Year: 2007

A friend of mine writes a bi-weekly humor column where one of the columns was about how corn is taking over everything with the new ethanol fuel, and how many items are made from corn products. I thought it would…

Tired of counting money when playing Monopoly? “Oh wait, I don’t have enough singles, can you trade me a $10 for ten singles?” Don’t worry about that anymore! Now with Electronic Banking Monopoly, each player gets their own credit card.…

I hereby declare the day after Christmas to be called “Christmas Adam.” Christmas Eve is the day before Christmas, so it only makes sense to declare Christmas Adam for December 26. It’s really cool how Christmas is such an important…

Almighty powerful God. The one who can move mountains. Who formed the planet with His hands. That same God. He was funneled into a baby. All that glorious power squeeezed into a baby. Christmas is an amazing day. You’ve heard…

Christmas shopping. ta la la. ta la la. Christmas shoooooping. That should be a song. Why is there no song about Christmas shopping? All the stores could play it! Are there any songs about Christmas shopping?

Tribune Company with new CEO Sam Zell is now owned by the Tribune employees and nobody else. This morning the Tribune Tower features a new banner in the lobby stating, “YOU Own This Place Now!” What a great sign! Everyone…

Note in the literal English translation it says, “Blessed boy in curly hair.”

(photo courtesy Chicago Tribune) Oh Pigeon Man of Lincoln Square, With fire hydrant as your chair, You fed the pigeons with such care. You even let them sit in your hair! In 2007 a Chevrolet Geo van Struck Mr. Joseph…

Would you rather meet your great great grandparents or your great great grandchildren? This is an excellent question from Table Topics. Meeting your great great grandparents is a solid choice, because it’s nice to know where you came from and…

Mars is a pretty cool planet, because Marvin Martian lives on it. Can you name any other planets that have a cartoon character that was either born or lives there? There’s the Great Gazoo (from the Flintstones), but he’s from…

(image courtesy northwestern.edu) (image courtesy aerospaceweb.org) What is your favorite planet? What is your favorite dinosaur? My answer is in the comments. Please leave your answers in the comments.

How high is the river near you? The U.S. Geological Survey has real-time water data! You can look up the past 31 days of water activity. Pictured above is a graph for the Chicago River at Columbus Drive (that’s right…

I bought a winter jacket at the Water Tower Macy’s and had to carry it back to work down Michigan Avenue. I have to admit I felt pretty self-conscious about it, since most Chicagoans hate Macy’s for killing off Marshall…

Chicago water is so popular that people bring it back home by the gallon. One of my friends at work told me about how an out-of-state relative of his requested that he bottle up a few gallons of Chicago water…

Last week, the historical landmark Wrigley Building was testing out some new lights in their courtyard. One of the workers told me that he was concerned that they were too big. I thought they looked just fine and told him…

The newest fashion accessory. Crocheted kneepads. Totally. For when women wear a dress with boots and her knees are exposed. Gotta keep those knees warm in the winter. I can even see a guy wearing them over pants.

There should be one location every year where Chicago has good old fashioned snowball fight. Probably in Grant Park somewhere. Whaddya think? More snow posts on spudart: ‚Ä¢ Fun in the snow: Leave snowballs at famous places ‚Ä¢ Fun in…

My snowball fort. Just try to break through it!

Many of the Reps in the Illinois House have Metra stations in their district. However, many of these Reps did not vote to pass funding for Metra. $400 billion is needed a year for Metra, CTA and Pace. Here’s a…

Chicago is still in great need of funding for public transit. The Illinois House of Representatives voted on bill SB307 on 11/28/2007, but didn’t pass it. This bill would have used primarily gas tax to fund the needed four billion…

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Go to freetranslation.com, translate some English into another language, and then convert it back to english. ENGLISH: I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under…

What do you want?

There should be some sort of program where you can enter a word, say “cat” and then it would generate a palindrome using the word “cat.” e.g. “Was it a cat I saw?” (fyi, palindromes are phrases where it reads…

In the 29 years since 1978, USA has won Air Hockey World Championships 27 times. Talk about dominance. Air Hockey is America’s sport! Tim Weissman won eight times in a row. He should be in the top 100 American athletes…

The McDonalds by me closes at night, but the drive-thru is open 24 hours. They don’t let you walk up to the drive-thru, but they let you come via bicycle. But how about a kick scooter? Or maybe roller blades?

Papergirl asked a great question, “You can have a year to do whatever it is that you want to do. Don’t worry about money. What’ll it be?” Off the top of my head, I’d travel across the world and find…

Today (Monday, November 19) is 733,000th day since January 1, 0001. Seven hundred thirty-three thousand days. That’s a lot. 733,000 pennies would weigh 2.29 tons. But then check this out: A million pennies visualized. Doesn’t look like much, eh?

noonionon demand 1) The fast way of saying “No onion on” or “No onions please.”

GWIK = get with it, kid. developed via IM with coworker friend, L: L: hey! you’re not at the staff meeting anymore! spudart: (Autoreply) 1:30pm staff meeting L: get with it, kid! spudart: GWIK

New name for Marshmellows: bonemellows or skinmellows Marshmellows are made from bone, skin, and sugar? GROSS! They should be called bonemellows or skinmellows, so people are aware of this. I will NOW start calling marshmellows that. Oh what a party…