March 14, 2014

Is This Something? Jason Sudeikis Eyed to Play Irwin M. Fletcher in Fletch Reboot
— Ace

A combination thread: A blow-off thread for chatter, and an opportunity for lurking readers to delurk as commenters in a thread about nothing much at all.

Jason Sudeikis is being eyed to play one Irwin M. Fletcher (he has a byline called "Jane Doe," you know) in a Fletch reboot to be called Fletch Won.

Okay, Jason Sudeikis as done great work as a supporting actor. Can he lead? I don't know. Apparently We're the Millers made $270 million but I didn't see it. I guess people think he can lead.

As far as Fletch, I could see him in the role.

I'm a big fan of the Fletch film. Have you ever read the books?

Fletch Won is an origin story, described as a gritty action comedy with heart and more tonally in line with McDonald's novels than the Chase movies.

Um... I'm not sure that's a good idea. I have to admit I saw the movie before I read the books (and I only read a few). The first thing you see or read is generally the thing you like more, because that formed your first impressions; the second thing you see or read (even if it was the first thing in actual publication) seems "off," seems to be doing it all wrong.

I understand that bias and it's unfair to judge the Fletch books based on my first impressions of the Fletch character from the movie.* That said: The books seemed "off" and seemed to be doing it all wrong.

They weren't comedies. The book did include the famous "Will you kill me?"/"Sure" exchange (in fact, I think it was printed on the cover of the book), but otherwise, it was a fairly straight detective story.

The Wackiness Quotient was negligible. There was no Underhill Account to charge a steak sandwich to (and also a steak sandwich). Fletch did in fact give hard-to-remember pseudonyms, but I think they were hard-to-remember because they were so bland, rather than so strange (stuff like "John Forrest," not "John Cock-Toast-Uln.")

Fletch was not a double-talking hustler of the Rogue Slacker Who Skates By On Moxie and Charm sort, but instead a fairly standard ex-military tough-guy detective type. He served in Vietnam, actually.

It's hard to imagine the Fletch we know from the movies serving in Vietnam.

I've got nothing against the ex-military tough-guy detective type. I like that type a lot. I like Jack Reacher. I love Phillip Marlowe (not ex-military, but certainly tough).

But most of what made Fletch different from the regular shamus really comes from the movie (and Chase's rewrites/suggestions, probably), not from the novel itself. (Note: I think it's possible, or even likely, that after the Fletch film came out, the later Fletch novels emphasized the comedic side of the character, just like the comics' version of Tony Stark became a lot more like RDJr.'s film portrayal. But the first book, Fletch, wasn't a comedy.)

So, I assume when they claim that the movies will be more in the spirit of the books, they are doing what they do an awful lot in Hollywood, which is Lying About Everything for No Reason. And being Hollywood, they have that eternal chip on their shoulders that they're working in a second-rate medium, so whenever they want to claim they're doing serious, important work, they claim they're going back to the books for inspiration, because, you know, paperback detective novels are so elevated a form.

If they were doing the movie like the books, they wouldn't hire Jason Sudeikis.

They'd hire Jason Statham.

Seriously: Fletch is going to be gritty? How do you do a gritty urban crime drama in a world in which "Doctor Rosenpenis" is accepted as a plausible name?

Get out of town.


* Oh, and this is a silly thing, but the Fletch of the novels is blond.

See? It's completely unfair to the books for me to judge them by such absurd criteria -- Fletch is NOT blond!!!! -- but I did and I do.

Posted by: Ace at 01:49 PM | Comments (535)
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1 okay, we will de-lurk

Posted by: The NSA at March 14, 2014 01:52 PM (nTgAI)

2 Ok, no replies ?? WTF we need info morons

Posted by: The NSA at March 14, 2014 01:53 PM (nTgAI)

3 there were Fletch books??

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 14, 2014 01:53 PM (c5Esc)

4 NSA? I'll have a large pepperoni.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 01:54 PM (yz6yg)

5 Lurker from the beginning. Commenting only since 2012.

Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 01:54 PM (y7PFk)

6 speaking of Jason Statham, I have become a big fan of his

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 14, 2014 01:54 PM (c5Esc)

7

I lurk sometimes...but I also comment sometimes.

So I guess that makes me a part-time lurker.

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 01:54 PM (8quPO)

8

I know, How about Woody Allen playing as Sam Spade?

Posted by: rd at March 14, 2014 01:55 PM (D+lxs)

9 I'm waiting for Hollywood to make movies based on the writing found on men's room walls.

It's coming...

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at March 14, 2014 01:55 PM (AC0lD)

10 Oh God. Hollywood's so sapped for ideas that now they're doing gritty reboot origin stories for COMEDIC characters? *headdesk*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 01:55 PM (CA2NO)

11 I would like to see Statham play James Bond. Shaken not stirred or I will kick your ass.

Posted by: The NSA at March 14, 2014 01:55 PM (nTgAI)

12 remember when Fletch was disguised as the Indian Shiek giving a massage to the NAKED WOMAN and his fake beard fell off and stuck to her CLAM?

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at March 14, 2014 01:55 PM (c5Esc)

13

Damn sock

Posted by: The Jackhole at March 14, 2014 01:56 PM (nTgAI)

14 I though we had a deal here that chevy chase's name would never ever again appear on this Blog?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 14, 2014 01:56 PM (t3UFN)

15 Fletch 2: The Fletchening

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 14, 2014 01:56 PM (V4CBV)

16 Oh hai. Longtime poster, not much time at all as a lurker. I just kind of shoe-horned myself in here at some point in the past and y'all haven't been able to get rid of me since. Sorry about that.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 01:56 PM (CA2NO)

17 Jason Sudeikis is being eyed to play one Irwin M. Fletcher (he has a byline called "Jane Doe," you know) in a Fletch reboot to be called Fletch Won.

Without seeing frame 1, I guarantee it will be funnier than the original.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i][/b] at March 14, 2014 01:56 PM (ligos)

18 I was banned so all I can do is lurk.

Posted by: 60 Minutes at March 14, 2014 01:56 PM (qQk+U)

19 The guy who buys the rights should make both movies, the comedic version using the Fletch name, and a dramatic version with different names / locations, but the same plot. 

Posted by: phreshone at March 14, 2014 01:56 PM (Q6pxP)

20 Lurker who has commented only a couple of times.  I came for the posts and stayed for the gallows humor.

Posted by: farmersusie at March 14, 2014 01:56 PM (ydb8s)

21 >> It's hard to imagine the Fletch we know from the movies serving in Vietnam. Dude, have you seen your Secretary of State?

Posted by: Andy at March 14, 2014 01:56 PM (chqG9)

22 They'd hire Jason Statham. yum

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 14, 2014 01:56 PM (IXrOn)

23 Is Cousin Balky gonna be in the new Fletch?

Posted by: soothsayer at March 14, 2014 01:57 PM (c5Esc)

24 Didn't Sudekis technically play the lead in "A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy?"  Or is that considered more of an ensemble cast?

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 01:57 PM (GrtrJ)

25 NSA?

I'll have a large pepperoni.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 14, 2014 05:54 PM (yz6yg)

 

you will get Pupperoni and like it

Posted by: Barky and Lolo's Pizzeria at March 14, 2014 01:57 PM (nTgAI)

26 Does 2-3 comments per month give me lurker status?

Posted by: Grandmalcaesar at March 14, 2014 01:57 PM (18G1q)

27 I didn't know there were Fletch books either. I always thought the movies were just a Chevy Chase vehicle.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 14, 2014 01:57 PM (SY2Kh)

28 They're finally going to make it? Fletch Won has been in development hell for at least a decade if not longer. It's hard to see how this will work.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 14, 2014 01:58 PM (oFCZn)

29 They'd hire Jason Statham. yum Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 14, 2014 05:56 PM (IXrOn) Agreed. *fist bump*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 01:58 PM (CA2NO)

30 Harrumph.

Posted by: toby928© at March 14, 2014 01:58 PM (QupBk)

31 Everyone see the creepy sidebar story about the backpack? Yikes.

Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 01:58 PM (y7PFk)

32

The movie 'Fletch' was pretty un-pc as I recall.

That's why it was funny.

 

It's hard to imagine a politically-correct version of 'Fletch'.

But then Hollywood puts out a lot of stuff these days and declares that it is "funny"...when it actually isn't.

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 01:58 PM (8quPO)

33 Does 2-3 comments per month give me lurker status?

Posted by: Grandmalcaesar at March 14, 2014 05:57 PM (18G1q)

 

Great nic

Posted by: The Jackhole at March 14, 2014 01:59 PM (nTgAI)

34 Is Cousin Balky gonna be in the new Fletch? Posted by: soothsayer at March 14, 2014 05:57 PM (c5Esc) I'm pretty sure he's stuck on the missing MH370 flight, ripping newspaper into strips.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 01:59 PM (CA2NO)

35 I'm mostly a lurker and I love this place. The posts got me here and the commenters keep me coming back. Great bunch of morons.

Posted by: Nylon66 at March 14, 2014 01:59 PM (YELrK)

36 I don't know who or what Fletch is. Should I?

Posted by: It sounds dirty at March 14, 2014 01:59 PM (/cUUk)

37 Lurker who has commented only a couple of times. I came for the posts and stayed for the gallows humor. Posted by: farmersusie at March 14, 2014 05:56 PM (ydb8s) A true padawan of Jedi Breitbart.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 01:59 PM (CA2NO)

38 Open Line Fridays... Good concept.

Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2014 02:01 PM (YEQ2h)

39 The Ruskies say they have one of our drones. Took over command of it in mid air over Crimea, made it land intact as they directed.

Posted by: navybrat at March 14, 2014 02:02 PM (AW7Gr)

40 Unless there's a Volcano cameo, there's really not much point to any Fletch movie. Or movie... period.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 14, 2014 02:02 PM (1CroS)

41

I have an idea.  Let's do a new Mad Max movie!

 

 

I should go back to lurking.  I commented briefly as "Michael" (because my name is, well, you know) and for a while in between as "Prufrock", but I was able to see commenting for the addictive time consuming suck that it is and I kept my distance.  Obviously I've fallen off the wagon.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at March 14, 2014 02:02 PM (A0sHn)

42 new teen movie otw, too, following the Hunger Games money Divergent the wsj covered it in their life & culture section In the best-selling novel "Divergent," Beatrice "Tris" Prior, the rebellious 16-year-old heroine, must fight a totalitarian system to save society from civil war and mass murder. http://tinyurl.com/q3qrjl2 I like Kate Winslet. see imdb: Divergent

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 14, 2014 02:02 PM (IXrOn)

43 Moar pop culture.

Posted by: That guy at March 14, 2014 02:02 PM (Dwehj)

44 Yeah..I lurk mostly because Twitter takes up most of my commenting time. Besides, by the time I get here somebody has already posted what I would have said and usually in a much more coherent and humorous way.

Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at March 14, 2014 02:02 PM (zxrQh)

45 Brian Dennehy played every part in Fletch.

Posted by: --- at March 14, 2014 02:02 PM (MMC8r)

46 I think "Fletch" is sort of a narrow bandwidth to accept de-lurkers, don't you? I mean, I remember the movie, (some of it at least), but hmmmm... Perhaps Rare Asian Cacti might have been more inviting; or Favorite Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous episodes. I jest however, Sir. I simply jest. De-Lurkers Welcome! I'm right around my One-Year Anniversary, myself.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 14, 2014 02:03 PM (lq3Ak)

47 [delurk]Hi folks[/delurk]

Posted by: Dick Poulin at March 14, 2014 02:03 PM (sMt7r)

48 So, this is the blog version of a Chill Groove?

Posted by: shredded chi at March 14, 2014 02:03 PM (6wojC)

49 The Chevy Chase "Fletch" is arguably one of the greatest pieces of film ever. Rates up there with "Citizen Cane", "Jaws" and "Bad Lieutenant". The scene where he is day dreaming of himself as a afro'd black Laker is a scream. "Fletch comes in at 6 feet 2 inches and 6 feet 10 inches with his hair!" This is NOT in need of reboot / remake. Whatever. Also, the books are just great. Expecially the first 3 or 5. Fletch gets hooked up with some Argentinian (?) gal who pronounces his name as "Flesh...." Great easy reads that will crack you up!

Posted by: Havildar - Major at March 14, 2014 02:03 PM (kduZC)

50  The Ruskies say they have one of our drones. Took over command of it in mid air over Crimea, made it land intact as they directed.

Posted by: navybrat at March 14, 2014 06:02 PM (AW7Gr)

 

Don't those things have a self destruct button ?

Posted by: The Jackhole at March 14, 2014 02:03 PM (nTgAI)

51 35 I don't know who or what Fletch is. Should I? Posted by: It sounds dirty at March 14, 2014 05:59 PM (/cUUk) The next thing you know we'll see people professing ignorance about Midnight Run.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 14, 2014 02:04 PM (oFCZn)

52 47 So, this is the blog version of a Chill Groove? Posted by: shredded chi at March 14, 2014 06:03 PM (6wojC) Hey what are you doing up at this hour, ONT person?

Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2014 02:04 PM (YEQ2h)

53 44 Brian Dennehy played every part in Fletch. He was sublime as the airplane

Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at March 14, 2014 02:04 PM (zxrQh)

54 How about a remake of the '60 "The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!"? "Please to be getting off street now!" ahahahahah

Posted by: Havildar - Major at March 14, 2014 02:04 PM (kduZC)

55
Don't those things have a self destruct button ? <<<<<<<<<<<

No but it has an Overcharge button.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 14, 2014 02:05 PM (gorVZ)

56 My kid lurks here. Has for maybe 5 or 6 years now. I think he posted one time. Maybe two. Anyway, I can text him most any time of the day and reference something just posted by Ace, and he's already seen it.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2014 02:05 PM (oMKp3)

57 Alright lurkers, coffee break's over.  Back on your heads.

Posted by: Satan at March 14, 2014 02:05 PM (Kkt/i)

58 Jack Reacher is blond, too.  Also ten inches taller and not as pretty as Tom Cruise.

Posted by: huerfano at March 14, 2014 02:05 PM (bAGA/)

59 Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.  Very different in many ways from the Jack Reacher of the books, but still sold the character for me.

You think of Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, and you think "no way". But think of Tom Cruise from Collateral--that man could play Jack Reacher any day. And he did.

I think that's a rare example of movie and book being different, but neither feeling "off".  For me, anyway. YMMV.

Posted by: lucia.pacciola at March 14, 2014 02:05 PM (1RGH8)

60 Hi!

Ok, back to lurking that was scary

Posted by: canuckjack at March 14, 2014 02:05 PM (GIlzj)

61 I clicked on rdbrewer's "Starlings at Sunset" link in the sidebar and found this insightful quote, "One of the most effective methods to identify a bird species is to observe the way they fly and its trajectories, especially when you are observing at a distance and the color and other traits are more difficult to recognize. When birds travel in flocks, their behavior takes on emergent properties. Out of the chaos of flight, gorgeous, geometric patterns coalesce. This is what Dennis Hlynsky hopes to record. Birders refer to this as a “jizz” read of the species." I'm not sure if I would tell people about my hobby of "jizz" reading.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 14, 2014 02:05 PM (9eDbm)

62 54 A reset button.

Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 02:05 PM (y7PFk)

63 I thought Fletch was an offshoot SNL character created as a favor for a 2nd rate comedian.

Posted by: Fritz at March 14, 2014 02:05 PM (UzPAd)

64 I see your sneaky plan here, Ace. Fletch => fletching => arrows This is a crossbow v longbow thread, isn't it?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 14, 2014 02:05 PM (HsTG8)

65 Ah, so a "gay bar" in Boston said to Sam Adams Beer they would close their account if the company supported the parade. Sam Adams then dropped their support, yeah, because...extortion.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 14, 2014 02:05 PM (c5Esc)

66 Was Sudeikis in Hall Pass demonstrating fake chow?

Posted by: Travis McGhee at March 14, 2014 02:06 PM (Ph479)

67 So I saw a Harlem resident being interviewed after the gas explosion and she said the first thing she thought of when she heard the explosion was "that missing airplane". Did the Malaysian authorities search Harlem yet?

