I’m trying to remember a weird one from Adventure — if you stabbed one of the dragons (the red one) standing on just the right place on the screen you and the dragon would freeze and the screen would scroll wildly through all the various areas. Freaky.
up the sword and magnet so that a dragon would swoop in between them, he’d pick up the magnet, and it would make the sword move into the dragon and kill it.
I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired
The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth
And there ain’t nothing in the world that he don’t know;
He saw Peter, Paul, and Moses playin’ ring-around-the-roses;
And he’ll beat the guy that says it isn’t so.
the original has ‘atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down’
the ring of roses refers to the plague pustules, the posies to the flowers that people carried because they thought that would stop the spread, the sneezing, well, obvious, and the falling down, the death
did you know that when Charles II was going to be executed, he wore two extra undershirts and carried a orange on a stick stuffed with cloves so he wouldn’t tremble and appear to show fear?
that’s always struck me as interesting, for some reason
go back and look at all the girls in your yearbook. You’ll realize that most of the popular girls that everyone thought were all that actually weren’t very special. But there will be a several others that no one ever gave a second thought to that make you say, “Oh my god, so-and-so was totally hot, and I never even noticed.”
High school is weird. It has this strange groupthink aesthetic that is only loosely connected to actual beauty.
My then-girlfriend and I were living about 100 miles apart I knew she liked the show, so I watched it. When we moved in, I couldn’t stop watching. Now we’re married.
who would lose? And if nobody lost, how could you win? And why do we drive on a parkway but park in a driveway? And if a tree falls in the forest and it lands on an A’s player, and only Geren is around to hear it, does he make a sound?
but the title is misleading. I was expecting some video where a man shouted at people to “dance bitches!” and it was both really stupid and terribly hilarious.
not first!
darooster - July 31, 2009
This is why "first" sucks.
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
And it should be a CGV.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
Can't people, just, you know, stop?
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
Some kids never learn their lesson.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Pot, kettle.
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
I like tea.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Obviously you haven't been paying attention to...
….our entire national culture.
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
complete game victory?
or carlos gonzales vindication?
perhaps Can Geren Vehemently?
darooster - July 31, 2009
Posting "first" at Camden Chat is an insta-bAN
doctorK - July 31, 2009
The Orioles mean business.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
That blog is probably run better than the team
Nick - July 31, 2009
not a tall order.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Can we trade me for Adam Jones? I’ll take one for the team.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
There are far more useless posts
then the obligatory “first” post
darooster - July 31, 2009
I don’t know.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Why is it obligatory?
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
iglew - July 31, 2009
Brother Venn!
How I love you.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Not to be a pedant (well...actually precisely to be a pedant)...
…but that’s a Euler diagram, not a Venn diagram.
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
Pedantic is a good word to use in a rap.
…after reading it, I think it could be either, no?
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
A Venn diabram has to show all possible relations between the sets.
So it would, for example, include a zone in which people think they are first, are first, but are not idiots.
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
er...diagram
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
But it's a closed system, and that's thep oint of the diagram in question.
There are none, IOW.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Ah.
I love this. I just learned something.
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
I like it
sirbed - July 31, 2009
That’s a great graphic.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
It's a classic.
Along with “nobody cares about your fantasy team”.
iglew - July 31, 2009
:: Coughs. ::
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Here's the lineup on Rated-R Superstar's fantasy team:
Taylor Swift (CF)
Stacy Keibler (RF)
Megan Fox (1B)
Lauren Graham (DH)
Nina Dobrev (SS)
Jamie Kotsay (3B)
Nastia Lukin (LF)
Jordin Sparks (C )
Jaymee Sire (2B)
iglew - July 31, 2009
why rated-r
you sly dog!
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
I’m gifted.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
are we going to fight over jamie?
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
We can have her both at the same time, silly.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
sorry rated-r, my girl-on-girl fantasies are girls only
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
Turn off the lights.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
Sniff.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Somebody's been takin' notes!
