Kid Tip - How to Hug a Baby

This is a Kid Tip for Dogs.

Instructions for properly hugging a baby:

1. First, spy a baby.

2. Second, be sure that the object you spied was indeed a baby by employing classic sniffing techniques. If you smell baby powder and the wonderful aroma of wet diapers, this is indeed a baby.

3. Next you will need to flatten the baby before actually beginning the hugging process.

**Note: The added slobber should help in future steps by making the "paw slide" easier.

4. The "paw slide"- Simply slide paws around baby and prepare for possible close-up.

5. Finally, if a camera is present, you will need to execute the difficult and patented "hug, smile, and lean" so as to achieve the best photo quality.

Dogs, if this is properly done, it will secure you a warm, dry, climate-controlled environment for the rest of your life.

Good Luck to all of you.

School of Flop - A Challenge

Remember the Jack Black Movie, School of Rock?

I have an idea for a new movie, staring former Duke basketball player Shane Battier, called:

SCHOOL OF FLOP

Part III - A Challenge

Hey, this is former Duke basketball player and current Houston Rocket, Shane Battier.

You may remember me from my college career at Duke, simply as "Ridge Head" or "Klingon Head", but I am also known as "Flop-ee-aa" or "King of Flop"

Shane - "Anyone can learn to be a good flopper!"

"It takes practice and patience. You may not get the first few flopping calls, but if you stick with it, and if your coach screams, spits and yells at the refs after every play and during every time-out, you will become a great flopper."

Announcer - "What about people who don't have time to go to the gym everyday and practice flopping?"

Battier - "You can practice flopping anywhere."

Battier is seen at the playground in his basketball jersey.

There are little children running around everywhere.

Battier crouches down and slaps the ground.

Periodically, Battier slides in front of a little kid, and then at the slightest contact, Battier hurls himself backward onto the ground, landing on his back.

Battier = "Now let's check out my Flop School"

Battier and Announcer are seen standing at one end of a basketball court.

In the background, at the other end of the court, Vlade Divac can be seen instructing young children on flopping techniques.

Announcer = "Shane, I hear that you are so good at Flopping that you can always draw a foul on the other team on any given play?"

Battier = "Absolutely."

Battier calls over a referee.

Battier to Announcer - "Here take this ball and try to score on me, I bet you I can draw a foul on you."

Battier throws the ball to announcer and then crouches down and slaps the floor.

(Tight camera shot on announcer) Announcer - "The joke is on you Shane, you can't possibly draw a foul on me because I am just going to stand here."

Camera pans out to show entire court and there is no sign of Battier.

Announcer - "Shane?" Now yelling, "Shane?"

Announcer turns his head to call for Battier, and when he does, Battier is right there and Announcer's face hits Battier's face.

Battier falls to the ground and the referee runs over and demonstratively calls a charging foul on the announcer.

A close up of the referee reveals that it is Dick Vitale, who then winks at the camera.

Goombay

This weekend we went to a bed and breakfast near Ashville, NC. We had no plans whatsoever for Saturday, so I grabbed an Ashville paper Saturday morning and read this article:

The 24th annual Goombay! festival continues today on The Block, the city’s historically African-American commercial district, at corner of Eagle and Market streets downtown.

A celebration of African and Caribbean culture, the festival brings a special groove and many thousands of people back to The Block each year at this time...

Since 1982, the YMI Cultural Center has sponsored Goombay!, whose presenters also include Asheville Parks and Recreation and the N.C. Arts Council. The festival features a variety of musical entertainment, family activities, Caribbean delicacies and Third World crafts...

“The festival has something for everyone,” said King, who helps coordinate volunteers with Patricia Griffin. “It’s a festive time and a happy time for everyone.”

African-inspired wares, along with the food and music, there’s the allure of Goombay!

Many goods come from nations like Ethiopia and Nigeria, though some of the paintings and jewelry, the clothing and products come from those who tap into the African heritage here.

Abdou Diop of West Africa travels the country with the leather belts and personalized buckles made of brass and other metals. Next to him, booths flash with huge and colorful earrings made from shells and beads, the bigger the better.

But like any festival, there is a big market for fashion. Booths featuring knock-off designer handbags, sunglasses, hats and wallets dot the streets. Shades sell for less than $10 and handbags go for about $40.

“That’s cool,” said one man as he viewed the jazz-inspired woven art from Baton Rouge, La., artists.

