QOTD: driving

question of the day: which state has worse drivers, pa or nj? why do you think this is?

pa, because they are morons

Take an idiot and place him in any state and it doesn't matter. This country is filled with idiots, so you can't really justify saying Jersey drivers are the worst....PA drivers are the worst. You can, however, say that "idiots shouldn't drive and should be forced to turn in their license"

PA definitely has worse drivers, and I'm speaking as someone who has lived in both states. I've never seen more drunken hillbillys doing 25 in a 55 in all my life.

i'd have to say jersey - for two reasons: 1) they tend to be more in a rush and 2) half don't speak english and have no clue the rules of the road

Pennsylvania drivers. They are used to driving horse and buggies and haven't quite mastered turn signal technology.

i would say that ewing, nj has a higher percentage of asshole drivers, compared with all the other places ive lived in pa. but philly had its fair share. also, i think i get unfairly judged before i do anything stupid in my car because i have a pa plate in jersey...or im paranoid and a really shitty driver...

NJ by far has the worst/scariest drivers. PA has the most inconsiderate drivers. However, nothing beats a NYC driver :)

PA...Because they are used to riding horse and buggy

Pa. I never got a ticket in NJ, got one in PA. Something about PA that made me get a ticket. Hence PA has worse drivers

Even though I currently live in NJ, I grew up in NY and I used to live in PA. NJ by far has the worst drivers. While PA drivers are typically clueless and just don’t know what they are doing, NJ drivers just don’t give a rat’s a$$ for anyone’s safety.

I think it all depends on where and when you drive. I tend to think that PA has more aggressive drivers, while NJ drivers are a little more clueless. USER YOUR DAMN TURN SIGNAL WHEN YOU'RE CHANGING LANES!! YIELD MEANS YIELD, NOT STOP!!

i think it depends on where you're from. NJ drivers think PA drivers suck, and I'm sure it's the reverse in PA. I am from NJ, so I do not like the passing on the right, and inability to use jughandles (it's not rocket surgery) that I witness from PA drivers. It is VERY annoying.

PA, just because I can.

All this technology, for what? It's dumb questions like this that make me envy the Amish.

Having lived in both states I would say that NJ drivers are by far the worse. PA drivers typically drive fast period. In fact, cars bought in PA have speedometers that go from 70 to 110, instead of 0-110.. But they do it respectfully, using their turning signals while changing lanes. PA drivers are used to driving on unpaved roads littered with boulders and sink holes. Their driving reflexes have evolved to Jedi like reflexes. Hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes are expected on any joy ride. Therefore, they get really p#ssed off when driving in NJ when the road is wet as NJ drivers tend to become disoriented with the rain, snow or sleet falling. It has to do with a multi-tasking overload. They can’t drive, keep a call on the cell, navigate their GPS devise, adjust their dual climate controls, XM radio and sip a latte with the interference of rain and still hold their reputation of cutting everyone off possible, whether they need to be in the other lane or not. God forbid if a deer jumps in their way..

QOTD: adaptation

question of the day: what has been the best book to movie adaptation?

i have two: to kill a mockingbird and memoirs of a geisha (and that's mainly cause it was beautiful and artisitic)

godfather

A Time to Kill

I never read the books, but I'd have to say Lord of the Rings

Worst was the shining with Jack Nicholson...Best was the Shining that was made for TV...

I haven't read a book since elementary school and I'm pretty sure that they never made a movie out of the Encyclopedia Brown series.

The Princess Bride.

"10 Things I Hate About You" is supposedly based on William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." I'm gonna go with that.

That's a trick question....'cause they all lose so much in the translation...now if you were to ask the reverse question What movie to book has been the best adaptation...I would have to say without a doubt "The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension" Ok it's true I never read the book, but it's got to be better than the movie right? Here is a brief review I found...you decide you will agree. Buckaroo Banzai is a rock-star/brain-surgeon / comic-book-hero/samurai/ etc who along with his group, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil creatures from the 8th dimension (all named John) who are trying to conquer our dimension. He is helped by Penny Pretty, who is a dead ringer for his ex-wife, and some good extra-dimensional beings who look and talk like they are from Jamaica.

Hannibal. Excellent book!! Great movie!!

i guess "snow falling on cedars," or "the green mile." both have their crap moments though.

matchstick men

The Bridges of Madison County and the Horse Whisperer were probably the best adaptations. I really think it will be the DiVinci Code, but I havent' seen it yet.

Certainly not The Da Vinci Code. Don't waste your money.

To Kill A Mockingbird

QOTD: age

question of the day: if you could be any age forever, what would it be and why?

retirement age. the assumption is that i would be rich by then, and not have to work, so it would totally rock.

33. I was in shape, horny and more life experiance

27, best year of my life

Hmm...i have big hopes for 32, for no apparent reason. By then, I figure some of the "big questions" will have been answered and that it'll be time to rock on with rocking on.

probably like 24 - old enough to do everything you want, already have some life experience behind you so you know more about yourself, yet you are young and full of energy

Oh, 20, my a$$ was so spectacular back then.

