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To Fry Or Not To Fry
2008-06-22 18:40:00
I'm wrapping up my week of looking back at past posts with this one. It's about food. And stuff. I guess you could say it's about foodstuffs.Warning: the following is what happens when I run out of things to blog about...Since watching Alton Brown make homemade corn dogs 4 months ago, I have been craving a deep fryer. Well, I?ve been craving homemade corn dogs and wanting a deep fryer. I?m not sure you can really crave a kitchen gadget, though maybe you can lust after them. The problem with this new desire is that I am on a diet. A serious diet and have been seeing results. So I?m not sure how well a deep fryer would jive with that. But then again, when deep fried crispy goodness is at stake, it jives all by itself. When you figure out what that means, would you mind letting me know?I have a long love affair with kitchen things that plug in. I probably should learn how to cook given how much I like kitchen machines. I buy them, I use them (at least twice) and then I have to ...

They Actually Had To Do A Study For This???
2008-06-19 22:32:00
You'll forgive me, I'm ASSuming, for reposting again. I promise I'll get you a new post or two early next week before I head to the land of Tillamook for cheesy gluttony.OK, I just finished reading a Reuters news story that said researchers in Canada have discovered that young male students do better when being tutored in reading by female tutors rather than male tutors. The boys that were studied were in the third and fourth grades. Uhhhh, isn?t that when boys start to really ?discover? the fairer sex? And by discover, I mean notice their beauty and girly parts and stuff, in case you didn't know what I meant.I wonder if the study involved watching Van Halen?s ?Hot For Teacher? video. There is also a nice tutoring scene in Adam Sandler?s ?Billy Madison? that comes to mind. And why do I hear Dustin Hoffman saying 'Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me' in the background? Were the results of this study really a surprise? Yeah the male tutor could use things like sports a...
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Time To Play?For Pay!!
2008-06-18 20:30:00
I am excited to share with you that Thursday is Recess At Work Day. There is a really good chance, like over 100%, that I wrote about this last June, but I am going to resist the temptation to just repost that story. Although, I?d get bonus points for recycling and going green. As you may or may not be aware, I am not overly fond of having to eek out a living by being a cubicle dwelling, tie wearing, corporate crony. I guess that?s like me saying that you may or may not be aware that Britney Spears has some mental issues. I just like to state the obvious without appearing as though I am stating the obvious. For instance, when it is raining and we are all standing in it, I like to say that the chance for precipitation is very high. It?s a true fact and suggests the obvious without overtly stating it. I?ve got another one: I have the tendencies of an idiot. It?s like stating I?m an idiot without saying I?m an idiot. Now, I have drifted off course, which is odd given that fac...
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This Idea Smells Like?(A Repost?)
2008-06-17 20:26:00
I wrote this almost a year ago when the 2008 Olympics were a mere gold, silver and bronze twinkle in China's eye awaiting consummation and riots and international concern. But now, all that fun is just over a month away. Oh boy, I just can't wait. It's been so long (that's what she said) since I got to watch and cheer my favorite Olympic sport - CURLING!!! Wait, that's a Winter Olympic sport? Oh dammit.I came across an AP story this morning about yet another aspect of the 2008 Olympic Games in China. Simply put, an organization in China is preparing to make Olympic souvenirs like little Olympic trophies depicting Pandas taking part in various Olympic Sports. Ok, that?s a cute idea, but the souvenirs will be made out of (wait for it)?PANDA DUNG. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, come again? Yep, Panda DUNG! Yesiree, not only would you be lucky enough to attend the Olympic Games in China, but you could take home some lovely molded Panda ?Passings? to remember the event. I am actually booking my fl...
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Names Can Be Hurtful
2008-06-16 21:08:00
Have you ever done something so stupid that your friends, family or coworkers (yes, or all 3 in my case) have renamed the mistake you made after you. Such as saying ?she pulled a Michael?? That?s what she said. Seriously, you know what I am talking about, right? If you see a skanky, skinny (also known as Skinky, perhaps) girl walking down the street, you might be inclined to say the young lass was pulling a Paris or a Lindsey. Yelling obscenities at your daughter? Yep, that?s ?a Baldwin.? Sex in the White House? ?Pulling a Kennedy.? Gheesh, that sounds dirty. You probably thought I was going to say Clinton, didn?t you? Nah, that?s too easy, but if it makes you feel better, I can offer you this. Ever done inappropriate things with cigars in the Oval Office while leading your country? Yep, that?s ?a Clinton.? Uh, a ?Bill,? to be exact.Ok, I think I?ve given enough examples. Well, as if the planet ex planet Pluto hasn?t been beaten up enough, it has now joined the league...
