Looks like and end to all the shenanigans...

Bennigan's, Steak & Ale Close, 
File for Bankruptcy Protection

By JEFFREY MCCRACKEN and JANET ADAMY
July 29, 2008 12:47 p.m.

National restaurant chains Bennigan's and Steak & Ale have closed their doors and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, shuttering more than 300 locations and letting go of thousands of employees.

It is one of the country's largest restaurant bankruptcies and eliminates two sit-down chains that have been part of the casual-dining landscape for decades. The chains will liquidate and aren't likely to re-open.

Late Monday, managers at Bennigan's and Steak & Ale were told not to open restaurants the next day, according to two people familiar with the matter. Employees were told there wouldn't be enough money to pay them for the rest of the week, these people said.

Only Tchochkies and Flingers remain

a long wait for no pretzel!

Mr. Kamikaze waits patiently for the concession stand operators to pull their heads out of their butts.
Unfortunately, I think we're all still waiting.

I don't care, I still want one.

Crayon Disobedience

(Seen on a gas pump at my local Arco gas station.)

It's the little things that make me smile.




-Mr DNA (would like to smile more)

Thanks For Spoiling the Ending. :'(

Cheese Friday™ : It's the 4th of July!

What ever happened I apologize
so dry your tears, and baby
walk outside, it's the Fourth of July

-Mr. DNA

As it turns out, you CAN live without your cup of overpriced coffee

Image source: Kieron Dwyer, http://www.illegal-art.org/ .

Starbucks to Close 600 Stores, May Cut 12,000 Jobs

By Duane D. Stanford and Joseph Galante

July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Starbucks Corp. will close 600 U.S. coffee shops and eliminate as many as 12,000 jobs, the most in its history, as Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz slows the chain's expansion after it doubled in size in four years...

...Starbucks' sales and earnings have declined as cash- strapped consumers facing record gasoline prices pull back on gourmet coffee and other luxuries. The company still plans to open 200 other company-owned stores through September 2009.

At first I thought it was funny.
But then I thought about all the real people who may be out of a job.
It made me sad.

So I've decided to pretend that Starbucks only employs evil robots.
Ha ha! Suck it evil robots and your overpaid mechanized overlords!



-Mr. DNA (likes nice robots)

DANCE BREAK

Give us 2:59 and we'll give you the world.*

*World not included.

Cheese Friday™ : Etymology of Cheese

From Wikipedia.org

"The origin of the word cheese appears to be the Latin caseus,^[2] from which the modern word casein is closely derived. The earliest source is probably from the proto-Indo-European root *kwat-, which means "to ferment, become sour".

In the English language, the modern word cheese comes from chese (in Middle English) and cīese or cēse (in Old English). Similar words are shared by other West Germanic languages — West Frisian tsiis, Dutch kaas, German Käse, Old High German chāsi — all of which probably come from the reconstructed West-Germanic root *kasjus, which in turn is an early borrowing from Latin.

The Latin word caseus is also the source from which are derived the Spanish queso, Portuguese queijo, Malay/Indonesian Language keju (a borrowing from the Portuguese word queijo), Romanian caş and Italian cacio.

The Celtic root which gives the Irish cáis and the Welsh caws are also related.

When the Romans began to make hard cheeses for their legionaries' supplies, a new word started to be used: formaticum, from caseus formatus, or "molded cheese". It is from this word that we get the French fromage, Italian formaggio, Catalan formatge, Breton fourmaj and Provençal furmo. Cheese itself is occasionally employed in a sense that means "molded" or "formed". Head cheese uses the word in this sense."

There won't be a test later, but you should still pay attention.

Only learning things that, "are on the test", may not be the best philosophy in the long run.

Knowledge purely for self enrichment is a nice thing to have in our lives.

-Mr. DNA (doesn't always answer "C")

The Smart Patrol goes political

Supreme Court Backs Right to Bear Arms

Dick Anthony Heller (R), 66, an armed security guard, speaks outside the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C. USA on 26 June 2008. The court handed down a decision today upholding the right of individual American citizens to own firearms for self-defense and hunting. Heller sued the District of Columbia for the right to keep a gun in his home. EPA/STEFAN ZAKLIN

Somewhere Charlton Heston's hairpiece is smiling.



We now return you to our regularly scheduled programing...

-Mr. DNA