JabberWocky!

I saw an article on the news a few days ago about a zoo located in Gaza City. I was sitting on one side of the room working on the computer and looked over my shoulder to see that the zoo had gotten two new zebras and the children were having a fun time looking at them.

It wasn’t until I actually started listening to the words that I realized that these zebras were not zebras at all but they were in fact donkeys that had been painted by a professional painter made to Look like zebras!

Now I do not know if the children that were viewing them Knew they were zebra donkeys or not but from across the room, Until I actually listened and heard they were Not zebras, they looked pretty convincing to Me and I have seen a few real zebras in my day!

It was very ingenious if you think about it, but in fact the story behind it was a sad one!

It seems that they the zoo did in fact have two zebras in the zoo until they were neglected and died of hunger earlier this year during the Hamas War in Gaza City. When the zookeepers tried to replace the zebras they found that it was just too expensive and came up with the idea that if they bought two cheaper donkeys instead, they could be made to Look like zebras!

I suppose sometimes you just have to make do with what you have!

The zoo also has a few other animals by the way, an aging tigress, a camel and a few monkeys, birds, rabbits and cats. Not quite the type of zoo that I have ever seen, but the children seemed to be happy with what they had.

Donkey Zebras

That’s all for me today and I hope to see you all back again soon for some more good old fashioned…

One of the methods of ridding yourself of a phobia, according to the professionals, is to confront your fear and then magically it will probably go away.

Speaking as a person that does have a couple of phobias I have never been able to do this, what can I say? I am weak! I am afraid! In fact, I think I have a phobia about trying to cure my phobias! I don’t quite know what they call a phobia about curing your phobias but I do know the name of one of my personal phobias and that is…Acrophobia! Yes! I have a terrible fear of heights!

So I was reading about the tallest building in the United States today, The Sears Tower, soon to be renamed to Willis Tower, and how they now have “The Ledge”, or I suppose, The Ledges, which are glass balconies that are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building’s 103rd floor Skydeck!! They consist of transparent walls, floor and ceiling leave visitors with the impression they’re floating over the city!!! I Don’t Think So!!! I don’t even like being IN the Sears Tower, much less 4 feet from it in the middle of the air!

I don’t know about any other acrophobics, but I do know about this one, and I for one, will Not be trying to confront my fear of heights by stepping out onto “The Ledge” to see if I can overcome my fear of heights! In fact, just seeing a photo of one today gave me heart palpitations!

But for those of you that do want to confront your fears OR for those Evil Knievels of the World that love thrills and danger all I can say is:

The First Step is the Hardest!

That’s all for me today as I am going to lie down now and try to get these palpation’s stopped! But I hope to see all of you back again soon for more…

Isn’t he just the Cutest Thing?

People never cease to amaze me with the really dumb things that they can find to occupy themselves…I often find myself saying, “they are easily amused aren’t they”?

And one thing for sure, no matter how different we all are, there is one tradition common to all cultures, the gathering in large groups to participate in utterly pointless and often mind-bogglingly dangerous sports. and 9 times out of 10 all it takes is a lot of bored people and, more often than not, alcohol!

I was checking out this years 8 most baffling “sports” and couldn’t believe some of them…although I hate to admit it, I have heard of some of them which leads me to believe that I must be “easily amused” also!

And the 8 Lucky Winners that they came up with this year are:

• #8: Shin Kicking; Invented in England hundreds of years ago!!! And is pretty self explanatory; a contest between two fighters as to who can knock the other down by the simple, honest method of kicking the heck out of each others shins!
• #7: Bossaball (AKA Trampoline Volleyball); Invented in Belgium. It’s played on an inflatable volleyball court, and in front of the net on each side is a round trampoline so players can get some serious height when spiking!
• #6: Free Style Walking (aka Skateboarding Without a Skateboard); played anywhere jaw-dropping stupidity can be found. They go jumping off rails and fences using only their feet and get this, you can even buy special shoes for this sport!
• #5: Ferret Legging (aka Stuffing a Ferret Down Your Pants); Unfortunately I have heard of this goodie for many years! “Played” in Yorkshire England. Pretty simple, tie the bottom of your pant legs so the ferrets can’t escape then drop a couple down your pants and tighten your belt then stand there like a complete idiot for as long as you can while the upset ferrets try to get out! When you can’t take it anymore then drop your pants and release the ferrets! (The world record is held by a Yorkshireman called Reg Mellor, who kept two ferrets down his trousers for five hours and twenty six minutes back in 1981)!
• #4: Dwile Flonking (aka Beer Rag Tossing); Unfortunately I have heard of this one too!!!! Sussex, Kent. Two teams play the game. One member of a team, the flonker, stands with a beer-soaked rag on a stick whilst the other team links arms and dances around him, the flonker in the middle spins around in the opposite direction to the others and has to fling the rag at them. The girters have to dodge the rag. Points are scored if the rag hits someone, but if the rag misses, the flonker has to drink a chamber-pot’s worth of beer. The game is over when four rounds are finished, or when everyone is so drunk that any movement might cause them to vomit noisily or urinate uncontrollably. Points are deducted if anyone is sober enough to remember their gender at the end of the game!
• #3: Hornussen (aka Spastic Placard Flailing); Switzerland. Played by teams of up to eighteen on a very long, straight field. A launcher, a curved metal ramp, is at one end, by which a player stands. He smacks a small rubber projectile, the hornuss, from the launcher with a long, bendy stick that looked like a fishing rod. The members of the other team, are standing on the field waving placards and wearing helmets, the point is to “biff” the hornuss out the air by hitting it with a placard. But because of the hornuss’ small size and quick velocity, it’s very hard to spot so needless to say many members get hit by this “hornuss”!
• #2: Skibobbing (aka Suicide Ski Biking); Basically played in the Alps but has spread to the U.S.. Competitors go down very steep snowy hills on a bike on skis. So it’s like skiing, but oddly enough the bike doesn’t appear to have any way of stopping! Obviously it’s a simple sport for simple minds!
• And the winner is…#1: Camel Wrestling from Turkey. Camels are specially bred for the competition, and decked out with bells and colorful ornamentation. They’re then sent into the ring with another camel to do battle over a hot camel-babe in heat. Camels can win by either making their opponent fall, scream or gallop away in a leg-flapping manner!

