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Pentagon investigators discovered in August that a small South Carolina company fraudulently collected $20.5 million in shipping costs, including one invoice of $999,798 for sending two washers (cost: 19 cents each) to a base in Texas. According to Bloomberg News, the Defense Department was said to have a policy of automatically and unquestioningly paying shipping bills labeled "priority." [Bloomberg News, 8-16-07]

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"Why write this book now? Stephen fears America has lost its balls. He hopes to re-ballify us. Even the ladies. Ladies can have balls — lady-balls. Stephen likes to call those "Thatchers." Stephen will show how he got his mammoth swinging sack, with tales of courage and vital documents from his own life: the Mother's Day card he made at age six, disputed credit card bills, putt-putt score cards — all the major milestones." (From the Publisher's comments.)
And there is an audiobook, read by Stephen himself, who evidently goes off script occasionally in in the abridged audible version. Those crafty devils are trying to get me to buy it twice. It will probably work.

Bog Butter

This is so strange that I just thought Fred Pippin should know...
"Bog butter" refers to an ancient waxy substance found buried in peat bogs, particularly in the United Kingdom, especially in Ireland. It can be found buried inside some sort of wooden container, such as buckets, kegs, barrels, dishes and butter churns. It is a hydrocarbon of animal origin, also known as butyrellite. Until 2003 scientists and archaeologists were not quite sure of the origin of bog butter. Scientists working at the University of Bristol discovered that some samples of the "butter" were of adipose/tallow origin while others of dairy origin. It has been proposed that bog butter has been formed by food products buried in an attempt at an archaic form of refrigeration, as the peat creates a hygenic seal around the buried matter.
In Scotland, the practice of burying bog butter dates back to at least the 2nd or 3rd century. Ireland is home to the oldest recorded find of bog butter; a carved hanging bowl dating back to the 6th or 7th century AD. (From Wikipedia)
More bog butter info (because really, I needed several legitimate sites to make me believe this:
Bog Butter article
24hour Museum
New Scientist