Banning babies and Observation of the weird
 

Hah! I knew it!!! Welcome to the FB by the way.

And, in other news, I was watching the weather channel the other day to see if it would ever stop raining here. A catchy tune was playing, seemed to go well with the five day forecast which was littered with rain- built up to it and got intense like a thunderstorm gathering steam. I thought this tune was familiar but could not quite place it when I suddenly realized it was Squirming Coil by Phish. The weather channel playing Phish- thats kinda fucked, isnt it?

As a result I busted out Lawnboy which I hacent listened to since that last Phish show at the CApitol Theater where, as a 22 yo, I was the oldest person there and it freaked me. All the sixteen year old Fairfield Cty pseudos, ugh. But Lawnboy rocks as hard as ever. Great choice Weather Channel programmers!

Austin Adopts Smoking Ban
 

I do not follow this post. What is an ice house and what is the bottom line here?

Banning babies and Observation of the weird
 

"Fee was a buddhist prodigy... long past the age of maturity..."

I hate Phish, but I gotta admit, I do like Lawnboy and Picture of Nectar.

Austin Adopts Smoking Ban
 

Waaaaht? I think Forbes better stick to business. OR maybe the article was based on the late Malcolm's proclivities for same sex high jinks. Cus the only way DC is a great place for singles is if the singles are men and men. This town is gayer than cheese.

sun screen
 

Ok, well, we didn't have too much sun on our camping weekend. Frankly, I am glad I couldn't make it out until Saturday morning, sleeping in a tent in a down poor isn't my idea of fun. But we did have sun the second day and I wore a spray on Coppertone Sport. SPF 30.

I just used it on my face and my arms since we were hiking, it worked really well.

It was a bit sticky at first but that went away pretty quickly.


Ok, so I can't type. Down POUR.

Thanks Barely.

Not one of the cool kids.
 

I am always, always amazed at the level of not getting it on this board. Some posters take some people so literally. Its called "satire". No wonder my genius is so misunderstood. SD, Abba and PJ all missed that this was pure satire and could be nothing else. The fact that SD felt the post was ambiguous says to me he is less of a renegade cat who happens to lawyer than a lawyer who wishes he was a renegade cat. I am gonna start calling you Hunter S. Easterbrook or Raouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuul Rehnquist. Lets face it man, you lawyer bc you need the bucks to support your chick slash wife, which is why so many of you cats lawyer, now isnt it?

Austin Adopts Smoking Ban
 

You're right, DC is loaded with gay men, but from a straight male perspective (which is where I'll bet Forbes is coming from) DC is a great town to meet women. Where else can you find gobs of hot young women just out of college working and living together in low stress 9-5 jobs? DC's a fucking smorgasbord of available receptive pussy. The only place my head turns more is LA and NYC, and most of the good tail in those towns is tough work to land.*

I do here your cry, however - DC is the only town where a guy turned to me at a party and said "So how tough do you think the dating pool is for gay men in DC?" I looked at my drink and felt like saying "Hey, does this look like a cosmpolitian to you? Am I smoking a Benson & Hedges light here??" I just smiled and said "I'm with her" pointing to a chick I was seeing at the time. Then I made a note not to wear pastel golf shirts in DC and started a conversation with the bartender about steaks, cigars, guns and Pamela Anderson. Yeh, it probably is a pain in the ass being a chick in DC. But didn't you know that before you went there?

* Yes, I felt like being a bit sexist this morning.

Resort for the Fat
 

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americ....ap/index.html

(resort in Cancun tailored to the large vacationer with private beach for the bathing-suit-shy)

Features reinforced wood furniture, 5 restaurants and double-wide room doors. Slender staff specially trained for kindness!

No such thing as bad publicity...
 

...I guess.

The Heather Smith story gets requoted this morning in the NY Lawyer on-line edition:

http://www.nylawyer.com/news/03/06/060903i.html

Curious to see if we get a page hit spike again.

not7yS

Not one of the cool kids.
 

