Funny Word of the Day.

Scrotum.

He he. Makes me laugh just saying it.

It's a crinkly, soft, stretchy bag that holds balls in case you didn't know.

Why I Blog

Since I've been tagged by Ellie from the blog "Hillbillys at Heart" apparently I've now got to explain why I blog. I'm a bit of an I.T. nerd and started a blog a few years ago when it was a bit of a novelty. I got bored quickly when the realisation hit that no one would ever read it. Why would they? No one would ever know it existed. So it died. Recently my wife started her own blog and started getting heaps of traffic because she is an active member of an online community and has the link to her blog in her signature. It also happens that she is a good writer and has a great sense of humour. This rekindled my interest in blogging.

So here we are...

Cartoon Characters Conceived While on an Acid Bender...

Please help me compile a list of cartoons or cartoon characters that were obviously invented while their creator was buzzing his/her tits off on hallucinogens.

So far I can think of:

* The Smurfs - Blue skinned freaks who's entire society has flourished with just ONE female. I think her name was "Loose Smurf".

* Tro Tro - Bizarre children's cartoon starring a really annoying mule.

* Boohbah - This has got to be the winner. If you watch this without wondering why it exists you are probably stoned.

More to follow...

Quote of the Day...

"You can't polish a turd".

Beloved saying of my father-in-law.

Used to describe anything or anyone with humble origins daring to reach (or retch) for the stars.

A perfect example would be Victoria Beckham AKA Posh Spice.

Quote of the Day...

"Thanks for farting on my ankle".

Said by my wife to our two year old who was playing horsie on his mothers leg at the time.

Klassy.

Bumper Stickers for the Real World - 1.

My other car is...

... equally shite.

I Like - DVB Web Scheduler Pro.

DVB Webscheduler is an insanely useful, ridiculously inexpensive Windows application that allows me to record TV programs from anywhere in the world through a web site hosted on my PC. Coupled with one or more TV capture cards like the cheap Leadtek DTV1000 T you have the perfect tool to record programs for viewing at a time of YOUR choosing.

There's even a free version!

As a friend of ours would say: "it rocks the nation".

Now if I could only get it to work properly in Ubuntu Linux I could piss Windows off totally.

When Did Teenage Boys Become Teenage Girls?

My wife and I have noticed an alarming fashion trend that is afflicting our adolescent males. They look like chicks. Many of them must spend ages every morning preening and primping their expensive hairstyles and assembling a collage of accessories to match their outfits. Outfits which seem to resemble a mashup of pirate gear (pantaloons for Christs sake!!!!) and items found in the wardrobe after the filming of a David Bowie music video in the early 1980's. They then top it all off by choosing the dumbest possible looking pair of sunglasses and the most colourful, gayest baseball cap tilted at EXACTLY 45 degrees.

And don't get me started on the girls!
The hooker look is back in style...

Cliché of the Day...

Tributes are flooding in

Whenever some famous bastard dies tributes apparently just start flooding in. Where are these tributes? Where do they come from and who's collecting them? Will we ever get to see them?

Does anybody even care?

I don't.

The Conversation Buzzard...

Recently my wife described an acquaintance of ours as a "conversation buzzard". This person hovers around the edges of other peoples conversations feeding off the scraps of jokes and ideas that have been contributed by everyone else.

Know anyone like that?

Cliché of the Day...

The Stolen Generation

Enough is enough... Seriously.

Cliché of the Day...

It was a game of two halves.

No shit Sherlock.

Unless, of course, it was a game of ice hockey...

Quote of the Day...

"Right, somebody's done a poo. Which one of you was it"?

My kids crap more than ANY farm animal. What's worse is that it usually smells like its erupted from Satan's own anus.