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Overnight Open Thread, 11-22-2014 -- My Hometown Edition
Hello there, fellow Morons. It's been a while since our paths crossed. Once again, your regular contributor to this space has drummed up some cockamamie excuse to shirk his duties and left the heavy lifting to the resident RINO so he can gallivant with drunkards and whores. But, that's OK. It's Saturday night. And, if I weren't doing this, I'd just be sitting around the house wishing I could be out gallivanting with drunkards and whores.
So, knowing I had to come up with something to fill this space in his absence, I decided to get out and do something that could plausibly be described as productive. As anyone who knows me will readily attest, that's a big breakthrough for me when it comes to my typical weekend activities. You see, I'm an irredeemable layabout by nature. Today, though, I thought I'd get out and take a few photos by way of introduction to the little corner of the world I inhabit. As some of you may know, I live in the far reaches of western Kentucky, not far from the confluence of the Mississippi and the Ohio River. It's a largely rural area populated by mostly friendly folk, albeit sparsely -- the sort of place where people wave or raise an acknowledging finger as you pass them while driving down the road. And when those people speak of going to "town", they're talking about Paducah.You may not have heard of this bustling metropolis of 25,000 (give or take) or know how to pronounce it (puh-DOO-kuh) -- and that's just fine. The people of Paducah are perfectly content with their anonymity. In fact, the biggest annual event that draws attention from far-flung corners of the earth -- the annual American Quilters Society convention -- strikes fear and loathing in the hearts of the local population. It seems the town will never quite come to terms with the yearly onslaught of marauding, blue-haired, wrong-way drivers clogging the local highways and byways. But, once that week passes and people settle back into their normal routines, they luxuriate in the relative bliss of obscurity.
Of course, that doesn't mean Paducahans are unwelcoming of visitors. Quite the contrary, in fact. They're actually quite friendly to those who hail from the hinterlands, provided they don't arrive in throngs. And, if you should find yourself traveling through the area on I-24, feel free to stop in for a bit and have a bite to eat. While it may not be the go-to city for five-star dining, for a town its size, Paducah is overflowing with culinary options. But, if you're looking for a memorable culinary experience, don't limit yourself to the chain restaurants and franchises that line the main thoroughfares just off the interstate. You'd be cheating yourself badly.
Every part of the country thinks it has a lock on the "Best Burger Anywhere" title. But, unless that part of the country includes Paducah, Kentucky -- well, they're wrong. Because, you see, that title goes to Just Hamburgers. I've had In-N-Out. I've had Five Guys. And, while I admittedly have yet to try a Whataburger, I don't need to. I've had Just Hamburgers, and they can't be beat. Below, you'll see the Buffalo Burger. Normally it would be adorned with bleu cheese crumbles, but they'd run out of it today, so I substituted it with gouda. It was so good that when I finished it, I felt compelled to compromise my virtue.
Not only are their burgers the best in the galaxy, their t-shirts are the coolest you'll find anywhere. Robert Waller is the most recent of three generations of owner-operators, and he's made his own unique mark on the business while maintaining the high standards of the previous generations, including fresh-grinding the beef in-house daily -- twice if needed -- and sticking to the same fifty-year-old family secret mix of spices. Do yourself a favor: Go there. Do that. Buy the t-shirt.
Say you find yourself in Paducah with a hankerin' for epicurean debauchery, but it's too early for burgers. Perhaps you're looking for a Krispy Kreme franchise. Sorry. You're out of luck in this town. There ain't one. But, at the same time, you're in luck. Because, you just happen to be in the town where the recipe for Krispy Kreme originated, and the home of the donut shop that perfected it: Red's Donuts.
Once you've tried the real thing, you will throw rocks at the North Carolina-based pretenders. Behold the sinful delicacy that has become the institution for fried pastries in Paducah and set the standard for sugar-glazed, fat-laden, yeast-based, deep-fried dough.
The University of North Carolina Library Archives says "Vernon Rudolph opened his first doughnut shop in 1933 in the town of Paducah, Kentucky, with a recipe his uncle had purchased from a chef in New Orleans. Within a few years, he had moved his business to several other Southern cities, and was focused on selling his doughnuts wholesale to local grocery stores. He still had not found the perfect location to establish his business. It wasn't until the summer of 1937 that Rudolph set off for Winston-Salem, NC, with little more than twenty dollars in his pocket, two friends, and the intention of opening a new doughnut shop."
