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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
8:10 pm	What? Boo. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 1st, 2006
5:01 pm	Meet Scribbles... He bounces. Click him. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
4:06 pm	Look who's back, back again... Tell a friend... You know what's cool? In a creepy, exotic and strange way? Alice in Wonderland. Even in the Disney polished up retelling of the story it seems exotic. Check out this wicked cool picture from a version of the book. Some very cool characters in that book. I loved Tom Petty's video "Don't Come Around Here No More" where he did a Alice theme. Heh. In other news, I watched the VMAs last night. Well, I Tivoed them and fast forwarded through 98% of the crap. Best ringtone? Who are any of these artists. It was just one big unorganized mess. Jack Black was funny, but they gave him NOTHING to do. He just stood around and got a couple of chances to pepper in comedy. Worst awards show... EVER. Current Mood: naughty (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 12th, 2006
3:31 am	Annoying little quip... Being the youngest sucks at times. Take for example birthdays. I was the youngest cousin on both sides of my family. I am the youngest between me and my brother. So the bar is always set higher for them. Just a few weeks ago I had my birthday. It was alright (I got NOTHING from my family BTW) but I did get a card from my grandmother. Now I know she gives me $20 every year, and yet this year I got nothing. It's just a little thing, but my brother got $20 as of last year which was his 29th birthday. So why does the cut-off always happen to the youngest? IT SUCKS! It used to happen all the time on my other side of the family. My brother and cousin would get stuff well into their teens and it would stop for me by the time I was 2. BLAH! Anyway my GF more then made up for the lackluster performance by my family, and that's why my GF rules. Current Mood: cynical (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 9th, 2006
10:59 pm	I'm bored... Entertain me. Current Mood: bored (Comment on this)
Monday, June 5th, 2006
11:49 am	RIP: Alex Toth BURBANK, Calif. (June 4) - Alex Toth, a maverick comic artist who designed classic Hanna Barbera adventure cartoons such as "The Superfriends" and "Space Ghost," has died. Toth died while sitting at his drawing table at his home in Burbank on May 27, his son Eric said. He was 77. Drawing for Hanna Barbera in the 1960s and 1970s, Toth designed characters for adventure cartoons "Jonny Quest" and "The Herculoids" in addition to "The Superfriends" and "Space Ghost," and he achieved the wider recognition and commercial success that had eluded him. I always loved those old Hanna Barbera cartoons like Space Ghost, The Herculoids and the like. I really loved Space Ghost, and was glad to see him reborn as a pop culture icon with Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast. Alex Toth no doubt created a unique style of cartoon art that kids of the 60s, 70s and 80s can identify with. Current Mood: grateful (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 1st, 2006
2:48 pm	Strangling Dolphins I've been thinking more about this book writing idea. I've got a myriad of potential stories filling my head, but I'm not sure what direction I'd like to go yet. Maybe in the near future I'll post up a bunch of possible ideas and you my loving public could respond. I even have an idea for a romance novel/tragedy. I think I like that one, but I dunno if I have the nads to pull it off. I'm feeling very torn lately. Actually I feel torn a lot. Okay, that's it for today. I'm off to play some online poker. Or at least try. I haven't played any in about year and I don't know if it will even work anymore. Current Mood: envious Current Music: A Long December - Counting Crows (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
4:52 pm	Hello I'm Ray Bradbury... I've been thinking about writing a book. I'm a decent writer, or so I've been told and I spend and incredible amount of time online writing things. From columns on wrestling, to roleplaying sites, to a various degree of different things. I've dabbled in a ton of stuff, but I'm not sure if any of it qualifies me to be a "writer". I also don't know what kind of book I want to write, or even how to go about writing a book. I tried to write a screen play once, but gave up on it when I decided it was going no where. I think I could write a good "How-to" guide on a particular subject, but I don't know if there would be any market for it. It's a niche kinda thing I know entirely too much about. I've thought of writing some sort of a story, because I'm good at creating characters and plot points, but I don't know if I have talent to pull something like that off. I've always thought I'd be a good director, because I can take ideas and tweak them to fit a great story, but I'm not sure if I can do it with my own ideas. Anyone know anything about getting a book published? Maybe if I knew there was some legit chance this could turn into something more then a huge wordpad file on my hard drive, I might actually give it a shot. Current Mood: hot (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
