Talking Bottles

I’m on another “True Crime” kick . . . but can anyone clue me in as to the secret of the Talking Bottles?

I sure hope bottles don’t talk.

Oh, that intern? She’s fine. I imagine her girlfriends did this as some sort of hazing . . . while they disputed, presumably. They let her go after the picture was taken, and they all had a jolly good laugh.

Before the bottles started talking.

It’s a true police story!

Police have a fun job.

The sorority girls:

FIRST WITCH 
When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
SECOND WITCH 
When the hurly-burly’s done,
When the bottle’s lost and won.
THIRD WITCH 
That will be ere the set of sun.

Kids don’t read enough Shakespeare anymore. Always too busy playfully tying their friends to plumbing.


 

Bond Girlathon Wednesday : Results from 10/29/2025 : New Matches for 11/5/2025

Oh my, is it November already?

Results for 10/29/2025

Sue VannerNo PreferenceMary Stovin
118446

Caroline MunroNo PreferenceFiona Fullerton
174025

Matches for 11/5/2025

Match 1

Maryam d’Abo (Kara Milovy) vs Olga Bisera (Felicca)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Maryam d’Abo3 – 2 – 0551 – 3 – 569
Kara Milovy

Actress:Maryam d’Abo
Nationality:Dutch
Bond Movie:The Living Daylights (1987)

Synopsis:

Kara Milovy was the girlfriend of Georgi Koskov, a traitor playing both sides in the cold war. Koskov pretended to defect to the West, and got Milovy to shoot blanks at him to make it look more real. He knew that she would be assassinated by Bond, who was assigned to protect Koskov. However, Bond noticed she wasn’t a professional, and he didn’t kill her. When Koskov was discovered to be a traitor, Bond met Milovy posing as a friend of Koskovs. He gained her trust and revealed his identity, gaining a brave ally for his mission.

Maryam d’Abo

VS

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Olga Bisera0 – 5 – 0178 – 7 – 802
Felicca

Actress:Olga Bisera
Nationality:Bosnian
Bond Movie:The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Synopsis:

Felicca worked for Aziz Fekkesh, a black market dealer who was selling the microfilms of a submarine tracking system. Fekkesh instructed Felicca to entertain Bond, should he call round, so that henchman Sandor could kill him. In their brief time together, Felicca took a liking to Bond, and when she saw Sandor about to shoot him, she spun round and took the bullet herself.

Olga Bisera

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Match 2

Lois Chiles (Holly Goodhead) vs Kell Tyler (Linda)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Lois Chiles2 – 3 – 0395 – 8 – 497
Holly Goodhead

Actress:Lois Chiles
Nationality:American
Bond Movie:Moonraker (1979)

Synopsis:

Holly Goodhead was a CIA agent working undercover as an astronaut for the Hugo Drax organization. After spending the night together with Bond, the two met up at the top of Sugarloaf mountain in Rio. On the cable car ride down, Jaws tried to kill them, and Holly’s cover was blown. Bond managed to escape, and rescued Holly after the pair were almost killed in a rocket blast chamber. They went to space together and shot down Drax’s globes that contained fatal gases meant to kill the human race on Earth.

Louis Chiles

VS

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Kell Tyler1 – 4 – 0426 – 14 – 793
Linda

Actress:Kell Tyler
Nationality:American
Bond Movie:The Living Daylights (1987)

Synopsis:

A lady of leisure, Linda was aboard her boat complaining on the phone to a friend. “It’s all so boring here Margo, there’s nothing but playboys and tennis pros. Ugh, if only I could find a real man.” At which point, Bond landed his holey and smoldering parachute on the yacht, hung up her phone and dialled exercise control. He said he would report in an hour, until Linda held up a glass of champagne, then he changed his mind to 2 hours.

Kell Tyler

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Babesleaga Group AI : Week 6 : Donna Douglas vs Catherine Deneuve

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Donna Douglas vs Catherine Deneuve

Donna Douglas (3-2-0 Pts. 251 Avg. 50.20)

  • Week 1 Defeated Virginia Madsen 63-50
  • Week 2 Defeated Bernadette Peters 59-46
  • Week 3 Lost to Jayne Mansfield 54-59
  • Week 4 Lost to Ann-Margaret 27-84
  • Week 5 Defeated Julie Newmar 48-34

VS

Catherine Deneuve (3-2-0 Pts. 251 Avg. 50.20)

  • Week 1 Lost to Jayne Mansfield 53-61
  • Week 2 Defeated Virginia Madsen 55-49
  • Week 3 Lost to Ann-Margaret 27-79
  • Week 4 Defeated Julie Newmar 59-49
  • Week 5 Defeated Joan Collins 57-25

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Babesleaga Group AI : Week 6 : Ann-Margaret vs Joan Collins

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Ann-Margaret vs Joan Collins

Ann-Margaret (5-0-0 pts. 394 Avg. 78.80)

  • Week 1 Defeated Julie Newmar 80-22
  • Week 2 Defeated Jayne Mansfield 78-29
  • Week 3 Defeated Catherine Deneuve 79-27
  • Week 4 Defeated Donna Douglas 84-27
  • Week 5 Defeated Bernadette Peters 73-10

VS

Joan Collins (0-5-0 Pts. 164 Avg. 32.80)

  • Week 1 Lost to Bernadette Peters 32-74
  • Week 2 Lost to Julie Newmar 34-65
  • Week 3 Lost to Virginia Madsen 49-57
  • Week 4 Lost to Jayne Mansfield 77-35
  • Week 5 Lost to Catherine Deneuve 25-57

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You Subsidize Snitching, You Get Plenty of Snitching

Personally, I leave the Oppomobile running at a gas pump down the street, where it’s easy to refill.

