Aw, Soup

On Febrewery 22, 1987 Andy Warhol died during gall bladder surgery. It must have been the soup.

Sweet Tea and Old Habits

Sixty-five years ago this week 1,300 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force dropped more that 3,900 tons of heavy explosive bombs and incendiary devices on Dresden, , the Baroque capital of the German state of Saxony. The resulting firestorm destroyed 15 sq mi of the city centre and killed between 50,000 and 150,00 civilians. Bombing cities was popular in WWII. The Germans did it, the Japanese did it, the Allies did it...... nominally it was all to destroy 'military targets'..... like old men, women and children. Some of the cities destroyed or partially destroyed during the war are well known, like Coventry, London, Hamburg, Tokyo and Dresden. There were others.

Aomori · Augsburg · Baedeker Raids · Bahrain · Barrow-in-Furness · Belfast · Belgrade · Berlin · Birmingham · Braunschweig · Bremen · Breslau · Brighton · Bristol · Bucharest · Budapest · Caen · Calcutta · Cardiff · Chemnitz · Chişinău · Chongqing · Clydebank · Cologne · Coventry · Danzig · Darmstadt · Darwin · Dresden · Dublin · Duisburg · Düsseldorf · Essen · Frampol · Frankfurt · Frascati · Fukui · Fukuoka · Fukuyama · Gelsenkirchen · Gibraltar · Gifu · Greenock · Guangzhou · Haifa · Hamamatsu · Hamburg · Hamm · Hanau · Heilbronn · Helsinki · Hildesheim · Hiratsuka · Hiroshima · Hull · Innsbruck · Kaiserslautern · Kassel · Kobe · Königsberg · Kure · Liverpool · London · Lübeck · Mainz · Malta · Manchester · Manila · Mannheim · Minsk · Mito · Munich · Nagaoka · Nagasaki · Nagoya · Naha · Nanjing · Naples · Narva · Nottingham · Numazu · Nuremberg · Omuta · Osaka · Pforzheim · Ploiesti · Plymouth · Podgorica · Prague · Rabaul · Remscheid · Rome · Rothenburg ob der Tauber · Rotterdam · Saarbrücken · Salzburg · Schaffhausen · Schwäbisch Hall · Schweinfurt · Sendai · Shanghai · Sheffield · Shizuoka · Sofia · Southampton · Stalingrad · Stettin · Stuttgart · Swansea · Taipei · Tallinn · Tel Aviv · Thessaloníki · Tokyo · Toyama · Treviso · Tsu · Ujiyamada · Ulm · Vienna · Warsaw · Wesel · Wieluń · Wuppertal · Würzburg · Yokohama · Zadar · Zagreb

Which just goes to show that blowing things up is a very popular thing. Lately, or not so lately if you are a purist, America blew up stuff in Iraq.

Now I am sure that the only things bombed were military targets.... Military old men, military women and no doubt some military children.

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity." Ann Coulter

I mentioned the civilian casualties to a guy in the car pool the other day... how deplorable it was. His reply was

"if they were that stupid as to live next to a military target...it's their own fault"

"You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one – I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show."

–"The Glenn Beck Program"

I am kinda worried about the tea-baggers.

An acquaintence of mine was very dismissive of them; that they were merely scared, confused, and upset people and the whole movement should dissolve in the near future.

"The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them." Rush Limbaugh

Klingers birthday !

ooops.... wrong Klinger !

Max Klinger, 1857.

just a thought

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness.

And they live by what they hear.

Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Jim Harrison

All About Iowa

OK. This is Iowa. The only state in the union that was created at an Amish Quilting Bee. True. You can look it up. Iowa is also famous for being south of Minnesota. It is the only state right smack dab below Minnesota. Yuppers. See! In just a short time you have learned so much about Iowa that I really need to tell more!

Radar O'Reilly is from Ottumwa Iowa.

The Iowa State Fair sells Pork chops on a stick.

People in Iowa also make baseball diamonds in cornfields. True fact. Almost every farm in Iowa has a baseball diamond in a cornfield. They even made a movie about it.

But one of the nicest things about Iowa is Sherry who blogs at Feather Adrift. Nice thoughts, even if some are a little 'Churchy' for me.

