January 02, 2014
— Maetenloch
Or why these pictures are somehow evidence of the latent shadow racism in the United States or some such. And make the racialist hosts at MSNBC utter inane racist stupidities.
Also the sad state of adoption in America where any cross-racial adoption is discouraged by the very people responsible for finding homes for children.
Most of the parents waiting to adopt are white; most of the children awaiting adoption are not. Parents' attitudes toward transracial adoption have become much more liberal since the 1970s, but the racial attitudes of social workers, those sometimes pitiless gatekeepers on the adoption pilgrimage, have hardened. A study published by the academic journal Child Welfare found that 43 percent of the caseworkers responsible for the longest-waiting black children in New York State expressed hostility toward transracial adoption. Federal law prohibits the use of racial criteria in adoption placement, but ethnic considerations have seeped into the system: The number of transracial adoptions executed each year remains tiny despite the willingness of the majority of couples to adopt a child of a different race. About 8 percent of all adoptions are transracial or cross-cultural - and that number includes international adoptions, commonly from Asia and South America. Professor Judy Fenster of Adelphi University finds that black social workers are particularly inimical to the prospect of cross-racial adoption. It seems that the matchmakers at the heart of the adoption system are part of the problem.
Because racist.
Also: I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled and An Update On The Problem Of Maria.
What if the 21st Century is Only Starting Now in 2014
"The last two centuries (and possibly more) didn't "start" at their official point, the turning of a calendar from 00 to 01. That wasn't when they began in essence, nor when they first bent the arc of history. No. Each century effectively began in its 14th year. Think about it. The first decade of the 20th century was filled with hope and a kind of can-do optimism that was never seen again - not after the horrific events of 1914 shattered any vision that a new and better age would arrive without pain. . . . All right, that's just one data point. Is there another? Well, look at 1814, the beginning of the Congress of Vienna and the so-called Concert of Europe that made possible the continent's longest extended period of overall peace, as the great powers turned from fighting bloody wars to perfecting their colonial empires. Those two years - 1814 and 1914 -- each marked a dramatic shift in tone and theme (in the West, that is), so much so that they represented the real beginnings of the 19th and 20th centuries. Suppose the pattern holds - and remember this is just a thought experiment - what might it mean about the true 21st century?"
21 Things '80s (and 70s) Kids' Did That Were Awesome
4. Thinking that SPF 4 was responsibly using sun block.5. Thinking the haze of Solarcaine I was engulfed in was a healthy way to heal the 2nd degree burns I inevitably got from using SPF 4.
9. Playing on a rusted swing set where that one leg always popped out of the ground threatening to propel into space and then came back with a thud.
13. Running into the store to buy an adult cigarettes.
18. Babysitting at 11 - In my town, once you were able to dial 911, you were considered a candidate for babysitting jobs.
Guess Who Owns This Collection in NYC?
50 Years After the Making of Zulu
More on the difference between Airbus and Boeing control systems
Chances are you have received an email similar to this from other airline pilots, but in the off case you have not:The article you posted contains what I believe to be some oversimplifications of the A/B control system philosophy differences.
It's commonly stated that the Airbus will override the pilot and the Boeing will not. This isn't entirely true.
A more accurate statement would be this: All jet aircraft have override/feedback systems that will warn or resist the pilot at the edges of the aerodynamic envelope. Airbus has a slightly larger number of these systems, and they are set to trigger slightly earlier.
Both aircraft will automatically throttle back if in an overspeed condition. Both aircraft will automatically shake the yoke, and then automatically push over, in a stall condition.
etc.
Airbus, in addition, will limit max G forces on the aircraft. Boeing does not.
The advantage of the Airbus approach is that you can haul back on the stick as hard as you want without breaking the aircraft (and turning it into several smaller, less-airworthy aircraft). You are limited to G forces that produce no damage to the aircraft.
The advantage of the Boeing approach is that you can generate any g forces you want. This gives you the opportunity to fly in the region that generates enough G to bend the aircraft, but not to break it. That extra G force may help you avoid a mountain. Of course, you may extend into the part of the envelope that breaks the aircraft.
These differences are relatively minor, as the vast majority of crashes do not occur at the edges of the envelope, and are categorized as CFIT (Controlled Flight Into Terrain). When within the aerodynamic envelope, Boeing and Airbus aircraft are usually under the control of the same sort interchangeable flight management computers.
Both the Asiana (Boeing) and Air France (Airbus) crashes were caused by crew that did not understand the systems of the aircraft they were flying. Both aircraft impacted terrain under full control.
A classic headline.
13 Ways to Make Hot Chocolate Even Better Than It Already Is
For an enhanced hot chocolate experience, add a spoonful of Nutella to your mug, or a tablespoon of peanut butter. If you're feeling adventurous, replace the milk you use to make the hot chocolate with coconut milk, or make it spicy by adding cayenne pepper, hot sauce, or slices of habanero pepper.
And of course, you can't really go wrong with adding alcohol to your mug of hot chocolate. Get through the rest of the winter season with a hot mug of Guinness, whiskey, and Bailey's hot chocolate.
Yahoo group. That is all.
The group thingy. And the middle class.
And my Twitter spew.
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Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 02, 2014 05:28 PM (+qUq2)
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 02, 2014 05:29 PM (+qUq2)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 05:30 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: johnd01 at January 02, 2014 05:30 PM (r0+v0)
Posted by: Peaches at January 02, 2014 09:30 PM (8lmkt)
No no, I saved if for you. See?
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 02, 2014 05:31 PM (+qUq2)
Posted by: Peaches at January 02, 2014 05:31 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 05:32 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 05:33 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: NCKate at January 02, 2014 05:34 PM (Auy5s)
Posted by: SFGoth at January 02, 2014 05:34 PM (Qezvp)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 05:35 PM (V4CBV)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 05:35 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 02, 2014 05:35 PM (IXrOn)
I think not.
Posted by: Sharkman at January 02, 2014 05:35 PM (TM1p8)
Posted by: buzzion at January 02, 2014 05:36 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Lauren at January 02, 2014 05:36 PM (CozRk)
Posted by: NCKate at January 02, 2014 09:34 PM (Auy5s)
I don't believe in "transgender." I believe in "your brain is broken."
Posted by: Peaches at January 02, 2014 05:36 PM (8lmkt)
I learned that a large percentage of the causal factors in every aircraft mishap are human error. Something on the lines of 80 percent. I'm thinking this probably holds true for almost every mishap (IE, you didn't smash into the guardrail because God made it snow, you crashed into the guardrail because you were idiot enough to go driving around in it).
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 02, 2014 05:37 PM (+qUq2)
Evening 'rons.
Posted by: Iasonas at January 02, 2014 05:37 PM (FHNkr)
Posted by: Moo Moo's Logic at January 02, 2014 05:37 PM (ZNIRz)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 05:37 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 02, 2014 05:38 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 05:38 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: Arbalest at January 02, 2014 05:38 PM (FlRtG)
Reminds me of Flo Progressive.
Posted by: Zeke Emanuel at January 02, 2014 05:38 PM (aVcgy)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 05:39 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Peaches at January 02, 2014 09:31 PM (8lmkt)
Love a good port. 
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 02, 2014 05:39 PM (+qUq2)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 05:39 PM (V4CBV)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 05:39 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 02, 2014 05:39 PM (UAMVq)
CFIT-A Failure of the Mk1 Eyeball coming soon from Sven J Olafson Press
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 05:39 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 02, 2014 05:39 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 05:39 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Bigby's Snow-Shoveling Hands at January 02, 2014 05:40 PM (RLTt1)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 05:40 PM (zDsvJ)
Oh, hell, yeah, they were everywhere! And, most of you are probably too young for this, but I clearly remember when people smoked in elevators, restaurants, airplanes (they had a "non-smoking" section, really? like the smoke stayed over with the smoking section?). Oh, and hospitals. Yes! I remember smoking in hospitals. I can't believe we all didn't die of utter disgust!
Posted by: Peaches at January 02, 2014 05:40 PM (8lmkt)
Oh my! Thanks FB for recommending this page. Why did I deserve this? Obviously been naughty or something? um Merry Belated Christmas for the Horde. I guess.
http://tinyurl.com/ltxo75u
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 05:40 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 02, 2014 05:40 PM (UAMVq)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 02, 2014 05:40 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 02, 2014 05:40 PM (bCEmE)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 05:41 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 05:41 PM (V4CBV)
Atlases and encyclopedia here. Still like 'em.
Posted by: fluff¿¡ at January 02, 2014 05:41 PM (Ua6T/)
Ahh, Men of Harlech:
Verse 1
Men of Harlech, march to glory,
Victory is hov'ring o'er ye,
Bright-eyed freedom stands before ye,
Hear ye not her call?
At your sloth she seems to wonder;
Rend the sluggish bonds asunder,
Let the war-cry's deaf'ning thunder
Every foe appall.
Echoes loudly waking,
Hill and valley shaking;
'Till the sound spreads wide around,
The Saxon's courage breaking;
Your foes on every side assailing,
Forward press with heart unfailing,
'Till invaders learn with quailing,
Cambria ne'er can yield!
Rick Rescorla, who died in the 9/11 attacks and had previously fought all over the world, was known to sing that song while fighting in Vietnam.
Posted by: Sharkman at January 02, 2014 05:41 PM (TM1p8)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 02, 2014 05:42 PM (RxVu7)
http://youtu.be/U0Rv57DwtBU
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 05:42 PM (cubpP)
But forget sunblock 4. It was tanning oil back in the day. Remember? Of course, being fair skinned and hating the hot weather, this was not a big issue for me.
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 09:32 PM
Sunscreen? Never used that shit. That's what hats are for. Anyone who did was considered suspicious and probably wet their bed. Nobody I knew wanted that greasy shit on them.
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 05:42 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 02, 2014 05:43 PM (+qUq2)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 02, 2014 05:43 PM (UAMVq)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 02, 2014 05:43 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: Bigby's Snow-Shoveling Hands at January 02, 2014 05:43 PM (RLTt1)
Posted by: Lauren at January 02, 2014 05:44 PM (CozRk)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 05:44 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 05:44 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 02, 2014 09:43 PM (+qUq2)
I'm 2 hours earlier and if it weren't for the Modern Family repeats at 7, I would just go to bed now. Of course, I am still in a fair amount of pain from the dental surgery of last Friday. And the fact that oxycodone makes me sick. I always fill the scrip, though, since I know people who will trade for kine weed.
Posted by: Peaches at January 02, 2014 05:45 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 05:45 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: Lauren at January 02, 2014 05:45 PM (CozRk)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 05:45 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at January 02, 2014 05:45 PM (WdbF7)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 05:46 PM (V4CBV)
Most Arrogantly Stupid Article of the Year 2014 already has a barn-burning winner.
Minxy's JWOW - Hayai
Nice bags. I mean under her eyes.
She's seen some mileage that hasn't been reimbursed by the Head Office.
Library Stamps
Heh. Way to make us feel old, you bastard.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 02, 2014 05:46 PM (dwArK)
A prudent thing to have stockpiled for the burning times as well!
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 02, 2014 05:47 PM (o3MSL)
Posted by: no good deed at January 02, 2014 05:47 PM (HsJeN)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2014 05:47 PM (BC6cY)
Posted by: Fourth Horseman at January 02, 2014 05:48 PM (KuZ6A)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 02, 2014 05:48 PM (RxVu7)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 02, 2014 09:42 PM (RxVu7)
I know, ridiculous right?!?!?
/Turns on gas chamber
Posted by: PETA at January 02, 2014 05:48 PM (WdbF7)
Posted by: Infidel at January 02, 2014 05:48 PM (6bvBO)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 02, 2014 09:43 PM
Oh, I see. Where I grew up anyone who burned that quick didn't survive past their 3rd birthday. Besides, if you move fast enough, the rays don't burn you.
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 05:48 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 05:48 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 02, 2014 05:49 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at January 02, 2014 05:49 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 05:49 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Y-not
Chapstick still proudly has on the label a notice of 'SPF 4. '
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 02, 2014 05:49 PM (dwArK)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 05:50 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 05:50 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at January 02, 2014 05:50 PM (u25eL)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 02, 2014 09:42 PM (RxVu7)
I know, ridiculous right?!?!?
/Turns on gas chamber
Posted by: PETA at January 02, 2014 09:48 PM (WdbF7)
PETA is not a dog rescue organization. They're not job terrorist suppporters that are opposed to keeping pets of any kind.
Posted by: buzzion at January 02, 2014 05:50 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 05:50 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 05:51 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 05:51 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 02, 2014 05:51 PM (UAMVq)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 05:51 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: dumbartist at January 02, 2014 05:51 PM (ahBY0)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 05:52 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 02, 2014 05:52 PM (hcHS/)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 02, 2014 05:52 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at January 02, 2014 05:52 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Channeling 2008 Barack Obama at January 02, 2014 05:53 PM (rn0EN)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 09:41 PM (zDsvJ)
but of course! how are you this fine evening
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2014 05:53 PM (9GG/0)
Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at January 02, 2014 05:53 PM (u25eL)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 05:53 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at January 02, 2014 05:53 PM (WdbF7)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 05:54 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 02, 2014 05:54 PM (AymDN)
The total lack of communication kids had with parents during afternoons and weekends is the biggest change. We roamed like packs of feral dogs. Nowadays, everyone's too worried about random child-snatchers to let kids live wild like we did. Of course, that's the fault of the Divorce Industry, which got itself a new propaganda manager in the mid-70s, and they promoted all sorts of bullshit "stories" (and even movies) about the UNBELIEVABLY LARGE NUMBER OF ORDINARY KIDS WHO ARE KIDNAPPED EVERY SECOND!!!!
Turns out, it was total crap. Almost all of those "kidnappings" were non-custodial parent spats, post-divorce and before courts and cops had ironed out their paperwork for such things. But the National Organization for Women wanted to be sure that non-custodial fathers were treated as equivalent to child abductors.
That was also right about the time that Halloween ended, for a solid 15 years.
I spent the better part of my childhood (especially summers) exploring a cave. A real honest-to-goodness C-A-V-E. No radios. No backup gear. No helmets. No training. No access to said cave unless you were about the size of a 12 year-old boy. Virtually zero information conveyed to parental units that we were spending time in the cave (which was under most of our neighborhood, with a sinkhole that served as an access point about a block away).
That sort of thing is pretty much impossible now.
Posted by: Phinn at January 02, 2014 05:54 PM (KOGmz)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 02, 2014 05:54 PM (RxVu7)
Hey didn't a bunch of the sports journalists all have a hardon after that scrub basketball player at the end of his career came out how this year we'll probably have players active in other sports come out as well.
That total is still at ZERO I believe.
Posted by: buzzion at January 02, 2014 05:55 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Infidel at January 02, 2014 05:55 PM (6bvBO)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 05:55 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2014 05:55 PM (BC6cY)
Oh, my, she sounds like a pip, Fenelon!
I was on a plane from LA to NYC, must have been maybe the late 80s. The entire Ukrainian National Ballet was on the plane. I have never seen people who smoked and drank so much, ever, anywhere. And I have not led a particularly sheltered life.
