Submitted by RaoulTGIF on Fri, 04/17/2015 - 15:09
SURVIVOR
I'm embarrassed to
admit this but I'm watching old episodes of Survivor. I only watched the
very first episode and then I didn't want to get hooked on it again. I
didn't even know it was still running. Is it? To my pleasant surprise,
a few of the seasons are available online. The beauty about watching it
this time around is there is no waiting for next week's episode.
I don't know. Maybe
I just love seeing desperate people go at each other's throats. It's Reality
TV at it's awful best.
Beyond the tragic
faces of the spoiled contestants, there is the beauty of the untapped
wildreness.
We humans are funny.
No matter how compassionate we think we are, we still relish seeing people
struggle to the death. We enjoy the twists and turns as human drama unfolds
... seeing alliances fray at the seams when opportunity knocks.
I don't have any earth-shattering message to share today. Except maybe
that I'm just like you. We've all got our guilty pleasures ... warts and
wrinkles. Some of us are better at hiding them. Some of us have learned
to overcome them. And some of us ... don't really think about it ... some
just go with the flow.
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Wisdom
from Naomi of N. Hollywood, CA
It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been
anywhere.
Thanks
to this week's winners:
Tom, Alan and Art of
Pasadena; Don of Kelowna; Rodney of Manitoba; Mike, Ernie and
Charlie of New York; Jody of Silver Lake.
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Sell
Your Golf Clubs Contributed by Don of Kelowna, B.C.

Jerry
decided to tie the knot with his long time girlfriend. One evening, after
the honeymoon, he was cleaning his golf shoes. His wife was standing there
watching him. After a long period of silence she finally speaks.

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"Honey,
I've been thinking, now that we are married I think it's time you
quit golfing. Maybe you should sell your golf clubs."
Jerry gets this
horrified look on his face.
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She says, "Darling,
what's wrong?"
For a
minute there you were sounding like my ex-wife.
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"Ex wife!?!?!"
she screams, "I didn't know you were married before!"
I wasn't!

Ooooooooo!
Engineer's
Conversion Table
Contributed by Alan of Pasadena. CA

- Ratio of an igloo's
circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
- 2000 pounds of
Chinese soup = Won ton
- 1 millionth of
a mouthwash = 1 microscope
- Time between slipping
on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

- Weight an evangelist
carries with God = 1 billigram
- Time it takes to
sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong
- 16.5 feet in the
Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

- Half of a large
intestine = 1 semicolon
- 1,000,000 aches
= 1 megahurtz

- Basic unit of laryngitis
= 1 hoarsepower
- Shortest distance
between two jokes = A straight line
- 453.6 graham crackers
= 1 pound cake
- 1 million-million
microphones = 1 megaphone
- 2 million bicycles
= 2 megacycles
- 365.25 days = 1
unicycle
- 2000 mockingbirds
= 2 kilomockingbirds

- 52 cards = 1 decacards
- 1 kilogram of falling
figs = 1 FigNewton
- 1000 milliliters
of wet socks = 1 literhosen
- 1 millionth of
a fish = 1 microfiche

- 1 trillion pins
= 1 terrapin
- 10 rations = 1
decoration
- 100 rations = 1
C-ration
- 2 monograms = 1
diagram
- 4 nickels = 2 paradigms
- 2.4 statute miles
of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital = 1 IV League
- 100 Senators =
Not 1 decision
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Videos
of the week:
An
App for protection
Contributed by Tom of Pasadena, CA
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Pretty handy app in times of trouble.
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The
Meta Picture
Contributed by Jody of Silverlake, Los Angeles, CA
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Jody said this website would appeal to both my inner
artist and humorist. She was right.
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Bob
Hope Christmas with the Troops Contributed
by Rodney of Manitoba, B.C.
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Bob
Hope left us on July 27, 2003 yet his
memory lives on especially in the hearts of the US troops he visited
every Christmas. I used to work in Burbank in the Toluca Lake area
and during lunch breaks my officemates would tour me around Bob's
neighborhood. The walls of his mansion were covered with vines.
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Andre
Rieu with 3 Year Old Violinist
Contributed by Ernie of New York
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This is a long but entertaining video. Hey, I know
some of you have all the time in the world and watch every single
post I send every Friday. This kid has the makings of a star. Here
he is at 5 years old.
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Golf
Fail Compilation
Contributed by Tom of Pasadena, CA
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Why oh why do people insist on playing this dangerous
game? There are days when I wish I could play this expensive escape
but when I see videos like this, I am content just where I am.
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Bullet
vs. Water Balloons
Contributed by Art of Pasadena, CA
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Okay, time for some science. How many water balloons
does it take to stop a bullet? The answer is between 1 and 10. This
is not a trick question. Understanding the velocity of a fired bullet
and the density of a water balloon, how many balloons will it go
through? I love the slow motion. FYI, I guessed too many.
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Selfie
Shoes
Contributed by Mike of New York
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This was an April Fool's Joke but I wasn't sure when
I got it the first time. SIlly me.
TGIF
people!
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Comments
Anonymous
Fri, 04/17/2015 - 17:49
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Bob Hope
I stayed the longest with the Bob Hope video. Just looking at the faces of those men in laughter and tears, so young, so vulnerable, fighting for their country ...... and Bob Hope gave his all for them..... his talents, his sincerity, his humanity. God bless America and its people!
Dette