January 01, 2014

2013: A Year of Awful Writing
— Ace

Michael Moynihan looks back at the Year That Was Incoherent and Silly.

With blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, and all the other platforms I have forgotten about, we were promised a great democratization of media, a Gutenberg press in the hands of everyone who could muster an opinion about anything. And the media has been democratized (please spare me the heavy breathing about the sinister Koch brothers, Murdoch, Buffett, Bezos, Omidyar, and Soros), which has brought us more entry-level journalists, more stupid journalism, and a permanent public record of every half-witted brainwave from every impulsive Twitter user.

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[I] watched in wonderment as serious magazines and newspapers hung on every revolutionary word of actor and self-appointed pundit Russell Brand, who in 2013 decided he was the monster who has turned on his creator, attacking capitalism, celebrity culture, and corporate control of the media (while skillfully not rejecting the lucrative paydays they provide).

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Try, if you will, to digest these paragraphs from a recent Brand column on the supposedly corrupt British parliamentary system, surely a contender for the worst column ever published in a mainstream newspaper:

“That politics is bereft of altruists, philanthropists and idealists but instead throbs and bristles with stunted show-offs, who, granted flatter abs and cuter noses, would be jiving and caterwauling on Britain’s Got Talent or staring with glum vacuity down the barrel of a camera in a mock corridor in Holby City.”

I suspect someone bought Brand a thesaurus for Christmas.

“This pith squirt stings because we want our politicians to be motivated by high ideals and compassion and not to secretly seethe every time Harry Styles impeccably saunters through the public mind with hair that gently binds his scalp to the heavens and mankind to the angels.”

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Brand later informs readers, those drooling sheeple conditioned by corporations, that the British Parliament “is a deeply encoded temple of hegemonic power.” What any of it means is anyone’s guess.

He then goes on to discuss Salon.com, saying it's now a college student newspaper.

via @rdbrewer4.

Posted by: Ace at 11:35 AM | Comments (353)
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1 You're absolutely right, ace.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2014 11:39 AM (o9Rp5)

2 It's been a long 15 minutes.

Posted by: fluffy at January 01, 2014 11:39 AM (Ua6T/)

3 Slow day, apparently.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2014 11:40 AM (o9Rp5)

4 So, anyone else hungover like a viking?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2014 11:40 AM (o9Rp5)

5 Prior to the explosion of mass media, the prose may have been more artful, but the writing still sucked. It sucked because it was lies. It was lies and half-truths and perversions that supported a singular ideology. So while having to wade through ignominious tripe sometimes sucks, I'd rather deal with a glut of bad writers being truthful (at least up front about what they're doing) than skilled, lying wordsmiths.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 11:41 AM (JpFMR)

6 My kingdom for a thesaurus and an editor!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 11:41 AM (cubpP)

7 I have a pitcher of spicy bloody marys if anyone's interested.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2014 11:42 AM (o9Rp5)

8 I saw The Insipid Twits open for Bob Dylan in 1988.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 01, 2014 11:42 AM (wNF3N)

9 I have a pitcher of spicy bloody marys if anyone's interested.

YUM!

Posted by: Peaches at January 01, 2014 11:43 AM (8lmkt)

10 Everything I just said is bullshit.

Posted by: Russell Brand at January 01, 2014 11:43 AM (Ua6T/)

11 Is that first quote by Brand a sentence fragment? I can't tell after wading through so much crap.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 01, 2014 11:43 AM (bf+1U)

12 Incoherent and silly = svenn Mostly incoherent though.....

Posted by: Lo Armistead at January 01, 2014 11:44 AM (ZcYoA)

13 The "Amateur Webzine" modifier is still one of my favorite slurs.

Posted by: toby928© the creator of Blurt© and Gotcha!© at January 01, 2014 11:46 AM (QupBk)

14 What any of it means is anyoneÂ’s guess.

Shorter Russell Brand: I'm better than you.

Posted by: pep at January 01, 2014 11:47 AM (6TB1Z)

15 BECAUSE IT PRICKS THEIR HUBRIS!

Posted by: Implausibly Ben Roethlisberger at January 01, 2014 11:47 AM (QupBk)

16 Where can I get a pair of those "I look really smart" glasses?

Posted by: Russell Brand at January 01, 2014 11:47 AM (wAQA5)

17 Put a glass under your USB, Peaches.  Pouring now...

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2014 11:47 AM (o9Rp5)

18 Shorter pep: No, you're not. 

Posted by: pep at January 01, 2014 11:47 AM (6TB1Z)

19 I try not to let how people look distract me from the they are as a human being (because Lord knows I 'm no oil painting) but Brand looks like a younger, more cleaned up smiling version of Charles Manson to me and when you combine that with some of the drivel he comes out with I can't take him seriously, The problems is lots of people do.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2014 11:48 AM (BC6cY)

20 Not only that, he's lousy in bed.

Posted by: Katy Perry at January 01, 2014 11:49 AM (wAQA5)

21 What would one expect? Whenever you democratize ANYTHING you immediately head for the lowest common denominator. All else flows from that precept.

That being said, from the chaff, sometimes a grain of excellence emerges. Or at a minimum some common sense. A classic example was the expose of Dan Rather being a fraud by mere typewriter repairmen and software engineers adept at photoshop forgeries.

Posted by: JohnMc at January 01, 2014 11:50 AM (RHBWt)

22 Thanks, Duke, it's delish!  So, I wonder what ol' Russell thinks about the new potty rules for sexually confused California kindergartners.  Because, when I think about it for more than 2 seconds, there is a real danger of my head exploding.

Posted by: Peaches at January 01, 2014 11:50 AM (8lmkt)

23 I guess banging Kate Perry was like  earning a masters degree in writing or something....

Posted by: JoeyBagels at January 01, 2014 11:50 AM (Usdw3)

24 “This pith squirt stings because I schtupped way too many Hollywood planet eaters."

Posted by: Russell Brand at January 01, 2014 11:52 AM (wAQA5)

25 Parliament is a dominant power with a deeply encoded system. I guess that's what he means, which really doesn't sound much different from the way some Tea Party folks talk about the Congress, but if he's attacking capitalism he's obviously not the British version of the Tea Party.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2014 11:53 AM (BC6cY)

26 a year that was incoherent & silly.....you described my year perfectly......p-e-r-f-e-c-t-l-y

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl Happy 8th day of Christmas at January 01, 2014 11:54 AM (u8GsB)

27 happy new year PEACHES!!!!!!

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl Happy 8th day of Christmas at January 01, 2014 11:55 AM (u8GsB)

28 No love for drug-addled Sean Penn?  I don't remember what year it was when I last read his prose, but I got high on the fumes bubbling and oozing from his mindpores.

Posted by: Fritz at January 01, 2014 11:55 AM (TKFmG)

29 It was a horrible year (why can't he just say that instead of the pretentious Latin) for the opposite of the hideous, which means the glorious, which means Obama.  

So when asked to suggest some of 2013Â’s journalistic highlights, I came up with a depressingly thin list.

The author slams others because they don't write as well as a "journalist".  Here's the problem: nobody is impressed by journalists anymore.  Maybe they have better syntax, but when that superior syntax is used in the service of toadying and bootlicking, why do I care?

Posted by: pep at January 01, 2014 11:55 AM (6TB1Z)

30 a year that was incoherent & silly.....you described my year perfectly......p-e-r-f-e-c-t-l-y Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl Happy 8th day of Christmas at January 01, 2014 03:54 PM (u8GsB) Hide posts from (u8GsB) *clink*

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at January 01, 2014 11:56 AM (qyfb5)

31 He looks like a smelly person.

Posted by: wth at January 01, 2014 11:57 AM (wAQA5)

32 "politics is bereft of altruists, philanthropists and idealists " This is news for Brand?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2014 11:57 AM (BC6cY)

33 Who is Russell Brand and why should I give two shits about anything he says?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2014 11:58 AM (GufPw)

34 Twas ano horribulus...  another year of Gaylord Focker.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 12:00 PM (cubpP)

35 I know I said that this year I would read the posts, but I lied.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 12:00 PM (57z1g)

36 Who is Russell Brand and why should I give two shits about anything he says? Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2014 03:58 PM (GufPw) British "comedian" and occasional actor. Despite not being a good-looking guy, he somehow convinced Katy Perry to marry him. Not that it lasted. Political philosophy was not my favorite class in school. After attempting to decipher Brand, I'll welcome Plato back into my life with open arms.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 12:01 PM (MpP9p)

37

Moynihan is just pissed off because  the snotty fraternity that he  belongs to is no longer the only game in town.

 

They've been usurped by the Animal House, and nobody wants to listen to the stuffed shirts when the Delta House throws better parties and is more fun to hang out with.

 

What pisses  Moynihan off the most, though, is the fact that he knows that if he were to attempt to set foot in Delta House, he'd be getting a swirlie inside of 2 minutes, then be tossed out into the night wearing only his underwear and the pretentious bowtie that he thought might make him look  "hip".

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at January 01, 2014 12:01 PM (PZ6/M)

38 Who da fuck reads Salon? That will shrink your man parts

Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 12:02 PM (07nix)

39 Hey, I can translate what Russell Brand was saying: Tap tap tap, two fingers peace sign, hook'em horns, wavy flat palm across diagonally, two-handed "OK" sign held up to eyes like binoculars, let your fingers do the walking in your other palm, universal gesture for jerking off, draw a smiley face in thin air. /Fake Sign Language Guy

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 01, 2014 12:02 PM (g4TxM)

40 Vendette, Brand's political philosophy can be read off the top of a cereal box.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 12:02 PM (cubpP)

41 because people pay to see someone like Brand do what they think is humor, Brand starts to think he's more than a comedian. Jon Stewart Syndrome, we can call it.

Compare what Brand writes to this quote from Mark Twain: "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." A reasonably bright ten year old could tell who had talent and who had a painful attack of flatulence.

Posted by: Mallfly at January 01, 2014 12:02 PM (bJm7W)

42 /Fake Sign Language Guy Posted by: Seamus Muldoon

You forgot Batman eyes.

Posted by: pep at January 01, 2014 12:03 PM (6TB1Z)

43 And speaking of the horrible practices of preschools Sweden is trying to eliminate gender stereotyes by creating new words, etc. "Him" and "Her" are passe. Coming soon to a preschool near you-if it hasn't happened already. Socialism marches on

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2014 12:03 PM (BC6cY)

44 I don't know who Russell Brand is, but he writes like a fag, and his shit's all fucked up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2014 12:04 PM (8Fl6F)

45 Sorry; Forgot the link of Swedish preschool: http://tinyurl.com/mrw6k54

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2014 12:04 PM (BC6cY)

46  I know I said that this year I would read the posts, but I lied.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 04:00 PM (57z1g)

 

If you read that post your brain will REALLY hurt.

