{"id":1354,"date":"2007-11-06T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2007-12-29T00:36:56","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T06:36:56","slug":"monday-night-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/06\/monday-night-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We added a new category to The Window Game for this week:  COGIC courtesy cars.  It easily won the night, with a grand total of 79 cars passing by the window during the time the people playing the game (the scorecard got passed around several times) were there.  Starting today we&#8217;ll count COGIC hats too.<\/p>\n<p>Other results from The Window Game:  We counted 23 bums, 15 police cars, 7 FUMOTs (f&#8217;d up modes of transportation), 8 RUPs (really ugly people), 15 hooptys, 2 appearances by Original Scratchy and 5 by New, Improved Scratchy, 8 cars that made illegal turns, 3 cars that went the wrong way up Second, and 30 buses.  When Bicycle Bobby took over the game he decided to add a new category &#8211; taxi cabs &#8211; and we counted 37 of those.  That&#8217;s the great thing about The Window Game, you can make it up as you go.<\/p>\n<p>BBQ Clint added a &#8220;MILF&#8221; category Sunday when he played, and counted two of them.  My favorite blogger\/MILF was Downtown with her two girls that afternoon, and it&#8217;s entirely possible that she accounted for one of the marks on the scorecard.<\/p>\n<p>One of the cooks told me he plays The Window Game at home, where he can see the Exxon at Summer and Graham out his window.  Yeah, any place there&#8217;s an Exxon parking lot would be a great place to do it.  He&#8217;s had to modify the categories some &#8211; apparently &#8220;people talking to themselves&#8221; is a hot category in that area.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder if the &#8220;Suck My Blog&#8221; team will be back at trivia tonight to get their ass handed to them by the Rapscallions again.  Heh&#8230; hope they didn&#8217;t mind my trash-talking last week.  I&#8217;ve been told that they&#8217;re a really good group of people.  If I trash-talk someone in my blog it generally means I think a lot of them&#8230; look at all the grief I give Pete.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, Pete and I went 1-1 in pool last night, although in his defense he was distracted by a beautiful woman during the game I won.<\/p>\n<p>The 5:00 waitress who had the window section showed up and took over my tab.  She saw me drinking a Blue Moon, and said, &#8220;Do you know how many calories that has?  You need to go on a diet.  I&#8217;m bringing you light beer for the rest of the night.&#8221;  At least she brought me Amstel Light and not that swill that John D drinks.  Later the waitress told me that I needed to order some Rocket Tots so she could eat them.  Then she wrote &#8220;Paul is a LOSER!!!&#8221; on my Window Game scorecard.  I hope the Saucer will understand if I don&#8217;t vote for them for Best Service in the 2008 Best of Memphis poll.  For the remainder of this week I&#8217;m going to round up every COGIC saint I can find, bring them in the Saucer, and sit them in her section.<\/p>\n<p>In the news:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2007\/nov\/06\/lunati-pleads-guilty-faces-jail\/\">The federal government now owns the Mt. Moriah Center for the Performing Arts, and Ralph Lunati is going to jail.<\/a>  Apparently it&#8217;s a form of prostitution if you have live skank-on-skank sex shows and have an ATM in your club.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like this mess with the City Schools and their Central Nutrition Center is going to keep getting bigger and bigger.  When I worked for MCS last spring, I was taken on a tour of the CNC and they spoke of it as if it was their crown jewel.  I didn&#8217;t meet the director but I met several of the other employees and they all seemed like honest, hard-working people.  I hope they come out of this all right.  I still have the hairnet I wore when I took the tour.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2008\/president\/us\/republican_presidential_nomination-192.html\">RealClearPolitics&#8217; latest poll analysis<\/a>, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is gaining ground in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.  Normally I&#8217;m not a fan of Republicans, but as a former Arkansan I can say that Huckabee did a very good job as governor.  Still doubt I&#8217;ll vote for him though&#8230; I can&#8217;t stand the thought of a Republican in the White House nominating right-wing Supreme Court justices.  At this point I&#8217;m undecided but leaning Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you wondering when I&#8217;ll ever get the long-ass Halloween hair cut, I have an appointment for tomorrow at 1 PM.  I still plan on keep it long.  Just need a maintenance trim since it&#8217;s been almost 10 weeks since I got a haircut.<\/p>\n<p>Someone suggested that I go to court and get my middle name changed to something beginning with a &#8220;B&#8221; so my initials would be &#8220;PBR.&#8221;  That&#8217;s not a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s enough for now.  Time to hit Publish and see if Blogger will cooperate.  Internet connection is having problems again, so I may take the laptop to the Second Street branch office this afternoon.  (Edit:  I&#8217;m now at the branch office.  Chicken tacos for lunch.  Redhook ESB is the Fire Sale.  I&#8217;ve been trying to publish this post for the last two hours.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We added a new category to The Window Game for this week: COGIC courtesy cars. It easily won the night, with a grand total of 79 cars passing by the window during the time the people playing the game (the scorecard got passed around several times) were there. Starting today we&#8217;ll count COGIC hats too. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/06\/monday-night-recap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday night recap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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