A Quick Suggestion Regarding Supplements

I take vitamins.  I fancy myself to be athletic.  Here's a quick tip for you supplement-munching neophytes:

If you're going to take a fish oil gel tab and "dry swallow" it (which, I know is a bad habit, but I do it anyway), be sure you toss that puppy to the back of your throat.  If you didn't know, "dry swallowing" a tablet is doing so without the benefit of chasing it with a liquid.  I neglected to do that this morning....and saliva dissolves those gel tabs fast.  ...I feel like I just swallowed a dead fish......

This is what fish oil tabs actually taste like.

....and in the news today......

Oh my....so many things to talk about...I really can't rest on just one subject.

First of all, I was watching HLN this morning (part of my ritual with that first cup of coffee) and Robin Meade was talking about recent changes to the lingo in the Bible.  Amongst the changes is the rewording of the word "booty"; which, if you're a pirate, means all the treasure you get from robbing someone or the "spoils of war".  Reason for this?  It's because English is an ever-changing "living language".  Never mind that many of today's kids can't tell the difference between booty, bootie & booTAY. 

Know the difference, folks....

....and then there's Charlie Sheen; who is evidently well on his way to trumping Lindsey Lohan's crown of "hotmessedness".  I think I'm getting on my wife's nerves by running around the house ranting about being on a drug called "Charlie Sheen"; but it entertains me.  I'll stop short there because the whole thing is becoming a cliche (since everyone wants to weigh in on it). Personally though, I think his next job will be as Gaddafi's PR man.  

Hot Mess?  I think Charlie Sheen just changed the definition of the word. Lindsey who? 

 

Finally, there was a story in the local news yesterday about a Houston police officer that was on a cooking team for the Houston Rodeo BBQ cook off that actually threw a tear gas bomb into the tent of the competition.  Welcome to Texas, folks.  We take our barbecue cook offs THAT seriously.....

...and the secret ingredient is......

Taco Bell is the Least of Our Worries....

I've been following this whole lawsuit story involving Taco Bell.  For those of you who aren't in the know, some firm has brought suit against the fast food chain because they allege that the beef content is less than the USDA allowable amount.  According to USDA standards, a meat product has to be 40% beef in order to be called that.

Waitaminit......


Just 40%?  Does this strike anyone else as gross?  I mean, is there something wrong with wanting my beef to be 100% cow?  My apologies to all my vegetarian & vegan friends.....but I like my meat.

Beef, it's what's for dinner!  But you only need 40%?  Gross....

I started thinking about this topic; and I began to wonder what would happen if we let our standards slip on other things like this.  What if we only worked 40% of the week?  That means you only have to go to work Monday & Tuesday.  Hey, if 40% is acceptable by government standards, then the possibilities are endless.  If we were only required to go to 40% of college then after 1.5 years, you're done.  Howabout if I only pay 40% of my taxes?

....well, nevermind on that last one.  I don't know who's reading this and I don't feel like being Wesley Snipes' cellmate.



So, supposedly, Taco Bell food is even lower that the "standard".  Granted, their brand of fast food rarely enters into my diet; and I have largely deemed it "desperation food".  Indeed, Taco Bell ranks right up there with Waffle House after an all-nighter with your college buds.  Those days are long past for me.....and nothing beats the aftertaste of a Mexican Pizza and Natural Light on the morning after.

When I was a kid, 40% on a test meant "hang your head in shame". Did I miss the memo when this changed?

Anyway, 40% beef.  Eww.  Really, USDA? Is something closer to 100% too much to ask?  This makes me want to move down the street from Ted Nugent and invite myself over for dinner every night.  Taco Bell is being asked to change their ingredient name to "meat filling" because evidently 40% beef is something to be proud of.

If I recall, 40% on a test when I was in school means "you failed miserably".  I think Taco Bell ain't the only ones that missed a passing grade here.

As If I Didn't Have Enough Reason to Eat Healthy......

Sometimes, when I'm running a little dry on material, I'll scan TMZ.com for stories to joke about.  Not since the National Enquirer has any one place been so full of hot mess that it'll make your head explode.  I actually have to ration it out or it'll overwhelm me.

Of particular note is a story about our famous All-American Original, Flavor Flav.  Evidently, he's starting a fried chicken joint.

Really, Flav?  A chicken joint?

Yeah, this face makes me want to eat fried chicken.....talk in permanent slang,  get a grill, go on welfare....

Y'know, I'm strangely reminded of the fact that comedian Eddie Griffin made fun of this kind of phenomenon in the movie Undercover Brother.  Flav, I want to let you know how much I appreciate you resurrecting just about every Black stereotype to come out of the 70's.  I felt my afro growing just watching the commercial.


...and in Clinton, Iowa?  Really?  There are Black folks there?  I'm just saying.......
I remember going to Mankato, Minnesota once and I was practically an event.  Little kids wanted to touch me to see if I was real.

Anyway, best of luck to you, Flav.  Your efforts to revive blaxploitation in edible form will go down in history, I'm sure.  Please remember to put watermelon on the desert menu.

....and in the news today.....

There was a story this morning about a house fire here in Houston that led firefighters to find a marijuana farm.
I hear that it took them all night to put it out....cause they kept going into the house one at a time and running out laughing.

That had to be one hell of a joint.....

The entire unit that went out to this emergency is off today.  They're all at IHOP. 

The actual story is here: http://www.khou.com/news/local/Strange-smells-from-house-fire-lead-authorities-to-103-marijuana-plants--114120324.html

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Putting it Into Perspective

Yesterday, while at work, I received a call from my wife about one of the dogs. See, it was cold and rainy yesterday and when she tried letting the dogs out to potty in the morning, they refused to go.

5 minutes later, there was a pile of dog poo as big as one of the cats on the floor of my son's room.

I was mad at first; but then I decided to take their point of view: no bathroom in the house, it's cold and wet outside and I gotta do #2......

Okay pups....y'all win this round.....

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