Because it made me laugh

Paul and I had a little exchange about laundry this weekend (something to do with me drying some nice new wool socks - oops!). I'm the general laundry doer in our household - not sure exactly how it worked out that way considering I had never done a load of laundry in my life until I went off to college. Yes, so sad. My mom had to teach me the basics standing in the laundry room of my freshman year dorm (I think a few tears were shed). Since then, I've been more or less successful in my laundry ventures. Sunday is our typical laundry day - and I mean ALL day. Normally I do 4 loads, but somehow it takes no less than 10 hours. Apparently I am not efficient. My mom would not be proud (seeing that she can do 4 loads on a weeknight!). Anyway, when I saw this, I had to laugh.



From FailBlog.org

Planeguage

"The language of traveling by plane" (Delta's blog)

Delta airlines came up with a series of animated shorts to convey a humorous spin on plane etiquette. I have to say they a right on! Check them out for a smile :)

A season appropriate video called "Miracle"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsmGJdLYyYI

To view all the videos go to YouTube ("Shady Lady" and "Kidtastrophe" are awesome) (http://www.youtube.com/user/planeguage)

The City of Raleigh has a sense of humor

I made a quick visit to the City of Raleigh's website this morning to check on something and came across the following picture on the front page:



It made me laugh a little. It's a tiny bit funny, I think. Well, it does completely suck that we're in a crazy drought.

Local car commericals

It's a dreary Friday here (so thankful for it!) and I thought we all could use a chuckle. Most of the car commercials around here are notoriously bad (Fred Anderson's 'Michael & I'm Margaret', Mark Jacobson and his little dog, Rick Hendrick's, "I like it like that," ugh, I could go on and on) and we love pressing the fast froward on the DVR remote to get through them as quick as possible. However, there is one exception, Paul and I laugh at the Johnson Automotive dealerships "badger" commercials every time we see them. Sometimes we even stop the DVR in mid-commercial breaks [gasp!] to watch them.


Here's one of our latest favorites - see more here or here (YouTube).



Ok, and one more




"NO BADGERS" print ads (not quite as funny)

In the news...

As someone who finds State spending interesting (comical, deplorable, you choose), I had to share this piece from the Winston-Salem Journal. This story is about the infamous "poster child of pork [barrel] spending," the NC Teapot Museum:

(version taken from the News & Observer.com)
SPARTA, N.C. - Organizers of a teapot museum in the North Carolina mountains to house a Los Angeles millionaire's unusual collection are scaling back their plans because of financial concerns.

The Sparta Teapot Museum was intended to bring tourism money to this small town near the Blue Ridge Parkway. But its board of directors cut the project from $14 million to about $6 million, which the town manager said could jeopardize an agreement to display more than 7,000 eclectic teapots collected by Sonny Kamm.

Bryan Edwards, town manager and a member of the museum board, said scaling back the museum would mean fewer teapots on display and "it is unclear at this time what level of involvement we will have from Mr. Kamm."

Museum officials had raised $4.2 million by summer, including private donations and $1.1 million in public money, but couldn't raise enough private money to pay for a proposed 30,000-square-foot museum. Officials said they plan to display regional crafts if they lose the teapot collection.

"Of course, our first plan was a wonderful dream. It was an absolute dream museum. The problem was we just couldn't afford our dream," said Sandy Carter Herndon, a member of the museum's board of directors.

Some local and state officials said the museum - scheduled to open in spring 2008 - would create spending and jobs in an area hit by plant closings and layoffs.

The project received $500,000 in federal money and was cited as an example of pork barrel spending. The Citizens Against Government Waste included it in an annual list, calling it a "poster child for pork" in 2006.
(Full story here)

Booo hooo!

Thursday funny

(apparently I can post titles again, woo!)

In high school I was certain I wanted to become a teacher. I wanted to teach either English or History to high schoolers (or maybe even the 6-8th graders). I was determined to chase this dream until I started my first year of college and met my academic adviser who informed me that any attempt at becoming a teacher in the humanities was fruitless - schools need science and math teachers or coaches and I am neither! Anyway, I got a HUGE kick out of this list of "analogies". (my favorites in bold)

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.

18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.