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

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Almost There...

Way too much shopping today for tomorrow's bash.  I'm ready to lay back and put my feet up.



We get away with naming our baby just about anything we want (i.e. "Dweezil" or "LaShimba"), but in some countries the gubmint is telling you what you can and can't name your baby:  (see Baby Dumpling ).  It seems like a small freedom for new parents to make their baby PAY FOR THEIR WHOLE LIFE by giving them an unreasonable moniker.

We went to see "Knight and Day" tonight.  I would give it a B-.  Lots of action, but a few loose ends that make you wonder how they could leave that information out...







Stump and Mahtha
So it's time for the annual Skowhegan Fair again, and Stumpy and Martha are having their same old fight as they drive down from Bangor.

"Mahtha, we ain't gettin an younga', and by gawd I'm gonna ride that airplane ride this yeah." Says Stumpy.

Martha replies, "Stumpy, that airplane ride costs ten dollahs. And ten dollahs is ten dollahs."

Stumpy says "By gawd I don't care!"

"Ten dollahs is ten dollahs..."

Stumpy, undeterred, drives right down to the airfield, where the pilot hears their arguing, "TEN DOLLAHS IS TEN DOLLAHS!"

He walks over and says "Folks, I tell you what. I'll give you the ride for FREE; but no talking... NOT a SOUND!! It's yours for free."

Stumpy and Martha agree, strap in, and the pilot proceeds to loop-d-loop, bank turn, climb, and dive at full throttle.

As he comes in to land he looks at Stumpy in the rearview, "THAT was incredible, all that and not a word from either of you!"

Stumps unbuckling his seatbelt, says, "Well, I ahlmost said somethin' when Mahtha fell out, but ten dollahs is ten dollahs..." 




"In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in 12 years, we'll be voting for plants."  - Lewis Black








"A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff." - George Carlin






You would be a redneck if:
You need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos.

You need an estimate from your barber before you get a haircut.

The biggest fashion risk you take is which plaid you'll wear to the 4-H Fair.

You have flowers planted in a bathroom appliance in your front yard.

Your wife weighs more then your refrigerator.

You move your refrigerator and the grass underneath it has turned yellow.

You mow your lawn and find a car.

You can spit without opening your mouth.

Going to the bathroom in the middle of the night involves putting on shoes and a jacket and grabbing a flashlight.

You go Christmas shopping for your mom, sister, and girlfriend, and you only need to buy one gift.

Taking a dip has nothing to do with water.

There are more than ten lawsuits currently pending against your dog.

You take a fishing pole to Sea World.

The hood and one door are a different color from the rest of your car.

You've ever filled your deer tag on the golf course.

You've ever shot somebody over a mall parking space.

Santa Claus refuses to let your kids sit in his lap.

Your toilet paper has page numbers on it.

You think mud rasslin' should be an Olympic sport.

The receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

More than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general.

You think the stock market has a fence around it.

You think the O.J. trial was the big Sunkist and Minutemaid taste test.

You've ever lost a loved one to kudzu.

Your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years.

Your front porch collapses and kills more than three dogs.

Your coffee table used to be a telephone cable spool.

You keep a can of Raid on the kitchen table.

You've ever used a toilet seat as a picture frame.

Your home has more miles on it than your car.
Your Christmas tree is still up in February.

You've ever been arrested for loitering.

You think that potted meat on a saltine is an hors d'ouvre.

There is a stuffed possum anywhere in your house.

You hammer bottle caps into the frame of your front door to make it look nice.

You've ever shot anyone for looking at you.

You own a homemade fur coat.

Your wife can climb a tree faster than your cat.

Your momma has "ammo" on her Christmas list.

You've totaled every car you've ever owned.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Finally...

A much better day today.  Friday's are like that, especially just before a three day weekend.  The week has been "much ado about nothing" and it wasn't until Friday afternoon that a clear path was revealed.


The weekend plans are coming together, with preparations tomorrow for a celebratory get together on Sunday followed by the fireworks at Girsch Park.  Monday shall be a day of rest and relaxation (fat chance).













Awarded Worst First Sentence of a Novel
The Bulwer-Lytton award is given annually for the worst first sentence of a novel. Contestants craft deliberately bad opening lines. Molly Ringle took the 2010 prize with this gem:


"For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss — a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil."




