I think it's a great idea!! I dare you and then I want to know what happens.

Double Dog Dare you.

You still can't beat we Canucks on the price of gas.
Price per litre? $1.20.
Litres per gallon? 3.79
Price per gallon? $4.55
x .92 (exchange) = $4.19 American dollars for one gallon of gasoline.

Thank god I have a bicycle!

Okay those stickers are a bit much!
Love the hat and yarn.

Yesterday I filmed my odometer turn from 99999 to 100000, then I pulled over and asked a stranger to take my picture with my car. He did but looked at me like I was nuts, which I am, so all was cool.

I can see you in the rear view mirror, cute.

clearly, your ex has no sense of humor, whatsoever.

and you may be quitting your day job, however, to be a published author....soon enough, I'm sure.

Whaaaa?! Gas in L.A. is now CHEAPER than where I live! Boo, Grand-Rapids-MI gas prices, boo.

Hehe...don't jump. I think it's funny :)

Thanks for the pictures of LA. I have figure out I like LA better vicariously, verses actually living/driving there.

I think that's a fantastic idea and a great way to see if a date has potential!

Heh, yesterday was the last day of school in my district and many of my kids (I'm a school bus driver) had their tee-shirts autographed by their teachers and classmates. As each one of them got on, I'd look horrified and say "Gee! Someone wrote all over your shirt!" The funniest thing (to my easily amused little mind) was that every one of them had to look down to confirm it.

Also, looooooooove the SWS although I haven't done anything with my six balls of natural blue other than fondle them when no one's looking.

Hehe...don't jump. I think it's funny :)

Thanks for the pictures of LA. I have figured out that I like LA better vicariously, verses actually living/driving there.

That's a great idea. In Delaware we had this diner for years that had a huge Paul Bunyan and Babe on the highway, complete with a covered wagon jungle gym for the kiddies. I knew it was meant to be when my hubby (who lived on the other side of the state) confessed he had posed with Paul for photos when he was a kid, and I had done the same thing. Remembering my childhood makes me a very humble person...

I've been on a hat-knitting kick for the last six months and it's to the point where my knitting group is giving me serious grief about it. Pooh on them. I love knitting hats! May your ride home tonight be uneventful and faster than you expected!

My ex-husband didn't think that making lizard faces (picture stretching your mouth and sticking your tongue out repeatedly lizard-esque) in public was funny either. What's the old saying? "Better to have loved and lost than to have lived with that lizard-face-hating jerk for the rest of my life!" LOL Just replace the lizard part with yelling at suicidal cows. ;)

If I were to come upon this scene in my office bathroom, I'd back away slowly and hope that you hadn't seen me. Or, if I was feeling spunky, I'd drag you into some natural light and take the picture for you! I hate having to take bathroom pics of myself.

Ooops, I commented twice :( I blame it on my stir-crazy confinement issues here. It is so nice outside! Stupid work…

Beautiful hat, love that yarn.
I think it's a great idea for weeding out the 'no humour riff raff'!

Ok, very funny post, but I got stuck on the part where you were already at work at 5:30 AM. Good lord, it makes me sleepy just thinking about it. I have to go have a nap now.

Any guy who doesn't at least pretend it's funny needs to take a long hike on a short cliff. Uptight = not fun relationship.

I'm amazed the bumper sticker guy is allowed to drive around with all that stuff stuck to his window.

A sense of humor in a relationship is PARAMOUNT!!! I still laugh at the funny things my DH says, and this after nearly 37 years of marriage.

Ack! You didn't tell me there would be MATH! I didn't study!

You've got ME taking pictures of our gas station signs now, btw. Proof that insanity is contagious.

But I can live with THAT. My SO always says he has a "great sense of humor" and he doesn't often laugh out loud. He just smiles bigly.

Well, last night we watched 'Borat' and he was actually laughing out loud and it was really cute.

And I would laugh at "Don't jump" but he wouldn't and I wonder if it's just a guy thing.

It's hot and I need more sleep.

I was on a felted hat kick this winter with Paton's SWS. Love it. Felts like a dream.

