Wednesday, August 28, 2019


OUT OF THIS WORLD WEDNESDAY
SURPRISING SURVIVAL SKILLS



At our last juncture in time and spaze, we left our gregarious Glirkazoids packing their rugged rucksacks with all the needed items to transmigrate the Great Jewel Of Neprotonicus 11 to Neprotonicus 12 before the whole dang planet imploded into a little ball of clay, smaller than a Plutonius pin ball! 




As the pathetic, pulsating planet, pulsates pitifully, and the blue, bubbling and boiling blava blows out of the ground, whilst the wild, whistling, woeful wind whips Gary and Rosie weirdly, they trek on to the cavernous cave of the Great Jewel Of Neprotonicus!!




By the way, I forgot to mention that they made their usual, unorthodox landing on Neprotonicus 11 a few parsecs earlier!



Gary - "It's really awesome that we have traversed this planet for about 13 daayloos, and have not been halted by the wild, whipping, whistling, woeful winds, pulsated to death, or boiled in the blue, flowing blava, Rosie?!!"



Rosie - "What are you talking about, Gary?!! We're only 500 pleets from the Silver Sausage spazeship, and it's only been 13 minooties!!



Gary - "Hmmm, it seemed much longer to me. Are we there yet?"



Rosie - "Don't start in, mush head!!! How's about I leave you back in the Silver Sausage, where you WILL NOT get half of the 20,000 pazooza reward for this miserable job?! "



Gary - "Okay, okay, but can you reach the Reese's Pieces in my rucksack so I don't give out on the trail, Rosie girl?"

Rosie - "Are you kidding me, Gary! We just...

At that instant, a BIG burst of wicked wind blows Rosie off the path, and the pulsating planet shakes her to the very edge of a deep crevasse that is filled with boiling, bubbling, blue blava!!!

Quicker than a Juk on a moonbug, Gary grabs his Indiana Jones whip and whips it around the waist of Rosie, without breaking the skin, and pulls her back to safety!!! 



Rosie - "Gary! You saved my life! I was about to belly flop into that molten blava! How can I ever thank you?!!"

Gary - "A few Reese's Pieces will suffice, me lady!"

Our fearless spaze friends, move forward, through the forest of fossilized ferocious felines, who frightened fourteen fanatical flightless fowl by reanimating fast and furiously last Friday!



Rosie - "We have to be very quiet, Gary, so as not to reanimate these fossilized ferocious felines, so they won't feast on our faces."

Gary - "What? These are just big rocks, Rosie! They cannot reanimate from their rigid rockiness! How ridiculous! 

At that, Gary picks up a big stick, and whops the fossilized felines furiously!

Gary - "See! Not even a minor movement, my amigo!"

All of a sudden, the fossilized ferocious felines reanimate faster than Fetter Flies, who reanimate REALLY fast!



So try to imagine this in your wildest imagination. The whole planet is pulsating ... the weird, wicked wind is blowing woefully, hot molten blava is spewing out of the ground , and gigantic, reanimated, powerful panthers and pumas are chasing our champions!!

Gary - (running and out of breath) "Maybe I should have listened to you, Rosie!"

Rosie -(running behind Gary) "You THINK?!!"

Rosie turns around, faces the felines fearlessly, and fires her emulsificator flawlessly! The "capped" cats fall into a crevasse of molten blava, where they are immediately fossilized again! That's the circle of life, I guess. 



Gary - "You saved my rotten life, Rosie! When I didn't deserve it! How can I repay you, my friend?" 

Rosie - " With the natural food of Glirkazoids, of course!" 


Seriously, folks..if these episodes get any more exciting, I'll need to wear an oxygen mask  as I write them! It seems that this may be the one time Gary and Rosie do not succeed in their mission! Oh, I hope they do! I'd miss those little Glirkazoid goofballs! Wouldn't you? Don't answer that!



Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Make Tuesdays Great Again




Let's face it, Tuesdays are usually a blah day. We got over Monday, but there is still a LONG way to go until the weekend...and you know that EVERYBODY'S workin' for the weekend!



Well, I'm not, because I'm like a car that just came from the Goodyear shop...re-tired! Get it? Re...never mind.



If you're like me, and think Tuesdays are dull, lifeless, boring, uneventful...listen to this. Uh, I guess you can't really LISTEN to this, but you know what I mean, don't ya? Maybe not.





Some things that happened on a Tuesday...

  • Tuesday, October 29, 1929- Black Tuesday Stock Market Crash
  • Tuesday, June 6, 1944- Allied Forces Land D-Day Military Attack during WWII
  • Tuesday, August 16, 1977- Death of the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley
  • Tuesday, March 13, 1781- Discovery of Uranus
  • Tuesday, January 28, 1986- Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes After Liftoff on Live Television
  • Tuesday, November 4, 2008- Barack Obama elected First African American President of the United States

Whoa! It looks like there is only one thing listed here that is positive. The discovery of Uranus. 


This is supposed to be Uranus, but it looks fake to me.

Which brings up a little irritating thing for me. Like, why do THEY keep changing things we were taught when I was in that one room school house on the prairie?!




Uranus used to be pronounced Ur-ANUS, with the emphasis on the anus. Now, THEY say it's pronounced UR-anus, with the emphasis on the UR!

Who did this? Someone embarrassed about putting the emphasis on the ANUS?!! Get over it! We're not in the 4th grade! 




Another one is aunt. Everybody (at least in America) used to pronounce aunt like ant! Now, more and more folks use the British pronunciation of ont! What happened?!! Too many British movies? Some even say, onty! Sorry, but a little too fancy sounding to me. 


Wuthering Heights Movie 

It' really sounds funny to me (just my personal opinion) when a giant, mean looking linebacker, on a pro football team, says, "I'd like to say hi to my dear onty, from UR-anus, Ohio."


Mean Joe Greene

I don't know if there is a Uranus, Ohio, but you get my point, right? Maybe not. 

I know there is a Jupiter, Florida, and Earth City, near St. Louis, but I don't know about the other planets. If you know other places named after a planet, let me know in the comments section.




What was my initial subject? I lost track for a minute.  Umm, TUESDAY!! That's it, TUESDAY!!

Remember Tuesday Weld from the Dobie Gillis Show? Oh, my! I was only a kid, but I had a major crush on her! In fact, I was only 9 to 13 years old when the show aired on TV, but, well...

Enough said.

Of course we can't discuss Tuesday without one of my favorite songs by the Boody Mlues...


I know what you're thinkin'..."Danny boy, you've put this song on your blog a million times, why AGAIN?"

Okay, you are correct...but how many times have you hunkered down and listened closely to this iconic song on a TUESDAY, hmmm?!

You should do it today! It will make you feel better! I guarantee it! 

Disclaimer: Any guarantee made on this blog is not ACTUALLY a guarantee, but only something made up to enhance the validity of this invalid blog, and any monetary rewards, gifts, penalties, or settlements, must be authorized by the king of Latvia, on a Tuesday, after 12 midnight. 

From now on, Tuesdays will never be the same, right guys?! Maybe not. 

Anyway, have a tremendous, terrific Tuesday!!!


Monday, August 26, 2019

My Loving Tribute To Dogs
On National Dog Day




This little poem was written by me when I was in the fifth grade...

Dogs can be brown or black or white,
Some will bark and some will bite,
Some will do some good tricks, too,
They will do their tricks for you,
Some dogs are brave,
Some dogs are true,
And that's the kind of dog for you!


This was before the fifth grade, but they didn't take a lot of pictures of me.


The poem was inspired by my wonderful, intelligent, brown, mixed breed dog, Fluffy. In addition, the poem ended up in the school newspaper, which was like winning the Pulitzer Prize for a fifth grader! 


My 
My dad gave me a "pull it surprise" when I pulled his finger!


