tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74622462340097704152024-03-12T22:41:10.427-05:00Elliot ThresherOne-stop viewing of frivolous and useless stuff!Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.comBlogger463125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-57926355219282213302011-04-11T12:18:00.001-05:002011-04-11T12:59:12.136-05:00Opening Day video: Chicago's #1 Cubs fan (or at least the drunkest)A good way to celebrate coming back to blogging...and baseball season. <br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/21819920?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=b30000" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/21819920">Opening Day: The Cubs biggest fan</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/wbez">WBEZ</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br />It's fun to play the "Would you hit it?" game with hot messes like this chick. Can't see her body too much, but she's got butterface for sure. Clearly, she's primed to party (sleeping under bar tables is not for the weak of heart, stomach or mind...), even if a "hot guy game for anything" is married, as long as he knows the kind car he drives (I know you'd say "Porshe" you horny scumbag) and has a ticket for her. I'm married, so I wouldn't "hit it." If I were single, I still don't think I would. Henneman is strictly "a 2AM, the bar is closing, I'm going through a dry-spell and need it to end" kind of woman.<br /><br />I shouldn't talk this way about a woman with such a sharp political intellect. And for those of you thinking she has a drinking problem, I'll defend her by saying she is trying to find a ride home so as to not drink and drive. She has brains for business and a bod for...<br /><br />...sleeping under Hi-Tops' tables (you know that's where she was!).<br /><br>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-19691654466572208732010-12-30T13:41:00.002-06:002010-12-30T13:41:59.233-06:002011I've been out of commission most of 2010. Hoping 2011 gets more attention on here. Happy new year!Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-41973117145506497642010-01-14T13:57:00.003-06:002010-01-14T14:03:28.670-06:00US Politics: same as usualI can't believe <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1054">THESE</a> are the kind of people who are vying to lead our country. No wonder our country is slowly going down the toilet...so sad. We have no chance. <br /><br /><blockquote>Was it true, Lauer asked, that the vetting of Sarah Palin was so woefully inadequate that no one from the campaign traveled to Alaska to interview her husband or any of her political opponents?<br /><br />"I wouldn't know," McCain said. "The fact is that I'm proud of Sarah Palin, I'm proud of the campaign we waged, she energized our party, she will be a major factor in American politics in the future, and I'm proud of our campaign."<br /><br />Somewhat taken aback, Lauer told McCain that he found it "somewhat surprising" that he didn't know anything about the vetting process, adding "You were the presidential candidate."<br /><br />McCain testily shot back by saying that he had no intention of "looking back over what happened over a year ago," adding, "I'm sorry, you'll have to get others to comment on it."<br /><br />From the new book 'Game Change' by New York magazine's John Heilemann and Time Magazine's Mark Halperin:<br /><br />- that the affair between John Edwards and his campaign videographer was known about and kept quiet by three of his aides from early on. Edwards comes off in the book as a man with a massive ego and delusional tendencies. His wife Elizabeth is described by insiders as being "an abusive, intrusive, paranoid condescending crazywoman."<br /><br />- that former President Bill Clinton was involved in an affair in 2006 that many thought would derail Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency and he offended Ted Kennedy deeply while trying to win his endorsement for his wife's campaign by saying the following about then-candidate Obama: "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee."<br /><br />- that Sarah Palin believed Saddam Hussein to be behind the attacks on 9/11, didn't understand why North and South Korea were separate (the Korean War) and that she could not properly pronounce Joe Biden's name. The book contends that Palin was a mentally unstable person prone to wild mood swings, describing her being hopelessly lost in a "catatonic stupor" at one point during the campaign.