FHE: Thanksgiving

Tonight's Family Home Evening lesson was on Thanksgiving. Anyone want to guess which of the below were Caleb's?
Family
New job
Cars
Scriptures
Repentance
White car
Holidays
Health
Balloon
Good kids
Education
Blanky
Sleep
Five interceptions
Spike
Hot baths
Atonement
Teddy Bear
President Monson
Service
Grandma and Grandpa
Enough to eat
Music
Boppa and Diyah
Good books
Ability to work
More cars

m&n (+ Caleb)

You keep using that word...

I passed through a group talking in the hallway while walking to my office. I don't know what they were talking about, but I overheard this line.

Strange looking guy (not me): Dude, you're getting older. The synopsis in your brain isn't working anymore.

Funny on so many levels.

mw

Random thoughts from this past week

• I didn't post any random thoughts last week. Guess that means every thought I had was rational and logical. Be afraid.
  
• What is the sheer tonnage of bacon that has been boiled across the U.S.A. since the theatrical release of Better Off Dead?
• I didn't bring lunch today since we are having a budget working session and the CFO usually buys. Forgot the meeting was in Austin and I was dialing in.
• Bought lunch at the Fresh Aire [sic] Cafe on the second floor instead. Ordered the barbecue bacon cheeseburger. What I imagine used batteries taste like.
• Jocularity is a funny word. I wonder if they meant it that way.
  
• Coming up on the seven-hour mark of our five-hour review and I think the general manager is trying to explain how she can save me money on my car insurance. Somehow, this doesn't strike me as odd.
• I wonder how quickly divorce papers would be served if I took up the banjo.
• It's been two days and I've sat through nineteen hours of budget presentations and filtered through 2.3GB of bad forecasts that don't tie. We're only half done. There must be an intervention for this sort of thing.
• The trouble with being my age is that sometimes, for no reason at all, you get "Ice, Ice Baby" stuck in your head.

mw

To which I have no response

Me: Caleb, you need to drink your milk before you get down.
Caleb: I have a bumblebee in my mouth.

*blink, blink*

mw

Review: Get Smart

Comedies are a hard genre to recommend, one way or the other. What makes one person laugh out loud may be considered dull and prosaic by someone else. Hence the phrase, "Comedy is funny business." Get Smart is a pretty tame affair. With the exception of a few slapstick gags, most of the jokes are done deadpan with a sort of melancholy delivery that would have made Chaplin proud.

Steve Carrel stars as Maxwell Smart, a secret agent for CONTROL, who, along with Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway), attempts to stop the evil organization KAOS from taking over the world. Not much of a plot, but the movie is meant as escapist comedy, not social commentary...I hope. Carrel's version of Max Smart is less bumbling and more inexperienced than Don Adams, and his dry delivery of Smart cliches (e.g., "Sorry about that, Chief," "Missed it by that much," and "Would you believe?") turn them more into throw away lines than memorable catch phrases. This characterizes most of the movie, which gives due respect to the original television series without attempting to be a direct imitation of it.

If you are not familiar with the Get Smart of the 1960s, or if you are a die-hard purist, you likely will not enjoy the movie. Even if those don't apply to you, you still may not enjoy the movie. After all, "comedy is a funny business."

Neesha's favorite line:
"Bomb didn't go off."
"Oh, really, bright eyes? What alerted you? Was it not the boom-boom or the lack of a mushroom cloud?"
"It was the mushroom cloud for me."
Mark's favorite line:
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"I don't know. Were you thinking, "Holy shoot, holy shoot, a swordfish almost went through my head?" If so, then yes."
Caleb's favorite line:
"Too bad about all the dead movie stars."
"Yes. What will we do without their razor-sharp political advice?"
Ainsley's favorite line: "Okay, not to keep dwelling on this, but that was some kiss. How did you know that would work? Have you kissed other men who then plummeted to their deaths? "

Rating:

• Buy it now
• Worth $10 at Costco
• Happy we rented it, but also happy we only rented it
  
• No good at any price
• That numb feeling at the top of your head? That's your cerebral cortex closing up shop

m&n