NYC ‘bounty hunters’ score nearly million-dollar payouts reporting traffic ‘idling
NY Post | 11/02/25 | Carl Campanile, Marie Pohl

Some street snitches are raking in close to $1 million apiece from the city just by recording videos of idling trucks and buses spewing air pollution, prompting local pols to try to curb the staggering payouts.

“The days of the six-figure bounty hunters are over,” Queens City Councilman James Gennaro, who chairs the Environmental Committee, told The Post.

“We’re not doing that anymore,” he said. “The program has become an occupation. The program was not intended to be an occupation.”

[[ Liberals! Is there anything they can foresee? ]]

The Big Apple’s Citizen Idling Complaint Program was launched in 2019, with the city even recruiting ’80s punk rocker Billy Idol to promote the effort the next year.

“Billy never idles. Neither should you. Idling is polluting. Cut your engine off,” the rock star urged in an ad campaign.

Under the program, citizen enforcers are awarded 25% of the fines pursued by the Department of Environmental and substantiated by the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, or OATH.

If the tattletales go to OATH directly, they can receive 50 percent of any substantiated offense.

With fines ranging from $350 to $2,000 for idling and 95% of the complaints substantiated, the rewards add up and have turned the streets into gold for the Big Apple’s citizen enforcers.

.

Never could’ve seen that coming.

Well, except immediately after the law went into effect in 2019 . . .

How New Yorkers are making bank ratting out idling drivers
New York Post | 28 April 2019 | Julia Marsh

Dropping a dime on trucks and buses that keep their engines running while parked is paying big bucks to some New Yorkers. The number of summonses issued for violating the city’s anti-idling law skyrocketed to 1,038 last year — up from just 24 in 2017 — following the creation of a reward program for ratting out offenders, The Post has learned.

… through June of this year:

New Yorker says reporting idling vehicles makes him over six figures (2.5 minute video)
MSN | 6/19/2025

In New York City, it’s against the law for trucks and non-city buses to idle — keeping the engine running while stationary — for more than three minutes. However, the law is rarely enforced. That’s where the big money comes in.

***** He rides around on his bicycle 6 hours per day looking for idling trucks. He records this on his phone. He gets 25% of the fine which can be from $200 to $600.

“Free government money for reporting hard-working truckers?? And a bureaucracy to boot?”


 


 

Babesleaga Group AI : Week 6 : Virginia Madsen vs Julie Newmar

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Virginia Madsen vs Julie Newmar

Virginia Madsen (1-4-0 Pts. 243 Avg. 48.60)

  • Week 1 Lost to Donna Douglas 50-63
  • Week 2 Lost to Catherine Deneuve 49-55
  • Week 3 Defeated Joan Collins 57-49
  • Week 4 Lost to Bernadette Peters 56-61
  • Week 5 Lost to Jayne Mansfield 32-56

VS

Julie Newmar (2-3-0 Pts. 237 Avg. 47.40)

  • Week 1 Lost to Ann-Margaret 22-80
  • Week 2 Defeated Joan Collins 65-34
  • Week 3 Defeated Bernadette Peters 62-52
  • Week 4 Lost to Catherine Deneuve 49-59
  • Week 5 Lost to Donna Douglas 34-48

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Babesleaga Group AI : Week 6 : Bernadette Peters vs Jayne Mansfield

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Bernadette Peters vs Jayne Mansfield

Bernadette Peters (2-3-0 Pts. 243 Avg.48.60)

  • Week 1 Defeated Joan Collins 74-32
  • Week 2 Lost to Donna Douglas 46-59
  • Week 3 Lost to Julie Newmar 52-62
  • Week 4 Defeated Virginia Madsen 61-56
  • Week 5 Lost to Ann-Margaret 10-73

VS

Jayne Mansfield (4-1-0 Pts. 283 Avg. 56.60)

  • Week 1 Defeated Catherine Deneuve 61-53
  • Week 2 Lost to Ann-Margaret 29-78
  • Week 3 Defeated Donna Douglas 59-54
  • Week 4 Defeated Joan Collins 77-35
  • Week 5 Defeated Virginia Madsen 56-32

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Babesleaga Group AI : Week 5 : Results and Standings

Week 6 done and dusted.

Results

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Standings

ContestantsRecordPointsAveragePoints AgainstAverage Score
Ann-Margaret5 – 0 – 039478.8011378.80 – 22.60
Jayne Mansfield4 – 1 – 028356.6025256.60 – 50.40
Donna Douglas3 – 2 – 025150.2027350.20 – 54.60
Catherine Deneuve3 – 2 – 025150.2026350.20 – 52.60
Bernadette Peters2 – 3 – 024348.6028248.60 – 56.40
Julie Newmar2 – 3 – 023747.4027347.40 – 54.60
Virginia Madsen1 – 4 – 024348.6028448.60 – 56.80
Joan Collins0 – 5 – 016432.6033032.80 – 66.00

Week 6

  • 10:00 am Bernadette Peters vs Jayne Mansfield
  • 2:00 pm Virginia Madsen vs Julie Newmar
  • 6:00 pm Ann-Margaret vs Joan Collins
  • 8:00 pm Donna Doublas vs Catherine Deneuve


 


 

Cartoons and Memes : Saturday Night Special

“Hi Mr. Walrus. Like my Halloween costume?”

“Halloween was yesterday.”

“Darn, I’ll have to take this off.”

“I’m here to help.”

Winner

10.

This week.

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10.

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