Posts Tagged Humour

Yet another case against teaching children to spell it like like it sounds (hooked on phonics). This was at a local dollar store nearby. If only 3 screws are missing missen , then its probably a good deal! ;)

disco style ;)

and just for the record, I had a burning permit  :P

Grilling in the rain, now that’s dedication! :)

I just can’t resist picking up these abandoned shopping lists in stores when I find them.

Alison rolls her eyes now when she sees me picking these things up and reading them. I think she’s more worried I am going to post one she’s made and put it on the site and make some kind of comment about the differences in the British and American english… I probably will ;)  lol

Anyway that’s for a later date. Today we went to WalMart to try and find a couple of things for the kitchen,  we didnt find what we were loking for but thtas another story too.  ;)

This list was just laying in the shopping cart we happened to take from the cart area so it was begging to pciked up and read anyway. Of course I obliged! It looks an interesting list really. Makes the mind wander a bit, just trying to decipher a few things that jump out. First being the $30 card-stamps… My guess is they are byuing a gift card and some postage stamps to give to someone? Maybe… Only thing that comes to my mind really. I suppose Walmamrt sells postage stamps too, I know our grocery store does. Guess I’ll never know for sure unless the author of this list sees it here and writes to me. Next item is simply “comb”. Short and sweet. Just makes me think this may be an older gentleman, not likely to be one to embellish things too much.. he simply wants a comb. Sounds like a clue that at least he has some hair left! And he needs a movie.. just 1 mind you, guess any movie will do huh? next to get from the list 2 AA batterys. well that should be batteries shouldn’t it? Not that  am the best at spelling sometimes either, just making note in case its pertinent.

heres a possible clue… Irish Spring Soap… this soap had its debut in the 70’s. Wonder if he/she has been using it all along?! They had some rather strange tv commercials I thought. Gave the impression all these folks from Ireland showered outside in a forest or something! lol well maybe he just likes feeling “fresh and clean as a whistle” (are whistles really that clean?? think about it! ;)

Ok hes got his movie and going to get his shower and comb his hair, then I guess he could be making a dip from the soup mix to have some nibbles while watching the movie maybe.

Now heres where my mind gets a bit scattered… scull cap… is this the herb or is it a misspelling of skull cap? Does Walmart even carry either of these products?? Ive not seen them if they do. maybe they mean a shower cap? the guy may be tring to protect what little bit of hair he may have left!

Ok the last line is Zac Brwon Band. I wasnt sure about this and had to look it up, its a country group. Havent heard of them really as I dont follow country too much really. seems they have a hit called Chicken Fried.  Not really something that I would be liking enough to write down on a shopping list, but thats what is great about music and the variety, something for everyone.

I really wish I could see and talk to some of these people who make these lists. That acull cap entry has me puzzled!

The prince and princess of Love

I wonder if they will let us use the palace if we dress up for our wedding?! lol

This was a pretty cool site with quite a few face cut out templates to insert your own photos. I should have spent a bit of time looking for a photo that matches the skin tones of the original photo a little better, looks like we were buried in sand up to our neck out in the Sahara or somewhere! I’m not used to seeing myself appearing to have any colour to me! Pasty white is my normal shade I think ;)

Give it a try, I’m sure you will find something here suitable to your tastes

Create your own FACEinHOLE

It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a rendition of Alice’s Restaurant

Enjoy

Alice’s Restaurant from http://bookmole.vox.com/
This song is called Alice’s Restaurant, and it’s about Alice, and the
restaurant, but Alice’s Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
that’s just the name of the song, and that’s why I called the song Alice’s
Restaurant.

(more…)

Did that draw your attention? In what way?  never mind I may soon find out from the Feedjit widget ;) and I might not want to know anyway!

