Day 44 - "Wouldn't It Be Great If We Could Post A 'Katy Perry Sex Tape'?", Forcing Size 6 Crimes Into Size 4 Punishments Makes Everyone Watching Wince, Celebrating Great Goofballs Of American History, Observation Day 25 - I've Decided To Call The Little Friendly Ghost Casper, NASTRAILER Racing, And Our Guide To Dating Success

8:03 AM Mr. Silver
Morning
8:06 AM Mr. Silver
And I was going to put up the Forever Alone guy for my desktop

8:07 AM Mr. Blue

heheh

8:23 AM Mr. Silver
Anyway...we need to find some sneaky underhanded way to pull people to the blog that only a dastard would employ.
Like a "Free Virus Click Here" link (but better since that joke's been done.)

8:29 AM Mr. Blue

Nudes?

8:29 AM Mr. Silver
Someone in particular?
8:44 AM Mr. Silver
So we basically come up with some "leaked tape of someone” title, and the search will pop.
8:45 AM Mr. Silver
Like "Wouldn't It Be Great if We Could Post A '(Insert Name) Sex Tape'?"
That phrasing should prevent the lawsuit and the cease and desist order. Who’s most popular (who doesn't have one)?

8:49 AM Mr. Blue

Basically

Maybe we just need to talk about more relevant stuff

“Tea Party”, “Michelle Bachman”, “Transformers 3”, “Casey Anthony”

8:31 AM Mr. Blue

My friend was discussing Kenny Chesney concerts, and how they’re basically an excuse for conservative rednecks to be gay for 12 hours.  And he put together an entire picture gallery of his friends that were tagged in pictures where they're shirtless, wearing straw hats and hugging other guys outside the concert

8:52 AM Mr. Blue

I’d like to say a prayer for Casey Anthony. Hopefully the good lord finds her innocent.

Pretty face like hers shouldn't be confined to a jail cell

9:03 AM Mr. Silver
Well...the Good Lord already knows if she is.
So you're rather hoping that the good jury finds her innocent

9:07 AM Mr. Blue

I don't care either way, to be honest

9:09 AM Mr. Silver
Nor I, honestly.
9:12 AM Mr. Silver
I was much more empathetic and appalled at the juxtaposed articles I saw this morning, showing a CEO getting 40 months instead of the hoped for 72 as punishment for stealing $3 billion through fraud.
Versus the homeless black man who stole $100, felt bad about it and returned it. And got 15 years.
Really? Seriously?
The theft was when the money was left out...it wasn't even a holdup

9:15 AM Mr. Blue

Heh

9:16 AM Mr. Silver
Sentencing should be blind...
Bunch of checkboxes and then a printout

9:18 AM Mr. Blue

Probably is

The language probably stipulates that fraud and embezzlement is smaller than grabbing something right off a desk

Kind of like how the punishment for possession of cocaine is lighter than punishment for possession of crack cocaine

9:19 AM Mr. Blue

Cocaine = rich white people and Crack = poor black people

9:23 AM Mr. Silver
Scale should probably make a difference. It's like that Eddie Izzard bit on murder. 
        (Paraphrasing... - Mr. Silver) 
"Kill 1 person – Shame on you, jail for life!”
"Kill 10 people – “Appalling! Execute him!”
"Pol Pot killed 2.5 million – “I say...that's a lot! Uh...well done! House arrest on your estate. Good show!"

9:24 AM Mr. Blue

heheh

9:28 AM Mr. Silver
“That's a lot of people, really. A lot of work that. Imagine his schedule: Breakfast...kill people…shower...kill people...morning meeting...kill people...lunch...kill people...”



10:08 AM Mr. Silver
Moved on to Judge Roy Bean and then Grizzly Adams, a man I didn't know was real

10:09 AM Mr. Blue

heh

10:09 AM Mr. Silver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_%22Grizzly%22_Adams

10:10 AM Mr. Blue

His most delinquent grizzly, named General Fremont (for John C. Fremont), during a playful wrestling match, struck Adams in the head, cracking it like an eggshell. The wound healed, only to be reopened by the "General".  Although never fatal, the wound, by the fourth time the General had severely injured James Adams' skull, left his brain exposed.

mmm!

Kinda cool

10:11 AM Mr. Silver
Yup
"Pst…James...stop fighting General Fremont."
James "Grizzly [Never Learns From Severe Beatings]" Adams

10:19 AM Mr. Blue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Mumler

10:24 AM Mr. Silver
What a good name for his profession

10:25 AM Mr. Blue

why's that

10:29 AM Mr. Silver
Sounds like a fraud... "What a mumler, that guy!"

10:29 AM Mr. Blue

ah

11:12 AM Mr. Silver
So I’m thinking we're probably right on the edge of a ghost breakthrough

11:12 AM Mr. Blue

Oh yeah

For or against?

11:13 AM Mr. Silver
For
Not certain what the final conclusion is going to be, but these few teams are catching so much, with more and more-finely-tuned devices and techniques, it’s getting hard to pass stuff off as coincidence, environmental, fraud or matrixing.

11:14 AM Mr. Blue

They’re so finely tuned they'll pick up anything anywhere

11:14 AM Mr. Silver
Possible, except from where? And stuff matches location.

11:16 AM Mr. Blue

I don’t watch any of those shows, to be honest.

They’ve always seemed so hokey, though I’ve heard good things about the newer ones.