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
Well, he's not exactly shrouded in mystery.
iglew - July 31, 2009
You are the man. I’d probably replace a few people, but man, you did a great job with that.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
My fantasy team would totally kick your team's ass, by the way.
iglew - July 31, 2009
go.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
My team
Diane Lane (2B)
Ashley Judd (3B)
Gabrielle Union (DH)
Katherine Heigl (1B)
Michelle Rodriguez (RF)
Jessica Alba (LF)
Jennifer Lopez (SS)
Beyoncé Knowles (C )
Kate Beckinsale (CF)
iglew - July 31, 2009
That was fast.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
That's what they all...oh nevermind.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
I knew you'd ask, so I had mine ready.
iglew - July 31, 2009
I aksed.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Diane Lane, Ashley Judd and Michelle Rodriguez
need to be DFA’d and some promising prospects need to be called up from AAA
darooster - July 31, 2009
No way.
Veterans >>> prospects.
iglew - July 31, 2009
Those veterans = Giambi type veterans: over the hill
darooster - July 31, 2009
Oh, and the best hitters are at the top
so they can get the most plate appearances, so you just dissed my #1 and #2.
iglew - July 31, 2009
I'm fairly certain not one of you would appreciate my list.
but then again, mine would be filled with people you don’t potentially know.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Try us.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
Come on, join the fun.
Stick that thing out there.
iglew - July 31, 2009
TWSS!!!!
darooster - July 31, 2009
Ugh.
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
Darooster, we outlawed that.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
WHAT?!
Since when? Dang it….
darooster - July 31, 2009
Recently.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
We decided it was very girl-wearing-a-skirt-as-a-top
Englishmajor - July 31, 2009
Oh
So you decided it was skanky but awesome?
darooster - July 31, 2009
no, but I love the way you think.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
There is this thing called google
we’ll use it to assist us.
darooster - July 31, 2009
they're not celebrities.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
I'm sure the high school girls on your list
have myspaces!
darooster - July 31, 2009
I don't think any high school girls make the list.
But it’s been a bit since I was there.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Restraining orders do that.
Jennifer - July 31, 2009
{sigh}
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
awesome
iglew - July 31, 2009
I'm on you're list, aren't I?
It’s okay to admit it.
Jennifer - July 31, 2009
You're?
Fuck you, whore.
Jennifer - July 31, 2009
Hey, don’t be so hard on yourself.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
too easy...
Keze - July 31, 2009
Darlin',
you ARE the list.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Sybil is that you?
adragon - July 31, 2009
One tall glass of bitters
for mr. iglew, coming right up!
darooster - July 31, 2009
I am loving that blog.
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
Have you read the new blog by them?
The emails one. I fail at the name right now.
Jennifer - July 31, 2009
No! Ooh!
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
Is it linked on the GraphJam page?
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
I can't find it right now.
I’m still looking.
Jennifer - July 31, 2009
Emails from crazy people.
http://emailsfromcrazypeople.com/
Jennifer - July 31, 2009
"Gabe: I am not in jail!" LOL
Nick - July 31, 2009
I love you so much.
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
OH!
THAT list.
That’s awesome.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
INSURANCE
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
or first, nvm
darooster - July 31, 2009
Rue Me!
(ty, EM)
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
threads!
they’re breeding!
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
Let's not give them any water after midnight.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
Those are some big sunglasses, young lady.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Add on, please
doctorK - July 31, 2009
Wow Cliff Lee just missed an HR
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
That was Ben Francisco. Cliff Lee scored on the sacrifice fly from Francisco.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
late highlight on MLBN
Lee did rip that double though
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
He has a pair of hits tonight.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
and the lousy bum's given up 1 hit through 7
Kallus - July 31, 2009
It looks like the teammates are still talking to Bobby.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
send him to sacto
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
and bring up Buck?
adragon - July 31, 2009
well i won’t complain
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
We need an undercover reporter
to infiltrate the Sacto club scene and find out if the rumors about Buck’s bad boy behavior are true. Do you know anyone who could do that?
iglew - July 31, 2009
what are these rumors?
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
you tell us
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
That's what we need you to find out.
iglew - July 31, 2009
i'll get on it
literally
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
LOL!
i know you will
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
I wouldn't really want him around any prospects
Nick - July 31, 2009
Wow, so Kane County is seriously out of the question for Bobby?
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
I'm thinking the Mexican League
sirbed - July 31, 2009
How about San Jose?
adragon - July 31, 2009
always a rivercat
Deborah51 - July 31, 2009
Don't do that to my hometown
sirbed - July 31, 2009
aww wanting that to be soo fair
Lefty73 - July 31, 2009
I'd like to see a race between Cliff and Rajai
SwisherThresher - July 31, 2009
I think Rajai would win.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
defenity rajai is faster
Belinelli's the savior - July 31, 2009
I think Somebody will win.
idunno723 - July 31, 2009
he'd get the style points anyway
Deborah51 - July 31, 2009
No Wallace would win
sirbed - July 31, 2009
what about Bodie and Poot?