Actually it’s on a shopping list I found today at the store. Working at a supermarket you find these lists left all over the store very often. I must have picked up hundreds over the years, it’s always interested me to read them , just to get a glimpse into the person writing them or just curious to see what people go to the store to buy. Not to mention sometimes these lists are written on some strange things, and some very common things too, the most popular medium in the summer time in a tourist area is a paper plate. ;)

I think I may turn these lists into a semi regular series of posts if I happen to come across some interesting ones. Well this one just caught my eye being on the bright green paper firstly and then reading the two items near the middle, ’soft for kitties’ and ‘hard for kitties’. Now I have to admit I didn’t have a clue at first read what it was referring to, well you know where my mind was ;) Then as Alison says , the penny dropped and I realised they were referring to cat food. LOL still makes me laugh though, I must have a recessed Beavis and Butthead gene somewhere in my DNA ;)

I just ut it in my pocket to scan it later when I got home and then I really sat down to analyze it. Now obviously the person(s) who wrote this have very high alcohol priorities. Wine has its own section , on top by the way, and not your cheap wines either, I really doubt they found any of them at the store, but we do carry a higher selection than most of the inland stores so I guess its possible. I only buy Jacobs Creek Cabernet Sauvignon so I don’t know what other types even exist! Yes I moved up years ago from MD 20/20 and Boone’s Farm :) anyway back to the list… next after wines… Beer! yet more alcohol.. Well they are on holiday most likely and why not have a good time. Oh there are going to get something to eat though.. Mussels! Ok sounds like the makings of a nice meal.. just add some Tang  and you will have… TANG? the stuff the astronauts drink/drank? well maybe they are having a healthy breakfast drink.. Or maybe its going to be used with the last item on the list, the Vodka! seems more likely to me, judging from the apparent like of alcohol  evident in this list. Well I’ve already commented on the next two items, the cat food. (God I’m praying that’s what they meant anyway, canned cat food and dried) then paper bowls and plates… ok a common purchase by tourists and most people this time of year, why waste any time washing dishes when you have wine to drink! and beer and Vodka…  Oh yes better get some bread too, always handy to have something to eat during your drunken revelry.. I’ll just assume the crab boil is for the mussels and its not some over the counter medical remedy! , hey you never know what happens when you drink too much in a strange place, you know? And last as I have said is Vodka. Well they wont find it sold in the supermarkets in Carolina. But I do see they have ABC by it so they are thinking to go to the ABC store anyway, still shows they’re not from Carolina as the ABC stores are closed Sunday statewide.

Wish I had scanned or kept some of those old ones I have found, there were ofte amusing notes written onth eside or phone numbers all sorts of odd things. Well i will keep an eye out now for any more of these abandoned lists and maybe turn it into a regular feature of the site, oh that sounds exciting .. sheesh  :-/ Hurry up USCIS and get our visa petition approved so Alsion can save me from this madness I am falling into!!!

Yes I know this is Independence Day but there is one Brit I wont ever lose my dependence upon, my beautiful bride, Alison Michelle! Happy 4th of July baby! :)

I can’t help but think that if the US had lost the Revolutionary War Alison and I would both be Brits and we wouldn’t be going mad waiting on this immigration and paperwork to get sorted! We’d likely already be together. well no doubt of that.

Well at least one or two things good came out of the US gaining independence, we dont have roundabouts or spotted dick! well not any that i know of anyway, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of a few cases ;)

And for those inclined to comment about the Union Jack on display, just know its not the first time I have posted it on the 4th, last years post was having a very special one included :)

Happy 4th of July everyone!

I was reading the news from some of the Cyrpus online newspapers this afternoon as I often do, just to keep up with things going on where my baby lives… for now ;) Well just a while ago I went to one of them, the Famagusta Gazette, and immediately one of the headlines grabbed my eye “Hospital needs help with dead bodies”!

Well I know its a serious story as I have read it, but I get amused sometimes to see the way the headlines are written and it struck me funny, yes I have a warped sense of humour :) . At first glance of the headline, I was thinking I definitely would want to avoid that particular hospital for any kind of treatment, or even to visit someone there! LOL  Well if that one didnt make me laugh, look a little farther up! Now I don’t know about you, but I wondered right away how in the world they got inside the foreigner’s nuts to find the drugs to begin with! LOL Well the story was of a man who was hiding drugs inside hazelnut shells, but of course the title is leading one to imagine something else. or maybe its just me. I had to laugh at the last line of the story itself too… “Drug squad officers said they had never seen drugs hidden in nuts before.” Well I can honestly say I havent either! LOL   I guess with the official language in Cyprus being Greek, sometimes the editors and proofreaders dont realise the way it sounds to immature Americanos like me! Well American news site make just as many, if not more, funny sounding headlines than these.