Well, someone say something.

waiting for commercials. bud light best so far.

Is there some kind of tennis match going on or something?

Ok... I'm trying to hold the audience here... I posted this on the end of the last thread...

I'm at work yesterday at the thrift store, what I call "almost everything is at fucking half price Saturday" and it's a zoo out on the sales floor. I'm running around, pricing used this and that, running it out to my furniture department... people are buying shit right and left... I sold 4 used couches in 3 hours, had to take each one out to the curb myself, missed 1/2 hour of my 45 minute lunch hour cause I had no one to cover me.

So, the adrenaline is really flowing, like taking cocaine or something. And I'm telling jokes in the back, the other production people are pricing other types of junk...

I put up a really big hand drawn sign... "workers unite" and sign it "Norma Rae," I'm pricing a Conair vibrator and I'm calling it a "happy stick" and I suggest to one of the other production workers that I put a label on it "works... we tried it... didn't you hear?"

A kid pushes a toy car down the toy aisle and it rolls into my department, I give it a push back to the kid with my foot... the Asst. manager is walking past me and say "bet you wanted to drop kick that toy" and I said out loud "No... I wanted to drop kick that kid."

More stories to come... stay tuned.

It does seem the commercials get football breaks.

re: #3 Charles

Is there some kind of tennis match going on or something?

Polo? Always draws a crowd.

re: #3 Charles

Is there some kind of tennis match going on or something?

It's looks like it's just you and me kid.

re: #4 Walter L. Newton

Ok... I'm trying to hold the audience here... I posted this on the end of the last thread...

I'm at work yesterday at the thrift store, what I call "almost everything is at fucking half price Saturday" and it's a zoo out on the sales floor. I'm running around, pricing used this and that, running it out to my furniture department... people are buying shit right and left... I sold 4 used couches in 3 hours, had to take each one out to the curb myself, missed 1/2 hour of my 45 minute lunch hour cause I had no one to cover me.

So, the adrenaline is really flowing, like taking cocaine or something. And I'm telling jokes in the back, the other production people are pricing other types of junk...

I put up a really big hand drawn sign... "workers unite" and sign it "Norma Rae," I'm pricing a Conair vibrator and I'm calling it a "happy stick" and I suggest to one of the other production workers that I put a label on it "works... we tried it... didn't you hear?"

A kid pushes a toy car down the toy aisle and it rolls into my department, I give it a push back to the kid with my foot... the Asst. manager is walking past me and say "bet you wanted to drop kick that toy" and I said out loud "No... I wanted to drop kick that kid."

More stories to come... stay tuned.

Retail Hell.

And this blog has the word footballs in it...

re: #6 The Shadow Do

Polo? Always draws a crowd.

And flies.

re: #10 MandyManners

And flies.

Football would be more compelling if you could line up four horses on offense and hand the quarterback a mallet.

I go to a couple of the school team's games in the fall. But as far as I can tell, football works like this:

The teams line up, and then they all run in one direction for several yards.

A whistle blows, and they stop running.

Various older men not in uniform mill around and discuss what just happens for a while.

Another signal is given. Then they all run in the other direction back down the field for several yards.

Repeat.

re: #12 SanFranciscoZionist

I go to a couple of the school team's games in the fall. But as far as I can tell, football works like this:

The teams line up, and then they all run in one direction for several yards.

A whistle blows, and they stop running.

Various older men not in uniform mill around and discuss what just happens for a while.

Another signal is given. Then they all run in the other direction back down the field for several yards.

Repeat.

Anyone ever heard Andy Griffith's description of a football game with a "punkin". Oldy but a goody.

re: #11 The Shadow Do

Football would be more compelling if you could line up four horses on offense and hand the quarterback a mallet.

Especially when he stepped in it.

Time to put the kids to bed. G'night.

re: #11 The Shadow Do

Football would be more compelling if you could line up four horses on offense and hand the quarterback a mallet.

I really think they should be allowed to actually punch each other, below the neck...

re: #16 Walter L. Newton

I really think they should be allowed to actually punch each other, below the neck...

Yes, classic mano o mano. The essence of sport. No pads either.

re: #17 The Shadow Do

Yes, classic mano o mano. The essence of sport. No pads either.

Rugby.

Just realized that we now know the answer to that famous question Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin, about what she reads: she reads Pat Buchanan's columns.

re: #17 The Shadow Do

Yes, classic mano o mano. The essence of sport. No pads either.

I can't stand sports.

re: #13 The Shadow Do

Anyone ever heard Andy Griffith's description of a football game with a "punkin". Oldy but a goody.

Semi-nude maidens.

Gotta love that goal-line stand!

Ugh. (Hoops is hollering)

Found it! Andy Griffith, "two hot dogs and a big orange drink"!

You just have to hear this

re: #3 Charles

Is there some kind of tennis match going on or something?

hahaha, even I'M watching the Super Bowl!

Of course, I'm watching it for the commercials, drawing monsters on my tablet...

re: #20 Walter L. Newton

I can't stand sports.

Even motorsports?

Even motorsports by lunatic amateurs who take rusting, nigh-undrivable cars with rotting electricals and bent subframes, that they bought for $500 and force them into a 24 hour road race? [Link: www.24hoursoflemons.com...]

