Quiz Time

Bourbon Congratulations! You're 106 proof, with specific scores in beer (60) , wine (33), and liquor (69).

Screw all that namby-pamby chick stuff, you're going straight for the bottle and a shot glass! It'll take more than a few shots of Wild Turkey or 99 Bananas before you start seeing pink elephants. You know how to handle your alcohol, and yourself at parties.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 10% on proof You scored higher than 86% on beer index You scored higher than 83% on wine index You scored higher than 87% on liquor index

Link: The Alcohol Knowledge Test written by hoppersplit on Ok Cupid

Congratulations!

To Brian, Liz, and Oksana for making it onto the ITAP board. Maybe now ITAP can live up to its designation as a honors program.

Brandyfied

Guess who is the cousin - second, twice removed - of Justin Timberlake? SBA commissioner/ITAP member/drunken slut and SWLAW's very own Brandy Chase. So if you'd like a signed glossy of Justin - signed by Brandy, not Justin - leave a comment.

Men & Women As Friends?

Tessa - the one who has made me obsessive curious about the topic - wanted me to tell everyone that we are proving most everyone wrong.

I just want to say it's early and it's tough at times, but if this is as bad as it gets, then she and I will prove to be one of the very rare and extraordinary circumstances.

Expect more on this as it develops.

DDouble Your Fun

The 10th Dean Of SWLAW

Men & Women As Friends?

Friday Spies© is making the rounds and they've taken up the topic of whether men and women can be friends. A couple of the early postings I've run across. More if I come across more.

I do think men and women can be friends, but I think the situations where that can comfortably occur are not common. It is true that the sex thing does get in the way, so it's probably easiest to be friends with a member of the opposite sex if you're both involved with someone else—seriously involved, like married. I think that makes it easier. Which isn't to say that two unattached people of the opposite sex can't be friends, but it's probably harder to maintain. And then, if either of them does meet someone, the new significant other will invariably have a hard time understanding the friendship. And then you get my two best guy friends ditching me after a decade and a half of friendship.

So, maybe.

Men have enough MALE friends, you see. And male friends are THE preferred kind of friend to have, don't you know. Women are kept around for sexual purposes and cooking. Surprised you didn't know that.

You see, once upon a time, there was a giant ladder. This ladder was fashioned by men and for men - kind of like The Hair Club for Men. This ladder was created before the earth even existed, when men floated in space, being friends with other men.

In it's most simplest form, the ladder says that MEN ARE WHORES. They want to have sex all the time, with as many people as they can, provided that the women are attractive (unless the man is drunk, in which case he will generously share his perfect penis with a less perfect specimen of female, on the condition that she promises to go away in the morning when he's sober and she promises never to contact him again), and they will constantly rank all women on the face of the earth and place them on their Ladder of Sex, based on a complicated formula that only men can understand, because it involves math.

Women don't really want to be friends with men either, they just want money for bonbons and shoes.

UPDATE:

Of course. Obviously, there's a problem if one party is always wishing that the relationship was more. But if both parties know what that it's just a friendship, I don't think it's a problem.

UPDATE:

Outlook not so good, but there are exceptions. I think the answer is yes, but it depends on your definition of "friend." For example, I know women whom I am attracted to, but have resigned myself to never landing, and I consider myself their friend. But I'm sure people would say that by virtue of my attraction, I can't really be a friend, only a wannabe-lover or something. I think it's dumb to assume that friendship and attraction are incompatible.

UPDATE:

That would be a big fat resounding no, except for very rare circumstances. I think that there will always be some sort of awkwardness there. Personally, I get more attracted to people by their personalities, so I end up being very attracted to my male friends which leads to weirdness.

The only way they can be friends is if there was awkwardness there, but it has been addressed and has disappeared.

I don’t think this is a black and white/yes or no issue. For me the answer is yes, but it can’t last forever. It will end when one has a relationship with another person they are serious about. Not just any relationship, but a special relationship.... I’m going to have to agree with Chris Rock’s philosophy and say that the man always wants to, uh... screw, the woman, and the woman keeps the man around as a just in case. Chris Rock speaks the truth. There is always at least a hint of sexual tension there.

I used to think so, but the answer is no, except in really extraordinary circumstances.... [M]en and women can only be friends if they live far apart, one of them gets married, or they work together. Or neither is attracted to the other, but that is rare.

Of course! I have lots of good guy friends, although most of them now are married or are the boyfriends or husbands of my friends. In the Air Force I had a lot more single guy friends and I can't say that every single one of those friendships was free from sexual tension, but it was never an issue really. It either got resolved or it didn't...problem solved!

Quiz Time

what flavor pocky are you?

[c] sugardew

I'll Give You My Pocky For Your Boba

My favorite of the clips. By the way, why is there a Men's Pocky? What makes a particular type of pocky a man's pocky?

UPDATE: I guess this is the answer.

I Wonder What $2 Would Get You

And there really should be a mandatory retirement age of about 22.

