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New Years Resolutions ? This Year, They?re Gonna Stick!
2007-12-31 16:28:00
Well, that time is upon us again. No not preseason NASCAR testing, although I can tell you where I will be January 31st and February 1st? And not endless shrimp at Red Lobster or that time of year where I wake up and realize I have been wasting my life at my current job or that time of year where I begin working on new methods of freezing eggnog so that I can enjoy it mid-summer. I mean 2008. Well OK, 2008 is not here AGAIN, but it?s here. What I mean is the New Year . Well, this New Year, not the last New Year. That one is almost over and we should not dwell on the past, unless you have some rare memory disease or really like the movie Ground Hog Day. Or if you are a historian. Yes, a historian would be a perfectly acceptable reason to dwell on the past.To get to the point I was starting to explain several sentences ago, just let me say that the New Year is here and we all know we are going to make resolutions. They say that you should commit them to paper or share them with friends...
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At Home Sick Again Repost: Yep, Your Job Can Kill You
2007-12-28 19:19:00
After reading an AFP story out of Australia, I can officially say that studies have proven that your job can kill you. A professor for the Medical Research Institute in Wellington observed that 1/3 of patients sent to the hospital for deep vein blood clots were office workers. It is believed that sitting at a desk for an extended period can lead to the formation of these clots that can eventually kill you (and to weight gain which can kill you too, but we?ll leave that for later).I don?t want you to be frightened by these results, I?d rather you look upon this as an opportunity for change and improvement in your working conditions, as I have chosen to do. If we now have medical proof that your job can be harmful to your health, even if it is just one small study, don?t we owe it to ourselves to make things better? After all, everyone knows what we did to Big Tobacco and we knew that was killing us for years. Of course, each of us was not getting paid for smoking as we are for workin...
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Off For The Holidays
2007-12-23 02:53:00
Twas a few days before Christmas and all through the blog, no good idea was stirring, the blog's owner in a fog.Visions of birthday presents and deep fryers danced in his head. Someday they'll say all the deep fried goodness is why he is dead.When what to his keyboard wandering fingers appeared, but an idea, to post a picture of the fat guy with the beard. He plagiarized a Christmas tale, and then left for a last minute sale.And I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight. Holy crap, man. I thought you were open 'til midnight.This is my last post before Christmas. I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and I'll see you next week with my ode to the incandescent light bulb and my New Year's predictions. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!(and thanks for all of your blog visits) Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz
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Christmas Is Not Only Getting Too Commercial, It?s Getting Too Violent
2007-12-19 16:25:00
That?s one of my favorite quotes from a Charlie Brown Christmas . Of course it was uttered by Linus facing an assault from his sister, but it applies nonetheless. I read 3 different news stories this morning that make me think the holidays are getting out of hand.Will Feeling Up The Big Guy Guarantee You A Spot On The Nice List?According to the AP, a 33 year-old lady in Connecticut is sure hoping so. She was accused of groping her local mall?s Santa. I?m going to go out on a limb here and assume she was tugging at more than Santa?s beard. I am also trying really hard to avoid describing Santa?s manitalia as ?Jingle Bells,? although you can just imagine how rosy his cheeks were when they were rung. Oops. Hey Santa, is that a candy cane in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?You have to wonder if this was part of a dare or if the lady was overcome with the spirit of the holiday season. She?s 33 and the mall Santa is 65, so I guess if you?re looking for an older sugar da...
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Random Tuesday
2007-12-18 16:25:00
It?s time again to uncork the pressure release valve on my mind and let all the miscellaneous, trivial and useless things that have occurred to me over the last few weeks (but that I can?t say to the people around me) out so that I do not explode. I?ve seen the Zapruder film and let me tell you, exploding heads are NOT pleasant.* I really hope that I get to meet Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams from LaVerne and Shirley one day so that I don?t waste this line I?ve been working on. First I?ll say ?well, we live and Laverne, I guess? (instead of live and learn) and then when they say something in response, I?ll react by saying ?Shirley, you can?t be serious.? I?m also working on one when and if I ever meet Jim Neighbors, but inserting the word ?Shazaam? into a sentence is harder than I had previously imagined. * The world would be a much better place if we all could just learn to get along. And leave me the heck alone when I am at my desk eating instant grits at 8:30 in the morn...
