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JD10367
10-13-2006, 12:13 PM
1.) Why is there such a big deal about Friday the 13th? If you read or saw "The DaVinci Code", you know that you only have to worry about today if you belong to the Knights Templar...

2.) Have you heard the latest 'goofy Dunkin' Donuts song commercial'? The new one is for their warm French Toast stick. Is it just me, or is that "8:08 train" song sung by They Might Be Giants?

3.) Speaking of warm sticks... That Parvati chick on "Survivor"... Man, whenever they show her in that little black bikini...:icon_keel

4.) I'm glad I don't live in Massachusetts. That Duval whacko is gonna get elected, mark my words...
Helena Handbasket
10-13-2006, 12:54 PM
1. Haven't seen it. The little Goth girl in me likes today.

2. TMBG has been doing commercials for Dunkies for a while now... Remember the one over the summer "It's like 8 trillion degrees, from the hot parking lot to the spot that is not so cool..." That was the first one I noticed. Wiki says they did 5 songs here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Might_Be_Giants#Recent_activities_.282002-Present.29). Cool that they have John Goodman as announer too!

3. Pavarti makes me wanna :icon_oak:. Makes me think of the skanky chick at the bar that is still trying to get picked up at closing time.... with no success.
JD10367
10-13-2006, 01:01 PM
1. Haven't seen it. The little Goth girl in me likes today.

2. TMBG has been doing commercials for Dunkies for a while now... Remember the one over the summer "It's like 8 trillion degrees, from the hot parking lot to the spot that is not so cool..." That was the first one I noticed. Wiki says they did 5 songs here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Might_Be_Giants#Recent_activities_.282002-Present.29). Cool that they have John Goodman as announer too!

3. Pavarti makes me wanna :icon_oak:. Makes me think of the skanky chick at the bar that is still trying to get picked up at closing time.... with no success.

1. I'm sure I'd love your little Goth girl, LOL. But so much of that whole "counterculture" thing is just BS. I can understand why people who live in Salem go bonkers in October, with all the wanna-bes who show up in black eyeliner and pentagram t-shirts. There is a handful of people who actually understand and practice paganism and all that stuff, and the rest of them just think it's cool to be on the "other side of the fence". It irritates the right-wingers who don't know any better (the types who get upset over Marilyn Manson, the same ones who used to get upset over Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne).

2. Now that I think about it, I guess all the songs do sound like TMBG. I love those guys. "Flood" and "John Henry" are two of my favorite albums on the planet. "Factory Showroom" is pretty good, too. I saw them in a little club in Kenmore Square around 1994, just as they decided to add actual members to the band. They rocked live.

3. Really? I think Parvati's pretty cute. Especially since you don't get makeup and hairstyling on the island. I also like the fire-dancer chick.
Mikiemo83
10-13-2006, 01:11 PM
Higglytown Hero's features TMBG, it is funny watching my kids dance to it
MANNING < KENJr30
10-13-2006, 01:12 PM
Makes me think of the skanky chick at the bar that is still trying to get picked up at closing time.... with no success.what bar is this? link? :icon_pai:
TBL
10-13-2006, 01:16 PM
Perfect ten boxing skanks hanging out in bars trying to get picked up?:icon_pidu :icon_pidu
Helena Handbasket
10-13-2006, 01:58 PM
1. I'm sure I'd love your little Goth girl, LOL. But so much of that whole "counterculture" thing is just BS. I can understand why people who live in Salem go bonkers in October, with all the wanna-bes who show up in black eyeliner and pentagram t-shirts. There is a handful of people who actually understand and practice paganism and all that stuff, and the rest of them just think it's cool to be on the "other side of the fence". It irritates the right-wingers who don't know any better (the types who get upset over Marilyn Manson, the same ones who used to get upset over Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne).

I've never really been goth, but in my yout I probably would have been classified as one if such a thing existed. I think the makeup thing is silly and most goths are pretentious wanna bees. Dressing & acting & spewing the same nonsense as everyone else does *not* make you an individual, let alone the misunderstood, lonely creature they claim to be.

I avoid Salem MA because of the tourist BS. I'd consider going another time of the year for a *historical* tour though. Never really looked into it.

I like being here too much to talk about religion.

2. Now that I think about it, I guess all the songs do sound like TMBG. I love those guys. "Flood" and "John Henry" are two of my favorite albums on the planet. "Factory Showroom" is pretty good, too. I saw them in a little club in Kenmore Square around 1994, just as they decided to add actual members to the band. They rocked live.

