I’m pretty sure it’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for Random Tuesday Thoughts. Be sure to visit Keely at the Un Mom for more Tuesday randomness. Plus, you can get this cool badge:
The super neat thing about the 4th of July in the town where we live is that no one obeys the safe and sane fireworks laws. It is legal to sell fireworks here for about a week leading up to the 4th, but only those crappy little fountains and the little pellets that burn into trails of ashes that look like snakes and sparklers and stuff.
(While we’re on the subject, I think it’s insane that these new sparklers are supposed to be more safe than the old wire ones. The new sparklers are just a colored flame shooting out of a piece of paper on a stick. I could make them myself with some newspaper and one of the millions of bamboo shish kabob skewers I have floating around my kitchen.)
But illegal fireworks from Mexico are readily available here and they are high quality. So Friday night we went over to my Mom and Dad’s, pulled some lawn chairs out in the driveway and just watched the show. We set off a small box of legal fireworks for the kids, but they weren’t even interested in them, not that I can blame my girls. There were illegal aerials going off in every direction. It was better than the “4th of July Extravaganza” that took place at the fairgrounds the night before.
Not that I encourage illegal activity like this in any way. It is dangerous and wrong.
But so very awesome.
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I had never seen that movie The Blue Lagoon before, you know, the one with Brooke Shields and that blonde guy, and it was on the WE network the other night so in the absence of anything else to watch, and I mean there wasn’t even a Dr. G to be found, I decided to check it out.
I fell asleep before I got to the sweet, sweet lovemaking that I’m sure happened at some point (the hints were plentiful and not very subtle, and the part where she meets Aunt Flo for the first time, signaling that she is now a woman ready for looove – ew) but the short time I watched the movie was enough to leave me wondering about several things, such as:
1. Those kids were able to build a mansion-like treehouse with several stories and a slide with just some bamboo and grass? How did they cut down the bamboo? How did they make the rope? And did one of them go to engineering school prior to being shipwrecked on the island?
2. Why does Brooke Shields’ hair grow all the way down her back, yet boyfriend only has a nicely highlighted, tousled bowl cut? Is there a Supercuts somewhere on the island that Brooke is not aware of?
3. Why is Brooke able to fashion some clothes out of whatever she has left from the crash, but she has to use her hair to cover up her boobies? And for that matter, why does boyfriend walk around with just strips of gauze wrapped around his package for the whole movie? Doesn’t he have some salvaged shipwreck clothes that he can use instead of that weird diaper looking thing? And where did the mosquito netting come from inside the bamboo mansion? Can’t they make some clothes out of that? They are able to fashion a multi-level bamboo dwelling, but they can’t make some clothes out of fucking banana leaves or something?
Alas, I will never find the answers to these mysteries, because I’ll never bother to watch the end of the movie. It was boring.
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What is the deal with the “natural cut” french fries that are popping up on every fast food menu lately? They are so gross. My husband swears that Burger King fries have the texture of something that has been chewed up and spit out before being dipped in the deep fryer. What’s wrong with a good old fashioned crinkle cut?
Seriously, if I wanted to eat something natural, I wouldn’t be in a fast food drive through ordering french fries.
Also, after seeing this:
I may not be eating at good old BK for a while.
That’s all I’ve got, have a great Tuesday!
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Super Seven Incher, LOL! Who are their ad people. And the image…that is so wrong.
We used to live by an Indian reservation. Safe 4th of July fireworks were never the same. And, why would they be celebrating the 4th anyway. It’s not like they didn’t get screwed from that whole deal.
Number 3 *cracked my shit up*. You’d think if there was a Supercuts, there would at least be a Victoria’s Secret. Maybe the strip mall was on the OTHER side of the island.
You are hilarious!! And I agree about the poster. Who are they trying to reach with that one? Girls who want to give bjs? Guys who think girls love giving bjs? Don’t get it.
Although, it would be kinda funny if it was the BK “king” in the pic instead of the chic lol
OMG ! You have got me cracking up over here! Love the Blue Lagoon stuff!!
Woah @ 7 incher from BK. I often wondered about a sammich called the “Whopper” but this is over the top lol.
Blue Lagoon is totally overrated with Brooke’s unibrow and Atkins’ diaper for a g-string. Gross. Did she have hairy armpits and legs? I forget.
You’d never eat at a Hardee’s/Carl Jr’s again if you saw their sugar balls commercial, either. I pride myself in being marginally crass and definitely not a prude (thanks to my inner 14 year old teenage boy) but when I saw the commercial, my jaw actually dropped so hard I thought I’d need a sling.
Just reading the words Blue Lagoon made me cringe remembering the childbirth portion of the movie. Oh, that movie is hideous.
