What made you smile today?

(The above few posts, of course, relate to the star quarterback from Va Tech who went on to be the QB for the NFL's Atlanta Falcons. Mr Vick is is in deep dog doo now as as his co-defendants have all pleaded guilty on various charges ranging from cruelty to animals, gambling, and drug dealing. Mr Vick, I think we can assume, will not be doing any Milkbone commercials anytime soon).

What made me smile today was a chat with someone on the Scrabble thread about Jackalopes. Long after the game was over we talked about Jackalopes.

When I got hired at my job last year, they told me I was getting an Accord or Camry V6, then gave me a f'n Taurus.

Well this morning the sh!tbox went back to Nebraska and now got an '08 Camry V6 sitting in the driveway. Nice car.

I was browsing through my little file of quotations this morning and came across this one:


"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?" --Marilyn Pittman


I made it my signature line (for awhile)

I'm staying overnight at a hotel in Maine for work.

When I was leaving the hotel earlier to grab dinner, I see this red, mid-80's(84-88ish) Corvette pull up in the far corner to park. The furthest spot available. This tall, lanky, 50-something gets out of his beloved 'Vette, with his shirt tucked into his sweet jean shorts, combing his 4 hairs over his bald spot, and looking back at his car while walking into the hotel. He has such a dorky, lanky walk, that his head is about 2 feet in front of the rest of his body. I was dying laughing. Not to bash his car, but it's the most undesirable generation Corvette, it's probably worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $7K.

Got back from dinner, and made sure to park next to him.

Does this apply to you, too, Slappy?

One of my employees directed me to Youtube.com and then to s search for a video clip of Miss Teen South Carolina. She gives an amazing answer to the question as to why something like a third of U.S. students cannot locate the U.S. on a map. Check it out.

Mame: pretty much.

I saw that clip to, rjb. Hilarious.

Yeah, that clip was great.

Slappy, I hope you parked close enough to the vette (on the driver's side) that the guy will have to climb in on the passenger's side.

Congrats on the new Camry! They're great cars!

I also saw that clip! I felt bad for her but I couldn't help but laugh!

I smiled today because I found out there is a huge sale at the lord & taylor by my house! A deal on great clothes always makes me happy

a couple of days old, but better late...

NIMH was the answer to a clue in a crossword. My favorite lab rat always makes me smile.

say Brittle butt blister pubes 3x fast

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<Snort!>

My niece made a story during a car trip she took with her family this past week. It's about 3 wizards. Actually, it's called "The Three Wizards". One wizard is a dust storm wizard, one has the power of thunder and one the power of the stars. She made wiard robes for each of them, basing the design on their powers (crossing wizards and superheros, really). While they were practicing their spells, someone came to tell them that the world was going to end soon and only they could stop it from happening. The corresponding drawing said "The wolrd will end on September 31!" Heehee..... oh, it all worked out in the end.

How cute is that?

Did she do the 9/31 on purpose or not realize?

She didn't realize it. I told her to look at the calendar, but she didn't really 'get it' until I explained. Then she owned it. "So, there was really never any danger of the world ending anyway."

New bedding. I contest that nothing changes one's life as much for the price as a nice new set of bedding.

I'd not gotten around to it till now and finally have a nice golden quilt and pillow set that will cause me to make my bed every day (easier than with blankets since a quilt makes itself) and to me that makes the biggest difference in the overall appearance of a room for the least effort.

Hey, call me simple but it makes me happier.

A beautiful morning at the beach with the dogs, sitting and reading, while they sniffed and snoozed.

Start of a day, oddly.

Leave the apartment. Pub across the street has a new sign on the door. Got an outline of the Parliament building, and the text: Politics Free Property. Down the street is the church. Through the open doors, you can see the service is going on. No, wedding going on. Bride and groom are at the front by the priest, right now - flicker of white dress. Passing the newly saved trees of Nagymezo street there's workmen gathering at the 24/7.

Around the corner on the boulevard, I stop by the flower stall to buy a bunch of field flowers for Anastasia. I look at the offerings, gingerly take the bunch I want from the bucket - saleswoman is inside. A fifty or sixty year old Roma man is standing by. Got a suit on, if slightly frayed, perhaps even a hat, I dont remember. But confused, sort of lost. When he sees me lifting a bunch from the bucket, he too takes a step forward and picks up a ceramic pot with elaborately constructed bouquet. Saleswoman steps out fast as lightning with a "Mit szeretne?", what would you like? He staggers for a second, then says, determinedly: "Mindent". "Everything".

Flowers in hand I pass the Muvesz coffeehouse, then the Opera (on the other side of the street). There's people waiting there; on my side, an overweight teenage girl, mentally disabled I think, is standing on the street, where cars park. Dancing and demonstratively pirouetting on the tarmac as scarce raindrops start to fall. She smiles defiantly. When her folks call her back from across the road, she bounces back.

A gaggle of teenage girls pass by, twenty at least, not a boy among them. I stop at another coffeeplace one block down, where a guy who looks suspiciously like a badly-dressed Billy Mack is seemingly perfecting the art of bullshitting a regular Hungarian into buying a second-hand car. But his profanity-laced boasts turn out to be the language of real estate deal-making - "bought it for acks hundred thousand, put the latest amenities in it, top notch, panorama view - slam! penthouse, can sell it for triple million and a half!" (He didnt close the deal).

What I wanna say is - this city's cool.

Yer a sweetie..