Posted by: Toadsly
on May 10, 2011
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Hey, Slick, did you forget to give the mother of your children a Mother’s Day gift? Cuz you’re too cheap, or too lazy, or too smug to give a damn! Well, she just may make a cuckold of thee! Ever hear of Ashley Madison (AM)? It’s an online dating site with nine million members! Get a load of AM’s motto: Life is short. Have an affair. And the Monday after Mother’s Day is the second busiest day (Valentine’s Day is first) for women signing up to find illicit lovers!
Posted by: Toadsly
on May 08, 2011
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Posted by: Toadsly
on May 07, 2011
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Out here in Fombell, the chipmunks are chirping their Springtime oratorios! These wildly- peripatetic, happy little critters are scampering on walls and roofs and across dandelion-dotted yards. I’m putting out my live traps, and soon I’ll have scores of these cute ground squirrels drinking beer and eating peanut butter in their own private cages. If you put them together, they’ll kill each other. The ones that won’t eat, I sell for snake food! When the others get nice and fat – they aren’t able to turn around in their miniscule containers – I humanely euthanize them. How? I put them in my freezer for 24 hours. Then I gut’em; chop off their heads and legs; skin’em; de-bone’em, and cook’em up. Here’s my recipe for chip & dale garlicky stew:
Posted by: rnm44
on May 07, 2011
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Somewhere in God-forsaken Afghanistan there is a young soldier wishing he or she was back home. Waiting for the mail....treasuring every word from the US, yearning to celebrate Mother's Day tomorrow the way it used to be, this rarely thought about young person must wonder just when this whole mess is going to end. I get sick to my stomach when I hear phrases like " The US will stand down after we make sure the Afghans will stand up." This is usually followed eventually by a report that someone dressed as an Afghan ally has murdered more of our beloved sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, Moms and Dads.
Didn't we go there to find Bin Laden? Isn't the AL queda presence almost nothing there these days? ( Seems like Yemen and Somalia are the new hot spots ) Isn't it time to declare victory?
Somewhere in that miserable and backward country that young man or woman deserves a chance to live a real life...to come home to the family that misses him or her every moment of every day. For God's sake, lets bring that war weary soul home alive...and not in a casket. Enough is Enough....One thousand four hundred and sixty one caskets so far....more than enough. We ought to support these troops...by giving them the chance to live.
Posted by: mattgajtka
on May 06, 2011
By most approximations, the Tampa Bay Lightning shockingly booting the Washington Capitals out of the Stanley Cup playoffs should be sufficient to brighten the day of any Pittsburgh Penguins fan.
Posted by: bigswa1
on May 05, 2011
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STEEL CURTAIN RADIO #134: WTF!!! RASHARD
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Posted by: Toadsly
on May 04, 2011
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Beheading was reserved for nobility before the French Revolution. Commoners were hanged or burned or pulled apart by wild horses or pulverized on the wheel. An axe or large-bladed, two-handed sword was used to severe the victim’s head. If the axe was sharp, and the executioner skilled, and the condemned didn’t resist, death was quick and almost painless. Frequently that was not the case, and several “chops” were needed to finish the grisly task. The executioner of Mary, Queen of Scots, unsuccessful after two whacks, then used the axe like a knife and sawed off her still-attached head. In 1541, Margaret Pole, the Countess of Salisbury, refused to cooperate and be still at the Tower of London block. When the executioner hit squirming Pole in her shoulder, she jumped from the block and was pursued by the axe man. Ten strikes later, her head was detached. So, when Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin suggested, during the French Revolution, that all condemned Frenchmen be executed humanely and equally by decapitation, it was only natural he demanded it be accomplished with a reliable, one-chop machine. The task of designing this device was relegated to Dr. Antoine Louis. He patterned it after existing guillotine-like mechanical beheading machines; namely, the Scottish Maiden and the Halifax Gibbet. A German harpsichord builder, Tobias Schmidt, constructed the first guillotine using Louis’ design. And, as they say, “The rest is history!”
Posted by: mattgajtka
on May 04, 2011
Following the Pittsburgh Penguins’ seven-game loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, coach Dan Bylsma absorbed perhaps the first real criticism of his two-plus years in Pittsburgh.
Posted by: rnm44
on May 03, 2011
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Why would someone chose to attend an event where people are expected to be able to laugh at themselves....if they were historically unable to do that? Watching night at the correspondent's dinner in Washington was puzzling. The President laughed at himself...as did most of the other guests who were teased and poked at, generally with a good natured appearance at least. Good old Newt was having a good time...and Chris Matthews laughed when he was compared to an auctioneer, but poor Donald looked like he was about to explode....imagine being a guest at THAT table! I always found the guy to be kinda interesting...clever...mostly successful, ruthless etc...but since he became such a vocal "birther",,,I really lost any respect for him as well as any interest in what he had to say. Watching him last night with such a furious expression on his face made me much more aware of what they mean by a "narcissistic wounding".
If the Pg ever decided to do a "roast" for us bloggers, I'd either attend well prepared to chuckle at some of my more vociferous proclamations, or be called out for being so disrespectful to Ricky Santorum and Donny Rumsfield, but I'd certainly expect to be teased and taunted....or I'd stay the hell home.
Posted by: mattgajtka
on May 02, 2011
Joe Depto, Pittsburgh correspondent for TheFourthPeriod.com, helped Matt Gajtka put a wrap on the Penguins' 2010-11 season on the Polish Prodigy Podcast. How disappointed should fans be about the first-round loss to the Lightning? Should there be continuing worries about Sidney Crosby's health? What might the offseason bring as far as free agency goes? Joe and Matt tackled these questions and more from the realm of Pittsburgh sports.
