We Capture the Castle - Part 1 - Our Room

This post and the next few ones will about the Parentals stay at The Castle at Skylands Manor last Sunday night.

Our room at the Castle:

Outside view:
The room with the lights on, second floor on the right

Honk if You Like Purple

As seen on our recent trip to the Highlands in NJ

The REAL Cause of Heart Disease - an Example of Faulty Logic

1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

3. The Chinese drink very little red wind and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.  

5. The Germans drink a lot of bear and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

Conclusion:

Eat and drink what you like.

Speaking English is apparently what kills you. 

A Bike Ride in Boyd Park New Brunswick, NJ

An Essential Article of Clothing

View from the High Line, NYC

Father's Day Deals for the Man who Gave Birth to You - HUH?

Got this email promotion from Groupon today.

I wonder who came up with this marketing phrase?

Not a very big target market that I can think of.

I really hope they were trying to be funny and didn't just outsource the campaign to a country where English is not the native language.

Sign on the Monsey Bus

Recently took this bus to Washington, DC.

It had this sign up front.

Worked out the text in Yiddish to see if was a translation of the English, or if it said something like, "All women must sit in the back".

It does seems to be a translation of the English.

Visitor to the Backyard

A new addition to the backyard wildlife list. This guy really liked the plastic lawn chairs.

Conveniently, there was this article about in the paper so I knew what it was.

Another Absurd Supermarket Flyer Ad

You sometimes see ads in supermarket fliers such as "Buy $25 worth of P&G items in a single transaction and get $3 off" or "Buy 10 Hunts tomato product items in a single transaction and get a $5 coupon off your next order". And promotions like that make sense*.

But the following offer in this week's, May 18-24, Stop&Shop flyer makes me wonder what they were thinking.

Oh gee, I don’t think I can manage to buy this ONE Pyrex dish in ONE transaction, so I’ll just buy PART of it now, and get the rest in MORE transactions, later in the week.

Can I get this Pyrex dish on layaway, please?

*Logical sense if not business sense. I once made a net profit of $2.50 buying 10 of the $.25 cans of Hunts tomato sauce. (The next year Hunts figured it out and the promotion was "Buy $10 worth of Hunts tomato products in a single transaction and get a $5 coupon off your next order."