Worse/Best TV Show ever!

Over the years I have slowly stopped watching TV, reducing my viewing to sports, and the news. However the promos for one show caught my eye, and my daughters as well, Momma's Boys on NBC. Needless to say we Tivo'ed it and thank god we did, because some of the lines were so priceless we had to replay them a few times.

The premise of the show are three adult men who still live at home with Mommy (that's what they call their mother) are going to chose from 32 high quality young ladies, who range from doctors to convicts and all points in between. The moms live with the 32 girls in some monster mansion on the pacific coast while the three boys live in condos somewhere nearby. At some point the boys kick off the girls one by one, based I would assume on mom's orders. Talk about emasculating!

The highlights/lowlights of the show encompass the following:

• Creepy audition videos, where one mom asks her son to disrobe so everyone can see his body.
• Racist creepy audition videos, where one mom disqualifies the entire human race from being with her son.
• Mothers packing son's clothing for the trip and treating sons like they are in 2nd grade.
• A highly disturbing girl who has a compulsion to clean up everything, loves ABBA, and is actually my favorite character, she would in my humble opinion be perfect for the three boys.
  
• A young lady who has an extreme melt down over a broken shoe heel. She aspires to be a philanthropist when she grows up!
• Another young lady who has angst about being the Penthouse Pet of the Year and won't talk about it and then another who has no problem talking about herself posing in Playboy.
• This one was unable to recall what she did for a living.
• A lady who is a critical care nurse who hates men!
• Two of the moms look alike so its hard to separate the racist mom from the uber creepy domineering mom extraordinaire without having to concentrate.
• The girls have alcohol in their hands throughout the entire show, which makes for better TV, and lively interaction amongst the contestants.

Some of the classic lines are:

A female contestant says "I paid for my second boob job with my student loan."

One mom says that she "I call him at least 100 times a day and he answers 100 times a day."

I have no idea what the rules are, nor the actual point of the show, but all that's irrelevant when confronted by what I would guess is the stupidest TV show ever. Therefore highly watchable! Monday night 2 hour episode be there or be square! There is an encore of this episode tonight at 7pm by the way!

Greatest Thanksgiving Show Ever!

Question of the Weak?

What is up with the older couple resting in the bathtubs in these commercials?

I am wondering if anyone knows what is up with the older couple resting in the bathtubs at the beginning and end of the these commercials. I understand them resting, watching a sunset, but why are they sitting in separate abstinence inducing (defeating the pills purpose I would think) bathtubs rather then a beach chair or something? Why not in a gazebo or a hot tub as opposed to a regular tub?

The only people that keep major appliances outside do not appear to be the target market for the product.

Clean answers in the comment section, the best answer by next Monday gets a prize! I don't know what it is, but I will come up with something lasting!

What do you call it....Pop or Soda?

When on a hot summer’s day you buy a carbonated beverage to quench your thirst, how do you order it? Do you ask for a soda, a pop or something else? That question lay at the basis of an article in the Journal of English Linguistics (Soda or Pop?, #24, 1996) and of a map, showing the regional variation in American English of the names given to that type of drink.

The article was written by Luanne von Schneidemesser, PhD in German linguistics and philology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and senior editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English. And although there might be weightier issues in life (or even in linguistics) than the preferred terminology for a can of soft drink, there’s nothing trivial about this part of the beverage industry.

“According to an article last year in the Isthmus, Madison’s weekly newspaper, Americans drink so much of the carbonated beverages sold under such brand names as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Sprite, Mountain Dew, and 7-Up that consumption averages 43 gallons per year for every man, woman, and child in the United States,” Von Schneidemesser begins her article. “The Statistical Abstract of the United States (1994) confirms this: 44.1 gallons per person in 1992, compared to the next most consumed beverages: beer (32.7 gallons), coffee (27.8 gallons), and milk (25.3 gallons).”

It must be that ubiquity of soft drinks that has made this pop vs soda map the single-most submitted map to this blog, sent in by over 100 contributors. The map details the areas where certain usages predominate.

• coke: this generic term for soft drinks predominates throughout the South, New Mexico, central Indiana and in a few other single counties in Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. ‘Coke’ obviously derives from Coca-Cola, the brand-name of the soft drink originally manufactured in Atlanta (which explains its use as a generic term for all soft drinks in the South).
• pop: dominates the Northwest, Great Plains and Midwest. The world ‘pop’ was introduced by Robert Southey, the British Poet Laureate (1774-1843), to whom we also owe the word ‘autobiography’, among others. In 1812, he wrote: A new manufactory of a nectar, between soda-water and ginger-beer, and called pop, because ‘pop goes the cork’ when it is drawn. Even though it was introduced by a Poet Laureate, the term ‘pop’ is considered unsophisticated by some, because it is onomatopaeic.
• soda: prevalent in the Northeast, greater Miami, the area in Missouri and Illinois surrounding St Louis and parts of northern California. ‘Soda’ derives from ‘soda-water’ (also called club soda, carbonated or sparkling water or seltzer). It’s produced by dissolving carbon dioxide gas in plain water, a procedure developed by Joseph Priestly in the latter half of the 18th century. The fizziness of soda-water caused the term ‘soda’ to be associated with later, similarly carbonated soft drinks.
• Other, lesser-used terms include ‘dope’ in the Carolinas and ‘tonic’ in and around Boston, both fading in popularity. Other generic terms for soft drinks outside the US include ‘pop’ (Canada), ‘mineral’ (Ireland), ‘soft drink’ (New Zealand and Australia). The term ‘soft drink’, finally, arose to contrast said beverages with hard (i.e. alcoholic) drinks.

