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  1. ThunderHawkk on February 9th, 2007 at 12:05 am

    First…. and Second… No, wait a minute… I got confused…

  2. Squawkbox Noise on February 9th, 2007 at 12:13 am

    Second (heh)

    Beware of guys like this.

  3. Al Williams on February 9th, 2007 at 12:23 am

    Spinal Tap’s second drummer, Stumpy Joe…

    Marty: Your first drummer was uh….
    Nigel: The peeper….
    David: Joe Stumpy Pepys…great great…uh…tall blond geek.. with glasses uh…
    Nigel: Uh.. good drummer.
    David: Great look, good drummer.
    Nigel: Good, good drummer….
    David: Fine drummer….
    Marty: What happened to him?
    David: He died, he, he died in a bizarre gardening accident some years back.
    Nigel: It was really one of those things…it was…you know…the authorities said…you know…well best leave it unsolved, really…you know.

    Marty: And he was replaced by…uh….
    David: Stumpy Joe - Eric Stumpy Joe Childs.
    Marty: What happened to Stumpy Joe?
    Derek: Well, uh, it’s not a very pleasant story..but, uh,
    David: He’s passed on.
    Derek: he died. uh…he choked on..the ac- the official explanation was he choked on vomit.
    Nigel: It was actually, was actually someone else’s vomit. It’s not….
    David: It’s ugly.
    Nigel: You know. There’s no real….
    Derek: You know they can’t prove whose vomit it was…they don’t have the facilities at Scotland Yard….
    David: You can’t print, there’s no way to print a spectra-photograph
    Nigel: You can’t really dust for vomit.

  4. DennisOnTheRight on February 9th, 2007 at 12:32 am

    There’s an article linked on Drudge about illegals found dead. The following paragraph really struck me:

    “We’re looking at the possibility of bandits,” Ogden said. “They are normally armed, and stop vehicles that are being used for human trafficking. “Sometimes they take the vehicle — and a lot times immigrants can be taken to another area and (bandits) will call family members in Mexico, and hold them for ransom.”

    Hmmm. Normally armed. Stopping vehicles being used for human trafficking. Taking the vehicles. Taking the illegals somewhere and holding them. Charging money for their return. I’m thinking, why can’t the National Guard or the Border Patrol be doing this? This small group of banditos is doing more to get a handle on illegals than any program Governor Goodhair ever pretended to support. And we don’t even have to pay them! That sounds like a win-win if I ever heard one!

    (Just don’t tell Johnny Sutton.)

  5. DanielJames on February 9th, 2007 at 12:33 am

    What a bunch of losers….Who is up this early?

    Me!

    Early bird gets the worm. Now drink up. The bar is closing.

  6. DanielJames on February 9th, 2007 at 12:35 am

    Dennis

    Sounds like we have a problem. Not!

    Dont ask Tony Blow, He says all is well.

    Will ya’ll stop harping on illegals. You are seriously overstating your position.

    Im hittin the rack.

    OUT!

  7. DennisOnTheRight on February 9th, 2007 at 12:47 am

    DJ, it’s a matter of the rule of law. It’s a matter of the American culture. It’s a matter of economics. It’s a matter of national security. It’s a matter of maybe even leaving this country and state is as good a condition as when we showed up on the scene.

    So, no, I won’t stop harping on it. In fact, I’ve barely begun.

  8. Squawkbox Noise on February 9th, 2007 at 1:17 am

    I never sleep. Who ya callin a loser?

    Early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.

  9. BSue on February 9th, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Somehow, this seems like an appropriate “quote of the day”….

    The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
    - Robert Benchley

  10. emmekelley on February 9th, 2007 at 6:21 am

    #2

    Squawk

    Was that gadboy/yellowdog? ROFL. Mornin all and the north side BHH is tonight. Hoping to see everyone.

  11. gadboy on February 9th, 2007 at 6:34 am

    #10 Have you forgotten what I look like already?

  12. SC on February 9th, 2007 at 6:49 am

    no it’s got to be EPJ

  13. Katfish on February 9th, 2007 at 7:16 am

    *hears John Anderson*

    “justa loooooooooooooooosinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn”

    Mawnin yall and T G I FFFFFFFF

  14. Sm1ley on February 9th, 2007 at 7:41 am

    I know it’s disrespectful, seein’ as she’s dead and all, but looking at ANS’s pic brings on an irresistable urge to say it . . .

    “mMMMOOOOOooo!!”

