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Thursday space filler post, because I’m coaching t-ball, and my son can’t yet catch and/or hit (or, “A brief message from my Rice Krispies”)

Rice Krispies: “Snap! Crackle! Pop! Pop! Snap! Snap! Crackle! Snap! Snap! Oh, hey, Jeff. Dude, whole milk? Seriously? Crackle! Snap!”

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(a necessarily abbreviated version of this post appears on my TWITTER page. Question: Are you following me yet on TWITTER? Because there are LOTS of minutes in the day…)

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Oh. And yeah, I’m still running my fundraiser — and I remain about a grand short. If you can and think it wise, help subsidize my words — which will appear whenever I have something to say.

Kinda like the anti-Docweasel, as it were.

EXCELSIOR!

50 Replies to “Thursday space filler post, because I’m coaching t-ball, and my son can’t yet catch and/or hit (or, “A brief message from my Rice Krispies”)”

  1. mojo says:

    Gesundheit!

  2. sdferr says:

    Exseltzieau!

  3. Bob Reed says:

    Are you coaching the team, or just providing good ol’ Dad type personal instruction to your son? If it’s the team, are they the Outlaws!

  4. Jeff G. says:

    I’m one of two coaches. But I need to give my kid private instruction.

    Right now, it’s convincing him that he can’t play in his cowboy boots.

  5. Bob Reed says:

    I dunno Jeff, the boots might be a good thing…

    Makes the decision of whether to block the base a lot harder if he comes sliding in wearing ’em…

    Just a thought

  6. Baghdad Dewclaw says:

    I hope my donation helps…

    Can’t follow you on teh “Twitter,” though.

    It don’t workie so good here in Iraq… At least with MITs abysmal bandwidth.

    I am planning on sueing Twitter’s pants off for infringing on “twatwaffle” (which I shamelessly stole from a dear friend at Innoruuk.com… an EverQuest server blog). Anybody here that wants to jump on that classaction bandwagon, be my guest!

    Have a great day, Jeff! :)

  7. Kevin B says:

    Whole milk? WHOLE milk! Whole MILK!!!

    What kind of place are you living in where they let you buy whole milk .

    When Obamacare comes in they’ll be none of this whole milk malarky. Or snap, crackle and pop. It’s oatmeal, bran and water with a piece of dry toast and an apple, (locally grown organic), for you pal.

  8. Jeff G. says:

    What can I say? I’m edgy and daring.

    — Which you’d know, if you followed me on TWITTER!

    TWEET ME!

  9. geoffb says:

    “When Obamacare comes in they’ll be none of this whole milk malarky.”

    1/2&1/2 worked fine for my grandparents who lived well into their 90’s, It was a step down from the heavy cream in the coffee.

    Skim milk is a death sentence, a tasteless blue one too.

    FREE THE MILKFAT!!!

  10. geoffb says:

    “Blog post”, four fried chickens.
    “Tweet”, dry white toast.

    If you have to choose one, well, take the chicken.
    But together you get, “The Blues Brothers”.

  11. sdferr says:

    Re-imagine the world through tweets. Say for instance, Galileo Galilei tweeted from his Ecclesiastical Inquisition Hearing on his heretical heliocentrism:

    “Well shut my mouth. What a f*ing that was: though yeah, it didn’t move for me either, beyotch. E pur si muove, suckers.”

  12. mojo says:

    Twitter? You gotta be kidding.

    Anyway, Treacher OWNS that bitch.

  13. Slartibartfast says:

    Rice Krispies? Too loud for the hung-over. Oatmeal; that’s the ticket.

  14. Patrick, Mayor of Scrotumwah Iowa says:

    I thought WOLVERINE was the battlecry. Now I’m confused. But enough about me.

  15. Carin says:

    I went with oatmeal this morning, Slart. Even w/o a hangover.

    FOR THE REGULARITY.

    Oops, wrong battlecry.

  16. Baghdad Dewclaw says:

    Treason, by Kutlass is playing on my random shuffled Zune, ATM…

    Just sayin…..

  17. cranky-d says:

    The comments are devolving into tweets. The end is nigh.

  18. LTC John says:

    EXCELSIOR!

    OUTLAW?

  19. Fen says:

    Soccer. Its the best sport out there for developing motor skills of young kids.

    And don’t worry, by the time he hits highschool he’ll ditch it for a real sport.

  20. Baghdad Dewclaw says:

    WOLVERINE!?!

    “TWATWAFFLES!”

