Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen! Welcome to the scariest, the most electrifying, and the most outrageous thing ever! Your eyes will not believe what they see, your ears will not believe what they hear, and your mouth will not believe the things it says. No I am not talking about this week’s Last Call. I am talking about the BCS and it’s rating system. College football begins “for real” this weekend. Who are your picks for number 1? Who gets screwed by the BCS? What’s your solution for an alternative? In other sporting news, Manny Ramirez is now a White Sox and the Dodgers will continue their downward spiral courtesy of the soon to be (?) ex Mr and Mrs McCourt. Maybe they should have called Tiger, his went so quick and easy. (Insert your own innuendo/joke here:_________________) Maybe MLB will finally realize that Mark Cuban isn’t such a bad guy after all.
Is that yummy with a "y" or an "ie"?
In other news, Team USA defeated Iran in the World Basketball Championships and Victoria Azarenka collapsed in the heat of today’s US Open matches.
Multiple Choice for Tonite:
1. Cupcakes or Cookies
2. Mark Twain or Will Rogers
3. East or West
Have a great time tonight. And don’t forget, if this is your first time here, we are professionals. DO NOT ATTEMPT ANY OF THIS AT HOME.
1)Cupcakes- way more versatile and think about it… They’re mini cakes.
2)Mark Twain I guess. I don’t care either way, though we all know Ebert’s thoughts about this.
3)West coast for life. I’d probably live in NY if I could afford it, but I can not.
Cookies. That’s not even a fair contest.
Twain. He’s a curmudgeon’s curmudgeon.
East. The west coast is full of dirty hippies.
Cookies, Twain, and West.
And Superliga final on Telefutura! Not living up to past years’ brilliance, 0-0 at the half. Hoping for a much better 2nd half – otherwise I’ll be missing the UNM soccer season opener for nothing. Gonna make it to at least one game this year, just to see if we can support the preseason NPSF favorites – somehow I doubt we will do very well attendance-wise.
1) Cookies. If you want cake, bake a real cake a cut a slice. It’s more satisfying and it’s got icing in the middle.
2) Don’t know enough about Will Rogers, so I abstain.
3) Both.
There’s a Swiss team called Young Boys? Seriously? Tell me their followers are called the Pederasts.
The stadium they call home was, until a few years ago, called the Wankdorf. Now it’s the Stade de Suisse Wankdorf.
/chortle
the young boys of wankdorf. fantastic!
Ok, now you’re just making shit up. (I know you aren’t, but seriously, it sure sounds like you are)
I hear they’re fielding a substantial offer to relocate to The Vatican.
Hmm, I likes me some cookies. There are so many different kinds. Where as cupcakes, it’s pretty much jsut about the frosting, and I prefer that on cakes.
Mark Twain. As I get older I find things written about Twin more interesting then what Twain wrote. To hold in less esteem that which you’ve known longer I guess.
Westies!!! Seriously, I’ve only been back east twice, and both times it was like 96 degrees and 94% humidity. F that with a 2×4. I have friends in NYC who say I’d love it there, but like Gally, it’s not in my economic time table.
I think college football turned into a joke for me the year that USC faced Texas in the BCS Championship Game. They were two wonderful teams to watch, and it was a great game, but having to listen all season to “experts” talk about if this USC team was one of the greatest of all time….
Seriously, USC fans and most of Los Angeles didn’t think it was as good as the previous years team. It had NO defense.
Then watching LSU get shoved into the title game over Georgia was the final straw. I’d already seen Oregon get screwed, and Oklahoma lose it’s conference title game and still make the Championship Game, and that’s when I became a “Playoff or Nothing” kind of guy. I don’t give a crap if team #9 thinks it should be in over team #8, as long as Teams 1-4 are in, even if it’s a 4a and 4b.
For a lighter note, I went to a bookstores web site for ordering…typed in Usagi Yojimbo to see what books they had to offer, and the first item that popped up was “Deluxe Then and Now Bible Maps CDROM” and the 14th was “The Elvis Encyclopedia”. Items 40-44, the last 4, were actual Usagi Yojimbo books. Sweet search engine guys!
I see how easily one could confuse “Elvis Encyclopedia” with “Usagi Yojimbo”. Because they’re spelled EXACTLY DIFFERENTLY. *facepalm*
I have many “favorite” things about CFB as a quasi-hater, but my current favorite is that during the relentless BCS v. playoff debate does anyone, especially on TWWL, mention that TWWL is responsible for there being a BCS. If no one had bought the rights to it, we wouldn’t have it. Yet they still yack about it like it’s an actual issue.
and +2 common sense points to you sir!
of course it’s an issue – they’re hemorrhaging cash because of it.