    Sorry, just had to do it….

  15. twocute64001 on February 9th, 2007 at 7:49 am

    # 2 - I know - - - I know - - Its a picture of Evil E pretending to invent the internet.

    You guys are aware - evil e is really algore

    thats why he knows all about everything

  16. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 7:58 am

    Maybe he’s Ross Perot.
    Good Morning!

  17. Me_Myself_n_I on February 9th, 2007 at 8:02 am

    Sen. Rodney Ellis said WHAT?

    It’s certainly important for us to believe in God, but we need not put all of our burdens on God

    Obviously, he needs to dust off his Bible:

    Psalm 55:22

    1 Peter 5:7

  18. tedtam on February 9th, 2007 at 8:36 am

    Eyes are red and brimming over
    Worked too hard last night!
    Brain feels like it’s been worked over
    Getting numbers right.
    I am tired but I’m still standing
    Hope is ever present.
    Even when statements have charges outstanding,
    Reconciling I still resent!
    But I see the light of my release
    At the tunnel’s end –
    At some time my work will cease!
    On that I depend.
    It is Friday and I believe
    That soon I may relax.
    I will read, or sleep, or leave!
    My nerves no longer to tax.
    But just when I think I’m free,
    I look up and run in vain –
    The light I thought my freedom key
    Was an oncoming train!

  19. Peter on February 9th, 2007 at 8:37 am

    Odd that Eric never replied to my posts yesterday.

    But on another note…

    Seeing that picture only reminds me that Greta Van Sustren (spelling?) will now have another tabloid story to grind into the ground over the next six months.

  20. fasternu426 on February 9th, 2007 at 8:39 am

    17 Me myself n I

    Watch as the next election cycle approaches, the left plans to drag out somne lefty religions groups and persons. They are going to baptize their candidates in religion! Look for groups like: The Catholic Alliance/Sojourners/Red Letter Christians/Covenant For a New America/and others. Look for “Liberation Theoogy” messages of “social Justice” they have been lobbying for the minimum wage raise and the environment lately.

    Here’s a bit on one of the groups. And… they get $$$ from our old friend George Soros!

    http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/Articles/Sojournershistory.html

  21. tedtam on February 9th, 2007 at 8:42 am

    #19 Peter

    Well, considering that Eric is odd to begin with…

  22. malcolm on February 9th, 2007 at 8:49 am

    Happy Friday all!

    http://tinyurl.com/e8efm

  23. twocute64001 on February 9th, 2007 at 8:50 am

    well since Evil E Pee is the master of every subject (except spelling and grammer) and he is ALWAYS right, even when he is full of doggy doo. And he has been exiled from the USA and forced to live on foreign soil (rumor has it he is in the federal wittness protection program) anyway he is really Big Crime Boss Enzio Guarini, you know “the dogfather”

  24. twocute64001 on February 9th, 2007 at 8:56 am

    http://www.dogmafia.com/

    ooops forgot the link

  25. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 9:00 am

    #23 - He’s not too good with punctuation either.

    mariaw - in the light of day, I now see that the fourth letter in your handle is actually an ‘i’ and not an ‘l’. Sorry for butchering your name last night ;-)

  26. The Dude on February 9th, 2007 at 9:03 am

    Although Rodney Ellis and I likely have very different motivations, I’d have to say he’s spot-on with this comment:

    Many issues and votes have a direct impact on people’s lives, he said: “I want to make sure we don’t get too caught up in the symbolic issues.”

    When we got down to specifics about the issues that have a direct impact on people’s lives, I can’t imagine I’d see eye to eye with Ellis. Whether or not he dusts his Bible off is completely immaterial. Symbolic issues, much like ideals, do not feed the bulldog.

  27. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 9:04 am

    You have a bulldog? Its not one of those that likes baby feet, is it?

  28. Squawkbox Noise on February 9th, 2007 at 9:09 am

    The Anna Nicole and diaper Astronaut stories remind me why I do not watch the news on TV. Talk about “information overload”. The only thing different on each channel is the talking heads and they simply rotate with each passing hour.

    Last PM on 11 news (KHOU)their update of the Diaper Lady was a rehash of what we knew and and some hububb about cars and that no one has gone in or come out of the home she is staying in. That’s news?

    Out of curiosity (what a mistake) I checked the “vaunted” Fox news channel, from OhReally?, to Shammity, to Gravel Greta each had the same thing, the only change was the heads that were making noise.

