CURIOUS INDEX, 4/9/08

Who is Kahlil Bell and what in tarnation does he have to do with Chris Bell getting the boot from Happy Valley?

Finally! DMac has started a blog. Bring that wood, yardbarkers!

http://yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/5_in_the_Yard/226696

Is that Champagne “Asti Spumoni”, “Dom Deluise Perignon” or “Cold Duck a la Orange”?

It said SMU Mustangs, but damn if it didn’t remind me of the queerness in College Station.

What the hell sign me up. Cal’s prospects look dubious and a resurrection of SMU would be nice. The Pony Express year of ’82 was he first season of College Football that I remember with some clarity(featuring a pre-season preview on ABC with Pitt picked to win the MNC and Marino tabbed for the Trophy Which Shall Not be Named). One got the impression that SMU was somehow entranched as a CFB power. Hmm.

On the negative side, SMU is the Alma Matter of The Bitch Goddess of La Casa Blanka (i.e. Harriet Ellan Miers – moniker courtesy of the much lamented A3G), and so one might consider restraining one’s enthusiasm.

BTW, great show last night Orson.

You missed the second Kahlil: “Emo kids of the world! Kahlil Bell wants to cut you.”

I love that they want you to plan your spring game enjoyment around a bone thuggs concert.
How many SMU students can relate to “First of the Month?” Strange.

Does the treadmill in the basement come with the house?

Can I assume that it’s lightly used?

Is that the infamous jumpsuit in the master bedroom?

Gamecock Tony @ #3…that would be “Cold Duck a l’Orange”…two vowels will not join, thus the apostrophe…sorry, I know that is some weak shit, but I’m still workin’ the first cuppa coffee…

“ooooooohhhhh…you shot me in my pinky toe…NOW I GOTTA CUT YA!!”

At first I couldn’t believe Jones was turning in Hawaii for Dallas, TX, but after seeing what he really dealt with out there… it didn’t seem like such a bad decision. Not that I have any love for the ponies, but you really want them to come back, just so you know they can.

1. has mad finger-pointing skillz. Helpful for pointing out that offensive tackle who jumped early. It’s not just dancing. It’s training.

Mr. Cocktosin,
Is anything in Mangino’s possesion lightly used? Seriously, the old lady probably bought it hoping he could get to work and shed a few hundred lbs (they do say that if you lose enough weight you get some more length back to your johnson, lets say he has potential). He probably too three strides before saying “fuck this” and polishing off a bucket of KFC. But, what did those three strides do in terms of wear and tear on that mill? Check out the fine print in the warranty, I assume it has a Mangino clause, whereby any more than one or two steps by a Mangino voids the warranty and makes the mill susceptable to sudden collapse.

Buyer beware, indeed.

@SB – Believe it or not, I was a journalism major so I appreciate the grammatical correction.
I was, obviously, not a culinary nor French minor.

Did you at least enjoy the joke, man?

That’s Mangino’s kitchen? I envisioned stainless steel, with a mini-Krispy Creme conveyor, sides of beef/pork hanging from the rafters, industrial sausage grinders and vats of simmering lard.

A regular size commode? I was expecting something that resembled a horse trough.

And yes, I am a commode connoisseur.

I would wager that casa Mangino has the strongest load bearing walls in all of Kansas. It could be tornado proof, a big deal in Lawrence.

Is the Dude selling Mangino’s house related to the curennt Kansas QB?

Hung,
I was dissapointed that they cleaned up the kitchen as well. Must have been watching the designed to sell shows on HGTV.

Also, I had always assumed that a rift had occured in the time space continuum thereby the basis of Upton Sincliar’s writing was actually the food prepartion for feeding the Mangino, and only him.

That’s not champagne, it’s chocolate syrup.

Gimme that Mossberg swerve! Dayum, I had no idea Bone Thugs were even still around, or that they play morning concerts at a Methodist university.

Hmm… well, for the sake of SMU fans I do hope they are a bit more coordinated in the game then they were on the dance floor. If not then maybe they can go make a movie to build up that team unity, or have Chris Bell come visit and threaten to cut the “me” people from the team.

Tony @ #14…I did like the joke and well done…like I said I was throwin’ weak shit, just pickin’.

I, too, was a journ. major, although I ‘minored’ in French majors…surprisingly enough, at both Florida and Georgia (and one from Kansas via the Sorbonne of all places…still trying to figure that one out)…don’t know why, I just attracted them (maybe my cu…linary skills?)…and apparently some of that french just stuck…in places that didn’t leave a visible mark. Interesting aside…they all were petite, well-structured, with brunette short hair, and all had wonderful accents, even when speaking french…weird. Variations on a theme…oh, and two are now lawyers…go figure…

Comments regarding Casa Mangino, aside from wondering which wall he’s allowed to run through saying, “OH YEEEEAAAHHH!”:

• Unless that was taken during the fall, Coach needs to water the plants.

• What? No diving board?!?

• No wonder he works eighty hour weeks. He’s not allowed a man cave in that house.

• That realtor is getting really excited. “Come over here and check this out, Doris! The Mangino house is getting thirty hits an hour…we need to double the asking price!”

I’d imagine every one of the doorways is wide enough to accommodate two mid-size sedans.

#20

True fact department: Upton Sinclair was a communist, married a psychic, believed in telepathy, wrote in a backyard tree house and…….not so unbelievably…….ran for governor of California.

Wow, that’s the new Pony Express? Half of them are wearing away jerseys and half home jerseys so they don’t even know if they’re coming or going. I guess that’s what you get when you hire a head coach with a woman’s first name. The only hope I hold onto is that those guys learned the YMCA song at one of the many Metroplex-area Showbiz Pizzas in the area when they were kids. If they’re dancing as a salute to Billy Bob and his wonderful Rock-a-Fire animatronic friends, I’m ok with that.

anybody else having trouble with last night’s podcast?

I think I saw something like 7, maybe 8 televisions in that Mangino tour. Am I being a little too middle-aged for thinking that’s over the top?

@ 29

Yes. Nothing but dead air.

I was wondering when that SMU clip would show up here. I almost sent it to Orson weeks ago, but as an SMU fan (yes, Virginia, they do exist), I really didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

On the bright side, I was pretty impressed with the MC Hammer move, but I have no idea what Thomas Morestead (potential Ray Guy candidate — you gotta have a good punter when you’re SMU) was doing looking through his legs. Is this some new fangled thing the kids are doing these days, or just evidence that our punter really is a white stiff with no rhythm (as it should be for punters, probably).

…nice to see that Coach Mangino is a fan of Newcastle Brown Ale. Looks like a beer drinker, doesn’t he?

The wicker chairs in the basement threw me for a loop, though. Is there rebar re-enforcement?

1. 21, your are winnar

@29, yeah, I got nothing. Pity. I was looking forward to that one. Did NowLive archive it anywhere else?

SMU Mustangs are HOT HOT HOT!!!

Seriously those guys look like high school kids…June has his work cut out for him.

Certainly not this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4US7L6ypRk4

or this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q1nAWYNHx0

or this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipAu0hwk0CU

Did anybody notice the tent sized velour jacket hanging over the men’s valet stand (aka coat rack ) in the master bedroom! Awesome!

Also check out the living room and guess which chair the Manginos?

The last time Auburn installed a new offense, they immediately fielded the best SEC team of this decade. I’m not saying they’ll be world beaters, but it’s hard to imagine they will be less productive on offense than they were last year.