It’s that time of year again where the ants come marching into the house again. It seems that our ant problem is getting worse every year no matter what I use to kill the suckers: Ant spray, ant traps, my bare feet, whatever! They are not only in the kitchen near the back deck door and the refrigerator and the counter tops, but they are also finding their way into the living room now. The kids like to eat in there so we have to be more vigilant about putting a vinyl table cloth on the floor for them to sit on while they have lunch or dinner. Still, we vacuum all the tiny crumbs from the carpet as well, just to be sure there’s little if anything for the ants to find. Anyway, I can’t stand having ants in the house, especially up on the counters! Yuck! I go crazy with these things to the point where I almost lose my mind watching them zip across the floor or the counter top in the kitchen. What I needed some industrial strength any spray.

This doesn’t sit too well with my wife. Oh sure, she’s a cleanliness nut like I am and will use whatever is necessary to keep the kitchen and bathroom clean: Disinfectant, grease cleaner, bleach, or whatever. But she has a problem with any spray for some reason. That’s not so say she will put up with the ants; she hates them as much as I do. But she would rather use a more “natural” non-toxic method like dowsing them with vinegar or scolding hot water. She also likes those little plastic ant traps where the ants go in and supposedly pick up a bit of the poison housed in them to bring back to the nest, spreading it to all the other ants to kill them off at the source - their home! But those traps do not really seem to work for us. Therefore, I want to use ant spray.

But ant spray is not my ideal solution because I have found something better. Check out this video clip and you will see the best solution I’ve ever discovered for getting rid of ants. It’s the human aardvark. Watch as this guy sucks ants up his nose! Yup, you read that correctly. Put some ants in front of this guy and he’ll use a straw or medicine dropper tube to literally vacuum those nasty ants right up. But what happens to the ants after he sucks them up? Hmmmm…

I have no idea where to find such a human aardvark for my own use, or if the guy in the video is for hire. So, it’s back to the ant spray solution. Since I knew my wife would not agree with me to use the spray, I waited until she was gone and then sprayed for ants. I literally covered every surface with ant killer spray. It was beautiful watching it work. As soon as the ant spray hit the ground, the little bugs started to meander in circles. Seconds later, they dropped dead. Best of all, they have not been back since. When my wife came back and saw that there were no more ants, she just thought it was her vinegar treatment and the stupid ant traps. I just smiled, nodded, and agreed. I did not want her to know that I had used the ant spray while she was out. I don’t like “sneaking around” like that, but I hate those damned ants! I still think the best solution to getting rid of ants in your house is the human aardvark like the video clip showed; short of that, get yourself some ant spray.

Struggling with bra straps, are you? You’re not alone! No matter what size bra you wear, the straps are uncomfortable at times, and they do not work as they should. They can be unsightly with some outfits, even though it was a trend for a while to have them showing, but that’s not too classy. It depends on the look you are going for. When it comes to dealing with these straps for whatever reason, you may be frustrated that a small piece of elastic fabric can be so difficult with which to deal.

Heck, just check this funny video clip. The girl is having all kinds of problems getting her bra on. She cannot get the straps connected and needs help. So she solicits the help of any passerby, mostly male, each of whom are more than willing to help her get her bra strapped on (ummm, no kidding, right?). Watch and laugh as they let go of the straps and the bra goes flying like a kite, flinging with a life of its own off the woman’s chest! Very funny!

As you just saw in that video clip, when it comes to bras that just don’t seem to fit right, even when they are supposed to be the right size, you may have to consider that your bra straps are not adjusted correctly. You can adjust them so hold you up a bit more, but you don’t want to push them up around your neck. You may have to take some time to adjust your bra straps at different heights to see what feels and looks the best for you. Make sure that you have each one at the very same place when adjusting, or you could look rather uneven when you wear that particular bra.

What most don’t realize when it comes to bra straps is that they do not work well when you have owned a bra for a while, especially if you wear a larger bra size. When the weight of your breasts is pulling down on your straps, they eventually become unable to hold in place as they should. When this happens, you’ll find that the adjustments just slide right back down, it’s time to trash that bra and get replace it with a new one and you’ll eliminate that hassle. Bras don’t last forever, so better to get a new one. You’ll discover the new one will always fit better in all aspects anyway.

