. The nearest anyone ever got to him was five. The gas build up would really get to 'em after a while. Didn't seem to bother Gary though. Only problem was that Gary really liked Coca Cola and it used to really piss him off that they'd stop the competition and wouldn't let him drink anymore free Coke just because all the other kids had started vomiting or passed out or were just rolling round the floor clutching their guts in agony. I don't suppose Coca Cola would get away with it these days. Gary also won the "smallest number of bites to eat a large burger contest." He did it in one bite. We had to sorta help him out by peeling his lips round the rim of the burger bun with our fingers to get it in his mouth in one piece but the judges said this was OK as he hadn't actually bitten into the burger at that stage. BTW they didn't actually run the burger contest on the same day as the Coke contest but I really don't think it would have bothered Gary too much if they had done.

Happy birthday for yesterday Wesbed.

Happy birthday Paul.

This is pretty much the case with me. Here's one I forgot to mention previously. "McCoy Tyner - Live at the Musicians Exchange Cafe, Fort Lauderdale, USA" (1987) with Avery Sharpe and Louis Hayes.

Likewise- only I get them from US banks (supposedly) also.

I forgot about that one, maybe because I was into that in my teen years, before I really got serious about jazz. I had no idea who Les, Eddie, Benny Bailey, etc were at the time... just thought it was groovy. B-) Ditto. Maybe the first jazz album I ever bought. Me too. This was the first jazz album I purchased. Just like to add a couple of live solo piano things Dollar Brand - "African Piano" (which I think has already been mentioned) and Keith Jarrett - "Vienna Concert" also Chick Corea/Gary Burton "Live in Zurich".

Strangely enough there doesn't seem to be a thread on "favourite live jazz albums" so I've been prompted to start one by a particular CD which I've only had for a couple of weeks but it has immediately become one of my favorite live albums if not one of my favourute albums period. I didn't even know this recording existed until a short while ago when I stumbled across it on a site in South Africa which deals only in South African music. It's a recording of the late Moses Taiwa Molelekwa (piano) performing live in Nantes withs his quartet at the Fin de siecle Festival in 1997 in a converted warehouse called Tour a Plomb. The CD includes six original tunes, most of which appear on his studio releases but as much shorter versions than when performed live on this recording. The other musicians are fellow South Africans - Kaya Mahlangu (tenor/sopranu/flute), Fana Zulu (bass) and Sello Montwedi (drums). If you like South African jazz this is a great album. If you don't like South African jazz there's a good chance you will after listening to this CD. Anyway this is my favourite. What's yours?

Same here - haven't been able to access for the last eight hours.

Even I got that far Allen.

Good God Tony! This is even more gruesome than my story.

