Marc’s Musings

File this under the “you can’t make this stuff up” column: a man was re-elected as mayor in a Bulgarian village even though he’s dead.

I’ve heard of dead people voting in places like Chicago, but not of being elected to office.

Reuters reports one person explained his reason for voting for the dead man:

“I know he died, but I don’t want change,” a pro-Ivascu villager told Romanian television.

I think this guy’s in for a rude awakening: change comes whether you like it or not!

Read the entire story at: Reuter’s Oddly Enough.

In this day of increasing gas prices, it seems nothing is left untouched.

But you know it’s a travesty when it even reachs the Wheel of Fortune.

Contestants on the television game show Wheel Of Fortune have been hit especially hard at the podiums in recent months due to skyrocketing vowel prices, which reached a record $600 last week.

Read all about it on the wonderfully satirical website, the Onion.

While you’re there, check out New Starbucks Opens In Rest Room Of Existing Starbucks.

I don’t really know how I came across this Psych section on the NBC website.

I wasn’t looking for Pysch and I certainly didn’t know they were on NBC!

But I couldn’t resist it when I saw a “Pysch profiler.” Here is my result.

I think it was the Prius and the fact that I like to start things on time…

Try it for yourself at: Psych Profiler.

I dedicate this song to my friend Rich Gouette.

The song is The Hotel Dunkin Donuts starts:

On a dark crowded strip mall, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of Coconut Kreme, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a pink and orange light
My gut grew hungry, and my mouth watered, I had to stop for a bite
There she stood at the counter, I heard the drive-thru bell
And I was thinking to myself, this could be Krispy Kreme or this could be Hell
Then she picked up a powdered, and she showed me the way
There were voices from the back room, I thought I heard them say

Welcome to the Hotel Dunkin’ Donuts
Such a lovely place, such a lovely glaze
Plenty of room at the Hotel Dunkin’ Donuts
Any time of year, you can eat ‘em here

For the rest of the verses, and a mild feeling of sugary panic, go to Chad Norman’s blog.

Kudos to flowerdust for finding this great photo and inspiring some hilarious comments.

I’d hate to have cameras recording every second of my life but still, this is a hoot.

I’ve turned off comments here so that you can add them to the winners on her blog at: flowerdust.net.

Well, I may never get Carl Kasell to record a message on my answering machine by winning at “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.”

But thanks to Facebook, I’m now Carl’s friend.

Marc and Carl Kasell are now friends. 10:23pm

Me and 3578 of his close confidants.

Our new friend, Don Brewster, pointed us to videos of Jesus done by Vintage21.

They’re a funny look at how Jesus seems to come across when filtered through the Church.

Here’s one. Stick with it to the end. It’s a riot.

I heard this on NPR this afternoon. It pretty much says it all:

The problem Microsoft has with purchasing Yahoo is that to find out anything about the deal, most of us are going to do a search about it on Google.

Thanks to Mark Nakumara for pointing this out to me. This 4 minute video will hilariously show you how to give a man to man hug and avoid any uneasy moments.

VideoJug: How To Give A Great Man To Man Hug

Here’s a cheery thought from a somewhat scary article on WebMD:

The average desk area in an office has 400 timesmore bacteria on it than the average toilet seat, which means your workplace is a fine place for cold and flu germs to congregate. People sneeze, talk, eat and breathe all over their desks and their neighbor’s desk all day long, and cleaning at work is usually the last thing on someone’s mind. When Jim from the next cube over lets out a whopping sneeze, the flu has just flown the coop, making a nice nest on your computer keyboard. The good news, after two days of being sanitized with disinfectant wipes, most desks have about a 99.9% reduction in bacteria and virus levels, including those that cause the cold and flu. By practicing good cleaning habits in your work space you are less apt to come down with the cold or flu.