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December 13, 2012

Overnight Open Thread (12-13-2012)
— Maetenloch

Well a recent international Gallup poll attempted to answer this question.

The least emotional country in the world (at least according to self-reports) is Singapore - where only 36% of Singaporeans reported feeling any positive or negative emotions on a daily basis.

The Philippines, El Salvador and Bahrain were the most emotional countries with a large majority of the population experiencing emotions every day.

But having emotions doesn't mean they're necessarily fun ones or that they bring happiness:

In the Philippines - which ranked as the world's most emotional society, followed by El Salvador and Bahrain - analysts were quick to point out that being emotional doesn't necessarily equate with being happy. One reporter at GMA News stressed that the nation ranked 103rd out of 155 countries in the 2012 World Happiness Report - and that its 95 million inhabitants are said to be the most depressed in all of south-east Asia.

In fact the Danes are considered rather cool and unemotional yet have the highest consistent levels of happiness in the world:

Danes have more subdued, but more consistent, levels of positive affect as compared to Americans (Biswas-Diener et al., 2010). Although there should be little to no difference cross-culturally on intrinsic personality types such as introversion or extroversion, personality traits such as optimism and self-esteem are usually a product of one's environment, upbringing , and social groups.

There is little data on personality types of Danes; however, there exists data that suggests that Danes report more moderate changes in mood than people in the U.S. This could suggest a different, less emotional personality type for Danish people compared to Americans.

And how are Americans different? Well we go to 11... and sometimes -1:

In the U.S., people feel stronger feelings of positive emotions and have higher positive and the corresponding negative affect. I believe that this a contributing factor to higher levels of unhappiness.

Due to this, it seems that people from the U.S. are much more prone to having more peak experiences-more intense feelings of joy and excitement as well as anger and excitement.

Well I like to consider this just a side-effect of us having a bit too much joie de vive in our bloodstream which tends to convert over into a certain exuberant restlessness. Alcohol, boredom, and open spaces seem to help this process along.

Why Don't Americans Blame Someone for Bad Government?

Steve Teles has described our current system of government as a kludgeocracy - complex hacked kludges on top of more pieced together kludges. Most Americans agree it's too complex and inefficient yet can't quite identify who's at fault. The kludgeocracy seems to just grow on its own with no one in particular being responsible for it.

While liberals are harmed by the opacity of kludgeocracy's successes, conservatives are hurt by the lack of traceability of its failures. The fact that so much of our welfare state is jointly administered - either inter-governmentally or through contracting with private agents - makes it hard for Americans to attribute responsibility when things go wrong, thus leading blame to be spread over government in general, rather than affixed precisely, where such blame could do some good. The consequence of complexity, then, is diffuse cynicism, which is the opposite of the habit needed for good democratic citizenship.

...The last thirty years of American history have witnessed, at least rhetorically, a battle over the size of government.1 Yet that is not what the history books will say the next thirty years of American politics were about. With the frontiers of the state roughly fixed, the issues that will dominate American politics going forward will concern the complexity of government, rather than its sheer size.

CA Department of Education Fights School District for Daring to Spend Money on Children's Education

It used to be that whenever a man did something completely out of character or scandalous, people would refer to the saying 'Cherchez la femme' - look for the woman. Well perhaps this needs to be updated to a modern form: Whenever an organization does something utterly idiotic and against its own chartered purpose, cherchez la union.

Does Belafonte Think Conservatives Should Just 'Smell The Glove'?

Short answer: Yes.

What Happens When Your Parents Adopt A Murderer?

In 1984, in the quiet and modestly affluent suburb of Cape St. Clair, Maryland, a 17-year-old boy named Larry Swartz murdered both of his adoptive parents. In 1993, after serving nine years of his 12-year sentence, Larry was released from prison and came to live with us.

The reasons are never made clear in the article but I suspect the father really, really wanted a son - even a murdering one.

The Worst Movie Girlfriends of All Time

Jonah Goldberg starts the ball rolling by nominating Bruce Willis' girlfriend from Pulp Fiction:

Over on Twitter I started a conversation about bad girlfriends in movies, by noting that Bruce Willis's gal pal in Pulp Fiction is simply awful and deserves to be on any top-ten list of worst movie girlfriends. She forgets his watch. Cries at the drop of a hat. Goes off to a lavish breakfast while Willis is risking his life. Etc. This sparked other suggestions and a short-lived hashtag game #WorstMovieGirlfriends.

The Burger So Hot You Have To Sign a Waiver Before Eating It

When you have to wear gloves because you might get chemical burns from a spicy burger, maybe you've taken it a little too far.

Just one in ten of the 500 people who've taken the challenge have completed it so far, with Mr Bunce admitting he could only manage a quarter of the burger.
He added: 'We did a four-week special of the Fallout Challenge, but after the special came to an end we had so many people asking to do it, it ended up becoming a permanent fixture on our menu.
'The sauce in the burger contains a variety of chillies including the Ghost Chilli and the Scotch Bonnet. But what gives the sauce a real kick is the Ghost Chilli extract which registers at 4.2 million Scoville units.

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1 27th!

Posted by: toby928© for TB at December 13, 2012 06:32 PM (QupBk)

2 First, as the Mayan's predicted.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at December 13, 2012 06:32 PM (QupBk)

3 Finally!

Posted by: rickl at December 13, 2012 06:33 PM (sdi6R)

4 Fifth?

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 06:33 PM (NaNKB)

5 Mmmm! Thighs...

Posted by: fluffy at December 13, 2012 06:34 PM (z9HTb)

6 Next!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 06:34 PM (yh0zB)

7 Glad to see the threat of a strike worked. Jeez . . .

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 06:34 PM (kpCLl)

8 OK, we can all relax now. All's right with the world. Well, not really, but this will have to do for now.

Posted by: rickl at December 13, 2012 06:34 PM (sdi6R)

9 Does this dress make my ass look fat???

Posted by: venezuela at December 13, 2012 06:35 PM (jPVBi)

10 Fuck the Mayans with a concrete dildo sideways.

Posted by: Butters at December 13, 2012 06:35 PM (NIZHJ)

11 I'm having a "peak experience" right now!

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 06:35 PM (NaNKB)

12 Maeth,

That emotional shit is at least a week old. But it has the smell of a new thread.

Don't say Niagara Falls.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 06:35 PM (wR+pz)

13 You're welcome.

Posted by: Kalneva at December 13, 2012 06:35 PM (S+/pH)

14 Did the artist forget to paint whatever Miss December is leaning against?

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 13, 2012 06:36 PM (8nar1)

15 They made that burger with hydrogen fluoride?

Posted by: rickl at December 13, 2012 06:36 PM (sdi6R)

16 Chris Farley Lunch Lady- Teh Hawt!!!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 13, 2012 06:36 PM (1OZSU)

17 Not all of us are happy.

Posted by: danish jews at December 13, 2012 06:36 PM (jPVBi)

twenty second!!

Posted by: puddleglum at December 13, 2012 06:37 PM (3JoAW)

19 So, I begin to understand why everyone is just a little intimidated by Peaches.

(gets on knees, genuflects abjectly)

Thank you, Goddess of the HQ! Thank you! Thank you!

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 06:37 PM (NaNKB)

20 Wut a pretty map!

Posted by: Thorvald at December 13, 2012 06:37 PM (1V6Pv)

21 That's six cons, seven cons, eight cons shot!

Daylight come and me wanna jerk off

Posted by: Harry Belafonte at December 13, 2012 06:37 PM (wwsoB)

22 Kalneva (carrying over here), the 1927 sherry was $26 for a half-bottle. I thought that was pretty cool. Wally's Wines and Spirits in Westwood, I'm picking it up on Monday. They had 300 cases and, when I called to secure my order, they had 13 bottles. Now they have 10. I lucked out!

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 06:37 PM (kpCLl)

23 I know this is a long post, and at the risk of the barrel, I'm just gonna go ahead and risk it. I saw an article today that posited that: "Government spending is equal to our taxation". The tax rates, whatever they may be, are nothing more than a freak show, sideline attraction. It makes no difference if our top rate is 35% or 40%, if we spend twice the revenue collected. The dirty little secret on marginal rates and revenue is that no matter where rates are, revenue will depend on the GDP. AND NOTHING ELSE. Every economist worth his salt, from Andrew Mellon to Art Laffer, has told us repeatedly, that NO MATTER WHAT the marginal RATES ARE, OR HOW they are graduated, REVENUE to the federal government WILL ALWAYS BE between 18-21% of GDP. There is no tooth fairy, Santa Clause, Wizard, nor even a Socialist from Chicago who will be capable of making up the difference. Not this year. Not ever. What isn't covered through income tax revenue will be paid, by us in some other fashion. Debt will mount, we will suffer a loss of purchasing power due to currency devaluation and inflation, new excises will be added, or what-ever. But one thing is certain, unless the US defaults, IT WILL BE PAID - BY ALL OF US. Using lofty words to obscure tawdry realities referring to the Federal Reserve's creation of hundreds of billions of new fiat dollars out of thin air as "quantitative easing" makes it seem as if this is some soothing and esoteric process, rather than amounting essentially to nothing more than - SIMPLY PRINTING MORE MONEY. Debasing the value of money by creating more of it is nothing new or esoteric. Irresponsible governments have always done this...Check out the Weimar Republic or Zimbawbe for perspective. It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. If you have $100 and, after inflation follows from "quantitative easing," that $100 dollars will only buy what $80 bought before, then that is the same economically as if the government had taxed away one-fifth of your money and spent it. But it is not the same POLITICALLY, so long as gullible people - the LIV sheeple - don't look beyond words to the reality that inflation taxes everybody, the poorest as well as the richest. So they can say we are going to "soak the rich", and consequently drive GDP down, but that will not help anyone in the slightest. All the "pretty talk" about how tax rates will be raised only on "the rich" hides the ugly fact that the poorest people in the country will see the value of their money decline, just like everybody else, and at the same rate as everybody else, when the government creates ever more money and spends it. Inflation is the most universal tax of all... Thanks. Fuckers!

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 06:37 PM (mkb9H)

24 Twenty second?

Posted by: Butters at December 13, 2012 06:38 PM (NIZHJ)

25 My mood is worse tonight than last night. I didnt even know that was possible This day has almost turned into a carnival of blood and pain at least three times.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 06:38 PM (4QAQg)

26 Aloha!

Posted by: cthulhu at December 13, 2012 06:38 PM (kaalw)

27 Harry Belefonte can smell my finger.

http://injennifershead.com/?p=1841

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 06:38 PM (yh0zB)

Oh, 18. Eh, it was a guess.

Posted by: puddleglum at December 13, 2012 06:38 PM (3JoAW)

29 AlextheChick?
Are you still up?
Scroll down(skip Matt Lauer the douchbag). Can you do these boots?
I totally think you could:

http://tinyurl.com/d6x8udn

Posted by: ChrisP at December 13, 2012 06:39 PM (5mV3R)

30 All dressed up and nuthin' to say- crap.

Posted by: Tobacco Road, stuck in the ditch at December 13, 2012 06:39 PM (4Mv1T)

31 You guys are really cracking me up here. That extended foreplay thing seems to be working, blog-wise.

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 06:40 PM (kpCLl)

32 NIAGARA FALLS!!!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 06:40 PM (yh0zB)

33 I think I gave it all up, dragging that old abortion of a thread over the finish line.

And my wine glass is STILL empty.

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 06:40 PM (NaNKB)

34 hi all
I'm a big fan of December

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 06:40 PM (d/5qf)

35 AlextheChick?
Are you still up?

She might be out walking Stabby. I miss her, too.

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 06:40 PM (kpCLl)

36 that emotional map is making me happy because of the pleasing girl colors. But what is December doing?

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 06:40 PM (xzxDr)

37 FMBD

A term used though out my college career.

What do you think it stands for?

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 06:40 PM (wR+pz)

38 That burger, it's not the eating of that's the most painful part ....

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 13, 2012 06:40 PM (BAS5M)

39 32 NIAGARA FALLS!!!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 10:40 PM (yh0zB)

*****

VIAGRA RISES!!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 13, 2012 06:41 PM (1OZSU)

40 And my wine glass is STILL empty.

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 10:40 PM (NaNKB)

Can I offer you a can of cheap swill?

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 06:41 PM (kpCLl)

41 It always pissed me off about Man vs Food that many places doing a "hottest" challenge used the extract instead of just peppers. It's cheating and I couldn't see it adding anything to the taste unlike using real, but way-hot, peppers.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2012 06:41 PM (jPVBi)

42 Boing oing oing...

Posted by: Butters at December 13, 2012 06:41 PM (NIZHJ)

43 Peaches,
Haven't seen her for a while. Hope she's okay...

Posted by: ChrisP at December 13, 2012 06:42 PM (5mV3R)

44 Can I offer you a can of cheap swill?
Sure! Just toss it down the steps, that'll be fine.

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 06:42 PM (NaNKB)

45 Harry Belafonte should do hard time in a fuck me in the ass prison just for that piece of shit Christmas song "I Heard the Bells"

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 06:42 PM (wwsoB)

46 Movie gfs - Carmen in Starship Troopers was a beeyotch. Plus, unlike Dina Meyer, she didn't get nekkid in the showers.

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 13, 2012 06:42 PM (8nar1)

47 Can I offer you a can of cheap swill? Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 10:41 PM (kpCLl) well sure, hoard the good stuff all to yourself.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 06:42 PM (xzxDr)

48 Peaches. GGE. BB. DC. Hi-de-hi. Bon soir. Sorry about that long one. Sammich?

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 06:42 PM (mkb9H)

Good snag, Peaches! You get to look like a baller, for cheap! I have been thankful for Amazon wish lists, this year. Everybody already has everything! I hate resorting to gift cards, but some people are getting them.

Posted by: kalneva at December 13, 2012 06:42 PM (S+/pH)

50 Been up since 4:30AM trying to decide if I should just take the offer of $1000 on an $1800 shotgun. I just want the dough for a REAL gun (BARNS AK).

Posted by: Tobacco Road, stuck in the ditch at December 13, 2012 06:43 PM (4Mv1T)

51
I love Willis' girlfriend in Pulp Fiction. Would Take.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 13, 2012 06:43 PM (n/ubI)

52 I wonder whether burger-man felt like calling Reggie in the morning.

Posted by: Thorvald at December 13, 2012 06:43 PM (1V6Pv)

53 As an advocate of the flat income tax, there is a simple purity to inflation. It punishes everyone equally.

Posted by: Al at December 13, 2012 06:43 PM (V70Uh)

54 We should all stand on one side of Jamaica and turn that mutha fucka over.

Posted by: Butters at December 13, 2012 06:43 PM (NIZHJ)

55 Has everyone read the story over at Hot Air about the regulatory bullshit the DoJ pulled about citizens' records? ALL records of citizens activities are now shared by all government agencies and foreign governments. This is a fucking WAR. http://tinyurl.com/bajswoy

Posted by: Daybrother at December 13, 2012 06:43 PM (+paCV)

56 Miss Piggy was a bitch to Kermit in the first Muppet movie.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 13, 2012 06:43 PM (BAS5M)

57 I'm a big fan of December

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 10:40 PM (d/5qf)

Me, too...

http://tinyurl.com/au8sc32

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 06:43 PM (yh0zB)

58 Worst movie girlfriend: I don't remember the names, but I'd say the girlfriend the guy was on the phone with towards the end of Goodfellas, while the helicopter was circling. He was yelling at her for blabbing about drugs and not maintaining proper opsec. I once knew a girl like that, not to put too fine a point on it. It got to the point that I would cringe every time she called me.

Posted by: rickl at December 13, 2012 06:44 PM (sdi6R)

59 25 My mood is worse tonight than last night. I didnt even know that was possible

This day has almost turned into a carnival of blood and pain at least three times.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 10:38 PM (4QAQg)

Whazzup?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 13, 2012 06:44 PM (kaalw)

60 @50

What is it? I'd say no. Guns are not going DOWN in price. You put it on the internet?

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 06:44 PM (wR+pz)

61 32 NIAGARA FALLS!!!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 10:40 PM (yh0zB)

heh you jackass

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 06:45 PM (d/5qf)

62 Gay-o! Gaaaaaay-o!
Gay light cum and I wanna suck dong!

Posted by: hairy belefonte at December 13, 2012 06:45 PM (jPVBi)

63 Hey, FMBD! Come on a guess? The first work is Fuck.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 06:45 PM (wR+pz)

64 I'm going out gunning for that car crashing fucker Bambi tomorrow afternoon. I'm toting the shotgun this time.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 06:46 PM (yh0zB)

65 "Come the Revolution" indeed....

Posted by: USS Diversity at December 13, 2012 06:46 PM (MPjT8)

66 I've been watching a bunch of hunting shows lately. Not a hunter and never watched these shows before. But I figured I might learn something. Am I wrong or are these shows mainly just giant ads for equipment and hunting lodges? The host always talks a lot about his gun or bow and knife and sights and other assorted gear, always makes sure to call it by the brand name, and always mentions the lodge or preserve or wherever he's hunting a lot. Seen a couple of the fishing shows, too, and seems to be the same thing there.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 13, 2012 06:46 PM (ZPrif)

67 Meg Ryan in Sleepless in Seattle. She's engaged, but annoyed and put-upon by her fiance's love for her. She lies to him while fantasizing about another man.... a man she only heard once, on the radio no less. She stalks said man and his son through abuse of her employer's time and resources. In the end, she finds an abandoned bag on the observation deck at the Empire State Building and, rather than turning it in, proceeds to rummage through it. This chick is NOT good on paper.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 06:47 PM (piMMO)

68 This is for Peaches

http://121212xii.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/hello-world/

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 06:47 PM (d/5qf)

69 62 Gay-o! Gaaaaaay-o!
Gay light cum and I wanna suck dong!

Oh, Harry, call me! I love a black slong.

Posted by: Barney at December 13, 2012 06:47 PM (wR+pz)

70 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 13, 2012 06:47 PM (JMmQ9)

71 I think that Ilsa Lund in "Casablanca" was a crappy girlfriend and wife.

"The Germans wore gray. You wore blue."

Posted by: Al at December 13, 2012 06:48 PM (V70Uh)

72 Been up since 4:30AM trying to decide if I should just take the offer of $1000 on an $1800 shotgun. I just want the dough for a REAL gun (BARNS AK).

Posted by: Tobacco Road, stuck in the ditch at December 13, 2012 10:43 PM (4Mv1T)

I vote no! Depending on your moral situation, you could just tell the guy to come over, cap him, take the $1000, dig a shallow grave, and re-advertise. Win/win!!

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 06:48 PM (kpCLl)

73 That's Varga! He only puts in what he wants to put into his paintings!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 13, 2012 06:48 PM (UTq/I)

74 New Post (now in hopefully Peaches approved size) AP To America: Â“You Are All RAAACIST!Â” According to the Associated Press, you, dear reader, are a RAAACIST if you happen to be white. According to the online survey taken by the AP, which purported to measure explicit and implicit racism politicalhat.com/?p=764

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 06:49 PM (XvHmy)

All "reality" shows are commercials, disguised as entertainment. Holy shite, Top Chef, this season, is especially egregious. Even worse than prior seasons.

Posted by: kalneva at December 13, 2012 06:49 PM (S+/pH)

76 Surprises me that Koreans are less emotional than Chinese. The Koreans are supposed to be "the Irish of Asia".

Posted by: boulder hobo at December 13, 2012 06:49 PM (QTHTd)

77 Ha! Singapore, the least emotional country has a shit ton of maids from the most emotional country, the Philippines.

Posted by: Tami at December 13, 2012 06:49 PM (X6akg)

78 DC, wtf???? You are starting to worry me, my friend. Do you want my email address? You gots to turn this around!

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 06:49 PM (kpCLl)

79 So, I begin to understand why everyone is just a little intimidated by Peaches... Posted by: filbert at 10:37 PM (NaNKB) I have no idea of which you speak. Teh Peaches has been nothing but welcoming, instructive, and kind to me. Maybe I'm "special". If so, I am thankful.

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 06:49 PM (mkb9H)

80 60 @50 What is it? I'd say no. Guns are not going DOWN in price. You put it on the internet? 1928 LC Smith 16G double 80-90% or better. BlueBook says $1800-2100. Not something EVERYBODY is looking for. Posted in an NC shooter's forum to minimize issues getting it from point A to point B if sold.

Posted by: Tobacco Road, stuck in the ditch at December 13, 2012 06:49 PM (4Mv1T)

81 Man the Philadelphia Eagles suck.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at December 13, 2012 06:49 PM (ZETiK)

82 OK FMBD

Fuck is the first letter. Me is the second, come on morons you can do it.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 06:50 PM (wR+pz)

83 76 PJ O'Rourke called them hard drinking tough little bastards.

Posted by: Butters at December 13, 2012 06:50 PM (NIZHJ)

84 Howdy, Cthulhu. Work shit, mostly. Been a 16 hour day so far, and when I leave, which should be soonish, I have to drive an hour and a half home. Plus, the ups guy dropped off Cougars anniversary present to me...so now she's upset cause the surprise is ruined. Which doesn't matter all that much, since I have to work tomorrow night, and that our anniversary, so it's not really and anniversary present anyway, but she's still pissed.....*deep breath* But thanks for asking. Drive anyone to madness today?

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 06:50 PM (4QAQg)

85 77 Ha! Singapore, the least emotional country has a shit ton of maids from the most emotional country, the Philippines. Posted by: Tami at December 13, 2012 10:49 PM (X6akg) --So does Bahrain. Damn.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 06:50 PM (gBuIk)

86 Surprises me that Koreans are less emotional than Chinese. The Koreans are supposed to be "the Irish of Asia".

At least my people had potatoes. Nobody ate dirt. That they remember.

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 06:50 PM (kpCLl)

87 First, as the Mayan's predicted. Posted by: toby928Â© for TB at December 13, 2012 10:32 PM (QupBk) ----------------------------------------------------- NICE..... As the Mayans predicted.

Posted by: The Mayans at December 13, 2012 06:50 PM (jucos)

88 Re: Movie Girlfriends:

Ben Stiller's girlfriend in Meet the Parents.

She takes him to meet her parents and friends. During the entire time she never defends him, doesn't think twice about putting him in situations where he'll be the butt of jokes, doesn't give a second thought to whether he's enjoying anything, and apparently doesn't speak to anybody over the phone beforehand to make sure things go smoothly and they don't constantly embarrass the guy.

Posted by: AD at December 13, 2012 06:51 PM (Ysek9)

89 Also, from my 12 posts of Christmas: Koch's Snowflake http://politicalhat.com/?p=811

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 06:51 PM (XvHmy)

90 Bruce Willis' girlfriend from Pulp Fiction

-- looks like Shelly Duvall from The Shining

Posted by: boulder hobo at December 13, 2012 06:51 PM (QTHTd)

91 58 Worst movie girlfriend:

I don't remember the names, but I'd say the girlfriend the guy was on the phone with towards the end of Goodfellas, while the helicopter was circling.

He was yelling at her for blabbing about drugs and not maintaining proper opsec.

