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| 2/21 A little something to entertain everyone in the depths of February: The Smack the Penguin game ~ please, no e-mails from PETA. Click the Yeti once to queue up the penguin, and again to whack him as he falls. A fun variation, once you've played for all the distance you can possibly get is to see how short a swat you can manage. It's tougher than it sounds! February 2006 This month's deMotivator ~ Destiny You were meant for me. Perhaps as a punishment. January 2006 I love the deMotivators products from Despair, Inc. (see below). This year, bought their calendar. The "sentiments" remind me of Jack Handy's Deep Thoughts from SNL The entry for January runs thus: Wishes When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor. 10/5 Not that this is the first thing to amuse me in a while...I've just been busy. Carnac. I love the Carnac sketch. Here's a list of some favorite Carnac questions and answers. 5/13 Recent news from Kansas on the anti-evolution front reminded me of an article I read back in 1999 when they last were making headlines on this topic. I scared it up (and paid for it) from the Washington Post archive. I here share the Memo from God to the Kansas School Board. Bonus chuckles: In trying to get the name of the thing right, so I could find it on said WaPo archive, I had to do some google searching, and came across a whole page of Christian humor, of which this comparative (Christian) religions piece is a particular prize! 5/10 Revenge on credit card companies that over-solicit (which practice has them on my sister "peeves" page): I take some part of the solicitation that doesn't have my name or address on it -- those parts get shredded -- (like the faux plastic card they send you, in case you're not sure what this thing called a "credit card" might look like; or their insert full of disclaimers/terms/conditions), stick it into their business reply envelope, and then send it back to them at their expense (which is the nature of the business reply envelope -- they pay for the ones that they receive back)! Clever, no? I urge everyone within the view of my page to undertake the same policy! 5/6 "Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you haven't the faintest idea how to spell the word -- 'wife' -- or 'house' -- because when you write it down you just can't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before...? (gratuitous Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead quote...have you seen my explanation of the name of this site?) 4/27 A friend of mine who knows my love of words sent me this little song this morning, culled from the Boy Scouts' Virtual Songbook: Three rodents with defective vision Three rodents with defective vision Perceive how they flee Perceive how they flee They scurried by the spouse of the agronomist She removed their posteriors with a kitchen utensil Have you ever observed such a phenomenon As three rodents with defective vision? Which reminds me that I haven't looked at my copy of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories in a lot of years. I should really revisit them!! Here's a wee sample! 4/20 Was sent some information about features in the newest version of MSOffice: the Tools dropdown menu has been expanded, additional Options that you can set and re-set (if you can find them), that annoying Paperclip/Assistant has revised responses to it's offer of 'help', and also has more situations to which it is programmed to respond! 4/16 Willie the Snitch is Bob from Becker (the actor's IMDB entry)! I'll never watch Becker the same way again (hee-hee) 3/5 Okay, it was a big surprise to my husband that I found this funny, due to extreme raunchiness and much swearing (don't show it to your grandmother...), but the DVD of An Evening with Kevin Smith had me laughing SO hard. The man is a bloody amazing storyteller! Stories about meeting his wife, and the first time they were (ahem) intimate, about shooting a documentary for Prince (odd bird), about making his various films (especially the first, Clerks), (many, MANY) about Jason Mewes (Jay of Jay and Silent Bob).... See it, even if you are usually a bit delicate with the profanity. One observation, however: if part of the evidence in Chasing Amy that Banky might be gay was his obsession with dick jokes, what can we conclude about Kevin Smith after seeing this DVD? Just pondering.... 3/1 Here it is. The list of all the Pinky & The Brain "are you pondering what I'm pondering" answers!!! 2/28 Not one, but TWO Adam baldwin sightings over the weekend: on FOX's syndicated broadcast of Stargate SG-1, in which he has an hysterical monologue, and again on Sunday's FOX broadcast of Independence Day! That man's mere presence makes me laugh! 2/14 Check out Despair, Inc. Their DeMotivators make me laugh and laugh. And, in particular honor of today's Feast of St. Valentine, I give you, Bittersweets! 1/7 Joan of Arcadia. In an interchange between Joan and Grace: Grace ~ "Well, are you sure there's nothing going on? I mean, it wouldn't be a first. College boy dazzles impressionable high-school girl so he can -- do I have to go on? The word 'pants' is involved. Joan ~ "Is that what you think of me?" G ~ "I'm blaming the dude, dude." 1/1 Happy 2005!!! 12/2 Arlo & Janis. Ahhh, life with cats: 12/1 That last night on the Gilmore Girls, there was a Buffy reference: Paris ~ "How do I look?" Rory ~ "Where are you going?" P ~ "I'm putting myself out there, Rory." R ~ "Now?" P ~ "Yes, now." R ~ "It's 11 o'clock at night, who are you hoping to hook up with now -- Spike and Drusilla?" Behold the power and influence of Buffy writing alum, Rebecca Rand Kirschner An oldy, but goody I heard this several years ago on A Prairie Home Companion, to which I almost never listened. But I've been glad I did that day ever since, because of this. Household Principles for Children, or, Lamentations of the Father. I laughed so hard it HURT!! I mean HURT! Not breathing, tears rolling, stomach convulsing, can't stand up HURT! It was awesome! |
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