I Whine from Wine

This cat went to a wine tasting last night and had a few too many. Therefore my creative juices have been sucked out my head all day. So I really have nothing to say today otherwise. But if you want to talk about the weather or Britney or the latest mortgage rates, feel free to let your thoughts be known.

- The Mountain Cat

Thursday Random Thoughts 1/31

Stuff I have been thinking about in the past week:

-I wonder if JK Rowling listens to The Who. Maybe she named the key member of the Quidditch team "The Seeker" after their song of the same name?

-I heard on the radio that Jan 30th was international "delete your Myspace page day". Does myspace even still exist?

-Can you believe that 2 seperate people have clicked on this blog after doing a Google search for the name Dan Pangburn? Faithful readers will remember that person as the one who fired the initial shot in the Global Warming war. There has also been 1 person who clicked on us after searching for the correct way to use the word adroitness in a sentence. No kidding.

-Why is "under par" a good thing but "sub-par" not a good thing?

-I want to say a thank you to the nice manager at BJ's Wholesale club who gave us $100 off on our new TV.

-Ben Franklin plumbing in Charlotte NC uses Tommy Tutone's 867-5309 Jenny in it's radio commercials with a really bad parody singer butchering the lyrics. (ie. Benny Benny won't you do some plumbing for me?)Something tells me that the real Benjamin Franklin would not be happy that his name is being used in this manner.

-Some one told me in the past week that they were taking a "Pre-emptive sick day" They weren't sick but were taking the day off from work so they wouldn't get sick. What the heck ????

-For some reason I was surprised when I found out that Gretta Van Susteren is a Scientologist.

-Big endorsement to Liberty Tax Service. This company was founded by the same guy who originally founded Jackson Hewitt) They really did a good thorough job on our taxes last weekend and didn't cost an arm and a leg. You may recognize them. They always have people out on the street dressed in statue of liberty costumes waving at cars.

-I still think that Boo-Berry is a cool name for a cereal. Even though I would never touch the stuff.

-If you haven't seen the Jerry O'Connell video poking fun at Tom Cruise you need to. My brother in law showed me last weekend and it is hilarious. "It's all about KFC" HA!

-Our black lab Morgan is the biggest mooch in the entire world. This dog eats his food, tries to eat the cat food and our sons food. He tries to eat our food, and tries to lick the dirty plates in the dishwasher, our son's spit up, and if we let him he would eat the cat turds out of the litter box. GOOD GRIEF!! I tell my wife that he is nothing but an 80 pound cockroach with fur.

-I was talking with someone last week who actually thought it was the "raise card" not the "race card" that they talk about being played. I didn't bother trying to explain to this person that they were wrong and that a raise card probably has something to do with poker because it would have been a waste of breath. But I did think to myself, Heck if was the "raise card" I think that I may have to play that one at work...

-I saw and article the other day entitled "Debunking that biggest video game myths" and thought to myself. Who cares?

-Senator Ted Kennedy recently came out and endorsed Barak Obama's run for the Presidency. What wasn't as widely reported was that he actually came out in favor of a full minority ticket and has endorsed Jose Cuervo for Vice President. Think about it....


-Doc

Ask Doc and the Mt. Cat 1/30

This question comes sorta non-anonymously:

My question is... How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop??

LeapOFaith

Dear Leap O' Faith:

We feel that we are not quite qualified to answer your question but instead refer you to that wise old sage Owl:

His answer is (all together now) A ONE..... A TWO..... A THREE (CRUNCH) - THREE LICKS!

Hope that answers your question. Please keep them coming and we will do our best to answer them. Until next time


-Doc and the Mt. Cat

Ummmm, 'brella???!!!

It is raining here in New York City and to walk to and from the train is annoying. Why do people carry umbrellas the size of the Superdome???? Jeez, the sidewalks are thin enough and I almost got knocked down by some schmuck who decided to raise his backyard lawn table umbrella over his head. I'm surprised he didn't fly away like Mary Poppins at any hint of the wind blowing. So here I am, with my anorexic umbrella fighting the elements as I get bullied like the scrawny kid in the kindergarten school yard. Mike Bloomberg should fine people $1,000 if their umbrella exceeds a certain amount of inches like George Brett's pine tar infraction. I nearly get my eye poked out every time by these umbrella elitists! Stop it please. It is rain. Don't be afraid to get a little on ya. You won't melt like the Wicked Witch of the West my pretty!
(Did I say 'like' enough times like Dennis Miller?)