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In Search Of The Perfect Post
2008-06-15 20:18:00
I will be right up front with you on this one. It's Father's Day AND Dale Jr. finally won a race after two freakin' years! Yes, that means I am too busy to come up with something new for today. Do I feel bad about that? Uh, sure. For whatever reason, I rarely strive to undertake something to the best of my ability. I realize I should but it helps me manage people?s expectations. The lower I keep them, the less will hopefully be asked of me. I have made the mistake in the past of setting very high expectations, which only proves to be a pain to live up to. However, when it comes to this blogging stuff, I find myself striving for perfection at least three days a week. It may not seem like much, but that is easily three times more than the effort I put into work or rational thinking. Daily, it seems that I read posts that are excellent and inspire me to want to create the ultimate post - one that should be marked as a classic in the dictionary or encyclopedia. Well, ok, I?d s...
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Whoa There, Don?t Blame Me
2008-06-12 20:52:00
For one day, one brief shining moment, I can honestly say ?it?s not my fault,? especially at work. Well HONESTLY saying that might be a stretch, but in light of the fact that Friday the 13th (uh-oh) is ?Blame Someone Else Day,? I can now tell you whose fault it really is. Or whose it might be. Or I?ll just tell you whose fault I am deciding it was based on who I feel like blaming. (Wow, after those last two sentences, I feel like The Grinch taking about the whose and who?s so much. The noise, noise, noise. Sorry) Folks, you gotta like the sound of blaming someone else. Much like Ronald Reagan, we?ll all get to be Teflon coated for the day. This could be my chance to really stand out in the office.I figure (which is a good hint that I?m probably wrong right off the bat) that there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who man-up and take the blame and those who shirk responsibility and blame someone else. I absolutely do not like blaming someone else for something I have or hav...
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This Much Fun Should Be Illegal
2008-06-11 20:23:00
Before I continue with this post, it should be noted that I was highly gassed for much of yesterday, which may or may not explain this next statement. And here goes: the hospital is so much fun, I would pay to go there, just like Disneyland. Oh wait, I do pay to go there. Through the teeth I pay, but I guess that?s just like Disneyland too. There are actually a lot of similarities.The hospital has a little of everything. Rides (wheel chairs and beds), food (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) and lots of waiting. Imagine getting to the hospital at 5am only to be told the admitting office doesn?t open until 5:30am and that you won?t even be prepped for your procedure until 7:30am. Yep, if you are thinking that?s just ?like a ride queue at Disneyland, you would be right sir. My favorite ride yesterday was Nurse Who I Couldn?t Understand?s Wild Bed Push.? Not to throw around NASCAR terms, but I think my bed was a little on the tight side because it kept pushing coming out of th...
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600?s A Charm??
2008-06-10 03:00:00
So here I sit, knowing that I am writing my 600th blog post, which I will tell you upfront is not exactly accurate because of my fondness for being lazy reposts. But, I have pushed Blogger?s little ?publish? button 600 times, so I have no problem taking the credit. After all, assuming I have used my same index finger to push the mouse button to hit ?publish? all previous 599 times, I have expended a decent enough amount of energy. My first instinct is to look back fondly on many of my past post topics much the same way Mike Rowe does on Dirty Jobs after about every 25 episodes. I assume this is because of a lack of material on their part. Well, perhaps I am just pushing what I do onto Mr. Rowe. I think that is called ?transference,? but I?m really not sure. It could also be called passing the buck or making something up to complete a paragraph.Whew, one paragraph down on my 600th post. If this pace keeps up, I will have completed the most boring and self-centered post ever w...
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A Slow Pitch Right Down The Middle
2008-06-08 21:28:00
I should go ahead and tell you that this is a repost. I know it's a horrible thing to do for a Sunday or Monday (depending on when you read this), but to make up for it, I can offer you a new new podcast to listen to. Besides, I have to think of something memorable to do for my next post on Monday night, which will be my 600th.Feel free to offer suggestions because after 599 posts, I am running out of things to write about. As proof of that, I offer the fact that I almost posted my confession of love for home water filtration today instead of this repost. Fortunately I realized ahead of time that it would have been a 'Pur' mistake to do so. Hmmm, have I written about cheese lately? That always goes over well....When you get your inspiration from making fun of odd news stories, it doesn?t get any easier than this: A woman with the last name of Butts was accused of stealing toilet paper from an Iowa Courthouse. Ok, it could have been just a little better; her last name could have b...
