Bah, who has time for that? I pick up, wait a beat, then hang up. Most places get the hint, but sometimes someone will keep calling back thinking they got a live one, and I just keep hanging up on them.

The type of shower also has some relevance. My wife and I have a 3/4 master bath. There’s a sink, toilet and a shower (no bath) with a door that swings open. I try to have the bath mat catch all the drippings from the door, but that has a way of soaking the mat pretty good on at least half of it. Then I dry as much as…

I always round to the next dollr. I’ll calculate the tip percentage, usually 20% or so, then add enough to get to the next full dollar. But then, I try to get the cost for my gas at an even dollar amount (or $X.50) so maybe I just have a problem with hanging decimals.

When Rodgers first took over from Favre, I knew someone who worked at Lambeau Field. She used to tell me about just how lonely Favre was. He would ask her to take his truck to get gas and he would stay at Lambeau until 10 PM or later, because anywhere else he went, he would get mobbed by fans. Not that he minded…

Baseball definitely has layer upon layer of strategy, which makes it fun to play. There is very little going on visually, however, and the last few baseball games I went to (Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, the Brewers’ farm team) no one in the stadium, that I could see, were paying more than cursory attention to the game.…

1) The clock stopping or not is generally tied to how close the ball is to where it needs to be for the next play to get off. Incomplete pass? The ball is now 10, 20, or 30 yards away from the line of scrimmage, so the clock is stopped. (I know, spiking the ball breaks this “rule” but what are rules without…

Yeah, there is absolutely no good answer if you “have” to go to a bachelor’s party around the birth of a child. There is no way, as the husband, the guy sending in that question gets out unscathed.

I know kids don’t have any reason to listen to the “it will follow you forever” argument, just look at kids sending sexts and things.

For the majority of people, they go to the gym to lose weight, not gain muscle. So gym membership would drop precipitously. They would also have to add some sort of ejaculatorium, to cater to people who just want to lose weight, maybe combine it with the steam room?

And for the rebuttal:

Nah, get the in-laws there to help your bed-ridden wife. For one thing, most guys aren’t getting paternity leave, especially not before the baby, so someone’s going to need to be there during the day anyway. Even with in-laws there after the baby, you’re not leaving for a weekend and getting out of your share of 2 am…

There are two options, take the trip before the baby is born or after the baby is born, within a two month window, or so. Going before the baby is absolutely the better of the two option, though neither of these is a good option. If your wife is panicking at every little burp and fart, there’s another issue at hand.…

There is a difference between absolute time and subjective time. Soccer may take less absolute time, but it feels like it takes forever, and in the end, you’ve got a 1-0 score. A lot of action for very little result.

Maybe you said stupid shit on long-obsolete bulletin boards because you were an idiot teenager who wasn’t taught how to behave semi-coherently on internet message boards.

I think a blog/internet comment class is an awesome idea. If it leads to fewer trolls, idiots and flamers, I’m all for it.

You could, but who would want to? The best thing about soccer coming on the TV is that it automatically removes one channel from my list of options, potentially leading to me actually getting off my ass to do something else.

You know what happens when you have to sneeze, but then it goes away and your nose throws a quiet little temper tantrum? Well, imagine it’s a “throwgasm” just disappearing in the middle of “gasming” and you know how Drew’s feeling about the Bears game.

Berman put a lot of his money into ESPN when it was first starting and basically owns half of it, there is no way anyone at ESPN is allowed to ever tell him “No.”

The 14 year old is already our baby-sitter...or at least she has been, she hasn’t responded to our last couple requests. But to be honest, paying for a babysitter when both my mother and my wif’es mother are willing and able to watch her seems a little unnecessary.

Spiders...but yeah. I keep defusing the bomb. We’re in a good spot.