Giuseppe Zangara

TaigaStar cabbageboy DarKnight Enigma I don't give a fuck. It's either going to be goldengreek or roho at the end, anyway.

I hope you get in because if you do I'm going to drive down to Gainesville and shit in your mouth.

Of the 58 people on my AIM buddylist, only two of them—for now, I guess—are using a Star Wars-related away message. One of them is a guy I know in real life but haven't spoken to in nearly a year; the other is Kotzenjunge.

I have opened mixes (general mixes, not MF mixes) with "Long-Forgotten Fairytale." It works. Try it yourself, but make sure you give me credit.

Check paws for thorns in hope of making a new friend.

I doubt it's true, as beers in the UK rarely are above six-percent alcohol. High-alcohol content beers—such as you find in a lot of domestic microbreweries—are, by and large, an American thing. EDIT: That very Wikipedia article I linked mentions a Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, "a 7.5% abv version sold in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and Asia. The basis is an unfermented but hopped Guinness wort extract shipped from Dublin, which is added to local ingredients and brewed locally." In a related note, I found this while Googling info on alcohol levels in Guinness: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/eu...and-466113.html Article's three-years old, so I don't know whatever came of it.

Hey, I'm just gonna quote this post right here in hopes it gets that reaction you're looking for

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness#Guinness_and_health Some of the info isn't sourced, so take it with a grain of salt. Guinness does have the lowest amount of calories you'll find in a non-"light" beer. I can only figure that the reason a lot of people think it's filling is the thicker feel of it is different from a lot of beers they normally drink. That heavy texture is due to the nitrogren involved in the brewing process.

Guinness isn't filling at all. It's definitely dumb to try to get drunk from it, though.

Ask and you shall throw up This was nowhere near as bad as I was hoping. I expected to see lumpy, mottled flesh and a wild thatch of pubic hair.

Someone post Taiga's gunt, or direct me to where I can find a picture of it.

