350 Pound Man Calls Police When “All-You-Can-Eat” Fish Fry Cuts Him Off – Tradeshow Booth of Life

A restaurant customer in Central Wisconsin called police after he was cut off from the establishment’s all-you-can-eat fish fry.

At 6 feet 6 inches and 350 pounds, Bill Wisth acknowledges he can pack away more fish than the average guy. But Wisth wants Chuck’s Place to live up to its all-you-can-eat advertising.

After Wisth ate a dozen pieces of fish last Friday, a waitress refused to bring more. The restaurant says it was running out of fish and patience. They sent Wisth on his way with eight more pieces. Wisth called the village police. And he came back two days later with a picket sign.

Waitress Elizabeth Roeming says the restaurant has tried to work with Wisth over the years, even letting him run a tab that he hasn’t paid off.

Wausau Daily Herald

Who Makes the Best Dill Pickle? – Tradeshow booth of life

Whether you eat them straight out of the jar or wedged in a sub sandwich (or better yet, in a grilled cheese sandwich), there’s nothing like a dill pickle for a zingy dose of flavor.

A panel of taste testers at Huffington Post tried out 11 different kinds of dill pickles.  Each pickle was judged on its texture (a nice snap and a firm crunch vs. a softer pickle) and flavor (mild, zesty, sour, herbal or salty). Only one brand came from the refrigerated aisle of the grocery store, while the others came from the store shelf.

Despite all 11 brands being labeled as “dill,” there was quite some disparity — some tasted like bread and butter pickles, while others tasted like “Christmas.”

Want to know which pickles won the taste test?  Read more….

HuffingtonPost

Bear Takes a Dip in Family Swimming Pool – Tradeshow booth of Life

A family in California couldn’t believe their eye when they spotted a bear taking a dip in their luxury infinity swimming pool.

This being 2012 they instantly reached for their smartphone and started recording the impromptu swim session.

In the footage – shot by Rachel and Valerie Gasparini – the bear can be seen enjoying the posh pool and appears to be taking in the panoramic views across the Golden State. Amazing to the Tradeshow booth of life.

“It’s really good at swimming,” the sisters can be heard saying. “It’s like looking out at the view, taking a nice swim you know, what they hell.

News Lite

Grow Your Own Clothes – tradeshow booth of life

In her workshop in London, designer Suzanne Lee uses a recipe of green tea, sugar, bacteria and yeast to ‘grow’ a material which she describes as a kind of “vegetable leather”.

The material takes about two weeks to grow and can then be folded around a mold – she has made a dress from a traditional tailor’s model but handbags and furniture are also possibilities. Maybe tradeshow booth of life can get some of these natural threads.

Alternatively it can be dried out and cut and sewn in the traditional manner.

Currently the material is biodegradable and after five years, becomes unwearable, hardening and rotting.

“At that point you can compost it down with all your other vegetable peelings,” said Ms Lee.  Read more…..

BBC

UK Prime Minister Forgets his 8-year old Daughter in Pub – Tradeshow booth of life

Prime Minister David Cameron left his 8-year-old daughter Nancy  behind in a pub after a Sunday lunch with friends following a mix-up over which car she was going home in.

Sunday pub lunches are a long traditional in Britain, often including roast beef, potatoes, Yorkshire pudding and salad along with red wine, beer or ale. The tradeshow booth of life definitely knows.

Nancy had gone to the bathroom while Cameron and the rest of the family piled into two cars to drive back to London.  Cameron was traveling in one car with his bodyguards and assumed that Nancy was in the other car with his wife Samantha and their two other children. Samantha assumed Nancy was with her father, and they only realized she was missing when they got home.

Surgeon Wants Kidney Back from Estranged Wife – Tradeshow Booth of Life

A Long Island surgeon embroiled in a nearly four-year divorce proceeding wants his estranged wife to return the kidney he donated to her.

Dr. Richard Batista, a surgeon at Nassau University Medical Center, told reporters at his lawyer’s Long Island office Wednesday that he decided to go public with his demand for the kidney because he has grown frustrated with the negotiations with his estranged wife.

Batista  married his wife in 1990. They would later have three children and eventually he saved her life by donating his kidney to her in 2001.  She filed for divorce in July 2005, although he claims she began having an extramarital affair 18 months to two years after receiving the kidney transplant.

ABC News

Very Odd Jobs to Make Some Money – Tradeshow booth of life

Getting paid to eat ice cream is probably like entering heaven’s buffet bar.  Some ice cream tasters help in inventing new ice cream, others may test up to 60 packages of ice cream a day.  Pay: $56,000 is the average salary for a food scientist.

If that job is too fattening, how about furniture tester  -  the ultimate dream job for the couch potato. Sitting, wiggling around and leaning back are all part of the job requirements.  Some furniture testers are asked to test up to 200 pieces of furniture a day.  Pay: $6 to $10 per hour – not much to us at the tradeshow booth of life.

Or how about getting paid to sleep, testing video games, collecting seashells in Kauai or another odd job.  Read more….

Deseret News

Bull and Cow “Having Relations” Cause Traffic Jam – tradeshow booth of life

According to the Pennsylvania State Police, a cow and bull pair that stopped to “have relations”  in Western Pennsylvania, caused a traffic jam on Friday morning.

The Happiest Countries in the World – tradeshow booth of life

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s report on life satisfaction in the developed world, economic prosperity, health and a strong social support network continue to correspond highly with happiness.

> Life satisfaction score: 7.8http://www.tradeshowboothbuilder.com/wp-admin/edit.php
> Employment rate: 73% (6th highest)
> Self-reported good health: 71% (17th highest)
> Employees working long hours: 1.92% (4th lowest)
> Disposable income: $23,213 (15th lowest)
> Educational attainment: 76% (18th lowest)
> Life expectancy: 79.3 (11th lowest)

What other countries rank in the OECD’s top ten?  Read more…..

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Wines for Chicks – Tradeshow booth of life

In the past few years the wine world has finally discovered that women drinkers make up nearly 60 percent of U.S. wine consumer.

Which is why there are so many companies are starting up lines of wines for chicks. Most are targeting women 21 to 34, but their marketing efforts often treat this audience as if it had no more sophistication than a bevy of sorority sisters on spring break – Nice call from the tradeshow booth of life.

After blind tasting a few “chick” wines, Elin McCoy writes, “For the $10 to $15 that most of these cutsey bottling go for, drinkers seeking an emotional connection with what they swill in their glass could have real wine made by real people — think rieslings, proseccos, roses, Beaujolais, Argentinean torrontes and malbecs — you know, the kind of vino even guys like.”

Read more….

Business Week