Posted by: Peaches at January 02, 2014 05:55 PM (8lmkt)
** sigh **
Posted by: Michael Moore at January 02, 2014 05:55 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: --- at January 02, 2014 05:55 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Bigby's Snow-Shoveling Hands at January 02, 2014 05:56 PM (RLTt1)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 02, 2014 09:49 PM (V70Uh)
Hell, they may get so estranged from their heritage that they could *GASP* vote Republican!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 05:56 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 02, 2014 05:56 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Harry Reid at January 02, 2014 05:56 PM (UAMVq)
Posted by: Soothern Man
Read, go the the mall, play video games in the theater lobby, sweat over calling a girl in our class, end up calling our moron friends, listen to the radio, bike to the 7-11 for a Slurpee, look at the Tattoo/Swimsuit magazines because the porn mags were behind the counter...
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 02, 2014 05:57 PM (dwArK)
Posted by: dumbartist at January 02, 2014 05:57 PM (ahBY0)
Posted by: extra at January 02, 2014 05:57 PM (XTlIj)
What did we do??
Parents watched television.
Kids listened to records, and occasionally sneaked out, got into trouble, including but not limited to drugs and sex, but mostly listened to records.
Posted by: Phinn at January 02, 2014 05:58 PM (KOGmz)
That is the correct ruling as well, situational awareness may have been a team duty but it was your skull.
My family reunions among the cousins was action packed. We played a form of "war" with jarts if the adults got too involved in cards....
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 05:58 PM (TE35l)
guess it's fitting that I went to Nebraska, because I too have only two colors, red and white
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2014 05:58 PM (9GG/0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2014 05:58 PM (BC6cY)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 05:58 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Peaches at January 02, 2014 09:36 PM (8lmkt)
Yup. I have sympathy for a schitzophrenic, but I don't treat their illness as normal. The same for "transgender".
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 02, 2014 05:59 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 02, 2014 05:59 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: --- at January 02, 2014 05:59 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 05:59 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2014 06:00 PM (u82oZ)
Phinn you could not be more correct about our parents letting as much as public harmony allowed kid business be kid business and adults doing adult shit.
This is a cotton candy world we're trying to fool these kids into believing in and it is not based in reality at all.
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 06:00 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 06:00 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 06:00 PM (V4CBV)
That is to say, we got the pulp out of the pans and batteries, and washed the mud patiently away till nothing was left but the long-accumulating mass of quicksilver, with its imprisoned treasures. This we made into heavy, compact snowballs, and piled them up in a bright, luxurious heap for inspection. Making these snowballs cost me a fine gold ring - that and ignorance together; for the quicksilver invaded the ring with the same facility with which water saturates a sponge - separated its particles and the ring crumbled to pieces.
Note: quicksilver is mercury.
Posted by: Splunge at January 02, 2014 06:01 PM (bKA83)
I didn't take it like that Y-Not. There were rules and severe punishments if you broke 'em and by God you better get back home if they yelled or else but they gave us a long leash.
These helicopter parents drive me nuts.
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 06:01 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 06:01 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 06:01 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 02, 2014 06:01 PM (hcHS/)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 06:01 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 06:02 PM (cubpP)
We did too. Then, when we returned home for the day, my mother would recount our every exploit. We thought she was magic. We didn't know every person who saw us called to tell her what we were up to. Most of it was innocent...most of it.
Posted by: no good deed at January 02, 2014 06:02 PM (HsJeN)
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That's really interesting to me. It's the opposite of what I thought was happening.
No, once you got a decent bike for Christmas, you'd join the wolf pack, and it was See Ya Later, Folks! Mostly it was a circuit to your friends house, to the Circle K where they'd replace Pac-Man with Centipede and then with Ms. Pac-Man or some shit, so you'd find somewhere else to go.
Your childhood sounds unusually strict.
Posted by: Phinn at January 02, 2014 06:02 PM (KOGmz)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 06:03 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 06:04 PM (2hQRj)
Posted by: cm9000 at January 02, 2014 06:04 PM (3qZbZ)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 06:04 PM (2NfAC)
In our case it boiled down to how hard you abused the freedom and whether or not you pissed off the neighbor adults to the point the game of telephone got back to 'em....
I grew up in a suburban project and one night we had an 80 kid game of freeze tag going on that covered 2/3ds the development.
It was epic
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 06:05 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Infidel at January 02, 2014 09:55 PM
We used to play with mercury at the old gold mine. A lot of kids used to go there and muck around in the cyanide heaps.. ride bikes, use the caves, use the top of the heaps as forts to defend.
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 06:05 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 02, 2014 06:06 PM (hcHS/)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 06:06 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 10:04 PM (2hQRj)
Remember, the monogamous conservative couple with the large family hate sex, while the childless liberal couple with the open marriage in their 40s are somehow "pro-sex".
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 02, 2014 06:06 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: british toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 06:06 PM (Xfl0F)
by the way, isn't there a bowl game on? with some no-name teams I'm sure
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2014 06:07 PM (9GG/0)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 02, 2014 06:07 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: concrete girl at January 02, 2014 06:07 PM (LhAqq)
It is not that all women have telepathy, it is that all wives have wedding ring radios and all mothers have telepathy
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 06:07 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 06:07 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Fourth Horseman at January 02, 2014 06:07 PM (KuZ6A)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 06:08 PM (V4CBV)
Posted by: seamrog at January 02, 2014 06:08 PM (CMpgx)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 06:08 PM (0FSuD)
with college style cites that were not cut and paste jobs(after the 5th grade)
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 06:08 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: mindful webworker - indifference versus inertia at January 02, 2014 06:08 PM (U13jb)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 06:08 PM (2NfAC)
That's how old I am.
We couldn't afford that stuff back when I was a kid, but I collect them now.
Posted by: --- at January 02, 2014 06:08 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: rickl at January 02, 2014 06:09 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 06:09 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 06:09 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:05 PM (TE35l)
An incident with a BB gun and its perhaps-reckless-in-hindsight-use on a freeway overpass comes to mind.
Posted by: Phinn at January 02, 2014 06:09 PM (KOGmz)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 06:09 PM (0FSuD)
We sat around staring at it wondering what it could be used for.
That's how old I am.
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at January 02, 2014 06:10 PM (0It32)
Kids put together games of hopscotch, Mother May I, Simon Says, King on the Mountain, and, of course, the ever-popular dirt clod fights.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 06:10 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 06:10 PM (0FSuD)
.... restraining .... self.... from.... obvious . ....
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 06:10 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: Meremortal, throw your paper at January 02, 2014 06:10 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 02, 2014 06:10 PM (MaP11)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 06:11 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 09:44 PM (cubpP)
Yeah, let's go with that. Because admitting I'm sitting in front of the computer in the hotel room without having had anything more intoxicating than Coke Zero would just add to the degree of pathetic...
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 02, 2014 06:11 PM (+qUq2)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 06:12 PM (07nix)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 02, 2014 06:12 PM (UAMVq)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 06:12 PM (2hQRj)
Feel the buzz man. Feel the buzz.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 02, 2014 06:12 PM (MaP11)
Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2014 06:12 PM (fsLdt)
You could always drive into the Blizzard, get stranded on the freeway in a 54,000 car back-up and post from your android...
THAT was pathetic when I did it...
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 06:13 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 06:13 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 06:13 PM (V4CBV)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 06:13 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (hcHS/)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (dfYL9)
Posted by: some other guy at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (2DunM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (BC6cY)
Crystal Castles -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR2QIJdtgiU
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: Bill de B at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (omBWL)
Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (fsLdt)
I have been having some car trouble of late so I may not make it, my apologies in advance if I can't
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (9GG/0)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Infidel at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (6bvBO)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 06:14 PM (07nix)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 02, 2014 06:15 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 02, 2014 06:15 PM (UAMVq)
Posted by: Lauren at January 02, 2014 06:15 PM (CozRk)
Posted by: Fourth Horseman at January 02, 2014 06:15 PM (KuZ6A)
Posted by: dumbartist at January 02, 2014 06:15 PM (ahBY0)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 06:16 PM (V4CBV)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 06:17 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 06:17 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2014 10:14 PM (9GG/0)
Well, if you make it we'll be glad to see you.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 02, 2014 06:18 PM (+qUq2)
Ah....this is the troll Y-not.
Because the real Y-not is 28 and smokin' hot.
[remember when dealing with cops didn't have a subtext of: he might shoot me?]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 02, 2014 06:18 PM (QFxY5)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 02, 2014 06:18 PM (UAMVq)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 02, 2014 06:18 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: Meremortal, throw your paper at January 02, 2014 06:18 PM (1Y+hH)
Check out link on post #51. Late Christmas present.
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 06:19 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2014 06:19 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 02, 2014 06:19 PM (RxVu7)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 06:19 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: CDR M at January 02, 2014 06:19 PM (LsJl8)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 06:20 PM (0FSuD)
Pikers, I am the guy who polished the mirrors Posthumous Agrippa used to beat Mark Anthony at Actium like a rented mule....
//Vic
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 06:20 PM (TE35l)
Before the "internet" I ran a bulletin board service which was a portal to download software, pictures leave and read messages, this was in the 80's
Posted by: Kreplach at January 02, 2014 06:20 PM (Xkr8I)
The stick isn't the only aerodynamic control available to a pilot.
The crew and passengers of American 587 found out that you can't just stomp on the rudder pedals as hard as you want. It's entirely possible in that generation of Airbii to structurally overload the fin with rudder loads and tear the whole assemblage off the airframe. There are no logic limits to prevent it. Not even a warning light.
260 aboard, all dead, five more killed on the ground.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587
Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 06:21 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 02, 2014 06:21 PM (JpFMR)
Yep.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600
1982 was the great Video Game Crash, when the industry collapsed and a lot of manufacturers went out of business, until the Nintendo Entertainment System came out in 1985.
My wife got me an Atari console for Christmas this year. It's my third-- the first one is her original one from the early 80s, this one is the 'Darth Vader' model (all black) from a little later.
Posted by: --- at January 02, 2014 06:21 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: The Squeeky Hat at January 02, 2014 06:21 PM (AymDN)
I think I'll just go and repost a comment I directed at toby a few weeks back when he said he wouldn't want to be Alabama's bowl opponent. It was obviously made before Ohio State decided to choke in the Big Ten Championship and an SEC team did get into the NC game anyways.
133 On the plus side, I would not want to be Alabama's Bowl opponent.
Posted by: toby928© Still crying in his breakfast beer at December 01, 2013 02:33 PM (QupBk
Eh. I wouldn't mind it. Their whole mindset is "we're the best we rule the SEC and the SEC dominates the National Championship game." Well no you don't rule the SEC and there's a good chance an SEC team won't be in the National Championship game. Quite the ego deflator. You start out the Bowl game with a good punch in th mouth to them and they might just give up.
Posted by: buzzion at December 01, 2013 02:38 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: buzzion at January 02, 2014 06:22 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: no good deed at January 02, 2014 06:22 PM (HsJeN)
Baby oil, lemon juice for the hair and aluminum foil so your face would really fry-er, get tan. And gee, I'm surprised to see that 2013 library checkout stamp. It's sort of nice that there is still a library somewhere where they still use checkout stamps.
When I was a kid (and went to the "bookmobile") I was always pleased when I saw a book I wanted to borrow had been checked out a bunch of times - I thought it must be a good read then.
Posted by: Donna V. at January 02, 2014 06:22 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 06:22 PM (07nix)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 06:22 PM (82LNv)
Yup.... the first iteration anyway that you had to be "rich" to afford....
by 82 they were down enough in price point we got one.
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 06:22 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 06:22 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 10:16 PM (V4CBV)
Nowadays we'd just call it "Fuck that guy in particular"
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 02, 2014 06:22 PM (+qUq2)
Those are two very different games. Monkey in the Middle is a version of 'keep away'. Smear the Queer pits one person's ball running skills against everyone else's tackling skills.
Posted by: fluffy at January 02, 2014 06:23 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 02, 2014 06:23 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 06:23 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: toby928© at January 02, 2014 06:23 PM (QupBk)
All the porn 300 baud could deliver!
Posted by: --- at January 02, 2014 06:23 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 06:23 PM (V4CBV)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 02, 2014 06:23 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: The Political Toga at January 02, 2014 06:23 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 06:24 PM (2hQRj)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 06:24 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2014 06:24 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 06:24 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Hobbitopoly at January 02, 2014 06:24 PM (080XV)
Posted by: CDR M at January 02, 2014 10:19 PM (LsJl
Bundy Barracks, Rosie Roads PR.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 02, 2014 06:24 PM (+qUq2)
Posted by: shibumi at January 02, 2014 06:24 PM (25HWz)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 02, 2014 06:25 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 06:25 PM (V4CBV)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 02, 2014 06:25 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 06:25 PM (82LNv)
Marcus....and I should have heard BRIAN BLESSED yelling MARK-US!
Damn hat I may be getting Midheimers.
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 06:25 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 02, 2014 06:25 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 06:25 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Harry Reid at January 02, 2014 06:26 PM (UAMVq)
Ah yes. The good old lingerie section.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 02, 2014 10:15 PM (UAMVq)
---
If I remember right, the JCPenny catalog made the Sears catalog look like a burqua catalog.
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 10:24 PM (2hQRj)
National Geographic.
Posted by: Dirty Old Man Since Age 10 at January 02, 2014 06:26 PM (rn0EN)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2014 06:26 PM (BC6cY)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 02, 2014 06:26 PM (P6QsQ)
When I started smoking (at 16), cigs were 50 cents a pack. I remember the first time I paid $1 for a pack - it was at JFK airport and I was outraged. "Good God, NYC really is crazy expensive!"
When I finally quit, they were over $6 a pack. I have no idea what they cost now.
Posted by: Donna V. at January 02, 2014 06:27 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 02, 2014 06:27 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 02, 2014 06:27 PM (UAMVq)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 06:27 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 02, 2014 06:28 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 10:22 PM (82LNv)
Nah, you collected those and made chain mail out of them. Of course the girls made necklaces. Girls...pfeh...
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 02, 2014 06:28 PM (+qUq2)
Posted by: Tobacco Road
282 Kidding.
Posted by: Tobacco Road
No, you're just too afraid of looking in the mirror.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 02, 2014 06:28 PM (dwArK)
Posted by: Lauren at January 02, 2014 06:28 PM (CozRk)
Posted by: Dirty Old Man Since Age 10 at January 02, 2014 10:26 PM
Glamour Magazine.
Posted by: george costanza at January 02, 2014 06:28 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 06:28 PM (82LNv)
Nothing better than 300x400 4-bit color boobies.
And the dither grain added a certain something.
Posted by: Kreplach at January 02, 2014 06:28 PM (Xkr8I)
Heh. And trunk lines.
also: http://tinyurl.com/l468q5e
First comment talks about the conveyor belts. Never walked groceries to a car back then, and nobody stole anybody's bags
Posted by: Bigby's Snow-Shoveling Hands at January 02, 2014 06:29 PM (RLTt1)
If the baby in the Romney family photo was white, the MSNBC turds would have made fun of the blue for boys and pink for girls. "Yep, the Romneys are still living in 1955."
Because sexist.
Posted by: Donna V. at January 02, 2014 06:29 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 02, 2014 10:14 PM (RZ8pf)
You're doing it wrong.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 02, 2014 06:29 PM (aVcgy)
----------------------------
I know. I know. I just kept reading, and reading, and was waiting for somebody to post how they shot rabbits with their flintlock after one-room school.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 02, 2014 06:29 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2014 06:29 PM (BC6cY)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 06:29 PM (cubpP)
//Vic
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:20 PM (TE35l)
Not to be pedantic, but Postumus Agrippa (the correct Latin spelling, by the way) was the son of the man who won at Actium, not the man himself.
