Being my beard entails a great many things; paramount among them: a steady hand and a strong stomach.

I’ve already said too much.  Merritt doesn’t like it when I get “icky.”

Curious…very curious.

Just one question for AKA: What does being your beard entail?

No need to inform or elaborate on the definition, anybody who knows the Interwebs can figure that one out.

Overheardians need some details Alibaster. Would you kindly grace our comments section with your presence?

UPDATE: Just received an email from Alibaster. He politely declined to leave a comment in our comments section for reasons related to keeping his identity a secret. Obviously he’s a smart guy. Anyway, I replied asking him to respond to the query I posed above. I’ll keep you posted on any breaking developments in news on Merritt’s role as AKA’s “beard.”

Illustration Courtesty of Chris Morris

Friday, September 12, 2008 6:14 PM

Subject: F*** You

Alright a. If you buy the most expensive sunglasses you can buy take very good care of them, you dont leave them in a zip lock bag. B. The  scots game is a tradition for many    high school students and fellow younger students so if we like to socialize and have a good time I sincerely apologize if It gets in the way . C. Highland park is known
for its students that excel and progress gracefully through life. Point is if you lighten up and realize that at the scots game you are among the people that will one day lead this country have some respect.

Dear F-Bomb Dropper,

A) I know your parents, bet you didn’t know that.

B) Read carefully, the glasses were in the case inside my chic, non-zipping bag. Not a ziplock.

C) Are you trying to say you’re graceful? I beg to differ, I’m just sayin’.

D) If you’re planning on running our country one day, you’ve got to make it through an election first and if that happens, I’m so pulling out this e-mail and sending it straight to the major news networks, Oprah and maybe Jerry Springer.

E) Did you say have some respect? I lost that with the subject line.

F) Who needs to lighten up?

G) I’m rubber, you’re glue, bounced off me and stuck on you.

Love,

Merritt

Email me the correct answer for the tickets. First correct answer wins.

UPDATE: We have found a winner, but keep studying your Overheard trivia because questions and prizes may reappear on this here blog in the near future.

I’ve had a Chief, a Superstar, two Think Tankers, a Hotshot and a Trailblazer and they’ve all been great teams with great teachers.

The July 25 article “Officer’s Website Violates UP Policy” on Page 1A misstated the content of www.cuff-em.com. Officer Suzette Elwonger and the University Park Police Department were named on the Website.

The sentence now reads: 

Both Elwonger and the UP Police Department were named on the site, and photos of Elwonger in her uniform were prominently featured.

I’m having trouble concentrating on what my coffee date is saying because there are 2 Tuesday Kuby’s virgins sitting at the German table again. These two girls are discussing child birth and healthy things to feed toddlers. They have no idea the Germans are flipping out all around them.
Omg, the head German lady just asked them to move. Developing.

So someone (a Parkie) picking up an across the street neighbor kid backed out of their driveway after I backed out of mine. . My car was already in the lane and I was starting to move forward. He backs into the side of my car and bashes the crap out of the passenger side front and back doors. I got out and said I’d need his ins info and he said, “what? we were both backing out and just ran into each other.”

No, you don’t smash the side of someone’s car with the back of your car and say we’re both  at fault.

So I got his ins agent info, wrong number. There was an HPISD sticker on his car. I’ll find him.

Game on, brother.

The power is out at my house and for blocks around. My nanny reports that Snider Plaza is without power too. If I get home and there’s poor ice formation for evening beverages and Kuby’s is closed …t his could be bad. But remember Michael is fine. He’s at the waterfront Ritz in Doha.

UPDATE: Gary Krabill, who owns Flavors From Afar in Snider Plaza, said the power went out just before noon. It came back on at 12:30 p.m. He thinks it was just his block - the 6700 block.

UPDATE: Hey, Gary, seeing as you have power there at Flavors From Afar, Merritt wants to know if she can sleep in your store. Text her.