Filed under: Our Happie Home
Blue Velvet wrote:
When I was sick my grandma always made me tea and toast. Bwana’s been under the weather with a respiratory ailment – is Toaster helping Bwana to get better?
The suits at NBC would like you to think it was a “respiratory ailment,” but the truth of the matter is that Bwana has been eating too many Twinkies.
Toaster felt so sure that the Minnesota Twins would make it to the World Series that he bought 34 cases of them (34 being the number of famous Twin, Kirby Puckett) so that he would have some celebratory thingies to flame and fling out the window. But alas, the Twinks got eliminated in the first round, leaving us with a whole lot of Twinkies in the house. Not wanting them to go to waste — and being all-encompassing with his appetites — Bwana took over.
Can you say “Sick leave?”
I knew you could.
To clear our happie home of the rest of the spongy delights Toaster decided to try to sell them at Yankee Stadium during the World Series. He thinks if he does well they will change the lyrics to the song:
Buy me some Twinkies and Cracker Jack,
I don’t care if I never get back …
Toaster is sure he will make a lot of money selling his World Series Twinkies. They are deep fried, dipped in chocolate, and rolled in popcorn. He’ll be hawking them out in the bleachers.
The people in the bleachers will eat anything ….
Filed under: Things That Toaster Likes
Well, the Mets season is over. Toaster sat in the kitchen cabinet for a long time to meditate on the impermanence of life and — especially — of a playoff-worthy roster. But he snapped out of his funk just in time to cheer on the Minnesota Twinkies in their tie-breaker game versus the Detroit Tiggers today.
Toaster loves Tiggers, but all breakfast foods stick together, so he is firmly behind the Twinkies:
Filed under: Things That Toaster Likes
Blue Velvet wrote in Wait ’til Next Year!:
My best friend is going back east to visit relatives next week and will be going to a Mets game. I asked him to bring me back this as a souvenir:
Wow! Neat-o! We hope you got your Mr. Met bobblehead.
Bobbleheads are very popular and Toaster has a wonderful idea:
The Keith Olbermann’s Toaster Bobbletoast Doll!
Everybody loves toast! Who wouldn’t want a bobbletoast doll?
We hope we can get them into production soon in time for Christmas.
Toaster is also hoping that they will be carried by the NBC Store.
Filed under: Things That Scare Toaster
Blue Velvet writes in Love Toaster:
Serena Williams certainly had no nice words…..
Hokey smokeys! Grammie would never, ever let us talk like that!!!
And, boy, Roger needs to have his mouth washed out with Lifebuoy, too!
Filed under: Things That Toaster Likes
It’s been a pretty depressing season for Mets fans, so Toaster has been spending a some time following the U.S. Open tennis tournament for a little change of pace.
It’s not baseball, but Toaster likes tennis. It has cute words like “love” and “smash.” (But nothing like “can of corn” or “catbird seat.” And there is no infield fly rule.)
Toaster has discovered that in order to play tennis his toast must be very crisp. If it is not toastie enough then he can’t get good top spin on the ball.
Filed under: Let's Go Mets!
Mets ace Johan Santana will miss the rest of the season because of bone chips that must be removed from his left elbow, …
Boy! And we don’t even get to Live Happily Ever After!
Toaster was distraught for a while, but we think he has gotten over it. He is counting the days until Spring Training 2010. Until then he will cheer for Bwana’s Yankees
Filed under: The Department of HappieHappieJoyJoy
Toaster is celebrating the 50th anniversary of statehood for Hawaii.
He made Special Hawaiian Toast for Bwana this morning: poi spread on toast with a slice of pineapple on top.
But for some reason Bwana rushed out the door.
Toaster put it in a paper sack and is carrying it over to Bwana’s office for lunch.
Filed under: Our Happie Home
Blue Velvet wrote:
Bwana mentioned Toaster during the Odddball/Best Persons segment 8/12/09!
And Dottie added:
I saw that! Toaster must be so proud!
That was a bit of a weird shout-out: Toaster doesn’t even know Mr. Doocy.
But it was neat-o to hear Bwana say the T-Word on tv.
Little shout-outs to the young’ins are better than dangling them out windows:
Of course now the Coffeemaker and Orange Juicer are mad because Bwana mentioned Toaster and not them.
Small appliances can be so petty at times ….
Filed under: Things That Scare Toaster
Blue Velvet noted:
While watching Bwana deliver his Special Comment last night, I flashed back to my public speaking class in college. We were required to practice in front of a mirror. A toaster is highly polished – does Toaster help Bwana with his Special Comments? Also, is he a “Brave Little Toaster” for doing so, because Bwana can be quite intense!
Toaster loves watching Bwana practice his craft. But Bwana’s Special Comments are very fiery and Toaster is not exactly the Bravest Little Toaster on the block. Toaster would like to help, but when Bwana practices his Special Comments at home Toaster more often than not is found thusly:
Filed under: Things That Toaster Likes
Toaster has been very busy lately. He wants Bwana to be proud of him and any toaster of Bwana needs to know his baseball trivia. We ordered a case of 3×5 index cards and Toaster has been going through Bwana’s baseball library and taking lots of notes.
He is hoping to enter the SABR World Series of Baseball Trivia next year. We wonder if they have a Small Appliance Division. Maybe he can team up with Bwana. It would be another good father-son activity for them.
