Nom nom! Video evidence!

This is great! A little cat makes nom nom nom noises while eating!
I CAN has cheezburger!
:) LJS

If Movie Posters were Honest

Holy Taco!

:) LJS

More mustache!

Indeed, 2008 WAS the year of the 'stache. Enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving Barners!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope you enjoyed your turkey, stuffing and pie.

:) LJS

Beards!

If you don't like mustaches, how about a beard? A big, giant bushy beard!
Here are 10 great reasons to grow a beard.

Feline Masterpiece

Not to be outdone by a bunch of kittehs, celebrities are now joining in on the lolfun. Hyperion and Sparky Duck may find recent additions of Ryan Adams a rich source of lolfun.

And, if you do decide to take up Hyperion on his suggestion to go to Hell, it is a nice little town in Michigan.

:) LJS


more animals

Lady Jane Scarlett = Monkey Terrorist?

I told Lady Jane Scarlett to come up with the new Logo and Motto for Monkey Barn.

Her motto:

A Cute Hat just doesn't cut it anymore

Her picture:




Unfortunately, Lady Jane doesn't do spatial relationships very well, so the when her 300x300 picture went into the 900x300 frame, well....you see the result.

I like it.

I like it because if the banner were regular size (as it is above), one can clearly see that the "monkey" (okay, ape, but who's counting?) has been morphed with Che Guevara. Hyperion is not a fan of Che Guevara, who has more in common with bin Laden than Thomas Jefferson.

Lady Jane's explanation: "We're honoring him for his diary, not his political actions."

Fair enough. That's why we honor Anne Frank: 'cuz God knows that girl fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.


One other Lady Jane note:

If you will look down and to the right, you'll see I put up a Lady Jane Scarlett Widget. (Actually, a "Blidget") Similar to my own, this gives you direct access to Lady Jane's latest post.

I give LJS the sole honor of this to thank her for doing her best to post on Monkey Barn, and quality stuff at that. Would that her fine example light a fire under her monkey sistren and brethren.

P.O.D: Is there a doctor in the Barn?

A very personal ad from our favorite doctor.
:) LJS

Man Eats 15 pound burger plus 5 pounds of Toppings

From USA Today:

CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) — A chef at a western Pennsylvania Italian restaurant ate a 15-pound burger with 5.2 pounds of toppings in 4 hours and 39 minutes. Brad Sciullo, of Uniontown, is the first person to successfully eat the huge burger at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub, said pub owner Dennis Liegey.

The burger — called the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser — include a bun, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, onions, mild banana peppers and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and relish.

When asked what possessed him to eat a burger that big, the 5-foot-11, 180-pound Sciullo said: "I wanted to see if I could."

For more see: http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-10-16-big-burger_N.htm?csp=34

They have the actual picture of the guy and burger; it's much bigger than even the one I have pictured.


This segues nicely to the Word Lady Jane Taught Me This week.



Oh, and by the way: not for nothing, but I could totally eat that burger, if I could omit the onions (doubling up on pickles or something), and swap out the mayonaise for something tasty, like cheese sauce.

iWASH

I found out yesterday that my little iPOD shuffle can be laundered-as in washed and dried. Ooops. My bad.
:) LJS

Sporty 'Stache

I lurve me a mustachooed man, it's a kitsch thing I know. Imagine my delight at finding the top 9 mustashed men in sports today. Soooo disappointing. How could they miss Mark Spitz?

So I am obligated (it is a moral imperative!) to give a list of some great mustaches in political and art history.

1. Vicente Fox. Ahh, the man who started the obsession. Check out the fab belt buckle too.
2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Mi amore Gabo!
3. Kurt Vonnegut. I seriously think his 'stache held 90% of his genius.
4. Pancho Villa. That slight upturn at the ends is an indication of spontaniety, I've read.
5. Friedrich Nietzsche. When he's not running for president, he's maintaining his full 'stache.
6. Mohandas Gandhi. From peace comes wisdom. From 'stache comes greatness.
7. Dali. A post-modern, surrealistic interpretation of the 'stache. The critic approves!

:) LJS

It's possible I'm a little too awesome

Two of the finest moments in this general election. Both men were funny as heck, complimentary and just plain awesome. The videos are long, but fun.

John McCain's video.

Barack Obama's video.

:) LJS

Ninja fight back!

Some of my best friends happen to be ninja, so this is a shout-out for all of them. Sorry for the cuss word.
:) LJS



see LOL politics

Shameless plug for LJS!

I'll just say that it's liberating to not have a post that's rated PG-13.

And, awesome job by Dragon on rating this year's dresses at the Emmy's! Roaar for you!

POD: In the pouch

:) LJS

Meat me

The question shouldn't be "where's the beef" but rather "what's the beef".

Scary.

:) LJS

P.O.D: Cows

One never imagines that our bovine neighbors are so sensitive to their fates.

But, one would be wrong.
:) LJS

Now THAT's a plan!

OMG! I squeal with delight as I find out that full episodes of the A-Team is available online! EEEEEEEEE!
I mean, ARGH!
:) LJS

International Lady Jane Scarlett Day

On this day- September 15th, in the era of free love, hip huggers, disco, and shiny lip gloss, a child was born. Lady Jane would become a great pirate who fearlessly led her legion of followers to the path of slackerhood, great spaghetti sauce, and a quest to reduce global warming. LJS was born to a humble family in Ohio where she learned how to read by age 3 and got her first broken bones by age 5. In addition to her legacy as a fearless purveyor of the seas, Lady Jane is the only person ever to earn the Nobel prize in every category. She is adulated in 6 continents as a "cat whisperer" and is world-renowned as the best crooner of lullabies, ever. Due to the "penguin incident", she is an outlaw in Antarctica.


So today, September 15th, we celebrate International Lady Jane Scarlett day with a pirate "arggghhhhh!" and a shot of tequila.


[taken from International Day]

Annals of Silly Science

So, let me paraphrase the results from this earth-shattering study.
1. Having a one woman boss is stressful
2. Having a one man boss is stressful
3. Having a one man and one woman boss is stressful

OMG.

And, off the wall here, but let me ask you this:

If I were to say that my "ability to organize teams, work hard and meet goals" is a reason why you should hire me, then isn't my "ability to organize teams, work hard and meet goals" up for scrutiny when applying for a job?