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January 26, 2014

Overnight Open Thread (1-26-2014)
— Maetenloch

What the US Olympic Team Will Be Wearing in Sochi

These uniforms were designed by Ralph Lauren who seemed to have been channeling stoner chic and the July 4th issue of Crocheting Monthly. No wonder the State Department has warned US athletes not to wear their uniforms outside the Olympic Village.

But it could be worse - here are the Norwegian Olympic uniforms. These apparently were inspired by dazzle camouflage and the best of modern gulag attire. I guess the oft-repeated factoid that Scandi languages have no word for shame really is true.

Quote of the Day - Inter-level Combat Edition

yup. The truth is that I'm a socon too.
We are arguing here basically in D&D terms about a 7th level socon versus a 14th ( "name" ) level socon.
Posted by: ace at January 24, 2014 01:00 AM (/FnUH)

i think most conservative-leaning people are probably at least 4th level socons.
Posted by: ace at January 24, 2014 01:03 AM (/FnUH)

Update on the Grantland-Dr. V Story

The AZ Republic titles the article "Friend blames timing of Gilbert inventor's suicide on fear of impending article" but when when you read it, it quotes Gerri Jordan (Dr. V's business partner and former girlfriend) as basically describing Essay Vanderbilt (Dr. V) as a walking suicide:

She blames the reporting of the story for "90 percent" of the timing of Vanderbilt's suicide - but not for the suicide itself. Vanderbilt had attempted to take her own life in 2007 and in 2008, Jordan said, and she lived believing that her friend might try again.
"I don't hold any grudge, really, since she's tried it before," Jordan said as her eyes filled with tears that did not spill over. "So how can I say it's all his fault, when it's not really all his fault?"
She paused for a long breath, "I mean, eventually she would have anyway. ... It just so happened to be the timing with the article."

The article also glosses over Dr. V's multiple fabrications calling them simply 'unverified claims'.
And has this tidbit:

- 41 percent of trans-identifying respondents to a 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey reported attempting suicide. That compares to 1.6 percent of the general population.

Deep Thoughts by Charlie Crist

Quote from his recent book are almost haiku-esque.

Nobody's perfect.
Everyone makes mistakes.

Pencils have erasers.
People deserve a second chance.

Is It Even an Affair When They're Barely Married?

Or how the media covered up Bill Clinton's affair during Hillary's 2008 campaign. Well at this point if you vote for a Clinton, you should know exactly what you're getting with both of them and their media allies.

The 25 Most Dangerous Street Corners in the US

Are mostly in the mid-west - and contra Chris Rock not named Martin Luther King Blvd.

Detroit appears three times which isn't all that unexpected (maybe just list it as any street corner) but Chicago appears four times while NYC doesn't even make the list.

Swedish Marines Do Greased Lightning

They're stationed in Afghanistan and need a hot rod for the sock hop. Pretty good for shame-less scandis who are also apparently allowed to wield +2 beards of ferocity. At the 1:00 mark keep an eye out for the guy making a Robot Chicken homage.

Utterly Gratuitous Scantily-Clad Girls and Guns

Along with grilled meats and beer. From the 2014 Hot Shots Calendar shoot. NSFW due to hand bras, bum shot, and the fact that it just seems way too naughty to not be forbidden somehow. You have been warned. [Normally I wouldn't indulge in such pandering but that was before a certain ewok mentioned the phrase 'contractual monthly traffic quota'.]

Weekly Commenter Standings

Top 10 commenters:
1 [590 comments] 'Niedermeyer's Dead Horse' [82.82 posts/day]
2 [515 comments] 'Sven 10077'
3 [446 comments] 'ace'
4 [440 comments] 'Flatbush Joe'
5 [432 comments] 'tangonine'
6 [402 comments] 'garrett'
7 [394 comments] 'Vic</i>'
8 [360 comments] 'Mike Hammer'
9 [348 comments] 'thunderb'
10 [344 comments] 'Anna Puma (+SmuD)'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [64 names] 'Adam' [8.98 unique names/day]
2 [51 names] 'The Political Hat'
3 [49 names] 'Xenophanes'
4 [45 names] 'Doctor Fish'
5 [42 names] 'Cicero (@cicero)'
6 [38 names] 'Hate Miser'
7 [33 names] 'Prez'nit 404'
8 [31 names] 'Harrison Bergeron'
9 [30 names] '---'
10 [27 names] 'Insomniac'

The group. Yeah.

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1 By Thor's hammer: the Norsemens' uniforms have really declined in the last millennium.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 06:37 PM (30eLQ)

2 And why are they all hunched over?

The Anglo-Saxons actually lost to these guys?

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 06:38 PM (30eLQ)

3 The truth is that I am a socon too.

Posted by: Barney Frank at January 26, 2014 06:39 PM (ozktE)

4 Third?

Posted by: Iasonas at January 26, 2014 06:39 PM (FHNkr)

5 That Ace is a pretty busy person on this here bloggy thing.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 26, 2014 06:40 PM (0EkGc)

6 And not a moment too soon.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 26, 2014 06:40 PM (4Mv1T)

7 The Nord's apparently beta male get ups remind me of this guy:

http://tinyurl.com/owm52

Posted by: Iasonas at January 26, 2014 06:40 PM (FHNkr)

8 LEE MARVIN WILL KICK YOUR ASS IF YOU PUT VIOLENCE ON TV!!!!

Posted by: --- at January 26, 2014 06:40 PM (MMC8r)

9 Ralph Lauren has turned into an old, white grandmother, but the chevrons give me vertigo.

Posted by: no good deed at January 26, 2014 06:40 PM (vBhbc)

10 The most dangerous street corners. If I'm not mistaken some of them in Chicago are in a certain neighborhood that used to have a certain community organizer. Ah well, I'm sure all of the violence was/is whitey's fault

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 26, 2014 06:41 PM (JivuR)

11 Scroll down for the Krauts:
http://tinyurl.com/nzmk8ds

Gott im Himmel

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 06:41 PM (30eLQ)

12 hi all
phew avoided the dreaded list

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 06:41 PM (Hvt9o)

13 Isn't that special that the Pro Bowl will be done well before 11 p.m. eastern time.

Posted by: Vendette at January 26, 2014 06:42 PM (MpP9p)

14 At the last Olympics, the Norwegian men's curling team's pants were an international sensation. This is the sequel.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at January 26, 2014 06:43 PM (uzmcT)

15 Wait. Troops in Afghanistan have time to choreograph their dance moves?

Posted by: Lickin Chicken Fingers at January 26, 2014 06:43 PM (58G/r)

16 See, the reason the Yanks are getting away with their shit uniform is simply that every other country is so much worse.

The Vikings look like pajama-boi; and the Teutons look like pajama-boi's mom, the one who kept him in hot cocoa these last 26 years.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 06:43 PM (30eLQ)

17 If the Norwegians wear that on the ice, good grief.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 26, 2014 06:43 PM (OrnSX)

18 Oh shit. *drives across town and takes away all of NDH's sharp objects and shoelaces*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 06:43 PM (GEICT)

19 Why doesn't the US Olympic Uniforms have a picture of President Obama on it? That is strange because he is America right now as our leader.

Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at January 26, 2014 06:43 PM (iB0Q2)

20 Another Victim of Global Warming Yet another victim of the Global Warming that the Â“super-cerealÂ” climate scientists have warned about has been found: A fox frozen in a Scandinavian lake. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=4751

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 26, 2014 06:44 PM (AymDN)

21 Those Olympic uniforms are fabulous !

Posted by: PJ Boy at January 26, 2014 06:44 PM (aDwsi)

22 There's probably a larger lesson about world geopolitics and economics in my #16 but I'm too lazy to make it.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 06:44 PM (30eLQ)

23 Scroll down for the Krauts: http://tinyurl.com/nzmk8ds Gott im Himmel Posted by: boulder toilet hobo Drugs are bad mmmkay

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 26, 2014 06:45 PM (cxs6V)

24 Yet another victim of the Global Warming that the Â“super-cerealÂ” climate scientists have warned about has been found: A fox frozen in a Scandinavian lake. What does the fox say? Nothing, he's frozen.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 26, 2014 06:45 PM (UAMVq)

25 These uniforms were designed by Ralph Lauren There's your problem, right there. Very nice for the NBC. White House. and Grammies demographic, but can't we let the Duck Dynasty boys have a crack at it?

Posted by: t-bird at January 26, 2014 06:45 PM (FcR7P)

26 I'm bored. And cranky. Work is bullshit and joining the FSA seems like a viable career option.

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 26, 2014 06:45 PM (eQJwb)

27 Move over Trig Truthers, apparently there are Greg Abbott Wheelchair Truthers. Because who wouldn't pretend to be a paraplegic for 30 years?

Posted by: Lauren at January 26, 2014 06:45 PM (hFL/3)

28 Germans should stick to brewing beer and writing heavy metal.

Posted by: Iasonas at January 26, 2014 06:46 PM (FHNkr)

29 Wunderground have a sidebar about OMG freak winter heatwaves!

Just before the snow hit the Boulder Valley. Which said snow is pretty much going to keep doing through this week and the next.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 06:46 PM (30eLQ)

30 27 Move over Trig Truthers, apparently there are Greg Abbott Wheelchair Truthers. Because who wouldn't pretend to be a paraplegic for 30 years? Posted by: Lauren at January 26, 2014 10:45 PM (hFL/3) I saw that! Unfuckin'believable! The left is truly insane.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 26, 2014 06:46 PM (bCEmE)

31 Move over Trig Truthers, apparently there are Greg Abbott Wheelchair Truthers. But don't you dare suggest Barack Obama is a socialist or Hillary Clinton married for power.

Posted by: --- at January 26, 2014 06:47 PM (MMC8r)

32 Because who wouldn't pretend to be a paraplegic for 30 years? Posted by: Lauren at January 26, 2014 10:45 PM (hFL/3) I would if married to Mooch or Shrillary.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 06:47 PM (GEICT)

33 Ace is spending way too much time commenting here. Maybe he should get a blog or something...

Posted by: Brother Cavil needs to sort his socks at January 26, 2014 06:47 PM (m9V0o)

34 26 I'm bored. And cranky. Work is bullshit and joining the FSA seems like a viable career option. Posted by: DC in Towson at January 26, 2014 10:45 PM (eQJwb) I've thought about it too, but it's a pretty crowded field.

Posted by: BignJames at January 26, 2014 06:47 PM (j7iSn)

35 "Deep Thoughts by Charlie Crist .....Nobody's perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. Pencils have erasers. People deserve a second chance." Crist should take an eraser to all that orange stuff on his skin. He looks like he's been rolling around in Cheetos dust.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 26, 2014 06:47 PM (x09C5)

36 Team Rice beat Team Sanders in the Pro Bowl, whatever that means.

Posted by: Vendette at January 26, 2014 06:47 PM (MpP9p)

37 Our Olympic athletes' uniforms are a perfect analog of the patchwork of racist laws, mores, and customs that constitute racist America.

Posted by: Margaret E. Wright-Cleveland at January 26, 2014 06:48 PM (JQuNB)

38 Anyone following what is going on in the Ukraine? I received a link from uber Liberal friend today, asking do you think this could happen here? I did not reply. Worth a look : http://zyalt.livejournal.com/984735.html

Posted by: PJ Boy at January 26, 2014 06:48 PM (aDwsi)

39 11 I think my eyes are bleeding.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2014 06:48 PM (TGgNi)

40 I would if married to Mooch or Shrillary.

I'd prefer to pretend to be an Olympic marathon runner. Starting on the wedding day (if I couldn't before).

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 06:48 PM (30eLQ)

41 2 [515 comments] 'Sven 10077' 3 [446 comments] 'ace' You all realize that if Ace ends up commenting more than Sven, than the 7th seal will be brokenÂ… At least Ace hasn't ended up on the list of top ten sock-puppeteersÂ…

Posted by: The Political Sock at January 26, 2014 06:49 PM (AymDN)

42 So more magical delusional thinking from the Progressive-Socialist cult of Wendy ...

So Greg Abbot has been in a wheelchair longer that the last Imperial Japanese Army soldier to surrender after WWII was hiding.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 26, 2014 06:49 PM (OrnSX)

43 3 [446 comments] 'ace' Does that include double posts?

Posted by: --- at January 26, 2014 06:50 PM (MMC8r)

44 QOTD was dangergirl's (iirc) spell casting comment in that same thread, imho.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone (@MoxieMom on twitter) at January 26, 2014 06:50 PM (zDsvJ)

45 Phew! Missed the list again.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (13th Level SoCon High Wizard and Law Maker) at January 26, 2014 06:50 PM (LSDdO)

46 The Swedish marines gave their porn staches the old college try. Sadly for them, they cannot even begin to measure up to the master, Tom Selleck. Can we have a tom selleck magnum movie, or at least an ncis crossover arc already? Please?!!!!!!!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 06:51 PM (V6y6o)

47 Royal Rumble was tonight. Good show. Fun. Dumb. The crowd booed the entire last 20 minutes. Crowd basically turned on the show.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 06:51 PM (ZPrif)

48 Crist should take an eraser to all that orange stuff on his skin. He looks like he's been rolling around in Cheetos dust. Posted by: nerdygirl at January 26, 2014 10:47 PM (x09C5) He's a fucking joke. He's on late night tv commercials shilling for a big ambulance chasing law firm.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 06:51 PM (GEICT)

49 Ace likes to argue pot and fetuses.

Posted by: soothsayer, with arms akimbo at January 26, 2014 06:51 PM (2gtaA)

50 At least Ace hasn't ended up on the list of top ten sock-puppeteersÂ… Posted by: The Political Sock -------------------------- That would just be creepy. Getting banned by someone you thought was maybe a troll.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at January 26, 2014 06:52 PM (4Mv1T)

51 The Anglo-Saxons actually lost to these guys? Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 10:38 PM (30eLQ) ಠ_ಠ

Posted by: Ælfrēd se Grēata at January 26, 2014 06:52 PM (AymDN)

52 Also, if I'm doing the math correctly Abbott and his wife had been married less than a year when he had his accident...and they're still married. Wow. I know a lot of marriages would not have survived that.

Posted by: Lauren at January 26, 2014 06:52 PM (hFL/3)

53 47! victory!

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 06:52 PM (zELMe)

54 The Norwegian Olympic uniforms have to be from The Onion. No one could wear those things with a straight face.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 26, 2014 06:52 PM (x09C5)

55 Ask Lauren, the whole city and half the state was shut down because of global warming on Friday. And on Saturday and today? Perfect weather, sunny, mid 70's...perfect. Tomorrow, back to the 40's and Tuesday another chance of global warming. At least the weekend was nice.

Posted by: lindafell at January 26, 2014 06:52 PM (PGO8C)

56 You all realize that if Ace ends up commenting more than Sven, than the 7th seal will be brokenÂ… ----------- Pray for non-weed threads.

Posted by: Adam at January 26, 2014 06:53 PM (Aif/5)

57 For about 8 years, metallica was awesome. That would have been starting about 30 years ago.

Posted by: traye at January 26, 2014 06:53 PM (I6CHb)

58 Climate Crisis!

Posted by: Lauren at January 26, 2014 06:53 PM (hFL/3)

59 Evening morons. Not at work for once.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at January 26, 2014 06:53 PM (R+XDI)

60 Night y'all. Another week of pure hell begins in seven hours.

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 26, 2014 06:53 PM (eQJwb)

61 Crowd basically turned on the show. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 10:51 PM (ZPrif) Why?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 06:54 PM (GEICT)

62 48 Crist should take an eraser to all that orange stuff on his skin. He looks like he's been rolling around in Cheetos dust. Posted by: nerdygirl at January 26, 2014 10:47 PM (x09C5) He's a fucking joke. He's on late night tv commercials shilling for a big ambulance chasing law firm. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 10:51 PM (GEICT) Hey, he's For The People, don'tcha know.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 26, 2014 06:54 PM (UAMVq)

63 Wait. Troops in Afghanistan have time to choreograph their dance moves? Posted by: Lickin Chicken Fingers at January 26, 2014 10:43 PM (58G/r) Choreographed dance moves are a must! Haven't you seen West Side Story!

Posted by: The Sharks at January 26, 2014 06:54 PM (AymDN)

64 'Lo, 'rons.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2014 06:54 PM (T1005)

65 There was a football game on today?

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 26, 2014 06:54 PM (jucos)

66 Investment advice: Short Carbon futures

Posted by: PJ Boy at January 26, 2014 06:54 PM (aDwsi)

67 The girls in the video were very loose with their muzzle discipline. And yes I like loose women but as always there is the chance that looseness will kill you.

Maybe I was taught gun safety too well that I noticed that. Or I kinda like living.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 26, 2014 06:55 PM (TI3xG)

68 15 Wait. Troops in Afghanistan have time to choreograph their dance moves? Posted by: Lickin Chicken Fingers at January 26, 2014 10:43 PM (58G/r) There are some pretty good youtubes of American troops in the ME dancing to pop tunes. Lady GAGA seems to be pretty popular.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 26, 2014 06:55 PM (x09C5)

69 Hey, he's For The People, don'tcha know. Posted by: Insomniac at January 26, 2014 10:54 PM (UAMVq) He talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 06:55 PM (GEICT)

70 Nice ONT Maet, Congrats/commiserations to the top tens. I made#2 in 3.5 days of posting, I need to ponder that. Special thanks to NDH for saving me from #1 & honorable mention to the furry fella at #3. If in the coming weeks I'm scarfe it's that real life thing I try to avoid. Good luck all.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 26, 2014 06:55 PM (TE35l)

Don't gotta wait for a Selleck movie here. No, I don't have a pornstache, but I do have a Sharps .45-70, zeroed-in at 250 yards on the tangent sight.

Mr. Feral Hog fall down, Mr. Feral Hog donna get back oop. Heapin' helpin of Kaboom for Mr. Feral Hog.

Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 26, 2014 06:55 PM (vvk2F)

72 11 Scroll down for the Krauts:
http://tinyurl.com/nzmk8ds

Gott im Himmel

I know nothzing, nothzing!

Posted by: Zombie Sgt Shultz at January 26, 2014 06:55 PM (bjND7)

73 3/4 of the way through Zero Dark 30. +100 for intensity. The last quarter is going to really have to suck to not get the recommendation.

Posted by: toby928© at January 26, 2014 06:55 PM (QupBk)

74 Sorry work sucks DC. Work for me right now kind of sucks too. I need to get this biz off the ground.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 26, 2014 06:56 PM (jucos)

75 If there is a Hot Shots special next week, nobody will watch the Super Bowl. As she says in closing: guns, boobs, and beer. That's all you really need.

Posted by: t-bird at January 26, 2014 06:56 PM (FcR7P)

76 65 There was a football game on today? I don't know about that, but there were some all pro elbows.

Posted by: traye at January 26, 2014 06:56 PM (I6CHb)

77 Because Daniel Bryan didn't win. Daniel Bryan also wasn't in the Royal Rumble.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 06:57 PM (ZPrif)

78 Watching "We Were Soldiers", good flick. Time to hibernate after. Tomorrow is a high of -6, damn wind chill of -30 to -35. We have prepared, hope all other morons in the Midwest have done so also. Be well. T

Posted by: The Farmer at January 26, 2014 06:57 PM (eBupg)

79 Drudge, of course, has the "carbon trolling" all y'all east of the Rockies will need to know:
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/ next-polar-plunge-could-be-win/22527373

Spoiler alert: it's going to be chilly.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 06:57 PM (30eLQ)

80 The Norwegian Olympic uniforms have to be from The Onion. By: nerdygirl That's what they are saying in Norway about the USA Olympic uniforms

Posted by: lindafell at January 26, 2014 06:58 PM (PGO8C)

81 Well, the Pro Bowl is done in time for the 11 p.m. news on the east coast.

Posted by: Vendette at January 26, 2014 06:58 PM (MpP9p)

82 The last quarter is going to really have to suck to not get the recommendation. ------ It's not going to.

Posted by: Adam at January 26, 2014 06:58 PM (Aif/5)

83 41 The Political Sock, It's happened before Hat. I like hell, it's why I learned tax codes.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 26, 2014 06:58 PM (TE35l)

84 I don't know about most of the other dangerous corners but the ones in Chicago? Yeah. I could've predicted the general area for some of them.

The ones I don't know are probably new or gotten worse since I lived there last (1980) and are Hispanic gang territories. (Although I'm no great authority on any of those neighborhoods because I learned early to stay the kcuf out of them.)

