Sensitive Frat Boys Fear Girl Cooties

Masturbating trespasser booted from frat; Woman refused to leave PIKE house in mid-afternoon

By: Jessica Vosgerchian, Daily Staff Reporter

"Police have been unable to locate a woman who entered the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house without permission on Thursday and began to masturbate on a couch.

While fraternity members were eating in the dining room, a woman entered the house's living room, took off her clothes and started masturbating, said LSA junior Dan Nye, the president of the Washtenaw Avenue fraternity.

No one saw the woman enter the house or knew how she got in. Nye said she could have entered through the front door, which was left propped open while it was being repaired.

Fraternity members asked the woman to leave the house, but she refused and continued masturbating for about half an hour, Nye said.

When members asked the woman if she was all right, she casually replied that she was fine, he said. The woman was talking on her cell phone at one point, said LSA sophomore Adam Bayard, a member of the fraternity.

She walked out of the front door wearing only a thigh-length black coat after a fraternity member called the police, Nye said. When police arrived minutes later, the woman had already left.

According to a police report, the woman was between 20 and 30 years old, had short brown hair and appeared to be under the influence of drugs.

"Obviously, she was very disturbed," Nye said. "It was not how a normal person would respond to people."

The woman told fraternity members that her name was Melissa and she was a student at Eastern Michigan University, according to the police report.

Fraternity members said they will throw out two couches in the living room because of the incident, Nye said.

Police said the break-in appeared to be an isolated incident."

As far as I’m concerned, it’s that last line that makes the story. I’ve been in frat houses, and so the idea that frat boys (er, I mean young Greek gentlemen) would be grossed out by a single incidence of female masturbation on their furniture makes me howl with laughter.

I also like that “She’s been masturbating for half an hour, is it time to call the police yet?” sense of urgency.

-Bacchus

Lolzerrz, are these frat boys fuckin pussies or what? I used to sleep in my gf's dry juice!! (And loved it!)

From Toronto with sexual stories (and more to cum),
-Teoman

It's finally out....

lol

As expected, the PS3 rose up!

78 000 out of the 100 000 French PS3s have been sold in the week after its launch. Who said money was an issue?

Kana and Japanism in France (can't make a title more explicit)

It's been more than 5 years I know this lil jap singer, and she finally made it to France.
Here's a vidcast (In french though ...damn frenchies) of Kana's late time spent in France. She got fat with time, I find. And the kids interviewed on the vidcast are teh fuckin n00bs; Gothic Lolita is not ongoing or popular at all in Japan, and it has nothing to do with music or anything! It's just a fashion trend, like being emo. It's just like people who think that British all drink tea... or Americans all eat hamburgers... or French people dress well.
Of course her style is special but I don't mind it, the music is pretty nice sometimes. This next song is my favorite of her's, the music is very good and the bass line is pretty neat.

The picture up is my favorite. She looked cuter before, she was younger and she was thinner. Hell... I'd do her. Once I bought a CD of her once at Junku-Do (fuckin 40 bucks for that imported CD), but got it stolen one bad day when I went to Tunisia in 2003 I remember well ... damn arabs.

Talking about arabs; France's Japanist culture is, I think, and it's quite possible, the biggest outside of Japan. I am generally speaking of course, because most of them are just n00bs, who think that Japan=Visual Kei and Sushi right away.
You see, there are several levels in Japanism in France:

(Outstanding category) Ignorant:
Sushi, Kamikaze, Kitch, "Japanese Cartoons"

Otaku (very rarely found in France):
JPop, Video Games, Manga, Anime, Sushi, Dramas

n00b (the classic Japanist in France):
Visual Kei, Sushi, Manga (especially series mangas like Naruto, Bleach, Dragon Ball, Detective Conan), Anime (here too series and the most well-known ones), thinks that using chopsticks is a gift, knows the classic video games (Worldwide distributed RPGs like Final Fantasy... of course), Cosplay and might go to AniCons sometimes

Moderately Mainstream:
Visual Kei, Jrock, some manga (still series, plus shorter ones like the ones by Clamp), some anime, a variety of Japanese food, enjoys various RPGs and video games, is not obliged to go to AniCons

Acceptable:
A variety of Japanese music, specific mangas and specific anime (some could be mainstream, others don't have to), a variety of Japanese food, specific video games, some Dramas sometimes

Underground:
Japanese underground/not very popular Japanese music (JHipHop, JReggae, JMetal, JPunk, JSka, JRap), very specific mangas (has one or two favorite mangas, does not read the same stuff as others, sometimes downloads fansubbed shit), very specific anime (has one or two favorite anime, knows the story and characters well, has examined the plot and meaning and shit), very specific video games (not your average japanese video game), knows japanese TV Shows and has some various culture of Japan

Serious/respectable:
Wants to know more about Japan, the culture, the language, the people, the history, plans a career there, has contacts there, takes it seriously and doesn't have to know about pop culture such as music, anime, or manga.

