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And anyone else who wants to play with a Virtual Drumkit.
A band called Brave Combo plays what they call ‘Kick Ass Polka’. I can’t make this stuff up people. You know you want to hear it.
It has occured to me that some of you may not know about Joel Veitch and Rathergood.com or as Joel likes to call it, “The Lair Of The Crab Of Ineffable Wisdom”. This is unacceptable. I’ve been following this guy for years and he is just great. I first saw his work here. But be warned, all of it is not that tame.
Here is a great bit of nostalgia. If you remember these, don’t tell anyone how old you are. Double dog dare you.
I’ve always loved the band Bachman Turner Overdrive. But they haven’t recorded anything in a long, long time, right? Wrong. They are in the studio right now. Would you like to hear one of their new songs? I thought so. Click on “Bonus Track”.
Guy flicks and chick flicks are two different things. And water is wet.
Now that I’m done stating the obvious, here is a guy flick.
An F-4 Phantom Jet Hitting A Concrete Wall At 500 MPH.
A new nurse listened while Dr. Blake was yelling, “Typhoid! Tetanus! Measles!”
The new nurse asked another nurse, “Why is he doing that?”
The other nurse replied, “Oh, he is the new doctor. He just likes to call the shots around here.”
A Russian couple were walking down the street in Moscow one night, when the man felt a drop hit his nose. “I
think it’s raining”, he said to his wife.
“No, that felt more like snow to me”, she replied.
“No, I’m sure it was just rain” he said.
Well, as these things go, they were about to have a major argument about whether it was raining or snowing.
Just then they saw a Communist Party official walking toward them.
“Let’s not fight about it”, the man said, “Let’s ask Comrade Rudolph whether it’s officially raining or
snowing”.
As the official approached, the man said, “Tell us, Comrade Rudolph, is it officially raining or snowing?”
“It’s raining, of course”, he replied, and walked on.
But the woman insisted: “I know that felt like snow!” to which the man quietly replied:
“Rudolph the Red, knows rain, dear”.
Marshmallow Bunny Survival Tests The name says it all.
Buttercouple Guess if couples are a match and see who your match is.
Most people assume WWJD is for “What would Jesus do?”. But the initials really have been changed to stand for “What would Jesus drive?”.
One theory is that Jesus would tool around in an old Plymouth because the Bible says, “God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden in a Fury”.
But in Psalm 83, the Almighty clearly owns a Pontiac and a Geo. The passage urges the Jesus to “pursue your enemies with your Tempest and terrify them with your Storm”.
Perhaps God favors Dodge pickup trucks, because Moses’ followers are warned not to go up a mountain “until the Ram’s horn sounds a long blast”.
Some scholars insist that Jesus drove a Honda but didn’t like to talk about it. As proof, they cite a verse in St. John’s gospel where Christ tells the crowd, “For I did not speak of my own Accord…”
Meanwhile, Moses rode an old British motorcycle, as evidenced by a Bible passage declaring that “the roar of Moses’ Triumph is heard in the hills”.
Joshua drove a Triumph sports car with a hole in its muffler: “Joshua’s Triumph was heard throughout the land”. And, following Jesus’ lead, the Apostles car pooled in a Honda… “The Apostles were in one Accord.”
The list below got me to thinking about life. Boy, how times have changed. In the days of yore a man’s children appreciated his bravery when he would defend the town from wild beasts or rival factions trying to invade and enslave the townspeople. Today, my kids think I’m brave because I drink tap water.
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms…WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL.
And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!
Thanks to TZ at Laffaday
An American journalist was stopped at a Russian Checkpoint
in the bullet-pocked suburb of Chechnya.
The Russian soldier said, “Get out of the car and open the
trunk!”
The American replied, “I’m sorry, but the handbrake on the car
is broken. I can’t take my foot off the brake or it’ll roll back
down the hill.”
So the Russian says, “Do you take me for a FOOL?!” as he slides
into the passenger seat, and stamps his big boot onto the brake
pedal.
“Now, go and open the trunk!”
So the journalist reluctantly complies with the soldiers request
and goes and opens the trunk of the car.
“Now”, shouts the Russian from inside the car, “Is there any
contraband in there?”
