These pictures were taken by visitors to Istanbul, Turkey. The men carry trays of bagels for sale balanced on their heads. Where do they carry the cream cheese? Neat idea if somebody here can actually do it!Wednesday, March 26, 2008
New Marketing Idea
These pictures were taken by visitors to Istanbul, Turkey. The men carry trays of bagels for sale balanced on their heads. Where do they carry the cream cheese? Neat idea if somebody here can actually do it!
Sam's Classifieds
Alicia is looking for someone to paint the exterior of her house who is honest, reliable and reasonably priced. Does anyone have any leads for her?
I was happy to find a pet sitter right at Sam's. Susan Jones owns a professional pet sitting service. Her website is www.havepetswilltravel.net.
I was happy to find a pet sitter right at Sam's. Susan Jones owns a professional pet sitting service. Her website is www.havepetswilltravel.net.
A Soft Breeze
The blog has added a new international reader in Rio de Janiero, Brazil! Other new readers in Gwynn Oak, MD; Towson, MD; Halethorpe, MD; Los Angeles, CA; New Berlin, NY; Freehold, NJ; Jacksonville, FL; Appleton, WI; Berlin, Germany; and Edmonton, Canada.
Recovery was in the air at Sam's today. Scott was back at work, and Bill W.'s wife, Barbara, is home from the hospital. My family also had a successful first visit to Charlestown races and slots, won big on a two-cent machine! So feeling the luck of the Irish, hope you enjoy the sentiments below.
Some Irish words of wisdom (shared from Stat Counter.com)
Is maith an t-anlann an t-ocras.
Moladh luath agus cáineadh mall. Be quick to praise and slow to criticise.
Tús maith leath na hoibre. A good start is half the work.
Má bhíonn tú ar lorg cara gan locht, beidh tú gan chara go deo. If you seek a friend without fault, you will be without one forever.
Cuir síoda ar ghabhar ach is gabhar i gcónaí é. Dress a goat in silk and it’s still a goat.
Is fearr an sláinte ná an táinte. Health is better than wealth.
And from this day on may you always have these blessings…A soft breeze when summer comes, a warm fireside in winter, and the comfort of a true friend.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Papaya Dance
The Phillipine Army does the Papaya Dance. Think we could learn it - it's all the rage!
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter to everyone. Hope your day was joyful!
Below are some pictures from our family's celebration.
Send in your photos for posting.
Sarah dyed these beautiful eggs.
Sue decorated these "pysanky" Ukranian eggs. Most are 30 years old ! (Sue was a child artist). 
Jean's favorite daffodils with angel food cake.
Harold, the wandering jew, holds the TV remote and some goodies.
Paul, Zach and Patty play 20 Q (it didn't guess "totem pole")
" Easter Egg" balloons line Frederick Road
Casey and Katelyn send Easter greetings from their sunny LA vacation with friends.Recent Blog Readers
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Friday, March 21, 2008
The Singing Bagel
You know how people see the image of Elvis in a potato chip or the face of Jesus in a tortilla? Well, Christine Smith discovered "Mr. Bagel Man" one morning and decided that he was singing! So check that bagel carefully before smearing on the cream cheese. You might be able to sell it on eBay. Christine is a digital designer and you can see her other designs at http://christinesmithdigital.blogspot.com/2006/12/singing-bagels.html.Score One For Granny
Tom in Las Vegas shared this video with us.
A lady was video taping her son riding a skate board when her attention switched to an old woman trying to cross the street.
It is the best direct hit I have seen in some time. You can hear the lady taping also giggling as she records the event.
It's a quick one but you will get a good laugh....Watch the guy in the car
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Too Much Information
This is Not Scott's Tongue!!!!!!!! Just a trauma photo.
OK, Scott, I have consulted with other speech therapists about your recent tongue trauma. There are many disorders of the tongue that have interesting names: there is hairy tongue, burning tongue, and geographic tongue. There is also macroglossia (enlarged tongue), glossitis (infection of the tongue), anklyglossia (tongue-tied) and diglossia (a bifed or split tongue). You certainly don't suffer from aglossia (no tongue or the inability to speak). However, there is no name that accurately describes your condition. Maybe I am the first to identify "glassyglossia", having a glass sliver embedded in one's tongue.