That being said, I live in PA and can actually wear the wool hats...sometimes. And though I have no argument with you knitting hats if that rows your boat, I'm still trying to figure out what you do with all those wooly hats in LA. (Charity knitting maybe?) I can't wear wooly hats here come about March.

I would totally laugh at "Don't jump!" and also at "You have something stuck on your window!" And I think it is an EXCELLENT date-gauge; if he laughs, he's all right.

Of course, I am the person who moos when she drives past a field full of cows. :)

I'd laugh even more if you yelled "Jump! Jump!"

I think that man is happy and laughing because he's the one that all that money for the overpriced gas is going to. He's saying "HAHAHA! Thanks for buying gas! Look at all the hats I can afford to buy and toss around now!"

That is a very pretty hat. You get to work at 5:30 am, and you're not the only one?

"Don't jump" sounds like a good test. If I were dating (which, let the record show, I have no desire to do), I would confess that I lost my car keys for a week and had to ask a cat to help me find them. That would probably work.

Or when you go to a movie with your date and the lights start to go dim, you can shout, "I'm GOING BLIND!"

Have you been by that McMansion in Hancock Park over off of 3rd, west of Larchmont?! The one with, like, eleventy-hunnerd "David" statutes around the drive?

I'd love to hear your commentary on that.

The hat is too cute on you! What you need is a tiny tripod...they have them at Target or Walmart etc. They fit perfect in a camera case...only about 5" high. Comes in very handy for us crazy knitters taking pictures of ourselves.

I'm totally stealing that joke.

Oh lordy, Julie, I moo at cows too. There are a lot of them here in Michigan so I moo a lot.

RobynE, I'm in Lansing and our gas prices are also at least 10 cents higher than the ones in Laurie's sign. (By the way, hi, Laurie! Just conversing with other commenters here! Love your blog!)

Did anyone else hear the NPR report that it isn't scarcity or shut-downs causing the current high gas prices, but rather the record-high profits of the oil refineries?

I went to Michaels yesterday to try to find the fabulous Patons SWS, but they didn't have it. I was very sad. But your hat will be very nice. Even if you are the only one that can find this yarn. Oh, well , apprently you are special. Or maybe it is just a make believe yarn in Laurieland.

I just saw a car yesterday with the same "Dog is my co-pilot" bumper sticker. And I live in Massachusetts.

Okay...I would have howled at you trying to yell to that guy with all the bumper stickers. My mom used to have a car with a sunroof, and once when I was out with her I noticed my brother's fake bottle of mustard in the back seat (you know the ones where the string comes out when you squeeze it?). Well...I picked it up and for some reason unbeknownst to me, I started squirting it out the sunroof. My mother looked at me like I had grown a tail, but I thought it was the funniest thing ever.

Hey Laurie! You need this!

http://www.kittykeyboardkover.com/

Anyway, back to your post--cute hat! I'm going to have to get me some of that SWS! The Michael's stores here in Colorado have a bunch of novelty yarn on sale for $2/ball, and some of it is even nice. There's a ribbon yarn I'm going to be making into Christmas scarves.

Sense of humor is vital vital vital! And it has to at least overlap considerably, even if it doesn't quite match. Otherwise, you're DOOMED. I used to give my dates one of my Edward Gorey books and see if they laughed or looked at me like they were afraid of me now. Your version is better, since it's spontaneous and they don't know that it might be a test.

OH! I forgot! Bumper stickers are a big deal around here, and one of my very very favorites says, "Isis! Isis! Ra - Ra - Ra!"

OK... one time I was in a supermarket near/around Sandy Eggo with a guy I was dating. Being new to Callyfornya and all, I was looking in the refrigerator case to see what kind of stuff they had that was different.

The guy I was dating came up to me and said something about the cheese, and I suddenly said to him VERY loudly, "KISS YOU? I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU!"

All these people turned around to LOOK at him. He turned beet red and he left the store.

I don't know why he didn't leave me there, but he waited in the car for me.

[Later, we had a baby, then a deevorce.]

Terrific date test! I would laugh, but I'm female so that's maybe not that helpful to you except as affirmation. Any man who doesn't at least smile affectionately at that gets put back on the "someone else can have him" pile.