Like New Yorkers know to stay out of Brownsville or Bed-Stuy or the South Bronx. (or so I've been told)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (13th Level SoCon High Wizard and Law Maker) at January 26, 2014 06:59 PM (LSDdO)

85 Wow -- Ace is such a mensch, he purposely jumped onto the top 10 list to save a fellow moron from ignominy.....maybe even me! What a guy!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2014 06:59 PM (T1005)

86 7 The Nord's apparently beta male get ups remind me of this guy: http://tinyurl.com/owm52 Posted by: Iasonas at January 26, 2014 10:40 PM (FHNkr) I immediately thought : PajamaDouche

Posted by: model_1066 at January 26, 2014 06:59 PM (LIQGY)

87 Maid Otoya shooting the Barrett M-82A1
http://youtu.be/3XnMQUqjiH0

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 26, 2014 06:59 PM (OrnSX)

88 Watching the Grammys with my 9 year old. It is fun only because she knows all the tunes and is excited to see the performances. Is it just me, or is the 70's making a comeback? I don't know quite what to think.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 26, 2014 06:59 PM (jucos)

89 Carried over from the last open thread, read an opinion piece penned by our very own Sandy "the dumpster" Fluke about how The Huck wants to d3ny access to BC for train pullers such as hers3lf. Why won't our spineless wonders simply say " Have at it Ho, we don't restrict access in any way. Pay for it yourself bint. Sincerely, GOP"? The piece is at Newsweek, I will not link it.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 07:00 PM (ojnk6)

90 An interesting story: http://tinyurl.com/mgx7xwv In few ways: 1) I find it hilarious that, in the story, they told the guy who complained about the policy that since it did not change the terms and conditions of his bank account, it did not matter. Excuse me, but placing limits on how much money one can withdraw is a pretty big change to the terms of the agreement, no? 2) This does not bode well. If they are doing this as a hedge against a run, how does not telling anyone they are doing it help? They have to know it would become a matter of public knowledge at some point, and by hiding it, it makes their customers less confident in them than if they had told them in the first place. People are strange. 3) anyone know how things are in general in Europe financially? I have heard things about the poor economy in France and the thing in the Ukraine looks like it could get more out of hand, but I have not seen many stories overall on Europe financially lately.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2014 07:00 PM (TGgNi)

91 Scarfe, Scarce...only my Nook knows for sure.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 26, 2014 07:00 PM (TE35l)

92 watched ESCAPE PLAN starring Stallone and Arnold Alls I can say is: Completely unbelievable. It's like an episode of Burn Notice on steroids. It's a good movie to eat popcorn and laugh at.

Posted by: soothsayer, with arms akimbo at January 26, 2014 07:00 PM (2gtaA)

93 "88 Watching the Grammys with my 9 year old." Wow, you're brave. I just expect nipples and or twerking so we haven't watched an awards show in years.

Posted by: Lauren at January 26, 2014 07:00 PM (hFL/3)

94 "scarfe"?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (13th Level SoCon High Wizard and Law Maker) at January 26, 2014 07:01 PM (LSDdO)

95 The Nord's apparently beta male get ups remind me of this guy:

Who is reminding me of J*mmy S*v*le.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 07:01 PM (30eLQ)

96 You're shitting me about the norwegian uniforms. .. right?

Posted by: pj at January 26, 2014 07:02 PM (ZWaLo)

97 Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2014 11:00 PM (TGgNi) socialism, the welfare state, mass immigration pick any one, can't have more than one

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:02 PM (zELMe)

98 Royal Rumble, for those unfamiliar with the dumb, is a giant 30 man match. New guy every 90 seconds or so. The hard-core wrestling fans - the type that buy tickets to pay per view shows - are in love with Daniel Bryan and kinda hate everyone who isn't Daniel Bryan right now. Daniel Bryan had a match earlier in the show. And lost. The crowd wanted him to be a secret, surprise entrant in the Royal Rumble. Once they realized he wasn't they just booed the rest of the show. Kinda weird. Kinda felt bad for the other guys. They were just trying to do their job and got booed just for not being the guy the crowd wanted to see.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 07:03 PM (ZPrif)

99 I just checked with one of the resident Scandi's and she though those were the Norweigan Curling uniforms and she also liked them. I like getting laid so I have no comment about that

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:04 PM (zELMe)

100 94 Bitter Clinger, Wife and lad were on the PCs, I kept myself occupied reading, the nook color and I combine our efforts to create almost as many typos as when I experimented w/voice recog while driving my truck through the mountains. Scarfe in my initial post was meant to read scarce...I may drop out of the top 10 or 50...

Posted by: sven10077 at January 26, 2014 07:05 PM (TE35l)

101 74 T3uck Monkey, could you d3scribe what it is that you are trying to get off the ground in terms general enough as not to give out too much personal info? I'd bet even a general description would find that Rons and Ettes may be able to help. YMMV.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 07:05 PM (ojnk6)

102 "scarfe"? Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (13th Level SoCon High Wizard and Law Maker) at January 26, 2014 11:01 PM (LSDdO) I think that is the movie with Rosie ODonnel when she got locked in the ice cream shop.

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:05 PM (zELMe)

103

@ DC in Towson

with your permission ( and my tech ) i'd like to use you as as origin and a pivot point.

a couple nights ago you ( i think) were talking about NC.

some other posters (Greenville v. Greensboro v. Goldsboro) semed to have probs w/ SJAFB.

last time i was @ SJ it was ok. not sure where pr0bs arise w/ that part of country.

Posted by: dDan at January 26, 2014 07:05 PM (hwYmz)

104 I was wondering about that muzzle discipline in the video too...made me think someone was goin to get drilled...

Posted by: Last at January 26, 2014 07:05 PM (8HiDF)

105 Wow, you're brave. I just expect nipples and or twerking so we haven't watched an awards show in years.

Last one I saw was the Eminem Show, aka the "Marshall Mathers LP" thingy in, I think, 2001.

That one was worth watching, just because the whole album made so many heads explode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY2p7oE7Bpw

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 07:06 PM (30eLQ)

106 socialism, the welfare state, mass immigration pick any one, can't have more than one Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 11:02 PM (zELMe) Aren't the first two basically the same in practice?

Posted by: model_1066 at January 26, 2014 07:06 PM (LIQGY)

107 Here are a couple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfi128NAEHI&list=RDbbzYpN3ldKs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqaWdkdFb3Y&list=RDbbzYpN3ldKs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E8YLDDzR9I

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 26, 2014 07:06 PM (x09C5)

108 That's what they are saying in Norway about the USA Olympic uniforms They're FAB-ulous!

Posted by: The Cast of [i]Glee[/i] at January 26, 2014 07:06 PM (FcR7P)

109 I was wondering about that muzzle discipline in the video too...made me think someone was goin to get drilled... Posted by: Last at January 26, 2014 11:05 PM (8HiDF) most normal people do not give loaded firearms to girls in bikini's on a photo shoot////

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:07 PM (zELMe)

110 Anyone catch Metallica just now?

Posted by: JoeyBagels at January 26, 2014 07:07 PM (Usdw3)

111 I was on a Huffer thread today where they were all defending Bubba for having "a couple of affairs", and that was years ago and his foundation is doing such good work. It's sickening how Dems excuse his serial humiliations of his wife and assaults on other women, as well as the consensual affairs--if they even know about them. #waronwomen I wonder who he's boinking now?

Posted by: stace at January 26, 2014 07:07 PM (9PXzx)

112 I swear to God, this damn tablet is turning Es into 3s out of spite because I got such a great deal on it.....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 07:08 PM (ojnk6)

113 socialism, the welfare state, mass immigration pick any one, can't have more than one We'll see about that...

Posted by: The GOP Establishment at January 26, 2014 07:08 PM (FcR7P)

114 I figured out from the context what you meant (and of course after my comment, I see that you corrected yourself)

Still, I like to poke at anyone's mistypos. (that's a word isn't it?)

Specially if they then say "dang autocorrect". Yeah sure.

Autocorrect == dog x homework == misteaks were maid == whut?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (13th Level SoCon High Wizard and Law Maker) at January 26, 2014 07:08 PM (LSDdO)

115 Anyone catch Metallica just now?

The set design was great.

Posted by: no good deed at January 26, 2014 07:09 PM (vBhbc)

116 That's the Norwegian Curling Teams uniform. Apparently it's a thing for them to have "unique" uniforms, like a trademark. The rest of the Norwegian Olympic Team does not dress like that.

Posted by: lindafell at January 26, 2014 07:09 PM (PGO8C)

117 I wonder who he's boinking now? Posted by: stace at January 26, 2014 11:07 PM (9PXzx) nobody, he is on heart meds that kill the stiffy

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:09 PM (zELMe)

118
Did you hear that they had to take that Lee Marvin brand toilet paper off the market?

It was too rough, too tough, and wouldn't take shit off of anyone.

'sup jackwagons

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 26, 2014 07:09 PM (aYjRw)

119 Great, the US team is dressed like a frigging circus juggling act. I guess the Star Wars storm trooper uniform was out of the question.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2014 07:10 PM (QU14Y)

120 Night-o all.... 0445 gets here quick

Posted by: sven10077 at January 26, 2014 07:10 PM (TE35l)

121 Lee Marvin was talking about the Pro Bowl.

Posted by: t-bird at January 26, 2014 07:10 PM (FcR7P)

122 I was on a Huffer thread today where they were all defending Bubba for having "a couple of affairs", and that was years ago and his foundation is doing such good work. Leftists excuse anything up to and including genocide in the pursuit of Leftism. Values are only something that exist to inflict on other people, they aren't meant to impair themselves.

Posted by: --- at January 26, 2014 07:11 PM (MMC8r)

123 Sweden used to have a HUGE military, esp their air force. They cut back extensively after the Worker's Paradise collapsed in 1990-1

In the late 60s, they had the fourth largest air force in The World ( after the US, USSR, and South Vietnam ( ! )

Posted by: Harald the BallCrusher at January 26, 2014 07:11 PM (omBWL)

124 Is it just me, or is the 70's making a comeback? If Madonna has an Afro sized bush peeking out if her leotard, the 70s ARE making a comeback. Hmmmm. Wonder if its natural or a merkin?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 07:11 PM (V6y6o)

125

90 No, it's NOT a change to the agreement: see vox day/ vox populi today.

Just what you THOUGHT the agreement was...

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 07:11 PM (b7yum)

126 MMmmm! Lee Marvin... yummy. I kinda like the Olympic sweaters. I'm weird that way. Hello the Horde!

Posted by: madamemayhem at January 26, 2014 07:11 PM (S2RnE)

127 116 That's the Norwegian Curling Teams uniform. Apparently it's a thing for them to have "unique" uniforms, like a trademark. The rest of the Norwegian Olympic Team does not dress like that. Posted by: lindafell at January 26, 2014 11:09 PM (PGO8C) Wowzers, so the resident Scandi is correct. I believe I made the right call on that one.

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:12 PM (zELMe)

128 Queen Latifa just married bunch of peopleat the Grammys Madonna singing poorly in the background ughhh so bad all theater

Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 07:12 PM (zOTsN)

129 thanks for the image bebe

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 07:13 PM (30eLQ)

130 The US Dept. should tell the athletes not to leave the damn village period. There should be enough sex and alcohol inside the village to keep them happy.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at January 26, 2014 07:13 PM (WdbF7)

131 Most every dictatorship of the last 100 years tooke power with the willing acquiescence if not collusion of the legally authorized legislature.

As we're seeing here.

They don't need a Kristallnacht. They don't need a Reichstadt fire.

All they need is that feckless fool Boehner and the rest to give in and give up.

THANKS GOP for the next 5-20 years of dictatorial tyranny.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (13th Level SoCon High Wizard and Law Maker) at January 26, 2014 07:13 PM (LSDdO)

132 Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 11:12 PM (zOTsN) Such a special fucking day.

Posted by: RWC at January 26, 2014 07:13 PM (Q6HBD)

133 @57

If you exclude the Black Album, they put out four of the finest metal albums in the span of 5 years.

Not quite the output of the Beatles but it has not been duplicated by any band since.

Posted by: Kreplach at January 26, 2014 07:13 PM (Xkr8I)

134 44 QOTD was dangergirl's (iirc) spell casting comment in that same thread, imho.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone (@MoxieMom on twitter) at January 26, 2014 10:50 PM (zDsvJ)

Where?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2014 07:13 PM (T1005)

135 is queen latifa a minister?

Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 07:13 PM (zOTsN)

136

If this is what Beyonce is doing at the Grammy's to compete with Miley, imagine what Madonna would have done if she was on this year?....

Posted by: keena at January 26, 2014 07:13 PM (RiTnx)

137

The Grammys just jumped the Shark. Dear God this is awful.....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 11:05 PM (ojnk6)

I am in the very early stages of running my own Truck Brokerage. Sleepless nights as I try and make rent and mortgage payments. It will get better. I just need to keep at it and not allow it to kill me.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 26, 2014 07:14 PM (jucos)

138 I call bullshit on the Bill and Hillary! story. Everyone knows they married for love, right?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac lover of KaBoom Cereal at January 26, 2014 07:14 PM (HxSXm)

139 Anyone catch Metallica just now? Posted by: JoeyBagels at January 26, 2014 11:07 PM (Usdw3) No. AHAHAHAHA!!1!

Posted by: Jethro Tull at January 26, 2014 07:14 PM (AymDN)

140 If Madonna has an Afro sized bush peeking out if her leotard, the 70s ARE making a comeback. Hmmmm. Wonder if its natural or a merkin? Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 11:11 PM (V6y6o) what color is it? If it anything but puma balck it is a merken

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:14 PM (zELMe)

141 Madonna. Is she 60? Serious question. Looks like a zombie.

Posted by: traye at January 26, 2014 07:15 PM (I6CHb)

142 Very bad theatre indeed,

Posted by: leonard pinth garnell at January 26, 2014 07:15 PM (Jsiw/)

143 is queen latifa a minister? Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 11:13 PM (zOTsN) like that matters in weddding for gaays

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:15 PM (zELMe)

144 @139

You just won the internets!!

Posted by: Kreplach at January 26, 2014 07:15 PM (Xkr8I)

145 Well yesterday I was shoveling snow, tonight I'm in Miami and it feels like spring time in May. Oh yeah, nobody speaks fucking english here.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2014 07:15 PM (QU14Y)

146 is queen latifa a minister?

She's as much a minister as any Episcopalian priest at this point.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo, counter-reformed at January 26, 2014 07:16 PM (30eLQ)

147
Move over Trig Truthers, apparently there are Greg Abbott Wheelchair Truthers.

Are they saying that he's faking it......kind of how FDR faked being able to walk throughout his administration?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 26, 2014 07:16 PM (aYjRw)

148 No Don't Ask/Don't Tell in Sweden, apparently.

Posted by: Ye Olde Cigar Shover at January 26, 2014 07:16 PM (sLRtQ)

149 135 is queen latifa a minister? Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 11:13 PM (zOTsN) Sure, why not.

Posted by: BignJames at January 26, 2014 07:16 PM (j7iSn)

150 The Grammys just jumped the Shark. Dear God this is awful..... Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 11:05 PM (ojnk6) This is when they jumped the shark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaodlYmleeQ

Posted by: The Metal Hat at January 26, 2014 07:16 PM (AymDN)

151 The minister part doesn't matter, it's the "by the power invested in me by the stat ofÂ…" that makes the difference.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 07:17 PM (GEICT)

152 111 I was on a Huffer thread today where they were all defending Bubba for having "a couple of affairs", and that was years ago and his foundation is doing such good work. It's sickening how Dems excuse his serial humiliations of his wife and assaults on other women, as well as the consensual affairs--if they even know about them. #waronwomen I wonder who he's boinking now? Posted by: stace at January 26, 2014 11:07 PM (9PXzx) But Mitt Romney put his dog in a carrier on top of his car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: The Cast of SNL at January 26, 2014 07:17 PM (HxSXm)

153 137, Been there and done that with a new venture. You are talking about a 3PL type company, yes?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 07:17 PM (ojnk6)

154 @141

She's double nickles.

She'll be old enough to tour with the stones soon.

Posted by: Kreplach at January 26, 2014 07:17 PM (Xkr8I)

155 75 If there is a Hot Shots special next week, nobody will watch the Super Bowl. As she says in closing: guns, boobs, and beer. That's all you really need. Posted by: t-bird at January 26, 2014 10:56 PM (FcR7P) Better yet, there's Puppeh Bowl AND Kitteh Bowl.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 26, 2014 07:17 PM (x09C5)

156 she isn't a justice of the peace?

Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 07:17 PM (zOTsN)

157 135 is queen latifa a minister? Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 11:13 PM (zOTsN) Yes.

Posted by: Reverend Al Jesse Sharpton Jackson at January 26, 2014 07:17 PM (Q6HBD)

158 The minister part doesn't matter, it's the "by the power invested in me by the stat ofÂ…" that makes the difference.

Legally, yeah. Obama could ordain his dog Bo to perform the ceremony. Just don't stick around for the reception dinner

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo, counter-reformed at January 26, 2014 07:18 PM (30eLQ)

159 129 thanks for the image bebe Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 11:13 PM Sadly, it's just a teeny tiny bit of what you deserve zimriel. I'm sad I couldn't work a hideous Helen Thomas reference in

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 07:18 PM (V6y6o)

160 "Are they saying that he's faking it." Yes. As evidenced by the fact that he has a child. Because apparently IVF doesn't exist.

Posted by: Lauren at January 26, 2014 07:19 PM (hFL/3)

161 That Abbott guy knew that tree was gonna fall. Walked under it on purpose.

Sued and got his money and then got a law passed to limit suits like his for others.

He can lurch around so what's with the Wheel chair? He's just looking for sympathy in his War on Womyns.

/s

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (13th Level SoCon High Wizard and Law Maker) at January 26, 2014 07:19 PM (LSDdO)

162 is queen latifa a minister? Hey, she's a queen.

Posted by: --- at January 26, 2014 07:19 PM (MMC8r)

163 Urkel!

Posted by: Reverend Al Jesse Sharpton Jackson at January 26, 2014 07:20 PM (Q6HBD)

164 This is when they jumped the shark:

Then there was the granting of a Grammy to "It Takes A Village".

The Grammy really should be the Gramsci award.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo, counter-reformed at January 26, 2014 07:20 PM (30eLQ)

165 Damn sock

Posted by: RWC at January 26, 2014 07:20 PM (Q6HBD)

166 Congratulations, Grammies, you've now gone the full Moonie route.

Posted by: --- at January 26, 2014 07:20 PM (MMC8r)

167 so bad. And Madonna. Her face. Her voice so bad

Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 07:21 PM (zOTsN)

168 Telephone Road and any cross street corner is the most dangerous in Houston.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2014 07:21 PM (ZhNCB)

169 Been there and done that with a new venture. You are talking about a 3PL type company, yes?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 11:17 PM (ojnk6)

______________________

Yes indeed I am a third party logistics provider.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 26, 2014 07:22 PM (jucos)

170 Riddle- What's the difference between a 'Hog', and 'Barbecue'? Answer: Sharps .45-70

Posted by: PJ Boy at January 26, 2014 07:22 PM (aDwsi)

171 140 what color is it? If it anything but puma balck it is a merken Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 11:14 PM Ninja please.

Posted by: Sandra Bullock's pink Valentines Day muff at January 26, 2014 07:22 PM (V6y6o)

172 Are they saying that he's faking it......kind of how FDR faked being able to walk throughout his administration? Posted by: IllTemperedCur You know, if you read the history of those times, most people (Republicans and Democrats) knew he was crippled by polio and couldn't walk. More than a few Republicans admired him for his courage and perseverance as a cripple, and it would have been incredibly bad taste for anyone to talk about it openly. Which just goes to show how badly we have decayed as a culture when Wendy Davis is celebrated (by anybody) and Gregg Abbott is criticized for being a fake.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at January 26, 2014 07:22 PM (+1T7c)

173 Ya gotta wonder why the leftie extroverts need so much praise and applause for being essentially good liars and fakes.

They live their outter lives in snippets and clips while their real life is mess and full of failure.

It's no wonder their mostly insane.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (13th Level SoCon High Wizard and Law Maker) at January 26, 2014 07:23 PM (LSDdO)

174 138 I call bullshit on the Bill and Hillary! story. Everyone knows they married for love, right? Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac lover of KaBoom Cereal at January 26, 2014 11:14 PM (HxSXm) They did marry for love, but not because they loved each other; the Clintons love, even worship power. An all too-human failing that people like the Clintons and the Obamas have taken to extreme levels.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 26, 2014 07:23 PM (WlWt+)

175 is queen latifa a minister? -------------- If Jesse Jackson is, then any thing is possible.

Posted by: PJ Boy at January 26, 2014 07:23 PM (aDwsi)

176 West coast time here.....is Madonna on the Grammys ? And with a big bush? If so, Bey is topped!

Posted by: Keena at January 26, 2014 07:23 PM (RiTnx)

177 Best recent performance and it still hasn't been recognized for its beauty. http://tinyurl.com/5xgaz8 Hi NSA!

Posted by: RWC at January 26, 2014 07:23 PM (Q6HBD)

178 Abbott's daughter is actually adopted, after something like 17 years of marriage. I hear they are very close. When she was little and people would ask her what she wanted to be when she grew up, she say a judge in a wheelchair like my dad. She is not handicapped. They also hunt together.

