Feelgood Friday #7

G'day cobbers! How ya goin'?

This week was my attempt at a  philosophy-themed week.

Monday's entry, A Philosophical Post (too long and complicated to be described in this post), provoked mixed reactions, varying from one extreme  - "Wanted a lie-in, did you?" (regular reader), to the other end of the spectrum - "Absolute Genius" (The Times Online).

The next philosophical entry (or exit, depending on one's vantage point!), Le Petomane, received overwhelming critical acclaim and so much attention from the international community of philosophers, that I had little time spare to do anything except answer the 'phone (which was constantly ringing off the hook) in between giving interviews to TV, radio and other assorted media. The London School of Economics has asked me to do an opinion piece for them about the increase in employment opportunities for "Fartistes" as a direct result of my post, which highlighted this little-known (and vastly under-rated) specialist industry. My imaginary literary agent has been ecstatic, and wanted me to accept an offer of Honorary Dean at Edinburgh University, but I declined, as it would leave me little time for blogging, and I didn't want to let down the little people (you lot), who I consider to have been a constant encouragement to me over the long haul of, what is it now? - seven, mebbe even eight weeks?

I have noted, however, that my philosophical musings have encouraged some otherwise rather shy readers (you know who you are, Doug) to come out of the comments closet, as it were, to offer a serious and well considered responses to my original question on Monday. I hope you now realise that this was a mistake, waste of time a much appreciated attempt to move the discussion forward in a positive and interesting manner (!). I'll look out for your future comments so that I can ignore them, give a sarcastic reply be sure to highlight your contribution to other readers.

I also noticed that we have some readers tuning in from Australia (thus the "G'day" intro), which surprised me a little as 1/. I have no relatives or friends there who know about this blog, and 2/. can't think of any insults references to Australia/Australians in my postings so far. If you're still here, please let yourself be known, and I will endeavour to make you feel included (in other words, I dare you to raise your heads above the parapet, so I can take a potshot! - go on, it'll be fun!!!).

And so I come to the end of this post, all that is left to do is insert the cartoon, and give you a teaser for some of next weeks planned posts on the frighteningly popular "Life In A Scots Sitting Room" (changed my mind about giving you the teaser - after all this media exposure, I'm getting paranoid that someone's gonna steal one of my ideas for what have become my massively successful posts, so just going to tell you to come back next week).

But, before the cartoon, I will leave you with one of the last, big philosophical questions, yet to be answered, of our time. You may muse on it over the weekend.

What's it all about, Alfie?

Alternatively, you could decide that you couldn't give a Castlemaine 4 X, and go get drunk instead!

HAVE A GOOD ONE!

PS This one's for the Aussies, as I happen to know that they're in a different timezone, so it could well be Easter there (!).

Feelgood Friday #6

Hello to Feelgood Friday, our visual joke only, no blabbing rubbish from me, day! (Well, you can all only live in hope!......one day it might actually happen, and the five of you will be left feeling bereft and abandoned!)

I began this week with the shock announcement that the Klingons are planning to invade Scotland (oh yeah, and the rest of planet Earth, too), in my post The Klingons are Coming, at the end of which, I had placed a photo of Patrick Stewart (or J.L., as he likes me to refer to him) wearing a kilt. I got a comment from a new follower about the kilt pic., so I decided to enlighten him as to the "babe magnet" potential of the kilt in my post How to Wear a Kilt. During my research for which, I made the amazing discovery that kilts are possibly the one thing that will bring Earthlings and alien beings together to live in peace and harmony - Kilts: Could They Save the Known Universe?, a post that had a nice symmetry about it and kinda brought the whole week together, I thought.

I didn't learn any new computer tricks (a.k.a. basics that I actually need to know in order to do stuff). Instead, I spent my time having ridiculously funny chats with fellow bloggers, making new friends, and almost starting a fisticuffs fight! Excellent week for me then - job done (except the learning stuff part)!