I once knew a girl like that, not to put too fine a point on it. It got to the point that I would cringe every time she called me. Posted by: rickl at December 13, 2012 10:44 PM

The girl "Lois" wasn't his girlfriend, she was the family babysitter who also worked for them as a drug courier. He told her not to use the house phone and she uses it anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-vODvk3pE0

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 06:51 PM (wwsoB)

92 Big Daddy?

Posted by: Butters at December 13, 2012 06:51 PM (NIZHJ)

93 Ok, inflation is gonna get us all. So, I should buy a lakehouse, yes? I am going to look at some this weekend with my girlfriend. My husband isnt up for it but I will just claim mid life crisis. I really wanna lakehouse.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 06:52 PM (Sptt8)

94 The DoJ thing Holder signed is so they can do data-mining to spot signs of potential criminality. I'm not joking. The problem is how to stop lone wolf style attacks of bad guys who aren't on the radar. Like that Norway pycho. The answer is massive surveillance of, literally, everyone. The DoJ thing is so all the data on every interaction every citizen has with any agency of local, state, or federal govt can be fed into the cloud and be data-mined to spot patterns predictive of criminal or terrorist activity. Upside is you can catch lone wolf pyschos better. Downside is the Orwellian surveillance society raping everyone's privacy and the occasional false positive that destroys the lives of innocent citizens.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 13, 2012 06:52 PM (ZPrif)

95 Teh Peaches has been nothing but welcoming, instructive, and kind to me.

Peaches offered me cheap swill, so I consider my loyalty well and truly bought.

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 06:52 PM (NaNKB)

96 Also, from my 12 posts of Christmas:

Koch's Snowflake
http://politicalhat.com/?p=811

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 10:51 PM (XvHmy)

I couldn't let your new embrace of brevity pass, Hat. Kudos!

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 06:52 PM (kpCLl)

97 OK FMBD
Fuck Me Bouche Dag???

Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2012 06:53 PM (jPVBi)

98 91 kbdabear OK, thanks. My memory is notoriously unreliable. There may be a reason for that.

Posted by: rickl at December 13, 2012 06:53 PM (sdi6R)

99 Any girlfriend played by Sarah Jessica Parker has to be tied for the worst.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 06:53 PM (gBuIk)

100 AP To America: Â“You Are All RAAACIST!Â”

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 10:49 PM (XvHmy)

Stupid AP. There are five a's in RAAAAACIST! as everyone who reads The Other McCain well knows.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 06:53 PM (yh0zB)

101 God help the Canadians.

Posted by: Butters at December 13, 2012 06:53 PM (NIZHJ)

102 DC in Towson, that sucks to have your present ruined

consider getting her this instead

http://tinyurl.com/3rr697m

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 06:53 PM (d/5qf)

103 @80

I love a 16 ga, not many other do. Still I would expand your sales area. Whomever you sell it to, you will probably want to go though a dealer just to make sure you don't sell it to a nut.

Hold off, Yankees pay more, advertise it. Sounds like a sweet gun, the 16ga part is the only draw back, 16 ga shells are starting to cost the same as 28's because there is not enough demand.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 06:54 PM (wR+pz)

104 FMBD

Fuck Me Behind the Dumpster?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 13, 2012 06:54 PM (d/5qf)

105 I really wanna lakehouse.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 10:52 PM (Sptt

Get the lake house. Husbands are a dime a dozen, but a fab lake house comes along only a few times in your life. He'll get over it.

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 06:54 PM (kpCLl)

106 FMBD f me brothers dog?

Posted by: Museisluse at December 13, 2012 06:54 PM (SsWgR)

107 Fuck the Mayans with a concrete dildo sideways.
Actually, we had a professional sport like that. We called it "fluking".

Posted by: the maya at December 13, 2012 06:54 PM (jPVBi)

108 I am hanging out close to this one: Total Wine, Pembroke Pines. The beer selections is remarkable.

Posted by: sTevo at December 13, 2012 06:54 PM (xtLs1)

109 Am I the only one who finds Quentin Tarantino flicks excruciatingly boring?

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at December 13, 2012 06:54 PM (ZETiK)

110 FMBD

Maria Bello Daily?

I guess that's more an aspiration than a term ...

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 13, 2012 06:55 PM (8nar1)

111 92 Big Daddy?

Posted by: Butters at December 13, 2012 10:51 PM (NIZHJ)

We have a winner! FMBD, Fuck Me Big Daddy.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 06:55 PM (wR+pz)

112 But thanks for asking. Drive anyone to madness today?

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 10:50 PM (4QAQg)

Nah, took the day off.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 13, 2012 06:56 PM (kaalw)

113

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 10:49 PM (mkb9H)

just don't piss her off. not even once. it doesn't even have to be your fault.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 06:56 PM (d/5qf)

114 Am I the only one who finds Quentin Tarantino flicks excruciatingly boring?

Decidedly not.

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 06:56 PM (kpCLl)

115 harry belafonte is the scoamf of music.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 06:56 PM (Z9EHQ)

116 Pardon the intrusion but . . .

Who are all you people? No, I mean really, who are y'all.

Y'all gonna be assimilated, resistance is futile and all that, but c'mon, we can be friends here.

You want to be friends, don't you?

DON'T YOU???

Posted by: Federal Government of Borg at December 13, 2012 06:56 PM (NaNKB)

117 Damn! Over on Twtitter, I think Sifty just named THE worst movie girlfriend of all time. Jenny.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 06:56 PM (piMMO)

118

Total Wine,

=====

We call it "AA Hell". Great craft selection.

Posted by: USS Diversity at December 13, 2012 06:56 PM (MPjT8)

119 Is the Gallup poll of emotion corrected for frequency of masturbation?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 06:56 PM (GsoHv)

120 "But what gives the sauce a real kick is the Ghost Chilli extract which registers at 4.2 million Scoville units"

Not sure what the point of that is... I use Marie Sharp's Belzian Heat (rated at 350,00 scoeville units which is about what an habanero is at, about x1000 where Tabasco is at ~3,500) because it has good flavor and does NOT burn my ass like plain ol jalapenos do, so why would I go to the Ghost Pepper which is supposed to have a 'slow' burn...

Posted by: Obamao at December 13, 2012 06:56 PM (JtyGg)

121 Depending on your moral situation, you could just tell the guy to come over, cap him, take the $1000, dig a shallow grave, and re-advertise. Win/win!!

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 10:48 PM (kpCLl)

Sure, you would do that only because you know some shyster lawyers. The rest of us would have to dig a deeper grave.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 06:57 PM (yh0zB)

122 who is Jenny?

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 06:57 PM (d/5qf)

123 belafonte is an example of what happens if someone stupid happens into too much money.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 06:57 PM (Z9EHQ)

124 104 FMBD

Fuck Me Behind the Dumpster?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 13, 2012 10:54 PM (d/5qf)

You said you wouldn't tell.

Posted by: Axe at December 13, 2012 06:57 PM (wR+pz)

125 There always seem to be a few actresses that get typecast as the bad or bitchy girlfriend

Gina Gershon comes to mind

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 06:57 PM (wwsoB)

126 Fuck Mayans Behind . . . Detroit?

Posted by: Federal Government of Borg at December 13, 2012 06:57 PM (NaNKB)

127 who is Jenny?

From Forrest Gump

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 13, 2012 06:58 PM (8nar1)

128

who is Jenny

=========

Her number is 867-5309. She must be a whore, we all know the number.

Posted by: USS Diversity at December 13, 2012 06:58 PM (MPjT8)

129 Sorry about that, everyone. Didn't mean to upset you unnecessarily.

Upset you necessarily, yes. But not unnecessarily.

You will be assimilated, yada, yada, yada.

Posted by: Federal Government of Borg at December 13, 2012 06:58 PM (NaNKB)

130 Jenny.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 10:56 PM (piMMO)

You do know that "Forrest Gump II" wasn't filmed because Jenny gave him AIDS and he died, leaving his mutant-looking son homeless?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 06:58 PM (GsoHv)

131 Am I the only one who finds Quentin Tarantino flicks excruciatingly boring? *** I can't really attest to how boring they are because I've never felt compelled to watch one. His formula is well-known: Blood, gore, more blood and gore, pretend to be highly artistic in doing so.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 06:58 PM (piMMO)

132 From Forrest Gump

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 13, 2012 10:58 PM (8nar1)

oh.

why is she a bad girlfriend?

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 06:58 PM (d/5qf)

133 ACE!

Please...please...please fix the blog!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 06:58 PM (GsoHv)

134 76 Surprises me that Koreans are less emotional than Chinese. The Koreans are supposed to be "the Irish of Asia".

Posted by: boulder hobo

The "Irish" is in reference to running taverns.

Posted by: Obamao at December 13, 2012 06:59 PM (JtyGg)

135 122 who is Jenny?
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 10:57 PM

Forrest Gump's childhood friend who he always loved even though she was a hippie skank who always dumped him for a loser

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 06:59 PM (wwsoB)

136 My guess? FMBD = fuck my bad day. But it's been a bad day, so I'm biased.

Posted by: joncelli at December 13, 2012 06:59 PM (CWlPF)

137 Wish I could stay and stab, but the bed is beckoning. Night, lovies!

Posted by: Kalneva at December 13, 2012 06:59 PM (S+/pH)

138 Hey chemjeff, nice. We actually did buy her first gun last weekend. She can't wait until the PRMD decides she's not a felon or crazy person. But it was her gift to me that got spoiled. Sucks, she was so proud of it. Peaches, all will be well once it hit the mega millions and retire to Key West, with another place in a non-extradition tropical country, and boat to travel between the two. It's just this piece of shit job, everything is good otherwise. Thanks though, you're good people.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 06:59 PM (4QAQg)

139 Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December I'd love a suggestion on the best website to post it. Here it is. http://tinyurl.com/d96pqqk

Posted by: Tobacco Road, stuck in the ditch at December 13, 2012 06:59 PM (4Mv1T)

140 131 Am I the only one who finds Quentin Tarantino flicks excruciatingly boring?

I don't find him boring, I don't know who the fuck he is.

Sorry, old is ugly.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 06:59 PM (wR+pz)

141 who is Jenny?
A bitch.

Posted by: forrest gump at December 13, 2012 06:59 PM (jPVBi)

142 oh yeah that emotional chart is effin stupid. someone thinks Americans are more emotional than latin Americans, souther Europeans, maybe some portions of America but on average no way.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 06:59 PM (Z9EHQ)

143

Worst movie girlfriends. 2 come to mind.

Kate Winslet for Billy Zane in Titanic.

Penelope Cruz for Johnny Depp in Blow.

Posted by: otho at December 13, 2012 06:59 PM (yBF/9)

144 Fuck Me Before Dinner?

Posted by: Al at December 13, 2012 06:59 PM (V70Uh)

145 Belafonte would have fit right in at Saint-Domingue, during the revolution.

RGIII would have been killed in that revolution. (Which Belafonte has to think is a feature, not a bug.)

Posted by: boulder hobo at December 13, 2012 07:00 PM (QTHTd)

146 "Gina Gershon comes to mind"

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 10:57 PM (wwsoB)

But it would be one hell of a ride!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:00 PM (GsoHv)

147 You do know that "Forrest Gump II" wasn't filmed because Jenny gave him AIDS and he died, leaving his mutant-looking son homeless? **** NOOOOOO!!! WTF is THAT?!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 07:00 PM (piMMO)

148 Right now you can get a house on the water with dock(s), hoist, 4-5 bedrooms, 3 baths, attached two car garage, decks, furnished for $180-220K. Lake Ozark. Party palace.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 07:00 PM (Sptt8)

149 Jenny? She spins.

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:00 PM (NaNKB)

150 Surprises me that Koreans are less emotional than Chinese. The Koreans are supposed to be "the Irish of Asia". Posted by: boulder hobo yeah, no eomtional people on the Korean peninsula.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:00 PM (Z9EHQ)

151 Stupid AP. There are five a's in RAAAAACIST! as everyone who reads The Other McCain well knows. Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 10:53 PM (yh0zB) Budget problems. They gotta cut back somewhere. And it ain't gonna be the tranny hookers or the blow.

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 07:01 PM (XvHmy)

152 good night Kalneva

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:01 PM (d/5qf)

153 chemjeff at December 13, 2012 10:56 PM (d/5qf) Evening CJ. Thanks for the advice. You know I did do that thing, that one time, where I had to get absolute, positive, verification on chromosomal make-up. ;- )

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 07:01 PM (mkb9H)

154 @139

Man that is sweet. I don't know where you post it, but my lawyer does, I'll axe him.

Still, unless you are desperate, hold off. It's not going down in price.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 07:01 PM (wR+pz)

155 Right now you can get a house on the water with dock(s), hoist, 4-5 bedrooms, 3 baths, attached two car garage, decks, furnished for $180-220K.
Lake Ozark.
Party palace.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 11:00 PM (Sptt

wow, that is insanely cheap

we can dock the casino boat that's for sale and have an amazing party palace

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:01 PM (d/5qf)

156 I would definitely go with Jenny from Forest Gump as "Worst Movie Girlfriend of Alll Time".

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at December 13, 2012 07:01 PM (ZETiK)

157 109 Am I the only one who finds Quentin Tarantino flicks excruciatingly boring? Posted by: Ernie McCracken at December 13, 2012 10:54 PM

Pulp Fiction was supposed to be some sort of fantastic movie, but I couldn't sit all the way through it

Some parts seemed to drag on longer than a life sentence

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 07:02 PM (wwsoB)

158 Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 10:54 PM (wR+pz)

But there is a reason they are called "sweet 16s."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:02 PM (GsoHv)

159 144 Fuck Me Before Dinner?

Posted by: Al at December 13, 2012 10:59 PM (V70Uh)

I'll try that on my wife. I like it!

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 07:02 PM (wR+pz)

160 Right now you can get a house on the water with dock(s), hoist, 4-5 bedrooms, 3 baths, attached two car garage, decks, furnished for $180-220K.
Lake Ozark.
Party palace.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 11:00 PM (Sptt

Good lord, Justamom. You want to go thirds on that? We'll pay cash. I will need 2 of the bedrooms and one of the bathrooms. I have nice furniture and artwork, too. Say the word.

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 07:02 PM (kpCLl)

161 On the internet, everyone gets to invent seemingly new ideas - doesn't kludgeocracy=bureaucracy? I blame the bureaucrats ... What's her name from Casino was pretty bad GF, kinda like the second wife ...

Posted by: Joe at December 13, 2012 07:02 PM (ysrca)

162 Sharon Stone for Robert Deniro in Casino.

Posted by: otho at December 13, 2012 07:03 PM (yBF/9)

163 Peaches- Got a boat???

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 07:03 PM (Sptt8)

164 Lake Ozark, as in Missouri?

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:04 PM (NaNKB)

165 Worst wife?

Sharon Stone in "Casino"

She also qualified for Worst Girlfriend in "Basic Instinct"

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 07:04 PM (wwsoB)

166 See, my husband drives me nuts when he's around much, and he's gonna retire soon. The extra house would be good for our marriage. Plus, mid life crisis.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 07:05 PM (Sptt8)

167 It is hard to beat one Tweeter's (Twitterer's) Worst Movie Girlfriend: Carrie Fisher in The Blues Brothers.

"Tries to kill you with an RPG" is a high bar.

However, I've always had some irritation with Bruce Willis' pseudo wife in Die Hard. You get the impression that two months after he saved her life, and they're back together, she'd be like "Yeah, but what have you done for me lately?" and run off with some guy who has a top of the line Mercedes.

Posted by: Splunge at December 13, 2012 07:05 PM (2IW5Q)

168 wow, that is insanely cheap we can dock the casino boat that's for sale and have an amazing party palace Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 11:01 PM (d/5qf) seriously, justamom, are any of the other houses on the lake for sale? We'll buy up a whole bunch!

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:05 PM (xzxDr)

169 Got a boat???

Um, no. I will just hang out at the house.

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 07:05 PM (kpCLl)

170

Worst movie girlfriend ever?

Margot Kidder in Superman

Plus she ended up naked in the shrubbery or sumpin.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 13, 2012 07:05 PM (1OZSU)

171 Sharon Stone did however kick ass in "Total Recall".

Posted by: boulder hobo at December 13, 2012 07:05 PM (QTHTd)

172 Worst girlfriends? Elvira (Michelle Pfeiffer) in Scarface. Knew that Tony was going to whack Frank, did nothing, then followed him home after like a little puppy. All for a nose full of coke.

Now granted, she was hot as shit, but c'mon, a little loyalty would have been nice.

But this, well, damn. http://tinyurl.com/c75ajau

Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 07:06 PM (Zd/NW)

173 Missouri's got it all! My kids are on a ski team... Just waiting for the snow.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 07:06 PM (Sptt8)

174

I would definitely go with Jenny from Forest Gump as "Worst Movie Girlfriend of Alll Time".

======

Why? At least she let him hit it.

Posted by: USS Diversity at December 13, 2012 07:06 PM (MPjT8)

175 ONT kitteh

http://tinyurl.com/cr5x7se

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:06 PM (d/5qf)

176 @158

Funny, I had a humpback Belgium Browning 16 that I lent to some fucker ten years ago, and I can not figure out who I lent it to and the fucker never brought it back. Obviously a friend that I trusted and did not record the transaction.

Fucker has my 16. May his crooked ass rot in hell.

Pisses me off every time I think of a 16.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 07:06 PM (wR+pz)

177 That hot chick from Taken. But she was an ex, so maybe DQ'ed. Still hot though.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 07:06 PM (4QAQg)

178 Missouri's got it all! My kids are on a ski team... Just waiting for the snow. Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 11:06 PM (Sptt

can't you pull them behind a tractor without snow?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:07 PM (Z9EHQ)

179 My kids are on a ski team... Just waiting for the snow.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 11:06 PM (Sptt

Uh, don't you need mountains for that??? Skiing is kind of a passion for me, never knew it was available in Missouri. I'm serious. Never. Knew. This.

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 07:07 PM (kpCLl)

180 ONT kitteh http://tinyurl.com/cr5x7se Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 11:06 PM (d/5qf) lol. hi chemjeff. that kitteh makes me happy.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:08 PM (xzxDr)

181 Sharon Stone was pretty hot in the 90s

Her looks went to hell for a while, but she looks pretty good in recent pics for her age;

http://tinyurl.com/bwazdzn

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 07:08 PM (wwsoB)

182 That hot chick from Taken. But she was an ex, so maybe DQ'ed. Still hot though. **** Even I can appreciate the uber hotness that is Famke Jannsen

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 07:08 PM (piMMO)

183 can't you pull them behind a tractor without snow?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 11:07 PM (Z9EHQ)

I thought that's what they did behind the mud aka "snow".

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 07:08 PM (wR+pz)

184 25 My mood is worse tonight than last night. I didnt even know that was possible This day has almost turned into a carnival of blood and pain at least three times. Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 10:38 PM (4QAQg) No goodM go home and go Cougar hunting!

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 13, 2012 07:08 PM (GEICT)

185 Peaches! We shold have a moron meet up at a ski resort - snowbird ?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:08 PM (Z9EHQ)

186 I didn't think there was skiing here in tropical Missouri either. (Native South Dakotan, now in suburban KC).

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:08 PM (NaNKB)

187 Has anybody noted that the real worst girlfriend in a movie is Jaye Davidson?

Posted by: Al Gore at December 13, 2012 07:09 PM (mKlzx)

188 Bridget Fonda in Jackie Brown. Also for Bill Paxton in A Simple Plan.

Posted by: otho at December 13, 2012 07:09 PM (yBF/9)

189 So, OT, but it is like the fuckin' arctic tundra here in SoCalifuckistan. If it weren't for the padded bra, I would have frozen my tits off in Century City today. Supposed to go down to 39 tonight. Hullo!!!!

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 07:09 PM (kpCLl)

190 Worst wife? Sharon Stone in Total Recall.

Consider theese a deevorshhhh.

Posted by: Tocquevillian at December 13, 2012 07:09 PM (iuY0Y)

191 Yeah, Missouri has ski resorts and everything

http://www.skisnowcreek.com/

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:09 PM (d/5qf)

192 Eagles cough it up AGAIN bwahahahhhahahahahh

Posted by: USS Diversity at December 13, 2012 07:10 PM (MPjT8)

193 now in suburban KC).

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 11:08 PM (NaNKB)

oh you poor miserable bastard.

*grew up 150 miles north of KCMO*

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 07:10 PM (yh0zB)

194 Supposed to go down to 39 tonight. Hullo!!!!

let me whip out my tiny Missouri violin for ya

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:10 PM (d/5qf)

195

I always wanted to try water skiing...

...but I could never find a lake with a hill on it!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 13, 2012 07:10 PM (1OZSU)

196 Ok, I'm out to drive home. Then, I need a drink. See you in an hour and a half or so.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 07:10 PM (4QAQg)

197 Worst wife in a TV show? Skyler White.

Posted by: ElKomandante at December 13, 2012 07:11 PM (72QgB)

198 Justamom, you from the Lake? I got family there.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 07:11 PM (DoZD+)

199 So the good news today: Susan Rice and the JEF knew she couldn't stand up to the Benghazi scrutiny/inquisition of a SecState confirmation hearing. And they know that Heinz-Kerry wasn't 'gonna get it as SecDef. So we may get a R at Defense, and possibly a R. Senator from Mass. The bad news: I was really looking forward to the fight. And the truth. And now Hill does the dog-and-pony right before the Xmas break, when everyone is preoccupied. Perfectly timed by the rat-bastards for minimal exposure. You have to admire the gangster organization on their part. MF'ers!

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 07:12 PM (mkb9H)

200 Hey Peaches same thing here in N Fla. Walking around out there in a Travon helps, but a heavy mist and steady wind...ugh.

Posted by: Tocquevillian at December 13, 2012 07:12 PM (iuY0Y)

201 http://www.skisnowcreek.com/

Ah, OK, up by Weston.

Isn't Weston home to McCormick, the maker of cheap swill liquor?

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:12 PM (NaNKB)

202 No, worst of all time. Alex Forest from Fatal Attraction. She boiled a fucking bunny.

Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 07:12 PM (Zd/NW)

203 Yeah, Missouri has ski resorts and everything http://www.skisnowcreek.com/ Postedr by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 11:09 PM (d/5qf) nope. I do not even have to look at the link. I have slid down every slope worth slidking down on in the lower 48 and none of them are in Missouri. Never even heard of anyone suggesting "ski Missouri" not even the the Mossouri Tourism Board would dare suggest that for undermining all of their other efforts.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:12 PM (Z9EHQ)

204 Nancy from "Sid and Nancy"...

Wait...

was this the best or worst?

Posted by: Obamao at December 13, 2012 07:12 PM (JtyGg)

205 In Missouri, right near the Arkansas border, is Big Cedar. It's an absolutely gorgeous resort which is owned by Bass Pro Shops. http://www.bigcedar.com/default.aspx I'd love to have a meetup there.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 07:12 PM (piMMO)

206 Pisses me off every time I think of a 16.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 13, 2012 11:06 PM (wR+pz)

Hunt him down and kill him.