Posted by: lindafell at January 26, 2014 07:24 PM (PGO8C)

179 What's the difference between a 'Hog', and 'Barbecue'? Answer: Sharps .45-70 Posted by: PJ Boy at January 26, 2014 11:22 PM (aDwsi) No BBQ sauce? Pass.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 26, 2014 07:24 PM (LIQGY)

180 "Essay" Vanderbilt? Why would you name yourself after an eighth-grade homework assignment? What's next, "Baking Soda Volcano McGee"? Or "Papier-Mache Diorama Johnson"? "Twenty Conjugated Spanish Verbs Wootzenheimer" has a nice ring to it, though.

Posted by: The Lost Dutchman at January 26, 2014 07:24 PM (9F2c1)

181 During the PGA golf tourney this week in San Diego they showed a super large tree limp spontaneously break off and fall . Luckily no spectators were near by.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2014 07:24 PM (ZhNCB)

182 @172

Which goes to show you that the GOP has been the dupes of the Democrats for a long time.

Celebrate their pluckiness while they advance their agenda.

Posted by: Kreplach at January 26, 2014 07:25 PM (Xkr8I)

183 I don't know how old she is now, in her mid teens.

Posted by: lindafell at January 26, 2014 07:26 PM (PGO8C)

184 131 Well, both the Reichstag and Kristallnacht were political theatre. We see political theatre all the time. Just a difference of degree. It was the same with the Soviets. Their version of Jews was Kulaks and "Wreckers". The names and groups change, but the theme remains the same. The stoking of an US vs THEM mentality (with the THEM being a small, but nebulous and not well understood minority.) People don't change. Sure the names and places do, but what drives and motivates people does not- fear, envy, ignorance. Socialism depends on those things. Without them, they gain no traction. Which is why up until now it has never gotten a lot of widespread traction in the US. Scary stuff.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2014 07:26 PM (TGgNi)

185 More than a few Republicans admired him for his courage and perseverance as a cripple, and it would have been incredibly bad taste for anyone to talk about it openly.

That's why it was so hard for any Republican to actually, you know, run against him. Wendell Willkie barely even tried. Alf Landon - who dat?

The one politician who might have put him down was Huey Long.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 07:26 PM (30eLQ)

186 During the PGA golf tourney this week in San Diego they showed a super large tree limp spontaneously break off and fall . Luckily no spectators were near by. Posted by: Roc Ingersol sounds like a viagra commercial

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 07:26 PM (rDidD)

187 I'm pretty sure those Norwegian uniforms are going to give me seizures.

Posted by: rickl at January 26, 2014 07:27 PM (sdi6R)

188 WWE has a slight problem in that the hard-core fans love Daniel Bryan. But he's a small, unassuming bearded dude (real small, like 5'9) so he doesn't necessarily attract much attention from the casual fans and mainstream media. WWE usually likes big, tall, muscular dudes to be their champion. Type of guy who is just physically big and impressive to the average person, and especially average kid. But the hard-core fans that buy tickets hate the big, muscled guys and argue, with good reason, that since it's all fake, why can't a small guy beat up all the big strong dudes? It's an interesting problem for WWE. Their TV audience, which is casual fans (like me), and their hard-core audience now prefer opposite things. TV casual fans like the stereotypical big strong dude. The hard-core obsessive fans hate the stereotypical big strong dude and are demanding that smaller, weaker dudes be the champs, specifically they are demanding that 5'9 180 Daniel Bryan beat up all the 6'5 260 guys. So, it's an interesting problem. WWE wants guys like Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin. Big, jacked, impressive looking dudes that are physically impressive if you saw them on the street. That seems to draw more casual fans and mainstream fans. The hard-core fans say that's stupid, it's all fake anyway, let's have a more normal looking dude like us who's the champ. The hard-core fans don't care about TV ratings and what casual mainstream fans care about. It's a tough problem for WWE. It's bad for their TV product if the fans at the shows keep booing their big, strong guys. But they also don't want to have their champ be a man who is smaller than the average American male. Really hard to please both audiences.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 07:28 PM (ZPrif)

189 sounds like a viagra commercial Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 11:26 PM (rDidD) call your doctor if it last more than 4 hours......

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:28 PM (zELMe)

190 sounds like a viagra commercial Posted by: yankeefifth ------------- Limb only falls off after 4 1/2 hours

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 26, 2014 07:28 PM (aDwsi)

191 Now Kanye West buttfucks Justin Bieber onstage this is so fucked up I cant believe Im watching this shit

Posted by: Twit of the year at January 26, 2014 07:28 PM (LHgfw)

192 169 Thought so. All the best wishes in the world sent your way. I got mine going (2000) by spreading the word everywhere online. The options were much more limited then, but it worked. If I may, I'd like to suggest that you use every OL outlet available to trumpet your message loudly and often. I may be giving input you don't want or need, apologies if that is the case. I also found the hated Google, Bing and other PPC services to be helpful, but only if used very judiciously, as they cost a ton if not managed properly.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 07:28 PM (ojnk6)

193 Billie Joe and Miranda Lambert are surprisingly good together for the Phil Everly tribute.

Posted by: no good deed at January 26, 2014 07:29 PM (vBhbc)

194 Now Kanye West buttfucks Justin Bieber onstage this is so fucked up I cant believe Im watching this shit Posted by: Twit of the year at January are you sure it was not miley cyrus?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 07:29 PM (rDidD)

195 Call more ladies.

Posted by: traye at January 26, 2014 07:29 PM (I6CHb)

196 Wouldn't flak jackets be appropriate wear for Olympians in Sochi?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 26, 2014 07:30 PM (60Q+L)

197 Closeted lesbian performs marriages? She should have married that fat girl up there with the big tat, Mary. That would have been worth it. Whey was that why white bread Seattle rapper trying so hard to act black or maybe he was trying to be gay? I'm not sure.

Posted by: Granny Jan (Jihad Kitty) at January 26, 2014 07:31 PM (UC678)

198 The one politician who might have put him down was Huey Long. Posted by: boulder toilet hobo The cure would have been worse than the disease. Huey Long was an open socialist. There was no facade about "the Kingfish". Wendell Wilkie = Mitt Romney Both smart and able men, but not very good campaigners, at all. When you start to read about the '30's and the continual screw-ups of the Roosevelt years, you wonder how could the Republicans keep losing. It was the Media (radio and newpapers) being very loyal to FDR. When Mencken started to criticize FDR, the rest of his media brethren turned on him. Boy, was he surprised.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at January 26, 2014 07:31 PM (+1T7c)

199 193 Billie Joe and Miranda Lambert are surprisingly good together for the Phil Everly tribute. Posted by: no good deed at January 26, 2014 11:29 PM (vBhbc) I have no idea who any of those people are.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 26, 2014 07:31 PM (LIQGY)

200 Daniel Bryan beat all the other wrestlers in real life since he is marrying one of the Diva sisters.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2014 07:31 PM (WCi6Q)

201

It was nice of Madonna to do a tribute to Colonel Sanders.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 26, 2014 07:31 PM (jucos)

202 186 During the PGA golf tourney this week in San Diego they showed a super large tree limp spontaneously break off and fall . Luckily no spectators were near by.
Posted by: Roc Ingersol

sounds like a viagra commercial

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 11:26 PM (rDidD)

Our neighbor's liquidambar did that a ways back. Evidently, under the right conditions the roots can pump more water than the leaves can handle, and it'll pop off a branch from the overpressure. Hers was six inches across. Referred to in the trade as "widowmakers".

Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2014 07:31 PM (T1005)

203 It was the same with the Soviets. Their version of Jews was Kulaks and "Wreckers".

And Zionists

Posted by: дело врачей at January 26, 2014 07:33 PM (30eLQ)

204 Then there was the granting of a Grammy to "It Takes A Village". The Grammy really should be the Gramsci award. Posted by: boulder toilet hobo, counter-reformed at January 26, 2014 11:20 PM (30eLQ) Don't forget great luminaries such as Al Franken, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Jessee Jackson and the 2 time winner, Lord and Protector of the Faith, His Royal Highness Barack Soetoro.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, Keeper of the KaBoom flame at January 26, 2014 07:33 PM (HxSXm)

205 Whey was that why white bread Seattle rapper trying so hard to act black or maybe he was trying to be gay? I'm not sure. Posted by: Granny Jan (Jihad Kitty) at January 26, 2014 11:31 PM (UC67

For sales. Mhe's mediocre at best but he had a song where he stated he thought he was gay. Airplay up the wazoo with that song.

Posted by: RWC at January 26, 2014 07:33 PM (Q6HBD)

206 Our neighbor's liquidambar did that a ways back. Evidently, under the right conditions the roots can pump more water than the leaves can handle, and it'll pop off a branch from the overpressure. ------------- Trees have strokes?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 26, 2014 07:33 PM (aDwsi)

207 Daniel Bryan clearly has won at life, yes.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 07:33 PM (ZPrif)

208 @198

The media has always been in the pockets of the Democrats and hostile to the Republicans

Take the first Republican, Lincoln was savaged in the press.

Posted by: Kreplach at January 26, 2014 07:33 PM (Xkr8I)

209 Madonna was wearing "grills" on the red carpet at her age they looked like bad dentures

Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 07:33 PM (zOTsN)

210 196 Wouldn't flak jackets be appropriate wear for Olympians in Sochi? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 26, 2014 11:30 PM (60Q+L) I think flack jackets ended in Vietnam or Grenada. Today I think it is IBA, Individual Battle Armor Someone recently in the service know for sure

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:33 PM (zELMe)

211 It was nice of Madonna to do a tribute to Colonel Sanders.

Did you see her other outfit? Someone asked if she was in Poltergeist. http://tinyurl.com/o8hptt8

Posted by: no good deed at January 26, 2014 07:34 PM (vBhbc)

212 201 It was nice of Madonna to do a tribute to Colonel Sanders. Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 26, 2014 11:31 PM (jucos) Thankfully I have a shield on the iPad.

Posted by: RWC at January 26, 2014 07:34 PM (Q6HBD)

213 Oh.
Shit.

The PeopleÂ’s Bank of China , the central bank, has just ordered commercial banks to halt cash transfers.

Alleged 'maintenance.' Over the Chinese new year.

tinyurl.com/m444mxk

Posted by: Methos at January 26, 2014 07:34 PM (hO9ad)

214 Will there be a cameo by the moocher? The world holds its ~~breath~~ nose.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 26, 2014 07:34 PM (aDwsi)

215 The full battle rattle Olympics. Someone should trademark that.

Posted by: traye at January 26, 2014 07:35 PM (I6CHb)

216 207 Daniel Bryan clearly has won at life, yes. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 11:33 PM (ZPrif) no. No. NO. NO. NO. NO! NO! NO!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 07:35 PM (GEICT)

217 Oh I see Katy perry is ripping off Stevie Nicks with her costume. What time eastern was the everlys tribute. I can't watch/listen to this shit

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 07:35 PM (V6y6o)

218 It was nice of Madonna to do a tribute to Colonel Sanders. Because her skin looks like the Extra Crispy recipe?

Posted by: model_1066 at January 26, 2014 07:36 PM (LIQGY)

219 Hot Shots has boobs, guns, birds with British accents If they're filmed wrestling naked in jello and making out, I will have to ask Ace to reconsider his Accident Lesbian Pr0n policy

Posted by: kbdabear at January 26, 2014 07:36 PM (aTXUx)

220 yoko ono gahhhh

Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 07:36 PM (zOTsN)

221 206 Our neighbor's liquidambar did that a ways back. Evidently, under the right conditions the roots can pump more water than the leaves can handle, and it'll pop off a branch from the overpressure.
-------------

Trees have strokes?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 26, 2014 11:33 PM (aDwsi)

It appears so. Info came from city street tree guys who were responding to my neighbor's call.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2014 07:36 PM (T1005)

222 Will there be a cameo by the moocher? The world holds its breath nose. Posted by: Mike Hammer Hey! I didn't get a 'harummph' out of that guy!

Posted by: President Barry LePantomaine at January 26, 2014 07:37 PM (+1T7c)

223 Germany's uniforms are the gayest of all. nttawwt http://tinyurl.com/ootbt7g

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 26, 2014 07:37 PM (V4CBV)

224 Who's the lesbian talking?

Posted by: RWC at January 26, 2014 07:37 PM (Q6HBD)

225 Katy Perry's parents are ministers. They'll be THRILLED that their daughter has gone full demonic

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 07:38 PM (b7yum)

226 Oh.
Shit.

The PeopleÂ’s Bank of China , the central bank, has just ordered commercial banks to halt cash transfers.

Alleged 'maintenance.' Over the Chinese new year.

tinyurl.com/m444mxk

Posted by: Methos at January 26, 2014 11:34 PM (hO9ad)

Any connection to the HSBC nonsense?

Posted by: Steck at January 26, 2014 07:38 PM (5i94q)

227 Ok, I might be in the minority here, but I think the Pro Bowl had 69% less suckage than Pro Bowls past. I thought it was kind of entertaining; sort of like a pickup game. The only thing missing was a keg or two. The players seemed to be having fun; and judging by the sweat, putting in some effort. I also liked the "Miked Up" thing. Certainly added to the NFL's "QB Charisma" brand. Ok, let the mocking begin. Stay turgid, Morons.

Posted by: SnakePlizzken at January 26, 2014 07:38 PM (MYrvT)

228 as for ace's statement has anyone developed a test for levels of so con?

Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 07:38 PM (zOTsN)

229 Germany's uniforms are the gayest of all. nttawwt http://tinyurl.com/ootbt7g Posted by: Dr. Varno --------------------- SMOD..., now.... please!

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 26, 2014 07:38 PM (aDwsi)

230 5th most dangerous neighborhood is near the kid's 1st choice college. Not happy.

Posted by: NCKate at January 26, 2014 07:38 PM (Eed4A)

231 Catch everyone later... the world is burning down and so are the Grammy Awards. I think I will go write.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 26, 2014 07:38 PM (OrnSX)

232 24 Yet another victim of the Global Warming that the Â“super-cerealÂ” climate scientists have warned about has been found: A fox frozen in a Scandinavian lake.

Does this mean we know how the frozen wooly mammoths happened?

Posted by: Anachronda at January 26, 2014 07:39 PM (U82Km)

233 203 The funny thing about the "Zionists" label is that it seems to mean in context whatever the speaker wants it to mean. It can mean "Pro Israel." I can mean "Wanting to set up a Jewish hegemon within the mentioned state (outside of Israel.) It can just mean "Pro-Jewish." It is such a great phrase for demagogues because they can say it and the listener can fill in the blanks for them. It sounds ominous and the speaker does not even have to get into specifics. In other words, the listener does the work of the demagogue for them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2014 07:39 PM (TGgNi)

234 Most of the people mentioned so far on this thread - celebrities, politicians, musicians - seem to have one thing in common: they just won't go away, no matter how fucking talentless and boring they have become.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 26, 2014 07:39 PM (LIQGY)

235 The full battle rattle Olympics. Someone should trademark that. Posted by: traye at January 26, 2014 11:35 PM (I6CHb) that is funny in a sad sort of way

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:39 PM (zELMe)

236 Germany's uniforms are the gayest of all. From one of the captions: Designer Willy Bogner says he wanted to create a "celebratory design, inspired by the great atmosphere" of the 1972 Munich Olympics. What the fuck?

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 26, 2014 07:39 PM (qZOzH)

237 Daniel Bryan clearly has won at life, yes.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 11:33 PM (ZPrif)

_______________________

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 26, 2014 07:40 PM (jucos)

238 Still confused about the comment on the open thread that said I don't swing that way. Want to be perfectly clear. I am a female. And I like men for the old in and out.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 07:40 PM (RZ8pf)

239 38 http://zyalt.livejournal.com/984735.html I don't understand why us media isn't covering th Ukraine protests. They were all over the Cairo ones.

Posted by: Votermom at January 26, 2014 07:40 PM (GSIDW)

240 Posted by: model_1066 at January 26, 2014 11:39 PM (LIQGY) You buy my vaj napkin now. It art!

Posted by: Wise Old Yoko at January 26, 2014 07:40 PM (Q6HBD)

241 A lot of sports and entertainment forms have that problem of the disconnect between hard-core and casual fans. Many hardcore Nascar fans would be fine if Nascar went back to racing tiny tracks in small-town North Carolina and not on national TV. Broadway is a good example of a genre that listened mainly to it's hard-core fans and retreated into a cultural ghetto. Broadway used to be a huge part of American pop culture. It tried to appeal to mainstream American tastes. At some point Broadway said, fuck that, let's appeal to our hard-core fanbase -- gay dudes and melodramatic drama chicks. Broadway became super gay and super chickified and the rest of America just .... stopped paying attention. Jazz was once huge. But the hard-core Jazz fans thought predictable, danceable, tappable rhythms were lame and stupid. And Jazz retreated into an isolated cultural ghetto.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 07:41 PM (ZPrif)

242 Wait didn't people DIE at the 1972 Munich Olympics?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 07:41 PM (RZ8pf)

243 media also didn't cover the Cambodian protests, or the Thailand protests

Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 07:41 PM (zOTsN)

244 Want to be perfectly clear. I am a female. And I like men for the old in and out. ??????? Wuh happened on that thread?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 07:41 PM (V6y6o)

245 Any connection to the HSBC nonsense? Posted by: Steck I'm sure that Zero Hedge will have the rumors behind the headlines soon.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at January 26, 2014 07:41 PM (+1T7c)

246 238 we are listening.

Posted by: traye at January 26, 2014 07:42 PM (I6CHb)

247 Paranoidgirlinseattle - Never overthink anything that anyone says here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 26, 2014 07:42 PM (aDwsi)

248 238 Nice use of Clockwork Orange for the tie in. Kind of scary, but nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2014 07:42 PM (TGgNi)

249 I don't understand why us media isn't covering th Ukraine protests. They were all over the Cairo ones. Posted by: Votermom at January 26, 2014 11:40 PM (GSIDW) It may give people some ideas. There are some great images coming out.

Posted by: RWC at January 26, 2014 07:42 PM (Q6HBD)

250 @242

It was a few Jews. No big woop.

/s

Posted by: Kreplach at January 26, 2014 07:43 PM (Xkr8I)

251 "Media Covered Up Bill Clinton's 2008 Affair During Hillary's Presidential Run"

Uh, that's not all they have been covering up.

The media have been at pains to stay VERY far away from the longstanding rumors that while Bill is off gallivanting at night, his side of the bed in the Clinton residence has often been being warmed by the woman who is currently Mrs. Anthony Weiner, to wit, Huma Abedin.

If the Clintons were not top shelf liberal Democrats, the auxiliary wing of the Democratic Party known as the media would be all over that particular piece of salaciousness, you can be sure.

But it gets even more creepy and incriminating when one considers Huma Abedin's familial ties to radical foreign elements.

I keep thinking more and more that it must have felt something like this to be living in Rome as the Empire began to fall apart from corruption and ineptitude and inflation. Hearing incredibly weird rumors and realizing that they're more than likely true. Hearing the straight-faced official denials and realizing that they're almost certainly false.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 26, 2014 07:43 PM (gqT4g)

252 238 Still confused about the comment on the open thread that said I don't swing that way. Want to be perfectly clear. I am a female. And I like men for the old in and out. Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 11:40 PM (RZ8pf) Exactly. You said you were bored. Vendette said the guys needed to do something to liven the place up. That typically involves the posting of pics of nude or partially nude females. I was guessing that would do nothing for you. Hence the "she doesn't swing that way."

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 07:43 PM (GEICT)

253 The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany on 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team, who were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian group Black September.[3][4][5][6] Shortly after the crisis began, they demanded the release of 234 prisoners held in Israeli jails,[7] and the release of the founders (Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof) of the German Red Army Faction, who were held in German prisons.[8] Black September called the operation "Iqrit and Biram",[9] after two Palestinian Christian villages whose inhabitants were expelled by the Haganah in 1948. The attackers were apparently given logistical assistance by German neo-Nazis.[10] Five of the eight members of Black September were killed by police officers during a failed rescue attempt. The three surviving attackers were captured, but later released by West Germany following the hijacking of a Lufthansa airliner. Israel responded to the killers' release with Operation "Spring of Youth" and Operation "Wrath of God", during which Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and special forces systematically tracked down and killed Palestinians suspected of involvement in the massacre happy happy joy joy

Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 07:43 PM (zOTsN)

254 has anyone developed a test for levels of so con? Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 11:38 PM (zOTsN) what are the issues for soCons anyway? abortion gay marrage gay adoption is that all? or then is there more? drug legalization what else? need a little help here...

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:43 PM (zELMe)

255 Flatbush Joe, your point about Broadway is interesting. My son and I are going to NYC for spring break and he wants to see a broadway show. Am having trouble finding one that I consider appropriate. We have seen Lion King and don't want to see it again.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 07:43 PM (RZ8pf)

256 It may be just me, but I wouldn't have handed any of those women a firearm, let alone ammo. I was expecting one of them to shoot themselves in the foot.

