August 7, 2008

Men Don't Make Passes as Girls Who Wear Glasses...

I have terrible vision and have to wear either contacts or glasses if I want to even make it safely across a room without tripping let alone function in the world.  I would say I wear my contacts about 85/90% of the time for no other reason than that I like to wear sunglasses and am not responsible enough with my possessions to keep prescription ones un-lost and un-broken for very long.  That said, I do like my glasses and also how I look in them (somehow sweeter or kinder than I do with a naked face).

Anyway, one of my male coworkers today told me that “no offense but most girls in glasses aren’t cute” and even though I’m puling it off, I look “a hundred times better without them.”  I was slightly offended.

Then, only like 10 minutes later, I had this conversation with the owner of the place where I bring my dry-cleaning and decided I will only be wearing said glasses to watch TV at night from now on:

Owner-Man:  You are married?

Me:  What?  No.  What?  (holding up a dress shirt) No, this is a woman’s shirt.  See the darts in the side?  It’s tapered, see.

OM:  No, no ring.  You are not married.

Me:  No.  I’m not.

OM:  You are pretty girl.

Me:  Oh.  Thanks.  I, um…

OM:  But not as pretty in glasses.  You know, men not find attractive women who wear glasses.  You have trouble to get married.

Me:  Really?

OM:  Glasses for old women who already have husband.

  • Big League Stew: The Onion has written a few satirical stories with you as a character.
  • Mike Mussina: Who?
  • BLS: The Onion, the satirical newspaper that writes fake joke stories? You don't know the Onion?
  • MM: Nope.
  • BLS: Wow. Well, there was this one headline: "Mussina Convinced He's Won a World Series" and it quotes you as believing you were on the 2000 World Series champs.
  • MM: OK.
Make that six.
“ Jerry Jones addresses the team. There is a disappointing lack of shouting YEEEHAW and TIX-ASS

Thoughts on last night’s season premier of the HBO reality show Hard Knocks, featuring the Dallas Cowboys.

(via KSK)

fek:

davidcho:

caseydonahue:

Here was the moment of the night.

I am so glad I was there for this.

That bloke from Oasis said I couldn’t play guitar
Somebody should have told him I’m a fuckin’ ROC star
Today is gonna be the day I’m gon’ throw it back to you
I’m livin’ life like a rocker
I’m like Pimp C partner
Comin down in Mercedes peelin’ off on the coppers
Worldwide Shawn come down in the chopper

Oh, that is just sick.

Coolest Tidbit About the Favre Deal

tumblndice:

In 1991 Ron Wolf was head of player development for the New York Jets, and they had targeted Brett Favre as the top player on their draft board. Having lost their first round pick, they aimed to take him in the second round. But the Falcons took Favre just one pick before New York went on the clock.

A year later, Wolf was in Green Bay and traded to get Favre. The rest of the story, everyone knows. So now he’s playing where he coulda been all along.

They talked about this on Mike & Mike (or more acurately Mike & Fill-in Guy) this morning. 

I for one am pretty happy to get Favre out of the NFC.  As a Skins fan, I (much like the Packers, oddly) would rather GB have Aaron Rodgers any day of the week. 

P.S.  I try not to make a habit out of feeling too sorry for people who get paid millions of dollars to play a game, but I’m empathetic towards Rodgers today.  Is there anyone in NFL with more pressure to perform than him right now? 

The people at Bugs and Cranks are always talking smack about the Cubs. Generally speaking, it’s a combination of lack of reporting (they’re the best team in the National League and just completed a 4 game sweep of their next closest competition and you haven’t posted an article about them since July 28th??? Incidentally there have been 5 articles about the Brewers, 2 about the Cards and even a Rockies shout-out since then…) and generalized hating that plagues the site.  It makes me laugh more than anything because, well, you get to do a lot of laughing when you keep winning.  Anyway, today’s installment of B&C’s weekly MLB rankings really made me chuckle, specifically the comparison of the Cubs’ chances against the American League to his 6-year-old daughter’s softball team’s chances against Team USA softball.  Pretty funny, but it doesn’t really ring too true when the author then ranks the Cubs higher than 10 of the AL’s 14 teams.  Hmmm.  And since no one but Ron Gardenhire (who??? Exactly.) believes that the Twins are a better team than the Cubs, let’s make that 11 of 14 teams.  So, if we keep his analogy going, that’s like saying that his kids’ little league tee-ball team, although not better than the Americans, has a pretty good chance of knocking off most of the rest of the world’s Olympic teams… right?

The people at Bugs and Cranks are always talking smack about the Cubs.

Generally speaking, it’s a combination of lack of reporting (they’re the best team in the National League and just completed a 4 game sweep of their next closest competition and you haven’t posted an article about them since July 28th??? Incidentally there have been 5 articles about the Brewers, 2 about the Cards and even a Rockies shout-out since then…) and generalized hating that plagues the site.  It makes me laugh more than anything because, well, you get to do a lot of laughing when you keep winning. 

Anyway, today’s installment of B&C’s weekly MLB rankings really made me chuckle, specifically the comparison of the Cubs’ chances against the American League to his 6-year-old daughter’s softball team’s chances against Team USA softball.  Pretty funny, but it doesn’t really ring too true when the author then ranks the Cubs higher than 10 of the AL’s 14 teams.  Hmmm.  And since no one but Ron Gardenhire (who??? Exactly.) believes that the Twins are a better team than the Cubs, let’s make that 11 of 14 teams. 

So, if we keep his analogy going, that’s like saying that his kids’ little league tee-ball team, although not better than the Americans, has a pretty good chance of knocking off most of the rest of the world’s Olympic teams… right?

August 6, 2008
City Paper's Best of Baltimore 2008 Poll
This seems like a good waste use of my afternoon.
peterwknox: zoee: Saw this in a book, it’s one of my favorite songs.

peterwknox:

zoee:

Saw this in a book, it’s one of my favorite songs.