baltimore is pretty funny sometimes
 

Especially when the fans are throwing corks at Sosa.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas...es_ap/?cnn=yes

VH1's Top 100 Songs of the Last 25 Years
 

Agreed. This is a great song.

Stupid pithy sayings
 

A long time ago, when forwarding e-mail jokes was new, I got one of those e-mails with all sorts of pithy cute sayings. You know, eagles may soar but rodents don't get sucked into jet engines. That sort of thing.

One of the cute, pithy sayings was "Friends help you move, good friends help you move bodies."

Last night, I decided that it is the better friend that helps you move. The body, generally, will be no more than 250 pounds, you only have to move one thing, and you don't have to move it again later on down the line. Sure, there are legal and trust issues involved with the move of a body, but on the whole, the move of a household is a much bigger pain in the ass. The true friend, I think, helps someone move all of their stuff.

I shared this observation with my brother as we lifted his unnecessarily large and heavy desk from the back of a Suburban. He agreed wholeheartedly, and he agreed even more as he watched me hop around the living room after I dropped the desk on my toe. The impact of three hundred and fifty pounds of midcentury modern furniture can change the color of a pedicure from hot pink to pinkish purple almost instantly. The good news is my foot's being in the way saved the desk from any scratches it would have gotten had it hit the floor head on.

Our Busy Armed Forces
 

An Officer and a Gentleman? 50 Women Would Disagree
By N. R. KLEINFIELD

He proposed to Karen. He proposed to Yana. He proposed to Monica. He proposed to Kathy. He proposed to Sarah. He proposed to Susan. He proposed to Vicki. He proposed to Colette.

You get the idea.

Col. Kassem Saleh of the United States Army was part of the force that fought the Taliban in Afghanistan, a task fraught with peril and often lonely. But apparently not that lonely.

The Army said yesterday that it was looking into allegations that he managed to line up dozens of prospective wives in the United States and Canada, women he met through Internet dating services. Virtually all of them posted advertisements on a site called tallpersonals.com, which specializes in men and women who are taller than average.

In recent days, as his chronic courting has come to light, some of the women have compiled a list of more than 50 women who were romanced by him. The women are heartbroken and intent on revenge. They have complained to the Army that they want to see him punished and even thrown in jail. It's unclear at this point if his behavior, if proven true, violates either criminal law or Army regulations.

Full text: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/ny...11LONE.html?th

Our Busy Armed Forces
 

This article begs the question:

Would you ever agree to marry someone you had never met?

I mean, agree to sleep with, sure. But marriage?

What in the hell were they thinking? Doesn't your bullshit meter kick in at some point?

Our Busy Armed Forces
 

I agree with SEF [on Politics Board]. It's more amusing that he lied about his height.

not7yS

Our Busy Armed Forces
 

And while I'm all for the Jerry Springer/Jenny Jones, talk-show-promotion-of-one's-shameful-secrets, air-it-all-out-in-public thing (at least when done by someone else for my amusement), this is one of those times when a sense of utter embarrassment and mortification ought to make these women shut the hell up and just hide in their bedrooms until the whole idiotic thing blows over. Why, why would they want to publicize their own stupidity?

P(this is like those educated women who marry violent convicts who have 'reformed' only to be surprised that they are actually really mean guys who just wanted conjugal visits while in prison)J

At the drive-in
 

http://money.cnn.com/2003/06/09/news...eins/index.htm

spree: High land prices and short seasons make it tough for drive-ins but this may be a revival.


We have one drive-in with six screens left in my metro-area. Although it is in a somewhat seedy area (the federal pen is down the street and I could pick up some crack on the way to the show if I wanted to) we go almost every weekend. I love the drive-in and it would be a real shame if they disappeared entirely. What I really like is two first-run movies for $6 and I can sit outside and drink beer and smoke ciggies to my heart's content. I have great memories of the drive-in from my childhood and early teens -- my son loves the place and I hope it is around when he is ready for his first backseat grope.

Last weekend I happened to glance over at the car next to us and two young adults (sheesh, when did I get old?) were, uh, going at it in the car. Not a big deal unless you consider that we were watching Nemo for fuck's sake -- they coulda picked a better flick to fuck at with less kiddies around.

At the drive-in
 

It's cute when you get all mushy and sentimental.

At the drive-in
 

Is it just me, or does that sound sort of sick?


note to self: read all posts before replying....

The FB invades Salon's "Match Made in Heaven/Hell."
 

Is it me, or do these stories sound like they come from FBers? From Salon, thru the miracle of cut and paste:

Watch out for alligators -- and midget porn: In retrospect, there were many warning signs. He had mentioned in one of his e-mails that he'd spent an entire day laying on his couch, watching "DiGrassi Jr. High" and crying, which is an odd thing to tell a person you're trying to seduce. During a phone conversation he talked nonstop about things like the portrayal of women in the Bible and a friend who liked midget porn. But he had charmed me with his extensive knowledge of random television facts and his sweet demeanor.

Good grief -- this dude sounds like an amalgam of Male FB Poster Dude(tm) . "Um, yeah, I'll take a dash of str8, a dollop of less, and a smidgen of slave. Oh, better throw a little atticus in there for sensitivity and obscure knowledge."

"Summer lovin', had me a blast": Last May, I found love on a telephone chat line. Granted, I'm not your typical chat-line kinda gal: I'm a sweet, blond, Southern-raised classical pianist and attorney who only called up to kill some driving time during a commute.

You almost have it all -- there's the obligatory disclaimer that she's "not your typical chat-line kinda gal"; the reference to music skills; etc., but, alas, she doesn't call herself "hot." Almost -- but, sadly, Not Quite -- the FB Betty trifecta.

At the drive-in
 

Reminds me of the time that my family went to watch Used Cars at the drive-in... My dad had assured my mom that it was only rated R because of language, so she was mortified to see women dancing on top of cars with pasties on. I spent much of the movie with mom's hand over my eyes.

Anyone else have enjoyable memories of watching bad movies with their folks? My only other one was my own mortification at the nudity in Flashdance when I saw that in the theater with my (then divorced) dad. I was in the midst of puberty at the time...

At the drive-in
 

I went to see Top Gun with my parents, their best friends, and their daughter, who was one of my classmates. It's so much worse to have the sex scene mortification in stereo.

Following the movie, our fathers proceeded to tease us mercilessly about Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer.

After Break Up Sex
 

This is akin to the Seinfeld card etiquette thing. How long after you break up with someone do you have to wait before you hook-up? have sex? Put differently (or more accurately), if you had to disclose it to the ex-SO, what would have been too short a period of time?

Thoughts?

At the drive-in
 

Sick? Not sure how a teenage boy copping his first feel on his teenage girlfriend in the backseat of a car at the drive-in is sick. I am sure that there are many babies of the 50s and 60s who were conceived at the drive-in. Haven't you ever necked (why do they call it that? sounds kinda funny) at the drive-in or movie theater? Not even when you were a teenager? I guess I always assumed that it was a harmless rite of passage to have a guy make moves on you at the movie when you are a teenager. Maybe I am just out of touch.