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If there's a pic it must be Wednesday. And if it's Wednesday it must be time for Pause Ponder and Pun , the #1 caption contest on the interwebs, according to the Time Zone Scoop Almanac . Take a gander at the pic, leave your caption in the comments, and tear yourself away from whatever you're doing Saturday to see who came out on top. Oh, yeah.  Wander on over to Mad-Mad Margo's for the other #1 caption contest on the internets. And don't forget to hustle over to The Parody Files today where, in a frank manner, I write about the latest scandal to hit the Catholic Church.  It's Hygrade stuff!

Michael Steele must be reading Titus Maccius Plautus these days.  Who is Michael Steele?  And who is Plautus?  Well Plautus is a Roman playwright who first came up with the line "You have to spend money to make money."  Michael Steele is the Chairman of the Republican National Committee and appears to have taken Plautus' words to heart - well at least the first half of that expression. Get a load of this.  Steele wanted to buy a jet so it'd be easier for him to travel across the country.  He didn't but he charters one, spending $17,500 on chartered jets in February.  And when he gets to where he's going he stays in style, booking into only the swankiest of hotels. Steele's the guy, by the way, who signed off on the RNC holding a convention in Hawaii.  When?  Oh, ah, in the middle of winter.  Tab? $44,000, not including airfare.  But 168 airfares don't come cheap. Now comes word that some RNC members whooped it up at a "bonda...

D o you want fries with that? It seems American kids aren't the only ones growing at an alarming rate.  And by growing, I mean putting the padding on or, in laymen's terms, getting fat.  The disturbing trend has moved at least two mega-profile individuals to doing something about it.  First-lady Michelle Obama has made it her life's work to bring childhood obesity to the attention of the American people.  And "Naked Chef" Jamie Oliver has just launched a weekly American television show aimed at getting kids to eat right. As we approach Easter this week, seems there were more miracles going on at The Last Supper than we knew about.  The initial visual documentation of the most famous dinner ever - "table for 13, right this way" - was preserved by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century.  But now it seems subsequent renderings have resulted in more food on the table. A study by 2 professors at Cornell University has discovered that down through the year...

We had plenty of great captions this week.  It was tough to come up with a winner.  For example, last week's winner, Kelly , gave us: Are they ripe yet? And perennial player Moooooog had: It was on or around this time that Billy regretted his desire to stop breastfeeding. Skye had several good captions, among them: I think I like older women.  Little girls my age don't have anything like this to play with. But it was FreakSmack who dialed in this week's winner with:  Birwearwoooooooshhhh...  Biroooooo...  Come in Tokyo...  Birwooo...  Tokyo... Do you copy? Congratulations FreakSmack, you be hangin' with dufus this week.  Way to go.

I came across an interesting news story this weekend - some stunning results from a recent study.  Researchers at the University of California at San Diego have discovered that sleep-deprived teenagers are more likely to smoke marijuana.  Ah, duh.  My question would be which came first, the weed or the lack of sleep? But that wasn't the point of the study.  Nope the point or main finding was if a teen was sleep-deprived and smoked weed then so did members of his social network.  You've heard of the Kevin Bacon six degrees of separation theory?  With weed, the network's even smaller.  In the UCSD study the level of influence was four degrees of separation.  Of course if these guys got together to buy their snack foods they could save a bundle on buying cheese doodles in bulk.  But at the centre of the study was influence and influence over negative behaviour.    The most popular teen in the social group could influence his frie...

I'd been driving for what seemed like hours.  At the outset the trip had gone smoothly.  Because we'd left home early, the roads had been largely empty.  Everything was smooth sailing.  We'd made good time. We'd enjoyed the scenery along the way and had brought along some CDs of enjoyable music.  It was just the two of us and the trip afforded my wife and I an opportunity to chat now and then, catching up on each other's lives and compare notes on issues of the day. I knew the way to the border.  The route was simple and straight-forward to follow since we'd travelled it several times before.  The highways and interchanges were clearly marked.  And before we knew it were were stopped and chatting with the U.S. Customs agent about our summer vacation. But now it had been hours since we'd passed the border and as we motored along nothing looked familiar.  We'd made this trip to Ogunquit on several occasions, the last time being about four...

Okay guys. You know the drill. No help from me this week. See ya Saturday with the winners. Speaking of winners...pop on over to  Mad-Mad Margo's and participate in her caption contest. **** Oh, hey, today's my turn over at The Parody Files .  Drop over and leave a comment there, too, after you've read my latest masterpiece - The Naked Chef!

One of my favourite bloggers has disappeared.  She left an ominous note on her blog March 17th saying she needed a break and she hasn't been seen or heard from since.  I'm worried.  Quirks is one of my favourite bloggers.  We visit each other every day.  And now...Quirky appears to have been the latest blogger to simply up and stop blogging. Quirks is very funny and so I miss my daily chuckle.  I love her penchant for Zombies.  And I think it's cool that she often parodies songs.  So, Quirks, if you're out there, this tune's for you.  Remember "Patches" by Lee Dickie in the early 60s?  You can run the video while you're singing the updated lyrics... Down by the website that glows on the interwebs Stands "Quirkyloon" with posts taken down There lives a girl everybody calls Quirky Quirky my darling of Old Humour town We plan to comment when she brought the funny I couldn't wait to fill Quirky with pride Now I don't see h...

