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June 12, 2010

Intoxicatingly Wise, I Am

Good lookin', too...

When I'm drunk.




You Are Serious



You are so wise it's intoxicating. People are blown away by the things you say.

In life, you are happy to take the sweet with the sour. You wouldn't want to feel too much of one emotion.

You are likely very literary and philosophical. You savor life, and you appreciate others who do as well.

You are very cosmopolitan and urban. It drives you crazy when people have a limited or provincial perspective.


juggernaut

juggernaut \JUHG-er-nawt\ , noun;

1. Any large, overpowering, destructive force.
2. Something, such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion.
3. An idol of Krishna, at Puri in Orissa, India, annually drawn on an enormous cart under whose wheels devotees are said to have thrown themselves to be crushed.



Seems like I've known this word forever, being as how I've always liked Sci-Fi: "The alien war cruiser tore through the galaxy like a juggernaut." (for example)

I was shown the first definition in the autumn/h.s. football season of 1969; I was a 14 yr. old, 155 lb. freshman trying to block 19 yr. old 200 lb. Oklahoma hillbillies, the operative word being "trying".

June 10, 2010

Best Audience Ever!

Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers w/ Ann Margaret




Who were the Bay City Rollers, you might ask?

From Wiki:

The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish pop band of the 1970s. Their youthful, clean-cut image, distinctive styling featuring tartan-trimmed outfits, and cheery, sing-along pop hits helped the group become among the most popular musical acts of their time. For a relatively brief but fervent period (nicknamed "Rollermania"), they were worldwide teen idols. The group's line-up featured numerous changes over the years, but the classic line-up during its heyday included guitarists Eric Faulkner and Stuart Wood, singer Les McKeown, bassist Alan Longmuir, and drummer Derek Longmuir.

Since the band's quick rise to, and subsequent fall from fame, the members have endured numerous and varied struggles regarding royalty payments, substance abuse, and personal legal problems.


I might very well have to watch this video every day for a month or two, it's that funny. Didja catch the old lady knitting, the old man getting up to boogie and how could you miss the woman w/ the ear horn?

Good Grief, this is almost as funny as Terror on the Roller Coaster

June 9, 2010

They Don't Sell Babies

At my local United grocery store.

A funny titled recipe caught my eye at StartSampling.com:

Grilled Baby Burgers

baby on bun

Judge a Book by its Cover

From the site:

Can you tell whether a book is any good from its cover alone? Over 10 rounds, you will be shown two books. One will have a 5 star Amazon rating (from at least 15 reviews, at the time of writing) and one will have only 1 ½ stars or less (from at least 4 reviews)

Click on the book you think got a 5 star review on Amazon, and avoid the one that its readers hated.

I didn't fare too well, but my score of "6" is represented by books with that number in the title!

Judge a Book by its Cover Score

Judge a Book by its Cover

noctivagant

noctivagant \noc-tiv-A-gant\ , adjective;
1. Pertaining to going about in the night; night-wandering.



I'm definitely a noctivagant type of person; I've always preferred the nighttime. It was always easier to find a morning tour job on a drilling rig...not only to find a job (because not many other guys wanted to work that shift), but to find the rigs at night, the derricks lit up like short strands of pearls sticking up into the sky.

The best night shift is during the summer, although it's sometimes hard to get out during the day to enjoy the weather. It's cooler at night which certainly helps when having to work really hard. Winter nights were bad many times, especially during blizzards or wet, windy weather, but there's no better feeling than to be going home after a bad night and it was always a neat thing to be getting off when the rest of the world was going to work.

June 8, 2010

Pampa Tornado

A "bump" - originally posted July '07

It was fifteen years ago today than an F4 tornado devastated part of Pampa