This evening I was standing outside, watching a thunderstorm go by, just north of my house. There were some kids outside, down the street. One of the neighbors came outside to smoke, and said people need to take their kids inside because it’s thundering. Yet she’s outside smoking a cigarette. I started to ask her if she knows what irony is…
FYI, I’m not a storm chaser, though I sometimes wish I were. I do like to take pictures of storms. This picture is one I took a while back. I keep hoping that tower will get struck sometime and I get a picture of it.
I usually don’t involve politics in the weekly caption contest, but with all that’s going on this week (i.e., national health care), I figured it’s a good time. So this week’s photo features President Barack Obama in a room full of people, and he’s giving a fist-bump to some other guy. Obviously Obama is agreeing with that guy, or at least trying to act cool, and the other people in the room appear to have mixed emotions about whatever is going on. It’s your job to write the caption for this picture.
The only rules are that you keep your comments clean, and make an attempt to be funny. I expect some of you will want to make a political rant about the new health care bill, and that’s fine, as long as you try to make it funny. This is a humor blog, not a political discussion forum.
(To see the other caption contests, click on the “Say What?” category in the sidebar.)
As you’ve probably heard, March Madness / the NCAA tournament for college basketball is underway. It can be fun to fill out your bracket and see how well you predict who wins what games. But I don’t keep up with it enough to know all the teams, so some of it would be just a blind guess for me. But there is a similar-style bracket that I would know more about: Meat Madness.
Meat Madness has a tournament-style bracket of 32 contenders. There are 4 regions: the “Red” Meat Region, the Poultry Region, and Pork Region, and the Seafood Region. Not every meat fits exactly into those categories, but it’s close enough. There are no rules on how to vote — you can base your vote on flavor, cost, convenience, whatever. Personally, I think flavor trumps all other considerations.
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The Pork Region is stacked! Bacon is favored (hence its #1 seed), but there’s some good challenges there. And in a way, it’s unfair to have steak be only one entry, because there are several different tasty varieties.
I didn’t create this (though I find myself wondering why I didn’t think of this first). Here’s the link to the original meat madness bracket so you can read their description of it, along with the comments to see how it played out. Ironically, ESPN came out with their own Meat Madness bracket a week after So Good did. ESPN’s has 64 seeds, but the article debates each one and tells you the winners without reader participation. Still, if you want to look at it, here’s the link.
I’d like to get a group of guys together to vote on this sometime to see what really does win. If that happens, I’ll let you know who wins. In the meantime, you can share your predictions with us in a comment. Who should win, and why?
One of my friends recently started a new Mexican restaurant, and I was given the opportunity to make suggestions for new food combinations, along with ideas for entertainment and promotions. I have some ideas, but I’d like to hear what things you’d like to have in a restaurant. I figure we don’t need to list the qualities that all restaurants should have, like cleanliness, affordability, tasty food, etc. But if you had the opportunity to add items to the menu, what would you choose? (For me, there needs to be more items with bacon and/or cheese dip added.)
If you have any good, innovative ideas, you can share them in a comment. Funny ideas are welcome, too. Let’s think outside the box. Surprise me.
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