Hump Day Funnies and Trivia Answers

Happy Hump Day.

I hope you are sailing through this week and just need a few funnies here to get you over the hump.  So here they are.  No real theme this week, these just tickled my funny bone.

I really relate to this one.

I won't admit if I relate to this one.

Hmmm, better not admit to this one either.

This one I can honestly say I don't relate to.  Never been crazy about fancy shoes.

But this one I love.  I was walking Sophie last week and we were stalked by a black cat.  This is pretty much how Sophie reacted.  Right up until she fell over on her back.  (So humiliating.)

And I wouldn't ask you to get through Hump Day without your Awwww.

Does this little guy do it for you?

So, are you all set?  Charged up on chuckles and ready to get through the rest of the week?  Did you have a favorite?

Thought for the Day:

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

M*A*S*H Trivia Question Answers

Only a couple brave souls tried to answer the M*A*S*H trivia question I posted on Monday.  Thanks, Stacy and Maria for giving it a shot.  Here are the answers.

1. Where is Hawkeye from?

Stacy was close, Maria was closer.  Hawkeye was from Crabapple Cove, Maine

2. In the episode where Hawkeye places an order for ribs from Adam’s Ribs, what does he forget to order?

Maria nailed this one - it was coleslaw.

3. Who was Major Houlihan’s fiancée and what was his rank?
Maria got half of this one.  It was Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscot

4. What is Klinger’s middle initial?
Yup, it was Q.  Maxwell Q. Klinger

5. Where is B.J. Hunnicutt from?
You both knew the state.  BJ lived in Mill Valley, CA

6. What was Max Klinger’s favorite baseball team?
You had it, Stacy.  The Toledo Mud Hens

7. What was Col. Potter’s middle initial?
This one was too easy.  Sherman T. Potter.

8. What was the name of Col. Potter’s horse? (Hint: think of my dog.)
Aw, the hint should have given this one to everyone.  Sophie.

9. What was the name of the psychiatrist?
You both got his first name.  It was Sidney Freedman.

10. What is Father Mulcahy’s full name?
But no one remembered the good padre.  Father Francis John Patrick Mulcahy.  (I would have accepted Francis.)

Bonus question - What was Charles' sister's name?
Stacy - Charles' sister was never seen but mentioned a number of times, including the scene Maria mentioned in her answer. It was Honoria.

Thanks again for playing along.

Fly-by Post With Trivia Answers

Anyone who visited last Friday knows I'm feeling a little time crunch and stressing out over its impact on my writing time.  My thanks to all of you who stepped up to give me a good smack. 

This weekend didn't help the situation.  I spent all Saturday working on the mission project home re-build - eating dirt and rolling in pink insulation.  (I'm going to feel prickly for a week.)  Sunday was claimed by church and family, which is as it should be.  But now it's Monday and I'm even further behind.

So this will be a quick fly-by post wishing you all a happy Monday before I dive into my WIP.

Answers for Friday's Trivia Questions:

1. Two of the longest-running musicals in the London West end theater scene opened in 1981 and 1984 and feature the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. What are they?

Several of you guessed Les Miserables, which is certainly a long running show but isn't an Andrew Lloyd Webber.   Cats was another top vote getter and that is correct.  The other is Webber's Starlight Express.

2. Born in 1847 in Hungary, he grew to become an American journalist and publisher who eventually purchased the New York Sun and the St. Louis Evening Dispatch newspapers. Who was he?

A few of you recognized this one as Joseph Pulitzer.

3. Near what body of water, not far from what town, did Henry David Thoreau build a cabin in 1845 and live for more thatn two years?

A number of you knew Walden Pond but only Eve knew it was near Concord, Massachusetts. 

Thanks for coming by today.  I apologize for the semi-post.

Quotes for Today:

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."  ~William Somerset Maugham

"Do not put statements in the negative form.  And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."

~William Safire, "Great Rules of Writing"