May 30, 2004
The Laws of Pizza

Italian law makers have recently passed a series of laws that force all Italian pizza makers to make pizza by certain standards, or lese they may have their pizza-making-liscense suspended. These laws include the following:

-No pizza made in the country of Italy may be larger than 35cm in diameter, and no more than .3 cm thick in the middle.
-All dough used for pizzas must be hand-kneeded.
-Any and all motzerella cheese used as pizza toppings must come from the Appenine Mountains.

There are also laws regarding which kind of tomatos must be used, where the meats for the toppings should come from, and what kind of ovens may be used to bake the pizzas.

Only Italians could possibly concieve having laws regarding their food. It is that important to them that they need to make their pizza's so regularly so that they stand out. As if Italians don't stand out already.

Oh god, just imagine in two years, when the French and the Germans have caught on, and they start passing laws regarding their soups and sauces, and what kind of meats can have that '-wurst' suffix attached to them, like "Brockwurst," or, "Petewurst," "Porkwurst," and "Guntershimzerhimnenwurst."

Let's just hope the food laws don't spread over here, because then we'll have to start having laws invovling hot dogs and hamburgers, and fries! Good god: "No French Fry can be more than 4 inches in  length, and each has to weight between .03oz and .07oz.

Crazy Europeans. We should annex Italy just to remove those stupid laws. Food is not supposed to be restricted by the government. Sure, if it's laws like "No food containing poisonous ingrediants may be sold," then fine, it's cool, but not laws like this. Food is the one thing that isn't, oh, my bad, wasn't, influenced by politics. Guess that changed.

Posted at 07:05 am by Shrike
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May 26, 2004
MEGA MUFFIN

Okay. Seriously now. Muffin's are getting way too big for anyone. They're gigantic! It could be served as an entrie course at the Texas Roadhouse. And don't even talk to me about the size of the blueberries in them. I think there's some mathimatical theorum that states: "The size of the blueberries and/or chocolate chips embedded in muffins must be directly proportional to the muffins themselves."

They are way too big for they're own good. Those blueberries are the size of....really really really big blueberries. And the chocolate chips seem as though they implant Hershey Kisses directly into the dough.

To offest this capacious propblem, they came up with the idea of Mini-Muffins, as opposed to the Mega-Muffins, which are now served as regularly as diner rolls.

Mini Muffins are tiny insignificant pieces of Muffin (we're talkin pea-sized here) that aren't nearly enough to provide you with adequate nutrution fufillment, but they are just enough to get you wanting more. So then you go take another mini-muffin, not knowing that you have just become hooked on these miniature muffin-like cupcakes, forcing you to keep eating all six of the muffins in the container, and then you're just hungry enough to eat one more muffin, but there aren't any left, so you're screwed, because a snack like Cheez-Its will taste weird after muffins. If you get the twelve-pack of muffins it's just the opposite. You eat maybe nine or ten of them, so you'll only have two left over for the next consumption, but then you're sick to your stomach because your stomach isn't used to muffins that are so unsubstantial.

So you're screwed.

Why don't they just make normal muffins?

Like they used to have, way back when muffins were sized like normal muffins. I'm going to get a congressperson to pass a bil declaring that muffins must be of reasonable muffin-sized sizes.

I'm sick of those prune-sized blueberries anyways.

Posted at 02:22 pm by Shrike
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May 24, 2004
Ranting In Bed

Okay, time to admit it - everyone has indulged in the classically imature "-in bed" game. The one where you take a slogan or motto from somewhere - usually hardwear stores or pet food brands - and add the words 'in bed' after it, to create some sort of comical sexual inuendo.

And boy, there are some great ones. For instance, a few of my friends an I, wondering about a Stop&Shop one night, decided to partake in this activity, and I, personally, will never look at Ice Cream the same way. "Rich and Creamy" was one phrase we used, "A Delightful New Taste" was another, and lets not forget, "You'll Never Try Anything Else!"

Mind you, this was at around 11 at night - so we were drunk with tiredness to begin with.

