Monthly Archive for February, 2010

Dirty Disney: The Second Part Two I Missed Two Weeks in a Row.

Published on February 27, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 9 Comments Tags: , .


Harriet and Friends blog picked today’s victim. Harriet is also the host of Monday Mayhem a very clever meme. Harriet picked a meme from a blogger named   Roger Owen Green from Ramblin’ with Roger. He states he saw it at both SamuraiFrog and Jaquandor. But, it was probably stolen there as well. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Tracing back our theft’s thieves might take some time. It is a long meme, so we will do it in parts. Today is Part Two. If you missed last week, do them together today! Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!

Cheers to all of us thieves!

Sunday Stealing: Harriet’s Choice: The Disney Meme

1. Which non-Disney Princess Disney Film is your favorite? Shrek, because of his speech impediment. Instead of green, he says gween.

2. Which Disney film makes you cry the most? The Mousefather. “Leave the trap, take the cannolis.”

3. Which Disney film makes you the happiest? The Rescuers because of all the nude scenes.

4. Which Disney film has the best music?

Song of the South. I saw the original in theaters, and it has never been released to video. Nyah!

5. Which Disney film has the best love story?

Aladdin! There were penises everywhere

6. Who is your favorite Disney Princess?

The chambermaid who became a chef: Maddy aka Tiana from the Princess and the Frog

critics bemoaning the lead character’s announced name and occupation. She’d be a maid for a white family named … Maddy. When her name and occupation were labeled demeaning (as AOL BlackVoices points out, the moniker bares close resemblance to the ethnic slur “Mammy”), Disney was quick to respond, renaming the heroine Tiana and recasting her as a chef.

7. Who is your favorite Disney Prince?

Aladdin because of one classic line: In the scene where Aladdin and Jasmine are to take a magic carpet ride, Aladdin calls on Jasmine to come with him, and continues to speak under his breath

“teenagers take off your clothes”

8. Who is your favorite Disney animal sidekick?

Mustafa from the Lion King, he showed his kid how to spell SEX by using stars.

9. Who is your favorite Disney main character animal?

The Aristocats. Best damn joke ever.

10. Who is your favorite villain?

Bambi, damn fawn started Twitter.

11. What is your favorite Disney song?

It’s a Small World After All

12. What is your favorite Disney villian song?

It’s a Sphincter World After All

13. What is your favorite Disney animal song?

It’s a Smell World After All

14. What is your favorite Disney Princess song?

It’s a Syphilis World After All

15. What is your favorite Disney Prince song?

It’s a Scrotum World After All

16. What is your favorite Disney Prince/Princess duet song?

You’re The One That I Want – Donnie Osmun and Olivia-Newton John

17. What is your favorite Disney love song?

“He Ain’t a Hottie, He’s My Brother“

Fitovers Are Really Me

Published on February 26, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 7 Comments

I have two pairs of eyeglasses I use all the time. What a pain in the butt. If I wanted sunglasses, I would need three pairs, or maybe even four pairs!

  1. Trifocals most of the time
  2. Single vision lens for computer time
  3. Trifocal sunglasses
  4. Single vision sunglasses for golf (trying to decide which segment of a trifocal to keep on the ball is a challenge.)

I have transition trifocals now which darken when exposed to sunlight. Which are a pain when we are wandering around from shop to shop in and out and in and out. The lens either is too dark or not dark enough. And did you know that in cold weather, transition lenses get darker quicker and stay darker longer because of the cold?

Pain. In. The. Buttocks.

Guess what I got! Fitovers! Yup, sunglasses that are designed to fit over regular glasses. Get it? Fitovers… fit over?

And I  love ‘em.

I anticipated they would look like the freebie I get from the eye doc after I get my eyes dilated.

Not Really Me

When the chick from Fitovers asked me if I wanted to sample a pair, of course I jumped at the chance for a free sample. I didn’t care if they turned out to be ugly. I could get a post and maybe even a laugh wearing them someday. She said they don’t have any Steampunk styles – yet.

I love these Fitover sunglasses! Nancy does too…

Still Not Me

I am flabbergasted. They are stylish, well made, and affordable. I have the Razor Style in Gun Metal. (Insert Tim Allen grunts here.)

This is me

Fitovers come in a lot of different styles and colors for both men and women.

I’m retiring my transition lenses and using my new Fitovers. I think Nancy will be getting a pair too.  They are available in stores or online. (there is a chart to help you figure out the correct size to fit over your existing glasses.

10 Billionth iTunes Downloaded by Geezer Louie Sulcer

Published on February 26, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 7 Comments Tags: , , .



Geezers rule!

