Another Casual Friday
So another Casual Friday is upon us, and somehow my high expectations for this weekend has been quickly smashed by the cold front Tom Skilling predicted to hit Chicago this weekend.
Somebody please tell me how this Monday the temps reached 83, yet it is supposed to snow by early Saturday evening. Oh well, that's Chicago...you don't like the weather? Wait a minute.
Another annoying occurrence in the Windy City this week...People causing traffic jams because they believe the vision of Mary has appeared on the wall of an underpaid off the Kennedy Expressway. It's salt people...SALT! The runoff from this winters salt has drained off the expressway and onto the walls of the underpaid, which now has become a sactuary for numerous people. I'm thinking about taking my saws-all to it and selling the concrete on e-bay.
By the way, what's up with the people who buy these odd things on e-bay? I totally support the people who make magical grilled cheese sandwiches, and I even support their efforts of posting them for sale on e-bay, but who in the hell are these people that buy them?
Is it worth it? When that online casino paid how ever many thousands of dollars for the remnants of the Holy Mary grilled cheese... (thoughts of where Mary will pop up next) ... was it worth it? Did masses of people log on to gamble away their money online because the name of some internet casino company was mentioned with the crazy story, and at their website none the less? I doubt it...I would love to be proved wrong.
(A note for the idiots out there who don't get marketing and advertising...the owners of the online casino didn't care about the sandwich)
My boss, Russtle, who should go by Russ, but refuses to be acknowledged unless called Ross,(Hence the character Ross the Boss) always claims he has items that will go for "big bucks" online. What he does is, he watches the Antique Road Show, and anything that looks like, or he thinks looks like, what he sees on there, he claims to be the same thing. So because he has a rug in his house that is old and nice looking, it would go for $15000 just like the old man on last week's episode...oh well. idiot.
Somebody please tell me how this Monday the temps reached 83, yet it is supposed to snow by early Saturday evening. Oh well, that's Chicago...you don't like the weather? Wait a minute.
Another annoying occurrence in the Windy City this week...People causing traffic jams because they believe the vision of Mary has appeared on the wall of an underpaid off the Kennedy Expressway. It's salt people...SALT! The runoff from this winters salt has drained off the expressway and onto the walls of the underpaid, which now has become a sactuary for numerous people. I'm thinking about taking my saws-all to it and selling the concrete on e-bay.
By the way, what's up with the people who buy these odd things on e-bay? I totally support the people who make magical grilled cheese sandwiches, and I even support their efforts of posting them for sale on e-bay, but who in the hell are these people that buy them?
Is it worth it? When that online casino paid how ever many thousands of dollars for the remnants of the Holy Mary grilled cheese... (thoughts of where Mary will pop up next) ... was it worth it? Did masses of people log on to gamble away their money online because the name of some internet casino company was mentioned with the crazy story, and at their website none the less? I doubt it...I would love to be proved wrong.
(A note for the idiots out there who don't get marketing and advertising...the owners of the online casino didn't care about the sandwich)
My boss, Russtle, who should go by Russ, but refuses to be acknowledged unless called Ross,(Hence the character Ross the Boss) always claims he has items that will go for "big bucks" online. What he does is, he watches the Antique Road Show, and anything that looks like, or he thinks looks like, what he sees on there, he claims to be the same thing. So because he has a rug in his house that is old and nice looking, it would go for $15000 just like the old man on last week's episode...oh well. idiot.
posted by immixmarketer at 11:53 AM
5 Comments:
I haven't laughed so much in a long time. Thanks!!
My friend just found the face of Christ in the back of his chair when he got up to get a beer. I reacted a bit like those folks on the Kennedy Expressway. He however decided to keep it on the down-low. I've come to agree with his decision.
Still, it is amazing when random patterns form something like a revered religious figure. I'm mean, afterall, it could have taken the form of Huckleberry Hound or Brian Dunkleman.
I once saw a story about a father and son who were eating Cheeto's and found a gigantic one (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/05/offbeat.big.cheeto/index.html). I believe they inteded on putting it up for sale on ebay too. I'm sure heads rolled in the quality control department at the Cheetos plant.
I'm from Cleveland and we make the same joke here about the weather. Although I must say, even though we did have the snowiest April ever this year, but none in May. Damn.
I have the same problem with casual Fridays. I can wear jeans, but are my frayed at the bottom jeans OK? My idea of casual is pajamas. Can I wear my pajamas? I think at least once a month we should have Pajama Fridays. That would be great. Think of the extra productivity! People could sleep a little later since they don't have to pick something out to wear and change into it. They would be well rested to get their work done. People would be exceptionally comfortable and thus would be able to concentrate more on their work and less on the way that their collar is chaffing them or how much their shoes hurt their feet. Oh yeah! I'm putting that in the suggestion box.
(btw- I got here from your recent selection to Blogs of Note. Congratulations!)
hmm ... this is an interesting blog- i like it.
anyways
people always use that same expression here in denver... how the weather changes so often. I love cliche guff- it's all we can survive on.
Awesome Blog. I have a bitch about casual Fridays in school districts though. The bastards are turning education into a corporation and do not like teachers to wear jeans on Fridays. "It's not professional." Screw professional. I put up with some of the worst menaces to societiy on a daily basis and wearing JEANS is the problem! I think people need to get their priorities straight.
Education is about TEACHING. Can someone tell me how allowing teachers to wear jeans one day of the week makes them less professional and poor teachers.
Sorry for the rant. I just really want to wear jeans. We're required to wear hose, so jeans is a BIG deal for us. :(
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