Comic for Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

Posted: 8:55 am, Wednesday, September 14, 2005

They actually sell the jersey that Katie' wearing, by the way. Granted, Notre Dame sells just about anything it can to make a buck, but, still.

TMQ check in with this:

Bonus Obscure College Score : Assumption 13, Saint Anselm 7. Saint Anselm, born 1033, spent his entire adult life fighting assumptions!

My father is obsessed with St. Anselm. It's in New Hanpshire. No one we know went there. He's visited the place. He went to a Siena Collitch-St. Anselm football game and rooted for St. Anselm. My father *attended* Siena. My father: completely insane.

I worry about this, I really do.

The Voice reviews the Corpse Bride! Favorably, I think. I can't really tell.

At the risk of starting the soda conversations again - and also of hurting your eyes with some pretty bad .html - here's popsoda, where you can buy any ol' soda you want except for Pepsi, because they threatened to sue.

Sorry it's been a sparse week for the postings - crazy busy here at the office.

Oh! Also - remember how I said I didn't know how much good that webcomic telethon would do because anyone who's gonna give has? I'm evidently an idiot (longtime readers of this site are nodding in agreement). Mofo's up to almost $22,000 so far. I haven't gone through all the overnight strips yet, so I don't know if I've come up in the hopper. I'm kind of assuming I'm towards the end, there was an issue with some of the dialogue that I had to take care of yesterday afternoon.

bullfrog

A little ND to start the morning: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?s toryId=4846604

For those addicted to NPR...I had a "Driveway moment" this morning at 6:45. I really should have been rushing into work to see what Mortagage Apps did, but instead I was sitting on the 4th floor of the parking garage listening to Frank Deford speak about our beloved Irish waking up the echos... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?s toryId=4846604

Darn it! How did Erin beat me to that? by seconds!

guess who can't listen to that at work?

really, guess.

Multimillionaires?

I'm trying to decide whether or not I'm philosophically opposed to women wearing pink-and-white jerseys (or ballcaps, or whatever).

On the one hand, pink ballcaps are ALL THE RAGE at Yankee stadium, which is a pretty good indication that they're just trendy and evil and something to be avoided. Can't people just wear their team colors?

On the other hand... I kinda think that pink jersey is cute.

By the way, and I'm probably just talking to 2.0 on this one, but was anyone else too lazy to change the channel after the Gilmore Girls last night and wound up watching that Supernatural show? It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't that good, either.

The show makes one extremely odd decision, though. Cast as the main character is whoever played Rory's wanker ex-boyfriend Dean on the Gilmore Girls. His name is now Sam or something like that. His brother, the other main character, is played by someone I've never seen before, and the character's name is Dean. What the hell is that?

By the way, Deford has a thing on CNNSI that, since I haven't listened to the NPR bit, may or may not be the same thing:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/ frank_deford/09/13/notredame/index.html

Just saw 15's comment. I'm actually ambivalent toward pink hats and jerseys. I kind of think all the different-colored Yankee/Sox/Braves jerseys and hats are a bit stupid because it totally fogs up what you're doing, there. I mean, I've seen yellow Dodgers hats. What the hell is that? On the other hand, if women want a feminized version of the team uniform, hey, whatever. I know the pink jerseys are looked down upon in some crowds, but I'm fine with it.

By the by, I originally had Jen in the pink jersey, and 2.0 pointed out that there's no way that would happen. Which I kind of knew - the first time I saw the pink jersey in a catalog, I thought it would be perfect for Lissa, but why would Lissa be wearing a Notre Dame jersey? So, anyway, Jen's sporting a Bus jersey now. (In case anyone thought that was a Malcolm Johnson or Carlos Campbell #6.)

Yup, that's the text of the thing Deford read this morning on NPR. Good find, bullfrog. Now Grafe doesn't have to be grumpy all day.

I know my specialty was clutch field goals, but I have to say...Any judge (if you can call them that) who finds saying the pledge of allegiance unconstitutional should be banished to a remote area of Alaska to live for the rest of his/her life!

Yeah, I'm betting *that's* constitutional, Reg.

As for the pledge, I don't like it, but it's not for the inclusion of the word 'God,' which, in the context of the pledge is pretty open to interpretation (apparently unlike the Constitution these days). I don't like the foisting of the flag upon kids too young to know what 'pledging your allegiance' means.

I pledge my allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Please. In a nation where the military is given free access to school records for recruitment puposes and the institutions of school are becoming increasingly lockstep in the drone-like treatment our children receive, do we really need this crap? I can't pretend to know the Constitutionality of it, but the morality and ethics of making our kids say that just suck.

I like to kick field goals and I like to say the pledge of allegiance. Although, I never did understand the putting your hand over you heart thing. I know that evolved from the former Hitler-esque arm-pointed-out salute...but, why can't we just stand there with our hands in our pocket and just say it? That's what I do before my big football games when they sing the national anthem and I don't feel the need to put my hand across my chest.

See, the National Anthem, I'm OK with. I'm not being forced to obey a symbol - I'm saluting a symbol, but that's a difference.

And as you well know, I cannot fucking stand singing God Bless America during the seventh inning stretch. (Nor Cotton Eye Joe, but I think that's a different inning.)

I like to wear pink jerseys and like to sing along to Cotton Eye Joe, especially the dance remix with accompanying video of random Texas-looking guy with a lone star shirt and cowboy hat on.

I think we're supposed to believe that's Bob Shepard.

I never knew (or maybe had forgotten) that the "under God" was added in 1954 in opposition to communism.

On the topic of collitch football, Beano just basically said we're BCS bound. I wish he'd stop talking about us.