Blue Monday, eh?

What does an airline company (desperate, as they all are, to boost their airfare prices *and* numbers of frequent flyers) know about true happiness? And its diametrical opposite, by sheer logical presumption? Nothing much, at all, surely! And yet, Sky Travel presumes to know it all (just like an airhead to do that - just look at Air France, Air Canada, British Airways, TAP, KLM and -argh- Sunwing! But that's another story...) and, so, it has declared that the second last Monday of January is... Blue Monday. 

Blue, as in sad, yes. Blue Monday, certifiably inspired by a plethora of 80s hits, such as New Order's tune that surely inspired the name of this veritable pseudo-social psychosis now...!  (Kudos to other tunes, too, though: such as Eddie Boyd, Buddy Guy, those unsightly Boomtown Rats and their hatred of the day, them Bangles, the Mamas, the Papas and any one of these execrable themes...!) For it is what it has become nowadays: a bonafide mass case of hysteria propagated by the media, such as The Huffington Post itself...! It is for sure: the Huff said that a scientist determined it!  He determined the 20th of the first month (usually an unusually cold day) is the most depressing day (aka the winter blues?) and he was so kind (I say - the generosity delineates a motherly female délicatesse here!)  to provide ample amounts of helpful tips how t fight back those awful blue feelings!

Boo-hoo... I feel so blue... Maybe if I spend thousands of dollars to be bothered by the customs agents of three different airports I will feel better - eh?

Hence, Sky Travel says it is now, which is at least a few weeks into the year - but some protein drink company Only God Knows claims it is forevermore to be pinned on the very first Monday of the year!  You just got drunk and shouted ''Happy New Year'' like a loon unaware of what's just around the corner; and you're as blue s a Smurf NEXT?  Aye, it makes complete absolute sense! A rude awakening is best when it comes the earliest it can... And, if we are to believe the protein drink dude, it was on January the 6th - not the 20th!   Said protein drink dude hails from... the U.K. too! What a coincidence! Must be something about their weather - or in their water, that makes them think this gloomy-doomy way? Anyway...!)

Upbeat Drinks used a highly-evolved scientific method to determine their date: tweets on Twitter. Millions of them. When enough of them were downright depressing, it found its day; the day to sell more and more of their drinks, rrrrright? After all, the strategy behind their scientific ''find'' is unabashedly obvious: isn't their website called promising you will be ''feelingupbeat.com'' - huh?

But let's come back to today - for dwelling on the past (even if only a day merely two weeks ago!) is a surefire sign of deep depression and doomsday-looming-on-the-horizon...  Back to Sky Travel's claim, for the finish here: the Sky Guy has, at least, the backing-up required for its claim... When a pseudo-shrink (others call them psychologists) comes forth with a veritable thesis on the why the third Monday of January has most definitely become the most depressing of all days throughout the year - you have got some credibility there!  The senior (some would say ''major'' - ha! Perish the thought!) and junior varieties of shrinks still lament that this whole concept of a ''Blue Monday'' trivializes depression, making it sound like a ''temporary thing'' everyone goes through, a weather thingie; once the sun comes back and temperatures rise again above zero (a Canadian concept now, for you Huffs south of the border!) everything will be fine again...  In a jiffy, it ''promotes the idea that depression is a minor condition'' - and such a notion is dangerous. It is dangerous on so many levels, too: people will leave a psychological trouble become worse and worse, with time... It is dangerous because depression can outright lead anyone down the path of auto-destruction. And it is dangerous for the financial well-being and overall feeling of prestige that them shrinks have - or aspire to maintain in the common joe's perception!  If everyone deals with depression on their own, what will happen to the shrinks?!?  They'll be the ones having a whole lot of Blue Mondays...! And Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays...  (No ''TGIFs'' for you, Shrinko...!)

But that's another story...
Face the music now...


Sempre Por O Melhor!
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Snow - Shovel it! Swallow it! Google it!

Snow...
It's snowing again.
That should have been the song Supertramp made famous - for snow is twice as annoying as rain is, when you factor in the usual cold temperatures and added wind chill proponent that come with it!

And so, it is snowing again.
And we naturally sought to convey the disappointment we all felt at the news - at the sight of it, from our windows, XP or otherwise - in words and images, here and elsewhere on the blogosphere/wild wild world wide web...

When we ran a quick Google search for images of SNOW - we didn't know what we were getting into though...

Sure, at first, we got the expected results, such as this right here:



But soon enough we were faced with odd imagery that stormed onto our flatscreens with the rapidness and fierceness of a sudden -even though forecast- hellish snowstorm in the dead of winter...!

