Wednesday, June 6, 2012

A Corvette, a Dane, and a Tumbleweed Walk into a Bar....

I just had 16 ounces of the strongest iced coffee known to man so I feel like this post may be the best thing ever or my heart will explode.

It could go either way really.

First let me show you this:


Now, go here to read my column in this week's Douglas Budget and you will have a visual to go along with the red spikey thing of which I speak.

I suppose it is possible that the people who designed the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky were on a caffeine high also. Probably to make up for their lack of eyeballs.


But you will not only read about strange Kentucky buildings, you will also find out that on a Danish smorgasbord even the vegetables will give you a heart-attack and you'll discover how exciting windmills can be. Not really.





And lastly, just in case you are the type of reader who only skims the column instead of poring over every word and committing them to memory, possibly in tattoo form, I want you to know this: I won.






15 comments:

  1. They've figured out how to combine a DQ, Orange Julius and a pizza place?!?!?! God bless scientists and all of their science.

    Also, they should make mazing an Olympic event.

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  2. Science is truly great and I really don't know what all the fuss is about; if America can combine all these great things in one place, we can't be "losing the race to the moon" or whatever it is we're trying to do to beat Russia. Or losing the race of "knowledge of current events" either for that matter.

    Plus, we would totally dominate in mazing.

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  3. I read your whole article and what did I take away from it? You call soda "pop". I haven't heard it called "pop" since I was in 7th grade. Thanks for the dose of nostalgia.

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    1. You're welcome. :)

      It's funny, because I had to force myself to say pop. I grew up saying soda too and even though I've been in Wyoming for 10 years it doesn't come natural but I liked the alliteration of pizza and pop AND I already get made fun of enough because of the way I say: toilet, pie, oil, and y'all.

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  4. Fun article and I was interested to find out that Himself is your husband. I've been sort of curious lol. You guys sound like real nuts of the right sort. Congratulations on your maze win (even though he won the games later) it sounded like a lot of fun!

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    1. Thanks Lady! Himself is indeed my husband and we are indeed nuts, of some sort anyway. ;)
      I'm like Jas in my optimism. I may have only won 1 and lost 2, but I still won one and that's the one that counts in my book!

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    2. Oh, I know the feeling. If I had been in your shoes I probably wouldn't have mentioned any wins except my own lol.

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  5. I bet if someone put that building in God's chair and he sat on it it would be hilarious.

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    1. Maybe that's what the architects had in mind. It certainly makes more sense than a tail light. Maybe the red spikey thing would push down and press a whoopie cushion when He sat on it. I hope God has a sense of humor or those guys are in big trouble.

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  6. did you have a slice of pizza here?? and was there a monkey in the middle?

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    1. yeah, we had a couple of cardboard tasting slices. Chuck Yeager Monkey was the monkey in the middle! ;)

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  7. I insisted in reading part of your column to my husband & he's still drooling - over Corvettes, not pizza. After lusting after one (Corvette, not pizza) since he was 14 - he's a "bit" beyond that now - he finally bought himself (my himself, not yours) a good used one a couple of years ago. This was during his 3rd or so mid-life crisis... He oohed & aahed over that thing & took me for a spin or 2 then asked how I liked it. I tried to tell him, but he was sort of like your Jas & fighting - didn't hear a thing that I said. SO, we took it on a 2 week drive up to Jasper Natl Park in Canada & back. In our Christmas letter that year, I mentioned the trip & how it was to ride in a tuna fish can with your butt only a coupla inches off the road. He read that & said he never knew I felt that way... miracles never cease, do they?

    He's still drooling over the museum - like Jas, he never learns some things...

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    1. Hahaha! That's funny. We all have our blind spots I guess. Do you still have it? (the car not the husband)

      Don't tell him I said it but that museum was b o r i n g. ;)

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    2. Yes, he does still have the car, but we only drive it locally - no more long trips in it. I said I'd go, if I did the driving and HE sat all day in the passenger seat...

      I already told him that you thought the museum was booooring, but he refused to believe me.

      Oh yea, I still have the husband, too!

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