Week 8 picks

Wow. I was tired last night. I feel really bad about posting the picks on the day of the games, but I'm posting before 7AM EST, so it should be okay.

Backlog Bob's picks for Week 8 of the NFL (fanfare, cheering)

1. Vikings @ Panthers - Panthers by 7 (I refuse to pick the Vikes for the rest of the season.)

2. Packers @ Bengals - Bengals by 14 (The Packers offense might be just tame enough for Cincy's D.)

3. Cardinals @ Cowboys - Cowboys by 6 (FG fest - Cards might not reach the endzone all day. Then again, 'Boys might not either.)

4. Bears @ Lions - Lions by 3 (Garcia returns, Lions win by avoiding Chicago's ground war.)

5. Browns @ Texans - Texans by 3 (Their offense has a chance to redeem itself against another truly bad team.)

6. Redskins @ Giants - Giants by 7 (You'd never know until you look at both teams' home/away stats.)

7. Jaguars @ Rams - Jaguars by 10 (The Rams are exhausted from 7 straight weeks of play, Martz is out, and they have a back-up QB going up against the 2nd stingiest pass defense in the league... but they are playing in St. Louis.)

8. Raiders @ Titans - Titans by 7 (My brain is yelling at me here: my gut told me to pick the Titans and not the Raiders last week, and was wrong both times... oh well. I still think the Raiders stink, so there.)

9. Dolphins @ Saints - Saints by 7 (Here's where NO stops the slide - what else can you do against the Dolphins?)

10. Chiefs @ Chargers - Chiefs by 13 (I can't stand everyone saying that the Chargers were this close, the Chargers blow out their opponents when they win, the Chargers are underrated, blah, blah, blah. The mediocre Chiefs will go to San Diego, put that whining to rest by beating the Chargers 41-28.)

11. Eagles @ Broncos - Broncos by 6 (Home field advantage.)

12. Buccaneers @ 49ers - Bucs by 13 (The Bucs will face the Redskins in week 10 without having played a good team.)

13. Bills @ Patriots - Pats by 6 (It's that time of year again, when playing in Foxborough, Mass. at night is not pleasant - unless you're a New England Patriot.

-Monday Night-
14. Ravens @ Steelers - Steelers by 13 (I'll give the Ravens D some credit by saying that Pittsburgh might have to score from a distance at times, but their offense -their what?- won't give them very much of a chance to stop the Steelers from scoring.)

Note: I'm glad Atlanta and NYJ got a bye this week. Watching them on Monday, you could tell they really needed it.

Backlog Bob

Thanks to Bertollis®...

I'm now an Italian chef! In fact, when I pull Bertollis® brand frozen Italian dinners out of the freezer and plop them into boiling water, I get a a flavor that's better than any 5-star Italian restaurant could match - and in the comfort of my own home, at a fraction of the price! The only difference is the obvious superiority of my own Bertollis® brand frozen Italian dinners!

I would like to express my disdain and ill will to all the Italian chefs who have been robbing me blind all these years with their overpriced food. I hope you can see me scraping the bottom of my chin with the fingernail side of my open hand, because I'm doing it just for you, Italian chefs! Yeah, I'm talking to you! You want a piece of me? You want a piece of my Bertollis® brand frozen Italian dinner? Too bad, because it's too delicious to share. Especially with the likes of you, you overpriced Italian food-mongers! So go back to your poker game in your businessless Italian restaurant kitchen! No one needs you, now that we have Bertollis® brand frozen Italian dinners!

Backlog Bob

I found this interesting

It's a little bit of early Halloween fare.

Backlog Bob

This is a good article...

on Occam's Razor. It has lots of explanations, examples, and details. Very thorough.

