Entries from August 2008 ↓

Once a year for a very short time, Rainier Cherries from the northwest make their way to the market.

they are the best tasting cherries by far.

If you see them, do yourself a favor and buy a bag. They are delicious……

Usage: Eating fresh

Selection: Good quality Rainier cherries will be large, firm and have even deep-red coloring. Rainier cherries usually have some skin discoloration, slight scuffing or brown spotting which often indicates high sugar content.

Avoid: Avoid cherries that are soft, have wrinkled skin, are leaking and sticky or that have any visible signs of decay. Immature cherries will be smaller and less juicy while over-mature product will be soft, dull and wrinkled.

Seasonal Information

Rainier Cherries are available late-June to early-August with the peak in June.

Washington is the largest supplier with cherries also grown in Oregon, California and imported from Canada and Chile.

Last night was the first preseason game. I watch these very closely. They can tell you a lot.

I have ten observations after the first exhibition game. Do not tell me it is too early. Check back in 4 weeks and then again in November, and I will be right on. I know football.

1) Teddy Bruschi cannot play football any longer. He was in for a few series and he is worse than ever. I liked the observation from the analyst. ” they list Bruschi at 247, but I stood next to him and he cannot be 200″ He is small and has lost his edge. We are fucked if he has to play.

2) Bob Kraft only cares about money! WOW! what a revelation you say. Fuck Patriot Place. Do not go there and give that megalomaniac one more dollar. He sucks.

3) Without Tom Brady we are fucked!  When he goes, I go..

4) Jerod mayo is the real deal. he can hit and is smart. finally a decent draft pick. Too bad he will have to play two positions as a rookie. he has to cover his spot and Bruschi’s. Wheatley and Crable look good. I said on draft day the surprise down the road will be Crable. You wait and watch down the road, he will be the steal of the draft. He has talent, he just had bad coaching at Michigan. Watch 98.

5) The fat white guys with the grizzly Adams beards are finally being exposed. it started in the super Bowl. They are going to get run over, and cause Tom Brady to run for his life. Does BB have a rule against black guys on the line? They need to shake up those rednecks a little. Matt light did not play, but he sucks the worst anyway.

6) Don Cricqui ( spelling) is retarded. What an empty suit. he is a pretty face, and a deep voice. Do you listen to his calls. He must be blind. he fucks every call up. He has to be corrected on every play. he seriously is a pathetic moron.

7)The defensive line is the strongest part of this team by far. They truly are 6 deep at this important decision. maybe one of the backups can play o-line? Oh ya stupid me, they are Black. we do not have any men of color on the o-line.

Say good bye to C J Jones, Matt Cassell, and Chad Jackson. none of them can play. the biggest disappointment is Jackson. we moved up in the second round to pick up this stiff who is apparently stupid, and worse than that, he cannot catch your keys if you threw them to him.

9) lamont Jordan is a player we can use. he runs hard and can catch the ball. he does not stutter step like maroney. he is an old time football player.

10) The Patriots have had 3 0r 4 bad drafts in a row. They almost always have the most picks every year and they never use them wisely. Look back, very disappointing. The Giants started 5 out of their 7 picks last year in the Super Bowl. Pioli is way over rated. I hope we get something out of this last draft, cause we do not have a very good record.

I will update my reports as the season progresses. It will start with the fact that Bruschi and Matt Light cannot play anymore. Oh ya, while we are at it? why would you have Larry Izzo on your team. I know! he is another white guy for the lineman and Bruschi to hang out with, but what does he do?  He sucks too!

Dating in the 1960′s
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> It was a hot Saturday evening in the summer of 1960 and Harold had a date > with Peggy Sue. He arrived at her house and rang the bell.

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> ‘Oh, come on in!’ Peggy Sue’s mother said as she welcomed Harold in. ‘Have > a seat in the living room. Would you like something to drink? Lemonade? > Iced tea?’

