Lively Case Discussion #585 2/25 - 3/2/2007

[Tibrogargan]

It sure does sound good!  I like all types of fish and can even eat squid rings or calamari as they call them here now.  More people eat them since they started calling them that.  But I hate those baby octopus --ugh!  Don't like mussels either and can't eat scallops now since I ate a dodgy one once and was sick for days, and that was years ago.
Ate a crook batch of KFC ages ago too and never been in a KFC shop since.

Funny what a name change can do for marketing - chinese gooseberries were not very popular then they renamed them kiwifruit and now you see them everywhere.

[klaasend]

[Tibrogargan]

Congratulations, Ms Darth Vada (what a pretty family name).  I know you must be very, very proud of your son!  Thank him for us for his service.

Thanks Tyler.  Your rose is beautiful, I only wish I could grow flowers and plants, but my thumb isn't green at all!  

What I know about the name Vada,  When my Grandmother was born, her mother died during childbirth, Her father David was a Woodsman who was gone for weeks at a time.  He didn't know what to name his newborn daughter, so he named her after his wife. Incidently I learned that Vada is Sweedish and is the feminine derrivitave for the name David.

That is a sweet story. I am so happy that you know it.  I know stories about my grandmoter and her mother similar to that, and I feel honored to know them.

It is a lovely story and would also mean that you were named after your great grandmother and great grandfather also.

[Tibrogargan]

Here is an article we really may not need to know :

LONDON : Nicole Kidman learned how to round up cattle and castrate bulls in preparation for her latest movie role, according to a British newspaper. "I don't know if I'll have to do that, but it's best to be prepared'" Kidman said preparing to film the World War 11 epic, Australia.

I would bet Tom is glad he is not around any more    
Maybe we could convince her to visit Aruba??

[mishy]

Here is an article we really may not need to know :

LONDON : Nicole Kidman learned how to round up cattle and castrate bulls in preparation for her latest movie role, according to a British newspaper. "I don't know if I'll have to do that, but it's best to be prepared'" Kidman said preparing to film the World War 11 epic, Australia.

I would bet Tom is glad he is not around any more    
Maybe we could convince her to visit Aruba??

               

[Tibrogargan]

Hi Mishy - OK to send you an email?

[igsigs]

Testing...putting avi up in case info is lost in upgrade. Does that make sense? Prolly not...doing it anyway.

Paulus in 07 !  Wiretaps      Re-arrest, detention and...trial.

[Tylergal]

O/T

ArtColley

Hope you don't lose power either.  I just got the coolest news!

 My son received his acceptance package to Maine Maritime Academy.  He will be studying Marine Engineering Operations and will also be playing Division III Football.

Oh my Goodness, You must be SOOOO proud of him!!!!!! I am so happy for you all..tell him congratulations for me!
Maine Maritime is NOT easy to get into..you got a little smarty there!

Wonderful news!!!!!!  NOw , you do know, you get "braggin rights" for everything he does from now on!!!!

Art, I am happy to see you here.  I hear that you have had a rough time.  God bless you.  I am so happy you came through it so well.  

I am never here when you are so I am posting in hopes you will see this.  Baby ABC is doing fine.  She is a little spoiled.  She occasionally gets excited and wets the floor but usually when one of the grandkids come because she knows she is going to be playing frisbee and gets so excited about that.

[klaasend]

Testing...putting avi up in case info is lost in upgrade. Does that make sense? Prolly not...doing it anyway.

Paulus in 07 !  Wiretaps      Re-arrest, detention and...trial.

I like the way you think!

[Tylergal]

Klaas, I want to change avatars, and I have one already on a server.  Can I just send it to you with the URL thingie?  I cannot remember about the sizing, etc.

Tyler That rose in your avatar is just beautiful.
What is its name?

AND..how ARE you???????

Hey, sweetie.  I just posted to you.  It is Shelia's Perfume.  It smells like it sounds and my favorite DIL is Shelia, so it is a perfect rose for me, and beautiful like she is.

[mishy]

Hi Mishy - OK to send you an email?

most definitely!

[Tylergal]

Hi monkeys...has anybody seen this?

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/16816419.htm

Mammana in guilty plea
'Crime fighter' to admit to gun, tax-evasion counts
By MICHAEL HINKELMAN
hinkelm@phillynews.com 215-854-2656
A wealthy Philadelphia businessman who gained fame by offering big rewards to help solve crime cases will soon be noted for something far less noble - cheating on his taxes.

Joe Mammana, 47, who has been in federal custody since December, intends to plead guilty on Tuesday to federal gun and tax-evasion charges, a federal prosecutor and his attorney said yesterday.

He had been scheduled to go on trial that day on a single count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Mammana was arrested and charged by criminal complaint in November after federal investigators found a loaded .357 Magnum in his nightstand while they were searching his Yardley, Bucks County, home for business and tax records.