Certain outfits and bras just don’t go together because of the bothersome bra straps. You have a couple of options here to deal with this issue. The best choice it go the strapless bra route that fits well, but this is often very hard to find. Many find them uncomfortable because they have to be so tight around the chest to stay in place. Your next best option to go with clear bra straps. At the very least, clear straps are 100 times better than having colored ones popping out of your outfit! They are still slightly noticeable, but they are the better option. Some bras even come with both colored and clear so that you can change them accordingly.

Ulitmately, if you’re daring enough, you could completely eliminate all the problems you have with a bra by just going braless! No more problematic bra, and no more problems with bra straps!

Look out below! A military band with drums and sousaphones at the ready at Ft. Riley, KS, are startled and injured when a parachutist having control issues attempts to land but dangerously misses his mark. The parachutist, a civilian, comes down like a bullet slicing right through the military band taking out (and down) at least one soldier who had to be carted away by ambulance. Bodies and instruments go flying. A few others in the band were injured and the parachutist himself ended up with a few scratches and sore muscles.

Here’s the video clip. I love how the sky diver says he was “…having control issues…” Gee, ya think! Duh!

Ouch! If you’re a parachutist, please stay clear of military bases, military bands, all things military, and in fact, all things, except clear ground when you’re landing!

Are you tired and worn out from that agonizing decision you have to make each and every day: What to make for dinner tonight? Here’s a fresh idea: What about cooking a lobster? No? Not into that? Then it’s back to decision time! It’s bad enough that the actual making of dinner can be a drag of a chore, but even deciding what to make is a chore in itself! Chances are you do not want to have the same meal two or three times in a given week, right? Equally, you’re not into having to go out to dinner (or even get take-out) more than once a week since that’s an expense that can really add up. Especially in these troubling financial times, that’s money you don’t want to have to spend on a regular basis. Not only that, some of that food is not all that healthy so it’s a complete turnoff if you are striving to for a healthy lifestyle. Dang, it’s hard to come up with new dinner ideas all the time. So, I ask you again: If you find yourself struggling to think of an idea for dinner, cook a lobster for a change! What do you think?

Okay, okay… I know: Even the mere idea of trying to cook a lobster is enough to scare off many people, let alone actually attempting it, especially if you have never done it before. But it is no different than other foods that can be prepared in different ways. To cook a lobster, you can grill it, steam it, boil it, and even barbecue it. Try different spices each time and you will probably come up with a tasty treat you keep making all the time. Find a good method that you like and you will be cooking lobster more than you ever thought! Indeed, when you cook a lobster for the first time, you are definitely moving out of your comfort zone. But make it an adventure and a lot of fun, especially if you team up with someone else to help you.

So your dinner idea is set for tonight, right? Lobster! Head to the grocery store and pick up a lobster or two to cook later today. You want live lobster because fresh is best (and they don’t get much fresher than when they are live!). Ask the seafood clerk or other grocery staff for help if you need some quick tips on how to cook a lobster. They realize that not everyone has prepared lobster before so don’t feel silly for asking. There’s a first time for everything and cooking a lobster is no different. Do it once, twice, three times and you will have mastered the art of how to prepare lobster at home!

Experiment each time you cook a lobster. Try one cooking technique, then another. Before long, you will have several ways to cook a lobster and you and your family will absolutely love the new culinary paths you are exploring, and coming up with dinner ideas will now be a little easier as well!

Cooking one lobster or several can be quite the adventure though and actually pretty funny as you can see in this funny video clip:

Clearly, the woman in that video has never boiled lobster before! It’s not always easy to try something new, and cooking lobster can be a bit intimidating. That’s why so many people only have lobster when they go out to eat. But it’s really pretty easy - you can make lobster tonight without much trouble. Just think how amazing it will taste, butter dipped, and how proud you will feel having cooked it yourself!

So give it a go… tonight, dinner is done because you will conquer your fear and cook a lobster for all to enjoy!

There are a huge number of websites online making the bold claim that they will show you strength training exercises and how to do them the right way: Proper form, technique, breathing, and so on. However, this is not really the best approach. If you want to start a strength training exercise program, what you really need is to buddy up with a partner, someone who can assist and guide you, act as your spotter, and serve as a source of motivation to get you going and keep you going working out until you reach your weight training exercise goals.

