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Don't you just get the feeling that Jimmy Fallon would make up little skits
2009-06-20 14:19:00 It's a MiniBest!Today's jingle isn't, technically, maybe, a jingle. Or it is. I don't know. I've never gone and looked up what is or is not a jingle and my stance on what is or is not a pizza would suggest that it's a jingle if I say it's a jingle, so I'm gonna go ahead and say today's jingle is, after all, a jingle.But it's got no words.And yet, it's hypnotic, the way a good ad jingle should be. Jingles are used, after all, to make you remember things and associate those memories, and the feelings, with the product the ad makers want you to buy, so it's absolutely essential, for a jingle, that it stick in your head like somebody velcroed it there.(Like yesterday's, which I hummed a bit of to Sweetie in the afternoon, and then heard her singing three hours later as she got Mr Bunches out of the car... and that wasn't even for a real product!)So today's Jingle, Jingle Number 5, has that hypnotic quality even though it doesn't have words, and even though it has two... More About: Make Up , Jimmy , Make , Make-up , Feeling
The True Meaning Of Father's Day.
2009-06-20 14:11:00 There's only 24 hours left until Father's Day -- but that's enough time to go get dad some RC Helicopters and spend a glorious Father's Day having helicopter wars in the living room.Dad -- and by "Dad" I mean me-- would much much rather do that than open a tie or a gift card to a restaurant or a new pair of slacks. Dad wants... needs ... to have a helicopter war in the living room, which is, honestly, perfect for that because it's got those tall ceilings and the couch that sticks out so that a helicopter could hover down near the floor, hidden from the opponent, and then suddenly go straight up and swoop down at the other helicopter and win, and that's what Father's Day is all about, isn't it? Winning?Winning and helicopter wars inside.It doesn't even have to be helicopters. It could be anything that flies and is radio controlled. Or even things that drive, like cars, although cars wouldn't be able to use the third dimension and take advantage of the high ceilings. Th... More About: Meaning , True
The Teddy Bears Would Get Into Phenomenal Adventures But Would Not Play Soc
2009-06-19 22:09:00 It's a MiniBest!As I catalog on Best after Best on this blog, I am not one to be hampered by the fact that something is fictional; being fictional doesn't make something not The Best, in my opinion, and in fact, not actually existing in the "real" world may help things along. It's a lot easier to be The Best if you don't have to deal with the "real" world, with all the humidity and pieces of bagpipe scattered around my living room and cashiers getting confused when I give them a 50-cents-off-large-soda coupon at the theater and making me Sweetie almost miss the previews...... okay, I got off on a tangent there. What I meant to say is that the fact that something didn't exist in the "real" world may help it be better than things that do exist in the "real" world, because "reality" can only bring things down, sometimes. "Reality" can result in people coming home from an afternoon movie to realize their Babies! got into the bagpipes...... tangent again."Reality" could also resu... More About: Play , Bears , Adventures , Teddy
It always boils down to math. And goat.
