Myron and Ethel Noodleman’s Vacation

by Not That Mike The Other Mike on July 8, 2009

“… all right, these next slides are from when we went to Pismo Beach last year, because Myron’s doctor said the sea air would be good for his bursitis.  And we got a lovely room facing the ocean, first floor so Myron wouldn’t have to walk so much…”

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“… now, Pismo Beach is where they have the very famous clam digging, of course, and so Myron and I just had to try it for ourselves.  Didn’t find any clams, oh well…”

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“… and then we saw–HONEY!! You promised not to put that slide in!  I swear, that man–he’s as frisky as a teenager sometimes, I just don’t know what to do with him…”

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“… so anyway, we had a very lovely time, and we met this very nice lady named Angela E., who took these pictures of us, didn’t they come out nice?  And she said she would send them to a place on the Internet called… well, I forget the name; Cute Obstruction, or Cute Upchuck or something like that…”

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{ 108 comments }

1 JENNA 07.08.09 at 6:16 am

love the hover text viagra joke- lmao!

2 brinnann 07.08.09 at 6:17 am

:lol: @ teh hovertextingks!

3 brinnann 07.08.09 at 6:19 am

Whyfor did teh smiley guys change? My “lol” guy useta actually LOL. Now he just looks like someone took a picture of him but caught him blinking.

4 n 07.08.09 at 6:20 am

oooo!!! corgis are so CUTE!!! they look like they’re posing for the camera in the last photo : ) adorable…

5 chanpon 07.08.09 at 6:23 am

Ooh, things are getting steamy at the corgi-cabana!

At the corgi….corgi-cabana! The hottest spot north of Havana!
At the corgi…corgi-cabana! Music and passion were always the fashion
at the corgi….they fell in love!

6 Kristabelle 07.08.09 at 6:23 am

LOVE that last photo!! Wuv, twu wuv!

7 Sheepy 07.08.09 at 6:37 am

That looks so much more fun than my office right now.

8 Theo 07.08.09 at 6:38 am

And the warmest of greetings to you both, from all of us here at Cute Offload! :P

9 Kim Evans 07.08.09 at 6:41 am

Oy, my grandparents were South Floridians (not snowbirds) and I can just hear them having this conversation, God rest their souls. LOLOLOL :-)

10 Katrina 07.08.09 at 6:49 am

Ahhhhhhhh, I am completed……………..I’m pretty sure that Corgis are reincarnated people in fur suits. Abbey sends her best to her co-Corgyn!

11 pitu 07.08.09 at 6:50 am

LOL awesome pics and the most hilarious storytelling ever! I actually imagined Janice from Friends saying it and that made the fun exponential!

12 Subhangi 07.08.09 at 6:56 am

ROFL!!! Too cute!

13 Theresa 07.08.09 at 6:58 am

Pismo Beach and all the clams we can eat! And we didn’t make a wrong turn at Albequerque!

14 marsheeeee 07.08.09 at 7:02 am

That is so awesomely cute!!!! I can hear them both. Good job, NTMTOM!

15 MK 07.08.09 at 7:06 am

AAAHHH! These pictures are so adorable! All that cuddling makes me want to squee X3

16 Jorden 07.08.09 at 7:11 am

Beautiful!

17 thepetmuseum 07.08.09 at 7:13 am

That last one especially — retiree affection perfection. Those faces!

18 zeldapie 07.08.09 at 7:17 am

Oh gawd!!! Memories of sitting through endless slides of my Great Uncle Fred and Great Aunt Beulah’s world travels (I kid you not). SNOOOOOOOOOZE!

(Such anerable Corgis. They look so happy!)

19 indy1110 07.08.09 at 7:18 am

Omg, they look so much like a couple! ^^ They are enormously cute! ^_^

20 Vicki 07.08.09 at 7:24 am

I just read that with Estelle Harris’s voice in my head. SOOO funny!

BTW, I just lurv teh two little Eins. X3;;;

21 DKN 07.08.09 at 7:24 am

Oh god, I can’t handle this post…it’s TOO TOO MOISCHE.

props to NTMTOM for channeling my best friend’s mother…I had a Jewish Bronx accent all in my head for this piece. Not sure why…

22 Theresa 07.08.09 at 7:26 am

So Albuquerque is spelled with THREE “u’s.” WHO KNEW???

[U! - Ed.]

23 T.U.M. 07.08.09 at 7:27 am

Such happy dawrgs!

24 Heather 07.08.09 at 7:31 am

Sweet dogs who obviously get along well and cute to boot!

25 Copperbat 07.08.09 at 7:34 am

What beautiful dogs!

26 Trey 07.08.09 at 7:35 am

27 Kats 07.08.09 at 7:44 am

The hover texts on these pics are awesome!

adorable corgs

28 hon glad 07.08.09 at 7:46 am

Another exclusive from Cute Off Cut.

