BOFUS SEMORE

DRAWNINWARD

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From Profile Photos (draft)

DOG GONE: Semore 2001 - 2010

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MAO IN DECATUR

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St. Louis, Missouri

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One of our first roses of 2010.

Happy Valentine's Day, baby! #11

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2009-12-14T11:06:00.001-08:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DONKEY!

2009-11-24T15:36:00.000-08:00

Bofus, love you!

The Legend of Little John: Chapter One

2009-11-09T21:46:00.000-08:00

Make sure your sound is on.

Look for more "Tales of Bingebrook" on this page soon.

VERY CUTE!!

2009-10-07T20:11:00.000-07:00

Someone was pleased that she stumped us with her word at Probe.

SWINE FLU BABY PICTURES

2009-09-03T19:08:00.000-07:00

50 DAYS OF MIKE

2009-08-22T04:17:00.001-07:00

I turn 50 in less than 50 days now - but my good friends Carol and John daclared 50 days of Mike turning 50, the day before the 50 days begun. Since then - I've received lots of daily tributes: Krispy Kreme, Bublles in an Ice Cream shaped dispenser, Kool Pops, poetry and factoids. He is one of them, heavily researched or otherwise concocted by my other good friedn, Charles Arms:

Fifty 50 facts

1. The Roman numeral for for 50 is 'L'.

2. The U.S. fifty dollar bill features a portrait of Ulysses S. Grant. The 'S.' in his name was not given at birth. He adopted it only after being erroneously nominated for congress with the false middle initial.

3. Rapper 50 Cent's first album was called "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" and featured the lead single "In Da Club."

4. The United States of America is comprised of 50 states. The first being Delaware and most recent being Hawaii.

5. The above mentioned Hawaii celebrates its 50th year of statehood this year, making Hawaii "5 - 0".

6. According to Paul Simon, there must be 50 ways to leave your lover. They include, but are not limited to, "slip out the back," "make a new plan," "hop on the bus," and "drop off the key."

7. Celebrities turning 50 years old this year include Val Kilmer, Judd Nelson, Kevin Spacey, Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Jason Alexander.

8. The 50th wedding anniversary is called the "golden wedding anniversary".

9. The 1911 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost offered an amazing 50 horsepower engine. By contrast, the 2009 Corvette ZR1 produces about 620 horsepower.

10. The 50th most popular baby names in 2008 were, male, "Aaron" and female, "Alexa".

11. The 2004 romantic comedy "50 First Dates" starred Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.

12. The Browning .50 caliber machine gun has been used extensively the United States military from the 1920s to the present day. With firearms, caliber refers the diameter of the tube. In English measurements, it represents the decimal equivalent of an inch. So, a .50 caliber machine gun fires a half-inch diameter bullet.

13. In the 1958 cult classic film "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman ", the 50-ft woman was played by Allison Hayes.

14. The square root of 50 is 7.0710678118654755

15. For more than 500 years, each year certain Muslim and Hindu parents drop their infant children from the top of a 50-ft temple. The children are caught in cloth sheets. This is done to bring good luck to the children.

16. A 50-mile race on foot is called an Ultra marathon.

17. The world record for the 50 meter freestyle swim is 20.94 seconds. It is held by Frederick Bousquet of France.

18. Number 50 on the list of the Top 100 Billboard songs of 1959 was "What'd I Say" by Ray Charles.

19. The prime factorization of 50 is 2 x 5 x 5.

20. The U.S. 50 cent coin ceased being minted for general circulation 2001. It features the profile of President John F. Kennedy. The last 90% silver 50-cent piece was produced in 1964 and also featured Kennedy. Prior to Kennedy, the half dollar featured Benjamin Franklin.

21. In photography, a 50 mm lens is often referred to as "normal" lens, as it tends to display a view in the view finder very similar to what you see with the naked eye.

22. The phrase "fifty-fifty" means that given two possible outcomes, one is no more statistically likely than the other -- a coin toss.

23. College band turned mega-stars R.E.M. is estimated to have sold 50 million records.

24. Bernard Madoff is thought to have robbed investors of as much as $50 billion using something known as a ponzi scheme.

25. A 50-year-old Glenfeddich Scotch whiskey was recently released for sale at $16,000 per bottle.

26. 50 cents is sometimes referred to "four bits". Why? The U.S. colonial dollar was modeled after the Spanish milled dollar, which featured intentional scores in the coin so that it could easily be cut or broken into 8 equal "bits." So fifty cents, a half dollar, would be four bits. This is same reason you hear the reference to currency in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" to "pieces of eight."