    And what the hell is with the constant breaking news introduction on Fox on stories that have “broken” hours and hours before?

    “This is a Fox News Alert, Anna Nicole Smith was found dead in her hotel room and she was not wearing a diaper like the Astronaut woman that is holed up in her house because a bunch of news vultures are hovering outside.”

    “A DNA test is being conducted on the Astronaut Lady’s diaper to see if she may have shared it with Anna Nicole at some time in the past.”

    Back to the Studio…….

  29. Squawkbox Noise on February 9th, 2007 at 9:10 am

    hamous
    #25
    Copy/paste is your friend.

  30. The Dude on February 9th, 2007 at 9:12 am

    I made sure to not get a bulldog until after my kids were old enough to not be considered babies. Nobody likes a footless kid.

  31. bweldon on February 9th, 2007 at 9:14 am

    sorry all but this story demands we stop for a second and count our blessings.

  32. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 9:15 am

    Nobody likes a footless kid.

    Particularly shoe salesmen.

  33. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 9:29 am

    Speaking of shoe salesmen….

  34. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 9:34 am

    hamous - That’s okay. Actually I’ll answer to pretty much anything. Maria, Marla, Anna…

  35. fasternu426 on February 9th, 2007 at 9:36 am

    34 mariaw

    Can I call ya “Hey You”? My mom used to call me that. Sometimes, when she would remove the gag and let me out.

  36. The Dude on February 9th, 2007 at 9:44 am

    BTW faster,

    That was an excellent monkey pic yesterday, thanks. I saved that one for future use.

  37. SC on February 9th, 2007 at 9:45 am

    Hey fast, your blue comes and goes. What’s up did you take a breath?

  38. bweldon on February 9th, 2007 at 9:47 am

    Here is an example of typical democratic leadership. Look at the fiasco that is New Orleans now. This story shows that the Chocolate mayor and ultra Liberal Democrat Gov are failures at getting things going. Let alone protecting those that live there.

    But New Orleans’ population appears to have plateaued at about half the pre-storm level of 455,000, well short of Nagin’s prediction of 300,000 by the end of 2006. And in many ways, it is a meaner city than it was before the hurricane.

    New Orleans ended 2006 with 161 homicides, for a murder rate higher than it was before Katrina and more than 4 1/2 times the national average for cities its size. After starting 2007 with practically one killing a day, the city has at least 19 slayings so far this year.

    Then we have this failure to deliver federal disaster funds to those who need it.

    Blanco’s Road Home program, born 10 months after the storm, has been vilified by politicians and civic leaders as too slow to distribute $7.5 billion in federal aid to buy out homeowners or help them rebuild. As of Feb. 5, Road Home had taken 105,739 applications and resolved only 532 cases, granting $33.8 million. At the current rate, Road Home would take more than 13 years to complete.

    and people wonder what it would be like with the Democrats in full control of Congress.. would it be any better?

  39. Shannon on February 9th, 2007 at 9:50 am

    28 SQK

    Yes, I saw the coverage. After decades of being an “also-ran” in the ratings, Channel 11 finally whipped ABC13’s butt by NOT BEING LIKE ABC13. Lately, they have begun to look just like them.

    I can see all three of the locals standing ON Smith’s grave, reporting that she has yet to reappear.

    Pathetic.

  40. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 9:52 am

    #38 - You don’t really expect Democrats to bear any responsibility for NOLA, do you? Get with the program Bill and repeat after me: George Bush hates black people.

  41. Smacktle on February 9th, 2007 at 9:55 am

    Just wanted to reply to some of Eric comments from yesterday. As Neocon would say, “I’m just defending my honor”.

    I never implied anything about http://www.cheesemakers.com I’m sure they are a fine establishment. All I am saying is that it is common knowledge that Eric works there or used to work there. If he works there now how can he be in the ME as a top executive for an oil compnay?

    Make fun of people who have served their country and try to denegrate their opinions cause you can eaver argue try to spread false rumors about their service records

    Yes I pick on Sarge not people. One person not people.

    Yes I personally attack EPJ, because well I can.

    Is it true that you insulted HS on his own blog - a person whose wife is ill?

    I insult headshaker every chance I get. I guess he likes it, because we talk on the phone at least once a week. Usually me begging him to go to a Rockets game, because everybody else has said no.

    BTW headshakers wife is fine. Don’t go starting any rumors there.

