Funny Signs

This past weekend, I went with my wife and brother-in-law to pickup another brother-in-law's motorcycle to bring home since the motorcycle is currently non-functional. On the way there we were waiting for a light to turn green and I glanced over and saw a couple signs posted on the side of the road... like those ones that you see that say "Having trouble selling your house? We'll buy it!" or "Lost Dog" etc. Well, this sign happen to say "Sneaky ways to lower your mortgage, call this number" (yes, the word Sneaky was actually on the sign). Isn't there something inherently wrong when they let you know that what they're doing is sneaky or unethical from the beginning!?

Secondly, on the freeway I saw one of the ever so popular "Baby On Board" signs suction cupped to the rear window of an SUV. Now, I can't remember if I heard this idea somewhere, or if I thought of it (I'm pretty sure I heard it somewhere else), but isn't this sign a little funny. Can you picture a guy sitting in his car, driving along on the freeway saying to himself "Let's see, who should we hit today... how about that one" and as he starts speeding toward his target he realizes that this sign is hanging from the back window and thinks "Oh no, I can't hit this car, there's a baby in there! Nevermind." Or someone about to get in an accident and think to themselves "Well, I really wanted to get into this accident, but since that Baby on Board sign is there, I think I'll change my mind.... just this once."

Case in point

For those of you who may have read the previous entry on Catalina, I mentioned a young child who came up to me and told me that I should wallow in sludge... and I went on to wonder if this child was an evil mastermind. Well, my parents found some pictures from our wedding rehearsal over a year ago and I stumbled across this one of that same child. Clearly, this toddler genius is capable of manipulating time, space and energy as this photo was taken just moments before a small force field was generated in between his hands. Look at the focus in this child's face. It's obvious that I'm done for.

Movie Madness!

So, this past weekend Wilhe and I did a bit of a movie marathon. We rented and watched "Heist" (Based on a fellow youth group leader's suggestion), "The Score" (I thought this was a great movie the first time I watched it, whenever that was) and "The Game" (which my wife recommended). Of the three, I would have to say The Game was the best (no, my wife is not watching me type this right now). The Score was pretty good the second time, it just seemed to be at a bit of a slow pace for the first half of the movie, while Heist was fairly entertaining... it just seemed a little cheesy at times.

Last week at youth group, our friend who recommended the movie was trying to remember the name of the "old guy" actor in Heist, but he couldn't remember anything else he was in, and no one else in the group had seen it. Eventually we came to the realization that it was Gene Hackman after following several trains of thought involving things like "Is it so-and-so?" "Nope. But he kinda looks like that guy."

I seem to have those moments more frequently where I'm watching a movie or TV show and I recognize someone and I'm trying to figure out what else they're from... it seriously consumes 90% of my brain power until I figure it out....