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Jan 8, 2009 Awfulness, BFD's Real Doll, Casserly blows goats... I have proof, Conventional Wisdom Can Blow Me, Dancing With the 'Tards, Little Dickie Justice
A couple of people sent this, and I should be working, but this is example #10,393 of why the Houston Chronicle’s sports section is an embarassment to journalism and the city of Houston. So, let’s get to it, shall we?
A sports blog with Richard Justice
And now you know how precisely sucky this article will be.
Gary Kubiak once got mad at Dan Riley because he saw him smiling in the weight room the day after a loss. Riley was working out a player, pushing him, helping him get ready for the next game. In other words, he was doing his job.
Now that’s the way to start. A vague reference to something that may or may not have happened, but Kubiak looks like a fool.
For the last 28 years, Dan Riley has done his job far better than Gary Kubiak and Rick Smith have done theirs. Riley was held in high regard by his players, much higher regard than Rick Smith ever will be.
And there’s the requisite cheap shot at Rick Smith. Look, Lil Dickie: we passed on Vince Young three years ago. It’s time to deal with it, mmmmmkay?
Kubiak didn’t understand why someone would be smiling after a loss. He thought smiling meant that Riley was fine with losing. All it really meant is that there are a lot of things Kubiak doesn’t understand.
He also doesn’t seem to understand the importance of strength training to a successful NFL team. (He also doesn’t understand the stupidity of having training-camp practices in the heat of the day. He believes players can be conditioned to deal with the heat. They can’t. There’s a mountain of research about this. Whatever.)
Wow. See the deal here is that Kubiak hates smiling. He also hates puppy dogs, long walks on the beach, and fine Irish whiskey. And it’s obvious Kubiak knows that there is no relation to strength training and football! Duh!
As far as training camp schedule? The Texans’ looks a helluva lot like that of the Giants.
Players with the Texans were forced to get their weight-lifting done whenever they could fit it in before or after a training-camp practice. Kubiak made weight training a far lower priority than running the same plays over and over in practice. He’s a smart guy and may eventually learn there’s a better way. He may even one day understand that Mike Shanahan didn’t invent football. If he’s going to model the Texans after an organization, he might want to look to the Patriots, Ravens or Giants instead of the Broncos.
It’s called training camp, asshole. This is the time for players to learn, not workout. And since they don’t train during the heat of the day, as you just mentioned, perhaps they could lift then? I mean, jeebus, you moron, your logic is beyond dumb.
Riley probably was more responsible than any other single person for making weight-training a regular part of an NFL player’s training. Until he left Penn State to join the Washington Redskins in 1981, weight-training had been a crude, occasional off-season routine.
Players did sometimes get strong in the off-season, but they lost that strength as the season wore on because coaches refused to give up their precious practice time for training they didn’t understand.
Joe Gibbs did understand. He gave Riley the power of a coordinator. If Riley told Gibbs a player lacked the right kind of work ethic, Gibbs usually got rid of that player.
Gibbs was the first NFL coach to give up practice time to allow players time to lift. He also made weight-training sessions mandatory during the regular season. Gibbs would be the first to tell you that Riley was a huge reason the Redskins won three Super Bowls.
Yes yes, Riley = great guy. Joe Gibbs was awesome in the 80s.
Some Dallas Cowboys would tell Washington players, ”We can dominate you guys physically early in the season. We hate playing you late because you’re still strong, and we’ve lost something.”
Did you just make that up? Are you going to source? Or are we supposed to blindly believe every idiotic thing you have to say?
When Charley Casserly became GM of the Texans, Riley had been one of his first hires. Redskins owner Dan Snyder had pleaded with Riley to stay in Washington and had offered big money.
Riley left anyway because he trusted Casserly more than he trusted Snyder. Casserly hired another former Redskin, trainer Kevin Bastin.
They are both really good people and really good at their jobs. Gary Kubiak isn’t going to hire anyone better than these two.
And how do you know this, asshole? Did you do a study? Or do you ignore how injury prone the team has been over the past couple of seasons? Do you have any empirical evidence of your assertion at all?
Riley developed a close relationship with his players even though his relationship with Kubiak and insecure Smith was tense from the start. Kubiak and Smith inherited Riley and Bastin from the previous staff and were going to get rid of them the first chance they get.
Whoa. “Insecure?” Kettle, much?
That’s what coaches do. They want their people even if the people they’re getting rid of are competent people.
Yes, Richard, it’s what teams do. It’s how businesses are run. When people don’t see face to face, especially in something as high profile as the NFL, changes need to be made. And you know what? It’s not your call, asshole.
