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Get your crimson and gray on! Today is the 106th Apple Cup. For those outside of the Pacific Northwest, the Apple Cup is the annual football game between the two biggest universities in Washington. On one side we have the Washington State University Cougars and on the other the University of Washington Huskies. The Cougars […]
Read More Go Cougs!!!Every year, September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. This means that every one of us, no matter where we live or work, should answer the phone, “YARRRR!!!!” at least once today. It has great shock value. My previous post on this gloaarrrious holiday, which includes links to pirate translators, is here. Oh […]
Read More Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!Imagine listening to these two dialogues at the same time: 1. Blah blah blah blah blah, where can we get more wine, do you want to get some more wine, oh, girl, this is how they cut my hair, blah blah blah blah, I want to play drunken bingo, we should go to the burger […]
Read More No Respect for the BardLast night I caught the tail end of The Usual Suspects just before Keyser Söze/Verbal Kint says, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” The past few days I’ve been quietly observing the case building against Olympian Oscar Pistorius after the brutal death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. From the beginning […]
Read More Weighing in on PistoriusUgh! As I recently mentioned in an update to my Bigfoot in Never Never Land post, the Never Never Land figures that have been sitting in a basement for years are now being sold off individually through Broadway’s Best Antiques in Tacoma. In a nod to Indiana Jones’ passionate feelings about the Cross of Coronado– they […]
Read More They Belong in a Museum!The Cougs win the Apple Cup 31-28 in OT! YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoo hooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good job WSU, we knew you could do it! My Cougar pride is flyin’ high! ************************************************************************************* ©2012 H. Hiatt/wildninja.wordpress.com. All articles/posts on this blog are copyrighted original material that may not be reproduced in part or whole in any electronic or printed medium […]
Read More Cougs Take the Apple Cup!It’s not often that so many people are moved by the death of someone whose real name escaped them until now. J.P. Patches, aka Chris Wedes when out of costume, was a Puget Sound area icon. His improv comedy television show ran from the late ’50s to the early ’80s, delighting generations of Washingtonians large […]
Read More R.I.P. J.P.P.Where do PSYOPS officers go when they retire? To design hold music, of course. Simply put, most hold music is a cheese grater on the human nervous system. There are few auditory experiences on this earth more jolting than Lloyd Christmas of Dumb and Dumber saying, “what’s the most annoying sound you’ve ever heard? AAAAaaAAAAnnnhhhaaaaAAAHHHHHHhhh…” […]
Read More Modern Pillory Torture: Hold MusicThanks to everyone who’s read and commented on my nostalgic Bigfoot in Never Never Land post, https://wildninja.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/bigfoot-in-never-never-land/. One commenter brought an interesting photo to my attention that they took around 1980. They thought they simply captured the woodland elves in the photo. Here is the edited version first because the colors are truer to life:
Read More Hamadryads in NNL?In a previous post I discussed the questionable “awards” that bloggers sometimes give each other… https://wildninja.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-blog-awards/. Karen over at small house/BIG GARDEN, http://smallhousebiggarden.wordpress.com/, had a flash of brilliance. She suggested that there be a “no blog awards blog” graphic that we can post on our blogs in lieu of the hinky merit badge-type patches floating […]
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