Rants of Passion

It ain't over until the fat lady sings ................

rantsofpassion — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:19:02 GMT

....... or the whistle blows.

Quick lesson in high school football. The game isn't over until the official blows the whistle on the final play.

Canton (Michigan) Plymouth High learned that the hard way earlier this month.

The school thought it had defeated Westland (Michigan) John Glenn when it blocked a last-second field goal attempt. But when its players ran off the field in celebration, none of the players realized that the ball hadn't crossed the line of scrimmage and was still in play.

No official had blown the ball dead.

So while Plymouth celebrated, John Glenn's Tony Wilton alertly picked up the ball and ran 33-yards for the winning score.

It's a play, Wilton will never forget. Here's how it went down.

John Glenn trailed Plymouth, 28-27, with eight seconds left when it lined up for a potential game-winning field goal.

Wilton, a senior, is also the holder for field goals.

As the play unfolded, two onrushing Plymouth defenders dove and blocked the Ryan Lopez kick, which would never cross the line of scrimmage.

The Plymouth team erupted in jubilation of the last-second heroics.

Unfortunately for the Wildcats, the play was not over.

Wilton alertly scooped up the ball and took off running and 33 yards later he had scored his first career touchdown and won the game, 33-28.

Monday Funny - The Under 30 Crowd

rantsofpassion — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:19:28 GMT

DISCLAIMER: I have a lot of friends under the age of 30. This post is for laughs only and it is in no way meant to offend or upset anyone. *hugs*

If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning…

Uphill... barefoot...

BOTH ways

Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!

And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters ! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

There were no CD players ! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone.. cause that's how we rolled, dig?

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders ' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens; it was just one screen forever!

And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and

faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that!

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!

Regards,

The over 30 Crowd

Who Is This Gorgeous Man?

rantsofpassion — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:33:07 GMT

Anyone know who this guy is?? A friend sent these pictures to me via email chain, but no one knows who this guy is.

I've tried to determine if these are photoshopped since the second to the last picture looks so much like the photoshopped Gerry picture that so many people have been sadly lead to believe is real. But these look pretty clean and if not and they are PSd, kudos to the person that shopped them.

Anyway, I want to add him to my shag list but need a name, damn it. I can't just put .... "Unknown gorgeous guy".   *grin*

Gamer Motion Movie Poster

rantsofpassion — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:09:47 GMT

This is really interesting. I love how they worked up this poster. Move your cursor over the poster and watch it change.

Enjoy.

Addicted To Books

rantsofpassion — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:29:29 GMT

I love to read; always have. I still have my favorite story book and one of the very first books I ever bought through the school book program. The story book is "Make Way For Ducklings" and I had the joy of reading it to my boys when they were little. The other book is titled "The Enormous Egg" and although its decades old, amazingly, it's still in fabulous condition.

I'm guessing that most people that live in the US remember the elementary school book programs. This was a program where each month a pamphlet was handed out in class so that kids could order/buy books for their personal libraries.  That program was introduced at my school when I was in the 3rd grade.

Back then (the dark-ages) there was no Amazon.com; no Barnes & Noble on the corner or any kind of big no-holds-barred book stores. There was the school library and the local library. Since both my parents were career oriented, the chances of me getting to the local library were rare, at best, because the library wasn't open in the evenings or on weekends. For that reason I was limited to the library at my school; and let me tell you, private schools do NOT have the libraries you would expect them to have. On top of that, there were horrible limitations; library time was only once a week; as a class; for half a day; with a limit of one book for check out.  To a kid that loved to read the way I did it was torture.

I was so happy when the book program came to our school. Each month when the pamphlets were handed out, I'd race home and lock myself in my room to read through the entire thing and then fill out the order form (I think there were usually about 4 pages).  The Enormous Egg was in the first group of books ordered under that program. For the next three years, each month, I had a box of books to carry home when the order came in. Thankfully there were other girls in my classes that had just as many books from their orders and that kept me from standing out anymore than I normally did.  LOL

Thus began a life long love affair with books. There isn't a room in my home that doesn't have at least one stack of books in it.  My bedroom is a joke, with the nightstands covered in books as well as 4 or 5 stacks of books on the floor next to the nightstand. No clue how I'll finish all the books I have before I die; especially since I bought a Kindle and can now download the darn things from anywhere in the US. A dream come true, I can carry 1500 books with me anywhere I go. WOW ... kind of reminds me of The Time Machine where books, actual books, are obsolete in the future.

Though my list of much loved books would take a month of Sunday's to post, there are several books that I would never part from and are on the center shelf in my home office. These are the books that I read over and over again. They are the books that a person lists when presented with that desert island question. However, the problem for me would be the limit of only five selections. UGH .... forget it. I'll go down with the ship. *wink*  Below are the books that are on that center shelf and are my favorites. If possible I would even save them if the house was on fire.

~Lord of the Rings - I have three copies of this book. One was a gift and its an incredible special edition with the most gorgeous lithographs. I'm one of those LOTR geeks that has even read the appendixes.

~Pride and Prejudice - I have 4 hardback copies. What's the difference between them?   The covers. *feel free to insert eyeroll here*

~Dracula - One of my favorite horror stories and the book that should be the bible of the genre.

~Isaac Asimov's Sci-fi books - I have the robot series and the first five books of the Foundation series.  I also have several of his Sci-fi shot stories of which two have been made into full length movies. iRobot anyone? These books are dead center on my shelf.

~Bridget Jones Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - The movies have nothing on these books. I have to put them down at times to wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes.

~The Time Travelers Wife - Time travel with a sappy romantic twist .... nuf said.

~Paradise - Romance novel by Judith McNaught. Even my cynical heart has to believe in HEA once in awhile.

~Harry Potter Series - I jumped on this band wagon late in the game.  The first 5 books were out before I bothered. It was Gary Oldman's connection to the movie that had me jumping into the books. I am forever grateful to the casting person because these books are fabulous fantasy and pure escapism.

~Webster's Dictionary - Never more than an arms length away and the most utilized book in my home.

So there it is, my selection for the desert island. Unfortunately that's only the tip of the iceberg. I have a floor to ceiling wall of books in my office and there is still another wall worth stacked about the house. Books, books ... everywhere books. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Happy reading.

rantsofpassion — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:02:22 GMT

I deeply regret posting the spoiler to the final episode of Robin Hood on Thursday. As worthless as an apology is at this point, I could not let anyone think that their feelings are being ignored.

I have ruined the story for people that have been kind to me, shared with me and befriended me. It was careless, inconsiderate and stupid. There is nothing anyone can say about me or to me that I have not been saying to myself.

Feel free to vent your wrath, I deserve it and have no intention of deflecting it.

With sincere apologies,
Carole