Maybe Kubiak and Smith are holding Bastin and Riley accountable for the injuries. The Texans did have a lot of injuries in 2007, fewer in 2008. Accountability is a good thing.
Soooooo….you’ve spent the entire article talking about how wonderful these guys are, and then you admit there have been huge injury issues? Orly?
If that’s the new policy, can we get the name of the guy that signed Ahman Green, Chris Brown, Rosevelt Colvin and Jordan Black. OK, never mind. Accountability probably is an excuse, not a policy.
*shakes head* I could also cherry pick all the shitty articles and blogs you write, but 100% sampling would give me the same result.
Speaking of Rick Smith, my favorite moment was one I’ve heard from a couple of players. In his first team meeting, he told them that if they needed inspiration they should just look at him.
”I’m only 33 years old and the general manager of an NFL team,” he supposedly said.
Those linemen that play with broken bones and torn tendons were really impressed with that statement. If he keeps making mistakes in free agency, he won’t be a GM for long.
Funny, that, considering Smith was THIRTY-FUCKING-SIX when he was hired! That’s the problem with all your little anonymous stories and tales, dumbass. You can’t even get the most basic, disprovable facts about them right. Why should we believe anything you write? You source nothing, you footnote less, and you have the credibility of Tommy Flanagan.
My guess is that Kubiak will now hire someone that either worked for the Broncos, knows someone from the Broncos or once changed planes in Denver.
He’ll consider that person loyal. I do think Kubiak likes being challenged, but for some reason he never seemed to trust two people he considered outsiders.
Bastin and Riley surely had seen the handwriting on the wall last summer when it appears almost everyone in the organization–including Richard Smith–got contract extensions except them.
I can only guess that Lil Dickie Justice, age 12, just doesn’t get the invites to the reindeer games like he did under Casserly’s regime. He continuously bashes all things Denver, but he seems to forget that the Broncos won a couple of Super Bowls recently.
Kubiak has done a good job in three seasons with the Texans and has earned the right to hire his people. Maybe getting a new trainer and strength coach will push the Texans right over the top.
Just as much as getting you a new computer will make you a good journalist. Strength training is a tool, but you still have to have talent to win…and to write.
Bastin and Riley are unlikely to be out of football long if they’re willing to relocate. They’ve got friends on many teams and held in high regard by the people that have known them.
Riley turned down a contract worth $1 million from a team last summer or the summer before. Gibbs wanted him to return to the Redskins when he came back to coaching.
Players like Mark Schlereth, Russ Grimm, Art Monk, Darrell Green, Mark Bruener, Chester Pitts, Ephraim Salaam and others know how good Riley is even if Kubiak doesn’t. Shed no tears for Dan Riley or Kevin Bastin.
Did you personally talk to these guys for this post? Let’s use Justice-journalism for a moment: Andre Johnson, Steve Slaton, and Duane Brown all think that Riley and Bastin sucked.
They’ll be fine.
I certainly hope so.
They’re competent.
And you, Richard Justice, better hope to hell that you never lose your accountability-free gig at the Houston Chronicle.
To summarize, if a jealous, 13-year old girl wrote this article, it would look no different. We have vague accusations, a jilted mentality, and it wreaks of Hello Kitty lip gloss. In every way, this goes against basic journalistic standards. That it came off his blog makes absolutely no difference.
Once again, I do not question myself for actively avoiding the Chronicle’s newspaper or website. It’s just not worth the hit to my brain.
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January 8th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Just so you know, Matt’s neglecting all of you as he spends HOURS per day Facebooking. SOB got me to sign up and I’ve done nothing else for two days. Thanks a pantload, Chet.
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January 8th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Also,
Oklahoma 27
Florida 41
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January 8th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
land thieves – 31
trailer trash – 62
It’s 4:51pm CST, and ou still sucks.
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January 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
@bigwood25: Wait a second…you guys are on Facebook now? I had hoped the shame spiral we sent Matt into when we heard he had a MySpace account would carry over. Guess I need to raise my game and begin ratcheting up the insults anew. Let me get it kicked off:
I hope you two stop listening to Miley Cyrus and painting each other’s toenails long enough to watch the NFL playoffs this weekend.
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January 8th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
@Tim: I ditched MySpace. Facebook is supposed to be “professional” and good for “networking.” Really, all it’s done is let me put faces to some of the commenters names and sucked two days of life away from me.
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Also, Jeff still has MySpace.
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January 8th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
@Tim: They are more into the Jonas Brothers.
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January 8th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
@Matt: I’m sorry; I couldn’t really get through your Comment. I’ve got this picture of you and Jeff practicing Nsync’s choreography on a constant loop in my head, and I can’t stop laughing.
