How Cliche

 This week in odd news there seems to be a number of people that have tried to act out on old cliches but sadly got them wrong. 

Stop Lion

A Chinese zoo  has customers calling foul.....not to be confused with fowl.  The zoo in the People's Park of Luohe has been playing fast and loose with substituting common animals and trying to pass them off as exotic animals.

One zoo patron brought her son to the zoo to educate him on the sounds that animals make. As she was standing at the cage marked African Lion, she heard barking.  (Seriously????That was the ONLY thing that gave it away??)

The so-called lion was a Tibetan Mastiff in disguise. 

 "The zoo is absolutely is cheating us." said one customer who paid the $2.45 price for the ticket. 

The lion...Errrr dog .. Wasn't the only substitution. A white fox was subbing for a leopard and another dog was filling in for a wolf. 

"This is not funny at all. This is sad for the zoo and the animals." said someone on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.

Something seems amiss in China.  They know how to build an iPhone but can't tell a dog from a lion.  Maybe we could send pictures to them on Sina Weibo.

Cheap Sleep

Have you ever gotten so drunk that when you woke up you realize the B&B you checked into is actually a shipping container?  If you have, you aren't alone.  If you haven't you probably missed a hell of a party. 

After a night of drinking in Qingdao, China, Jiang Wu found himself trapped in a sealed 60 foot container that was being prepared for a two week journey across the Pacific to Los Angeles.  According to the Fairfax New Zealand News, Wu thought the container was a Bed and Breakfast.  

Luckily, Wu had a cellular phone on him and managed to call the police.  The police were at a loss as to which container contained a hungover Wu was in,  as there were 1000s of containers stacked for shipment. After an extensive search, Wu was located in a container stacked 18 meters up.

General rule of thumb...when you are so drunk that you think a storage container is a B & B,  you are TOO drunk.  Do B & Bs look differently in China compared to those in the U.S.?

Dinner rush 

Two Chicago burglars were trying to rob the Clifton Grill in  West Rodgers Park in the Chicago area but were sidetracked when the owner asked if they could come back in an hour when he wasn't so busy. 

Proving that some crimes don't have a mastermind in charge, the two  bungling burglars came armed with a fake gun (although it appeared real) and threatened the owner.  The owner  fearing for the safety of his customers, asked them to come back when there weren't so many people dining,  and he would be free to be robbed. (I don't think that is how he phrased it..but it's implied.)

So while these geniuses are crooks they are "accommodating crooks" and they left the restaurant. You may not be surprised to hear that after they left the owner called the cops.  Upon their return to the restaurant,  there were policemen waiting for them.  The two burglars, Mario Garcia and Domingo Garcia-Hernandez were arrested and charged with attempted aggravated robbery.

These two need to find a different line of work.  

And Last But Not Least

It's NOT

I Have Lost My Mind and Can't Find It Anywhere!!!!

AAAAGGGGGHHHHHH

Did you all notice that for the first time since this blog started there wasn't a Two Thoughts for Tuesday??   I hope you noticed and didn't miss me too badly.


**crickets**....OK then let's move this along.

I made a HUGE mistake on my computer that wiped out most of the pictures from 164 of my posts.   It was an error on my part that should have been correctable but it wasn't as it turns out. Damn....double damn!!!

For you bloggers out there be forwarned. If you are a Blogger user and  if you accidently delete a file/album from your Picassa web folder, it will remove those pictures from EVERYWHERE in your computer. AND you can go into the deleted file and do a restore but only about a tenth of it will RESTORE.  The Geeks I have been talking to over the last two days are arguing the point of if that should of happened or not...

But, HEY it did!!!   As a result I have 164 posts that have this (see example below) in the place of every flippin picture.

And here lies the problem.....

When I go back to a post I wrote eight months ago an it says:

How funny is this picture?  and all that I see is a black box....this is how I am feeling

So for most of yesterday, today and possibly tomorrow, I will be trying to edit older posts, putting new pictures in place of black boxes. 

I hope to be up and running by Friday.  For you regular readers that receive TAOBC via email, I  am sincerely hoping you aren't being bombarded with emails.  If you are, I am so sorry and hopefully,  it should all end by tomorrow.

In the mean time, I will be sending some suggestions to Google about putting a

I am getting back to work now.  Just pretend you don't see any of those black boxes.