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New Rules for 2006.

No, all the Castle Rulez still apply. Backpats for everyone for a relatively robust exchange with our visiting British journalist in the This Just In post.

Moving on, however, are some suggested new rules for interactive behavior outside the Castle. I damaged the keyboard with White People's Looting. So - with tongue firmly in cheek...

New Rule: Stop saying that teenage boys who have sex with their hot, blonde teachers are permanently damaged. I have a better description for these kids: lucky bassids.

The rest is in the Flash Traffic/Extended Entry.

New Rule: Stop giving me that pop-up ad for Classmates.com! There's a reason you don't talk to people for 25 years. Because you don't particularly like them! Besides, I already know what the captain of the football team is doing these days: mowing my lawn.

New Rule: Don't eat anything that's served to you out a window unless you're a seagull. People are acting all shocked that a human finger was found in a bowl of Wendy's chili. Hey, it cost less than a dollar. What did you expect it to contain? Trout?

New Rule: If you need to shave and you still collect baseball cards, you're gay. If you're a kid, the cards are keepsakes of your idols. If you're a grown man , they're pictures of men.

New Rule: Ladies, leave your eyebrows alone. Here's how much men care about your eyebrows: do you have two of them? Okay, we're done.

New Rule: There's no such thing as flavored water. There's a whole aisle of this crap at the supermarket, water, but without that watery taste. Sorry, but flavored water is called a soft drink. You want flavored water? Pour some scotch over ice and let it melt. That's your flavored water.

New Rule: Stop f***ing with old people. Target is introducing a redesigned pill bottle that's square, with a bigger label. And the top is now the bottom. And by the time grandpa figures out how to open it, his a$$ will be in the morgue. Congratulations, Target, you just solved the Social Security crisis.

New Rule: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the a$$ hole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a "decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low and one NutraSweet," ooh, you're a huge a$$ hole.

New Rule: I'm not the cashier! By the time I look up from sliding my card, entering my PIN number, pressing "Enter," verifying the amount, deciding, no, I don't want cash back, and pressing "Enter" again, the kid who is supposed to be ringing me up is standing there eating my Almond Joy.

New Rule: Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your a$$. And it translates to "beef with broccoli." The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.

New Rule: Competitive eating isn't a sport. It's one of the seven deadly sins. ESPN recently televised the US Open of Competitive Eating, because watching those athletes at the poker table was just too damned exciting. What's next, competitive farting? Oh wait. They're already doing that. It's called "The Howard Stern Show."

New Rule: I don't need a bigger! mega M&M. If I'm extra hungry for M&Ms, I'll go nuts and eat two.

New Rule: If you're going to insist on making movies based on crappy, old television shows, then you have to give everyone in the Cineplex a remote so we can see what's playing on the other screens. Let's remember the reason something was a television show in the first place is that the idea wasn't good enough to be a movie.

New Rule: No more gift registries. You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now it's for babies and new homes and graduations from rehab. Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you isn't gift giving, it's the white people version of looting.

New Rule: and this one is long overdue: No more bathroom attendants. After I zip up, some guy is offering me a towel and a mint like I just had sex with George Michael. I can't even tell if he's supposed to be there, or just some freak with a fetish. I don't want to be on your web cam, dude. I just ! want to wash my hands.

New Rule: When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to know in months. "27 Months." "He's two," will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.

65 Comments

New Rule: When a man does something for a female friend, it is NOT to be assumed that he wants to get into her pants. Remember, there are guys out thyere who still remember the old ways and act like gentlemen.
 
Oh, oh, can I add one?? Quite dousing yourself in chemicals that supposedly smell good. They don't. If I can smell you from two cars away, or your cologne is "air freshening" this entire 12-cubicle area, it's too f**ing much, ok?? My eyes are watering and my throat is raw, and now I just resent your very existence. Did you shower? Then you smell good. Really, you do!
 
Oops, one more: Proofreading never hurt anyone. That would be "quit," not "quite." Heh.
 
"New Rule: When a man does something for a female friend, it is NOT to be assumed that he wants to get into her pants. Remember, there are guys out thyere who still remember the old ways and act like gentlemen." *sigh* I act like a gentleman and they act like my act is just an act. Ack.
 
Bill - mebbe that's cause they *want* it to be an act. *grin*
 
After reading April's post Jim B Rounds up all the 'turned-in' cologne bottles the guys piled up on the table, and makes plans to buy orange juice to use with them as cocktail mix for the weekend party. Drinks on me. Oh and ... yes everyone at the party will have really pleasant breath.
 
Oh, man--what a concept! Beats the scotch-in-the-mouthwash-bottle trick all to pieces--but what happens about twelve hours later? Will John still be able to blame the dogs?
 
Thanks, Jim--yer an angel!
 
Oh, puh-leeze, he's a Chickenhawk* from the Flaw-on-the-Kaw! *In this context, chickenhawk has a much older snark-history than the Left has given it.
 
Of *course* Chickenhawk has a much older history. It just hasn't always been all about aviators...
 
I need to print out a copy of the Starbucks one and post it in the employee lounge out here.....
 
