Bagel Trend

How do you like your bagel?

 

Under a bit of butter?

Under a schmear of cream cheese?

Under a layer of lox?

 

How about a bagel...

under your forehead?

 

Say what???

 

In Japan...not only can you get Botox around the eyes...

you can get a bagel in the middle of your forehead.

 

 

Japan's current body modification trend

is a saline injection into the forehead. 

 

 

After the 400cc saline swelling is at maximum puffiness

and the bagel is sufficientely 'baked'...

 

the ‘practitioner’ makes an indentation with his thumb. 

 

 

 

Wala...

the perfect bagel forehead.

 

 

Personally, I don’t get the craze,

 

 

but

I do see how it will help provide

extra cushioning

 

when I take up headbutting.

 

 

 

The bagel forehead isn’t permanent...

lasting 24 hours or less. 

But caution to bagel foreheads. It does come with risks. 

With repeated bagel forehead formation...

the skin can loose elasticity and become baggy.

 

Baggy pants may be “in”...

but nothing screams “out”

more than a baggy forehead.

 

 

Anywhooooo......

 

Growing up, our family didn’t eat bagels.

With an English/Welch heritage and “Thomas” for a last name...

it was only ‘Thomas’s English Muffins’ for our crew.

 

That all changed when I went to college and I found two loves...

PaulA

and the tasty starchy carb.

 

Over the years I have cut down on my bagel consumption...

mainly because I was worried about developing

 

Bagel Butt. 

 

But now I’m wondering if that some day it may be in vogue.

 

I’m thinking there’s a chance that once the

bagel forehead faze flattens out...

 

 

a bagel butt craze

could be on the rise.

 

They do say

"bagels aren’t just for breakfast anymore."

NFL Referee Strike

If you are a football fan

or close to one...

you’ve heard screaming

 

about the NFL referee strike.  

 

 

 

The Referee union and NFL owners

are banging heads over the terms of the

referee’s pen$ion and compen$ation.

 

 

 

  It’s always about the money.

 

SHOW ME THE MONEY.

 

 

 

Unfortunately the lockout of the league’s professional officials has brought

"Replacement Refs" to officiate the games...

aka scabs

(many with zero experience in officiating professional sports.)

 

 

 

 

These replacement refs have fans and coaches seeing red,

and many fans and bookies losing green.

(It’s always about the money.)

 

 

They have botched, bungled, and butchered calls...

and blown game-changing plays.

 

They have fumbled, fouled, and fallen down...

and they aren’t even running plays.

 

 

 

I.E.

 

The Seattle Seahawks

vs.

The Green Bay Packers...

 

 

The fate of that Monday Night Football game was decided by a

banker

whose previous experience was reffing

high school and junior college games.
The banker called it a Seahawk 'touchdown'
when it should have been a Green Bay 'interception.'
 

 A banker with no professional experience is hardly
an asset to the game.

 

  

Heck, even the
 

LFL

 

the Lingerie Football League

fired some replacement refs due to 'incompetent officiating.'

 

You know the replacement refs are extra atrocious

when a league that plays in

 

bras and skimpy underwear...


 

 

sees through the flimsy outfit.

 

 

 

Anywhooo.....

 

 

This lockout has me thinking about how powerful a strike can be.

 

I, myself and I,

has threatened
to strike before...

 

to walk off this blogging job

in an effort
to get more comments
from my readers. 

 

 

 

Now I'm thinking I should have a

novice, incompetent scab

replace me,

so readers miss my expertly honed blogging skills. 

Maybe the readers would come around. 

Comments?

 

That genius thought crossed my mind....
 

until I realized

 

there are those who will pick the


scab...

 

every time

 

 

and

 

 I would just be left


licking my wounds.



 

 

iPhone Phrenzy

iScream

 

uScream

 

we all scream for

 

 

 

 

So were you one of the gazillions of people around the world last Friday who

queued up and segued your way along

a long, long line for Apple’s new iPhone 5?

 

 

The only time I’ve waited in a line that long was

Free Cone Day

 at Ben and Jerry’s. 

woo hoo.. 

(chocolate fudge brownie, get in my belly.)

 

Apparently,

iScream

for iceCREAM

 

 

When it comes to the smart phone...

the Android has been the Apple of my eye. 

I love the way it whispers “droid” to me whenever I get a text. 

It has me at “droid”...every time.

 

 

BUT, don’t get me wrong,

I am a fan of many varieties of Apples...

the iPad...the iPod...and the McIntosh (the original Mac.)

 (I was born in Vermont...so I know my apples.)

 

 

The launch of the new Apple phone couldn’t have been better timed.

After all, the Fall is apple picking season.

But watch your apples...
the new iPhone is so hot,
people are stealing them...

giving new meaning to “apple picking.”

 

 
 

Anywhoooo.....

 

 

As with the launching of every brand new product, there are glitches. 

The glitch with the new iPhone 5 has to do with the map app...

but I’m sure they will work the worms out of it any day.




 

 

One bad apple app ...
don’t spoil the whole bunch.

yeah.

 

 

So...Let’s get down to the core of the apple
frenzy. 

 

Who are these people willing to stand in line for

hours and hours and hours

for the new iPhone 5?

 

Gadget Geeks?

Techno Techs?

People who buy into the “hype?"
People who like being "first" to own?

Geeky Techs who buy into the 'hype' and want to be ' first'  to own new products?

 

Apparently, these folks like their Apples
crisp and right off the tree.

 

I don't want to upset the Apple cart...

but I prefer to let my Apple ripen
over a period of time.
 

After it has matured,
I enjoy it...

before it rots.

 

After the iPhone frenzy calms down...

I’ll probably go Apple picking.
(wait, I’m paying.)

 

I’m sure I’ll eventually pick the iPhone5

and add it to my collection
of other Apple Products...

 

 

iHear there is nothin’ like an

Apple iProduct Pie...
 

 

 

 

hot out of the oven.