Bad boys, bad boys, whachu gonna do?
 

Ohio Cops Add Twist to Booby-Trapped Car

"The city's so-called "bait car" is now rigged to play the theme from the television show "Cops" when officers remotely disable the engine and nab the crooks."

Link.

It wasn't as it was?
 

Report: Pope Did Not Endorse Gibson Film

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II never endorsed Mel Gibson (news)'s controversial Biblical epic "The Passion of the Christ," the pontiff's longtime secretary told a Catholic news service.

Published reports over the past month said John Paul gave his approval of the film after a screening in his apartment in early December by saying, "It is as it was."

The film's producers said the quote was given to them by the papal secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz.

In its report Monday, the Catholic News Service quoted Dziwisz as saying, "That is not true."

The news service, which is affiliated with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Dziwisz told the agency that the pope "does not make judgments on art of this kind; he leaves that to others, to experts."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...an_gibson_film

Experts like Ebert & Roeper?

aV

Maids and Reality TV
 

Thanks for posting the link to the IRS pub, G3. It seems that whether they bring their own stuff makes a big difference, and also, whether you pay one person or all of them individually.

When they were vetting my mil before her nomination, they did the Zoe Baird analysis, and a key factor was one check/several people.

For the record, my housecleaner brings her own supplies and pays her helpers herself.

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As for reality TV, well, I didn't watch the Big Fat show, but I did watch AI, AJ and RW/RR. I'm a little sick of scooter girl already, too--I didn't think her voice was THAT great. And I would have let in the 82nd Airborne gal--she was cute as a button.

On Average Guido (the head spoiler guy also seems to be Italian-American), the previews seemed to show that not all the beefcake guys would be mean. And can it really be possible that an adult American guy can neither swim NOR ride a bike??!?

I apologize to Coral to the extent that her wimping out was caused by anaphylactic shock, and not too much smoking. It's not clear to me, though, when the spider bite took place, and it may be that her cigarette-related wimping out may have directly led to her anaphylactic shock wimping out in that she was bitten by a spider while lying on the trail.

tm

It wasn't as it was?
 

Not that he remembers, anyway.

Why We Need More Space Travel
 

http://www.poorandstupid.com/images/20040121.jpg

(Sorry, I just liked this.)

It wasn't as it was?
 

I thought Gibson's traditional Catholicism is still ticked off at the Popes anyway for that whole Vatican II heresy?

It wasn't as it was?
 

Yeah, but God is ticked off at Gibson's traditional Catholicism and smote the film crew with lightening twice. (scroll back to earlier boards for articles)

I'm So Proud to Be a Lawyer
 

Killer Louise Woodward becomes a member of our esteemed profession in England:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas...ork_as_lawyer/

For all you cat lovers
 

This is a must-have.

PFHT Pet Foil Hat Technology STOP BRAIN SCANS. Pet Foil Hat Technology (PFHT)
is the sorta-patented system that protects you and your pet from the government!

"PFHT" will not disappoint anyone who doesn't want to get noticed by the ever watchful FBI.com!
Features of this product:
100% effective at stopping the government from reading your pet's brain.
Blocks the CIA brain scans.
Scrambles the NSA brain scans.
Poaches the FBI.com brain scans.
Bakes potatoes when placed around a potato in a hot oven.
pet hathttp://i7.ebayimg.com/01/i/01/26/87/32_1.JPG

Unknown Song
 

A few ideas:

#1: Scooter Girl - the Scooter Song

#2: David Wilcox (hi Jack!) - Do the Bearcat

#3: Lowest of the Low - Salesmen, Cheats & Liars and/or Dogs of February and/or Subversives

Why We Need More Space Travel
 

IN that same vein...http://www.digikitten.com/playhousev...eaze/mars2.jpg

http://www.digikitten.com/playhousev...eaze/mars1.jpg

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

Guess which two stars of the small screen I saw hanging out in the same group of about 10 folks at the Grafton Hotel on the Sunset Strip?

http://www.imageproducer.com/artman/...nathan_001.jpg

http://www.imageproducer.com/artman/...ikapinkhat.jpg

They seemed very friendly with each other, but Nathan was more friendly with another girl there. Nathan seemed 100% not gay.

