Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Frosticles of Merit

Phlim here, back from a much needed LONG siesta, or as in Spanish they say, a largo nap!  I just had to write about this story, as the scoutly arts are near and dear to my heart.  
It seems that a young man has earned all of the 121 merit badges needed to ascend to high master of universe scout.  Here is a weblink:  
Everyone knows that the boy scouts is an honorable competition which takes the childhood mind off of video games and girls, and puts them squarely on gentlemanly pursuits like oaken staffs and garter/sock placement (see above).  

There is, however, a dark side to this regimented organization.  A friend of mine, let's call him for anonymity's sake, Andrew Harold, Esq., was in fact an boy scout for a time.  The man is now one of the more depraved lunatics in my coterie of social accquaintances.  He'll routinely chase old ladies across streets to save them from themselves, and cannot be given a length of string without tying it into a double overhand stopper knot (his favorite), while I tell him always that the fieggen shoelace knot is much more classy.  To each his own.  

In conclusion, the young man who has forsaken popularity, social life, and general fun of all kinds in order to achieve a sash of stitched fabric will surely go places in the business/political fields that he is interested in.  Everyone here at the Dippler blog wishes him the best.  

Sunday, December 14, 2008

balloon pic!

Tom and Oprah are Such Good Friends.

Guest Post:  Sandria Dippler (Phlim's biological step-writer)
My good friend Joba (from our Danish sister-blog (or SOUER-blog for your Frenchman)))) and I went to a balloon festival this weekend.  We're total ballooniacs!  I swear!  No I swear!  We're such kooks.  Oh well, it would appear that over the years ballooning has really grown from a lot.  Apparently the first goose-skin models were banned for heresy because the balloons were suspected to be able to carry humans illegally into heaven.  These crazy christians!  Pu-LEASE, I am a secular though.  Joba and I are very spiritual both of us.  We believe in only holistics and healing with totally natural stuff!  Joba has this funny joke where he's saying "holistic is a HOL lot of fun"  and I'm like lol.  We had a great time at Balloons 2008 though, it was a balloon festival to remember.  But aren't they all!!!  Really some nice cross stitch patterns, and I was drawn to Joba's passion concerning the nylon vs. neoprene debate.  Inspiration I say.  More like balloonspiration.  BMAGGGG.  Thanks phlim for your generosity in this guest blog.