Ho Ho Hum.
 

First of all, the saying comes from less' skullfucking of paigow. So, it would still be attached to her head and might be totally intact when he did so.

Second of all, it was in response to leagle's "the nose wouldn't be satisfying" quote. So, it should be clear that no one was talking about a skeleton-type skull.

Third of all, you might want to check, but I'm pretty sure you have a skull right now! Do you have a tongue?

TM

Video games, LOTR, Legos.
 

I can only imagine that if, through some internet quirk, an acned 13 year old guy from a Dungeons and Dragons internet chat room stumbled across our site in the last couple of days, he would read for about five minutes, think to himself "Holy shit those guys are geeks," throw his twelve sided die in the trash, and go outside and take up lacrosse.

Lord Of The Rings post - everybody else skip
 

I think he's wrong about its ability to stand the test of time, and I think it was as compelling as Fellowship. I'm not a Tolkien purist (I've only read the books twice), and clearly he has issues with some of the choices that Jackson made. The battle of Minas Tirith was phenomenal and emotionally compelling. I have no idea ift any homoerotic subtext between Sam and Frodo is intentional, but the relationship has understandably deepened as they go deeper into Mordor, and I didn't find it any more than a natural progression of the bond they reiterated in their final scenes in both Fellowship and the Two Towers. I didn't have any problems at all with the pacing or the battles.

Great old video games
 

Penske, if you're going to steal my shit, at least make it amusing.

TM

Joey Buttafuoco update
 

Busted for auto insurance fraud in CA:

http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20031...tafuocodc.html

Now, that stud is one classy guy.

Video games, LOTR, Legos.
 

Assuming he does not do this wearing a samurai jaguar costume, then we have done a good thing. 'Tis the season and all.

Jacko X?!?!?
 

Well, but of course I converted. As you all know its set forth in the Koran that one true and Holy Prophet, Mohammed, the only legitimate son of Allah, married his beloved bride, Ayesha, when she was six year olds, and plucked her delicate flower at the age of nine.

FREEDOM OF RELIGION was the case they gave me.

Now, leave me alone, WOOOO!

Jacko X


Ps: Bonus: Look who will be featured on my next single:

http://cache.corbis.com/CorbisImage/.../FT0125753.jpg

Was this the game?
 

This always sounds better when Fringey says it.

Bullpen Hijinx
 

Nelson and Garcia have been charged with assault and battery. The magistrate also found probable cause to pursue Nelson's complaint against the groundskeeper.

Hard to believe that there were no eyewitnesses. Yes, the game was compelling to watch, but nobody saw nothing? Makes me wonder how much the groundskeeper had to do with starting the fracas.

Jacko X?!?!?
 

Will this guy be featured also?

http://www.imgmag.org/images/reallystupid/jail.jpg

Ho Ho Hum.
 

I was assuming I wouldn't have the cooperation of the head in question, first because of the obvious repulsiveness issues and second because as far as I know, the tongue would be staying back in the mouth in a relaxed state once the body was severed from the head.

Maybe if you hung the skull by the tongue (to keep the tongue outside the mouth) until rigor set in. They really should explore that on CSI.

Things That Piss Me Off
 

I have a standing lunch reservation: every week for five years at the same place with the same group of people. I also visit a couple of times of week for lunch and once or twice a week for cocktails or dinner and I host special events there in the private dining room a couple of times of month.

About six weeks ago, they hire a new reservations woman. Every week for six weeks, she gets the reservation wrong and fucks up my name. I blow it off because she is new.

This morning, I called to say we were having an extra three people and not only could she not find the reservation, she rudely told me she didn't think they could accomodate me because they were all booked.

Of course, her boss's boss's boss was more than happy to take care of me. But now I am mad.

How could you not know who I am? How could you not recognize a name you make reservations for five or six times a week? Part of her job is feigning recognition, if actual recognition is not there. How fucking hard can this be?

If every one above you on the org chart hugs me as I enter your place, shouldn't you figure out what my name is?

Things That Piss Me Off
 

Is she hot? That would answer a lot of questions.

Are you hot? That would answer a lot of your questions.

TM

Lego my fungible billing unit
 

I think so. It's just a matter of time.

Again, I think so. I dig quirkiness.

Things That Piss Me Off
 

Oh, you're right. She's just jealous. I knew it. If she were hotter, I would have at least understood that she brings something of value to the enterprise.

Video games, LOTR, Legos.
 

Maybe, but it seems like Atticus has stayed for a while, so maybe we appeal to that demographic. Of course, he probably just found us during an intense Google session, so maybe he felt compelled to trust his googling capabilities.

