Archive for the 'Silliness' Category
February 25th, 2006 -- Posted in Commentary, Silliness |
I think Canadian athletes are some of the happiest most perky most enthusiastic and cheerful gold medal winners and Olympic champions - take for example, Clara Hughes and Chandra Crawford. Clara and Cindy Klassen’s enthusiasm even infected the silver medal winner from Germany, Claudia Pechstein. I think the enthusiasm and sheer ecstasy they demonstrate exemplifies the Olympic spirit and what sports should really be all about. We start believing the NHL, MLB, NFL athletes, and the stupid things that happen with them are the epitome of sport, but the Olympics clarify that that’s really entertainment, along the same lines as WWE and Nick & Jessica.
December 24th, 2005 -- Posted in Silliness |
Two new rings discovered around Uranus
… and if it’s someone from the news, it gets published on CBC!
December 3rd, 2005 -- Posted in Holidays, Christmas, Silliness |
Jenn’s luck is amazing - gift baskets, t-shirts, shop vac, and last night - a cappuccino/expresso maker. It was my work party - $40/person seats with $15/person food, no winnings from the door prizes, but I encouraged Jenn to buy raffle tickets and she selected which prizes to try for. There were DVD players, CD/clock radios, about a dozen gift certificates and movie passes, basketball tickets, lacrosse tickets, and a cappuccino maker. She put most of the stubs in for that, and came out the winner. I was jumping up and down, like a fool in front of my colleagues (but heck, all the IT people (5 of us and our spouses) were fun, but most everyone else seemed so sedate - they needed something to inspire enthusiasm), and then we (I moreso, being the fool that I am) kept on jumping and grooving on the dance floor till midnight. Then my carriage turned into a pumpkin but my cappuccino maker was not just a memory. Neither will the incriminating pictures on Monday result in just a memory - sigh, what have I done?
June 10th, 2005 -- Posted in Silliness |
My pirate name is: Bloody Roger Rackham
Every pirate lives for something different. For some, it’s the open sea. For others (the masochists), it’s the food. For you, it’s definitely the fighting. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!
Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.
January 29th, 2005 -- Posted in Silliness |
I want to hear a dance mix of sneezes. I’ve heard a mix of laughs, but sneezes would be better.
January 27th, 2005 -- Posted in Silliness |
Out of 12 City Councillors in Kingston, 3 have the first name and 2 have the last name of “George”. Isn’t that weird?
January 2nd, 2005 -- Posted in Silliness |
Boy, this prank is worth quite a chuckle…Shizzy’s Mailbag
Anyway, you know the great thing about big, publicly-traded companies like Starbucks? It’s so damn easy to get a list of their entire staff. Staff directories are great — especially when they list everyone from the CEO all the way down to the lowest level peon.
Speaking of peons, here I begin a friendly dialogue with Roger Simmons, a brand new assistant in the human resources dept, hired just a few weeks earlier. This is the lowest level person I could find that still works in the office. I think it’s so nice that the President and CEO of Starbucks International would send a welcome letter to such an unimportant person. Don’t you?
July 12th, 2004 -- Posted in Silliness |
I was so smooth at the gym today… I was on the treadmill running away when my walkman fell! I did my best to not run on it but it sort of smashed into the wall behind me. It still works but I can’t seem to put it together…. but it manages to still run while the lid is partially open. I will have to work on it again later when I have more patience. Everyone saw it… rather embarassing. All except my friend ( who would have laughed hysterically!)… she was across from me but her walkman was on and didn’t see it! An amusing start to my day.
January 13th, 2004 -- Posted in Silliness |
u l t r a m i c r o s c o p i c
“what makes the door knob the perfect place to hang a bra? some times so many bras the knob becomes unusable. soon all the knobs in the house will be adorned, and she will need to start using the outdoor knobs. i believe the kitchen cupboard knobs may be an ideal place to hang jock straps.”
January 12th, 2004 -- Posted in Silliness |
Dear Doug.
For Valentine’s I would like the heart shaped Precious Moments box (like the one you got for our anniversary) … it is in the Valentine’s section at Wal-Mart and say “Hugs and Butterfly Kisses”. It is on the outisde aisle close to the video/electonic section at my waist level… It is $8.00
Love,
Hopefully,
Your Valentine
PS. Will you be my Valentine?
