We just got ”Plan 9 From Outer Space” on DVD.  Oh - My - God!  This is, without a doubt, the funniest movie EVER!  Every single thing about it is bad - the acting (worst ever), the cinematography (you’ve got to see it to believe it), the plot (where did they come up with this plot - I suspect drugs), the sets (my kid’s 1st grade plays were better), the characters (wait till you see “Bela Lugosi"), everything.  Put these things all together and you have one hysterical film.  God bless you Ed Wood.  Wherever you may be.

Quotes from “Plan 9 From Outer Space”

Policeman: “Your guess is as good as mine Larry. One thing’s sure, Inspector Clay’s dead, murdered, and somebody’s responsible.”

Edwards: “For a time we tried to contact them by radio but no response. Then they attacked a town, a small town I’ll admit, but never the less a town of people, people who died.”

Ruler: “Ah yes, Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead. Long distance electrodes shot into the pineal pituitary glands of recent dead.”

How about some pics, eh?

Just wanted to send out a big ol’ Happy B-Day to our newest bestest friend, Kim.  Hope your day was swell, Valley.  See you at Tom’s!

Anyone interested in a $2100 pool cue?  No, that’s not a typo.  $2100.00!  For that price, why not just hire someone to make the shot for you?

Check it out - The Sniper Cue

This was sent to me by a co-worker.

Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary:

BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people’s heads pop up over the walls to see what’s going on.

MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.

SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, and Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.

IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

404: Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested document could not be located.

GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.

OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake.

WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks.

CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing through a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING

We just got word that CJ (our youngest) just got awarded a full scholarship to the school that he is attending next year.  An academic scholarship.  Very impressive.  Full room, board, tuition.  Whew!  With three kids in college, it was starting to get a little tight around here.  This is wonderful news. 

Go CJ!  Go CJ!  Go CJ!  Ain’t that funky now?

Finally!  Some good news on CNN.  Check it out.

Sharon

And, because nature always balances out, some sad news.

Michael

Two games left, one point behind those pesky Devils.  The way I see it, now that Amonte is in town, LeClair and Gagne are back in the lineup and the team is running on all cylinders, the Flyers have got to be “the team to beat”.  Lord Stanley, welcome to Philadelphia!

Yeah, I’m cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn’t mean I’m not a nice person.
Jeremy Roenick

Nineteen years old.  Jesus.  Remember when you were 19?  Can you imagine being held captive by an opposing army?  Surrounded by dead comrades?  Her biggest problems should have been where to meet her friends on Friday night and can she save up enough money to buy that car she wants and what’s for supper tonight.  Not “am I going to survive another day?”.  Welcome home, Jessica.  It’s good to see you again.

Now let’s go get some more.

The #1 reason to buy the warranty…

So why do we “celebrate” April Fools Day?  Well, there are several theories floating around and this is the one that I choose to believe.

When the western world used the Julian calendar, the year began on March 25th because they celebrated the start of a new year with the start of spring. However since that fell in the Holy Week, the celebrated it on the first of April. However when we switched to the Gregorian calendar in the 1500s, we moved the New Year to the first of January. According to the most widely told story, those who still celebrated the New Year on April 1st were called April fools.

Hmm.  I don’t know about that but, what the heck?  I’ll go with it till I hear something better.

Did you know…

In France, April Fools day is called “Poisson d’Avril” meaning April Fish. The tradition is that French children will tape paper fish to the backs of their friends. When they would discover the fish on their back, the prankster would yell “Poisson d’Avril!” The origin of this is unknown.

In Scotland the April fool is called April “gowk” which is Scottish for cuckoo. The Cuckoo is an emblem of simpletons.

In Canada, CHEZ FM fooled the listeners one April Fools Day making listeners believe that it was the last day that the treasury would honor all the two-dollar bills still in circulation. The same year they had people going through their change looking for the mysterious two-dollar coins that had mistakenly been minted from real gold.

One newscaster on the news show CBO Morning announced that the clock in Ottawa’s Peace Tower was being switched to digital.

On 1 April 1957 on BBC’s show Panorama opened with a line about Spring coming early this year, prompting the spaghetti harvest in Switzerland to be early as well. In the normal news manner, spaghetti’s oddly uniform length was explained as the result of years of dedicated cultivation. The report stated that the ravenous spaghetti weevil had been conquered.

And for all you “fools” out there, here is a link to help clear things up for you.  http://www.snopes.com/

Merry (?) April Fools Day!