Does anybody else out there find that Burger King ‘king’ really creepy? I just saw the newest commercial this morning where this guy and girl are riding a tandem bike through a tunnel, and on the other side, the girl’s disappeared and been replaced with the ‘king’. It’s creepy I tell you, Creepy! And those ones with the ‘king’ standing out on the guy’s lawn? It’s like some kind of bad hangover hallucination or something.
Good thing #45 about living in Charleston
You get to see some really nice sunsets. Caught this one heading over the Ashley River bridge on the way home one day.
60 years ago
It’s been 60 years since WW II ended, ending 6 years of war that started on one side of the globe and ended on the other side. In the 60 years since then, there have been numerous localized conflicts and wars adding to the population of veterans. Take a moment and put a few of them in your thoughts.
Spam through Amazon.com
Well, this is a new one (for me anyway). Spam coming through Amazon’s seller contact form. Like lots of other people, I sell some of my unneeded books on Amazon. The profile page has a ‘Contact this seller’ link that sends you to a form where you can send a message to the seller asking questions. Today this obviously spammy message was waiting for me in my mailbox
How are you! I am very interested in this production. Is it new or secondhand ? I used to buy something on ‘_______________’, Because I found that most of the goods on the website are more cheaper than on the amazon. I would like to buy what I need if you can list the goods on it.
I removed the mangled URL (no doubt mangled to escape whatever URL filters Amazon might have in place), since the last thing I want to do is help the dumb spammers along. I wonder how many other Amazon sellers have this problem.
Halloween apples!
That was the traditional cry at the door when we went trick-or-treating as a kid. We used “trick-or-treat” too, but mostly it was kids shouting “Halloween apples!”. No idea where it came from, but that’s what we did.
I’ve never been much of a Halloween person, and was never really into getting into costume or going trick-or-treating as a kid. Most of the time there was snow on the ground already, so there wasn’t really much point in dressing up because you had to put a coat on top of the costume anyway. We always had lots of kids at our door though back home and usually stayed pretty busy handing out candy and dropping change for UNICEF into the little orange boxes.
Last week, we bought a couple of bags of candy to hand out to the expected trick-or-treaters. A few days ago, the wife bought some more, having forgotten that she already bought some several days earlier. I know there are a few families in the area so we were expecting a few kids trick-or-treating yesterday. Only 1 kid showed up at our door last night. Perhaps we missed them because of coming home a little bit later than usual. Perhaps kids don’t go trick-or-treating anymore like we used to. It’s definitely become a much more paranoid time than it used to be when I was a kid. I remember when I was back home working at the hospital during my undergrad, the x-ray department in the ER would be busy x-raying buckets and bags of candy that kids and their families brought in. Nothing was ever found though. But the paranoia remains. Kinda sad, I suppose.
In any case, we have a bunch of candy left over now. Darn 🙂