SoL True Hollywood Story: Def Leppard

So as some of you can see, Shannon likes Def Leppard. Now she doesn't "obsess" over Def Leppard, and the frequent mention of this band on Shan-O-Land is actually ment to annoy Jerri.

Now Shannon does think that Pour Some Sugar on Me is one of the best hair band 80's song ever, (along with We Built this City by Jefferson Airplane/Starship/whatever; WHICH was the #1 Best Worst Song EVER on Vh1, so we really know where Shannon's, we will call it "varied", taste comes from) so to prove to Jerri that Def Leppard really isn't a group of "No Talent Ass Clowns" they will both present their sides in the first ever Shan-O-Land debate.

Side 1 (Shannon): Def Leppard is one of the greatest 80's hair band ever!

5. They are part of the 1970's / 1980's British Rock invasion
(Yes people, they are right up there with Queen and Led Zepplin)

4. Their top 20 US hits include: Pour Some Sugar on Me, Hysteria, Animal, Love Bites, and Let's Get Rocked
- who can forget the little animated guy running arond!
- and Love Bites is a classic power ballad!

3. Dee Snider said they were cool!
(Appearing in Vh1's Greatest 100 Most Metal Moments over 3 times!)

2. They have a one armed drummer who rocks the Casbah!

1. I'm hot sticky sweet, from my head to my feet, Yeah....!

Side 2 (Jerri): Def Leppard are a bunch of No Talent Ass Clowns!
5. British invasion my ass!
- They may have come over during the era when Queen rocked the casbah, but they didn't hit it big until the age of 80's hair bands, and all 80's hair bands are a bunch of no talent ass clowns.

4. I dont' care what Dee Snider says - THEY SUCK! and so does Dee!

3. Who the fuck has a one armed drummer! Drunk ass!

2. Pour Some Sugar on Me makes me want to put a pencil in my eye!

1. THEY ARE NO TALENT ASS CLOWNS!


**In Shannon's support, we GOOGLED "Def Leppard sucks" and could not find one fan web site dedicated to how much they suck. There were quite a few "Def Leppard Sucks" comments on other web sites, but not one to support Jerri's claim that they are indeed are no talent ass clowns. **

Golden Showers & Falling off the Wagon

New term:
Golden Birthday- The year you turn the age of your birthday date.
ie: Shannon turned 18 on the 18th of February!

** DO NOT CONFUSE THIS TERM WITH "A GOLDEN BRITHDAY" ** - This is when everyone at your birthday party puts you in the middle of a circle, dances around you and pees on you all at the same time.

The Food Wagon:
Ever see someonone fall off the food wagon? Kinda like Julia Roberts in American's Sweethearts, when she gets pretty depressed and eats like this monster breakfast (all after she has lost like 100 lbs in the movie).

Well that is me today, well not really but I feel like it. So thank you Pot Bellies (a really yummy hot sandwich shop in Detroit and Chicago) for the ham and cheese sandwich with mayo, lettice, tomato, and hot peppers and the chocolate malt.

The power of the chocolate shake was to strong for me to deny today and I gave into the force.

My Shame is deep.... deep....

Drunk Stories
So seeing as how this is my very own blog, I kinda see it as a little way to express myself however I feel. Sometimes there will be random thoughts, random conversations, and a new addition, random stories. Now I have TONS of stories, most of which all take place while I am throughly intoxicated.

So... if there was ever a situation that you wished to see me in at some point in my life, please let me know, changes are I have done it and have a brillant story to go along with it...


I'm hot, sticky sweet, from my head to my feet... YEAH.....

Glow Worms

I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum.

'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!

The Benevolent Ruler

We are doing a new personality test at work for halloween based on Kingdomality. I am THE BENEVOLENT RULER!

check out the quiz at: http://www.cmi-lmi.com/kingdomality.html

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Many years ago there was a period of time that is often casually called "Medieval." It was a time, so the story tellers tell us, of tiny kingdoms, brave knights and ferocious dragons.

ransportation and travel were both crude and difficult, usually necessitating that each kingdom be as self sufficient and self reliant as possible. So it was very important that within each kingdom all the major crafts and professions of the day were ably represented to insure the survival of the kingdom. In the English language we still see remnants of some occupations in the familiar surnames such as Smith, Carpenter, Miller and Baker to name just a few.

