Random Question of the Month

For October I decided to mix it up a little bit.  This will be somewhat random and somewhat no-so-random?
Either way, give us your answers and have a great month.


What are you or your kids going to be for Halloween this year?

What do you think about Google's self driving cars?

What was the last thing that made you laugh really hard?

20 comments:

doug said...

I am goin to go around stealing candy for halloween. I will b dressed as myself

Alli said...

Connor is going to be darth vader,
jack is going to be Jango Fett, and Sofia is going to be Snow White.

mike said...

I'm gonna be dressed as doug too. google's self driving cars sound good but when you do a google map it takes you on the worst routes ever and don't account for things like road construction or what not so will they function? eh better then people i imagine but they won't be perfect.
The funniest thing was watching Dad crack up over this commercial that was pretty terrible. ask dad. he'll tell you, he has learned that your body can store up to 9 pounds of waste in 48 hours. As mature as he tries to pass himself off, he cannot resist to laugh at potty humor.

darrel said...

I will not wear a costume for Halloween, but I may go to the Allensworth Ghost Tour.
Google cars? I'm not excited yet.
Yes, I laughed like crazy over the commercial for Colon Flow. At first I thought it had to be a fake commercial. I never imagined anyone would produce a bar graph showing how much waste a colon could accumulate in four days! I haven't checked Guiness yet, but.....

greg said...

I don't know about Halloween. I didnt see the article about googles self driving cars, but My Professor Dr. Supernak actually did a study of self driving cars on I-15 that was pretty cool- it packed more cars, closely together at high speeds. The last thing that made me laugh out loud was that play on monday night Favre to Harvin, Harvin to Moss, Moss to Favre lol

Unknown said...

No kids, but if I did I am sure they ould be traumatized somehow. As far as Google smart cars, anyone see Terminator?

caroline said...

Halloween - I would like to dress up but I can't find my Wonder Woodville Girl wig. So I will probably just give out candy to the kids in Vice town. Google car - I would be happy to have anything drive me around - I am a terrible driver.

mark said...

For Halloween, Pax is going to be a UPS guy and Reese will be a dragonfly.
I'm all for a self driven car as long as it doesn't share my problem of going to sleep at the wheel.
Not too long ago, we were playing risk and Nacho libre came on. We had to take a little break to watch Nacho fight Ramses in one of the funniest movie scenes of all time.

Anonymous said...

I won't be dressing up either, but I laughed so hard when I watched Dinner for Smucks, that I was ashamed of my self. But I would go again, if anyone was to ask me.

Jim said...

Everett is going as Luke Skywalker and Sawyer is going as Obi-Wan Kenobi.

I don't trust like them, but I don't even like automatic transmissions. Don't give power to the machines! Plus I have had so much electronic stuff break down in cars.

The 30 Rock live episode the "I'm blonde" quip in the skit making fun of Fox News.

The Nate! said...

This question severly disregards the demographic of family members of this blog who have no children and have no opinion of the freaky deaky future of googley mobiles.
Well at least I can share what I last laughed at, and I will share it with you! So for your reading pleasure, here you go.....

Writing English
The International Language of BusinessThe 25 Funniest Analogies (Collected by High School English Teachers)
ORIGINAL POST: I have to share these “funniest analogies” with you. They came in an e-mail from my sister. She got them from a cousin, who got them from a friend, who got them from… so they are circulating around. My apologies if you have already seen them.

The e-mail says they are taken from actual high school essays and collected by English teachers across the country for their own amusement. Some of these kids may have bright futures as humor writers. What do you think?

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.

18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

alli said...

I think my favorites are numbers 3 and 16!

mark said...

7 and 23 were the best. thank you Nate for making us all change our answer to the last part of this question.

Anonymous said...

If you remove one letter from the word "simile" you can produce "smile", just like the way that you can re-position the corners of your mouth and also produce a smile.

Issac Elias said...

#5 was the best! And Issac will be an elephant.

The Nate said...

Issac must have a healthy laugh! lol. 4,8, 9 and 20 are my favorites!

greg said...

So Nate... I remember some of your's and mike's stories growing up, which of these are you two responsible for?

mike said...

i claim responsibility of none of those, well not 100% responsibility anyhow! and Nate how can you have no opinion on that? don't you know the last person to not have an opinion on something so controversial as that got his head blown off! ( Marvin, Pulp Fiction in case you didn't figure that one out) just let the car drive!

The Nate said...

Haha mike!! Well said! I am now in favor of the googly mobile due to the fact that Marvin probably wouldn't have had his head blown off if they were in a googly mobile coasting carefree down the freeway!

Anonymous said...

And I thought that maybe she's the one? Her prefect smile,her long legs, The way she walked, her hair, the way her clothes clung to her body making them thankful that they were on her. A face that proved that God made angles. The kind of body that would start a war, but then she showed her flaw, Yes, she started to talk.

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