nazi gold..

Hello all,

I have to admit, I'm a real sucker for stories of buried treasure. Like many kids, I dreamed of finding a hidden map and going of on an exciting treasure hunt. For that reason, I believe that Indiana Jones, in my opinion, is the greatest action hero ever created for the screen and the best moments in that franchise are when Mr. Jones fights the greatest of all movie villains, the Nazi as they attempt to plunder Europe of all things valuable. Tales of hidden vaults, caves and mine shafts filled with Nazi booty, (German strip club joke here) have always been the stuff of legend. That is until today.

It seems that a group of German treasure hunters have found a cavern that contains gold stolen from St. Petersburg. The location of the man-made cavern were found in an old notebook belonging to the deceased grandfather of one of the hunters.

Good stuff.


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Hall of Fame

Hello all,



If there is a Photoshop hall of fame, then the following piece would get my vote.






















This is laugh out loud funny for so many reasons. Comedy wise it may be as close to perfection as one can get, concept, excecution..brilliant.


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where's the beef?

People, people, people,

Look I know we are all concerned with the current beef scare, and I understand that fear. No one wants to know that the meat they are eating is contaminated, I know I don't. But we all have to understand that this is just another media created story with the sole intention of frightening the citizens of this fine country.

Now, on the surface it may not look good, 143 million pounds of beef recalled because of supposed health code violations. And yes they have actual video of sick and crippled cattle being beaten, shocked and in some cases shoved by a forklift because they were too sick to stand, but this video was obviously taken by some cow-hugging, left leaning liberal who is trying to take away jobs. Yes, it is true that the footage also showed water being forcibly pumped down a fallen cow’s mouth...but hey, we don't care what it looks like alive right? We just care what it looks like on a bun!

Now I think the best thing we can all do is go back to what we have always done..ignoring the issue all together. I know they were sick and dying before they were killed, but that shouldn't affect the quality of the meat should it?

See you at the drive through!

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Wild and Crazy....

Hello all,

I've just finished the new Steve Martin book, "Born Standing Up: A Comics Life". I'm typically a very slow reader, but I ripped through this book in a couple of days. It's a really, really interesting read and a must for anyone with an interest in comedy.

I have always been a casual fan of Steve Martin, he was never was the type of comedian that I naturally related to, until that is I read this book. Martin describes in great detail the work that he put into shaping his stand up act and forever changed my opinion of him. When you read the number of shows on the road, the number of appearances he made on television before he made any real impact, it's staggering.

"I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining and four were spent in wild success."

then he walked away and never returned. A really good read.

Now Mr. Martin, about those movies

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misc...

Hello all,

grab bag today.

Really interesting online photo gallery courtesy of National Geographic and photograper Vincent Laforet. The topic is the "drying of the west". Some of the photos of lush green golf courses in the middle of the desert, where it is the only thing growing for hundreds of miles really make you question the logic. I remember flying into places like Phoenix and Las Vegas and looking down at all of these plush lawns and golf courses and wondering why one would move to the desert and expect to not live in the desert? But hey, as long as I can get a little golf year round, what's a few million gallons of water right? Ahh, the hubris.

I don't know about you, but I have really become excited about this political race. Now I know the system is flawed, too much money, soft or otherwise, too many lobbyists etc, but the idea of a change is really refreshing. We've been down for so long in this country that I really feel a buzz in the air that something good could happen. Then again, when you are coming from the worst administration in history it doesn't take much to excite you.

I hate to do this, but I have to laugh when the Britney Spears camp is blaming the manager for her erratic behavior. Remember when she was a kid and the mom and others ran the show? Then she had to break away from that, show the world that she was her own person only to now once again blame someone else for her actions. She's running out of people to blame. Again, sorry about the TMZing of this blog. I'll never do it again..unless my Svengali like manager forces me to do so.

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Super Bowl predictions

hello all,

I usually don't do this, but I've received so many requests for my super bowl predictions.

Alright here it is...I'm going against of the so called "sports experts" when I say..

New York Giants 17, New England patriots 14. The MVP will be Eli Manning.

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Shopping tips

hello all,

For those who don't know, I am what some people might consider "cheap". I would rather use the term "thrifty" or "frugal", but "thrifty" doesn't get your family making the squeaky sound effect when you open your own wallet or the claims that the George Washington printed on my money is actually wearing sunglasses, (because he's not used to the sunlight..doesn’t get out much). It also doesn't help that my family are all Borscht belt comedians.

Now it is true that I like to look for a good bargain, it just makes good sense to me. This has usually served me well in the past...but sometimes it can backfire. I discovered this the other day while in the bathroom, taking care of some necessary business, (much like the cute bears in the Charmin toilet paper spot answering the eternal question, "Do bears (expletive deleted) in the woods) Segue here. I reached over to tear off the necessary amount of T.P, only to have it tear away in shreds. I tried again only to have the same thing happen. Maybe I didn't use enough force, this time I'll really give it a tug. As I watched the roll fly through the air, unraveling along the way, I knew something was amiss. It was only as I rolled the paper back on the roll that I realized that my bargain toilet paper wasn't perforated. It was just one long spool of solid paper. Imagine the roll of paper on top of an adding machine. Now imagine trying to use said paper to wipe your bear bottom with (Charmin callback) and you understand my struggle. What started with me just trying to help my bottom line end with me just hurting my bottom*.

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*I realize that I'm a grown man saying "bottom". These are difficult times.

the surge

hello all,

disturbing news out of Iraq where remote controlled explosives were strapped to two mentally retarded women and detonated in a crowded market killing at least 73 people.

wow.

Regardless of what you think about the success of the surge, (I think too little too late) one has to wonder how that region ever gets back to some semblance of normalcy.

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