me Says: Sounds like a drinking game…….

That's exactly what I thought. Back in the '70's/'80's we played "Hi Bob!"; you'd sit & watch episodes of the Bob Newhart Show, and take a drink every time somebody on the show said "Hi, Bob".

Yeah, we were pretty lame back then.

There used to be a chain of banks here that had a "Weather Ball" on top of their signs. There was some cheesy rhyme that went with it that Mom would rattle off when we drove by one. Wish I could remember it.

Anita Says: OK, so I didn’t want to get too political in the post, but what are they thinking? These things take more food to feed than they produce in meat (even though each rabbit can stuff 8 people). 5 years from now they’ll probably have 15,000 monster bunnies happily eating all the farm crops while the rest of the world sends the starving people millions of pounds of food to make up for the shortfall.

It won't take five years; the people are already starving, and the world is already shipping food in there, but the screwball pot-bellied dictator running the diverts it all to his 3rd-rate military. He'd do the same with the rabbits, and nothing will change.

I hope Karl turns them down flat.

Now if only my kids would display the same amount of patience...

Great ad!

I'm with Steph; my wife & I do a fairly good job of getting each other good gifts, mainly because we talk regularly and communicate well, and remember the subtle little non-hints that come up at random in conversation.

I use a similar approach with my kids, but tend to listen less to what they're asking for in the time leading up to a gift-giving event, and more to what their true likes & dislikes are. For my three boys, gift giving is easy; I usually look for something I'd liked to have had at their age, combine it with what I've gleaned from the above tactics, and get a winner most every time.

But my daughter... That's a different story. And a true challenge.

... and you can be sure that Earth will be glad to have you, thanks to your biodegradable casket.

Sounds like a good description of the plain pine box that will be my final bed. The more we advance, the more we mirror what was done in the distant past.


By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
for you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.
Genesis 3:19

These things are truly enormous. There are a number of wind farms in operation and being built within a few hours' drive of where I live; seeing them from a distance just doesn't do them justice.

Not too long ago I passed a truck on the highway carrying a single blade on its way to a construction site; 200 feet doesn't sound like much, but when you see it rolling down the highway it gives you a new appreciation for these things.

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From the looks of it, the main problem is that it's a six lane roundabout, and each incoming road has four lanes. How the heck can you expect something like that to work smoothly?

I've never been to China, but have been to other 3rd world countries, and this doesn't look much different than the traffic in those places. If there are traffic controls at intersections, people pay scant attention to them. The boldest guy with the loudest horn gets through the intersection first. I wouldn't think of driving in a place like that myself, but have no problem riding with locals. It's amazing how people get anywhere, but somehow the traffic does get through.

Dan said... My favorite of all time.
“Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.”
Francisco (”Pancho”) Villa

That's good! I wonder how many others said something like that, and the people who were there made something up for them to be remembered by. I've been with a few people at the very last breath, and I've yet to see someone ready to say anything terribly profound.

The Geocites link isn't available. ".. exceeded its data transfer limit." Now we have the "Neatorama Effect", which is not unlike the dreaded "Slashdot Effect".

Yawn.

My advice to Ms. Pelosi: Watch out for the Queen Bee.

Funnier still is the old-style luxury cars with the built-in phones. I remember seeing lots of them with the phone resting in a custom cradle in the dash or center console.

Them were the days!

So, was someone trying to compensate?

I suppose it's not much different than using a toothache relief product that contains any other local anesthetic. Benzocaine is available over the counter, and dentists regularly use Novocaine or Procaine to numb areas in the mouth. Most local anesthetics are little more than synthetic versions of cocaine that don't have some of coke's nasty & dangerous side effects, although cocaine is still used in some situations.

Any bets that daddy wasn't a mule? ;o)