David - I have a sense that your stories will be deranged!

 

Like Johnny Cash's; but without the cocain and shooting my wife.

Yeah, cocaine is bad!  :wink2:

 

When I was in college, I worked at a pharmacy.  We used cocaine in a number of opthalmic preparations.  When the jar was empty, I took it and filled it with Ivory snow and had it on my shelf in the dorm.

 

Also, way back when, IV bottles were glass.  I had one of those hanging from my dorm room ceiling filled with whiskey.  The IV tube was plastic tho, so you had to purge it before you imbibed!

Cincy people,

 

I was driving through your city yesterday and had to make a stop. I stopped in a neighborhood, but I don't know its name. I believe that I passed a high school with the name of Withrow. What is this neighborhood called?

 

It's in Hyde Park but you probably went through three or four different neighborhoods without realizing it. You probably got off the Dana Ave. or Smith/Edwards Exit. When you got off did you come into a residential area or commercial? (Don't lie, you saw the PF Chang from i-71 and couldn't resist).

 

You're correct. I couldn't resist their bathroom.

 

So what used to be in this neighborhood before they plopped down a huge power center in it?

 

This is before my time in Cincinnati but I believe a machine-tool factory sat in its place. There's Rookwood Commons and Rookwood Pavilion. Rookwood Commons was developed around 1987 after the factory closed. Then later on they developed Rookwood Pavilion adjacent to it. That's why it's an awkward looking lifestyle center. They could have designed it to resemble Easton - something that would have been much more aesthetically arousing. The traffic patterns from the Pavilion to Commons is awkward and confusing if you're not familiar with it. People aren't used to going through back alleys to get to the other side of a supposedly upscale shopping center lol.

 

Across from the street is the imfamous Norwood eminent domain case where the Norwood city council was bribed with money and condos by developers to raze the neighborhood and make way for mixed use retail/office/residential space. They were offered much more than what the homes were worth. Eventually the developers got their way even though I think they lost the case. I think a few residents were just holding out for more money and had the balls to stick with it. Everyone knows money talks and bullsh!t walks. Principle gives in eventually.

 

I can't wait until I'm 70. I'm going to lecture the hell out of my grandkids.

 

That's when you whippersnappers will learn what Karma is all about, and you'll wish you had paid more respectful attention when we geezers tried to let you benefit from our experiences.

:x

 

 

 

:wink:

1978:

 

Went to visit future wife #1 family in Long Island. Long busy day in the city, went to bed early. The room they put me in had a TV so I watched SNL.

 

Albert Brooks had a semi-regular movie skit, and this one was about him paying for the priveledge to do open heart surgery. It was pretty funny even though I can't remember the specifics.

 

What is it they say about looking at your mother in law and seeing your wife years later? I should have picked up on that because the next morning at breakfast, the future MIL was ranting about how this hospital let this guy perform surgery because he wanted to, and what was this world coming too?

 

Wow.

meanwhile, in other ark news...!  :angel:

 

 

APRIL 14, 2009

 

Hong Kong Christens an Ark of Biblical Proportions

The First Built as Big as Noah's, It Joins a Global Regatta of Replicas

 

 

By JONATHAN CHENG

 

HONG KONG -- This city's three billionaire Kwok brothers have just the answer for the rising waters threatening the global economy: the world's first life-size replica of Noah's ark, built to biblical specifications off the coast of this recession-struck Chinese financial center.

 

The message in its 450-foot-long hull, its rooftop luxury hotel and 67 pairs of fiberglass animals: "The financial tsunami will be over," says Spencer Lu, the Kwoks' project director at Noah's Ark, which is opening soon.

 

The land-bound ark wasn't built in response to the current global turmoil; it has been in the planning for 17 years. But the financial storm provides a nice marketing hook for the Kwoks' ambitious project, which will probably need to lure visitors from beyond Hong Kong's city limits to be an economic success.

 

 

there is this stupid but addictive local ny celebrity blog called gawker and they have the gawker stalker segment so i sent in something from our sunday brunch. well ha ha hoo hoo hee hee what do you know they picked it up:

 

http://gawker.com/stalker

 

 

Chelsea Clinton

 

 

Apr 12th, 2009 @ 1pm

 

Sat next to Chelsea Clinton at brunch yesterday at Le Gigot on Cornelia Street. She was with a well scrubbed couple & the girlfriend had the big expensive Goyard bag. Chelsea looks and seems quite normal, except she makes facial expressions that make her look exactly like her mother. When she talks she even sounds like her mother, sometimes I looked up like the tv was on with the news or something.

