Category: General

  • Margaritas “to go”?

    You sort of wonder what the copywriters are thinking…Sears circular in the Star-Tribune, 27 May 2007

  • Hmmmm

    Is it possible to make a lead balloon?

  • Rain today

    I was sitting in the waiting area of Burnsville Volkswagen looking out the window at the rain and was wondering; if April showers bring May flowers, then what do May Showers bring… and I decided, that they must bring mosquitos.

  • Rednecks

    via email from Jim Teal, Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:10:26 -0800I bet these make Jeff Foxworthy proud…

  • Can I have this number?

    If and when I get a cell phone again, I think I’d like the number +1 (651) 946-4688 which would be +1 (651) WING-NUT.  I wonder which carrier owns that block?

  • Lobsta

    Took a little side trip to Maine yesterday, from helping my mother care for my step-father; while I was there, had a lobsta dinna with my cousin’s Martha and Linda.Martha took this picture.

  • What are the wim-wams?

    …when Toby is bored or complaining, [his father] announces as if to an unseen audience, “The kid has the wim-wams.”Kinderscenen by John Updike in Harpers, December 2006, Page 82I always wondered what that was, but only since I read this short story, as I’d never heard this term before…