The Day's Awards
 

I would like to suggest a new award. This award will be called the You Irritate Me award. I am the soul arbiter of who this is, because it is I who will be irritated. However, I will accept nominations.

On each and every day, I will choose the person who irritated me most, then I will make it my personal mission to find someone who lives near you and have that person walk into your office and whack you on the back of the head.

You may nominate me, but there is no one else in the area who can whack me on the back of the head, so I will have to do it myself.

The Day's Awards
 

V: What are you insinuating? That we've come to the wrong place?
E: She should be here.
V: She didn't say for sure she'd come.
E: And if she doesn't come?
V: We'll come back tomorrow.
E: And then the day after tomorrow.
V: Possibly.
E: And so on.
V: The point is—
E: Until she comes.
V: You're merciless.

Metrosexuality RIP
 

Interesting. I don't find that men are freaked out by my football knowledge (of course it isn't my job). Every guy I've ever dated has thought it was cool. A plus mark in the "keep dating her" column. So how 'bout it, fb men? Is sports knowledge a turn off?

Metrosexuality RIP
 

Good god, no. I sure wouldn't mind watching a game on a crisp fall night next to Suzy Kolber.

Didja Miss Me?
 

Finn's Rule

Metrosexuality RIP
 

Just don't try joining us under the stadium blanket.

Word to your Father!
 

For those interested (as I am) in this subject, here's the link where all of this information (and even more fascinating stuff) came from:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/his...003/jan24.html

CDF (cite/link timmy)

I need an avatar
 

Speaking of avatars, is that pussy of yours wielding an automatic weapon? Smokin!

Word to your Father!
 

False. Some of it came from Amazon reader reviews for In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language,and a Culture by Alister E. McGrath and Coined By God: Words and Phrases That First Appear in English Translations of the Bible by Stanley Malless and Jeffrey McQuain. It was only by running searches for "1 Maccabees 9:16" that I found the Christianity Today article, because all my favorite Bible sites are Protestant and don't have the deuterocanonical books, the fuckers.

A(plagiarism Timmy)G

For the PJ in all of you
 

Peter King's SI.com column:

'From Saturday's New York Post, in its New York Fashion Week gossip column:

"A French fashion editor shocked onlookers yesterday when she strolled into the Fashion Television Suite at the Bryant Park Hotel, sat down, opened her Hermes Birkin bag, and lost her lunch into the purse. The editor, who shall remain nameless, then closed the bag and walked out. But it wasn't the vomiting so much as the woman's choice of receptacle that raised eyebrows: There is a notoriously long waiting list to buy one of the Birkins, which sell for upward of $8,000 each.

"'Can you imagine?' said one stunned showgoer.

"'Use the floor!' added another.

"'Or your shoe,' said a third, 'because she is never gonna get a replacement for that bag.'" '

I need an avatar
 

How about this:

http://home.cfl.rr.com/mmeara/whokill.jpg

Glinda the Good Witch

Word to your Father!
 

BTW, I found a RealAudio link to the radio program mentioned above. It's with Alistair McGrath, the author of In the Beginning. It's available on the Wisconsin Public Radio website. He does a pretty good job of explaining the doctrinal reforms that followed direct Greek to English translation. The most famous example is the fact that metanoia in the Greek became paenitentia ("penance") in the Vulgate, but became "repentance" in Tyndale and the KJV. Huge doctrinal shift against priestly authority.

A personal note: The McGrath interview preceded by by an interview with Elaine Pagels, upon whom I have an enormous crush. I dream frequently about talking with her into the wee hours about early noncanonical Gnostic gospels over a bottle of red wine. Then we do the sex --- around the world. Usually on a macrame pillow.

http://www.cameron.edu/festival5/images/pagels.jpg

Turns out she did her early work at Barnard, which means that I take back what I said about Barnard girls and roadhead. Hopefully.

Word to your Father!
 

Would you feel differently if she knows a lot about sports?

Word to your Uncle Timmy!
 

Hurling is a sport, right?

Word to your Father!
 