Personally I don’t see why Camel Wrestling was voted #1…it seems pretty “normal” to me after reading the other choices but who am I to argue with the judges??

I don’t know why or how these sports were invented except for the fact that “people can be easily amused” but they were and I think it’s great that people can be such total morons risking life and limb for a little amusement!

I really shouldn’t talk though…I have participated in a few games of Naailen, (a very old Dutch game), in my lifetime, much to my chagrin. I won’t bore you with the details now…maybe one day, but suffice to say it did not involve risking life and limb…just a few hundred year old tree trunk!

Oh! By the way, if you want more details about these most “interesting” sports it can be found at:

This Years Most Baffling Sports!

And I do have a special message to all of my Dutch friends that has nothing to do with today’s subject…I hope you all have a wonderful 1st Christmas, Feast of Sinterklaas, today and get lots of presents!

Well! That’s all for me today, hope you have a great week-end and hope to see you back here again soon for some more good old fashioned…

Thank Goodness!!!

I am proud to announce that Uni and & didn’t make this list, not yet at least…I don’t know, give it a while and we just may!

Top 11 Lamest Blogs

Just a shortie today but hope to see you back again soon for some more…

Well I’m still so full from yesterday that I can hardly move this morning and after looking in the refrigerator I see that I have done it yet again this year!

I DO NOT know how I manage it, but Every Year when I cook Thanksgiving dinner and serve everyone that I can possibly find to get rid of the food, (I even gave some rolls to the ducks this year), I STILL end up with more food…especially turkey, than what I originally started with!

I swear Tommy Turkey Grows with every bite I take!

So now I’ve got the dreaded job of creating new creations for the next month with all of the leftovers! I needed some new ideas, (ones that weren’t mine because last year when I started serving turkey milk shakes I knew I was loosing it!), for what to do.

I found this site quite by accident but with all of the leftover turkey recipes it has I figure I’ll be safe for at least a month without having to sink to having leftover leftovers!!!

So if you didn’t take Tommy Turkey’s advice yesterday and “EAT BEEF”, and you need a little help with this problem too, maybe you’ll be able to find something new for your table also!

Leftover Turkey Recipes

Well, that’s all for me today…I’m going to go out and try to jog or Something!… if I can move at all, but hope to see you back again soon for some more good old fashioned…

The First Thanksgiving

I’m going off now to count my blessings and give Thanks but hope to see you back again…with full bellies, for some more good old fashioned…

This lady just woke up from the drunken stupor she went on Halloween night and just realizes she’s hosting Thanksgiving Dinner for 32 of her closest friends tomorrow!!

Personally I think she’s going to need a little help and in case you do too you might want to check out this Last Minute Thanksgiving Survival List!

Good luck & I hope you have a great day today…Don’t Sweat It…everything is going to turn out perfect…You’ll See!

That’s all for me today, hope to see you back again soon for some more…

Recently the stats on my blog have been going up each day on one particular post, (believe me when I tell you it was definitely Not my best post!), and on that post I have been getting at least one comment each day that I have to moderate. While I love for people to read my blog and comment on it’s contents these comments have been getting ridiculous and are obviously SPAM!!

These comments are coming from Russia and the first couple of days they were approved because the comments had merit and the Websites that these people had looked ok to me, (not full of ads to click on and make money…even though my Russian is sadly lacking what it use to be these days), but I have had to start deleting or marking these comments as spam recently as many of them, still on the same post, continuously come back and make generally the same comments now, something to the effect of “good” or “good blog” or “good work”, each time with a different name and Website but with the Same IP address.