Also, you are at work at 5:30 in the morning? Good god, woman, how early do your buses start running over there?

You can so totally come and play with me any time! That kind of humor totally cracks me up. And I get a two-fer, since it mortifies my ten year old.

Life's too short to not be silly, Auntie, and way too short to date men who don't like silly girls.

Ha! Snork, giggle! I love it. I also love The Other Ruth's comment. I'm so doing BOTH of those today. And, since I'm in Vegas right now, I'm sure I'll find SOMETHING on top of a building to yell at in front of new Italiano Boy Toy.

That's a great date test. Well, maybe not on the first date ... but definitely any guy worthy of you would get your great sense of humor. My personal test is to see if a date ignores my cat or says something like "I HATE CATS" when I say I have a cat. It's bad manners to insult someone's pet of choice and it's bad manners to not smile (at the very least) when someone is making a funny joke.

Also, wow, at work at 5:30 a.m.! I feel like a slug.

I knit hats all year round, too, but then I live in snowy NH. I never put away the woolies! (It was 37 degrees 2 nights ago.)

I'm stuck on that being-at-work already at 5:30, too, especially with a bus ride before it! You ARE crazy!

Drew WOULD laugh. Every time he drives by a cemetery he says "People are just dying to get into that place..."

And:
Erma Bombeck once said "The number of bumper stickers on a car is reversely proportional to the I.Q. of the owner."
I'm just sayin'.

I didn't watch AI (I'm stuck on Shear Genius) but I hear Blake didn't win.
What do ya'll think about that?

Yeah, that guy on the Bijan ads has been giddy for about 20 years. He doesn't seem to age, either. I'll have what he's having.

Don't jump! Hee! Yeah, I'd laugh at that. I'll have to try that in Vegas too and see if DH laughs.

If your date knows you're making a joke, he should laugh regardless. I sure laughed at enough college guys' jokes back in the day. All college guys think they're hilarious.

I'm just cracking up here with the post and all the comments. I'm with Drew, I'd be yelling "Jump! Save yourself!"

I can't wait until I'm done with my latest knitting neverbedone project so I can start in again with hats. I love knitting hats! Even more than wearing them (hey, California here too). I'm itching to get to an SWS hat to go with my SWS scarf.

Love to tell people, surely, and then hope they reply in Airplane humor....

"Surely, you must be joking. No, I am quite serious, and don't call me Shirley."

Devil is right. Bijan has been like that for over 20 years and doesn't age. Good riddance on the ex, your fans love your humor. Good luck with project!

I've seen that bumper sticker before - it's from a dog 'zine called The Bark (www.thebark.com). The magazine's kind of cool; I like dogs, but sometimes their whole attitude can be a bit hipper-than-thou. Don't you lose "cool points" when you try too hard?

Anyway, now that finals are done I'm back to the knitting. I need to resume my pile of unfinished projects - the scarf for Mom, possible afghan for Dad - so that I can actually make something FOR MYSELF. Yeesh.

Glad you're doing well, CAP. Keep us updated on the book's progress! :)

Hey, I need that had to go with the Patons-Natural Earth scarf I made a couple of months ago! Isn't that stuff just yummy? Makes you want to roll around nekked in it. So far, it's the only yarn I've purchased that Creature has shown interest in messing with. My cat has good taste in yarn ... literally.

When I go to the library and walk past the art books I invariable yell, "Where did vanGogh?" Then proceed to laugh out loud. My niece refuses to go with me now. Whimp. And, she will no longer accompany me to the grocery store due to my I singing, and dancing, to the Musack. Yes, I am an embarrassment to the family. Ah well.

1. If I walked in on someone taking a photo in the ladies room I would first jump in the pic with them, then take one for them - preferably in better lighting than what ladies rooms typically offer.

2. LOVE LOVE LOVE the Patons SWS. I would run out and buy some if I were not currently on a yarn buying moratorium.

3. I am TOTALLY stealing your "DONT JUMP!" joke. Unfortunately, I don't think there are many buildings with statues on top in the greater Sacramento area - but I will be on the look out.

