One of the most important jobs a father can do for his children is to snap pictures of them while they are in the most ridiculous and super embarrassing poses from their baby-hood.
Such is the example with this picture:
Frank was about 18 months old and LOVED to crawl into the laundry hamper and stick things in his mouth. I would NEVER humiliate Frank with the picture of him with my BVD’s as his headgear.
I DARE Frank to post embarrassing pictures of me on his blog. ***I*** have more brains than to allow myself to be photographed in such a way that it can be used as blackmail. THAT will happen ONLY when I am old, senile and living in a 3rd-rate Mexican nursing home in Tijuana.
“Don’t confuse what is impressive with what is important.” (E. M. Forster in “Maurice”…..I can’t take credit for the quote… I gleaned it somewhere off the Internet.)
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” — Mark Twain
I love to watch the “Jay Walking” portion of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” Jay goes out on the streets and interviews people and asks them things like, “Can you point out Alaska on this map of the USA?” It is AMAZING how many people they show that have little or no concept of basic history, geography or even simple “civics.”
But to see the ULTIMATE dumb blond video watch this:
http://www.koreus.com/video/blonde-europe-pays.html
My buddy Mike W. said: “Ummm interesting… Never thought of them [Norwegians] as docile and kind… Especially after the images of Vikings are stuck in my mind since I was little…”
I replied: “The Norwegian “mal-contents” moved to Minnesota in the 1870-1920 period. The Nazi’s killed off most of the “thinkers” (teachers, doctors etc). After WWII Norway was a decimated country. When King Håkon VII and his son Crown Prince Olav came back from exile in England, they got what was left of the parliament together and said, “since we’re rebuilding our country let’s do it right.”
Norway is very Socialist in thoughts and behavior. They have “womb to tomb” care of its people…. and a 53% income tax to go with it.
All the warriors got tired of the “peacefulness” and left a long time ago.
The biggest surprise I had, when I arrived in Norway to meet my Cyber-Sweetie, was that the place was certainly NOT what I had expected. There were no women running around in those Wagner type leather/brass bras and cow-horned helmets. I asked Kari if Norwegian women wore those things every day or just for special occations. I also discovered that hardly any of the women in Norway are blonde and they don’t run around in their national dress saying things like “Uff Da” and “Yah, sure, you-betcha” and very few of the people are named Sven or Olga. Oslo (the Norwegian capital) has a population of half a million and is not some wide spot in the dirt road, polar bears and reindeer do NOT run freely up and down the streets (well, actually, they do up north but the bears get shot and the reindeer get put back into the Sami herds. I also learned that the people of Norway do not run around half-naked and exercise free-love while they sit in saunas (that’s in Finnland). And lastly, I was totally amazed to learn that the national bird of Norway IS NOT a penguin.
Norwegians… They’re not dumb…. But very docile and kind people.
My third trip over to Norway (Dec 2000) I needed to get out of the house for some “alone” time. So I walked to the mini-mart to get a soda…about 3 blocks… In about a metre of snow, snowploughed that morning. My trip back took me on an overpass and I stood there watching the cars pass underneith and drinking my nearly-frozen soda. All of a sudden one car slid into another and the two drivers got out and started yelling at each other and waving their arms.
I got so excited I ran back to the house and burst in telling Kari….”I just saw TWO things I’ve never seen before in Norway… A automobile accident and TWO pissed off Norwegians.”
Her answer:
“I’m sure that they were most likely Swedes”
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