This guest post comes to use from the lovely and talented Michelle M. The creator of Master Bader and all around genius, she really needs a blog of her own to share her amazingness with the rest of the world.
Who can take a website,
A topic or review,
Wrap them up in argyle and a laugh out loud or two?
Puntabulous.
Puntabulous can.
Puntabulous can cause he mixes it with love and makes us all feel good.
Who can take a bunny,
Evil to the core,
Keep it sick and twisted so that we come back for more?
Puntabulous.
Puntabulous can.
Puntabulous can cause he mixes it with love and makes us all feel good.
He’ll go that extra mile,
To make his monkeys smile,
Good, dorky fun is such a high.
You’ll believe a pill can fly.
Craig is such an awesome guy.
Who can write a story
And teach us something too,
Debate his opposition with great wit and derring do?
Puntabulous.
Puntabulous can.
Puntabulous can cause he mixes it with love and makes us all feel good.
And we feel good cause Puntabulous thinks we should.
Survived my dinner.
Dave S. HAS an accent although its pretty slight.
My Minnesota story:
I grew up in California (but not where Craig is right now — that’s TwoPi territory) and decided to go to college in Minnesota. When I told people, the most common question (after “Why?”) was “Where is Minnesota?” I would answer “Near Canada” and that seemed to satisfy everyone.
Never had lutefisk, though. Ryan, have you partaken?
Great job Michelle! I love how well all the expressions seem to fit the photos.
I’ve been to Bemiji and Minneapolis (BM – Before the Mall). It was nothing to write home about. Maybe if I’d been to the mall. Isn’t Rose from Golden Girls the most famous Minnesotan or maybe Jesse Ventura I guess. No Rose, definitely Rose.
Xi_Heather: I may be 1/4 Norwegian, but yuck. I prefer lefse and krumkake as expressions of my heritage.
Mark: No Don’t ya know’s or You bet ya’s, either.
Minneapolis! The only US city I’ve been in that isn’t in NJ/NY/PA! lol.
Aww. Rose. I love her. And thinking of the Golden Girls now always makes me sad since half of them aren’t around anymore.
Rose went to college in the same town as me.
Xi_Heather: My Spanish teacher in high school wanted me to go to your college.
Mark: you said ‘oral history’….*snicker*….
Tam: You’ve BEEN to Bimiji? My God, why? did you get lost? Crimeny, if you’ve been there, you might as well come visit me in Waynesboro. According to my friend, Waynesboro ROCKS when compared to Bimiji. And knowing my town as I do, that’s why I have such a low opinion of Bimiji.
Enrickyricardo: You’ve been to PA, eh? You get further west than Harrisburg? That’s kinda my territory…well, south west of Harrisburg.
I’d say Al Franken is a pretty famous Minnesotan…but I actually never knew he was Minnesota until last year. So, yeah, I’ll go with Rose Nyland.
From Waynesboro, we got nobody. Oh, a girl a few years ahead of me in high school ended up as a backup dancer in a Billy Idiol video…about twenty years ago. And a kid the year behind me in school went onto to be sports reporter at the local TV station. Course, he’s only famous for saying ‘cunt’ live on the air. BY accident of course. And so, yeah, that’s about it.
I wonder if Craiggers has adjusted to the time difference yet?
HUGS…
Enrico: I visited the NY/NJ/PA area for the first time this year. Although Pittsburgh may be a stretch to call part of that area.
Polt: My hometown apparently got on the Today show last week after it was evacuated due to a fire at the meat processing plant.
Actually it was more like last month.
Polt: I was 14 camping in Bemiji with my aunt and uncle. Not really my choice but it beat hanging out at home and doing garden work.
You have the coolest people from Waynesboro. After all, you are from there. There is NO ONE famous from my hick town.
I’ve never been to PA, this summer. Definitely Pittsburgh because my daughter has to make the teen girl pilgrimage to the home arena of Sidney Crosby. The only part of NJ I’ve been in was Newark Airport. Probably enough from what I hear. (I kid, I kid)
Tam: If you are in downtown Pittsburgh, the only reason to walk across the river is to watch a Pirates game. I don’t care if someone’s iPhone says differently.
