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This is the real history of April Fool’s Day (or April 1st for all the Romans out there.)

Pirates were the first race of people to celebrate the holiday.  They would fill their cannons with confetti and shower enemies with festive crate paper and shiny ornamental cut-outs.  Pirates.  On lookers took this as a sign of truce between pirates and their adversaries.  This illusion opened the door for a multitude of massacres which occurred annually on April 2nd through the 4th.  These are known as Booty Days in Somalia and are celebrated similarly to that of Cinco de Mayo (cruising Federal Blvd. waving Mexican flags and blasting De Dolores on the radio and La Cucaracha on the horn).  The Somalis are weird.

April Fool’s Day was adopted as a pagan ritual by Northern Italians in the late umpteenth century.  As a seasonal joke, these Italians would burn each other with extremely hot olive oil turning their Nipples into Naples.  It was quite the Firenze.  Several years later April Fool’s Day was forgotten.  But that was part of a long running April Fool’s Day theme where people claimed naivety.

Abraham Lincoln was the first modern American to adopt the past time.  As the Bible has it written, he tried to sacrifice his first born son to appease his God.  He grew a beard and a stove-pipe hat to compensate for his failures.  History also notes that he abolished slavery with the 13th Amendment on the first of April.  Was it a joke?  Jim Crow thought so.  Anyway, that’s the storied past of a favorite holiday.  How are you going to celebrate?

 

This was me at one hot point in my life

I was a fireman at one hot point in my life.  It wasn’t the worst gig I’ve ever had, but it was no day at the beach.  During my rookie year, I got hosed for always sleeping in.  The other guys used to haze me by lighting matches and putting them out in my ears.  I don’t care what you say, ear wax isn’t for candles.  My fire chief would get all steamed about my work ethic.  He always said that I shouldn’t try and be a hero because I’d probably accidentally kill someone.   Little did he know, I only accidentally killed an old lady’s cat and an old lady.  To my defense, the cat was already on fire.  After that incident, the chief (who I suspect knew nothing of it) put me on paperwork detail.  To get funding for our department, he made me write these back drafts.  The only thing I really liked about the job is that we went out to Buffalo Wild Wings a couple times after work and got their hottest wings: Blazin’.  Besides that, I wasn’t very good at putting out fires.  Fire fighting just wasn’t for me.  Luckily, a job at the meat packing plant opened after one of their oldest employees didn’t show up.  I was rescued.  Good riddens.

 

What do you call an Irish guy that stays out all night? Patty O’Furniture.

St. Patrick’s Day is quickly approaching. It’s one of those holidays that has special meaning for me and my wife. You see, it’s the “day of her people.” Part of her is Irish…her liver, I think. As a loving and supportive husband, it is my duty, neigh, my privilege to celebrate her heritage with eagerness and joy. Many great St. Patty’s Day parties and memories have been shared and forgotten.

Here ya' go Baby BirdThere was the Great Green Gathering of ought seven. The neighbors called the cops because of all the car bombs. Plus, we had a dance party in the apartment until three in the mornin’.

And then there was the Green Machine. Enter Tyler “the Hate/Fuck” Davis, the proud owner of a 2004 green Buick. He parked it right on the bathroom wall and toilet seat of our college apartment. We had the Irish-Korean, Jon O’Leezy, to thank for that incident. He thought it’d be cute to serve Ty warm green beer ’til three in the mornin’. It was a grand old time.

This year is going to live up to the hype.  We’re going out, Irish style! (That means without potatoes).

For anyone who’s interested…this is a pre-invitation invitation for a St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl.

We’re doing a good old fashioned pub crawl around Lakewood, CO on Wednesday, March 17th. JDubs and I are going to call it Irish Golf or something cute and nonsensical like that. You gotta dress up. We’re going to hit up some local dives that are within walking distance from our old potato factory (that’s Irish-speak for ‘house’). If you’d like to participate, send me a comment or an email or a text or letter via Pony Express or just call. And, as always, if you’d like to hang out but don’t want to get caught up in some drinking and driving malarkey, you can always stay at our place for the night/weekend (standard rates apply)…did someone say dance party? Let’s get “jiggy”.

