yesterday was a bad day. i'm just going to list two of the symptoms.
first of all, it was Saint Patrick's Day, and i ended up on campus without a single green article of clothing. if you know me you know that not wearing something green even at random is somewhat of a feat -- not one of my multiple pairs of green shoes, not one of my green ball caps, not even my green belt. no green from this little fish.
the second symptom requires some mental imaging: two giant spoonfuls of Life cereal through the nose (along with the rest of the cereal and milk that came out of my mouth). that's what i get for eating too fast and having a bit of a cough in the middle of gulping down the milk from my bowl. Life cereal is a little reluctant to leave your sinuses. cleanup wasn't the best.
Showing posts with label Silly Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silly Holidays. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Monday, July 07, 2008
¿Recreation?
a few years ago, some friends of mine informed me that the second week of july is "National Nude Recreation Week".
i just don't think that i have enough sunscreen.
happy holidays
i just don't think that i have enough sunscreen.
happy holidays
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Happy "If Pets Had Thumbs Day"
hey folks,
i just thought i'd wish you all a happy If Pets Had Thumbs Day.
the original art work is from www.toothpastefordinner.com, where you can find a huge archive of odd and funny doodles.
i just thought i'd wish you all a happy If Pets Had Thumbs Day.
the original art work is from www.toothpastefordinner.com, where you can find a huge archive of odd and funny doodles.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
(The Second Edition of) NEWS FROM MAMA DEB'S HOUSE OF PANCAKES AND INTERNATIONAL RELIEF
Ladies and gentlemen, devoted fans of the "deb green irregular"(referring to everyone's favorite newsletter, not deb green herself.) We, the faithful members of Mama Deb's House of Pancakes and International Relief (M.D.H.O.P.A.I.R.), have finally come to the arrival of another exciting newsletter.
Hopefully you all took some time out for National Peanut Day last September. Things were pretty busy in Mama Deb's kitchen and National Peanut Day wasn't given it's due share of respect or celebration. Oh well. National Peanut Month is less than three months away and March gives us 31 days in which to celebrate all things peanut.
Speaking of peanuts, due to recently acquired knowledge, several items including peanuts have found their place on the menu at M.D.H.O.P.A.I.R. becoming rather precarious. Apparently peanuts are seeds, and seeds have this peculiar habit of coming from ovaries. With this startling news making itself known, anything ovarian in nature now faces the risk of being stricken from the menu altogether. The test menu is looking rather bleak.
At first the menu was only slightly smaller, but as further connections were made to seeds and ovaries, a continually increasing number of items on the menu have been walking the plank. The BLT has been forced to become bacon wrapped in a lettuce leaf, no mayo (mayo is made with eggs after all) nor bread (flour is made from wheat, which is a grain, which just happens to be a SEED). The listing for the vegetarian menu has been reduced to a mere section title immediately followed by the rapidly shrinking desert menu. The breakfast menu is a nearing a total loss.
We cannot offer you eggs no matter what way you like them cooked. With the recent loss of flour, all of the pancakes, waffles, crepes, etc. have also been relieved of their breakfast duty for the time being. Our most popular breakfast item, the Super-Duper Breakfast Trough, has been reduced from eggs, breakfast potatoes, pancakes, waffles, toast, orange juice, milk, peaches with cottage cheese, two strips of bacon, and two sausage links (with the ever present side of peanuts and the option to sponsor an orphan child) has been reduced to the bacon, sausage, potatoes, milk and cottage cheese. We have tried a multiple of combinations, but no matter how we arrange the bacon on or in the cottage cheese it just doesn't present itself as a visually appealing dish. Mama Deb has even threatened to strike the potatoes from the menu although we are working hard to convince her that a potato is just a root, and that there aren't any seeds in the roots.
On brighter side, the time we are saving by having fewer items to choose from on the menu has given us a chance to beef up the brochures on sponsoring orphans; more reading material as you peruse the menu for the components of a meal. With the menu turmoil raging here on the home turf, there are somethings to still look forward too. Mama Deb has chosen to take leave of the troubles here at home, in exchange for the troubles of Uganda for the Christmas holidays. She will be given a chance to get over her fear of ovaries (please no Freudian psychological analysis of that topic) in exchange for more rational fears, such as her fear of sharks(feel free to enlist Freud here all that you want). Uganda does have a large body of water after all, and you never know when the next shark population is going to make that brave move to cross the African continent and take the fresh water option of settling down for retirement in Lake Victoria. Maybe by January we will be returning to the original menu.
Mama Deb attributes the reason for this trip to Africa to her need for a change of pace, but we here at Mama Deb's House of Pancakes and International Relief have our own ideas. Rumour has it that she is going back for a few more drum lessons. We all remember Mama Deb's last trip to Africa, where she gave away all of her belongings and only came home with all the drums she could carry, and the few other scattered photos and souvenirs that she stuffed in those drums. At least this time around, deb will get to put her drum lessons to immediate use as she plays for change in various locations on the London leg of her "Away From the USA" tour.
