The other night we were driving to my sister’s house, where we stayed this weekend.

As Anna was going into the left of the left turn lane, she suddenly switched to the right left turn lane. I asked why she did this and she said tha tthe car way up ahead had it’s emergency flashers on and sure enough it did.

As we were slowing a Porsche was passing us in the lane we just changed from. For some reason he really wanted to hurry up and wait. I told Anna to leave slowly when we get the left turn arrow, because I wanted to see if the guy would honk at the car with the emergency flashers on.

The light turned green, we barely move and “honk……HONK…. HONK“. Sure enough, the guy was not paying attention to the fact that the car had its flashers on and that no one was in it. Oh it was a funny thing to witness.

That’s right, I said it. HO HO HO Are you offended? Why not? Maybe because it’s NOT OFFENSIVE!

My niece brought this to my attention and I thought it was an urban legend. But it turns out to be true. Santa’s in Australia (this is the only place I’ve seen it happen) are being told to not say “HO HO HO” because it can be offensive to women. They are being told to say “Ha Ha Ha” instead.

This is a prime example of how the PC police have taken over. This word was NEVER offensive until some stupid unintelligible rapper said “ho” instead of “whore”.  In fact, they didn’t even take the word “ho” from Santa, they just shortened the word whore. So how can you even equate it to Santa’s laugh?

I guess we need to recap what the PC police have done to Christmas. I’m sorry, X-mas…. oops I mean the holiday.

•  Christmas tree. It is now a Holiday tree
• Merry Christmas. It is now “Happy Holidays”
• Christmas carols. Nope, holiday songs (even though they are about Christmas)
• Manger scene. Wouldn’t want people to know what Christmas is about or anything.
• We now have scientists going around telling kids that it is impossible for Santa  to deliver  all the gifts in one night, because he would catch on fire due to friction. (Ya and maybe because he’s not real”

• And finally Ho Ho Ho. Because it might offend someone. Well, if you’re not a ‘ho’ and Santa is not calling you one, then how can it be offensive?

At the risk of offending people that read this, I will not wish you a Happy HOliday.

Merry Christmas.  That is, if you want one. I’m not trying to tell you what to do.

I bought a new 6th Generation 160gig iPod. Not cheap as you know. So I get it home, burn some movies and I can not play it on my TV. I follow all the directions and nothing.

So I do some research and find out that rotten Apple has decided to go to vertical integration. Meaning you can only use their accessories on their new iPods. So I spend $350 on the iPod and am now forced to spend $50 on a cable and another $20 on an adapter so I can kep my iPod charged while I’m playing movies. So I buy a new cable and it is the wrong type, kind of my fault. It’s one of the new 5 output cables, the type where each color has its own output. So I call 1-800-rottenapple and they tell tell me, in broken english, that I need to buy a new Universal Dock. So, since this guy is a “genius” I believe him. I ask if I need to buy the Apple A/V cable as well and I’m assured that I do not. Well, I just got home, after trading for the newDock, and this new dock does not work.

What is up with this? I thought Apple was the greatest company in the world. well, it seems to me that they are trying to get their money back that they supposedly refunded to the iPhone buyers. Weren’t those merely gift certificates to their stores? So they made even more money off of their customers that they screwed over.

It’s international talk like a pirate day!!!!!!!!!!!! So come on everybody, talk like a pirate, have a little fun. At work, when people call in ask them “how aRRRRRRe you doing?”

What is a pirates favorite fast food place?   aRRRRRRby’s

What is a pirate’s favorite profession?  aRRRRRchitect

Have you seen this site. It is great fun and you will become addicted to it. You draw a line and a little guy on a sled follows it down. www.linerider.com It is seriously a blast. Here is a very fancy design.

CNN had a report on the Prius hybrid. Turns out that it fails emissions tests. Sounds funny when you say it real fast, that gas/electric hybrid fails emissions. Well, it’s because the engine shuts off and it switches to electric, if the car is going below a certain rate of speed. Zero, it turns out, is below that rate of speed. Therefore the engine shuts down and the motor kicks in and causes the car to fail.

Well, that’s not all. They pose a danger that no one has thought about, until now. Sure we’ve heard about the potential to catch fire if they are in an accident. We’ve also heard about the problems with disposing of the batteries. Here’s a new one. How about the fact that they are very quiet? So what, you say? Well, imagine walking down a parking lot and getting hit by one, because it backed into you. All because you did not hear the engine or exhaust noise and walked behind it as it was backing out.

I am accustomed to hearing the engine noise and using that to tell me that this car may back out and I should wait. But on these Prius’s, they are so quiet that you don’t know they are “running”. So you keep walking behind it and it backs into you.

They should really make them have a bell or some sort of noise making device, like a forklift or trash truck, has.

Ok, I like to play poker, but watching it on tv? It’s pretty boring!