30 July 2010

not tonight, i have a headache

i never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. and i never have figured out the whole venus and mars thing. i have never figured out why men think with their heads and women with their hearts.

 

for example: one evening last week, my girlfriend and i were getting into bed.

 

well, the passion started to heat up, and she eventually said “i don’t feel like it, i just want you to hold me.”

 

i said “what??!! what was that?!”

 

so she said the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear...

 

“you’re just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man.” she responded to my puzzled look by saying, “can’t you just love me for who i am and not what i do for you in the bedroom?”

 

realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, i went to sleep.

 

the very next day i opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. we went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. i walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. she couldn’t decide which one to take so i told her we’d just buy them all. she wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so i told her to get a pair for each outfit. we went onto the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. let me tell you...she was so excited. she must have thought i was one wave short of a shipwreck. i started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn’t even know how to play tennis. i think i threw her for a loop when i said, “that’s fine, honey.” she was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, “i think this is all dear, let’s go to the cashier.”

 

i could hardly contain myself when i calmly said, “no honey, i don’t feel like it.”

 

her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled “what????”

 

i then said, “honey! i just want you to hold this stuff for a while. you’re just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman.” and just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, i added, “why can’t you just love me for who i am and not for the things i buy you?”

 

apparently, i’m not getting any tonight either.

22 July 2010

the grammar nazis are coming!
the grammar nazis are coming!



peeve of the week: minus is not a verb.


minus is an adjective or adverb, preposition (or noun), meaning diminished by or less (or a negative quantity, in the case of a noun: minus-4 degrees).

if you deduct one number from another, you don't minus it! you subtract it or deduct it. 


in a mathematical equation, you diminish the first number by the second: 7 minus 4 is 3 (translation: 7 diminished by 4 is 3, or 4 deducted from 7 is 3).

16 July 2010

take me out. . .part deux




“He’s a human being and deserves to be honored.
That doesn’t mean we love him, but we respect him. 
There’s competition, but also decency.”




Bud Parrine, a Red Sox fan who saw Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio
play at Fenway Park in the 1940s, said before the game.
nytimes.com

we propose a new holiday for those
who boldly go
where no one has gone before

  1. take the letters NCC
  2. add their corresponding places in the alphabet (14+3+3=20)
  3. add the number 1701 to the tail end of 20
  4. the result is 201701, a star date.
  5. in yyyy.mm.dd format it would be written 2020.17.01

an official holiday commemorating the Starship Enterprise.

any takers?




14 July 2010

take me out to the great
baseball game in the sky


love him or hate him, you gotta respect him
and what he did for the game of baseball. . .
and for the Yankees


worth sharing. from nytimes.com

george steinbrenner
1930-2010

13 July 2010

it's about time


a potential cure for the appraisal blues



murphy's laws of gravity

murphy's first law of gravity:

  • you can't fall off the floor.

murphy's second law of gravity:

  • it takes children three years to learn murphy's first law of gravity