8.05.2008

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts


  • Some DFW girl won the "Nashville Star" competition. I've never heard of it. But WBAP's Hal Jay (who drives me nuts) asked in all sincerity this morning whether "Nashville Star" was as big as "American Idol."
  • Man, we get excited over any storm that forms in the gulf. And I'm still laughing about the video below.
  • I like George Will on "This Week" but he drives me nuts with his column. Last week he threw in the word "tautological" after casually mentioning the "Franco-Prussian War ". George, you don't have to try to impress us anymore.
  • I had another person tell me yesterday I was crazy for not liking the Batman movie.
  • You can't drive down 287 without seeing three or four tires that have blown apart.
  • Since I screwed up my netflix mailings (somehow I've got four in transit right now), I had to watch Memento (which I own) last night while I jogged. Man, I forgot how much I liked that.
  • I wonder if anyone is at Walmart right now with a "#1 Dad" t-shirt on?
  • I had to eat at Sweetie Pie Ribeyes yesterday. Two notes: (1) could we please have something on the menu that is remotely healthy and (2) what's up with the waitresses that line up at the back and stare at you until the lunchtime crowd arrives?
  • When I lived on the lake, I was bitten on the chest by a scorpion in the middle of the night. I don't think I've slept well since then.
  • I saw Bill Clinton, sans make-up, interviewed on "World News Tonight" yesterday. He looked really old and tired. And, man, he won't say it but he can't stand Obama.
  • I didn't know there was a "web site that connects would-be cheaters with potential mates" nor did I know it ran advertisements on ESPN radio (before it pulled the ads.)
  • I never watch the Rangers but I had the game on last night when they won with a bottom of the ninth, two out grand slam. When you see something like that live, you feel like you've seen something special that no one else witnessed. (Unlike with the Cowboys where you feel like you've seen it along with a krillion other people.)
  • My neighbor left his sprinkler on all night long. Made me giggle.
  • He waved at me last evening while I was outside listening to my iPod. I'm always afraid he tries to start a conversation with me but I don't know about it due to my earphones.
  • Grandstander AG Greg Abbott is fighting for the "moment of silence" at the 5th Circuit in New Orleans. In other news, he's fighting for the state's ban on sex toys.
  • As of today, Marilyn Monroe has been dead for 46 years. She never really jazzed me.
  • I use fat free butter - the liquefied version.
  • You think I post pics of scantily clad women? Hey, yell at NBC.
  • Edit: Watch the aforementioned Ranger walk-off home run here.

52 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does she use Spray Startch,her leg sure looks "STIFF"?

Anonymous said...

Healthy menu choice at Sweetie Pie's: Grilled chicken salad

Rangers' walk-off grand slam: Byrd is the word! I love seeing a guy get mobbed at the plate after winning the game with a big hit, especially if it's my Rangers (over the Yankees, no less!) Crazy game...Balks, ejection, missed strike calls, rolling foul ball calls

Anonymous said...

definately a 2 bagger, somebody quick call animal control..!!

Anonymous said...

Do you have to post slutty pictures of girls all the time? How old are you? gross!

Anonymous said...

Re: Sweetie Pies, did they have the loud singing going on..
that beats me down so bad..

and another thing is the closeness of the tables...jeesh

Anonymous said...

I saw Clinton on Nightline last night too, and I also noticed he looked like a corpse (for lack of a better term).

I don't think that man has much life left in him.........then again........he's done some HARD-LIVIN!

Anonymous said...

Grilled chicken salad with the hot bacon grease dressing! Any news on the Buck's bbq location?
I heard K-Bobs & now Armadillo Grill?

Anonymous said...

Speaking of tires (mostly truck retreads that "blew up") on 287, that is littering. I'm sorry, but your tire goes to pieces, and you leave that HUGE amount of NON-biodegradable mess to junk up the highway, the shoulders and the right-of-way for all of us to have to look at? I live on the highway, and I can't count the amount of times I have had to clean up that unsightly mess in front of my house. We need highway signs that say--"Don't mess with Texas, including your tire chunks"! I wish that DPS Troopers who see a truck pulled over because of tire "failure" would stop, approach the driver, point out the mess straggling along the highway behind the truck, and say, "I guess you know that's littering unless you go and pick it up? And I'm SURE you're intending to pick it up any minute now!"

Anonymous said...

dear god help us..!! i didn't know sweetie pie's had pole dancers now!! do they dance at lunch or only dinner..?