I would say I'm in between Underground and Serious. Yes, I'm an arrogant son of a bitch and I do know about japanese underground music more than you, I have one specific favorite video game, I have studied it personally, I have one specific favorite anime, no real favorite manga (I don't read them anymore really), I have contacts in Japan, I know more about its culture than the average french Japanist, (do you know what a Manzai is?? Do you know the origin of Sushi? Do you know what Japanese people eat for breakfast? Do you know the purpose of Japanese traditional gardens? What does a geisha do? Did you know what Takeshi Kitano did before he played in movies?) Of course, I am not a bible, hence I don't know everything specifically down well to the last detail, but I take Japan seriously and plan to go teach there hopefully in 4 years time once I graduate and master Japanese.
When I go to an izakaya I eat miso soup, tenpura, and donburi, and sometimes yakitori. I don't eat at Sushi Konnichiwa, Sushi Rivoli, or Sushi Bonjour; I eat at Opera at Naniwa-ya, Sakura, or Edo-Ko. Of course, here in Toronto I eat phony Korean-made Japanese food (there's a restaurant at Keele), and Sushi D's is a damn good sushi joint, held by Koreans too. I have not found a real good actual-japanese restaurant; J-Time was half-Japanese but not that good (ah the itamae who yells "IRASSHAI!!!" or "YOROSHIKU!"... I wanna find THAT one izakaya); two itamae and one server were japanese, the rest were korean, and cantonese-speakers.

So there. Anime Conventions are gay. But I would go there, just to get signatures from Hideo Kojima if he's there, or some other cool Japanese guy, or if there's free food or the opportunity to win something. I'm not saying Cosplay is gay though. It's gay if you're some fat loser geek who goes there dressed as a character who's supposed to be slim and hot. Like those damn fat ugly american girls dressed as the hot Final Fantasy bitch from an episode. There are some bad ass Metal Gear Solid cosplays on the internet, some people actually look like the actual characters! I'll get my Naked Snake costume one day though... I know I can look like him! Naseer even drew me as the goddamn Snake on the JISA group picture.... I look like the Snake, bitch!! But I'll be happy the day a good dresser gives me the right haircut... *sighs*...

Talking about AniCons, The Conventioneers are the men. They are like... me... with balls. They can actually tell someone right to their face that they're gay!
Check out these following videos... the best thing I've seen about Conventions. These were taken last year at the Anime North in Toronto. Enjoy

From Toronto with ...uh ... Japan... I guess,
-Teoman

Welcome to the flop

Et voila! The PS3 finally made it on European soil. I'm happy to announce that what I wanted to happen (just for fun) actually happened, in France more precisely.

Basically this was the plan:

Sony sent 1 million consoles to Europe, including 100 000 for France, and 1000 for Paris. Sony planned a night with giant screen movies, entertainment and the usual mumbo-jumbo, and the PS3 would be sold from a boat on the Seine, that would dock close to the Eiffel Tower.

What I wanted to happen:

A flop

What actually happened:

A flop! The PS3 was sold to 40 people that night, in the most peaceful manner. Only 40 policemen were deployed, 3000 people were expected. This is the radical opposite of what had happened for the PS2 launch at the Virgin Megastore in Paris, where people literally stepped on each other. Some guys had lost shoes, teeth, got broken fingers, but were happy they got their PS2. It was a big violent rush. This time was perhaps the most pacific launch since the 6th generation of video game consoles.
Then, as if that was not already bad enough, after 10 pm, another boat appeared, coming back and forth, with banners saying "XBOX 360 LOVES YOU", right at the PS3's nose.

The console war is definitely on.
I have trouble making this article interesting and sarcastic, so I'll leave you to some articles by Next-Gen, and LCI (for the Francophones, this is a good article)

And these few videos taken on GameOne, the french cable video game channel, to show how much it sucked!

