Dogbert: barking up the wrong tree

It takes a lot of balls for someone like the Mayor of London to say:

Decades of British and American intervention in the oil-rich Middle East motivated the London bombers … Instead, they had often supported unsavoury governments in the region…”We’ve propped up unsavoury governments, we’ve overthrown ones we didn’t consider sympathetic.” [Source]

And to say that right after the London bombings? That’s like committing political harakiri. I would only expect someone like Chomsky or George Galloway to say stuff like that.

But way to go Livingstone for calling a spade a spade.

Something comes over me when I enter the narrow lanes at the end of the 5th Ring Road. The lanes I’m talking about are the ones setup temporarily due to the construction work going on with the 5th Ring.

It’s business as usual while I’m driving along on the rest of the highway but the moment I enter those narrow lanes squeezed in between an SUV and a half-lorry, I transform into an F1 racer. I feel like I’m racing on one of the circuits from ‘Need For Speed’. I ease into turns and speed out (just like I do on the video game) and I tend to give sideway glances to the drivers on either side of me (to check whether they’re gaining on me). The moment I’ve exited those lanes, I’m back to my normal self.

I guess I feel this way because they’re the only roads in Kuwait that are “fun” to drive on. I remember loving driving along Highway 1 in California. Those of you who’ve been there will know that some parts of Highway 1 (close to Monterey etc.) are pretty treacherous and one false move can land you into the Atlantic Ocean!

So yeah, the next time you see someone mistaking his Corolla for a McLaren, that’s Dogbert.

I got this in the mail today:

A dog went to a telegram office, took out a blank form and wrote: “Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof.” The clerk examined the paper and politely told the dog: “There are only nine words here. You could send another ‘Woof’ for the same price.” The dog replied, “But that would make no sense at all.”

Now most people I know don’t find this joke that funny but for some strange reason these kind of jokes just crack me up. I think I find most jokes that involve animals really funny. Like there was this one comic illustration I saw a while back that showed a bunch of chickens sitting around a microwave oven watching a chicken being roasted. The cartoon was titled “Reality TV”. Now that’s so hilarious especially because the chicken were all dopey looking. I wish I had the picture with me so I could’ve posted it here.

Gary Larson is the best.