The Tombstone Guy

I just came across a flyer from a show a saw about 10 years ago by photographer Robert Zott.  Laugh-out-loud photos of gravestones. “Shoot first, ask questions later.”

So many places to see!

create your own visited countries map

and I thought I had seen many places…only 6% of the world.

Ethiopian Idol

Hard to believe the Idol craze has even taken over Ethiopia.  The average family income per year is $400.  Who is watching this show?

 thanks, mom.

Just thinking

The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anais Nin

Manogue news

Kylie Manogue imitates Kylie Minogue. Feeling reluctant to admit any connection to this lineage… Although raising funds for breast cancer research is a good thing. Maybe if I told him about my heart disease plight he would create a show based on me and raise some funds for WomenHeart. Kylie Manogue imitates Dawn Manogue. Could be interesting.

spotted on Ghost of a flea, which I found by happy accident in a search for info on an ancestor. He’s a huge Kylie fan

The mind of a 4-year old

This was swiped from Caiterwauling, and I added the resident 4 year-old’s answers. She rarely fails to entertain.

This little quiz is supposed to test your mental agility/ability. See how you do.

1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator? The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.

Lily says: Well, since he is so tall, I’d have to bend his neck before I put him in. And take out the shelves in the fridge.

2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator? Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator? Wrong answer. Correct answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions.

Lily says: Humph. I’d have to squeeze him pretty small to fit with the giraffe. Maybe iron him. Then I could squish him in.

3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend…. except one. Which animal does not attend? Correct Answer: The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. You just put him in there. This tests your memory. Okay, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your true abilities.

Lily says: Unicorns of course. They are too magical.

4. There is a river your must cross, but it is used by crocodiles, and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it? Correct Answer: You jump into the river and swim across. Have you not been listening? All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.

Lily says: I’d fly over on a pegasus. Or use the crocodile’s head as stepping stones.

According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the professionals they tested got all questions wrong, but many preschoolers got several correct answers.

According to Lily, “those are silly questions.”

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Many of these are true for me

You Know You’re From Wisconsin When…

You can taste a difference in cheese made somewhere else You own at least one tie with a or peice of jewelry with a Green Bay Packer theme You can find and pronounce : Eau Claire, Oconomowoc, Menomonee Falls, Waukesha, and La Crosse, Fond du Lac. You can correctly spell Milwaukee. You know what “bubbler” means. At least one of your family members works / worked in a cheese factory. A holstein cow outside of Wisconsin makes you miss home. You can taste the difference between apples grown up north and the ones that you can buy in the south. When talking about the Green Bay Packers you refer to them as “we”. When the weather hits 0 degrees you decide that maybe it’s time to get out a jacket instead of a sweatshirt. The family gets together every week for fish fry at the local pub. You know what a brat is, and they’re at every outdoor event that your family has ever had. You know how to make a very good sled out of normal household items. Your love you outdoor pool because of how it doubles as an ice skating area during the winter. You can tell the difference between the smell of cow manure and pig manure. You have watched Fargo and not noticed an accent. You drive around with the air conditioning on until it hits 30 degrees, because it just was so darn hot outside. The local paper needs 6 pages to cover the Packers… in July! Your best shirt has a big letter G on it. You’ve said “Of course they’ll win. They’re God’s team.” You think it’s nice enough to swim when the temperature hits 50. You family owns a “winter car” while the “good one” sits in the garage from Nov-Apr. Your put ketchup on a charcoal grilled NY strip steak. You live in a house that has no front steps, yet the door is one yard above the ground. You think everyone from south of Madison has an accent. You can identify a Michigan accent. Down South to you means Chicago. Traveling coast to coast means going from Superior to Milwaukee. You can make sense out of the words “upnort” and “Trivers”. You have to go to Florida to get a tan in August. You consider Madison exotic. You can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, New London & Poland all in one afternoon. You can recognize someone from Illinois from their driving. You buy cat litter every winter, but you don’t own a cat. At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant or cannery. You know what to do with a Blatz. You don’t have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Bucky the Badger hangs on your Christmas tree even if you didn’t go to University of Wisconsinm Madison. You’re a member of the Polar Bear Club and proud of it. You can use the word “ya der hey” easily in a sentence You hear someone use the words “uff-dah” and you don’t immediately break into uncontrollable laughter. Your whole family wears green and gold to church on Sunday. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce. You know how to polka You own a cheesehead You have cow pharaphenilia around your house, including your pajama pants You know what a FIB is and can spot them a mile away. You think of the major four food groups as cheese, beer, brats and Jell-O salad with marshmallows. FFA was the most popular club in high school You have eaten a cow pie at the State Fair. There was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning Country Kitchen is the place to meet after the party You have ever seen or played in a “broom ball” game. You have ever partied at Summerfest, Festa Italiana, German Fest, Irish Fest, Oktoberfest, or all of the above. You or someone you know was a “Dairy Princess” at a county fair. You can’t be friends with a Vikings fan Your idea of diversity is having black, white, and brown cows. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Wisconsin.

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Turn off the TV!

A special report on the hurricane from a very angry squirrel. (There’s a lot of words coming out of the squirrel that you wouldn’t want your little kid to hear.)

Found at squirrel central: DRT