Random thoughts that are pointless and too dumb to say anywhere else thread: 2008 (July – Dec.)

[hawing]

In the pocket of the pants I'm wearing today, I found one gold piece of confetti from the Brewers' wild card clinching celebration, six weeks ago.

[davego]

Hawing needs a dry-cleaner upgrade. =)

[fondybrewfan]

I had to babysit this past weekend. I have that darn "Down by the Bay" song stuck in my head.

[GAME05]

nobody has ever Ski-Doo'd from Maine to Texas, and you get $250,000 from Guinness World Records if you can do it.

[valpocrewsader]

I had to babysit this past weekend. I have that darn "Down by the Bay" song stuck in my head.

My first reaction was that "Drown the Baby" was an odd choice for a babysitting sing-along.

[davego]

I've decided to launch my daughter's 2048 presidential campaign (she is 7, but 'ready to lead').

[Fatter than Joey]

Make sure to distance her from the current administration when she starts stumping

[And That]

I found a book in my girlfriend's attic titled "Richard Nixon: 1969-19??" - I am really looking forward to seeing how it ends.

[burniebrewer]

It would be really cool if I could get some perfectly placed wind to come along and blow all of my leaves to the curb. This would save me a few hours of raking today.

[Teatoe993]

Someone raked my entire lawn the other day while I was at work. I'd like to know who it was so I can give them a case of beer. Doty Island neighbors are the best. Although it might have been the ghost of the original owner of my house who died last week at 103 years old.

[southpaw121505]

Deer need to learn to look both ways before crossing the street.

I saw one in the middle of bluemound the other day, pretty strange.

 

 

Why does the Oakland A's logo have an apostrophe? Doesn't that mean possession? If its plural you just add an s. Wait, maybe if it spells a word you have to use the apostrophe? Like As would mean as. But if you write the whole word, it would be Athletics, not Athletic's. Weird. Athletics is a great name for a team by the way.

[iHARTbrewCREW]

Deer need to learn to look both ways before crossing the street.

I saw a deer run past a deer crossing sign the other day on brown deer road so i guess its a start.

[bullox]

Why does the Oakland A's logo have an apostrophe? Doesn't that mean possession? If its plural you just add an s. Wait, maybe if it spells a word you have to use the apostrophe? Like As would mean as. But if you write the whole word, it would be Athletics, not Athletic's. Weird. Athletics is a great name for a team by the way.

You use an apostrophe when truncating words or numbers, like if you were to say 1982, you'd say '82. Or even when I just used you'd - the apostrophe takes the place of the rest of would.

 

The apostrophe in the A's logo is fine.

[mothershipconnection]

However, as was noted, apostrophes are NOT used to make nouns plural. For example, you do not say "I ate three hamburger's", or "they cost 5 dollar's".

[Glennron]

This is probably a dumb question but oh well. If a mouse were to die between a wall and refrigerator, would it be possible for the smell to get carried through the fridge and freezer? We put poison out around the house last week and within the last couple days our house smells awful in some places, but especially in the fridge and freezer. We searched through all the food but none of it is the source.

[Thurston Fluff]

yes the smell can get into the freezer or fridge. We had to clear out my mother in laws house when she had to move into a nursing home and she was a lifelong smoker who, to be kind, had let the house cleaning get away from her the last year or so she was there. All the food in the freezer smelled like stale cigarette smoke. I suspect she hadn't eaten much of it for a long time so it may have to be due to long term exposure but I know outside smells can get into the freezer.

[And That]

This is the cover of the new Animal Collective album "Merriweather Post Pavilion":

 

http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/bf4355504cd5905cd3f592ee23950c0706a27d5.jpg

 

Ow.

[Jimbo]

My wife continuously enters those low chance-high reward raffles and never wins, yet keeps trying.

 

Today she received a phone call. She won two Trans Siberian Orchestra tickets, a show we were planning to attend as it was.

[NeedMoreFans]

Here's a really dumb question... When the president heads to a foreign country, or a foreign leader come to the US, do they have to show a passport?

[bullox]

They don't fly commercial.

[burniebrewer]

Am I the only one who sees that album cover moving?

[Fatter than Joey]

Yes. Clearly you are on drugs.

[brewerjamie15]

I went to the eye doctor today and he ordered blood tests. Seriously.

 

While my eyes were dilated, after my CT scan, I went to a sub sandwich shop to grab some grub. I went inside to order; and directly to my left was a cop. I had sunglasses on inside on a cloudy day. He sorta stared at me, so stared at him not realizing how I had drawn attention to myself. Taking the glasses off and revealing retinas as large as a dinner plate would probably have gotten me a drug test though.

[brewerjamie15]

I'm watching MPTV again and two things have popped into my head:

 

1: That chef dude on Victory Garden constantly cooks really yucky stuff.

 

2: I wonder how many flannel shirts Norm Abram has.

[DatHoser]

Potty humor dealing with a pet peeve:

 

Someone talking on their cell while sitting on the throne at work. Why am I never able to give an "audible reminder" that they are in the bathroom at times like that?