Cuppacafe

Yeah, yeah, I know that it is Walt who usually posts these random bits of silliness here, but he’s apparently out getting drilled and I just had so many things come across my virtual desk today that I had to jump into the fray:

First up, 100 day in: Want to know why we measure a Presidency by his first 100 days? me too, so I looked it up. Apparently, Fair or not, the first 100 days of all new presidents are compared to those of FDR.

Setting priorities for his first term in 1933 was easy for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He had to save America from economic ruin. He had to at least begin to pull us out of our Great Depression. He did, and he did it during his "first hundred days."

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You Swine!: I just learned that they discovered the “Patient Zero” for the Swine Flu.

Pucker up!

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You Swine! Part Duce: Anyone out there got Gene Wilder’s number? (Tell me you’ve seen Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask). I’m not entirely sure what to make of this, but, well, here it is...

She oinks, snuffles in a trough and has a fetching set of trotters.

But it's not just her tail that's curly.

Elizabeth the pig wears a golden fleece that could pull the wool over enough eyes to make her the pride of the flock.

OK, the image has been photoshopped, but it wasn’t me. I swear! It was this guy.

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Rocks in his box!: Yep that’s what this Florida teen found when he opened his new Nintendo DS (that he bouthg from Wal-Mart).

Florida teen finds rocks in Nintendo DS box: According to WTSP-TV, the confused teen opened up his gift only to find bunch of stones and a rolled up Chinese newspaper in place of the popular handheld.

When his mom contacted Wal-Mart they initially said it wasn’t their problem,and sent the woman to Sony, which also told her to pound sand with a rake. Needless to say, Wal-Mart ultimately blinked, and gave the woman a working DS. Apparently they learned that the same box of rocks had been previously returned by another disgruntled customer.

The story goes on to say that earlier this month, a PSP system bought at a different Wal-Mart store in Florida was found to contain a memory stick filled with pornographic images. (Personally I’m not certain I would have returned that one.)

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One for the Gipper!: Almost forgot this one. It is for Walt. I read this in a recent Entertainment Weekly. The book Laura Rider’s Masterpiece (Jane Hamilton) is a book where the protagonist — an aspiring romance writer — stops having sex with her husband, then arranges for him to have a mistress so she and observe and write about the affair.

Sound like anyone we know?

Walt?

Alison?

Anyone?

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Well, I’m done for today, especially as I’ve got a bottle of tequila and a six-pack of Iron City chillin’ here in the fridge. So I’ll move on to whatever is next and come back for more tomorrow.

Ciao y’all!

The Perfessor