Freaky Frugalite

When I was in high school, there was a popular books called “100 Uses For a Dead Cat.” Some things were pretty funny, but it was a rather nasty book. This photo reminds me of it a little. How to tell if your shoes smell….

This may just constitute cruelty to animals…

Cats are good for more than just testing shoes. Here’s a true story, told to my husband by one of his co-workers.

This co-worker, Jake, has a cat. Every morning, the cat would bound into Jake’s bedroom to wake him up. Like a good cat, this cat would wake Jake up EARLY. Like, 4am! It’s a good thing that Jake needed to get up that early, to go to work; otherwise Jake wouldn’t have been so tolerant of this cat.

Anyway, one morning, Jake woke up later than usual. The cat had not woken him up that morning. Instead, Jake turned in bed to see the cat in his bed, peering down over his headboard, and staring at the wall behind. The cat was absolutely entranced with something behind the headboard. Jake sat up to see what the cat was staring at, but saw nothing.

The next morning, the exact same thing happened! Jake again peered down behind his headboard– maybe a mouse or a spider? He saw nothing.

The next morning– the same thing again! The cat was silent every time, but he was on the bed, paws on the headboard, peering down the wall behind. Jake was perplexed. He determined that when he returned from work later that day, he’d pull the bed away from the wall and see what the cat was staring at.

That evening, Jake moved the bed away from the wall and saw his electrical outlet receptacle. He got down on all fours to look closely. All around the receptacle slots were black scorch marks. Apparently, the outlet had shorted and was arcing. The cat had noticed the arcs! Jake said that his cat probably saved his life!

So, if you have a cat, count your blessings! They can test your shoes and watch your electrical system! Now if only they could help with weight loss programs!

Photo of unconscious cat from Funny Offbeat News (not a kid’s site).

Oh wow. Are we sure we want these things near our brains?!?!

I did some checking to make sure this wasn’t an urban legend. Surprisingly, there are a lot of opinions about this! Suspicions arose because these videos appeared within a day or two (one in English, others in Germany, China, etc). Another suspicion was that only *certain* cell phones would pop the popcorn, so some people thought this was all a marketing scheme to get people to buy these particular cellphones. I don’t know why they think this– I would be more inclined to stay far, far away from phones that fry things!

There’s an interesting news story at Wired.com here.The author of the story says it’s all a fake because “it just can’t happen.” But there are a ton of comments by others who say it can. They get into all this technical stuff, about microwaves, radiation, and etc. How hard is it to figure out– I mean, just get some cell phones together and TRY IT.

I only have two cell phones in the house, and both are tracfones. Otherwise, I’d try it for sure! If you test this out, please oh PLEASE come back and tell me your results! I’d LOVE to know!

At any rate, it’s a hilarious video!

I have a travel blog and I only take car trips. People have asked me why I don’t fly when I travel. Truth be told, I don’t fly because my arms would get too tired. YUK YUK YUK YUK!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, ahem.

I don’t fly because it’s too expensive! And because I’d rather not lay down my fourth amendment rights and be subjected to naked viewing x-ray machines, thank you very much! :-p

Here’s a video that makes ya go WOWOW and wonder how these pilots do it. This is a short video– a 24-year old female pilot tries to land this plane in 155 mile winds. It’s crazy!

This is not why I don’t fly, but it’s another good reason not to. lol

I was asked to talk about one of my most embarrassing moments. It took me quite a long time to think of one. Not because I never have them, but because I ALWAYS have them. It has been very hard to pin one down. I finally remembered quite a silly moment. It’s from long, long ago, so it isn’t as condemning now. I moved away from the town I lived when this occurred, so I never see these people anymore. Good thing, too, because now that I am a crabby old lady I’d slug them if they laughed at me again.

ANYWAY, here’s the wonderful video I made in which I brag to all the world about my embarrassing moment!

Boy, am I ever glad to get that off my chest! I don’t skate anymore, by the way. I’d rather be doing more productive things, like eating Gulf oysters! Yes, I love shellfish and I am not embarrassed to admit it! I am appalled that some people eat the slimy things RAW. I think THAT would be embarrassing! But I’d never laugh, no, not I! I’d warn them of the dangers of eating raw oysters and suggest that they visit the BeOysterAware.com site for loads of information (and some kickin-good recipes, too).

If you eat raw oysters, come out of your own shells! It’s nothing of which to be ashamed! If they decide to come back up, well, that can be embarrassing…

OK, I don’t spend all of my time thinking about tornadoes! I think is is– what– my third post on them?! I talk more about tornadoes than all the snow we get around here! But I do have a fascination with them. I would be a tornado chaser if I didn’t have children.

I found this stunning video of a huge, huge, supersized tornado. Two crazy guys chased this baby that landed in Manitoba. Those little sticks you see? Those are power lines.

The tornado swirls and swirls, and bobs up and down constantly. It finally spurns off three small ones at its base. It’s incredible to see. The video has no swearing, either, so it’s safe for kids.

I just cannot understand why people live in tornado-prone areas! Wow! It would be far too stressful to me!

I must be getting old. Does anyone else have this problem? Please say yes.

I fnid that I rfequently tpye my letters slysdexic. It is gettnig worse as I age. Or it cuold be because I am always at the compuetr and I tpye all day. I tell yuo, it is starting to drive me absolurtely crazy!

Hubby used to work in insurance. What a crappy job. Ever see The Incredibles?! Just like that, it was. Yeah. Real lousy. Makes you want to quit the industry and become a dead-beat superhero. Yep.

Well, when Hubby worked in insurance, Middle Management had these “motivational” posters everywhere. I mean, everywhere. At the water cooler, around ever corner, in the bathroom stalls. For some odd reason, those motivational posters just didn’t work very well. Maybe if the company cleaned up their scheistering ways and maybe paid the CEOs a million less and paid the slave-level agents a couple bucks more, that might have been more motivating? I like a poster as much as any gal, but hey, ya gotta buy groceries and posters don’t buy the groceries.

Well, Hubby found these great posters a few months ago. Found these at Despair.com. Real gems.

I bought him the pyramids one for his birthday. He hasn’t framed it yet. Isn’t “motivated” enough, I guess. Probably needs more posters.

My favorite is “Mistakes” and “Sacrifice.” These are the posters that should be hanging in corporations’ halls. Because that’s what they REALLY mean to say.

People from other countries sometimes complain that we Americans are consumed with our weather. Well, this is a historic tradition. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington kept meticulous weather journals. Jefferson measured rainfall, weather conditions, and blooming times of his garden plants, year after year. Our country has always been a very agricultural nation, so monitoring the weather helps us with our farms.

So, yes, I guess you could say that we Americans are consumed with our weather. Especially when we have weather like this:

Those are tornadoes taken from storms in our MidWest. We even have groups of Americans who hop in cars and trucks, chasing these storms and getting as close as they can to take photographs and study patterns. In the Northeast, we often experience similar cyclonish storms– snowstorms called Nor’Easters that can dump as much as 20 feet of snow in one storm.

Photos taken from DailyMail.

I saw these at JoshuaUn.com and they cracked me up! Thanks for some laughs, Joshua!

Perfect advertisement for the back of a bus. *coughcoughcough*

OK, this is not very funny, but I couldn’t stop laughing!

Now THAT is so creative! LOL!

This is my favorite. From now on, I’m checking those restaurant cups before I start drinking from them.

Ow! Doesn’t that look real?

You can see lots more here.