21. Any younger and I wouldn't be able to drink legally. Any older and my hair starts to go.

Nope, I would like my age to be changing, so that I can experience new things every day!

24 was good. old enough to drink and be done with school. still youthful, but not too young. can date a decent age range of women - down to 18 and up to 30. still in your prime physically.

I’d pick age 5. At this age, you get to play all day and you don’t have any responsibilities.

28 because you are still in your 20s, can pull a hot mature look, still young enough to act like a fool every now and then, have enough work experience to hold good positions in your job, its a marriagable age and if you have kids...you'd have enough money to support them and energy to run after them.

Probably Five. No responsibilities, not tainted by society....completely ignorant of how shitty the world really is. Also, at that age, it is socially acceptable to be naked in public.

so many choices....certainly the Paleolithic Age is very alluring, with it's driving philosophy of whoever has the biggest stone wins. The Bronze Age has amazing appeal..since who wouldn't want to have a year round golden bronze tan...the chicks dig it trust me....well that and long hair, big muscles , and a large bank account..but I digress. I think though that the age I would pick, would have to be the age of reason...I mean think about it...you would never be wrong, people would listen,and then say to themselves...wow that is one reasonable dude I should introduce him to my daughter.

21 so i can still drink

32. I still look like I am in my early twenties. I make a decent income, and I have matured since.. If I could stay at any age, it would have to be 32. I think I am in my prime…

29. It was a good year and it isn’t 30!

QOTD: just go

question of the day: what is one place you've never been that you would like to go?

the kitchen

italy

Heaven

we have all been in [coworker]'s mom's bed so that is out....I guess Hawaii

Australia

Montana

europe - i would absolutely love to go to italy, germany, and poland, specifically

To your mom's house. We usually just do it in the back seat of my car behind the 7-11.

Too many to name just one. Australia, Ireland, Greece, Italy, and Scotland are my top 5.

I’d like to go on a safari in Africa.

The Trans-Siberian Express. The North Pole. The South Pole. Delaware.

Australia or Italy…

saskachewan, i want to drive the transcanada highway for the entire length.

How would I know if I would like to go somewhere if I've never been there before?

Anywhere requiring a US Passport!

Amsterdam

QOTD: fancy $40, bro?

question of the day: what would you do for $40?

xxxx: punch [you] in the stomach
me: not an option
xxxx: then i wouldn't do anything....So, i will now do that for free

I'd do your mom...again.

The question should be, "What WON'T I do for $40!!"

think up better questions of the day

nowadays... you can barely put gas in your car for that

Not much. I’m not cheap, I have standards and $40 isn’t enough to get me off the couch!

Work here for an hour. No, wait. I do that now.

cook dinner or do someones hw. nothing too gross or that requires a lot of labor, i'm not built like that and 40 bucks isn't much anyways.

I'd begrudgingly make out with your mom.

Have you ask a better question!

i guess i would enter into the great american nacho-eating contest...you have to mix pleasure with pain!

What wouldn’t I (an energetic male) do for $40? That is the real question. The same goes for Klondike Bars… Just no g@y stuff.. I don’t ride that side of the fence…

lol 40 bucks is nothing ! if u said 400 bucks u may have gotten an interesting answer

That's my going rate for being a gigilo.

QOTD: stay positive

question of the day: what do you like most about yourself?

My calves. I work on them everyday by walking on my tippy toes

I never give up.

I like my giant member...and so does your mom.

My hair. It's shiny.

I like having the ability to read someone within the first few seconds of meeting them and being able to know what they're all about.

This sounds a lot like the 'psycological' portion of an interview. I'm not a 'yes man'; and greater salary means better morale.

i dream well

what do I like most? That I'm so kick-ass.

i got a great a$$

Everything.

My good looks

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anyone feel like asking the question for awhile? let me know!

QOTD: reversal of man

question of the day: if you could cause one invention from the last hundred years never to have been made at all, which would it be, and why?

probably nuclear weapons - nothing good can ever come from them

reality shows

Intermintent wiper blades. They are never the right speed I need so I end up having them on full time and it squeaks or not at all and every few seconds I have to manually make the wipers move

cell phone....They are really freaking annoying...yes, i do own one but it is not affixed to my ear

internet (computers) and tv... both ok inventions but like most things, there's no end.... causes us nowadays to be lazy and inactive, and tv has caused numerous catastrophies (murderers matching what they see on tv, ppl learning how to build bombs online).

The internal combustion engine. We don't need cars. Cars mean pollution and sprawl. We'd do fine with bicycles and more developed electric rail transit.

the gun

I'll tell you what it would be. It's the most evil product known to man and represents all that is wrong in the universe -- Snapple.

i would say nothing...even bad inventions lead to the creation of other inventions people actually do use or like.

