Last Comic Standing
 

Cancer guy was voted off 2 weeks ago. Dat has funny material and has great delivery but apparently he's annoying to live with. So was Spike. Being funny, and being a good roommate are 2 different things.
The show is a popularity contest amongst the comedians. Whoever is the least popular gets voted off the island (or out of the mansion) but the twist is that you get to "challenge" a person who you think is a weaker competitor to a competition in front of an audience who gets the final vote as to who's funnier.

Try to keep up.

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

Hey--I'm still sad about that! And who was it (Atticus?) who said he'd recently seen some kids walking around in parachute pants?

Minis are back, armloads of bangles are back, flats with pointy toes are coming back--holy crap, maybe Reagan still *is* President!

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

Actually, they haven't, though maybe they should. According to their website, some incarnation of the band is playing several dates in CA later this month...

http://www.doobiebros.com/

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

A seventh-grade teacher tells me they're reappearing. I have no FHK because I don't spend my day with 13 year olds. But if you ask my cranky self, it's not too far a leap from the Avril Lavigne sk8r belly shirt baggy pants look anyway. Personally, I'll just be happy to see flares finally return to the Goodwill racks from whence they came.

Plus, Swatch just opened some glitzy new stores here. Brace yourself. No doubt you'll get premiums for "vintage" on eBay.

As for the coma chameleon, he'll probably lapse back into unconsciousness when he hears about the tragic breakup of Wham!

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

To paraphrase the first Austin Powers movie, "I can't believe George Michael is gay. Never saw that one coming. Women loved him..." NTTAWWT

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

Probably outable, but what the hell. A couple of years ago, the band of my watch broke when I was in Vegas, so I picked up a Swatch in the Swatch store in Ceasers. I have since picked up five or six swatches and ten or twenty bands, and I haven't yet bothered to get the band on my (nicer) watch repaired. I have been told that a swatch store opened in the new wing of the Galleria, so I'll be able to do my swatch shopping locally. I mix and match the bands with my outfits, and I always get compliments/comments on them.

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

PLF can now flounce about with a new watch because Swatch has launched a line of watches called "Irony."

http://www.swatch.com/fs_index.php?h...ns&unter=irony

Preschool Heavyweight Wrestling
 

They came, they fought, they went out for ice cream together:

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

(Spree: rather disconcerting photo of monster tot)

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

Watching VH-1 Classic (no, I don't own stock) with the wife, she turns to me during "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and says, "How did we not know?" The next six videos answered her question --- they all looked like that in 1984.

Except Eddie Van Halen.

Preschool Heavyweight Wrestling
 

He's getting aggressively recruited by the 4-H. No word yet on whether it's as a contender or as livestock.

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

Reminds me of a line from Curb Your Enthusiasm: larry and jeff, discussing a married HBO executive who was so traumatized after larry jokingly called him a "c**t" for failing to play a great poker hand that he had to take a leave of absence and explore his life --

Larry: "they all thought he was an effeminate heterosexual ..."
Jeff: (shaking his head knowingly) "there's no such thing!"
Larry: "exactly, there's no such thing!"

NTTAWWT.

This show, it's like a new lover for me. I can't stop thinking about it, everything it does is wonderful, it always makes me laugh, I can't wait to see it when I get home ...

Last Comic Standing
 

Geoff is smarter than that, as he proved this week - no way he votes for Dat and sets himself up to be challenged. He votes for one of the alliance.

Idiots ruin it for everyone
 

OK, first the idiot terrorists have made it impossible to wear clothing to the airport. First you had to take of your coat. Now it's shoes - ALL shoes. Then they swab the purse for narcotics. Don't even wear a belt. I'm coming naked next time.

Now, idiots at the ballpark will what? Make it so I have to walk through a metal detector to go to a game, walk by the bomb sniffing dogs, take off my coat and shoes? Confiscate my cell phone? What idiot decides to bring an M-80 to a ballgame and then light it?

From SF Gate
Poor crowd behavior at the Coliseum is an ongoing trend. Tuesday's game was interrupted briefly in the third inning when a "cherry bomb" was thrown from the third deck and exploded in the first deck behind the A's bullpen, injuring an 8-year-old boy.

"The first thing I thought was that it was a gun, that's what it sounded like," outfielder Terrence Long said.

