Okay, so this has been pissing me off lately. Every time someone asks me a rhetorical question, I always ask back, "Is it Pet's Mart or Pet Smart?" followed by a puzzled look.
I enjoy listening to people's explanations because nobody seems to know the answer, not even PETSMART. I did a little investigating into the subject and found this from wikipedia:
There has been a fairly large amount of confusion regarding Petsmart's name. They argue that Petsmart could be read as either Pet's Mart or Pet Smart, because it appears as a string of letters on the store's logo without a break. Petsmart's official answer is that the company is called Pet Smart. The logo was altered in 2005 to reflect the name, with the first three letters, Pet, in a different color than the last 5 letters, Smart. This name is important to Petsmart, because the store tries to emphasize smart solutions for pet owners rather than the "mart aspects" of many other stores that focus less on lifetime care of pets.
That's fine and all, but the new logo makes it more confusing than ever. Just look at it:
Then wikipedia also says this:
In August 2005, the company announced that it rebranding its name from PetsMart to PetSmart. This move is designed to emphasize its evolution from a pet supply store to a solutions-oriented company.
I'm smarter than to believe everything that comes from wikipedia, but that's just a mind-fuck. Okay, so they changed the first three letters to a different color. What could've helped more is if they capitalized and de-capitalized letters, because I'm still reading PETSMART with no space. Since when the fuck do colors differentiate words in the English language? That's not even what pisses me off the most, just look at the logo again compared with the old one:
Original logo:
Am I now not to believe that the bouncing ball is an apostrophe, therefore making it Pet's Mart? If not, then they should have taken it out, since the original logo had the ball bouncing on the lower-case 's,' which caused all of the confusion in the first place. What a shit load of fuck.
Fuck you PETSMART. This is as much bullshit as my immortal enemy of a company, Fed-Ex, claiming that they unintentionally put the arrow in their logo. I'm on to your clever subliminal message. Did you know that PETSMART is an anagram for TAT SPERM? I don't know what that means, but I'm sure they're on to it.
In other news... Toys 'R us has a "buy two get one free DS game" sale going on right now. I bought Final Fantasy III, the new Pokemon, Yoshi's Island DS, and Elite Beat Agents; all of which was a little under $100. I am not bored right now.
You don't. I hated it at first, and like the rest of America, thought my cable went out, but now that I have had time to soak it in, I absolutely love it. There was so much shit going on in that last scene that I was nearly shaking with anticipation. Never has a show or movie had me on the edge of my seat thinking "Oooooooooh shit, here it comes, here it COMES!!!"
Final 20 seconds to the Sopranos tense last scene.
Tense scene, Journey's "Don't Stop Believin" playing in background, rough cut, blackness for 20 seconds, credits. Awesome.
Hey everyone. My 21st birthday is this Wednesday, July 26th. I'm leaving town on Thursday so I'm just going to celebrate it here in good ole C'Ville. Stop in at Woody's (located at 1450 Darlington Ave in front of Krogers) to wish me a happy birthday. I will be arriving at 9:00 PM and staying until as long as possible. Even if you don't drink, just stop in to say hey or if you aren't 21, you can stop into the restaurant area just to see me. I'd appreciate and look forward to anyone who comes. Hope to see you there!
Our local Wal-Mart just joined the ranks of Target and JC Penny as a location for the 30-somethings to gather and show off their riced vehicles. I was at the "Grand Opening" of the Super Wal-Mart today. And by super, I mean adding an unnecessary restauraunt, where the same is already located across the street, and making the aisles five inches bigger. Really, how many times have you ever ran into someone with your shopping cart and caused a traffic jam? For me - a baker's dozen, but only if you're counting it as intentional.
I had nothing better to do at 7:30 AM, because the idea of sleep was mocking me and laughing in my face. So, I went to check this out for one of three reasons:
1.) Sadly, it's the most interesting thing to happen to this town since Clint Eastwood secretly stayed the night at our Holiday Inn and no one noticed. 2.) I heard the Crawfordsville HS band was supposed to play there. The thought of that just cracked me up. 3.) I knew alot of people from this town would attend and thought maybe, just maybe, there would be a firebomb.
