principles question
 

Oh, please, the only truly genius comic out there is Cathy.

principles question
 

Just to throw another name out there, but Gary Larson was on Morning Edition this morning talking about his new Far Side Anthology (available at Amazon for less than a hundred bucks...), and you can check out the interview here.

SD has lost all credibility as far as I'm concerned.

principles question
 

I'd be happy to discuss that since I actually know something about both of those topics. There's no shame in being a geek, SD. Throwing out the "that's gay and geeky! Eww" line doesn't really get one anywhere. At least with me.

gw(proud owner of comic book collection still stashed at parents house)nc

principles question
 

Blech. Usually I agree with you but Cathy gives me a rash. Just irritating.

Far Side rocks.

Random Joe $$ comments
 

These are my 3, in order:
http://www.fox.com/joem/bios/images/g_linda.jpg
http://www.fox.com/joem/bios/images/g_cat.jpg
http://www.fox.com/joem/bios/images/g_lina.jpg

principles question
 

Yeah. That's 1A (or 1B is C&H is 1A). Damn Gary Larson.

Now you done it
 

You were just chomping at the bit to get me into this fray, weren't you?

s4(And the answer is "Hemispheres", "Signals" and "Permanent Waves")e

Random Joe $$ comments
 

I haven't watched the show, so maybe you picked the best ones, but gross. From what I've seen of the new Joe, he's no prize either.

principles question
 

Cathy is how I (and SD I'm sure) picture fringey. I think she should make Cathy her new avatar.

TM

principles question
 

Sure, every person is a geek in some sense (I'm a huge music geek), but I guess in some sense, I may not be quite as much a geek as some folks. This may hit the nail on the head as to why I hate this job so much. I feel like a lot of the people I work with and I have so little in common. Maybe this is an epiphany.

S(I think I may be too stupid to be a geek, if that makes sense... not sure I was born that way, but I think I may be there now)D

Random Joe $$ comments
 

Bad photos. You'd do all three of 'em.

s4(trust me)e

Penis Tricks
 

Although I still can't conceive of what these "tricks" look like, the phrase "genital origami" gives me as graphic a description as I could have imagined.

Thanks!

Now you done it
 

Et tu, Slave?

I heard they're going to have Halley Joe Osment play Smeigel in the next Ring movie. Fucking awesome.

S(There is one thing worse than Rush - Yes)D

poll
 

The new Dave Matthews. Pretty smokin' stuff.

Random Joe $$ comments
 

Well, set it up then. I am available this Sunday and next Tuesday after 9:30.

principles question
 

Now Larson... that guy is fucking funny. Still, C&H is for freshman in college who want to relive childhood.

poll
 

Various Nina Simone songs.

Joe Schmo
 

I Tivo'd the marathon on Sunday, and couldn't get through the first hour. I think my standards are going up, which is probably a good thing.

Old saws
 

Hey BRC: Tamp em up solid.

principles question
 

It's the drugs. Once he's clean, he'll suck again. Same thing happened to Aerosmith.

principles question
 

Egads. That sounds painful. However, when my boys sometimes pull or pinch their wieners, it looks to me as though they're hurting themselves and makes me kind of wince, but my husband assures me it doesn't hurt.

Still, that sounds painful. And thank you for the detailed description -- genital origami indeed.

poll
 

[What are we listening to.]

I'm listening to OutKast, mixing in Daniel Beddingfeild, Crystal Method, Missy Elliot, and XTina.

Do you want to know what I had for lunch? Subway. Six inch. Grilled chicken, with lettuce, tomato and pickle. No mayo because that is gross. Oh yeah -- the bread was parmesan oregano and it was warm from the oven. The stamp allowed me to fill my card so my next sammy is free. Also enjoying a diet cherry coke. Not spitting it on my keyboard.

principles question
 

Whiff.