Posted by: Jerry at January 26, 2014 07:43 PM (4SKYj)

257 I don't understand why us media isn't covering th Ukraine protests. They were all over the Cairo ones. Posted by: Votermom ------------------ Meh. Local problem..., and I can't think of a way to leverage it.

Posted by: Barky at January 26, 2014 07:44 PM (aDwsi)

258 I just finished Wiliam Gibson's Zero Gravity novel today; in it was a mention and use of dazzle camouflage. So it's a real thing, I suppose. It allows you to hide out at a tranny convention based on the pictured example above..

Now for a useful piece of information; how to remove a ring from a swollen finger without cutting the ring off:

http://tinyurl.com/mczszgq (h/t Insty)

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 26, 2014 07:44 PM (wNF3N)

259 Still confused about the comment on the open thread that said I don't swing that way. Want to be perfectly clear. I am a female. And I like men for the old in and out. Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle That comment puzzled me, too. Anyone who has been following the comings and going of AoS for a length of time knows what a darling lady you are.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at January 26, 2014 07:44 PM (+1T7c)

260 240 Posted by: model_1066 at January 26, 2014 11:39 PM (LIQGY) You buy my vaj napkin now. It art! Posted by: Wise Old Yoko at January 26, 2014 11:40 PM (Q6HBD) Only if I vomit onto a canvas by thinking about your suggestion, then sell it to you for fifty times the price of your art.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 26, 2014 07:44 PM (LIQGY)

261 This Chicago/Robin Thicke thing is just a demonstration of how far we've fallen in 40 years

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 07:44 PM (b7yum)

262 238 Go on.....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 07:45 PM (ojnk6)

263 223 Germany's uniforms are the gayest of all. nttawwt http://tinyurl.com/ootbt7g Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 26, 2014 11:37 PM (V4CBV) Wow. That's literally gay.

Posted by: rickl at January 26, 2014 07:45 PM (sdi6R)

264 Hell, a lot of political parties and political ideologies have that problem of the hard-core/casual disconnect. Many of the most hard-core fans of anything will be happy living alone on Purity Island, comforted by their superiority and pureness.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 07:45 PM (ZPrif)

265 Pic from Kyiv http://tinyurl.com/my5aret

Posted by: RWC at January 26, 2014 07:45 PM (Q6HBD)

266 Meh. Local problem..., and I can't think of a way to leverage it. Posted by: Barky at January 26, 2014 11:44 PM (aDwsi) And because they're a bunch of privileged crackers, I'm guessing.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 26, 2014 07:46 PM (LIQGY)

267 Oh BC now I get it. Sorry I have had a few glasses of wine with a Jaegermeister chaser so my brain is fizzy. Or fuzzy.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 07:46 PM (RZ8pf)

268 what else? need a little help here... Posted by: One Ping -------------------- There is the issue of allowing Democrats to breathe the same air. I'm agin it, but that's just me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 26, 2014 07:46 PM (aDwsi)

269 Jaeger!!! Ice cold?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 07:46 PM (GEICT)

270

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 11:40 PM (RZ8pf)

never questioned, never doubted.

Posted by: dDan at January 26, 2014 07:46 PM (hwYmz)

271 Still confused about the comment on the open thread that said I don't swing that way. Want to be perfectly clear. I am a female. And I like men for the old in and out. Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 11:40 PM (RZ8pf) wait! whut?

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:46 PM (zELMe)

272 The PeopleÂ’s Bank of China , the central bank, has just ordered commercial banks to halt cash transfers. Alleged 'maintenance.' Over the Chinese new year. tinyurl.com/m444mxk Posted by: Methos at January 26, 2014 11:34 PM (hO9ad) Any connection to the HSBC nonsense? Posted by: Steck at January 26, 2014 11:38 PM (5i94q) Forget domino theory, this is more akin to a-bomb going super-criticalÂ… Just like the ping pong balls and mouse traps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKajmVgaOEM In other words: DOOM

Posted by: The Hat of Doom at January 26, 2014 07:47 PM (AymDN)

273 Tell you whut. I'm glad Andy "Mr 500" Granatelli didn't have to live to see those Olympic uniforms. http://tinyurl.com/kx46mpv

Such callous indifference on the food thread, not a lick of help for poor souls who've never made baking-mix biscuits. I will be baking at 0530 ish, to go with sausage gravy for my ell tee who has to high tail it back to base in the teeth of what's predicted as a 50MPH westerly gale, in a frickin Miata no less. Perhaps I will live-blog the process.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 26, 2014 07:47 PM (xq1UY)

274 239 38 http://zyalt.livejournal.com/984735.html I don't understand why us media isn't covering th Ukraine protests. They were all over the Cairo ones. Posted by: Votermom at January 26, 2014 11:40 PM (GSIDW) The riots in Egypt were about the Muslim Brotherhood who hates Israel, so the media needs to be sympathetic towards the MB and give them as much cover as possible. In the Ukraine, it is the right protesting against the government.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, Keeper of the KaBoom flame at January 26, 2014 07:47 PM (HxSXm)

275 Straight from the freezer.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 07:48 PM (RZ8pf)

276 Keith urban sings "True Colors"

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 07:49 PM (b7yum)

277 Straight from the freezer. Posted by: Paranoid -------------- So, you left it sitting outside?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 26, 2014 07:49 PM (aDwsi)

278 238 Still confused about the comment on the open thread that said I don't swing that way. Want to be perfectly clear. I am a female. And I like men for the old in and out. Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 11:40 PM (RZ8pf) *sidles over*

Posted by: rickl at January 26, 2014 07:50 PM (sdi6R)

279 Ukraine, Cambodia and Thailand were all against their governments. All were agitating for more freedom

Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 07:50 PM (zOTsN)

280 Hearing incredibly weird rumors and realizing that they're more than likely true. Hearing the straight-faced official denials and realizing that they're almost certainly false. Posted by: torquewrench at January 26, 2014 11:43 PM (gqT4g) one of Bill C's old flames claimed Hillary licked more poon than Bill ever had, anyone remember who said that?

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:50 PM (zELMe)

281 In Ukraine the bad guys are Communist thugs. Media seemingly not so interested in exploring the downsides of that. I've read more US media portraying Putin as a right-wing Christian installing an Orthodox Christian theocracy than as a Communist and KGB head.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 07:50 PM (ZPrif)

282 273 I have always found my Miata does well in snow and wind. Put two 50 lb bags of salt or sand over the wheel wells in the trunk (yes this will take up most of the trunk.) And just always remember that Sir Isaac Newton always has the right of way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2014 07:50 PM (TGgNi)

283 276 Keith urban sings "True Colors" Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 11:49 PM (b7yum) Thanks for taking one for the team and giving the rest of us fair warning, MAx!

Posted by: model_1066 at January 26, 2014 07:50 PM (LIQGY)

284 Naw we are warm here. Well 36 degrees this evening but that is warmer than where a lot of you are.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 07:50 PM (RZ8pf)

285 But it gets even more creepy and incriminating when one considers Huma Abedin's familial ties to radical foreign elements. I keep thinking more and more that it must have felt something like this to be living in Rome as the Empire began to fall apart from corruption and ineptitude and inflation. Hearing incredibly weird rumors and realizing that they're more than likely true. Hearing the straight-faced official denials and realizing that they're almost certainly false. Posted by: torquewrench at January 26, 2014 11:43 PM (gqT4g) Damn, you people are degenerate!

Posted by: Elagabalus at January 26, 2014 07:51 PM (AymDN)

286 one of Bill C's old flames claimed Hillary licked more poon than Bill ever had, anyone remember who said that? Posted by: One Ping Only Gennifer Flowers, most likely.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at January 26, 2014 07:51 PM (+1T7c)

287 Black guy spent more time selecting his hat than learning how to play guitar

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 07:52 PM (b7yum)

288 who was Bill Clinton's long standing affair with?

Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 07:52 PM (zOTsN)

289 Broadway's cultural ghetto: Can anybody name what won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2013?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 07:52 PM (ZPrif)

290 I do not like thinking about where Hillary's tongue has been. It makes me vomit. And Jagermeister burns twice as much on the way back up as it does going down.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 07:53 PM (RZ8pf)

291 Answer: Kinky Boots Based on the 2005 film Kinky Boots, which was inspired by a true story, the musical tells of a struggling British shoe factory's young, straitlaced owner, Charlie, who forms an unlikely partnership with Lola, a drag queen, to save the business. Charlie develops a plan to produce custom transvestite footwear for drag artists, rather than the men's dress shoes that his firm is known for, and in the process, he and Lola discover that they are not so different after all.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 07:53 PM (ZPrif)

292 Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2014 11:50 PM (TGgNi) I would think snow tires would be essential as well.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 26, 2014 07:53 PM (LIQGY)

293 181 During the PGA golf tourney this week in San Diego they showed a super large tree limp spontaneously break off and fall . Luckily no spectators were near by.

It wasn't spontaneous. It was dendrojihad.

Posted by: Deciduous Liberation Front at January 26, 2014 07:54 PM (U82Km)

294

heheheh eh heh... she said "going down"... heheheheh

Posted by: beavis at January 26, 2014 07:54 PM (9gNQd)

295 267 Oh BC now I get it. Sorry I have had a few glasses of wine with a Jaegermeister chaser so my brain is fizzy. Or fuzzy. Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 11:46 Oooohh. What are you anesthetizing? I pulled my pecs & lats on one side. It's owie.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 07:54 PM (V6y6o)

296 The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany on 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team, who were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian group Black September Posted by: thunderb at January 26, 2014 11:43 PM (zOTsN) Robot Chicken's take on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuQIh0mHGrI

Posted by: The Really Rottens at January 26, 2014 07:54 PM (AymDN)

297

287 The more you love music the more you hate the Grammys

Fuck not another shitty song about the Beatles by MacCartney PLEASE!!!

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 07:54 PM (b7yum)

298 In the Ukraine, it is the right protesting against the government. Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, Keeper of the KaBoom flame at January 26, 2014 11:47 PM (HxSXm) This can't help the cause. http://tinyurl.com/kbrsm3t Give it a year and we're there.

Posted by: RWC at January 26, 2014 07:54 PM (Q6HBD)

299 289 Broadway's cultural ghetto: Can anybody name what won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2013? Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 11:52 PM (ZPrif) Not that I care, but my guess is the South Park dudes' "Book of Mormon". I think it's a musical...

Posted by: model_1066 at January 26, 2014 07:55 PM (LIQGY)

300 I am a female. And I like men for the old in and out. Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 11:40 PM (RZ8pf) Thread winner! After learning the back story... but still thread winner!

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:56 PM (zELMe)

301 yeah, china going supercritical financially is not an especially good thing for anyone. It will be interesting to watch. I am not sure if chinasyndrome or chernobyl is a better metaphor.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 07:57 PM (rDidD)

302 292 No, I just have all weather radials on mine and it does fine. The worst trouble I have is when the snow is mounded up between the two wheel ruts on the road too high (because of how low the car sits.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2014 07:57 PM (TGgNi)

303

300 Too bad pgis lives so far or she could prove it

and i don't make that offer to anyone

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 07:57 PM (b7yum)

304 Book of Mormon won in 2011 with such lyrics as, "Fuck you God, in the ass, mouth, and c*nt." (To be honest, I thought the Book of Mormon was funny and had some catchy songs.)

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 07:57 PM (ZPrif)

305 bebe so sorry

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 07:57 PM (Hvt9o)

306 281 In Ukraine the bad guys are Communist thugs. Media seemingly not so interested in exploring the downsides of that.

VoA has quite a bit of coverage on their Russian page:

http://www.golos-ameriki.ru/archive/ukraine-protests/latest/1632/3871.html

I'm assuming they only get away with it because Ear Leader can't read Russian.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 26, 2014 07:58 PM (U82Km)

307 Hello Bebe!

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 07:58 PM (rDidD)

308 I refuse to worry about China or banks bec there is nothing I can do about it.

Posted by: Votermom at January 26, 2014 07:58 PM (GSIDW)

309 Hi CJ, y5

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 07:58 PM (V6y6o)

310 Rest assured, the two St. Louis intersections that make the list of most dangerous are both within spitting distance of MLK Blvd... well, stray bullet distance, maybe.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2014 07:58 PM (BeSEI)

311

The 411 on hbsc: http://tinyurl.com/mdufp3x

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 07:58 PM (b7yum)

312 304 (To be honest, I thought the Book of Mormon was funny and had some catchy songs.)

It may well, but Mrs. Chronda still hasn't forgiven me for making her watch the South Park movie, so I'll never know.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 26, 2014 07:59 PM (U82Km)

313 Flatbush - Gee, I missed that Kicky Boots (or whatever) thing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 26, 2014 07:59 PM (aDwsi)

314 I'm assuming they only get away with it because Ear Leader can't read Russian. Posted by: Anachronda at January 26, 2014 11:58 PM (U82Km) or Austrian either* like the "Era Leader" catchy

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 07:59 PM (zELMe)

315 I'd rather watch the Granny awards.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 26, 2014 07:59 PM (ozktE)

316 Jon Legend has written the same song for 13 years

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 07:59 PM (b7yum)

317 I can mean "Wanting to set up a Jewish hegemon within the mentioned state (outside of Israel.)
I thought a hegemon was a Jamaican gardener?

Posted by: joey biden at January 26, 2014 08:00 PM (NU/ou)

318 Bebe ex-husband travel headaches. And I have a wee bit of depression right now.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 08:00 PM (RZ8pf)

319 This bank stuff is making me nervous.

I have business related checks I need to deposit. I guess I better deposit them tomorrow.

Posted by: Iasonas at January 26, 2014 08:00 PM (FHNkr)

320 *like the "Era Leader" catchy *like the "Ear Leader" catchy , same thing

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 08:01 PM (zELMe)

321 286 Wwsn't Gennifer (sic) Flowers a Gary Hart thing? Or is she multi Presidential?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 08:02 PM (ojnk6)

322 319 This bank stuff is making me nervous. I have business related checks I need to deposit. I guess I better deposit them tomorrow. Posted by: Iasonas at January 27, 2014 12:00 AM (FHNkr) Thanks.

Posted by: Borrowing your 401 at January 26, 2014 08:02 PM (Q6HBD)

323 I'm not very religious but seeing how low culture has descended, I think I better understand how early Christians must have felt.

Posted by: Votermom at January 26, 2014 08:02 PM (GSIDW)

324 wait, what's going on with the banks?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 08:02 PM (Hvt9o)

325 http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?59054-Do-bank-deposits-belong-to-you

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 08:02 PM (b7yum)

326 The U S team looks like they are dressed for an "ugly sweater" Christmas party. Is that still a thing?

Posted by: Elliot m at January 26, 2014 08:03 PM (vPhnb)

327 325 I dunno how that worked w/o a tiny

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 08:03 PM (b7yum)

328 Mrs. Chronda still hasn't forgiven me for making her watch the South Park movie, You couldn't convince her it was Canada's fault?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 08:03 PM (V6y6o)

329 Yeah kinky boots and book of mormon aren't exactly 12 year old boy material. There is a revival of Pippin, but it looks to be full of gay themes as well. Kind of like the Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat revival I saw a few years ago.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 08:03 PM (RZ8pf)

330 Posted by: Borrowing your 401 at January 27, 2014 12:02 AM (Q6HBD)

Jokes on them! I don't even have a 401k!

Posted by: Iasonas at January 26, 2014 08:04 PM (FHNkr)

331 Book of Mormon synopsis -- super white-bread Mormon geeks go to Africa to convert AIDS-infested villagers and warlords to Mormonism. It's mostly just a way to laugh at all the silly things Mormons believe in.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 08:04 PM (ZPrif)

332 I have a wee bit of depression right now. Shoves chocolate through USB port for PGIS

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 08:04 PM (V6y6o)

333 Posted by: Elliot m at January 27, 2014 12:03 AM (vPhnb)

Unfortunately yes.

Posted by: Iasonas at January 26, 2014 08:05 PM (FHNkr)

334 Jokes on them! I don't even have a 401k! Posted by: Iasonas at January 27, 2014 12:04 AM (FHNkr Cash in the system? Yeah, that's mine.

Posted by: Borrowing your 401 at January 26, 2014 08:05 PM (Q6HBD)

335 Good evening, Horde. In a bar tonight some friends and I watched the Norwegians curling against the US team tonight from Vegas. We left before it was over, but I think the Norwegians are pretty good. And good night. School starts tomorrow.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 26, 2014 08:05 PM (N/cFh)

336 Thanks bebe!

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 08:05 PM (RZ8pf)

337

-----------------------------

Hey, I mostly lurk- but I thought that was wrong.... hell its good to be paranoid, but you never said you were even curious.

RE: Ukraine- I SLAMMED some lib friends on this earlier in the week- "but look at the terrible unrest" vs. my "look at the lack of coverage HERE where we could go that way next".... assholes.

Posted by: BunkerinTheBurbs at January 26, 2014 08:06 PM (X3xYu)

338 And the Norwegians suits look like they were designed by Matthew Lesko.

Posted by: Elliot m at January 26, 2014 08:07 PM (vPhnb)

339 Les Mis is great if that's still running. Big Broadway production values. Everybody, even boys, like it. Phantom of the Opera is also a classic, but much more for girls.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 08:07 PM (ZPrif)

340 one of Bill C's old flames claimed Hillary licked more poon than Bill ever had, anyone remember who said that?

It was Bill C who claimed that.
http://tinyurl.com/l2m8mr6

This is admittedly what we like to call "a hadith". It is hearsay. Bill goes for the not-nice sort of girl, and not-nice sorts of girl ... tend to say stuff.

But in this case since Bill also tends to say stuff, I am tempted to rate this hadith hasan. It's probably true but you shouldn't count it as a fatwa from your imam.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 08:07 PM (30eLQ)

341 eh that website seems a bit hippy-dippy. a little bit ron-paulish-silver-dime-ish. don't know how much stock I place in that.

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 08:07 PM (Hvt9o)

342 Gary Hartpence was nailing Donna Rice. Funny though he has been married to his wife since 1958. Demotard wimmenz must love being shat upon.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 26, 2014 08:07 PM (jucos)

343 Taylor Swift tries to be dramatic like Santana

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 08:08 PM (b7yum)

344 331 Book of Mormon synopsis -- super white-bread Mormon geeks go to Africa to convert AIDS-infested villagers and warlords to Mormonism. It's mostly just a way to laugh at all the silly things Mormons believe in. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 27, 2014 12:04 AM (ZPrif)
They wouldn't dare laugh at the silly things the Africans believe in.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 26, 2014 08:08 PM (ozktE)

345 5th most dangerous neighborhood is near the kid's 1st choice college. Not happy.

--

Wofford? Beautiful campus. I wouldn't worry too much. I think the Converse Heights crime is really quite localized. As long as you don't hang out right there, they should be fine. I live in the Spartanburg area.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 26, 2014 08:08 PM (Oa7B2)

346 330 Ioasonas, many now don't that used to thanks to the SCOAMFs policies. Maybe he is helping, who knew?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 08:08 PM (ojnk6)

347 I was thinking about Les Mis.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 08:08 PM (RZ8pf)

348 Re: Broadway shows

Apparently, there's an off-Broadway production of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe http://www.broadway.com/shows/lion-witch-and-wardrobe/

Hopefully they didn't shoe-horn any leftist tripe into that.

Other than that, maybe try Stomp. I'd imagine it would be more difficult to spin into leftist propaganda.

