April 2008
WatchMake your own UFO (Don’t be confused by the title of the video) When I was a kid I grew up in a house overlooking Lake Michigan just north of Milwaukee. Our house was 100 ft above lake level. My friend PZ and I would make these UFOs on a grander scale using dry cleaning bags (on occasion, 2 glued together) and 10-20 candles. On windless winter nights these puppies would float sometimes 300...
“I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up
something...”
– Lily Tomlin
Einstein
Not sure how true this is but it’s a cute story non the less… When Albert Einstein was making the rounds of the speaker’s circuit, he usually found himself eagerly longing to get back to his laboratory work. One night as they were driving to yet another rubber-chicken dinner, Einstein mentioned to his chauffeur (a man who somewhat resembled Einstein in looks and manner) that he was...
Voted Best Joke in New Zealand
Bruce walks into his bedroom with a sheep under his arm and says: “Darling, this is the pig I have sex with when you have a headache.” His wife is lying in bed and replies: “I think you’ll find that’s a sheep, you idiot.” Bruce says: “I think you’ll find that I wasn’t talking to you.
4 dipping sauces
kitchenmike: sauce no. 1: cambodian style: squeeze limes, add lots and lots of cracked pepper and sea salt. sauce no. 2: chinoise: 3 parts grey poupon, 1 part soy sauce and mustard seed steeped together, raw crushed garlic, wasabi powder. sauce no. 3: sweet and sour kitchenmike style: 3 parts sweet chili sauce, 1 part water, 1 part rice vinegar, basil, cracked black pepper, cayenne pepper,...
