Do You Smell Smoke?
‘Cause my butt feels like it is on fire. No it’s not the hemorrhoids flaring up agaiin, but my appearance in Will Burnham’s bi-weekly feature, “In The Hot Seat” is live.
Rants
You People Are Pathetic
While watching Fox News this morning I could see some people on the sidewalk out the window behind the anchors. The usual suspects were there, including a couple of folks that deserved to be culled from the gene pool.
Person #1 is holding up a piece of cardboard of about 12″ x 24″ and he is holding it up so his message will be broadcast all over America and possibly the world. Only trouble is that he probably wrote the message in 1″ high letters with a ball-point pen. You couldn’t tell if there was anything on the cardboard all. I didn’t get your message dummy and no one else did either.
Person #2 has a cell phone in her one hand and is waving madly with the other. She has obviously called someone she knows, to tell them she is on TV, because when the camera moves or zooms the person on the other end directs her which way to move so she can still be seen waving madly. It takes them a couple of times to get it right, because we she should move to the left, she goes right first. They finally get very adept at this so she can be seen waving madly constantly in the background whenever the one anchor is talking. She even manages to duck appropriately to get underneath the LIVE banner that appears periodically in the upper right hand corner of the screen. I hope she was on her way to a Cuddle Party because she needs some attention.
You need to try a little harder, like the woman near the end of this crowd scene outside the Today show during the last Republican Convention. Good Morning Katie! (2 Meg Video)
Hey George! I Found Your Weapons Of Mass Destruction
We got our Annual Notice of Policy Status from our good neighbor the State Farm agent. In the cost of insurance section it listed Universal Life – $300.00 and WMD – $30.
They were right here all along, and I’ve been financing them.
Spinners
They started out as high priced LARGE chrome wheels with an additional disc on the outside. The disc spun independently of the wheel, so when the car/truck came to a stop, the wheels looked like they were still spinning. These wheels cost a great deal of money, thousands a piece. Then came add-on spinners to place over your existing dubs, reducing the cost to a mere several hundred per wheel. Not to be left out of this craze the po’ folks demanded a low price alternative. Ever accommodating, car aftermarket manufacturers came through, we now have chrome-like plastic hub caps that are spinners, available at a Wal-Mart near you.
Saw some cheapo ones on a POS green Hyundai this afternoon (one spinning, the other not, on the side we could see.) Donna summed it up perfectly, “They are like baseball cards in the spokes of a bicycle, for adults.”
Hauling U-Haul
I remember when on the back and sides of those small U-Haul trailers there used to be in 3″ high letters, MAX SPEED 45MPH. I guess they must have improved their equipment and their renter education, because today as I cruised down the Interstate at 75 mph, I was passed like I was standing still by a pick-up pulling a U-Haul trailer and it had nary a speed warning on it.
New 911
Oh, boy! Porsche is introducing a new 911. Looks about the same with some improvements to the engine, chassis, etc. Goes like stink and starts at $80K. Blogging may be light for awhile around here while I’m in line to get one.
LDSW
This is our Long Days, Short Week at work. We work 9 hour days Mon-Thurs and get Friday afternoon off. Here it is nearly 10 PM amd the day is over already. How can working just a half hour extra in the morning and another half hour in the afternoon kill the day so quickly? It couldn’t have been the 2 hours this evening I surfed the web for porn while my wife and her mother went to an exercise class? Nah.