Whasup?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Answers

I think I did something where only I can post a new question. I can't figure out how to undo it.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

"I reckon we would be all the Apostles or something? Who would be Jesus? Rudergirl takes that one I think!" - Gregory The Ham

I think I just had a seizure.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I think you did, to, because we've posted questons before, but now we can't.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Gregory the spaz is my new enemy. His dumb "Texas Girls are HOT!!! thread. And yeah, like I have a whole lot of sympathy for you losing 100 cds and your playstation. Whatever. Especially after your first post that bitched about how you're too wealthy to get a nice girlfriend. Yeah, I'm sure trashy leigha was all about being just friends with you, you Australian spaz.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Morning!

Oh dear. If RG is Jesus, I'm converting to Buddhism. Or something.

Hate GtheHand. Hate him. Did you see he started a crush thread on "Texas ladies, 'YO'!"

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Here is my question for the morning: Why are these people so all about GtheH? Do they not see that he speaks English as a Second Language?

Han, did you see those fools smacking us down in 'Mixed Race Relationships'?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh lord. Maybe the level you reach after "Bob" could be "Christ On The Cross."

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Hey Joh, Lauren Hamman will be in Vegas this weekend, too. Probably something for Turner.

We were talking about Miami people last night, actually. Do you know a girl named Angela - crap. Forgot her last name. Something Italian that starts with an S and ends with a vowel. That's specific, I know. I'll remember eventually.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I don't like it that someone compared rg to Jesus. She does not know the true meaning of INRI, after all.

Gregory the Sham.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Angela Gentillia? She was Kim's roommate sophomore year, and a Chi O with Anne Klein.

Y'all, I'm probably gonna piss some people off in my maternity leave/quit thread.

AB, I saw them last night and I decided to ignore it. Especially since that Gilly girl essentially repeated what I had already said: the fact that you could argue the semantics/specifics for ever and that culture is more of a concern. In fact, they're all basically backing me up, they just don't know. My original point is that people shouldn't say "mixed race relationship." They should say multi-ethnic/multi-cultural. PoSMs. The lot of them.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Joh - love love love your response to Gregory the Damned's insipid god thread.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Heheheheheh...y'all. Gregory the Spam is such a total retard.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Not to belabor this GtheH thing, but I just had to share this quote:

"I'm have not a depressive illness now for 1 years, I'm off ALL my meds, coz I went to a Tony Robbin's Seminar that reshaped my mentally self."

I rest my case.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I think that gave me a seizure.

I want to post a question in his dumb pamie as God thread that asks where Tony Robbins would fit - disciple or overlord?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Was that English? Seriously.

My mentally self?

Did you guys read Meg's response to the maternity thing?

T, are you going to bump up the living in sin thread?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Okay, who is going to start the thred on Tony Robbins? Someone must. Could it be a job for Ratsy?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh.my.God. I am laughing so hard, it's obscene. WHAT was UP with that quote? Despite the frightening Tony Robbins reference...that was like that GW Bush quote they made fun of on SNL.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Yes, I think it's a job for Ratsy. Or Ratsy's cousin, Gary.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Meg responded to the maternity thread? I wondered when she would. I'll have to look.

I'm about to go to the doctor. I hope she can help me with my "physically self." I'll give a report when I return.

Cough, hack, wheeze.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

ACK!

Before I go...have you seen the Meg Collectibles thread?!?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

YES! I'm trying to think of some appropriately snarky comment involving Cracker Barell or crushed velvet.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

AB!!!! NKOTB forevah!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Okay, I'm going to try not to comment on rudertrash's recently-booked trip to the high-class resort town of Myrtle Beach.

Y'all know that there's an Alamaba! theme restaurant there, don't y'all?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Yes! You don't even know the love I still possess for those boys. Now I'm going to have to go dig out all those tapes.

NKOTB forevah!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I'm starting a thread!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Props to boo for calling rudergirl on this post:

"OK, I emailed L_L and guppy to tell them about it...is there anybody else that I'm forgetting?"

