thursday thirteen
I came across another blog, here, who had a very entertaining Thursday Thirteen as opposed to my Top Ten Thursday, which I realize now, is not as great of alliteration as the double diphthong . If you notice the end of her post, there is even a community of fellow Thursday Thirteenists who enjoy tagging their lists and keeping up with other listers’ lists.
However appealing to be one of the chosen, I’ll maintain my Top Ten Thursday because it is original, I’m stubborn, and it’s less work to find ten of something than thirteen.
But, what is even less work for me, is featuring a guest blogger/alliterist/list-mak
er, and her entertaining Thursday Thirteen.
I’lll introduce her thirteen by saying, the next time I scrape my knee and it doesnt look like a piece of bacon on its own, I’ll use one of these band-aids to remind myself of how bad my wound could look.
1. Iheartbacon.com. Yup, there’s a blog for that. But we should have know that already, right? They’ve got an icon if you want to link.
2. Feeling adventurous? How about whipping up your own batch of chocolate covered bacon? Mmmmm… GAG Good. You can find some detailed instructions here. 
3. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) – Statesman, essayist, historian, intellectual reformer, philosopher, and champion of modern science. Not as yummy on a BLT as say Apple Smoked Bacon, but probably not as fattening either.
4. A bacon inquiry. More information on porcine lactation than you probably ever wanted to know. Funny in a painful/I-feel-so-sorry-for-the-guy-who-had-to-answer-this-letter kind of way.
5. Bacon Salt, because “everything should taste like bacon.”
6. Oh yeah, it’s time for bacon!
7. St. Anthony, the patron saint of bacon.
8. A bacon briefcase?!!
9.The Oracle of Bacon. Can you stump the oracle? It’s Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and it’s not as easy as it sounds. I tried. Even Fred Astaire is only two degrees away.
10. Sorry girls. 
11. A bacon dispenser. Ask and ye shall receive.
12. Uncle Oinker’s Bacon Mints
13. A Beggin’, Lettuce and Tomato sandwich, made with real Beggin’ Strips. “Dogs don’t know they’re not bacon,” but people should. Check out Steve, Don’t Eat It! for the hilarious results.
The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun!
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an amendment
top ten thursday
I need to make a point about last week’s top ten. I must have been temporarily afflicted with amnesia because I completely forgot to include the incredible Kia Car Salesman Flashdance Commercial. No, it wasn’t amnesia, I was A MANIAC:
This commercial is hands down NUMBER ONE and everything else has to step back one place. Therefore, the former #10 has now been demoted to honorable mention.
Now, this week, I decided to highlight the BEST FAMILY COMEDIES of the eighties and nineties.
10. Step by Step –because it was on TGIF and that’s what came next.
9. Family Matters—because we all watched it then and wonder why now, saying in a nasal voice, “did I do that?”
8. Full House—because we were convinced we knew which Olsen twin was playing Michelle in each scene.
7. Who’s the Boss—because a man was a housekeeper, ay- oh, oh-ay.
6. Diff’rent Strokes—because then it was controversial that a rich white man would adopt two inner city chirrens.
5. The Wonder Years—because then, some jokes we got and some we pretended to get; now, we relate.
4. Family Ties—because there’s just something about Michael J. Fox.
3. Growing Pains—because the song was so catchy.
2. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air—because it was just so dang funny.
NUMBER ONE: The Cosby Show – because we all wished our families were like the Huxtables .
top ten thursday
In another effort to start a blog addiction, from now on following wordless wednesday is top ten thursday. Hoo yeah!
I happen to love all kinds of oddball things. One of those is commercials. I love good commercials. My top two commercials will have an embedded video, but the rest will have links. Enjoy.
Top ten commercials:
10. Burger King—Wake up with the King
9. Geico— Cabbage Patch Kid
8. Little Caesar’s Pizza—Sheep Cloning
7. Sprint 7 PM
6. Budweiser – What are YOU doing
5. Budweiser— Wassup
4. Cartoon Network Superfriends Wassup
3. Planters Peanuts—Superbowl 2008
2. Car Max Carseat
NUMBER ONE: TIDE TALKING STAIN
HONORABLE MENTION
To the collect call commercial—(“will you accept a call from.. ”Wehaddababy Eetsaboy”— “who was that dear?” “Bob… they had a baby. its a boy.” “oh”) which apparently doesn’t exist on www.youtube.com, or it would have been on the list.
Also, the Suave commercial “80% of moms admit to having let themselves go…” which I just LOVE, also not on youtube.
