I seem to have misplaced 17 years of progress. Some of this also visible at @UimanGwbench on Twitter
Friday, December 30, 2022
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Singing about annoyances.
While dealing with a glitter-shedding Christmas card today, I started singing, 'Craaaaft herpes, wiider than a mile...."
So, it's still a good thing I've been too lazy to learn video editing.
Or YouTube would have Audrey Hepburn singing something very different on her balcony....
If I Wasn't So Lazy, I'd Be Dangerous
If I weren't so lazy....
- I'd have learned video editing software to replace the Millennium Falcon with the P-Funk Mothership.
Friday, December 16, 2022
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Monday, December 12, 2022
Sunday, December 11, 2022
Friday, December 09, 2022
Friday, December 02, 2022
Thursday, December 01, 2022
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Married Conversations: One Concern to the Tune of Another
(Frage sits in the recliner in the living room, watching HGTV.)
(UIM, just-showered and half-dressed, strides out with determination, picks up the letter-size notepad, grabs a pen, starts scribbling and mumbling.)
(UIM, just-showered and half-dressed, strides out with determination, picks up the letter-size notepad, grabs a pen, starts scribbling and mumbling.)
(After a minute of this...)
Frage: "Should I be worried that you're mumbling 'cut you down and destroy'?"
UIM: "It's 'one song to the tune of another'. I realized you can sing the verses of Johnny Cash's 'God's Gonna Cut You Down' and Metallica's 'Seek and Destroy' to each other's tunes."
Frage: "Ah."
UIM: "But I understand you worry when your pants-less husband mumbles like that. You concerns are valid."
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Married Conversations: Saturday Wait (for a breakfast sandwich)
Frage: "I got you a different breakfast sandwich. It's called The Cure."
UIM: "Is it supposed to be a hangover remedy."
Frage: "No, it's cured meats."
UIM: "I guess I'm just glad it doesn't look like Robert Smith."
Frage: "Every time I see it, I chuckle and think, 'Friday I'm in Love'."
UIM: "But today is Saturday."
Frage: "Yes."
UIM: "Are you all out of love?"
Frage: "No."
UIM: "Because that would be an Air Supply."
Friday, October 14, 2022
Married Conversations: Something Might Be Found
(After Frage comes in, and is throwing out her coffee cup.)
Frage:"So, yeah, I got myself coffee as a little treat."
UIM: "The pool was closed, so you walked the whole time?"
Frage: "No. I swam, then walked."
UIM: " I really should just standardize it as 'How as your walk/swim?'"
Frage: "Or you could look for clues, like, my hair is wet."
UIM: "Now, listen, I am barely awake until noon, on my best days. So, don't expect too much from me and -" (realizes) "you might not be let down and goddamnit I am quoting a Gin Blossoms song."
Friday, August 12, 2022
Poo Hearts Beating In Just One Mind.
(Context is lost, but....)
Frage: "It's all about the poo with you."
... devolving into Lyric Word Replacement - 'poo' for 'two' ...
Frage: "Just the Poo of Us."
UIM: "It Takes Poo to Make a Thing Go Right."
...
UIM: "And, of course, the Spice Girls singing, 'Poo Become One'."
Tuesday, May 03, 2022
Wrapped in white tissue as cold as the - ewwwww
During the 15-minute-or-so break that Frage and I took today to get sympathy about our respective jobs...
Frage: "I'm not a manager or a supervisor, but somehow the circus is mine."
UIM: "Other folks just keep assigning you monkeys."
Frage: "And I did not want responsibility for these poo-slingers."
Frank: "Now, I'm just imagining two monkeys in cowboy outfits facing off at high noon in a town, with holsters full of poo."
Reactions by other folks after I shared the above bit:
'Backer (my cousin): "I'm going to commission someone to draw that, and put it up on the wall above my home desk."
Shell (my brother): "This town ain't big enough for the poo of us."
UIM: "I am now scared `Backer will make it an NFT with that title, and somehow I'll be responsible legally for whoever he sells it to."
Stringer (my other brother): "Non-flingable turds."
Wednesday, February 09, 2022
Songs That Are Fun To Sing in Fred Schneider's Voice
most Doors songs, but especially Roadhouse Blues (as noted here: https://thegroupwbench.blogspot.com/2021/10/same-situation-different-emphasis.html )
Mother, Danzig
Mother, Danzig
Forgot About Dre, Dr. Dre and Eminem
Friday, January 07, 2022
Nerf and Theft
(During a Zoom meeting.)
Meeting co-ordinator "Hey, UIM, is that a Nerf gun behind you?"
(UIM unmutes, nods, grabs the Nerf gun, and holds it closer to the screen.)
UIM: "Yeah. Doesn't work. Five bucks in a thrift shop."
Developer: "I saw the orange bit and thought it was a traffic cone."
UIM: "No, in my family, we steal those. We don't pay five bucks for them in a thrift shop."
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Some of the responses when I texted this to family members:
My brother, Shell: "Stop revealing family secrets."
My other brother, Stringer: "I have two of them in my shed." (He did not clarify whether he meant cones or Nerf guns.)
My cousin, `Backer: "Of course we don't- we already paid for them with gas taxes."
Meeting co-ordinator "Hey, UIM, is that a Nerf gun behind you?"
(UIM unmutes, nods, grabs the Nerf gun, and holds it closer to the screen.)
UIM: "Yeah. Doesn't work. Five bucks in a thrift shop."
Developer: "I saw the orange bit and thought it was a traffic cone."
UIM: "No, in my family, we steal those. We don't pay five bucks for them in a thrift shop."
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Some of the responses when I texted this to family members:
My brother, Shell: "Stop revealing family secrets."
My other brother, Stringer: "I have two of them in my shed." (He did not clarify whether he meant cones or Nerf guns.)
My cousin, `Backer: "Of course we don't- we already paid for them with gas taxes."
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