First Day of Spring
(Submitted by Alicia)
Today is the first day of Spring so it is time to burn your socks. In Maryland nautical tradition at sunset on the first day of spring it is traditional to take off your socks and toss them in a fire at sunset.... not to wear socks again until fall. http://www.whatsupmag.com/mar05/arts.shtml
Edible Art Show/ Pancake Breakfast
Thoughts go out to Bill W. His wife, Barbara, was admitted to St. Agnes yesterday.
Last night, Catonsville High held its annual Edible Art Show. Artists of all ages are invited to submit an entry. The only rule is that all of the materials used must be edible. I was unable to attend last night, but I have been many times in the past. Below are some favorite entries from previous shows.
Speaking of things edible, there will be an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast on Saturday, April 12, from 8:30 to 11:00 am. The event will be held at Catonsville Presbyterian Church at 1400 Frederick Road. Tickets are $5 per adult ($6 at the door) and $3 for children under 11 ( $20 maximum per family). Proceeds benefit Boy Scout Troop 306. See Jeff for tickets - I already have mine! Let's meet at 8:30 and get a "Sam's" table for a good cause.
Last night, Catonsville High held its annual Edible Art Show. Artists of all ages are invited to submit an entry. The only rule is that all of the materials used must be edible. I was unable to attend last night, but I have been many times in the past. Below are some favorite entries from previous shows.
Speaking of things edible, there will be an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast on Saturday, April 12, from 8:30 to 11:00 am. The event will be held at Catonsville Presbyterian Church at 1400 Frederick Road. Tickets are $5 per adult ($6 at the door) and $3 for children under 11 ( $20 maximum per family). Proceeds benefit Boy Scout Troop 306. See Jeff for tickets - I already have mine! Let's meet at 8:30 and get a "Sam's" table for a good cause. Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Barenaked Ladies
Can't deny I get a kick out of all these little balloons, which represent recent readers. New readers in London, UK; Bridgeport, CN; Torino, Italy; Manhattan, NY; and Erie, PA. I get all of these fabulous web statistics from a free service, StatCounter, at http://www.statcounter.com/. Just think what I could find out if I pay for additional info!
(Just think what websites that DO pay to know about their readers....know about you already. )
Barenaked Ladies, shown above for those who don't know, is a popular band. (Check them out at http://www.bnlmusic.com/default2.asp) They drew crowds before anyone knew their music because the marquis sign would read "Appearing Tonight - Barenaked Ladies". I realize I've used the same tactic by labeling posts with titles like "Big Boobs" to lure in unsuspecting readers from all over the world. Truth is, it worked, as you can see from our blog's map.
More Bad Baby Names
I stumbled upon some more great names on this witty Cajun blog - see the March 16th entry. Check it out at / http://www.mostlycajun.com/wordpress/
Sam's Bagels had a nice comment from author, Matthew Rayback . (By the way, Matthew, congratulations on your new son, very nicely named "Eli ") Matthew and his co-author, Michael Sherrod, have published "Bad Baby Names" at the reasonable price of $9.95. For those of you who don't already know, Dimitri and his wife are expecting a baby in May. Maybe the above book would make a nice shower gift from the bagel bunch? Check out Matthew's humorous and well-written blog at www.badbabynames.net. Below is a sample of one of his blog entries:
Unique? I Think Not
So, here’s an article from an Alberta newspaper about naming trends in Alberta over 2007. A substantial part of the article discusses a variety of “unique” names that popped up over the course of the year. Well, as any good editor will tell you, the word “unique” doesn’t mean “uncommon.” It means “one-of-a-kind.” So I decided to delve into the census records at Ancestry.com to see how many of these names actually were unique. Not surprisingly, almost none of them. Now for you purists, I didn’t look at every single instance of these names, so these numbers are more like broad strokes (okay, for you pure purists, we’ll say broad broad strokes :)). Also, it’s really hard to search for names by gender, so there may be some crossover there too. Either way, unique is not in the eye of the beholder. Take a look (the numbers in brackets are the number of hits in the Ancestry.com census database):
“Among the most interesting names for girls in 2007 were Princess [3,293], Psalms [no Psalms, but 11 Psalm], Rhapsody [4], Oakley [14,779], Kalifornia [none with a K], God’s [9 Gods (none with the apostrophe) and 491 God], Morning Star [3], Evening [116], Elektra [10], Creedance [unique!], Cassiopeia [1], Breaze [2], Blessing [495], Brazil [834], Cerenity [none with a C, 8 with an S], Chaos [28] and Raenbow-Roze [unique! sort of, see below]…
“There was no shortage of uncommon names for little boys in 2007 either. Topping the list is an Adonis [1,789], Blue-Quill [unique!], Corny [267], Felony [11], Furious [7], Geronimo [5,993], Gretzky [unique!], Hinton [5,862], Jackpine [8], Jesus [101, 382, though I’m sure a lot of these are Jesús], Kajun [unique!], Ivy [of course there were a lot of girls named this, but as I scanned the 159,763 entries, I did find a lot of men with this name too], Little [49,875], Maxxamillion [52 with one X], Milwaukee [11], Obsidian-Angel [unique! though there are 60,410 Angels], Rainbow [749], Salmon [8,689], Slim [1,671], Stylez [1], Tao [335] and Zero [896]. There were also three Blazes [723]….”
