Monday Musings

Every Monday stop by for jokes, links to stories you might have missed, amusing photos and video, and more. Contributions and suggestions are welcome and encouraged. Click on the "Email Me" link on the right to contribute.



Joke of the Week: Contributed by "D"



After the big Super Bowl party, Doug figured he better spend some quality time with his wife. He climbs upstairs, walks in the bedroom and crawls into bed.

"Alright honey," he says, "Give me a play you want me to run."

"How about foreplay?" his wife replies.

"What's the foreplay?" says Doug.

"You know," the wife says, "It happens before the two minute warning."




Stories You Might Have Missed


1. Uh oh. Study links binge drinking to learning trouble
(And not just recent binge drinking either. Read the examples of how it can manifest itself in your daily life years later. You may be saying "Uh oh" too.)


2. New slogan for the Blackhawks
(The real slogan is "Commit to the Indian." The Beachwood Reporter reveals the other slogans considered by the Blackhawks.)

3. Two white female CNN anchors joke about a reverse Oreo sandwich with black male CNN anchor

4. For those of you who think you can talk your way out of a ticket
(A woman in Tampa makes illegal U-turn to attend to vomiting three year old and gets a ticket anyway.)

5. Airline for German nudists
(You don't want to know how you qualify for seats in first class)





Video of the week: Just in time for Super Tuesday: Hillary's inner Tracy Flick. Contributed by "B"









Picture of the week: Just in time for Super Tuesday. A Hillary bumper sticker from my Republican friend "T"


















Reader Response

Regarding "Wacky Remedies"


"Just read your bit about putting Vick's vapo-rub on the feet when you're sick. It's because it has eucalyptus in it. When I got tired of running to the doctor for antibiotics, I took a cue from a co-worker who swore herbal remedies worked. Not convinced, I read up on everything with anti-viral/anti-bacterial properties in it, and saw many similar results come up, including but not limited to echinacea, ginger, horseradish, tea tree oil, and eucalyptus oil. Herbal remedies are also popular among serious yoga practitioners, and I was pretty into it at the time. Some of my reading about the body, exercise, health foods and remedies showed links to putting some of these anti-viral essential oils on the feet because it somehow allows quicker absorption into the blood stream, and therefore, to quicker recovery. (That is, you can't touch it to your skin alone, but just a few drops with a "carrier oil" or lots of lotion, or it will burn you.) I haven't taken a pharmaceutical antibiotic in a couple of years. Never would have thought an OTC product would be pure enough to be absorbed like an essential oil, though. I throw about 3 drops of it in my humidifier and the shower every day. You can get them for decent prices at Whole Foods. Neat, huh?"
--L


Regarding "Severance"

"I finished your book and would call it cynically brilliant! I was laughing out loud at points and couldn't get through it fast enough. Are you working on the screenplay? When I finished the book the first thing that popped into my head was that this would have been a great Robert Altman (too bad he's dead) movie with a bit part for Will Ferrell as the goofball son out in California."
--R