CLEAN YOURSELVES YOU HEATHENS!!

- tmc

Paul Newman 1925-2008

One of the best is gone.

Rest in peace Fast Eddie. You will be missed.

- The Mountain Cat

Do you want to see something scary

It's Sarah Palin sculpted into a cornfield in Ohio . The odd thing about it is that it actually seems to be done to the real size of her ego!

Enjoy your weekend!

-Doc

NO GAS ..It's like the 70's all over again

I don't know about where you all live but the Charlotte NC area is in the middle of a HUGE gasoline shortage. It's just like the Energy crunch in the 1970's. There are high prices, long lines, people breaking out into fights, and there will not be any relief for a week at least according to officials. From what I hear our part of the country is the only place feeling this crunch and it's due to Hurricane Ike shutting down production. I have always said that I never want to live anywhere else (and still don't) but I have finally found one downside to living here.... We are at the end of the pipeline that supplies gasoline from the Gulf of Mexico refineries. Oh well... Wish us luck that we will be able to make it through the weekend.

-Doc

Final Yankee Stadium Photos

My dad and I.

Reggie! Reggie! Reggie!

Derek Jeter leads the team around the Stadium after the game.

The team waves to the fans.

I hugged The Stadium for one last time.

- The Mountain Cat

Great wording in this article

Now I don't really care much about Jamie Lynn Spears or her baby or her mother for that matter but I happened upon this article about her pregnancy and found something hilarious. No it's not that her Mom thought that her pregnancy was a joke because that is just sad. It's this line about Jamie Lynn's boyfriend Casey Aldridge:

Spears said she realized it wasn't a joke because Aldridge, a pipe-layer from Liberty, Mississippi, wouldn't look at her.

BWAAHAHAAHAHAAAAA !!! CNN actually refers to Jamie Lynn's boyfriend as a "pipe-layer" in this article. Uhhhh is ole Casey actually a career "pipe-layer?" Is he a professional? Does he lay pipe for a living or just for fun? Because I think that laying a little pipe is what got them into this predicament in the first place. Something tells me they left that double entendre there on purpose.

-Doc

I do not see any damn dolphins...

Please take a look at this picture first...So what do you see? Now proceed and read below to find an explanation of what you really saw. You'll find this very interesting.




Research has shown that young children cannot identify the intimate couple because they do not have prior memory associated with such a scenario.
What they will see are the nine dolphins.
If it takes you longer than three seconds to see the dolphins, your mind is heavily biased in favor of perceiving the intimate couple (the email from which I harvested this picture says "your mind is corrupt"...) .

- TMC

Some changes at YJKOBT

We just wanted to give everyone a heads up that there are a few things changing here at YJKOBT. No we aren't leaving or stopping blogging. (or having a kidney removed as Mt. Cat suggested I tell you) We are just both too busy to keep up a strict schedule of posting that we have tried to do for the past 9 months. Things like word game, Weird Al Wednesday, Random Thoughts, and Top 10 lists will continue but may be posted randomly on any day. We love our readers and consider you all friends but due to both work and home life stuff we have not been able to keep up with our own blog much less reading yours. Sorry about that. We will try to do better in the future....So please stick with us and we will post stuff as we are able.

-Doc and the Mt. Cat

Goodbye

Today is the final game at Yankee Stadium. I will be there and will be sad to see it go. I am going with my dad who took me to my first Yankees game 23 years ago. I have so many great memories of this stadium. Today's game may top them all.

- The Mountain Cat

- TMC

Friday's Top Ten List - September 19th.

Top 10 rejected Vice Presidential candidate choices

10. Martha Stewart
9. Flea
8. Busta Rhymes
7. Hugo Chavez
6. David Hasselhoff
5. Frank Caliendo
4. Bevis
3. Jimmy Hoffa Jr.
2. Kim Kardashian
1. John Mark Karr

Happy Friday.

- Doc & The Mountain Cat

*****

Or how about these two??

Video: The Long And The Short Of It

The world's smallest man hooked up with the lady with the longest legs.
He Pingping, who is just 74.61cm tall (2ft 5.37in), posed on steps in London's Trafalgar Square with Russian Svetlana Pankratova, whose legs have been measured at 132cm (4ft 3.9in).
That is almost twice his height.
Pingping admitted he was head over heels in love - but not with the lady towering above him.
Pingping, who was born with primordial dwarfism, was thinking as ever of his girlfriend back in Inner Mongolia.