Posted by: HTL at January 02, 2014 06:29 PM (QV8Gr)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 06:30 PM (b2cFu)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 06:30 PM (2hQRj)
An electrician around here says that he makes bank as a result of these cretins.
They'll rent a place, and since they're stoners, they'll immediately start fucking around with the wiring without knowing what they really are doing. It's common for them to tap the power right below the service mast, bypassing both the meter and the circuit breakers.
But they will use the existing house wiring to get the massive amount of power they're stealing delivered to the grow room. Wiring that is not even remotely able to deal safely with that kind of amperage. Especially with no fuse/breaker protection.
So, either the place burns to the ground as wires melt, or, the power company gets suspicious. In the latter case, once the dopeheads are arrested/evicted, Mr. Electrician comes in to re-do EVERY SINGLE CIRCUIT IN THE HOUSE from the ground up, a complete code-compliant rewire. Because, good luck getting a homeowner's policy renewed without providing proof of same after such an event.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 06:30 PM (gqT4g)
You can call it a "BBS."
You're among friends.
/LOD
Posted by: Phinn at January 02, 2014 06:30 PM (KOGmz)
Posted by: Jean at January 02, 2014 06:30 PM (4JkHl)
It could get you elected to a higher office!
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 02, 2014 06:31 PM (dwArK)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 06:31 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2014 06:31 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 02, 2014 06:31 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 06:31 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 06:31 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 06:31 PM (T1005)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
---------------------
Damn straight.
I had cataracts removed from both eyes this past year. Just from the shoulders up it was quite enlightening to see where hairs were growing I never knew about.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 02, 2014 06:31 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2014 06:31 PM (fsLdt)
Pedant on...Hat corrected me once, I chanelled Brian Blessed and copped to my midheimers....
I figure I have the mental acuity of a 96 year old 80s Free Safety......
derp, derp derp
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 06:32 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 02, 2014 06:32 PM (UAMVq)
Posted by: free tibet, etc. at January 02, 2014 06:33 PM (jAc/f)
Posted by: Lauren at January 02, 2014 06:33 PM (CozRk)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 02, 2014 10:27 PM (RZ8pf)
just a humble suggestion:
http://tinyurl.com/qfwf9ns
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2014 06:33 PM (9GG/0)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 02, 2014 06:33 PM (N/cFh)
I know. I know. I just kept reading, and reading, and was waiting for somebody to post how they shot rabbits with their flintlock after one-room school.
I think Vic is sleeping.
Posted by: Infidel at January 02, 2014 06:33 PM (6bvBO)
We called that 'run down'
If they over threw, you could rack up bases galore.
Posted by: fluffy at January 02, 2014 06:33 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Jean at January 02, 2014 06:33 PM (4JkHl)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 06:33 PM (V4CBV)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 06:33 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 06:33 PM (2hQRj)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 06:33 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2014 06:34 PM (BC6cY)
I saw it in the Thor documentary....
Vic sleeps for a year at a time in cycles.....
or was that his son Odin?
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 06:34 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Trimegistus at January 02, 2014 06:34 PM (UEdx3)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 06:34 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 10:31 PM (T1005)
the tentacles probably gave it away
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2014 06:34 PM (9GG/0)
to download software, pictures leave and read messages, this was in the
80's Posted by: Kreplach
You can call it a "BBS."
You're among friends.
/LOD
Posted by: Phinn
Yeah! No shit.
That's fucking insulting to suggest we don't know what a BBS was.
F U Kraplotke~!
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 02, 2014 06:34 PM (dwArK)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 06:35 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 02, 2014 06:35 PM (RxVu7)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 02, 2014 06:36 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 06:36 PM (07nix)
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2014 06:36 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: stace at January 02, 2014 06:36 PM (9PXzx)
Posted by: Lauren at January 02, 2014 06:36 PM (CozRk)
Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2014 06:36 PM (fsLdt)
Not everyone would know it as a BBS.
My mother was an investigator for the phone company, aka Ma Bell so we had multiple phone lines and I became intimately familiar with the inner workings of the system.
My dream was to null our entire area code and become legend.
The prospect of serious jail time made me think better of it.
Posted by: Kreplach at January 02, 2014 06:36 PM (Xkr8I)
Later roonz and roonettez, fear no evil!
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 02, 2014 06:37 PM (+qUq2)
Posted by: Trimegistus at January 02, 2014 06:37 PM (UEdx3)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 02, 2014 06:37 PM (RxVu7)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 06:37 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 06:37 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Jean at January 02, 2014 06:38 PM (4JkHl)
TMI
Posted by: fluffy at January 02, 2014 06:38 PM (Ua6T/)
What videogames I got to play were generally those that got typed in from magazines (yes, they were contraband too), or games I had to write myself.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 06:38 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: rachel at January 02, 2014 06:38 PM (CMpgx)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 06:38 PM (/gJVs)
yep, nerdygirl. "Be home when the street lights come on."
If I had sat around in the house on a nice summer's day, mom would have said, "What's wrong with you? Why aren't you outside?"
Posted by: Donna V. at January 02, 2014 06:38 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 06:39 PM (zDsvJ)
See also: "Comancheria"
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 06:39 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: Trimegistus at January 02, 2014 06:40 PM (UEdx3)
Posted by: Avi at January 02, 2014 06:40 PM (kcF49)
Posted by: Jean at January 02, 2014 06:40 PM (4JkHl)
See also the Shawnee and Miami....
hey my midheimers abated for a sec....wife is luring me to bed... be safe Horde
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 06:40 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 06:40 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 06:40 PM (2hQRj)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 02, 2014 06:40 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 06:41 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 02, 2014 06:41 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: DangerGirl at January 02, 2014 06:41 PM (GrtrJ)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 06:41 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Cmdr Fluffo at January 02, 2014 06:41 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Avi at January 02, 2014 06:42 PM (kcF49)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 06:42 PM (07nix)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 06:42 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Donna V. at January 02, 2014 06:42 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: puddleglum at January 02, 2014 06:42 PM (7RSGr)
end times i tell you
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 06:42 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 06:42 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2014 06:43 PM (BC6cY)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 06:43 PM (aDwsi)
Then it will be just like the other news broadcasts.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 02, 2014 06:43 PM (aVcgy)
Posted by: Trimegistus at January 02, 2014 06:43 PM (UEdx3)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 06:43 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: The Bacon Hat at January 02, 2014 06:44 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Many casualties among the toy soldier troops.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 06:44 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 06:44 PM (zDsvJ)
How come we can't have our frozen sleety blowy weather on the weekdays? I don't want to be frozen and housebound on my days off :^(
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 06:44 PM (Xfl0F)
end times i tell you
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 10:42 PM (Xfl0F)
Just make sure you don't get the abbie normal one.
Posted by: Igor at January 02, 2014 06:45 PM (aVcgy)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 06:45 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Dr. Frankenstein at January 02, 2014 06:45 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: E.T. at January 02, 2014 06:45 PM (uGlk8)
Posted by: Trimegistus at January 02, 2014 06:45 PM (UEdx3)
maybe Carrie Underwood will star in a remake of Mary Poppins
Last night I asked about 47 times if anyone had seen Wolf of Wall Street yet, but got no answer. So I guess the answer is "no, we haven't seen it."
Like I also said last night however, there's actually a bunch of films out I'd like to see soon rather than wait for blu-rays of. Among them:
- Saving Mr. Banks
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- August: Osage County (or is it Osage: August County?)
I would think Inside Llewyn Davis would *especially* appeal to AOS readers as it BEGINS with a scene of the lead character, an early 1960s folk singer, getting the crap beaten out of him by a loan shark.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 06:45 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 06:46 PM (2hQRj)
any suggestions?
something you can get from Amazon streaming video
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2014 06:46 PM (9GG/0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2014 06:46 PM (BC6cY)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 06:46 PM (07nix)
It's pronounced "EYE-gor".
Posted by: Marty Feldman at January 02, 2014 06:46 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 06:46 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 06:47 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 06:47 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 06:47 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 02, 2014 06:47 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2014 06:47 PM (M/TDA)
21" in Boxford, MA Holy cow!
Posted by: fluffy at January 02, 2014 06:47 PM (Ua6T/)
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Heh. We dug lots of holes. To this day, I have no idea why.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 06:48 PM (aDwsi)
Ah yes, the 'sledgehammer-applied-liberally-to-forehead' sedative.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 06:48 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 02, 2014 06:48 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 06:49 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: Mindy at January 02, 2014 06:49 PM (Bs5ky)
We were also into Police scanners and CB radios growing up in fact we have always been into tech.
My grandpa was into building crystal radio sets.
My dad would get altair kits through the mail.
It was pretty awesome growing up in my family.
Posted by: Kreplach at January 02, 2014 06:49 PM (Xkr8I)
Posted by: DangerGirl at January 02, 2014 06:49 PM (GrtrJ)
Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at January 02, 2014 06:50 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: E.T. at January 02, 2014 06:51 PM (uGlk8)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 06:51 PM (2hQRj)
I'm also pleasantly surprised/somewhat shocked that it actually allowed for Walt Disney-- who by all accounts was pretty conservative both socially and as a businessman-- to be portrayed empathetically.
A lot of people don't know: P.L. Travers (the author of the Mary Poppins series of books) was also an actress, wrote at least one erotic novel (at least from what I've read), and was bisexual.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 06:51 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2014 10:43 PM (BC6cY) Fenelon, just a few years ago I was taking the trash out and in the next door neighbor's backyard, there were 4 little kids -3 were sitting on the grass and the fourth. a little boy, was standing in front of them solemnly saying "Go now in peace to love and serve the Lord...."
So I guess kids still do play Mass. I remember Necco wafers made the best communion wafers. I'd play Mass with the dog, which somehow didn't seem to trouble my mother. I also remember that for a while before I made my own first communion I thought the priest said, "Bonnie and Christ." So there I was holding up Necco wafers for the dog and saying "Bonnie and Christ."
Posted by: Donna V. at January 02, 2014 06:51 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: odds guy at January 02, 2014 06:51 PM (CMpgx)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 02, 2014 06:51 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 02, 2014 06:51 PM (RZ8pf)
223 Or the JCPenny catalog
Ah yes. The good old lingerie section.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 02, 2014 10:15 PM (UAMVq)
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If I remember right, the JCPenny catalog made the Sears catalog look like a burqua catalog.
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 10:24 PM (2hQRj)
National Geographic.
Posted by: Dirty Old Man Since Age 10 at January 02, 2014 10:26 PM (rn0EN)
Monty Python on late night public TV
Posted by: Jean at January 02, 2014 10:38 PM (4JkHl)
The neighbors down the road from my grandparents with the giant satellite dish that got EVERYTHING in the days before scrambling.
Posted by: Country Singer at January 02, 2014 06:52 PM (dhJhm)
"No, I can't turn down my radio. I don't have one."
Posted by: Epobirs at January 02, 2014 06:52 PM (bPxS6)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 06:52 PM (07nix)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 06:53 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: The Hickster at January 02, 2014 06:53 PM (TI3xG)
They have to roll at least 10 feet down the street. 15ft? You're king.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 02, 2014 06:55 PM (dwArK)
Posted by: Donna V. at January 02, 2014 06:55 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: Y-not's mom listening from Heaven at January 02, 2014 06:55 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Mindy at January 02, 2014 06:55 PM (Bs5ky)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 06:56 PM (V4CBV)
Posted by: Y-not's mom listening from Heaven at January 02, 2014 06:57 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 06:57 PM (07nix)
My dad kind of liked 1980s-era Pet Shop Boys, which was odd.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 06:58 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 06:59 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 06:59 PM (07nix)
Posted by: The Hickster
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Age 12 - Walk into drugstore, buy powdered s-----, potassium -------, make your own powdered charcoal by pounding grill charcoal. Instant boyish fun.
Crap..., I can't believe I have to be evasive when speaking of boyhood exploits.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 07:00 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo
< cough > Dad?
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 02, 2014 07:00 PM (dwArK)
Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 07:00 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 02, 2014 07:00 PM (bCEmE)
Posted by: concrete girl at January 02, 2014 07:01 PM (LhAqq)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 07:01 PM (aDwsi)
I remember almost jumping off the roof because I forgot where the cut from one building to the next was, one of my friends stopped me before I jumped.
Crazy time wonderful times.
Posted by: Kreplach at January 02, 2014 07:01 PM (Xkr8I)
Yeah. They're ¢50 here nowadays. Bell, using the brilliant plan of doubling their old price to combat losing money to alot of people having cellphones on them 24/7. Dicks.
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 02, 2014 07:01 PM (8AHeV)
Posted by: My Name is Nobody at January 02, 2014 07:02 PM (5Q1ZU)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 07:02 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 07:02 PM (2hQRj)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 07:02 PM (07nix)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 02, 2014 07:02 PM (JpFMR)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 07:03 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 07:03 PM (aDwsi)
Or no one likes you, qdpsteve.
;^)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 02, 2014 07:03 PM (8AHeV)
It nearly ended Michael Caine's film career before that career even began. It was his first major role, and he had major butterflies.
The producers back in London got the early rushes, which were unimpressive (not least because in some shots they were confusing an extra with Caine) and said, "This guy is an idiot! Get rid of him!" An active search for a replacement kicked off.
But given the long time lags in communication and transport between the UK and rural South Africa of the day, by the time the message was received, they had too much film in the can to be able to can Caine. The rest is history.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 07:04 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 07:04 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:04 PM (HVI5a)
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Okay. We ride at dawn. Bring guns.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 07:05 PM (aDwsi)
So I guess coming here for WOWS reviews is a waste of time, given it features everyone's favorite baby-faced socialist DeCaprio.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:05 PM (HVI5a)
Back in Texas we had the Alamo Drafthouse and I would *definitely* watch that shit over a few beverages.
But we don't have that here, at least not in easy distance. Sigh.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 07:06 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: Mindy at January 02, 2014 07:06 PM (Bs5ky)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 02, 2014 07:06 PM (8AHeV)
Posted by: puddleglum at January 02, 2014 07:07 PM (3Dzk3)
Posted by: Panhandler at January 02, 2014 07:07 PM (LqVNJ)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 02, 2014 07:07 PM (JpFMR)
We had one hot teacher in our Catholic school - looking back, I'm amazed the nuns hired her. She had long brown hair and wore a lot of makeup and very tight sweaters and was named - Mrs. Stack.
You can imagine what a roomful of 4th grade boys did with that one. She didn't last too long at our school.
Posted by: Donna V. at January 02, 2014 07:07 PM (R3gO3)
And then Stallone decided that we can't be trusted with a tenth of the arsenal his private security has.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 07:08 PM (Xfl0F)
Alert to all: do NOT go to the pancakes link.
Do NOT go to Retrospace.
Your evening will be sucked away... yeah, it will be fun, but you'll be awake until 4am looking at catalog photos, and you have to go to work tomorrow!!
ELEVENTY!
