Moral Dilemma
 

OK, I'm going by memory, but I'm sure someone's out there googling this one. Bum's rush is a "quick escort" out of a place. The term bumming around comes from (I think it was the depression) when the unemployed (bums) would hang out in large groups. Police would disperse by "quickly escorting" the bums out of restaurants, bars, alleys, etc. Hence the bum's rush.

And A Real Gobbler
 

A man in Germany charged with killing and eating a gay man he met in an Internet chat room had previously "auditioned" four other potential victims, according to a magazine report.

The report in Thursday's Stern quotes investigators as saying the four "cannibalism candidates" agreed to be subjected to a physical suitability examination by their prospective killer.

Lured by Internet ads saying "I could just gobble you up", the four men - three from Germany and one from London - travelled separately to the killer's home near Kassel in central Germany.

Three of the men baulked at going through with being eaten, saying they had assumed it was an erotic role-playing game. The fourth man was rejected as "pudgy and unsexy" by the killer.

The partially devoured remains of the eventual victim, a computer analyst from Berlin, were found at the residence of the 41-year-old suspect.

Poll: Most clever band name
 

I know I am late to this but:

"I Love You But I Have Chosen Darkness"

Even(spent the day shopping)Odds

120dB, If It Matters
 

quote:
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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I caught an old video from a band who I think takes the cake for all time best band name: Camper Van Beethoven. That's my entry for the poll: Name the most clever band name you've ever heard.

You will be disqualified if you have to explain any of it. That is all.
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Threshold of Pain

And A Real Gobbler
 

Maybe we're missing something in the translation from Germany. Just to be clear, I copied the text above, translated it into German with help from AltaVista, and then back into the English. The real story:

Attracted by saying InterNet ADS "I could devour you straight above", the four men - three from Germany and one of London - separately traveled to close main Kassel of the murderer in central Germany. Three of the men baulked with to be eaten on gone through, say were accepted them that it was a erotisches role playing play.

Much clearer.

I now see what Spike Lee was fighting for
 

For some "look and hurl" net surfing, consider

The Wacky World of Japanese Ice Cream

(spree: The pics are of cartons, so you probably won't retch)

Also from the "No Fucking Way" file
 

Lightning strikes woman's tongue stud

Body-in-the-bed myth comes true

and the piece d'resistance:

Holding severed head in place, he defied death

An Early Fashionista
 

From the NY Post:

"The Kobe Bryant case brings to mind the young Chuck Berry. The rock 'n' roll pioneer, like Kobe, was good-looking, famous, wealthy - and black. Berry, who toured all over America just like an NBA player, was always afraid he'd be charged with rape after having sex with willing women who flocked to his dressing room - not to say that Kobe's accuser is in this category. But Berry protected himself with a Polaroid camera. Before he'd have sex with a fan, he'd insist she strip and pose for a photo with him, smiling with their arms around each other. If Kobe had a Polaroid shot like that, he might have a much stronger defense."

What I want to know is ... what did he say when a fan said "it's Turkey time!" to him?

Moral Dilemma
 

It was just past Hyde Park on the el. I only lived in Chicago briefly a long time ago, so I don't remember that well.

I was talking to the other (mainly) white dudes I was meeting for dinner down there.

Yeh, that was why the consensus was to not call from there, but to back off and go around the corner or something.

Moral Dilemma
 

Originally posted by dtb

swarmed and asswhipped by multiple assailants

And A Real Gobbler
 

Wonk,

You were lamenting just yesterday that there was no utility in your build and here the FB comes to save your sense of self-worth.

Polls
 

That was a good film. I think that Maggie Gyllenhaal should be in more movies... perhaps maybe all movies. Of course, I have the same feeling about Catherine Keener. So perhaps Maggie Gyllenhaal and Catherine Keener should divide the upcoming production schedule together... except for one or two very special films which will feature both Maggie and Catherine. These films, to no one's surprise, will be the ones competing for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Best Actress competition, naturally, will be a two-woman race.

Damn, I forgot about Monica Bellucci. OK, ok, new rule. All movies have to have at least one of the following: Maggie, Catherine, or Monica. They'll certainly be busy, but they'll have one month off every year, when they'll be busy with me.... Because if I had just one wish, it would be for all the children of the world to hold hands and sing in a spirit of universal peace and harmony, but the logistics would just be impossible, who am I kidding... [Please someone get the Steve Martin reference.]

Oh! and I almost forgot vengeance upon my enemies! I'll have to rework my list....

