One Liners
MGA: Jo Ann: Apologies, I was just kidding about the quantity and fervor of politacal postings. wasn't reflecting on anything other than that.
Sherman: OMG! If you know football, and if you know Hitler, this is so funny: LINK
Jo Ann: Okay, so I just picked up a message from a singer who's address I requested. So, she's telling me her address on the message and says her apartment is "1J, as in Jack". Hello! She's leaving the message for "Jo Ann" and says "J as in Jack". Not fair! :)
Jo Ann: Does kinda look like you're just attacking the messenger, i.e. me. Just saying!
Jo Ann: Gee, MGA. What is it with you being mean? Come on, MGA! Geesh.
Sherman: When the lame can't attack the message, they attack the messenger.
MGA: Jo Ann: Cut down on the coffee. You're in such a slather the monitor is shaking.
Jo Ann: Last point to note--she said: "I don't have a job she can bump me out of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will cost me somehow in the future: that’s life."
Jo Ann: And few people know as much as she does, because few people have gone to as many City Council meetings as she has.
Jo Ann: "Bad things happen when good people stay silent."
Jo Ann: There's a lot of stuff in the email, but I will stop now, for now. Though I'll add that she did explain in detail how she knows what she knows and why she wrote the email. Most notable to me was that she said...
Jo Ann: While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once.
Jo Ann: During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%.
Jo Ann: During her six yrs as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%.
Jo Ann: She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.
Jo Ann: She kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her parents and children for seven month. (Wow!)
Jo Ann: She said that it is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret.
Jo Ann: She is very popular in Wasilla, but a lot of the folks who like her don't want her to be VP. She knows Palin on a first name basis, but that is not unusual in their small town--many folks know her.
Jo Ann: ... is hoping folks don't cut and paste the entire email into Websites (but understands she is exposing herself). In a nutshell, the things that were most fascinating just skimming this email:
Jo Ann: ... who lives in Alaska and knows Palin personally. She wants to explain to folks who wouldn't know, the details of Palin that outsiders would have no way to know. She said she is okay with her friends forwarding the email (why I got it), but...
Jo Ann: OMG. I just got a very long and interesting email from my friend who went to the same college as Sarah Palin. I can maybe take out parts and put it up here, but the whole email is too long. It is a very detailed email written by my friend's friend...
Jo Ann: Hey Shermy! I guess my post looked like I was going to link a video--or I do link videos so often you don't recognize a post from me w/o a video link! :) I wasn't posting anything. I was just referring to Jack's video--that's what reminds me of SHR!
Sherman: Joanne -- no link. And if we want to avoid YouTube, I could start linking GayTube.
Jo Ann: Bwahaha! Hey, on this video... no idea what this is about, but it reminds me of School House Rock! :) By the way, Dave probably thinks I post too many YouTube videos, too!
Sherman: MGA thinks I do too many old people jokes, Dave thinks you do too much YouTube, Rick thinks Joanne posts too much and should be spending more time in the love shack, and the guy on the bus wants a weekend leave and a bus ticket. That's life.
Jack: Dave says I post too many youtubes in the blog. so I'll put this one here LINK
Jo Ann: This is pretty darn funny! LINK
Jo Ann: HA! Well, as they say... The higher the hair, the closer to God. :)
Sherman: A homeless familyl of four could live in her hair.
Jo Ann: My fav girl! Sooo cute! :) LINK
Jo Ann: Hehehe! Oh, I tease! :)
Jo Ann: SHERMAN! Bwahaha! Oddly, that story probably wouldn't disturb me quite as much. Maybe if it was a bunny though...
Jo Ann: HA! Funny ad--and my favorite beer, too!
Sherman: Yes, OP -- you should be allowed to post. Check with Jack. I'll try to post something soon -- I heard about a woman who dried her wet baby in the microwave.
Sherman: Beer ad. Surprise ending. LINK
Jo Ann: In the meantime, here is a funny bit by Gilbert Gottfried on Planet o/t Apes! LINK
Jo Ann: Ahh! No one is moving down that Bus Rage post... this is really why I should be able to post here... to push down other posts and heck, I don't want to keep seeing my own stupid comments anymore either... let's go folks--post please!
Jo Ann: Bwahahahaha! LINK
Jo Ann: I know, isn't that video bizarre?! I thought it was funny, in a weird way. I think Sherman's correctomundo on the shark (and the lack of synchronization)--but sooooo YouTubey! Pretty funny doing this in an office and all! It's like a bad OK GO video!
Jo Ann: I should say he did "choose"...
Jo Ann: Haha! That's great--yes, when Obama chose to be black... he did chose, since he's only half black! (I have heard people say that!)
Sherman: Magazine wonders if Obama will flip-flop and become white. "When he chose to be black, he knew he'd lose the racist vote."
Sherman: Poll by Duh! Magazine shows racists choose McCain over Obama by margin of 1,000 to 1.
Sherman: Obama fairing poorly among racists!
Sherman: New poll out!
Sheman: Jack -- it's supposed to be a spoof of synchronized swimming -- thus the shark. And they do need more synchnocrization. Also they need some shirtless boys.
Jack: That is a very odd video. What's with the shark at the end?