Backlog Bob

"Alibis" we don't need

I was just listening to "Talking out of Turn" by the Moody Blues (still am for another minute or so, in fact), and I heard the "alibi" line (buy the cd and listen to the song if you want to hear it). Well, it got me to thinking: I hate the use of the word "alibi" as a rhyming word, when it makes absolute nonsense of the context. I love the rest of the song, but it almost ruins it for me to hear... that line. I can't even put it down here, I hate it so much. Same with that "Big Girls Don't Cry" song, except that song would still be asinine without the offending misuse of "alibi." So I guess they're not really all that alike. But you get my point.

Backlog Bob

CSI: NY (part II)

I'm glad CSI: NY is not my favourite show. I never get to watch it because every time I start to, I think of something to write about it before the end of the opening titles, and my apartmentmates come home and watch something else or play a video game or something. Anyways, tonight I thought of great substitute lyrics for the theme. (Remember my difficulty accepting the theme song for the show?) Observe:

Down here in the morgue/It's a smorgasbord./A meal is pretty much a given./I don't need to fight;/To eat tonight./They won't fight back as would the livin'.

It's inspired.

Backlog Bob

HWoP (what is it? like 4?)

I was browsing libertarian blogs (see my libertarian blog), and I followed a link from one to a chickblog. You know, the blogging world's equivalent of a chickflick. Well, just as some chickflicks are funny (don't worry, I won't tell which ones - just tell your girlfriend/wife that the one she wants you to see isn't one of the funny ones), this chickblog is funny, at least in the two posts I read. Anyways, she used the phrase "so unrequitedly" in reference to... well I forgot what she was talking about, but I love that phrase. That's this (week's? month's?) HWoP:

so unrequitedly

and it fits my blog too: "I pour out my soul in this blog for both of my readers, and what do I get? I blog so unrequitedly."

Don't try to use the longer word without the smaller. It's a symbiotic relationship, quite necessary for the full effect. Your boss would call it synergy. Your boss is a chump. And so you will be too if you drop "unrequitedly" in a sentence somewhere, expecting it to be funny, without support from "so." "So" is like the air support in the war-like struggle for laughter. Don't send your ground troops in alone.

There. That was funny. Don't try to deny it. Or I will so send my "air support" at you.

Backlog Bob

Ken Hamlin...

is probably going to be okay. I know that I seemed really coldhearted and fanly when I reported about Ken Hamlin's injury. Well, my own father had sustained a head injury shortly before that, and had turned out fine, and it didn't occur to me that it might be any different with Hamlin. And that's the way my family deals with suffering: put a good face on it, talk about something else, move on. Okay, not really. But as noted, Hamlin will likely be fine. His head, like my father's, is probably like emery, harder than flint.

Backlog Bob

Something funny

I suppose I should post something funny. It has been a long time since I did. (Unless you liked that Star Wars crap.) Funny stuff is good. I sure do like funny things.

I got nuthin'.

There you have it: instead of something funny, I have an overused catchphrase that is oddly apropos, and yet still not funny. Try back next week.

Backlog Bob

Oops.

I probably should have explained earlier: the AB picks have nothing to do with Atlas Bob. I realize that that was unclear. They have the same initials, I introduced them in the post that I addressed to A-Bob, and I didn't even notice the how misleading that could have been. I apologize for any misunderstanding. The AB is a system or formula for picking sports teams to win - it requires human minds only to tell it which teams are playing, and to read and report the resulting picks. It is not something I'm particularly proud of beating so far, and its relationship to reality is likely specious. In week 7, for instance, I beat the average coin-flipping result by one game, and in turn, the coin beat the AB by one game. Whoop-dee-doo, as they say.

On an almost unrelated note, I suppose I should post my picks on Thursday this week, so as not to spare myself any possible shame for a wrong pick for a game that might possibly be moved up to Friday in an effort to avoid a natural disaster that may actually fizzle... but I won't. I'm going to post my picks on Saturday, just like last week.

Backlog Bob

Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi under investigation...

for war crimes; specifically, burning the bodies of Jawas during the Jawa-sand people war almost thirty years ago in the Dune Sea, an area near the Jundland Wastes on Tatooine. Expert reporter Choskin Skeggle, a sand person who protested the war, caught the act on video. Skeggle points out that the burning Jawas appear to be pointed west, towards the Jawa holy city of Anchorhead, which leads Skeggle to believe the burning was an intentional act of psychological warfare.