You have many options in this regard. The first and probably most obvious option is to get and use a gym membership. Another way to go is to get a set of free weights and do your weight lifting exercises at home with a friend. A third option is also the most expensive: Invest in a strength training machine and set it up at home in your garage, basement, or exercise room. The key no matter which route you take is safety. If you do not do your strength training exercise with proper safety precautions, you may end up getting seriously injured.

If you do your weight lifiting routing at home, watch out and don’t be like the kid in this funny video clip. He barely picks the barbell up when BAM… oooooo…. no good! This is funny, yet stupid, yet instructional! Keep your eye on the fishtank…

If you do not have the room at home for equipment or the desire to stay at home to workout, then I recommend doing your strength training exercise at the gym. There are several benefits to be had by going this route. Here are some of the top reasons why this is a smart approach.

The number one reason is safety and knowledge. Gym staff will instruct you on what exercises you should be doing to reach the strength training goals you have. Next, they can guide you on what free weights and/or machines to use to meet those goals and give you instructions on how to properly use all the equipment you will be using. And most important, they can spot you. Many strength training exercise injuries that occur every year could be avoided if the injured trainer had only used a spotter. A spotter is especially critical when you are using free weights (as opposed to a weight machine). Free weights can cause very serious injury and even death if you are forced to drop the free weights due to muscle fatigue and coordination.

Another great reason to use the gym is psychological. It is far easier to get psyched for your strength training exercises when you go to the gym since in most cases you will be surrounded by many other people who are dedicating themselves and making the time and effort to get in shape. With all of that visual influence, you will be hard pressed to simply slack off in your own weight training program while at the gym. It is a lot easier to NOT do your workout if you are by yourself all the time at home.

Furthermore, personal trainers are available at many gyms. They will help you be your personal best, assist you to work harder than you could do yourself, and help you establish and chart your progress toward your strength training fitness goals. They can even help you create a personalized program listing which which strength training exercises you should do, how many sets and how many reps, and how frequently you should workout for maximum benefit to strengthen the muscle groups you are targeting.

And for total health fitness, do not forget about some sort of cardiovascular training to go along with your strength training exercises. Good cardio health is essential to overall health and it is a great complement to any weight lifting training exercise program. Chance are, with great overall health that you can achieve with a healthy diet, weight training, and aerobic exercise, you will live longer and be happier and have more energy which will allow you to live your life to the fullest! So get active and stay active. Unfortunately, none of us get to stay young forever. But those of us who workout regularly and perform adequate aerobic activities every day do tend to act and feel young longer than those who have a more sedentary lifestyle.

And, as you get more fit, you will be able to do more in terms of your workout. You will be able to add more weight and/or more variety to your strength training exercise program. While you can get by quite well with just strength training exercise, cardio is absolutely essential to your health. You will live longer, be healthier, and happier, and even have more energy if you do some aerobic activities every day to keep you active. We do not stay young forever, but those of us who get adequate aerobic exercises do stay young for longer than those who do not. Once you start doing that, then you can add your strength training exercise program.

Amtrak, the U.S. government’s passenger rail service, has been the butt of many jokes over the years. Stand up comics and late night TV talk show hosts have had a field day with poking fun at Amtrak and especially at the slum-poor way the government runs and manages the train operation. Amtrak’s financial condition has long been a joke, for example. So, it’s more than appropriate that Amtrak bares the brunt of a bunch of bare butts. Every year near San Diego, California, masses of people from all walks of life, all ages, men and women, stand along the tracks with their back sides facing the rails. As Amtrak trains pass by, eveyone bends over in almost perfect unison and pulls down their shorts or pants and their underwear or panties and moons the trains! At this year’s Moon Over Amtrak event the other day, the crowd was estimated at about 8,000 people! Imagine that! A huge line of 8,000 bare butts all lined up in a row glaring at Amtrak trains. Pretty funny. And to put it another way, that’s 16,000 butt cheeks on display! Wow!

