Thank you, Omar, for being page load 4000 and page load 4141. You truly earned this reward.
10 Reasons that I Love Omar!
1. Omar shows up here a lot. Less than 2 months ago, I never knew Omar existed. Now my statcounter tells me that Omar has little else to do at work but load my blog. I don’t mind because Omar is really cool
2. Omar has a very cute baby. I withdrew my nieces from the “World’s Most Adorable Baby” contest after I saw the footage. That’s one awesomely awesome baby.
3. Omar knows his stuff. I asked Omar once what the question was to which the answer is 42. He immediately responded with “6 times 7.” Hard to believe, but Omar knows his 6-times tables. I was held back twice over the 6s, but Omar knows them. He also does some nifty crap with a computer, but that’s not nearly so cool as the 6s.
4. Omar is a hero. He knows the pain of the activist. For ages, he has crusaded against the evil of the vole to little avail. The vole calls him names, steals from him, ruins his lawn, and eats his peanut butter, but Omar never stops. Not only is his personal crusade noteworthy, but he has given me a new topic to discuss inappropriately at Aunt Patty’s house.
5. Omar thinks he’s a landscape artist, but he’s a really a girly gardener. I find girly gardeners hot, so it really doesn’t matter.
6. Omar has great respect for womanhood. His lawyer told me so.
7. Omar used to do something involving curling. I think it’s brave to admit, when people already know that you are a girly gardener, that you also used to curl your hair in college. Really. I admire him for that. (Did I read that wrong? It’s rather well known that I don’t actually read posts.)
8. Omar is on the cutting edge. I have an entire closet of OmarPhillips.Net lingerie (some of it is quite shameless, really) and AV Wear. The celebs at the hospital are always offering to buy it from me. I sell it at twice its worth. Omar is helping me to get rich just like Robin Hood.
9. Omar can admit when I’m right. Omar’s first comment here was to admit that I was right. That sort of thing always wins a girl over. I am right. Always. Even when I’m wrong, I’m a little bit right. Omar knows that. He’s very wise.
10. Omar believes in romance. Despite his crusade against the vole, Omar recognized true love and gave his blessing to the vole and Jasmine. Sure, we all know it will end badly, but Omar believes that love will conquer all, even his lawn.
So, that Omar is one cool guy. Sure glad he stops on by a few hundred times a day...
42 comments:
wow, glo. you really know how to create a page-loading incentive.
i'm still salty i missed the baby.
I like to make an impression...
As you should be. That kid is the stuff any sane woman dreams about.
So wait, this was the "post of praise"? I couldn't tell when reading a few of these :)
1. Three page loads already, and it's not even 6am!! Well on my way!
5. If you had said it like that from the beginning, I wouldn't have spent all this energy defending myself.
7. (sigh)
8. Shameless lingerie is my specialty.
9. I didn't go back and look, but I'm pretty sure my first comment was in defense of married men. The comment admitting you were right was one of my first, but I don't think it was the first.
So, thanks? I think.
Not many people can put together a list that simultaneously praises and lampoons its subject. Nice. Very nice.
Except for one thing, and I might need some backup here; Cate? Carol? Item 3, the question "which the answer is 42." I think the correct question is more along the lines of "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" So, if Omar said 6 times 7 - well. It's no big deal. It's nothing. Really. I'll stop now.
Demanding, aren't you? Here I write all these nice things and you just criticize. Well *harrumph* see if I ever think of another person again.
BTW - I knew the 'you're right' was 2nd comment, but first comment didn't play into the joke very well.
Jam is very close to deserving his very own post of praise.
Uh-oh. (Furtive glances to left and right, looking for someplace to hide, knowing it's hopeless, pointless, fruitless, and like ten or eleven other lesses to even try she will HUNT you down FIND you and...aaaugh the pressure cracking falling apart -(&***No Carrier
"we all know it won't end well"
piss off! ;) i won't have anybody talking shit about my boyfriend.
glo - I apologize, my comment may have seemed like I was not appreciative of my post of "praise." I am. Very much so. I actually just put the direct URL for this post on my resume.
And jasmine, as long as the vole is residing in my yard, I intend to kill him. Sorry 'bout that. I hope it doesn't get in the way of us being (blog) friends.
That's better. Feel free to use me as a reference, as well.
Oh, jasmine. I just wish you could see the heartbreak that awaits this tragic love affair...
I lost exact count, but I think I'm on visit 25 or so today.
I keep coming back for these pictures you keep saying are on the way (pictures of what, I'm not sure).
I think I was pageload 5150, which happens to be my favorite Van Halen album.
Do I get a special award?
My first visit for today...I was off getting my hair done...lame excuse, I know.
Jasmine and the vole must work, otherwise evil will threaten romances everywhere.
Or something funny :)
Glo-I think it was well written and very funny...people at work are looking at me weird again...that always happens when I laugh out loud without realizing it.
The pictures are coming. The only reward everyone is getting today is a nice cookie for your computer (yeah, I find that joke funny, what's it to you?).
And sam is not only today's favorite blogger, but my first groupie.
bring on the sock puppets!
i'm afraid of what's going to happen to omar's yard if jazz breaks the vole's heart. o, you'd better get those lawn tools ready for combat just in case.