A crowd gathers around Molly Tessema of Ethiopia, who carves from a giant coconut filled with pure shea butter, a natural and healing moisturizer that originates from an African tree.

As the festival came to life, longtime vendor Otis “Mr. Gene” Keaton was behind the counter in his familiar blue lunch wagon on Eagle Street, cooking up his first sizzling batch of fried Alaskan whitefish. “We’ll cook 1,200 pounds” of fish he said with a smile.

Around the corner on Market Street, Gene Ellison was keeping a close eye on his two Goombay! booths, just in front of his Ritz restaurant and club. “We’ll do 200 racks of baby-back ribs,” he said. “And I’ve got another 100 just in case. We’ll do 400 pounds of goat, 400 pounds of oxtails.”

That article and my previous post pretty much sum up the Goombay Festival

The word "Goombay" emerged during slavery days in Bermuda and refers to both music and rhythm that were brought from Africa and the West Indies. The original dancers used a goat skin-covered drum that was called "Gombey" meaning rhythm. The Goombay dancers wear colorful costumes and high headdresses topped with feathers. Often times, grotesque masks help to enhance the free and exotic movements.

The Ashville "Goombay!" festival had Steel Drums, African-America Dancers, local Gospel Groups, and the bass player from Cameo and Midnight Star.

I had some fried Catfish and Cyndy had a grilled chicken Kabob.

Admission was free and Beer was cheap.

***Be warned*** If you are very conservative, and/or scared of black people, Goombay may not be for you. Ashville either.

(One booth had "George Bush Does Not Care About Black People.", Kane West t-shirts for sale. I also saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that said, "Same __it, Different ___hole" and had a picture of George Bush side-by-side with Hitler.)

Red Rocker Inn and Midnight Star

This weekend, for our 10th Anniversary, we stayed at The Red Rocker Inn, a B&B in Black Mountain, NC.

We give Red Rocker 2 thumbs up, especially the food (especially the Prime Rib and Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Pie).

On Saturday we drove to Ashville for the Goombay Festival. It was really fun, with vendors, food, beer and music. We got to see the bass player from Cameo perform and then the headliners Midnight Star. We got to see Midnight Star rock out to “Wet My Whistle”, “Operator” and “Midas Touch”. Unfortunately, we got tired and left before they played their biggest hit, “No Parking on the Dance Floor”.

All-in-All, a great Anniversary weekend.

Little Miss Sunshine - Great Movie

You have got to see the movie Little Miss Sunshine. It is really, really good.

School of Flop - The Duke Years

Remember the Jack Black Movie, School of Rock?

I have an idea for a new movie, staring former Duke basketball player Shane Battier, called:

SCHOOL OF FLOP

Part II - The Duke Years

Hey, this is former Duke basketball player and current Houston Rocket, Shane Battier.

You may remember me from my college career at Duke, simply as "Ridge Head" or "Klingon Head", but to sports insiders, I am known as "Flop-ee-aa" or "King of Flop"

Shane is shown walking around the Duke campus.

Shane Voice-over: "I learned the fundamentals of flopping while playing at Duke. Coach K stresses flopping.

Some players celebrate after a clutch 3-pointer or a monster dunk, at Duke we only celebrated after a huge flop.".

Announcer talking to Shane while they stand on Duke Campus: "Shane, what about the allegations of Flop Enhancing Drugs at Duke?"

Shane: "That's Nonsense!

Sure, for big ACC games at Duke we would grease our shorts to help us slide that extra few feet on our flops, but we also practiced flopping alot.

For instance, JJ Redick, last year's player of the year, was known to show up as early as 2 hours before a game to practice flopping."

Battier takes the viewers into Cameron Indoor Stadium to watch the current Duke team run flopping drills.

The current Duke players are standing in a row, an arm's length apart from each other, on the baseline, with their backs to the court.

Coach K walks down the row of players lightly tapping each one on the chest with his finger.

At the slightest contact, each player hurls himself backward onto the court landing on his butt and extending his arms and legs straight out in front of him as he slides as far as he can on his rump.

Battier is at the end of the row and easily out-distances the current Duke roster.

As Battier comes to rest after sliding nearly the entire length of the court, Coach K gives him a big thumbs-up.

Pluto No Longer a Planet

Breaking Space News

In this post(link), I first mentioned a debate about whether Pluto should be called a planet.

Then in this post(link), I predicted that Pluto would one day lose its planethood.

Well, that day has come. Pluto is no longer a planet.

