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.

Word to your Father!
 

That's just what we want you to think. Heh.

baby, if you ever wondered...
 

Mr. Carlson has died --

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Gordon Jump, who played a befuddled radio station manager on the sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" and made his mark in commercials as the lonely Maytag repairman, died Monday. He was 71.

Jump suffered from pulmonary fibrosis, said his cousin, Katherine Jump Wagner. The illness causes scarring of the air sacs of the lungs, leading to heart or respiratory failure.

Strange Poll
 

Which goes to show how background can really affect what people perceive as strange. I've seen things like this so many times it doesn't even make it into my top 50. Did the cross have a little wheel on the bottom? Without it the bottoms of the crosses get chewed up in short order from the friction, but I still kind of think it is cheating.

The weirdest thing I'm ever seen was a fifty year old fat balding guy in a pea green ball gown, white elbow length satin gloves and a tiara (don't know how exactly he got the tiara to stay up on his comb-over) earnestly singing "Crazy" in the manner of Patsy Cline. This was made more odd by the fact that the man's normal persona was one of pure evil. But I bet you wouldn't think that too odd at all. Well, maybe odd, but probably not in your top 10.

baby, if you ever wondered...
 

First John Ritter, now this? All of our 70's television icons are dropping like flies. I guess I'll have to add more of them to my official celebrity death pool. I've got dibs on this guy.

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/A/...GE/asnered.jpg

Seriously though, that sucks. WKRP was a great show and Mr. Jump played a great character.

sf

Strange Poll
 

David Lynch movies don't count. It has to be something you've seen IRL.

sf

Strange Poll
 

Several years ago, a friend and I drove cross country. As we approached Indianapolis, a huge thunderstorm began. We drove for a while, enjoying the amazing lightning display until the rain got so bad that we decided to stop at a truck stop and wait it out.

We entered the truck stop and sat at the counter. We ordered coffee. Our waitress was one of those gum-cracking, pencil in the hair, calls everyone "Hon" types, and she chatted with us for a while.

Suddenly, a huge crack of thunder and the lights went out. It was totally silent in the restaurant, and then, without provocation, a barbershop quartet stood up in the corner and started to sing.

Both my friend and I were totally wigged out and bolted as soon as we'd paid the check.

It was like something out of a David Lynch movie.

Strange Poll
 

while, contemporaneously....

Now this may be the strangest thing I've seen today...

Strange Poll
 

This poll was inspired by a conversation I had last night with a group of Austin friends.

One of the commented that, like knowing where you were when JFK was shot, Austinites remember the first time they saw Leslie Cochran. Leslie stands in the middle of the business district in a bikini top, thong, and stillettos, showing off what are widely accepted as the best legs in Austin. His longish hair and beard add to the overall look.

He used to get harrassed by the Austin police daily and was frequently arrested. He became very famous and they mostly leave him alone because of public outcry (they did escort him from the ACL, though, bastards). After that, he has run for mayor and received like 10% of the vote each time.

For us, he makes Austin, Austin. Others often freak out the first time they see him.

Strange Poll
 

Are you serious that this was also in a Lynch movie? That would be very strange. I'm not sure I've actually seen a Lynch movie all the way through.

This was very much real life for me. It was the same night one of my best friends from high school launched his drag queen persona Felicidi ("with a 'D'").

On a slightly different bent, the weirdest place I've ever been is the Stop N Go at the corner of Montrose and Westheimer in Houston. Weirdest things 2-5 on my list all occured there. Its weirdness is apparently widely recognized, because the Houston Press once named it the "brightest place to see the dark side" in Houston.

Strange Poll
 

Wow, one of the strangest things I've ever seen happened in a t-storm near Indianapolis as well. Maybe it was the same night.

First, I've never seen Magnolia (but I know what happens). Is it a David Lynch movie?

As I'm driving through the storm, frogs (toads??) appear. They don't fall from the sky as they apparently do in Magnolia. But they appear on the road. All over the place. Thousands and thousands. Hopping across the road. It was like a stampede of frogs. I obviously ran over quite a few. It was ridiculous. And eerie. And this mass migration wasn't just a 50 foot band of frogs -- it lasted for a few miles. A flash of lightning would illuminate the road ahead and...frogs as thick as locusts. And then it stopped as quickly as it started. No more frogs.