JoeUser Forums"Bronson is no Bond" Are we overlooking the idea of Bronson (Pinchot) as 007? I laughed my ass off at "Blame it on the Bellboy."
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I grew up with Roger Moore, so he's the one that I compare others to. Each Bond actor has their own charm, but ask me today and I'll say Moore. Timothy Dalton was underrated. "The Living Daylights" was one of the most entertaining of all of the movies. I doubt that he would have lasted long in the role however, his Bond was rapidly losing the battle with a receding hairline. George Lazenby starred in what might have been the best of all the movies. I wo
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I am beginning to think that I should have written article about the dance show. That curry was awfully good. It was only $1.50 per can, but you have to add your own meat. It is as good as anything that I've had homemade or at a restaurant.
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No, I haven't seen the dance show. I am not much of a dance fan. (Speaking of TV: There was a good article in the USA Today about the Idols' talant/fame correlation about two days ago.) I'd suppose that I am suffering from some sort of reality-withdrawal now that "Hell's Kitchen" is finished. ("Hell" was my favorite reality show to come around in years. I may have even preferred that to American Idol.) Anyway about the curry: Yeah! I was surprised. I love curry dish
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My wife and I went grocery shopping tonight. Not knowing what to eat for tonight's dinner, we decided to have curry and rice, since we already had some rice cooked. My wife decided to get a canned curry sauce to put on our rice. I was a little skeptical, as I couldn't imagine that canned curry would be any good. Surprisingly enough, the curry turned out to be among the best curries that I have ever had. I fried up a little bacon at home to mix with the sauce, a
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We bought our little boy a "Little Slugger" baseball cap. The kind that kids have been wearing for years. I think that it looks cute on him. "Baseball hat" is another one of baby's quickly growing list of two-word phrases. Others are "Kenny come" (come with me), "Mama nook" (look), "Mama animal ", "Baby animal ", and probably a few others that don't come to mind right now. He is also good at introducing himself, his mom, and his dad; but he st
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Did you know that you could shave hundreds off of your annual insurance bill by switching to Mercury Auto? It might be true! The craziest bit was when I got spam in my "comments" section. I wrote an article about canker sores, and then someone somewhere posted a testimonial-spam about a "miracle cure". Amazing.
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I clicked on it, but nothing happened. Try throwing a banana cream pie at your monitor.
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I dare you to knock this battery off of my shoulder.
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I'm hoping that since we're in Minnesota we can go to the state fair That sounds good. The problem with the fair is that it starts on the same day that teachers' workshops do. (Every year!) So if I want to go (and I do), I'll have to go on a weekend if I want to spend the day there. I'd much rather go on a weekday.
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Pets are less important once there's a baby in the house. That's the way it goes.
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Yesterday my family visited the Minnesota Renaissance Festival with my friend Andy's family. (One of Kenny's new words is "Andy". That's cute.) The weather was as good as one could get for one of these (low -70s and clear), and there were surprisingly few people. (Apparently the first weekend is always slow.) I hope that the weather will cooperate on the first weekend next year! Here is the cup that we added to our collection of "Ren fest" cups. Thi
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Last night my wife and I met some friends at the Cokato Corn Festival. (It is my friend Andy's parents' home-town festival. Somewhere out by Lake Woebegone might be.) It is a festival in a smallish town in the opposite side of the county in which I live. We had a really nice time. We saw friends, we took baby on the merry-go-round and the big slide (he screamed), we ate some pork chops, and we had all the corn we could eat. Kenny ate two pieces of corn.</
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Today on the Netscape homepage, I saw an interesting article on a newly created "android" from Japan. The robot's name is "Repliee Q1". This robot is apparently intended to be used for customer service or something like that. The features are that the robot smiles, blinks, and appears to be breathing. Something this life-like is a little scary (like a wax museum), but it is still interesting to see. I wonder where we'll see the first one of these in-u
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Recently my wife and I changed cable TV providers. With the change, I was able to pick up some channels that I have been wanting for a long time. The two biggest pluses were to get the VH1 Classic Channel, and the Boomerang (rerun cartoon) channel. -Sadly I had to lose one of my favorites: The Game Show Network. On VH1 Classics they have a show called "Metal Mania" where they play the kind of music I loved in high school and college. Tonight I saw an Alice Coop
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I was happy with the points system when I was regularily up at number 2. Since then I have been blogging for fun. Maybe points are important once one is in the top-ten, but become less important the further one slips down the scale. I wrote an article about that some time ago. The title was something like "The curse of a top-ten blog." *********************** By the way, what's up with the Fark cliches? Leave them out of here.
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One of the more prominent sports-related stories recently has to do with the NCAA's banning of Indian team nicknames. Link This is a really interesting issue. One can understand that schools have a long-standing tradition of using (or maybe "honoring") indian archetypes as mascots. Also, one can see that objec
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For the past two days we've been holding a garage sale at my house. On day one (Thursday), we had all sorts of visitors. They bought all of our good stuff. (I think that I priced most of the stuff too low!) Today was significantly slower than yesterday. I wonder whether Saturday will pick up a little... Outside at the start: <IMG style="WIDTH: 501px; HEIGHT: 364px" height=559 alt="" hspace=0 src="http://www.geocities.com/chipperprime/out" width=79
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Tomorrow my wife and I will have a garage sale. We've never done one before, so I hope that it turns out well. Among the things that I intend to sell are some of the vegetables from our garden. I have more tomatoes and cucumbers than I know what to do with. (I'll have more to add each day.) Here's tomorrow's offering: <IMG style="WIDTH: 419px; HEIGHT: 286px" height=432 alt="" hspace=0 src="http://www.geocities.com/chipperprime/veggies" width=67
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Since October 28, 2003 a lot of things have happened. My wife and I have settled into our new house, we have had a baby, and we are waiting for a second baby. I have started and continued working as a teacher, while my wife has worked with computers and in a coffee shop. I got a car, I have raised two nice gardens, I have covered three seasons of "American Idol" on my weblog (as well as "WB Superstar"). -My articles about TV shows seem to be my biggest "draws".
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First of all: How she ever one (sic) what?
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Like the headline says, "Hell's Kitchen" will be on for the last time tonight. (I hope FOX brings that show back!) Ralph will face-off against Michael to determine who wins their own restaurant. For the final showdown, Ralph and Michael have to lead individual kitchens composed of eliminated contestants. Brilliant twist! I wonder whether the teams will be chosen like sandlot baseball. If they're picked that way, I hope that the first pick is determ
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Never knew you were here in the first place, but goodbye anyway.
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Today we took baby Kenny and MeiMei (Madeline) to the zoo. Once we finished with the petting zoo, both babies had had enough. The zoo is awfully stimulating for babies. (Poor Kenny slept through his favorite buffalo exhibit.) Mei Mei Kenny <IMG style="WIDTH: 408px; HEIGHT: 283p
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Today while I was looking through my garden, I noticed that vegetables (in addition to my tomatoes) are already beginning to be ready-to-eat. In fact, a few of my cucumbers were already too big to enjoy. (I hadn't even checked to see if any were ready yet. I thought it was too early!) Here's what I gathered today. Three cucumbers, and two green peppers. <IMG style="WIDTH: 489px; HEIGHT: 292px" height=610 alt="" hspace=0 src="http://www.geocities.co
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