Posted by: Grandmalcaesar at March 14, 2014 02:06 PM (18G1q)

68 Who cares about the lurkers - it's the twerkers about whom we should be concerned.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 14, 2014 02:07 PM (HsTG8)

69 59 Hi! Ok, back to lurking that was scary Posted by: canuckjack at March 14, 2014 06:05 PM (GIlzj) LOL

Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2014 02:07 PM (oMKp3)

70 Since this is an "anything" kind of thread, here, have a picture of a pretty cloud in Brazil. http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/march-2014/ I love clouds. They're my favorite meteorological phenomena.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 02:07 PM (CA2NO)

71 Ok, back to lurking that was scary Posted by: canuckjack at March 14, 2014 06:05 PM (GIlzj) Okay, that was just adorable. We've got the cutest lurkers EVA.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 02:08 PM (CA2NO)

72 Lent. Friday. Fish. Cod. Repentance ye Catholic mo rons. *Please be advised that no grace points will be given for the consumption of pollock.

Posted by: Holy ministries of Fish at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (XUC4C)

73 In case anyone cares, the plot of Fletch is mostly straight from the novel, with a few minor changes. Like: Stanwyk does not know the Chief, and their respective plots are in no way connected, except that Fletch is uncovering both. But all the funny/silly stuff is in the movie, except for that great opening chapter's exchange: "So, Mr. Fletch, will you kill me?" "Sure," Fletch said.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (/FnUH)

74 Fletch Won can't be any worse than Chevy's talk show..can it?

Posted by: brevity at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (8xlhb)

75 How about a gritty reboot of Glen or Glenda?

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (fQ9lb)

76 I love clouds. They're my favorite meteorological phenomena. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit at March 14, 2014 06:07 PM (CA2NO) I thought "cloud" was code for "boobs". Nope, it's a cloud.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (oFCZn)

77 I am a sucker for rot your teeth Easter candy....not that anyone wanted to know.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (bCEmE)

78 #36    A true padawan of Jedi Breitbart.

modestly bows head, acknowledging the reference.

Also.......not sure what the barrel is but know it is baaaaaad.

Posted by: farmersusie at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (ydb8s)

79 The other day I read that a "Something Wicked This Way Comes" remake is in the works. How do you replace Jonathan Pryce?

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (5REbo)

80 62 I thought Fletch was an offshoot SNL character created as a favor for a 2nd rate comedian. I think that should be comedians. You must be thinking of the "The Three Amigos"

Posted by: Havildar - Major at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (kduZC)

81 What's the McGuffin?

Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (DQZLr)

82 Here is the news article about the drone.

http://tinyurl.com/ln9mcgl

Posted by: navybrat at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (AW7Gr)

83 Wyatt's Torch: "Besides, by the time I get here somebody has already posted what I would have said and usually in a much more coherent and humorous way."

Which is why the Moron Bylaws state the thread may go off-topic without penalty after 100 comments. I think it's called the "Simpson's Did It" Clause. Odds are, 100+ comment in, someone has already said what you were going to say.

Of course that doesn't stop most commenters... because, well, Morons.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (1CroS)

84 Anyone else watching the Decorah eagles this year? There's three eggs in the nest, last one was laid Sunday.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (oMKp3)

85 Sofa king idea tick

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 14, 2014 02:09 PM (HsTG8)

86 Anyone get the vibe that ace's favorite commenter billy bob is back posting under another nic? I feel it sometimes.

Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 02:10 PM (y7PFk)

87 85 Anyone get the vibe that ace's favorite commenter billy bob is back posting under another nic? I feel it sometimes. Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 06:10 PM (y7PFk) Yes, I do too.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 02:11 PM (bCEmE)

88 I AM EL GUAPO!!

Posted by: brevity at March 14, 2014 02:11 PM (8xlhb)

89
delurking....I would comment more but I'm so busy these days.

Posted by: Vladimir Putin at March 14, 2014 02:11 PM (gorVZ)

90 U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet By Craig Timberg, Friday, March 14, 5:19 PM U.S. officials announced plans Friday to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet, a move likely to please international critics but alarm some business leaders and others who rely on smooth functioning of the Web. Pressure to let go of the final vestiges of U.S. authority over the system of Web addresses and domain names that organize the Internet has been building for more than a decade and was supercharged by the backlash to revelations about National Security Agency surveillance last year. “The timing is right to start the transition process,” said Lawrence E. Strickling, assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information. “We look forward to ICANN convening stakeholders across the global Internet community to craft an appropriate transition plan.” The practical consequences of the decision were not immediately clear, but it could alleviate rising global complaints that the United States essentially controls the Web and takes advantage of its oversight role to help spy on the rest of the world. U.S. officials set strict conditions and an indeterminate timeline for the transition from federal government authority, saying that a new oversight body must be created and win the trust of crucial stakeholders around the world, officials said. An international meeting to discuss the future of Internet is scheduled for March 24, in Singapore. This can't be good

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 14, 2014 02:12 PM (t3UFN)

91 Fist bump Tami.

Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 02:12 PM (y7PFk)

92 Hey what are you doing up at this hour, ONT person? Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2014 06:04 PM (YEQ2h) -------------- Who said I was awake? True story - I named my dog Fletch when I was a teenager that just moved out on my own. He fit the name perfectly, too. Big, dumb, lovable Lab. When was that? '86? '87?

Posted by: shredded chi at March 14, 2014 02:12 PM (6wojC)

93 I'm willing to give Sudeikis a chance but only if Hollywood promises to stay the hell away from Caddyshack. I would have tapped Jason Lee for the role.

Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at March 14, 2014 02:12 PM (ENSDq)

94 I feel it sometimes.<<<<<<<<<<

You mean "it".  Out?

Posted by: Elaine Benes at March 14, 2014 02:13 PM (gorVZ)

95 I could go for a Blade Runner prequel, if there are Hollywood morons mining this thread for ideas. 

Posted by: Satan at March 14, 2014 02:13 PM (Kkt/i)

96 gold bitchez !!!


Posted by: alec at March 14, 2014 02:13 PM (x/l5L)

97 94 Some sort of Blade Runner film is in the works.

Posted by: steevy at March 14, 2014 02:14 PM (zqvg6)

98
I'm delurking to come on here and bring you wingnuts good tidings of great joy.

Wait, what?

Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at March 14, 2014 02:14 PM (Dwehj)

99 I'm pretty sure I saw Fletch in the theater when it came out but then I think to myself, "why would I have seen Fletch in the theater?"  Unless my parents took me.  Which is possible.  I guess.


My memory sucks.

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 02:14 PM (GrtrJ)

100 "The Ruskies say they have one of our drones. Took over command of it in mid air over Crimea, made it land intact as they directed." Putin writing insults to Obama on it now with a sharpie and about to send it to White House lawn.

Posted by: Sandy Flook at March 14, 2014 02:14 PM (jTKU5)

101 Hi! First time commenter, long time lurker.

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 02:14 PM (doBIb)

102 didnt blade runner kill his wife ? ...... just sayin

Posted by: alec at March 14, 2014 02:14 PM (x/l5L)

103 Since this is an "anything" kind of thread, here, have a picture of a pretty cloud in Brazil. Brazil Netflix is the one playing The Place Beyond the Pines. Full circle commenting. I feel so balanced, now.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 14, 2014 02:14 PM (IXrOn)

104 fyi Deadwood airs all 36 episodes beginning tomorrow at 7am thru Sunday 6pm on HBO HD channel (DirecTV channel 509)

Posted by: concrete girl at March 14, 2014 02:15 PM (cwQAj)

105 You using the whole fist there, Doc?

Posted by: Phinn at March 14, 2014 02:15 PM (i5GO4)

106 Hollywood Tip: Do not bring back Jar Jar Binks or any interpretation of Jar Jar Binks in any form whatsoever, ever. Not even in Fletch, The Reanimationing.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 14, 2014 02:15 PM (1CroS)

107 50 35 I don't know who or what Fletch is. Should I?

Posted by: It sounds dirty at March 14, 2014 05:59 PM (/cUUk)


The next thing you know we'll see people professing ignorance about Midnight Run.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 14, 2014 06:04 PM (oFCZn)


The proper response is, "Hey! Get off my lawn!"

Posted by: flounder at March 14, 2014 02:16 PM (Kkt/i)

108 Lent. Friday. Fish. Cod. veggie lasagna, here strawberry/blueberry crisp for dessert

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 14, 2014 02:16 PM (IXrOn)

109 Technically, I could be considered a lurker, since I believe 7/8 of my comments are ignored.  I still love you morons though.

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 02:16 PM (GrtrJ)

110 50 The next thing you know we'll see people professing ignorance about Midnight Run. Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 14, 2014 06:04 PM (oFCZn) The hell you say!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 14, 2014 02:16 PM (HsTG8)

111 ha ha ... midnight run .... fuckin turkish gaurds .....

Posted by: alec at March 14, 2014 02:17 PM (x/l5L)

112

83 Anyone else watching the Decorah eagles this year? There's three eggs in the nest, last one was laid Sunday.

 

Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2014 06:09 PM (oMKp3)

 

Been checking in on them from time to time...

They are so amazing.

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 02:17 PM (8quPO)

113 105 Hollywood Tip: Do not bring back Jar Jar Binks or any interpretation of Jar Jar Binks in any form whatsoever, ever. Not even in Fletch, The Reanimationing.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 14, 2014 06:15 PM (1CroS)


What about as a victim in Friday the 13th part 20?

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at March 14, 2014 02:17 PM (fQ9lb)

114 I'd delurk but I'm afraid to.

Posted by: Dr Randy Jewels at March 14, 2014 02:17 PM (slXFW)

115 Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 06:16 PM (GrtrJ) I love your nick so you've got that going for you.

Posted by: Meremortal at March 14, 2014 02:17 PM (jTKU5)

116 In case nobody explained, the barrel is our penalty box for screwing up comments.

Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 02:18 PM (y7PFk)

117 BTW, that backpack link in the sidebar? It's a spider, isn't it? She found a huge ass spider in her backpack. I'm right, aren't I.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 02:18 PM (CA2NO)

118 Gee, I wonder where Putin got the radio freq codes for the drone?
Snowden?

Posted by: navybrat at March 14, 2014 02:18 PM (AW7Gr)

119 Eeeewww... headline over at hotgas: "The man who keeps Harry Reid up at night."

I really don't want to know.

Posted by: Mayday at March 14, 2014 02:18 PM (eHc+1)

120 I barely remember Fletch and Fletch Lives. I liked the first one because it was so goofy. Never saw the second one. I can see Sudeikis playing a Chevy Chase type Fletch but not the Statham Fletch. No way.

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 02:18 PM (doBIb)

121 102 Full circle commenting. I feel so balanced, now. Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 14, 2014 06:14 PM (IXrOn) Y'know, if we were beings in the fourth dimension, this universe would appear to be nothing more than a circle.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 14, 2014 02:18 PM (HsTG8)

122 Doctor Rosenpenis sounds fine to me.

Posted by: dr guildenpooter at March 14, 2014 02:18 PM (hn5v5)

123 I lurk for the light commentary. Sometimes for the booze!

Posted by: loneduck at March 14, 2014 02:18 PM (vMatk)

124 I've been a lurker here for years. So, hi!

Posted by: AZ SoCon at March 14, 2014 02:19 PM (rqMFq)

125 MWR, laughing.

Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 02:19 PM (y7PFk)

126 Deadwood airs all 36 episodes beginning tomorrow at 7am thru Sunday 6pm on HBO HD channel (DirecTV channel 509) Posted by: concrete girl at March 14, 2014 06:15 PM (cwQAj) I'll have to tell my husband. He's recuperating from arthroscopic hip surgery and he's binge watching Game of Thrones. If I hear those stupid mini dinosaurs or whatever they are screech one more time I'm gonna go outta my mind! I think he watched Deadwood when it first came out.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 02:19 PM (bCEmE)

127 Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2014 06:09 PM (oMKp3) The wife has been watching so I've seen them a little. She noticed that the female always arranges the 3 eggs in a triangle and the male changes them to more of a straight line when he takes over.

Posted by: Meremortal at March 14, 2014 02:19 PM (jTKU5)

128 >>>didnt blade runner kill his wife ? ...... just sayin the guy who created the title "Blade Runner" did kill his wife. The studio bought that name for peanuts because the title of Phillip K. Dick's novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," wouldn't draw crowds in, and their other names (like "Dangerous Days") sucked. So yeah the guy who wrote a book called Blade Runner killed his wife, but that has nothing to do with the movie called Blade Runner. They just liked the title and bought it.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2014 02:19 PM (/FnUH)

129
Is this "DangerGirl" new?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 14, 2014 02:19 PM (gorVZ)

130 115 In case nobody explained, the barrel is our penalty box for screwing up comments.

Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 06:18 PM (y7PFk)


Only with a lot more weird stains.

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at March 14, 2014 02:19 PM (fQ9lb)

131 Yeah. Sudeikus could be aiight.

Is it just me or is Jillian Michaels one scary woman?

Posted by: Civenti Tu Vergens at March 14, 2014 02:20 PM (g4fjO)

132 I love your nick so you've got that going for you. Posted by: Meremortal at March 14, 2014 06:17 PM (jTKU5)


I'll take that. 

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 02:20 PM (GrtrJ)

133 It's a spider, isn't it? She found a huge ass spider in her backpack. I'm right, aren't I. -------- No she found a naked selfie Karl Urban took. Seriously go check it out.

Posted by: Adam at March 14, 2014 02:20 PM (Aif/5)

134 Hey kids!  Ever seen a grown man naked?

Posted by: Harry Reid at March 14, 2014 02:20 PM (Kkt/i)

135 115 In case nobody explained, the barrel is our penalty box for screwing up comments. Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 06:18 PM (y7PFk) The last lurker sent to the barrel died there.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 14, 2014 02:20 PM (oFCZn)

136 He say, you Brade Runner!

Posted by: Noodle vendor at March 14, 2014 02:20 PM (doBIb)

137

76 I am a sucker for rot your teeth Easter candy....not that anyone wanted to know.

 

Posted by: Tami

 

The Reeses peanut butter eggs seem to have more chocolate this year.

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 02:20 PM (8quPO)

138

I put this in the podcast thread already but it's already a wasteland, so, here.

To Ace and the podcast crew,
Please dump this curse-free format. It's boring as shit.
The first podcasts were great, it was like sitting in a back room with some friends and some beers, talking shit about the other side. It was fun, there was laughter and hijinks and a person could feel that they were an equal in this setting, just one of the boys.
This highbrow thing is the complete opposite. It's a bunch of people "not like you" talking in a high minded, outsider way. This isn't a backroom chat on a saturday night, it's a panel discussion with suits and ties and correspondinly less fun and less engaging.
Doubtless you can't please everyone but come on guys, and Ace, don't go down this path. Drink and curse and behave like friends would when chatting about this stuff, in other words, be your natural selves. It's so much more entertaining and enjoyable.
Respectfully,


a listener

Posted by: Mr Black at March 14, 2014 02:20 PM (DVVEQ)

139 108 Technically, I could be considered a lurker, since I believe 7/8 of my comments are ignored. I still love you morons though. Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 06:16 PM (GrtrJ) ------------ I would respond with a "tell me about it!" & a "I feel your pain," but that would be acknowledging that I actually read your comments, so ignore this.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 14, 2014 02:20 PM (6wojC)

140 Fletch was being filmed at the same time as Animal House.  The studio wanted Chase to play "Otter" I believe and he was considering it.  He either asked the writer or director if he should take the role or do Fletch.  They did not want him for the part so they worked to convince him to take Fletch.

Posted by: buzzion at March 14, 2014 02:21 PM (LI48c)

141 She noticed that the female always arranges the 3 eggs in a triangle and the male changes them to more of a straight line when he takes over. Posted by: Meremortal at March 14, 2014 06:19 PM (jTKU5)


So the eagle version of the thermostat wars.

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 02:21 PM (GrtrJ)

142 De-lurking to say that while I love Fletch, there is no need to bring it back.

Posted by: Yllop at March 14, 2014 02:21 PM (dsZmB)

143 110 ha ha ... midnight run .... fuckin turkish gaurds ..... Posted by: alec at March 14, 2014 06:17 PM (x/l5L) You're thinking Midnight Express Try again.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 14, 2014 02:21 PM (HsTG8)

144 136 Yet they seem super tiny now.

Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 02:22 PM (y7PFk)

145 127
WOW ! learn something new every day . i knew about the title but i was referring to the runner in the news with fake legs .