I was flipping channels this weekend and came across Eddie and The Cruisers! YEAH! Happily, it was on again later so I was able to record it in its entirety. Oh, yes, wild summer nights!!
There’s a childbirth scene in that movie? Oh mah gawd. I’m feeling thankful that I fell asleep.
I have lately acquired a copy of Eddie and the Cruisers on DVD and I’m waiting for just the right time to pop it in the player. Ideally, I will be alone in the house so I can sing along as loud as I want.
My husband just can’t understand why I don’t like BK fries. They are disgusting! I’d rather not waste my money… or calories.
No wonder my jaw hurts every time I see a BK ad… And they only had to look at one letter earlier in the alphabet for their inspiration for this ad.
Can they say “7 incher” with her mouth open like a blow up doll’s?
I always notice things like why didn’t his hair grow…Tarzan’s too.
Wow, I was just thinking to myself, “Do you know what I really want to do right now? Fellatiate a sandwich.” It’s like they read my mind.
i didn’t know the king was into deep-throating p0rn with barbie dolls.
I love Blue Lagoon!!! Even though all those things – which have also always confused me – are there making no sense of the movie. It’s one of those films you have to CHOOSE to like for no damn reason whatsoever.
About the fresh fry mutilation: it’s a way of making you FEEL like you’re eating something healthier than “french fries” because they look more like their natural less fattening state in that cut. They’re also just as fattening and much less tasty.
I say we boycott.
Happy RTT!!!!!
Fries at In and Out Burger soured me on all others. and Washington doesn’t have In and Out! >:-(
Well, now, that BK ad is…er-better watch it, the audience here is mostly female- ahhh, interesting… doesn’t make me want to go to BK fora BJ though…
OMG! That BK poster really cracked me up. Does BK have adolescent boys doing their ad campaigns now?
Can’t speak to the BK fries . . . though the ad is certainly provocative.
Re your Maroon Lagoon topic, though, I’ll just bet you never watched “Gilligan’s Island.” Those guys had it made: running water, cigars, white gloves, gosh, you name it. I met old Gilligan once, when I was a kid and ran into his daughter on the beach. Big nose, and not too nice, is what I recall of him, generally. His daughter was very nice, though.
Oh come on! I can’t believe this BK / BJ add is real. YOU had to have make this one up. Were the BK execs snoozing when this add campaign was presented for approval? I mean really man.
Blue Lagoon was such a tease. Couldn’t stand it as a young boy, can’t stand it now. Funny though, how I did pause and watch for a few minutes when it was on the other night. Those looks that the two of them would give each other AFTER they finally did it were priceless….like “Wow, kind of a fun way to pass the time on this lonely island…now how ’bout we do it again?”
BK is the only local fast food option I have here in England unless I want to drive 30 min. *grumble*
That BK ad is awful. I think they used the excuse that the ad agency that came up with it was ‘foreign’. Uh huh.
I’ve never seen Blue Lagoon. Now I want to take a bunch of illegal hallucinogens and watch it, but, uh, I don’t do that anymore.
Wait! I mean – I’ve NEVER done that. Right.
I remember watching that movie in high school and being so freaked out by the fact that she was doing her COUSIN. Good point about the haircuts…
I watched the end of Blue Lagoon. Apparently they all eat deadly berries or something?? But then I heard there was a Blue Lagoon 2 so I guess they end up surviving? I don’t know. The movie confused me as well.
Thanks, I won’t be able to eat one of those now. Blue Lagoon… did you get to see Brooke Shields boobs in that one? Whatever. It was kind of like Titanic. Blah blah blah blah, Kate Winslet naked, blah blah blah, super cool boat sinking scene, blah blah blah zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…….
I thought the same thing when I saw that ad for BK. Someone at their advertising agency needs to be taken out back and shot.
Blue Lagoon: I always wondered why her hair didn’t move off her boobies when the wind blew….super glue crafted out of bamboo sap perhaps?
That’s not a real BK ad, right? Seriously. Tell me it’s not.
Yes I’ve had the same thoughts about every shipwrecked on a island movie, but then I guess I like that it is all pretty and impossible because if it was real and the people were ugly and gross and hairy and had bad teeth I wouldn’t want to watch it anymore and it wouldn’t be my favorite fantasy set.
hey you missed the part where she’s surprise when a baby comes out of her crotch.
To me, pretty much everything at Burger King tastes like it’s been pre-chewed.
Ewwww – that picture is totally gross! I am not going there ever again! And, I too am a fan of the crinkle cut. I buy the sweet potato variety from the grocery store, makes me feel a little more healthy…hahah!!