 

I was in the thirteenth year of my first life when Mother borrowed a chunk of skrill for an auto loan.  She bought a midnight blue Subaru Legacy with zero upgrades.  That’s right.  No seat warmers, no spoiler, no window tint, no CD changer/player, no seat belts or headlights (just stickers).  Bare bones.  Mother thought that it would increase gas mileage and it did.  She could drive thirty American miles on a single gallon of petrol.

We were so proud.  She was so proud.  It was the first car that she’d bought all by herself since women were allowed to own property in the late eighties.  She cruised town in it.  She carted the family around.  She sold her body for sex to make the payments.  It was the car I learned to drive with.  I passed my driver’s license test while it was parked outside the DMV in the parking lot.

Eventually, Mother paid off the loan and the Blubaru became hers.  After several years of precise maintenance and tune-ups, she parted with the vehicle and gifted it to me unofficially.  I started driving it in college to see my girlfriend in the next town over at the all-girl middle school.  I’d buy her cigarettes and beer in that car.  It got so beat up in a hail storm that it was totaled due to cosmetic damage (you should’ve seen the other guy).

Mother finally signed the title over to me in 2008.  I finalized the transfer of ownership just last week.  That’s because the Blubaru was in an accident last week and totaled for the second time.  This time, indefinitely.  Luckily no one was hurt…just my fifteen-year-old junker.  I signed the title over to car recyclers and collected a hefty sum of $150.  Not a bad racket considering the faded memories the Blubaru gave me.

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My mother is a big, hairy gorilla.  That’s right, stay with me.  She’s an ape.

If you ask her about it, she claims to be of a young evolutionary age. Her name is Simeon.  She was born in a jungle, she fishes ants out of logs with sticks and she has a hairy back like all the other gorillas.

She talks to me using the monkey sign language that she learned at the institute.

You’re probably wondering where I came from and why I don’t look much like a baby gorilla.  First of all, you haven’t seen my hairy back and secondly, my father was a run of the mill banana salesman.  Mom was his best customer and paid in full with premium primate lovin’.

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Come 'ere, Gorilla Baby...mmmuuah

Thankfully, I only got Dad’s good looks and not his lust for monkey meat.

Dad died when I was just a boy of ape.  During one of her sh&t fits, mom accidentally suffocated him with poop.  I tried to figure out why she was so mad I got confused when she tried to use her monkey sign language while hurling feces.

I found out later that Dad was cheating on mom with some overgrown chimp named Buttons.  After that they sent her to sit behind bars at the zoo.

The zoo keepers try to get her to mate by putting male gorillas in her cage.   She mates, but I can’t bear to watch.  I can see the pain in her eyes when she’s getting aped from behind.

She told me that she misses Dad and that no other gorilla can take his place.  I said, “What about another man?”

A switch flipped.  She got so excited that the zoo keepers tazed her.  I went to the only place I know to find an ape loving man…the “Miscellaneous Romance” section on Craigslist.

I found my gorilla mom a human man.  He is ironically named Evolution.  He and my mother, Simeon, have fallen in love.  She is going to remarry.  I am happy for my monkey mom, but I’m disturbed by Evolution’s motives.  It’s a sick thing for a man to lust for a gorilla.

I’m not going to their wedding.  My mother went ape shit when she heard this and sent Evolution to come talk to me.

Evolution said to me, “Marriage of man and ape is the natural progression.”  To which I replied, “Evolution, you can take your love a step farther, but I won’t have you as a step father.”

 

My one time great dorm mate and supposed tweaker, Dave W. Cissell , once posted on his Facebook that “Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent…”

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Notice the butterfly's unicorn horn

tattoo of pancake

Short stack, short stack, coming up

There was a time when I was strictly opposed to the form of body art known as tattooing.  I forbade myself from ever permanently scarring my flesh with some meaningless tribal band or ill placed flower.  I was opposed, until I heard this story of a band of brothers and their quest for greatness; a story that I’m making mine.  This story gave me wisdom.