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
LMAO!
adragon - July 31, 2009
Raj would smoke him like a blunt
Lefty73 - July 31, 2009
I still need ot make dinner...
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Let’s get a pizza, sir.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
it's getting late and I'm trying to diet...
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Just get me the pizza, then.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Dude, it's tomorrow already
Nick - July 31, 2009
I know.
But I took a nap earlier, so…
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
I also took a nap and by doing so, I missed Degrassi: The Next Generation at five.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
lulz
darooster - July 31, 2009
I feel old.
….where’s 67 to make me feel young?
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
I can do that, LB.
iglew - July 31, 2009
okay.
Remember Atari 2600?
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
"Combat" wuz the bestest game ever
IowaA'sFan - July 31, 2009
Especially the rebounding shots version
Nick - July 31, 2009
Oh yes, definitely.
Remember how if you drive the tank into a corner and keep bouncing against it it will eventually goof up and bounce around to the other side?
iglew - July 31, 2009
The 2600 had lots of little bugs like that
I’m trying to remember a weird one from Adventure — if you stabbed one of the dragons (the red one) standing on just the right place on the screen you and the dragon would freeze and the screen would scroll wildly through all the various areas. Freaky.
Nick - July 31, 2009
oh yeah!
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
My friend always liked to set
up the sword and magnet so that a dragon would swoop in between them, he’d pick up the magnet, and it would make the sword move into the dragon and kill it.
iglew - July 31, 2009
I did that!
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Combat was cool.
What was the one where you had to go through all the castles?
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Adventure.
Loved it.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
Pitfall!
so much wasted youth…
IowaA'sFan - July 31, 2009
that too, but no castles...
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Who needs castles
when you have crocodiles?
IowaA'sFan - July 31, 2009
and vines and snakes.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
And scorpions.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
I liked the Frankenstein game too.
Used to listen to Van Halen playing that.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
Adventure!
Man, that seemed so fun!
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Now, if it was an iPhone app, you'd say, "This is incredibly lame"
Nick - July 31, 2009
yup.
those games don’t age well.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Adventure, or Warlords?
Nick - July 31, 2009
Adventure.
Did you guys find the secret message room?
iglew - July 31, 2009
Of course, but only after growing up.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
Yes.
iglew - July 31, 2009
Atari was weak sauce
Intellivision Biatches!
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
I had a Magnavox.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
I had a friend who had the Fairchild system.
Never saw it anywhere else. Very cool joysticks.
iglew - July 31, 2009
I'm not sure I've even ever heard of it.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
I had PONG.
WIN!
IowaA'sFan - July 31, 2009
We did too!
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Ah, screw it.
Have another drink.
IowaA'sFan - July 31, 2009
that sounds like a good motto to me!
darooster - July 31, 2009
I'll drink to that
Lefty73 - July 31, 2009
cheers!
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
A rule to live by, indeed.
That and “early to bed and early to rise… makes a dude lame.”
IowaA'sFan - July 31, 2009
And a pretty damn good song
Album version.
Live stage show version.
Nick - July 31, 2009
Wow, Kinks synergy.
IowaA'sFan - July 31, 2009
Much Rickey love!
adragon - July 31, 2009
That was a sweet play.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Pennington and Everidge
DYNAMIC DUO.
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
hey
the kid(s) can play D
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
Web gem
Flashfire - July 31, 2009
Cliff....'n' Tommy!
What’re you bitchin’ about again, BoCro?
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
A look at the future
I like it!
adragon - July 31, 2009
Wow
Go
RivercatsA’s!idunno723 - July 31, 2009
wow, that was a helluva play
Deborah51 - July 31, 2009
Nice
Englishmajor - July 31, 2009
CP OK
sirbed - July 31, 2009
Sweeney looking a little more studly with the band-aid
i did a good job
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
You’re awesome.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
thanks, i aim to please
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
I'm from Sonoma County...
{sniff}
{sigh}
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
I'm in Sonoma County
In Penngrove
adragon - July 31, 2009
I grew up in Petaluma.
Went to college in San Jose and now I live in Fremont.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
I went to Boise St.
and then came home
adragon - July 31, 2009
One day I'd like to come home.
