Sorry for the lack of posts of late, I’ve been out of town. I missed my family for the last week, so I got this story second-hand:
John (he’s 3) woke up one of the nights I was gone with a bad dream. Sobbing, just crying his eyes out. Sometimes a bad dream kid will tell you about the dream right when you go to comfort them, otherwise they don’t often remember in the morning. This night, John fell back asleep very quickly without revealing anything.
At the breakfast table he was asked about the dream that made him cry so.
“Wrecked my Racecar.” he answered.
“Oh, you’re a Racecar Driver?”
“Not anymore.”
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The Associated Press: Man Buys Smoker, Finds Human Leg Inside
MAIDEN, N.C. (AP) — A man who bought a smoker Tuesday at an auction of abandoned items might have thought twice had he looked inside first. Maiden police said the man opened up the smoker and saw what he thought was a piece of driftwood wrapped in paper. When he unwrapped it, he found a human leg, cut off 2 to 3 inches above the knee.
Not a wooden leg, a Wood leg, it belonged to a man named John Wood. John’s mother happens to be named “Peg”, Peg Steele. Peg’s leg? No, Wood’s leg.
If you’re the guy that bought this smoker, do you want your money back, or is this too good a story to let it go? The in-laws are over for Thanksgiving dinner, and you’re serving a smoked turkey, do you bring it up?
At first I was troubled that they kept the leg at all, but some folks want to have all their parts handy on the last day. Mostly I can’t figure putting an amputated human part into a food preparation device, except, that a smoker’s the perfect place for a whole bone-in leg that you want to preserve, that’s what the thing is made for.
From Mary Poppins:
Bert: Speaking of names, I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith.
Uncle Albert: What’s the name of his other leg?
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I didn’t really need more proof that a good number of the thirty odd thousand visits to this website were in all likelihood lost and wandering readers too proud to stop, roll down the window and ask directions back to the Interstate.
Well, we got more proof today anyway:
My year and a half old post on the correct viewing order for the Star Wars Movies is here: The correct sequence of Star Wars
There’s nothing wrong with that post, and I’m happy with 4 comments, even when there’s only one commenter and myself. Fast forward to last Friday when A-list blogger Jason Kottke asked the same question:
Star Wars viewing order (kottke.org)
Look, I know it’s Friday you’re just looking for some fun stuff to end the work week with, but we’ve got a pressing matter to discuss. Let’s say you’re a new father and a movie fan. When your child is of an appropriate age to start watching movies, in which order will you show him/her the six Star Wars movies? By original release date (Star Wars, Empire, Jedi, Phantom Menace, Clones, Sith) or according to the intra-movie chronology (Phantom Menace, Clones, Sith, Star Wars, Empire, Jedi)?
Kottke’s 158, ahem, 159 commenters are all but unanimous that one should watch them in release date order.
You heard it here first.
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