A Love Story...

A friend of mine sent me a link for an on-line madlib love story.  I decided to give it a try.   Here's the story that came out of it: 

 

My Love Story

 

One squishy summer day at Rhode Island you see the most intense creature you have ever seen. Their name is The Queen of England , and every move she makes just turns you on more and more. You nudge your best friend Kareem Abdul Jabar and say, "Wow, that has to be the most tart body I have ever seen." Suddenly, she looks in your direction and starts walking right towards you!!! she says, "I noticed you staring at me from over there. I just had to tell you, that I think you are so Portuguese , and was wondering if you'd like to go to Tasmania with me and harvest radishes in the moonlight ?" With a stupid smile on your face you say, " Chicks dig guys with green shoes " and go with them. When you finally get to Tasmania , she moves closer to you, and gives you the biggest kiss ever. The two of you are passionately kissing, when you feel a plumber hit you on the back of the head. You open your eyes to find out it's all a dream, but there is a note left next to your bed.

It reads: " The Queen of England is the love you've been waiting your whole life for. she will ask you out in 69 days or less, but only if you send this e-mail to at least 10 people within the next few minutes. The more people you send it to, the sooner they will ask you out, and you both fall in love. Do not take this lightly, because if you simply ignore this, you will have bad luck in love for the next 69 years!"

 

 

Farticus! FEEL MY POWER!!!

Kids are great.  I've got friends who have particularly strange kids.  My friend Kwan has two AWESOME kids.  This story is about his boy Ty.  Ty is in second grade. 

 

Ty came home this week and announced that he has a new nickname:  Farticus.  It is like Sparticus, but different.  He runs around and says, "I am Farticus!  Feel my POWER!" and then he farts. 

 

When he told his parents this, his mom hung her head in shame.  Kwan, on the other hand, did an okay  job of pretening not to think it was funny.  He really had to work at it though.  Kwan told him that this was a bad thing to do and that if he continued to do it, he would lose all his friends.  Ty's first response was to say that wasn't true. People flocked around him because they thought it was funny.  He then added that he didn't really care if he lost all his friends bechasue HE thought it was funny. 

 

What makes this story even funnier is that Kwan is now trying to teach his son to control his farts.  Kwan should probably change his name to Burpicus because he's completely incapable of controlling his own burps. 

 

I'm obviously on a similar intellectual level as Ty because I think it is funny and I can't wait till he comes over to my house and I can teach him some more naughty, but harmless stuff.  :D 

 

Pete

Modified Cars in Germany.

Hey folks.

I just got back from a week in Germany. I was doing work stuff the whole time and got almost no opportunity to relax. I did a little touristing, but not near enough for my taste. The one day that I would have had time to walk around and shop had hurricane force winds and we ended up staying in.

As always, I enjoyed seeing the cars that people drive. I had a few observations that I thought I'd relate.

1) There's a BMW that we don't get here in the states that looks pretty cool. Imagine if they made a Z4 in a 4-door wagon. Well you don't really have to imagine it because they do. They don't sell them in the US though. It is a cool looking car.

2) There are very few modified cars in Germany. I saw 2 or 3 cars with aftermarket wheels and only one car with enough modifications that it really changed the body lines at all. It was a pretty cool Alpha Romeo spyder with flared fenders and wide, deep-dish wheels. That's it! Everything else was stock and 95% of the cars had steel wheels. I know it is winter and many folks will bring out the bling for summer. I just thought it was interesting.

3) In America, VW's large van is called the Eurovan. That made me wonder, What do they call that same model in Europe? The Amerivan? NOPE. It is the Transporter. I actually knew that from previous trips and plenty of time on Vortex. What I didn't know is that they have a special edition model called the California Cruiser. :D

4) In the 90's VW made many themed editions of the Golf. One that I hadn't seen before, but saw three examples of last week was the Bon Jovi edition VW Golf Wagon TDi. I didn't see much special about it except for the badging.

5) Driving on the autobahn is pretty cool. Conditions were not ideal to really fly, but we got our Passat wagon TDi up to about 180kph in the left lane.

Later folks. It is good to be home.

Pete

Geography Lessons.

I read this article at my desk this morning and thought it was funny.

LIMA (Reuters) - Royal Nepal Airlines has apologized to Peru after mistakenly using a photo of the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu to promote tourism in Nepal.

Peru's foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday the flagship carrier of the Himalayan kingdom, about half way around the world from the Andean country, had put the picture of Peru's tourism icon, Machu Picchu, on a poster under a slogan "Have you seen Nepal?"

Here's the whole article.

Have a nice day, dammit!

Pete

Finally a good run.

I'll keep this short. After over 3 weeks off my workout regimen due to injury, I finally got a good run in last night. It wasn't long. It wasn't fast. It was, however, 100% pain-free.

I took it slow and easy and made sure that I stretched well before going out and I used good form while running. It is easy to fall into the trap of shuffling along and not lifting your knees when you're trying to run slowly on a recovery run. That can start bad habits which lead to injuries.

I can't tell you what a relief it was to complete a whole loop after coming up lame the last three times I tried.

We'll try it again today. :D

Pete