Posted by: shibumi at January 02, 2014 07:08 PM (25HWz)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 07:08 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 07:08 PM (2hQRj)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 07:08 PM (/gJVs)
I spent a lot of time flattening things on the tracks. Got caught on a bridge once with a passing train. We quick climbed down into the structure below as it passed over. That scared the crap out of me and never happened again. Lesson learned pay fucking attention.
Posted by: The Hickster at January 02, 2014 07:08 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: Mindy at January 02, 2014 07:09 PM (Bs5ky)
Supposedly the AMC theater chain had a good record for tossing out disruptive moviegoers back in the day, but I don't know if they're still that way. They may have been sued into meek submission by now.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:09 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 02, 2014 07:10 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:10 PM (HVI5a)
It was full of yokels who talked in the theatre.
SPECIAL. HELL.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 07:11 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 07:11 PM (2hQRj)
Posted by: Mindy at January 02, 2014 07:11 PM (Bs5ky)
The ONE thing I actually found over time that I REALLY enjoyed about my herniated back surgery hospital stay in late 2012: waking up at 3am having to pee, then remembering my handy-dandy *plastic urinal* receptacle right next to me.
I'd probably still be using one at night if it weren't for my OCD (i.e., drastic emotional need to wash hands immediately after I urinate/defecate).
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:12 PM (HVI5a)
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Usually happens at 4:00 in the morning. Warm bed, sleepy....., full bladder.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 07:12 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 07:12 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at January 02, 2014 07:12 PM (XvrTA)
Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 07:12 PM (sOtz/)
Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 02, 2014 11:10 PM (DmNpO)
Usually happens when I wake in the middle of the night. "Oh, the bed is so cozy, I don't want to get up...but I have to pee...maybe if I ignore it, it will go away....oh, no alright then, damnit!"
Posted by: Donna V. at January 02, 2014 07:12 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:13 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: mpfs, New Years Fishstick at January 02, 2014 07:13 PM (ocjHE)
must link to this on Zero Hedge:
http://tinyurl.com/kpnw97x
sample paragraph:
It appears that gone are the days when every Ivy graduate's fast-track to stardom dream was to become a banker (or in the worst case, a corporate lawyer). And with Wall Street's increasing conversion into a utility, the aspirations of the best and the brightest will progressively shift elsewhere. But waiting tables? Well, as it turns out that's where the money is because "head waiters at top-tier restaurants can earn from $80,000 to as much as $150,000 a year including tips, according to industry executives. In comparison, a line cook might earn as little as $35,000 to $45,000 a year while working longer hours. The nation's highest-rated restaurants, including Per Se, Le Bernardin and Eleven Madison Park in New York and Alinea in Chicago, hire as few as 10% of the individuals applying for waitstaff jobs."
Posted by: mallfly at January 02, 2014 07:13 PM (zjcTL)
Ezra Klein, an analyst, columnist and television commentator who runs The Washington PostÂ’s Wonkblog, is making plans to leave the newspaper after failing to win support for a new website he wanted to create within the company, according to four people with knowledge of the negotiations.
Mr. Klein, who quickly ascended into the ranks of the Washington media establishment with a multiplatform blend of policy nuance and number-crunching on Wonkblog, approached Katherine Weymouth, the PostÂ’s publisher, in recent weeks, the people said.
After consultation with the newspaperÂ’s editor, Marty Baron, according to one of the people, he put forward a proposal with detailed revenue projections to build a new website dedicated to explanatory journalism on a wide range of topics beyond political policy. It would have been affiliated with The Post, the person said, but would have been a separate enterprise. The investment he sought, the person said, was in eight figures.
Posted by: Field Marshal Von Rundstedt at January 02, 2014 07:13 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: fluffy at January 02, 2014 07:15 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 02, 2014 07:16 PM (8AHeV)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 07:16 PM (2hQRj)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 07:17 PM (Xfl0F)
" Well, as it turns out that's where the money is because "head waiters at top-tier restaurants can earn from $80,000 to as much as $150,000 a year including tips, according to industry executives"
Fall semester 2014: Harvard offers "Tray carrying 101" and "Restaurant Menu French"
Posted by: Donna V. at January 02, 2014 07:17 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: mpfs, New Years Fishstick at January 02, 2014 07:17 PM (ocjHE)
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2014 07:18 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: Mindy at January 02, 2014 07:18 PM (Bs5ky)
And now I've got images of a busty 40 something in a tight sweater and librarian glasses
um... brb
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 07:18 PM (Xfl0F)
Ezra Klein, an analyst, columnist and television commentator who runs The Washington PostÂ’s Wonkblog, is making plans to leave the newspaper after failing to win support for a new website he wanted to create within the company, according to four people with knowledge of the negotiations.
Mr. Klein, who quickly ascended into the ranks of the Washington media establishment with a multiplatform blend of policy nuance and number-crunching on Wonkblog, approached Katherine Weymouth, the PostÂ’s publisher, in recent weeks, the people said.
After consultation with the newspaperÂ’s editor, Marty Baron, according to one of the people, he put forward a proposal with detailed revenue projections to build a new website dedicated to explanatory journalism on a wide range of topics beyond political policy. It would have been affiliated with The Post, the person said, but would have been a separate enterprise. The investment he sought, the person said, was in eight figures.
Posted by: Field Marshal Von Rudstedt at January 02, 2014 11:13 PM (e8kgV)
Eight figures -- > $10M -- to make a ckufing website?!?!? What is it with these stupid libs? Just look around you at the enduring quality that Pixy can build for $18.38!
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 07:19 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 07:19 PM (sOtz/)
Hayai = fast
"That's what she said".
Some assembly required.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at January 02, 2014 07:19 PM (ioT3q)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 07:20 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 07:20 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 07:20 PM (07nix)
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Not the same, of course, but my mother would have been astonished if I came home without grass and dirt stains on my clothes. I still remember her whimsical smile, saying "You smell just like a little boy.."
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 07:21 PM (aDwsi)
Mrs. Stack didn't wear glasses (sorry). She wore miniskirts and white boots (this was around 1967).
Like I said, she didn't last long at a Catholic school.
Posted by: Donna V. at January 02, 2014 07:21 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: My Name is Nobody at January 02, 2014 07:21 PM (5Q1ZU)
re 505:
"After consultation with the newspaper's editor, Marty Baron, according to one of the people, he put forward a proposal with detailed revenue projections to build a new website dedicated to explanatory journalism on a wide range of topics beyond political policy. It would have been affiliated with The Post, the person said, but would have been a separate enterprise. The investment he sought, the person said, was in eight figures."
Eight figures means either a hundred million or a chorus line of strippers. Either way, it appears that he wants to be the private version of the obamacare website. No difference to me so long as I'm not paying for it.
Posted by: mallfly at January 02, 2014 07:22 PM (zjcTL)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 07:22 PM (Xfl0F)
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P-38 can opener. I still have one that I was issued.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 07:23 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 07:23 PM (2NfAC)
Nowadays, just one look at that congealed slime around the things makes me feel icky.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:24 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 02, 2014 07:24 PM (N/cFh)
Posted by: The Hickster at January 02, 2014 07:24 PM (TI3xG)
"After consultation with the newspaper's editor, Marty Baron, according to one of the people, he put forward a proposal with detailed revenue projections to build a new website dedicated to explanatory journalism on a wide range of topics beyond political policy. It would have been affiliated with The Post, the person said, but would have been a separate enterprise. The investment he sought, the person said, was in eight figures."
Eight figures means either a hundred million or a chorus line of strippers. Either way, it appears that he wants to be the private version of the obamacare website. No difference to me so long as I'm not paying for it.
Posted by: mallfly at January 02, 2014 11:22 PM (zjcTL)
12,345,678....missed it by >< that much!
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 07:24 PM (T1005)
Tostitos Picante Sauce, when it came in a *can*????
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:24 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 07:24 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 07:25 PM (z4WKX)
I wear high heels
panties and a braaaaaaa
Okay, now what was that about Monty Python again?
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:26 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:26 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 07:26 PM (07nix)
Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at January 02, 2014 07:27 PM (XvrTA)
BCochran...Thanks for answering...I know she's A-OK...what with that spectacular cake she was bringing and all.
Posted by: concrete girl at January 02, 2014 07:28 PM (LhAqq)
I also have a really lame joke: when was the deviled ham... no longer deviled?? When it was cured!
[/groan]
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:28 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 02, 2014 07:29 PM (N/cFh)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 07:30 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2014 07:30 PM (M/TDA)
re 535: yeah, I was off by 1 power of ten... still a whole lot of money for a website for a guy who probably couldn't tell you what a quart of milk and a pound of ground beef goes for.
and I just noticed I wrote "a quart of milf". I couldn't say what that goes for.
Posted by: mallfly at January 02, 2014 07:31 PM (zjcTL)
Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 07:31 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Trimegistus at January 02, 2014 07:31 PM (UEdx3)
Posted by: Bomber at January 02, 2014 07:32 PM (G8OL9)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 02, 2014 07:32 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Stacy's mom at January 02, 2014 07:32 PM (N/cFh)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 07:32 PM (aDwsi)
Hit and run here.
Quick question horde as I am off on an overnight road trip to watch Wild Card Weekend. GB is hosting SF, wtf?
Plus, the commish makes $30M a year? I should of went into coaching gridiron instead of a MIS/IT degree.
Question: Who was the character or skit name that Christopher Walken played when he hosted SNL? The character was an Euro debonaire type entertaining his 'date' from the camera POV view of said date.
Thank you all for the laughs in 2013 have a great first weekend of 2014!
Cheers!
Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at January 02, 2014 07:32 PM (28+Cq)
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 02, 2014 07:32 PM (AiZkN)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:33 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 02, 2014 07:33 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Trimegistus at January 02, 2014 07:33 PM (UEdx3)
Posted by: Tom_OH at January 02, 2014 07:33 PM (Zz48T)
I don't remember the congealed slime, I'd like to think it wasn't there half a century ago, the FDA is probably responsible.
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at January 02, 2014 07:34 PM (kxSZr)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 07:34 PM (07nix)
Posted by: Dave M at January 02, 2014 07:34 PM (dbm77)
Matt Lauer?
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:35 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at January 02, 2014 07:35 PM (b6koZ)
Posted by: Trimegistus at January 02, 2014 07:35 PM (UEdx3)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 02, 2014 07:35 PM (N/cFh)
The problem with the Angels is that when they lose a fight, they come back heavily armed and shooting. Shooting indiscriminately.
There was an insane gang clash where the HA and the Mongols turned a Nevada borderline casino floor into a two-way range. While it was filled with elderly blue-haired nickel-slot patrons.
Absolutely no patience for the outlaw bikers. They're all continuing criminal enterprises. The sort of outfit that RICO was meant to be used against, and that's one of the few times I countenance having the heavy hand of federal law enforcement step into local affairs.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 07:35 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at January 02, 2014 07:36 PM (XvrTA)
http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/2013/11/ads-74-japanese-advertising-part-3.html
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 07:37 PM (Xfl0F)
On a Boy Scouts canoe trip we had that on teething toast and liked it. Some of that is if you run a boy hard enough they'll eat anything.
Posted by: The Hickster at January 02, 2014 07:37 PM (TI3xG)
That, and the antenna rotor as well. I'd be freezing my ass off in the rain turning the pole waiting for him to knock on the window when the picture was good.
Posted by: Country Singer at January 02, 2014 07:37 PM (dhJhm)
Posted by: Harry Ried at January 02, 2014 07:38 PM (AymDN)
Those were actually rather inventive bits from back in the day on SNL. I enjoyed them.
The footage probably doesn't exist, but I would *love* to see video of how those skits were shot. Everything was done from the POV of the cameraperson, who was apparently wearing to-the-elbows evening gloves and sparkly bracelets to add to the illusion that Walken's character was speaking to an actual society lady.
Let's at least hope the cameraperson was actually a woman...
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:38 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: WOW at January 02, 2014 07:38 PM (6j8ke)
Posted by: concrete girl at January 02, 2014 07:38 PM (LhAqq)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 07:38 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 02, 2014 07:38 PM (DmNpO)
I really didn't need to know that "transgender" part ... unless the incident involved a goring of gender specific body parts.
Posted by: William Sydney Porter at January 02, 2014 07:39 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 07:40 PM (07nix)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 07:40 PM (z4WKX)
The Rambo movies were around the time that I started having more and more unsettling trouble with Hollyweird and its attitudes.
Let's remember that this was a guy who safely sat out the actual Vietnam War teaching phys ed at a ritzy girls' school in Switzerland.
Not fit to polish the jungle boots of those who actually served, and went.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 07:40 PM (gqT4g)
Call me crazy but I think it was by far better than the Frito-Lay bean dips.
Unfortunately it all but disappeared around 1983.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:41 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: My Name is Nobody at January 02, 2014 07:41 PM (5Q1ZU)
Posted by: Sam Peterson at January 02, 2014 07:42 PM (07nix)
Posted by: torquewrench
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Whew! I was afraid you were talking about me.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 02, 2014 07:42 PM (aDwsi)
Damned global warming again. When will it let up?
Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 07:43 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: The Dude at January 02, 2014 07:44 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 02, 2014 07:44 PM (opjHr)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at January 02, 2014 07:44 PM (WdbF7)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 07:45 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 07:46 PM (z4WKX)
Second grade, Valencia Park Elementary, Fullerton, Ca. Probably about 1964 or 65.
Followed my brother across a railroad trestle, easily over 50' above the creek below. To my frightened eyes, might as well have been 1,000 ft.
I made it about a third of the way across, then had to get back to the safety of solid ground. But, it was a good start.
By time I was in the 6th grade, I was cruising pre-BMX Schwinn 20" bikes, built from scrounged parts to be good "pre-BMX" prototypes..... down steep San Diego canyons in the dark of very foggy nights, on eyebrow trails over the sheer drops parallel to highway excavations, in near zero visibility at 11 pm.
How I survived the early '70s, I'll never know. But, I did get a trophy for riding a wheelie on that bike for over 3/4 of a mile.
Oh, yeah. We painted the frames in flat black, to better blend into the night. Little miscreants, we were!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 02, 2014 07:46 PM (vvk2F)
Posted by: My Name is Nobody at January 02, 2014 07:46 PM (5Q1ZU)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 07:46 PM (2hQRj)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 07:48 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: concrete girl at January 02, 2014 07:48 PM (LhAqq)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 02, 2014 07:48 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: drowningpuppies at January 02, 2014 07:49 PM (012vu)
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Why, hi sailor..
Posted by: Melanie at January 02, 2014 07:49 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: rickl at January 02, 2014 07:50 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 02, 2014 07:50 PM (cDwCa)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 07:50 PM (zTXFv)
Was never sent to the liquor store for smokes, as fortunately neither of my parents partook. I was asked to get bread and milk sometimes though.
Today, my sister has to drive her kids (my nephew and niece) to and from the same elementary school she and I attended. The school is easily less than a quarter of the distance I walked to that liquor store.
Sad, really.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:51 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 07:51 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: UWP at January 02, 2014 07:52 PM (2hQRj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 07:52 PM (aDwsi)
I recently bought/read a book, Taco USA, that alleges that Doritos were invented at... Disneyland.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 07:52 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Panhandler at January 02, 2014 07:53 PM (LqVNJ)
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2014 07:54 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 11:52 PM (aDwsi)
How 'bout candy cigarettes?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 07:54 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 07:55 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 07:55 PM (MX68J)
Those were actually rather inventive bits from back in the day on SNL. I enjoyed them.
