McCain - Palin

McCain - Palin

I can't be the only one who thought of this can I?

The thought of Michael Palin in the pepperpot drag getup along with John McCain has me in stitches. Sarah Palin is probably a better choice.

keep on giving

ADD: the gift that keeps on giving.



Clearly this poor fellow missed the first day of marketing school where they taught people the three basics.
1) who is your customer?
2) what do you want your customer to do?
3) how do you spell "ad"?


It's math, it's medicine, it's advertising
(addvermathicinetising)


And that's just plain awesome.

100 posts

It was about 18 months ago that I converted the long-standing Wacky pages into a blog. I actually started the Wacky thing of the week on a shared drive at Calvin College over 10 years ago and the wackiness continues.

For this one-hundredth post on the newer blog-version, I needed something memorable, something superior, something wacky.

I give you: Badger Badger Badger

Mushroom...
Snake...

Tanks alot

According to my friend Paul...
This was taken in front of the Gardendale, Alabama , Walmart while she (the subject of the picture) was going to the Flea market.

Now I ask you...
Who sits and looks at a pair of men's briefs and says hmmmm...I can make a nice summer top from these!! On the other hand...
$6 for a three pack is a good price!

wow

I Feel Great!

I don't know about you, but I feel GREAT!

Here's a guy who made up his mind to do something and by golly, he's doing it. Spirit like this is contagious and gets around the office simply by being near it.

One problem, he based his new plan on a snack-bar instead of a really good idea. This is where planning really has to come into play.

What is the one thing you do really well?

Are you ready to go, do, and be that?

Thanks to Keller for pointing me to that video!

not dead yet

I've been listening to the local radio station in Grand Haven. It's small-town and full of delightful little nuggets that you just don't get at the big stations. I worked on the air for about 12 years and I fondly recall the goofy things I had to do. Some examples from my career:

• weekly psychic/astrologer call-in show
  
• remote broadcasts in the mobile studio van...
  
• at a car dealership, from 5:30-10 AM, and the dealer didn't open until Noon
  
• at a TCBY for an entire week
  
• in a city park on Saturday night from 7-Midnight
  
• at a movie theater, in a mall, from a pay-phone, on a Tuesday night
  
• commercial for a Mexican restaurant featuring blatant racial stereotypes
  
• horrible commercial read live on the air by a business owner

However, yesterday I heard something new. It seems that my local station includes the reading of the obituaries column as part of their news broadcast. If that weren't creepy enough, here's what I heard yesterday:

Well... there are no new obituaries to share with you today... so... we'll be back with more news after this:
(commercial) "Would your family be properly cared for if something happened to you?..."

Then I had to pull over as the rest of the life insurance commercial played.

And then that happened

And then that happened

My office isn't the best place in the whole wide world right now and yesterday the ceiling started to cave in.

Seriously, right in the middle of a meeting and right on cue as Andy said something with just a tinge of despair. Andy's usually a very positive fellow, but this was priceless. We all stared at the can-light hanging from the ceiling by two slender copper threads and then just exploded in laughter.

It kinda helped.

The other day though...

Jon started making some crack about Genesis (the book, not the band) and after an awkward silence asked,

"What? We're not joking about creation?"

Luke just smirked and muttered,

"Too soon.

I nearly hemorrhaged.

Stop - The Agency Treatment

Thanks to Paul for pointing me at this gem


Anyone been at a client meeting like that?

Can't start soon enough

The Arena Football season is drawing to a close and that means NFL isn't far behind, and that means Fantasy Football!

I placed 5th last year - right in the middle of the pack with a group of friends. The Fightin' Amish will live to fight another day, but since I've moved to Grand Haven, I thought I should come up with some other potential team names. So - with my apologies to David Letterman (and other mis-users of the top-10 list) here are my top 10 rejected Grand Haven Football Team names:

10) Beacon
9) The Loyal Townies
8) The Retired Beachcombers
7) Hey I'm from Chicago too!
6) I just came in from GR for the weekend
5) I'm sooooo drunk
4) How do you get to the beach from here?
3) The Lousy Tourists
2) The Mighty Coast Guards (thanks Sylvia)
1) The Disappointing Musical Fountain

Rotten things part 2

Things that suck

Whilst installing an upgrade for an operating system, I inadvertently closed my laptop, putting it to sleep. I honestly forgot it was going on until I was half-way home. When I tried to fire it up again the computer was pretty unhappy.