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Sunday Repost: Santa Faces Possible Indictment Over Mutant Deer Discovery
2007-12-17 00:41:00
A Wisconsin man discovered a deer with seven legs recently after he struck it with his truck. Perhaps even weirder is the fact that the animal had both male and female ?parts? (to be politically correct). The Associated Press reports that the extra legs were each a few inches long and were attached to its ?regular? legs.The growing concern is that there may be something screwy going on up at the North Pole. Although no other reports of the existence of ?genetically unique? deer have been reported, there have been rumors. PETA officials have scheduled an ?exploratory mission? to the North Pole to investigate the treatment of the local deer population.?Obviously there?s something funny happening when deer can fly and some are born with red noses, so you have to make a connection between that and this mutant deer turning up,? said a PETA official. ?I don?t know what you do to get reindeer to fly, but it?s obviously harmful,? he added.The North Pole has remained quiet and secretive abou...
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Looking Back At My 2007 Predictions
2007-12-13 12:34:00
Early this year, I made a few predictions for the New Year 2007. I figured it's time to look back at them now knowing how this year went. Yeah, you could say I was just a little off...Personal Predictions I predict that I will come home from a rough day at work one day to see everyone I know and can tolerate waiting for me in the living room. I will open the front door and realize that I?ve walked into an intervention. At that point, everyone will begin to detail (often using graphs and charts) how I need to stop blogging because of all the time it takes me away from doing other things and that my writing has become an embarrassment to people who can somehow be linked to me. I will obey them for a few days and then return to blogging. I also predict that my twins Lucy and Ethel will continue to act 50 and ask me about some of life?s most philosophical questions like why is the sun yellow. When I give them the best answer I can (i.e. quoting verbatim from Wikipedia) they will still...
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8
2007-12-12 16:20:00
I was tagged by Meleah (as opposed to stealing her last post idea) to blog about 8 things. So here we go, so here we go, so here we go, so here we go, so here we go, so here we go, so here we go, so here we go. Yep, that was 8 times, provided I counted correctly?8 Things I?m Passionate About:1. My twins2. Blogging3. Humor writing4. NASCAR5. Watching my LA Clippers lose6. Great TV7. Music ? just listening. I can?t sing or play a lick. Holy heck, did I just use the word lick when I was describing something a dog does?8. Exercise8 Things I Say Often1. OK, quit hanging on Daddy now.2. I?m going to be late getting into the office this morning3. Oops4. What would Michael Scott do in this situation?5. That?s What She Said6. Go ahead and call HR on me. It wouldn?t be the first time.7. Wait! That came out all wrong. What I meant to say was?8. Cool8 Books I?ve Read Recently:1. A Ronald Reagan Biography2. A Christmas Carol3. Truman4. Green Eggs and Ham ? no it wasn?t for the twins. Why do yo...

A Christmas Story Meme
2007-12-11 16:10:00
I saw this on my blogging twin Meleah?s site yesterday and decided to steal it for today. Please do not confuse this with the meme she posted and tagged me with today that I am posting tomorrow. I hope you aren?t confused. At any rate, I felt a Christmas themed list was entirely appropriate for this time of year as opposed to, well, let?s say July. 1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?I am a horrible wrapper and friends and family have come to expect lopsided, crumbled up and over-taped packages from me. The people at Scotch Tape have actually suggested I buy stock in their company. The key is beginning with way too much paper. I believe it really shows folks my humility and how much I care that I am willing to give them a gift even though it is poorly wrapped. It?s the thought that counts this time of year, right?2. Real tree or artificial?Artificial. Though I had the real deal growing up and miss it. 3. When do you put up the tree?Right around Thanksgiving, if not slightly befo...
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I Bet It Will Be A Very Animated Testimony
2007-12-07 03:11:00
I love reading AP stories. Where else could I have read about the fact that an Italian court ordered Mickey Mouse, Donald and Daisy Duck and Tweety to testify in a case about counterfeiting. The story says that a clerical error listed them as witnesses in the counterfeiting case in which their likenesses were counterfeited. But who really cares about the boring lawyer-y details, it gave me something to write about today.I have to admit that Tweety, Mickey and his friends aren’t the first animated characters I would expect to need to be in court. Have you ever watched Tom and Jerry? Those two are downright homicidal maniacs and I can’t believe they have not yet been brought up on manslaughter charges. I also figured I would have seen Fred Flintstone long before now. His working conditions are appalling. I mean just to be able to check into work, he has to climb down the back of a dinosaur. I don’t know what it’s like where you come from, but that is most certainly NO...
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At Home Sick Today Repost: The Exploitation Of Rudolph, It?s Animagical!