Seriously, that's a sweet shotgun. I love Brownings. Anyone who would steal such a beautiful piece deserves to die.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:12 PM (GsoHv)

207 Eagles IMPLODING. It's feckin beautiful man.

Posted by: USS Diversity at December 13, 2012 07:13 PM (MPjT8)

208 oh you poor miserable bastard

Well you know, it's like that song . . .

"They got some crazy little women and I'm gonna get me one."

Yeah, thing is, it actually worked in my case.

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:13 PM (NaNKB)

209 KC and St. Louis both have man made ski areas with large hills. Our St. Louis "resort" just redid the lodge and added new runs. It's pretty cool and close and cheap. I plan on keeping our skis on my roof rack the whole winter, and going straight from carpool 20 minutes to the lift! Galena, IL is a darling little ski spot. Sweet little town, microbreweries, also cheap.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 07:13 PM (Sptt8)

210 They just called a penalty in the football game, "disconcerting cadence'.....W.T.F?

Posted by: Tami at December 13, 2012 07:14 PM (X6akg)

211 Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 11:12 PM (Z9EHQ)

Have you been to Banff/Louise? The skiing is better at Louise but one of my fave hotels in the world is the Banff Springs. I wish I could just go live there.

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 07:14 PM (kpCLl)

212 snowbird ?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 11:08 PM (Z9EHQ)

Skied there in college. Nice place. And damn, that powder was deep!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:15 PM (GsoHv)

213 Peaches, it is 39 in D.C. right now. All these polar bears from the North will give you a hard time, but I am with you in spirit. I mean, give her a break, the ONE good thing about L.A. is the weather! You take that away and she's got nothing!

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:15 PM (xzxDr)

214 Cincy just slipped it into the philos-hole of the Eagles again . . .

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:15 PM (NaNKB)

215 Off to bed. Sleep well, morons.

Posted by: joncelli at December 13, 2012 07:15 PM (CWlPF)

216 BTW, Big Cedar is NOT a ski resort, just a gloriously beautiful resort.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 07:15 PM (piMMO)

217 Galena, IL is a darling little ski spot. Sweet little town, microbreweries, also cheap.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 11:13 PM (Sptt

Yeah, but...IL. I have to stop at the last rest stop in IN to disarm and lock the gun in the trunk until I get to STL on my way home to see the folks, no way I'd go somewhere in IL voluntarily.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 07:15 PM (yh0zB)

218 lol. hi chemjeff. that kitteh makes me happy.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 11:08 PM (xzxDr)

I'm happy that you are emhappened

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:16 PM (d/5qf)

219 WTF is THAT?!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 11:00 PM (piMMO)

You do know who I am?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:17 PM (GsoHv)

220 205 In Missouri, right near the Arkansas border, is Big Cedar.

It's an absolutely gorgeous resort which is owned by Bass Pro Shops.

http://www.bigcedar.com/default.aspx

I'd love to have a meetup there.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 11:12 PM (piMMO)

Let's do it. I would totally go to that. And I don't even ski.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:18 PM (d/5qf)

221 skiing in MO? Show me ...

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 07:18 PM (ysrca)

222 Well, hell. I just went to that Twit thing and followed Maet, chemjeff, and DrewM.

Do you suppose that will, in the long run, be a good idea?

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:19 PM (NaNKB)

223 Yeah, but if Bruce Willis's girlfriend had not forgotten his watch he never would have been able to square things with Mr. Wallace.

Posted by: eman at December 13, 2012 07:19 PM (fGw3R)

224 Have you been to Banff/Louise? The skiing is better at Louise but one of my fave hotels in the world is the Banff Springs. I wish I could just go live there. Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 11:14 PM (kpCLl) perhaps my favorite place to ski, but it is nearly impossible to get there from here - nearly a full day of travel. you are right, beautiful and great skiing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:19 PM (Z9EHQ)

225 You take that away and she's got nothing!

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 11:15 PM (xzxDr)

Good sushi.
Good Mexican.

Um....there must be more. Give me a second. I'll think of it...........

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:19 PM (GsoHv)

226 that's how you do it, PoliHat Just a snippet of a teaser, and the link. Many of The HordeÂ™ will click through on that. Put your whole post up in the comments, not so much. I should tell you the story, sometime, of my AoSHQ-lanche, back in the day. Of course, when I tell you that story, it'll be via a link to my small (but tiny!) blog. Good posts, BTW. You're doin' it right.

Posted by: AltonJackson has been tinkerin' with this whole "bloggin'" thingie for quite some time at December 13, 2012 07:19 PM (JMmQ9)

227 OK, Big Cedar is nice, but anyone been to Dogwood Canyon? It's an enormous conservation area owned by the guy who owns Bass Pro. Bush stays there. Beautiful resorts, cabins, nature on your own or with groups. Covers MO and AR border Sounth of Tablerock Lake.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 07:19 PM (Sptt8)

228 man made ski areas with large hills

Bless your heart . . .

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 07:19 PM (kpCLl)

229 Do you suppose that will, in the long run, be a good idea? Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 11:19 PM (NaNKB) why don't you get back to us on that in a couple of days. lol.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:19 PM (xzxDr)

230 Have you been to Banff/Louise? The skiing is better at Louise but one of my fave hotels in the world is the Banff Springs. I wish I could just go live there. Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 11:14 PM (kpCLl) --Never stayed at either hotel, but they are pretty and in stunning settings. The Lake Louise is far more plain on the outside than Banff Springs, but more sumptuous on the inside than BS.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:20 PM (gBuIk)

231 222 Well, hell. I just went to that Twit thing and followed Maet, chemjeff, and DrewM.

Do you suppose that will, in the long run, be a good idea?

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 11:19 PM (NaNKB)

Maet and chemjeff, yes.

Posted by: Tami at December 13, 2012 07:20 PM (X6akg)

232 Hey, Big Cedar looks pretty close to where Miss Tammy is in Arkansas as well

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:20 PM (d/5qf)

233 man made ski areas with large hills Bless your heart . . . Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 11:19 PM (kpCLl) LOL!

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:20 PM (xzxDr)

234 filbert, you should know that I'm not exactly prolific on teh tweets. only occasionally. and usually when I'm drunk.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:21 PM (d/5qf)

235 why don't you get back to us on that in a couple of days. lol.

It's the wine. This happens when I get into the wine.

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:21 PM (NaNKB)

236 Political Hat has a blog!!! Whaaaaa...???

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 13, 2012 07:21 PM (1OZSU)

237 Skied there in college. Nice place. And damn, that powder was deep! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 11:15 PM (GsoHv) yeah lots of powder, ski on it through april.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:21 PM (Z9EHQ)

238 213 Peaches, it is 39 in D.C. right now. All these polar bears from the North will give you a hard time, but I am with you in spirit.

I mean, give her a break, the ONE good thing about L.A. is the weather! You take that away and she's got nothing! Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 11:15 PM

15 years in L.A. and the last two in SW FL, I'm freezing if it's in the 40s

One more thing to chill Californians; Blue Cross of CA is raising rates 20 percent. They will move out of the state but they won't blame Obama, Brown, or Sacramento leftists

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 07:21 PM (wwsoB)

239 Do you suppose that will, in the long run, be a good idea?

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 11:19 PM (NaNKB)

Sure, right up until they murder you in your sleep and suck the marrow from your bones.

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 07:21 PM (kpCLl)

240 I've been thrown out of MO more times than a lot of people have been there. Yeah I was a dumb teenage kid who lived 10 miles from the border...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 07:21 PM (yh0zB)

241 oh I would love to go to Banff, I have heard such wonderful things about it

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:21 PM (d/5qf)

242 Let's do it. I would totally go to that. And I don't even ski. **** Good! Because it isn't a ski resort! I kinda picked up on the MO resort conversation not realizing it was abut "ski" resorts. BC is really beautiful and has several different options for housing plus water-skiing, boating, horseback riding, golf, and hiking. In my case, it would just be a gorgeous place to chill out.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 07:22 PM (piMMO)

243 I've been thrown out of MO more times than a lot of people have been there.

And yet you keep coming back....

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:22 PM (d/5qf)

244 man made ski areas with large hills Bless your heart . . . Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 11:19 PM (kpCLl) it is a ski slope where the last half is below ground?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:22 PM (Z9EHQ)

245 Um....there must be more. Give me a second. I'll think of it........... You can buy Jack, at the Sev, at 3 am ...

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 07:22 PM (ysrca)

246 Good sushi. Good Mexican. Um....there must be more. Give me a second. I'll think of it........... Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 11:19 PM (GsoHv) okay, okay. I'll give you those. But all of the L.A. food life is predicated on there being nice weather to enjoy it in.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:23 PM (xzxDr)

247 I'm not exactly prolific on teh tweets. only occasionally. and usually when I'm drunk.
Yeah, well, I've had a Twitter account for a while and average maybe a tweet semi-annually, so . . .

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:23 PM (NaNKB)

248 222 Well, hell. I just went to that Twit thing and followed Maet, chemjeff, and DrewM. Do you suppose that will, in the long run, be a good idea? Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 11:19 PM (NaNKB) 2 outa 3 ain't bad.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 13, 2012 07:23 PM (GEICT)

249 Banff Springs. I wish I could just go live there... Peaches at December 13, 2012 11:14 PM Me. Too. If/when the SHTF I'm heading for "high ground". I don't think zombies like skiing. I do. But in NC we do it on the crud. We call it "loud powder". So north ID, 1st. Then maybe sneak into Canukistan.

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 07:24 PM (mkb9H)

250 Sure, right up until they murder you in your sleep and suck the marrow from your bones. Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 11:21 PM (kpCLl) wow, the twitter platform has really improved since they first got it going.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:24 PM (xzxDr)

251 I mentioned it last night but it needs repeating. The movie Ted sucked.

Posted by: polynikes at December 13, 2012 07:24 PM (WQhht)

252 Sure, right up until they murder you in your sleep and suck the marrow from your bones.

It's the wine. This happens when I get into the wine.

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:24 PM (NaNKB)

253 Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 11:23 PM (xzxDr)

And Peaches!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:24 PM (GsoHv)

254 who is Jenny
=========
Her number is 867-5309. She must be a whore, we all know the number.

Posted by: USS Diversity at December 13, 2012 10:58 PM (MPjT

No, she's a bitch. A whore sleeps with everyone. A bitch sleeps with everyone but me.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at December 13, 2012 07:24 PM (nZvGM)

255 I see 167 were sickened after dining at the golden corral. Someone double dipped in the chocolate waterfall?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:24 PM (Z9EHQ)

256 Good sushi.
Good Mexican.

Um....there must be more. Give me a second. I'll think of it...........
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 11:19 PM

I hate sushi and any place with a sizable Mexican population will provide good Mexican food

Weather, and fantastic scenery

I miss it sometimes, but no regrets and I wouldn't go back there to live unless they elect politicians who won't wreck the place.

Since that won't happen, I still want to go back for visits

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 07:24 PM (wwsoB)

257 The Lake Louise is far more plain on the outside than Banff Springs, but more sumptuous on the inside than BS.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 11:20 PM (gBuIk)

Are you crazy??? Last time I let them book me into the "Chateau" Lake Louise, I threw a tissy fit and had them transfer me straight back to the Banff Springs. It's a Scottish baronial castle. It is, imho, incomparable. You do have to ask for the right rooms (tower), they've got a shitty annex where you never want to be stuck.

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 07:25 PM (kpCLl)

258 And yet you keep coming back....

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 11:22 PM (d/5qf)

Driving through it isn't quite the same as coming back...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 07:25 PM (yh0zB)

259 Yeah, well, I've had a Twitter account for a while and average maybe a tweet semi-annually, so . . . **** I signed up a few years ago but only sent about 10 tweets before I stopped using it. This year I've sent more than 5k. It grows on you.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 07:25 PM (piMMO)

260 Regarding the Noah's Flood article in the right sidebar, this article from a few years ago is also interesting: http://tinyurl.com/cjbbwog

Posted by: rickl at December 13, 2012 07:26 PM (sdi6R)

261 I mentioned it last night but it needs repeating. The movie Ted sucked. **** You watched that?!!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 07:26 PM (piMMO)

262 I could be talked into a (western or southwestern) Missouri Moron Meetup.

My wife, on the other hand . . .

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:27 PM (NaNKB)

263

Obamafo lady: Ohhh yes, everybuh in Cleveland, all minority got Obama kidney! Keep Obama in President, ya know. He gave us a kidney!

Interviewer: Â“HowÂ’d he give you a kidney?Â”

Obamafo lady: You sign up If you on th'food stamps, you on th' social security, you got low income, you disability, you on th' immigration, you on the 'bamacare. You get a kidney!

Interviewer: Okay, whatÂ’s wrong with Romney again?

Obamafo lady: Romney...........???

.................he suck!!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 13, 2012 07:27 PM (1OZSU)

264 I see 167 were sickened after dining at the golden corral. Someone double dipped in the chocolate waterfall? Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 11:24 PM (Z9EHQ) if I go to Hell it will be just like golden corral. Here, let me pay you to eat way too much food I don't enjoy.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:27 PM (xzxDr)

265 241 oh I would love to go to Banff, I have heard such wonderful things about it Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 11:21 PM (d/5qf) --It's pretty cool how all the trash cans in the town site are grizzly-proof.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:27 PM (gBuIk)

266 Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 11:21 PM (Z9EHQ)

I was used to the groomed stuff in Tahoe. Great place and fun at night.

But Utah was different. The first 50 turns in knee-deep powder were interesting.

Turn..turn...fall. Turn...turn...fall.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:27 PM (GsoHv)

267 Blue Cross of CA is raising rates 20 percent.

KB, I have BC. Last July it was $467 a month. In August, due to a birthday, it went to $535. The other day I got a notice that it's going to $667 on February 1st. That is a 24.6 percent increase. 42.8 percent increase in 6 months. I am beyond livid.

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 07:28 PM (kpCLl)

268 Here, let me pay you to eat way too much food I don't enjoy. Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 11:27 PM (xzxDr)

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:28 PM (Z9EHQ)

269 And before I forget, thanks to all the morons who got me through my "sleep" study last night. I love that, no matter the circumstance, I can reach over and grab my I-phone and know that you folks are there.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 07:28 PM (piMMO)

270 Fucking dumb can't be HAPPY and UNEMOTIONAL

Posted by: Eaton Cox is kind of a LIBNO at December 13, 2012 07:28 PM (+wxCD)

271
--It's pretty cool how all the trash cans in the town site are grizzly-proof.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 11:27 PM (gBuIk)

hmmmmmmmmm that is more of a discouragement than an advertisement

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:28 PM (d/5qf)

272 251 I mentioned it last night but it needs repeating. The movie Ted sucked. Posted by: polynikes at December 13, 2012 11:24 PM (WQhht) --Yeah, looked to me like a movie with a CGI bear who talked like most characters in Seth MacFarlane cartoons, all of which I detest.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:28 PM (gBuIk)

273 Niedermeyer, we're here for you

even though I wasn't, everybody else is

so, yeah

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:28 PM (d/5qf)

274 I could be talked into a (western or southwestern) Missouri Moron Meetup.

My wife, on the other hand . . .

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 11:27 PM (NaNKB)

I might show for a NW Mo meetup, I'm trying to get out there this summer sometime to see the folks in SW Iowa.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 07:29 PM (yh0zB)

275 I'm late to the party, but Al Pacino's wife in "Heat" was terrible.

Posted by: no good deed at December 13, 2012 07:29 PM (mjR67)

276 plus water-skiing, boating, horseback riding, golf, and hiking.
But will I be able to enjoy myself?

Posted by: heavy flo days at December 13, 2012 07:29 PM (jPVBi)

277 Bridget Fonda for Sam Jackson in Jackie Brown. Totally amoral, lazy as can be, and annoying......the trifecta of womanhood.

So, I was gone all day. This work stuff really needs to stop; it's ruining my nails. So, was there any HQ drama today? Dick waving, banhammering, boobeh shots from the ettes?

Oh and pshaw on the whole Peaches fear thingy. She's an easily handled declawed pussycat.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2012 07:29 PM (ccXZP)

278 I might show for a NW Mo meetup,

St. Joseph, babeeee! We have... umm... beer!

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:29 PM (d/5qf)

279 twitter is very useful for breaking news. I use lists for various topics For example, I have list for all this college football realignment talk where I follow a bunch of reporters who follow this for a living. And when some big international news breaks -- like the Libya or Egypt revolutions or Syria -- I'll create a list for that and follow reporters on the scene who seem to have good info.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 13, 2012 07:29 PM (ZPrif)

280 Are you crazy??? Last time I let them book me into the "Chateau" Lake Louise, I threw a tissy fit and had them transfer me straight back to the Banff Springs. It's a Scottish baronial castle. It is, imho, incomparable. You do have to ask for the right rooms (tower), they've got a shitty annex where you never want to be stuck. Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 11:25 PM (kpCLl) --I'm just talking about the public/lobby areas. Never seen any of the rooms.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:29 PM (gBuIk)

281 Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 11:24 PM (wwsoB)

20 years in Northern California.

I miss it every day, but what I miss is gone forever.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:29 PM (GsoHv)

282 I might show for a NW Mo meetup, I'm trying to get out there this summer sometime to see the folks in SW Iowa.

Alright! Rockport, MO, here we come!

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:30 PM (NaNKB)

283 My dog is insisting I take him for a walk. BBL.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 07:30 PM (yh0zB)

284 Posted by: no good deed at December 13, 2012 11:29 PM (mjR67)

She looked and acted like an over-the-hill porn actress.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:30 PM (GsoHv)

285 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo it is something of a steep learning curve for powder but really worth the snow in your pants. I always enjoy being up to my waist in snow and wondering where my skis are.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:31 PM (Z9EHQ)

286 In the fiscal cliff negotiations, Boehner should insist upon a 100% tax on Seth MacFarlane. Call it the unearned income tax.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at December 13, 2012 07:32 PM (nZvGM)

287 Alright! Rockport, MO, here we come!

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 11:30 PM (NaNKB)

Rockypit? Nobody even knows where that is!

Well, I do...I blame a mis-spent youth...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 07:32 PM (yh0zB)

288 ChemJeff,

We needed you this afternoon, when all the cool kids (the science geeks) were talking about how nasty HF is, and the equally dangerous Hydroxyl acid.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:32 PM (GsoHv)

289 If only Heavenly, & Kirkland, & Northstar, and Lake Tahoe were not in/at CA/NV. But I hear Truckee is actually pretty cool.

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 07:33 PM (mkb9H)

290 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 13, 2012 11:29 PM (ZPrif)

See I am not good on the whole "list" thing. What client do you use?

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:33 PM (d/5qf)

291 I hate sushi and any place with a sizable Mexican population will provide good Mexican food. oh kdabear, I have not found this to be true. I grew up in L.A. and then lived in many places outside the southwest. with sizeable Mexican populations and crappy crappy crappy Mexican food, and only halfway decent Mexican food made by the actual Mexicans. It's like the whole, you can't get good pizza outside of NY thing. it's the water or something. it just doesn't translate, imo. just my opinion. If anyone knows where to get good Mexican (baja style, not texmex) in D.C., let me know.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:33 PM (xzxDr)

292 --I'm just talking about the public/lobby areas. Never seen any of the rooms. Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 11:29 PM (gBuIk) at least not as you can rember or are willing to confess.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:33 PM (Z9EHQ)

293 271 --It's pretty cool how all the trash cans in the town site are grizzly-proof. Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 11:27 PM (gBuIk) hmmmmmmmmm that is more of a discouragement than an advertisement Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 11:28 PM (d/5qf) --Well, never saw a bear in town (or out in the woods, either) but I love the frontier feel of it. One place there I loved is St. James Gate, an Irish pub. Rooms in the town are pricey though; last time I went there I stayed in the hostel (which was also pricey by hostel standards) to save serious bucks.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:33 PM (gBuIk)

294 The first trip I skied my husband, he took me down the North face at some place near Frisco, last lift. Sunset, did thousands of feet on my ass, cussed like a sailor in the changing area.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 07:33 PM (Sptt8)

295 yes, HF is terrible. I refuse to deal with it. it is bad, bad stuff.

and the equally dangerous Hydroxyl acid.

umm.... wut? you mean H2O?

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:34 PM (d/5qf)

296 Damn, I was hoping Jermaine Gresham would get me a score tonight. I desperately want to return to the finals in the last fantasy league in which I'm alive.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:34 PM (gBuIk)

297 Rockypit? Nobody even knows where that is!

Hey, when you're headed north from KC, it's either Rockport or that other shitty little town whose name I can't remember between St. Joseph and Omaha if you need a pee break . . .

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:34 PM (NaNKB)

298 Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 11:31 PM (Z9EHQ)

It was a joy I will never forget. Although the lift ticket was pricey....$6.

Yes, I am old.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:34 PM (GsoHv)

299 Hey, when you're headed north from KC

That's "headed north from KC on I-29" anyway . . .

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:35 PM (NaNKB)

300 Alright! Rockport, MO, here we come!

there is nothing in Rockport. sorry.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:35 PM (d/5qf)

301 Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 11:34 PM (d/5qf)

Yup.

Were were arguing about which state was more dangerous. I think solid is the worst, but there were supporters of both liquid and gas as the most dangerous.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:35 PM (GsoHv)

302 275 I'm late to the party, but Al Pacino's wife in "Heat" was terrible.
Posted by: no good deed at December 13, 2012 11:29 PM

I HATED that bitch, she didn't say one line that wasn't a pop psychology cliche. Whines about "sharing" or "feelings" with a guy she knew didn't keep regular office hours.

Oh, I see, what I should do is, er, come home and say "Hi honey! Guess what? I walked into this house today, where this junkie asshole just fried his baby in a microwave, because it was crying too loud. So let me share that with you. Come on, let's share that, and in sharing it, we'll somehow, er, cathartically dispel all that heinous shit". Right?

Actually, none of the women in that movie were likable

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 07:36 PM (wwsoB)

303 We had to bear-proof our busses - its not really working ...

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 07:36 PM (ysrca)

304 Watts Up With That has links to the leaked IPCC AR5 draft--featuring enhanced solar forcing that they actually inconventiently admit. May want to head over there and read it before the UN disappears it.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 13, 2012 07:36 PM (WWeoI)

305 They moved Rockport to Missouri? What about the ferry to Vinalhaven, did they move that, too?

Posted by: Enby at December 13, 2012 07:37 PM (ptlfZ)

306 Noah's ark doesn't exist. It's a lie perpetuated by the lying, evil Creationists so they can control the Republican party.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 07:37 PM (DoZD+)

307 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 11:35 PM (GsoHv)

well, solid and gas are more acutely dangerous. liquid is more of a chronic hazard.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:37 PM (d/5qf)

308 Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 11:33 PM (Sptt

You realize that he was laughing the entire way down.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:37 PM (GsoHv)

309 there is nothing in Rockport. sorry.

Oh, come on, there's that McDonald's . . . I think . . .

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:37 PM (NaNKB)

310 255 I see 167 were sickened after dining at the golden corral. Someone double dipped in the chocolate waterfall?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 11:24 PM (Z9EHQ)

Yes because letting little kids stick their booger hooks into a streaming chocolate fountain is the height of sanitary.

Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 07:37 PM (Zd/NW)

311 I know Rockport, Texas Rockport, MO? Not so much.

Posted by: AltonJackson has been tinkerin' with this whole at December 13, 2012 07:38 PM (JMmQ9)

312 liquid is more of a chronic hazard.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 11:37 PM (d/5qf)

Although as a mixer with bourbon it really isn't dangerous at all.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:38 PM (GsoHv)

313 286 In the fiscal cliff negotiations, Boehner should insist upon a 100% tax on Seth MacFarlane. Call it the unearned income tax. Posted by: somebody else, not me at December 13, 2012 11:32 PM

Same for Lena Dunham written about on last night's ONT

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 07:38 PM (wwsoB)

314 Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 11:37 PM (NaNKB)

no no no.

there is:

KC --> St. Joseph --> Exit 10 in Iowa (what town is it? who knows? who cares?) --> Omaha

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:38 PM (d/5qf)

315 Yes because letting little kids stick their booger hooks into a streaming chocolate fountain is the height of sanitary.

Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 11:37 PM (Zd/NW)

Oh, thanks for that image.

Prick.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:39 PM (GsoHv)

316 Yes because letting little kids stick their booger hooks into a streaming chocolate fountain is the height of sanitary. Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 11:37 PM (Zd/NW) I guess the good news is they 86d the original recirculating chocolate bidet in favor of the recirculating waterfall of chocolate.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:39 PM (Z9EHQ)

317 Although as a mixer with bourbon it really isn't dangerous at all.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 11:38 PM (GsoHv)

as I said, a *chronic* hazard (one that I am enjoying right now)

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:39 PM (d/5qf)

318 katya Noah's ark doesn't exist. It's a lie perpetuated by the lying, evil Creationists so they can control the Republican party.

More likely it's a lie perpetrated by liberals to keep voters from taking conservatism seriously.

Posted by: boulder hobo at December 13, 2012 07:40 PM (QTHTd)

319 Kevin Spacey's wife in American Beauty was a piece of work.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 13, 2012 07:40 PM (BAS5M)

320 I'm here for my Turing test, to see if I can get promoted to Skynet. If any of you gets a call from NSA, just remember, all 10's, OK? Thanks ever so.

Posted by: AI at December 13, 2012 07:40 PM (ptlfZ)

321 Good night all.

Careful of the hydroxyl acid vapor outside. It can kill you if you aren't careful.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 07:40 PM (GsoHv)

322 314 Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 11:37 PM (NaNKB) no no no. there is: KC --> St. Joseph --> Exit 10 in Iowa (what town is it? who knows? who cares?) --> Omaha Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 11:38 PM (d/5qf) --When I was driving from Dallas to ND, Mapquest had me avoid the KC area altogether and drive up Route 75 north from Topeka. What a boring drive, especially with construction slowing you down.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:40 PM (gBuIk)

323 okay, I am in trouble.
I have consumed all the beer and not gotten any of my work done. that means I have to get up early and get it finished when I am sober.
oh well.

so, see you on the THC I suppose.

good night all

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 07:40 PM (d/5qf)

324 We are however, katya, in agreement that Noah's Ark does not exist. So, there's that.

Posted by: boulder hobo at December 13, 2012 07:40 PM (QTHTd)

325 Exit 10 in Iowa (what town is it? who knows? who cares?)

Nebraska City?

Problem is that we leave from Lee's Summit, so it's 45 minutes to the airport, and Rockport is one full bladder's distance from our home when I'm going to the ancestral grounds. NE City is a bit too far unless I want to start wearing Depends . . .

Although once I went nonstop from St. Joseph to Brookings, SD (where I lived at the time) -- nearly six hours. Man, did I need some relief after that haul.

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:41 PM (NaNKB)

326 I finally wrote out the Christmas/holiday cards tonight and finished my eighth batch of biscotti. Dropped big pity hints in cards to two CO friends about kids waiting for snow to ski Missouri. Sending them Biscotti, too.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 07:41 PM (Sptt8)

327 When I was driving from Dallas to ND, Mapquest had me avoid the KC area altogether and drive up Route 75 north from Topeka. What a boring drive, especially with construction slowing you down. Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 11:40 PM (gBuIk) you should go through east st. louis next time

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:41 PM (Z9EHQ)

328 I have to wake up at 4 am and my shirt and pants, and polish my shoes. The brat is forcing me to wear shoes to her graduation ceremony tomorrow from college.

She specifically said "Dad, you have to wear shoes." I go entire years without wearing shoes, so this is no small thing she's demanding.

Worst of all, I know she will check to see if I've got a pair on. Where's the trust? Oh yeah, she knows me.

I'm still contemplating drawing shoes on my feet with a black magic marker. It's too bad I suck at drawing.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2012 07:41 PM (ccXZP)

329 IMHO - Utah is the best "Pow". The Cottonwood Canyons. And Alta may still be "no snowboarders". It was one of the last hold-outs (I hear that Angel Fire, NM finally relented a few years ago). Anyway - they do advertise "Greatest Snow on Earth". And its a hop, skip, and jump from SLIA (SLC). But I've not been to Steamboat, CO for the "Champagne". Yet.

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 07:42 PM (mkb9H)

330 Nebraska City? Problem is that we leave from Lee's Summit, so it's 45 minutes to the airport, and Rockport is one full bladder's distance from our home when I'm going to the ancestral grounds. NE City is a bit too far unless I want to start wearing Depends . . . Although once I went nonstop from St. Joseph to Brookings, SD (where I lived at the time) -- nearly six hours. Man, did I need some relief after that haul. Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 11:41 PM (NaNKB) is that what nebraska calls their city?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:42 PM (Z9EHQ)

331 So Andy Reid? Fired by the Eagles at the end of the season?

Posted by: buzzion at December 13, 2012 07:42 PM (GULKT)

332 Dropped big pity hints in cards to two CO friends about kids waiting for snow to ski Missouri. Sending them Biscotti, too. Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 11:41 PM (Sptt

what kind of biscotti do you make? I used to make a lemon pistachio biscotti that was the bee's knees. I found them really easy to screw up by overworking the dough.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:43 PM (xzxDr)

333 I expected the former Soviet Republics to be pretty devoid of emotion. Communism tends to make you less human.

There is no way that Americans are more emotional than Spaniards and Italians though.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 13, 2012 07:43 PM (SkyIE)

334 326 I finally wrote out the Christmas/holiday cards tonight and finished my eighth batch of biscotti. Dropped big pity hints in cards to two CO friends about kids waiting for snow to ski Missouri. Sending them Biscotti, too. Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 11:41 PM (Sptt

--Speaking of biscotti, has anyone else tried the new biscotti flavored Bailey's? A couple months ago there were free samples in the MLCC --damn tasty stuff. I just wish Bailey's was not so pricey.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:43 PM (gBuIk)

335 I have to wake up at 4 am and my shirt and pants, and polish my shoes. The brat is forcing me to wear shoes to her graduation ceremony tomorrow from college. She specifically said "Dad, you have to wear shoes." I go entire years without wearing shoes, so this is no small thing she's demanding. Worst of all, I know she will check to see if I've got a pair on. Where's the trust? Oh yeah, she knows me. I'm still contemplating drawing shoes on my feet with a black magic marker. It's too bad I suck at drawing. Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2012 11:41 PM (ccXZP) she made a rookie blunder - demanded shoes but said nary a word about pants.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:43 PM (Z9EHQ)

336 chemjeff. I just use the main twitter page. I have friends who use apps. But I just go straight to the main page. When you are on someone's profile. Next to the follow button (just to the left) is a silhouette of a head and a down arrow. Click on that and you get option to block or report the person -- or add or remove them from a list. The add or remove from list window pops up and at the bottom of your list of lists is a "create a list" button. I have dozen or so lists. NCAA, UFC, NHL, politics, energy news, tech news, stuff like that. That way all my subjects aren't all mixed together. When I'm watching a UFC fight I open my UFC list and I get UFC related tweets. I tend not to follow random people so much as media people. So I follow UFC reporters that I know are trying to get behind the scenes info. I also follow Dana White (UFC pres) on that list. My friends just have everyone they follow all mixed together on the main page. I find that confusing.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 13, 2012 07:44 PM (ZPrif)

337 so, see you on the THC I suppose. good night all Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 11:40 PM (d/5qf) bye, chemjeff! I'm sorry if we enabled you to slack off!

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:44 PM (xzxDr)

338 --Yeah, looked to me like a movie with a CGI bear who talked like most characters in Seth MacFarlane cartoons, all of which I detest. Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 11:28 PM (gBuIk) It seemed from the commercials to be a rip off of the old WB sit-com "Unhappily Ever After." Loved that show, especially Nikki Cox.

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 07:44 PM (XvHmy)

339

We are however, katya, in agreement that Noah's Ark does not exist. So, there's that.

I was being sarcastic about the evil, lying creationists. But I find it improbable that a several thousand year old wooden structure still exists. So, yeah. I guess so.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 07:44 PM (DoZD+)

340 When I was driving from Dallas to ND, Mapquest had me avoid the KC area altogether and drive up Route 75 north from Topeka. What a boring drive, especially with construction slowing you down.

Note to self: Don't trust Mapquest driving directions.

Man, logprof, that's messed up! I35 up to KC, I435 to avoid downtown KC, then I29 to ND.

Unless you were heading to somewhere west of Bismarck, that is . . .

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:44 PM (NaNKB)

341 KC --> St. Joseph --> Exit 10 in Iowa (what town is it? who knows? who cares?) --> Omaha

Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2012 11:38 PM (d/5qf)

Misery Valley? The Museum of Religious Arts is there (Dad grew up in Logan, about 8 miles up Hwy 30 from there)

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 07:44 PM (yh0zB)

342 IMHO - Utah is the best "Pow". The Cottonwood Canyons. And Alta may still be "no snowboarders". It was one of the last hold-outs (I hear that Angel Fire, NM finally relented a few years ago). Anyway - they do advertise "Greatest Snow on Earth". And its a hop, skip, and jump from SLIA (SLC). But I've not been to Steamboat, CO for the "Champagne". Yet. Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 11:42 PM (mkb9H) you are right, however, despite the better snow accomodations suck. stay at snowbird, ski at alta .

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:45 PM (Z9EHQ)

343
Oh, thanks for that image.

Prick.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 11:39 PM (GsoHv)

Hows this for an image. 25 years ago while at the mall I decided to stop in the food court and grab a slice of pizza for lunch. I sit down at a table in the food court, and a few tables over, a couple of 18 year old baby mamas decide to change their precious little angels' diapers, right on the table right in the middle of the food court.

My pizza went directly into the trash. I have never eaten at a food court since.

Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 07:45 PM (Zd/NW)

344 re: 'Nancy from "Sid and Nancy"...'

Was gonna say.

She's the worst movie girlfriend who's a plausible character. These other ones are all Movie Girlfriends. And the ones in Tarantino are intentionally so; he does Characters, not characters. But there's a factory somewhere out here in real life that builds a Nancy for every guy who owns a guitar.

"OH COME NOW oblig., I'm a musician and nobody I know ever--"

Standard distribution applies. You get none, and that poser you "can't understand why women don't see through" gets two hundred.

Posted by: oblig. got four at December 13, 2012 07:45 PM (cePv8)

345 There is no way that Americans are more emotional than Spaniards and Italians though. Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 13, 2012 11:43 PM (SkyIE) --Same with India. In many ways they're like the Italians, especially in their passion.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:46 PM (gBuIk)

346 Speaking of biscotti, has anyone else tried the new biscotti flavored Bailey's? A couple months ago there were free samples in the MLCC --damn tasty stuff. I just wish Bailey's was not so pricey. Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 11:43 PM (gBuIk) speaking of Bailey's, does Hagen Daas still do their seasonal bailey's flavored ice cream? OMG! and biscotti flavored Bailey's? I can't even understand what that would taste like. biscotti are distinctive for their texture, not their taste. Are they going to make a crunchy drink? Now I have to get some. dammit!

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:46 PM (xzxDr)

347 I wonder if that St James's Gate pub is part of a chain then because there's one about 10 minutes from the Kipling Subway station in Toronto's west end too.

And, Jaysus Murphy, I just went to Google maps to grab a link to show you the pub's facade so you could see if it was the same style as the Banff one and there's a huge frigging Purolator truck blocking the frigging streetview!

Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2012 07:46 PM (jPVBi)

348 Lots of boos in the Linc.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:46 PM (gBuIk)

349 It seemed from the commercials to be a rip off of the old WB sit-com "Unhappily Ever After." Loved that show, especially Nikki Cox.

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 11:44 PM (XvHmy)

Which is the only thing that show had going for it. Other than her it is just a poor man's Married with Children.

Posted by: buzzion at December 13, 2012 07:46 PM (GULKT)

350 331 So Andy Reid? Fired by the Eagles at the end of the season?

---

I think it's a forgone conclusion Reid is going to retire.

Posted by: CraigPoe at December 13, 2012 07:46 PM (BVkEs)

351 I would love to try lemon pistachio biscotti. With tea. I made dried cherry almond, edge dipped in white chocolate. Also chocolate with almonds and choc chips, dipped in semi-sweet chocolate. Wanted to use hazelnuts but didn't want to pay for them.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 07:47 PM (Sptt8)

352

There is no way that Americans are more emotional than Spaniards and Italians though.

Do they have Black Friday sales?

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 07:47 PM (DoZD+)

353 225 You take that away and she's got nothing!

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 11:15 PM (xzxDr)

Good sushi.
Good Mexican.

Um....there must be more. Give me a second. I'll think of it...........

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2012 11:19 PM (GsoHv)

Ahem.

DISNEYLAND!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at December 13, 2012 07:47 PM (kaalw)

354 Loved that show, especially Nikki Cox.

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 11:44 PM (XvHmy)

Every plastic surgeon who ever laid a hand on her should be put to death.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at December 13, 2012 07:47 PM (nZvGM)

355 Streaming on Netflix: Air Strike (1954) Quick movie about aviators flying F9F's off a carrier. Lots of Navy footage of VF-142 squadron.

Posted by: gp at December 13, 2012 07:48 PM (mk9aG)

356 Loved that show, especially Nikki Cox. Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 11:44 PM (XvHmy) I always assumed they were the bundy's poorer neighbors or less successful inlaws.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:48 PM (Z9EHQ)

357 Sorry justamom, not much snow yet, but the resorts all make it now to guarantee decent holiday season. Why are we roadtripping from KC to Omaha? To what end? Seems a pointless journey ...

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 07:49 PM (ysrca)

358
I think it's a forgone conclusion Reid is going to retire.

Posted by: CraigPoe at December 13, 2012 11:46 PM (BVkEs)

I bet he "retires" as the Jets or Ravens new offensive coordinator.

Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 07:49 PM (Zd/NW)

359 I thought only Starbucks made biscotti . . . wow! You ladies are amazing!!

Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 07:49 PM (kpCLl)

360

That may have been my sister-in-law. She used to do that. Very embarrssing.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 07:49 PM (DoZD+)

361 I was being sarcastic about the evil, lying creationists.

I wasn't.

Those creationists from whom I've read actual arguments, they really have resorted to falsehood to make their case. Every single one of them.

Whether they are "evil" is more a question for the moralists. But they are certainly unethical.

Posted by: boulder hobo at December 13, 2012 07:49 PM (QTHTd)

362 I made dried cherry almond, edge dipped in white chocolate. Also chocolate with almonds and choc chips, dipped in semi-sweet chocolate. Wanted to use hazelnuts but didn't want to pay for them. Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 11:47 PM (Sptt

yum. yum. I would have you over for tea and a biscotti swap. I've found that among the very best flavor combos is dried cherries with pistachios and dark chocolate. Try it in your next chocolate chip cookie recipe. Their my Christmas cookies, because of the red and green.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:50 PM (xzxDr)

363 Hows this for an image. 25 years ago while at the mall I decided to stop in the food court and grab a slice of pizza for lunch. I sit down at a table in the food court, and a few tables over, a couple of 18 year old baby mamas decide to change their precious little angels' diapers, right on the table right in the middle of the food court. My pizza went directly into the trash. I have never eaten at a food court since. Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 11:45 PM (Zd/NW) --A couple times when it's just #1 we've changed nappies on the seat in the booth of a restaurant, but we do so discreetly and with a pad underneath the babeh. Besides, dozens of asses are there a day so it's not like anyone expects to eat off it.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:50 PM (gBuIk)

364 GGE- if you are back from the puppeh walk- did you see this 3D printable "lower" yet? http://PrintableGun.com Defense Distributors are still "free-sourcing" the "Wiki-Weapon"..

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 07:50 PM (mkb9H)

365 how hard is makeing biscoti anyway? make some perfectly good cookies, leave them out for a week, slice into strips?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:50 PM (Z9EHQ)

366 I thought only Starbucks made biscotti . . . wow! You ladies are amazing!! Posted by: Peaches at December 13, 2012 11:49 PM (kpCLl) Peaches, you come to the biscotti swap. You don't have to bring biscotti, just bring the sherry.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:51 PM (xzxDr)

367 Wine's gone, I'm done here. Nytol.

Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 07:51 PM (NaNKB)

368 Biscotti is the easiest thing to make and ships well. But, I burned up my hand mixer motor on the last batch.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 07:51 PM (Sptt8)

369 It's not possible to to the bathroom for that?

Posted by: rickl at December 13, 2012 07:51 PM (sdi6R)

370 347 I wonder if that St James's Gate pub is part of a chain then because there's one about 10 minutes from the Kipling Subway station in Toronto's west end too. And, Jaysus Murphy, I just went to Google maps to grab a link to show you the pub's facade so you could see if it was the same style as the Banff one and there's a huge frigging Purolator truck blocking the frigging streetview! Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2012 11:46 PM (jPVBi) --Yeah, it's probably a chain that sites mainly in touristy areas. Still, the food and beer selections were nice.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:52 PM (gBuIk)

371 It's not possible to to the bathroom for that? Posted by: rickl at December 13, 2012 11:51 PM (sdi6R) please, that is where they load the chocolate waterfall.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:52 PM (Z9EHQ)

372 The wife in The War of the Roses is a bit of a fright, though the hubby does a pretty respectable freakin' moonbat hisself.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2012 07:52 PM (ccXZP)

373 how hard is makeing biscoti anyway? make some perfectly good cookies, leave them out for a week, slice into strips? Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 11:50 PM (Z9EHQ) No, you cook them twice. First you form the dough into a two inch thick rectangle, then you take them out, slice them into biscotti shapes, lay them out and bake them again. They are not hard to make, but like I said, you have to be careful not to overwork the dough or they can get tough.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:53 PM (xzxDr)

374 Biscotti is the easiest thing to make and ships well. But, I burned up my hand mixer motor on the last batch. Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 11:51 PM (Sptt

oh no! Justamom, take this as a sign that you need a stand mixer.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:54 PM (xzxDr)

375 Yum, Elizabeth. Today I bought some white wine reduction glaze with figs. Got any idea what I can do with it?

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 07:54 PM (Sptt8)

376 That chick from Terminator III was no prize, believe me.

Posted by: AI at December 13, 2012 07:54 PM (ptlfZ)

377 Man, logprof, that's messed up! I35 up to KC, I435 to avoid downtown KC, then I29 to ND. Unless you were heading to somewhere west of Bismarck, that is . . . Posted by: filbert at December 13, 2012 11:44 PM (NaNKB) --It did not have me drive all the way up on 75, just to I think the aforementioned Nebraska City, then crossing over the Missouri to hook up with I-29.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:54 PM (gBuIk)

378 oh great, it's just me now. You guys type too slow.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:54 PM (xzxDr)

379 The wife in The War of the Roses is a bit of a fright, though the hubby does a pretty respectable freakin' moonbat hisself. **** lov, Love, LOVE that movie. The final scene with the Roses sums it all up very succinctly. And the scene with Turner in DeVito's office should be viewed by every moron.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 07:55 PM (piMMO)

380 F up my insides by eating stupid hot foods... Obamacare here i come!!!

Posted by: RWC at December 13, 2012 07:55 PM (sqp6o)

381 speaking of Bailey's, does Hagen Daas still do their seasonal bailey's flavored ice cream? OMG! and biscotti flavored Bailey's? I can't even understand what that would taste like. biscotti are distinctive for their texture, not their taste. Are they going to make a crunchy drink? Now I have to get some. dammit! Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 11:46 PM (xzxDr) --I'd love to try the ice cream. As for the biscotti Bailey's, just add ice and crunch the cubes.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 07:55 PM (gBuIk)

382 Sigh. All this talk about Missouri is making me homesick.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 07:55 PM (DoZD+)

383 RWC, here I come!!!

Posted by: Obamacare at December 13, 2012 07:55 PM (ptlfZ)

384 Yum, Elizabeth. Today I bought some white wine reduction glaze with figs. Got any idea what I can do with it? Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 11:54 PM (Sptt

wow. that sounds so good. I have no idea what you should do with it. Today I reduced golden balsamic vinegar and used it as a salad dressing on my arugula, blackberry and fennel salad (with almonds). It was kind of a thin syrupy consistency. Would that sort of thing work? Or no, pork tenderloin!

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:56 PM (xzxDr)

385 Posted by: boulder hobo at December 13, 2012 11:49 PM (QTHTd)

fyi hobo, katya is a Creationist, from things she's said in the past. Please correct me katya if I've got this wrong.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2012 07:56 PM (ccXZP)

386 oh great, it's just me now. You guys type too slow.
Would you prefer we type slow. Then fast. Then slow...?

Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2012 07:56 PM (jPVBi)

387 Sigh. All this talk about Missouri is making me homesick. Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 11:55 PM (DoZD+) do people in missouri sit around and make fun of missouri ?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:57 PM (Z9EHQ)

388 Skiing in suburban St. Louis

http://www.hiddenvalleyski.com/

Never done it. Never will do it.

Posted by: Palandine[/i] at December 13, 2012 07:57 PM (g7D8V)

389 Hey, didja guys see that story about how some people wanted to kidnap justin bieber and ransom his nuts for $2500 each? Bieberballs...what a world...

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 07:57 PM (Y5I9o)

390
--A couple times when it's just #1 we've changed nappies on the seat in the booth of a restaurant, but we do so discreetly and with a pad underneath the babeh. Besides, dozens of asses are there a day so it's not like anyone expects to eat off it.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 11:50 PM (gBuIk)

Deuce, on the table. No pad. On the table. Where my plate could have been sitting. At a food court table that gets cleaned off every time the Cubs win the World Series.

Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 07:57 PM (Zd/NW)

391 Damn. Montel Williams was just on a commercial in my idiot box. He looks like shit.

Posted by: RWC at December 13, 2012 07:57 PM (sqp6o)

392 345 There is no way that Americans are more emotional than Spaniards and Italians though.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 13, 2012 11:43 PM (SkyIE)

--Same with India. In many ways they're like the Italians, especially in their passion. Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 11:46 PM

Considering that America has significant numbers of all three of those, is it surprising we're one of the "hothead" nations?

