That Smell - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Heard this song on online radio the other night and it's been stuck in my head ever since.  It reminds me of roughnecking and "nippling up", the process of hooking up the blowout preventer.  Before we began, we had to pump out the "cellar", the pit dug in the ground where drilling initially starts, in order to hook everything up and trust me, there's not many worse smells in the world (maybe something dead).  The fluid is a combination of urine (from guys peeing off the side of the rig) and fermented mud and chemicals and it would be enough to gag a buzzard.  Almost every time we were nippling up, someone would start singing this song. I know it's a song about drugs, but...

"Oooh that smell..."

Yes, I Do

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Are You Smarter Than a Football Player?

With the NFL Draft still almost a month away, there's not a lot of football news (other than players being accused of rape or being arrested at the airport for claiming to have a bomb) so the main topic of most articles is the Wonderlic Test given to potential draftees by most NFL clubs.

Here's a chance to measure your IQ against football players!

From the site: April is the time of the pro football draft–a time when the physical performance of pro football candidates is closely measured and compared. But the testing doesn't stop at the bench press and broad jump. Players are also administered a unique intelligence measurement called the Wonderlic Personnel Test.

The test is a sort of IQ test used to measure players' aptitude for learning and problem solving. The possible score range is 1 to 50. The average football player scores around 20 points and scoring at least 10 points suggests a person is literate.

Now you have the opportunity to determine your own intelligence score. Best of all, you are compared to top pro football players—from Vince Young who barely scraped by with a 6 to former punter Pat McInally who has the only perfect score on the Wonderlic in league history.

Wonderlic scores of Dallas Cowboys QBs: Tony Romo 37, Jason Garrett 36, Drew Bledsoe 36, Quincy Carter 30 and Troy Aikman 29. (source: Blogging The Boys)

 Are You Smarter Than a Football Player?

What Must You Do?

From the archives:

You are on a horse, galloping at a constant speed.

On your right side is a sharp drop off, on your left is an elephant traveling at the same speed as you.

Directly in front of you is a galloping kangaroo and your horse is unable to overtake it.

Behind you is a lion running at the same speed as you and another kangaroo.

What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?

 

Go Fly a Kite!

That's what women tell me when I ask 'em out.

You Are Adventurous

Like a kite, you tend to go wherever the wind takes you. You live a carefree and spontaneous life. You are open to whatever comes your way, and you know that scares most people. You don't mind flying solo. While adventure can be scary, even for a free spirit like you, you prefer to think of the world as full of possibilities. You let go and trust that things will work out well. And if you crash and burn, at less you'll get a good story out of it.

The Kite Test

Dog Eat Dog - AC/DC

Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, April 1978