Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category

Dialect Question

Sunday, January 18th, 2004

What do you call the garment worn by our friend, Dave, in this photo.

Lost Another Loan to Ditech?

Sunday, January 11th, 2004

If so, maybe you should just point out that their practices may be racist. I haven't seen the ads mentioned in the post, but I'm going to be paying close attention now.

Question

Friday, January 2nd, 2004

Assuming that it was possible: If someone were to wipe your memory, how would you know that your memory had been wiped? Discuss.

We Have Two Kinds of Music

Thursday, January 1st, 2004

Country and Western. Here's a song that I always liked. It's Tom T. Hall's, "I Like Beer" My wife always frowns when we're out on the town and I'm dressed up in a suit and a tie. She's sipping vermouth and she thinks I'm uncouth When I yell as the waiter goes by: I Like Beer!

Pure Country

Saturday, December 27th, 2003

George Strait: Great singer. Horrible actor. Most memorable line, delivered with the power and emotion of an Al Gore policy speech: "Go on. Get yer ass out of here." Makes me laugh every time.

Fun

Thursday, December 25th, 2003

This game is surprisingly addictive. It's driving the Spousal Unit™ nuts that I'm beating her on almost every game. Heh.

This, That and the Other

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003

So, what do you enjoy doing now that you couldn't do as a kid? Clement C. Moore as interpreted by an attorney. It turns out that Wild is an extremely insensitive guy. It may or may not have been Kevin's birthday. Michele has her Christmas Card done. Point/Counterpoint. Joe puts in his two cents about global ...

Killer Germ

Friday, December 12th, 2003

Did you get your flu shot? The kids got theirs, but the Spousal Unit™ and I held off. The past few years, we've kind of gotten in the habit of forgoing the flu shot, since there are folks who need it a lot more than we do. We're young ...

Kids and Animals

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003

Recently, we had a brief discussion about a couple in England who are putting their infant in a gorilla cage. In that discussion, Wulfgar asked: "[W]hy should we think it any more stupid for a human who has bonded with Gorillas to trust their children to that wild animal than we ...