Non-football related stuff that really makes your day

[Panoptes]

Fun fact: Denver has more dispensaries than hamburger places

I surmised that the surge in (lame) cupcake shops (seems like 10 years ago in CA) was tied to the legalization of medical marijuana. Now it's recreational but cupcake shops, at least around here, appear to have gone the way of the dinosaur.

No one wants a $4 cupcake that tastes like it came from a box. Plus, I don't eat frosting so it was a total waste.

Now, if the donut shops learned to stay open late...

[froot loops]

You're a tough customer

[bimmer84]

Actually Deb, the building was purchased by an intense competitor of the guy who bought the building next to me. The guy next to me thought my building was included in the sale of the building he bought in foreclosure and was pissed when he found out the plans he had drawn up to renovate the building would not work because he did not own my building. He approached me to purchase it asking for me to "give him a number" I gave it to him and he laughed at me telling me I was stupid thinking the building was worth that much. When I explained to him that it was not just a building it was also my life and if he wanted it he would have to pay more than just his perceived value, he laughed at me and called me a crazy jackass.

Another guy came in afterward and insisted he had a guy that wanted to buy my building. I sent him packing telling him the building had more value to me than the real estate value. He asked me to throw down a number. I did and he jumped on it. I learned at the closing he is an arch rival of the guy that owns the building next to me and he previously had purchased all the other buildings on the block except for both of the buildings surrounding me.

I was faced with the decision of closing down or finding another location to do business out of and I decided after 49 years, I no longer wanted the responsibility of having to be available 7 days a week 365 days a year.

Loved not having to make one Christmas centerpiece this year!

Congrat's on the retirement Mark!! It sounds like it worked out in your favor. Plus. . . .you sold to the jerk's arch-rival. A Two-fer!

[Trickalicious]

What's he got against arches?

[Malto Marko]

Congrat's on the retirement Mark!! It sounds like it worked out in your favor. Plus. . . .you sold to the jerk's arch-rival. A Two-fer!

[Panoptes]

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Winning a slot hand pay ($1,604.00) for well more than we took to the Indian, sorry, Native American casino, for some comped room bday fun for my wife made our day.

'Silla, bring me some of them red and blue pills. Homina, homina.

Thank you Tachi Palace and of course, ELVIS!

[jaadam4]

Nice Gonz! Good for you bro!

[Malto Marko]

[Panoptes]

I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying...

[jaadam4]

You got me too. No matter how many of those I see they always turn me into a baby. That was a good one

[DanO]

Same here jaadam. Love those.

[Panoptes]

With Mike So-so (Scoscia) now out of the picture in Angels baseball land, we can enjoy watching some games again.

Thank you T-mobile for again providing subscribers with a FREE membership to MLB.TV (for the 3rd consecutive year).

PLAY BALL!

[FVD]

Suspected rhino poacher is killed by an elephant and then eaten by lions in South Africa


By Livvy Doherty, CNN

Updated at 9:24 AM ET, Sun April 7, 2019


Only a skull and a pair of trousers remained after a suspected rhino poacher was killed by an elephant and then eaten by lions in Kruger National Park, South African National Parks said.
The incident happened after the man entered the park with four others to target rhinos, according to a parks service statement released Friday.
His family were notified of his death late Tuesday by his fellow poachers, and a search party led by Kruger's regional manager, Don English, set out to recover the body. Rangers scoured on foot and police flew over the area, but due to failing light, it could not be found.
The search resumed Thursday morning and, with the help of added field rangers, what was left of his body was discovered.
"Indications found at the scene suggested that a pride of lions had devoured the remains leaving only a human skull and a pair of pants," the statement said.
Glenn Phillips, the managing executive of Kruger National Park, extended his condolences to the man's family.
"Entering Kruger National Park illegally and on foot is not wise, it holds many dangers and this incident is evidence of that," he warned. "It is very sad to see the daughters of the deceased mourning the loss of their father, and worse still, only being able to recover very little of his remains."
The four individuals who joined the illegal hunt were arrested Wednesday by the South African Police Service, and officers continue to investigate what happened.
The African rhino is targeted for its horn because of the belief among some who practice Eastern medicine that the horn has benefits as an aphrodisiac, making it more valuable than cocaine in parts of the world.
Of special concern is the black rhino, which is considered critically endangered after its population tumbled from about 65,000 to 1970 to 2,400 in 1995, according to Kruger National Park. Conservation efforts have since boosted their numbers, and the world's remaining 5,000 or so black rhinoslive predominantly in South Africa, Namibia, Kenya and Zimbabwe.
In 2016, there were between 349 and 465 black rhinos living at Kruger and between 6,600 and 7,800 white rhinos, who also suffer from poaching, South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs said.
Kruger is considered an intensive protection zone, and the government employs a range of resources to deter poaching, including aircraft, dogs, special rangers and an environmental crime investigation unit.
Of the 680 poaching and trafficking arrests made in 2016 by South Africa Police Services, 417 were in and around Kruger, the department said. In September, the department announced that six men -- including two syndicate leaders, two police officers and a former police officer -- had been arrested for trafficking in rhino horns.

[jaadam4]

[edindetroit]

So he was trampled by Elephants , eaten by Lions, crapped out by Lions and the crap will fertilize the plants in the park. Bet he didn't think that's what his community service would be.