Vacations and contests for the month!

Vacations?!

My mom and step dad are going on vacation in a few days and leaving me all alone at home so I decided to do some research about vacations for myself.

I've always wanted to go on a cruise so I found this neat website. Discount Cruises at Vacations To Go. Specializing in last minute cruises, cruises, cruise lines and cruise vacations. http://vacationstogo.com/index.cfm This site even has a ticker showing mark downs that have happened for the last 90 days. Just fill out your information on this page and view cruises that have been marked down by up to 75%.
I'm very tempted! Has anyone ever went on or wanted to go on a cruise? Share stories please @ my facebook page!

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Sleep in a Museum for a Month Contest @ The Museum of Science and Industry Chicago
MSI seeks roommate! Need one adventuresome person to live at MSI 24-7 for 30 days, and take home $10K. Think you or someone you know might fit the bill?
http://www.msichicago.org/matm 

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Enter to Win the Spa Getaway of Your Dreams
If you've been dreaming of a dreamy spa vacation, Warnaco has an amazing sweepstakes for you. Just enter the Olga's Disappearing Act Sweepstakes for your chance to win a getaway to the destination of your choice, including spa treatments and travel expenses. http://warnaco.promo.eprize.com/olgas/

The grand-prize winner will receive the spa vacation of their dreams including a $3,000 SpaFinder gift card, redeemable for $3,000 worth of spa treatments at hundreds of participating locations, plus a $2,000 gift card to cover travel expenses to the spa. The total prize value is $5,000.

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JetBlue's is celebrating their 10th Anniversary by giving away 10 cruise vacations on Royal Caribbean International! 

Winners will receive an oceanview stateroom for two on their preferred seven-night Caribbean voyage, including roundtrip JetBlue flights. Boasting the world's largest cruise ships with innovative amenities like ice-skating rinks and surfing wave pools, Royal Caribbean offers unforgettable ocean adventures. Now through August, we're giving away ten (10) cruise packages – enter once and you'll automatically be entered for a chance to win. http://cruises.jetblue.com/promotion/jetblue/sweepstakes/default.asp

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MGM Grand's Get a Life Giveaway
Turn your lame existence into the party of a lifetime at MGM Grand. Just create a video showing us why you need to get a life. If your life is deemed the lamest, you'll win a maximum Vegas weekend at MGM Grand for you and three friends September 24-26, including luxurious suite accommodations, gourmet dinners, cabana at Wet Republic, nightclub access with bottle service, tickets to KÁ™ by Cirque du Soleil®, helicopter tour of the Strip, and much more!  http://getalifegiveaway.com/

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ZANTAC® Beat the Heat Sweepstakes
You could win an amazing 7-day trip for you and a guest to your choice of two of the Man v. Food destinations. Places like New York, Chicago and beyond. http://www.zantacotc.com/manvsfood/enterToWin/?sc=ZANACQBANVALMVF1005001

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More contests. Not vacation related but nice to win just the same!


Back to School Sweepstakes: Be Prepared and Win!
Win a $500 Visa Gift Card and more!
http://shopping.aol.com/articles/2010/07/20/back-to-school-sweepstakes/?icid=main|main|dl6|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fshopping.aol.com%2Farticles%2F2010%2F07%2F20%2Fback-to-school-sweepstakes%2F#

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Get Daily Chances to Go Wild at Kmart with Clorox's Sweepstakes
OK, $100 worth of credit to blow at Kmart might not let you get too wild, but it sure would be fun, especially if you need supplies and clothes to go back-to-school. And Clorox's Back-to-School Essentials Sweepstakes gives you daily chances to win $100 Kmart shopping sprees. http://washandwinwithclorox.com/sweeps/Default.aspx
Each of the 42 daily winners will receive a $100 gift card good at Kmart. Remember to enter everyday!

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2010 Sub-Zero Dream Kitchen - Enter to Win Your Sub-Zero and Wolf Dream Kitchen

Inspire. Create. Win. Enter to win the 2010 Sub-Zero Dream Kitchen, and see the products included in the Grand Prize. http://www.subzero.com/dreamkitchen/dreamkitchen.aspx

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Win a New Remodeled Bathroom!
Win a Kohler Bathroom from DA Home Improvement, Inc.

http://winakohlerbathroom.com/

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If you know of any more great contests going on this summer post them here or on my facebook page! :)

Saddest picture of the century

Saddest picture of the century- Vulture waiting for child to die

Pulitzer Prize winning photograph in Sudan by Kevin Carter.

