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Beer from a happy place.

Glug-glug while vroom-vroomming

It would appear that Pat and I need to apply to be coaches for the University of Cincinnati's basketball team. Now former assistant coach Keith LeGee received the program's fourth DUI in 18 months recently. LeGee was asleep at the wheel of his car when police woke him up, at which point LeGee tried to drive away. LeGee had a plastic cup containing liquor (liquor? I just met her) in the cup holder, and an opened bottle of Hennessey on the seat.

And in an entirely unrelated story, on December 9th a bunch of Marge Schott's stuff will be auctioned off, including a collection of glass and ceramic St. Bernard's, stuffed elephants (probably of the plush type), and 1950's beer signs. Unfortunately her collection of sports memorabilia, which may or may not include Pete Rose's bookie receipts, will not be sold off until March.

The Impossible Dream

A football with a camera inside of it?

Wax off

Probably not the best headline I could have come up with, considering the people who read this website. Anyway.

Maybe we do need some water . . .

Fire in downtown Annapolis.

Google is here to steal your soul

Google has a page where you can see all the most-popular stuff people are searching. I looked over it, and I have never seached any of those phrases. I'm either out of touch (very likely), too old (less likely), or simply smarter than everyone else (I an am idiot). Further:

- I don't know who the people "eva longoria," "brooke burns," or "keith urban" are.

- Why wold people Google Amazon? or Best Buy? Is it so hard to type the same phrase followed by a ".com"?

- the number two gainer is Emma Watson. So, here's to decent if uninspiring British actresses.

- most of htese searches make me sick. People are really GISing Paris "holy crap who left a cell phone in my vagina" Hilton more than any other woman?

- The only two athletes are footballers...real footballers, and they're putting their foots in TO's ass. He didn't even make the list. Fuck'im.

- Johny Cash is the #6 gainer. Maybe there is hope.

The sun is hot in the summer sky
The work is hard til layin' by
Layin' by til Pickin' Time
Layin' by til Pickin' Time...

Oh hey Rickey...why was the site down most of today? Transferring your gay porn to a new ftp server?

Happy Thanksgiving

In honor of the beginning of the NCAA b-ball season..

Gummy Bears

...as breast implants...in Bethesda.
Why isn't John breaking this news?

Because it makes me smile

Other reasons CA rules

You may remember my 11-salsa post from about a month ago. Salsa is awesome. Here are two more reasons CA is the shit:

- 2-story Targets with shopping-cart escalators. WTF? Is that necessary? Is that why the coffee maker I just bought was $60, to pay for the damn escalator?

- Can you say grocery-store-discount-card rum? You wish you could. Every store has an entire liqour store in it, and beer, wine, liquor: it's all on sale. Sweet.

Disturbing Post of the Day that Amuses John

Cal Ripken, have your way with me.

Rick's where?

I'm flipping through channels and went through CMT...some country chick is singing with Bon Jovi. You can guess which song. So, stand up and point with me:

Whoa-oh..RICK IS OVER THERE-ERE.

Yes, I'm half drunk, alone, standing in my living room, singing and pointing at my TV. I shouldn't have moved.

Last Tailgate

If any of you know me at all, you know my bizarre affinity for kickers. So it is rare that I blast one – but this Ennis fella has got to go. He single handedly took 5 years off my life last weekend. But no matter, he hit the one that won the game, so his life is spared for a week. That being said – where is the guy whose name sounds like Tunde?

Moving on – this weekend’s game is huge. If Maryland wants to go to a bowl game, the best way to do it would be to beat BC and NC State and make sure they get a slot. My favorite college football site doesn’t have us slotted for a game, basically because there are too many 6-5 teams. So why not just win 2 and be 7-4, huh?

As for the actual game, if you need a ticket, some are still available. Read the game info and the game notes if you like. And check out a soon-to-be Terrapin Tables spin off, www.wholanceball.com OK, that isn’t real, but he is pretty good.

Anyway, on to the Tailgating. Do the usual and click on the page and pick something to bring. The grill is currently MIA, and I am not sure when/if it will be back, so consider bringing something that is pre-made and can be heated up on the stove top. At this point, I plan on being in Lot 9B at 6 am (sunrise is at 6:54 am), assuming others will be there. This is the last tailgate of the year, so why the hell not!?! Weather looks good, although cold (sorry Roy), so I will see you all on Saturday – try not to start any fights at Cornerstone.

Drinky Drinky

Coming soon to a Columbia apartment near you.

"It brings the project back to our roots," said inventor Matthew Younkle, "We were thinking about ways to pour beer faster at a party."

