Emily’s celebrating her eleventy-first blog post with a contest, and the more comments she gets, the more prizes she’ll award! Leave your comment with a link to your favorite blog post by December 7.
Lucia’s having a contest – identify which Barbara Walker stitch patterns she used for her charity knitathon blanket squares. Contest is open until someone identifies all the squares or until December 4.
Do you think Chaos and Mayhem were studying up on superpowers? The book you can barely see underneath May is Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman; it’s next on my reading list.
“Neener, neener, May – I’m going to have a better superpower than you – I’m going to be able to remove the bungee cords from the closet doors AND get the food container open!” -Chaos
“Hmph.” -Mayhem
You may or may not remember how easily amused I am by signage and its unintended messages. This first picture was from a walk I took a few weeks ago. Embiggen, and pay particular attention to the yellow sign and its location… 🙂
I took a rather chilly walk around Lake of the Isles Wednesday. The warming house was already out! I guess the Park & Recreation Board believes in being very prepared, since the ice probably won’t be safe until late December or early January. Maybe this year the ice will sturdy enough so I can skate around the islands.
You’d have to be completely crazy to go out on the ice right now even without this warning sign, since there wasn’t any ice on Sunday. Also, based on the signage, if you are crazy enough to go out and fall through the ice, there’s a high probability that you will be eaten by a giant, sure-to-be-ravenous muskellunge. It’d serve you right, eh? 😉
For those of you following along at home, here’s my annotated guide to Lake of the Isles:
As I was breaking down the case from my beloved gluten-free New Grist beer, I noticed that it, too, was annotated…
Sign, sign. Everywhere a sign. Or even a “buttmonkey space explosion.” Too bizarre, Chris.
I’m not sure which sounds worse.. falling through the ice and being eaten by a giant fish or drinking that beer and having a ‘buttmonkey space explosion”. Unfortunately now I also have that terrible Quiznos commercial with the “spongemonkeys” in it running through my head. It is far too early for this silliness.. lol.
don’t tell me your blog ate my comment again. grumble.
Giggle 🙂
Buttmonkey Space Explosion??!!
Love the signs! I obey the “don’t swim with the alligators” signs when I visit Florida, but I wasn’t aware I had to be careful of the man- and woman- and dog-eating muskies at Lake of the Isles.
(Cats have too much sense to enter the water — or cross the illusory ice — and be eaten.)
Well as long as the butt monkey explodes between the load/unload signs, I guess we’ll be okay.
Ah Chaos, that is a great super power, but Mays cuteness ray would just make any nearby human undo the bungee cords for her. Sorry bud.
Huh? Someone wrote that on the case?! Oh, too funny!
I swear my guys have figured out how to get into the cupboards and their food container while I’m not home… Wouldn’t be surprised if the turned on the TV and drank Mojitos either.
(You just know that some numskull will try out the ice, just because…)
Eeew! An unload zone for humans right in front of someone’s house?!
Hahahaha! Load/Unload zone. Just to be perfectly clear. Heaven forbid someone load or unload somewhere other than the zone. 😉
Soon I Will Be Invincible recently made the rounds at our house. I’d be interested in hearing what you think of it. It was very popular with everyone but me…
Eh – Muskie’s prefer baby ducks and frogs to people. I’d be more worried about the Buttmonkeys – better tell Chaos and Mayhem..
Buttmonkeys are dangerous! Eeee!
LOL…buttmonkeys reminds me of something completely inappropriate from my younger days…. Don’t worry, they won’t harm the kitties.
I believe Holli might have had a few buttmonkey explosions on the way to the airport last night making it very cold in the car – if you catch my “drift”!!
buttmonkeys and porta-potty jokes? who’s blog is this?
You were extra careful when you opened the beer, right?
Clearly whoever sold you that beer knows about your love of random signage. I’m going to ponder what exactly a buttmonkey space explosion is for about six seconds. Nope. No idea. But I will drink to it!
that hilarious photo of the porta-potty brings a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘take a load off’ (heh heh)
Let me know how that superpower book is.