Capping years of intense debate, astronomers yesterday resolved today to demote Pluto in a wholesale redefinition of planethood that is being billed as a victory of scientific reasoning over historic and cultural influences. But already the decision is being hotly debated.

"Pluto is not a planet," Astronomer Brown said. "There are finally, officially, eight planets in the solar system."

The decision establishes three main categories of objects in our solar system.

* Planets: The eight worlds from Mercury to Neptune.

* Dwarf Planets: Pluto and any other round object that "has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, and is not a satellite."

* Small Solar System Bodies: All other objects orbiting the Sun.

Pluto and its moon Charon are part of a sea of other objects that occupy the same region of space. Earth and the other eight large planets have, on the other hand, cleared broad swaths of space of any other large objects.

"Pluto is a dwarf planet by the ... definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects," states the approved resolution.

What is screwed up about the new definition is that "dwarf planets" are not planets under the definition.

The vote came after eight days of contentious debate amoung astronomers that involved four separate proposals at the group's meeting in Prague.

The initial proposal, hammered out by a group of seven astronomers, historians and authors, attempted to preserve Pluto as a planet but was widely criticized for diluting the meaning of the word. It would also have made planets out of the asteroid Ceres and Pluto's moon Charon. But not now.

"Ceres is a dwarf planet. it's the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt," Brown said. "Charon is a satellite."

The category of "dwarf planet" is expected to include dozens of round objects already discovered beyond Neptune. Ultimately, hundreds will probably be found, astronomers say.

The word "planet" originally described wanderers of the sky that moved against the relatively fixed background of star.

Pluto, discovered in 1930, was at first thought to be larger than it is. It has an eccentric orbit that crosses the path of Neptune and also takes it well above and below the main plane of the solar system.

Recent discoveries of other round, icy object in Pluto's realm have led most astronomers to agree that the diminutive world should never have been termed a planet.

My kids will only learn about 8 planets.

Happy 10th Anniversary

I almost forgot.

Happy Anniversary Cyndy, I Love You.

Create Your Porn Name

Porn stars never use their real names.

But how do they think up their screen names?

It's easy. If I were to go into Porn, my screen name would be "Awgie Bridgeton".

Pretty cool name huh?

Do you want to know how to pick your porn name?

First Name = The name of your first pet growing up.
Last Name = The name of the street that you lived on when you owned that pet.

My first Pet was Awgie Doggie, and we lived at 112 Bridgeton Road.

Now you try it and tell me your porn name.

Little People Theme Song

We have a Fisher Price Little People video. It came with the Little People Farm. The catchy theme song is sung by Aaron Neville. Someone has requested that I perform the song. This is from Memory.

Little People Trivia = Eddie is the blonde kid in the photo, what is his twin sister's name?

School of Flop - Introduction

Remember the Jack Black Movie, School of Rock?

I have an idea for a new movie, staring former Duke basketball player Shane Battier, called:

SCHOOL OF FLOP

Introduction:

"Hey, this is former Duke basketball player and current Houston Rocket, Shane Battier.

You may remember me from my college career at Duke, simply as "Ridge Head" or "Klingon Head", but to sports insiders, I am known as "Flop-ee-aa" or "King of Flop".

Flop is a derogatory term that refers to a defensive player, upon physical contact with an offensive player, intentionally falling backward to the floor in hopes of making it look as though he was knocked off of his feet by the offensive player's contact.

Thus, flopping is also sometimes called acting, as in "acting like he was fouled". The hope is that this appearance will prompt the referee to call a charging foul on the offensive player.

Because it is inherently designed to deceive the referee, flopping is generally considered to be less than sportsman-like. Nonetheless, it is widely practiced and even perfected by many great professional players.

Flopping effectively is not easy to do, primarily because drawing contact can sometimes result in the opposite effect—a foul called on the defensive player—when too much contact is drawn or if the player has not positioned himself perfectly. Additionally, even if no foul is called on either player, by falling to the floor, the flopping defensive player will have taken himself out of position to provide any further defensive opposition on the play, thus potentially allowing the offense to score easily. To consistently draw offensive fouls on opponents takes good body control and a great deal of practice. Players generally become better at flopping as their careers progress.

I have made a career out of flopping. My name Is Shane, Welcome to the School Of Flop.

Internet Searches That Led to Turnipblog

This blog would be far more popular if I just went ahead and changed the name to..

"I Want to Singa about Katherine McPhee's feet and Kellie Pickler's new haircut"

I like to post the text of real internet searches where this blog was one of the results and then the searcher looked at this blog. (My comments, as usual, follow.)

