"Skorts" written by Hodown on estrip.org

06/20/06 05:29 - 72ºF - ID#22785

Skorts

Conversation heard at work:

Girl #1: I really like skorts. You know it's for when you want to wear a skirt, but maybe are going to do something sporty.

Girl #2: Yeah, I love skorts too. You really don't see a lot of them around anymore, but they are cute.

Oh where to start. Is it really that hard to commit to either a skirt or shorts? You need to have a combo of the two. Skirt on the front, short in the back. It's like the mullet of clothes. And you really don't see a lot of them in stores for adults. I think there is a reason for this. They are god awful and no one in their right mind has worn them since 1993.

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Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: saved by the bell

06/19/06 03:46 - 75ºF - ID#22784

Dustin Diamond

Mike this one's for you:

We all remember running home from school so we could tune into the the gang from Saved by the Bell's latest shenanigans.

If you didn't watch this show clearly you missed out on the best of what the 90's had to offer in after school programming.

In any case Screetch gave us the best years of his life and now he needs our help in return. Dustin's house in Wisconsin (his credit wasn't good enough to buy a house in CA) is being foreclosed (is that how you say it?).

You can help! Here's how:

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Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: aol

06/14/06 04:24 - 74ºF - ID#22781

This will make you laugh

So I admit I totally ripped this off from someone elses blog, but it is so funny it'll make you laugh. Anyone who has ever had AOL will be able to relate. So here is the set up:

I had an AOL account years ago. I kept it around because many of the suits in my office use AOL. When the boss needs AOL fixed, you'd better have an account to get it running. That's fine with me. It made troubleshooting much easier. Even though my father and mother both had accounts under mine, their computer didn't even have the software installed. No one in my family was using it, and at most I was using it once a month.

Recently, I decided that I could spend $14.95 a month in many better ways, and decided to cancel the AOL account. Knowing the horror stories, I decided to do the deed at work where I could record the whole thing. I knew it was going to be good, but I had no idea it would be the abusive disaster it was.

Click here to check it out.

The highlight for me? Him asking for my father when the account is mine, the name on the account is mine, and the card paying the bill is in my name.

And here is the audio (thanks to www.droppedin.com):

Listen and enjoy...

terry writes at 10:51:10 06/14/06 - Comment #8966: hah! My only telemarketer job was working for AOL. I would call people up like a day after they had cancelled and try to tell them to sign back up, please please please. Offer them some free months, etc... I would even leave messages and ask to talk to the bill-payer. It was pure hell. I've never heard such shit as what people would yell at me. Needless to say that lasted about a month and I couldn't take it anymore. Telemarketers are evil! Especially AOL-keters.

jenks writes at 09:22:22 06/14/06 - Comment #8954: i still have my aol account... Or rather, my screen name on my dad's account. it was my first email account ever. My first screen name was "alex f 17" because all anyone would ask in the chat rooms was "sex/age" all the time. Now I realize how creepy that is. Maybe it's time to let it go... I don't EVER log on.

theecarey writes at 07:40:00 06/14/06 - Comment #8948: yeh, AOHell, Americal On Hold, etc..

This is a familiar story. I wasn't given an attitude but I was provided a time stamp for my account activity. "Although you have unlimited usage, we see that you have used X amount of minutes during this time..".

Just cancel my account.

"We are ready to offer you 3 months free.."

JUst cancel my account.

hahaha. Yeh, its been a few years, but AOL still comes back to taunt me. I find it still tangled within my computer, its threads latched onto other programs, unable to get rid of it.

Thanks for sharing--it gave me a chuckle.

libertad writes at 06:34:33 06/14/06 - Comment #8943: AOL is so evil. They are definitely on my big business shit list.

ladycroft writes at 05:36:26 06/14/06 - Comment #8935: omg it sounds just like the convo i had with aoHell years ago when i wanted to cancel. except i didn't get threatened with "if you want me to cancel your account your gonna sit there and listen to what i have to say". i'd put my fist through the phone.

zobar writes at 04:46:52 06/14/06 - Comment #8930: Wow. I only listened to about half of it and I had to stop because it was making me aggravated. What is wrong with some people.