In March 1993 Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan and later took this photograph. The picture would later bring him the Pulitzer prize, but also death. The girl had stopped to rest while struggling to reach the refugee camp, nearby a vulture is waiting her to die. It is a horrific picture that gave people a true look at the dire condition  in Sub-Saharan Africa. Kevin then came under a lot of scrutiny for spending over 20 minutes setting up the photo instead of helping the child. Three months after taking the photo, he committed suicide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter 

NY Times: One Image of Agony Resonates in Two Lives

More of the 'Greatest movie quotes'

The Other 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time


100. “I love my dead gay son. —Heathers
99. “Where was ya, Wang? We was worried.” — Murder by Death
98. “Shut that cunt’s mouth or I’ll come over there and fuckstart her head!” —The Way of the Gun
97. “How am I not myself?” — I Heart Huckabees
96. “Welcome to Debbie Country.” — Singles
95. “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!”- - Zoolander
94. “Well, this piece is called ‘Lick My Love Pump.’” — Spinal Tap
93. “This is the guy behind the guy behind the guy.” — Swingers
92. “I hate you, and I hate your ass face!” — Waiting for Guffman
91. “Back and to the left.” — JFK
90. “No, I said ‘allo,’ but that’s close enough.” — Labyrinth
89. “That’s bee-YOU-tee-ful, what is that, velvet?” — Coming to America
88. “It’s a moral imperative.” —Real Genius
87. “Go do that voodoo that you do so well!” — Blazing Saddles
86. “No dice, soldier.” —Brick
85. “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.” — Conan the Barbarian
84. “Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.” — Uncle Buck
83. “Do you concur?” “Damnit! Why didn’t I concur?!” — Catch Me If You Can
82. “The place where a U.S. soldier goes to defecate, relieve himself, open his bowel, shit, fart, dump, crap, and unload, is called the latrine. The la-trine, from the French.” — Biloxi Blues
81. “Big bottoms, big bottoms, talk about mudflaps, my girls got ‘em.” — Spinal Tap
80. “My life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.” — Muriel’s Wedding
79. “Guns are for show. Knives are for pros.” — Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
78. “I shall call him Squishy. And he shall be mine. And he shall be MY Squishy.” — Finding Nemo
77. “I’ll sleep with you for a meatball.” —Victor/Victoria
76. “Follow me, or perish, sweater monkeys.” — Bring it On
75. “What’s a nubian?” — Chasing Amy
74. “Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster by your side, kid.” — Star Wars
73. “You’ve got red on you.” — Shaun of the Dead
72. “I touched the earth, and he loved me back.” — Secretary
71. “Not you, fat Jesus.” — The Hangover
70. “This pile of shit has a thousand eyes.” — Stand By Me
69. “Not the beeeees!.” — Wicker Man
68. “She’s been fucked more times than she’s had a hot meal.” — Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
67. “I can’t believe I just gave my panties to a geek.” — Sixteen Candles
66. “It’s a veg-e-ta-ble.” —My Blue Heaven
65. “Goddammit, I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought it’d do any good! ” — War Games
64. “I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How have you been?” — Grosse Pointe Blank
63. “Now, you’ve got a corpse in a car, minus a head, in a garage. Take me to it.” — Pulp Fiction
62. “Ever since I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster.” — Goodfellas
61. “Wolfman has nards!” — Monster Squad
60. “He’s an angel. He’s an angel straight from heaven!” — Raising Arizona
59. “Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup.” — High Anxiety
58. “Somebody’s got to go back and get a shitload of dimes.” — Blazing Saddles
57. “You idiots! These are not them! You’ve captured their stunt doubles!” — Spaceballs
56. “Bratwurst? Aren’t we the optimist?” —10 Things I Hate About You
55. “Sabrina, don’t just stare at it, eat it.” — American Psycho
54. “I take your fucking bullets!” - -Scarface