And, so it was.  I ventured into the vast expanse of the world and came back with a permanent scar.  It’s something to show just how committed to living life fully I really am.  Sunday:

My wife, Jessica, and I went to the tattoo parlor the other day and returned with ink.  We were assisted by Ben at Primitive Soul Tattoo in Lakewood, CO.

Nice place.  Clean, seemingly reputable.

We were joined by our good friend and snack raider, Tyler J.  Jessica didn’t want us to watch as she received her ‘too so Ty and I ran to get some pho.  It took an hour, but it was really good pho.  Pho 95.  The best, Jerry.  The best.  We were headed back when I received a call from Jessica.  ”It’s time,” she said.

When I arrived there were some kids standing outside the shop smoking.  One looked like a retard, another one slipped on some ice and nearly fell.  As I was walking in, I slipped in the same spot.  ”Now who looks like the retard?” their jeers suggested.

We went in and I got inked.  Squid style, son.  The image of a short stack of pancakes three high, forever ingrained in my skin and on my soul.  Maybe one day I’ll incorporate some mythical creature with a bowl of cereal for a body and bulls-eye eggs and bacon for a face hurdling over my pancakes.  The sky’s the limit!

Afterwards, we went to a liquor store to get some beer and I showed the Chinese lady my new tattoo and she was aghast.  Take that, lady!  You just got caked.  I’m living.  I’m full of wisdom and, now, beer.  Here’s a movie:

 

I was in college once and a professor told me to get off the grass.  Punderful!  He also told me never to use Wikipedia as a resource in collegiate academia.  ”Why?” you may ask.  ”Because,” he said, “it’s crap!”  I wondered about this.  I use Wikipedia to fact check everything that seems the littlest bit suspicious or forged.

During Obama’s historic presidential campaign, I was all over John McCain’s baloney like white on race rice.  My buddy told me that Wyoming is the smallest state in Union.  ”Bull fur!” I cried.  I Googled the funk out of that stink and low and behold, first on the search results, Wikipedia.  Wyoming has the smallest population of any state in the U.S.  It’s probably smaller than the population of  Guam,  I’m maybe betting.  They should call it “Why, oh, why would you live there, Ming?”  Or not.

It seems that Wikipedia’s fact backing power far exceeded the expectations of that darned professor.  But, being the intellectual smarty that I am, I decided to research further into his claim that Wikipedia is crap and that one shouldn’t use it to prove anything.  I have listed a few well-known facts I searched that returned some questionable results:

Peace Dollar

She's as shocked as I am

My 1st Inquiry: Define Boning.  Wikipedia’s Answer: The method a butcher uses to remove meat from bone.

What is this Tom Foolery?!  There’s not a mention of the real definition of boning which is to sexually penetrate a lady or Thai boy-girl.  In fact, the only relevant portion that matches my search was some sketchy mention of cutting into pork.  Outlandish!

My 2nd Inquiry: Jerry Seinfeld’s birthplace.  Wikipedia’s Answer: Jerry Seinfeld was born in Brooklyn, NY.

Fact:  Jerry Seinfeld was born amongst immortals high atop Mount Olympus and was cradled and cared for by the comedy gods Zeus and Jokusplese.

My 3rd Inquiry: What is the worth of a mint condition United States 1921 issue Peace Dollar?  Wikipedia’s Answer: $135.00.

Bogus, man!  The answer is one dollar.  Hence, why it’s called the Peace Dollar and not the Peace Hundo-and-Change.

I am shocked that my professor was right (I mean, he was only a PhD).  Wikipedia is an informational super traffic jam.  The only fact that you can ultimately prove with Wikipedia is that Wikipedia sucks…balls.  To my dismay, this explains why I failed all of my college papers.  I should have known better.  If only Wikipedia could have warned me…oh, wait.  Dammit!

 

My last day as a camp counselor was pretty incredible.  Me and two others were responsible for the teenagers.  One day the teens were playing dodge ball on an outdoor basketball court when three kids came up to me.

Camp is fun!

Camp is fun!

“Something’s wrong with Roger,” Benny said.

Before I could ask what was the matter, I noticed that Roger’s eyes were red from crying.  Being the “attentive” guardian I am, I hadn’t even noticed that anything was wrong.  The kids asked if they could show me Roger’s ailment privately.  I was fearful because I was already in direct violation of my court ordered restraint to be unsupervised in the company of minors.  Regardless, Roger looked hurt and trusted me to help him.