The spork. I mean, come on - if you are so stupid that you can't figure out if you need a spoon or a fork, then Natural Selection should have killed you off years ago! Honestly, what kind of lazy, sick, demented bastard comes up with hybrid eating utensils? This is what happens when insecure metallurgists try their hand at genetics! It's this same sort of perverse mentality that spawned craziness like the toaster that also cooks eggs or that crazy hat that holds beer and an irrigation system. MADNESS! We should all stop trying to cross pollinate things that work fine on their own. Separate but equal, damn it! Take the power back!

talkies - silent films are much more interesting. the electric guitar ruined music

Gasoline. Fuel for combustion engines can be created from almost anything. It doesn’t have to come from oil.. The thought that some smart guy in history found a way to create fuel from oil and never considered the fact that it can run out some day is ridiculous!! Hind sight says he should have been treated like a drug dealer and put away. He created an item that turned into an world addiction, has crazy street market prices and can not be controlled by the government. Sure, the government may want to try to put a measure of control on it, but why when their pockets are lined by the petroleum cartel?

The atomic bomb.

cigarettes, health reasons

QOTD: get fired

question of the day: fill in the blank! if it didn't get me fired, i would _____

wear pajamas and slippers to work. Now if the question were: If I didn't get caught, I would ______. (steal the big plasma monitor in the lobby)

take a 3 hour nap every day

have sex with a donkey in [name of conference room], and punch you in the face for asking such retarded questions

Punch the guy who keeps sending me the question of the day

watch porn all day long

not show up to work for a month.

look for a better job online all day

say exactly what i'm thinking. and kick people.

more often say exactly what I was thinking

...tell people what I really think of their ill-concieved projects. No, wait, I do that already! That is why i'll never be promoted here.

leave at noon everyday

Never go to work!

I would come to work in my pajamas, carrying a pillow and a blanket.

Order a laptop with a wireless broadband card and sit on the beach, drink mai tai's and work till I am good and tan, takin in all the eye candy that is humanily possible...

it'd be cool to be able to wear whatever i want...like flip flops and summer skirts

If it didn't get me fired, I would park my car in the lobby.

Happy Get B.O., So That Everyone Leaves You Alone Day!

This morning, you woke up on the wrong side of the bed and it seemed like a Camel pissed in your Cheerios. You've been walking around with that dumb, fake smile for almost 2 years now and everyone is sick of seeing it. There it is, every morning in the mirror, just sitting there smiling back at you. It doesn't even look real anymore. Your past few relationships have ended in disaster, even though you tried to warn them "I'm not boyfriend material and I'm certainly not marriage material." But for some reason, they thought they could change you.

In order to make sure that no one tries to date you or change you anymore, you've been packing on weight like a mad man. Burger King every single night of the week. King-sized everything. Hershey Pie Desserts by the truckload. Yet they still want to "go out for drinks" or "grab a movie."

You've had enough. It all ends here. Yes, this morning, for the first time in your life (and probably for the first time anywhere), you are going to prepare the finest and stinkiest, garlic, onion and fish guts bath that anyone has ever attempted to create. This will also be the last bath that you take for the duration of the month. Into the garbage goes your deodorant, cologne, after shave lotion and anything else that doesn't smell like the South Street Seaport.

There, try to date me now...suckers!!!

Happy Get B.O., So That Everyone Leaves You Alone Day!

QOTD: follow the leader

question of the day: are you a leader or a follower? why do you say that?

well I thought I was a leader, but after this weekend and my new found addiction to street bikes.....I'm a follower

leader. because I started this blog. Boo yah!

i am most definitely a leader - i always take my own path with pretty much everything i do.

I'm a soquid - not a solid, not a liquid. Do you have a fpoon?

I guess that I'm a follower. I'll go along with anything it suits me. If something changes, I reserve the right to cease following.

I do both. I think that to lead well, you have to be unafraid to follow when the situation calls for it. By following, you can learn, and gain the knowledge you'd need to be a better leader.

a leader for the most part, most people look to me for guidance...

i'd like to think of myself as a leader. i am the first born. i'm not afraid to tell people when they suck. i want a crap load out of life...and i know i'll make it happen.

It depends on the situation. I do like to be in control of most situations but I can also be indecisive when it comes to making decisions that involve others. Sometimes it's nice to lead and sometimes it's nice to follow. Like picking a place to eat for lunch... sometimes it's just easier to let someone else make the decision but sometimes I've got a craving and you either stick with me or find yourself something else to eat.

I'd say I'm a leader. Probably because I'm so ridiculously smart, and I really like to get my own way. Besides, I've always wanted to be in charge of stuff, even when I was younger. I was president of several clubs and silly organizations, the whole thing. Even now, I like doing my thing my way, and being in charge of my own projects. I am NOT GOOD at taking orders, direction or criticism.

I'm definitely a leader. Recently, I made a large purchase, which has prompted several of my friends to make similar purchases. When it appears that I am not leading, I am usually influencing the decisions of the person that everyone else is following, so in essence, I am still leading from behind the scenes.

I’d say I’m more of a leader from all of my years of playing sports. I also don’t give a rats a$$ about what people think of me and tend to do as I please.

Depends on the situation!

mostly i follow, i'm not too keen on being center of attention

i guess i would say im a leader, although sometimes i follow because i dont feel like arguing. i think im always right, and i usually am, but people never believe me, so sometimes its more satisfying to watch someone be wrong.