Networking

I was recently told by Trini that Southwestern alumni visit this blog. It's with great hope that they didn't find this blog surfing the web hours on end sitting on unemployed asses.

By the way, I'm not as incompetent as I make myself out to be on this blog, I'm much more incompetenter than that. Knowing that, and knowing how hard it is to get a start, why don't one of you alumni folks give a fellow Bison a job for the summer? I highly recommend co-bloggers Brian and Trini.

As for myself, I'm looking more for a sugar mama than a job. Said sugar mama need not be hot - though it helps in the sack - she only needs to be really rich and willing to support my lazy ass.*

* Note: The less hot you are, the richer you need to be.

Hot Dog Capital Of The World

And this man wants to be your guide.

Sushi Etiquette

I would think washing before you eat tops that list. Right in the gutter. That's where you can find my mind.

Keyword Of The Day

I don't know who did and that's a shame I think. There really should be a statue in rememberance of the man, that is until you come to the realization that you were sold fake goods and then you may want to burn him in effigy. But until that point is reached, he should be thanked.

Duck T9

The best part of this study? The statistical grouping.

It's completely appropriate to date within one's statistical group, right?

It Wasn't Me

I am, after all, much older than 41 but still not as old as Ann.

Quote This

"Dude, you owe her boba." - Wayne

14 Hours And Counting

That's how long I've been on campus. In that time I've written about seven pages of my seminar paper. I have eight more to write by 5pm tomorrow. So at a rate of half a page an hour - the rate I've been going at - I would need sixteen more hours to get it done. With about twenty hours until the deadline, it's not looking too good.

Hope No One Broke A Hip

Saw Professor Romero in full tennis regalia earlier today in full preparation to take on Professors Grimes and Dorff.

Tennis on a late Tuesday morning. How much nicer to be a law professor than a law student?

Calling All Conquistadors

CO needs to be discovered and conquered.

Seriously

How important is it for someone to know how to swim? Admittedly, I do have a predilection for jumping into bodies of water even after giving it some thought. But having survived the Cam and the pool at Hotel Fig during a bar review, I think I can manage just fine.

March Madness

I'd just like to say, UCLA as a 11th seed is bullshit.

Men & Women As Friends?

That question was asked a few days ago. Now I get to live it.

But really, if Tessa can keep her unconscious and unintentional flirting to a minimum, we should be fine. A "Stop it Tessa" from any one of our friends when she does flirt with me should greatly aid in the effort. But if I should ever be flirty/"whipped" around her, simply telling me to stop would probably have the same effect as it would have on a rapist - not that I'm really comparing myself to a rapist. So to discourage such behavior, I encourage my friends to kick me where it counts.

The threat alone is enough.

Some of Wayne's favorite phrases

When encountering a not so attractive female, wayne finds it amusing to use some of these descriptive phrases (explanations included).

1 - Butter face: a girl who is attractive in all respects but her face, hence the term. Also can be reffered to as a wreck up from the neck up.

2 - Wreck up from the neck up: see butter face.

3 - Tore up from the floor up: someone who is unattractive in all respects, i.e. face, body, style, personality, etc.

4 - Good from afar but far from good: someone who from a distance appears very attractive but when in close proximity disappoints the viewer.

Happy now, Wayne? Feel free to add others that I've overlooked.

Probably Not The Best Argument

If Harvard has it, then so should SWLAW.

A better argument? Think of the many more posts I would make.

Keyword Of The Day (FKA Stat Of The Day)

Same deal - words and phrases used that led to the discovery of this blog - but with a changed title that should have been done quite awhile ago.

Did anyone bring a camera to Brad's Pre-St. Patty's Day Party?

Excuse Me For Being A Conservative Prick

How can we not root for Bush to win this campaign for Arab democracy, even if his chances still seem no better than even? And while celebrations are premature, shouldn't we sometime Bush-bashers -- and even the full-time Bush-haters -- be prepared to give great credit to him and his neocons, if and when it becomes clear that they have engineered a historic breakthrough?

We could still, of course, assail Bush's continuing claims of near-dictatorial power. (May the Supreme Court continue to save him, and us, from his worst instincts.) We could still trash the policies that we don't like. We could still back a good Democratic nominee (if available) in 2008. We could still debate whether Bush is smarter than we thought, or just lucky.

But no matter how shallow, slippery, and smug Bush sometimes seems, if he ends up changing the world for the better, he will be entitled to a presumption of wisdom, even brilliance. Bush's soaring rhetoric about "ending tyranny in our world" rang hollow to me on January 20, amid all the grim news from Iraq. Then came Iraq's January 30 elections and the freedom ferment around the region. So when Bush spoke again of ending tyranny in a March 8 speech, the grandeur of his aspirations seemed more in tune with reality. The Arab spring has many causes, of course. But the big one was Bush's removal of Saddam.

Selection Sunday

Anyone want to start a bracket?