I wonder if I should say something?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Rustle them PoSMs, T! "Your kind." Heh.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

hmm, should I put NKOTB in pop music or crushes?

Little rudgerho, all, Why not?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I would say "Pop Music." I'm listening to them right now. How sad is that?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

It's not sad. At all.

Go be the first to post!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

You know, if my best friend commited suicide, I think the last place I'd be airing our unfinished business is a forum.

That's just bad form.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Yes, it is. I almost felt sorry for her, but couldn't for rolling my eyes. Yuck.

I'm going to post to happier topics, like NKOTB Forevah!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

What gets me is when people air their dirty laundry on the internet, you call them on it, and then they snark at you for invading their privacy. Whatevuh.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh, I know!

But then you have people like Ruder who are all, email me, call me, I'm 'thiking of you girl I don't even know. At ALL.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

For real. How can I respond to ruder without her thinking that I'm intimidated by her furriness? Should I post the link to fleeigha's diary where she calls out Allison and I? Or would that be too wicked? Has leigha posted a link to her journal in the pimping thread or dod you just discover it, Joh?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

She did post a link once, I remember, T. When she was doing all that Squishy webring stuff.

I think you should, but I'm a troublemaker.

Han, NOBODY is loving our New Kids thread!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Okay, I'll post the link, but be prepared to back me up in the smackdown issuing.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

As if you could expect anything less.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Let's see what rudermyrtlebeachho has to say about that...

I'm going to Grady tonight for the first time in a few weeks - I hate going when I'm not feeling well as I'm terrified of giving anything to one of the babies. I bet there will be all new babies in there by now. There's one 22-week-old (it's about two months old - it was born at 22 weeks) little girl who was thriving and I want to know how she's doing. Plus a baby girl who's been there for a few months and should now be able to digest food on her own... Yay! I get to see the babies!

Really, it's not as depressing as it may seem. But I usually try not to think about where they're giong - I try to focus on the level of care that they're reciving while they're in the NICU.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Okay, one of y'all (Allison, I'm looking at your big head) may need to say something in the gatherings thread before I respond.

I don't want to sound like an internet forum is a big deal to me, because it isn't, but seriously. Ruder has hardly put this thing to rest - if she had, she wouldn't have said the snarky things about MATH.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Ew. She called you 'chickie.'

Is the place you go a hospital? Are they babies who are going to be adopted or are going back to unsuitable homes?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I know! How can I appropriately respond to someone who calls me "chickie"??

It's Atlanta's county/city-run hospital. There are only five NICU's in Georgia, and Grady has the biggest one. They take babies from across north Georgia.

Many of the babies are there because for one reason or another, they were premature. They come from loving - and even affluent - families. Sometimes they're just early. There are also a lot of multiple births, who are nearly always early. That's sort of why I feel the way I do about people having five babies at a time.

Others are premature because they were undernourished in the womb, or their mother had AIDS or was a drug abuser. Most of these babies go to another family member or into foster care. The problem is that Georgia has probably the most shoddy foster care system in the country. Some babies are fine, but they've been in the NICU since birth and there's no where else for them to go.

It's a misconception that they're all crack babies, though. A lot of them are just infants who for one reason or another were born early, and they need a little extra help.

I volunteer in the 5K nursery - it's for the smallest babies. Usually 1-3 pounds. Mainly respiratory problems and feeding problems (developmentally). They don't have the sucking thing down yet, and they don't go to the next nursery until they can either nurse or drink from a bottle.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Dude. Does queenbri even know what cohabitation means?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

queenbri terrifies me.

That sounds so cool, T. I know you get attached to those babies, though.

And even though we're looking into infertility options, people having twenty babies at a time is so many levels of wrong.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh, AB, I certaily didn't mean you when I talked about people havine oodles of babies at a time. Fertility therapy is one thing - having twenty babies at once, especially when you're educated on the chances for poor health, is a whole other ball game. But anyway.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

AB - Has Vince been checked? Because you, obviously, are able to concieve and carry a baby to term.

