Comic for Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Posted: 1:12 am, Thursday, August 24th

I'm really tired, so tomorrow, you'll hear all about the Bookeaters. Tonight, just know that I really hate Ron's shirt. What the hell was I thinking giving him this detailed of a shirt to start off a storyline? I'm a moran. Also, you can accurately judge by my graphical representation of dancing how bad of a dancer I am.

I thought about throwing this in with the Daily Irish below, but since I’m more posting it because of design elements than football reasons, feast your eyes on this poster for Clemson football. Yikes. Just when you thought they couldn’t make a football program that dresses itself in all orange with purple highlight look worse. By the way, can we all agree that monochromatic uniforms should be banned? The only two exceptions I can think of are Penn State and Texas, and even Texas looks better in its orange tops.

I could’ve used some of this on Sunday. Does this actually have electrolytes?

Speaking of electrolytes, I may need to start stocking up again. While looking at that moran who ran 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days, I noticed that there’s a Napa Valley marathon. It takes place in early March, which kind of sucks because I don’t think the grapes are in season yet, and it means I’d be training for the friggin’ thing during the holiday season and the beautiful January and February weather here in NYC, but, I dunno… I do love me the Napa.

The White Stripes are going to be on the Simpsons – I wonder if Meg will be allowed to do anything? – but the real cool part about this is the little Ramones clip. “Have the Rolling Stones killed.”

Another awesome recipe from Elise. 2.0 and I had this the other night. It was fantastic. And now I have toothpicks in my house.

I’m confused – so does this mean that the parents *did* do it?

I don’t know, for some reason I’m happy for Sam Champion. Although that cannot possibly be his real name.

Warning: This next part is horrific. 2.0 called me breathlessly yesterday to tell me about some horrifying story where an Indian guy had this huge stomach growth his whole life (this was evidently on ABC last night). So he goes to the doctor, they make an incision, and a ton of fluid starts pouring out. Then an arm. Then an entire body. Evidently, the guy’s twin had somehow gotten inside him at a very early stage of development and was still there. Because the internet is horrifying, we have some video.

The Pick Six is up over at Blue-Gray Sky. I went with ND, USC, Michigan, Iowa, TCU, and Wisconsin. I briefly considered Boston Collitch because of their weak-sister schedule, but Wisconsin’s is even weaker, I don’t loathe them, and John Stocco is, what, thirty? Experience at the QB position counts big in my book. And not really Irish-related but from the NDNation boards, there’s a kid down in Florida named Yourhighness. One of 2.0’s friends is a social worker and used to work up in the Bronx. She ran into a baby named “Tide” once. I’m not sure if that’s better or worse than Yourhighness.

For the actual Daily Irish. Ramblin’ Racket, a Tech blog, has the dudes from Rakes of Mallow and Fightin’ Amish from House Rock Built on to talk about the first game of the season. I’ve made the complete swing from hugely confident to scared out of my mind about Georgia Tech. And we’re still over a week from the game.

No nightmare today - it's too late, I'm too tired. Tomorrow? Tomorrow!

bullfrog

Yourhighness? Worse than even ESPN, the baby? (Impossible, I'd say.)

Seriously, through, since when did World of Warcraft names become acceptable for use as baby names? I mean I'd hate to think in thirty years time, we might actually elect President IPlunkedURMom6969 Smith.

Ever notice the really weird mutation or that guy with the weird bodily fetish is often from India? Like the guy who hasn't cut his nails ever or the guy with hair so long, you could hide ten of Don King's fros. Come to think of it, Don King is a freak of nature himself.

I guess a population of closing in on a billion (where they at, 800 million?) with only a generation or two of really modernized living under their belts probably leads to some crazy birth defects.

TWO POUNDS OF HAIR?!

India is the second most populous country, following after China. The two countries have like close to three billion people combined. It's suppose to be like five billion by 2020.

Yikes, I didn't know they'd already topped a billion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India

Two pounds of hair, Skitter. Two pounds of hair.

I'm just a random reader. I enjoy the strip and understand most of what you put in your blog. There is one thing that confuses me though. Perhaps it is because I am not a sports fan but when you refer to yourself as a moran I don't get it. Is it some kind of inside joke? Perhaps it is a reference to someone named Moran? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moran

Just curious.

No worries, Insignificant. The 'moran' thing is actually a Farkism that took off around the internet. It originated from this picture of a guy counter-protesting an anti-war rally back in March 2003.

See the picture:

http://www.midnightmadness.org/jeff/ljimages/moran-moron.jpg

Waste time reading about this and other Fark cliches:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fark.com#Farkisms_and_clich.C3.A9s

Wow, I'm learning something from that article too - "the internets" comes from Shitwit? I had no idea.

yes, yes, the "get a brain morans" guy is clearly a cardinals fan. But maybe he was just being IRONIC, eh?

It's OK, 15, there's dumb Sox fans, too. Just thankfully none have been turned into Fark cliches yet.

The fetus from that dude looked like the facehugger from "Alien".

Seriously, I need to take that fetus thing out of my brain. Makes me shiver.

Who can give me the best spelling of the sound that a light sabre makes?

people are stupid... http://www.local6.com/spotlight/9717727/detail.html

I can believe I know this, but it is often described as a "snap-hiss" in the books. It, like the droids, is not the onomatopoeia you're looking for, but you don't need to see my identification, either.

Snakes in a Theater has been debunked already, Crownover.

http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/0822talker-ON.html

oh crap. sorry. eh, people are still dumb, even if they don't release rattlesnakes in a theatre...

whoommm...whoommm..phsths....phsths....crackle...whoommm

that's actually pretty good :)

MJL, ladies and gentlemen, one-half of the team in charge of keeping two small humans alive. Thank God for JJ.