(Long time Lizards have seen this, but, some non-sports entertainment for our newer brethren, some essays by me)

If you can’t beat them, learn French.
If you have never traveled to another country, your first trip can be a real culture shock. To help you be prepared for the possible differences you may experience in another country, I offer some observations from my first trip to France in 2001.

Garbage Cans

The garbage cans in France are so small. Maybe there is some law in France mandating small garbage cans. Once a can is full, you are forced to hide your excess trash. I suspect the French have been hiding their extra garbage for about 76 years. When it reaches critical mass the whole country is going to tip into the North Sea.

The flip side of the trash issue is we Americans. We buy a five-foot tall trashcan for our kitchen, fill it to the top, and then stand there and look at it. Then we decide that we need a bigger trashcan. And then once a week a very unfriendly man comes by and hauls our trash away. And we store it someplace for the entire world to see. We are proud of our trash. We even have a name for the place. It’s called a Public Landfill.

Glasses and Ice

All of the glasses in France are very small. Certainly there must be one French person who has a stomach capacity of more than a half-ounce? But then again, most of the French are healthy, firm and fit. Maybe that has something to do with reasonable consumption and small glasses.

France has an ice cube shortage. I’ve been in France for 3 days and I haven’t seen a single cube. Maybe they grind them up and ship them off to the Alps to keep all those high priced ski slopes open. In my hotel room, I found an ice cube tray in the small refrigerator. It was empty. Even the ice cube tray was small. That makes sense. Even if the French knew the recipe for making ice, they couldn’t put LARGE cubes into those tiny glasses.

Cars

Maybe I’m being to narrow minded about this small business. It does have some advantages. Most of the French cars are very small. I live in Denver Colorado where almost everyone owns an SUV. When you have 50,000 Denverites driving downtown to see a baseball game someone always winds up having to park in Colorado Springs. There is just no place to park all those tanks. But if you drove those SUV’s down a street in Paris, the French would swear the Germans were invading again.

Day and night

Here we are in the middle of France, in Burgundy, in the middle of June. I’ve never been out of the United States before. I grew up scared to venture to far away from home. This could have been because when I was nine years old, my parents sent me out for some bread and when I got back home, they had moved.

So I don’t know a lot about other countries. France is further north than Colorado and the sun comes up and sets at different times then it does in Colorado. But I didn’t know this. Case in point. I am sitting outside of the hotel, it’s 10:30 at night and I could still see light from the sun. This didn’t make sense to me. At 11:00pm, with a glimmer of sun still on the horizon, I panic. I went to the phone booth and called the French 911. Within 3 minutes two very tired volunteer firemen drove up and saw this crazy American on his knees on the front lawn. I was performing some sort of Celtic chant, praying for the earth to regain it’s proper orbit and return the day to day and the night to night.

This of course amused the fireman immensely. With in a week everyone in the tiny village of St. Vallerin was calling me “The Sun King.” I don’t think they met that as a compliment.

(continued)

re: #19 Charles

Just realized that we now know the answer to that famous question Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin, about what she reads: she reads Pat Buchanan's columns.

All of 'em.

re: #24 The Shadow Do

Found it! Andy Griffith, "two hot dogs and a big orange drink"!

[Video]You just have to hear this

Those illustrations must be by an early "Mad Magazine" artist. Note the word "Potrezbie" on the food stand.

(continued - France)
Shopping carts

An interesting idea is used at French supermarkets. You pay a 10 Franc coin to bail a shopping cart out of the cart stall in the parking lot. This is automatic. There is a small box on the carts push handle. Place the coin in the box, and the cart is released from a chain.

After you are finished shopping, you bring your cart back to the jail, hook the chain up to the cart and your 10-Franc coin pops back into your hand.

I wonder how they keep you from walking off of the property with the cart? After all, 10 Francs doesn’t seem a whole lot to pay for a sturdy-shopping cart.

Shopping

I was wondering how the populace in these small French hamlets acquired their department store type items. It’s easy. Instead of having a shopping mall every 2 miles, Sears, so to speak, comes to the town.

Once a week travelling merchants set up stalls in the early morning, up and down the ancient streets. They hawk everything from furniture to clothes, housewares to CD’s. No parking lots, no traffic. The sun for lighting, the breeze for air conditioning and the streets for storefronts. And by lunchtime they are packed up, moving out of town leaving nothing but the quiet peace of a small French village.

Category Culture – Language

We have heard so much about the language barrier between the French and the rest of the world. But after my first 5 days in France, I suspect that the only barrier anyone has between the culture of one nation toward another is fear.
I am sitting here in the hotel reading “Le Journal De Saone-et-Loire.” See that word “Journal,” it means newspaper, pretty simple.

Other words from the paper jump out at me. Reduction, voyages, transport, grand, gala, solitaire, France, sanctions, confrontation, nature and so on and so on.

In the same paper I see English words peppered though out the pages. Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Macdonald’s, Colgate, Marlboro, Winston, Kentucky Fried Chicken and the list goes on.

France has given us many of the words that we use on a daily basis and we have given them loan words that represent American consumerism. That seems like a fair trade… language barrier, I don’t think so.

