coconut sunday

what if all palm trees were called coconut trees? the sunday before easter could have been a wild holiday for those catholics.

take a power trip

"can i help you?"
"no, i am ok."
"well you should know there is hightened security at the airport."
"thanks, that makes me feel safe."
"you can't be here sneaking around."
"who is sneaking? i am standing right here."
"well you can't be here."
"well then you should have put the fence in a different spot."
"well i just want you to know there is hightened security."
"you mentioned that. you should call them and tell them there is a kid on a bicycle standing outside the fence."

cliche?

cli·ché (klē-shā') n. 1. trite or overused expression or idea. 2. a person or character whose behavior is predictable or superficial.
is it a cliche to point out a cliche? ...never again will this exact image be created.

the president?

not as obvious who this is if you are not up to date with your heisman trophy winner nicknames of players with the same last name as george w.

superman?

a lucky duck

what makes a duck so lucky?

hydrantgea?

venkman

"dana, the guys are going down into the sewer to check for slime stuff and egon thinks there may even be a surge in cockroach breeding."

elliot

"he needs to go home, he's calling his people, and I don't know where they are, and he needs to go home."

you better lock it up.

no, you lock it up!
you lock it up!
you lock it up!
you lock it up!
lock it up!

just a ball of blue somewhere in the sunshine

mother earth a big blue marble
the dancing moon the falling sun
shine on and on and on…

the life of pauline fowler

first invented in england and france in the early 1800s. an early model was a barrel-shaped metal drum with holes in it. it was turned by hand over a fire. electrical clothes dryers appeared around 1915.

jimmy chitwood

"you can't score if you don't shoot."

propecia

hamilton says there is no way i will go on an interview looking like this. i say," hamilton you're suspect! and i will prove your statement to be inaccurate."

luck of the irish

as i thumbed through the days mail (hamilton's mail, not mine) i thought about what i would have for dinner tonight. rice? pb & j (with the crusts)? generic corn flakes (with no yogurt)? and that's when i saw it, a zpizza flyer advertizing a free pizza!! free pizza? couldn't be. my mother told me there is no such thing as a free meal. well, today jeanne e. kelly's thoery is proven erroneous. my personal greek style pizza (feta, mozzarella, red onions, kalamata olives, tomotoes) was one hundred percent cuffo, and it was breathtaking. hamilton is not pleased with me stealing the coupon, so maybe the price of pizza is friendship, and maybe jeanne was right afterall?

solo flight

on may 20, 1927 chuck lindbergh gunned the engine of the "spirit of st louis" and aimed her down the dirt runway of roosevelt field, long island. thirty-three and one half-hours and 3,500 miles later he landed in paris, the first to fly the atlantic alone.

man in black

Archimedes estimated that it would take 8 x "10 to the 63rd" grains of sand to fill the universe.

ejk

i did not realize his fame reached the west coast.

the big kahuna

"you live on a pier?!"

barbie

because there was little wood on the great plains, traditional wooden fences were difficult to manufacture. barbed wire allowed westerners to mark the boundaries for land and to protect crops, livestock, and railways. during the late 1860s and 1870s, dozens of inventors, many of them living in illinois and iowa, patented more than four hundred types of barbed wire.

the queen

built from 1930-1936 in scotland, the queen mary has crossed the atlantic 1001 times at a cruising speed of 31 mph while getting 13 feet to the gallon. holds 3131 passengers and crew with a lifeboat capacity of 145. the queen (almost twice the mass of titanic) has been docked at the port of long beach for 39 years.

yankee doodles

15.5 gallons and about 150 cups of beer in each of these half kegs.

careless

colin hanks and rachel blanchard on the set of "careless" at the burgundy room in hollywood, ca.

california bug

the vw beetle, little changed since its debut in 1936, became the most popular automobile in history, with 21,529,464 cars rolling off the assembly lines. production of the car ceased in germany in 1978, but continued in mexico where the beetle was particularly popular as a taxi.

the leakless poluter

fix your leaky toilet and polute the earth in three easy steps.
long beach, ca

nearing sunset

the california gull, larus californicus, was selected as the state bird of utah by an act of the legislature in 1955 probably in commemoration of the fact that these gulls saved the people of the state by eating up the rocky mountain crickets which were destroying the crops in 1848. all day long they gorged themselves, and when full, disgorged and feasted again. after devouring the crickets, the gulls returned "to the lake islands whence they came."
long beach, ca