Really? (and an 80's flashback)

Don't know if you heard but there are protesters here in our nation's capital (or is that capitol?)

Now that in and of itself is not that unusual but this one really fries my arse.

They are protesting the National Spelling Bee. 
Yep, that's right the kids who like to spell and read the dictionary are getting protested.

Why waste time protesting BP and the mess they are causing our earth?
Why waste  time protesting the forgotten in Haiti?
C'mon this is important for all the lazy American's!!

They want to have our spelling simplified.

Now speaking on behalf of all terrible spellers, which I am their leader, I understand that spelling is difficult for some.  But do we have to dumb down everything?

There is an elementary principal in the protesting bunch who states that "the current language obstructs 40 percent of the population from learning how to read, write and spell."

With that logic and my oh so poor math skills I sometimes don't have enough digits to do math correctly.  They could help.  Perhaps they can get rid of fractions, that would be most helpful to me as well.  And then there are those pesky little lines on a ruler. They annoy and confuse the hell out of me as well. 
Who needs all that 1/16th of an inch stuff anyways?

This crazy group actually passed out literature that tells us that they think it makes more sense to have "fruit" spelled as "froot" and "slow" should be "slo".   This isn't texting people!

I can't spell a lick.  Sometimes my words are so far off spell check says, "WTF are you trying to say here Margaret we have no options for you?" 

But even this protest makes my head explode.

This is just another way of showing we American's as dumb and lazy. 

This is actually quite sad to me. 

But I suppose we have to give them props for getting their lazy butts out of bed to the protest line by noon yesterday.

Now jumping tracks to the 1980's.
Came across this photo that made us laugh last night.

This was a trip to Ft. Myers Florida in the late 80's.

Here Rick is sitting in front of a huge sign that says NO ALCOHOL.
I never saw the sign and I took the photo. (talk about dumb American's)
He never saw the sign.
Our friends never saw the sign.
We got a nice fat fine for drinking at the beach.

The policeman actually said to us, "you didn't see that sign?" as he laughed and wrote a ticket.

Thankfully the policeman laughed.
By this time our cooler was empty so we didn't have to worry about drinking any more under the sign.

Rick should have been fined for that 80's porn 'stache and those swim trunks!

I also found this photo below of one of our winter projects.
I loved this puzzle.  It looks like money is just thrown on the table.
The money is all foreign currency so that made it all the more difficult as you can imagine.

But it was fun. 

Adding a bottle of red wine into the mix while doing it made it even more of a fun ride.

TGIF...Have a great weekend everybody.