(continued)

(continued - France)

Unisex Restrooms

I found a unisex restroom today. It was Sunday, June 10th 2001 and we were eating lunch at La Gourmandiere in the little town of Germangy in Burgundy. This was the first Sunday of my trip. The restaurant was filled with after-church families, children in their Sunday clothes and young French couples.

After eating lunch, nature called. I didn’t have a clue. I scanned the room and saw a door marked “Toilettes” (pronounced “twah-lets” in French). Clue number one should have been that the word was PLURAL. So I passed through the door into a rather large room. On the other side of the room was a stall marked “Hommes.” I was so proud of myself. I had been studying my French before I left the states and I knew that “Hommes” translated to “men.”

I open the door and went in and sat down. My second clue should have been “why is the word men hanging on the stall door INSIDE OF THE RESTROOM.”

So here I am sitting, waiting for that great big one, when I hear the restroom door open and two chatty restaurant patrons walk in.

They are women! I figured that my limited knowledge of French had failed me and then at that moment my bladder failed me. I couldn’t control it. Now I know why the French call restrooms “water closets.” I almost pissed all over myself. I tucked my feet up on the toilet seat, wrapped my arms around my knees and assumed a fetal position balanced on top of the shit can. I didn’t want them to get a peek of a pair of men’s shoes planted on the floor tiles of the stall.

I broke out into a cold sweat and went on an auto pilot prayer vigil. “Please God, don’t let them find me in the woman’s restroom. I don’t want to get to know the local police and end up wasting away in some rural version of the Bastille.”

I heard another stall door open and shut, two minutes of silence, toilet flush, door open and shut again and then the whole sequence repeated. If I were paying any attention my third clue would have been the fact the two women had used the SAME stall, never even peeking into my little cell.

They left the restroom. I wipe, zip up and bolt out of the stall. I looked around the room to make sure that one of the women had not stayed behind to powder up or fix her makeup.

And then I saw the light. A sign on the other stall read “Femmes.” Of course, this is a typical European co-ed restroom. I sauntered out and sat down with my fellow travelers, bragging about how much I understood the French culture.

re: #29 Decatur Deb

Those illustrations must be by an early "Mad Magazine" artist. Note the word "Potrezbie" on the food stand.

Disregard the illustrations, this gained Andy fame by way of a record. No visuals needed or wanted. Funny stuff.

re: #32 The Shadow Do

Disregard the illustrations, this gained Andy fame by way of a record. No visuals needed or wanted. Funny stuff.

Heard it in high school, in '58. The video cut out before the description of the half-time show.

re: #27 Walter L. Newton

Brilliant :D :D

Steak fajitas for half time. I am good.

re: #31 Walter L. Newton

(continued - France)

Unisex Restrooms

I found a unisex restroom today. It was Sunday, June 10th 2001 and we were eating lunch at La Gourmandiere in the little town of Germangy in Burgundy. This was the first Sunday of my trip. The restaurant was filled with after-church families, children in their Sunday clothes and young French couples.

After eating lunch, nature called. I didn’t have a clue. I scanned the room and saw a door marked “Toilettes” (pronounced “twah-lets” in French). Clue number one should have been that the word was PLURAL. So I passed through the door into a rather large room. On the other side of the room was a stall marked “Hommes.” I was so proud of myself. I had been studying my French before I left the states and I knew that “Hommes” translated to “men.”

I open the door and went in and sat down. My second clue should have been “why is the word men hanging on the stall door INSIDE OF THE RESTROOM.”

So here I am sitting, waiting for that great big one, when I hear the restroom door open and two chatty restaurant patrons walk in.

They are women! I figured that my limited knowledge of French had failed me and then at that moment my bladder failed me. I couldn’t control it. Now I know why the French call restrooms “water closets.” I almost pissed all over myself. I tucked my feet up on the toilet seat, wrapped my arms around my knees and assumed a fetal position balanced on top of the shit can. I didn’t want them to get a peek of a pair of men’s shoes planted on the floor tiles of the stall.

I broke out into a cold sweat and went on an auto pilot prayer vigil. “Please God, don’t let them find me in the woman’s restroom. I don’t want to get to know the local police and end up wasting away in some rural version of the Bastille.”

I heard another stall door open and shut, two minutes of silence, toilet flush, door open and shut again and then the whole sequence repeated. If I were paying any attention my third clue would have been the fact the two women had used the SAME stall, never even peeking into my little cell.

They left the restroom. I wipe, zip up and bolt out of the stall. I looked around the room to make sure that one of the women had not stayed behind to powder up or fix her makeup.

And then I saw the light. A sign on the other stall read “Femmes.” Of course, this is a typical European co-ed restroom. I sauntered out and sat down with my fellow travelers, bragging about how much I understood the French culture.

Wash your hands next time, please.

re: #31 Walter L. Newton

Along the Italian autostrada, the larger stops have little old ladies tending the men's rooms for a few coins. The young G.I.s sometimes had trouble with it

re: #36 Spare O'Lake

Wash your hands next time, please.

Even though the story is "peppered" with afterthought humor and a little elaboration for the "fun factor", this really happened. I was only interested in getting out as quick as possible.

re: #37 Decatur Deb

Along the Italian autostrada, the larger stops have little old ladies tending the men's rooms for a few coins. The young G.I.s sometimes had trouble with it

In France (probably other places), that's a government job... really.

re: #38 Walter L. Newton

Even though the story is "peppered" with afterthought humor and a little elaboration for the "fun factor", this really happened. I was only interested in getting out as quick as possible.