I don't think it hurt that my sister, Dee-Dee, was working on the school newspaper at the time.  She denies having ANY involvement in having it published, but I still have my suspicions.


            Dee - Dee is the cute little girl behind me, in front.

Most folks I talk to (and that ain't too many) will tell me that their childhood dog was the greatest dog in the world! I have written extensively about Fluffy! I even have a chapter about him in one of my books! Although I forgot which book. 
I'll look it up. Okay, it was in my first book, "Chicken's Butts and Coconuts, chapter 6. The title is "Fluffy!"

A partial image of Fluffy is in this photo of my mom, at bottom left, but hard to see. That's all I got, unfortunately.


Today, I'm asking you to say a little bit about your beloved dog, from the past or present, without shedding too many tears.





Everyone knows that dog is God spelled backwards, and that proves that God meant to show us His loving qualities through dogs, right? (By the way, this is my own theory, not to be viewed as scriptural or anything)

Dogs love us unconditinally...like God.

Dogs comfort us...like God.

Dogs rescue folks in trouble...like God.

Dogs lead the blind...like God.

Dogs warn us of dangers...like God.

Dogs forgive us when we act badly toward them...like God. 

Will our sweet departed dogs come to meet us in heaven?  The answer is YES! 




I know this from Is. 11:6 
 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.




"But Danny boy," you say, doubtingly, "there are NO DOGS mentioned in Is. 11:6!"

Maybe not, but think this through, logically, like I never do. If God is gonna have lambs, leopards, lions, calves, bears, fatlings (whatever they are), and wolves, a close relative to the dog, in paradise, isn't it a sure thing that he will have our precious dogs with us as well?!! Slam dunk!! Drop the mic, you betcha he will!!! 




So in conclusion, my dear friends, you owe it to your dogs, past and present, to make a heartfelt comment here on my blog, or on Facebook, even just one word would satisfy God, I believe, and He is most certainly reading Facebook today! Maybe not my blog, but Facebook is pretty much universal!! 




Have a howling good National Dog Day, and don't forget to have them spayed or neutered, and don't leave them in a hot car, and make sure they have a lot of water to drink, and give them a LOT of attention, and if you don't have a dog, adopt one today!!! 


Benji Was A Sweet Dog

Chevy Made Our Lives Whole Again 

Friday, August 23, 2019

One Small Step For My Blog, One Giant Leap For All Of You Blog Readers!




As we head into the weekend on this FRIDAY , in fact, the second Friday of this week, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.  It is incumbent on me to write a blog story great enough to remain in your brains until Monday, and maybe even to the second Monday of next week! 


Stole this idea from you, Paul.

No! Greater than that!!  A blog posting that will be perused and cherished throughout the far flung, future millenniums of blog readers, that will be the catalyst for MAJOR life changing events that will turn the tide of human devastation and disintegration to deliverance and delight!


Dueling Banjo's from "Deliverance," although one guy has a guitar.

I know what you perceptive readers are thinking. You're thinking, "Danny..how are you gonna write this great, inspiring, motivational, life changing blog post, when you're still the same, dub  dumb dude?!!

Well, uh, well...did ANYONE expect the ant to move that big rubber tree plant? No way!! Or that silly ram to butt a hole in the dam?!!  Nuh uh! 




That's pretty much the way it's always been with me. People look at my shy, backward, unkempt appearance, along with that stupid look on my face, and they think, "that guy is a loser," but after a while their first impression is confirmed! But not this time! 



Starting now, I'm taking that simple first step, like Neil Young, when he stepped on the moon, and write my blog totally from my heart and soul, with every intention of changing the whole wide worm!! 


  
Are ya wit me?!!

I know that some of you are, because you remember the spirit of "Tripper" (AKA Bill Murray) when he gave this iconic speech in "Meatballs..."



What else can I say, except have a good weekend, and when you're feeling lower than a wiener dog's belly, think of that ram, ant, and Tripper, and the good vibrations will waft through your psyche like the wayward wind!