</blockquote>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-58048246581483737122010-01-14T13:33:00.004-06:002010-01-14T13:37:34.439-06:00Pants on the GroundGenius! This better be released as record, cause it'll go <del>platinum</del> brass for sure. Funniest thing I've seen on TV in a while. Haven't cried from laughing so hard in a looooooong time.<br /><br /><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nvCQsVcHN7c&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nvCQsVcHN7c&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-87112165700633327632009-12-31T10:15:00.004-06:002009-12-31T10:21:07.908-06:0010 corrections needed for "hot" TV shows right now.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/SzzPUwZlEmI/AAAAAAAAAm4/9ZXwnQRliwk/s1600-h/LOST_FINAL.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/SzzPUwZlEmI/AAAAAAAAAm4/9ZXwnQRliwk/s400/LOST_FINAL.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421436006943756898" /></a><br />I thought this is a great, <a href="http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/the-new-years-resolutions-that-tv-shows-should-make--883">quick analysis of some of the "hot" shows on TV right now</a> and how they're starting to veer off their "hot" paths...<br /><br />I'd like to add that Modern Family and Cougar Town not try to introduce too many more new characters. Guest stars are fine occasionally ala Friends, but we don't need any more characters. Use the ones you've got in the stories. And no babies!!!!<br /><br />AND PLEASE...LET LOST END WITH ANSWERS!<br /><br>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-55346742537520336162009-12-31T10:11:00.001-06:002009-12-31T10:14:43.308-06:00Wireless bandwidth getting crowded.This is just crazy, that <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091227/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_spectrum_shortage">wireless has taken off like this, in average households</a>:<blockquote>...consumers are flocking to wireless Internet connections, in some cases dropping landline accounts altogether. ABI Research projects U.S. mobile broadband subscriptions will climb to 150 million by 2014, up from 48 million this year and 5 million in 2007.</blockquote>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-60233787412714564302009-12-14T09:28:00.003-06:002009-12-14T09:40:46.607-06:00Tiger Wood's "indefinitely" leaves golf; fellow golfers ectsatic<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/SyZcWmCJh-I/AAAAAAAAAmw/4eoUxSXIxDo/s1600-h/ept_sports_golf_experts-709594640-1260476642.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 330px; height: 379px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/SyZcWmCJh-I/AAAAAAAAAmw/4eoUxSXIxDo/s400/ept_sports_golf_experts-709594640-1260476642.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415117145196038114" /></a><br />Tiger Woods is gone...for now, from the golf pro tour. <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/devil_ball_golf/post/Fellow-PGA-pros-speak-out-on-Tiger-Woods-quot-?urn=golf,207961">Tiger's fellow golfers are happy</a> for multiple reasons. Not only did they think he was a major jerk, but <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/devil_ball_golf/post/Who-benefits-who-suffers-from-Tiger-Woods-hiat;_ylt=ArZpgFsBOBvcFeR_xr1YHYIogsUF?urn=golf,208265">now the winnings are actually open to other golfers again</a>. Who knew Tiger competing for the attention of hos would increase competition for the pros!<br /><br>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-41015677582476152282009-12-14T09:14:00.003-06:002009-12-14T09:18:52.228-06:00Facebook death like Samurai: seppuku SeppukooThis sounds pretty cool...basically <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091210/ts_alt_afp/franceusitinternetfacebookoffbeat">dying honorably in cyberspace</a>. However, knowing me, I'd have to go back on Facebook to reconnect with someone and then I'd have to rebuild my profile all over again.<br /><br />While I aim to be honorable, I'm much more lazy.Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-30847172441707744712009-12-14T09:00:00.002-06:002009-12-14T09:05:42.843-06:00Jersey Shore not convincing that "guido" is term to be proud of<a href="http://tv.yahoo.com/jersey-shore/show/45540/news/tv.tvguide.com/tv.tvguide.com-mtv-exec-bums-me-out-people-are-offended-jersey-shore">Party poopers</a>. They're all just hating on "The Situation."<br /><br />And <a href="http://www.tvguide.com/news/dominos-pulls-ads-1012847.aspx?rss=breakingnews&partnerid=yahoo&profileid=tv2">Domino's has some nerve</a>. If Jersey Shore isn't "in keeping with what they're all about," then maybe they should only advertise on Christian tv programs (since they support "Operation Rescue") to promote "what they're about."Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-46556707690619697482009-12-09T21:31:00.001-06:002009-12-09T21:39:03.404-06:00Future fees for iPhone apps!An AT&T exec stated on 12/9/09 that <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iO1Mbl089JyTchsnJotLL9TR9e7AD9CFT3T80">iPhone data usage could become more restrictive in order to provide better service overall.</a> Basically, AT&T is saying "Thanks for getting hooked on our hip product, but now we're going to charge you fees to use it because our service sucks." Nice.<br /><a href="http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2009/12/apple-iphone-att-bandwidth-charge-video-youtube-3g-network.html"><br />Consumer Reports agrees:</a><br /><blockquote>Yet, both Apple and AT&T encourage iPhone owners to use more of those bandwidth-hogging features.</blockquote>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-86788095594277477502009-12-08T08:47:00.003-06:002009-12-08T08:54:54.387-06:00AT&T cares about dropped calls? Probably not.They just have to seem like they care so people won't jump ship from iPhone to Droid or Windows OS phones. <br /><br />Just call them iLousy. <a href="http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93229?fp=1">iPhone now had an app (now there really IS an app for everything...) to report their faulty service with dropped phone calls.</a> The irony is the dropped calls aren't because of iPhones. It's AT&T's lousy coverage. So, what recourse is there for AT&T customers who are not iPhone users, with dropped calls? None, because AT&T doesn't care about you. Just your friends with iPhones who may see that newer technologies are on the horizon for smartphones. Hopefully Apple won't steal them and roll production ahead of time!Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-62055723513857265732009-12-08T08:40:00.003-06:002009-12-08T08:44:08.251-06:00End of a Millenium DecadeI completely didn't think about this being the end of the beginning of the Millenium. Yahoo has an article kind of stating what <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews_deca/ynews_deca_ts1011">impressions were overall for the beginning os the 2000's</a>. I'm mainly posting this because I remember Y2K being a freaked out thought and now it seems like ages ago.<br /><br>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-49989343572898568162009-12-08T08:33:00.005-06:002009-12-08T08:39:11.602-06:00Tiger Woods Saturday Night Live SkitIn case you missed it...<br /><br /><object width="425" height="245"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/TBnuWvaQkfrdmrg8ncyKUw"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/TBnuWvaQkfrdmrg8ncyKUw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" width="425" height="245"></embed></object>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-64276883116538851152009-12-05T13:51:00.004-06:002009-12-06T21:55:45.046-06:00Palin courting anti-abortion votesAn article on <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091204/pl_politico/30174">Palin pimping out her Down syndrome son</a> to <del>gain possible future votes for the next Presidential election</del> lobby against abortion rights.<br /><br />Seriously, why can't I stop reading about her? There's something wrong with me.Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-18713326422827791892009-12-05T13:48:00.003-06:002009-12-05T13:50:37.286-06:00Operation: Guido Fist Pump?The only acceptable fist pumping: soldiers in Iraq. And that's only becuase there's nothing to do in a desert and they need to keep their sense of humor.<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YhmzCDJ8JDU&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YhmzCDJ8JDU&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-75591011497137284472009-12-05T12:32:00.007-06:002009-12-05T13:47:25.292-06:00Jersey Shore (aka The Real World: Seaside)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/Sxq1jAEkFkI/AAAAAAAAAmo/8CBgdS3LEwo/s1600-h/JerseyShore+cast.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/Sxq1jAEkFkI/AAAAAAAAAmo/8CBgdS3LEwo/s400/JerseyShore+cast.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411837515158263362" /></a><br />Will the rest of the world now think Americans are guidos instead of cowboys?<br /><br />Being from Jersey originally, I know the real name for this shore town is Sleazeside. <a href="http://www.mtv.com/shows/jersey_shore/series.jhtml">MTV has started a new show</a> <del>for guidos and guidettes to get drunk and horny with each other</del> to show what <del>young Italians do to perpetuate stereotyping</del> living in a Jersey shorehouse is like. Of course, I'm hooked alrady, line and sinker in mouth!