Notable quotes of the day

Best quote of the day. "The greatest thing about being famous is all the free crap you get".  Ya gotta love Sir Charles Barkley. He's one of the few that can and will say it like it is -- and get away with it.

Worst quote of the day. "There's no such thing as a make-up call". This during the Denver Nuggets-Golden State Warriors game, after the refs had botched a call, then quickly rebotched another one the other way to even things out. Ya gotta hate those play-by-play announcers that are too spineless to say out loud what is obvious to everybody else watching the game.

Best comparison of the day. Seeing as how the famous Martha Stewart and NBA player Jason Collins both recently made news splashes regarding their, ahem, personal preferences -- Jay Leno wondering which one would attract more male suitors in the near future.

Worst idea I've seen in a long time. Some fine chap named Alejandro Agag, who is a co-owner of a football (soccer) team in jolly old England, wants to introduce what he thinks will be the next world-wide racing craze. This is Formula E, as in electric. Similar to Indy cars, they're battery powered. The good things are --  they can go from 0 to 60 in 2.6 seconds -- quicker than a NASCAR ride, and have a top speed of 170 MPH. Plus, no noise pollution or those pesky exhaust emissions. The bad things are going from 0 to 60 is irrelevant, 170 isn't going to impress anybody, and the batteries are only good for 25 minutes. Then the drivers have to change cars. Well, good luck selling that in America, Alex. We dumb-ass American race fans just so happen to like cars that go a lot faster, make a lot of noise, and nothing like the smell of burning tires/exhaust fumes from high octane gasoline/alcohol/ nitro methane gets our juices going more. Unless there's a high speed wreck, with cars getting airborne and crashing every which way, of course. And we've come to expect pit stops that last maybe 12 seconds -- not 10-15 minutes while some E car driver gets extracted from his car and reinserted into another one. Maybe he better stick to soccer across the pond. Surely he jests. Then again, perhaps the joke's on us. After all, his name is "A-gag", right? Those English blokes can be a tricky sort sometimes.

Best idea I've had in a long time. Stopping this ridiculous blog post right here -- before it gets even dumber than it's already been.