Leader, I always offer innovative solutions to problems and will argue my point when others want me to follow their way of thinking. Plus I was in sales a few years back, I had the same approach to innovative solutions with generating leads. I developed a system that put me in front of 8-10 customers everyday. This system allowed me to make at least 3 presentations of new products resulting in 1 sale a day on average. I discovered that by using the law of averages I was able to build an extensive customer base. More importantly my customers would expect the best customer service in the industry from me in which I used as a tool to expand my lead generation system by asking for referrals. Accomplishments #1 sales rep in Northeast Area, #3 sales rep in the country. I later decided on a career into sales management where I taught me system to other sales reps who worked for me, the result was taking a branch office that was worst in the Country ranking to #1. So yes I'm a proven leader!

Happy Quit Your Job and Move to South Africa Day!

Let's face it, you hate your job and everyone knows it. You hate Bucks County, PA and you'd burn it down, if you had enough gasoline in your back shed. Unfortunately for you, your back shed is filled with South African Rands. You've been exchanging your life savings slowly but surely for as many Rands as you can find at local banks. One of the tellers, Shaba-click-click-ranawada has had her eye on you during your last few visits. She's a native South African and she knows what you're up to. Well, at least she thinks she knows. She thinks that you're going to move there, blend in with the local population for as long as you can stand it, then, she thinks that you're going to blow up the Prime Minister's summer getaway. She knows that you wouldn't try to destroy his main house, since the amount of soldiers guarding it vastly outnumbers his summer getaway soldiers. She thinks that you've been plotting your dastardly deed with your old GI Joe figures. (Yeah, she's been watching you play with them through your basement window for the last few nights now.)

She couldn't be more wrong. The only thing that you've ever blown up is you're buddy's spot, while he was kickin' some game to a few local shorties at the mall last week. He really didn't need you to exclaim "Hey Jimmy, did that rash clear up yet, buddy?" You would've hooked up with her ugly friend too, had you not opened your big mouth. But what do you care, you're packing your bags so that you can move to South Africa already.

Better pick up a Zulu to English dictionary, Johannesburg...and Shaba-click-click-ranawada await you...

Happy Quit Your Job and Move to South Africa Day!

QOTD: wedding songs

question of the day: for those of you who are married, what was your wedding song? for those of you who aren't, what would you like your wedding song to be?

not married. don't need a song.

What a Wonderful World

Not married. I'd pick Highway to Hell.

Shot through the heart. not married

amazed by lonestar

don't know - this is something i'll actually let the boy have an opinion on for the wedding. i don't really care about the song.

I could not ask for more -- Edwin McCain

It was Alicia Keys "If I Ain't Got You"

marvin gay, lets get it on

"She's no Lady" by Lyle Lovett.

not married, but ( today) i want cant get it out of my head by elo to be my wedding song. tomorrow ill want something different.

A toad the Wet Sprocket song..don’t remember the title and don’t care. Thanks for reminding me of one of the worst days of my life..LOL

Our wedding song was Your Song, but it was the version from Moulin Rouge, not Sir Elton John.

QOTD: embarrassment

question of the day: what was your most embarrassing moment from high school or college?

whoa....waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many to count. Besides, i am in total denial, so I have had none.

the day everyone found out that I let my cat eat tunafish out of my vagina

hmm probably would be my first weekend away at school and getting busted for underage drinking in the dorms....yeah, i was cool haha

In high school - 10th or 11th grade - I was feeling sick in class. I was trying to make it through class, but realized I couldn't. I raised my hand and asked if I could go to the bathroom because I felt sick. I got up and started walking to the door, but didn't make it. Luckily, it was a science class and there was a sink in the room. I puked right in the sink in front of the teacher and the whole class.

I had partied at colleges before, but this was my first time as an actual college student. It was the first weekend after classes started and I was in some weird house, drinking beers and doing keg stands. I backed up to make room for people to get by and accidentally knocked this big wooden clock off of the wall. The whole party stopped (I swear, I heard the record scratch) and everyone was staring at me, laughing and clapping for the wonderful job that I had done. Either that, or the time I woke up in Bruce Willis' dorm room...with my pants off.

i guess showing up late (2 days) for a mid-term. same class...had a friend in it...some girl sitting behind us very "bitchily" asked us if we could shut up....so, my friend wrote "bitch f*ck" on his notepad with an arrow pointing to her and showed me...Well, she saw it too

My freshman year of college I got really, really drunk and was pretty much incapacitated. Someone helped me back to the dorm and they put me in bed. Somehow I rolled out of bed onto the hard floor and landed face first. I had a golf ball sized knot above my eyebrow and bust a blood vessel in my eye. They couldn’t wake me up and they called for an ambulance. When it arrived, I was drunk and belligerent and refused treatment. My parents got the ambulance bill and were none to pleased. From that point on everyone knew me as the girl who made the ambulance come to the dorm.

