We've had the G.I. Generation, the Beatniks, the Hippies, The Yuppies, Generation X or the Me Generation and their rivals the Y's. I think it could be said we're in the midst of the Over Generation or if you like Generation O. So who are the Overs?
We have an abundance of Over Exposure thanks to our numerous forms of media. The days when Raymond Burr or Rock Hudson could live and work in Hollywood making movies or films television shows without the the general public knowing they were gay is long dead. Now we are informed immediately when someone like Britney Spears forgets to wear underwear or when Alec Baldwin leaves a frightful message on his daughters cell phone. We're right there to hear that Pamela Anderson has Hepatitis and who she's having sex with....I don't care but we , the public, are Overwhelmed with information that has no relevance to our daily lives.
Overdone: We can blame Television Programming for churning out one Reality Show after another, Big Brother, Survivor, The Bachelor or Bachelorette, The Biggest Loser, The Amazing Race, Wife Swap...it just goes on and on and I'll tell you the truth all I have to do is look in my wallet for a good dose of reality. When I watch TV I'd rather go on a three hour tour, marry a witch..ooh I did that, or maybe find a Genie in a bottle. Give me some fantasy any day.
Overindulged: That's easy to see just look at Paris Hilton or Nicole Richie, what a pair. Then they get their own "Reality Show" ????? Parents!! That's what OVER indulgence breeds!!
Overcompensate: Oil executives, CEO's, Professional Athletes, Entertainers all get overcompensated and what happens? Overpriced gasoline, theater tickets, movies, sporting events, concerts...The only place you can buy an affordable Hot Dog in any of those places is a gas station!! I'm never eating at a gas station, they don't serve beer. . But while prices for entertainment have gone OVER the TOP, people still pay. In Maine they would say "That's Odd" and for them that would be an OVER-statement.
And while all this is going on we are Over-Taxed !!
Have I OverLooked anything ??
Monday, May 21, 2007
Friday, May 18, 2007
Spam, What's in it?
- Chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added.
- Salt (for binding, flavour, and firmness)
- Water (to help in mixing)
- Sugar (for flavour)
- Sodium Nitrite (for colour and as a preservative)
But what's in that other spam, you know the stuff that automatically goes to my junk mail and eventually gets deleted ? I read the Email addresses from time to time and of course there's a snippet of there email in the subject. If I liked spam, today would be a good day to open up that can of worms because I could get...
a $500 gift certificate from Costco and Victoria's Secret ! Once I hook up with Shea from Intimate Dating and take her to get that $500 worth of lingerie we will book our trip to Cancun for 4 nights, courtesy of someone whose name comes up as ??/??..?? !! I think that's my friend "The Riddler"
When Shea and I get back from Mexico, we will probably contact our buddy "Gun Controll", I didn't know "Controll had 2 L's...the things you learn from spam, maybe he's British. Finally I'll contact Michael Carl for a job online...oh maybe not, I've never trusted those guys with 2 first names. But we will be certain to buy our house through Best Mortgage, I mean anyone who solicits me for a Mortgage online must be on the up and up. Finally we are both gonna sign up for that great Health Insurance that someone named Gizmo200 keeps sending me.
Yeah, and the last piece of Junk Mail/ Spam I noticed this morning was the most accurate. It was from someone named "Are You Ready" and the subject "I couldn't believe it either..." Believe me...I don't believe it!!
To the spammers out there...
I'm more likely to eat spam, and that's a stretch, I assure you I'll never read it!
To Shea over at Intimate Dating...some other time sweetums!!
Stumble It
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
ICE SOCKS
I was day dreaming today and an idea for an invention just popped into my head. Has this ever happened to you? I mean this is more of an innovation or improvement to what is out there already.
Take for example the lawn mower it started with a push mower, then someone added an engine and that was pretty good. Still you had to push the damn thing! So, someone added power to the wheels so you just followed it around and now you can even get them with seats and drive them around like a car. Well I didn't come up with any innovations for lawn mowers but if I did I think it would be , remote control lawn mowers..you know like the remote control cars and trucks all the kids get for their birthdays. I mean you could drink beer on the porch and just use a little hand control and direct your mower around the yard. It would be fun!
