Posts by skibum609

...that no one will believe but are true. Even if you include getting stopped for a traffic violation, I still have less than 100 police encounters in my life, but most are memorable. October 1977. I hitchhike…

Tell us about a unique restaurant that you know and why we should eat there. One of the better things about New England is that we cherish the past, so we have a lot of restaurants that have been…

While football isn't anywhere near as popular here as it may be in Texas, Thanksgiving Day football is. In fact, going to the Needham- Wellesley game this morning. Its unique, very unique because it is the oldest High School football…

Strip clubbing is a luxury. Expensive wine is a luxury. Vacation is a luxury. An expensive car is a luxury. Name one luxury that you feel would diminish your life if you cannot have it, but that other people…

We all know naked women make us happy but is there anything else that makes your day? For example: the mail just came; we're both working from home; there was a large envelope labelled "IKON"; we smoked a bowl and…

59 is too young to die. Coolio proved that Rap need not be the monotonous, vile garbage that we have to pretend is music, but that it could have actual lyrics. "Gangsta's paradise" is the perfect rap song.…

.....title says it all. Wtf! Who is he? Well, today is the 39th anniversary of the day Major Stanislav Petrov saved the world. In a wonderful world of technology, back in 1983, he was on duty at…

You unwrap a stick of butter. You place it in the butter dish. You place the butter dish in the same place you put it every single day of the year, with no seasonal exceptions. Where is…

It's date night with your girlfriend who is new school and loves MMA. You're old school and love boxing but admit that boxing today has been pussified and argue old school boxing was more exciting than MMA. She tells…

Prior to the start of the B.Y.U. football game the B.Y.U. team ran onto the field with an Oregon flag bearing the name and number of an Oregon football player who died in July in a climbing accident. They…

.....then take a look around at Selma Alabama; ah you may leave here for 4 days in space, but when you return it's the same old place; the pounding of the drums, the pride and disgrace; you can bury your…

Great music should elicit emotions, deep emotions and nothing is more emotional than sadness. Name 3 songs that in your heart are so emotional that they can and should bring you and others to tears. My 5 - Photograph -…