Interestingly enough, beyond the specific title the vocation also took on its own greater personality. This personality preference can also give a broader understanding of the basic complementary style and types necessary to the kingdom's survival, or perhaps any organization's success. Although the specific vocation influenced the name, it was no accident that certain personality types and styles gravitated to certain occupations. The personality of these jobs suited the inclinations of the job holders, and the predecessor to modern day job descriptions was born. The successful matching of a job-holder's personality to the personality and unique requirements of the job was necessary to the kingdom's survival, or perhaps any organization's success. The successful kingdoms more than likely were able to blend the differences into a powerful and formidable entity. With today's diverse workforce, the corporate kingdom that acknowledges and nurtures these personality preferences could become an organization as successful as the Camelot of old.

Even though we now appear to have the freedom to explore many different career alternatives, we still have a medieval vocational personality within each of us. This personality, properly identified and understood, can motivate our success but, if ignored, may set the stage for our ultimate failure. Since times appeared to be simpler then, let us return to the kingdoms of medieval Europe and see what we would have done then, regardless of what our names are now.


Your distinct personality, The Benevolent Ruler might be found in most of the thriving kingdoms of the time. You are the idealistic social dreamer. Your overriding goal is to solve the people problems of your world. You are a social reformer who wants everyone to be happy in a world that you can visualize. You are exceptionally perceptive about the woes and needs of humankind. You often have the understanding and skill to readily conceive and implement the solutions to your perceptions. On the positive side, you are creatively persuasive, charismatic and ideologically concerned. On the negative side, you may be unrealistically sentimental, scattered and impulsive, as well as deviously manipulative. Interestingly, your preference is just as applicable in today's corporate kingdoms.

Red Fraggle

You're Red Fraggle!


Which Fraggle are you?
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Friend Survey Crap

1. WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR KITCHEN PLATES?
Royal Blue

2. WHAT ARE YOU READING NOW?

Who Moved my cheese and Bridget Jones Edge of reason (preparing for new movie)

3. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?

Some water pool thing w/ gel wrist

4. FAVORITE BOARD GAME?

Monopoly (I love play w/ Larry!)  I own like 6 different boards

5. LEAST FAVORITE SMELLS?
Skunk

 

 6. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE
UP IN THE MORNING?
5 more minutes

7. FAVORITE Color(s):
I like them all, but I own a lot of black, pink, and red

8. LEAST FAVORITE COLOR(s):
periwinkle (not really, just thought it was cool)

9. HOW MANY RINGS until YOU ANSWER THE PHONE?

1^st or 2nd

10. FUTURE CHILD'S NAME?
Katherine Vaughn and Wolfgang Scott

11. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA?
chocolate

12. DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE FAST?
usually 5-15 over

13. DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL?

Scott, and Duke around my head (we need a bigger bed!)

14. Thunderstorms - COOL OR SCARY?
Way cool!

15. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CAR?
1985 Grey Mustang 5.0 GT w/ T-Tops. I loved that car. It was all rusted out and I had to put oil in it like every 1000 miles.  If I had been a boy I would still own it and be fixing it up.

 

16. WHAT IS YOUR SIGN?
Aquarius

 

17. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI?
Yes 

18. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB WHAT WOULD IT BE?

Someday I’m gonna own a sports-bar!

19. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY COLOR HAIR, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Blond w/ hot pink highlights. 

20. HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY?
half full

21. FAVORITE MOVIE(S)?

Ferris Bueler, Supertroopers

 

 22. DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS?
yes

23. WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED?

Junk – craft box, office supplies & slippers

24. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER?
7

25. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
Football

26. YOUR SINGLE BIGGEST FEAR?

growing old and getting alztimers

27. PERSON MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
Jerri

28. PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO
RESPOND?
Scott

29. KETCHUP OR MUSTARD?
Depends, ketchup for fries,

Ketchup and mustard on burgers

Mustard on hotdogs

 

 30. HAMBURGER OR HOTDOG?
Hamburgers

32. THE BEST PLACE(S) YOU HAVE EVER BEEN?
San Diego Calf!!! WOO HOO

 

 33. WHAT SCREEN SAVER IS ON YOUR COMPUTER RIGHT NOW?

The time

34. FAVORITE FAST FOOD?

I always got to Run for the Border!

35. Dogs or Cats?

I love puppies...But I have a defective cat..

La La Orange

You are Lala Orange!


Which Rainbow Brite character are you?
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How I spend my day at work

How many football fields do you have to walk to burn off 1 M&M

Jerri : i don't know how I made it through day before instant messenger

marshsmm: lol we surfed and pranked called each other a lot

Jerri : i wish that i still had the automated voicemail. i now have the old meridian mail

Jerri : you have to walk the length of a football field to wear off one m&m

marshsmm: ???

marshsmm: a bag on m&m's is 250 calories

Jerri : that is what Cyndi just said

marshsmm: that is 45 minutes on the treadmill

Jerri : one length of a football field is like 5 minutes!

