Memorial Weekend Friday!!

[Kool]

All you, Job getting, Emergency party button wanting, Queen Vic day celebrating, Oreo noming, Making fun of that fwexxxing lady, Cannibal feeding, Non creative, Five year old pile driving, Squirrel eating, Yoda talking like, Graphic designers!!!

The long drought between holidays is finally over for us Americans. Have a great Memorial Weekend weekend!!! http://koolsplace.com/images/eatdrink042.gif Unless it's 40 degrees and raining like here. :(




http://koolsplace.com/images/qotweek.gif

How can this country, the home of the breakfast pizza and cheese in a spray can be devoid of pastry covered pork!!! I am culinarily imprisoned in the land of the free. Arrrghh!!! The Irony!!!

That last link is way over my head Broacher ... so I am just going to sit here and look pretty and look very impressed and say .... ooooh you are sooo smart Mr B.

What to do in NZ? Well, what are you into? There are all the obvious action packed adventurous things of course. Such as hurling yourself off stuff.

PFT, that's nothing... You should have seen the excellence I pissed out this morning when I woke up!

I could feed 12 cannibals. I'm only 3'6" but have a 20lb.... (ahem)


(my brain, on the other hand, could barely provide a snack for one Hewligan, due to it's under-developed sense of humour!)


I prefer the short and simple approach:

Dear Boss,

I QUIT!!!!!

Later, suckas!!!!!

Sincerely,
TBK

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit.

*runs off to convert files*

Crossposting, this is, hmmm? Laws of Graphic Design, these are

Default, your fonts will.
If two versions of a photo, you have, send the wrong one to the printer, you will.
Promise anything, the salesperson will.
If of two words the text consists, one, misspelled, will be.
Not, spell checkers do.
Grammar checkers not either.
Not, global search-and-replaces are.
The index entry you leave out, the first one the client looks under, it will be.
If shown to a client, three designs are, chosen will your least favorite be.
If shown two designs are, requested will a third be. If provided, then one of the first two, chosen will be.
Contact with the client, the best designs survive never.
Misspell the name of the client's spouse, you will.
Already copyrighted, your best idea is.
To the distance from the studio creative inspiration flows in inverse proportion.
Doctors, astronauts, and their jobs, plumbers need training to do, but graphic designer, anyone with a copy of publisher is.
Equal the number of colors in the original bid specs, the number of colors in a client's design will, plus two.
The client's disk will run on your equipment not.
If to read your client's disk you purchase new equipment, be the last disk of that type you will ever receive, will it.
"Get it.", your client will not

Suck at Yodaspeak I do. But when I go to the translator, it spits out my same sentence with "hmmmm" after it. Do I naturally yodaspeak and know it not? Hmmmm.

Mmm... Bambi-venison.

It brings up the whole field of strange logos where the happy, jolly animals being marketed actively promotes potential carnivors with how tasty they are, once killed, gutted, chopped into bits, and roasted over hot coals. We are a very strange species indeed.

I've even seen, in some rare logo cases, portrayals of the animals self-carving themselves (auto-mutilation?) in the effort to assure the market that this is indeed their one and only desire.

Animal masochism as a communications strategy? Doesn't really work well with me, a life-long carnivore who prefers to live in the juicier, tastier world of willful-denial when it comes to the truth about what goes into my mouth. But that whole 'animal excited to be eaten' idea seems to be centered much more in the 1950's ethos than anywhere else where it wasn't enough to simply drink milk, unless it was from a contented cow.



http://koolsplace.com/images/qotweekclassic.gif

Hi

I have a design job to create a magazine cover which should look like someone has sat naked on a photocopier and copied their bum cheeks. A friend of mine when I first started work did this and the glass broke and he dripped blood into the copier and had to go to hospital for stitches so I don't want to do this to get the image. I thought of having someone do the same against glass held vertically and taking a photo but we can't hold the glass steady enough to get a good pic. Can anyone else creative out there suggest a solution.

This is for a magazine advert for a skin cleanser. Clever but tricky.

Needless to say the photo should not include the cavity between the cheeks.

