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That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh, I like it

Posted on October 24, 2008 by unfinishedrambler | 5 Comments

The first time I heard KC & The Sunshine Band was in second grade in 1975 on a record player. For those of you too young to remember, a record player looked (and still do, if you can find them) like this:

Now that we were listening to this album might not have been so shocking — well besides the fact that we were in second grade listening to the original bump-n-grind music– except where I grew up was Pennsylvania. Specifically, I was born and raised in a rural part of the state where the main (no, only) ethnicity was white as a Saltine cracker box except for the occasional black Sambos in people’s yards.

(Just for clarification while KC was a white guy, Harry Wayne Casey, but as you can see from the video above, his band was made up of a multitude of ethnicities. Strangely enough, later, as teens, we dug this rap group too that literally broke down walls and this artist.)

The girl who introduced our class to the new LP she had just gotten, I think, for Christmas, was none other than one of my nemeses: Robyn Richards, whom I’ve mentioned previously after getting spanked by Leigh from Leighonline in Humor Blogs Fantasy League Football.

Robyn would beat up on me regularly. She would sit on me and spank me, which I think I liked it in a totally (yeah, right) prepubescent non-sexual way. Now in retrospect, I think maybe that’s the way, uh-huh, uh-huh, I liked it.

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Posted in Flashback Friday, Unfinished rambling

Tagged humor, Humor-Blogs.com, KC & The Sunshine Band, Music, random, record players

…These are a few of my (favorite?) quirks

Posted on October 17, 2008 by unfinishedrambler | 5 Comments

Don @ Don’s Stuff tagged me to list my quirks and addictions last week, and I’m only getting to it now. I’ve already blogged about a few of my addictions ad nauseam: Scripto Giga pens, Ken’s Chipotle Ranch.

But my quirks (which for some reason always reminds me of the tic that Diane on Cheers had– and um, I don’t have anything that weird, FYI): I haven’t blogged much about them. Some of course you may already know (like my overuse of parentheses). Others, though, should be new to you because I don’t think I’ve mentioned them (yet) on any of my umpteen blogs.

So without further adieu, a few of my quirks (and at least one of my wife’s too):

When I’m in the car, I have to my shoes tied tight. I don’t know why. I just do. If I feel my laces loosening, I immediately pull over (except if I’m in a tunnel, which, ooooh, my wife hates tunnels– that’s one of her quirks, and she hates clowns) and tie them up tight. Maybe it’s that I feel like I’m losing control otherwise.
When I’m in the shower, I put the washcloth on the shower curtain rod until I’m ready for it. I don’t want it wet until it needs to be wet– not a moment sooner! I wash my hair first and then– and only then– I reach for the washcloth above me. Again, I don’t know why, but my wife pointed this out as I went with her to work yesterday morning since I needed the car…which brings me to:
I’m a terrible backseat/passenger seat driver, or so says my wife. According to her, I obsess about everything and it drives her, she says, batsh** crazy (which personally I don’t like bats…when I was young, our family went to a small church with a belfry and at night….ooooh, I hated them swooping down at me, which is why I hate barn swallows too…whenever I mowed the lawn at my grandmother’s, they’d swoop down at my head…it was like a scene out of The Birds, except with just three or four birds, but still…ooooh, I hated that movie). Of course, right before she mentioned this as she was driving, I had just told her she wasn’t going fast enough up a hill for me.
Okay, this one isn’t mine, but is one of my wife’s that I noticed yesterday morning. “Organic radio programming”: Now what might you ask is that? Well, when I tried to find the stations (about four or five we have in our neck of the woods…where we use terms like “neck of the woods”) by her presets and thinking they probably would be in order by numbers: 88.5, 94.7, et cetera, I learned that no, she doesn’t have them set up like that. When I asked her how she arranges her presets, she said it was “organic radio programming I don’t know them by their call numbers, but by position. It’s like playing a violin.” Ummmm…okay, hon.

So there you have it, a few of my (favorite?) quirks– and a couple of my wife’s.

We now return to our regular programming…where I don’t normally use the word “ooooh,” except when thinking about Sarah Palin…and I hasten to add (before your dirty mind goes somewhere it shouldn’t) I mean “ooooh” in this context: “Ooooh, I despise that woman [said with an appropriately clenched face and fist]!”

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Posted in The Wife, Unfinished rambling

Tagged humor, Humor-Blogs.com, quirks, random

…These are a few of my (favorite?) quirks

Posted on October 17, 2008 by unfinishedperson | 3 Comments

Don @ Don’s Stuff tagged me to list my quirks and addictions last week, and I’m only getting to it now one week later. I guess I took his post about procrastination to heart (which I only read last night, two days after he posted it). I’ve already blogged about a few of my addictions ad nauseam: Scripto giga pens, Ken’s Chipotle Ranch.

