Comic for Friday, July 14th, 2006

Posted: 12:41 am, Friday, July 14th

The IT wing of Five Bucks to Friday (aka, RAW) noticed that them damned Spambots were just burying archived pages with spam, so he changed the commenting script to no longer enable comments on old strips. Which is just as well, I suppose, because I have no idea of knowing you made these comments. If you’re going through the archive and want to let me know something, either drop it in the comments with a link to the page, or hit the breast cancer stamp to the side and we can chat real private-like. I’m not as misanthropic as I sometimes sound. Honest. Ish.

Boy, nothing sums up how crappy the state of the world is quite like yesterday’s headlines as compiled by the Morning News. Hell all, is it a mess over in the Middle East. Honestly, it’s so fuckin’ hot over there, how do they work up enough ire to kidnap/bomb/destroy each other? We should just ship them air conditioners and Coolattas. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than bombs and planes and tanks, and we could even contract Halliburton to do it, so that Cheney still gets his kickbacks. Plus, after too many Coolattas, they’d be too fat to cause trouble. (I cherrypicked a bit there, you can get them with skim milk, just they don’t go out of their way to tell you that.)

Bobby Fischer is so freaking insane that I usually post anything about him I happen across. And that brings us to this.

I think we may have a Hall of Famer here for the MySpace nightmare. This person managed to frame off their page so much that it's mostly a shrine to Omarion. In case you can't find it, her name is  ~LoSInG u wUd b LiKe lOSiNg eVeRyThInG i HaVe~. Yeah. Dear reader,  ~LoSInG u wUd b LiKe lOSiNg eVeRyThInG i HaVe~. Don't miss her friend, Busta Nut In Ur Eye So U Can C Where Im Cumin 4rm.

I know I've been doing short posts this week - sorry, crowd, I've been busy. I'll try harder next week. Gong show!

bullfrog

I think is it still vogue to hate the French, but since 18th century France had quite a bit o' influence on T. Jefferson and crew, enjoy a little baguette today! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day

Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!

That's nothing. Check this Starbucks out:

Banana Caramel Frappuccino® Blended Coffee - whip 16oz 550 calories

what's up with the news of christie brinkley's 'shocking' divorce getting an equal share of the front page of the daily news with hezzbolla?

after two divorces, it's a habit, not a shocker.

oh wait. it's the daily news

When I saw that headline yesterday, Skits, I could only see "Christi" and "Marriag". Honest to God, I figured the fundies got a Christian Marriage Act passed where only Christian heterosexual couples could be wed.

America 2006: Fuck Yeah!

And fuck a baguette, E - get some bordeaux. Mmmm, bordeaux.

Geez, I'm cursing a lot today. Oh well.

The Christie Brinkley divorce thing tells me two things: 1) Billy Joel may have been on to something and 2) David Spade ("The Showbiz Show") is going to have a field day with this story.

Am I weird that I don't drink coffee every day?

Nah, my buddy Sweats doesn't drink coffee at all. And I know one reader prefers tea for some odd reason. I am not so much useless without coffee, but I'm not very pleasant without it.

The French had more fun in 1968 with the student protests. Check out some of the slogans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_May#Slogans_and_graffiti Two of my particular favorites, I'm sure in chronological order: Alcohol kills. Take LSD. [followed by] I love you! Oh, say it with cobblestones!

Happy Bastille Day.

Auburn, looking to make some moves in the Fulmer Cup, is knee-deep in grade-fixin'. I know, from an SEC school - who would ever think it?

Let's post a different one there so as to not stretch the screen so much...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/sports/ncaafootball/14auburn.html

God, seriously, ~LoSInG u wUd b LiKe lOSiNg eVeRyThInG i HaVe~? Friggin' weak.

Pray for Omarion.

Good op-ed/series of story links from Slate about how the administration is pooching Iraq.

http://www.slate.com/id/2145701/?nav=tap3

My favorite line is from the end:

Whatever else might be said of them, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld are not worldly men. They're neither well-traveled nor curious about the world.

I had to look Omarion up on Amazon to make sure it wasn't the girl's boyfriend or something.

Since I'm thinking of it right now and will probably forget by Monday, anyone read the Andre Agassi thing in this week's Sports Illustrated? (By thing, I guess I mean 'article'.) It's written in the second person, and is remarkably similar to the Newsweek article on Julia Roberts when Erin Brockovich came out that was also written in the second person, except it goes on for something like eight pages. It's really baffling. How does this decision get made? Does writing in the second person come naturally for *anyone*? I don't even know if I could write a blog entry in the second person.

Are you not familiar with the "pray for Omarion" cliche?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omarion#London_bombings_controversy

How embarrassing! I've really slipped on my Farking the past few months. Barely ever hit the forums anymore - have to correct that. I'm only a few steps away from arguing with Jim Anchower.

I'm just about out of here - you poor bastards stuck at the office, kill some time watching the Zidane headbutt in about twenty million different variations.

http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/zidane-zidane-zidane.html

Did anybody else have to look this up from RAW's Omarion link? (Rhetorical question, no need to actually soothe my ego.)

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meme

every time i see it i have to look it up. for some reason i can never remember what it means and apparently i lack the critical reading skills to determine the meaning from context.

Wow. A few of those words ought to put me on a watch-list at the office.

Huh?

Looks like RAW cleaned it up. You had some pretty saucy links commented.

Darned spammers. I was wondering if that would happen now that we shut down the old pages' comments.

Grade fixin', sounds like a roadkill recipe in SEC country.

With the way Andre Agassi is a lot like virtually all tennis players these days (men and women): like watching the Wimbeldon grass grow. Probably the most exciting thing about Agassi is how his love child with Steff Graf will either be some uber-tennis star or a 200 average bowler. Just you watch.

Which makes me wonder what Brooke Shield is thinking about Agassi these days. Actually, she's probably thinking to herself, Am I going to have to get a second divorce just to have my name listed in the gossip column these days?

And how many actress/singers does it take to start up their own line of clothes, fashion accessories and/or perfume? And do I blame this on Elizabeth Taylor or the Olson Twins?

I would say the lowlight of scents would have to be that of Gustavo Chacin, third starter for the Toronto Blue Jays.

http://parkin.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/2006/06/chacin_the_smel.html