Breasticle day
 

Now that is an awesome idea. They would be so pissed.

Prepare To Be Amazed!
 

Are you kidding? He has his own song (English translation):

"The goat is nothing to worry about,
The Goatsucker is good,
happy and amusing.
He is a pleasant bandit.

The mare and the horse,
Are part of the flock,
And if you put them out,
The Goatsucker sucks them.

Remember the Goatsucker,
When you open the door,
Take care that he doesn't get in,
to even eat the cockroaches.

He sucks you like the devil,
Even if you're a rooster.
He loves liver, and also blood and bellies.

And everyone is out looking for him,
And they don't see him sucking.
And if you see him driving,
It's because he escaped from me.

And this is the end of the story,
And it is no lie.
The Goatsucker is in Miami,
sucking all the crocodiles."

Reality TV Update & Spoilers
 

Was it the whole Dahm family or just part of the Dahm family?

Ba-da-bum!

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Reality TV Update & Spoilers
 

It was the HOT DAHM! family...

How Would Jesus Park?
 

You are so full of shit, it's hardly even funny.

I love this anti-PC trend. Much as "liberal" now means "touchy feely communist," PC has come to mean "oversensitivity to an extreme." Are you upset because people who have been shit on for generations now demand to be treated with respect? I don't get it. Sure, some people are hypersensitive. But what's the alternative? Going back to the way it was, when the oh-so-funny stereotypes were accompanied by slurs and actual hatred? Fuck that.

And no one is stopping you from being non-PC. You just don't like it when someone gets pissed at you because you think whatever you said shouldn't have pissed them off. That makes sense.

Being politically correct is a form of respect. Saying, "I'm going to call that guy a Chinaman because Asian-American is just way too PC," is nuts.

So what's your problem really, hypersensitivity or political correctness? Because the two are not synonymous.

TM

cause I'm as free as a bir - eeeeeeeeee
 

Don't you tell Wonk how to live his life.

Breasticle day
 

Phew! Your use of the future tense means I haven't missed breasticle day.

How Would Jesus Park?
 

This comment is insensitive to those who are psychologically/emotionally challenged. Are you fucking crazy?

Mixed Messages
 

So all the people who voted for the new bishop were absent the day they taught that lesson in wingnut class?

cause I'm as free as a bir - eeeeeeeeee
 

Ollie, are we the only ones willing to take the cheap joke? I had this one typed in 15 minutes ago, but decided it was just too easy. Thank you for taking one for the team here.

[I've taken too many softballs this week.]

Spoiler Timmy and BB4
 

Answering in reverse order:

Erika is ~32. She bears some resemblance to my fiance, so I'm a big fan. Jack seems happily married, though.

Once it's down to 3, there's an HoH competition and winner decides who they take to the finals. Last year it involved Lisa, Danielle and Jason in the pool doing a Survivor/Hands on a Hardbody thing where Lisa easily outlasted J&D.

Dana will not get a single vote this week, even from Justin. Bank on it.

Alison is the highest of high comedy. She is so stupid-petty about this Dana thing. Ever heard of the high road? Of course not. Penna sorority TRASH.

Last night, the "Nathan-is-gay" thing cracked my ass up. I don't think Nathan is gay, Auntie Twats.

You would have liked Big Brother 2 and 3. Too bad you missed em. Big Brother 1 wasn't much, though I fondly think back about crazy Brittany, stupid Curtis, and of course, Chicken George.

How Would Jesus Park?
 

Umm, we were all JOKING. Not in a "oh, these funny overreacting oppressed groups!" way--more laughing at ourselves.

As a feminist, I think that if we can't laugh at the stupidity of the people responsible for the predicament we're in occasionally, and the use and misuse of our own academic analyses, we might as well all throw ourselves off cliffs, because the reality of the situation is too fucking horrible and depressing. Humor exposes the folly of the oppressor and gives people a lift from daily life.

Lighten the fuck up.

Tying it all together somehow
 

If a rolling menage on the side is your basic straight male daydream fantasy, the Dahm triplets would be winning the first billion dollar Powerball.

P (why do you think Coors Light keeps running those annoying ads with songs about the love of twins?) D

Another way to look at the results of Last Comic Standing
 

The fact that 35% of the people voted for the winner means that 65% of the people did not. The problem was that those 65% split their votes in an inefficient way. I'd bet that the comic who eventually won would not have gotten more than 40% in a heads-up vote between em and the comic who came second.

Invitation hell.
 