POEM - Illegal Immigrants

 

I cross river,
 poor and broke,

Take bus,
 see employment folk.

Nice man
 treat me good in there,
 Say I need
 go see Welfare.

Welfare say,
 'You come no more,

We send cash
 right to your door.'

Welfare checks,
 they make you wealthy,

Medicaid
 it keep you healthy!

By and by,
 Got plenty money,

Thanks to you, TAXPAYER dummy.

Write to friends
 in motherland,

Tell them
 'come, fast as you can'

They come in buses
 and Ford trucks,

I buy big house
 with welfare bucks.

They come here,
 we live together,

More welfare checks,
 it gets better!

Fourteen families,
 they moving in,

But neighbor's patience
 wearing thin.

Finally, white guy
 moves away,
..
I buy his house,
 and then I say,

'Find more aliens
 for house to rent.'

In my yard
 I put a tent.

Send for family
 they just trash,
...
But they, too,
 draw welfare cash!

Everything is
 very good,
 Soon we own
 whole neighborhood.

We have hobby
 it called breeding,

Welfare pay
 for baby feeding.

Kids need dentist?
 Wife need pills?

We get free!
 We got no bills!

TAXPAYER crazy!
 He pay all year,
 To keep welfare
 running here.

We think America
darn good place!
 Too darn good
 for white man race.

 If they no like us,
 they can go,
 Got lots of room
 in Mexico. 






A husband and wife are on the 9th green when suddenly she collapses from a heart attack!
"Help me dear," she groans to her husband. The husband calls 911 on his cell phone,
talks for a few minutes,
picks up his putter and lines up his putt.

His wife raises her head off the green and stares at him.
"I'm dying here and you're putting?"

"Don't worry dear," says the husband calmly,
"they found a doctor on the second hole and
he's coming to help you.

"Well, how long will it take for him to get here?"
she asks feebly.

"No time at all," says her husband.
"Everybody's already agreed to let him play through."

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Not quite there yet- purtnear though...

So my day is going a bit better today, as management finally conceded that even progress in the wrong direction is still progress.  I have commitment this morning!


FLASH:  What happens if BP declares bankruptcy in Britain ?  How does that effect their liability ?  What can we do about it ?

Good closing today as Tori received her reward letter from Occidental, another substantial scholarship!




Ammar has spent many days crossing the desert without water. His camel dies of thirst. He's crawling through the sands, certain that he has breathed his last, when all of a sudden he sees an
object sticking out of the sand several yards ahead of him. He crawls to the object, pulls it out of the sand, and discovers what looks to be an old brief case. He opens it and out pops a genie....

But this is no ordinary genie. He is wearing a Senior Manager ID badge and dull grey suit.

"Well" says the genie. "You know how it works. You have three wishes."

"I'm not falling for this." says Ammar. "I'm not going to trust a Senior Manager."

"What do you have to lose? You've got no transportation, and it looks like you're a goner anyway!"

Ammar thinks about this for a minute, and decides that the  genie is right. "OK, I wish I were in a lush oasis with plentiful food and drink."

***POOF***

Ammar finds himself in the most beautiful oasis he has ever seen. And he is surrounded with jugs of wine and platters of delicacies.

"OK, what's your second wish."

"My second wish is that I were rich beyond my wildest dreams."

***POOF***

Ammar finds himself surrounded by treasure chests filled with rare gold coins and precious gems.

"OK, you have just one more wish. Better make it a good one!"

After thinking for a few minutes, Ammar says...

"I wish that no matter where I go, beautiful women will want and need me."

***POOF***

He is turned into a tampon.

The moral of the story?
If a Senior Manager offers you anything, there's going to be a string attached.



Bit O' Trivia

Ever wonder how many ACME products appeared in Road Runner cartoons ?  This is a list of ACME products  1949 - 1994. To be in this list, the product had to say ACME on it or be in a a package/box that said ACME on it.

