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We're Ready for April Fools' Day

Yesterday, while we were riding in the car, Eric said to me, "Remember that time when I farted into a cup and I handed it to you, told you to look inside, and you put it right in your face?"  How could I forget?  Needless to say, he learned after one time not to do that to me again.  However, he went on to say, "What if I did that into a bottle with a message in it?"  We decided it would be too disappointing to go to the trouble to prepare the prank and not know for sure if the smell was actually contained by the time the message was found off the coast of Africa somewhere, but then we remembered that our new neighborhood has several ponds and lakes.

Dinner Menu for March 31, 2011

Buffalo Wings

Stuffed Peppers

Refried Beans

Spicy Nachos

Beer

My Hero

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, professional wrestler and actor, recreational photobomber

My second favorite part of this photo is the one lady's epic Christmas sweater.  My third favorite part is that the other lady is holding a pair of maracas.  Feliz Navidad.

Yearbook Yourself

I came across a very fascinating website recently, Yearbook Yourself. It allows you to upload a photo of yourself and insert your face on to yearbook photos of people in two-year increments from 1950 to 2000. It's actually a very sophisticated website. It just pastes your face on at first, but then you can adjust the tint of the skintone, rotate and flip the photo, and move it up, down, left, and right. The results of my tweaking aren't perfect but they are definitely interesting! I hope you enjoy this look through our time-traveling yearbooks.

Separated at Birth?

Kevin Jonas's fiancée Danielle Deleasa...and my brother-in-law Jeff's girlfriend Marissa Scotellaro?

Kevin Jonas Gets Engaged!

Who thought of this?

marriedtothesea.com

I Love My Country

This year, no one but I will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of Trapper County War, an alleged action-adventure film that features two songs--and a cameo appearance--by my dad, Terry Pinder. These tunes include "Certified Fool" and "I Love My Country," which I think is great title (the song features a clever double meaning).

In honor of this milestone, here's a collection of some interesting country song titles. Some of these may be inaccurate, but they're still worth reading if you're bored.

• All My Exes Live In Texas
• Bubba Shot The Jukebox
• Drop Kick Me Jesus (Through The Goal Posts Of Life) -- one of Dad's favorites
• Get Off the Table, Mabel (The Two Dollars is for the Beer)
• Get Your Biscuits In The Oven and Your Buns In The Bed
• Here's A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)
• How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?
• How Come Your Dog Don't Bite Nobody But Me?
• I Bought the Shoes that Just Walked Out on Me
• I Can't Pass the Bar, and There's One on my Way Home
• I Changed Her Oil, She Changed My Life
• I Don't Want Your Body If Your Heart's Not In It
• I Gave Her My Heart and A Diamond and She Clubbed Me With A Spade
• I Gave Her the Ring, and She Gave Me the Finger
• I Got In at 2 With A 10 and Woke Up At 10 With a 2
• I Guess I Had Your Leavin' Coming
• I Still Miss You, Baby, But My Aim's Gettin' Better
• I Wish I Were A Woman (So I Could Go Out With A Guy Like Me)
• I Would Have Wrote You A Letter, But I Couldn't Spell Yuck!
• I'd Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me Than A Frontal Lobotomy
• If I Ain't Got It, You Don't Need It
• If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You
• If I'd Killed You When I Wanted To, I'd be Out of Jail By Now
• If My Nose Was Running Money, Honey, I'd Blow It All On You
• If The Jukebox Took Teardrops, I'd Cry All Night Long
• If Today Was A Fish, I'd Throw It Back In
• If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead?
• I'll Tennessee You In My Dreams
• I'm Drinkin' Christmas Dinner (All Alone This Year)
• I'm In Love With a Capital U
• I'm So Miserable Without You, It's Like Having You Here
• Jesus Loves Me But He Can't Stand You
• Legendary Chicken Fairy
• Mama Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head)
• Phantom Of The Opry
• Please Bypass This Heart
• She Got The Gold Mine and I Got The Shaft
• She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
• Tennis Must Be Your Racket 'Cause Love Means Nothin' To You
• Thank God and Greyhound She's Gone
• The Pint Of No Return
• Timber... I'm Fallin' In Love
• We Used To Kiss On The Lips, But It's All Over Now
• Welcome to Dumpsville, Population Me
• When We Get Back To the Farm (That's When We Really Go To Town)
• You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith Too
• You Changed Your Name From Brown to Jones, and Mine From Brown to Blue
• You're The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly

Assault with a Deadly Pet

The following article has nothing to do with our lives, besides the fact that I watch Project Runway and I'm a big fan of Season 5 villain Kenley's designs. And also that it made me laugh my jeans off, so I had to share it with whomever is reading. From IMDb:

Project Runway Designer Pleads Guilty To Disorderly Conduct

A former contestant on Heidi Klum's TV designer challenge Project Runway has pleaded guilty to a count of disorderly conduct after allegedly beating her former boyfriend with a laptop computer and throwing her cat at him as he slept.