Google searches:

"I want to singa.." (this cartoon has delighted many a generation)

Kelly Pickler's new haircut and Pictures of Kellie picklers new hair style (That's it in the photo)

The search "katharine mcphee's feet" continues to bring in traffic. In one single day, a google search from Massachusetts and one from Arkansas for "katharine mcphee's feet", turned up Turnipblog as a result. Then, a few days later, a google search from Dearborn, Michigan, for "Katharine McPhee feet" led someone to Turnipblog.

uncle mingo mp3, charleston (An Uncle Mingo member googling himself?)

ultraman hayata french (I'm pretty sure Hayata/Ultraman is Japanese, not French)

"dwight herring" (Tied with "Joy" for best character on TV)

Variety Show Theme Song - 70's, Aye Aye Captains Hat (If there was indeed a 70's variety show with a theme song "Aye Aye Captains Hat", I bet it sucked)

bobsledding costume (Damn you, Jamacian Bobsled team!)

Edisto (Great family beach in SC)

meatloaf peeing alamo (it was Ozzy that peed on the Alamo, not Meatloaf. Idiot)

costume for a bank teller (business attire, a name tag, and a sign that says "HONK if I just gave you great Service")

I have never heard of the following search engine, but it led someone to Turnipblog.

Need2Find - albermarle sound shark attack

Other random search engines that led someone to Turnipblog:

MyWebSearch - www.weddingprints

Comcast.com - kelli picklers new hair cut

Technorati.com - "lighting farts"

And last, but not least:

Ask.com - who voted for duke in the college football ap poles? (No way anyone did that, this has got to be an Urban Myth)

Kid Tip - Little People

I firmly believe that Fisher Price Little People is the best toy for ages 1 through 6. I am sure everyone would agree.

We had little people when I was a kid in the 70's. They were wooden choke-sized people. (see photo at right).

Today's Little People are plastic and are too fat to lodge in your toddler's wind-pipe. (See my artsy photo of Sonya Lee, below)

My kids have many Little People and Little People Animals, and a Little People Video.

And the School Bus, Circus Train, Farm, House, Garage, and Airport.

Rat Man Photographed

Not Boring to All

The year was 1991 or there-abouts. My girfriend of the time, Cory, and I went with my family to Hilton Head. One night we went to some bar to see 2 bands that I had never heard of, or seen, before.

The first band that performed was kind of boring. It was a bunch of white guys with a black singer and they played country-ish music. The band was boring but the singer was good and I recognized and had met the drummer, Jim, a few times (He had played soccer for USC).

The second band (pictured at right), Uncle Mingo totally rocked. I loved them and would go to see them many more times in Columbia and Charleston.

Fast Forward 5 years....

Uncle Mingo are still playing in the exact same bars or maybe have even dissolved.

The first band, the boring band, that I had seen years ago in Hilton Head is now the most popular band in the world, Hootie and The Blowfish.

Fast forward to this week....

Uncle Mingo are selling real estate or something like that.

Hootie, while not the most popular band in the world any more, are still around. I occasionally see Jim a.k.a. "Soni" jogging through the neighborhood or eating at CiCi's pizza with his daughter.


Tonight you can catch Hootie & the Blowfish on VH1 Classic . A special "Hangin' with Hootie & the Blowfish", starts at 8:30 pm EST, followed by the airing of Live in Charleston: The Homegrown Concert Event.

Goodbye Honeycombs

University of South Carolina undergraduate, dorms The Towers are being torn down.

The Towers are more popularly known as The Honeycombs for obvious reasons.

The Honeycombs, originally a complex of six buildings built in 1958 and 1965, will be replaced with a residence hall and academic center for South Carolina Honors College students.

Former students who once lived in The Honeycombs are invited to campus for a farewell reception and tour of the halls on Friday, Aug. 25.

The Aug. 25 event is free and will take place from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. in the lobby of Towers. The reception will feature photo displays, yearbooks and music, as well as a brief presentation on the history of the Towers, which housed USC students for nearly 50 years. Guests also will have the opportunity to tour a room in each of the four remaining residence halls.

Leading up to the farewell event, USC's housing staff also will give tours of the Towers on weekdays from 9 - 11 a.m. and on Saturdays from 2 - 4 p.m. Tours are by appointment only.

I have hung out in The Towers and have a great Towers story, but it can not be posted on Turnipblog.