3:43 pm	The Great Untitled Post. Even though I promised not to post until more people responded to my last entry, I've decided to ramble some more. Huzzah for you people. Why isn't Bruce Campbell a big movie star? I was sitting here thinking about that a minute ago. I'm anticipating the DVD release of The Adventures Of Brisco County Jr on July 18th and it occured to me he has all the tools to be a big star, yet he isn't. Take for example looks. While he's not a stunner, he has that perfect leading man square jaw that Hollywood used to love. Sure he's a little older and fatter now, but in his prime there was no excuse. He looked as good as Vince Vaughn or any of those other guys. He's funny, I mean a real comedic genuis at times. He fought his hand for Christ's sakes in Evil Dead 2. He's got good connections, Sam Rami has put hin in both Spiderman movies. He even has a cult fanbase. So why didn't he become a bigger star? Was it the failed TV show? The cult icon status? Hmm me wonders... In other news the best show on TV bar none comes back on tonight. Season 3 of Rescue Me starts tonight. Last season ended with Tommy Gavin's son getting hit by a car and killed. The drunk driver who did it was going to get off so Tommy plotted to kill him. His Uncle ended up doing the job, but not before a vision of Jesus caused Gavin to change his mind. He rushed to stop his Uncle but it was too late the deed was done and they shot the guy who killed Tommy's son. Justice was served but at what price? I guess I'll find out tonight. That show rocks, check it out on FX. My stomach continues to be upset. A reoccuring theme here in this journal. I swear my insides are messed up. Me and Beth rented Mario Party 5 and have been playing that all weekend. That's a lot of fun right there. Tons of neat Mini-games. Also my MMJB which is my music player on the computer went kaput for no reason. Just like my Media Player breaks from time to time. SO STUPID! Adios. Current Mood: crazy (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
3:50 am	The $5,000 That Ruined My Life.... It’s going on 4 am, so of course I’m up. Insomnia is one of my many problems and perhaps after I’m done typing all this you’ll see why. I’ve whined and complained before about these subjects, but maybe now if I spill my guts I’ll feel better. I’ve traced it all to one series of events. Welcome to the $5,000 that ruined my life... Not long ago I made a post about my 93 year old Grandmother who was dying. Let it be known that she has long since died and I never followed it up much in the journal because the events that transpired were so sickening, that I cared not to speak of it. Not that she had some horrible disease or anything, and although she did have Cancer, she died of a lack of compassion from a horrible family. Myself and NO ONE else excluded from that bunch. My whole family on my Mother’s side is a bunch of soulless rats. With that said, this is where the story ends and begins. In my Grandmother’s will she left me $5,000. To this date, I haven’t gotten the money yet. The money is to come from the sell of a house, that somehow my mother is now living in. That’s another story in itself. Oh I could spin pages about how she is responsible for much of this, and how she and my Uncle are dragging their feet on getting me my money. Don’t get me wrong, it might sounds cruel and heartless to wan the money so bad, but my Grandmother left me that money. She WANTED me to have it. After 23 years of being her Great Grandson, I was the only one who never borrowed a nickel from her. The least I deserve is my 5 G’s. This is where it all ties together... You see my Great Grandmother that just died, had a daughter, my Mother’s Mother, and my Grandmother. She died many, many years before. I was either 7 or 9, and to be honest it was a bad time and it’s all foggy. Anyway, she wasn’t a wealthy woman, but she did leave me $3,000. This money was to be safely tucked away in a college fund. My Great Grandmother (The one who just died, try to keep up) had also started me a college fund when I was born. Around that same time, she stopped putting money into it. It was about $2,000. So all in all, I had about $5,000 for college. This sat nicely and firmly in a CD for years. It collected interest and such, and I have no idea what the final amount was, but it was somewhere between $5-7,000. In the grand scheme of things, that’s not much, BUT it was that money that derailed my entire life plan. From the very moment I entered school, I knew I had this money