TODAY I actually bit into (and had a small piece in my mouth) of an ant-infested chocolate donut !
Yesterday morning at Publix (where shopping is a pleasure) I bought two boxes of Entenmann’s donuts (on sale for $3 per box). I ate 3 out of the total 16 donuts yesterday, and I was about to eat 3 more this afternoon when I realized what I was actually biting into. Long story short the remaining 13 donuts went into the garbage and then ultimately into the dumpster outside.
I don’t typically have a problem with ants (or any other bugs in my home for that matter), as Orkin treats my home once a month for pests. I guess the 13 chocolate donuts sitting on my kitchen counter some 33 days after the last regularly-scheduled Orkin treatment was simply a recipe for disaster !
– It’s Palm Sunday.
– It marks the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem before He died for us.
– I remember Palm Sunday as a kid of Catholic Church / School 35 years ago.
– Back then everyone received a palm to symbolize the specialness of the day.
– Today I saw some of our Kids’ Life kids with homemade palms.
– It was cool to see P.J. attend the first service before he embarked on his cruise.
– It was also cool to see Billy Finch for the first time in such a long time.
– I nearly forgot what he looked like.
– He says that he intends to get back in to the blogging game.
– I gave Mark S. some wise advice to go less political with his blog entries.
– Patricia and I got on Venus for having a blog and ignoring it since October.
– Ritz is a crazy man, and he knows it.
– Pastor Travis led a ‘family discussion’ with us.
– He based it on the following verses from The Good News:
– Romans 12:11-13
– Luke 14:12-23
– Matthew 28:19-20
Flagship Cinemas in Homestead Florida is the place to be on Easter Sunday for two exciting services that start at 9:00 AM and 10:30 AM. Get there early so that you can enjoy some free Starbucks coffee and bagels with cream cheese. Got kids ? Bring them too. We’ve got four different programs for four different age groups 12 and under. Spend a couple of hours with us next Sunday morning at the movie theatre. You’re gonna discover a whole new modern way of doing church and getting to know God at the Box Office !
22 years ago in 1987 I was a 20-year-old living in Gloucestershire in the southwest of England. Cirencester (to the west) and Swindon (to the south) were the nearest cities, and I visited both of them fairly often. Swindon was the place to go shopping and hook up with British Rail on my trips over to London. Swindon was also the home to this highway monstrosity:
The Magic Roundabout - Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
I never drove a car while over in the U.K., as I rode with friends or took public transportation. I lived perhaps a mile from the village of Fairford. I walked to and from the village at least once a week or so.
11TH Strategic Group, RAF Fairford, United Kingdom
That’s my military unit from November 1985 to November 1987.
NO edition of the ‘Saturday Night Retro’ is complete without a big hit song from the times, so here we go with this week’s retro classic flashback from the past. It’s the 1987 European dance remix of the 1975 disco smash “You Sexy Thing” from Hot Chocolate. Get up and dance my friends !
For about 19 years during the 1980s and 1990s CNN talk show legend Mr. Larry King wrote a weekly column in USA Today that is actually the true inspiration behind my own ‘Thursday Night Mini Thoughts’. Larry’s mini thoughts were essentially whatever came to him at the time, and no two thoughts really had anything to do with one another. The column was parodied at the time by The Onion as well as Norm Macdonald on “Saturday Night Live !“.
Larry King In 1971
My brother and I have a long-running gag where we’ll E-Mail or text one another over and over again various ridiculous (fake) ‘Larry King Moments’ in an effort to make the other one laugh hysterically. We’ve also done this in person where we’ll try to outdo each other with an even more outrageous ‘Larry King Moment’.
Here are some examples that I managed to archive over the years:
– ‘There is nothing better to drink early in the morning than a glass of … RED WINE !’
– ‘He is a role model to children, and he exemplifies how staying away from drugs will take you far in life … Mr. Woody Harrelson !”
– ‘If I could only sleep with one woman for the rest of my life, it would definitely be … Estelle Getty !’
– ‘Here’s a great idea that I’m sure you’ve never thought of before as an extra unique Father’s Day gift … Old Spice Cologne !’
– ‘Friends if you can only rent one movie on DVD this weekend then you can’t go wrong with … “Troop Beverly Hills” !’
– ‘I don’t know about you, but whenever I watch “CSI” it just makes me smile !’
– ‘A brand new, groundbreaking, original television show that I have just discovered. I bow down to the creative geniuses that brainstormed and developed THE best new show of 2009, ladies and gentlemen … I would like to introduce you all to … “The Simpsons” !’
– ‘One of the greatest theatrical masterpieces in the entire history of television is a show known as … “According To Jim” !’
– ‘This may seem incredibly far-fetched to most people, but I truly believe that a small handheld device known as a ‘cell phone’ may begin taking off in popularity in perhaps 10 or 20 years from now.’
Feel free to post your own ridiculous (fake) ‘Larry King Moments’.
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