The honeycomb architecture was genius as it allowed one to pee off of his fifth story balcony undetected.

Space News - Project Orion

Breaking Space News. You heard it here first,

NASA's new Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and moon landing program will be called "Orion".

The space agency hasn't yet announced the name, but a logo bearing the title has now been seen in a NASA internal document that labels the insignia as "approved".

The triangular logo, which could be meant to resemble the shape of the new crewed capsule, has a blue background and white stars that are arranged to form the constellation Orion

Under Project Orion, NASA plans to launch crews of four to six astronauts aboard Orion capsules, first to orbit the Earth and the International Space Station and then later to the Moon.

The Pep Rally - Chapter VII

The Pep Rally is a story that I wrote in High School. If you haven't read the first 6 chapters, here are the links:

Chapters I, II, and III.

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII - Who me?

"This friday's skit is not going to be your usual skit." announced Chaz. No one appreciated the irony at the time.

"Today's skit would not involve football players and cheerleaders, but instead, eight randomly chosen students". (Actually, seven randomly chosen students and one purposefully chosen student who had made the unfortunate mistake of up-chucking on the captain of the football team's Members-Only jacket earlier in the day.)

As the first seven names were called out, the students were led to the auditorium floor, blindfolded, and seated in chairs, one beside the other. Johnny was totally surprised when his name was called, but he stood up and shuffled to the front to take his seat beside the others.

As he was being blindfolded Johnny felt a little apprehensive.

What was going to happen?

However, once the laughter started Johnny felt a little more at ease. What ever was going on, the other students were loving it.

Johnny sat patiently and waited, laughter surrounding him.

Could this be a turning point in his life?

Count The Black Dots

Look Carefully!

Haiku - Heat Impaired

It Sure Is Hot Here
August In Columbia
I Can't Breathe or See

No, You Honk!

I use the bank drive-through to deposit my paycheck every week.

There are 2 signs taped to the bank drive-through teller window that say:

"HONK

If We Gave
You Great Service

Thank You"

It goes without saying that I do not honk. I have never heard anyone else honk either. But the signs do make me mad, so here is what I did.

The bank teller seemed confused the last time I went to the bank when I sent a horn through the tube. One of those brass horns that you find on a child's bicycle or that a clown uses, with a rubber ball at the end that you squeeze.

The teller held up the horn to the window as if to say "Did you mean to send this through the tube?"

I nodded "yes" and pointed to the sign that I had made and taped to the inside of my driver's side window. My sign read:

"Honk

If I Just Gave
You All My Money

Thank You"

Car Ride

That Guy Won Last Comic Standing

I love the show Last Comic Standing. This is the show where stand up comedians live in a house together and compete a la American Idol.

When this summer's season of Last Comic Standing was just getting started, I published this post(link), where I picked the funniest comedians on the show (Chris and Ty), but predicted that the winner would either be Iglesias (the-fat-hispanic-guy), or Josh Blue (the- cerebral-palsey-guy).

Near the end of the season, Chris Porter really started fading and Iglesias got himself eliminated on purpose by bringing a blackberry into the house.

The Last Comic Standing finale was last night and it came down to Ty vs Josh. We knew that Josh would win, and he did.

But you know what? Even though Ty had the best material and Josh mainly had "I have cerebral palsey jokes", Josh was just as deserving as Ty to win.

Why? Because Josh is very funny and extremely likeable.

So Josh, I am apologizing for my earlier comments.

It was totally unfair to compare you to Dat Phan and Ant, who are not at all funny and only make fun of their Vietnamese/American-ness and gay-ness respectively.

Also, as Josh is on the USA Paralympic Soccer Team, he is probably a better soccer player than me.

Here is a link to Josh's web site where you can purchare his new CD, "Good Josh Bad Arm".(link)

The Best Cartoon Ever

I used to dress up in a costume every year for Halloween. I would try to make my own costume if possible. That all stopped one Halloween while I was in law school. I don't remember the exact year, but it was right in the midlle of the OJ Simpson Trial.

That Halloween I came up with my best costume ever.

A costume based on perhaps the Single Best Cartoon Ever

A costume that also involved my girlfriend (now wife) Cyndy.

A costume that ended up costing about $50 to construct, what with the lampshade, spray paint, and felt.

A costume that I entered into the MBA/Lawschool Haloween Party costume contest.

A costume that came in third place in that same costume contest.

A costume that got beaten by "Jamaican Bobsled Team", which was 2 or 3 guys walking around with dreadlock wigs on who were attached at the waist by a fake bobsled.

