As an uncle, it's my *job* to corrupt them!

Now I want a t-shirt with the two cowboys from Broken Back Mountain, with a caption that says, "I caught the gay from the Hollywood Liberal Elite!"

Now I want a t-shirt with the two cowboys from Broken Back Mountain, with a caption that says, "I caught the gay from the Hollywood Liberal Elite!"

"I went to Brokeback Mountain, and all I got was this stupid t-shirt and Teh Gay."

If only this movie were capable of turning people gay—there are a couple of guys who would be on my list to drag to it at earliest opportunity.

I'm saying that's either parody or a fictional entry created to stir shit.

Here's a cheery bit of statistical trivia:

Calculations based on the amount of barley used for brewing in Conventry during the 1520s indicate that the average consumption of ale was 17 pints of strong ale a week for every man, woman, and child in the town. Statistics for English consumption of beer late in the seventeenth century indicate an annual consumption per person of 832 pints. To put this figure in context, in 1976 the amount was only 209 pints, one fourth the earlier figure.

Here's the original (as far as I can tell) Brokeback post: [link]

It's not even posted by a Meghan Thompson. It's posted by a guy from West Hollywood, named JonMark (profile): [link] .

I'm much more firmly in the parody corner, now.

This one predates that, Cindy. If it's a hoax, it's an awfully elaborate one.

[eta: On closer read, my link isn't exactly the same story as the other one. My guess is that the latter one is an exaggerated parody of the original.]

I saw that whenever it first went around here, Jess. That's a different issue. That's someone who did identify as gay, and who no longer does, talking about what he interprets as the film's agenda, and claiming he got a phone call from someone.

It's a far cry from a wife posting, "The movie made my husband catch Teh gay."

The limb I'm out on, is the one betting money that JonMark at The Tribe may have created Meghan Thompson as a parody in response to that paragraph in the Bennett article, where Bennett claims to have gotten the phone call.

xposty goodness--I started responding before you edited.

The pain is getting to my...well, head's not the right word but maybe it makes sense way too much today. I'm overly fragile. And it shows, I think. People are acting weird around me.

This makes me want to give you a big hug, only clearly from a distance so I hope no bubble issues. This makes me both mad and sad, because it seems like you are doing everything there is to do, with little to no result, which seems unfair (grrrr) and crappy (whaaa). I am constantly amazed by how much you manage to do. I had frequent migraines for a while (although not this frequent, nor, it sounds like, mostly this bad), and while I did continue to go to work most days, I was pretty much useless. You just rock, ita, and I'm so sorry you feel so badly while doing it.

Statistics for English consumption of beer late in the seventeenth century indicate an annual consumption per person of 832 pints.

So, beer for breakfast! Except, none in the house and stuff to do today, so I guess I'll go with something more traditional American foodlike. tommy, I'm so glad about the diagnosis and sorry that it wasn't a better one.

Also, you all probably already saw it, but I smiled when I realized that krav was a central plot point in How I Met Your Mother this week.

This week's was the first mostly full ep that I've seen, and I was tickled pink to hear the krav reference and to know what they meant. Not quite so tickled to hear that I've been pronouncing it incorrectly in my head all this time. feh.