Posted by: Iasonas at January 26, 2014 08:10 PM (FHNkr)

349 somebody really fucked things up.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 08:10 PM (rDidD)

350 Gary Hartpence was nailing Donna Rice. Funny though he has been married to his wife since 1958. Demotard wimmenz must love being shat upon.
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 27, 2014 12:07 AM (jucos)

I think that a lot of them are in it for the political power, so they agree to open marriages. Hubby gets to screw his interns, she bangs her personal trainer, and they pretend to be lovey-dovey with each other when the cameras are on.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 26, 2014 08:10 PM (lr3d7)

351 Les Mis is a damn near perfect musical. I also liked Chicago, but again, more adult material.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 08:11 PM (ZPrif)

352

341 Vox's book "Return of the Great Depression" was a helluva book and one of the few that called it

That Daft Punk song is unbelievably filthy

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 08:11 PM (b7yum)

353 339 Les Mis is great if that's still running. Not with the staging they adopted for the 25th anniversary production. And most if them people on the current production suck. Seriously, watch the 25th anniversary version through to the end, when they have Colin wilkinson, Mario ball, et all come out & sing the finale. They blow the newbies off the stage & they are all years removed from the music.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 08:12 PM (V6y6o)

354 Huh, I will look into the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. That didn't come up when I was surfing. I have seen Stomp twice, really don't want to see it again.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 08:12 PM (RZ8pf)

355 I'm always stunned that Broadway made 1776. Wouldn't happen today. The entire 2nd act would be about Jefferson raping slaves.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 08:12 PM (ZPrif)

356 If you've never seen 1776 the movie musical version is very good.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 08:13 PM (ZPrif)

357 seriously, somebody really fucked things up, really, just look at this mess. Now I am gonna have to take time away from all my meaningless work and have to spend time fixing it. Not just me, probably everyone here. fucking parents generation sleeping at the switch. if everything is a mess during the holidays they are really gonna catch a talking to.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 08:13 PM (rDidD)

358 241 A lot of sports and entertainment forms have that problem of the disconnect between hard-core and casual fans. Many hardcore Nascar fans would be fine if Nascar went back to racing tiny tracks in small-town North Carolina and not on national TV. Broadway is a good example of a genre that listened mainly to it's hard-core fans and retreated into a cultural ghetto. Broadway used to be a huge part of American pop culture. It tried to appeal to mainstream American tastes. At some point Broadway said, fuck that, let's appeal to our hard-core fanbase -- gay dudes and melodramatic drama chicks. Broadway became super gay and super chickified and the rest of America just .... stopped paying attention. Jazz was once huge. But the hard-core Jazz fans thought predictable, danceable, tappable rhythms were lame and stupid. And Jazz retreated into an isolated cultural ghetto. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 11:41 PM (ZPrif) In 2002 when Britney Cecil was killed by a puck at a hockey game, the NHL (and all other hockey leagues) mandated safety nets behind the goals for the safety of fans. You would have thought they made hockey into pairs figure skating from the reaction of fans. A 12 year old girl dying was "unfortunate" but she should have been paying attention is what these idiots argued. As for NASCAR fans, they bitch about the tracks that NASCAR goes to and lament that they don't go to the old tracks, but they forget that fans stopped going to N. Wilkesboro, Rockingham, Darlington and now Martinsville. Tracks that held/hold under 50K fans not selling out, but when they go to a track that holds 100K fans and doesn't sell out they point to that as why NASCAR should be at the smaller tracks. Let's see, 70% of 50K or 60% of 100K, that is an easy question to answer.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, Keeper of the KaBoom flame at January 26, 2014 08:13 PM (HxSXm)

359

Try this again: http://www.jsmineset.com/

Like that better???

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 08:13 PM (b7yum)

360 Want to be perfectly clear. I am a female. And I like men for the old in and out. Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle that is so heteronormative !!!

Posted by: the heteronormative sock at January 26, 2014 08:13 PM (zELMe)

361 They wouldn't dare laugh at the silly things the Africans believe in.

I read the musical's script. It sort-of does take shots at Africa and certain of the things Africans do to make it Africa. Africa isn't the focus, true, so that's off to the side.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 08:13 PM (30eLQ)

362 325 http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?59054-Do-bank-deposits-belong-to-you

Posted by: MAx at January 27, 2014 12:02 AM (b7yum)

The initial post is accurate enough....and that's what the FDIC is supposed to handle -- the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....which, like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Sallie Mae, is a supposedly independent deal sponsored but not backstopped by the Feds, but in the case of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac they were.....and Sallie Mae got sockpuppeted by the Feds under a law commonly known as.....wait for it.....Obamacare! Yes, in the 2700 pages of medical gibberish, they found time to corrupt Sallie Mae, as well.

In actual practice, all of these -- and Ginnie Mae, the FSLIC, and all the others -- have been thoroughly looted. Whenever the crisis hits that they were formed to insure against, their insurance will have whatever value the Federal Reserve desires on that day.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2014 08:14 PM (T1005)

363 Ettes, can I say something? We men are not stupid. Simple, honest, pretty singularly focused? Sure. But not stupid. When you act irritated and we ask "What's wrong?" or "Are you ok?", the response of "Nothing." or "I'm fine." is a lie. It's obvious you are neither fine nor ok. Just come out and say it. Sheesh.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 08:14 PM (GEICT)

364 Wtf? Colm is right autocorrect !

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 08:14 PM (V6y6o)

365 So I prepared a list of 22 things to do today.

I got exactly 2 of them done. Third one is yet unfinished.

ugh.

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 08:15 PM (Hvt9o)

366 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 27, 2014 12:12 AM (ZPrif)

More recently Broadway had that thing with Will Ferrel mocking G.W. Bush and Green Day's "American Idiot" adapted for the stage.

So, yeah.

Posted by: Iasonas at January 26, 2014 08:15 PM (FHNkr)

367 by the way, I kinda see colorado as our domestic version of iraq, let their loose pot laws and run restrictions suck them all in there and screw themselves. if all the nuts rolled left into california, let colorado be the drain that sucks them all in. I am starting to think of colorado's borders as the event horizon.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 08:15 PM (rDidD)

368 Spitzer and his wife finally split because they both agreed they had nothing to gain (power, prestige, and wealth) from their union. It's all bullshit.

Posted by: soothsayer, with arms akimbo at January 26, 2014 08:16 PM (2gtaA)

369 wait, what's going on with the banks?

Forbes had an article that said the PBOC had ordered a three day freeze of transfers between China's commercial banks, and a nine day freeze of currency conversion for a period overlapping the Chinese new year. When coincidentally the BOC is defaulting some investment instrument coming due (the 31st).

Zerohedge says it's nothing, some commenters there and at market-ticker think this is old news announced three weeks ago, so not a surprise.

The forbes article, which was up when I put the link in my comment above, has now disappeared.

Other commenters are also claiming chinese markets are going all to hell on heavy volume.

So, clusterfuck to worse.

Posted by: Methos at January 26, 2014 08:16 PM (hO9ad)

370 Aw Chemjeff a man after my own heart. I got precisely zero things done this weekend.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 08:16 PM (RZ8pf)

371 BC - "If I have to tell you, then there's the problem."

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 26, 2014 08:16 PM (aDwsi)

372 357 seriously, somebody really fucked things up, really, just look at this mess. ? You're gonna have to spell it out for me y5, I'm comfortably numb. Yay kir royales

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 08:16 PM (V6y6o)

373 @282 Thanks. He made it up (W-P to Lake Erie) just fine in snow. There's a boo-coo toolbox in the trunk, because he just got done "de-powering" the steering rack, and felt that the improved road feel kept him out of a couple of "polar-moment" situations. We've got a hell of a clipper coming; it's my job to worry.

My own experience is that a light RWD car with close to 50/50 weight balance will do as well powering up and steering in blowing snow as a heavier car with 60/40 (or worse -- I had a Ranchero!). Once slicked snow comes into play, or what we call "glare ice" here, nobody really has an advantage. I do pretty well with a one-ton, duallies, and reduced speed. Jeep wrote the book, but 4WD won't stop you. In a true "Time of The Great Freeze" scenario there's always the 6 X 6.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 26, 2014 08:16 PM (xq1UY)

374 363 Sorry you're having an issue BC. This too shall pass, hopefully. Be well.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 08:17 PM (ojnk6)

375 The Very First Thing hclinton will do on her inaugaration day is serve Bill Clinton with divorce papers. Mark my words.

Posted by: soothsayer, with arms akimbo at January 26, 2014 08:17 PM (2gtaA)

376 Catherine Fowles on Bringing the Beloved Classic 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' to Life Off-Broadway

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe's Catherine Fowles talks about the new stage adaptation of the classic childrenÂ’s book and why this off-Broadway fairy tale is bringing folks back to Â“the bare essentials of imagination."

http://tinyurl.com/lqxv3rw

-- it might not be ENTIRELY what CS Lewis wanted of his Christian allegory, but the musical is at least being done by fans of Lewis's work. And not by satirists of it (as was done to 'Starship Troopers').

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 08:17 PM (30eLQ)

377 I got exactly 2 of them done. Third one is yet unfinished Eh. Have a drink with PGIS & me CJ. Soon it won't matter.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 08:18 PM (V6y6o)

378 I hope sptizers wife gets every effin dime he has and everything his dad was gonna leave him. I also hope spitzer gets a job as a tranny hooker using the name spitzorswallows.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 08:18 PM (rDidD)

379 I'm not very religious but seeing how low culture has descended, I think I better understand how early Christians must have felt.>>

If one believes in God or not all should be able to agree the basics of what the Bible teaches. If one follows those teachings your odds go up on living a more successful life. It is a collection of 2000+ years of knowledge gathered the hard way.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 26, 2014 08:19 PM (TI3xG)

380 Man Of La Mancha? Camelot?

Posted by: soothsayer, with arms akimbo at January 26, 2014 08:19 PM (2gtaA)

381 I'm always stunned that Broadway made 1776. Wouldn't happen today. The entire 2nd act would be about Jefferson raping slaves. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 27, 2014 12:12 AM (ZPrif) If 1776 were made to day, it would basically be "The Protocols of the Elders of ~~Zion~~ Kyriarchy set to musicÂ…

Posted by: The Reolutionary Hat at January 26, 2014 08:19 PM (AymDN)

382 So, clusterfuck to worse. Posted by: Methos at January 27, 2014 12:16 AM (hO9ad) kinda does not matter what forbes and zero hedge say. it is what people do... panic? stay calm?

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 08:19 PM (zELMe)

383 371 BC - "If I have to tell you, then there's the problem." Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 27, 2014 12:16 AM (aDwsi) Nope, not even that. The wife is sick. Been throwing up all day. So we finally get to bed time and I tell her goodnight, I'm sleeping out on the couch. "What?? Why???" "Because you've been puking all day. You're sick. I don't want it." Enter the obv upset wife who refuses to say that she's upset and why.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 08:19 PM (GEICT)

384 I am starting to think of colorado's borders as the event horizon.

That's why I moved here. I wanted to be forgotten about. (To varying degrees of success, it appears. But then... Hawking.)

The problem is that black holes tend to gain mass.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 08:19 PM (30eLQ)

385 The King And I?

Posted by: soothsayer, with arms akimbo at January 26, 2014 08:20 PM (2gtaA)

386 ugh.
okay I'm gonna go home now

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 08:20 PM (Hvt9o)

387 If one believes in God or not all should be able to agree the basics of what the Bible teaches. If one follows those teachings your odds go up on living a more successful life. It is a collection of 2000+ years of knowledge gathered the hard way.

^^ this.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo, agnostic at January 26, 2014 08:20 PM (30eLQ)

388 If one believes in God or not all should be able to agree the basics of what the Bible teaches. If one follows those teachings your odds go up on living a more successful life. It is a collection of 2000+ years of knowledge gathered the hard way. ^^ this. Posted by: boulder toilet hobo, agnostic at January 27, 2014 12:20 AM (30eLQ) All I'm missing, then, is the jaw-bone of an assÂ…

Posted by: The Hairy Hat at January 26, 2014 08:21 PM (AymDN)

389 So many great old musicals: Music Man, 1776, Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, King and I, My Fair Lady, Oliver, Grease, Les Mis. Seems like half of the musicals these days are basically just -- struggles of being gay in the big city. How original. Sometimes it's also -- struggles of being an artsy 20-something chick in the big city.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 08:22 PM (ZPrif)

390

Taylor Swift is the female John Cougar Melloncamp and Pink is the new Meatloaf.

I'm waiting for a new Hendrix

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 08:22 PM (b7yum)

391 I saw SHOWBOAT on stage in Louisville KY in 1997. It starred, get this, Schneider from One Day At A Time. He was great!

Posted by: soothsayer, with arms akimbo at January 26, 2014 08:22 PM (2gtaA)

392 Chemjeff, you have class tomorrow, or are there cancellations? (The wussbuckets up here in Chicagoland are cancelling classes left and right.)

Posted by: Steck at January 26, 2014 08:23 PM (5i94q)

393 "Because you've been puking all day. You're sick. I don't want it." Enter the obv upset wife who refuses to say that she's upset and why. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2014 12:19 AM (GEICT) I'm not an expert but I think I see the answer based on the above. Only wives can sleep somewhere else

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 08:23 PM (zELMe)

394 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 27, 2014 12:22 AM (ZPrif)

I unfortunately sat through it, and I'm not quite sure what it was about, but now that you put it that way, I think Wicked was the struggles of an artsy 20-something chick in the Emerald City.

So, yeah.

Posted by: Iasonas at January 26, 2014 08:24 PM (FHNkr)

395 Sometimes it's also -- struggles of being an artsy 20-something chick in the big city.

Bonsoir!

Posted by: La Bohéme at January 26, 2014 08:24 PM (30eLQ)

396 I saw 1776 back in high school. Damn that was long night. Awkward too.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 08:24 PM (GEICT)

397 "Chicago" is a truly great American Musical, with a very empowering feminine prison scene "He Had It Coming". I laughed my ass off the first time I ever saw and heard that one.

Posted by: navybrat at January 26, 2014 08:24 PM (AW7Gr)

398 Yes it does seem like every single broadway show, even the classics, has to have a " trials and tribulations of being gay" theme these days. If they did Cats these days all the cats would be gay, and the old cat would be dying of Aids. Oh, wait that was called "Rent"

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 08:24 PM (RZ8pf)

399 Did the Royals chick just get out of her crypt???

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 08:25 PM (b7yum)

400 All I'm missing, then, is the jaw-bone of an assÂ…

Too bad McCain's still using his to talk.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 26, 2014 08:25 PM (wSrLR)

401 Only wives can sleep somewhere else Posted by: One Ping Only at January 27, 2014 12:23 AM (zELMe) Yeah well, the last time I got a bug that had me puking, I ended up in the ICU due to complications with another medical condition. I'd rather like to avoid that this time.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 08:25 PM (GEICT)

402 Yeah I got the accent wrong. Sue me.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo, sportin' a B in GSCE French at January 26, 2014 08:25 PM (30eLQ)

403 All I'm missing, then, is the jaw-bone of an assÂ…>>

Start with the 7 deadly sins as the wading pool. The jawbone of an ass is advanced stuff.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 26, 2014 08:25 PM (TI3xG)

404 The royals have a girl on the team?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 08:26 PM (rDidD)

405 That Planet of the Apes musical was pretty good.

Posted by: things are a might confuse down Waterhouse way at January 26, 2014 08:26 PM (qZOzH)

406 Hell, Avenue Q was about the struggles of being a gay puppet in the big city.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 26, 2014 08:26 PM (ZPrif)

407 376 Catherine Fowles on Bringing the Beloved Classic 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' to Life Off-Broadway The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe's Catherine Fowles talks about the new stage adaptation of the classic childrenÂ’s book and why this off-Broadway fairy tale is bringing folks back to Â“the bare essentials of imagination." http://tinyurl.com/lqxv3rw -- it might not be ENTIRELY what CS Lewis wanted of his Christian allegory, but the musical is at least being done by fans of Lewis's work. And not by satirists of it (as was done to 'Starship Troopers'). Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 27, 2014 12:17 AM (30eLQ) Gotta read between the lines. "Off Broadway" means that it will be edgy. "Classic Children's book" means that it will be "updated to reflect today's charged political climate of right wing hate" "Bare essentials of imagination" means that there will be tons of nudity and sex in it.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, Keeper of the KaBoom flame at January 26, 2014 08:26 PM (HxSXm)

408 The jawbone of an ass is advanced stuff. Posted by: The Hickster at January 27, 2014 12:25 AM (TI3xG) obviously lacking on Old Testament knowing, that Sampson? a little help here

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 08:27 PM (zELMe)

409 so, which is worse, duran duran or wham?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 08:28 PM (rDidD)

410 My darling Ex moved to the spare bedroom permanently when I bitched about her freight train snoring. The only time she wanted to come back was was sick and wanted coddling. Sure......

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 08:28 PM (ojnk6)

411 Yeah well, the last time I got a bug that had me puking, I ended up in the ICU due to complications with another medical condition. I'd rather like to avoid that this time. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2014 12:25 AM (GEICT) I hear you brother, but chicks have difrent rules

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 08:29 PM (zELMe)

412 Yes it does seem like every single broadway show, even the classics, has to have a " trials and tribulations of being gay" theme these days. If they did Cats these days all the cats would be gay, and the old cat would be dying of Aids. Oh, wait that was called "Rent" Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 27, 2014 12:24 AM (RZ8pf) Â…or Lease! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6szE_qmzavQ

Posted by: Gary Johnston at January 26, 2014 08:29 PM (AymDN)

413 The jawbone of an ass is advanced stuff. Posted by: The Hickster at January 27, 2014 12:25 AM (TI3xG) obviously lacking on Old Testament knowing, that Sampson? a little help here Posted by: One Ping Only I assumed you meant something about obama talking everyone to death in his sotu on tuesday.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 08:29 PM (rDidD)

414 I hate fucking apes. From chimpan a's to chimpan zees.

Posted by: soothsayer, with arms akimbo at January 26, 2014 08:29 PM (2gtaA)

415 obviously lacking on Old Testament knowing, that Sampson? a little help here Posted by: One Ping Only at January 27, 2014 12:27 AM (zELMe) Yup. Killed 1000 Philistines with it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 26, 2014 08:29 PM (GEICT)

416 I'll tell ya the recovery from carpal tunnel surgery has been the most painful thing I've ever done

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 08:30 PM (b7yum)

417 kinda does not matter what forbes and zero hedge say.

it is what people do... panic?

stay calm?

I'm not reassured by the knowledge this was announced three weeks ago, if that's true. The BOC default (which is again, one particular device, not the whole bank) was announced last week, but surely they knew longer ago than that. Even the it's-no-biggie version indicates that China's banking system will be closed for the period under discussion because no one will be working to process transfer requests. If had funds at risk in a deposit there I'd be getting out just to be on the safe side.

I guess we'll find out in the morning.

Posted by: Methos at January 26, 2014 08:31 PM (hO9ad)

418 .... moved to the spare bedroom permanently when I bitched about her freight train snoring. ...... Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 27, 2014 12:28 AM (ojnk6) um don't do that either

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 08:31 PM (zELMe)

419 I assumed you meant something about obama talking everyone to death in his sotu on tuesday. Posted by: yankeefifth --------------- lmao Now that there is funny...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 26, 2014 08:32 PM (aDwsi)

420 "so, which is worse, duran duran or wham?"

Tempted to say Wham!.

But neither of them really pushed the musical frontiers. Duran Duran did use that "gated drum" sound, which I thought was cool at the time - until I found out that Peter Gabriel had done all that shit on his "Melt" album many years before.

So we're left with songs. "Careless Whispers"? or "Save a Prayer"? Both are fine songs for their day.

Better off with Tears for Fears, you are. "Start of the Breakdown", "Shout", "Brian Wilson Said" . . .

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 08:32 PM (30eLQ)

421 "The wife is sick. Been throwing up all day. So we finally get to bed time and I tell her goodnight, I'm sleeping out on the couch. 'What?? Why???' 'Because you've been puking all day. You're sick. I don't want it.'"

Protocol round here is that sick spouse gets the comfy big bed, but sick spouse always actively prompts well spouse to sleep elsewhere for their own health. This works gracefully and avoids awkward silences.

Protip: get one of those inter-room baby monitors. That way, sick spouse can easily awaken and summon well spouse to come help if needed.

If they made a baby monitor that filtered snoring, that would be icing on the cake.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 26, 2014 08:34 PM (gqT4g)

422 420 Hold Me Now was the shit

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 08:34 PM (b7yum)

423 I guess we'll find out in the morning. Posted by: Methos at January 27, 2014 12:31 AM (hO9ad) I saw something on Instapundit this week about Banks in China that are not stae run being waaayyy into a bubble. don't remember twhat they called those banks

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 08:34 PM (zELMe)

424 398 Yes it does seem like every single broadway show, even the classics, has to have a " trials and tribulations of being gay" theme these days. If they did Cats these days all the cats would be gay, and the old cat would be dying of Aids. Oh, wait that was called "Rent" Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 27, 2014 12:24 AM (RZ8pf) My sister took my mom to that, and my mom went on about how much she loved it until my sister told her what the story was about. She didn't like it anymore. The Mrs and I used to get tickets to a small local theater here in town, but we stopped going in about 2003 when they got REAL political in their play selections. It was sad because the large theater group in town had gotten real political in the late 90's and was barely holding on at the time. They didn't seem to mind pissing off 50+% of their audience.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, Keeper of the KaBoom flame at January 26, 2014 08:34 PM (HxSXm)

425 418 At that point, there was nothing to lose OPO. I was getting bitched at for occasional snoring, whilenshe sounded like Foghorn Leghorn with a cold, nightly. Walking on eggshells is not my strong suit.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 08:34 PM (ojnk6)

426 409 so, which is worse, duran duran or wham? Dude. Wham. No question. I loathed Duran Duran when they arrived in their new romantic makeup. But their music had held up pretty well. Not as well as Big Country, but better than many.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 08:35 PM (V6y6o)

427 I applaud Mel Brooks, for being a total prophet. He alone not only foresaw the ascendancy of the Gay culture on Broadway, he even mocked it, way back in the year 2000. Do a Youtube search on "Keep It Gay".

There was also a fair amount of Gay stuff in "Blazing Saddles". Especially the Dom Deluise bits.