I was once standing at a urinal when a woman walked up to the urinal next to mine and smiled at me. I left without washing my hands.

re: #41 Spare O'Lake

I was once standing at a urinal when a woman walked up to the urinal next to mine and smiled at me. I left without washing my hands.

Bangkok?

Did someone ask for a clip of Orly @teabagcon?

re: #43 brucee

Why would anyone want to watch her?

re: #41 Spare O'Lake

I was once standing at a urinal when a woman walked up to the urinal next to mine and smiled at me. I left without washing my hands.

Minneapolis? And were you sure?

Oh look, a medley by half of The Who...

re: #41 Spare O'Lake

I was once standing at a urinal when a woman walked up to the urinal next to mine and smiled at me. I left without washing my hands.

Wait... it's all coming back to me... that was you?

re: #44 Walter L. Newton

Why would anyone want to watch her?

Comedy?

re: #44 Walter L. Newton

Why would anyone want to watch her?

I like to watch here and her friends rather closely.

re: #43 brucee

Did someone ask for a clip of Orly @teabagcon?

[Video]

What a loon.

re: #48 brucee

Comedy?

Half time comedy show.

re: #42 Walter L. Newton

Bangkok?

Now why would I do that?

re: #48 brucee

Comedy?

Really, you find mental illness funny? And no, I am not being humorous or sarcastic. That woman is evidently clinically ill and I don't like her, don't feel sorry for her, but I am certainly not one to get any pleasure, joy or fun out of paying any attention to her.

You have a good time...

Something just not right about old bastard Who rock. And I are one...

re: #46 oaktree

It's the Who's Next tour, or is that Who's Left? It 'snot bad, and I expected worse. Daltrey still has some semblence of a voice after all these years.

Everyone must be in the bathroom.

See me...I'm too old
Feel me...I'm too old
Touch me...No chance, I'm too old

re: #54 The Shadow Do

Something just not right about old bastard Who rock. And I are one...

I disagree. Lemmy Kilmister and Motorhead can still take a flamethrower to a club. He'll destroy your entire body. :D

I think they should have gone with Dr Who. Is this a parody band?

re: #59 Rightwingconspirator

I think they should have gone with Dr Who. Is this a parody band?

Dr. What?

re: #60 Walter L. Newton

Doctor Who the BBC show/character.

re: #60 Walter L. Newton

Dr. What?

Dr What's on second, Walter. Everyone knows that.

They still ROCK!

OMG they're gonnas hurt themselves

re: #60 Walter L. Newton

re: #62 The Shadow Do

Third base!

re: #61 Rightwingconspirator

Doctor Who the BBC show/character.

I thought Dr. Who was on Canal 3 in Paris?

re: #53 Walter L. Newton

Really, you find mental illness funny? And no, I am not being humorous or sarcastic. That woman is evidently clinically ill and I don't like her, don't feel sorry for her, but I am certainly not one to get any pleasure, joy or fun out of paying any attention to her.

You have a good time...

There's a line between "angry kook" and "actual clinical disorder", and I don't know if Taitz has crossed it. I think she's a small time kook who is less crazy and more seeking the spotlight, and willing to behave in a socially unacceptable manner to get cameras pointed at her. Sorta like a middling rock band with some aspirations of success. Rock Star behavior. Nobody telling her she can't do this. So she does it!

It's a tough distinction because the media rewards strange and reckless behavior. How much of that is pathology, and how much is simply "I'm acting this way as long as I know I'm rewarded for it."

re: #65 Walter L. Newton

re: #62 The Shadow Do

Third base!

shit

re: #54 The Shadow Do

Something just not right about old bastard Who rock. And I are one...

There is a indie documentary, "New York Doll", about a punk transvestite group that didn't make much success. (A young Buster Poindexter was in it.) Looks like a trite rock tribute until the story develops, then it becomes surprising and elevating art.

re: #63 Spare O'Lake

They still ROCK!

I don't like montage things in concerts, I feel it does a disservice to the songs. But they did sound good!

re: #69 Decatur Deb

There is a indie documentary, "New York Doll", about a punk transvestite group that didn't make much success. (A young Buster Poindexter was in it.) Looks like a trite rock tribute until the story develops, then it becomes surprising and elevating art.

THEY'RE CALLED THE NEW YORK DOLLS

They were always awesome, and quite influential in the glam scene.

re: #1 MandyManners

Well, someone say something.

Something.

re: #71 WindUpBird

The movie is "Doll" I think, in reference to the one dying rocker who emerges.

re: #67 WindUpBird

I think it's also important to note that her ideas are very popular with the Tea Parties. She's no less crazy than Joseph Farah who received standing ovations for his birther speech at the Tea Party convention.

re: #67 WindUpBird

There's a line between "angry kook" and "actual clinical disorder", and I don't know if Taitz has crossed it. I think she's a small time kook who is less crazy and more seeking the spotlight, and willing to behave in a socially unacceptable manner to get cameras pointed at her. Sorta like a middling rock band with some aspirations of success. Rock Star behavior. Nobody telling her she can't do this. So she does it!