This one is valuable to show that there really was really no activity at all, and shows how Micro$oft pwned $ony. As they put it in the ending credits:
In the role of the sodomised:
Sony.

Sony took the Europeans for idiots; they payed the 600 euros, not the Europeans.

From Toronto with PS3s since November muahahahaha,
-Teoman

JISA Pride

This is what the Japanese International Student's Association is made of, the main guys at least.

Spot The Teo.

It had to happen...

Writer's block... brb

And we're back (part 2)

Calmly listening to Scott Joplin's oeuvres I decided to write the next part of my account about last Saturday night.

I had bought a day pass during the day, so I decided to go downtown a bit to have some dinner somewhere and walk around this fuckin-A city.
I waited about 20 minutes to catch the streetcar going back to Union station (the station most to the south and closest to the harbour), because there were like a million people getting on the streetcar after the game. Luckily I was in the second wave of people and even got a seat.

I took the subway at Union and went up to Queens to walk up Yonge street to see if there would be a good place to eat. It was about 10.30 and everything was closed, it was no time for a fancy dinner. But look what we have here, what a good surprise...
BURGER KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No question, I ran inside and ordered the good old Whopper, with onion rings, mozarella sticks, and a diet coke (cos I don't wanna get fat~). Hmm damn was it good!!!! They make the best onion rings ever man! Then the mozarella sticks... there just weren't enough! Man, was the cheese melting all over the place! You know when you take a bite, the cheese just stretches into a long ass string of molten cheese between your mouth and the stick! I had so much trouble cutting it!! It was epic. And finally, last but helluva definitely not least, the mighty Whopper! Jeez you have no idea how good it was!!! Man I'm speechless, it felt soooo gooooood when I bit into that tasty burger... oh boy! Of course I took the large diet coke for the road, I should've asked for a free refill though (that's right, free refills, bitches!!!)

As I was biting into that tasty sandwhich, there was this south asian chick who appeared at the counter, a customer. She had... the damn shortest skirt ever... it was like...barely covering her panties...it was even shorter than the shortest skirt you ever saw. It was also tight so you could make out her ass underneath. I just prayed "please drop something and pick it up!"... and she wore high heel boots that went up to her knees. Now I thought 3 things:
-Either she's a hooker
-Either she's a stripper
-Or she just came back from a nightclub.

There were some pussy bars on Yonge street further up so she could have been a stripper. But she could've been a whore too. At some point these 4 black guys came in the Burger King and saw the chick at the counter, she went to get her straws and ketchup, one of the guys went up to her, looking at her like the inspired male would. She passed by next to him to go back out, and as she passed in front of him I think he said something to her,because she turned her head back and forth in a quick movement. As in "oh someone's talking to me, oh it's him, oh he said something scary, I better ignore him pretend I didn't hear it and walk faster to show I'm embarrassed or scared depending on the viewer's judgement." and so she walked faster. So he must've said something like "sup" or "hi" and it could've scared her off of course. As she walked away all the black guys were looking at her thinking "deeaaauuumn". Then these girls came in the burger king and they were looking at her as in "have you seen this girl? even I don't have such short skirts!" (they were in jeans and adidas).

Tough break.

I finished that damn good sandwhich and clean my plate, and went off for a little walk up good ol' Yonge street (and that's an oxymoron!). I passed in front of The Edge, The Flow and Q107 Classic Rock. I was clever to have brought my camera and took a picture of the radio booth as expected. Here it is.

It looked better with the flash. You see that? That's just the studio. That's how small the recording studio was, inside the Hard Rock Cafe! There was a beautiful Les Paul Goldtop hanging on the side, with some pictures. I wonder how the hosts manage to concentrate with all these people looking at him in the street through the window. I think with time you get used to it and stop minding, plus inside must be sound-proof so I'm sure he notices nothing unless he turned around or something.

Then when I turned around I was on Yonge Dundas square. You just fucking Image Google it, and even see the Hard Rock Cafe where the studio was. And this is what I saw;

This is a picture of the kind of thing I've been wanting to live with and see for more than 5 years now. This is what I call the spirit and beauty of modern cities; billboards, giant LED screens with boosting sound.... LIFE!! Make it live god dammit! Yonge-Dundas square is the best thing in this city for me... It's exactly what I look for in a city. It's the Shibuya of Toronto... or perhaps Canada, although Vancouver looks juicy with all its buildings. That's exactly what I want from a city. Burger Kings, shops, activities, and a central commercial square.

