It's all about me

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Here's quality entertaiment:

Watch a bachelor retread try to find her own new love in the same manner that failed her ex-boyfriend.

Jen (Andrew Firestone's ex) is next bachelorette

JFC, can ABC get any worse?

This is the network that feasted of Ritter's corpse for weeks to establish a second-rate sitcom. If I heard one more time how the cast "was like a family" I would have puked up all my champagne.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Because that only applies to unmarried women over 30, and the advertisers would never buy time on a show like that, would they?

Well, they would, but they'd move the show over to Lifetime.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Because that only applies to unmarried women over 30, and the advertisers would never buy time on a show like that, would they?

Of course not. Unmarried women over 30 are either too busy fucking Coltrane-types to watch TV, or watching SportsCenter.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
You and NFH are like Socrates and Plato in a backward universe.

I forget - which one was the stupid one?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
You and NFH are like Socrates and Plato in a backward universe.

Why are you bitchy at me? nfh was the one making fat jokes, not me.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I didn't watch it, but wasn't that the whole Trista thing - she got rejected and then became a bachelorette? I hate the term bachelorette. Why can't they just call it the spinster?

Not exactly the same. Trista came in second on the Bachelorette. Jen actually was the "winner" of the amazing Firestone. I think she expected a life of leisure rather than the girlfriend of a working stiff who will only get money when his father dies.

But yes Burger, you're right. ABC can't even do better than Fox in the reality game.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I forget - which one was the stupid one?

Hank. He can never get his pronouns right.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I forget - which one was the stupid one?

Plato just copies alot of other people's stuff. Plus, he'd sit around the Acropolis reading the friezes aloud.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Why are you bitchy at me? nfh was the one making fat jokes, not me.

That's just fucking mean.

Originally posted by john123
Golly gosh gee whiz Paigs, thanks for the mammaries….er…memories. The Count, indeed, that old sod, he still owes me money or some metal furniture (old skool joke)

Anywhichway, for y’alls info, in exactly 14 hours, give or take a couple of minutes, I will celebrate my 9th year of posting on greedy associate internet chatting boards.

Given that I am 45 years old, that means……OMFG…..I have been digging this scene for one fifth of my adult life!! Holy cannoli! That’s almost 25%!!!

OTOH, imagine if I was like young Master Coltrane, who rumour has it joined this board at the age of 19. When his 9th anniversary comes, npi, he will have been here well over a third of his natural life!!!!

Given my longevity and impeccable old skool cred, its odd that I no longer know any of the board’s contemporaneous members personally! IRL, iykwim. Given my consistent presence, I should know some, I would suppose……..

OTOH, this whole internet style chatting board phenomenon is a constant mystery, ever evolving, kinda weird. One generation passes the torch to another, so to speak and over time I forget more and more about the original Prodigy.Net crew and their descendants on Yahoo. And this place is a whole new FB compared with Chef’s era on the Infirmation Nation. New members swarm and the old ones move on. Partnership, GC positions, kids, trophy wives, no time.

I guess my point is that notwithstanding all that, and as different as this place feels to an old skool diva like me, its nice to know that there are still fellow old skoolers like Paigs (or is it Jenna J?!? LOL!!!-old skool joke alert) and Lessinmengele (or something like that) (old skool joke alert) that I "know" and that I'm still talking with on a cybercomm basis over the internet in the land of the worldwideweb.

cheers!

remember when chris put the moves on Holy Cannoli, a one joke wonder turned tiddy groomer extraodinaire?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Back to planes, does anyone use those neck pillows on long flights? I can never sleep on planes.

Sebby, are you the guy who gets angry when the handicapped person gets on the bus? The buses in Chicago lower and then extend a platform to board the wheelchair-bound person, and then three bus seats are folded up (usually causing three people to get up) so the chair can latch onto a handicapped-specific area. The process usually takes about three minutes. And it pisses my friend off to no end b/c it takes so goddamn long and b/c "wheelchair-bound people already have wheels". He is a Republican.

I sleep on planes. Its a shame they don't serve booze on local trains...

I'm a Compassionate Libertarian - A left leaning Rockefeller Republican who smokes pot.

I generally find those survival of the fittest types are the last motherfuckers you want to sit next to in a foxhole. I know this because I'm really into foxholes.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
This is the network that feasted of Ritter's corpse for weeks to establish a second-rate sitcom.

Give a brother some credit. They shit-canned the Leni Riefenstahl sitcom when she died the same week. You can't expect them to strip "Whose Line" for five nights weekly, can you?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Over a 10 hour flight, I should easily have fallen asleep at least once. Especially after that 4th or 5th glass. And the stupid movies I was watching.

But no. I can't sleep in a plane, in a car, bus, train - nothing. Can't do it. It's the moving, I think. I can't sleep if I'm moving.

I often fall asleep before takeoff if I'm tired. but I never sleep more than an hour (or on really long flights, two) and then I'm typically wide awake for the rest of the flight. Though sometimes I half-sleep a little more with my mp3 player going.

Fuck it, having just reread this post I realize there's no hard and fast rule regarding sleeping on planes for me. There are however hard and fast rules for me in other areas. In case you were all wondering. And I know Coltrane was.

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I ride a train a lot and notice some very strange behavior pattersn:

1. The Bigot - This is the secretary with bad hair who agonized over whether to sit next to the Indian guy on the train yesterday, fucking up my ability to do so. I didn't like waiting behind you for the obvious open seat while you waited to grab the seat directly across from the guy next to the smiling blonde girl. Since I'm writing this, I guess your suspicioan that he may have been a Hindu terrorist was unfounded, but your vigilance ia appreciated. Keep an eye on those Sikhs. They carry knives, like your cousin who was stationed off India once told you...

2. The Guy on the Phone - I use the phone on the train, but only when I'm lucky enough to get the bulkhead space in the middle of the car which is walled off (the best seat in the train). Don't sit next to me and discuss dinner and work with your wife.

3. PC Guy - Get over yourself, Poindexter - Your brief isn't that important that you need to get out the PC on the 35 minute ride. Print out the cases you need to read before you leave the office and attempt to read them on the train, like the partners do.

4. Younger single attractive people - While you're agonizing over whether you can sit next to the hot, probably single guy/girl with the open seat, I'm stuck behind you watching the seats in front of you fill up from passengers getting on from the other side. Just sit down already - he/she isn't going to turn to you and say "Hey, loads of sexual tension, huh" or "Just so you know, you don't stand a chance" if you sit next to him/her. Who knows... maybe you'll get lucky.

Looks like the transformation is complete. WIld, show touring, mushroom congesting, marlboro light smoking, hackeysack playing free spirit is now middle ages suburban middle class commuter guy. I am so depressed. Its like Coltrane is the only youngster amonst us and he probalby has one foot inthe grave thanks to Sequels and her mainstream movie prefernces and ticking clock to be.

Originally posted by sunnybunny
What is his ethnicity? Should we know that too, in addition to his political affiliation?

Clearly he is an Agring Fraternitybpy American.