I have to congratulate you on your deadline ethics. See, me? I would've just assumed that OF COURSE the person setting the project deadline hadn't realized that Monday was a holiday because if they had then OF COURSE the project would be due on Tuesday and so by turning it in on Tuesday I would actually be helping them to accomplish what they OF COURSE meant to do all along ;-)

I will perform just about any amount of deadline and mental/ethical gymnastics to avoid the awful fate of having to be at work at 5:30 AM. Good Lord, girl, what time did you have to get up to accomplish THAT?

((Shudder))

Yeah - what the heck are you doing at Guys In Ties at 5:30 in the morning??? I can't even get out of bed until 5:45 at least! Do you do this often??? Is it the days you drive to work? No? There are busses running that early? blech...

Great yarn, btw.

My cousin will pull up to people on the street and ask "Have you seen my goat?"

Absolutely do the weird humor test!
if a guy doesn't immediately get on board OR start trying to escalate, (as a friend of mine likes to say...) NEXT!
I had BF's who would walk away, whine or stare at me like I'd grown another eye, and they would soon be gone. BUT- the guy who, when I jokingly said that my high school friends were muscle-fixated "Bench Bunnies" who hung around the basketball team, whereas _I_ lusted after smart boys and lingered outside chess club meetings...so I was a "Geek-Bunny"...THIS one showed up to our first date with a bouquet of organic carrots and a ribbon tied around their lovely feathery tops.
Reader, I married him.
And yes, he still carries my jokes another step farther and people think we're BOTH nuts!

my favorite bumpersticker of the week:

Zeus is God
Read the Iliad

I used to have a "Dog is my co-pilot" sticker. It's from the "the Bark" which is a fun, health, lifestyle magazine for dogs and their people.

So my interpretation is that for you a late bus home is during rush hour and not actually, you know, LATE, because you get there at some inhuman hour of the morning.

Me, I went to bed at 3:30 AM and got up probably about your lunch time.

Another fun way to amuse yourself and root out the riff raff is to ask for your order for here in the drive thru. Or ask to see the wine list. I don't know why I think that is so funny - maybe because I'm 8 years old?? Hehe

Also, in high school, friends and I used to torment a fellow classmate whol worked the Kentucky Fried Chicken drive-thru by ordering "a big mac, large onion rings, and a frosty"

OK, still trying to wrap my head around the fact that you were AT WORK at 5:30 a.m. If I didn't know better, I'd swear you were in the military!!

My husband says stuff like that all the time. We drove past a truck hauling hay this afternoon & he said, "Hey!" And then proceeded to make a whole lot of hay-related one-liners.

I saw a funny bumper sticker in the Target parking lot today--"I brake for animals. I speed up for small children." And one I saw over the weekend: "I used to have nice things and a wolf. Now I just have a wolf."

That is so not a bad idea. I think it's a perfect litmus test!

Eventually take him to the bbq place. But maybe not on the first date. :-)

hmmm... DO you realize it's almost the end of Deadliest Catch?? Opilio season is almost done, and aside from next Tuesday night when Mike speaks with the captains about what they do when no on their boats, it's almost done. Over, no more Deadliest Catch. What am I going to do without my weekly dose of Phil? I will not survive without his smoke filled, profanity-laden rants about his kids or broken propellers. Or Sig, with his sarcasm and expressive eyebrows?? I can only do some much wine-fueled knitting-i tend to fall asleep.

I need some more cats to take up my time, I guess.

I am with Drew! And, yes, I think that may be a great litmus test for a date. Heee...heeee....

First - as a sometime metro commuter I too try to find joy in excess knitting time.
Second - I know someone who uses appreciation for the Snoopy dance as a litmus test. So, ya know...

Gee-zus! I also just stopped dead when you said you were at work at five-freaking-thirty AM! That's just cruel and unusual punishment!

When I lived in Ypsilanti, Mich. (pronounced IPsalanti, not YIPsalante), our house was down the street from a drive-through dairy store/mini mart with a large cow on top of it. I never thought to yell at the cow. Decorate it seasonally, yes, but not yell at it.