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 07:58 PM (wwsoB)

393 didja guys see that story about how some people wanted to kidnap justin bieber and ransom his nuts for $2500 each? Bieberballs...what a world... Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 11:57 PM (Y5I9o) crazy thing is since he was kidnapped he would not be able to bid on them himself - he was likely the high bidder. clearly they are obama voters.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 07:58 PM (Z9EHQ)

394

fyi hobo, katya is a Creationist, from things she's said in the past. Please correct me katya if I've got this wrong.

Yes I am a Creationist.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 07:58 PM (DoZD+)

395 -A couple times when it's just #1 we've changed nappies on the seat in the booth of a restaurant, but we do so discreetly and with a pad underneath the babeh. Besides, dozens of asses are there a day so it's not like anyone expects to eat off it. Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 11:50 PM (gBuIk) Deuce, on the table. No pad. On the table. Where my plate could have been sitting. At a food court table that gets cleaned off every time the Cubs win the World Series. Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 11:57 PM (Zd/NW) it's not okay. I change my baby on my lap sometimes -- with a blanket underneath. But only for wet diapers. Poopy diapers need a changing table. That's definitely a food court foul.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 07:59 PM (xzxDr)

396 "each" - that really sez it all ...

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 07:59 PM (ysrca)

397 389 Hey, didja guys see that story about how some people wanted to kidnap justin bieber and ransom his nuts for $2500 each? Bieberballs...what a world... Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 11:57 PM (Y5I9o) Yep. Still pissed that LEO got in the way.

Posted by: RWC at December 13, 2012 07:59 PM (sqp6o)

398 Maybe a spring mix salad with warm figs and meat with the glaze. French chÃ¨vre? Wine!

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 07:59 PM (Sptt8)

399 RWC, my dad used to call it the stare box. Actually, my dad was a stare box.

Posted by: AI at December 13, 2012 08:00 PM (ptlfZ)

400 Considering that America has significant numbers of all three of those, is it surprising we're one of the "hothead" nations? Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 11:58 PM (wwsoB) not enough to push the whole country to the highest level of emotionalism

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:00 PM (Z9EHQ)

401 Neither here nor there but I'll share a upgrade photo of my fall back shack for when the burn really hits. We are upgrading to a steel roof and I like the way it looks. 40 acres in the deep woods and no connection to modern stuff like electricity. So when the burn hits I just go back to being a kid on holiday.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89370022@N07/8271092356/

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 13, 2012 08:00 PM (D6OKf)

402

do people in missouri sit around and make fun of missouri ?

Shoot, yeah.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 08:00 PM (DoZD+)

403 Which is the only thing that show had going for it. Other than her it is just a poor man's Married with Children. Posted by: buzzion at December 13, 2012 11:46 PM (GULKT) The rants of Mr. Floppy (stuffed bunny the only the insane father could talk to) could sometimes be epic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP3jksgr_V0 The show ended up chucking out reality and reveled in comedic murder and violence. Very twisted and very funny.

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 08:01 PM (XvHmy)

404 Hey, didja guys see that story about how some people wanted to kidnap justin bieber and ransom his nuts for $2500 each? Bieberballs...what a world... Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 11:57 PM (Y5I9o) i heard that. it was someone with a previous criminal record who recruited some buddies in jail. he insisted that they strangle Bieber with a paisley tie.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:01 PM (xzxDr)

405 didja guys see that story about how some people wanted to kidnap justin bieber and ransom his nuts for $2500 each? Bieberballs...what a world... Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 11:57 PM (Y5I9o) of course odds are he will do the same thing himself in a few years and start calling himself justina.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:01 PM (Z9EHQ)

406 Maybe a spring mix salad with warm figs and meat with the glaze. French chÃ¨vre? Wine! Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 11:59 PM (Sptt

why aren't you my neighbor?

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:02 PM (xzxDr)

407 286 Same for Lena Dunham written about on last night's ONT - kbdabear at 11:38 PM I only had the strength to lurk and read last night. But. Yeah. She is the smeg. 342 ..you are right, however, despite the better snow accommodations suck. stay at snowbird, ski at alta - yankeefifth at 11:45 PM Agreed. But Mrs. Hates. It. We've tried. She hates it. But, the teenage boys and I can "dirt-bag". I personally love a dump in Frisco (Summit Co. CO) and the early Beach lot in front of Pallavacini at A-Basin. Everything I need. 1st chair.

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 08:02 PM (mkb9H)

408 Deuce, on the table. No pad. On the table. Where my plate could have been sitting. At a food court table that gets cleaned off every time the Cubs win the World Series. Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 11:57 PM (Zd/NW) --Just nasty. Has to be an illustration in the dictionary for the (adjective) entry for "ghetto." One problem with some restaurants is that a lot of them don't even have space in either men's or women's bathrooms, never mind changing tables, to do the deed. Sometimes the changing tables are in a stal, which may be occupied. Under some circumstances, like when flying, it's *always* easier to change on the spot rather than go to the bathroom --at least for #1.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 08:02 PM (gBuIk)

409 No electricity...shudder.

Posted by: AI at December 13, 2012 08:02 PM (ptlfZ)

410 383 RWC, here I come!!! Posted by: Obamacare at December 13, 2012 11:55 PM (ptlfZ) Dammit. Reggie Love is over there!

Posted by: RWC at December 13, 2012 08:02 PM (sqp6o)

411 Defense Distributors are still "free-sourcing" the "Wiki-Weapon"..

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 11:50 PM (mkb9H)

Yep, one of their number actually printed an AR lower and made it work. The AR lower doesn't carry much stress so it worked OK, problem is it failed after 6 rounds of 5.7x28. It did better as a .22 rifle/pistol. But, 3d printing in metal is on the horizon, so...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 08:02 PM (yh0zB)

412 Shoot, yeah. Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 14, 2012 12:00 AM (DoZD+)

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:02 PM (Z9EHQ)

413 382 Sigh. All this talk about Missouri is making me homesick. Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 11:55 PM

Kind of like looking at the Hurricane Sandy pics of the Jersey Shore. One thing about The Shore though, if you stay sober while visiting there, you find that both the "bennys" and the locals tend to be assholes

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 08:02 PM (wwsoB)

414 Ahem. DISNEYLAND!!! Posted by: cthulhu at December 13, 2012 11:47 PM (kaalw) you are right! but again, the enjoyment of which is predicated on good weather.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:03 PM (xzxDr)

415 http://www.disinfo.com/2011/04/the-happiest-places-have-the-highest-suicide-rates/

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 08:03 PM (hVYrg)

416 There is a Ski Missouri poster with a hayseed in overalls stuck in the mud. Ha! However, we don't do dog patch. We just have fun where and when we can, which brings me back to the lakehouse...and the waterskiing.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 08:03 PM (Sptt8)

417 Well, it's Friday here in the eastern time zone

One week to go until The End of the World As We Know It

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 08:04 PM (wwsoB)

418 Mr. Floppy's "American" rant: Floppy's All American Speach

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 08:04 PM (XvHmy)

419 >> he insisted that they strangle Bieber with a paisley tie.

That's so passe. To be up to date, you'd really want to strangle him with his meggings. In fact, in many courts of law that could be part of an effective insanity defense.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2012 08:05 PM (ccXZP)

420 Posted by: @PurpAv at December 14, kinda makes sense since all the unhappiest places have lots of miserable people the happiest places do not have.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:05 PM (Z9EHQ)

421 Under some circumstances, like when flying, it's *always* easier to change on the spot rather than go to the bathroom --at least for #1. Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2012 12:02 AM (gBuIk) this is true. I always try to make sure no one else has a good line of sight, though. Poopy diapers are startling to non-parents of infants. but on the table? that's just wrong, dude. so wrong.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:06 PM (xzxDr)

422 I'm so old I can remember a time with neither food courts or changing tables in bathrooms ... Can you imagine thug's disappointment if Biebs only had one? Oh, the recriminations. Paisley tie? Is this real or an elaborate put-on?

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 08:06 PM (ysrca)

423 I would eat that burger.

I like Scotch Bonnets, Habaneros and shit like that.

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 08:07 PM (hVYrg)

424 What is "smeg"? It's a great word and I'd love to use it.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 08:07 PM (DoZD+)

425 Mr. Floppy's "American" rant: Floppy's All American Speach Posted by: The Political Hat at December 14, 2012 12:04 AM (XvHmy) The link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7__6Dozdlh0

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 08:07 PM (XvHmy)

426 Yes I am a Creationist. Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 11:58 PM (DoZD+) --- I always get the sense that there's a bunch of reasonable/philosophical creationists and then a whole bunch of crazy anti-science ones that get all the attention and make the label look bad in the eyes of people who "think for themselves" while merely agreeing with people who are supposed to be smarter.

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 08:07 PM (Y5I9o)

427 Why the hell does this admin have the equivalent of the Praetorian Guard for hacks like Susan Rice? And Mon Chi Chi.

Posted by: RWC at December 13, 2012 08:08 PM (sqp6o)

428 What is "smeg"? It's a great word and I'd love to use it. Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 14, 2012 12:07 AM (DoZD+) start using it and someone will splain it to you soon enough. otherwise google smeg

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:08 PM (Z9EHQ)

429 What is "smeg"? It's a great word and I'd love to use it. Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 14, 2012 12:07 AM (DoZD+) http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/smeg

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 08:08 PM (XvHmy)

430 i heard that. it was someone with a previous criminal record who recruited some buddies in jail. he insisted that they strangle Bieber with a paisley tie. **** A guy in prison for the rape and murder of a 15 year old develops an obsession with Bieber. He has his image tattooed on his leg. So, he's in prison with an idiot who agrees to kill two of the nutjob's past associates, using a paisley tie, his signature move. Said idiot recruits his nephew to assist. In addition to killing the associates, they are to kidnap, castrate, and murder Bieber. In the end, it was the obsessed nutjob who blew the whistle. My guess is that he never intended for Bieber to be killed and was possibly setting up the two to commit crimes similar enough to his own to set up a defense. But I could be completely wrong. Either way, very 'Copycat' of them.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 08:08 PM (piMMO)

431 anyone who gets a tattoo of bieber should be in prison and if they are already there they should be put in solitary.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:09 PM (Z9EHQ)

432 Eastern Europe and the Scandinavian countries got high suicide rates. Booze, socialism, despair is a tough combo.

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 08:09 PM (hVYrg)

433 Who wants to hear about my mid life crisis dream of last night? No? Skip ahead. OK, I was at an all nighter party at Paul Ryan's house. He had a really long bar and was playing bartender. I vacuumed in the morning. Then I hopped in my old '76 British racing green Spitfire that had been converted into a boat to take a spin to my lakehouse.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 08:09 PM (Sptt8)

434 Worst TV wife has to be from Everybody Loves Raymond. Being married to a woman like that character would be my worst nightmare. Having to beg for sex, constantly nagged and crappy cook.

Posted by: polynikes at December 13, 2012 08:10 PM (pK8nF)

435

a whole bunch of crazy anti-science ones

All the creationists I'm affiliated with love science. The others surely exist but I don't know any.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 08:10 PM (DoZD+)

436 That's so passe. To be up to date, you'd really want to strangle him with his meggings. In fact, in many courts of law that could be part of an effective insanity defense.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 14, 2012 12:05 AM

If I were the judge I'd reject the motion without ordering a psychiatric review. Lots of sane people would love to strangle Justin Bieber with his meggings

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 08:10 PM (wwsoB)

437 Paisley tie? Is this real or an elaborate put-on? Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 14, 2012 12:06 AM (ysrca) no no, real. http://tinyurl.com/as4uc36 the would-be castrator was obsessed with him and had Bieber's picture tatooed on his leg.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:10 PM (xzxDr)

438 If I lit my farts in Belafontes' face, would I be racist? Like I fuckin' care.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at December 13, 2012 08:10 PM (xGofN)

439 What is "smeg"? It's a great word and I'd love to use it. Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 14, 2012 12:07 AM (DoZD+) how are you going to use smeg anyway? is it good for anything?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:10 PM (Z9EHQ)

440 Field of Dreams cming on HBO now

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 08:10 PM (piMMO)

441 setting up the two to commit crimes similar enough to his own to set up a defense.

Occam's Razor.

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 08:10 PM (hVYrg)

442 Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 14, 2012 12:00 AM (D6OKf)

Looks pretty defendable, but I'd change out the windows for 'T' firing slots and clear back some of that wood in the woodshed next to the place. You don't want to make it easy for them to smoke or burn you out.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2012 08:11 PM (ccXZP)

443 No electricity...shudder.>>

When you really think about it electricity is just a convenience. All necessities can be done with other fuels. Propane fridge and lights. wood heat...

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 13, 2012 08:11 PM (D6OKf)

444

The rants of Mr. Floppy (stuffed bunny the only the insane father could talk to) could sometimes be epic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP3jksgr_V0

The show ended up chucking out reality and reveled in comedic murder and violence. Very twisted and very funny.

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 14, 2012 12:01 AM (XvHmy)

That's a bit funny but just getting out there. Nothing beats an Al Bundy rant though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KJTwf6KGrE

Posted by: buzzion at December 13, 2012 08:11 PM (GULKT)

445 What is "smeg"? It's a great word and I'd love to use it. Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 14, 2012 12:07 AM (DoZD+) katya, no, you didn't!! Rule 1, rule 1!!!

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:11 PM (xzxDr)

446 You lost me at the vacuuming, absolutely outrageous.

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 08:12 PM (ysrca)

447 how are you going to use smeg anyway? is it good for anything? Posted by: yankeefifth at December 14, 2012 12:10 AM (Z9EHQ) lol!

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:12 PM (xzxDr)

448 smeghead, as in, Don't be such a smeghead, Rimmer! Red Dwarf

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 13, 2012 08:12 PM (ZPrif)

449 432 Eastern Europe and the Scandinavian countries got high suicide rates. Booze, socialism, despair is a tough combo. Posted by: @PurpAv at December 14, 2012 12:09 AM (hVYrg) Not if we do it right,...... . ...Comrade.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at December 13, 2012 08:12 PM (xGofN)

450 A guy in prison for the rape and murder of a 15 year old develops an obsession with Bieber. He has his image tattooed on his leg.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 14, 2012 12:08 AM (piMMO)

I'm seeing the first step of the fail mechanism here. Said rapist and murderer of a 15 year old should be in the graveyard, not in the jailhouse. That would have solved the problem before it started. Just IMO.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 08:13 PM (yh0zB)

451 434 Worst TV wife has to be from Everybody Loves Raymond. Being married to a woman like that character would be my worst nightmare.

Having to beg for sex, constantly nagged and crappy cook. Posted by: polynikes at December 14, 2012 12:10 AM

I like Patricia Heaton though, I've spoken with her personally and she seemed very nice and down to earth. She's definitely not a lefty as a bonus

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 08:13 PM (wwsoB)

452 Opening bid: $2,500 each

Posted by: eBalls at December 13, 2012 08:14 PM (BVkEs)

453 Tim Conway as F. Lee Bunny on the Carol Burnett Show.
http://tinyurl.com/36h4fk

Posted by: AI at December 13, 2012 08:14 PM (ptlfZ)

454 I like Patricia Heaton though, I've spoken with her personally and she seemed very nice and down to earth. She's definitely not a lefty as a bonus

Posted by: kbdabear at December 14, 2012 12:13 AM (wwsoB)

I believe she is the actress that has said mentioning you're pro-life in hollywood makes them react like you just took a dump on the dinner table.

Posted by: buzzion at December 13, 2012 08:15 PM (GULKT)

455 Carol Burnett, funniest show ever.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:15 PM (xzxDr)

456 440 Field of Dreams cming on HBO now Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 14, 2012 12:10 AM

If you show it, they will barf

Worst baseball movie ... EVER

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 08:15 PM (wwsoB)

457 435:"All the creationists I'm affiliated with love science. The others surely exist but I don't know any. Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 14, 2012 12:10 AM (DoZD+) -- Sounds about right. Do you have any references off hand for what you consider solid creationist literature? (Not that I expect people to just have that, but I'd be interested to see where you're coming from, and I don't know how creationists themselves sift through their own material)

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 08:15 PM (Y5I9o)

458 I've learned the hard way not to use words I discover here without finding out first what they mean.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 08:16 PM (DoZD+)

459 So is 'smeg' what i think it is? Adding a 'ma' to it would make it complete?

Posted by: RWC at December 13, 2012 08:16 PM (sqp6o)

460 That's very cromulent of you, katya.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2012 08:16 PM (jPVBi)

461 Looks pretty defendable, but I'd change out the windows for 'T' firing slots>>

There are out buildings and another raccoon cabin for defensible positions if it gets to that. I want some comfort after the burn.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 13, 2012 08:16 PM (D6OKf)

462 I've learned the hard way not to use words I discover here without finding out first what they mean. Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 14, 2012 12:16 AM (DoZD+) I just assume they are bad and try to forget them entirely.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:16 PM (xzxDr)

463 I've learned the hard way not to use words I discover here without finding out first what they mean. Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 14, 2012 12:16 AM (DoZD+) If you insist on learning the definitions of words you discover here before you use them it is very unlikely you are ever going to add a single new word to your vocabulary from anything on this site.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:17 PM (Z9EHQ)

464 Creationism is nonsense.

Posted by: eman at December 13, 2012 08:17 PM (fGw3R)

465 Yeah, like "vaccuum" - what has been read cannot be unread

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 08:17 PM (ysrca)

466 Has anyone here had a bonafide mid life crisis? I dream about vacuuming. Effing moving the furniture and crap. If I'm not on the brink, I'm thinking I should just start partying and blame it on a mid life crisis. Your family always takes you back, right?

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 08:18 PM (Sptt8)

467 455
One of the best ever. I have to confess, though, I could never warm up (and still haven't) to Hedley.

Posted by: Enby at December 13, 2012 08:18 PM (ptlfZ)

468 hey! I read all 459 posts and now I got nothing

Posted by: Jake in ID at December 13, 2012 08:18 PM (jfSqj)

469 459 So is 'smeg' what i think it is? Adding a 'ma' to it would make it complete? Posted by: RWC at December 14, 2012 12:16 AM (sqp6o) --- What is this "masmeg" of which you speak?

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 08:18 PM (Y5I9o)

470 Field of Dreams cming on HBO now Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 14, 2012 12:10 AM If you show it, they will barf Worst baseball movie ... EVER **** I've never seen it but not too long ago there was a thread here about best sports movies and that one kept coming up.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 08:19 PM (piMMO)

471 JeremiahBullfrog, I'm sorry I don't remember any. It's been so very long since I've read or studied anything.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 08:19 PM (DoZD+)

472 421 Under some circumstances, like when flying, it's *always* easier to change on the spot rather than go to the bathroom --at least for #1.
Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2012 12:02 AM (gBuIk)

this is true. I always try to make sure no one else has a good line of sight, though. Poopy diapers are startling to non-parents of infants.

but on the table? that's just wrong, dude. so wrong.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 14, 2012 12:06 AM (xzxDr)

One positive could have come from it. I was with the news anchor of the radio station that I had just gone to work at, and she was smoking hot, the same age as me and very single. But she was very much a fitness fanatic, so when I only took a couple of bites of the pizza then threw it away, she was impressed because she had her back to the diaper change. For the next several years she always wanted me to go with her when she was out doing appearances, but being a dumbass, I thought she just thought of me as a friend. I later found out she was very interested, but by that time we were both married. So we remained friends.

Did I mention she was a fitness fanatic? An ass you could bounce a quarter off of. She also got me to go do aerobics with her. She looked very nice in her aerobics gear, very nice.

Ummm, BRB.

Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 08:19 PM (Zd/NW)

473 431 anyone who gets a tattoo of bieber should be in prison and if they are already there they should be put in solitary. Nah, general population. He'd get sorted out soon enough.

Posted by: rickl at December 13, 2012 08:19 PM (sdi6R)

474 I dream about vacuuming. Effing moving the furniture and crap. If I'm not on the brink, I'm thinking I should just start partying and blame it on a mid life crisis. Your family always takes you back, right? Posted by: Justamom at December 14, 2012 12:18 AM (Sptt

you say "effing moving the furniture" is that how you are moving the furniture, are you doing that while moving the furniture?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:19 PM (Z9EHQ)

475 Go with the partying, watch out for the bills ...

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 08:19 PM (ysrca)

476 Jamie Foxx has leapfrogged Sean Penn as Hollywood's number one asshole.

Posted by: CraigPoe at December 13, 2012 08:20 PM (BVkEs)

477 What is this "masmeg" of which you speak? Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 14, 2012 12:18 AM (Y5I9o) not a what, a who

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:20 PM (Z9EHQ)

478 Oo, sleep aid just kicked in. Time for bed. TOMORROW'S FRIDAY!

Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 13, 2012 08:20 PM (DoZD+)

479 field of dreams is the only thing I can tolerate Kevin Costner in. But I wouldn't call it a sports movie.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:20 PM (xzxDr)

480 bandesoleil?

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2012 08:21 PM (oejS5)

481 Hey I'm back in!

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2012 08:21 PM (oejS5)

482 "effing while moving furniture" other dream

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 08:21 PM (Sptt8)

483 Has anyone here had a bonafide mid life crisis? Posted by: Justamom at December 14, 2012 12:18 AM (Sptt

I told Mrs. Jake I get a tricked out Harley durring my midlife issues

Posted by: Jake in ID at December 13, 2012 08:21 PM (jfSqj)

484 If it weren't for Creationism, Jazzy McBikeshorts would have nothing to talk about. OK, he never has anything to talk about, but that's his fetish other than googling his name

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 08:21 PM (wwsoB)

485 "effing while moving furniture" other dream Posted by: Justamom at December 14, 2012 12:21 AM (Sptt

honey, hop up here an help me move this kitchen table?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:22 PM (Z9EHQ)

486 >> Ummm, BRB.

Be sure and work both wrists, MrCaniac.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2012 08:22 PM (ccXZP)

487 field of dreams is the only thing I can tolerate Kevin Costner in. But I wouldn't call it a sports movie. **** I liked him in Tin Cup.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 08:23 PM (piMMO)

488 She looked very nice in her aerobics gear, very nice. Ummm, BRB. Posted by: MrCaniac at December 14, 2012 12:19 AM (Zd/NW) --I have a sudden urge to load up the Eric Prydz "Call On Me" video.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 08:23 PM (gBuIk)

489 TATONKA!!!

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 08:23 PM (ysrca)

490

>>"effing while moving furniture"

Is that one of your earings behind the headboard?

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2012 08:23 PM (oejS5)

491 liked him in Tin Cup. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 14, 2012 12:23 AM (piMMO) I didn't see that. But, from what I could tell, it had the same kind of vibe.

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:23 PM (xzxDr)

492 I kinda liked kevin costner in bull durham. hit the bull.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:24 PM (Z9EHQ)

493 Well roonz and roonettez, I must duck out now. I have to be up early to get everything ready for the Bambi slaying tomorrow. The carnage starts at 2 PM and I have to wash my slaughtering clothes in no-scent so that the horned hoofed rat won't sniff out his eminent doom.

Of course if it goes like the last couple of times the only time I'll see one of the nefarious car-killing fuckers is when I'm on my way home. c'est la vie and all that.