I grabbed my first aid kit and followed the kids inside a nearby gymnasium.  Roger’s friends, Billy and Benny, pointed at his shirt.

“See how’s he’s been bleeding?” Billy asked as he pointed to Roger’s nipples.

Around Roger’s left nipple was a ring of blood.  It was as if the combination of an abrasive shirt pattern and the jostling of a half-marathon had chaffed Roger’s nipple raw.  But Roger, nor his friends, had ever participated in any such event.  The lack of Gushers brand fruit snacks and cheese laden nachos at track meets kept fat kids like Roger from doing that sort of thing.

From under the shirt, I noticed a small bump within the rim of blood.  The bump was too large to be a hardened nipple, and I became curious.  Billy and Benny gently lifted Roger’s shirt and tucked it behind his head.  Roger writhed with pain as they exposed Roger’s breast.   Protruding from the center of his bloodied areola was a thick, grey hair.  It was an odd sight given that it was the only hair on his prepubescent body.

“What the hell is that?” I asked.

“It’s some kind of hair, but it hurts to be touched,” Billy said.

“What do you kids want me to do?” I asked.

They looked confused and turned to each other as if they hadn’t thought this far ahead.  Assuming that a “responsible” adult like myself had any clue how to resolve this dilemma was a blunder only a child could commit.  Not sure what to do, I reached for my first aid kit and unzipped it.  Angst escaped the room as the kids’ trust in my abilities as counselor were confirmed.  I took out a pair of tweezers.  I lightly brushed the tip of tweezers across the hair.

“Roger, does it hurt when I touch the it with tweezers?” I asked.

“Oh, God!” he cried, “it hurts!”

“Billy, Benny, hold him tight,” I said.

Locked in the grip of his two compatriots, Roger squirmed with pain.

“What are you gonna do to me?” Roger asked.

I said, “On the count of three, Roger, I’m going to yank this hair out of your nipple.  Are you ready?”

“No!” he shouted, “Don’t you dare!”

I grabbed the base of the hair with the tweezers and Roger cringed.

With Roger and his hair secured, I counted.  ”One…two…”

Before I counted “three”, I yanked the hair as hard as I could.  Roger belted out a short scream and a discernible fart noise before fainting and falling to the floor.

I looked to see the tweezers held only a broken piece of the hair.

“Oh my God,” Benny cried, “he crapped his pants.”

Roger collapsed onto his side.  He was unconscious.  With his shirt pulled behind his neck, I could see the hair on Roger’s chest funneling blood to the floor.  His gym shorts were freshly stained with feces and urine.  I reached for the cell phone in my pocket and handed it to the boys.

“Benny,” I demanded, “call an ambulance!”

Paramedics arrived and put Roger into an ambulance.  After telling the other counselors what had happened, I jumped into my car and followed the ambulance to the hospital.

Tests were run and a doctor met me in the waiting room.  He explained Roger’s condition.

“Roger is doing fine.  He has a rare epidermal condition whereby free nerve endings and nerve fibers can work their way out of the skin.  The nerves are extremely sensitive and can cause severe pain and bleeding.  In Roger’s case, the nerve ending had surfaced through his areola.  The tweezers you used to pull on the nerve fiber caused Roger’s muscles to contract simultaneously.  Due to the shock, he lost all control of his bowels and defecated.  We will need to perform surgery to fix the damaged nerve ending.  But like I said, he should be fine.”

“Thank you Doctor.”  I said.

Later that day, I got a call from my supervisor.  He said that I should have used better judgment and I should have let professionals handle this “sensitive” issue.  He fired me right there.

Nothing gets your nipple harder than a good story.

Nothing gets your nipple harder than a good story.

 
Weed will cure what? Um, what?

Weed will cure what? Um, what?

Recently, there has been an influx of marijuana clinics and advertisements popping up around town.  They make it seem like you could waltz in and buy a pack of marijuana cigarettes, no problem.  You might not even need to be sick.  To be honest, I’m curious (and sick?) but I haven’t smoked pot since my first pubes surfaced from my armpits nearly ten years ago.  After this embarrassing incident, I don’t know if I could smoke again.