My favorite bumper sticker (seen in Ann Arbor; it requires a little knowledge about different schools of Buddhism) -- "My Other Vehicle is the Mahayanna."

I love hazing. It's so useful to weed out the riff raff.
I would laugh at your joke. But then again, I am also like a 10 year old. So nanny nanny boo boo!
cute hat. cute picture. I would pee myslef if I walked in on a bathroom photo shoot!

The yarn is beautiful. Flaunt the hat, even though it's the middle of May and you're infiltrating the heart of corporate America. Maybe next time, the confused interloper will even help you take pictures!

once upon a time i went out with a man who asked ME where we should eat. . . as a single mom, i told him i didn't care as long as it didn't have food in wrappers or toys. he stuck out his lip and said "aw man, mcdonald's has whateverwhatever in their happy meals this week and i'm trying to collect all 8!" flash forward five years, we're happily married!!! sense of humor is everything!

Paton SWS is great--have you tried knitting it diagonally?

look at this design, stocking knit and reverse stocking knit..
http://golden-apples.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-can-seem-blunt.html
(scoll down) its Natural Plum, but the same idea works with other colors.

"What...? It sounded like a good idea...."

Sounds like a good idea to me! I knew that friends of mine (now married) were perfect for each other when they were the only two that killed themselves laughing over the joke "What's brown and sticky?" ....
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..."A stick."

I am usually a lurker (actually a new lurker), but I have to say that your idea re:yelling at the fake cow. When my now husband and I were first dating, I had just returned from Austraila- where you drive down the road and see herds of kangaroos munching grass or whatever along the side of the road. (Isn't that COOL?) So we were driving in the mountains here in Oregon, and I said, "Do you think there are ANY kangaroos out here? Like maybe 1?" And he replied, without missing a beat, "Well there ARE those snow kangaroos." Which now that it is all typed out sounds not funny at all, but it was. And I loved that he played along with me. We've been together for 8 years now and he still plays. :)

That gas station is only a few blocks away from where Frank and I live! what were you doing in West LA????

My ex-husband didn't think anything was funny. He was born old and just got older. I LOVE your date-tester; life's too short to spend time with someone who doesn't revel in absurdities. Two confessions: I also moo at grazing cows, and I put my sunroof to good use: in stalled traffic, I pull out a bottle of bubbles and start blowing them out the roof. Wonder what the guy behind me thinks?

There is a herd of black cows with a wide white stripe around the middle near my house. I call them the police cows. Every time I drive by, I am compelled to yell "Moo Ooo Moo Ooo Moo Ooo" because they're obviously European Police Cows.

Sounds perfectly logical to me. After all, a man with no sense of humor cannot love cats. A man who does not love cats does not deserve to get any action. Nor be featured on Deadlist Catch.

They can't all be Blakes. I only wish he would come back to the show. And take his shirt off. Yah... fishing with no shirt...

I think we've established that you and I come from the same stock, so I find your "Don't jump," hilarious. My sister and I say, "Hi Girls" every time we pass a cow pasture. Oh, and when someone is paged at work--"Desmond to reception, please. Desmond to reception"--I shout back, "Don't go, Des. It's a trap."
At least I'm amused.

I also loved the "There's something on your window," gag.

What's with that Dagny person's comment?

I think it's a great idea! I always made my dates take the wierdness test (although with some, I started out with a really low wierdness factor). My husband won. He accidentally went out the emergency door at a movie while looking for the restroom, and was able to come back in smiling and wave at the audience, while the emergency alarm was going off. :) I love that guy...

Hey, I think bumper sticker guy left you that comment.

Ha Ha!! I Love it!!
I knew my man was for me when he laughed at all my made up words, like meat-fat and Snifty ( combo of So & Nifty) and didnt freak out when I get out of my car to run and push the walk across the street button at intersections when im sick of waiting for the light to change. he actually said "Wish I'd thought of that." And he still goes shopping with me even though I wear pj's and sing along with the music with cucumbers in the produce section.

Wah ha ha ha! You are funny. Not that I'm campaigning to be your next date... What's going on with your blog roll? Did you get blog spammed?

I get spammed in the comments all day every day. Usually they just do it on old posts, so boring.