Jo Ann: Now this is hilarious! LINK
Jo Ann: Or, you could just use a lamp. LINK
Jo Ann: Ooooh--snap! :)
Sherman: Jack saying he's in his 40s. Oh wait - that's a cover-up.
Jo Ann: Heheheeee! Is that really a cover?! I believe you, I just never knew it was done by anyone else. But yes, it is a classic! :)
Sherman: Tiny Tim doing Tiptoe Thru the Tulips!
Jo Ann: Ooooh... I just thought of another awesome cover: Janis Joplin's "Summertime" from "Porgy and Bess".
Jo Ann: Er, noted "below". Btw: that is actually what it looks like on the video--that the silver mime guy is complaining but has the dilemma of wanting to yell but needing to stay in character! Sooooo funny!
Jo Ann: Bwahahaha! That is freakin' hilarious! I love that the "mime" is noted above, but it's blank. Heheee. :)
Cat: I would explain that the mime is complaining but can't say anything, except I've just been eaten by a bunny.
Mime:
Jo Ann: I know! My favorite part, too! That's so funny! :-)
Jack: My favorite was the miming of giving a tip to the mime.
Jo Ann: Bwahaha! This is brilliant! LINK
Jo Ann: I do think Talking Heads' version is better than Al Green's...
Jo Ann: Ah yes, Talking Heads "Take me to the River"... definitely excellent cover! (And yes, Nyro did her music, so they other artists' versions are covers for sure.)
Sherman: Laura Nyro did release albums, but I understand what you mean. Okay -- Talking Heads' cover of Al Green's "Take me to the River"
Jo Ann: At least, that's my impression. Is that right or do you think otherwise?
Jo Ann: I'm rethinking what I said. I agree that another artist doing her work would be a "cover". I guess I just meant that was commonly done with her work, probably more than other artists and she is ultimately known more for composing than performing.
Jo Ann: I mean, I know she did perform, but her work was more famously done by other artists, wasn't it??
Jo Ann: By the way, on Laura Nyro, wasn't she more known as a composer anyway? So, when an artist did her music, it's not really a cover, right?
Jo Ann: OOPS! HA! That last post was by ME, not Shermy! Whoops! I am so concerned for Sherman, that I guess I was trying to channel him or something! :)
Sherman: "Of"?? On their covers of... what. Sherman? Where did you go?! Oh man, you better not be on a Greyhound bus... Criminy! SHERMAN! :)
Sherman: Any cover of a Laura Nyro song. Three Dog Night did much better on Eli's Coming, Babs did better on Stoney End, the 5th Dimension did better on all their covers of
Jo Ann: My vote goes to Chris Cornell (originally of Soundgarden) for Billie Jean. Freakin' awesome! LINK
Jo Ann: What do you think is the best cover version of a song? As in, you think the cover is better than the original.
Jo Ann: It's subjective, so no one is wrong (like Rick and his losing streak with "Who's More Famous"!)
Jo Ann: Okay, I've got a new Gone East Quiz! ...
Jo Ann: Wow, is that really true about the old stone arch in Utah? Okay, I am not talking about Jack! (Hey, I know he's not in Utah!)
Sherman: Really really old natural stone arch in Utah park collapses from old age. In related news, Jack falls down.
Jo Ann: Dang! B'GOOOOSH! That should do it.
MGA: Hmmmm. Not quite enough spittle...
Jo Ann: Okay. Did you hear it? Did ya? :)
MGA: Jo Ann, can you say "B'gosh?"
Jo Ann: Is Jack wearing Oshkosh overalls out there? What is the deal with those anyway?
Jo Ann: Yah, gee, thanks MGA for rubbing how much attention the other kids get while we wait patiently for his return. {sigh}
Jo Ann: HA! Yah, it is like Jack has left us for his other family. Dang.
Sherman: Yeah, but reading about how much my dad is having fun with his other family is tough to do.
MGA: Feeling deprived?LINK
Sherman: Oskosh is always such a Jack-deprivation time. It's like your dad has another family and when he goes to visit them, you don't hear from him.
Jo Ann: Na na na na... LINK
Jo Ann: Bwahaha! I guess I use the back link a lot.
MGA: oops. Hey Jack! I used your back link and it double posted me...
MGA: Jo Ann, it could be worse. The elevator could really be a phone booth. "Paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Jack, Dr. Who?"
MGA: Jo Ann, it could be worse. The elevator could really be a phone booth. "Paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Jack, Dr. Who?"
Jo Ann: It would be more wild if the elevator were a bicycle, but sadly no such luck. This elevator is just an elevator. {sigh}
Jo Ann: Haha! I guess so, MGA! All I know is that there really is a "Phone Jack" in an elevator at this condo building where our artists stay! I think of our Jack everytime I ride that elevator!
MGA: So Jo Ann, you're saying Jack is like ET?
Jo Ann: Hey, sometimes I ride an elevator that says "Phone Jack". But there is no number?! :)
MGA: Hey jack! How about making a post so that we know you're still alive?
Jo Ann: And now for something completely trippy: LINK
Jo Ann: Hehehe! I KNOW, huh?! :)
Sherman: jack. give the poor woman blogging access.