PSoTD

I'm not talking about the penis. I'm talking about the magnification of multiple character flaws that translates into personal dickitude. We all know them - people we can't even think of without having the thought "such a dick" or "what a dick" swirl about simultaneously. We don't want to think these things, but they become synonymous with the person.

We really don't have a family of terms to use about these people. Nor has science delved into the study of such people, to find out how they are actually created.

I just thought I should add a few terms, maybe it would make it easier for people to describe their experiences with such people.

contradickitude - when you're against dicks. You could also be counterdickitude.
exdick - a former dick who has worked on their character flaws.
hemidick - somebody who is a dick only while awake, but sleeps 12 hours a day.
neodicks - those who have recently decided to embrace their character flaws as strengths
phylodicks - related, but these are actually asswipes

Again, there's no science here, just terms for public use.

No, not the Yahoo founder.

Jerry "The Juggernaut" Yang is a 39-year-old Laotian immigrant who's currently leading the final table at the World Series of Poker.

Get used to hearing the name. We'll be watching him for the next year on ESPN poker reruns.

Latest Chip Counts at the Final Table of the World Series of Poker:

Jerry Yang - $63 million
Tuan Lam - $20 million
Raymond Rahme - $17 million
Jon Kalmar - $16 million
Hevad Khan - $8 million
Alex Kravchenko - $4 million

Apparently recent times have been tough for Applebee's. I wouldn't have guessed it. Our local franchise is always packed. (I recommend the Crispy Brick Chicken!)

IHOP (IHP), a recent and rare success story among national restaurant chains, believes it can use similar strategies to revive the flagging Applebee's (APPB) restaurant chain. IHOP offered $25.50 per share to buy out Applebee's in a $2.1 billion deal on July 16.

In making the deal, IHOP chairman and chief executive Julia Stewart is biting into a company almost twice IHOP's size. The new outfit will run 3,250 restaurants and generate more than $6.8 billion in sales each year.

Stewart said the first item on her agenda will be selling off company-owned restaurants to franchisees. Almost all IHOP restaurants are owned by franchisees, but about a quarter of Applebee's restaurants are owned by the company.

"We will fundamentally change the company's business model," Stewart told analysts Monday. The sale of restaurants can help pay down debt from the acquisition, but it will also allow IHOP to exploit its skill in franchising, the firm says.

Gobbled up by International House of Pancakes. What a way to go.

What next? Waffle House buys T.G.I. Fridays??

Some anonymous deep thinking for Sunday morning found in my email.

I want to live my next life backwards!

You start out dead and get that out of the way right off the bat.

Then you wake up in a nursing home feeling better every day.

Then you get kicked out of the home for being too healthy.

You spend several years enjoying your retirement and collecting benefit checks.

Then when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day.

You work 40 years or so, getting younger every day until pretty soon you're too young to work. So you go to high school: play sports, date, drink, and party.

As you get even younger, you become a kid again. You go to elementary school, you play, and have no responsibilities.

In a few years you become a baby and everyone runs themselves ragged keeping you happy.

You spend your last 9 months floating peacefully in luxury spa-like conditions: central heating, room service on tap.

Until finally . . .. . . You finish off as an orgasm.

Jeff says it "tastes like the Fruit Stripe Zebra took a piss in my mouth!"

I disagree.

Pepsi Summer Mix is a fine beverage
reminiscent of a mix of tropical fruit flavors!

After all, does it make sense
to trust the judgement of someone
who has that kind of relationship with
the Fruit Stripe Zebra?

Plus they have a
very cool flash website ...

We went to Haars Drive-In last night and saw Ratatouille and Evan Almighty. I went expecting to be disappointed by Ratatouille (the commercials aren't doing it for me) and amused by Almighty.

I forgot that Brad Bird was behind Ratatouille. It was pretty damn great.

Evan Almighty? Is it me, or is everyone getting tired of seeing Morgan Freeman portraying benevolent character and John Goodman as an evil character? This movie might have been more interesting if they switched these two actors in their roles...