just a sample
 

What a slut. Good girls wait at least 3 months.

sad, sad, sad
 

I confirmed today that the cute guy who generally parks near where I park has indeed gotten rid of his acceptable* sedan and gotten an SUV instead. How fucking depressing.

And, country stations are good for driving if there's nothing interesting to look at because the songs are more likely to tell a story. Like a guy meeting a girl at something like the county fair, and he has BBQ sauce on his shirt, and he likes the look of her in her miniskirt, and they skip stones at the river by the RR tracks, and he kisses her (whether they go further is not clear), and then they part -- only to meet again on a plane to New Orleans, where they recognize each other and both remember their happy day together. There may have been a third verse, but the weather was getting bad and I started thinking about that. Anyway, the story factor is good, but I bet the songs get dull once you have the story down. Like rereading the same REAAAAALY short story over and over.

AI
 

I would rather wash my genitals than my face.

AI
 

Are your water bills really high?

Injecting a degree of randomness
 

Cut them a break, they don't make Model T's anymore.

Lara Flynn Boyle sighted
 

That is so sweet!

just a sample
 

How can someone be that fat and STILL not have any TITS!!!!!????

Board Motto!
 

Board Motto!
 

You know, if the fats march around and rant enough, they may drop the weight and become skinnies. Or at least just softs rather than obeses.

Speaking of Fats
 

CNN has this article about Gov. Ahnuld demanding that an Ohio company stop marketing Governator bobblehead dolls.

Right at the end of the article, it says "The brothers market other dolls, too. Their best seller is model Anna Nicole Smith, followed by Jesus."

Do you suppose parts of Anna Nicole other than her head are what bobbles?

sad, sad, sad
 

As my third cousin Bubba once told me, asterisks without an explanation make the baby jesus cry.*

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~gilma...ley/Crying.jpg


* but he said that after watching a 700 Club marathon, so he may have been under the influence.

FUNYC
 

The French Laundry in Yountville (outside SF) ranked Best Restaurant on the Planet by Restaurant magazine. Again. TCOTU couldn't crack the Top Ten. Too bad, so sad.

Meanwhile, in what can only be explained by a wormhole to 1985, Chez Panisse and Spago ranked also.

www.peterthottam.com -- photos of 6 GIs & Iraqis
 

Wow. Peter's found the photos and has placed them on his site. Geez, no wonder why the entire Arab world is going ballistic.

What were these idiots thinking? White trash or something more sinister?

G @ www.peterthottam.com

www.peterthottam.com -- photos of 6 GIs & Iraqis
 

Take it to the Adult Board, perv.

www.peterthottam.com -- photos of 6 GIs & Iraqis
 

I will not remove these pictures until the neocons bushies convince their lackeys in Mexico City to remove my shoplifting convictions! power to the people!!!

www.peterthottam.com -- photos of 6 GIs & Iraqis
 

But how do you feel about important topics like breast implants?

Cripples & Rollercoasters
 

The ADA requires amusement parks to allow a disabled person to ride a rollercoaster if he can board the ride unaided. A stupid rule leading to a pointless death: dude with cerebral palsy fell to his death on a roller coaster. Article This looks like a loophole in the laws prohibiting assisted suicide.

Cripples & Rollercoasters
 

This ride easily holds in people lots bigger, and is rated for unconscious riders (i.e., the rider isn't expected to be able to provide part of the effort in keeping himself in) like all such coasters. However, some of the g-forces exerted are enough to throw an actively-holding rider out if the harness fails.

The harness failed on this ride. It's a full-body descending U harness, and it released.

Cripples & Rollercoasters
 

Uh, Bilmore? Do you know something that no one else knows?

Demand for answers after fatal fall

A day after a man died in a fall from a speeding roller coaster in Agawam, the victim's mother demanded answers and US Representative Edward J. Markey blasted congressional Republicans and the amusement park industry for failing to enact universal safety standards for thrill rides.

Markey, a Malden Democrat, pledged yesterday to fight harder to get a hearing on a bill to ensure the safety of amusement park rides that has been stalled on Capitol Hill for five years.

"My hope is the Republican Party will finally realize there will be more deaths and injuries unless they create a federal standard," Markey said yesterday in a telephone interview. "We have federal standards for automobiles, for baby carriages, for safety caps on medicine, but not on rides that go 60-to-80 miles per hour that result in death and injury every summer."

Markey's pledge came a day after Stanley J. Mordarsky, 55, who had cerebral palsy, was hurled to his death about 3 p.m. Saturday at Six Flags New England as the Superman Ride of Steel roller coaster rounded a bend at the end of a run. Today state investigators are expected to release details on the cause of the accident that killed the Bloomfield, Conn., man, said Christine Cole a spokeswoman for the Executive Office of Public Safety.

Cole said investigators from her agency examined the ride late Saturday night and made recommendations to authorities at the Agawam park about what was needed to make the ride safe. A full report is due out this week, she said.

"The ride remains closed, and it will remain closed until the park is able to make the remedies that they and the Department of Public Safety discussed [Saturday] night," Cole said yesterday.

She declined to release information about whether mechanical failure, a mistake by an operator, or actions by Mordarsky caused his death.

Germaine Mordarsky, the victim's 82-year-old mother, said yesterday that she does not believe her son's physical problems could have caused the accident.

"They said he spun out of the ride," Mordarsky said. "I couldn't figure out what that would mean. He was so heavy, it couldn't happen. Besides, he went there before, and nothing happened."

Stanley Mordarsky was about 5 feet 2 inches and 230 pounds.

