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March 16th

During the last week The Snug has seen unprecedented snow for this area (and time of year) so it took over the first few minutes of the show with Maf telling us about his train trip (and rogue snowballers).
We swiftly (and smoothly) moved into a quick review of the new version of The Hills have eyes - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454841/.

Digg (www.digg.com) has a lot to answer for again this show as we fill our 'in the news' segment from it, so...:

In The News:

Lego Instructions - http://www.hccamsterdam.nl/brickfactory/index.htm
First Broadband TV station - http://television.aol.com/in2tv
The Drug Trial gone wrong - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4808836.stm
Man dates girl on net for 6 months then arranges a meet up - http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20051209/113414040002.html

The Great Debate - The bacon sandwich

Last week David Lewis emailed UIncle Maf about the best way to produce bacon sandwiches. He has since provided some other options that we didn't mention such as: - pre-sliced or self-sliced, type of bread, brands of sauce, additions? etc! This could spiral out of control if we're not careful.
Check out www.snugfans.blogspot.com for some more additions from our vegetarian fan base. Have we missed something? Do we need a spreadsheet poll-ie type thing?

Listener Feedback - Random mails to the Snug mailbox

snugradio@yahoo.co.uk
From: Scaredy pants... E-Mail: ***** Comments: Dear Maf and Lee I've been to the site several t times since you've added the "soopa doopa" sound... It has made me jump several times! LOL It's kinda like the web pages that have the smiley ads that say "HELLO!!!!". Late at night both have made me jump out of my skin! lol Especially when I have my headphones on...
From: North American Blog "Babe" E-Mail: ***** Comments: Hey the snugfans blog has been updated...While in some ways it seems like a shopping list of what went on in the show, I did try to add my listener perspective. I was up late listening to the pod cast (after listening to the 2 hr show and snug 2, which rocked BTW) http://snugfans.blogspot.com/ Anyay have a peek...

This Is True

SMOKING IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH: Mike Hartnett, 36, of Omaha, Neb., had found a firework shell in his son's closet. He pulled it out to get rid of it when a hot ash fell from his cigarette and ignited the fuse. He told his son to run, but didn't drop the device. It exploded, blowing out the window and shredding his hands. <snip>.

March 9th show

New Laptop - Rich (Bubba71uk) - www.richardharveyphoto.com - only 2 feedback, gave him a chance...excellent laptop
DNA Computer http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0224_030224_DNAcomputer.html
2G/s Broadband in Shoreditch - Fastest in the world
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=RAISEALARM-02-28-06
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/07/the-gas-that-makes-you-laugh/
http://www.cuisinetechnology.com/antigriddle.html

This is True

A police dispatcher in West Fargo, N.D., thought it was a joke when someone called at 3:15 a.m. and asked where to buy marijuana. The dispatcher told the woman that marijuana is illegal, but the woman insisted. Fine, the dispatcher said: they had some in the evidence locker and if she stopped by, he could "hook her up." Sure enough, "the dispatcher got on the intercom and said, 'You know what? She's here. She just handed me $3 for marijuana'," said an amazed officer, Ken Zeeb. He stepped to the station lobby and arrested Grace Sium, 20, a junior at North Dakota State University. Zeeb says Sium didn't appear high or drunk, and didn't seem surprised to be arrested. "This is

something that you couldn't even make up," he said. (Fargo Forum)  ...Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense.

March 2nd show

Sales calls from St Helens Glass!! - Maf
Islamic law enforced in britain!!
the big snowball
Mafspace
Tamara Sings!!!

This is True

19 February 2006 Copyright http://www.thisistrue.com

MORON OF THE WEEK #610: A customer in line at a Dairy Queen in St. Louis, Mo., dropped her purse. It exploded, sending black sequins into the air; customers could smell gunpowder. No one said a word until she cried out "I ain't got no gun!", grabbed her shredded purse, and ran. The store manager wrote down her license number and called police. Investigators say that indeed it was a gun: a low-quality one that discharged when it hit the floor. The license led to an unidentified woman who, police say, was an off-duty police officer. The cop first denied that she was in the restaurant, then claimed she ran because she was "under fire," and then finally admitted that the gun discharged in her purse, but she had thrown it out her car window along the freeway because she might be "in trouble." She resigned from the police department. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) ...Total recommended prison time:

 30 days for careless handling of a firearm, 90 days for fleeing the scene of an accident, 1 year for bringing disrepute to the police department, 5 years for making false statements in a police investigation, 10 years for ditching the gun unsafely, and 15 years for using bad grammar in public.

IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE: Tyrone Burgo, 20, was arrested in Boston, Mass., for allegedly selling drugs. Police say it wasn't that he was driving a car with a license plate from another car that led to his arrest, nor that he was driving with a suspended license. Rather, they were led to Burgo because he had advertised his cocaine on the Internet, listing his real phone number. Officers called, set up a meeting, and arrested him after he handed over the drugs. (Boston Globe, AP) ...Too bad he didn't try to figure out what "BPD Det Bureau" was on his Caller-ID before he agreed to the deal.

February 23rd show

The 'Tesco' Mail - maf
Running over cycling children
Emails at work (affairs & sex)
Update on our Nigerian 'friend' - computer weekly - maf

New Music - Snug mailbox - Wayne Numan & Whitey
Jeff Daniels
Lom wavs
http://www.madtownaces.com/PodcastProduction%20Packages.htm

Listener Feedback

Tamara - Salt Sprint Island
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/science/wasps011127.html
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/11/17/sniffer.wasps/

A bit about training wasps. I still think it's wrong but at the same time fascinating.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/13.html

Cheney's got a gun. The guy "reporting" is an amazing political comedian. He's Jon Stewart and his show is called the Daily Show. Very funny and politically eye opening at times. (it American btw)
Anyway, the pod cast is just ending. I put a comment on pod cast alley.
I'm still thinking about recording Mercedes Benz and sending it in. You'll be sorry!!!!

This Is True

THIS is TRUE: 22 January 2006 http://www.thisistrue.com

CRAZY LIKE A FOX: Christine Ryder, 53, says she was so depressed, she asked a friend, Kevin Reeves, 40, whom she had met in a mental hospital in Kent, England, to find a hit man to kill her. He offered to do it himself (he was her friend, after all!) and accepted 20,000 pounds US$35,000) for the job. After several arranged dates to kill her came and went and she was still alive, a frustrated Ryder filed a criminal breach of contract complaint, and prosecutors took him to trial. Even Reeves's own defense attorney admitted the scheme was "mean." Reeves was sentenced to 15 months in jail and ordered to pay 2,000 pounds in compensation. (London Times) ...No matter what, a deal's a deal.
THIS is TRUE: 12 February 2006
http://www.thisistrue.com

SURE, THIS MAKES SENSE: A student at McHenry (Ill.) Community High School has been disciplined after "doodling" in his own notebook. His drawing features the initials "D.L.K." which, school officials told his mother, "could" mean "Disciples Latin King" -- the Latin Kings and the Latin Disciples are two rival gangs. His mother says he's not a member of any gang. But under the school's zero tolerance rules about gang activity, the boy was suspended, and the school board voted unanimously to expel Derek Leon Kelly from any state-funded school for the rest of the school year, rejecting his explanation that the initials he drew are simply his own. (Chicago Tribune)