Hawley Smoot.

What a tariffic rejoinder.

I suppose, given it all, there was likely to be one or two other Barry fans around. What would you say are your favorite of his columns?

You don't, necessarily. You don't necessarily need four hours for Jane Eyre either, but I like that version (BBC miniseries) much better than the shorter ones. There are shorter versions of the LOTR trilogy (animated and such) which you could also watch.


I used to read Dave Barry every week, but he started getting tired in the late '90's and repackaging old columns with a few sentences changed and not admitting it was a rerun. I enjoy his style of humor, but he hasn't had anything new to say in a long time. That Two Towers column is from 2003.

That's pretty close to my feelings as well. I'll read his column if I have a paper and nothing to do, but without a subscription anymore, those times don't occur much.

About the same here. I used to find Dave Barry quite funny 15 or 20 years ago, or whenever it was that he first came to my attention, but I don't think I've read a new column of his in quite some time. It did seem to me that in more recent years, as was pointed out above, he's had a tendency to recycle or to just plain phone it in.

Well, I still find him funny, but I guess that's because I really haven't read that many of his columns as they were in the papers. I read his books and own the vast majority of them. My local papers didn't publish his columns back when he wrote them regularly, so I rely on the books, which are of much higher quality. It reminds me of Erma Bombeck. I got to know her by her books first, and by the time I read some of her columns I could tell where she'd stolen the jokes from to make her books.

Dave Barry spoke at my commencement address. The Rock was there as well.

Okay, there's a juxtaposition for you.

Oh, it was quite intentional. Because Dave Barry rocks and The Rock buries his competition.

What?

Okay, backing away slowly...

Oh, and I hope everyone enjoys the new avatar. I don't think I've used it before, have I?

I guess not, cos for about five minutes there I didn't realise who you were.

I got a local author and a local senator. Both of them droned on and on and on for far too long, and so did the people introducing them.

I was starting to feel like an afterthough.

Unless you happen to have been in the vicinity of Miami.

Indeed. Miami is the largest city (and seat of government) of Juxtaposition County.

*watches Nate's head begin to smoke*

Norman, coordinate! http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...on_mrgreen.gif

Juxtaposition in terms of they're two entirely different personalities.

I tried that once. I kept forgetting which I was suposed to be, though, and eventually the doctors twigged and threw me out.

Well, I saw Spaceballs 2 on the Hollywood Stock Exchange.

http://movies.hsx.com/servlet/Securi...l?symbol=SPCB2