And then there's barbeque. Just about every state in the union claims to be the home of "the real thing" when it comes to the stuff. Each has its own unique characteristics, whether it's in the sauce, the rub, or the cooking technique. But, you can go wherever you want and you'll not find better pork ribs than the ones you'll find at Backwoods BBQ. These aren't the honey-based sauce-slathered ribs your uncle incinerates over fluid-soaked charcoal every year in his Kiss the Cook apron. No, these are a whole different game. You won't find yourself gesticulating toward your cousin in a plea for the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge the fist-sized globule of fat from your windpipe. These are the falling-off-the-bone, no-sauce-needed, slow-smoked-the-way-God-intended ribs you can only get at Backwoods.
And while you're there, you might as well enjoy a cold mug from their small, but excellent, selection of beers to wash it down. If you drop in, be sure to tell them Walt sent you. Hell, I may even be there, myself.
So, there you have it. If you find yourself in Paducah, Kentucky in search of good eats, you have no excuse for not finding any. And if you leave without trying at least one of them -- well, you've screwed up and sentenced yourself to a lifetime of second-tier burgers, donuts and barbequed pork ribs. But, hey -- if you can live with it, so be it.
Tonight's ONT brought to you by Paducah native and Benny Hill soundtrack creator, Boots Randolph.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Carol at November 22, 2014 09:57 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 22, 2014 09:57 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at November 22, 2014 09:57 PM (10ydV)
Posted by: Carol at November 22, 2014 09:57 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 09:58 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 22, 2014 09:58 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Carol at November 22, 2014 09:58 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 22, 2014 09:59 PM (VXV0F)
Posted by: mpfs at November 22, 2014 09:59 PM (SMXjC)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at November 22, 2014 09:59 PM (zauWW)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 22, 2014 09:59 PM (VXV0F)
Posted by: Old Dog at November 22, 2014 10:00 PM (tQYJH)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 22, 2014 10:00 PM (4Mv1T)
I saw a news story on the CBC where they are continuing to supply free heroin to the addicts up here in Canada.
I think I'm being screwed over. I don't do it anymore but I'm still capable of killing 14 beers or so occasionally. Shouldn't I qualify as disabled and shouldn't someone from the damn government occasionally supply me with a supply for the occasional bender?
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at November 22, 2014 10:00 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 22, 2014 10:01 PM (l3vZN)
I know no pics allowed when the morons meet up but I want a pic of you in I standing in front of our red convertible Mustangs. Top down of course.
Posted by: mpfs at November 22, 2014 10:01 PM (SMXjC)
I don't usually waste my time trying to be first.
We get 5 -10 seconds of First. Then what ?
Posted by: Carol at November 22, 2014 10:02 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2014 10:02 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 22, 2014 10:02 PM (/mTq0)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 22, 2014 10:02 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:02 PM (GEICT)
I won't be posting from the john for at least 24 hours.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 22, 2014 10:02 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2014 10:03 PM (vPh3W)
want a pic of you in I standing in front of our red convertible
Mustangs. Top down of course.
Posted by: mpfs at November 22, 2014 10:01 PM (SMXjC)
Let's make that happen then.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:03 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: Old Dog
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It's like a rags to riches story.
Posted by: Countrysquire at November 22, 2014 10:03 PM (8FyP4)
Read about a year ago about Hemingway's favorite burger recipe. It turns out he didn't like toppings *on* his burger, he wanted everything *mashed into* the beef and cooked.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:03 PM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 22, 2014 10:03 PM (VXV0F)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 22, 2014 10:03 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 22, 2014 10:03 PM (/mTq0)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2014 10:03 PM (vPh3W)
I know no pics allowed when the morons meet up but I
want a pic of you in I standing in front of our red convertible
Mustangs. Top down of course.
Posted by: mpfs at November 22, 2014 10:01 PM (SMXjC)
Let's make that happen then.
Arm in arm, of course!