Then again, maybe she is just looking for a change of pace. She has begun the habit of referring to herself as deBORah, and occasionally THE deBORah. At least she has outgrown the "goose" phase.
Well, that is it for this update. We of M.D.H.O.P.A.I.R. thank you for your interest and hope for your continued subscription to the M.D.H.O.P.A.I.R. newsletter.
And no for a final word, here are a few links for those of you who are interested. This American Life produces some of the best radio programs ever made, most of which are readily available online:http://www.thisamericanlife.org
Here are a few links in connection with some of the topics covered in this edition of the M.D.H.O.P.A.I.R. newsletter. Hopefully you will have some time to check them out online. They are all free for your listening pleasure.
Babysitting - Deb is going back to the orphanage, and here are some very interesting stories on babysitting. If you don't have time for the whole program, you really should forward through to the last 25 minutes and hear the true story titled "Yes there IS baby". http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ra/175.ram
Kid Logic - ¿What would an orphanage be without children? This is one of our favorite programs of all time. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ra/188.ram
Music Lessons - when deb is not with the kids at the orphanage, she'll be honing up on those drumming skills. Here's a little homage to music lessons and some of the reasons why people take them. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ra/104.ram
Hopefully you all took some time out for National Peanut Day last September. Things were pretty busy in Mama Deb's kitchen and National Peanut Day wasn't given it's due share of respect or celebration. Oh well. National Peanut Month is less than three months away and March gives us 31 days in which to celebrate all things peanut.
Speaking of peanuts, due to recently acquired knowledge, several items including peanuts have found their place on the menu at M.D.H.O.P.A.I.R. becoming rather precarious. Apparently peanuts are seeds, and seeds have this peculiar habit of coming from ovaries. With this startling news making itself known, anything ovarian in nature now faces the risk of being stricken from the menu altogether. The test menu is looking rather bleak.
At first the menu was only slightly smaller, but as further connections were made to seeds and ovaries, a continually increasing number of items on the menu have been walking the plank. The BLT has been forced to become bacon wrapped in a lettuce leaf, no mayo (mayo is made with eggs after all) nor bread (flour is made from wheat, which is a grain, which just happens to be a SEED). The listing for the vegetarian menu has been reduced to a mere section title immediately followed by the rapidly shrinking desert menu. The breakfast menu is a nearing a total loss.
We cannot offer you eggs no matter what way you like them cooked. With the recent loss of flour, all of the pancakes, waffles, crepes, etc. have also been relieved of their breakfast duty for the time being. Our most popular breakfast item, the Super-Duper Breakfast Trough, has been reduced from eggs, breakfast potatoes, pancakes, waffles, toast, orange juice, milk, peaches with cottage cheese, two strips of bacon, and two sausage links (with the ever present side of peanuts and the option to sponsor an orphan child) has been reduced to the bacon, sausage, potatoes, milk and cottage cheese. We have tried a multiple of combinations, but no matter how we arrange the bacon on or in the cottage cheese it just doesn't present itself as a visually appealing dish. Mama Deb has even threatened to strike the potatoes from the menu although we are working hard to convince her that a potato is just a root, and that there aren't any seeds in the roots.
On brighter side, the time we are saving by having fewer items to choose from on the menu has given us a chance to beef up the brochures on sponsoring orphans; more reading material as you peruse the menu for the components of a meal. With the menu turmoil raging here on the home turf, there are somethings to still look forward too. Mama Deb has chosen to take leave of the troubles here at home, in exchange for the troubles of Uganda for the Christmas holidays. She will be given a chance to get over her fear of ovaries (please no Freudian psychological analysis of that topic) in exchange for more rational fears, such as her fear of sharks(feel free to enlist Freud here all that you want). Uganda does have a large body of water after all, and you never know when the next shark population is going to make that brave move to cross the African continent and take the fresh water option of settling down for retirement in Lake Victoria. Maybe by January we will be returning to the original menu.
Mama Deb attributes the reason for this trip to Africa to her need for a change of pace, but we here at Mama Deb's House of Pancakes and International Relief have our own ideas. Rumour has it that she is going back for a few more drum lessons. We all remember Mama Deb's last trip to Africa, where she gave away all of her belongings and only came home with all the drums she could carry, and the few other scattered photos and souvenirs that she stuffed in those drums. At least this time around, deb will get to put her drum lessons to immediate use as she plays for change in various locations on the London leg of her "Away From the USA" tour.
Then again, maybe she is just looking for a change of pace. She has begun the habit of referring to herself as deBORah, and occasionally THE deBORah. At least she has outgrown the "goose" phase.
