{"id":2664,"date":"2004-02-20T14:20:02","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T21:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2004-02-20T14:20:02","modified_gmt":"2004-02-20T21:20:02","slug":"friday-afternoon-scratchpad-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/20\/friday-afternoon-scratchpad-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Afternoon Scratchpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Oscar Pool Creator<\/u><\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, my annual &#8220;Make-Yer-Own Oscar Pool Page&#8221; is <a href=\"\/oscars\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><u>Thank You Mr. Bus Driver<\/u><\/p>\n<p>I almost missed my bus yesterday.  As it was pulling away from the curb I ran alongside it, waving my arm, and the driver kindly brought the behemoth to a stop and allowed me to board.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, as I sat panting in a seat halfway back, I could hear the driver&#8217;s voice boom from overhead.  He was having a private chat with the person sitting in the front row and was clearly unaware that the intercom was on.  I, and everyone on the bus, heard him say, &#8220;I probably wouldn&#8217;t shouldn&#8217;t have stopped for that guy, but I kinda felt sorry for him.  He had such a dopy, desperate look on his face as he ran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><u>How Many &#8230;?<\/u><\/p>\n<p><b>Moderator<\/b>:  If you are elected president in 2004, what will your administration&#8217;s policy be in regards to changing the lightbulb?<\/p>\n<p><b>Kerry<\/b>:  &#8220;Like most Vietnam veterans who fought in the Vietnam war, I know a little something about changing lightbulbs, on account of my experience in Vietnam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Edwards<\/b>:  &#8220;No need to change the bulb &#8212; I&#8217;ll just light up the room with my sunny optimism!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Bush<\/b>:  &#8220;Someone needs to change a lightbulb?  Woohoo &#8212; we created a job!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,112049,00.html\">Nader<\/a><\/b>:  &#8220;These is no fundamental difference between a lit room and the darkness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><u>Clarification<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Conversation with my single female friend R.:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>R<\/b>:  I was trying to find a copy of that card game, <a href=\"http:\/\/kumquat.com\/cgi-kumquat\/funagain\/05101\">Mamma Mia<\/a>, so I went to the game store you suggested.<\/p>\n<p><b>Me<\/b>: And?<\/p>\n<p><b>R<\/b>: And omigod &#8212; the guy that worked there was so nice and friendly!  And cute!<\/p>\n<p><b>Me<\/b>:  [Incredulous]  Cute?  The guy working at the game store?<\/p>\n<p><b>R<\/b>:  He was <I>totally<\/I> cute!<\/p>\n<p>[Momentary pause.  Then, hurriedly &#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><b>R<\/b>:  I mean, &#8220;cute&#8221; in a Geppeto kind of way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><u>Update!<\/u><\/p>\n<p>No Squirrely yet.  As of this writing The Queen and I are still living in 2004 BC (before child).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Pool Creator In case you missed it, my annual &#8220;Make-Yer-Own Oscar Pool Page&#8221; is here. Thank You Mr. Bus Driver I almost missed my bus yesterday. As it was pulling away from the curb I ran alongside it, waving my arm, and the driver kindly brought the behemoth to a stop and allowed me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scratchpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}