My 20 Essential Albums

I was thinking the other day that I needed to compile a list that Vin asked me about years ago. To really sit down and come up with my Top 20 essential albums. The 20 albums I would take with me to that fictional "desert island." So I sat down and thought about it and I have to admit it was tough. I have so many. Probably enough to do 100 but at least 50 essential "must have" albums. My criteria was that the album had to be produced and purchased from the artist not a compilation (or playlist - cause I don't do the I-pod thing) burned from other sources. This includes double albums, live recordings, and greatest hits too of course. I would love to hear your comments as well as your top 20 list as well. So here goes the 20 albums I cannot live without In order:

20. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

19. Men at Work - Contraband

18. The Commodores - The Best of the Commodores The Millennium Collection

17. AC/DC - Live

16. The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd

15. The Rolling Stones - Some Girls

14. Prince - The Hits / The B Sides

13. Harry Chapin - Gold Medal Collection

12. Jimmy Buffett - Meet Me in Margaritaville

11. Eagles - Hell Freezes Over

10. The Best of the Doors

9. Boston - Greatest Hits

8. Bon Jovi - One Wild Night

7. Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volume I and II

6. REM - Automatic for the People

5. Led Zeppelin IV

4. Barenaked Ladies - Play Everywhere for Everyone - Live in Charlotte 3/7/2004

3. The Who - The Ultimate Collection

2. Jimmy Buffett - Feeding Frenzy

And the most essential album for me of all time is

1. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet

I would love to hear what do you think...

-Doc

"Weird Al" Wednesday - September 17th

Good afternoon. My creativity has been lacking a lot lately. Mostly due to my cold. I've been sneezing like an MF the last few days. So here is my version of Christopher Cross' Sailing....

Snnneeezing,
Sucks my energy awayyyyy
a woe, woe, woe (is me)......

Any other songs about sneezing or just plain sickness?

Happy Wednesday.

- The Mountain Cat

Word Game winner

Thanks to everyone who participated in Tuesday Word Game. I read back over the entries and decided that Karen wins this weeks Peach for the following topical political championship:

Pole dancing however is not the oddest championship held in Europe. The oddest has to be American Political impersonation championship. Coincidentally Palin impersonators were entered in both contests.

Congrats Karen.... Here is your peach !! I bet Sarah did well in both contests....

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 9/16/2008

It's Tuesday again and time to play Word Game. Lets go the world of pole dancing for this week's edition shall we? It seems this past weekend they had the European pole dance championships in Amsterdam. That's right pole dancing championships. After reading this article I got to thinking that if I never knew there were pole dancing championships there must be other championships I haven't heard of before. I say we should make some up.

Complete the following news article with an odd or funny championship event and the funniest or oddest wins a peach tomorrow morning:

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - It was a busy time for pole dancers in Amsterdam at the weekend.
While the red light district's troupe were gyrating as usual on Friday night, a host of girls from Albania to Spain flew in to compete for the European pole dance championship title.
"Everything which we do requires so much strength. You train your legs and your muscles. It has nothing to do with eroticism. You have no time to think of that!" said Jeannine Wikering, the 26-year-old competitor for Germany who came third.
"I think one day it should be an Olympic sport -- but that will take time. You would have to agree which moves on which to judge competitors, at the moment we all have such different routines," she added.

Pole dancing however is not the oddest championship held in Europe. The oddest has to be ________________.

Answer as often as you like in the form of a comment and may the best answer win.

-Doc

Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies at age 65

LONDON (AP) — A Pink Floyd spokesman says founding member Richard Wright has died. He was 65.

Wright died Monday after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. His family did not want to give more details about his death. The spokesman is Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist.

Richard Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason at college and joined their early band Sigma 6.

Sigma 6 eventually became Pink Floyd and Wright wrote and sang some of the band's key songs. He wrote "The Great Gig In The Sky" and "Us And Them" from Pink Floyd's 1973 "The Dark Side Of The Moon."

***

I am sad. Pink Floyd is my favorite band. Richard Wright is at the right of the above photo.

- The Mountain Cat

America

- TMC

Ari Gold...

...is the best character on TV.

Jeremy Piven is brilliant.