But I didn't think of that one today. No today I was sitting down, with the bad ankle..2 WEEKS now, and putting ice on it. Now ankles are tough to apply ice to by yourself. I mean you have to kinda do a sit up to get the ice bag in place and then when you sit back it's always sliding off or in the wrong spot so you find yourself trying to tie it in place with a scarf or something you bought at the drugstore that's supposed to make it easy. So there I was , sitting there when I noticed the basket of rags and orphaned socks was right on the floor next to my chair. I saw a particularly old, stretched out sock and the Idea was born!!
I pulled the loose fitting sock onto my bad foot and put a reusable ice bag over my ankle and then stretched the top of the sock down over the bag, It held the bag snugly and firmly against my sore ankle. I could even hobble to the fridge for a beer and it stayed in place!! The ICE SOCK will be HUGE! Bigger than the Pet Rock. I'll probably start selling my old stretched out orphaned socks here to boost traffic. Maybe I'll give them away as PRIZES for BEST COMMENTS.
Now I wish I had a remote for the lawn mower so I could cut the grass!!
Take for example the lawn mower it started with a push mower, then someone added an engine and that was pretty good. Still you had to push the damn thing! So, someone added power to the wheels so you just followed it around and now you can even get them with seats and drive them around like a car. Well I didn't come up with any innovations for lawn mowers but if I did I think it would be , remote control lawn mowers..you know like the remote control cars and trucks all the kids get for their birthdays. I mean you could drink beer on the porch and just use a little hand control and direct your mower around the yard. It would be fun!
But I didn't think of that one today. No today I was sitting down, with the bad ankle..2 WEEKS now, and putting ice on it. Now ankles are tough to apply ice to by yourself. I mean you have to kinda do a sit up to get the ice bag in place and then when you sit back it's always sliding off or in the wrong spot so you find yourself trying to tie it in place with a scarf or something you bought at the drugstore that's supposed to make it easy. So there I was , sitting there when I noticed the basket of rags and orphaned socks was right on the floor next to my chair. I saw a particularly old, stretched out sock and the Idea was born!!
I pulled the loose fitting sock onto my bad foot and put a reusable ice bag over my ankle and then stretched the top of the sock down over the bag, It held the bag snugly and firmly against my sore ankle. I could even hobble to the fridge for a beer and it stayed in place!! The ICE SOCK will be HUGE! Bigger than the Pet Rock. I'll probably start selling my old stretched out orphaned socks here to boost traffic. Maybe I'll give them away as PRIZES for BEST COMMENTS.
Now I wish I had a remote for the lawn mower so I could cut the grass!!
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Places where I've recently commented
How do you keep track of your comments? I use my del.icio.us and make a Link Roll using a tag called comments. It makes it easy to check the blogs I've commented on, cause I don't comment if I don't think it's worth going back...here's my latest "comments" link list:
If you don't already use del.icio.us, check it out, it's so easy to save your favorite blogs and websites and you can access your fav's from any computer.
This is NOT a paid advertisement !!
If you don't already use del.icio.us, check it out, it's so easy to save your favorite blogs and websites and you can access your fav's from any computer.
This is NOT a paid advertisement !!
Friday, May 11, 2007
One Year Later
It has been a year since Toms' Hideaway burst on the scene and it has been both fun and frustrating. My first post announced that I had 3 broken ribs, my first comment was from Germany and since then I've heard from people around the world. I continue to work on content and hope to make Toms' an interesting and hopefully funny place to stop by while clicking through the blogosphere:
Apparently I made Blog of The Day on 5/11/2007 over at
Cool, thanks to all the BlogMad Members that have stopped by, remember don't just sit there!! Comment so I can come visit your blogs.
Other Awesome things that share my Blogs Birthday!!!
1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence.
1949 - Siam changes its name to Thailand.