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Friday Randomocity II: Electric Boogaloo
2008-06-06 04:28:00
I have to thank Eva for the Randomocity title. I had kind of run out of things to call Randomocity Friday s other than more, even more and yet again more Randomocity. I think the Electric Boogaloo version works quite nicely, with the little exception of the fact that I dance about as well as a brick wall suffering a seizure. So, I present to you this week?s More Friday Randomocity, in electric boogalooing style?* When a coworker is showing you the map of where she plans on vacationing over Memorial Day weekend and the address is on Starvation Flats Road, do you bring up the fact that NOTHING GOOD could possibly be located on a street called Starvation Flats Road? I?m sure there is plenty of parking there though.* Can you cherry pick a nut or is that mixing metaphors? It obviously sounds crude, so I will explain. I was accused of fishing through the can of mixed nuts that was put in the communal place where we share food in the office. My coworker called it cherry picking, but ...

Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It, Is?
2008-06-05 03:20:00
Imagine getting home from a long day of work all set to celebrate Cheese Day Eve and you are directed to a little postcard sized piece of mail. You are probably asking why don?t I just imagine that instead of asking you to do so. Well, I don?t have to because it happened to me. As this piece of mail had no identifying marks, a lot of things raced across my mind. Namely, I had finally been fired. I got ready to dismiss it as junk mail and then was directed to look at the other side.And there it was: an invitation to call the sender of this bit of postage regarding a position in this individual?s ?company.? Because I am a very attentive person (no seriously), I noticed (after staring at the card for 25 minutes ? see attentive) two key pieces of information that even our friends at CSI may not have noticed. The front and back were written by two different people (one male and one female) and that the sender used the word ?company.? Obviously, we?re talking at least a two-person...
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What A Loss
2008-06-04 03:56:00
No, I?m not talking about politics or Hillary. That just makes people angry. Before I go any further, I need to warn you that what you are about to read is very sad, it?s beyond sad, it?s ?Shitacular? actually. It?s that rare mix of horrible and awe-inspiring rolled up into a big ball of cookie dough that you can?t help but taste even though you know the raw eggs are going to make you sicker than a visit to the nursery at the local preschool. That?s my definition of ?shitacular,? by the way. It just popped out of my mouth during a meeting at work and it seemed to be well received. But anyway, this post is going to sadden and possibly depress you, so if you need to read it at a later time like when you are so happy that nothing could bring you crashing back down to earth or after you go grab a box of facial cleaning wipes, or just tissue, please feel free.What I am about to tell you (more like break softly to you) was covered by some media outlets over the weekend, so you may al...
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It?s The Cheesiest!
2008-06-03 03:56:00
Yep, I?m the one running through the halls of my office singing ?It?s the most cheesiest time of the year?? Yes, I realize that is horrible grammar, but it?s the only way I can bastardize that wonderful Andy Williams tune. I suppose I COULD sing it by saying ?it?s the cheesiest time of the year,? but that makes it sound corny. Well it makes it sound cheesy, but somewhere along the way the meanings of corny and cheesy apparently intersected. All of that aside, there?s actually a reason for me singing my cheese song?this time, anyway. Wednesday, June 4th is cheese day!! Yes, I realize that it?s only Monday, but I have already begun celebrating. This is mostly due to the fact that I did not get to leave the office early Monday in honor of Leave Work Early Day. And that folks, is a shame I can never shake. While you could successfully argue that every day is cheese day when around me, the official day falls on Wednesday. That makes Tuesday Cheese Day Eve, which is just as holy ...

Want A Reason To Leave Work Early? Here?s One.
2008-06-02 05:48:00
I have met very few people who actually enjoy going back to work on Mondays. Truth be told, when I have, I ignore them or point and scream. I am definitely one of the Monday haters. Sometimes though, all the moons line up just right and you get a Monday that is actually a holiday. Now granted it?s not one of those fancy schmancy Mondays where you don?t have to go to work like Memorial Day or Labor Day or whenever Fred Willard?s birthday falls on a Monday, but it?s close.Why is it close? Well, Monday is ?Leave Work Early Day.? As soon as I learned of this blessed day, I knew immediately that I needed to blog about it. I?ll be honest with you though, I was tempted to make it a really short post (as in Mini Me or ?Da Plane, Da Plane? short) because most everyone I know blogs from work. Except for me because I am the quintessential loyal employee ? well that and the fact that I have already been caught for blogging at work, but mostly because I am a wonderful and exemplary emplo...
