We got our UCSB colors on
It’s all about the all about at this point in time it is what it is at the end of the day, quite literally, Torn Slatterns and Nugget Ranchers
We have the Jags, why not the, well . . .
The San Diego Chargers beat the Tennessee Titans 17-6. Here is my question, if the Packers are the Pack, the Buccaneers are the Bucs, why aren’t the Titans the . . . oh, I see.
The San Diego Chargers beat the Tennessee Titans 17-6. It was a great win for the Chargers. In addition to fighting off the pesky Titans, the oddest thing happened in San Diego, water kept falling out of the sky all over everything. It was really odd.
Many San Diego fans had a hard time concentrating on the game while they kept looking up to see what was dribbling on their heads.
In a Channel 8 interview after the game, a crawl at the bottom of the screen boasted "Charger fans brave the weather." Really? It was 58 and drizzling, or as they call that in Green Bay: Tropical.
A bad sign
In an interview with “Sixty Minutes” Mike Wallace, Roger Clemens denied he had a guy inject steroids into his butt. Clemens claims he just has a really wide stance in the locker room.
Clemens was so angry at the accusations you could actually see his shirt ripping open as he turned green.
Medical terms
The celebrity gossip site, TMZ, claims Britney Spears has been diagnosed with Bi-Polar Disorder, which is the current name for the older diagnosis of Manic-Depression which replaced the even older term: Crazier-than-an-outhouse-rat.
Or something like that
The candidates are scrambling to New Hampshire to court voters. Those poor Iowa voters have to feel like the groupie after the band left town: lying in the hotel bed next to the empty tequila bottles with only a complimentary CD and a sexually transmitted disease to show for the evening. Or as Paris Hilton calls that: Tuesday.
Kudos to Jim Barach for the topics
"Hello Kitty" is being marketed to fashionable young men in Japan. The makers of “Hello Kitty” say it makes a fashion statement for young men. Yeah, it does make a fashion statement as long as the statement is “Please beat the ever-loving, living crap out of me.”
The Japanese actually have a term for those young men attracted to “Hello Kitty” fashion line, they are called; velly, velly gay.
Oh, little town of Bratleboro . . .
A town in Vermont, Brattleboro, is going to swear out a warrant for the arrest of President Bush and Dick Cheney if they ever come to town. We are not sure what the charges are, but if being incompetent was illegal, congress would be a one great big holding cell.
Not unprecedented
NBC announced they will air their Golden Globe award show despite the George-Clooney-led star boycott. It can be done, ABC aired “Dancing with the Stars” without any stars.
Taking their hot flashes on the road
LeBron James scored 24 of his 39 points in the fourth quarter after being inspired by heckling from two Toronto women sitting courtside as the Cleveland Cavaliers posted a 93-90 victory over the Raptors. The female hecklers worked so well the Cavaliers have hired Rosie O’Donnell and Judge Judy to join them on the road.
We kid the Danester
Dane Cook broke Dave Chappell’s world record by doing seven hours of stand up comedy in Los Angeles. And Cook broke his own record of being funny for five minutes.
Since you asked:
So how did Dane Cook get Hootie'd? (Hootie'd (who-teed) Verb To go, in short order, from obscurity to wildly popular to being scoffed at as uncool)
Sure, those endless and a-little-more-annoying-than-funny World Series promos did not help Mr. Cook, but the problem began before that. Dane was a victim of his own over-marketing.
To his credit and then to his detriment, Dane was the first comic smart enough to use the internet and e-mail promotion really well. So when his big shot came, the self-promotion continued unabated only now it was combined with all the ads for HBO and his movies and it was too much.
Plus Cook fell under the second album rule. Bands, like Hootie and the Blowfish, play their whole lives to get an album recorded and after it hits big, they have to come up with a second album right away and they just don't have the material. Same with comics.
But Cook is an energetic guy, a funny guy, a talented guy and he is going to do just fine. Not to worry about Dane Cook.
Desde que usted preguntó (Since you asked)
I have a few friends in Chicago and New York and New Jersey who are asking me what the heck is with the crime spree in Mexico. Here is how I see it.
Once you start to rationalize lawless behavior in a country as simply a colorful part of their culture, you begin to slide down a slippery slope that leads to the fiasco that is now occurring in Mexico. When the cops are so busy shaking down tourists, the real criminals don’t have to worry about getting caught by the cops.
When I first started going down to Mexico when I moved out to San Diego from New York, circa 1986, nothing could have been more fun. The food is amazing, the people were friendly, the ocean water and beaches were pristine. The problem was you had to bring somebody who spoke fluent Spanish to deal with the cops who would shake you down for no apparent reason.
OK, fine, take all of your money out of your wallet save for $20 bucks, when the Mexican police pull you over, you show them that is all you have. This worked for about five years. Then I started hearing stories of people tossed in jail if they didn’t have at least $100.
Along this time a bunch of us gringo windsurfers were having beers at a tourist spot on the beach in Ensenada and one of my friends came up to me and said; “That Mexican stole my beer.” I walked right up to the thief and grabbed the beer back. Next thing I know there are four guns pointing at my head. These were local cops drinking off duty. They were grabbing American women, stealing beers and starting fights simply because they could.
That was my “I am never going back to Mexico” moment. Now people are getting routinely assaulted, beaten and even shot. And that is by the cops. The crooks are worse.
With more and more American tourists refusing to put up with the corrupt police, the more the competition grows between the thieves and cops for the dwindling gringo money. A few years ago when you heard about an American tourist getting hurt or rolled, you had some sympathy. Now it is so bad you just say what the hell did they expect?
