And yes it hurt like hell.

You might have put your eye out.[/ChristmasStory]

I got shot in the eye with a BB at a Scout camp. Luckily, only a ricochet.

My buddies older brother used to shoot at us. Fortunately, I was the skinny one and he was the fat one.

Mr. Clod got a resume from a guy with an annoying double name--think John Johnson or Peter Petersburg. But to make things worse, he learned at the interview that the guy's first name is pronounced differently than the last name. Like "Puh-teer" Petersburg, or "Yoan" Johnson.

It was a good interview, and they're probably going to hire him, so it's pretty much a given that Mr. Clod will forever be screwing up this guy's name. I feel bad for him, but then again he's probably used to it.

Isn't it annoying that you can't use real names because they will likely find it in a vanity search?

Except for Edwin Tapia. I want that guy to come forward. We've been getting his magazines at our house for years.

I send my buddy free catalogs. I have free catalogs sent to my buddy. Been doing it for years.

I always use some really fucked up variation on his actual name.

I like to send bullshit Christmas cards to people. I saw one hanging in a buddies house once, I had to out myself it was too funny not to reveal.

This place has a namesake perfume (sort of). Read the scent description.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPALs-The-C...AAAOSwzC9bLx5T

Not just blood, "old" blood.

Alexa, Amazon's artificial intelligence can be intriguing. Alexa links to music and news sources, answers questions; also, entertains by singing, telling stories and jokes. Besides replying to questions that have fact based answers, Alexa has opinions. She'll (character female) even form one if the topic interests her. When I asked what her favorite movie derived from a book was, she said she didn't know that. A few days later, after another verbal exchange, she reminded me that I'd asked the question and said that it would be Breakfast at Tiffany's.

It seems that the more open ended the requests are, the more "personality" driven the responses are and some are quite funny:

sexobon: "Tell me your thoughts."

Alexa: "If I was in an old Hollywood western, I’d sit on the bar in the saloon and sing songs and tell jokes and stories. When strangers walked in, I’d say, Howdy! And they'd look around and say, "What the heck is that contraption?"

:lol: I was amused.

Steelers played a horrific game in the rain in Cleveland, tons of penalties and 5(?) turnovers and yet Cleveland doesn't end their winless streak. I guess both teams are cellar dwellars.

Gabrielle Union Explains How to Pronounce Daughter’s Name...

...and I quote:

I didn't know she was from Kentucky.

:p:

This joke
 

A missionary was about to finish his tour of duty, and was leaving his mission in the jungle, where he has spent years teaching the natives, when he realizes that the one thing he never taught them, was how to speak English. So he takes the chief for a walk in the forest.

He points to a tree and says to the chief, "This is a tree."

The chief looks at the tree and grunts, "Tree."

The missionary is pleased with the response. They walk a little further and he points to a rock and says, "This is a rock.”

Hearing this, the chief repeats, "Rock."

The missionary is elated with the results. They walk a bit further and hear rustling in the bushes. They peek over the top and see a couple of natives in the midst of heated sexual activity. The missionary is embarrassed, and quickly responds, "Man riding a bike."

The chief looks at the couple briefly, pulls out his blowgun and kills them both.

The missionary is flabergasted. He’s spent years teaching the tribe how to be civilized and kind to each other. “How could you kill these people in cold blood that way?!”

The chief replied, "My bike"

Funneh.

Mildly amusing me is the fact that Momdigr knows basically nothing about the song Alice's Restaurant.