Today's stories [6.7.14]

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One of the funniest "most-embarrassing-moment" stories I've come upon in a
long time was about a lady who picked up several items at a discount store.
When she finally got up to the checker, she learned that one of her items 
had no price tag. Imagine her embarrassment when the checker got on the 
intercom and boomed out for all the store to hear, "PRICE CHECK ON 
LANETHIRTEEN, TAMPAX, SUPER SIZE." That was bad enough, but somebody at 
the rear of the store apparently misunderstood the word Tampax" for 
"THUMBTACKS." In a businesslike tone, a voice boomed back over the 
intercom. "DO YOU WANT THE KIND YOU PUSH IN WITH YOUR THUMBOR THE KIND
YOU POUND IN WITH A HAMMER?"

An interesting IS bulletin which was really published by one company. 

Recently, two individuals from USPL were traveling to Belgium on Sabena 
Belgium World Airlines, which is affiliated with Delta Airlines. They were 
seated in row 6 of the plane where seats contain the tray tables in the 
armrest section of the seat. 
They setup their tray tables and proceeded to use their laptop during 
flight, both their PCs began experiencing problems. Apparently the tray 
tables were magnetized, so they will not make noises while stored in the 
armrests. The magnetized trays corrupted the hard drives of both laptops. 
On this particular Belgium flight, the aircraft happen to be a "new" 
Airbus 340, which explains why this has not surfaced until now. The 
problem seems to be with a specific European aircraft seat manufacturer. 
US Airways, NorthWestern and United have no plans to utilize these 
magnetized trays in their new Airbus aircraft. Boeing and McDonald Douglas 
also has no plans to use these magnetized trays in their new aircraft, and 
there have been no reported cases of other types of aircraft experiencing 
this problem. 
The purpose of this notice is to simply make travelers aware of the 
"potential" problem, especially on Airbus aircraft built for European-
based airlines. If the tray table appears to be magnetized (use a 
paperclip to see if it sticks), then I advise people NOT to use their 
laptop computer on these trays.

The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" is a rhyme about the plague. 
Infected people with  the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring 
around the rosey"), these sores would smell very badly so common folks 
would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that
it would cover the smell of the sores ("a pocket full of posies").   
Furthermore, people who died from the plague would be burned so as to 
reduce the possible spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall 
down").

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