September 2008
3 posts
August 2008
22 posts
Staycation- taking time off and staying at home to save money on travel costs.
“sometimes the path to clarity is the longest”
– PYT aka Peter
My choice for best TV series mashup
Nancy Botwin (Weeds) and Don Draper (Mad Men) meet each other for a story of two people with no filter, few morals and a whole lot of messing around behind one another’s backs.
(yeah, Mad Men is on my mind. I just watched episode 7 of the first series)
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a Hoax: Planet Mars Visible?
My Mars expert friend, who works at NASA has informed me that this blog & email thread is a hoax … sorry guys :(
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/19/mars-as-big-as-the-moon-its-baaaaack/
rockuboff:
superdoofus-stratodrive:somethingmeaningful:lissak06:
*Two moons on 27 August 2008* *27th August this year is the Whole World is waiting for……….* Planet Mars will...
“murketing n. A form or marketing where the product or service is not mentioned...”
– Word Spy
“The reward of choosing joy is joy itself.”
– Henri Nouwen
July 2008
35 posts
My name comes from a low budget song and comedy show circa 1990 that played at the Performing Arts Center in Walnut Creek, CA. The show was called “Big Fun with John C. Haithcock.” My friends and I loved that it could also be Big ____ with John C. Haithfun.”
gooneruk: Where does your Tumblr name come from?
“this beats the plants off of the asparagus festival in Sacramento” - overheard at Gilroy Garlic festival
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A chat with my friend who works at NASA
Scott: I work in an old hanger so it’s not really fancy like a lot of private companies. The rest rooms were obviously designed for military personnel. Scott: The urinals intimidate me Paula: well, at least you have that very handy Army experience Scott: I think this restroom may have once been referred to as a latrine. Designed for use by air men in full combat gear, maybe. Paula: yikes...
“Short people ( or was it smart people?) don’t touch!” - gentleman at Filoli to his children
Three letter acronyms have gone too far.
Some one discovered the abbreviation RBT in a document at work, proceeded to ask everyone here what it meant and no-one knows. I think we’ve officially gone too far with the TLAs. (three letter acronyms). A search reveals it could mean any of these 13 things:
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/RBT
Father Busty! Help us with our mojo!
-overheard at a client meeting
Overheard at the Piehole Table: part 2
1. You’re totally guarding the piehole.
2. There is no sentence that uses the term “piehole” that doesn’t sound nasty.
3. Oh, wait. What if you get it in your own piehole? Dude, that’s like a touchback.
4. That may have been the closest ever. No, one time it “rimmed.”
5. Chill-ax, don’t do it.
6. Parker Posey, love her. She’s a...