Courtney expands on an earlier post of mine where I talked about the paradox of wanting an intelligent, ambitious woman and a stay at home mom.
Laurence Simon issues a Fatwah. Keeeeeel!!
Vodka pundit has noticed my lie and now blogrolled me. One again it has been reinforced that childish carping equals more hits.
Mean Mr. Mustard makes quite an astute observation how not all things have changed for the better.
I think Michele made this just to provoke me. It worked. Rarr!
The Sunday Puzzle has already been solved. Again, I’ll post the solution Sunday and hopefully come up with a harder one. No one has found the secret message from the Links of the Day™ during the week from last week. If you can find it, send me an e-mail.
Archive of entries posted on June 2003
Frank Answers: Dumb Bombs, Crane Technique, and Lucky Pennies
George S. from favorite stall, 16th floor bathroom asks:
Do you think all the other bombs feelings are hurt when ‘smart bombs’
are singled out for praise & adulation? I mean, not all bombs can have
a low CEP (circular error probable), right?
I think you are absolutely right. Smart bombs get far too much praise in this society where we don’t want to “hurt civilians”. My favorite bombing technique was the good ‘ole saturation bombing, in which having high tech GPS, laser guidance system would be meaningless. Saturation bombing is what really strikes fear in the hearts of the enemy, so don’t toss out your old bombs just yet… unless of course it’s out of an airplane and on to your enemy.
Jared from Receda, CA writes:
As next year marks the 20th anniversary of “The Karate Kid”, I was wondering if Miyagi’s Crane Technique (“If do right, no can defense”) would be an effective counter to a random ninja attack, or if, in fact, it only works against Billy Zabka. After all, in “The Karate Kid Part 2”, Chozen was able to overcome this technique with a skilled flinch.
My God, it’s been like a million years since I’ve seen either of those movies. If I remember the crane technique, all it involves is standing on one foot and then hopping to the other while kicking. No defense my ass. Let’s see if he can crane kick a gat from 25 yards, that’s what I say.
Susie from Des Moines, Thailand
How long is a lucky penny lucky?
A lucky penny (a penny found lying on the ground face up) has a luck half-life of approximately one day (23 hours, 56 minutes, 12.87 seconds). Most luck should follow immediately after picking up of the penny.
If instead one picks up a penny of death (a penny found lying face down), your chance of dying that day increases by 1000%. On the other hand, you will be one cent richer.
Please keep the questions coming, <a href=”mailto:THISISSPAMTHISISSPAMace you’re from, I’ll randomly select one.
In My World: Attack of the Belgians Part III
Part I
Part II
Rumsfeld smashed the reporter’s head into the podium. “That’s your head being smashed against wood,” he said. Rumsfeld then slammed the reporter’s head through a window, breaking the glass. “And that’s your head hitting against glass. Do you feel the difference?”
“Yes,” the reporter said weakly.
“Let’s continue to drive this point home,” Rumsfeld said. He smacked the reporter into the brick wall. “That’s your head against brick.” He grabbed another reporter and slammed both their heads together. “That’s skull against skull. Feel the difference?”
“I don’t feel much of anything anymore.”
Rumsfeld dropped his victim. “Then I think I’m finished making my point. See, while all those things seemed similar in that your head was getting smashed against something, they were different too. In the same way, Iraq is different than Vietnam, but it was an interesting analogy you tried to make. Any other questions?”
“Is it true the president and Tony Blair have been captured by the Belgians and are being put on trial?” asked one reporter.
“Why would I care?” Rumsfeld answered back angrily, “There are lots of people in the Middle East who are alive and shouldn’t be, so I don’t have time to worry about whether Bush or some pansy Brit has been taken prisoner by some idiotic European nation.”
“But isn’t he you boss?” exclaimed the reporter.
“Not so loud,” Rumsfeld warned, “You’ll wake chomps.” Chomps, the world’s angriest dog, lay near the podium, chained to the wall, sleeping the world’s angriest sleep. His legs started moving and his jaws snapped at the air. “Aww, isn’t that cute,” Rumsfeld smiled, “He’s dreaming of mauling someone.”
Suddenly Chomps woke up and leapt to his feet. He then started barking wildly and snapping at the air. “Something making you angry, boy?” Rumsfeld asked, trying to understand.
Chomps eyes stared distantly as he continued to snarl and bark.
“Something far away?” Rumsfeld ask, “You want me to unchain you?”
“No no no!” shouted all of the reporters.