But I bought a house two years ago.
Guess where I’ll be living for the next billion years?
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
Fremont?
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
DING DING DING DING DING!
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
I was born in Fremont, California.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
I love Penngrove.
{sniff}
I wanna come home now.
Can I come home, AN?
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
yes
FL sucks
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
yes
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
Sure!
We have plenty of empty seats to fill.
Englishmajor - July 31, 2009
But you've always had the power to go home, Leopold Bloom!
Nick - July 31, 2009
nice
ak_A - July 31, 2009
Toto too?
doctorK - July 31, 2009
I'm tied to the Evil Signshop of the East.
Southeast, actually.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
ughhhh
Lefty73 - July 31, 2009
what is it with the 2 out hits tonight?
Deborah51 - July 31, 2009
at least this one did not score
adragon - July 31, 2009
wallace and green
can you be ready by late 2010…thanks!!
sorry but if pennington/everidge are projected to be anything more than fringe mlb players/part time players this team is going nowhere
Asfan4ever723 - July 31, 2009
Oh, just enjoy the play they combined on
Flashfire - July 31, 2009
Agreed Flashfire
sirbed - July 31, 2009
buzzkill
sirbed - July 31, 2009
Butthurt, JUST GO ENJOY SOME BASEBALL.
They’re playing grand today.
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
Its mysad duty to inform you
Pennington and Everest are the future!!!
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
eeeeeeexcellent
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
lol
Lefty73 - July 31, 2009
Release the Hounds!
sirbed - July 31, 2009
saddown
Lefty73 - July 31, 2009
not a very good call imo, but i'll take it
Keze - July 31, 2009
Sean Kemp?!?
He’s in baseball now?
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
Shawn Kemp?
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Yeah...apparently I can't spell.
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
apparently it's Camp
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
At least he didn't spell it "Chone"
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
agrd.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
me either & i'm a teacher go figure
Lefty73 - July 31, 2009
Shawn Kemp
Where are they now?
sirbed - July 31, 2009
"Shawn and Kate and Lucy and Elaine and Mary Plus 8"
Nick - July 31, 2009
Shawn Kemp
wasn’t it 8 kids with 7 women?
sirbed - July 31, 2009
Travis Henry beat him.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
That's a race no one wants to enter
sirbed - July 31, 2009
Apparently appearing on...
Pros vs. Joes
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
would be funny
taller than the unit. he used to KILL the GSW if i remember right
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
He went to a high school right next to mine.
Graduated the same year as me.
He scored somethingl ike 400 on his SATs.
We used to chant SAT at the games.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
did you also make multiple comeback attempts?
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
Don't call it a comeback.
I’ve been doing it for years.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Zook!
base hit all the way
adragon - July 31, 2009
hits for everyone!
buddahead9 - July 31, 2009
anyway u can get it kurt
Lefty73 - July 31, 2009
Iglew, I revised my fantasy team.
Lineup:
CF — Taylor Swift
2B — Kelly Kelly
3B — Morgan Beck
DH — Vanessa Hudgens
RF — Nina Dobrev
1B — Jamie Kotsay
SS — Nastia Liukin
LF — Jaymee Sire
C — Jessica Gomes
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
You are so desperate, dude.
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
I’m not desperate. I’m just 17.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired
The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
:: Claps. ::
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
We'd hide from the lights
on the village green
iglew - July 31, 2009
get this boy porno, stat!
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
If I was 17, I'd probably have porno up in another window.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
I just closed it, thank you.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
If I was 17, I'd ALWAYS have porn up.
and something else as well.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Now, the other thing up would be just my blood pressure
doctorK - July 31, 2009
They say if it's up for four hours or more, you could do irreparable damage.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
when I was 17?
It would go down for a half minute or so.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Well you could always just take a match
light it, then blow it out, then take the still warm embers and….
darooster - July 31, 2009
Kinky.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
Nick - July 31, 2009
theme of the night.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Young and desperate.
It’s plausible.
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
Very strong
adragon - July 31, 2009
can i be the ball girl?
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
Definitely.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
You're young and I'm old because I don't know any of those names
sirbed - July 31, 2009
agrd.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
It sucks feeling old at 35
sirbed - July 31, 2009
39
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
God you're ancient
sirbed - July 31, 2009
He's nobbut a kid
46
doctorK - July 31, 2009
I'm turning 44 tomorrow...
…oh look! today!