Posted by: alec at March 14, 2014 02:22 PM (x/l5L)

146 >>> Fletch was being filmed at the same time as Animal House. The studio wanted Chase to play "Otter" I believe and he was considering it. He either asked the writer or director if he should take the role or do Fletch. They did not want him for the part so they worked to convince him to take Fletch. this is wrong Animal House and Fletch are separated by like five years.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2014 02:22 PM (/FnUH)

147 85 Anyone get the vibe that ace's favorite commenter billy bob is back posting under another nic? I feel it sometimes.

Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 06:10 PM (y7PFk)

 

Is there some new name that bitches and moans about culture posts and also letting out "jokes" about how he hates the jews?

Posted by: buzzion at March 14, 2014 02:22 PM (LI48c)

148 The Ruskies say they have one of our drones. Took over command of it in mid air over Crimea, made it land intact as they directed." Putin writing insults to Obama on it now with a sharpie and about to send it to White House lawn. Posted by: Sandy Flook at March 14, 2014 06:14 PM (jTKU5) Which is why drones will NEVER replace maned Aircraft.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 14, 2014 02:22 PM (t3UFN)

149 Ed Wood VS Godzilla: "What about as a victim in Friday the 13th part 20?"

What... and tarnish a perfectly good serial by needling the audience to cheer for Freddy? That's perverse, man.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 14, 2014 02:22 PM (1CroS)

150 Any guesses on who Barky will replace Jay Carney with? He does seem to have a deep bench of horrible people for this job. From Robert Gibbs to Jay Carney to ??? 

Is this a job for Debbie Whatzername Schlitz?  I think I'd really love little Joey Biden.  At least he's funny whether he means to be or not.

Posted by: Mayday at March 14, 2014 02:22 PM (eHc+1)

151 No she found a naked selfie Karl Urban took. Seriously go check it out. Posted by: Adam at March 14, 2014 06:20 PM (Aif/5) Your attempt to lure me to look at the story by promising pictures of a naked Karl Urban has been noted. And remembered. *GLARE*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 02:23 PM (CA2NO)

152 The only thing I like about Chevy Chase is that Bill Murray once punched him in the face.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2014 02:23 PM (8ZskC)

153 The Reeses peanut butter eggs seem to have more chocolate this year. Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 06:20 PM (8quPO) hehe, you already know this how?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 14, 2014 02:23 PM (IXrOn)

154 145 >>> Fletch was being filmed at the same time as Animal House. The studio wanted Chase to play "Otter" I believe and he was considering it. He either asked the writer or director if he should take the role or do Fletch. They did not want him for the part so they worked to convince him to take Fletch.

this is wrong

Animal House and Fletch are separated by like five years.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2014 06:22 PM (/FnUH)

 

Maybe it was Foul Play then.

Posted by: buzzion at March 14, 2014 02:23 PM (LI48c)

155 > 116 BTW, that backpack link in the sidebar? It's a spider, isn't it? She found a huge ass spider in her backpack. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit No. (highlight for spoilers) ------------- there were also up to 400 spider eggs. And it wasn't a an "ass spider" it was a "bat eating spider" -------------

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at March 14, 2014 02:23 PM (h53OH)

156 You're thinking Midnight Express


yes yes I was . thank you for pointing out my ignorance .

Posted by: alec at March 14, 2014 02:23 PM (x/l5L)

157 So the eagle version of the thermostat wars. Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 06:21 PM (GrtrJ) Yep. Wife says it's because the female is so much bigger, more of a wide body. The male can't cover the eggs the way she arranges them.

Posted by: Meremortal at March 14, 2014 02:24 PM (jTKU5)

158 Nice knowing you, Adam!

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 02:24 PM (doBIb)

159 So I saw a Harlem resident being interviewed after the gas explosion and she said the first thing she thought of when she heard the explosion was "that missing airplane". Did the Malaysian authorities search Harlem yet?
See? I told you in yesterday's thread it was those Peruvia Jooooos led by Zimmerman!

Posted by: reverand al at March 14, 2014 02:24 PM (hn5v5)

160 The last lurker sent to the barrel died there. Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 14, 2014 06:20 PM (oFCZn) Hence some of the more colorful stains. Also the dreadful moaning and rattling of chains.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 02:24 PM (CA2NO)

161 Animal House was in 78, Fletcher was in 85. Maybe you're thinking of Foul Play? Speaking of old movies, I got my Beta tape player hooked up today.

Posted by: --- at March 14, 2014 02:24 PM (MMC8r)

162 OHH, I gotta use [ instead of < for font changes in comments. oh well. Yeah, it was a big bat-eating spider.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at March 14, 2014 02:25 PM (h53OH)

163 Fletch? Never heard of him. Seriously.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at March 14, 2014 02:25 PM (0FSuD)

164 Is this where I get to put in my 2 cents?

Posted by: The Phantom Lurker at March 14, 2014 02:25 PM (sTkJe)

165 Posted by: Comrade Arthur at March 14, 2014 06:23 PM (h53OH *SOB* *burns everything resembling a backpack *

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 02:25 PM (CA2NO)

166
Three things about Cruise's Reacher that bothered me.

One is the hotel front desk clerk being asked if she knew of any guest that could kill the girl bare-handed, and she comes back with something like "you'll know him when you see him". That fits the Reacher from the books, who's a hulking brute, but no way in HELL is anyone going to look at little Tommy Cruise and think he's an obvious bare-handed killer.

Next is that the fight scenes were obviously a series of scripted moves, looked like he didn't do enough rehearsal time to make it look believable. Punch, pause, kick, pause, armlock, pause, elbow to the face, pause, etc. Irritating.

Last is that Cruise is obviously feeling insecure about his age. Every film he's done in the last few years has gone out of it's way to sell him as a sex symbol. The waitress in the bar giving him looks, hell, EVERY woman in the bar giving him looks before the bar fight. 

To be fair though, Cruise has consistently done some of the best onscreen firearms handling in Hollywood, and this film is no exception. Helps that the director McQuarrie uses his former-SEAL brother to train his actors.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 14, 2014 02:25 PM (TIIx5)

167 love reacher. have read them all. too bad tom cruise bought his way into the starring role. could have been a solid movie franchise. something about a character that allows providence or whatever dictate his way through life and it somehow helps the needy and results in beautiful retribution. now, how about that noah flick? sure hope they focus on gen 6:4 and the nephilim. a great writer could turn that into a franchise. point out that the mystery of gen 6:4 can be interpreted to include aliens and voila - any damn period and setting in history you want is at your fingertips. the battle between the powers and principalities "of the air" can be used. ie: showing involvement in nazi germany would be fascinating. sheesh, barely believable but wow we want to believe it for the sake of escape and fun and the hell of it works for so many fantastic comic books/super hero/sci fi movies that have been written and filmed. why not?

Posted by: providence is real says the guy that skipped his turn in the barrel at March 14, 2014 02:25 PM (O4pD9)

168 By lurking, you mean like in the bushes? I'm asking for a friend.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at March 14, 2014 02:26 PM (F9wgv)

169 Oh yeah- and I delurked a long time ago, but tend to lurk again over and over.

Posted by: Civenti Tu Vergens at March 14, 2014 02:26 PM (g4fjO)

170 The Reeses peanut butter eggs seem to have more chocolate this year. Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 06:20 PM (8quPO) I'm not really a Reeses fan. No, my taste run more to the 4th grade level. Ya know, those egg shaped candies that have a thick hard sugar outside coating with what seems like whipped sugar inside? It's pure sugar through and through. Yeah....

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 02:26 PM (bCEmE)

171 So, delurking with a question for the legal beagles. Since standing is an issue, wouldn't someone like Lauren now have standing to sue, since the JEF did away with the individual mandate and said you could keep your "sub-standard" plan. Except she and others can't keep their plan because they've been canceled. Thoughts?

Posted by: Lilredhen at March 14, 2014 02:26 PM (u3yX3)

172 Speaking of old movies, I got my Beta tape player hooked up today. Posted by: --- at March 14, 2014 06:24 PM (MMC8r) And it only took you thirty years! Nice!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 02:26 PM (CA2NO)

173 I'd like to see a remake of Blade Runner, the 1st one didn't do it for me as much as it should have.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 14, 2014 02:27 PM (slXFW)

174 Tami, do you like Cadbury creme eggs?  I swear they could strip paint.

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 02:27 PM (GrtrJ)

175 All I remember from We're the Millers was Jennifer Anniston makes a great stripper

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 14, 2014 02:27 PM (dNkDl)

176 I don't often lurk but when I do I lurk here.

Posted by: The World's most interesting lurker at March 14, 2014 02:28 PM (JdEZJ)

177 155 You're thinking Midnight Express yes yes I was . thank you for pointing out my ignorance . Posted by: alec at March 14, 2014 06:23 PM (x/l5L) S'ok. Yesterday I had my lunch handed to me when I misquoted the first line to "Joy to the World" by 3DN as "Jeremiah had a bullfrog."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 14, 2014 02:28 PM (HsTG8)

178 *head rises slowly from dark, steaming swamp*

*head slowly turns from right to left*

*head slowly slides back below the murky waters*

Posted by: A Lurker at March 14, 2014 02:28 PM (8ZskC)

179 Fletch? More like...FELCH, AMIRITE?

Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at March 14, 2014 02:28 PM (/AHDz)

180 173 Tami, do you like Cadbury creme eggs? I swear they could strip paint. Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 06:27 PM (GrtrJ) No, I'm not a huge chocolate fan. I'll eat it if I'm desperate. I know, I know, flame away.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 02:29 PM (bCEmE)

181 The last Reacher novel sucked the sweat off a bat eating spider's egg sac. Really. The one with all the driving across the Midwest with the two guys and the cocktail waitress. Nothing happens!

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 02:29 PM (doBIb)

182 I lurk because I'm usually too slow to read and comment at the same time.  I have posted just a few times. 

and I didn't think Fletch was funny but that was a long, long time ago.

Posted by: chicagolurker at March 14, 2014 02:29 PM (c96ms)

183 Need some music. Chevy Chase. Chevy Chase & Paul Simon. You Can Call Me Al https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI fun stuff

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 14, 2014 02:29 PM (IXrOn)

184 Kate Upton Delurking Thread Compliance Pic http://tinyurl.com/kqgsxhh

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2014 02:29 PM (aTXUx)

185 I watched the latest episode of STAR TREK CONTINUES last night. Not bad at all. For those unaware, fans of the original series have produced (and starred in) original episodes of the continuing mission of the Enterprise under Capt Kirk. Check it out if you're bored. It's all online.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 14, 2014 02:30 PM (c5Esc)

186 >>> Lurkers Delurk Thread

Yay! Sit a spell, don't be shy. *sets up tables and chairs, brings out jello in casserole dish, sets on table*

Posted by: LizLem at March 14, 2014 02:30 PM (BF+2f)

187 (Cloaking field down)
What's up, 'rons and 'ettes?
I used to post a lot more (mainly on the ONT), but life gets in the way...first, I had to get a second job on the weekends, and second, it hit me CW Jr. turns 18 this summer, and I hadn't been spending nearly as much time with the young man as I should.  So, by the time I get to read the ONT (which I still do every night), my brain is, to paraphrase Egon Spengler, beyond the capacity for rational thought.  You'd think that would not be a problem around here, but still....

This is still my favorite blog.  Ace, the cob loggers and The Usual Gang Of Morons all rock.  That is all.  I'm off to get a nap in before I have to head to Job #2.
(cloaking field up)

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at March 14, 2014 02:30 PM (Pd9h2)

188 All I remember from We're the Millers was Jennifer Anniston makes a great stripper Posted by: Navycopjoe at Mar Was brushing up my bass and vocal parts on Joe Cocker's version of You Can Leave Your Hat On last night. Kim Basinger's dance is on the video, my goodness.

Posted by: Meremortal at March 14, 2014 02:30 PM (jTKU5)

189 I like Fletch in both book and movie form but those are not the same things.


Also now I want to watch Zero Effect. 

Posted by: alexthechick - come for the Global Warming stay for the SMOD at March 14, 2014 02:30 PM (Gk3SS)

190 MWR, if you're still here, an apology is in my nic.

Posted by: Adam at March 14, 2014 02:30 PM (Aif/5)

191 No, I'm not a huge chocolate fan. I'll eat it if I'm desperate.

W. T. F.??????

Mary See just rolled over in her plus-sized coffin.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2014 02:30 PM (8ZskC)

192 We should have assembled the AoSHQ Welcoming committee if we were gonna lure the lurkers out.

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 14, 2014 02:30 PM (DM5Ao)

193 Can a lurker bring me a sammich, please?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2014 02:31 PM (HVff2)

194 here's the website: http://www.startrekcontinues.com/episodes/

Posted by: soothsayer at March 14, 2014 02:31 PM (c5Esc)

195

Could never stand Chevy Chase, but I think I saw Fletch.  Don't remember one thing about it.

 

I had to Bing Jason Sudekis.  OMG, he's engaged to little miss progressive Oliva Wilde and they're having a baby.  Too much information.  Ugh.

 

Thanks, Ace, I was lurking just fine and you made me give up some space in my head for a couple of O devotees.  Horrible Bosses was funny, btw.

Posted by: joanne at March 14, 2014 02:31 PM (s/quq)

196 ---: "Speaking of old movies, I got my Beta tape player hooked up today."

So, for the record, it was 03/14/2014 at [blinking]12:00[/blinking].

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 14, 2014 02:31 PM (1CroS)

197

152 The Reeses peanut butter eggs seem to have more chocolate this year. 
 

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 06:20 PM (8quPO)

 



hehe, you already know this how?

 

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 14, 2014 06:23 PM (IXrOn)

 

----------

 

Been doing recon....chocolate recon.

Someone has to do it.

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 02:31 PM (8quPO)

198
No delurks from the missing plane, then?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 14, 2014 02:32 PM (gorVZ)

199 >>>I'll eat it if I'm desperate. Tami is married man?!

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at March 14, 2014 02:32 PM (F9wgv)

200 191 We should have assembled the AoSHQ Welcoming committee if we were gonna lure the lurkers out. I brought a hotdish.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2014 02:32 PM (oMKp3)

201 Haha, nice one Adam!

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 02:32 PM (doBIb)

202 Lurker for several years, post occasionally. Love this web site.

Posted by: Pete at March 14, 2014 02:32 PM (46Atm)

203 No delurks from the missing plane, then? Posted by: Guy Mohawk No, but you missed your chance for a thread winner there.

Posted by: Meremortal at March 14, 2014 02:33 PM (jTKU5)

204 No, I'm not a huge chocolate fan. I'll eat it if I'm desperate.

I know, I know, flame away.

Posted by: Tami at March 14, 2014 06:29 PM (bCEmE)

 

Does that warrant a revocation of your woman card?

Posted by: buzzion at March 14, 2014 02:33 PM (LI48c)

205 The last lurker sent to the barrel died there. Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 14, 2014 06:20 PM (oFCZn) The Barrel is where MH370 landed

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2014 02:33 PM (aTXUx)

206 I'm not really a Reeses fan. No, my taste run more to the 4th grade level. Ya know, those egg shaped candies that have a thick hard sugar outside coating with what seems like whipped sugar inside? It's pure sugar through and through. Yeah.... Posted by: Tami at March 14, 2014 06:26 PM (bCEmE) You found those? Who makes them? They came in two sizes, IIRC: one about an inch from end to end and the second about twice that size. I remember that those things were more addictive than crack... which is why I've never done crack.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 14, 2014 02:33 PM (HsTG8)

207 Tami is married man?! Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at March 14, 2014 06:32 PM (F9wgv) Imma go tell my husband...brb.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 02:34 PM (bCEmE)

208  I'm waiting for Hollywood to make movies based on the writing found on men's room walls.

It's coming...

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at March 14, 2014 05:55 PM (AC0lD)

 

 

Okay, now that's some funny shit right there.

Posted by: joanne at March 14, 2014 02:34 PM (s/quq)

209

169

I'm not really a Reeses fan. No, my taste run more to the 4th grade level. Ya know, those egg shaped candies that have a thick hard sugar outside coating with what seems like whipped sugar inside? It's pure sugar through and through. Yeah....

 

Posted by: Tami at March 14, 2014 06:26 PM (bCEmE)

 

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Mmm...not sure I've ever had those.

