Funny comic strips

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Top 5 Scary Movies

I must point out before beginning this list that I do NOT like scary movies and have seen relatively few. I have little to no interest in watching movies like The Silence of the Lambs, Halloween, The Exorcist, etc. I enjoy very few scary films. They are just not my thing. There are a bunch I have seen that I really did not enjoy. As usual, share your comments and feel free to link to your own lists.

Also, Jason's list is HERE.

5. I am Legend
Made me jump a bit. I am easily scared so don't give me crap about this one. I know it is not a classic horror but I don't really LIKE classic horror.


4. The Sixth Sense
This probably should rank higher. It is genius. Amazing performances by the lead cast and an incredible story by M. Night Shyamalan.


3. Alien
This movie, in fact this series, really seems to set the bar for the thriller genre. I really enjoy these flicks and it is just scary enough that I get freaked out but not hysterical.


2. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Gosh, this one really scared me. Definitely the scariest movie on my list, but somehow I still liked it. Perhaps it is the positive message and the fact that so much of the story is based on true events.The story is amazing and the film is downright creepy.


1. Signs
Certainly not the MOST terrifying show but that is not how these are measured. This is one of my favorite films of all time. One of Shyamalan's masterpieces. This movie is so good, I will watch any other movie that Shyamalan makes, no matter what the reviews. Although that Devil movie looks a little scary.......


Honorable Mentions: The Village, Shutter Island, The Shining, Aliens.

Top Ten Funny Movies

Here are my top ten funniest films of all time (that I have seen). Jason's list is HERE.

10. Arsenic and Old Lace

Few movies are more classically hysterical than this masterpiece starring Cary Grant. No matter how many times I watch it, it will always be hilarious. Of course that holds true for all the films on this list but this one in particular is just fantastically done. When Cary Grant is tied up in the chair.....wow...or when he is talking on the phone in the midst of a brawl.....SO FUNNY!!

9. Talladega Nights

This might rank higher if it weren't for the fact that I have watched it so many times. Probably more than any film on this list. Absolutely fantastic. I love all the great lines.

8. Anchorman

"Sky rockets in flight...." My favorite Will Ferrel performance. Truly great. So many great lines.

7. Spaceballs

My favorite Mel Brooks film. Lord Dark Helmet is one of my all time favorite movie characters. "What's all that churning and bubbling? You call that a radar screen?".

6. Airplane

"I guess I picked the wrong week to quit drinking."Honestly, can anyone NOT have this on their list? I mean this is unbelievably funny. The wordplay in this film is legendary.

5. Dumb and Dumber

Gosh....I am sure there is not another movie that I have quoted more often than this. George and I used to have the argument about two pairs of mittens EVERY time we were out in the cold.

4. Strange Wilderness

I don't know if this movie could be any funnier. Not many people I know have seen it but I laughed until I HURT the first time I saw and the second time too!

3. Monty Python's: The Life of Brian

Monty Python is as funny as it gets. Period. They certainly did not miss with this epic comedy that features some of the very best performances by the MP gang. "Welease Bwian!".

2. Monty Python's: The Holy Grail

I don't think many people will argue with this. I mean this is the Holy Grail of comedy.

1. Hot Rod

Genius. Classic. Gut busting. Perfection. This is how I describe Hot Rod. I have yet to see anything I enjoy more than this awesome movie. What can I say? "I like to party".

Honorable Mentions: Idiocracy, Walk Hard, Young Frankenstein, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, Starsky and Hutch, Zoolander, Old School.

Top 10 Actors

Well, here is my first top list. Jason will be posting his soon HERE but you should also check out my mom's interesting top list HERE. I knew this would catch on!

I have to say, this list was REALLY hard. Favorite actors? I mean, there are way too many who really can make a film worth watching. I tried not to spend too much time on this. If I did it would only become more difficult. Even now I am thinking of actors I left out. Feel free to share your thoughts and link to your own list.

10. Mel Gibson
Mel is just good. His roles are fantastic and his movies are superb. Gosh I love Signs and Braveheart and a whole bunch of others.