Thank you qdpsteve.
I can't even see SNL skits via hulu(?)com being overseas.
Have a good weekend y'all.
When is 404care going to mandate individual sub-dermal RFID chips and GPS transponders in/on us unwashed masses?
Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at January 02, 2014 07:56 PM (28+Cq)
Posted by: rickl at January 02, 2014 07:56 PM (sdi6R)
If you're sent to your room to await the arrival of your father it's much better to have company.
----------------
Uh,oh. Butt, meet belt.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 07:57 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 07:57 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: E.T. at January 02, 2014 07:57 PM (uGlk8)
I love this thread, and vote that it should be memorialized in the AoS Hall of Fame n' Shame.
Seriously...... this one is a keeper, and needs be held for posterity.
Someone please, second (and more) the motion?
All in favor, say AYE!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 02, 2014 07:57 PM (vvk2F)
Posted by: harry reid (?) at January 02, 2014 07:58 PM (8AHeV)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 07:58 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2014 07:58 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: The Hickster at January 02, 2014 07:58 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 02, 2014 07:58 PM (WCi6Q)
Posted by: E.T. at January 02, 2014 11:57 PM (uGlk
Pixie sticks?
Posted by: Country Singer at January 02, 2014 07:59 PM (dhJhm)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 11:58 PM (MX68J)
we did cooler stuff when I was younger, we played with gas and matches. Pour gas in a pie tin, light and then skip it across the concrete at night
Posted by: The Dude at January 02, 2014 08:00 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Country Singer at January 02, 2014 11:59 PM (dhJhm)
still wish they made those, especially in the 3 foot sizes
Posted by: The Dude at January 02, 2014 08:00 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 02, 2014 08:00 PM (8AHeV)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 08:00 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 08:01 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2014 08:01 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: concrete girl at January 02, 2014 08:01 PM (LhAqq)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 02, 2014 08:01 PM (opjHr)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 08:02 PM (/gJVs)
That's what I told one of my old work friends once. It took days for those city workers to chip her out of the concrete.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:02 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 08:02 PM (V4CBV)
Posted by: Country Singer at January 02, 2014 08:02 PM (dhJhm)
Posted by: E.T. at January 02, 2014 08:03 PM (uGlk8)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 08:03 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 02, 2014 08:03 PM (8AHeV)
I still sorta remember the commercials about how "authentic" they were. Good grief. They were just Doritos cut into a circle instead of a triangle.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:03 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 02, 2014 08:03 PM (u+9Sb)
I still have a scar in the center of my chest from the ram horn handle bars on my stingray Schwinn (hand grips had no ends just exposed metal tube).
Posted by: The Hickster at January 02, 2014 08:04 PM (TI3xG)
Nope, still good here. Gumps still down by 7, OU driving.
Posted by: Country Singer at January 02, 2014 08:04 PM (dhJhm)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 02, 2014 08:04 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 02, 2014 08:05 PM (aDwsi)
Bottle rocket wars out in an open field on chilly star filled nights.
Just light 'em and throw.
Good times.
Posted by: drowningpuppies at January 02, 2014 08:05 PM (012vu)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 08:06 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 02, 2014 08:06 PM (mcqD7)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 08:07 PM (MX68J)
Whatever it was, if it existed, it must have been epic.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:07 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Sen. Al Franken at January 02, 2014 08:07 PM (RJMhd)
Posted by: © Sponge at January 02, 2014 08:07 PM (oiKxM)
We used to build jump ramps from boards on concrete blocks to be Evel Knievel. Our schwinns and our bodies took a beating trying to beat various neighborhood records.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 02, 2014 08:08 PM (MaP11)
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2014 08:08 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: concrete girl at January 02, 2014 08:08 PM (LhAqq)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 03, 2014 12:06 AM (mcqD7)
Judge for yourself: http://youtu.be/QIt_hedcBTc
Posted by: Country Singer at January 02, 2014 08:08 PM (dhJhm)
Helen Mirren as the Dean is EXACTLY THE SAME CHARACTER as Peter O'Toole as the Ratatouille restaurant-critic. Down to the voice inflexions.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 08:08 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 08:08 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:08 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 08:09 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 08:09 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 08:09 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: Country Singer at January 03, 2014 12:02 AM (dhJhm)
thought they stopped making those. I know what I'm getting my nephews and neices
Posted by: The Dude at January 02, 2014 08:09 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 08:09 PM (T1005)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 02, 2014 08:10 PM (8AHeV)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 08:10 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 02, 2014 08:10 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at January 02, 2014 08:11 PM (WdbF7)
Posted by: mindful webworker - indifference versus inertia at January 02, 2014 08:12 PM (U13jb)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 08:12 PM (82LNv)
He's supposedly first in line for Letterman's Late Show seat when the bitter old hag finally retires and/or kicks off.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:12 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2014 08:12 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 08:13 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 02, 2014 08:13 PM (Wf0TQ)
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 08:13 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:14 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: toby928© at January 02, 2014 08:14 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 08:14 PM (V4CBV)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 02, 2014 08:15 PM (8AHeV)
Check out 'Lasko ceramic heater' on Amazon.
We leave the heat on 58F most of the time and crank up one of the space heaters if we will be parked for a bit.
Posted by: fluffy at January 02, 2014 08:16 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 08:16 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 03, 2014 12:14 AM
Really? That sounds like a weird fit.
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 08:17 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 02, 2014 08:17 PM (opjHr)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 02, 2014 08:17 PM (mcqD7)
We used to voice activate the pigeon where to deliver the message to.
Posted by: The Hickster at January 02, 2014 08:17 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: pilot141 at January 02, 2014 08:17 PM (nPwzA)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:17 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 02, 2014 08:17 PM (N/cFh)
Posted by: RWC at January 02, 2014 08:17 PM (Q6HBD)
Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at January 02, 2014 08:18 PM (28+Cq)
Posted by: t-dubyah-d at January 02, 2014 08:18 PM (u6lBN)
Posted by: toby928© sobs quietly, but in a manly manner at January 02, 2014 08:18 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 08:18 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 02, 2014 08:18 PM (Wf0TQ)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 02, 2014 08:19 PM (8AHeV)
My understanding is she used to be a fetish model in Japan. The fetish? "Women smoking cigarettes."
Posted by: Country Singer at January 02, 2014 08:19 PM (dhJhm)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 03, 2014 12:17 AM
It was a fucked up show. Robin Hood and his merry men... in SPACE!
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 08:19 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at January 02, 2014 08:19 PM (WdbF7)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 02, 2014 08:19 PM (mcqD7)
"If my body is ever found dead on a jogging trail, just know I was murdered elsewhere and dumped there."
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:19 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 02, 2014 08:20 PM (Wf0TQ)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 08:20 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 08:20 PM (T1005)
Posted by: toby928© sobs quietly, but in a manly manner at January 02, 2014 08:20 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at January 02, 2014 08:21 PM (kXoT0)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/02 /toronto-mayor-rob-ford/4286929/
He promised "Ford more years," the Toronto Star reported. He also called himself "the best mayor this city has ever had."
That last is probably even true.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 08:21 PM (Xfl0F)
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2014 08:21 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: toby928© sobs quietly, but in a manly manner at January 02, 2014 08:22 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 08:22 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 08:22 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at January 02, 2014 08:22 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 03, 2014 12:17 AM
It was on every day or something, for awhile. Fucking weird stuff. "Why the hell are they wearing tights and shit in space?" Fun stuff though. They must have been smoking some serious shit when they made that.
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 08:22 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 02, 2014 08:23 PM (N/cFh)
Posted by: rickl at January 02, 2014 08:23 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: toby928© sobs quietly, but in a manly manner at January 02, 2014 08:23 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at January 02, 2014 08:23 PM (zDsvJ)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 08:24 PM (b2cFu)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 08:24 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 08:24 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: MAx at January 02, 2014 08:25 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: t-dubyah-d at January 02, 2014 08:25 PM (u6lBN)
Posted by: Arbalest at January 02, 2014 08:25 PM (FlRtG)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 08:25 PM (V4CBV)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 02, 2014 08:25 PM (N/cFh)
Posted by: mindful webworker - indifference versus inertia at January 02, 2014 08:26 PM (U13jb)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at January 02, 2014 08:26 PM (WdbF7)
Ah, before the web...Mom would toss us outside to play with the other kids in the trailer park. Dad managed the place for Grandma, and we lived on site. Since we were in Southeast Kentucky, the wooded areas became the deepest jungles during the summer and the Russian Front during snowy winters. We'd build forts, ride our bicycles, climb hills, and go wait by the tracks for the trains to go by. Sometimes, we'd go past the tracks and go take a dip in the Cumberland River, always keeping an eye out for the mythical water snakes that could swallow a young kid whole.
In seventh grade, I began delivering newspapers weekly (anyone remember Grit?) By the time I quit two years later (because we moved to Texas), I was covering three towns in three days, via bicycle, alone, and making 50 dollars a week in profit. For a kid in that time, it was pretty great. I blew almost all of it on records and comic books.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:27 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 03, 2014 12:17 AM
It was on every day or something, for awhile. Fucking weird stuff. "Why the hell are they wearing tights and shit in space?" Fun stuff though. They must have been smoking some serious shit when they made that.
Posted by: otho at January 03, 2014 12:22 AM (9gNQd)
Comparable to H.R. Pufnstuf?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 08:28 PM (T1005)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 08:28 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 02, 2014 08:28 PM (8AHeV)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 08:28 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 08:28 PM (N2Rjx)
Posted by: The Dude at January 02, 2014 08:29 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 08:30 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 08:31 PM (/gJVs)
a will
a criminal confession
a diploma
a birth certificate
a green card
a death certificate.
Posted by: vivi at January 02, 2014 08:31 PM (+/8mE)
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 02, 2014 08:32 PM (Wf0TQ)
I lost a lot of them in the summer of '89. While the then-wife and I were away showing off our brand new daughter, the water heater in our house exploded. It was adjacent to the closet where I kept both collections. We didn't make it back until the next day, and by then most of the books, the 45s and albums were damaged beyond repair.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:32 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 03, 2014 12:31 AM (/gJVs)
best show on ESPN and Dan's father has a hardcore hatred for Sabin (they're Miami homers).
Posted by: The Dude at January 02, 2014 08:33 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at January 02, 2014 11:12 PM (XvrTA)
A genuine Columbus area moron? If you're still on, whereabouts in C-bus are you?
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 08:33 PM (b2cFu)
Posted by: zombie cardinal richelieu at January 02, 2014 08:33 PM (8AHeV)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 08:35 PM (/gJVs)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 08:35 PM (zTXFv)
If we're going to talk 70s cartoons and kids shows, my favorites growing up were, in no order...
Speed Buggy
Shazam!
Tarzan (the animated version on CBS)
Space Ghost reruns
and Challenge of the Superfriends (Wonder Twins notwithstanding)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:36 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 12:28 AM
Uhhhh... sort of. But Pufnstuf was a whole other different kind of fucked up. That was live action with demented, nightmarish, bad trip characters. RRH was animated and apparently the result of weed fueled writing sessions... bows and arrows in space kind of fucked up. Pufnstuf wins the fucked up contest, though.
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 08:36 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: The Dude at January 02, 2014 08:36 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 08:37 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:37 PM (5J54Q)
Personally, I'd go for "have as much fun as possible in college, because eventually the sh*t is going to hit the fan and life will be really super unpleasant."
He said, "I wish I didn't tan as much as I did."
And my Mother wondered why I never dated him.
Complete lack of creativity.
Posted by: shibumi at January 02, 2014 08:37 PM (25HWz)
Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 08:38 PM (/gJVs)
http://tinyurl.com/q3ntndv
Posted by: Dr Spank at January 02, 2014 08:38 PM (P1WNR)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 08:38 PM (zTXFv)
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2014 08:39 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 08:39 PM (N2Rjx)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 02, 2014 08:40 PM (8AHeV)
Posted by: The Hickster at January 02, 2014 08:40 PM (TI3xG)
Hanna Barbera perfected the "milk a concept until it's dry bones turn to powder" technique. Clue Club, Goober, the Funky Phantom, Jabberjaw all were retreads of Scooby-Doo.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:41 PM (5J54Q)
Mrs & me did pick up some cordless conversations on our baby monitor. Early tech. And your story sorta reminds me of my older brother whispering crazy long adventure stories and we giggled maniacally until Dad banged on the wall and screamed "go to sleep!"
Dad was a gadget freak. CB in the T-bird. 16mm camera with stop action was my delight to play with (all the cartoons long lost, alas). I remember when Dad installed a sound system with a turntable that had, get this, two speakers... they played separately!Posted by: mindful webworker - indifference versus inertia at January 02, 2014 08:41 PM (U13jb)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 08:41 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: Carol at January 02, 2014 08:42 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:42 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 08:43 PM (zTXFv)
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 03, 2014 12:32 AM
Lancelot Link. Best. Show. Ever.
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 08:43 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: pilot141 at January 02, 2014 08:44 PM (nPwzA)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 08:45 PM (zTXFv)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 08:45 PM (b2cFu)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:45 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 08:45 PM (N2Rjx)
Posted by: pilot141 at January 03, 2014 12:44 AM (nPwzA)
I'd pay good money to see that live
Posted by: The Dude at January 02, 2014 08:46 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 03, 2014 12:45 AM (zTXFv)
Also...Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space.
I am filled with shame.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:46 PM (5J54Q)
And the animation quality was beyond awful.
It looked as if HB contracted it out to a North Korean production company.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:46 PM (HVI5a)
Here, have this internet I'm not using.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:46 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 08:48 PM (zTXFv)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:49 PM (5J54Q)
"New Zoo Revue"?
"Davey and Goliath"?
"Kids Are People Too"?
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:49 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: teej at January 02, 2014 08:49 PM (J+V/o)
Posted by: Inter-Planet Janet at January 02, 2014 08:49 PM (N2Rjx)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:50 PM (5J54Q)
I blame the media that I am not a useful member of society.
Posted by: shibumi at January 02, 2014 08:50 PM (25HWz)
And the animation quality was beyond awful.
It looked as if HB contracted it out to a North Korean production company.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2014 12:46 AM (HVI5a)
"It's Afghanistanimation!"
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 08:50 PM (b2cFu)
Someday I'd like to have the entire series of:
- The Sopranos
- The Rockford Files
- Mad Men
- The Simpsons (up to about 2002 anyway)
- Breaking Bad
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:50 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 08:51 PM (zTXFv)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:52 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: teej at January 02, 2014 08:52 PM (RYVE/)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 08:52 PM (zTXFv)
Item 1 -- on my way over to the supermarket to get vittles this evening, I hear part of this NPR piece on how there's a whole lot of shakin' (earthquakes) going on in, of all places, Oklahoma, and "scientists" may link this to fracking. Of course, my reaction is (1) FFS, how stupid; and (2) oh, is that why there's been such a number of quakes in North Dakota?
And, then, item 2 -- I glance over at Foxnews and their lead story is that North Dakota crude is somehow more 'splodey. -- http://tinyurl.com/pfhbv6b . Are these guys for real?
