tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46507014920837495002024-03-13T01:06:01.524-07:00Point Counter-Point Point PointPoint Counter-Point Point Point is a blog written by Christian and Pat (or Pat and Christian depending on which one of us you ask). We have gathered our knowledge and exploded it onto our blog for your benefit. There is no limit or focus, both topically and mentally, as to what we will discuss and debate. We have forgotten or never learned more knowledge than you will ever not learn or cared about combined. And we will bring you that knowledge and non-knowledge hard.wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-31101264277160444732014-07-03T03:30:00.000-07:002014-07-03T03:30:02.379-07:00We're Not Dead
Hello everyone. We’re not dead. But I’m sure you and the majority of the Earth population have noticed that we haven’t posted anything in quite some time. This is true. There are a couple of reason for our internet absence and fortunately neither are because we are dead.
The first is that I have recently been promoted at work. This a good thing. But due to the timing of it and wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-57924130250612879652014-05-22T03:30:00.000-07:002014-05-22T07:54:24.919-07:00Daylight Savings Lame
In case any of you were wondering I will not be appearing in an episode of Catfish, that TV show about people that start online relationships with people who may not be who they seem. Turns out there was a problem with one of the routers my chat client was using and all my communications were actually being bounced back to me. Therefore it turns out I was Catfishing myself. Which is unfortunatewondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-49179342824780927672014-05-01T03:30:00.000-07:002014-05-01T03:30:02.996-07:00The Sorry State of Sorry
Pat, are you familiar with that board game “Sorry” where you draw cards and move little witnesses to mob crimes around a board trying to get them all into a safe house? This game:
Is it just me or does this image seem slightly crooked?
It’s making me feel kind of dizzy.
(source)
Pat: I remember that game! It’s connected to the mob? Really? Weird...I always assumed it was part of a Soviet wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-26489183490588809062014-04-17T03:30:00.000-07:002014-04-17T03:30:01.823-07:00Getting Sex-Murdered by Your Dental Hygienist
I would like to start out by mentioning that I have never had a cavity in my life. Does this make me special? Maybe. Does Thor’s hammer make him special. Also a definite maybe. So you would expect that I would be pretty popular with dentists and especially the hygienists. And for the most part you would be correct.
In fact I’ve had more than one hygienist compliment me on how strong my tonguewondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-49751551759129487362014-04-10T03:30:00.000-07:002014-04-10T03:30:02.104-07:00Was I THAT guy?
Okay, Christian, simple question:
You’re at a concert. The kind with music that falls between rock and pop and folk and indie (or whatever the kids are calling it these days) and jam-band. The kind where some people are sitting but most are standing. You’re standing among them, sometimes moving your body with the music (or whatever the kids are calling ‘dancing’ these days).
Is it okay to talkwondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-74711349354227494042014-03-13T03:30:00.000-07:002014-03-13T03:30:01.002-07:00Sorry Kids, Trix is for the Fighting Elite
Simple question Pat: in a one-on-one single elimination fight to the death tournament, which breakfast cereal mascot would win?
Pat: Uncle Sam! BOOM! I win! (or are you feeling UNAMERICAN, buddy!?)
Christian: I wasn’t familiar with Uncle Sam cereal so I had to google it. As far as I can tell their mascot is a spoon full of their cereal. That doesn’t seem like something that would hold up well wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-80398314989961640332014-03-06T03:30:00.000-08:002014-03-06T03:30:03.979-08:00Last Meal
I don’t know about you Pat, but I plan on never getting arrested and then executed on death row. It’s one of the items on my empty bucket list (things I don’t want to ever do before I die). Sure there’s the off chance I’ll get framed for a crime I didn’t commit. But my plan for that is to just execute a harrowing escape from prison. Which is why I schedule weekly escaping practices for myself wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-67192502790806867202014-02-13T04:00:00.000-08:002014-02-13T04:00:06.105-08:00Vasecto-You and Me
Well... my penis is no longer a baby making war machine. That’s right, I got a vasectomy. And not just a pretend one. A real one. And as a very few of our loyal readers will recall, one of our first posts was about Pat’s vasectomy, which can be found here and over here but not here.
