Month: September 2010

Barney Stinson Was Smoking This Weekend

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Barney Stinson of “How I Met Your Mother” once enumerated the times that he indulged in the habit of smoking:

“I only smoke in certain situations: post-coital, when I’m with Germans, sometimes those two overlaps, coital, birthdays, to annoy my mom, pre-coital, on a sailboat, the day The Mets are mathematically eliminated every year,…”

Which was, this year, Saturday night. As Jason Bay Watch(ed) from the sidelines on the DL (as predicted on this blog months ago) the Mets wretched second half is now all over but for the shouting and finger pointing. At least we don’t have to listen to announcers talking about how every dámņëd game is a “must win” as if the Mets had any post-season hopes while anyone with the ability to count knew the season was pretty much over weeks ago.

* sigh * Enjoy your cancer stick, Barney.

PAD

Political Corrections, Part 2

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digresssmlOriginally published December 17, 1993, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1048

Ooooh! Oooh! Hey everybody! Jo Duffy and Trina Robbins are having a catfight!

Can Catwoman’s breasts actually be milked for an entire column? No. But it’s a springboard for wider silliness, certainly.

Political correctness, as I discussed several weeks ago, is rearing its head everywhere. Even those worshippers of the whacked, the Addams Family—particularly the children—are treading ever so lightly in that direction. (No, this isn’t a movie review column; merely a further illustration of mindsets, that’s all.)

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