Animals and Sports
 

Now we know where Gwinky has been.

http://espn.go.com/moresports/news/2...rtnersite=espn

"MONTREAL -- Blitz, the Montreal Alouettes' mascot, received a reprieve -- but a stern reprimand -- after being given a penalty for pecking an official during a Canadian Football League game."

"Alouettes head coach Don Matthews wanted the bird mascot cut after drawing a 15-yard penalty for knocking an official on the head during Montreal's 30-10 victory over the Ottawa Renegades on Sunday."

A good mascot story always helps.

A New Record-Purity Test
 

Since the door was opened, I need advice. A "friend" was during the purity test and is stuck on "Ever engaged in Beastility?." Back before his rap improved, and he started getting dates, he was a desparate horny 13 year old. Once he put powdered sugar on his dick to try and get the dog (female) to lick it. The bitch refused, so he didn't actually engage in it. He did, however, complete all the active steps he needed to, and did engage in beastility in his heart.

Is this a yes on the test? I get the sense that a yes on this would really bring the old score down.

Ben did it because JLo is a fat common little girl not unlike 8 mil other "cute' chicks I see every day on the street. She's utterly product and the ass ain't "voluptuous" - call a spade a spade - its fat. She's fat. She's short. Her music sucks. Her flicks are dull. Her agent is brilliant - he realizes she'll be done soon because that ass will be as wide as the broad side of a barn before too long and she'll look like a common Italian grandmother when she's 50. Nobody wants to fuck an Italian grandmother unless she's Sophia Loren, and JLO's no fucking Sophia. So JLo's done the right thing - she's loaded her bank while she can. I'd do the same thing. Its nice to see Affleck come to his senses. Unlike JLo, he's got a long career to think about.

Why the vittriol? Because I expect better from Hollywood than a common fat little girl who can barely carry a tune. If I want that crap, I'll go watch an amusing car wreck like Ozzy's daughter.

An old complaint
 

On this topic, assuming you are a relatively healthy and fully-abled adult, at what point do you not go outside because of high winds? Does it matter whether they are sustained or gusting? I would think gusting would be easier to deal with (intermittent really high wind but generally just kinda windy) but I really don't know. How fast are winds in a tornado? At what point do high winds start blowing enough stuff around that you might get hurt?

I was watching the weather channel last night and they had a half-hour thing on some hurricane that hit Florida in the 1920s. It was pretty interesting.

Sebbie my love, you don't ever need to explain your vittriol to us. We expect it.

An old complaint
 

You do not, of course, want to be outside in a tornado, though I have been outside watching tornados at a distance, and it's really pretty cool (especially if it doesn't quite touch down or is a waterspout).

I have also been outside in a couple of light hurricanes, and it can be fairly intense. I would not want to go outside in a real category 3 or higher storm, but I had a lot of fun getting blown with my neighbors at a hurricane block party not long after I got out of college. It was a blast.

An old complaint
 

At this point:

Generally when stop signs start flying off their posts, I'd get behind a solid wall. If you see livestock fly by, it's definitely time to get inside the house.

Last hurricane I went through, maybe Gloria, up in Boston, people were out with skate boards and bedsheets tied around their waists, inventing (perhaps) the sport of windboarding. I guess they needed something to do when the coast guard closed the beaches to surfing.

He should've done it before he coughed up 11 mil for the ring.

It's that bizarre egomaniacal immune-from-destruction Gary Hart compulsion: "Come on! See if you can get a photo of me while I put my hand on her ass!"

An old complaint
 

I imagine getting blown with one's neighbors' could be quite a blast...NTTAWWT.

An old complaint
 

Hanging with Schwartznegger again, I see.

An old complaint
 

Yes, but at what wind speeds do things start flying by? 80 mph? 120 mph? Higher? Lower?

An old complaint
 

I feel like this is a line stripped right from the flyer of a ΣAE party: "Hurricane Party: Come get blown at ΣAE Saturday! (cohosted by your friendly πBΦ girls)"

An old complaint
 

I suggest you use your common sense, not the wind speed recordings at the airport, to make your assessment. Or your pocket anemometer, which you, of all people, might actually have.

An old complaint
 

If windspeeds are predicted to be quite a bit below what could cause flyingbyness, I would go about my business and get worried if I started seeing stuff getting blown around or started feeling really blown around.

If windspeeds are predicted to be between X mph and Y mph, and X mph is sufficient to make biggish stuff airborne, I might not go outside.

But I'm sure the Darwinians among us are glad that you will stay outside until you actually see the stop sign coming at you. We can only hope for the future of the human race that it's moving fast and the edge hits you right in the throat.

Wind Speeds
 

http://www.marinewaypoints.com/marine/wind.shtml

Edited to add: usually 30 mph winds result in a "small dog warning": i.e.: smaller breeds of dog may be blown away.