FAC of eight

Hello FAC-ers!

Well it is August. It has been a couple of weeks since the last FAC -- what have you all been up to? Some of you may be going (back) to school pretty soon. I sure will. I am taking a couple of classes in addition to one class which qualifies as a work training. Which means I get school credit and work credit! Woo!

Here is some trivia for you: Next year the second Tuesday of August will be 08/08/08. Pretty cool, maybe not as cool as the kid who turned 8 yrs old on 08/08/88, but still. We should find a kid that will be 8 on 08/08/08 and throw them the biggest dang party ever.

World's funniest joke, as voted on by people from , well, around the world:

A couple of New Jersey hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn't seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head. The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps to the operator: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator, in a calm soothing voice, says: "Just take it easy. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a shot is heard. The guy's voice comes back on the line. He says: "OK, now what?"

The article:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn2876.html%20l

Really you should read this one, too:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19426031.700-a-quirky-look-at-our-quirky-species.html


Hmmm... where was I? Ah yes! FAC!

So, I know some people are tired of the Surfside. I am not -- nor will I be for like six years. BUT I do want to accommodate some other people in their love for other bars or for variety. I am sending this SURVEY out to YOU! PLEASE RESPOND if you give a flip at all about where we go for FAC, because if not it will default to Surfside until I get bored.

1) Do you want to go to a different bar than Surfside this week?

2) If yes to #1, which bar or bars?

3) Did your answer for #2 include any of the following: Washington's, Zydeco's, Hodi's or Suite 182?

4) If yes to #3 please change your answer for #2.

5) Does the bar you chose have food?

6) Does it have any really cool features such as free things, pool or bubble hockey, karaoke or the like (LIKE TRIVIA)? (Please list cool features)

7) Is it in Ft. Collins? (Please list the location)

8) Does the bar have strippers? ( Please list the stage names of the strippers) (not really) (really) (no) (yes) (...)

9) Is the bar open at 4:30ish?

10) If we go to the bar you chose will you show up to FAC?


Okay that wasn't too hard was it?

Here are some things that are difficult;

Words:

-- Vocab test...reply with your score for bragging rights!

Driving:














www.micom.net/oops/ -- for more funny than you can handle.


Bear "I meant to do that!" Bonney

FAIL -- I mean FAC

Well, it seems our society degrades further and further each day.

Insult of the year -- well, I am not sure I should even write it out, but here: d0uc#eb@g
Theme of the year: failure or more specifically FAIL
This theme is followed closely by DO NOT WANT and some other LOLCAT sayings such as OH NOES.

If this is confusing any of you, please feel free to ignore this all and dodge the internets for the next 10 years in an effort to avoid it. It will damage you for sure. Not as much as ratemypoo, but damage it will. (DO NOT go to ratemypoo at work, mmkay? vomit is hard to remove from cube walls.)

Okay, okay, I know that was totally unfair to bait y'all like that.

(But I dare you to google the words "rate my". HAHAHAHAH. God bless you internets!)

So for this weeks FAC we will explore some failure and some success!

Failure to thrive = Starlight (R.I.P)
If you all remember the Starlight and what a fun place it was when a lot of people I knew worked there, hooray! If you don't then you are not missing much, to tell the truth. The bathrooms were the WORST, yes worse than the Surfside, I kid you not. Some of you may know that the Starlight(lite?) is now called Hodi's Half Note, which is an idiotic name I think. BUT it turns out that on Fridays from 5 to 8 they have a happy hour of grand proportions -- 2.00 domestics, 2.00 local micros, and 2.50 wells, plus some sort of gross shot for only 3.00! Huzzah! Success!


After the deployment of BSE on VSLS I am sure there will be numerous more failures and hopefully some successes to report. Let's plan on getting to Hodi's around 5 ( I may be at the Surfside before then because I will reach my Tour of Duty no later then 10 am on Friday, so WHOO! short day for me) (HA HA.)

If anyone even knows what this costume is supposed to be, tell me:






























































































Bear "I was really hoping to get a mobile version of Vista on the iPhone" Bonney

ETA: HODI'S FAIL, they were not even open. I hate that place.

PatrioFAC

Hey everyone who is not on vacation right now!

I took the early part of the week off so I could drive to Wyoming and stock my arsenal with the most deadly fireworks known to human kind.
I am kidding. I never buy fireworks. One time a Black Cat exploded in my hand and it hurts to this day, as do all the long thin blisters I have from stepping on sparkler wires in my youth. Rememeber how they would melt to your skin? Oh the times. But even those I do not directly interact with are a menace. Little did I know that the fireworks would actually come to get me.
Casper had, on July 3rd, what they claimed was "the Nation's Largest Fireworks Finale" with the "largest, legal firework shell in the United States". Closer examination of the poorly written article tells us that it is actually the largest MINOR LEAGUE Fireworks Finale. And the mysterious "undisclosed location" where they staged the massive explosion was less than a home run from a crowded playground and 100 yards from both a bike path and another ball field.

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070630&content_id=268301&vkey=pr_t539&fext=.jsp&sid=t539

The biggest problem was that the "largest, legal firework shell in the United States" did not rise the anticipated "1200 to 1500 feet in the sky." Not even close. I would be surprised if it hit the 300 foot mark before it wholloped the eyes and ears of adults, ball players, children, and area skunks with it's atomic blast. Seriously, it barely cleared the treeline and I am sure the spread of 150 feet was not reached due to interference by LAND. If I am stumbling it is because I am still healing from the retinal burns. No, this glow was not caused by a sunburn, I was scorched by patriotism gone awry.

Actually it was the first firework explosion that scared the stink out of the skunk, but I am sure he tried to drown himself in the North Platte after the Grande Finale.

So, FAC for all of you who wish to participate!

Well I am attempting to make my mark as a Master Quizmaster, so I am limited in time. SURFSIDE IT IS again!
Yay for Surfside! Yay for free internets! Yay for cheap!
I wanted to go to the Lyric Cinema Cafe for a delicious beer and a movie, but the movie I want to see starts at 3:00 or 8:30 -- bummer.
But I highly encourage all of you who do not aspire to trivia legend to go to this movie on Friday at 8:30!



















Movie site:

http://www.chalkthefilm.com/

Lyric Cinema Cafe:

http://www.lyriccinemacafe.com/

Fireworks over Goat Island which divides NIAGARA FALLS in two:
















Fireworks behind the National Phallus:































Just don't:


















Tell on your neighbor. If the cops don't come, perhaps mention they may be illegal immigrants...




















Even today they haunt me...




















I called them "the Devil's whiskers":






































These are way more my speed:















Hooray! Independence Day! Don't blow your hands off!

Bear "OOOOH. AAAHH. Neat. Pretty." Bonney