2009-06-19 22:00:00 You know what's better than having opinions?Getting prizes for having opinions, that's what.See, you've got opinions. I've got opinions. Those people over there, the ones eating that thing that looks kind of delicious but also kind of weird, like maybe it's from a country you'd rather not visit but it does have a lot of cheese, right, so it can't be all bad? They've even got opinions.And now you can win prizes for your opinions. Here's how: Go to BluFrog and read the stuff they've got, and then leave a comment. You can put your OPINION into your comment.And BluFrog will print your comment -- they're cool that way -- and then, they might give you prizes for it.Why would they do that, you ask? Because they're having a contest -- they want people like you and me and even those people with the weird food to come and read their stuff and then tell them what we all think, and if you do that between now and the end of the contest, you might win one of five great prizes--... More About: Math , Boils
We were originally going to cast Samuel L. Jackson in Jeff's part. (The Be
2009-06-18 21:33:00 It's a MiniBest!Not too long ago, The Boy asked me "What's on a Big Mac, anyway?"That's the kind of conversations The Boy and I have. We talk about what's on burgers, or we cast imaginary movies we're making up, like the movie I'm definitely going to write, called The Examiner and starring Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Banks, Richard Gere, Rachel Weisz, and featuring Helen Mirren as Judge Donna McCormack...Or we discuss things like whether there was always a character named Murdock in every space movie ever, put there for the purpose of having a character say "Murdock, we don't do things that way!"Or, we discuss things like whether there is really a "Musical Road" where the grooves in the road make cars play songs as they drive over it. (Turns out The Boy was not making that up, and I was probably wrong to ground him over his claim that it existed.)But we also talk about what's in a Big Mac, anyway, and when The Boy asked me that, I answered without any hesitation whatsoever: ... More About: Samuel L , Cast , Jackson , Part , Samuel
I will accept all gifts this way in the future; it'll give me a use for my
2009-06-18 21:22:00 Send And Receive Real Gifts on teh cell phone Just when you think that life can't get any easier, it goes and DOES. Take sending someone money. In the olden days (2002), people who wanted to give someone else money had to do it the HARD way: Get cash, put it in a card, and then seal up the card and take it to the person. OR you had to write out a check and mail it.And gift certificates? Forget it: They were a pain in the butt: drive to the store, find the customer service desk in that weird, neglected corner of the department store, wait for some old lady to fill out the piece of paper, then hand her $50 and hope that she wasn't ripping you off.Then came "gift cards." You could -- can -- buy them anywhere, they're electronic, they can be used online, and the stores would even put them in envelopes FOR YOU. I thought that's as far as we could go, giving-money-wise, but I was wrong, because it just got EVEN EASIER, with the advent of a service that lets you Send And Receiv... More About: Future , The Future , Give , Accept
que usted tiene gusto de ser una pimienta también (The Best Ad Jingles 2)
2009-06-15 20:11:00 It's a MiniBest!The Second Entry in this month's ongoing MiniBest -- The Best Ad Jingles -- is I'm A Pepper.What do you do when you're number three -- a distant number three -- in the Cola Wars and have no real chance of catching up to the two front runners, no real chance because the Number Two drink will do anything to try to stay number two, whether that anything be "Change to a Bizarre Crystal form" or "Kind of Co-Opt President Obama's Campaign Logo" or even "Encourage a multiethnic 80s group of kids to play basketball and neglect their studies:"While the number ONE company can't be caught because 90% of their budget goes to fund Corporate Goon Squads who will, if you buy enough of a rival kind of soda, come to your house and beat you up in the middle of the night.If you're that number three company, charged somehow with trying to catch up to those other two competitors, things are grim. They're even more grim if your soda's taste is kind of indefinable and is constant... More About: Gusto
I also learned from cartoons that ACME is not a very good company to do bus
2009-06-15 20:02:00 Like all good Americans, I get every bit of information that I use from cartoons. That's how I know to keep my Illudium P-36 Explosive Space Modulator out of the reach of the Babies!... I have no desire to blow the planet to smithereens and be left hanging by a thread from a crescent moon.I also know, from watching cartoons, that Stem Cells are freely available at walk-in clinics and can, in a matter of minutes, cure people who have suffered strokes. I know that because that was a plot on an episode of Family Guy back when Seth MacFarlane was still trying and that show was still funny.So I know all I need to know about stem cells, but on the off chance that you did not see that episode, or that you do not believe that cartoons are a valid source of information about stem cells, I will also point out that you can find out quite a bit about stem cells and related issues from "Stem Cell Research News."That site is a veritable compendium (hey, big words! I must be smart!) of informa... More About: Cartoons , Company , Good , Learned , Acme
Let's Help Some Little Kids!