Later roonz and roonettez!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 13, 2012 08:24 PM (yh0zB)

494 464 Creationism is nonsense. Posted by: eman at December 14, 2012 12:17 AM (fGw3R) --- I've generally found that a lot of people use the term "creationism" to mean something that creationists I've known don't understand it to mean. I know plenty of non-creationists who understand the term "creation" in different ways, so why not suppose the same holds among creationsts and not tar them all with the same brush? Anything involving such deep matters of definition and relationship among various terms at the root of theology and philosophy of science is generally not going to be very simple to explain at first. Besides, how many people who are non-creationists are just as kneejerk, authority-argument-users as they claim all creationists are? I'll bet there's a lot who don't know their science all that well, but they think they're smarter and more scientific merely for accepting the "smart" position of scientists. That may be more of perversion of science than what some popular creationists are dishing out.

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 08:24 PM (Y5I9o)

495 I would have laughed if at the end of Field of Dreams, the ghost of Ray Kinsella's dad said "I don't wanna play catch now, didn't want to play catch with you then because I knew you'd grow up to be a hippie asshole"

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 08:24 PM (wwsoB)

496 Maybe a spring mix salad with warm figs and meat with the glaze. French chÃ¨vre? Wine! Justamom at 11:59 PM why aren't you my neighbor? elizabethe at 12:02 AM Won't you be MY neighbors? I did some cheap beouf stew-meat. Saute'd onion, shallot, and mushrooms. Browned the beef. And was "reducing" the sauce, made with a consomme and a can of cream-of-mushroom. Trying to "hold" it while I was pureeing the garlicky, red-skin-on, mashed, potatoes. While saute-ing the hericot vert. And browning the rolls. And burnt the beef sauce. Tried to salvage. But. No. Such. Luck. So we had mashed potatoes, green beans, carrots and rolls. And Bourbon, for me. SMFD!

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 08:24 PM (mkb9H)

497 by CGE! have fun. bee alert, arrive unhurt!

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:25 PM (xzxDr)

498 tin cup was ok, I despise rene russo - especially in thomas crown or whatever it is called.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:25 PM (Z9EHQ)

499 WTF did Malkin do this time because the trolls are going apeshit on Twitter. Really, REALLY vile shit. https://twitter.com/michellemalkin

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 08:25 PM (piMMO)

500 Costner was pretty good in Open Range, but he had Robert Duvall to carry him in that one

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 08:26 PM (wwsoB)

501 night gge

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:26 PM (Z9EHQ)

502 I didn't see that. But, from what I could tell, it had the same kind of vibe.
Posted by: elizabethe at December 14, 2012 12:23 AM

Nah, Tin Cup is just a straight-up and very funny comedy. You pretty much need to like golf, though, to enjoy it. Kostner, Rene Russo, Cheech, and Don Johnson as the asshole.

Posted by: AI at December 13, 2012 08:26 PM (ptlfZ)

503 Ok they made "the 20 minute workout" into a music vid

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 08:27 PM (ysrca)

504
Be sure and work both wrists, MrCaniac.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 14, 2012 12:22 AM (ccXZP)

Hey, I watched Searcy's workout regiment, and that is how I live.

Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 08:27 PM (Zd/NW)

505 471 JeremiahBullfrog, I'm sorry I don't remember any. It's been so very long since I've read or studied anything. Posted by: katya the designated driver at December 14, 2012 12:19 AM (DoZD+) --- Aww...well. That doesn't do much for your case. But if you should think of any directions, let me know.

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 08:27 PM (Y5I9o)

506 I liked him in Tin Cup. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 14, 2012 12:23 AM (piMMO) I liked that movie, too. About Costner? Whatever, but he's not that bad.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at December 13, 2012 08:28 PM (xGofN)

507 Nah, Tin Cup is just a straight-up and very funny comedy. You pretty much need to like golf, though, to enjoy it. Kostner, Rene Russo, Cheech, and Don Johnson as the asshole. *** I don't think you have to like golf at all to enjoy it. He hates old people, children, and dogs!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 08:28 PM (piMMO)

508 Michelle Malkin had three, I think, links to Ace's twitters today. Maybe that's played a role?

Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2012 08:28 PM (jPVBi)

509 Yes, please change your poopie diapers in private.

Posted by: runninrebel at December 13, 2012 08:28 PM (je2hI)

510 MM's Twitchy twitter review site, that is.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2012 08:28 PM (jPVBi)

511 476 Jamie Foxx has leapfrogged Sean Penn as Hollywood's number one asshole. Posted by: CraigPoe at December 14, 2012 12:20 AM (BVkEs) F that...i'm the biggest....umm, one hit wonder who the Left seeks advice from I guess.

Posted by: Banana Belafonte at December 13, 2012 08:29 PM (sqp6o)

512 Michelle Malkin had three, I think, links to Ace's twitters today. Maybe that's played a role? **** It looks like she offended a rapper.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 08:29 PM (piMMO)

513 Nah, Tin Cup is just a straight-up and very funny comedy. You pretty much need to like golf, though, to enjoy it. Kostner, Rene Russo, Cheech, and Don Johnson as the asshole. Posted by: AI at December 14, 2012 12:26 AM (ptlfZ) well wait. Don Johnson? No one mentioned this. that sounds funny. Now I will see it. (just in case, I'm excited about Don Johnson in an ironic way, not a "he's so sexy" way. I have never been into Don Johnson). I think I'm thinking of some other movie with Kevin Costner that had the same thing as Field of Dreams. I tend to zone out when I hear Kevin Costner. Was he in the Notebook? hmmm, search engines, how do they work?

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:29 PM (xzxDr)

514 A black sports blogger weighs in against that ESPN sportsturd: http://theklowntimes.net/2012/12/13/rob-parkers-comment-on-rg3s-blackness-is-disgusting/

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 08:29 PM (gBuIk)

515 499 WTF did Malkin do this time because the trolls are going apeshit on Twitter.

Really, REALLY vile shit.

https://twitter.com/michellemalkin
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 14, 2012 12:25 AM

Rapper The Game and fans attack Â‘racist,Â’ Â‘bitch,Â’ Â‘hoeÂ’ Malkin and Fox News; clog Twitter with bad English, threats

http://tinyurl.com/c2wfzpl

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 08:29 PM (wwsoB)

516 WTF did Malkin do this time because the trolls are going apeshit on Twitter.

She took exception to a rapper's album cover, I believe.

Posted by: fluffy at December 13, 2012 08:30 PM (z9HTb)

517 My husband made me buy my first crock pot, for our son's tailgate parties. I always cook meat a day ahead with broth and whatever seasoning, and then chill overnight so I can remove the gross icky fat that would otherwise be in our bodies.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 08:30 PM (Sptt8)

518 507
You may be right, NDH, but it's pretty much golf in every scene, and I know lots of folks (I'm not one) who would rather watch grass grow on a foggy day.

Posted by: AI at December 13, 2012 08:30 PM (ptlfZ)

519
--I have a sudden urge to load up the Eric Prydz "Call On Me" video.

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2012 12:23 AM (gBuIk)

Damn. Just damn. That was exactly what that class looked like. She taught 2 classes a day, and all of her hot friends were also in the class. According to my account at the Spank Bank, I was Warren Buffet.

Posted by: MrCaniac at December 13, 2012 08:31 PM (Zd/NW)

520 ok, I'm going to go before it gets all icky and hostile in here. Love you guys!

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:31 PM (xzxDr)

521 424 What is "smeg"? katya the dd at 12:07 AM Smegma - Nasty, groddy, bidness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smegma

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 08:31 PM (mkb9H)

522 I'll see one of the nefarious car-killing fuckers is when I'm on my way home.>>
Good luck in your attempt to keep your neighbors safe from the doe eyed menace.

Oh and keep us in mind for any extra deer sausage.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 13, 2012 08:31 PM (D6OKf)

523 511:"F that...i'm the biggest....umm, one hit wonder who the Left seeks advice from I guess. Posted by: Banana Belafonte at December 14, 2012 12:29 AM (sqp6o) -- Lately, Harry Belafonte's been looking like the love-child of John Boehner and Ben Kingsley, with a bit of Sartre mixed in for the lazy eye...and the politics

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 08:31 PM (Y5I9o)

524 night elizabethe

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:32 PM (Z9EHQ)

525 Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum. Good times, man

http://tinyurl.com/729x82m

Posted by: CraigPoe at December 13, 2012 08:32 PM (BVkEs)

526 >>>I always cook meat a day ahead with broth and whatever seasoning, and then chill overnight so I can remove the gross icky fat that would otherwise be in our bodies.

Why would you want to remove the delicious, healthy animal fat and prevent it from entering your body?

Posted by: runninrebel at December 13, 2012 08:32 PM (je2hI)

527

Here is an e-mail I just Sent Speaker Boehner:

Dear Speaker Boehner,

Enough with the closed door meetings on fiscal cliff negotiations. Where is the transperancy? I demand that these discussions find the sanity of sunlight! I have been a contributor to Republicans and most specifically congressional Republicans that allow you to hold the position that you hold today, and I want nothing in return except for honesty, integrity and limited government from my elected officials, and neither my President, the Senate Majority Leader,...nor you, sir, seem to provide any of those qualities. And it is with a heavy heart that I see what is happening to our country, and see the side that is supposed to be on my side act scared of losing in future elections instead of what they should be scared of which is losing the greatest country the world has ever known. The bottom line is that the federal government cannot sustain the current spending rates and my son should not be burdened with unaccountable debt but should instead only be burdened with that of any 2-year-old of laughing and playing and loving and growing. Which side are you on!

Posted by: The Great and Secret Show at December 13, 2012 08:32 PM (WAUbf)

528
She took exception to a rapper's album cover, I believe.

Posted by: fluffy at December 14, 2012 12:30 AM (z9HTb)

Did it have a woman on all fours being made to smell a glove?

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at December 13, 2012 08:33 PM (Zd/NW)

529 Holy shit! The bastards are really losing it over Malkin. Somebody just tweeted about her being found dead.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 08:33 PM (piMMO)

530 What makes me laugh is a rapper telling his fans to boycott Fox News

As if they were watching it to begin with

Oh, and his fans with room temperature IQ's calling her a racist and "stupid ass asian c--t"

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 08:33 PM (wwsoB)

531 Night, elizabethe. Night, morons.
Enby out.

Posted by: Enby, out at December 13, 2012 08:34 PM (ptlfZ)

532

I'm pretty sure I'm first on this thread!

Yee-haw!

Look at me Brack!

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 13, 2012 08:34 PM (PJJlw)

533 I always cook meat a day ahead with broth and whatever seasoning, and then chill overnight so I can remove the gross icky fat that would otherwise be in our bodies. Why would you want to remove the delicious, healthy animal fat and prevent it from entering your body? Posted by: runninrebel at December 14, 2012 12:32 AM (je2hI) do not be so hard on fat. you need it in proer amounts to stay healthy. if you are ever in a survival situation you will quickly learn how much you need fat it is something you will crave.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:34 PM (Z9EHQ)

534 Here's the controversy in my sock link. It's about an album cover.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2012 08:34 PM (jPVBi)

535
She took exception to a rapper's album cover, I believe.

Posted by: fluffy at December 14, 2012 12:30 AM (z9HTb)

Did both Sears and K-Mart refuse to sell the record.

Posted by: Bobbi Fleckman at December 13, 2012 08:35 PM (Zd/NW)

536 I have had enough of double standards.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:35 PM (Z9EHQ)

537 I'm just going to repeat a comment I said late on the yesterday's ONT. Lena Dunham looks like a less feminine Michael Cera.

Posted by: buzzion at December 13, 2012 08:35 PM (GULKT)

538 I wish I could put my thighs in the fridge overnight and skim off the fat in the morning. I don't want any more fat!

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 08:36 PM (Sptt8)

539

"Lena Dunham looks like a less feminine Michael Cera."

I'd hit either one.

First?

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 13, 2012 08:37 PM (PJJlw)

540 Fat is the best part of the meat.

Posted by: CraigPoe at December 13, 2012 08:37 PM (BVkEs)

541 I'd hit either one. First? Posted by: Joe Biden at December 14, 2012 12:37 AM (PJJlw) yeah but your idea of fun is driving around on a weekend playing mailbox golf with your head joe.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:38 PM (Z9EHQ)

542 I have shocking news for some: saturated animal fat does not give you an unfavorable lipid profile, it does not clog your arteries, and it does not make you fat. It does not cause high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, or diabetes.

In fact - and I hope you're sitting down - saturated animal fat is the most beneficial fat you can eat, and the most beneficial source of energy.

Posted by: runninrebel at December 13, 2012 08:39 PM (je2hI)

543 do not be so hard on fat. you need it in proer amounts to stay healthy. if you are ever in a survival situation you will quickly learn how much you need fat it is something you will crave.>>

That comes after the burn. It will surprise many that what great grampa ate was "healthy"

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 13, 2012 08:39 PM (D6OKf)

544 And I'm back. Got some vino, now to read the previous 350ish comments.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 08:39 PM (Ai+tZ)

545

"Fat is the best part of the meat."

Ain't had any of my meat, have you son?

Posted by: Stuart Anderson at December 13, 2012 08:40 PM (PJJlw)

546 Will nominate Rosie Perez for two performances, the one listed, White Men Can't Jump, and then It Could Happen To You. Total bitch in both and those two back to back performances ruined any career she may have had.

Posted by: dogfish at December 13, 2012 08:40 PM (N2yhW)

547 Everytime I see some cheap shot like that album cover, I wish the "artist" would really try to stir controversy and depict big mo instead.

Posted by: Justamom at December 13, 2012 08:41 PM (Sptt8)

548 That comes after the burn. It will surprise many that what great grampa ate was "healthy" Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 14, 2012 12:39 AM (D6OKf) funny you you mention that. both of my grandfathers ate everything that is considered unhealthy today and never had any problems with high cholesterol or blood pressure and lived into the late 80s early 90s.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:41 PM (Z9EHQ)

549 The idea of a guy who goes by "The Game" with a Twat handle of handsomeassni**a being taken seriously by mindless followers would be a great satire in a movie, but it could not be made up.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 08:41 PM (gBuIk)

550 The high carb diet is ok as long as you live the high carb lifestyle.

Trade in the tractor for a team of mules and steer that plow by hand.

Posted by: fluffy at December 13, 2012 08:42 PM (z9HTb)

551 You pretty much need to like golf, though, to enjoy it.

I can't fucking stand golf, and I liked Tin Cup.

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 13, 2012 08:42 PM (sCYOB)

552 The high carb diet is ok as long as you live the high carb lifestyle. Trade in the tractor for a team of mules and steer that plow by hand. Posted by: fluffy at December 14, 2012 Hey Fluffy. I love carbs but they do not provide a deep reservoir of energy like fat .

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:43 PM (Z9EHQ)

553 546 Will nominate Rosie Perez for two performances, the one listed, White Men Can't Jump, and then It Could Happen To You. Total bitch in both and those two back to back performances ruined any career she may have had. Posted by: dogfish at December 14, 2012 12:40 AM (N2yhW) --Also annoying as Spike Lee's bitch in that movie with Danny Aiello whose name escapes me now.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 08:43 PM (gBuIk)

554 do not be so hard on fat. you need it in proper [sic FIFY] amounts to stay healthy. if you are ever in a survival situation you will quickly learn how much you need fat it is something you will crave. yankeefifth at 12:34 AM Unlike ChemJ, I was thinking, when I duck out to Canuckistan, I am going to leave the tops of of the garbage cans. And bait the fat bears. And the Moose/Meeses.

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 08:44 PM (mkb9H)

555 Best bit of the column: Unfortunately, I am not the first Â– and definitely not the last Â– black person to have his Â“blacknessÂ” called into question. If Parker had any sense, he would apologize to RG3 for making such a stupid statement like that. Chances are he will not, and will stubbornly defend the stupid shit he said until the cows come home. And white folks wonder why we cannot get ahead (yeah, I said it).

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 08:45 PM (gBuIk)

556 Rapper The Game and fans attack Â‘racist,Â’ Â‘bitch,Â’ Â‘hoeÂ’ Malkin and Fox News; clog Twitter with bad English, threats

I just read the beginning, but I love how the slavering dipshits furiously assert that they'll "boycott" her.

You not going to buy her albums or something, geniuses?

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 13, 2012 08:45 PM (sCYOB)

557 What annoys me most about the bears is how they never ask for a transfer when they board, like they are supposed too ...

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 08:46 PM (ysrca)

558 Ah yes forgot that one. Do The Right Thing. She's too good at that role not to be expert at it in real life.

Posted by: dogfish at December 13, 2012 08:46 PM (N2yhW)

559 I love carbs but they do not provide a deep reservoir of energy like fat.

No, they do not.

When the Starving Time comes we will not just eat the dainty bits. Fish skin will not be thrown to the cats.

Posted by: fluffy at December 13, 2012 08:46 PM (z9HTb)

560 both of my grandfathers ate everything that is considered unhealthy today>>

I'm gonna guess that they were not sedentary (worked their bodies) cause that is my estimation of why we need to play the starve yourself game.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 13, 2012 08:46 PM (D6OKf)

561 Some carbs are fine if you don't get fat from whatever level you're eating them at. It's more important to get them from paleo sources and avoid grains and sugar.

Even still you don't need many, certainly nowhere near USDA recommendations.

Posted by: runninrebel at December 13, 2012 08:47 PM (je2hI)

562 Worst TV girlfriends? I've had them all !!!

Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at December 13, 2012 08:48 PM (wwsoB)

563 I just read the beginning, but I love how the slavering dipshits furiously assert that they'll "boycott" her. You not going to buy her albums or something, geniuses? **** Check the link to her tweet feed. Twitter is "banned" here at AOS so I can't link it in my nic. https://twitter.com/michellemalkin

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 08:48 PM (piMMO)

564 Old USDA diet = cattle fattening program

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 08:48 PM (ysrca)

565 I'm gonna guess that they were not sedentary (worked their bodies) cause that is my estimation of why we need to play the starve yourself game. Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 14, 2012 12:46 AM (D6OKf) well you are correct, they were ranchers. however, they also did not eat any of the junk we do - no sodas, no fast foods. If it was not grown on their ranch it was probably grown in their county and almost nothing was processed.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:49 PM (Z9EHQ)

566 Worst TV girlfriend?

Jackie from That 70's Show

I don't care how cute Mila Kunis is

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 08:49 PM (wwsoB)

567 Old USDA diet = cattle fattening program Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 14, 2012 12:48 AM (ysrca)

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:50 PM (Z9EHQ)

568 https://twitter.com/michellemalkin

A lot of racial sensitivity being shown there.

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 13, 2012 08:50 PM (sCYOB)

569 556 Rapper The Game and fans attack Â‘racist,Â’ Â‘bitch,Â’ Â‘hoeÂ’ Malkin and Fox News; clog Twitter with bad English, threats

I just read the beginning, but I love how the slavering dipshits furiously assert that they'll "boycott" her.

You not going to buy her albums or something, geniuses?
Posted by: Waterhouse at December 14, 2012 12:45 AM

Rapper fans aren't known to be Rhodes Scholars

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 08:51 PM (wwsoB)

570 ducking back in because I remembered the guys name I was trying to think of. so, I'm not a creationist, but here's a possible starting off point for people interested in what a scientific creationism might look like. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, from the 50s a geologist and paleontologist. I was going to ask katya what the creationists she knew thought of him, but she's gone now, I think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin

Posted by: elizabethe at December 13, 2012 08:51 PM (xzxDr)

571 In fact - and I hope you're sitting down - saturated animal fat is the most beneficial fat you can eat, and the most beneficial source of energy. You fool! Do you know how expensive bacon is already? Pay no attention to that man. Start hoarding soy lattes and whole-grain muffins.

Posted by: t-bird at December 13, 2012 08:51 PM (FcR7P)

572 Rapper The Game and fans attack Â‘racist,Â’ Â‘bitch,Â’ Â‘hoeÂ’ Malkin and Fox News; clog Twitter with bad English, threats I just read the beginning, but I love how the slavering dipshits furiously assert that they'll "boycott" her. You not going to buy her albums or something, geniuses? lol malkin does not accept non-cash payments such as food stamps anyway.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:53 PM (Z9EHQ)

573 560 both of my grandfathers ate everything that is considered unhealthy today>>

I'm gonna guess that they were not sedentary (worked their bodies) cause that is my estimation of why we need to play the starve yourself game.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 14, 2012 12:46 AM

The Amish don't exactly set the breakfast table with salads and grapefruit slices either

Posted by: kbdabear at December 13, 2012 08:54 PM (wwsoB)

574 Margarine is the new wonderfood. 5 years later... Margarine is the devil incarnate. Dieticians are the new PT Barnum.

Posted by: Banana Belafonte at December 13, 2012 08:54 PM (sqp6o)

575 Oops! What I meant to say was, be sure to eat your Heart Healthy Whole Grains! And don't worry about diabetes. They make insulin injections for that.

Who needs feet anyway?

Posted by: runninrebel at December 13, 2012 08:55 PM (je2hI)

576 Damn filthy communist sock.

Posted by: RWC at December 13, 2012 08:55 PM (sqp6o)

577 I say we need a program to deport the undesirables. Feds should offer $500,000 to anyone willing to renounce their citizenship and leave the country. No backsies

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:56 PM (Z9EHQ)

578 Oh, one of my favorite topics. If the people that name things had named it "testosterone fuel" instead of "fat" and used "makes you fat and weak" instead of "carbohydrates" we would healthier as a population. (yes, I know it's a simplification. I have wine to drink)

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 08:56 PM (Ai+tZ)

579 So if we Let it Burn? then what? which I'm for let it burn, but what happens next?

Posted by: Jake in ID at December 13, 2012 08:56 PM (jfSqj)

580 All righty then. My Bourbon & Branch Water (Valu-Rite "Rebel Yell Bourbon and tap) is done. And I am also. I missed the "fun" of last night's multi-lingual ONT. But in that vein: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night. Adieu, adieu, to you, and you, and you. Don't F' up the joint, you magnificent horde of morons.

Posted by: Capt. Backfire at December 13, 2012 08:58 PM (mkb9H)

581 which I'm for let it burn, but what happens next? Posted by: Jake in ID at December 14, 2012 12:56 AM (jfSqj) which definitinon of "burn" are you using?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 08:58 PM (Z9EHQ)

582 Feliz Navidad Moron Nation. Miss December is mighty fine looking.

Posted by: zeera at December 13, 2012 08:58 PM (3dXwx)

583 Pay no attention to that man. Start hoarding soy lattes and whole-grain muffins.>>

You all that make fun of southerners are in for a rude awakening.Since Biscuits and gravy and other base foods will be the norm not the exception.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 13, 2012 08:58 PM (D6OKf)

584 but what happens next?

Start over, hopefully not a Square One.

Posted by: fluffy at December 13, 2012 08:58 PM (z9HTb)

585 Wharf rat nuggets will be the new normal during the collapse.

Rat - the "other" white meat.