Things That Piss Me Off
 

By my conservative estimate, 99 times out of 100, the people one deals with on a daily basis in commercial transactions of any sort have no conception of the two simple words: "Customer service". This is why I hate all of them in advance, unless proven wrong, which rarely happens, although my 1 out of 100 are the chicks at the coffee place I go to in the morning (of course I've only been in there 600 times in the last 18 months).

My advice is to make sure never, Never, NEVER to tip her. Ever. Hold a grudge-it feels good. Also make sure to tip others, conspicuously in her presence.

And also you may want to let the air out of her tires, just a practical style joke. Hilarity will surely ensue.

Tally ho!

Video games, LOTR, Legos.
 

Yeah, but it also sounds like if TM, Jack Manfred, some of the other video game junkies here and I could get online with some of those headsets they make now we would school these little punks and make 'em cry talking smack while doing it...

Things That Piss Me Off
 

Well, if you have to call the boss' boss, it sounds like they may get it sorted out. Why not just wait a week or two (say, ten visits) and see if things change. If not, _then_ tell somebody higher up that you're not being treated the way that you were before.

Lego my fungible billing unit
 

Maybe, though obviously I haven't done it yet.

I think by this point it's pretty clear that I'm a geek. I'd think it was cool.

Things That Piss Me Off
 

Go to another Luby's.

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

So, I'm always amused by the stuff that clients and service providers send me for the holidays. This is the first year I've sent Holiday cards to all my clients, and I think that they have generated a few extra gifts this year. Client gifts have generally been pretty nice, usually booze, food, candy, etc. Sometimes little trinkets.

But some of the service provider gifts are downright weird. Lots of calendars and desk stuff, but two stick out:

From R. R. Donnelley, a copy of The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt, with their name and logo on the front.

From a company to which I send out closing books to be bound, a small Christmas stocking with " mmm3587, Esq." printed on it.

How bizarre is that shit. I guess they worked, as I will remember both these weird gifts.

Anybody else get anything really strange?

Things That Piss Me Off
 

As long as I can get my LuAnn Platter, I am happy.

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

My mentor gave me a new BMW.

Everyone else got coffee mugs.

TM

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

You were right. I clearly know nothing about how to benefit from a mentoring relationship.

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

Haven't you been listening? It's not that you don't know how to benefit. You're just really really really not dark enough to land yourself the right kind of mentor.

TM

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

I am sure your willingness to engage in monkeysex with your mentor had nothing to do with it, either.

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

When did you become the cabana boy for some cougar in Greenwich?

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

Other gift ideas in this years Cheap Toy Roundup, "The Onion A.V. Club's annual gift guide for grownups who are either trying to work within a budget or just buying presents for particularly crappy kids."

http://www.onionavclub.com/3949/feature2.html

The DJ Battle Mix looks fun, but I don't understand the appeal of the McDonald's Play Food Set. Is the real thing that much different?

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

Along which lines, anyone have good holiday gift ideas for their SO they want to share?

(1 week to go and still nothing in hand).

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

Well, just how is my whiter-than-white-ness supposed to compete with your chocolaty goodness? You saw how much support my spririted defense of vanilla got.

Guess I'll have to start hanging out on the links to find me a brown-sugar-daddy.

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

Soapdish.

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

Monkey sex in a new BMW.

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

So, you're comfortable with the "no sex until February" idea?

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

For Mrs. Hand's gift this year, I'm making out like a bandit...

She asked for and is getting a TiVo (the series II, 80 hr. version). Unbeknownst to her, I wanted one for myself. So this will truly be the gift that keeps on giving as I will get to use it as well...

If she didn't ask for it and I got it for her, I might have been accused of buying her something that I really intended for me.

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

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Along which lines, anyone have good holiday gift ideas for their SO they want to share?

(1 week to go and still nothing in hand).
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he'll have something in hand pretty soon alright

Funniest reruns (updating the re line- Hi Me!)
 

Wrong. Funniest non core character is Puddy, followed by Peterman. I actually think Kramer was really annoying but had funny moments. One of the funniest episodes I can think of was the Bizarro episode. I also loved Moops. Too many to list.

But, SatC has been reruning twice a day on HBO2 lately. They were having some cotnest to list the three best episdoes (which is nearly impossible to choose from). But last night I saw an episode that had me laughing out loud, which I admittedly rarely do with TV. The one wheere Miranda dates the guy who won't shut the bathroom door.

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

It was intended as more of a word of caution. Obviously G3 should get her something more substantial and something symbolizing the significance of the occasion and the depth of his affection. Like a bass boat.

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

just a hint. You should get her something girly to go along with the Tivo. Like something silk, or cashmere, or jewellry or a spa treatment or something. Doesn't have to be big. But it will probably go over very well in case it ever pops into her head that you were mainly thinking of yourself in getting her Christmas gift (notwithstanding her request).

Weird Holiday Gifts
 

As easy as giving cash, but it never fails.

Maybe I'll just give Sequels cash...