Ryan: I’ve never been to a professional baseball game. Only sport I suppose I haven’t seen live. Well, NFL, but I’ve been to tons of CFL which is almost the same. Yeah, hockey is more our thing. Classic Canadians.
I have no idea what there is to see and do in Pittsburgh. Should probably do some research because I think driving by the hockey arena should take about 10 min. Then what?
Tam: We didn’t have much time to do much other than go to conference talks, practice conference talks, walk around looking for something to eat, and eat.
Polt: Nope, just Philly. And as for NY, I’ve only been to New York City. So yeah, I’m very limited in my travel experience. Which is one reason why I was so excited for Mexico last winter.
Tam: NJ is amazing. You just probably hear about bad places like Camden and Newark. My town is beautiful! And apparently Atlantic City is fun.
Ryan: A little bit of a stretch. lol. You haven’t been to NYC?
Enrico: I haven’t had a reason to get to the Northeast yet. I tend not to go on vacation now that I have outgrown family vacations. I think the only place I went to just for fun was Thunder Bay with friends.
However, I’ve still been able to get to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago, Denver, Houston, San Diego, Pittsburgh, Orlando, Dublin, Salt Lake City, Detroit, La Havana, San Jose – Costa Rica, Tampa Bay, and other places I don’t recall offhand.
Thunder Bay for fun? What the hell kind of oxymoron is that Ryan?
I live to travel. I can’t imagine NOT going on vacation and not with family. Although I enjoy being with my parents I prefer to travel with my daughter or even alone. Thankfully work lets me go a few places depending on the job. I don’t own a house. Why? Because every spare cent I get is spent on an airplane ticket or hotel room or something like that.
Tam: There are only so many places you can drive to from the Twin Cities during a three day weekend, and only one has a lower drinking age.
I think that I will travel more once I get a real job.
Ryan: You’re just a baby. You’ll have lots of time to travel. You never went to the exciting city of Winnipeg? Drinking age there was 18, better than Ontario. But farther, not sure, 6 or 7 hours I think.
Tam: The youngest was 19, so that wasn’t an issue.
This was also with my campus ministry friends. When we went to church on Sunday, we discovered that a group of seminarians from our university was there at the last one. Apparently, they were thinking along the same lines as we were.
WOW!! Awesome!!
Star Trek puzzle:
http://www.afterelton.com/blog/snicks/afterelton-puzzler-where-no-man-has-gone-before
Ryan: you said meat packing…*snicker*….
Tam: I’ve never been to Pittsburgh, but I understand Liberty Avenue, the gayborhood, is quite nice.
I work with a guy from Pittsburgh, I’ll see what he has to say.
When i was growing up WestVirginia had a drinking age of I think 18…man, we made many a trip across two state lines to get that stuff. And then, when I hit 19, they raised it to 21. Bastards.
HUGS…
Alright, we understand that Puntabulous can…. now where’s my guest post? lol
I love to ode to Willy Wonka!
Enrickyricardo, I think Craiggers is having SO MUCH fun, he’s forgotten to post his other guest posts.
Look at the bright, at least he SHOULD have a ton of awesome stories and photos upon his return.
HUGS…
Sorry kids. I didn’t get enough guest posts for the weekend. Enrico, Polt, and Tam will be Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Xi-Heather and I had brainstormed ideas for a guest post (either something on earthquakes, or perhaps the history of Mother’s Day), but reality intervened and sprang a surprisingly busy and unmanageable week on us, so in the end we punted.
For those desperate for internet goodies, I offer this image, which has had me joyously happy for most of the day:
Dang html tag demon! Here’s a link to the aforementioned image:
http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/startrek.gif
TwoPi – loves it!
I wish I had known there were some extra guest post days – I have extra Craig heads and know just where to paste them… ! It would be a Michabulous weekend! AHahahaha!