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> ‘Iced tea, please,’ Harold said. Mom brought the iced tea.
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> ‘So, what are you and Peggy Sue planning to do tonight?’ she asked.
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> ‘Oh, probably catch a movie, then maybe grab a bite to eat at the malt > shop, maybe take a walk on the beach…’
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> ‘Peggy likes to screw, you know,’ Mom informed him.
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> ‘Really?’ Harold asked shocked, eyebrows rose.
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> ‘Oh yes,’ the mother continued. ‘When she goes out with her friends, > they’re always looking for a new place to do it!’

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> ‘Is that so?’ asked Harold, incredulous.
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> ‘Yes,’ said the mother. ‘As a matter of fact, she’d screw all night if we > let her!’
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> ‘Well umm, thanks for the tip!’ Harold said as he began thinking about > alternate plans for the evening.
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> A moment later, Peggy Sue came down the stairs looking pretty as a picture > wearing a pink blouse and a hoop skirt, and with her hair tied back in a > bouncy ponytail.

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> She greeted Harold.
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> ‘Have fun, kids!’ the mother said as they left.
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> Half an hour later, a completely disheveled Peggy Sue burst into the house > and slammed the front door behind her………

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> ‘Twist, Mom!’ she angrily yelled to her mother in the kitchen. ‘The TWIST, > damnit! It’s called the Twist.
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I was in Home Depot the other day pushing my cart around when I collided
with a young guy pushing his cart.

The young guy says, That’s OK. It’s a coincidence.  

I’m looking for my wife, too.  I can’t find her and I’m getting a little desperate.

I said, ‘Well, maybe we can help each other. What does your wife look like?

I was just trying to be helpful.

You’ve been waiting for them, so without further ado  here are the
> 2008 Darwin awards. ……………………..
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>  Eighth Place
>  In Detroit , a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of
> water after squeezing head first through an  18-inch-wide sewer grate
> to retrieve his car keys.
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>  Seventh Place
>  A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who “totally zoned when he
> ran” accidentally, jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run.
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>  Sixth Place
>  While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole  for
> protection from the wind and had been sitting in a beach  chair at the
> bottom when it collapsed, burying him beneath
>  5 feet of sand. People on the beach used their hands and  shovels
> trying to get him out but could not reach him. It  took rescue workers
> using heavy equipment almost an hour to  free him. Jones was
> pronounced dead at a hospital.
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>  Fifth Place
>  Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the  ceiling of
> a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was  caused when the long
> flashlight he had placed in his mouth  to keep his hands free rammed
> into the base of his skull as  he hit the floor.
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>  Fourth Place
>  Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet  with friends
> who said he would not put a revolver loaded  with four bullets into
> his mouth and pull the trigger.
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>  Third Place
>  After stepping around a marked police patrol car parked at  the front
> door, a man walked into H&J Leather &  Firearms intent on robbing the
> store. The shop was full of  customers and a uniformed officer was
> standing at the  counter. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber
> announced a hold-up, and fired a few wild shots from a  target pistol.
> The officer and a clerk promptly returned  fire, and several customers
> also drew their guns and fired.
>  The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics.
>  Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge  cases in the
> shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23  gunshot wounds. Ballistics
> identified rounds from 7  different weapons. No one else was hurt.
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>  HONORABLE MENTION
>  Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just  driving around
> at 2 A.M. so they lit a quarter stick of  dynamite to toss out the
> window to see what would happen.
>  Apparently they failed to notice the window was closed.
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>  RUNNER UP
>  Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when  one of
> them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped  from a local
> bridge in the middle of traffic. The  conversation grew more heated
> and at least 10 men trooped  along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30
> AM. Upon arrival at  the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that
> no one had  brought a bungee rope.
>  Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and  pointed out
> that a coil of lineman’s cable, lay near by.
>  They secured one end around Bingham’s leg and then tied  the other to
> the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the  cable tightened and
> tore his foot off at the ankle. He  miraculously survived his fall
> into the icy water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen.
> Bingham’s foot was  never located.
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>  AND THE WINNER IS…
>  Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt ( Paderborn , Germany ) fed  his
> constipated elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and  more than a
> bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the  plugged-up pachyderm
> finally got relief.
>  Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting  to give
> the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the  relieved beast
> unloaded. The sheer force of the  elephant’s unexpected defecation
> knocked Mr. Riesfeldt  to the ground where he struck his head on a
> rock as the  elephant continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top
> of  him.
>  It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that  proves a
> saying we see far too often…about ” shit  happening”.