With my cousin and his wife, she was put through SO much before they even bothered to check Matt, and it was him.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Yeah, that's actually what the doctor said last week. He thinks I'm fine, except for possible tubal scarring (I had a c-section), but wants to check out Vince first.

He's so excited about getting it on with a cup, let me tell you.

There's no TMI rule here, is there?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Yeah, what was there to be settled? They just suck. Can they settle that? DIdn't think so.

Oh, that burns me. How dare she accuse you of holding a grudge.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I would assume that both would be checked initially - are those your cousins who adopted the Indian babies?

They did another ultrasound yesterday and my OB/GYN assured me that besides the golf ball-sized cyst, my uterus and my ovaries look great. My main question was about the probability of losing the ovary, since the cyst looks like it is half inside and half out of the ovary (and it's the same size as the ovary itself). But he said that he'd never had to remove the ovary before, so knock on wood.

Y'all, ultrasounds suck. At least the kind I've been having. None of that jelly-on-the-belly ease, I'll tell you that for free.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

That's why I need some backup, y'all. Grudge-holding, my ass.

Tubal scarring would be pretty easy to get around, though, wouldn't it? Both tubes wouldn't have been scarred, I would imagine.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

We'll back you up if you want, T.

I'm not sure how that would work - if there is scarring resulting in blockage, then there wouldn't be any way for the zygote to travel to its destination in the uterus. But you're right, maybe not in both ovaries.

I sound like a PBS special. They want to do an HSG, which consists of shooting dye into the tubes to see if they're clear. Ow.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Y'all, I'm going to puke all over that inane **HUG** thread. What possible combination could be worse than hugging and padding simultaneously?

Why, Lord, why?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I think that at this point, I'd rather drop the whole thing. But if any of y'all think of something scathing to say, let me know, ya hear?

AB - that's exactly what I meant - two ovaries, two tubes. According to the venerated Dr. Adam (who may have been trying to assuage my fear yesterday), having one viable ovary/tube rather than two really doesn't cut your chances for conception.

What I'm wondering is if, god forbid, you have only one viable ovary/tube, you only get a zygote in there every other month. I remember something about the ovaries alternating, sending signals to each other and stuff.

I can hear my ovaries now:

"Why, hello, Left Ovary - you're looking lovely today..."

"Dude, not you - check out that hairy, toothy thing that's growong out of your head!"

Or something like that.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Poor Clyde. He just don't know no better. He can't help it he's a monster.

Yeah, the alternating ovaries thing is somewhat true, just not necessarily every month from one to the other. I know there are even times (with fraternal twins) that a follicle has developed in each.

I just want ONE follicle, mayn! Is that too much to ask?!? *Ahem*

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Usually they just check the women first, then the men.

Yes, Queenbri has the brain of an infant.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

"Hugs to Melissa and Colie for hugging me. We have another padding tradition. The "hugging" threads. Clever, emm?"

Oh, for Christ's sake.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Hey y'all. I'm in again.

I will give a doctor update in a moment. Going to catch up on my MATH.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Ok, now where'd y'all go?

RG is such a pain. T, if I were you, I wouldn't even bother responding. I'll back yo ass up if you like, but why bother? Nice jab, though.

Thing about it is, ruderskank has been making efforts to be all friendly-like again, so she thought it all blew over, I guess. She's just DUMB.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Ok, my doctor visit.

Y'all. I think my doctor has Turrett's Syndrome. Or maybe OCD. She would be saying something and get stuck on it. Like, telling me something about insurance and saying at the end of EVERY sentence "Does that make sense?" And I would start to say "yes" and she would cut me off by saying "What?"

It was so bizarre for a few minutes. But, I liked her.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

What's wrong with you, Sickie? (Or should I say chickie?)

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh, and I have the worst sinus infection ever. It includes the first ear infection I've had since I was 5 and my pediatrician would look into my ear and say "That's not a happy ear." It sure ain't happy right now, either.