Posted by: mpfs at November 22, 2014 10:04 PM (SMXjC)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at November 22, 2014 10:04 PM (PZ6/M)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:02 PM (GEICT)
Well, the neighbor next to the place we were sighting in the .308 was yelling something...but we ignored him. Does that count?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:04 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: LexisTexas at November 22, 2014 10:05 PM (oNz7q)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:04 PM (6fyGz)
Possibly.
But did it sound like "BEAR!!!"
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:05 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:05 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2014 10:05 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 22, 2014 10:05 PM (o0mD3)
Posted by: flounder at November 22, 2014 10:05 PM (sDapq)
Posted by: Rudolph the Depressed at November 22, 2014 10:06 PM (ddOZM)
I'm sorry but if, by your own sad admission, you haven't tasted the
alimentary glory that is the Whataburger...then you, my friend, have not
burgered!
Posted by: LexisTexas
Ahem....In and Out Burger reigns supreme,
Posted by: mpfs at November 22, 2014 10:06 PM (SMXjC)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:05 PM (GEICT)
*looks around*
oh...shit...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:06 PM (6fyGz)
Any way that said, you can eat and Yakitty Yak here at AOSHQ..
what you really need is to Play both sides at one meeting..
Like the Completion Backwards Principle...
Talk to ya later!!!!
And I am Not your son ...I do know the hill..
Posted by: Frash Smelt at November 22, 2014 10:06 PM (/WmRg)
Posted by: t-bird at November 22, 2014 10:06 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: mpfs at November 22, 2014 10:01 PM
What, you want a pic of GGE with his top down. Well, alright. I thought you'd want a picture of him in a kilt.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 22, 2014 10:07 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 10:07 PM (uumvJ)
Stateless I though 14 was just..., normal, for you folk.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2014 10:02 PM (vPh3W)
It turns out I was apparently in training for South Korea where they take drinking seriously. I think PJ O'Rourke called the South Koreans the Irish of Asia.
When I was teaching there, the school staff was taken out for a night of drinking. The principal was impressed with how my heavy drinking US female coworker and I could really handle the booze.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at November 22, 2014 10:07 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: mpfs at November 22, 2014 10:06 PM (SMXjC)
Once upon a time there was a place called Fuddruckers, we had one in Va Beach. I don't know if its still there or not...indeed, I don't know if they even still exist or not.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:07 PM (6fyGz)
Thus, the only thing that matters is the taste. QED.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2014 10:07 PM (s9AKD)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 22, 2014 10:07 PM (o0mD3)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
The kilt will do just fine! I do love the Scots.
Posted by: mpfs at November 22, 2014 10:08 PM (SMXjC)
Posted by: andycanuck at November 22, 2014 10:08 PM (vHjbk)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 22, 2014 10:07 PM (u82oZ)
It could be both.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:08 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: Countrysquire at November 22, 2014 10:09 PM (8FyP4)
Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 22, 2014 10:09 PM (/mTq0)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter
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There was one right here on our very own Glenwood Ave (Hiway 70). It closed a year or two ago.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 22, 2014 10:09 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: ll Duke Benito Hussain Sotero at November 22, 2014 10:09 PM (UJLxa)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:09 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: ALH at November 22, 2014 10:10 PM (nQY3t)
Posted by: Carol at November 22, 2014 10:10 PM (sj3Ax)
I never found out if he went there. But he was high in his praise of the place.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 22, 2014 10:10 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: somejoe at November 22, 2014 10:10 PM (LvVQC)
This reminded me of my college roommate who was from Escanaba in Michigan's UP. Or as we called it, dogsled country. I remember her excitement when they finally got a fast food restaurant. It was either a Burger King or a McDonald's. Can't remember which.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 10:11 PM (uumvJ)
Posted by: Countrysquire at November 22, 2014 10:09 PM (8FyP4)
Yes indeed, the best burgers in the world come of of the grill in my backyard.
There was one right here on our very own Glenwood Ave (Hiway 70). It closed a year or two ago.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 22, 2014 10:09 PM (4Mv1T)
Well...damn.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:11 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: ALH at November 22, 2014 10:11 PM (nQY3t)
In those 30 years, I think I've been to it a grand total of *four* times. I've just never cared for their burgers.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:11 PM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:07 PM (6fyGz)
There was one in Annapolis.
Soooooo good.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:11 PM (GEICT)
I don't know if I'd trust those yellow-ochre beans with the ribs though.