53. “I’m kind of a big deal.” — Anchorman
52. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes it rains.” — Bull Durham
51. “We deal in lead, friend.” — The Magnificent Seven
50. “I don’t know, I mostly just hurt people.” —Alien Resurrection
49. “Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.” — Better Off Dead
48. “All every woman really wants, be it mother, senator, nun, is some serious deep-dickin’.” — Chasing Amy
47. “Let’s shag ass.” —The Royal Tenenbaums
46. “That’s atomized colloidal silver. It’s being pumped through the building’s air conditioning system, you cock-juggling thundercunt!” — Blade: Trinity
45. “I don’t understand. All my life I’ve been waiting for someone and when I find her, she’s … she’s a fish.” — Splash
44. “Demented and sad, but social.” — The Breakfast Club
43. “This is so bad it’s gone past good and back to bad again.” — Ghost World
42. “GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE!” — The Goonies
41. “Beautiful, naked, big-titted women just don’t fall out of the sky, you know.” — Dogma
40. “They’ve done studies, you know. Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.” — Anchorman
39. “Richie, would you do me a favor and eat my pussy for me… please?” — From Dusk til Dawn
38. “I’m hungry. Let’s get a taco.” — Reservoir Dogs
37. “They’re coming to get you, Barbara!” — Night of the Living Dead
36. “Maybe you’re the plucky comic relief.” — Galaxy Quest
35. “We were frightened of being left alone for the rest of our lives. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at the age of 26…we were of that disposition.” — High Fidelity
34. “I used to fuck guys like you in prison” — Roadhouse
33. “Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you.” — Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
32. “Strikeouts are boring. Besides that, they’re fascist.” — Bull Durham
31. “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room! — Dr. Strangelove
30. “Shut the fuck up, Donny.” — The Big Lebowski
29. “If God did not want them shorn, he would not have made them sheep.” — The Magnificent Seven
28. “He was always a rather stupidly optimistic man. I mean, I’m afraid it came as a great shock to him when he died.” — Clue
27. “Nobody fucks with the Jesus.” — The Big Lebowski
26. “Meet me in Montauk.” — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
25. “Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?” — Heathers
24. “That’s just the way it crumbles … cookie wise.” - The Apartment
23. “Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.” — The Rock
22. “Why didn’t somebody tell me my ass was so big? — Spaceballs
21. “I aim to misbehave.” — Serenity
20. “People are so stupid I can’t bear to be around them anymore.” —Imaginary Heroes
19. “Fuck my cock!” — Wet Hot American Summer
18. “I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.” — The Big Lebowski
17. “The swan ate my baby!” — Drop Dead Gorgeous
16. “I’m gonna punch you in the ovary, that’s what I’m gonna do. A straight shot, right to the babymaker.” — Anchorman
15. “My grammy never gave gifts. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks.” — Annie Hall
14. “The Hammer is my penis.” — Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
13. “The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” — Almost Famous
12. “SQUIRREL!” — Up
11. “Excuse me stewardess, I speak jive.” — Airplane
10. “Inconceivable!” — The Princess Bride
9. “I’ve been listening to my gut since I was 14 years old, and frankly speaking, I’ve come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.” — High Fidelity
8. “My God. I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.” — Fight Club
7. “You’re killin’ me Smalls!” — The Sandlot
6. “I was born a poor black child.” — The Jerk
5. “Ray, next time someone asks you if you’re a god, you say YES!” — Ghostbusters
4. “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” — The Shawshank Redemption
3. “I want my two dollars!” — Better Off Dead
2. “Son, you got a panty on your head.” — Raising Arizona
1. “It ain’t white boy day is it?” — True Romance