Happy Birthday to Me!
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
Happy Birthday, GNGS!!!!
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Happy birthday to you, sir.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Yay, you're four months older than me.
I think I knew that already, didn’t I?
iglew - July 31, 2009
Not sure... but you know it now.
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
happy bday!
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
Happy Happy
If I could make you and ASCII cake I would…..
BERRYJO - July 31, 2009
For you
Happy Birthday – Paul McCartney
IowaA'sFan - July 31, 2009
Woo! Happy Birthday!
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
Thanks, everyone!
I’ve yet to meet the birthday that makes me feel really old. And I’m happy to report that 44 is no exception.
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
I've heard both 50 and 65 do the trick.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
I've said to a couple of people
that when I turned 41, I thought, “I don’t feel old, but I’m beginning to feel like I’ve been alive for a long time.”
And happy b-day (elaborations tomorrow)!
Nick - July 31, 2009
I know.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
certainly not as old as me...
I keep getting asked, “How was it, before there was electricity??”
One won lost won - July 31, 2009
Don't worry
In a few years you’re eligible to become a lech, and you can make up your own list!
Nick - July 31, 2009
I think I was 37 when I turned lech.
But I prefer the term “dirty old man”.
iglew - July 31, 2009
I'm pretty sure all the players on my fantasy team
are younger than me. But some are pretty close.
iglew - July 31, 2009
kelly kelly??? that's a real person?
Deborah51 - July 31, 2009
It’s her stage name. She’s a diva for the WWE.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
what exactly does a WWE diva do
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
She wrestles sometimes.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
and the rest of the time
wears wisps of leather?
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
Maybe.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
so she's sort of a diva diva.
Deborah51 - July 31, 2009
You know, like WWE Superstar Ford Maddox Ford
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
LOL
“This fight tonight will be the saddest story you have ever heard — about YOU!!”
Nick - July 31, 2009
Wrestling huh you know it's fake right?
sirbed - July 31, 2009
I will not listen to these lies.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
I actually went to WrestleMania 9
but I was much younger then
sirbed - July 31, 2009
I wanted to see the first Wrestlemania.
I was 15, I think.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Wasn't Mr T in that?
sirbed - July 31, 2009
yuppers.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
was that the one held in the colliseum
yknow, the one in Rome?
bobnothing - July 31, 2009
The first one?
No, I think it was MSG or Philly or somethingl ike that…
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
I was making a joke based on the premise that you are around two thousand years old
which is clearly proposterous.
therein lies the humor.
bobnothing - July 31, 2009
oh.
I am a blonde, you know.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Curtains/drapes/etc?
mikev - July 31, 2009
Well,
I’ve got terrazzo floors.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Indeed, he was born about two thousand years ago
And there ain’t nothing in the world that he don’t know;
He saw Peter, Paul, and Moses playin’ ring-around-the-roses;
And he’ll beat the guy that says it isn’t so.
Englishmajor - July 31, 2009
Speaking of which
why has the American version of Ring a ring of roses have go
Ring around the roses
a pocket full of posies
ashes, ashes
we all fall down
When it a) doesn’t make sense, and b) is still pretty dark, so it’s not as if you’re getting away from the plague connotations of the original?
I don’t get it
bobnothing - July 31, 2009
it gets overlooked what it is,
what it means, in most circles.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
right, but what I don't get
is that at some stage someone must have thought
hm, this is too dark for the kids, I’ll change it.
to ashes??
bobnothing - July 31, 2009
I think it was just mis-heard
An early mondegreen, if you will.
Englishmajor - July 31, 2009
could be, could be
I wonder if anyone’s done any research..
bobnothing - July 31, 2009
There is a Wiki article that has info and debunks the connection to the plague
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Roses
BERRYJO - July 31, 2009
I think the plague thing is folk myth.
iglew - July 31, 2009
I'm pretty sure it's not
the original has ‘atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down’
the ring of roses refers to the plague pustules, the posies to the flowers that people carried because they thought that would stop the spread, the sneezing, well, obvious, and the falling down, the death
bobnothing - July 31, 2009
the pocketful of flowers to mask the stench of rot, too.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
No, I've heard all the stories, but
I thought it was folk myth, like the Wizard of Oz political allegory.
iglew - July 31, 2009
Ever read Defoe?