But then, any place that doesn't serve beer is a bit Churchy to me and the fact is, if they did serve beer at churches, I might consider christianity one more time.

But they don't. And that settles that pretty much.

But here's the real deal. It seems that Iowa, or at least Sherry's part of it, has had an inordinate amount of snow this winter. A lot. Kinda like a shit load. They are up to their Hawkeyes in the stuff. Ok. And good ol' Sherry and her side-kick, the Masked Contraian, must live by one of them baseball cornfields out in the middle of no where because all winter long they have been sliding off the road, getting stuck in the snow, getting housebound... ohhhh all sorts of stuff. Why.... Sherry has even been writting things like, "There is a certain grouchy grumbling going on here." and "Winter has sucked," and "I look out the window and I see the sea of white" I think it has gotten so bad that she thinks she " lives in a paradox." Not good. I lived in a paradox for a while. Real drafty and shook real bad when the train went by.

S0 just to be a regular guy and try to help out a friend.... I gotz really busy in the OK Workshop and whipped up just the thing for Sherry.....

a 454 cubic inch big block Chevrolet V 8 that produces 412 horsepower, 430 foot pounds of torque and can throw snow 50 feet at just 3500 rpm!

sorry, Sherry, you gotz to pick it up. I don't deliver.

My New Communication Device

I gotz me one of dem dere new personal notepad thingees what ol Sarah Palin gotz. Boy&Howdy... it sure done work nifty&stuff!

ANOTHER FAILURE OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION !

I mean, C'mon.... he really should have seen this coming. And he did nothing to stop it! Now, if we want to stop terrorism.... we should include 'Weather Terrorists' !

Rweally! Get that guy to Gitmo!

And now for more new words &stuff

The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take any wordfrom the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter,and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners:

1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops brightideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little signof breaking down in the near future.

2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose ofgetting laid.

3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subjectfinancially impotent for an indefinite period.

4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the personwho doesn't get it.

6. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

7. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.

8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit).

9. Karmageddon (n): its like, when everybody is sending off all these reallybad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, aserious bummer.

10. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consumingonly things that are good for you.

11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.

12. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter whenthey come at you rapidly.

13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you'veaccidentally walked through a spider web.

14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into yourbedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in thefruit you're eating.

And the pick of the literature:

16. Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole..

Give Sarah a Hand !!!

OK. It was a good Super Bowl. The Colts and the Saints both played like a couple of champions. There were big plays, few penalties and great coaching. AND..... Brett Favre and the Vikings were not there!!! Ha! And I was a good dude, stayed sober and was home and in bed by 9:30.

But seeing as the SAINTS won.... I feel I have a bit of room for some irreverance... not like I was ever all that short of said such commodity in the first place.... but...

.... and speaking of Boobs.... I checked out a bit of Sarah Palin speaking to a crowd of a few hundred at the Teabagger dealie. I could not stand for watching much; after a few moments I wanted to dip my Lipton bag in some hot water and see if there was a morsel or so in the cupboard to go with it.

Yessirree Bob.... the Boob was loose!

Yupperz.... Good old Saragh !

"The Tea Party movement is not a top-down operation. It’s a ground-up call to action!"

It sure enough is ground-up. So is hamburger. And that movement is not a top down operation.... just a upside down organization.

"And it’s a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter."

Saragh !!!

Talk to the hand !~

"And to win that war, we need a commander-in-chief, not a PROFESSOR OF LAW STANDING AT THE LECTURN!"

.... and to govern this country we need a individual smart enough to be a law professor and damn well smart enough to not write cribs notes on her hand and yet stand at a podium with her retarded boobs hanging out! Yupperz.... judgement day is here..... and all America is being offered by Saragh Palin is a hand job !

Boy... it's gonna be a long 6 months with out football. Good thing there is cheese and beer!

Go Fish!

OK. Getting ready for the weekend. Planning on going out and walking on The Lake. It's what we call it, 'The Lake'. I think it is a rather catchy nick-name.