9. Matt Damon
Man is this guy productive. Mr. Damon has starred in more fantastic roles than most of the guys on this list. I am a huge fan of the Bourne trilogy and enjoy everything from Good Will Hunting to The Informant.


8. Cary Grant
Cary Grant should be what all actors aspire to be. He is just fantastic in every way. One of the top guys on this list I wish had made more films.


7. Michael Caine
This guy is Scrooge. Need I say more? I could, of course. I love everything Michael Caine does without exception.


6. Robin Williams
What can I say about Robin Williams? I suppose it has all been said already. I doubt anyone will scoff at him making this list, except to say he should rank higher.


5. Russell Crowe
This guy seems to ONLY do GREAT movies. He is just so good! Gladiator, American Gangster, A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander, the list is long.


4. Harrison Ford
If this guys is NOT on everyone's list, there is a problem. He is freaking Han Solo AND Indiana Jones!!


3. Leonardo DiCaprio
This selection may surprise a few people but DANG! I like his movies. Catch Me If You Can, Blood Diamond, The Departed, Shutter Island, and his latest hit Inception were all fantastic. So good I can forget about Titanic.



2. Jim Carrey
Come on! He is funny! Funny to a degree which I have never seen accomplished by ANY actor and that is on his BAD days. Seriously, no one else could do Liar Liar like that.


1. Al Pacino
Number 1 was actually a tough call. In the end I had to go with Al. Probably not a big surprise. He is awesome.


Honorable Mentions: Jack Nicholson, Will Smith, Sean Connery, Steve Martin, Bruce Willis, James Stewart, Will Ferrell.

The New Blogging Sensation

Jason and I are going to start a new blogging phenomenon. Starting this week we are going to begin posting "Top Lists" of everything we think of. We hope to get everyone else making their own "Top Lists" as well and commenting too. So look forward to reading about all of our favorites like the Top Ten Gynecologists and the Top Five Cardiovascular Diseases or maybe the Top Ten Richard Gere movies (gag me). All this and more is in store, just keep tuning in right here.

Jason's Blog is HERE.

Goofy pictures of stuff

A huge moth I found as I was out walking.

Our friend's leg which we personalized for her.

A very.....er.......interesting game of Scrabble at the in-laws. Can you spot my best word?

My dear wife mowing the lawn. She is just so good at everything she tries to do.

Totally hilarious

I found this to be absolutely hilarious. It is so flippin' true!!

Phonecall:	Result:
Cage: Nick Cage's phone. This is Nick Cage. Cage's Agent: Nick, baby, I got a movie offer for you on my desk. Cage: I'll do it. Cage's Agent: Don't you want to see a script or something? Cage: I haven't read a script since Leaving Las Vegas. Just sign me up. Cage's Agent: Do you even want to know the title? Cage: I pay you to do these things for me. Tell them I can film the whole thing next week.
Cage: That was terrible. Cage's Agent: I know but I'm looking at your next blockbuster right now. In this one you can see into the future. Cage: Sounds cool. Will my face take up a third of the poster again? Cage's Agent: I can make it happen. Cage: I'm in.

Cage: My own mother didn't see that one. What's the point of hiring an agent if you can't find me a hit? Cage's Agent:Fair, but you know what's in right now? Sequels. Cage: You sure?   Cage's Agent: Absolutely, you can't miss.  I've already got an offer for a new chapter to that treasure movie. Cage: Just get me top billing. Cage's Agent: Naturally
Cage's Agent: Ok that was a flop but I'm really feeling this next project.  Another action film.  And this time you can wear your hair long. Cage: Damn you really know how to rope me in.
Cage: You need to get me some better work.  I was dusting my Oscar last night and I'm pretty sure he was frowning at me. Cage's Agent: Ok I promise this next one is going to be a hit. Your character knows the future. Cage: Didn't I just do that plot? Cage's Agent:They're offering 20 million. Cage: You know, I could always use another castle.