<br /><br />My interest in the show differs from most people, however. Whereas most of this country (and maybe the world?) is watching this weekly trainwreck thinking "there's no way people actually look, talk and act like that," I'm watching thinking "I went to school with these nutjobs." I can attest that this show is for real and these people do act this way on a daily basis. This is how the Jersey shore lays out every summer when a bunch of young people whore it up on the weekends with like-minded nutjobs. Thus why the most popular shore town for partying earned the nickname "Sleazeside," instead of Seaside.<br /><br />Whereas I always wanted to leave New Jersey to get away from these personalities, watching this show is a small taste of revisiting the past without having to actually go back. I can practically smell the Sambuca and taste the saltwater taffy all over again!<br /><br />What's sad is I now find cheesy guido tees funny instead of a warning for a meat looking for a fight on the boardwalk:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/Sxq0bxmpijI/AAAAAAAAAmY/nJDXhCZnoas/s1600-h/BigTonys+pizza+tee.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 180px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/Sxq0bxmpijI/AAAAAAAAAmY/nJDXhCZnoas/s400/BigTonys+pizza+tee.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411836291503983154" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/Sxq1Z5LnJvI/AAAAAAAAAmg/iJs1BsKNJCI/s1600-h/Build-A-Guido.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 353px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/Sxq1Z5LnJvI/AAAAAAAAAmg/iJs1BsKNJCI/s400/Build-A-Guido.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411837358689953522" /></a><br /><br />And finally: fist pumping to the Total Eclipse of the Heart club remix kinda says it all:<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wu9SNcqKMDc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wu9SNcqKMDc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Guido = Douchebag<br /><br>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-50357896430545608892009-12-05T12:19:00.003-06:002009-12-05T12:32:17.501-06:00Obama surrounded by idiots?So I think we all knew this Presidency would be the complete opposite of the last Presidency, especially since Obama was voted in under the theme of "change." But it's starting to be very interesting to see the ways in which the "opposite nature" of his leadership is being revealed.<br /><br />At a recent White House press corps debriefing, the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl1014">White House Secretary chastised a reporter for following-up on the "white house party crashers" issue </a>and wondering if someone within the White House (other than the Secret Service) may have been to blame. Here's the video:<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2rKhbzJ8YeU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2rKhbzJ8YeU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />What's interesting is how Bush and his cronies used to get pissy over national agenda and the questioning of their stalwart stance towards that agenda. Now Obama and his cronies get pissy over social agenda and their lack of organization.<br /><br />What's also represetnative of the inherent difference in Presidencies is who make up these "cronies." Whereas it is assumed that President Bush was a figurehead who alllowed his political team to run the country and make decisions, President Obama clearly has surrounded himself with less intelligent and less reliable staffers.<br /><br />It's going to be an interesting 4 years!<br /><br>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-57946815394040930072009-11-26T22:28:00.003-06:002009-11-26T22:46:43.897-06:00Happy Turkey Day!<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/Sw9Yw6vCb_I/AAAAAAAAAmQ/oOayuIPs3Kk/s1600/DSC06558.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/Sw9Yw6vCb_I/AAAAAAAAAmQ/oOayuIPs3Kk/s400/DSC06558.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408639274918768626" /></a><br />I got some pie!!<br /><br />Some 400 years ago, pilgrims sat down with <del>indians</del> <del>Native Americans</del> people indiginous to North America and ate delicious foods, right before giving them blankets with small pox. Isn't it ironic that we now give thanks in rememberance of giving indians disease and killing their people?