Hope you enjoyed that creative remix of the fabulous commercial.
How has your week gone so far? Hopefully OK.
We attended the annual Home Owners Association (HOA) meeting last night. Oh boy – just confirmation that some don’t understand what it means to live in a condo and that some simply should not.
Golf league season has arrived and delivered a dilemma to me. At the end of last season, the course notified all leagues that it would be closing in a few months. My league (as well as my wife’s) found another course. Because my league involved changing days, I decided not to return. I found a new league, but then (and without notice) I discovered that league is no more. In other words, I’m currently a golfer without a league. Interestingly, the original course remains open – causing me to wonder – why did they runoff guaranteed income? Very strange and unprofessional.
Meals: The Musical takes to the stage in the next post. Act 2 features Fruit – so song titles must include fruit(s) or any nutritional fruit in the title. Keep in mind that tomato(es) are not acceptable. Using a similar rationale, nut(s) or any type of nut, are not acceptable. Advice – Don’t make it harder than it is because there are many songs available. Curtain time is Wednesday, 9:30 pm (Eastern US).
The pigs below are multi-tasking as they are not only getting their tune for Meals: The Musical, they are also preparing their Combo Challenge. For the newbies, the satirical headlines below are from The Onion, and the Combo Challenge involves forming your own original headline from the headlines below. My Combo is at the end.
Have a good rest of the week.
Embed from Getty ImagesReport: More Americans setting aside money in case of PR emergency
Empty “About Us” page leaves Chinese buffet’s origins shrouded in mystery
Allowance to teach children importance of parental dependence
Disheartened man expected at least one text while checking phone after flight
Hippocratic Oath updated to include vow of loyalty to insurance company
Increasingly worried man hasn’t yet come across any guacamole in burrito
Teen sick of mother barging into room with clean, folded clothes
Lettuce sentence to slow painful death in vegetable crisper drawer
Cat who spends life on one of two couch cushions given rabies vaccine
Scientists speculate extraterrestrials may have completely different hair than humans
Humble eccentric decline in-flight beverage service
My Combo: Humble, disheartened eccentric mother worried about importance of loyalty to guacamole on Chinese lettuce leaves
A Frank Angle 
“Cat sick of children with completely different hair.”–Wow, sorry, that’s the best I could come up with. Must be time to shut down the computer…
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Carrie,
The way some kids change their hair, I understand the cat’s sickness!
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Hey – I like this one!
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Spoken by a true animal lover. 🙂
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Sigh. I thought it was Wednesday. Since I have missed the opening of several “Acts” I waited patiently for 9:30. At 9:31, I realized that it’s Tuesday.
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Elyse,
Now there’s an example of anticipation excitement … So set the alarm because I imagine you could be watching the Nats game at that time.
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Ahhhhhhhh!
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Yep … right there with John watching the game and rooting on the Nats.
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Ahhhhhhhhhjjjjj
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Oh my Frank, can’t believe that it’s Wednesday already – no? You are just too quick. My week is going okay – good rain, my husband is now retired and well, things will be changing as we work through this new period in our lives and looking forward to it. Working on two paintings – one will be posted before the end of this week. So sorry to hear about your golf league – hope you come across one soon. HOA’s are interesting ~
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Mary,
Hope the adjustment for all is going OK. Congrats to hubby for his retirement. A key is to stay busy … and let you paint!
You must live in an HOA! …. Yep – golf league is a bummer, but I don’t think I’ll know my status for several weeks as I hope to at least become a regular sub for a league or two.
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Retirement will be one day at a time, until we get a routine (or until he gets a routine going) – he totally supports my art, so that is a good thing. HOA, oh yes – we live in one (nearly every neighborhood in No. TX has one), I have no complaints with ours. Bummer about your golf league, even being a sub is no substitute for being a team member. Have a great day ~
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Balance is important. We attended an interesting retirement workshop that focused on life … not money.
I don’t have any issues with our HOA as an org, but some residents are let’s say interesting. Meanwhile, the golf will work itself out.
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Thanks Frank – appreciate it very much.
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That commercial was THE most annoying thing ever! 🙂
Extraterrestrials barging in room come across eccentric mother setting aside cat in folded cushion.
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Dale,
That eccentric mother seems very real to me! … but intrusive extraterrestrials? How rude is that!!!!
You didn’t like the original commercial? Oh my my … of course video was a remix based on the commercial.
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Yes indeed! Should a cat end up in the laundy basket, it just might end up folded!!
I am not a fan of vines and this is, well, like a big, long one! But hey! We can’t have everything in common! The romance would wear off! 🙂
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Fan of vines? I’m missing something.
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Those annoying 6 second videos that loop…
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Ah ha … that’s what they call them!
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Any time, dear Frank, any time!
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Off to the airport.
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Extraterrestrials decline guacamole in burrito, include vow of loyalty to Chinese buffets. Sounds good! I’m without a league as well – never had one, so maybe this will be the year for me to join one. Went to the driving range last night, coincidentally. (not pretty)
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Kelly,
I went to the range for the first time Monday, and it happened that I played last night. A good start … but I know how fickle the game of golf can be. But my search for a league continues. Good luck with your playing!
Love your combo … absolutely love it!
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Yes, I’m afraid I’m going to need a lot of luck! And remember – you are my virtual golf pro, so I will be relying on your expertise! 🙂
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LOL … checking my memory … but didn’t you just start playing last year or so?
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Yep!
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Be patient with yourself … have fun …. slow back swing …. turn shoulders and hips … use the back leg as a pivot point …. all while watching the ball … then club to the ball.
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Ok just wrote all of that down – got it. I’ll refer to my notes next time I’m out there!
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In a nutshell … it’s a good day … but it can play on one’s mind … which can prevent one from enjoying it.