Rumsfeld unhooked Chomps’s chain, and the dog immediately leapt out the nearest window. “I hope you kill whatever made you angry, boy,” Rumsfeld called out as he saw Chomps speed down the street.
President Bush was chained to the wall while the evil Belgian minister of justice kept an eye on him. The savage little badger still had Bush’s cowboy hat and seemed to want nothing more than to tear away at the hapless president.
Further away, Tony Blair dangled in the air by some rope. “The first trial is of Tony Blair,” the evil, bloated Belgazor announced, “If he is convicted of his war crime of making a wide right turn, he shall be dropped into the pit of eternal horror.”
The floor opened from beneath Blair revealing a pit filled with angry, screeching monkeys. “Crikey!” Blair exclaimed.
“We poured eight barrels of monkeys into that pit,” Belgazor laughed, “And we shook the barrels up good first to make sure the monkeys were extra angry.”
“You madman!” Bush yelled, “If I had a baseball bat, I would beat you good! Oh… and if I weren’t chained up, too. If I weren’t chained up and I had a baseball bat, you would be so sorry.”
“But you are chained up, and there are no baseball bats in Belgium,” Belgazor said, “So instead you get to witness the perfection of our justice system. Instead of using biased humans to decide Tony Blair’s fate, we use pigeons to determine justice.” Belgazor pointed to the jury which was a stand full of pigeons. “Before each one is two buttons: one for not guilty and one for guilty. If more hit guilty, then Blair falls into the pit and justice will be dispensed by the angry monkeys. Muh ha ha ha!” He looked to Blair. “You may now plead your case.”
“To the pigeons?”
“Who else?” Belgazor asked angrily.
Blair looked to the many birds who stared right back at him. “Uh… I would like to say I’ve always like birds, and that England is a particularly good place for pigeons. I really didn’t mean to drive unsafely, and, if you find me not guilty, you’re all invited to London where you will be fed many bread crumbs.”
“The jury does not respond well to bribery,” Belgazor warned.
The pigeons started to peck at their buttons, and the tally could be seen on a large screen. The guilties began to grow in number much faster than the not guilties.
“Oh, bugger,” Blair exclaimed.
“Remember to tuck your head in and roll when you hit the ground,” Bush told Blair, “That will help you with the fall. I don’t have any advice, though, about how to not get torn apart by monkeys.”
“That’s quite alright, chap,” Blair said in a depressed voice as he watched the results on screen while Belgazor laughed his evil Belgian laugh.
Buck slowly crept through the fortress. He soon detected a sent. “Waffles,” he uttered ominously.
Soon Belgian troops were all about him, so Buck made a run through the fortress as he fired back, all the while singing the ancient Marine kill’n song:
“Oh, God made fore’ners for a kill’n,
Or so says my dear old pa.
So I then shoot me some fore’ners
And then triumphantly shout, ‘Ooh-rah!’
Yes, fore’ners are for a kill’n
So it’s their blood I’m spill’n.
Once I kill me a million
I’ll shout my last, ‘Ooh-rah!’
If us Marines fire enough bullets,
The world will run out of lead.
Then we’ll have to draw our Ka-bars
And stab them fore’ners dead.
Yes, fore’ners are for a kill’n
So it’s their blood I’m spill’n.
Once I kill me a million
I’ll shout my last, ‘Ooh-rah!'”
Buck slapped another clip into his rifle and looked for any more Belgians to kill. He then ran for what seemed to be the main room of the building. Knocking the door open, he saw Blair suspended in the air, Bush chained to the wall being guarded by a cowboy badger, and the giant Belgazor standing near a wall of pigeons. “Something weird and foreign is going on here,” Buck announced, “and I don’t like it much!”
“Another foolish American!” Belgazor shouted. He then hit a button and the stairs Buck was standing on turned into a slide. He slipped towards the pit of monkeys, but he quickly tossed his rifle aside and drew his Ka-bar, stabbing it into the ground to slow his descent. He ended up stopping right at the edge of the pit, the angry monkeys jumping up and clawing at his boots.
“My boots!” Buck shouted, “I need those for stomping on fore’ners’ necks.”
Belgazor just laughed as both Buck and Blair dangled above their imminent doom. “I guess it’s up to me,” Bush uttered, “So, there is only one thing left to do: a Presidential Power-Up!”
“U.S. Presidents of old hear me now,” Bush shouted into the air, “for I ask of your power! Give me the level-headed cunning of George Washington, the straight moralism of Abraham Lincoln, the mighty strength of Teddy Roosevelt, the alcohol tolerance of Ulysses S. Grant, and the don’t give a s**t attitude of James Polk!”