Looks like another giant anti-oil push coming down the pipeline, and based on even more specious crap than usual -- I mean, how could they have missed that freshly fracked crude is a carcinogen?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 08:53 PM (T1005)
Posted by: t-dubyah-d at January 02, 2014 08:53 PM (u6lBN)
Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 08:53 PM (N2Rjx)
In a just world, Rockford would still be on and Mariska Hargitay would be hooking on Pico Blvd for a living.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:53 PM (HVI5a)
"Cool McCool" A secret agent cartoon. From the "Secret Squirrel" era of cartoons I think.Posted by: otho at January 03, 2014 12:46 AM (9gNQd)
Cool McCool was an animated series that ran on NBC from September 10, 1966 to August 30, 1969
I remember it.And watched it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 02, 2014 08:54 PM (aVcgy)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 08:54 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 08:55 PM (zTXFv)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:56 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: pilot141 at January 02, 2014 08:56 PM (nPwzA)
Also, the first time I heard Casey Kasem was him doing his Shaggy voice on Scooby-Doo.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:56 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:57 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 08:58 PM (N2Rjx)
When you're threatened by a stranger,
When it looks like you will take a lickin', (puk, puk, puk)
There is someone waiting, who
Will hurry up and rescue you,
Just ca-all for Super Cthulhu! (puk-ack!)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 08:58 PM (T1005)
Oh. Em. Gee.
That must have been some strong ganja the writers smoked.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 03, 2014 12:56 AM
Got exposed to that when I was young. Have never fully recovered. I blame the canadians.
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 08:58 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 08:58 PM (b2cFu)
you're growing now
you know about
the facts of life
the facts of life
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 08:59 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 08:59 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 09:00 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 09:00 PM (zTXFv)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 09:01 PM (82LNv)
Last year about this time, most of you were sharing tips on how to forge your own hollow-point bullets, prepare freeze-dried venison, and dig the most fortified yet comfortable bunker.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 09:03 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: t-dubyah-d at January 02, 2014 09:03 PM (u6lBN)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 02, 2014 09:03 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 03, 2014 12:56 AM
Got exposed to that when I was young. Have never fully recovered. I blame the canadians.
Posted by: otho at January 03, 2014 12:58 AM (9gNQd)
Reminds me -- I listened to The Beatles when I was growing up -- I remember getting the White Album soon after it came out -- but my parents heard right afterward that the boys were involved in that awful drug thing and put restrictions on when I could play the albums or make mixtapes....but they were perfectly ok with this local California band I also liked.
The Doors.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 09:05 PM (T1005)
Astro Boy. Speed Racer.
And then...STAR BLA*ERS.
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 03, 2014 01:00 AM
Hey. The original Astro Boy was a-ok. It had a robot with machine guns that fired out of his ass. ...'nuff said.
Not a cartoon, but this was the coolest shit back in the day. It was the inspiration for many schoolyard near fatalities...
"phantom agents"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2_tMhgisd8
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 09:05 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 09:06 PM (b2cFu)
I admit I enjoyed those cartoons, although even then (age eight and up) I wondered why they all seemed pretty much the same and why the quality was so bad, especially compared to the 1940s-era Bugs Bunny and Tom-and-Jerry shorts that aired before school during the week.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 09:06 PM (HVI5a)
We have kind of a lot of experience handling oil in our family, and have been discussing this since the Quebec fire. Crude oil just barely burns, as a rule, and is never explosive. Now, the better the crude (from a gasoline refiner's viewpoint), the more of its fraction will be concentrated around the natural gasoline in it -- but there's only so much splodey in a barrel of oil, either way. I keep hearing that Bakken crude is really good, but crude that's so high that it's explosive is like trout jumping into your boat.
I think they misused the term "natural gas" in the article, and meant the relatively small amount of gasoline that is in crude oil -- the stuff that used to be thrown out, which is what made the gasoline engine such a good idea. Recycling.
I used to wear a silvered asbestos flame hood at work. It looked surprisingly like a tin-foil hat, a big one. I'm putting it back on and thinking about who would want to blow up those oil trains. Hmm.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 02, 2014 09:06 PM (xq1UY)
We finished those projects. So now it's just a waiting game.
Posted by: The Hickster at January 02, 2014 09:07 PM (TI3xG)
LOL. Humour.
Posted by: andycanuck at January 03, 2014 01:03 AM (8AHeV)
Yeah, I considered "up the pipeline" as well. Either works, but I thought the one I used just seemed more natural.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 09:07 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 09:08 PM (zTXFv)
The Doors.
Well sure, cthulhu! "Break on Through to the Other Side!" Great song about overcoming your limitations. ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 09:08 PM (HVI5a)
Looks like another giant anti-oil push coming down the pipeline,
LOL. Humour.
Posted by: andycanuck at January 03, 2014 01:03 AM (8AHeV)
Yeah, I considered "up the pipeline" as well. Either works, but I thought the one I used just seemed more natural.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:07 AM (T1005)
And I suspect that Phil Robertson would agree.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 09:09 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 09:10 PM (zTXFv)
Posted by: fluffy at January 02, 2014 09:10 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 09:10 PM (82LNv)
867 Yeah, and I was telling everyone to buy as much ammo as possible because this was not gonna be a brief shortage.
And what did we all learn about DAve's ability to read the market???
Posted by: MAx at January 02, 2014 09:10 PM (b7yum)
The older ones were made for movie theaters instead of for television.
I liked the black and white Popeye ones too.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 02, 2014 09:10 PM (aVcgy)
Maybe the UN should mandate a calendar adjustment. Plus, do-overs!
Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 02, 2014 09:12 PM (xq1UY)
I was afraid the flames would leap out of the TV set and consume me.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 09:12 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Soothern Man at January 02, 2014 09:14 PM (zTXFv)
Posted by: t-dubyah-d at January 02, 2014 09:14 PM (u6lBN)
The Doors.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:05 AM
That's weird. But I guess The Doors were still quite new. Mind you, as weird as the first couple of Doors LP's were, The White Album was seriously fucked up for a mainstream pop LP, even in 68. No wonder your parents had reservations.
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 09:15 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:05 AM
That's weird. But I guess The Doors were still quite new. Mind you, as weird as the first couple of Doors LP's were, The White Album was seriously fucked up for a mainstream pop LP, even in 68. No wonder your parents had reservations.
Posted by: otho at January 03, 2014 01:15 AM (9gNQd)
Thing is, I was a pretty eclectic kid -- I was passingly familiar with musique concrete and sound collage before Revolution 9.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 09:18 PM (T1005)
"Turn off those Dope Addicts."
Of course his best friend (after whom I am named) had a huge collection of Billie Holiday stuff and he never said a peep when we listened to that.
Hmmmm.
Posted by: jc at January 02, 2014 09:19 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Rocky Raccoon at January 02, 2014 09:19 PM (N2Rjx)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 09:20 PM (m3Cp/)
She died young.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 09:21 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 09:21 PM (82LNv)
http://tinyurl.com/ldgrqp8
They were good looking guys. I wondered how they got such pretty wives.
Posted by: PJ at January 02, 2014 09:22 PM (ZWaLo)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 09:22 PM (b2cFu)
Being a paranoid guy and old BJ Clinton drove me to hoard ammo. So I didn't pay much attention.
Posted by: The Hickster at January 02, 2014 09:23 PM (TI3xG)
besides that it's the first Beatles album I ever heard in its entirety, I still get a giggle listening to "Savoy Truffle." The sound of four super-rich British guys trying to sound... black.
And then there's "Why Don't We Do It In the Road." For a long time, I couldn't believe that was actually Paul McCartney doing his Little Richard/Screamin' Jay Hawkins impression.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 09:23 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: MAx at January 02, 2014 09:23 PM (b7yum)
The problem with Space Battleship Yamato was they had scripted out a very nice and complicated story arc. Started to produce it. And then their funding got chopped so the story arc about the brother of the character we know as Derek Wildstar got cut out, whole episodes were chopped out, and animation quality suffered.
Here watch the trailer for the reboot. Space Battleship Yamato 2199.
http://youtu.be/0BGu9HESMuI
"Yamato Hasshin!"
*trivia question The Dude and TPH will know. So what was planned for Derek's brother?
Gomen nasai minna!! Oyasumi!
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 09:24 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: MAx at January 02, 2014 09:25 PM (b7yum)
"Turn off those Dope Addicts."
Of course his best friend (after whom I am named) had a huge collection of Billie Holiday stuff and he never said a peep when we listened to that.
Hmmmm.
Posted by: jc at January 03, 2014 01:19 AM (PlzOe)
Yeah, I got the limited-modified-hangout version of that. Like, "never listen to those dope addicts without supervision" -- in case my pupils abruptly dilated or something.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 09:25 PM (T1005)
Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 09:27 PM (N2Rjx)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 09:27 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 09:28 PM (m3Cp/)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 09:29 PM (m3Cp/)
Posted by: MAx at January 03, 2014 01:25 AM (b7yum)
True, but with all respect they're a bunch of denominationalist dickheads as well. They strict ones don't even let non-Missouri Lutherans take communion in their churches, yet alone Catholics.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 09:30 PM (b2cFu)
so T was trying rocksmith and now nck is showing her finger excercises but her nails and boobs are getting in the way
"damn it mom, those things are too big"
life at the joe house
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 03, 2014 01:27 AM (MX68J)
Was she complaining about the nails or the boobs? 'Cause one of them is pretty damned easy to fix.
Posted by: cthulhu's not a big nail fan at January 02, 2014 09:30 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 09:30 PM (cubpP)
Posted by: The Hickster at January 02, 2014 09:31 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 09:31 PM (b2cFu)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2014 09:32 PM (9GG/0)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 09:32 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 09:34 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 09:35 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 09:36 PM (b2cFu)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 02, 2014 09:37 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: gracepmc at January 02, 2014 09:37 PM (rznx3)
nck calls them her tits of power
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 03, 2014 01:32 AM (MX68J)
Reminds me of visiting my sister at school at Cal Lu. She had this roommate who was, shall we say, ample. It came up in conversation that she'd had cosmetic breast surgery before college, and I had the little talk in my head about how to say, "yow! she could have done a wee bit less" but decided that talking about a sister's roommate like that wasn't terribly diplomatic.
And was relieved that I hadn't said anything when I found out she'd had breast REDUCTION surgery.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 09:41 PM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:18 AM
Oh, I'm sure you handled it just fine. But, look at the White Album thru your parents eyes. Time passes a hell of a lot faster when you're older. They were probably still just taking in the Beatle's doing "Yesterday" and were trying to adjust to WIG OUT (for them, anyway) tracks like "Fool on the Hill"...
Then comes the fucking White Album... and it's all like... "number 9", helter skelter and why don't we do it in the road...
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 09:42 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 09:42 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 09:43 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 09:49 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Hey, hey! It's 9 Ladies Dancing Day! at January 02, 2014 09:49 PM (HeCg1)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 09:50 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 09:50 PM (b2cFu)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 03, 2014 01:46 AM (9GG/0)
====
Mwaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
and your hash has a divide by zero error.
Posted by: jc at January 02, 2014 09:52 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:18 AM
Oh, I'm sure you handled it just fine. But, look at the White Album thru your parents eyes. Time passes a hell of a lot faster when you're older. They were probably still just taking in the Beatle's doing "Yesterday" and were trying to adjust to WIG OUT (for them, anyway) tracks like "Fool on the Hill"...
Then comes the fucking White Album... and it's all like... "number 9", helter skelter and why don't we do it in the road...
Posted by: otho at January 03, 2014 01:42 AM (9gNQd)
Well, like I said, I was playing everything from experimental electronic music to The Kingston Trio to Deutsche Grammophon recordings of Beethoven.....and The Doors. And then, for no particular reason, I closed myself off from pop in about 74-79. Ragtime, classical, experimental.....but pretty much nothing after 1920.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 09:52 PM (T1005)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2014 01:06 AM (HVI5a)
You can also thank Hanna-Barbera for that bit of suck.
cartoons where only the characters mouth moved for frame on end.
There were a few where they used some kind of dub in of a real mouth so they wouldn't have to draw a mouth moving.
Suuuuuuuuuuccccccccccckkkkkkkkkk
Glad I got to see so many of the good ones before the cartoons died.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 02, 2014 09:52 PM (LSDdO)
Well, like I said, I was playing everything from experimental electronic music to The Kingston Trio to Deutsche Grammophon recordings of Beethoven.....and The Doors. And then, for no particular reason, I closed myself off from pop in about 74-79. Ragtime, classical, experimental.....but pretty much nothing after 1920.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:52 AM
Didn't you break the boycott around 75 or so with Fleetwood Mac and Boston? Or, was that someone else?
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 09:54 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 03, 2014 01:46 AM (9GG/0)
51 here. I'm going to miss that. The nanny-state spend-the-taxpayers-into oblivion and regulate-their-every-twitch, not so much.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 09:55 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 01:52 AM (LSDdO)
Could have been worse.
Could have been Clutch Cargo.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 02, 2014 09:57 PM (aVcgy)
You can also thank Hanna-Barbera for that bit of suck.
cartoons where only the characters mouth moved for frame on end.
There were a few where they used some kind of dub in of a real mouth so they wouldn't have to draw a mouth moving.
Suuuuuuuuuuccccccccccckkkkkkkkkk
Glad I got to see so many of the good ones before the cartoons died.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 01:52 AM
Clutch Cargo!
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 09:57 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:52 AM
Didn't you break the boycott around 75 or so with Fleetwood Mac and Boston? Or, was that someone else?
Posted by: otho at January 03, 2014 01:54 AM (9gNQd)
That was indeed me breaking the boycott....but it was later. Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"; Jefferson Starship, "Earth"; Boston, "Boston"; and Rush "Farewell to Kings" were the first four albums I got -- and the big "tell" is "Earth", which didn't come out until 1978.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 10:00 PM (T1005)
Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 10:04 PM (N2Rjx)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 03, 2014 02:00 AM (9GG/0)
Wherever I can get the BH on-board to go. Currently favoring East Tennessee or West/Central NC.....and she's on a plane Saturday going to NC (on business).
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 10:06 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Jean at January 02, 2014 10:10 PM (4JkHl)
anyway going to bed now. good night
Posted by: chemjeff at January 02, 2014 10:13 PM (9GG/0)
Posted by: Jean
WRong,
inevitable,
and awesome.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 02, 2014 10:13 PM (dwArK)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 02:00 AM
Wasn't into that stuff at the time. More stuff like the Ramones and shit in the late 70's for newer things. But, with the passage of time and in comparison to today's mainstream, "Rhiannon" and "More than a feeling" sounds like fucking Mozart. Rush never got much airplay here, so I don't know much about them.
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 10:13 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 10:15 PM (82LNv)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 10:15 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: Jean at January 02, 2014 10:15 PM (4JkHl)
Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 10:16 PM (MX68J)
Posted by: Jean at January 03, 2014 02:15 AM
Yep.
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 10:17 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2014 02:04 AM (N2Rjx)
It was the embodiment of the zeitgeist. When you look at the technical artistry in something like "You Make Loving Fun" and realize that she's singing it about the roadie she's bangin' while her husband is playing the bass....and Buckingham's "Second Hand News" while in a band with his former squeeze -- well, it's just off the charts for drug-fueled self-indulgent backstabbing with great production values.