Gotta love odd signage.
Man, muskies make me think twice about dipping toe into the Great Lakes!
Chilly gulls…. *snort*
Well dang it. I wanted a story about someone being eaten by a giant muskie.
Bungee cords. So your kitties are talented. One of the women I work with has a Siamese who opens drawers and ransacks the contents.
Ice. I am just grateful the temperature FINALLY dropped out of the 70s. Stupid global warming. Like it isn’t hot enough in the Central Valley.
once I got past the annotations on your beer, I had to wonder who named the brewery – it’s right on the river! (I wonder if they moved it… then again, Miller’s not really near the river or the lake. hmmm.)
Still lol at those signs, too funny. Have a great weekend
My husband is an IT person (well, geek, really) and one of his co-workers has proclaimed himself the “office monkey”. Except that they guy is so clueless that anything he touches turns to crap. So my husband and I refer to him as the “buttmonkey” or the more crass version of that. He’s not 21, so that wasn’t his case of beer. 🙂
Load/Unload.
That is HYSTERICAL.
I have several thoughts (brace yourself)
Item 1: You pictures are killing me today! LMAO ROFLOL etc….
Item 2: I know where there is ice safe enough to skate on. I can be found in its proximity most evenings. Also – it has coffee available. Maybe if the outside ice doesn’t behave we can do inside ice together.
Item 3: How was the beer? Did the alcohol give you a headache?
Chaos, quit sticking your tongue out at your sister…it’s not nice.
lolol
(another one of those “How on earth did you get that shot, Chris?” pictures…)
(((Hugs)))
There are muskies in LotI? Good grief, why? I cannot imagine there are that many fisherman in Kenwood. But what do I know.
Love your signage documentation.
Chaos is sticking out his tongue at Mayhem! Go Chaos! Your superpower is going to come in handy.
Those are some signs, Chris! But the buttmonkey annotation on the beer – – – ?!
Bungee cords? Wow. Chaos must be incredibly strong if you have to use bungees to keep him out of the food.
I love crazy signage — thanks for the laugh!
I always loved to read National Lampoon just for those types of signs!
hmmm, maybe Chaos’ super power is that he can turn himself into two kitties, although one is a tad smaller. So he’s only fooling you with Mae and thus he’s getting twice the food.
LOL at the signs! Although I’m starting to wonder about Minnesota with giant ravenous fish, buttmonkey space explosions, and uh their load unload zones. 🙂
Cooollll… gluten free beer! I like odd signs too. And just odd things in general. Or are they just ordinary and I think they’re odd?
“Load/Unload” *snicker*
Maybe there’s an icecube in the water somewhere?
Muskies sound scarier by their full name “Muskellunge”. thanks for the nightmares! The unload zone was a hoot.
Wow Chaos really is sticking his tongue out at May–great shot! Sometimes my cat will groom herself for a while and then kind of forget and leave her tongue sticking out just a bit. I was always worried there was something a bit … not right … with her.
I love the signs!!! Perhaps its an ominous sign of climate change–maybe 50 years ago when the bureaucratic regs regarding timing of official city signage were laid down, there was always ice on 1 Dec???? Why am I always the bringer of bad thoughts?
re: Soon I will be invincible: I listened to it a couple weeks ago. It was pretty good. Not exactly what I was hoping for…but pretty good. How’s that for a very informative, helpful book review? 🙂
Thanks for such an awesomely funny post! I was having a pretty crappy Sat. morning, and you just made me laugh out loud and completely brightened my day.
The Lakefront Brewery has a pretty good tour. They have the old slide from the Milwaukee County Stadium in the brewery. You know, the one that Bernie Brewer used to slide down into a big stein of beer. Darn these PC days…
I have no idea what that means on your beer case but it is causing a laughter explosion here 😉 oh I miss ice skating too — but I did mine in a rink near my house (where that home show was in grand rapids) once a week when there was no one there to see how bad I was at it! 🙂
I love the load/unload sign! That is hilarious!