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August 26th, 2008 | Category: Fanberg | Leave a comment

Freddy B.  sent me this amazing video of Tommy Seebach and Apache!

August 25th, 2008 | Category: Fanberg | Leave a comment

Now that we have a VP-nominee, I did a little research and I found this video where Joe Biden tells us how great he is:

August 23rd, 2008 | Category: Fanberg | Leave a comment

hmmm yummy

Recently I retold a story at work about my life at Kings Point. It was well received, so I thought I would retell it here for everyone to enjoy.

Once upon a time, I went to military school. While away from home, my sweet mom would send me care-packages. These care-packages were well known to most of my buddies in my company as being filled with very random items. One of these items in a package was a completely unused, still-in-the-package, McDonald’s straw. Fred (my roommate) taped it to the wall and called it the Emergency Straw. We will come back to the straw later in the story.

Life at Kings Point could get dull from time to time being trapped on campus with nothing to do but study and pull pranks on my fellow comrades, so one day I decided to order an Ant Farm. Of course, having an Ant Farm in your room was completely against school policy, but I figured I would risk getting caught for the hours of enjoyment that an Ant Farm would bring.

Three weeks passed and then finally one day a package was waiting for me at the post office. When I got the box back to my room and opened it, in the box was an empty farm, sand and a vile full of very active ants. The instructions on the vile said to calm the ants by placing the vile in a refrigerator for 15 mins. This would stun the ants for easy transfer from the vile to their new home. Well being that I was a bit nervous that someone might catch me with a vile of ants, I decided to use the Company wardroom freezer and leave the ants in there for only 5 minutes.

This was an extremely hot day in late August. I lived on the third floor or deck as we call them in the nautical world, so after 5 minutes, I removed the vile, saw that the ants were still alive but barely moving and ran back up to my room with the vile hidden in my closed fist.

When I got to my room, safe from discovery, I quickly began to transfer the ants to the farm. I did not take any time to check on the status or activity level of the ants. Needless to say, the hot August day and my sweaty palm were more than enough to kick start the activity level of the ants. They were full of energy and not ready to be placed in any old farm. Just as I opened the vile, out came the ants and down onto the floor everywhere. There had to have been 50 ants scurrying every direction on my tile floor.

Panicked, I looked everywhere for something to scoop up the ants. The only thing I saw was was my mom’s straw with the words EMERGENCY written on the paper cover. Without thinking (again), I grabbed the straw, ripped off the paper, and sucked up the first ant I saw. GULP! The ant went right down my throat.

I had no time to contemplate what I had just done. I decided to not suck as hard, but to still try it again. GULP! Even a gentle suck sent another ant right into my stomach. Actually, I remember thinking that the second one might be stuck in my throat, but by now the ants were everywhere.

Obviously, I needed some sort of filter to prevent the ants from entering my mouth, but something that would still allow the passage of air. I chucked my shoe off and slipped off my sock. I placed part of the sock over the straw and went for another ant. SUCCESS… no more ant snack. I sucked him up and blew him right into the farm. I proceeded to straw-transfer as many ants as I could find with my dirty sock over my Mom’s very helpful Emergency Straw.

The ants lived for about another three weeks.

August 21st, 2008 | Tags: ants, emergency straw, food | Category: Fanberg | Leave a comment