thur 2/21...no "buzz"??

[bigpoppapuff]

was it merely a one week tease??.....we can only hope!!!....LOLOL!!

[bigpoppapuff]

still wondering.....what has become of buzz???

[Daisy H]

Can it be?

[Daisy H]

The Buzz
By Mary Kunz Goldman
Updated: 02/28/08 7:41 AM


Loaded question: “Are you ready to respond?” That’s the query on billboards advertising the Buffalo Fire Department’s upcoming test, and there has to be some way to get people to say yes. Now, through either sheer genius or blessed chance, we have hit on the right advertising strategy. Tuesday, on Clinton Street right by the Clinton/Bailey Market, Buzz saw a billboard that posed the big question. But about a quarter of the ad has peeled away, so right next to the photo of a macho Buffalo firefighter is ... a huge bottle of Captain Morgan Spiced Rum. “Are you ready to respond?” Yeah! Thanks, we’re ready! And can you also hit our buddy three barstools down? Note: alcohol reference

Peas in a pod

We have noticed Ch. 2’s Kevin O’Connell’s presidential bearing. We have admired his appetite for life. Now, it all makes sense. A Buffalonian wrote in to The News corroborating what Buzz has, subconsciously, always suspected. In appropriately Victorian words, he writes: “After watching the History Channel’s series on ‘The Presidents,’ and, knowing the News sometimes publishes photos of people who resemble one another, one thinks some research into seeing the match between Kevin O’Connell and Millard Fillmore might be fruitful.” Agreed. Note: Insulting comparison

Gotta Lovett

Every time Lyle Lovett comes to town something historic happens. Once when Buzz saw him, he was married to Julia Roberts, and someone yelled, “Where’s Julia?” and Lovett said solemnly, “She’s everywhere.” Buzz reported on it and it wound up in a biography of Julia Roberts. It’s true! We don’t expect Lovett to top that pronouncement, but Friday, he came close. During Lovett’s concert at UB, Indiana- born John Hiatt mentioned his first beef on weck. “Huh?” Lovett said. “It’s a beef sandwich on a roll,” Hiatt said. Lovett stared quizzically. “But a real good one,” Hiatt said. Lovett thought it over. Deadpan, he declared: “That’s appealing to me.” Note: Pointless reference

Teething

Buzz is in our second childhood. We are getting braces on our teeth. We found an orthodontist near us, walked in and five minutes later, we were getting X-rayed. Beautiful and simple! The ortho asked us who referred us. No one, we said. We referred ourself. We explained we write for the paper and they run our picture and our many enemies make fun of our teeth and we want them to eat their words. Alas, we can’t eat their words for them. Now, we have blue things called separators lodged between our teeth. It took us about an hour to eat one fry at Papa Jake’s! Hmmm. This gets us thinking. Those 10 pounds we’ve been trying to lose? It’ll be a snap now. And we can’t bite our nails any more, either. We thought getting braces was going to straighten out our teeth. Who knew it was going to straighten out our whole life? Note: Acknowledges many enemies and is going to have teeth fixed after all these years for a better photo in the paper?? Braces are fine, but Extreme Makeover it ain't.

The buzz

Not Fade Away: Terrapin Station toasts its 20th anniversary with a private party with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Plus, the Deadheads even spelled “hors d’oeuvres” correctly, which has to be a first in Buffalo gastronomic history. Note: More cocktail references and insult to Buffalo's spelling abilities.

Quote

“Sex and the Single Worm — Regulation of behavior by neural sex in C. elegans” – Upcoming biological seminar at UB
Note: WTF are you smoking??

[bigpoppapuff]

aaarrrggggghhhh.....

[wheresthesun]

The Buzz
By Mary Kunz Goldman
Updated: 02/28/08 7:41 AM


Loaded question: “Are you ready to respond?” That’s the query on billboards advertising the Buffalo Fire Department’s upcoming test, and there has to be some way to get people to say yes. Now, through either sheer genius or blessed chance, we have hit on the right advertising strategy. Tuesday, on Clinton Street right by the Clinton/Bailey Market, Buzz saw a billboard that posed the big question. But about a quarter of the ad has peeled away, so right next to the photo of a macho Buffalo firefighter is ... a huge bottle of Captain Morgan Spiced Rum. “Are you ready to respond?” Yeah! Thanks, we’re ready! And can you also hit our buddy three barstools down? Note: alcohol reference

Peas in a pod

We have noticed Ch. 2’s Kevin O’Connell’s presidential bearing. We have admired his appetite for life. Now, it all makes sense. A Buffalonian wrote in to The News corroborating what Buzz has, subconsciously, always suspected. In appropriately Victorian words, he writes: “After watching the History Channel’s series on ‘The Presidents,’ and, knowing the News sometimes publishes photos of people who resemble one another, one thinks some research into seeing the match between Kevin O’Connell and Millard Fillmore might be fruitful.” Agreed. Note: Insulting comparison