Posted by: wth at January 01, 2014 12:05 PM (wAQA5)

47 “This pith squirt stings Shut the hell up Russell!!! I'm calling my lawyer!

Posted by: Kate Perry! at January 01, 2014 12:05 PM (RJMhd)

48 16 Where can I get a pair of those "I look really smart" glasses?

Posted by: Russell Brand at January 01, 2014 03:47 PM (wAQA5)



****

They won't work with your cro-magnon face.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2014 12:06 PM (z+4T3)

49 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2014 04:04 PM (BC6cY) Sweden is done. They refuse to defend their women and boys from the moslum rapey rapists any society that does not come to the aid of women and children is toast

Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 12:07 PM (07nix)

50 38 Who da fuck reads Salon? That will shrink your man parts Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 04:02 PM (07nix) ******* I think they are in the same pool with the GQ readers--and it's nasty!

Posted by: Kate Perry! at January 01, 2014 12:07 PM (RJMhd)

51

Oops, sorry Vendette. Shoulda put a sarc tag there or something. I know who he is and I don't give two shits about anything he says. He's just another mouth breathing hypocritical pop culture shit stain.

 

On the other hand...you watchin the Winter Classic?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2014 12:07 PM (GufPw)

52 I guess Moynihan is saying that the problem isn't Russell Brand per se, but the fact that supposedly high-class people and publications take him seriously. Yep. I agree. The problem isn't really Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. The problem is that U. Illinois-Chicago and Northwestern actually hired them. The problem isn't Obama, but that 52% of the American people voted for him. The problem isn't nutcases who talk about the oppression of transgendered kindergarteners. It's all of the people who are too stupid or too timid to call a nut a nut and guffaw.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 01, 2014 12:09 PM (dfYL9)

53 On the other hand...you watchin the Winter Classic? Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2014 04:07 PM (GufPw) Yes, I am watching the Winter Classic but I have the TV on mute because I can't stand the announcer's voice. Are you watching any of the World Juniors?

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 12:09 PM (MpP9p)

54 You forgot Batman eyes. Posted by: pep at January 01, 2014 04:03 PM (6TB1Z) **** I was going to include Junior Birdman eyes but I wasn't sure anyone would catch the reference.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 01, 2014 12:10 PM (g4TxM)

55 If incoherence, idiocratic thinking, subject/verb/object interaction syntax ambiguity, and banality ever catches on I expect to be revered like an old master.....

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 12:10 PM (9EuCl)

56 I am watching the Winter Classic but I have the TV on mute because I can't stand the announcer's voice. How you gonna diss Doc and Eddie O?

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 12:10 PM (57z1g)

57 About Russell Brand, he actually seems quite quick and nimble on his feet - speech-wise, that is. I've tried to hate the douche. And kinda/sorta do. But, when compared to his entertainment contemporaries he is actually very well-spoken, has a seemingly rich vocabulary at the ready, and uses the right word at the right time with regular and impressive dexterity. Observe him on youtube and judge. (this post was written in under 45 seconds).

Posted by: JDW at January 01, 2014 12:11 PM (dmhUI)

58 Someone recently equated politicians with prostitutes while the actors have long been associated with the oldest profession. Pot, kettle, Russell. Besides, I think he has a mental illness, his eyes look crazed.

Posted by: Decaf at January 01, 2014 12:12 PM (DKWp/)

59 Salon is arguably worse than most college papers. I may think the Profs are asshame moonbats but the Wright State Guardian's supervisory advisors would never dream of putting Matt "Rain Man" Yglesias in the economics chair... "10 more trillion to Wopner!" //Matt "ButtPlug" Yglesias

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 12:13 PM (9EuCl)

60 43 And speaking of the horrible practices of preschools Sweden is trying to eliminate gender stereotyes by creating new words, etc. "Him" and "Her" are passe. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2014 04:03 PM (BC6cY) ----------------------------- I favor the pronoun s/h/it. It combines all three possibilities of she, he, and it (neither, undecided.)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 01, 2014 12:13 PM (dfYL9)

61 Sweden quietly has gone hardcore authoritarian and you had better not wonder if admitting thousands of Syrians is a great idea. That's a crime. The Left punishes racism as a crime, and they define racism as opposing their policies in any way.

Posted by: Beagle at January 01, 2014 12:13 PM (sOtz/)

62 He spelled it wrong. Last year SUCKED. It wasn't silly it sucked gray whale, or whichever fucking whale is the largest mammal on the planet. And since being told yesterday at 4pm as I shopped for booze, that tfg has now outlawed my catastrophic policy with Lloyd's of London, 2014 is off to a roaring start. Grumble grumble grumble. Who has chambord, the bottle got destroyed last night & I still need a drink.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 01, 2014 12:13 PM (//z0p)

63 PG!!!!  Happy New Year!! 

Posted by: Peaches at January 01, 2014 12:13 PM (8lmkt)

64
I haven't been around in a while, and I note the narrative is the same right wing nonsense that has been posted to this blog for years.  Inhumane and only for the top 1%.  Filled with lies and supposition about our great President Obama.  You conservative hacks should be ashamed of yourselves.

Posted by: Tarantula Head, D-Arizona at January 01, 2014 12:13 PM (pJF+c)

65 How you gonna diss Doc and Eddie O? Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 04:10 PM (57z1g) Eddie is fine (heck, I remember when he played for the original incarnation of the Jets); it's Doc whose voice grates on me. I also watch the Capitals on mute because of Craig McLaughlin (the color guy).

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 12:14 PM (MpP9p)

66 37>> Well stated.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2014 12:14 PM (A9hpr)

67 In fact, Happy New Year to all the fabulous 'ettes!!  And, of course, the esteemed morons. 

Posted by: Peaches at January 01, 2014 12:14 PM (8lmkt)

68 Happy New Year, Peaches!

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 12:15 PM (MpP9p)

69 60 43 And speaking of the horrible practices of preschools Sweden is trying to eliminate gender stereotyes by creating new words, etc. "Him" and "Her" are passe.

****

Great idea.  Let's delay that realization until later when they are trying out for high school sports.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2014 12:16 PM (z+4T3)

70 Did I just see Bebe's Boobs??? Sweet.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 12:16 PM (JpFMR)

71 is 65 the first troll of the year? don't feed da troll yo!

Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 12:16 PM (07nix)

72 65 -

A not even remotely interesting sock troll.

Ho hum. 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2014 12:17 PM (BeSEI)

73 Doc whose voice grates on me. I also watch the Capitals on mute because of Craig McLaughlin (the color guy). Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 04:14 PM (MpP9p) Doc is like the Phil Rizuto of Hockey. He's a goofball. I hear you on the Caps (and Devils) broadcast. Bruins, too. Too many awful color men in hockey.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 12:17 PM (57z1g)

74 Who has chambord, the bottle got destroyed last night & I still need a drink. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 01, 2014 04:13 PM (//z0p) that really sucks bebe

Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 12:17 PM (07nix)

75 Happy New Year Peaches! How ya been?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 01, 2014 12:17 PM (//z0p)

76 it sucked gray whale these are the turns of phrase that keep me coming back to hive of scum and villainy.

Posted by: toby928© the creator of Blurt© and Gotcha!© at January 01, 2014 12:17 PM (QupBk)

77 68 In fact, Happy New Year to all the fabulous 'ettes!! And, of course, the esteemed morons. Posted by: Peaches at January 01, 2014 04:14 PM (8lmkt) i'll second that!

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl Happy 8th day of Christmas at January 01, 2014 12:18 PM (u8GsB)

78 This pith doth sting and is adverse to squirt!!!

Posted by: Russell Brand at January 01, 2014 12:18 PM (wAQA5)

79 bebes i hope you/we all have a better year.....

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl Happy 8th day of Christmas at January 01, 2014 12:18 PM (u8GsB)

80 And BC. Having fun at the in laws?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 01, 2014 12:19 PM (//z0p)

81 I saw bebe's boobs and the awesome rack open for the YumYums in '82 at the Salt Palace

Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 12:19 PM (07nix)

82 65
I haven't been around in a while, and I note the narrative is the same right wing nonsense that has been posted to this blog for years. Inhumane and only for the top 1%. Filled with lies and supposition about our great President Obama. You conservative hacks should be ashamed of yourselves.

Posted by: Tarantula Head, D-Arizona at January 01, 2014 04:13 PM (pJF+c)


******


.....uhhhmmmmm.....Thank You???

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2014 12:19 PM (z+4T3)

83 Winter Classic, good game. Tied. Love the unis. Looks like it's 1974 on the ice.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 01, 2014 12:19 PM (ZPrif)

84 Here you go bebe. http://tinyurl.com/ms2cfgl

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 12:19 PM (JpFMR)

85 Looks like it's 1974 on the ice. Needs moar sideburns.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 12:20 PM (57z1g)

86 I also watch the Capitals on mute because of Craig McLaughlin (the color guy). ***** Wait a second. Hockey has color guys? Who knew?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 01, 2014 12:20 PM (g4TxM)

87 "I favor the pronoun s/h/it. It combines all three possibilities of she, he, and it (neither, undecided.)" When kids are in that terrible two to five year old stage you do want to call them that.

Posted by: Decaf at January 01, 2014 12:21 PM (DKWp/)

88 I hope you have a truly better year Bebes.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 12:21 PM (cubpP)

89 To be scrupulously fair to Russell Brand, it's hard to appreciate anyone's writing once once has delved into Barky's body of work.  He's just so much better at everything than anyone.  Not really fair, is it?

Posted by: Peaches at January 01, 2014 12:21 PM (8lmkt)

90 “That politics is bereft of altruists, philanthropists and idealists but instead throbs and bristles with stunted show-offs, who, granted flatter abs and cuter noses, would be jiving and caterwauling on Britain’s Got Talent or staring with glum vacuity down the barrel of a camera in a mock corridor in Holby City.”


That right there is some good shit.

