Posted by pittgirl on 31 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Ben Roethlisberger, Steelers
I had no idea the amount of oddities you could purchase for the Steelers fan in your life.
Step right up as I open my trench coat to reveal some of the better ones:
1. A talking bottle opener featuring the voice of Bill Hillgrove. Yours today for the low low price of $8.95. [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 30 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: David Conrad
Reader Heather pointed me to this little tidbit from American Spa magazine:
David Conrad, star of CBS’s “Ghost Whisperer,” recently enjoyed a Yon-Ka Paris facial. After discovering the line on the set of the show, Conrad and actress girlfriend Amanda Tosch ventured to the company’s headquarters in Rockaway, NJ, for treatments. “I will be using Yon-Ka [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 30 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Dan Onorato, Eye rolls, Pirates, Random, Sonni Abatta, Wendy Bell
1. Out of Colorado:
An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.
“It causes a lot of conflict on the playground,” said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.
Running games are still allowed as long as students don’t chase each [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 30 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Random
So I was browsing the Trib’s website when I saw a link to a multimedia page that would show me the “basically intolerable” bridges in Southwestern PA.
I assumed I would click on it and would see maybe a little slideshow of 10 bridges or so and then I would avoid those bridges like couscous (I [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 29 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Annoying Burghers, Ben Roethlisberger, Weird Burghers
1. What the hell, Bill Peduto? Are we all being punked? (h/t REARless)
2. From an article about dogfighting in western PA:
The statute was originally motivated by a movement in California to ban “crush videos,” in which women wearing spike heels and short skirts slowly crush small animals to death for the sexual gratification of foot [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 29 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Random
Why can’t the world just be a nice, happy place where harmless snark abounds?
Why do dads have to leave their kids in cars to go look at porn?
Why do moms have to leave their babies alone while they go out to the local bar?
Why do moms have to get hookers for their 12-year-olds?
Why do brothers [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Annoying Burghers, Sonni Abatta, Steelers, Weather
1. As I’ve said before, when Sonni Abatta sends you a link, you post the damn thing, even if someday she links me to a totally “interesting” article on the official grass of the state of Pennsylvania.
She writes:
“They are sociable and gentle, monogamous, good parents and great athletes.” Guess who?!
The Polamalus? Wrong. Is [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Eye rolls
Sometimes, PittGirl comes across an article so astounding that even though it doesn’t have anything to do with the Burgh, she can’t help but write about it because my GOD THEY ARE TRYING TO POTTY TRAIN INFANTS!
Best parts:
Thirteen-month-old Dominic Klatt stopped banging the furniture in the veranda, looked at his mother and clasped his right [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 27 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Mayor Ravenstahl
Reader Bill alerted me to the fact that Lukey was moving forward with his bad self during a KD/PG Sunday Edition recently:
I spent all night trying to figure out how the hell to embed a video in WordPress and have now completely exhausted myself to the point that I hate my laptop, it hates me, [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 27 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Random
1. During last night’s pre-season game on NBC, John and Al were discussing the awesome vista that is the city of Pittsburgh at night at which point Al said that it was one of the most spectacular views in all of the country, and that downtown Pittsburgh is “home to a lot of Fortune [...]