Swiggers wrote:I just got hired to write some freelance fantasy football articles for fanball.com.

that's not random, that's cheersome

I haven't shaved since the Werthbeard broke out. I don't know how you people live with beards -- so itchy.

just got hbo free for 3 months. just in time to watch the pacific. hip hip!

I found a "Parenting Magazine" with my wife's name on it in the mailbox

CrashburnAlley wrote:I haven't shaved since the Werthbeard broke out. I don't know how you people live with beards -- so itchy.

I grew a beard due to inability to shave after I broke my arm in December. I kept it. I like it. I look like Orson Welles/Paul Kinsey. Not that that's a very good thing.

Bucky wrote:my car has a built-in warning system for when i go above 85. It works by ejecting pieces of the car into the roadway.

On a related note, I almost lost a piece of my rear view mirror on the turnpike today when I hit 80. I held it in place the rest of the ride.

do you drive a convertible?

My old car felt like a shuttle reentering the atmosphere when it got above 70

When this baby hits 88 miles per hour...

Wacom tablet just doesn't cut it as a mouse.

I've not renewed my Sports Illustrated subscription but they keep sending me issues. Clerical error or trying to inflate subscription figures?

I remember reading "Doonesbury" in the Sunday comics as a kid, and being like "WTF", then reading "Fred Bassett"

Doonesbury has never been funny. Not once.

Was Doonesbury supposed to be funny?

Things I'd rather do than read a Fred Basset comic strip:

Get gum surgery

CrashburnAlley wrote:Things I'd rather do than read a Fred Basset comic strip:

Get gum surgery

Is that like Funky Winkerbean?

VoxOrion wrote:Doonesbury has never been funny. Not once.

Untrue. My mother is moving to a smaller place, and thus all sorts of detritus from my youth are coming back to me. One the of the few welcome things is a large collection of Doonesbury books. Having remembered the strip largely for its political controversy, I'm surprised how many of the strips are just plain funny. My kids like them, too, although I regularly have to answer questions like, "Who is Ed Muskie?".

Marion wrote:

Phight On! wrote:I was definitely wrong for driving that fast but I swear on my grandmom's grave I had no idea I was going that fast.

I sure am glad I bought a car with a speedometer. I'd hate to have no idea how fast I was driving.

There is no need to pile on. I mean really- I admitted I made a mistake and you're still breaking balls. I wish I could say I was borrowing my dad's 300C which absolutely flies but I'd be lying. I was driving the car my wife usually uses because my Toyota is in the shop (it has nothing to do with that recall) but I still drive it enough that I am familiar with it. I guess I just accelerated while getting on the ramp* and kept going. Like I said, I thought I was going 75- MAYBE 80-85 tops. My jaw dropped when the cop said 97.

Oh well I'm sooooooo ready to put this topic to bed. I never wish misfortune on anybody so I'm not going to say I hope you get a ticket for going 50 in a 45 or anything petty like that (yeah I know there is a big difference but the law is the law) . Just remember you're still breaking it and there are dick cops out there that will give you a ticket for that and I'd be willing to bet anything that you exceed the speed limit by at least a few mph every time you drive your car.

In fact, anybody who lives in SJ and is familiar with the road that Lakeland Juvenile Detention Center is on you know there are cops there that will write you a ticket for going 28 in a 25 (seriously). It has happened to my brother and a few other people I know that were all going less than 7mph over the limit.

*While we're on the subject PLEASE PEOPLE never, ever, ever slow down or stop while getting on a ramp and merging into traffic unless you're in a construction zone and there is a stop sign.

swishnicholson wrote:

Funny? That's like, sub-Leno humor. I will give it props because one can tell in this particular strip that there is a "joke" present. So to that degree, I'll agree with you that there was effort.

TenuredVulture wrote:

CrashburnAlley wrote:Things I'd rather do than read a Fred Basset comic strip:

Get gum surgery

Is that like Funky Winkerbean?

I can't tell you how many wasted minutes of my childhood were spent reading Funky Winkerbean, hoping it would be funny and being let down time after time. It would be funny maybe once a month, keeping me guessing. And it was drawn like it should be funny. And it was called Funky Winkerbean! But it was terrible. Every single day.

By the way, when I say "funny" I mean "amusing" or "humorous," which means funny when presented in a newspaper. I think that's why Doonesbury is funny.