Our Daily Dead

Eek! A Mouse! We admit to being ODDly torn between the Silly String story, the Mary Cheney (”I Ain’t No Fortunate Son”, er daughter?) story, the “Mom and Dad kidnapped me the day before my wedding” story, the gun in every house (but what about brains?) story, the flatulence downs airliner story, or the continuing tale of Mel Gibson Lunatic For Hire.

The story that has us really nonplussed however is the James Kim story. Why keep going on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere when you are ill-equipped to do so? Why not turn around and head back to the highway? If you are insistent on walking out, why not follow said dirt road back instead of striking off through the woods? Plenty of questions that will likely never be answered, but there is one item we think will come out: hypothermia. The killer in hypothermia is that you THINK you are doing all the right things and making excellent choices, but the sad truth is that you are really in a dangerous downward spiral. Bad news period.

New Age Dating Tips
And here we have a lovely ‘Bad News’ segue…A Cobb County, Georgia police officer is accused of sending an inappropriate (aka nude) photograph to a woman he arrested. Go get ‘em tiger.

Apophis Redux
And just in case you are still tweaked over Apophis the Science Boys have good news about water on Mars. No word if United Van Lines services the area yet however.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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Meanwhile…back in Atlanta…the LA Times reports that William Diehl author of “Sharky’s Machine” and “Primal Fear” died in the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. He was 81. The Times article goes on to inform us that Diehl “…lied about his age to join the Army Air Corps at 17 and served as a ball turret gunner on a B-24 during World War II. His conduct in that perilous job earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart and Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters.” Serious stuff that as we have read that there was no scarier place than the ball turret.

And then there this nice Diehl tidbit: “According to family lore, Mae West was once his baby-sitter, before she became a Hollywood sex symbol.” This begs the question - did his standard issue Mae West life preserver bring him comfort down there in the ball turret?

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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Dang! We TOLD you strange things were afoot and the next thing we know a WEEK disappears! Egad.

Okay, sit up straight and pay attention. We are going to do our ODDly level best to keep you abreast of recent departures with no tit-for-tat required on your part. And where better to start than with Robert Brooks, chairman of the Hooters Restaurant chain. Natural causes the coronor says did catch up with Mr. Brooks. A curious note in one article had that “Brooks, 69, was found dead Sunday by his wife and a neighbor after he failed to show up at their usual Sunday breakfast, Coroner Robert Edge said.” Um, where were the wife and neighbor before breakfast?

One of the Second World War’s top flying aces, Wing Commander Robert Carl ‘Moose’ Fumerton, died at Muskoka Landing in Huntsville last Monday at age 93. Between 1941 and 1944, Wing Commander Moose shot down 14 enemy planes, damaging one other aircraft. He was shot down twice and survived due to his own skillful flying ability.

Dave Walter, an author and Montana Historical Society research historian, died Wednesday night after suffering a heart attack earlier in the week. He was 63. Mr. Walter was well-known for his Speaking Ill Of The Dead: Jerks In Montana History book and recently published the sequel Still Speaking Ill of the Dead: More Jerks in Montana History.

And finally the big finish. In fact let us go out with a bang and bring you Dr. Nicholas Bartha and his solution to the division of property during a divorce. Somehow this reminds us of old westerns and pledging to die with one’s boots on.

(P.S. Oh yea, “Mickey Spillane” died too just in case you were off-planet last week.)

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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