After looking at the reviews for the "Chickenhawk" book Bill referenced, I'm pretty sure he decided to read it based upon the following review: "Simply told, honest, detailed, dramatic, outstanding!" —Playboy
 
Actually, I never saw the review in "Playboy"--I only read it for the pictures. And I get the Braille edition.
 
And predating that book... "Rock, Chalk, Chickenhawk, Screw KU!" has been a Mizzou rallying cry for a loooooooooooooooooooong time.
 
And what's their retort, something like "Straw, Grass, Horse's a$$, Screw U2"...?
 
No, lately they just beat us like punks and make us their sports b1tches.
 
Well, at least you'll be in style with this...
 
Figures it would be you that made the link. I was wondering who would be the first. My money was on Were-Kitten.
 
So was mine, actually.
 
HEY! I was at lunch, what can I say? Wonder what it would take to get a pair of those in the mail.....
 
*sooooo not touching that straight line with a 10-foot pole*
 
Sign up for classes at MU
 
...about $8.99?
 
I leave you guys with a great pick-up line, and all I get is "not touching that"; "sign up for classes", and "8.99"??? hehe..... surely you can do better than that though!
 
*blink* *blink* Pick-up line? *peering up* Gee--so it is. 'Scuse me--I've gotta go buy stamps...
 
Bill, Fedex is quicker. *grin*
 
Candy is dandy but likker is quicker, you can drink all the likker down in costa rikker, ain't no body's bitness but yo own. jim b walks to the bar for a Scoresby.
 
*sitting here alertly, waiting for the other shoe to drop*
 
"Candy is dandy but sex won't rot your teeth."
 
huh. Apparently you need a magic wand to order ANYTHING from the Castle store. I clicked on several items, but they wouldn't show up in my shopping cart. TINS. I really did try it just now, and I can't order anything. *cries in beer*
 
Looks at Bill. Not me dude I ain't askin her what she tried to buy, let John do it. John will do anything for a buckthreefifty
 
Jim... darlin'.... you playing bartender again today? Exactly what makes you think I'm the kind of kitten who buys and tells? It's a secret... shhhhh.
 
Hey Bill- Make sure you buy the new .39 stamps. Wouldn't want your package returned in the mail for insufficient postage.
 
Ah.... no. Not playin bartender I just snuck in a bottle. And Bill didn't really got to the post office. He says that when he is nervous.
 
Heh...package, returned, insufficient postage. ROFLMAO
 
Jeez this is a tough room.
 
I should have added that would never happen to a man with a 27" zipper.
 
Jim, No one ever said that Castle Kittens were "easy". Kat, *evil grin* ;-)
 
Heh. Well, if Cafe Press won't let people buy stuff, vice "It's all crap, no one wants any, yer a failure as an entremanure [sic]" my ego feels better. I'll go see if I can order anything from something other than the owner interface... Or (bright look) *someone else* could go buy something... Heh. Okay, I'll go do it myself. Pikers.
 
kewl! Thanks, John! Enabling cookies is a wonderful thing! *dinks self on head*
 
*music playin in background* 'You must remember this a kiss is still a kiss a sigh is just a sigh' jim b puts on his Fedora and trenchcoat, takes out his Zippo, and lights up a Camel, and takes a drag. 'The fundamental things apply.... as time goes bye.' jim b saunters towards the door, and ... exits stage right. Good night Chesty wherever you are.
 
Hey! No smokin' in SWWBO's house! Unless it's like Jim Carrey's Mask alter-ego kinda smokin'!
 
I'm thinking this is a more apt Bogartism for ya jim b... "The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
 
"Out of all the gin mills in all the world, she had ta walk into mine and start swingin' from the chandelier."
 
Hmmm. Wonder if this is what Jim left on? And with?
 
Nope. He left in this. Remember how he lit up a Camel?
 
Nice one, Punc!
 
"No one ever said that Castle Kittens were "easy"." Did anybody really need to...?
 
Yeah, but at least a Jim B was *in* my picture!
 
Probably better a Studebaker than an Edsel...
 
From previous comments I believe Bill will be riding out of here in this
 
ROFLMAO!!!
 
heh...nor rain, nor sleet nor dark of night will keep the post man from his appointed rounds.
 
I thought it was a pole...
 
...a ten foot pole...
 
...funny rounds though...
 
John. Read your rules. Gosh you're cranky!
 
Hey, the Rulez are for you guys, not me. Or something like that. It works for congress, why not me? Oh, wait, I have higher standards than that. Sometimes.
 
I like poles. Chandeliers are nice too. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
 
Sheesh John... You are changing the rulz. I didn't know I had to have Bill IN the picture... Try this one.a> The pilot's name is Bill!
 
Oh, yeah - I remember him telling that story! It was right after he taught Lindbergh to fly!
 
From the looks of that plane it is good thing Lucky Lindy didn't pay too much attention in class...
 
Punc - That's the simulator we used, and it's a *before* shot. You should have seen what it looked like after the pick-em-up truck it was tied to popped a wheelie and the slack came outta the tow rope...
 
At least we know that whoever wears it won't be shooting blanks...or will be a live target. There. I snarked for you, Bill.
 
Thanks, Cricke...ummm--wearing *what*?
 
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