Kenobi, who is believed to have outranked Skywalker, has been suspected of psychological warfare in other incidents before the alleged war crimes. Skywalker later joined the Rebel Alliance, a terrorist organization operating from Dantooine, Yavin, Hoth, and elsewhere in the galaxy. Most notably, Skywalker is suspected of participating in the terror attack which destroyed Death Star I, a mobile star base used for peaceful purposes. The attack killed approximately 31.5 million civilians. Skywalker is also thought to be behind the infamous "Sail Barge" bombing more than twenty years ago, an attack believed to be aimed at Jabba, a beloved member of the minority Hutt community, which is often accused by the RA of "gangsterism." Skywalker is even believed to be connected to the attack on Death Star II, though his friends are fond of saying "he wasn't on [the Death Star] when it blew." His detractors point out that such an assertion, while obviously true, proves nothing. Kenobi died shortly after the Jawa incident.

It is unclear whether Kenobi and Skywalker were themselves the ones who killed the Jawas, or whether they were already killed by sand people before Kenobi and Skywalker, then independent contractors for the sand people military, were called in to conduct psychological warfare against the Jawa insurgency. Given Skywalker's subsequent pattern of violence, authorities are not ruling anything out.

Skywalker is apparently an orphan, raised by moisture farmers Owen and Beru Lars, who were relatively quiet members of the Tatooine community, until an attack by the Jawa insurgency destroyed their home, killing them both. This attack took place on the same day as the alleged war crimes, and is believed by some to be the catalyst for Skywalker joining the RA. Skywalker, as an interesting side note, is rumored to be the biological son of Darth Vader, one of the most controversial figures of the Empire. Vader himself is on the record as telling Skywalker "I am your father," but it is some believe this was meant as a taunt, since Vader appeared to be trying to kill Skywalker at the time. Kenobi's family background is even more mysterious than Skywalker's, but he is known to have been a member of the now-defunct Jedi Council, a secret society led by the controversial "Master" Yoda. Also, Kenobi might be related to 18th-19th century Jewish "fence" Ikey Soloman.

Certain members of the sand people's Boesch administration are still under investigation for allegedly outing one of their own raiders whose spouse was an outspoken critic of the policy of attacking Jawas allegedly for their droid parts. This has nothing to do with the rest of the story, we just wanted to remind you of how evil the Boesch administration is.

- taken from the GP wire -

Backlog Bob

AB picks week 7

Note: I'm only posting the AB picks for week 7 and following, because it's only for comparison with my own picks (which I didn't do for weeks 1-6), and it's just too much trouble to post AB picks for weeks 1-6 just for fun.

Note 2: Correct/incorrect is just for whether or not the correct winner was picked, wildly inaccurate predictions of the actual score notwithstanding.

KC @ Miami - KC by 1 (AB correct, 1-0; BB incorrect, 0-1)
Pittsburgh @ Cincy - Cincy by 17 (AB incorrect, 1-1; BB correct, 1-1)
Detroit @ Cleveland - Cleveland by 10 (AB incorrect, 1-2; BB incorrect, 1-2)
Indy @ Houston - Indy by 22 (AB correct, 2-2; BB correct, 2-2)
GB @ Minnesota - GB by 6 (AB incorrect, 2-3; BB incorrect, 2-3)
SD @ Philly - SD by 2 (AB incorrect, 2-4; BB correct, 3-3)
NO @ St. Louis - St. Louis by 1 (AB correct, 3-4; BB correct, 4-3)
San Fran @ Washington - SF by 12 (AB incorrect, 3-5; BB correct, 5-3)
Dallas @ Seattle - Dallas by 16 (AB incorrect, 3-6; BB correct, 6-3)
Tennessee @ Arizona - Arizona by 17 (AB correct, 4-6; BB incorrect, 6-4)
Baltimore @ Chicago - Chicago by 16 (AB correct, 5-6; BB incorrect, 6-5)
Denver @ NYG - Denver by 5 (AB incorrect, 5-7; BB correct, 7-5)
Buffalo @ Oakland - Buffalo by 16 (AB incorrect, 5-8; BB incorrect, 7-6)
NYJ @ Atlanta - Atlanta by 4 (AB correct, 6-8; BB correct, 8-6)

So you see, I am more accurate so far than the AB formula, in the only comparable time frame (week 7). I think I will be more accurate in week 8 also.

