Mikey's Blog

Air Mattress Woes

As a house guest over Thanksgiving, I had an air mattress to build a bed on.   It was cool and everything was fine, except for one thing..

Why is it that once you blow air into an air mattress, that there is no way to pinch off the tube to keep the air from escaping while you fumble to place the seal on the opening?

I was lucky to have any air at all to sleep on, and by morning it was gone..

Mel Martinez

Senator Mel Martinez will be going to Baghdad.  Iraqi authorities requested his presence in order to have their Kurds and buey.

The Fighting Fairy Schrimp

California State University at Merced is a brand new campus.  They finally have a mascot; the Fairy Shrimp. 

Hey that's the Fighting Fairy Shrimp.

San Francisco is up at arms because Fairy Shrimp is no longer on the endangered species list, but straight shrimp still are.

Lake Elsinore

The explorers were on the trail.  Their horses tired and sweaty.  The leader spots a body of water ahead some distance.  He says to the scout, "Go on up there and taste that water, and tell me how it tastes."

    "Si Senior,"

The scout canters on up there, dismounts, takes a drink, then mounts his horse and returns.

Well, the Conquisdidor asks.

  "Like hell senior,"

And that is how it got it's name.

Flying Dutchmen

Horses marooned on a low=land knoll for three days by rising floodwaters waded to safety on Friday, led by wranglers following an underwater path marked out by half-submerged states.

The horses were neck deep at Times and had to swim in some spots, especially the foals.  But they began to canter as they reached solid ground on the edge of the brackish water. They burst into a gallop once they reached solid ground.  Relived at being able to stretch their legs.

This ought to bring a new meaning to a "Flying Dutchman."