Someone REALLY Likes Cats...A LOT!

Spotted the following vehicle while running errands recently. It does tend to catch ones attention.

Click the pics to embiggenate and appreciate the details.

Silliness

A gift from number one follower and all around best bud. He knows me too well. I don't care if 9mm is cheaper than or just as effective as .45ACP. I like .45s because I like making bigger holes in things.

The Queen spotted this at the local Walmart the other day. Yes, it is exactly what it says it is. Yes, it's juvenile and immature. I must have it.

Oddities: Lingerie

I present this without further comment:

The Queen, however, mentioned something about Pez dispensers.

Oddities: Billboards

I love cars as much as the next person does. I think it would be really cool if cars were delivered to the house by some kind of mechanical stork a few months after a couple of cars get drunk on 93 octane in the back of a dark parking lot, but I'm not sure that's what the ad agency had in mind when they came up with this billboard:

Is this considered Dodgie Style?

Potty Humor

No, not the kind you think. Get your mind out of the toilet.

About a week or two ago, this sign...

...appeared in the toilet stalls in the men's room at my office. I have no idea why this sign appeared as it would never occur to me to put a paper towel in the toilet; but, be that as it may, said sign was apparently posted in all seriousness.

Well, someone (I have it on good authority who said person is), decided that the above sign could not go unchallenged. Thus, this sign...

...appeared a couple of days or three ago.

Well, apparently, the response was so popular that its creator was emboldened to add an addenda to the list which presaged the appearance of this sign...

Somebody needs a hobby, but I can't wait for the next installment.

Oddities: Traffic Edition

Here's something you don't see in the side mirror everyday:

Sorry for the poor picture quality. I was trying to get a quick snap with the cell phone after I had already passed Herbie on the left.

If you don't know who Herbie is, you had a very sheltered childhood or are too young to know truly useless trivia.

Oddities: Children's Toys

So, last night, The Queen talked me into meeting her and M&M at the mall after work. I really wasn't in the mood as I had stayed up too late the night before and despise the mall on general principles, but...time with wife and daughter. So, shut up and suck it up buttercup.

The Queen had taken M&M to the mall to play at the bounce house only to discover that said establishment had shuttered its doors forever. No worries though. There is a free (we like free) play area in the mall as well as an inexpensive ($2 per ride) carousel to which M&M has taken a liking.

She selected the horse herself

Bonus picture because I couldn't decide between the two

Anyhorseyride, after the carousel was done, we headed off to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. I am not a fan of the Cheesecake Factory's food (there's so much on the menu that it takes forever to read and they don't do anything on the menu particularly well), but their cheesecake is mostly worth the mediocre and over priced meal. My wife's pleasure at getting a slice gluten free Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake makes up for the difference.

Anylongsetupanddigression, I told you all that to tell you this. After dinner, we cut through Barnes & Noble to get back to the main part of the mall to get to the place where we had parked. As we headed through, M&M spotted a lego table that B&N has thoughtfully set up to distract young tricycle motors while their parents become self absorbed in dead trees. Right next to the lego table (which M&M had more fun making mommy and daddy build something as opposed to doing it herself "Daddy, sit here." [patting a way to small cushion that put my knees around my ears {thus continueth my love affair with parentheticals!}]) was a clothing rack holding children's costumes for dress up play. They had firemen costumes complete with fire extinguisher and helmet, construction worker, cowboy/cowgirl, princess...and these two:

Now, here's what I find odd. Notice first the pirate outfit: the first thing you see is a big (for a kid) freakin' sword (which, for those of you educated in government schools like me, is A WEAPON). Notice the police officer uniform: badge, handcuffs, radio, ticket, hat, belt. No gun. Where's the freakin' gun? Is this England? Is that supposed to be a British Bobby outfit? This is 'Murica. Cops carry guns here. What kind of PC el toro fertilizer is this?

So, what's the message here? "Hey kids, it's okay to stab your friends when you play pirates and helpless victims but we can't point a fake gun at your friends when you play cops and self employed wealth redistributionists." Oh, and while on this subject, there was a distinct lack of Indian outfits. Also, the cowboy/cowgirl outfits lacked guns or knives. Apparently, the wild west for this generation is more mild than wild.

I feel sorry for kids these days and M&M in particular. 

Oddities: Livestock Edition

The Queen and I have some friends that we visited yesterday. We were invited by the family of seven to go to lunch and see the teen boys (ages 15 and 17) play in a basketball tournament later in the evening. Between lunch and tip off, we went out to their place...which is in the middle of nowhere about a half hour west of Sherman, TX (approximately an hour and a half north of Castle Erickson give or take a few minutes). 

Directions to their house (okay...it's the largest double wide I've ever seen...it's like the Winchester Mystery House of mobile homes) include "...turn off the paved road...."

I'm not kidding. 

Do you see where this is heading yet? 

So, anyway, the man of the house (who has known The Queen since they were both younguns growing up in the Sherman area ages ago) offered to let M&M "help" feed the goats and chickens. Before going any further, I should mention that said man of the house is, by all accounts and his own admission, the quintessential redneck. 

As we approached the goat pen, I hear Mr. Redneck say "So, have you noticed the 'apparatus' on the head of that one goat?" 

Huh?

It took me a moment, but then I spotted this:

The explanation is that this particular goat likes to stick his head through the fence at which point its horns become stuck and it is too stubborn to let people help it extricate its moronic self from the predicament. 

Solution: screw two sign posts across the horns preventing its head from going through the fence. 

It's ingenious at the same time as it's absolutely ridiculous. 

For those that may be concerned, no goats were harmed in the making of this post. The screws do not go through the horns, and the goat could probably figure out how to rid itself of the "stocks" if it were so inclined and smort enough to realize that pushing its head through the fence hard enough might cause the wood to slip off the horns. 

Oddities: Car Edition

I think I am going to start a semi-regular feature (depending on how regularly I can find content) involving odd things I come across in my daily walk through life. It may be part "People of Walmart". It may be part "WHAT THE HELL????" Who knows. We will experience this together.

For instance, who can forget this sweet ride?

Or this?

Given that I live in the Dallas Fort Worth area and spend a significant part of each working day in the car commuting to or from work, I have a better than average chance of running into something odd.

Like today's automotive oddity:

Sorry for the picture quality. It was the best I could do with the phone while trying to stay in my lane at 70 MPH. It's hard to tell in the middle photo; but, not only do the wheels match the paint, so do the windshield wipers. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that someone REALLY likes pink.

Thanks to the window tinting, I cannot give you any information about the driver. The picture was taken on I-20 in South Fort Worth. So, it could be anyone really. If I had seen it in Oak Lawn....that's another story.

Since it's a Ford Mustang, I'm not sure this rises to crimes against humanity like the pink BMW with Playboy Bunny accents did. I knew a guy in high school who would be offended to no end. Then again, he races a heavily modified Mustang. So, he's probably biased.