[Paper Wings]

Here are just some things I came across that I wanted to share with you all to lighten things up.

It's time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards." The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck of New Mexico who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's. That case inspired the Stella awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States.

Here are this year's winners:

7th Place: Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.

6th Place: 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

5th Place: Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000.

4th Place: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams, who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

3rd Place: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.

2nd Place: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms.Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.

1st Place: This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete morons around.




And another one!

You know you're a 90's kid if...
• You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
• You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air"
• You remember when Kurt Cobain, Tu Pac, River Pheonix, and Selena died.
• You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey from "Blossom" and that "How Rude!" comes from Stephanie from "Full House"
• You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
• You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
• You remember reading "Goosebumps"
• You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off"
• You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
• You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
• You danced to "wannabe" by the Spice Girls, Females: had a new motto, Males: got a whole lot gay-er. (so tell me what you want, what you really really want.)
• You remember the craze then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books.
• You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not...
• Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? was both a game and a TV game show.
• You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green* Ranger were meant to be together.
• "I've fallen and I can't get up"
• You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates
• Two words... Trapper Keeper.
• You ever got injured on a Slip 'n' Slide
• You wore socks over leggings scrunched down
• You remember boom boxes vs. cd players
• You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool
• You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell"
• You played and or collected "Pogs" (slammer and a slicer)
• You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere
• You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Ninja Turtles
• Yikes pencils and erasers were the i can't read.
• You remember when the new Beanie Babies were always sold out.
• You used to wear those stick on earings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes.
• You remember a time before the WB.
• You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
• You know the Macarena by heart.
• "Talk to the hand" ... enough said
• You thought Brain woud finally take over the world
• You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"
• If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock."
• You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter Shack, House).(all the time that was the best game...)
• You wore a plaid skirt with high leggings or really loose baggy pants that showed your underwear (clueless!!)

[MaryMagdalin]

wrong section

[little mixed girl]

haha them ppl need to be shot in the FACE

i remember those 90s things...but i didn't DO a number of them...