The feds said in their plea agreement with Mammana that he failed to file a personal tax return and pay taxes on more than $416,000 in 2005, and intentionally evaded taxes and failed to file returns on more than $4 million of income from 2000 through 2004.

Mammana stipulated in the plea agreement that he owes Uncle Sam at least $400,000 in back taxes but not more than $2.5 million. He has agreed to pay the IRS at least $200,000 before sentencing.

Mammana has also agreed to forfeit the Magnum and a 2003 Lamborghini Murielago, both of which were seized by the feds in November. The feds valued the Lamborghini at more than $287,000.

Mammana could face from six to nine years in prison.

Jeffrey M. Lindy, Mammana's attorney, declined to be interviewed yesterday and said he would not make Mammana available to answer questions from the Daily News.

Mammana owns an egg-processing plant in North Philadelphia - Yardley Farms - that takes raw eggs and turns them into powdered, liquid and frozen egg products.

A source who didn't want to be identified said the business is no longer operating. Another law-

yer for Mammana, Martin L. Trichon, could not be reached for comment. The phone at Yardley Farms emitted a constant busy signal.

Mammana is better known as a brash, philanthropic crime-fighter who told the Daily News in February 2006 he had "done more than anybody else in this city" to help people.

Mammana, an ex-Marine, said then that he had been offering reward money - or "bounties" - for 10 years to the Citizens Crime Commission.

In 2005, that reward money helped cops crack two widely publicized murder cases.

One was the killing of Latoyia Figueroa, the young Philadelphia woman pregnant with her boyfriend's baby, and Patricia McDermott, an Elkins Park mother who was killed while walking to her job at Pennsylvania Hospital, moments after leaving a SEPTA bus.

Mammana attracted national attention in 2005 when he pledged $100,000 for information to help solve the case of Natalee Holloway, the missing Alabama teen who disappeared during a trip to Aruba in May 2005.

Although Mammana made a name for himself fighting crime, he has been twice convicted of drug charges, once for aggravated assault and once for sexual harassment.

The convictions date back to the late 1980s and early 1990s.

At a detention hearing before a federal magistrate last December, the feds alleged that Mammana had skimmed upwards of $3.2 million from legitimate business accounts and steered the money into his personal checking account or the accounts of businesses Mammana had set up to finance a lavish lifestyle.

Robin Hood.

[Tylergal]

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

The FORUM will go down tomorrow morning and won't be back up until Sunday afternoon.

Tom is doing an UPGRADE of the Forum so when the site comes back up some things may have changed...for the better!

Are you planning a "rehab" thread in the lounge when the forum comes back up???? For us addicted Monkeys?????  Sort of a "show and tell" about how we handled the weekend without Scared Monkeys????????

HeeHee - I think they decided it was a good time to update the forum as what seems like HALF the posters will be at the Monkeys Lunch in Atlanta.  Wish we could be there.  The rest of us are going to flood the FP.    
How are you going Artcolley?  Hope you are progressing well.

Oh, you are right, Tibro!!!

I wish I could attend the luncheon.
I am just too far away and also haven't been "out" since my surgery. I still am not supposed to bend or lift anything over 5 lbs.
I should get cleared at the end of this month, though.

I am doing well, except for horrific headaches that get me up at 3 am and keep me up til 5 or 6.  Normal part of the healing process for this thing I guess though.

I can't WAIT to get out of this house!!!!

THank you for asking, Tibro!

How are you doing?

We are doing well, thank you for asking.  DH still gets headaches and has some strong painkillers to take (stronger than over the counter ones) but no where near like the migraine type ones he used to get.  Drs now think it was small bleeds and not migraines.  Easier to diagnose in retrospect I suppose.  I thank God every day for clever surgeons and loving healing angels, as you would be doing.

I'm glad to hear you are both well.
Oh, yes!  I second the clever surgeons and loving healing angels!!!!

Strange, but I found that ibuprofen tends to help with the headaches faster than the oxycodin I was prescribed. That stuff doesn't even touch them.'

YEP, ME TOO.

[igsigs]

Klaas...does Bon Dia have archives?

[klaasend]

Klaas...does Bon Dia have archives?

I think they might.  What are you looking for?

[igsigs]

Klaas...does Bon Dia have archives?

I think they might.  What are you looking for?

7/14/05

[Tylergal]

Klaas...does Bon Dia have archives?

No scruples, not sure about archives.

[Tibrogargan]

Hi Mishy - OK to send you an email?

most definitely!

Have just sent you an email - will have my husband's name on it but Tibro is in the subject line.

[Tibrogargan]

Klaas...does Bon Dia have archives?

No scruples, not sure about archives.

       

[klaasend]

Klaas...does Bon Dia have archives?

I think they might.  What are you looking for?

7/14/05

I don't there's anything for July 2005 but I'll look.