The value of a blog.

I admit it. Dave's blog has more readers than mine does. And, he has a woman (not really) named Kate who is a huge fan. And, most importantly, Dave's blog is much funnier than mine.

But, at least according to Blogshares, my blog has the same value as his blog.

The lesson here? Anyone who actually uses blogshares has way too much time on their hands.

More things that make me laugh: aa.com

So I'm buying a plane ticket (to go to Chicago). I end up at American Airline's web site, filling out the usual, no so funny forms with my name address, credit card, etc.

Now all these sites all ask for pretty much the same inputs. First name, last name, address line 1, address line 2, city, state (a drop down box), zip, phone number ... yeah. Some sites ask for a prefix (Mr., Mrs., Ms., Dr.) and a few will even allow for a suffix (Jr., Sr., III).

American wants to offer you more choices, though. Many more. They offer no fewer than 76 prefixes:

Mr., Mrs., Ms., Miss, Dr., A.V.M., Adm., Amb, Archbishop, Baron, Baroness, Bishop, Brig. Gen., Brigadier, Bro., Cantor, Capt., Cardinal, Chaplain, Cmdr., Col., Consul, Count, Countess, Cpl., CPO, CWO, Dean, Duchess, Duke, Earl, Ens., Eur Eng, Father, Fr., Gen., Gov., H. E., Herr, Hon., HRH, Lady, Lord, Lt., Lt. Cmdr., Lt. Col., Lt. Gen., M., Maj., Maj. Gen., Master, Mlle., Mme., Mother, Pastor, PFC, Pres., Prince, Princess, Prof., Rabbi, Radm., Rev., Rt. Hon., Senator, Sgt., Sgt. Maj., Sir, Sister, Speaker, Squad.Ldr., Sr., Sra., Srta., Swami, Vadm.

and 45 suffixes:

Jr., Sr., II, III, M.D., Ph.D., (Ret.), C.P.A., D.D.S., DC, DD, DDSPA, DMD, DO, DPM, DR, DVM, ESP, Esq., Filho, I, INC, ITF, IV, IX, MDPA, MFCC, MS, ND, Neto, O.D.P.C., O.F.M., OBS, OD, P.A., PC, PRS, Q.C., R.N., Sobrinho, THD, V, VI, VMD, VP

I wonder if there is someone at American whose job it is to keep these lists updated? Maybe I'll send in my resume. Be on the lookout for Consul Eric, Sobrinho.

Things that make me laugh.

I like The Onion. But lots of people like The Onion. I like cheese too, but I don't feel the need to write about it. (Maybe a candy bar, but that's for a different post.)

I find most any Onion article about the president to be really funny. I don't know why. In particular, I loved "Arizona Man Steals Bush's Identity, Vetoes Bill, Meets with Mexican President."



It's just much funnier than it needs to be.

Incredible [Insert Name] [Insert Food]!!!

People make and sell weird things. (Here is the runaway bride auction from the first link.)

Why are these always food related?