There was a burst of light that surrounded Bush, and then he tore apart his chains as if they were papier-mâché. “Time for an ass-whup’n… Texas style!” he announced.
“Stop him!” Belgazor screamed.
The minister of justice bared his sharp teeth.
“Uh-oh,” Bush uttered, backing away.
The badger then leapt at him ready to bite, but he disappeared in a blur of black. The cowboy hat now floated down to the ground while Chomps stood by, swallowing the badger in a big gulp.
“Chomps!” Bush exclaimed, “You saved me! And to think I had just signed an executive order to have you put down.”
“I’ll have just stop you myself!” the giant Belgazor yelled, approaching Bush.
Chomps growled. “This one’s mine,” Bush told the dog, “You go help Buck and gay Tony.” Chomps ran off and while Bush bent down and picked up his hat. He firmly fixed it on his head and yelled, “You’re going down, Belgazor!”
Belgazor just growled and charged Bush who fought back with a series of kicks and punches, sending Belgazor to the ground with a mighty crash. “You made the big mistake of messing with someone who has seen every episode of Walker: Texas Ranger,” Bush laughed.
Chomps grabbed Buck with his mighty jaw and helped him out of the pit. The tally board was just about to reach the point at which Blair would be declared guilty, so Chomps braced Buck as he leaned over, just barely being able to catch Blair as he was dropped towards the pit. “Ooh-rah!”
“I will destroy you all!” Belgazor shouted as he got back to his feet. He then charged Bush again, but this time Bush flipped over Belgazor who couldn’t stop himself before he ended up plunging into the pit of eternal horror. His last scream of anger was drowned out by the screeching of monkeys.
The building then started shaking. “It must have been Belgazor’s evil power that kept this fortress afloat,” Blair stated.
“So we done here?” Buck asked as he picked back up his M-16.
“No, kill those pigeons,” Bush said, “They’re part of this!”
Buck launched a grenade into the jury stand which disappeared into a mixture of fire and feathers.
“Now we better get out of here before it’s too late,” Blair said nervously.
“What’s wrong with your voice?” Buck asked.
“He’s just gay,” Bush explained.
“I’m not gay!” Blair responded, “I’m British.”
“British sounds foreign,” Buck said, eying Blair suspiciously.
Blair took one good look at the intimidating Buck. “On second though… yes, I’m gay. Very, very gay.”
Buck thought this over for a second. “Well, then may Jesus’ love lead you to the right path. Now let’s get out of here.”
“The exit was that way,” Blair said, pointing at a wall, “I took a good look at a map of this place, so all we need to do is head down the opposite hallway, take a right, take a left…”
Buck launched a grenade at the wall, blowing it apart and giving them an exit outside.
“And that works, too,” Blair said sheepishly.
They all fled outside where a helicopter came to meet them. Standing at the doorway was Clancy. “Glad to see you all.”
“Wow, SpongeBob!” Bush exclaimed, “Great tie!”
“Thanks, it was a father’s day gift from my son.”
“All my daughters gave me was a card,” Bush complained, “I didn’t even get the joke in it. Least they could have done was put a twenty dollar bill in there or something.”
“May I remind you that the ground is crumbling beneath us?” Blair said impatiently.
“Oh yeah!” Bush exclaimed as they all rushed into the helicopter, it rising into the air as the evil Belgian fortress plummeted to the ground. They all settled into a seat and breathed sighs of relief, except for Chomps, who eyed each of the individual seats until he found one that particularly enraged him. He then began to savagely tear it apart.
Bush looked back at Belgium. “Get me a line to the… uh… big military place.”
“The Pentagon?” Clancy asked.
“Yeah, that place.” Bush was given the phone. “This is the president! …yeah, the one of the United States. Nuke Belgium! Nuke it to hell!”
Bush looked out the window, waiting for a big explosion where the crumbled fortress lay, but instead he saw one far off in the distance. “I think you missed it,” Bush said into the phone, “No, I don’t know what country you nuked, but you better find out who and send them a fruit basket. Belgium is more to the right… no, my right… yeah, I guess you don’t know what my right is.” Bush looked to Clancy. “Which direction are we flying?”
“Southeast.”
“So… if we are going southeast,” Bush thought out loud, “Then the explosion was to the… uh… and Belgium was to its… uh…” Bush picked up the phone again. “Forget nuking Belgium. It’s too hard.”
