Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Reverse Bucket List


It's New Year's Resolution time and that means it's time to make lists of crap we will be passionate about for a brief period of time.

Instead of resolutions, I'm going to make a reverse bucket list.  For those of you who don't know what a bucket list is, it's a list of all the things you think you need to do before you die.  If you've ever made a bucket list, first off, why are you such a death obsessed psycho? Second, why can't you just let your life flow naturally, taking experiences as they come or as you pursue them?  Third, that movie The Bucket List sucked.  I already saw that movie and it was called Space Cowboys and it was way better because it was in space.

So a Reverse Bucket List is a list of things you NEVER EVER IN YOUR WHOLE LIFE WANT TO DO OR HAVE HAPPEN TO YOU.

Valerie and I both did this.  You should check out her list. VALERIE's Reverse Bucket List

JAMES BEST'S REVERSE BUCKET LIST

I Never Want To:

1. Watch Valerie fall out of a hot air balloon just past my grasp as I scream, "NOOOOOOOOO!!!"

2.  Be caught making fun of a T-Rex. By a T-Rex.

3.  Get gut shot out in the desert and be left by bad cowboys to die.

4.  Live through an ice cream shortage.

5.  Be forced by unforeseen future circumstances to have to hunt bunnies and kitties for food.



6.  Spend a night alone with a moo cow in a doorless, windowless room.

7.  Watch anything starring Miley Cyrus.

8.  Eat something living that is eating me at the same time.

9.  Take a road trip with the radio stuck on the Top 40s Station.

10.  Learn what the "that" is in the lyric "I would do anything for love but I won't do that".

11.  Have to pry live lobster claws off of my face or private parts.

12.  Attend any concert by any teen or child performer on the Disney channel.

13.  Ever be in the same country as this bug.



14.  Break down next to a cornfield in the middle of the night and walk through the corn to the farmhouse.

15.  Have to be in a war and be responsible for war-like activities.

16.  Pull a tapeworm out of my mouth or butt.

17.  Be awake for any kind of surgery where I'm going to see my own flesh meat.

18.  Find out that I, as I suspected, did not fit in very well at prison.

19.  Time travel to a time before deodorant or milkshakes.

20.  Discover I'm a terrible shot during a zombie apocalypse.

21.  Have some sort of nightmare surprise party where all my ex-girlfriends are waiting to tell Valerie how terrible I was to them.

22.  Be cursed to wear only European styles for the rest of my life.

23.  Somehow make it to the Star Wars universe and have Yoda tell me I have absolutely no Jedi aptitude. (There was so much sadness in my fingers as I wrote that.)



24.  Instead of a werewolf become a were-something that sucks.  Like a were-donkey.  Or a were-Michael Bay.

25.  Be in an eating contest of black licorice.

26.  Have my life turned into a movie and then find out it sucked.

27.  Wake up in some nightmare world where I have to play team sports everyday.

28.  Have the recipe to Coca-Cola destroyed or forgotten.

29.  Wake up and find out the only thing playing on tv for the rest of time is Two and a Half Men and Everybody Loves Raymond.

30.  Find out all my suspicions about horses being dirty murder hell creatures who just want to chomp off my mister parts is totally true.  In the most literal way.

31.  Have my whole life narrated in my head by Gilbert Gottfried.

32.  Live in some sort of police state where chocolate and peanut butter could not come together in holy matrimony like God intended.

33.  Die from anything I could get in the game Oregon Trail.





Thursday, November 24, 2011

Thanksgiving Helpline



Every year I run a charity service for people with Thanksgiving questions and emergencies.  There's things I know a lot about (THANKSGIVING) and things I know almost nothing about (WHAT TAKING A PUNCH FEELS LIKE.)  I help where I can.  Here are this year's Thanksgiving Helpline problems averted.

ELIZABETH asks:
Why does Thanksgiving only happen in America & Canada?!

HELPLINE says:
Because every other country has nothing to be thankful for.  France celebrates Oui-We-Suck-Day.

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ANDREA asks:
Is it possible to say Thanksgiving is too commercialized? If so, how would you suggest bringing it back to it's Puritan roots?

HELPLINE says:
Andrea, burn some witches and get some cholera. Voila. Vintage Thanksgiving.

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SARA asks:
Where can I buy turkey in Kyushu, Japan?

HELPLINE says:
Sara, I checked Google Maps.  You're going to have to swim to China.  And in China, turkeys are called "unwanted girl children".

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BRITTANY asks:
Thanksgiving Helpine, should I be offended that no one (including my husband) is allowing me to make ANYthing for Thanksgiving? Well, except for the place cards.  I was put in charge of...place cards.

HELPLINE says:
Brittany, if you're in charge of place cards, that's the equivalent of distracting a kitty with a toy.  They'll probably cut up your food, too.  Go get a new family.

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KURT asks:
Thanksgiving Helpline, did Master Chief liberate Thanksgiving from the Covenant?

HELPLINE says:
Kurt, luckily I speak all languages of nerd.  According to my history book of the future, Master Chief and Covenant one day will come together and celebrate Spacegiving.

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JULIE asks:
Thanksgiving Helpline, our only son has invited "friends" to our Thanksgiving Dinner and they are bringing their own turkey. Should I be offended?

HELPLINE says:
Julie, don't be concerned about the turkey. Let's examine this claim that Ben has friends. Ben does not have friends.  You are his mother. That should be a boy's only friend.

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ALISSA asks:
What does it mean when you enjoy dancing with your turkey?

HELPLINE says:
It means that Season 15 of Dancing With the Stars is coming up and you two could be contenders.  Also, turkeys always lead.

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KURT asks:
Thanksgiving Helpline, what is the REAL reason turkey makes you sleepy?

HELPLINE says:
Kurt, turkeys want us all to sleep so they can kill us while we nap and then wear our clothes and play our boardgames. Turkeys love Candyland.

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KAMI asks:
Thanksgiving Helpline, what exactly is a 'giblet' and why on earth do they leave it inside the turkey?

HELPLINE says:
Kami, No one on earth actually knows what a giblet is.As far as I know, they're not even part of the turkey. They might be left over generic candy from Halloween.

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SCOTT asks:
Was the black and buckled clothing the Pilgrims wore considered sexy - almost Pilgrim lingerie - back then?

HELPLINE says:
Scott, it was indeed lingerie. The pilgrims had a much different idea of what was sexy back then.  Where you wore a buckle signified what part of the body was most desired.  Nothing was a bigger turn on to pilgrims than feet and foreheads.

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JANE asks:
Am I supposed to refrigerate my apple pie, Thanksgiving Helpline? It seems so weird to let it sit out on the counter.

HELPLINE says:
Jane, Thanksgiving Helpline here. You NEVER refrigerate apple pie.It's because apples are warmblooded creatures and they never migrate farther north than say Washington.  It's more an animal cruelty issue than baking issue.

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CHRISTIAN asks:
Why did the Native Americans plant a fish for fertilizer with their corn? Why not a deer or an elk? More fertilizer, right?

HELPLINE says:
Christian, you're correct.  For us modern folk who may not trust fish due to the mercury levels, I suggest planting your corn in a cemetery. Just more fertilizer, right?

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