Backlog Bob

Attn: Atlas Bob, re: Colts defense

The Texans. The Texans are like the NFL's division II. Before I hear anything about "parity" I want to know when was the last time an 0-5 team beat a 6-0 team in the NFL, or any other pro football league in the U.S. It probably hasn't happened above high school level anywhere in the world, but that's beside the point. The point is, the Texans are one of the two worst teams in the NFL, and I can name five defenses better than the Colts' defense. I overstated my case when I said they sucked, but this is not the blog where I'm slowed by circumspection and perfect accuracy. That's found here. This is the blog where I satirize popular culture and express outrageous opinions about football (i.e. that the Colts' D sucks). But my points that they're overrated, and that their PA/g column would grow to reflect that, still stand. If you want to point to where I was wrong in both detail and overall theme, point out that I said the Colts' offense was great and would get itself back on track. Maybe they're just playing down to their opponents, but they were tied at the half with the second worst team in the league. It should have been a blowout by that point, especially if the Colts' D is as good as you say. But the Texans are not one of the two worst because of a horrible defense, it's because of an offense that usually gets less than two hundred yards in a game, even against defenses that you don't consider great. Here are five defenses that are better than that of the Colts, and I could probably add one each week for the rest of the season, if you wanted me to.

1. Cowboys - I don't like them any more than you do, but against any team other than those from cities that start with "San" they hold 'em to less than twenty points, and some of them (Washington, Philadelphia, NYG, Seattle) have better offenses than any team the Colts have played.

2. Bucs - don't start talking to me about strength of schedule if you've been defending the Colts.

3. Ravens - lost to the Colts really badly, but then again, they have one of the three worst offenses in the league. And speaking of which, so do the

4. Bears - Still not a great team, and neither Baltimore nor Chicago has a chance at the playoffs, but then, neither did last year's

5. Redskins - Not as good at defense as they were last year, but they are still better than the Colts' defense. And their offense is so much improved, that they would have a chance to beat Indy if they had to (but I really doubt they will have to, since both teams would have to make it to the Super Bowl for them to meet this year).

I could have put the Steelers, the Jaguars, or maybe even the Seahawks on the list. All have allowed less than 300 yards/game against noticeably stronger offenses than the Colts' opponents. The Colts's defense is a lot like the Lions defense, if you will: a lot of INT's, under 300 yds/g allowed - why the difference in the win/loss column? Three reasons: Manning, Harrison, and James. Not looking as good as they did last year (or even the year before), but still a bigger part of the flawless record than Indy's D.

Yada-yada-yada. I'm sick of this discussion, because neither of us is getting anywhere with the other. Maybe we'll resolve this since I copped to overstating my case. Maybe not, and you still think they're the best in the league. I don't care. I'm going to focus on other teams, because it's the teams I don't follow as closely (Chicago, Buffalo, etc.) that mess up my picks either by winning or losing unexpectedly. I'm 8-6 in week 7 (I didn't actually pick KC), the first week I actually got around to picking. That's about 57%. I hope to improve to about 66% or so over the course of the season.

Also, I'm going to post the AB picks for week 7 and on, comparing that formula's accuracy rating against mine. See the AB picks for week 7 in my next post. (AB picks are based on a formula, and do not involve any human factors in the picking, so they are still objective, even after all the games have been played.)