Yeah they're great live. Saw them in a free show at the shell in boston a few years ago when they were promoting their newest album "No!". (Also saw Patty Smith at the same show :icon_supe )

3. Really? I think Parvati's pretty cute. Especially since you don't get makeup and hairstyling on the island. I also like the fire-dancer chick.

I like the roller derby girl & becky. I don't think Pavarti is ugly, I don't like her personality... and for me personality has a lot to do with attractiveness.
JD10367
10-13-2006, 02:34 PM
I avoid Salem MA because of the tourist BS. I'd consider going another time of the year for a *historical* tour though. Never really looked into it.

I used to love going to Salem, but not for the whole touristy-witch thing. I'd done the House of the Seven Gables and Witch Museum on school field trips, and that was it. I used to like to walk around, though. They had a cool shopping area called Pickering Wharf which used to have some great stores: a Disneyana store, a leather store, a great antiques-and-junk shop that looked like it used to be in an old movie theater 'cause it had a great giant inside room full of crap, a gourmet food store that made awesome cheese bread... Then, after that, I'd continue up the coast through Gloucester to Hammond Castle and then up to Bearskin Neck in Rockport.

But a lot of those Pickering Wharf stores closed. I think the gourmet food shop is still there, as is the Pyramid Bookstore across the street (one of the great places to get alternative books, tarot, etc.,.). And, of course, one of the branches of Bunghole Liquors. :D
JD10367
10-13-2006, 02:35 PM
Damn, now I'm nostalgic. I might have to con the wife into taking a ride this weekend...
O P T
10-13-2006, 02:39 PM
1.) Why is there such a big deal about Friday the 13th? If you read or saw "The DaVinci Code", you know that you only have to worry about today if you belong to the Knights Templar...

And if you read the Snopes.com page (http://www.snopes.com/luck/friday13.asp)you know that that "The DaVinci Code" was repeating an urban legend.

Just as Friday was considered an inauspicious day of the week on which to embark upon a new enterprise, so the 13th day of a month came to signify a particularly bad day for beginning a venture. Although regarding the confluence of a particularly unlucky day of the week (Friday) and a particularly unlucky day of the month (the 13th) as a date of supreme unluckiness might seem to be obvious and inevitable, superstitions regarding Friday the 13th are not nearly as old as most people tend to think. The belief in Friday the 13th as a day on which Murphy's Law reigns supreme and anything that can go wrong will go wrong appears to be largely a 20th century phenomenon. (The claim that the Friday the 13th superstition began with the arrest of the final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques Demolay, on Friday, October 13, 1307, is a modern-day invention.)
Mikiemo83
10-13-2006, 02:47 PM
I like the roller derby girl & becky. I don't think Pavarti is ugly, I don't like her personality... and for me personality has a lot to do with attractiveness.so I'm screwed in your world

no looks or personality :icon_toil
JD10367
10-13-2006, 02:51 PM
The belief in Friday the 13th as a day on which Murphy's Law reigns supreme and anything that can go wrong will go wrong appears to be largely a 20th century phenomenon. (The claim that the Friday the 13th superstition began with the arrest of the final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques Demolay, on Friday, October 13, 1307, is a modern-day invention.)

Well, technically, that's not an urban legend. She just said that Friday the 13th is a 20th-century invention, didn't she? Well, someone had to pick Friday the 13th somehow, so that seems as likely an origin as any (i.e., that someone said, "Hey, Friday the 13th was pretty unlucky day for the Knights Templar, wasn't it"?).
Moebius
10-13-2006, 02:52 PM
2. TMBG has been doing commercials for Dunkies for a while now... Remember the one over the summer "It's like 8 trillion degrees, from the hot parking lot to the spot that is not so cool..." That was the first one I noticed. Wiki says they did 5 songs here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Might_Be_Giants#Recent_activities_.282002-Present.29). Cool that they have John Goodman as announer too!


Man, I miss the Dunk commercials. :( Those were getting kinda fun wondering where they'd go next.
Helena Handbasket
10-13-2006, 03:05 PM
Why would friday be considered an unlucky day?:confused: :blink:
Helena Handbasket
10-13-2006, 03:06 PM
so I'm screwed in your world

no looks or personality :icon_toil


Yeah but I'm known for the occasional bout of bad judgement.

Why else would my children have survived to be teenagers?
Mean Patrick
10-13-2006, 09:12 PM
Why would friday be considered an unlucky day?:confused: :blink:

I don't know.

I get a good laugh every other friday (including this one) when I see my paycheck.
Benign Despot
10-14-2006, 12:24 AM
Well I'm pretty sure I'm not getting lucky today so......