"a fat waxing gibbous".

I think around here we use those for catching lake perch

It's always the same: guys on bodybuilding forums don't know how to use condoms, guys on football forums want to know what they should do to keep someone from posting a video of him giving another dude a BJ on the internet, and guys on Honda Civic forums wonder if sniffing your sister's panties is considered weird behavior.

WHY DO PEOPLE STILL THINK WILL FERREL IS FUNNY?!?

The last time I ran around in my underwear screaming I got a time-out and no dessert after dinner. This idiot is making millions doing the same thing as a grown man!

He likes it! He really likes it!

Alarm clock didn't go off so I woke up late for work...check that, I woke up about 2 minutes before I was late for work. Isn't that the best, waking up just in time to watch your clock-in time go by? And my mom...my mom has a way of accidentally placing curses on anything that might screw me up, so when my Old Man and her left for a weekend bike ride she had to tell me about 8 billion times before she left, "Make sure you get up in time on Monday!" Yeah yeah, heard you, I've been getting up just fine for the past 8 months, no big deal. Go figure.

Got dressed, passed on packing a lunch, jumped in my truck and took off. Managed to get myself behind all 3 honest drivers in Wisconsin, so I'm doing 5mph under on these 2 lane country roads. And did I mention I live near Alpine Valley? I'm tooling along behind Miss Daisy in 4th gear watching the oncoming lane. We go over some hills, which are blind so of course it's a no passing zone, and my little 4-banger S10 isn't fast enough and I'm not nearly stupid enough to contest the yellow line's ruling. All the while we're going through these hills, not another car in sight. Then as soon as it levels out and the NPZ ends, it looks like NASCAR running the draft at Talladega in the other lane, oncoming traffic EVERYWHERE. Go back into some hills, and for all I knew it was me and this putz infront of me are the last 2 cars on Earth.

Over half an hour on what's normally a 15-20min drive later I get to work, punch in, scribble "alarm clock broke" on my timecard, sit down at my desk, and spend the next 15min watching my computer boot up. Yeah, it usually takes this long. There's always a point where it'll show my wallpaper and the Start menu bar on the bottom, the mouse arrow, and nothing else for awhile. Then it'll eventually play the Windows jingle and all my icons start appearing.

So I'm waiting, and waiting, and waiting...and waiting...and waiting... Ever notice when your computer locks up, the little clock down in the bottom corner still works? Right about now I'm thinking "hrmm, it's been 7:48 AM for awhile now." Move the mouse, cursor stays right where it's at.

I then do what every keyboard jockey in America does when their computer locks up, I click both buttons on the mouse about three-dozen times. Unlike what happens to most keyboard jockeys, for once this actually worked. Great, so even my computer's having a crappy morning.

On the upside, the head honchos are all on their way to Sturgis right now so I'm pretty much in the clear. It's the first time I've been late (knock on wood) and all the earth-shattering stuff got taken care of last week for the Sturgis event, so I'm spending today just trying to avoid coworkers & deal with my own crap until I can get outta here.

The only thing I don't like about thunderstorms is I always manage to get on the freeway right behind a truck during them.

Band name: Building A Better Spaceship
Genre: Rock/Alternative
Biggest Hits:
"Hermosa Pier"
"Falling In Line"
"Bulletproof"
"This Time"

BABS's biggest break had to be when mflo Films used "Hermosa Pier" for the trailer and in their desertracing DVD "BAJAFLO2: The New Blood". After the trailer circulated around the offroad community, mflo was inundated with emails asking who did the song. The DVD's Myspace page was edited with "THE SONG USED IN THE TRAILER IS CALLED 'HERMOSA PIER' BY BUILDING A BETTER SPACESHIP" in big bold red letters at the top of the screen. I ordered their debut CD myself primarily for "Hermosa Pier", and found that the rest of the CD was just as good as their big hit single. The best thing about BABS is their music usually carries a positive theme unlike a lot of alternative music that borderlines being called "emo". They don't use a whole lot of effects when they play either, just some fancy old-fashioned guitar tricks and the lead singer's voice, giving the music a very honest feel. You wouldn't know the difference between a recording and a live performance. And they're nice guys to boot: my CD order came with a couple of guitar picks with the BABS logo screened into them and a small stack of BABS stickers.

myspace.com/buildingabetterspaceship
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fr5XT0RHrJc

Band Name: Violence to Vegas
Genre: Heavy Metal
Biggest Hits:
"Return to Lust"
"Angels in the Sky"
"In The Eyes"
"Color Me Red"

V2V was originally Failsafe, until they found out another upstart band on Myspace already had the name. This was another one I found in a desertracing DVD, this time it was FlatWheel Productions' "Revolutions Per Minute", and another band where the video's trailer really earned them a lot of attention. What separates V2V from other unheard-of metal bands is they carry an almost anthem-like tempo in their songs, keeping the energy level up but not so fast you lose track of the rhythm. Maybe that's what makes them a perfect match for an offroad racing DVD

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cqCOPwIt2PA

Band Name: Sweetooth
Genre: Southern Metal/Hip Hop
Biggest Hit:
"Head South"

Listening to Sweetooth is kinda like drinking your first beer: it's an acquired taste that requires some getting used to. You'll hear it once and think "eh, not bad", then find yourself humming it for the next 2 weeks. I first heard "Head South" when the Traxxas R/C company used it in their teaser for their new Slash truck chassis, which is generating big waves in the R/C offroad market because it's the first competitive R/C stadium truck to have a full-fendered body, and is being marketed alongside the full-size CORR short course series. The best way to describe "Head South" is dirty, messy, and pi$$ed-off, which if you've ever watched a CORR race on TV or been to one in person, is just the way we like it .

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tpbNPD6Fnr0

What the hell ever happened to Gorillaz?

Sweet music, awesome videos...WTF?

Stone Temple Pilots
"Interstate Love Song"

Define a "health problem", because I've been ADD my whole life and recently have been battling acute depression. I've been taking a knock-off form of Ritalin for the ADD since grade school and Lexapro for the depression.

Neither one's a really big deal though, and it's not like I put effort into hiding the fact. HIV/AIDS, herpes, something like that I'd sure as hell wanna know about, but something like what I've got...?

Take it from someone who races radio-controlled cars: no, it doesn't.

Always got the best battery life out of Duracells

eh, I still use an electric razor.

I'm more of a "good enough" person

The ads for "Whatchamacallit" bars

And yet I've never had one & don't know what the hell's in 'em

It also lacks the resounding metallic "ponk" noise. However it's easy to find out how lazy their SFX guy was when you tap the bottom of an empty can with your finger.

And if you watch MythBusters...

Or "Once you pop, you can't stop!"

Has anyone actually tried blasting the top off of a Pringles can by squeezing it? It works, but by the time the top pops about half an inch off the can and falls to the ground (the ad made it look like you could take someone's eye out with the thing), you've got the can squeezed so much that about the top 30 chips are smashed and the can has a huge kink in it.

Good to know I wasn't the only one who was blown away by that.

"Did that ad just say...no...I think it did...wow..."

That would be Chevy's Silverado campaign back in the '90s, sung by Bob Seger (who is awesome)

It's politics, not so much a matter of "who's the better candidate" as "the lesser of the two evils"

"See the USA/In your Chevrolet"...

I was with you until the last line, fairly sure it went "the dogs kids love to bite"