THE KING IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE KING!

party dog Patrick sucking up the bourbon at 2007 Geobash...

It is 7:47 a.m. and 56.7 degrees out. And windy. And rainy. GLOBAL WARMING WARNING!! HEAD FOR THE HILLS, THE CRIKS ARE A-RISIN'!!!! OMG!!! Patrick and Junior are in bed, sleeping the sweet sleep of innocents-NOT!!

Well, the Gators reign as Champions of Div. 1 Football comes to an end. We congratulate the LSU Bengal Tigers and happily relinquish our crown to them for SMASHING "the" Ohio State University, not quite as badly as we did, but quite satisfactorily nonetheless.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Anyway, from Marky Mark via the inbox:

A Parable For The Campaign Season

>>>> John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several

>>>> hundred

>>>> young layers (hens), called "pullets," and ten roosters, whose job it

>>>> was to

>>>> fertilize the eggs.

>>>>

>>>> The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into

>>>> the

>>>> soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time, so he

>>>> bought a

>>>> set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a

>>>> different tone so John could tell from a distance, which rooster was

>>>> performing.

>>>> Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply

>>>> by

>>>> listening to the bells.

>>>>

>>>> The farmer's favorite rooster was old Butch, a very fine specimen he

>>>> was,

>>>> too. But on this particular morning John noticed old Butch's bell

>>>> hadn't

>>>> rung

>>>> at all!

>>>>

>>>> John w ent to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets,

>>>> bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run

>>>> for

>>>> cover.

>>>>

>>>> But to Farmer John's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so

>>>> it

>>>> couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to

>>>> the

>>>> next

>>>> one. John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew

>>>> County

>>>> Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

>>>>

>>>> The result........The judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell

>>>> Piece

>>>> Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.

>>>>

>>>> Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making: who else but a

>>>> politician

>>>> could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on

>>>> our

>>>> planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing

>>>> them

>>>> when

>>>> they weren't paying attention.

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> Vote carefully...the bells are not always audible!

GO GATORS!! PRACTICE HARD!! STUDY HARD!! LEARN TO WIN!!

GO REPUBLICANS!! WORK HARD!! STOP THE UNHOLY ONE KNOWN AS HILLARY!!

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