I love that the 10 Billionth iTunes music download was by a Geezer, Louie Sulcer.

The 10 billionth song, “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash, was downloaded by Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia. As the grand prize winner of Apple’s 10 Billion Songs Countdown contest, Louie will receive a $10,000  iTunes Gift Card.

Louie was unimpressed saying he can’t imagine who would need 10,000 songs. He is 71. When he got the call from Apple icon, Steve Jobs, he was skeptical.

“He was real nice, I told him I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed iTunes and the iPod. I really enjoy country music. He asked me if I played the guitar, and I said, ‘Oh my goodness. That is my life-long frustration.”

Sulcer did not bother to go on the Apple website to see what $10,000 can buy. He called his daughter in Mississippi to tell her the news and she asked him what he wanted.

“I said I don’t even want to look right now. I just went to bed,” he said.

UPDATE:

I can’t find the video, but it shows Louie sitting at his kitchen table in his recliner fiddling with his iPod Nano.  Cool. Steve Jobs introduced Louie to Johnny Cash’s daughter Rosanne Cash via telephone.

In case you are interested, here are the top 20 songs downloaded from iTunes since day one.

KY Senator Mitch McConnell Invites Beaker to Health Care Summit

Published on February 25, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 3 Comments Tags: , .

From OpenLeft

The senior Senator from Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, seems to have a new staffer to advise him on the health care reform bill.

Beaker.

‘Nuff said.

Funny:

“Let me just make this point, John, because we are not campaigning anymore,” Obama said.

“I’m reminded of that every day,” McCain shot back.

Things I Refuse To Do to Lose Weight

Published on February 25, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 5 Comments Tags: , , , .

Jack Sh*t, Gettin’ Fit gained a couple pounds. He whined about it in a post and then came back today talking himself out of his funk.

“That’s silly, Chicken Not-So-Little,” said Sh*tty-Witty calmly. “You’ve been doing so well just eating more sensibly and exercising a little more frequently. Why not just keep doing what you’ve been doing and trust that the numbers will work themselves out in the end?”

“That’s very sensible advice,” said Chicken Not-So-Little, and so she went home and continued doing what she had been doing, eating more sensibly and exercising a little more frequently.”

I’m in a cold weather-induced funk this week. I haven’t exercised at ALL. It’s just too damned cold to go outside, except to walk the one animal that won’t pee or poop in the backyard. This hardly qualifies as exercise.

When the weather gave us a break and temps got to 50+, I was an exercise maniac. I swam laps and did weight training five times a week.

But this week, all I want to do is huddle up. I miss my body fat when it comes to weeks like this. I was warmer with my fat body.

Jack Sh*t’s point was that it’s OK to have setbacks. Thanks Jack! I’m taking mine this week – or until the weather breaks, whichever comes first.

Even though Jack apparently doesn’t like official diets, I do. But I have drawn the line I won’t cross when it comes to losing weight.

  • No gadgets. Boy, those Tee Vee info-mercials sure make it look easy. And the people sure look good. Real good. I’ve come close, but so far, I haven’t succumbed to gadgetry to remove the poundage.

Heath_Robinson

  • No surgery. Lap-band surgery sure sound appealing – when I weighed 280. Not so much anymore. What an easy way to lose weight. You pay a crap-load of money to have a band tied around your guts to prevent food entering your stomach where it is then absorbed to make fat. If I wasn’t so damned cheap, I would have asked my doc about it. I qualified as being morbidly obese. Now I’m just overweight.

I’ve decided that having a gizmo attached to my tongue to make it hurt to eat wouldn’t be fun either.

The medical procedure involves stitching a small piece of polyethylene mesh onto a patient’s tongue, making it painful to ingest solid foods and forcing a low-calorie, liquid diet.

I like masticating and do it five times a day or more.

  • No Alli weight loss pills. (Ally Bank must love that they share a name with a weight-loss pill with gross side effects)

They include anal leakage, extreme diarrhea, sudden defecation, the need for adult diapers and dark pants, gas, bloating, vitamin deficiencies, etc.

I actually purchased the Alli and was ready to give it a go (literally) until I opened the box and really read all the side effects. There was no way – none – that I would even give “anal leakage” a shot.

Anal Leakage

So here I am. Just dieting and exercising. What everybody said is right: there is no easy way to lose weight without watching what you put in your face and then moving to get your body to 1. burn it off or 2. change it to muscle.

But I’m open to your suggestions. If you know of an easy and cheap way to lose weight that doesn’t involve surgery, is cheap, and doesn’t cause anal leakage, I’m your man.

Excuse me now, it’s time for me to masticate again.