It's a tough distinction because the media rewards strange and reckless behavior. How much of that is pathology, and how much is simply "I'm acting this way as long as I know I'm rewarded for it."

Ok... I go around and around on this subject here, over and over, and maybe I just don't make myself clear. Nothing personal, and really, nothing personal for anyone else here, but I get no pleasure watching stupidness, clinically proven or otherwise... period.

Actual comedy, designed, produced, rehearsed, performed for the purpose of being funny, fine. Real life crazy, at any level, I don't understand how anyone can enjoy.

It's just me. There is nothing anyone can say to explain it to me, in a sense, I am silly myself to even point it out over and over, because I'm not going to accept any answer.

Like I say, nothing personal.

Can all the people whom we call crazy around here actually be crazy?

re: #76 Spare O'Lake

Can all the people whom we call crazy around here actually be crazy?

We tend to the charitable explanation.

I'll steal a line...

...I saw these guys in the 70's (as opposed to seeing them in their 70's) and trust me, they were fantastic

Who dat? Da Who. Dat who.

re: #76 Spare O'Lake

Can all the people whom we call crazy around here actually be crazy?

Does it matter? I don't find anything entertaining about Orly or anyone who behaves like she does... period.

re: #79 Walter L. Newton

I don't watch them for entertainment. I watch them because they are a seedbed of danger.

Someone drop something?

SAINTS BALL!

VODOO!

Heck of a way to sell SALAD.

re: #80 Decatur Deb

I don't watch them for entertainment. I watch them because they are a seedbed of danger.

And that's certainly reasonable. I stay very well informed about issues. But when Brucee says the reason to watch her is "comedy" I am totally baffled.

re: #83 Stanley Sea

VODOO!

WHO DAT VOODOO!

Here we go...

re: #76 Spare O'Lake

Can all the people whom we call crazy around here actually be crazy?

I have this theory that everyone is crazy or neurotic in some way. There isn't anyone around that doesn't have an oddity of some sort as viewed by others. Some of it small and insignificant, some of it not.

roger daltrey has lost quite a bit off his "fastball"

re: #89 _RememberTonyC

That was embarrassing.

re: #88 Claire

I have this theory that everyone is crazy or neurotic in some way. There isn't anyone around that doesn't have an oddity of some sort as viewed by others. Some of it small and insignificant, some of it not.

That's just plain nuts.

re: #89 _RememberTonyC

roger daltrey has lost quite a bit off his "fastball"

Gone to the knuckler I see...

Booyah! TD Saints!

re: #90 Rightwingconspirator

That was embarrassing.

watched it with my 17 year old son ... he asked why i was shaking my head ... geaux Saints!

2nd try:

VOODOO!

re: #94 _RememberTonyC

Geaux Saints!! Momentum building...

Not to worry, your son will see Lady GaGa in 40 years and have the same reaction.

Beam me to a bar in the French quarter please.

re: #96 Rightwingconspirator

Geaux Saints!! Momentum building...

Not to worry, your son will see Lady GaGa in 40 years and have the same reaction.

Lady Gag Gag?

TD!!

re: #97 avanti

Beam me to a bar in the French quarter please.

Pat O'Brien's ... a round of Hurricanes for my peeps

Pres. Obama is pulling for NO because of Katrina.
How nice that must make the folks there feel.

re: #88 Claire

I have this theory that everyone is crazy or neurotic in some way. There isn't anyone around that doesn't have an oddity of some sort as viewed by others. Some of it small and insignificant, some of it not.

This becomes more and more true the older one grows. I admire anyone who is not completely stone crazy before the age of 60. The shit life throws at one is directly relational to 'goofy'. That would not include me of course.

Booga booga booga...

y'all

re: #101 Spare O'Lake

Pres. Obama is pulling for NO because of Katrina.
How nice that must make the folks there feel.

Oh, brother.

re: #102 The Shadow Do

This becomes more and more true the older one grows. I admire anyone who is not completely stone crazy before the age of 60. The shit life throws at one is directly relational to 'goofy'. That would not include me of course.

Booga booga booga...

y'all

I've become more sane as the voices aged and moved to St. Petersburg.

re: #73 Decatur Deb

The movie is "Doll" I think, in reference to the one dying rocker who emerges.

I really want to see that film *_*

Have you seen Velvet Goldmine? Slightly fictionalized biography of Iggy Pop and David Bowie. AMAZING FILM

re: #101 Spare O'Lake

Pres. Obama is pulling for NO because of Katrina.
How nice that must make the folks there feel.

I want the Saints too

re: #101 Spare O'Lake

Pres. Obama is pulling for NO because of Katrina.
How nice that must make the folks there feel.

haha I'm pulling for NO because of Katrina.

But that's because I don't give a shit about football normally, and the Seahawks suck this year.

re: #104 Decatur Deb

I've become more sane as the voices aged and moved to St. Petersburg.

Do you have a guest room...errr, hmmm, ahhh

re: #88 Claire

I have this theory that everyone is crazy or neurotic in some way. There isn't anyone around that doesn't have an oddity of some sort as viewed by others. Some of it small and insignificant, some of it not.

