Wednesdays Question #18

It's Wednesday so that means it's question time. There isn't a right or wrong answer to this question as everyone has different opinions on any given issue.

So here's this weeks question:

What bugs you the most about traveling?

T-Boned

While driving my customary route home from my duty hours in my personal car, which has a Ham radio capable of receiving our work radio frequency, I stopped at the corner store to pick up some milk and eggs. While I was walking to my car after just leaving the store, a blue Chevrolet Cavalier swerved from the street, jump the curb, crossed 85 feet of parking lot and T-boned the passenger side of my 1992 Eagle Premiere.



I walked over to the driver of the car in order to see if he was all right, and to get the insurance information from him, thinking of just how I was going to let him have it for wrecking my car, when the 6'4" man exited his vehicle, handed me a 1/4 full bottle of Canadian Club Rye Whiskey, and said, "Quick, get rid of this before the cops come, will ya?"



I took the bottle from him, as asked, and watched the look of relief on his face slowly transform into realization, and acceptance, as he finally bothered to look closely at who he was talking to.



I was in full uniform.



Stolen from: Phil of Phils Phun

Awww...Mondays #92

Meet Whitey who owns Barb of iPhonographi. Do you think Whitey is just protecting Barb from all those calories. Barb has four cats that consume her every minute. They have to be where she is All. The. Time. If you've not read Barbs blog, click on the link above and enjoy the adventures of Barb and her babies. Thanks for letting me share your babies Barb.

Awww...Mondays Participants

1. Traveling Bells 2. Barb 3. Stevebethere 4. Ann 5. Lois Grebowski 6. Jodi 7. Rajagopalan

8. Rhonda 9. Da Dude 10. Empress Bee 11. Comedy Plus 12. Lisa 13. Mike Golch 14. Wanda

15. Mari 16. Dawn 17. Marg 18. Tara Tyler 19. Mensch & Katze 20. Mary Anne

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Silly Sunday #1

Rhonda of Laugh Quotes has started a new meme called Silly Sunday.

She has a great sense of humor and has no problem laughing at herself. If you've not visited her please do. She's a hoot.

Go HERE for the simple rules.

Okay, it's not a joke, but it's cute, funny and it's silly! Don't tell me you didn't even smile watching this. This was way cool.

Silly Sunday Participants

1. Catch My Words 2. Barb 3. stevebethere 4. Rhonda 5. Ann

6. Empress Bee 7. Lois Grebowski 8. Traveling Bells 9. Marg 10. Anny

11. Mike Golch 12. William K Wallace 13. Angel 14. Myrna 15. Jim

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Hell!

A good Samaritan, having spent a considerably long time in Heaven, gets bored and looks for a change. He approaches St. Peter and seeks permission to visit Hell for a short time. With a sarcastic smile St. Peter allows him to visit Hell.



The guy goes to Hell. Contrary to expectations, he finds Hell enchanting and joyful. The people are friendly and helpful. In the restaurants he dines and dances with beautiful girls. The food is delicious. He is free to move everywhere without any hassle. Merry making appears to be the prime business in Hell. He begins to feel that Hell is the right place for him to live. He repents he has wasted a lot of time in the drab Heaven. On his return he meets St. Peter and expresses his wish to shift to Hell permanently. With a quizzical look St. Peter permits him to leave Heaven.



As soon as our guy enters Hell, he sees sudden darkness everywhere. A couple of tough-looking demons kick him and throw him into a cell. The food is stale, the cell dingy with insects, rats and wild animals. Our guy is unable to comprehend what is all happening around him. Suddenly there is big bang and he is chained and brought to the infamous court of Satan.



Hard believe his senses, our good Samaritan mutters in great confusion, " Am I in the right place?" Satan with a satanic smile thunders "Yes buddy, you are in the same Hell which you visited earlier. The only difference is - you were a tourist then and now an immigrant!"



Stolen from: Rajagopalan of Just Out

Bee and Charlie - Story Game

This is the completed Story Game of "Bee and Charlie" that you all did an outstanding job in authoring. For those that may not know these are two of my blogging buddies; Empress Bee (Of the High Sea) at Muffin 53, and her hubby Sarge Charlie of Sarge Charlie. Hubby and I had the pleasure of going on a cruise with them on the Carnival Glory this past February, along with some other wonderful bloggers.

The one thing that's always a constant in all these story games, is that someone always mentions cake. This one is really about lots of cake, cruising, pie and Lima beans. Enjoy your Story Game:

Bee and Charlie are getting ready for another cruise, but there's one problem they must address before their cruise. They both suffer from a rare disease known as Chronic Ocean Wave Syndrome (COWS), and have run out of COWS pills, but they wouldn't let a little thing like COWS keep them from their plans to sail the ocean blue! So, they called their Doctor, Dr. Green, who insisted that they contact Dr. Purple who had an abundant supply of little pink COW pills.

As luck would have it, those little pink COWS pills were actually CAKE! Miss Bee had an honest-to-goodness prescription to eat CAKE! Every day, several times a day! Unfortunately, before they could fill their prescriptions they both had to hop on their scooters and scoot over to the gym. Too much cake and they won't fit into their lovely new cruise wardrobe.

When they arrived at the gym, they were surprised to find all their blogger buddies in the pool doing water aerobics. Everyone was bobbing up and down and to and fro when all of a sudden it started to storm and the captain announced everyone needed to go into the dinning hall, after they all arrived in the dinning area the announcement came over the public address system, "Everybody out of the pool".

Bee said, "I'm in the mood for some cake." Charlie said, "I'm in the mood for poker! you go eat more cake while i play cards, and then we'll meet in the dining room for more cake. Maybe some ice cream too. What do you think?