I'm not saying you didn't have independent knowledge. Nor am I saying that such knowledge didn't inform your Google search. After all, you can't do a really effective search unless you know something about the subject matter you're Googling.

I'm just saying that the Christianity Today article that you acknowledge finding includes not only all of the items cited in your post (in the same order), but also a number of other interesting tidbits. Why make your FB friends work to turf up this stuff? Sources of erudition should be shared, not hoarded. :)

(In case you're interested, I found the site by typing in the first half of the last sentence in your post (having to do with the "left wynge" business), which included the "Maccabees 9:16: reference you used in your search. It was the only website that came up. As for the other sites you cited, show me any information set and I can show you several sites that collectively contain the entire disclosure.)

I hestitate to mention this, but....if you have a bunch of "favorite bible sites" bookmarked, you might want to get out a little more. NTTAWWT.

I'm sure you and Fugee are both going to give me hell now...so to speak. Oh well.

CDF (double plagiarism timmy)

Word to your Father!
 

Another interesting linguistic tidbit: apparently the word baguette is a corruption of the French word for the Biblical "begat", and was so named because of its shape.

Ding dong, recession's gone
 

Ahem.

I have it on good authority that Gibson Dunn DC is looking for junior to midlevel lateral associates to work on litigation matters. I don't work there, so don't ask me for details. Just look up the name of a likely associate in that office, tell them that he/she located you, and they'll get $10,000 or so, assuming that you pan out, of course. Maybe they'll even give you some if you're nice.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Word to your Father!
 

Hmmmm. I thought it came from New Orleans Saints fans putting bags on their heads and hooking up in the stands, while their team took it in the ass on the field. The association with "French Quarter loaves" came later, after enterprising stadium vendors began selling trusty (and crusty) stand-ins for alcohol-induced impotence.

You heard it here first.

CDF

Kelly Fever!
 

Kelly kelly kelly kelly kelly kelly kelly kelly K-E-L-L-Y. Why? Because you're Kelly kelly kelly kelly kelly . . .

str(by the way, the "kelly kelly kelly kelly" episode was recently voted the best Cheers episode ever, from some website or other)8

Bad Penske
 

Beat it sock, or I'll drop a house on you.
http://thewizardofoz.warnerbros.com/img/photo/1_ph.gif


BTW, is anyone but me amused that a cite to Christianity Today did not come from me???

P.S. Leagl, could you re-size this? It isn't in my html skills.

The Day's Awards
 

With an avatar like that, how could you possibly irritate anyone? Besides, you are all that's good and right with the world. I have a nonsexual crush on you, and nonsexual only because the other kind would belp* you out.

str(*belp is the new squick)8

Jack Johnson
 

Jack Johnson is married to a tall, thin, tan blonde.
He is quite shy in person.
I didn't inquire about either's hellcat status.

fashion quiz & vintage v contemp sharkskin
 

Here's a fashion quiz for Atticus & BRC to destroy:

Beginner Quiz
Intermediate Quiz
Advanced Quiz

Re sharkskin, BRC jokingly dismissed it as good kindling, or in bulk, a substitute for a fire log. BRC's right that vintage sharkskin stands out, and not in a good way, for a day-wear business suit. Vintage 1 Vintage 2 However, at least some contemporary sharkskin looks fine.[p]https://ssl26.alentus.com/suitsource.../2button04.jpg

Sinatra: P Diddy as; Gay Talese on
 

Speaking of rat pack style sharkskin, this month's esquire has a cool pic of P Diddy as Sinatra. The issue also has a reprint of the very, very cool essay by Gay Talese titled "Sinatra has a cold" or some such thing, with Talese's notes reprinted in colorful longhand. link to essay

The Day's Awards
 

Ok, what do you want?*


Here Fugee:

http://www.digikitten.com/playhousev...leaze/1_ph.gif


*Men having crushes on me neither belps nor squicks me out, even if they are real, as opposed to sucking up crushes.



Edited to say I have been advised that the gun in question is actually a rifle. Most likely a 30.06 deer rifle. And not an automatic.