So, I tried to rescue the OS with the install CD. After about 90 minutes, I got this message in the picture:

That was not good.

So, I tried a few more things for a while and finally did a clean install and restored the data from a week-old backup. Not horrible, but not great either.

Also, the fan makes a horrible noise.

Rotten things part 1

into the shredder with you

My office is not a fun place to work right now. In an attempt to get some funding together, I worked with our advancement (a goofy word for fundraising) staff and came up with a wiz-bang of a letter to a select audience.

Then things changed again.

Then we couldn't send out the letter. So, we had to shred them. Jon came up with the bright idea to feed them into the shredder en-masse. He used this funky little staple-less stapler to connect all the letters together. Then we fed them into the shredder in a big-ole paper train.

That made the office fun again for a while. I hear we might be getting ice-cream sandwiches soon.

Creative Juices

Thanks to Dave and Kevin for passing this one on to me.



Get your creative juices flowing?

ANGRIEST POODLE IN THE WORLD

ANGRIEST POODLE IN THE WORLD

Along with last week's bucket full of puppies the little pet store in the Pueblos de Dominicana had this charming little critter.

While it seems to be indeed the angriest poodle in the world, it was in fact a very sweet little dog having a bad hair day.

Bucket full of puppies

Bucket full of puppies

While traveling to South America I went to the Pueblos de Dominicana in Santiago, Chile.

They have everything.

Wood carvers, jewelry stores, t-shirt shops, and a ton of local craft-type shops.

They also have a pet shop. The pet shop had a bucket full of puppies.

Also - now I have a story that starts, "So I was on this plane full of Argentinian Super Models." The story doesn't really get any better than that, but it sure starts great.

Technology Impaired

Apparently I'm technology impaired. It took me a an hour to figure this one out. The bellboy in my hotel (Montevideo, Uruguay) didn't give me the heads up. That's fine, I'm usually a pretty smart guy. Not today.



The light switches in the hotel don't work!






What's this salad?









ohhhh.... you put your room key in here and then all the light switches work. Nice.


Yeah, I totally want that for my apartment now. That's just too brilliant! It saves so much energy that the US will clearly never adopt such a thing.

Phone cards on a leash

Phone cards on a leash

I spent 10 hours in the Miami Airport today on my way to Montevideo, Uruguay to speak. I'm excited about the trip, but not the 5 hours on this side of security, and then 5 hours on the other side. Fortunately, I was able to work from a lounge next to the luggage shrink-wrapper.

Am I naive to think that I don't need my luggage ensconced in blue glad-wrap to survive the trip? These guys do a bustling business, so I must be crazy.

Meanwhile - there are international phone card machines everywhere. This guy lead his along by a leash. We definitely don't want that phone card machine out running amok!

Curses to the Miami Airport for removing the stamp machines so I couldn't mail cards and letters. They did leave the mail boxes out though. Really? Yes, apparently 9/11 created a state of fear, not about what people might put into letter boxes, but that they might do legitimate mailing.

I blame the Amish - who, by the way, were in the Miami Airport in droves. How does that work?

Boxing Cat

From the YouTube member's description:
This is what my cat does every time we watch boxing...



Thanks to Tara, who sent it to Sylvia, who sent it to me.

Historical Tour

I normally don't link to or display content from The Onion because, while it's usually hilarious (read: wacky), it's also off-color enough that I don't feel right about including it.

This time I've got a good one thanks to my friend Paul.


Historic Blockbuster Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past MirthMobile does not endorse the advertising messages associated with the video.

Paul was kind enough to pass this article on to me - containing the video. I really recommend the article as well.

Mother Goose Rocks

As disturbing as Mother's Day was, Mother Goose Rocks takes it up a notch.

Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes by Mono with ME2



Good luck getting that out of your head.

Thanks Paul

Happy Mother's Day

My Mom sent this to me back in January. Turn your volume down before playing it. It's kinda loud.

Like the good son I am, I'm posting it for Mother's Day.