Crap Throwing Monkey

...and has been known to complete the thousand-day challenge in only 700 days...

Eddie Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop

Tedy Bruschi's skin can resist the friction of Mach 3 speeds...

Of course they venue shopped. Everyone venue shops. The only reason it would appear tainted is because your average person is too !@#$ing naive to know how this stuff actually works.

Is this crayonz?

Sorry, that's pretty much a non-starter for me. A judge who ruled on the unconstitutionality of warrantless wire-tapping happens to be a trustee of an organization that supports another organization that believes in the unconstitutionality of wire-tapping? That's news? If the money was flowing the other way (from the ACLU to the organization to the judge), that would be a story. As it is, it just demonstrates that the judge consistently supports a given interpretation of the constitution. It's no different from a hypothetical situation where a judge who donates money to pro-life charities hears an abortion case and rules against Roe v. Wade - something Judicial Watch would no doubt support wholeheartedly.

Okay. Good point, then. I would caution people, though, against using GOP rhetoric to point out the absurdity of administration policy, as they're usually unrelated.

That's grossly over-simplified. You make it sound as if Pakistan is a unified country where foreign and military policies are consistent with public opinion.

I just got DirecTV installed yesterday for Sunday Ticket. If you tell me I didn't need to do that, I'll strangle you...

"Hey, mister UPS man, I'm not wearing a gel bra..." 'Cause nothing gets you going like a man delivering a package...

As Clint Eastwood also once said to my cousin: "Right turn, Clyde."

I just want to declare right now, for the record, that the Crap Throwing Monkey will retire at 9,999.

You weren't here for the one-legged spherical gecko thread, though...and I'm not going to explain it (takes too long). So you'll never get that one...

Wow. I never thought I'd see the day, but we've finally found a football player that cablelady doesn't want to jump...

That's basically my theory. Good teams lose in preseason because they're solid on both sides of the ball before camp even starts, so their starters rest and their roster depth and camp fodder get that much more playing time. Bad teams have so many holes to fill that their starters play that much more, and against good teams' second-, third- and later stringers, so they win more preseason games. I should actually go back and correllate pre-season with regular season records to see how true that is... ...nah. It'll cut into my drinking.

Actually, that's very broadly what Perelman proved. It was written up in Scientific American a while ago. Which also proves that my one-legged spherical gecko theory wasn't that far off...since a one-legged spherical gecko and a "regular" gecko are both homeomorphically equivalent 3-spheres...

I don't believe he's joking, either. I just don't take him seriously.

What, you mean the cute play on John Valby isn't enough?

Easy. Perelman proved that, as enclosed 3-manifolds, both packages of hot dogs and packages of buns homeomorphically reduce to a 3-sphere, ergo are equivalent. But a dozen Krispy Kreme glazed donuts, being toroid, do not in fact reduce to a 3-sphere. Therefore, we prove that donuts and hot dogs are not the same thing.

Aren't jokes usually funny?

What the hell do you know? Go back to your knitting...

Roy Schieder was not cool in Jaws; that was the whole point (he was facing and overcoming his fear, which is heroic. But not "cool".) Robert Shaw, on the other hand, was cool. Someone who hasn't been mentioned - and most will disagree with, I'm sure - is Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean" (the first specifically, not the second). Yes, he plays the character slightly prissy and foppish...but even ignoring the rest of the film, just the icy stare he guns down Barbossa at the end should be enough. And while I'm at it, I'll give props to John Travolta in "Get Shorty".

Oh, good! I like preseason rumors! Give me more!

Actually, you do see puffs of dust at the outside structural joins where the floors would be as the building collapses. That's one of the main arguments of the "controlled demolition" people. It ignores, of course, the simple fact that those puffs of dust are more easily explained by stress failure of the concrete sheathing of the towers as the floors pancake on each other. But pretending the Mossad wired two entire high-rise towers on September 10th (and did so in an entire day, no less ) is so much more fun!

Just so liberals and conservatives don't inter-breed, KurtGoebbels is fine with it...