Arrested Development quote of the day 5-25-09
May 25, 2009
Michael: I thought Buster had everything under control. I thought you’ve been going in to the office.
Buster: Yes, and I’ve enjoyed that. It’s just that I was constantly being called to the phone, or I was asked a question, or I was resuscitated and it was really hard to get a good work flow going.
Top posts of the year
May 10, 2009
Today, May 10, 2009 marks the one year anniversary of my blog. Here are my top 10 posts of the year:
- 2008 Olympic Games
- USS Iowa aka “The Big Stick”
- Electrical Storm
- You’re the winner
- More phenomenal pictures of the electrical storm
- Wall-E and friends
- the Office quote of the day
- Rampage
- 9/11
- SNL Digital Short: Japanese Office
- (tie) the Office quote of the day 7-11-08*
*Top posts are based on number of views.
Happy Mother’s Day
May 10, 2009
Happy Mother’s Day Moms. You all make the world go ’round. Thank you.
My Mom used to keep this poem on the fridge. I love it.
When God Created Mothers
When the Good Lord was creating mothers He was into His sixth day of “overtime” when the angel appeared and said, “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on this one.” And the Lord said, “Have you read the spec on this order?”
She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 movable parts… all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands.
The angel shook her head slowly and said, “Six pairs of hand…. No way!”
“It’s not the hands that are causing me problems” said the Lord. “It’s the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have.”
“That’s on the standard model?” asked the angel.The Lord nodded. “One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, ‘‘What are you kids doing in there?’ when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn’t but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can without so much as uttering a word.”
“Lord”, said the angel touching His sleeve gently, “Come to bed. Tomorrow….”
“I can’t,” said the Lord, “I’m so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick…Can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger…And can get a nine-year-old to stand under a shower.”
The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. “It’s too soft,” she sighed.
“But tough!” said the Lord excitedly. ” You cannot imagine what this mother can do endure.”
“Can it think?”
“Not only think, but it can reason and compromise,” said the Creator.
Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek. “There’s a leak,” she pronounced.
“I told You You were trying to put too much into this model.”
“It’s not a leak,” said the Lord, ” It’s a tear.”
“What’s it for?”
“It’s for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness and pride.”
“You are a genius!” said the angel.
The Lord looked somber. “I didn’t put it there.”
Erma Bombeck
Kentucky Derby 135
May 4, 2009
I was in Louisville, Kentucky this past Saturday. I didn’t make it to the Derby, but I did partake in the action. I just read my friend’s blog – now only if I read her post before the race, I could be doing pretty well. She picked the #8 horse, Mine That Bird. Check out her blog post.
I can’t believe the 51-1 shot pulled it out. What a great story. Mine That Bird cost $9,500 compared to the price of Dunkirk, $3.7 million. Mine That Bird traveled all the way from New Mexico to be in the Derby. He stole the show. Indeed.
(photo by: Michael Hayman, The Courier-Journal, May 2, 2009)