 

I like those 'speckled eggs'...the ones that have the hard shell on the outside, and chocolate on the inside.

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 02:34 PM (8quPO)

210 Does that warrant a revocation of your woman card? Posted by: buzzion at March 14, 2014 06:33 PM (LI48c) No! Wait, wait, wait....I bought two pair of shoes online an hour ago.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 02:35 PM (bCEmE)

211
Technically, I could be considered a lurker, since I believe 7/8 of my comments are ignored. I still love you morons though.

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 06:16 PM (GrtrJ)









Did you say something?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 14, 2014 02:35 PM (TIIx5)

212 The Reeses peanut butter eggs seem to have more chocolate this year.

You know, I walked through the Easter candy at the grocery store earlier this week and thought I'd rather have a beer.

I'm disturbed.  And obviously underhopped.

Posted by: HR at March 14, 2014 02:35 PM (hO8IJ)

213 Sudeikus? Isn't that that Jap number crossword? Screw that. I can only do those when my shoes and socks are off.

Posted by: joey biden at March 14, 2014 02:35 PM (hn5v5)

214 207 I'm waiting for Hollywood to make movies based on the writing found on men's room walls. It's coming... Posted by: Stateless Infidel at March 14, 2014 05:55 PM (AC0lD) Someone did, though it's more of a documentary.

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 02:35 PM (doBIb)

215 171 Speaking of old movies, I got my Beta tape player hooked up today. Posted by: --- at March 14, 2014 06:24 PM (MMC8r) And it only took you thirty years! Nice! ======= I found it at a thrift store a few weeks ago, and had to wait for a tape to arrive from EBay. It'll go on top of my VHS and videos players.

Posted by: --- at March 14, 2014 02:35 PM (MMC8r)

216 it would have been funnier if I had said a married man. But only slightly

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at March 14, 2014 02:36 PM (F9wgv)

217 No, I'm not a huge chocolate fan. I'll eat it if I'm desperate. I know, I know, flame away. Posted by: Tami at March 14, 2014 06:29 PM (bCEmE) So, lemon?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 14, 2014 02:36 PM (IXrOn)

218 I think Fletch was 6 feet something with the afro....

Posted by: IrishEd at March 14, 2014 02:36 PM (bfm04)

219 Been doing recon....chocolate recon.  Someone has to do it. Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 06:31 PM (8quPO) --------------- There is a Ray Nagin / New Orleans joke in there, but I'll leave it up to the professionals...

Posted by: shredded chi at March 14, 2014 02:36 PM (6wojC)

220 Tami...It's gritty but good. Justified's Raylan Givens is Sheriff Seth Bullock in Deadwood...Happy Weekend!

Posted by: concrete girl at March 14, 2014 02:36 PM (cwQAj)

221 Adam: "MWR, if you're still here, an apology is in my nic."

Don't you know how to link to Rick Astley?

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 14, 2014 02:36 PM (1CroS)

222 Beautfiul but Heart wrenching- "My wifes last days the coming of the Obamacare death panels": http://tinyurl.com/omuw9mh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2014 02:36 PM (XyM/Y)

223 I once covered myself in chocolate and peanut butter and had Sally Struthers lick it all off.

Posted by: The World's most interesting lurker at March 14, 2014 02:37 PM (QnLYM)

224 Hi Tami,  wow I haven't had the malted eggs in decades,  I'm glad to read they still make them. 

Posted by: palerider at March 14, 2014 02:37 PM (dkExz)

225 I have never seen Fletch. The only Chevy Chase movie I can think of is the one where he moved to a farm in New England to write a novel and his wife ended up writing wildly popular childrens books and the dog ran away.

I can say Die Hard is my favorite Christmas movie and Boondock Saints is my favorite St. Patricks Day movie.


Posted by: BareNakedFaceLady at March 14, 2014 02:37 PM (O5IQS)

226 Does this nest make my ass look fat?

Posted by: female eagle at March 14, 2014 02:37 PM (hn5v5)

227 I began reading the Fletch books when I was a teenager -- my dad got the first few and I read them after he did. Actually, the Underhill account (I think in the book it was Underwood) business was in the book. Fletch notices the name label is new and figures that their guests wouldn't be particularly well known. Also in the book, Stanwyk isn't actually married to the other woman, but is planning to fly away to South America with her. Another Gregory MacDonald character that would be great fodder for movies is Inspector Flynn, who's introduced in the second Fletch book -- Confess, Fletch -- and later had a couple of books where he was the featured protagonist.

Posted by: Simon Oliver Lockwood at March 14, 2014 02:37 PM (9N6OT)

228 While running some errands, I heard on the radio an ad by Rick Perry telling CA business to move to TX where it would be better for them. It was a 1 minute spot. Then, I come to a stop and I see a poster with the title, Bonnie Hinton Ted Cruz So Cal Blacklisted Tour. There's a large photo of a guy with out a shirt, tats all over his chest, and Ted Cruz's head with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. It's a good look for Ted.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 14, 2014 02:37 PM (r7mtu)

229 I'm gonna have plenty of time to get intimate with chocolate during my prison stint.

Posted by: Ray Nagin at March 14, 2014 02:38 PM (Aif/5)

230 You found those? Who makes them? They came in two sizes, IIRC: one about an inch from end to end and the second about twice that size. I remember that those things were more addictive than crack... which is why I've never done crack. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ at March 14, 2014 06:33 PM (HsTG Brachs makes them...they're called Bunny Basket Eggs. I've only seen them in one size. Sometimes they come individually wrapped and sometimes not. Walgreens has them 2/$5....damn them all to hell. http://tinyurl.com/nzbydj7

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 02:38 PM (bCEmE)

231 Videodisc, not videos. Auto correct sucks.

Posted by: --- at March 14, 2014 02:38 PM (MMC8r)

232 I don't comment too much. I do comment to most of the Morons and 'Ettes that populate the AoS Facebook pages (3 I think). I do read the comments from the top down and by the time I'm ready to post something everybody has moved on to some nood.

Posted by: Pecan Scandi at March 14, 2014 02:38 PM (cxVzi)

233 Heather, did you make your Pi cookies? I cut the kid's sandwich into three pieces and made it into a Pi shape then wrapped it in foil for his lunch. He came home from school like WTH?

Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 02:38 PM (y7PFk)

234 Going with Jason Statham would be too far in the opposite direction of the previous films. The books weren't comedies but there was snappy patter and a general attitude to the character I couldn't see Statham executing.

Bigger question: should the movie be done in the book's era or updated? Is Jane doe a blog tied to a big media outfit? Is Fletch still a veteran who refuses to receive his medal?

Posted by: Epobirs at March 14, 2014 02:38 PM (bPxS6)

235 TGIF time. /cheers all!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 14, 2014 02:38 PM (IXrOn)

236 So yeah the guy who wrote a book called Blade Runner killed his wife, but that has nothing to do with the movie called Blade Runner. They just liked the title and bought it. Posted by: ace at March 14, 2014 06:19 PM (/FnUH) He meant Pestorius. The runner with the blades for legs.

Posted by: blaster at March 14, 2014 02:38 PM (4+AaH)

237 224 I have never seen Fletch. The only Chevy Chase movie I can think of is the one where he moved to a farm in New England to write a novel and his wife ended up writing wildly popular childrens books and the dog ran away. Funny Farm.

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 02:38 PM (doBIb)

238 Bianca Beauchamp Catsuit and Boots Lurker Thread Compliance Pic for calming arachnophobic Moronettes http://tinyurl.com/l5bf56t

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2014 02:39 PM (aTXUx)

239 My favorite detective remains Robert B. Parker's Spenser. Great books. Got a little ridiculous once you did the math and realized Spenser had to be in his 70's at least by the time Parker died, but very satisfying, fun books, nonetheless.

Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at March 14, 2014 02:39 PM (/AHDz)

240 I have never seen Bunny Basket eggs.  They look really...sweet.

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 02:39 PM (GrtrJ)

241 I just want to be left alone.

Posted by: Lurker #11 at March 14, 2014 02:39 PM (X0gvs)

242 223 Hi Tami, wow I haven't had the malted eggs in decades, I'm glad to read they still make them. Posted by: palerider at March 14, 2014 06:37 PM (dkExz) Not' Robins eggs'...but those are my second favorite!

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 02:40 PM (bCEmE)

243 I mostly lurk because by the time I read the post I'd be interested in commenting on, there are already a couple other posts above it.

Posted by: Simon Oliver Lockwood at March 14, 2014 02:40 PM (9N6OT)

244 Sorry, but this is one of my favotite, leave your brain at the door, lowbrow movies. Some of the best quotes ever - Don't talk to me like that Assface. I don't work for you yet. - Put it on the Underhill's tab. and give each other twenty dollars. Strangely enough, In a huge role reversal, I think that Tim Matheson would make a great Fletch. he has that quick, smartass comeback ability that Chevy does. Just think back to Animal House... Next review: Down Periscope!

Posted by: Gunslinger at March 14, 2014 02:40 PM (4S7hN)

245 Bianca Beauchamp Catsuit and Boots Lurker Thread Shiny!

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 02:40 PM (doBIb)

246 If this plane went up 43k feet and took a hard left, how come no one used their cell phone to say shit just got real? All those phones that appear to be working but no one answering. Are the passengers at gun point? Has the plane decompressed and the phones won't work because they are frozen?

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 14, 2014 02:40 PM (r7mtu)

247 Thus is the season of the candy sales year for which the missus lives. Cadbury mini eggs (hard shell with chocolate center). She'll begin stockpiling dozens of bags soon so she can indulge in them through the remainder of the year.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 14, 2014 02:40 PM (HsTG8)

248 239 I have never seen Bunny Basket eggs. They look really...sweet. Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 06:39 PM (GrtrJ) Your teeth quiver....

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 02:42 PM (bCEmE)

249

223 Hi Tami, wow I haven't had the malted eggs in decades, I'm glad to read they still make them.
 

Posted by: palerider at March 14, 2014 06:37 PM (dkExz)

 

Malted eggs?

Oooo yeah, those are great.

 

Is that what you were talking about Tami? ...Malted eggs?

They're sort of like a chocolate malted ball, but with a  hard shell?

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 02:42 PM (8quPO)

250 Maybe the course change was the pilot's dead body falling on the yoke.

Posted by: --- at March 14, 2014 02:42 PM (MMC8r)

251 If this plane went up 43k feet and took a hard left, how come no one used their cell phone to say shit just got real?


No cell tower in the middle of the Gulf of Thailand?

Just spitballin' here.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2014 02:42 PM (8ZskC)

252 And it only took you thirty years! Nice!
But the 12:00 is still blinking.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 14, 2014 02:42 PM (hn5v5)

253 Oh geez.. another unfunny SNL alumni.. We're the Millers made money because of Jennifer Anniston, not Jason Sudeikis.

Whatever he does will make money, unfortunately.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 14, 2014 02:42 PM (b/lt+)

254 Your teeth quiver.... Posted by: Tami at March 14, 2014 06:42 PM (bCEmE)


...just looking at the photo.

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 02:43 PM (GrtrJ)

255
Well, I was never a comic book fan, but I looked this up for the hell of it.  Imagine my surprise.

http://tinyurl.com/meaafz3

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 14, 2014 02:43 PM (gorVZ)

256 "Next review: Down Periscope!"
===============

You know, I caught that on cable a few weeks ago and was shocked at how much I enjoyed it. Kelsey Grammer is really charming, and it was so much more entertaining than I expected.

Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at March 14, 2014 02:43 PM (/AHDz)

257 252 Oh geez.. another unfunny SNL alumni.. We're the Millers made money because of Jennifer Anniston, not Jason Sudeikis. Both will be back for Horrible Bosses 2.

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 02:44 PM (doBIb)

258 De-lurking with something from Monty Python (sorry for the large wall o text):

Word Association Football

Tonight's the night I shall be talking about of flu the subject of  word association football. This is a technique out a living much  used  in  the practice makes perfect of psychoanalysister and  brother and one that has occupied piper the majority  rule of  my  attention squad by the right number one two three  four the last five years to the memory. It is quite remarkable baker charlie how much the miller's son this so-called while you were out word association immigrants' problems influences the manner from  heaven in which we sleekit cowering timrous beasties all- American  Speke, the famous explorer. And the really well  that is  surprising partner in crime is that a lot and his  wife  of the  lions'  feeding  time we may be c d  e  effectively  quite unaware  of  the fact or fiction section of the Watford  Public Library  that  we are even doing it is a far, far better  thing that  I  do  now then, now then, what's going onward  christian Barnard the famous hearty part of the lettuce now praise famous mental  homes  for  loonies  like me.  So  on  the  button,  my contention  causing all the headaches, is that unless  we  take into  account of Monte Cristo in our thinking George the  Fifth this  phenomenon the other hand we shall not be able  satisFact or  Fiction  section of the Watford Public Library againily  to understand  to  attention  when I'm talking  to  you  and  stop laughing, about human nature, man's psychological make-up  some story  the wife'll believe and hence the very meaning  of  life itselfish bastard, I'll kick him in the balls upon the road.

Posted by: BakaBaka at March 14, 2014 02:44 PM (tt8U2)

259 Billy Bob would have to use new email address for him to post here.

Posted by: Carol at March 14, 2014 02:44 PM (/g5vp)

260 @ #236 Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 06:38 PM (doBIb)
Funny Farm.

Yes! Thanks. I couldn't think of the title.

Posted by: BareNakedFaceLady at March 14, 2014 02:44 PM (O5IQS)

261 No cell coverage out there.

Posted by: Meremortal at March 14, 2014 02:45 PM (jTKU5)

262 Posted by: BakaBaka at March 14, 2014 06:44 PM (tt8U2)

tl;dr

If you had to put that on a bumpersticker, what would it say.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2014 02:45 PM (8ZskC)

263 115 In case nobody explained, the barrel is our penalty box for screwing up comments. Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 06:18 PM (y7PFk)

Writing a comment up in a word processing program, then pasting in, screws up Pixy and adds a bunch of long alien jargon to the post. So the Barrel was made to shame ppl who do this. Who was it that meant to copy one comment but accidentally copied the whole entire post/comments, then posted them? Good times, I LOL'd a lot. (Mostly because I've almost done the same thing!)

I think this should also be an Ask the Horde thread, any weird meme or running joke from AoS you wanted to know about, revealed! We have some odd ones. (by odd I mean awesome, of course.)

Posted by: LizLem at March 14, 2014 02:45 PM (BF+2f)

264 If they don't kill Raylen off in the last season, I can see there being Justified -- the movie. The audience wants more hillbilly mafia.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 14, 2014 02:45 PM (r7mtu)

265 I'll take another year of AoSHQ Platinum membership...nah, make it two years. Bill it to Mr. Underhill's card.

Posted by: iNC Ref at March 14, 2014 02:46 PM (EhA2s)

266

243...Next review: Down Periscope!

 

Posted by: Gunslinger at March 14, 2014 06:40 PM (4S7hN)

 

I love that movie!

Even though I've seen it probably 50 times...it still cracks me up.

 

There is some hilarious stuff in Down Periscope.

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 02:46 PM (8quPO)

267 If this plane went up 43k feet and took a hard left, how come no one used their cell phone to say shit just got real? All those phones that appear to be working but no one answering. Are the passengers at gun point? Has the plane decompressed and the phones won't work because they are frozen? Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 14, 2014 06:40 PM (r7mtu) You can call a cell phone that's been smashed to pieces and it will either ring or go to voice mail as long as the account is active Another is that by the time anyone realizes what's happened if they're still awake 2 hours into a long distance redeye flight, they're nowhere near a cell relay tower If the hijackers had a crew, they probably made sure to convince the passengers to kindly put their phones into the sack as the terrorist came by to collect them

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2014 02:46 PM (aTXUx)

268 I like the part in the book where he wakes up with the teen-age hooker who died overnight of a heroin overdose.  The feel good comedy of the year!

Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at March 14, 2014 02:46 PM (U0t2o)

269 I too have been doing some research and Cadbury white chocolate Buttons can now be found that are the size of a skeet clay.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at March 14, 2014 02:47 PM (hvg/s)

270 Hey Carol. You still watching shameless? I'm going to binge watch it from the beginning this weekend.

Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 02:47 PM (y7PFk)

271 There is some hilarious stuff in Down Periscope. The radio guy who sings Sinatra when he gets electrocuted.

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 02:47 PM (doBIb)

272 Well, I was never a comic book fan, but I looked this up for the hell of it. Imagine my surprise.

http://tinyurl.com/meaafz3
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 14, 2014 06:43 PM (gorVZ)



Ah yes.  I use the image of Sydney Savage in the black catsuit as my avatar on most forums I frequent.