 

When I was living in Calhoun Hall at UC (1973), I recognized a friend standing out front talking to 3-4 other guys.  All of a sudden, they "gently" placed one of the guys in the trunk of a car, then stood there talking.  We knew it was some sort of initiation, but we thought we'd help the guy out.  We called the police.

 

Within minutes, police came from all directions, including the wrong way down Calhoun!  No one got arrested, they talked their way out of it.  We were the most likely suspects, but he couldn't prove we did it. 

 

Could you imagine that happening today?  Arrests for sure, jail maybe.

And breaking news alerts, and screen crawls on all the local TV newz stations

Does anybody here home brew their own beer? I am looking on juming into that hobby

----And NO I do not have a drinking problem ;-)

I did a while back.  I'd like to start up again.  I am already making some mead with a buddy, too.

Does anybody here home brew their own beer? I am looking on juming into that hobby

----And NO I do not have a drinking problem ;-)

 

I've been thinking about starting that up for awhile.  I've almost exhausted the rare and micro-brews from every special beer store in Cincinnati, so I need something new.

Adam Wasserman just entered the Sbuck's at 14th & Euclid.  In the name of MTS, I am going to confront him and demand the city shuts down Burke.

Adam Wasserman just entered the Sbuck's at 14th & Euclid.  In the name of MTS, I am going to confront him and demand the city shuts down Burke.

 

Lawd!  Dont' make a fool of yourself since he has no authority over Burke.

Haha.  I was thinking we should start a thread for "tracking Cleveland's political players."  Isn't there some site that tracks where Hollywood celebs currently are located?

Haha.  I was thinking we should start a thread for "tracking Cleveland's political players."  Isn't there some site that tracks where Hollywood celebs currently are located?

 

You're a drunk stalker! 

Drunk on caffeine, maybe. 

Drunk on caffeine, maybe. 

 

ooooooo  I know that feeling all too well.

I can't wait until I'm 70. I'm going to lecture the hell out of my grandkids.

 

That's when you whippersnappers will learn what Karma is all about, and you'll wish you had paid more respectful attention when we geezers tried to let you benefit from our experiences.

:x

:wink:

 

Rob I got nothin' but respect for you. I've inquired about your life experiences before. Older people have a lot of wisdom and when they talk, younger people should listen to what they say and take their advice. I get into it with DanB but that's because we differ ideologically on stuff and he thinks like he's 20 and acts like he's 10. I can't help but consider him to be on my level.

You're completely cool, David, and I know how you meant it. I was just role-playing "curmudgeonly old fart" with the whippersnappers-karma remark.

 

The back-and-forth here can be fun so long as no one forgets it's all fun and starts to play too rough.

 

And sometimes I wonder how much I've learned from my experiences, when I follow my own advice and it blows up in my face just like it did the previous two times I tried the same thing. So when you're listening to old people, don't turn off your bullsh!t filter.  :-D

Sounds like some of our San Francisco UO are a little pissy!  LOL

---

 

Man jailed for urinating on woman during flight

Thursday, April 16, 2009 (04-16) 18:01 PDT HONOLULU, (AP) --

 

A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to three weeks in jail for urinating on a 66-year-old woman during a Continental Airlines flight last month from Los Angeles to Honolulu. Jerome Kenneth Kingzio, a resident of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, was sentenced after pleading guilty Tuesday to assault charges in federal court in Honolulu.

The victim was headed to Hawaii on March 21 for a scuba diving vacation and was watching an in-flight movie when Kingzio stood up and began urinating on her. He had been drinking on the flight.

 

U.S. Attorney Edward Kubo Jr. said the woman reported that not only was her entire vacation ruined, but she continues to suffer emotionally from the incident.

 

The case was investigated by the FBI.

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/15/national/a181733D12.DTL&tsp=1

^ I literally laughed out loud at work when I read that.

^ I literally laughed out loud at work when I read that.

I fail to see the humor in it. I think that's an appropriate offense for public flogging and maybe six months or so in prison where hopefully he'd be somebody's bitch. Not only that, but he should be required to reimburse the woman for the entire cost of her flight and vacation and pay for any vacation she wants to take, anywhere in the world.

I don't think it's funny either.  I would have been in jail because I would have punched the guy in the face.

^ I literally laughed out loud at work when I read that.

 

Honestly, I thought the act was crude, but the situation funny as hell.

 

^ I literally laughed out loud at work when I read that.