Well, that is it for this update. We of M.D.H.O.P.A.I.R. thank you for your interest and hope for your continued subscription to the M.D.H.O.P.A.I.R. newsletter.
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for more information on peanuts or the Ugandan Children's Fund, please contact deb green at debgreen20@yahoo.com---------
And no for a final word, here are a few links for those of you who are interested. This American Life produces some of the best radio programs ever made, most of which are readily available online:http://www.thisamericanlife.org
Here are a few links in connection with some of the topics covered in this edition of the M.D.H.O.P.A.I.R. newsletter. Hopefully you will have some time to check them out online. They are all free for your listening pleasure.
Babysitting - Deb is going back to the orphanage, and here are some very interesting stories on babysitting. If you don't have time for the whole program, you really should forward through to the last 25 minutes and hear the true story titled "Yes there IS baby". http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ra/175.ram
Kid Logic - ¿What would an orphanage be without children? This is one of our favorite programs of all time. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ra/188.ram
Music Lessons - when deb is not with the kids at the orphanage, she'll be honing up on those drumming skills. Here's a little homage to music lessons and some of the reasons why people take them. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ra/104.ram
Monday, September 13, 2004
National Peanut Day & NEWS FROM MAMA DEB'S HOUSE OF PANCAKES AND INTERNATIONAL RELIEF
yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's that time of year; national peanut day is upon us again. i hope you are as excited as i am. i know this announcement is a little tardy, but there are still a few hours in which to celebrate all things peanut.
¿a PB&J for lunch?
¿a can of nuts for snacking?
¿spring rolls with peanut sauce?
¿cookies?
¿door to door peanut distribution?
¿a mr. peanut costume contest?
yes, the possibilities are astounding. good luck with your peanut day festivities. let me know if anything exciting is going on.
and in case you're not quite sure what i'm talking about, here's the newsletter from March 2003. (questions about NPD can be directed to me. questions about peanuts can be directed to debgreen20@yahoo.com.)
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Subject: peanuts in the news
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 16:35:04 -0700
NEWS FROM MAMA DEB'S HOUSE OF PANCAKES AND INTERNATIONAL RELIEF
Due to the recent confusion, a few things about peanuts need to be cleared up.Although this month (March) is National Peanut Month, National Peanut Day is not celebrated until the 13th of September. We here at Mama Deb's House of Pancakes and International Relief do consider ourselves fortunate that peanut appreciation is spread out so equidistantly throughout the year. Even with our enthusiasm for the peanut, we do recognize that there can be some confusion by having National Peanut Day and National Peanut Month separated from each other. The confusion is only compounded with other recognized dates. National Peanut Butter Day is January 24th, while National Peanut Butter Lover's Month is November and National Peanut Butter Lover's Day is March 1st. Add to this, National Peanut Brittle Day on January 26th, Peanut Butter and Jelly Day on April 2nd and National Nut day on October 22nd and the peanut confusion is nearly perfected.
We, the members of Mama Deb's House of Pancakes and International Relief, have been trying to find ways to clear up this confusion without diminishing the celebration of the peanut. Unfortunately our efforts have been in vain.
We have looked for historical events in the life of the peanut but so many of those are only tied to dates in the most ambiguous of ways. For instance, the birth date of George Washington Carver is unclear even as to the year, and the listings for the top 40 weren't so fastidiously calculated during the Civil War so there is no real way to know when "Goober Peas" first reached the top 10 on the pop charts. when we do have a definitive date, such as the establishment of the George Washington Carver National Monument on July 14, 1943 (located in Diamond, MO), the date does little to help us catalogue any of the recognized peanut days.
Our only hope in keeping these holidays straight is to send out this periodic newsletter, and our only consolation is that those who are in charge of determining these national dates of celebration are not exactly on top of things in the first place. For instance, both Do Something Nice Day (the 5th) and Evaluate Your Life Day (the 19th) have both been placed in October, the month that has been dedicated as National Sarcastic Month.
Does any part of that last arraingement seem wrong to any of you? Even National Peanut Month has been burdened with its share of oddities: If Pets Had Thumbs Day (the 3rd) and Something on a Stick Day (the 28th).
In spite of all this unrest, Mama Deb's House of Pancakes and International Relief hopes that you will find time to celebrate National Peanut Month and we are looking forward to celebrating National Peanut Day with you in September.
with warmest regards, Fish Boy Historian for the M.D.H.O.P.A.I.R.
p.s. -- Due to accusations of copy right infringement, Mama Deb's House of Pancakes and International Relief (a non-profit organization)may face the daunting task of selecting a new corporate name. Current suggestions for the replacement of the words "House of Pancakes" include: Waffle Barn, Flap-jack Shack, and Dry Toast Carport. Your opinion and suggestions are welcome.
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