There is a story behind the name, unrelated to the comic, but it's pretty silly.

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 14, 2014 02:47 PM (GrtrJ)

273 110 ha ha ... midnight run .... fuckin turkish gaurds .....

Midnight Express is the turkish gay porn your thinking of. Midnight Run is the classic Robert De Niro/Charles Grodin movie that came out in 1988 or so.

Alexandra Daddario compliance pic http://tinyurl.com/pgubx37


Posted by: puddleglum at March 14, 2014 02:48 PM (jr+pn)

274 Pull!!!

Posted by: moochelle's mouth at March 14, 2014 02:48 PM (hn5v5)

275 hello, rare commenter delurking to say Hi.

Posted by: female delurking at March 14, 2014 02:49 PM (52Zyt)

276 69 Since this is an "anything" kind of thread, here, have a picture of a pretty cloud in Brazil. Must be from the daydreamy part if the movie where he escapes with the girl and Harry Tuttle gets literally consumed by paperwork.

Posted by: Anachronda at March 14, 2014 02:49 PM (U82Km)

277 Jason Statham was good as Parker, I think.

Posted by: Passably Affable at March 14, 2014 02:49 PM (/YzPM)

278 What's for dinner?, Obama demanded doggedly.

Posted by: tom swifty at March 14, 2014 02:49 PM (PTYV5)

279 You still watching shameless? I'm going to binge watch it from the beginning this weekend. ----------- I like it but just be forewarned, it's true to its name.

Posted by: Adam at March 14, 2014 02:49 PM (Aif/5)

280 Thanks Tami! I feel an urge to hit up Walgreens while grocery shopping later tonight.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 14, 2014 02:49 PM (HsTG8)

281 238 My favorite detective remains Robert B. Parker's Spenser. Great books. Got a little ridiculous once... -Kensington ----------- Ever read Harlan Coben's "Myron Bolitar" books? Good rival to the Spencer stuff. And there's always John Sanford's "Lucas Davenport" series.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 14, 2014 02:49 PM (6wojC)

282 Delurking.  Never left, just got quiet. Waiting for the world to right itself, mostly.

Posted by: pink freud at March 14, 2014 02:49 PM (aDBDH)

283 I agree about the no cell tower so no cell service over water, and even if they land at some remote island and someone had a second cell phone on them which they didn't give up.  I don't think cell service there is as pervasive as it is over the US, where you can usually pick up a tower if you accidentally leave your phone on during a flight.  Not that I've ever done anything like that.

Posted by: chicagolurker at March 14, 2014 02:50 PM (c96ms)

284 There will be no cuttin' and pastin' from Word. Anyone caught cuttin' and pastin' from Word spends the night in The Barrel Any Eye-talics started must be closed. Anyone caught not closin' his eye-talics spends the night in The Barrel You got any questions you come to me. I'm Carr the Threadwalker

Posted by: Carr the Threadwalker at March 14, 2014 02:50 PM (aTXUx)

285

270 There is some hilarious stuff in Down Periscope.



The radio guy who sings Sinatra when he gets electrocuted.

 

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 06:47 PM (doBIb)

 

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They're on silent running...and the big Cook lets out a big loud stinky fart.

 

"I'm gonna sew his ass shut!"

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 02:50 PM (8quPO)

286 I don't know. It feels sticky in here.

Posted by: ghost lotto at March 14, 2014 02:51 PM (GziI1)

287 Writing a comment up in a word processing program, then pasting in, screws up Pixy and adds a bunch of long alien jargon to the post. So the Barrel was made to shame ppl who do this. Who was it that meant to copy one comment but accidentally copied the whole entire post/comments, then posted them? Good times, I LOL'd a lot. (Mostly because I've almost done the same thing!) That happened about two or three weeks ago, but I forget to whom. It's awfully easy to do when you copy and paste from a smart phone. I caught myself having done it at least twice before posting.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 14, 2014 02:52 PM (HsTG8)

288 They're on silent running...and the big Cook lets out a big loud stinky fart. "I'm gonna sew his ass shut!" "LOUIE LOUIE!"

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 02:52 PM (doBIb)

289 I just got done binge watching Fringe. I'm surprised I didn't watch it while it was on the air. Its really really good and Anna Torv is hot! Nolte over at Breitbart is right. Binge watching is the future of TV!

Posted by: puddleglum at March 14, 2014 02:53 PM (jr+pn)

290 78 The other day I read that a "Something Wicked This Way Comes" remake is in the works. How do you replace Jonathan Pryce? Maybe Pope Francis is available. Whenever I see the Pope, a little voice in the back of my head goes "Lowry ... Sam Lowry".

Posted by: Anachronda at March 14, 2014 02:53 PM (U82Km)

291 Lurking unlurkers lascivious unlurking launches lobotomy landslide

Posted by: Tominca at March 14, 2014 02:53 PM (xEAGD)

292

Well frickin' Pixy just killed my great story about those creepy Easter eggs Tami likes.

 

Long story short, they make great exploding missles if kept months and months after Easter.  Shot out of the back of our station wagon at unsuspecting pedestrians.  With the parents driving.  Good times ...........

Posted by: joanne at March 14, 2014 02:53 PM (s/quq)

293 MWR, if you're still here, an apology is in my nic. Posted by: Adam at March 14, 2014 06:30 PM (Aif/5) ACCEPTED.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 02:53 PM (CA2NO)

294 Its really really good and Anna Torv is hot! Have you seen The Pacific? She's in one ep. Naked.

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 02:54 PM (doBIb)

295 Mysterious posters of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) with his face photoshopped onto a tattooed body were plastered around various locations in Los Angeles, like the Beverly Hilton Hotel, late Thursday night. "TED CRUZ'S SO - CAL BLACKLISTED & LOVING IT TOUR." http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/14/Ted-Cruz-Posters-Appear-in-Beverly-Hills Heh. I thought Beverly Hilton was the name of the band - not the venue.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 14, 2014 02:54 PM (r7mtu)

296 Heather, did you make your Pi cookies?

No, I got stuck working until nearly 8 last night and decided my cow-orkers did not deserve treats after that.

I will probably do something nice for myself with the cherries.

Posted by: HR at March 14, 2014 02:55 PM (hO8IJ)

297 152 The Reeses peanut butter eggs seem to have more chocolate this year.
Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 06:20 PM (8quPO)

I totally bought a bag of those at grocery store this week, PB/chocolate combo is my weakness. Were DELICIOUS. *hides the mountain of  PB egg wrappers*

Posted by: LizLem at March 14, 2014 02:55 PM (BF+2f)

298 Okay, Ace, that photo of Cruz with the tats is worth posting.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 14, 2014 02:56 PM (r7mtu)

299 Hello! Not a delurk, precisely, I've maybe commented a dozen times since '03 or so ... read the site religiously, proud to be a Moron, and going completely crazy being a conservative/libertarian in NYC. Hope there's a meetup soon.

Posted by: il padrino at March 14, 2014 02:56 PM (yG+vv)

300 "What about as a victim in Friday the 13th part 20?"

What... and tarnish a perfectly good serial by needling the audience to cheer for Freddy? That's perverse, man.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 14, 2014 06:22 PM (1CroS)

"Shakes head"  Jason, is Friday the 13th.  Though a Freddy vs Jar Jar film could work, considering they both haunt peoples dreams.

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at March 14, 2014 02:56 PM (fQ9lb)

301 When life gives you a keyboard, make a bunny rabbit.

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((^)(^)

Posted by: BakaBaka at March 14, 2014 02:57 PM (tt8U2)

302 Has anybody seen the show, Impractical Jokers?  It's on trutv.  Gawd it's funny.  Four guys do stupid stuff to each other with the assistance of an unsuspecting public.  Very moronish.

Posted by: joanne at March 14, 2014 02:57 PM (s/quq)

303 In case anyone asks, I wasn't on MH Flight 370

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at March 14, 2014 02:58 PM (aTXUx)

304 Dear lurkers, I will write your first post for $4.95. Profanity no charge.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 14, 2014 02:58 PM (C6Yy1)

305

287..."LOUIE LOUIE!"

 

Haa...I know! That was great.

 

Rip Torn: "I need a pirate with a tattoo on his dick!" 

 

Kelsey Grammer: "Well sir, as luck would have it, I might just be your man."

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 02:58 PM (8quPO)

306 297 Okay, Ace, that photo of Cruz with the tats is worth posting. Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 14, 2014 06:56 PM (r7mtu) Looks like Henry Rollins.

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 02:58 PM (doBIb)

307 @ #262 Posted by: LizLem at March 14, 2014 06:45 PM (BF+2f)

Well, I've wondered about "the barrel", now I know what it is and why people are put there.
I'm testing a copy and paste from plain old Note Pad right now to see what happens.

Posted by: BareNakedFaceLady at March 14, 2014 02:58 PM (O5IQS)

308 "Ever read Harlan Coben's "Myron Bolitar" books? Good rival to the Spencer stuff. And there's always John Sanford's "Lucas Davenport" series."
==========

Never heard of either, but I'm going to look them up. Thanks!

Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at March 14, 2014 02:58 PM (/AHDz)

309 I've maybe commented a dozen times since '03 or so


That's almost one comment every year.  You should pace yourself before you have a heart attack or a stroke or something.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2014 02:59 PM (8ZskC)

310 Thanks, Cicero. This is why I come here.

Posted by: il padrino at March 14, 2014 03:00 PM (yG+vv)

311 I saw Lurkers Delurk open for Marilyn Manson at the Greek Theater

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2014 03:00 PM (aTXUx)

312 I delurk therefore I spam? Just put Descartes before de horde!

Posted by: Tominca at March 14, 2014 03:00 PM (xEAGD)

313 305 297 Okay, Ace, that photo of Cruz with the tats is worth posting. Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 14, 2014 06:56 PM (r7mtu) Looks like Henry Rollins. Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 06:58 PM (doBIb) Nah. The tats are too patriotic.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 14, 2014 03:00 PM (r7mtu)

314 Delurking. Since it's a chatter thread. Cool vid on Pearl Harbor. http://tinyurl.com/kydadbs and no you asshatteries, it's not a trap. /lurking

Posted by: scampydog at March 14, 2014 03:01 PM (xYb8+)

315 Tom Cruise was good on Oblivion too,which I enjoyed.If only he wasn't a wacky Scientologist.At least he keeps his mouth shut about politics.

Posted by: steevy at March 14, 2014 03:01 PM (zqvg6)

316 I saw Beverly Hilton open for Patsy Cline at the Waldorf Astoria in '57.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 14, 2014 03:02 PM (lq3Ak)

317
Lurkers Delurk Thread




"Waahhrriioors come out to pllllllaahhhhyyyaaaa!"

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 14, 2014 03:02 PM (kdS6q)

318 306 I'm testing a copy and paste from plain old Note Pad right now to see what happens. Posted by: BareNakedFaceLady at March 14, 2014 06:58 PM (O5IQS) Note Pad is not the problem child. MSOffice products are the problem.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 14, 2014 03:02 PM (HsTG8)

319 Semi-lurker delurking to say hey and ask OregonMuse to watch his email... not sure if I'll get it sent tonight or tomorrow, but I haz summat for the book thread, thanks in no small part to the Horde. So. *waves* Hey, y'all.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at March 14, 2014 03:03 PM (Aiwi+)

320 314 Tom Cruise was good on Oblivion too,which I enjoyed.If only he wasn't a wacky Scientologist.At least he keeps his mouth shut about politics. Have you seen the trailer for Edge of Tomorrow? Looks fun.

Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 03:03 PM (doBIb)

321 Hi lurkers!

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at March 14, 2014 03:03 PM (36Rjy)

322 Asshaterries? We make asshats?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 14, 2014 03:04 PM (C6Yy1)

323 ok so far there's jell-o and a hot dish! i'll make some enchiladas and bring some See's Candies.

Posted by: concrete girl at March 14, 2014 03:04 PM (cwQAj)

324 I've never been a lurker. Been blabbing my mouth off ever since I discovered the place.

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 14, 2014 03:05 PM (I8YZX)

325

296 152 The Reeses peanut butter eggs seem to have more chocolate this year.

 

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 06:20 PM (8quPO)

 

 

I totally bought a bag of those at grocery store this week, PB/chocolate combo is my weakness. Were DELICIOUS. *hides the mountain of PB egg wrappers*

 

Posted by: LizLem at March 14, 2014 06:55 PM (BF+2f)

 

Hey, they have some protein in them.

So they're like, nutritional.

 

Wait...they come in a...bag?

I've been just grabbing the large singles.

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 03:05 PM (8quPO)

326 I was born a lurker. Stop trying to change my nature... Oh, that was the other thread. And Hollywood might as well go for gritty since the number of comedies they make that are actually funny are so small it might end up just as unfunny if they start from the other direction to begin with.

Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at March 14, 2014 03:05 PM (Lqb+9)

327 Yes Muse, We know. We know.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 14, 2014 03:06 PM (C6Yy1)

328 Hated the Fletch movie because I can't stand Chase, so had no interest in the books. That's unfair, I guess. OK, back to lurking.

Posted by: Pious Agnostic at March 14, 2014 03:06 PM (5xqg/)

329 Anyone got a spare 47,000 gallons of Jet-A? We'll pay top dollar.

Posted by: The Al-Qaeda Material Requisition Desk at March 14, 2014 03:06 PM (8ZskC)

330 Anyone want to fill in the delurkers on the subject of linking to pics of large icky spiders? Oh, and accidentally linking to lesbian pr0n will get you a stern warning from the cobs .. so someone told me

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2014 03:07 PM (aTXUx)

331 Fletch was most certainly a smart ass. He was also a journalist, NOT a detective.

Posted by: Bill Vallely at March 14, 2014 03:07 PM (Em6d4)

332 The books are amazing, I read the entire series.

Posted by: Bill Vallely at March 14, 2014 03:08 PM (Em6d4)

333 I can't stand Chase, either.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 14, 2014 03:08 PM (r7mtu)

334 I was born a poor black lurker...

Posted by: Steve Martin at March 14, 2014 03:08 PM (BF+2f)

335 Oh, is this potluck?  I haven't cooked all week.  Here's a bag of potato chips. 



The cat may have licked it.

Posted by: HR at March 14, 2014 03:09 PM (hO8IJ)

336 'The story is Utah, Frank.'

Posted by: delurking Fletch Fan at March 14, 2014 03:09 PM (6dPl/)

337 328 Anyone got a spare 47,000 gallons of Jet-A? We'll pay top dollar. Posted by: The Al-Qaeda Material Requisition Desk at March 14, 2014 07:06 PM (8ZskC) We are open all night and we are happy to be helping you

Posted by: Achmed's Archipelligo Fuel and Go at March 14, 2014 03:10 PM (aTXUx)

338 Fletch as written was very much a 60s-70s thing. Turning it into a Chevy Chase vehicle likely undermined it. That said it is a lot like Die Hard Nothing Lasts Forever comparison people forget Bruce Willis was supposed to be BonnieBodilla's dad. A well written truer to canon Fletch could work but it'd take good casting, good directing and good acting..... How often does the Big H score that hat trick Ace? I'd say Mathew McConnerHaggy would be a better fletch than Sthatham BTW. WElcome Lurkers...

Posted by: sven10077 at March 14, 2014 03:10 PM (TE35l)

339
Do you require a qualified pilot?

Posted by: Dr Ahab's Magic Carpet and Ho Service at March 14, 2014 03:11 PM (nQjHM)

340 I was little thrown off by the comments when I found this place a couple years ago. One of the first comments I read was about the health benefits of meth. Horde being the horde, I still don't know if it was serious.

Posted by: Adam at March 14, 2014 03:11 PM (Aif/5)

341 Sometimes I lurk and sometimes I don't. This is one of those other times.

Posted by: rickl at March 14, 2014 03:11 PM (sdi6R)

342 I've got peanut m and ms and a warm diet Mountain Dew that's my dinner I'll share.

Posted by: NCKate at March 14, 2014 03:12 PM (y7PFk)

343 I lurk while all the smart morons are commenting on serious issues, de-lurk only when I have something extremely stupid to contribute, or something only I seem to find funny.

