First, before I forget, work has officially begun on the New Rat Show – guaranteed to be bigger, better, and more badass. I’ll post test shots as they arrive. If anyone would like to compose a theme song and shoot it my way, that’d be cool…
And so I was looking at Smart Pens on Froogle, came across a book by the founder of Lycos, and checked out Lycos in utter amazement that Lycos is still around. I remember when Lycos was a big shot – right on my new out of the Box Windows machine loaded with NETSCAPE came a big blaring icon to click for Lycos. On television, Lycos Lycos Lycos. Then again this is the internet, and all good things become found and then settle. Sort of like Circus Peanuts or Clark Bars. When have you ever seen a commercial for Circus Peanuts? Yet, they have their fan base out there – they really do.
So Lycos displays the weather for your area right on the front page and, I found this to be really neat, gives you suggestions on what to do for the day. And it suggested “start a lemon ade stand.” So being the morbidly over curious individual that I am, I clicked. I clicked and it gave Lycos search results. Of course. It’s a search engine. Google has it’s logo doubling as “learn what today’s all about” and Lycos has “learn what today’s weather is good for.” Neat stuff. Yahoo is incredibly lame. I haven’t been to yahoo in years…except really to occasionally play Yahoo pool.
Moving on (and this is probably my longest post yet?) the first hit was a charity site ran by sunkist. Yes, if you are a kid between the ages of 7 to 12 willing to raise money for charity, Sunkist will GIVE you a FREE lemonade stand. That’s badass. I never ran a lemonade stand as a kid. As a kid I always assumed it was like “these things happen.” Never played baseball, or ran a stand, or anything, because I thought it was something that happened to you, didn’t realize you just had to ask your parents. It wasn’t like in the movies or video games where a magical fairy or Angel or weird Old Wise Man comes outta the trees and says, “YOU’VE BEEN CHOSEN TO RUN A LEMONADE STAND!” However, that was my view on the world as kid, until I got much older and realized my parents were not the mystical all knowing beings I thought they were. Grrr…if only I was 12 again…or they upped the age to 25, or I knew for sure I could get away with applying for a stand…then I’d totally run one this Summer.