June 26th, 2003 -- Posted in Silliness |
I saw the cab from a distance today… .*sigh*. There was a time when I would never ride in a cab and now I have to go cold turkey from riding in them twice a day!! No more finding loose change under the floor mats… no free chocolate bars. Well, it’s Larry’s birthday in the next week so I gave him a small present yesterday. It was just a collection of his favourite chocolate bars… he seemed pretty excited. He bought me a drumstick at the end of our last ride… *sigh* but if we’re lucky we’ll be working together in the fall. I don’t think I could break in another cabbie.
June 22nd, 2003 -- Posted in Silliness |
Only six more rides with Larry…. how does one say goodbye to a cab driver?
June 11th, 2003 -- Posted in Silliness |
Larry has brought me a treat every day this week!! Monday was a popcicle, Tuesday was a pop, and today it was a chocolate bar!! What does tomorrow hold?
June 11th, 2003 -- Posted in Silliness |
10 days left of school. Hard to believe. This weather has really made the time go by quick. One year it was in the 20’s in April and it seemed to take forever for the summer to come.
June 11th, 2003 -- Posted in Silliness |
This page needs a makeover… but since I don’t know how to do that, I will have to settle for this wonderful page. But since my hair has been short for over a year, I guess I should get those photos updated.
June 4th, 2003 -- Posted in Silliness |
My female friend has hired Larry to do some work on her house for her. She gave him a call the other night to arrange everything and told him what supplies she had. When the conversation was almost over he said, “Well, maybe I should stop by your house tomorrow and talk to your husband.” She explained to him that she was the man of the house, had gone to Home Depot to buy the supplies and her husband had no clue about what was going on. Larry still insisted on meeting with her husband so she had to explain to her husband what was being done with the house, etc since he had no clue. I questioned Larry about a woman being the man of the house and he sort of changed the subject. Funny guy.
June 1st, 2003 -- Posted in Silliness |
So Larry was pulled over by under cover cops this week. He had a call at a known criminals house so they wanted to know who he was supposed to pick up and where they were going. The person he was supposed to pick up never showed up and he didn’t know where he was going so they let him go. Anyway, he drove around the block and when he got back to that house, it was surrounded. There was a bank robbery in town the day before and I guess that was who they suspected.
May 25th, 2003 -- Posted in Silliness |
23 days left of work!!
May 7th, 2003 -- Posted in Silliness |
If you are subscribed to receive postings by email, but haven’t - I figured out why. The kind folks at Bloglet are having some problems as of late. To quote Bloglet:
“Upon initial inspection, it looks like Bloglet just has too many sites to process in a day! …, and it looks like Bloglet is outgrowing its implementation. I’m going to investigate some solutions over the weekend, and hopefully I’ll have more information (as well as a fix!) for you on Monday. Thanks for your patience! In other news, Bloglet will also be moving to a new, more powerful server on Monday. This will undoubtly help the email processor as well.”
In other words, like many things on the internet, free services have trouble keeping up with the many requested services. Here’s hoping the new server will resolve the issues. Otherwise, continue to do as you are now - visit the website.
May 3rd, 2003 -- Posted in Silliness |
Someone I work with sent this to me knowing how much I love Rudolph. She got it from this website. Last weekend I ordered an 8″ stuffed Bumble from Bronner’s. They didn’t have the Bumble I was looking for on their site but I told them where it was in the store and they were able to locate it for me. Hopefully it is here early next week.
Everything I know about life, I learned from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
I’ve learned some pretty silly things from watching the original Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special. I’ve also learned some very meaningful things as well. See if you can tell which of the following might be important in your life.
* A toy is never truly happy until it is loved by a child.
* Even among misfits you can be a misfit.
* Licking an ice pick might taste like nothing but it’s sure to get strange looks from your friends.
* Bumbles bounce.
* You can’t run away from your troubles. Pretty soon, you know where you have to go… HOME!
* A snowstorm at the North Pole isn’t a fit night out for man or beast.
* Even a reindeer coach might not let your kid play in any games.
* You’re not a real Santa unless you can jiggle when you laugh.
* Bumbles can’t swim.
* Misfits can serve an important purpose just like anyone else.
* Mud is great for hiding a shiny nose but it’s not very “com-fuht-uhble”.
* To escape from a snow monster, either have a dentist pull its teeth or use a pick to create an ice float.
* A tall person (such as a Bumble) can come in handy for placing the star on top of a tree and they don’t need a ladder.
* The world can be alot more dangerous when you are far from home.
* It’s good to have friends you can rely on.
* Santa doesn’t need any chewing dolls.
* Reindeer won’t let you play any reindeer games if you have a shiny nose.
* When a gal tells a guy that he is cute, it can make him want to fly.
* There’s always tomorrow.
* Elves don’t seem to have much respect for dentists.
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