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2014 03:12 PM (wAQA5)

344
Beware the lurker from Nevada snapping up-skirt photos and posting to the Interwebs.

Posted by: Google World Monitoring Service at March 14, 2014 03:13 PM (nQjHM)

345 I'd say Mathew McConnerHaggy would be a better fletch than Sthatham BTW. WElcome Lurkers... Posted by: sven10077 at March 14, 2014 07:10 PM (TE35l)

You trust me with another franchise? Alright alright alright!

Posted by: Mathew McConnerHaggy as Dirk Pitt at March 14, 2014 03:13 PM (BF+2f)

346 One of the first comments I read was about the health benefits of meth. Horde being the horde, I still don't know if it was serious. Don't knock it till you've tried it. The pounds, literally, fall off...in the form of teeth and scabs.

Posted by: Jenny Crank at March 14, 2014 03:13 PM (6dPl/)

347 what a surprise!

Hollyweird takes perfectly good books and makes meh or crappy movies out of them.

totally unexpected...  %-)

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 14, 2014 03:14 PM (q+fqH)

348 Addendum: I really wish I'd delurked when I found that article about the Ewok sex-suits. Could have preempted the overnight thread by a whole day. Le sigh.

Posted by: il padrino at March 14, 2014 03:14 PM (yG+vv)

349
I humped a lurker once and found it stimulating.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 14, 2014 03:14 PM (nQjHM)

350 339 I was little thrown off by the comments when I found this place a couple years ago. One of the first comments I read was about the health benefits of meth. Horde being the horde, I still don't know if it was serious. Posted by: Adam at March 14, 2014 07:11 PM (Aif/5) Morons ARE the danger!

Posted by: Walter White at March 14, 2014 03:15 PM (aTXUx)

351
Lurkers masturbate at a rate of 3.1 times more than regular posters. 

Posted by: Ashley Dupre's Statistical Sex Surveys at March 14, 2014 03:16 PM (nQjHM)

352 330 Bill Valleley Well "investigative journalist" and all that..... Sorry if I typod your surname I'm on the droid and migraine ridden. Lurkers sound off and maybe shed the lurker habit..... I am shorting the horde 1100 posts a week after all.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 14, 2014 03:16 PM (TE35l)

353 >>Here's a bag of potato chips. The cat may have licked it. If the cat only licked the bag, the chips are still okay you to eat. If the cat licked the chips themselves, they're okay for the 'rons to eat.

Posted by: suitably adequate at March 14, 2014 03:17 PM (SM5M0)

354 Have you seen the trailer for Edge of Tomorrow? Looks fun. Posted by: EC at March 14, 2014 07:03 PM (doBIb)

That does look fun. Where did I read it, someone said that even Cruise haters should like it, because they get to see him die over and over again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw61gCe2oqI

Posted by: LizLem at March 14, 2014 03:17 PM (BF+2f)

355 Kate Upton rabbit: (\ (\ (='.') (( .)( .) ((^)(^)

Posted by: luddite at March 14, 2014 03:18 PM (o4oEc)

356 I delurked a thread in Reno, just to watch it die

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2014 03:18 PM (aTXUx)

357
I used to lurk here until the IDF deliberately ran a D-9 Cat over my lifeless body.  Fuck the Joo's!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at March 14, 2014 03:19 PM (nQjHM)

358

Posted by: sven10077 at March 14, 2014 07:16 PM (TE35l)


Sven! Is not the same without you. How are things?

Posted by: LizLem at March 14, 2014 03:19 PM (BF+2f)

359 In Russia, thread lurks YOU

Posted by: Vlad Putin at March 14, 2014 03:20 PM (aTXUx)

360 Matt McConnerHaggy, Matt you are the "it" boy..... Sure you dropped a lincoln log for he Lincln Lawyer but sooner or later you'll make it work

Posted by: sven10077 at March 14, 2014 03:21 PM (TE35l)

361
I lurked here until the posters accused me of lying about my Indian heritage.

Posted by: Lizzy "Two Dogs Fucking" Warren at March 14, 2014 03:21 PM (nQjHM)

362 Lurk We Much!

Posted by: Al Sharpton at March 14, 2014 03:22 PM (aTXUx)

363 You've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lurk-ey? Well, do ya, punk?

Posted by: Dirty Harry at March 14, 2014 03:22 PM (BF+2f)

364 I thought for sure there'd be more "Saharas" with McConnaughey. It seemed like it was poised to be the beginning of a series.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 14, 2014 03:22 PM (c5Esc)

365 357 LizLem, I'm uh lurking. Things are ok...I am deciphering whether I have developed hypertension. I hope you are well.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 14, 2014 03:22 PM (TE35l)

366 Hi lurkers.  I did like you for at least 4 years.  Then I commented.  I lived.  Mostly.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 14, 2014 03:23 PM (PlTXA)

367 Welcome Lurkers to tonight's Kaboom Anonymous Meeting My name is kbdabear, and I'm a Kaboomaholic

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2014 03:24 PM (aTXUx)

368 So what is Oregon Muse's email address?  Found something that might fit on the Sunday book thread.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 14, 2014 03:24 PM (Urmiy)

369 I imagine Ezra Klein lurks here all the time and takes everyone dead serious. It drives him mad.

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2014 03:25 PM (wAQA5)

370 Hey Anna, what is your theory on that triple 7?

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 14, 2014 03:25 PM (PlTXA)

371 You have threads for regular commenters and threads for lurkers, but what about occasional commenters like me? What about those of us that don't fit into these tidy little pigeon holes developed by society? Why must we always be oppressed by your hateful intolerance of anyone who is different?

Posted by: JohnJ at March 14, 2014 03:26 PM (TF/YA)

372 It is clear what happened to the 777. They were called home by their creators and are now experiencing the wonders of the universe!

Posted by: Erik Von Daniken at March 14, 2014 03:27 PM (Aif/5)

373 Mostly lurk for laughs, but really like the posts. For a long time I only read the posts and didn't even know about the comments/commentorextraordinnaires. You all crack me up one side and down the other. And, when I want the latest on some news event, it is always being discussed here, with style.

Posted by: Justamom at March 14, 2014 03:27 PM (Sptt8)

374 Hi, our car broke down and we wondered if we could lurk here for the night

Posted by: Brad Majors at March 14, 2014 03:27 PM (aTXUx)

375 Anna Puma, book thread tips go to aoshqbookthread at gmail.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at March 14, 2014 03:27 PM (Aiwi+)

376

Wishing you good health Sven! I am in charge of caring for grandma this week, while mom is off visiting sis in the big city. Grandma is almost 90 and wonderful. After seeing the sciatic pain she is in, yet she still trucks on, I realize I have nothing to complain about, really.

Posted by: LizLem at March 14, 2014 03:27 PM (BF+2f)

377 Is this the part of the thread where I'm supposed to come out of my parent's basement?

Posted by: Mister Christopher at March 14, 2014 03:28 PM (LmCo9)

378 I imagine Malia and Sasha lurk here all the time and are mortified with their parents behavior.

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2014 03:29 PM (wAQA5)

379 Lurker, mostly. I am here daily, though, and love the place. Y'all never fail to crack me up.

Posted by: MDH3 at March 14, 2014 03:29 PM (GKyUC)

380 Posted by: Muad'dib I take it slammin' hot beer babe did not lure you to an untimely doom.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 14, 2014 03:29 PM (bgyzB)

381 Holy dizzying post pace, CatFans! Does posting at the end of a 500+ comment thread count as lurking? Srsly, there needs to be a comment governor installed here to give us slow leaks a chance to contribute once in a while! ;-)

Posted by: Spun and Murky at March 14, 2014 03:30 PM (4DCSq)

382 Attention Fellow Lurkers on the 8th Annual Cruise:

It's okay to check in for a sec but please don't lose track of time. Cocktails start at 7:30 (swimsuits optional) and the ship leaves the dock at 8 for Bora Bora.

Posted by: Recidivist Lurker at March 14, 2014 03:30 PM (4tWSk)

383 I'm watching you!

Posted by: The Spy Who Lurked Me at March 14, 2014 03:30 PM (JdEZJ)

384 The volcano in Fletch is symbolic of the violence of delurking

Posted by: ergie at March 14, 2014 03:31 PM (aTXUx)

385 They all hate me and think I should be either dead or in a camp, so I don't really care if they make the greatest movie ever made since we were beta-testing dirt, I will not pay money to see it. Borrow it from the library in two years, maybe. Maybe.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2014 03:31 PM (jNNWD)

386 I wonder what the lurker/commenter stats are? Ace, you've gotta have a better handle on that kinda thing than the SCOAMTTcare engineers, no?

Posted by: Justamom at March 14, 2014 03:31 PM (Sptt8)

387 Who am I? * bonus points is you can guess the author*

Under the horned helmet a square-cut black mane contrasted with smoldering blue eyes.

In an instant he was the center of a hurricane of stabbing spears and lashing clubs. But he moved in a blinding blur of steel. Spears bent on his armor or swished empty air, and his sword sang its death-song. The fighting-madness of his race was upon him, and with a red mist of unreasoning fury wavering before his blazing eyes, he cleft skulls, smashed breasts, severed limbs, ripped out entrails, and littered the deck like a shambles with a ghastly harvest of brains and blood.

Posted by: BakaBaka at March 14, 2014 03:32 PM (tt8U2)

388 352 >>Here's a bag of potato chips. The cat may have licked it. If the cat only licked the bag, the chips are still okay you to eat. If the cat licked the chips themselves, they're okay for the 'rons to eat. Posted by: suitably adequate at March 14, 2014 07:17 PM (SM5M0) It's true. I just shared a hot dog with my cat. ...And now I'm eating potato chips. Hey! Are you monitoring my webcam?

Posted by: rickl at March 14, 2014 03:32 PM (sdi6R)

389 Waterhouse, I got her drunk and drove her home.  Her boyfriend just texted me to say thanks for getting her home safely and for priming her up.  At my age, I am quite the wing man.  So I have that going for me, which is nice.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 14, 2014 03:33 PM (PlTXA)

390 I imagine Barry lurks here occasionally but it only makes him cry and go to bed early.

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2014 03:33 PM (wAQA5)

391 Remember reading Confess Fletch and Fletch and the Widow Bradley. Never saw the movies. Howdy lurkers. Just a sophomore moron myself.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 14, 2014 03:33 PM (VdBU2)

392 So I don't understand all this lurking. What's the worst that can happen if you delurk and post a dumb comment? I mean, other than scorn, contempt, abject humiliation and having the endure the rest of us making fun of your shoes?

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 14, 2014 03:34 PM (I8YZX)

393 If they were doing the movie like the books, they wouldn't hire Jason Sudeikis. Of course not. They'd hire Brian Dennehy

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2014 03:34 PM (aTXUx)

394 I am a full time lurker, I think I've commented twice. This is number 3. This place always makes me chuckle. I was really hoping for a flaming skull in Nov 2012. But no. People on here don't comment enough on John Kerry's awful plastic surgery. I saw a pic of him today, and dayum. That is all.

Posted by: Red enchilada at March 14, 2014 03:35 PM (46nMv)

395 You are... Ben Hur?

Posted by: soothsayer at March 14, 2014 03:35 PM (c5Esc)

396 That does look fun. Where did I read it, someone said that even Cruise haters should like it, because they get to see him die over and over again. Posted by: LizLem at March 14, 2014 07:17 PM (BF+2f) Badonkadonk (BF+2f) It's a crude and cynical distilled action thriller designed to milk an audience inured to violence and a glossed-over version of its emotional consequences. Of *course* it's going to be fun! Say what you want about Cruise, and who doesn't, he makes a pretty good smash-em-up.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 14, 2014 03:35 PM (qyfb5)

397 Afraid to delurk coz if cut-and-past error occurs AOS regulars grab pitchforks and call for immediate cyber lynching.

So I just lurk and read and laugh.

Posted by: basil at March 14, 2014 03:35 PM (xhCXk)

398 Anyone know how I can bring up the system restore when I'm unable to bring up the 'Start'/Control Panel? I installed some new virus software and it has royally effed up my computer.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 03:36 PM (bCEmE)

399 @ 394

No. Go further back into history.

Posted by: BakaBaka at March 14, 2014 03:36 PM (tt8U2)

400 165 "Three things about Cruise's Reacher that bothered me." Those, and the fact that being bashed in the back of the skull with a baseball bat resulted in ZERO swelling, stiffness, or other natural results, up to and including death. I couldn't stop staring at the perfectly smooth back of his tiny little head all through the next scene. I did like that he killed the bad guy at the end. There isn't enough of that, these days.

Posted by: Vixen at March 14, 2014 03:36 PM (w/r78)

401 Now I feel lurkguilt and obligated to post a comment. But I can't remember what I had for lunch, and that's all I got. 😝

Posted by: Justamom at March 14, 2014 03:36 PM (Sptt8)

402 AOS regulars grab pitchforks and call for immediate cyber lynching. Nonsense. The Horde calls for a barreling. Which is of course much more unpleasant.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 14, 2014 03:37 PM (bgyzB)

403 BakaBaka: Would that be Robert E. Howard? God bless him.

Posted by: il padrino at March 14, 2014 03:37 PM (yG+vv)

404 Tami, are you running XP, Vista, or 7?

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 14, 2014 03:37 PM (I8YZX)

405 >Posted by: basil at March 14, 2014 07:35 PM (xhCXk)<



Basil, Basil, Basil.  Lynching is a little harsh.  We'd just throw you into the barrel for awhile.  I hear its not that bad.  From BCochran.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 14, 2014 03:37 PM (PlTXA)

406 You are... Bellerophon?

Posted by: soothsayer at March 14, 2014 03:37 PM (c5Esc)

407 Lurkers just like to watch.

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2014 03:37 PM (wAQA5)

408 Oregon Muse, I was okay until the 'making fun of shoes' part.

Posted by: MDH3 at March 14, 2014 03:37 PM (GKyUC)

409 Delurking to comment late. Fletch, meh. Going back to lurking now.

Posted by: Rhubarb Ranch at March 14, 2014 03:38 PM (Cegrh)

410 @ il padrino

That is correct!

The character should be easy now that you got the author.

Posted by: BakaBaka at March 14, 2014 03:38 PM (tt8U2)

411 Ok, I'm de-lurking. I started reading here in August 2008, right before McCain *spits* picked Palin. I posted about 3 times and went back to lurking. This blog is my #1 source of news. I don't really fit here. I don't drink and can't bring myself even to type a naughty word. But here I am anyway. The nic is because I'm sitting with my kids and they're watching My Little Pony.

Posted by: Rarity at March 14, 2014 03:38 PM (F+KiF)

412 391 So I don't understand all this lurking. What's the worst that can happen if you delurk and post a dumb comment? I mean, other than scorn, contempt, abject humiliation and having the endure the rest of us making fun of your shoes? Posted by: OregonMuse at March 14, 2014 07:34 PM (I8YZX) A very successful businessman delurked with a dumb comment once. The last we heard of him was from one of our hobo spotters who saw him mumbling about crossbows and stinking of Valu-Rite

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2014 03:38 PM (aTXUx)

413 Shit ... now that I think of it, may just be a Varsity Frosh Moron. But I tell myself that I play meaningful minutes.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 14, 2014 03:38 PM (VdBU2)

414 Hey you, yeah you with the cape. What chew doin` peakin` in them peoples window?

Posted by: wino catching aoshq lurker at March 14, 2014 03:38 PM (GUnyT)

415 403 Tami, are you running XP, Vista, or 7? Posted by: OregonMuse at March 14, 2014 07:37 PM (I8YZX) Windows 7.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 03:39 PM (bCEmE)

416 The last we heard of him was from one of our hobo spotters who saw him mumbling about crossbows longbows and stinking of Valu-Rite Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2014 07:38 PM (aTXUx) FIFY

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 03:39 PM (yz6yg)

417 > I don't drink and can't bring myself even to type a naughty word. But here I am anyway. <



What are you trying to say?

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 14, 2014 03:40 PM (PlTXA)

418 Well the character is Conan, natch. The only thing more quintessentially Conan is if he's described as "pantherish." In a Viking way.