To the contrary, Paigow, my response to PLF stated "That's great sarcasm". However, PLF's sarcasm was soooo understated that I felt I had to hadge my comment by at least allowing for the possibility his statements were made in earnest.

You're right - that hedge was pretty cheesy/lawyerly of me - I should have more balls.

Raouuuuul Rehnquist... that's rich.

S(support my wife? fuck no... I need the bucks for myself - I want to be retired at 50)D

Racy magazines not tolerated at Walmart
 

The strange thing is the fat midwestern Jesus Nuts who protest the loudest are the most in need of discovering "10 ways to instant orgasm".

My guess is 90% of WalMart shoppers in, say, Missouri, don't even know what a clitoris is, let alone that they have one.

S(Your summer sex kitten)D

Gatti Ward III
 

As promised, Gatti-Ward III was another classic fight.

Here's the coverage from the Times:

For Two Fighters, an Intense Rivalry Comes to an End
By GEOFFREY GRAY

ATLANTIC CITY, June 8 - In the hospital emergency room a little past 2 a.m. today , Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward sat in rooms next to each other like brothers, nursing wounds from their rubber match.

. . .

"There's no single word that will define these fights," said the heavyweight champion, Lennox Lewis, who sat at ringside. "Blood. Guts. Pride. Pain. Compassion. They're two tough nuts that never say quit. It's old-school fighting for a new era."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/09/sp...ts/09fite.html

Banning babies and Observation of the weird
 

Apropos of nothing, the local paper (the Podunkville Picayune-Post) had an article this morning about all of the rain that DC has been getting lately. Biff Smiley, a summer congressional intern from Podunkville University, was quoted as complaining about the fact that he had to buy an umbrella and a coat after a few days in DC, despite the fact that it was supposed to be warm and sunny. "It's summer in DC," he sniffed. "I should be boffing chicks in the Hays-Adam after Federalist Society parties and Young Fascists for America soirees. Instead, all the hotties are staying at home to kepp dry and to watch Fox News. It blows -- I busted my ass all spring lining up freaky sorrority chicks for Senator Gasbag's local staff to get this gig, and it's like Bombay in fucking monsoon season here!"

I kept waitng for a quote about the dangers of umbrellas wielded on sidewalks by height-challenged out-of-town pedestrians, but I guess that the reporter didn't talk to paigow.

Worst Service Ever
 

Waiter Accused of Vandalizing Home

CORONA, Calif. - A family who angered a waiter at a Norco Sizzler restaurant later was served a few dishes they didn't order: a gallon of maple syrup, raw eggs, and rolls of toilet paper across their lawn and shrubs.

Wayne Keller, 37, wife Darlene, 40, and their two children, had their home and mailbox saturated Saturday with smashed eggs and maple syrup. Their yard was decorated with toilet paper, duct tape and plastic wrap.

Police arrested several people in an SUV parked nearby, and grabbed someone darting out of the bushes.

Officers presented the alleged culprits to the Kellers.

"I can't explain how I felt," said Darlene Keller. "I just said, 'Oh, my God. It's the waiter from the restaurant.'"

Corona police arrested the waiter, his girlfriend and his two younger brothers. Police withheld their names.

Besides being booked for investigation of misdemeanor vandalism charges, the vengeful waiter also may be investigated for child endangerment because he brought his younger brothers with him, police said.

The Kellers had a dispute with the waiter earlier when Darlene Keller requested vegetables with her meal.

Full text: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...engeful_waiter

Austin Adopts Smoking Ban
 

A little bit ... this morning ... :eek:

Banning babies and Observation of the weird
 

Wow, I can't believe they actually quoted that guy. His statements seem a bit inappropriate and they don't reflect well on his school or on the congressional intern program.

I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked.

Banning babies and Observation of the weird
 

Yeah, well, maybe I, uh, gave voice to his unexpressed thoughts. He really did whine about the rain and having to buy warmer clothes, though.

Banning babies and Observation of the weird
 

And to think I took you literally.

Edited to add that it looks like the nylawyer bit is driving a page hit spike, as there are 99 users online right now, most of them guests (assuming those guests aren't all penske socks, but it's still a little early in seattle, if that's his real home).

