(EDITED BY AUTHOR: 11/9/2006 - 12:03 p.m.)
Subtitle: Random Rants, Schemes and Ploys RE Recent Events
1. Funny thing happens during my two week virtual walkabout: Candyland starts hopping. Look at all the posts over there. The crack team of investigators and researchers here at IJR Rants, Schemes & Ploys LLC (a/k/a the Stooges) have presented evidence that this is due to an administrative move. So, I guess it is more accurate to say that "Candyland is hopping by proxy." Or can one still say that without registering? I will get the Stooges on it immediately.
2. Georgia is having a bad football season by post-Goff standards. Still, they scare me, and I maintain my pre-walkabout view that they have one really good game in them. It will be against either us or Tech. I expect a close game at JHS on Saturday morning/afternoon. One major board problem that I have observed is a paucity of posts about the UGA game. A market correction seems to be occurring this morning, however. This is a very good thing.
3. Speaking of things that scare me, let's talk about the Pick Em Guys for a moment, shall we. It has come to the Stooges attention that a "Merry Pickmas" promotion is in the works. Apparently, the Pick Em Guys plan to give away "free" Duck Bucks to resucitate the failed gambling careers of numerous posters. We here at IJR RS&P LLC are skeptical. We believe that this is actually an attempt to pander to potential jurors in the big class action suit that Tiger Jack has instituted to recover the Duck Bucks that he and others lost as a result of the Pick Em Guys thievery. In fact, we intend to show that some of the Duck Bucks distributed in the Merry Pickmas "give away" were in fact stolen from members of the plaintiff class. Because of this theft and redistribution, the case cannot be tried fairly in the Mudduck District Court. We will be filing a motion for change of venue. The Pick Em Guys, quite simply, are not to be trusted. They are also quite possibly Marxists.
4. Speaking of "Merry Pickmas," I am dreaming of several John Parker Jingleheimer Schmidt Wilson interceptions in this year's Thumb Bowl. A Merry Sackmas followed by a Merry Pickmas. Talk about candy and nuts (Wayne, I am serious, that was not a Candyland pun. Really, I am.).
5. Speaking of Candyland, a poster has asked "what is chit chat"? The technical answer is that, like obscenity, one knows it when one sees it. It is difficult to make rules about such things. Guidelines are possible, however. Here are some helpful ones from a red headed dentist in Mississippi. Thank God for Mississippi: display.pl?page=aux=read=663491 and extras.pl?showme=236958.
6. I think the Board is more boring than it was when I first started posting nearly 6 years ago. I also think that some, but not all, of the frustration with that state of affairs has been mean spirited. I am guilty of contributing to both the boredom and meanness, I am sure. I also think that some, but not all, of the reaction to the frustration has been of the "do as I say, not as I do" variety. Self-awareness and restraint are typically good things for you, me, and everybody.
7. Speaking of "Thank God for Mississippi (State)," I have been trying to think of something witty to say about the Bama loss to to the Maroons. Everything I think of seems, well, boring. So, I choose to recycle one of my P.J. O'Rourke faves: "You'd have to watch the entire Mexican air force crash-land in a liquid petroleum gas storage facility to match this kind of thrill." P.J. O'Rourke, How to Drive Fast on Drugs etc., etc.
8. It is Georgia week, so please consider this short, multiple choice quiz:
The only good dog is
a) a dead bulldog;
b) Bear's Boy's Dog; or
c) two-thirds of the way down the menu at a local Asian restaurant.
Still working on the details and War Damn Eagle, I remain
IJR