Oh, I believe it. I collect neuroses like baseball cards.

re: #75 Walter L. Newton

Your response was a good and reasoned response :)

re: #105 WindUpBird

I really want to see that film *_*

Have you seen Velvet Goldmine? Slightly fictionalized biography of Iggy Pop and David Bowie. AMAZING FILM

It was only a few nights ago that you told me who Iggy Pop was. "Doll" was strange because it increased my respect for transvestite rockers and Mormons.

re: #100 _RememberTonyC

Pat O'Brien's ... a round of Hurricanes for my peeps

I like one of the gals at Coyote Uglies, but Pat's will do fine.

re: #107 WindUpBird

haha I'm pulling for NO because of Katrina.

But that's because I don't give a shit about football normally, and the Seahawks suck this year.

///Give 'em the Superbowl...maybe they'll stop complaining.///

re: #105 WindUpBird

A film which, strangely Bowie isn't a big fan of >>

re: #107 WindUpBird

haha I'm pulling for NO because of Katrina.

But that's because I don't give a shit about football normally, and the Seahawks suck every year.

fiXt

good game ... going down to the wire

re: #101 Spare O'Lake

Pres. Obama is pulling for NO because of Katrina.
How nice that must make the folks there feel.

They've had a bad time of it. I wouldn't mind seeing them get a Superbowl win.

re: #111 Decatur Deb

IMDB here:

[Link: www.imdb.com...]

re: #101 Spare O'Lake

Pres. Obama is pulling for NO because of Katrina.
How nice that must make the folks there feel.

Me too, actually. Great town and could use a nice victory after the after what they went through. Other wise, I would not care about either team.

re: #100 _RememberTonyC

Pat O'Brien's ... a round of Hurricanes for my peeps

Here ya go!

re: #74 Killgore Trout

I think it's also important to note that her ideas are very popular with the Tea Parties. She's no less crazy than Joseph Farah who received standing ovations for his birther speech at the Tea Party convention.

I sort of look at these people as rock stars in a way, through the lens of all the things that rock stars get away with. Rock stars fucking teenagers. Rock stars throwing parties where midgets with trays on their heads walk around serving cocaine. Rock stars throwing all the furniture out the windows of their suite. Rock stars lighting themselves on fire on stage. Rock stars with armies of groupies to serve their every whim.

And many of the things rock stars do...are indistingushable from the behavior of people with mental illnesses. And some rock stars ARE very metally ill! It's one great big morass of human behevaior, reward, idolatry.

Saints defense got some soul searchin to do. Quick. It is down to nut cuttin' time in the football game.

re: #114 windsagio

A film which, strangely Bowie isn't a big fan of >>

Well, yeah. :D

re: #119 avanti

I admit I am some, but...

I still wince that the Mariners got robbed in 2001/2002 'cuz of 9/11.

Stupid Yankees.

re: #120 reine.de.tout

Here ya go!

you're lucky i'm older than 21 ... you coulda got in trouble for that :)

re: #113 Spare O'Lake

///Give 'em the Superbowl...maybe they'll stop complaining.///

Don't be mean. ;-)

Hmm, commercial for a web search service called... "kgb".

Don't jokes about this pretty much write themselves?

re: #113 Spare O'Lake

///Give 'em the Superbowl...maybe they'll stop complaining.///

About having their city damn near destroyed?

re: #127 oaktree

Hmm, commercial for a web search service called... "kgb".

Don't jokes about this pretty much write themselves?

I just blink every time I see that. It's weird.

re: #117 SanFranciscoZionist

They've had a bad time of it. I wouldn't mind seeing them get a Superbowl win.

I wouldn't mind seeing Obama spend LARGE AND FAST to rebuild the levees so they can withstand a Cat 5.

re: #130 Spare O'Lake

I wouldn't mind seeing Obama spend LARGE AND FAST to rebuild the levees so they can withstand a Cat 5.

That would be nice too.

WUB, you should make this your avatar:

re: #130 Spare O'Lake

I wouldn't mind seeing Obama spend LARGE AND FAST to rebuild the levees so they can withstand a Cat 5.

I'd love it! But do you believe that political hay wouldn't be made out of the spending of billions for Netherlands-esque (read: EXPENSIVE) levee re-engineering by Republicans?

re: #121 WindUpBird

I sort of look at these people as rock stars in a way, through the lens of all the things that rock stars get away with. Rock stars fucking teenagers. Rock stars throwing parties where midgets with trays on their heads walk around serving cocaine. Rock stars throwing all the furniture out the windows of their suite. Rock stars lighting themselves on fire on stage. Rock stars with armies of groupies to serve their every whim.

And many of the things rock stars do...are indistingushable from the behavior of people with mental illnesses. And some rock stars ARE very metally ill! It's one great big morass of human behevaior, reward, idolatry.

That's about what I have been trying to say all this time... I'll just personally add I don't find any entertainment value in this sort of behavior like some do. To each his own, I suppose.

re: #129 SanFranciscoZionist

They run ads for those bastards all night on Adult swim. "Pay for us to google for you!" (well they don't really say that, but they should)

re: #132 windsagio

Personally, i can only travel forward through time.

re: #131 SanFranciscoZionist

That would be nice too.

A hell of a lot nicer than the POTUS pulling for them to win a football game while continuing the infrastructure neglect.
That was my point.
Sheesh!

re: #134 Walter L. Newton

That's about what I have been trying to say all this time... I'll just personally add I don't find any entertainment value in this sort of behavior like some do. To each his own, I suppose.