    Eric why would I debate you, when you have been shown time and time again to bend the truth and outright lie. I treat you like the troll you are.

    I sent him a email giving him some business contacts for millions of dollars worth of business over several years.

    Eric did send me an email from this address ericpwjohnsonlsh@ and the info he gave me was deleted. Didn’t make a dime off of it.

    Now isn’t that such a christian thing to do, isn’t that just a person you would want to listen too.

    Never said I was a Christian. If you listen to me, I promise your net worth will grow.

    Just so you understand his character.

    Yes I am quite a character, just ask anybody.

    Eric, we give you what you seek. Attention. A reason to get up in the morning. Enjoy it while it lasts, soon most will become bored of your antics.

    LONG LIVE ERIC PICKINONME JOHNSON!

  42. tedtam on February 9th, 2007 at 9:58 am

    #39 Shannon

    I was totally amazed at the Channel 11 coverage of a car entering Nowak’s garage. Could she be home? All were agog at the prospect that she might actually arrive at her own home! They actually pulled some still from the video to show that there were TWO PEOPLE in the back seat of the car as it pulled in! Could one of them be Nowak? Ya think? I mean, it IS her home…but would she actually go HOME after being publically humiliated? Or were the two people in the back seat secret agents, put there to throw people off the scent?

    WHO THE H&*#! CARES!

    /gagging

  43. The Dude on February 9th, 2007 at 9:59 am


    Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown
    He’s a clown, that Charlie Brown
    He’s gonna get caught
    Just you wait and see
    (Why’s everybody always pickin’ on me)

  44. fasternu426 on February 9th, 2007 at 10:00 am

    Dude,

    I saw that and just and to share that with you. I’ve been waiting for the opportunity to use it.

    SC

    I keep having to erase and replace my url link on the profile page to get my comments to post. I angered HAL somehow, he refuses to open the pod bay door. Squawk suggested I do that and it works sometimes.

  45. bweldon on February 9th, 2007 at 10:03 am

    #40, Hamous,

    the only way they will bear responsibility for NOLA is when reasonable people see what frauds they really are.

    My mantra is different: Democrats hate success and will do what ever they can to avoid it or eliminate it.

  46. tedtam on February 9th, 2007 at 10:04 am

    #44 bweldon

    Success would put them out of business.

  47. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 10:07 am

    Shannon, is Steve Smith dead? Guess I missed that.

    You can call me Eric, or you can call me PeeJay, or you can call me Johnny or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me RayJay, or you can call me RJ… but ya doesn’t has ta call me Johnson.

  48. Squawkbox Noise on February 9th, 2007 at 10:08 am

    Shannon & Tedtam

    The radio “news” ain’t much better. I think they just had the “hat trick”.

    1. Anna Nicoles autopsy is underway (or finsihed?)
    2. Nowak’s signed picture is worth $2000 on Ebay

    and this was all said without taking a breath.

  49. Shannon on February 9th, 2007 at 10:18 am

    On Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee approved SJR 13, a proposed constitutional amendment that if approved would [dispense with the spending cap and] explode state government spending by more than $15 Billion.

    ………Just in case you didn’t see this in the other thread.

    If you disagree, a call to your State Senator might be in order. Unless you’re lucky enough to have Senator Patrick.

  50. DanielJames on February 9th, 2007 at 10:19 am

    #7 & 8

    The sarcasm was thick an heavy last night. Sorry

    The bar was still open.

    I dont like cheese but I hope you got your fill.

  51. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 10:23 am

    I watched a “breaking news” story on Channel 11 during lunch earlier this week. There was supposedly another “high speed chase”. They had their helicopter “on the scene” following a car on I-45 north of downtown. The copter followed this car, which had no place to pull over, until it exited N. Main and pulled into a parking lot. The cop didn’t even have his lights flashing until they got to the exit. They might have been going 45 mph. It was obviously a routine traffic stop but they closed with “Stay tuned to channel 11 for an update on this chase on our 5pm broadcast!”

    Ban all news choppers!

  52. Shannon on February 9th, 2007 at 10:26 am

    42 tedtam
    Can’t you just imagine Channel 11’s Jeremy Diesel standing on the grave in the cemetary, late at night, really serious, staring at the camera from underneath his eyebrows…..

    ROFLOL

  53. Squawkbox Noise on February 9th, 2007 at 10:43 am

    THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS ALERT

    This erstwhile reproter has learned that the reason Lisa “HOT PANTS” Nowak has not left her Clearlake home is that she is participating in remedial potty training and counseling.