Germaine Mordarsky said her son had cerebral palsy from birth and had asthma and diabetes. The disabilities made walking difficult, but he could get around by using a scooter, she said. "He loved the amusement park," she said. But later, Mordarsky said she wanted answers about why her son was allowed on the ride to begin with.

"I'm worried about something else happening to another person like that. . . . I can't figure out why at 80 miles an hour they let him get on that. That's ridiculous when somebody isn't a firm walker."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/art...er_fatal_fall/

If the harness wasn't locked into place when the guy got on the ride, then it didn't exactly fail, and that is a possibility here.

aV

Speaking of Fats
 

My life will not be truly complete until I have a J-Lo bobbleass on my mantel.

That should read "FAT FUCKING Cripples & Rollercoasters"
 

Fuck the cripple excuse: fat bastards like that shouldn't be allowed to ride rides. Tip the fucking ferris wheel over why don't ya?

Look I ain't no skinnie minnie but there should be weight limits in the movies, ballparks, subways, amusement parks etc.

I couldn't believe it one day, I went to a ball game by my self and my seat was right next to some 400 pound fat fuck. I still have black and blue marks on my arms from being elbowed during his hot dog-eating rampage ("Five with mustard please"!)

The more things change
 

Another one returns. 8track and Ironweed within days of each other? It's like you guys are flounders looking for a check.

TM

The more things change
 

I was just waiting until I could be certain that Penske and PLF had been completely, irrevocably and retroactively banned from these boards. What a relief to finally be free from all of their tiresome tiresomeness.

Spree disclosures and pictures
 

I'm not sure what the current official policy is, but I'd like to make a humble request that people take it a little easy with the pictures. I think a few of them have recently crossed the line past what should have been shown and what should have been linked to, and the fact that I'm getting red Xs when I view them at work instead of home means that the internet filters agree.

Even if they're getting past peoples' filters, some of them have been pretty disgusting.

So, I vote for discretion. Also, "Fifty-five, stay alive" and "I pass on grass."

What not to do.
 

Gentlemen:

An article entitled "How to use a hand puppet to meet, attract, and date tons of single women..."

From the article:

"When you see a girl that you're attracted to, approach her and tap her on the shoulder lightly with your puppet and when she turns around raise your hand puppet towards her face and say something like this with your puppet, "Hi beautiful, would you like to dance with me?" Move your puppet up and down with your hand as you are saying your script just as if the puppet was really talking. And be sure to talk in a real silly voice.

What happens next? She's going to die laughing and think that you are so funny. Plus, you will make a very favorable impression on her because women love a guy with a sense of humor. And, of course, she will most likely dance with you."

http://www.enotalone.com/article/58.html

Let me clue you all in. This approach would be unsuccessful with me.

Spree disclosures and pictures
 

We've covered this. If you don't want non-nude photos popping up on your screen, go to user options or whatever and change it so that you get a link instead of the photo. Then you can police yourself.

Somebody take this mmmm kid under their wing already.

TM

Spree disclosures and pictures
 

I agree. If it doesn't stop, I am going to have to turn off the pictures entirely.

Why don't people just post links with SPREE disclosures? Even fucking Thottam has the decency to link to his pics rather than posting them and to warn people about graphic links.

Spree disclosures and pictures
 

Tush Munch, you are such an asshole. Even fucking Thottam behaves better than you.

What not to do.
 

I wasn't about to take dating advice from this guy (after all, he's only holding one rose and no chocolates!):

http://www.enotalone.com/img/partners/6.gif

But then I read this: "This article written by Don Diebel (Americas #1 Singles Expert)," so I guess I'm changing my approach.

Do you think this one is big enough?

http://www.cleaford.co.uk/janefull.jpg

TM

What not to do.
 

Gentlemen, never, never take pick-up-chicks advice from a man who looks like Larry from Three's Company. If only he'd loosen the tie a bit to reveal the gold medallions nestled in his chest thatch, it would make it so much simpler.

First Annual FB Outing a failure
 

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Southwest....ap/index.html

TM

Spree disclosures and pictures
 

We also covered it by creating a porn board for the truly pornographic stuff.

It's a lot more fun not having to block display of photos . . .

Spree disclosures and pictures
 

Non-nude. Non-truly-pornographic. Whatever. The point is, if you're afraid of seeing something you think is work inappropriate that others do not, take the extra step.

TM

You fucking liar. I fucking invented checking the fucking box. You fuckedy-fuck-fuck.

Let's talk about my penis
 

Speaking of which, I caught some of SNL this week while in Toronto. Jimmy Fallon cracked up again, and caused everybody else to as well. It was during a sketch called "Debbie Downer," which would have been bastante-funny in its own right, but was downright hilarious with everyone losing their shit on live TV. Pretty good stuff.

Oh, and the reason i was up so early Friday morning was to catch a flight to Toronto. And Friday night's game was fantastic, thanks all.

(though last night, watched from the airport, not so much)

FUNYC
 

That list is quite weird. I've not eaten at a sufficient number of the restaurants listed to have an informed opinion but, based on the London/UK ones I've eaten at alone, that list is weird.

And ... Balthazar?

The English. Picture me shrugging.

FUNYC
 

It's clearly not a good list. No Applebees, and no OCB. I have no idea what the reviewers were thinking.

I See Nude People
 

Voyeuristic partygoers sink ship:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Southwest....ap/index.html

I See Nude People
 

Talk about "something completely the same."

MR--I think the board is stuck in one of those endless programming loops. can you get us out of it?

BTW--how was the visit from wifey's family?

movie recommendation
 

I didn't want to Wonk but someone shold have warned me a catchup would result in the knowledge that Purse Junkie has a hairy ass. Hopefully its the same color as her whorish fur coat= looks better for the jaunts down the 42nd street of yore.