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That's obviously not what it is. There was no discussion or planning of it in that regard. Maybe there should have been instead of throwing it open to everyone for nominations. Kinetic, you want to take a mulligan on this? Just think: it's only gonna get worse from here. We can dust ourselves off and try again. wasn't cheech in charge of the 60s bracket that everybody started bitching about? if so, i doubt the convictions of his remarks. i think you're doing a great job, kinetic. i'm only posting in this thing because of you. Same, plus a slow work day. Cheech acklowedges that there was no way this list could make everyone happy, but he complains anyway that it didn't make him happy. Good one, dude. Of course there's going to be all this dissention. This is the music that most of us grew up listening to, so there's going to be a wider array of choices than the 60s list, as that one mostly consisted of canonical works. There was just so more music being played on the radio in the 90s, making trying to narrow it down to a satisfying 128 impossible. Toad the Wet Bracket Veruca Salt- "Seether" Salt-N-Pepa- "Whatta Man" Mostly soft spot here, as this song/video was popular around the time I first started to experience raging hormones so I really wanted to put it to two-thirds of this group. The Amazonian one was the one I didn't care for, but even then I'd probably do her, anyway. Backstreet Boys- "I Want It That Way" Beck- "Loser" I actually heard "Loser" for the first time in many a moon at the gym the other day. This is one of the cases where after months/years/epochs of not hearing something that was once so overplayed you can go back to it and realize it's not a bad song. But "I Want It That Way" is better than not bad, it's good. Paula Cole- "I Don't Want To Wait" Montell Jordan- "This Is How We Do It" Without a doubt. This song has legs, too. People ten years my junior are familiar with it, which is cool. Everything But The Girl- "Missing" Goo Goo Dolls- "Iris" A case of disliking both but actively hating the Goo Goo Dolls at one point, while being at best indifferent to Everything But the Girl. Hanson- "Mmmbop" The Breeders- "Cannonball" One of the best pure pop songs of the 90s. Chris Isaak- "Wicked Game" Snoop Doggy Dogg- "Gin and Juice" While "Wicked Game" is decent, Snoop gets the edge here. Remember when radio-friendly rap actually had grooves and rhymes and wasn't just some retard yelling over a preset Casio beat? Jewel- "Who Will Save Your Soul" Kris Kross- "Jump" Jewel only became tolerable during her brief pop excursion a few years back. I couldn't fucking stand her adult-contemporary folk bullshit then and I can't fucking stand it now. I don't like "Jump," but it has the benefit of 1) not being Jewel, and 2) being popular at a time when I watched MTV for hours at a time. Eve 6- "Inside Out" Deee-Lite- "Groove Is In The Heart" Perhaps if I heard that Eve 6 song right now I'd remember it. Even so, there's no way it's beating "Groove Is in the Heart." Sarah McLachlan- "Building a Mystery" Jamiroquai- "Virtual Insanity" Stevie Wonder wannabe > Lilith Fair idol Warren G. (feat. Nate Dogg)- "Regulate" Ricky Martin- "Livin La Vida Loca" See my comments re: "Gin and Juice." Sixpence None The Richer- "Kiss Me" Notorious B.I.G. (feat. Puff Daddy and Mace)- "Mo Money Mo Problems" Christina Aguilera- "Genie In A Bottle" L.L. Cool J- "Mama Said Knock You Out" Boyz II Men- "End Of The Road" Fiona Apple- "Criminal" Never cared for Fiona Apple, but "Criminal" is one of her better singles. That said, Boyz II Men had a string of GREAT singles, and "End of the Road" was one of them. Toni Braxton- "You Mean The World To Me" Weezer- "Buddy Holly" Mariah Carey- "Dreamlover" U2- "One" 'N Sync- "Tearin' Up My Heart" Jay Z- "Can I Get A..." Give Me One Region To Stay Here Nirvana- "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Nirvana- "Heart Shaped Box" Blink 182- "Dammit" Blink 182- "All The Small Things" Not a fan of the pairings here in this bracket, especially here, as it was an occasion of trying to decide which song I hated less. "Dammit" wins because I can't remember how it goes. No matter how much I try, I'll never forget "All the Small Things." Blur- "Song 2" Blur- "Girls and Boys" Stone Temple Pilots- "Plush" Stone Temple Pilots- "Interstate Love Song" Smashing Pumpkins- "Today" Smashing Pumpkins- "1979" Much like with "Loser," I heard "Cherub Rock" again for the first time in a long time. I liked it! Certainly more than the two songs here, so I'll vote for the one that was also on Siamese Dream. Seal- "Crazy" Seal- "Kiss From A Rose" The Cranberries- "Dreams" The Cranberries- "Linger" No Doubt- "Spiderwebs" No Doubt- "Don't Speak" Alanis Morissette- "You Oughta Know" Alanis Morissette- "Ironic" Green Day- "Basket Case" Green Day- "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" Oasis- "Wonderwall" Oasis- "Champagne Supernova" Both terrific, the latter a better drunken sing-along. R.E.M.- "Losing My Religion" R.E.M.- "Everybody Hurts" Chumbawumba- "Tubthumping" Meredith Brooks- "Bitch" Tom Cochrane- "Life Is A Highway" Bush- "Glycerine" Oh man, either this or Hanson needs to go all the way. Toad the Wet Sprocket- "All I Want" Third Eye Blind- "Semi-Charmed Life" Black Crowes- "Jealous Again" Blind Melon- "No Rain" I have absolutely no love for "No Rain." I only sorta kinda remember how "Jealous Again" goes, so obv. it's the better of the two. 2 Legit Bracket Aerosmith- "Cryin'" TLC- "Waterfalls" Not even a contest. Even as Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler fueled adolescent masturbation fantasies, I hated, hated, hated this song and band. En Vogue- "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" Soundgarden- "Black Hole Sun" Close, this one. I once loved Soundgarden, so I have to go with them. MC Hammer- "U Can't Touch This" Vanilla Ice- "Ice Ice Baby" Skee-Lo- "I Wish" Spacehog- "In The Meantime" Salt-N-Pepa- "Shoop" Naughty By Nature- "O.P.P." DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince- "Summertime" The Verve Pipe- "The Freshmen" Britney Spears- "...Baby One More Time" 2Pac- "California Love" Spice Girls- "Wannabe" The Fugees- "Killing Me Softly With His Song" Dr. Dre (feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg)- "Nuthin But A G Thang" Bryan Adams- "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" I know this has been addressed, but ugh, Bryan Adams? Barenaked Ladies- "One Week" The Verve- "Bittersweet Symphony" Better Than Ezra- "Good" Beastie Boys- "Sabotage" The Cardigans- "Lovefool" Spin Doctors- "Two Princes" Tracy Chapman- "Give Me One Reason" Offspring- "Self Esteem" Eagle-Eye Cherry- "Save Tonight" Soul Asylum- "Runaway Train" "Save Tonight," to this today, occasionally gets stuck in my head. Staying power. Mark Cohn- "Walking In Memphis" Semisonic- "Closing Time" Even my mom hates "Walking in Memphis" Collective Soul- "Shine" Red Hot Chili Peppers- "Under The Bridge" See my comments re: "Save Tonight." Also, nostalgia. BloogSugarSexMagik was the first Parental Advisory-stickered album I ever owned. Damn! I Wish I Was Your Bracket Counting Crows- "Mr. Jones" Radiohead- "Creep" Only because Radiohead would do better just two years later. Outkast- "Rosa Parks" Presidents of the United States of America- "Lump" One of the best songs off one of my all-time favorite albums. Cracker- "Low" Pearl Jam- "Evenflow" As much as I love Camper Van Beethoven, I could never get it up for Cracker. Still, this song's OK. Sheryl Crow- "All I Wanna Do" New Radicals- "You Get What You Give" Pras (ft. Maya & ODB)- "Ghetto Superstar" Joan Osborne- "One Of Us" Sinead O'Connor- "Nothing Compares 2 U" Dishwalla- "Counting Blue Cars" This one was really tough. I like both, but only one wins, so. The Divinyls- "I Touch Myself" Nada Surf- "Popular" Marcy Playground- "Sex and Candy" Faith No More- "Epic" "Epic," of course, but let it be known I've always hated "Sex and Candy." Extreme- "More Than Words" Guns N Roses- "November Rain" Seriously, fuck "November Rain." Arrested Development- "Tennessee" Lisa Loeb- "Stay (I Missed You)" Everclear- "Santa Monica" Hootie and the Blowfish- "I Only Wanna Be With You" You believe Bob Dylan actually sued these guys because this song nicks a line and a bit of the melody from "Tangled Up in Blue"? Whatta fag. Harvey Danger- "Flagpole Sitta" Ben Folds Five- "Brick" I still like Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?, but I haven't listened to it in a long time. Fastball- "The Way" Garbage- "Only Happy When It Rains" Gin Blossoms- "Hey Jealousy" Juvenile- "Back That Azz Up" Wonderful song. If they didn't have such shiny, pop production, Gin Blossoms would've been big with the college rock crowd. They just had their fun aping Alex Chilton. Foo Fighters- "Everlong" 4 Non Blondes- "What's Up" Another fun, drunken sing-along.

