@entendezmavoix - 

But isn't pizza and college synonymous? I mean I remember the Domino's in the town where I attended always had college specials. Like Thursday night was always 2 for 1 and then the 1 was a reduced rate. So basically it was 2 large pizzas for $10. Then other pizza places matched that offer.

@Arrabella_Lyka - 

It is great stuff. I just wish I didn't have to drive so far but maybe that is good because if I lived closer I would eat there all the time.

@dlmcniel - 

It is a fun place to go. I often wish they would franchise but then that might take away the uniqueness.

I love the Badgers. College football just seems more pure than the NFL.

@faustuosa - 

Oh I don't know. Maybe it is my lack of a relationship that I can have this stuff pop into my head so easily.

@curiousdwk - 

Yeah you are correct about their being more life and electricity at college sporting events. I think it is because for the most part the athletes are playing for the game and not for themselves.

I like novelty restaurants like that. I will have to write sometime about my experience at a bar in Milwaukee called The Safe House...a spy themed bar where you need a password to get in but if you don't have the password you have to do stupid tricks which are broadcast by closed circuit TV to the bar downstairs. Luckily there was no doorman when I went and I figured out the secret way to get inside.

@TheSecretLifeOfPandas - 

It's funny because I think pizza is an American thing. Not for sure but that is just what I have been told.

Columbia? As in New York?

I played in grade school from 4th to 8th grade. Also when I was on the grade school team, I played in a youth league in the fall and then another in the spring. Then of course I played all through high school. I made it to a state championship game my senior year and I tore everything in my knee and that was it. Sort of sad, I wish I could get back. I have been toying with the idea of going up to the city of La Crosse, WI and trying out for their indoor football team.

@entendezmavoix - 

Correct since I started with a preposition.

Well I don't mean to stereotype but you are probably in a different area and if I remember Bellingham, isn't that a large community? You probably have great access to a greater amount of food. I didn't have my first tofu until I was probably 2 years out of college.

There was a bar that I would frequent while in college because during happy hour they usually had a free buffet. One night was hot dogs and appetizers and another night was taco night and who could forget hot wing night.

The Little Caesars around here took a huge hit when a Madison news network did an expose and found rat feces amongst the sausage.

Wow...I do not think you are a freak, you are very wise.

@TheSecretLifeOfPandas - 

Oh now I feel like how people must feel when I explain the name of my high school and college. The high school was Luther so everyone assumed it was Martin Luther King and not Martin Luther the reformer. So I'd get questions like "What's it like to go to an inner city school?" or "What's it like being the only white guy at your school?" It got worse when I would say Martin Luther College and people would say I was racist and felt inferior because I couldn't say his surname which is a title of royalty.

I tried out a few years ago for a semi-pro team but had to quit because of a job. It moved me out of the area and there was no way that I would drive 2 to 3 hours for practice on a daily basis.

@Curse_of_Greyface - 

From what I have read and seen of it, Badgercare is a great plan. My mom always speaks highly of it at her hospital. Badgers can be brutal but they are also very protective of their own.

@entendezmavoix - 

Well if you ever saw Little House on the Prairie the TV show the landscape of Minnesota is nothing like it is portrayed in that show. They show forests and hills and mountains. Nope, it's as flat as flat can be. The highway I traveled on to get to my school was called the Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Highway. It actually passed through all the towns they talk of in the book series and the TV show. They only mention the town where I was once or twice because it was a separatist German community. For years they only allowed Germans in their community and they could only belong to two religions...Lutheran or Catholic. They were very strict about who came in. I worked at the society that practiced this as bartender. It was called the Turner Society. They started in Germany to teach German kids how to be healthy so they could fight off Napoleon. Anyway I am rambling.

I found it interesting that even though people in that town disliked minorities so, they popularized them and made them local celebrities.

My friend's last name wasn't of German decent and if you looked at him you could tell. He had olive skin. He was very Slavic.

OK you lost me in your review of yourself but some of the things that you write make me shudder because of how like-minded we are.

@entendezmavoix - 

I often joke with people that where I lived there are so few trees that they actually put up signs that say "Tree 1 mile ahead". Sadly people believe me.

Well also remember the Nazis had scales and measurement standards to tell if someone wasn't German.

I think my mind blew up at your response and I can find no answer other than 42.

@entendezmavoix - 

I would love to see you post signs like that. Of course you would need to post the proof here because I may not be able to get out there to see them.

It was a weird system. I remember doing a paper on that topic. I can't remember the exact measurements but one was about nose length and width. It was just so sad that a person's physical attributes could get them in trouble. Those measurements were also the standard by which Germans could enter certain groups with in their military.

Awesome...I am glad I got 42 correct.

