RE: E-mail I got from Dad (who is over 63 years old - read: way to old to be allowed to use a computer) today about someone asking you to dial #90 on your phone and it would give the caller “unlimited access to dial long distance phone numbers and bill them to your home phone” (of course it was forwarded from a forwarded message, from a forwarded message, from a forwarded message…so you had to open about 20 messages before you could get to it)
The e-mail even said “I checked http://www.snopes.com/ and it’s TRUE”
Well, kinda…If you live in an office building that uses a PBX phone system and the stars were aligned just right on the 5th Tuesday of the month when the wind is out of the east and the person was Hannibal Lector and could dial phone calls from his jail cell with just a gum wrapper…
Since I get one of these e-mails from him about 3 times a week, in the spirit of goodwill, peace on earth and god-damned Christmas, I replied only with
“Chicken Little,
Check http://www.snopes.com/
Love,
Your Son”
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Yeti - Fact or Fiction?
For some strange reason I have been hearing a lot about Yeti lately. After looking at a blog on this site, I hit the "Next Blog" button at the top of the screen and found a blog about them . A podcast that I subscribe to had an interview with a "Yeti Expert" (read crazy person) who told a story about a woman who was hiking alone in the Weminuche Wilderness in Colorado.
Not alone, really. She had her 2 dogs and 2 goats with her. She was goat-packing (a.k.a. unemployed and recently kicked out of her rented mobile home), something I like to do any chance I get, especially alone and in Bear Country (more on bears in another post). According to Crazy Person, Goat-Packer was following a trail, but after seeing some people, she decided she wanted to find a more remote location (If you've ever been to the Weminuche Wilderness in Colorado, you understand the irony here...), so she went off-trail a few miles and made camp next to a mountain lake. Apparently, Goat-Packer's dogs started acting crazy (possibly after spending that much time alone with Goat-Packer) and she put them in her tent. As she exited the tent, she turned around and was face-to-face with a Yeti. According to Goat-Packer, the Yeti looked at her, looked at her goats, looked at her, and turned around and walked away very calmly.
Goat-Packer was apparently wasn't surprised at all by seeing the Yeti. She said that next time she goes on a hike, she'll be sure to take some sample jars with her in hopes of collecting some Yeti fecal matter.
Not alone, really. She had her 2 dogs and 2 goats with her. She was goat-packing (a.k.a. unemployed and recently kicked out of her rented mobile home), something I like to do any chance I get, especially alone and in Bear Country (more on bears in another post). According to Crazy Person, Goat-Packer was following a trail, but after seeing some people, she decided she wanted to find a more remote location (If you've ever been to the Weminuche Wilderness in Colorado, you understand the irony here...), so she went off-trail a few miles and made camp next to a mountain lake. Apparently, Goat-Packer's dogs started acting crazy (possibly after spending that much time alone with Goat-Packer) and she put them in her tent. As she exited the tent, she turned around and was face-to-face with a Yeti. According to Goat-Packer, the Yeti looked at her, looked at her goats, looked at her, and turned around and walked away very calmly.
Goat-Packer was apparently wasn't surprised at all by seeing the Yeti. She said that next time she goes on a hike, she'll be sure to take some sample jars with her in hopes of collecting some Yeti fecal matter.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
TreeHuggerWife and The Findhorn Garden
TreeHuggerWife and I are in one of those "Upscale-Resale" book stores a few weeks ago (which are really just well known for their conspiracy to sell "1st Edition" Harry Potter and Robert B. Parker books for $40 a pop), when the following conversation occurs...
TreeHuggerWife: I just found a book that I've always wanted!!
ConspiracyTheorist: How much does it cost?
TreeHuggerWife: It's Only $38
ConspiracyTheorist: What is it?
TreeHuggerWife: It's called The Findhorn Garden and it's about these people who bought some land and "went off the grid" and started a sustainable garden (read: smoked too much pot, lost their jobs, and threw their lives away).
ConspiracyTheorist: (turning to the book I'm perusing about Alien Implants and how to remove them) That's great. You should get it. We'll just take some money out of Peanut's college fund to pay for it.
TreeHuggerWife: Great! You're the best!
Unfortunately, any time TreeHuggerWife buys a book about something that interests her, I'm forced to change my life - This has involved any number of things like changing my diet, donating to some crack-pot cause for Global Warming (myth), use of a Netti Pot twice a day, getting regular high colonics, etc.
A few days later, another conversation...
TreeHuggerWife: You've GOT to listen to this (I know I'm in for another life change when a conversation starts this way)"...Dorothy discovered she was able to intuitively contact the overlighting spirits of plants - devas - who gave her instructions on how to make the most of their fledgling garden...."
ConspiracyTheorist: Are you sure they didn't just read a book on gardening?
I could go on, but what's the point really?
Get out your crack pipe and enter Crazy World here: http://www.findhorn.org/home_new.php
TreeHuggerWife: I just found a book that I've always wanted!!
ConspiracyTheorist: How much does it cost?
TreeHuggerWife: It's Only $38
ConspiracyTheorist: What is it?
TreeHuggerWife: It's called The Findhorn Garden and it's about these people who bought some land and "went off the grid" and started a sustainable garden (read: smoked too much pot, lost their jobs, and threw their lives away).
ConspiracyTheorist: (turning to the book I'm perusing about Alien Implants and how to remove them) That's great. You should get it. We'll just take some money out of Peanut's college fund to pay for it.
TreeHuggerWife: Great! You're the best!
Unfortunately, any time TreeHuggerWife buys a book about something that interests her, I'm forced to change my life - This has involved any number of things like changing my diet, donating to some crack-pot cause for Global Warming (myth), use of a Netti Pot twice a day, getting regular high colonics, etc.
A few days later, another conversation...
TreeHuggerWife: You've GOT to listen to this (I know I'm in for another life change when a conversation starts this way)"...Dorothy discovered she was able to intuitively contact the overlighting spirits of plants - devas - who gave her instructions on how to make the most of their fledgling garden...."
ConspiracyTheorist: Are you sure they didn't just read a book on gardening?
I could go on, but what's the point really?
Get out your crack pipe and enter Crazy World here: http://www.findhorn.org/home_new.php
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