Crazy Cat Lady sent me this.
She had the gall to make jokes, like “Guess it was bring-your-own (bbq) sauce event”.
When a semi truck overturns and becomes an inferno, burning alive 76,000 lbs of beef ribs, I call that a tragedy. It is just plain cold to make jokes about the fiery death of ribs.
Note in comments below… hilljohnny says he has reason to believe the load of ribs quoted might be a load of BS. I hope so, since this is a tragedy otherwise.
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Tonight is Obama’s State of the Union address.
I could watch it but I was thinking I would get out the random orbital sander and grind my eyes out, instead. It was a serious toss-up.
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Another tragedy today was the loss of one of the Sith’s most beloved… Her crock pot.
Be kind to her – the weather has dropped below freezing in Deepest Darkest Texas, and that makes the loss of a crock a terrible thing. I mock her on some things but rarely if ever about food. Food is serious stuff.
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Call me ignorant, but handing out free crack pipes to combat AIDS sounds a lot like running a lawn mower in the bed of your pickup to improve your truck’s fuel economy.
“It may seem counter-intuitive, but it’s a great program. Once you can get people into your program, make them feel respected, taken care of them, they’re more likely to want to come back and want to get on HIV meds,” Thomas said.
Yeah, nothing would make me feel more respected than being manipulated by my addiction.
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New evidence says that spanking kids may turn them intolawbreakers.
Older evidence says that not spanking kids results in an asshole.
I will take my chances.
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Nothing says avant garde quite like throwing a few vaginas into your artwork.
Ten dollars says Cruel Wife knows exactly the phrase going through my head (in disgust) and the expression on my face. It is the one I like to call “Withering Scorn”.
i feel the need to throw a bs flag on the rib story as 76k lbs is almost the max legal weight for truck and load combined.
Oh thank you, Sir… You have taken a broken man’s day, one bereft of joy and painted in darkest shades of grey, and lifted me to a world where light does exist… I shall sleep in restful slumber to-night.
Actually, that is bullshit. I never sleep well. But it is welcome news.
What about in Michigan? They seem to have awfully big trucks here with a whole lotta wheels.
In Oregon in particular they run double trailers sometimes. I don’t know about Arizona. Could that explain the discrepancy? I know very little about such things – I think you said you were in the shipping/trucking biz?
Yes, I am still in mourning over my crock pot.
They think handing out crack pipes to make you feel more respected so you can face the stigma of taking free AIDS medication will work?
WHAT??? Crack addicts are more concerned with getting the next hit, not AIDS meds. Just wow.
And that artwork? Of course the educators are supporting it. Sex is the government’s Soma.
Ok, good, my confusion about crack pipes is warranted.
The loss of any beloved kitchen utensil is hard to take. It is as bad as losing a pet.
Well, not quite. But it’s pretty bad 🙂
Ok, depends on the pet…
*glares at the golden mouse in the cage*
Yes, yes it does.
Hey….they need to get one of those big forestry department PBY’s, load that puppy up with some BBQ sauce, and dump it on the trailer to put the fire out. Haul in a tanker full of beer, and its a bring-yer-own-napkins afternoon on the freeway!
I could almost buy into your vision, RA. As long as the fire was long and drawn out… Done low and slow.
Well, keep in mind that the forestry dept IS still a .gov department. So nothing is going to be quick or instantaneous. Yeah. I think we’ve got time. Besides, local FD has donned their high-temp air-fed thermal suits and are patrolling through the wreckage, flipping racks of ribs over every so often. Local priest has provided anointing oils and teamed up with a Shiatsu massage lady (of questionable repute) to handle the dry rub. This is an emergency, Lemur…so we’re all gonna have to pitch in and do our part.