December 11, 2005

Tis The Season

Fryday, 17 Conclusion 2005

Things to do:

- Laugh at this oldie but goodie that our good friend Snoot from the Great White North sent us the other day:

At dawn the telephone rings. "Hello, Senor Snoot? This is Ernesto the caretaker at your country house."

"Ah yes, Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?"

"Um, I am just calling to advise you, sir, that your parrot died"

"My parrot? Dead? The one that won the International competition?"

"Si, that's the one."

"That's a shame! I spent a small fortune on that bird. What did he die from?"

"From eating rotten meat."

"Rotten meat? Who fed him rotten meat?"

"Nobody senor. He ate the meat of one of the dead horses."

"Dead horse? What dead horse?"

"The thoroughbred, Mr. Lucky. He died from all that work pulling the water cart."

"Are you insane? What water cart?"

"The one we used to put out the fire."

"Good Lord! What fire are you talking about, man?"

"The one at the house! A candle fell and the curtains caught on fire."

"What the...!!! But there's electricity at the house!!!! What was the candle for?"

"For the funeral."!

"WHAT FUNERAL?!"

"Your wife's. She showed up last night out of the blue and I thought she was a thief, so I hit her with your new Tiger Woods Nike Driver*."

SILENCE....................

"Ernesto, if you broke that driver you're fired!"

You could vote in the 2005 Weblog Awards Category Central. Or send a donation to Wampum for the 2006 Koufax Awards and get ready to particpate in the nomination and voting process.

Tom Tomorrow gives us a useful holiday idea - send your Season's Greetings card to Falafel Boy today!

Try to find some extra time for any trips you might make in the metro Detroit area, as there is enough snow to cause problems for you if you're not paying close enough attention.

But above all, make some time to enjoy that which you might have available to you right now, and reflect upon the events which you have made it through over the past year.

It is quite possible that random holiday guerilla blogging may take place before the start of the calendar year**

* - TM Pajamas Media Open Sores Media OSMorgothical Whatever - the conservative propaganda source that got three and a half million to set up shop on the internets. Sorry, link not even worth google-bombing...

** - both Gregorian and Midling Calendar-wise. We should be updating that site soon, and as usual we're asking for you to consider buying one of our calendars. However, factoring the response so far in with our holiday schedule, this might not be taking place until next calendar year. On the third hand, stranger things have happened...

Posted by (: Tom :) at December 11, 2005 04:21 PM