Monday, March 30, 2009

Talking to Food: Don'ts and Don'ts

Never ask a half-baked potato for advice.

Never tell scrambled eggs to pull themselves together.

Never bother trying to interrogate a hard-boiled egg.

Never encourage a hot dog. Same goes for a ham.

Never say ''I'm toast" in the presence of toast.

Never taunt orange roughy.

Never say anything to skimmed milk, or associate with it in any way.

Never hit up a cupcake for money. You'll feel guilty afterward.

Never (ever!) agree to let bacon take you home.

Never get into an argument with rhubarb pie.

Never give Spam your e-mail address.

Never ask a tossed salad if it's OK. It is.

Never ask a cured fish about its past unless you're close friends.

Never be sardonic with sardines. (It’s OK to be sardinic.)

Never ask an English muffin if it likes soccer. ("It's called football, you berk!")

Never ask corn if it knows a good joke.

Never ask salt why no one's ever heard of Sgt. Salt's Lonely Hearts Club Band. You'd be rubbing pepper into its wounds.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Professional Baseball Player or Hobo King/Queen?

Colorado Rocky 
Tampa Bay Ray 
El Paso Kid 
Reno Ace 
Florida Marlin 
New York Slim 
Iowa Blackie 
Cedar Rapids Kernel 
Frisco Jack 
Minneapolis Jewel 
Philadelphia Phillie 
Bakersfield Blaze 
State College Spike 
Washington Nat 
Burlington Bee San Diego Padre Ohio Ned Bowling Green Hot Rod Connecticut Shorty Birmingham Baron Kansas City Royal Arizona Bill Minnesota Fats New York Maggie Tennessee Smoky Los Angeles Angel of Anaheim Answer: All are professional baseball team members, except ... Hobo Kings: El Paso Kid (1989); New York Slim (1998); Iowa Blackie (1993); Frisco Jack (1985); Ohio Ned (1991); Arizona Bill (1958) Hobo Queens: Minneapolis Jewel (1986, 1991, 1997); Connecticut Shorty (1992); New York Maggie (1994) Minneapolis Jewel (2011, 2017).. and that guy I crossed out. Sources: http://www.hobo.com/kings1.htm http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/homepage/narrowband.jsp http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/index.jsp

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Plays Written by a Roomful of Monkeys with Typewriters

The Two Bananas of Verona

Banana for Banana

The Comedy of Bananas

Much Ado About Nothing (Except Bananas)

Love’s Bananas Lost

The Merry Wives of Bananaville

A Midsummer Night’s Banana

Banan(As) You Like It

Twelfth Banana or What You Peel

The Banana’s Tale

The Two Noble Bananas

Banana VIII

Bananalanus

Titus Bananicus

Romeo and Juliet and Bananas

MacBanana

Zippy of Athens (Lover of Bananas)

Bananas Go Hamlet

Obanano

Banana Caeser

All’s Well That Ends Banana

Monday, March 16, 2009

Names The Lone Ranger Considered Adopting Before He Became Officially Known as The Lone Ranger

The Solitary Sheriff 

The Isolated Marshal 

The Socially Withdrawn Lawman 

The Highly Independent Peace Officer

The Reclusive Regulator

The Emo Constable

The Wallflower Vigilante 

The Keeps-to-Himself Nemesis of Evil

The Sui Generis Peacemaker

The Masked Guy

The Discipliner

Goldfinger Silverfinger 

Paladin

Hi-Yo Man

Kemosabe Bobbie

Klinton Spilsbury

Thursday, March 5, 2009

To-do List for the Space Alien's Last Week on Earth

Sweep up around Stonehenge.

Store up on spackle (Yum!) for the long trip home.

Abduct at least one Earthling so as not to disappoint the rest of them (jk!).

Pay final respects to Chuck Berry. (Thanks for the invite, Chuck!)

Drop off E.T. (the movie) at the Roswell Public Library.

De-woof warp drive.

Pick up toy for Kitty that will keep her occupied on the trip home—perhaps that joke-of-a-neighbor Pritchard’s new Buick.

Assemble data from my observations of the goings-on at Kitt Observatory. (Is this an example of what Earthlings call irony? Decades on earth and I’m still not sure.)

Call Allplanet and adjust deductible.

Infiltrate MasterCard offices and flash a few people MIB-style.

Throw paint on the Tardis

Leave key under the mat for IG-88.

Monday, March 2, 2009

The Franz List


Franz opened a beauty salon in the international terminal at the airport. He called it “Hair Franz.”


If Dennis Franz and Jim Nabors had moved in next door to each other, it wouldn’t have changed anything. They were always Franz and Nabors.

My dentist Franz thinks he used to be on NYPD Blue.

Bill Franz has an enormous beer belly; so naturally everyone calls him Bill “The Island of Lager“ Franz.

Nice potted palm Franz!

Franz Sisco is a real party pooper; so parties are always more fun sans Franz Sisco.

The Franz! Aaay!