Brittany Snow (middle), Snow White (and not just the Disney version, let me tell you!) and even a Snow Fairy (called Snowfae - what else - below) popped up immediately from the lot of odd associations with the white stuff. Oddest of all was Stacie Snow, all tied up and gagged up, evoking that Spaniard chick that time forgot, from the neo-bizarro-classico piece of rotten celluloid Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down... What? Never seen it, never heard of it? Well... Good for you!

Go ahead - click on any of the odd-association images below: that should lead you directly to the sites they all originated from (if we got those URLs correctly, that is) and save us from overemphasizing here that all of these images -no matter how odd they may appear to be- are the proud, distinct and exclusive properties of their respective owners and that no copyright infringement whatsoever is meant here - blah blah blah.

If anything at all, this is just added publicity for you Snowes out there - enjoy the spotlight courtesy of the TLB Prime Network:





The chances of this fairy, this B.S. clone and this bondage girl of ever having been spotlighted, featured, glanced on any of the outlets which are a part of the TLB Prime Network were infinitesimal at best indeed - the likes of, oh, I don't know, a snowball's chances in Gehenna?

Then again, Gehenna should be one cold as hell place - not a hot one, at all.
Think about it: Heaven gets you closer to the sun - and the Son, of God, who Is The Light of the world and the Greatest Power in the universe!
Now THAT is HOT.
Gehenna, Hades, Hell - it's all damp, dark and dreary bleakness to me - to us all here on the TLB Prime Network! So it is not "hot" at all - not one iota! If anything at all, it will be colder than the coldest, most unkempt basement you can think of; for it will not be found in the core of the planet Earth either...!  (And yet; no snow to be found there, I can tell you this much!)

Alright dammit - enough with the white stuff! 

The Lake of Fire will be other-dimensional, my friends!
Not merely "a state of mind" either - but it will most certainly not be found as easily as Hercules found it in that old Steve Reeves movie that had ol' Herc finding a shortcut to Hades through the trunk of an old tree! No, no, no - that hogwash won't stand the test of time -- nor the Day of Reckoning and Revelations!

But all that is another story - definitely not for this blog here!
Go find it elsewhere on the web - or elsewhere on the TLB Prime Network, sure; we have blogs specifically dedicated to these serious topics!

Here, however, we focus on the ludicrous things in life and on the web - and such disparate findings via the acclaimed Google search engine whenever you want to find the simplest thing there could be (a snow flake - just one!) has got to be meritorious of mention here, on the ludicrous blog!

Thank you for your time, Google people - and the rest of the L.O.V.s!

This Says It All... Or Does It?

It is, indeed, quite ludicrous to simply "shut one's mind" to ideas like this - especially if you don't know squat and all...!

JESUS Said to open one's HEART, when someone (probably that jolly Judas guy!) spoke of either having an open mind or opening it up...!?

But that is not for everyone - we know so much now, hmm?

Closing one's mind to earthly influences is not ludicrous at all - but the problem is that this sign implies shutting the doors on ALL sources of potential input; including the Divine...?!?

No way can THAT not be deemed to be LUDICROUS - for man is clueless on his own (that goes for woman too, worry not, darlings!)

Hence, in Light of all this, I'll say...

Shut the doors only when you know the TRUTH -
just like, well, just like I DO!

And await the Signs from High Up Above -
so that you can issue that notice ASAP...!
:-)

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Oooooooo...!!!

So close... no matter how far?!? 

(You're not gonna sue over this use 

of your most precious lyrics now, 

you no-good, two-bit HACK 

from Lord Knows what hellhole... 

huh... JAMES??? 

Yeah - I mean YOU; 

METALLICA MAN!!! 

I hate you -and your cronies'- GUTS...!!!
Oh yeah - I hate you SO MUCH; 
you will always be unforgiven to me 
ALWAYS AND IN ALL WAYS! 
YEAH! 
You ungrateful blasted WRETCH! 
WE GIVE YOU ENOUGH DOUGH 
FOR YOUR LOUSY SHOWS 
and blasphemous albums also - 
MORE THAN ENOUGH! 
You just shut your yap 
when we want to share that crap around 
OKAY?!? 

HAR-HAR-HAR... 

Metallica sux anyways! 

But that's another story!)

It's 24 hours removed from 

ALL-HALLOWS' EVE...

And then there's All-Saints Day 

(not el dia dos muertes - ya ninny! 

Go back to Puerto Rico - stronzo!) 

AND THEN... it's the 

dreaded Day of the Dead. 

Uh... That's another story too! 

So let us take this opportunity tonight 

to take it easy... relax... and 

BURN SOME CD's 

AGAINST THE ARTISTS' 

WISHES! 

BWAH-HA-HA!!! 

No, no - just kidding here... I swear! 

Not doin' nothing here...!!!

I ssswear...!!!

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