The 100 Cheesiest Movie Quotes of All Time 

The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time

Here is a List of Movies Cited in the Above Video

0’00 - Roxanne, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Gleaming the Cube, The Princess Bride, A Fish Called Wanda, Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, Casino, Three Amigos, A Clockwork Orange

1’05 - Dolemite, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bad Santa, The Witches of Eastwick, The Big Lebowski, In Bruges, Full Metal Jacket, There Will Be Blood

2’05 - Toy Story, Casablanca, Encino Man, The Women, Predator, Army of Darkness, They Live, Uncle Buck, Big Trouble in Little China, New Jack City, Billy Madison

3’00 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Departed, Carlito’s Way, In the Loop, Glengarry Glen Ross, Stand By Me, Grosse Pointe Blank, Duck Soup, Caddyshack, Planes Trains & Automobiles
4’00 - South Park, Napoleon Dynamite, Mean Girls, The Breakfast Club, As Good as It Gets, The 6th Day, Step Brothers, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Full Metal Jacket, City Slickers, Road House, True Grit, Shot Circuit
5’00 - Raging Bull, The Usual Suspects, Snatch, Caddyshack, The Last Boy Scout, Ghostbusters, The Sandlot, As Good as It Gets

6’00 - 48 Hrs, In Bruges, Silver Streak, Glengarry Glen Ross, A Fish Called Wanda, Goodfellas, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, The Mist, Trading Places

7’00 - The Warriors, Point Break, Gangs of New York, Reservoir Dogs, The Breakfast Club, The Cowboys, Full Metal Jacket, Dodgeball, Donnie Darko, Scarface, The Good the Bad and the Ugly

8’00 - Anchorman, Tropic Thunder, Sexy Beast, In the Loop, Get Shorty, Blazing Saddles, The Way of the Gun, Blade: Trinity, Clerks, The Boondock Saints, The Exorcist, What About Bob?, Weird Science

9’00 - Con Air, True Romance, In the Loop, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Lake Placid, The Front, Gone with the Wind
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Know of anymore that should be in this list?

Random thoughts...

I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

Is any one else a little creeped out by the fact that Santa’s elves are watching us all right this minute?

There is great need for a sarcasm font.

How the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

Was learning cursive really necessary?

Nah, it’s not Tourette’s. I’m just angry sometimes.

Some people like clean jokes, but I don’t think cleanliness is a laughing matter.

MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

If a zombie wants to eat your brains, just order pizza instead. When it arrives, feed the pizza guy to the zombie and RUN!

Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

The more of those garden gnomes you buy, the sooner they will be able to mobilize their army and destroy us all.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

The severity of the itch is proportional to inability to the reach it.

Bad decisions make good stories.

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

LOL has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".

You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything
productive for the rest of the day.

Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.

I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page research paper that I
swear I did not make any changes to.

I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

"Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this -- ever.

I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dang it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What did you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

Never trust someone who gives you a business card with their picture on it.

I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

I think the top freezer deserves a light as well.

While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it... thanks Mario Kart.

There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with alcohol than with Kay.

Ever realize why women over 50 don't have babies? Because they would put them down and forget where they left them.

From now on I will be writing "for sensual massage" in the memo field of all of my checks.

I wish people had antlers,  because I’m sure they would make bar fights a lot more entertaining.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your neck?

Skinny people irritate me! Especially when they say things like, "you know sometimes I just forget to eat." Now I've forgotten my address, my mother's maiden name, and my keys. But I've never forgotten to eat. You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat.

Mattress labels are commonly misunderstood. They say, “Not to be removed EXCEPT BY CONSUMER.” So if you take it off you have to eat it.

More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.

Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier and sluttier every year?

If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.

Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart”, all I hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart”.

How can we, as a nation, claim responsibility for American cheese? If we’re going to pretend it’s cheese, let’s call it Al Qaeda cheese.

Doing dishes the other night I noticed we have some Miracle Blade III knives. If they’re such a miracle, why did they redesign them twice?

I've fantasized about fighting traffic with a rocket launcher.

If you don’t like someone, wait until they are wearing purple, then stomp on them and say, “I thought you were a grape!”

Just once I want to hear a politician say, “I can neither confirm nor deny my role in a secret ninja army.”

Next time solicitors come calling, I'm going to invite them in and try to sell stuff to them.

Hope for humanity? I lost mine the day I saw a grown man pick his nose and eat it.

When you stop and really take a look around yourself, it’s amazing how many things you see that look like a butt.

If you fly past me on the open freeway, and two minutes later I fly past you, it’s because I’m using cruise control, and you’re driving like an idiot.

There comes a point where caffeine can’t keep you awake anymore and you fall into an uneasy sleep. I call that “the time I rolled the car.”

I haven’t lost my mind, I just put it away because it can’t handle what’s about to happen.

Instead of, “Take me to your leader,” I think the first thing aliens would say is, “Can I use your bathroom?”

Oh, I wasn’t ignoring you. I thought those were rhetorical questions.

There’s a chemical in turkey that makes me want to watch college football.

Sometimes it is so hard to not look both ways when crossing a one-way street.

A funny joke would be to replace your toilet paper with a lint roller. When guests complain, say, “What did you do in my washing machine?!”

I've always wanted to write “For Sale – $600 on the windows of random cars and include my senator’s home phone number.

When I hear a catchy jingle, I go buy whatever they tell me to, no questions asked. Hopefully they never advertise dog poop.

Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the “people you may know” feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?

Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!

Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.
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This list was emailed to me and contains some original thoughts from http://danoftheday.com/
Check him out! He's a funny guy! :)