“Well, that was quite an experience,” Blair exclaimed.
“You can say that again,” Bush responded, “This has to be my biggest misadventure since the time I got my head stuck in the banister. I did learn a lesson, though: it’s insane for any one country – other than the U.S. – to try and have jurisdiction over the entire world.”
“I learned that one should turn into the nearest lane and the properly signal before going into a further lane or you may be kidnapped by Belgians,” Blair said.
“I learned something too,” Clancy added, “but it’s classified.”
“And I learned that I like kill’n fore’ners,” Buck said with a wide smile. He then thought for a moment. “Wait; I already knew that. Guess I didn’t learn anything. Ooh-rah!”
THE END
Sunday Puzzle
There is a new secret message in the Links of the Day for today, and the first one to e-mail it to me gets to be declared super-smart.
There are also bonus points for finding the secret message I put in the Links of the Day during the past week.
Super-smart for last week: Scott Wright for being the first to e-mail me the secret message and Alan S. from Albuquerque for being the first to find the elegant solution to the puzzle.
Everyone bow before their supersmartness!
Here is the solution:
Links of the Day
I noticed `an .friend of Geeks with Guns has returned.One of the reasons I am rea.d is ‘from his early support of my site. So go ,give h.im a hit for me.
Not all of the French are against us, and Amphitryon has followed the war with great interest, colllecting news stories and pictures of America’s and the allies’ victtory. Here are more pictures.
Elliot Temple did not like that I compared a chimpanzee to a six-year-old. I know some people are offended by people looking down on a child, but, I’m sorry, kids are dumb. Not to offend any children who read my website, though, because you are going to grow out of it (well, most will). Sorry, but Frank always says the truth; he isn’t going to fib– Oh! Nachos! I’m going to go eat now. The thrilling conclusion to The “Attack of the Belgians” will appear tomorrow morning.
Filthy Lies: Stephen Green
It’s Sunday, which means it’s time to tell filthy lies about Stephen Green.
Just look at his blogroll! There’s like every damn blog in the blogosphere on there, but which one is conspicuously missing? So blatantly missing that it’s almost a statement of, “Hey, look at me! I didn’t link to this guy!” That’s right; IMAO. It’s just like that scene in Austin Powers 3 where Dr. Evil said, “Everyone leave the room except for…” and then named everybody except for Mini-Me. I think he made his whole blogroll as an affront to me. Well, I won’t stand idly by! Time for lies!
I saw Stephen Green in the bar area of a restaurant, so I walked up and said, “Hey, it’s Stephen Green, famous blogger! I’d like to buy you a drink.”
“Thanks,” he responded.
Then the waitress came by, so I told her, “I’ll have a double whiskey with a beer chaser, and Stephen Green will have…”
“A Shirley Temple,” he said, to my surprise.
“What?” I exclaimed, “Wouldn’t you want vodka?”
“Oh,” he chuckled, “That’s just for fun on my website; I don’t actually drink any alcoholic beverages. Alcohol tastes awful; bleh!”
“Are you joking?” I asked, quite befuddled.
“And alcohol makes you do crazy things, so be careful. That’s why I sometimes suddenly disappear from blogging for short periods; it’s so I can give lectures on the dangers of alcohol.”
“You sicken me,” I shot back at him and left the bar to drink whiskey at home.
And here is horribly photoshopped evidence that doesn’t prove anything:
So there is your lie: Stephen Green hates alcoholic beverages! Tell all the other bloggers! Tell the Russians! Tell Absolut!
That will teach him for singling me out for non-linkage.
Links of the Day
Did I say there wasn’t going to be any secret message in this week’s Links of the Day™? Oh yes, I did.
Anyway, it’s Freaky Link to Frank Friday™! This is where I get lazy and just go to Technorati and grab some links of people linking to me. What fun!
Bitweever has a great idea for a new reality show.
And what’s aimless’s comment about me supposed to mean?
Kelley has some sympathy for poor politicians getting lampooned by us bloggers all the time (but not that much).
Meatriarchy added me to his blogroll (with a very intelligent observation in parentheses next to it).
Krissy has a political awakening.
Bad Money has some analyzation of humor (June 26th entry entitled “Trying to Muster Polite Laughter”).
And I need more pictures for the Peace Gallery. You don’t want the world to think we’re a bunch of war-loving pansies.
Frank Answers: Commie Condiments, Ninja Sprays, and Boxing Day
Scott from Heartland, U.S.A. writes:
I need your help with a personal crisis. One of my friends just told me that mustard is a “Commie condiment”. Is this true? I really like mustard, does that make me a closet commie? Help!