In that post Pat was willing to answer all the questions I had about his procedure and how it went, so I figuredwondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-47902362038636769432014-02-06T03:30:00.000-08:002014-02-06T03:30:01.117-08:00My Poor, Poor, Well-Adjusted Kids
Now I’m not here to debate whether growing up as a child believing geese are the ultimate rulers of the sky and heavens is a good thing or not. Also that expired medication are little gifts given to us by these geese gods, that can be exchanged for knowledge and baked goods, that without, one would certainly live a life of shame and horror.
No, I’m here to talk about my kid’s upbringing, not wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-68203620132596217082014-01-23T03:30:00.000-08:002014-01-23T03:30:03.157-08:00It's All Downhill From Here
Pat, you appear to know what you’re talking about some of the time. I was hoping you could answer something for me. For the past few years, for some unknown reason, I have become very consciously aware anytime I use the phrase “It’s all downhill from here”. Meaning anytime I use that phrase I immediately think to myself “Oh hey I’m using that phrase again.”
This over awareness has causedwondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-57148890042200594022014-01-16T03:30:00.000-08:002014-01-16T03:30:05.945-08:00Muppets for Counter-Points: The Interview
Today is a PCPPP first! Our first interview! With a human! Our friend Addman from the blog Muppets for Justice has recently published his first e-book and is doing a blog tour to promote it. And today his tour stops here!
Addman
We wanted to do an interview with him but he lives in England which according to Wikipedia is no longer part of the United States, which means it’s foreign. In days wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-68647938523474581542014-01-09T03:30:00.000-08:002014-01-09T03:30:01.607-08:00Favorite Word?
You know me, Christian. I’m not one to indulge forays into the land of “favorites”. Thus my reticence to take part in your questions about best:
-80s songs
-80s movies
-80s years
-80s TV show
-80s Christmas movie
(I think at this point it merits pointing out that we can all clearly see that Christian is having trouble aging and acknowledging that we’re no longer living in the wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-79899182503963108572013-12-19T03:30:00.000-08:002013-12-19T03:30:02.769-08:00Gift Wrapping Passion
I think we can all agree that wrapping presents is as manly of a skill as chopping wood, fixing cars, and bench pressing chainsaws. And I assume you are like me, Pat, in that you do all the gift wrapping in your household since - again I’m assuming - that you wear the pants in your family.
But while I still take pride in a well wrapped gift resulting in only a minimal amount of fire damage to wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-89538299544921585112013-12-12T03:30:00.000-08:002013-12-12T03:30:03.868-08:00Best Christmas Song
Tis the season to be tis-ing things and since we both have strong opinions on music I thought we should try and pin down what is the best Christmas song of all time. Plus I know how much Pat loves narrowing down an impossibly broad scope of work into a singular representative as the pinnacle of that medium.
I’m pretty sure I have the correct answer to this one Pat, so I’ll let you start.
Patwondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-83572660160088574262013-12-05T03:30:00.000-08:002013-12-05T03:30:03.984-08:00Revisiting Christian's Issues
Way back in May and June of 2011, Christian and I discussed two specific activities taken up by many an aging man in our hometown of Portland, Oregon--lawn-mowing and running. In those posts, I tried to convince Christian of the merits and benefits of each activity, firmly believing myself that each one makes me a more righteous, ethical, handsome and charismatic person. I couldn’t convince him.wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-78238887553892668152013-11-21T03:30:00.000-08:002013-11-21T03:30:00.906-08:00Manly Bucket List
As many of you may or may not know the current month is November. Honest. And every November is the month of Movember. Unfamiliar with Movember? Well Movember is a movement to help raise awareness and funds for men’s health to fight prostate and testicular cancer amongst other things.