But good luck with that Facebook thing, though.
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January 8th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
@Tim: Now now, Tim, let’s be nice. They have a weekend sleepover coming up, and they are planning to sketch out their perfect husband when they grown up and get married. Don’t ruin that little piece of sunshine for them, please.
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January 8th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Don’t listen to them Matt. I think it’s cute that you and your BFF found a way to be together even when you’re apart.
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January 8th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Oh yeah…
OU 63
Gay-tors 3
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January 8th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
@bigfatdrunk: What a couple of precious little darlings Jeff and Matt are. Next thing you know, they’ll be going on their first date and wanting their own phone lines.
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January 8th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
@Tim: Technically, Matt has already gone on his first date….if you count sucking off half the junior high varsity football team a date.
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January 8th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Richard Justice makes McClain look like Edward R. Murrow.
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I wonder if the firing of Mike Shanahan emboldened Little Dickie Justice? I love how he throws Denver around as a slur.
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January 8th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
back off of facebook/myspace…where else is an overweight, drunk, 30+, perve supposed to meet nieve underage girls? I know that’s why i’m on it. Matt and BFD….it’s probably for the underage boys. those guys are sick.
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January 8th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
@Tim: Don’t listen to my co-blogger. He’s been on Facebook for weeks. He has many fascinating tales of talking to friends from high school.
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January 8th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
@bigfatdrunk: Had to be basketball; our damn school was too small for football.
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January 8th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I feel totally left out. I’m on MySpace and no one has tried to get a hold of me (although that’s by design). And no one has ever asked me to get on Facebook. What the hell!
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January 8th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Facebook is where people trade internet plants.
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I would say it’s faggy… but there needs to be a more offensive term that still calls your sexuality into question.
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January 8th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
@socctty:
I’m asking you to get on facebook – and send Matt a pretty flower!
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January 8th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
@socctty: Well, I think that Matt and Jeff talked about it while they were spooning one night earlier this week, and it just kind of happened. However, if you sign up, lemme know.
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@Matt: Gawd I hated high school.
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@bigwood25: Congrats, that was our 13,000th comment!
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@socctty: I don’t understand why Denver is a four-letter word. That’s why I think this is all his usual petty bullshit.
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@Chris: I’ve got a super pretty plant waiting just for you. Baby.
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January 8th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
@Chris: You trade plants? This sounds pretty fucking dumb.
@bigfatdrunk: Maybe Justice is trying to allude to some sort of good-ol’-boy thing going on. A step away from asking Kubiak if he wishes a better defensive coordinator had shared a cab with him in Denver or something.
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January 8th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
@Tim: Dearest Tim, I just sent you an invite. And you are SO welcome.
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January 8th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
@socctty: Well, myspace kills me with the horrible graphics and crappy music and shit like that. Yes, some people trade plants, but at least the site doesn’t give me a seizure.
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January 8th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
This game is like watching two, old, fat, drunk people fuck. These teams are fucking horrible. Can anybody out there even tackle?
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January 8th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
@bigfatdrunk: The “one” truth I see in this game, OU Sucks and always will…
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January 9th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Congratulations to the National Champion Utah Utes.
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January 9th, 2009 at 12:47 am
OH MY GOD have you seen the updated Richard Justice whining article on the Riley firings???
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He cites “SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE ORGANIZATION’S THINKING”!!!!!!!!!!!
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SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE ORGANIZATION’S THINKING!!!
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January 9th, 2009 at 12:52 am
Oh – maybe that was in the original also. Heh.
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Still – that has to be the worst citing for an alleged source I’ve ever seen.
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January 9th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Found this at TexansTalk:
http://www.HoustonDiehards.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/yummyoutears-300×168.jpg
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January 9th, 2009 at 4:51 am
@Tim: There’s no need to fear the future! Embrace the facebook. The first time you get “Poked” is a really invigorating experience.
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Otherwise, I go to the bar for one night and wake up to read the gayest comment thread on DGDB&D in… probably two days. Three max.
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January 9th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Frankly, the best reason to get on facebook is to ogle/stalk DT’s and TexanTerp’s female friends.
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@DisplacedTexan: We went that long? Hmmmm, we’ll work harder.
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January 9th, 2009 at 8:24 am
I can’t stand Tim Tebow. And I’ve decided that, athleticism aside, I hate everything else about big-time college sports. But I still watch them.
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January 9th, 2009 at 8:33 am
@Chris: I like flowers. And, by “flowers,” I mean “boobs.”
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January 9th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Can I just add, Fuck Dickie Justice?
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January 9th, 2009 at 8:59 am
@bigfatdrunk: Invitation respectfully declined.