No Lady Byng for Scott Stevens
 

I know! It's like an epidemic of literalism or something.(or "endemic") (or maybe "pandemic")

On to important stuff -- hockey. I don't care what Colin Campbell says, it sure looks to me like Scott ("I'm Sad Because Not Bob Hates Me") Stevens' hit on Kariya was dirty becuase (a) it was clearly after Kariya got rid of the puck and (2) Stevens led with his elbow.

That being said, Kariya's blistering goal a few minutes later was the best retaliation. Along with Sykora's goal later in the game, in which he made Mister Stevens look like an idiot. Now let's just hope that the Ducks can win tonight over the hated Devils at Brendan Byrne Arena.

Austin Adopts Smoking Ban
 

An ice house is essentially a shack that serves beer. Downscale beer garden. Usually surrounded by picnic benches and possibly, but not necessarily, some sort of carport type roof to keep the worst of the sun off the patrons. No air conditioning, maybe a fan. Sometimes there's a pool table or foozball table, or on Fridays at the West Alabama Ice House, a band. The beer is ice cold. They're all over Houston, and pretty much full throughout the summer.

The bottom line is that we, as a city, are crazy.

Banning babies and Observation of the weird
 

I figured not bobbo was satiring the young single SD in his DC pussy days.

Racy magazines not tolerated at Walmart
 

Frankly, I find the Good Housekeeping/Ladies' Home Journal headlines like "5 Ways to Serve Your Husband When The Poor Dear's Tired From Juggling His Job and His Mistress" and "You are a Miserably Shitty Mom if You Don't Bake Your Kids' Cookies From Scratch" a lot more offensive.

Banning babies and Observation of the weird
 

Oh. Thanks for explaining that to me. I see it now. It's just that I never considered SD a subject ripe for satire.

Movie I will be seeing based entirely on the preview
 

I went to see Finding Nemo on Friday. Has anyone else noted the new (for me) phenomena of a twenty minute series of commericals before start time? They used to have maybe six or seven commercials that started around the time that the movie was supposed to start, but maybe two months ago, they started doing this twenty minute thing. I suspect that lawsuit filed a few months ago has something to do with it. (BTW, the Cartoon Network has some really funny commericals these days.)

Anyhow, previews start and I'm given the best sixty second preview ever. I know nothing about the film. I only know that I'll be there when it opens. http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney...les/large.html (spree: best preview ever)

Racy magazines not tolerated at Walmart
 

Those instant cookies suck. Shame on you.

No Lady Byng for Scott Stevens
 

I actually watched the full game (a first for me this Stanley cup finals) and it was a good game I thought. Now I was a little out of it because I was still hungover Saturday night from going out Friday (I cannot drink like I used to), but it looked clean to me. A little late, maybe, but split second late. And isn't the rule that you still have possession (and still fair game) even if you have got rid of the puck so long as no one else has touched it? I didn't think he led with the elbow either.*


*I still hate Scott Stevens and am so pleased that Kariya scored later on (and got up and walked off the ice after the hit), I just think the call was the correct one.

Movie I will be seeing based entirely on the preview
 

You're right. That is an excellent preview!

I am disappointed more dvds do not come with previews. We saw 8 Mile and Bourne Identity this weekend, and I enjoyed them both far more than I had expected.

sun screen
 

FWIW, for the record, fyi I don't believe in sunscreen (except for my fairskinned children-and I call them "my children" subject to the paternity tests). NTTAWWT.

YMMV.

Penske (Swarthy) Account

No Lady Byng for Scott Stevens
 

It was a fair hit. But Stevens going after the smallish Kariya like that is a bit like Joey Kocur going after Gretzky. In other words - highly cheesy.

I have a very bad feeling about tonight's game, BTW

The way my teams have been playing - I should root for the Devils, as this will virtually assure a Ducks win.

not7yS

Kazaa remedy for rainy weekend
 

I downloaded and watched both "Finding Nemo" and "Bruce Almighty" this weekend.