Gotta Lovett

Every time Lyle Lovett comes to town something historic happens. Once when Buzz saw him, he was married to Julia Roberts, and someone yelled, “Where’s Julia?” and Lovett said solemnly, “She’s everywhere.” Buzz reported on it and it wound up in a biography of Julia Roberts. It’s true! We don’t expect Lovett to top that pronouncement, but Friday, he came close. During Lovett’s concert at UB, Indiana- born John Hiatt mentioned his first beef on weck. “Huh?” Lovett said. “It’s a beef sandwich on a roll,” Hiatt said. Lovett stared quizzically. “But a real good one,” Hiatt said. Lovett thought it over. Deadpan, he declared: “That’s appealing to me.” Note: Pointless reference

Teething

Buzz is in our second childhood. We are getting braces on our teeth. We found an orthodontist near us, walked in and five minutes later, we were getting X-rayed. Beautiful and simple! The ortho asked us who referred us. No one, we said. We referred ourself. We explained we write for the paper and they run our picture and our many enemies make fun of our teeth and we want them to eat their words. Alas, we can’t eat their words for them. Now, we have blue things called separators lodged between our teeth. It took us about an hour to eat one fry at Papa Jake’s! Hmmm. This gets us thinking. Those 10 pounds we’ve been trying to lose? It’ll be a snap now. And we can’t bite our nails any more, either. We thought getting braces was going to straighten out our teeth. Who knew it was going to straighten out our whole life? Note: Acknowledges many enemies and is going to have teeth fixed after all these years for a better photo in the paper?? Braces are fine, but Extreme Makeover it ain't.

The buzz

Not Fade Away: Terrapin Station toasts its 20th anniversary with a private party with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Plus, the Deadheads even spelled “hors d’oeuvres” correctly, which has to be a first in Buffalo gastronomic history. Note: More cocktail references and insult to Buffalo's spelling abilities.

Quote

“Sex and the Single Worm — Regulation of behavior by neural sex in C. elegans” – Upcoming biological seminar at UB
Note: WTF are you smoking??

Classic Daisy!!! I LOVE IT!

[Effigy]

Maybe a new thread idea:

"Things you love to hate?"

[Daisy H]

Classic Daisy!!! I LOVE IT!

You know I was waitin' for ya 'Sun!

ps - before anyone starts telling me to try and write something "better", let me remind that we complain about our current President too but I'm pretty sure no one on this board is prepared to run the country. We expect the person doing the job to do a decent job...or at least to not embarrass us.

[Daisy H]

Maybe a new thread idea:

"Things you love to hate?"

Oooh, good one! You go first..

[FisherRd]

"Things you love to hate?"

Canadian Tire
DeGrassi Sr. High
Shredd and Regan (come on guys, you're 50 years old and you think you're college kids)
Commercials for Red Lobster (the frigging food always looks delicious on tv, but you know damn well it's microwaved garbage that will arrive on your plate if you actually go there)

[Daisy H]

Commercials for all the "Head-ON" products...I still have no idea what the hell they are.

[Harlem World]

was it merely a one week tease??.....we can only hope!!!....LOLOL!!

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Mary Kunz Goldman Mockability Ratings

Welcome to the page explaining the Mary Kunz Goldman mockability ratings.

Originally started solely to mock her weekly Monday column, I have since expanded it to her weekly Thursday “Buzz”.

I eagerly await each one as if I were a miner 49er panning for gold. Sometimes you get a nugget, sometimes you get a gold-colored rock. I’m looking for mockable nuggets.

The mockability rating runs on a simple scale of 1-10. Sort of like medicine’s visual analog scale, only having to do more with psychic or mental pain rather than physical pain.

1 = Completely unmockable. It’s either the most intelligent, well-reasoned piece anyone could ever write, or else someone died. Totally unmockable. (A recent entry, however, did reveal that even a column about someone dying can be mockable, depending on Mary’s prose).

5 = Moderately mockable. Decent piece, but there’s something dopey about it.

10 = Warp factor mock. Complete jibberish. Wholly irrational. Would make even a cretin say, “WTF?!”.

[Achbek1]

Canadian Tire
Shredd and Regan (come on guys, you're 50 years old and you think you're college kids)

I agree. Their whole "sports and porn... sports and porn" thing gets old.

I seem to remember that they WERE actually kinda funny for a while back in the mid 90s when they FIRST were on the air, but then they tried too hard to be the wannabe Howard Sterns.

[bigpoppapuff]

I agree. Their whole "sports and porn... sports and porn" thing gets old.

I seem to remember that they WERE actually kinda funny for a while back in the mid 90s when they FIRST were on the air, but then they tried too hard to be the wannabe Howard Sterns.

tom regan has NEVER been funny....not since he came here,to WGR..."tom & karen in the afternoon".....he remains awful....