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September 21, 2008

50 More P

Found this joke in a Joke of the Day feed I tested (and rejected) for this blog. Gotta love that Brit humour.



A man walked into a bar after just being dumped. The person serving at the time was a woman. She kept on giving him free drinks the whole night. When the bar had closed she went up to him and asked if he wanted to go upstairs for a quicky. He of course said yes and they went upstairs.

When they got there the women asked if he had any protection. He didn't have any and answered no. So she told him there was a chemist across the road and gave him £ 1.

When he got to the chemist there were a selection of condoms to choose from:

There was a tramp one for 50 p.
There was an apple flavoured one for £ 1.
And there was a metal one for £ 1.50.

As he only had one pound the man bought the apple flavoured one.

During the the night of fun the condom slipped and the lady got pregnant. The couple married and raised a son.

When he was 5 years old, he went up to his dad and cried: "Daddy why do I have green arms? This is not fair."

To this the dad replied: "I would count yourself lucky my son. If I would have had an extra 50 p you would have been Robo-Cop"


At the current exchange rates, 50 pence is about a quarter.

September 20, 2008

Happy Together - The Turtles

Noticed a hit on this, and as I've been prone to doing lately, checked to see if the video still worked. The original one had been removed by the poster, so I found this one.



Wiki on The Turtles

Some interesting stuff there on Wiki (for what that's worth) about the band. I was trying to think of at least one other song they did, but I couldn't name one with any certainty. After looking through my mp3 library, I saw I had "She'd Rather Be With Me". YouTube also has Some Girl

This song reminds me of a girl (girl, hell, she's probably a grandmother now) who always liked this song when we were in school together. I liked it too, and maybe it's the things we have in common with others that hold on longest in our memories.

mizprize

Word of the Day feed from Dictionary.com

misprize \mis-PRYZ\, transitive verb:

1. To hold in contempt.

2. To undervalue.




Boy howdy, do I know this word!

Every time I buy a lotto ticket, play the grocery store games, enter a contest on the 'net, I always mizprise.

Prairie Dog Comic

Cute little vid



Used to be a lot of prairie dogs around here, one large town near the Cabot carbon black R&D plant, but I believe they were poisoned when it was found that some had died from and others carried bubonic plague. The rodents, an important part of the prairie ecosystem, also can carry tularemia. (my ex-wife's uncle died from tularemia)

I saw a documentary on prairie dogs a few years back; in one of the northern plains states, they were killed as sport from long distances with high-powered and scoped rifles. I know they're a nuisance to ranchers, cattle and horses sometimes breaking their legs in the holes that dot the landscape where they make their "towns" and according to Wiki, they are also accused of damaging crops and spreading brush.

September 19, 2008

tintinnabulation

From Word of the Day:

tintinnabulation \tin-tih-nab-yuh-LAY-shuhn\, noun:
A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.



If you put bells on a German Shepard, it would be a rintintinnabulation.