27. Fifty years ago, in 1959, the Academy Award for Best Picture was awarded for the film "Ben Hur."

28. While we Americans traditionally think of the midline of a football field as the 50 yard line, a Canadian rules football field actually has two 50 yard lines as the field (excluding the end zones) is 110 yards.

29. While tradition has it that it would take 50 pairs to shoe a centipede, this is not necessarily true. Some varieties of centipedes may have as few as 30 legs while others may have more than 100.

30. The 50th modern World Series was won by the New York Yankees in 1953. The Yankees have won 26 World Series, more than twice the number of the 2nd place St. Louis Cardinals at 10. The 1959 World Series was won by the Chicago White Sox.

31. Boasting the atomic number of 50 on the periodic chart of elements is Tin. The chart symbol is Sn. In modern times tin is used in many alloys, including Pewter, which is 85-90% tin. Another large application for tin is corrosion-resistant tin plating of steel. Due to its low toxicity, tin-plated metal is also used for food packaging, giving the name to tin cans, which are made mostly out of aluminum or tin-plated steel.

32. Biblical Scripture states that the Commandments were given to Moses and the Jews 50 days after the exodus of Egypt. Further, Pentecost, or the assent of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles and other followers of Jesus, occurred 50 days after the resurrection of Christ.

33. The 50th top grossing film of all time is Disney Pixar's Cars with the total gross of $244,082,982.

34. According to a 1999 survey, 50 percent of Americans with annual incomes of $15,000 - 25,000 expect to fund retirement by winning the lottery.

35. The 50th most populous city in the United States is Arlington, Texas.

36. The Daytona International Speedway is 2.5 miles around, yet race cars can travel the complete lap in 50 seconds or less, averaging speeds greater than 180 MPH. This is roughly equivalent to the world record time for
a man to sprint around a 400 meter track.

37. An investment of $50 in Microsoft at the initial public offering on March 13, 1986 would have a current value of $16,361.

38. Country legend George Strait holds the record on the country music charts with an amazing 50 number one hit singles.

39. The most recent survey of college students ranks Notre Dame University as the 50th best college in the United States.

40. Rounding out the list of the top 50 most popular dog breeds in the United States is the Pekingese. The Labrador Retriever is number 1.

41. 50 is the new 40, making 40 the new 32, I suppose, and changing the legal drinking age to 26 years 3 months.

42. Of the four points on the Earth with the Latitude/Longitude of 50/50 only one falls on land. 50 degrees North by 50 degrees East. Should you find yourself there, you would be in far western Kazakhstan about 80 miles
south of the Russian border.

43. Giant squid are the world's largest invertebrates and can reach lengths of 50 feet.

44. In the history of the game, only 25 major league baseball players have hit 50 or more homeruns in a season. Oddly enough, Hank Aaron, who until recently held the career record of 755, is not on that list.

45. The record for most touchdown passes thrown in a single season is 50. Tom Brady, New England Patriots, 2007.

46. A typical roll of Aluminum foil contains 50 square feet of the product, enough for 50 baked potatoes, 600 fuse box repairs or 25 anti-alien hats.

47.There are about 50 thousand miles of highway in the U.S. interstate system. Driving them all in a Cadillac Escalade would cost about $10,000 in gasoline.

48. Endurance athletes often have resting heart rates as low as 50 beats per minute. None of us knows how many he'll get, but that same athlete is using about 10 million fewer each year than the average American
couch potato.

49. If every man, woman and child in the United States made a $50 payment to the national debt, it would reduce it by only a little more than 10 percent.

50. On September 26th of this year, Mike Meiners will be 50 years old.

I'll post the others too.

4th OF JULY AT INNSBROOK

2009-07-07T22:33:00.000-07:00

A few snaps of our 4th of July weekend at Innsbrook with John, Carol, Amanda, Greg, Donkey and me.

This lastone if proof - that given enough beer - Johnny WILL pee in public!

I put ALL of the pics I took on my Picasa Album.

SWINE FLU POOH!

2009-04-30T13:40:00.000-07:00

St. Francis De Sale

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A view from a truck.

BEFORE AND AFTER

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TWO MEN AND A SINK

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I'm sure you've heard of three men in a tub.

Well this tale was about two men and a sink.

A happy closure to the debacle at Innsbrook.

SOUND OF MUSIC TRAIN STATION

2009-04-12T15:36:00.000-07:00

Sound of Music Train Station @ Yahoo! Video

LAUGHING BABIES - hysterical!

2009-03-31T21:13:00.000-07:00

I can't decide which one is funnier.

I think playing them both at the same time is best.

THE GRATE DEBATE!