2007-12-05 01:54:00
It?s that time of year when those famous Rankin-Bass cartoons and stop-motion puppet (Animagic) specials like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (which I think is on tonight) and Frosty can be seen on TV as frequently as wreaths on long-haul truckers? rigs. I think the only person that comes close to having produced more Christmas fare than Rankin-Bass was Johnny Mathis, who I?m pretty sure just released his 100th Christmas CD, or something close to it. The ABC Family Channel usually airs most of the Rankin-Bass productions all December long and my girls watched a few of them last night. Among them was ?Rudolph?s Shiny New Year? and ?The Christmas without a Santa Claus.? It got me thinking that at a certain point, the Animagic Christmas treatment may have been stretched a little too thin.Obviously, ?Rudolph? is as much a part of the holidays as Bing Crosby. It has to be good television for it to have been broadcast over network TV for the last 42 years. Although I seriously doubt that t...
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Random Monday
2007-12-04 03:43:00
Here we are on another Monday , but at least this one is in December. Today is the last day to submit screenplays and all that for Academy Award consideration, so I need to get busy and write one so that I can submit it. I?m thinking I may have waited a little too long this year to get my butt in gear and write my film masterpiece. What sounds better, the time traveler who time travels in a Porta-Potty or the story of two college room mates who reunite 25 years after college only to realize that one stole the other?s identity and has been pretending he was his former roommate? I also have some rough ideas for ?Rachael Ray: The Movie,? but I?d prefer to nail down whether it will take place in Food Network times or her talk show times. I would also like to have Dolly Parton play Paula Deen and Peter Brady to play Bobby Flay. Giada can play herself though.Since I need to hurry and get my script done and then find an agent and then find an agent who likes me, I?ll just post random ...
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?I? Can?t Believe How Cool ?I?t ?I?s!!!!
2007-12-03 02:47:00
Warning: after rereading this, I have decided it may well be the dullest post ever, but since some of you may have trouble falling asleep tonight, I will post it anyway. Good luck? I FINALLY got an Ipod (hence all the quoted letter ?I?s? that I thought I was cleverly using in the title above, but that now make it seem like I be or is or am illiterate) . Holy, holy crap it?s amazing!!!!!! Although I have to admit that I feel like I am trying to learn how to use a CD player after using a turn-table, or a reel-to-reel or an 8-track. I thought I was a techno-savvy man about keyboard, until I tried to use the Ipod last night?well, using the Ipod was easy, but getting music onto it was the equivalent of me trying to climb Mt. Everest with 4 bags of ball-bearings strapped to my back while wearing shorts and sandals. With a head cold. And frostbite in delicate places. It?s a sad moment when you realize that maybe your speed is more 2005 MP3 player than Ipod user. Seriousl...
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The Annual Christmas Letter
2007-11-29 16:53:00
We all hate them, we all mock them and some of us actually take the time to write them. It?s the annual bragging Christmas letter, that we send to family and other people we want to feel superior to. I present to you this year?s edition of the Christmas card letter as written from a wife?s point of view:Dear Friends, Family and Enemies:Wow, I can?t believe another year has come and gone. It seems like just last year at this time I was writing our Christmas letter. It?s been another amazing year for the family and while I haven?t bothered to take the time to call or even email many of you, you all have been on our minds and more importantly, in our hearts. I hope your 2007 has been as wonderful, splendid, fantastic and terrific (not to mention busy, he he,he,) as ours has.We were so lucky to be able to begin the year with the birth of our 10th child Annabelle, or as I like to call her, Annabellicious (I keep telling hubby that just two more will make it an even dozen). She was born a...
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But Do They Give You An Icy Reception?
2007-11-28 15:20:00
I just read an AP story saying that ? are you ready for this ? Iceland is the most desirable country to live in. And since I am culturally and globally stunted, this is where I begin to make fun of a country with ?ICE? in the name. I wonder if I?ll get as much hater-aide as I did for my anti-Clay Aiken remark yesterday? I hope so, because as the late Dale Earnhardt used to say, you know you?ve made it when they boo you. It?s when they stop booing that you should be concerned. Granted no one actually booed me and I really haven?t made it anywhere (unlike Mary Tyler Moore in Minneapolis), but I?m looking at it all positively nonetheless.The story said that Norway had been on top (that?s what she said), but Iceland took over the honor. The US fell from the 8th to the 12th most desirable place to live. Yes, I know that is hard to believe with all of our crime, violence on TV, gambling and prostitution, not to mention Clay Aiken and Richard Simmons lurking out there! Man, I sound...