She gave me an antibiotic called Augmentin to take. The pills are bigger than my head.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

If you love yourself at all, you'll take Augmentin with food or something.

Speaking of Tourette's, did anyone watch Ally Monday night? It was hysterical.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

WHAT? She didn't tell me to take it with food! I already took it. She did say that it might cause...uh...The Revenge. But...what should I do?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Um...just drink some juice or something. Have a snack.

I don't know if that's recommended, I just know Augmentin makes me feel pukey and swoopy and twirly if I don't eat something with it.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Hannah:

Back! Huh! Strongah than evah! You think we'd sever? Never! We're too clever! To be taken down, man, by your ignorant state of mind!

I'm killing myself over here. I totally forgot about this song.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Y'all are scaring me with the New Kids. I wasn't a fan. Of course, I'm a few years older than y'all, so maybe that's why.

That's not to say that I'm not a huge *NSYNC fan now, though. I seem to have come to my cheesy boy-band appreciation in my old age.

Mike is going to gag when he reads all this, by the way. I wonder if he works this afternoon...or he might be taking the day off to prepare for tonight's big game.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

AB, no one's showing the NKOTB love because the average age of Squishy is now like 15.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

What tape are you listening to? I got out of it after Step by Step. I've never even heard No More Games.

Step 1: we can have lots of fun Step 2: there's so much we can do Step 3: it's just you and me oh crap, I forget.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I'm listening to Step by Step. I didn't listen to them after that one, either.

Gag away, Mike. NKOTB lives!!!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Ooh, RG and Leigha and PigFAtt have been chatting on the phone. Wonder what they're talking about?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Okay, I've been conjested for like, two years. I'm sure people think I'm a cokehead because of my persistent sniffing. RIght now, my left nostril is stuffy. And annoying as hell.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

They're probably chatting about how retarded they are. Or they're bitching about my post in the Atlanta thread. Whatever. Freaks.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Well, I just returned to the pharmacy - yesterday's scene of the crime - and picked up the rest of my meds. I asked my pharmacist about Augmentin and she was like "Eat something NOW." She also told me to eat some yogurt every day to ward of a yeast infection (Sorry again, Mike).

So for lunch I am having a Big Chicken Burrito Supreme from The Bell. This ruins my Pepperidge Farm Ginger Man Cookie diet, which I had going for three days strong, but so be it.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Okay, was pamie calling me out in her post to the Atlanta thread? Whatever.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

"Ooh, RG and Leigha and PigFAtt have been chatting on the phone"

Um, probably Teri. Where does it say that??

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

No, I think she was calling ruderho out for her big "JESUS" outburst.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

In DSAS.

Al, that sounds like a wonderful diet plan. Too bad you had to ruin it.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Well, just so my body didn't react too violently, I got a bag of Ginger Men, and started in. Three men down.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Hey Mike, when you get this - what is a "Running 'Ute"?

Y'all, they're running PSA on the college radion station here that's all about math.

"Math gets it all done!"

Damn straight.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Hey Mike, do you think that the Hornets will relocate to New Orleans? At my last firm, Ray Wooldridge was a client of ours. That was the buzz then, but that was 1999.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

You know what? They're just idiots. A whole thread of "Who wants to see me naked?!" Morons. What I especially don't get, is that they IM each other all day AND do their stupid thread.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

How I hate it when my jags fall silent...

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I'm here sugar bear. Just eating some leftover Christmas Krack(el)

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Napoleon just came in here. He recoiled from me in horror. I must look pretty bad, although there was an old guy giving me the eye in the elevator earlier.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

And I was preparing a delicious tuna sandwich. Without mayo, you understand.

I fear I must away, though. Mad Madeleine wouldn't like it if she had to walk home.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

How could anyone recoil from you in horror? You're a full grown woman!

I don't see the naked thread.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I was getting lunch. Yum.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I know, and full grown women are hard to come by these days.

Tell Mad Madeleine hello from her fan club. Also, tell her to say hey to the Bunny.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Anything exciting going on? What time does Mike pop in?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

The naked thread is their last fuzz thread. Just a bunch of shite.

