Goundhog Bubs

It turns out Lincoln has RSV -- a mild case, but still a little scary. I guess a lot of infants get that this time of year. The one good thing is I get to stay home and watch him. Not that I don't enjoy my job.

As for the groundhog, here are a few inconsistencies/things that bother me about the whole deal.

First February second is dumb because there aren't as many cool people that have worn the number 22, as there are that have worn 21 or 23. For example. David Benoit wore 21, and Michael Jordan wore 23 and so on...

(I know it makes a joke less funny if you explain it, but I thought it was funny how I just compared David Beniot to Michael Jordan. If Beniot got the same calls, would he have been as good?)

Second I don't think weather patterns are affected by if little animals are awake or not. I'll have to consult my one weather book on that one.

Third In order for the little rat to see his shadow, the sun has to be out. If the sun is out, it is probably a nice day. it would seem more logical to me that the sun being out would be associated with no more winter, not the other way around.

Fourth The animal is only right 50% of the time. We should just have Feb. 2nd be 'Flip a coin to see if winter ends day' (And yes, they do keep stats, although I'm not sure what is considered an 'early spring')

Finally, no groundhog could live for hundreds of years, clearly this isn't the real groundhog.

Now I will mention the things good about Feb 2nd

1 They made a sweet movie about it.

That's it

Now for a way funny line from said movie. Bill Murray is doing the weather, and he says: "And in the northwest there are going to be some very tall trees."

Then the second in command weatherman worships him for that line.

Plus then he calls the anchor lady 'hairdo'.

I should make a list of best lines from Groundhog day, but at present, I don't own a copy of the movie.

OJ Simpson

Plus, another good one is how Chris Elliot keeps calling Bill Murray a 'Prima donna'

Brett and Bubs -- Second attempt

So I was able to remember 14 of the 15, so I added a new one which now occupies the number 15 spot. Hopefully 'Blogger' will not decide to delete this post. Plus, Brett's list for 16-20 can be found under comments for 'PO'd Bubs'

Things about Brett

15 - Eating tons of homemade corn dogs because they are so delicious, and then throwing them up. Never touching a corn dog again.

14 - The Posse

13 - Telling the Bubs he and his friends will play baseball when they are done playing Heman, then proceeding to play Heman the rest of the day.

12 - Tons of in the park homers at Bicentennial, he must hold the record.

11 - Mom didn't want him to be left-handed, so she kept changing scissors, crayons etc. to his right hand from his left hand.

10 - Hitting the wiffle ball in that apple tree tons, and then having power hits be outs because we caught it as it trickled down

9 - Getting cut from little league, then one of the coaches comes to me and tells me how he knows Brett is one of the best players, but he didn't do well at tryouts, and I'm thinking the coach is an idiot, because he values one day in early March more than years of observation.

9a - The same year, Tona Niebuhr trying to tell Brett how he could improve playing shortstop by turning a certain way before throwing the ball.

8 - Skipping out on kindergarten, and playing on the Perhson's dirt hill. (Wait, that's on my list of wierdest things the Bubs has done.)

7 - He can make this running hookshot/layup that everyone thinks is way lucky until he does it 5 times in a row.

6 - Running around forever on 2 on 2 football with Casey and Vig, until the Bubs decides he is wide enough open to pass too

5 - Getting his 2nd tech in a basketball game because he made this huge sarcastic cheer after the ref made yet another bad call.

4 - Being the voice of superdog

3 - We pulled an all time prank on Steph, but the problem was, one of the traps we set in the bathroom was to have an open shampoo bottle balanced on top of the door, so it would fall on her when she opened it. Since the door opens inward, Brett bravely volunteered to stay in the bathroom, set up the trap and wait until Steph got in. She opens the door, almost gets hit by the bottle, Brett comes running out -- sadly for him, I got most of the credit from Steph.

2 - He threw a rock through this sports car's window across the street. He said he wanted to see how far he could throw said rock.

1 - Would cheat playing uno against mom by looking at the reflection of her cards in her glasses.

Not in the same order, but what are you going to do?

I need to write these suckers down somewhere, in other news, Lincoln is sick, and won't sleep, and has this wierd cough. Hopefully we'll get him to the doctor today.

That's all for now.

O'Brian

PS Am I the only one who thinks Seattle got the raw end of the officiating last night -- I mean that TD got taken away by a push off that happens in every game, and then that other play that got them to the one got taken away by a phantom holding call. That cost Seattle 11 points. Think how cool the game would have been had they not taken that away.