2009-03-02T19:00:00.000-08:00

On our recent New York trip - John, Carol and BOFUS attempted to find and photograph the grate made famous by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch. A map we had listed the site, but it wasn't very precise.

We asked 5 different people and got five different answers. The most credible of which turned out to be pretty close. (When I say WE asked - I mean that I was ordered to and complied!)

As you can see in the picture above, the address is clearly 590 Lexington Avenue.

The video below starts where I was standing when I took the pictures of what we hoped would be the grate - and ends on where the grate actually was. Obviously, the original building is either gone or was completely remodeled.

This is the picture I took of Carol - our very own Marilyn - re-enacting the scene from the film.

So it turns out we came pretty darn close - (thanks to John).

NOTE: The city shoot was never actually used in the film. Turns out the crowd was so noisy the footage was unusable so they rebuilt the whole street on the sound lot and reshot it at the studio. BUT - the famous picture itself was shot here. The movie doesn't show much above her knees (censors).

Here is the scene from the movie (The hot pants comment was cut by the censors):

And this is a montage of the actual photo shoot:

Also notable: Reputedly, Joe DiMaggio became so upset seeing his wife flaunting her hoo-ha at the crowds of men the incident eventually led to their divorce.

Next up: Streisand, the Winter Garden Theater and the most spectacular surprise of the trip!

NURSE DARRYL II

2009-02-07T14:22:00.000-08:00

Here's the real thing! First day as a professional nurse in scrubs!

Just like the action figure!

DANGER DONK

2009-02-07T14:19:00.000-08:00

Pepper took Donkey to a gun range for his birthday.

They both kicked butt - as you can see from the target.

The moral is - don't mess with Donkey - or Pepper (and lock your doors!)

DONKEY - THE NURSE

2009-01-31T23:26:00.000-08:00

Darryl passed his state examinations. He is officially a registered nurse. Hurray!

Look! He even has his own action figure.

Congratulations, baby!!

MONKEY - THE BOY SCOUT

2009-01-28T18:08:00.000-08:00

I purchased the following in preparation for New York...

The album - Astral Weeks - (which I will give to Carol after I iTune it) to heighten our appreciation...

...and a self-guided tour of Streisand landmarks! TO DRIVE MY FRIENDS CRAZY!

DITCH DEBACLE

2009-01-28T17:54:00.000-08:00

We started out the New Year in a bit of a pinch.

But when we finally got out - with the help of a tow...there was joy and jubilation.

NEW YEAR'S PISGHETTI PIGS

2009-01-28T17:32:00.000-08:00

Teaming up a single string...

A Rabbit nibble...

A monkey-mouthful...

An even bigger (and somewhat phallic) mouthful...

Greg going for the whole thing!

Later on we actually played PIG!

PEARLS OF WISDOM

2009-01-09T14:12:00.000-08:00

This may be funny to those of you who know that I used to read my staff inspirational quotes from one of my many quotation books - at least once a week.

The fact that the woman's name is Carol increases the humor factor by 10 for those of you who know us.

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

2009-01-09T14:09:00.000-08:00

I thought today's strip was appropriate for our times. Are we cutting off our heads, too?

MERRY CAROL DAY

2008-12-26T08:37:00.000-08:00

Carol likes her digital picture frame.

OUR FAVORITE THINGS

2008-12-25T00:40:00.000-08:00

From last year's Christmas trip...

(Seems my face was a mess last Christmas, too).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CAROL!

2008-12-24T20:53:00.001-08:00

I guess you could say this was pretty 'catty' for a Christmas\Birthday card!

MARLEY AND JOHN

2008-12-23T13:04:00.000-08:00

This is the real life "Marley and Me." John Grogan and his dog Marley - both of whom are now famous. John used to work at the Sun-Sentinel. So those of you that know me are one degree from John and Marley - which makes you two degrees from Jennifer Anniston and Owen Wilson - and therefore three degrees from Brad Pitt. Since Brad and Angie either know (or have adopted) everyone else on the planet - you are now only four degrees from the universe. Game over, Kevin.

VERY FUNNY, CAROL!

2008-12-22T10:19:00.000-08:00

Carol's favorite activity is making fun of me - she send me this the day of my surgery.

Nurse Ratchet - Reincarnated

2008-12-19T13:21:00.000-08:00

Daryyl had his pinning ceremony last night. Here is my terrible video of the event:

I am very proud of my boy.

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

2008-12-15T08:50:00.000-08:00

This is soooo me and John on the left...
and Carol and Darryl on the left.

KCNLGJA

2008-12-07T19:44:00.000-08:00

Went to Kansas City for a negligee event this weekend.

Local brands.

The lobby at the Alladin.

Downtown.