Jack Johnson
 

Well I'll continue to believe that he is a hellcat in bed until someone offers proof to the contrary. Heck, she probably is one too.

FYI.
 

QE's Jai's suggested dance move with your partner (you know, the surprise pull-in) went over very well with the Mrs.

this isn't debate camp
 

For some reason this is turning me on.

I need an avatar
 

Look, Glinda, you stupid bitch cow, Fugee is no wicked witch, dammit.

And that water thing won't work on me anymore -- I got Goretexed.

I'm Back!
 

I'm off the market but luckily my galpals are sharing their Internet suitors. This is not a pretty sight. Should not some men always... I mean ALWAYS...wear a shirt, even when showering?

http://www.digikitten.com/playhousev...aton/marco.jpg http://www.digikitten.com/playhousev...n/13395368.jpg http://www.digikitten.com/playhousev...n/12219732.jpg

:hide:

I'm Back!
 

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton

Given your "friends" options, "they" might try moving to a place where the gender ratio is heavily stacked in their favor. I'm told in Alaska women so outnumber men that they can suject men to endless shite.

Strange Poll
 

What's the strangest thing you've ever seen?

To answer my own poll:

After a particularly emotional Church service, I was sitting at a stop light on the one Sunday morning and I saw a Honda Accord turn through the intersection, driven by a clown in full make-up, nose, hat, and garb.

It felt like being in a Fellini movie.

Strange Poll
 

I have seen a lot of strange things, especially over the past month. And given some things going on here in the burg, my answer to this question next week might well be different. But despite the numerous drag shows I have attended of late, the strangest thing I have ever seen remains this:

One day, around lunchtime, I was in Harrisburg walking down the main street to a lunch meeting. My attention was drawn to a man who was dressed like Jesus Christ, complete with a crown of thorns, dragging a very big cross down the road. The thing was huge.

The combination of the timing and the surprise, with the absurdity of the sight really stuck with me even though this was probably a year or so ago now.

I can still see the image in my head.

Extraordinary.

The Day's Awards
 

* A location in your profile.

Might I suggest, given your new avatar, the Texas Book Depository.

sf

I know, I know. It's in bad taste, therefore perfect for this board.

I'm Back!
 

Yeah, and they're hot looking up there too. .http://www.alaskamen.net/index2.asp *sigh* Too bad I'm hooked on a New Yorker who isn't half as rugged as those manly men in the wilderness

Cat (pack)in(g) heat
 

And it ain't a bushmaster that the pussy is holding, either.

Rather than just any old deer rifle, I think it's a special purpose sniper rifle.

Pretermitted(I concur with sf's suggestion re: Texas Book Depository)Child

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

Didnt complain about your being blustery, Mr.Fake Tits are Sleazy/Fake Tits are Cool. I merely said you were. Your reading comprehension skills kinda suck for a litigator, which must be why you live in Pennsatucky which you hate so much.

Metrosexuality quiz
 

Sorry if this has already been posted, but now there's a metrosexuality quiz, which was posted on the msn homepage.

http://sports.espn.go.com/chat/sport...z?event_id=418

I am pretty sure that metrosexuality is just nearing the heights of coolness in Nebraska and parts of South Dakota. Maybe this was to help them out.

The Day's Awards
 

a) its paigowprincess. no caps, no space.
b) the geraldo award is from Jon Stewart, not me. I give credit where its due and would not attempt to use someone else's humor to be funny. I have my own ideas.
c) You are welcome to flame me, but please be clever and funny about it. Like Less with his comment about fourteen mes or something. this is just open mic night at a bar in dayton, ohio quality. embarrassing really.

but thanks for playing!

Word to your Father!
 

Deep in all hearts, everyone sort of knows he couldn't really know all the stuff he includes in his post. But he does a good job of weaving the info to make it seem like actual knowledge. The personna works, and is certainly a positive to the board. all knowledge has an emanating source after all.

I for one would rather not have the curtain drawn open, as it were on Atticus's posts.

Just have some patience. In a few more months you can have the same joy hanging outside department stores telling kids there is no Santa Claus.