Luke ‘n’ Bill

Ok, so a couple weeks back Lisa and I were on our way up to visit her parents and happened to notice this hideous convertible on the road next to us.  I can’t remember what make/model of car it was, but it was something like either a 90’s Cavalier.

It made us start naming off what we thought were some of the most ridiculous convertibles out there.  Cars that you have to wonder, what the heck is the market out there for this car?  Granted, cars like an 80’s Mustang is yes, ridiculously ugly and lame, but there are still people who buy it because it has a chromed plastic horsey on the side of it.  Even though there is no way I would drive a trailer park Ferrari (unless it was a decked out Shelby version, etc), I can still understand that there’s a market.  Anyways, in going through our list of ridiculous convertibles, the top of my list was of course, the Geo Metro convertible.

Lisa didn’t even believe me that it existed.  The idea is so far fetched it seems, even I wouldn’t have believed it if I wouldn’t have seen one myself.  To me it’s like a Flavorite brand humidor.  I’m not sure what the market is, but apparently it sold.  Anyways, here is a good look at a beauty I found on a google image search that you need to check out.  The first paragraph of this page is priceless.

Official GM Photograph from the General Motors Media Archives of a 1991 Geo Metro LSi Convertible. This image is available as a framed or unframed museum quality archive print that will last a lifetime and be a personal treasure of the history of General Motors.

My mug should be here in 10-14 days.  Not even a posed picture of it on the beach can make it look appealing!

It is good to see that Australia is getting a taste of the good ol Americana in their mouth…primarily the take-over of those resource rich nations!

Actually, this was just a joke ad campaign made by some agency in Australia, but apparently New Zealand didn’t take it too well.  Oh, for the good old days where things were innocent enough to actually care about a joke like this.

Makes me wonder if America’s hat (Canada) would get all up in arms about a good joke like this…or even (as Ross puts it) America’s beard (Mexico).

This was something that Deane forwarded around the office, being that he’s from New Zealand.

Link to the Invade New Zealand site: http://www.invadenewzealand.com/

Link to the discussion on Tim’s site: http://www.schoffelman.com/2008/07/invade-new-zealand.html

I have been listening to entirely too much POTUS 08 (the election coverage channel on XM) lately and I got a good laugh out of some of the news a few weeks back, but just now getting around to writing on it.

There was an AP/Yahoo News Survey a few weeks back that asked…who would you rather have a bbq with John McCain or Barack Obama.  Obama ended up winning, I think it was mostly because because of the fact no one wanted to have a bbq with someone that couldn’t create a full sentence.

However, the poll happened around the same time everyone freaked out about the one Obama party member saying that getting shot down in a fighter plane does not qualify you to be president.  So naturally one of the guests on POTUS 08 made the above remark which for some reason made me laugh.  Now that I post it, I’m not sure why it made me laugh so hard or why I’m posting about it now, but I got a kick out of it, so I figured I’d pass it on.

On a side note, I do not condone the action of voting and think its an extremely messed up system from top to bottom.  I will never vote and think that people being upset about that are overly brainwashed.  Your vote doesn’t matter, they’ll put into power whomever they deem fit.  Do you really think these people with the power really think Johnny Voter is smart enough to put into power whom they really end up picking?  I don’t think so….but as long as they keep Johnny Voter pushing those pretty buttons in the voting booth, he’ll be too caught up in the fact “he’s really making a difference” to realize that cord really isn’t plugged into the jack on the wall.  His vote doesn’t matter, politics doesn’t matter, it’s just a really good way to keep the underlings in line to keep this big corporate machine turning.   I find it’s better to just enjoy life as a cog like everyone else.  I’d just rather not support the mistake that is “Democracy” while doing it or the modern day crusades that are now more politically correct to be done in the name of “Democracy” rather than “Christianity”.

So as I said…I enjoy listening to POTUS 08…not because I want to decide who to “vote” for, but because I think it’s always best to keep an eye on the guy who’s coming around behind you with that switchblade up his sleeve.

Well I guess that side note turned into the point of the post.  So kudos to those who stayed on board till the end.

I always think its ridiculous how people dress up their annoying little cat-dogs (dogs that may as well be a cat) in dumb little sweaters to show off how they’ve given up on life.

Well they have that same issue in Peru, but they do it for a reason….and they throw one heck of a sweet twist on the end of it!

Check out this link here that Reid sent to me via Holly on the “Guinea pig festival in Peru”.

SPOILER ALERT: Here’s the kicker…after they dress them up in their cute little outfits and play with them all day….they grill ‘em up and serve them for supper! Only bad part is, Now I’m going to end up having a craving for Famous Dave’s every time I see one of those little cat-dogs dressed up like Mr. Rodgers.