Posted by: andycanuck at November 22, 2014 10:11 PM (vHjbk)
Posted by: Corona at November 22, 2014 10:11 PM (fh2Y7)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 22, 2014 10:12 PM (o0mD3)
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Whatever type of panties a woman decides to wear should be her own damned business!
Oh... wait.
THRONGS?
Never mind!
Posted by: Y-not at November 22, 2014 10:12 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: ll Duke Benito Hussain Sotero
He polished up that handle so carefully,
that now he is the ruler of the Queen's Navy.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 22, 2014 10:12 PM (l3vZN)
It's Saturday night. Why aren't you out there torching strip malls and crapping on cop cars?
Is there a Matlock marathon or something?
You disappoint me.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 10:12 PM (QBm1P)
Posted by: ALH at November 22, 2014 10:11 PM (nQY3t)
5 Guys is badass.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:12 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: GGE
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Down the street, here in
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2014 10:12 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: ALH
A burger, fries, and coke shouldn't cost $12 without a waiter, linens, and a wine selection.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2014 10:13 PM (s9AKD)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 22, 2014 10:13 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: otho at November 22, 2014 10:13 PM (tBSrv)
They died and went away (around here) nearly 20 years ago.
And 5 Guys??? They were good... but not good enough to demand the jack they wanted for one of their burgers, let alone the fries (which earned 2 thumbs down from me).
Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 22, 2014 10:13 PM (/mTq0)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at November 22, 2014 10:00 PM (AC0lD)
Don't tell the people of Detroit that, or they'll start demanding the same thing.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 10:14 PM (uumvJ)
For mass-produced burgers, however, I have to give the nod to Carl's Jr./Hardees (owned by the same company, with basically the same menu). But without a doubt, the best commercially-produced burger in America is made by a restaurant with a single location: Zippy's Giant Burgers in White Center, WA (White Center's nickname is "Rat City, but don't let that intimidate you). The burgers are huge, they cook them to perfection, and there are so many options available that it boggles the mind. My favorite is the Jimbo, with enough jalapeno slices to satisfy even the most fanatical jalapeno fan, and my wife loves the Great Dane, with blue cheese and bacon. But even their standard burgers are excellent.
Posted by: CQD at November 22, 2014 10:14 PM (tcvYF)
I don't usually waste my time trying to be first.
We get 5 -10 seconds of First. Then what ?
Posted by: Carol at November 22, 2014 10:02 PM (sj3Ax)
I feel the same way about intercourse.
Posted by: Truman North, Moron Emeritus at November 22, 2014 10:14 PM (7Oo+W)
The day after Obama's second mid-term election, completely dismissed the obvious rebuke the American people gave him. In effect, not one 'f**k' was given by him.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=7229
Posted by: The Political Hat at November 22, 2014 10:14 PM (lN8KC)
Though, I'd trade the donut and the entire experience for one of those Killer Burgers T-Shirts.
Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2014 10:14 PM (sjUBJ)
To be fair, they give you about $10 worth of fries.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 22, 2014 10:14 PM (o0mD3)
Posted by: ALH at November 22, 2014 10:15 PM (nQY3t)
Posted by: --- at November 22, 2014 10:15 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: bocephus at November 22, 2014 10:16 PM (C+BCW)
How can you not like fresh cut fries?
Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 22, 2014 10:16 PM (o0mD3)
Posted by: mpfs at November 22, 2014 10:16 PM (SMXjC)
I'd actually rather go to the one in Victorville than in Santa Monica.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:16 PM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 10:17 PM (QBm1P)
Posted by: The real ch3 at November 22, 2014 10:17 PM (Fjr+q)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 22, 2014 10:17 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: freaked at November 22, 2014 10:17 PM (JdEZJ)
We used to go there after the beach in the summers growing up in the Bronx. Eat some clams on city island and pop would drive us home sleeping all the way.
Ahh the memories.
Posted by: Kreplach at November 22, 2014 10:17 PM (lPpJL)
We used to go there after the beach in the summers growing up in the Bronx. Eat some clams on city island and pop would drive us home sleeping all the way.
Ahh the memories.
Posted by: Kreplach at November 22, 2014 10:17 PM (lPpJL)
Posted by: LadyS at November 22, 2014 10:17 PM (5dip8)
Posted by: otho at November 22, 2014 10:17 PM (tBSrv)
Frozen Reece's Cups.