I got this from the fine site called Strange Maps.

Huge Cover Up in Round Lake!

I found this on the internet which is a series of tubes (according to a United States Senator) and could not help but deciding in a nano-second to post this link.

Here is how I think it all went down, there was an accident on 120 and since the aliens could not get to a hospital in time they called in a UFO Flight to Life to transport them to the Planet Gentes which is a planet in the Star Wars series in the Anorat system and it took them, owing to faster then light travel and no traffic congestion in space, less then 19 minutes to get there!

Hopefully they take Blue Cross Blue Shield there as well! For some reason pictures won't load today so no pictures.

Passenger moons speed camera

I got this from one of my favorite sites Boing Boing, and since we all seem to be tense with my last couple posts this could be funny. I warn you its mildly graphic so you have been warned adult concepts! Road rage! You could visualize this happening in some Lake County commutes!

Me with the angry protestors for heated streets!

Best April 1 Ever!

I have done three of these, but this one is the best! We are not ripping up every village street. We are not laying high voltage lines in small trenches on the roads. We are not spending millions on the project. We are not putting giant wind turbines behind the Police and Public works facility!

I moderated comments all day, and blocked all the comments that would spoil my fun! I have released all the spoiler comments and the blog now has unmoderated comments again!

I had a great day! I love my blog, and I love Round Lake! But best of all I love a laugh!

PS Devon if you are real, I am truly sorry to have ticked you off to that level, otherwise great comment!

Gnome Fever?

A town in South America is living in fear after several sightings of a 'creepy gnome' that locals claim stalks the streets at night. The midget - which wears a pointy hat and has a distinctive sideways walk - was caught on video last week by a terrified group of youngsters.

Teenager Jose Alvarez - who filmed the gnome - yesterday told national newspaper El Tribuno that they caught the creature while larking about in their hometown of General Guemes, in the province of Salta, Argentina.

He said: “We were chatting about our last fishing trip. It was one in the morning. “I began to film a bit with my mobile phone while the others were chatting and joking. "Suddenly we heard something - a weird noise as if someone was throwing stones. "We looked to one side and saw that the grass was moving.

To begin with we thought it was a dog but when we saw this gnome-like figure begin to emerge we were really afraid." Jose added that other locals had come forward to say they had spotted the gnome. He said: “This is no joke. We are still afraid to go out - just like everyone else in the neighbourhood now. "One of my friends was so scared after seeing that thing that we had to take him to the hospital.”

Leap Day is here!

A person who was born on February 29 may be called a "leapling". In non-leap years they may celebrate their birthday on 28 February or 1 March.

For legal purposes, their legal birthdays depend on how different laws count time intervals. In England and Wales the legal birthday of a leapling is 28 February in common years (see Leap Years, above). In Taiwan the legal birthday of a leapling is also February 28 in common years. In both cases, a person born on February 29, 1980 would have legally reached 18 years old on February 28, 1998.

"If a period fixed by weeks, months, and years does not commence from the beginning of a week, month, or year, it ends with the ending of the day which proceeds the day of the last week, month, or year which corresponds to that on which it began to commence. But if there is no corresponding day in the last month, the period ends with the ending of the last day of the last month.^[2]"

There are many instances in children's literature where a person's claim to be only a quarter of their actual age turns out to be based on counting their leap-year birthdays. A similar device is used in the plot of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance. Frederic, born on February 29, was apprenticed to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday, meaning that with all the missed birthdays, until he was 84 years old.

Separated at Birth?

My 18 year old daughter and 23 year old nephew built this for me.

Monday's Post-- Mystery Man Identified

Its longtime Round Lake resident and WRLR Radio President Bish Krywko!

Who is this Round Lake Mystery Man?

If you can identify this beloved Round Lake icon, I will come up with some suitable gift for you, guesses in the comment section of the blog.

This is a good idea for our centennial, so if anyone has some pictures of things they would like to show or ask questions about send them here and we can put them on the blog on the weekends, since I have been kind of lax recently on the weekend posts!

Talk about Media Coverage

I came across this a awhile ago, and got a big kick out of it. Plus in my never ending quest to interest my readership, plus I have no post for today readily at hand, here it is! See if you can solve the crime.

Above the fold of the newspaper appeared a photograph of Michael Millhouse, painting a sign on the window of a business. But below the fold, he appeared again, in a still taken from a convenience store where a wallet containing $600 was lifted. Due to his size, and the fact that he was wearing the same clothes, he was easily identified and caught."

