Funny Things 181-200

Wow! It's been a long time since my last post! Well, I've been to Fort Worth and back and got some pretty good pictures. Some of these are older ones that I found elsewhere on the computer recently. Enjoy!

I am completely creeped out by the before "hair".

I never thought about the opposite of "heavy duty".

Giant contact lenses?

Please tell me you've seen that SNL skit. Circa 1999.

This is where the family I work for keeps their cat food. Funny.

I don't know what's funnier: The fact that it says DWI on the guy's van or the fact that the w is an upside down lower case m.

At the Flying Fish in Fort Worth.

Truck drivers are such pervs. (See the writing in the dirt.)

I was finally able to get a picture of this ridiculousness at my old school in Texarkana. I think I laughed outloud the first time I walked down this attitude hall.

The new stop sign at the corner by my old school. I don't know why it's facing away from the car that would be pulling up to it. Or why it's just on some little stick.

I have no idea.

At the tax assesor's office in Little Rock. I like "cells phones" and the overflow of exclamation points onto the next row. And notice in the background on the door is one of those banners like I used to make in computer class in 8th grade. Awesome.

I like "I'm grape!"

Fo' Real

Looks like a shark?
(P.S. This is the closest I've come to having a wreck for taking a picture while driving. Notice all the brake lights suddenly.)

It's Louisiana on one side and Arkansas on the other!


At the Foreman (AR) Fair and Rodeo. (And Sarah's hand) Awesome!

I don't really understand this. I guess you gotta keep your door closed somehow!

I like the dramatic ellipses. (...)

I like how they have posters up promoting their illegal operation.

Posted in: on Thursday, September 06, 2007 at at 12:14 AM 0 comments  

Creature From The Deep

I was coming up the stairs tonight at our apartment and, only moments after screaming when a giant roach ran over my foot as I was trying to hop over it, I saw probably the biggest moth I've ever seen outside of a display in a museum or in a science textbook. This is it next to my size 10 1/2 shoe. Yuck!

Posted in: on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at at 10:41 PM 1 comments  

Meanwhile, back at the bread aisle...

First some advice: If you ever think that you want to go to Wal-Mart the night before school starts, don't.
Luckily I wasn't going there for bread because this was what was on the bread aisle. (Click the picture for details.)

Posted in: , on Sunday, August 19, 2007 at at 11:32 PM 3 comments  

Habla Usted Ingles?

Just a quick opinion poll. I was at Wal-Mart recently and saw these two sections on the bread aisle:
I realize that the pictures are sort of fuzzy (because I was trying to take a picture in the bread aisle without attracting attention) but they make a point. The top picture is loaves of bread whose name and packaging are in Spanish with subtitles in English. The bottom picture is from further down the aisle and is a whole section that is entirely in Spanish. I know different people have different opinions about this, and I want to hear yours. Should we go into the stores, drive down the roads, or turn on the local tv networks in our English-speaking country and see products, billboards, commercials, etc. that are completely in Spanish? What do you think?

Posted in: , on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at at 10:17 PM 4 comments  

Funny Things 161-180

Well, I didn't expect to get 20 more pictures so fast! So here we go!

I took the boys to Chuck E. Cheese's today (which, by the way, is just about as fun still as it was when we were kids and it was called Showbiz Pizza.) There was one game there where they sat on a chair, strapped in, and pretended to fly a plane while the chair moved slightly with their motions on screen. Apparently it's the most dangerous thing ever invented, because all of these warning stickers were on the ride somewhere, with several of them being on there multiple times:










I'd really avoid playing, riding, or getting near that game, much less putting my rectangular open-topped briefcase with handles on the step area of it.


Also at Chuck E. Cheese's. Um, there's a baby in that thing that lady's wearing. Creepy.

This is hilarious. It's the ticket counting machine. Don't get your necktie or long hair near it.


The next six pictures are proof that someday I will get in a wreck while taking pictures of things on the road.

Something's a little off here.


This was at 7:15 this morning. This girl was just standing there waving at traffic holding her election sign. Someone else was still out there at 6:00 tonight.

This one's kind of hard to read. Let me transcribe the right window: "Locked out your car? Need a tow for the low... Call ??? Auto -- Used tires for the low 13" & Up $10 & Up"

Quite a variety of bumper stickers

One definition of two-tone paint

Yep. That's what you think it is.

I guess my neighbor just wanted his car seat a little more comfortable. (His window was open.)

Old picture: A store in Dallas. Apparently it's a chain.

Another oldie: Something about this was just funny to me: "Beer to go"

Posted in: , on at at 9:38 PM 0 comments  

Funny Things 141-160

Funny Things: Special Edition
Local Grocery Store

Ah. Good ol' Local Chains. This is a small chain of "grocery stores" in Texarkana. I drove by one of them on the way to school every day and hardly ever looked at it. It happened to be on a corner that had a stoplight, so when stopped I would look over there sometimes. One time I looked over and thought it was funny what words were visible:

Breast milk!

A few months later I was driving by and noticed that the sign looked like this:

I thought it was funny because I figured someone was just dumb, but then it continued for the next many many weeks. It really just made my Wednesday morning. I hated going to work and that made me just a tiny bit happier. So here are the ones that I got pictures of.


















And because I didn't have 20 pictures, here is my last picture in these Funny Things.


It's been good. I will post them in tens from now on. Stay tuned for future issues.

Posted in: , on Thursday, August 09, 2007 at at 9:32 PM 1 comments  

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