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My Dream of Being a Traveling Salesman
Travel Blog | August 4th 2008 by Marco Belemmi
As a child, I had a dream of becoming a traveling salesman. Every April, my mom and dad would do their taxes. My grandma would take my brother and me down to Marriots (Great America) for a few days to get out of 1040’s way. … More here: M read more
‘Gilmore Girl’ finds ‘Good Guy’
Moviebabbling | July 28th 2008 by Franck Tabouring
Alexis Bledel, the star of TV’s “Gilmore Girls,” has signed on to star in Julio DePietro’s upcoming romantic comedy “The Good Guy,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Also joining the project is “Friday Night Lights” star Scott Port read more
Table Easels Affect Lives
blog.d2gstores.com - Point of Purchase & Literature Display… | July 25th 2008 by Tom Patton
SKU: GB375LBKAs a traveling salesman, I traverse the land, constantly looking for people to buy my products. I set-up shop on street corners, in front of stores, even sometimes go into stores and offer great deals to customers (until I get kicked out read more
Wally Boag - Traveling Salesman
My Weekly Disneyland Resort Photo Blog | July 24th 2008
Filmed at Disneyland in Frontierland at the Golden Horshoe back in the bad old days. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Wally Boag - Traveling Salesman", url: "http://cinemazement.com/blog/?p=8809" }); read more
A Priest, A Rabbi, and A Man Who Twists Comedy...
Disclosures of a Dirty Feminist | July 19th 2008 by Tiffany Stevens
While surfing the 'Cartoons and Humor' section of the New York Times' website, an interesting story caught my eye. The full story can be found on Borowitz Report.com.Saying he is "sympathetic to late night comedians' struggle to find jokesto make abo read more
She turned 104 in April: Aggressive treatment for centenarians
Patient AdvoCare | July 18th 2008
Her father had sent her to secretarial school. She married, and then split up with her husband, a traveling salesman, during the Great Depression. She worked as a stenographer to pay rent to her parents for a small sunny bungalow overlooking a cana read more
Dogs in politics!
The Days of Johann - an agility dog! | July 17th 2008 by JohannTheDog
Not since Richard Nixon announced he had received his dog Checkers as an illegal contribution gift from a traveling salesman named Lou Carrol, has a dog in politics been as prominent as the next Obama dog is becoming today!Two highly influential orga read more
JOTD
No Oil for Pacifists | July 16th 2008
Comic Andy Borowitz: Saying he is "sympathetic to late night comedians' struggle to find jokes to make about me," Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) today issued a list of official campaign-approved Barack Obama jokes. The five jokes, which Sen. Obama said he read more
Concrete Proof Is In The Graham Pudding
Dame Wotta Tripp's Advice Column | July 6th 2008 by Dame Wotta Tripp
Dear Dame Wotta Tripp,Last month I visited my Great Aunt Myrtle for the first time since I was a child, my itinerary as a traveling salesman having on this occasion brought me conveniently close to her home. She received me rather coolly, I felt, but read more
Pernice: Make Tiger Play More
Waggle Room Golf Blog | July 5th 2008
Tom Pernice believes that the top players are cheating PGA Tour tournament sponsors by only playing the tournaments they want to play, and by not playing as many of those as Pernice believes they should. Pernice favors raising the minimum requirement read more
Prezenter PSR Two-Touchscreen Laptop: Travelling Sales Pitches Go…
Toys, Technology and Techno...T-Cube | June 19th 2008 by ahmad
I gotta say, this device does look cool. However, with its size I don't thin lugging it around would be a very good idea. I mean, if I were a salesman, which I know that they are very desperate people trying to get as many sales as they can and they read more
A Traveling Salesman Remembered
Prairie Bluestem | June 15th 2008 by Genevieve Netz
The Minnesota Woolen Mill salesman One hot afternoon every summer, the Minnesota Woolen Mill salesman came to visit in his dust-covered station wagon.The back of his wagon was weighted down with suitcases, and the suitcases were stuffed with samples read more
Sing Me Your Song Again, Daddy
A Grateful Heart | June 15th 2008 by Shawie
I remembered running outside the house every time the Pepsi truck will pass by. I have to stretch my hand just for the driver to stop and I can hug my Dad. He worked as a salesman in Pepsi then. He will give us bottles of Pepsi and I'm so proud to sh read more
Man Opens Hyperbaric Chamber to Public
Cerebral Palsy & Birth Injury Blog | June 10th 2008 by LOJS
People from all over the world are traveling to the living room of light fixture salesman Mike Fowler. Fowler, of St. Petersburg, Florida, whose grandson suffers from cerebral palsy, is a prophet in Selama Grotto, a Masonic organization similar to read more
The Travellers Notebook
Nasi Lemak Roti Canai Teh Tarik | June 5th 2008 by zach
About a month ago I accompany a friend to Low Yatt Plaza to buy a notebook. He bought a Asus EeePC. Its a mini notebook running on Linux platform.Then saw a posting on kennysia about his new HP mini. Today The Star InTech carry an article about the H read more