Once I made the mistake of wearing a white bathing suit to swimming class. Another time I saw other classmates pulling out their notes while taking a test. I then assumed that I missed an announcement or something so I pulled out my notes as well. After the test, I then raised my hand to confirm that the test was an open note test. Yeah, it wasn’t… I got an “F” for Freakin Idiot..

we had a substitute teacher for one of the classes, and we were just going to watch a video. my friends had just completed their skateboard/bmx/whatever video magazine, and i had a copy with me, but hadn't had a chance to watch it yet. i asked the sub if we could put that in, and he said it would be ok. within the first 3 seconds, there was a shot of a girl lifting up her shirt, "girls gone wild" style. the sub ran over to the machine and quickly turned it off, and he was so mad! he was literally shaking. i was embarrassed, because at that point it looked like porn, when really that was the only thing on the whole tape.

oh god...i got REALLY drunk on frangelico and vanilla vodka and locked myself in the bathroom beacuse i had to throw up. apparently i fell asleep on the bathroom floor with my skirt around my ankles, and was so deeply unconscious that i didn't respond to anything. so, my roommates decided to break down the door because one of them wanted his toothbrush. i had 11 roommates, and 8 were dudes, and they had a lot of dude friends. all of these people were standing outside the door to see me at my worst. awesome.

After a high school boyfriend and I broke up, he got a tattoo with my name in a heart (no lie) and proceeded to chase me aruond the school, trying to show it to me. That pretty much sucked...and no, I never saw it.

I don't recall having one. If I recover that memory in therapy, I'll let you know about it then.

QOTD: oooh, you have a sister?!

question of the day: what is your birth order and do you think it means anything?
link to article

I was first born which to me means if I were in Egypt during Moses times, I would've been killed by the Angel of Death. Other than that, it means nothing to me.

usually yes, but I am the youngest and do not have the typical younger child syndrome

i'm the first of three children. and according to that article...i would hate to be a middle child and i should have gone to yale for my undergrad. i do, however, think i am a good leader and role model for my younger siblings and cousins. but i think all of them will ultimately be more successful than me - the kids in my family are either pre-med or planning on being doctors. so if i want to keep up - i better do something fast..

yah, i am a middle, and i think it does affect you

i believe it is true for a lot of people, but not so much for me. i'm the youngest yet i am the most ambitious, aggressive, and independent one.

I'm the youngest (of two). My older sister got her GED, took a few classes at community college and worked as a copy editor until getting pregnant and is now a stay-at-home mom. So, who's smarter? Her, of course. She gets to stay home while I'm stuck at this place every day.

I'm the youngest of two and I think there is something to this birth order business... I'm definitely creative and manipulative like it says. (you're going to give me yer lunch money right? I need to buy an extra chocolate milk for my blood condition). And my sister, the first born, is Bruce Willis.

Well, me being the 2nd child of 4, but the only male, I earn the most. My older sister, however, does have a successful hair salon and in her position, has attained more. She is one of the top educators for a high end Italian hair product company and has toured the country with her expertise. It hasn’t brought home the bacon, but I do believe she has accomplished more so far. She has a house and a successful family, while I, the bread winner in the family (counting everyone in my immediate family) sit in a one bedroom and am divorced. I guess this writer may be on to something.

Birth order is like astrology. People collect some data, find some similarities, and think that it has merit--It doesn't. I'm the youngest of two, and it only means that I had some cool albums to listen to.

I am an only child and I rule! Yes, I think birth order plays a significant role in a child’s development. I do feel I have a lot of the characteristics described in the article. I always had to come up with my own games and ways to amuse myself because I didn’t have any siblings. Plus think about it, if a family is popping out 3 kids-by the time #3 rolls around the parents are going to be too tired and/or busy to pay as much attention to the last born.

I am the youngest of three. And yes I think it plays a part in how personality is formed. I have an only child and she suffers from what many like to call OCS (Only Child Syndrome).

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if you answered todays question and your answer isn't appearing here, there was some massive problems with the instant messanging thing here at work. if you want, send me the answer again, or post a comment, and tell management to stop forcing us to use substandard equipment!

Recent emails and IMs

We all know that the IT department is reading our emails and now even our IMs. They’re working hard over there. It’s probably pretty time consuming to read everything all of us sends all day. So in the spirit of making the daily grind easier for my fellow co-workers, I’m going to periodically summarize the best of my emails and IMs.

This way the IT department can come right to this site to see how I’ve been goofing off at work.

Here are some recent digital conversations:

me (5/10/2006 11:07:23 AM): this team aside from me, is made up of misfits
me (5/10/2006 11:07:44 AM): it's like the island of misfit toys from the rudolph reindeer cartoon
me (5/10/2006 11:08:15 AM): "I'm a Charlie in the box "
me (5/10/2006 11:08:18 AM): "I’m a pink elephant with polka dots "
co-worker (5/10/2006 11:08:18 AM): ;-)
me (5/10/2006 11:08:32 AM): Dude, I watch too many kid shows


me (5/10/2006 10:38:32 AM): If that chick wasn’t a woman, I’d kick her in the nutes
me (5/10/2006 10:38:35 AM): Make that nuts
me (5/10/2006 10:38:53 AM): Actually, I’m gonna stick with “nutes”
me (5/10/2006 10:38:53 AM): That chick has the biggest “nutes” I ever seen


me (5/10/2006 11:11:02 AM): My email address is scott@slowass.net. Spam me harder! *moan*



co-worker (5/10/2006 11:27:21 AM): oooh, you have a sister?
me (5/10/2006 11:27:52 AM): yes, Bruce Willis.