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
or the diaries of Samuel Pepys?
bobnothing - July 31, 2009
yuppers.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Pepys was a very naughty fellow
We had a highly edited and completely expurgated version at home that I read when I was a kid, and then I read the real one years later. Wowser.
Englishmajor - July 31, 2009
It was an AWESOME diary.
Long, though.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Yeah, we had the PG-13 version when I was at school, too
Same with the poems of Catullus.
bobnothing - July 31, 2009
Catullus was naughty.
Sappho too.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
yes, that too
did you know that when Charles II was going to be executed, he wore two extra undershirts and carried a orange on a stick stuffed with cloves so he wouldn’t tremble and appear to show fear?
that’s always struck me as interesting, for some reason
bobnothing - July 31, 2009
all the old stories are interesting,
IMHO.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Charles I?
Englishmajor - July 31, 2009
Wouldn't that just be "Charles" though?
mikev - July 31, 2009
yes. you're right
bobnothing - July 31, 2009
Charles always had to be in charge
Nick - July 31, 2009
Snopes says it's bunk.
here
iglew - July 31, 2009
well, to be fair,
I AM a hunka burnin’ love.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Is that like playing the guitar on the MTV? That ain't workin'!
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
I'll remember.
iglew - July 31, 2009
I remember
having much better taste at 17. But then again, I did used to love Britney Spears.
However, that was before K-Fed brought the white trash out of her. Sigh…
darooster - July 31, 2009
“To each his own.”
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Some time at least 10 years after you graduate,
go back and look at all the girls in your yearbook. You’ll realize that most of the popular girls that everyone thought were all that actually weren’t very special. But there will be a several others that no one ever gave a second thought to that make you say, “Oh my god, so-and-so was totally hot, and I never even noticed.”
High school is weird. It has this strange groupthink aesthetic that is only loosely connected to actual beauty.
iglew - July 31, 2009
completely agree.
study what iglew just said, Rated-R.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
He studies everything I say.
Wise boy.
iglew - July 31, 2009
I don’t fall for those popular girls at all.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
it's not that the popular girls are bad.
it’s that there’s diamonds in the rough. Look at the girls and see, really see, which ones are beautiful.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Hey, they all are!
Well, most of them.
IowaA'sFan - July 31, 2009
To be honest, I try to do that.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
I'm not sure I agree with that.
Just contemplate the fact, and cultivate your sense of beauty. I don’t think you should try to not be 17, though. I’m not sure you can.
iglew - July 31, 2009
what, popular girls are bad?
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Nice work, if you can get it.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
maybe true
but six years after I’ve graduated (and I feel old) some of the people are still hot and somewhat successful and it makes you want to say $&%^(@*#!!
But others, totally fat. Ha!
darooster - July 31, 2009
Hmm.
Maybe 15 years for you.
iglew - July 31, 2009
solution: try to bang EVERYBODY in high school.
Cover all your bases.
mikev - July 31, 2009
yee-haw!
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
hi you.
mikev - July 31, 2009
were you hiding?
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
I was busy scoring.
Goals.
In soccer.
Hat trick, baby.
mikev - July 31, 2009
Oh sure,
Pretending like you both just happened to arrive at the party late. Don’t think we don’t know.
iglew - July 31, 2009
*zips fly*
What!??!
mikev - July 31, 2009
(buttons up shirt)
what do you mean?
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
DON'T DO THAT.
oh. Hi.
mikev - July 31, 2009
Why do you get all the fun with OakA’sHoney?
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Apradavya
Google that, if you dare….
iglew - July 31, 2009
Oops, I mean apadravya
Iglew fail.
iglew - July 31, 2009
Ouch.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Bingo.
mikev - July 31, 2009
i had to look that word up
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
Bingo?
or Apadravya?
mikev - July 31, 2009
apadravya and oh my…
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
sigh.
I told you my piercing was lower than the tongue. Did you think I was joking?
mikev - July 31, 2009
yes, but i guess not, how about the tongue, going to get it re-done?
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
Been strongly considering it, actually.
mikev - July 31, 2009
nice
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
Oh wow
Zooks is safe
Bautista with a great catch, but the throw was high pulling Millar off the bag
SwisherThresher - July 31, 2009
Everyone has hits!
idunno723 - July 31, 2009
Cust
walks!
SwisherThresher - July 31, 2009
That's option 2
sirbed - July 31, 2009
hey ryan
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
I can be Ryan.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
you may not want to be
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
I can be Travis.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
i don’t think so
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
Oh, well.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Oh look, it's OAH and R-RS being a Berlin tribute band!
