Fun Shirts – part III
August 13, 2009
Last batch, I promise!
(the one above is for Eric)
Source: http://www.snorgtees.com/
Fun Shirts – part II
August 10, 2009
I just couldn’t resist. There are just too many good ones!
The next two are, again, for Marjan:
Source: http://www.snorgtees.com/ (go buy one!)
Fun shirts
August 8, 2009
I found an amazing website (http://www.snorgtees.com/) that sells some pretty smart shirts. Check out some of my favourites:
The next one is for Marjan:
It seems like I am not the only one who has really been affected by the recent events in Iran. On the one hand, it’s great that so many people have been touched and inspired to act by these events. But, on the other hand, it doesn’t change the fact that they are, well, terrible.
And so today I went on YouTube therapy. I looked for anything I could find to boost my morale, and it worked! So I decided to share my top cheer-up videos of the day with you.
I don’t know what it is about human nature that makes us laugh at other people’s mistakes… But I’m glad we are weird in that way, since it gives us the blooper reels! Here are some Friends bloopers
And here are some from The Office, which proves that the most hilarious show ever can have even more hilarious bloopers (didn’t think that was possible, did you).
One of my favourite shows from back in the day was Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which came with some pretty hilarious bloopers – it’s really fun to see how these guys had so much fun even when they were messing up!
Oh bloopers – I just can’t get enough of them. Here are more from yet another great show, Seinfeld!
This is a hilarious video involving a toddler panicking over the ‘blood’ on his sibling’s face – although I have to admit that in this one, the father cracking up makes it even funnier!
Oh little Ethan, how happy you make me. You have probably all seen this clip, but it’s always worth watching again, and again, and perhaps one last time!
Earth Hour 2009!
March 28, 2009
An event that started small only a couple of years ago is now spread out all over the world! Earth Hour is about raising awareness; on Saturday, March 28th, at 20h30 local time, people around the world turned off their lights.
Here are a couple of pictures from the Earth Hour hosted by Sahar’s blog. A lot of fun, as evidenced by these amazing pictures! Thank you to our wonderful photographer!
Some people seemed a little startled at the feel of real cards, as opposed to those on their computer’s Solitaire!
We had forgotten how much fun a deck of cards could be! (My personal favorite picture of the evening)
Toasting Earth Hour 2009!
See you next year! 
Funny Boys in Paris aka Drôles de Mecs
March 8, 2009
Not your typical breakdancing… Plus an amazing background! Don’t miss out the origins of tectonik at 2:15 in the first video…
The Stella Awards
March 4, 2009
I don’t know if these are real – I haven’t had (or, arguably, taken) the time to check them out, but even if they aren’t, this is definitely worth a read!
For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald’s in New Mexico where she purchased the coffee. She took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. These are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S.
Here are the Stella’s for the past year:
7th Place: Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.
6th Place: Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn’t notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor’s hubcaps.
5th Place: Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn’t re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count ‘em, EIGHT, days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner’s insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish.
Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.
4th Place: Jerry Williams, of Little Rock , Arkansas , garnered 4th Place in the Stella’s when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor’s beagle – even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner’s fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.
3rd Place: Amber Carson of Lancaster , Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
2nd Place: Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000….oh, yeah, plus dental expenses.. Go figure.
1st Place: (May I have a fanfare played on 50 kazoos please) This year’s runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver’s seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich.. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner’s manual that she couldn’t actually leave the driver’s seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home..
A bit of silliness after a lot of reflection
February 6, 2009
After all the thinking I’ve been doing in recent weeks – as reflected in the topics of my posts – I have decided to only read things that were silly, funny, amusing and superficial today.
And look what I found! A post on a bunch of weird pillows. Any guesses as to which one(s) I’d want?
Obamania continues
January 28, 2009
All the serious thinking of the last couple of days has given me a bit of a headspin, so I’ve decided to take it a little easy today. So should you – if you have thought as hard as I have .
So here is a little something funny for today’s post.
Enjoy!