I fail to see the humor in it. I think that's an appropriate offense for public flogging and maybe six months or so in prison where hopefully he'd be somebody's bitch. Not only that, but he should be required to reimburse the woman for the entire cost of her flight and vacation and pay for any vacation she wants to take, anywhere in the world.

 

True

 

I don't think it's funny either.  I would have been in jail because I would have punched the guy in the face.

Come on the situation is funny.  I too would be in jail, they would have had to peal his face off of my fist.

 

I wonder if she will sue the airline for allowing the guy to drink to much.

 

 

how on earth is this funny? Would you wanted to be urinated on? I am sure we can strap you guys in a chair on public square and pay someone to do it.  Hey you're right, that might be funny.

Funny would be something odd, like she took her shoes off to get comfortable and he peed in her shoe.  Peeing on her is just not funny to me.  But then again, I don't think things are funny that most Americans think are funny.  In my family, we classify movie comedies as whether or not they are "oh sh*t" movies.  By that, we mean is the level of humor equal to that of a guy standing on the edge of a pool trying not to fall backwards and flailing his arms and then yelling, "ohhhh, shiiiiiiiiiit!" before falling in.  To me, an oh sh*t movie is not funny, so I don't see a lot of comedies since most that are put out anymore are this type of humor.

how on earth is this funny? Would you wanted to be urinated on? I am sure we can strap you guys in a chair on public square and pay someone to do it.  Hey you're right, that might be funny.

 

The act is not funny but the situation is.

 

If I were there, I most definitely wouldn't think, at that moment, a golden shower was funny.  But now after the fact the situation to me is funny.

I agree with you R&R.  Not only is this not funny, but it says a lot about the state of humor in this country that most people DO find things like this funny.  Even if what the guy did wasn't cruel, it simply isn't funny, in the same way most of the "comedies" out nowadays aren't funny.  I am increasingly finding that the only comedies I actually do enjoy are the ones shown at the Cedar Lee.

Some drunks are funny; I've known a couple. The ones who get crude and obnoxious and do rude and disgusting stuff to unwitting bystanders should be beaten sober with a rubber hose, and then beaten some more.

 

Anyone who thinks what he did to the lady was funny should investigate whether there's a stem-cell procedure that might help them develop the empathy they lack.

Some drunks are funny; I've known a couple. The ones who get crude and obnoxious and do rude and disgusting stuff to unwitting bystanders should be beaten sober with a rubber hose, and then beaten some more.

 

Anyone who thinks what he did to the lady was funny should investigate whether there's a stem-cell procedure that might help them develop the empathy they lack.

 

Come on folks, many of us here have a dark sense of humor.

 

I don't want to speak for anyone else, but I can what he did was inappropriate not only for her, but the people in the adjacent rows.

 

The entire plane had to suffer thru that.

If it was your Mom would you think it was funny?  I bet not.

If it was your Mom would you think it was funny?  I bet not.

 

Nope, not at the moment. But after the fact yes.  Especially since I know my mom and everyone on that plane would have suffered as a result.

I don't think it's funny either.  I would have been in jail because I would have punched the guy in the face.

 

I like the way you think :)

Funny would be something odd, like she took her shoes off to get comfortable and he peed in her shoe.  Peeing on her is just not funny to me.  But then again, I don't think things are funny that most Americans think are funny.  In my family, we classify movie comedies as whether or not they are "oh sh*t" movies.  By that, we mean is the level of humor equal to that of a guy standing on the edge of a pool trying not to fall backwards and flailing his arms and then yelling, "ohhhh, shiiiiiiiiiit!" before falling in.  To me, an oh sh*t movie is not funny, so I don't see a lot of comedies since most that are put out anymore are this type of humor.

 

I don't like slapstick humor. America's Funniest home Videos was like that. I don't really laugh at slapstck humor. How many times can you laugh at some kid crashing his tricycle or some dog chasing its tail? *Yawn*

I don't think it's funny either. I would have been in jail because I would have punched the guy in the face.

 

I like the way you think :)

 

I would have too, I'm completely serious.  I got into plenty of scraps with drunks all those years working at Blossom, and then of course there were all the fights I got into in HS.

 

I was thinking to myself how this bruised, awful rib pain I have feels just like what it's like when you get into a really bad fight and either get hit with an object or punched or stomped kind of bad in the ribs, and I was going to liken it to that when I was talking to someone who asked how my ribs are doing after the accident, and then I thought no, nobody else is going to know what you're talking about, most people haven't been in fights like that.  Certainly not most girls.