Unique my eye.
Sam's Bagels had a nice comment from author, Matthew Rayback . (By the way, Matthew, congratulations on your new son, very nicely named "Eli ") Matthew and his co-author, Michael Sherrod, have published "Bad Baby Names" at the reasonable price of $9.95. For those of you who don't already know, Dimitri and his wife are expecting a baby in May. Maybe the above book would make a nice shower gift from the bagel bunch? Check out Matthew's humorous and well-written blog at www.badbabynames.net. Below is a sample of one of his blog entries:
Unique? I Think Not
So, here’s an article from an Alberta newspaper about naming trends in Alberta over 2007. A substantial part of the article discusses a variety of “unique” names that popped up over the course of the year. Well, as any good editor will tell you, the word “unique” doesn’t mean “uncommon.” It means “one-of-a-kind.” So I decided to delve into the census records at Ancestry.com to see how many of these names actually were unique. Not surprisingly, almost none of them. Now for you purists, I didn’t look at every single instance of these names, so these numbers are more like broad strokes (okay, for you pure purists, we’ll say broad broad strokes :)). Also, it’s really hard to search for names by gender, so there may be some crossover there too. Either way, unique is not in the eye of the beholder. Take a look (the numbers in brackets are the number of hits in the Ancestry.com census database):
“Among the most interesting names for girls in 2007 were Princess [3,293], Psalms [no Psalms, but 11 Psalm], Rhapsody [4], Oakley [14,779], Kalifornia [none with a K], God’s [9 Gods (none with the apostrophe) and 491 God], Morning Star [3], Evening [116], Elektra [10], Creedance [unique!], Cassiopeia [1], Breaze [2], Blessing [495], Brazil [834], Cerenity [none with a C, 8 with an S], Chaos [28] and Raenbow-Roze [unique! sort of, see below]…
“There was no shortage of uncommon names for little boys in 2007 either. Topping the list is an Adonis [1,789], Blue-Quill [unique!], Corny [267], Felony [11], Furious [7], Geronimo [5,993], Gretzky [unique!], Hinton [5,862], Jackpine [8], Jesus [101, 382, though I’m sure a lot of these are Jesús], Kajun [unique!], Ivy [of course there were a lot of girls named this, but as I scanned the 159,763 entries, I did find a lot of men with this name too], Little [49,875], Maxxamillion [52 with one X], Milwaukee [11], Obsidian-Angel [unique! though there are 60,410 Angels], Rainbow [749], Salmon [8,689], Slim [1,671], Stylez [1], Tao [335] and Zero [896]. There were also three Blazes [723]….”
Unique my eye.
Urban Legends
Good news about Scott. He had surgery on Monday (Scott has been troubled by a sore tongue since on vacation last August). The surgeon was able to remove a sliver of glass from his tongue, so hopefully Scott will be cured. Scott said his anesthesiologist was funny and helped him relax. The last thing Scott remembered was seeing the guy reading some papers and asking the nurse how to do this type of procedure since it was his first time!
Scott complained that he has been very bored on his liquid diet. He finally ate macaroni and cheese for one meal, meat loaf with mashed potatoes for another, and brought toaster waffles to Sam's. We told him he looked like he had lost a lot of weight! (But honestly, since the surgery was Monday afternoon, and this is only Wednesday morning, and he's had three meals in the meantime, how many meals were liquid?). Dimitri asked me to write that maybe now Scott will stop eating at Panera Bread!