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The One Where He Drones On Forever And You Are Stuck Listening To It
2008-05-31 18:23:00
Well, the weekend is upon us and really, who wants to spend all day reading something, especially when the weather is so nice and the kitchen needs to be cleaned. Wait, that last option doesn't sound like much fun.I have an alternative for you. You can listen to something. It's really much more efficient an activity when you think about it. You can crank up the volume and do whatever you wanted to while still being able to listen. Your hands are freed up and you are not stuck in front of your computer. I prefer this option at work, but even though it is more efficient, my productivity suffers horribly.Now here's the downside. The thing I am offering up for you to listen to is 9 minutes of solid, irrefutable evidence that I should stick to writing. I am going to choose to say it's because my podcast skillz (the use of the 'z' makes me hipper, though if you read that really quickly, you'll probably think I just wrote the word 'zipper') are a bit rusty since I haven't podcast...
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Where Hath The Time Gone (And Why Am I Using Words Like Hath)?
2008-05-30 03:20:00
Increasingly I am beginning to feel my advanced 34 years of age. The month of May has given me heart issues, that mysterious popping sound in my leg heard ONLY when I go up a flight of stairs and now yesterday?s events. Lucy and Ethel graduated from Kindergarten. I realize that apparently some people don?t view the completion of kindergarten as something worthy of a graduation ceremony (hi Mom), so I will rephrase that to say Lucy and Ethel completed Kindergarten with honors. Yes, I added the honors part. This all means that effective this morning, I can now say that I am the father of two first graders.Here?s the rub: I don?t want to be able to say that. Not because it makes me feel old, unlike the effect of having two open-heart surgeries or falling asleep in the recliner before 9:30pm every night, but because I am not ready for my little ones to grow up. It also isn?t made any easier by the fact that they are now easily more mature than I am. I know that a lot of the people who r...
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This Is One Mission That Will Not Go Down The Drain
2008-05-29 03:56:00
Space travel can be pretty serious and life threatening stuff. After all, if we had been meant to be space dwellers, we would have been born there. Wow, that may have been the dumbest thing I have ever written. Well, not counting the proposal I turned in at work once that had errors I put in it just to see if they would be found, because that was a whole different kind of dumb, as in I really thought I?d get away with it but didn?t and am lucky to still have a job. It seems that our interstellar gamble with space travel has come back to bite us (in the rear) again. Yep, while taking Lucy and Ethel to school this morning, the radio reported that the toilet on the international space station has stopped working. I was immediately touched by how difficult dealing with this will be for the unlucky astronauts aboard the space station. Then I realized I could blog about their bodily relievement challenges and felt much better. Seriously though, what a hard time they now face. As ...
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Book ?Em
2008-05-28 05:07:00
Well, we all made it back to work after the weekend that marks the unofficial start to summer. We celebrated with 55 degree weather, the Danica Patrick 500 Indy 500, lobster ravioli from Trader Joes (I swear to you when I saw it in the freezer section, I heard angels sing for the first time. And I mean real angels, not the ones in Anaheim or the ones from those crappy Philadelphia Cream Cheese commercials) and of course a BBQ. Ok, you got me. The BBQ was actually a fire in the fireplace to keep the house warm, but there were flames and I got to go all goo-goo while watching them flicker. I also got to spend some time in a book store, which got me thinking. In my defense though, I only mentioned to my friends three times that I was going to have to blog about it. Ever notice how often we say that phrase? I just spilled lemonade on my shorts, I gotta blog about it. Thanks to a fortunate twist of rigor mortis, the dead possum in the middle of the road looks like it?s flipping...
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A Job A Day?
2008-05-26 20:32:00
This may come as a shock to a few of you, but I am not the biggest fan of my job. Actually, I fear the people at my job are not the biggest fans of me, but that?s not really material to this discussion. It?s just something I?m pretty sure I?ve FELT. Get it? Material, felt? Never mind. I bring all of this up because a) I didn?t think I could make an entire post out of the recent mysterious popping noise that my left leg know makes only when climbing stairs and b) I recently found the coolest website and it is somewhat job related.I am a dreamer, well it might be more like hallucinator as many of my dreams have no basis in reality, let alone some magical dream-like place where beef jerky grows on trees and I can openly blog at work. Ok, I am a ?hallu-ceamer.? I was going to go with hallu-creamer, but I didn?t want you to think I just sit around putting weird things in thickened dairy products. Well, I do prefer to eat cottage cheese with pasta sauce in it, but again, that?s n...