I have been peed on. By my roommate (who was drunk) in college. I woke up in the middle of the night and heard water running. We didn't have a bathroom/ sink in our dorm room, so I thought that odd. I looked over to my rommate's bed and didn't see him there. That's because he was standing at the end of my bed pissing blissfully away on my feet / comforter and as yet unpacked luggage (we'd just returned for the second semester).

 

He had gone out with a couple of our friends and got blitzed, came back and passed out on his bed. When he woke up, he thought he went to the bathroom. In fact, when I yelled at him, he got all mad at me, like I had done something wrong (keep in mind, it was drunken mumbly rage).

 

What's my point? It was a crappy moment at the time it happened. But I'm laughing to my self (or CQTS) as I type this. I still give him sh!t about that.

 

People have different levels of humor. The lady got a little wet. I highly doubt it ruined her vacation. I find the fact that she's clearly setting herself up for the required 'lottery lawsuit' that every single person that is even slightly wronged feels they are entitled to, equally as humorous as the fact that this stumblebum got tanked and didn't know where he was. Yes, he should pay for her flight, and probably her dry cleaning, and the guy should go to jail for public indecency. But no one got hurt, so it's ok to laugh at an absurd situation, after the fact, in the abstract.

 

Urine is sterile.

I have been peed on. By my roommate (who was drunk) in college. I woke up in the middle of the night and heard water running. We didn't have a bathroom/ sink in our dorm room, so I thought that odd. I looked over to my rommate's bed and didn't see him there. That's because he was standing at the end of my bed pissing blissfully away on my feet / comforter and as yet unpacked luggage (we'd just returned for the second semester).

 

He had gone out with a couple of our friends and got blitzed, came back and passed out on his bed. When he woke up, he thought he went to the bathroom. In fact, when I yelled at him, he got all mad at me, like I had done something wrong (keep in mind, it was drunken mumbly rage).

 

What's my point? It was a crappy moment at the time it happened. But I'm laughing to my self (or CQTS) as I type this. I still give him sh!t about that.

 

People have different levels of humor. The lady got a little wet. I highly doubt it ruined her vacation. I find the fact that she's clearly setting herself up for the required 'lottery lawsuit' that every single person that is even slightly wronged feels they are entitled to, equally as humorous as the fact that this stumblebum got tanked and didn't know where he was. Yes, he should pay for her flight, and probably her dry cleaning, and the guy should go to jail for public indecency. But no one got hurt, so it's ok to laugh at an absurd situation, after the fact, in the abstract.

 

 

That is hillarious!  LOL  AJ, who knew you were into water sports!  LOL

I have been peed on. By my roommate (who was drunk) in college. I woke up in the middle of the night and heard water running. We didn't have a bathroom/ sink in our dorm room, so I thought that odd. I looked over to my rommate's bed and didn't see him there. That's because he was standing at the end of my bed pissing blissfully away on my feet / comforter and as yet unpacked luggage (we'd just returned for the second semester).

 

He had gone out with a couple of our friends and got blitzed, came back and passed out on his bed. When he woke up, he thought he went to the bathroom. In fact, when I yelled at him, he got all mad at me, like I had done something wrong (keep in mind, it was drunken mumbly rage).

 

What's my point? It was a crappy moment at the time it happened. But I'm laughing to my self (or CQTS) as I type this. I still give him sh!t about that.

 

People have different levels of humor. The lady got a little wet. I highly doubt it ruined her vacation. I find the fact that she's clearly setting herself up for the required 'lottery lawsuit' that every single person that is even slightly wronged feels they are entitled to, equally as humorous as the fact that this stumblebum got tanked and didn't know where he was. Yes, he should pay for her flight, and probably her dry cleaning, and the guy should go to jail for public indecency. But no one got hurt, so it's ok to laugh at an absurd situation, after the fact, in the abstract.

 

 

Thank you.

 

If he's that drunk, his clear beer pee isn't going to be any worse than having a flight attendent spill a coke on you...or worse hot coffee. 

 

Guy's in jail (as he should be) and I doubt you sat there taking his full blown pee for 30 seconds.  "Still suffering emotionally" is a bit much.

Urine is sterile.

 

I wonder if that was brought up in front of R. Kelly's jury.

Urine is sterile.

 

I wonder if that was brought up in front of R. Kelly's jury.

 

I think that's the title of his next album.

