hey doc, speaking of the usage of "surreal" did you catch the one "international" caller into b&b yesterday who unleashed some kind of giant humblebrag on everyone else who was seeking to "justify their cubbiness" ??

dan said that they're taking a call from england, and it was an american guy like "hey whats up.... blah blah blah i'm out here in england and i was waking up at 2am for all of the games and i got sick of waking up that early for all the games so i flew out to the states for games 4 and 5 and just being able to experience a world series at wrigley field was truly surreal."
sini, you're a nut, but i like the way you think
so for those of you keeping score at home, this is an american guy who's living/working/whatever abroad who has enough juice to merely "get tired of waking up early" and popped the pond back to chicago to (presumably) ATTEND games 4 AND 5 of the world series, so you figure the dude probably was easily dropping 50k on a whim to do all of this (let alone merely being able to say "fuck waking up early" and go transcontinental on a whim" which i'm sure many of y'all can do but that's still something that seems a bit !!!OMFG!!! to me.

ah yes, truly surreal indeed. i really wanted to listen to b&b yesterday because how many times do you get to listen to a b&b show the day after the cubs win the world series (yes, i know at least 5 more times in the next 8-10 years, but still...) but between terry ducking out (i reckon he hedged his bets on everything being insufferable win or lose after game 7 so he had a "pre-scheduled day off" where even getting to the ISDN line was a "rough go") and laurence and dan fucking bernstein, a self-avowed sox fan, telling me how i should feel, how i should celebrate, and WHAT THIS ALL MEANS and etc etc.... i just couldn't do it.

you knew that this whole thing was some kind of a PR masterstroke when the city went out of their way to announce *0* arrests in the resulting celebrations, cuz you know "we're SO not chiraq! i bet you expected us to burn this bitch down like mrs o'leary's cow, eh? NOT EVEN 1 ARREST MOFOS!!!!" --- yeap, all this stuff is well above my paygrade.

I think we are going to hear it 2,005 times today.

Think of another word. Get a thesaurus.

I think we are going to hear it 2,005 times today.

Think of another word. Get a thesaurus.

And those who use the word "epic"

When did people start saying "sorry for your loss" when a loved one dies?

Its such a bitch thing to say. When i hear it i think they mean "i dont give a shit but i want you to think im a good person"

Agree 100%. First time I heard it was on NYPD Blue.

But what if it is Epic?

If a penguin or an elk used the word "surreal", would that be acceptable?