What, no Pee Wee's House of Porn?
Feb. 5th, 2007 07:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogI've commented before that hair salons are home to the cutest, cleverest, tackiest names. Aristocuts. Pharoah's Hair-um. The Cut Hut. Hair I Am. The Mane Event. I am not making any of these up.
I am, however, sadly mistaken about them being the holders of the Tacky Title. In checking out a phone call just now that the kid's school is closed- and it is, oh happy joy- I went online to the local TV station website which lists the school closings, but only after BUSINESSES, COLLEGES (which has three ticky boxes: THEY'RE ALL OPEN, THEY'RE ALL CLOSED EXCEPT UB, AND UB'S CLOSED- THE WORLD'S ABOUT TO END), and your one-stop source for the tackiest names in all history, DAY CARE CENTERS.
I vaguely remembered this phenomenon. Sometime in my own high school years (yes, we had the wireless back then, shut up), there was a prolonged stretch of snow and school closings, and a place called "Nanny's Nursery" got itself on the list every day for a week, where it remains, at least in my own head, 30 years later. (I'm convinced some of these places stay closed just to get the free advertising from being in the closing announcements.)
There's no Nanny's Nursery in Western New York to shutter its playhouse today, but here are just a few of the day care centers which are closed:
Jellyroll Junction
Kiddieland Childcare Center
Pumpkins Quality Day Care
Puna's Pumpkin Patch
Tender Loving Childcare
and I SO do not want to know anything about this one:
CAO Head Start Rubby Butts
----
So we'll be having mirth and merriment from the next room while we try to get some work done. Naturally, all the big-kid offices will be open today, since nobody cares if we're freezing our arses to parses in this minus-300 wind chill. I will, however, be calling ahead before actually going anywhere, just in case.
My final thoughts and questions about last night's festivities:
Yawn.
I'm still shocked by the use of an actual marching band during a televised halftime show. Forget the pre-millenial lyrics from later in the show; here, Prince was partying like it was 1969. My wife must have been wondering why I was muttering "one-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight-hit-and-close" in my sleep. Even more amazing, the game was won by the team from my conference (as close to a rooting interest as I can muster for these two); when I was a band fag, the home team never won when we played at halftime.
In my profession, at least, nobody gives a shit where you went to law school, much less college, after about the first six months. So what's all this Vol love for Manning on account of him graduating from UT in 1978?
Everyone in Buffalo got an email this morning from William B. Davis: Just because we let Manning win one, don't think the Bills will ever win a Super Bowl.
The first person to use "instant classic" to describe the game itself will be murdered. By use of Chinese water torture. There should never be a championship game played again at Soilmaster Stadium until they put a roof over the dump. I'm sure the NFL suits will be crowing about how tough their gladiators were, playing down there in the driving rain, but those suits were up in luxury suites while the hoi poloi, who were paying $600 a ticket if they were lucky, had to endure being pelted on for the entire proceeding and, surprise surprise, the concessionaires ran out of plastic ponchos.
I liked the dalmatian ad the best, but it's the Snickers one that made me laugh the loudest. In a manly sort of way.
And if Viacom is so pissed off at YouTube about allowing uploads of their content, why are they allowing all the commercials and halftime clips from their network's broadcast to be up there, when they know every pimply-faced geek with a DVR is gonna be posting them?
Pitchers and catchers report, pitchers and catchers report, pitch....
I am, however, sadly mistaken about them being the holders of the Tacky Title. In checking out a phone call just now that the kid's school is closed- and it is, oh happy joy- I went online to the local TV station website which lists the school closings, but only after BUSINESSES, COLLEGES (which has three ticky boxes: THEY'RE ALL OPEN, THEY'RE ALL CLOSED EXCEPT UB, AND UB'S CLOSED- THE WORLD'S ABOUT TO END), and your one-stop source for the tackiest names in all history, DAY CARE CENTERS.
I vaguely remembered this phenomenon. Sometime in my own high school years (yes, we had the wireless back then, shut up), there was a prolonged stretch of snow and school closings, and a place called "Nanny's Nursery" got itself on the list every day for a week, where it remains, at least in my own head, 30 years later. (I'm convinced some of these places stay closed just to get the free advertising from being in the closing announcements.)
There's no Nanny's Nursery in Western New York to shutter its playhouse today, but here are just a few of the day care centers which are closed:
Jellyroll Junction
Kiddieland Childcare Center
Pumpkins Quality Day Care
Puna's Pumpkin Patch
Tender Loving Childcare
and I SO do not want to know anything about this one:
CAO Head Start Rubby Butts
----
So we'll be having mirth and merriment from the next room while we try to get some work done. Naturally, all the big-kid offices will be open today, since nobody cares if we're freezing our arses to parses in this minus-300 wind chill. I will, however, be calling ahead before actually going anywhere, just in case.
My final thoughts and questions about last night's festivities:
Yawn.
I'm still shocked by the use of an actual marching band during a televised halftime show. Forget the pre-millenial lyrics from later in the show; here, Prince was partying like it was 1969. My wife must have been wondering why I was muttering "one-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight-hit-and-close" in my sleep. Even more amazing, the game was won by the team from my conference (as close to a rooting interest as I can muster for these two); when I was a band fag, the home team never won when we played at halftime.
In my profession, at least, nobody gives a shit where you went to law school, much less college, after about the first six months. So what's all this Vol love for Manning on account of him graduating from UT in 1978?
Everyone in Buffalo got an email this morning from William B. Davis: Just because we let Manning win one, don't think the Bills will ever win a Super Bowl.
The first person to use "instant classic" to describe the game itself will be murdered. By use of Chinese water torture. There should never be a championship game played again at Soilmaster Stadium until they put a roof over the dump. I'm sure the NFL suits will be crowing about how tough their gladiators were, playing down there in the driving rain, but those suits were up in luxury suites while the hoi poloi, who were paying $600 a ticket if they were lucky, had to endure being pelted on for the entire proceeding and, surprise surprise, the concessionaires ran out of plastic ponchos.
I liked the dalmatian ad the best, but it's the Snickers one that made me laugh the loudest. In a manly sort of way.
And if Viacom is so pissed off at YouTube about allowing uploads of their content, why are they allowing all the commercials and halftime clips from their network's broadcast to be up there, when they know every pimply-faced geek with a DVR is gonna be posting them?
Pitchers and catchers report, pitchers and catchers report, pitch....
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Date: 2007-02-05 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-05 02:21 pm (UTC)We just prefer to do it alone.
(Oh, and hey- Wooshie made the paper!)
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20070205/1074367.asp
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Date: 2007-02-05 02:42 pm (UTC)Tennessee fans are...well...fanatics, so we follow our own quite closely. 1978, huh, now that I know he's 51 yrs old, I'm EVEN MORE impressed!!! BTW, there are still people driving around here with the 1998 NCAA National Champs license plates on their cars. We are REALLY serious about this stuff.
I totally dug that Prince used a marching band. For once, people actually saw the band at halftime instead of going to potty or buy really bad pizza at concessions. I feel vindicated.
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Date: 2007-02-05 05:05 pm (UTC)And yes, as Terri said, there are still PLENTY of people with 1998 National Champs license tags on their cars, so UT football is Serious Business in these parts (even moreso in Knoxville. It's craziness.) Peyton Fever was running rampant this weekend. He actually still does a lot of commercials and such for this area, so he's stayed in touch with his college team, which is cool, I suppose.