waiting on me. It would guarantee me at least a couple of semesters in college. With those under my belt, I could have easily funded the second half. Life in a sense was good. I always knew this money was there. It would be there when I needed it. I could have a good life. And so with that knowledge I applied myself greatly in school, being a great student and such, etc, etc... Somewhere around Sophomore or Junior year, my parents decide they NEED that $5,000. Literally only a few years before had they conned my Great Grandmother into combining all the money into one CD that they had control of. As such, they told me they were taking the money. They presented a “deal” to me, that they would charge a computer on their Circuit City card, and I would get that until the time came and they paid me back in FULL for the money they had taken. The along comes Senior Year and my parents decide to split up. They also decided that since they were no longer going to be together, they would file for bankruptcy. I suppose I was considered part of that, as along came graduation, and I never got my money back. I had been hoodwinked. Since the split, neither of the two have ever paid me a dollar back. In fact, my Mother has complete revisionist history on the whole event. She believes that I bought a computer with that money. Forget the fact that my Dad doesn’t remember this, neither do I, but she has conned herself into believing that I somehow bought a $5-7,000 computer. Man it musta been nice, cause I don’t remember it. I do remember the $1,000 piece of junk I still have, but it was NEVER worth even half of what I am owed. My parents robbed me of my inheritance and my college fund in one fatal swoop. Nice folks yeah? So back to present day. My Mother is set to make between $30-40,000 from my Grandmother’s will. Do you think I’ll see her half of the money she borrowed? Hell no. So I have to fight and scratch for the $5,000 that’s allotted in THIS will. My Mother is such a ruthless bitch too. She had no real emotions from my Grandmother’s death, only those that brought her the “pity party”. I despise the woman even more now then ever. Particularly in wake of how she acted during the funeral and such. From my Grandmother’s house, I wanted only 1 thing. Pictures. I found, yes I found, a huge bunch of albums of my Grandmother’s. These dated back to 1907, and I wanted to keep them. Not because I was greedy, but because I wanted them preserved. I had used the pictures to create photo history of my Grandmother’s life at the funeral, and no one even knew most of these pictures existed. So what does my Mother do? Suddenly as soon as EVERYONE ELSE is on board with me keeping these, she suddenly wants them. First she wants to pick and choose which ones, then eventually she ends up with all of them. Well all of the ones of my Grandmother that I had used. So I ended up with the extras. As if it wasn’t bad enough this bitch has ALL my pictures from my childhood and won’t give me a damn one. Whatever. So the moral of this story is simple. To some people out there, $5,000 is nothing. A drop in the bucket. To me however, a single amount of money changed the entire course of my life. Instead of going to college, I had to work in a chemical factory, where I undoubtly took years off my life, and failed miserably as I attempted to work 60 hours a week and go to college. And now as I sit broke, without a penny to my name, no career, no college degree, I can trace it back to that $5,000. Perhaps someday I’ll get over it. But to be honest, it’s looking like I may never see the new $5,000 inheritance, much less the one from youth. It’s a real shame too, because I have a good use for that money. Will I ever see it? It’s unlikely. I know I’ll never see the original $5,000. Since I’m ranting, wanna hear about how I got screwed and have bad credit to boot? This sort of ties in to the whole, $5,000 thing. One of the reasons I never got any college loans, is because you need CREDIT for these things. You also need parents who care. My parents never once filled out any forms, or ever applied to get me any money for college. Rotten bastards. Anyway, at 18 I had no credit. If you’ve ever had no credit, you know how bad this is. Credit is a strange thing. You can’t get credit, unless you have credit. Basically, no one will sell you anything on a loan, unless you have good credit. But at 18 you have NO credit, and thus there is no way to get credit. So how do people do it? Simple they find a co-signer. Now scroll up and read the art about my parents filling bankruptcy my Senior year. Filling in the blanks yet? When I needed credit, my parents name was mud, so I couldn’t get a co-signer. So I spent years and years without credit. Wanna hear how I got bad credit? Read on... So with NO credit, I could buy nothing. I had to buy cars from people, not dealers. It sucked. Anyway, one day I’m backing