 | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |  |
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12/16/08 Quote «The Legel Report»| Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. The Internets |
12/16/08 Optical Illusion «The Legel Report»| If your brain works normally this is neat. This is another example of an amazing illusion! If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, the dots will remain only one color, pink. However if you stare at the black ‘+’ in the center, the moving dot turns to green. Now, concentrate on the black ‘+’ in the center of the picture. After a short period, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see only a single green dot rotating. |
 | Van Johnson, the popular Hollywood star in the ‘40s and ‘50s with films such as “30 Seconds over Tokyo,” “A Guy Named Joe” and “The Caine Mutiny,” died on Friday, December 12, 2008. Van Johnson’s death was of natural causes. He was 92 years old. The handsome red-headed star ran off with his best friend’s wife and married her on the very day of her divorce. He eventually left her for a chorus boy. |
Mistletoe At The Airport
It was slightly before Christmas. The trip went reasonably well, and he was ready to go back. The airport on the other end had turned a tacky red and green, and loudspeakers blared annoying elevator renditions of cherished Christmas carols.
Being someone who took Christmas very seriously, and being slightly tired, he was not in a particularly good mood.
Going to check in his luggage (which, for some reason, had become one suitcase with entirely new clothes), he saw hanging mistletoe. Not real mistletoe, but very cheap plastic with red paint on some of the rounder parts and green paint on some of the flatter and pointier parts, that could be taken for mistletoe only in a very Picasso sort of way.
With a considerable degree of irritation and nowhere else to vent it, he said to the attendant, “Even if I were not married, I would not want to kiss you under such a ghastly mockery of mistletoe.”
“Sir, look more closely at where the mistletoe is.”
(pause)
“Ok, I see that it’s above the luggage scale, which is the place you’d have to step forward for a kiss.”
“That’s not why it’s there.”
(pause)
“Ok, I give up. Why is it there?”
“It’s there so you can kiss your luggage goodbye.” |
I had planned to get back yesterday to say that school did NOT close. Aaron & Ben had to go to school and they were not happy. There is still some more winter left for them to keep hoping for snow days. They are both anxious to get this week finished as they will then be finished for the year. After two boring weeks off they will be ready to go back in January.
Tracey had to work late last night so I watched the movie “Dark Knight”. Ben & Aaron watched it with me although they had already seen it at the theater. I kept guessing out loud about what I thought was going to happen but I have to give them credit ... they didn’t say a word one way or the other. |
MjL 16 Dec 2008, 06:13 a.m.
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