Okay, I know what the cats are doing… but why does it seem the birds have teamed up with the black cat?

Filched from iOTW.

The Italian – throws the cup, breaks it, and walks away in a fit of rage.

The German – carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it and makes a new cup of coffee.

The Frenchman – takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee.

The Chinese – eats the fly and throws away the coffee.

The Russian – Drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge.

The Israeli - sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea, and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.

The Palestinian – blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the Chinese, the German and the Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give away his cup of tea to the Palestinian.

A good band name?

I don’t actually have a tapeworm. Trust me, ol’ Doc Cohen would know. The man’s been through all my hiways and byways; if anything like a worm existed within the various canals, I feel safe in assuming that he would have taken appropriate action.

But. What I do have is an imaginary tapeworm that I blame all my stomach troubles on. A scapegoat, as it were. His imaginary name is Donald and he speaks with an imaginary Scots accent when riled.

No, I have not been smoking Charlie Sheen’s fancy cigarettes.

I’m pretty much a slave to Donald’s various lusts but lately he’s been all about applesauce and cream of wheat. Beats me. Fortunately, along came a meme worthy of his attention:

Here are the rules: “Answer these 10 (I made it go to 11. Yes, it goes to 11) questions by typing your answer into Google image search. Take the number image that corresponds to your question number and use only that image to illustrate your answer. You don’t have to use images you find objectionable but otherwise you must use whatever image comes up, whether you think it makes sense or not. Post the questions and your image answers on your blog.”

Of course, I had to change the rules a bit – instead of just any images chose to use only Far Side comics. AND I left off question 3, for obvious reasons.

1. What was your first job?

2. What is your job now?

4. When you were a child, what was your favorite cartoon?

5. What genre of music do you listen to the most?

6. Where were you born?

7. Who is the first president you can actually remember being in office?

8. Where would you most like to visit that you haven’t been?

9. Describe in one word your first boyfriend/girlfriend.

10. What would you say to Barack Obama if you could only use five words or less?

11. What is your current favorite word?

Just for fun, there’s more after the jump.

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Stolen from LeeAnn…

In more positive news, this weekend is Key West’s Civil War Days. The very cool part is that an original Civil War infantry company, Company K, is one of the re-enactment groups:

“Truly this is a cosmopolitan company, it is composed of Yankees, Crackers, Conchs, Englishmen, Spaniards, Germans, Frenchmen, Italians, Poles, Irishmen, Swedes, Chinese, Portuguese, Brazilian, but all are good southern men. There are also Scotchmen, Welshmen and some half Indians, surely this is the greatest mixture of nations for a small company that I ever heard of.”

Sergeant Robert Watson
Company K of the Seventh Florida Infantry Regiment
23 February 1862

Located in central Florida, Company K is a reactivated Confederate Infantry Company that was originally formed in and around the Hillsborough County area and became a part of the Army of Tennessee.

As was true of the original company, we are a most exceedingly diverse group. A number of our members have Confederate ancestors and some have Union ancestors…a few have BOTH, and others have none. We come from all parts of the country…North and South. We count amongst us teachers, engineers, firefighters, law enforcement officers, practitioners of the medical arts, counselors and members of the Armed Forces of the United States, both active duty and retired.

It gets better: the Sergeant Robert Watson quoted on their website and above is Folly’s great-great-grandfather. I’m of a mind to join up once we get our finances in order and I can afford the equipment.

Hey, the original Company K had Yankees in it, so why not?

I was evidently playing The Sims 2 quite a bit when Barry took office, because I just ran across a folder on my hard drive full of ripe stuff that was posted on the last iteration of the site. It was just for fun, a pressure relief valve.

I’ve not done it with Sims 3 and won’t. Probably.

Oh, how wrong he was…

Hilarious! Leave it to the Onion!

I’ve been tasked with repairing, cleaning and painting a termite-infested booth in Key West, and it has gotten a tad boring. One day recently I saw an opportunity to alleviate the boredom that I couldn’t pass up. A defunct alarm bell on the outside eave of the booth was the inspiration.