Bruce

if you go this route, be careful not to accidentally catch any... uh, "satellites", if you know what I mean.

dingleberries are a terrible byproduct of this stunt

Yeah, we really don't need to see any stink nuggets at 300 dpi or higher. Please for the love of god have the 'model' wiped.

the terminolgy "stink nugget"? made me gag slightly. Could we perhaps use the less repulsive term "bum trinket"?

tail treasure?

rump riches?

Ass Magnets?

Butt boogers.

[balou]

LOL@QOTW's Kool! Thanks!

Happy Friday all! Any fun plans for the long (US) weekend?

[Ben Kessler]

Have a great long weekend, everyone!

[TheBluePanda]

Happy Friday! 3 frackin day weekend ! ! ! !

[Craig B]

Great QOTWs!!! The classic QOTWs were awesome. I've never seen that one before. * snicker * … bum trinkets .... *snort *

[Virgo Nightingale]

WOO HOOO for FRIDAY!

Great quotes Kool and nice classics!! I've actually been here long enough to remember the threads the classics come from. That's scary. :D Regardless, thanks for making my Friday morning a little chucklier!

Everyone have a fantastic holiday weekend. Hope you're all doing something cool. I think I'll be painting things for my wedding centerpieces for most of the weekend. And maybe going to see the new Indiana Jones and Prince Caspian.

[morea]

oh man, I had forgotten all about that classic thread.

Thanks for the chuckles, Kool! I hope that your weekend forecast clears up. We've had that weather all week and it wasn't a whole lot of fun. Then again, perhaps it's a good opportunity for some indoor sports? (And here I'm thinking air hockey.) ;)

Happy weekend everypeoples!

[reuber1]

ROFLMAO. That thread still makes me laugh.

This will be my first Memorial Day off I believe since entering the working world.

[WannaBrie]

Woohoo! 3 day weekend! Fab quotes Kool! The classics killed me! Have a great weekend everyone!

[Sneaky Muffin]

Happy friday and an awesome weekend to you all! We have a long weekend in the uk as well. Long live the bank holiday weekend!:D

[Satchel]

Not a long weekend for me, but I'm still looking forward to it!

Have a good one all!

[doctorfoz]

woot, wayhay, and a woo-yay!!!!!

2, count 'em, 2 quotes for me - as well as passing 500 posts. what a week!!

I hope everyone's weekends matches up to their expectations.

I'm now going to carry on laughing at the QOTW classic *pffftt!

[Typically]

omg that classic was awesome!

woot woot 3 day weekend woot woot beerbq sunday!the weather forecast couldn't be any better 78 and sunny!!! perfect conditions to drink beer and play beer pong outside for hours!!!!

[doctorfoz]

what is this 'beer pong' you speak of?

[frankster]

Phew, Happy Friday! I'm looking forward to a long comfortable weekend working hard on our yard to make it lovely for summer relaxin.

I've not said "bum trinket" in a while. I might try and work it into a conversation today.

[Silence04]

LOL @ quotes... how did i miss all those?

Have a great weekend everyone!

[Typically]

what is this 'beer pong' you speak of?

http://blag.ipood.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/350px-beer_pong_scene.jpg

basic setup and you throw ping pong balls into the opponents cups. once the ball is in the cup the cup comes off the table and is consumed. we play 2 beers per side. once all the cups are gone from one side the losing team then has to drink the remaining cups and the winner stays on the table till losing or falling onto the table =]

[garricks]

Amazing quotes, Kool! "bum trinket..." *giggle*

How am I going to work that into the water cooler talk?

Who cares, it's Friday! *3-day-weekend (while not being sick) happy dance*

[doctorfoz]

lol. what an ace concept

[cornfed]

Happy Friday! I'm so excited to have a 3 day weekend!

My band is playing a radio/tv show Saturday night. If anyone wants to tune in, we'll be playing from about 6-6:45 pm. It will air on krvs.org starting at 6pm. It's our local public radio station! Most of the show is in french, which I don't speak. So, if you listen, you'll know that I have no idea what we are talking about!

[garricks]

cool, cornfed! is that 6 pm Central Time? Don'tcha just love teh InterWebs?