Police in New Jersey have a man in custody following an incident at the local Wal-Mart.  Last week, an unidentified person accessed the store's public address system and announced: "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now." The incident went quite beyond the childhood prank of telephoning an individual at random and asking if their refrigerator was running and then telling them they better catch it.   In the Wal-Mart incident hundreds of shoppers were accosted by the offensive message and it caused several shoppers to boycott the store and others to publicly admonish the retailer for the ease with which the public address system was accessed. What I'm curious to know is how did the police department respond when a call came in to send a black and white to the Wal-Mart store?

Well our girls in green inspired some pretty funny captions this week for our special St. Paddy's Day Pause Ponder and Pun.  Among them were Jeremy from We Took The Bait with: The laughing was short-lived, as Angela, attempting to amuse her friend with her flatulence, discovered that green beer gives her the runs. Then came Moooooog with: Julie was immediately out when she realized that 'All the ugly girls throw your feet in the air' was not preceded with 'Simon Says'. But it was Kelly - who else on St. Patrick's day - who was our winner this week with: Mary Pat is about to find out the hard way that combining green beer and Alli "may" result in oily bowel movements and the inability to control them. Way to go Kelly!  You be hangin' with the dufus this week.  Congratulations, lass.

Do you ever stop and wonder just what the hell’s going on with our politicians?  I know I do.  I wonder, for example, given all the trouble some of them get themselves into why do they go into politics to begin with?  I mean being a politician is like living in a fish bowl.  With the pervasiveness and inquisitiveness of today’s “gotcha media”  as a famous female former governor likes to say a politician’s private life isn’t very private and his or her public life is on display for all to see. The latest example – although who knows, by the time you read this there may be a new one – involves Democrat Eric Massa, recently resigned New York Congressman.  Yeah, that’s right, another politician from New York.  Given the way things are going with politicians in that state you’d think the voters were blind and not the governor. Why did he resign?  I’ll take multiple-choice for $800, Alex:  a) he’s been accused of  improper sexual conduct, b) ...

My buddies at Theme Thursday have decided to interpret "breakfast" this week.  Well, last summer I shared with readers how I prepare breakfast when me and the guys go fishing.  I thought I'd repeat it for my TT buds today.   Keep in mind: it's a guy thing... If cholesterol be the food of love, stick a fork in me, turn me over and call me Eros. This high caloric, cholesterol-laden concoction is swimming in fat, grease and guilt but, nom nom nom, it is sooo good. Nonamedufus' Specials have become a yearly tradition with me and my fishin’ buddies. Each June several of us traipse into the wilds of the “near North” of Ontario to Lake Temagami once bass season opens. We tell our wives we’re roughin’ it and we kick back at a place called Loon Lodge and watch satellite TV, drink beer, eat huge Lodge-prepared dinners, enjoy the sun and swat at the odd black fly. Oh, yeah, sometimes we actually fish. Provisions for our fishing folly are procured ahead of time at the gr...

Do you know what day it is, today? The top o' the morning to ya!  Happy, St. Paddy's Day!!! If you're remotely Irish you'll be doing one of several things today.  You'll be wearing green.  You'll be drinking green beer.  Or you'll be turning green late tonight from all that green beer! In the meantime, take a look at this week's picture of our girls in green and leave a caption.  You've got until Saturday to come up with a winner! And if you're still in a captioning mood, drop by Mad-Mad O'Margo's where she's got the second-best captioning contest on the interwebs.

Oh no! Say it ain't so! Another great tradition has fallen by the wayside - as opposed to rolled down the hillside. They've cancelled the great Gloucestershire cheese race.  Yeah, that's right.  Too bad. For the last 200 years, apparently,  people have gathered on a hillside in Gloucestershire, England to chase a round brick of cheese, as thousands looked on.  And that's why they've cancelled it.  Just too many people to contend with.  Apparently over 15,000 people came out to watch the cheese chasing last year and about 20 of them were injured.  Those are just the spectators.  Sprains and bruises and the odd broken bone seem to be the injury of choice among participants. Now in case you didn't know, participants don't actually have to catch the cheese.  They just have to be the first one across the finish line after the cheese, once they've rolled and tumbled down the grassy knoll after the runaway cheese.  The cheese, by th...

Did I get your attention? Today's the day. I know you've all been waiting for it. Today we launch the very first bacon-flavoured blog on the interwebs. Well, that's what the promotional pitch says anyway.   The Parody Files relaunches today with a new look, a new format and five - count 'em - five fabulous, funny, misfit bloggers.  Of course I'm one of them otherwise why would you think I'd spend so much time promoting it.  We'll each be posting one day a week, Monday through Friday.  Who are we? Oliver Clozoff (All of her...clever, get it?) owns the site and is our Editor In Chief.  He's a real stinker.  Or was a chief technologist at Stinker industries.  He's the one with the bacon. Derek the Intern comes out of his mom's basement long enough to post once a week when he's not busy over at Audible Underwear .   Derek's the token geek among us.  Better him than me. When Liam James Leaven isn't living up to the Par...