Apparently having my dogs get whacked triggered this email I got from someone who follows Text from Dog by October Jones on Facebook.

Scope introduces Bacon mouthwash – for breath that sizzles!

American Eagle Introduces Spray On Jeans – The skinny, skinny jean.

Introducing Gmail Blue.  ’cause it’s Gmail…only blue.

Vimeo Becomes Viemeow – All you care about is cat videos anyway, right?

Here’s an interesting tidbit (pun intended) I got from MUM last week – she seems to trade sleep for odd news stories.  I think the comments are almost funnier than the story.

Just months after after a crooked Canadian cop was busted for cheese smuggling, an Illinois man was arrested for allegedly stealing 21 tons of Muenster from a Wisconsin cheese company. The man, Veniamin Balika, 34, then did the reasonable thing and attempted to sell the 42,000 pounds of cheese at a rest stop off the New Jersey turnpike.

To read the entire article and comments, click here.  See?  This is why I prefer road trips – the souvenirs are so much better.

Reader sent this in – hysterical!  Click the link and enjoy!  le_papier_ne_sera_jamais_mort___paper_is_not_dead_on_influencia.net_!_1280x720

Looking for a way to stretch that one-week vacation into two or even more?  Why not book a Carnival cruise?

Remember how in February, an engine fire crippled the Triumph, turning what was supposed to be a four-day cruise into an eight-day public relations nightmare for Carnival?  They do, ’cause they were hit with a class action lawsuit!  CNN covered the story of the ship, which floated for five days in the Gulf of Mexico without power or working toilets, as an breaking-news event, taking live calls from passengers and calling the ship a “floating petri dish.”  The Triumph had more than 4,200 people on board, including crew and passengers.

Well, it’s déjà vu all over again!  The AP reports that another of Carnival’s ships is reporting equipment problems and a U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman in Miami said today that Carnival Dream’s captain “notified the agency of possible trouble with the ship’s propulsion system.”  And though the ship is docked, no one has been allowed to leave!  Swell times for all.  Read the CNN full story here.

“There’s human waste all over the floor in some of the bathrooms,” Gregg Stark told CNN late Wednesday. “The elevators have not been working. They’ve been turning them on and off, on and off.”

Ouch!  Normally the reasons they issue voluntary recalls have nothing to do with me – this one hits closer to home:  This recall is due to loose seals.  And since I know many of you bought Bumble Bee tuna with the Fiber Choice promotion overage, I’m putting this out there.  If you bought a significant amount of chunk light or albacore tuna, take the time to check your codes, please.

Celebrating Oreo’s 101th birthday – – – that’s a lot of Oreos!  Check out the short videos of cookie/creme separating machines and enter to WIN FREE STUFFS! ’cause free stuffs is good stuffs.

A very short Reuters clip in today’s Trib on the Jewel sale.  The other stores?  Who cares.  But interestingly enough, if they sold for 3.3 billion, of which 3.2 billion was debt, that means I could have probably picked up a few Jewel stores for clipped insert coupons and IPs, right?  And my first order of business would have been to fire those corporate bums.

Supervalu Inc. on Monday named a new president for its Save-A-Lot discount chain and announced other management changes as the supermarket operator and food distributor gets ready to close a deal that will make it a leaner company.

Supervalu said it should close the deal to sell five of its supermarket chains to an investor group led by Cerberus Capital Management LP during the week of March 18. It had announced the $3.3 billion transaction, which includes the assumption of $3.2 billion in debt, in January.  Read the rest here.