I walked up Yonge Street and noticed the HMV was still open, so I went in to look around for some CDs, with the diet coke still in my hand (yes I hadn't finished it!). I found Led Zeppellin II and IV for 9.99 bucks so I got those, along with Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops (oh yea why would I walk passed that one!), there also was a PS3 so I tryed out MotorStorm and it was good. The graphics were good I duno why people say crap about it. But I know that the graphics and games will get so fucking much better in 2 years time! Look at what the PS2 started off with... Fantavision!

So once I was done with my shopping and I just walked up to the next subway station. I met a couple of hobos on the way when I was listening to Massacra's album calmly. I finally got back to Glendon (man I felt kinda bad when I layed foot in it!) and finally passed my night writing Part 1.



Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops is good!

From Toronto with the good North American city life,
-Teoman

And we're back (part 1)

Jeez I thought I'd never get out of this writer's block...but this is just this one time. I think I'll be back into it once I'm done with this article

So what should I start off with? Well yesterday...
Yesterday Friday 9th I went with a japanese friend from Japanese class (called Kenta) to a good japanese restaurant downtown called Sushi D, with the quality of North American service: all you can eat for less than 20 bucks depending on what you get. If you get everything you want on the menu as "all you can eat" it's 18.99. For Sushis and Makis it's 15.99. For makis only it's 12.99. Actually I'm not sure if these are the correct prices but it revolves around something like that. They have their own makis with funky names like Spider, Tiger, Dragon, Volcano or Scorpion... with real pieces of spider, tiger, dragon, volcano (cooked on radioactive lava) or scorpion. Hmm hmm love that chicken.
It was really good, the rolls were rice rolls instead of seaweed rolls but they were damn good. The wasabi was strong though and I wasn't expecting that. And you know what happens when you eat something you didn't expect to be hot! But being Turkish (hence Asian) I just let the tears flow and went on with eating more rice to appease it (I go commando; NO WATER! HARHAR). Urgh. One type of roll comes in 6 or 3 bits. We each got a dragon, tempura, scorpion, spider, alaska, salmon, volcano and a couple of others. That made a total of about 8 rolls each, so about 40 bits of rolls. Yum. Just a reminder, they charge you for any leftovers, but you know me, "leftovers" does not appear in my dictionary. I'm not the type to take pictures of the food I get served at restaurants unless it's a hamburger, so I didn't take any pictures.

Today was busy. It all started with me waking up. I had to be at 5 at the Ricoh Coliseum to attend a hockey game with minor league Toronto Marlies vs Hamilton Bulldogs. There would be a pre-game at 5 (which is basically the teams warming up, and a guide to tell you stuff, quiz you and give you prizes if you guess right).
At 4 I had diarrhea so I went to take a dump, as a result I left at 4.12 and could only get the next bus at 4.32. Then I had to take the subway and the streetcar... I arrived at the coliseum at 5.30! Damn a whole hour to get downtown. On my way I enjoyed the fine melodies of Finntroll's new album (out on the 28th March, bitches!!) which was yummy. I asked the streetcar driver

"Do you know where the Ricoh Coliseum is?"
"Yes I do" and she smiled at me
"....."
"Do you want me to tell you where it is?" In a sarcastic but playful way
"Sure"
"It's at the last stop you can't miss it"
"Oh thanks"

She was nice, I actually appreciated her smile, tone, and sarcasm, though I was the one wearing the sarcasm tee. It sucks though since here everybody is much more sarcastic than me, I feel like I don't deserve this t shirt anymore. I should keep it for France to annoy my family.

Luckily it wasn't too late for the pre-game. I won a prize at the quiz, a 2006-2007 Media Guide of the Maple Leafs and the Marlies. It's basically a complete and detailed almanac of all the events of both teams during last season. To clear it up; the Maple Leafs are the national hockey team, and the Marlies are in the minor league, just people who we call when a member of the Leafs is injured or something. But they are professionals still. The Leafs are part of the NHL, but the Marlies are part of the AHL. Don't ask me. Just Fucking Google it.
Here's the first thing you see when you come into the coliseum:

Cool. Then when you step into the ring you get this

I went around the ring to see the food they served and what was cool. Pizzas... pizzas... pizzas... pizzas... more pizzas... oh pop corn! Do they have it sugary? Oh what's this?!...