Ah yes, the Fellowship of Excitement. At least you'll just feel GOOD inside.

Another way to look at the results of Last Comic Standing
 

I'm sure an Alternative Ordinal Voting system would have worked really well on a call-in/text message system.

Spoiler Timmy and BB4
 

wrong. It was stated on the first episode that Erika is 33. Remember that Jun without an e made the catty comment that Erika was at her peak and it was all downhill for her? Clearly she was just jealous of Erika's fake tits. Threatened also.

Jack is divorced,but lives with his exwife.

Spoiler Timmy and BB4
 

According to an ep a couple of weeks ago, Jack is happily divorced but they see each other every day, according to his ex-wife.

To pull a str8:

The OM knows Jack -- well, met him a few times anyway, back when Jack was recruiting for the Man.

Tying it all together somehow
 

Now they're on to the "Guys Night Out" ads. I think that's what you do when you can't stand that Chick's Rule.

Tying it all together somehow
 

I'm pretty sure I saw a new "song referencing love of twins" Coors Light ad the other day, so don't get your hopes up. Football season is coming, NTTAWWT.

Tying it all together somehow
 

Do guys even drink Coors Light? The only people I think I have ever seen drinking it are women (lord knows why - it tastes like water - actually maybe that is why). Why does Coors target guys so relentlessly in its ads? Is it working - anyone know?

Tying it all together somehow
 

No, precisely because it tastes like water. Like some of their commercials, though, like the "Mighty Wingman" ad:

"You're taking one for the team, so your buddy can live the dream..."

Tying it all together somehow
 

The guys I know who drink light beer drink one of the others. Coors Light had a brief spike in consumption when it was the lowest carb beer, but I think that Mich Ultra Light (I think that's its name) has hurt that little demographic. I will admit to being a light beer drinker (please, bring on the ridicule), and Coors Light is my least favorite. It has some weird bitter aftertaste that I don't get from Miller Lite or Bud Light. I also like Ultra Light, but I will be the first to admit that stuff tastes like water.


edited to fix typo.

Tying it all together somehow
 

The ads target both men and women. Recent research suggests that all women (at least the hot ones) are at least bi-curious. The "twins" ads strongly appeal to the inner fantasies of this sort of bi-curious female - i.e., one swho wants to sleep with another woman but wants the other to look just like her. The bi-curious, thirsting for the nether-nectar of forbidden love, just drink Coors Lite instead, but they don't know why.

Men don't drink Coors Lite, but will buy it in the hopes of seeing some hot lesbo action from chicks who do.

Tying it all together somehow
 

I really hate the adds. I sincerely hope that the "band" that does that twins song drives their bus over a cliff.

That said, I will occasionally use Coors Light as working beer. For instance, last summer, I spent a long weekend painting a house with various friends and family. We would start in on the Coors Light at around 11:00 a.m. We had a keg of good local stuff that we'd break out at quittin' time. The "taste like water" part, and the relatively low alcohal level, made it work just fine for working beer.

Tying it all together somehow
 

The semi-stalking guy I mentioned having a date with a few weeks back. We ate dinner at a Japanese restaurant that only carried Japanese beers and he asked the waiter which was the closest to Coors Light. And he was kind of freaked by the sake (and the sashimi) I ordered.

Tying it all together somehow
 

Concur. FWIW, that is one of the more astute beer commentaries I have ever heard. Though, I will say that in all other situations but this one, ideally you would start with the better stuff and move on the the Coors Light once taste didn't matter so much, but YMMV.

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Tying it all together somehow
 

If I never hear (read) the term "Your mileage may vary" or "YMMV" again, I would be pleased. It's over.

And I could live without "spot on" which is just stupid.

QE
 

The only SG whose apartment was halfway clean lived in Jersey and was probably already gay anyway (NTTAWWT). Is NYC really filled with that many mentally ill packrats? I'm starting to think that all those cute Manhattan walkups I saw in the background street shots on "Mad About You," "Friends" and "Will & Grace" are actually filled with rotting garbage and feral cats.

Yeah, but what the fuck was up with that shirt? If I were his friend, I'd tell him, "Hey, Thom. Carson called. He wants his shirt back." And all six of us would laugh, and then we would all go out for Pisco Sours and butt sex (which I would decline because I have to work in the morning).

Reality TV Update & Spoilers
 

And now it's Richard Karn of "Home Improvement" fame.