    A NASA engineer, that requested to remain anonymous, told me that “they” expect the clean up to be a lengthy process. Apparently getting into her drawers was harder than expected.

  54. bigjolly on February 9th, 2007 at 10:45 am

    #53 squawk

    Her Depends must have used that high tech tape that is used on the tiles.

  55. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 10:48 am

    #35 - Sorry - Had to take some phone calls. Yeah, I’ll answer to that too. We must have had the same mother.

  56. fasternu426 on February 9th, 2007 at 10:50 am

    I wonder if “Crack Spackle” would have worked???

    http://www.bofunk.com/video/2133/crack_spackle.html

  57. malcolm on February 9th, 2007 at 10:59 am

    Football Explained by a Blonde

    A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game. They had great seats right behind their team’s bench. After the game, he asked her
    how she liked the experience.

    “Oh, I really liked it,” she replied, “especially the tight pants and all the big muscles but I just couldn’t understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents.”
    Dumbfounded, her date asked, “What do you mean?”
    “Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was ‘Get the quarterback! Get the
    quarterback!’

    “I’m like …… Helloooooo? It’s only 25 cents!!!”

  58. fasternu426 on February 9th, 2007 at 11:00 am
  59. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 11:00 am

    My point exactly.

  60. DanielJames on February 9th, 2007 at 11:01 am

    How fitting….

    “There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorships without tears, so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel — by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods; and this seems to be the final revolution.”

    — Aldous Huxley, “The Final Revolution”, 1959, speech at a symposium at a University of California medical school.

  61. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 11:09 am

    …and it’s a series of 3 shots, costing approximately $360…

  62. Shannon on February 9th, 2007 at 11:10 am

    60
    It’s in the food, I tell ya. All food is treated in a warehouse in Pearland.

  63. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 11:13 am

    We know that JFK was actually assassinated by a 17-year-old George W. Bush in order ensconce fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson in the White House, thus laying the historical background necessary to facilitate Lady Bird Johnson’s highway beautification scheme years later—a scheme that encourages oil consumption by brainwashed pleasure drivers entranced by the wafting aroma of beautiful mind-controlling uber-poppies. Oh, and Halliburton. — Mac Johnson

    Spring is just around the corner! Beware of the wafting aroma of beautiful mind-controlling uber-poppies!

  64. Shannon on February 9th, 2007 at 11:14 am

    60
    All this transfat stuff is just BS. What “they” are actually doing is changing the delivery system for the servitude drug.

    It’s the truth, man. I know, ’cause I saw it on the Internet.

  65. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 11:15 am

    #62 - Its people. Soylent Green is people.

  66. bigmoguls3 on February 9th, 2007 at 11:25 am

    I personally know EricPJohnson.

    Half of what Eric says is false, the other half is not true.

  67. Robert Headford on February 9th, 2007 at 11:29 am

    The Teacher Applicant

    After being interviewed by the school administration, the teaching prospect said, “Let me see if I’ve got this right: “You want me to go into that room with all those kids, correct their disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse, monitor their dress habits, censor their T-shirt messages, and instill in them a love for learning.”

    “You want me to check their backpacks for weapons, wage war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, and raise their sense of self esteem and personal pride.”

    “You want me to teach them patriotism and good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, and how to register to vote, balance a checkbook, and apply for a job.”

    “You want me to check their heads for lice, recognize signs of antisocial behavior, and make sure that they all pass the state exams.”

    “You want me to provide them with an equal education regardless of their handicaps, and communicate regularly with their parents by letter, telephone, newsletter, and report card.”

    “You want me to do all this with a piece of chalk, a blackboard, a bulletin board, a few books, a big smile, and a starting salary that qualifies me for food stamps.”

    “You want me to do all this and then you tell me… I CAN’T PRAY!?!”

  68. Neocon on February 9th, 2007 at 11:43 am

    Bigmoguls3
    #66

    Comment of the Day! LOL!

  69. twocute64001 on February 9th, 2007 at 11:47 am

    Who is going to the brew haha tonight?

  70. twocute64001 on February 9th, 2007 at 11:50 am

    OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK:

    http://www.click2houston.com/travelgetaways/10971999/detail.html

    Visitor’s Bureau Targets Gay, Lesbian Travelers

    A campaign to attract gay and lesbian visitors to Houston has been launched, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday.

