Re: It's official
 

If nothing else, you have taught me that Dick Clark is an unstoppable political force.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Which conference is 5-0 in bowls? The Big-12, the SEC? No, the Pac-10. Every football "expert" and commentator who said pre-season that those were the best conferences can shove Lee Corso up their ass. The proof is in the pudding.

Re: It's official
 

AON, this is my all-purpose swear. It's best used in a philosophical tone, as though you were shaking your head sadly. For exclamatory swears, what used to be called "ejaculations" before the culture deteriorated into everything being a double entendre, I use "motherfuck" without the "er." It is highly satisfactory.

Am I the Pisco Sour drinker of the swear word set?

Re: It's official
 

I use "fuck me" in those same situations.

Re: It's official
 

I use "fuck me" in those same situations.

for the other type I go "cornudo, cornudo bastardo!" but that's just me trying to get some of coltrane's European-swarthy mojo thing happening.

Re: It's official
 

"Fuck me up the butt and call it roses."

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

The Big 12 has seven teams in, and is currently 3-1 with their top two ranked teams yet to play, because the BCS bowls are played later than the non-BCS contests.

The SEC has eight in and is currently 4-1, with their top two ranked teams yet to play, for the same reason.

It would seem to me that being 5-0 in bowl games on January 2nd is a lot like winning the NIT. Congratulations on that, though.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Oooh, conference tickle fight. Fight! Fight! Fight.

Note that the second-best SEC team and the second-best Big XII team are playing tonight only because of the nature of the bowl schedule. Those teams, like USC and Penn State are in a "not the BCS championship" BCS bowl. So really what you're saying is what we know: USC and Penn St. weren't either 1 or 2.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Oh, I've got no pride of ownership here. I'm ACC, where all ten teams have played and "we" finished 4-6. I say "we" because my school didn't even get a bid, having finished its season 3-5 in conference play. I just wanted to point out to Lester that the Bowl Challenge Cup, whatever its merits, is no better at resolving these controversies than the BCS itself. After all, the ACC won five bowl games in 2005-06. It also lost three. So we pick the champion with fewer bids because their W-L ratio was higher, even though by definition they had fewer games because they had fewer bids? Craziness. Gimmick. Shenanigans. We might as well say the Germans won the Battle of Stalingrad because they lost fewer men.

Re: It's official
 

I saw a couple of soccer moms at the local burger joint yesterday wearing matching MOuntain Hardwear jackets. It was quite precious.

Re: It's official
 

I wore mine to an outdoor hockey contest played on a baseball pitch. In the winter! It was smashing.

Re: Funniest Movies of the Past 25 Years
 

The Jerk is not on the list? If you put it on the list I will let you friend me.

Re: It's official
 

I wore my Jack Wolfskin, with cricket pants, to a Scottish highlands winter games fest today. I parked my car on the left side of the road, to get in the spirit, and the fucks gave me a ticket. I'm going to find out from Weed if hunger striking is still Euro.

Re: Funniest Movies of the Past 25 Years
 

someone needs to learn to count past 25.

Re: It's official
 

True true story, I used some of mine to traverse the peak of Mt. St. Helens. In January. In white out conditions. Cuz that is how I rolled in Oh-1. I bronzed it and it is in my relics closet.

Re: Funniest Movies of the Past 25 Years
 

I called a friend who is a popular magazine publisher. He said when they do a movie list the Jerk will be on it. De nada.

Shoot me a link with the friend invite.

Question for dog/pet owners
 

Anyone have any experience with:

-Cushings disease in a pet?;

-the use of a dog wheelchair device for a dog who has gone lame in the back legs?; and/or

-longer term use of rimadyl by a dog?

Re: Question for dog/pet owners
 

I'm so sorry to hear that your dog is having problems with his / her joints. I don't have experience with that particular problem, but the Displaced Dog was on SAMe for a few years to help improve his liver function. SAMe is also used a lot for mild depression and for osteoarthritis in humans. My vet said that after a year on the supplement, liver function was improved dramatically, though I don't know if the depression and osteoarthritis improvement would also be there. The Displaced Dog did have trouble getting up in his last few months, but I think that was more due to his exhaustion from congestive heart failure than problems with his joints. He never had problems with depression. They make dog versions of SAMe, but my vet said that they're essentially a more expensive version of the kind sold at Whole Foods or Walgreens for people, so I just picked it up at one of those two places and followed the dosing instructions on one of the pet SAMe websites.

