Monday, December 22, 2008

Quick Post

It's pretty cold in these parts today. Never got above freezing, and it's only supposed to get colder tonight.
Of course, "cold" is a pretty relative term. Consider the following conversation I had with my mother yesterday:

Me: It's supposed to get down to 14 degrees here.
Mom: It's supposed to get up to 14 degrees here.

So there you go.
Of course, some people think that once yout get to a certain level of coldness the numbers don't matter anymore. I think those people have never experienced a wind chill factor of -80.
Right now it's 19 degrees, though, and I'm thinking that they might have a point.
Not much new or exciting going on around here. I came home, dozed in the recliner for a while, ate something, sat around, wrote this.

5 comments:

Merlin T Wizard said...

Yes, temperatures in the teens meant it was a perfect time to take the kids to see Santa yesterday. Wait, did I say perfect? I meant retarded.

Word verification: deriumis
Latin for the human hindquarters, specifically the gluteal region.

Little known fact: Yosemite Sam's original catchphrase was, "Mah deriumis is burnin'!" It was scrapped before recording after Mel Blanc visited his country cousin, Bo Blanc, who, in the excitement of the visit, forgot he was baking and exclaimed through the smoke in the kitchen, "Mah biscuits are burnin'!" And history was made.

Jon Maki said...

Hmm, an interesting bit of trivia, but given Blanc's history, it's more likely that it happened to one of the other voice actors who, on Blanc's insistence, went uncredited, and he just took credit for it.

Merlin T Wizard said...

Blanc-hater

Jon Maki said...

I'm not a hater, I just don't buy into his version of history like you Blanc worshippers.

Merlin T Wizard said...

Whatever. Blanc was the single greatest influence on cartoons, nay, moving pictures of all time!