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Fun-Filled Friday: Tornado, Baby, MC Hammer, Texas Hold ‘Em, Telemarketers, Teleprompter, Barbara Bush

Another week has gone by and I just can’t believe it! But here we are on yet another Friday, so it’s that time when I share my “Fun-Filled Friday” stuff for you. And since I’ll be heading out south to Florida next Friday for the first of two 20-year high school reunions this summer, this will have to hold you over for a couple of weeks. Get ‘er done!

A tornado touched down on the Wyoming/Nebraska border last Friday and a storm chaser captured the event right before his very eyes on camera:

Those things are so beautiful, but I wouldn’t be caught dead within 100 miles of one if I didn’t have to! Speaking of not being within 100 miles of something, I don’t think I could handle this unless it was my kid doing it:

I’ll give her a 10.0 for cuteness, though! Have you heard of the “flashmob” movement? It’s where a group of people all decide to gather together in a public place to do something outrageous or attention-grabbing. You’re probably seen the infamous frozen scene at Grand Central Station before, but I’ve got another one featuring a bunch of MC Hammer wanna-be’s that was too funny:

“Stop, Hammertime!” I LOVE that song! Something else I REALLY love is the poker game Texas Hold ‘Em. If you come on the low-carb Bahamas cruise with us in 2010, then you’ll very likely see me hanging out at the card table. I enjoy watching the professional poker players battling it out with each other, especially where there’s a hand like this:

Do you like telemarketers? Believe it or not, I actually was employed as one for a couple of weeks when I was in graduate school working on my Master’s degree. HATED IT beyond belief and I wish somebody had done this to me to make my night more interesting:

I just wanted to make sure we had that on the record–YES! Good stuff! I’m sure you’ve heard about how President Barack Obama relies heavily on his teleprompter during speeches for what he’s going to say. NBC News did a story about it that I thought was clever:

Finally, leave it to the politically liberal Dr. Jonny Bowden to come up with a weight loss condition called “The Barbara Bush Syndrome” referring to the former First Lady under George Bush 41 from the early 1990s. It’s an interesting analogy:

That’s all I got for you this “Fun-Filled Friday” and I’ll be back with more in two weeks. As always, send me your cute stuff to livinlowcarbman@charter.net ANYTIME and you might just see it in a future Friday post. Have a wonderfully healthy lpw-carb weekend everyone!

June 12th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: 1
  • Audrey

    I found this video fascinating and so true, I have two of Dr. Bowden books but the Barbara Bush syndrome was new to me and he hits the nail on the head with it. People want an instant fix and there is none. I don’t care if you want to do low carb, ww, calorie counting it has to be a lifestyle not a diet!!!

    Amen and amen, Audrey! :D

    –Jimmy

  • http://theartofnotworking.blogspot.com/ Judith

    Man, those hammer pants are ugly! And Jonny Bowden makes excellent sense. A friend I hadn’t seen for years wanted to know how I lost weight, so I told her about low carb livin’. “Oh I could never give up bread and potatoes!” Barbara Bush syndrome. It’s very common!

    Much more common than people want to admit. THANKS Judith!

    –Jimmy

  • http://www.lowcarbcurmudgeon.com Dana

    OK, I need to blog about this. I had this conversation with a former friend, the last of several we had had about diets and nutrition. She simply repeated the same thing she always does, which is that the “key” to weight loss is to “eat less and move more.” I said, “OK, eat less of what?” I hadn’t thought of that before. Eat less of *what*? Doritos? But the things aren’t good for you at all! Why eat them? And I love Doritos. But man, they don’t love me! Still… that seemed to be her logic. Keep on eating crap, just eat less of it. I don’t get it. She has major Barbara Bush syndrome, I guess. Although, as a something-like-a-liberal, I’m embarrassed that Bowden said that. It makes no sense to me. Obviously *something* is working out well for Barbara Bush, as she appears to be quite content with her life. *shrug*

    Speaking of politics, how is Obama being dependent on a teleprompter any different from any other politician being dependent on a teleprompter? At least I don’t want to bash my head into a bloody pulp against the nearest wall every time I hear him speak. I don’t know what it was about the second President Bush, but even without the occasional Bushism (and his dad was guilty of them as well), something about the way he spoke just drove me batty. Accent… pronunciation… something. It was like nails on a chalkboard. Which don’t actually bother me, but he did.

    Er… more to the point, nobody who gets that high in politics knows how to speak well anymore. Someone else writes their speeches for them and then they have to read them off index cards. Or a teleprompter. Whatever anyone might think of Fidel Castro (and I have mixed feelings myself, tending toward the negative), the man knew how to write speeches *and* how to speak. And how to say interesting things, to boot. Looking back at some of our 18th and 19th century statesmen, I feel more than a little nostalgic. What I wouldn’t give for some genuine brains up there. Obama’s smart, but in an A-student schooling-fed kind of smart who knows the “right answers” he’s “supposed” to know. That’s all of them, too. It’s a shame.

    The Hammer-time flash mob was AWE. SOME. I wish I’d been there! Now you’re making me all sniffly and stuff. That song was a big hit when I was in high school…

    If you come on the low-carb cruise in March 2010, you’ll hear ME sing “U Can’t Touch This” during karaoke! :D No Hammer pants, though.

    –Jimmy