Today is the birthday of my long-distance friend and pen pal Amanda, who blogs over at The Milk Bar. Drop by and wish her a happy birthday!
This week marks the annual installment of one of my favorite Washington Post Style Invitational Contests - Foaling Around. The idea is to take any two horses (regardless of sex) entered in one of the Triple Crown races (The Preakness Stakes, The Kentucky Derby, and the Belmont Stakes), breed them, and name the foal. Here are just a few of my favorite entries*; you can read the rest here:
Discreet Dancer x One Sock Down = Amish Stripper;
Drill x Big Monster = J. Paul Yeti;
Conserve x Mr Percussionist = Muir Cowbell;
Battle Hardened x Drill = La Femme Makita; and,
Late Night Action x Flashy Sunrise = Where Are My Pants.
Turning to a new topici, it's an election year, after all ...
The GOP has announced that, although they haven't been able to agree on a health care reform plan other than hysterically trashing the one passed by President Obama, they have managed to settle on a logo for the plan they may eventually come up with ...
Newt Gingrich has announced that he's going to withdraw from the Republican presidential derby ... on Wednesday. Previous reports said he'd withdraw on Tuesday. There's now a rumor he may delay his announcement until November ...
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One of my biggest pet peeves is ass clowns who push their enormously overladen carts into the express lanes at the supermarket, then can't seem to find their method of payment once the ringing-up is done. Here's a graphic representation ...
And, finally, I found this on Facebook, courtesy of a friend who, clearly, is a long-lost member of my family ...
And that's it for today. Yesterday was chilly and rainy here in Northern Virginia. The prediction for today is for partly cloudy, 71 degrees (that's about 22 degrees for the Celsius part of the world), and a mere 10% chance of rain. Let's hope ...
Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.
Bilbo
* The actual winner was, Holy Highway x The Lumber Guy = Om Depot.
3 comments:
Thanks for the birthday shout-out :)
I've become an expert at the self service lanes in the supermarket these days - but, sometimes there are people that can't scan correctly, or remove items from the scale before they should. You can't always win at the check out lanes...
Checkout lines are a type of purgatory.
We can't accuse Newt Gingrich of premature withdrawal, can we?
It's that time of year isn't it. When the candidates that were calling each other assholes, scumbags, and liars become best friends.
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