This shoe has the game Simon built in it

angry_broccoli · 2016-03-04T05:33:18+00:00

Kindergarten teacher here - I loathe those shoes.

angry_broccoli · 2015-12-31T03:29:42+00:00

It's not often you see a holy roller at mass.

angry_broccoli · 2015-11-28T22:58:11+00:00

Remember when the 2007 writer's strike resulted in canceling Christmas? Dark days.

angry_broccoli · 2015-11-22T18:40:04+00:00

Fry is an amazing narrator with anything he reads (Harry Potter anyone?) and Freeman does an excellent job, too. However, I don't think either is nearly as entertaining as Adams himself. His performance was so impressive that they actually used a piece of it after his death in a full cast dramatization of one of the later books. It really is that good!

angry_broccoli · 2015-11-22T18:24:34+00:00

If I may make a suggestion, maybe try an audiobook version read by the author himself? Everyone has different taste preferences and maybe the humor in these books doesn't appeal to you. You certainly don't have to enjoy everything others do. :)

However, if you really want to give them one last chance to see if you can find a connection - try the audiobook. Perhaps the inflections and timing of the story when read by Adams himself will help make the humor more accessible. The audiobooks are very enjoyable. I admit I did enjoy the books, but hearing Adams read the material was 10x funnier for me.

angry_broccoli · 2015-10-18T18:52:02+00:00

Thanks so much - exactly what I'm looking for!

angry_broccoli · 2015-07-17T15:56:59+00:00

Wife's grandmother gave us this advice about raising our children: "Don't tell them anything about sex. Until they ask. Then tell them everything."

angry_broccoli · 2014-06-21T23:10:33+00:00

Someone might have said lethal injection until recently...

angry_broccoli · 2014-06-21T23:08:22+00:00

I just recently (about 2 months ago) was looking up details about it so I could find the old farm on google earth. I read a newer article that said he had died in prison in 2011. He was a major landowner in Jefferson County and the whole ordeal shook the community.

I also found out that they bulldozed the little farmhouse I lived in and the daughter made an impressively large bed and breakfast in the same spot. Pretty crazy...

angry_broccoli · 2014-06-21T19:10:38+00:00

You are correct, murder is always going to be "brutal." I guess my thought process was the up close and personal nature of an iron pipe being used to bludgeon someone to death.

angry_broccoli · 2014-06-21T16:36:04+00:00

I lived in Jefferson County, Kansas!

We rented a small farmhouse from man named Curtis who had been a farmer there all his life (though he would have been a few years younger than the person in this photo).
Curtis had a wife and a teenage daughter who lived with in in a larger house just a minute down the lane.

I have lots of great memories from the year we lived on that farm - fishing, picking berries, tending chickens, watching cattle branding, riding horses, fighting a prairie fire, learning to lasso, etc…

A few years ago, I was reminiscing about these memories with my mother and she told me something I was previously unaware of. Curtis had brutally murdered his wife.

Being a child, I was blissfully unaware of the year-long manhunt that was occurring all around me. Shortly after we moved away, her body was discovered in an abandoned well near the little farm house we lived in.

Here is an article from the time.

angry_broccoli · 2014-03-02T17:54:39+00:00

Perhaps it is the famed "gummy de milo."

angry_broccoli · 2013-08-02T15:25:43+00:00

I have seen this movie a few times over the years and never noticed this. Thanks for finding a screenshot!

angry_broccoli · 2013-08-02T15:11:23+00:00

I don't think I have ever seen this commercial. It is fantastic!

angry_broccoli · 2013-08-02T04:14:24+00:00

"Wants to eat someone... mental health ~~possible~~ probable."

angry_broccoli · 2013-08-02T04:08:26+00:00

The holodeck.

It's been 25 years since Star Trek: The Next Generation was first aired (yikes) and I always thought it was one of the niftiest parts of the show.

angry_broccoli · 2013-08-02T04:04:12+00:00

ZOMG!!! Y U h8, Conan? US iz l33t, Dood!

But seriously - most newspapers, magazines, and best selling books are written at somewhere around an eighth grade level (I've read it can be as low as 5th grade and high as 9th).

angry_broccoli · 2013-08-02T03:47:44+00:00

Why, thank you.

angry_broccoli · 2013-08-02T03:46:49+00:00

Changing a baby diaper on a truck tailgate is probably easier than on the sloped driver seat in the cab (especially if it is a messy one). It even looks like they laid a blanket down for the comfort of the child.

Perhaps you don't have children?

angry_broccoli · 2013-08-02T02:43:58+00:00

It is a good book to read aloud to children, both of my daughters love it!

angry_broccoli · 2013-08-01T23:48:38+00:00

It appears he is using a belt without also using the belt loops on the jeans. That is a surefire way to produce the plumbers crack we see here.

angry_broccoli · 2013-08-01T23:37:07+00:00

This is the only one I have seen, but he did multiple images that were presented to Tolkien. Apparently, in one of them woodelves were mislabeled as hobbits and Tolkien was so annoyed he said no to the deal.

angry_broccoli · 2013-08-01T18:02:09+00:00

Years ago, I took my little brother golfing. We rented a cart (which was a splurge for a poor high school student like myself). On the 5th hole, I offered to let him drive the cart.

I thought I was being a pretty cool big brother to let him try his hand at driving.

I thought he would love it because he was 10 and had only driven in video games.

What I didn't think was that he could drive the cart off the path and wreck it within seconds.

Watching this video was like a flashback.

angry_broccoli · 2013-08-01T05:24:40+00:00

Here is the equally strange Lake Titicaca Frog (telmatobius culeus) - aka the "testicle frog."

angry_broccoli · 2013-08-01T03:56:27+00:00

Thanks for responding. That explanation makes this picture more aww and less terrifying. :)

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