"I only put it on when I'm desperate to get out of a big slump," the 37-year-old slugger told Portfolio.com.
Giambi said he has loaned the thong out to teammates, including Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Johnny Damon, Robin Ventura and Robinson Cano.
"All of them wore it and got hits," he said. "The thong works every time."
The essays were assigned to students in the Grade 11 law class at
Monsignor Paul Dwyer Secondary School, located near the high-collision
intersection of Rossland Rd. W. and Stevenson Rd.
The idea was to teach safe driving principles to both drivers and students, who included statistics, consequences of bad driving and personal tales in their messages delivered at a mobile command unit.
"The students allow us another medium to get the
message to drivers that unsafe driving is not welcome in our city," said Const.
Chris Heffernan, traffic safety co-ordinator at 17 Division, who organized the
event.
“He told officers he had an itch on his back and grabbed the first thing he
could get a hold of, which was a revolver,” Lt. Dean said. “The gun went off."
Mr. Espinal went back and told his buddies that he shot himself. “They
didn’t believe him until they saw the blood coming down his back,” Lt. Dean
said.
Free repairs to flammable toilets
Japan's leading toilet manufacturer is offering free repairs to 180,000 toilets after some of them caught fire.There have been three incidents of the electric bidet accessory in Toto's Z series catching fire, reports the BBC.
"Fortunately nobody was using the toilets when the fire broke out and there were no injuries," a company spokesman said.
"The fire would have been just under your buttocks," she
added.
so i wonder if this is what Bush had in mind with the whole no child left behind thing. as if these 'innocent' high school students havent seen worse on MTV, Desperate Housewives, or YouTube... come on.... a picture IN another picture in a book???
Allen (Texas) High School students first noticed the
scandalous pictures on a magazine in the background of a photograph in the
Deutsch Aktuell textbook, WFAA-TV, Dallas reported Tuesday.
"We were actually
doing a class reading and a few students noticed it and started giggling, and
the teacher caught on and the whole class knew," student Joshua Sabik
said.
"Oh, it was obvious ... Naked women, breasts, right out there in your
face," Joshua's mother Desiree Sabik told WFAA.
"A total of 20,000 prophylactics are being mailed in a recruitment drive,
The Sun reports. They're mounted on cards with the instruction "Apply to weapon
when on maneuvers.""