[Riefnu]

Happy Friday Three day week...end....wait...

I work this weekend. -hears the slave whip- "BACK TO WORK YE MANGY SERIVCE DOG!"

[Bladez]

Happy Friday all!!! Great quotes Kool, 'specially the classics!!! I've got a whole new vocabulary to use this weekend!

Raining all weekend here...lame! but saturday is poker night with potentially $800 up for grabs :eek:! Plus we're breaking out the cuban cigars!! Good times! (does Guinness taint the flavour of Cubans?)

[MikeHun]

T.G.I.F.

[cornfed]

Yes, Garricks, that's US central time!

[garricks]

Yes, Garricks, that's US central time!Well, then, here's one badger that will have one ear on teh InterWebs! play well!!

[Broacher]

Memorial Day was created to reflect upon the lessons of the Civil War, right?









How's that goin?

[frankster]

Memorial Day was created to reflect upon the lessons of the Civil War, right?

How's that goin?

You celebrate it by buying a mattress right?

I'm a bit confused by all the memorial day sales events to be honest. We don't do rememberance day sales in the UK. It would be considered disrespectful.

[garricks]

frankster, you're not the only one. I don't understand how that happened, either. I remember as a Boy Scout going from City Hall to City Hall (we have a lot of small bedroom communities in the inner suburbs around the city proper) as a Color Guard to Memorial Day rememberances. Now it seems to be all about white sales and barbeques. I like to spend the day with my parents. My Dad's a WWII vet.

[tuliptree]

A quick hello and a happy Friday to my friends that live in my computer.

Great quotes as always!!!

Have a good weekend and I'll stop in longer when I get a chance!

[Red Kittie Kat]

Happy Friday Gang!!!

Kool awesome job ... the classics are killing me :D

... and I made the quotes!!! wooo hooo :p

have a supersplendiferous weekend everyone :)

[Tea]

Happy Fried-ay. It's been a long day and I can't even have a beer yet! Bummer. But it wouldn't look good to be tipsy at the graduation ceremonies.

Fabulous quotes Kool! Those butt nuggets or treasures or whatever they were are hilarious!

Have a fabulous weekend everybody...I'm off to the folks to play on the pontoon, eat Moroccan Cubanos, fish and enjoy a cocktail or two.

[frankster]

Of course! People are graduating aren't they! Are there any students that are regulars on here that are graduating this summer?

[doctorfoz]

Of course! People are graduating aren't they! Are there any students that are regulars on here that are graduating this summer?

Not me, Frankster... university of Life mate....

*wanders off muttering Monty Python 'Yorkshiremen' sketch*

[doctorfoz]

Now it seems to be all about white sales and barbeques.

aint commercialism a wonderful thing?

I like to spend the day with my parents. My Dad's a WWII vet.

Assuming you're not going to make the joke about him actually fighting for 'the other side', let me pay my respects to your father and to his friends/fallen comrades.

Doc

[garricks]

:) Doc, that joke would never occur to me. Have you seen "Memphis Belle?" Dad was a ball turret gunner on a B-24 Liberator.

I tried many times to fly that plane in a simulation, and every time, I crashed into the Channel during takeoff. At 20 years old, I never could've done what he did. Can you tell I'm a proud son? :D

[doctorfoz]

absolutely! 'Ball turret gunner' sounds so... well, glamorous is not the right word. But deep down I think I know just how indescribably complex his experiences must have been. You have every right to be proud of your dad

[urstwile]

Woohoo, happy Friday and happy long weekend!

Kool, that classic thread, was, well, classic. :D Thanks for that stroll down memory lane, that one was really funny!

garricks, I agree with foz, you have every right to be proud of your dad. I bet he's got some amazing stories. :)

[budafist]

Great quotes and classic quotes. Hope everyone is partying it up for Memorial Day. Or whatever it is you do on such days.

[PanToshi]

Barbeque mostly. Burgers.... Hot Dogs.... Steak... BBQ Chicken... YUM. :D

[Kool]

Great quotes and classic quotes. Hope everyone is partying it up for Memorial Day. Or whatever it is you do on such days.