Wait. There's more to this story. The Anchorage Daily News reports.... ASSAULT: Wastewater worker retrieves organ from toilet; police rush it to surgeons who reattach it. by ANNE AURAND Anchorage Daily News Surgeons reattached an Anchorage man's penis over the weekend after his girlfriend, apparently upset over a pending breakup, cut it off with a kitchen knife, Anchorage police said Sunday. A city wastewater utility worker recovered the penis from a toilet down which the woman had flushed it. It was rushed to Providence Alaska Medical Center, where doctors performed reattachment surgery early Sunday morning, according to police reports Police said the knife attack occurred during an argument involving the 44-year-old man wanting out of the relationship. The woman drove the man to the hospital after the attack. Police arrested Kim Tran, 35, Sunday morning at the bloodied home where the attack occurred. She was arraigned Sunday afternoon on charges of domestic violence assault and tampering with evidence and remains in jail with no bail set. Neither drugs nor alcohol was involved in the attack, but it did involve a triangle of relationships, according to police spokeswoman Anita Shell. The man, whom police would not identify, was married to Tran's aunt, Shell said. All three had lived together for a while, during which time Tran and the man had a relationship for at least a year, Shell said. The man moved out of the home on Moose Run Circle sometime recently, but Tran and the aunt still live together, she said. "The aunt was aware of the relationship, and it was causing problems," Shell said. She would not release the aunt's name. Police don't know where the aunt was when the assault occurred, she said. The man wanted to break up with Tran, but the woman resisted that idea, Shell said. The two were arguing about the issue sometime before midnight Saturday, but at some point they decided to have sex. After he allowed Tran to tie his arms to the window handle above the bed, she pulled the kitchen knife and severed his penis, Shell said. The man's testicles remained attached, she said. Tran flushed the penis down the toilet, untied the man and drove him to the hospital, according to police reports. She parked in a no-parking zone while she walked into the emergency room with the victim, who was conscious and able to walk, but shaking and in shock, Shell said. After finding a nurse, Tran said she was leaving to move her car but drove home instead, Shell said. Police rushed to the home and found her cleaning up the bloody scene. A trail of blood stretched through the house, Shell said. Police got the details about what had happened to the penis. They summoned the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility to see if it could be recovered AWWU pulled the toilet from the base, tipped it into the tub and it fell out," Shell said. The penis had been lodged in the "S" curve of the toilet for more than two hours. Officials put it on ice and drove it to the emergency room. The AWWU worker who was summoned to the scene declined to be interviewed Sunday. AWWU general manager Mark Premo said utility staff work around the clock to be available for emergencies. Around 6 a.m., about six hours after the knife attack, hospital officials said the surgery was successful, according to police reports. A hospital spokeswoman would not discuss anything about the case or the patient Sunday. Shell said she's never heard of such a case here. In fact, she doesn't know of it ever happening except for the famous Lorena Bobbitt case in 1993 in Virginia Bobbitt cut off her abusive husband's penis, then drove away and flung it out her car window. The penis was located and reattached. But Bobbitt claimed she had been raped and abused, and Shell said physical abuse did not appear to be a part of the Anchorage case. This was, if anything, more of a mental anguish," Shell said. The surgery used to reattach a penis is the same kind of surgery used to reattach a severed finger but far less common, said Dr. Sarah Troxel, a local plastic surgeon. The procedure is called micro-vascular surgery, and it requires reattaching blood vessels, the urethra and other parts under a microscope. She went through training for microsurgery at Stanford With fingers, "if the blood vessels take, and the finger doesn't die ... with a good surgeon and a clean cut, it's not unusual that they survive." But in the case of penises, she said, the function of the urethra after the surgery could be a problem. I'd say it's more likely that it might not work very well," she said.

I still need mine. But I don't need to read about all the adventures of others I doubt it if this guy considered it much of an adventure Brownie.

It actually took place in Anchorage, Alaska Jim. I don't know what kind off toilets they have in Alaska but it appears that the man was the woman's uncle who she was having an affair with. The story ran on the news in Anchorage. Here is another report from Channel 2 News, Anchorage with more details... Woman accused of mutilating uncle Monday, February 21, 2005 - Kim Tran, 35, is charged with first-degree assault, tampering with evidence, and second-degree sexual assault for an incident Saturday night. Police say Tran and her aunt’s husband had been having an affair, which he wanted to end. Court documents say Tran tied him up, cut off his penis and threw it down the toilet.

No sticker boxes for me. I struggle like hell to get those damn things off, so I usually just ball up the multiple and shit can them. They're actually quite easy to get off catesta - from memory I think it was somebody on this board who first told me the trick. All you do is unhinge the CD cover at the bottom, lift it upwards and over and peel the sticker from the casing. Then just peel the sticker from the cover. It literally takes seconds.

Man's penis flushed down the loo A man had to have his penis sewn back on after his girlfriend cut it off and flushed it down the loo. Kim Tran, from Anchorage, Alaska reportedly persuaded him to let her tie his arms to a windowsill for kinky sex after a row about breaking up. She then grabbed a kitchen knife and cut off his manhood reports The Sun. Water board workers had to dismantle the loo to find his penis, which surgeons reattached. The 35-year-old woman is in custody. Her boyfriend, 44, was not identified.

"The Missouri Connection" - Jay McShann/John Hicks This is a set of piano duets.

Yeah sal rents tend to be pretty high in the south east of England in general but you can still find reasonable deals if you look around. One good tip as regards commuting is when considering where to live make sure you avoid having to drive on the M25 to get to work. Officially named the London Orbital - nicknamed the 'Road to Hell', and frequently derided as nothing more than a very big car park, this is London's outermost beltway, the world's biggest ring road. The M25 runs completely around London and is to be avoided at all costs. Both Hemel Hemstead and Sunbury lie just outside it. To reach them from London by car you really want to be crossing the M25 rather than driving around it.