Hope everyone had a great holiday season! Mine was terrific…. family, friends, food & fun! Speaking of that, a special thanks to Captain Dave Lausman, the Commanding Officer of the USS George Washington Nuclear Aircraft Carrier based in Japan, and his wife Carol. for the very special gifts! (I sent them a fruitcake so Dave can use it in case the GW has to go into battle against North Korea!)
And now on with the news…
STOP LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST!
If one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to stop using annoying words or phrases, Lake Superior State University in Michigan has some tips for you. They released their annual “Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness” list for 2010. Among the no-no-‘s: “man up”, “the American People”, “I’m just sayin’”, and “live life to the fullest”.
- It’s not that I disagree, I’m just sayin’ that I want to assure the American People that this year I will man-up and live life to the fullest!
A lot of internet phrases were banished as well, including “viral,” “epic”, “fail” and using “Google” and “Facebook” as verbs as in “Just Google it” or “I was Facebooking last night”.
- So now videos on YouTube won’t go “Viral”, they’ll go “Non-Bacterial”.
- But Googling is just so… Epic!
- Is it just me or does spending the night “Facebooking” sound like something that leaves you with chapped lips and a hickey?
I Don’t Think Santa’s Elves Made This Toy…
Carolee Bildsten of Illinois, made national headlines after she allegedly threatened to hit a police officer with a female sex toy when he was investigating a claim that she’d run out on a check at Joe’s Crab Shack. Last week she failed to show up for her arraignment so she was rearrested, forced to pay $10,000 bond, and will be back in court on the 14th.
- It’s a good thing she didn’t actually hit the police officer with the sex toy… being a woman she would have been able to do it multiple times.
- Ironically, when police pulled her over, she was listening to the Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” on her iTouch.
He Should Have Flown A Turk-ish Airline
Security guards at an airport in Wales confiscated a 10-lb. frozen turkey from a passenger’s carry-on luggage that he was taking home to his family for Christmas dinner. He said it’s impossible to buy a good turkey in Spain, but the guards told him it’s illegal to bring perishable food onto a jet without permission and took it away.
- Amazingly, even with the full-body scan nobody noticed the giblets in his pants.
Their Glass Is Always (at least) Half-Full…
TheDailyBeast.com did a survey to determine the drunkest city in America… and the winner is: Milwaukee.
- Detroit didn’t even make the top 40; then again the survey was taken before the Lions won their fourth game in a row!
- Los Angeles would have come in first, but Charlie Sheen was on vacation and Lindsay Lohan was in rehab at the time.
BTW…
Lindsay is scheduled to be sprung from the Betty Ford Clinic today.
- In her honor, the Homeland Security Department has upped today’s terror level by two notches.
Have a great day… and a great year! See you back here tomorrow!
- Dick