Monthly Archives: December 2018

Vodka Christmas Cake

Once again this year, I’ve had requests for my Vodka Christmas Cake recipe so here goes.

Please keep in your files as I am beginning to get tired of typing this up every year!

  • 1 cup sugar,
  • 1 tsp. baking powder,
  • 1 cup water,
  • 1 tsp. salt ,
  • 1 cup brown sugar,
  • Lemon juice,
  • 4 large eggs,
  • Nuts,
  • 1 bottle Vodka (your choice),
  • 2 cups dried fruit.

Sample a cup of Vodka to check quality.

Take a large bowl, check the Vodka again to be sure it is of the highest quality then Repeat.

Turn on the electric mixer.

Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.

Add 1 teaspoon of sugar.

Beat again.

At this point, it is best to make sure the Vodka is still OK.

Try another cup just in case.

Turn off the mixerer thingy.

Break 2 eegs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

Pick the fruit up off the floor, wash it and put it in the bowl a piece at a time trying to count it.

Mix on the turner.

If the fried druit getas stuck in the beaterers, just pry it loose with a drewscriver.

Sample the Vodka to test for tonsisticity.

Next, sift 2 cups of salt, or something.

Check the Vodka.

Now shit shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.

Add one table.

Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink.

Whatever you can find.

Greash the oven.

Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.

Don’t forget to beat off the turner.

Finally, throw the bowl through the window.

Finish the Vodka and wipe the counter with the dog……

 

Seasons Greetings

RIP Laverne (Penny Marshall)

Carole Penny Marshall (October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018)

Penny Marshall was an American actress, director and producer. She was the daughter of Marjorie Marshall, a tap dance teacher, and Tony Marshall, a film director and producer. Her parents’ background in entertainment, along with her brother, Garry Marshall’s, background as a comedy writer and her sister’s background as a casting director and producer, gave rise to Marshall’s career in the industry. She came to notice in the 1970s for her role as Laverne DeFazio on the television sitcom Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983), receiving three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for her portrayal.

Marshall progressed to directing films in the 1980s, making her directorial debut with Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986) before directing Big (1988), which became the first film directed by a woman to gross more than $100 million at the U.S. box office. Her subsequent directing credits included Awakenings (1990), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, A League of Their Own (1992), Renaissance Man (1994), The Preacher’s Wife (1996), and Riding in Cars with Boys (2001). She also produced Cinderella Man (2005) and Bewitched (2005), as well as episodes of the sitcom According to Jim.

Read her Wikipedia Article here.

Straight

Straight to Youtube

Simple Way to Decorate a Christmas Tree

The Box

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Can I Let In The White Puppy

This is why I drink

B-52 Dressed for Christmas

This amazing display of holiday lights can be found at Denver’s Wings Over The Rockies Air & Space museum. Here, we see a gigantic plane wrapped from nose to tail and wingtip to wingtip in holiday lights. This plane happens to be the venerable “BUFF” B-52.

Why’s the nose red? Because of Rudolph, obviously.

I Hope It’s A Puppy!

Contract

Contract

Coin Operated

Coin Operated is an award winning 5 minute short animation that spans 70 years in the life of one naive explorer.

Volkswagen Restores 52 Year old Beetle

VW of America has paid to fully restore a 73-year-old woman’s beloved Beetle that she’s owned since 1966. 

You HAVE to go to Jalopnik to read this story… 

And what the hell are you supposed to do with 45 zinc-plated turkeys?  🙂

Jalopnik link

Annie before
Annie before

Don't want to let the secret out, but didn't want to lose the image.  :)
Annie after

Orcas playing with swimmer

While visiting the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand, Australian surf photographer Dylan Brayshaw flew his drone over the water and captured the remarkable sight of an Orca pod, consisting of a mother and two babies, coming up alongside a woman who was doggedly swimming against the tide. The playful whales repeatedly encircled the swimmer without doing her any harm. Nonetheless, the woman exited the sea, but soon went right back in to swim with the whales.

I was watching a pod of orcas swimming up the beach, I saw a swimmer swimming along shore directly towards them,… The orcas circled her and she got quite the fright. She then got out the water as she was only 20m from shore. Some onlookers chatted to her about the experience and then to my surprise she got back into the water and swam back towards the pod, to I assume continue her training swim.

Canadian Middle Finger

Canadian Middle Finger

And thus began one of humanity’s greatest road trips.

On December 11, 1972, astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt had just stepped out of the lunar lander. And thus began one of humanity’s greatest road trips.

Sure, the definition of a “road trip” is a bit vague, but when you’re thousands of miles from Earth and the nearest professional mechanic, the series of trips the crew of Apollo 17 made in the Lunar Rover has to qualify as one. Especially when you consider that they drove more than 22 miles in the thing, a trip which took four hours and 26 minutes.

Read the rest here at Jalopnik

The Last Thing

Christmas Tree Portal

Christmas Tree Portal

Now THAT’s a GOOD BOY!

A good boy who survived the deadliest and most destructive fire in California’s history was found weeks later, apparently guarding the site of what was his family’s home.

Read the rest over on Gizmodo here

Scottish Wildcat Kitten born at Chester Zoo!

Wikipedia Article on the Scottish Wildcat here

Story on CTVNews (Canada) here