Holy guacamole! It's a PS2 booth in a hockey coliseum! God Bless this country! I didn't even ask for it and it was there! They had some bad sports games like NHL (an old one), some ATV game, a baseball game (snor) but they also had a demo of Shadow of the Colossus. The graphics and animations are indeed very good on it, but it's a quite greedy game so the framerate is pretty low. But tits ok.

Then I thought I had seen it all so I went to sit at my place. I was outta luck there, I was sitting next to frenchies. And I saw this one bitch from Brittany. She's an exchange student from Rennes in her 3rd year. I thought she had left cos I haven't seen her since Christmas break. She's that annoying french type, you know who I'm talking about, those damn annoying people who come to a country and complain about it non stop? That bitch told me stuff like

"The City Hall is a joke, did you see it?! It's a big 60 floor tall building built in the 70s!! Our city hall has been the same for 100 years, at least WE kept it authentic"

Right... with tiny offices, unventilated waiting rooms, dirty linoleum, unorganised files and blinking lights that haven't been changed in over 40 years? Yes I agree... france's city halls are the best, since we kept them just as they were when they were first built (But Rocquencourt's city hall is nice, clean, brand new and upgraded yearly). Woop dee doo. Another one she told me

"Dude when I saw the subway I was like wtf there are only 3 lines where the hell do you wanna go with that?!"

Bitch! The subway was first built in the 1950s in Toronto, and is still in expansion (soon to serve York University with its own station woohoo!)! The Parisian Metro was built in 1900 no shit they're gonna have a wider network than in Toronto!
But since I am hypocritical, I just nodded to what she said. You go ahead and disagree with a Breton and you'll see what you'll get yourself into.
Anyway she was there, for some reason. I just saw her and never looked at her again. This was what I could see though

This was during the warm up. They basically hit the pucks into the nets and made the goalie catch them one by one in a chain.
The services there were weird man. I walked around the pop corn (or cock porn) stands to see what they had. I asked this one lady if they had sugar popcorn, and she said yes. So I ordered one small with a bottle of coke, as I was about to pay I tasted a cock porn, and it was salty!!! I told her

"This is salty. I asked for sugar popcorn"
"Yes this is popcorn" (she was indian or pakistani or something...brown)
"You said you had sugar popcorn. This is salty popcorn"

Without saying a word she directly grabbed the porn and the coke and put them back where they came from, without a single word or a single look, and cancelled the operation on her cash box. I mumbled "fuck you" and left.
I figured I had 10 bucks cash so I just bought a coke at this other booth. This one was weird, they served the coke in a bottle (oh joy!) and unscrewed the cap for you ("good thing" I thought at first) but then took it off and threw it away... so they basically served me an uncapped bottle of coke... I just thought "wtf" and had to be careful not to spill the bottle at any time during the game! That was a first for me... They really are bad with service in that coliseum. At least the ticket booths and the door people were warm.

So the game started. At first we all had to rise for the anthem. This young black chick sang the anthem. She seemed nervous, her voice was trembly and she hit the wrong notes and sometimes sounded flat. She sang it a capella. We all stood up, even me. Even the french! I wasn't expecting that.
Of course they were for the Hamilton Bulldogs, not Toronto! I had to expect that.
The coliseum wasn't full at all, in fact I was free to move to the very front rows. For some reason I decided not to. But I'll do it next time. There were no inspections or anything.

So this is what it looked like from up there

And this

And that

The Marlies are the white dudes. The Bulldogs are the red dudes. The Marlies mascot was retarded. Duke the Dog is the name. He just walked around trying to be funny by thumping when he walked and not talking at all. The thing is with mascots, is that you never know what to say to them since they're not allowed to talk! They make these weird movements with their arms like in a GTA game cut scene and you don't know what they want to convey, plus you don't know if they're looking at you or not! The dog came up to my row and pointed two fingers like The Fonz, so I was like "wassup" and he does it again... so I was like "yea..." and he then does these things with his hands like moves his arms around and waves his hands in all directions once again like in a cut scene from GTA, but then I didn't know if it was for me or not... so I was like "cool". Luckily this little dude came up to him to ask for an autograph. Phew. When I was a kid I used to be super shy of mascots. Everytime I went to DisneyLand I was more afraid to meet a mascot than go on the rides. I was all like "PLEASE MAKE SURE MICKEY'S NOT AROUND I DON'T WANNA SEE HIM!!!!" I duno why... maybe I didn't want him to embarass me, maybe I was shy... maybe I didn't want my dad to say "oooooooh look!!! Look who it is!! You know him right? What's his name? You know his name don't you?" (imagine then Mickey being all like "SAY MY NAME BIATCH!!!!!!!! WHO'S YOUR DADDY NOW HUH, YOU LITTLE FAGGOT!!").
But seriously the mascot didn't last long and moved along, still thumping. The French enjoyed it and giggled... like japanese girls.

