Comic for Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Posted: 7:22 am, Thursday, May 17th

You want to know how you know the Yankee dynasty is dead and buried? Because I bought this at Key Food last night.

Correct me if I'm wrong, Sweaty, but what seven hells would have to freeze over before a bottle of, say, Jorge Posada salsa was placed on a shelf of Store 24? My black heart did cackle. By the way, also photographed - my keys, a ticket to MoMA, a ticket to Shea, some sunflower seeds, and a Wake bucket from senior year, full of pens. 2.0 wanted me to position the salsa so that you didn't get to see all of that, but I thought it was important for you all to see my workspace.

By the way, there's a Chrysler ad right now where they erroneously hyphenate fuel efficiency, and a Jeep ad where they spell it "Patroit," which I really love. It's the one where the dude fills up a gas can with a Slurpee. I'm interested to see how long they let that continue before someone catches it. (The Apocalypto ad also has an incorrect hyphen.)

I guess I feel the need to link to all the interviews with Tweedy and all the crap coming to light about the Pumpkins album. I like the cover art.

I don't eat fast food burgers any more, but I maintain that Wendy's is the class of the bunch (excepting In n' Out, which I still yearn to taste). Consumerist/Zagat's agrees. When I was a kid, my dad always steered toward Wendy's when I wanted fast food. He'd get the chili. I guess I'll probably do that whenever I've got an ankle-biter of my own.

I kind of fell out of love with the Morning News a while back (right around the time they redesigned their site - same with Something Awful, oddly). But I went there yesterday for no clear reason, and I liked this article a whole lot.

As a guy who loves baseball and has absolutely no mind for numbers – seven years into Shitwit’s presidency and I *still* think two plus two equals four – I am often stumped by sabermetrics, even while realizing their usefulness. VORP is actually one of the ones I understand the best, so here’s a quick primer.

YouTube trilogy! Doritos are down with evolution; terrible cinema (one brief bit of NSFW audio); and young Charles Weis.

bullfrog

2.0 -- Thursday, May 17 2007, 07:47 am

Tostitos.

I'm just sayin'

Right, Doritos are hard-line reactionaries, I forgot.

In 'n Out be some tasty burgers, indeed. Always try to hit it when I'm in Vegas.

Zero

I know this will sound obvious, given the nickname, but, man, I dig Three Dog Night.

In 'n Out is good, but I think overrated. Wendy's is also good, but their dominant food is clearly the spicy chicken sandwich. (Fuck McDonald's for ripping that off so blatantly a while back.) For burgers, I have to go with the BK Whopper. Delicious, and the only one of the major chains to put mayonnaise on the burger. Artery-choking goodness.

As to not give the identity of this person away completely, I have to remove almost all references to my relationship to him, but one of my buddies used to *always* score after eating a spicy chicken sandwich from Wendy's. It was like his spinach; his invincible star; his HGH.

Nice Super Mario reference... I'll never look at a Wendy's Spicy Chicken sandwich the same way again!

I'd like to try Big Kahuna burgers. I mean, mmmmmmMMMMMMMM, now THAT is a tasty burger.

If I ever get a mortgage from a company who advertises on the internet with an inexplicable dancing clown, please shoot me. (Baseball Musings, in case anyone's wondering.)

What a random assortment of towns Big Kahuna is located in.

http://www.bigkahunaburger.com/

Or is that site a joke, too? I didn't notice the motto. Are all those places referenced in Pulp Fiction? I can't recall.

I like that the polar bear is peaking at Pete and Cece when they're not looking in the third panal.

Also awesome: Queen.

Lake Wobegon, Hootersville, Mayors Income.Those aren't real places!

Nice... Cicely, Alaska is where the show Northern Exposure was set.

Mayberry - Andy Griffith Castle Rock - a lot of Stephen King novels/movies Peytons Place - I believe the TV show of the same name.

I'm trying to figure out Hootersville, IL though... sounds like a magical place...

Yeah, that was not the fastest I've ever been on the uptake.

Looks like you're not the only one who had a problem with Dell: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2007/05/17/2007-05-17_customer_complaints_fuel_suit_against_de.html

Don't forget to fire up Gameday, Sox at 12:35!

Zero

I am on it like ConEd zapping someone's dog with stray voltage.

Just avoid the White Castle. Sonic also puts mayo on their burgers. I do go there for their cheese tator tots, thought. One of these days, i'm just going to ask them to triple the cheese content so that the tots are drowning in melted cheese.

Whoo, Sox win the Batshit-end of the doubleheader! And the Goat Fuckers are in their bullpen in the fourth inning. Good times!

cheesey tots are only good homemade. Listen, just grab a bag of tots, deep fry them, and cover them with cheese as soon as you pull them out. Works everytime.

let me tell you, pepper-jack cheese on tots is like eating an orgasm.

having an orgasm in your mouth rather...

eating an orgasm would be gross.

Not quite sure how "grabbing a bag" of pre-cut tots would be considered homemade. Pepper-jack is very highly underrated as a cheese. Might make a very interesting tator tot.