But my quirks (which for some reason always reminds me of the tic that Diane on Cheers had– and um, I don’t have anything that weird, FYI): I haven’t blogged much about them. Some of course you may already know (like my overuse of parentheses). Others, though, should be new to you because I don’t think I’ve mentioned them (yet) on any of my umpteen blogs.

So without further adieu, a few of my quirks (and at least one of my wife’s too):

When I’m in the car, I have to my shoes tied tight. I don’t know why. I just do. If I feel my laces loosening, I immediately pull over (except if I’m in a tunnel, which, ooooh, my wife hates tunnels– that’s one of her quirks, and she hates clowns) and tie them up tight. Maybe it’s that I feel like I’m losing control otherwise.
When I’m in the shower, I put the washcloth on the shower curtain rod until I’m ready for it. I don’t want it wet until it needs to be wet– not a moment sooner! I wash my hair first and then– and only then– I reach for the washcloth above me. Again, I don’t know why, but my wife pointed this out as I went with her to work yesterday morning since I needed the car…which brings me to:
I’m a terrible backseat/passenger seat driver, or so says my wife. According to her, I obsess about everything and it drives her, she says, batsh** crazy (which personally I don’t like bats…when I was young, our family went to a small church with a belfry and at night….ooooh, I hated them swooping down at me, I hate barn swallows too…whenever I mowed the lawn at my grandmother’s, they’d swoop down at my head…it was like a scene out of The Birds…ooooh, I hated that movie). Of course, right before she mentioned this as she was driving, I had just told her she wasn’t going fast enough up a hill for me.
Okay, this one isn’t mine, but is one of my wife’s that I noticed yesterday morning. “Organic radio programming”: Now what might you ask is that? Well, when I tried to find the stations (about four or five we have in our neck of the woods…where we use terms like “neck of the woods”) by her presets and thinking they probably would be in order by numbers: 88.5, 94.7, et cetera, I learned that no, she doesn’t have them set up like that. When I asked her how she arranges her presets, she said it was “organic radio programming I don’t know them by their call numbers, but by position. It’s like playing a violin.” Ummmm…okay, hon.

So there you have it, a few of my (favorite?) quirks– and a couple of my wife’s.

We now return to our regular programming…

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Tagged quirks, random

Meandering Monday #2: Stop the presses! I’ve posted on my blog! Sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll!

Posted on October 13, 2008 by unfinishedperson | 1 Comment

Today is the second week for a new feature here called Meandering Monday, where I…uh…meander on a wide range of topics, from sex to drugs and rock and roll. Okay, not really, but I thought if I could hook you in, why not? If that turns you off, then let’s say I’m going to meander about gardens, classical music and cooking. It’ll be like NPR or PBS, but without the letters and the pledge drives.

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First, up Sudden Wallet Awareness Syndrome runs in the family:

On Saturday, my father “lost” his wallet while we were at a picnic. I had to stifle a laugh as I thought, “Is this what I look…and sound like?”

My father: “I know it was right here…I don’t understand because I had it right here…”

About an hour later, he found it:

Funny thing is just before we left my parents, I “lost” my cell phone, but it “magically appeared” in my coat pocket where I left. I “lose” my glasses all the time too. Oh, there they are: ON MY FACE!

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Also while over at my parents, my wife…well…needed a feminine product, because she didn’t have one with her. Here is what she found from the days my sister was in college:

For some reason, it struck me as funny and made me wonder what other products could be advertised in a similar manner:

Choosing the right college is a smart decision…Choosing Scott’s Rapid-Dissolving Toilet Tissue is another smart decision!

Or for older people that might be going into nursing homes:

Choosing the right nursing home is a smart decision…Choosing Depends is another smart decision!

Basically, the slogan could go with any product for bodily functions of which you could think. You get the idea.

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My sister yesterday put up a post about how I inform her via phone every time I put up a post here or at one of my other 20 blogs (okay four other, but still…). I’m really not that bad.

I’m much worse. I not only call, but also e-mail, Twitter (which goes on my Facebook status too) her and others when I put up a post. I haven’t hired a skywriter or gone to a radio ad like she has suggested, but I might think about posting a YouTube video. Everybody else these days is on YouTube, why not me saying “Hey, check out the blog post I just put up!”?

I’m a blore like Lobo, I admit it.

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This Week’s Funny Find is papercages from the Outer Boondocks of California. I’ll be featuring her feed on my sidebar at right all week. Check her out. She’s someone I’ve seen a few times, but to whom I’m only beginning to be introduced. So far, I’ve highlighted Doug @ Taunt Vortex, Nick @ Buffalo This, Mike @ PlainOleMike and Kevin Lieber (a.k.a. Julius Bloop).

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Until next time…

Keep meanderin’ meanderin’, meanderin’,
Though others are disapprovin’,
Keep them thoughts meanderin’!

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