William Tell Overture for Moms

Watch this at Yahoo! Video.

She sounds just like my mom did.

More humor

Courtesy of Dane101

Good afternoon from Dane101’s Department of Better Living! We’ve put together some quirky, funny, and/or just plain bizarre links to brighten up your lazy Sunday. Click on each description for a laugh (or WTF?! moment)

I saw the picture and read one item and knew I had to link.

You don’t say!

Couch-potato culture may cut our lives short.

What was reflected in Dick Cheney’s sunglasses?

The internet has been all atwitter over a picture of Dick Cheney that supposed shows a reflection of a naked woman. Although some have guessed at the truth, Aaron gives us the real answer.

MRQ is up

At Real Debate Wisconsin

Also no Waukesha Carnival this week. I just didn’t have time. The good news is I can see the floor of my office again.

Maybe they didn’t get a chance in February

An ad on page 5A in Monday’s Waukesha Freeman. Notice the first line.

A bad week for ingenuity

Using torch to clear snow, he sets shed on fire

A man using a torch to clear snow in front of a garage door accidentally set fire to a shed on Sunday afternoon, causing $20,000 in damage.

The fire occurred at 2:26 p.m. Sunday at 1751 S. Broadway. No one was injured. Several people were standing outside.

Let’s hear it again for Wisconsin.

Chuckle of the day

Stolen from Mixter’s Mix, proving conservatives and liberals can agree on some things.

An old country preacher had a teenage son, and it was getting time the boy should give some thought to choosing a profession.

Like many young men, the boy didn’t really know what he wanted to do, and he didn’t seem too concerned about it.

One day, while the boy was away at school, his father decided to try an experiment. He went into the boy’s room and placed on his study table four objects:

- a Bible,
- a silver dollar,
- a bottle of whiskey
- and a Playboy magazine.

‘I’ll just hide behind the door,’ the old preacher said to himself, ‘when he comes home from school this afternoon, I’ll see which object he picks up.

If it’s the Bible, he’s going to be a preacher like me and what a blessing that would be! If he picks up the dollar, he’s going to be a businessman, and that would be okay, too. But if he picks up the bottle, he’s going to be a no-good drunkard, and Lord, what a shame that would be. And worst of all, if he picks up that magazine he’s gonna be a skirt-chasin’ bum.’

Since I’m all about links, go here to read the rest

I guess that’s why they call it “Smart Money”

Lowering the price of home is best way to sell it quickly

Icy Roads Overturn Car

From Today’s TMJ4

I wonder, did the road suddenly buckle? Do a barrel roll?

This sounds like the language of the people I lived with for 20 years. No passives, so “The axe cut me,” or something similar was common.

Things I wouldn’t have known 02-01-2008

Unless I read the Los Angeles Times.

Democratic women not all for Clinton

Really?

Quote of the day - 1/24/08

From Spring City Chronicle

Don’t throw away those firearms and ammunition! Recycle them. There are poor kids in Milwaukee without shotguns.

War For The Whitehouse

If the election, ads, debates, pundits, or anything else about this crazy primary season gets to you, head over to War For The Whitehouse, the Onion’s site for presidential political “news.”

An example, Hillary’s reason for running? I left some stuff behind.

Quote of the day

Just a sentence, part of a sentence, really, from a largely unrelated post by Joey at PheistyBlog,

It was -20 with the wind chill - which is breath catchin’, eye-waterin’ , beer-freezin’ cold, for you pansies down south.

It was at that.

Springsteen to play Harley’s 105th

Wow. One hundred and fifth.

How time flies. It seems like just five years ago or so that they had their hundredth anniversary.

Yeah, I know, dumb humor. That’s what you get here. If you want sophisticated, you’ll have to look elsewhere.

Why did they clone men?

Every man knows how complicated women are.

Scientists say they have produced embryo clones of 2 men (Waukesha Freeman).

Another job lost to technology

Stop the Presses - 2

From CQ Politics,

A GAO report examines SCHIP coverage of adults and finds that,

States that cover adults as part of their State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) are more likely to experience funding shortfalls than states that do not, according to a report released Thursday by the Government Accountability Office.

Wow. I’m glad they let us know that.

What would we do without commanders

From Yahoo! News, Commander: Al-Qaida still able to attack

Spoofing local news

A tip of the conservative ball cap to Dan at Still Spinnin’ for this video of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel media critic Tim Cuprisin.