PS: I thought commies liked mayo on their fries, not mustard.
But I like mayo on my fries…
Anyway, there is nothing Commie about any condiment. Americans love choice and being able to put whatever the hell they want on their foods. What’s Commie is charging for packets of ketchup or mustard like I hear they do in Europe. We’re rich capitalist, we get too be wasteful with our many packets of condiments, most of which go unused.
Nothing says freedom like a drawer at work full of unused ketchup and hot sauce packets.
From Poosh from either Nanjing, China or Bexhill, England writes:
Even though you have consistently given advice that has had a negative impact on my life I have no one else to turn too, the police simply won’t believe me. I took your advice and bought some anti-ninja spray and sprayed my flowers good. That was fun. I then went into my house and awaited the ninja hoards. Sure enough, just as the sun was setting, they attacked! That’s when the anti-ninja spray took affect! All the flowers in my garden mutated into these crazy looking flower-monsters! The ninjas tried to fight back but for every mutant flower they felled, two grew in its place! And thus the ninjas died. Victory was mine! I jumped for joy and praised America and set a side £10 to donate to you as a thankyou present. But then the mutant-flowers evolved and somehow took over not just my garden but my house! Everywhere is green and I’ve been imprisoned in my room. Sometimes I think Poison Ivy from Batman is going to show up and order me to be her sex slave which would be great but that hasn’t happened yet. What do I do, Frank? What do I do? I think the flowers are plotting to take over the world…
Okay, I’ve used ninja sprays before, and I know they work perfectly fine if you follow the directions. That means to shake the spray vigorously for one minute and then put a light coating on the plants. If you do it properly, that plants would have just enough power to repel the ninjas, but not enough to take over your house and plan world conquest. Obviously, you did something wrong, so you get a chiding.
Chide. Chide. Chide.
Now that I’ve finished chiding you, here is what to do next. You need to get the archnemesis of the plants: vegetarians. Round up a bunch of vegetarians and set them loose on the plants. The plants will either flee in terror or be viciously torn apart by the vegetarians.
Hope that helps.
Tim from Melbourne, FL writes:
Canada has a holiday called Boxing Day. What is so special about (aboot) Boxing Day? Why do they have it?
Wow! I thought I was the only one who lived in Melbourne, Florida and wondered what the hell Boxing Day is. There is no way to be certain, as the ways of the Canadians are tribal and mysterious, but I do have a theory.
Obviously, it can’t be about boxing like in punching each other, because the Canadians are too much a bunch of peaceniks. So my guess is that on boxing day they all get together a bunch of boxes and make cool forts out of them. What fun, eh?
Please keep the questions coming, <a href=”mailto:THISISSPAMTHISISSPAMace you’re from, I’ll randomly select one.
Frank Discussions: Democratic Presidential Candidates
Sometimes you feel like a nut (Democrat primary), sometimes you don’t (general election). So which Democrat candidate will be nutty enough to win the primary, gaining that hearts of the Democrat base of drooling idiots? And will he make himself too nutty to be viable in the general election?
To find these answers, I talked to the candidates themselves.
All interviews are now up. They are of John Kerry, Richard Gephardt, Joe Liberman, John Edwards, Howard Dean, Al Sharpton, Bob Graham, Dennis Kucinich, Carol Moseley Braun, Jojo the Monkey, and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Continue reading ‘Frank Discussions: Democratic Presidential Candidates’ »
Links of the Day
Even I have to admit this is one awesome t-shirt. At least Russel isn’t selling it in competition of my Nuke the Moon t-shirt. Did I mention I had a t-shirt for my site?
Courtney decided to make a 100 list just like Annika.
Remind me, did Bill Whittle used to write essays? It’s been so long I can’t remember.
Frank Answers: American vs. Japanese Ninja, Soy Sauce, and The Shirt of Youth
Bill McCabe from Ridgewood, NJ writes:
Which are deadlier: American Ninjas or Japanese Ninjas? You see, the film “American Ninja” has the American beating the Japanese Ninja, while “Revenge of the Ninja” has the Japanese guy winning. I’m rather confused as to who is superior.
That’s a rather easy question to answer: Americans are superior at everything. While American ninja might not be as skilled as classically trained Chinese or Japanese ninjas, we still win anyways because America always wins. That’s because God likes us and dislikes other countries. We know that since we are the only country to get tornados; that’s God’s sign to us that we are all really cool… though some people interpret it differently.
