Author: Joe White

RLOS had a Super Bowl party over here this evening. Here are our conclusions:

Best Hat Wearing: Jerome with the pointy Soviet hat
Worst Hat Wearing: John and Elizabeth who refused
Most Appropriate Hat (and Best Hat Refusenik who switched): Lauren Holmes with the deerstalker
Best Dancing: Panther receivers
Best Commercials: 7-Up Delivery Truck, Lays Fight to the Death?, Budweiser Clydesdale Donkey, Pepsi Purple Haze
Worst Commercial: Most of the rest
Most Replayed Moment: Justin Timberlake ripping off Janet Jackson’s clothes (yes, it was planned; she was wearing a pastie and it was hinted at beforehand.
Best Entree: Evan’s Enchiladas
Best Dessert: Vanilla Pudding!
Best Comment: Evan during halftime “Janet and her droogs.”
Best Distraction: Hit The Penguin (High Score: 587.6)
Best After-Game moment: Weird Al Videos

Any others, let me know.

For some reason this morning I started singing The Three Little Fishies song. I remember some old sitcom had an episode where one character was trying to remember how this song went. Someone told a third person that this person was crazy, and when the first person suddenly remembered “And they thwam and they thwam all over the dam,” the third person was very convinced. I want to say it was on WKRP in Cincinnatti, with Les Nessman the third person, but I really don’t know…anybody have a better recollection?

After the Pirates production meeting today, several of us were sitting around finishing up some stuff when I thought aloud it’d be cool to get a neat domain name for the group, since http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rlos/ doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue like one of Gilbert’s lyrics. rlos.com, rlos.org and rlos.net were all taken, so we started brainstorming on a good alternative, and came up with hailpoetry.com. GoDaddy has a deal for $7.95 a year to register, so we got it set up for two years. It will probably just point to the space on ruf since that is already there and no need to incur hosting expeneses.

And we still need some basses!

I get a big kick out of the Ragu commercial for Sloppy Joes, with Joe Theismann, Joe Frazier, Joe Piscopo, and Evan Marriott (“Joe Millionaire”). I have no idea why.