Kenley Collins was arrested on 17 March and charged with two counts of assault, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment.

The 26 year old was fined $120 and handed a two-year protection order prohibiting her from contacting her ex, Zak Penley.

Identity Crisis

Eric Brown

There are 835,733 people in the U.S. with the first name Eric.
Statistically, Eric is the 52nd most popular first name.
99.63 percent of people with the first name Eric are male.

There are 172,963 people in the U.S. with the first name Katie.
Statistically, Katie is the 355th most popular first name.
More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Katie are female.

There are 1,901,063 people in the U.S. with the last name Brown.
Statistically, Brown is the 4th most popular last name.

There are 1,074 people in the U.S. named Katie Brown.
There are 5,190 people in the U.S. named Eric Brown.

Source: HowManyOfMe.com

Katie Brown

Digging a Hole to...the Indian Ocean?

No, I didn't really think that I'd come out in China if I dug a hole in my backyard (if I had a backyard). I know I'd eventually burn up in the earth's fiery core. But if I could be come the opposite of flammable (which is NOT what "inflammable" means, by the way) and had reasonable means to make it all the way through from one side of the planet to the other perfectly diametrically, and I had a backyard, where would I potentially end up?

The answer, according to the Internet (which, as we all know, is always reliable) is here:

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN! Good thing I never tried it!

"Try it" yourself, virtually, by heading to this site, If Earth Were a Sandwich, wich (haha) is actually a very logical way to wrap one's inflammable mind around this concept. Enjoy!

P.S. F.Y.I. T.T.Y.L.

Bernard Pivot Survey

Katie's Answers

What is your favorite word? girly
What is your least favorite word? moist
What turns you on? nice smells
What turns you off? stinky smells
What sound do you love? really good quality music
What sound do you hate? burps
What profession other than yours would you like to attempt? forensic linguist
What profession would you not like to participate in? doctor, nurse, or anything involving blood
What is your favorite curse word? d**chebag. If you can separate yourself from the word's meaning, it sounds really funny.
If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? "I wish they'd stop saying 'if heaven exists' on that actor show."

Eric's Answers

What is your favorite word? wonderful
What is your least favorite word? don't
What turns you on? my wife
What turns you off? when my wife is sleeping
What sound do you love? Katie singing
What sound do you hate? cash register going cha-ching! (that means my money's going away)
What profession other than yours would you like to attempt? train engineer
What profession would you not like to participate in? garbage man
What is your favorite curse word? f**k
If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? "Thank you for not voting for Obama"

Fun Cruise Stuff - Volume 2

Here's the sequel to the first Fun Cruise Stuff post--the fun tidbit as promised. Our cruise director had a sense of humor, and on the last night of the cruise he presented the following list of questions asked on the cruise. Since then, I've found out that many cruise directors list the same questions, so you may have heard this list. Still, we thought it was pretty funny.

Top Ten Silliest Questions Asked on a Cruise

1. How far above sea level are we?
2. If I’m married, can I still go to the singles’ mix and mingle?
3. Does the crew sleep onboard?
4. Do I have to leave the ship to go on a shore excursion?
5. Do you think my face is too big for the mini facial?
6. Has this ship ever sunk?
7. Is the water in the toilets fresh water or salt water?
8. What happens to the ice sculptures after they’ve melted?
9. Is the island of Coco Cay completely surrounded by water?
10. If the photos in the gallery aren’t labeled, how do I know which ones are mine?

Stay tuned for one last Fun Cruise Stuff post with the video montage of our vacation!

P.S.

Headline of the Day

Charge Dropped in Gas-Passing Case

How many cannibals could your body feed?

It's a very important question.

Katie's Results



Eric's Results



Bon appetit!