2009-06-15 03:59:00 The auction has begun! I am auctioning off the first of the Books Taken For Charity. Even as we speak, you can go to eBay and bid on a copy of my book, Eclipse, autographed by The Greatest Band In the History of Ever, Murder Mystery!The auction will go for 10 days, and all proceeds go to benefit Mateo and McHale Shaw and help pay their medical bills. So please... please please please, go bid on the book. You get a great book, autographed by The Greatest Band, and you'll be helping two wonderful little boys.Click here to go directly to the page to bid. Help these little boys out! More About: Kids
The Best Thing That Is Only Good, Really, If You Experience It Second-Hand.
2009-06-14 15:05:00 The world can be divided into two kinds of experiences: Those that are best when you are directly involved in them, and those that are best when you just hear about them from someone else.I don't mean that those are the only two kinds of experiences; there are an infinite number of ways to divide the way we experience the world -- there are experiences, I suppose, that are best when they happen accompanied by music, and experiences that are best only if they never ever ever happen to us, and experiences that would be awesome if it wasn't for the fact that during them we had a hangnail, and so on. The multitude of ways we experience our lives cannot really be boiled down to just two.But let me do that anyway. Let me boil the way you and I and everyone else live our lives down to just two ways: Thing s that are best experienced directly and things that are best heard about from someone else.Things that are best experienced directly include: Love. Pizza. The ending to that episo... More About: Experience , Good , Hand , Second Hand
The Seven Best Songs To Teach Yourself How To Clap In Time With A Song
2009-06-08 20:53:00 Like many people, I am rhythm challenged. Although that's not exactly accurate, and since I strive for accuracy here, I will try to be exactly accurate.Exactly accurate. That's fun to say. That should be in the title of a book. Exactly Accurate Zachary. Hey, I just wrote a kids' book.Anyway, in the interest of exact accuracy (note: it's not as fun to say it that way) I will rephrase my opening thusly:There are those people who have rhythm, and sometimes rhythm to spare. People like Toni Basil or Edgar Allen Poe, people to whom the musical ebb and flow of language and music are second nature.Then there are people who have no rhythm, people like Mr Bunches, who tries very hard to dance to the music that's on the advertisement for the Disney Snow White DVD whenever he hears it, but he's just off the beat, just by a little. It's cute, but not rhythmic. (Others who have no rhythm include such luminaries as Grimace and director George Lucas.)_Then there is me. I am antirhyt... More About: Songs , Song , Time
Everyone would be in love with me! (The Best Ad Jingles, 1)
2009-06-04 18:17:00 It's a MiniBest!I like ads. Good ads, anyway. And by good ads, I mean (a) ads that help me get paid for writing a book I'm writing anyway, but with enough ads, you might get it free, and (b) ads that actually were entertaining enough that I didn't mind that I was being sold something.So to help everyone -- that's you -- realize that ads aren't that bad a thing, if they're done right, and to help continue to promote my revolutionary new idea that could result in free stuff for you, this month The Best of Everything will be very ad-centric, including the MiniBests for this month, which will highlight The Best Ad Jingles, like today's entry, The Bologna Oscar Mayer Song, which is one of the few times that a kid didn't come across as creepy in a commercial, and which also featured a song that would let you slip your own kid's name into it if you wanted. Here it is for you to hum all day long:How awesome is that? So awesome that it's awesomeosity is only exceeded by THIS:So... More About: Love
The Ten Best Heroes In Cinema (According to The Boy)
2009-06-01 20:28:00 The Boy's list of Movie Villains was the second-most popular page on this site in May. (Number one? The Best Ice Cream named after a superhero, proving that a blogger can't go wrong mentioning superheroes.)So, because I'm lazy and because you love 'em, here's another of The Boy's lists. This time, I give you The Top 10 Best Heroes In Cinema . And, because The Boy doesn't give reasons, I've paired them with The Top 10 Songs On The Boy's iPod (as determined by number of plays:)10. Superman (From Superman: The Movie)/"Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones.9. Hercules (the cartoon)/"Lux Aeterna," by Clint Mansell8. Mr. Incredible (The Incredibles) / "Jeremy," by Pearl Jam7. William Wallace (Braveheart)/"Extreme Ways," Moby6. Samwise Gamgee (The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy)/"One," Metallica5. Forrest Gump/"Viva La Vida," Coldplay4. Indiana Jones/"Dragostea Din Tei," O-Zone:3. Batman (From The Dark Knight)/"Enter Sandman," Metallica2. Luke Skywalker / "No Quarter," Led Ze...