It all went down like this…Some friends and I were going to attend the 93.3 FM’s summer music concert series, the Big Gig or Big Adventure or something like that.  I remember 311 was there and that’s why I was excited.  From my friend’s accounts of that day, Incubus, The Long Beach Dub All Stars and (for the sake of exaggeration) David Bowie were performing, too.  (No surprise, I didn’t remember any of that because I was so stoned)

In preparation for the big event, we took a short drive to Fechter’s house to chief big smoke.  He had a three foot bong and a hefty sack of smoker friendly weed.  So we traveled to the house and ripped bong hits until the sack ran out.  I was catching a ride with a neighbor to the concert, so after getting high and eating three bags of Funyuns, I had to venture home.

Being the responsible teenager I was, I designated myself the driver and drove home slowly, waiting for every “stop” sign to turn green.  When I eventually got home, I was just in time to see another car pull into my driveway.  As I inched into my parking spot, a woman, let’s call her Mom, stepped out of her car and watched as I fumbled to act naturally.

As she waited and watched me from the top of the drive way, I cautiously slipped out of my car smiling.  I started to close the door behind me but realized the car was still running.  I slowly slipped back into the driver seat and turned off the engine.  I waived to her and said I was going to the neighbor’s house so that I could catch a ride to the show.

Mom stopped me and said, “Why don’t you come over here and give Mom a hug.”  I moseyed up to her and she pulled me in tightly and whispered in my ear, “Are you stoned?”  For the first time in hours, I quickly moved away and hustled to my neighbor’s house.  It was humiliating and, afterwards, I decided to never smoke weed again.

Now all of these billboards and bus stop ads are making me question if I could get away with smoking again.  They’ve made it seem almost unillegal (or legal for all of you English scholars).  I’m tempted to try it again, and can’t quite figure what’s at stake.

What do you think?  After my dizzying experience and the likelihood that nothing bad could come from the situation, should I try it again?  Or should I walk away real slow like?

 

Things to consider when getting a tattoo:

1. The tattoo has a unique story behind it

2. You have no personal biases against tattoos

3. The tattoo incorporates pancakes

The vegetarian diet of a butterly makes its magic look like poop

The vegetarian diet of a butterly makes its magic look like poop

I’d never considered a tattoo.  My wife has one of a magical butterfly and she resents it every day.  I’ve always been told modifying the body in such an unnatural way goes against the Jewish religion (a faith I used to subscribe to).  And I’ve never seen a piece of art or cartoon that I loved so badly as to prominently display it on my human flesh.  From this, I can say that without a doubt, I’m not much of a “tattoo guy”.  That was until Saturday night.

I spent several really good hours this weekend at my friend’s wedding–for the sake of naming names, let’s call the wedding the union of  A Wat and Mel Wat.  It’s no big deal or nothin’ but the governor was there–for fun’s sake, I’m not gonna tell you which one.  The ceremony was all churchy and nice and junk, but the reception is where things got all friggin’ awesome.

It was at said reception where I encountered a gentleman who, for the sake of anonymity, we’ll call C. Lav.  Mr. Lav was kind enough to humor me with a wonderful anecdote from his past that has quite possibly altered my perception of tattoos and friendship for the rest of eternity.

The story begins with an innocent marriage proposal.  C. Lav’s best friend, let’s call him B. Mav for the sake of this story,  was to be wed to a woman.  B. Mav was expecting a bachelor party to be held in his honor by his two very best friends, C. Lav and his other friend, for the sake of the story and for purposes of anonymity, we’ll call A. Nav.

To honor the time old tradition, C. Lav and A. Nav planned a party for B. Mav which entailed a trek across these late, great United States via passenger rail car from Denver to Chicago and then to Milwaukee and back again.  B. Mav was excited for the journey as it was the popular style at the time.

It was in this honorable and timeless journey that the most incredible thing happened.  Along the way, somewhere between here and there, the three decided to do something radical.  Dazed from the toxins that one ingests during a bachelor party, the men wound up in a house of pancakes.  (An international house, no less.)