<br /><br />Well, the point is, as Americans, we give thanks on this day for all of the blessings we have in life. I must say I'm pretty lucky to have wonderful, healthy and happy people in my life who make me feel wonderful and happy. Note, I didn't say healthy, since I ate like a freaking pig today and am so stuffed all I've eaten since Thanksgiving dinner is tums and water. So worth it though.<br /><br />For non-Americans, it is a day to drink. In abundance. OK, us Americans do that today too. About the only thing you can't do on today is have sex because most of us feel too fat or too drunk to do so.Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-31716016156374301002009-11-20T13:13:00.002-06:002009-11-20T13:22:37.482-06:00Thanksgiving ruined? No pumpkin pie?!!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/SwbsUvXO92I/AAAAAAAAAmI/iiiekP9SRf0/s1600/pumpkin_pie.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 304px; height: 304px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/SwbsUvXO92I/AAAAAAAAAmI/iiiekP9SRf0/s400/pumpkin_pie.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406268243760314210" /></a>Yes, you read the title correctly. Word on the pumkinvine is <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Rain-may-put-pumpkin-pie-in-apf-1323181927.html?x=0&.v=7">there won't be enough pumpkin pie</a> to go around this year and we'll have to give thanks for sweet potato pie. Oh the humanity.<br /><br />No, but seriously. How ironic is it the organic pumpkins yielded a better crop than mass production?<br /><br>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-82749055297661438482009-11-18T22:06:00.005-06:002009-11-18T22:19:26.918-06:00Scotch on ice<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/SwTGKOwbOwI/AAAAAAAAAmA/UbOe9dTs9LQ/s1600/scotch+on+ice.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/SwTGKOwbOwI/AAAAAAAAAmA/UbOe9dTs9LQ/s400/scotch+on+ice.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405663331813636866" /></a><br />Now this is <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091116/ap_on_fe_st/as_odd_new_zealand_antarctic_whiskey">an expedition I can get behind</a>. Save the whiskey! Indiana Jones was always trying to save arks, crosses and artifacts. Booze should've been his priority all along.<br /><br />I think it should be a world initiative to shift all of the fossil and religious artifact hunters to help find the booze at the bottom of the arctic sea!Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-72551791176310605322009-11-18T21:47:00.003-06:002009-11-18T22:02:14.867-06:00Palin and Prejean go Jezebel!Jezebel.com posted a great write-up on the parallels between Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean. <a href="http://jezebel.com/5407572/palinizing-prejean-prejeanizing-palin-two-conservative-women-look-out-for-1?skyline=true&s=x">See this link to "Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1."</a> Here's my favorite part of their analysis:<br /><blockquote>Neither Palin nor Prejean seem to understand that while they ask America to sympathize with their victimization, they're also asking us to support policies that victimize others. Prejean's views on gay marriage and Palin's beliefs about reproductive rights (and welfare, and healthcare reform) aim to restrict people's freedom to live the way they want. To espouse these views while complaining about handlers who try to rein them in and reporters who criticize them reveals a staggering egocentrism.</blockquote>Well, don't all <del>conservative, selfish</del> great famewhores think alike?!Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-17809781981906176082009-11-17T21:45:00.003-06:002009-11-17T22:14:22.200-06:00Going "Ho"gue: How Sarah Palin still doesn't get it<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/SwNz-VQETCI/AAAAAAAAAlw/MP7gPbR3x9I/s1600/palin+on+newsweek.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 375px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/SwNz-VQETCI/AAAAAAAAAlw/MP7gPbR3x9I/s400/palin+on+newsweek.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405291492468345890" /></a><br />Like any hard-working famewhore, Sarah Palin has a book to pimp out. She's putting on her <del>tired Joe-sixpack "I'm just like you" fake persona</del> heels and doing her best trick strut to hit the <del>cold Alaskan street corners</del> airwaves and pages for interviews. Lucky for us, <a href="http://www.politico.com/">POLITICO</a> got ahold of Palin's book before it's spun to death. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091117/pl_politico/29611">They put together some snippets and paraphrasing from the book</a> which I'd like to add my own spin to:<br /><blockquote>John and Cindy McCain receive fulsome praise throughout the book from Palin, him as a brave American hero and her as a mix of elegant lady and Every Mom. </blockquote>An American hero who Palin was more than happy to step over in order to gain popularity. And nothing says everyday mom like a spoiled rich pill popper, right <del>Governor beauty queen</del> Sarah?<br /><blockquote>Taking issue with what she said was Schmidt’s attempt to get her a nutritionist, Palin observes: “As he lectured, I looked at his rotund physique and noted that he used nicotine to keep his own cognitive connections humming along.” </blockquote> I love how judgemental Palin can be one minute and yet ask for sympathy when the mirror is turned on her. How old was your daughter in the MySpace photos showing her drinking? How much did you sell the previous governor's airplane for? How was your brother-in-law fired as a cop again?<br /><blockquote>“This picture says it all,” Palin writes in the caption. “A dark hotel room in Philadelphia and a frustrated Mark Wallace trying to tell me which of his non-answers I should give during debate prep.” </blockquote>Sarah, your debating was all fluff! Without those non-answers, you had nothing. If you'd listen to McCain's camp, you may have actually of won your debates. Christ, the times you "went rogue," you sounded like an idiot. And onto the Katie Couric issue...<br /><blockquote>Palin accuses Couric of having gone easier on Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, and twice claims that the newswoman’s own clothing stylist was actually part of the team hired by the GOP to outfit the vice-presidential candidate for the campaign.</blockquote>Yes, this is true. Instead of asking Joe Biden where he gets his news, she asked him his favorite color.Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-30668881432375097722009-11-17T20:53:00.004-06:002009-11-17T21:42:24.794-06:00I unfriended her when I was funemployed because she was always sexting while intexticated and she was a choice mom birther.<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/SwNrIjsqXDI/AAAAAAAAAlo/4lBxI7BhcY4/s1600/tramp_stamp.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kAB0kMjFmvM/SwNrIjsqXDI/AAAAAAAAAlo/4lBxI7BhcY4/s400/tramp_stamp.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405281772540419122" /></a><br />The word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary is "unfriend." So basically, if you don't have a Facebook account, you don't know what the word of the year means. Brilliant. I gt how these words of the years announcements always seem to hiighlight the buzzworthy words in the lexicon, but are these truly words that anyone will remember in 5 to 10 years? Does anyone actually use these words? Here's a list of other words that seem hip and cool to New Oxford American Dictionary but will probably get you <del>an azz beating</del> a strange look from people when uttered aloud:<br /><blockquote>tramp stamp: (wasn't this coined years ago?) when a women puts a bullseye on her back...see above photo for example<br /><br />funemployed: when someone gets fired and can't get hired anywhere else, they watch bad tv and read books<br /><br />sexting: sluts texting sluts<br /><br />deleb: a dead celebrity (I think this one was made up...)<br /><br />hashtag: something to do with twitter<br /><br />freemium: making getting something for free sound dorky<br /><br />choice mom: the PC way of saying single mom<br /><br />intexticated: texting while driving?<br /><br />birther: someone who thinks Obama was born outside of the U.S.<br /></blockquote>Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-5579182224875735472009-11-15T21:45:00.003-06:002009-11-15T21:54:54.541-06:00Bad sexYou know <a href="http://www.cinematical.com/2009/07/13/quick-list-sex-scenes-that-arent-sexy/">the sex scene in a movie is bad </a>when it makes you rethink why you were looking forward to the movie in the first (bascially for the sex scenes). Here's a list of movies who fit this category perfectly. I'd like to add Basic Instinct 2 while we're at it! Whatta waste.Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462246234009770415.post-11195377097102708602009-11-15T21:38:00.002-06:002009-11-15T21:44:58.490-06:00Subway $5 foot-longs a flukeInteresting <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/108119/the-accidental-hero.html?mod=career-selfemployment">article explaining how the Subway chain came up with their successful $5 foot-long campaign</a> from franchises who were innovative and cheap.Elliot Thresherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01640311972477659700noreply@blogger.com0