So, point-gotten (at least I hope so), I'm going to open up to all four of you who read this little thing - send me the worst, or best, whichever way you want to look at it, slogan that can be followed up with '-in bed' and make everyone in the room giggle like mad, cccomparable to the times when your teacher would say 'penis' in your fourth grade health class.

Let's roll em in! I sincerely doubt that this page is popular enough to get more than say, three different ones (and those three will from people who I specifically ask to contribute), but what the hell, it's funny, right?

Yes, it is, godamn you, I'm funny. Go make up some sex-phrase.

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May 23, 2004
The 4 is Silent

Last week sort of, while pondering some dimensions in geometry, and while listening to "Poisoning the Pigeons in the Park" by Tom Lehrer, I came to the conclusion that I want to change my name to "And4re." The '4' would be silent.

Do you think that they'd allow that? I was just thinking - how cool would that be? When you write checks out - you'd have that 4 in there. Or when telemarketers tried to call me - they'd think it was just a typo in their listings, but nope. "And4re."

See, you can put hyphens and dots and apostrophes in names - why not numbers? And how about an exclamation point after your name? "And4re!" That would be awesome.

I am so going to do that.

And become famous.

Posted at 07:06 am by Shrike
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May 19, 2004
The N.P.A.

Apparently Werewolf Was Allergic To Peanuts
NEW ORLEANS—The werewolf who died while attacking a young woman Sunday must have been allergic to peanuts, experts said Tuesday. "The wolfman crashed through the intended victim's front window, but before the accursed beast could tear her apart in a savage fury, he stepped in a bowl of honey-roasted peanuts," said Dr. Alex Price, professor of lycanthropic studies at Tulane University. "Within seconds, the hellbeast's face began to swell, and he collapsed into an anaphylactic attack, unable to breathe." Price said that, had the werewolf not been more animal than man at the time of the attack, he likely would have used the epinephrine injection pen paramedics found in the breast pocket of his shirt.

That's right. Werewolves are not invincible!

It's time to fight back!

This proves that it's time for the National Peanut Act. Every person living in the United States should be required to carry a bag - no matter what size - of peanuts around at all times. This is not only a helpful public safety measure, but people will be encouraged to carry around more than one bag - just in case they get hungry.

Vote for the N.P.A. on June 21st. Let werewolves threaten us no longer!

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May 16, 2004
Sexy Bunnies.

Okay, so I'm moving soon, not far, just to another location in the town. Sorry for the lackness of updates, but I've been pretty busy. Busy making sure all my Generals files are saved. I'm also looking into the aspect of transferring this page to a real website, because it's kinda sad to be doing this on a blog.

Anyways, so the open house for my house was today. Now, it only lasted two hours, but when I got back, my room was a total mess. My bed looked like it had been attacked by the muffin monster, (there were litterally muffin crumbs on it - a lot of muffin crumbs), there were two pairs of sweatpants that I haven't worn in three years on the floor, one of the keys in my keyboard was misplaced, numerous CD's had been broken in half and strewn around the floor, and my computer was displaying the oddest screensaver I had ever seen - and I had never seen it before. It was a picture of two bunnies. One of the bunnies had been edited in what looked like Microsoft Paint so that it was green, (there was a big green blob on it's body) had evil eyebrows and a devil's tail, and the other bunny was wearing a very poor rendtion of a lace bra and panties. (I really don't know how this indiviual got this to work on a bunny, but I suspect it was proportionally acurate if I ever tried to dress up a bunny in lingere.) Now, both bunnies were suspended on a scale, and one bunny was slightly heavier than the other one, and there was a picture of one of the actors from 'Platoon' aiming his AK-47 at the bunny dressed in drag's head. Then, scrawled across the bottom of the picture, was "PROPAGANDA!" emblazened in big white letters. I didn't save the picture, unfortunately, so I can't show you guys.

Which brings me to my next point. Whoever drew that was either a very disturbed 9 year old, or some stoned hippie who thought it would be funny to litter my computer with his 'PROPAGANDA!'

