Dunkin’ Donuts is trying to out-Starbucks Starbucks by rolling out more white-collar items, such as soy milk latte’s and whole wheat donuts.

As its chief executive officer, Jack Shafer, boasted in 1998, “Our average customer would be as likely to pull up in a BMW or Lexus as they would be to pull up in a pickup truck or on foot.”

I guess he’s never actually been TO a Dunkin’ Donuts. The nearest one to me is so popular with street kids that there is always a police car parked outside “patrolling” the store.

Dunkin’ Donuts will never realize its dream of attracting a Starbucks crowd because of one reason: the smell. If you go inside for just five minutes you walk out smelling like a cross between a vat of grease and a yellow cake. At least they are better then Krispy Kreme, whose regular donuts are so small and hollow that my 18 month old brother can eat three of them for breakfast.

I noticed something interesting with nerd/geek girls who are only sorta cute (6/10 on the rating scale): they get as much attention as the model 9’s and 10’s.

Nerd girls are on a different social level than hot girls. They probably work at a science or computer company instead of a nightclub or bikini car wash. At their job they are surrounded by nerd guys who have absolutely no capability or skill to land anything above a 7 without buying her a new BMW. But these guys are realists, so their dreams at night consist of marrying the cute nerd girl like the mediocre looking Cat Schwartz from TechTV instead of say a Penelope Cruz.

When they encounter a Cat Schwartz-like girl at work, they go absolutely crazy by showering her with attention, favors, and offerings for lunch. It doesn’t matter that her personality is boring; all that matters is she fit the nerd guys fantasy of a woman he could possibly land. Sure the nerd girl doesn’t have many hot studs chasing her, but she doesn’t care because she has an endless supply of rather successful and smart guys at her disposal. She is experiencing what its like to be this girl.

How to pick up girls advice at Pickup Artist Mindset.

I have made a new commitment to stop checking out girls at the gym.

There are now about 60 smilies you can include when you comment. Click the “Smilies Legend” link above the comment text area to view them all. I added about 15 new ones, including this one…

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I think there are enough smilies now to cover all possible emotional reactions when reading this page. Of course everyone’s favorite one remains:

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If you missed the incredible ownage she received on Canadian television then you have to view it here.

Coulter: “Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam - was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?”

McKeown interrupts: “Canada didn’t send troops to Vietnam.”

Coulter: “I don’t think that’s right.”

McKeown: “Canada did not send troops to Vietnam.”

Coulter (looking desperate): “Indochina?”

McKeown: “Uh no. Canada …second World War of course. Korea. Yes. Vietnam No.”

Coulter: “I think you’re wrong.”

She’s a professional troll who gets people to buy her books because she doesn’t look like a typical conservative (overweight and balding). She strikes again by calling a member of the White House press corps an “old Arab”.

Coulter observed, among other things, that Guckert/Gannon was a better reporter than The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd and his “only offense is that he may be gay.” Nothing unexpected there, but Coulter also wrote: “Press passes can’t be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president.”

Link. Her attention getting techniques are so obvious, like a girl who flicks her hair several times when you refuse to note her presence.

So the new cool yuppie thing to say when referring to a hair gel, wax or mousse is “product”. The last time I went out to a nightspot without pomade product in my hair was February 18. On that night me, Eugenius, and Insomnia had a pretty good time, even though the minor cold I had turned into respiratory hell a few days after. Here is the best picture of them that I could find from that night:

I lost Insomnia and after ten minutes I find him by the bar. I tried to get his attention by looking at him but I don’t think he sees me yet.

Finally he sees me and I get excited:

Maybe a little too… excited. Alcohol does that.

In October 2004 on my then-public blog, I wrote…

This site comes to an end, 3 years and 2 months after it started. It will continue in a more private form.

The end lasted eight months. The private blog was nice because I could make fun of anyone without repercussion, except of course when Gay Gay opened his mouth. No more confrontations in the hallway at work. No more paranoia that a girl I just met at the DMV found out about the page. No more guys reading my page daily because they think I’m boning their fiance. The excitement was over. I remember a post I made that got me in trouble with a ladyfriend, who to this day still thinks it is about her. Written May 2004:

I have a lady friend that I’ve known for a couple years. She appeared skinny to my eyes, even though she didn’t go to the gym. And she had an ass that was amazing. Some may say it was near perfection. Several months ago she decided to go the gym to get toned, and shorty after I noticed she lost a couple pounds. But soon it wasn’t about getting toned - it was about losing weight. I’d say, “You’re already skinny! Are you one of those skinny girls who look in the mirror and think you are obese?” I saw her recently and was shocked and saddened by massive weight loss that has not only evaporated her ass but also starting to make the bones in her back appear, a la Mary Kate Olsen. When are girls going to stop caring about how they look in the mirror, and instead worry about what guys think of them?

So I’m back, for now. I’ll stick to DCB as my online indentity even though 95% of you know who I am. I settled on dcbachelor.com because it didn’t out me so easily like the old URL. Even though I don’t live in DC, I am a bachelor. I took away categories for now because they weren’t really adding anything to the site. The major thing I need to work on is getting the smilies back.