Monday Morning Chuckle

Wednesday’s Word

Word: Straight ahead (Phrase)

Definition: Affirmation, assent

Usage:

“What do you say we call in on those two school teachers from Atlanta who are renting the Harvey camp this summer?”

“Straight ahead. They looked pretty good.”

(Definition from: “How To Talk Yankee”, by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)

Did You Know Tuesday

(the Wednesday Edition)

Did you know that sunlight penetrates the ocean to 656 feet (200 meters)? Below that depth, the sunlight dissipates so quickly it doesn't penetrate the water any deeper.

Monday Morning Chuckle

Anybody with the ability to fact-check Sarah "Quitter" Palin knows full well that this woman, as a politician, is an uneducated knucklehead. This is what she meant to say on Oprah.

Wednesday’s Word

Word: Whale (V.)

Definition: to strike vigorously

Usage:

“How’d you run your fence so tight?”

“Well, I made me a new maul out of a piece of rock maple, got a box to stand on, then I whaled the bejeezus out of the posts. Man can’t run a good fence unless he’s drove those posts right down hahd.”

“Look awful pretty.”

“Nothing prettier than a tight fence.”

(Definition from: “How To Talk Yankee”, by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)

Did You Know Tuesday

Did you know that for the past eighteen years, the Worcester Wreath Company, started in 1963 in Harrington, Maine, has been making, delivering and laying wreaths in Arlington National Cemetery to honor fallen soldiers?

In 1992, the company had made so many wreaths and didn’t have enough time in the season to sell them all. Owner Morrill Worcester reached out to Maine Senator Olympia Snowe and with her help contacted Arlington National Cemetery and asked if he could donate and lay these wreaths at the graves of fallen military. After receiving permission, he received an offer from a local trucking company from Jonesboro, Maine, Blue Bird Ranch, to haul the wreaths to Washington, DC for them at no cost.

The wreath-laying was mostly unnoticed by the general public, but that was not the goal of Morrill. He wanted to honor our fallen soldiers and military in some way. In 2007, after a snowfall in DC, someone took a picture of the wreaths lightly covered by snow in Arlington National Cemetary. That picture created a national buzz about who was doing this, and from there the Worcester Wreath Company’s name and yearly wreath laying became known nationwide.

To this day, Blue Bird Ranch still hauls the wreaths (for free) for the Worcester Wreath Company, and the laying of the wreaths continues. This year the wreaths will be laid in Arlington on December 12. Wreaths Across America was started by the company when so many groups around the country wanted to do for their local military cemeteries what Worcester Wreath Company was doing for Alrington.

photo of Worcester Wreath Company from jwakanmorgans' flickr page

Monday Morning Chuckle

This just in from "No D'uh!" magazine....Sean Hannity is nothing but a dink and a liar. You need more proof? Check out the hilarity from Jon Stewart.

Wednesday’s Word

Word: How they actin’? (Interrogative phrase.)

Usage: Use this to inquire of a fisherman’s luck when you stop by a bridge or culavert (culvert).

He’ll probably simply say, “Ain’t.” But if you can, get a look in his creel.

And then there’s the variant for lobsterman.

“How they crawlin’?”

“Ain’t.”

He may have caught enough spiders that month to pay for his new Chrysler Marine.

(Definition from: “How To Talk Yankee”, by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)

Did You Know Tuesday

Did you know that in October of 2009 the fireplace pictured below was voted as the World’s Most Beautiful Object? Yeah, I know. As ridiculous as it sounds there were 100 objects selected by a group of engineers, and then there was a vote. This won.

It is pretty cool, I must admit. It's a design by a French company, Focus, and rotates 360 degrees to throw heat in any direction. It was originally designed in 1968. Read about it here in Britain’s Telegraph newspaper. (picture from Telegraph’s website)

I want one. C'mon, PowerBall!

Monday Morning Chuckle

*from ABC's show 'Fridays' that aired from April 1980 to April 1982.

Wednesday’s Word

Word: Be (V.)

Definition: archaic form of “is”

Usage:

One of the boys from Barter Island went to the city to sign up for the draft. When asked for his address, he replied, “I come from the Island.”

“What Island?”

“Barter Island, for crisakes! What other Island be thay?”

(Definition from: “How To Talk Yankee”, by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)

Did You Know Tuesday

Did you know that Maine’s state flag was adopted in 1909, 89 years after Maine had become the 23rd state in the US? This would mark the 100th birthday of the State of Maine flag.

On a deep-blue field are a farmer and sailor, representing prosperity from both land and sea. Between them is a shield with the a pine tree (the State Tree), a moose, blue sky and water. Above the shield is the North Star (Maine was the Northernmost state when it entered the Union). The state motto, “Dirigo”, which means “I direct”, is centered on a red ribbon between the star and the shield.

Pretty cool state flag, if I do say so myself. It is the finest kind of pork.

Monday Morning Chuckle

I'm supporting being hammered in public. With that said, this is hilarious. A quickie-mart camera gets footage of some dude who is hammered trying to buy more beer. The top video is this footage. The bottom video is the same footage, but silent-movie music and title cards have been added. It's wicked funny. Sorry drunk dude, but you got yourself into this.