Leprechaun in Mobile

So there's a leprechaun in Mobile, AL. Or maybe just some bad crack. Depends on who you ask.

Video.

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Six Degrees

I just caught a Hanes commercial with Kevin Bacon and Michael Jordan. Just think about what this means for the Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon game.

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Enter the Wu

Quite possibly one of my favorite Chapelle Show skits ever:

Wu-Tang Financial

And if that's not my favorite, maybe this one is:

Sam Jackson Beer

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Quarters

Think you're pretty good at quarters? Think again.

Check this shit out: greatest quarters exhibition ever.

And he had just finished polishing off two fifths of Jack Daniels and a case of Milwaukee's Best when he started that showing (well, I don't know that, but I'm assuming).

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Chuck Norris

For all the fans of the Chuck Norris facts, now you can show the world how you feel about Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris T-Shirts

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I like Jeopardy. I think it's a great show and I try to watch it as often as I can remember that it's on. The one thing I never fully understood is that you have to give your answer in the form of a question. I mean I get it. Who is... what is... I understand. Here's where I get tripped up. Does it have to be who is...? or what is...? If you gave the right answer in the form of any question is it still a right answer?

"Who the fuck is Archbishop Ferdinand?"

"Correct."

It seems like a viable response. I know you can't really be cursing on national primetime television but are we allowed to get creative here?

"He was the Ottoman Sultan who captured Constantinople in 1453."

"What is Mehmed II famous for?"

I'm really not trying to be funny. Is there a rule book that stipulates the type of question you have to ask to get the right answer. I really want to know. If there is, they either don't follow it or it makes no reference to verb tense agreement. How many times do you hear someone get a correct answer by saying "Who is..." just before they announce the name of a dead guy? Who is? He isn't is. He's was. The way I see it, if they're not going to stipulate that you have to answer the question with proper grammar, why should they be able to hold you to the way you ask your question answers...I mean answer questions...I mean the way you question your answers.........to hell with it, the words you put before the answer. That's all the show's gimmick is now anyway.

So the next time you're invited on Jeopardy and Trebek answers you:

"He was the Greek Orthodox priest who was reinstated as patriarch of Constantinople after its fall to the Ottomans."

You can question him:

"How would you describe Gennadios, Alex, you goofy little muppet."

And you can argue that you did, in fact, answer in the form of a question.


Oh and if you're wondering about the historical material I used, I have a test on the Ottoman Empire today so I've got it on the brain.

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MYOFuB - We don't care how you ask your questions as long as you're not asking us.

American Passtime or America Jr. Passtime?

How in the hell does the American World baseball team lose to the American Jr. (aka Canadian) World baseball team?

From Fox Sports:
"Jason Varitek's 448-foot grand slam helped bring the United States back from an 8-0 deficit, but a Canadian team made up largely of minor leaguers held on."

What? What in the shit is going on here. We invented this shit. As we did with basketball... and [American] football for that matter. Wait a second here - are we only the best at sports we invent? Hmm... What sports do we dominate that we didn't come up with ourselves? Soccer? Not quite. Hockey? I don't think so. Track events? Hardly. Wrestling? Not even close. And now that the world is starting to catch on to baseball and basketball we can only fear that football is next to go. We're going to end up bringing freedom to the Iraqis only to have them whoop our ass in international football competition five years down the road.

We need a new sport and we need it quick. Based on the ADD culture of our country, we need something that's fast paced, but we also need something that's brutal enough that there's the possibility of somebody getting paralyzed during competition. My vote is dodgeball. Yes there was just recently a great movie out about dodgeball, and yes that's part of the reason I make the suggestion, but the real reason I think this would work is because American kids have grown up playing dodgeball for years. Given the great amount of experience we already have with the game, I think we have a significant head start over all other countries that may want to step in and try to lamely compete with us.

Of course, given the parameters that I laid out above, we'd have to modify the game a little bit since there's really no chance of significant injuries resulting from those big, bouncy red balls. First of all, the standard balls used in the competition will be changed to over-inflated volleyballs, since you can get a little more throwing speed and they provide a little extra sting on contact. The other change is that would be to add a "wildcard" ball at various intervals throughout the match. The wildcard ball would be a baseball and would stay in play until someone was hit with it, and that person (by both the rules and the resulting injuries) would not be able to return to the game.

I will be starting the first such team out here in San Francisco and hope to hear from any prospective challengers.

Kopp

Yanni Arrested

No, this is not a joke. Well, in a way it is, but he really did get arrested.

The headline: Yanni Accused of Assaulting Girlfriend

The picture:


If you ask me, it doesn't get better than this.

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ROCK

So I've been kicking around the last few weeks, just doing that sortof floaty thing where you're basically taking part in life, but not really - really life is just happening to you. So that's where I was - until - I turned on Greg Behrendt on Comedy Central tonight. In case you don't know Greg Behrendt, the short version of his resume is: he wrote the book "He's Just Not That Into You," was a writing consultant on "Sex and the City," and writes for "Cosmo" magazine.

Anyway, to get to the point, this is what Greg said that knocked me out of my "floating" - he said that on a daily basis, on a DAILY BASIS, you need to rock. And not just rock, you need to ROCK. Why? Because why not? Life is too short NOT to rock. And what's more, don't keep the rockin-ness to yourself, rock isn't a precious metal that we have to dig out of the ground, nor is it a commodity that's going up in price; nope, rock is not a zero sum game. In fact, when everyone rocks, the rockin is that much better. So share the rock.

And I'll tell you one more thing. There are a few people that are going to agree with me and Greg on this one. Henry Rollins would agree, Ozzy Osbourne would agree, Twisted Sister would certainly agree, AC/DC would agree 30 times over, even Jimi is agreeing from way up in the rockin party in the sky. Too young for all those guys? Well, I can tell you that System of a Down is going to agree here too and so is Linkin Park, and like him or not Marlyn Manson is rockin day in and day out as are those rocktastic chaps in Tool. Across the musical lines, Onyx has rocked with Biohazard and I don't think it would be crazy to think they're still rocking today. Snoop Dogg rocked hard with Rage Against the Machine, and Dr. Dre has been known to rock all over the damn place. Even Jay-Z rocked hard when he paired up with Linkin Park.

So if you're reading this and realizing that you aren't and/or haven't been rocking, if you don't wake up in the morning rock on your way to work, rock at work, rock after work and are hardly able to stop rocking long enough to pass out and get the rest needed to get back up the next day and rock harder than the day before, well, it's never to late to start.

ROCK ON

Kopp

MYOFUB - we want you to rock... really rock