Chicken Foot Fiesta

2008-11-29T23:14:00.000-08:00

The Mille Borne Ultimatum

2008-11-27T21:27:00.000-08:00

Talk about a picture being worth a thousand words...

This just may be my favorite pic ever!!!

Happy Birthday, Darryl!

2008-11-27T21:13:00.000-08:00

Darryl's birthday weekend at Innsbrook

2008-11-27T21:04:00.000-08:00

Donkey had a birthday!

He and Carol are going to go shoot hand guns!

John kept us toasty warm with his fire.

And I finally got to play Mille Borne!

(Could I look any more like a happy dork!?)

The GEICO song

2008-11-25T09:17:00.000-08:00

Remind Me from Röyksopp on Vimeo.
Directed by Ludovic Houplan & Hervé de Crécy
Remind me won the 2002 MTV Europe Music Award for best music video.

Cover Boy!

2008-11-15T16:32:00.000-08:00

I've been baby-sitting government email all weekend.
They put my picture on the web with the story.

Read the full coverage on STLtoday

Emily Rasinski | Post-Dispatch

Mike Meiners (center), the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Director of News Adminstration, and Metro photo editor Teak Phillips
(right) wheel in 22 boxes of copies of e-mails sent within Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt's administration.

This picture was not published:

Emily Rasinski | Post-Dispatch

Mike Meiners, Director of News Administration, passes out the 22 boxes of copies of emails from Govenor Matt Blunt's government email to reporters from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Kansas City Star and the Associated Press Thursday November 13, 2008 in the editorial board room of the Post-Dispatch.

Semore goes global

2008-11-15T15:15:00.000-08:00

on ihasahotdog.com.

moar funny pictures

Carol is a Futurist...

2008-11-15T14:08:00.000-08:00

...and the future is NOW.

Look at what is playing on hulu.com - only movies and television shows - direct to your PC for FREE!!!!

Check out the menu feature on this video and watch movies right here on semorebofus!
I can't wait to hook my PC up to my TV!

Minority Report Interface

2008-11-15T13:37:00.001-08:00

The interface you see Tom Cruise use in Minority Report is now real.

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

2008-11-14T20:38:00.000-08:00

Carol Hurst isn't the only Diva I can post video of.

This is a 21-year old Barbra Streisand appearing on the Dean Martin Show in 1963. The last 2 minutes is rare footage of her playing in a comedy skit with Bob Hope.

Bob Hope introduces her as "my fiance and my little sister."

Safety Dance

2008-11-11T12:29:00.000-08:00

We got safety vests at work yesterday...

I modeled.

Congratulations, President Obama!

2008-11-04T19:50:00.000-08:00

You heard it hear first everyone. The networks haven't called it, the pundits are still hesitant - but we here at Semore Bofus [based on our own exit poll*] are calling the election for Barack Obama. May God bless him and may our country embrace him.

*With 100% of 2 voters reporting.

Beginnings and endings

2008-11-03T21:38:00.000-08:00

My weekend began and ended in a very similar way...

open parenthesis

closes parenthesis

at least she's consistent!

The deconstruction of Carol.

2008-11-03T21:11:00.000-08:00

A renaissance - gone sour apple!

We had a fantastic time at Innsbrook over the weekend, but no one had as much fun as Carol!!!

Nikki at the Botanical

2008-10-24T17:39:00.000-07:00

From late September visit to the Botanical.

Whoopie! for Obama!

2008-10-18T23:08:00.000-07:00

Obama rally in St. Louis

2008-10-18T22:38:00.000-07:00

Dad, Darryl and I went to see Obama on Saturday. This is the two of them after.

I let them out close to the gate and went to park.

I was able to walk right from the parking garage to the Arch...

but Darryl and dad got trapped in a huge line and didn't quite make it to seeing Obama speak.

They did get a better look at him than I did, though.

They were just a few feet from him as his motorcade drove by. He waved at them.

They didn't have the camera though.

lickin' good

2008-10-18T18:37:00.000-07:00

Semore, lickin' good.

on the mountain top

2008-10-12T21:24:00.000-07:00

it wouldn't come to us - so we went to it

a wall

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albit - a colorful one...

doorway 1

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In the alley

2008-10-12T20:37:00.000-07:00

Just some fun with Photo .Net

Semore and I had been playing "kick the head of the donkey"

montgomery mosaic

2008-09-14T14:04:00.000-07:00

Some pictures taken in downtown Montgomenry. Late July 2008.

performing nighlty

2008-09-14T13:55:00.000-07:00

An unusual truck was parked downtown a few weeks back.

Played tennis today with...

2008-08-24T18:26:00.000-07:00

Dana...

