a strange specialty tea

All of the staff here at Buffet o’ Blog enjoy drinking tea.  It is truly one of nature’s best beverages.  We normally don’t drink the different varieties, preferring Southern-style sweet iced tea.

However, while perusing a place’s selection of free tea bags for sampling, we found one that a certain reader here might enjoy.  It’s called “Orange & Spice Herb Tea”, but it’s what it’s made of that might make it interesting for a particular reader.  The ingredients are: “rose hips, spices, hibiscus flowers, orange peel, roasted chicory, natural orange flavors”.

To me, that doesn’t sound very appealing, being made of flowers and orange peels.  But some people have a special interest in flowers and tea, so they might be interested in trying this.

an expensive practical joke

The pitchers of the Chicago Cubs played a unique practical joke on their strength coach during spring training this year.  They totally destroyed his car!  They smashed the windows, punctured the roof, peeled up the trunk, and tied the doors closed.  They left some baseball bats and balls around the car, so he figured it was some of the pitchers.

They let him fume for a while, and he couldn’t figure out how to tell his wife about it, because it was her car.  But then the pitchers took him back to the parking lot and gave him the keys to a brand new Nissan Xterra SUV.

It seems wasteful to destroy a car like that, even if it needed to be replaced, because someone else might want it.  But I imagine the look on his face was priceless…  and I figure they had fun destroying his car…

add your own captions, pt 1

Today I’m going to add a new feature to the blog.  It’s called, “Say What?”  How it works is very simple.  I will post a picture, and you add the captions for it.  You can write from the perspective of the people in the photograph, or you can write as an announcer, or you can take any other point-of-view you can think of.  It’s that simple.  The only rule is to obey the language rules of the website — basically, keep it clean.

Let’s get started.

mess with mustard and pickles

a logic puzzle featuring Fab

Here’s a true story that doesn’t make sense until you figure something out, so it’s kinda like a logic puzzle.  It’s not too hard — I’m not gonna make you think too much on a Monday.  Ready?

One of our regular readers here, Fab, was out riding his bicycle one day, when he went by the airport.  There’s a road that runs parallel to the runway, and there was an aircraft taking off.  He decided to race it down the runway.  And he actually won!

I know, this seems confusing if you know Fab, because he isn’t the most swooft (swift) of athletes.  But it actually happened.  So the question is, how did he accomplish this?  Leave your guesses in the comments.