Posted by: il padrino at March 14, 2014 03:40 PM (yG+vv)

419 I mean, other than scorn, contempt, abject humiliation, having to do a stint in the barrel and having the endure to rest of us making fun of your shoes?

You get used to it.

Posted by: HR at March 14, 2014 03:40 PM (hO8IJ)

420 Afraid to delurk coz if cut-and-past error occurs AOS regulars grab pitchforks and call for immediate cyber lynching.


You're right. Cutting and pasting in the blog is serious business.  It's no job for amateurs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2014 03:40 PM (8ZskC)

421 Muab'dib, I have made a decision in regards to the Malaysian Mystery.

I have quit writing about it.  No one really knows what is going on.  And the people I have least faith in getting the correct facts out is the media and their 'sources close' to the investigation.  And way too many tinfoil hats are being worn too tightly by people lapping up what is being disseminated.

We will know when the wreckage is found.  If it ever is.  In 2003 someone stole a 727 out of an African airport.  It and the suspected thief have never been seen again after taking off.  US Navy Flight 19 is still missing.  So is Hale Boggs in Alaska.  Amelia Earhart and Star Tiger are still hard to find also.

Thanks Elisabeth Wolfe, email sent.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 14, 2014 03:41 PM (Urmiy)

422

393 ....People on here don't comment enough on John Kerry's awful plastic surgery. I saw a pic of him today, and dayum. That is all.

 

Posted by: Red enchilada at March 14, 2014 07:35 PM (46nMv)

 

Yeah, he really looks dreadful, doesn't he.

 

There's been some commenting on it...

But yeah, we should be doing a daily Kerry-watch report:

 

Kerry's Face - Has It Cracked Yet?

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 03:41 PM (8quPO)

423 So, I assume when they claim that the movies will be more in the spirit of the books, they are doing what they do an awful lot in Hollywood, which is Lying About Everything for No Reason.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 14, 2014 03:41 PM (qyomX)

424 >>Are you monitoring my webcam? Posted by: rickl at March 14, 2014 07:32 PM (sdi6R) I can neither confirm nor deny that.

Posted by: suitably adequate at March 14, 2014 03:42 PM (SM5M0)

425 I lurk because I can. Mostly I like hanging out here because I think you're a good lot and I enjoy it. I lurk because I would rather read and learn and laugh than bore you all to tears.

Posted by: Northernlurker, moron wannabe at March 14, 2014 03:42 PM (TZTZe)

426 *slowly opens door*

*sees 400+ comments already*

*goes back to lurking*

Posted by: AceODale at March 14, 2014 03:42 PM (KLk31)

427 Are you monitoring my webcam? Posted by: rickl at March 14, 2014 07:32 PM (sdi6R) I can neither confirm nor deny that. Posted by: suitably adequate at March 14, 2014 07:42 PM (SM5M0) But please speak directly into the "enter" key in the future. Thank you.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 03:43 PM (yz6yg)

428 @ il padrino

I thought the square-cut black mane contrasted with smoldering blue eyes part would give him away too easily.

That was from Queen of the Black Coast published in 1934.

Posted by: BakaBaka at March 14, 2014 03:43 PM (tt8U2)

429 Tami, hold down the Windows key (the one down on the lower left of the keyboard with the little flag on it), and while you're holding it down, tap the 'R' key. This will bring up the 'Run' command line. Type in rstrui.exe and then click 'OK' or hit the Enter key.

You should be good to go.

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 14, 2014 03:43 PM (I8YZX)

430 Thanks Anna.  My pilot buds are largely in the same place.  The Malaysians and the media are setting a new low in fact based reporting.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 14, 2014 03:43 PM (PlTXA)

431 You rang?

Posted by: John "Lurk" Kerry at March 14, 2014 03:43 PM (wAQA5)

432 There is no earthly reason to resurrect Fletch.

Posted by: Chris Vaughn at March 14, 2014 03:44 PM (h+2SD)

433 You should be good to go. Posted by: OregonMuse at March 14, 2014 07:43 PM (I8YZX) Thank you!!!

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 03:44 PM (bCEmE)

434 Guns and Boobehs and Elbows, Oh My http://tinyurl.com/lbwjpuz

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2014 03:45 PM (aTXUx)

435 Looking for some No Strings Attached fun. Must be Five-oh friendly. Pics of your tax returns emailed to me gets you mine sent in return. Put "smart power" in the subject line, so I know you're down.

Posted by: Craigsdelist at March 14, 2014 03:45 PM (FbMva)

436 BakaBaka: I don't have the books handy so I can't give a direct quote, but I think my favorite REH moment is actually from a Solomon Kane. Might even be the first one. Kane is meandering on his Puritanish way and comes upon a violated and dying girl who expires before he can help her. He looks up and merely growls, "Men shall die for this." Kane/Conan '16!

Posted by: il padrino at March 14, 2014 03:45 PM (yG+vv)

437

/Lurk off (so to speak)

G'day, Horde!

/Lurk

Posted by: Lurkers' Anonymous. . . Ask us About Our Twelve-Step Delurkification Program at March 14, 2014 03:45 PM (hAq2k)

438 >>>People on here don't comment enough on John Kerry's awful plastic surgery. I saw a pic of him today, and dayum. That is all.

Posted by: Red enchilada at March 14, 2014 07:35 PM (46nMv)




Lovey! Lovey! Make the mean people stop making fun of me!

I don't even know why I lurk here because too many of you make fun of my giant, horrific, mashed potato, horse face.

Posted by: John "Lurk" Kerry at March 14, 2014 03:45 PM (bhpV0)

439 Are we still trying to de-flower the lurkers? It's not that bad, guys - mostly, you'll just get ignored. On the positive side, I just got off the phone with the mortgage company... I have about $2800 left, then I just have to pay the city for the privilege of living on my own property!

Posted by: shredded chi at March 14, 2014 03:45 PM (6wojC)

440 I lurk, therefore I am. And thank you for your hard work ace, sincerely.

Posted by: Once and Future Lurker at March 14, 2014 03:46 PM (9RTM/)

441 Ok first time post. I've read Ace since probably 06? I camer here following links from Allah, and stayed for the hobo-beating tips and copious amounts of elbow pics during NFL regular season. Ace's relentless mockery of leftist causes has also been a plus.

Posted by: Tacitus at March 14, 2014 03:46 PM (qm4LL)

442 I lurk because I would rather read and learn and laugh than bore you all to tears.     Posted by: Northernlurker, moron wannabe at March 14, 2014 07:42 PM (TZTZe)


Oh, I think you could probably entertain us with some good ice fishing stories or some guiltyfish.  Or cheese making.  Everybody likes cheese.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 14, 2014 03:46 PM (gorVZ)

443 Thank you!!!

Posted by: Tami at March 14, 2014 07:44 PM (bCEmE)

AoSHQ: Come for the witty banter. Stay for the expert technical support.

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 14, 2014 03:46 PM (I8YZX)

444 I remember after some of my first posts, blowing out the margins with dashes, ( ----- ). It never showed up on my screen and I didn't know about "Teh Marginz!" I got my ass chewed out and I had no idea why. Weft Cut-Loop tore me a new one, so here's what I did: I asked what I did, so I could avoid it again. Everyone, including WC-L were really cool about it. I then deciphered the html tags that were used by minx and quoted people with the "italics" I avoided The Barrel for nine months before leaving a tag open... and I use those tags A LOT. So my first "Barreling" was humbling, yet funny. You just grab your virtual brush and ask what the Hell they do in there-? Then you shut up for a half-an-hour and go about your merry way, only answering questions about your stay in The Barrel. That's how I do it, at least. Your Mileage May Vary.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 14, 2014 03:46 PM (lq3Ak)

445 Wowee. It's full of lurkers. Hi delurking lurkers! Try the veal. And don't forget to tip the waitress.

Posted by: L, elle at March 14, 2014 03:47 PM (0xqKe)

446 Hey Oregon Must just sent a web link to the Book Thread email address.

Muab'dib, we are still groping to find out the things we don't know.  And what we already know is probably wrong.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 14, 2014 03:47 PM (Urmiy)

447 So my first "Barreling" was humbling, yet funny. You just grab your virtual brush and ask what the Hell they do in there-? Posted by: Slapweasel at March 14, 2014 07:46 PM (lq3Ak) I learned not to ask that question.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 03:47 PM (yz6yg)

448

@424

I lurk, therefore I am.

Posted by: Rene Descartes moron philosopher at March 14, 2014 03:48 PM (wAQA5)

449 And what we already know is probably wrong. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 14, 2014 07:47 PM (Urmiy) The first report is always wrong. So is the secondÂ… Â….and third The After Action Report is slightly more clear.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 03:49 PM (yz6yg)

450 Hey Oregon Must just sent a web link to the Book Thread email address.

Thank you.

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 14, 2014 03:49 PM (I8YZX)

451 Bannion, I am coming to the meet up.  Is there a secret email thingy for sharing details?

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 14, 2014 03:50 PM (PlTXA)

452 Bannion, I am coming to the meet up. Is there a secret email thingy for sharing details? Posted by: Muad'dib at March 14, 2014 07:50 PM (PlTXA) Indeed. sbannion at that gmail thingy

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 03:50 PM (yz6yg)

453 I just finished delurking the toilet.  It was quite a job.  I only wished we hadn't let Esperanza go home early.  I'm getting to old for this shit.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 14, 2014 03:50 PM (A9zaA)

454 Thanks!

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 14, 2014 03:51 PM (PlTXA)

455 And don't forget to tip the waitress. Posted by: L, elle at March 14, 2014 07:47 PM (0xqKe) Badonkadonk (0xqKe) Why is it, every time *I* do that, I get slapped?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 14, 2014 03:51 PM (qyfb5)

456 "I learned not to ask that question." Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 14, 2014 07:47 PM (yz6yg) Yes, ignorance, in that case, seems to be bliss. ...or the better part of something.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 14, 2014 03:51 PM (lq3Ak)

457 Nood

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 03:51 PM (8quPO)

458 Why is it, every time *I* do that, I get slapped? Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 14, 2014 07:51 PM (qyfb5) Your waitresses are into S&M? Jus' guessin'

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at March 14, 2014 03:52 PM (yz6yg)

459 "Why is it, every time *I* do that, I get slapped?" Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith Because it wasn't a strip club and you should just leave the gratuity on the table?

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 14, 2014 03:53 PM (lq3Ak)

460 420 Anna Puma, Your writing on it was your usual excellent output on AV matters. I would have joined in but I've been in a pretty bad migraine series. I think it was some form of sky piracy and a CFIT when the 777-fu was harder than the person thought. Keep on plugging.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 14, 2014 03:54 PM (TE35l)

461 Hope it gave you a chuckle Oregon Muse.

Sean, exactly.  AIBs are a bit better.  Though Airworthiness Directives in the Federal Register make stereo instructions seem like Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 14, 2014 03:54 PM (Urmiy)

462 I learned not to ask that question.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 14, 2014 07:47 PM (yz6yg)


Always the best option at AoS.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 14, 2014 03:54 PM (o3MSL)

463 Huh. This looks interesting: http://tinyurl.com/n43vfqm I no longer have TV, but it's on the National Geographic Channel. It starts in less than 10 minutes.

Posted by: rickl at March 14, 2014 03:54 PM (sdi6R)

464 Because it wasn't a strip club and you should just leave the gratuity on the table? Posted by: Slapweasel at March 14, 2014 07:53 PM (lq3Ak) Badonkadonk (lq3Ak) Rules, rules, rules! Nothin' but rules around here!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 14, 2014 03:54 PM (qyfb5)

465 I actually saw "We're the Millers", living in a small town in Northern Idaho will do that to you, I enjoyed myself, Will Poulter and Emma Roberts were both pretty good as the kids. Sudeikas is a pretty good casting for Fletch, he has the right combo of blandness and oiliness for that sort of role without being too handsome like Greg Kinnear. He is a more normal guy than say Ed Helms too.

Posted by: Roy at March 14, 2014 03:56 PM (gnTUZ)

466 "Rules, rules, rules! Nothin' but rules around here!" Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith Yeah, conditioning being what it is and all. "Societal Norms" should be George Wendt's Rock Band.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 14, 2014 03:57 PM (lq3Ak)

467 410 Ok, I'm de-lurking. I started reading here in August 2008, right before McCain *spits* picked Palin. I posted about 3 times and went back to lurking. This blog is my #1 source of news. I don't really fit here. I don't drink and can't bring myself even to type a naughty word. But here I am anyway. The nic is because I'm sitting with my kids and they're watching My Little Pony. Posted by: Rarity at March 14, 2014 07:38 PM (F+KiF) Like the nic! The few eps I have seen of that show were really cute. I don't drink either, but no one here minds...that I know of. But you will never find a better designated driver! Ace accepts all types. To quote Ferris Bueller: Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.

Posted by: LizLem at March 14, 2014 03:57 PM (HyIce)

468 [Pops eyes over rock, eyes darting to and fro, finally coming out from the shadows after reading here for 8+ years] came for the posts, lurk in the comments to regain my hope for society, and tickle the funnybone!

Now I'm heading back to the shadows so I can find some damn water so our state can continue to feed a bunch of assholes that don't appreciate hard work, family farming, and a rural way of life - you know - the 52%...

Posted by: CaliCon, endangered species at March 14, 2014 03:57 PM (I0tAK)

469 AoSHQ: Come for the witty banter. Stay for the expert technical support. Posted by: OregonMuse at March 14, 2014 07:46 PM (I8YZX) Ok, did the restore but now nothing will loads properly. Facebook, twitter, e-mail....they all seem to load with no formatting.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 14, 2014 03:59 PM (bCEmE)

470 Kahn is lurking out there ... he'll be back .. but from WHERE ...

Posted by: James T Kirk at March 14, 2014 04:00 PM (aTXUx)

471 I once covered myself in chocolate and peanut butter and had Sally Struthers lick it all off. Posted by: The World's most interesting lurker at March 14, 2014 06:37 PM (QnLYM) ROTFLMAO! Welcome, De-Lurkers!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 14, 2014 04:01 PM (Pfvig)

472 Hello lurkers. 

Do not feel left out or alienated if your posts do not spark responses or comment. Too damn many of them to do so.  On a given posted article or commentary by Ace, Drew, Gabriel et. al,, I find myself wanting to respond to dozens and more.  Not enough time in life, let alone the given day. 

You said it/vented it/shared it etc., your post got read and conveyed what you wanted at the moment.  Thank you for participating.  Open discourse, while we have it. Live it, love it.  That. Is. All.

Posted by: eureka! at March 14, 2014 04:01 PM (uUV6t)

473 Look sharp Morons, a Klingon Bird of Prey has to delurk before opening fire .....

Posted by: James T Kirk at March 14, 2014 04:01 PM (aTXUx)

474 Live From Space just started on Nat Geo channel. You'll never believe who is hosting it.

Posted by: Retread at March 14, 2014 04:02 PM (cHwk5)

475 Delurking? WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL!!!!!

Posted by: John McLane at March 14, 2014 04:03 PM (aTXUx)

476 Oh, yeah. The being ignored is going to happen. All the time. You'll get over it. And that's quoting ME!

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 14, 2014 04:04 PM (lq3Ak)

477 Posted by: CaliCon, endangered species at March 14, 2014 07:57 PM (I0tAK) Gitcha ass back out heah, CaliCon! And AzSoCon, and OnceAndFuture, etc etc etc

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 14, 2014 04:07 PM (Pfvig)

478 Andrew Breitbart used to enjoy dropping by here to watch the lurkers.

Posted by: Bildo at March 14, 2014 04:07 PM (eToum)

479 Sometimes that lurker, he looks right into you... you know one thing about a lurker, he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes like a doll's eyes... When he comes at you he doesn't seem to be livin' .. until he delurks and those black eyes roll over white... And then you hear that high pitched screamin' and the thread turns red and in spite of all that poundin' and hollerin' they come in and rip ya to pieces ...

Posted by: Quint at March 14, 2014 04:11 PM (aTXUx)

480 Delurkers to full intensity! Oh, wait! Wrong show. Does that help with my obtaining moron status? Keep up the good Ace! And the rest of the deck of cards too. Not bad for not playing with a full deck.