    The Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau has placed an advertisement touting, “The not so straight facts about Houston,” in a gay and lesbian magazine.

    “We’ve got the arts, we’ve got the largest pride parade in the southwest,” spokeswoman Lindsey Brown said. “We’ve got fine dining, we’ve got hotels and bed and breakfasts that are already marketing themselves as gay-friendly. It just makes sense.”

    Houston has a large gay and lesbian population. There are 17 gay-friendly nightclubs within walking distance in the Montrose area.

  71. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 11:51 am

    twocute-
    I live in Dallas. Sorry I can’t meet everyone.

  72. bweldon on February 9th, 2007 at 11:55 am

    A little about some of the people that John Edwards has in his employ….

    http://texas-common-sense.blogspot.com/2007/02/john-edwards-is-this-who-you-want-as.html

  73. CyberBully on February 9th, 2007 at 11:55 am

    Thanks hamous for reminding me to update my nic.

    I’m gonna try to make it, since it’s right around the corner.

  74. Narly on February 9th, 2007 at 11:56 am

    Thank God it’s Friday! Have a good weekend all!

  75. CyberBully on February 9th, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    Alright you bunch of nilly willy, pansy wansy, lunatic fringe wannabees…WHO NEEDS A VIRTUAL A$$WHOOPIN? I’ll be lurking about and will surely straighten out any of yous what needs it.

    http://www.sillycat.org/photo/sumer2k/pages/Grrrrrr.htm

  76. Shannon on February 9th, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    CyberBully?
    I guess I’m going to have to go back and read what happened here last night. Good Grief!!

    Sweet little Smackie, a bully??

  77. CyberBully on February 9th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

    Sorry for the outburst there guys. Just getting used to my new persona.

  78. Neocon on February 9th, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    twocute

    A few I can think of off the top of my head:

    Southerntragedy
    Nancy Drew a/k/a 8 ball
    Emmekelley
    Wino
    Headshaker
    Smacktle
    Neocon
    Butch?

    Probably more, since it is not necessary to rsvp!

  79. bweldon on February 9th, 2007 at 12:16 pm

    Russell Crowe hates cheerleaders

    SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Russell Crowe says his rugby league club’s cheerleading squad is being cut because skimpily clad cheerleaders detract from the game and make spectators uncomfortable.

    The Oscar-winning actor, who is part-owner in the South Sydney Rabbitohs club, said the club had become concerned that the cheerleaders - whose uniform includes fishnet stockings and tasseled miniskirts in the white, green and red team colors - were inappropriate entertainment.

    “It makes women uncomfortable and it makes blokes who take their son to the football also uncomfortable,” Crowe was quoted as saying in News Ltd. newspapers Friday.

    “We examined game day and wanted to contemporize and make the focus (on) football,” he said.

    A team of percussionists will replace the cheerleaders, the club announced this week. The club’s Web site invited drummers to audition.

    Crowe, a longtime Rabbitohs supporter, helped save the club from obscurity a few years ago before buying a major stake in 2006.

    He won an Oscar in 2001 for “Gladiator.” The 42-year-old actor has also received Oscar nominations for “The Insider” and “A Beautiful Mind.”

    http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/6458750
    http://www.souths.com.au/home/index.asp

  80. bweldon on February 9th, 2007 at 12:17 pm

    #71, all that means is we need a BHH™ road trip…pick some local watering hole and we will figgure something out…

  81. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    bweldon
    I’m kinda slow on the acronyms…what’s BHH?

  82. fasternu426 on February 9th, 2007 at 12:27 pm

    bweldon

    “A team of percussionists will replace the cheerleaders”

    These guys wouldn’t be distracting at all now, would they?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldxg87pDlI8

  83. sunny on February 9th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    #69…twocute…I can’t make it to the B-hhh, because I’ve already had Friday night.

  84. bweldon on February 9th, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    #81 Brew HaHa… the social gathering….

  85. Neocon on February 9th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

    mariaw

    BHH is short for BrewHaHa™ Bloggin’ get together!

  86. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 12:45 pm

    I’m so stupid, I’m so stupid, I’m so stupid…

  87. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    BTW, Neocon, how’d you make that cute little “TM”?

  88. CyberBully on February 9th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    #81 marlaw

    It’s where we get together and find out how ugly each of us is. Usually there is a food fight, then Wino and Neocon drive off in a jeep somewhere.

