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The Grand Prairie AirHogs baseball team is giving away a free funeral.

(Thanks to Mike Ester)

Question: The Grand Prairie AirHogs?

Comments

[lil rascal]

I hope Sean wins.

[Annie Where-but-here]

"Coupon expires 12/31/2008."

[French Guards]

...will host "All Hogs Go To Heaven" night, where one fan will win a funeral, complete with a casket, headstone, services and a plot.

Who gets to kill 'em?

[Siouxie]

Le oops.

[fivver]

The good news is you've won the funeral. The bad new is it's right after the game.

[Annie Where-but-here]

My favorite is still the AA team that for fan-appreciation night gave away logo-ed athletic supporters.

[Danny]

AirHogs? It's bad enough when a bird poops on you.

[Meanie the Blue]

Annie, that must have been an interesting seventh innning stretch.

[Meanie the Blue]

Annie, that must have been an interesting seventh innning stretch.

[Elon Weintraub]

I've never heard of Tony Romo, nor I do I have any idea what the Cowbows have to do with Simpson. But if it means an opportunity to blame her for something else, count me in.

[Annie Where-but-here]

extra innings for Meanie....and they're spectacular.

[Meanie the Blue]

Sorry about the extra innings.

[MOTW]

Hey, Dave, you wanna come to the AirHogs game with us?
I'll bet families are inviting their aged parents in hopes of winning.

[Meanie the Blue]

Alright! Back to back hits with Annie.

[fivver]

I love my Air Hog. It drives the cats crazy.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Uh-oh, fivver. The cats have a new hired gun on their side.

[Dr. Bob]

Yes Air Hogs. They play the Wichita Wingnuts.

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

Butt can the Air Hogs beat the Iron Pigs?

[Siouxie]

Airhogs win?? When pigs can fly!

[Annie Where-but-here]

*goes to get trebuchet from other thread*

[Cat R]

They might not actually wait until the game is over. Maybe you prefer an
urn.

[YFNRW (your friendly neighborhood reference wench)]

There are crazier team names: Everett Aquasox, Kannapolis Intimidators, Brevard County Manatees, Cedar Rapids Kernels, Columbus Catfish, Greensboro Grasshoppers, Modesto Nuts, Savannah Sand Gnats.

[insomniac]

with jessica simpson night they go from AirHogs to AirHeads...

[Siouxie]

BULLETIN BULLETIN BULLETIN

RE: Jess & Tony

They're officially broked up.

Let the Cowboys rejoice!

[Annie Where-but-here]

Thank goodness. Cowboy pre-season camp is out here. We don't need her kind showing up.

YFNRW - the semi-pro logos are great, too!

[Pinky]

YFNRW left out the Topeka Capitals.

Gooooooo Bureaucrats!

[Annie Where-but-here]

Or the Casper Ghosts or the Las Vegas '51's....

[Walt Nixon]

AirHogs is actually not bad. Allentown, PA had a contest and the winning name for the new minor league baseball team is the Iron Pigs, prompting a friend to ask me "What the hell came in second?"

[Danny]

Don't forget the Tri-City Dust Devils and the Batavia Muckdogs.

[Danny]

My evil twin was wondering if the funeral promo and the Jessica Simpson promo could be, umm, combined. He's just asking.

[Meditrina]

Danny, only if it's Grand SLAM nite featuring Simpson, Hilton, and Spears.

Come to think of it, they'd all fit into 1 casket.

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

Walt - based on their 10-31 record Gobblers might have been a better choice.

[Meanie the Blue]

This team name still takes it, hands down.

[Elon Weintraub]

That is one weird team name, and one creepy bear.

[Elon Weintraub]

I don't know Med. Homer's pretty big, unless you were talking about Maggie.

[pogo]

You may recall one of the all-time scariest team names - The Washington Senators.

[Merri Lee]

huh?

[Elon Weintraub]

Wow they actually are named after General Mad Anthony Wayne, so it is oddly appropriate.

[Doc Rick]

*walks in, looks around, pulls up a stool and waits on everyone else to arrive*

[jug]

Heya Doc. You tending bar? I think Anni went to wash her supporter

[Doc Rick]

Hey there Jug. I'm not tending bar but you're free to grab whatever ya like. As for Annie, it wouldn't surprise me.

