George Brownridge pleased 15 women for an entire day, and they thanked him with this ad.
George must have been exhausted, too.
However, apparently he had only arranged a shopping trip for those ladies, and they wanted to thank him publicly. But wouldn't you know it, some took it the wrong way. And an apology ad resulted.
From Daily Mail. Via Guy Code via Linkiest.
Did you ever see an amusing Tweet and think, "That should be a cartoon caption?" That's where Twaggies.com comes in. It's a site where visitors can submit Tweets they think are funny, and if an artist agrees, it shows on the site as a cute cartoon.
It's a lot more work drawing a picture than it is posting a one-liner. So it's fun to scroll down to see what they came up with.
In the in-box this morning. (Thanks DS!)
It looks like a newspaper article all the way to the punch line.
It's one of those stories that's too good to verify. So good, in fact, that Snopes calls a variation of it a Legend.
The new patient wing of the Midland Memorial Hospital isn't supposed to open until around the first of next year. However, they've stopped working on the North facade, and it's tempting to say that outside wall is complete even though the mismatched windows give it an unfinished look.
One of our crack dumpster divers here at Sleepless in Midland says the different window shadings aren't random at all but spell out a coded message. And just like the sculpture called Kryptos planted outside the CIA building, it challenges cryptanalysts to decipher it.
And by golly, she figured it out. It says,
"Your money
or your life!"
An alternate version says,
"Your money,
Michigan
or you life."
Although that one is a bit harder to fathom.
NOAA makes it official: No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found.
That news release was probably triggered by one of those fact/fiction TV shows that pop up on TV these days. This one on Animal Planet was called Mermaids - The Body Found. From Discovery.com:
Animal Planet’s Mermaids: the Body Found Paints a Wildly Convincing Picture of the Existence of Mermaids, What They May Look Like and Why They’ve Stayed Hidden…Until Now
Two-hour CGI Special Unravels Mysterious Underwater Sound Recordings, Dives Deep into the Aquatic Ape Theory and Questions if Mermaids are Related to People
Mermaids: The Body Found is the Culmination of Animal Planet’s First-Ever Monster Week, Airing May 21-28
There is a fair degree of gullibility in the population. Maybe the school system is to blame. Critical thinking isn't in the course of study -- people have to learn that on their own, but many don't. And if politics gets involved then look out below. Olly Stone and Michael Moore have certainly capitalized on that unfortunate phenomenon.
So the Discovery network took a stab it it. And someone at NOAA felt the need to step in and set the record straight. If only they would do that on global warming.
Found at listoftheday.blogspot.com.
Found at coolmaterial.com.
Found at thefw.com. Hey, here's a good idea for Mother's Day -- "Thanks for not aborting me."
And my favorite.
Found at Someecards.com.
Click the links for more.
And happy Father's Day to all you dads out there.
Left lane closed ahead.
No, your other left.
P.S. A snarky blogger might make a political joke right about now. Something like,
Shutting down the left is a shovel ready job, or
Government - the left hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. No wait, it's the other way around.
But no. Here at Sleepless in Midland we're above that sort of thing.
A map of Europe in plain English. Or, as they call it, Europe According to Americans.
Via LipstickandLigature via BlameItOnTheVoices.
See also Europe According to the Swiss, the French and the British.
Hey, this a good opportunity to retell my favorite joke about international stereotypes:
Heaven is Where:
The Police are British,
The Chefs are Italian,
The Mechanics are German,
The Lovers are French and
It's all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is Where:
The Police are German,
The Chefs are British,
The Mechanics are French,
The Lovers are Swiss and
It's all organized by the Italians.
President Obama weighed in on the Zimmerman/Martin incident recently by exclaiming that Trayvon Martin would look like his own son, if he had a son. Quote:
“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” Obama said. “When I think about this boy, I think about my own kids.”
The world probably has its share of dads of daughters who wished for a son. And in some regimes, particularly China with its one child policy, moms and dads make don't take random chance.
With two daughters and no sons, President Obama is the odd man out at the dinner table. It's sit com territory, and the daughters and mom probably share a bond that never has and never will include Barack. So his wistful longing for a son should invoke some small amount of sympathy.
Sleepless in Midland wants to help. With the tools at PhotoFunia.com we apply Barry's smiling visage from the Whitehouse flickr site, where the wonderful photos of Pete Souza grace the pages, and put the President in a hoodie.
And there, through the wonder of the internet, is Barack Obama's imaginary son, a son with whom he can spend some quality time after he moves out of the White House in early 2013. Just imagine the fun they will have together.