  21. alppuccino says:

    Raking leaves and edging garden beds develops the Garvey-like forearms needed to dominate in any T-ball league. Hours behind a push-mower can also develop a first step to second base for those 2-0 counts.

  22. Abe Froman says:

    Soccer. Its the best sport out there for developing motor skills of young kids girls.

    FTFY

  23. alppuccino says:

    Unloading the dishwasher gives keen insight into various game situations.

  24. Kevin B says:

    Dude! Someone chuck this Becket guy under the f**kin’ bus!!!

  25. Squid says:

    And if the kid questions the ability of chores to develop his athletic skills, just make him watch Karate Kid until he comes around.

    I hope we don’t lose Jeff to the Twitts. It would make me a very sad and lonely cephalopod. (And if I ever break down and join that club, I’m going for a 130-character username.)

  26. happyfeet says:

    Special K makes the same sound as the rice krispies. I hadn’t known that. It’s been a big learning week here. Did you know the fine for littering in Los Angeles is $1,000? They rip you off. You can get a Herman Miller Aeron chair for less than that.

  27. happyfeet says:

    Littering is my new habit what replaced smoking.

  28. Carin says:

    Happy, I mailed you something today. check your email.

  29. donald says:

    I umpired a T-ball tournament once. For me, it was like doing blow jobs. I needed the money.

  30. mojo says:

    I found a guy in the park with a 3G-connected laptop, so I threatened him with a knife and forced him to donate. Then I stole his laptop.

    Was that wrong?

  31. geoffb says:

    Not if you donate the laptop too.

  32. happyfeet says:

    got it, C … I replied.

  33. lee says:

    Since we’re just filling space, did ya hear that Babs Boxer told a Brigadier General she worked hard to become a Senator, so call her that instead of “Ma’am”

    Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was testifying on the Louisiana coastal restoration process in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He began to answer one of Boxer’s questions with “ma’am” when Boxer immediately cut him off.

    “You know, do me a favor,” an irritated Boxer said. “Could say ‘senator’ instead of ‘ma’am?'”

    “Yes, ma’am,” Walsh interjected.

  34. serr8d says:

    That senator you mentioned isn’t good enough to wash General Walsh’s boxers.

  35. Bob Reed says:

    What Princess Boxer didn’t realize that the reference of “sir” or “ma’am” is effectively an acknowledgement of the superior rank of the adressee by the addressor…

    She just couldn’t resist the opportunity to put a member of the US military in his place; so she thought…

    What she really did was simply reveal her own personal sense of elitism, and her contempt for those who serve our nation…

  36. proudvastrightwingconspirator says:

    Jeff,
    Regarding your son’s ongoing training, I quote Master Miyagi: “Wax on, wax off”…..

  37. Patrick Chester says:

    I thought “SPOON!” was the battlecry…

  38. NOT IN THE FACE! NOT IN THE FACE!

  39. RTO Trainer says:

    And, yet, Bob, the General had the class to just say , “Yes, Senator” and go on.

    Seems a non-issue. One party showed her ass. The other showed his class.

  40. someone has some ‘splainin to do.

  41. bh says:

    Even with a baby ‘dillo, I’m willing to bet that’s grain alcohol, maggie.

  42. “gin was mother’s milk to her”

  43. Topsecretk9 says:

    I’m one of two coaches. But I need to give my kid private instruction.

    Right now, it’s convincing him that he can’t play in his cowboy boots.

    Iron hand jock dad, I assure you, does NOT fuck with their psyche. I promise. /wrong off

  44. Topsecretk9 says:

    Oh and Jeff, are you LOVING snack? I hear from the moms it’s 99% of the experience. When I was a young retard soccer player we were LUCKY to get orange slices handed out in a gynormous tupperware bowl after a game, now days its 18 Mighty Kids meals.

  45. bh says:

    Heh, it took me a moment, maggie.

    I think the modern age needs a verb for the active form of not googling when you think you have a chance at catching the reference.

  46. Bob Reed says:

    Agreed SSgt…

  47. agreed, bh. but I’ve got nothing at the moment.

  48. Carin says:

    Now Topsecret. You know the motto of today’s youngsters. It’s not if you win or lose, but whether or not someone forgot to bring the snack.

  49. Joe says:

    It’s Twitter so it must be true!

  50. Mikey NTH says:

    What is cute is watching the little kids in the batting helmets turn their heads and the helmet doesn’t move. Not so much in tee-ball, you understand, but a bit later.

    Oh, and watching the outfield start watching clouds and worms as the ball rolls by.

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