Work Blogging?Yeah, I know, It?s Wrong And Stuff
2008-05-23 04:17:00
I used to do a weekly Top Ten And A Half list each Friday and then got too lazy forgot to keep doing them. So, I am reposting one of my Top Ten ½ lists today. Please remember that I do a Top Ten ½ to avoid copyright issues and because back when I started this last year, I thought the extra 1/2 was clever for some reason. With age comes wisdom and both are now telling me it might not have been as clever as I initially believed. I'm pretty sure the inventors of the Edsel and New Coke know what I'm talking about. As I sat in the office all day, I realized how much I miss blogging at work, and believe me, I used to blog a whole lot while in the office. I can say that now because I already got caught. I knew it was taboo to do so, but so is flaunting bad taste and we still have Paris Hilton walking around. So, I will dedicate this Top Ten And A Half List to:?The Top Ten And A Half Ways Work Is Different Since I Stopped Blogging There.?11. I find myself gazing into my monitor dreaming...
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An Exercise In Futility (Also Known As ?This Post?Sucks?)
2008-05-22 03:35:00
If you have ever seen my favorite movie, ?So I Married An Axe Murderer,? then you know exactly how to say ?this post?sucks.? Keep that saying close at hand for the next few minutes. I have taken a holiday from sharing holidays with you this week. And I promise if that is as clever as I can be today that you can just stop reading now and I?ll still respect you tomorrow. Well, I might not respect you as much, but I?m certainly not going to tell you that or act like my respect for you has diminished in any way. I mean not that I?d be fake about it or anything but the truth is that I have already forgotten the reason I was writing and was just sort of hoping I could write my way out of it until it came back to me. It?s a pretty handy trick if you?ve never tried it. And the best part is that it works with both speaking and writing. In fact 87.4% of my 590 or so posts have been completed with this method and just ask my boss how effective the speaking form of the trick is when I a...
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Fun* With Atrial Fibrillation
2008-05-21 03:17:00
I debated about whether I would write a post solely devoted to atrial fibrillation since it might not be as fun to read if you have never experienced it and no one likes an inside joke that they aren?t part of. Do I say this from first hand experience? I don?t want to talk about it! Anyway, I shall attempt to get to the heart of atrial fibrillation. Oh come on, that?s funny. Perhaps not as funny as an America?s Funniest Home Videos crotch shot, but then what really is.A couple of weeks ago, I slipped back into atrial fibrillation, again. That basically means that some part of my heart isn?t pumping right and that my heartbeats are all irregular. And no amount of bran is gonna fix this irregularity. My heart more or less quivers instead of pumping blood to wherever it should go, which is undoubtedly somewhere in my body. I?d like to be more ?medical? with my descriptions, but I tend to drift off when my cardiologist gets all med school graduate on me. Sadly, the same thing...

The Cheese To End All Cheese?
2008-05-20 03:51:00
I love cheese, many of you love cheese, so it just seemed that writing about this next cheese was something I had to do after learning of its existence. And I will admit that it?s a much better topic than the other one I was toying with: Starbucks? new nudie mermaid logo. They get enough publicity. But Casu Marzu on the other hand, does not. If you had asked me about Casu Marzu, I would have told you it was the fancy name of the mansion overlooking Corona or that it was possibly the name of that weird sounding band from the 80s. Oh wait, that might actually be Spandau Ballet, and I have no idea what the heck that means. I understand ballet, but is Spandau just a fancy way of saying Spandex? Because a spandex ballet might be kind of funny to watch. Perhaps a little chaffy for the performers, but that?s what they get for wearing non-breathable spandex during a dance performance!It seems I have drifted of course, again. This post was supposed to be all cheesy. Sorry, I couldn...
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Hello CIA, I?m Responding To Your Ad
2008-05-19 04:00:00
I joked last week (meaning November of 2006 when I originally wrote this because yes, this is a repost, but I took the time to spruce it up and add things like George Lucas did to Star Wars) about wanting to do a story based on a radio commercial I heard about the fact that the CIA is hiring, but I was too afraid of Big Brother. I mean if my work monitors my blog, there's no telling what the CIA is doing. Well, after reading this AP story about the CIA on Yahoo, I?m ready to. The story is about how the CIA is looking for new employees, which I guess they call 'vacuum sales persons,' though I think that's code for something. The story says that they have shown ads during baseball games, taken out ad space in various magazines and airport billboards as well as during movie trailers and airtime during 'Dancing With The Stars.' Ok, I made that last one up. It even says the CIA has hired an ad agency.I bet the ad company?s creative folks are having a blast pitching ideas to CIA em...