Bart was right

Fox really does suck. The best non-animated, non-football show on television goes bye-bye because it's cheaper to run "reality" shows and 3rd-rate hackery. And because of the quality cast, places like Comedy Central, FX, and USA can't afford it. Holdout hope a place like HBO of Showtime wants to foot the bill.

Sketching a Woman

Here's an animation of someone sketching a woman - starting from the skeleton and fleshing it out to adding clothes. Pretty interesting. Should be SFW unless your boss is easily offended.

Election Results

Well, nothing unexpected. It's just disheartening when these things actually happen, though.

First, in my home state of Texas, Proposition 2 was approved by a whopping margin - 76% to 24%. You know, the one that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. Not just that, but the wording of the ammendment outlaws civil unions, as well.

In Kansas, the state Board of Education passed new science standards that are critical of evolution, and even use a different definition of science than practically every national organization. Their new standards are so bad that "The National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Teachers Association have refused to grant copyright permission to the Kansas State Board of Education to make use of publications by the two organizations in the state's science education standards." (more here) Pharyngula has a good write up on this, so I won't comment any more.

Tunde Day

So over the weekend, some of us decided that we should have a Tunde-centric holiday. The first proposed date was early June, though that may be too close to Memorial Day. Anyway, we had ideas, such as pitchers of gin and tonic for all, the fighting of the dishwasher, the obligatory "Testify" and probably getting hammered and dancing along to "Get Low" by Lil' Jon. But I think we can make it better, so the floor is open for suggestions, and maybe will be create a reason to have a party out of thin air.

War! huh! Good God Ya'll..What is it good for?

Tax exempt status, apparently. So if this church loses it's exempt status for being anti-war, if I go pro-war can I gain tax-exempt status. In your face, God!

Holy Crap!

So with the Family Guy DVD out, there's some extended scenes that have been ripped and put on the ol' internet. Quahog 5 News has some neat video clips, including Seth MacFarlane's student film from 1995.

Who knew

I never knew Natty Boh was originally the brew of choice of a band of misfit pirates who once served as the sole scourge of the Chesapeake until they were vanquished by the rapier of Lord Calvert. What? Nevermind, just click the damn link and hit the picture of the dread Capt. Natty Boh himself.

Kickball: Post-play foreplay

Well, WAKA made the news again. From the article in Sunday's Washington Post:

One need only stage a clumsy slide into first base, thus hitting the attractive member of the opposite sex playing said base, and one will hopefully get to first base with the aforementioned person that night or later that season.

The drinking part has a lot to do with people joining...Everybody is pretty much a lush.

Humans have been randomly hooking up ever since a caveman named Bud brewed the first beer. Thus, the mating dance that began on the kickball field continues at the "flip cup" table if everything goes according to plan.

Sound like anyone we know?

Duke enjoys it in the ass

And Maryland enjoys giving it to them. Read this charming article - supposedly about Duke, lots about UMD being badass - that gives it to you Clarissa style: it explains it all.

Nasty

Warning: Not for the squeamish

So, this morning at work, I took apart one of our computers because the DVD drive wasn't working (I'm our IT department). It's a pretty new computer, and it was very clean on the inside - not the accumulation of dust that you normally see. There was one clump of dust, though, that caught my eye. It looked like a long thing dust bunny, which struck me as odd since everything else in the computer was so clean. So, since I usually try to clean out the dust when I open up the computers, I grabbed this dust bunny and pulled it out of the computer. A small piece of it broke off, but I'd get that next. Only once I got the dust bunny out and got a better look at it, it had fur... and bones. It was the dried up carcass of a young mouse. The piece that broke off was the skull. Ugh.

So, I did what any good nerd father would do - I wrapped it up in a paper towel so that I can take it home to show it to my daughter - give her a mini anatomy lesson before I throw the thing out.

Not Again!

So, I know I posted last week regarding Yale closing down tailgates early for the Harvard game.... Well, now there is this gem of an idea from Hawaii.

So, the gist of the article is that they want to ban all alcohol from parking lots b/c of unruly behavior in a "family environment." It then goes on to say that they will continue to sell beer inside the stadium.

Um......

Us in 10 years or so

"If being an adult means putting all of the fun stuff down, then I’m all for changing the definition of what an adult is."

I am sure I am the last to see this

But as you are all well aware, I am easily amused. Though my favorite one is missing.

The Legend of Me

This is funny: "How did I come to this curse? I'll tell you. I was bitten, bitten by a wolf. And not an ordinary wolf, but something called a 'schnauzer.'"