Miranda Otto
 

That's now on my list. Miranda Otto was the best thing about Human Nature, better known as the film written by Charlie Kaufman that wasn't Being John Malkovich or Adaptation. She played a woman who pretended to be French to attract men. Actually for the first half of the movie you think she's French, and the Kauffman wrote her as a stereotype way. Midway through, you learn she's totally faking. Brilliant.

The sad thing was... I thought she was hotter because of the whole French thing. I was as duped as the other characters in the film.

for NCS
 

Notcasesensitive loves reality
TV, indie rock, and Texas Hold ‘Em.
She would choose Love over money or Rob.
As a poster, she contributes her wit:
Excellent, always pithy, never lol.
She is not banished to the Land of Fu.
Notcasensitive’s brilliance overwhelms
The dumbasses who live here in Texas.
She is more charming than the Metroplex,
Houston, and all the Streets of Laredo.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Better legs than Gwinky, calves than Abba,
She is as beautiful as all Texas:
The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

Question for medical (and not) types
 

Great, another smug, self-satisfied ass clown who's so certain that everyone in the world who doesn't fit within her standards is a lazy, undisciplined degenerate. The world doesn't have nearly enough of those.

Poll: Most clever band name
 

Me too:

The Trashcan Sinatras

Question for medical (and not) types
 

Us lazy, undisciplined degenerates* don't feel special if all the ass clowns think everyone is like us. We want to be special too.


















*Note that although Wonk is a degenerate, he is neither lazy nor undisciplined, so I wasn't counting him in "us"

Poll: Most clever band name
 

Late to the party, but:

Hostile Amish

and, an early name used by R.E.M. before they became R.E.M.

Hornets Attack Victor Mature

sf

Poll: Most clever band name
 

You are on your way to a PJ-->MJ sized obsession. Maybe if you spent less time watching and reading everything you possibly could about both of them, it wouldn't bother you so much.

TM

Poll: Most clever band name
 

The Dead Kennedys.

Poll: Most clever band name
 

Also,

Garage a Trois

Poll: Most clever band name
 

Please explain ultimate frisbee to me. I went to a small school that was obsessed with it. I've had friends who treat it as the most serious sport in the world. I. Do. Not. Get. It.

I've played it. It was okay. Did quite well (freshman year, one game with my floor, scored a lot, could not throw the damn thing though). But left the game thinking it was just stupid. It's like football without the fun or soccer with frisbees. Frisbees.

Listen to how that sounds:
"Dude, I need to get my game on."
"Hell yeah, man. Let's go kick some motherfuckin ass!"
"Mos def. Mos def. Grab the frisbee."

What?

Frisbees are for picnics. If you're in college and you feel like skipping class, it's a nice day, you have some beers you need drunked and your friends have a frisbee, frisbee golf is almost acceptable. But ultimate frisbee? Even the name sounds stupid. ("Dig this. It's totally like...frisbee, but to the ultimate, man.")

So, please help me out here.

TM

protein bars
 

You're projecting, fattie.

TM

Moral Dilemma
 

I have no idea of its origin, although I remember people used it way before Public Enemy did in the mid-late 80s.

It means attacked from all sides by a bunch of people to facilitate a beat down. At least that's what it meant in my neighborhood.

TM

Poll: Most clever band name
 

Heh, I was thinking DK and Butthole Surfers, too. (forgot about Garage a trois.) Circle Jerks? I've also rather liked Atari Teenage Riot for some unexplainable reason. If someone would start that Octopodia band (Penske?), I'd be grateful. But, in the line of bands I've heard of:

Gaza Strippers
Militant Agnostics
Your Name Here
Suburban Rhythm
You will know us by the trail of dead

I always wanted to start a band called "Felicia and the Bureaucrats." Dunno why.

BR(I think "Houston, We Have A Drinking Problem" was an album, not the band's name)C

Poll: Most clever band name
 

Some of the guys I planted trees with were hardcore ultimate players. One of them insisted that it was just called"ultimate" and that it was played with a "disc" - (which just gave me more ammunition to make fun of him - because that's all tree planting is - 10 long hours a day of bickering with the person planting next to you. and some other stuff) Anyway, they were in fantastic shape, so that clearly is a bonus of the game. And it seems like fun - like soccer but with a different set of skills. Some people are obsessed with soccer - I don't get that either.

Question for medical (and not) types
 

What are you talking about? Did you miss her point entirely? The world is overrun with lazy, undisciplined degenerates.

TM

Poll: Most clever band name
 

O, I forgot Mission of Burma.

Aren't they performing again?