Bee had other ideas, and her plan involved more than cake. She's had cake, plenty of it, this time she would take a walk on the wild side. This time, This Time, She wanted pie. Bee wanted pie, but not any old pie. The pie had to be a Steak and Guinness Pie. The problem was and it was major problem there wasn't any Guinness aboard the ship and they wouldn't be arriving in port for another 48 hours!

So Bee visited the captain and demanded a private meeting to see what he could do to improve the situation. The captain brought her to the lower deck and pulled a small valise out of a hidden wall. Bee's eyes lit up as she squealed , Oh Captain Morgan, You truly mean that I can cruise on Carnival for FREE for life with Sarge by my side?!!! There was a catch though, she and Sarge were never to eat cake again.

"Never eat cake again!? Then surely I will fall ill with a horrible case of Stripes!
So it was call Camila Cream and have her make some of her famous Lima bean PIE. Wouldn't you know there weren't any Lima beans on-board. That was where those forgotten scooters could come in handy looking for stashes of Lima beans and throwing them overboard! Sarge and Miss Bee love sailing but not with a horrible case of Stripes. And not without cake either.

Just then Carnival's senior cruise director John Heald came to the rescue. He promised that he would make sure that Bee and Charlie got all the cake during their free cruises and no one would know but them. He would have the pastry chef disguise their dessert to look like something other than cake and no one would be the wiser. John Heald always takes care of Bee and Sarge. Always. He also gave both of them a slice of Lima bean PIE to make sure they would never have a horrible case of the Stripes. Now don't you just love a happy ending? I do too.

Contributing authors (In order of appearance):

Stevebethere of bethere2day
Amazing Gracie of Echoes of Grace
Barb of iPhonographi
Rhonda of Laugh Quotes
Lois Grebowski of Lowdown From Lois

Jodi of Jodi's Journey
DrillerAA09 of Driller's Place
Empress Bee of Muffin53
Marg of Marg's Pets
Mike of A Five Minute Vacation

William K. Wallace of London is Cool
Joyce Lansky of Catch My Words
Ann of Ann's Snap Edit & Scrap
Sandy of Traveling Bells
Mike Golch of Golch Central's Rambling Stuff

Katherine of Shoot Me Now!
Jim of Jim's Little Blog

A great big THANK YOU to everyone that contributed to the Story Game. You are all awesome!

Thankful

Every day we have something to be thankful for... Today... We are thankful that the photographer was not standing on the other side! Have a great day!



Hat tip: Jeni of Down River Drivel

Wednesdays Question #17

It's Wednesday so that means it's question time. There isn't a right or wrong answer to this question as everyone has different opinions on any given issue.

So here's this weeks question:

Why do you blog?

Men in the Kitchen

I saw this video over at Phils Phun and nearly fell off my chair laughing. I can so see a couple guys I know that would do this very thing. Enjoy the silliness and have a terrific day filled with laughter!

Awww...Mondays #91

Again we feature Duke who owns Ann of Ann's Snap Edit & Scrap. To say that Duke is my buddy is putting it mildly. He's one handsome little man in my book. Thanks Ann for letting me showcase Duke again.

Awww...Mondays Participants

1. Mike Golch 2. Sandee 3. More the Merrier 4. Anny 5. Rhonda 6. Barb 7. Lois Grebowski 8. Joyce Lansky

9. Sugar 10. Babs 11. Marg 12. Rajagopalan 13. Da Dude 14. Empress Bee 15. Traveling Bells 16. Speedcat & Mardy

17. Linda 18. William K Wallace 19. Angel 20. Ann 21. Binky 22. bethere2day

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The Ten Commandments

A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year old pupils.



After explaining the commandment to "honor thy father and thy mother," she asked "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?"



Without missing a beat one little boy answered, "Thou shall not kill."

Logic 101

An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine this week, which I quote:

"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq Theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.



The firearm death rate in Washington, D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period.



That means you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S., than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington D.C.

The Story Game

It's time to play The Story Game again. Here's how it works. I'll start a story. You continue it in comments. Each commenter picks up where the last left off. In a few days I'll give it an ending and post our story with the links to everyone who participated under the heading, "Contributing Authors". You can play as many times as you want. If someone derails the story will one of you put it back on track? Thanks for playing along and have a great day.

Here's the beginning of our new story: Bee and Charlie are getting ready for another cruise, but there's one problem they must address before their cruise ...

Cockfights

The Louisiana State Police received reports of illegal cockfights being held in Sunset and sent Detective Boudreaux to investigate.



Boudreaux reported to his sergeant the next morning, "Dey is tree main groups in dis here rooster fightin’."



"Good work, Detective. Who are they?" he asked.



Boudreaux replied confidently, "De Texas Aggies, de Cajuns, and de Mafia."



Puzzled, the sergeant asked, "How did you find that out in one night?"



Well I went down and done seen dat dere rooster fight in person. I knowed dem Aggies was involved when a duck was done entered into de fight."



The sergeant nodded, I'll buy that. But what about the others?"



"Well, I knowed de Cajuns was involved when sunnbody bet on dat dere duck."



"Ah" sighed the sergeant. ‘And how did you figure the Mafia was involved?"



"De duck won."



Stolen from: Phil of Phils Phun

Wednesdays Question #16

It's Wednesday so that means it's question time. There isn't a right or wrong answer to this question as everyone has different opinions on any given issue.

So here's this weeks question:

What is one of your favorite summer activities?

For My Friends

I wanted to share this special sentiment with you.



This is really beautiful!



Walk with me by the water, worth the read.



A beautiful message about growing older.

Shit... I forgot the words....



(Was that a little smile I saw cross your face? Good then I've done my job for the day!)



Hat tip: Faythe of Grammy Mouse Tails