Heh.

 

It's random how many pics there were of cats in computers.

 

They're after the gerbils, duh.

They're after the gerbils, duh.

 

not all of us are so familiar with gerbils, Jim

not all of us are so familiar with gerbils, Jim

Oh snap!

 

And, may I say to all of you college students out there: learn how to write a paper. Seriously, it is not my job to teach your lazy butts how to structure an expository paper. If you can't do that you do not deserve to be in college. Seriously. And don't complain about your grade after you turn in a paper that most high school students would be ashamed to turn in. I consider it very generous of me not to fail you. So, either write the paper well or stfu and accept your crappy, crappy, grade (which was probably inflated to curb whining a little bit).

 

That is all.

Oh snap!

 

And, may I say to all of you college students out there: learn how to write a paper. Seriously, it is not my job to teach your lazy butts how to structure an expository paper. If you can't do that you do not deserve to be in college. Seriously. And don't complain about your grade after you turn in a paper that most high school students would be ashamed to turn in. I consider it very generous of me not to fail you. So, either write the paper well or stfu and accept your crappy, crappy, grade (which was probably inflated to curb whining a little bit).

 

That is all.

Stop yelling .

Stop yelling .

 

 

Dear Soxy,

 

 

 

From,

 

your students

 

 

We're reading Sula in my AP World Literature course, and there's a scene where Sula throws a boy into the river by accident. (She's twirling him and he "slips" and flies into the river, drowning.)

 

A girl in my class compared it to the Lionel Tate killing a few years ago, and said he wasn't a murderer because he was just playing with little Tiffany Eunick. (The question was, "Is Sula a murderer?")

 

Lionel Tate, if you're not familiar, is a boy who was twelve and his mother was babysitting a six year old girl. Lionel destroyed her and then said that it was an accident as he was simply playing wrestling with her, ala (the then-)WWF.

 

At first, he said that he'd just dropped her a couple of times or something, and that it was an accident. As the autopsy returned, however, he had to change his story. Why? Well, take a look at her injuries:

 

A fractured skull, a lacerated liver, broken ribs, internal hemorrhaging, and more than thirty other bruises and breaks.

 

Lionel eventually admitted to doing more than dropping her. He said he punched her over a hundred times, threw her into a stair banister, knocked her down the stairs, jumped up and down on her, slammed her against walls...etc. etc. A Prosecutor, and a few Doctors, said that the injuries she sustained were akin to falling from a three story building, but the boy's case is forever known as "That boy who killed that girl wrestling. Shame on WWF!"

 

The mother is disgusting, too. Naturally, Tiffany would shriek in pain before she died as she was being assaulted, and when she did, Mrs. Tate didn't come down to check what was going on. She shouted from her bedroom, "Tiffany be quiet or I'll spank your butt!"

 

And oh, was she quiet after.

Mick Foley, the pro wrestler (and fine writer) wrote about this incident in his book, Foley is Good, and of course he points out the fact that there's no way this was a "wrestling" death. No wrestling move alone could do all that damage and besides, nobody punches someone else 100 times and then jumps on them up and down in wrestling.

 

Something about the Lionel Tate case bothers the hell out of me. This disgusting boy, this known-liar (about her injuries and how he caused them [since he'd said, "I just dropped her a few times" and then changed it a million times]) smears wrestling all over.

 

I don't love professional wrestling anymore. It's been miserable since WWF bought WCW. But, to the day I die, I'll always be bothered by the fact that this murderer got off with a slap on the wrist because he blamed television. He should be in a jail for the rest of his life, and aside from the scene in Helter Skelter (the novel) where Ronald Hughes is murdered and his little home (a small place in his garage with nothing worth a damn except the one thing that mattered to him enough to take care of: his Law Degree) is detailed -- aside from that, the most disgusting crime-related thing I've ever read was after the murders, when Lionel Tate asks Tiffany's mother, before any apology or anything like that, "Can I have Tiffany's toys?"

Stop yelling .

I wasn't yelling, I was using my "I'm so disappointed" voice. Which is much, much, much worse.

Comcast f***ing blows.

 

Anyone else have a ton of problems with them?

We did that is why we got rid of them 2 years ago. Also got my SIL away from them and working on my MIL as well (she wants to get rid of them, but cannot find any that she likes out by her).

I bought my mother-in-law's Christmas gift today. Got her a Kodak 5MP digital camera at Office Depot for $49.99. Not bad at all.

So for some reason the song "you're the best around" from the Karate Kid popped into my head earlier today and it wont go away.

So for some reason the song "you're the best around" from the Karate Kid popped into my head earlier today and it wont go away.

 

YOU'RE THE BEST...AROUND!!! NOTHING'S GONNA EVER KEEP YOU DOWN!!!

 

greatest.show.evar.

