Going Like Sixty |
- Women Getting Tutored on The Nookie
- Women Get All the Fun Names
- No Licking
- Lunatic Fringe Weirdo Predicts $5 gallon Gas by 2012
- Scintillating Christmas Conversation
| Women Getting Tutored on The Nookie Posted: 29 Dec 2010 10:26 PM PST I witnessed what I consider a pretty amazing site last night. Nancy was untangling a ball of yarn and didn’t want to sit at home. I suggested Panera because the have a nice cozy fireplace and yummy treats. We went to Barnes & Noble. I plopped myself down in a big overstuffed chair and began to read. Nancy picked a spot in the cafe. Soon she wandered over and tempted me with a hot Chai Tea to sit in the straight-back wooden chair . After a while a bunch of women started arriving and swarmed around us. It was Tuesday night knitting at Barnes & Noble. She forgot. Since Nancy is never without her NEW Nookcolor, it became a topic of conversation – or one of the topics since there are always at least two going at once.
She sold her Nook to a friend so she could upgrade, and others had gotten Nooks for Christmas. They showed up with them because there was a Nook Tutoring session! We’re talking about an electronic book.
But there were a dozen people sitting in folding chairs paying close attention to the demonstration. Amazing! People will walk in to the Big Store With Blue Shirt Punks and walk out with $9,000 worth of electronic gear and go home without a thought of in-store training. Barnes & Noble has the superior product in Nook, with the superior customer support with a bricks and mortar location and live people in a kiosk who just can’t wait to help, and Amazon.com’s Kindle is selling like crazy. But Barnes & Noble isn’t sitting still – enter the Nook2…  Nook 2 Trademark Application Nobody seems to know what the Nook2 is. Browser! Nook with Browser! Basically it will be another tablet computer. Take that Apple. I’m guessing NookApps has been trademarked and domain name purchased.
And yes, Nookie was mentioned. Only. About. A. Thousand. Times. I need to start going to the knitting sessions more often. Except I can never figure out when to laugh. I’m the Nook Schnook. |
| Posted: 29 Dec 2010 09:44 AM PST I’m a collector of unusual names. If you can call being Facebook friends with women with odd names a collector, which of course, doesn’t really count…
I would have like to befriended Nova Cain. But she died.
Women get all the fun names because they can chose a gentlemen like Mr. Cain or Mr. Eskenazi or Mr. Laughinghouse or Mr. Crumpacker to marry. Of course guys are prone to make up nicknames if they don’t like their given name:
If you have a collectible name, you can friend me. But it better be good, I’m pretty picky. |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2010 10:08 PM PST
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| Lunatic Fringe Weirdo Predicts $5 gallon Gas by 2012 Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:44 AM PST The ex-president of Shell Oil is predicting that gas will be $5 a gallon in 2012. Obviously a loon who is way out of touch with the oil business, right? Probably the only goofball who is predicting $5 a gallon gas, right? Wrong, petroleum distillate breath. Another weirdo, Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst with Oil Price Information Service, told CNN that he did not believe $5 a gallon gas would happen in 2012. He thought it could take all the way to 2019 before there was a 66% increase over today’s prices. We’re paying $3.159 in Smallburg, up from $3.049 a week ago, up from $2.849 the week before that. Supply and demand. Wrong, light sweet crude breath. Yeah, in less than a month the demand for gasoline has skyrocketed in Smallburg. *cough*bullshit*cough* Here’s the wacko, outta-control, brain-damaged, wildly ranting about the impending catastrophy (prediction is about 6:25.) Watch and weep. |
| Scintillating Christmas Conversation Posted: 28 Dec 2010 06:33 AM PST Thursday afternoon: I think I’m getting what you have. She: cough Friday morning: grooooan. Friday mid-morning: I got it, sneeze groooooooan snort She: sneeze, sniffle Friday noon: zzzzzzzz Cough zzzzz Sneeze zzzzzzzzz She: sneeze, sneeze, blow, sneeze, cough, sneeze, cough Friday afternoon: What drugs sneeze blow do you have? She: Sudafed, sneeze, in bathroom drawer. I’m feeling better. Cough. Christmas eve: I’m, sneeze, going, cough, to, blow, bed, grooooooooooan. Hope you feel better in the morning. Christmas Morning: grooooooooan, sniff, snork, hack, hack, hack, grooooooooan She: want to open presents, cough? After presents: Why do, hack, dogs love, cough, to tear up, sneeze, snot rags and drag them all over? She: Just their way, cough, of unwrapping the presents we leave for them. Grooooooooooooan, I’m going, hack, hack, sneeze, blow, back to bed. |
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