PO'd Bubs

So I had this sweet post up about Brett, and then it got spontaneously deleted. I guess John was the only one to see it -- I'll try to recreate the greatness, but not guarantees.

Oscar the Grouch

Political Bubs 2

This is only my 13th posting, and I've already duplicated a title. Not too creative.

The State of the Union address got me thinking about how funny liberals are. Did anyone else notice how all the democrates sat on their hands the entire time, and only cheered when Bush mentioned how they defeated his Social Security deal?

Then they have the nerve to say in their response how they are the party trying to work with the evil Republicans who refuse to be bipartisan.

Unbelieveable

It kills me how they think they are so much 'smarter' and 'enlightened' than the rest of us redecks. Try pushing a non liberal agenda on most campuses in America. Logic is something liberals either don't understand or refuse to acknowledge.

As Winston Churchill once said (I think): If you are young, and not liberal, you don't have a heart... If you are old and liberal, you don't have a brain.

I don't get mad at these guys, they're just funny so for my list today....

Top funny things liberals have said

10 - "When you look at beliefs in such things as, do you go to heaven, is there a devil, we have more in common with Turkey and Iran and Syria than we do with European nations and Canada and nations that, yes, I would consider more enlightened than us.""When people say to me, 'You hate America,' I don't hate America. I love America. I am just embarrassed that it has been taken over by people like evangelicals, by people who do not believe in science and rationality. It is the 21st century. And I will tell you, my friend. The future does not belong to the evangelicals. The future does not belong to religion."
Bill Maher

9 - In 2000 the Supreme Court decided who would be president for the next four years.

8 - "There's an old saying, in the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. "Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture."
Harry Belafonte

7 - "the passengers were scaredy-cats because they were mostly white. If the passengers had included black men, he claimed, those killers, with their puny bodies and unimpressive small knives, would have been crushed by the dudes."

Michael Moore on the 9-11 attacks

6 - "Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas."
Janeane Garofalo

5 - "This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House (you call them 'hawks', but I would never disparage such a fine bird) have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist."
Woody Harrelson

4 - "I was old enough to vote the last time, (but) I didn't. I am going to vote because anybody is better than George W. Bush.
"It's scary what we're doing to the environment, and I'm scared that maybe (the war on Iraq) is going to get a lot worse before it gets better."
Kirsten Dunst

3 - "You know it's ironic that we're fighting for democracy in Iraq because we ultimately aren't celebrating democracy here. "Because anybody who has anything to say against the war or against the president or whatever -- is punished, and that's not democracy -- it's people being intolerant."
Madonna

2 - "I don't agree, you see, I don't really view communism as a bad thing."
Whoopi Goldberg

1 - “They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet ... in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pricks,” he replied. “We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don’t know about anything that’s happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.”

Michael Moore on Americans

As I said, liberals think everyone else is stupid -- but in that snooty way. I'm glad the extreme right doesn't have the same access to the media as the extreme left... They're killing themselves. Of course if you're libreal, most of those statements above aren't funny to you, they're how you think... scary.

OK, I'm done ripping on you lefties for now.

If anyone wants to see the place I got most of these comments, here's the link: http://www.celiberal.com/index.php

That's all for now, I'm fully expecting a comment or two from Matt

Conan the Bubsarian

Vertical Bubs

Angela's sister Natalie is staying over here tonight. Her brother, Clark, was taken to the hospital again... hopefully he'll be fine.

Lincoln is starting to grab and hang on to things. Pretty cute, unless it's your hair, which he has done to me. He is also starting to chomp mega hard on my finger when I stick it into his mouth.. But the best part right now is that he is starting to sleep longer during the night. He's slept for 7 hours a couple nights in a row now. I think Ange is more grateful for that than I am.

So did anyone see Plaisted's dunk against CSU the other day? I heard it was the most spectacular ever, but I guess there's only crappy coaches video. I guess the CSU crowd was cheering pretty loudly when he did it. That got me thinking about doing a list of dunks, but I can't remember that many cools ones that everyone else would know about. I did find a link that some might be interested in that has some guy's opinion about the top 30 dunks of all time. http://www.ndaadunk.com/ndaa_awards/best_nba_dunk_of_the_time.htm

I'm not going to short change anyone, I do have a list for y'all.