So for some reason the song "you're the best around" from the Karate Kid popped into my head earlier today and it wont go away.

Ah yes, classic song that. You'd be hardpressed to find a better, funnier motivation song.

 

And I saw Ralph Maccio when I watched Enoturage last night (yes we're behind). Gotta say that was a bit weird seeing him all grown up.

Reply #5000. Wow. Who though this would be around still?

Untill last week, I have never gotten a ticket before.

 

I have been pulled over by the same cop twice in 4 days.

 

Imagine how the cop feels

Untill last week, I have never gotten a ticket before.

 

I have been pulled over by the same cop twice in 4 days.

was it a female cop and were you filming an adult movie?

I got my tickets to go see the King Tut exhibit on Sunday

 

Well I gotta be honest and say the exhibit was fairly disappointing. For what the tickets cost, and the hype behind the show, it was a dud. Most of the exhibit was objects that weren't even related to Tutenkamen, and instead they showed a lot of stuff from Amenhotep, and a bunch from some friends of the royal family who were buried in his tomb as well. Akhenaton also got plenty of mentions as Tut's probably father, and because Tut restored the old gods, which Akhenaton had gotten rid of.

Yes and Yes

Actually, it was a female cop, and I basically sweet talked my way out of the 1st speeding ticket.

 

Today I just got done putting gas in my car, and drove about half a mile into a traffic stop where they were pulling people over for no seatbelt. I wear my seatbelt, just didnt put it on right away.

 

O'well. Only 50 bucks and they didnt take my ID, and can do it online.

 

and you didn't request a taser from her?

Well I gotta be honest and say the exhibit was fairly disappointing. For what the tickets cost, and the hype behind the show, it was a dud. Most of the exhibit was objects that weren't even related to Tutenkamen, and instead they showed a lot of stuff from Amenhotep, and a bunch from some friends of the royal family who were buried in his tomb as well. Akhenaton also got plenty of mentions as Tut's probably father, and because Tut restored the old gods, which Akhenaton had gotten rid of.

 

 

We caught it when we were up in Chicago this summer and your comments mirror those of my wife and kids. I knew it was a lot of bait-and-switch and that most of the original touring stuff from the 1977 tour were in the Cairo national Museum and were not back on tour, but explaining that to the family beforehand did not avoid their disappointment. I thought what they showed was pretty cool - and I really did gain an appreciation for Tut for having overturned his Dad's laws regarding worshiping the traditional Egyptian gods.

 

The funniest thing from our experience was that my (at the time) 6 year old was talking to Grandpa on the cell phone in the lobby after seeing the exhibit, and at the top of his voice he yells, "It was a BIG GIP! Tut wasn't even there!!"

 

Edited November 20, 200619 yr by FlaSoxxJim

We caught it when we were up in Chicago this summer and your comments mirror those of my wife and kids. I knew it was a lot of bait-and-switch and that most of the original touring stuff from the 1977 tour were in the Cairo national Museum and were not back on tour, but explaining that to the family beforehand did not avoid their disappointment. I thought what they showed was pretty cool - and I really did gain an appreciation for Tut for having overturned his Dad's laws regarding worshiping the traditional Egyptian gods.

 

The funniest thing from our experience was that my (at the time) 6 year old was talking to Grandpa on the cell phone in the lobby after seeing the exhibit, and at the top of his voice he yells, "It was a BIG GIP! Tut wasn't even there!!"

 

 

I knew going into it that none of the pieces from the 77 exhibit were going to be there, and that the Eygptian Antiquites director Hawass had really limited what they could take out of the country... but still, I expected more from it. Hell the showing from the Forbidden City a few years back blew this one away, and it cost WAY less. Plus they actually had volunteers walking around who knew the story behind the story, about the pieces displayed. I didn't see a volunteers the whole two hours I was in there.

 

As for Tut overturning his dad's changing of the gods, I was always under the impression that somebody behind the scenes did that, and that the reason he "died" so young was to stop him from heading down his dads road once he got old enough to actually handle running the Eygptian empire. This exhibit really gave Tut a lot credit which I had never heard given to him before.

I also always thought the big bulbous head thing was artistic license. It was interesting to see from the novel phorensic reconstructions that the mis-shaped head really was a family trait that at least he and his sister (iirc) and some cousins shared.

I was *this close to buying guitar hero today, but I just couldn't spend 80 bucks on a videogame.

I was *this close to buying guitar hero today, but I just couldn't spend 80 bucks on a videogame.

 

I wouldn't pay 80 bucks for anything that didn't a) teach you to play guitar B) make you an actual hero

I wouldn't pay 80 bucks for anything that didn't a) teach you to play guitar B) make you an actual hero

 

Hero, eh? How big a bottle of those little blue pills can you get for $80?

Reply #5000. Wow. Who though this would be around still?

And it's all mine.