29 Serena 07.08.09 at 7:53 am

Please, make an actual photo book of this. The last photo is too precious; they KNOW they’re taking the epitome of the gracefully-aged-couple-on-the-beach photo.

30 metsakins 07.08.09 at 7:54 am

@DKN – I did too! (but being I’m Jewish and from the Bronx, I know why).

such happy pups!

31 gryt 07.08.09 at 7:55 am

I adore the pickie of them digging da hole.

32 kmira 07.08.09 at 8:04 am

I totally had the Jewish – Bronx accent in my head too! The whole post is better that way.

33 Elisha B. 07.08.09 at 8:05 am

AHHHH, to be at the beach AND in love. Could life get any better? Cute dogs, they seem so happy:)

34 Jimbeaux 07.08.09 at 8:08 am

Yay corgis! I’m with Gryt- I love the digging picture. I can almost hear them saying, “Hm, what’s down here?”
I would definately go down to florida to visit these guys!

35 5^^now8ing 07.08.09 at 8:09 am

Love corgis! Love the narrative! Love hovertext! Love NOMTOM! Love commenter-peeps! Loooove CO! Y’all are the best! (Don’t you think the whole country – and English speakers everywhere – should adopt the use of “y’all”?)

36 J. Bo 07.08.09 at 8:09 am

NTMTOM, you have done outdid yourself. Take a well-deserved bow…

37 divinebluesky 07.08.09 at 8:11 am

That really was fabulous – the pups, the pics, and the prose!

38 Theresa 07.08.09 at 8:11 am

NEWS FLASH: Nanna and Poppy can come from other places besides the Bronx, too, y’know. Like Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan (not Staten Island :mrgreen: )

39 Theresa 07.08.09 at 8:12 am

PS I must say, I liked the old :mrgreen: better. It struck me as just a tad cheesier. :mrgreen: Which is what you want in a :mrgreen: .

40 Shannon 07.08.09 at 8:20 am

Myron’s expression in the last one is priceless!

41 Jess 07.08.09 at 8:23 am

Oh, can you please rename this blog “Cute Upchuck”? kthxbai : )

[I was thinking maybe "Spew Overload"... - Ed.]

42 DKN 07.08.09 at 8:23 am

@ Metsakins – LOL. That makes sense!! :)

43 Lillith 07.08.09 at 8:31 am

Personally I had the Lawn Guyland Jewish Accent in my head but Estelle Getty works too! I LOLed.

The anerable pics, the captions and the hovertext make this destined to be a CO classic methinks.

44 brinnann 07.08.09 at 8:31 am

DKN, had you actually been in town last winter when I came to visit, you’d have already known that. :P

45 Jenni 07.08.09 at 8:31 am

Interblogging! lol

46 Bouviegal 07.08.09 at 8:39 am

I totally had George Costanza’s parents in my head when reading this–Frank and Estelle! Is it time for Festivus??

47 GingerBean 07.08.09 at 8:41 am

And they call it corgi loooove…

48 ink 07.08.09 at 8:47 am

Tasha Tudor would approve. They are practically clasping paws in the last one.

49 nismo 07.08.09 at 8:54 am

Corgis!! I love them and their cute little stumpy legs!

50 mfar 07.08.09 at 9:10 am

Slayed by the corgi-tude. That’s it, I’m utterly done for. This is the cutest pair of Corgi-files I’ve ever seen. Tasha Tudor, watch your ‘tocks! There’s a new sheriff in town.

51 Kar 07.08.09 at 9:17 am

that last pic is such a postcard!

52 KittyAdventures 07.08.09 at 9:33 am

Whats to say I love it.. all of it and Metsakins and DKN I heard it all in a Jewish Mamma voice too… IT made it just too funny!

PS hover Texts rock.

53 Nikki 07.08.09 at 9:34 am

Ha!! NOMTOM, you’re the best. Period.

54 shannomo 07.08.09 at 9:44 am

I had a “Fargo” accent in my head while reading this, don’t you know?

55 Theresa 07.08.09 at 9:47 am

As long as it’s not “Pants Overload.” Ha-HA! :mrgreen:

[Make that "Underpants Overload" and we've got a deal. :lol: - Ed.]

56 Scientific Chick 07.08.09 at 10:04 am

The digging picture was the best. Ah, those pesky hermit crabs.

57 Mary (the first) 07.08.09 at 10:04 am

Love this.. I totally had the George Costanza’s folks voice in my head too. Every time I see an anerable doglet like that I think, “ok, when I can get a dog, that’s the kind I want,” then I see some other anerable doglet(s) and then I can’t decide again! I want them all !!
(And yes, to whoever said we need to all adopt “y’all”, I have and I am not in the South. Jsut be sure to spell it correctly, please, for maximum effect.)

