Saturday, January 30, 2010

50 Jokes (Yes...actually 50 jokes) >> by the *vlogbrothers*



May favorite jokes from the video.

1. So there's this pirate and he's walking around with a paper towel as a hat. And so I ask him, "What's with the paper towel?" "Aargh. I got a bounty on me head."

2. Why did the monkey fall out of the tree? Because it was dead. Why did the second monkey fall out of the tree? Because it was stapled to the first monkey. Why did the third monkey fall out of the tree? Peer pressure.

3. I wish to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not panicking, like his passengers.

4. Did you hear about the guy who got the entire left half of his body cut off? Yes, but he's all right now.

5. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? ...Fish.

6. How many psychologists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Just one, but the light bulb has to want to change.

7. What do you get when you mix an agnostic with a dyslexic and an insomniac? A dude who sits up all night wondering whether or not there is a dog.

Featured Album: Elvis Costello & The Attractions >> Imperial Bedroom [1982]



Track 01. Beyond Belief


Track 02. Tears Before Bedtime


Track 03. Shabby Doll


Track 04. The Long Honeymoon


Track 05. Man Out of Time


Track 06. Almost Blue


Track 07. ...And In Ever Home


Track 08. The Loved Ones


Track 09. Human Hands


Track 10. Kid About It


Track 11. Little Savage


Track 12. Boy With a Problem


Track 13. Pidgin English


Track 14. You Little Fool


Track 15. Town Cryer

It's snowing again!!!!!








Not as bad as the big snowstorm though.

Lamingtons!

I've been meaning to write about this. On New Year's Eve (it was only a few weeks ago, can you believe it?) my parents and I had friends over for dinner. They brought an awesome dessert along with them. They brought lamingtons, a popular Australian treat. {Lamingtons are typically cube-shaped sponge cakes with chocolate frosting sprinkled with ground coconut.} They had actually won our neighborhood baking competition with them. They called them "Royal Request" and laid them out on a silver platter - fitting, isn't it? No one had ever even heard of lamingtons and they were a big hit.

It turns out though, that I had already heard of lamingtons from my favorite YouTuber, Natalie Tran. She's a Vietnamese Australian vlogger who makes videos about awkward situations - for example, receiving really confusing directions from someone; the awkwardness of trying to walk past someone who is walking toward you on the same side of a sidewalk as you. But she also loves lamingtons, and his been promising her viewers and subscribers that she'll make them a lamingtons video, but she hasn't yet. She has however, talked about lamingtons in a number of her videos (see below). Check out 1:27-2:10.



Here are some pictures of the lamingtons we had on New Year's Eve!

Before


During


After