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Times sure have change. Lets take a walk down memory lane and compare the good old days to now.

Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack of his truck.

1973: Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack’s rifle, goes to his truck and gets his to show Jack.

2007: School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1973: Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends.

2007: Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario: Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.

1973: Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.

2007: Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping.

1973: Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2007: Billy’s Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy’s sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has affair with psychologist.

Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.

1973: Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.

2007: Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

1973: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2007: Pedro’s cause is taken up by state democratic party. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can’t speak English.

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.

1973: Ants die.

2007: BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him.

1973: In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2007: Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.

Found this at Insane.com

Adam General

Some of you may notice this site is looking a little different these days. I’ve been playing around with it a lot, trying to make it look pretty. It’s not done yet, but I’m getting there slowly.

One new item I’ve added, which I think is cool, is the ability to add you avatar when you comment. The downside is that you have to register first… Wait, that’s not a downside, that’s a good thing!

If you have any suggestions, or something you’d like to see, just leave a comment with or without registering.

Enjoy Just Whatever!

Adam General

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Adam General

Just Whatever has gone through a little update today, which includes a whole new look thanks to the Mandigo Theme.

If you notice anything not working quite right, please let me know by sending an email to just.adam@gmail.com

Now go and enjoy the goodness!

Adam General

Check out this amazing photo of the Helix Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope!

The thumbnail doesn’t do it justice, so you can either see a big version, or the massive version

Here is what NASA has to say about it…

NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula
Will our Sun look like this one day? The Helix Nebula is the closest example of a planetary nebula created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star. The outer gasses of the star expelled into space appear from our vantage point as if we are looking down a helix. The remnant central stellar core, destined to become a white dwarf star, glows in light so energetic it causes the previously expelled gas to fluoresce. The Helix Nebula, given a technical designation of NGC 7293, lies about 650 light-years away towards the constellation of Aquarius and spans about 2.5 light-years. The above picture is a composite of newly released images from the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope and wide-angle images from the Mosaic Camera on the WIYN 0.9-m Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. A close-up of the inner edge of the Helix Nebula shows complex gas knots of unknown origin.

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This site is just awesome!

Go check out Elf Yourself by Office Max, where you can add your own face and voice to a dancing elf.

Trust me, it’s great!

Adam Funny, General

It may not be nice to laugh at midgets, but when they fight like this you really can’t help but have a slight chuckle.

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I absolutely despise Paris Hilton, so when I come across a story like this I just have to share.

Paris’ “music” is so bad, even she throws up when she hears it!

From the Irish Examiner

Hilton vomits while attempting to sing own song

Paris Hilton shocked revellers at a Las Vegas nightclub when she got up to perform but ended up vomiting on stage instead.

Singer Joshua Radin was among the guests who went to a nightclub to hear rapper Shawn Jay-Z Carter perform and found himself sitting next to the socialite-turned-singer.

Radin writes on his MySpace page: “Paris Hilton was sitting next to me the whole night. Seriously, next to me, like our legs were touching for a good five hours.

“Now don’t get the wrong idea. She never once said hello, nor even looked in my direction. Five hours. And it was unreal to watch.

“She must have pulled a compact out of her bag every six minutes to stare at herself and pose while Jay-Z was performing eighteen inches from us.”

Radin writes that when Jay-Z left the stage: “Paris, who had been swilling straight vodka from (a) Grey Goose bottle for hours, gets up on stage, has the people in charge throw her ‘record’ on the house stereo for her to lip sync two of her songs. She gets up on the stage, pukes, leaves…”

Source

Adam Funny, General

This is a lovely letter from a senior citizen to a school thanking them for her radio.

I believe it was printed in an Australian newspaper. Check out the clipping or read the transcript below.

• The following letter was forwarded by someone who teaches at a small high school in country Queensland. The letter was sent to the principal’s office after the school had sponsored a luncheon for the elderly. This story is a credit to all human kind. Read it, soak it in, and bask in the warm feeling that it leaves you with…

  Dear School,

  God bless you for the beautiful radio I won at your recent senior citizen’s luncheon.

  I’m 94 years old and live at the local Community Home for the Aged. My family has long since passed away and I rarely have visitors. As a result, I have very limited contact with the outside world. This makes your gift especially welcome.

  My roommate, Maggie Cook, has had her own radio for as long as I’ve known her. She listens to it all the time, though usually with an earplug or with the volume so low, I can’t hear it. For some reason, she has never wanted to share it.

  Last Sunday morning, while listening to her morning gospel programs, she accidentally knocked her radio off its shelf. It smashed into many pieces, and caused her to cry. It was so sad.

  Fortunately, I had my new radio. Knowing this, Maggie asked if she could listed to mine. I told her to fuck off.

  God bless you.

  Sincerely, Edna Johnson

Adam Funny, General

If you wanna blame anyone for the tardiness of the fourth “Indiana Jones” film – a film many predict may never happen, if only because its been off and on more times than a kettle – you can probably take aim at George Lucas.

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