out of a Convenience store parking lot, and I barely hit some Vietnamese man’s car. I more or less busted his light. We call the Cops or whatever, but the Cops say since it’s private property they can’t fill out the forms, and instead give us our own forms to fill out ourselves. While this seems like a pain in the neck, what made things even worse was... The Vietnamese man spoke NO English. Then turns out, I don’t have my Insurance card. Well, actually I did have my insurance card, but not for that car. So anyway I try to explain this to the man, I assume he understands and I give him my number and tell him to call me the next day so I can give him the right numbers. He never calls. Since there was literally no damage, I assumed he went home and figured it was too much trouble. Months roll by, and nothing happens. Then one day he calls my house. No idea what he said, but he asked to speak to me, and somehow my Mother (Our villain again) manages to cuss him out. I get the message, but she never found out why he was calling or got a number. By this time, I had already forgotten about the whole thing and had lost his phone number. Another couple of months roll by, and I get a court summons. Turns out, Mr. Foreigner is taking me to court. He apparently tried to file the insurance claim with insurance company, but he had the wrong numbers because I didn’t have the right card on me that day. So I go to court. I try to explain to him what’s going on, but again he speak-a No ENGLISH. The Judge can’t understand him. I try to explain to the judge that I DO have insurance and that this is all a misunderstanding. Finally the Judge orders an interpreter to come in. I explain tot he interpreter what's going on. He explains to the Vietnamese man. All is well, except, we’re already in court. So the Judge makes a ruling against me. I figure this doesn’t amount to much because my insurance will pay it. The good news is, my insurance DOES pay it. The bad news is, I have a judgment against me that can’t be lifted. Since I never officially “paid” this judgment, it went to my credit score. Officially giving me BAD credit, even though I’ve never bought anything on credit, never had a co-signer, and paid to have this foreign bastards car fixed. And as such, my life as it should have been, sucks. All over a puny $5,000. Amazing, no? Current Mood: infuriated Current Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Zephyr Song (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
10:32 am	Yahoo can Suck It! You know what sucks big time? Well other then the fact that I update like once every 4 months? Is that if you don't log into your Yahoo mail account after 4 months, it's rendered "inactive" and you lose all your emails. Like I can see it stopping incoming emails, but does it have to delete your old ones? That sucks. I had so much stuff in there, including but not limited to important emails and contacts from my wrestling writing days. It's annoying. B L A H! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
3:00 pm	Talk... I guess it isn't really "talk" when I type it all up. Oh hell, another topic choice WASTED by me. I coulda been such a great blogger I think, but everytime I come to deliver the goods all I have is a bunch of crap. Perhaps if I had more to talk about, and less of my mundane witty banter. Alas. My Grandmother continues to die. That woman is tough. Tough isn't even the word for it. A year or so ago my Dad got the Shingles. (I probably spelled that wrong and I don't care) Anyway he was like deathly ill as a result and felt bad for weeks. My Grandmother got them the same year, but she just completely no-sold them. (No-sold is a wrestling term, IE: Someone hits you, but you don't "sell" it. That is to say you absorb it without feeling the pain) Later after hearing my Dad whine about how bad the shingles had been, I asked my grandmother how her bout with them had been. She said, and I quote: "That there was some suffering" So yea, she's tough. She hasn't eaten in nearly 3 weeks, how does one stay alive? On top of all the stuff she's "dying" of. It's only a matter of time now, but I'm very conflicted about the whole thing. My family is doing a piss poor job of plannng for this. While there are only 4 of us on that side of the family....YES FOUR, count em...me, my mom, my brother and my uncle. I am so disappointed in them. My mom and uncle are doing their "best" but I just don't think their best is good enough. My Mom, LIVES with my Grandmother, she could do more. She has leeched off her for YEARS, up to the point where she now LIVES IN HER HOUSE, and yet she can only muster up a few hours a day to visit with my Grandmother? PATHETIC! And my brother? Don't get me started on my brother. He has borrowed (and I use the term loosely as he never has, nor will he ever intend to pay back) around $100,000 from my Grandmother in the last 30 years. Yet