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I've seen similiar holders before, and was tempted to buy one, except for the $8 price tag (or whatever it was at that place that one time.....).
When I saw how this was made I wanted to slap my forhead in a big "D'oh!" for not seeing just how simple it is to get what I want using materials I already have. I could use a couple of these things....and soon I will have them.
Hoody Hoo!
One of the staff from the hit NBC show "Chuck" is also a fan of the Knights of the Dinner Table (KoDT) and has worked to get KoDT into the show. I've seen a couple of small snippets here and there, but we finally got a real good shot of the magazine in last Monday's episode.
In the beginning of Chuck Versus the Predator, about a minute....minute and a half into it Chuck is in his bedroom on the computer and you can see KoDT issue 20 something. I like being so specific.....
Hopefully there will be more KoDT goodness to come. I just wish the comic he was reading at the end was another KoDT issue.
I've been using the "microblogger" Twitter for a while now and my regular blogs have sufferred becuase of it. Don't know if/when that'll change, but I'm currently OK with that.
Tomorrow is the drunken holiday here in the US that is also known as "St. Patrick's Day". It's the one day where allegedly everyone is just a wee bit Irish. Chicago throws a bunch of plumbing dye into the river, turning it green, and all across the US people march in parades and drink 'till they puke.
Doesn't it just make our holiday traditions sound just so swell?
Locally...and I'm sure the are doing it elsewhere, some of the bars have been promoting a drink special for St. Patrick's Day call the "Car Bomb" or "Irish Car Bomb" (3/4 pint Guinness® stout, 1/2 shot Bailey's® Irish cream, and 1/2 shot Jameson® Irish whiskey). I think it's such a fantastic idea that we name a drink for an act of terroism that we should think about some other drinks:
I'm serious that I don't like the drink ideas, but not about these drinks. I wouldn't try to replicate them and quite frankly I hope they suck ass if you do.
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Ok....I'll admit that I'm slightly biased, since I was active in the Boy Scouts well into adulthood, but with the coming spring comes the inevitable Girl Scout Cookie sales and I just have to go WTF?!
I was watching TV this morning and the local NBC affiliate was doing a promo for a local (Boy Scout) Troop's annual pancake breakfast fundraiser being held next week. The spot had 3 Scouts and one Scoutmaster and the Scouts did almost all of the talking and they actually cooked a pancake and had real representative food. I did have an issue with the Scoutmaster wearing the neckerchief wrong ( Seriously dude...it isn't an ascot!), but the group was otherwise in proper uniform.
Now fast forward a couple of hours when I had to make a short jaunt to the store for dinner fixins. I saw no less than three groups of girl scouts hawking the ubiquitous cookies. I pretty much just fixated on the first group...which was representative of just about every group of cookie-toting-tykes I run into this time of year. There were 5 adults and only two girls. I have to assume that the girls were Girl Scouts, but since nobody was in uniform who the hell knows. Maybe you could call the cookie costume that one was wearing qualified as some sort of costume.
My mind started going, as it often does.......what do Girl Scouts do aside from sell cookies? I've never seen a group of them in uniform doing any type of community service, seen one Girl Scout Camp (At Boy Scout Camp we were required to wear a "scouting" T-shirt so we thought it funny to try and buy Girl Scout T-Shirts one year), and I've basically never really heard of Girl Scouts outside of the cookie sales.
Now my personal history taints things, but I think Boy Scouts are known for camping, merit badges, and helping little old ladies across the street....and Eagle Scouts.
Can anybody that isn't in the Girl Scouts (or had been) even name one of their ranks?
