Gagstastic emails part IX- The Eye Test

I found them all and have to admit that they weren't all that easy.

I can't believe you are stupid enough to admit in public that you wasted time obeying the dictates of a forwarded email!


I also made my wishes - can't wait to see if they come true.


Uh, you might want to sit down for this one. If your wish comes true, it is merely a coincidence. Magical wish granting emails don't exist. What you need is this.


you are going to need glasses after this..............

How sweet! You send me something that you believe will negatively affect my vision for the rest of my life. Now that's what true friendship is all about!



The Eye Test
Can you find the B
(there are 2 B's) DON'T skip or your wish won't come True...


*rolls eyes*



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I had a car that sounded like that years ago! You'd turn the key and it would go RRRRRRRR and you'd pump the gas and hope it would start. It was burgundy except for the drivers side door which was white. It was kinda beat-up and everybody on the road gave me a wide berth for some reason. *shrugs*



Once you've found the B


If the B stands for buffoon, I know exactly where you are.


Find the 1


The one who won't send me these stupid emails?


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Once you found the 1..................

I've already found the one who annoys the hell outta me and that person is you.


Find the 6


Is it lost?


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Once you've found the 6...


Are you that naive? You hid a six in a group of nines? Were you one of those women who were talking about "teabagging" the White House last month and didn't understand why all the younger people were snickering?


Find the N (it's hard!!)

I'm not going there after the last one.


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Find the six in the gaggle of nines and now a plethora of M's.
*falls over laughing*


Once you've found the N..


Okay, I'm going there. N is for Nooner.


Find the Q....


Q is for Quickie.


OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Let's recap. You hid a six in a group of nines, then an N in a sea of M's, and now a Q in a group of O's. You must be the quiet type, huh?


Make 2 wishes!


I hope you grow chin hairs that you can't see well enough to pluck and your computer catches on fire if you ever send another one of these emails.


OK, NOW THAT U MADE A WISH, IT WILL COME TRUE.....
ALL U HAVE 2 DO IS FORWARD TO 3 PEOPLE BUT IF YOU FORWARD TO MORE IT WILL HAPPEN SOONER!!!


As badly as I would like to believe that a magical email could set your computer on fire and leave you with a hairy chin, I believe there's a special section of Hell reserved just for those who spam others with chain emails.

Thoughts on Sandra Lee's new show and old show

Quick explanation for my non-Shrike readers who don't watch Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee. First up, here's a link to some explanations of terms I'll be using. Shrikes are like Joel/Mike and the 'bots, and SHCWSL is the movie.




Snads new program, Money Saving Meals (or Money Sucking Meals as I refer to it) will be premiering this Sunday. Right now, it seems that no new episodes of Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee are planned. I feel kinda sad about this development. After I discovered the folks at TWoP, SHCWSL brought much laughter INto my life. Thanks to all of my Shrike buddies for the years of laughter you have given me.

I have high hopes that Money Sucking Meals will be just as unintentionally hilarious as SHCWSL. Don't let us down Snads. Shrikes everywhere are counting on you to deliver!

Let's look back at some of my favorite SHCWSL clips.

New crap that you may find amusing...

In case you haven't noticed, I have added LinkWithin to my blog. If you look at the end of each post you will now see: "You might like these stories" with links and sometimes pictures that correlate to three earlier posts. LinkWithin tries to pull out content that it believes is relevant to the post you are reading.

Let's have a little fun and see what results pop up if I write something crazy and don't assign any labels to this post for the time being.

Sandra Lee's monkey ate my crockpot, stole my wallet, drank all my vanella vodka, and tablescaped my cats.

Edited to add: Now I'm going to add some labels that don't correlate to this post to see what happens.

Edited to add: From my brief experiment, it seems that LinkWithin bases its results on the post and not on any labels you may assign to that post. I'm now going to fix the labels I've assigned so that they correlate to this post.

Feedjit hates me!

Dear Feedjit,

How come the words I used in my Google search are not showing up on another blog's Feedjit? Do you know how long it took me to come up with:

Sandra Lee got my monkey pregnant.
Sandra Lee's monkey makes f'ntastic tablescapes.
My monkey cooks better than Sandra Lee.
My dog cooks better than Sandra Lee.

etc, etc, etc...

