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Hellacious Fallacy #4: Repeated Denials Will Create a New and Dangerous “Reality”

 I once knew a European soccer coach employed by an American university who had a very beautiful girlfriend. To protect this coach’s identity, we’ll call him Vitaly. One day, Vitaly told me, his girlfriend walked in while he was in bed with another woman. He explained that he repeatedly lied through his teeth to his girlfriend that what she saw “wasn’t what she thought it was.” For several months, Vitaly said things were tense with his girlfriend sometimes exploding into rages, throwing pots and pans at him, and clawing his eyes out. But a year of repeated denials paid off. With the seeds of doubt planted deeply into his girlfriend’s psyche, Vitaly said that one day she got down on her knees and begged him to forgive her for questioning his fidelity.

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A Disembodied Oracle That Pleasured in My Humiliation Lives On

In 1973 when I was eleven our family left the San Francisco Bay Area for my father’s Peace Corps stint in Nairobi, Kenya, during which time I happily played with G.I. Joe Dolls (actually the British Action Man version, as that’s what they sold in Africa). But when I returned to the States in 1974 and attended Earl Warren Junior High, I realized I had become oblivious to the pop cultural trends of my twelve-year-old friends. I was, for example, woefully ignorant of the ubiquity of smoking pot and had gleaned, erroneously, the lexicon of pot smoking.

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Gilligan's Island Radio on eBay?

Thanks, Angelo:

E-Bay 200780760100 I don't remember the radio on Gilligan's Island being green----thought it was an off-white color???? We have it on DVD, I'll have to verify. This bidding seems high to me. I also saw someone asking $1000.00 or so for a "Buy It Now" on the Magnavox Constellation model radio used in the pilot or early Gilligan's Island episodes. Not the actual radio---but one like it. That's really a stretch----because most people will only remember the Packard Bell.

Editor's Note:

Herculodge posted some Gilligan's Island Radio info about two and half years ago.  

Get Ready for Grasshopper Pop Tarts: In 40 Years be Prepared to Eat Bugs Or Don't Eat at All

The bad news, as discussed on Pat Morrison today, is that in 40 years we'll have to eat bugs or starve. The good news is the process by which insects can be put into pastes to spare us rough texture of scratchy limbs.

So perhaps this insect paste will be integrated into our high-protein grasshopper Pop Tarts.

In any event, I am not new to eating insects. As a lifelong lover of honey, I have been consuming insect excrement for several decades.

Manly Watch Paradigm Shift Continues Toward the Stealthy

What kind of manly watch blasphemy have I been committing lately? For the past few months, I have found myself trending toward mid-sized watches, 46-47mm across the bezel. Back in 2006 I was a self-proclaimed pioneer of the oversized, in your face watches (fond of them for 2 years before they took off around 2008). 

I wrote about this trend shift a few days ago, prompting Tom Wc to write about the difference between crass and classy masculinity. 

So today my friend Mike, an expert in Brazilian jiu-jitsu who owns more Man Points than I ever will, took a gaze at my 40-plus watch collection and he immediately preferred the  mid-size watches, picking up my black Invicta Ocean Speedway, my gunmetal Invicta Ocean Reef, and my gray Invicta Capsule. "Now these are real classy," he said. "I could wear these every day," upon which I said, "A more stealthy watch is like a jiu-jitsu fighter who never tells anyone he knows jiu-jitsu."

"Exactly," Mike said. 

Who in the Hell Wants to Hear Car Talk Repeats?

I loved Car Talk and appreciate its long run, but I have disdain for NPR stations that decide to take up program space with Car Talk repeats. Am I missing something?

Mint Sony ICF-2003 Dual-Conversion Radio on eBay for $160

Anyone familiar with the performance of the Sony ICF-2003? 

Never Used Vintage Panasonic RF-888 with Box on eBay

Angelo has apprised us of this never used Panasonic RF-888. Very nice. The price? Close to half a grand. 

Funeral for a Glutton

Mike Manderlin was in the middle of a funeral service for a recently deceased colleague when a full bladder sent him to the bathroom in the back of the chapel. On his way there, he noticed a buffet table with hard-boiled eggs, chunks of barbecued chicken, bowls of hummus and pesto, cinnamon rolls, chocolate chip cookies, and huge slices of chocolate layer cake. 

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Social Inappropriate Behavior: I'm the First to Tear into the Dessert Tray

I told my wife Carrie about a dream I had last night in which I was at a funeral and before the service had ended, I was at the buffet table gorging on cinnamon rolls and cookies. 

Carrie said, "That is so you. At parties, you don't wait for the hosts to announce dessert. You're already tearing into it while people are still eating dinner." 

Carrie can't take me anywhere. 

 

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