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Surely I Must Be Dreaming
2007-11-27 09:28:00
Not only was that James Bond?s reaction to hearing Honor Blackman say that her name is Pussy Galore in ?Goldfinger,? but it was also my reaction to reading that there will be a new Knight Rider TV movie?and that The Hoff will be in it! Granted he?ll be playing Michael Knight as the father of the new Knight kid driving the new Kitt (or something like that). The new KITT hasn?t been selected yet. As a kid of the ?80s, I guess it was my responsibility to like Knight Rider, just like it was my responsibility to like The A-Team, The Fall guy, Airwolf, The Dukes of Hazzard, Different Strokes and Silver Spoons.You probably know what?s coming next, don?t you. Yep, I?m wondering how all those other favorite ?80s shows could be given a 2008 TV movie treatment. Take the A-Team for instance. Yes, Hannibal has passed on, but we could use that as the plot point. The rest of the Team comes out of hiding to reunite for his funeral and is approached by someone who needs their help and thought they m...
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Randomness
2007-11-26 13:48:00
I fear that at times I am misusing the bullet. It?s just so much easier to jot down random thoughts and call it a post sometimes than crafting a spectacularly worded essay on the emotional benefits of cheese or recounting the funniest crotch hits I?ve seen on America?s Funniest Home Videos, even though all of the videos do not appear to have been taped in America.* Why go to all the effort of decorating your front yard and roof for Christmas when you aren?t going to have the lights on at 5pm on a Sunday evening? Maybe this is the EXACT time where some people promise they will take their identical twin daughters out to look at Christmas lights. Oh, not me, I?m just sayin??* Does it really count when your grandmother is the one who is telling you ?You know, you really are a handsome young man?? I?m thinking it doesn?t.* If a lemonaide is called 'Organic,' is it really necessary to say that it contains natural lemon flavors, natural lemon juices and real fruit? Wouldn't that be li...
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I’m One Of The Ones You Hate This Time Of Year
2007-11-23 17:59:00
I feel I can finally write this now as Thanksgiving has passed. I like Christmas. There, I said it. I like Christmas so much that I was guilty of looking at Christmas lights earlier this week. Although, here’s food for thought: am I the one to be hated for starting to celebrate Christmas so early or should the real bottle of Hate r-aide be saved for the folks who are putting up the lights and decorations early? Answer: don’t hate any of them. Hate should be saved for evil dictators, the rivals of our favorite sports teams and the high school quarterback and head cheerleader. Ok, and Richard Simmons. And Barney, depending on your age. Darth Vader was evil, but he was cool so that doesn’t count.I actually put up my Christmas tree last weekend. However, I didn’t decorate it. I did that Wednesday night and I put up the house lights yesterday before Thanksgiving dinner. When one of our local radio stations in LA switched to 24/7 Christmas music (as they do every year) last Friday,...
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Happy T-Day!!!!!
2007-11-22 19:12:00
Happy Thanksgiving!!!! Today I ask you, is there a better American holiday? After all, today is actually centered around the theme of a MEAL!! Well, and being thankful for stuff, but we all gather for the MEAL!!! I'm a foodie as I know many of you are, so it makes today all the better when we get to dive into the meat, the sweet cranberries, the green bean casserole (ok, just the fried onions on top) and the tasty pies. Yes, this is a fine day. So enjoy your Thanksgiving, remember to be thankful for what you have and...I gotta go. I can smell turkey... Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz
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Holiday Repost: But I Thought These Were The Turkeys You Pardoned
2007-11-21 14:46:00
President Bush carried on a tradition yesterday that dates back to Harry Truman in 1947. He pardoned a turkey (and it?s backup) for Thanksgiving, thus sparing them from someone?s dinner table. The two birds, Flyer and Fryer, were set to spend the day at Disneyland as grand marshals of a Thanksgiving Day Parade instead of at the bottom of a pot of boiling oil.However, calamity ensued late Wednesday night in California as the two pardoned turkeys arrived at Disneyland. The park's officials realized that the two birds were not Fryer and Flyer but two larger birds named Yum and Me. Phone calls were immediately placed to the White House to advise them of the mix up but it was too late. Fryer and Flyer had already been ?processed? and were almost ready to be served at both the White House as Turduken and at a local Washington DC shelter.?All I can say is oops,? said a White House official. ?There was a mix up after the pardoning ceremony and Fryer and Flyer were accidentally placed back ...