In order to get a certain blog to come up in the search results?!?

Sincerely,

Hairball T. Hairball
Big Beaver, PA

Flashback Friday!

I had heard of The Thin Man before, but until a couple of years ago, I had never seen any of the movies. Mr. Hairball and I thoroughly enjoyed these movies! I'd be very surprised if Sandra Lee is not a fan as Nick and Nora just love their cocktail time. Whoot!

Hairballs on the Carpet of Life The Thin Man-1934 www.vtubetools.com

Part 1 of The Thin Man

Hairballs on the Carpet of Life After The Thin Man-1936 www.vtubetools.com

Part 1 of After The Thin Man

Hairballs on the Carpet of Life Another Thin Man-1939 www.vtubetools.com

Sorry, I couldn't find anything but the trailer for this one.

Hairballs on the Carpet of Life Shadow of the Thin Man-1941 www.vtubetools.com

Part 1 of Shadow of the Thin Man.

Hairballs on the Carpet of Life The Thin Man Goes Home-1944 www.vtubetools.com

Part 1 of The Thin Man Goes Home

Hairballs on the Carpet of Life The Song of the Thin Man-1947 www.vtubetools.com

Part 1 of The Song of the Thin Man


Have a good weekend everybody!!

There was a National Hairball Awareness Day and I missed it?!?

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE HOSTS
“NATIONAL HAIRBALL AWARENESS DAY” EXHIBIT AND PROGRAM ON APRIL 27, 2008
Temporary display of human and animal hairballs on display from April 25 – May 4, 2008

April 17, 2008, Washington, D.C. – The National Museum of Health and Medicine of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (NMHM) will commemorate National Hairball Awareness Day on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 1:00 p.m., with a special presentation and hands-on activity for the general public. Visitors will learn why hairballs develop in the stomach and will have an opportunity to handle an actual hairball. The Museum is located on the campus of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Link

Why would anybody want to handle an actual hairball? Should I be inviting people over when my two "hairball machines" do their thing? *shudders*

What happened to the music players?

First the bad news:

To those of you who were enjoying the music players I had embedded in my blog, I'd like to apologize for removing them. I've been unsuccessfully trying to keep up with deleting all of the 30 second samplers of music from the songs that were not authorized to play the full version in the embedded players. I hate listening to a 30 second sample of a song and I'm betting that you don't like it any better than I do.

Now for the good news:

You can still listen to the players, but you will need to follow the links to my page over at Imeem.com. You will need an Imeem account, but it doesn't cost you anything to become a member. When you get over there, take a minute to familiarize yourself with the music players. You'll see that you have a lot more control over your listening experience than you did when you were listening here on my blog.

Here's the link to my Imeem page.

Please let me know if you've having trouble over there and I will try to help you.

Hairball T. Hairball

Spaghetti, Salad, Bread and Brownies

Yesterday, I made spaghetti and served it with some French bread, salad with a Balsamic vinaigrette, (not vinegar-ette, Sandy!) and some brownies for dessert. After seeing Anne Burrell make Bolognese sauce on her show, I decided to alter my usual recipe and try some of her suggestions.

Earlier, I had taken half a pound of smoked sausage out of the freezer and let it thaw in the refrigerator. (I had chopped it up before I put it INto the freezer.)



Here I am browning the sausage a bit. Then I scooped out the sausage, and placed it in the bottom of my crockpot while the chopped garlic had a quick turn in the skillet before joining up with the sausage. Then, I added 18 ounces of tomato paste to the skillet, and cooked that for a bit.


Once, the paste had a brownish-red color to it, I added 2 cups of red wine and 1 cup of water. I stirred that in and let it cook until the wine/water mixture had reduced by about half.



Then, I added poured this INto my crockpot on top of the sausage and garlic from earlier, and added three cups of water, some salt, pepper, a couple of bay leaves, and some dried Italian herbs. Yes, I do have basil growing in the Areogarden but, but Mr. Hairball has asked me to leave the basil alone for the time being. It seems I plucked off more than I should have a few days ago to make some basil-garlic vinaigrette. *sheepish grin*

I set my crockpot on high, and I left the lid ajar by about an inch so that the water could slowly cook off. I periodically added a cup of water and let it cook back down throughout the day. I fished out the bay leaves and adjusted the seasonings a bit before serving.