Posted by: Peggy Noonan at January 01, 2014 12:21 PM (dZ0Re)

91 I haven't been around in a while, ........

Posted by: Tarantula Head, D-Arizona at January 01, 2014 04:13 PM (pJF+c)


I missed you! But not to worry, I have been taking target practice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2014 12:21 PM (8Fl6F)

92 Should we get Ace to resurrect the Peruvia thread? How about the one where we made up names for fictional British television shows? Both were in the last year so maybe too recent.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 01, 2014 12:21 PM (oFCZn)

93 81 And BC. Having fun at the in laws? Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 01, 2014 04:19 PM (//z0p) UmmmmÂ…..sure. I'm not working. I don't have to cook. So yeah, it's ok.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 01, 2014 12:21 PM (JpFMR)

94

53>> Git to watch some yesterday.  I gotta say, I love listening to Doc call the Winter Classic. He's far and away my favorite play by play..if only he were paired with Daryl Reaugh. And they could put Don Cherry out there in place of Roenick.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2014 12:21 PM (4cA6A)

95 PG! How you doing? We need to visit Rose. I got an email from ChiDude that he finally got a new computer & was headed over there cause he really missed everyone.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 01, 2014 12:21 PM (//z0p)

96 83 Lemmiwinks, I left my derp-english/english-derp dictionary at the house Lemmi....did Gerg just do a Volcanic Captain America Ogabe post?

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 12:21 PM (9EuCl)

97 We got a stupid eight legged freak on this thread?  Now where did I put my stompy boots???

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 12:22 PM (cubpP)

98 Just so I'm clear on the nomenclature, a sock troll is a 'ron pretending to be a troll, yes?  Examples include Mary Cloggenstein. 

Posted by: pep at January 01, 2014 12:22 PM (6TB1Z)

99 93 Dack Thrombosis, Yeah I am thinking our Founding King should be named Tarde I-The Harbinger

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 12:23 PM (9EuCl)

100 "Great idea. Let's delay that realization until later when they are trying out for high school sports." By then Sweden's social engineers will have outlawed every sport except singing ABBA songs.

Posted by: Decaf at January 01, 2014 12:25 PM (DKWp/)

101 Over at NRO/The Corner, they are positing that eating a placenta is cannibalism. NRO was my fist stop on the right wing super hyway, but man they gotta grow a pair of nuts and stop being such pointy heads

Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 12:25 PM (07nix)

102 85 Here you go bebe. http://tinyurl.com/ms2cfgl Yeah, those are definitely in the "keep that thang away from me" category. And who knew whales had circle jerks?!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 01, 2014 12:25 PM (//z0p)

103 @103 Hello? Duh!

Posted by: Sperm Whales at January 01, 2014 12:28 PM (g4TxM)

104 96 PG! How you doing? We need to visit Rose. I got an email from ChiDude that he finally got a new computer & was headed over there cause he really missed everyone. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 01, 2014 04:21 PM (//z0p) i heard! incredible ....it has been 3yrs since i chatted with him....i can't log in at t9 so i can only pass my messages on to everyone there through people here or on fb.... i miss that group (well, most of them) anyway *hugs*

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl Happy 8th day of Christmas at January 01, 2014 12:29 PM (u8GsB)

105 The Bowheads are dead. So are the Humpbacks.  The Minkes. Pilot whales. Narwhals. Sperm. Porpoises. Today I settled all family business so don't tell me that your year sucked gray whale.

Posted by: A Blue Whale at January 01, 2014 12:29 PM (dZ0Re)

106 Git to watch some yesterday. I gotta say, I love listening to Doc call the Winter Classic. He's far and away my favorite play by play..if only he were paired with Daryl Reaugh. And they could put Don Cherry out there in place of Roenick. Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2014 04:21 PM (4cA6A) The US plays Russia at 6 a.m. tomorrow on the NHL Network. There will be repeats later in the day. I remember when Daryl Reaugh played for the Oilers. If Bobby Orr ever plays in an old-timers game (highly unlikely), Don Cherry will be there in all his glory and I'd pay good money to witness it.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 12:30 PM (MpP9p)

107 Hey PG, did you lose the link?  There is a Java client and also Flash.  Think even a Mobile version to reach T9.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 12:31 PM (cubpP)

108 I don't think 65 is a sock troll Mary Clogginstein it is not

Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 12:31 PM (07nix)

109 "102 Over at NRO/The Corner, they are positing that eating a placenta is cannibalism.

NRO was my fist stop on the right wing super hyway, but man they gotta grow a pair of nuts and stop being such pointy heads



Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 01, 2014 04:25 PM (07nix)"



Speaking of cannibalism, am I a bad person for hoping that the ship full of global warmists remains stuck in the ice during the antarctic summer until they start resorting to cannibalism?  The best part is that they would probably be posting pictures to twitter and facebook all the while.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at January 01, 2014 12:31 PM (BcCwi)

110 PG, why can't you post there? You talk to Birkie about fixing it?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 01, 2014 12:32 PM (//z0p)

111 Posted by: A Blue Whale at January 01, 2014 04:29 PM (dZ0Re) There you go, insisting upon yourself.

Posted by: some clown fish at January 01, 2014 12:32 PM (Ua6T/)

112 When kids are in that terrible two to five year old stage you do want to call them that. I actually found age 2 to 5 preferable to surly teen years-and we're not even close to being done with that. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2014 12:32 PM (BC6cY)

113 Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peckers.

Posted by: Russell OffBrand at January 01, 2014 12:32 PM (Dwehj)

114 i heard! incredible ....it has been 3yrs since i chatted with him....i can't log in at t9 so i can only pass my messages on to everyone there through people here or on fb.... i miss that group (well, most of them)

anyway *hugs*

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl Happy 8th day of Christmas at January 01, 2014 04:29 PM (u8GsB)


Hello, pg. Chatted with Chidude last night there. If you can't log onto T9, try either upgrading Java, or setting it back to an older version. There seem to be version conflicts in the realm of java. For a long time, I couldn't log in with Java on either my desktop or my laptop; then suddenly it started working fine on both, without me having done anything. So try it again soon, if you haven't for a while.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2014 12:33 PM (8Fl6F)

115 American Hustle was decent, but over-rated. Lots of voice-overs and Amy Adam's deep bra-less cleavage. The cleavage was not worth the 2 1/2 hr running time.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 01, 2014 12:35 PM (ZPrif)

116

"If Bobby Orr ever plays in an old-timers game (highly unlikely), Don Cherry will be there in all his glory and I'd pay good money to witness it."

 

When I was a kid I had a stick autographed by Orr, and a goalie stick autographed by Glen Resch. Lost them when when the house burned.

 

I'd take a loan to travel to the Winter Classic and see an old timers game with Orr in it.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2014 12:36 PM (4+PCd)

117 @110 Cannibalism reduces carbon pollution and saves energy.

Posted by: Beagle at January 01, 2014 12:38 PM (sOtz/)

118 The moral of the story seems to be that democrat corruption is hunky-dory b/c "for the people"..... Whicever I'll watch it when I can buy it used...

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 12:40 PM (9EuCl)

119 My suggestion to Brand. Sell off your assets, financial, real estate, cars, etc. Keep $500,000, 1 $200,000 house, and one $50,000 car for yourself. Give the rest to the poor. Otherwise, shut the f**k up, you phony douchebag.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 01, 2014 12:40 PM (RxVu7)

120 Who is Russell Brand and why should I give two shits about anything he says?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2014 03:58 PM (GufPw)




a) another Limey halfwit



2) you shouldn't.



Happy New Year morons and moronettes!

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 12:41 PM (yh0zB)

121   Politics is full of altruists.  The problem is that the politicians give away my hard earned money to the people they "feel" sorry for faster than I can make it.

Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at January 01, 2014 12:42 PM (tCxT5)

122 "...YumYums in '82 at the Salt Palace..." Posted by: Sam Peterson The YumYums Rock.

Posted by: Daybrother at January 01, 2014 12:42 PM (Gj4R8)

123 Damn. Shootout. This is no way to end a Hockey Game.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 12:43 PM (57z1g)

124 here, how about another quote from Mr Literary Comedian:

" When John Lennon was told of Elvis Presley's death, he famously responded: "Elvis died when he joined the army," meaning of course, that his combat clothing and clipped hair signalled the demise of the thrusting, Dionysian revolution of which he was the immaculate emblem. "

24 carat gibberish.

Posted by: Mallfly at January 01, 2014 12:43 PM (bJm7W)

125 118 Beagle, In the event of an EMP and societal implosion a lot of the Limo Enviros in Megalopolis type areas will get the chabce to live up to their convictions....

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 12:43 PM (9EuCl)

126 Who has chambord, the bottle got destroyed last night & I still need a drink. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 01, 2014 04:13 PM (//z0p) Hide posts from (//z0p) We need to fix you up a giant dispenser bottle, like in hamster cages. That way you can just stagger over and take a drink whenever you want. Like the bottle hanging in a hamster cage.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at January 01, 2014 12:44 PM (qyfb5)

127 125 Mallfly, John Lennon opined God was dead, God knows Lenin is buried.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 12:45 PM (9EuCl)

128 I am bursting with an Obamaian-like sense of self-importance.

Posted by: Russell OffBrand at January 01, 2014 12:45 PM (Dwehj)

129 What our betters fail to understand is that at street level, politics have ALWAYS been a bloody knuckle affair.

Now that the sanctity of their privileged domain has been penetrated, they have to see it for what it has always been, and in functional reality, always will be.

These poseurs to great intellect that whine and moan about the loss of their Great Golden Age of Everyone Listening to ME!! are actually fully and completely intellectually inbred and a bunch of thumb suckers.

Posted by: Grimmy at January 01, 2014 12:46 PM (uUsh9)

130 Heh, check out Drudge.  Our gubmint has just ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide.  Good times ahead!

Posted by: Peaches at January 01, 2014 12:47 PM (8lmkt)

131 I shall never eat Ramen noodles.

Posted by: Russell OffBrand at January 01, 2014 12:48 PM (Dwehj)

132 Everything Dan Brown writes is the worse piece of writing ever

Posted by: TexasJew at January 01, 2014 12:49 PM (U+u4A)

133 24 carat gibberish. Elvis was drafted, so it's not like a choice anyway.

Posted by: toby928© the creator of Blurt© and Gotcha!© at January 01, 2014 12:49 PM (QupBk)

134 I guess that he could have gone to prison rather than deploy to ... Germany.

Posted by: toby928© the creator of Blurt© and Gotcha!© at January 01, 2014 12:50 PM (QupBk)

135

Elvis was drafted, so it's not like a choice anyway

 

He could have fled to Canada.  That's what Lennon  would have done.

