The obvious "El Nino" comparison...
The deeper and way less relevant Bob Dylan take (wait for it)...
The "because it's Igor's joke" approach...
And, since I bothered to type this, the "because it's TJ's post approach"...
Continue in the comments if you wish. Honestly, I just couldn't stand to read a post anymore that professed to enjoying Dane Cook.
For those of you desperate to know this year's other storm names, here they are:
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Bonnie
Colin
Danielle
Earl
Fiona
Gaston
Hermine
Igor
Julia
Karl
Lisa
Matthew
Nicole
Otto
Paula
Richard
Shary
Tomas
Virginie
Walter
The Teej came up big with the E-mode scene. Broka's cool lessons panned out for you.
ReplyDeleteHurricane Danielle is of course Hurricane Geoff and just failed to log in to google correctly.
ReplyDeleteAnd Hurricane Tomas is my Weanie Beanie doppelganger.
Yes. Hello. How is the weather down there?
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Girls are posting to facebook photos of themselves and their peers getting (overly) dressed up, having pre-parties featuring cliched mixed drinks, and going to see Sex and the City 2. They are apparently not ashamed of this behavior.
ReplyDeleteThis vexes me.
When the first "Sex and the City" movie debuted there were all sorts of overly-tarted-up drunken ladies tramping around Boston, particularly at my local martini bar. If you weren't married with children you might actually think this is a good thing. You know, drunk girls trying to look their sexiest and excited to wind up on the business end of a johnson after watching their fictional heroines plough through a bunch of guys.
ReplyDeleteBecause you missed out and had to stay at home with your kids, I presume
ReplyDeleteOne problem with that, Z. There's no way all of those girls are finding somebody to take them home. Somebody (probably multiple somebodies) will be left out and then, nobody gets action.
ReplyDeleteYou're right Mark. But it was a hell of a lot better than your typical night in Boston where women dress like teenage boys with pigtails: Red Sox hat, Varitek/Schilling/Damon/Beckett t-shirt, dumpy jeans, sneakers.
ReplyDeletePink Red Sox hat, right?
ReplyDeleteWhat's the leisure end of a johnson?
ReplyDeleteAirmen O'Malley and Rodriguez?
ReplyDeleteI'm on the leisure end of my johnson. But I'm pretty lazy.
ReplyDeleteIn other news, I have to review this article for work. I'm not amused.
http://tinyurl.com/r3jye
And when did you start working at The Pleasure Palace?
ReplyDeleteIt's more like the Bumming Dome, actually. Only more bookish.
ReplyDeletethere is a typo in the first paragraph of that article. other than that, it's a terrific piece. for you crazy frat guys, possessing a copy of this during nights on the town could have helped your scoring %'age...probably a little dry up there in the 'burg.
ReplyDeleteArid. Like the Sahara.
ReplyDeleteg:tb is the epicenter for learning. it has opened my mind in ways i thought unimaginable. before today, i never knew that the storm names are recycled every 6 years. so if you're not on the list next year, you still got a shot over the next five, that is unless you're one of the people who partakes in g:tb regularly, and if that's the case, you're completely fucked, unless you're me, who has a storm named after him, but won't see that one again 'til '14. better than a donut though. now, the names shown are atlantic storm names, so you may have a shot in one of god's other bodies of water (rob - should that apostrophe be after the s' since it's "bodies" or where it is since it's "other"....that's a tricky one) that is info i won't be looking up since i've already secured my spot in the atlantic rotation.
ReplyDeleteI guess the speed I airmailed d-train worked.
ReplyDeleteawl tj.
ReplyDeleteon the contrary, am dragging and a wee bit punchy, so could probably use some. i await the hypothetical delivery, woodchuck. grey squirrel, out.
well, he's not technically famous, nor is it still the wkd, but i was close to my prediction that another celeb would purchase rural space prior to end of monday....
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i bet his dad's hair just drove him over the edge.
Can't wait to bring out the chants when Hurricane Otto hits:
ReplyDeleteYou can do it, Otto! You can do it, Otto!
Help each other out: that'll be our motto!
Make this spare; I'll give you free gelato!
Then back to my place, where I will get you blotto!
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto.
Yep, that'll be some fun.
love that otto chant.
ReplyDeletei also love when other people besides me have apostrophe trouble.
slap chop!
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ReplyDeleteIts "cut off your nose TO SPITE your face" not DESPITE your face...right? People keep using this incorrectly...according to me.
ReplyDeletePer all-knowing Wiki:
ReplyDelete"Cutting off the nose to spite the face" is an expression used to describe a needlessly self-destructive over-reaction to a problem: "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face" is a warning against acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the source of one's anger.[1]
geoff - like me, you are a very petulant individual
ReplyDeletewhen i was a young lad, my family went to emerald isle, nc every summer. it was there i fell deeply in love with leann from indiana. she was hawt, but lacked in the smarts. we carried on a long-distance relationship pre-email, cell phones, and internet via landline & letter writing. that was her demise. i'll never forget that while using what was supposed to be the word "supposed" she spelled out, "so post". she never heard from me again. though i'm sure she'll probably see this and figure it all out. if so, hi leann. i hope you became a better speller.
ReplyDeleteDiscriminating against people due to their substandard intelligence (so long as its not so substandard as to be qualified as a disability) is one of the last few acceptable forms of discrimination. How I love it so.