It all started with a conversation about B. Mav’s reoccurring dream of a soaring hawk swooping down into a pond and, delivering to the sky a lily pad that was locked within the deadly clutches of his talons.  As majestic and vivid as the dream seemed, it all sounded hokey and gay to A. Nav and C. Lav.

“Nobody’s going to recognize a tattoo of a lily pad, dude,” they said, “Why don’t you make it something cool that looks like a lily pad but is way cooler?”

As the three pondered the suggestion, they gathered ideas from their surroundings.  What looks like a lily pad but is more stately and ultimately cooler?  Pancakes!

B. Mav agreed to an artist’s depiction of a hawk soaring above pancakes so long as C. Lav and A. Nav also plated a tattoo incorporating pancakes.  And so it was.

Pokey the Unicorn in all his majesty

Pokey the Unicorn in all his majesty

The boys embarked on a second journey…to get tattoos of pancakes.  On their way, A. Nav and C. Lav decided what tattoos to get.  A. Nav decided on a beast that represents mystic wisdom and grandeur hurdling a short stack…he picked a unicorn.  This was no ordinary unicorn, however.  It was an expression of his boyhood hero, Pokey from the claymation cartoon series, “Gumby”.

C. Lav went for another creature of mystic proportions.  He picked a creature more elusive than the unicorn…one that had captivated his imagination ever since seeing the head of one prominently displayed on the wall of an Applebee’s.  He chose the mighty jackalope making quick work of pancakes.

So it came to be that these three best of friends would be joined spiritually and emotionally with iconic beasts and their pancakes tattooed to their skin for all time.

Afterwards, they traveled home only to share their tale with trusted contemporaries.  I enjoyed the story very much but was skeptical.  Determined to prove his anecdote, C. Lav took me to the bathroom and exposed me to the markings of his hind quarter.  It is with great pleasure that I share the glory with you, my faithful readership.  I give you what must simply be called the Jackalope…

The Jackalope

The Jackalope

This representation changes my perception of tattoos all together.  I anticipate the day when I can vandalize my skin with the same creative display as C. Lav.  I can only hope that it comes out of the same love and passion that only best friends can share.  Thanks for the story, buddy.

Do you have a tattoo story that you love, or hate?  Feel free to share it in your comments…

 

The Ol’ Boy called me today from his work van and said he was watching a guy trim his ear hair with a pair of scissors in his car.  The Ol’ Boy said the guy wasn’t being very safe…he was clearing his fairy land hair forest, causing devastation to all the little hair nymphs and earwoks.

Ted P.’s parents thought their computer would catch a virus so they covered it with plastic.

My wife asked me why I spend so much time jerking off alone at the computer.  She said that it would be sensual to masturbate with her and I said, “Every time I do that, you wake up screaming.”

I was at the store and I saw a guy happily buying his son some candy.  Confused by the gesture, the kid looked at his mom and asked, “Mommy, what’s wrong with Daddy?”  To which the mother replied, “Oh, he’s just sober.”

I put the trash out last night when I saw my rather large neighbor pull up to her house with take out food in her hands.  ”Take out again?” I asked.  And she replied, “Rrrrraaaaawwwwrrrr!!!!”  Stupid fat bitch.

Do you refer to conjoined twins as one of those or two of that?

Oh, man.  I got nothin’…

 
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"With our Juggies full and our gas real cheap, GallonMart's savings are yours to keep"

Well, the yeas have it!  According to a recent poll I cast last week, an overwhelming 67 percent of you wanted to hear about the increase in gas prices.  That’s more than half of the people who voted!  Can you believe it?  I can…’t.

Our incredible yet believable story begins where any true story begins; at a store.  This isn’t just any store, though.  This is the GallonMart off 104th.  In case you don’t know, the GallonMart is a warehouse superstore where all products are sold by the gallon.  It’s no Costco or Sam’s Club because it’s worse; free samples are in gallon increments and it’s always stuff you’d never consume like Pork Points and Lye Milk.  Management at the GallonMart has its employees empty prepackaged consumable items into recycled gallon jugs known as Juggies.  The store apparently saves money this way because of the huge savings offered from manufacturers for buying in bulk.

