Picoftheweek

Picoftheweek
Waaaaaaaay too many to count...

My Statement

"Let me emphatically say that I am not anti-Facebook (Fleecebook), anti-smart phone, anti-Microsoft, anti-Apple, anti-Google or anti-Internet. I do believe, though, that the consumer is being ripped off of his privacy, identity and purchase history. We are being herded into a Facebook corner where what we "Like" and where we go physically and on the net will be scrutinized and sold numerous times to actually corrode and erode our culture while tempting us only with convenience, high tech and flashing video screens. The unsuspecting consumers need to be aware..." - Gary Lapman

Quote of Note

“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”-W.C. Fields

"For the strength of the Wolf is in the Pack, and the strength of the Pack is in the Wolf." - Rudyard Kipling
"Common sense is not so common. " -Voltaire

“Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, but only character endures.” - Matthew McConaughey
"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him"

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason" - Jerry Seinfeld

"Fleecebook is free, you (and your identity) is the product!" - Gary Lapman

"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves." - Eric Sevareid

"'Smart' phones are only smart for the cell phone providers!" - Gary Lapman

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.” -Albert Einstein

"Technology creates the illusion of companionship without the intimacy of friendship." - unknown

"No worry, there's an app for that..." - Gary Lapman

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Turkey Bingo

       


Last night we attended our yearly venture to play Turkey Bingo.  It starts with us visiting the Vineyard Restaurant in Santa Ynez.  We arrive early because we have to be at the Veteran's Hall in Solvang by 5:45.  The owner of the restaurant waits on us as usual.  He is a funny fellow with a dry wit.  The food is wonderful and varied or we wouldn't return each year.  
After early dinner we rush to the Veteran's Hall where people are already gathering and choosing their play cards.  We get comfortable (as well as you can on folding chairs) for the long evening of play.
Turkey Bingo started 97 years ago in the Santa Ynez Valley.  The prize was still a turkey, but then they were live!  A winner would either put the turkey in a burlap sack and put it under the table while continuing to play, or tie it to the table leg.  Either way, the turkey was soon nipping at your feet or legs.
The best part of the evening was  not the winning, nor the yelling BINGO, but rather the immense interest and joy that every child there got from playing and winning.  Each would quickly carry their card to the stage to get checked, and then most of them would get their trophy turkey (now frozen) and parade back to their seat.  It was fun just to be there and to observe.   This is what kids in a farm/ranch community do for fun!
The table that I sat at had winners.  There were seven turkey brought home that night.  I didn't win and neither did Jeff sitting across from me, but almost everyone else did.  What fun.






A Montana cowboy appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates...
"Have you ever done anything of particular merit?"
St. Peter asked.
"Well, I can think of one thing," the cowboy offered.
"On a trip to the Black Hills out in South Dakota , I came upon
A gang of bikers who were threatening a young woman.
I directed them to leave her alone, but they wouldn't listen.
So, I approached the largest and most tattooed biker and smacked
him in the face, kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring,
and threw it on the ground.
I yelled, 'Now, back off or I'll kick the shit out of all of you!"
St. Peter was impressed, "When did this happen?"
"Couple of minutes ago . . . ."
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