As I was coming home from work tonight, I saw something that I had never seen before. It was a motorcycle with a bike rack on the back. The reason that I knew it was a bike rack was because there was a bicycle on it. I guess that he used the motorcycle for long distance travel and the bike for local.

Talk about traveling cheap.

Anyone who has seen the first installment of Star Wars, episode 4, will remember that Luke and his parents lived in a hole in the ground in the middle of the desert. Well, that hole in the ground was not a movie set but an actual hotel in Tunisia.

It is so hot in the desert of Tunisia that the people who live there actually live underground. They literally carve out a house in the rocks beneath the sand. And, the market that Luke and family visited when they bought R2D2 and C3PO is an actual market in Tunisia.

Life is stranger than fiction.

Recently, a family went to a funeral home to pay their respects for their dearly departed grandmother. But, when they got there, they discovered that the woman wearing grannies favorite dress and necklace was not granny.

It seems that the funeral home had a mix up and buried the wrong granny a few days earlier. The family, of course, was extremely upset over the mistake.

But more to the point, didn’t the other family notice that the woman in the casket did not look like their grandmother? You’d think they would have noticed.

A teenage girl recently discovered that she had a baby bat in the bra that she was wearing. The bat apparently got into her bra when is was hanging on the clothes line. She didn’t discover the bat until she took off the bra.

Well, I could make several comments about this one. First of all, who hangs their underwear on a clothes line anymore? Followed by, I guess when she discovered that she didn’t have any underwear, she pulled some off the line and put it on. Finally, I guess she didn’t fill out the cup very well.

Life is stranger than fiction.

Tempest Storm is a stripper in Las Vegas. She is 80. She vows never to retire. She has bright red hair and looks like she could be the spokes person for California Raisins.

I wonder if she uses a walker instead of a pole in her act?

It is no longer illegal to make obscene gestures in Belmar NJ. A few years back they banned obscene gestures. But I guess they decided that such a ban was too hard to enforce so they lifted that ban.

I doubt that anyone payed any attention to the ban in the first place.

A man in New Jersey was arrested to displaying a nude Barbie on the dashboard of his car. The arresting officer felt that the nude Barbie was a distraction to other motorist.

I think that the arresting officer needs professional help.

With the advent of the Summer Olympics in China, the discussion of Chinglish has emerged.

It seems that there are thousands of Chinese who are frantically trying to learn English in preparation for the influx of tourists. Unfortunately, there are not enough teachers who are fluent in English and Chinese. So, what you get is a lot of Chinese who are learning Chinglish.

Chinglish is a basic survival form of English. It is noted for the lack of articles and the misuse of pronouns. However, it does work.

But, the potential exists for literally millions of Chinese to be speaking it. And with that, Chinglish could become the dominate language in China. Unfortunately, just by there sheer numbers, Chinglish could replace English world wide.

No ticky no shirty.

The other night, we saw an ad for a new birth control pill, Seasonique, that regulates menstruation to only 4 times a year. The ad explained all of the benefits of this new drug and showed a cartoon of happy women who no longer have the worry of monthly menstruation.

Unfortunately, at the end of the ad, there was a rapid disclaimer stating that side effects include blood clots, strokes and heart attacks. “Hey, we have this great new drug. It might kill you but it will eliminate monthly cramping.”

I think that Midol is a much safer solution.

Here at the State, we have motion detectors on all of the light switches, including the ones in the bathrooms. If no movement is detected after about 30 minutes, the motion detector shuts off the lights.

Well, apparently the one in the bathroom is malfunctioning. I was only in there about 3 minutes when the lights went off. Since I was rather indisposed at the time, it was a few minutes before I could move to turn them back on. Fortunately, most of what I had to do could be done in the dark. After that, I got out the little pen light that I carry on my key chain.

I am just glad that I was alone at the time.