is he up at the hospital every day? NO. He has went TWICE! It's absurd and sickening. She worshipped the ground he walked on, yet he can't spend some time with her on her deathbed? UGH. It just makes me literally sick to my stomach. What little is left of that side of the family is falling apart. I suspect that soon I will have no reason to speak to any of them. Maybe it's selfish of me, but part of me will be glad to be done with them. I've been so disappointed in all this. I'm glad I went to my Grandmothers for Christmas this year. I just had this feeling in my gut that I might not ever get the chance to go there again for X-Mas... and I went and it looks like I was right. Funny how life works in those ways. I just don't know. What are you going to do? The whole thing just makes me sad. Current Mood: pensive (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
10:27 pm	.... My great grandmother is finally dying. 93 years of life is a long time. I hate this. BLAH! Current Mood: crushed (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
4:07 am	That amazing internet! I still can't read squat on LJ. Which means I can post, but not read it. LUCKILY for me all responses are sent to me email, so you can still respond to this and I can read it. Thanks to the girl who said she missed me. I have no idea who you are cause LJ won't let me get to my friends page either. *Shakes fist at LJ* Anyway so I find it odd today. I'm in this little message board forum thing, and I talk to these people all the time on AIM. I've never asked any real personal questions, but today I find out all kinds of odd stuff. One guy is from Syria, he rules. One guy is black, Nothing wrong with that, but I totally woulda pegged him as whitey. Shows you how good sterotypes are. A couple are latinos, again not a bad thing, but not what I would have guessed. But here's the kicker... One of them is GAY! Crazy huh? I guess it's just funny to me cause missing race is one thing, but man when you are off on sexual orientation it's quite the surprise. Anyway they're all still my e-friends. I don't care about race, creed or color. In fact, I have a little smile knowing that the internet has given me a chance to see no bad or ill will of those who I don't know. Kudos. Current Mood: surprised (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
3:49 pm	New LJ So the new LJ system isn't really working for me. I'll get back up to date when it starts working. BAH! Current Mood: aggravated (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 1st, 2005
3:39 pm	Happy Holiday Hallucinations Do you ever just remember something, you totally forgot? Like a repressed memory, only not quite the same? Let me give you an example. I'm sitting here about to write God knows what in this journal. I click through my friends list, and then click on someone's name who replied to a friend. The journal wasn't that interesting, but they started talking about their college roommate. Then POW! like a rocket going off in my head, I remembered that Kelli & Heather were roommates, but then Heather left, and Kelli got some new chick as a roommate. If I recall correctly, she decided to rummage through her roommates stuff and on her computer she found naked pictures. Then if I recall even more correctly, I was pestering Kelli and she sent me that chicks naked pictures that she had seen. Which by the way, is quite possibly the coolest thing a chick friend could do. But where did that memory go? I mean it JUST reappeared. Maybe it never happened and the whole thing was a hallucination. But I feel pretty sure that it did in fact happen. Which if it did, was pretty cool. I think her roommate was hot, but I can't remember clearly. I've seen so many naked women in my day it's all just a blur anymore. Speaking of Kelli, I sent her a crad and some baby clothes and crap for her baby's birth, but I haven't seen her so I dunno if she got them. I guess she's busy being a mom or whatever. It snowed here today, which makes it seem very much more Christmas-time. We also put up our Christmas tree and 90% of the Christmas decorations. Including my Rudolph themed Village, which I constructed. IT RULES! Speaking of Christmas, I've been hearing Bill O'Reilly rant about how Christmas is becoming too secular, and that stores are making their employees say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" and while at first I figured it was BS, I've noticed that infact everywhere I've went they've said "Happy Holidays". Hmm. While I'm rambling, I burned this CD of Johnny Cash songs the other day for a trip to Lousiville. It was cool and all (although it drove my GF nuts) but it turns out out of 21 songs, the main song I wanted to hear, I forgot to burn onto the CD. Talk about a bummer. Listening to 21 songs and none of them being the one you really wanted to hear. Oh well, just thought I'd make note of that. REPLY TO ME! Current Mood: awake (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