Anyhow, I think that rimadyl has some adverse liver and kidney effects, so you might want to ask your vet if a supplement of SAMe in addition to rimadyl would be a good idea. Rimadyl was especially made for dogs, so I imagine there's a lot of data on its long-term effectiveness.

Good luck! I did everything I could last year on making sure that the Displaced Dog was as comfortable as possible in his twilight, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. He gave me nearly 16 years, and it was the least I could do to make sure that I was as good to him as he was to me. He died in August, and I still miss him a lot.

BTW, I got a note last Monday from the Puppy's breeder that a surprise litter was born on December 27th. We'd thought that it wouldn't be until late spring that we'd get a new puppy, but it looks like we'll be picking up our baby girl on Valentine's day. She's 8 days old today, and the breeder sent me pictures of four itty bitty balls of fluff this afternoon. Mine, I think, was the tiniest of the balls. The Puppy isn't going to like losing her only dog status at first, but I think she misses having someone else to boss around. The cat just doesn't work for her.

cop with no heart?
 

http://www.dlisted.com/node/29983

• So, Charles Barkley was busted for DUI in Arizona early this morning. According to the police report, when the cop pulled him over for running a stop sign, Charles said he was just in a rush to get his dick sucked! If I was the officer, I'd let the bitch go on his way. I'm all about hos sucking dick and getting their dicked sucked.
  
  TMZ says the officer wrote in his report, "He told me that he ran the stop sign because he was in a hurry to pick up the girl I saw get in the passenger seat. He asked me to admit that she was 'hot.' He asked me, 'You want the truth?' When I told him I did he said, 'I was gonna drive around the corner and get a blow job. He then explained that she had given him a 'blow job' one week earlier and said it was the best one he had ever had in his life."

Years ago, I was driving my dad's car, and got busted. I told the cop "please let me just take his car home then you can run me in." I was just a few blocks from home. He drove it home with me.

See, I just think for the joy CB has brought Phoenix people the guy could have driven Charles over, let him get the ole pipes cleaned, then brought him in.

Re: Question for dog/pet owners
 

I used Rimadyl for pain management when my Pixie-dog got bone cancer. It didn't seem to help much.

That said, i think that glucosamine made a huge difference in her mobility pre-cancer.

Now will you friend us, Coltrane?
 

http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/o...g?t=1230338345

Of course. Except the one with the cankles.

Re: Now will you friend us, Coltrane?
 

Does the banner behind the commando chicks say "Disney Kids Awards"? What kind of award show was this?

Re: Now will you friend us, Coltrane?
 

A British one.

ETA: Picture 5, btw.

Re: cop with no heart?
 

Rip Torn (I know, obscure celebrity) got a DUI last week here in my little hamlet. The cop who arrested him (who is a relation of a friend of mine) was just going to follow him home, but he was so drunk and obnoxious, and swearing at the cop in the local eatery/bar & grill, that the cop gave him a DUI as soon as he got in the car. It was in the police blotter, along with the list of people who were "driving too fast for conditions" &c.

He had to appear in Superior Court today (per the aforementioned Police Blotter).

The two most interesting tidbits I have left of this story. UNTIL NOW!!

1. He is 77 years old
2. His real name is Elmore. WTF?

Re: Now will you friend us, Coltrane?
 

I see. So they are kind of like the Spice Girls? Except . . . um . . . none of them are yet married to David Beckham?

Ha, I just learned that Girls Aloud singer is married to (Chelsea player) Ashley Cole, and . . . he cheated on her! I wonder if the Girls Aloud girls like to read Spice Girls biographies so they can find out what is going to happen to them next.

Top 25 Funniest Movies
 

Here is my list (and I'm limiting it, not to the last 25 years, but to movies that came out during my lifetime):

1. Trading Places (not just the greatest comedy, the greatest movie of all time)
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Vacation
4. Caddyshack
5. Animal House
6. Stripes
7. Office Space
8. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
9. Raising Arizona
10. Fletch
11. Airplane
12. Young Frankenstein
13. What About Bob
14. My Cousin Vinny
15. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
16. Swingers
17. Anchorman
18. The Gods Must Be Crazy
19. Elf
20. The Jerk
21. Bachelor Party
22. Austin Powers
23. Weird Science
24. Beverly Hills Cop
25. Holy Grail (Should be higher, but I thought of it too late)

TM

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies
 

Couldn't you have put Holy Grail in its appropriate spot and have your assistant re-number the remaining movies in the post for you? For me, this list is tainted.