Jerri : not a bag, just one

marshsmm: well ok... just seemed a little much for 1 m&m

Jerri : well who knows where she got that from & if it is even accurate

marshsmm: they are only like 10 calories each i think...

marshsmm: 25/250 = 10 right?

Jerri : yes

Jerri : how long does it take to burn 10 caolries walking?

marshsmm: not much

marshsmm: you burn like a calorie every few seconds

marshsmm: so if i walked to your desk back and froth 25 times a day I would burn off my bag on M&Ms

Jerri : prob less then 10 cals each. there is more then 25 m&m's in a bag i'd assume

Deep thoughts, by Shannon Marshall

marshsmm: it is funny what you remember you have and what you don't...

marshsmm: i thought to myself the other day.. gee I need to buy the Hello Nasty CD by the Beastie Boys...

marshsmm: then I found it at home...

marshsmm: then i thought to myself... gee did i really buy this or did i steel it form someone which is why i dont' remember having it in my collection?

marshsmm: I do that a lot, and I do not know why. Is it short term memory loss? Or am I subconsciously choosing to forget things?

marshsmm: Kinda to go off on what Ben was saying (http://bentrb4.blogspot.com/) why do we only remember certain things? I mean our brains are big enough. Why do we file them away for future retrieval?

marshsmm: I too can only vividly remember my life from about the age of 10 on. How come we can only remember siginificant events from 4 to 10?

marshsmm: I am sure that there is some sort of developmental psychological reason that I just cant remember, even though I took developmental psychology in college.

Deep thoughts, by Shannon Marshall

Our Villiage Idiot - Bush

I don't normally like to rant and rave about our idiot, the President. But here is a great story from one of his forner prefessors from Harvard Business School. Read it, it is great!

The Story:
By Mary Jacoby
Sept. 16, 2004

For 25 years, Yoshi Tsurumi, one of George W. Bush's professors at Harvard Business School, was content with his green-card status as a permanent legal resident of the United States. But Bush's ascension to the presidency in 2001 prompted the Japanese native to secure his American citizenship. The reason: to be able to speak out with the full authority of citizenship about why he believes Bush lacks the character and intellect to lead the world's oldest and most powerful democracy.

"I don't remember all the students in detail unless I'm prompted by something," Tsurumi said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "But I always remember two types of students. One is the very excellent student, the type as a professor you feel honored to be working with. Someone with strong social values, compassion, and intellect -- the very rare person you never forget. And then you remember students like George Bush, those who are totally the opposite."

The future president was one of 85 first-year MBA students in Tsurumi's macroeconomic policies and international business class in the fall of 1973 and spring of 1974. Tsurumi was a visiting associate professor at Harvard Business School from January 1972 to August 1976; today, he is a professor of international business at Baruch College in New York.

Trading as usual on his father's connections, Bush entered Harvard in 1973 for a two-year program. He'd just come off what George H.W. Bush had once called his eldest son's "nomadic years" -- partying, drifting from job to job, working on political campaigns in Florida and Alabama, and, most famously, apparently not showing up for duty in the Alabama National Guard.

Harvard Business School's rigorous teaching methods, in which the professor interacts aggressively with students, and students are encouraged to challenge each other sharply, offered important insights into Bush, Tsurumi said. In observing students' in-class performances, "you develop pretty good ideas about what are their weaknesses and strengths in terms of thinking, analysis, their prejudices, their backgrounds, and other things that students reveal," he said.

One of Tsurumi's standout students was Rep. Chris Cox, R-Calif., now the seventh-ranking member of the House Republican leadership. "I typed him as a conservative Republican with a conscience," Tsurumi said. "He never confused his own ideology with economics, and he didn't try to hide his ignorance of a subject in mumbo jumbo. He was what I call a principled conservative."

Bush, by contrast, "was totally the opposite of Chris Cox," Tsurumi said." He showed pathological lying habits and was in denial when challenged on his prejudices and biases. He would even deny saying something he just said 30 seconds ago. He was famous for that. Students jumped on him; I challenged him." When asked to explain a particular comment, said Tsurumi, Bush would respond, "Oh, I never said that." A White House spokeswoman did not return a phone call seeking comment.

