Peter's Place

Folks, I know I've been absent from cyberspaces throughout the realms but I would be remiss were I not to make every effort to bring forth this warning about some very strange and dangerous goings-on as a result of the COVID-19 virus and how governments worldwide are dealing with this pandemic.  I have it on the most excellent authority that people are, once again, going bonkers from being all couped up in quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But this time, folks are going nutters in thoroughly difficult and inexplicably peculiar ways. After conferencing in the microwave and toaster oven while sipping a cuppa from the  KEURIG® over Zoom from my Sealy™ Posturepedic® , we all agreed that things are getting really bad out there. It was at this point that we received an urgent request from the KitchenAid® to join the conference, who provided some invaluable intelligence on just how mixed up things have become. Particularly, the toaster oven expressed grave consternation abou...

I was digging around on the 'net and came across a post I'd shared .... back before there was an Internet. I was - 10 years old at the time.... 😛 I hope this is something that, no matter your political persuasion or whom you're supporting in this year's insane presidential primary election, we all can get together and have a nice chuckle over. So without further adieus and for your enjoyment, I present to you all a bit of fun from the great State of Louisiana legislative chamber, a State of Louisiana Legislative Office Building COLLECTION OF LATEST LEGISLATIVE OOPS OF THE TONGUE by: Jack Wardlaw, The Little Man Drum roll, please! It's time for the annual Tongue-Slipper Awards, for the best quips, busted metaphors, unintentional misstatements, dangling modifiers and Freudian slips of the just-completed Louisiana Legislative session.  Such as when Rep. Avery Alexander, D-New Orleans , told the House:   "I don't know anyone here that's be...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, intellectual geeks do it best! ;) Take your hand off of me, you unctuous platitudinizing eunuch.  ~Martin Ellingham, MD  #quote #DocMartin #QOTD #realinsults #wordporn https://imgflip.com/i/xle08

Some thoughts were just running through my mind and I thought I'd share them, to see what others think. I'd recently been accused of being "one of those arrogant, rude New Yorkers" and so I've been focused on why this misconception of New Yorkers being rude and obnoxious has come about and it has lead me to the exact opposite conclusion: New Yorkers are, by and far, more friendly and more intimate with each other than citizens of other big cities and small towns alike, because they've taken the time to get to know one another through assimilation. Being The Center of the World has its advantages (there are so many things to do!) and its disadvantages (there are so many things to do!). Because of this, New Yorkers are perennially wandering about from place to place and from event to event, to get to that "next thing to do" that's on their "list" (virtual or stone tablet). With all this running, walking, jogging, skating, biking...

I really don't know what all the fuss is about. I think that if one is going to make a resolution, one shouldn't have to wait until the New Year to do so. But as is custom and tradition, far be it from me to go against the grain (actually, it wouldn't be far from me to do so but, I digress....). So keeping in mind that I find the entire notion of resolutions for the coming New Year to be ridiculous and out of place, especially considering the abysmal failure rate in keeping one's new year's resolutions (maybe more people should read some articles on how to keep your new year's resolutions ), here are my resolutions for the coming 2008 New Year: Eat more and Weigh less Shop more and Spend less Earn more and Work less Compute more and use less Energy Be more tolerant of Intolerance Start, then Quit Smoking Stop to Smell The Roses, then Cut and Sell them Get Drunk but don't get a hangover Help Others more but Give Less to them Keep Everything but Throw Out t...

OK I know I haven't posted in what seems like forever. But summers are difficult for me. Not to mention, my depression has been heading downhill, oh so slowly but ever so surely, that it kind of crept up on me. I'm probably on the verge of another hospitalization. How sad is that? I know, it's like I can't even make it four months now without being in the hospital. I think playing with trains as a kid might have given me a few too many ideas with respect to the difficulties I have with my thoughts these days. Don't go there. Anyway, I just had to post about something that's been keeping me going. I'm not a big YouTube person. I mean, I get the whole thing; I just never found much that was really, truly interesting on there. But lo and behold, and I don't know how I managed to find it (oh yes, I do, but I can't tell, or the Jewish Mafia will give me a second bris!) but I've finally found something that has me coming back to YouTube, again and ag...

Say you've had a really hard day. You come home, and find yourself trying to sit down for some good ol' R&R, or P&Q, or whatever it is that you're searching for, and your phone just won't stop ringing. And it's not important people calling you, it's those pesky telemarketers. Well, maybe you'll want to try soething along these lines. Or, if you just need a good laugh, then have a listen. It's a flash thing, I think, with audio, but a visual transcript, and it's fairly safe for work (I think the harshest word they use is "ass"). I thought it was hilarious. YMMV (your mileage might vary). But have a listen anyway. Let me know what ya think. How to prank a telemarketer .