The Return of the Dog

It was about 2o minutes after I posted the most recent Dlog that I got an email letting me know that Matt Drudge had caught wind of our new stuff. Here's what he put up at his site, I though you might like to see the buzz...

Bad Words: Part One

NOTE: For those of you at home (under the age of David), you may want to read this one quitly to yourself thus avoiding a possible bar-of-soap in the mouth.



BUTT (root: buttocks, the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on)

When we were kids there were certain words that we were not allowed to use. It is interesting to think back on what some of these words were. For the life of me I can't figure out what's wrong with the word butt. If we had known to, we could probably have used the word 'buttocks', but for whatever reason, shortening that to just 'butt' was unacceptable.

Granted, the context was more than likely attached to the word 'head', thus creating one of the most clever insults in human history. To claim that a brother's head was in fact a butt would have been as painfully insulting as kicking him in the... neck.

One of my favorite games to play (when I got old enough to forgo getting my mouth washed out with soap) was to trick Mom into saying some 'bad word' and then repeat that word over-and-over, claiming "Mom said it, it must be okay!" This was most fun when, somehow, it coincided with watching Dr. Quinn.

Homeschool Family

Well, this really shouldn't offend anyone (since the Crum's are no longer a homeschool family). Actually, it could be a lot more scathing (Michal wants to rewrite the lyrics)... enjoy!



PS. If you watch this and respond by saying something like, "really funny, but not all homeschoolers are like that" it means you probably are.

Cool Stuff

As a child I loved playing with Legos. In fact, I would still love playing with Legos, I just don't have any. I really look forward to Daniel being old enough to play with those great plastic bricks without trying to consume them. I just hope that I'll be able to find some good, old bricks, not the newfangled sets that require no creativity (or even construction). I still remember building our first aircraft carrier upstairs(?) in the house on Maire Island, the first of many Carriers to come. I know there were a lot of toys that we had as kids. Maybe even some that, at the time, we thought were "better" than our Legos, so what do you guys think? What were (or are) your favorite toys?

The Pats

What was it that made the Superbowl so satisfying this year? Maybe it was how annoyingly cocky the patriots are and how great it was to see them get beaten. I think the game would have been good if the Giants had dominated and just slaughtered the Patriots, but the fact that they went ahead with 35 seconds to go... that was heart-stoppingly amazing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no Giants fan. I like Manning, but really only because of his older brother. What I was watching for was anyone to beat the Patriots (and also watching for a good half-time show). What I got was one of the most exciting football games of the season.

So were any of you dissapointed? Did anyone actually want Pretty Boy and the Pats to win?



....sucks to be you!