A new nurse listened while Dr. Blake was yelling, “Typhoid! Tetanus! Measles!”
The new nurse asked another nurse, “Why is he doing that?”
The other nurse replied, “Oh, he is the new doctor. He just likes to call the shots around here.”
A Russian couple were walking down the street in Moscow one night, when the man felt a drop hit his nose. “I
think it’s raining”, he said to his wife.
“No, that felt more like snow to me”, she replied.
“No, I’m sure it was just rain” he said.
Well, as these things go, they were about to have a major argument about whether it was raining or snowing.
Just then they saw a Communist Party official walking toward them.
“Let’s not fight about it”, the man said, “Let’s ask Comrade Rudolph whether it’s officially raining or
snowing”.
As the official approached, the man said, “Tell us, Comrade Rudolph, is it officially raining or snowing?”
“It’s raining, of course”, he replied, and walked on.
But the woman insisted: “I know that felt like snow!” to which the man quietly replied:
“Rudolph the Red, knows rain, dear”.
Marshmallow Bunny Survival Tests The name says it all.
Buttercouple Guess if couples are a match and see who your match is.
Most people assume WWJD is for “What would Jesus do?”. But the initials really have been changed to stand for “What would Jesus drive?”.
One theory is that Jesus would tool around in an old Plymouth because the Bible says, “God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden in a Fury”.
But in Psalm 83, the Almighty clearly owns a Pontiac and a Geo. The passage urges the Jesus to “pursue your enemies with your Tempest and terrify them with your Storm”.
Perhaps God favors Dodge pickup trucks, because Moses’ followers are warned not to go up a mountain “until the Ram’s horn sounds a long blast”.
Some scholars insist that Jesus drove a Honda but didn’t like to talk about it. As proof, they cite a verse in St. John’s gospel where Christ tells the crowd, “For I did not speak of my own Accord…”
Meanwhile, Moses rode an old British motorcycle, as evidenced by a Bible passage declaring that “the roar of Moses’ Triumph is heard in the hills”.
Joshua drove a Triumph sports car with a hole in its muffler: “Joshua’s Triumph was heard throughout the land”. And, following Jesus’ lead, the Apostles car pooled in a Honda… “The Apostles were in one Accord.”
The list below got me to thinking about life. Boy, how times have changed. In the days of yore a man’s children appreciated his bravery when he would defend the town from wild beasts or rival factions trying to invade and enslave the townspeople. Today, my kids think I’m brave because I drink tap water.
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms…WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL.
And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!
Thanks to TZ at Laffaday
An American journalist was stopped at a Russian Checkpoint
in the bullet-pocked suburb of Chechnya.
The Russian soldier said, “Get out of the car and open the
trunk!”
The American replied, “I’m sorry, but the handbrake on the car
is broken. I can’t take my foot off the brake or it’ll roll back
down the hill.”
So the Russian says, “Do you take me for a FOOL?!” as he slides
into the passenger seat, and stamps his big boot onto the brake
pedal.
“Now, go and open the trunk!”
So the journalist reluctantly complies with the soldiers request
and goes and opens the trunk of the car.
“Now”, shouts the Russian from inside the car, “Is there any
contraband in there?”
A new nurse listened while Dr. Blake was yelling, “Typhoid! Tetanus! Measles!”
The new nurse asked another nurse, “Why is he doing that?”
The other nurse replied, “Oh, he is the new doctor. He just likes to call the shots around here.”
A Russian couple were walking down the street in Moscow one night, when the man felt a drop hit his nose. “I
think it’s raining”, he said to his wife.
“No, that felt more like snow to me”, she replied.
“No, I’m sure it was just rain” he said.
Well, as these things go, they were about to have a major argument about whether it was raining or snowing.
Just then they saw a Communist Party official walking toward them.
“Let’s not fight about it”, the man said, “Let’s ask Comrade Rudolph whether it’s officially raining or
snowing”.
As the official approached, the man said, “Tell us, Comrade Rudolph, is it officially raining or snowing?”
“It’s raining, of course”, he replied, and walked on.
But the woman insisted: “I know that felt like snow!” to which the man quietly replied:
“Rudolph the Red, knows rain, dear”.
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