Note to self: Send threatening messages to whomever mentioned the cursed sock puppets! Am unable to post pictures! Certainly can't handle sock puppets.
Good point about the vole. Omar's lawn may be the innocent victim of forbidden romance.
I think the sock puppet perp was Jon.
If ever there were a plague on my existence...
okay okay. no more talk of sock puppets. but they would have been funny.
coincidentally, notice how jon has *conveniently* been absent lately?
I'm aware of this. They are merely not feasible. Definite fun potential.
As Jon's registered stalker, I feel honor-bound to tell you that he has taken up illegal off-shore drilling. He is currently spilling toxic chemicals on ducks in northern California.
Shameful, really. I know the public retaliation will be harsh (or, at least, i hope it will be since it would amuse me greatly.)
wow, i never saw that coming. for some reason the crochet thing really had me thinking he was more toward the tree-hugging persuasion.
(visit 40)
I've got nothing, I just wanted to stop by again. Just to say hi.
Hi!
Omar is awesome. Did I forget that one? 40 visits in one day. He keeps my statcounter going strong.
cadiz - if by 'tree hugger' you mean 'ties his enemies to trees with loops of yarn' you wouldn't be far off.
55, and I think I'm starting to tire out. But since you said I'm awesome, I had to come back. I don't have the energy to "pull a cate" though, by sitting here and reloading 800 times.
By the way, still no pictures.
omar, your disclaimer scared me.
hi glo! i really want my workday to end. like 3 hours ago.
hey cadiz! Mine did end 3 hours ago! What a coincidence...
That was just plain cruel.
Omar is not so cool for taking his site down for maintenance. This is definitely worse than to "pull a glo" or "G.Lo a post". The withdrawal has already started.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Then I tried again and his page loaded just fine. New poll even. Phew.
Thank heavens! I was afraid I wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.
me too. it was a nice way to finally end my day at work.
don't worry glo, i'll think of you at noon when i'm still in bed.
I don't know Omar well, but in his defense, there is no one who really knows the question to which the answer is 42. The computer was destroyed shortly before program completion. You should know that!
Hi, Lia. Wow, that reminds me of a place near Miami...sorry. Computer, destroyed, true. But! In a less familiar story - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, maybe - Arthur and a companion whose name I cannot remember resume the terminated program and come up with the correct question.
And I feel strangely disturbed for having (1) remembered and (2) repeated this weird bit of information.
Even so, you did well to defend Omar. Not because he needs it, but because he's worthy of it.
Hi, Lia! Please comment a lot. I like that in my readers...
Yeah, so, "that" was the joke. It was a reference to all of us missing the obvious number during Cate's t-sirt contest.
Thanks for defending me, lia! You're my new favorite reader (of someone else's blog).
Have you ever rued anything? Well, you may after making such claims against my person. I'll have you know that I'm now on 30 straight hours with no sleep and there is no nap time planned in the near future, so who knows what kind of incomprehensible nonsense I'm going to come up with next... just get ready to start ruing, that's all I'm saying...
I didn't think it would ever happen, but I finally found something the Vole and I agree on... He's right on this one Omar... it ain't easy...
Oooh! Jon! You must be tired to have left such a wide-open space for...well, for something like this:
Re: incomprehensible nonsense
...no. Can't do it. The target is too easy, the shot too cheap.
Maybe another time. Get some sleep, okay? :->
Have I rued? Do I rue? There I was, watching live feed and laughing with the girls over our latest stalking escapades, when my arch-nemesis (she *so* wants my position at SRSA) looks over at your camera and says, "Hey glo! Isn't that your victim killing a baby duck??" What was I to say? A socially responsible stalker with a socially destructive victim?
I've been ousted from SRSA, they took back my decoder ring, and I lost my library card. What's worth living for now? All because *you* had to chase the Almighty Dollar...
(On a serious note - in choosing posts to delete last night, I ran across your mention of a certain video you were shown to "learn" about Mormons - If I'm right about which anti-mormon nonsense you viewed, the polite way to say what that video teaches is "not reliable information". What I would really say involves a male cow and excrement. However, I fondly remember the video as giving me the best night of farce in history - I still quote some of the better lines and like to hum "I Am A Child of God"
eerily in fond memory. Can't help it. I'm crazy like that.)
Wow I missed a lot.
Another lame excuse...internet access was down.
Anyway, I've always wanted to be a groupie...one of my life goals, actually.
Finally SOMETHING I can cross off my list.
::Pout:: no more sock puppets?
Ah well.
i've rued before and lived to talk about it. i'm interested in seeing what you've got, jon.
glo, i thought those decoder rings were gifts for life, unlike the superbowl ring, which i gather can be given away to any old head of state these days.
Well, back when *I* ruled the SRSA, we knew the meaning of sisterhood. Rings meant something. People were important. Now, it's all about the bureaucracy.
Oh, how I long for the day ago when I didn't know Jon was an evil villain who destroys the environment and hurts poor, innocent sea creatures...
...and there will be *no* sock puppets.
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