Breaking News

Sonic is real. I repeat, Sonic is real.

I was driving with Marty, his nephew and his nephew's girlfriend when all of our heads turned and we all gasped simultaneously. There, on the side of the road as we're driving to a Christening, is a Sonic.


I felt like we uncovered Amelia Earhart and she was holding the Holy Grail. We see the commercials all the time. Everything sounds so delicious. Never ever in my life until that moment had I see a Sonic though. The group of us spent hours talking about how we were going to go to Sonic on our way home. I really love to eat so I did not stop thinking about it. And then there we were:

Look at the excitement!

You can practically feel it just from looking at the pictures, can't you?




Many things make sense to me now. When I see the commercial, I always think that the people are in line at the drive thru. NOT SO. There is NO inside at Sonic! It's like a fast food station. You drive into a spot like a gas station and order your food. And then the nice Sonic worker (one brave girl was even wearing rollerskates) brings your food to your car. There are trays that hang from your car window. You can order TOTS instead of fries. That's right. I said TOTS. They serve breakfast ALL DAY. None of this "you can't get breakfast, it's one minute after 10:30 am" at Sonic.

The only thing that sucks about Sonic? The closest one to my house is 75 miles from me. The closest one to anyone who lives North of me? The same Sonic. Apparently they advertise nationally, but don't have a whole lot of locations in the Northeast. I even looked into opening my own franchise (you know, with the $2.3 million I have just lying around), but my area is not available for franchising. So, I guess I'll just have to take a road trip when I need my fix. I RECOMMEND IT.

Thursday Trivia: ~~Friends~~

It is once again Trivia Thursday. I will post a new set of trivia questions every Thursday. The rules are simple. Please put your answers in the comments section of the post and I will reveal the answers tomorrow. No Cheating! I trust that all of you will all use the honor system? That means you will not use Google, (or any other internet searches) or mooch off other peoples answers. Cheating is BAD. If your employer has somehow made it impossible for you to post comments (bastards), you may also email me your answers to me at MCnMarty@hotmail.com.

Friends beat The Simpsons by a very narrow margin. This is a good show. My favorite favorite thing is the ridiculousness of Phoebe. I laughed out loud coming up with these questions. So here is the Friends trivia:

1. What is Chandler afraid of ?
A Losing
B Women
C Puppies
D Children

2. Where was Rachel and Barry's honeymoon destination ?
A Bermuda
B Aruba
C Greece
D London

3. Which of the following is Ross not allergic to ?
A Lobster
B Kiwi
C Peanuts
D Oatmeal

4. Who played the part of Chandler's father ?
A Kathy Bates
B Susan Sarandon
C Kathleen Turner
D Cybil Shepard

5. When they are in Vegas, Phoebe says that Ross and Rachel came from a Halloween party. Who was Ross dressed as?
A Chandler
B Capt. Hook
C Sput-nick
D Bob Saget

6. What song does Emma for the first time smile to?
A Bootylicious
B Baby Got Back
C Miss New Bootie
D Shake That Ass

7. What does Rachel answer as Chandler's job in the one where they lose their apartment ?
A A transponster
B A trainspotter
C A pole dancer
D A chef

8. Which one of these is NOT on Chandler's "Freebie" list ?
A Cindy Crawford
B Yasmine Bleeth
C Michelle Pfieffer
D Jessica Rabbit

9. When Ross is trying to work out all the States in America he asks Tag where he is from. Where is Tag from ?
A California
B New Jersey
C San Francisco
D Colorado

10. At college Ross & Chandler had a band. What was it called ?
A 2 Dudes and a Keyboard
B Romatically Modern
C Awesome and Fresh!
D Way! No Way!

11. When Monica and Chandler discover they can not have children, what does Joey suggest Ross should do ?
A Donate his sperm
B Give them Ben
C Give them Emma
D Watch Chandler & Monica to make sure they are doing it right

12. Which of the following stars did NOT make a guest appearance on Friends?
A Winona Ryder
B Reese Witherspoon
C Denzel Washington
D Bruce Willis

13. What did Ross dress up as when trying to explain Hanukkah to his son Ben?
A Armadillo
B Skunk
C Fairy
D Koala

14. Joey nearly got a chance to be which movie star's "butt double"?
A Robert De Niro
B Al Pacino
C Marlton Brando
D Joe Pesci

15. The Friends characters are responsible for how many offspring?
A Three
B Four
C Five
D Six

16. Which statement about Phoebe is false?
A Neglected by her father
B Once married to a lawyer
C Lived on the streets
D Is a vegetarian

17. What did Chandler tell Janice to discourage her romantic advances?
A He was becoming a priest
B He "joined the other team"
C He was moving to Yemen
D He was engaged to Phoebe

18. Who did Danny DeVito appear as in a 2004 Friends episode?
A Roy, the stripper
B Chef Charlie
C Guido, the pizza delivery guy
D Joey's Uncle Bob

19. Monica's parents admit to spending her wedding fund on which luxury item?
A A Winnebago
B A new beach house
C A trip to Tahiti
D A cottage in the Hamptons

20. After she marries Mike, Phoebe changes her name to Princess:
A Walkie Talkie Doggiedoor
B Regina Falange II
C Consuela Banana Hammock
D Ava Cado Cuacamole

Bonus: Fill in the blanks (and sing along):


Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat,
What are they _____________ you?
Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat
It's not your fault

They won't take you to the _____
You're obviously not their favorite _______
Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat,
It's not your fault

You may not be a bed of ______
You're not friend to those with ______
I'll miss you before we're done
Or the world will smell as one

Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat,
What are they __________ you?
Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat
It's not your fault

Do you remember the Toy Trivia?