We have the Jags, why not the, well . . .
The San Diego Chargers beat the Tennessee Titans 17-6. Here is my question, if the Packers are the Pack, the Buccaneers are the Bucs, why aren’t the Titans the . . . oh, I see.
The San Diego Chargers beat the Tennessee Titans 17-6. It was a great win for the Chargers. In addition to fighting off the pesky Titans, the oddest thing happened in San Diego, water kept falling out of the sky all over everything. It was really odd.
Many San Diego fans had a hard time concentrating on the game while they kept looking up to see what was dribbling on their heads.
In a Channel 8 interview after the game, a crawl at the bottom of the screen boasted "Charger fans brave the weather." Really? It was 58 and drizzling, or as they call that in Green Bay: Tropical.
A bad sign
In an interview with “Sixty Minutes” Mike Wallace, Roger Clemens denied he had a guy inject steroids into his butt. Clemens claims he just has a really wide stance in the locker room.
Clemens was so angry at the accusations you could actually see his shirt ripping open as he turned green.
Medical terms
The celebrity gossip site, TMZ, claims Britney Spears has been diagnosed with Bi-Polar Disorder, which is the current name for the older diagnosis of Manic-Depression which replaced the even older term: Crazier-than-an-outhouse-rat.
Or something like that
The candidates are scrambling to New Hampshire to court voters. Those poor Iowa voters have to feel like the groupie after the band left town: lying in the hotel bed next to the empty tequila bottles with only a complimentary CD and a sexually transmitted disease to show for the evening. Or as Paris Hilton calls that: Tuesday.
Kudos to Jim Barach for the topics
"Hello Kitty" is being marketed to fashionable young men in Japan. The makers of “Hello Kitty” say it makes a fashion statement for young men. Yeah, it does make a fashion statement as long as the statement is “Please beat the ever-loving, living crap out of me.”
The Japanese actually have a term for those young men attracted to “Hello Kitty” fashion line, they are called; velly, velly gay.
Oh, little town of Bratleboro . . .
A town in Vermont, Brattleboro, is going to swear out a warrant for the arrest of President Bush and Dick Cheney if they ever come to town. We are not sure what the charges are, but if being incompetent was illegal, congress would be a one great big holding cell.
Not unprecedented
NBC announced they will air their Golden Globe award show despite the George-Clooney-led star boycott. It can be done, ABC aired “Dancing with the Stars” without any stars.
Taking their hot flashes on the road
LeBron James scored 24 of his 39 points in the fourth quarter after being inspired by heckling from two Toronto women sitting courtside as the Cleveland Cavaliers posted a 93-90 victory over the Raptors. The female hecklers worked so well the Cavaliers have hired Rosie O’Donnell and Judge Judy to join them on the road.
We kid the Danester
Dane Cook broke Dave Chappell’s world record by doing seven hours of stand up comedy in Los Angeles. And Cook broke his own record of being funny for five minutes.
Since you asked:
So how did Dane Cook get Hootie'd? (Hootie'd (who-teed) Verb To go, in short order, from obscurity to wildly popular to being scoffed at as uncool)
Sure, those endless and a-little-more-annoying-than-funny World Series promos did not help Mr. Cook, but the problem began before that. Dane was a victim of his own over-marketing.
To his credit and then to his detriment, Dane was the first comic smart enough to use the internet and e-mail promotion really well. So when his big shot came, the self-promotion continued unabated only now it was combined with all the ads for HBO and his movies and it was too much.
Plus Cook fell under the second album rule. Bands, like Hootie and the Blowfish, play their whole lives to get an album recorded and after it hits big, they have to come up with a second album right away and they just don't have the material. Same with comics.
But Cook is an energetic guy, a funny guy, a talented guy and he is going to do just fine. Not to worry about Dane Cook.
Desde que usted preguntó (Since you asked)
I have a few friends in Chicago and New York and New Jersey who are asking me what the heck is with the crime spree in Mexico. Here is how I see it.
Once you start to rationalize lawless behavior in a country as simply a colorful part of their culture, you begin to slide down a slippery slope that leads to the fiasco that is now occurring in Mexico. When the cops are so busy shaking down tourists, the real criminals don’t have to worry about getting caught by the cops.
When I first started going down to Mexico when I moved out to San Diego from New York, circa 1986, nothing could have been more fun. The food is amazing, the people were friendly, the ocean water and beaches were pristine. The problem was you had to bring somebody who spoke fluent Spanish to deal with the cops who would shake you down for no apparent reason.
OK, fine, take all of your money out of your wallet save for $20 bucks, when the Mexican police pull you over, you show them that is all you have. This worked for about five years. Then I started hearing stories of people tossed in jail if they didn’t have at least $100.
Along this time a bunch of us gringo windsurfers were having beers at a tourist spot on the beach in Ensenada and one of my friends came up to me and said; “That Mexican stole my beer.” I walked right up to the thief and grabbed the beer back. Next thing I know there are four guns pointing at my head. These were local cops drinking off duty. They were grabbing American women, stealing beers and starting fights simply because they could.
That was my “I am never going back to Mexico” moment. Now people are getting routinely assaulted, beaten and even shot. And that is by the cops. The crooks are worse.
With more and more American tourists refusing to put up with the corrupt police, the more the competition grows between the thieves and cops for the dwindling gringo money. A few years ago when you heard about an American tourist getting hurt or rolled, you had some sympathy. Now it is so bad you just say what the hell did they expect?
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