  89. Squawkbox Noise on February 9th, 2007 at 12:54 pm

    Hmmm I just heard that Anna Nichole cannot or will not be buried for several weeks. Supposedly this is because of the paternity/will/hey it’s just Anna Nicole stuff.

    Well I have my theory why there is a delay. I think a scientific study has to be conducted on the amount goop contained in those breast implants to insure that should they break there will not be an ecological catostophe.

  90. bweldon on February 9th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

    #87, hit alt then 0-1-5-3 and it will show up….™

  91. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    ™awesome!

  92. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 1:01 pm

    #88
    That resonates somehow.

  93. Neocon on February 9th, 2007 at 1:05 pm

    bweldon

    ™ HA! It worked!

    I didn’t know you could do it that way! The Dude taught me to type “&” followed by the word “trade” followed by a “;” but all together without any spaces or any “”’s.

  94. southerntragedy on February 9th, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    BWeldon #90: That works? Interesting~

    Testing..

  95. Neocon on February 9th, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    Smack,

    You have hit my ignore button, once again! ;)

  96. The Dude on February 9th, 2007 at 1:08 pm

    Sticker on the office wall of one of the engineers I work with:

    Census data indicates that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population.

  97. bweldon on February 9th, 2007 at 1:09 pm

    ST you need to hold the alt key down…

    ™™™™

  98. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 1:10 pm

    Ok, I go the grocery store to bake for the cake walk at the sweet hear festival at my daughter’s school tonight, and I know I should be excited about doing this, but I’M NOT. And then, I have a conference with her Latin teacher at 3, because I wrote her a scathing email because she’s being mean to my baby, and now I’m scared she’s going to be mean to me…I wish I could take it back. I’m such a girl.

  99. fasternu426 on February 9th, 2007 at 1:11 pm

    Testes Testes.. Juan Too Tree

  100. southerntragedy on February 9th, 2007 at 1:11 pm

    I’ll just keep doing it Neo’s way.

    Besides, Mariaw should trademark

    Evil E. ™

  101. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 1:11 pm

    Wow, I should have proof-read, sorry.

  102. fasternu426 on February 9th, 2007 at 1:12 pm

    mariaw,

    No need to proof read. Most here are either drunk or ride the short bus.

  103. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 1:14 pm

    ST
    How’d you make the swirly? Oh, and good idea on Evil E.™, or does this look better EvilE™?

  104. mariaw on February 9th, 2007 at 1:42 pm

    I’ll be back. I still want to know about the swirly ST, and I would also like the appropriate sympathies regarding my baking and upcoming conference with said meanie Latin teacher.

  105. SC on February 9th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    In another thread Shannon said:

    History without religion is just a “bun-only” hamburger.

    It reminds me of a trip to Burger King and the current prevalent language barrier. I got down the road and discovered that my burger was bunless.

  106. SC on February 9th, 2007 at 1:46 pm

    #104 mariaw, hurry to the conference. In the future you may be fined $500 for missing it.

    ~ just below esc.

  107. texpat on February 9th, 2007 at 1:49 pm

    During WWII, Ford made a GAA engine for Sherman tanks with 500hp, 1,050 ft/lbs of torque. The block is 1,100 cubic inches of solid aluminum. Some guy in Texas has dropped one into a 1970 Mustang. You can see some photos here at Coop’s website. He is a real character and a throwback sprocket jockey.

    http://positiveapeindex.blogspot.com/2007/02/fine-line-between-stupid-and-clever.html

  108. CyberBully on February 9th, 2007 at 1:50 pm

    CyberBully153 before EJP gets it

    Neo if your ignoring why do you reply?

  109. bigmoguls3 on February 9th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

    ™ You have to use the number pad keys not the keys above QWERTY.

    Here is the complete list. http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/ALTchrc.html
    This inserts the ASCII character.

    To really protect your posts, you should follow with ©®™

  110. CyberBully on February 9th, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    CyberBully

  111. CyberBully on February 9th, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    CyberBully™

  112. CyberBully on February 9th, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    Symbol for Neocon Ñ

  113. DanielJames on February 9th, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    Anna Nicoles mother suspects drugs.

    Ya think?

    http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/020907/D8N670800.shtml

  114. fasternu426 on February 9th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

    texpat

    LOVE IT!!! (even though it’s a Ford)

    I take back my statement I once made about Carrol Shelby and Fords:
    “It took a chicken farmer from East Texas to get ‘em to run right.”