There are no words.
Posted by: Lauren Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:18 PM (BPMYx)
It is merely the home of Traeger wood-pellet grills.
And we invented mildew.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2014 10:18 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at November 22, 2014 10:18 PM (zauWW)
National Review @NRO 2m
Purdue U: Only 50 Percent of Scientists Blame Humans for Climate Change http://natl.re/1xLhVNK
Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 22, 2014 10:18 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: president o'bumbles at November 22, 2014 10:18 PM (vHjbk)
Posted by: Viv Savage at November 22, 2014 10:19 PM (HRo7B)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 22, 2014 10:19 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: mpfs at November 22, 2014 10:19 PM (SMXjC)
Posted by: Viv Savage at November 22, 2014 10:19 PM (HRo7B)
Posted by: Hans Gruber at November 22, 2014 10:20 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: ALH at November 22, 2014 10:20 PM (nQY3t)
Color me thoroughly unimpressed.
Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 22, 2014 10:20 PM (/mTq0)
Of course, for the 50% that believe it, that doesn't imply they also believe in economy crippling carbon taxes and uber-statist eco-socialism.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 22, 2014 10:20 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Viv Savage at November 22, 2014 10:20 PM (HRo7B)
Posted by: Corona at November 22, 2014 10:20 PM (fh2Y7)
Too many of the popular burger places start adjusting things for cost savings. What starts out as 'the awesome' ends up like the 'McD's'
Posted by: PM Rich at November 22, 2014 10:21 PM (eEBON)
My Dad was raised in New Rochelle. I was born there. Greasy Nicks. Damn. Haven't heard that place ref'd in over 20 years!
Ever get over to Walter's Hot Dogs, on Palmer Ave., in Mamaroneck?
Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2014 10:21 PM (sjUBJ)
And that's with the enticement of funding and the threat of career damage if they say otherwise.
Posted by: --- at November 22, 2014 10:21 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Truman North, Moron Emeritus at November 22, 2014 10:21 PM (7Oo+W)
Give me Perry Fucking Mason.
Posted by: mpfs
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Used to watch that in the afternoons when I was a kid. Best theme song ever.
Well, besides, "Peter Gunn".
"Della?..."
Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 22, 2014 10:22 PM (4Mv1T)
But the rest of my family didn't want chicken, so we ended up eating at a little place called The Hamburger Tree.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:22 PM (Vh4i6)
This place is in one of the Salt Lake "burbs" and they may hurt their brand a bit. A few misses on the food, but mostly the facility, and especially the tables/seating, were not up to snuff.
Plus, what is it with these "craft cocktails" places that steadfastly refuse to explain what their friggin' weird-o cocktail is? (And don't bring their waitstaff up to speed on how to describe them.) Wound up ordering a Moscow Mule that was made with ginger ale and served in a high ball glass. *ding goes the TripAdvisor review*
Posted by: Y-not at November 22, 2014 10:22 PM (9BRsg)
On another note my real initials are ALH. Freaky huh?
Posted by: freaked at November 22, 2014 10:22 PM (JdEZJ)
Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2014 10:23 PM (sjUBJ)
Posted by: Truman North, Moron Emeritus at November 22, 2014 10:24 PM (7Oo+W)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 22, 2014 10:24 PM (o0mD3)
Posted by: Across the river at November 22, 2014 10:24 PM (bHtF/)
Posted by: Bob Belcher
Quality fries, no doubt. And I couldn't eat them all in one sitting if I tried.
But, if your fries are a stronger point than your burger ...
I think there is a dividing line here between a diner burger, and a fast-food, chain-store burger.
Five Guys opted for a diner burger model crammed into a 'fast' food joint. (the stores I've been to have been anything but fast.)
In 'N Out are part of the original fast-food chain model; good, fast, cheap. Their fries are an acquired taste. I like them, and if you crispy critics would bother, they will twice-fry your order. Just ask.
Five Guys burgers are decent, the fries are very good, but the meals are fucking expensive and not so fast.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2014 10:24 PM (s9AKD)
Posted by: grammie winger at November 22, 2014 10:24 PM (3B+O8)
About the only fowl big enough to survive the winters up there.
