Hey Folks, How are you tonight? We are coming to you tonight from high atop Silverhorn Mountain, where a bunch of us crazy Silverhorners have climbed in order to watch the Space Shuttle Discovery as it flies by our humble mountain on it's way to outer space. So far we've had quite a few false alarms, old Conrad thought he saw it, but it turned out to be a fast flying eagle, and Billy Partridge from the other side of Silverhorn Lake shouted when he mistook the sun for the afterburners of the shuttle. Billy is at the hospital now where a team of doctors are trying to do something about the burns to his retinas. The rest of us here on Silverhorn Mountain, aren't that stupid, we know looking at the shuttle with the naked eye is dangerous, so we followed the warnings we had found on the back of a cereal box about watching a solar eclipse. We all have the bottom of pop bottles duct taped over our eyes. Unfortunately, looking at the sky through pop bottle bottoms might be ok, looking at the ground is not so good. Three members of our party fell off the side of the mountain, after getting to close to the edge. Apparently pop bottle bottoms should have a warning...."Objects seen through the bottom of this bottle may be closer than they appear." Sometimes I wonder how smart the so called 'experts' really are.....for the life of me I can't see what good taping the bottom of a clear plastic pop bottle over your face does to save your eyes.......... The guy on the radio said the Shuttle lifted off from Cape Canaveral with 7 crew members on board and apparently 4 rolls of duct tape just in case the little crack in the fuel tank becomes an issue. Officials decided it was ok for the launch to go ahead despite the crack in the insulation. A spokesperson said it was a tough decision for the 'officials' who I might add, were not the ones getting in the shuttle and blasting off into outer space with a leaky gas tank... On another follow up note, our boy Joey Chestnut, who will remember was going for a world record and a championship title at the Coney Island hotdog eating contest fell short by 2.75 hotdogs. Poor Joey, who is an engineering student from San Jose (I told you last night how to pronounce it) California, only managed to stuff 52 hotdogs into his 220 pound frame. Joey lost to Takeru Kobayashi, a 160 pound fella from Japan who put away 53.75 hotdogs in 12 minutes. The space shuttle actually took longer to get into orbit....Takeru's secret appeared to be dipping his dogs in soda pop before wolfing them down. Congratulations Takeru ! We will have to have you over to the Lodge some night for a barbecue..........................right after we win the lottery. One thing about having Takeru over for supper, he always cleans his plate and he doesn't stay long........ So, what else have our diligent team of researchers come up with? Well, let see, what we got. Oh yes, someone has come up with the idea that weighting children's toys will help young kids to get exercise and build up their muscles. Cool, now all the little kids are gonna start beefing up so they can beat up us old fat guys.... Anyway...it seems that someone in Berlin, where the World Cup Soccer match is happening, thought this would be a good idea. So they filled a couple of soccer balls with cement, and then talked unsuspecting soccer fans into giving the ball a kick.......it didn't do much for building up muscles, but the kids did get lots of exercise running away...... A blonde goes to the doctor and complains that she hurts all over her body. The doctor asks her to show him, so she touches her nose and screams, then she touches her knee and screams and touches her shoulder and screams, the doctor looks at her and says..."It's not too bad, you have a broken index finger.......... Well I gotta go, Marcello just hollared that he sees the Shuttle coming on the other side of the mountain, we gotta get over there to wave as it goes by..........we even have a banner we are going to hold up...unfortunately it got torn on the trip up the mountain, it used to say "Good Luck Crew of Discovery" But after it got ripped and we duct taped it back together it nows says..."GOOD UCK WOF IS OVER We're sure they will know what we mean.........
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A new exhibit at Coney Island shows the act of waterboarding. But if you can't make it to Coney Island to experience that level of torture, there's always New Jersey.