You must get many of those e-mails (and I don't just mean offers of "how to increase my manhood" or "how to claim my award" , although I get plenty of those too). I mean those "forwarded, forwarded, forwarded" cute messages that at first glance are sent in friendship. They seem to wish you health and happiness and good luck. Then you get to the last line and discover that if you don't forward it immediately to more people and back to the sender, you are threatened with bad luck and hard times. I like to live dangerously, so I never pass them along. It seems Pat R. agrees with me; she submitted the picture below.
Now the other type of e-mail that I get frequently contains warnings of imminent danger to myself and my loved ones. Again, on the surface they seem helpful and to have my best interest at heart.....but then they always end with "This is one of those e-mails that if you don't send it, rest assured someone on your list will suffer for not reading it." Ah, the gift of perpetual guilt!
I just got one today stating that my plug-in air freshener could burn my house down. So I checked it at out http://urbanlegends.about.com/ and learned that this is false. This site researches e-mail rumors and myths and posts whether they are true or false. So now you can check those e-mails out for yourself before you decide to pass them along....you know you can't always believe what you read.
Just for fun, here are the latest stories circulating as e-mails. Check it out and see which - if any- are true at http://urbanlegends.about.com/
The Urban Legends Top 25 most popular topics of the past week
Week Ending: 03/16/08
1. Is Barack Obama a Muslim?
2. Amazing Tsunami Picture
3. Hercules, World's Biggest Dog (Photo)
4. 'Do Not Call' List for Cell Phones?
5. 'POSTCARD' Virus Hoax
6. Jamie Lee Curtis - Hermaphrodite?
7. Bill Gates Is Giving Away His Fortune
8. St. Patrick's Day History & Folklore
9. Glade Plug-In Air Fresheners Fire Hazard?
10. Breast Infestation (Photo / Video)
11. John Cleese Letter to the U.S.A.
12. The Urban Legends Slideshow
13. World's Tallest Woman (Photos)
14. Mr. Rogers Was a Marine Sniper / Navy Seal
15. Richard Gere and the Gerbil
16. MasterCard Wedding
17. Live Worm Removed from Patient's Eye (Photos)
18. Did Nostradamus Predict the 9/11 Attacks?
19. Camel Spiders in Iraq (Photo)
20. Half-Human, Half-Animal? (Photo)
21. Pit Bull vs. Porcupine (Photos)
22. 'Creepy Gnome' Video
23. 'Eye of God' in Outer Space (Photo)
24. Reverse PIN # to Signal Police at ATM?
25. Shark Attacks Helicopter (Photo)
Scott complained that he has been very bored on his liquid diet. He finally ate macaroni and cheese for one meal, meat loaf with mashed potatoes for another, and brought toaster waffles to Sam's. We told him he looked like he had lost a lot of weight! (But honestly, since the surgery was Monday afternoon, and this is only Wednesday morning, and he's had three meals in the meantime, how many meals were liquid?). Dimitri asked me to write that maybe now Scott will stop eating at Panera Bread!
You must get many of those e-mails (and I don't just mean offers of "how to increase my manhood" or "how to claim my award" , although I get plenty of those too). I mean those "forwarded, forwarded, forwarded" cute messages that at first glance are sent in friendship. They seem to wish you health and happiness and good luck. Then you get to the last line and discover that if you don't forward it immediately to more people and back to the sender, you are threatened with bad luck and hard times. I like to live dangerously, so I never pass them along. It seems Pat R. agrees with me; she submitted the picture below.
Now the other type of e-mail that I get frequently contains warnings of imminent danger to myself and my loved ones. Again, on the surface they seem helpful and to have my best interest at heart.....but then they always end with "This is one of those e-mails that if you don't send it, rest assured someone on your list will suffer for not reading it." Ah, the gift of perpetual guilt!
I just got one today stating that my plug-in air freshener could burn my house down. So I checked it at out http://urbanlegends.about.com/ and learned that this is false. This site researches e-mail rumors and myths and posts whether they are true or false. So now you can check those e-mails out for yourself before you decide to pass them along....you know you can't always believe what you read.