Top ACDC songs played at sporting events

4 - RESPECT (Wait, that's on my list of top songs played in nerdy kid sport movies)

3 - All night long - first few bars only

2 - Back in Black

1 - Thunderstruck

That's the easiest list I've done, I should consider top four lists more often, but then you'd all be robbed of the genius that is the Bubs.

Kermit the Frog

Teacher Bubs

So Lincoln is 'walking' all over the place. He even decides where he wants to go. We didn't buy any shoes for the little guy, because we figure that you don't need shoes if you're not walking, and getting carried as your main mode of transport. But, we may have to break down and get him shoes earlier than we wanted.

In other news, Junior High kids are funny. Not because of their sense of humor, but because of their lack of sense of humor. So my list today is things that are funny to tell junior high kids, and watch the reaction.

Funny Things to Say to Junior High Kids

11 - You're using your calculator to add 1 and 1? Are you kidding me?
10 - Call them Homie or Holmes or Bro, and wait for them to tell you to never say that again.
9 - After lending them a pencil that has been behind your ear all day, tell them to kill any lice they see.
8 - When they finish an assignment, and they say "I'm done", respond with "you're dumb"?
7 - Say "I'm going to eat the bush" (Wait, that's on my 'funniest things Bart Lingwall has said' list)
6 - After getting a haircut, and the students ask you if you got a haircut, say 'No, I took a shower'. (A Scott Knecht joke) Then proceed to make fun of them for taking a shower every day.
5 - Declare that one of their questions was a stupid question, then when they say "There's no such thing as a stupid question", respond with "Yes there is, and you just asked it." Note: This only works when the question was actually a stupid question.
4 - You don't know your address? I know 4 year olds that know thier address.
3 - When they ask what were going to do today say "The same thing we do every other day... try to take over the world."
2 - When they get mad at you for something say "Don't hate the player, hate the game"
1 - On the first day of school, declare "I'm funny, you're not" Then watch faces as students think you're the biggest jerk in the world

It should be noted that I would never try out such childish lines on my students, but if I actually had a sense of humor, and I wanted to enjoy myself, these are some of the lines I would consider.

In other news, they votes for Mike and Christen's kid are 1 for Zephanie, 1 for Vyquetoriya Walkasheaqua, and one for Shabazz. We need more votes so Christen knows what to name the child.

Also, Matt has refused to play me in Backgammon, so the series is still tied at 2-2.

And finally, Seattle wins the Superbowl 31-17. Thanks alot Steelers for ruining a perfectly good matchup between Seattle and the Colts.

Could somebody please tell me how you could have infinity blockers in front of you, anywhere on the field to roam, and still somehow manage to get tackled by the quarterback.

Strider

Helpful Bubs

As you all know, I am always looking for a way I can help. We had a difficult time comming up with a name for Lincoln, so I thought I'd offer some name suggestions to Mike and Christen for their baby girl. I think it would be especially helpful, if everybody helps vote on the name they like best. Christen, you could tell all your blogger friends to come and vote as well, I'm sure you'd like to know their opinion... and no thanks needed.

Names Mike and Christen Should Name Their Girl

22 - LaBerta

21 - Kia - like the car, a poor man's Mercedes

20 - Fawntelle

19 - Dusty Dawn

18 - Poopsy - The name might as well fit

17 - Bagheera - It could remind you of Al Jazeera

16 - Daquiri

15 - Sky

14 - Arizonia - For the place you first lived

13 - Andreas - Especially if she is a child always about to 'snap'.

12 - Ocean

11 - Polo - For the snobby child

10 - Zephanie - In honor of her aunt

9 - Vyquetoriya Walkasheaqua

8 - ESPN - a real name

7 - Sylvester McMonkey McBean (wait, that's on my list of best Dr. Seuss names.)

6 - Serenity (Now)

5 - Moonshine - In honor of them Dukes

4 - Shabazz - Born in Utah, the name might as well end with two z's

3 - Kaysional Tempest - Pure Genius

2 - Hallah Lujah

1 - Seven - Good name for a boy -- or a girl -- especially a boy

I of course have others that I'll be looking at if we ever have a girl, I figure with 22 possibilities, there should be one there that fits your fancy. I don't ask for fame or money, I just want to help you guys out.

If you ask my brothers, they might try to help, but I'm sure their names would not be as good, except for Matt, who would suggest naming your child Juan Uribe Millburn -- what kind of a name is that?

and Ebert