The Nutty Buddy

Hoo-rah!




"You don't feel it directly in the testy-cleez."

Woof and Meow

Halfcent and I (he the "woof" and I the "meow") have an ongoing debate about the relative merits of Skankgelina Jolie and Chinnefer Manniston. Okay, maybe we talk about the relative faults. Halfcent the Dog sides with Skankgelina, and I gamely took up the catfight for Chinnefer. Here's a point for my side:

MSNBC, The Scoop

Note: yeah, it's a mean and small, meaningless and pointless discussion. But I spent most of last night watching Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper detailing how the recent political assassination in Pakistan is going to lead to global thermonuclear war, so I'm going to stick to celebrity gossip until my ulcer heals and my fingernails grow back.

Colorado Mom's Holiday Gift to Charity

In my surfing, I ran across this Colorado mom's blog. She's doing a raffle through her blog comments. Comment on this post (click here), and tell her your favorite charity. On Dec 30, she's going to close out the comments, choose a comment at random and send $1 for every comment received to the winning comment's charity. She's capping it at $500, and says she'd be surprised if she gets 500 comments. (Right now she has 16 comments.)

Seems to me it shouldn't be too hard to get to 500-- if I tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on and so on and so on... Pass it on!

Hallelujah! A holiday miracle!!

The National Enquirer reports (click here for link to story on Enquirer's website):

Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have announced they're planning to return to TV on Jan. 7 — with or without their writers! "We would like to return to work with our writers," the talk show hosts said jointly in a statement. "If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence." Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel have all said that they will resume their programs on Jan. 2. David Letterman's return is still being negotiated.

Chad V, The Holiday Special

I wanted to blog today, but the news is not good. I'm depressed that Bhutto was assassinated, and the news is full of knives in Christmas toys, tiger attacks and holiday slayings. Even the entertainment gossip is depressing: Romo and Jess are a "fauxmance!"

So what's a frustrated blogger to do but belly up to the bar with Chad for a few Chocolatinis?

Note: this is Chad Vader 5. If you need to catch up, click these links:
Chad Vader I
Chad Vader II
Chad Vader III
Chad Vader IV

Now, Chad V, the holiday special:

For Auld Lang Syne

Skippy, Paddy Boy, Vinny B. in days of Auld Lang Syne (August 2000)

I've been in touch with some old friends lately-- for instance, me ol' pal Paddy Boy, above-- and that got me a-singin' Auld Lang Syne.

But after the first line of the song, I kinda petered out. So I looked it up on these here Internets. It's Scottish! (And if it's not Scottish, it's crap!) And no, "Auld Lang Syne" doesn't actually mean "August 2000"... It means "times gone by." Hey, why not learn all the verses?

Auld Lang Syne:

Should auld acquaintance be forgot

And never brought to mind?

Should auld acquaintance be forgot

And days of auld lang syne?

Chorus (repeated between stanzas):

For auld lang syne, my dear,

For auld lang syne

We'll take a cup o' kindness yet

For auld lang syne.

And surely ye'll be your pint stoop

And surely I'll be mine

And we'll take a cup o' kindness yet

For auld lang syne.

[Chorus]

We twa hae run about the braes

And pou'd the gowans fine

But we've wander'd mony a weary foot

Sin' auld lang syne.

[Chorus]

We twa hae paidl'd i' the burn

Frae mornin' sun till dine

But seas between us braid hae roared

Sin' auld lang syne.

[Chorus]

And here's a hand, my trusty fiere

And gi'e's a hand o' thine

And we'll tak a right good willy waught

For auld lang syne.

[Chorus]

(If you're keeping track, I got this version of the song from this website.)

It's so wrong of me to laugh at this...

But what can I say? I'm human.