The boy was taken to a local hospital with burns on his legs, and Coliseum security personnel quickly took a suspect into custody, according to Jim Young,

the A's director of public relations. One security officer said there were three perpetrators, all teenagers, but that two were minors.
In April, a patron threw a cell phone at Texas outfielder Carl Everett, hitting him in the head, and the same week a fan was involved in a scuffle in the stands and then bit a police officer's finger down to the bone.

"The fans here get a bad rap, but we've got great fans, true fans," Long said. "It's the people that come to one game in a blue moon who throw cell phones and fireworks, a couple people who are jerks, that make all the fans look bad, but it's not true."


idiots everywhere ruining my life

We need a "search" feature
 

Yes, because the cookie actually lasts for a period of time and then it expires. Presently it lasts for 2000 seconds. It is the same reason the flashing image that shows you that a thread has a new post stays up even though you read the post already. It doesn't respond to the fact you read the post, it responds to the cookie expiring.

Idiots ruin it for everyone
 

You go to the Oakland Coliseum, you takes your chances.

What I want to know is, what the hell is up with the restrictions on driving at the airport. Does someone think that forcing cars to circle instead of letting you sit at the curb by passenger arrivals is going to stop international terrorism? If I wanted to kill a lot of people with a car bomb at the airport, I'd drive to the curb and blow the car up. I wouldn't idle there for several minutes first. WTF?

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

Has anyone seen the promos on Bravo for their new reality show starting soon, in which a group of fashion-sensitive gay men will completely re-do a schlumpy straight guy?

If they would take on the endlessly proper-but-bland Dockers-and-golf-polo crowd up this way, I would be quite grateful.

pussy update
 

Well, it seems all is well in the land of Leagl's house again. The cats are happy, the little one is no longer making strange noises and whacking the bigger one, the bigger one still looks a little confused.

It must have been the bath.

Freaky.

Anyway thanks everyone for the advice. As it turned out, it just took care of itself.

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

Nice try.

Everyone knows he prances, not flounces.

:rolleyes:

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Last Comic Standing
 

My god! He is that asshole in law school who still outlines in this third year. Who starts outlining the first week of law school. But who always got Bs and Cs anyway. Takes things way too seriously and works way too hard and makes the life enjoying types a little nervous. I hate him!

So what happens after the are down to the final six or whatever? Doesnt the show change?

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

Funny you should mention that: this reminds me of the Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry lied and told an acquaintance that he wasn't playing golf anymore but got caught by said acquaintance in a "golf outfit" of khakis and tucked in striped shirt. The funny part was that although Larry did lie to the acquaintance, on that day he was actually wearing the outfit because he decided he liked the way it looked, and when he said as much the acquaintance said, "come on, you expect me to believe that?"

Isn't he just the funniest?

Idiots ruin it for everyone
 

Oakland is a hell hole, but behavior in Oakland (and Chicago) are going to change things everywhere - mark my words.

And yeah, what is the thing with the circling the airports? Oklahoma has already been done. No one's going to do that again. And isn't the greater threat from airplanes crashing into buildings? If I was going to blow up an airport, just walk in with a bunch of luggage - no one questions that. But idling your car for 5 minutes - no, that's someone's idea of a terrorist threat.

Here's the new thing...tennis shoes are no longer exempt from removal at the airport. Did I miss the memo? When did a guy try to hijack a plane with his tennis shoe? So the guy in front of me was asked to remove his shoes. He said "they're tennis shoes" Guard says "all shoes" so he takes them off and walks through.
So I walk through the detector - no bells go off, so I grab my stuff and then I'm asked to step aside. And I asked why. She said because I refused to remove my shoes. I said, "no one asked me to remove my shoes - they asked the guy in front of me." So immediately I am being subjected to the terrorist treatment - they make me take off my shoes, they swab my shoes, my luggage, my jacket, my cell phone, my pda blah blah blah.
So - next time - go naked. It'll save a lot of hassle.

Idiots ruin it for everyone
 

I read in the Wash. Post that a woman got a $40 ticket at National for stopping after seeing her friend, who immediately started walking toward her car -- the woman was pointing to her friend -- "he's right there" -- and still got ticketed. Ridiculous.

And if you can't go naked, at least skip the underwire bra.

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

Isnt that Bob Cobb, grandson of the inventor of the Cobb salad?

