3 posts tagged “observations”

Actual conversation overheard in line on Thursday.  I am not making any of this up, including the choice phrases used:

Customer 1: Hey, isn't that the Treasury of State?  Greenstein or something?

Customer 2: Yeah.  But it's not Greenstein...it's Greenberg or something.

Customer 1: I dunno his name.  What's he doing on The View?

Customer 2: Didn't he get kicked out of office or something for some kind of scandal?

Customer 1: I think he resigned.  Some sort of thing with that girl who he got special favors from.

Customer 2: You mean like Clinton?

Customer 1: No, no.  Like he helped her get her position, that sort of thing.

Excuse me while I go hit my head against the wall a couple dozen times.  I'm afraid whatever they have might be catching, and I want to get rid of it before it gets me, too.

My wife works out regularly at the YMCA in town - sometimes she does the aerobics classes, but on the weekends she'll just go use the exercise machines.

Devil Flanders

Anyway, Saturday, while she was there on the elliptical machine, she noticed the song playing over the speakers was none other than Van Halen's Runnin' with the Devil.

We've got a pool going on which song she'll next hear at the YMCA that will evoke a similar sense of irony.  My vote is on AC/DC's Highway to Hell, my wife is going for Squirrel Nut Zippers' Hell.  Others we discussed but decided not to go with:

- Tenacious D's Tribute
- Sum 41's Hell Song
- Toadies' Hell Below, Stars Above
- Sting's St. Augustine in Hell
- Toadies' Little Sin
- Letters to Cleo's Demon Rock
- The Village People's YMCA

Devil Robot

Anyway, anyone else want to get in on the pool?  Feel free to take any of the above, or suggest your own.  I'll share the list with my wife and let you know if anyone ever "wins".

I've passed this guy a number of times on the way to/from work.  It's been hard to get a picture of him since he drives about 50-55 miles per hour on a road where everyone else is going 70-80.  I think if he goes any faster, his new window would blow away.  Even duct tape has its adhesion limits.

Ducttape

And for those of you that say "Wait, duct tape is not transparent, how well would it work as a window?"  It may not be apparent in this picture (sorry, best I could do while focusing on driving on the highway), but the duct tape is in strips that run from the middle of the car to the rear.  Each strip is independent of the rest, even though they sometimes adhere.  It's sort of like one big blowing net of duct tape.  If you peer closely (in real life, not in the picture), you can see into the car.  I imagine it would be fairly easy for someone inside the car to see out (much like looking through a window screen - the closer you are to it, the easier to see through it).  Much like a window screen, I would expect this replacement window would fare best when it is not raining.