Please, don't do drugs.

I cannot stress this enough.

If you like to draw bunnies in lingere then please, go do it on your own time, or go screem "BOMB" really loudly at the nearest metropolitan commercial airport.

Please.

Posted at 01:33 pm by Shrike
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May 12, 2004
Obviously Not Obvious.

I would like to point out a few facts that I thought were common knowlegde, but apparently some people haven't quite grasped some of their simple concepts. Firstly, chairs are inanimate objects. They cannot talk, they cannot hear, they can't do any human-like activites. In fact, they can only do chair-like activities, mainly because they are chairs, and they cannot do much else. I thought this was obvious, but upon listening to a certain song by one Neil Diamond, it was brought to my attention that maybe some people didn't know this. One of the lyrics in the song is "nobody heard me, not even the chair."

People should aslo take into account the fact that the phone number '911' is an emergency line. It is used to report emergencies, such as fires, or murders, or catnaps or popped kidneys and things like that. It is not used as a homework help-line, which is one call that came in not too long ago to a station at which I have a friend who is a dispatcher.

Also, pianos can not really be considered weapons, though there was an incident a week ago in which one person a few towns over tried to attack another person with a piano. I really don't know how he did this - I can't even imagine it, and I'm not sure I want to - but I want to assure that fellow that there are plenty of other weapons to choose from that are probably much more convenient to use. Attacking someone with a piano might not get your point across. Although, I'd hate to see that on my obituary: "Cause of death: Attacked with a Piano."

And finally, cell phones should have never been allowed to have cameras. There is an entire new porn industry thanks to that little addtion there.

And it pops up on my computer every time I turn it on.

Damn you.

Posted at 12:26 pm by Shrike
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May 7, 2004
Alien Druggies

According to apparently really really really smart scientists, there is 'conclusive evidence' that there are really really probably no other life forms on any other planets in our galaxy. I don't know expactly how they managed to come to this conclusion, but this makes me sad. Because, (get ready for a rare piece of actual information here) even if there is life in other galaxies, we are too far away from them, around something like 200,000 lightyears, to ever recieve any transmission ever sent. In fact, the article declares that there may be thousands of races out there, and they've tried contacting us, but we've only been around for 2,000, much less 200,000 years.

Sucks for you alien guys. But it sucks for me too, because, I always wanted to meet an alien. Like, would it be really small, and green, with big eyes, like the classic alien? Or would it look more like a Pokemon thing? Random big ones and small ones. Would they have pets? Would those pets have teeth? What if they couldn't see color? Then you could teach it like 'this is yellow!' and point to a blue. What if they were blue? Like, a superintellegent shade of the color blue! (Yes, I stole that from Doug Adams) But still, how cool would that be? You could teach it to sing the "I'm Blue" song. Remember that one? That song still bugs me.

But unfortunately, no aliens for me. Though I suppose it's a good thing if they were like the Independence Day aliens or like, the Zerg. That would suck. Let's not mee the Zerg. The aliens should be more like....hamsters. Yes. Cute little fuzzy things. Towels! Living towels. Yes. Like towlie. Only they don't get high. They'd have their own drugs. Not sure how I got onto the subject of alien drugs, but whatever.

Which brings me to my next point: Never ever try to count those little holes in high school room's ceilings. Especially in geometry class. It makes you think of the stuff up there. Probably something you don't want to do.

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May 5, 2004
TOOL.

Okay. There are a lot of people wondering what the definition of a 'tool' is. Having pondered the question myself, I will explain to everyone how to point one out.

Firstly, let's try to identify the basics. Tools are things that people can use to their advantage. Like hammers. Or guns. Or little siblings.

To point out a tool, all you have to do is identify the person that you wish to classify as a 'tool' or anything besides one.

For example, let' take this guy.

His name is Steve.

He works at some sort of place that has to do with oily-type contraptions. He is wearing sunglasses and a cap, and he has a mustache. However, since there doesn't seem to be anything abnormal about him, he is not a tool.