Y'all, I cannot believe it's 3! I guess when you hang out in Dr. Turretts' office all morning, the day gets away from you.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

"What time does Mike pop in?"

I don't know. He may be off today, praying at temple for a Maryland victory tonight. I'm going to watch the game. Although I would sound like a real blues singer in my current vocal state, I'm not going to rehearse tonight because of the illness.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I'm on the phone doing Emory's new preadmission thing. I love, love, love how doctors, nurses, and libriarians never have to ask me how I spell or pronounce my last name.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

T! T! Meg talks about her home-schooling in her latest entry. Isn't it interesting that she never responded to your post that one time?

Y'all, Leigha's journal is almost as insipid as Meg's. But Meg's (horror of horrors) a better writer than Leigha.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

So this is a big game for Maryland, I'm guessing? I know that C will be prostrate at the Shrine of the ESPNZone.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh, I know - I saw that homeschool thing. I wish her forum wasn't retarded, or I'd post something in there about ill-socialized homeschoolers.

Did you see where she wrote about how none of her relatives can put up with her??

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

No! Where? I just love how she was like, I'm not a lemming.

Yeah, all public school kids are lemmings, trash.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I'm pretty sure it's a big game. I think both Maryland and UNC are unbeaten in the ACC. Mike can say, as he is actually, literally, the expert. ESPN has been hyping it up like it's the ultimate showdown of all basketball.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

It's in that same journal entry.

How badly did I want to say something about her tacky collectibles? I just don't see the appeal. It reminds me of Jeanne Teasdale's columns in The Onion.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

She's such a fat-fatty-liar! I'm just convinced, CONVINCED that she's this 40-year-old sociopath, living in a basement.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I bet she has pictures of Julia Stiles where others would have a mirror.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oooooooo!!!! That's scary, isn't it? But...they look just alike! People ask Meg for her autograph! Oh, except that probably never happens at all.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Where'd y'all go?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I'm here! Hello! Hey!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I will pay bills this afternoon. I must. I hate paying bills. I have the money - I just don't feel like pulling out my checkbook and doing math.

I'd really like to take a nap.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Mayn...I got nothin' for the left side today.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

You should always feel like doing Math.

Y'all, the Texan. I just can't bear him. And I have to work with him. Ugh.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh, Hello! Anything by Gregory the Sham. Oh, or what about Meg's collectibles?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

What did he do? Is he unbearable because of his torrid Texan past, or is he unbearable in a PoSM way?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

He did nothing. He just exists. And he has to come around and by funny and ackward and I hate him.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Down with The Texan! Seriously, why do all the cute ones have to be retarded?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Pop a rubber band at his left eye.

Y'all, I am jonesing for king cake. Good thing my mother is coming here next week. I will be devastated if she arrives empty-king-cake- handed.

Mmmm - purple, gree, and gold sugary goodness. I want you in my belly. I want you to turn my lips purple. I want to gobble you up.

Chris just called - he was all, "Um, yeah, so Josh and I are going to watch the Duke game at 7 and the Maryland game at 9 at the ESPN Zone. You can meet us after babies, if you want..." Uh huh. No, baby, I think I'll be fine at home painting my toenails. Thanks, though, really. I just cannot bear the ESPN Zone. It is like the most blaring sort of sensory overload, of that makes sense. Plus, it's in the middle of Buckhead.

I am such a fuddy-duddy.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh my god, y'all. This is tragic and all, but I am dying.

Check out the suspect's first name.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

T - no going to Buckhead on a school night!

Y'all, I am afraid of this antibiotic. Is it going to make my skin all smelly like they usually do? I always feel stinky when I'm on an antibiotic, and this is like THE BIGGEST ONE EVER. (Mike, H and AB are all now secretly rethinking the Vegas room arrangements.)

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh, good lord, good lord. When you live in Algiers, LA and your name is Toshiba, you are destined to kill somebody.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I think that eating a lot of yogurt will help the stinky problem that you speak of.