Anne

Tying it all together somehow
 

I don't see many males or females drinking Coors Light when I go out. But, I frequently have people over on the weekends and sometimes a guy will bring Coors Light. I just assumed these people don't really care about the taste -- they just want to be, you know, like social.

I sure do wish that Coors would bring back those commercials with the fun-loving, sports-playing, Coors Light-drinking giants. Who was the target audience for that?

Tying it all together somehow
 

You say the dreamiest things. That ad annoys me as well. But I think I am just programmed to have a beer ad tell me how great hockey is and how proud I am to be a Canadian that I reject any ad that attempts to tell me otherwise.

Mixed Messages
 

The Episcopal Church in America is 2.5 million members and shrinking. The worldwide Anglican Communion of which it is a member is 77 million members and growing. The problem was that the Anglican Conference in question (known as "Lambeth" for short), which is dominated by politically leftist but doctrinally conservative traditionalists in Africa (think "Archbishop Tutu"), issued a scholarly paper saying that homosexuality was "contrary to scripture."

Here's the problem: It is. Homosexuality is "contrary to scripture." But rather than say that the church in America has moved beyond the cultural taboos and mistranslated myths of an ancient nomadic shepherd tribe, church leaders here were forced to issue statements of their own reconciling homosexuality with scripture, which is a pretty stupid exercise. They simply don't want to admit that homosexuality is now placed in a category with other Hebrew Scripture condemnations we totally ignore in modern life.

The Episcopal Church in America won't schism (is that a verb?) over this, although some parishes will leave and become independent or go over to the Catholics (don't laugh; it's happened before).

Edited to add: Also on the agenda at this General Convention were liturgical reforms that would have added a ritual for the blessing of a same-sex relationship (not a marriage). It was widely expected that this would be defeated as a sop to those who couldn't handle Robinson + same sex union blessings in the Book of Occasional Services.

Tying it all together somehow
 

What do you think of the Blue ads with the dude in the bear suit? For reasons I can't really explain, they amuse me.

Tying it all together somehow
 

Edited to say: Not quick enough on the draw, but ...

Could that make seeing the Labatt's ad with the proud Canadian bear and some hoser* friends playing hockey a quasi-religious experience? NTTAWWT, of course.

* hoser in the sense that they look like rejected extras from 'Slap Shot'.

P (what the hell ever happened to fire-brewed Stroh's, anyway?) D

Mixed Messages
 

From Scrappleface.com:

Episcopal Church Appoints First Openly-Muslim Bishop

(2003-08-04) -- Bishops in the Episcopal Church today approved the election of the first openly-Muslim bishop in the church's history.

The Islamic cleric, who rejects the deity of Jesus Christ, received an overwhelming majority of the vote.

A spokesman for the Episcopal Church said the move demonstrates, "Our church is open to all people, regardless of their beliefs, or whether they accept the teachings of the Bible."

The election of the Muslim bishop comes as the church stands ready to approve its first homosexual Bishop, V. Gene Robinson. Later today, the bishops plan to vote on the election of the church's first openly-atheist bishop

Tying it all together somehow
 

The Labatts ads in Canada are much better* - so when I first saw the bear ad I thought - this is really kind of stupid. But I will admit that he has grown on me.



*Last year they had this Jackass-themed one that really made me laugh out loud. And they have this one where a spontaneous game of street hockey breaks out on this busy intersection in downtown Toronto that is very good. - perhaps I am biased though.

It was bound to happen.
 

An infant has his own blog.

Top entries include "Paparazzi Getting Tiresome"; "Drinking Myself to Sleep 'Not a Problem'"; and "Older Chicks Have Hypnotizing Mammaries." So far, I disagree with nothing this kid has to say.

Did Anyone Attend?
 

The only part of his platform I really disagree with - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...5/MN259959.DTL - is the tax on slot machines is too high; it would deter too many players.

Tying it all together somehow
 

Many years back I dated a fine Canuck who worked for Labatts which really doesn't have much of anything to do with this thread but I felt like saying it anyway.

I don't get beer ads -- period. I have never tried a beer because of an ad. As with smokes, I have a brand and I don't go elsewhere. Am I alone in this? Are other people really driven to try beer (or just about any other product) by ads? While it is true that ads can at times be amusing, I just don't feel that they work as intended (at least not on me). I know about the whole subconscious argument but I think perhaps the fact that my shopping habits have not really changed much in the past 10 years or so counters that as does the fact that I don't see a lot of ads anyway yet I still buy shit. Couldn't they just lower the price of stuff instead of paying for ads?