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 Song Seun Hun and Son Ye Jin in Summer Scent.
1 So some teevee show is talking about Korean Dramas. This DN isn’t even remotely going to be about Korean Dramas, but I just thought it was great that some teevee show Men in Trees has a character who is addicted to them.
2 I absolutely love Korean Dramas, but telling someone that you like something is sort of like pouring air out of a Dixie cup.
3 Anywho, this edition of the DN isn’t really going to be about that. Funny thing is, now the teevee in back of me has some show involving a growly bear frightening people who are singing the song My Favorite Things in order to dissuade the old grizzly from eating them.
4 And the DN wasn’t even going to be about that either.
5 It was originally going to be about Fred and Barney smokin’.
6 You wonder why I enjoy “back-in-the-day” so much? Those fellows look as though they are enjoying a well-earned smoke.
7 Not only were they smoking like a couple of campus titans, they were relaxing while Wilma and Betty did the dishes.
8 Gotta love it. I got this off AOL last night. I’ve heard tell that you can get this old Winston commercial on YouTube.com, but I could be mistaken.
9 Besides, what more do you need than just that picture? And yes, those ARE Winstons, make no mistake. Hittin’ ‘em young, wouldn’t you say?
10 But I figured, how much mileage could you really get out of Fred and Barney smokin’?
11 It’s just SO politically incorrect in these days of non-smoking this and women’s rights that. Fact is, we have caught Fred and Barney, our ancestors, for gawdsakes, lying against a nice rock, chillin’ with Winstons, while the women do all the work.
12 I wonder how those two classic cartoon characters escaped that putrid commercial where the Marlboro man glides through camels floating by, and at the end some creepy looking lagoon-monster looks up and says something like, “They oughta show footage of ME!”
13 Dude. I’m eatin’.
14 But I truly appreciate the political correctness.
15 I’d just enjoy watching Fred and Barney better.
16 Moving On: AOL was filled with news yesterday. They had this tease that coffee cures baldness.
17 Oh?
18 Not so.
19 Well, it said that research would show that you would have to drink 60 cups a day in order for it to make a difference. It went on to give utterly no references, but I guess the word “research” is to bibliographies what “back-in-the-day” is to history. SAT’s anyone? They’re tomorrow morning…<thud>
20 Yeah, the research went on to say that if you drank sixty cups a day, you’d have a full heada hair, but you’d also have the jits.
21 They do have a coffee cream, not to be mistaken for the cream in my coffee, that you are supposed to rub into your scalp.
22 And…
23 I say, “Nope. Ain’t gonna happen.” The voice of experience. I vaguely remember at the beginning of the year someone telling me that Raid ant and roach spray will grow hair…
24 Moving on: And finally, the penny is going to turn into a nickel. It’s in the works. Evidently nickel and copper are now worth more melted down, so they are going to make that change. The penny as we know it will disappear, and a new low range on the money tree will be the nickel.
25 Something like that.
26 Some people have WAY too much time on their hands.
27 I CLEARLY don’t, and neither do you.
28 So go out and make it happen today.
29 Friday. Such a nice ring to it, you know? Friday.
30 I’m going to live it up. I may just watch Summer Scent again.
31 Either way, I’m way outta here. I need to get to Starbuck’s. I need to begin my $300 a day habit. Barista, line up sixty triple white-chocolate mochas if you please. That oughta get my motor running. 32 You have a Friday. Normally, they can’t miss.
33 Peace.
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