Posts from — January 2008

  Ok I have seen it all!  In Virginia State Del. Lionel Spruill introduced a ban of the use of large rubber testicles to display on trailor hitches!  Now I may be a Yankee from up north but I have never seen these ,probably hilarious, balls!  I am sure it would be a redneck thing anyway.  I can imagine a bunch of guys standing in their front yard leaning on the broken down cars littering their lawn checking out their new chrome ball attachments for their newly purchased 1982 Dodge Ram with a Hemi and a lift kit.

  Mr Spruill said that daughter spotted an example of the trail hitch adornment and asked her father to explain it.  [Read more →]

  I heard that the FDA has approved the sale of cloned meat and milk.  So I had to do alittle research and check this out “Despite the fact that cloned animals suffer high mortality rates and those who survive are often plagued with birth defects and diseases, the FDA did not give adequate consideration to the welfare of these animals or their surrogate mothers in its deliberations,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States. “Furthermore, no regulations exist in the United States that protect farm animals during cloning research.” OK let’s start from the top. 

  These cloned animals suffer high mortality rates and those who survive are plagued with birth defects and diseases?  Let’s stop right there and think about it.  That brings me to the movie “Multiplicity” starring Michael Keaton.  Remember he cloned himself and after the 3rd cloning the clone was shaving his tongue? [Read more →]

It seems that the controvertial media blitz regarding 16 year old Jamie-Lynn Spears, younger sister of nut-job Britney, has sparked a bit of a fire under the butts of many would-be bloggers who could easily be writing about more important topics than the current antics of the Spears family.

The story of Jamie-Lynn’s unplanned pregnancy was “leaked” to the media…by her mother…for the bargain price of $1 million.

Jamie-Lynn appears on the hit Nickelodeon television series, “Zoey 101″, as the lead character who is a bit to perfect, sweet and goodie-goodie for me. The show has very little humor and isn’t something that I watch with my daughter. I actually leave the roon completely.

The last episode was actually a “Zoey 101 movie” in which our lead character’s parents [Read more →]

 Mr. Bill Sullivan, an 82 year old WWII Veteran was kicked off a US Airways flight by the pilot because he didn’t have the proper paperwork for his oxygen machine that he needs due to congestive heart failure and emphysema. 

Mr. Sullivan needs to wear his oxygen device 24 hours a day 7 days a week.Mr. Sullivan was traveling home to after Christmas to hiAis home in Sacramento CA following a visit to Phoenix AZ.  He said he was not asked to produce any paperwork on his way to Arizona and when he boarded to plane on his way back to Sacramento he was stopped by a man and asked if he had a doctor’s permit to use the oxygen.  Mr. Sullivan said he didn’t but was seated anyway.  A short time later the pilot had him removed from the airplane. [Read more →]

Basically, a sauce is defined as a flavored liquid intended to accompany a food enhancing its flavor. Italians have developed their list of culinary sauces to accompany everything from pasta to chicken.  Here is a list:

• Alfredo: It is a rich with heavy cream, butter, freshly grated Parmesan cheese and freshly ground black pepper, this sauce is best known as a topping for fettuccine.
• Arrabbiata:  Italian for “angry” , this zesty tomato based sauce gets it’s hear from chilis and pancetta, a spicy ,salty Italian bacon.
• Bologne:  this robust meat sauce is also known as ragu.  Hearty with ground beef or pork, pancetta, tomatoes, onions , garlic, carrots and celery.  The sauce is enhanced with a bit of wine, cream and seasoning.
• Carbonara:  Made with eggs, cream, Parmesan and bits of bacon.  This sauce is sometimes dotted with fresh green peas before it is poured over hot pasta.

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This is my new article that will continue to grow with your help.  I have in the past found fun food facts that are great for trivia or just entertainment. I will begin the list and ask you to keep commenting me new facts to keep the list growing and growing:

• In a survey conducted in 1951 of the U.S. Armed Services banana cream pie was the favorite dessert.  Rice pudding was the least liked.
• Fig Newton’s were created in 1891 by the Kennedy Biscuit Works in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts.  They had named many of their other cookies for nearby towns and almost called it the “Fig Shrewsbury” before Newton won out.
• When KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) first translated its advertising slogan “finger lickin’ good” into Chinese, ti came out as “eat your fingers off”.
• According to The Great Food Almanac by Irena Chalmers, the last food that Elvis Presley ate was four scoops of ice cream and six chocolate chip cookies.
• Approximately 40 million pounds (nearly 90 percent) of the nation’s lobster supply is caught off the coast of Maine.

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  Imagine this!  I come home from work on a Sunday night and I decided to go right to bed because I have to get up at 6:30am to put the kids on the bus in the morning.  By now its 9:15pm and I am just settling in after a quick shower.  I know I shouldn’t have eaten anything but I was hungry so by 9:25pm I finally lay besides my sleeping wife and shut all the lights off.  What a wonderful long night sleep I am about to get!

  Then it happens the bells of HELL!  RINGGGGGGGGGGG, RINGGGGGGGGGGG my wife yells it’s got to be for you!  Since my Mom or Sister usually calls later in the night. I answer if just in case it could be an emergency.  Maybe its something that has happened to someone in the family or a close friend.  Things go through my head because mostly everyone knows don’t call after 9pm.  It cannot be a telemarketer since I am on the do not call list and besides I would hunt them down at this time of the night.  Even the bill collectors are asleep!

  I lean over my wife and answer the damn phone in a panic.  I pick up the rude phone to hear…..”Bla bla bla Hillary Clinton Presidential Candidate recording….at 9:30pm!  Who the hell does she think she is calling me at 9:30pm with a friggin recording?  [Read more →]

Who hasn’t woken up on New Years Day (or in a drunken stupor on New Years Eve) with the massive sense of starting the New Year off right and accomplish a life-long wanted task, need, or want? Unless you’re under the age of 13, you’ve probably committed yourself to such a New Years Resolution and broken it within the first week. It all comes down to how much self-discipline the resolutioner has, how great the desire, or sometimes it comes down to the almighty dollar that destroys our dreams of such an endeavor. Can you do it this year? Who knows, but one does get a two-thumbs up just for trying.

Personally, it’s the first time in about 25 New Years where I haven’t opted to lose weight for my own resolution. I can’t remember that last time that I was actually happy with my weight. After all, I’m going to be 40 this year, and if I’m too thin, lines will appear on my face, and I rather enjoy people mistaking me for someone younger and getting carded. I should resolve to do a number of things to better my current situation, but I’ve decided to keep things on the “light side”, as one of my goals for the year is to eliminate unnecessary stress and not to take life so seriously. So here I go! Here is my Top 17 (soon to be broken) New Years Resolutions for 2008:

17. To finally visit my favorite named town in the US- “Happyland, Connecticut”. It’s real, just look at the map: Happyland, Ct.

16. To stop saying, when I don’t want to do something, “I’d rather clean the bathroom with my tongue.” [Read more →]