Sharon...

and Ann.

Tied 6-6 and retired due to heat.

nice day

2008-08-17T20:02:00.000-07:00

I went to the beach. Very nice afternoon.

Dad's sugery...

2008-08-10T21:07:00.000-07:00

Hugh Meiners right before checking in for colon surgery - Wednesday August 6 at 10:45 a.m.

This is him the morning after the surgery.

This is him waiting for me to pick him up - after being discharged Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m., less than four full days afer the surgery!!

Signing the discharge papers. Not soon enough for him.

FIVE MILES!!!!

2008-08-03T23:05:00.000-07:00

That's a long way to run - but these four uber-athletes did just that.

Here are the trophies they won for the effort.

Runners and trophies united posed for victory.

(Yeah, I did it!)

Look who else is running for office!

2008-08-02T11:31:00.000-07:00

Sean Tevis for Kansas House!

2008-08-01T14:16:00.000-07:00

Our old (yet still youthful) friend Sean Tevis is becoming a bigger political celebrity than Obama. I'm thinking Tevis for President 2016! Check out his TV interview here.

You can find out more about Sean at his website.
And here is a link to his Front Page coverage in the Los Angeles Times.

Google Sean Tevis and you'll find him on Wikipedia, Faceboook and well - everywhere!

But all of this is not even the BIG NEWS. Sean and Michelle recently discovered how to 'get it right' and Michelle is EXPECTING!!! Unfortunatley - I don't have any grpahic for this part of our coverage.

cheap blonde

2008-07-19T19:28:00.000-07:00

Get it?

Two roads diverged in a wood...

2008-05-24T09:37:00.000-07:00

And I didn't take either one. (From a walk in Innsbrook)

Jonny Boy - Ace Hurst

2008-05-23T23:23:00.000-07:00

Home-away for Hursts

2008-05-23T23:09:00.001-07:00

John and Carol stayed at the Donkey-Monkey B&B last week. We went to a Reggae party, in costume.

The roses are in bloom and looking lovely.

This is us (well THEM - I'm never in the pictures I take:-) on the way back from tennis.

Dan, one of the Reggae hosts, is a terrific artist, Witness his lounging nude here.

It's a beautiful day in St. Louis

2008-05-17T06:53:00.000-07:00

But this is a picture taken in Florida :-)

So, I'm scanning in old family photos...

2008-05-08T00:20:00.001-07:00

...and I find Grandma Leona sitting on the beach in California with her sister Thelma - just like Baby Jane and Blanche. And we all know how that turned out.

Eating for seven...

2008-05-06T20:58:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite meals ever - breakfast with Cindy at the Floridian. Robbie and Darryl were not there - so it was a completely guilt free meal for both of us.

Us with the Lincolns

2008-05-05T22:14:00.000-07:00

John, Carol, Darryl and Me.

Norton Art Gallery group

2008-05-05T21:27:00.000-07:00

Video of lunch at the Norton Art Gallery in KC with friends Michelle,Sean and Jeff as Darryl tells an amusing story.

Are ya lookin'?

2008-05-05T13:42:00.000-07:00

This is our friend Robbie on the cover of his album Same to You, featuring the hit single: Are ya lookin'? (Inside joke but the clues are in the photo)

Happy Birthday, Robbie!!

2008-05-05T13:10:00.000-07:00

Here's to 39 - it only gets better!
Love, BOFUS (and Semore)

Puppy Love

2008-05-04T20:05:00.001-07:00

For some serious puppy lovin' click this link: Puppy Lovin' Guaranteed to make you smile.

Donkey at the MOMA

2008-05-04T17:49:00.000-07:00

I took this while the Donk was checking out an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. June of 2005.

Loading unloading or servicing

2008-05-04T13:26:00.000-07:00

I don't know which Semore is doing - but I think he's legal.

Where we live...

2008-05-03T12:58:00.001-07:00

We live neat Tower Grove Park in St. Louis, MO. Pictured here near sunrise in April.

Funny Girl

2008-05-03T01:52:00.001-07:00

Mike loves Barbra.

BLUE DONKEY

2008-05-03T00:29:00.000-07:00

The Donkey featured on the cover of Blue Donkey.

Just Semore

2008-05-02T23:48:00.001-07:00

Taken while enjoying a walk in a local park.

This is SEMORE BOFUS

2008-05-02T23:26:00.000-07:00

Cover art for our album PURE SUGAR.

The GEICO song

2008-05-02T17:54:00.001-07:00

The Donkey has always said how he likes that song on the GEICO commercial - so we Googled it, found it, and wanted to share it somehow. So we decided that this would be how.
The song is "Remind me" by Royksopp.