I am sulking
 

because for the first time in many years, I didn't go somewhere warm for the xmas break. So to avoid the crushing disappointment that will occur were next xmas break to be similarly bereft, I am in the process of planning and booking the BITCHIN'EST beach break in the history of the world. Or at least in the history of my world.

I think I've got the hotspot picked out, but any suggestions for bitchin' beach locales would be considered and much appreciated. However, as I really don't like traveling all that much, please remember that I'm not going to Fiji (or whatever). That's just too damned far.

Re: Now will you friend us, Coltrane?
 

From the looks of it, the Spice Girls were a beta release. I suspect Beckham will be interested in upgrading to the newer version.

Re: I am sulking
 

clothing optional or standard?

country where sex with teens is legal, or not?

"" "" but as to bestiality?

Re: Now will you friend us, Coltrane?
 

He'll have to fight Ashley Cole then.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies
 

This is a much better list than the other one. What a surprise! I have more in common (humoriphorically) with Thurgreed than a bunch of airheads who spew pablum for the consumption of the unwashed masses!

My only changes to this list would be to move Dirty Rotten Scoundrels higher up, and trade Life of Brian for Holy Grail (if only one MP entry is permitted). If more than one, I'd remove Weird Science to make room.

Re: I am sulking
 

Clothing could be optional or standard

No sex with teens

No bestiality.

So, where were you thinking?

Favre
 

Brett Favre sucks. Not only does he fucking suck, but, in the era of the selfish athlete, he falls in the top fucking three. The Jets were built for conservative football and Favre basically gambled game after game after game -- even after he injured his arm (and knew he didn't have the arm strength for his ridiculous fucking passes). Early on, he was relatively under control and when he gambled, he and the Jets got lucky. Later on, when teams keyed in on the fact that he could no longer sling the ball way down field and the Jets offense was basically the one we ran with Pennington (15 yard slants and crosses), teams started jumping routes and Favre was exposed.

It is not Mangini's fault the Jets flopped at the end of the season. It is Favre's. The guy is a fucking asshole. And when Mangini called him on his idiotic play, he supposedly got pissy and took more fucking chances.

It will always amaze me how people continue to suck his dick. At this point in his career, he's a joke. And he will hurt whatever team he comes out of "retirement" to play for next year. Where the hell is Lawrence Taylor when you need him?*

TM

*Although, I am already stocking vomit bags for when he becomes the next Theisman-like announcer.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies
 

I love Swingers, but I don't think it is a comedy.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies
 

Of course TM's list is better. It's not limited to the last 25 years.

Plus, the Jerk is WAY to low on his list.

Best Beach
 

The pink sand beach on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas is definitely the nicest beach I've ever been to. I've only been once (the week after Thanksgiving one year) and the water was bathtub-warm, the pink sand was literally, flour-soft and the beach had maybe a dozen people on it as far as the eye can see in either direction.* If I were to win the lottery, I would by a house on the beach there. The island is small and there are no cars (everyone travels by golf cart). I was only there for a couple of day trips (from Atlantis, which isn't too far by boat shuttle) and the rooms at the hotels on Eleuthera are pretty expensive. But people who have been there, swear by it.

TM

*And 4 of those dozen were bikini models taking photos, swimming and laying out topless (and otherwise, just improving the scenery).

Re: Favre
 

There is a quite a lot of tension between the two halves of this sentence. This is what Favre does. It has always been what Favre does.

In other words, I agree with you. Until next year it works and he is a hero again.

9 men 8 men 7 men 6 men 5 men 4 men 3 men . . .
 

According to these fans, Beckham may have to take on ten men and their mobile phones as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC54A2PFwqw

[spree: video with sound. It is worth watching till the end . . . ]

Re: Favre
 

Si senor. I thought it couldn't be done, but he made following the Jets this season an even more painful experience than it usually is.