Typically how it works is men can register at the Movember website and declare that they are going to grow a wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-64400211762880535202013-11-14T03:30:00.000-08:002013-11-14T03:30:02.639-08:00"You Have Lipstick on Your Teeth" Review Extravaganza Bonanza-Palooza
It’s time for another PCPPP book review! As many will recall, a while back we did a review of the book “I Just Want to Pee Alone” which contained a plethora of essays written by women bloggers, about finding the humor in being a mother. Naturally they called on us to do a review. This time around we’re reviewing “You Have Lipstick on Your Teeth” which is described as
“...39 (mostly) wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-15954715277835545162013-10-31T03:30:00.000-07:002013-10-31T03:30:00.664-07:00So it's Jared from Subway fan-fiction, you want? Then it's Jared from Subway fan-fiction you'll get! (maybe)
So awhile ago, Christian mentioned that he was working on a little project involving incorporating Jared and the other characters from Subway into some riveting literary narratives. Little did we know that our fan base would EXPLODE with enthusiasm at the mere mention of the mere possibility of the mere idea of something as merely ludicrously amazing as Jared from Subway fan fiction!
So now wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-64461507365614741302013-10-24T03:30:00.000-07:002013-10-24T03:30:03.516-07:00Death Planning
“Los muertos”, I believe, is Russian for “I’m going to be dying soon, I should plan”. Well, we may not all be dying soon but according to everyone who sees me eat, I need to start planning for it here pretty soon.
Not plan how I’m going to die - we already talked about how I would prefer to die from an asteroid taking out the entire Earth so I won’t miss out on anything after I’m gone, but wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-90279345801531219182013-10-10T03:30:00.000-07:002013-10-10T03:30:02.744-07:00The Signing
So...we gave away the Quadracorn. Little did we know that parting ways with said artwork would prove so traumatic. There’s a lot of thought that goes into giving a piece of invaluable artwork away, as we’re sure Picasso and Cobain and Sendak fully know...or would, if they were alive.
The Quadracorn Portrait
But unlike them, we ARE alive, and we were there when the Quadracorn was signedwondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-82860239142681256282013-10-03T03:30:00.000-07:002013-10-03T03:30:04.097-07:002013 PCPPP Corporate Retreat
Like many of our nation’s top corporations, Christian and I have a firm commitment to keeping our staff happy. We like to “pay it forward”, as it were, in order to strengthen our working relationships. So, taking cues from many of the top corporate consulting companies, we took it upon ourselves to treat our staff to a retreat, one that would focus on team-building, visioning and branding, and wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-1530184665891206072013-09-26T03:30:00.000-07:002013-09-26T03:30:02.893-07:00Best Most Embarrassing Concert
A little bit ago the Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms asked on their facebook page what was the most embarrassing concert you have ever attended. I gave my response and after looking at all the other responses I quickly, and silently, anointed myself the king of the most embarrassing concert attended.
Both Pat and I are huge music fans and have been to many concerts/shows in our lifetimeswondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-82777902407602762392013-09-19T03:30:00.000-07:002013-09-19T03:30:04.877-07:00"The Bible" Review Extravaganza Bonanza-Palooza
A little while ago we did a review of the book “I Just Want to Pee Alone” which turned out to be one of our most popular posts to date. So we thought maybe we should ride this book review gravy train a bit more and do another book review.
My initial thought was to review another book that had several authors, which is probably one the biggest reasons why our review post was so popular, not to wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-51710648709296482322013-09-05T03:30:00.000-07:002013-09-05T03:30:00.863-07:00No Thank You on the Thank You, Thank You
Everyone likes receiving gifts. I’m not talking about silly imaginary gifts like freedom or the gift of life, I’m talking about tangible consumer product gifts. Stuff you can return for cash refunds if needed.
But there comes a price with receiving gifts. Thank yous. Writing thank yous is such a major chore. As a child I dreaded it so much that I seriously contemplated whether or not it was wondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4650701492083749500.post-49638225839108261602013-08-29T03:30:00.000-07:002013-08-29T03:30:03.024-07:00I Hate Everything...
Hey buddy. So, the other day I was facilitating a meeting of high school social studies teachers--oh, sorry...lotsa people are fascinated when I say that and want to know what such a thing is like so I let them know it’s a lot like the Vatican conclave, only we allow some women and there’s no smoke because that’s against fire codes--and my colleagues let me know that they were a little tired ofwondertwinpowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03696461592297807101noreply@blogger.com31