Nick - July 31, 2009
LOL
doctorK - July 31, 2009
C'mon Tommy, park one
doctorK - July 31, 2009
GIDP
Bailey time
SwisherThresher - July 31, 2009
Let's get it done Bailey
idunno723 - July 31, 2009
git 'er done!
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
Bailey comming in
adragon - July 31, 2009
the little lineup that could
Glomar - July 31, 2009
stomper sighting
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
Stomper desperately wanders the empty stands in search of fans...
…with whom to interact.
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
poor Stomper
idunno723 - July 31, 2009
where's Don when you need him?
Missing him now, are you, you elephant bitch?!
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Daily Bailey!
I still haven’t decided if I like that nickname.
IowaA'sFan - July 31, 2009
his girlfriend might
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
you
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
Bailey is still suspect for me
Lefty73 - July 31, 2009
the guy is pretty performing as street has
thats quite good
Glomar - July 31, 2009
Put him away Bailey!
I’m running out of beer!
IowaA'sFan - July 31, 2009
Finish him off.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
IowaA'sFan - July 31, 2009
GYMNASTICS!
mikev - July 31, 2009
Nice timing
adragon - July 31, 2009
come on Bailey
Lefty73 - July 31, 2009
Victory!
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
A'S WIN!!!
(and my 100th AN comment, I feel like I’ve accomplished something!)
idunno723 - July 31, 2009
I’ve almost hit 100 comments on the Sharks blog.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
100?
n00b
(welcome)
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
Yeah, I'm almost to 2,000
and I suck!
IowaA'sFan - July 31, 2009
I’ve almost hit 2,000 comments on my third blog.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
To be fair I have over 5000 comments on SBN. So ha(?)
idunno723 - July 31, 2009
Maybe.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
As with so many things, Jennifer crushes you all.
Behold her userid page and tremble.
iglew - July 31, 2009
:: Looks. ::
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
I feel violated.
Jennifer - July 31, 2009
Please, don’t hurt me.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
No, hurt him.
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
You’re mean.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
You liked it.
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
I know that I did.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
yay!!!!
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
FINISHED HIM
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
WIN!
Nick - July 31, 2009
FINISHED HIM
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
yea that's the stuff!
Gooooooo A’s!!!
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
Victory
doctorK - July 31, 2009
GAME OVER
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
Yay!
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
I want to feed Lauren.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
... to a pit of angry guinea pigs.
Jennifer - July 31, 2009
I sense jealousy.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
That cake does look delicious.
Jennifer - July 31, 2009
No!
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
We love you so much, Jennifer.
iglew - July 31, 2009
QOTM.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
BFF!!!!!!!!!!!
mikev - July 31, 2009
Guinea pigs are a South American delicacy...
Especially when they’ve been raised on the sweet, sweet flesh of Gilmour Girls!
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
I would love to taste the flesh of the Gilmour Girls.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
I wish Lauren was a cake.
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
Oh, she is.
< knowing look >
iglew - July 31, 2009
So much cake,
the money look weird.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
I am in awe of your Photoshop skills
Englishmajor - July 31, 2009
Lost of practice.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
wtf all that cake
is she so busy eating with own hand that she needs help to shovel it in faster?
Glomar - July 31, 2009
you know how girls are with sweets
cuppingmaster - July 31, 2009
Well, she was testing cakes to pick the one she liked most for her wedding.
I know this because, well, I watched the show.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
I too enjoy the guilty pleasure that is the Gilmore Girls
adragon - July 31, 2009
You lie!!
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
Seriously.
My then-girlfriend and I were living about 100 miles apart I knew she liked the show, so I watched it. When we moved in, I couldn’t stop watching. Now we’re married.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
Awww.
< tears up >
iglew - July 31, 2009
Thats cute
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
A nice, satisfying win for your 2009.5 Oakland A's!
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
yeah
Lefty73 - July 31, 2009
Ooh, pretty!
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
VICTORY!
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
Well done, fellas!
Nick - July 31, 2009
love the peanut man
Keze - July 31, 2009
FP Santangelo's man crush has switched to Rajai
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
Hey we won
How Cool!!!
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
Winning is fun.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Winning is good
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
Not everybody does it
Nick - July 31, 2009
But everybody should
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
Talk to your sister.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
GreenNGoldSooner - July 31, 2009
FREEDOM!
