Virus Alert (Hallmark Greetings) EMAIL ALERT

Hi All, I got this email earlier today, I checked Snopes

It's a real Virus Threat !

Get this message sent to your contacts ASAP
.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS!

You should be alert during the next few days.

Do not open any message with an attachment entitled 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK,' regardless of who sent it to you.

It is a virus which opens A POSTCARD IMAGE, which 'burns' the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list.

This is the reason why you need to send this e-mail to all your contacts It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it.

If you receive a mail called' POSTCARD,' even though sent to you by friend, do not open it! Shut down your computer immediately. This is the worst virus announced by CNN.

It has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard
Disc, where the vital information is kept.

Salem, MA, lunch, history and giggles

I had lunch today in Salem, Ma (Witch City) at a place that I would recommend to anyone visits the city that was once the home of Nathaniel Hawthorne and where every year they celebrate Halloween with more pomp and circumstance than Christmas.

Some claim that in 1876, the first telephone call was made from just around the corner at the site of the Lyceum Bar and Grill by Alexander Graham Bell to his assistant Mr Watson who was in Cambridge...


Red's Sandwich Shop

After lunch I had to take a picture of a Liquor Store Sign that has always struck me funny..

The Bunghole !

I think I'd change my name even if I did know that:

A bunghole is a hole bored in a liquid-tight barrel. The hole is capped with a large cork-like object called a bung

Bungholes were first used on wooden barrels, and were typically bored by the purchaser of the barrel using a brace and bit. Bungholes can be bored in either head (end) of a barrel or in one of the staves (side). With the bung removed, a tapered faucet can be attached to aid with dispensing. When barrels full of beer or wine were shipped, the recipient would often bore new bungholes of the most suitable size and placement rather than remove the existing bung.

I think I'd call my liquor store "The Keg"

Some Pic's and a note to myTo my subscribers

First I'd like to say to my wonderful subscribers....Sorry about the last post!!

I learned that it couldn't be read because I had the wrong color font!! If it happens to you again just know you can click on the link to Tom's Hideaway at the bottom of the feed you are receiving and you should be able to see the posting OK..

SORRY !!!

Now some pictures...



Minnie Again..She's just Photogenic and no one else lets me take as many pictures as I do of her!!


Experimental Photo...Driving Drunk



This is what it's like if you are Driving Impaired

DON'T DO IT !!

For the full effect, click on the pictures and they get larger. Minnie make a good desktop wallpaper as she is peeking around all the icons and well if you stare at the second one long enough you may be able to just skip the Martini's...

Have a great day!!

Got it in the Email

Three men - a Canadian farmer, Osama bin Laden and a KENTUCKY GENTLEMAN are all working together one day.

They come across a lantern and a Genie pops out of it.
'I will give each of you one wish, which is three wishes in total', says the Genie.

The Canadian says, 'I am a farmer and my son will also farm. I want the land to be forever fertile in Canada '

POOF! With the blink of the Genie's eye, the land in Canada was forever fertile for farming.

Osama was amazed, so he said, 'I want a wall around Afghanistan , Palestine , Iraq and Iran so that no infidels, Americans or Canadians
can come into our precious land.'

POOF! Again, with the blink of the Genie's eye, there was a huge wall around those countries.

The Kentuckian says, 'I am very curious.
Please tell me more about this wall.'

The Genie explains, 'Well, it's about 5,000 feet high, 5oo feet thick and completely surrounds the country. Nothing can get in or out;
it's virtually impenetrable.'

The Kentuckian sits down on his Harley , cracks a beer, lites a cigar,
smiles and says,

'Fill it with water.'

Weekly Winner, Trivia Update

The scores are in along with a lot of 1st time players and some who have tried again after being away...Thanks for playing and lets get to this weeks TOP 5 Weekly Points winners...

Player	Total Points	Overall Rank
1. kathlock	110	1
2. Soy-Boy	83	5
3. Dawtch	82	9
4.Operator9	80	3
5.Shoretown	75	20

It's the girl from Downunder AGAIN !! getting into the triple figures AGAIN !! she is on fire this month and I'm tempted to throw a whole week of baseball Trivia at her, but that wouldn't be nice !!

CONGRATS KATHLOCK !!

As far as #2 thru #5 we see 4 different players than we had last week...

Soy-Boy was number 2 and he stumbled yesterday after having a very strong week.

Our favorite player from Indiana Dawtch notched #3 .

The April 08' Champion , Operator 9 was 4th.

Finally, number 5 spot Shoretown , who has dabbled in the Trivia Challenge in the past, played 6 out of the last 7 days, and proves once again that in any given week anyone playing Tom's Trivia Challenge has a chance at being the Weekly Points Winner, a stat you will only find here at Tom's Hideaway.

Congrats to all and welcome to those 8 new or returning players that joined us in the past week including Shoretown we had Balla1, Bpoore05, Dale2006, Rain, Tresbelle16, Jayarr and prittypink1211...

This week I'm Going with 7 straight days of Fun Trivia Mix Questions...Good Luck to all !!

Old South Meeting House

On December 16, 1773, some 5000 colonists gathered at the Old South Meeting House to protest a tax and so, started a revolution with the Boston Tea Party.

Built in 1729, the Old South Meeting House was the largest building in colonial Boston, but is now towered over by the modern steel and glass buildings of today.

Boston is a beautiful city with a wonderful mix of old and new...



On a trip this past weekend I snapped a few shots of the city...

A new view of the Custom House from a park that used to be a a highway through the city until they put the highway in a tunnel with the costliest highway project ever... Big Dig

And another shot from the park , but , looking in the opposite direction, of Rowes Wharf where I left my Yacht above..I wish!!

Located across from the State House , beside the Boston Common is the Memorial to the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry which was one of the first black regiments in the US Military and fought in the Civil War and was depicted in the movie Glory starring Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington.

All in all my son Pat and I had a nice day strolling through the city, hope you enjoy the photos!!

Trivia Update July, Week 1

Because I lost the points stats from Sunday 06/29/08, we only have 6 days of points to determine the overall Points Leader for the week ending July 5, 2008!!

It's my mistake...but I think we can all live with it.

So...The players with the most points from Monday 6/30/08 to Saturday 7/05/08 are as follows:

Player	Total Points	Overall Rank
1. kathlock	101	1
2. Shaun	76	4
3. Sally	73	11
4.PG	70	2
5. Pixiepants	61	5

Kathlock leads the pack !!

Congrats Kath and the rest of the players that made it in the top 5 in points this week.

I'm doing AWFUL but I'm not giving in yet!!

1, 2, 3 Clones !!!

click on picture to enlarge

The Panorama function on the the new camera is kinda cool... It looks like Pat is watching himself talk to himself !!

RE Weekly Winner's...I've crunched the numbers, I know the weekly winners but I am trying out a new Scheduled Post feature in Blogger so tune in after 5 AM EST on July 7, 2008 for the Weekly Points Winner stats and see if you made the list...