@entendezmavoix - 

Oh man...Chicago. I live in one of the suburbs...well that's a joke but this town where I live is a huge tourist town and most of the people that come are from Chicago so it basically feels like I am in Illinois at times especially when my car in a parking lot may be the only Wisconsin plate.

There were so many more people that died in the Holocaust besides Jews and gypsies. The Nazis also tried to eliminate religion period. Many Lutheran and Catholic leaders and practitioners were also killed. Some did cooperate with the Nazis and that is sad but I guess that is due to the human need to survive. I can see about overkill but it is something we don't ever want to replicate. I taught about the internment camps in America and also the massacre of German soldiers in American prison camps. My grandfather told me that German soldiers were housed in my little hometown because they had no where else to put them. I also am so intrigued with how Hitler came to power and sustained that power. The things that hardly were covered in my high school American history were the Civil War and anything after WWII. I feel so let down because we missed 50 years of American history in that course.

Well I have to be honest and say I haven't read the complete trilogy. I got anxious for the movie and read the first two and then forgot all about the third. I heard there is a new one coming out that they discovered the original author's notes for a new novel but he died before he got to it and another guy came in and wrote it.

@entendezmavoix - 

Well I don't mind the people or Chicago if they are decent, kind and levelheaded. I can't stand the tourists that come up here and think they are so much better than everyone and act like they own everything. I also can't stand the ones that leave their brains at home when they come here for vacation.

OK I missed the etc. Sorry about that. There are so many fascinating stories of Lutheran ministers losing their lives because of how they stood up to the Nazis and what they preached. It's interesting how the Nazis were so wary of organized religion that they had all these expeditions to find Christan relics in hope of getting a supernatural upper-hand in the war. Yes, some of those Indiana Jones movies had truth to them. Most of the religion the Nazi leaders were concerned with was occult practices like the worship of the Norse gods because they were Aryans.

Yeah I like much of modern history but the old stuff is just fun to read because most of the time there are multiple views on a story so you get to make your own decision on what happened. Take Braveheart for instance, William Wallace was a real guy however the Scottish revere him as a revolutionary and the English see him as a rebel. Did William Wallace exact revenge for a lost love or did he really just get drunk and kill his wife and take it out on the English?

HAHAHA...that comment about the bumper stickers and call it good...sort of reminds me of how kids have made Che Guevara a fashion icon. They wear him proudly on shirts yet they know nothing of him or that he would be against the capitalist marketing of his image. As for the genocide of today, I think one of the reasons why people in America are apathetic is because those aren't Christian nations or people who were mentioned in the Bible. Maybe I am a bit off on that assumption but I can see it. I brought up Darfur once in a church meeting and how we could help and a pastor said that because there weren't any christian outposts there then we shouldn't help.

I think you are correct with the urban legend aura of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Oh and the new author is Eoin Colfer who wrote Artemis Fowl and this will be the sixth book and according to wikipedia was published yesterday. I don't know if that means it's in stores.

@entendezmavoix - 

Oh that story about going to France...see that is what I am talking about. I would never try to act like that if I was a guest in another country. See I think Americans think the world belongs to them and everyone owes America so all other countries have to bow down to us.

That should be interesting with you being so close to the Olympics. In ways I am glad Chicago didn't get them. One reason is that the athletes would have been housed in Madison and would have to commute to Chicago and I think that is over an hour commute. It seemed like more events were planned for Wisconsin venues instead of Chicago itself.

I guess the Nazis were erring on the side of caution. You know sort of like how the American government gives millions if not billions of dollars in aid to Israel on a yearly basis. One of the reasons they started giving all that aid to them is because they were concerned with the return of Christ and we want our country to look good in his eyes by helping out his people.

Well in the Bible, especially the Old Testament, God warns of his people mixing with the nations surrounding them. He even forbade it because he said it would lead them away from him. Of course this happened in the Bible and this is sarcastic, maybe our Christian nation is worried about people turning to other religions. Have you ever noticed how Christians see any equal treatment to a religion besides Christian as a form of persecution?

I forgot to order it at my library so now I have something to do tomorrow.

@entendezmavoix - 

What was it earlier this week that they were showing footage of a shout out between a gang and police in Rio and the gang was armed with heavy guns and they brought down a police helicopter. It was like something out of Grand Theft Auto.

Well that is good that the subject never comes up especially when you are friends with those two groups.

See I have problems with Christianity for those matters that you brought up. Everything is a slight against them when it really isn't and they don't see how they are forcing their beliefs on this world. I can't believe how people have the audacity to be pissed when other religious groups stand up for their beliefs especially when we are guaranteed freedom of expression in this country.