The sales and whatnot are on every holiday. Memorial day is about remembering the ones who are no longer with us both military and and not. I will be placing some flowers on mama Kools grave and then grilling some large slabs of red meat. :)

[Two-Toe Tom]

happy friday everyone! :D

[budafist]

The sales and whatnot are on every holiday. Memorial day is about remembering the ones who are no longer with us both military and and not. I will be placing some flowers on mama Kools grave and then grilling some large slabs of red meat. :)

Oh, so the essence of Memorial Day is similar to what Anzac Day is to us here. Only there aren't too many sales on Anzac day and you can't serve booze. Nothing is open until the afternoon either. We don't have meat but we do get to eat Anzac biscuits.

http://oz.tranzfusion.net/Recipes/AnzacBiscuits450.jpg

[Red Kittie Kat]

I will be placing some flowers on mama Kools grave and then grilling some large slabs of red meat. :)

I will be visiting mama and papa Kat's graves with some flowers too ;)

[garricks]

Happy Friday! I'm so excited to have a 3 day weekend!

My band is playing a radio/tv show Saturday night. If anyone wants to tune in, we'll be playing from about 6-6:45 pm. It will air on krvs.org starting at 6pm. It's our local public radio station! Most of the show is in french, which I don't speak. So, if you listen, you'll know that I have no idea what we are talking about!I'm sitting here on Saturday evening, listening to cornfed's band's radio broadcast. Sitting here with a big goofy grin on my face because I totally love it! I fell in love with zydeco years and years ago. It just makes me happy! And when I say sitting here, I mean I'm chair dancing, because you can't listen to zydeco and stay still. I've also been "dancing" all around the kitchen.

So get a good picture of the happy badger, tiara firmly in place, dancing around the kitchen hoping the angel food cake doesn't fall! ROFL!

[Riefnu]

^^^ makes me think of the badger in the new naria movie:p

[urstwile]

I enjoyed it as well, garricks, thanks to you, actually, and the reminder in the what's for lunch thread. :)

[garricks]

urstwile, I'm glad you got to hear it too! I actually kept listening for quite a while after cornfed was done. It was a lot of fun. I think I have a new Saturday Interwebs appointment!

[urstwile]

I agree! I also listened for a little while after, about ten minutes or so, and it's a fun program. I even understood a little bit of the French. :)

[reuber1]

Planning on Indy 4 this weekend folks? Forget it. It is terrible. Even with low expectations, it is bad.

[garricks]

^^ Dad told me he heard that Indy is losing its rep to NASCAR... I don't follow auto racing at all, so ??

[tuliptree]

Happy Friday! I'm so excited to have a 3 day weekend!

My band is playing a radio/tv show Saturday night. If anyone wants to tune in, we'll be playing from about 6-6:45 pm. It will air on krvs.org starting at 6pm. It's our local public radio station! Most of the show is in french, which I don't speak. So, if you listen, you'll know that I have no idea what we are talking about!

Oh no! I'm catching up over here and just read your post, I totally missed it. Rats, I would have tuned in. I'm looking for an archive, but can't find anything, do you know if they do archives on the site? That would have been so cool to catch live though!

Paces around with bummed out head held low. . .

[reuber1]

^^ Dad told me he heard that Indy is losing its rep to NASCAR... I don't follow auto racing at all, so ??
Me neither, I hate auto racing (something about watching a bunch of cars drive in a circle 500 times in the middle of an energy crisis that makes me shake my head).

All I can say is Indy 4 is almost as bad as Star Wars Episode 1.

[Bladez]

Sorry I missed hearing you cornfed...would have been good to hear. But it was poker night on saturday and I was hosting so I had other things to take care of. Hope the show went good for ya (and from the sounds of it, it did).

On a side note, I'm proud to say the Macaulay boys cleaned up :) First round my brother took first place winning $180 of the pot, second round I took first place taking $110 from the pot. It was a good weekend :D

[garricks]

Wow. A Frank Buckles, of Kansas City, Missouri, is the last living American veteran of World War I. If I heard correctly, he's 107 years old. He enlisted while underage.

