February 22, 2006

When I was in college, I lived with Beam on Third St. When he moved out (I stayed) he was going to take the toilet seat with him. He had bought it while we were living there and felt that he was entitled to it I guess (why he would have wanted it I have no idea. I'm sure you'll let us all know). Since I had a desire to dump with a seat on the toilet, I objected. He decided to leave it. Lucky for him he didn't live with these guys. It may not have turned out so well, for anyone.

http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/022106/D8FTDJS00.shtml

February 21, 2006

I hate commercials. I partically can't stand soda comercials. For some reason they seem to be the most annoying of all comercials. Them and the "Can you hear me now?" guy. I really hate the comercial that this is a spoof of. It is particular gratifying to see him punched in the balls. Enjoy!

http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1649518/

February 20, 2006

I found out who the guy in red is. Finally.

http://www.gawtti.com

http://www.crackmuffin.com/html/Jean-Claude-Van-Damme-Funny-Dancing.html

Some of you may have read Bill Simmons before, some not. His columns are always very good, they are also usually pretty long. This one is about Houston and the All Star game this weekend. FYI... his description of a Snoop Dogg encounter is right on. The picture that I have posted from the Super Bowl is as close as I was getting. Fortunately I didn't feel my life was in danger during that encounter. I didn't relize until I read his column how lucky I am to be alive. Too bad for that Clemens Kid. Also, for soem reason the World Series didn't make his list of big events in Houston in the last 2 years. Maybe he just didn't have a term meaning four like "Superfecta" or "Quadrafecta" in his vernacular (he referred to the Super Bowl, NBA, and MLB All Star games as the sports"Trifecta")

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060220

February 19, 2006

And speaking of the Olympics — Bryant Gumble’s closing monologue from the most recent episode of HBO’s excellent sports journalism show, “Real Sports,”"

Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t care about them and won’t watch them. In fact, I figure that when Thomas Paine said that “these are the times that try men’s souls,” he must’ve been talking about the start of another Winter Olympics. Because they’re so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the winter games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something’s not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what’s called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won. And try to blot out all logic when announcers and sportswriters pretend to care about the luge, the skeleton, the biathlon and all those other events they don’t understand and totally ignore for all but three weeks every four years. Face it — these Olympics are little more than a marketing plan to fill space and sell time during the dreary days of February. So if only to hasten the arrival of the day they’re done, when we can move on to March Madness — for God’s sake, let the games begin.

I agree, the Winter Olympics are marginal exhibitions meant to fill time. Apparently Gumble is a fan of the Summer Olympics (ancient Greek games). Me too. They are completely the opposite, so main stream. I just love waking up on Sunday mornings from Septmeber to January and watching the all day coverage of track and field. It doesn't matter to me if it's the hammer throw, the shot put, the high hurdles or 4 x 100 relay. I can't get enough. I still look back with fond memories of the days when my dad would take me to the park, wearing a singlet, javelin in one hand and my wrestling head gear in the other. We'd throw that javelin around all day, then go 2 minutes up, 2minutes down on the old wrastlin' mat. Those were the days. Didn't Rush Limbaugh and Jimmy "The Greek" get (rightly) fired for similar racial remarks? Oh, well. Gotta go, i'm going the Equstrian ring to do some jumps then I gotta hit the pool to get ready for the 2008 games in...wwherever they are (I think Arkansas got 'em).

February 18, 2006

15 photos

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Take this test. I rated "Homer Simpson".

http://www.iondesign.net/drinkometer/

These are some pictures of our basement. I painted the hall going down the stairs last weekend. Kim and I built the table right after New Years. My plans called for a 8'x4' rectangle piece of wood on top of a table with some felt. Then Kim got involved, and made it her project. Then it got rounded ends, padded rails, and cup holders. It actually turned out really good. If you need helping building anything please call Kim.

February 17, 2006

No Ralph Wiggum didn't say this (see "I heard your dad..."), but one of my moron friends (we'll call him Kyle Vaughn) did. It was said in complete seriousness, but was quite possibly the funnist thing I heard that year. That same weekend he also read a sign that said "snow cones" and pronounced it "snouw kounes" (that's as close as I can get speeling what he said). He wasn't joking. Probably the second funniest thing of the year.

http://www.freeaddictinggames.com/popup/1529.html