December 2009
11 posts
Yahoo! just ran a story on the top baby names of the decade. Most popular? Tiger Jr. OHHHH!!!! Least popular? Brittany Murphy. Frown.
Most amazing story of 2009? The lady who was attacked by her pet chimpanzee. No doubt. Sure, it was intolerably sad, but the details are too ridiculous to not rehash. May we all learn a lesson. In summation:
A 70 year-old woman kept a chimpanzee as her pet.
The woman named her pet chimpanzee Travis.
Travis weighed 200 pounds.
The chimpanzee lived with her, in a house.
The chimpanzee used...
I’m gonna start a blog called: “Things My Wife Loves.” Here’s a start, in no particular order: Black babies. Knowing snakes aren’t around. Babies. Bloopers. The tops of pizzas.
My wife and I saw a man getting on our plane, wearing a giant sombrero:
Me: That’s a bad buy. What do you do with that?
Wife: You throw it in the garage.
Me: Yeah, you throw it in the garage, and regret it in two weeks. Or worse yet, you forget you have it in one (week).
Wife: What if it was the best night of his life?
Me: It does leave that door open. If there's a man on a plane in a giant sombrero, there is a good, healthy chance we could be talking about one of the great nights in this man's life.
Wife: Then it’s a good buy.
Me: Then it's a great buy. Fantastic point.
The moral of the story is: it's easy to judge a giant, Mexican hat. It's tougher to be patient and listen to it's story. That's the mark of a man.
The largest, unmonitored honor system in the world is the luggage claim at airports.
People always say “celebrities die in 3’s.” But that’s a dated, terribly antiquated saying. You could say that in the 70’s because there were only 2,000 celebrities. Now there have to be hundreds of thousands. So as I get older, and more and more people die that have been on television, or had a hit record, the saying will change. It’s a joke now, but soon it will be “Celebrities...
Twitter intimidates me. It’s the @ symbols. I can’t figure out how it all works. Prior to Twitter, there was essentially one use for the @ symbol. What did people use them for before email?