  115. fasternu426 on February 9th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

    DJ

    Rumor is, Anna Nicol was murdered! There was trauma to the back of her head. Prevailing theory is when she went to get a drink, they slammed the seat down on her head!

  116. texpat on February 9th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

    Daniel James

    Since you are our leading and foremost authority on conspiracies, I want to know if you believe the NASA Diapernaut had anything to do with the demise of Anna Nicole Smith. I mean you have to admit the Smith story has knocked the Depends CrossCountry Race caper right off the cable news. They are both from Houston. Both of them were in Florida. Obviously, there is a connection. What WOULD msnbc and Fox do without Texas women to make news for them ?

  117. SC on February 9th, 2007 at 2:11 pm

    Now if it will just rain so those idiots can stand in a puddle while reporting that NASA knocked off ANS to protect Diapernaut.

  118. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 2:14 pm

    I’m still of the opinion that when all is said and done, all of these “untimely” deaths, diapernauts, missing white women, etc. will be attributed to the greatest criminal mastermind / promoter of the century - Greta Van Susteren, so she can continue her show.

    This just in (and I’m not kidding):

    Bizarre claim by Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband that HE is the father of Anna Nicole’s baby girl

  119. DanielJames on February 9th, 2007 at 2:16 pm

    texpat

    You brought up a good point since depends diaper lady was in the MILITARY.

    There maybe a connection.;)

    Maybe they were just two messed up people.

    Or maybe the chemtrails are starting to work?

  120. Shannon on February 9th, 2007 at 2:16 pm

    Zsa Zsa Gabor?

    I simply cannot go on.

  121. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 2:17 pm

    Breaking News: Eric P. Johnson claims that not only is he the father of Anna Nicole’s baby girl, he is also the father of The Wolf Boys, Danny and Larry.

  122. fasternu426 on February 9th, 2007 at 2:17 pm

    I think Abe Vigoda is the Baby’s Daddy!

    http://www.abevigoda.com/ffb.php

  123. DanielJames on February 9th, 2007 at 2:18 pm

    humus

    Crazy shiiit happens everyday. Greta just takes the football and runs with it. Her and Geraldo are GREAT Americans reporting the news.

  124. Shannon on February 9th, 2007 at 2:19 pm

    Hammie, you owe me a new slide-out keyboard shelf thingy.

  125. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 2:20 pm

    Of course, we all know who the real father is.

  126. SC on February 9th, 2007 at 2:22 pm

    #115 Hamous, Greta just needs to keep talking to loosen up her last face lift.

  127. texpat on February 9th, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    #118

    It really is hard to type on a keyboard from a fetal position on the floor.

  128. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 2:25 pm

    SC, I’ve always wondered, did she ask for that little Elvis Lip action thing she’s got going during her last face lift?

  129. SC on February 9th, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    #124 hamous, I allway thought they tighened one side a little more than the other.

  130. SC on February 9th, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    oops I need to buy a couple of consonents.

  131. texpat on February 9th, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    SC #114

    I really do think you are on to something there.

  132. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    #120, #123 - I’ll buy y’all a round at the next Happy Hour we’re all in attendance.

    But seriously, it don’t git any better than this, does it?

  133. texpat on February 9th, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    Ham & SC

    I found a long time ago that I cannot watch Greta on television. I can listen, but not watch. That mouth and weird lip action has some kind of strange hypnotizing effect on me. It looks like some kind of Disney animation.

  134. twocute64001 on February 9th, 2007 at 2:35 pm

    # 115, do you know how hard it is to type while spewing hot tea all over my keyboard and monitor.

    u bad!!!

    and I vote for mariaw’s EvilE but add Pee

    EvilE Pee ™

    Hey I did it right - not will you teach me block quotes????????? please ???? please

  135. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 2:37 pm

    I don’t watch her because I kept getting Billy Idol songs stuck in my head.

  136. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 2:39 pm

    <blockquote>Your text here<blockquote>

  137. hamous on February 9th, 2007 at 2:40 pm

    Oops. That’s the Sarge method and it never works. Try again:

    <blockquote>Your text here</blockquote>

  138. twocute64001 on February 9th, 2007 at 2:43 pm

    # 115, do you know how hard it is to type while spewing hot tea all over my keyboard and monitor.

    # 115, do you know how hard it is to type while spewing hot tea all over my keyboard and monitor

    ok - I blonde and its real - I tried 3 ways and it dont work

  139. twocute64001 on February 9th, 2007 at 2:44 pm