[jug]

Not much about Annie surprises me.

[Doc Rick]

Siouxie, on the other hand, is ofter full of surprises. She's found new and improved ways to hide that machete of hers.

[Doc Rick]

*often, not "ofter"...sheesh!*

[jug]

She's ofter sneaky.....

[EvilMacheteThief]

Don't worry about Sio, I ofter.

[baligurl]

Siouxie is not sneaky. She is stealthy. H, Doc Rick! Can I buy you a beer?

[jug]

Siouxie is a lot of things. Subtle ain't one of them.
hey Bali, you buying?

[Doc Rick]

*waves @ bali* I'd love a beer. Thanks for offering. ;)

[baligurl]

I'm drinking. You're buying.

[baligurl]

I'm drinking. You're buying.

[baligurl]

Here ya go, Doc! I brought you a six pack. I'm that kinda pal.

[jug]

Looks like I'm buying doubles

[Doc Rick]

Sweet! A whole 6 pack for little old me. The trick is going to be trying to figure out a way to drink all 6 at once.

[Cat R]

Slinks in®

Hey, if Steve H. is here, hope your catarac-ac-ac-act surgery went well. HHooppee yyoouu''rree nnoott sseeiinngg ddoouubbllee oorr aannyytthhiinngg.....

(Seriously, recover well and quick!)

Who's serving? May I please have a blogtini?

[baligurl]

blogtini for Cat, 6 straws for Doc Rick.

Jug's buying, drink up.

[jug]

Here ya Go cat. I am apparently buying as well as pouring. bali is having doubles so it could be an interesting evening. I bet she starts trying to dance later

[Cat R]

Mmm, two for one night -- and a free one at that! Thank you both.

[steve]

Reminds of the minor league team that gave away light blue inflatable baseball bats with the word "Viagra" printed on them, but not legible until the bat began to inflate...

[baligurl]

Here ya go, Doc Rick!

[jug]

Just be careful, twofers can lead to trouble.

[baligurl]

Steve, one of my friends is a nurse in a urology clinic, and gave me pop-up notes with the Viagra logo, they get a huge laugh!

[Cat R]

Sigh.

Darn family expects to eat dinner. Well, thanks for the 'tinis.

Slinks out for a bit®

[Doc Rick]

See ya in a bit Cat.
I forgot about the venerable beer bong. Sadly, thanks to acid reflux I'm pretty sure my best beer bong days are behind me now. I hate getting older although it certainly beats the alternative.

[jug]

a pop up note for a pop up?

[baligurl]

Y'know what I hate about getting older? My college-aged daughter thinking her friends invented the beer bong.

[Doc Rick]

I understand bali. My 15 year old step-son and his buddies are just like that. Arrogant little so and so's.

[baligurl]

But doncha love it when you're driving with them and some goober has covered an old song and you know all the words? Isn't that the bast?? I love doing that to them!

[Doc Rick]

Or when the actual song is playing on a commercial and they think it's new. Telling them they like a song from the 70's is one of the most priceless things I ever get to do.

[jug]

Who ever thought Led Zepplin would be selling cars?

[Doc Rick]

Who ever thought the Beatles would be selling Nikes. Oh wait, that's because Michael Jackson bought all of the music rights to their songs and pimped them out. Bastard!

[jug]

Well, that ranch was expensive.

[Cat R]

Slinks back in® (Hey, my chicken was a hit -- they ate fast.)

Who would have thought The Who would be CSI'ing coast to coast?

(Checks my blogtini -- still chilled --mmm)

[Doc Rick]

Apparently Jug. Especially the adult early warning system he installed leading to his bedroom. Cat, the couldn't possibly create another CSI because there aren't any Who songs left that fit the theme of the franchise.

[Doc Rick]

*"they" not "the"...damn I dislike this new keyboard.*

[baligurl]

I'm ordering a new laptop tomorrow, Doc Rick. This one keeps getting me into trouble.

[Cat R]

The only thing I dislike about my Gateway laptop keys are the dark colored numbers above the qwerty line. Everything else is white-on-black, easy to see. Those #^%^%& numbers are brown-on-black and I can't see them worth a darn without the light on.

