Saturday, December 23, 2006
yummm
| You Are a Trifle |
 No doubt, you have many intricate layers. But deep down, you're a little squishy. |
Random Fact of The Day
In Holland, you can be fined for not using a shopping basket at a grocery store.
Funny Stuff From Dave Barry
"Why not have an old-fashioned Christmas for your family this year? Just picture the scene in your living room on Christmas morning as your children open their old-fashioned presents.
Your 11-year-old son: "What the heck is this?"
You: "A spinning top! You spin it around, and then eventually it falls down. What fun! Ha, ha!"
Son: "Is this a joke? Jason Thompson's parents got him a computer with two disk drives and 128 kilobytes of random-access memory, and I get this cretin TOP?"
Your 8-year-old daughter: "You think that's bad? Look at this."
You: "It's figgy pudding! What a treat!"
Daughter: "It looks like goat barf."
Your 11-year-old son: "What the heck is this?"
You: "A spinning top! You spin it around, and then eventually it falls down. What fun! Ha, ha!"
Son: "Is this a joke? Jason Thompson's parents got him a computer with two disk drives and 128 kilobytes of random-access memory, and I get this cretin TOP?"
Your 8-year-old daughter: "You think that's bad? Look at this."
You: "It's figgy pudding! What a treat!"
Daughter: "It looks like goat barf."
Stupid News Story of The Day
(Burn, baby, burn)
Man sets self aflame in Calif. protest
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A man used flammable liquid to light himself on fire, apparently to protest a San Joaquin Valley school district's decision to change the names of winter and spring breaks to Christmas and Easter vacation.
The man, who was not immediately identified, on Friday also set fire to a Christmas tree, an American flag and a revolutionary flag replica, said Fire Captain Garth Milam.
Seeing the flames, Sheriff's Deputy Lance Ferguson grabbed a fire extinguisher and ran to the man.
Flames were devouring a Christmas tree next to the Liberty Bell, where public events and demonstrations are common.
Beside the tree the man stood with an American flag draped around his shoulders and a red gas can over his head.
Seeing the deputy, the man poured the liquid over his head. He quickly burst into flames when the fumes from the gas met the flames from the tree.
The deputy ordered the man to drop to the ground as he and a parole agent sprayed him with fire extinguishers.
"The man stood there like this," the deputy said with his arms across his chest and his head bent down, "Saying no, no, no."
The man suffered first degree burns on his shoulders and arms, Milam said.
Kern County Sheriff's Deputy John Leyendecker said the man had a sign that read: "(expletive) the religious establishment and KHSD."
On Thursday, the Kern High School Board of Trustees voted to use the names Christmas and Easter instead of winter and spring breaks.
**** yes, this happened in my home town. What a surprise. hehe
Friday, December 22, 2006
Random Fact of The Day
It was illegal to sell E.T. dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
Funny Stuff From Dave Barry
"We never look outside (in Miami) on Christmas morning to discover that the landscape has been magically transformed by a blanket of white, unless a cocaine plane has crashed on our lawn. (The Miami Herald - Dec. 07, 2003) "
Stupid News Story of The Day
(Roadkill anyone?)
Kentucky fears loss of traditional critter dish By James B. Kelleher
OWENSBORO, Kentucky, Dec 22 (Reuters Life!) - Kentucky, the untamed western frontier when the American colonies declared independence in 1776, is struggling to keep a taste of its past alive -- a stew traditionally made from roadkill and veggies.
Kentucky revels in its wild west past with the name of legendary frontiersman, Daniel Boone, attached to motels, medical clinics, a national forest and even a state highway.
So it is of mounting concern in one corner of Kentucky, just south of the Indiana border, to see waning interest in a traditional dish known as burgoo that Boone himself almost certainly ate.
Burgoo is a stew-like soup of meat and vegetables that the settlers who poured through the Cumberland Gap survived on as they tamed this region. It featured whatever meat -- squirrel, rabbit or possum -- the backwoodsmen bagged on any given day.
But Owensboro in the western part of the state is now one of the few places where burgoo is still served in restaurants, at church picnics and barbecue cook-offs, albeit in a slightly updated form.
In many ways, burgoo is similar to Brunswick stew, another one-pot, slow-cooked dish popular in the south.
But unlike Brunswick stew, which has been embraced by epicures, burgoo is just a generation removed from its roots as a roadkill-and-veggie ragout. Indeed, in the late 1990s, during the scare over mad cow disease, health officials warned Kentuckians to stop eating squirrel brains, which, like squirrel meat, remains a something of a delicacy here.
"It's basically a poor man's food," says Pat Bosley, whose family runs the Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn in Owensboro, which bottles burgoo and sells it by mail order.
"There's a whole lot of wild game in burgoo's history."
POPULARITY WANING
In the run-up to the Kentucky Derby, burgoo -- now usually made with chicken and pork -- is as ubiquitous as mint juleps.
But during the rest of the year, it's hard to find -- except in Owensboro.
