canny granny

Four Things

Jenny has tagged me with a meme. Four Things. I am not going to do all of it but picked out three of the things

Four movies I can watch over and over

• Blade Runner,
• Dark City,
• 13th Floor,
• 12 Chairs

Four TV Shows I love

• Dr Who
  Every Dr Who that ever was (especially John Pertwee). Now David Tennant carries on the great tradition. Delightful.
• Spooks
  “They do not exist, you will never know their names, and they are all that stand between you and those who would do your country harm.” Frightening.
• The Eagle - Ørnen From Denmark. An Icelandic inspector in the Danish police force, is named chief constable of a new task force to help solve international crime. Along with a team of talented and diverse investigators he handles explosive and complex cases. Gripping.
• Kommissar Rex From Austria. Rex was stolen by criminals as a pup, but managed to escape and befriend a boy, where he helped to solve his first criminal case. Rex has an uncanny penchant for ham rolls, “Wurstsemmeln”, and catching criminals. Hilarious.

Four sites I visit daily

• Theme Lab
• Our Great Southern Land
• Blurb from the Burbs
• Mama Flo’s Place

Now the trick is to find 4 other people who are mad enough to play this ……..

Beauty is really in the eye

These two young men are putting on the ritz (and the heavy make-up) to face the judges. The competition is fierce in the annual Beauty Contest for the title of ‘Mr Sahara’.

Male beauty is a prized asset among the Wodabe tribe which inhabits the fringes of the Sahara.

What is male beauty anyway? Good health which shows in bright eyes, clear skin and strong white teeth. These boys have all that.

They’re also nice and tall like my original Hunk de Jour in an earlier post.

The mothers in Niger begin the beautifying process in a boy’s early infancy, they pull and stretch the little arms and legs out, ensuring long and slender limbs in adulthood.

Sounds a trifle screwy to me, I can’t imagine it working, but who am I to argue with generations of doting Wodabe mothers?

US exports soar to Iran

President Bush has spent a lot of time telling us all that Iran is part of the ‘Axis of Evil’ and imposing sanctions on the country. At the same time U.S. exports are soaring. They have increased more than tenfold since Bush has been in the White House.

America sent more cigarettes to Iran, at least $158 million worth under Bush, than any other products. They smoke a lot of cigarettes in Iran. And wear a lot of cosmetics too.

Exports include brassieres, bull semen, cosmetics, fur clothing, sculptures, perfume, musical instruments and various assorted weapons. Fur clothing? I must be missing something here, I thought Iran was mainly desert. (more…)

Phoning for a job in a dubious place

I’ve never really trusted telephones. My grandmother instilled a fear of electricity in me at an early age.

“Electricity is dangerous,” she said, “and phones talk in electricity. Make sure you always remember that!“. I have always remembered that.

(And no one was ever allowed to forget that my Great Aunt Sadie saw something nasty in a phone box on Labor Day in 1934.)

So it comes as no surprise to me to learn that job seekers who dialed a Maryland Job Service Hotline found themselves chatting on a sex line. Hot being the operative word here. Can you imagine the conversation? Mind boggling.

But did people who phoned the true blue original sex line find themselves talking to a vocational guidance counselor? I shudder to imagine that conversation.

It seems someone who may, or may not, still be working for the State of Maryland, put the wrong number on the State’s website. For heavens sake, we all know how easy it is to dial a wrong number, let he who is without sin cast the first stone, but I find it puzzling how numbers can be interchanged in this fashion.

You can’t tell me it’s a coincidence