[i hope. please tell me RP doesn't really like Cathy]

Now you done it
 

Smeigel? Is that the name of the moneychanger in the new Mel Gibson film? Oh, "Ring" movie - got it. So he's going to climb out of a well. And a television.

Some people just cannot appreciate the finer nuances of such masterpieces as "Tales of the Topographic Oceans"

principles question
 

I believe you mean "parochial," Tim.

poll
 

Good. This means you can do Slave's top three without guilt.

Old saws
 

Were many of those porno site descriptions, and not about the phrase?

principles question
 

I thought lawyers were cool, LA Law or Atticus Finch style. I never figured I'd be trapped with the chemistry club. Perhaps this is payback for cheating in all my science courses through HS. I recall being told several times "You're a huge disappointment because you refuse to apply yourself to anything but what amuses or entertains you." Upon college graduation, all mom could say was "We should've used this money on the vacation home. You look like you need rehab." Law was the default... it where I landed for being a lazy shiftless bastard who's only talent was lying his way out of trouble.

S("Your dumb and ugly, I say if a man offers you candy, take it, Homer")D

poll
 

Are you black?

TM

principles question
 

Oops. Freud again.

principles question
 

You're not redeeming yourself by simply acknowledging the genius of Gary Larson. Everyone with a modocum of intelligence should be able to see that.

Freshmen in college don't know what C&H is. The strip ended when they were ten years old, and they were way too young then to understand it.

principles question
 

That's like saying Karen Carpenter has lost all her excess weight.

poll
 

Currently within reach:

Tragically Hip, Day For Night (listened to last night, good for when it starts to get dark early)
Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights (same)
Ludacris, Chicken and Beer (new purchase, good ketchup music, currently in the CD Player on track 2 "Blow it Out")
MOP, 10 Years and Gunnin
Outkast, Double album
Badly Drawn Boy, Soundtrack to About a Boy.
New Pornographers, Mass Romantic (can't find the case, so it sits next to my CD player).

principles question
 

It's taped to the doors of their professors.

principles question
 

No, with Queer Eye, Boy Meets Boy, and the new cartoon on the Orlando Jones show, gay is in and "gayest" is a compliment. Just ask Penske - there is nothing gayer than socking or posting lame one-line responses to long verbatim quotes.

principles question
 

Not to [over] expose my ignorance, but what is bukkake? Splooge? Anal intercourse?

Sorry, I lead a sheltered life.

principles question
 

A buddy and I came up with a T-shirt idea last night. We're going to start selling them on the internet. The T-shirt will read

FRONT:

If you were born on or before this date in 1986 . . .

BACK:

Then you are old enough to have sex with me
(or)
Come with me.

For sale, 1/1/04

Random Joe $$ comments
 

Linda is my favorite, too. I find it weird how the Joe keeps saying Lina is "uppity." WTF is that supposed to mean? That she is reserved? Anyhow, she is one of the "shopping" ones (something about how, if he lives on a ranch how would she shop).

Anyhow, this one I find horrifying:

http://www.fox.com/joem/bios/images/g_olinda.jpg

principles question
 

For 10 points, please identify the speaker and the subject of the following quote:

"And it's always there, in the lower right hand corner, just waiting to suck."

Random Joe $$ comments
 

The girls on this show have a Eurotrash sex appeal. They drink, swear, make graphic sexual innuendos, and wear clothes that appear designed to be easily removed. It is such a breath of fresh air compeared to the repressed, Junior League types that are chosen for the Bachelor, Cupid, and their ilk.

The new Joe is a complete moron - every bad religious, stereotype idiot from the South who can't even keep a simple story straight, but says "ma'am" a lot so he must be a "gentleman." None of these girls would give him the light of day absent the $$ and TV show aspect. There isn't a Zora in the bunch, and he makes Evan look urbane.

Grace - I think it is probably pretty uniquely American, particularly the aspect of imposing your beliefs on your guests. It has always offended me from the first time it happened to me at some elementary school friend's house, and I thus attribute it to our brand of evangelical Christian assholes.