Posts Tagged With: thriller

Bring Back the Old Car Radio

Posted on November 12, 2023 by pauldelancey

New car music systems have certainly enhanced our lives. Or are they are really death by enhancement? We can use something like Pandora(tm), which is fine as far it goes. You set it up before you leave. Then you listen to your favorite band every other song. You listen to same top three hits from each band. Over and over and over. You start to hate your once favorite bands.

So, with your right hand, you take a CD into the CD slot provided on the dashboard. You don’t even have to take your eyes off the road. Oh wait, cars today don’t have a CD slot.

Okay, adapt and move on. Just turn the tuner knob and find another station, one that’s playing a great song. Or push a button that corresponds to one of your five favorite radio stations. You don’t like the volume. No problem, just turn the volume knob. Oh wait, cars today don’t have knobs and buttons. There’s a screen below the dashboard. It takes a fair amount of seconds navigating menus to get what you want done. Meanwhile, you’ve plowed into a dump truck. The dump truck wins.

If only someone made car radios with buttons and knobs and even include a CD slot. Oh wait day, the ancients in their wisdom had invented such a way to listen to music.

And here it is.

Bring back #3

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Categories: Bring back | Tags: ancients, Bring back, buttons, car, CD, Comic Chef, dump truck, knobs, music sytems, old, pandora, Paul R. De Lancey, player, radio, thriller | 1 Comment

Wanda Wunder Wonders About Elephants

Posted on November 11, 2023 by pauldelancey

Wanda Wunder #35

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

Categories: Wanda Wunder | Tags: apocalyptic, beneficial, cats, Chef Paul, Comic Chef, cookbook, elephants, good food, hunks, Lutheran, pets, recipes, thriller, Wanda Wunder | Leave a comment

You Need to See a Smiling Corgi

Posted on November 10, 2023 by pauldelancey

Life can be stressful. You fumbled a lot of things people needed you to do. You worry that they’ll think the worse of you.

You need to take a step back. You need to think a happy thought. Perhaps you’re too overwhelmed to do even that. You need some help, some seed idea to get back to serenity.

Smiling corgi wants to help. Look, it’s smiling at you. Take this image with you. Now don’t you feel a bit better already?

You need to see #34

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

Categories: you need to see | Tags: Chef Paul, Comic Chef, cookbook, corgi, good food, happy, hunks, Lutheran, recipes, smiling, stressful, thought, thriller, you need to see | Leave a comment

The Movie of the Millennium

Posted on November 8, 2023 by pauldelancey

Harken back to your youth, a time of : games, betrayal, the gaining of wisdom, and the losing of innocence.

If you have but one more movie to see, see this one.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

Categories: you need to see | Tags: apocalyptic, betrayal, Comic Chef, cookbook, games, hunks, inocence, millennium, movie, murders, theaters, thriller, tic tac toe, wisdom, youth | Leave a comment

Bring Back the Rotary Phone

Posted on November 7, 2023 by pauldelancey

Cell phones have certainly enhanced our lives. Or is that they are really death by enhancement? Every day we receive about one butt-dialed call. But, we too have done our share of butt dialing. I have butt dialed someone I’d never called before. How is this even possible?

And we pay anywhere from $400 to $1,000 for a phone that does this. It’s also easy to misplace. Between the sofa cushions is one of the cell phone’s favorite hiding places.

I want a phone that cannot butt dial and is always is incredibly easy to find. I want, no I must have a phone like this.

Oh happy day, the ancients in their wisdom invented such a phone. They called it the rotary phone.

And here it is.

You can also use me to call your misplaced cell phone.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

Categories: Bring back, observations, on the phone, you need to get | Tags: ancients, apocalyptic, beneficial, butt dial, cell phone, Chef Paul, Comic Chef, cookbook, death by enhancement, murders, phone, rotary, sofa cushions, thriller, wisdom | Leave a comment

Bergamot Lavender Charcoal Soap

Posted on November 6, 2023 by pauldelancey

BERGAMOT LAVENDER CHARCOAL SOAP

INGREDIENTS

2 pounds charcoal soap base

½ teaspoon bergamot essential oil

½ teaspoon lavender essential oil

isopropyl alcohol or butter to coat molding

isopropyl alcohol to spray away bubbles forming on soap

SPECIAL UTENSILS

soap mold

spray bottle

soap slicer (optional)

Makes 10½ bars, 1″ wide. Takes 3 hours 30 minutes.

SPECIAL UTENSILS

PREPARATION

Spray silicon mold with isopropyl alcohol or rub with butter.

Cut charcoal base into 1″ cubes. Add charcoal cubes to large glass measuring cups. Melt base in 30 second intervals. Stir after every time. Add bergamot and lavender essential oils.

Pour into soap mold. If desired, lightly spray bubbles with isopropyl alcohol to make them disappear. Let soap sit for 3 hours. Use soap slicer to cut soap into slices 1″ wide.

TIDBITS

1) The following claims for charcoal that come up repeatedly are that it detoxifies, exfoliates, and calms. That’s pretty good as charcoal soap even cleans youl.

2) Culinary soapologists also say that charcoal soap gives you the following superpowers:

You will never need more than 30 seconds to find your car keys and glasses.

Vampires will never attack you. If you add garlic to your charcoal soap, neither will werewolves.

DMV lines will be half the length they are for other soap users

Your memory will improve to the point that you will always find the TV remote.

Orphan socks will become a thing of the past.

Chickens will no longer run away from you.

All people named Bert or Sarah will always say, “Hi.”

So will elephants. Be prepared to run.

Staff from both political parties will ask you to run for office for them.

People will be much more attracted to you. If that becomes a problem, rub yourself with garlic.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

Categories: soap | Tags: apocalyptic, bergamot, charcoal, chickens, Comic Chef, cookbook, DMV, essential oils, isospropyl alcohol, lavender, political parties, pour and melt, soap, soap making, superpowers, thriller | Leave a comment

Misheard Lyrics of the Beatles

Posted on November 5, 2023 by pauldelancey

The amazing Beatles had a big hit with great song “Girl.”
The lyrics entrance us, to the point we’re not sure what is being sung in the backgroud over key set of lyrics. These lyrics, which are not in dispute, are:

“She’s the kind of girl who puts you down when friends are there
You feel a fool

When you say she’s looking good, she acts as if it’s understood
She’s cool, ooh, ooh”

Now here comes the exciting part. In the background, during these lyrics, we hear Beatles singing “ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti”

Or do we?

It sure seems like the background sounds could be “tit tit tit tit tit tit tit tit tit tit.”

Oh my!

I checked multiple sources for this song’s lyrics. None of them say anything about the background syllables.

What do you hear, “ti ti ti” or “tit tit tit?”

Misheard lyrics #14

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Phrase: Final Exit

Posted on November 4, 2023 by pauldelancey

We put a man on the moon. We look at itty-bittiest things in the universe, a muon or some such thing; it’s much smaller than an atom which we can’t see either. We can use our land line to beam a signal to a satellite in geo-synchronous orbit above our very house and bounce the signal back down again to find our cell phone which was in our other hand.

On the third hand, we keep forgetting to take necessary things when we try to leave for work, pick up our kids from soccer practice, or go to the store.

But we don’t have a word to describe this behavior.

It’s high time to correct this oversight.

TODAY’S AWESOME PHRASE

final exit