58 DKN 07.08.09 at 10:15 am

@ Brinnann – you are totally right – you got me there ;)

59 berthaservant 07.08.09 at 10:47 am

Hmmm….the Jews usually flock to Morro Bay or Cambria/San Simeon, or farther south to Santa Barbara, Pismo is usually for the surfers and the dune-buggiers. I’m glad Myron and Ethel found respite, they must have been their off-season.

Thank you Cute On The Load for yet another wonderful story.

It’s like buttah.

60 Rachael 07.08.09 at 11:01 am

I need to vacation with the Noodlemans next summer. Myron and Ethel totally own me.

61 Kallisto 07.08.09 at 11:12 am

Nomtom, that was Ace. Right up there with the flappdoodle office-stuff. Well done!

62 Erin 07.08.09 at 11:18 am

This was ACES, Other Mike. You’re a great writer. I’m with shannomo, I totally heard the woman from Fargo.

Here’s to more Corgis on C.O.!

63 DaytimeDeb 07.08.09 at 11:19 am

Pismo Beach is usually c-o-l-d, but these lovelies took their thick fur coats with them, so they were OK!

Corgiliscious, baby.

64 GingerBean 07.08.09 at 11:51 am

@berthaservant: Cute On The Load! LMAO!!

65 Theresa 07.08.09 at 12:02 pm

If we got a few pictures like this:
http://www.fws.gov/plover/graphics/piping_plover.jpg

It would be Cute Ploverload. :mrgreen:

66 Mary Wimpey 07.08.09 at 12:03 pm

Awwwww, how adorable! They know what they’re doing- only corgis could pose for a shot like that. Someone get Myron and the little woman a cocktail and some Advil x3

67 charliewabba 07.08.09 at 12:13 pm

Hmmmmm…
I was kinda hearing Skokie.
But whaddayuh gunna do?
I just love this Cute Overcoat thing.

68 Hyura 07.08.09 at 12:21 pm

that last pictures. it’s incredible!

69 kibblenibble 07.08.09 at 12:27 pm

Can I snorgle with the Noodlemans? :-)

70 debg 07.08.09 at 12:54 pm

I’m just speechless with joy and laughter. What a wonderful post, and you commenters are killing me today.

By the way, I try NOT to say “y’all” unless I’m teaching Latin, when it’s necessary to differentiate between 2nd person singular and plural. But you may have swayed me. And I never forget the apostrophe.

71 charliewabba 07.08.09 at 1:03 pm

debg – that should have been
“y’all may have swayed me.”

72 Leslie (NOT the author!) 07.08.09 at 1:27 pm

(just a leedle bit o’ proofreadin’, heeyuh — meant ONLY to your benefit…;) )

@Shannomo ….diduncha meen tuh say, “doan-chaknow”?

???

73 Nikki 07.08.09 at 1:37 pm

@B-serv– “like buttah” – LMAO!! I got all verklempt. Cute Overboard tewtelly rocks.

74 Marjorie 07.08.09 at 1:46 pm

CORGYN! Those 2 are adorable and they totally posed for that last pic. Corgis are such hams!

75 AuntieMame 07.08.09 at 2:36 pm

debg, there’s always “you” and “youse guys”.

76 Katrina 07.08.09 at 2:50 pm

AuntieMame- I agree with you, and I find it exceedingly preferential to y’all.
“I don’t know how youse done it, but I know youse done it”, for instance.

77 baileysgrandmom 07.08.09 at 3:53 pm

AuntieMame, Katrina, et al…don’t forget the East Kentucky “you-in-ses!” I was having dinner with some new friends from Pennsylvania years ago and commented on that Kentucky usage. The Penn person said, “But what do you-ins SAY?” Open mouth, extract foot. Love Boot Overcoat, though…

78 tracylee 07.08.09 at 4:40 pm

they kilt me… kilt me ded. sigh…. adorrrrrabuls!

79 tracylee 07.08.09 at 4:41 pm

by-the-by, “y’all” is far superior to all plural attention-getting phrases :D

says the girl from the South

80 Summer 07.08.09 at 4:52 pm

Corgis! CORGIS! OMGCORGIS! Best. Dogs. Ever.

*gathers both fluffy Corgyn up in her arms and snorgles fur until passed out from cute overdose*

81 skippymom 07.08.09 at 4:54 pm

In Roy Blount Jr.’s book Alphabet Juice (which I highly recommend) he explains the difference between “y’all” and “all y’all”. But I don’t remember what it was.

82 Ruth 07.08.09 at 7:11 pm

So cute that they’re in love on the beach under an umbrella

83 5^^now8ing 07.08.09 at 7:18 pm

Well, at any rate, we definitely need an official plural “you” word in English. All the other cool languages have one!

