If you go to an amusement park without kids, you might be normal. But if you go to an amusement park without kids and you take a bunch of pictures with characters, you are probably a bit odd. If you go to an amusement park without kids and ask the characters to sign your autograph book, you are an idiot.
Sarah Silverman is really funny sometimes, but when she misses, she misses badly.
If you were the stiffed grandkid, how badly would you want to kill Leona Helmsley's dog?
If, like me, you never saw Luciano Pavarotti perform live, you missed out. I'll add him to the list of performers I regret never seeing in person, including Elvis, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, and Mikes Davis. If you haven't seen BB King or Bo Diddley, you should hurry. I saw BB King a couple of years ago. It was well worth it.
Creationists should not have access to curriculum-making decisions. Religious faith is not fact. It should not be taught in public schools, especially under the guise of science. Unless perhaps you would like to have your children also taught that cows are sacred and that when his daddy eats a burger, he is breaking God's sacred law, and you can tolerate an atheist teacher also instructing your kids that your religion is a false superstition. I'm still a little embarrassed about the church making Galileo take back everything he said about the sun and the planets. The Bible and other sacred texts are not a good basis for making scientific or political decisions. Not that I think adhering to Biblical norms is bad; it's just that I would hate to see what laws followed once my brand of Christianity became a minority and I suddenly had to follow Mormonism, or Hinduism, Islam or Scientology or whatever else I don't believe.
As a life-long Republican speaking, like a voice in the desert, to any and all Democrats out there, let me beg of you: THIS TIME, WILL YOU PLEASE AT LEAST CONSIDER NOMINATING A CANDIDATE THAT MODERATE REPUBLICAN VOTERS CAN STOMACH? We might be willing to vote for your guy next time. I feel so much better now that I got that off my chest.
At my age, it's a bit silly to rank my friends as best, second best and so on. However, I have several friends that I called my "best friend from ..." For example, I have a best friend from first grade (never talk to him anymore), a best friend from childhood (still very good friends), a best friend from college (just visited), a best friend from law school (still see often), and best friend from what I called my "Downey years." I saw my best friend from college last month for the first time in ten years. I'll see my best friend from the Downey years this month for the first time in three.
I have twice flown 3,000 miles to attend a football game. I've flown over 1,000 miles two other times. I will go about 1,500 miles each way this weekend.
If you'd been in a coma for 15-20 years and took a look at last week's AP poll, you'd have been pretty surprised to find Louisville, California, Rutgers, TCU, Hawaii, and Boise State ranked, but Miami, Alabama, Michigan, Florida State and Notre Dame all unranked. This week's poll would look almost as silly, especially if you looked at the "others receiving votes" list. Appalachian State was just made eligible for the AP Top 25, which only ranked Bowl Subdivision teams before. Seeing Appalachian State listed as the 33rd best team in the country would have seemed even more strange.
Before Michigan's fall last week, Notre Dame held the record for largest drop in the rankings in the Top 25. The Irish fell 16 spots, from No. 9 to No. 25, after losing to Northwestern on September 3, 1995. I'll never forget that day, because we put my second dog down that afternoon. Texas once dropped 15 spots after a 66-3 loss to UCLA. Louisville fell 15 spots, from 11th to unranked after losing to South Florida. The highest ranked team to fall from the poll after one loss was No. 2 Oklahoma in 1959, when the AP was ranking the top 20 teams. Army (1959), Tennessee (1959) and Illinois (1960) all fell out of the top 20 rankings from No. 4 in a single week.
Q: Aside from recent victories over a shell-shocked Michigan, what do Appalachian State and USC have In Common?
A: They have both been honored as Time Magazine's College of the Year (USC in 2000, Appalachian State in 2001).
USC backup quarterback Michael McDonald was two for two passing in his career, with both going for TDs. That made for quite an efficiency rating. Against Idaho, both of his passes were caught, but one was caught by Idaho. The rating is a bit down now.
I'll be pulling into Lincoln soon. I hear the fans there are quality fans. I hope I'm hearing right. I'd hate to walk into a bar and have some Husker fan try to turn me into a eunuch, the way Oklahoma fans do Texas fans in Sooner territory.
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Posted by: hack football heroes | November 18, 2013 at 22:26
Hey Man! Have fun in Lincoln. I'll be pulling for the Trojans. I saw Nebraska play at Texas Tech in Lubbock once. Many fans from Nebraska made the trip, and lots of them were wearing those funny corn hats! Looked like coneheads! But they were very nice people. Get a corn hat and bring it back to OC.
Posted by: Cranky Greg | September 14, 2007 at 20:43