After I got the sauce in the crockpot, I made some French bread dough in my bread machine. After the bread machine finished its dough cycle, I shaped the loaves, left them to do their second rise, and baked them in the oven.



Mr. Hairball loves to eat crusty bread with just a small dish of olive oil for dipping. I forgot to take a picture of his bread plate so you could see the cut bread, so here's what it looked like on my plate of spaghetti. This bread would also make wonderful garlic bread!





I decided I wanted a Balsamic vinaigrette for the salad, so I mixed this up. The picture is at angle as I was trying to not have the cabinets reflected on the surface of the dressing.



It's just Balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper, garlic, olive oil, and brown mustard. I used a 3 to 1 ratio of olive oil to vinegar, a tablespoon sized blob of mustard, four cloves of peeled garlic, and salt and pepper to taste. I buzzed in up in my mini-food processor till the garlic was pretty finely chopped.


This is Mr. Hairball's salad. He prefers mozzarella cheese on his salad unless it's a Caesar salad.

A few days ago, I made some brownies. Mr. Hairball ate them all and asked me to make another batch. So I made a double batch which will hopefully last until this weekend. This picture is of the first batch.



I based this recipe on one from Domino Sugar.

This is for a single batch for an 8x8 pan. It doubles nicely. Use a 9x13 pan if you make a double batch.

Brown Sugar Brownies

1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) plus 2 Tablespoons softened butter
2 eggs
6 Tablespoons Dutch-process cocoa (Hershey's Special Dark works well in these)
1/2 tablespoon (1.5 teaspoons) instant coffee
1/2 cup AP flour
1 cup whole walnuts or pecan halves

Preheat oven to 325F. Grease a 8x8x2-inch baking pan. In a large bowl, beat sugar and butter until fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in cocoa, instant coffee, and flour. Spread batter in prepared pan. Sprinkle nuts over the top evenly. Bake for 25 minutes. Cool in pan and cut into bars.

The Pantry

In light of the Swine Flu outbreak, I think all of us need to evaluate the status of our pantries. Here's a great post on this topic from a simple living blog that I have recently started reading:

down---to---earth: Preparing for an emergency

Gagstastic emails part VIII- Tater People

The original email had one animated potato and a link to follow. I clicked on the link and found the following text with groups of animated potatoes interspersed throughout . Think Mrs. Potato Head wearing sneakers, long eyelashes, red lipstick, and a black bowler hat. Wait! Maybe that was Mr. Potato Head?? *shrugs*

There was also the dreaded auto-start music which I truly hate.


TATER PEOPLE

Is that anything like pod people?

Some people never seem motivated to participate, but are just content to watch while others do the work. They are called "Spec Taters".

Some people send stupid emails. They are called "Irri Taters".

Some people never do anything to help, but are gifted at finding fault with the way others do the work.They are called "Comment Taters".

People who play with knives are called "Decapi Taters".

Some people are very bossy and like to tell others what to do, but don't want to soil their own hands.They are called "Dick Taters".

If you live near a nuclear waste dump, your family may be called "Mu Taters".


Some people are always looking to cause problems by asking others to agree with them. It is too hot or too cold, too sour or too sweet.They are called "Agie Taters".


I've fallen and I can't get up! Please call the "Resusci Taters"!


There are those who say they will help, but somehow just never get around to actually doing the promised help.They are called "Hezzie Taters".


People that like to crack their knuckles are called "Crepi Taters.



Some people can put up a front and pretend to be someone they are not. They are called "Emma Taters".

The people who fixed my tires are called "Ro Taters".


Then there are those who love others and do what they say they will. They are always prepared to stop whatever they are doing and lend a helping hand. They bring real sunshine into the lives of others.They are called "Sweet Taters".


Those prone to vertigo are called "Disorien Taters".


If you know any "Sweet Taters" send this to them!!


No Thanks! You "Gravi Taters" can have this crap!