The Polish Fireball: April 2008

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Great time killer... and a worthy debate:

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/nerveeditors/50greatestcomedysketches/01/

Why isn't this on every year like frosty and rudolph?!?

If the children are our future... we're fucked!!!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Notre Don't

Notre Dame vs. Rutgers: Playing Holier Than Thou

By HARVEY ARATON
New York Times
Published: April 29, 2008

For self-importance on the grandest of delusional scales, there is no entity in sports quite like Notre Dame football, winner of three games last season, routinely whacked like a piñata in recent bowl games and not a national championship to its name in 20 years, or since the Gipper was about to hand off the presidency of the United States to George H.W. Bush.

How humble of Notre Dame to have visited Ronald Reagan in the Rose Garden at the White House on Jan. 18, 1989, resisting all temptation to call for a meeting at a neutral site more to its grandiose liking.

As you may already know, the university is a member in good standing of the Big East Conference for athletic competitions it does not consider to be part of the religious experience. For the divine game, football, league opponents were long ago brainwashed to bow and accept the Notre Dame credo: Too sainted to play in your conference, too special to step into your house if it does not meet our dimensional specifications. That is, until Rutgers stood up last week, walked away from a proposed six-game series, refused to move its home games an hour north to the Meadowlands just for the privilege of playing in a stadium that would be half-filled with Notre Dame fans.

This way to Piscataway, Rutgers said, or don’t bother coming to Jersey at all.

“We feel Rutgers home games should be played on campus,” the university’s athletic director, Bob Mulcahy, said in a statement.

Mulcahy briefly expounded on this touchy subject on Monday, saying in a telephone interview, “Notre Dame has been very helpful to the conference, but we are in the position of undertaking a $100 million expansion on our stadium, and if we are going to play a major nonconference game, we feel it has to be played there.”

Mulcahy, who understandably has conference relationships to tend to, can’t say what still needs to be said, even if he doesn’t necessarily agree: the nerve of the Irish to make this demand when Rutgers, a publicly funded university, is trying to justify the stadium expenditure in perilous budgetary times.

Keeping politicians and taxpayers from revolting isn’t Notre Dame’s problem, but would it kill the Irish to play three actual road games in what is projected to be a 55,000-seat stadium by 2009 to lend its Big East brother a hand? Isn’t that what the spirit of college sports is supposed to be about?

Everywhere, apparently, but Notre Dame, where there is continuing belief in past as prelude and where Grantland Rice is forever immortalizing the Four Horsemen against the blue-gray October sky at the Polo Grounds (where, in fact, 55,000 spectators watched the Irish upset Army, 13-7, on Oct. 18, 1924).

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“In general, we want to play in those metropolitan, particularly Eastern, markets in large venues so that more of our fans can have access,” Kevin White, the Notre Dame athletic director, told The South Bend Tribune. “It makes sense to us because we have a zillion fans out east.

“We love Rutgers,” White said. “We’re really close to them. It doesn’t make sense for them. It makes sense for others. So we just moved on. I think we had somebody else in 10 seconds. We had an instant verbal, as they say in the business, a euphoric verbal.”

A euphoric sucker, born every minute, to help perpetuate the myth of Notre Dame’s storied transcendence, largely sustained these days by reruns of “Rudy” and a lucrative network television contract. Despite some in-state pressure by objecting politicians, Connecticut, also of the Big East, has agreed to play Notre Dame in a six-year series without the luxury of a home game at its publicly funded Rentschler Field.

Notre Dame may love Rutgers, but as soon as Mulcahy asked for a competitive campus edge every other season, a true partnership, Notre Dame went looking to leverage someone else.

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Makes you wonder why the overcrowded Big East puts up with Notre Dame in the first place. If it regains its football prominence under Coach Charlie Weis, who reportedly has a throwback recruiting class to soothe the pain of the 3-9 debacle last fall, the Irish will have no reason to question the viability of remaining independent. If the losing continues to the point where a conference affiliation becomes the ultimate concession to contemporary reality, the Big Ten and its natural Midwest rivalries will be impossible to resist.

