In two non-political news items of the day, another good reason to watch the games at home:
Understandable, especially locally. Trying to get through an Astros or Texans game sober can be difficult.
For this they needed a study?
Probably explains the inordinate number of non-Spanish speaking males who watch Jackie Guerrido give the weather report on Univision, to which I plead guilty:
Finally, in Keith Olbermann's absence somebody has to say it. "That woman is an idiot":
"Almost one in 10 sports fans has a blood alcohol content above the legal limit as they exit the stadium after football and baseball games, a study found...The research, which involved giving breath tests to 362 attendees of 13 baseball and 3 football games, also found that 40 percent had been drinking, according to the report in the journal. Fans younger than age 35 were 9 times likelier to be above the legal limit."
Understandable, especially locally. Trying to get through an Astros or Texans game sober can be difficult.
For this they needed a study?
"Two Indiana University scholars report that, for male viewers, "emphasis on the sexual attractiveness of female news anchors distracts from memory formation for news content." They found that "men's cognitive mechanisms favored visual over verbal processing," which is a delicate way of saying their focus -- and subsequent memory -- are more on the broadcaster's appearance than on the material she was delivering."
Probably explains the inordinate number of non-Spanish speaking males who watch Jackie Guerrido give the weather report on Univision, to which I plead guilty:
Finally, in Keith Olbermann's absence somebody has to say it. "That woman is an idiot":
I see that Palin is glad there is going to be a "media boycott" of her so that she won't be falsely accused of causing the chaos in Egypt.
In other words, in Bizarro Palinland, it's all about Sarah.
That. Woman. Is. An. Idiot.
bet it's a genetic mutation?!
Hey look everybody, Orange slushy Bonehead (Boehner) has been spotted in London!
Do apes cry?
http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/gorilla-s-upright-walk-in-the-park-23997727
Gentlemen: May I second your thoughts.
When beer hit $6 I quit going to ball games entirely. That includes all four sports. I went to one game at Enron Field, first year, to see what it looked like but I refused to buy a beer and I haven't been back.
I got a job working the NBA all-star game when it was in Houston so I've been to a total of 1 game there. I think this was 2004??? The WATER was $3.25 and a barbecue sandwich $9.25. Haven't been back there either.
As a "carguy" I do go to the Autorama and the Annual Corvette/Chevy Expo at GRB. BTW the latter is February 12-13. But, as an exhibitor, I sneak in my own food and beer as do most of my colleagues.
That's MY personal little revolution.
The rumor I heard was that she was in her 40's (google), so I figured what the hell...she did seem nice, despite the threats.
I tried laying on her that I was friends with one of her colleagues but the response I got was...no response regarding that. A few years back (In New Mexico) I got to know a Miss New Mexico and dated her sister for awhile (yeah, I know...kinda like kissing your own sis... :O) Anyway, she wasn't buying what I was selling...what the hell was I thinking, anyway!
Are you kidding me...wow. You've messed up my whole day now!
yup...
Sex sells. Whether the product is beer or chicken wings or TV news. It's just a marketing and advertising fact of life.
Not to dip this further into obvlion but I want to pitch a new invention called Bag-O (as in Bag O Beer). It velcros to the stomach where it is concealed from security. As far as Reyna is concerned, I used the Google and confirmed a rumor I had heard, she won a bikini contest. Now, she seems nice to me and had some snap to her, but can there be any doubt that KPRC is peddling something other than news?
Yes I refuse to buy the eight dollar beer, too. Pint bottles of Jim Beam are, by design I'm sure, easy to slide into an inside jacket pocket and cokes are what, like four bucks? Mixing drinks in a bathroom stall at the dome, though, is priceless.
She actually contacted me once. She was pitching a program for schools. It sounded like a good idea but I need another plate to accommodate all that is on my current one. Of course, my heart skipped a beat.
yeah, I'm down with that...I sent her a few emails and would have continued except she threatened to have me arrested... :O)
A word to the wise, both the Astros and Rockets have booths where you can register as a designated driver. If you do that you get a bracelet where you cannot get any booze. However, you do get a coupon for a free soft drink for that game. Plus, the Rockets enter you into a contest for a gift basket.
Now, before you call me a light weight I simply refuse to purchase eight dollar beer unless it has been blessed by the pope. This is particularly true when it is merely domestic swill.
In terms of the other conversation, my allegiance is clearly with Jennifer Reyna. While I acknowledge that opinions can vary. I'll go with her for right now as my viewing choice.
That's priceless. That's exactly how I feel about that moron. WTF is wrong with her? Did her mama drop her on her head as an infant?
I read that Todd is embroiled in a sex scandal. I saw that and thought, "who could blame him?"
She was funny to watch at first, but now she scares the hell out of me because she won't shut up and go away. She's like the energizer bunny of idiocracy.
(I read somewhere....in the book "Game Change" I think....that she reads a lot of blogs and just gets absolutely steamed under the collar at criticism of her on said blogs. God, I certainly hope she is reading this. Or in her case, having someone read it to her since she is incapable of reading things above a 2nd grade level. If so, may I say...Sarah...you are an IDIOT!)
Of course I MEANT to say 15 cents.
And NICKEL beer night!
You only got a 6 ounce paper cup. But....it was only a NICKEL!!!
That makes 12 ounces like.....only a quarter.
She be jacked up...big time.
you got that right!!!
You’ll enjoy this. I found it at Liberalpedia:
Sarah Palin (born Sarah Triscuit Bingo Heath) is nothing right now.
Palin was a victim of a severe head injury as an Alaskan child. Parts of her brain are still thawing. However, most people know her as the winner of the blow-John McCain contest for running-mate in the 2008 presidential election. After quitting as governor like an overwhelmingly hypocritical Alaskan inbred slug, she joined the mole people and became the mole queen. Her recent activities include childbirth and writing fabricated books such as Going Rogue. She's probably shooting animals from a helicopter right now, and will probably have to resort to nukes soon to have any degree of success.
She's currently a talking head who pretty much nobody cares about. She is revered by the conservative women, presumably because she is in the same white conservative crowd that in previous generations opposed the rights of women to vote. Come to think of it, they might be at least a little right.
Her hobbies include losing brain cells, viewing Russia from her house, "refudiating" stuff, and reading magazines (specifically all of them).
Sarah Palin is the WTF. WTF is wrong with that bitch?
You're a long-time Houstonian. Remember "Foamer" nights at the Dome? When an Astro hit a home run it was free beer for the rest of the game. Those were the good old days.
Having been a mini-season ticket holder with teh Astros BEFORE two MLB player strikes ran me off for good, I know for a fact that:
1) Baseball, in particular, is more enjoyable to watch if you are drunk
B) I, like many others, learned form my dad that draft beer at the ballpark is the BEST beer in the world. Just like ballpark hot dgs.
3) That statement about female news anchors IS correct. I find I am frequently distracted trying to "see" just how cold it is in the studio.
"Trying to get through an Astros or Texans game sober can be difficult."
Touche, my friend.