Settled by Welsh sheep herders, the city of about 54,000 on the Ohio River is the burgoo capital of Kentucky, which means the burgoo capital of the world, and the stuff is a year-round fixture on the menus of places like the Moonlite, Old Hickory Pit Bar-B-Q and George's Bar-B-Q.
As a result, lovers of the folk food make the trek to Owensboro to satisfy their craving.
"It's a big deal in this community and a big source of tourism dollars," says Jody Wassmer, the president of the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce, who grew up in southern Indiana, where a burgoo-like stew with turtle meat is popular.
"You can go to the Moonlite Bar-B-Q on a Saturday afternoon and count the out-of-state licence plates."
The cooks in Owensboro, however, honour the city's Welsh founders, and burgoo's gamey roots, by making their version of the stew with barbecued mutton.
"It gives it a -- I don't want to say gamey flavour, because that's got a negative connotation -- but a robust flavour," says Bosley.
A burgoo-making contest is also one of the highlights of Owensboro's annual International Bar-B-Q Festival where there as many recipes as chefs.
But Bosley says as time passes, the taste for burgoo even here in Owensboro is waning as chain restaurants push the traditional mom-and-pop restaurants out of business.
"We sell less and less of it every year," said Bosley. "It's a folk food so the old timers still want it. But fewer and fewer young people are eating it. The tradition's being lost... (and) it dilutes the food heritage of this country. It's sad."
Almost Christmas!
It's almost Christmas, and being in a very giving mood, I am gonna share some of my Christmas art with you. Click HERE to visit my eSnips folder. There are some cute Christmas graphics , created by me (hehe), which you can download. Merry Christmas!!!!!!!
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Caption This!
Tragedy struck the Manhattan Ballet Corp earlier today when, due to a mix up in the choreography, Jacques Van Helm jumped up and landed on Serge Kinski's head. It took 3 hours for doctors to remove Kinski's head from Van Helm's ass. Sadly, Kinski perished in this horiffic accident, which since has been dubbed, "Death by Asshole."
post your own funny caption in a comment if you wanna.
Funny Stuff From Dave Barry
"-- Gifts for Children -- This is easy. You never have to figure out what to get for children, because they will tell you exactly what they want. They spend months and months researching these kinds of things by watching Saturday- morning cartoon-show advertisements. Make sure you get your children exactly what they ask for, even if you disapprove of their choices. If your child thinks he wants Murderous Bob, the Doll with the Face You Can Rip Right Off, you'd better get it. You may be worried that it might help to encourage your child's antisocial tendencies, but believe me, you have not seen antisocial tendencies until you've seen a child who is convinced that he or she did not get the right gift. "
Stupid News Story of The Day
(How many Big Macs can I get for one dead cat?)
Patrons toss dead cat through drive-thru
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - An employee working the drive-through window at a McDonald's will have a tale to tell. When the worker went to the open window thinking the car pulling up had already ordered, the people in the car threw a dead cat through the window, police said.
Cedar Rapids Animal Control officer Matt McAtee said the black domestic shorthair appeared to have been dead for a while.
"It looked like somebody had picked it up off the road," McAtee said.
Police were called to the restaurant about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday.
The people in the car drove off. A description of the car was not available, but employees knew the people in the car, police said.
No charges had been filed. The investigation was continuing.
McDonald's officials declined comment.
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Information from: The Gazette, http://www.gazetteonline.com/
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
10 Things That Sound Dirty At Christmas...and Probably Are
My own personal version of this list - hehe
10. Can I shake your package?
9. Those balls are too big for your tree.
8. Wow! Is that package for me?
7. It gets sticky when you lick it.
6. Come sit on Santa's lap and tell me what you want.
5. Your tree looks limp. Let me give it a little something.
4. It looks so nice that I wanna unwrap it really slow.
3. I am so stuffed that I can't even unzip my pants.
2. It looks like there is a lot of stuff in Santa's sack.
1. I can't wait to play with my toys!
10. Can I shake your package?
9. Those balls are too big for your tree.
8. Wow! Is that package for me?
7. It gets sticky when you lick it.
6. Come sit on Santa's lap and tell me what you want.
5. Your tree looks limp. Let me give it a little something.
4. It looks so nice that I wanna unwrap it really slow.
3. I am so stuffed that I can't even unzip my pants.
2. It looks like there is a lot of stuff in Santa's sack.
1. I can't wait to play with my toys!
Random Fact of The Day
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an 'Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.'
Funny Stuff From Dave Barry
"For the special dog on your holiday list, we recommend a highly scientific nutritional water specifically formulated for dogs. It comes not only in bacon flavor, but also in chicken and beef. These flavors entice the dog to drink the water, which contains, according to the manufacturer, a 'proprietary blend of vitamins, antioxidants, and electrolytes.' Of course if they REALLY wanted the dog to drink this water, they would give it the flavoring that dogs love most of all: toilet."
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