Posted by: Ronster at January 01, 2014 12:52 PM (Rru72)

136 131 Peaches, Which doesn't cover the civil servants at the state, federal, and local level against an all points threat... They know they are making us mor vulnerable they just don't give a damn about collateral from US..... They cry rivers of tears for the enabling "collateral" in Iraq and 'ghani.... I shit on 'em all

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 12:52 PM (9EuCl)

137 133 Everything Dan Brown writes is the worse piece of writing ever Posted by: TexasJew

Have you READ James Patterson and Robert Ludlum?

Posted by: pep at January 01, 2014 12:53 PM (6TB1Z)

138 133 TexasJew, It's a Russian Babushka Doll of ever descending tripe...

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 12:53 PM (9EuCl)

139 111 PG, why can't you post there? You talk to Birkie about fixing it? Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 01, 2014 04:32 PM (//z0p) i emailed him about it but never heard back....

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl Happy 8th day of Christmas at January 01, 2014 12:53 PM (u8GsB)

140 I recall sitting there bewildered at the incoherent ramblings of our so called political leaders, bereft of talent and decency, and thinking is there no justice in this world? Why are these people allowed to breathe the same air as sophisticates such as myself? I then wiped my ass and proceeded to get high as shit.

Posted by: Russel Brand at January 01, 2014 12:54 PM (P1WNR)

141 Political philosophy was not my favorite class in school. After attempting to decipher Brand, I'll welcome Plato back into my life with open arms.
I love Plato---he's better than fucking Goofy.

Posted by: joey biden at January 01, 2014 12:54 PM (8AHeV)

142 138 133
Everything Dan Brown writes is the worse piece of writing ever

Posted by: TexasJew

Have you READ James Patterson and Robert Ludlum?

I know, right?

Posted by: Monkeys with typewriters at January 01, 2014 12:55 PM (6TB1Z)

143 Mission Acomplished....scratch one sirloin

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 12:55 PM (9EuCl)

144 I am not sure what is up exactly, but if the Fukushima stories are half right, it is not contained and potentially could get a lot worse. Having seen two "once a century" tsunamis since 2004 is not encouraging.

Posted by: Beagle at January 01, 2014 12:57 PM (sOtz/)

145 Don't forget 40,000 new laws go into effect today. I saw that Drudge.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 12:57 PM (z4WKX)

146 Our gubmint has just ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide. Good times ahead! Posted by: Peaches Read the data on the radiation showing up in Bluefin Tuna and in other Pacific fish AND the US Pacific Coast and you'll understand a more likely reason than Iranian nukes as has been posited elsewhere. The Japanese PM's wife was in an interview recently where she said that the public doesn't know how really serious things are and although she can't talk about classified things she hopes that responsible people will tell the public what is going on. Hopes.

Posted by: Daybrother at January 01, 2014 12:57 PM (Gj4R8)

147 65 is a sock.

Posted by: RWC at January 01, 2014 12:57 PM (Q6HBD)

148 That writing sucked every bit as badly as 2013 did.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 01, 2014 12:58 PM (UAMVq)

149 Don't forget 40,000 new laws go into effect today. Arrg. Is that really necessary? I mean, it's not like people haven't been living together for the last five thousand years. We probably already know how to behave in polite company.

Posted by: toby928© the creator of Blurt© and Gotcha!© at January 01, 2014 01:00 PM (QupBk)

150 ALL hockey games should end like that!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2014 01:00 PM (waJ+2)

151 The Japanese PM's wife was in an interview recently where she said that the public doesn't know how really serious things are and although she can't talk about classified things she hopes that responsible people will tell the public what is going on. Hopes.

Posted by: Daybrother at January 01, 2014 04:57 PM (Gj4R


Right... she can't talk about it, but boy it is sure serious.

Posted by: [/i][/b]KG at January 01, 2014 01:00 PM (IPz9m)

152 @126 Thank goodness our government is focused like a laser on the traditional essential enumerated powers of government we all need when things go wrong and not wasting it.

Posted by: Beagle at January 01, 2014 01:01 PM (sOtz/)

153 So team USA is sending a bunch of ten year old kids to the Olympics?

Posted by: Sperm Whales at January 01, 2014 01:01 PM (g4TxM)

154 152 Don't forget 40,000 new laws go into effect today. Arrg. Is that really necessary? I mean, it's not like people haven't been living together for the last five thousand years. We probably already know how to behave in polite company. Posted by: toby928© the creator of Blurt© and Gotcha!© at January 01, 2014 05:00 PM (QupBk) You will be remade in our image. Resistance is futile.

Posted by: Obama and progressives everywhere at January 01, 2014 01:01 PM (UAMVq)

155 147 Don't forget 40,000 new laws go into effect today. I saw that Drudge. Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 04:57 PM (z4WKX) CA girls high school softball should get interesting.

Posted by: RWC at January 01, 2014 01:01 PM (Q6HBD)

156 Elvis probably could have pulled strings to avoid the draft. The fact that he didn't, that he went even if it was at the height of his career and he had a lot to lose, is to his great credit. I can't imagine anyone doing that today.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 01, 2014 01:01 PM (dfYL9)

157 Off giant crusty crustacean sock

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 01, 2014 01:02 PM (g4TxM)

158 156 So team USA is sending a bunch of ten year old kids to the Olympics? Posted by: Sperm Whales at January 01, 2014 05:01 PM (g4TxM) I volunteer to chaperone!

Posted by: Harry Reid at January 01, 2014 01:02 PM (UAMVq)

159 The Japanese PM's wife was in an interview recently
where she said that the public doesn't know how really serious things
are and although she can't talk about classified things she hopes that responsible people will tell the public what is going on.

That had to be deliberate.  She's prepping the ground.  Nobody is that clueless unless they have a D after their names. 

Posted by: pep at January 01, 2014 01:03 PM (6TB1Z)

160 156 So team USA is sending a bunch of ten year old kids to the Olympics? Posted by: Sperm Whales at January 01, 2014 05:01 PM (g4TxM) Harry Reid going as a goodwill ambassador?

Posted by: RWC at January 01, 2014 01:03 PM (Q6HBD)

161 So team USA is sending a bunch of ten year old kids to the Olympics? Posted by: Sperm Whales at January 01, 2014 05:01 PM (g4TxM) And three adults. One of them is a goaltender, so you're in luck.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 01:03 PM (MpP9p)

162 I can't imagine anyone doing that today.


Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 01, 2014 05:01 PM (dfYL9)


Tillman did. Granted, haven't really heard of anyone else of note doing so.

Posted by: [/i][/b]KG at January 01, 2014 01:03 PM (IPz9m)

163 Is there am imbecile factory somewhere, that creates these "famous" assholes or are they independently generated ?

Posted by: seamrog at January 01, 2014 01:04 PM (NNCDn)

164 Good grief did Al Gore fly into Denver today?  It was supposed to be 40's and partly cloudy on the extended forecast and we are getting 30s and snow and now nasty wind, almost a blizzard except the snow isn't very thick.  I know, have some cheese with that whine about snow in January.  Especially when it was high 50s yesterday but they can't even get a 4 day forecast right and still they have the nerve to push the CAWG crap.  All that self esteem crap in school has sure led to a lot of chutzpah from folks who should be embarrassed about what losers they are. 

Posted by: PaleRider at January 01, 2014 01:04 PM (m+nIW)

165 Norm Macdonald & Russell Brand | Norm Macdonald Live | Video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_UmOhdgqkc

Posted by: 13times at January 01, 2014 01:04 PM (fGPLK)

166 Arrg. Is that really necessary? I mean, it's not like people haven't been living together for the last five thousand years. We probably already know how to behave in polite company. Posted by: toby928© the creator of Blurt© and Gotcha!© Yes but somehow society has turned away from the natural system. You know, Socialism with strong leaders in charge making "adjustments.". We need to be nudged back towards the natural state. Or put in prison. Whichever is easier.

Posted by: Sock at January 01, 2014 01:05 PM (lLwfW)

167 156 So team USA is sending a bunch of ten year old kids to the Olympics? Posted by: Sperm Whales at January 01, 2014 05:01 PM Just asking for your buddy Dirty Harry right?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 01, 2014 01:06 PM (//z0p)

168 re 159: serving in the military was something celebrities once did. As far as pulling strings to avoid the draft, Joe McCarthy could keep the Army from drafting his aide (ad Roy Cohn's pal) David Schein, so maybe not.

Posted by: Mallfly at January 01, 2014 01:06 PM (bJm7W)

169 It's been almost a full day. Any Obamacare-caused deaths yet?

Posted by: Carlos Dangerfield at January 01, 2014 01:06 PM (m0le6)

170 I have to say, though, that when Team Canada is announced the entire country will discuss it for days on end.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 01:07 PM (MpP9p)

171 Right... she can't talk about it, but boy it is sure serious. Posted by: KG Well, I'm sure she just wanted attention. Go about your business.

Posted by: Daybrother at January 01, 2014 01:08 PM (4f/cZ)

172 165----Tillman did. Granted, haven't really heard of anyone else of note doing so. Posted by: KG at January 01, 2014 05:03 PM (IPz9m) ------------------------------ Yes! Tillman. Even in decadent times there are men of honor and sacrifice.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 01, 2014 01:11 PM (dfYL9)

173 When the fuck are they going to bury Lenin? Boris had planned it but once the hardliners got back into power they nixed the plan. His corpse doesn't look at all how he looked when he died. He had several strokes and was gaunt and looked horrible. His head is probably 90% wax. Why bother? Just contract it out to Madame Tussard and be done with it. I read recently that the mausoleum has been declared some world preservation site. Who okayed that? Anyway, they should have kept Stalin and arranged them butt fucking each other. Now THAT wd be worth preserving.

Posted by: Bean Pies, ey? at January 01, 2014 01:12 PM (Qev5V)

174 Same thing happened to music, only sooner. Recording studios used to be places that were only for serious musicians and were expensive to maintain and pay for. Now every cheap laptop can make pretty good recordings.

Result: Tons of bad music.

Posted by: navybrat at January 01, 2014 01:13 PM (AW7Gr)

175 re 159: serving in the military was something celebrities once did. As far as pulling strings to avoid the draft, Joe McCarthy could keep the Army from drafting his aide (ad Roy Cohn's pal) David Schein, so maybe not.

Posted by: Mallfly

WWII was a singular event that occured just after the modern phenomena of celebrity. The service of a few during that time cannot be used as a reference point.