I actually have to go back to your house at lunch to get my slash card. I must have left it in yesterday's pants. If only I was wearing yesterday’s pants today. But no, stupid me is wearing today’s pants.


Tell me about it, man. I gotta wake my ass up at 6:00 a.m. every day this week, drag up to Las Colindas. Yeah, I'm doin' the drywall up there at the new McDonald's

QOTD: yet another movie question

question of the day: what were your favorite movies as a kid?

back to the future, cinderella, willow, star wars (all 3), labyrinth, ferris bueller

Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Drop Dead Fred, Dream a Little Dream (yeah...the Corey's...I'm a dork)

goonies, gremlins, rockyIV

For lack of a better memory, I'll say "Raiders of the Lost ark" and "Beverly Hills Cop". VCRs and tapes were not mass marketed and affordable until I was around 15, so repeat viewings of movies didn't happen when I was a rugrat. It's not like those spoiled brats today that sit in back of an SUV watching Spongebob on their way to soccer practice.

war games, jaws, and teen wolf

African Safari, Herbie goes bananas, Sholay [Indian], Pushpak [Indian]

Star wars

Stand By Me, E.T., Back to the Future 1-3, Indiana Jones 1-3, Original Star Wars Trilogy, Rocky 1-4 (Rocky 5 sucked and you all know it), Die Hard, Bachelor Party and last but certainly not least, Spaceballs.

the 3 star wars, jaws, strange brew, hollywood knights and.....one with a story....the first movie i ever saw on cable TV was The Black Hole...My brother and i stayed at my uncle's house so we could see it and we thought it was the coolest movie ever...I think i was 8 and i just watched it again a few months ago and boy did it SUCK

The one's I couldn't get my hands on.

the goonies, spaceballs, the three amigos, the rescuers, karate kid part 2

Star Wars..all of them, Secret of Nihm, Dark Crystal, Better Off Dead.. That is all I can think of at the moment..

The Star Wars trilogy; all of the late 70's/early 80's horror movies - Halloween I & II, A Nightmare on Elm St., Friday the 13th; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Grease; The Breakfast Club; Stripes; Eddie Murphy's classics - Trading Places, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop; Airplane. I'll probably think of a bunch later that I should have listed.

home alone - wizard of oz

Star Wars, ET, Space Camp. All time FAVORITE, The Sound of Music!

Goonies, Karate Kid, Bad News Bears, Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory (the original, not that crappy remake!) oh, and Rocky III

QOTD: middle names

question of the day: what is your middle name?

Lynn

none of yo business

David

David

Joseph

what - are you trying to steal my identity you freak? it's Ann - that's boring - more fun when i think u are trying to steal my identity

Elizabeth. It was supposed to be my 1st name, but the neighbors had a baby a couple days before I was born and named her Elizabeth, so I got it as a middle name instead.

are you databasing al lthis info for blackmail? Frederick

not only do I have my father's first name, but my parents were so uncreative, they didn't even give me a middle name. When filling out official forms, I use "Green Lantern"

elliott

I don’t have one. Unless you count the name I took for confirmation which I choose not to reveal. 14 year olds should not be allowed to pick their own name and spelling variation when they are trying to stand out from the crowd and create a sense of individuality. It is just awful, I was an idiot.

Michael.

Sarah

you should have asked..... "and the name of the street you grew up on?"

Ward

Slartibartfast I think it has angloasianindofrench origins, and yes because we still don't like the french i don't call it my middle name, I call it my freedom name, which goes nicely with a big plate of cheesey freedom fries. When will the french ever learn? Their women must start shaving their pits before any kind of friendship can be built up again!

elizabeth

Anthony

no middle name. my dad's middle name is kumar, so they thought about kumari for me, but never followed through. and kumari has a fun meaning, oh well.

Happy You Use Your Outside Voice All The Time Day!

You've never been a terribly soft-spoken person and it's never been a problem, until now. You were recently fired from your sleep study job because during an intense session, you were gabbing on and on about that Red Sox game that you took your annoying children to.

And I'm not using the word "annoying" loosely in the slightest bit. At the last company picnic, your kids tried to pick a fight with one of the Vice Presidents. They were relentlessly picking on him for his horrible softball skills. They made him feel like he was 9 years old again, when he tried out for a youth baseball league and got beamed in the chest with a 55 mph pitch from the neighborhood bully. The bully said it was an accident, but the VP knew that he did it on purpose and swore that day that no one would ever heckle his sporting skills again.

He would've fired you at the picnic, but that's not what this picnic was all about. Picnics are a time for teamwork and love, not a time to settle old scores with the neighborhood bully. He knew that you and your booming voice would screw things up eventually at the Serene Sleep and Study Center.

Last week, you went on an interview at the Public Library and they really loved you. You had laryngitis when you went in for the interview, lucky for you. Beware though, they are going to fire you before lunch.

