<p>Other women who’ve earned a 1-hour pass to the cave:</p>
<p>Sigourney Weaver in “Aliens”
The woman resistance fighter in the early scenes of “The Longest Day”
Karen Allen in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
WashMom in “The Times Anyone Threatened Her Children in Any Way”</p>
<p>Good list, WashDad.</p>
<p>Movie: “Breaker Morant”</p>
<p>Not Admitted, but Employed By the Cave:</p>
<p>Official Car Washer: the gal from “Cool Hand Luke”</p>
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<p>With the rise of home theater and digital media, this unfortunately is too true… though audiophiles like to point to the resurgence of turntables and vinyl ([url=<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_961442_11/104-0299304-1637526?ie=UTF8&node=372989011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=browse&pf_rd_r=0HZW4N3ZNF1X2YPR7SN5&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=318818701&pf_rd_i=5174]Amazon[/url”>http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_961442_11/104-0299304-1637526?ie=UTF8&node=372989011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=browse&pf_rd_r=0HZW4N3ZNF1X2YPR7SN5&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=318818701&pf_rd_i=5174]Amazon[/url</a>] recently started a separate “store” for vinyl). Definitely becoming a niche hobby.</p>
<p>In that spirit, I’d like to set up my heavy platter belt drive turntable, 48 lb Super Audio CD Player, tube preamp, 600W/channel bi-wired mono amplifiers with 9 gauge speaker wire to six foot tall planar speakers in the man cave. Taking requests, but perhaps we should start by spinning ZZ Top’s “La Grange”:</p>
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<p>Kicks patootie, takes names. Pass allowed</p>
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<p>Drinks a 300 lb sherpa under the table. Pass allowed</p>
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<p>Hired! We’ll take a collection every month to get Barrons cars washed</p>
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<p>Negative. We want to celebrate the fact that we have a place where flatulence is an art form. BTW, pull my finger.</p>
<p>Barkeep, another round of whiskey for all my manly friends.</p>
<p>To female action stars who kick patootie…</p>
<p>Re: Home audio. I was in a Radio Shack the other day and noticed that they have basically NO stereos anymore. No more nice progression from 15- to 25- to 40- to 75- to 125-watts-per-channel stereo receiver line. No nice Nova-series speakers (and silly “MACH-1” speakers for teen-agers). No tape decks. No component CD players. Just two lonely Sony “Surround Sound” music systems on deep discount. Radio Shack is now just the “portable electronics” and miscellaneous parts store. Even if you scoffed at their audio components (something, by the way, that the audio magazines never did), it was comforting knowing that they were still there. Now – poof! Gone! And the core products of one of a 70s teenager’s favorite haunts is gone. (No car stereos, CB radios, or cassette players, either.) </p>
<p>I guess this is two laments in one: No more audio that isn’t also video, and the passing of Radio Shack in its old, recognizable form.</p>
<p>Real men, by the way, only paddle aluminum, kevlar/carbon fiber composite, or wood-and-canvas canoes. Plastic boats are for posers.</p>
<p>We won’t even talk about “real men” with hybrid cars, OK? Unless it’s a hybrid truck, of course.</p>
<p>A Hybrid truck pulling a 19’ diesel-guzzling fishin’ boat!</p>
<p>Yeah, and drinks with fruit, drinks that come in pastel colors, and drinks with umbrellas should be strictly off-limits.</p>
<p>Also verboten: Lifetime Movie Channel
American Idol
Jon and Kate plus 8</p>
<p>FoodTV can stay though. I heart Giada and Paula Deen</p>
<p>Gents, additional topic. Who should get automatic life time membership into the Man Cave?</p>
<p>A short list:</p>
<p>Firemen (Smoke Jumpers get the first round free each night)
Cops
Any Veteran, whether they saw combat or not (Medal of Honor recepients NEVER pay at the bar)
Long-haul truckers
The Roadies for Blue Oyster Cult
Rodeo Clowns
Anyone whose job requires him to work with a jack-hammer, or High-grade explosives
NASCAR Pit Crews
Offensive Linemen
The “Goon” from any NHL team</p>
<p>Feel free to add more…</p>
<p>Speaking of manbooks, I’ve just finished The Blight Way and *Avalanche *by Patrick McManus. Great guy fare.</p>
<p>Oh, and Chuck Norris (we need a bouncer)</p>
<p>Official Band: Drive By Truckers</p>
<p>Treading in with trepidation…
Three or four years ago we found dragongirl and a boy deep in the under-the-stairs closet. Dad-genes bursting with animosity toward the twerp, he flung the door open to discover them on opposite sides of cartons of LPs. “Gee Mr Ddad, you have an awesome vinyl collection here.”<br>
Vinyl collection. Here we thought it was just a bunch of old records. Wonder what the complete Led Zeppelin collection is worth now?
OK, I’m leaving. But I promise that I bait my own hooks and have eaten every game animal my dad brought home (with the possible exception of moose liver - doesn’t matter if it’s game, liver is liver!)</p>
<p>Nearly 4 pages of “man posts” and not a single HELL YEAH for the cubbies who kicked some serious south side behind at the cross-town classic? For shame. Even with a uterus, I know better…</p>
<p>Automatic membership:</p>
<p>Astronauts
Relief pitchers
Welders
Single fathers</p>
<p>Oh, we’ll talk about the Cubbies in the Man Cave and throw them a toast for what they did. But we also know that what counts is October. Don’t go patting yourselves on the back just yet… </p>
<p>Cough, cough. Bartman, cough, cough…</p>
<p>You guys are so cute!!;)</p>
<p>Hey this is cool. But I need to put in a plug for soccer. My D played 4 years in college. Played defense. Like a real girl. Not the prisses who play up front. She and the other defenders spit, and D led the team in yellow cards, I’m so proud of her.</p>
<p>I volunteer to wallpaper behind the urinals. USA Today weekend sports, every Friday. Not something stupid like NYTimes.</p>
<p>Anyone else in a fog this time of year? Waiting for NFL preseason. Cubs? What’s that? Phils provided a nice distraction so far…till their current 5 game losing streak, against the quality Red Sox and Angels. I’m bracing for their expected demise. It’s so tough being a lifelong Philadelphia sports fan. And Donovan’s getting old. Man, I can’t take it.</p>
<p>Mr. Norris, please show VH the exit to this fine establishment. </p>
<p>Cute! Harumph!</p>
<p>Barkeep, 'nother whiskey here. </p>
<p>To the Cubbies, the Phillies and the Orioles. Heck, one of them’s got to finally win it. Even the Bosox were able to do it. Twice!</p>