Anonymous said...

I HATE ALL YANKEES NO MATTER WHERE THEIR FROM......THEY CAN KISS MY REBEL D***..!!

Anonymous said...

We gave up on Sweetie Pie's long ago for a good steak and when we want a good steak, we only go to The Cow Camp.

Clinton doesn't like Obama? That's like saying Iran's leaders don't like the US. A bit understated!

Buck's BBQ is still going to be a K-Bobs,I think. No idea when it'll open though.

Andria said...

I'm more offended that they're making her iron than the fact that she's on the pole.

Anonymous said...

i didn't realize that scorpions bit, i always thought they stung...

Anonymous said...

you would look old and tired too if'n you had worked as hardon as bill clinton..he's just dreading having to live with that bitch he's married to (hrc), after loosing to some nobody, she really believed she was ENTITLED to the democratic nomination, just goes to show that people just don't like her..!!

Anonymous said...

Hey 8:39, DPS troopers do not pull over behind semi's with tire failure. Thy are either operating their no brainer radar or expanding their 42 inch guts at the donut shop. I would say they are mostly at the donut shops because the rock truck drivers have no fear of getting caught speeding nor do they demonstrate any respect for our traffic laws. I'm heading for Fort Worth in a few minutes and know I will be tailgated by an 18 wheeler (less than 100 feet behind me at 70 mph) all the way because I refuse to allow them to push me over the speed limit.

Anonymous said...

I was bitten or stung by a scorpion about 20 years ago while putting my boots on...now I never put on shoes without checking for ????

Anonymous said...

My husband put on his motorcycle helmet years ago that had a scorpion in it. He was stung all over his head and ear. Needless to say, he doesn't like them at all. They are hard to get rid of, too. Pest control people will tell you that.

Double Fake Cosmo "A$$MAN" Kramer said...

That's the best thing NBC has produced since Seinfeld left the air!

Anonymous said...

i bet bill clinton will not live another year..unless obama dies and hill becomes president..slick needs to get back to the oral office, by any means necessary..!!

Anonymous said...

I think Bill Clinton would make a good vampire, but Governor Perry would make a great VAMPIRE..!!!!

Anonymous said...

Ever hit one of these piles of debri (tire tread) on a motorcycle? I hit a very large rear bumper someone had lost on the 35 and 820 split one night It almost took me out I saw a cop @ the 7-11 on western center blvd and told him about the debri back up on the hiway! He continued to stand there and flirt with the cashier never once keyd in the mike on his lapel or acted as tho he gave a crap !

I brought this very thing up again regarding a big 4x8 sheet of plywood located on a bridge that I had seen become more and more splinterd over the coarse of a 5 day period to one of my local police officers ! I was shocked when I asked him Why they didnt pull off to the side of the road and move such debri? His Answer was its not in their job discription and it is too dangerous! I thought he was joking@ first he wasnt! Turns out a cop had gotten out of his sqaudcar to move a ladder out of the road when he was hit by a car that killed him! His family recived nothing infact the isurance refused to cover the expenses incured during his lengthy hospital stay whiel he was still alive!
I think it should be part of the job and when they pull up to an intersection and see all the rubble and debri of past accidents dirt and rock etc piling up in the median they should call it in to the county and have a street crue come out and clean it up all the while they could sit in there squad car with lights going and never have to get involved other than to use the RADIO and CALL it in! whats the problem with that?

Anonymous said...

there is also a site for men to pay for someone else girlfriend wife's implants called myfreeimplants.com How stupid are men really.?

Anonymous said...

Yes Barry, those Random thought pics are totally disgusting. So disgusting, I've been copying them for some time, putting them on my wall just to remind me how bad they are.....they are in my car, drawers at my office, in my wallet. They are aweful.....

Did you get any of their names?????

Got to go to WallyWorld for more printer paper.....BRB

Anonymous said...

The scorpion stung you, it didn't bite.

Anonymous said...

Hey, any luck "cracking" that NBC code? I predict a national news story!

Brian W.

Anonymous said...

What he is trying to take away my sex toys? That man should be shot.

GoneCrazy said...

I love Sweetie Pies..who need healthy? when it taste so great.

My son was bite by something on his eye on sunday before he got up. Not sure what it was but thinking aobut taking him to see the doc still.

When I was little my whole family (aunts uncles cousins)would go to Rangers games. We would pass a cup around and put a quarter in it for every batter. If you had the cup and the batter got a hit and made it to 1st base you got to keep all the money. It was fun.

