I got a Gmail chat from my friend Carol today. She had to put one of her cats down. She loves her cats, so it sounds like it was a hard choice, but the right one. She suggested I read her blog to get caught up.
Nothing much has changed for poor Carol. I think Jerry Springer would have a TON of footage if they followed her family around.
Chris will be home shortly, and I have to clean up, but had to post this first.
A few months ago, we replaced the padding in our Ikea Poang chair. See, Rumble had decided it was his, and we were OK with that. but then it got to be such a mess, nobody wanted to sit in it. He had chewed it, chewed his paws, tracked mud etc. and generally made it his. So we finally just replaced it and since then he hasn’t been allowed on it.
However, we conceded he could use the stool on occasion. He’s pretty much ignored it until the last few days when scenes like this have become common.
For the faint of heart, I apologize for the angle. I, ahem, cleaned up the photo before posting. Charmin’s got nothing on a good clone brush.
So the boys over at Just Beautiful Men posted this: It’s a Budweiser commercial from 2004.
Bud Light® Locker Room 2004
The question is – Are they selling beer or homophobia? The connection to beer is pretty weak, let me tell you. Although the commercial is funny, and even most gay men don’t need their team-mates tackle wagged in their face, I think it promotes homophobia, more than a positive image of Bud.
I believe in aliens. I do. Not in the sense that they’re living among us, or have even visited Earth, but I believe in the probability of life elsewhere. And I’m not alone:
Aliens Or The Moon Landing, Which One Is Real? – Homotron.net
Now, I’m not crazy. Dr. Mitchell may be. He’s making some very outlandish claims that I don’t buy into. I’m not a conspiracy theorist. HOWEVER. I will say this.
Aliens – on the day the new X-Files move comes out. Hmm? Hmm! HMMMM!
Think about that buddy.
Internet marketer Brian Littleton tweeted this a while ago. What do you call that fizzy carbonated beverage when not by brand name. Do you want a pop? A drink of soda? Or is cola just Coke to you. Check this out:
It’s a regional map of the United States showing what people (generally) in various counties call carbonated beverages. Like smack in the middle of blue Idaho and North Dakota (get out your atlas if you must) there are pockets of yellow. Surrounded by tons of people calling it POP, there’s a local who call it SODA.
We’re talking 80-100% of respondents in one county call it pop and the next county over the majority call it soda.
I had a co-worker, Carol, who called it soda. She grew up on the East Coast of the US where soda seems to have a foot hold. I guess it’s one factor of my Canadian upbringing that stuck. I call it pop. However I hardly ever spell words with the letter U (color, favor) unless I’m purposely trying to be Canadian. I learned good American Sesame-Street spelling. Check not Cheque.
Anyway, it’s a fascinating study. In BC there have been 2085 responses. 1894 say Pop, 86 say soda, 42 say coke and 63 have some other made up name for it. I’d love to know what those other 63 people call it?
EDIT: answered my own question. 63 people are idiots.: http://popvssoda.com:2998/stats/BC.html
