The Hodgepodge 3-27-07

I really enjoy the show Jeopardy. It is the most basic of the game shows and I would like to think that it is the most classic of them all. My favorite category is generally the sports categories where I think I have run every one for the last year and a half. But my next favorite category is Hodgepodge. For those that don’t know what I mean it is a catch all category. It means they have these good questions but no common theme between them. Well with this blog I sometimes have these observations but no underlying theme between them. Just a few random thoughts that don’t have anything to do with each other. I will call these columns the “Hodgepodge”.

1) I have two pet peeves in this world: girls that wear miniskirts with Uggs boots and people that dress up their pets in human clothing. Lets look at these separately. A girl would wear a miniskirt if it is warm and they want to show some skin. A girl would wear Uggs boots if it was cold and they wanted comfortable footwear. How in the hell do these two go together? I mean honestly, do girls think this looks good because they look freaking ridiculous. This would be like a guy wearing a sleeveless tanktop with a scarf. I am pleading to my women readers (there are like two of them by count) to stop this immediately. I propose a bill to congress to make this illegal. The other one is people that dress their dogs or cats in clothes. Last time I checked most animals have fur therefore no need for a freaking sweater. Your dog looks like an idiot and you look like an idiot for making them dress that way. I’m guessing most dogs don’t like wearing these things either. Now I don’t talk to any dogs so I don’t really know this but I’m just guessing that they don’t want to wear these things. Honestly last year in San Diego over Christmas break I was visiting Marcia. We went to pick up dinner for her family and what do we see? A teenage girl wearing a miniskirt with Uggs on her feet walking her Pomeranian that was wearing a sweater. My head nearly exploded off my shoulders. Both of my pet peeves happening at the same time. I am not making this up people. Marcia was there you can ask her. I was near tears.

2) The officiating at the end of the first half and beginning of the second half of the Georgetown/UNC game was as bad as I have seen in years but it wasn’t bad going both ways. Every call was going in UNC’s favor. I haven’t seen something this lopsided since the Kermit Washington Rudy Tomjanovich Fight (or Tara Reid’s first boob job. I couldn’t decide which joke to go with so I went with both of them). This is the game to get to the Final Four and the officials almost put Georgetown into a hole that they couldn’t get out of. Luckily Roy Williams forgot he had timeouts and Georgetown was able to pull it out.

3) In Marcia’s most recent blog post she mentioned that I had tried to sabotage her bracket both this year and last year. While in both years she has asked for my opinion and I have given it to her it has been a coincidence that it has turned out to be really bad advice. In my defense Florida has always choked in the tournament. Every year they got beat by someone who should have beaten them. This year she read me her original Final Four and I told her that I thought there were too many top seeds there. I told her she would probably want to mix it up. She did and now she is pissed when all the top seeds make it far. I apologize. These are not intentional sabotages. I still stick with my original opinions. She’s just a stupid girl that I am trying to help when it comes to sports.

4) Has anyone ever actually seen or been to a Sonic fast food restaurant? I see these commercials all the time but have never seen one of these establishments. I drove from Boston to California going through many states and seeing probably every fastfood joint on the planet except for a freaking Sonic. I am starting to think they don’t actually exist kind of like the original moon landing.