Are you like me and sick and tired of Brett Farve.

He quit, he retired, he moved along, he started a new life.

What the hell does he want to come back for? he was one of the most over rated players in the history of the game.

Sure he has records. that is what longevity will do to you, but he stayed too long.

he has been done for 5 years. Last year he sold his sole to the devil much like Joe in ” the damn Yankees” he was givin one year of fame back. he even screwed that up and threw an interception to lose to the Giants.

No way the Pats would have lost to him and the Packers, So he really did screw up.

He has more interceptions than anybody that has ever played the game.

He is a choker under pressure.

He is a southern redneck moron, that thinks he can rifle passes into coverage. He is too stupid to know it is over. The only one that is stupider is the team that picks him up and fails. Shame on them.

The only more over rated passer in the history of the NFL was Drew Bledsoe. At least after he was replaced by 4 nobody QB’s that all did better, he gave it up

Brett farve is a dolt, and I am sick of his shenanigans and the endless coverage of his every move.

One last thing… What is wrong with his mouth? it is too small, and it is straight. check it out, it does not look like a normal mouth.

I do not usually steal someone’s else’s rants, BUT, I saw a guy bitch about croc’s the other day and I have to concur. They are hideous.

I did a little research. We owe this blight on fashion to a housewife in Colorado that experimented in her basement. So now Sheri Schmelzer is filthy rich. She sold the company for $10,000,000.( that is what Julio Luogo makes for a season) that is pathetic.

They are stupid looking. Every time I see someone wearing these unsightly things I want to ask why? Especially guys.

If you want a comfortable shoe for the summer, try a Sperry topsider, or even those sandals that look like what sparticus wore in Roman times. They are not nearly as obnoxious as a croc.

Let me let you in on a little secret. One that only I know about. Keep this between us, because I do not want the whole world wearing my idea. Are you ready?????

It is the can’t miss shoe.

Can’t miss you say? What is that?

Let me show you :

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Thats right, the can’t Miss shoe. The greatest invention ever in foot apparel.

Check it out! Both Brown and Black at the same time    (ingenious) you can wear it with any color pants. It matches all of your belts. it is casual, but also can be worn with a suit. It is the most versitale shoe ever made. It looks equally good with or without socks, and when they wear a little thin, you can wear them out in the yard as a work shoe.

There is nothing that this shoe cannot do, that is why I call it “THE CAN’T MISS SHOE”

Go out and buy a pair today and throw ALL of your other shoes out.

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If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ’ d usually talk over the< /SPAN>
beginning and @#*% it all up! 
We didn’t have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that’s it!

We didn’t have any fancy Sony Play station video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics!
We had the Atari 2600!  With games like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘asteroids’. Your guy was a little square!  You actually had to use your imagination!! 
And there were no multiple levels or creens, it was just one screen forever!

And you could never win.  The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died!   

Just like LIFE!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control!  You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!  You were screwed when it came to channel surfing!  You ha d to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I’m saying!?! 
We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

And we didn’t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a friging fire.  Imagine that! 
If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.

That’s exactly what I’m talking about!  You kids today have got it too easy.  You’re spoiled. 
You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in 1980!

Good bye and good ridence!

Manny is a child and a jerk. If the sox finish last, it will not bother me, as long as that piece of shit is out of town.

$20,000,000 over 8 years. Do you know how much money that is? And he was unhappy and looking for more money.

Fuck you Manny you suck. Take your sorry ass act to the west coast. That is not far enough away.