I left the water on in a pool (to fill it back up) all night once. It flood the neighbors yard. I felt bad.

Gorilla said...

I bet the skank in the picture has a sex toy that she kick starts.

Anonymous said...

Gonecrazy, have the bite checked out, hope it was not a "Fiddle-back" or Reclise (sp). Depending on your son's age it could be a bad deal.

Anonymous said...

Hey 9:15
the only place you are likely to find an overweight DPS trooper is possibly at the drivers' license office. They must have pretty strict standards, because I have never seen one that looked out of shape.
Also, DPS was pulling lots of trucks over this morning about 6:30 at the intersection of 287/380. And the speed limit goes for all the other vehicles on the road, too. It's not just the rock trucks that speed, although I'm right there with you on not being bullied into speeding up for the sake of the jerk behind me

Anonymous said...

I was thinkin about doin a version of Kung Fu fightin on Banjo or somethin.

Anonymous said...

I recall several years back (10 or so?) I was switching channels on the TV and came across some game show. The show was during the mid-afternoon, but after school time... like about 4 or 4:30. The PRIZES were sex toys....vulgar sex toys and were shown and some "names" given to explain what each was. I was appalled!!!! Anyone's children could have been watching that program. That was the first and only time I have ever written to a station and a network. Kinda think others did too, because that show disappeared and I've never seen anything like it since. I believe if America intends to keep SOME morals, then SOME censorship must exist!

Anonymous said...

I saw the Cllinton interview too, you're right - He sure did want to say he didn't like Obama! But that interview did kinda make you want to go have a beer with him.

Anonymous said...

Nashville Star is a great show. It has been on for several seasons! You probably wouldn't like it, because it does not have any scantily clad women or men on it. Just a decent show for people to enjoy. Wow - go figure!

Anonymous said...

You have finally hit upon something that Clinton and I agree upon with the exception that I can say that I do not like Obama.

gern blansten said...

Hey Barry, why the absolute silence on what the Democrats did shutting down the congress so they wouldn't have to vote on the drilling situation? Don't you like open and honest debate?

But then again, debating this would be like shooting fish in a barrel for the conservatives. Nevermind...

Anonymous said...

ok here's the real scoop on bucks bbq...opening in about a month as armadillo grill, same folks that have the one in bowie..guess we'll have to wait and see, they closed on the property today. pretty much going to be the same as bowie..not bad food..!!

Anonymous said...

if this cuntry is ever gone take the high moral ground we must put bill and hillary back in the whorehouse..i mean white house, they were the best presidents we've ever had..!!

Anonymous said...

anyone else notice that the construction on the hotel going behind mcdonalds has just....stopped?

Anonymous said...

great news..the storm is turning north, looks like we should get some RAIN!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

look at those beautiful storm clouds to the south coming our way..

Anonymous said...

Just heard, the NBC Olympic photos appear to be some type of secret Obama message, that's what Rush said. Be sure to lock up the white women!

The guy from Blazing Saddles

Anonymous said...

Andria,
What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?

Nothin' you done told her twice.

Anonymous said...

5:51, yep..noticed it has come to a halt! Wonder what is going on. Seems several of our new hotels has slowed in progress. Anyone know why?

Anonymous said...

BHO said to the white girls "scuse me whiles i whop dis out"..

Anonymous said...

921 they heard BG was getting married so don't need as many flop house motels now..!!

Anonymous said...

Theres a rumour now they're not going to open Seaworld in Decatur after all.

Anonymous said...

but they are still going to build a disney world between rhome and boyd, right..???

CAN YOU PROVE IT IN A COURT OF LAW? said...

The Texas Taxation Seminar in Austin got an eyeful when I loaded your page this morning...Nice laughs and oogles. Please, for Gawd's sake..throw us some Brad Pitt now and again. (Preferably Sans the evil woman) Just sayin'

Anonymous said...

You know Green, at the very least you ought to be a fan of the BU alum David Murphy. Legit candidate for rookie of the year.

Anonymous said...

Wow! What's with NBC? I'm beginning to believe the comedian that says NBC stands for "Nothing But Crap!"
BG don't let all these pictures of scantily clad women ruin your good name...your good reputation....your good blog...oh nevermind!!!

Anonymous said...

Hey, the Rangers' and the Yankees' Game was fantastic. My two favorite teams!!!