As for back to school….
I can’t handle the 12 different start dates for schools now. When I grew up we all rode our dinosaurs to school the Tuesday after Labor Day. It didn’t matter if you went to Triceratops Community College, St. Patrick’s Elementary, or UCLA. Now it’s August something, or the week after August something, or a bunch of schools started today, cause starting teh school year on a Wednesday makes sense, and others start next week, but not Tuesday. It’s red, it’s pink, it’s orange, it’s something fruity today…..cripes.
yep. and none of this pansy ‘orientation’ crap, either. you got on the dinosaur, went to school, and got beat up like all the other new kids. wait, I think that *IS* orientation, now that i think about it. or maybe initiation. whatever. school sucked.
See, these new kids and their fancy mammals they ride. Give me something with a small, violent, reptilian brain every time.
I always wanted a triceratops. Those things had horns and shit. You try getting laid riding a brontosaurus. Fucking piece of shit.
I always wanted a hybrid between a stegosaurus and a triceratops – horns on front, armor plate down the spine, and wicked spikes on the tail. damage +10
It doesn’t help professionals either. Even if I made it through a longshot of an interview now, I’d be multiple weeks behind on my first day and not know anyone. Sign me up!
My cousins wife got a job as an asst. principal last week, she started yesterday, today was the first day of classes. This seems a bit tardy for a hiring process to me.
It’s tricky since people quit last minute and leave schools up a creek. That and the budget clusterfuck. I’d rather start weeks behind than not be working at all. Congrats to your cousin’s wife!
By the way, ladies, if a guy gives me a slice of homemade pie, since you’d been talking about the damn pie before your mutually unsuccessful date, the least you could do is actually thank him for it at some point in the evening. Especially if you have expressed a fondness for “traditional values.”
I have to keep my dating stories out of the Sunday Brunch lest I receive any more angry email. That is until I write my SB about whether guys like or are threatened by women who understand sports. (A friend of a friend last weekend gave me the idea because she was ranting about it).
/CPSL’d
1. Cookies- cupcakes are SO 2009.
2. Mark ‘effin Twain.
3. I refuse to believe that anyone worthwhile actually lives beyond the Mississippi, so East.
Also, pretty much everyone I work for/with can suck the proverbial sack of penii.
oh no, what’s going wrong at work? Is the headcase causing even more trouble?
She’s back on Friday.
In a meeting yesterday we were all told that we must be “friendly and professional” toward her. Hmm…I’ll be professional, but I’m pretty sure you can’t make me be “friendly.”
Meanwhile, while she was on-site yesterday she set up a drug deal (with another member of our FREAKIN’ department!!) in the parking lot on her way back to her car.*
So, clearly, she’s perfectly healthy and ready to return to work.
*information provided by a witness to the conversation.
oh good gravy. why is she still allowed to be on staff? cripes.
Because she filed for protection under the ADA and since she is legit bi-polar and has the paperwork to back it up they can’t fire her without exposing themselves to a lawsuit.
The only way she goes now is if she breaks company rules. Of course she was doing that on a regular basis before she was put on leave, but the boss felt bad for her and wouldn’t fire her.
So, after almost two months on “administrative leave” (full pay!) she’s back on Friday.
I think you need to tap her phone and take photographs of her drug deals.
/has been watching too much of “The Wire”
Ugh. Just what the ADA *isn’t* for.
I’m with Clancy on that. Proof of company rule breaking or law-breaking (the drug deals) should be enough to get her canned. Good thing cameras are so small these days – easy enough to stow in a pocket for walking to and from your car.
Well, that sucked. Morelia beats New England 2-1 in the Superliga final on a dynamite goal, but good Lord, do those Mexican teams whine and carry on sometimes.
Hey, TWWL. The Cubs may suck a gaggle of geese penises, but it’s hard to be in line for a potential sweep in a series in which you won the first game: http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=300901116&teams=pittsburgh-pirates-vs-chicago-cubs
The Orioles just put in Alfredo Simon? You’re welcome, Pink Hat Nation.
And there’s a shitload of runs. I’d love to pat myself on the back for being smart, but it would be like congratulating myself for predicting tomorrow’s sunrise.
hahaha.
wait, “pink hat nation”? what do Yankees fans have to do with this game?