So apparently there was once a female Charlie Brown named Charlotte Braun, but she wasn’t very popular and Schulz wasn’t happy with her. That didn’t stop him, however, from responding to a letter criticizing her by telling an irate letter writer that “you and your friends will have the death of an innocent child on your conscience” and then drawing a picture of Braun with an axe in her head. (Via)
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In Today’s He Shouldn’t Have a Gun News
From the PiPress: A Duluth native is facing felony assault and attempted manslaughter charges in Greeley, Colo., for allegedly shooting a friend in the head while the two checked football scores on a home computer. …
According to the Greeley Tribune, Pollard, who told police he had about six beers and a couple of shots of alcohol at a bar and another beer when he got home, had taken the handgun and pointed it at Knorr. Pollard told police he thought the safety was on as he pulled the trigger once and it just clicked, the Greeley Tribune reported. So he pulled the trigger again, shooting Knorr.
Latest comment — baker: What is that little quip supposed to mean? Explain.
Crime Excuse of the Week
From the Strib: A 25-year-old mother of four fatally shot the children’s father in the back of the head in their northern Minnesota home and then tried to pin some of the blame on their 3-year-old son before confessing, according to charges filed Monday.
My favorite part of the story is that she then went to Mizpah to find a new father for her children. Is there some sort of father store in Mizpah?
Latest comment — justpbob: Mizpah, huh? Sounds like a Jewish bedbug.
Target’s Illegal Alien Problem
The problem is a costume they put up on their Web page showing a space alien holding a green card. Some call it offensive. Some think it’s funny. Target says it was a mistake.
And now, as City Pages points out, some want to use it for political purposes.
Latest comment — kwatt: Gotcha.
What the?
Is something a little different about MnSpeak today?
Latest comment — justpbob: Go get 'em, Douglas! Put white stripper boots on Michael Steele and make him dance! Have him ride a fainty goat!
An Unexpected Use for a Medtronic Device
A fellow went into a Florida emergency room with a bullet hole in his chest, but was released the next, fairly uninjured. How? The Medtronic Defibrillator in his chest stopped the bullet: “Another way defibrillators prevent sudden death,” Fisher wrote. “It seems they can stop bullets.”
Latest comment — Random Cowboy: Or was it a much cleverer way to kill, since it must have broke the defib?
Today in Bachmann news
I don’t even know what to say about this, so I’ll just offer the quote, in entirety: And as a matter of fact, the bill goes on to say what’s going to go on — comprehensive primary health services, physicals, treatment of minor acute medical conditions, referrals to follow-up for specialty care — is that abortion? Does that mean that someone’s 13 year-old daughter could walk into a sex clinic, have a pregnancy test done, be taken away to the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus that night? Mom and dad are never the wiser.
Latest comment — Rat: @Connie: I'm from the old Heart 'o' Lakes conference. I knew guys who worked there. They did the Live Hang. As a matter of fact, me and a ...
Punching the Goose
From the Rochester Post-Bulletin: A man who is in Rochester for a wedding is in custody for allegedly getting mad at one of the city’s goose statues, “just because it was a goose.
A bigger picture of the Goose is on Mediation. Would you hit that thing?
Latest comment — Bixby: You should, Sandburg. That Mother Goose is so uppity.
Michele Bachmann action figure?
Yes, you heard me right — A Michele Bachmann action figure: The $39.95 Bachmann action figure will share the catalog with Rod Blagojevich, (a $149.95 limited edition figure), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (sporting a t-shirt that reads “Let them eat yellow cake”), Joe the Plumber (with his own custom-made crow bar), and a talking Joe Wilson, among others.
Latest comment — noodleman: Btw, here is the site selling the action figures: Herobuilders.com. John McCain looks buff.
Kensington Runestone key to the location of the Holy Grail?
Probably not, but at least one forensic expert think it might: Not only does Wolter believe the stone is real and that it predates Christopher Columbus by more than 130 years, he also has come to the startling conclusion that the stone was carved by the Order of the Knights Templar, a medieval European military group, as a land claim for much of eastern North America.
Read on for the Holy Grain connection, which is metaphoric, rather than literal.
Latest comment — Anonymous Freemason : The truth should be heard but we must first find someone truthful and willing to tell the truth. The Stone is original its already been tested I ju...
Latest comment — Dentist in Birmingham: May be is has role had exited