2006 - A science team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign successfully converted pig waste into crude oil.....eeeewwwww!!
Births:
1888 - Irving Berlin, American composer
1904 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan painter
1911 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian
1933 - Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
1946 - Robert Jarvik, American physicist and inventor
Apparently I made Blog of The Day on 5/11/2007 over at
Cool, thanks to all the BlogMad Members that have stopped by, remember don't just sit there!! Comment so I can come visit your blogs.
Other Awesome things that share my Blogs Birthday!!!
1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence.
1949 - Siam changes its name to Thailand.
2006 - A science team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign successfully converted pig waste into crude oil.....eeeewwwww!!
Births:
1888 - Irving Berlin, American composer
1904 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan painter
1911 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian
1933 - Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
1946 - Robert Jarvik, American physicist and inventor
Monday, May 07, 2007
WWE Are you Ready to Rumble...NOT!!
Your Wrestler Name Is... |
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Now that is a really bad name, I think if they announced Captain Grover The Giant it would be on Sesame Street before you would ever hear me introduced to the WWE ring.
Ladies and Gentlemen!!
We have a triple smackdown scheduled tonight with the MAN OF STONE, The Rock with the MAN NO ONE WANTS TO MEET The Undertaker!!!! and they will be battling CAPTAIN GROVER THE GIANT !!
I can see The Rock and The Undertaker running out the back right now.....
Now I don't want to give the impression I like Pro Wrestling. Lets get this straight...It's stupid, fake and altogether ridiculous. The reason I have it on my mind is that I saw an ad for a Pay Per View Wrestling event coming up...I just want to say you would have to be a moron to pay for a show like that. Hello...It's Fake!!!
The opinion expressed above is mine if you agree or disagree or just want to share you Wrestler Name with me just comment below:
Favorite Me and I'll Favorite You..click on my Technorati Favorite Button and leave me a comment below with your Technorati Link.....I'll be writing about some of my favorite Technorati Pages this week.
Friday, May 04, 2007
Possible Side-Effects
I don't like commercials, well I like funny ones..I Like "The Slowskies " and most beer commercials but the Vagisil commercial where the mother, the daughter and the grandmother all have found Vagisil to be this amazing product!! It leaves me thinking....What a good "clean" family,but hey maybe it's not vagisil they need but better hygiene ...I don't know. For my mothers' sake I'll move on to the other kinds of commercials that I find are wasting my mind away.
Drug commercials, they all seem so UpBeat. Now you can take a sleep medicine and "Catch Up" on your sleep, an Anti Depressant to bring your "Mood Up", something for your ADD so you can "Straighten Up" your miserable disorganized life . After you have done all those things a man can go out there and find a girlfriend and use some male enhancement drug to "Get Up." and while they certainly don't advertise steroid use..they will help you Buff Up.
The underlying problem with all these drugs is that if taken together you will probably "Throw Up" or worse. I think there is way too many of these quick fix meds going around. The only funny thing about the commercials are the possible side effects they announce at the end and the one they all seem to list is.....
Diarrhea !!....who wants that during a good nights sleep??
Well I "gotta go gotta go gotta go gotta go right now"...sure wish I had some Percocets for my ankle(-:
Drug commercials, they all seem so UpBeat. Now you can take a sleep medicine and "Catch Up" on your sleep, an Anti Depressant to bring your "Mood Up", something for your ADD so you can "Straighten Up" your miserable disorganized life . After you have done all those things a man can go out there and find a girlfriend and use some male enhancement drug to "Get Up." and while they certainly don't advertise steroid use..they will help you Buff Up.
The underlying problem with all these drugs is that if taken together you will probably "Throw Up" or worse. I think there is way too many of these quick fix meds going around. The only funny thing about the commercials are the possible side effects they announce at the end and the one they all seem to list is.....
Diarrhea !!....who wants that during a good nights sleep??
Well I "gotta go gotta go gotta go gotta go right now"...sure wish I had some Percocets for my ankle(-:
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