- The Mountain Cat

Woody Allen

I saw the film Vicky Cristina Barcelona the other night. Very good film. Woody is definitely one of my top ten people in Hollywood. He puts out a film every year. Some are hit or miss, but a lot of classics. And Annie Hall is one of my favorite comedies. How many Woody Allen films have you seen?: Woody's films

- The Mountain Cat

Top Ten Rejected Hurricane Names

10. Hurricane Hussein
9.Hurricane Glass
8. Tropical Storm Bambi
7. Hurricane Katrina the Second
6. Hurricane Redundance Hurricane
5. Tropical Cyclone Cyclopes
4. Hurricane A-Rod
3. Tropical Depression Britney
2. Hurricane Carter
1. Hurricane Cosmo



Happy Friday.
- The Mountain Cat

Somebody dropped a dime on ole Tater Salad

Last night Ron White was arrested in Florida for possession of pot after an an anonymous tipster told Vero Beach Police detectives an airplane would be landing at 5 p.m. at the city’s airport with a passenger carrying illegal drugs.
Here is my question. I wonder if he told the cops "They call me tater salad" ?

-Doc

Please take a moment to remember

Please pause today to remember what happened seven years ago today in New York City and Washington DC. and may we never forget how we as a nation felt that day.

-Doc

"Weird Al" Wednesday - 9/10

I really don't have a song idea today so I won't force it. It's been a slow news week anyway. We can sing about Britney Spears' triumphant return to MTV's Video Music Awards or Kim Jong il taking a turn for the worse? Let me know if you have any good lyrics. Happy Wednesday.

- The Mountain Cat

Word Game Winner 9/10/2008

Thanks to everyone who played word game yesterday.... After reading back through I had to pick a single winner. I simply had to go with the following "punny" entry from our friend Knight who writes Knacht-Up Ramblings after an assist from MickyT:

Mutilated potato solves case in Boise condom robbery. Micky-T arrested for having weapons of mashed destruction.

This entry made me laugh and seemed to make everyone else laugh too! Congrats Ms. Knight... Here is your Peach (I bet it looks good on you):

Enjoy the Peach and we will play Tuesday word game again next Tuesday.

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 9/9/2008

Today's Tuesday Word Game is going to be a little bit different than previous weeks. Instead of completing an odd news story this week we are going to start one. After reading this story about a robber who had a very specific goal for his heist I just had to work it into a game. The following opening lines of the story just caught me:

DALLAS - A robber rolled into a Dallas convenience store came armed with a bat and a knife. He left with a lot of condoms and an energy drink.

After reading that I said to myself... Now there isn't something you read every day!

For this weeks game I want you to come up with your own opening sentence to an odd news article that like this story about the robber is something you don't read every day. Make is as catchy and outrageous as you want to but please try and keep it clean. Make up as many as you like and answer in the comments. Best and funniest wins a Peach tomorrow morning.

-Doc

Weekly Poll

This week we are checking back to a poll that we put up about 6 months ago. Now that we are through the conventions and in the home stretch of the election I want to check to see who you think will win the Presidential election. This is NOT who you specifically want to win the election but who you think will win. Obama or McCain? What say you?

-Doc

The biggest diddly dog-gone sports day of the whole year !!

The opening day of football season is usually a pretty big day around our house but today is going to be ridiculous !! Due to Tropical Storm Hannah (which we literally only got 4 raindrops from here) the sports schedule for the weekend has gotten crammed into today. Not only do the Carolina Panthers open the season today at 4:15 but add to that a NY Mets day-night double header for 1st place against the Phillies (at the same time that the US open is going on - the worst traffic jam in the world shall be in Flushing NY today I promise) AND not just one but TWO NASCAR races from Richmond, including the deciding race to determine who makes the Chase for the title. Wheew it's gonna be a big day around here!!

-Doc

(UPDATE: It turned out to be a pretty good day! Jimmie Johnson won the race and Jef Gordon made the Chase... Mets won 1 of 2 and the Panthers beat San Diego on a last second TD... Woo Hoo !!)

Friday's Top Ten List - September 5th.

Top Ten Things Overheard at the Republican National Convention

10. 'I didn't know that John McCain was in Abe Lincoln's cabinet too?'

9. 'Sorry Senator Craig, I don't have the bathroom key. How'd you get in here anyway?'

8. 'Sarah Palin's daughter is Jamie Lynn Spears?'

7. 'Mitt can Mitt my ass.'

6. 'I, Mike Huckabee, believe that John McCain has evolved to become a great American President.'

5. 'No Mrs. Palin. There will not be a swimsuit competition.'

4. 'Yeah Mrs. McCain, I'm sure you would beat Sarah Palin in a swimsuit competition if there was one.'

3. 'Yes my name is Mel Martinez...I was invited to be here as a guest speaker....Mel Martinez....Mel Martinez...Mel....ah a senator from Florida...M.A.R.T.I.N.E.Z...'

