FUN: Uncle Jay explains “recess”

Thursday, September 13, 2007

From: My Favorite Luddite
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:58 AM
To: John Reinke
Subject: Uncle Jay ‘Explains the News’

Couldn’t resist…this is pretty funny

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/26b0d09397

I agree. About the only think he left out is “why would someone spend millions to get a job that pays thousands”.

Hint for the politically challenged reading this: Think about the trio: “feather my nest; reward my friends; punish my enemies”.

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FUN: Gimmick, Gadget, Gizmo, or Tool?

Thursday, September 6, 2007

“A gimmick is a brilliant solution to a non-existent problem. A gadget is what you use to solve a problem you didn’t know you had. A gizmo is what you use to solve a problem when you don’t have the know-how or skill to do it yourself. A tool is what you use to get real work done.” – R.H. Ruana, member, American Bladesmith Hall of Fame

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FUN: while it lasted

Saturday, September 1, 2007

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-09-01_D8RCNL381&show_article=1&cat=breaking

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New Jersey’s winning ticket was sold at Blitz’s Villas Market in the southern town of Villas, said state Lottery spokesman Dominick DeMarco.

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OH well, the dream was fun while it lasted.

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FUN: Raving Libertarian Warning

Friday, August 31, 2007

libertarianwarning

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FUN: Dinner Badge

Friday, August 24, 2007

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dinner+badge&defid=2556447

Dinner Badge

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Dried stains of kebab juice, curry sauce or gravy all over your shirt from messy eating.

That’s an impressive dinner badge you’ve got there. What did you eat, pizza?

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In this case, I am a highly decorated warrior in the fight against full food plates. ;-)

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FUN: never betting on anything that can talk?

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08212007/postopinion/letters/putting_refs_through_hoops.htm

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August 21, 2007 — Holy cow! NBA games have been crooked (“Ref Blowing the Whistle,” Aug. 19)?

No kidding!

Bob Aaron
Hicksville

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Isn’t there some famous advice about never betting on anything that can talk?

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FUN: “Tell him if he gets here, just keep walking”

Sunday, August 19, 2007

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=a_question_for_froemming&ns=GeorgeWill&dt=08/19/2007&page=2

A Question for Froemming
By George Will
Sunday, August 19, 2007

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He might. Consider Sept. 2, 1972, when Froemming was behind the plate and the Cubs’ Milt Pappas was one strike from doing what only 15 pitchers have done — pitch a perfect game, 27 up, 27 down.

With two outs in the ninth, Pappas quickly got an 0-2 count on the 27th batter. Then Froemming called the next three pitches balls. An agitated Pappas started walking toward Froemming, who said to the Cubs’ catcher: “Tell him if he gets here, just keep walking” — to the showers.

Pappas’ next pitch was low and outside. One kind of glory was lost. Another kind — the integrity of rules — was achieved.

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That’s what we need today … … a lot more integrity!

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FUN: Tagging as a good bit of Friday fun

Friday, August 17, 2007

I got tagged by G. Lane Cavalier at http://glcavalier.wordpress.com. Who obviously has too much time on his hands and will do anything to avoid studying his Japanese. You can track back “Tagging” by visiting all the sites that have participated in this foolishness. You might even find something useful in this whole exercise..

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The Rules:
1. Post these rules before you give you the facts.
2. List 8 random facts about yourself.
3. At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names (linking to them).
4. Leave them a comment on their blog letting them know they’ve been tagged!
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Quibble: Rule#1 has been garbled in transmission and I’m too lazy to track it back. I will guess that it should either read “you give your facts” or “you give the facts about yourself”. Hmmm, does a flawed rule mean that you can toss the whole thing? Since I have a huge ego, I’ll go along with he gag. But I doubt I have eight bloggers to tag.

8 Facts about me:

  1. In grammar school, after having been caught throwing paper airplanes on a Friday, I was given the punish lesson to make and number 100,000 by Monday. I called my Mom to bring a numbering machine home from work. And, did you know you can make a paper airplane in four folds that will fly. I was tired of paper airplanes after that.
  2. I served 4 Years in the USAF, and despite going to the three survival schools — air, water, and ground — other than basic training and the survival schools, I never left Maryland.
  3. I’ve traveled by car in 49 of the 50 states.
  4. My wife and I hung out in the same bar for at least a year before we met at my cousin’s wedding, but never met at that bar. She knew most of my bar friends, but never saw me there. (Maybe I was under the table by the time she’d arrive after work.)
  5. I was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal for my computer representation of non-English non-Cyrillic languages while assigned to the National security Agency. (As a result of that work, when I was discharged, I was designated as a ‘key intelligence asset’, had a twenty year restriction on foreign travel, and had to file an annual reports on myself and any contacts with foreign nationals. Arghhh!)
  6. In 2004, I had been to every major league baseball stadium at least once.
  7. I’m not “lucky”, but I am an observant injineer. When I was in LasVegas for Comdex, the Rivera was just introducing “loyalty rewards”. On slot machines, they put in ticket dispensers that counted down your play with each coin you gambled. When it reached zero, it spit out a ticket. You could redeem the ticket for prizes. Like a carnival. I realized that people would not leave a slot machine with a low number on it unless they went broke. Thus, the low number was an indicator that the slot hadn’t hit lately. Each break in Comdex session, I get twenty bucks and go play the “low count” slots. I won 22k in two days — several times summoning my wife to wait for the payoff so I could go back to the session. By the next trip 2 months later, when I was ready to kill ’em, they changed the system. Argh!
  8. I am an introvert. As such, I was great as a systems programmer in college. I love the internet because I can avoid people. :-) Like GLaneC!

Here are the Taggee’s:

Kent Blumberg http://kentblumberg.typepad.com
Andrew Flusche http://www.legalandrew.com
Liz Handlin http://ultimate-resumes.blogspot.com
Dave Opton http://execunet.blogspot.com/
Andy Roberts http://distributedresearch.net
Dave Taylor http://www.intuitive.com/blog/
Des Walsh http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com
Vincent Wright http://linkedinbusinessdiscussionindex.blogspot.com/

(I’m astonished that I could come up with eight.)

FJohn

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FUN: UNSTOPPABLE

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

UNSTOPPABLE

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FUN: This is a hoot from a hottie!

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Rachel Learns Job Interview Skills from Romney and Rudy

I know she was aiming at the politicians, but it could just as easily been aimed at clueless job seekers.

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