Cheers. I sometimes find entertainment, and sometimes I only find frustration. But then again, one of my major coping mechanisms for stress is dark humor. I got it from my parents.

I'm watching the game the lame way, on their play by play website. Its not as exciting :P

Also, does anyone else think of lolcats when they see Orly?

re: #137 Spare O'Lake

everybody got your point :P

Great google ad. aww

i feel a Colts turnover about to happen ...

re: #140 windsagio

everybody got your point :P

You have no idea how gratifying it is to know that.
Now if I could just remember what the heck we were talking about.

re: #133 WindUpBird

I'd love it! But do you believe that political hay wouldn't be made out of the spending of billions for Netherlands-esque (read: EXPENSIVE) levee re-engineering by Republicans?

Republicans want all of New Orleans destroyed. Have no doubt about it. So many black folks there yet so little funding for the Cheney Destructo machine.

Hello all...

6-12 inches of snow expected here by tomorrow...

re: #144 The Shadow Do

Republicans want all of New Orleans destroyed. Have no doubt about it. So many black folks there yet so little funding for the Cheney Destructo machine.

That pretty much happened already. What's the Cheney destructo machine?

Re: Superbowl

It ain't. Indy playing not to lose. Fine. Makes Indy a boring, go to your room team. Please don't give me any of that greatness crap Hoosiers. Boring!

re: #146 PT Barnum

6-12 inches of snow expected here by tomorrow...

We were suppose to get up to 6 inches here today... was snowing all day, but slow, about an inch, almost stopped at sundown, haven't looked outside since dark... hope it stopped, got to be downhill at work by 8 in the morning.

re: #147 Claire

That pretty much happened already. What's the Cheney destructo machine?

The one that was fully funded under Bush of course.

re: #147 Claire

he's being "funny".

re: #134 Walter L. Newton

That's about what I have been trying to say all this time... I'll just personally add I don't find any entertainment value in this sort of behavior like some do. To each his own, I suppose.

I don't know that I find entertainment value, as in pointing and laughing, but I do find the psychosocial underpinnings fascinating. I've been interested in fringe thought for a long time, since I got my treasured copy of High Weirdness by Mail. Usenet turned out to be a marvelous font of information for that sort of things as well. There's a lot of bizarre human behavior out there, and it's all interesting in one way or another.

The first two or three weeks of American Idol are just painful and I can't watch those at all.

re: #151 windsagio

he's being "funny".

I was picturing an army of little robot gophers trained by the CIA to burrow into the levees to weaken them.

re: #149 Walter L. Newton

We were suppose to get up to 6 inches here today...

That's what she said...okay...I got it out of my system.

Peyton Manning is a much better quarterback than I'd be.

re: #147 Claire

That pretty much happened already. What's the Cheney destructo machine?

Not really. Bush and Cheney came real close to destroying NO as they planned (some say they planned it as early as 1987, at a cafe in Waco Texas), but there was some real incompetency in the Bush administration who didn't follow the plan.

re: #155 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Peyton Manning is a much better quarterback than I'd be.

Steve Urkel is a much better quarterback than I'd be...:)

re: #151 windsagio

he's being "funny".

Have you ever considered a career as a blog colour commentator?

re: #158 Spare O'Lake

I'm so far ahead of that, you have no idea :)

re: #156 Walter L. Newton

Not really. Bush and Cheney came real close to destroying NO as they planned (some say they planned it as early as 1987, at a cafe in Waco Texas), but there was some real incompetency in the Bush administration who didn't follow the plan.

I think Browny blew it.

so far, it's an above average super bowl ... and it's headed for a great finish

re: #158 Spare O'Lake

Have you ever considered a career as a blog colour commentator?

That was the funniest thing I have heard today.

Voodoo magic, once again!

re: #156 Walter L. Newton

Not really. Bush and Cheney came real close to destroying NO as they planned (some say they planned it as early as 1987, at a cafe in Waco Texas), but there was some real incompetency in the Bush administration who didn't follow the plan.

Yeah, they turned off the hurricane machine over the weekend at Langley when they unplugged it to run the floor waxer.

17-16 Indy. Saints game to lose. Will they?

the saints can grab this game by the throat right now ... I think they will

Emerald Nuts & Pop Secret. LAME

re: #160 The Shadow Do

I think Browny blew it.

Michael Brown is a certified mental midget. He is currently on KOA radio 5 nights a week, three hours a night, while Clear Channel tries to find a permanent replacement for that time slot.

This is a guy that was part of Homeland Security and I have heard him on the air admitting that he didn't know the difference between Sunni and Shiite.

I even emailed him about his lack of knowledge and he never answered.

That was Ringo Starr's son playing drums with "The Who".

I thought they'd given him a little more spotlight than some studio player.

re: #169 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Good eye!

re: #169 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That was Ringo Starr's son playing drums with "The Who".

I thought they'd given him a little more spotlight than some studio player.

That was Shooting on the drums? Wow.

re: #170 Rightwingconspirator

re: #168 Walter L. Newton

Michael Brown is a certified mental midget. He is currently on KOA radio 5 nights a week, three hours a night, while Clear Channel tries to find a permanent replacement for that time slot.