2. 'Good morning Vice President Cheney. Do you have an extra pair of Depends that John can borrow?' (Yeah I know that was mean).

1. 'When I am president I will make sure we exit Vietna...er...Iraq swiftly and smoothly.'

I am out of the office today. Have a great weekend everyone!

- The Mountain Cat

Palins in comparison

"Hello everyone! It's time again for America's favorite game show 'Who is America's Favorite Palin?' [APPLAUSE] And I'm your host Phink Philibusket. [APPLAUSE]

Thank you. Thank you. You are too kind. Thank you.

Are you ready for today's contestants?? [APPLAUSE, CHEERS, YEAH YEAH, WHOOP, WHOOP]

Ok folks, here is our first contestant on 'Who is America's Favorite Palin?':

She is the governor of Alaska. She is 44 years old, mother of five, an avid fisherman & hunter. She is a proud card carrying member of the NRA. She once finished second is a beauty contest! Her favorite movie is 'Deliverance'. And her favorite dessert is chocolate Malomars. And she may just be our next American Vice President! Please lets give a very warm welcome to Mrs. Sarah Palin! [APPLAUSE, CHEERS, YEAH YEAH, WHOOP, WHOOP] Glad you can be here Sarah.


Our next contestant is from Broomhill, England. He is a 65 year old actor and writer. He has been a comedic icon for years as well. He is one of the founding members of Monty Python's Flying Circus. He has appeared in several hit films such as A Fish Called Wanda, Fierce Creatures, Brazil, Jabberwocky, Life of Brian and The Holy Grail. His hobbies include being a lumberjack and selling dead parrots. His favorite food is Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Delicious Spam! Wonderful Spam!

Yes IT'S Mr. Michael Palin!! [APPLAUSE, CHEERS, YEAH YEAH, WHOOP, WHOOP, AND ONE YIPPEE].
Ah thanks for coming Michael. Ah ha ha thank you, Michael, thank you!

Now ladies and gentlemen. The pressure in now on you. Located in front of your seat is a computer screen where you can vote for your favorite Palin. Will it Sarah Palin....or....Michael Palin.....ooh tough choice. I'd hate to be in your position right now. Ah ha ha, ah ha ha.

We'll be right back after these important commercial announcements to reveal 'Who is America's Favorite Palin?'! [APPLAUSE, CHEERS, YEAH YEAH, WHOOP, WHOOP, AND TWO YIPPEE]. "

- The Mountain Cat

"Weird Al" Wednesday - September 3rd

A few weeks ago I created a song parody for the Democratic nominee Barack Obama. So in the tradition of the 'equal time rule' for reporting political views, I have a little something for you about the Republican nominee John McCain. I asked Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam to sing this revised version of his eccentric song Yellow Ledbetter....

(guitar intro)

War vet

From Arrriiiizona!

The country said I wanna that Sen-a-tor

Once I saw him, he's as oooold as dirt

Then again, he may be our next president... yeah

Oh this Republican is gonna wish all your problems away yeah...

And he trained with the Naval Academy and knows what it is to be an America

And he went to Alaska

And found Sarah Palin to run by his side.

Their gonna fix the economy

you're gonna have more money to box or to bag
Ah yeah ehhhhhhhh...

Will you vote for John?
To the White House

Is it his time to saaaaaave?

I see Dems, frown about his policiiiieeesss yeah

And I know and I know I just want John McCaaaaaiiiinnnn

He's the guy (guitar solo)

Ooooh I see

McCain and Palin to show there's something else

Their gonna fix the economy

you're gonna have more money to box or to bag

Ah yeah ehh....

Will you vote for John?
To the White House

Is it his time to save?

I see Dems, frown about his policiiiieeesss yeah

And I know and I know I just want John McCaaaaaiiiinnnn
I just want John McCaaaaaiiiinnnn

I just want John McCaaaaaiiiinnnn

John

John wanna

Oh... yeah... oooh...

(guitar outro)

Don't you love the irony that a staunch Democrat like Eddie Vedder would sing a song about a staunch Republican like John McCain? Thank you for stopping by Eddie.

Any other songs about John McCain folks?
Happy Wednesday.

- The Mountain Cat

Tuesday's Word Game...

Ok, ok, ok! Geez Louise!.....

Complete the following sentences:

Doc has no time because ______ and The Mountain Cat has no ideas today because______.

- TMC

Nothing

Doc has no time and The Mountain Cat has no ideas today. Please talk amongst yourselves.