Happy You Use Your Outside Voice All The Time Day!

QOTD: injury

question of the day: what has been your worst injury?

Broken Heart

broke my tibia and went through my car windsheild and suffered brain damage

when i jammed my vertibrae together and they shattered my tail bone

would have to be when i slide into second base wrong and sprained my ankle, knee and hip - all in one shot

lost most of my left calf muscle when climbing over a fence....I slipped and the "prongs" on top of the fence acted like knives and sliced right through to the bone...Muscle was cut in half and lost around 3-4 inches of it....They had to reattach the muscle....

Tore a ligament in my hip. Only one way to heal – time. No medication or anything

torn ACL....had to have knee reconstructio

My Pride...usually happens when my best lines fail to achieve results. Also biting my tongue when chewing gum is a painful Injury. Last but certainly not least is having a fingernail bent backwards when doing a highly complex job like kitebuilding. Those would have to be the injuries I really try to avoid!

Somehow, with all the sports I have played in my life and all the crazy stuff I did as a kid I have never broken a bone or had to get stitches. I hurt my shoulder (probably rotator cuff) and back in separate incidents playing football, but both are injuries I can live with.

While working for a rural telecommunications company in PA, my day to day activities including climbing telephone poles with “gaffs”. Gaffs are spikes that one straps to ones legs so as to climb utility poles and trees without the use of a ladder. One day I climbed up an unusually high pole and a piece of the pole broke out from under me. I fell 25’ and landed on my back, breaking 3 ribs (for the second time) and crushing (actually split the vertebrae) 2 vertebrae. No spinal cord damage, thankfully, as I would not be here typing these words today. I tried to sue and was turned down by 3 law firms due to PA laws on employees suing their employer… I wake up with back pain and have had daily back spasms ever since. That was @5 years ago..

when i was two i burned a part of my hand really bad. the skin completely came off...and even now i have this ugly scar. i've been told i used to walk around with a bundle of paper towels wrapped around my hand covered with ointment the doctor gave.

I was shot 8 times and didn't die. Now I have an unsuccessful rap career because someone stole my act.

Knock on wood--I've been pretty lucky. One nasty burn and one pile o'stitches and that's about it.

It happened in my freshman year of college. I travelled up to Boston to see her and ended up getting dumped - after paying for dinner, going out to a club, and train fare. My ego was busted up beyond belief. It hurt a lot. Just another reason to despise Boston.

When I was 8 I got my right ring finger caught in the hinge of a door at school. It ripped the nail up from the back, split the sides of my finger and cracked the tip of the bone. I needed stitches, had to wear a splint until the nail grew back and to this day it still doesn’t look like a normal fingernail.

i was living in a really old house and i was trying to open a huge, floor-to-ceiling window in my room. it was stuck, and it broke as i was trying to push it up. it was extremely heavy, and a huge glass shard landed on/in my arm, and i had to go to the hospital and get a few stitches. then my complete ass of a landlord accused me of punching the window, but had no answer when i asked why the stitches were on the inside of my arm...

decapitation. frontal labotomy

I was 16 and I was snowboarding. I was trying 360's for the first time, but only made it about 270, so the edge of my board caught the ice (thanks Poconos) and I was whipped down to the ground, with the back of my head hitting the hardest. Not sure how long I was blacked out for, but that was my first and only concussion.

spraining my ankle really hurt, but i think the worst was when i worked in a machine shop and was cleaning off one of the machines, and stupidly i wasn't wearing any eye protection. a piece of metal flew into my eye and was stuck there for 3 or 4 hours. it was very painful

QOTD: car

question of the day: how many cars have you owned in your life, what were they, and which one was your favorite?

i've owned three - a subaru i crashed, a cadillac that broke, and a honda i still drive - i love my honda but i had so much fun with the subaru cause it was a manual transmission

2 owned, 1 leased - first was a red 88 chevy Beretta GT, second was a lease on an 01 Jetta and now my favorite is the 04 Passat. Gonna keep this until it dies. Maybe...

5: 1983 Oldsmobile Firenza, 1968 Mercury Cougar, 1988 Chevy Cavalier, 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix, and 2005 Pontiac G6. The best car was the Grand Prix, but I loved having a muscle car ('68 Cougar) even though it wasn't very practical.

5 cars....Hyundai Excel, Jeep Wrangler, Buick Regal, Jeep Cherokee, BMW Z3.....Favorite was either Jeep Wrangler or BMW z3.....

I have owned a Saturn and a Toyota pick-up. I prefer my pick-up – there are so many things you can do with it.

only 2 cars so far. the geo prism had serious electrical problems, but it took a pretty good beating until i totaled it. now i have a mazda protege, which is my first manual trans and i love it.

Three cars. The current car I have--the only one that I bought new--would be my favorite. It's transportation that isn't falling apart. It's paid for. What else do you need in a car?

i have owned 0 cars. i always drive the leftovers in the family. when i was 17 in inherited an 87' toyota camery and currently i drive 00' honda accord. of the two, i favor the accord. i love cars, so hopefully i'll have some nice ones later on in life. and perhaps even a motorcylce!