A costume that also got beat by 4 or 5 guys walking around in black robes with fake beards, "Judge Ito's".

Idiocy

2day's Kids Got it EZ - Magic Drawing Boxes

Introducing a new Turnipblog feature called 2day's Kids Got it EZ, where I will talk about how much easier today's kids have it than I did, growing up in the 70's and 80's.

The other day, my daughter ran up to me and showed me a picture that she had drawn in about 5 minutes on her Magna Doodle.



The picture was very cute, it was Madeline surrounded by hearts. I told her how much I liked the picture, but as I looked at it I couldn't help but think of how easy my kids have it.

Drawing the same exact picture when I was her age, in 1976, would have been nearly impossible.

Why?

A = Because today's magic drawing boxes, such as Magna Doodle, are so far advanced from 1976's only option, Etch-A-Sketch.

Magna Doodle comes with a magic pen. You can use the pen to draw freely on Magna Doodle as if it were a crayon. When you are finished, you slide a plastic bar over the Magna Doodle to erase your picture.

With Etch-A-Sketch your entire picture had to be composed of a single line. You couldn't just draw the single line with a magic pen, you had to use two knobs. One knob made the line go up or down, the other knob made the line go left and right. So if you only twisted one knob or the other, you either got a straight verticle line or straight horizontal line.

Only the most very skilled and patient Etch-A-Sketch artists could draw a diagonal line, much less a curve or circle, by precisely turning both knobs at once. These most basic shapes were certainly beyond my capabilities.

Oh Well...

... instead of sliding a bar across the Magna Doodle to erase my pictures, at least I got to shake the hell out of my Etch-A-Sketch.

Reality TiVo Update

Last Comic Standing - Ty is outclassing everyone and should win. Josh also has a good chance because, although not as funny as Ty, Josh is funny, likeable, and has a disability.

Rockstar Supernova - The chick with all the piercings has it in the bag.

Big Brother Allstars - Although still quite beautiful, Janelle has lost her magic and become Will's puppet. My current pick to win is James.

So You Think You Can Dance - How was Allison voted off? She was the best dancer on the show.

Project Runway - We just started watching this show this season. Designers design clothes and are voted off every week.

A question: What show has a higher percentage of gay male contestants, "So You Think You Can Dance" or "Project Runway"?.

As you may know, I have posted several mock-interviews with "So You Think You Can Dance" host Cat Deeley. Well the producers at Fox contacted Turnipblog legal and offered to give me a real interview with Cat, If I promised not to make fun of, or ask Cat about, her freakish hieght. I couldn't pass up this opportunity, so here it is the interview.

My Cubicle

Here is a link to a funny video called My Cubicle(link).

This video is a parody of the James Blunt song "Beautiful".

The Ladies of Hi-5

Global Warming

You hear a lot about Global Warming these days. There is actually a "Global Warming Debate"> It goes like this:

Scientists and Al Gore: "Because of human activity (having babies and driving cars) the planet earth is getting hotter and hotter. If humans keep having babies and driving cars at the present rate, terrible natural armegeddonish disasters will happen in our, or our children's, lifetimes."

Republicans: "Why should we believe scientists just because they say so? Science has been wrong about stuff before. Al Gore is boring."

I am here to tell you that most of them don't know what they are talking about.

I mean scientists, Al Gore, and Republicans.

These people are not qualified to talk about Global Warming, they don't have a clue.

There is only one question that you should ask of anyone who wants to discuss, debate, or express an any opinion about Global Warming...
Have you ever been to Columbia, South Carolina in August?

Crocs

I Don't Like Them. Not on women. Not on men. Not on kids.

I can't really be any more specific than to say, "Nope, don't care for them one bit."

Great Mix Tapes - Juju Eyeball

I had a friend in college named Brian who loved the Beatles, particularly John Lennon. Brian had even based his hair style on a photo of John Lennon.

Before I met Brian, I was a casual Beatles fan who had heard Sgt. Peppers and "Stars-On-45 Beatles Medley".

Brian changed all that with one tremendous Beatles Mix Tape, Juju Eyeball. Juju Eyeball was named after a line in the song "Come Together" from the album Abbey Road.

Last week on the way to day-care I was playing a Beatles Studio Bootleg (link) called Acoustic Submarine. Madeline really liked one of the songs and now I have to play it once or twice, every morning. Madeline sings and Sam air-guitars.

I remembered when I had first heard that song...

Juju Eyeball