And I still like the album, though I find it rather sad since I've come to know how things were going and how they went. Poignant.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 10:18 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at January 02, 2014 10:19 PM (G5cc0)
White Mountains, City of Gold and Lead, and...can't remember the 3rd title. Good juvenile sci-fi.
Cthulhu, I liked Winston-Salem reasonably well when I was there for med school. Charlotte would probably be too much like Clownifornia for you re: people and politics, and the dirty hippies run strong in the environs around Appalachian State...
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 10:21 PM (b2cFu)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 02:00 AM
Wasn't into that stuff at the time. More stuff like the Ramones and shit in the late 70's for newer things. But, with the passage of time and in comparison to today's mainstream, "Rhiannon" and "More than a feeling" sounds like fucking Mozart. Rush never got much airplay here, so I don't know much about them.
Posted by: otho at January 03, 2014 02:13 AM (9gNQd)
This is Rush in 2002, doing one of their 1978 pieces -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjglB04TOno -- listen through and note that this is only three guys. That they include probably the best rock bassist and rock drummer on the planet is one thing, but when they're not doing odd-timed instrumentals, it should also be noted that their drummer writes the lyrics and the bassist covers lead vocals.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 10:30 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Jean at January 03, 2014 02:15 AM (4JkHl)
Yep.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 10:30 PM (T1005)
Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 10:33 PM (N2Rjx)
Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 10:34 PM (N2Rjx)
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2014 02:33 AM (N2Rjx)
====
so the landslide brought you down?
Posted by: jc at January 02, 2014 10:36 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 10:38 PM (m3Cp/)
White Mountains, City of Gold and Lead, and...can't remember the 3rd title. Good juvenile sci-fi.
Cthulhu, I liked Winston-Salem reasonably well when I was there for med school. Charlotte would probably be too much like Clownifornia for you re: people and politics, and the dirty hippies run strong in the environs around Appalachian State...
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 03, 2014 02:21 AM (b2cFu)
Charlotte might as well be SF, you get pretty much the same vibe -- and Asheville is Santa Cruz without the beach. The problem with the BH is that there are all the burnt-out mill towns around -- but I see that as opportunity. In SV, you can't do a startup without some gazillions of dollars because rents are too damned high -- but with FedEx, one place is as good as another, and that cheap real estate means you don't have to lay out your production line in a closet. A lot of businesses that were long-term viable near us have closed because someone down the street paid some exorbitant $/SF for a bare box and their landlord hopes to be next....but that leaves you without bread-and-butter stores.
The BH is actually going to be in the Triad -- which I could deal with. I think the Triangle is getting too damned pricey....and the reason why is exactly someplace referred to as the Containment Area. But it's easy to get shook when you drive the main drag in Thomasville during a weekday and it's doornail-city. Or go to Asheboro and see how quiet it is.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 10:43 PM (T1005)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 10:45 PM (82LNv)
Geddy handles the keys, too.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2014 02:34 AM (N2Rjx)
Both Neil and Alex have done pedal synths.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 10:45 PM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 02:30 AM
Ah, right. I remember them now. Technically brilliant. Never could get into it as it's too sophisticated for my retard ears. Can't seem to remember the songs, only hate them for better than me.
Posted by: otho at January 02, 2014 10:52 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 10:52 PM (N2Rjx)
dang. serious notes.
Posted by: Adriane... at January 03, 2014 02:38 AM (m3Cp/)
Also, note what they've been thinking about lately (title) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03E1OU9nHG0
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 10:54 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 02, 2014 10:56 PM (m3Cp/)
Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 10:58 PM (u6xa4)
Thanks for that Rush.
They have always been one of my favorites.
Now into the single digits for temp here in Cincy, at least it stopped snowing earlier. My commute home yesterday wasn't anywhere near as bad as I expected. Normally this town goes into lockdown for a couple of flurries.
Posted by: PMRich at January 02, 2014 10:59 PM (KDUNf)
George Hurley, too.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2014 02:52 AM (N2Rjx)
There are many, many really great drummers out there, but when you start looking at Neil Peart, things start gettin' weird. He has to put up with crazed time-signature weirdisms, use triggered events to fill behind his bandmates, and run kits for styles from jazzy to prog to folksy to metallic....onstage, in realtime. I think he got so many Modern Drummer awards that they emeritus'd him -- just like Geddy got bumped from bassist contention.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 11:01 PM (T1005)
Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 11:05 PM (u6xa4)
Poor woman, a light buzz is just not going to do the job.
Posted by: somejoe at January 03, 2014 02:55 AM (+KtKI)
She'd have had a far higher probability of dying, with far less hassle (on the consumption side), if she'd done 10 Tylenol tablets -- although that's a horrible, lingering death that's far less pleasant than blacking out.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 11:07 PM (T1005)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 11:08 PM (82LNv)
Damn I hate this cold, even the slightest amount of moisture in the instrument air makes all the pneumatic control valves stick.
Then you have to go out into the cold and give them a 'boost' with a pair of channel locks
Posted by: PMRich at January 02, 2014 11:12 PM (KDUNf)
Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 11:13 PM (u6xa4)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 02, 2014 11:26 PM (82LNv)
So when I encountered Tylenol, it was as an "aspirin substitute", and I took it to see if it worked like aspirin didn't, and wasn't much impressed. Later, when I discovered that pills could actually relieve pain and if you were really sore you could double-up, it was after I'd learned how toxic acetaminophen was.
I continue to be shocked that this stuff is still on the market. It has the smallest gap between "clinical dose" and LD-50 of pretty-much anything out there, and yet it's in all sorts of things. There are no end of drugs less dangerous than acetaminophen out there -- statins, pot, diuretics -- that are flat-out illegal or prescription-only, where acetaminophen is the #1 cause of acute liver failure in the US and UK, and accounts for the most drug overdoses in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand -- and it's over-the-counter.
That shit is dangerous, I refuse to even have it in my house, and I'd urge all morons to seek alternatives.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 11:33 PM (T1005)
Hall and Oates... and Layton
Posted by: believe it or not at January 02, 2014 11:37 PM (2ljO9)
OK. I oficially love this place a little less...
Someone just mentioned the "police radio" which reminded me of another 3 piece band that didn't suck in the 80s. Stewart Copeland was no chopped liver...
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 03, 2014 03:08 AM (82LNv)
That was another band where the bassist and drummer were substantially ahead of the guitarist (and where the bassist handled vocals). Had they settled their personality clashes (without bloodshed) and continued for decade or two, their body of work may have grown to rival Rush.....but, alas, they left off at the "By-Tor and the Snow-Dog" stage.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 02, 2014 11:40 PM (T1005)
cthulhu, acetaminophen has several major advantages over other pain meds:
1) It is safe at normal doses for pregnancy and lactation
2) It is processed through the liver, not the kidneys, so patients with crappy renal function can still take it
3) It has anti-fever properties, which most newer pain medications do not
It is a reasonably safe drug at recommended doses. Hell, aspirin would be black-boxed and prescription only if it came to market today.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 11:51 PM (b2cFu)
"By-Tor and the Snow-Dog" Classic prog-rock. The battle between good / evil portrayed by bass / lead.
You don't find this kind of innovation in today's music.
Posted by: PMRich at January 02, 2014 11:52 PM (KDUNf)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 02, 2014 11:53 PM (b2cFu)
Posted by: Adriane... at January 03, 2014 12:04 AM (m3Cp/)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 03, 2014 12:04 AM (82LNv)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 03, 2014 12:07 AM (82LNv)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 03, 2014 12:19 AM (b2cFu)
Posted by: PMRich at January 03, 2014 12:22 AM (KDUNf)
Posted by: wooga at January 03, 2014 12:30 AM (jgnqm)
Posted by: wooga at January 03, 2014 12:31 AM (jgnqm)
cthulhu, acetaminophen has several major advantages over other pain meds:
1) It is safe at normal doses for pregnancy and lactation
2) It is processed through the liver, not the kidneys, so patients with crappy renal function can still take it
3) It has anti-fever properties, which most newer pain medications do not
It is a reasonably safe drug at recommended doses. Hell, aspirin would be black-boxed and prescription only if it came to market today.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 03, 2014 03:51 AM (b2cFu)
Thanks for reading and responding to my rant from someone who knows whereof I speak.
But here's the rub -- it's in boxes in the "painkiller" aisle, when it is responsible for more acute liver failure and drug overdoses than anything else, while stuff you'd seriously have to work at doing yourself serious harm is behind the counter. I don't have a problem with someone like you using it yourself, prescribing it for use, or having a pharmacist hand it out with appropriate caveats. I have big problems with it being available in pill form, being in combinations for pain (Percocet), being in combinations for flu (Tylenol Flu), and alka-seltzer plus, with the great majority of people not knowing how dangerous it is.
Look at your own list: (1) pregnancy and lactation -- you want to release this sort of general threat into the population in hopes this limited group can self-prescribe properly? (2) renal issues -- again, you want this in general use in case some small fraction of renal patients might knowingly elect to use it? (3) I'll give you this one straight out -- with the observation that fevers are a body's way of changing the environment to the detriment of infection [and, BTW, this is the only thing aspirin ever seemed to do for me].
Were I a king, I would grant doctors wide, wide latitude to prescribe anything in the world to actual patients, where doctors could make informed decisions based on all facts and circumstances....but I'd rather have raw heroin be OTC and acetaminophen be prescription than the current situation -- and I'd continue to recommend that anything containing acetaminophen be removed from any moron's household unless under prescription and monitoring of an actual knowledgeable doctor. The window between "useful" and "deadly" is just too small for this drug.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 12:33 AM (T1005)
I'd still shoot myself. And thank God I never have to listen to elevator music again.
My musical tastes are all over the place. I can listen to groups like Steely Dan, Rush, Metallica, Tangerine Dream, classical, etc.
But cRap just does't cut it, and neither does wanna be white cRappers.
Posted by: PMRich at January 03, 2014 12:39 AM (KDUNf)
Cthulhu, part of that (frequency of overdose) is also that acetaminophen is ubiquitous. I think it should be removed from most OTC formulations, as its utility in managing most viral symptoms is questionable at best. And no conspiracy theorist am I, but I do often wonder if the reason for compounding narcotics with acetaminophen actually is to kill off the abusers. Side note--I am extremely glad that 5/500 formulations of Vicodin are now off the market and the lower dose of 325 mg acetaminophen is in the compound now.
Let's face it, if OTC heroin had 1/10th the availability of acetaminophen, we'd probably see 10x the fatalities from it. I understand you were using an extreme example, although I don't know if you actually would advocate that or not from context.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 03, 2014 12:40 AM (b2cFu)
Now you guyse are just TRYING to piss me off... :/
Yeah, cth. Such drama behine the scenes. They had real potential. ZM & Sync were great albums. Hell, they all were, I guess.
Innovation? If you ask me, Steely Dan was always ten years ahead of their time. Go back and listen to "Gaucho" - the first on my "if you were stranded on an island" list.
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 03, 2014 04:04 AM (82LNv)
Steely Dan is in another timeline, entirely. But here's the thing -- you ever think of Fagan up for "best keys" or "best vocals"? Ever think of Becker up for "best guitar"? They are outstanding in composition and production, not as performers.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 12:40 AM (T1005)
1)...
3)x
4) it does not kill people who are allergic to aspirin. Which was why it came into widespread use.
Posted by: somejoe at January 03, 2014 04:21 AM (+KtKI)
Ah, but it does -- in far too many cases.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 12:41 AM (T1005)
number one guide for basis
Seasons may fill that
And technically, Engrish can't be used for Haiku as the ON of Japanese and syllables don't match exactly.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 12:42 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 03, 2014 12:44 AM (b2cFu)
I say let's go back to the days when you could get most anything you want (at Alice's restaurant) and die with your boots on or by seeing some quack.
Have things really improved all that much since?
I vote no because once again, we chose safety over liberty.
And once that f'ing camel got it's nose in the tent, look what they're banning/regulating now.
Meanwhile actual drugs that will kill you are routinely passed through the system because they've paid off the regulators.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 12:45 AM (LSDdO)
It's really nice sounding doggerel.
the evening breeze
Caressed my knees
whilst blowing thru the trees.
- Burma Shave -
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 12:49 AM (LSDdO)
That's a whole bunch of happy looking well dressed well cared for children who will grow up and do good things for others and their families.
Something we could use a lot more of in comparison to the racist and ignorant rantings of some poor little twit on a network show that gets seen by fewer people than live in New Haven CT.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 12:56 AM (LSDdO)
There's an echo in here ere ere ere
I must be in Sarah Fluke's Vagina.
Now if I could only find my keys.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 12:58 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 03, 2014 01:00 AM (82LNv)
Cthulhu, part of that (frequency of overdose) is also that acetaminophen is ubiquitous. I think it should be removed from most OTC formulations, as its utility in managing most viral symptoms is questionable at best. And no conspiracy theorist am I, but I do often wonder if the reason for compounding narcotics with acetaminophen actually is to kill off the abusers. Side note--I am extremely glad that 5/500 formulations of Vicodin are now off the market and the lower dose of 325 mg acetaminophen is in the compound now.
Let's face it, if OTC heroin had 1/10th the availability of acetaminophen, we'd probably see 10x the fatalities from it. I understand you were using an extreme example, although I don't know if you actually would advocate that or not from context.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 03, 2014 04:40 AM (b2cFu)
Right now, I'm trying to rein myself into conservatism -- but I am, at heart, a raging libertarian (note the small "l", as in "the party disgusts me"). You'd have to be totally fcuking retarded to not know what heroin will do to you (and how) -- which is why I believe it should be freely available to anyone not totally fcuking retarded. By contrast, you have to have a decent grasp of dosage, LD-50, and read ingredient labels to avoid being poisoned by acetaminophen -- which is why I believe access to it should be severely limited.
In general, I'd want everything to be non-prescription, unless (a) the drug's action was non-linear -- i.e. taking twice as much didn't result in 2x the same thing; or (b) the drug's action differed by non-obvious co-factors -- i.e. stroke treatment [yeah, I know it's reaching, but it's late] -- which can either be obstructive or hemorrhagic....you really want to know which flavor you're working on 'cause the treatment for the wrong one will make things horribly worse; or (c) incidental overdose caused non-reversible damage.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:01 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 04:58 AM (LSDdO)
===
they are over there behind the HumVee next to the jerry cans.
Posted by: jc at January 03, 2014 01:02 AM (PlzOe)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 03, 2014 01:02 AM (82LNv)
Posted by: RickZ at January 03, 2014 01:03 AM (PpAf4)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 03, 2014 04:44 AM (b2cFu)
I would argue that any such list would be non-canonical.....BUT that a haiku is absolutely meant to relate to a time. So you could have a medical haiku like: In that sweet moment / at the atrial systole / a hearty life beats -- which isn't really about a season, but captures a time.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:08 AM (T1005)
Posted by: RickZ at January 03, 2014 01:09 AM (PpAf4)
In 1 hour.
Make it 36y3793:1
nitwits.
Posted by: tangonine at January 03, 2014 01:10 AM (x3YFz)
COuld be disaster, could be meh:
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 03, 2014 01:11 AM (dwArK)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 03, 2014 01:14 AM (dwArK)
but having it made you look sensitive and caring. *snicker*
There's guys still voting Democrat cause they got laid in the '60's by being a lefty.
Read some the left blogs you'll see what I mean.