The Carrey flick was worth about exactly what I paid to see it - nothing.

"Nemo", on the other had, was phenomenal. I may now actually go shell out the 10 bucks to watch it [and the 20 minutes of commericals] on the big screen.

Movie I will be seeing based entirely on the preview
 

I too recently saw Finding Nemo -- and that preview was so funny, I was trying to describe it to my husband (the part where the guy yells upstairs, "maybe just a salad...") and was laughing so hard I could barely get the words out.

(I couldn't see the link, but the preview was memorable indeed -- what struck me as odd, was that the release date for this movie is about 18 months away!)

Kazaa remedy for rainy weekend
 

I wholeheartedly agree about Finding Nemo. The theater that I was in was full of both kids and adults, and I'm unsure which audience liked the movie more.

Pixar has yet to disappoint me.

Banning babies and Observation of the weird
 

Sometimes when I see the number of members on this board (800ish) I think to myself that if there was another couple of posters with as many active socks as I have (say Billmore, Chef, Slave, Plated or one of the handful of other truly legendary sockers) than there are only about a dozen people here.

Oh the humanity!

Repo man has all day every day!:cool:

Uh oh.......looks like the jig's up :eek:

bridget jones
 

Apropos of nothing, Bridget Jones' diary was on some movie channel this weekend and I watched it and it struck me how much cuter and more attractive Renee Z is with 10 more pounds (at least) on her. Her face does not look so squished for some reason. Some women look better when they're very skinny, but not her. I wonder if she is going to put back on the weight for the sequel.

Bridget Jones
 

I read that she agreed to gain 20 pounds for the movie. I also agree with you that she looks better when she's a little meatier -- however, that was no 10 pounds extra she had in BJD. I would guess it was about 35 to 40 pounds extra in that movie. She's gotta weigh about 110 now (in skeletor mode), and she was a good 145 -150 in that flick.

The Fat Tax
 

A Tax on Fatty Foods?
By Corinne Amoo

LONDON (Reuters) - Hamburgers, soft drinks and cakes could be hit with a "fat-tax" in a bid to combat Britain's growing levels of obesity, doctors said Monday.

The British Medical Association is proposing a 17.5 percent VAT on high-fat foods like biscuits and processed meats to solve obesity-related problems, which cost the NHS roughly 500 million pounds ($825 million) a year.

"There is an epidemic of obesity in the UK," said BMA spokesman Dr Martin Breach. "You are what you eat and if that is the case the British public have a huge problem."

"Charging VAT on saturated foods found in processed meat products like sausages, pies and pastries, butter and cream, may help save some lives."

Full text: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...lth_fat_tax_dc

Bridget Jones
 

At the time, it was reported that she had gained 10 pounds to balloon up to 125 for the role.

Edited to add: According to an interview on Hollywood.com she added 20 pounds to be 129 for the role.

http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/features/feature/386215

Bridget Jones
 

While we're on the subject of Renee Zellweger's weight, I want to add Lara Flynn Boyle to the list of Celebrity Women That Need to Be Force-Fed. She was so much more attractive when she was an 'obese' size 4-6. Particularly in that ballerina monstrosity she wore to the last major awards show, she looked like a shivering, starved Survivor survivor.

Bridget Jones
 

Regardless of what her weight is now or was then, the difference is more than 10 pounds. Unless we are talking metric pounds and since I'm not bilingual, nttawwt, I cannot comment on such units of measure.

Edited to add: Check out her hollywood.com interview for corroboration of the above.

FWIW, I'd gleefully do the "fat" or skeleskinny Renee.

The Fat Tax
 

They're going to tax cookies and cake?!?!?!!? Those are necessary sustenance items goddammit!

They should just do a quantity tax, like if you buy the giant size potato chips or monster box of donuts, which invariably indicate gluttony. Taxing someone who innocently eats an annual 2-pack of Hostess Snowballs (like, say, me) who doesn't get fat or sick because she exercises portion control is just mean.

P(Free the Snowballs!)J