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 08:59 PM (hVYrg)

586 555:"And white folks wonder why we cannot get ahead (yeah, I said it)." Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2012 12:45 AM (gBuIk)" -- This is like what we have in Chicago. The 2nd congressional district is filled with lots of very poor black people, and while Jesse Jackson Jr. has been playing out his psychodrama against the background of various federal crimes, those people have been getting no representation. Now who's stepped into the spotlight to take over for "Triple J" (yes, they call him that) is Mel Reynolds, the convicted child molester who occupied the same seat before Jackson. He's been parading himself around with banners that say "Redemption". They're sucking their own people dry, and it's a crying shame. But no one will say it becuase to say so is RAAAAACIST!!!!11!!11

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 08:59 PM (Y5I9o)

587 573 560 both of my grandfathers ate everything that is considered unhealthy today>> I'm gonna guess that they were not sedentary (worked their bodies) cause that is my estimation of why we need to play the starve yourself game. Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 14, 2012 12:46 AM The Amish don't exactly set the breakfast table with salads and grapefruit slices either Posted by: kbdabear at December 14, 2012 12:54 AM (wwsoB) --Have you ever eaten an English breakfast? Those snaggletoothed mofos conquered a quarter of the planet on that shit.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 09:00 PM (gBuIk)

588 What we eat is culture. Now that health care is government, your diet is a matter of public policy. We need their help to sort out right from wrong. I, for one, will welcome Ashley Judd as my new food consumption overlord - I'll never be puffy again.

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 09:00 PM (ysrca)

589 Have you ever eaten an English breakfast? Those snaggletoothed mofos conquered a quarter of the planet on that shit. Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2012 01:00 AM (gBuIk) scotch all over keyboard.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 09:01 PM (Z9EHQ)

590 some people wanted to kidnap justin bieber and ransom his nuts for $2500 each? Bieberballs...what a world...
Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 11:57 PM (Y5I9o)

You know, if you eat a celebrity, you will absorb his talent. I'm not advocating this. I'm just saying, is all.

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at December 13, 2012 09:02 PM (qFqga)

591 incidentally, did you know mofo.com is the url for law firm morrison foerester? someone was promoted or fired over that decision.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 09:03 PM (Z9EHQ)

592 You know, if you eat a celebrity, you will absorb his talent. I'm not advocating this. I'm just saying, is all. Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at December 14, 2012 01:02 AM (qFqga) so it is kind of a waste eating bieber - you get a few calories, and lose any talent you ever had

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 09:04 PM (Z9EHQ)

593 did you know mofo.com is the url for law firm morrison foerester? someone was promoted or fired over that decision. Posted by: yankeefifth at December 14, 2012 01:03 AM (Z9EHQ) --Wow, ranks with sydneytherapist.com.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 09:04 PM (gBuIk)

594 So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night.
Adieu, adieu, to you, and you, and you.

Oh, Liesl. I'll give you some champagne.

/your honor, she was 23 years old when she did the film

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 13, 2012 09:04 PM (sCYOB)

595 The Scoville Units would be a good name for a band.

Posted by: runninrebel at December 13, 2012 09:05 PM (je2hI)

596 592 You know, if you eat a celebrity, you will absorb his talent. I'm not advocating this. I'm just saying, is all. Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at December 14, 2012 01:02 AM (qFqga) so it is kind of a waste eating bieber - you get a few calories, and lose any talent you ever had Posted by: yankeefifth at December 14, 2012 01:04 AM (Z9EHQ) --Speaking of saturated fat, you better love it if you go for the Gaga or the Aguilera.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 09:05 PM (gBuIk)

597 Posted by: Jake in ID at December 14, 2012 12:56 AM (jfSqj) Take care of you and your's .

Posted by: RWC at December 13, 2012 09:05 PM (sqp6o)

598 I se the congressman is apologizing for using the word midget on the floor during a speech. I was under the impression the midgets were more upset he was extolling the virtues of midgets being ideally sized for providing oral sex. Did I misread ?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 09:05 PM (Z9EHQ)

599 "You feelin' hot tonight, Tallahassee? Yeow!"

Posted by: runninrebel at December 13, 2012 09:07 PM (je2hI)

600 I know this is from the RGIII. thread but I feel Very Strongly About it ..... I know this is from the RGIII thread but I feel very strongly about it .... As A Proud Baylor MommaBear I can Say that Robert is A Great and Faithful Christian Young Man !!!!!!!! I am sooo Proud to say that my son , who is a junior At Baylor Played in The Baylor University Golden Wave Band while Robert Played football at Baylor !!!!!!! My son , who met Robert and received his autograph agrees that RG III truly represents What Baylor is all about !!!!!!!! God Bless Our RGIII !!!!!

Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at December 13, 2012 09:07 PM (OFDs9)

601 I have nothing substantive to add. As usual. Maybe if I drink this wine really fast I'll become more interesting. Worth a shot anyway.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 09:07 PM (Ai+tZ)

602 @570Posted by: elizabethe at December 14, 2012 12:51 AM (xzxDr) -- Ah...Teilhard. Yeah, I sort of know his work. I don't think he's anything like contemporary creationists. Very dated, Very French, and very misunderstood...probably more so now because he's been picked up by lots of New Age-y, Gaia/Living Earth types. His deal is less with creation and more with the causes and meaning of evolution. He was a serious archaeologist/anthropologist in his regular work, and I gather he knew that his theories were very speculative. In particular, he was trying to build up some intellectual models for what consciousness is, and to try to tie that into evolution according to some notion of hierarchies of consciousness and the physical interaction of biological units. Very interesting thought experiments of the type that are valuable and necessary when forging new concepts in science...but then someone else comes along and starts treating it as gospel truth, and then you have problems.

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 09:07 PM (Y5I9o)

603 which I'm for let it burn, but what happens next? >>

You get to live like our great grand parents. Off the land hunting,fishing and a garden.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 13, 2012 09:08 PM (D6OKf)

604 Heh. The Czechs know we're gonna burn.

http://tinyurl.com/csl7u3o

"Take, for example, this quote translated into English from an article in the Prague newspaper Prager Zeitungon:

The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president."

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 09:08 PM (hVYrg)

605 Hank Johnson also used the word 'giant'. Large people prefer to be called Nephilim Mutants.

Posted by: CraigPoe at December 13, 2012 09:09 PM (BVkEs)

606 You get to live like our great grand parents. Off the land hunting,fishing and a garden. Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 14, 2012 01:08 AM (D6OKf) and eat all the fat you want all day every day

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 09:09 PM (Z9EHQ)

607 --Wow, ranks with sydneytherapist.com.

Sydney is all about advertising, not actual value.

Posted by: Tobias Fuenke at December 13, 2012 09:09 PM (z9HTb)

608 Damn PA you are always spot on

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 09:09 PM (ysrca)

609 Hi rons, enjoying the meteor shower this evening.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 13, 2012 09:10 PM (3Y7RV)

610 EGMB, good for your son! I knew little of RG3's personal life a year ago, but I did know he would be a great team player and not cost his coaches or GM any sleep about his character for whomever drafted him.

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 09:10 PM (gBuIk)

611 590:"You know, if you eat a celebrity, you will absorb his talent. I'm not advocating this. I'm just saying, is all. Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at December 14, 2012 01:02 AM (qFqga) -- I thought it was that you absorb the power of the part you ingest. Like you eat the heart of your slain competitor to gain his strength. What talent lies in Bieber's balls?

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 13, 2012 09:10 PM (Y5I9o)

612 Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president." Posted by: @PurpAv at December 14, 2012 01:08 AM (hVYrg) Rush has said something like this before I guess the think we can all look forward to, it you can't run away from math

Posted by: Jake in ID at December 13, 2012 09:10 PM (jfSqj)

613 Well, off to see a midnight showing of The Hobbit... Here's a little mood music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f86R_Z0_xI Night all.

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2012 09:12 PM (XvHmy)

614 New acronym - VCOF

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 09:13 PM (hVYrg)

615 and eat all the fat you want all day every day

Cut out the middle man. Get it straight from the mayonaisse tree!

Posted by: fluffy at December 13, 2012 09:14 PM (z9HTb)

616 Vast Conspiracy Of Fucktards?

Posted by: runninrebel at December 13, 2012 09:14 PM (je2hI)

617 All right, gotta mark up a make-up exam and then hit the hay. Have a good night, y'all!

Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2012 09:14 PM (gBuIk)

618 I guess the think we can all look forward to, it you can't run away from math Posted by: Jake in ID at December 14, 2012 01:10 AM ( Not really looking forward to it. We're right, but we'll burn with the guilty. You might be ok out the in ID. Here, if SHTF, I give me and my family 3 weeks.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 09:17 PM (Ai+tZ)

619 Logprof , Robert Is A Grade A Class Act !!!!! He is the Face of Baylor and WE , the Bear Nation Love Him !!!!! He is a truly the ultimate team player !!!!! He is in a word , AMAZING !!!!!!!! Truly a Great Man and Awesome role Model who takes his responsiblities Seriously . I am honored that I got to see him play and do great work at Baylor and in the Waco , Tx area !!!

Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at December 13, 2012 09:17 PM (OFDs9)

620 I put a black bean based veggie stew'ish concoction in the crock pot a few minutes ago.

The beans, some diced tomato, chopped onion and carrots and some potato with chile seasoning packet and a bit of corn starch to try and thicken it a bit.

It doesn't smell too horrible so far. My last experiment is sitting outside with the pot's cover hermetically sealed with duct tape waiting for garbage day...

...I bought a new pot. It was that bad.

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 09:18 PM (hVYrg)

621 Not really looking forward to it. We're right, but we'll burn with the guilty. You might be ok out the in ID. Here, if SHTF, I give me and my family 3 weeks.

Yep. Life is not fair now. That will not change.

Posted by: fluffy at December 13, 2012 09:19 PM (z9HTb)

622 Hi rons, enjoying the meteor shower this evening.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 14, 2012 01:10 AM (3Y7RV)

seein any ?

Posted by: The Jackhole on Ventura Highway at December 13, 2012 09:19 PM (/7Xis)

623 Evening Morons (and ettes)

Posted by: Zakn at December 13, 2012 09:19 PM (fooYE)

624 seein any ? Posted by: The Jackhole on Ventura Highway at December 14, 2012 01:19 AM (/7Xis) Yep, a couple dozen. For once there is a celestial event and it's not cloudy.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 13, 2012 09:21 PM (3Y7RV)

625 You wanna a Toe? I can get you a Toe by 3:00.

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at December 13, 2012 09:21 PM (uis79)

626 Here, if SHTF, I give me and my family 3 weeks.

Lay in a month's supply of non-perishable food and a bunch of water and plenty of ammo, hunker down. Kill anything that comes near your crib. Things should settle down a bit after the first spasm of violence.

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 09:22 PM (hVYrg)

627

Harry Belafonte

The poster child for the war against drugs.

Posted by: harleycowboy at December 13, 2012 09:22 PM (+9AX9)

628 Im going to look for meteors

Posted by: The Jackhole on Ventura Highway at December 13, 2012 09:23 PM (/7Xis)

629 Belafonte's not really helping Obama here. If I were him, I'd STFU before Obama starts to view him as a liability

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 09:24 PM (hVYrg)

630 You never see the one that gets you

Posted by: Zakn at December 13, 2012 09:24 PM (fooYE)

631 G'night Morons. Be good.

Unless you had other plans.

Posted by: fluffy at December 13, 2012 09:25 PM (z9HTb)

632 #620

Did you save the recipe for anti-personnel applications?

Posted by: epobirs at December 13, 2012 09:26 PM (kcfmt)

633 Epobirs. What is your 2012 GOTY? I think you posted it on a gaming thread, but I can't remember it.

Posted by: Zakn at December 13, 2012 09:28 PM (fooYE)

634 PurpAv, done, done and done. Complete with E&E plans, boards for the windows, etc. got some recoil therapy yesterday too. But the proximity to Baltimore and DC is...troubling. Not complaining about it either, just noting that my odds are not good in a real burning. I will not be alone when I enter Valhalla though, so I got that going for me.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 09:33 PM (Ai+tZ)

635 I have no desire to go back to living in a 19th century world, and hold no survivalist fantasies. Socialism always fails, it is unsustainable. Seems to me like hiding out in a dark hut is pretty much exactly what the enviro-wheenies want - I guess that's the wraparound effect of extremism. A return to that lifestyle would also necessarily result in a return to those population levels - I can't see that being a good thing. To me, let it burn means accepting reality, that our position has lost this argument, for now, and the majority of Americans are very comfortable with socialism, and believe that it is morally superior to capitalism. This won't change until they experience the pain, the loss of liberty, the stifling control, and this will take time - hopefully not bloodshed. Meanwhile, we can live, love, laugh, create, engage in the culture, fight back against the institutions to the extent we are able, and be there to fix it later. Call it a fighting retreat. Complete withdrawal is not an option, at least for me, as tempting as it sounds. The sooner the collapse comes, they sooner the lesson will be learned - the difficulty is the lesson cannot be learned without the pain, and that is a position one can never sell to an electorate, so, let it burn, and take care of your own. Not going to score many points with the "compassion" crowd there, but we have ample proof that is a one-way street anyway. Someday, free men will fight for liberty again, but it may not be here.

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 09:33 PM (ysrca)

636 Bobby, there are some things like a tire fire, trying to put it out only makes it worse. You just gotta grab a beer and let it burn.

Posted by: Hank Hill at December 13, 2012 09:34 PM (wwsoB)

637 One of my innovative survival strategies is that I'm going to resort to cannibalism before all the food runs out.

I'm talking, SHTF, goodbye non-family people around me who don't have useful skills.

Posted by: runninrebel at December 13, 2012 09:35 PM (je2hI)

638 I like it, runningrebel. Hell, do it while there's still perishable food in the stores. Two birds with one stone (three actually): get rid of annoying neighbor, get a free meal, and hang a permanent "don't fuck with this guy" sign in your front yard.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 09:37 PM (Ai+tZ)

639 Apples are fruits, Millet is grain, No meteors for me tonight, The desert has decided to rain ...

Posted by: Adriane at December 13, 2012 09:39 PM (gh+mp)

640 Adriane! Long time, no fake-internet-see

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 09:42 PM (Ai+tZ)

641 Apples are fruits, Millet is grain, No meteors for me tonight, The desert has decided to rain ... Posted by: Adriane at December 14, 2012 01:39 AM (gh+mp) Sorry to hear About your troubles sit and relax Have a double

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 13, 2012 09:43 PM (3Y7RV)

642 Kerry couldn't possibly screw up any worse than Cankles has. And how ironic that Rice's non accept letter is also a lie. She knows she can't get through a congressional hearing without being indicted for perjury.

Posted by: Whatev at December 13, 2012 09:44 PM (2t6Gz)

643 To me, let it burn means accepting reality, that our position has lost this argument, for now, and the majority of Americans are very comfortable with socialism, and believe that it is morally superior to capitalism. This won't change until they experience the pain, the loss of liberty, the stifling control, and this will take time - hopefully not bloodshed.

Well, maybe a little bloodshed. But you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.

Posted by: Pol Pot at December 13, 2012 09:47 PM (2wKsS)

644 I'm thinking I need to get a big full sized sledge hammer somewhere too. Right now all I got is a 5lb mini-sledge

The big ones got enough oomph to pound through concrete block walls pretty quick...which might come in handy.

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 09:48 PM (hVYrg)

645 Hey DC ... How goes this Thursday? Put up some bubble lights in the window last night. Our neighbor - the one with kids - put up a yard full after Thanksgiving. But the street past his house has been dark. Until last night ... and 3 houses up the block got into the spirit as well.

Posted by: Adriane at December 13, 2012 09:49 PM (gh+mp)

646 Late night insomnia, Brandy and coke, Dokken on you tube and AoS.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 13, 2012 09:49 PM (3Y7RV)

647 The Christmas light in my neighborhood are pretty subdued this year. People ain't spending money on that kinda shit anymore.

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 09:51 PM (hVYrg)

648 Ordered the Dr. Peppers' handbook ... or something like that ... via Ace's bookstore ... and Breitbart's last ... and a 0.02 used book on mosaics ...

Posted by: Adriane at December 13, 2012 09:51 PM (gh+mp)

649 But the proximity to Baltimore and DC is...troubling. Not complaining about it either, just noting that my odds are not good in a real burning. I will not be alone when I enter Valhalla though, so I got that going for me. Posted by: DC in Towson at December 14, 2012 01:33 AM (Ai+tZ) I am in nyc and my position is not enviable - except of cours compared to yours. baltimore and dc? you should leave now, nyc is better than baltimore and dc, at least we have a megalomanical midget running around banning big gulps and transfats. he may have made deals with the animals to get elected but at least the animals are not running the city .

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 09:52 PM (Z9EHQ)

650 The Christmas light in my neighborhood are pretty subdued this year. People ain't spending money on that kinda shit anymore.

Affluence is so 2007.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 13, 2012 09:52 PM (2wKsS)

651 The Christmas light in my neighborhood are pretty subdued this year. People ain't spending money on that kinda shit anymore. Posted by: @PurpAv at December 14, 2012 01:51 AM (hVYrg) as much as everyone is saving money and worried, I think all of the responsible citizens are a little weary. I really do not have any energy for non-essential things these days.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 09:53 PM (Z9EHQ)

652 #633

Damned if I know. My backlog spans multiple console generations. Like a junkie I picked up about 40 new games that were down around $10 on BF or since due to deals.But my play of recent titles is so light I'm relegated tot he casual category on that qualification.

At an educated guess I'd say Batman: Arkham City in terms of content value. I passed on both the GOTY versions of Uncharted 2 and 3 in favor of getting the regular ones real cheap because I discovered that pretty all of the added content was for multiplayer. Which would be completely wasted on me.

Posted by: epobirs at December 13, 2012 09:53 PM (kcfmt)

653 But the proximity to Baltimore and DC is...troubling. Not complaining about it either, just noting that my odds are not good in a real burning. I will not be alone when I enter Valhalla though, so I got that going for me. Posted by: DC in Towson at December 14, 2012 01:33 AM (Ai+tZ) I am in nyc and my position is not enviable - except of cours compared to yours. baltimore and dc? you should leave now, nyc is better than baltimore and dc, at least we have a megalomanical midget running around banning big gulps and transfats. he may have made deals with the animals to get elected but at least the animals are not running the city . Posted by: yankeefifth at December 14, 2012 01:52 AM (Z9EHQ) I know, it's prolly the job thing but you folks need to get to the country. You will be so much happier.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 13, 2012 09:53 PM (3Y7RV)

654 The Christmas light in my neighborhood are pretty subdued this year. People ain't spending money on that kinda shit anymore. I usually have the windows full of stars and a few strings around the gutters ... so yeah, a window full of bubble lights is not so much. But my family has had bubble lights ever since I was a wee babe, and they mean a lot to me ... The family means a lot to me too. : -)))))

Posted by: Adriane at December 13, 2012 09:54 PM (gh+mp)

655 CA state correctional system is gonna lay off 800+ of its health care workers early next year.

I guess that which can't persist isn't anymore in CA. Sounds like the reckoning has begun.

http://tinyurl.com/c7p4ywc

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 09:56 PM (hVYrg)

656 I know, it's prolly the job thing but you folks need to get to the country. You will be so much happier. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 14, 2012 01:53 AM (3Y7RV) I am in complete agreement. I am trying to arrange something in Texas as soon as possible. It is bad enough that in a burn scenario nyc is a likely furnace but you are not even allowed to own anything to protect yourself with in nyc. handgun license fee is about $600 and I refuse to give them any extra money so no handgun for me.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 09:56 PM (Z9EHQ)

657 CA state correctional system is gonna lay off 800+ of its health care workers early next year. I guess that which can't persist isn't anymore in CA. Sounds like the reckoning has begun. http://tinyurl.com/c7p4ywc Posted by: @PurpAv at December 14, 2012 01:56 AM (hVYrg) If they wee smart they would start feeding all those sedentary prisoners high fat diets.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 13, 2012 09:57 PM (Z9EHQ)

658 and I refuse to give them any extra money so no handgun for me. Long bows ... big hairy spiders ... strongly worded letters form the UN ...

Posted by: Adriane at December 13, 2012 09:58 PM (gh+mp)

659 CA state correctional system is gonna lay off 800+ of its health care workers early next year. Some CA workers get more when they retire than I will ever make working ...

Posted by: Adriane at December 13, 2012 09:59 PM (gh+mp)

660 Posted by: yankeefifth at December 14, 2012 01:56 AM (Z9EHQ) Neighbor knocked on the door last month, said there was a sick possum maybe rabid, asked me if I'd shoot it. I have a .22 kit in the AR just for varmints. I go walking down the street and the deputy stops, rolls down his window and says "You gonna take care of that?" I say "Yes Sir." He says thank ya man, and drives away. What would happen to me in NY?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 13, 2012 10:01 PM (3Y7RV)

661 We decorated the weekend after thanksgiving, same as every year. Not much outside, a lighted wreath, garland and a sign that says Santa stop here. Inside is all out, though. I hate winter and Christmas is the only good thing about the entire November to April period. This week has been so shitty though, all I can muster is a "bah, humbug!"

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 10:01 PM (Ai+tZ)

662 did you know mofo.com is the url for law firm morrison foerester? My 80-yr old neighbor gets their magazine. Guess what it's called? There's a big ol' "MoFo" on every cover.

Posted by: t-bird at December 13, 2012 10:02 PM (FcR7P)

663 What would happen to me in NY?

Before or after the police shot you about 100 times?

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 10:03 PM (hVYrg)

664 Texas only has about ten years till it's Mexico

Posted by: Zakn at December 13, 2012 10:03 PM (fooYE)

665 There literally isn't anywhere to go. Read Steyn, and be depressed

Posted by: Zakn at December 13, 2012 10:03 PM (fooYE)

666 poat

Posted by: Zakn at December 13, 2012 10:03 PM (fooYE)

667 Sorry to hear, DC - Sometimes I sleep with the light on during winter just to ward off the blues / blahs ... My father got several strings of bubble lights from his father after he and Mom married and had 2 of my older sisters. So they run in the family, as it were ...

Posted by: Adriane at December 13, 2012 10:05 PM (gh+mp)

668 Before or after the police shot ~~you~~ 14 bystanders, a bus and some poor bastard in Yonkers about 100 times? Fixed for realism.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 10:06 PM (Ai+tZ)

669 RGIII a "cornball brother" http://bit.ly/SUEFUH Might be a *GASP* Republican!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 13, 2012 10:06 PM (piMMO)

670

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 10:06 PM (Ai+tZ)

671 There literally isn't anywhere to go.

My exit plan is the west coast of Australia -- Port Hedlands. That's about as far from the liberal cities as you can get. Nice port, local mining, practical shit. Close to China/India who'll buy the ore and other shit.

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 13, 2012 10:07 PM (hVYrg)

672 I'm so maudlin I'm listening to Sound of Music clips to cheer myself up.

happy are they lay-dee-oh lay-dee-lee-oh
oh-lay-dee-oh lay-dee-lay-ee-oh

Nice work, Hammerstein.