Although it’s not true, GallonMart also claims to have the largest assortment of crap in gallon form on the planet.  They are so proud of this fact, that their slogan reads: “If we don’t have it in a Juggie, we’ll send you to Mars.”  The slogan is then followed by a disclaimer that argues all claims of interplanetary travel will not hold up in a court of law.

However bizarre the store’s concept, it’s the business model  that’s really interesting.  Since GallonMart guarantees the lowest wholesale prices on obsolete items like Robert Milsap’s Malt Flavored Turkey Burst, Ibuprofiend Pain Reliever (highly addictive; popular with teenagers), and Red Bull Elephant Energy Drank, it has a difficult time meeting their projected profit margins.  Can you honestly tell me who in their right mind is going to buy a gallon of Elephant Drank?  Ech, gross!

To offset costs, however, they sell one product that people absolutely need: gasoline.  GallonMart has recently built a filling station.  They figure that people who actually stop in and shop are happy to fill up their cars with seemingly discounted gas.  Even though GallonMart’s marketing strategies would suggest otherwise, their gas is not discounted at all.

GallonMart’s gasoline prices are off the chart.  It averages fifteen cents more per gallon than that of the next highest purveyor of fuel.  What’s worse, is that the self-filling stations are vending machines stocked with Juggies full of gas.  Forget pumping your own gas.  As the customer, you’re expected to “Pour yourself an old one (they play the age of fossil fuels on the old adage ‘pour a cold one’)”.  Surprisingly, people are lining up around the block as a result of the unique filling methods and supposed convenience and reduced prices.  They feel it’s kitschy and fun.  And in order to recoup lost business, other gas stations are raising prices.

Hopefully, like most things, this is just a passing fad.  If it is not a fad, then this is my warning to you people: stop pouring your gas!  It’s expensive and wrong.  It’s costing this community a lot of money.  Additionally, you’re being lied to.  If you’re going to shop at GallonMart, please buy other essentials like Gallon-O-Tripe or Rubber Wash and stay away from the gas.  It’s watered down, anyway.

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Yesterday I was riding in a car with my friends Ty and Chris. Everyone knows Ty and has called him Tito since high school. One time his dad f*cked up and called him T-Bone. Luckily it never stuck. In college, Ty proclaimed himself as the Spoon and then eventually the Mayor. This came after he Youtubed three hours of old McDonald’s commercials featuring Mayor McCheese. He loved it. These days, I call him Ty D but he prefers T. Jackson or The Hate F*ck (it was his facebook name until it was censored) or The Ol’ Boy. Whatever you call him, he is a lovely and fair skinned gentleman.

Chris, who was also in the car, was once known as Dolph Lundgren after his uncanny resemblance to the Siberian Bull from the movie Rocky IV. Recently and unknowingly he was nicknamed Carrots by my wife, J-Dubs. J-Dubs has been called Wooten or Hot Pants and J Maz.  She has a myriad of friends like Skirt Steak and Droopy Nipple. Droopy Nipple used to work at Applebee’s where she rated highest in customer satisfaction. Apparently, her tips reflected her performance and she became known as Boosty Tipple or BT for short which evolved into Burny Tits and then Swink.

My other friend is Sizzle Bok who dressed as a Mexican named Johnny Gomez for a costume party. My brother is Milhouse, Milkill, Milshoe, Shoe, Shoehouse, Millie and, from a misspelling on his high school letter jacket, Millhouse.  I know Jim Jam and Rik.  I have a friend Jake the Snake.  One named J. Pa. and Blum (sounds like bloom).  Blum hangs out with Nelson and Steve B.  Gary is one.  Teens is another.  Goldy, Chesty and Slitty Wrists.  S Mas and his son, X Mas.  J Leezy for sheezy.  Drary.  The Boss, Champ or Curty.  Petey and Wheels and Lamby Poo.  Jay Nev. Teddy Po.  I saw J.R. Swish on TV.  Oh, and for me…they call me Wolsamnoraa (not really, though) which is part Russian and, as I found out today from my mother and her husband, Papa Paul, part French which translates as Special Boy.  And that’s all I can think of right now.  Did I miss one?  Fill me in.