Kindle Me!
2009-06-01 19:13:00 What's The Best New Way To Read The Best of Everything? Kindle It!You can now get The Best of Everything on your Kindle, just by clicking this link. So no longer will you have to sit in traffic thinking to yourself Who's The Best Celebrity I Think I Could Hang Out With... and wishing desperately you could find out. You'll never again be sitting on an airplane trying to recall what The Best Pizza Topping is. And when the aliens descend from the sky and blow up all our buildings with their Particle Beam Rays and then enslave the screaming, tortured remnants of humanity... you'll be able to hide in that storm cellar and still read about who's The Best Olsen Twin.Note: I can't prove that Ashley Olsen Kindles This Blog... but you can't prove she DOESN'T, so we're even.
The Best Explorer
2009-05-28 16:31:00 I hate to disagree with Stephen Hawking and my brother Matt in the same week, but sometimes events force my hand.It's not that I never disagree with either of them. I disagree with both of them lots of times. For example, I disagree with my brother Matt about whether he should post online a video of himself trying to learn to surf, indoors, and failing. I presume that he fails hilariously, and maybe painfully, and I want him to show me the video and put it online. But he won't, and I disagree with that choice.I disagree with Stephen Hawking on other subjects. Like dark matter. Stephen Hawking apparently believes that "dark matter" is real. "Dark Matter" is what physicist call "all the stuff they can't explain," and the theory of dark matter can be explained this way: "There's a bunch of stuff out there that that we can't see, test, find, touch, or in any way measure or comprehend, but we need it to explain all the theories we have, so we'll just say it exists.""Dark ma... More About: Explorer
The Best Superhero (Reader Nomination)
2009-05-22 21:40:00 I can never get enough of the superhero posts, and apparently neither can you, judging by the way they keep rolling in. Hot on the heels of Anonymous' list of the Six Best Superhero s comes another Superhero nomination, this one from... um... Anonymous, also. Here's what Anonymous II has to say on the subject:Batman is a superhero despite his not having super-powers. His resourcefulness, insight, and years of rigorous training make up for the absence of any other special abilities. Physically, he is at the peak of human ability in dozens of areas, notably martial arts, acrobatics, strength, and escape artistry. Intellectually, he is just as peerless; Batman is one of the world's greatest scientists, criminologists, and tacticians, as well as a master of disguise. He is regarded as one of the DC Universe's greatest detectives. Rather than simply out-fighting his opponents, Batman often uses cunning and planning to outwit them. As far as gadgets, yes he has them but that just b... More About: Nomination , Reader
My only fear is that she wouldn't come back this time.
2009-05-22 21:22:00 Last week I took Sweetie for a day and night on the town to help her relax and get away from the house and the Babies! and, well, ME, too.That was a week ago, and I'm thinking that she may need another break. She's got that look around her eyes, the one she gets when Mr F and Mr Bunches have spent even more time than usual being naughty.So I'm thinking maybe a weekend in Chicago might help do the trick this time, and maybe make the effects last a little longer. Like, maybe, a weekend in Chicago in which she gets to get pampered and taken care of and otherwise treated nicely (you know, the opposite of what happens at home.)I found the Tiffani Kim Institute Spa searching for just such a place, and it looks like it might be the ticket. They've got waxing, body treatments, facials, and massage, and even a couples massage... although that might work against the whole purpose of the trip, if I'm still there with her bugging her.That's not all they have to offer at the Tiffani Kim... More About: Time , Back , Fear
The Six Best Superheroes (Reader Nomination!)
