Two Fridays ago, I had plans to go to the Air Force Academy hockey game with my friend Evelyn, from the physics department, and her brother-in-law. We figured we could buy tickets when we got there, but we were very very wrong. Apparently, they were giving away free pizza and hot dogs at the game. Also it was mullet night. Which meant that they were giving out mullets, or maybe you got extra perks and benefits if you had a mullet... I don't know, but what I do know is that we didn't get into the game. So, instead, we decided to go to the movies. But, when we got to the theater, the only thing that was playing that we wouldn't have to wait an hour or more for was
Madagascar 2. So we said what the heck and bought tickets for
Madagascar 2. It was a lot of 6- through 10-year-olds, a lot of parents of 6- through 10-year-olds, and us, wearing loads of Air Force Hockey paraphernalia, in the movie theater. After the movie, I kept on trying to joke that I couldn't follow the movie at all, because I never saw
Madagascar 1. I stole the joke from
Seinfeld. George said he hated
Home Alone 2 because he never saw
Home Alone 1, so he didn't know what was going on. They chuckled the first few times I told the joke, but after I said for about the sixth time, I think they were getting annoyed. Obviously they don't have my "unique" sense of humor. I thought that joke was gold.
Gold, baby, gold!
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Gold, Baby, gold! I too couldn't follow Madagascar 2 since I didn't watch Madagascar 1. How are you doing?
Posted by: Leonard Suess | Wednesday, February 4, 2009 8:40 PM
Hey Len, long time no hear. I heard through the grapevine a while ago that you were at NASA now. How's the little one doing?
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Why do they call it Ovaltine? The mug is round. The jar is round. They should call it round tine. That's gold, Jerry! Gold!
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Anyway, I'm doing pretty well. Teaching still. The equivalent of Rice's 102/126 E&M class. We just switched to a new book, Wolfson, and it turns out that one of the reviewers is David Bixler. Not sure if you'd remember him, he was H.'s teacher at San Angelo and my senior student when I started on the SPINS experiment. Anyway, he's given credit right at the front of the book. With about 100 other reviewers. But credit nonetheless.
Anyway, I don't know if you have my email address, but I'll send you a message in the next day or so. I can tell you all of the crazy scandalous stuff I'm up to that I don't want the whole intergoogles to know about, or at least the 1.5 people on the intergoogles who visit my site on a semi-annual basis (not sure how they count .5 of a person, but I assume the sitemeter knows what it's doing).
Posted by: Fred Kontur | Wednesday, February 4, 2009 9:20 PM
Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Tanesia | Friday, April 24, 2009 9:58 PM