Oh, and I deleted it for the people who realize the comments now make no sense LOL

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . . please tell me that that's not Sobakowa's manifesto!

I hope it wasn't her manifesto!

I wish I could meet up with a comment spammer in a dark alley. I can guarandamnteeyou who would come out on top in that scuffle. I think spam is the lowliest of the low.

Darnit! We're all so freakin funny, and we live far too far apart! Now I wanna have a party at the local Dairy Queen with ALL of you, yell at the cow on the roof not to jump, decorate it seasonally and end up singing karaoke in the produce aisle with Camie!!!

The CatMan and I have a little road trip game we like to play (and by 'we', I mean 'me'). I pop in a favorite CD (oh, say 80's Dance that I burned off of iTunes) and sing along at the top of my very off-tune lungs. At all appropriate choruses, I fling an arm in the direction of the CatMan (who would be driving and patently NOT looking at me) and extend my index finger as a microphone for him to sing. As of today (at 22 years of marriage) he hasn't gotten the clue he's supposed to sing. Huh? Well, I'm glad we have that 12-hour car ride ahead of us in a few months. I'm sure he'll get it then...

"don't jump, don't jump." that is awesom :D
when I was a kid I lived in a very small cow town and above the resturant at the auction yard there was a fake cow, I named that cow "bernie" when I was about 3 and every time we passed bernie in the car I had to wave "hi bernie"
I took a picture of bernie when I went home for a visit...he is still there :)

The burning question I have......(and I didn't read through 88 other comments to see if you already answered)

What the heck time do you get up in the morning so as to be interloping in the ladies room at 5:30 AM!?!?

I think you look very nice in the photo...great hat!

Regarding Bijan: I don't think he is THAT happy, I think it is all the plastic surgery. Gray hair and receding hairline notwithstanding, that man has not aged since I was in Junior High...which was a looong time ago! He could, however, be laughing at the fools who are willing to buy his overpriced clothing.

Monkeygurrl's right, you HAVE to get to the David House, also known as Youngwood Court. It has to be Seen to be Believed.

Sooooo...when do we get the recipe for the ribbed hat? ;-) Seriously...

Also, I am in love with that yarn! It is so yarn store...on a Michael's budget!!!

it is a big sign that he didn't think it was funny. i fully support your date idea.

Yeah you need to come hang out with erin and I. Whenever we're out in public together we get looks from people that clearly show us that they think it's sweet they let the special girls hang out together.

i actually had a man pull up along side of me in chicago traffic and tell me it was a pleasure to "watch" me sit in traffic as i was signing and dancing and waving to people while we were all just SITTING there. i decided to take it as a compliment and not be freaked out. : )

My husband makes the "hey" jokes when he sees hay, too ... and the Vrain Valley invariably leads to lots of rhyming jokes. It's been 17 years and we're still telling stupid jokes. :) I love it!!

ROFL. I love it

Ooo more SWS knitting! I just bought two skeins of it after seeing your knitting with it. I thought it might make a cute One Skein Wonder (http://glampyreknits.tripod.com/glampyrephotos/id97.html)

And speaking of the yelling-at-animal-statues-not-to-jump-from-roofs-of-buildings thing, you just reminded me of a snowboarding trip I took to Mammoth. On the way up the 395 (gorgeous drive, btw - do it first chance you get!), you go through a couple of tiny towns. In one of those little towns (Lone Pine or Independence - not sure which), there is one of those feed stores, and sure enough, there is a bug-eyed barn-red horse mounted on the roof of the building. And I mean it is bug eyed in the Marty Feldman way. First time we saw it, we asked each other if the horse was on cocaine or had an eye problem. (The verbal reaction was "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?") We weren't sure what we saw. Then on the way back, we saw it again. We should have stopped and yelled at it. That would have been fun. DON'T DO DRUGS! DON'T JUMP!

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I got a nosebleed looking at the high altitude stadium photos.

ok, yes, that was yesterday's post but I too want to know about 5:30 am and if you will soon post about the David mansion. with photos?