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I promised myself I would never take it so seriously that it ruined the fun of the game for me. My dad used to get so worked up it would ruin his whole day. I think that’s why I didn’t learn how to golf earlier in my life!
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There you go. Try to play the shorter courses.
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That’s all I play. I hear you!
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I do like the camel commercial. The pigs begs the question “Do you have a thing for pigs?” No combo from me today, the brain just isn’t working.
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Catherine,
Geico has a winner with the camel … and the one with the camels at the zoo. Sorry to disappoint, but no thing for pigs for me. but I have noticed the readers here who have enjoyed the interlude with pigs.
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ah ah ah I’m just back from the moroccan desert! I have a little objection: camel has two
humps, dromedaris just one single… it seems that most of the tourists get into this ancient dilemma…
Anyhow they are adorable (both of them) and I didn’t want to get on them since I think they shouldn’t be at all a stupid tourist attraction…
but I loved to watch them slowly moving across the dunes at sunset.
Take care :-)c
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Claudine,
Welcome back. Hope the trip went well and I imagine it was beautiful and rewarding. In terms of your point about camels, I will counter that with seeing two types of camels … Dromedaries & Bactrian … thus both are camels. Nonetheless, as you say, they are much more than a tourist attraction.
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Still in italian we call them: “cammelli” (two humps) “dromedario” (one hump)… eh eh eh these descendants of Caesar… so peculiar! :-)c
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Ah ha …. a language issue. Nonetheless, we are on the same page.
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Terrific variety today! Can’t wait to hear the top stories from your HOA meeting. Also, the “Old Band Directors and Their Next Door Neighbors” golf league I’m in desperately needs subs due to the precarious week-to-week physical shape of the old band directors.
I’ve got my fruit ready and have already picked out my vegetable and meat.
A whole bunch of Satire Bits face splats today, but my number one is “Empty “About Us” page leaves Chinese buffet’s origins shrouded in mystery.”
Speaking of Chinese food, my wife and I stopped by your longtime authentic Chinese menu restaurant recommend the other night to celebrate finishing our income taxes, and found it “under new management” minus the authentic menu.
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Tim,
Oh my … the news about the Chinese restaurant is disheartening. Nonetheless, receiving numerous face splats within The Onion set is quite high praise.
In terms of the golfing band director – some of which pace yardage 6-to-5 and others 8-to-5 …. there is an issue at the moment. The day that group plays is currently a work day for me. However, that may change in time. Just so you know … I hit my first balls of the season Monday … then birdied my first hole last night (#10 at Hickory Woods).
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This is mostly an 8 to 5 crowd, but occasionally a 6 to 5er from Texas shows up to sub.
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I figured that the majority was 8-to-5
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I can hear Hippocrates’ bones turn in his grave!!!!! 😉
Happy Hump Day!!!!!!!! 🙂
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Marina,
Regarding Hippocrates, I thought something similar! A toast to your Wednesday!
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😉 I raise my glass too! Cheers! 🙂
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Increasingly worried teen disheartened with parental dependence setting aside allowance money to slow painful death on couch.
Yesterday was my last day as one of the employed (at will). Today, I woke with a new attitude. I am trying to adjust. That is my week in a nutshell.
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Val,
Teens do worry about so many things! … Meanwhile … hmmmm … sounds like you are turning a new leaf. On my way over to read.
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Hippocratic Oath updated to include sentence to slow painful death…. I like that one
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Bulldog,
After all, one has to keep up with the times.
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Americans disheartened by loyalty oath updated to include guacamole.
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John,
Who would have guessed the guacamole as a special interest group.
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Just one of many
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similar to a conga line.
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LOL
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I know how this guy feels,
“completely Disheartened man given Lettuce leaves in Chinese in-flight service expected at least one beverage”
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Fasab,
And all in the backdrop of record airline profits!
BTW …. any ideas on the trivia question about the one location, 4 same states in all directions? Are you ready to yell “Uncle”?
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Indeed, record airline profits, cheap fuel and little or no reduction in airfares (yes, I have a post scheduled).
But I think I’m going to have to admit defeat on the location question 😦
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That’s not an easy question. Maybe I’ll pose it for others in an OITS, then provide the answer on a Monday.
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Sounds to me like an idea 🙂
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Scientists increasingly worried while checking extraterrestrials shrouded in guacamole on two couch cushions.
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Sylvia,
We all should worry because that’s a great disguise.
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Empty disheartened man barging into room with clean folded clothes, spends life on one of two couch cushions. Whew…I’m out of practice.
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Kayjai,
That’s pretty good without wine …. and I can see it!
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Too hard for this newbie to come up with a decent combo today Mr Frank and tomatoes ARE fruit! 😉
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Narf,
OK on the combo pass … but tomatoes are a biological fruit and a nutritional vegetable. Nuts are a biological fruit, but a nutritional grain & nuts.
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Bananas are herbs as well but that doesn’t stop most people from thinking that they are fruit 😉
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But is the banana tree’s fruit a herb?
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It really depends on which horticulturalist you are talking to at any given time Mr Frank 😉
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But that’s why I refer to the fruit of the banana fruit as a nutritional fruit.
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Chinese buffet spends life on one of two couch cushions with lettuce?!! Acckkkk eeewwww don’t eat it 🙂
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Christy,
Sounds like a buffet linked to a bachelor’s pad around a college campus.
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Hehe true enough! You’re a witty one, Frank. Let me count the ways, 38 ways… 🙂
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great post, I do find geico commercial really quirky 😛
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Hump Day on a Sunday. Yes – I’m that far behind…
My combo: Increasingly worried man spends life at Chinese buffet.
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RoSy,
Every-and-any day is good for grins and giggles. Meanwhile, whew … a spending a lifetime in a Chinese buffet could cause many hazards.
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