A tool is someone who really isn't cool at all. They don't contribute to society in general in any way, but they still try to blend in by being 'unique.' Or something along those lines. Steve here seems to be contributing - he's standing at engine/drink-maker type things. He's not really a tool. However, if, in high school, he tried to blend in with everyone else, or did random stuff to stand out, and no one liked him, then he would be a tool.

There is a guy I know. His name is R.J. He ran around in 3rd grade pretending to be an alien. No one likes him. His middle name is Justin. Recently he tried to get everyone to call him that. He is a tool. He's not cool, yet he tries to be.

Here is an exmaple of a tool.

His name is Fred. Note: he's wearing red shorts. Those never look good. He has a motorcycle - because he wants to be like everyone else in that room. He's wearinga hat that says 'aprilia.' No one knows what that means. He is a tool.

Now, here's another example.

I could not find his name, so let's call him 'Buffy.' Buffy here doesn't appear to be a tool at first - but be careful, he's wearing a suit, which means he couild be in politics. If he his, then he's a tool. Everyone knows that politics don't matter, especially now, with Shubbery here in the White House. So Buffy's a tool. Sorry Buffy.

Now, while some tools require a thorough investigation to spot, some don't need any at all. Observe.

This guy, Jimmy, has 'tool' written all over him. You can just tell. Doesn't he look like a tool? He was obviously one of those depressed kids in high school who didn't get a date until senior year, and who will go to college thinking he will make a difference. He won't.

And finally, it is important to distinguish between a tool, and someone who's cool. Let's look at a group of people and pick out the tools.

Okay, so the semi-Asian-looking guy on the right is a tool. He has a lisp and studies everyday. All day. The guy in the middle, in the white shirt, Xavier, isn't a tool. He has long hair, which can go both ways, but he is also big and in the front. Not a tool. The girl to the left is in the middle. She's not a tool, but wearing the green hat isn't quite her thing. The dude sticking his tongue out in the back is a tool. His name is Bobbo and he's just a tag-along. The girl too the far right is a cool one. She's wearing combination shower cap/sponge.
Most of the rest are tools as well. Though the guy off the left of the screen is a cool dude. I know him.

Please, keep in mind my pointers, and you will have no trouble at all identifying a tool.
When they are all identified, then we can group them together and send them off to someplace way the hell off in Canada. Then they can hang around and think that they're all cool.

Joke's on them.

Posted at 01:26 pm by Shrike
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May 3, 2004
Iowa Matters?

Okay okay. There are complaints from enviromentalists that we "are running out of landfill space."

This is completely and utterly wrong. What the hell else are we going to do with Iowa?

Okay, so that was a joke, Iowa is not important enough to house landfills. Come to think of it, what the hell is in Iowa anyhow? Moose? No..that's Canada. Cheese? Nooope, that's Wisconsin. Cork? Portugal makes that, so, no...well, anyways, there is absolutely plenty of space left on the planet for landfills. Try Siberia. No one lives up there. Or Greenland. Plenty of room.

Enviromentalists also complain about the nature of landfills. That they 'ruin the enviroment.' The high school in my town was recently renevated. The trash from the construction was placed in the front yard, covered with dirt, and now is a nice grassy knoll that is popular for sledding in the wintertime. There you go. It's a landfill, but it doesn't smell, there's no residue or anything in our water system, and people enjoy it. Take that, you complainers.

Now, I'm all for saving the enviroment. I buy Dolphin-free tuna. I don't smoke. I doubt I ever will. I'm going t buy one of those electric cars. I hate styrofoam, expect for those packaging peanuts, because we make piles of them and jump in them and it's fun.

But still, landfills are not bad for anyone. Unless they decide to turn your house into one.

Unless you live in Iowa.

Then you don't matter.

We need a place to put our trash. All that packaging that comes for Slim Jims and those really really big bags of bags of bags of chips.

Iowa suits me fine.

Posted at 12:12 pm by Shrike
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