Just for fun, here are the latest stories circulating as e-mails. Check it out and see which - if any- are true at http://urbanlegends.about.com/
The Urban Legends Top 25 most popular topics of the past week
Week Ending: 03/16/08
1. Is Barack Obama a Muslim?
2. Amazing Tsunami Picture
3. Hercules, World's Biggest Dog (Photo)
4. 'Do Not Call' List for Cell Phones?
5. 'POSTCARD' Virus Hoax
6. Jamie Lee Curtis - Hermaphrodite?
7. Bill Gates Is Giving Away His Fortune
8. St. Patrick's Day History & Folklore
9. Glade Plug-In Air Fresheners Fire Hazard?
10. Breast Infestation (Photo / Video)
11. John Cleese Letter to the U.S.A.
12. The Urban Legends Slideshow
13. World's Tallest Woman (Photos)
14. Mr. Rogers Was a Marine Sniper / Navy Seal
15. Richard Gere and the Gerbil
16. MasterCard Wedding
17. Live Worm Removed from Patient's Eye (Photos)
18. Did Nostradamus Predict the 9/11 Attacks?
19. Camel Spiders in Iraq (Photo)
20. Half-Human, Half-Animal? (Photo)
21. Pit Bull vs. Porcupine (Photos)
22. 'Creepy Gnome' Video
23. 'Eye of God' in Outer Space (Photo)
24. Reverse PIN # to Signal Police at ATM?
25. Shark Attacks Helicopter (Photo)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
New Readers
Welcome new blog readers in:
Kalispell, Montana
Liberal, Kansas
Lubbock, Texas
Provo, Utah (at Brigham Young University)
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Parkville, MD
Huntingdon, England
Orem, Utah
Bored at Work
Things are pretty slow here today...
I'm bored :v(
Yawn ;<>
Ooh, there's that hot office girl passing through :u)
She's coming to flirt with me :uD
Wait, she's not?...darn {:-[
Here comes my boss 8~()
...who seems to have a new hairdo =8~()
...but also has food on her cheek and I can't tell her =8~*()
Sometimes she makes me so mad I could scream }:-[]
Better take a cig break ;>i
I'm bored :v(
Yawn ;<>
Ooh, there's that hot office girl passing through :u)
She's coming to flirt with me :uD
Wait, she's not?...darn {:-[
Here comes my boss 8~()
...who seems to have a new hairdo =8~()
...but also has food on her cheek and I can't tell her =8~*()
Sometimes she makes me so mad I could scream }:-[]
Better take a cig break ;>i
Monday, March 17, 2008
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Hope everyone celebrated the wearing of the green!
Paul and the "Cohan" family 
Don's back to claim his favorite seat.
Glad to see Allison back!
Bosco and Sugar in their holiday dudsBad Baby Names
(Submitted by Tom, our Las Vegas reader)
Be glad that all of our parents did not "lumber us" with some of these monikers. Ha! Ha! (www.ancestry.com). Ancestry.com shares the silliest, craziest and downright most humiliating baby names.
What would compel a parent to bestow a newborn with a name like “Tiny Hooker” or “Fanny Large”? Or an amusing choice like “Wanna Towell"? It’s not just Hollywood’s elite opting for unique, embarrassing names—throughout history, normal people separated their offspring from the masses with truly terrible names. In “Bad Baby Names,” Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback, of the genealogy Web site Ancestry.com, share thousands of shocking names given to real people, as recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau. Discover the funny names based around common themes, like diseases (Fever Bender, Cholera Peace), food (Bread White, Pomegranate Purple), pets (Good Dog), and if you thought Wednesday Addams was unfortunate—wait till you meet Monday Monday.
Be glad that all of our parents did not "lumber us" with some of these monikers. Ha! Ha! (www.ancestry.com). Ancestry.com shares the silliest, craziest and downright most humiliating baby names.
What would compel a parent to bestow a newborn with a name like “Tiny Hooker” or “Fanny Large”? Or an amusing choice like “Wanna Towell"? It’s not just Hollywood’s elite opting for unique, embarrassing names—throughout history, normal people separated their offspring from the masses with truly terrible names. In “Bad Baby Names,” Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback, of the genealogy Web site Ancestry.com, share thousands of shocking names given to real people, as recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau. Discover the funny names based around common themes, like diseases (Fever Bender, Cholera Peace), food (Bread White, Pomegranate Purple), pets (Good Dog), and if you thought Wednesday Addams was unfortunate—wait till you meet Monday Monday.
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