2009-05-21 16:23:00 It's a SemiDaily List!I really thought I'd settled who was The Best Superhero a long time ago... then I thought Riley C. had re-settled it, or settled it more? (Settl-est?)But some debates never die, and maybe it's good for humanity that they don't. Maybe this discussion elevates us, makes us aspire to be... more, or greater or at least gives us a reason to put on tights and tie a towel around our necks and continue to play superhero even though, technically, we are forty.Anyway, there are new nominees for Best Superhero. Anonymous has treated us to his list of nominees:Dude hulk is the best. The top six superheros are!!!!!!!!!!1: The Hulk2: Juggernaut3: Doomsday4: Mighty Thor5: Superman6: YodaI want to note that the exclamations are in the original. Also, I want it known that Juggernaut was once a villain and that might disqualify him.Got a nomination? You must -- everyone likes stuff and thinks it's the best. Post them in a comment or email them to me at "thetroublewithr... More About: Nomination , Reader , Superheroes
The money is mine! All mine! (unless you get it... but don't! I need it!)
2009-05-21 16:16:00 You've got only a short time left to win $10,000. I probably shouldn't even mention it, because if you don't try, then my chances go up, but I like you... all of you...except that guy over there, in the red. Him, I'm not sure about. But the rest of you I like, so I'll pass along the news on how you can win $10,000.It's easy: Just go to Charter's Win 10 Grand Contest Page. See how simple that is?Okay, there's a bit more to it than that. Charter's trying to reward its customers, and the latest way they've opted to do that is give away four 52" HDTVs, and a $10,000 grand prize in May. Visit, in May, charter.net/10grand each week to answer questions about Charter On Demand, and you'll get a chance to win a TV (one every week) and, if you get enough questions right, you could win the $10,000 grand prize. And you'll find out about Charter On Demand, so that's not a bad thing. They've got 6,000 movies and shows, waiting to be watched right now: no downloading, no DVR... More About: Money , Mine
The Best Jobs For Brett Favre When He Finally Doesn't Play Football Anymore
2009-05-20 17:21:00 It's a MiniBest!People think I'm maybe being sarcastic about this, but I'm not. I genuinely want Brett Favre to come back and play football, and to keep doing so for as long as he can throw a football, even if he's doing so as a Minnesota Viking.And then, I genuinely want Brett Favre to get a new career which is just as satisfying as his football career was, which is why I'm making these helpful suggestions for new careers he could have when he finally doesn't play football anymore. If it's hard for Favre to leave football behind, maybe the blow could be cushioned a little by finding some awesome new thing to do.Coming up with awesome jobs is not easy, after all. Consider this article on "Six-Figure Jobs You Never Thought Of." Leave aside the fact that I doubt many elementary school principles make over six figures and focus, instead, on the question of who, really, wants to manage a coal mine? Even for six figures?And who, especially, would want to manage a coal mine whe... More About: Football , Play , Finally
Let's not forget about Racer X...