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
I had that whole song memorized once.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
quite the confession.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
I'm not embarassed.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
Yeah I had the song AND video
completely commited to memory.
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
I remember taking my mom's GM cassete tape so I could listen to the song and write down the lyrics.
I don’t really know why.
Later on I memorized them with the intention of recording and covering the song.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
But if everybody did
who would lose? And if nobody lost, how could you win? And why do we drive on a parkway but park in a driveway? And if a tree falls in the forest and it lands on an A’s player, and only Geren is around to hear it, does he make a sound?
darooster - July 31, 2009
The Parkway
RIP
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
Now's the time time on AN when we dance!
Dance, bitches!
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
::does the funky chicken::
adragon - July 31, 2009
::does the
robotGeren::Kallus - July 31, 2009
does this involve
repeatedly putting your hands under your armpits and scowing like a frustrated gibbon?
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
so you've done it?
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
sssssh
I’m doing it right now.
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
yes. that. and nosepicking
Kallus - July 31, 2009
Hey there was a video?
I love the lapels
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
check out the gators.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Your link is awesome
but the title is misleading. I was expecting some video where a man shouted at people to “dance bitches!” and it was both really stupid and terribly hilarious.
darooster - July 31, 2009
it's what we dance to here when we win.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Oh you don't need to tell me
I have danced many times to that song at the Coli. Although sadly, not as much the last couple of years… :(
darooster - July 31, 2009
Great game
Let’s do it again tomorrow
SwisherThresher - July 31, 2009
FP + RD = ♥
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
It’s nothing like Cory and Topanga, though.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
A Boy Meets World refernece FTW!
You have impressed me, young Rated-R….
But you probably watched that show in reruns on the Disney Channel, not in its original run like me.
Excellent reference nonetheless!
darooster - July 31, 2009
Yes, I watched it on Disney. It’s still my favorite show of all time, though.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
It is an excellent show
But for me, still behind Seinfeld, Frasier, Chappelle’s Show and The Fresh Prince. But it’s in the top 5.
darooster - July 31, 2009
< laughs at darooster calling someone young >
iglew - July 31, 2009
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
I would be insulted
but I have felt old lately, so I’ll take it as a compliment!
Besides, the kid’s still 7 years younger than me.
darooster - July 31, 2009
I had a crush on Topenga.
But then again, who didn’t?
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
Topanga was nice.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
+1
darooster - July 31, 2009
Hee
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
Raises Hand
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
Great win guys
Goodnight all
adragon - July 31, 2009
nighty-night
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
do you work on this bubbly-ness every day?
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
Capn.
mikev - July 31, 2009
i’m bubbly?
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
That is not a bad thing, is it?
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
I dunno
Can I check?
mikev - July 31, 2009
sure
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
sweet.
how?
mikev - July 31, 2009
:: Intently pays attention. ::
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Beggin' for a piece of that bubble!
iglew - July 31, 2009
a thermometer?
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
He's now going to ask you where he's supposed to insert it.
Answer wisely, girl.
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
That’s the thought that immediately popped into my head.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
See?
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
And also what to do with the thermometer.
mikev - July 31, 2009
i’ll have to google it
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
You take a degree off to equate it to under the tongue temp.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
No, you're naughty.
Fille méchante.
iglew - July 31, 2009
oui, c’est moi
OakA'sHoney - July 31, 2009
kinda.
it’s not a bad thing, except maybe to rum-drenched Mexican captains.
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
It's not really bad it's just bubbly.
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
Later.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
'Night bro.
ElQuesoCapitan - July 31, 2009
Recap Up!
baseballgirl - July 31, 2009
No link...
amateur.
pam5981 - July 31, 2009
OMG HI BBG!
mikev - July 31, 2009
I can't believe that the fans voted 95% in favor of BoCro over Pennington at SS the rest of the year.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
I’m in favor of Pennington.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
Yea, I'm happy with BoCro in a utility role. We need to know what Pennington is made of.
LoneStranger - July 31, 2009
I've never been in favor of Crosby
ain’t gonna start now neither!
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
was there a "neither" vote?
Leopold Bloom - July 31, 2009
Nope.
Rated-R Superstar - July 31, 2009
CUST?!?!?!
mikev - July 31, 2009
One thing I notcied about tonight
We won and Crosby didn’t even sniff the game.
Win win in my book.
BleedGreen - July 31, 2009
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