UPDATED 4/3/12. First Lady Michelle Obama suffers the same anxiety but compensates in a different way:
"Bo is wonderful. He is the smartest dog on the planet. He is my son. I have two girls and a boy."
Emphasis added. Source.
This is supposed to be a real ad for The Spectator. Via BlameItOnTheVoices.com.
It says, "Most Germans own a second property. It's called Greece." The Spectator probably doesn't have a huge American audience. But a more localized version might look like this:
So should we be worried about the huge federal government debt yet, or should we keep kicking the can down the road? Most Americans have crossed their fingers and are looking at the election in 2012 as a first step toward an antidote to the spending epidemic that has afflicted our elected officials.
By now we've all heard the story about the bureaucrat who confiscated the homemade sandwich in a little girl's sack lunch because the bureaucrat thought it didn't measure up to government standards. So the little girl had to settle for chicken nuggets in the school cafeteria.
This came to mind today as I was driving past a high school. Parked right in front was a Domino's Pizza delivery vehicle. A lady unloaded some containers and walked toward the front door.
Some enterprising individual at that school hit on an easy alternative to the cafeteria menu. Tell the nanny-crat that yes, you do intend to dine at the school cafeteria, and no, you didn't bring your own lunch. Then when she isn't looking call in a pizza.
Deliver is punctual, the food is decent, and the meal is at least as nutritional as the food on the school menu, especially if the pizza is loaded with plenty of tomato sauce.
It's for the children.
It's been a while since we've done this. And now that Mr. Obama's own campaign is flouting his rule regarding Pete Souza's official White House photos (via Instapundit), it's high time we did it again.
Previously:
Those White House Photos were begging for captions,
President Obama's rose colored glasses and
Obama and a cute little baby.
Critics are quick to pounce on judges that try to take away our rights. So we should compliment the ones who rule to maintain our rights.
In this case it's the right of humans to not be sued by animals. The story is in USAToday.com which tells us that PETA attempted to use a technicality to get a ruling that the whales at Seaworld were being held in violation of the 13th Amendment which says:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
The authors and everyone who voted for ratification of the amendment in 1865 thought it was supposed to apply to human slavery. That was so well understood at the time that they didn't think it necessary to spell it out in any more detail. Can you imagine the reaction back then if someone suggested it might someday be applied to animals?
That didn't stop PETA which went to court to try to squeeze whales through the loophole. Fortunately, the court ruled against them, and the unintended consequences of a bad ruling were avoided.
Otherwise, courthouses would be full of household pets suing their owners for freedom, or maybe just for better conditions. Dogs probably wouldn't sue. But cats? I'm not so sure.
Plaintiff, Fluffy, hereby sues Owner due to the fact that Owner, in a cruel and inhuman manner, forced Fluffy to choose between dried cat food and starvation when in fact Owner could very easily afford fresh salmon.
Humans are still top dog. Let's enjoy it while it lasts.
Anyone who either likes dogs, dislikes busybodies, or enjoys a good retort should appreciate this. It's a letter from novelist E.B. White dated 4/12/51 to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in response to an alleged complaint from the said ASPCA that Mr. White was harboring a dog without a proper license.
Mr. White's letter implies that Minnie is a very coddled canine. Here's an excerpt:
Dear Sirs:
I have your letter, undated, saying that I am harboring an unlicensed dog in violation of the law. If by "harboring" you mean getting up two or three times every night to pull Minnie's blanket up over her, I am harboring a dog all right. The blanket keeps slipping off. I suppose you are wondering by now why I don't get her a sweater instead. That's a joke on you. She has a knitted sweater, but she doesn't like to wear it ...
Read the whole thing at Lettersofnote.com. You'll be glad you did.
Photo source: Wikipedia.org.
Sometimes a problem might appear insurmountable. But if you step back and look at it from a different angle you might get a completely different perspective. For example, well, see for yourself:
Freie arbeiten via Kaspar Allenbach.
In this "what-do-you-do" society, a person is measured by the answer to that question. And the answer better pertain to work, not sloth. There are ways to disguise laziness, but these people don't even try.
Yeah! Three cheers to them. "Lazy" just might be "resourceful."
Check out And You Thought You Were Lazy…18 Pictures Of Extreme Laziness for more pictures. Well, OK. Most are just plain lazy.
Seems like half the people want to complain about something. And the other half wants to complain about those complaints. Well, this guy is here to tell you that some of the problems faced here in the most prosperous nation in the world are very real.
Do you suspect that guy was in the Occupy Wall Street crowd?
Via Geekfill.com via DigDang.com.