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Oh My God, They're Turkeys!!!!
2007-11-19 11:15:00
I posted this last year and I think I'm going to make it my Thanksgiving blogging tradition to post it each year. Why? Because it's such a great Thanksgiving moment...and yes, I'm very lazy.I cannot enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday without remembering possibly the single funniest moment (at least for me) in television history. Of course I am speaking about the famous 'WKRP' In Cinncinati turkey drop. The episode was called ?Turk ey?s Away? and originally aired in 1978. For me, the staples of Thanksgiving have now become turkey, can-shaped cranberry muck, pumpkin pie and this WKRP episode. Perhaps the only other Thanksgiving television episode that comes close is the ?Cheers? Thanksgiving food fight.It is uncommon for me to talk to someone who doesn?t remember part of that episode. Each year morning radio DJs all over this country will invariably refer to it or play a clip of it during their day before Thanksgiving radio show. A co-worker heard it again on one of the local stations...
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Time Is (About To Be) On My Side
2007-11-16 09:03:00
I am about to be given the gift of time. It will be approximately 5 hours every Sunday, 3 hours every Saturday and 2 hours every Friday night. Are the twins beginning some sort of extracurricular activity? No. Did I lose my job? Not yet. Am I out of charcoal for the grill? Well, almost, which reminds me?but that?s not the answer either.The NASCAR season is just about over. Or, you could say that the checkered flag is about to wave on the NASCAR season, but that would be lame. Although I just did say it. Oops. At any rate, the last races for all three series that I watch (yes, there are actually three major series competing. You don?t get that with your little stick and ball sports) will be run this Friday night through Sunday evening. When you throw in qualifying shows, pre-race shows and post-race shows, that?s at least 15 hours a weekend I am about to get back until early February. While I should probably be excited by this dramatic annual turn of events, I am more nervous about h...
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Did You Ever?
2007-11-15 16:22:00
Did you ever stop in the middle of getting dressed for work, say ?screw it? and throw on a pair of shorts and a t-shirt, head downstairs and play with the kids for a little while longer?Did you ever find yourself watching your young child (or any young child of importance in your life) and just get lost in wonderment and amazement at their growth, ability, happiness, innocence and freedom from concern, only to be interrupted by the same amazing young child saying ?uh, why are you staring at me??Did you ever pull up to a bumper to bumper line of commuters on the way to work in the morning and fight the urge to turn around and just keep driving in the other direction until you end up somewhere either familiar or entirely new?Did you ever worry that you are doing something that is 180 degrees from what you should be doing? I mean 90 degrees is ok, but 180 is really pushing it. And let?s face it; at 360 degrees, we?re all just running around in circles.Did you ever find yourself compl...

Finally, A Picture Of Me...
2007-11-14 02:50:00
And now for something completely different...I bring you my chest. Yes, I know, it's a bit adult to be showing a bare chest, but when I saw this x-ray of my chest (taken from the side to help you orient yourself to what you are looking at) at the doctor's office the other day, I had to have a copy. So, 13 phone calls, 2 forms and $20 bucks later, I have my own copy of my own x-ray of my own chest. Granted, I still had to photograph it while holding it up because they don't have copies digitally (hence the horrible bright light in the middle that makes it look like I have been infected with a glow stick), but I finally have a copy. Why did I want a copy so badly? Well, the red arrow shows my artificial heart valve and the big red circle on the right shows all of the wires that pulled my chest shut (you can click on it for a larger view, that's what she said). And I wonder why I get a stabbing pain down the middle of my chest at times...that's a joke. Honestly, I didn't...
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The One About UFOs Because I Couldn?t Think Of A Better Title
2007-11-13 02:54:00
According to a Reuters news story from Monday, an international panel has asked the US government to reopen its UFO investigations. It also asked the government to open up its ?Elvis is Dead? file and to publish all of its research on the Flying Soda Bottle phenomenon. I however am going to focus on the UFO thing, although for the record, flying soda bottles can count as UFOs. There is however no truth to the rumor that the same panel has asked the government to open the doors to Hef?s Playboy Mansion.A lot of people have reported seeing UFOs. Sometimes they are witnessed by groups and other times by lone individuals on dark highways in backwoods. Although it is somewhat embarrassing, I am going to use this blog to say that I have had my fair share of UFO sightings. I realize I may be ridiculed, but I have seen more than one UFO. Since I have shared that fact, I guess I should go ahead and give you the details of the sightings I have experienced. - September 17th, 2003. Duri...