84 Natalie 07.08.09 at 8:17 pm

Love and be love! Let it be like this two beautiful lovers on the beach!

85 Bekthefox 07.08.09 at 8:44 pm

One of those dogs is a cartoon.

http://api.ning.com/files/KPhAkEMVvgWO793WWKvevHSjTvoRRxWQP1V3Y*xAsHI_/ein03.jpg

[Funny you should mention that; I actually know a guy who has a very sweet corgi named Ein. I'm guessing this is where the name comes from. - Ed.]

86 free games for kids 07.08.09 at 8:57 pm

Corgis are so far one of the 2 dog breeds i really adore! They are just so cute everyone would like to own one. :D

Sadly they do shed quite a lot and needs bigger space and more exercise.

87 Red Rider 07.09.09 at 12:00 am

Cute corgis and picture sequence!

We <3 Pismo but never took our Corgi or our Schips there. I see what we missed.

88 shelle 07.09.09 at 1:24 am

Bekthefox: Yay Cowboy Bebop! :D !

Also, OMG the cute. I love those corgis. Especially that last picture where they really do look like a lovely old couple on the beach. So sweet!

89 punkinberry 07.09.09 at 7:07 am

This slide show was the best! Thanks, NTMTOM!

90 pita1019 07.09.09 at 7:31 am

Corgis are sooo cute! Aren’t they?

91 baileysgrandmom 07.09.09 at 10:17 am

Hey, Skippymom! The diff between “y’all” and “all y’all” is the first one can be addressed to one person, but the second must always be plural, per the “all” at the beginning. Glad to be of assistance. Been a Southerner all my born days!

92 Angela 07.09.09 at 11:02 am

OMG!!! They are soooooo cute!!!!! My corgi loves to dig also! She truly makes me laugh so hard some times when I see her digging. My other dog will get her started and then she will just sit back and watch. I think my other dog gets a kick out of watching the corgi dig also!!! BOL!!!!

93 SFFCorgi 07.09.09 at 12:15 pm

What great pictures! The writing really makes this post special.

Pembrokes are almost as cute as Cardigans this way [runs from the Pemmie people]

Bit of trivia, though – the Welsh plural is ‘corgwn’, because ‘ci’ = ‘dog’ and ‘cwn’ = ‘dogs’ and then a funny grammar thing happens to the ‘c’….

Woof.

94 cafegrrl 07.09.09 at 1:11 pm

So cute!!

95 Tracy Dingmann 07.09.09 at 5:15 pm

I’ve been a CO fan for years, but this is the funniest little package I have EVER seen here!

96 Katrina 07.09.09 at 5:41 pm

i lol-ed when i saw the third pic. its too funny with the caption and the ‘–HONEY!! You promised not to put that slide in!’ part is too funny and will b stuck in my head 4 weeks lol.

97 Cordelia 07.09.09 at 7:51 pm

Adorable poochies and brilliant narration! You’ve outdone yourself – it’s right up there with klamath Falls!

98 Renate Uhl 07.09.09 at 8:41 pm

aww so sweet and they look so relaxed-very cute :-)

Renate

99 cosmiquemuffin 07.09.09 at 11:38 pm

Dubble buddies are teh best….
<img src="http://www.dorothynelson.com/images/pups/courvoisier.jpg")

100 cosmiquemuffin 07.09.09 at 11:39 pm

eek! here’s the pic for reals…

101 cosmiquemuffin 07.09.09 at 11:41 pm
102 5^^now8ing 07.10.09 at 9:13 am

@Baileysgrandmom – thanks for the “y’all”/”all y’all” clarification. Just shows how careful we “non-native” speakers of a language have to be. LOL!
@SFFCorgi – Thanks also for the Welsh grammar lesson — as you can prolly tell, I’m a big “word nerd.”
Don’t all y’all think that’s something many of us CO fans have in common? (Love of language(s)?) And why we love the great captions here? As well as the haikus and wordplay of the commenter-peeps?

103 Katrina 07.10.09 at 3:23 pm

Cute Undertow.

104 Rainbow*Star 07.11.09 at 2:54 pm

It’s pronounced interBLAG, people! Not interBLOG!

105 nine.clines@cox.net 07.11.09 at 4:22 pm

We have a Corgi of our own and swore we’d never get another. Not because we don’t like the one we have (we adore her) but just because we thought she might not like company. Seeing these pictures changes everything…

106 Evelyn 07.12.09 at 2:11 pm

perfect pair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

107 lizzy 07.14.09 at 11:21 am

aww puppy love beach a romantic sunset for two pupps that fell in love

108 tacti 07.15.09 at 8:08 pm

INSERT MAJOR DOG BIAS HERE. Corgis are pretty high up on the list, no lies. <3!~

[Pretty low down on the floor, tho. Hehe. ;) - Ed.]

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