Anvil     "Gee Whiz-z-z"    1956
Anvil     "Going Going Gosh"    1952
Aspirin   "Beep Beep"    1952
Axle Grease (guaranteed slippery)     "Zip N Snort"    1961
Balloon     "Fastest With The Mostest"    1960
Basket     "Fastest With The Mostest"    1960
Bat-man's Outfit     "Gee Whiz-z-z"    1956
Bed Springs     "Ready Woolen & Able"    1960
Bird Seed     "Hook, Line, & Stinker"    1958
Bird Seed     "Zipping Along"    1953
Bird Seed     "Stop! Look! and Hasten!"    1954
Bomb     "Fastest With The Mostest"    1960
Bumble Bees (One-fifth)     "Zoom and Bored"    1957
Cactus Costume     "Chariots of Fur"    1994
Christmas Package Machine     "Hopalong Casualty"    1960
Dehydrated Boulders(just add water)     "Scrambled Aches"    1957
Detonator     "Zipping Along"    1953
Do It Yourself  Tornado Kit     "Whoa Be Gone"    1958
Dog Sled     "Freeze Frame"    1979
Dynamite     "Ready Set Zoom"    1955
Earth Quake Pills     "Hopalong Casualty"    1960
Electronic Fan     "Going Going Gosh"    1952
Electronic Motor     "Fast & Furryous"    1949
Explosive Tennis Balls     "Soup or Sonic"    1980
Female Road Runner Costume     "Ready, Set, Zoom"    1953
Frisbee     "Soup or Sonic"    1980
Giant Mouse Trap     "Chariots of Fur"    1994
Giant Kite Kit     "Zipping Along"    1953
Giant Rubber Band     "Gee Whiz-z-z"    1956
Giant Rubber Band     "Whoa Be Gone"    1958
Glue     "Ready, Set, Zoom"    1953
Grease     "Guided Muscle"    1955
Handlebars     "Gee Whiz-z-z"    1956
High Speed Tonic(contains Vitamins R-P+M)     "Hip Hip Hurry"    1958
Instant Icicle Maker      "Zoom at the Top"    1962
Instant Road     "Chariots of Fur"    1994
Invisible Paint     "War And Pieces"    1964
Iron Bird Seed     "Beep Prepared"    1961
Iron Pellets     "Zip N Snort"    1961
Jet Motor     "Gee Whiz-z-z"    1956
Jet Propelled Pogo Stick     "Hot Rod & Reel"    1959
Jet Propelled Skis     "Freeze Frame"    1979
Jet Propelled Unicycle     "Hot Rod & Reel"    1959
Jim-Dandy Wagon     "Ready, Set, Zoom"    1953
Lightning Bolts(rubber gloves included)     "Chariots of Fur"    1994
Little Giant Do-It-Yourself Rocket-Sled Kit     "Beep Prepared"    1961
Little Giant Snow Cloud Feeder (makes instant snow)     "Freeze Frame"    1979
Matches     "Beep Beep"    1952
Mouse Snare     "Hip Hip Hurry"    1958
Nitroglycerin     "Beep Beep"    1952
Outboard Motor     "Ready, Set, Zoom"    1953
Road Runner Lasso     "Freeze Frame"    1979
Rocket Powered Roller Skates     "Beep Beep"    1952
Rocking Horse     "Freeze Frame"    1979
Roller Skates     "Ready Set Zoom"    1955
Roller Skis (no snow necessary)     "Lickety Splat"    1961
Speed Skates (ice)     "Freeze Frame"    1979
Street Cleaners Wagon     "Going Going Gosh"    1952
Super Outfit     "Fast & Furryous"    1949
TNT     "Beep Beep"    1952
Triple Strength Battleship Steel Armor Plate     "Gee Whiz-z-z"    1956
Triple Strength Fortified Leg Muscle Vitamins     "Stop! Look! and Hasten!"    1954
Wash Tub     "Ready Set Zoom"    1955
Weather Balloon     "Going Going Gosh"    1952
Trucking     "Whoa Be Gone"    1958
Water Pistol     "Whoa Be Gone"    1958

   
A young lady is applying for fall semester classes. At the end of the busy day she goes back to her dorm and enters in a huff of anger. "What's wrong, Shelly?" Asks her roommate. "Well, all the acting classes are filled. I couldn't even get into Mime class." "Why not?" "How should I know? You can't get a word out of those people!"