Thursday, March 15th

Today is a happy day here so far. Maryland and Michigan State won today and the evil empire, Duke, has lost. How utterly fantastic. I am pretty out of it from waking up so early to watch the games, but hopefully will pull through until eleven.

7pm: We start off discussing March Madness. All of us are stoked because Duke lost. Brad asks if the glee from their defeat is compromised by me picking them to win the game in my bracket. Not even a little bit, because I will always choose to lose money over Duke winning. Chris points out that noone expected that, but I have to pass it along that ESPN has been pushing that pick all week.

Brad and his daughter were out today and she mentioned that she had used the mf-bomb. He expects that his 12-year-old daughter to not use profanity until she is eighteen. Chris tries to convince Brad that this is a mistake, that he should teach her profanity sooner rather than later.

The guys explained this last night, but reiterate it now. As "little boy" will add creepiness to any statement, "by-the-sea" will add that air of loveliness to any horrifying statement. Because of the deaths in their apartment complex, the rename the building, "The Charnal House By-The-Sea." The violence is perfectly offset by this hyphenated addition.

They have another step in instant message changing to add to this. You can take all of the sex out of statement by adding "Mrs. Butterworth." Chris says something horrific to Brad to prove the point, but even that phrase cannot soothe Brad's pain.

So, I found something online today that disturbed me to a part of my soul of which I was previously unaware. A young woman has been found to have a nipple, yes a nipple, on her foot. Look at that, isn't that gross? Even creepier, it has hair.

The girl is understandably upset by this. Chris, Brad and Dan think that if she would turn her trouble to foot fetish work, she could be a millionaire. Ugh. This is really creeping me out. They reveal that also in this article, there are cases where people have superfluous nipples on their face.

The guys return to the profanity discussion. They ask at what age is it ok to use profanity in front of your parents. I ask them if they first learned curse words by being in the car with their dads. That's where I first heard those words.

Jackie in San Jose learned to swear as a kid from her mother in the car. Because of this influence, she ended up using "a-hole" in front of a family friend as a little girl.

8pm: Gerianne in Sonoma says that she has teenage girls and that she never wants them to swear in front of her. She grew up with old school parents who would never allow her to swear in front of them.

Cornfed Okie emails in that at the age you can speak to your children about sex intelligently, that is the age they can swear in front of you. The guys both say that they would feel much more comfortable using the worst curse words with their parents rather than talking about sex. They also go to, which is worse, talking about what you do, or what they do. This leaves me wide open to start impersonating their mother's talking about sex. How incredibly fun to make them so uncomfortable.

Being that UNC is not playing all that well against Eastern Kentucky, we have to return to college basketball again. Chris mentions that the Pac-10 never gets enough cred, making me go off. I am so sick of Pac-10 teams not backing up their seedings.

So, we print out an enormous amount of news stories everyday that we never use. So, tonight they are going to go through a bunch of them, thus entitling tonight "Throwaway Thursday."

The first story, a woman looked up "how to commit murder" on Google and then murdered her husband. You would think she would reformat her hard drive so she would not get busted. The best part is that she is an attorney.

9pm: The guys remind everyone that the Oakland A's will be on instead of us tomorrow. They promise that it will work out for everyone and that The Gray Area is not going anywhere. They also say that the A's are a good thing for the station and something they are behind.

We get a couple cars bitching about people cutting you off. Jim in Castro Valley is one of those people who will purposely block a fast driver from switching into the lane.

Brad brings up how he hates the driver who is slowing down and speeding up. They are unaware they are doing that, and although you are in cruise control, they think you are slowing them down. They get really angry at you and you are unable to explain your cruising state.

Boss in San Jose was in Germany driving a VW Golf. Another driver in a BMW started trying to pass him and he was having none of it. Because he was being so aggressive, Boss was unwilling to let him in. He races the Beamer for miles, even to wear he ended up missing his exit.

We speak to Lisa in SF who gets frustrated with the way SF drivers tend to be. She hates that the drivers here will be so aggressive in cutting you off, and then will slow down. Somehow this gets to the fact that she is able to do things with her toes, maybe like smoking. She thinks that women are better at this because men get too distracted by their units. What??

Our good friend Grace in SF calls in inebriated as ever. I don't really know where she is going on any of this, but she seems to be having a good time. Man, I hope she gets some rest tonight.

10pm: We really need to get to these Kirkwood tickets. But first, the guys have to read a story about Timothy Michael Seibert. He was in the middle of raping a woman when he answered a cell phone call from his wife. What was that guy thinking?

For the contest tonight we are going to do a different version of Celebrity Tag. This is the first name version, supposedly faster and more difficult. The rules are that we split into two teams. A celebrity is named and we have to keep naming other celebrities with the same first name. For example: Tom Jones - Tom Selleck- Tommy Lee- Lee Harvey Oswald, etc. The first team to miss loses.

John in San Jose wins tickets by picking Brad and I. The name is Steven and this game is really hard.