Posted by: Fewenuff at March 14, 2014 04:11 PM (wDwaq)

481 Oh, and thanks to all you don't lurk - your witting, biting, and moron™ filled nuggets of wisdom have made me the conservative/libertarian that I am. You guys challenge my thinking, reenforce solid principles and generally find ways into the dark recesses of my brain so that I am stittng at the computer going - how'd they know that!

Posted by: CaliCon, endangered species at March 14, 2014 04:15 PM (I0tAK)

482 I don't think like anybody else when I've something to write I delurk myself

Posted by: Die Vinyl Die at March 14, 2014 04:16 PM (FbMva)

483 Send lawyers, guns and money, dad get me out of here. Too late I know.

Posted by: Lurking zombie Warren Zevon at March 14, 2014 04:16 PM (TZTZe)

484 All Delurkers please watch this orientation video and sign the form ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Lft6EQh-Y

Posted by: AoSHQ Human Resources Dept at March 14, 2014 04:17 PM (aTXUx)

485 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 14, 2014 08:07 PM (Pfvig)

thanks Tammy, once I blink past the darkness, here seems as good a place to stay as any!  ;-)

Posted by: CaliCon, endangered species at March 14, 2014 04:18 PM (I0tAK)

486 Nail on the head, Ace. Thanks for sticking up for these two classic movies. I guess they figure there's no way to do another one just like the two original movies without someone in the mold of Chase, which, again I'm just guessing, is dang near impossible. Chase is a boring old self-centered turd these days but his work on SNL and those few movies he was in, especially the two Fletch films, was comedy gold.

Posted by: Bill in TN at March 14, 2014 04:20 PM (gi/0z)

487 A long time ago the Emerson College cafeteria was at 150 Beacon Street in Boston. I read the books because that's where the literary Fletch lived and that's where I ate undergraduate meals. In the movies he was a Lakers fan and lived in Beverly Hills adjacent. Hollywood dissonance. Inspector Flynn has a couple of good books under him too.

Posted by: Birdbath at March 14, 2014 04:20 PM (19UhQ)

488 The last lurker sent to the barrel died there.
And it smelled better afterwards.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at March 14, 2014 04:23 PM (DL2i+)

489

483 All Delurkers please watch this orientation video and sign the form ...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Lft6EQh-Y

 

Posted by: AoSHQ Human Resources Dept at March 14, 2014 08:17 PM (aTXUx)

 

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Wow...that even has French Subtitles.

Excellent.

 

I learned a few new French cusswords from that!

Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 04:25 PM (8quPO)

490 Midnight Express is the turkish gay porn your thinking of. - If they reboot that the prison guards will be the heroes.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 14, 2014 04:27 PM (/0Xze)

491 I learned a few new French cusswords from that! Posted by: wheatie at March 14, 2014 08:25 PM (8quPO) Could help Ace when he comments on his own thread and doesn't know whether to curse someone out or try out his French

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2014 04:28 PM (aTXUx)

492 Hi! (Waving) Commented just a few times but I'm here several times a day over the last 8 years. Just love this place and the genius of some of the comments.

Posted by: LaughingOutLoud! at March 14, 2014 04:28 PM (jfpNK)

493 Thanks, guys, for reminding me that I have some well-hidden Easter candy that I picked up at Target a few weeks ago (naturally, because you can't go there without buying all the stuff). I'm now going to raid my stash, so I'll have to go buy more (wicked cycle)....brb.

Posted by: Everyone at MSNBC at March 14, 2014 04:29 PM (aq/zi)

494 Fargin' sock!!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2014 04:31 PM (aq/zi)

495 I am always too late to threads to comment. I lurk because I have no friends nearby. After my husbands illness we had to move and lost contact with everyone I had spent years thinking we would grow old together. Now I'm growing old without my dearest former friends.
Reading the comments here I feel like I'm among friends.
Thanks for the laughs

Too serious?....

Posted by: Gidget at March 14, 2014 04:46 PM (tfg7i)

496 "...they claim they're going back to the books for inspiration, because, you know, paperback detective novels are so elevated a form."


Raymond Chandler's short stories may not exactly be elevated, but they were very good, and could mostly be taken straight to script.  And being rather cheap to film, they would likely score some nice profits.  A few 1930's-1940's exteriors and interiors and costumes and you have the sets.  Now, a Peter Gunn movie?  That would be well-worth watching.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Sick of the Snowplow Bills for the Outrage Outlet - Bring Me The Head Of Al Gore! at March 14, 2014 04:53 PM (gmoEG)

497 Ah shit. Did it again. Read all the comments. Comment. Dead thread.

Posted by: Gidget at March 14, 2014 04:56 PM (tfg7i)

498 Bureaucracy is the process which converts energy into solid waste.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 14, 2014 04:57 PM (e8kgV)

499 I lurk because it takes too much scrolling to get to the input box, you morons are way ahead of anything I'd say. Besides, lurking is one thing I'm good at.

Posted by: Henry at March 14, 2014 04:59 PM (aMwpx)

500 The most recent movie I've watched was Escape Plan on DVD a few weeks ago. They ruined a perfectly good, mindless action movie by throwing some smarmy islamophilia into the plot line. YUCK!
Now that I know the story line of the Liam Neeson airplane movie I'll never watch it.
BTW, I'm sure the disappearance of the Malaysian airliner had nothing to do with the blood thirsty worshippers of allah.

Posted by: BareNakedFaceLady at March 14, 2014 05:05 PM (O5IQS)

501 I've delurked a few times before on here - either to like to a particularly good post or in compliance with the periodic delurk requests. I view it as checking in: "I'm still here, reading AOSHQ every day. I love what you guys do here but I'm not inclined to comment usually." By the way, I like what Ace is doing with the non-political cultural commentary in addition to the political stuff.

Posted by: Arnie Fufkin at March 14, 2014 05:06 PM (tAESs)

502 Oh! I almost made 500!

Posted by: BareNakedFaceLady at March 14, 2014 05:06 PM (O5IQS)

503 494 I am always too late to threads to comment. I lurk because I have no friends nearby. After my husbands illness we had to move and lost contact with everyone I had spent years thinking we would grow old together. Now I'm growing old without my dearest former friends. Reading the comments here I feel like I'm among friends. Thanks for the laughs Too serious?.... Posted by: Gidget at March 14, 2014 08:46 PM *waves* Thanks for commenting! Glad you have a place here. It is fast and loose here, but everyone is friendly. Comment when you can, and after post #100 of each thread is pretty much a subject free for all. So talk about whatever! <3

Posted by: LizLem at March 14, 2014 05:08 PM (+xKk0)

504 Loved the Fletch books, couldn't stand the movies. Chase's smug mugging did nothing to capture the flavor of the novels but then I'm not a Chase fan to begin with.

Posted by: javapoppa at March 14, 2014 05:12 PM (rWQbj)

505 Lurk every day. Never comment. *waves and runs away*

Posted by: KillerTomato at March 14, 2014 05:15 PM (ADqnO)

506 I lurk except every once in a while I comment on a thread waaaay down at the bottom where only the ghost of Andrew reads it.

Posted by: Chap at March 14, 2014 05:22 PM (w6ql5)

507 .

Posted by: *fish at March 14, 2014 05:23 PM (ADqnO)

508 I'm a hardcore lurker, and don't know what I would do if Ace of Spades would go away. Guess I would probably drink more. 

Posted by: hardcore at March 14, 2014 05:38 PM (ZJEaw)

509 Consider myself de-lurked...

Posted by: steve at March 14, 2014 05:43 PM (W5O7B)

510 Daily reader, rare commenter.  Always enjoyable.  Thanks to Ace and the Horde.  And a shout-out to my buddies Captain Hate and rich@gmu.

Posted by: Beasts of England at March 14, 2014 05:48 PM (q/PkG)

511 'nother mostly-lurker here, rarely comment for two reasons:

1) w/ two jobs, gotta wait till end of day to catch up on Ace and the cobs' great posts

2) and of course the famed commenters who are their perfect complement.  Would much rather read your stuff cause you say what I think so much better.  And you're **hilarious.**   Andrew Breitbart was right about you. 

One more thing:

I miss Andrew so much.   Still.  

**slides pleasantly back under the waves**

Posted by: Eviva at March 14, 2014 05:53 PM (whMsz)

512 Lurker mostly here with a few comments from time to time.  Always an entertaining read and often get as much information from the commenters as from the original post.   

Given that I am in the fever swamps of academia as a rare conservative, nice to see reality based comments from time to time.

Posted by: wg at March 14, 2014 05:54 PM (Fa3Jp)

513 So I'll delurk for a second. Been around since 2008, I can probably tell you as much about some of the regulars than they can say about themselves... You guys are friends in the grey boxes, even though I don't comment. I'm a bit slow on the witty thing, quick on the engineering thing. Plus as a consultant I can't be seen hanging out with you hooligans. I love you guys though, and the head ewok is the furry man. As far as the movie comments tl; dr.

Posted by: cfdxprt at March 14, 2014 06:03 PM (P9UQY)

514 >>>Raymond Chandler's short stories may not exactly be elevated, but they were very good, and could mostly be taken straight to script. And being rather cheap to film, they would likely score some nice profits. A few 1930's-1940's exteriors and interiors and costumes and you have the sets. Now, a Peter Gunn movie? That would be well-worth watching. you don't have to sell me on Chandler, he's my favorite writer.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2014 06:04 PM (/FnUH)

515 but few detective writers achieved his poetry.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2014 06:05 PM (/FnUH)

516 Late to the thread, but I think they're making a huge mistake going back to the books for the Fletch re-make. At the risk of re-iterating Ace's post, what people responded to in the original and what they're looking for in the new version is Fletch the merry trickster, navigating a mystery (and much of life) via the most absurd means possible, with a natural cunning aided and abetted by good luck, seasoned by loads of snark directed at deserving targets. He's Bugs Bunny in human form, and Chevy Chase owned that role. By the same token, Sudekis can't, and won't be able to pull it off - he lacks the flair and the goofy comedic ease. Honestly, a better choice would be who they originally had in mind for the re-make, Jason Lee. Barring that, the closest would be the guy who's made a career of being Jason Lee's pale imitation, Ryan Reynolds.

Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 14, 2014 06:05 PM (wJliR)

517

Let us assume that Iran just got their first Nuke. Entirely plausible: they could easily have enough weapons grade U235 by now. Rafsenjani - their former president has stated that as soon as they have a bomb - they should use it on Israel. Given that what they have is a crude gun type weapon like the Hiroshima bomb - how do they deliver it? Bomber or other military aircraft? Never get near Israel. By truck, disguised as a shipment of Heroine? Maybe, but too risky. The radiation from the U235 would give it away in any case. Missile attack? Give me a break, what are they going to do, super glue that heavy sucker to the top of a missile? Yeah that's going to work. Perhaps the Iranian Navy will... No that won't work either.

No, the best delivery shot they have is to smuggle it aboard a hi-jacked jumbo jet. Send the plane to Saudi Arabia - at the last second it diverts to Israel. The Israeli Air Force shoots them down - but the bomb detonates when it reaches optimum height.

Could the Iranians pull this off? They have landing strips, suicide pilots, they could refuel a jumbo jet and have it take off. Yes, they could do all of that. Could they get away with it un-noticed? Well, where is that missing Jumbo Jet anyway - somebody made off with it?


Posted by: [/i] [/s] [/u] [/b] An Observation at March 14, 2014 06:09 PM (ylhEn)

518 you don't have to sell me on Chandler, he's my favorite writer.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2014 10:04 PM (/FnUH)


Ross MacDonald (real name Kenneth Millar) is a terrific successor to Chandler and IMO even better if that's possible.    The Far Side of the Dollar is I think his best Lew Archer novel (he died in the mid 1980s) and that novel won some major awards too (but I liked it best even before I knew that).    Give him a try you won't be sorry....

Posted by: Eviva, well as long as I'm here.... at March 14, 2014 06:11 PM (whMsz)

519 Another lurker here *hello* I'd love to comment, just never have the time to read 500 comments before saying something. I've always wondered - does anyone actually read the entire comment section? All of them? Anyways, love the job Ace, the gang, and all the moron community does. The interwebs would be a far less interesting place without them. Certainly makes my day at least.

Posted by: somecallmetim at March 14, 2014 06:14 PM (90t8i)

520 Again, late in the thread, but a quick second on the recommendation of Ross MacDonald above. Also, shout-outs for Rex Stout, John Marquand, Anthony Price, and Reginald Hill. (Especially Price!)

Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 14, 2014 06:22 PM (wJliR)

521 Pro-lurker here ^^ what Tim D'Enchanter said above.  Was watching the Sharks/Avs and at the 1st break grab some sammies and beer.  Come back to see an unid'd beach bimbette on a Carl's Jr. ad.  The charbroiled Cod sammie?  Who was the blonde in a CJ ad washing a car years ago... couldn't have been Paris.
Thank you all 'rons and 'ettes for all the laughs and info.  Can't wait for da 1's next presser for the over/under on minutes late.

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at March 14, 2014 06:26 PM (TsYO8)

522 I am not sure if I am supposed to lurk or not anymore. Sometimes I lurk. Sometimes I talk to myself here.This seems to be a Common Core thread and I don't like math.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 14, 2014 06:32 PM (baL2B)

523 >>>Ross MacDonald (real name Kenneth Millar) is a terrific successor to Chandler and IMO even better if that's possible. i read a couple of his, and I liked them. I wouldn't say he was better than Chandler; that's sacrilege.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2014 06:35 PM (/FnUH)

524 >>>Barring that, the closest would be the guy who's made a career of being Jason Lee's pale imitation, Ryan Reynolds. i kinda liked him before but he's become very one-dimensional in that snarky fratboy sort of way. I thought he'd be a big star but he's been rubbing me the wrong way because I can't see him as anything except Ryan Reynolds doin' the Ryan Reynolds thing.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2014 06:36 PM (/FnUH)

525 Oh, and hello to lurkers. That sounds like you all wear trench coats on park benches and/or are Peeping Toms.

Whatever happened to Peeping Toms? I don't read of them anymore.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 14, 2014 06:37 PM (baL2B)

526 >>.515 Late to the thread, but I think they're making a huge mistake going back to the books for the Fletch re-make. At the risk of re-iterating Ace's post, what people responded to in the original and what they're looking for in the new version is Fletch the merry trickster, navigating a mystery (and much of life) via the most absurd means possible, with a natural cunning aided and abetted by good luck, seasoned by loads of snark directed at deserving targets. yeah, the "Fletch IP," the thing they actually have of value, is of that kind of character, who really isn't the character in the books. I had a theory: Maybe they have the right to the Fletch BOOKS but not the first Fletch FILM so they have to claim, for legal purposes, that they're basing this on the books... when in fact they intend to rip the living shit off of the Fletch movie. But they have to make this claim to lay down their legal defense.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2014 06:41 PM (/FnUH)

527 #337

Dad?

Try estranged husband.

Posted by: Epobirs at March 14, 2014 06:42 PM (bPxS6)

528 Delurking long enough to say I prefer lurking.

Posted by: madtom at March 14, 2014 06:47 PM (cOb0J)

529 Ace - quite clever, and I think you could be right about their strategy there, especially given the leeway Hollywood gets in that regard (remember Fargo and "based on a true story," for example). Regarding Ryan Reynolds, I think you're on the money, except that it's worse - the Ryan Reynolds thing is his version of the Jason Lee thing, circa Mallrats or thereabouts.

Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 14, 2014 06:52 PM (wJliR)

530 Oh. And there is a MacDonald who developed a much better character than Fletch could ever hope to be. Travis McGee would have fed Fletch his own d**k and made him ask for more bbq sauce.

Posted by: madtom at March 14, 2014 06:54 PM (cOb0J)

531 dead thread. That's where I come in.

Posted by: madtom at March 14, 2014 07:25 PM (cOb0J)

532 They should have hired the SNL guy with the big fat head who always sounds like Vincent Price when he does imitations.

Posted by: OxyCon at March 14, 2014 07:33 PM (xBryS)

533 I have de-lurked before. Am I excluded?

Posted by: Former Lurker at March 14, 2014 07:42 PM (4hp6w)

534 Welcome to the noobs.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 14, 2014 08:15 PM (Iyg03)

535 Lurking reader here.  Late to the comments, but here I am.

Posted by: California Girl at March 15, 2014 07:00 AM (l+qoZ)

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