I have been compelled by the wife to delete the post that previously occupied this space because, by some impossible coincidence, my wife knows the family of the post-game celebratory streaker who got hit by a car. Why I had to delete it was explained to me in these terms: "Just do it." I have been further instructed to request prayers for the fellow.
The young man in question was, at last news, lying in a drug-induced coma, with the doctors saying that the next few days would most likely tell the story of the extent, and permanence, of his injuries.
I've also deleted the GoGators sign a couple posts below because the blinking was driving me crazy.
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So is that guy in the pic farther down the page holding some sort of Waterford football? Or has he just stolen the glass egg from "Risky Business?"
Yours truly,
Clueless
(stranded somewhere in Packers - Bears country and totally unaware.)
Get with it, Ellyn. Speaking of clueless, what's "Risky Business"?
Go Bears.
The blinking GoGators sign was driving me crazy too, though for a different reason. :)
I should also say I'm impressed that your wife reads your site. I egotistically console myself that mine doesn't because no prophet is honored in his own country. Ha.
Actually, she doesn't that often. She brought up the news item in conversation, I said 'yeah, I've heard about it, blogged it, in fact', and she said 'what'd you say?' and I said 'not much' and she said 'did you know that was so and so's brother?' and I said 'no, are you sh****n me?' and she said 'go online so's I can see what you said' and I said 'yes ma'am' and when she was done: 'get rid of it'. I usually have to beg her to read it. Very occasionally she goes there if she has some time to kill.
Okay that's more in line with the way my honey "reads" my site.
Oh come on...you don't remember Tom Cruise before he became a narcissistic moron? He played a spoiled high-school moron whose parents leave him home alone while on vacation and he opens a part time brothel? (In reality the idea is horrifying...and it all seems more realistic because the movie was shot in our local area so it seems so...real) The funniest parts of the movie revolve around the theft of a glass egg belonging to his mother.
Just to let you know how dated it is...his character regards the U of Illinois as a pathetic fallback college choice. These days a lot of sharp kids are wait-listed to get into U of I...
Yeah I was kind of surprised our friend Bill missed "Risky Business" in his pop culture indoctrination, I mean education. Certainly as close as Bill is with "the kids" one would think he'd get more pop culture references than the average bear.
Oh, I remember it now. Hearing of it, that is; never saw it. But it's good to know he was only a moron back then minus the narcissism.
These days a lot of sharp kids are wait-listed to get into U of I... You could say that about most big schools. It's not a comment on the school's quality, but on the fact that everyone's encouraged to go to college, and on the existence of a "constitutional" orthodoxy called affirmative action.
I went to Riddle's place yesterday, TS, and he's got all these U-tube links up to various musical groups, and the only name I recognized was Peter Gabriel's. I have a feeling I missed an entire generation's worth of culture, pop or otherwise.
I never heard of any of them either, except for Gabriel likewise. He's a lot more esoteric than the rest of us.
Oh. Whew.
you would be surprised to know how often I go to your site --- even when I don't have time to kill --- thanks, the wife
How do you define 'often'?
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