How many 'celebs' served in Korea?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 01, 2014 01:13 PM (dwArK)

176 It's going to be minus 5 degrees here for a low Friday. I wish that the contractors had come back to finish the last for new windows. They put six in, but it was raining that day & they didn't seal them from the outside. I have felt drafts on the days it's been very cold. Saturday I put up new blacklist drapes in two of the rooms, they're supposed to be energy saving. I hope they help with the cold. I am going to wash clothes tonight because my dryer is in the back hall & there is no insulation in there & contractor is supposed to install a steel door in that room. Ace, I'm sorry that I'm not staying on topic. Did you decide to quit smoking or not? I used to smoke & quit 20+ years ago. Then I decided I can't stand smell of smoke, but it missed them, plus my older brother had friend living downstairs that smoked. I started taking one from her, then another. Then I would only smoke at home. No matter how much Lysol & anything else I sprayed I could still smell it in my home when I came home. I quit for good 4 years ago simply because I couldn't stand the smell. Ace, think of how bad it smells. Whenever I wanted to smoke, I would go to next door neighbor & smell it & I lost urge.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 01:18 PM (z4WKX)

177 Ace, think of how bad it smells. For Ace, the smell is probably an improvement. Those hobos he has chained up in the basement can be quite pungent.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 01:21 PM (L2heJ)

178 All this gender bull is going to make those little children screwed up. Was a psychiatrist in on writing these changes? Trying to line up future patients?

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 01:26 PM (z4WKX)

179 I just put local news on, one snowglake has yet to fall, but they're announcing school closings through Friday.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 01:31 PM (z4WKX)

180 Russell Brand acts as if his millions are somehow earned and sacrosanct, not the "dirty money" of other people "they got through exploiting the workers"

No, he got his millions by getting lucky in his divorce settlement

Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 01:32 PM (aTXUx)

181 Brand has a big mouth for such an effeminate little twerp

Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 01:33 PM (aTXUx)

182 I just put local news on, one snowglake has yet to fall, but they're announcing school closings through Friday. Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 05:31 PM (z4WKX) You're going to get nailed with a bunch of snow, so I'm not surprised. I assume that the schools aren't starting up until Monday, so perhaps these closings are for extra-curricular activities?

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 01:33 PM (MpP9p)

183 Garrett, Don't insult Ace. He's working on New Years Day.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 01:34 PM (z4WKX)

184 This Russel Brand is no Ezra Pound, to be sure.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at January 01, 2014 01:35 PM (dCwZe)

185 182 Carol, Imagine living in Indiana and having them call school on your child twice for less than two inches of rain b/c "it flooded two years ago"..... We're a nation of pussies these days

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 01:36 PM (9EuCl)

186 Ted Williams did both WW2 and Korea.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2014 01:37 PM (ZshNr)

187 It was a sleetstorm when I went outside just now. but but but climate change

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 01, 2014 01:41 PM (Xfl0F)

188 Joan Walsh has been getting hammered on twitter for whining about her air travel complaints...

‘Racism, straight upÂ’: Joan Walsh whines about Southwest Airlines

Joan Walsh yesterday: White privilege! Joan Walsh today: listen to my tale of woe about San Francisco jet travel!—
Matt Bramanti (@mattbramanti) December 31, 2013

http://tinyurl.com/kzftx5t




Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 01:41 PM (aTXUx)

189 I have only two more episodes of Kolchak left, and I'll have watched the whole ouvre. Can't believe they canceled it after one season.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2014 01:43 PM (ZshNr)

190 Can't believe they canceled it after one season.

Do tell.

Posted by: Firefly at January 01, 2014 01:43 PM (Xfl0F)

191 OT: I'll have a new baby in 10 min!!!!

Posted by: Navypopojoe at January 01, 2014 01:44 PM (1DZOE)

192 181--- All this gender bull is going to make those little children screwed up. Was a psychiatrist in on writing these changes? Trying to line up future patients? Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 05:26 PM (z4WKX) ----------------------------- Honestly, Carol, I am so glad my youngest is 17. It's getting harder and harder to raise kids.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 01, 2014 01:47 PM (dfYL9)

193 194 OT: I'll have a new baby in 10 min!!!! Posted by: Navypopojoe at January 01, 2014 05:44 PM (1DZOE) ----------------- Sheesh. I thought I was pretty tough for watching Jeopardy (and answering the questions) while my daughter was being born, but typing a comment? Wow! I salute you! (Don't forget to PUSH!)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 01, 2014 01:50 PM (dfYL9)

194 This Joan Walsh, she is no Ezra Pound, to be sure.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at January 01, 2014 01:50 PM (dCwZe)

195 Do "free radicals" like Bill Ayers wear "weather underpants" ?

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at January 01, 2014 01:51 PM (e8kgV)

196 Imagine living in Indiana and having them call school on your child twice for less than two inches of rain b/c "it flooded two years ago".....

We're a nation of pussies these days

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 05:36 PM (9EuCl)



No shit. When I was in school the superintendent had a Bronco with a snowplow, and if he could get to work we were having school. We'd listen to the radio, every town around us was canceled and we'd be on a 2 hour delay; when they were on a 2 hour delay we were on time. It took a storm of epic proportions for us to get canceled.



But on the plus side, we got out before everyone else because we didn't have to make up any snow days.

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 01:52 PM (yh0zB)

197 -OT: I'll have a new baby in 10 min!!!!

Posted by: Navypopojoe at January 01, 2014 05:44 PM (1DZOE)




eh...congrats?

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 01:54 PM (yh0zB)

198 I have only two more episodes of Kolchak left, and I'll have watched the whole ouvre. Can't believe they canceled it after one season. It canÂ’t happen here!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 01, 2014 01:55 PM (WX3R9)

199 Cronkhite was a lying commie sucker of cock, but he had such credibility doing it. /msm

Posted by: --- at January 01, 2014 01:55 PM (MMC8r)

200 When my second child was being born I was watching the Elion Gonzalez mess in DC.  The motorcade to Andrews and hand off.... the whole thing.  I asked my wife if she could please wait.  She was not amused.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 01, 2014 01:55 PM (jucos)

201 OT: I'll have a new baby in 10 min!!!!

Posted by: Navypopojoe at January 01, 2014 05:44 PM (1DZOE)

And you're commenting here? Did your wife toss you out of the room?


Congrats.

Posted by: Retread at January 01, 2014 01:56 PM (cHwk5)

202 "OT: I'll have a new baby in 10 min!!!!"

Dammit to hell, now I'll feel bad if I gloat about the Packers.

Congrats Joe.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 01, 2014 01:57 PM (IV4od)

203 Russell Brand is like our own Sean Penn: Polysyllabically stupid.

Posted by: --- at January 01, 2014 01:57 PM (MMC8r)

204 199 GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 05:52 PM (yh0zB)

Now they're factored in, and yeah there was hell to pay if the schools went over budget because of snowdays.

Back in the day it was a lot more expensive to cool the buildings than heat them....

I don't know...whatever I really do think some of the apathy we see is based on not instilling the idea "we have shit to do" in the kids young though.

enjoy your vaCACAY....

NavyCupAJoe

Congrats

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 01:57 PM (TE35l)

205 We'd listen to the radio, every town around us was canceled and we'd be on a 2 hour delay
We had a similar situation. Living in the 'burbs in E Mass, people had expectations. Our superintendant was from Maine, so his expectations were a bit tougher.

Posted by: some clown fish at January 01, 2014 01:57 PM (Ua6T/)

206 Back in the day it was a lot more expensive to cool the buildings than heat them....


Cool? Ha. You must have been thinking of somewhere else.

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 01:59 PM (yh0zB)

207 So now there will be an nck1 and an nck2?

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 02:00 PM (yh0zB)

208 Happy New Years, GGE!

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 02:00 PM (MpP9p)

209 I went to a junior high school that didn't have air conditioning. This was in the early 1980s and we would get half days when we started up if the temperature was over 90 degrees.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 01, 2014 02:00 PM (oFCZn)

210 We were last to be cancelled in K-8, everybody lived in walking distance. In HS we were first, our buses went way far out into the boonies, and if they couldn't make it, we got nixed.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2014 02:00 PM (ZshNr)

211 Happy New Year Vendette!

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 02:01 PM (yh0zB)

212 Posted by: Navypopojoe at January 01, 2014 05:44 PM (1DZOE)

Does your wife know?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2014 02:01 PM (QFxY5)

213

School was only ever cancelled for me once.  High School once when we had an ice storm.  Could not drive at all.  This was MN.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 01, 2014 02:02 PM (jucos)

214 omg. He's going to name the kid after one of-- Da' Bears.

Posted by: Kate Perry! at January 01, 2014 02:03 PM (RJMhd)

215 209 GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 05:59 PM (yh0zB)

There was an industrial sized evaporative style cooler that was inversely effective to how deep the summer was creeping in.

I had a good school, no use denying it we were well taken care of it was a USAF base town but by God we paid to keep that building in power as a community.

Anyway we had it made understood to us that the business of America was business and our education was our business.

It just seems like that is rather lacking these days.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 02:03 PM (TE35l)

216 I remember when school was cancelled for my Canuckistani county when it was only -20C (-18C is 0F). The school buses were parked in one lot and someone climbed the fence overnight and unplugged all of them. Without the block heaters none of the engines started. School was cancelled.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 02:05 PM (MpP9p)

217 What did T let you buy yourself for your anniversary NCJ?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 01, 2014 02:05 PM (//z0p)

218 Anyway we had it made understood to us that the business of America was business and our education was our business.

It just seems like that is rather lacking these days.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 06:03 PM (TE35l)




Ah, yes. The good old days. I actually had a pretty good public education in Iowa. Once upon a time the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills was a benchmark that a lot of other states used. I don't know if that's still true or not.

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 02:06 PM (yh0zB)

219 Happy New Year, morons.

@TXTylerNorris: Pot is legal. Light Bulbs are not. 2014 is stupid.

Posted by: Retread at January 01, 2014 02:06 PM (cHwk5)

220 The school buses were parked in one lot and someone climbed the fence overnight and unplugged all of them. Without the block heaters none of the engines started. School was cancelled.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 06:05 PM (MpP9p)




I hope someone got something nice from his/her classmates for Christmas that year...

