| Cumbersome Eyelids |
[Sep. 16th, 2006|11:17 pm] |
I woke up right on time today, maybe around three or four, the usual weekend. It wasn't a bad start, althought I couldn't seem to open my left eye. I initially thought it was just the sleepy jinky's, but then I realized that I seriously couldn't open my eyelid. Thoughts rushed throught my head, had I experienced some mild retardation overnight from that expired tylenol I ate, had aliens abducted me and seared my eyelid shut. I run to the bathroom and find a bandaid stuck to my head. Go figure.
Someone clogged our toilet today, and I wonder who. Regardless, it was up to me to unclog it, being the man of the house. You know how cute bunnies and squirrels are, and how you want to just fondle them and rub their heads. Well an overflowing toilet looks nothing like that. After some very hard very exciting hand to plunger movement for about an hour, it started to drain. I wiped the sweat off my head in satisfaction and quickly learned my hands were not so clean. Epic, yes?
I was so affected by the toilet incident that I decided to learn everything possible about them, with the help of Google. Here's what I learned along with some pictures.

Wake That Baby Up!

What's that noise?

He's a hard worker, that's what.
Boston Hates You
Other cities put their restrooms right on the street and in the subway, where visitors and residents can actually see and use them. Not Boston. We hide our bathrooms away, taunting you, daring you to see if you've got real bladder control. Town Meeting in Concord, one of the most popular tourist sites in America, once rejected plans for a new visitor center, because it would have had restrooms - residents were afraid people from the neighboring town of Maynard would drive into Concord just to use the facilities.
Tax For Toilets
There was a man who computed his taxes for 1997 and found that he owed $3407. He packaged up his payment and included this letter:
Dear IRS:
Enclosed is my 1997 Tax Return & payment. Please take note of the attached article from the USA Today newspaper. In the article, you will see that the Pentagon is paying $171.50 for hammers and NASA has paid $600.00 for a toilet seat.
Please find enclosed four toilet seats (value $2400) and six hammers(value $1029). This brings my total payment to $3429.00. Please note the overpayment of $22.00 and apply it to the 'Presidential Election Fund', as noted on my return. Might I suggest you send the above mentioned fund a '1.5 inch screw'. (See attached article - HUD paid $22.00 for a 1.5 inch Phillips Head Screw.)
It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year. I just saw an article about the Pentagon and 'screwdrivers'.
Sincerely, (Not Telling)
Sewer Gators
The Boston Daily Globe August 14, 1873 Page 5
A genuine live alligator meanders around in Atlanta, Ga., sewers, picking up chickens, young Africans and other such unconsidered trifles.
The Evening Observer [Dunkirk, New York} March 2, 1915 Page 8
Rather Remarkable Suggestion for Cleaning Sewers at Erie. The Eric Dispatch is responsible for this:
Alligators may be used to clean out city sewers as the result of an offer received by Thedore [sic] Eichhorn, superintendent of streets, yesterday. A New York company wrote to him asking that the innovation be tried out here as it is to be in Dayton, [Ohio]. The company has agents in Florida who select sewer-sized alligators and ship them to cities which order.
The idea is to start an alligator through the sewer head first. Being in a position a little too complicated to turn around the animal will crawl until he reaches a manhole. A rope is to be tied around the alligator's body, and as he moves he will drag a scraper.
Superintendent Eichhorn wasn't certain yesterday which of the street department force he would employ to handling the alligator if he gets one. But he did agree that the idea is a practical one, because an alligator has the strength and determination to push his way through any clog that ever blocked a sewer.
"I'm going to take the matter up and, if they don't charge too much for him, we may get an alligator," he said. When the animal becomes too old to work his way through life and sewers alike, it was suggested that he be placed as the first installment in a municipal zoological garden.
After I unclogged the toilet, the ceiling started to leak. I know who is fixing that too; NOT ME.
I played Starcraft for a hour or two. Then I called my friend Matt, guess who he is going to homecoming with, Ali Harned. I must have no girl appeal or something. Anyhow, I asked my friends on Starcraft what to do, here's what some of them said.
Check[It]: Hey, I have a website just for you, it helped me get a date. www.theinternetwillnotgetyouadate.com
Got-Alp: Punch her in the face.
TaHj: Kidnap her and hold her hostage for a day or two, then let her go and ask her to homecoming. Everyone will talk about that for a while..
Xaeil: Wear some assless chaps to school, hand her a note that says, "Will you go to homecoming with me?" and when she looks at you in disgust hand her another note that says, "I will never wear this again if you say yes."
2Phat2Stand:
I'll throw out some ideas:
1. "I'd like to make you come at homecoming."
2. Don't say anything. Just find out her class schedule and follow her everywhere. Take a couple of days off from classes and just stand outside her classrooms staring at her.
3. Bake her a cake that says "Come with me to homecoming" on it. Then you can be her quirky friend who's probably gay but hasn't admitted to it.
4. Play a fun game with her. You ask questions and she has to answer yes or no as fast as she can. Go through a bunch of bs questions, then finally ask if she'll go to homecoming with you.
5. Don't be a pussy and just ask her.
Finnegan: You are definately asking the wrong question in the wrong place.
Anubis-King: Threaten to kill her, and when she gets all hot and flustered, be like, I'm j/k, lets go to homecoming.
Rby: Change your schedule so all your classes are with her; then ask her in homeroom. You can spend the rest of the day, being near her while respecting an awkward silence. That's what I did.
Miracle: I'd just go with the straightforward approach.....save the gusto for the marriage proposal you're going to make to your future wife....
A.) You go to homecoming, and she ditches you to bang some football player B.) You go to homecoming, you make out, date for a few weeks, then break up C.) You go to homecoming, get drunk, bang her in your back seat....everything is cool until a month later when she's late and you're going to be a daddy. 9 months later you have to drop out of school to work two jobs just so you can support your new baby momma.
But anyways, good luck with that whole asking her to homecoming thing.
Zace: Devirginize her.
Kirby: Take a HUGE shit and collect it in a bucket. Get over to her house right away while it's still fresh and spread it out on the windshield of her car. Write the message, "Homecoming would be the shit." Ring her doorbell and run.
Booger: Tell her if she was a booger, you would pick her first.
Great advice, mother fuckers. |
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