Well the thing is about 30 miles long and ten miles wide and covers a bout 137,708 acres, which would grow a whole bunch of soybeans, but, being a lake you really can't grow soybeans there. It is full of Walleye, Northern Pike, Large & Smallmouth Bass. Muskie, Bluegill, Crappie and Lake Sturgeon. Probably some other kinds, too, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna drown a buncha worms just to find out what-not is all there. Nope. Not me. If I want some fish I will walk into a restaurant and say, "gimmee some fish... and some fries and cole slaw too!"

Well, anyway, get this! The whole damn lake freezes in winter! All of it! Yupperz! Now the funny partof all that is Wisconsin is full of Norwegians, and Polacks and Germans who were really too stupid to figure out that Wisconsin is not "Out West" and they kinda settled in here. And, hey, get this.... they were not only so stupid that they couldn't figure out that this is not "Out West".... they were also too stupid to figure out that you can just walk into a restaurant and say "gimmee some fish!", so these yokels sit on the ice ---ON THE ICE--- on little boxes, cut holes in the stuff and then try to catch Walleye, Northern Pike, Bass, and all those other stupid fish. Boy! Go Figger about some folks, huh? Stupid! If you really doan wanna walk into a nice little restaurant and you really want frozen fish... gees, just go to the local market.... they sell them in the goddam freezer section. Well, enough about our inhabitants here. A real rosey bunch. They also deep fry cheese, too, but I doan wanna talk about that.

All right. Anyways. Being a sensible soul who does not sit on a box on the ice for my fish, I found my self sitting on a very comfortable bar stool at Oblio's a few days ago quaffing a very nice pint of pale ale with Billy Lang and Karl. Nice guys. They are both very intelligent and interesting and, if we forgive them both of their shared tendencies to laugh like sick horses, good company. I was bemoaning the length and severity of the current winter and generally complaining of the lack of outdoor activities available to a sensible man who does not sit upon a box on the ice when they both said... "Hard water sailing"! ? I have an inquiring mind. They elaborated.

Basically.. you stick some ice skates on some sticks, add a sale and go zipping across the ice.

Or you spend mega-bucks and buy something that looks like it belongs on Mars rather than a lake full of frozen fish.

Now, the guys tell me that some of these boats go awfully fast.

The most spectacular claim is that by John D. Buckstaff, Oshkosh, who in 1938, apparently clocked 143 mph (230 km/h), in a 72 mph wind on Lake Winnebago His craft was a stern steered "Debutante", pictured left.

Now... one, I am going NOWHERE outside in a 72mph wind and certainly not out on the ice. I have fallen on the ice right outside my own door, thank you, and I truly do not want to experience falling on ice at 143mph.

But the talk has gone down.... I have my camera charged, dug out the binoculars... and am trying to find those funny little cleats you slip on your boots so you do notslip and fall on your ass. Hey! They don't call it 'ICE' for nothing! Sean may show up, and Karl and maybe Kuks. It could be fun. And it is literally a couple of miles from home.

Now, there are worse things to do. And dumber. Like, trying to grow soybeans on a hundred thousand acres of lake...... or sitting on a box when the lake is frozen.

Yupperz. I do believe I will go look at the boats.....

.... and then possibly go to a restaurant and say...

"Gimmee some fish!"

Tantric Sex!

Tantric Sex V. making out in a tanning booth

My old college buddy, Uncle Rosie, usually sends group emails to the old-boy network that involves expensive cars, racing, ski trips yadda yadda & stuff. Not a whole lot of interest to me... but once in a while he sends info that is really funny.... such as.....

The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words.

The winners :

1. Coffee (n.) the person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted (adj.) appalled over how much weight you have gained.

3. Abdicate (v.) to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade (v.) to attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly (adj.) impotent.

6. Negligent (adj.) describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly answer the door in your nightgown.

7. Lymph (v.) to walk with a lisp

8. Gargoyle (n.) olive-flavored mouthwash.

9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash (n.) a rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle (n.) a humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude (n.) the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon (n) a Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster (n.) a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism (n.) (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent (n.) an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

.... now that's funny

Groundhog's day

.... has your life seen it's shadow?

Do you know what today is?

No, what?

Today is tomorrow. It happened.