Old technology meets Jack Bauer

Sarah sent me this yesterday in light of my recent post on rotary phones. Hysterical! I love it. :D

24 Reasons to Love Jack Bauer

Sarah sent me this link. I like it sooo much that I am posting it here too. That's my Jack!

1. In 96 hours, Jack Bauer has killed 93 people and saved the world 4 times. What have you done with your life?
   
   
2. There have been no terrorist attacks in United States since Jack Bauer has appeared on television.
   
   
3. Jack Bauer teaches a course at Harvard entitled: "Time Management: Making the Most Out Of Each Day."
   
   
4. When Special Forces raided an afghan training camp, they found an empty camp and a pirated copy of 24 Season 4.
   
   
5. If everyone on "24" followed Jack Bauer's instructions, it would be called "12".
   
   
6. Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.
   
   
7. The 2007 budget for the US Military covers Jack Bauer, two pistols and four billion rounds of ammunition.
   
   
8. Jack Bauer once opened a can of whoop ass. All he found inside was a mirror.
   
   
9. When Jack Bauer ran out of ammo, he caught 3 bullets in his chest and used them to reload.
   
   
10. Some people see the glass as half full. Others see it as half empty. Jack Bauer see the glass as a deadly weapon.
    
    
11. When bad things happen to good people, its probably fate. When bad things happen to bad people, it's probably Jack Bauer.
    
    
12. Jack Bauer never retreats, he just attacks in the opposite direction.
    
    
13. Jack Bauer let himself be drugged, beaten, and captured inside a crate on a Chinese ship heading out of the USA with no way for help to find him. Now he has them right where we wants them.
    
    
14. Jack Bauer sleeps with a pillow under his gun.
    
    
15. 1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.
    
    
16. When Kim Bauer lost her virginity, Jack Bauer found it and put it back.
    
    
17. Superman is one of the few individuals who could possibly survive a confrontation with Jack Bauer. But that is only because he can fly away.
    
    
18. In order to control illegal immigration in the United States, the president installed cardboard cutouts of Jack Bauer along the US/Mexico border.
    
    
19. American Idol is only popular because it has a commercial for 24.
    
    
20. Osama bin Laden's recent proposal for truce is a direct result of him finding out that Jack Bauer is, in fact, still alive.
    
    
21. The city of Los Angeles once named a street after Jack Bauer in gratitude for his saving the city several times. They had to rename it after people kept dying when they tried to cross the street. No one crosses Jack Bauer and lives.
    
    
22. Jack Bauer once wrestled Superman. The stipulations were the loser had to wear his underwear on the outside of his pants.
    
    
23. . . . and on the seventh day Jack Bauer said, "I'll take it from here."
    
    
24. "You don't know Jack" is a blessing among terrorists.

Ahem - Who Called the Mango?

Linda from the MacDonald Clan sent me the link to this article about importing mangoes from India, specifically the Alphonso mango.

This is mango's moment. For the first time, India, the world's largest producer of the world's favorite fruit, has been granted access to the U.S. market. Best of all, it's the particularly coveted Alphonso variety that is on its way to grocers.

So be on the look out as mangoes are all the rage, as I predicted several weeks ago.

You know you're a milspouse when . . .

I have a new post up over at The Lemon Stand. Check it out.

I'm Not Really a Self-Help Nut

I've got a new post up over at The Lemon Stand. Check it out here.

Mango is the New Pomegranate

OK folks. I am predicting that mango is the pomegranate. Mango seems to be turning up everywhere here in the middle and I am predicting it will be THE flavor of the summer.

You heard it here first . . . maybe.

A Postcard to a Deployed Doggie Daddy

I posted over at the Lemon Stand about the postcard Moo and Bear sent to JD this morning. Check it out here.

Must Be Mocked UPDATED

Did anyone see President Bush dancing in the Rose Garden today with an African Dance group? He actually looked like one of his impersonators. Hilarious!

I just saw it on the NBC Nightly News.

If I weren't running out the door, I would venturing into the unknown (AKA You Tube) and find it. Maybe later.

Ciao!

UPDATE: Here's the link to You Tube! And I figured out how to put it in here! WOW!

Premiere of The REAL Wedding Crashers

Oh . . . this show is wrong on sooo many levels, but I just had to watch it, just like I said I would. Painful to those poor friends of the bride and groom. OUCH!!

You know you are a milspouse when . . .

. . . you see a guy in the car behind you combing his hair and you cannot remember the last time you saw a man comb his hair because your man's hair is too short for combing.

City Chickens??

The doggies and I were on our walk today in the park when standing in the shade of a large tree near a little pond of water was a chicken, black with white speckles and a red crest. An honest to God chicken. That has got to be the oddest animal I have seen in this urban park. I live in a city, a big city, where some of the biggest green spaces are the cemeteries dating back to the mid 1800s. But I suppose we got fox in our neighborhood from somewhere too. Maybe the fox came to get into the hen houses.

Stopcock!

I have a 12-year-old boy's sense of humor.

I think the word "stopcock" is funny.

I've been giggling all day as someone here at work is trying to order some.

Stopcock! hehehehe. *snicker*snort*

Dragon and Cat

This morning as I was putting on my shoes getting ready to head out the door, I was watching Dragon (Saturday morning Qubo cartoon that comes on right after Babar). Dragon found a cat on his door step. He had no idea what to do with it, but he took it in, named it Cat, and tried to take care of it. But that didn't go over so well. I mean really, what does a dragon know about taking care of a cat? Mailmouse suggested that in order to keep the odor of the yellow puddles the cat made, Dragon should get a litterbox. So Dragon and Cat went outside and gathered up all the litter they could find and put it in a box. But that only made the smell worse. I just about died laughing.

Did I hear that right?

In my Pilates refomer class, there is a heavy-set, black woman who is probably in her early 50s who stands about 5'2". I have probably exchanged about 10 words with this woman prior to tonight.

After class we started talking a bit as we put on our shoes. She asked me how long I had been doing this (the instructor told the class to look at me a few times for proper technique - how cool is that!?!) and we started talking more. I told her that it only gets harder as I learn the techniques better. Several of the exercises have you lying on your back with you knees bent in a table top position. She was commenting on how difficult that this position is. I agreed with her that it is especially difficult at first. Then she said . . .

"You know the only other time you have your legs up like that is during sex, not that I am having any. But you don't really think about your legs then, do you?"

Now I am not easy shocked or offended and I roll well with the punches so I did. And really is there any disagreeing with what she said? I don't think so.

Funny stuff

I heard this funny story yesterday on NPR about a car's GPS system, a talking system of course. I just about ran off the road laughing.