Monday, April 15, 2013Good morning crew,
Welcome to a whole new week, folks. For those of you who have been procrastinating, today is tax day, and coincidentally it is payday for me. Not that it makes a difference since I already filed, got my return and dropped about half of it in Las Vegas. So I am way ahead of schedule.
I did invest a good bit of coin this weekend on dinner and drinks. I was so impressed by the Hofbrauhaus in Las Vegas that I looked it up online and found that there is one in Chicago! So the wife and I recruited our Las Vegas co-conspirators and we went up there Saturday night. It was just as fun, but in my opinion the food was a little better in Vegas, which is surprising considering Chicago's reputation for excellent meats and sausages. But, the beer was just as good, and that went a long way toward ameliorating any negative impressions the food might have given.
We did have one or two other little adventures in Las Vegas, but I will fill you in on those tomorrow.
Laugh it up,
Joe
joe@gophercentral.comP.S.
EVTV1 is back and better than ever! This video portal was created to weed through the online clutter to bring you the best animal video clips...funniest videos...most popular...PLUS the most unusual. New videos are added daily!
***"A prop phaser gun from the Star Trek TV show recently sold for $231,000 at an auction ? making it the most expensive thing you can point at someone right before they beat the crap out of you." -Jimmy Fallon
***"Teachers at nine universities are using a new technology that can tell if students are actually reading their textbooks. Let me save you some time. They're not." -Jimmy Kimmel
***"A long list of celebrities and musicians have signed a letter to President Obama asking him to ease the nation's drug enforcement policy. Hollywood celebrities and musicians want the president to ease our drug laws ? it's always the people you least expect." -Jay Leno
***My daughter Michelle is the commander of a Coast Guard Cutter. When she gave my husband Bob a tour of her ship, he was impressed by the neatness of all decks.
However, when Bob went to Michelle's house with her, he couldn't believe the disorganization. "Why is everything in its place on your ship," he asked with his usual bluntness, "but your house is such a mess?"
"Because my house," Michelle said, "does not take 30-degree rolls."
*-------------- Guaranteed to Roll Your Eyes --------------*A park ranger in the Everglades was making his rounds a couple of summers ago when a woman came bolting out of the weeds right in front of his truck. She seemed frantic and he finally got her calm enough to say that her five- year-old son was sitting on the back of an alligator.
Now the ranger was frantic. Running in the direction she was pointing he found the lad astride a twelve foot male alligator which was trying to relieve itself of its load by twisting and snapping. As the brave ranger moved in he tried to console the mother by saying, "I think I can grab the boy and move away before the gator moves. Be ready to grab your son. I may have to shoot the gator."
To which the lady replies "Good Heavens, no! Don't shoot him. I just wanted you to make him hold still for a minute so I could take my son's picture on his back."