I did notice that I seemed to have several new fans reading from Italy. Italy??? But I haven't even started fighting with the Italians (they'd surrender too quickly - ouch! did I write that out loud? That's just the type of careless comment that starts a fight........!). Some research revealed that they were coming from a Gerard Butler mad-fan site. One of them had clocked my pic of him in the How to Wear a Kilt post. He was the one in the pink jumper. The one where I couldn't decide whether or not he looked like a pansy-boy (no offence to any pink readers, it's a term of endearment, really!). His mad-fans seem to have been taken aback by the fact that I was "confused" by his choice of jumper colour (fine in Italy, still a bit suspect in Scotland), and his holding the sword in what can only be described as a phallic manner, and they actually slagged me off in their chat forum!!! How very dare they?

 It got me quite a few page hits though. Which is why I'm now going to place another photo of him............

Gerard Butler fights like a girl.

.........and one of another Scottish actor, Dougray Scott, who I think is much better looking than Gerard Butler, AND a more talented actor...............nyah nyah nyah! (may as well see if there are any Dougray Scott mad-fan sites who find this!)

Dougray Scott - far more handsome and talented than Gerard Butler.

And, just in case that's not enough to draw them out, I'm going to put my new-found hyper-link-tag-thingy skill to use, and I'm gonna tag this post "Gerard Butler"............that should [polite cough] irritate them!

Apologies for so much talk on Feelgood Friday visual joke only day, but then I'm sure you, dear readers, understand that I couldn't resist the temptation!

Okay, here's the cartoon now!

HOPE EVERYONE HAS A MOST EXCELLENT WEEKEND!

Feelgood Friday #5

Hello to the many thousands of you who stop anything productive you happen to be doing, to come and read my blog instead. Here we are at Friday, once again. "So soon?" I hear the five of you cry in astonishment, "I thought we were still on Wednesday???". Yup, me too.

Oh, just me then? Okay.

I managed to master the dreaded Meta Tags this week (been on my "to do" list since, ohhhh, pretty much soon as I started my blog). So that's an achievement. Just thought I'd share. I'll shut up and go away now, leave you to enjoy the cartoon, since this is my "visual only" day and all................




Before I go, though, "Welcome" to any new followers - thank you for committing yourselves (you really weren't paying attention when you hit that "follow" key, were you? - that'll teach you!), also to any new readers. Especially anyone who may happen to be looking in from the Dominican Republic (I promise I will reply to your message - been a tad busy learning HTML the last few days). This post is dedicated to you. x

NOW GO AWAY AND LOOK AT QUASI'S

RANDOM DOCTOR WHO PICS

(THEY'RE HILARIOUS) 

HAVE A FUN WEEKEND!

Feelgood Friday #4

Greetings readers! Welcome to Friday!

This week I've been thoroughly entertained by a fellow blogger Kelly's post Lightening Strikes Big Butter Jesus. Oh how I laughed!

I recommend that, after reading this, leaving a comment about how pithy and controversial my chosen cartoon is, signing-up as a follower (if you haven't done so already), you high tail it over to Kelly's site Psycho Carnival to get you set-up for the weekend.

This cartoon is in his honour! (even though I've just this minute discovered that he's only GOING ON A CRUISE TO THE BAHAMAS, DAMMIT! - THAT'S NOT FUNNY!)

HAVE A FUN WEEKEND!

Feelgood Friday #3

Is anyone else wondering where last week went? Actually, where did the whole of July go? Just as I was getting into it!

I'd like to take this opportunity (where I'm not writing anything, 'cos it's a visual joke only day), to welcome new readers and followers (it's also a perfect chance to annoy Cheese Puff by rubbing it in, hehe!), especially those joining us from Face book, and those of you from Yahoo! who are bored - you know who you are!

Feelgood Friday #2

In last weeks Feelgood Friday post, I promised that these posts would be purely visual. I lied (so sue me)!

I did mean it at the time of writing, but today I got some news that I just have to share.

In an effort to promote my blog in an imaginative (shameless) way, I have recently been surfing Yahoo!Answers and answering open questions, sometimes cleverly, sometimes blatantly, but always including my blog URL.

I've just found out that one of my efforts has been voted THE BEST ANSWER!

Ironic or what?!

Thanks DreamCat, this post is dedicated to you!

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND!

Feelgood Friday!

In order to cater for my thousands of readers generally, and specifically the two of you who think my posts are toooooo long (you know who you are, you'll be getting a visit anytime soon from some of "my people"), I've decided to start a "Feelgood Friday" post, which will be a solely visual communication (e.g. a cartoon!).