Posted by: navybrat at January 26, 2014 08:36 PM (AW7Gr)

428 Wake me up before you go go

pop music of the 80's for the most part sucked

Posted by: The Dude at January 26, 2014 08:37 PM (bStrg)

429 Especially the Dom Deluise bits.

Now you're doing the French Mistake

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 08:37 PM (30eLQ)

430 so, which is worse, duran duran or wham? Duran Duran's Bond theme was pretty fucking awful. On the other hand, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go." To the wood-chipper with them both!

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 26, 2014 08:37 PM (qZOzH)

431 If they made a baby monitor that filtered snoring, that would be icing on the cake.>>

They do. It's a dog training collar. She can just press the remote button and you'll come running.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 26, 2014 08:37 PM (TI3xG)

432 pop music of the 80's for the most part sucked

That's why we had industrial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYUpRfgl_ug

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 08:38 PM (30eLQ)

433 To the wood-chipper with them both!

You can use mine, it's the one with the "Ready for Hillary!" bumper sticker on it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 26, 2014 08:39 PM (wSrLR)

434 Dude. Wham. No question. I loathed Duran Duran when they arrived in their new romantic makeup. But their music had held up pretty well. Not as well as Big Country, but better than many. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy see, my instinctive response was wham, however, some of the kids were playing hits from the dark ages and I could hear some of them. I think it might be the case the duran duran had more songs but wham had a lower percentage of bad songs. also, I should clarify, before I offered my question to the horde I was thinking of wham and george michael as one. his I want your sex song is not as bad as I had remembered.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 08:39 PM (rDidD)

435 421 Minus Protip, I'm with you on this.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 08:40 PM (ojnk6)

436 pop music of the 80's for the most part sucked That's why we had industrial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYUpRfgl_ug Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 27, 2014 12:38 AM (30eLQ) Proof that the '80's were superior: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6LA7v1PApU

Posted by: \m/ The Headbanging Hat \m/ at January 26, 2014 08:40 PM (AymDN)

437 Just finished second shot of JÃ¤ger. Now am sleepy. Thanks for the Broadway advice. Now if I can get the stupid London trip solved for June Ex is taking the boy and I am bringing him back but a one way is more than round trip so ex won't buy one way but I won't drive to Vancouver BC for my travel. So he is going to buy the boy a round trip and throw out the ticket back. I suspect I will be in for a very thorough screening on our trip back to the states. Yeah and if what I wrote doesn't make sense, I agree.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 26, 2014 08:41 PM (RZ8pf)

438 Why is Greased Lightning the only number cut from the TV version of Grease? I remember seeing the movie in the theatre and it was my favorite number (give me some slack I was 6). Over the next 3 decades I saw the movie dozens of more times but it was always the TV version.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 08:42 PM (AzO5R)

439 Steely Dan in the '80s.
Toto in the '80's
Little Feat in the '80's.
Yeah, totally sucked.
Especially when compared to the so called musical geniuses of today, which are clearly superior due, because, well, just because they are prettier. They are all very pretty boys. Pretty.

Posted by: navybrat at January 26, 2014 08:43 PM (AW7Gr)

440 I'm going to skip the SotU on tuesday. Ear Learderjust talks shit anyway, well tous. To Supporters he says thing diffrent

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 08:43 PM (zELMe)

441 Proof that the 80s were superior ...

I'll leave it to My Bloody Valentine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P82V5TEEVWc

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 08:44 PM (30eLQ)

442 That was funny, I gotta say. Just now on Cartoon Network was The Greatest Event In Television History hosted by Jeff Probst. Paul Rudd and Adam Scott recreated the opening credits to Bosom Buddies.

Posted by: soothsayer, with arms akimbo at January 26, 2014 08:44 PM (2gtaA)

443 Why is Greased Lightning the only number cut from the TV version of Grease?

Might have something to do with:

You know that ain't no shit, we'll be getting lots of tit in Grease Lightning

You know that I ain't bragging, she's a real pussy wagon

You are supreme, the chicks'll cream for grease lightning

Kind of hard to dub that into something more broadcast friendly.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 26, 2014 08:45 PM (wSrLR)

444 Still waiting for my W2. I wanna do my taxes!

Posted by: soothsayer, with arms akimbo at January 26, 2014 08:45 PM (2gtaA)

445 Good gravy, I'm going between listening to "Bring Him Home", "Battery" and now "Greased Lightning". YouTube's playlist algorithm must've hit a missing pointer by now.

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 26, 2014 08:46 PM (qZOzH)

446 Oh

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 08:46 PM (AzO5R)

447 420 "so, which is worse, duran duran or wham?" Tempted to say Wham!. But neither of them really pushed the musical frontiers. Duran Duran did use that "gated drum" sound, which I thought was cool at the time - until I found out that Peter Gabriel had done all that shit on his "Melt" album many years before. So we're left with songs. "Careless Whispers"? or "Save a Prayer"? Both are fine songs for their day. Better off with Tears for Fears, you are. "Start of the Breakdown", "Shout", "Brian Wilson Said" . . . Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 27, 2014 12:32 AM (30eLQ) If you are talking that era, Big Country is the way to go. Unique sound, and first rate musicians. Tony Banks (bass) and Mark Brzezicki (drums) both worked with Pete Townshend and The Pretenders on some of their best known songs and albums. "In A Big Country" , "Fields of Fire" and "Wonderland" are all top notch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeX5cRjvFR0

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, Keeper of the KaBoom flame at January 26, 2014 08:46 PM (HxSXm)

448 Still waiting for my W2. I wanna do my taxes! Posted by: soothsayer, with arms akimbo under obamacare you do not need a w2 but you are gonna want some wd40

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 08:46 PM (rDidD)

449 Oh

Yeah

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 26, 2014 08:47 PM (wSrLR)

450 Ha ha Taylor Swift is the ONLY ONE standing up for this utter BULLSHIT

Posted by: MAx at January 26, 2014 08:47 PM (b7yum)

451 Tainted Love

You do lose man points for admitting this one

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 08:48 PM (30eLQ)

452 445 Why? If they owe you a fair amount of money, you're not doing this right.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 08:48 PM (ojnk6)

453 That is the first time I've seen that number since 1978. Of course now it wouldn't be obscene it would be hetero-normative behavior from the white male dominated oligarchy.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 08:49 PM (AzO5R)

454 421 sick spouse can easily awaken and summon well spouse to come help if needed the baby moniter in ncj's house 'JOSEPH GET ME A FUCKING ___fill in blank___"

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 08:49 PM (At8tV)

455 And "Greased Lightning" makes me want to watch/listen to "Uptown Girl". Hello, Christie ...

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 26, 2014 08:49 PM (qZOzH)

456 80s rock? do I need to link dokken again?

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 08:50 PM (At8tV)

457 Now you're doing the French Mistake Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 27, 2014 12:37 AM (30eLQ) Screw you, I work for Mel Brooks!

Posted by: Taggart at January 26, 2014 08:50 PM (HxSXm)

458 oh i see what you did there
lol

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 08:50 PM (30eLQ)

459 You do lose man points for admitting this one

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 27, 2014 12:48 AM (30eLQ)

one of my first girlfriends used to play that song almost nonstop, it grew on me and I dig it

Posted by: The Dude at January 26, 2014 08:50 PM (bStrg)

460 big country? I thought they were the direct progenitor of nickelback? only kidding let me buy you a martini.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 08:50 PM (rDidD)

461 ok home now
knocked off 2 more things from the list
ugh monday comes early

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 08:50 PM (9GG/0)

462 To counteract the effects of "Grease", Sponge's "Plowed":

http://youtu.be/rlC6qcQ_4BA

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 26, 2014 08:51 PM (wSrLR)

463 It s tiny butler mr puffy scamper.

It's been nice to see the edge pay homage to Stuart adamson. Would love to see U2 do a Big Country cover. Would also love to see the famed Knockin on Heavens Door cover performed by Big Country & U2 released. Shit to have caught the tour they did together...

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 08:52 PM (V6y6o)

464 Everyone's seen the a-Ha video.

There's a sequel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ir9HC9vYg

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 08:52 PM (30eLQ)

465 If you're gonna listen to Grease, at least listen to Less Than Jake's cover EP of it

Posted by: The Dude at January 26, 2014 08:52 PM (bStrg)

466 Steck yeah I have class tomorrow

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 08:53 PM (9GG/0)

467 461 big country? I thought they were the direct progenitor of nickelback? Grrrrr. Don't make me hurt you.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 08:53 PM (V6y6o)

468 then of course there is Whodini which I know the lyrics to most of their songs (some b-sides trip me up)

Posted by: The Dude at January 26, 2014 08:56 PM (bStrg)

469 Grrrrr. Don't make me hurt you. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy only joshing. I was trying to splain nickelback earlier to a car guy, splained it is the porsche cayman of bands.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 08:56 PM (rDidD)

470 It's strange that Spartanburg is on this list, but Anderson, SC isn't. For a long time in the 90s, there was a story on the local news pretty much every night about someone in Anderson being stabbed outside a bar.

Posted by: rfichoke at January 26, 2014 08:57 PM (2G73v)

471 80's rock, Everything you need to know about 8-'s rock is on a Quiet Riot album or a Def Leppard album

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 08:57 PM (zELMe)

472 yeah wham is totally worse

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 08:58 PM (9GG/0)

473 Yet more '80's genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPGKlb8hklQ

Posted by: \m/ The Headbanging Hat \m/ at January 26, 2014 08:59 PM (AymDN)

474 461 isn't big country the sorry ass want to be fiddle shit I still hear in the dentist's office?

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 08:59 PM (At8tV)

475 yeah wham is totally worse Posted by: chemjeff you're sayin' so cause Bebe is hot and smart.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 08:59 PM (rDidD)

476 80s Rock.
Joan Jett I love Rock and Roll
http://tinyurl.com/m5eenzc

Posted by: The Hickster at January 26, 2014 09:00 PM (TI3xG)

477 Didn't Big Country open for New Kids on the Block in the Coliseum back in '87?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 09:00 PM (9GG/0)

478 472 nah, quiet riot was meh switch them with early crue

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:00 PM (At8tV)

479 And now I'm listening to Twisted Sister. I blame you fuckers.

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 26, 2014 09:01 PM (qZOzH)

480 you're sayin' so cause Bebe is hot and smart. Posted by: yankeefifth at January 27, 2014 12:59 AM (rDidD) and probably has awesome big boobs, but then again it is science to agree with hot wimmins with a nick rack

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 09:01 PM (zELMe)

481 The problem with the '80s is that the times were so prosperous that any non talented interlopers and poseurs and other assorted and sundry frauds had as much cred as people that had actual skills.

Posted by: navybrat at January 26, 2014 09:01 PM (AW7Gr)

482 yankeefifth naw it's because it's true.

wham is like today's justin bieber. some people like it, but sane people have no idea why

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 09:01 PM (9GG/0)

483 oh and of course bebe is hawt and smart with a big rack, that goes without saying

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 09:02 PM (9GG/0)

484 475 461 isn't big country the sorry ass want to be fiddle shit I still hear in the dentist's office? Posted by: navycopjoe at January 27, 2014 12:59 AM (At8tV) Put T on the computer so I can tell her to snap you in 2 for me. Mai tais on me next time I make it over there.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 09:02 PM (V6y6o)

485 I yelled at my cat not to eat the bug she was playing with. To which she promptly responded by snatching up the bug & running to my bed. I sure hope it was a moth.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 26, 2014 09:03 PM (DmNpO)

486 and if funny shit is going to go down with the banks tomorrow, wouldn't the futures indices be indicating such?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 09:03 PM (9GG/0)

487 Joan Jett I love Rock and Roll http://tinyurl.com/m5eenzc Posted by: The Hickster at January 27, 2014 01:00 AM (TI3xG) "Weird Al" Yankovic's "I Love Rocky Road: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beTsDOBRs8I

Posted by: \m/ The Weird Hat \m/ at January 26, 2014 09:03 PM (AymDN)

488 Well, I begin by admitting I don not know shit about music, however, I do understand calendars. Strictly speaking, as a decade, I think the 80s fared pretty well. 1990s are best forgotten by everyone. 1970s had some really good stuff and some truly awful stuff.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 09:03 PM (rDidD)

489 It's strange that Spartanburg is on this list, but Anderson, SC isn't. For a long time in the 90s, there was a story on the local news pretty much every night about someone in Anderson being stabbed outside a bar.

---

ITA. I mean, I live here. Like any cities big or small, there are bad places. I grew up in Cincinnati. Lived for many years in Orlando. Spartanburg, by comparison, is like Mayberry. It always mystified me that we wind up on those crime lists with Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, etc.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Come, oh, sleep! Where are you Mr. Sandman? at January 26, 2014 09:03 PM (Oa7B2)

490 485 Put T on the computer so I can tell her to snap you in 2 for me. Mai tais on me next time I make it over there. no T is a woman who thought Frankie goes to Hollywood was a great band until I told here what Relax was about

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:04 PM (At8tV)

491 457 80s rock?
do I need to link dokken again?

Yes.

Breaking the chains around you
Nobody else can bind you

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 09:04 PM (AzO5R)

492 478 Didn't Big Country open for New Kids on the Block in the Coliseum back in '87? You guys never want to see new boob pics do you? Especially the epic ideas Gushie & I have been tossing around to celebrate should I ever boot the Marxists.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 09:04 PM (V6y6o)

493 Local MN headbanging rock.

Slave Raider "Survival of the Fittest".

http://tinyurl.com/m8rvkww

Posted by: The Hickster at January 26, 2014 09:05 PM (TI3xG)

494 any non talented interlopers and poseurs and other assorted and sundry frauds had as much cred as people that had actual skills. I disagree if this was true my nick would be guitargodjoe

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:05 PM (At8tV)

495 I beat Sven for #1 this week?! Perhaps it's time I got another hobby.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 26, 2014 09:06 PM (DmNpO)

496 476 yeah wham is totally worse
Posted by: chemjeff

you're sayin' so cause Bebe is hot and smart.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 27, 2014 12:59 AM (rDidD)

Well, it doesn't help that George Michael went from all "these are love songs appropriate to all sorts of heteronormative situations" to "all gay, all the time" after being busted for cruisin' a public restroom.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2014 09:06 PM (T1005)

497 Gah. We. Drunk fingers in iPhone. Well for all the crappy music, crazy hair and clothes we wore in the 80s, we sure as hell were having a lot more fun than the kiddies have now, or have had since then.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 09:07 PM (V6y6o)

498 Local MN headbanging rock. Slave Raider "Survival of the Fittest". http://tinyurl.com/m8rvkww Posted by: The Hickster at January 27, 2014 01:05 AM (TI3xG) Local Vegas band "Demon Lung" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYb6kYzKcWg

Posted by: \m/ The Vegas Hat \m/ at January 26, 2014 09:08 PM (AymDN)

499 here's why we all wanted to be rock stars in the 80s http://tinyurl.com/37lpam2

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:08 PM (At8tV)

500 So Boy George is roughly equal to Steely Dan?
OK, what4ever.

Posted by: navybrat at January 26, 2014 09:08 PM (AW7Gr)

501 Well for all the crappy music, crazy hair and clothes we wore in the 80s, we sure as hell were having a lot more fun than the kiddies have now, or have had since then. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 27, 2014 well it was a lot more fun to be in Reagan's America than Obama's amerika.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 09:09 PM (rDidD)

502 I'm relieved to see that a block about two miles from me, Beaver and Broad in Jax, has dropped off that list.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 26, 2014 09:09 PM (DmNpO)

503 only joshing. I was trying to splain nickelback earlier to a car guy, splained it is the porsche cayman of bands.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 27, 2014 12:56 AM (rDidD)

Heh. I live only about 60 miles from Nickelback's home town, and now you never ever hear their music on the jukebox in the local bar. Used to be you couldn't get away from it. Life is good.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 26, 2014 09:09 PM (60Q+L)

504 Ha NCJ. I went to the same high school as Ratt. I was 3 or 4 years behind them

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 09:10 PM (V6y6o)

505 well it was a lot more fun to be in Reagan's America than Obama's amerika.

ain't that the truth

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 09:10 PM (9GG/0)

506 500 here's why we all wanted to be rock stars in the 80s

http://tinyurl.com/37lpam2

No shit

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 09:11 PM (AzO5R)

507 505 no shit!!! I went to the same high school as Styx but they were wayyyyy before me

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:12 PM (At8tV)

508 So, here's what Matt Drudge wrote on Twitter on the 24th:

Have an exit plan.

Any ideas of what that means?

Posted by: shibumi at January 26, 2014 09:12 PM (25HWz)

509 Oh, and the McCartney/starr thing just came on the Grammies. Blows. Reminds me of that shirty Christmas song McCartney did.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 09:12 PM (V6y6o)

510 'well it was a lot more fun to be in Reagan's America than Obama's amerika."

For one thing, you had a fucking shred of hope.

Posted by: navybrat at January 26, 2014 09:12 PM (AW7Gr)

511 God bless MusicBee for having no algorithm for what it plays in a library shuffle. Haven't heard this song in such a long time

http://youtu.be/RY2FbveZ6Xw

Posted by: The Dude at January 26, 2014 09:12 PM (bStrg)

512 cold cave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wYGU3dfv_A

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 09:13 PM (30eLQ)

513 493 478 Didn't Big Country open for New Kids on the Block in the Coliseum back in '87? You guys never want to see new boob pics do you? Especially the epic ideas Gushie & I have been tossing around to celebrate should I ever boot the Marxists. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 27, 2014 01:04 AM (V6y6o) whoa, whoa, whoa, we need to celabrate diversity if you win or loose with a pic or 2

you know you have support/fans here

Posted by: One Ping Only at January 26, 2014 09:13 PM (zELMe)

514 449 under obamacare you do not need a w2 but you are gonna want some wd40

wd40 is not a lubricant

Posted by: Anachronda at January 26, 2014 09:13 PM (U82Km)

515 506 well it was a lot more fun to be in Reagan's America than Obama's amerika.

ain't that the truth

Posted by: chemjeff at January 27, 2014 01:10 AM (9GG/0)

I feel like I missed half of it 'cause I didn't graduate until 1983. This constant slow-motion train-wreck bullshit, lurching from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis, is garbage.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2014 09:14 PM (T1005)

516 509 So, here's what Matt Drudge wrote on Twitter on the 24th: Have an exit plan. Any ideas of what that means? That it's a good thing I cashed in my ira to pay off my share of Mom's HELOC loan, and my brother, sister & my 4 nieces and nephews are about to move into the family homestead with me?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 09:14 PM (V6y6o)

517 464 It s tiny butler mr puffy scamper. It's been nice to see the edge pay homage to Stuart adamson. Would love to see U2 do a Big Country cover. Would also love to see the famed Knockin on Heavens Door cover performed by Big Country & U2 released. Shit to have caught the tour they did together... Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 27, 2014 12:52 AM (V6y6o) Never got to see them. In 84 they played at UVa, Mary Washington College and Salem College, all within a couple of hours from school, but I had an away rugby game that weekend and midterms that coming up week. It was the only time they really toured the US, and I think that really screwed them since they were pretty much "out of sight, out of mind".

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 26, 2014 09:14 PM (HxSXm)

518 512 God bless MusicBee for having no algorithm for what it plays in a library shuffle. Haven't heard this song in such a long time

http://youtu.be/RY2FbveZ6Xw

Posted by: The Dude at January 27, 2014 01:12 AM (bStrg)

umm really?

that's basically the theme for 'peanut butter jelly time'

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 09:15 PM (9GG/0)

519 okay, heres a vid nck loves even though the band is worthless and yes, she can play it and yes T is in it but not the main or other top girls you see those of you who have seen her pic will see her immediately when they put their hair down http://tinyurl.com/6dd3j48

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:15 PM (At8tV)

520 @517
Well, I'm thinking that was a good idea without the nod from Drudge, however, I guess it is nice to get an endorsement for your financial dealings..

Posted by: shibumi at January 26, 2014 09:16 PM (25HWz)

521 If you're making a list of things to do, be sure and add "Pretend I got all the list done today" and you will always have an item to tick off.

This method also works well on New Year's resolution lists.

Also, Van Halen's 1984 is a damn fine 80s album.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 26, 2014 09:16 PM (wNF3N)

522 At my old job, one of the cow-orkers in my department had a friend who was going out with one of the guys from Sum 41, who were obviously heavily influenced by Motley Crue. That is my claim to fame. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoC3PUBmhFs

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 26, 2014 09:16 PM (qZOzH)

523 "In Too Deep" is actually a surprising amount of fun for your average talentless hack (me) to play on guitar.

