Make Way for the Radical Center - NYTimes.com

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Make Way for the Radical Center - NYTimes.com

"Thou shalt only play petanque, as you promised your wife."

Great News for most of us: Petanque.org: Doping Agency Lifts Alcohol Ban for Pétanque

"Boules will be taken off the list of sports for 2008 in which alcohol is prohibited. The list is now reduced to seven, including archery, billiards and powerboating, among others.

Boules players still have a long list of substances to avoid in competition, however. As well as the usual suspects of anabolic steroids, growth hormones, and beta-blockers, players are specifically instructed to abstain from cocaine, hashish, and heroin."

Facebook was designed at the request of the yaya sisterhood of the traveling pants.

Man Awakes With Crochet Needle Stuck Into Urethra

Dateline Limestone County: 

A Limestone County Sheriff’s deputy was called late Wednesday night to Huntsville Hospital to take an unusual report from a man who told officers he’d awakened with a crochet needle stuck into his urethra.

The man, who is not being named pending investigation, said he went to sleep with an ex-girlfriend and when he awakened, the needle was completely embedded, said Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely.

“He stated to our officer he didn’t know how it got there,” the sheriff said.

“He and the girlfriend had been drinking and it was there when he woke up. It was inserted all the way in.”

Doctors at the hospital X-rayed the man and then removed the object, Blakely said.

The call came in at about 11 p.m. Wednesday night.

Investigators are looking into the incident.

From unpocodemenudo's greatest hits:

The April 9, 2008 Edition

Family Restores Rare GTO

Above: Proud family members stand beside Trans Am (not rare GTO)

#80 Lambchop - You're a big girl now
by lecargo

The Language of Color from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

Animals Speak Color Harvard Magazine: "color as humans do. Apparatus at the exhibition allows visitors to experience color through others’ eyes. A deer, for instance, cannot distinguish reds. A pair of parrots looking each other over may appear richly colored to us, but to the parrots, who see ultraviolet light, they are even better—intensely, bodaciously flamboyant—and must knock each other’s socks off."

At JB's suggestion, I have updated unpocodemenudo.  I now call the site unpocodemenudo two point oh.  (I just changed the color of the title and italicized the subtitle.)

Also, I have updated the links and included a slide show of Nick Saban, people posing next to pictures of Nick Saban, as well as some people taking the Saban Eucharist: Oatmeal Creme Pies and Coke Zero.

My initial idea of providing a source for stimulating conversation through which we might exchange ideas and sharpen our wits culminated in a discussion of Garfield's inexplicable taste for lasagna--and don't even get me started on Odie.  Meanwhile Jon continues to be such a self absorbed asshole (Garfield Minus Garfield: Jon's Existential Angst).

With this in mind, I provided a link to the popular "Lasagna from Heaven" game.

I'll update this once a week; I'd appreciate it if some of you creative slackers would enlighten us with some of your "so called" brilliance.  Please answer the polls, post new stuff, etc.