Those of you that have been around here since the beginning KNOW FULL WELL how I feel about my blog/blogs being SPAMED as I wrote a very lengthy post about it quite some time ago.

So in closing this post, which I Really did not want to write…

Let it be know to everyone if I continuously receive comments on my posts, especially the same posts, with the exact same comment coming from the exact same IP address these comments will be purged and marked as spam from now on.

I hate to have to do this as I am generally a nice guy gal but I do so hate being taken advantage of!

That’s all for me today, hope to see you back again Reading AND Commenting, (Not Spamming me), soon here at…

about the Oklahoma woman who traveled to Louisiana to join the Ku Klux Klan and was shot to death by the leader of the group’s Bogalusa chapter Sunday after she tried to back out of initiation rites at a remote, sandbar camp in northeastern St. Tammany Parish?

It seems as though this woman had heard about this group called the Sons of Dixie and applied to join over the Internet so that she could recruit others in Oklahoma, she even requested that the organization waive its typical membership fee.

The woman traveled to Louisiana by bus on Friday to begin her initiation into the group, and after several rites, including a head-shaving, she was taken to a camp on a sandbar, accessible only by boat. The initiation continued at the campsite, with rituals that consisted mainly of lighting torches and “running around in the woods. Then on Sunday night she decided she wanted to leave the camp which in turn sparked an argument with the groups leader that soon turned violent. The leader then pushed the woman down and, as the argument continued, he shot her with a .40-caliber handgun. He then immediately moved to cover up the crime. He quickly flipped the woman’s body over and tried to dig out the bullet with a knife before ordering his followers to destroy evidence.

I don’t know about you but if it were me and I was about to do the same thing as the woman from Oklahoma I think I would begin to re-evaluate my choices about the people that I want to associate with!

What floors me even more about this story is some of the statements made by law enforcement.

St. Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain said that he couldn’t “imagine anyone feeling endangered or at risk from these kooks”, and that his Sheriff’s Office would not allow it. He then went on to say “we’re not going to tolerate this in St. Tammany”.

NOT FEEL ENDANGERED OR AT RISK FROM THESE “KOOKS”????

The man Shot and Killed the woman with a .40 caliber handgun in cold blood!!!! And tried to cover it up!! What do you mean can’t imagine anyone feeling endangered or at risk??

Another Sheriff Office Chief, Shannon Lyons, from Washington Parish stated, “I just think they’re wannabes, simple-minded people”.

Well, wannabes, simple-minded or whatever other types of people they are, they are Still Very Dangerous people if you ask me!

If you want to read more of this story it can be found at;

…KKK group tied to killing…

That’s all for me today, hope you have a good one and as always hope to see you back again soon at…

I have been irritated about this video all week-end and have finally decided that it bothers me so much that I just must say something!

E! News supposidly “confirmed that Angelina Jolie and her ever-burgeoning brood left the Lenval hospital in Nice, France, early Saturday” morning at 4:00 a.m.

This was done obviously to prevent too many of the paparazzi being around and of course for the safety of the children.

I personally think this was a very smart move and I would have done the same thing had I been Angelina and Brad.

But that’s not what is bothering me. What irritates me to no end is the video that is shown by AP. The video claims that there is a time lapse of 8 seconds but look at the amount of daylight in the video! 8 seconds at that time of day does not the difference between darkness and complete daylight make!

It is suppose to be Angelina, Brad and all of the children at 4:00 a.m. and it looks more like it was taken at 4:00 p.m.!!!!

I live only 3 or 4 hours from the location and take my word for it on Saturday morning, especially last Saturday morning, there was no way that it was that light at 4:00 a.m.!! In fact I happen to have been awake at 4:00 a.m. Saturday and it was still very dark at that time!

It would always be that dark at 4:00 a.m. in the morning whether it be summer or winter and last Saturday it was an especially dark day almost all day because of the terrible weather we’re having in our area!

In the video you can’t tell who is in the blackened out ambulance so obviously it makes one wonder what on Earth is AP trying to pull? Who were these people in this blacked out ambulance in the middle of the day? The reporters family? Some people that they found walking down the street and paid them to get into the vehicle? Or???

I don’t know about you but I always thought that AP was pretty reliable. I know that the press shoot video’s and write articles to suit their needs all of the time just to sell papers but this is ridiculous.

Now I’m not saying positively that this is a fake for sure, after all I will admit that I was not there personally, but think about it…how many times have you see it so light at 4:00 a.m. in France??

I find it very insulting that the press, especially AP, thinks that the public is so stupid that we can’t tell the difference between the middle of the night and the middle of the day!

I think this should be one of those “very embarrassing moments” and shame on you AP…you should be ashamed of yourself! If you can’t get the story/video honestly doesn’t mean that it is right to try to pull the wool over the public’s eyes!

Raw video: Angelina Jolie, twins leave hospital

That’s all for me today, hope to see you back again soon for more…