Good for Mulcahy, then, for not giving in, for getting this one right, even if he didn’t have much choice, considering he still has a stadium to upgrade.

On the ethical front, the team he calls the athletic department’s “flagship” also scored last week in the N.C.A.A.’s Academic Progress Report, as one of six Bowl Subdivision colleges to be rated in the top 10 percent of the study’s four-year cycle. The other ones were Duke, Stanford, Rice, Air Force and Navy.

“Good company,” Mulcahy said.

Notre Dame excluded.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Sit On You

Spotted By The Roving Photographer...

Saturday, April 26, 2008

QUIT

GOT MARRIED

Who Would You Rather?

Blossom's "Six"

OR

Full House's "Kimmy"

Looks Like Brian's Been Working Out

And His Wikipedia Page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Stann

Friday, April 25, 2008

POISON SUMMER TOUR DATES

August 5 - Bethlehem, PA

August 8 - Hershey, PA

August 10 - Pittsburgh, PA

OW!

Thursday, April 24, 2008

A number of things that probably took place that evening:

1.) She was taken home
2.) Hunger was felt
3.) Anticipation ran high
4.) Keys were found
5.) The engine was turned on
6.) Light was seen; she was let go
7.) Ronnie sang: be my little baby

Now check out how hot his daughter is...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3cmNCdLrwo

If you could wear only one shirt for an entire week.....

......would this be the one you would choose???

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

"Yous guys down dere playin' Intendo?"

Check out this website. You can play almost every Nintendo game right on your computer!

www.nintendo8.com

Just click on the category bar at the top of the screen to see all the games.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Fun With Puzzles!

"It was a ghost... it slimed me!"

Redneck Tank Top (look closely).

Thursday, April 17, 2008

WTF?

This was posted in the former blaaaaaaaag. Check out your zip code. Look at these guys (and girls??) - I mean, they just look creeeeeepy!

For example:

http://www.pameganslaw.state.pa.us/OffenderDetail.aspx?text=dcddeidb&dt=HCEKCFDDL4EENFENDJ4da

http://www.defunctparks.com/parks/PA/indexPA.htm

Some great stuff from NE PA. This photo was taken at Don Hanson's Amusement Park in Harveys Lake, Pa.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

She's Fat. She's Ugly. She's Crude. She's Goddamn Hilarious.

Quite Possibly the Greatest Video... EVER!

Monday, April 14, 2008

Randoo!

http://robertlantka.com/home/

Metcho The Gypsy Dog

When the game was a game...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf4p8qOc1Jc

Quite possibly the most compelling video thine eyes have ever seen.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

SCHWEATY

"He's sweaty....he's covered in confetti....and his name is Giacometti."

- S. Robert Druck

Friday, April 11, 2008

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Me Chinese, me play joke...

"Hi, my name is Jeff, and I respectfully disagree with you and your
country's practices and beliefs."

ITS AN EPEDEMIC!!!

Guess My Bro and I Were a Bad Influence...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3337641

M.W.I. (Mowing While Intoxicated)

Bonus Vids:

No Diamond Will Ever Sparkle This Brightly!

We Are...

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2008/04/07/lion_denies_charges.aspx

Rosebud.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Name That Groom...

Monday, April 7, 2008

"I've got a murder boner!"

Indoor Gardening Tips from a Man Who's Very Scared of Plants.

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OK, Who'd Do Her First?

World's smallest girl proud of her tiny size
By Kate Day

The Telegraph

At just 1ft 11 in tall, she is dwarfed by her neighbour's baby, but Jyoti Amge is 15 years old.

The teenager, who is the world's smallest girl according to the Indian Book of Records, has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia. Now fully grown, she weighs just 11 lb.

"I am proud of being small. I love the attention I get," she told the Sunday Mirror.

A confident of Amge, Sean Triano also added that he too is, "Proud to be small. It's no big deal. I have to say, I love the attention too."