Archive | review RSS feed for this section

Sneak Peek of the Week: June 23rd, 2015

23 Jun

June 23, 2015

Believe it or not (and if I were you I wouldn’t believe it either, but it’s true), I’m a little ahead on things and the following blogs are written and ready to go! The first will be going up tomorrow and the next ones after that. It’s the Summer of George! Sit back on your sofa, eat a block of cheese, and get ready to enjoy these posts.

My Review of Saturday Night Fever: The Musical, at Sea

disco duck

I saw this on my recent cruise, and it wasn’t the waves that were making me queasy. This continued my trend of not being able to escape Brooklyn, even over a thousand miles away from New York.

John Newly Has A Crush (Lying Awake with John Newly #10)

THE DATING GAMEJohn Newly, late night coast to coast paranormal radio show host (Am I being too subtle? It’s a George Noory parody.), welcomes his favorite guest and does some not very subtle flirting with a numerology expert. Also on display is his stunning lack of basic math skills.

Before I Hit Delete And Empty The Trash

spam1I took a look in my spam folder and nestled among the prescription meds scams and phishing trolls I found some even weirder stuff. This post highlights 5 of my favorite recent spam comments.

Enjoy!

Return Of The Snappy Answers To Silly Newser Headlines (May 2015)

23 May

May 23, 2015

Today, The Editors and Staff of Mr. Blog’s Tepid Ride (Home of the Partially Humorous Post) would like to honor Superfan Edna DeWitt, of Pinesdale Montana. Ms. DeWitt earned Superfan status by sending to us, on 30 consecutive days in April, 30 unsubscribe requests. That’s the kind of dedication we admire. In her honor, we will consider acknowledging her request sometime in the future.

Once again, we check in on Newser.com, whose status as a legitimate news site is at least as dubious as ours.

newser01

Poop Raining From Sky Ruins Girl’s Sweet 16.
Philadelphia family suspects feces came from a plane.

“Suspects?” “Suspects” feces came from a plane? What else could it be, a giant incontinent condor? There’s that old saying, that “when it rains it pours.” Thank God it didn’t happen in this case or I can only imagine what might have come pouring out of the sky on this not-so-sweet 16.

newser02

Snakes Used To Have Ankles.
Ancestor likely had little toes too.

I have a feeling that John Johnson (if that is his real name) has a bit of a fetish. For some reason he focuses on ankles and toes when (and I read the story) the bigger, scarier, and real story is that they had legs. Not just ankles and toes connected to nothing, but legs, which makes the whole idea of snakes on a plane that much worse. “I have had it with these mf-ing snakes with their mf-ing legs on this mf-ing plane!” If snakes still had legs the jig would be up for humanity, although I think that some enterprising sneaker executive could make some cash on it. But snakes with ankles, shapely, curvy ankles, and cute little, alluring toes, that’s the writer’s take on this story, Sheesh.

newser03

“Exciting” New Rabies Strain Found In New Mexico.
It was discovered after rabid fox bit woman.

I can just imagine that woman’s excitement when, after a painful round of rabies treatment, the doctors informed her that she was infected with a new strain of the potentially fatal disease. Yup, and I’m sure the excitement grew even greater when she had to undergo even more painful injections and invasive tests to identify the new strain. I’m just sorry that I wasn’t invited to her party, complete with clowns, cake, and vaccines.

newser04

Latest Target of Kim Jong Un’s Wrath: Failed Lobster Breeders.
Says terrapin farm may “impair prestige” of Korean Worker’s Party.

Because nothing else going on in North Korea could negatively impact their international prestige like a lobster breeding farm gone wrong.

I just don’t see how a lobster breeding farm could possibly fail, as lobsters are well-known as the randiest creatures in the sea.

I think this is how the Roman Empire fell.

newser05

Miley Croons Sad Ballad to Her Dead Blowfish.
While dressed as a unicorn.

Well of course! What else should I have expected? I mean besides almost anything else. I am eagerly looking forward to her next ballad about all the sad lobsters in that failed lobster breeding farm.

.