It was announced today that Nestle has voluntarily recalled two varieties of Hot Pockets. For those who follow comedian Jim Gaffigan, you may know that he is known for his bits about loving Hot Pockets.
It is a well known fact that women tend to take over the bed at night. It is true in my house as well. I call my wife a “starfish” as she makes sure to take up as much room with her small frame as she possibly can in the bed. Add a couple cats in the mix and poor Bearman is smashed up against the edge of his side of the bed.
Recently my wife has been saying we need a new mattress because no matter how many times we turn the mattress my side of the bed is always sagging. REALLY???!!!!
Ever get that WTF face when checking out Facebook or Google Plus like in today’s cartoon? I do. It is annoying as hell on Facebook because those are my “friends” I am commenting on their posts so it isn’t like I can dump them without hurt feelings. Though usually on FB it is isolated and not consistent among the same friend.
But it seems to be worse on Google Plus as you don’t have to be friends with someone to follow their posts (as they don’t necessarily have to follow you back). There are plenty of people that I follow on Google Plus who don’t follow me back but I have two rules that I look for to continue following them.
1. Be present. Broadcasters who post but never respond to comments on their post are not worth my time. And I don’t think you have to respond to every comment, but a chosen few shows that you actually read the comment. And speaking of reading the comments….
2. I try to always plus every comment on my posts as a way to say thank you for leaving the comment and acknowledge you took the time to write. That is unless it is a douche/troll comment and then I ignore it. That being said there seem to be some people who will post and plus every comment but a few. To me that says you only want to engage with certain people. Just recently uncircled someone who has on three occasions ignored my relevant non douchey comment while plussing every other comment consistently. I get the hint!!
What other moments on the web cause you to have the WTF face??
So President Barack Obama had his State of the Union (or as I prefer State of the Disillusioned) address yesterday where he talks about his plans for the coming year. Everything was a typical Presidential address and nothing I heard that was new. However one comment he made did make me chuckle:
That’s why I’ve been asking CEOs to give more long-term unemployed workers a fair shot at new jobs, a new chance to support their families. And in fact, this week many will come to the White House to make that commitment real.
Sure CEO’s have the power to set direction but I found it funny as most CEO’s (especially in the larger sized companies that would garner a White House invite) are probably out of touch with hiring decisions anyway. And do we really need to have them fly to the White House to get their buy-in? More sad is that he has three years left in his term and already they are calling him a lame duck President. Ouch. Congress (both sides of the aisle) needs to quit waiting for the next best thing to get things done.
Time to admit something in today’s cartoon. I have male patterned baldness grayness. Yep, I have a beautiful head of hair but for some reason I started turning gray long before my much older brothers. Turning gray (or “grey” for my UK friends) doesn’t bother me except for the fact that one side of my head has a larger patch of gray than the other side. So while I didn’t want to dye it back to remove all the gray I decided to try a few things.
First up was Just for Men which was fine but it became way too dark and much more than my normal hair color. Yikes. Then I tried Touch of Gray which did a better job of keeping toward my natural hair color but it didn’t last that long. With both these products once you open the package, you pretty much can’t use the tube of color again so it really was a waste of money since I used so little in one spot. Both of these products smell like the beauty shop my grandmother used to go to but the good thing is you immediately shampoo out the excess and for the most part the smell is gone.
Most recently I turned to Grecian Formula which promises to gradually remove the gray hairs. Put it in dry hair and let it go. Problem is, just like the other products mentioned, Grecian Formula smells. Since they encourage you to keep it in rather than shampoo it out the stench stays with you. Plus I noticed that if I didn’t shampoo it out each day that it seemed to transfer to my pillow. I move a bunch in my sleep so invariably I am going to end up at some point with my face (and more importantly) lips in the pillow. So I would wake up with a horrible taste in my mouth. Not sure what I was ingesting, I looked at the ingredients to find that the active one is “Lead Acetate”. Now I am not chemist but I can recall the ban on lead paint as a kid so ingesting lead anything can’t be a good thing. While the company states it has research that Grecian Formula is safe and continues to sell in the U.S. the formulation with lead acetate, back in 2006 the ingredient was banned in Canada and the UK as it was suspected of being a carnicogen.
On the bright side if no one comes near you because of the smell, they can’t see your gray hair. I think I’ll just use a Sharpie from now on. 🙂
Miss me? Today’s cartoon was inspired by….. well I am not really sure. Just one of those things that pops into your head at 12AM when you are trying to sleep. Hmmmm…how would it be if a porcupine’s mating ritual including having to pick up a woman in a bar. Don’t ask, just be happy I posted something for you to see here besides a three week old Christmas cartoon.
This cartoon is for all the Egg Nog haters in the world including my wife who instead of calling it Elf Piss, jokingly always refers to Egg Nog as Phlegm. I, on the other hand, can’t get enough of the stuff and wonder why consumption seems to be limited only to the holiday season.
Speaking of holidays, I am taking one so there will be no updates until after the new year here and I will be absent from visiting other’s blogs for the time being. So as a bonus, Michael Pohrer of Tooned In has updated his guest cartoon he did for me in a past year. Have a safe and enjoyable Christmas and New Years and I will see you in 2014.
And here you thought snow balls came from the ground. Oh no my friends. The fresh ones come right off the vine…er snowman.
I have a feeling others have done this joke before me only cuz it seemed so obvious. I am sure my astute readers will point it out.
Sure in a Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three Spirits/Ghosts. What if the spirits that were foretold by his deceased partner Jacob Marley turned out to be alcohol? May you all have a very spirited Christmas (or whatever you celebrate).
Jon Esparza over at Jon’s Crazy Stuff put out a call for cartoons falling into several categories. I of course chose Frosty coming to life in my own twisted way. That dog was always around in the Frosty special and you can bet he relieved himself at some point in the snow. Why not right before he was built. Follow Jon at JonsCrazyTweets and check out all the other cartoon entries at Jon’s Crazy Stuff.