11:09 pm	WATCH TNA IMPACT! SPIKE TV! Holla! THIS SATURDAY ON "iMPACT!" ON SPIKETV AT 11PM ET - THE ROAD TO "TURNING POINT" CONTINUES! More matches for PPV to be announced, Styles vs. Sabin, Jarrett vs. James MAIN EVENT: NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett vs. Kip James The "King of the Mountain" Jeff Jarrett is preparing to face the war machine known as Rhino at "Turning Point", but first he'll need to get past Kip James on Saturday night! The question is, will all hell break loose again on "iMPACT!" between Jarrett's army and Rhino, Team 3D and 3Live Kru? Tune in and find out! X DIVISION ACTION: X Champion "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles vs. Chris Sabin Two of TNA's greatest high-flying X Division stars compete one-on-one on Saturday night as AJ Styles faces Chris Sabin in what is sure to be an "iMPACT!" classic. Styles and Sabin have always respected each other, and will surely take it to the next level in this bout. The question is, will Samoa Joe be watching? "iMPACT!" will also feature an update on the condition of "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels, who is still recuperating from the brutal attack by Samoa Joe. "The Charismatic Enigma" Jeff Hardy vs. "The Monster" Abyss Jeff Hardy is looking to rebound in his chase for the NWA World Heavyweight Title, and he can do so in a big way if he can make it past Abyss on "iMPACT!". However, Abyss is still on a path of destruction in TNA as he prepares to face Sabu at "Turning Point" in TNA's first-ever Barbed Wire Match! ALSO SATURDAY ON "iMPACT!". "The Alpha Male" Monty Brown in action - plus new TNA star Christian Cage to appear to comment on Monty's recent actions! What plans does BG James have for the future of the 3Live Kru? We'll find out Saturday night on "iMPACT!" Championship Committee member Larry Zbyszko has ordered Raven to appear for another face-to-face meeting at the "iMPACT Zone". What news does Zbyszko have for Raven this time as the star attempts to earn another shot at the NWA World Heavyweight Title? Tune in and find out! Plus, the show will feature a special highlight package of "The Man Beast" Rhino, who challenges for the NWA World Heavyweight Title at the December 11 "Turning Point" Pay-Per-View! Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: "I Hate Rap" - West Texas Rednecks (1 Comment |Comment on this)
11:05 pm	Boredom for the highly imaginative..... I'm making a Christmas village. How gay is that? Anyway it's going to be themed like the Rankin/Bass Rudolph story, with all the characters and whatnot. Actually, it kinda kicks ass. In a gay holiday village kind of way. Maybe I'll take pictures once it's done and post them here, so nobody can care. I've decided there is a whole lot of Batman the animated series action figures I missed out on, and I want. That's right I need some more toys, because I don't have enough sitting on my shelf doing nothing as it is. Wow....I am bored. Current Mood: bored (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
12:22 am	POINTLESS KNOWLEDGE! Fun Useless Facts (That Might Win You $$ on Jeopardy): In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb". The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better. Coca-Cola was originally green. It is impossible to lick your elbow. The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska. The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this.) The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400. The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000. The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David Hearts - Charlemagne Clubs - Alexander, the Great Diamonds - Julius Caesar If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? A. Their birthplace. Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? A. Obsession. Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand. Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? A. All invented by women. Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey. Q. Which day are there more collect calls than any other day of the year? A. Father's Day. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase........ "Goodnight, sleep tight." It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month ....which we know today as the honeymoon. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down." (It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's") Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice. ~~~~~~~~~~~AND FINALLY~~~~~~~~~~~~ At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow. Current Mood: amused (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 18th, 2005
5:00 pm	What no love? My journal is becoming a isolated place again...Where's King Moonracer to help me when I need it most? Current Mood: cold (Comment on this)