This cracked me up. Can you imagine the conversation in the back of the limo when the presidential limo gets stuck. I hope they laughed!
Category: Funny Stuff
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Double Dream Hands Soulja Boy
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Book Cover: How to Share Your Faith on a Plane
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I have a knack for getting an empty seat next to me when I fly Southwest.
On more than 60% of my 2010 flights I sat in the window seat and had an empty middle seat. In January 2011, I flew with Southwest 11 times and had an empty middle seat 7 times. (The other 4 were completely full flights with no empty seats.)
As I bragged about this to my friends, they began to wonder: How in the world is Adam doing that?
I’m not going to share all of my tricks. (Here’s a blog with some decent tips) But one thing that definitely helps looks like this:
- Make sure you are in the A boarding group
- Sit in a window seat, then place a book or your iPod/headphones in the middle seat.
It’s the book detail that my friends bring up and eventually resulted in the graphic you see above. More often than not I am reading a non-fiction Christian book like Kenda-Creasy Deans Almost Christian or John Ortberg’s Faith and Doubt. For some reason those types of titles tend to cause on-coming passengers to continue moving towards the back of the plane more than the latest issue of Sports Illustrated or Wired.
That’s the genesis of this fake book cover. My friends and I hypothesized, “If people won’t sit next to me because I’m reading a book with a Christian title, what would happen if I made a fake book cover with an overtly Christian title AND made the book about evangelism?”
That’s how this was born.
How to Share Your Faith on a Plane: 25 Scenarios for Converting This Flight from Transportation to Transformation
Instructions:
- Download the pdf.
- Print/cut it to the size you need. (The original size is the size of a standard hard cover book with a jacket)
- Replace the jacket your book came with and follow the tips on the back cover.
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I live in SoCal, not Cali
Photo by Kristina Sohappy via Flickr (Creative Commons) People are generally excited to come to Southern California.
It’s a very cool place for our family to get to live! It is somewhere we never aspired to live but are completely enjoying.
But I have to admit that I cringe a little when I see folks I follow on Twitter or friends on Facebook say, “I’m going to Cali.”
See, most people who live here don’t refer to where they live as “Cali.”
We aren’t offended by it. It just automatically self-identifies you as a visitor.
Understand that California is a big state. VERY BIG. Venti. And extremely diverse geographically, regionally, in population, and culturally. On a perfect day it’d take you 13 hours to drive from Imperial Beach to Yreka along Interstate 5. (aka “the 5”) Just in San Diego County alone there are a bunch of different climates. Ocean beaches, mountain tops, arid desserts… palm trees and citrus trees to apple and peach trees; surfer to rancher.
To smash the whole state into a phrase like, “I’m going to Cali” just doesn’t feel right to us.
So what do I say?
To generalize it, you can say you are going to NorCal or SoCal even though there is no official dividing line. When we lived in Northern California there was always conversations that the North should separate from the South… that’s how different they are!
It’s perfectly acceptable to say, “I’m going to Southern California.” So don’t feel like you have to shorten it. But if you want to, it’s SoCal.
Better yet, you can regionalize it by saying you are going to San Diego, LA, the Central Valley, Tahoe, or the Bay Area. Headed somewhere a bit more rural? Some people describe their travels by saying what county they are headed to.
But few of our 37 million residents will post on their Facebook page, “I’m headed back to Cali tomorrow.” Just like you wouldn’t see someone say, “I’m headed back to Ala tomorrow.” Or, “Can’t wait to fly how to Wisc.”
At the same time. If you are coming as a tourist you can call us whatever you’d like as long as you leave some of your money here.
Because primarily– you can call us capitalists.
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Danger: Texting While Walking in Front of Fountains at the Mall
This hit close to home for me. While I’m doing much better about texting while driving; texting while walking in malls is still a big problem for me.
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Ten Top 10 Lists I Don’t Want to See to End 2010
- Top 10 places you made out with your smoking hot wife. I know she’s a stone cold fox. But keep your special sauce under wraps, OK?
- Top 10 iPhone apps you used on the can. There’s a good chance your #1 app while making a #2 is Angry Birds. Oh, the irony.
- Top 10 Christian fiction books. When it comes to great works of Christian fiction, Joel Olsteen wins every year. He’s like C.S. Lewis with a good smile.
- Top 10 favorite speaking engagements. Any variation of a top 10 list which is really a brag list pretty much ticks me off.
- Top 10 jobs you held in 2010.
- Top 10 royal family moments. Someone alert the media, the United States declared independence from England. Nothing says “We don’t care” quite like a war for Independence.
- Top 10 reasons Brett Farve should have retired in 2010. New Orleans Saints, Miami Dolphins, New York Jets… that list is only 8 losses long. That’s a DQ.
- Top 10 mug shots from 2010 of former Disney Channel stars. The only thing more funny than the video of Miley Cyrus hitting a bong would be if Mickey and Goofy were at the party, too. That would be the best of both worlds.
- Top 10 Country Music award shows. Is it just me or is there one on ABC every Sunday night?
- Top 10 favorite tweets you posted on Twitter in 2010. Could anything be more narcissistic than a list of 10 things you said in 140 characters or less?
What about you? What are some top 10 lists you don’t want to see to end 2010?
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Fun street art
There’s no real point to this one. I just thought it was super fun, creative and thought it was worth sharing.
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