(No, not that stinky problem. Ew.)

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I'm out. Y'all have a good night.

Al, feel better!!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Ew is right! Ew!

The new fun thing in my life is looking up Gregory The Jam posts on the forum and reading them aloud. I have never seen such a glaring example of a learning disability gone unchecked.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I'm so evil, but I just saw this in the "office" thread. From fleea: "Well, I've got my Texas A&M banner up near the door, I've got my feather topped pens, some of my Ty Beanie babies on top of my desk, some flowers (fake, because I kill the real kind), and some glass fish in a fish bowl. It's definately girly in here."

Hmm...an A & M banner, feather pens, fake flowers and fake fish. Uh, that ain't "girly," that's just tacky, Trash.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh, lord, saw that this morning. I bet the flowers are both plastic and dusty.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I'm sure they are. It doesn't even matter, yo. Fake flowers. That's just the end.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

All right. I have to leave this place. T, I hate to leave you and Clyde alone. I'm sure AB will be back around soon, and Mike might be here eventually. I'll check back in this evening, after I wake up from my drug-induced coma.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I'm on my way out the door, as well.

May Maryland prevail!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

They'd better prevail or I'll be very sad.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

You and the Chris, mayn.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

"Hey Mike, when you get this - what is a "Running 'Ute"? "

An excellent question. Utah's mascot for all sports is the Ute, which I guess is one of the local Indian tribes? Or maybe it's just referring to someone from Utah. At any rate, the basketball team became the Runnin' Utes because they run around a lot.

========= "Hey Mike, do you think that the Hornets will relocate to New Orleans? At my last firm, Ray Wooldridge was a client of ours. That was the buzz then, but that was 1999."

Maybe, but I'm always really skeptical of things like that until they actually happen. They're clearly not happy with their lease in Charloytte, but then again, no pro team is happy with its lease. We'll see.

And Chris may be sad if the Terrapins lose, but I will be certifiably morose.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

The thing is, Ray Wooldridge is a big freak.

Now that I know what a Running Ute is, I will sleep better. I bet that team gets a lot of My Cousin Vinny jokes.

I hope that there is no reason to be morose, Mike. The Terps (is that what they're called) will ride high, I hope.

C's a pretty big Maryland fan - I won't underestimate his morose- ness. Even though he didn't go there, it's his school to cheer for as the Tribe isn't really a football powerhouse.

I don't know why, but I just went to Meg's page again. That girl is certifiable. And that Melissa girl? She's old enough to be in law school, but she harps about her "crushes" like she's 17. Ugh.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Okay, I just went to that Michael guy's page (I'm on hold with the insurance company and am tyring to entertain myself). What a freak. They have this ghost-hunting group, and they have titles like "Head Scientific Advisor."

Uh huh.

Four members strong!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Everyone hates North Carolina, so I'm hoping the positive vibes from around the ACC will propel the Terps to victory.

But I hate watching the games at work. I have to be all calm and whatnot.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh, go ahead and let loose. How long are you on the night schedule?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Ok. I'm here, in front of the ESPN, ready and willing to cheer the Terps to victory. What a crowd. Mike, why aren't you there?

Please explain the strange, yet attractive, checkered flag thing in the Maryland color scheme.

Ah, here is Lonny Baxter, at the line.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I'm nights through Sunday...

And I'm not there because I'm here. How much does that suck? But I made the schedule so I can't complain...

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

It sucks a lot. First five minutes have been good. I like that Blake kid. He looks like he's about 10.

Going to prepare my grilled cheese. Gourmet food for the sick.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Okay. I'm pre-admitted to the hospital and I figured out my cable bill (it was, um, four months overdue. it's one of those where my roommate and I always move it to the back of the pile because it's non-essential. not for financial resons - it's only $11/month - but because we're lazy). I had to do the cost of me, her, and Dave for three months, and just me and her for one month. It was tricky, I swear.

Shut up, y'all. Math is hard.

Not MATH. MATH gets things done. MA-H, at least.

