<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Barnacle Bill, Bimbo &amp; Betty Boop - 1930 : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Barnacle Bill, Bimbo &amp; Betty Boop - 1930 : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-11-27T09:54:38+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Barnacle Bill, Bimbo &amp; Betty Boop - 1930]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45539/1/" /><id>45539</id><summary><![CDATA[Barnacle Bill, Bimbo &amp; Betty Boop - 1930]]></summary><issued>2007-12-30T10:53:41+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-30T10:53:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Who's there knocking at my door? Who's there knocking at my door? Who's there knocking at my door?&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;It's Barnacle Bill, the sailor&quot;<br/><br/>This is an early version of the Betty Boop character.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[The $2 Bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/56777/1/" /><id>56777</id><summary><![CDATA[The $2 Bill]]></summary><issued>2008-04-02T15:04:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-02T15:04:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A guy stops off at his local Taco Bell after work and decides to pay with a $2 bill instead of a $50 to make things easier for the cashier.<br/><br/>Hilarity and Asshatery ensue.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bimbo's Initiation - Wanna be a member ?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18191/1/" /><id>18191</id><summary><![CDATA[Bimbo's Initiation - Wanna be a member ?]]></summary><issued>2007-04-27T17:44:25+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-27T17:44:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Wanna be a member ? Betty Boop seals the deal in this occult themed classic cartoon from 1931.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate won't bother reading health care bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/125930/1/" /><id>125930</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate won't bother reading health care bill]]></summary><issued>2009-06-26T15:24:23+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-26T15:24:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[They may skim it, but Harry Reid refuses to allow a week to pass so that all the public can review the bill - much as they did with the stimulus bill. All this despite the promise Obama of a 5-day wait before any bill was signed into law.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The rare early works of Bill Watterson]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39856/1/" /><id>39856</id><summary><![CDATA[The rare early works of Bill Watterson]]></summary><issued>2007-10-28T20:37:27+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-28T20:37:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Here's a collection of rare early Bill &quot;Calvin and Hobbes&quot; Watterson's toons from The Kenyon Collegian, his college paper from Kenyon, Ohio. They're a little edgier than the Calvin and Hobbes strips (but not as funny)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Betty Boop - Minnie the Moocher]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24914/1/" /><id>24914</id><summary><![CDATA[Betty Boop - Minnie the Moocher]]></summary><issued>2007-06-23T11:50:46+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-23T11:50:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For your Saturday morning viewing pleasure, Betty Boop cartoon featuring Cab Calloway's &quot;Minnie the Moocher&quot; tune. Hi de hi de ho!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Rare, Life-Sized Betty Boop Statue Stolen]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/58517/1/" /><id>58517</id><summary><![CDATA[Rare, Life-Sized Betty Boop Statue Stolen]]></summary><issued>2008-04-16T08:09:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-16T08:09:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A unique, life-sized statue of Betty Boop worth thousands of dollars was stolen from a popular Central Florida village.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bill would give president emergency control of Internet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/131967/1/" /><id>131967</id><summary><![CDATA[Bill would give president emergency control of Internet]]></summary><issued>2009-08-29T16:21:37+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-29T16:21:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The new version of the bill would allow the president to &quot;declare a cybersecurity emergency&quot; relating to &quot;non-governmental&quot; computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[It's the wind, Betty]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30143/1/" /><id>30143</id><summary><![CDATA[It's the wind, Betty]]></summary><issued>2007-08-03T18:15:52+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-03T18:15:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Doesn't sound so good in English.  Really, it's called <i>C'est le vent, Betty</i> and it's from Betty Blue.  Which is really called <i>37&#176;2 Le Matin</i>.  It's by Gabriel Yared.  He is really called Gabriel Yared.<br/><br/>Betty Blue.  <b>Blue</b>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New Bill Could Make You a &quot;Terrorist&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/43664/1/" /><id>43664</id><summary><![CDATA[New Bill Could Make You a &quot;Terrorist&quot;]]></summary><issued>2007-12-09T05:16:32+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-09T05:16:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent.&quot;<br/><br/>This blog summarizes the bill and links to the full text.