Conductor: This is 14th Street. Transfer here for the L as in "lower level of hell".

Conductor over loudspeaker: I know it's Saturday afternoon and all you people are mad confused because the trains are all messed up on weekends, so listen up: The W as in "Will you marry me?" will be running on the Q as in "cookie" line. And the R as in (goes in operatic singing voice) "rooooooooooomeooooooooooo" will be running normally for the rest of the weekend. Alright y'all... There you go. Enjoy your Saturday!

Conductor: This is 81st street. Get off here for the big museum of dead stuff.

Conductor: Near the rear doors, in the blue shirt and black tie, get your saggy stomach clear of the closing doors! 5th Avenue is next.

Conductor: Once more, ladies and gentlemen, things that should not be in the doors when they are closing: heads, shoulders, knees or toes, no purses, arms, or slow companions.

Bus driver: Everyone get on the bus, I got a schedule. For those of you sneaking on in the back, can you at least do it fast? I've got places to be.

Conductor: This is an express, uptown C train. You heard right: an express C train. Next stop: 125th Street. If you need local service on the Upper West Side, please transfer across the platform to the D, as in "Daddy done did it" or B, as in "bad boy Bobby Brown" train.

Conductor: Never give up on life. Keep hope alive. This is 30th Avenue. (On N train in Astoria)

Conductor: Hello, and welcome to the mobile sauna bath.

While I was up in Newport this weekend, I found a number of humorously named roads.  Here is one such sign

My 3 year anniversary with the AP was in May.  I got my plaque and card to celebrate today at our team meeting.  Apparently the company is pretty confused about who I am/what my name is despite my three years of indentured servitude.

Apparently the slumping market has not affected the prices of methamphetmines.  While discussing the recent study about how cinnamon can help reduce blood sugar levels and I wondered how much cinnamon one needs to ingest to effectively reduce blood sugar and how cinnamon can have different purity levels much like many street drugs (ex. meth). 

"Prices for meth vary throughout the United States. On the distribution level, it can range from $3,500 per pound in parts of California and Texas to $21,000 per pound in the southeastern and northeastern regions of the country. The retail price for methamphetamine ranges from $400 to $3,000 per ounce. One methamphetamine addict told authorities her habit started at $10-$25 a day and grew to $250 a day."

Meth is definitely more expensive than cinnamon! And to make matters worse, prices are on the rise while purity is declining.  

"From January through June 2007, the average price per pure gram of all domestic methamphetamine purchases increased 37 per cent, from $141.72 to $194.25, while purity fell 24 per cent, from 57 per cent to 43 per cent."