Found it HERE.

Funny Comics

http://www.thedoghousediaries.com/?p=1929
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/aliens_avatar
http://www.catswhothrowupgrass.com/kill.php
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/computers
http://www.bearandfox.com/comics/comic02.html
http://www.dilbert.com/2010-10-30/

Our fun felines

#3 chowing on the dog food. Not sure why she does that.

Bella as a sweet and innocent kitten.

Bella now.

A young, innocent, squinty-eyed Brisa.

An older, mischievous, still squinty-eyed Brisa.

And of course, the reliable, loveable, and extremely persistent #2.

On the attainment of happiness pt. 5

Weekly excerpt from St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica.


Article 5. Whether man can attain happiness by his natural powers?

Objection 1. It would seem that man can attain Happiness by his natural powers. For nature does not fail in necessary things. But nothing is so necessary to man as that by which he attains the last end. Therefore this is not lacking to human nature. Therefore man can attain Happiness by his natural powers.

Objection 2. Further, since man is more noble than irrational creatures, it seems that he must be better equipped than they. But irrational creatures can attain their end by their natural powers. Much more therefore can man attain Happiness by his naturalpowers.

Objection 3. Further, Happiness is a "perfect operation," according to the Philosopher (Ethic. vii, 13). Now the beginning of a thing belongs to the same principle as the perfecting thereof. Since, therefore, the imperfect operation, which is as the beginning in human operations, is subject to man's natural power, whereby he is master of his own actions; it seems that he can attain to perfect operation, i.e. Happiness, by his natural powers.

On the contrary, Man is naturally the principle of his action, by his intellect and will. But final Happiness prepared for the saints, surpasses the intellect and will of man; for the Apostle says (1 Corinthians 2:9) "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love Him." Therefore man cannot attain Happinessby his natural powers.

I answer that, Imperfect happiness that can be had in this life, can be acquired by man by his natural powers, in the same way as virtue, in whose operation it consists: on this point we shall speak further on (63). But man's perfect Happiness, as stated above (Question 3, Article 8), consists in the vision of the Divine Essence. Now the vision of God's Essence surpasses the naturenot only of man, but also of every creature, as was shown in the I, 12, 4. For the natural knowledge of every creature is in keeping with the mode of his substance: thus it is said of the intelligence (De Causis; Prop. viii) that "it knows things that are above it, and things that are below it, according to the mode of its substance." But every knowledge that is according to the mode of created substance, falls short of the vision of the Divine Essence, which infinitely surpasses all created substance. Consequently neither man, nor any creature, can attain final Happiness by his natural powers.

Reply to Objection 1. Just as nature does not fail man in necessaries, although it has not provided him with weapons and clothing, as it provided other animals, because it gave him reason and hands, with which he is able to get these things for himself; so neither did it fail man in things necessary, although it gave him not the wherewithal to attain Happiness: since this it could not do. But it did give him free-will, with which he can turn to God, that He may make him happy. "For what we do by means of our friends, is done, in a sense, by ourselves" (Ethic. iii, 3).

Reply to Objection 2. The nature that can attain perfect good, although it needs help from without in order to attain it, is of more noble condition than a nature which cannot attain perfect good, but attains some imperfect good, although it need no help from without in order to attain it, as the Philosopher says (De Coel. ii, 12). Thus he is better disposed to health who can attainperfect health, albeit by means of medicine, than he who can attain but imperfect health, without the help of medicine. And therefore the rational creature, which can attain the perfect good of happiness, but needs the Divine assistance for the purpose, is more perfect than the irrational creature, which is not capable of attaining this good, but attains some imperfect good by itsnatural powers.

Reply to Objection 3. When imperfect and perfect are of the same species, they can be caused by the same power. But this does not follow of necessity, if they be of different species: for not everything, that can cause the disposition of matter, can produce the final perfection. Now the imperfect operation, which is subject to man's natural power, is not of the same species as that perfect operation which is man's happiness: since operation takes its species from its object. Consequently the argument does not prove.