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hot secret behind toucan's bill ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/128917/1/" /><id>128917</id><summary><![CDATA[Hot secret behind toucan's bill ]]></summary><issued>2009-07-24T14:00:30+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-24T14:00:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For centuries, scientists have puzzled over why the toucan's bill is so remarkably large - but now one team thinks it might have an answer.<br/>Infrared footage shows how a toucan uses its bill to regulate its temperature to stay cool.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/74321/1/" /><id>74321</id><summary><![CDATA[Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks?]]></summary><issued>2008-08-31T09:38:41+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-31T09:38:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In a recent interview Russell Crowe let slip that he is involved in a Bill Hicks biopic.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ten Thousand Cents]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/57938/1/" /><id>57938</id><summary><![CDATA[Ten Thousand Cents]]></summary><issued>2008-04-11T22:54:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-11T22:54:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Ten Thousand Cents&quot; is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool.  Site also has a video with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Fla. woman chooses to go to jail over $7.45 bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80014/1/" /><id>80014</id><summary><![CDATA[Fla. woman chooses to go to jail over $7.45 bill]]></summary><issued>2008-10-22T09:23:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-22T09:23:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A woman decided to go to jail rather than pay her bill at a Fort Pierce Waffle House restaurant. The total she went to jail over: $7.45.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Verizon Willing To Let  Man Die Unless Cops Pay $20 Of His Overdue Bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/116448/1/" /><id>116448</id><summary><![CDATA[Verizon Willing To Let  Man Die Unless Cops Pay $20 Of His Overdue Bill]]></summary><issued>2009-05-23T02:23:54+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-23T02:23:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The cops got a call that the man was rampaging around his house and breaking windows. When they arrived, the man had fled, taking bottles of pills with him. The sheriff contacted Verizon to ask them to turn the man's cellphone service on so they could track his signal, but the operator said the missing man's bill had to be paid first...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bill O' Reilly to quit radio]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/83716/1/" /><id>83716</id><summary><![CDATA[Bill O' Reilly to quit radio]]></summary><issued>2008-12-05T17:50:27+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-05T17:50:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[[sarcasm]I know this will make many of you cry[/sarcasm] but Bill O'Reilly has announced that he will step down from his very successful syndicated radio show.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/135433/1/" /><id>135433</id><summary><![CDATA[Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T12:57:31+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T12:57:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was &quot;absolutely&quot; committed to doing so.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A Colorful $5 Bill Is Coming Your Way]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/54089/1/" /><id>54089</id><summary><![CDATA[A Colorful $5 Bill Is Coming Your Way]]></summary><issued>2008-03-13T02:11:40+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-13T02:11:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Coming soon to a cash register near you: a new $5 bill sporting some touches of color for the first time.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Woman's one cent bill paid in full]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/82281/1/" /><id>82281</id><summary><![CDATA[Woman's one cent bill paid in full]]></summary><issued>2008-11-19T08:10:50+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-19T08:10:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An outstanding utility bill could have caused an elderly blind woman her property. But, thanks to some kind citizens, her debt has been settled. Update on <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/weird/l/82196/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this post</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mesa boy, 7, gets bill in bike-van crash]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45878/1/" /><id>45878</id><summary><![CDATA[Mesa boy, 7, gets bill in bike-van crash]]></summary><issued>2008-01-03T02:35:44+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-03T02:35:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Jessica Brovitch was relieved when her 7-year-old son was only scraped and bruised after a van collided with his bicycle on Nov. 9. But she was shocked when the child later received a bill for $650.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates Sets His Sights On Controlling the Weather]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/127453/1/" /><id>127453</id><summary><![CDATA[Bill Gates Sets His Sights On Controlling the Weather]]></summary><issued>2009-07-12T05:44:52+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-12T05:44:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Truly this is the age of Greenfinger: Billionaire Bill Gates has patented the idea to halt hurricanes by decreasing the surface temperature of the ocean.]]></content></entry></feed>