It's not really funny to me, but my god people, ease up with the self righteousness.  I agree with AJ93 on this.  And I also have a story:

 

Back in my college days, my friend had a 21st birthday party at his large boarding house off of OSU's campus.  Good party.  Anyway, I, along with some other out of town friends, crashed in his room at the end of the night.  I was on the floor, laying under a blanket with my feet right about at the door.  Some hippy looking dude comes in, looks at me, flips up the bottom of the blanket and starts undoing his belt.  I sat bolt upright and started to go, "I don't swing that way buddy", when he came to his senses, replaced the blanket, and walked out.  I thought he was trying to get freaky, but later my friend and I decided he was probably tripping on acid and thought that he was in the bathroom, and the blanket was the toilet seat.  I guess that made me the toilet.  SIDA

It's not really funny to me, but my god people, ease up with the self righteousness.  I agree with AJ93 on this.  And I also have a story:

 

Back in my college days, my friend had a 21st birthday party at his large boarding house off of OSU's campus.  Good party.  Anyway, I, along with some other out of town friends, crashed in his room at the end of the night.  I was on the floor, laying under a blanket with my feet right about at the door.  Some hippy looking dude comes in, looks at me, flips up the bottom of the blanket and starts undoing his belt.  I sat bolt upright and started to go, "I don't swing that way buddy", when he came to his senses, replaced the blanket, and walked out.  I thought he was trying to get freaky, but later my friend and I decided he was probably tripping on acid and thought that he was in the bathroom, and the blanket was the toilet seat.  I guess that made me the toilet.  SIDA

 

Guys, what's the website with the ridiculous photos that make no sense?

Guys, what's the website with the ridiculous photos that make no sense?

failblog

Guys, what's the website with the ridiculous photos that make no sense?

failblog

 

No, not that one ... the one with the wtf pictures.

Has anyone noticed how every hotel room has a holy bible for your convenience? It never fails. I've been in hotel rooms that didn't even f#cking have coffee makers but still managed to have a bible. Maybe it's one amenity that they know people won't have the balls to steal.

^--- If you read the cover page of those bibles you will learn that they are provided by the Gideons International, which is a charity dedicated to providing hotel rooms with bibles. They are based in Nashville, Tennessee.

 

From their web site:

 

http://www.gideons.org/Splash.aspx

 

"Gideons praise the Lord for the opportunity to distribute Bibles and New Testaments in 188 countries. And the results of their efforts in hotel Bible distributions prove it. The first Gideon hotel distribution, back in 1908, was just 25 Bibles. In 2008, Gideons placed, or replaced, over one million hotel Bibles in the more than four million hotel rooms of the United States—and almost as many full Bibles in other countries. Gideons have been setting this strong pace for a number of years."

 

  "One-quarter of travelers surveyed by the hotel industry said they read the Bibles placed in their rooms by The Gideons."

 

  "Scriptures are placed in certain locations, including:

 

Hotels and motels

Hospitals, convalescent homes, medical offices and domestic violence shelters

Prisons and jails"

 

    I have noticed that there are, in fact, some hotels that do not have Gideon bibles. And no, I am not trying to preach to you. I remembered the name Gideon from a bible that I found in a hotel and I just now looked them up by searching "Gideon" on the internet. The internet is an amazing thing, and the more that I learn about the world, the more I find out I don't know.

 

 

^--- If you read the cover page of those bibles you will learn that they are provided by the Gideons International, which is a charity dedicated to providing hotel rooms with bibles. They are based in Nashville, Tennessee.

 

From their web site:

 

http://www.gideons.org/Splash.aspx

 

"Gideons praise the Lord for the opportunity to distribute Bibles and New Testaments in 188 countries. And the results of their efforts in hotel Bible distributions prove it. The first Gideon hotel distribution, back in 1908, was just 25 Bibles. In 2008, Gideons placed, or replaced, over one million hotel Bibles in the more than four million hotel rooms of the United States—and almost as many full Bibles in other countries. Gideons have been setting this strong pace for a number of years."

 

  "One-quarter of travelers surveyed by the hotel industry said they read the Bibles placed in their rooms by The Gideons."

 

  "Scriptures are placed in certain locations, including:

 

Hotels and motels

Hospitals, convalescent homes, medical offices and domestic violence shelters

Prisons and jails"

 

    I have noticed that there are, in fact, some hotels that do not have Gideon bibles. And no, I am not trying to preach to you. I remembered the name Gideon from a bible that I found in a hotel and I just now looked them up by searching "Gideon" on the internet. The internet is an amazing thing, and the more that I learn about the world, the more I find out I don't know.

 

 

 

Laaaaaaaawd