Tag: funny

Beards?  They are for men who I am NOT in a relationship with.

A hipster beard?  A swarthy look?  Some pretty nicely airbrushed skin?

Nope. Well, actually yes to all of the above. But I guess also we’re supposed to assume he has syphilis.

I’m shaking my head at the concept behind this ad.  But it was fun laughing out loud.

I often make fun of Parade Magazine, but this picture was my favorite part of today’s paper.  The couple (Darth Vader and the Stormtrooper) met because of Star Wars, and three generations of the family will go together to see the new movie.  The couple’s plans were quite extensive, with viewings with various family members on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  Let’s hope the movie isn’t a stinker.

And this was my second favorite part of the newspaper, for different reasons.  Can you imagine how many of these are going to be bought by women of a certain age who have no idea what to get their sons of a certain age for Christmas?  I have no idea how Star Wars merchandising has escaped the backlash that accompanies other features. (coughDisneycough).

My favorite parts of this ad:  “Strong demand expected!”  “Arrives with a FREE light bulb.”

I checked to see if my brother wanted one.  Surprisingly he declined.

Oh, K/1.  What a marvelous place you are.  This class has been studying bikes.  They have created a bike track to show what they’ve learned.

Here’s the green track.

Here is where the blue and orange tracks cross. After creating their tracks, the children created a scavenger hunt, so people can find objects that the class learned about.

The factory information has changed.  Now you know.

We have a student this year who needs some special attention.  He was in the office one day with me because he didn’t want to do something and while I was trying to calm him down/let him wind down, he threw a notebook at me, hit me several times, tried to pull off my watch and flipped up my dress a few times.  Luckily he’s a quite-small kindergartener and wasn’t too effective in his wrath.  

The Speech Pathologist happened to be in the building that day and after he calmed down, she worked with him to make a poster about what he COULD do when he felt upset.  Everyone who comes in contact with him got a poster of their own.

So the day came when he was in the office again.  He was upset, so one of the Educational Assistants handed me the poster.  I set it down on the chair next to him and started to remind him of what it said. 

“I don’t want this,” he said, and crumpled it into a ball, which he then threw into the garbage can.  I chuckled.  When he calmed down, he pulled it out of the garbage can and we smoothed it out so it could continue to hang on my bulletin board, mostly so I could see it and think:

I don’t want this.

Thank goodness I took the band Journey’s adage to heart and learned eventually that “lovin’ a music man ain’t always what it’s supposed to be.”  If I hadn’t left drummers behind, not only would I be marking time through endless drum solos, but also I wouldn’t have met Matt.

I grew up in a family that watched spectator sports.  Baseball and football mostly, but also college basketball.  So I am quite familiar with this interview.  And thank goodness the boyfriend has absolutely no interest in spectator sports so I don’t have to listen to this interview any longer.

I can just hear the recess monitor now.  The funny part about this is that I took the picture standing on the staircase that heads down to the playground.  But the balls on the roof are so tantalizing, just at my eye level.

They were kind of asking for it with that title. And, thinking back to the standard overstatement of the delightful hotel owner in the first movie, it would have been been in keeping to call it the Even Better Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

Hee.  That’s all I have to say.  Hee.