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 02:07 PM (yh0zB)

221 He's going to name the kid after one of-- Da' Bears.
Sort of like you. Refrigerator Cop Joe

Posted by: fluffy at January 01, 2014 02:07 PM (Ua6T/)

222 Sven was that a joke about Indiana? It flooded two years ago? This explains why kids these days are back in school from summer vacation in August, instead of Wednesday after Labor Day when I was a kid.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 02:07 PM (z4WKX)

223 I'm going to bet he names the kid- Butkus.

Posted by: Kate Perry! at January 01, 2014 02:07 PM (RJMhd)

224 I hope someone got something nice from his/her classmates for Christmas that year... Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 06:07 PM (yh0zB) The perpetrator was never found. We all admired him/them.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 02:08 PM (MpP9p)

225 Vendette, I don't remember you here last night. Happy New Year.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 02:08 PM (z4WKX)

226 Happy New Year, Carol! *Hugs*

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 02:09 PM (MpP9p)

227  I'm going to bet he names the kid-

Butkus.

Posted by: Kate Perry! at January 01, 2014 06:07 PM (RJMhd)

__________________

Ditka

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 01, 2014 02:09 PM (jucos)

228 225 Carol at January 01, 2014 06:07 PM (z4WKX)

Nope true story, no joke Franklin Indiana.

They had had a bad row to hoe flood wise the year before we built our house there a bit to the south.

They cancelled school twice in the next two years from "heavy rain with flood potential"....

they knocked that shit off the third year.

The labor day thing is, I think the NEA demanding more indoctrination time with Timmy and Tina.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 02:10 PM (TE35l)

229 230 I'm going to bet he names the kid- Butkus.Posted by: Kate Perry! at January 01, 2014 06:07 PM (RJMhd) _________________ _Ditka Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 01, 2014 06:09 PM (jucos) ********** LOL!

Posted by: Kate Perry! at January 01, 2014 02:13 PM (RJMhd)

230 Russell Brand Intellectual heavyweight for hire Per article price list - Unvarnished drivel: $500 Drivel varnished with thesauri droppings: $1,000

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at January 01, 2014 02:13 PM (HsTG8)

231 233 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ at January 01, 2014 06:13 PM (HsTG

Witticisms, utterances, and seances with the sliced bezoars I produce-$1.85

//Russell "psoriasis" Brand

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 02:15 PM (TE35l)

232 Rose Bowl report: 10-7 Stanford in the 2nd quarter. Hate to say it, but I expected more out of this game.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 02:15 PM (MpP9p)

233 You know who thinks Russell Brand is the cat's (onesie) pajamas? Meggers McCain. And now you knowÂ… the rest of the story.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at January 01, 2014 02:16 PM (HsTG8)

234 Navy pop Joe, Is baby born yet? Girl or boy? Details, please. Congrats!

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 02:16 PM (z4WKX)

235 230 I'm going to bet he names the kid- Butkus.Posted by: Kate Perry! at January 01, 2014 06:07 PM (RJMhd) _________________ _Ditka Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 01, 2014 06:09 PM (jucos) Meanwhile, there are kids named Landry.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 02:17 PM (MpP9p)

236 Navy pop Joe, Is baby born yet? Girl or boy? Details, please. Pretty sure he's talking about a guitar. Or a Charvel.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 02:21 PM (jHJ/g)

237 Meanwhile, there are kids named Landry.
I pretend that my mother is French, so they named me 'Belle'

Posted by: Belicheck McCarthy at January 01, 2014 02:22 PM (Ua6T/)

238 Thank God former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's condition has deteriorated in the last 24 hours. He's been in a coma since 2006. I hope, in a good way, that he passes away. Please don't take this the wrong way, 7 years in a coma would be a nightmare for any family.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 02:23 PM (z4WKX)

239 Are we still stranded upon this flotsam of a thread?  Per chance afloat on a Sargasso Sea of over used verbiage? 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 02:23 PM (cubpP)

240
True or False?

Lord Of The Rings trilogy becomes sillier and sillier with each viewing.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 01, 2014 02:23 PM (KwX0v)

241 I pretend that my mother is French, so they named me 'Belle' Posted by: Belicheck McCarthy at January 01, 2014 06:22 PM (Ua6T/) Honey, your dad was an assistant coach for Navy, so I cut you a lot of slack. I am thankful, though, that Brady finally got a haircut.

Posted by: Vendette cheers for Canoe U to beat Air Force and Army at January 01, 2014 02:24 PM (MpP9p)

242 236 You know who thinks Russell Brand is the cat's (onesie) pajamas? Meggers McCain. And now you know… the rest of the story. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ at January 01, 2014 06:16 PM (HsTG ENGLISH COMEDIAN FOUND NAKED CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER BLOND BEHEMOTH

Posted by: Bean Pies, ey? at January 01, 2014 02:24 PM (Qev5V)

243 Wow, NCJ is going to top his Bears fandom by passing a fully formed guitar?

Someone call Guiness PDQ!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 02:24 PM (cubpP)

244 AP, we're waiting to hear if NCJ's wife presents him with a boy, or a girl, or a guitar.

Posted by: Retread at January 01, 2014 02:25 PM (cHwk5)

245 AP, we're waiting to hear if NCJ's wife presents him with a boy, or a girl, or a guitar. Posted by: Retread at January 01, 2014 06:25 PM (cHwk5) I see a WIN WIN WIN. Hi rons.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at January 01, 2014 02:26 PM (XIxXP)

246
Carol, I saw your comment re a meetup last night but couldn't respond. Sounds good but probably better in the Spring.

Also, glad to hear the good news about Paul!

Posted by: soothsayer at January 01, 2014 02:27 PM (FC8Yl)

247 AP, we're waiting to hear if NCJ's wife presents him with a boy, or a girl, or a guitar.

Posted by: Retread at January 01, 2014 06:25 PM (cHwk5)




or if he's just sending a Chief to sea...

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 02:27 PM (yh0zB)

248 ENGLISH COMEDIAN FOUND NAKED CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER BLOND BEHEMOTH Posted by: Bean Pies, ey? at January 01, 2014 06:24 PM (Qev5V) You could have finished it with, hilarity ensues.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at January 01, 2014 02:28 PM (XIxXP)

249 You know who thinks Russell Brand is the cat's (onesie) pajamas?

Meggers McCain.

And now you knowÂ… the rest of the story.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ at January 01, 2014 06:16 PM

Imagine if they dated? When walking together they'd look like the number 10 coming at you

Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 02:28 PM (aTXUx)

250 Really bad interception; 17-7 Stanford over MSU.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 02:29 PM (MpP9p)

251
I'm off to Planet Fatness.

Gyms everywhere will be a little bit more crowded because of resolutions. But it only lasts two weeks.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 01, 2014 02:29 PM (vyPsz)

252 And not a Bo Derek 10 at that...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 02:29 PM (cubpP)

253 You know who thinks Russell Brand is the cat's (onesie) pajamas?

Meggers McCain.

And now you knowÂ… the rest of the story.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ at January 01, 2014 06:16 PM

Meggie could use Russell as a dildo

Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 02:30 PM (aTXUx)

254 And not a Bo Derek 10 at that... Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 06:29 PM (cubpP) It could be an 01, like the General Lee.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at January 01, 2014 02:30 PM (XIxXP)

255 Imagine if they dated? When walking together they'd look like the number 10 100 coming at you

Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:28 PM (aTXUx)




FIFY...

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 02:31 PM (yh0zB)

256 And now you know… the rest of the story. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ at January 01, 2014 06:16 PM *SMACKSMACKSMACKSMACKSMACK*

Posted by: Paul Harvey at January 01, 2014 02:31 PM (MpP9p)

257 253 Really bad interception; 17-7 Stanford over MSU. Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 06:29 PM

Is there such a thing as a good interception?

Posted by: Dallas Cowboy fans at January 01, 2014 02:31 PM (aTXUx)

258 Meggie could use Russell as a dildo Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:30 PM (aTXUx) I was thinking Tampon but I am too classy to say it.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at January 01, 2014 02:31 PM (XIxXP)

259 Is there such a thing as a good interception?

Posted by: Dallas Cowboy fans at January 01, 2014 06:31 PM

Jay Cutler says there is ..

Posted by: Chicago Bear fans at January 01, 2014 02:32 PM (aTXUx)

260 Is there such a thing as a good interception? Posted by: Dallas Cowboy fans at January 01, 2014 06:31 PM (aTXUx) If your standards are high, yes.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 02:33 PM (MpP9p)

261 If you want the scoop on Russel Brand - listen to Katy Perry's Song Circle The Drain.

Posted by: [/i] [/s] [/u] [/b] An Observation at January 01, 2014 02:33 PM (ylhEn)

262 I went to a junior high school that didn't have air conditioning. This was in the early 1980s and we would get half days when we started up if the temperature was over 90 degrees.

--

We had no air conditioners all through high school (I graduated in '81).  Come late May/early June, some teachers would bring in their own floor fans and put them at the front of the classroom.  This was back in the day when we weren't even allowed to wear shorts to school. 

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 01, 2014 02:34 PM (Oa7B2)

263 I was thinking Tampon but I am too classy to say it.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at January 01, 2014 06:31 PM (XIxXP)




Good thing, no one wants THAT mental image...

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 02:34 PM (yh0zB)

264 If you want the scoop on Russel Brand - listen to Katy Perry's Song Circle The Drain. Posted by: An Observation at January 01, 2014 06:33 PM (ylhEn) I'd rather listen to John McCain speeches.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at January 01, 2014 02:34 PM (XIxXP)

265 >>>ENGLISH COMEDIAN FOUND NAKED CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER BLOND BEHEMOTH<<<


Funniest thing Russel Brand has ever done.

Posted by: Hate Miser at January 01, 2014 02:34 PM (2ljO9)

266 We had no air conditioners all through high school (I graduated in '81). Come late May/early June, some teachers would bring in their own floor fans and put them at the front of the classroom. This was back in the day when we weren't even allowed to wear shorts to school.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 01, 2014 06:34 PM (Oa7B2)




'84, but yeah.