/end geezer rant

[jug]

Hmmm, does that mean the theme song for CSI Neverland would be Thriller?

[baligurl]

Thanks for guiding this particular geezer away form Gateway...

[Cat R]

Interestingly, the "#^%^%&" symbols on those same keys are white-on-black.

So I can cuss as well as ever. Just not while I am counting.

[Doc Rick]

Snork @ Jug! Nice job of combining the topics there brother. bali, my mom is on her 2nd Gateway now and she loves the company. Her keyboard isn't as squirrley as Cat's though.

[Cat R]

jug, CSI Neverland could run nightly. I don't think they'd ever run out of crime scenes there. {{shudder}}

bali, it might just be the type of laptop I have. I have the "FX", which is apparently a top-notch gamer's PC (high resolution, etc.). I didn't buy it for the gaming aspect.

Truth be told, it was because it had loads of space for my pictures, and a 10-key numeric keypad on the side. I know, I know -- why don't I use those numbers instead? Well, I do, but it's a little awkward going back and forth.

Talk about geezer. I simply could not get used to the whole touchpad-instead-of-a-mouse business. I bought a wireless mouse and that was much better, but I was running through batteries constantly, or having to turn the mouse off several times a day. So I bought another USB mouse, and now life is good. The thing sits on the same desk all the time anyway, so all the portability features are nice, but rarely used.

[Cat R]

Oh, and the very first thing I did with my new laptop was drop it on concrete when I was carrying it in my arms into my old office building in February and fell flat on my a$$ on the ice.

It was one day old and I had not purchased a carrying case yet. Good times.

(It survived -- has a little ding on the corner of the hinge but none the worse for wear.)

So to summarize, Gateway = good!

[Cat R]

And on that ramblin' note, I will bid you all good night...

Slinks out®

[baligurl]

I like to refer to myself as: Technotard. I'm actually pretty proud of my ignorance. I have a laptop because my ex wanted a new one, and I got the old one. And the touchpad kicks my ass everyday, but I pretend. So I have a new one coming, and y'all may never see me again. But maybe you will...Somebody pass me a martini...

[Doc Rick]

Cat's icy splat reminded me of my first job in TV. While we were at work one evening, an ice storm hit. Being that where the station was located (on top of a big hill) it stood to reason that everyone was stuck following the 10pm newscast. Not our 26 year old sports guy. He had a hot date and he wasn't going to miss it. The newscast ends and he goes running off to the newsroom to grab his stuff. The other cameraman and myself followed him and tried to talk him out of leaving for safety's sake. He wanted none of it and took off in a sprint out the door. For some reason we followed him out and he made it half way across the parking lot before hitting an ice patch and went sailing into the air like Charlie Brown when Lucy would yank the football away. He fractured his arm, but escaped any further injury. Had he landed on his 10 cent head he probably wouldn't have gotten hurt at all.

/end CJ-type rant

[Doc Rick]

*sends a martini bali's way* Don't worry about being a technotard. I used to work with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of high tech TV equipment every day, but when we got our PC I was completely clueless. Still am to this day which is why I have a 15 year old who can fix things.

[baligurl]

thank you, Doc Rick. I dated a newscaster once, he was cute but...whatever. i just hope my new laptop makes me look smarter than i am...

[baligurl]

thank you, Doc Rick. I dated a newscaster once, he was cute but...whatever. i just hope my new laptop makes me look smarter than i am...

[Doc Rick]

Newscasters, by in large, are self absorbed doo doo heads. Then again the job kind of requires a certain level of arrogance to be successful at it.
As for hoping the laptop makes you look smarter, you participate actively in one of the smartest blogs on the whole internet. You'll be fine. ;)

[Meanie the Blue]

Greetings, all. Please help yourselves.

[Cat R]

Don't mind if I do. Thanks, Meanie. *snags a slice of bacon and a mug-o-joe*

[Siouxie]

*stealthily and sneakily and subtlely zips™ in*

*grabs bacon*

*zips™* out

[Alien8]

bali, get a usb mouse for $10 or so and plug it into your laptop. Touchpads are an evil plot to keep us off the internet.