Here is a link to the frontpage all blown up. Newspaper.pdf

Then there is the follow-up from the newspaper here.

Happy New Year!

This was the scene in my living room a few minutes after midnight today. I got the expanded Neumann home as you can all see.

In reality it was more like me lying on the couch plotting!

Actually it was more like me figuring out how to win the 26th, build 120 and 53 all at the same time!

Happy New Year Everyone! By the way none of the above is true! Well some of it.

LA Can't Drive

I came across this website in one of my late night surfing trips and thought it was quite funny. I know many of us can identify with whats going on here. I think that LA is a bit more extreme then some of the goofiness we see here in Lake County. Careful there is some salty language on here

This is so Funny! (Need sound to be on)

This is so funny, I can't figure out to load this on here....but check this out.

A Little Humor on a Thursday

Your House As Seen By:

Yourself...
Your Buyer...
Your Lender...

Your Appraiser...Your Tax Assessor...

Picnic for Village Employees

On Saturday we had a picnic at the Police and Public Works complex for village employees and there families. We had a very nice turnout! There were quite a few games for kids and adults, with yours truly and my daughter winning the water balloon toss! However there was a steady mist or drizzle throughout so the actual highlight of the day's events was musical chairs, there were two divisions, Child and adult, the adult version should have been called musical sumo.

Trustee Dale Multerer (he is a wee bit accident prone) went flying appearing to strike his head on a chair! After a further few rounds of roughhousing , there were the final two competitors Police Chief Cliff Metaxa, and Trustee Michael Blum who ended up circling the chair, then Trustee Blum attempted to pile drive the Chief in some form of WWE move, there was a general melee, then both ended up on the ground about 6 feet away from the chair, when the music stopped, Cliff making it to the chair first from the ground. See pictures above.

Many thanks to all who made this wonderful afternoon possible!

How's This For Some Craziness!

Badges! Badges! Does a library board need badges?

July 25, 2007

By Kristen Schorsch sun-times news group

Crestwood Public Library Board trustees have decided to keep their controversial police-like badges despite outcry from taxpayers who have accused trustees of wasting money on the credentials they rarely use.

In lieu of ditching the badges, the library board on Monday adopted new procedures for using them. Among the rules: Trustees have to keep their badges in a safe place and can't let friends borrow them.

"When we did this, we felt it was a perk," board president Clyde Petersen said, adding that he didn't think spending $600 of district money on the five-pointed stars and leather holders would create such strife. "I don't think it's wasteful."

In March, a friend of trustee Zeno Toscas was arrested for flashing Toscas' library badge to snag a better parking spot at a bar in Merrionette Park.

Crestwood library trustee's friend arrested for allegedly using police-like badge

March 15, 2007

By Kristen Schorsch Staff writer

The friend of a Crestwood Public Library District board member is in hot water after allegedly flashing the board member's police-like badge to snag a parking spot last week at 115 Bourbon Street in Merrionette Park.

Kristopher Bobb, 22, of 12557 Rail Lane, Palos Park, has been charged with impersonating a police officer, according to a Merrionette Park police report.

But Bobb, who is friends with 21-year-old library Trustee Zeno Toscas, said he isn't worried about the charges because he wasn't holding a police badge -- he was holding a library board badge.

"Just somebody who worked (at Bourbon Street) just assumed I was a cop," Bobb said Wednesday.

The Crestwood library board came under fire last year when it spent about $600 on five-pointed gold star badges that look like police badges, as well as leather badge holders, to identify board members.

Board president Clyde Petersen said at the time that trustees would not wear the badges at board meetings. They would only display them in certain situations, such as attending library conferences or other functions outside the Crestwood library. He could not be reached Wednesday for comment.

The incident that led to Bobb's arrest happened at 12:52 a.m. March 4. Toscas parked his car in a way that blocked another patron's vehicle, the police report said. Bourbon Street co-owner Nick DiNovo said Toscas parked behind a vehicle that was in a valet spot.

When a restaurant employee approached Toscas' car, Bobb yelled out that he was a cop and used several profanities, the report said. He allegedly flashed a badge and said he would do whatever he wanted.

On Wednesday, Bobb said he meant to quickly run inside the club to get his girlfriend and her friend. He said he got out of Toscas' car, which was parked in the back of the parking lot near 115th Street and Kedzie Avenue, and he was holding the badge.

"All I did was carry it," Bobb said. "I was playing with it in the car. I didn't realize it, and I walked out" of Toscas' car holding the badge.

Toscas' father, John Toscas, said four witnesses can testify that the charges against Bobb are "not anywhere near the truth." He referred questions to Bobb's attorney, Carl Evans. Evans did not return a phone call.

Toscas was not charged in the incident. He could not be reached for comment.

Crestwood Police Chief Tim Sulikowski said the incident is a "perfect example" of how the library board badges might be abused.

"I'm glad that person was arrested," he said of Bobb.

Sulikowski said it would be up to the library board whether to revoke the badges.