Cherry Flavored Cherries?

Admittedly, I am confused pretty easily. Not so much as the common deer-stuck-in-headlights kind of confused – but close.

I stumbled upon these little gems in the grocery store the other day. Suddenly I was confused.

A pie comes in a variety of flavors. Apple, pecan, lemon, and yes, even cherry. But cherries do not come in a multitude of flavors. They come in…ummm….cherry.

So what gives and where will this end?

You can’t have bacon stuffed bacon (trust me, I have looked).

There is no Kool-Aid flavored soda.

You can’t have apple stuffed apples.

And you can’t have cherries that taste like pie.

Pie is useless without help…

You can’t have pie flavored anything without the actual fillers.

I think “pie” has been riding this lofty wave long enough. It is time that someone calls pie out for what it actually is…a big hunk of dough whose only use is to hold together something yummy.

No one asks for “more pie but hold the filing please.” It just doesn’t happen.

Matter of fact, I have seen many a people leave extra pie bits on the plate – that almost never happens with the filling.

Nope…this makes no sense to me.

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Do these shorts make my suitcase look big?

Good thing my swim shorts have a label that says “packable.” – I really was at a loss on how to bring them along on vacation!

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Wild Caught Langostino

Good thing they are “wild caught.” I never would have considered any Langostinos that were farm raised in captivity!

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No One Cares What I Had For Lunch

Ok, sorry for the hiatus in posts. The fact is, no one cares what I had for lunch.

Actually, I took the last two weeks to ride across the country on my Harley. It was a great trip despite a heat wave.

Certainly there were plenty of odd observations I made while traveling through the “core” part of America. Needless to say some of those observations may become posts in the future while others probably will not.

Here are a couple of things seen on billboards and signs that will probably not make their own post.

BazillionAutos.com – Over 2,000 cars listed!

Do NOT make a Baby Shake! (I think they meant not to shake your baby, but either is good advice).

Patio Furniture on Sale – see inside!

Show me the Birth Certificate (enough already)

Baby hanging Station (someone removed the “c”)

“Quality is our Best Asset” (on a broken billboard).

If remember the others, I will just add them here.

As for lunch: Subway, Buffalo Burgers, Pizza, Salad, Steak, M&M’s, Chicken, Brats, Chips, Heath Bar, Almonds, and Diet Pepsi (not all in one sitting mind you).

See, told you no one cared what I had for lunch :)




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Man Stabbed With Pen At Comic-Con. Is That All You Got?

What? Is that all you got?

Forget what caused the battle in the first place (an argument over whether one was sitting too close to the other). One thing led to another and well, one guy stabs the other guy with a pen and is hauled off by police.

What a missed opportunity!

I mean this could have been a great reenactment of the bar scene in Star Wars!

No lightsaber or photon death ray? What about some vaporizer you have been working on in your mother’s basement for the last 10 years as kids threw snowballs at you – always knowing one day you would have your revenge?

You could have stabbed him with some “hi-tech” pen only found in Bruce Wayne’s cave. Or an invisible pen that you developed as a recluse on some island prison somewhere.

Sheesh, center stage at the big comic convention with Stan Lee probably ready to write a comic about you…and this is what you come with?

Damn, it was probably just a free hotel pen as well.

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Pending Alien Invasion

Special shout out to the Aliens attacking Earth in two weeks. “gande ooka mu pilfor” (and remember our deal about Hawaii). Oooops, I may have already said too much…

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Glenn Beck Going Blind or Just Another Stunt?

Whether it is crying on cue or making up stuff about a politician, Glenn Beck knows one thing. To stay in the spotlight you need to be part Jerry Springer, part circus performer, and part salesman.

Glenn Beck says he might be going blind. The Fox News host told an audience in Salt Lake City Saturday that he’s been having trouble focusing his eyes, and a doctor said he has macular dystrophy. Prognosis unclear.

I used to think Beck had some decent ideas (his last decent book was An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems).

Now, of course, he has just gone off the deep end, trying to create a mob mentality that will spend more time finger pointing than they will looking for ideas.

I fully expect Beck to come up with “My eyes are going because they can’t stand to see America being destroyed.” or something to that effect. If he really is/does lose his eyesight, that would be unfortunate, even for someone that spends most of his time wishing demise on other people.

In the end Beck is not unlike every other person in that spotlight. They discovered it is much easier to shoot at others than it is to look for solutions. If the other camp doesn’t have enough dirt on it…just make crap up – most people will never look for facts anyway.

I think adults during my childhood were right. It is too much television – regardless of which side of the screen you are on. At least that is the way I see it…

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