caption contest, people in field

This week’s caption contest features a number of leaders (like generals, admirals, colonels, etc) watching some people lined up in a field.  Are the people about to race, or are they planting or harvesting?   Or is something completely different going on?  No one knows, so you get to make it up.  (And to anyone who might get offended, remember this is just humor, so take a load off and lighten up.)

(To see our other caption contests, click on the “Say What?” category in the sidebar.)

Obama and the oil spill

I’m sure President Barack Obama thinks he’s completely competent to handle all situations as President of the United States, but his mishandling of the oil spill in the Gulf might prove beneficial to him.  Perhaps the oil spill was Obama’s crude awakening.  🙂

amazing trick shot by Roger Federer for Gillette ad

Here’s one of the latest trick shot videos to go viral — 4 million views in just 4 days.  Roger Federer, the greatest tennis player of all-time, is shooting an ad for Gillette, and he hits an incredible trick shot — twice.

Is it real?   A lot of people are debating that.  It’s hard to tell these days, especially when you have a commercial budget behind it, so CGI is a possibility.  But I think he really could do it, although not every time.  I remember seeing an exhibition match between Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick live in-person, and Roddick would sometimes request a serve to be hit in an exact spot across the court and Agassi could do it every time, even at the specified miles-per-hour (although the radar gun display could’ve been rigged).  Being professional athletes, they have hit tennis balls thousands of times a day in practice.

My serving in tennis isn’t quite as accurate, but if anyone would like to put a bottle on their head I’d try to knock it off with a serve.  We could even video it and put it online (though I get a few chances).  🙂

new ways to share posts you like

The Buffet o’ Blog Important* Administrator has now enabled some sharing tools for each post.  This is handy for when you read a funny post and would like to share it with your friends.  When you’re on the page for a particular post (i.e., not the home page), there’s a Share button below the post, and clicking on it will show options for sharing, such as e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, and a few others.   So now it’s easy to share a post with your friends.  And we would appreciate that.   Maybe they could use a little more laughter in their life, and perhaps this site could help them with that.  Think of it this way — a few clicks of the mouse (and perhaps a login if necessary) and you could help make the world a better place.  How easy is that?

* Of course I’m important, but since everyone trumpets their importance (like the Important Doctor, Important Evil Genius, Important Psychologist, Important Democrat, etc.), I figured I’d add that to my title.  Why not?

If any of you have any issues with this post, feel free to skip reading the rest of it.  🙂