The Mow The Merrier
2008-05-15 02:38:00
The gas price spike hike (I can?t even say it one time fast) has affected a lot of things from the price of food to the reduction of traffic to the stopping of the wonderful gasoline water fountain down at city hall. And it?s a shame too because the ?fueling the future? sculpture was so nice. Perhaps even more than that, it has put yet another crimp in my attempt to get a riding lawn mower (the other crimps of course being the relatively smaller size of my yard and the price of the mower, but those objections can be overcome with time, by which I mean constant nagging, whining and pleading until I get my way).My pure unadulterated lust desire for a riding lawn mower was renewed when I read an AP story recently about how NY police arrested a man wearing a tuxedo who was tooling around on a riding lawn mower in the middle of the night. Yes, he was drunk, but I feel that just obscures the real story here. The real story being that he loved riding lawn mowers so much that he was wi...

Poly-Ticks
2008-05-14 04:07:00
Have you ever wanted to write about politics (heck, even hearing the word can get people riled up) but were afraid to upset or anger or offend or sadden or enflame or pander to or accuse or disenfranchise anyone? Well, I don?t know that anyone actually worries about disenfranchising readers, but the political pundits say that word whenever I watch election coverage on CNN and I wanted to try it out. Honestly, I didn?t think I?d get to use it this early. I thought I?d have to mention Florida or the 2000 election before I got to say it. I have to admit though that it feels good. Well, saying disenfranchising feels good. I?m not really sure how actually disenfranchising somebody feels since I haven?t done that yet. There was a McDonalds in town where I grew up and they had horrible health standards. I think they were disenfranchised since the place is now a $1 Burger joint, but that might be something different. I?ll let you know for sure as soon as I look up the meaning of ?d...
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Top 10 Things NOT To Do On Mother?s Day, Even If They?re Accidental
2008-05-13 03:52:00
I realize that this list would have been more helpful if I had shared it BEFORE Mother ?s Day. I promise I?ll try to repost it in time next year. The following are examples culled from all of my male friends and family members. Please note that they are not mistakes I have made. Shirley Surely no single person is capable of being so absent minded. You believe that, right?10. Do not sleep in until well after 10:30 (also know as Noon), especially when you may or may not have offered to serve breakfast in bed. Also, make sure you remember whether or not you offered to serve breakfast in bed. In addition, a late afternoon nap is not a good way to follow up the other stuff I just mentioned.9. Not everyone believes that Indy 500 qualifying is the most important thing happening during the second weekend of every May.8. Similarly, not everyone puts the same importance on having to watch a Ronald Reagan western just because it happens to be on TV. Though, who programs stuff like tha...
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The Gettin? Ready Song
2008-05-12 04:03:00
No, that?s not a real song title. I mean there is the Temptations? song called ?Get Ready ,? but that?s about a different subject matter. That one is more of a warning to a lover or some chick that doesn?t wish to be the lover but is about to be pursued by 5 really swell guys all dressed the same who can dance to the music as one. Ok, I think that clears that up. I guess I never admitted to the blog world that I once wanted to be a Temptation. Don?t laugh; if it weren?t for that Peter Brady-like period in ?92 when my voice kept cracking whenever I would sing, I might have become the bass voice for The Temps. Well, until they saw me dance.But enough about spilled dairy products, what I mean is the song you listen to or at least mentally play in your head while you get ready for a day at work or an evening out or maybe a job interview or like me, just taking the trash out. You know what I?m talking about here, right? It?s that song that fills you with confidence, inspires you a...
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Randomocity ? That?s all, just Randomocity
2008-05-09 04:02:00
Put your gameshow host voices on and read the next line: It?s Friday and we know what that means?Randomocity!!! Actually, that might not be a bad idea for a game show title. The contestants could be presented a bunch of random photos or words by c-list celebrities and have to figure out what they all have in common. Although, I think we?ve played that before and it was called ?Kindergarten.? Oh well, at least it?s the end of the week. Unless of course you work weekends, but then you?ve been relaxing all week while we were all desk jockeying, so it?s hard (that?s what she said) to feel pity for you. And on to the randomness?* Is ?homey don?t play that? still in use? I used it at work this week and the reaction I received gave me the overwhelming impression that it has been phased out for quite some time now.* Was the El Camino the first hybrid vehicle? After all, it was part car and part truck. Or would that make it the first SUV? And isn?t SUV one of the 14 Law and Orders ...