Nativity Scene Failure

With apologies to the FAIL blog.

Vaguely disturbing

The following image is from a package of baby cereal/finger food:

The next image is from the original "Terminator" movie:

Is it just me, or does anyone else see the similarity? Look closer:

The jolly farmer bear (see the patched overalls and cart of grain) and his lovely companion (what a pretty smile) have chosen to picnic ON A SEA OF BEAR HEADS!!! THEY'RE BEARS SITTING ON BEAR HEADS!!! THE FARMER IS EVEN JUGGLING WITH THEM!

At least in the Terminator movie, the caterpillar-tracked vehicle is driving over the skulls of it's enemy. Farmer Bear is surely the Jeffrey Dahmer of bears.

At least the bear heads delicious finger food for babies is organic. That should count for something...

Oh, by the way, thanks again to all you ad-clickers. Because of you wonderful people I'm currently at 3.7% of my ad-revenue goal. More about that later....

Bones and stuff

Cyberschool field trip yesterday! (Yes, online schools do field trips too.) Sounded like a good excuse for a day off work, but then, is there anything that's not a good excuse for a day off work? Anyway, without further ado, here's the evidence...

Can we please go in...it's cold out here!

Looks like they solved the Loch Ness mystery.

Obviously a Chasmosaurus belli. Any fool knows that...

Aargh! Scary dinosaur head!

Aargh! Ancient Eqyptian Mummy

Aargh! Not-so-ancient American Daughter

Aargh! Snake Aargh! Baby!

Why does the snake handler look so nervous...babies are known for their gentleness!

Scene from the 2009 remake of "Alien".

Don't say you weren't warned!

All in all, a good time had by all. The traffic on the way home: not so good!

Thanks to everyone who clicks on the ads up top. More about that later...

Watch those catalogs...

Returning home from church today, my 8 year old son and I were discussing important events.

"Wyomissing. Home of the Spartans" he read.
"I thought that Sparta was home of the Spartans" I said wisely.
"Didn't you know they moved?" interjected my inspiring and amazing wife (who incidently holds the title of 'Top Goalscorer' of the Wyomissing U8 Moms Soccer Team - Go Honey!!!)
"Anyway, they wore rubber underwear" said my son.

Silence for a moment. A very brief moment. Followed by laughter, followed by a chorus of "WHAT??????"

"Well, it was something stretchy. It was in the picture."

More silence. More laughter.

Confused, I tried to figure out what he meant. Then it struck me. I managed to get on the mailing list for a mail order company called Museum Replicas. It's very exclusive...you can only qualify to be on the list by being alive...maybe.

Anyway, I let my son look at the latest catalog, because he's really into Romans, and they had some cool gear...like this:

Trouble is, I'd forgotten that they also do a whole line of merchandise from the movie "The 300." Here's their take on a warrior of ancient Sparta:

Hence the "rubber underwear."

Note to self: Be more careful with catalogs. Fortunately I'm not on a certain popular lingerie manufacturer's mailing list...yet.

Please don't let them know I exist!

Failed...

I recently came across the Fail blog. It's basically a collection of (sometimes VERY funny) pictures and videos of things that, well, failed. Here's an example:

Well, I've decided to have a go at this. Please feel free to send me any photos you think qualify (just click on my profile.)

Here's my first, this was taken at a Target store, that apparently had signage problems. Enjoy!

Not as advertised

Things don't always go the way I imagine them. I'm sure this never happens to you...

Take the other day for instance. I belong to a Men's Small Group at my church. We've been meeting now for a number of years at 6am Thursday mornings. It's a great time to socialize, have breakfast together and study different male issues in a biblical way.

Right now, we're going through a video series called "Winning at Work and Home". The teacher has some great insights into relationships.

Some are not so great.

"Make your wife feel secure." suggested Robert "Security is one her her biggest needs." He went on to give an example: "I looked my wife right in the eye, and said 'Honey, I hope you like my face, because you'll be seeing a lot of it. I am not going anywhere.'" Apparently, Robert's wife was made to feel really secure by this.

Inspiring stuff! Determined to make my wife feel just as secure as Robert's, I went home that night after work and sat with her.

I looked her in the eyes.

I smiled and said "Honey, do you like this face? You're going to be seeing a lot of it."

I waited for the anticipated look of security to show up in my wife's face.

She looked more like this.

"Have you been fired?" she gasped. "What's wrong?" I had to reassure her that I did still have a job, and that nothing was, in fact, wrong. Far from making her feel secure, my words had scared her out of her wits!

Can't wait to try the next suggestion...