Business traveler devastated to learn there is no Mint Fairy
Wundurful Wurld | June 4th 2008 by Horatio Salt
WUNDURFULWURLD.COM— Businessman Dewitt Montrose, a traveling three-hole punch salesman with a suitcase full of hardware and a heart full of dreams, broke down in tears in the lobby of the LuxLodge Hotel in Keyhole, Arkansas yesterday when he was i read more
Black door-to-door-salesman tried to grab 13-year-old girl off he…
Color of Crime | June 2nd 2008 by Mikael
Again, no CNN, FOX News or MSNBC! A man arrested Friday after police said he tried to grab a 13-year-old girl riding her bike home from an ice-cream stand will remain held without bail at least through Friday, when a hearing into whether he poses a d read more
Surprising Statements from a Credit Card Salesman
My Journey Thru Personal Finance | May 28th 2008 by MyMoneyAdventure
Last month while at the airport traveling for my new job, I had the great opportunity to have a layover for about 2 hours in Denver. To utilize my time, I brought a book and read The Money Game. However, I noticed a credit card salesman pitching hi read more
IRVINE ROBBINS 1917-2008
Dynasty of Lao | May 6th 2008
LOS ANGELES -- Irvine Robbins, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins chain that famously offers 31 flavors of ice cream, has died. He was 90.Robbins died Monday at Eisenhower Medical Center in the desert community of Rancho Mirage, said his daughter, Mars read more
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Begins in May
Great Books ~ A Chapter a Day | April 28th 2008 by Walter Burek
The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arguably the most famous of his works along with the longer works The Trial and The Castle. The story begins with a traveling read more
The three legged chicken
Picture Museum | April 23rd 2008 by Sophia
One day a traveling salesman was driving down a back country road at about 30 mph when he noticed that there was a three-legged chicken running alongside his car. He stepped on the gas but at 50 miles per hour. The chicken was still keeping up. After read more
Disgusting sex tourists like Bob Kelly no longer welcome in DR
Pornography, Paedophile, all about violent | April 20th 2008 by s omar
Bob Kelly, a retired insurance salesman, who claims (in his recent article on the GoArticles site) to enjoy "traveling to exotic and interesting tropical destinations" - has recently published some disparaging and ill-informed things about the new po read more
Magickal Authors - H P Lovecraft
Metromagick | April 19th 2008 by Susi Kuu
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born on 20 August 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island. He came from distinguished British ancestry on both sides of his family. His mother made him wear his hair long until the age of six and treated him like a girl. His read more
The Flop Factor Bible
Sermons from the Beach | April 15th 2008 by Tom
Have you ever heard of the Flop Factor? The very first day of Seminary we were hoarded like sheep to the library where we were given a tour of the facilities and then ushered to a conference room where we were given a presentation. The salesman was read more
Furniture company - or hedge fund?
A blog about antique & reproduction Chinese furnitures | April 2nd 2008 by antique-chinese-furniture.com
Furniture company - or hedge fund? If you lose money selling couches and chairs, how can you pay your investors a hefty dividend? You play the markets. By Roddy Boyd, writer http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/27/news/companies/boyd_bassett.fortune/index.ht read more
Vrrooomm!!! Vrrooomm!!!
Small-leaved Shamrock | April 1st 2008 by Smallest Leaf
An early "Wordless Wednesday" entry for you, sponsored by some favorite cars in Small-leaved Shamrock history...This 1952 Studebaker owned by traveling salesman Charlie Stanton (beloved husband, father and grandfather; favorite uncle and great-uncle read more
Futuristic Motel
1 Joke a Day | March 30th 2008 by Joker
A traveling salesman checked into a futuristic motel. Realizing he needed a haircut before his next day's meeting, he called down to the desk clerk and asked if there was a barber on the premises. "I'm afraid not, sir," the clerk told him apologetica read more
Tennessee Williams
Gay For Today | March 25th 2008
Tennessee Williams born 26 March 1911 (d. 1983)Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. The name 'Tennessee' was given read more
Technical Article of the Day
ROBOSOLDIERS | March 23rd 2008
** Cut-and-solve: An iterative search strategy for combinatorial optimization problems ** S. Climer, W. Zhang (published in Artificial Intelligence [link], vol. 170, June 2006, at 714-738) ** .PDF file available here [link], PostScript file here read more
Time is Money!!
Don't Die Poor - Secrets of Personal Finance | March 22nd 2008 by Tropper
I have spent a lot of time analyzing my own life and finances to bring you the best topics to write about and moreover the best ways to save money without changing your lifestyle. I try to revert back to the same basic concepts; spend less, save more read more