Mangina to the left of you
Mangina further to the left of you
Mangina all over da place.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 01:16 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: RickZ
Lots of post-facto here.
Do you play gi'tar? Landslide is pretty much Book for new guitar students.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 03, 2014 01:17 AM (dwArK)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:17 AM (T1005)
I'd like to capture Time and then beat the crap out of it for what it's done to the face of the guy in my mirror.
Who the kcuf IS that guy?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 01:18 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 05:18 AM (LSDdO)
yer dad?
Posted by: tangonine at January 03, 2014 01:19 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: RickZ at January 03, 2014 05:03 AM (PpAf4)
As an aside, have you ever listened to Lindsey Buckingham? He has the ability to play the guitar.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:19 AM (T1005)
Posted by: RickZ at January 03, 2014 01:20 AM (PpAf4)
And so once again I am awake insanely early...which I knew was going to happen.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 01:20 AM (+qUq2)
chill factor about -6
Lower Susquehanna valley in PA.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 01:20 AM (LSDdO)
Who the kcuf IS that guy?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 05:18 AM (LSDdO)
Not to mention what it's done to my beltline, the bastard.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 01:21 AM (+qUq2)
Posted by: tangonine at January 03, 2014 05:19 AM (x3YFz)
Nah. He was shorter and skinnier last time I saw him.This is some other dude.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 01:21 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:22 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 05:20 AM (LSDdO)
Ah yes, the lower Susquehanna. I'm basing my planned model railroad on the ones in Perry County, including the Susquehanna River and Western from Duncannon to New Bloomfield.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 01:23 AM (+qUq2)
And so once again I am awake insanely early...which I knew was going to happen.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 05:20 AM (+qUq2)
Is today the day you roll?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:23 AM (T1005)
chill factor about -6
Lower Susquehanna valley in PA.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 05:20 AM (LSDdO)
History says it can get tough there.
But those of us that live through this every year; year in and year out, well, you're going to have hard time getting sympathy.
*unless* you invoke humidity. In which case, I'll shut up and shudder.
Posted by: tangonine at January 03, 2014 01:23 AM (x3YFz)
Plus if you really indulge, you can get to some very bad places.
Past is done and gone. I don't even keep photos.
Here and now is where I am.
The future is some other place I'm going to but don't know what's there except I probably won't like it.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 01:24 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: RickZ at January 03, 2014 01:24 AM (PpAf4)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 05:22 AM (T1005)
I guess everyone is over the hangover. Yesterdays ONT was pretty pathetic.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 01:24 AM (+qUq2)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 03, 2014 01:25 AM (82LNv)
It's pretty funny.....we did about 700 comments on nostalgia, then
segue'd into more pop music with a tinge of pharmacology. NTTAWWT.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 05:22 AM (T1005)
I guess everyone is over the hangover. Yesterdays ONT was pretty pathetic.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 05:24 AM (+qUq2)
It's the Horde -- "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:26 AM (T1005)
And I think it's going to be a trend for a few more years.
I was born and raised near Chicago. where 1-2 foot snow was not uncommon with 6' drifts and -20 temps all too frequent during the winters I grew up in.
I was looking forward to global warming.
but the Sun had a different idea.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 01:27 AM (LSDdO)
More of a hard shift
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 03, 2014 05:25 AM (82LNv)
The nostalgia seemed a bit like a placeholder.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:27 AM (T1005)
but the Sun had a different idea.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 05:27 AM (LSDdO)
Heretic!
Posted by: The Sciency People at January 03, 2014 01:28 AM (x3YFz)
Bah-dumb-upmp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRKc90kuAaE
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 03, 2014 01:29 AM (dwArK)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 05:23 AM (T1005)
I rolled yesterday, right now I'm at the halfway stop (Millington TN). I was stationed here in 1990, since then they've changed the base from being the Naval Aviation Technical Training Center (all that moved to Pensacola FL) to being the Naval Support Activity Mid-South. This is where all the detailers hang out now. Quite a bit of change, the city of Millington owns the airfield and the gates on Singleton Parkway and two of the three on Navy Road are closed off now. If I weren't on a schedule I'd take a bit of time to explore, maybe on the return trip.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 01:29 AM (+qUq2)
Morning GGE.
Bitter Clinger, where in Susq Valley? Most of my family lives in and around York now.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 03, 2014 01:31 AM (b2cFu)
I was looking forward to global warming.
but the Sun had a different idea.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 05:27 AM (LSDdO)
Same here, only southwest Iowa (where I'm heading to now, in fact...wtf am I thinking..). They used to plow the main streets in town to the center and then scoop pass-thrus for the side streets with a front end loader. There would be a pile of snow in the middle of the street higher than the cars. There were several dumping grounds where they would come along and attempt to clear the worst of it with the front end loader and dump trucks, sometimes those snow piles would hang around until late June or early July. Kind of funny seeing a big pile of snow when it's 90 degrees outside.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 01:33 AM (+qUq2)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 03, 2014 01:34 AM (82LNv)
1 was to repeal the ban on 30 round mags
the other had something to do with background checks if you left your guns to your kids/wife etc etc.
We'll unkcuf this.
Posted by: tangonine (frozen solid) at January 03, 2014 01:37 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 01:37 AM (z4WKX)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 05:23 AM (T1005)
I rolled yesterday, right now I'm at the halfway stop (Millington TN). I was stationed here in 1990, since then they've changed the base from being the Naval Aviation Technical Training Center (all that moved to Pensacola FL) to being the Naval Support Activity Mid-South. This is where all the detailers hang out now. Quite a bit of change, the city of Millington owns the airfield and the gates on Singleton Parkway and two of the three on Navy Road are closed off now. If I weren't on a schedule I'd take a bit of time to explore, maybe on the return trip.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 05:29 AM (+qUq2)
Last May, I drove as far east as Raleigh and as far west as Nashville. At least you have a variety of terrain there -- not like going up the Central Valley of California on I-5 or across the Great Plains.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:38 AM (T1005)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 03, 2014 05:34 AM (82LNv)
Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.
BTW, my little black shriveled heart beats with joy for you, glad you got to see your kids and I hope this gets to continue. Kids need dads, regardless of what the femenazis say, and that doesn't necessarily mean the guy that created them (speaking as Dad to four kids I didn't help to create, including one bi-racial child that we weren't able to adopt because we weren't the right skin color).
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 01:39 AM (+qUq2)
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 05:37 AM (z4WKX)
Denier.
Posted by: The IPCC at January 03, 2014 01:39 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 05:37 AM (z4WKX)
Denier.
Posted by: The IPCC at January 03, 2014 05:39 AM (x3YFz)
And just think, it's only January 3rd.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:42 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 01:43 AM (z4WKX)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 05:38 AM (T1005)
I drove from Fresno to Hanford (NAS Lemoore), there's a lot of nothing along that route. The thing about California is you can be at the beach and then go to the mountains and be there quick enough to enjoy them both in the same day. It's four hours from Raleigh to Asheville and three from Raleigh to the outer banks, if you lived on the beach and wanted to go to the mountains you would have a seven hour drive to look forward to. This is a long-ass state.
It's seven hours from Knoxville to Memphis TN, too.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 01:43 AM (+qUq2)
I've been up for an hour, local news said we haven't has low temperature of minus 4 since 1904.
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 05:37 AM (z4WKX)
Any chance you could get a nap in before going in to work?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:45 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 05:43 AM (z4WKX)
Poor thing. I'd start a fire for you but I don't think the Navy Lodge would appreciate it and it would be too far away for it to do you any good anyway.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 01:45 AM (+qUq2)
Leggings *UA*
USMC sweaties on top of those
2 pairs of socks
hoodie (Tryevonnoe! Recognize!)
shemegah (USA issue)
watch cap (USN issue)
fleece jacket (USA issue)
And *still* freezin' my arse off.
next person that says global warming is found at the bottom of a mine shaft.
Posted by: tangonine at January 03, 2014 01:47 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 01:48 AM (z4WKX)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 05:38 AM (T1005)
I drove from Fresno to Hanford (NAS Lemoore), there's a lot of nothing along that route. The thing about California is you can be at the beach and then go to the mountains and be there quick enough to enjoy them both in the same day. It's four hours from Raleigh to Asheville and three from Raleigh to the outer banks, if you lived on the beach and wanted to go to the mountains you would have a seven hour drive to look forward to. This is a long-ass state.
It's seven hours from Knoxville to Memphis TN, too.
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 05:43 AM (+qUq2)
Still, you've got your interesting driving behind you....from here, it looks like the interest is moron meets instead of terrain. I'm assuming that you ended up in the lesbian love-wagon as the more practical vehicle....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:49 AM (T1005)
Leggings *UA*
USMC sweaties on top of those
2 pairs of socks
hoodie (Tryevonnoe! Recognize!)
shemegah (USA issue)
watch cap (USN issue)
fleece jacket (USA issue)
And *still* freezin' my arse off.
next person that says global warming is found at the bottom of a mine shaft.
Posted by: tangonine at January 03, 2014 05:47 AM (x3YFz)
Where the heck is "here"? If it's inside some civilized dwelling, why don't you have the heat on?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:51 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 01:55 AM (z4WKX)
So you agree with me? FU to any fool that believers in global warming!
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 05:55 AM (z4WKX)
Observed behavior is five sigma, moving to six sigma, off global warming models. There's a scientific term for six sigma events -- "bullshit". Anyone with a scrap of integrity ought to be moving away from those models....instead, we see the more politicized groups doubling-down.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 01:58 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 05:51 AM (T1005)
I'm married.
Let's just end it with that.
Posted by: tangonine at January 03, 2014 01:58 AM (x3YFz)
Take a right at TMI and then NE.
Just outside of the evacuation zone.
I'm so pleased to note that any radiation will be immediately stopped upon reaching the arbitrary limits the CD folks have kindly delineated. *smirk*
Of course there's that pesky west wind but then who am I to judge my betters?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 02:01 AM (LSDdO)
A man who doesn't control the remote and the thermostat, isn't a man.
Fight for your rights.
(to sleep on the couch)
Why did you change the misspelling of your nic?
I thought it was kind cool.
tag no nine
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 02:03 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 03, 2014 02:04 AM (b2cFu)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 03, 2014 06:00 AM (TE35l)
Yay! I've got someone working to keep me off The List.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 02:04 AM (T1005)
Posted by: UWP at January 03, 2014 02:07 AM (2hQRj)
Like a Scandi or a German mostly.
(I just added Scandi to my spell correction dictionary, HEH)
We'll be the thin red line thinning out the New York trash when the burning times come.
Pray for us.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 02:07 AM (LSDdO)
Any further directions you'll have to get from the NSA.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 02:09 AM (LSDdO)
I wouldn't (at least not in mixed company or anyone from Hershey) but you might.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 02:10 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 03, 2014 02:11 AM (b2cFu)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 02:11 AM (T1005)
that's pretty good. that you could see that, not the dream.
I've always been sensitive to nonparallel things that are supposed to be parallel.
Thicknesses I'm only good for about a 1/64th though.
*I need to be recalibrated*
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 02:12 AM (LSDdO)
No. Harrisburg is down in the river basin and I'm up past the edge but still considered part of the Valley.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 02:14 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 03, 2014 02:15 AM (82LNv)
Crap just read that.
EAST on Chocolate Ave. I had west cause of the wind on my mind.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 03, 2014 02:15 AM (LSDdO)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 03, 2014 02:25 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 02:25 AM (z4WKX)
I'm assuming that you ended up in the lesbian love-wagon as the more practical vehicle....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 05:49 AM (T1005)
Yep, in retrospect I probably could have gotten away with taking the 'stang, but the Scooby was the more practical alternative. Plus, no telling what the weather is going to be like on the way back. Also, I won't cry as long or as hard if the Scooby gets dented.
Getting close to 6 AM local, so time to get ready to hit the road. Later roonz and roonettez, fear no evil!
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 02:32 AM (+qUq2)
Gotta love the weather people who finally caved to the Goreons and report the quarterly change in conditions as "Western Civilizations' Dante-Like Descent into HELL!"
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 03, 2014 02:35 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 02:36 AM (z4WKX)
That's the thing...I respect MA of the past as one of the cornerstones of our system, it shares something with France in having lost its best males for two generations on battlefields. I dunno.
King Putt I-The Scoamf thinking he can use the Royal "we" and ignore the states is charming.
It's bled down to county sheriffs deciding to ignore state law that is designed to undermine the 2d amendment.
Break it up, start over IMHO.
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 03, 2014 02:39 AM (TE35l)
I'm assuming that you ended up in the lesbian love-wagon as the more practical vehicle....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 05:49 AM (T1005)
Yep, in retrospect I probably could have gotten away with taking the 'stang, but the Scooby was the more practical alternative. Plus, no telling what the weather is going to be like on the way back. Also, I won't cry as long or as hard if the Scooby gets dented.
Getting close to 6 AM local, so time to get ready to hit the road. Later roonz and roonettez, fear no evil!
Posted by: GGE of the Traveling Horde, Inroute at January 03, 2014 06:32 AM (+qUq2)
I'm glad to hear it, as I'm more concerned with your safety than your dignity on this trip (as, frankly, I am with most trips). Keep safe!
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 02:41 AM (T1005)
http://tinyurl.com/l4z7gc6
also at WUWT it turns out the reason the Russkie Ship got stuck in the first place was the goddamned tourists dawdling for two fucking hours after being told "get your asses on the boat we have ice inbound"...
SCIENCE!
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 03, 2014 02:42 AM (TE35l)
I think the Horde Patron Saint of Travel is either Saint Bandit or Saint BJ of BJ and the Bear fame....
safe travels GGE chicks(who dig chicks) dig Subarus
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 03, 2014 02:45 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 02:48 AM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Erowmero at January 03, 2014 02:56 AM (OONaw)
What temperature do I roast them at? I was going to try 350 degrees in the oven.
Thank you,
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 06:48 AM (z4WKX)
Chop 'em coarse, take 'em out when the exposed tips start browning.....and any temperature between 300-450 will work. Seriously, it's close to the easiest recipe possible -- and great for making with something else in the oven. If the something else wants 350, that's great; if the something else wants 425, okey-dokey. Just relax, give 'em time, and when you open the door to peek and see dark tips, pull 'em.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 02:56 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Carol at January 03, 2014 02:57 AM (z4WKX)
I haven't been to mass in a while.
Saint Thomas was one of the patrons I invoked when praying for my father who is a trucker.
Keep warm Carol, get better.
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 03, 2014 03:01 AM (TE35l)
I think the Horde Patron Saint of Travel is either Saint Bandit or Saint BJ of BJ and the Bear fame....
safe travels GGE chicks(who dig chicks) dig Subarus
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 03, 2014 06:45 AM (TE35l)
Living so near San Francisco, you hear a lot of the feminist/lesbian cant, and you get descriptions of Mustangs, Corvettes, Porsches, Dodge Vipers, and the like, as "POWs" -- meaning "penis on wheels". This, of course, would contrast with the friendly, open, accommodating, nurturing -- yet stimulating! -- Subaru.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2014 03:04 AM (T1005)
Yeah, it's bizarre I was into Subarus before they became avatars for the vagina...
I had an '86 GL-10 I adored....digital dash with a hud for the speedometer....
epic stuff for a 19 year old looking for a commuter car to go along with his less fuel friendly ride.
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