No firebombs unfortunately, but they did have the one game that I have been looking for forever:
And because of that reason alone, I approve of our Super Wal-Mart. Here's to hoping they make a Wal-Mart 64 soon.
In one of the bathrooms on campus, someone wrote: "The Americans are the Nazis of the 20th Century." Below it, another person followed up: "The Nazis are the Nazis of the 20th Century, you fuckwit."
One time after a particularly disasterous car accident on a mountain pass, I found myself hanging precarioiusly over the edge of a cliff holding a baby in one hand and a candy bar in the other hand, trying to save them both from a certain fall to their demise. It was like the beginning to the movie Cliffhanger, except without the high Hollywood production values.
So, there I was with some misguided notion that this baby may grow up to be someone important -- possibly even the designer of a new, delicious candy bar. This is not a matter to take lightly.
Then it occurs to me: "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush". Birds in your bush? I've heard of crabs, but Jesus! Good luck explaining that to the psychiatrist. Anyway, I'm not sure what the hell that maxim means, but I was certain it applied to the situtation, as I already had a perfectly good candy bar in my hand.
Long story short: M mmm, chocolate...
Ever since that day, candy bars haven't tasted the same. I have to drop a baby in order for snack foods to reach their maximum flavor potential. When I become rich, I'll move to a 3rd world country that will permit this design in vending machines. So damn high.
So who else besides me is excited to see Snakes on a Plane? I'm convinced that it will make Titanic, Return of the King, Ben Hur, and Gone with the Wind look like amateur-films when compared to it. The title is so bad ass, that even Samuel L Jackson signed on without reading the script.
SNAKES ON A MOTHA FUCKIN PLANE MOTHA FUCKA!!!!!111eleven
A few days ago, I had an old lady attempt a refund from me, just because she was handicapped. That was her one and only excuse. It took every urge in my body to hold back from saying, “You’re in luck. It’s Wheelchair Wednesday!”
I've been playing a little gem called Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks on and off for the last couple weeks. Not a hard game, pretty fun, nice new take on the MK story. Not hard, that is, until you get to the last 3 battles, which of course you have to do back to back.
Shang Tsung, Kintaro, Shao Kahn.
The first two are pussies and I can blow past them rather easily. Even Shao Kahn is a breeze, until you knock out half his energy and he pulls out his ginormous fuck-you-up Mallet of Fucking Cheapness +236024386. Every time... RAAAH! RAAH! That's the sound of him rushing you with a shoulder block. Not too hard to dodge. Then he goes into Dizzy Batter mode, where he holds his mallet out and starts whirlwinding around the ring. Only the Long Jump can dodge it, and even then it seems to be completely random. In fact, his ability to hit you during this move seems to be proportional to how close you are to killing him. And if he hits you with it, god fucking help you, because there goes 25% of your health. And the move can also hit you on the ground, and once you get hit once, you end up on the ground. Which means you get hit some more, until your health is all gone and you are throwing your controller at the wall because once again, you've wasted 15 minutes of your life fighting through these clowns just to get your ass handed to you by one of the cheapest fucking final battles I've ever played. And that you'll have to spend another 15 minutes fighting all 3 of them all fucking over again, just to get back to that point and maybe, just maybe, this time you'll get the best of him and you can die a happy man because you've put everything else in your sad existence aside and made it your life's work to FUCKING KILL SHAO KAHN.
Fuck you, buddy.
Seriously, this is like an NES game level of cheapness here. I've even played the XBOX Ninja Gaiden, so I can't imagine why this is so much harder for me. I've given it a couple shots before and after work for the last 3 or 4 days now, and always I leave with nothing but sadness. I think my friends and family are eventually going to take the game for fear that it will run up my blood pressure and fatality me.
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