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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."-- Thomas Jefferson

"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." .... jbd

"When once a job you have begun, do no stop till it is done. Whether the task be great or small, do it well, or not at all." .... Anon

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

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If you can't start a fire, perhaps your wood is wet ....

When you elect clowns, expect a circus ..............




Showing posts with label flip flops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flip flops. Show all posts

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Thanks Ernie ... great photograph and story

Just when you thought you’d seen everything.! 

Guess What This Is? 


No reason to stand on your feet 
waiting to get your welfare check!! 
Just put your flip-flops next in line 
and go back and sit on your butt 
and play games on your iPhone.  
Is this a great country or what? 

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Fish Flops founder Madison Robinson meets one of her Nordstrom customers

She launched her business two years ago, but Houston teenager Madison Robinson has yet to face something most new entrepreneurs do: rejection. Every store buyer she has approached has placed an order for her Fish Flops for Kids shoe brand.
Robinson came up with the idea for her sea-creature-adorned flip-flops with battery-operated lights when she was just 8, living at the beach in Galveston Island, Tex. Her dad Dan, a former banker turned t-shirt designer, helped her turn her drawings into a product and get samples made. More than 30 stores placed orders the first time they exhibited at a trade show, so he hired an overseas manufacturer and started shipping in May 2011.
Launched with “friends and family” financing, the enterprise is already profitable, the elder Robinson says. The shoes now sell online, in various retail boutiques, and at 60 Nordstrom stores nationwide for around $20 a pair. They’re also coming soon to FlipFlopShops.com, and Macy’s buyers in New York recently asked Madison to design a line for women. More than 60,000 pairs sold in 2012, making for retail sales of at least $1.2 million. That's not all Fish Flops' income; the Robinsons sell wholesale. But Dan Robinson says it's safe to say that his daughter, who is about to complete 9th grade, has already socked away enough profits to cover her college tuition.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Man Runs 2:46 Marathon In Flip Flops


By Scott Douglas
Runner's World

Keith Levasseur ran Saturday's Baltimore Marathon in 2:46:58 while wearing flip flops. Levasseur will file paperwork with the Guinness Book of World Records to have the feat acknowledged as a world record for a marathon in flip flops.

Levasseur, a member of Maryland's Howard County Striders, ran his marathon PR of 2:38 at last year's Marine Corps Marathon. Before the Baltimore Marathon, he said his goal was to go sub-3:00 in flip flops.


Sunday, September 12, 2010

I've come up with an idea .............

I do a lot of people watching, and I was doing that today at Walmart, which is a great place to people watch. I have started  walking up to people who just put items they don't want anyplace handy, and I ask them, "Did you mean to just leave that there?"

Generally they just look at me and walk away, leaving the item they decided they didn't want. What is it about Walmart that people think they can do that. I shop other stores and don't see that happening as much as at Walmart.

Maybe it is just so big they don't want to back-track. From the back of the store to the front door, today, I counted 33 out of place items. Some in freezers, some on shelves, just anyplace to get rid of it. I wonder what their kids think when they tell them to just put it down and leave it. At home Mom wants them to pick up their stuff and "put it back." But at Walmart it is OK, why is that?

I came up with another revelation today. I think I have found out why so many people are getting Cancer.

I was people watching today, and all of a sudden it came to me. What did people start doing 20 or 30 years ago ..... flip flops and tennis shoes. Plastic flip flops and shoes with a lot of plastic and glue and stuff. People live in them. And in the Winter, those who wear flip flops start wearing tennis shoes in the winter, or plastic boots. Even a lot of shoes people wear are plastic rather than leather. Plastic and glue.

Today, 18 out of 20 people were either wearing flip flops or tennis shoes. And, if you took a survey, 95 percent of people who get cancer wear one of the other, or plastic shoes.

That was almost too easy

It was so obvious when I realized it. And, most of them are made in China, or somewhere. Maybe a conspiracy, how many shoes or flip flops are made by Muslims? Muslims wear leather slippers.