Backlog Bob

Week 7 picks (recap)

Okay, until the Falcons beat the Jets on Monday, I'm 7-6 on week 7 of the NFL. (I actually called the Dolphins over the Chiefs before publishing my picks on Saturday.) Anyways, I feel ashamed: not counting the Colts and the 'Skins, I was 5-6. Lame.

Backlog Bob

Week 7 picks (NFL)

-Note: I originally wrote this on Monday, but then I thought "What if something horrible happens to someone during the week? My picks could be ruined!" So I decided not to publish this until Saturday night (tonight) and account for any unforeseen events or whatnot. I was completely blindsided by the Chiefs @ Dolphins game, as you'll notice below. I guess you could call the game being played two days early and the team I picked to win losing by ten points an unforeseen event, but I wouldn't know what to do to fill that space. I can't really just change the pick, can I? Or maybe.... (see below)


In order that FoxSports.com fed them to me:

Steelers @ Bengals - Steelers win, probably by about 10 (Cincy's solid offense will not be able to match Big Ben's return performance in a medium-high scoring game.)

Lions @ Browns - Browns win, probably by 7 or less (Almost too small to call - these teams are both really bad.)

Colts @ Texans - Colts win by about 30 or 40 (The only way the Texans have a shot is if God strikes Manning dead and sends boils to most of the Colts starters, but let's face it, they're the Colts, not the Vikings.)

Chiefs @ Dolphins - Dolphins by 10 (because Trent Green might throw for about 289 yards or so, and Priest Holmes might get two touchdowns, not to mention the chance that Lawrence Tynes might nail three field goals, including his two career longest, rendering any potential 77-yard TD pass from Sage Rosenfels to Chris Chambers essentially meaningless; theoretically).

Packers @ Vikings - Packers by as much as they want (They aren't the ones accursed of God; interesting side note: at 1-4, GB is outscoring their opponents by 30%.)

Chargers @ Eagles - Eagles by about 14 in a pretty high scoring game (They're at home, rested, and talented; whatever their problems, they should be able to overcome them convincingly.)

Saints @ Rams - Rams by about 10 (Jamie Martin is going to be good in St. Louis. Side note: I wouldn't at all mind being wrong about this one.)

49ers @ Redskins - Redskins by about 10 (I like making fun of the Redskins, and saying they'll beat the 49ers by only 10 is a pretty harsh thing to say about the 'Skins.)

Cowboys @ Seahawks - Seahawks by about 7 (I have to call this one for my 'Hawks, especially since it's in Seattle, where they've been really good recently, but Dallas is as good as they've ever been since Emmitt Smith left. This is a toughie.)

Titans @ Cardinals - Titans by about 14 (McNair's out, but Volek's in, and the Cards suck.)

Ravens @ Bears - Ravens by a field goal or two (because neither team knows what to do with the football when their solid defenses get them possession - just put a couple of Bears after J-Lew and the Ravens might not reach the 'zone at all; but the Bears haven't scored more than ten against anyone except the abysmal Lions and the God-cursed Vikings).

Broncos @ Giants - Giants by 7 (in a high-scoring aerial battle for the ages - I'm counting on the Giants [allowing 110 yds/game rushing] to stop the Broncos running attack, plus home field advantage, plus I'm feeling impish and wanting to call a game against a team widely considered to be one of the two or three best in the league right now).

Bills @ Raiders - Bills by 14 (Bay area teams suck.)

Monday Night:
Jets @ Falcons - Falcons by 17 (The Jets might turn things around against the so-far lame Atlanta defense, but I doubt it.)

One last thing. I'd like to make fun of a guy on FoxSports.com:

Peter Kinghas some pretty silly ideas about who's good. SD shouldn't even be on the 15 list, let alone at #2. KC shouldn't make 15 either. And Buffalo shouldn't be discounted entirely. Their strong defense might give their offense the extra chances it needs. Altogether, the guy's living in a fantasy land - you don't see me writing that Seattle is #2 in the league just because I like them. If all games were played in Seattle, they might be one of the top two teams - but that's not the way it goes, is it? Well, we can't play games at a phantom field in Kansas, either, so it looks like SD is going to continue to be mostly lame.

