Diane’s Stuff – Page 25 – Whatever Blows My Dress Up

Arrested For Selling Golden Tickets To Heaven!

This has to be one of the funniest and most bizarre police arrests I have ever read! its hilarious!

Enjoy, Jo xxx

A married couple in Florida, Tito and Amanda were arrested a few days ago for selling “golden tickets to heaven” to hundreds of people.

They sold the tickets on the street for $99.99 per ticket, told buyers the tickets were made from solid gold and that each ticket reserved the buyer to a spot in heaven.

Simply present the ticket at the pearly gates and you’re in.

Tito Watts said in his police statement, I don’t care what the police say, the tickets are solid gold… and it was Jesus who gave them to be behind the KFC and said to sell them so I could get some money to go outer space.

I met an alien named Stevie who said if I got the cash together he’d take me and my wife on his flying saucer to his planet that’s made entirely of drugs, you should arrest Jesus because he’s the one that gave me the golden tickets and said to sell them, I am willing to wear a wire and set up Jesus.

Amanda Watts said in her police statement, we just wanted to leave earth and go to space and do drugs …

I didn’t do nothing. Tito sold the golden tickets to heaven, I just watched.

Police said they confiscated over $10,000 in cash, drug paraphernalia … and a baby alligator.

LMAO!

Frijoles, Beans Mexican Style

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Frijoles

Cooking Time:
1 hour 45 mins
Serves: 4 Double as needed.

Ingredients:
1 cup of dried pinto beans
1 small white onion, peeled
2 crushed cloves of garlic
1 whole large Serrano or Jalapeño pepper, stemmed and seeded (Serranos are normally hottest.)
Tbsp. vegetable oil
water
salt

Instructions:

Pick through the beans and remove any debris, beans that have split or are otherwise damaged. Thoroughly rinse and set aside. In a large pot heat tablespoon of oil, then sauté the pepper and onion just until the onion begins to turn translucent and the pepper forms blisters.
Add crushed garlic and sauté until it softens, stirring so as not to burn.

Add the beans you set aside into the pot then pour in enough water to cover the beans by 3 inches. Cover the pot and bring to a simmer over medium heat and simmer until the beans have softened. Keep an eye on them and check occasionally to see if more water needs to be added.
Once the beans are softer, add your salt. Approximately 1 tbsp. or more according to taste. Allow to simmer over medium heat and uncovered for another 15 minutes.
At this time the beans should be cooked through and the skins slide off.
Taste and add more salt if desired. Remove onion, garlic, and pepper before serving or if you intend to mash them for refried beans.

When I do this I reserve some of the bean broth in case the beans dry out too much when mashing. I also like to add cumin when mashing, before reheating, but that’s all according to personal taste.

Recycled With Charm

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I don’t really remember how I came to have these images, but I think my sister sent them to me in an email. These old items have been recycled with charm and what I liked the most about them was you could tell just by looking what needed to be done. No long set of convoluted instructions. If you have some of these old items around the house, think twice before throwing them away!

I really like the old shredder painted and turned into an earring hanger. The jeans filled with soil and planted are pretty neat too but I don’t have enough patience for that kind of thing. If you use any of these ideas, take a pic and send it to us! We’d love to see.

25 Gorgeous Fractals Wallpaper Sized

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Most of these are wallpaper sized although some may be a bit smaller. If you look in the caption it will show you how large each image is. When clicked on to view you’ll get a larger version but to appreciate these they really do need to be seen actual pixels. A fractal is and I quote from Wiki-
A fractal is a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits a repeating pattern that displays at every scale.

The term “fractal” was first used by mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975. Mandelbrot based it on the Latinfrāctus meaning “broken” or “fractured”, and used it to extend the concept of theoretical fractional dimensions to geometric patterns in nature.

There is some disagreement amongst authorities about how the concept of a fractal should be formally defined. Mandelbrot himself summarized it as “beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.”