After 40 minutes of game (and one half time), during the second half time there were the Timbits that went to play on the ice. The Timbits are normally little pastries sold at Tim Hortons restaurants. Tim Horton was himself a hockey player. And Tim Hortons is kinda like the French Flunch, or a local american restaurant where they serve anything from soup to sandwiches to breakfast to deserts. No burgers though. In hockey, the Timbits are the juniors. The future hockey players of Canada I guess. They were too nice on the ice (hey that rhymes!). They were slow and gentle with the puck, they barely touched each other. I wasn't expecting such softness after a kine of wild sweaty men sodomising each other against the ring windows all running after a puck and wildly jumping on each other in a massive orgy.
Here's what they looked like (oh yea I wouldn't miss the shot!)

It's kind of cute. Imagine if it were chicks or kittens. I'd laugh my ass off by such cuteness, all these kittens running on the ice slipping and falling (like in Bambi). But here it was kids so I was more like "HAHA LOOK HE FELL!!" (to myself... yes I was alone, nobody could come with me TT__TT)

So the game ended, 1 to nothing for the Bulldogs. Sucks... I was for the Marlies! But it was fun seeing all these guys savagely assaulting each other, knocking out the windows and ring walls with loud noises and sweaty orgies. I was expecting a fight though... a hockey game without a fight is like being in France without going to Quick... or making an omelette without breaking eggs.... or having sex without a condom (this subliminal message was brought to you by Durex) You can't have a good game without a good fight. Hockey is really a man's sport! I'd love to see a Turkish hockey game!

Tune in next for part 2.

Damn, son!

Don't Click Here

Damn, Shen Chiao seems to be hitting it in his career!
Nevertheless the dude who wrote that note is a n00b; "look manga" jeez he hasn't seen asian fashion victims, and just cos he's asian and has hippie hair and shit doesn't automatically link it to manga!
Some people! (but he's french...)

If you're in Paris I recommend Chiao only if you wish to taper your hair hardcore or if you wanna get ready for some queer dance night. Also recommended for colors and excentric styles. Not your average barber! (and uh tell him you're a friend of mine, you could get a discount!)

Fuck this shit

OK for some reason myflashfetish and all other mp3 flash player websites are being bitches and I can't upload my mp3s correctly. I'll have to check on it next wednesday or as soon as I can.

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Teoman's Band of the Month - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

I was just listening to the Gimme Gimme's latest album "Love their Country" and as usual I was not surprised to find once again the talent and good sounds, and humour that they always knew to include in their records. A band to recommend, brought to you by my anus.

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are:

Spike Slawson (Vocals)
Joey Cape (Guitar, Vocals)
Chris Shiflett (Lead Guitar)
Fat Mike (Bass)
Dave Raun (Drums)

They are actually not a band, they're a supergroup. A supergroup is a band made of members who already are in other more well known bands. Here, Spike Slawson is the singer of Swingin' Utters, Joey Cape is the lead singer of Lagwagon, Chris Shiflett is the guitarist of Foo Fighters (and formerly No Use for a Name), Fat Mike is the bassist of NOFX, and Dave Raun is the drummer for Lagwagon.
Their game is only cover songs, and they do it well. They cover tonnes of different songs, and each of their album has a different theme. For example, their first album Have a Ball is only covers of hits from the '60s and '70s, Are a Drag is covers of show tunes, Blow in the Wind is made up of Hits from the '60s (again), Take a Break is only R&B songs, Ruin Johnny's Bar Mitzvah is just a live performance at an actual bar mitzvah but it does not include any song that they have recorded previously on their albums, and finally their latest album Love their Country is, you got it: country and western songs.
So what do they do? Well it's pretty obvious when you see who's in the band. It's punk. It's a great punk band, just as good as the rest. Of course, the boss in it is Fat Mike since he owns Fat Wreck Chords, but he's cool cos he gives the singer the right to talk during concerts, although he messes around too.
What sucks is that when you don't know the original song that they cover it doesn't seem as funny or awesome as if you did.
A rule in the world of punk rock is that if you love NOFX, Lagwagon, or Swingin' Utters, you love Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and I do!