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Tennis (balls) Anyone?
There are so many great boxing movies. Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney in Requiem for a Heavyweight (written by Twilight Zone's Rod Serling). Rocky, of course. Cinderella Man, most recently. The Champ...which is the saddest movie ever made. Too many to list.— December 18, 2007 4:01 p.m.
Lies -- and the fat man in the red suit that tells them.
She was going to college at San Francisco State, so she was going back to school, and I think neither of us wanted to do the "long distance thing" and we realized we didn't get along well. She was cute. She had dated Steve Poltz years earlier. Fumber...do you date? I mean, I already know the answer to that, but...— December 18, 2007 1:42 a.m.
Bathroom Attendants
Hey, that would be a funny trick to play on a bathroom attendant. They have all those supplies...gum, mints, cologne...ask for a straw. Then, put some baking soda on your nose inside the stall, and come out with it on your face as you wash up. Just to see what he does. Anyone ever see that Saturday Night Live, where Kevin Nealon played a bathroom attendant, and Harvey Keitel goes in to use the facilities? He is uncomfortable with Nealon talking to him, and spraying air freshener every few seconds.— December 18, 2007 1:39 a.m.
Rock Hall of Fame
Yeah, there is a lot of BS in the Hall of Fame. David Lee Roth didn't perform with Van Halen, because someone in the house band, wanted to do a song he didn't. Not sure why Roth couldn't choose his own song to perform. My friend and I have argued for 3 years...he thinks Rush should be in. I don't. They have some great songs (Red Barchetta, Trees, In the Mood, Working Man)...but good, doesn't equal "hall of fame."— December 17, 2007 12:46 p.m.
Lies -- and the fat man in the red suit that tells them.
Well, the reason for me putting the tattoo and piercing thing in there is...I find it odd that someone that is so strict with things like that, doesn't wonder what their (future) children will think of the things inked on their skin. It's always the people that do the most preaching, that have the most issues, and do the worst parenting. In the new movie Juno, they try to touch on this. The girl protesting outside an abortion clinic, is saying something like "The baby deserves to be BORNED." So, we are supposed to think this character is stupid, because she doesn't even know the proper word to use (when in fact, that character is foreign, which would explain that). So...some tattooed girl, with piercings (who, by the way, told me her tongue piercing chipped one of her teeth), is lecturing me on what would be good to say to (future) kids, I found laughable. Because, I'd I'd be willing to bet, that she thinks it's bad for her kids to believe in Santa, but if the kid was 16 and wanted a tattoo, she'd gladly take her/him to the parlor, and help her pick something out.— December 17, 2007 12:05 p.m.
Check Please
Jerry Seinfeld often didn't have punchlines. He'd just throw out observations. I do think it's less funny then Seinfeld, you're right about that. I consider it more on par with Andy Rooney (I have nicer eyebrows).— December 14, 2007 9:40 a.m.
Extra! Extra!
I actually made up that Michael Vick thing, so I'm glad you like it. I did see, and hear, the sports guys say "He went from a Falcons jersey, to prison issue shirt." Now, when Amy Winehouse went to rehabi, I don't really blame them for going the easy route of "Trying to get Winehouse to go to rehab...yes, yes, yes."— December 14, 2007 9:32 a.m.
TV's Sexiest Women
One of my friends sent me this email. He read my blog, but didn't feel like posting. I thought it was funny, so here it is: Jessica Alba, Dark Angel, Marisa Tomei, A Different World, Jaclyn Smith or Cheryl Ladd(not Farrah), Charlies Angels, Joanna Lumley, The New Avengers, Maren Jensen and Anne Lockhart, Old Battlestar Galactica, Grace Park, New Battlestar Galactica, Lisa Bonet, Cosby Show, Lucy Liu, Ally McBeal, and to prove I'm half geek, Roxann Dawson, Star Trek Voyager(she was half Klingon). I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody I'll kick myself over, but this list is solid. No old TV chicks because TV was too conservative then, but if I had to pick one, it would be the very cute, sexy and underappreciated Mary Tyler Moore from the Dick Van Dyke Show.— December 13, 2007 10:49 a.m.
TV's Sexiest Women
She does look hot on that picture you put with the link. But most women with guns do, I dunno why. But she's British, you say? Well, then let's see those choppers before we decide if she should stay on the list.— December 12, 2007 10:01 a.m.
Da Bomb
Hey fumber...or is it dumber? Can you point out a time in history when a bomb threat was made, a building or airport was evacuated, the bomb was found, everyone was safe, and the authorities said "Wow, cool. Glad the person was nice enough to call and warn us after planting the bomb. That saved lots of lives, and we were able to safely defuse it." And also...don't knock the light socket thing until you've tried it! I was lonely, okay.— December 11, 2007 11:04 p.m.