3. my first was an 89 chevy celebrity (carla), and i currently drive a 98 nissan sentra (sydney); in nz i had a 91(?) mazda familia (melody). i liked melody the best because she was red, all the other ones have been white. and the right hand driving was fun too!

I drive a space ship.

My dad’s best friend is a used car dealer, so whenever something goes wrong with a car (and it could be totally minor like it needs new tires or brakes) I trade it in and get something newer at or around the same monthly payment. Hence my long list of cars:
1. 1985 Black Buick Skyhawk
2. 1990 Maroon Buick Century
3. 1992 Red Suzuki X90* My all-time favorite. It was a 2 door 4-wheel drive with T-tops. It looked like a little red roller skate and it was so much fun. I cried when I traded it in.
4. 1996 Silver Ford Focus
5. 1999 Green Volkswagon Jetta Wolfsburg Edition
6. 2001 Silver Suzuki Grand Vitara
7. 2003 Green Mazda Tribute

4 cars. '93 VW Fox, '01 Saturn, '99 Chevy Cavalier, and the favorite was an '82 Mit. Starion. Headlights popped out, digital MPH. It was like driving the Enterprise!!!

I go through cars like I go through women..
’80 Chevy Citation..transmission blew two weeks after I got it on the road
’78 Audi Fox – Never got it inspected..junked it (would have been a fun car…VW Rabbit only with a trunk…smaller Jetta)
’80 Mercury Capri (Ford Mustang) – Drove it to death. Sold it with no seals in engine, transmission, no exhaust, carb was shot. It took more oil than gas per mile
’84 Nisan Sentra – Spent more time in the garage than I was able to drive it. Traded it for the Nova.
’88 Chevy Nova – Loved it, but totaled it after my first payment (6 month no payment deal..haha)
’86 Chrysler LeBaron – Was a turbo and fast and economically replaced the Nova. Fast to need repair as well.. Clutch, 3 transmissions, axles replaced twice only to have the engine block crack after the drive-train was properly rebuilt. Traded it for almost full value for the Subaru
’90 Subaru Legacy – Ugly, but was dependable. I gave it away when it hit 180k miles
’94 Toyota Corolla – No pep, but was dependable and great on gas. Crashed it at a punk show which was followed by a flood that froze inside (think ice rink times 4). Junked it and got the Exploder.
’99 Ford Exploder – Love it. Replaced the trans under warranty.

3 cars, 1 bike (and I'm buying the second bike TODAY!!!). 86 Pontiac Firebird, 96 Mitsubishi Eclipse, 2000 Mazda Protege. 2000 Buell Blast, 2002 CBR 600 F4i (buying today). The eclipse was def. my favorite. I love driving a manual transmission.

1973 Toyota Corona, 1969 Pontiac Tempest, 1974 Chevy Chevelle, 1974 Chevy Vega, 1971 Chevy Impala, 1970 Chevy Chevelle, 1978 Dodge Van, 1969 Dodge Charger, 1981 Dodge Aspen R/T, 1960 VW bug, 1972 Datsun 260Z (customized with Chevy V8 engine), 1981 Olds Cutlas, 1984 Dodge Caravan, 1986 Mercury Lynx Xr3, 1986 Chevy Astro Customized Van, 1984 Ford Ranger, 1986 Porsche 930 turbo, 1981 Porsche 924 turbo, 1984 Datsun Pickup, 1987 Ford Ranger, 1978 Chevy Pickup, 1987 Chevy Pickup, 1989 BMW 325i, 1993 BMW 525i, 1990 Jeep Cherokee, 1988 Chevy Z24, 1988 VW Golf, 1994 Acura Integra, 1999 Mercedes SLK 230, 2000 ford Explorer, 1994 Ford Explorer, 2000 Chevy Silverado, 2000 Chevy Impala, 2002 BMW 325 xi, 2004 Infiniti G35X. Favorite is 2002 BMW

QOTD: a day that will live in infamy

question of the day: what do you want for your birthday?

to be more motivated in life ...and sunglasses

A job that doesn't suck!

Dude, I am going to be 32. How about everyone forget about me and treat me as invisible that day.. So depressing…

for you to remeber it

golf clubs regripped and a new mountain bike

a day off

to finally be truly happy!!!!! yeah - that would be nice!

World peace

a dolphin

well, my birthday was a month ago and my wonderful wife got me a black 30 GB iPod. It's pretty cool. Now I just need a way to hook it up to my crappy car stereo without using a stupid FM transmitter.

I want an Xbox 360 since the movers stole our regular Xbox when we moved.

a new pull cart for golf. i'm tired of paying cart fees to ride, and i get too tired carrying them for 18 holes.

Money.... and I'll buy what I want with it. You suck at giving presents if you have to ask.

some hot chick

to have at least half of my home projects completed so i can lounge/bbq/drink a lot that day (its a sunday)

I want a quart of motor oil, a lawnmower and a blonde wig. Don't ask any questions.

my two front teeth... back from that pimp that knocked 'em out and took 'em. They're probably covered in gold by now.

A new job.

A license plate that reads: A55 MAN.