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Posted by Rob Sherwood   •   Thursday, 2007-April-19 • 17:28
At lunch today someone told me they are making a movie with the cavemen from the Geico TV ads! There's one I'll be missing.

We were also talking about money making ideas in the new century and I was reminded of the Senator in the early 1900's who wanted to save money by closing the patent office. He said it might as well be closed since everything had already been invented. Anyone who has EVER been to lunch with me knows I have a story for every situation (much like Abraham Lincoln) and if I don't have a real story, I can always make one up on the spot. In this case I was reminded of a guy I was chatting with in 1997. He was a computer programming major at Stanford so he must have had something going for him. I suggested that we come up with the next big computer internet or software idea and make us each a billion dollars or so. We weren't on the same page, though, because he said it was too late...all the good ideas had already been done. Of course, it was the next year that a couple of guys in a garage came up with Google. Anyway...since I spend money like a jungle grocery store sells monkey meat, I am always looking for new sources of income. My discount male prostitute job just didn't cut it.

I'm going to Chicago for the week-end and if something interesting happens on AMTRAK I'll let you know. Have a great week-end and stop complaining about your inability to reply to these blogs. I'm working on it.

"...on State Street, that great street...."
  1. Rob Sherwood wrote on 2007-April-20 04:41:43:
    I have been checking out the Blog section... and love reading them..... your latest one reminds me of when a friend of mine and I were in a bar one night after a band gig drinking a few and talking about how rich people have become for thinking up dum little things to sell.... like those beanie babies.... at that time we were both new parents... he had a daughter and i had one too... and we got on the subject of Seasame Street and how popular that t.v. show was...we decided our daughters were going to think that that show old fashion and they needed a new thing for thier generation....... we got to brainstorming... kids love loud obnoxious big ugly stupid looking creatures... like say.... a gorilla or even a dinosaur...... my friend said "Yeah and the colors of this creatures gotta clash horribly.. like orange and green or purple and blue".... and then i added "and hes gotta sound really dumb as to not be too smart for the kids.... so they will love him" and we both agreed hes gotta have a really dorky name.... well we finished our drinks and headed home.... our half drunk ramblings left in the dust of the bar..... a month later this loud obnoxious, huge, dorky looking, stupid sounding wild colored Dinosaur by the name of Barney hit the TV screen.... OUR DAUGHTERS IMMEDIATLY FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM My friend called me and reminded me of our conversation and we both agreed next time we got half drunk and started to brain storm.. we would go out and slap a patent on our drunk ideas right away..... Fred
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