Go Terps!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I always pay my cable bill last -- better that should get paid late than the power bill.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Ok...54-42? UNC? I don't like the way this second half is going at all.

I am preparing the UNC voodoo.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

When Maryland puts their minds to it, they can play some really horseshit basketball.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Three things:

1) Maryland is about to come back, I'm telling you. I feel it. Really.

2) Dick Vitale annoys the crap out of me. I know, blah blah blah legendcakes, but I can't help it.

3) T! Did you see this from boo2? "(whispers) T, Just an fyi, I came down on your side of the Great Forum Debate 2000. In my humble opinion, padding is for bras. Note my status... boo

edited to say 'Okay, it *just* changed to stalker... Dammit I wanted to be a squishite forever!'"

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Not today, they're not. It's just not happening for them.

And I was just going to post boo's message ...

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

See? We're psychic friends.

Yeah, this is bad. I'm so sorry, M. Tragedy. They started off so big!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Within 9! They sort of have a chance!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Clearly, you are not familiar with Maryland basketball.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

But...but...don't give up hope! (We've totally had a role reversal from me in football season.)

Aw, Owens...you big baby-blue cry-baby.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Yeah, give up hope.

I'm sorry.

I blame Vitale.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Well, at least losing by three is better than losing by 20.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Yes. Indeed. Accentuate the positive, M. That's good.

I assume you now have to watch the Puke game? Such punishment.

I am leaving you now so that you may suffer privately, and going to watch my show, The West Wing. I'll check back in latah, perhaps.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I'm watching Duke, and have my headphones on so I'm not in any way corrupted by the jags watching "Temptation Island"

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Aw, poor Mike.

Vince is dancing around in his baby-blue boxers. Seriously.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Where'd you go?

I have unconsciously started attaching a Steve Irwin (you know, The Crocodile Hunter) accent to everything Gregory the Sham writes. It makes reading his posts almost bearable.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

That does help make the posts more entertaining.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Yes, it does.

Melissa wrote you a DSAS, Mike. I think she likes you.

She's got a **crush** on YOU!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

That's the scariest thing ever.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Originally posted by fleea:

"Damn right I go to strip clubs. I started going without my SO back when I frequented them. I went every Tuesday, because the steak special was on ($2.99 steak, potato, and a salad)."

Well, if we didn't know she was trash before, here's our proof, immortalized in print.

Mike, do you watch NBA at all? Vince is over here getting all crazy because Portland is beating Philadelphia.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I do, although my NBA expertise can best be illustrated by the fact that by fantasy league team ("Thank God -- the police") is currently 12th in a 16 team league. But we just got Keith Van Horn and Charlie Ward back, so watch out.

Every time I think leigha has hit rock bottom, she breaks out the jackhammer and starts digging even deeper.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I am so trying to resist responding to leigha, and I know I won't be able to. That's just too easy.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

It's very hard to resist the lure of smacking down fleea's ignorance, yes. I anxiously await your scathing response.

Did you see the T/ruderho action in the ATL thread? Heh.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

It wasn't much of a smackdown. I'm just increadulous, is all.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Very nice anyway. Somebody backed her up on the "gentleman's dinner." Ugh.

I just took Benadryl with Killian's. If I have to be rushed to the hospital, please send **HUGS**. I just want to quit feeling like ass.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Hi! Man, that strip club thread is just ridiculous. The whole concept. Gross. And they're all like, If my SO ever tried to "allow" me to do something, rorw! Yeah, it's called a mature relationship... You know, where you don't do things that HURT the other person. Jags.

And Fleeah! Lord!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

H! Hey, you know that MTV show with Joey is filmed in Vegas.

I'm just saying.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

All I'm sayin' is, there's a zero percent chance I'd be going to a strip club to order food.

I wonder if that costs more than Taco Bell...

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Bitches! Hos! Who's left around? Anybody?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I know! I noticed that, but damn, too early. Man, I love me some Joey Mac.

Y'all, I so want to email Meg and just be like, explain yourself to me. You're so bizarre!