@DisplacedTexan: If Facebook is the future, I want no part of it. When HPD discovers me in a bathtub with a toaster dropped in it, you’ll know why.
@WillFist4Food: That should probably be a tag.
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January 9th, 2009 at 9:29 am
@Tim: I’d blast back if I hadn’t laughed out loud.
Now back to pretending to be popular again.
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January 9th, 2009 at 9:32 am
@Tim: Luddite.
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January 9th, 2009 at 9:32 am
@bigfatdrunk: 13k. I rule!
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January 9th, 2009 at 9:37 am
At least I don’t see you spilling that Longhorns #1 silliness over here, bfd. Seriously, I fully appreciate homers, but it’s a ridiculous assertion to put them over Florida after last night’s game. Florida’s D was NASTY.
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January 9th, 2009 at 9:56 am
@bigwood25: Well, homerism or not, I am completely unconvinced that UF is better than UT in any way. What I saw last night was an incredibly sloppy game, bereft of fundamental play on either side of the ball by either team. The tackling, especially, was horrific. I think UT beats UF 8 out of 10 times on a neutral field. Just my opinion, but after watching UF a couple of times and UT rabidly, I think the UT has both a better D and better O. Oh, and Tebow is incredibly over-rated.
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January 9th, 2009 at 9:57 am
@Chris: I missed this the first time around. That’s really piss-poor. I’m familiar with the organization’s thinking. Perhaps Dickie could ask me for a quote?
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It would be something like this:
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Justice: Sources familiar with the organization’s thinking have told me that I’m a huge, stupid fuckwit of a douchebag.
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January 9th, 2009 at 10:15 am
@WillFist4Food: That comment would make his blog 100% more true and accurate.
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@bigfatdrunk: Do you realize you could probably fill an entire folder with pictures of crying OU fans? 2009 kicks ass.
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January 9th, 2009 at 10:36 am
It truly pained me to root for anyone against the UF (or any SEC team), and that someone was…OU! I think, with equal hate for both, I’m closer to hell for saying that!
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January 9th, 2009 at 10:58 am
A discussion about Richard Justice devolves into a facebook v. myspace v. underage girls discussion? Somehow that seems appropriate.
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January 9th, 2009 at 11:02 am
@grungedave: I can’t help it if my digital friends are attractive young ladies from around the world that BFD likes to oogle (stop poking me, BFD).
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January 9th, 2009 at 11:16 am
The pokings will continue, believe me. I consider it sex by proxy.
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January 9th, 2009 at 11:32 am
@bigfatdrunk: Your wife prefers Facebook pokes to real pokes, doesn’t she?
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January 9th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
@Matt: Have you ever read their wall-post exchanges? Gag-me cute stuff.
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January 9th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
@Matt: Have you seen the hunky friends she’s got? I’ve got no chance in hell!
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@DisplacedTexan: My favorite was when she wrote:
Ahhhh, the memories.
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January 9th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
@bigfatdrunk: 13 seconds? It was nice of her not to mention the 43 minutes of crying you both did afterward.
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January 9th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
@Matt: I think you just violated the terms of the Trust Tree, Matt.
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January 9th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
@Matt: I dream of being able to last 13 seconds. I couldn’t do that with two condoms on after guzzling a pint of whiskey.
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January 9th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Honestly, all the facebook talk is STILL better than anything Justice has written. Ever.
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January 9th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
@grungedave: I fantasize about the Olive Garden waitresses’ panties all the time.
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January 10th, 2009 at 6:45 am
@WillFist4Food: It might be worth pointing out… there’s a reason they call it “Whiskey Dick.” Just saying.
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January 10th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Then after years of that hard charging and whiskey lovin, it then called “Limp Dick”.
BFD told me so…just saying.
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January 10th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I can’t believe I missed this shit! WTF, Matt and BFD??? Y’all haven’t poked me on facebook. AND, for the record, you pussies, I’ve been on there longer than you two. I’m just amazed that Stacy and I haven’t had an all out verbal-fest on there yet.
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January 10th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
@Foomey: I was worried that I could get STDs from poking you, even if it was virtual.
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January 10th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
I don’t even know how to poke. I keep getting it in the wrong hole.
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January 10th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
I mean hitting the wrong buttons.
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January 10th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
@bigfatdrunk: Send Tim another invite. I’m pretty sure this last part of the conversation convinced him.
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January 10th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
@bigfatdrunk: That’s what every man says. I just finally gave up when Stacy donkey punched me. Kidding.
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@Matt: You’re the one who is trying to figure out how to send your “meat” across state lines, and you’re worried about catching a virtual STD from ME? Hmm. Fucker.