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Unique Coca-Cola Vending Machines The People of Bring India and Pakistan Together

 

Heroic Moore Teachers: Trenda Purcell and Jancie Brim Save Childrens Lives During Tornado

Many of the teachers were heroes during the Moore tornado. Trenda Purcell and her teacher's aide created a music came to help calm the children calm their nerves as the storm approached. You can feel the woman's passion, strength, and bravery.

Jancie Brim directed her kids into a closet and bathrooms, most definitely saving all of their lives. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone in Moore, Okalahoma.

Clever Business Card For Brazilian Cheese Shop

 

Huff Po: Business cards -- so often they're exchanged, slipped inside a wallet and promptly forgotten. We imagine that's not so with the cards for Brazilian cheese shop Bon Vivant, which hired ad agency JWT to come up with a card that cuts through the competition. And they did, literally, with a business card that doubles as a cheese grater.

According to JWT's web site, Bon Vivant customers quickly snatched up the 1,000 total cards that were made. Bon Vivant owner, Beto Rogoski, said that the store had to establish a rule that customers receiving a card had to wait two or three days before coming back and snagging another one.

Don't worry about it ruining your back pocket -- the card comes in a protective sleeve.

via www.huffingtonpost.com

 

 

SNL SPOOF ON HERMES HANDBAGS

Deer Takes a Bus Ride

 

I'm glad she was okay! Must have been very scary for her.

 

Clever Toy Ad Paradoy: Planet Online Turns The Internet Into Toys

So what would the RHU game look like? I know there would be a huge skull castle and all of us service slaves as skeleton figures fighting off attacks by hate-spewing custys and evil management....and they would all look like Orcs, the Dark Lord Sauron's army from LOTR!

Jimmy Kimmel's Abercrombie For Fat People With Parks and Rec Star Jim O'Heir

 

 

Congratulations To Candice Glover The New American Idol

Candice was one of us! That's right RHU, she was a former sales agent - booking excurisons for Fripp Island. She had tried out for American Idol twice and almost got through, but was cut from Las Vegas last year. Candice had to return home to her job. But she never gave up on her dream and kept singing at churches and lounges, she knew she had the talent and she could do it with that powerhouse voice. I'm so thrilled she won; so well deserved. Many of her performances during the season left me with chills. Candice Glover, you are an inspiration! 

Below are two peformances from the season finale, one with the amazing Jennifer Hudson:

  

Monstrous Restaurant Owners Amy and Samy Bouzaglo Reopening Amy's Baking Company

I've never seen such hateful, disgusting business owners in my entire retail career (these people take their server's tips!!!). I'm a big fan of Kitchen Nightmares and Gordon Ramsay in General and he has helped over 100 restaurants. He had to walk a way from these monsters. The hellhole operated by Amy and Samy Bouzaglo was not savable by him because they are selfish, rude, greedy, nasty people that should not be running any kind of service related business. Now they are reopening the restaurant again! I hope it sinks so far into the earth it reaches hell.

Below is the full Kitchen Nightmares episode if you have not seen it. Your jaw will drop - several times...

Huff Po: It looks like Amy's Baking Company, the restaurant at the center of the "Kitchen Nightmares" season finale brouhaha, is going into damage control mode.

Owners Amy and Samy Bouzaglo have hired PR firm Rose + Moser + Allyn Public and Online Relations and closed down their Scottsdale eatery. But like an ironic phoenix rising from the ashes, it will reopen on May 21 for a "Grand Re-Opening," according to a press release posted to the restaurant's Facebook page.

A portion of the proceeds will go to an unnamed charity "organized to bring awareness to cyber bullying," a not-so-subtle reference to Amy's assertion that the restaurant has been unfairly singled out on the internet.

"We are very upset by what has taken place, apologize about the acrimony that has ensued but now must fight back to save our business," Samy Bouzaglo said in the release. "We hope and believe much good can result from what has transpired. We ask the public to keep an open mind as we begin to tell our side of the story."

According to a Twitter page associated with Jason Rose, a principle at Rose + Moser + Allyn Public and Online Relations, the grand reopening event has already sold out.

The Huffington Post reached out to Mike Saucier, a Rose + Moser + Allyn associate handling the reopening, who was unable to offer more information about the event. However, Saucier said more details would be released to the public later today. We will update the post as needed.

Saucier told HuffPost that Rose + Moser + Allyn has experience with crisis PR cases, which, it would seem to an outside observer, aptly sums up what it faces with Amy's Baking Company.

via www.huffingtonpost.com

 

 

 

 

Random Act of Retail Kindness: Custy Leaves $446 Tip For Hardworking Waitress

Gallon Smashing Karma

 

Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy's Audi Commerical

 

Random Act of Drag Queen Kindness: Hooker Makeover

 

 

Something Fun: Spoof On Nancy Pelosi Singing About Drugs

RHU Thank You Charles Ramsey For Saving Amanda Berry

Like everyone I was stunned when I saw the headlines of these girls being rescued, but it hit home to see the oldest was one of us retail minions and she had been kidnapped after her shift at Burger King and held in a hourse for 10 years. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of these girls for their bravery and the hell they must have had to endure to survive. And for the hell their families went through missing them. We are glad you are safe now Amanda! We wish you Gina, and the other girls, healing, happiness, and bright futures full of love.

And how awesome is Charles Ramsey? So many people would have walked right on by like they saw nothing or it was too weird for them stop and take notice. This guy cares and has the balls to get involved. I can only wish amazing things to happen for him - he deserves accolades for his heroics.

Below is Amanda's 911 call:

 

From Huff Po: Two women who went missing as teenagers about a decade ago were found alive Monday in a residential area just south of downtown, within a few miles of where they disappeared.

CLEVELAND — Three women who went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s, had been tied up but were found alive Monday in a residential area just south of downtown, and three brothers were arrested, police said.

One of the women told a 911 dispatcher the person who had taken her was gone, and she pleaded for police officers to come and get her, saying, "I'm free now."

Cheering crowds gathered Monday night on the street near the home where police said Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight had been held since they went missing and were found earlier in the day.

Police didn't immediately provide any details of how the women were found but said they appeared to be in good health and had been taken to a hospital to be reunited with relatives and to be evaluated. They said a 6-year-old also was found in the home.

On a recorded 911 call Monday, Berry declared, "I'm Amanda Berry. I've been on the news for the last 10 years."

She said she had been taken by someone and begged for police officers to arrive at the home on Cleveland's west side before he returned.

"I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for 10 years," she told the dispatcher. "And I'm here. I'm free now."

Berry disappeared at age 16 on April 21, 2003, when she called her sister to say she was getting a ride home from her job at a Burger King. DeJesus went missing at age 14 on her way home from school about a year later. They were found just a few miles from where they had gone missing.

Police said Knight went missing in 2002 and is 32 now. They didn't provide current ages for the other two women.

via www.huffingtonpost.com