Drunken Pumpkin

Performed by Sean Morey

According to the claim at the top of this guy’s page, he has been sent over $750 in the past year by asking people to send him a penny. Talk about a pyramid scheme. You can visit his site by clicking here

Other than for Sci Fi programs and films, what do we need this for?

This is the kind of story that brings home the world that we live in. Worthy organization.

Excerpt below. Full article can be found here

By Rachel Morarjee
The Christian Science Monitor

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: “Bang!” The little puppet boy steps on a mine, and now he only has one leg. The Afghan children watching the video at a school on a Kabul hillside gasp.

Puppets have long been used to entertain and to teach children basic lessons such as how to count and the letters of the alphabet.

Now in Afghanistan the creators of Muppet stars Miss Piggy and Fozzy Bear have teamed up with two charities to teach children a lesson in survival: how not to get killed or maimed by the millions of land mines still buried in the Afghan soil.

“The Story of the Little Carpet Boy,” loosely based on Pinocchio, is the brainchild of No Strings International, a British charity set up to reach children in war-torn areas and teach them vital life lessons through puppetry.

Experts say sugar free candy contains a sugar substitute that can kill your dog (article here), so make sure you examine all of your dogs trick or treats before letting them go through the bag.

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Well, two weeks later here’s another podcast. I present for your approval a brief discussion of Mystery Spots. I am sad to say that it is still just me and no Jeff on this one. We’re working on how to get both of us on there, but the fact that we live an hour or so apart and have trouble scheduling meetings in the real world has kept us from doing these things together, which was the initial plan.

If you have any suggestions about that or anything else please feel free to leave comments or drop us a line.

Yesterday’s post took quite a bit of detective work for Jeff to find the secret Olive Garden recipe for Tira Misu. Actually, someone probably emailed that to him, but it’s a lot more exciting to think of Jeff hanging out in back alleys listening at windows trying to hear snatches of the recipes of popular dessert items. At least that’s a lot better idea than what one could think about Jeff doing in back alleys. Although I’m sure Jeff has never taken part in anything illicit in a back alley. Other places, I make no promises. He did spend a fair amount of time in the presence of Hemingway, and lord knows you can’t trust that guy.

I’m fairly certain that Jeff went out on his wild excursion to find the Tira Misu recipe because of that incredible rendition of Jack Sparrow on a pumpkin. And as this is “drunken” pumpkin he had to focus on the rum. After all, we have standards to live up to. I have yet to sort out what those standards are, but we need to live up to them.

I can only imagine that Jeff was looking for more information on drunken frivolity when he came across the list of quotes from travel agents. I used to think that the travel agent might be a dying breed, what with expedia and travelocity making travel accommodations fairly easy, these quotes give me hope for the future generation of travel agents. They also make me panic about the future generation in general. But if you don’t realize that Hawaii is an island in the middle of the ocean, you probably aren’t going to be able to sort out an e-ticket to get there either.

Come back tomorrow and see Jeff’s rendition of a drunken squirrel being swallowed by a drunken pumpkin.

And don’t forget to comment on the new Podcast coming up later today.