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 26, 2014 09:18 PM (qZOzH)

524 At my old job, one of the cow-orkers in my department had a friend who was going out with one of the guys from Sum 41, who were obviously heavily influenced by Motley Crue. That is my claim to fame. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoC3PUBmhFs Posted by: Waterhouse cow-orkers? is there some lotr western I missed

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 09:18 PM (rDidD)

525 Van Halen Hot for Teacher.

http://tinyurl.com/l9shxhg

All this headbanging stuff just aint the same as it was in my car or seeing it at a Bar.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 26, 2014 09:18 PM (TI3xG)

526 475 461 isn't big country the sorry ass want to be fiddle shit I still hear in the dentist's office? Posted by: navycopjoe at January 27, 2014 12:59 AM (At8tV) Nah, that's Pantera. Funny how when I walk through Kroger's now, they play all kinds of heavy metal from the 70's and 80's as the Muzak. Makes me feel old as shit now.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 26, 2014 09:19 PM (HxSXm)

527 I think that really screwed them since they were pretty much "out of sight, out of mind". They dropped out of sight in the US after Look Away, but they stayed pretty big in Europe. They put out new music up until the early 00s. Check out the US version of their last album. It's called John Wayne's Dream. Lotta great tracks in that album. J & I almost went to see them at the Roxy in the late 90s. Still kicking myself that we didnt go.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 09:20 PM (V6y6o)

528 527 they play all kinds of heavy metal from the 70's and 80's as the Muzak. I never heard that yet thank god

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:21 PM (At8tV)

529 Well for all the crappy music, crazy hair and clothes we wore in the 80s, we sure as hell were having a lot more fun than the kiddies have now, or have had since then.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 27, 2014 01:07 AM

Word.

Posted by: otho at January 26, 2014 09:21 PM (9gNQd)

530 I've got a really early meeting. I was thinking of shaving before I go to bed but it seems like cheating, I would feel wrong.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 09:21 PM (rDidD)

531 523 At my old job

Can't you tag things? Like TGFY (too gay for you). Seriously.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 09:22 PM (AzO5R)

532 490 It's strange that Spartanburg is on this list, but Anderson, SC isn't. For a long time in the 90s, there was a story on the local news pretty much every night about someone in Anderson being stabbed outside a bar. --- ITA. I mean, I live here. Like any cities big or small, there are bad places. I grew up in Cincinnati. Lived for many years in Orlando. Spartanburg, by comparison, is like Mayberry. It always mystified me that we wind up on those crime lists with Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, etc. Posted by: Lady in Black - Come, oh, sleep! Where are you Mr. Sandman? at January 27, 2014 01:03 AM (Oa7B2) Most of that stuff happens in the Sec 8 housing environs.

Posted by: BignJames at January 26, 2014 09:22 PM (j7iSn)

533 Most of Pop music today is complete and utter crap.
All you have is the
I - IV - V progression
or the
V- IV- I progression
or maybe, if you are very VERY lucky you could get the
VI - IV - I progression
Or, if you were really WAY out there on the far limits of harmonic progression you actually experience the

Flatted VII - VI - I progression

which has only been around since Clint Eastwood was filming in Italy.

Posted by: navybrat at January 26, 2014 09:22 PM (AW7Gr)

534 yeah gotta get up early tomorrow too.
good night all

Posted by: chemjeff at January 26, 2014 09:23 PM (9GG/0)

535 Ok, time to pound water & go sleepies. Movers coming to clear out my storage unit & if I don't show it still costs 3 bills.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 09:23 PM (V6y6o)

536

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 27, 2014 01:21 AM (rDidD)

dunno if I could ever skip shaving in the morning. Playing with a razor wakes me up in the morning

Posted by: The Dude at January 26, 2014 09:24 PM (bStrg)

537 from the other band that made us all buy guitars http://tinyurl.com/mclmdf3

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:24 PM (At8tV)

538 They just play 80s crap at the local sub/super market. Lauper. Sunshine Gang. I'm sure it was teh hotness a generation ago.

I wonder if the nostalgia has a special edge out here. Deep down, Coloradans know they lost something when the Reagan Era ended.

"Hot Tub Time Machine"

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 09:25 PM (30eLQ)

539 dunno if I could ever skip shaving in the morning. Playing with a razor wakes me up in the morning Posted by: The Dude yeah same here. I have had a couple nights where I should have done it, cause I overslept and was nearly late for a meeting after pureeing my face but, it is a right or wrong thing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 09:27 PM (rDidD)

540 My father used to call the music I listened to "Fish beat shit". Meaning there was no more talent in the beat than a fish flopping on the drums. I thought I was enlightened and would never say something like that to my kids. Well Rap came along and I became my Father.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 26, 2014 09:27 PM (TI3xG)

541 "They just play 80s crap at the local sub/super market. Lauper. Sunshine Gang. I'm sure it was teh hotness a generation ago"

They got a great deal on the licensing.

Posted by: navybrat at January 26, 2014 09:27 PM (AW7Gr)

542 night there Bebes, have fun with the movers.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 09:28 PM (rDidD)

543 from the other band that made us all buy guitars http://tinyurl.com/mclmdf3 Posted by: navycopjoe at January 27, 2014 01:24 AM (At8tV) From the man who made me get a bass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S002MadnlQs

Posted by: \m/ The Metallic Hat \m/ at January 26, 2014 09:28 PM (AymDN)

544 yeah same here. I have had a couple nights where I should have done it, cause I overslept and was nearly late for a meeting after pureeing my face but, it is a right or wrong thing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 27, 2014 01:27 AM (rDidD)

though it takes me 15 minutes, forever grateful I started wet shaving

Posted by: The Dude at January 26, 2014 09:28 PM (bStrg)

545 They dropped out of sight in the US after Look Away, but they stayed pretty big in Europe. They put out new music up until the early 00s. Check out the US version of their last album. It's called John Wayne's Dream. Lotta great tracks in that album. J & I almost went to see them at the Roxy in the late 90s. Still kicking myself that we didnt go. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 27, 2014 01:20 AM (V6y6o) Yeah, I used to get their stuff in the 90's when I worked in radio since the record companies were still sort of "working" their music, but by that point, the record companies figured that their career as a big time band were over.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 26, 2014 09:29 PM (HxSXm)

546 I beat Sven for #1 this week?! Perhaps it's time I got another hobby Sven apparently slacked some. No cause for personal concern, IMO....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 26, 2014 09:30 PM (ojnk6)

547 Thanks to ncj, I'm watching the Def Leppard/Taylor Swift rendition of Hysteria. Phil Collen appears to have attached one of Steven Tyler's scarves to his guitar.

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 26, 2014 09:31 PM (qZOzH)

548 Come on, people. Dire Straits:

Industrial Disease - best song of the 80's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rWuc5kar3Y

Sultans of Swing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo-J1wf2KHc

Holds up AWESOME after all these years. The whole album Love Over Gold is genius.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 26, 2014 09:32 PM (HubSo)

549 541 we used to call the guitarists who played super fast with a ton of effects musical masturbation 544 cliff burton...died too early

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:32 PM (At8tV)

550 548 Thanks to ncj, I'm watching the Def Leppard/Taylor Swift rendition of Hysteria oh lord, i'm sorry

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:33 PM (At8tV)

551 U2's The Joshua Tree is another fine 80s effort (1987).

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 26, 2014 09:34 PM (wNF3N)

552 Speaking of metal this is the greatest band that thinks they are in the 80s but still kick ass:
http://tinyurl.com/meeb6gp

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 09:34 PM (AzO5R)

553 I have heard some discussion on red eye about bruce springsteen sucking balls, especially born in the usa, glad someone else finally agrees with me.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 26, 2014 09:35 PM (rDidD)

554 It's not what you play, or how fast, on guitar. It's what you don't and when not to.

Posted by: otho at January 26, 2014 09:35 PM (9gNQd)

555 Wait sorry NSFW but I think the Google advisery says that.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 09:35 PM (AzO5R)

556 548 its a..its a....CHARVEL SAN DIMAS!!!! oh fuck me she's ruining the song!!!

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:35 PM (At8tV)

557 Hmm, yeah, Dire Straits. Telegraph Road: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8sLmx2Oz6Y

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 26, 2014 09:37 PM (qZOzH)

558 542 "They just play 80s crap at the local sub/super market. Lauper. Sunshine Gang. I'm sure it was teh hotness a generation ago"

They got a great deal on the licensing.

Time After Time is one of the greatest songs of all time and I'm totally serious about that.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 09:37 PM (AzO5R)

559 Yeah, I used to get their stuff in the 90's when I worked in radio since the record companies were still sort of "working" their music, but by that point, the record companies figured that their career as a big time band were over. I think their manager killed them. If he was as arrogant & pompous a dick bag in person as I saw him be on the interwebz, then he is the reason they weren't huge. They should have been bigger than U2. Ok now I'm really going sleepies. Nite nite

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 26, 2014 09:37 PM (V6y6o)

560 Asshole doesn't even use a pick, just to show us all mortals up.

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 26, 2014 09:39 PM (qZOzH)

561 555 It's what you don't and when not to. the proof to this is rick neilson of cheap trick

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:39 PM (At8tV)

562 542 "They just play 80s crap at the local sub/super market. Lauper. Sunshine Gang. I'm sure it was teh hotness a generation ago" They got a great deal on the licensing. Posted by: navybrat at January 27, 2014 01:27 AM (AW7Gr) ASCAP, SESAC and BMI give no one a great deal on licensing. The mafia is more forgiving than they are. Also, the mafia doesn't have the Federal government backing them up. Fun fact: If you have a business and play a radio station over the PA system, you have to pay license fees to SESAC, ASCAP and BMI, and that fee is a percentage of your gross sales. If you are playing MUZAK, you don't have to pay those fees, thus that is the reason why department stores play MUZAK instead. A couple hundred a month to MUZAK is a hell of a lot cheaper than 10K a month to the licensing companies.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 26, 2014 09:41 PM (HxSXm)

563 Most of that stuff happens in the Sec 8 housing environs.

--

Yep. And most of S'Burg's big crime stats are coming from that area behind The Beacon. All Sec 8.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Come, oh, sleep! Where are you Mr. Sandman? at January 26, 2014 09:42 PM (Oa7B2)

564 holy hell, taylor swift really has no talent

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:42 PM (At8tV)

565 Not a metal song but one of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9CPT8H3HQY

Posted by: GMB 15x ONT thread killer at January 26, 2014 09:42 PM (nkPV9)

566 555 It's not what you play, or how fast, on guitar. It's what you don't and when not to. Posted by: otho at January 27, 2014 01:35 AM (9gNQd) I think BB King said "it's not the quantity of the notes, it's the quality of the notes"

Posted by: BignJames at January 26, 2014 09:43 PM (j7iSn)

567 I have heard some discussion on red eye about bruce springsteen sucking balls, especially born in the usa, glad someone else finally agrees with me.

--

You're by no means alone. I've really hated his music since waaaay before I knew he was a megalib. He's a screecher with a gravely voice. His music never did anything for me. The fact that he's Obama's human jock strap makes him even more detestable.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Come, oh, sleep! Where are you Mr. Sandman? at January 26, 2014 09:44 PM (Oa7B2)

568 Telegraph Road:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8sLmx2Oz6Y

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 27, 2014 01:37 AM (qZOzH)

***************************

^^ this

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 26, 2014 09:45 PM (HubSo)

569 the proof to this is rick neilson of cheap trick

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 27, 2014 01:39 AM

Yep. It's about the gaps. One chord or lick at the right time is 10 times more powerful than frenetic busy stuff. Got to leave room for the other guitarist (if there is one) and the bass + drums to spin their magic.

Posted by: otho at January 26, 2014 09:45 PM (9gNQd)

570 You're by no means alone. I've really hated his music since waaaay before I knew he was a megalib. He's a screecher with a gravely voice. His music never did anything for me. The fact that he's Obama's human jock strap makes him even more detestable.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Come, oh, sleep! Where are you Mr. Sandman? at January 27, 2014 01:44 AM (Oa7B2)

*************************

Early Springsteen is poetry set to music. Later Springsteen is a pale shadow of his former self.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 26, 2014 09:47 PM (HubSo)

571 okay all, I have to be up and driving in a few hours T needs new heels and yeah, i'll get them for her

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 26, 2014 09:48 PM (At8tV)

572 568 I have heard some discussion on red eye about bruce springsteen sucking
balls, especially born in the usa, glad someone else finally agrees with
me.

--

You're by no means alone. I've really hated his music since waaaay before I knew he was a megalib. He's a screecher with a gravely voice. His music never did anything for me. The fact that he's Obama's human jock strap makes him even more detestable.

Mellancamp is supposed to be a poor man's Springsteen. I've always found Springsteen to be a condescending asshole with only an outside view of the fly over working class. On the other hand Mellancamp (at least pre-90s JCM) celebrated the world I grew up in.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 09:49 PM (AzO5R)

573 Somewhere a Barbershop Quartet has been left nude after being mugged and stripped by a band of Norwegians.

Posted by: IloiloKano at January 26, 2014 09:50 PM (CQmDI)

574 Sultans of Swing: Always liked that tune.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at January 26, 2014 09:50 PM (itCai)

575 God damn it I can't make italics work with noscript on. Can I help Ace make the comments and chaining easier?

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 09:52 PM (AzO5R)

576 Appropriate music for these perilous times....
http://youtu.be/koHMLsot-Rk

Good night all.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 26, 2014 09:53 PM (OrnSX)

577 I think their manager killed them. If he was as arrogant & pompous a dick bag in person as I saw him be on the interwebz, then he is the reason they weren't huge. They should have been bigger than U2. Ok now I'm really going sleepies. Nite nite Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 27, 2014 01:37 AM (V6y6o) Saw many a manager act like dicks to people in radio thinking that his/her charges were too talented to actually be doing an interview with this podunk radio station. What the managers didn't realize is that everyone in the radio business is interconnected. That DJ at the podunk radio station worked with the guy who does mornings at New York City's number one station and tells him about the manager, or that program director at the small station becomes program director at the station in DC and remembers the asshat. The flip side was the bands that were easy to work with. Aerosmith and Hootie & the Blowfish in the 90's were real easy to work with. They would actually come to the station and just hang out when they would have a concert in town. Cripes, Harry Connick, Jr's sister lived here, and when he would come visit her, he would stop by for no reason whatsoever. Guess who had the easier time getting airplay?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 26, 2014 09:54 PM (HxSXm)

578 Appropriate music for these perilous times.... http://youtu.be/koHMLsot-Rk Good night all. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2014 01:53 AM (OrnSX) If only the soudtrack fothe decline and fall of civilization was that! Sadly, we're stuck with Justin BieberÂ…

Posted by: \m/ The Metallic Hat \m/ at January 26, 2014 09:57 PM (AymDN)

579 hope my copy of Wings of Honneamise ships this week :/

Posted by: The Dude at January 26, 2014 09:59 PM (bStrg)

580 I have to hand it to Yoko Ono. She looks every bit as good today as she did decades ago.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 26, 2014 10:00 PM (dfYL9)

581 570 the proof to this is rick neilson of cheap trick Posted by: navycopjoe at January 27, 2014 01:39 AM Yep. It's about the gaps. One chord or lick at the right time is 10 times more powerful than frenetic busy stuff. Got to leave room for the other guitarist (if there is one) and the bass + drums to spin their magic. Posted by: otho at January 27, 2014 01:45 AM (9gNQd) Van Halen is a shell of themselves without Michael Anthony. Much like The Who should have hung it up after Entwistle died.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 26, 2014 10:00 PM (HxSXm)

582 Night all. Here is the full album "Piece of Mind" by Iron Maiden: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnSUn9qZG3I

Posted by: The Political Hat ~ Up The Irons! at January 26, 2014 10:00 PM (AymDN)

583 TPH, trade 100 Justine Biebers for more 80s music.

The Dude, have some Royal Space Force
http://youtu.be/7driWPmN3bc

And siriusly guyz, oyasumi.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 26, 2014 10:00 PM (OrnSX)

584 575 Sultans of Swing:

Always liked that tune.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at January 27, 2014 01:50 AM (itCai)

Oddly, I hated it and still do.....but got converted to the band through tunes like Industrial Disease, Skateaway, and, yes, even Money for Nothing.

It's sort of like when Supertramp was introduced by having The Logical Song shoved down everyone's throats.....still can't stand it. Albums like Crime of the Century got me listening, despite TLS -- and I even discovered that I liked the album Breakfast in America without it. But TLS sets my teeth on edge.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2014 10:01 PM (T1005)

585 Van Halen is a shell of themselves without Michael Anthony. Much like The Who should have hung it up after Entwistle died. Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 27, 2014 02:00 AM (HxSXm) Anthony was underrated. Good thing he's playing with Chickenfoot. The thing about The Who is that they didn't have a rhythm section. Both Moon and Entwistle played their instruments as lead instruments. That is what made The Who such a great band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRflGVcRxCI

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 26, 2014 10:04 PM (AymDN)

586 573 I saw Mellencamp (when he was John Cougar) open for Heart in '86. No, really I did. He was way better than Heart was.

He is to Indiana what Willie Nelson is to Texas. I spent 3 years off and on at Camp Atterbury during the OIF and OEF mobilizations, and everybody in Indiana has a Mellencamp story.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 26, 2014 10:04 PM (HubSo)

587 581 I have to hand it to Yoko Ono.

Easier than handing it to Rick Allen.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 10:05 PM (AzO5R)

588 The thing about The Who is that they didn't have a rhythm section. Both Moon and Entwistle played their instruments as lead instruments. That is what made The Who such a great band.

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

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 27, 2014 02:04 AM (AymDN)

Learn from the master:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80dsyo2Ox-0

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 26, 2014 10:07 PM (HubSo)

589 587 I saw Mellencamp

_________________________

Sweet! I'd love to see him live. Minutes to Memories is one of my favorite songs and everything from Scarecrow back was just like he lived in my home town.

In my mind Scarecrow was about us while Nebraska was about what someone who grew up in the suburbs thinks life is like in a small town.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 10:11 PM (AzO5R)

590 Gott im Himmel Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 26, 2014 10:41 PM (30eLQ) For Chrissakes, just where is Hugo Boss when you really need him??

Posted by: Heinrich H at January 26, 2014 10:11 PM (3sZO1)

591 In my mind Scarecrow was about us while Nebraska was about what someone who grew up in the suburbs thinks life is like in a small town.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 27, 2014 02:11 AM (AzO5R)

**********************

Yeah, that it on Scarecrow where he starts with his grandmother singing gives me chills up my spine.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 26, 2014 10:13 PM (HubSo)

592 How about this one for the perilous times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0qw_kggdSo

Posted by: Smash'em at January 26, 2014 10:17 PM (7WWu1)

593 Look at Jack and Diane vs. just about every Springsteen song. The former isn't down caste it just talks about two kids, their hopes, and the knowledge that everything goes to hell sometimes so enjoy what you have.

Oh yeah say life goes on
Long after the thrill of livin' is go

Even the tongue in cheek reference to the bible belt fits right in with the cynical/hopeful world I remember growing up in the 80s in the midwest.

Springsteen on the other hand just writes a song about knocking his girl friend up and dieing in a factory job.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 10:24 PM (AzO5R)

594 I saw Contractual Monthly Traffic Quota open for Scandi Shame at the old Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh. Wasn't as cool as watching Bon Scott run around the whole theater in shorts.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at January 26, 2014 10:24 PM (DL2i+)

595 Perilous times? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME-SgMny0ck

Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2014 10:24 PM (T1005)

596 Thanks for the BattleRoar. Bout all I can say.

Posted by: GMB 15x ONT thread killer at January 26, 2014 10:29 PM (nkPV9)

597 OH YEAH JACK AND DIANE!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Bruce Spreensgteen at January 26, 2014 10:30 PM (Aif/5)

598 Well then how's this. A very old friend and I decided to be nemesises (nemici?) since we are bored and I'm actively seeking minions:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/lbg/4306382377.html

So far I have 7 candidates and with responses like:
"What kind of a job is this I assume it's under the table cash daily"

I'm still short 13 minions for the menacing I plan. So submit your application.

ps: Dear NSA it's a joke and she's in on it so please don't tell the IRS to audit me.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 10:38 PM (AzO5R)

599 Who in their right mind would want to go to Cali, even if it's only for two months?

Posted by: GMB 15x ONT thread killer at January 26, 2014 10:42 PM (nkPV9)

600 Well there is a stipend.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 10:44 PM (AzO5R)

601 are there care and feeding instructions for minions?

Posted by: jc at January 26, 2014 10:48 PM (PlzOe)

602 How about uniforms? I absolutely refuse to wear lime green anything.

Posted by: GMB 15x ONT thread killer at January 26, 2014 10:49 PM (nkPV9)

603 599 Well then how's this. A very old friend and I decided to be nemesises (nemici?) since we are bored and I'm actively seeking minions:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/lbg/4306382377.html

So far I have 7 candidates and with responses like:
"

What kind of a job is this I assume it's under the table
cash daily"

I'm still short 13 minions for the menacing I plan. So submit your application.

ps: Dear NSA it's a joke and she's in on it so please don't tell the IRS to audit me.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 27, 2014 02:38 AM (AzO5R)

Wouldn't it be better to actually recruit in California, being that people are desperate for jobs that don't involve graft (Solyndra), collusion in government spying (Cisco, Apple, Google), fraud, cost-shifting (Netflix), or working directly for the Nanny-state?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2014 10:54 PM (T1005)

604 Each minion will receive a luxurious 3x3 sleeping quarters and free mandatory access to the training facilities that include the flaming pit of death and the spikey ball death trap.