Perhaps this has been addressed, but are a number of the people in this contest aware that they are? I don't recall seeing cabbageboy this far south on the board; I wouldn't even know who he is if I never ventured into the film/tv folder.

I only just noticed, two years after the album came out, that LCD Soundsystem's "Us V Them" actually features a part where the song's title is pronounced in full, as in "us vee them." I've lived with and loved this album this long and I only now notice it. I don't know how I feel about this!

It varies from state to state, but in Florida you can still smoke in bars. The law is no more than 25% of a bar's earnings must be food-related. Not that Czech would go into a bar, anyway.

I voted for "Roho" in round 1 without even realizing it was this guy. I don't think he's that bad, but it was either him or HarleyQuinn and I don't think I've ever seen a HQ post.

Aspirin and dust. The latter, when I was a child, made visits to my grandparents absolute hell until everyone figured my constant sneezing and running nose was directly related to the fine layer of dust that coated almost all their possessions.

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Yes, let's have a book club where practically no effort is needed on behalf of its participants. Let's make sure it's a book with readily available SparkNotes, too, so no one actually has to read an entire book. Look, I'm not interested in participating in this, but there are things called libraries and libraries have lots and lots books. It's insane, the books they have. This way, you don't have to spend any money if you don't want to, plus you support an institution that's slowly dying.

cabbageboy superjerk gary floyd ehme thread killer I am unaware of most of the people being posted in this thread, so I'm sure there are worse.

While I think it's strange to make it that far into a longish book and then decide to give up, I don't blame you. It's getting more and more difficult to go all the way the closer I get to the end. It's not that it's getting worse, it's just more of the same. But yeah, it's very readable in the sense that it goes down quickly. And though I did laugh a handful of times, they were all mostly early on, before he started repeating the same gags over and over again. Have you read any of his other fiction? Girl with Curious Hair. which came out two years later, is worlds better.

In the home stretch of David Foster Wallace's The Broom of the System. Ugh, this has not aged well since I first read it a decade ago. Too clever for its own good; no one seemed to love Wallace's writing more than Wallace himself at the time he wrote this novel. It's funny in spots, sometimes screamingly so—the passage where Norman Bombardini ordered nine steaks for dinner had me in stitches—but Wallace crammed these "zany" jokes in practically every one of this novel's 467 pages, and, unsurprisingly, many of them fall flat. Also, not one of the characters in the book behave or act in any real human way, so most of them end up cold and unsympathetic if not outright hateful. Little evidence of the man who would later move me to tears and still be hilarious and insightful in his short stories and Infinite Jest. Oh well. This weekend I'll crack into my Library of America collection of John Cheever novels. First up, The Wapshot Chronicle.

In spite of giving up caffeine, I still love and drink coffee stouts. I have a bomber of Great Divide's Espresso Oak-Aged Imperial Stout in my fridge right now. I haven't tried it before, but I like most every other Great Divide beer I've had, so I'm sure this one will be tops.

Happy birthday!