Day: August 23, 2010

The McBournie Minute: Twitter is dead

Ladies and gentlemen, Twitter is over.

Yes, I’m sort of quoting Prince, who declared the end of the Internet a few weeks ago. We even lost former Sen. Ted Stevens, who brought us the more technical term, “series of tubes.” However, I’m not here to address the alleged death of the Web, merely just one of the most mis-used parts of it. And no, I’m not talking about Chat Roulette.

Twitter is pretty much dead. Or maybe I just wish it was. I mean really, it was such a cool idea. Then we all ended up following Ashton Kutcher. Kutcher was replaced by Britney Spears, who has been unseated in twfollowershipdom–by Lady Gaga. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Twitter is dead

We’re milkin’ it

For at least the first six years of The Guys’ lives, we were breastfed. When we were kicked off the teat habit, we picked up drinking, which probably says all sorts of Freudian things about us.

So, we get it when mothers want to breastfeed wherever and whenever it’s necessary. We could really kick over some store displays when we went into withdrawal. (The shakes can really boost the force behind a toddler’s weight.)

But, in McDonald’s? Really?

“Most critics said they feel nursing should be a private thing between a mother and her child, to which one nurse-in mother said, ‘Do you want me to take my baby into a dirty bathroom stall?’“

Lady, look around. You’re in a McDonald’s. There isn’t a whole lot of difference between the floors in the bathroom or the dining room. And you can get crabs from either’s seating.

Terror in the skies

For as long as they have existed, birds have been the nemesis of planes. It’s a rivalry that goes back centuries. We most recently saw the tension between the two with the Miracle on the Hudson. Now, the confrontation as moved its way to Scotland.

A vulture named Gandalf was at a bird show in Scotland when he took off, soaring to heights that air traffic controllers in the area had to warn pilots that the bird may be as high as they are. The escapee has not taken any planes out of the sky–yet, but it has flown the coop and has yet to be seen.