This has to be a sick joke, surely.

A touching way for the little ones to show their love for Grandma and Grandpa on Valentine's Day! We laser engrave your choice of Grandma " "Grandpa " or "Grandma & Grandpa" titles and any name after the verse up to 12 characters Includes easel back and wall mount hanger. Shop.com

If my kids were showing signs of hitting on grandad, I would have serious words to say. Call me old fashioned ("You're old fashioned!") but isn't 14th February reserved for lovey-dovey signs of affection between boys and girls, men and women, who aren't in incestuous relationships? Exactly where does this commercial twist come into the equation?

ABC - song lyrics that suck

Sometimes love is so powerful on Valentines Day it can crash a network of servers. In 2005 this happened and all the spark went out of Spark networks service - their stock price crashed too, but as with all things Cupid, it all came back up again. News from Corante

The Pisstakers have moved in the real world, hence no updates these last two days. But don't despair, we are itching to get back into the groove.

Its snow time!

Ever the optimists we thought we would find a few minutes a day to keep posting. However, thanks to a freak snow storm and ensuing exhaustion from a journey that took twice as long as planned, there was no time to even give thanks for arriving alive.

We hope to keep the blog alive till we settle in properly, at which time the posts will be coming thick and fast again.

An announcement from Budget

Wrap up well in the cold weather, and remember, Budget vans rock - when you jump on the brakes and hit the snow banks on either side of the freeway.

There are ambulance chasers and then there are even cleverer sales folks who wait for the ambulance to arrive before swooping in for a sale.

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Some people ie prom queens and lantern-jawed football stars get through the annual Valentine's Day humiliation unscathed. More normal humans have a little disappointment here and there till they meet their Mr or Mrs Right and Almost Bearable. But other sad souls get so beaten up and scarred, it is a wonder they don't check into a monastery every February for their own protection. Read on.

Some themes are best left to the experts. This is one of the blackest resumés of Valentines Day you could hope to read. It has been a well visited resource for the last 10 years, and was recently updated. "Enjoy!"

We have an on-line shopping section where we find the fun in various options available. In the Amazon collection we had keywords: funny and humor. Paul McKenna's slimming book was not that funny until I read the last line of the review.

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Professing your love anonymously on February 21st is a disturbing enough event. But why add to the problems by sending a card that would freak out Freddy Kruger?

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Just when you thought it was time to relax after weeks of festivities and shopping, it's time once again to start thinking of celebrations. In marketing speak, Valentine's Day is only days away. We found a funny cartoon card where euthanasia champion, Dr Kavorkian, reveals that he really does have a heart - someone else's, and it is in his hand!

The slab and the hole in the side walk were all painted! The artist has done loads of similar great stunts to get the public to walk around or up to his creations. There is no record in our library but if anyone knows who it is, please let us know.

If you arrived by one of the following methods, then, congratulations are in order for finding this needle in a haystack. First off: You googled "Piss". Well, shame on you!

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For the 95% of visitors who don't know him, Jeremy Clarkson is the god of British car journalism. So when we dabbled with the Eat My Hamster cartoon captioning, there was nothing for it but to re-word his ecstasy when he was at the wheel of a Dodge Viper ...

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This captured the eye back in October. Just when you thought it couldn't get any more whacky in America, the engineers pushed the boat out, literally, with this Tampa house relocation.
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When life just sucks there is escape at hand with the new drug of choice for upwardly mobile folks.

At $300 a pop, however, many needy folk on lower incomes have been known to leave the pharmacy and resort to the old-fashioned method of stress relief: talking to friends, going for walks, asking grandma to look after the kids.


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Cliff Michaels is a self confessed lucky person. With way too much time and money on his hands, he sets his artistic mind and wit to producing photos, photoshopping the ones that need help, and adding great commentaries. We have featured several examples of his work...

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To quote and twist Shakespeare, sometimes a name is a name by any other name. There is a neat program called TOFU that turns any amount of sprawling text into beautiful columns for easy reading. There is also tofu the delicious/horrible food product for vegans.

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