A little email and the truth behind it all...

A few days ago I received an email from a friend of mine.. It was an email forwarded from someone else and you know how that goes right?? How many emails a day do you get that are forwarded from someone you don't know? Some are funny, some are stupid, most are just a waste of your damn time.

Well, this one happened to be funny and somehow stuck with me. Within the joke was an air of honesty that you have to wonder if this was written as a joke or if it was just recorded as a factual conversation. Either way, I love it and I sent it to a few people and now it's here for you all to see.

If you have already read this, sorry, but it's great....

While suturing up a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, whose hand had been caught in the gate while working his cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama, and his being our president. 

The old rancher said: 

 

"Well, ya know, Obama is just a Post Turtle."

 

 

 

Now ...not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked, 

 

"What's a 'Post Turtle?'"

 

The old rancher said, 

 

"When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle." 

 

The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. 

 

"You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, he sure as heck ain't goin' anywhere, and you justwonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there in the first place."

Now, How true is that shit??? Have a good day....

Things of my lifetime thus far...

Many things have changed in mine and most of you all's lifetime... When you actually sit and think about it all its rather overwhelming...
Little things most take for granted today and our kids could never think to go without have happened in this lifetime..

We listened to the little radios as they grew into BOOMBOXES and records gave way to cassettes that gave way to CD's which are giving way to MP3s...
We endured the godforsaken life of disco to hair bands to grunge to alternative to what we have today.. And who the hell would have thought that country would have went from that twangy banjo shit your dad listened to would go mainstream and have the following it does...
We watch a lil company called texas instruments give this little box that could do all kinds of math and it actually fit in your pocket!! WOW!
We all enjoyed video pong and thought that was the shit as our kids bitch that they want a ps3 or a wii because their ps2 wasn't cool enough.... Video pong has graduated to World of Warcraft...
My dad brought this weird, obnoxiously heavy and large box home that would dim all the lights in the house when turned on, just because it could cook a hotdog in 15 seconds... The microwave oven now is light, small and efficient..
We used to go rent a MOVIE and had to rent the PLAYER too because the players were so damn expensive... VHS and Beta fought it out as beta went to the wayside, only to have VHS lose to DVD and HDDVD lose to Blueray....
Our movies are phenomenal, our sounds are better and video games are insane...

And our televisions... Holy Crap.. the big box on the floor that died and help up our new tv has now changed to plasmas and lcds... 

The rabbit ear antenna gave way to the 8 foot satellite until cable companies gave us a great pic without that big dish!! Then the dishes got smaller, the cable went digital, we now have hundreds of channels and still have nothing to watch!

We pause live tv, set a dvr to record, playback when we want or just delete it because we can..


Letters that you would get in the mail were replaced by the mojo Faxmachines.. you could actually send a piece of paper over a fucking phone line!! are you kidding me?!
We got pagers that would beep and the bigger the better turned to small and cute and replaced by the awesome static of a bagphone replaced by the motorola block phone to the flip to the blackberry/iphone...
our dial up internet and newsgroups were awesome... we loved to hear those dings and dongs of the internet connecting.. then dsl, cable, t1, t3 and fiber optic.. wireless AND wifi?? really? Crap we're spoiled...


Now letters are emails and instant messages and text messages.. We have Drive Thru everything and an instant gratification attitude that there's no wonder our kids have ADHD....

Personal computers that used to plug into  your tv and run off a rom pack now are ridiculous super machines that only get better ever second...

There are many things each of us can talk about and this can go on for days as soooo much has happened in my lifetime that I can't imagine what the next 37 years will bring!!
But most of all, with all that has happened my dad drilled it in my head that I would never see what I saw tonite..
I was told my whole life that this would never happen... And I really wanted it to happen but I honestly doubted it ever would...

But, the Saints WON THE FUCKING SUPERBOWL!!! It was stressful and won in dramatic fashion...

And I actually cried...

Bless you boys.. I love ya all....

Who Dat!!

And FUCK YOU nfl for trying to steal that phrase!!