Random thoughts that are pointless and too dumb to say anywhere else thread: 2009 (Jan. – April)

[Thurston Fluff]

http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv208/ThurstonFluff/z.jpg

guess who won a cute puppy photo contest

 

[Gobias Industries]

I'm a cat person, but wow, that is one dog I would actually want. What breed?

[Thurston Fluff]

An akita. It's hard to see from the picture but he looked like a little tank as a pup. Now he looks like a regular size tank.

[And That]

Yesterday morning after I got back inside from taking out the recycling, I saw that our dog had cornered our cat in the kitchen. While they were batting at each other (the dog thinks it is play, the cat thinks quite the opposite), the dog must have sufficiently scared the cat to make it poop on the floor. After the cat pooped on the floor, the dog ate the poop and walked away. I had to live with that image for the rest of my day.

[Gobias Industries]

After the cat pooped on the floor, the dog ate the poop and walked away. I had to live with that image for the rest of my day.

Sometimes you have to wonder why we allow these animals to live in our homes.

[Thurston Fluff]

It's why I cringe anytime I see someone let a dog lick their face and chuckle when I hear someone say a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's.

[Oldcity]

And That, the best part of that is I bet as soon as that happened you thought, 'Man I have to post about this is in the pointless/dumb thoughts thread at brewerfan!'

[And That]

That was the second thing I thought.

 

The first thing I thought was had to do with this: My seven month old daughter had been constipated until the night before the poop eating incident. I say until the night before because I don't know if it was the applesauce or the pears we gave her, but she pooped three pretty big ones over the course of about 20 minutes. The first one was a diaper poop. The second one was as she was standing half naked at the gate inside her room, she looked at me as I was washing my hands and pooped on the floor. The third one was when I was laying her down to put a new diaper on, she pooped on her bed, narrowly missing my hands. She also peed on my shirt as I was carrying her over to her bed.

 

So my first thought was... if I had brought the dog up to her room, would he have cleaned up the floor poop for me? If only I would have known.

[pitchleague]

I love commercials that state, "In taste tests, our product ranks higher than the leading brand."

 

Then aren't you really stating that you're not #1 brand? Sure, people might think it tastes better but it's not doing anything for sales, since you're NOT the leading brand.

[craigharmann]

Alright, I hate to do this, but it's the first thought that popped into my head reading the last two posts....combining the two into an ad....."Out of 150 dogs surveyed, the 75% of the dogs surveyed think cat poop tastes better than baby poop."

[sbrylski]

Playing again off the past few posts...

 

There's a billboard in Madison that reads "9 out of 10 Doctors agree giving makes you feel good," asking for donations to a charity. I'm sure it was a made up stat, but if it was real I'd like to have been their during the questioning:

 

Questioner: "Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Giving makes you feel good."

Doctor 1: "Agree"

Doctor 2: "Agree"

Doctor 3: "Agree"

Doctor 4: "Agree"

Doctor 5: "Agree"

Doctor 6: "Agree"

Doctor 7: "Agree"

Doctor 8: "Agree"

Doctor 9: "Agree"

Doctor 10: "Disagree. I'd rather buy a waverunner. Try frowning on a waverunner."

 

*Dan Tosh

[brucrustu]

It's Friday night.

I'm home alone.

On one channel I'm watching TLC: "What not to wear"

The other channel: HDNET: Affliction Banned.

[brewerjamie15]

It's a Friday night. My wife is at the Admirals game with some friends and then off to a bar for a while while -I- am the one who stays home. Odd.

[hawing]

Why does every cold I catch go right to my larynx and wipe out my voice?

[Thurston Fluff]

Doesn't catch seem too active a word for getting a cold? It's not like you went out and found one to catch. It moe or less just comes to you. but sorry to hear (no pun intended) you're under the weather.

[GoudaBrew]

That Geico has decided to change its "spokesman" from a talking Gecko to a stack of money with plastic eyeballs seems like a weird choice. Not that it wasn't time for a change, but a stack of money? Really? Someone got paid to come up with that? I actually kind of like it in a strange way.

[milwaukeesportsfan]

I live in West Allis. I woke up the other day, and there was a shopping cart in my front yard. I'm not a fan of West Allis.

[hawing]

Monday, January 26 is Bob Uecker's 74th birthday.

[hawing]

Fans of UW athletics who have become dismayed by the Badgers' off year in many if not most high-profile sports should consider checking out women's hockey. We went to their 7-0 pasting of Ohio State on Saturday and had a great time.

 

All seats are $5.00 (cheaper for kids and students) and general admission. There's a (smaller) band and (smaller) student section. The Badgers are coached by former Olympian and future Olympic coach Mark Johnson. And the lady Badgers rake on ice. What's not to love?

[Thurston Fluff]

Every year a few weeks before valentines day we get an increase in love and just because balloon bouquets sent from women to men. I always suspected this was to get a better valentines day present. Today we had a very fun gal in the store ordering one so I asked if she was just plying for a better valentines day present. She laughed and said she hadn't thought about that but she was sending it out because her husband forgot her birthday last year and it was coming up in a week so she wanted to send him something as a gentle reminder. Then she added if he did forget she would at least be able to make him feel real bad. Women are so devious.

[afeter]

I wrote in an email to The Mike Heller Show (formerly "Heller and Murphy") on 1070 in Madison about the fact that JJ Hardy is currently the Brewers' most valuable player according to Win-Values and that the Brewers could be better off trading Escobar if the SS log jam became a pressing issue.

 

It was read on the air as their Email of the Day and apparently I win a Milio's gift certificate. I'm not trying to gloat, I just think it's funny that I won something off of readily available statistics. Thank you, FanGraphs!

hey-- I just read your post, congrats. Please tell me its true they got rid of owen. I've been living in LA for the last month, (going home to madison in april), so i have no idea. Owen Murphy's on air bumbling and complete lack of insight was truely maddening for me to listen too.

[hawing]

Please tell me its true they got rid of owen.

Ask and ye shall receive. Owen left for Seattle in January.

 

This isn't a random thought for brewerfan.net, but I don't think it warrants a separate thread:

 

FSWisconsin is showing the Brewers Classic from 2004 when Ben struck out all those Braves. The first thing I noticed that seemed really strange? Gobs of empty seats in Miller Park on a nice Sunday afternoon. When was the last time a Sunday game sold poorly at MP? Not in 2008. How far they've come.

 

(The second thing I noticed was Carne Estrada at a healthy-looking weight.)

[jjgott]

A fellow student brought up some example in class today to which the professor simply stated, "Small Sample."

[And That]

The fiance and I are looking to buy a house this summer and in the course of our house shopping, we've come across quite a few interesting/disturbing/funny photos, but this one... well:

 

http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/ccb15d4698d79a20171f8189d148160b894c526.jpg

 

I am curious as to who would become more interested in buying this house after seeing that. Does it come with the little can thing under the sink?

[brewerjamie15]

Gerbil. We have two gerbils and each time we put them in their gerbil balls for some exercise, they crap all over the plastic balls and run around the kitchen slamming into the stove. I accidentally kicked a ball sending "Tom" into a wicked spin. He was ok, I felt bad about it so I gave him a sunflower seed. We're cool.