Allison, I think you're right. The girl has to be 40. And a virgin. With 8 ferrets.

(And don't forget the Beta fish!)

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh yeah, fleea goes to strip clubs. Absolutely. I have but one word and one syllable: SKAG.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

leigha links to her now, you know.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Too early? Oh, no ma'am, it's never too early for Joey.

Meg has fish too? Jesus God. What are we going to do with her?

This bitch is still here, Al. Maxin' and relaxin' in my Benadryl- induced stupor. Things could get ugly.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Y'all are seriously starting to frighten me with the NKOTB ...

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh, come on now, Mike. You know they've got it (The Right Stuff).

Hee! I can see how it would be a scary thing, though. But I'm not ashamed.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Did I not tell y'all he would be scared. I'm scared, too.

You know what? I just saw that stupid "Squishy is such a happy place" thread, or whatever it's called, in Blab. It made my eyes cross. Of COURSE, Smeg was the first to post there and talk about how intelligent everyone is. Uh, hello. They USED to be. Ooooooo...it makes me crazy.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Of course she had to post. Cause she's the smartest!

Gag. I saw that too, and wanted to post so bad about how opposite it is now. But I restrained myself.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

WAIT. I was thinking for a while that fred might be a possible MATH affiliate at some point, you know, if he was trained and groomed and whatnot.

I retract any and all statements of that nature, as he just proposed to Meg in the stripper thread.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

At least he's not as bad as Drew.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh dear. Perhaps fred is just disillusioned.

We shall have to search for another MATH ambassador if he keeps this up.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

NO ONE is a bad as Drew, except maybe Meloonsa.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Al, do you know Sin City by Gram Parsons? Because if you do, it's on in Vegas. You have to sing the harmony, though.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Hey, Meloonsa likes me. Watch it, yo!

Hee. Yeah, she's scary. Aren't Melissa and Drew squishy gettin' it on or something?

My latest theory is that Meg's a 40-something sociologist playing a teenager so she can write a book on forum idiots. She has lots of examples to choose from, but we'll all be in the "Unusually Kick-Ass" chapter towards the end.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

I'll learn it. I have to bone up on my Grease! numbers, as well. I'm afraid Mike will be pissed off if he doesn't get to hear some. I guess I'll have to sing the Danny parts of Summer Lovin' with Pam. AB, you can back me up on the T-Bird's "Tell me more, tell me more! Did you get very far?"

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Oh, Al, the tag, the tag!

Did that close it?

I just dedicated it to us, anyway. I love that song.

Pulling out my Grease soundtrack.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Why is it doing that?! Did that make it stop?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

You must have forgotten to close the first tag. We teamed up against it, though.

Tag: 0 Al and AB: 1

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

There is no chance I would fight anyone for her. No chance. At all. Drew can have her as a MATH gesture of goodwill.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Watch your ass, tag!

I should go to bed. Did y'all read my account of my weird, Turrett's doctor visit today? I haven't gotten over it.

I am feeling considerably better, however, though a little loopy from the druuuugs.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Yes, I read it. Madeleine's pediatrician in Monroe has a similar, uh, tic. He rolls his eyes back in his head while he's talking to you. It's very off-putting. I have a hard time looking at him.

I am trying so hard to be tired, but I just can't. Damn!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

M - are you watching SportsCenter? Els was just on and it served no purpose for me other than to remind me of Gregory the Sham.

I have to say, he is my favorite thing going on in the forum these days. In sort of an Opposite Day way. He just posted again in the stripper thread, and it fascinates me to see the bizarre ways he mangles the language. I don't understand how someone can type all that and not notice they are murdering their mother tongue in SO.MANY.WAYS.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Ok, I'm headin' to bed.

M - I see Penn State won. That must have been some consolation. I know, I know - not enough.

Goodnight, sweethearts!

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2001

Goodnight, beautiful MATHletes! Going to bed now.

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2001

It's some small consolation, but to be honest my brother's more of a fan of Maryland than he is of his own alma mater.

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2001