- The Mountain Cat

Tuesday Word Game winner

We have a winner in the Tuesday word game !! It was a tough choice because all the answers were really good however someone had to win and this weeks winner is Leighann for her answer:
"Perez Hilton is said to be bent over in anticipation of the arrival of the bus and it's possible extraterrestrial occupants."
Congrats Leighann, that answer made me laugh the most, not to mention a disturbing mental image. So here is your award. It's the BIG PEACH!!
I wanted something with a bit of local flavor so this is a picture of the watertower in Gaffney SC (just google Gaffney Peach) that faces I-85. The big joke of course is that they put the crack of the peach facing the road and it really looks like a "full moon". A perfect and hopefully original trophy for winning the Tuesday word game.

Make sure and check Leighann out at Pessimists need Love too . I have the HTML coding so you can use as a button on your blog if you want to. Just e-mail me at docnolz@yahoo.com and I will be happy to send it to you... Of course I will come up with a new word game for next Tuesday and continue the contest. Thanks to everyone who played. The decision was hard because they were great answers.


-Doc

Tuesday word game 1/29...

OK lets play a game. This should be fun because you guys are very funny and quick thinking. Here is how it works. I will summarize a recent news story and you fill in the next line of the story with a witty or funny but obviously untrue way to end it. Here is the story and a few of my examples:

I read in the news that there is a spy satellite the size of a bus that is going to come crashing down to earth sooner or later. They say that it was launched years ago and was supposed to be the biggest new state of the art technology but it simply never met expectations or worked out like they thought it would. Now it is just dead and will fall to earth soon. __________________________________ . (you finish the story)

My examples:

-White House spokesperson Dana Pirino downplayed reports today that this was the satellite that gave us the inaccurate information on the WMD that were never found in Iraq.

-Campaign officials denied reports today that this satellite actually contained Fred Thompson's Presidential campaign momentum.

-NFL commissioner Roger Goodell today dispelled rumors that this satellite originally worked properly but became non-operational after being tugged out of orbit by the gravitational pull of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' ego. The NFL is however worried that it may crash land through the hole in the Texas Stadium roof.

-TMZ.com confirmed today that there is no truth to online gossip indicating that this satellite actually held Paris Hilton's singing career but it may have held her inheritance.

You get the idea... Give it some thought and let's see what you guys can come up with. Let's have some fun with this and if it goes over well we can play every Tuesday!!

-Doc

Snacks and the City

This spring our favorite self-centered 'guurlfriends' Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda are back with Sex and the City: The Movie. When this HBO show was on TV, it influenced millions of women across the country. From Cosmopolitan Martinis to 5-inch 'FMP' heals to woman talking opening in public about the one night stand they had over the weekend. Now I am no Puritan by any means, but I was always a little disturbed by how far reaching Sex and City was (and still is) in influencing pop culture. Especially here in Manhattan, the shows back drop metropolis. But I am curious to see if the filmmakers have come up with anything new that will be trend setters in 2008. But I hope they get really creative to satisfy the fickle public who are waiting impatiently to find out.

What I suggest is the female feedbag.

I mean why not? For the busy working girl on the go. You can pour your $12 Chop't salad into the feedbag, and chew as you walk, hail a cab or eat under an umbrella on those rainy days. Wouldn't you love to see Carrie walk around with one strapped to her chin? Seriously if you promote it the right way, the summer of 2008 will be the summer of fashionable feedbag. Imagine, thousands of Manhattan women walking around Park Avenue with their Coach Bags, Gucci shoes, Fendi diamond necklaces and National Bridle feedbags. Now that's hot! Versace will sell them with pink floral patterns and Prada will have them with diamond encrusted studs and a cell phone strap attached to the top, so you can listen to a conversation while you eat. Gisele Bundchen can walk down a runway in Victoria Secret lingerie and a black laced feedbag. I really think this can be a new American sensation!

So for the writers of Sex and the City, I give you permission to use my idea for the movie sequel. But when this becomes a big hit, I hope to see some royalties.

- The Mountain Cat

New Poll 1/28

Good Monday to everyone and as usual we have a new poll to vote in this week. Last week we were able to solve the Global Warming debate because a whopping 70% of voters agreed that global warming was possible and not a hoax. Thank you to everyone who voted.

This week we delve into the world of chain coffee stores. I heard last week that there is vicious war going on between two of these chains Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts. A sort of no holds barred loser leave town caffeine fueled conflict that has gotten down right nasty between the loyal drinkers of that sludge known as coffee. We will attempt to solve this war this week right here on our blog. For the sake of the readers we are also going to include Caribou Coffee so there is a third option.

Vote for which you prefer and any debate on the subject is of course welcome. Voting ends Sunday at midnight.

-Doc