In 1973, as the oil and energy crisis raged, Tsurumi led a discussion on whether government should assist retirees and other people on fixed incomes with heating costs. Bush, he recalled, "made this ridiculous statement and when I asked him to explain, he said, 'The government doesn't have to help poor people -- because they are lazy.' I said, 'Well, could you explain that assumption?' Not only could he not explain it, he started backtracking on it, saying, 'No, I didn't say that.'"

If Cox had been in the same class, Tsurumi said, "I could have asked him to challenge that and he would have demolished it. Not personally or emotionally, but intellectually."

Bush once sneered at Tsurumi for showing the film "The Grapes of Wrath," based on John Steinbeck's novel of the Depression. "We were in a discussion of the New Deal, and he called Franklin Roosevelt's policies 'socialism.' He denounced labor unions, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Medicare, Social Security, you name it. He denounced the civil rights movement as socialism. To him, socialism and communism were the same thing. And when challenged to explain his prejudice, he could not defend his argument, either ideologically, polemically or academically."

Students who challenged and embarrassed Bush in class would then become the subject of a whispering campaign by him, Tsurumi said. "In class, he couldn't challenge them. But after class, he sometimes came up to me in the hallway and started bad-mouthing those students who had challenged him. He would complain that someone was drinking too much. It was innuendo and lies.

So that's how I knew, behind his smile and his smirk, that he was a very insecure, cunning and vengeful guy."
Many of Tsurumi's students came from well-connected or wealthy families, but good manners prevented them from boasting about it, the professor said. But Bush seemed unabashed about the connections that had brought him to Harvard.

"The other children of the rich and famous were at least well bred to the point of realizing universal values and standards of behavior," Tsurumi said. But Bush sometimes came late to class and often sat in the back row of the theater-like classroom, wearing a bomber jacket from the Texas Air National Guard and spitting chewing tobacco into a cup.

"At first, I wondered, 'Who is this George Bush?' It's a very common name and I didn't know his background. And he was such a bad student that I asked him once how he got in. He said, 'My dad has good friends.'" Bush scored in the lowest 10 percent of the class.

The Vietnam War was still roiling campuses and Harvard was no exception. Bush expressed strong support for the war but admitted to Tsurumi that he'd gotten a coveted spot in the Texas Air National Guard through his father's connections. "I used to chat up a number of students when we were walking back to class," Tsurumi said. "Here was Bush, wearing a Texas Guard bomber jacket, and the draft was the No. 1 topic in those days. And I said, 'George, what did you do with the draft?' He said, 'Well, I got into the Texas Air National Guard.' And I said, 'Lucky you. I understand there is a long waiting list for it. How'd you get in?' When he told me, he didn't seem ashamed or embarrassed. He thought he was entitled to all kinds of privileges and special deals. He was not the only one trying to twist all their connections to avoid Vietnam. But then, he was fanatically for the war."

Tsurumi told Bush that someone who avoided a draft while supporting a war in which others were dying was a hypocrite. "He realized he was caught, showed his famous smirk and huffed off."
Tsurumi's conclusion: Bush is not as dumb as his detractors allege. "He was just badly brought up, with no discipline, and no compassion," he said.

In recent days, Tsurumi has told his story to various print and television outlets and appears in Kitty Kelley's exposi "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty." He said other professors and students at the business school from that time share his recollections but are afraid to come forward, fearing ostracism or retribution. And why is Tsurumi speaking up now? Because with the ongoing bloodshed in Iraq and Osama bin Laden still on the loose -- not to mention a federal deficit ballooning out of control -- the stakes are too high to remain silent. "Obviously, I don't think he is the best person" to be running the country, he said. "I wanted to explain why."
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About the writer
Mary Jacoby is Salon's Washington correspondent.

Top 5 Cd's you should own

Duke Chronicles will continue tomorrow, hopefully they will be last of the “Broken Leg” series.

Heard a radio interview with Barry Manalow this weekend, which inspired me to list my top 5 CD’s that everyone owns (or should own) but doesn’t want to admit to.

Shannon’s Top 5 Cd’s you should own, but do not like to admit to owning:

1. Barry Manalow – Greatest Hits
2. Journey – Greatest Hits
3. Bee Gee’s – Greatest Hits

(ok well I really only have 3 “must have’s”, so the last two are flexible – feel free to talk amongst yourselves)

4. MC Hammer/Vanilla Ice Back to Back Hits – a cheap $10 greatest hits kinda compilation of both these ass clowns on one CD

(great for regressing back to “the day” when parachute pants and fades were awesome!)

5. Boy George – At worst, the Best of Boy George & the Culture Club.

(he is so underrated! – buy it!)