Sundays: Bullshitting With Wags Episode II

Hello friends of all races and sexes. It's Sunday again, and what a foul one. Here in Central Ohio it is gloomy, rainy, and chilly. So what better to do on a Sunday like this (except play football like idiots) but drink! It is not even 5:00 and I'm already on my third glass of Boxed Chardonnay. I haven't eaten a thing today either, because, in all seriousness, fuck it. Let's get hammered.

So far today, I have watched most of the first season of "A Bit of Fry & Laurie" and gone to Chipotle for an as-yet-uneaten burrito. So yes, apart from the weather, a perfect Sunday. If you are unfamiliar with the show I've just mentioned, I suppose I should fill you in. Before the Fox hospital drama "House" and the "Serious Movie" "V for Vendetta", there was a sketch show on the BBC in the late '80's called "A Bit of Fry & Laurie", starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. I've been watching sketches and episodes on YouTube for what seems like years now, but is probably only years. Yesterday at the library, I picked up a DVD of the first season, and I told you the rest. Something weird happened, though. After the library, Kristen and I went to Nong's for some Pad Thai, which is a kind of Thai food from Thailand that they serve at Nong's on Northwest Blvd. Thai tradition dictates that a special kind of dessert, a "fortune cookie", be consumed upon completion of the meal. Inside the "fortune cookie" is a note to be read to oneself that is supposed to mean something in bed. Well, Kristen ate hers first, and chuckled (it is customary not to reveal the content of said note until all parties have read theirs). I then ate mine and chuckled as well. Funny story, right? You don't know the half of it. You see, on the "back" of this note, some "fortune cookies" feature a lesson in the Chinese Language (and now you know they speak Chinese Language in Thailand). I read mine out loud, to Kristen: "yi er san si wu", which, according to the Chinese, translates to "one two three four five". She read me hers: "yi er san si wu". You can guess where this is heading. Yep, we both got the same fucking fortune, and do you know what it said?

"You are doomed to be happy in wedlock."

Christ, people, I couldn't make this shit up. The weirdest part is that is ABSOLUTELY TRUE FOR BOTH OF US. Doomed to be happy. That's some Confucius shit right there. Now and Zen, as the Robert Plant album title says. So, needless to say, the wedding's off. Two lives ruined, thanks to a fucking cookie. Anyway, here's a bit of Fry & Laurie:











Ah, British "Humour". I find it funny, and it is my prerogative to inflict it upon you. If you like what you've seen, go to the "YouTube" site and see more. If not, well, "that's your lot then" is what they'd say over there, probably. So, to recap: I am drunk and it is 5:40 on a Sunday afternoon. Things could not be better. Or worse. Did you know that Lynn Johnston still writes the Comic Strip "For Better or Worse"? It is still nationally syndicated. Talk about fucking weird. And here's something: Gary Larson still puts out multiple "Far Side"-themed calendars every year, even though he "retired" almost twenty years ago. Good for him, I guess. We all need this money. Don't even get me started about my favorite cartoonoe-ist: Berke Brethed. Now that man is a fucking genius. A true American Original. Your vidjeo:



God bless and all that bullshit. See you neckst Sunday. -----wags