Ultimate
 

I played some in college, of the intramural variety. It was moderately fun, and a really good workout. You pretty much run the whole time, unlike soccer, where the strikers usually dog it when the ball's in their own half of the field. But I never really saw much in the way of strategy (other than score more than the other team), which there is in soccer, football, and other sports (of course, IM sports aren't usually highly strategic).

Beyond that, I've never understood the culture of ultimate. (although maybe if I needed to do something between bong hits I would.) Like anything in college, there's one group of people who are really into it; that wasn't me. And I personally didn't get why people were--it's one of those games that's fun to play once in a while, but I'd never watch it on television or pay to see it in person, or support my child to become a world-champion ultimate player. Of course, I don't get beach volleyball, but that was huge for a period of years too. And I always wished (european) handball was played more regularly in the US.

They have been on the bill for some recent festivals (All Tomorrow's Parties, etc.), and Consonant, Conley's new band, put out a release last year (I have no idea what it sounds like).

for NCS
 

Thank you, EO! I will be running out at lunch to buy a frame for your masterpiece. Alas I don't have Dallas-worthy big hair. Probably not enough products.

Moral Dilemma
 

This is the meaning my husband was insisting was the correct one (he capitulated somewhat and said it might only be the "rap" meaning), but my understanding is that it means what she who is not from here says it was, i.e., a quick escort off the premesis, leaving the undeniable sensation that the person being escorted is an "undesireable".

Now you know everything.

Question for medical (and not) types
 

I am neither smug nor self-satisfied - I have my own issues with my body and I either accept them or try to change but I do not blame them on anyone or anything except me (I don't even blame the person who ran over me with a car once thus making exercise in my adult likfe difficult -- I can either accept a little flab or find other ways to exercise and tone that are not so painful). What I am is sick and tired of people making excuses for everything and refusing to accept responsiblity for their own fucking lives. If I get a little jiggly around the belly I don't blame it on my parents, society, restaurants, genetics, whatever, it is my fault for not exercising or for drinking too much beer. The only standard that I have is that people stop trying to blame every bad thing in their lives on somebody or something (that is not to say that there are not outside influences but it is just not possible for nothing to ever be your own fault). Most people who are overweight or out of shape are that way because of their own personal habits -- just admit it and either accept it or change it depending upon who you want to be. Our society has become one where nobody is responsible for anything any more and I am sick and fucking tired of it.

Poll: Most clever band name
 

I'm more partial to this one:

http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies...uke/repuke.gif

Poll: Most clever band name
 

yes, and if you get the chance, go. same thing applies with wire.

a couple more clever band names

thomas jefferson slave apartments

naked raygun

Poll: Most clever band name
 

Yes, I saw them play a few weeks back and mentioned it here. They are working on a new album too.

Moral Dilemma
 

Merriam-Webster says:

Main Entry: bum's rush
Pronunciation: 'b&mz-
Function: noun
Date: 1910
: forcible eviction or dismissal

The meaning put forth by TM may just be a reflection of the increasing level of violence in society. Or, that his mama's rates were too low to allow them to live in a nice neighborhood.

Poll: Most clever band name
 

rick sims besides being in the didgits, the supersuckers, and the gaza strippers was also in a band called deadly cupcake.

reality central
 

realityblurred:

The new 24/7 reality TV cable network that will launch Jan. 15, 2004 will include "full frontal nudity" according to one of its founders. Reality Central, created by The Amazing Race 2's Blake Mycoskie and E! founder Larry Namer, will feature "full frontal nudity" which Namer tells Wired "is OK but full-on sex isn't. We may explore racier content as pay-per-view specials." He also says they are "speaking with ad agencies about reality advertising. For instance, students shooting commercials with their digital cameras that feature a specific product."

me:

I've met Blake before (he was of the brother/sister team from TX). I hope for his sake that this makes a big splash. Seems like a nice guy (friend of a friend). However, I'm sure the FB denizens will agree with me that he should be pushing harder for the full-on sex. C'mon Blake, stand up to the man!

Question for medical (and not) types
 

I don't know, you seem both smug and self satisfied, as well as generalizing about fat people. I don't know about you folks, but the only place I ever see fat people blaming society or saying it isn't their fault and their issue is on television.

I have never met a fat person who blames others for their state of being fat.

So what I find tiresome is your constant statements that people who are fat don't take responsibility for being fat, and also, that it is so simple to lose weight, they are just lazy. You know what, maybe it isn't so simple. If it were simple, we probably wouldn't have so many obese people.