It's been a while....




TOY TRIVIA

1. What doll, created in 1959, was named after the inventor's daughter?
b. Barbie Doll

2. What toy, first introduced at the Nuremberg Toy Show in 1979, sold over 100 million units by 1982?
a. Rubik's Cube

3. How many feet of wire does it take to make one Slinky?
d. 80 feet

4. What toy was promoted by the Ziegfeld Follies girls in 1920?
c. Pogo Stick

5. Binny & Smith produces more than 1,500 pounds of this each day. That’s more than 20,000 eggs!

Silly putty

6. What color was the original Easy-Bake Oven?
c. Turquoise
Avocado green did come out in the 70’s though.

7. Play-Doh was originally invented for what purpose?
c. Cleaning Wallpaper
The recipe is still a very guarded secret.

8. What was the name of the outdoor toy similar to Horseshoes that was eventually banned from the market for safety reasons?
Lawn Jarts

9. True or false: All G.I. Joe 12-inch action figures have a scar on their right cheek.
True

10. What game is generally considered to have ushered in the video game era?
b. Pong

11. What made the 1973 Ken doll so "Mod"?
c. removable beard, sideburns, and two moustaches
That’s not even a joke. A bitchin’ Camaro would have been much cooler though.

12. What popular action figure is, technically, named after a pigeon?
a. G.I. Joe
A pigeon named GI Joe carried a message about an allied force invasion in an Italian village. The town of 1000 people had time to evacuate and everyone was saved.

13. What's inside an Etch-a-Sketch?
b. plastic beads and aluminum powder
Looking for this I actually found an “etch-a-sketch autopsy”.

14. What toy is created by mixing silicone oil and boric acid?
d. Silly Putty

15. What was the first movie based on a board game?
Clue

16. What toy’s name is Danish for “play well”?
Lego
Nobody got this right!! I thought the "Danish" would giv it away. Happy Birthday to the Lego. Lego just turned 50.

17. What is the lowest number card in a Pinochle deck?
b. 9

18. Which of the following chess pieces moves only diagonally?
d. Bishop

19. How many different colored wedges are there in Trival Pursuit?
c. 6

20. Name the game where you have to pull out sticks whilst trying to keep the marbles from falling.
d. Ker_plunk

Mary, who has dominated at all things Trivia had the lowest score at toy trivia. 7 out of 20. Me thinks Mary's parents made her sit home and study while the rest of us were outside hitting ourselves in the heads with clackers and riding our bikes without helmets.

Maria had a decent showing with 9 out of 20. I guess she never took a lawn jart to the head.

Joe and Janna tied for first place with 11 out of 20. Woot woot!! Way to go. Janna, I did not expect "dildo" to come up in toy trivia. It gave me a good laugh and it will be interesting to see the toy chest at your house when you have kids!

Quietly creeping into blog and looking around

Hello? Anyone there?

I did not abandon you, blog. I just took a little break during the holidays. Yep. A few weeks ago things just got really hectic. The two weeks before Christmas, Marty had finals and was studying and writing papers like mad. I, of course was typing said papers. Midweek he wasn't feeling that good. I figured it was because he wasn't sleeping all that much. Then one morning he wakes up and starts freaking out because not only does he not feel good, but he has also broken out really really badly on his face. I looked at him and then asked him to lift his shirt. There were a couple of bumps on his chest and back as well.

"Did you ever have the chicken pox?"

"I think so."

"You think so? Maybe we should ask your Mom."

"Mom, did Marty ever have the chicken pox?"

"I think so."

I was not filled with confidence by these answers, so I called the doctor. They could only see him at 12:15. He had a presentation at noon that he was not willing to miss. So I sent him to the school health center. The nurse said chicken pox definitely. The doctor named several other things, but didn't think it was chicken pox. The good doctor told him to go to the lab in the morning for blood work. During the day they just got worse. I called his older sister and asked her if he had had chicken pox and she said "No way. He never had them!" At least that mystery was solved.

Well....he woke up the next morning covered from head to toe with chicken pox. I mean every part of his body. Even the inside of his mouth and the bottom of his feet. He was so uncomfortable and I felt so bad for him. I called the lab and they said absolutely NOT to bring him in. It sounded like chicken pox and they didn't want to put the rest of the patients at risk. I had my camera in hand a couple of times, but Marty wasn't really down with that and I felt to bad to go against his wishes. Imagine it looked like this though (WITHOUT the smile of course):


It was pretty bad. I give him a ton of credit. There were not that many complaints. He had to miss two finals that he was able to make up right before Christmas. The worst part of the sickness was two weekends before Christmas though when we were supposed to get all of our Christmasing done. No Christmasing got done that weekend. So our tree got trimmed at 2:30 am on Christmas morning after we got back from my family's celebration. Needless to say that is why I have been trying to catch up on sleep and work ever since. But I'm back. Promise!!