LOL....the line about Downtown Lad is classic.

And since it's origin is buried in a different thread, it's the kind of inside joke that has some staying power.

Thanks for the blogroll addition, by the way. :)

Dude, you'd fit in great in Pittsburgh. Basketball is practically nonexistant here, you'd actually have to go out of your way to find someone that knows anything about it, especially once Pitt is out of the runnings. I don't care about it, and I can only think of a very few people that do.

Now football, on the other hand, is more like the mandatory local religion than a hobby. My 87 year old grandma calls me up to talk about the Steelers.

Sounds like Heaven, Francis. Football is where it's at.

Jack,

No problema on the link.

Wow, another heterosexual male who knows or cares nothing about "The Madness". I've given up - when theguy at the store assumes I'm buying a bag of potato chips because there are basketball games going on, I just feign enthusiasm.

"Yeah, whoa boy"

WFCANCAA

look at that... the slow white guy passed the ball to the tall black guy and he put that ball right through that circle-li-doo thingee there, he sure did...

whoa... another thirty-second time out... could this get any more intense...

Hey..don't look at me..I'm the guy who wrote a whole post about a "Bob Dylan Betting Pool" being better than the Madness over at the Blogtower.

Of course, I also put up a copy of that puzzling map the NCAA calls a "bracket" for everyone to print out. Just, you know, to keep pretentious folks like Downtown Lad away.....

March Madness. Snooze.

Wake me up when the one real sport is back in action. Hockey, is where it's at.

Thanks for that Ace.

Haha, funny stuff.

All I have to say is:

Go Tar Heels! =)

I'm right there with you.....basketball does not interest me at all. Once football season is over, that's about it for sports as far as I'm concerned. Don't be afraid to speak out about your basketball apathy...there are many of us

TAR is sport now that they finally have a team that knows what the race is about. I'm totally loving Romber.

You guys are so gay:)

I'll stand up to be identified as a member of the basketball ambivalent. Thanks for making it finally ok to say it, man.

Cowboy Action Shooting... now that's a sport.
Get dressed up in old-timey clothes and shoot guns.

Doc Peabody, Painless Dentist & Proctologist
aka
Man of Substance

Dentist and proctologist? You work on a lot of Leftards, I bet.

Personally, I'm a huge fan of march madness (have been for the last 12 years), but I agree with magnetism87 completely. See - New England-based teams can't win in hockey. The NHL, anyway...

Up until 3 weeks ago I hated basketball, largely b/c I had no fucking clue what was happening at any time during the game (what was a foul? that guy walking over there? how is that a foul? WTF is going on?)

Anyway, I was extremely inebriated with some pals one evening and they were o kind as to explain the game.

Now I still don't give a fuck about basketball, but at least i understand the point of the game (if you can call something a "game" when each side scores 40-50 goals on the other in the course of a match).

Now, World's Strongest Man, that's a sport.

(although this would merely confirm my closetedness to Lad, I'm sure)

Don't get me wrong, there are some things I really like about basketball. For instance, the riots are great - I could watch those slow-motion shots of beer being thrown in players' faces, punches being thrown at fans and chairs flying throught the air for hours. But the rest is really boring.

(and 155 comments on the Lad thread? that's insane. it was only 80 when I left yesterday)

Hobgoblin,

37 (+/- 1) of those 155 comments were by Loft Lad. Some perverse urge made me go back and count.

As far as sports go, I'm from Cincinnati. The urge to watch or follow professional sports was systematically beaten out of me during the 90s as part of the US Army's secret psychological warfare experiment codenamed: "The Cincinnati Bengals/The Cincinnati Reds".

I get a content warning on S0crates, ace? what gives?

Alex, I'm sure I left about 40 then.

What can I say, I'm a glutton for punishment.

Really, though, better to showcase him as a troll through one long thread than allow him to gain quasi-contributor status over months before we become aware of his trollness like CedarAss.

Hey Man of Substance, what about High Power Matches?

Those you get to shoot REAL guns (laughing at the guy with percussion caps as I fire off a 20 rd. mag of .308)

"I get a content warning on S0crates, ace? what gives?"

I think the content filter was just suprised that anybody commenting here would know who that is and assumed it must be an anagram for the old marble sack!

Ace - When I have friends over to watch March Madness on my 70 inch HDTV, trust me, you won't be invited.

So you have nothing to worry about.

The Amazing Race is so totally a sport!

[...and no squeaking shoes, either -- yik!]

When I have friends over to watch March Madness on my 70 inch HDTV, trust me, you won't be invited.

Wow. You're like Thurston Howell, only not married, and not living on a desert isle.

lmao, ace. lmao

I wonder if he calls his sugar sphincter "lovey"

Ace:

Thurston Howell III: Went out for a "three hour cruise" and ended up on a desert isle.

Downtown Lad: Went out for a "three hour cruise" and ended up in 15 different men's rooms up and down the Jersey Turnpike.

Jack M - Wow. You weren't so rude when you were sucking my cock last week and I blew a load all over your face.

Oh - now I get it. Jack M. was pissed off that I didn't let him swallow. He digs that.

Shhhh...Downtown Lad...I'm still talking about what a kick-ass wedding my girlfriend and I are going to have.

Probably will hold it in that beautiful old Catholic Church (St. Louis Cathedral) in Jackson Square, New Orleans.

We'll be surrounded by friends and our families will beam with pride.

Then, we'll settle into a nice married life enjoying all the privileges and benefits that accrue.

Maybe, after a few years, we'll even start our own little family, with the family name being passed on to another generation.

Sounds nice, doesn't it?

Hell yeah. Married guys give the best head.

I speak from experience.

Except for that Catholic part. I've never really been into cults....

It should be easy for you now, you have a blog! Just invite suggestions from readers and you'll never have to worry about your spit-bubble again. Just say:

"Illinois looks good, of course, but watch out for North Carolina. And do you believe that four-seed for Louisville? WTF?". Then people will leave you alone.

Also, try to work the word "Gonzaga" into the conversation. For some reason, that helps lend legitimacy to what you're saying. Dunno why, it just does...

Illinois looks good????

They look more than good my friend.

"You're not into The Madness, man?" Ummm, no I'm not. I liked bball once upon a time before it was populated by 10 foot freaks who are trying to prove how "bad" they are by slapping around smaller middle aged men in public (called coaches) teenage fans, and rioting to look "cool" on TV.

If Football ever turns into the total disgrace this sport has become I'll stop watching it too.