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

Who are those people? I am no TV-eschewing bilmore, so I'm more inclined to feel that if I don't know who the hell they are, they are not stars.

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

They're contestants from the last season of Big Brother, so he's using the term "stars" very, very loosely.

P.S. The re: line should have tipped you off.

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

Concur. Str8, there is a potential for insider smugness, that you, as an actual insider, must be careful to guard against. I know that is not your intent.
Still, your post has the feel of something like when you first meet Atticus and ask where he went to law school and he says "Boston."
Out with it; we know you're hooked up.

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

Viewed alternatively, however, one might simply have been baffled by the oxymoron therein.

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

What was that you were saying last week about locution?

Therein.

Indeed!

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

Reality TV people can't be TV stars unless they show some talent as actors or whatever. Mostly they're just n-n-n-n-notorious.

Spooky, who reads the headings? There's no need to include the parentheticals in the headings for me.

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

Um, I do.

It's a good tool to help winnow through the crap that wouldn't interest you to get to the crap that would.

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

It is like the only thing worse than being a brainless nobody from Oklahoma or wherever who moves to Hollywood to be a stah bc he was a reality tv show (which is probably the one thing that makes it less likely he would be a star bc reality tv kills any tiny hope you might have had) is being the nobody who think he is someone who drops that he has seen some nobodies

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

Or, more pathetically, to mention it.

It is what it is
 

but I will, once I take over.

For that matter, "Braveheart" will become the official film of the Vatican

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

No no no.

Talking about pathetic people who talk about pathetic people is okay.

It is what it is
 

I call bullshit. Everyone knows that the only Bible film that counts is The Ten Commandments.

Although Braveheart, if otherwise irrelevant, does have a lot of vaguely Crusades-ish blood and gore.

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

I'm so confused.

It is what it is
 

I'm fairly sure The Trouble With Angels doesn't sit on the shelf for any length of time at the Vatican Blockbluster.
Hayley Mills, rrrrrrrrrrrowww.

It is what it is
 

Sorry, Hank, but in The Ten Commandments both Yul Brynner and Charlton Heston spend a significant amount of the movie with their shirts off.

I think the Vatican's choice is clear.

It is what it is
 

I was going to make a joke about how it would be clear if Yul and Charlton were young boys, but then I thought, nah. Too much.

Carry on.

FB not the PB
 

Since this is the FB and not the PB, I post this for your entertainment. State of the Union Address - Drinking Game I think they should simplify the rules - you can only during the applause.

I'd like to hear what he has to say, but I don't have the patience for all the damn applause interruptions. Jeez, he can't even string two sentences together without everyone standing up and clapping.


There's a softball or two in there for anyone who is interested.

FB not the PB
 

You could have stopped that statement right there and it still would have been accurate.

That's one.

FB not the PB
 

I thought it was this one

Poll: Best Unknown Song
 

While I dig the old favorites, there's just something about the simplicity of Elmo's song that is brilliant. But it's a take off of The Gary Shandling Song from his first tv show.

But for absolute favorites, Blue's Clues wins.

TM

It is what it is
 

Off my corner, ho.

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

You're pathetic.

TM

McDonalds
 

McDonalds heiress gives $1.5B to Salvation Army.
Your McNugget dollars helping a charity who discriminates against gays.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4006823/

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

A fews months ago, I reported for jury duty in the same pool as this guy.

http://a.abclocal.go.com/images/ktrk_bios_koch_lg.jpg

He is a news anchor of the local abc affiliate. I had chatted with him for about 30 minutes without having a clue who he was (I don't watch local news). He finally told me who he was and what he did for a living. I was so embarrassed for him. I had just thought he was an insurance salesman or something.

eta: Don't know if he's gay or not, but he's not very manly.

Timmy McDonald
 

a charity that discriminates against gays, indeed.

Timmy McDonald
 

I am never never never going to get that right. Get over it.

eta, I have a bizarre mental block regarding this. I catch it most times, when I care, so the likelihood of me catching it here is slim.

Reality TV Celebrity Sighting
 

Feeling ignored, dearest?

Timmy Pile on NFH
 

The likelihood of my catching it is much greater.