Caption Contest

It is time once again for a caption contest! Leave a comment with your caption idea(s). Everyone is a winner! The deadline for this caption contest: The End of Time.

Santa Sighting

While driving in Minnesota to our Christmas Eve destination, we not only saw Santa, but followed him, and took a picture of the elusive gifter. He was driving a car with Minnesota plates, which looked to be fully loaded. He was not speeding, swerving, or distracted. That's all from here. Back to you, Dick!

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Count Indian

How to speak 1-10 in Dakota Sioux:
1. Wanzi
2. Nonpa
3. Yamni
4. Topa
5. Zaptan
6. Sakpe
7. Sakowin
8. Sahdogan
9. Napcinwanka
10. Wikcemna

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OrnaMental

A rare self-portrait of Uncle Johnnny in this ornamental Christmas ornament. These types of pictures always remind me of MCEscher holding a mirror ball.

Believe In Ghosts

The $1.5M Rolls-Royce Ghost.
Or you could buy 75 Hondas.

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Oh Christmas Tree

The perfect Christmas tree?
All Christmas trees are perfect!
~Charles N. Barnard

Unfortunately, this quote was only talking about "real" Christmas trees. Artificial trees are made with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) which is one of the most environmentally unfriendly forms of non-renewable, petroleum-derived plastic. Several known carcinogens are generated during the production of PVC. "Fake" trees contain lead and other additives designed to make the otherwise rigid PVC more pliable. Many of these additives have been linked to liver, kidney, neurological and reproductive system damage in lab animal studies. Fake trees shed lead-laced dust, which covers branches or showers gifts and the floor below the tree. In toxic fake tree homes, avoid inhaling any dust from these lead-laced PVC death factories, which must then be stored in the toxic home yearound. Merry Christmas.

Island of Presents

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Explosive Design

This is a Dutch architect's design for a possible pair of buildings in South Korea. How could anyone find anything controversial about this look? It certainly is a conversation starter. However, most conversations would probably end up thumbs down on this one. Sorry. Back to the drawing board. How about a building shaped like a mushroom cloud?

Andy Rooney

Andy Rooney recently died at the age of 92. This self-admitted liberal biased news reporter commented about a wide variety of issues at the end of the CBS 60 Minutes show. He tackled everything from the Washington Redskins name to Kurt Cobain's suicide.

Here are a few quotes from Andy Rooney:

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

Survival Tip Of The Week

This week, our survival tip is: How to Snare a Rabbit. This is probably something we all learned in Survival Skool, but it never hurts to review. The notched trigger in the lower left is shown close up in the lower right circle. Once you catch a rabbit, you'll need to know how to cook it (our next survival tip). If cooked properly, rabbit tastes like chicken.

Pink Unicorn

If you need a fresh new idea of what to dress as for Halloween, consider going as a dog that is dressed as a pink unicorn. This look is fashionably smart and irresistibly adorable. Don't be surprised if you receive doggie treats while trick or treating.