I heart Larry, hell, I am Larry, and have seen each episode like five times now since its on every night. When does the new season start?

Idiots ruin it for everyone
 

Some time ago, I went through with a BagginsChild. Unknown to us, hidden deep in his backpack, stuck behind a seam, was the mouthpiece for a musical instrument - a very strangely-shaped mouthpiece, if you're not familiar with the instrument.

It was hell. I'm not sure he'll fly again soon.

("Dad, they thought I was a TERRORIST! Aren't real terrorists taller?")

WTH?
 

MisterEbola,

Forgive me if this subject has already been brought up, but what the hell is your avatar? Maybe it's my tiny little screen here, but I'm afraid to even hazard a guess.

-TL

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

If you ever want to make me laugh out loud, just say "beloved aunt." My eyes tear up just thinking about it.

And I don't know -- maybe September? I hope they don't pull a Sopranos and go for like five years between seasons.

Idiots ruin it for everyone
 

Uh, maybe not the memo, but the extensive press coverage of richard reid, the guy who tried to blow up an airplane with explosives in his tennis shoes.

Well, maybe basketball or running shoes. But still.

For whatever reason, not all airports require removal of shoes. But they set it up as a major gamble, because if you set off the machine with your shoes on, you are a terrorist until proven innocent.

If we're on peeves about airline security, why do they still have the 30 minute seated rule for DC? It didn't make sense to begin with. If the concern is you're on a plane within 30 minutes' flight of DC, fine. But then why not flights going to Dulles, BWI, or even Philadelphia and several other decent sized airports that are within a half hour of DC? If nothing else, the rule stymies any efforts to get a second beer on the shuttle.

WTH?
 

Its a fangtooth fish - good eatin'.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/s...angtoothMN.jpg

Not to be confused with anglerfish

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/s...backangler.jpg

Or gulper eels

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/s...outhgulper.jpg

21st Century Odd Couple
 

Just read the last item (re: Colin Farrell) at the bottom of this link. Somebody at SNL MUST do a parody of this:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/930650.asp?0dm=C12UL

And the circle comes full turn
 

That's McDonald's special sauce. Mine is marsala, fresh sage, fresh oregano, and lanolin.

And the circle comes full turn
 

My goodness, your taste buds are wackadoo. No seconds for you.

my underwear
 

Many of us refer to noontime in the Chicagoland area

Tax(can you spot my hidden pet language peeve?)wonk

Idiots ruin it for everyone
 

Those weren't tennis shoes. His shoes had heels (with a fuse).
Tennis shoes, for the past year and a half, have been exempt from removal - that's why I was wearing them.

Oh, and the pat-down search. That was unpleasant. Having never been arrested, I have never had a true pat-down search before. Being patted-down before a concert or a Raiders game is completely different than the "terrorist" pat-down you get at the airport. She touched EVERYTHING. I'm sure she even touched everything twice.

Idiots ruin it for everyone
 

He packed the exlosives into the air chamber in the heel of the basketball shoe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/3...shoes150pa.jpg


No metal stabilizers in them, as many dress shoes have.

WTH?
 

I see. I was hoping it was a big raisin, which, while less interesting than your fish, would be rather more innocuous and not creep me out when I close my eyes.

-TL

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

Oh. My. God! He like SO is! I was just on the phone with fufu and she told me that she had Paigow and PJ on conference but didn't tell PJ and it was like super ironic that PJ said she thought Larry was just like totally the funniest because everyone knows Paigow just loves Larry and Paigow almost totally blew the secret conference because she busted out laughing and then fufu had to pretend that SHE was the one laughing, but PJ bought it even though they totally don't laugh the same and it was just like so hilarious and fufu's mom said the whole thing was like a Curb ep and when she said that, we just like almost totally died because we were r-o-f-l-ing our asses off.

TM

Idiots ruin it for everyone
 

Great. Next terrorist that packs explosives up his ass is really going to ruin the airline industry.

Idiots ruin it for everyone
 

The New York airports have done this for years. I think it's more of a traffic issue than terrorist action precaution.

TM

Guy wakes from 19 year coma
 

Thurgreed, you're too easy.

Edited to add: omigod, this post, and Burger's Nazi comment following, remind me of the Curb ep where Jeff called Larry from his car and didn't tell him he was on speaker and that Jeff's parents were there, and Larry called Cheryl "Hitler" ...