2009-05-20 17:14:00 Just when you thought the Internet couldn't get any faster, along comes Ultra60.Ultra60, or, as it's more formally known, "The Most Awesomest incredible internet connection ever" is a new product coming from Charter. It's one of the fastest Internet services in the United States, and Charter (which has had this service available in St. Louis) is starting to roll it out across the country to make sure that you have access to the highest possible speed of connecting to multimedia sites. Ultra60 lets you use the internet for telecommuting, gaming, movies, and more -- sending giant megafiles through the Internet at super high speeds that make everything that much more profitable, convenient and fun. Ultra60 is just the first of Charter's "Phatbands," high-speed broadband connections that will especially appeal to hardcore gamers who want online play without lag time, something that Phatband can do.Want to know more? You can check out the Ultra60 Information Page on the Charter si... More About: Racer
I Stand Corrected: The Best Reader Comment Pointing Out How I Was Wrong:
2009-05-18 14:12:00 Although in general I am right about everything and anything I think (as are you, my readers -- remember, the TBOE slogan is Our Opinions Are Righter Than Yours) occasionally an error slips through here and there. I blame the lack of coffee.That error might be as simple as a reader thinking that the Olsen Twins aren't identical, or it might be something far more serious, like getting the biography of supervillain Chillblaine wrong.It seems I've done just that -- gotten Chillblaine's history wrong, and reader Lia Brown (who writes a very entertaining blog that you can find here) has called me on it. She writes, as a comment to my post on Supervillains who just kept coming...Dear sir, I apologize in advance for the nerdery. However, I must make a few corrections on your Top entry (for I am the world's biggest Top nerd...yes, such a thing exists). Firstly, Captain Cold never became Chillblaine, and thank god for that, because they were all having sex with his sister. They were a... More About: Reader , Comment , Wrong , Stand
Turn your superhacking abilities to good!
2009-05-18 14:02:00 Did you know that companies like Facebook and other Internet companies hire "White Hat" hackers -- people that are employed to hack computers legally?It's true --IT Security is a huge issue with those companies. They don't want their programs exploited by unscrupulous people who might alter pages or obtain private information or do something to interrupt the flow of millions of bits of information -- and billions of dollars of revenue.So the big internet companies employ computer guys and gals to hack their own programs, to spend their days trying to find and exploit vulnerabilities in their programs and then fix them.Kind of like "Wargames," only instead of causing Global Thermonuclear War, you get to cause your bank account to fill up with money. (Which I think was the plot of Superman III, wasn't it?)EC-Council can teach you how to do what's called Ethical Hacking, and it's one of the fastest-growing occupations out there. As more and more online sites become bigger and b... More About: Good , Turn
The Best Versions Of My Life, According to Singer/Songwriters.
2009-05-13 16:48:00 It's a SemiDaily List!I was driving home from Milwaukee yesterday, rocking out to the plethora of songs on my iPod (and by rocking out, I mean "singing along with Springtime For Hitler from The Producers) and on came the song Lily, Rosemary & The Jack of Hearts by Bob Dylan. You, like me, probably know the song by heart:So I was then singing along with that, and I began thinking (always a bad sign) and what I began thinking was everyone is always thinking about what their life would be like as a movie, and who would play them, but nobody ever thinks "what would my life be like if it were a song by Bob Dylan?"Nobody until me that is. Then I broadened out my thinking -- in part because I had nothing else to do, since I'd already eaten the apple I'd brought along for a snack -- and wondered what would my life be like if it were a song by some other guys who write songs about people?And then I thought I bet that'd be a good way to waste about 3 hours at work tomorrow morning w... More About: Life , My Life , Singer , Songwriters
Hopefully, in a few months, one of you will write this about ME.
2009-05-13 16:39:00 I am rarely jealous... okay, I'm jealous a LOT, but I rarely acknowledge my jealousy. Today, however, I'm going to go ahead and not only admit that I'm jealous of someone, but I'm going to acknowledge it publicly.The guy I'm jealous of is a guy by the name of Gang Chen, who is an architect and author. Mr. Chen is the author, most recently, of "Planting Design Illustrated," and another book, the "LEED AP Exam Guide." And Gang Chen earned over $100,000 in royalties on those two books.In six months.That's amazing enough -- six figures in six months. But what really gets me is this: Mr. Chen did it through self-publishing his books.Apparently, Mr. Chen got himself a publishing contract for one of his books and then didn't like all the changes the publisher was insisting on, so he canceled the contract and decided to self-publish through a company called "Outskirts Press." Six months later, he's gotten two royalty checks: one for $33,679.56, and one for $77,611.88, all earn... More About: Write , Months
Update: Guess Who's Reading TBOE Now?
