ncs or nfh? a crib sheet
 

ncs: watches reality tv
nfh: watches bennifer

ncs: flirts with fringy
nfh: hates it when ltl insults her grandparents

ncs: dates a stereo geek
nfh: is a stereo geek

ncs: located in the country of Texas
nfh: located (I believe) in the country of California

ncs: digs heat miser
nfh: digs some guy with angel wings

ncs: nfl
nfh: mlb

Any questions?

Paging RP
 

We each have our own cross to bear. I, thankfully, can bear mine without being too PLiFfy.

Reality TV
 

DOes this mean someone was elimiated yet? I didnt really llisten to how this works. Is that freshman fifteen fat fuck gonna be in the final two? She can buy a lot of bry cheese with fifty large. she cant beat the other two can she?

Is there anything better than...
 

Getting into said elevator, and noticing the same thing, but that the two other passengers are a couple of hot, naked women, incredibly eager to do you?







Okay. Enough with the beer ads.

Is there anything better than...
 

Beer ad? Are you joking? That happens to me every time I go to Philly.

The only problem is, that in the really tall buildings on Chestnut street, the elevators are much too fast. I prefer the older buildings with the slow elevators that give me time to enjoy the experience.

ncs or nfh? a crib sheet
 

yeah. who the hell is Not Bob?

You I have a feel for. Dallas chick with a wry sense of humor, single, likes Neiman Marcus and doesnt like Andra, except for enteratinment value. I am now wondering if you are a gay though.

NFH- I have no clue about this person's gender or persona. I do sense that em is from the Bay Area, but not originally.

Reality TV
 

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my understanding is that Allison now is automatically moved to one of the two slots for the third round of the HOH competition. Ratbert and JunBalloon will compete in the second round HOH competition for the other third round spot. The two third round people then compete for the HOH.

aV

9/11
 

So, this morning when I was getting ready, I put on HOT 97 right in time for them to acknowledge the very moment the first plane hit with a moment of silence. Aftwards, they played Whitney Houston's version of the Star Spangled Banner (you can hear it here: http://www.brownielocks.com/starspangledbannerWAVE.html). After the second moment of silence, they played Ray Charles' America the Beautiful (you can hear that here: http://www.brownielocks.com/americat...tifulWAVE.html).

Now, I'm the first to admit that I am not the most outwardly patriotic person in the world, but they did such a great job helping me remember 9/11 and honoring this country, city and the many people we lost. It was simple. Beautiful. Perfect. I felt better about our country than I have in a long time (and don't get me wrong, I'm fiercely patriotic -- I just don't feel the need to bang other people over the head with my patriotism every chance I get). I liked their approach because it allowed me to have my own memories and thoughts (and I guess that's partly because it was on the radio).

And as for those two songs, I think when sung well, they are two of the most beautiful songs ever composed. I would give anything to have been able to hear Whitney sing that live.

TM

ncs or nfh? a crib sheet
 

Alas, I can't really get behind Neiman Marcus. I do buy my Kiehls there, but the vibe in the store totally wigs out my east coast sensibilities.

Not gay. NTTAWWT. I guess I'm a pussy tease.

9/11
 

Sorry to ruin the moment for you, but not even the super bowl audience got it live.

but maybe what you wanted was to be the mixing guy in the sound room she pre-recorded it in.

Food and allergies
 

I praise your immense good sense in just being sure you have fed yourself before hand. Dinner with friends is supposed to be about conversation, not food, but it is hard to fend off people who are asking you to risk horrible unnecessary death with friendly intentions.

I have an allergy like that, but I'm lucky in that it is just one thing and pretty easy to avoid. It's also something that enough people seem to be allergic to that it is usually listed pretty clearly on menus even as a "hidden" ingredient. It's only really a problem when I'm at people's houses (particularly because I have to avoid a good bunch of the other food too, because it's one of those "anything that touched it or touched a surface or utensil that was used to prepare the allergy-inducing food may trigger the allergy if it wasn't super-scoured" allergies). If I find it in front of me I've tried rearranging it a bit, hiding it under a lettuce leaf and the other traditional avoidance techniques one learns when visiting a grandmother who insists that small children need to eat liver; but when your host cooked they tend to notice and always insist on asking and then being hurt that you didn't proffer a list of your culinary demands before arriving.

I recall being at a restaurant once where some innocuous pasta dish was garnished with the forbidden substance (not listed on the menu). So I sent it back saying "this wasn't on the menu and I'm quite allergic, so I need a new plate, and I mean an entirely fresh plate." Damn thing came back with the stuff scraped off - and not thoroughly at that. The Mr. was actually about to stand up and throttle the waitress (if any of you have met the Mr. you know that is not good), but instead I explained to her that when I said allergic I meant allergic, and sort of jocularly said that having their other patrons watch me swell up, suffocate and die from eating their food would probably not be good for business. I sort of regretted the humorous tone, because she didn't seem adequately abashed that she nearly killed me.

I pity the people who are allergic to something harder to track. One person I knew who was violently allergic to something weird (it was something that was very common in certain kinds of cooking oils but never thought of as an ingredient, so the chef himself wouldn't really know without research if the food contained it). She got into the habit, if she was going out, of calling the restaurant in advance, talking to the chef and explaining the whole thing and just saying "I'll be there on Thursday at 8, would you identify or adjust or come up with something and have the waiter let me know what it is when we get there?" That seemed to work wonderfully, the chefs were very accomodating. But you just can't do that with private hosts, who either know you well enough to know your allergies anyway, or don't know you well enough for you to be issuing dietary demands.

9/11
 

Really? I didn't know that. It sure looked like she was belting it out. Maybe they just turned her mike off and then flipped it back on when she said thank you.

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Whatever. It doesn't matter, because the draw for me has to do with being there with all the other people, hearing it together. I'm sure it would have sent goosebumps up and down my spine and the collective feeling of pride in the crowd would have been nice to experience.

Thurgreed(but thanks for trying to rain on my parade)Marshall

And on another note...
 

9/11
 

I was listening to CNN on my XM Radio this morning (Has there been a discussion of XM Radio here yet? If so, there must be. Like TiVo, it has changed my life.) and heard the children of the WTC victims reading the names of the victims. Two little girls were going back and forth reading off names, and then one of them said, "My father, [insert name here]. I love you Dad" and the next girl said "My father, [insert name here]. I miss you Dad".


I about had to pull over...my eyes filled with tears, I had a lump in my throat. Here I was thinking I was fine, and then BAM! It was raw again.

Bn'(My friend, Jeff. I miss you, pal.)B

Happiness and Bankruptcy
 

That's because you are realistic, and understand the venalities of campaign finance.