The tradition started in 1979 at the Mugs Away Saloon. Some dude named K. T. Smith said to all his buddies he would buy a drink for anyone who goes out to the nearby train tracks and moons the next train that goes by. It was a pretty good dare, but a lot of his friends thought nothing of it! No big deal to drop their drawers at a train in exchange for free alcohol! Since then, it’s happened every year becoming a tradition along the way, though these days no one bribes the mooners with booze… they all just do it to do it. And some even get crazier; the other day, in addition to baring their rear ends, many women removed their tops and some folks stripped completely naked. Over 50 police were brought in due to complaints of public nudity.

Hey, go Amtrak! Here’s a funny video clip of the even from the other day.

That clip showed just a small portion of the 8,000 people who exposed their butts in the annual Moon Over Amtrak 2008 party!

Word “on the street” is that the USA is the greatest country in the world. Hell, I firmly believe that! But anyone around the world would be hard pressed to believe it if all they had to go on was the representative of our great country in a beauty pageant. And not just any beauty competition, mind you. No siree bub… we’re talking Miss Universe 2008, the pinnacle of all beauty competitions. Crystle Stewart was Miss USA this year. Beauty? Yes, undeniably. Poise? Ummmm, a resounding NO! She did all but prove that we may be the greatest country in the world, but we can’t even stand on our own two feet! You see, during the evening gown portion of the competition, Crystle Stewart tripped on her gown and fell. Yup, down she went. What’s even more ironic is that this happened last year in Miss Universe 2007! Miss USA a year ago was Rachel Smith — she too went tumbling, falling down after tripping over HER evening gown! What is it with these Miss USA contestants? Two years in a row and we go falling down. It’s embarrassing yet oh so funny. Still, in Miss Universe 2008 today, Miss USA made it as a finalist in the top 10, but ultimately lost; the crown went to Miss Venezuela.

Here’s the funny video showing how graceful Miss USA was in the pageant:

Ugh! Two years in a row and the US is floored in the competition, literally! Miss USA Crystle Stewart falls down on the job during the Miss Universe 2008 pageant and loses despite getting to the top 10.

Do identical twins drive you nuts? Is it unnerving to you not being able to tell one twin from the other? Imagine being on a New York subway car and discovering not just one set of twins but fifteen sets of identical twins, with each sibling sitting directly opposite the other and each one mirroring what the other does. That’s the point of this human mirror prank in a New York subway car as you will see in this hilarious video. Do you think if you were in that subway car and witnessed this human mirror trick that you would go crazy, or at least think you were going crazy?

Improv Everywhere, the organziation that puts on these elaborate public pranks is at it again with this one. The whole human mirror idea is quite fascinating. It’s almost as if the one twin knows exactly what the other twin is thinking or is going to do next in terms of moving their body.

Watch this video and note the funny reactions from the other subway riders!

How about that? A bunch of twins on a subway car fooling the masses with their human mirror prank captured on video from Improv Everywhere!

Okay, so gas prices suck and so does the economy, but man, it’s summer time and it’s the 4th of July holiday. Quick, what food do you think of for July 4th and summer and grilling and outdoor eating? Hot dogs! So it’s only appropriate that the annual hot dog eating contest takes place on this day at Coney Island!

Yes, we have a winner: Joey Chestnut, after downing 64 hot dogs in 10 minutes… well, actually, it was 59 hot dogs in 10 minutes but so did runner up Takeru Kobayashi. So, the guys had to have a tie-breaker, an “eat off” of another five franks. That’s when Joey Chestnut took home the gold!

Richard Shea, one of the founders of the International Federation of Competitive Eating, said it was the first time in his memory the contest went into overtime.

Wanna see a hilariously funny video clip of a hot dog eating contest from the uber-popular TV show Grey’s Anatomy? Here ya go…

Yeah, it ain’t the hot dog eating contest at Coney Island, but it sure is a funny video clip!

Happy Birthday America! Here in the good ol’ You Ess of Aay (USA!), it’s a national holiday - Independence Day - celebrated on July 4 every year to mark the country’s birthday. In the last two posts (yesterday and the day before), I gave you some awesome fireworks video clips to help get in the spirit of this fun summer holiday, and today I give you a “grand finale” video clip showing the world’s largest fireworks display on record. Okay, so it was done in Portugal back in December 2006, but who cares! Fireworks are almost a national symbol of the July 4th holiday in the U.S. so even this fireworks display will have a special meaning to every American on this day.

Now there’s a 4th of July fireworks video clip to beat the band, eh?