I have a large stockpile of minionchow which I supplement with vitamins for closers. In addition it's Washington state so each minion receives an ounce of hash upon entry to the state as all visitors.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 10:55 PM (AzO5R)

605 I'm allergic to minionchow.

Posted by: GMB 15x ONT thread killer at January 26, 2014 10:58 PM (nkPV9)

606 wouldn't minions recruited in Seattle be revolting all the time?

Posted by: jc at January 26, 2014 11:01 PM (PlzOe)

607 cthulh: Well that's a problem in this market. Anyone with a degree in Psychology seeking a job in Cali will expect a personal masseuse and a massive bonus for showing up to work.

I need real go getter minions who have practical experience in menacing.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 11:02 PM (AzO5R)

608 jc: Well yes they are revolting in general. It seems like bathing is passe in these parts. I'd prefer to recruit out of state but train here since this state tends to drain all hope of living from people. Minions without hope are closers.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 11:06 PM (AzO5R)

609 http://www.thenewpioneersquare.com/category/drugs/

some candidates I'm sure

Posted by: jc at January 26, 2014 11:08 PM (PlzOe)

610 tempted to buy one of these http://bit.ly/1fpsycl

Posted by: The Dude at January 26, 2014 11:11 PM (bStrg)

611 On New YearÂ’s Day, two Pioneer Square residents were brutally attacked after confronting drug dealers blocking the entrance to their apartment building adjacent to Fortson Square (2nd Ave + Yesler). Multiple calls to police regarding the drug activity were unanswered, which, unfortunately, is understandable, given that it was New YearÂ’s Eve and Â— whatÂ’s new? ThereÂ’s always drug deals happening in Fortson Square.
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Yup that's Seattle. It's a perfect place to hatch a nefarious plan.

It get's even better when you travel north. Multiple homicides in Everertt? What's new there are always multiple homicides in Everett.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 11:14 PM (AzO5R)

612
It get's even better when you travel north. Multiple homicides in Everertt? What's new there are always multiple homicides in Everett.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 27, 2014 03:14 AM (AzO5R)

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Didn't know that. The missus and I used to stay at a little hotel @ the small boat harbor in Everett. Always kinda liked the place.

Posted by: jc at January 26, 2014 11:15 PM (PlzOe)

613 568 I have heard some discussion on red eye about bruce springsteen sucking balls, especially born in the usa, glad someone else finally agrees with me. -- You're by no means alone. I've really hated his music since waaaay before I knew he was a megalib. He's a screecher with a gravely voice. His music never did anything for me. The fact that he's Obama's human jock strap makes him even more detestable. Posted by: Lady in Black - Come, oh, sleep! Where are you Mr. Sandman? at January 27, 2014 01:44 AM (Oa7B2) Not at all alone. I've always hated him. That visceral hatred you reserve for certain detestable things. Looooong before I knew anything about his politics. Almost got into a fight at a party when I frisbeed that fucking Born to Run junk out a 4th story apartment window. Three others began to cheer and everyone started laughing. Hate that motherfucker......

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at January 26, 2014 11:18 PM (usqNG)

614 I'm relieved to see that a block about two miles from me, Beaver and Broad in Jax, has dropped off that list.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 01:09 AM (DmNpO)

Heh, I know where that is. Eldest Daughter used to live not too awfully far from Edgewood and Commonwealth.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 26, 2014 11:18 PM (xa1/W)

615 How about uniforms? I absolutely refuse to wear lime green anything.

Posted by: GMB 15x ONT thread killer at January 27, 2014 02:49 AM (nkPV9)

Blue overalls and goggles. But you have to dye yourself yellow.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 26, 2014 11:20 PM (xa1/W)

616 Isn't WA now a legal pot state, much like CO? It seems that CO is getting all the press but WA has made it legal to posess one ounce or less of pot fr personal consumption.

I think they are still working out how to deal with the distribution side though.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 26, 2014 11:25 PM (wNF3N)

617 Blue overalls and goggles. But you have to dye yourself yellow.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 27, 2014 03:20 AM (xa1/W)

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Will it require Devo headgear?

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/AUTOIMAGES/DS18483lg.jpg

Posted by: jc at January 26, 2014 11:26 PM (PlzOe)

618 Seattle, Shoreline, Lynnwood, Everertt, and Marysville actually the entire 99 corridor from Tacoma north. The white kids own everything from Lunnwood up and the blacks own the south. Everett and Marysville own a special kind of crazy though:

http://tinyurl.com/m8ukvvul

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 11:26 PM (AzO5R)

619 Well what colors are preferable? I was thinking teal with white hats.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 11:28 PM (AzO5R)

620 Posted by: bestie21 at January 27, 2014 03:26 AM (AzO5R)

link fritzed

must be insanity caused by used cars.

Posted by: jc at January 26, 2014 11:28 PM (PlzOe)

621 Having a discussion with the BH this afternoon regarding a show she was watching on TV. She said that she didn't know why so many people seeking Medical degrees were doing so outside the US. I was bouncing around, going "I know this one!" -- and replied that there were only 151 medical schools in the entire US because the number has been artificially limited by government collusion.

Well, I was wrong -- it's 141 -- http://tinyurl.com/ye36yf7 -- at least, that's how many grant MD's. And, BTW, they're very weirdly distributed -- (I did one pass and did not reconcile to 141) AL - 2, AZ -1, AR - 1, CA - 9, CO - 1, CT - 3, DC - 3, FL - 7, GA - 4, HI - 1, IL - 6, IN - 1, IA - 1, KS - 1, KT - 2, LA - 3, MD - 3, MA - 4, MI - 5, MN - 2, MS - 4, NE - 2, NV - 1, NH - 1, NJ - 3, NM - 1, NY - 13, NC - 4, ND - 1, OH - 7, OK - 1, OR - 1, PA - 7, PR - 3, RI - 1, SC - 2, SD - 1, TN - 4, TX - 8, UT - 1, VT - 1, VA - 5, WA - 1, WV - 2, WI - 2.

Passing on all the onesie-twosie stuff, you have powerhouses in CA, DC, FL, IL, MA, MI, NY, PA, and VA......and, um, TX. Odd, that.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2014 11:30 PM (T1005)

622 http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120920/NEWS01/709209842

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 11:30 PM (AzO5R)

623 The best part:

"but she invited him over, and directed that he sleep on a mattress that she'd wrapped in plastic, under the sheets."

Hey hon lay down in this Dexter shit while I freshen up. Don't mind the power tools.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 11:33 PM (AzO5R)

624 Sorry, the wife just chimed in. Cali is just not possible. Furthest west she will allow me go is Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

Need any minions there?

Posted by: GMB 15x ONT thread killer at January 26, 2014 11:35 PM (nkPV9)

625 Am I the only one here who has seen Despicable Me?

What? I have a 2yo grandson who lives with me.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 26, 2014 11:37 PM (xa1/W)

626 My mom would love for me to move to Mt Pleasant IA. I'd be closer to home.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 26, 2014 11:38 PM (xa1/W)

627 Back to work. Later roonz and roonettez, fear no evil!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 26, 2014 11:39 PM (xa1/W)

628 626 Am I the only one here who has seen Despicable Me?

What? I have a 2yo grandson who lives with me.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 27, 2014 03:37 AM (xa1/W)

The BH and I rode the Despicable Me 2 ride at Universal Orlando. Based on that, the BH watched DM2 as an in-flight movie on one of her trips, and now wants to find DM to watch at home.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2014 11:39 PM (T1005)

629 #9 just answered. Only 11 slots left.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 11:40 PM (AzO5R)

630 623 http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120920/NEWS01/709209842

Posted by: bestie21 at January 27, 2014 03:30 AM (AzO5R)

marital bliss. There's a lot of that spread around the world. Where I grew up there was a term for spousal murder called Spenard divorce. Spenard was the name of a little town (actually not much more than a neighborhood) but it had it's own post office for a while.

Posted by: jc at January 26, 2014 11:41 PM (PlzOe)

631 Daughter #2 wants to know if your minions will get a name tag and if there is a minimum age limit.

Posted by: GMB 15x ONT thread killer at January 26, 2014 11:45 PM (nkPV9)

632 617 Isn't WA now a legal pot state, much like CO? It seems that CO is getting all the press but WA has made it legal to posess one ounce or less of pot fr personal consumption.

I think they are still working out how to deal with the distribution side though.

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WA has embraced the private enterprise system. At this point I have some real doubts that hetero-normative legal stores run by the man will overcome private enterprise. We also forgot that 1 ounce of hash is more than 1 ounce of bud so it's a libertarian paradise.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 26, 2014 11:47 PM (AzO5R)

633 Obligatory try at last post.

Posted by: GMB 33 to go at January 27, 2014 12:08 AM (nkPV9)

634 Posted by: cthulhu at January 27, 2014 03:30 AM (T1005) There's no Alaska or Maine in that list. I figured out Puerto Rico, but what is KT? Or was that supposed to be KY?

Posted by: model_1066 at January 27, 2014 12:09 AM (LIQGY)

635 Missouri too

Posted by: model_1066 at January 27, 2014 12:11 AM (LIQGY)

636 632 Daughter #2 wants to know if your minions will get a name tag and if there is a minimum age limit.
_________________________________________

The only requirement is a capacity for vengeance for decades old slights.

The nametags are neon blue or pink dependent on personal preference. They will have \high contrast lettering in an appropriate color. Each will speak the name of the bearer every 3 minutes: for instance "I am Amy Smith so that the minion can be remembered for their devious exploits .

Posted by: bestie21 at January 27, 2014 12:12 AM (AzO5R)

637 and Montana

Posted by: model_1066 at January 27, 2014 12:12 AM (LIQGY)

638 and Wyoming

Posted by: model_1066 at January 27, 2014 12:16 AM (LIQGY)

639 Daughter #2 says she likes the name tags. Wife said no to going to Cali to be a minion. Mt. Pleasant, Ia is the limit.

Moms can be such a brat at times.

Posted by: GMB28 to go at January 27, 2014 12:19 AM (nkPV9)

640 If you can't get enough minions can you substitute some fiends?

Posted by: jc at January 27, 2014 12:22 AM (PlzOe)

641 Whats the fiends to minions ratio? Wife says 4 to 1 Daughter #2 says 3 to 1.

Posted by: GMB24 to go at January 27, 2014 12:24 AM (nkPV9)

642 Well fiends are a hard call. I think maybe 3 to 7 on the acceptable ratio of fiends to minions. So I could accept 6 fiends.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 27, 2014 12:31 AM (AzO5R)

643 >:->

Posted by: GMB 23 to go and forgot his smileys :( at January 27, 2014 12:32 AM (nkPV9)

644 While I can still find use for fiends I can't accept maniacs. Those guys are just nuts.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 27, 2014 12:33 AM (AzO5R)

645 Anyone have the link handy for mu.nu smileys?

Posted by: GMB 22 to go and forgot his smileys :( at January 27, 2014 12:33 AM (nkPV9)

646 (6)

Maybe thats right?

Posted by: GMB 20 to go for the win? at January 27, 2014 12:36 AM (nkPV9)

647 Nope. :O

Posted by: GMB 18 to go for the win? at January 27, 2014 12:37 AM (nkPV9)

648 [large] Most of [/large] this _text Don't work.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at January 27, 2014 12:46 AM (cxs6V)

649 <666>

Sooner or later I'll remember it

Posted by: GMB 16 to go for the win? at January 27, 2014 12:52 AM (nkPV9)

650 Beware I live, funny thing about the media & Ukraine... You'd think they'd be comfortable enough to show the commies beating the fuck out of capitalist conservatives as a good thing if nothing else.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 27, 2014 01:00 AM (TE35l)

651 651 Beware I live, funny thing about the media & Ukraine...

You'd think they'd be comfortable enough to show the commies beating the fuck out of capitalist conservatives as a good thing if nothing else.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 27, 2014 05:00 AM (TE35l)

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It's not that they don't believe that -- it is that they don't everyone (who hasn't already figured it out) to know they believe that.

Posted by: jc at January 27, 2014 01:12 AM (PlzOe)

652 All right you sonsabitches, rise and shine. Kitchen detail, report. It is time to make the biscuits.

Preheat to 450. For some of you this will involve splitting wood. I'll wait.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 01:33 AM (xq1UY)

653 I like to use a sheet-metal muffin cup baking tray, with six cutouts that hold about a cup each. Grease this with what you have. Crisco is fine. So's real butter, or any of those spray-ons. Just a fine coating; this is only a release compound.

You're morons; be creative.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 01:36 AM (xq1UY)

654 Was nice (low 60's) yesterday. Opened the front door and turned off the furnace. Woke up this morning and was cold in bed. What the...? Came downstairs to kick the thermostat up a touch. Hmmm, forgot to turn the furnace back on. 14 degrees outside.

Posted by: teej at January 27, 2014 01:38 AM (AoY8i)

655 Break an egg into a mixing bowl. Bash it around a little with a whisk. There will be no power tools on this job.

Add about a cup and a half of baking mix. Bisquick is a very fine product. I prefer Jiffy, of Chelsea Michigan, because the owner drove the Indy 500, then came home to run grandma's flour mill. Beat the egg into the mix, then splash in "some" milk. Little bit at a time. Don't overdo it. You want a mix that's just a little too thick to pour. If you put in too much milk, you'll have to add more baking mix, and then...

See? Told you.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 01:43 AM (xq1UY)

656 http://tinyurl.com/m2clw2h

God Bless Sheriff Joe

Posted by: Jean at January 27, 2014 01:48 AM (4JkHl)

657 The batter (frequentative verb form) does not need to be perfectly smooth. Just mix that shit up. I add a dash of baking powder to make sure they will fluff the hell up a little. This is a cheap, show-off trick, and it's really beneath you.

Use Clabber Girl, because, Indy 500. The Hulman family saved the track.
Also, Mary had a cigar named after her. When she was young, and winsome.

A dash of salt and a pat of butter in the mix is all right too, if you can spare it.

Push mixture into sheet-metal form. Rubber scraper (not a "spatula"), spoon, or you did wash that finger didn't you. Any of it you get on the top of the metal, you'll have to scrub off later.

Make the portions equal. One little gob in each, then another little gob in each, and so on.Use whatever tool to tamp them down flat.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 01:55 AM (xq1UY)

658 Shove in oven. Bank up your oven fire if nec.
Set timer for 10 minutes. That is when you will peek at them.

Good time to start your sausage gravy, if so inclined.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 02:04 AM (xq1UY)

659 I had a nice little detail section, but Pixy calls it Spam. I guess Martha White and lace-wigs go in the same cubby hole over there.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 02:05 AM (xq1UY)

660 After ten minutes, look in. I don't have a glass door in my over. Nobody loves me.

This calls for some subtlety. I realize I'm on the wrong blog. You're looking for just the least little tinge of color on the tops of those biscuits. Not deep brown, just a hint. Afte ra couple of batches, you'll recognize what's best in your oven.

Got a round toothpick? Those are baking tools. Shove in the middle, and if it comes out clean, they're done.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 02:07 AM (xq1UY)

661 There are many fine oven mitts on the market, they tell me. Whole websites are devoted to their appreciation and use. You ain't tough enough to pull those biscuits out barehanded, and I know that because I have seen strong men try.

It's kind of important to let the whole pan set a little, even if only a minute, before "disgorging." They shrink up, you see, and free themselves up. If you don't wait you'll end up going around the edge of each biscuit with a little knife blade.

That's OK with my oven gear, but it's hell on the Teflon.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 02:16 AM (xq1UY)

662 A founder of IranÂ’s Revolutionary Guards now admits that the Islamic Republic was seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. This is the first time any regime official has made such an admission, even as another report claims that one of IranÂ’s most radical clerics was the spiritual overseer of the nuclear weapons program.

Â“We pursued ways in order to gain nuclear arms,Â” Gen. Mohsen Rafiqdoost told the regimeÂ’s Mehr News on Saturday. Â“I asked Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] what his opinion was. He said do not pursue atoms, and we stopped.Â”

But that claim falls short of the truth. In the late 1980s, a letter by Mohsen Rezaei, then the chief commander of the Guards, asking Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Revolution, for approval of the nuclear bomb program was revealed. It showed the leader had approved of seeking nuclear weapons.

Rafiqdoost became the first minister of the Guards and was in charge of purchasing arms on the black market.

Posted by: Edward Teller at January 27, 2014 02:17 AM (e8kgV)

663 My ell tee is fed, and out the door. Clear skies and happy landings ell tee.
Give them Hell, and tell them where you got it.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 02:18 AM (xq1UY)

664 And now, soak that biscuit pan in warm water, or that dough will never come off.

This completes our baking demo. Make sure you put your oven fires out.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 02:30 AM (xq1UY)

665 It's my first 6-6-6.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 02:40 AM (xq1UY)

666 God DAMN this place empties out fast when I ask you to do a little work.
It's like Scout Camp.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 02:41 AM (xq1UY)

667 #663

In a book I mentioned on the Sunday book thread, The Dead Hand, there is discussion of how much effort Iran made to acquire nuclear expertise from Russians during the year after the Soviet collapse. A lot of Iranian agents were running around trying to buy stuff and a lot of scientists survived by going to Tehran to teach classes. These were supposed to be limited to non-classified info and not be specifically nuke-building seminars but there was always probing questions.

There is absolutely no question that Iran was in pursuit of nuclear weapons capability from 1989 and onward.

Posted by: Epobirs at January 27, 2014 02:43 AM (bPxS6)

668 OMG Teh IntarW3bz have frozen solid, eleventy.

"This is Lawrence, Kansas. Is anyone out there?"

Houston Houston, do you read?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 02:54 AM (xq1UY)

669 Fox News is Trump's bitch.

Posted by: CPAC Yeast Inspector at January 27, 2014 03:03 AM (Cs2tJ)

670 Everybody up late for those Gramsci Awards you say you don't watch?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 27, 2014 03:05 AM (xq1UY)

671 669 Stringer Davis, There's some wind coming in from Knoxville we're reading 13 rads an hour... America will never be clean again...

Posted by: sven10077 at January 27, 2014 03:05 AM (Su0d3)

672 "The researchers found that the larger the black population, the lower the upward mobility."

If Charles Murray had written this, it would have been denounced as racist.

Clearly, upward mobility in West Virginia is the best real life example of Charles Milton's "Paradise Lost" ...

"better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."

Posted by: King Nebuchadnezzar at January 27, 2014 03:12 AM (e8kgV)

673 A few days ago someone, maybe Cthulhu, was remarking on the existence of 128 GB USB flash drives.

I just got an add from Patriot touting Newegg as a place for their latest stuff. Among the items was a 256 GB USB 3.0 drive. The downside is the thing is priced is priced at $145 after rebate. A severe premium when the 128 GB model is only $50 after rebate.

But it is out there if you have the need for some serious geek bling.

Posted by: Epobirs at January 27, 2014 03:45 AM (bPxS6)

674 Charles Milton?

Posted by: Epobirs at January 27, 2014 04:10 AM (bPxS6)

675 VATICAN CITY (AP) Â— Two white doves that were released by children standing alongside Pope Francis as a peace gesture have been attacked by other birds.

As tens of thousands of people watched in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, a seagull and a large black crow swept down on the doves right after they were set free from an open window of the Apostolic Palace.

One dove lost some feathers as it broke free from the gull. But the crow pecked repeatedly at the other dove.

It was not clear what happened to the doves as they flew off.

Posted by: Sarah McLachlan at January 27, 2014 04:12 AM (e8kgV)

676 Those uniforms (both US and Norwegian) merely underscore my contention that ALL Olympics are Special Olympics.

Posted by: PersonFromPorlock at January 27, 2014 04:37 AM (lILC0)

677 a good read Maet, even if the chief ewok is cranky.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humantiarian at January 27, 2014 04:42 AM (HVff2)

678 651 Beware I live, funny thing about the media & Ukraine... You'd think they'd be comfortable enough to show the commies beating the fuck out of capitalist conservatives as a good thing if nothing else. Posted by: sven10077 at January 27, 2014 05:00 AM (TE35l) Media won't cover it because commie countries are paradises where there is no need for dissent.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, waiting on an apology on behalf of the KaBoom Kiddes at January 27, 2014 06:03 AM (HxSXm)

679 Oh come on, those Norwegian uniforms... that's a photo shoot from a 1980s Dr. Who casting call, right?

Posted by: Kalifornia Kafir at January 27, 2014 08:12 AM (aVNMU)

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