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 02:35 PM (yh0zB)

267 brb, dog thinks he needs to go out (because Daughter just went out for a smoke)

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 02:35 PM (yh0zB)

268 The school buses were parked in one lot and someone climbed the fence overnight and unplugged all of them. Without the block heaters none of the engines started. School was cancelled. Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 06:05 PM (MpP9p) Is this a confession?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 01, 2014 02:36 PM (oFCZn)

269 '82 and yeah, I remember. I also remember the Cheech and Chong smoke effect from the teachers lounge.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at January 01, 2014 02:36 PM (XIxXP)

270 Is this a confession? Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 01, 2014 06:36 PM (oFCZn) Nope.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 02:36 PM (MpP9p)

271 Is this a confession? Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 01, 2014 06:36 PM (oFCZn) Or an instruction booklette.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at January 01, 2014 02:37 PM (XIxXP)

272 Oh the good old days, when your male teachers smelled like Cigarrettes and Old Spice.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at January 01, 2014 02:38 PM (XIxXP)

273 I guess this is the ONT. Did all the cobs get 'lives'?

Posted by: fluffy at January 01, 2014 02:39 PM (Ua6T/)

274 s there am imbecile factory somewhere, that creates these "famous" assholes or are they independently generated ? Posted by: seamrog at January 01, 2014 05:04 PM (NNCDn) Who decides if these people are “famous?” Half of us didn’t know who he is.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 02:40 PM (z4WKX)

275 "82 and yeah, I remember. I also remember the Cheech and Chong smoke effect from the teachers lounge."

I was 1982 myself, the next year they banned students from smoking on campus.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 01, 2014 02:41 PM (IV4od)

276 Meggie could use Russell as a dildo Posted by: kbdabear at January 01, 2014 06:30 PM (aTXUx) Meggie doesn't use batteries, hers is gas-powered.

Posted by: AmishDude at January 01, 2014 02:41 PM (xSegX)

277 17-14 Stanford over Michigan State at halftime.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 02:41 PM (MpP9p)

278 Who decides if these people are “famous?” Half of us didn’t know who he is. Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 06:40 PM (z4WKX) It's the result of mixing ignorance, narcissism and money.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at January 01, 2014 02:41 PM (XIxXP)

279 241 Carol at January 01, 2014 06:23 PM (z4WKX)

No need to explain, if there's no hope for recovery you hope and pray for the best and most merciful passing a person can have.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 02:42 PM (TE35l)

280 When  my school burned down in '55 or '56  classes were held in the church, bus garage and teacherage. Church basement was always cold.

Posted by: Ronster at January 01, 2014 02:43 PM (Rru72)

281 Bebe, you still around? I've got a bottle of Chambord in the bar, getting ready to add some to a glass of bubbly. Also, I'm sick of being sick and tired of being tired. Work is gonna suck tomorrow.

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 02:43 PM (eQJwb)

282 Russell Brand ... is this actually a stage name of some sort? His trademark seem to be his "unwashed-ness"; isn't it possible that his success is actually due people and agents not realizing that his audiences were laughing at his humor, but rather at the poor fools closest to him, who were heaving after having caught a good whiff of his Brand, whichever one it was that performance?

Posted by: Arbalest at January 01, 2014 02:43 PM (FlRtG)

283 Somewhere in the PRC there is a factory producing for the various big media companies pop stars.  How else to explain such things as Justine Beiber and Russel Brand?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 02:45 PM (cubpP)

284 Also, I'm sick of being sick and tired of being tired. Work is gonna suck tomorrow.

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 06:43 PM (eQJwb)



I'm not going to work tomorrow. I'm not going the next day either. In fact, I'm not going ALL WEEK! Lets see how they like THEM apples!

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 02:45 PM (yh0zB)

285 >>>I'm off to Planet Fatness. Just be sure not to do any deadlifts. Or cleans. Or anything that might actually make you fitter than when you arrived. They don't care for that sort of behavior.

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 02:46 PM (eQJwb)

286 GGE goes on vacation and all of Al Gore's lights go out....

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 02:46 PM (cubpP)

287 Honestly, Carol, I am so glad my youngest is 17. It's getting harder and harder to raise kids. Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 01, 2014 05:47 PM (dfYL9) Margarita, is your youngest a boy or a girl? I think he or she is old enough to know what sex he is. ItÂ’s a scam. TheyÂ’re trying to screw up the kids.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 02:47 PM (z4WKX)

288 GGE goes on vacation and all of Al Gore's lights go out....

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 06:46 PM (cubpP)



Purely coincidental, I assure you.




#things that make you go hmmm

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 02:48 PM (yh0zB)

289 ItÂ’s a scam. TheyÂ’re trying to screw up the kids.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 06:47 PM (z4WKX)




Been doing a pretty good job of it for a while now.

Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 02:49 PM (yh0zB)

290 Someone bought Brand a thesaurus? The word hegemon is straight from Red Chinese propaganda, hell they invented the word. I'm thinking someone bought him a book on Mao. May he not pass go, may he go straight to hell.

Posted by: Bill R. at January 01, 2014 02:49 PM (QnRSM)

291 Jessica Nigri on FB showing her talent on cosplay
http://tinyurl.com/kgcu96n

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 02:50 PM (cubpP)

292 >>>I'm not going to work tomorrow. Enjoy your time off, you earned it. I'm considering doing the same. Not exactly a roaring start to the new year, but I'm hacking up all sorts of nastiness, and the Z pack isn't doing its job just yet. Also. I haven't worked since Dec 20, and I'm kinda getting used to it.

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 02:50 PM (eQJwb)

293 Also. I haven't worked since Dec 20, and I'm kinda getting used to it. Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 06:50 PM (eQJwb) I've been off for two weeks. I go back tomorrow for one day then get 5 days off.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at January 01, 2014 02:53 PM (XIxXP)

294 Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 06:50 PM (eQJwb) My brother and SIL live in NDSUland. Convince me to cheer for Towson on Saturday.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 02:54 PM (MpP9p)

295 Also. I haven't worked since Dec 20, and I'm kinda getting used to it. Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 06:50 PM (eQJwb) I got sick on the 13th, but was well enough to go to work last week. Saturday I got worse than when I started. I felt feverish last night & I never have fevers. I donÂ’t want to go to my doctor because I donÂ’t want to bring my germs into a doctorÂ’s office.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 02:54 PM (z4WKX)

296 Michael Ramirez takes on Pajama Boy: http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/michaelramirez/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2014 02:55 PM (BC6cY)

297 Been doing a pretty good job of it for a while now. Posted by: GGE of the Vacationing Horde at January 01, 2014 06:49 PM (yh0zB) With liberal teaching & false reporting of history, but having them use bathrooms based on what they feel they should be instead of what they actually are physically is one of the stupidest ideas ever. Go in the one with no line.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 02:56 PM (z4WKX)

298 Planet Fatness. LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2014 02:56 PM (BC6cY)

299 Carol, expect a blizzard in your neck of the woods.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 02:56 PM (MpP9p)

300 Happy New Year everyone. With an commie both in the White House and in NYC, only G-D knows what 2014 will bring so we will leave it in his hands

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2014 02:58 PM (nzKvP)

301 294 Jessica Nigri on FB showing her talent on cosplay
http://tinyurl.com/kgcu96n

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 06:50 PM (cubpP)

 

That is some pretty big talent.

Posted by: buzzion at January 01, 2014 02:59 PM (LI48c)

302 Happy New Year, NGU! At least Navy pounded Army.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 02:59 PM (MpP9p)

303 294 Jessica Nigri on FB showing her talent on cosplay http://tinyurl.com/kgcu96n Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 06:50 PM (cubpP) Intriguing.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 01, 2014 02:59 PM (UAMVq)

304 Oh no. Uncle Phil (from Fresh Prince of Bel Air) passed away.

And yet, the likes of Russel Brand still remain to torment us.

Posted by: Hate Miser at January 01, 2014 03:00 PM (2ljO9)

305 You guys know this is the only post we're getting this year, right?

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 03:01 PM (A+hLv)

306 Happy New Year, NGU! At least Navy pounded Army. Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 06:59 PM (MpP9p) And to you also. And as of 12:01 last night I am officially an O-5

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2014 03:01 PM (nzKvP)

307 And to you also. And as of 12:01 last night I am officially an O-5 Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2014 07:01 PM (nzKvP) Congrats, Commander!

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 03:02 PM (MpP9p)

308 You guys know this is the only post we're getting this year, right? Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 07:01 PM (A+hLv) Kinda like only getting one shit can all year at the re-education camp we are all gonna be going to?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2014 03:02 PM (nzKvP)

309 "I guess this is the ONT.

Did all the cobs get 'lives'?"

 ---
 
The salesman that sold me my AOSHQ platinum plan specifically told me there would be a minimum of one new post per hour during business hours.  Right now customer service has me on hold.  I'm starting to think this was not a wise investment.  Come to think of it, the salesman did smell a bit gamey and was in dire need of a shave...

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2014 03:02 PM (o9Rp5)

310

Funny article... until you scroll down and read this piece of shit...

http://tinyurl.com/lzz2mob

Just made the cut-off for dumbest columns of 2013, too. A shamee Moynihan missed it.

Posted by: Warden at January 01, 2014 03:02 PM (z1HLu)

311 290 Margarita, is your youngest a boy or a girl? I think he or she is old enough to know what sex he is. ItÂ’s a scam. TheyÂ’re trying to screw up the kids. Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 06:47 PM (z4WKX) ----------------------------- A boy and, yes, he's plenty old enough to know, thank heaven! But like you said, this stuff is bound to confuse and mess up little kids, which is why I'm glad my kids are older.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 01, 2014 03:03 PM (dfYL9)

312 Congrats, Commander! Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 07:02 PM (MpP9p) Gotta go up to West Point this Friday to get all my Uniforms back and to have my ID card changed.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2014 03:03 PM (nzKvP)

313 Kinda like only getting one shit can all year at the re-education camp we are all gonna be going to? You can shit all you want, but you only get one square to wipe with.

Posted by: Sheryl Crowe at January 01, 2014 03:03 PM (A+hLv)

314 Yep Jessica has talent.

And Nevergiveup is buying.  But in these constrained financial times, his promotion party is being held in Po City...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 03:03 PM (cubpP)

315 Former PM Ariel Sharon's health worsens Significant deterioration in former prime minister's medical state, due to kidney failure, was reported. Since suffering a stroke in January 2006, Sharon has been in a coma Yaron Kellner Published: 01.01.14, 18:59 / Israel News A significant deterioration in the condition of Ariel Sharon: The former prime minister, aged 85, is hospitalized at Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer due to kidney failure. May 2014 finally bring the peace and rest this great man deserves.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2014 03:04 PM (nzKvP)

316 I was going to put up a fresh open thread but there are several posts in the queue. Perhaps somebody will be along to put one up before long.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 01, 2014 03:04 PM (DmNpO)

317

138 133
Everything Dan Brown writes is the worse piece of writing ever

Posted by: TexasJew

Have you READ James Patterson and Robert Ludlum?

