Archive of entries posted on 26th June 2013

You’ve Been Judged!

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Anonymiss of Nuking Politics picked her favorite punchlines to “Scientists Have Invented a Smart Pill That Can Remember Your Passwords. What We REALLY Need Is a Pill That…”

Click here to see if you made the cut.

If you did, you should probably email Keln about becoming a guest blogger there.

If you didn’t, Anonymiss has got another straight line for you to practice on.

Keep trying. No one likes a quitter.

Sunny Day…

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BigBirdWorkI don’t have anything personally against Big Bird, or Bert and Ernie, or any of the Sesame Street crew. And, I’m not happy about the latest bit of news to hit the Sesame Workshop, which makes the show. However, I wonder if they’ll finally come to realize that Obama isn’t their friend.

You see, Sesame Workshop just cut their staff by 10%.

“We at Sesame Workshop are not immune to the challenges of today’s economic environment. After careful review, we have concluded that we must operate, and achieve our strategic priorities with fewer resources. Therefore, we have reluctantly determined that we must reduce our workforce by approximately 10%,” said CEO H. Melvin Ming in a note sent to staff this afternoon.

Oh, in case you forgot, this isn’t the first layoff for the company. A dozen were let go last year. And another 60 were let go in 2009. That’s 102 of the 355 that were employed when Obama took office. That’s right, 29% of the company’s workforce has been downsized since Obama moved into the White House.

I just hope that they remember that today’s layoff’s are brought to you by the letter “O.”

But they won’t.

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Coming Attractions

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MexicanBorderAttractionSome of you have figured out what Frank is up to.

It’s true: he’s closing the deal on the new IMAOWorld amusement park.

Now, we’re not certain where the park will be located — at least, I’m not; Harvey, Mr. Right, Keln, and Lactose don’t tell me everything — but wherever it is, I’m sure it’ll be a lot of fun.

I mention this because of a new attraction at an amusement park in Hidalgo. Now, I thought Hidalgo was a horse or something, but it turns out it’s an area of Mexico. My research (I googled it) reveals that Hidalgo is actually a state and is full of Mexicans, so it must be that country’s version of California.

About that new amusement park attraction. The park is called Parque EcoAlberto, which is Mexican for some kind of park or something. Heck, I have a hard enough time trying to figure out what some of the idiots I deal with on a daily basis are talking about, and they sorta speak English.

But, about the attraction. It’s a fake border crossing, according to PBS, but it’s to try and discourage people from attempting to cross the border.

Maribel Garcia works as an administrator for the park. She says the purpose of the Night Walk is simple.

“Our objective is to stop the immigration that exists amongst our citizens, principally from the state of Mexico to the U.S.,” Garcia said in Spanish.

Of course, if she really said it in Spanish, she probably said something like “Nuestro objetivo es detener la inmigración que existe entre nuestros ciudadanos, principalmente del estado de México a los EE.UU.,” or something sorta like that; I don’t speak Spanish. Anyway, I’m not sure whether or not to believe PBS.

So, they have an amusement park in Mexico that has a border crossing attraction.

What should we have in the new IMAOWorld park that would counter that? A Mexi-Cannon?

What would be the best border crossing-themed attraction at IMAOWorld?