Aaron from Canada writes:
Does Soy Sauce really kill bacteria? KIKKOMAN told me it did, but I’m not sure, eh.
Obviously a flash animation that well produced has to be right, so, yes, soy sauce does kill bacteria.
Is there anything soy can’t do? No, there is nothing it can’t do, which makes it a threat to us. Yes, it makes lots of healthy foods now, but soy could have more sinister plans in the future. Instead of a world taken over by apes, we could end up ruled by soy where they use meat from humans to make a non-vegetarian replacement to soy burgers.
I’m not saying destroy all soy; I’m just saying we should keep an eye on it.
Rustmeister from Smartsville, USA writes:
I just bought myself a Nuke the Moon t-shirt for my birthday. My question is: Will this t-shirt slow the aging process?
That’s a silly question; of course it will. It will also increase your vocabulary, give you limited x-ray vision, and let you go 48 hours without sleep with no ill effects.
Of course, there was no real reason for me to answer this question, because all knowledge would become known to you as soon as you put on the shirt.
BTW, those who have these wonderful shirts now, remember to get those pictures in for the Peace Gallery.
Please keep the questions coming, <a href=”mailto:THISISSPAMTHISISSPAMace you’re from, I’ll randomly select one.
Once Again Trying to Make All Us Other Bloggers Look Pathetic…
John Hawkins has his interview with Ann Coulter up. I’m working on getting a series of interviews ready for tomorrow. More details on that later.
A Frank Guide to Executive Orders
Richard Gephardt seems to have a little trouble understanding what an executive order can and cannot do, saying, “”When I’m president, we’ll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day.” So, to be helpful to any potential future president such as Dick Gephardt, here is a quick guide to the powers of presidential executive orders:
Executive orders CAN be used to enforce a Supreme Court decision.
Executive orders CANNOT strike down a Supreme Court decision.
Executive orders CAN order the bombing of a target.
Executive orders CANNOT alter the flow of time.
Executive orders CAN dispatch the military.
Executive orders CANNOT override the word of God.
Executive orders CAN be used to create new offices to execute the laws.
Executive orders CANNOT control the weather.
Executive orders CAN give someone a paper cut.
Executive orders CANNOT place a voodoo curse on someone.
Executive orders CAN be made into a paper airplane.
Executive orders CANNOT be folded more than seven times (try it).
Executive orders CAN be turned over and used as scratch paper.
Executive orders CANNOT make yourself bulletproof.
Executive orders CAN be rolled up and used as a pretend telescope.
Executive orders CANNOT be rolled up to use as a weapon to defeat Aquaman.
Executive orders CAN be used to wrap a fish.
Executive orders CANNOT be shredded up and used as a replacement for oregano.
Executive orders CAN be suitable for framing.
Executive orders CANNOT grant super-powers.
Executive orders CAN beat rock.
Executive orders CANNOT beat scissors.
I hope this was helpful to Gephardt and will make him more accurate in his future demagogic speeches.
Links of the Day
It’s the Carnival of the Vanities!
Is John Hawkins interviewing who I think he’s interviewing? If he is, I hope he is doing a phone interview because that woman scares me (but in a good way, as Rachel Lucas would say; kinda like how Rumsfeld scares me).
Weird. I wonder if this is all really true?
No, I don’t speechwrite for Gephardt, but he does sound like parody of himself. Actually, no, that stupid statement of his about an executive order overiding a Supreme Court decision could use more parodying. Ah! A topic for tomorrow. Muh ha ha ha!
Announcements
Okay. I’m putting a moratorium on readers mentioning monkeys. When the first reader e-mailed me this story, it was funny (heh heh, they shot monkeys), but I was a little tired of it by the tenth e-mail. I don’t like the fact that when people see something about monkeys, they think Frank J. That’s the absolute opposite of what I want.
Also, I’m declaring an end to the cat at gunpoint caption contest. The picture is funny enough by itself, but there were a lot of absolutely hilarious entries for captions if you haven’t read through them. The one I pick as winner, though, is this one by Tuning Spork:
“Please, Miss Reno! I don’t wanna go back to Cuba!!”
Congratulations, Tuning Spork. You get the super-secret prize of no monetary value.
Sorry about no Frank Answers™ today; that was bad planning on my part. Speaking of bad planning, the Attack of the Belgians was supposed to be just one post, but I never left myself enough time to write it so I had to make it a series. The conclusion is Monday.