The Material Girl

Plungers, Potato Guns and the Continuing Saga of the Vowel-ess alphabet

Snippets of convos from the trip to visit my Mom last night:

(after discussing the that's on my desk at work, a la Michael Scott) What is it with the fascination that people have with putting things on their heads? It seems to be guaranteed that if a human being sees a hole somewhere that their head might fit in, we just can't resist putting it there. And, as evidenced by funny video shows, our judgment just isn't up to snuff sometimes.

Also, we thought we'd discovered a great way to increase gas mileage. Picture it: drafting an 18-wheeler, you have in your hands a potato gun that's going to shoot a toilet plunger at the back of said rig. The plunger is tied to a heavy-duty rope that is also hooked to the front of your car (preferably via winch, but there were several options here and we didn't want to get bogged down in technicals). You shoot the potato gun, the plunger sticks to said semi, and then you're coasting, free! The Russian wants to use a cross-bow, but really, I think that's just a Man Thing. Regardless, it was brilliant until we discovered that a lot of semis have some kind of textured doors on the back, probably to prevent people from sticking plungers to them for a free ride. AND, we never did come up with a good way to unstick the plunger when the semi exitted on an off ramp, and you didn't want to. Carl surmised that there would be big trucks all over the US with plungers sticking off the back of them. No word from the plumbing industry on how this would affect the supply of plungers.

We also discussed how best to spell the name of the town, Ina, with no vowels. This is sort of an ongoing hobby...how to rid the world of pesky vowels. My hv 2 pnt ths 1.

And it's way too early for me to be up, but Alice was whining and wouldn't settle down. Ralf is staying here for 2 weeks while he makes a visit to the vet to get some kind of small tumor removed from his eyelid. This will be the longest they've been separated from each other since we've had them both. I'm curious to see how Alice handles it, she's never been the "only dog". Cats are Home Alone. Hopefully Pop doesn't let them out accidentally.

Posted by tomiandc at May 3, 2008 07:04 AM