I figure if they do have a breakthrough, I won't have to watch every episode to hear about it

It’s like the Bigfoot shows: Yeah, right…I’m sure they're going to find something out in this pre-recorded show that wouldn’t have been given straight to the media as soon as they caught it.

11:18 AM Mr. Silver
What I'm waiting on, I guess, is some proper anthropology
When you go out to study a group of natives, you first hear about them...then go find them...and then hang out with them 3/6/9/12 months
No one does ghost research like that. One overnight of poking around and hassling the spirits.
I just don't get that.
On that note, I also like them saying things like "This equipment can't hurt you, don't be afraid. Come talk to me."
Aaaaaand you know that it “can't hurt” spirits, how exactly?
11:27 AM Mr. Silver
Rather big assumption. I usually call out a tortured ghostly “Augh! It burns!” or the like for Mrs. Silver when that comes up while we’re watching.

11:30 AM Mr. Blue

How come ghosts don't come up in any like, theories by physicists and the like?

11:30 AM Mr. Silver
Maybe they do.

11:30 AM Mr. Blue

Why can these smart people predict black holes and worm holes and types of particles but not how to find ghosts, where they might be, or where they might come from?

11:31 AM Mr. Silver
I’ve never really looked for that, but there are a lot of people from a lot of disciplines that go ghost hunting.



11:46 AM Mr. Silver
This sounds really stupid.  It's not even the same sport.  http://www.armstrongmywire.com/news/read.php?ps=998&rip_id=%3CD9O8D8CG2%40news.ap.org%3E&_LT=HOME_LARSDCCLM_UNEWS&page=1
It seems to guarantee that 50% of all entrants can't win
Instead I'd like to see them race really long cars...or perhaps cars dragging trailers.

11:55 AM Mr. Blue

Sounds weird, but I’m not sure if I’d notice a difference if I saw it

12:18 PM Mr. Silver
I'm thinking the tip-off would be the bumper-to-bumper driving and no passing by half the racers
And every wipeout involving at least 2 cars instead of 1.
12:26 PM Mr. Silver
NASCAR "Side Hacking"

12:31 PM Mr. Blue

heheheh

And we know how that sport took off

12:40 PM Mr. Silver
Have you spoken to your lady lust yet?

12:41 PM Mr. Blue

hahah

Uhh no

12:44 PM Mr. Silver
Shame...
Married?
Keep talking about her boy/girl/dog friend?

12:47 PM Mr. Blue

Heheh

I dunno yet

The answer could be frightening.

12:48 PM Mr. Silver
(Raises eyebrow)
It's very simple.  Stroll up to her cube: 
"Hey, I was wondering if you were doing anyone this Friday... ...THING!  I MEANT ANYTHING!  OH GOD!  THAT SOUNDS EVEN WORSE!  OH I'M SORRY!  I'M SUCH AN IDIOT! STUPID, STUPID, STUPID! GEEZ!"
Then you stand there calmly for a bit:  "So...wanna hit a movie or something?"

12:51 PM Mr. Blue

I think I’ll get her number and leave her 15 voice mails in one night

And if she doesn't text me back in 20 minutes every time, call the police

12:52 PM Mr. Silver
"Hi!  Me again.  Thought I heard a 1/2 ring and was making sure if it was maybe you calling back.  Gimmie a call!"
I could pass one of those "Do you like" quizzes with the check boxes for you.

12:54 PM Mr. Blue

You are presuming she has a cubicle.

12:55 PM Mr. Silver
If you'll check the record, I presume it because you said she works here.

12:55 PM Mr. Blue

I never said that.

12:55 PM Mr. Silver
And you feared me guessing who.
12:56 PM Mr. Silver
(silence from Mr. Blue)
hehehe
...Anyway

12:58 PM Mr. Blue

I didn't wanna play the Yes/No game

Because it starts narrowing down REALLY quickly

12:58 PM Mr. Silver
I already have ideas

12:59 PM Mr. Blue

Probably

You’re probably right

1:05 PM Mr. Blue

It's such a low percentage chance at this point that I see no point working myself up over it any more than I probably already am

1:15 PM Mr. Silver
There was once a man - a good, faithful, God-fearing, church-going man - who was never lucky with his money and prayed, every day, to be given his big break and win the lottery.  Pay his debts, fix his business, give his family what they needed. 
One day, after 25 years of asking the voice of God Himself invaded his prayers!
"FINE!  BUT I'VE BEEN WAITING 25 YEARS FOR YOU TO BUY A TICKET!"

1:20 PM Mr. Blue

Oh I see. Can't win if you don't play

1:22 PM Mr. Silver
(Touches nose)

1:22 PM Mr. Blue

Well I don't see "playing" as just jumping in face first and asking a girl out

1:24 PM Mr. Silver
For that strategy I recommend a couple layers of popped-collar shirts, a bad tan, and a duckface smirk.

1:24 PM Mr. Blue

heheheh

Ready with a "Pssh! You ugly anyway." for when I get rejected

1:25 PM Mr. Silver
Right...slam her with The Neg

1:27 PM Mr. Blue

I might be more inclined to discuss it if I weren't so hot and miserable

1:27 PM Mr. Silver
Good phrasing, use it

1:27 PM Mr. Blue

heh

1:29 PM Mr. Silver
"You make me all hot and miserable, baby."
1:33 PM Mr. Silver
"Creep!"
"Well it's true!"

1:35 PM Mr. Blue

"See how matted and sticky my hair is? That's all for you."

1:39 PM Mr. Silver
"I must have pitted out 3 shirts just building up the nerve to talk to you."