Backlog Bob

I like CSI: NY...

as much as the average American, but will someone please tell me what the words "Out here in the fields I fight for my meals; I put my back into my living" have to do with CSI or New York, or anything that has to do with police officers or fighting crime? I'm sure real-life CSI is hard work, and maybe making the TV show is too, but "I fight for my meals" does not evoke images of poking around in someone's earthly remains - at least not for me. I hope there's not something we don't know about Gary Sinise sneaking into the morgue for a midnight snack or something like that.

Backlog Bob

The Colts' offense on the other hand...

is great and recovered from the 17 pt. 1st qtr deficit (even when their lousy defense allowed 11 more points). You see, getting interceptions (and even scoring) is not what makes a defense good or great. Stopping an opposing team from gaining yards is what makes a defense great. If you play against a strong team (for instance, one with healthy starters and coaches), you won't always be able to get those interceptions. Interceptions always depend at least a little on the quarterback or the receiver screwing up to an extent. Stopping the other team's offense is a much more reliable and sensible way to win than using a razzle-dazzle offense to put thiry- or forty-some points on the board in the second half.

Anyways, I'm glad the Rams lost, because I'm a Seahawks fan. And I do look forward to seeing the Colts get taken down a notch, but since they have two bye-weeks in a row, that will probably have to wait until November.

Ouch! While looking for the above link, I found out that Seahawks safety Ken Hamlin was brutally assaulted by some idiots at a nightclub. I think the weak defense of 'Hawks will be even weaker for it, but then, sometimes phenomenal players are discovered coming off the bench.

Backlog Bob

P.S. I forgot how much I enjoy writing about football. I'll probably do picks next week.

The Colts' defense sucks

I should start posting my football predictions before they become recaps. It isn't the end of the first quarter of the Colts-Rams game, and my (unposted) prediction that the Colts defense wouldn't be able to stop a good offense because it was too big-play oriented is already a recap. They might come back from the current 17-0 deficit, but that won't change the fact that I was right about their defense sucking in a way that their PA stats and record didn't reveal to less astute observers.

I'm off to watch the rest of the game, and here's hoping that the Colts come back. (I'm not a Colts fan, but I am a 'Hawks fan, and that means the Rams always must lose unless and until they're out of contention for the playoffs.) I do dislike vaunted teams and I hope the Colts are humiliated some other week, at the hands of some team other than the Rams (or the Pats).

Backlog Bob

Baby news...

from the Gulf Coast: the first post-Katrina baby has been born in recovering New Orleans today. On a related note, the first baby of 2005 in Sweden was born today as well.

Backlog Bob

An observation...

that Bill Nye and David Byrne are probably the same person.

Backlog Bob

The Nielsen post was a joke

I couldn't in good conscience let that go unnoted. That probably was not actually Nielsen.

Leslie Nielsen has been arrested...

for lewd photography in Texas and has given an alias to police. Details here.

Backlog Bob

Wouldn't you just love to see...

a political ad that ends with:

Hi, my name is [local politician's name here], and I was against using this ad, but apparently someone from my campaign went behind my back to air it. I apologize.

Backlog Bob

P.S. I don't really dislike mudslinging political campaigns, in fact I think they're funny; I just think it would also be funny to hear a politician say that.

P.P.S. I did my last two posts "bloggy style:" with the ellipsis in the title, and finishing the sentence/topic phrase in the body of the post. I'm so proud of myself!

Where can I download...

a video of this ad?

If either of readers knows, please leave a comment on this post showing the way.

Backlog Bob

Touch-up

I just touched up a post that's almost three months old. I wonder if anyone else does that sort of thing. Also, in the unlikely event that I actually have a fan of the HWoP somewhere out there, sorry I haven't done anything with that in over a week. But I think what I have posted is funnier. So there.

Backlog Bob

Google AdSense revisited

Opening Disclaimer: this post should not be, in any way, construed as an attempt to get either or both of my readers to click on the ads on my site in excess of their normal ad clickage.