Gay sailor line

This is where I got the name McStainy. My dry cleaner, Mr. Wong, is such a goof.

 

This account of how I thwarted a terrorist plot to destroy the Mall of America was generated by voters just like you using my poll (located to the right).  Feel free to vote for next time…

I was shopping at the fifth floor, east wing Gap Outlet in the Mall of America last year when I told my life partner that I was sick of shopping.  She said we needed a break and suggested that we take a romantic ride on the Ferris wheel at one of the mall’s many fine amusement parks.  I agreed due to the fact that it wasn’t shopping.  As we waited in line, I couldn’t help overhearing a conversation between two bearded and toweled gentlemen standing in front of us.  Their conversation sounded very Arabicish and hateful.  I could tell something bad was about to go down due to the anti-Semitic tone, the angry amount of phlegm in their speech, and the mysteriously unmarked, black duffel one man was carrying.  Their brownish skin was also of interest.  As not to spoil the day shopping or come off as a racist profiler, I let my worries slide.  After all, I hadn’t taken or heard Arabic since my bar mitzvah meaning there was a good chance my translation was flawed.

My life partner decided she didn’t ride “big rides” and decided to let me ride alone.  I hopped on board a four-person gondola seated across from the men.  All of the passengers were loaded on and the Ferris wheel began for the ride of my life.  Unfortunately, my shopping sickness turned into motion sickness and I puked all over the Arabic men.  These guys were pissed despite having the lucky fortune of having brought their own towels.  They started shouting obscenities and making a ruckus as I tried my best to apologize in their native tongue.  I may have misspoken and said some rather insulting things. Instead of saying, “I’m so sorry,” I literally vomited again.

Upon witnessing this disturbance, the ride conductor stopped the wheel and escorted us off.  Mall security showed up just in time to assess the damage and realized that inside the mysterious black bag were a lot of explosives.  The cops showed up after that.  The men were arrested and sent to another mall ( probably in a more ghetto mall).  I later heard on the Minnesotan local news that the men were plotting to destroy the mall to prove a point about the evils of corporate American Jews and their capitalistic thievery.  I wish I would have known.  Aiding them would have surely ended my day shopping.

 

Bert and Ernie, Sesame Street

He's only smiling because he wants to take your hand to a sick place. He's sick.

If there’s anything that I need to tell you it’s this: hand puppets are a disease.  Not only do they scare the bejesus out of little kids and animals, they are gross.  From the cheery sentiments of Mr. Roger’s, Daniel Tiger, to South Park’s, Mr. Hat, hand puppets are a sick attraction.  Who wants to watch as a grown man or woman grotesquely shoves his or her hand or hands into the inner workings of the representation of a cute animal?  Not me; I’d rather just have the real animal.  In Lamb Chop’s case, I want to eat lamb; not watch Sherry Lewis stick her filthy mitts all up in it.

 

It is with the heaviest of hearts that I explain my angst, for it is a story in which I know all too well.  This story is one of a small, 20-year-old boy who is curious about his body and eager to explore.  He unknowingly took his pleasurable show-and-tell outdoors.  His exploits were deemed deceitful and gross in the public’s eye.  He became known as a masturbation artist, a shank scraper, a pee-board artist or dick wrestler, a ding donger, a jerk-off, a cock-a-rub-a-do, and a stay-at-home dad.  He was terrorized by the ridicule.  He escaped to his home.  In a purge of suppressed memories, he remembered a time when, during his parents divorce, he was asked by his therapist to role play with hand puppets.  These furry representations of his parents relived all of the pain he had wished to dismiss from his parents tumultuous relationship.   The boy, now older, was distraught that his penis had become his makeshift hand puppet.  Bereft of hope, he was only barely able to finish masturbating with his tears.

Hand puppets account for over six percent of hand accessories in the US and its crooked North American cousin, Canada.  Hand puppets are half as cute and twice as deadly as hand puppies.  Users beware: hand puppets are awful things.  They are dreadful and weird.  Please heed caution in your future encounters with these monsters or else you, yes you, might end up alone in your house masturbating.

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