I actually do understand the "it's good I'll be stuck in traffic as it means I'll have time to finish my knitting" train of thought. If you were at home and wanted to spend two hours knitting there would be all the other more pressing and less pleasant chores like washing and cleaning demanding your time. But on the bus, you have no choice. There is no way you can wash your kitchen floor or file your bills while you are stuck on the bus. There is nothing you can do. Except knit (and if you are me, read). Which means that you are making really good use of time that would otherwise be wasted!

QED

I concur with taking the date past the BBQ place and making the joke. I've come up with these sorts of plans myself from time to time. Squeamish about cats? Don't like animals in the house or sleeping on the bed? Sorry, mate, you're outta here.

And I posted on another blog of mine the other day about how I had a car for a week while my family visited. It was a mini van really and we got about 550 miles per tank. But when we went to top it before returning it to the car hire company, we put in just under 16 UK litres for a cost of £15.82. That equates to just over 4 US gallons at a cost of $8.32 PER GALLON. Thank GOD I only cycle, walk, or take a bus!

And I like that yarn! But I definitely do not need any more yarn.

I too am at work at 5:30am. But I work the night shift.
The steak house back home had an enormous steer on the roof named Philippe Mignon. And my brother and I used to roll down the windows of the car, each of us would stick out an arm, and start flapping as if the car was going to become airborne. You all (or all ya'll) are bringing back the memories...

and what do you call a cow that's just given birth? Decaffeinated!
Simple pleasures for simple minds, ya know.

I think all "potentials" should be checked against your sense of humor...I say (maybe stupid) things all the time that I think are funny, and get those mixed reactions. The ones who laugh, those are the real deal. Case in point: I made a joke about PORN on the blog yesterday, which I had tested on a few random "real" people beforehand. Only two found it as delightfully, sickly amusing as I did, but I posted it anyway. I think you HAVE to say these things, or write them, or you'd just go nuts thinking there was something wrong with you...the web is great for finding people who agree with you! ;-)

When you are doing your knitting on the bus, does anyone ever ask you what you are knitting?

We have your gas prices beat. Here in Sweden it costs $6 USD a gallon if one converts it from the liter price. Boo hiss indeed!

HeeHee "DON'T JUMP!" We usually just moo at them, extra long and loud, so yours is much more creative ;o)

"Don't Jump" *giggle*

Even better if he doesn't get it at first, and then a slow grin when it does click. That'll be a laid back fellah with an appreciation for wit ;-)

I had a good long laugh over your yelling at that driver and cow statues. I think it's a great idea to see what a date thinks about that... it shows whether they have a sense of humor or not. My husband would have come up with something far funnier than what I was doing, which would have made him a "keeper." Really, you've got to find him at least as amusing as you find yourself, right? Otherwise, what's the point?

i love the hat!!!

My ex-husband wouldn't think that was funny either. NO sense of humor, God, especially if it was aimed at him. His favorite comment was "I fail to see the humor in that remark." My kids were visiting and heard him say it once and fell out of their seats...I don't think they believed me when I told them he said it all the time.

I am just now getting back my absurd sense of humor, and I think that's a GREAT screening for potential dates. I want to marry Susan's husband, by the way, and raise snow kangaroos. Gotta love a guy like that.

I kinda got the impression you weren't very pretty from your blog, but this photo shows a very lovely girl.

You crack me up! I roll down my window everytime I see a cow/cows and "Moo" at them. My family thinks I am nuts, but I just tell them that I am getting in touch with my inner cow. LOL

Reading your blog is dangerous to my health, I keep falling out of my chair laughing!

A man who does not laugh at "Don't Jump" or escalate with his own joke is certainly not worthy of your time. I think it's a great 1st date test. Life is too short to spend time with people who don't laugh at your jokes! I only have people who get my humor in my life now, and it's much more fun!

And Yvette, "European Police Cows" made me fall out of my chair laughing again. Excuse me while I go looking for some of those black and white striped cows...

First comment here.
Er, I know it is a bit late to reply to this post, but odd thing is I just read this about 2 hours ago and now I just saw the Dog is My Co-Pilot on Dharma & Greg on their refrigerator.. just to let you know. :)

And there's nothing call a 'too much about yourself' blog!
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