Well, I just logged on to my AdSense account, and it turns out I've had 10 page impressions! Now if I can get about 2,999,990 more this year, I won't have to work for a living! I only need about 9,999,999/year to live pretty comfortably.

At this rate, I need only 35,577 more page impressions to earn Google's minimum payment of $100.

Uh, tell your friends about my site!

Backlog Bob

Closing Disclaimer: this post should not be, in any way, construed as an attempt to get either or both of my readers to click on the ads on my site in excess of their normal ad clickage.

Ending of "Lost" revealed

After seeing about eight episodes, I know how the series "Lost" will end. Try to follow this.

1. Locke will discover that the Island is actually a brain tumor that is literally driving him crazy.
2. Sayid will find out that Shannon is an extraterrestrial trying to propagate her species.
3. Hurley will learn that the number is everybody else's unlucky number, and his rising success will be meteoric.
4. Jin will discover that he is not really Korean after all.
5. Sun will discover an odd attraction for Hurley.
6. Claire will discover that her baby is the antichrist, a la "The Omen."
7. Charlie will start using again, marry Courtney Love, and regret it so deeply that he blows his own head off with a sawed-off shotgun.
8. Michael will learn of his own latent homosexuality, and the actor playing him will refuse to continue out of newly found religious beliefs - thus forcing the writers to kill him. After he's dead, they'll get someone else to play Michael.
9. Kate will not discover her homosexuality, because as long as "Lost" isn't on HBO or Showtime, the good parts would be edited out anyway - instead she will be Claire's baby's evil handmaiden... with a sexy outfit.
10. Jack will discover that even though he's supposed to be the main character, his storyline is the least interesting, and in a rage he'll kill Locke.
11. The actual ending is not related to any of these storylines, but will be a cancellation due to evil new ownership of ABC in fall 2006.

Backlog Bob

Economy-size mouthwash

Why is there economy-size mouthwash? Since it is antibacterial, couldn't you just reuse it? And if your problem is viral, you had it in your mouth anyway, so what's the big deal? I figure you just need to have one travel-size thing of mouthwash, and you can just reuse that until it stops smelling the way you want your breath to smell, which I figure to be at least as long as the big size would have lasted at your current rate of use, or close anyway.

My apartmentmate mentions that one could do the same thing with chewing tobacco, if one drinks heavily at the same time for the antiseptic effect.

Backlog Bob

HWoP 3

The humorous word or phrase this evening does not include the word "chicken":

Chinchilla Chimichanga

This hilarious concept enjoys the enhancement of its hilarity by its verbal expression, that being alliterative both intraword and interword.

Backlog Bob

Leveling the playing field for days that need adjectives

I've been thinking recently about days and their adjectives - and you know, Friday has far more than its share. Sunday is probably second. "Casual" Friday, "Good" Friday, "Freaky" Friday, "Lazy" Sunday, "Palm" Sunday "Fudge" Sunday - the list could go on and on. I want to level the playing field. Below are some suggestions, starting with the alliterative.

Monday - Morose, Mad, Masonic, Moronic, Boffo, Flat, Pudgy, Ribald
Tuesday - Triangular, Tubular, Turtlish, Terre Hautean, Testicular, Corpuscular, Vegetal
Wednesday - Wily, Westerly, Whittled, Assiduous, Bohemian, Veritable, Xylophonic
Thursday - Thorny, Thoughtful, Thick, Thoreauvian, Transcendental, Emersonian, Jeffersonian, Washingtonian, Binghamptonian, Winchestertonian, Xylophonic
Saturday (remember, Friday has enough already) - Saturnine, Sophomoric, Satiate, Sedate, Slatternly, Ascorbic (yes, that's what I meant), Funereal, Gonococcal (this one's as dirty as it sounds), Longitudinal, Purulent, Uvular, Xylophonic

Just an idea. Let me know what you think.

Backlog Bob

P.S. I shudder to think what ads Google is going to send my way now.