ReplyDeleteIt's not often that I climb aboard Geoff's Wagon Train of Condescension, but on this point, I'm a veritable Laura Ingalls Wilder. We are friends with a number of slow-witted people (case in point), and I enjoy their company without imparting (too much of) my modest intellectual prowess. Where stupid meets douchey, however, I climb aboard that high horse, perch it on my soapbox, and look down my nose at these imbeciles. (Metaphoriffic!)
ReplyDeleteI embrace elitism in almost all of its forms, as does Igor, whether he likes to admit it or not. Not only do we take life a little less seriously around here--we also take you and your childish, sophomoric ideas less seriously than maybe your feeble brain wishes we would.
ReplyDeleteI look down my nose despite my face.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate Geoff's consistency; it may well get him elected one day (not Papal style).
ReplyDeleteI don't endorse elitism based on race, religion, job title, or income level. I love condescension based on sports team affiliation, rock and roll knowledge, matters of trivia, alma mater, height, ability to play Z, and any random criteria that serves to confuse.
Yes, of course, Igor. We don't want to offend the gizz moppers or the Scientologists, but if you think the new Vampire Weekend comes close to their first album then you need to go play in traffic.
ReplyDeleteWhat really matters is what you like, not what you are like.
ReplyDeleteZman, I believe that comment should have been followed by this.
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Or perhaps this...
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Or this.
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i don't consider myself an elitist. you probably thought my comments on the poor speller pretty ironic considering my jmu heritage. i'm ashamed of myself, true fully, i am.
ReplyDeletegizz mopper - i continue to learn here. thank you g:tb
Is "gizz mopper" spelled with at "g"? I don't want to offend anybody by misspelling their title in my christmas letter.
ReplyDeleteMarls spells fluffer with a "ph".
ReplyDeleteThe gizz mopper is the GZA's personal squeegee guy who follows him around to peep shows.
ReplyDeleteI actually did some quick work inappropriate googling to determine the preferred spelling of "gizz." It was about 50-50 "gizz" and "jizz."
ReplyDeleteis that a "by the job" kind of guy or is he on retainer?
ReplyDeleteThe job allows him to come as he pleases.
ReplyDeletegeoff or the mopper?
ReplyDeleteeither way....great gig.
maybe not so much for the mopper, but the flexibility does help make up for the other conditions.
ReplyDeletewhen i last visited igor, his woman called him "an elitist" or maybe it was a "snob," and he argued that he wasn't. you make the call.
ReplyDeletesigned,
a man of the people
MR. TRUCK!
we had a bbq on saturday, with some good friends and some newer town friends, and i veered between my typical elitist condescension and a rather extended bit on how giving my friend the Heimlich was going to turn into sodomy-- i woke up the next morning, shook out the cobwebs, and wondered what they made of THAT.
ReplyDeleteyou have bbq in jersey?
ReplyDeleteWhile on the topic of elitism based on personal taste, you're doing yourself a disservce if you don't check out the new Black Keys album, "Brothers." It's much darker and bluesier than their last album, probably because Danger Mouse only produced one track. In particular you should give "Everlasting Light," "Unknown Brother," "Sinister Kid," and "Next Girl" a listen.
ReplyDeleteThe Drive-By Truckers' new album, "The Big To-Do," is also worthwhile but not as good as "Brighter Than Creation's Dark" or "The Dirty South."
I eagerly await your derision.
You have got to be fucking kidding me:
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Zman, my favorite albums of the year so far: (TJ see which one is made up)
ReplyDeleteThe National
Band of Horses
Galactic
Frightened Rabbit
The Black Keys
The New Pornographers
Broken Social Scene
Dum Dum Girls
The Pack AD
The Budos Band
Sharon Jones & Dap Kings
The Hold Steady
Caribou
Also, I'm head to HOB tonight to see the The National. Got an extra if anyone wants it.
Frightened Rabbit?
ReplyDeleteDo with this what you will: http://bit.ly/9varim
ReplyDeleteFrightened Rabbit put out a good album. They're like Glasvegas.
ReplyDeleteNone. How get out there and buy some music. Or at least download some.
ReplyDeleteHow is Gollum a character from the past 20 years?
ReplyDeleteGood point. Sam Cassell is near 40 by now.
ReplyDeleteIn a very stiff staff meeting now. After this exchange:
ReplyDelete"Who's Jessica?"
"Tom's assistant."
"Who's Tom?"
...what is the proper peanut gallery retort?
Duh, it's "Jessica's boss." You don't have to hate Tommy Lasorda to know this stuff. And when I interrupted to say it? Crickets chirping.
I'm one step closer to resignation.
I didn't know we worked together!
ReplyDeletewhose crickets?
ReplyDeletemake that, "who's"
ReplyDeleteIgor come back to the darkside.
ReplyDeletehttp://tbz.me/vO8zw
ReplyDeletePrinter from the future.
I bet Paci was involved.
ReplyDeleteFreida lost the number for Alan's lawyer in Utah.
ReplyDeleteAnd getting back to Geoff's Gizz (sic) Moppers, Scientology is not even close to being a religion. It's no more a full-fledged religion than Amway, the KISS Army, Facebook, SOSH, Bunco, poker leagues, Daughters of the American Revolution, Pi Lambda Phi, Mac users, Trekkies, blogging, The Big Lebowski convention, Local Pipefitters 151, sluglines, the GOP, The Cameron Crazies, or Mormonism.
ReplyDeleteSo I guess add pseudo-religions to my list of elitisms.
Jim Swarthow?
ReplyDeleteSwarth Brooks.
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