- Z

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Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: weekend

06/14/06 04:01 - 74ºF - ID#22780

What I did this weekend

So this weekend I didn't just drink. Well actually I did, however on Sunday I actually went and supported a good cause:

Loving Day. Read about it. It's really interesting. And let's face it I can't resist hipster boys and free beer, even if it's only Budweiser.

On another note: Why didn't I find this?:

Me and (e:paul) used to wonder why no one ever offered us free drugs, like in the just say no commericals. One time we actually left a soda out in the mall to see if anyone would drop some roofies in it. As you can imagine it was a huge failure.

Oh and in case you were curious about what happens when two girlies go out and get retarded see the pics below:

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Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: buffalo sucks

06/13/06 02:00 - 70ºF - ID#22779

Flight of Young Adults Is Causing Alarm

Interesting article from the NYT. What I had seen happen in my own life is actually a phenomon. Young people are fleeing upstate NY in droves. read the article its quite intersting:

One thing that did ring true was:

In the Rochester area, Andrew Allen's older sister, Laura Jeanne Hammond, 26, returned to her hometown after graduating in 2001 from the University of Missouri with a journalism degree. She was hired as managing editor of Next Step Magazine, which is distributed in school guidance offices, and also founded a social group, Rochester-Area 20-Somethings. "My friends escaped to New York City for a life of poverty and I bought a house and started a family," she said.

Personally I prefer the poverty to suburbia and kids. I mean sometimes the poverty gets to you, but mostly everyone is poor so it's ok.

On another note, as I was washing the glass to drink my bottle of cheap wine I sliced the area between my thumb and pointer open. I think I could have used a stich or two seeing as how it hasn't stoped bleeding. So now I have sad feelings and a sad thumb. It seems fitting.

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Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: boys

06/12/06 03:42 - 68ºF - ID#22778

Boys who suck, and not in the good way

Oh my god. So recently I've been having this crush on this boy who I thought to be ultra adorable and fantastic. Turns out he is just a jerky slutty mcslut. He has umteen girls all over the globe. And by all over the globe I really do mean, France, Germany, London, NYC. Fucking A. The problem is I actually had some warm fuzzy feeling type things about what was happening. Turns out he is just another boy who is going to make me cry while I drink a entire bottle of Three Buck Chuck. Great.

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Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: mullets

06/09/06 01:03 - 70ºF - ID#22776

Thomas Jefferson

According to the Book American Sphinx The Character of Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson had the first documented mullet. The book goes on to describe his hair during his stay in France during August of 1784 as:

His hair was now more sandy than red, but just as thick and full as ever, cut so that it covered his ears, then tied back so as to fall just below his collar

I don't know about you guys but if that description doesn't say business in the front and party in the back, then i don't know what does.

Rock on Thomas J.

I also discovered last night that there is such a thing as too much beef. Anyone who has been to Brazilian BBQ knows this.

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Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: funny

06/08/06 01:13 - 71ºF - ID#22775

Funny

ST. PETERS, Mo. (AP) -- A woman angry that her new puppy had died pushed her way into a dog breeder's home and repeatedly hit her on the head with the dead Chihuahua, authorities said.

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Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: blog

06/06/06 01:14 - 77ºF - ID#22773

This blog kicks my blog's ass

I highly recommend you read this blog. It's the perfect mix of funny mixed in with helpful tid bits.

Updating everyday and making it witty takes too much out of me. I'll leave real blogging to the experts.

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Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: bad mood

05/30/06 04:10 - 88ºF - ID#22772

Worst Mood

Why am I in such a crappy mood this week? I think it's time for a dose of B'lo to cheer me up.

To top it off boys suck.

I also spent a good amount of time going through this:

There was an article about it in the Times today. It's so different living in NYC and dealing with 9/11. It's like you are reminded of it everyday in everything. It's in the news everyday, or at least the debate about how to rebuild lower Manhattan. It's so sad. I remember asking this guy one time what made him cry (because he was Mr. Stoic). He said "September 11th makes me cry".