Comments on: Friday Happy Hour: 4 Books to Give Away

By: DUKE

DUKE — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:47:00 +0000

Miss C, you are soooooooooooooo cute. Goes great with Top Woman!! You really are! Congrats!!!!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:38:00 +0000

1. When I was visiting the Cimetiere Pere Lachaise I couldn’t find a hand held map of the famous graves, so I took a picture of the map with my digital camera. It was really helpful getting me around that huge cemetery AND it is environmentally friendly.

Another travel tip, you can ask the front desk to clean out the mini bar so you are not tempted to eat a 5 dollar candy bar. Instead fill it up with your own drinks, meats, cheeses from the local grocer. Great for cheaper travel.
Even more ways to save, if you hotel has a coffee machine or tea kettle, you can buy cup of noodles. They cost less then 1 dollar, and in Asia they are rockin.

By: Wes Boggs

Wes Boggs — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:08:00 +0000

#3: Here’s a completely useless Super Power… I can identify any celebrity voiceover in any commercial or cartoon movie within 1 minute. Did you know Zach Braff does Cottonelle toilet paper commercials as the voice of the golden retriever puppy? And Gene Hackman is the voice you hear whenever a Lowe’s commercial comes on? See?! Useless…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:49:00 +0000

#1: When you get to a new place and it’s time to eat, find a local and ask them where THEY eat. Same goes for bars, etc. Avoid most of the places in the travel books, because (due to the travel books) that’s where all the tourists go.

By: jeanette

jeanette — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:45:00 +0000

2. Grunchy – to be grumpy & grouchy at the same time.
“Are you grunchy today?”

By: Lauran H.

Lauran H. — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:44:00 +0000

Challenge #3-I can recite the fifty states alphabetically in under 60 seconds! Impressive? Maybe. Useful? Not so much.

By: TJ Hooker

TJ Hooker — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:07:00 +0000

O.k., let’s do it out of order, shall we?

2A: Dodgacado: My sister and I came up with this one for that lovely 70′s-renaissance, avocado-hued paint color that was applied to late 90′s model Dodge trucks and sedans. The darker shade on two-tone jobs was “Dodgacado Peel.”

2B: The Joe-Moe (or Jo-Mo, or any mix-and-match): Giving someone “the bird”, full on, arm extended and crossing under the other arm. My sister was down on the side lines wildly gesticulating to get my attention because she was next to Joe Montana. I, unaware of what she was trying to signal, graciously gave her the Joe-Moe, now named for the nearby superstar.

2C: Fogo-Nogo: An American model truck or SUV that breaks down constantly. The rare times it does run, the term is “Fogo-Gogo.” Too explain why would just take too long.

1: The Lightning Field in Quemado, NM (lightningfield.org). Visiting it makes you feel smarter, or wiser, or more in touch with the universe. Or just plain weird. Visiting it actually gave me my superpower:

3: Longevity. Every day I realize I’ve set a new world record for how long I’ve been alive. I keep thinking the streak will end, but it’s been going and going for over thirty years!!!

By: Zeke

Zeke — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:24:00 +0000

Challenge #3: As discovered in my college days, I can walk into any grocery store for the very first time and immediately know where the beer section is located. No signs, no employee help just my super ability to sense exactly where beer can be found without having to waste time walking through useless aisles of foods and nutritionally beneficial liquids.

By: Jodie J.

Jodie J. — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:59:00 +0000

#2
When I was younger my dad and I had made up another word for ***hole so I could say it around people and they wouldn’t know my innocent self was swearing. The word we used and still use today was ‘quigley’…it comes in handy to have code cuss words

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:03:00 +0000

1) Do NOT put toothpaste in your carry-on. Get there an hour before the plane leaves.
2) Spork- An exclamation of dismay.
3)A rather impresive vocabulary.