Comic for Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Posted: 12:02 am, Wednesday, March 15th

My apologies for the imprecision of the license in panel 2. I wisely left mine in a cab back in December, and only thought of getting a replacement from the DMV last Thursday. The good news is that the NY DMV is pretty cool with letting you order it off the interweb, the bad news is that it's going to take four weeks and I got places to be, fool. I tried photocopying a friend's at the office (since 2.0 is also sans license), but the only person I know with the most recent template is also afraid I'm going to put her information on the internet for some reason. So, anyway, what you get is close but not quite. New York State, by the way, seems to change its driver's license template with alarming regularity. This is at least the fourth or fifth since I got my first license in '94, and the license I first got had only changed to look like that maybe a year before. Before that, it was the same standard laminated piece of yellow-ish cardboard for a decade or so. That was the one that Reggie Ho and I had some friend of his make fakes for us freshman year, if I recall correctly. I have no idea what happened to that fake - it wasn't tremendously good, and by the time the rest of our friends got fakes, the Notre Dame gestapo started shutting down the bars that didn't card hard, and it wasn't really worth the trouble.

Oh, hey, happy Ides, by the way.

A few quickies, since we've got company on the way as I'm writing this. I can evidently stop getting grumpy at the subway ads that attribute V for Vendetta as the uncompromising vision of the Wojroaskski brothers and not Alan Moore - he evidently washes his hands of the whole thing.

Yesterday's Drink at Work column kind of goes off at the end, there, but until that has some interesting observations about how everyone else sucks.

Check out this plethora of crazy-ass Katamari desktop backgrounds. ... I just realized, putting "crazy-ass" and "Katamari" in the same sentence is thoroughly redundant.

March Madness kicks off tomorrow (that play-in game doesn't count for me - I think it's a disgrace the NCAA thought it should let in Air Force or Alabama or whoever the last team in was and force the Buford States of the worlds to play a game just to see if they're worthy of getting steam-rolled by Dook or someone). Remember, Reggie Ho's got his money on Oral Roberts. Oh, and in NIT news - go Irish, beat Commodores!

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In the spirit of the season, and to clarify that I'm not stupid enough to actually pick Oral Roberts to even finish within 50 points in their first round game, I am officially unveiling my final four: West Virginia, Pittsburgh, UConn, and Ohio State. Yes, it's going to be the Big East's year (plus one extremely corrupt Big (Eleven) Ten program). Oh, this reminds me of the 80's.

Noticably absent are Duke, Texas, Memphis, Gonzaga, and "please don't poke me in the eye" Villanova. May you all rot in hell and lose in the first round, ruining everyone else in the world's brackets. Most humorous event from the tournament so far: the selection of UCLA and Tennessee as 2-seeds. Are you kidding me? Now, lets just get the games started already.

You have no idea what the two of you driving around without licenses is doing to my nerves.

I officially recommend everyone taking their birthdays off of work and doing whatever they darn well want for one entire day each year. Since we no longer get birthday parties with clowns who make balloon-animals, this is the next best thing, I swear :)

There is nothing unsafe about driving w/o a license (assuming the driver is entitled to carry one). The only risk is financial. I think the bigger problem would be not having gov't issued ID on hand in this day of constant "TERROR".

In refreshing news, I had a conversation with a Naval officer/DoD judge last night who admitted it was a MISTAKE to invade IRAQ!?!?! I think MY eyes popped out.

E, with talk like that, you're only encouraging our enemies.

2.0's mom, I don't think your daughter even knows where the car is parked right now, so you have no worries.

First Jamaica, now this lollygagging. Cripes, MNP, you're becoming the new poster-girl for hedonism in America.

Also we've switched cars so many times I'm not totally sure which untidy, small, and somwhat rusty vehicle belongs to us. My getting into the car to drive it would involve trying the key in every car on the surrounding five blocks.

Ok, not really.

Look you *liberals* have offended all Arab people everywhere by not letting them own our ports. We need to show them that we trust them. What kind of message do you think we're sending?!?!

More importantly, do you still have Meg?

Meg is upstate right now.

And 2.0 had better familiarize herself with the MetroNorth ticket takers after that nonsense.

The Deadspin preview of SUNY Albany:

http://deadspin.com/sports/ncaa-tournament-pre views/ncaa-pants-party-connecticut-vs-albany-160007.php

Probably better that you don't tell Meg her boyfriend's legs broke and fell off after being attacked by a cat. Of course, if you'd kept her boyfriend with her instead of sending him back, he wouldn't have suffered such a horrendous fate.

It's actually her ex-husband. But they're still bandmates.

Laaaaaa-la-la-la-la-laaaaaaaa.

a strange license story- my hubby has also misplaced his license recently and was called to do some consulting on a military base. he brought his passport as identification to get onto the base. Except that the guards said that wasn't good enough. eventually they accepted his work id. how crazy is it that a US Passport that gets you in & out of the country is *not* good enough to get you onto a military base, but a crappy work issued ID is?

This is 2.0's story but I don't know if she'll check again this afternoon to tell it, so allow me: While I have been sans license since December, 2.0 has been sans license for the duration of our relationship. On our way down to MNP's wedding last May, we got to LaGuardia and, lo, she had forgotten her passport and, of course, had no license. LaGuardia in NYC had no problem letting her on the plane with a student ID. Nor did the airport in Charlotte (Dale Earnhardt International? I can't remember).

Of course, had they not let her on in LaGuardia, we actually had enough time to drive back to Brooklyn, because I got us to the airport about two hours early, because I am crazy.