Now this is the kind of spark the chess world could use (NSFW): Shaq vs Kobe is not over
Topalov burning Kramnik in a freestyle rap…that would be cool.
This next video is not something the chess world needs, but it’s related to the first. Its quality is 100% worthy of this website, though…
Congratulations to Tom of The Everyday Christian for winning the March Madness bracket this year! It came down to the last game, and Memphis simply couldn’t hit any free throws to put Kansas away.
And for your prize…the Mascot did offer a custom T-shirt or mug. Or since it is a college basketball contest, you could get a UT T-shirt or something…just e-mail me and let me know.
Of course to receive it means you’ll have to give me an actual address…which I could sell to a third-party! Bwa ha ha ha!
…are looking to improve on their 13-59 record. They currently trail the Boston Celtics 22-4.
The good news is the same as last time: they will probably score more points before the game is over.
I’m getting a little resentful that the about page still says I only do 2% of the work around here. It’s been days since Mr. Boss gave you a decent post. It’s almost like he was hoping some of you readers would wish him happy birthday, then just took off. Looks like it’s up to me to save the site…
So get this: I was eating lunch last Sunday, trying to decide on my college basketball bracket. I stared into my bowl of Chunky Soup, bending my massive intellect into the task at hand. All of a sudden, I received a flash of inspiration…the chunks of food formed an image of the Virgin Mary! (See picture, below.)
It was obvious: Mount Saint Mary would upset North Carolina. All the other picks just kinda fell into place after that.
Mount Saint Mary ended up losing by 39.
I sold the bowl of soup on eBay for $17. Images of Mary in random objects sure don’t go for as much as they used to.
A tournament of a different type. March Madness is upon us, and everyone’s filling out brackets trying to win stuff. Liquid Egg Product recognizes the thirst of the people to brag about their bracketology skills, so is offering a contest of its own via ESPN’s Tournament Challenge.
The Mascot has generously offered to give the winner a Mascot T-shirt or mug! The winner can customize the shirt or mug by selecting any Mascot picture (he’ll even take a custom photo if it’s not too difficult a request) and the winner’s favorite quote from the not-so-wise quotes.
Next year, I hope he offers a prize that someone will actually want.
To join:
1. Register on ESPN.com at the Tournament Challenge. (Uncheck the “offers” so you don’t get a bunch of unwanted e-mail.)
2. Join the Liquid Egg Product group.
3. Create a bracket.
That’s it! Imagine the joy you’ll experience by owning a shirt that has this, this, or even this on the front.
are losing 28-6 to the Dallas Mavericks. They may have scored some more points since then.
Patriots fans on suicide watch notwithstanding, this was the BEST S**** B*** game I’ve seen in my lifetime. I do not care that my prediction on the game was wrong; most people in this country seemed tired of Patriots dominance and are glad of the result.
Tonight I went to a S**** B*** party, where everyone was rooting for the Giants. For the longest time, I was worried that the worst possible result would occur: the Patriots would win by 11 or fewer points, meaning the Mascot was right about the game’s spread AND his original pick of the Patriots winning it all. But the Giants’ stifling defense (no way Eli was the game’s MVP) pressured Brady all night, limiting the Pats’ record-breaking offense to 14 points.
So mucho congrats to the New York Football Giants; after winning 3 road playoff games and knocking off the 18-0 juggernaut, they’ve more than proved themselves to be worthy champions. After some discussion, we believe that Giants management is satisfied with coach Tom Coughlin’s job performance and will allow him to keep his job.
Most of the commercials were insipid or mediocre. Bud Light’s first commercial with the firebreathing was a complete ripoff of the Sonic commercials, and not even as well done.
My favorite was the one with Shaq as a horse hockey jockey, which was senselessly hilarious. He won because of Vitamin Water, or something like that.
I fully expect the Mascot’s favorite was the Life Water one, with the dancing lizards and, most importantly, a hot dancing chick (he’s busy right now on GoDaddy looking for the “viewer discretion advised” ad they couldn’t show on TV).
Tonight, I smoked for the first time. It was with something called a hookah (see picture), and the stuff I smoked was apparently some concoction consisting mostly of molasses, with some flavoring and other random stuff including a bit of tobacco. When I smoked too fast, I got dizzy, but mostly it didn’t seem to have much effect. It’s the kind of thing I’ll do to show willingness to be social, but not go out of the way to look for.
Please note: I haven’t checked e-mail in about three weeks, partly because I can’t be on my usual e-mail checking machine. I’ll try to get to it this weekend. Now that’s out of the way…
Rocky Rook was curious about this site’s tagline, the Shawn Bradley of Weblogs. I’m going to try to make this as un-boring as possible, because it’s not that good of a story come to think of it.
For reference, I have inserted a picture of Shawn Bradley below. (He’s the dunkee, not the dunker.)
The first incarnation of this site was back in late 2006. The name “Liquid Egg Product” came from the cartons of…substance…that McDonald’s uses for some of their egg-containing breakfasts. (I’m forever grateful to the McD’s employee who thought it was a good idea to set the carton close enough to the counter that the customers could read it.) Since blogs are “supposed” to have a tagline, and I was pretty sure the blog would be filled with all sorts of foolishness, the tagline became “The Ronald McDonald of Weblogs”.
My web host accidentally destroyed my database in May 2007, so down went that site. I switched to WordPress, and decided to change the tagline. Why?
Mainly because of Dan LeBatard, who hosts a sports talk radio show that is often unbelievably dumb and inane (which I admit, will occasionally listen to and enjoy). One of his promos has him as McDan McLeBatard hosting “the Ronald McDonald of radio shows” or something like that.
There’s no way I was going to have the same tagline as him.
Shawn Bradley fit very well because he’s:
All of which describe either me as a person or this website (usually both).
I want to hear about how some of you came up with your names (in some cases, what the deuce do they mean?). Where does gorckat come from? Wahrheit sounds German for something-or-the-other. And we never got an explanation about the now defunct ookweb… whatever the deuce it was. And so forth.
Last night, the Baylor men’s basketball team defeated Texas A&M 116-110 in a quintuple overtime slugfest. Although 5 Baylor players fouled out, the team actually hit its free throws to get the win.
The game lasted so long that even one of the referees got confused. In the break before the start of the fourth overtime, a referee approached a member of the media and asked if triple overtime was about to begin. When told it was four, he shook his head and walked off.
While BU women’s basketball has been good for some time (winning a national title a few years ago), the men’s squad hasn’t been ranked in the top 25 since 1969.
