Archive for January, 2007

PBS&J

January 27, 2007

At the end of every show on PBS they say that “Public Television is made possible by viewers like you”. They must not be very much like me, because I can’t even begin to picture me doing something like that. Giving people money would be really way out of character. I mean, if I’m not willing to pay the water bill what makes them think I’d fork over the cash to help finance Kermit the frog? And I still don’t know where letters and numbers get the money to sponsor Sesame Street. It seems suspiciously like a money laundering scheme to me

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(Most of the time the pictures I put here have nothing to do with the text.)

January 27, 2007

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I smell dead people

January 27, 2007

There’s a whole bunch of pages where you can get your horoscope. That’s old news.  But my idea is to start coming up with horoscopes for famous dead people.Today’s horoscope is for Joseph Priestly, a great man of science.

They all laughed when Priestly discovered nitrous oxide. Until he sealed the test tubes anyway. But his greatest achievement came when he discovered oxygen. Before that it was hard times – people running around desperately looking for something to breathe. We all owe a great debt to Joseph Priestly.

Priestley’s birthday was March 13, that make him a Pisces.

  About Pisces : Pisceans may be accused of being overly emotional, but it’s probably that same trait that makes them so compassionate, empathetic and bigger givers than receivers in friendship. Pisces also tend to develop lifelong friendships with Benjamin Franklin, invent soda pop and stick to a phlogiston theory.  There also apt to know what a phlogiston theory is.

 What Joseph Priestly should do today (assuming that he was still alive) – Consider spending some time alone taking it easy – after all you are 273 years old. …Stop pressuring your self in both relationships and career goals. Don’t bother trying to invent the pencil eraser, you already did that in 1770…. Drop in on some friends tonight since your house was burned to the ground by religious zealots. .. .Talk to a lawyer about getting royalties every time someone uses oxygen.   – *****

(The star rating is different for dead people. I figure that the best day for a dead guy is a lot better than the worst day for anyone who is still living, so I don’t feel it’s useful to use the same system for both)

Jedi

January 27, 2007

I doubt it’s going to happen, but if I was ever to become one of those Star Wars Jedi guys I got the perfect name:  Barack Obama.

Saftey Tip #1.

January 27, 2007

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Fine Dining

January 27, 2007

 - I don’t think those signs in the bathroom of restaurants that say “All employees must wash hands before returning to work” go far enough. They should also be told that if they managed to get shit on any other part of their body they should have to wash that too. I don’t want some guy who’s covered in shit from head to toe EXCEPT for his hands to make my Ruben sandwich. I always ask the waitress if they have someone like that working in the back, but they won’t tell you the truth.

 - Hardees advertises that they have “hand scooped” milkshakes.   I’ve  seen some of the people they have  working at Hardees and I think I’d prefer that they used some sort of utensil.

-  Etiquette tip: When you eating at McDonalds and they ask you if you want your food here or to go, say in a loud voice: No sir! I will not
be eating my meal here. That would slow up the line, and the people behind me are hungry too and wish to order, so I shall carry my food
over to one of the nearby tables and eat it there!” They’ll be so impressed by your gentlemanly manners that they’ll give you all the  ketchup you  can eat for free. Within reason.

 - Drive thru restaurants are a lot like Santa. You can ask all sorts of  stuff but it’s really up to him if you’re ever going to get anything you ask for. And one time at McDonald’s I found some socks in my McNuggets .

 - I tried to be a Vegetarian.   I made it a month, but I couldn’t stop thinking about chicken wings.   I even started to dream about them,  so I finally broke down and bought 28 dollars worth of wings.   Forty of ‘em.  Twenty chickens died for me.   The only consolation is that since they were just chickens they probably weren’t going to do anything very important with their lives anyway.

Advice

January 25, 2007

Stuff I’ve learned and want to pass on –  

The lesson to be learned from flea markets is that  if you never throw out your garbage eventually it stops being trash and becomes a collection.

If you’re able to write your insane drug induced ramblings down on paper, a lot of the time you can pass them off as free-verse poetry.

I kept losing my contact lenses. They’re pretty expensive too. So I thought it would be easier to keep track of them if I superglued them to my eyeballs. It seemed like a good idea, but …well to make a long story short: DON’T. 

I just heard back from the Hasbro and learned that my project just won’t work. No matter how hard you try you just can’t use a lite-brite to download porn off the internet. Well, it was worth a shot anyway I guess.

Don’t  buy life insurance. I think it’s a good idea to try to limit the number of people who would prosper by your death as much as you possibly can.

I always believed in giving the customer more than they expect. That’s probably why they kicked me out medical school.

A lot of people know that each of us has their own guardian angel.  What they don’t know is that they also have their own demon. Mine looks a lot like Larry King.  

If you see only one movie this year,  HBO’s Star package is probably a waste of money.

They say that your personality stops changing by the age of five. So if you were a shy kid at five you’ll be shy the rest of your life. From that age your personality never changes. In my case, I’ve found, the same is true of table manners.

(thing I drew)

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