 

NEVER sell Clive Cussler short...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at January 01, 2014 03:05 PM (XO6WW)

318 Nevergiveup, Congratulations! Can you tell someone who isnÂ’t familiar with military terms what you were promoted to? Thank you.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 03:06 PM (z4WKX)

319 Nevergiveup has moved from being a brown leaf to a Silver Leaf.   His next hat trick is going for the eagles.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 01, 2014 03:08 PM (cubpP)

320 Can you tell someone who isnÂ’t familiar with military terms what you were promoted to? Thank you. Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 07:06 PM (z4WKX) O-5 is a Full Commander CDR or in equivalent Army/Marine terms a LT Colonel.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2014 03:08 PM (nzKvP)

321 He's a Commander.  One rank below Gunnery Sergeant.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2014 03:08 PM (o9Rp5)

322 The Nihilistic, Antichristian lowest common-denominator nature of the Proletarianized culture and the abominable homogeneity of the Politically-Correct Media are disastrous developments. Objectively speaking. But, what can one do? Later, all. God bless. :-)

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at January 01, 2014 03:09 PM (VYM4n)

323 A boy and, yes, he's plenty old enough to know, thank heaven! But like you said, this stuff is bound to confuse and mess up little kids, which is why I'm glad my kids are older. Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 01, 2014 07:03 PM (dfYL9) IÂ’m glad heÂ’s 7 but worry he might be influenced by the smaller kids. But you wonÂ’t let him, will you? This bull is another reason for term limits.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 03:09 PM (z4WKX)

324 Carol, NGU was promoted from Lt. Commander to Commander in the Navy. The Army/Marine Corps equivalent is Major to Lieutenant Colonel.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 03:09 PM (MpP9p)

325 323 Nevergiveup at January 01, 2014 07:08 PM (nzKvP)

It means sooner or later he's gonna be running the Naval equivalent of a Dentac IIRC...

congrats NGU

Posted by: sven10077 at January 01, 2014 03:10 PM (TE35l)

326 OT. Anthony Watts (fantastic global warming denier) was contacted to help with weather and wind predictions for the stuck Russian ship in Antarctica. Schadenfreude !

Posted by: Sunny at January 01, 2014 03:10 PM (Xnxty)

327 303-Good point, Nevergiveup Anxiety about the future-- By Francois Fenelon The future is in God's hands. Not yours (Not ours), God will rule it according to your need, But if you seek to forecast it in your own wisdom, you will gain nothing but anxiety and anticipation of inevitable trouble. try to only make use of each day. Each day brings its own good and evil and sometimes what seems evil becomes good if we leave it to good and do not forestall Him with our impatience....In proportion as God upsets your own inclinations he will uphold your weakness. Do not be afraid; leave everything to him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2014 03:10 PM (BC6cY)

328 Congratulations Commander, Nevergiveup!

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 03:11 PM (z4WKX)

329 Oh, and congratulations Commander!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2014 03:11 PM (o9Rp5)

330 17-14 Stanford over Michigan State at halftime.

--

Just watched part of the halftime show.  Saw a marching band member in a rooster head dress thing wearing his Obama t-shirt.  Mr. Black screamed at the TV.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 01, 2014 03:12 PM (Oa7B2)

331 Cost me over $3-400 to convert all the Uniforms. Maybe obama will be sending me Check to cover it?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2014 03:12 PM (nzKvP)

332 Congratulations to you, NGU.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2014 03:12 PM (BC6cY)

333 Uh... #303. "If we leave it to GOD, (not Good)>

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2014 03:13 PM (BC6cY)

334 333 ----Just watched part of the halftime show. Saw a marching band member in a rooster head dress thing wearing his Obama t-shirt. Mr. Black screamed at the TV. Posted by: Lady in Black at January 01, 2014 07:12 PM (Oa7B2) ------------------------ Oh, good grief. I'm glad I didn't see that.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 01, 2014 03:15 PM (dfYL9)

335 A new thread has arrived. But congrats to Commander NGU should continue.

Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 03:17 PM (MpP9p)

336 Nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2014 03:17 PM (o9Rp5)

337 arol, I saw your comment re a meetup last night but couldn't respond. Sounds good but probably better in the Spring. Also, glad to hear the good news about Paul! Posted by: soothsayer at January 01, 2014 06:27 PM (FC8Yl) I believe you went to the gym, Soothsayer. Spring would be better. CBD told me to tell the COBS. I would put my email on here but it was redacted last night. I put it for one person and then went to sleep. I saw warnings this morning for putting it up. I wasnÂ’t drunk. I was feeling sick. I have been accepted to the AOS Yahoo Group this afternoon, thanks to Village IdiotÂ’s Apprentice posting email address to send request to.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 03:19 PM (z4WKX)

338 A new thread has arrived. But congrats to Commander NGU should continue. Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 07:17 PM (MpP9p) Nah enough about me

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2014 03:19 PM (nzKvP)

339 Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2014 07:03 PM (nzKvP)

Congrats NGU!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 01, 2014 03:20 PM (o3MSL)

340 Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 07:19 PM (z4WKX)


don't trust even this group with an email address!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 01, 2014 03:21 PM (o3MSL)

341 >>>Convince me to cheer for Towson on Saturday. Easy peasy. I live in Towson, I am awesome. Ergo, Towson is awesome.

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 03:22 PM (eQJwb)

342 don't trust even this group with an email address! Posted by: Hrothgar at January 01, 2014 07:21 PM (o3MSL) Someone asked a COB to remove it and one did. I put it up in December 2012 for Truman North. Remember Truman? I should send him an email to wish him a Happy New Year. I will not put it up here again. Thanks for the warning, Hrothgar.

Posted by: Carol at January 01, 2014 03:35 PM (z4WKX)

343 74 Doc whose voice grates on me. I also watch the Capitals on mute because of Craig McLaughlin (the color guy). Posted by: Vendette at January 01, 2014 04:14 PM (MpP9p) Doc is like the Phil Rizuto of Hockey. He's a goofball. I hear you on the Caps (and Devils) broadcast. Bruins, too. Too many awful color men in hockey. Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2014 04:17 PM (57z1g) Jim Hughson on Hockey Night in Canada and John Forslund on the Hurricanes are both the best, IMHO. Sadly, my "home team" is the Capitals, so I get a steady diet of Benninati and Laughlin. Randy Moller with the Panthers has a unique way of calling a goal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3b_7S-sGBo

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 01, 2014 03:36 PM (BXLPR)

344 You forgot Batman eyes. Posted by: pep at January 01, 2014 04:03 PM (6TB1Z) Now waitaminite. That's just plain plagiarism. My dead career depends on that song. Oooohhh.... my mistake. I thought you said Bette Davis Eyes. Nevermind.

Posted by: Kim Carnes at January 01, 2014 03:55 PM (3sZO1)

345 And to you also. And as of 12:01 last night I am officially an O-5 Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 01, 2014 07:01 PM (nzKvP) OOO-RAH!!

Posted by: Bill H at January 01, 2014 03:58 PM (3sZO1)

346 Duke Lowell @ 324!-
Or a CPO! Snort! Congratulation, Commander N. Well done. I hope you get to retire. Like some of us did.

Posted by: Erowmero at January 01, 2014 04:32 PM (OONaw)

347 Just be sure not to do any deadlifts. Or cleans. Or anything that might actually make you fitter than when you arrived. They don't care for that sort of behavior.

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 01, 2014 06:46 PM (eQJwb)


Exactly why I quit them. And funny thing, they had a big ass banner over the free weights area, a slogan that was derogatory of weighlifters. Hmm, yea...

Posted by: [/i][/b]KG at January 01, 2014 04:46 PM (IPz9m)

348 "It spits out death and destruction like a full-size .357 Magnum service revolver." Niiiiice.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 01, 2014 04:47 PM (Vferh)

349 "the Nation magazine writer who claimed that “the biggest problem Venezuela faced during his rule was not that [Hugo] Chávez was authoritarian but that he wasn’t authoritarian enough" -- Speaking of writers pointing out an obvious ongoing and epidemic problem among journals; I hope he realized this sort of insanity was published long before 2013. “.. Groups of three dots appear in innumerable places, giving the impression that the narrative…has measles.” Or: “Your enjoyment will eventually depend on how much you, in your role as a symbologist, can revel in the task of decoding the text to lay bare the full extent to which the author can’t write.” -- Ouch! He reminds me of my old mentor. A crusty curmudgeon who gave no quarter, and somehow made you laugh while he sliced you to pieces.

Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at January 01, 2014 04:53 PM (7t3iY)

350 >>>Moynihan is just pissed off because the snotty fraternity that he belongs to is no longer the only game in town.

They've been usurped by the Animal House, and nobody wants to listen to the stuffed shirts when the Delta House throws better parties and is more fun to hang out with.

This makes no sense at all. Do you know Moynihan's CV, and who he is?  He's a former editor of Reason, and a conservative-leaning libertarian (as opposed to the insufferable "liberaltarian" types like Brink Lindsey and Julian Sanchez, etc.). He wouldn't be caught dead writing for Salon.

Michael Moynihan will always be a True American Hero if for no other reason than he's the guy who brought down the egregious Jonah Lehrer by tracking down and revealing his penchant for serial fabrication.

Posted by: Jeff B. at January 01, 2014 04:58 PM (ewYO6)

351 >>>... What pisses Moynihan off the most, though, is the fact that he knows that if he were to attempt to set foot in Delta House, he'd be getting a swirlie inside of 2 minutes, then be tossed out into the night wearing only his underwear and the pretentious bowtie that he thought might make him look "hip". Michael Moynihan wears bow ties? Seems unlikely to me.

Posted by: Luke at January 01, 2014 06:22 PM (fgTyP)

352 Brand? An utter shite, sure, but that's more personality than politics.

So, he's a loud ass, he's being the nasty disgusting fool, he's generally attracting universal dislike and scorn by being a person who ought to be disliked and scorned.

And he glides along from performance point to performance point making fairly nice money off of the interest-catching "Russell Brand Show", mostly because he's worked on the Public Butt persona so hard and then sold it so well.

He's a stone capitalist.

So don't hate him for being something that he's not. His personal essence is so hateful by itself, there's no need to spread your hate out. It can take it all and then some.

Posted by: bobby b at January 02, 2014 12:39 AM (raEg6)

353 Whoa, whoa, whoa. I write for my college newspaper, and we are way more coherent than Salon.

Posted by: Thorrison at January 02, 2014 09:01 AM (GdUWB)

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