This is a guy that was part of Homeland Security and I have heard him on the air admitting that he didn't know the difference between Sunni and Shiite.

I even emailed him about his lack of knowledge and he never answered.

On the other hand, his appointment did clear the senate...

From Wikipedia's Ringo Starr article...

His son, Zak,is a prolific drummer, who until August 2008 was a semi-official member and drummer in Oasis—one of the many bands influenced by The Beatles. Starr arranged for Zak to receive drumming instruction from Zak's idol, The Who's late drummer Keith Moon, who was Zak's godfather and a close friend of Starr's.[91] Zak also performs with The Who live and sometimes in studio. In 1985, Starr was the first of The Beatles to become a grandfather upon the birth of Zak's daughter, Tatia Jayne Starkey.[92] Zak has performed with his father during some All-Starr Band tours.[93]

re: #172 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I said something there. Forgot what...

Touchdown Saints!

TD Saints

TD for da boudin crowd!

REPLAY!!! That looked like a touchdown to me!

peyton manning ... what do you have?

re: #180 _RememberTonyC

peyton manning ... what do you have?

Fortunately for him? He has Peyton Manning in his helmet.

Palin makes a new note on her hand
Yes, I think that's real.

5 points is tight, and they are struggling to stop the Colts passes. Dicey. In reach but really dicey

Indy ain't good nuff, but dey may be lucky nuff...

Who dat!

(beam me to Bourbon St, Scotty)

re: #181 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Fortunately for him? He has Peyton Manning in his helmet.

he's done it a million times before ... but never against the Saints

That's two.

Come on Ref voodoo!

re: #182 Killgore Trout

I don't know. If it was a "cheat note" it's kinda big. If it's real, it was for the cameras.

WOOT! Up 7.

2 point conversion is good

yee haw ... 24-17 Saints

UP SEVEN!

WHO DAT?

re: #188 Floral Giraffe

I don't know. If it was a "cheat note" it's kinda big. If it's real, it was for the cameras.

She did this new one in response to being busted. Her FU in a way I guess.
Strange lady!

re: #188 Floral Giraffe

I don't know. If it was a "cheat note" it's kinda big. If it's real, it was for the cameras.

Yeah, I think it's her response to the controversy. It's not a bad idea but she should have thought of something funny or clever to write.

re: #188 Floral Giraffe

I don't know. If it was a "cheat note" it's kinda big. If it's real, it was for the cameras.

It's a secret microdot which she can read with her super secret sarah specs!

re: #193 Stanley Sea

It's kind of funny!
What would you have written, instead?

White chickens in the oval office- don't tell Obama!

Did anyone do the free Denny's last year? We drove by one & the line was around the building!

re: #194 Killgore Trout

Yeah, I think it's her response to the controversy. It's not a bad idea but she should have thought of something funny or clever to write.

That's about as funny or clever as I suspect she can get..

Now there's a caption contest...what did Sarah really have written on her hand?

I belong to the first dude? (um..maybe not..)

re: #196 Floral Giraffe

It's kind of funny!
What would you have written, instead?

F U Haters! (haha)

re: #198 Stanley Sea

Did anyone do the free Denny's last year? We drove by one & the line was around the building!

I can't go to Denny's...I'm not even sure there are any in Iowa.

re: #182 Killgore Trout

Palin makes a new note on her hand
Yes, I think that's real.

God knows how I despise her, but I suspect in this case that this was a deliberate joke on her part. Knowing the deal that is being made of her cheat notes, she wrote it on there knowing that people would be looking for shots of what is on her hand. So she writes a note to mom as a joke. She will say that it was her way of making light of how the main stream media is out to get her. But, if that is the case, she fails to see the reason why everyone is talking about it.

Six minutes left, can the Saints find a defense on the last series of the season?

I'd have written FU LSM.

re: #204 Claire

I'd have written FU LSM.

How about "This space for rent!"

re: #205 PT Barnum

How about "This space for rent!"

That almost makes up for your bad joke earler

re: #205 PT Barnum

How about "This space for rent!"

Available

re: #197 Claire

White chickens in the oval office- don't tell Obama!

They've come home for something?

re: #205 PT Barnum

"Cheap rates!"

re: #206 Petero1818

That almost makes up for your bad joke earler

We shall never speak of that joke again..

re: #210 PT Barnum

what joke?

The Green Police! Too perfect!

re: #209 windsagio

"Cheap rates!"

If I can't make jokes like the one I did earlier without getting my ass handed to me, let's not go too far into the "Sarah the Floozie" line of humor either.. If you weren't here for that...don't worry, you didn't miss much.

re: #213 PT Barnum

>> I have no idea what you're talking about, its an advertising joke >>

WWWOOOTTT!!!

Oh damn, Tracy Porter just put the nail in the Colt's coffin.

RDT going upstairs?

Meh, Metheny has always been too understated for my coarse tastes. But, one of his albums has the coolest title in the history of recorded music: "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls".

I listened to about two and a half minutes of Metheny's clip and got bored. Jazz is so 1950s San Francisco beatnik "cool" and sooo pretentious.

re: #219 infidel Alan

I listened to about two and a half minutes of Metheny's clip and got bored. Jazz is so 1950s San Francisco beatnik "cool" and sooo pretentious.

There's nothing more boring than people who announce to the world how bored they are.