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A Bullet A Day?
2007-11-09 09:28:00
As the random thoughts begin to build up in the head, one of two things can happen. You can internalize them and eventually forget them, you can keep adding to them so you are replacing the ones you?ve forgotten about or you can share them with other people and call it a blog post. Wait, that?s three, isn?t it? See what happens when the randomicity builds up?So, I guess it?s time to commit them to paper and call it a blog post. Unfortunately, I have already internalized last?s week?s list of random things and they have all been forgotten. Perhaps it?s better that way as it gives people less to hold against me if they are ever looking for dirt. And here we go?* Is it really a bad thing when the manufacturer of a drug for constipation lists diarrhea as a possible side effect? Isn?t that more or less the goal of the med to begin with?* Do student drivers REALLY learn how to drive in true traffic conditions when driving a car with huge ?student driver? signs all around it and t...
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What To Do In ?08
2007-11-08 09:29:00
Well, we are now inside of a year until the next Presidential election. I know with the constant debates and everyone announcing their candidacy that you thought the election should be just a month or so away, but nope, it?s still a year from now. It got me to thinking about whether or not anyone (like me for instance) would actually want to be President. I suppose there have to be some perks to it, other than the obvious ones like Air Force One, my own seal (the type you put on jackets and shirts, not the type at SeaWorld, although that might become a ?pet project? of my administration) and having your own personal chef. And I?m pretty sure the White House bathrooms must be amazing. Well, at least the West Wing made it all look so cool (yes Bran, I said West Wing).I?m not the best golfer, but I imagine that if I became President I would start winning a lot more rounds. The same probably goes for bowling and baccarat. Granted I?ve never played baccarat, but that?s because I d...

Let?s Hear John Mellencamp Sing About This Small Town
2007-11-07 09:03:00
I read recently that there was a small town listed for bid on E-Bay, if I read correctly (since I can no longer locate the story, but I swear I?m not making it up). Apparently it was just a few buildings but because it used to have a post office it can be considered a town. How cool would it be to own a town? Very, I say. I could buy a town and join the ranks of other famous town owners like Kim Basinger and even Walt Disney. I know Walt did not own a town, but I am choosing to give him credit for Disneyland. When you buy a town, I wonder if you get to rename it. I hope so. I?d hate to spend that type of money and be stuck with someone else?s town name. I think I?d call it something that would be easy to read on a small map and could be readily understood by everyone passing through. The name of my town would be Michael?s Town . I realize it?s an exclusive sounding name, but the town would be very inviting and open to all. Where the money would come from to establish this ...
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It?s That?s What She Said Day, I Say.
2007-11-06 16:24:00
Well, ok, Brandy and I have declared it to be TWSS Day. Since the day incorporates bloggers from both the US and Canada, I guess it?s an international day. The use of TWSS has really taken off thanks to Michael Scott of The Office. It?s something I can remember saying as kid, but then I said a lot of things when I was a kid like ?awesome,? ?gnarly,? ?totally awesome? and ?scrumptious? (although I think I only said that one once?I got some stares, felt uncomfortable and removed it from my vocabulary forever).Since it?s International TWSS Day, I thought I would take the time to inform you about how and how not to use such a powerful phrase. Having the ability to say TWSS is an amazing responsibility because if done correctly, you are guaranteed laughs. And these aren?t just ?being polite to a strange foreigner who speaks another language? laughs, these are strong, forceful laughs that can only come when witnessing someone on the receiving end of physical pain (especially in the M...

Things I Learned This Week: 11/3/07
2007-11-03 09:11:00
Because I want to spare you from experiencing some of the things I endured over the last few days, I post ?Things I Learned This Week ? each Saturday. I hope that knowing about at least one item on this list will make your upcoming week much easier.! I learned that eating a peanut butter cup just before drinking my daily V-8 is like suicide of the taste buds.! I learned that even if I haven?t eaten since 5:30 in the morning, taking a piece of the twins candy to snack on while they are trick-or-treating will still get me ?talked to? by some other parent who has no idea how hungry I am. And I swear that the fact that they were Milk Duds played no part in me needing to eat them.! I learned that I can bake a pumpkin pie. That?s it, no joke for this one. Well, I did learn I could bake a pumpkin pie and not burn anything down, although next time I should remove the pumpkin skin and not fill the pie crust to the very top. I also learned that if I am going to go around bragging about making ...