Halloween Costumes...

Welcome to another BRJ.

It's coming up on mid-October, which means it's time to consider costumes. Jim and I have been trying to think up ideas, but we just can't come up with anything. I even tried my "visual powers" on Jim to try thinking up something, but that failed. Badly.

That image of Jim as a dinosaur is still floating in my memory. Brrrrr...

Anyway, we came up with another solution: looking through a book of costumes. There were a bunch of people going down to the Banama Recreation Center to get pictures taken with their costumes on. They even created an album of all the pictures! So, of course, we picked one up, and looked through it. It took a while, too...

(Note: Don't tell Dad this, but he looked like a total dork in that football costume.)

What do we do? We may NEVER get ideas for costumes!

That's it for this episode.

Trivia Show Results!

You remember the trivia show I started some time ago. Well, it's finished now,
and our winner is:

JANICE HEAD!!!

Congratulations on participating, AND getting all the answers right!

We may have another TWR soon!

Trivia with Rodney!

Welcome to a special episode of "Rodney and Jim"! Why is this post special? Well, let me explain...

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! IF YOU ARE READING THIS POST, THEN YOU ARE NOW OFFICIAL CONTESTANTS ON:

SORRY ABOUT THE LOW QUALITY.

ON THIS SHOW, THE RULES ARE VERY SIMPLE. YOU READ THE FOLLOWING TRIVIA QUESTIONS, BASED ON WHAT YOU HAVE READ ON THIS BLOG, THEN YOU GO TO THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST, AND LEAVE YOUR ANSWERS. THE MORE PEOPLE WHO ENTER ANSWERS, THE BETTER!







NOW FOR THE QUESTIONS...

QUESTIONS:

1. Based on scientific evidence, can termites read anything?

2. What two reasons was I nervous about becoming 16?

3. A as in WHAT?

4. In percentages, how much do either Mom or Dad cook?

5. How many days a year is dinner a disaster?

6. What is one of Jim's biggest fears?

7. What did Jim do on the first day of school this year?

8. What did we name the bomb we created on the Fourth of July?

NOW GO TO THE COMMENTS SECTION AND POST YOUR ANSWERS. HERE'S HOW:

1. (answer)

2. (answer)

3. (answer)

THANKS FOR JOINING US! TUNE IN LATER ON FOR THE RESULTS!

Candidate for Most Pointless Toy of the Year Award?

Welcome to another "Beyond Rodney and Jim"



Okay, so in Fred Meyer yesterday, we were looking for a gift for my little cousin that's turning 2 in a few days, and I saw what had to be the DUMBEST looking kids toy ever...



No, I didn't do any photoshop on it, this is actually a toy I saw. See, "Frogz" is some way to get kids into the "rappa-rappa-bling-bling-hanging-with-my-homies" thing. What does this frog do? Well, if you press a button, it'll start singing:

(note that the bass is moderately high here)

IT CHUR BIRTHDAY
IT CHUR BIRTHDAY
GONNA PARTY LIKE IT CHUR BIRTHDAY.

or play some song by some rapper (hopefully it's a clean one...).

Okay, I'll just say here and now: this toy has NO target audience. Only kids like the stuffed toys, but what kids are gonna like that kind of music? Anyone???

And that's why this is a candidate for Most Pointless Toy of the Year. I'll post more pointless toys later on, but for now...

PEACE OUT, HOMIE!

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Okay, you're right, that was pretty lame. Sorry.

UPDATE!: I found out that one toy did sing an unclean song! What are those people thinking?

Thirty Strips Old...

Geez, has time flown or what? Well, if not for you, than it has for me and Jim, because it seemed like just yesterday when we started this strip. And now, we're 30 STRIPS OLD!!!

First off, I'd like to thank Andy Brinkerhoff for hosting our strip and creating us and all that stuff.

I'd also like to thank the blog "Keeping Up with the Brinkerhoffs" for broadcasting our strip to bunches of people. If not for them, we'd probably have never gotten popular.

And finally, you, for reading it!

Next checkpoint: 1 YEAR OF STRIPS.

Thank you everyones!

Why I Don't Listen to the Radio often...

Welcome to another "Beyond Rodney and Jim".

Okay, everyone who listens to the radio on the drive to work, RAISE YOUR HAND!

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All right, here's another question: Do any of the hosts on whatever radio show you listen to in the morning make you want to GO INTO THEIR RECORDING STUDIO AND PUSH THEM OUT A THIRD-STORY WINDOW?!!!

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Okay, just checking. See, I wake up to the radio in the morning, to the same song: "Girls in LA" by the Rockin' Horses. No, really, EVERY MORNING I hear that song. Then, I hear someone who sounds like an exhausted Santa Claus start talking:

Uh, heh heh, hullo there, Banama. It's 5:45 AM, and boy, er, what a lovely day it is, huh? Heh heh... yes sirree is it a nice day. Doh, anyway, for this lovely morning (isn't it though?), we're talking with Margaret Simms, age 85. Yep, this lady's getting old ain't she? Well, here she is...

So Santa-Claus-Man talks with this woman, who you barely hear talking. She wheezes and sneezes and coughs throughout the whole thing, and the host is completely clueless:

So, you getting along fine with Porgenia?

It's (wheeze) PROGERIA YOU MORO-(coughcoughwheezecoughchoke...THUMP)

Hullo? Hullllllllo? Oh, it looks like she hung up. Well, once again, beautiful morning, eh? Next up is our weather today, and then more Rockin' Horses, followed by...

This is why there's so many idiots out in the world today. Good thing I'm not one of...

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Hey, wait a second, what did you just call me?

Cellular, Modular, Interactivodular...

Up until a few days ago, I was the only one in my family without a cell phone.





BUT NOW...





I HAVE MYSELF A PHONE!

Yes sir, I have joined the crowd of cell-phone-owning teens. I am El Magnifico! I am Spartacus! I am RODNEY REDHART, CELL PHONE OWNER!

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But who can I call?