I didn't order that book...drats..I ordered the recent Chuck Palahniuk and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

@entendezmavoix - 

Yeah maybe I am being a little harsh comparing Rio to Grand Theft Auto but watching these gangs shooting machine guns and rocket launchers at police helicopters really illuminates the allusion. There is a great movie about street life in Rio called City of God. That movie was brilliant and it spawned a TV show on the Sundance network called City of Men.

Oh man, the Mormon missionaries. Whatever you do, be kind to them and never be rude. If you act rude or slam a door in their face, they will think they are going to receive a better place in the afterlife. I had problems with them when I first graduated college. They came to my house one Saturday morning and I was going to be this counter-missionary and bring them to the truth of Christianity but I got so steamed that I couldn't "preach". They saw that I had a can of Pepsi and some matches next to it so they said I was destined for hell because caffeine and tobacco are stimulants thus outlawed by their church. True Mormons won't touch them. Then they laid off until I was at another church. I had ordered a few of their videos and books that are advertised as free on the TV. I ordered them for religious study but they came proselytizing. One Saturday I hear a knock and I think it is some friends who were coming offer for football so I answer the door with a beer in my hand. They were shocked and left because even though it was my first beer I was clearly "under the influence of the devil". So then I moved again and I got fascinated and was writing a screenplay about the Mormons and I decided to order another book. Well that came with phone calls from a missionary. We had some long talks but when I tried preaching at him, he stopped calling. If you have time watch this 5 minute video from a comedian named John Saffran. He has a clever way to combat the door knocking. That was taken from his series John Saffran vs. God. Basically every episode he exposes the underside of a different religion and once again that was a program on the Sundance Channel.

@entendezmavoix - 

Yeah real life GTA like on the Chappelle Show.

I try not to be rude to missionaries because I really wouldn't want someone to be rude to me if I tried to explain my religion to them but sometimes it happens. Yeah pop open a beer when they sit down to talk with you or offer them something to drink and give them options of Pepsi or beer. That should be enjoyable.

So what job lets you come to a website like mine?

@entendezmavoix - 

Well I will try to keep the pop culture references to a minimum or should I say more so that you can feel proud?

I don't like forcing my beliefs down people's throats. I really am more interested in cleaning up the church because people are more worried about those who don't belief they have tended to forget about what they look like.

Dang...that sounds like a swell job. I had friends that worked security at my school. Basically all they did was sit in the main building to make sure no students went into teacher's offices. They sat on couches all night and did homework and then every once in awhile they would walk or ride bikes through the parking lots to make sure that everyone was parked where they should be. It was such an easy job. I remember one night when I was a senior my friend who was the head of security came to a frat party drank a few beers and then went back to school. I went with him and he took me to the special observatory and we drank beer in all sorts of strange places on campus that night. I think we even had a beer with Martin Luther.

@entendezmavoix - 

I want the church to start looking at itself and be aware that it has problems before it meddles with the problems or issues of people outside the church. Like I think the biggest thing that needs to be cleaned up is the issue with child molestation.

Yeah it was a blast. I snuck up there a few times after that experience to drink and do other naughty things. We also used the security communication system to launch water balloons around campus. That was fun because we hit a few people.

@entendezmavoix - 

I probably should have went deeper. There are so many cases that are swept under the rug, even today, where a minister molests a kid and the parents, instead of going to authorities, go to the church and the church just sends the minister to a different congregation. That has happened so many times and not just in the Catholic church. I can name specific instances from my Lutheran denomination and within the past 10 years.

Well let's see...have you ever seen Basketball Diaries? That might explain it. I suppose you can look up that movie and the rooftop scene.

Maybe falling pumpkins are what woke me up last night. I kept hearing all these loud bangs all night. Oh and my college was atop a hill overlooking the town. Well one night I was out with this girl and we were smoking on the edge of campus. We watched these kids from town get out of their car and roll a pumpkin down the hill and it went quite a distance at a rapid pace.

@entendezmavoix - 

Yeah maybe it's best to leave child molestation in the church alone, not as an issue but for conversation.

Oh the Basketball Diaries scene...Leo spanks it on the rooftop under the stars and talks about how nature is so beautiful so well I toyed with my Death Star under a sky-lit night. It was invigorating.

So were you allowed to take food out of your cafeteria? We couldn't at my school; they were quite anal about that. They would allow you to walk out with an ice cream cone but that's about it. I remember a friend walked into the food prep area and walked out with a case of Doritos and then walked to the dorm. No one stopped him or caught him. Oh and the townies would drive around our campus and if they saw a guy and a girl walking together they would chuck apples at the couple. It was a regular thing because one of the key steps in dating at my college was going on a walk at night.