Hi, Bernardo Family! Aww... The only time I've been proposed to in a non-virtual way I choked on a tortilla chip. Needless to say, we did not get married and broke up shortly after.

meara, heh, I had the same reaction. I'm not so keen on the whole screwing someone else's spouse thing.

See: Seinfeld, Jerry.

Both my undergraduate and graduate schools did not have a football team.

Occasionally UNC's football team has flashes of competence, but by and large Chapel Hill's a basketball town.

My one proposal was from a drunk whose head I was holding out of the toilet. I declined. The whole lack of love life thing does make me feel like a bit of a freak sometimes—who gets to 40 without one serious proposal? But I look at the story upthread about the person whose spouse cheated on their honeymoon (seriously, what an asshole), and find myself feeling a lot better about not even having a near miss, marriage-wise.

Ugh. Football.

I'm visiting my parents in the town in which I grew up which could be the Non-Texan Friday Night Lights. This was exacerbated by the fact that the house is across the street from the high school itself.

Driving in to town there are big signs that announce that the high school was the 1994 Football State Champions. Really? I mean, really? Who cares?!

It's even sadder when the signs talk about being, like, 1978 state champions. There should be an expiration date.

That's like restaurants that keep up the sign that says they were Best of Whereever in 1985.

Dave Barry on the Democratic convention:

Sen. Clinton is scheduled to address the convention Tuesday night, when she will either call on her supporters to unite behind Obama, or attempt to snatch the nomination and escape with it by helicopter to a secret mountain fortress. ''We are fully confident that Sen. Clinton will do the right thing,'' stated a Democratic party official, adding, ``but we have a net.''

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But in the end, the focus of this convention will be on Barack Obama, who on Thursday night will receive the nomination in long-overdue recognition of a distinguished career of seeking the nomination. His goal, in his acceptance speech, will be to win over the undecided voters -- the people who are unsure of what he really stands for, or who have received emailed rumors that he is a Muslim, or a socialist, or a vampire, or a lesbian. His goal will be to show, with no disrespect to the Muslim socialist vampire lesbian community, that he is a regular person just like you, except he has Vision and Leadership. After that, he will lay out his specific policies for building a brighter future. Then he will turn into a bat.

eta: Dave Barry: The DNC's on, let the drama begin

or a vampire, or a lesbian

Barrack Obama is RILEY???

Perhaps he was really raised in a lab, programmed, as it were, for Success.