2009-05-12 20:31:00 I don't talk about sports often on here -- but often enough, judging by the sports media folks who Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; ... More About: Reading , Update , Guess
The Best Jobs For Brett Favre When He Finally Doesn't Play Football Anymore
2009-05-12 17:22:00 It's a MiniBest!If you're a sports fan, you probably thought it was over, for real, last week when Brett Favre said he wasn't going to play for the Vikings.(If you're not a sports fan, then you probably said, just now, Brett who? But if you're not a sports fan, too, what's your deal? I'm not saying you have to be obsessed, but you probably ought to like at least one sport. Maybe Brockian Ultra Cricket.)But it's never over with Brett Favre -- and thank God, because what else would people who like sports do for fun and entertainment right now, when the best thing sports networks can do is claim that people actually watch the NBA playoffs which are now entering their third consecutive year -- just two more and we'll have a champion!It's a little-publicized fact that the NBA playoffs are so long that they actually overlap. Since they expanded to best-of-seven games (best of seven for no apparent reason) the NBA playoffs take, on average, 5.3 years. So the games that you'... More About: Football , Jobs , Play , Finally
The Best Creepy Instrument That I Nonetheless Would Like To Learn To Play.
2009-05-08 18:38:00 There are a lot of instruments I would like to learn to play.I'd like to play the bagpipes. I tried, for a long time, to learn how to play the bagpipes, because I own a real bagpipes (set of bagpipes?) (bagpipe? But there's more than one pipe...) given to me by Sweetie when I graduated law school. I then learned that there's a lot more to playing the bagpipes than simply blowing into a pipe and/or standing on a Scottish Moor waiting for Nessie to appear. A lot more breath, for one thing. Bagpipes take a lot of breath. And finger dexterity, which you'd think I have because I play piano and also used to know three card tricks, but I don't have it, or at least not the kind of finger dexterity you need to play "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes.Learn ing to play the bagpipes also requires getting a "practice bagpipe" which is like a part of the bagpipes without the other pipes and the bag -- it looks like a recorder -- and practicing with that, and also requires that you learn ho... More About: Play , Instrument , Creepy
Aren't pets great? Depending on the day and how they're behaving, of cours
2009-05-08 18:23:00 It's time you finally did something for your pet. Besides, I mean, feeding them, cleaning up after them, playing with them when you'd rather be watching "The Office" reruns, cleaning up after them again, feeding them some more, and then trying to move them off of your side of the bed, without luck, so that you have to sleep kind of on the very edge of the bed and not use any covers because "Stormy" the cat is taking up most of your space and has claws.Why do we do these things for pets? Because we love them, that's why -- and that's why you can do something more for your pet this week: you can register your pet to the HomeAgain program.HomeAgain is a national pet-recovery service that has helped recover more than half a million pets. They'll help recover your pet through a variety of services -- microchip locators, telephone access to pet-recovery specialists and emergency medical assistance for your pet. Signing up for HomeAgain also gets you up to $3,000 in meidcal insur... More About: Pets , Great
The Best Jobs For Brett Favre When He Finally Doesn't Play Football Anymore
More articles from this author:2009-05-07 16:48:00 It's a MiniBest!Back when I had a sports blog (it's this now) I made no bones about the fact that Brett Favre is the best football quarterback ever and should be allowed to play forever, if he wants -- quarterbacking whatever football team he might want to play on, in the far-distant future, leading a team of renegade humans to an improbable Superbowl victory over the Battlin' Skynets, or over a team fielded by the Legion Of Superheroes, if that's what he chooses to do.I even had a suggestion for the NFL, one they haven't taken me up on yet, but will -- let Brett play for all 32 teams, playing 1/2 for each team through the course of the season. How wouldn't that be a great outcome?There are those, though, who continue to feel that Brett should not play football and who continue to take sports as seriously, or more seriously than, they take important subjects like politics and religion and the question of why "Quisp" cereal is so expensive. There are those fans who discuss a... More About: Football , Jobs , Play , Finally 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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