Since I'm not updating my (pitiful excuse for a) weblog at the moment, this is my only opportunity to update you all on my nutty brother-in-law's quest to spread the sport of "eXtreme croquet" across civilization.
This stop - Canada, or at least the Discovery Channel portion thereof (scroll down to "Taking croquet to the extreme", and click on "video").
They have also made WikiPedia, which they are quite proud of.
As you were.
Posted by yhbc at January 29, 2005 06:55 PMNo ... hang on ... I know this one!
As you were going to St. Ives, you met a man with seven wives.
Posted by: walrus on January 31, 2005 07:05 AMYesterday, I stepped out to the corner store to buy a pack of smokes. It has a little ATM that runs so slow that I've begun to suspect that it's printing the money itself. But I needed some cash.
As I waited for my 20, this middle-aged luggy guy walked up to the Indian gentleman behind the counter.
"Where's the other guy?" he said in a thick Queens accent.
"What other guy? The one who work yesterday?" the Indian guy answered.
"Yeah," he said "What's he only work one day a week."
"Yeah."
"Well. He's trying to be a cop, but he flunked the psychological test. I know somebody who can help him out. Tell him to call me."
I don't even want to know.
I crossed the street to a deli for a sub. As they sliced my salami, a rather bedraggled old guy came in and asked if they had seltzer. The clerk pointed to the cooler. "Got any warm seltzer?" he asked. Turns out his wife had just broken her jaw two days before and that's what she was advised to drink.
The things you hear in this city.
Posted by: jonmc on January 31, 2005 09:51 AMThey also, like most delis in Queens had a cooler full of ghetto soda, is this case bottles of City Club, 49 cents per 24oz bottle. And like all cheap soda it comes in a ridiculous array of flavors, like the one I ended up buying, Watermelon.
Posted by: jonmc on January 31, 2005 10:01 AMA Town Called Mallets isn't a bad spot, if you're in a jam.
Enjoy the buffet.
Posted by: kaf on January 31, 2005 12:19 PMJesus, kaf. There's a thousand things I want to say to you.
Posted by: Chico on January 31, 2005 12:50 PMI think I've found my cure for sure,
The First Drink of the Day!
Monkeybeer at Rather Good, via Screenhead.
Hey, it's my birthday. I don't have to work!
Posted by: tizzie on January 31, 2005 03:41 PMHappy birthday tizzie! It's also Jude's birthday today (my other half).
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