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There’s Always a Price

by Kyle Abbott on August 20, 2007 in Brief. 3 Comments

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Today, in the bathtub, (where some of my greatest brainstorms and ideas have occurred) somehow I thought about second-hand smoking. You know, you have to watch where you smoke because somebody could get an increased chance of lung cancer from your exhalations. Then I thought, well, if you can get lung cancer from somebody else’s smoke, what about those plastered people who walk by you reeking of 5 different kinds of liqueur? You know, smelling pungent enough to where you can get drunk by just one whiff of the chap. Well, can you get liver disease from that?

Makes you think!

Bad Management at the Cereal Factory

by Kyle Abbott on August 8, 2007 in Brief. 6 Comments

I was divvying out some Trader Joe’s® Maple Pecan Cereal (that’s pecan) into three bowls, for Papa, Luke and myself. While equalizing the contents of the bowls I spotted, among the pecans and maple oat clusters… a walnut!

Boy, talk about quality control issues! *tsk* *tsk*

Overheard on the mall

by Luke Abbott on July 31, 2007 in Brief. 0 Comments

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot would be a good song to die on. —Kyle, trying to say that we should end with Swing Low and go home

Is Faux-Salt Just As Cursed?

by Kyle Abbott on July 23, 2007 in Brief. 1 Comment

We’ve all had that moment. You are making lunch with some friends/family and you spill some salt. They tease (in a fun, friendly way) you about throwing it over your shoulder so you won’t have bad luck. “Haha!” you laugh! But when they all turn away to see that the Potatoes Au’ Gratin is on fire, you quickly throw a pinch of salt to put yourself back on level ground with the devil and god. (Nothing to do with the Potatoes Au’ Gratin. That was just a means for the people to look the other direction, giving you the opportunity to use your evil-thwarting ways.)

Well, as I was making lunch today, I accidentally tipped over Mama’s Nu-Salt, a fake-salt that’s made with Potassium Chloride instead of Sodium Chloride. Then I thought, “gee! Does that salt-throwing myth apply to fake salt?”

Well, does it?

Dude, You Just Blew My Mind

by Luke Abbott on July 10, 2007 in Brief. 1 Comment

One day, Papa builds a time machine and goes back to 1965 and gives his former self (then struggling to play music) a copy of the ToneWay Music Method. The 1965 Carl subsequently learns to play by ear on his own, eliminating the need to create a music method with his family three decades later, and thus preempting the creation of the ToneWay Music Method. But then… where did the Method come from? —Luke, explaining the AFM version of the Grandfather Paradox during breakfast.

Spongebob’s always smiling down

by Leslie Abbott on June 29, 2007 in Brief and Photo. 2 Comments

SpongebobA neighbor left a Spongebob pinata on our doorstep a while back. Bob is now strapped to the ceiling in the room where Carl and the boys do yoga every morning. Luke finds it creepy because whenever he does shoulder-stands, Spongebob is staring right down at him… (And there’s something creepy about a guy who is always smiling, don’t you think? —Luke)