[cornfed]

Thanks Tulip! If you want to see it, it will air on http://www.kdcg.com/ on Sunday at noon central time.

When the guy asks me in french what I do for a living, bear in mind that I don't speak french so I had no idea he was even talking to me!

[garricks]

Thanks Tulip! If you want to see it, it will air on http://www.kdcg.com/ on Sunday at noon central time.

When the guy asks me in french what I do for a living, bear in mind that I don't speak french so I had no idea he was even talking to me!ROFL... I was cracking up at that. "Oh, me? I'm a graphic designer!" Thanks again for sharing, cornfed. It was lots of fun!

[cornfed]

Oh, were you tuned in Garrick?!

I don't really even know what we're really singing about if our accordion player doesn't tell me! I know the song "Donner Moi Mr. Leroy" is about the accordion player begging for Mr. Leroy to let him marry his daughter. I have a basic idea on most songs because I've read the history of them - but a translation is out of the question!

[tuliptree]

Oh cool Cornfed! I marked it on my calendar!! Can't wait to hear it. :)

[cornfed]

Thanks Tulip! You'll be seeing the television version! The fiddle player is my hubby!

[cornfed]

Oops! Garrick, I totally missed the previous post! Thanks for tuning in!

[tuliptree]

Thanks Tulip! You'll be seeing the television version! The fiddle player is my hubby!

Oh even cooler! :)

[garricks]

LOL cornfed, yeah, I was there chair dancing the whole time!

I have a Google appointment alarm set for Sunday!


I don't really even know what we're really singing about if our accordion player doesn't tell me!
There was a duo here in town called The Poor People of Paris, and they specialized in Edith Piaf songs. I used to love going to hear them, but I had to research all the songs to understand them. I don't think I've ever studied so hard just to have fun. :D

[cornfed]

That's funny! I know "Joe Pitre a deux femmes" is about a man named Joe Pitre who used to live around here who had two women! We play it just about every gig but one time Joe Pitre's son was in the audience. Things got really rowdy then! Apparently the Pitre family doesn't appreciate the legacy old Joe left! Another favorite of mine is "La Danse de Limonade." It's about how wonderful Lemonade is for a hangover! "Passer moi un verre de limonade"

[garricks]

Oh, I can see how Mr. Pitre's antics would be the subject of a song...and a source of embarassment for his family! As for Lemonade for a hangover, it depends on what kind of lemonade...I think I'd prefer the hard variety!

I love Piaf's "L'Accordianiste." It's about a prostitute, who falls in love with an accordianist. He goes off to war and is killed. (I'm missing some of the story in the middle here...) She goes back to hooking, but she keeps hearing an accordian and thinks he's come back to her, but she's really just going mad. The end of the song has the accordian spiralling out of control. It's so much better when you know the story!

[cornfed]

It is better! That's a pretty sad story!

I love music history! When I sing, I sing songs from the 20's and 30's mostly. I do quite a few old murder ballads and stuff like that. Outside of the zydeco music we play - well, if you want to get technical, we're playing "la-la" music (pre-zydeco) - I am a huge Charlie Poole fan. I luvs me some Charlie Poole and have learned to play/sing just about every one of his recorded songs. You can hear some clips here:

http://www.charliepooleonline.com/

Here's a pic of him! I'm convinced that if I lived during his time I'd be the worlds first groupy!

http://www.charliepooleonline.com/gallery/image/photo07.jpg

[urstwile]

Cornfed, I heard the Eunice Two Step when I was listening. I will always connect that with Sadie and her mad dancing. :D

[cornfed]

That's funny! For those who don't know, Urst came and stayed with me last year and travelled to jazz fest! It was a ton of fun - although I don't think she was prepared for the heat!

We had to play the Eunice Two-Step - We were in Eunice, LA!

[tuliptree]

Cornfed, you guys sound AMAZING!!!!! I'm so impressed.

We're supposed to be leaving for my brother-in-law's bday party, but my husband and I are enjoying this so much, we're going to be late so we can watch! :)

[cornfed]

Awww! Thanks Tulip! I didn't watch it cause I had to get my son from scout camp!