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 13, 2012 10:10 PM (xY011)

673 Posted by: Waterhouse at December 14, 2012 02:10 AM (xY011) Those are a few of my favorite things.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 13, 2012 10:11 PM (3Y7RV)

674 Posted by: yankeefifth at December 14, 2012 01:56 AM (Z9EHQ)

Neighbor knocked on the door last month, said there was a sick possum maybe rabid, asked me if I'd shoot it. I have a .22 kit in the AR just for varmints. I go walking down the street and the deputy stops, rolls down his window and says "You gonna take care of that?" I say "Yes Sir." He says thank ya man, and drives away. What would happen to me in NY?

I think we might be neighbors!

Posted by: Rural VA at December 13, 2012 10:12 PM (Lia4j)

675 I think we might be neighbors! Posted by: Rural VA at December 14, 2012 02:12 AM (Lia4j) S/E NC

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 13, 2012 10:13 PM (3Y7RV)

676 Hey Zakn I sent a review of the Walking Dead game to the gaming address the other day if you want to use that for the gaming thread sometime.

Posted by: buzzion at December 13, 2012 10:16 PM (GULKT)

677

I hate winter and Christmas is the only good thing about the entire November to April period.

DC, I'm in total agreement with you there.

I keep track of the average high/low temps and the length of daylight, update my work email signature with them daily. While it's mid-January until the temps stop falling and start rising, the days start getting longer in a little more than a week. My elapsed winter meter is at 15% today... my mother warned me that as you get older, time passes faster. We'll be mowing the grass before you know it. .. or so I keep telling myself...

Posted by: zeera at December 13, 2012 10:16 PM (3dXwx)

678 Roses are red, Violets are blue, Tomorrow is major packing up stuff day, So wishing a Happy Friday to you ...

Posted by: Adriane at December 13, 2012 10:16 PM (gh+mp)

679 I think we might be neighbors!
Posted by: Rural VA at December 14, 2012 02:12 AM (Lia4j)

S/E NC

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 14, 2012 02:13 AM (3Y7RV)

On the western slope of Allegheny mountains in Virginia. Population 4657, not a stoplight in the whole county

Posted by: Rural VA at December 13, 2012 10:20 PM (Lia4j)

680 678 Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Tomorrow is major packing up stuff day,
So wishing a Happy Friday to you ...

Posted by: Adriane at December 14, 2012 02:16 AM (gh+mp)

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I love the poems

And I Love you too!

Posted by: lou's a girl at December 13, 2012 10:21 PM (adaoe)

681 That's it for me. Have a better one, Morons and Ettes.

Posted by: DC in Towson at December 13, 2012 10:22 PM (Ai+tZ)

682 672 I'm so maudlin I'm listening to Sound of Music clips to cheer myself up.

happy are they lay-dee-oh lay-dee-lee-oh
oh-lay-dee-oh lay-dee-lay-ee-oh

Nice work, Hammerstein.

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 14, 2012 02:10 AM (xY011)

I am sixteen going on seventeen.Sound of music, such a great movie!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at December 13, 2012 10:23 PM (adaoe)

683 Cheery crowd tonight. My wife and I spent a few minutes watching metors, as many as 5 in a minute to our north east. So what is the cause celeb tonight, other than let it burn?

Posted by: Ohio Dan at December 13, 2012 10:25 PM (JKNDp)

684 On the western slope of Allegheny mountains in Virginia. Population 4657, not a stoplight in the whole county Posted by: Rural VA at December 14, 2012 02:20 AM (Lia4j) I like that kind of life. Bout 7500 in my town, until summr and the holidays, then the touristas come. Hazard of living close to the ocean.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 13, 2012 10:25 PM (3Y7RV)

685 Buzzion I got it. I woulda used it last week but the thread was already huge. Hopefully I'll use it this week

Posted by: Zakn at December 13, 2012 10:26 PM (MTSwl)

686 Adriene, you mentined an appraiser last night and packing today. Are you packing for a trip or a move. Are you movin on up or headed to the Bowery?

Posted by: Ohio Dan at December 13, 2012 10:26 PM (JKNDp)

687 How do you solve a problem like Obama? Theres a song to write. Anyhow, I'm gonna try to sleep, later rons.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 13, 2012 10:27 PM (3Y7RV)

688 4657 is our county population and there's a resort here too but it doesn't get crazy. Moved here from the city and have never experienced anything like it, like 9 people per square mile. Only about 500 people in our village. True sense of community, really enjoy it.

Posted by: Rural VA at December 13, 2012 10:28 PM (Lia4j)

689 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrP1_5XuKLI

Most people don't get the best gag in this clip.

Posted by: epobirs at December 13, 2012 10:28 PM (kcfmt)

690 There used to be a great YouTube clip of Christopher Plummer singing Edelweiss, mixing the original first bit, and the choking-up-during-the-reprise-at-the-concert bits, but I can't find it any more.

Yet another reminder to download everything you find interesting onto storage you personally control.

/sigh

Posted by: Waterhouse, too maudlin for words at December 13, 2012 10:32 PM (xY011)

691 687 How do you solve a problem like Obama?

Theres a song to write. Anyhow, I'm gonna try to sleep, later rons.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 14, 2012 02:27 AM (3Y7RV)

Tee hee, Night. God Bless

Posted by: lou's a girl at December 13, 2012 10:33 PM (adaoe)

692 OK the part that got me was where he pulled out his notebook and sang the lyrics, but no, I don't get it.

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 10:35 PM (ysrca)

693 sigh. I'm workblocked from youtube. Thankfully reddit isn't tho.

Posted by: Zakn at December 13, 2012 10:36 PM (fooYE)

694 Alcohol, boredom, and open spaces seem to help this process along.

Or being 94% ethnically homogenous.

Look, if you're going to post articles about Scandi superiority, don't run away from the Scandi.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 13, 2012 10:44 PM (TtXjG)

695 Consider what the movie Von Trapp kids did when they grew up. Spider-man really was in The Sound of Music.

I was in a room with three other people when I first saw this episode and all gave me a 'Whats so funny?' look.

Posted by: epobirs at December 13, 2012 10:47 PM (kcfmt)

696 Anyone here think this Rice dude looks like a lady, or is it just me?

Posted by: Whatev at December 13, 2012 10:48 PM (2t6Gz)

697 I just saw two meteors in the first five minutes of watching. I saw the first one out of the corner of my eye and the second one just a few minutes later in the same spot. Tonight's shower was different from ones I've seen in the past -- instead of the meteors arcing across the sky they looked as if they were dropping straight down out of it. Having spent hours to see two meteors during better showers (Perseids) I figured I could spend two more hours in the 28 degree weather just to maybe see one more, so after five more minutes I packed it in for a warm cozy couch and the TV. I can't say I was disappointed, however. Time to watch the rigged Storage Wars show or better yet The First 48 Hours until my Dad wanders out and I have to empty his catheter bag. It's an exciting life, I tell ya!

Posted by: Ed Anger at December 13, 2012 10:48 PM (tOkJB)

698 ok I got dibs on you for trivia night - that is way more information about SoM or Spidey then I could ever hope to retain.

Posted by: Joe in COLO at December 13, 2012 10:50 PM (ysrca)

699 you'll like this epobirs if you haven't already seen it http://www.bitcreature.com/editorials/heavy-metal-xcom/

Posted by: Zakn at December 13, 2012 10:51 PM (fooYE)

700 Whatever you do dont listen to Edelweiss, dont do it!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at December 13, 2012 10:57 PM (adaoe)

701 Ed Ames, an American singer of Italian decent, who played Mingo sidekick to Daniel Boone, sang a great version of Edelweiss.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at December 13, 2012 11:03 PM (JKNDp)

702 ♫ Tiiii
(lah-sooool)
((Faaa-mi-reee))
Tiiii-doooh ♪

Posted by: Waterhouse, for once properly harmonic at December 13, 2012 11:05 PM (xY011)

703 Re - (no la-sol) "Edelweiss", Mark Steyn mentions the following:

Hammerstein's very last lyric,"Edelweiss" from The Sound of Music, is invariably assumed to be a real Austrian folk song--indeed, a few years back, the White House went further, playing it at a state banquet for the Austrian president, under the impression that it was the country's national anthem.

Funny.

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 13, 2012 11:10 PM (xY011)

704 And the meteors were supposed to fall from the eastern sky but the two I saw we're from the southeast -- actually more from the south than east. At least I got to see a couple of them in a short period. Now it's time to grab whatever sleep I can. See you morons later, after the sun rises.

Posted by: Ed Anger at December 13, 2012 11:13 PM (tOkJB)

705 459 So is 'smeg' what i think it is? Adding a 'ma' to it would make it complete? Posted by: RWC at December 14, 2012 12:16 AM (sqp6o) That's what I keep telling everybody about the word "newer"!

Posted by: George Costanza at December 13, 2012 11:14 PM (38Ymr)

706 One last thing, some advice for @PA: Get a good impact drill with a couple of extra batteries. Smashing out a concrete wall with a sledge hammer is lots easier if you've strategically drilled a pattern of holes first.

Posted by: Ed Anger at December 13, 2012 11:34 PM (tOkJB)

707 #699

Well, it certainly puts a positive spin on an alien invasion!

Posted by: epobirs at December 13, 2012 11:41 PM (kcfmt)

708 72 Been up since 4:30AM trying to decide if I should just take the offer of $1000 on an $1800 shotgun. I just want the dough for a REAL gun (BARNS AK). Posted by: Tobacco Road, stuck in the ditch at December 13, 2012 10:43 PM (4Mv1T) I vote no! Depending on your moral situation, you could just tell the guy to come over, cap him, take the $1000, dig a shallow grave, and re-advertise. Win/win!! MF'er had it coming, right? What kind of novice offers someone 1k for an $1800 gun? Sympathetic jury lets you walk on the "insult" plea alone.

Posted by: Okie in OR at December 14, 2012 12:00 AM (4voC4)

709 Well, I purchased a couple of "closeout" bluetooth mice on the cheap and I just unpacked one. It's the HP "optical comfort mouse" LB420AA#ABL.

It's shaped like you'd think a mouse would be shaped, except that it flares to this weird Alien/Prometheus skirt at desk level, like it's trying to bond with your desk. Underneath, this has been used to augment the size of the skid pads (which is good), but it's kind-o'-freaky.

It gives it an odd sense of immensity which you might think was contraindicated in a quick pointing device.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2012 12:07 AM (kaalw)

710 You're livin' on the edge man! Take a step back!

Posted by: D. Hopper at December 14, 2012 12:23 AM (AVfT8)

711 Worst movie girlfriend? No contest: General Waverly's girlfriend in White Christmas - Emma the housekeeper. She listened in on a partial phone conversation between Bob Wallace and Ed Harrison and misconstrued Wallace's intentions in regards to helping General Waverly through a particularly tough run of business for the lodge in Pine Tree Vermont. Emma then proceeded to tell Bob's girlfriend her interpretation of Bob's plan, thereby causing Betty Haines to become the second worst girlfriend in movie history. Then it all ends well and no one bothers to mention how Emma's snooping almost brought down one of the most powerful entertainment duos on the Florida musical review circuit. It was a total bullshit move by Emma. (played by Mary Wickes) C'mon. You know Waverly was boning her.

Posted by: Opus An Arcus at December 14, 2012 12:31 AM (PTNKL)

712 OH.MY.GOD. You have to see this video. It cured my polio: http://tinyurl.com/cxfforw

Posted by: DAve,dispenser of justice and good advice, but in this case mostly good advice at December 14, 2012 12:58 AM (XDC0v)

713 Goddamn, she's still incredibly cute.

Posted by: epobirs at December 14, 2012 01:02 AM (kcfmt)

714 Did you notic that nasty tattoo is gone now?

Posted by: DAve,dispenser of justice and good advice, but in this case mostly good advice at December 14, 2012 01:04 AM (XDC0v)

715 It may have been a temp for the event.

Posted by: epobirs at December 14, 2012 01:08 AM (kcfmt)

716 I would have to taste it to be sure

Posted by: DAve,dispenser of justice and good advice, but in this case mostly good advice at December 14, 2012 01:11 AM (XDC0v)

717 Borderline Sociopathic Blog for Boys is awesome on a regular basis

Posted by: DAve,dispenser of justice and good advice, but in this case mostly good advice at December 14, 2012 01:14 AM (XDC0v)

718 Well just returned from seeing The Hobbit. Overall it worked. Did not go see the 3D version, just 2D thank you. Of the almost three hour run time, if we trimmed the sweeping camera shots to show off 3D and some of the battle footage I feel another 15 minutes could have been removed with none the wiser. Some of the running battle shots are filler to show what can be done in the computers.

The worse part of the movie was it ended. See a thrush fly off to the Lonely Mountain. It lands there and starts trying to crack a nut. This sound reverberates down into the Dwarven halls. Where it awakens Smaug who turns his head, gold cascades off, and his eye opens. Then the credits roll.

I could have been down for another 2.5 to 3 hours to finish the bleeping movie. Instead the credits rolled.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 14, 2012 01:15 AM (oQmCC)

719 Did the 2D presentation still have the 48 FPS? I'm wondering if Douglas Trumbull will be vindicated after all these years. Which brings us to more obscure trivia: the connection between the death of Natalie Wood and the new Hobbit movie.

Posted by: epobirs at December 14, 2012 01:19 AM (kcfmt)

720 Too bad you're not a lesbian or you could take my suggestion and watch that video. It's like Lourdes for broken hearts. Besides, WTH are you doing coming back from a movie at this hour, hmmmm?

Posted by: DAve,dispenser of justice and good advice, but in this case mostly good advice at December 14, 2012 01:20 AM (XDC0v)

721 AoS morality police got some questions for you

Posted by: DAve,dispenser of justice and good advice, but in this case mostly good advice at December 14, 2012 01:22 AM (XDC0v)

722 The only times the moving camera shots seemed to falter was in the middle of those deep shots like showing inside Erebor as the Dwarves mined and when they had the super long running battle with the goblins. Do not know if the 2D was also in 48FPS.

What was Trumbull saying? And what linkage?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 14, 2012 01:22 AM (oQmCC)

723 DAve, watching a movie with a bunch of friends. IF you have a problem with that, I am sure I can rummage around for Stinger.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 14, 2012 01:23 AM (oQmCC)

724 Very well I'll recall the SWAT team

Posted by: DAve,dispenser of justice and good advice, but in this case mostly good advice at December 14, 2012 01:25 AM (XDC0v)

725 Gee DAve thanks. Why don't you go jump in a portal, I hear there is cake.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 14, 2012 01:29 AM (oQmCC)

726 This ONT gives me sad eyes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtdOpnCBLj8

Posted by: s☺mej☼e at December 14, 2012 01:34 AM (SSWdi)

727 "He added: 'We did a four-week special of the Fallout Challenge, but after the special came to an end we had so many people asking to do it, it ended up becoming a permanent fixture on our menu."

He added further: Our next four-week special will be to add a 50-ml HCl chaser instead of milk or iced tea... because people are increasingly stupid.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 14, 2012 01:40 AM (eHIJJ)

728 They ran out of cake

Posted by: Zakn at December 14, 2012 01:42 AM (J/S+8)

729 How do you solve a problem like Obama?

In Soviet America you don't solve the Obama problem, the Obama problem solves you!

Posted by: Russian Comic at December 14, 2012 01:42 AM (hVYrg)

730

Tonight....or morning depending on your time-zone

I'll just ptich in with.....

"God save me....4 more years of.......this.........

Posted by: Richard at December 14, 2012 01:44 AM (UgyPx)

731 PITCH!!

Posted by: Richard at December 14, 2012 01:47 AM (UgyPx)

732 Famed special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull decided theatrical presentation needed an upgrade and started a series of experiments on biometric monitoring of audience viewing test footage. He found that increasing frame rates over 'sound speed' aka 24 FPS, had the greatest effect on the visceral quality, closely followed by the size of the frame. Anything above 72 FPS was found to have added effect and even that triple frame rate presented a major expense issue.

Rather than require 70 mm, due to the need to reduce cost, Trumbull's Showscan system used 65 mm celluloid at 48 FPS for capture and playback of the image. Trumbull then came up with a screenplay concept about replaying the experiences of one person into the mind of another. This would provide an excuse to have a movie packed with spectacular visual action sequences while being more than just a clip show. The story was given the title Brainstorm and went into production with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood in the lead roles.

The production was almost lost entirely when the actress died suddenly by drowning under odd circumstances. Her scenes were only about 90% completed and the cloud hanging over the production meant that the studio was no longer willing to back the expensive proposition of Showscan as this meant equipping new projection systems in select theaters and a substantially higher cost per print than the typical release. The movie was completed with Natalie Wood being replaced by a stand-in who was mostly shot from behind to avoid showing her face. Some scenes were cut entirely. The movie was eventually released in conventional format after much delay.

Showscan languished without a showpiece to create audience awareness and build demand for further productions. It was mainly used in motion simulator rides in LBE (location based entertainment) venues in Las Vegas and other tourist destinations. The company got a special technical Oscar in 1993 and went through bankruptcy in 2002. Another company bought up the asset and is trying to promote a new digital standard today. James Cameron has announced his intention to have the Avatar sequels presented in either 48 or 60 FPS.

There you have it. What could have been one of the great innovations in theatrical films was derailed by the death of a single woman not directly involved with the technology.

Posted by: epobirs at December 14, 2012 01:50 AM (kcfmt)

733 If it was pancakes well maybe. I all of a sudden have a hankerin'

Posted by: DAve,dispenser of justice and good advice, but in this case mostly good advice at December 14, 2012 01:55 AM (XDC0v)

734 Merciful jeebus why do they have these graphic bedbug commercials on tv at this hour? Now I'm scared to go to bed...

Posted by: DAve,dispenser of justice and good advice, but in this case mostly good advice at December 14, 2012 01:57 AM (XDC0v)

735

"SING IT!!!!"""""""""

"How do you stop a problem like "O"BAAAMA...

"How do you get the country backs in YEARS????!!!!

" WE tried the standard frame, by voting in the main.

the election results have put US in the rears.....so...

How do you solve a problem like o-BAMA!!

NO one ON EARTH CAN SOLVE THESE NEXT 4 YEEARRSSSSS..

sorry Maria.....

Posted by: Richard at December 14, 2012 02:04 AM (UgyPx)

736 Hey Anna I mos def wasn't trying to make you mad-

Posted by: DAve,dispenser of justice and good advice, but in this case mostly good advice at December 14, 2012 02:06 AM (XDC0v)

737 579 So if we Let it Burn? then what? which I'm for let it burn, but what happens next? Posted by: Jake Ashes...

Posted by: backhoe at December 14, 2012 02:09 AM (ULH4o)

738 Obama isn't the disease he's the symptom

Posted by: DAve,dispenser of justice and good advice, but in this case mostly good advice at December 14, 2012 02:10 AM (XDC0v)

739 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE2-7a_F_B0

Posted by: Russian Comic at December 14, 2012 02:12 AM (hVYrg)

740 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aaubVlhNK4

Posted by: Russian Comic at December 14, 2012 02:16 AM (hVYrg)

741

I want rib-eye steak grilled over oak charcoal with..

A Burgundy reduction sauce,

Steamed Asparagus with lemon pepper and butter

Garlic potatos with a sour cream dill topping

and.......

A fine Cab from the North Coast...

A Cigar for dessert......

Now THATS!!! a Breakfast!!!!!

Posted by: Richard at December 14, 2012 02:16 AM (UgyPx)

742 The Brits diet is adapting to the grinding recession/depression.

http://tinyurl.com/cgcxqha

"In order to cut costs since 2007, UK households have bought less bread, lamb, beef, fish, fruit, vegetables, potatoes and alcoholic drinks Â– but more bacon."

Posted by: @PurpAv at December 14, 2012 02:22 AM (hVYrg)

743

Just so you all know...

We need to eat MEAT for breakfast if we ever hope to have this country back!

Serious!....and jus sayin....

MORNING all you M plus M's

Now on to the next post that should be up about........now

Posted by: Richard at December 14, 2012 02:26 AM (UgyPx)

744 Laura Ingraham has chosen Launchpad to share her wit and wisdom with the widening online audience beginning Jan. 2.-- WND

Posted by: Brian Dennehy in Zardoz at December 14, 2012 02:30 AM (BAnPT)

745

I do like bacon.....and

BBQ'd pig in many colors....mostly...done AND TASTEY!!!!

Posted by: Richard at December 14, 2012 02:30 AM (UgyPx)

746 weasilzippers:
"Report: Obama Likely to Nominate Anti-Israel RINO Chuck Hagel to Sec. Defense"

/Given Obama's penchant to spend US Tax Funds to sponsor the Arab Spring, aka Muslim Bro and al-Qaeda, then he's consistent. The US taxpayers are gifting the Egyptian Islamist new gov more F-16s/

Posted by: Brian Dennehy in Zardoz at December 14, 2012 02:41 AM (BAnPT)

747 'morning M&Ms

Posted by: sophistahick at December 14, 2012 02:47 AM (UhXzR)

748 The fake morning thread is up. The real one should be up soon.

Posted by: Butters at December 14, 2012 02:52 AM (NIZHJ)

749 What color are the Emo countries?

Posted by: edj[/i] at December 14, 2012 05:10 AM (+QKfp)

750 Liza Minelli in Sterile Cuckoo

Posted by: rtw at December 14, 2012 05:25 AM (Srqj9)

751 With the suicide rate what it is in Russia, I suspect that the emotional quotient results are seriously flawed.

Posted by: gm at December 14, 2012 06:45 AM (K0tm3)

752 Since I don't see any documentation of what markup is allowed in comments, I am posting this as a test to see what works and what doesn't. You don't care so ignore this post. [/b/] for bold: This is bold. [/i/] for italic: This is italic. [/u/] for underline: This is underlined. [/u/r/l/] for URLs: Link to BBCode on Wikipedia: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode [/u/r/l/=] for embedded links: Link to BBCode on Wikipedia Does backslash work to turn off the [ character? This is \[i]not italic\.

Posted by: Ignore This Post at December 15, 2012 11:57 AM (P0N+7)

753 The test continues. [/a/] for embedded links: [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode"]Link to BBCode on Wikipedia[/a] [/list/] for a list:

* first point * second point * last point

Posted by: Ignore This Post at December 15, 2012 11:59 AM (P0N+7)

754 Another attempt to post a link. [/a/] for a link? [a]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode[/a] Actual HTML in angle brackets? for a link? Link to BBCode page on Wikipedia for a link? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode

Posted by: Ignore This Post at December 15, 2012 12:08 PM (P0N+7)

755

[link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode test [li] * one * two * last [/li]

Posted by: Ignore This Post at December 15, 2012 12:16 PM (P0N+7)

756

http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=335669#c19844720

http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=335669#c19844720 wrote:
test

Posted by: Ignore This Post at December 15, 2012 12:19 PM (P0N+7)

757 Now I'm not sure there even is a way to post a URL as a clickable link. Oh well, we'll all survive somehow. P.S. an FAQ describing the permitted markup codes would be a good thing.

Posted by: Ignore This Post at December 15, 2012 12:20 PM (P0N+7)

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