Posted by: HuuskerDu at November 22, 2014 10:24 PM (gYAkw)
They opened one not that long ago up where my in laws live in NC. My FiL and I tried it out. Pretty damn good, especially considering the dirt cheap prices.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:25 PM (GEICT)
Must think about this.
If it is indeed a delusion, how could I tell?
Posted by: Truman North, Moron Emeritus at November 22, 2014 10:25 PM (7Oo+W)
But the more esoteric ones are still in the running?
Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2014 10:25 PM (sjUBJ)
Posted by: Lauren Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:25 PM (BPMYx)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:07 PM (6fyGz)
They're still around. Not as good as they used to be. The one near where I grew up had a fresh bakery and a butcher shop you could watch.
It was also before they went the "flair" route and decked their place out in crap.
Posted by: The Political Hat at November 22, 2014 10:25 PM (lN8KC)
The Doran paper has been criticised by many sceptics in the past, where a survey of 10,256 with 3146 respondents was whittled down to 75 out of 77 "expert" 'active climate researchers' (ACR) to give the 97% figure, based on just two very simplistic (shallow) questions that even the majority of sceptics might agree with. Lawrence Soloman made one of many critiques of the Doran Paper here and offers a very good summary, some other reviews here, here and here.
Posted by: andycanuck at November 22, 2014 10:25 PM (vHjbk)
Lately? You are off your friggin' rocker.
Give it a rest.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 22, 2014 10:26 PM (4Mv1T)
Plain Vanilla.
Posted by: ALH at November 22, 2014 10:26 PM (nQY3t)
How old are you garret? My family lived in New Rochelle for awhile.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 22, 2014 10:26 PM (o0mD3)
Posted by: PM Rich at November 22, 2014 10:21 PM (eEBON)
That's what happened to Hardees, until they were purchased/rescued by Carl's Jr. From my experience (in both AZ and TX), however, that's exactly what happened to Whataburger.
Posted by: CQD at November 22, 2014 10:26 PM (tcvYF)
Some of the best burgers I've had are from places that make you wonder "Is this place even safe to eat at?"
Smashburger - original version
Toulon, France street vendor fare.
Burger, cheese, fries and all the fixings all placed between the buns - then smashed/cooked panini style.
Posted by: PM Rich at November 22, 2014 10:26 PM (eEBON)
Never been to Walters.
We used to go to Glen Island for days out then head over to Nicks for lunch.
Then drive over to city island and walk down city island avenue to the end and get clams on the half shell. We used to eat dozens and dozens of them.
I'm suddenly misty and hungry but mostly hungry.
Posted by: Kreplach at November 22, 2014 10:26 PM (lPpJL)
It makes my ACD act up, which can be very uncomfortable.
Posted by: Truman North, Moron Emeritus at November 22, 2014 10:26 PM (7Oo+W)
Posted by: Andy in FL at November 22, 2014 10:28 PM (nf/Xx)
Of course, after waiting behind others, as soon as I get to the drive-thru speaker I hear "Just a minute, sir." So I wait. 3 minutes, 4 minutes, 5 minutes, 6. Finally I got so mad I just drove up to the window and let the girl who came over really have it.
At least, my spitburgers were delicious.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:28 PM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: freaked at November 22, 2014 10:28 PM (JdEZJ)
Around here, there's the rare deli that serves food, but the local 'joints' are now multi-store franchises in the SW region.
Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 22, 2014 10:29 PM (/mTq0)
Posted by: cthulhu at November 22, 2014 10:29 PM (T1005)
Yet, been going there for over 20 years and I couldn't give up their dogs if I tried.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:29 PM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2014 10:30 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Truman North
Just don't add salt to the grind.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2014 10:30 PM (s9AKD)
I didn't live there for more than a few months before we moved up to Bedford.
My father's immediate family lived there from the late 20's through the early 2000's. Still have a few relatives in the old neighborhood
Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2014 10:30 PM (sjUBJ)
Hey anyone with the initials ALH is ok by me. I like all flavors. Except banana.
Posted by: freaked at November 22, 2014 10:31 PM (JdEZJ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 10:12 PM (QBm1P)
You and oh so many others. The list is long and distinguished.
And +1 plus a Hell Yeah on the Cook-Out burgers, with a nice thick blueberry cheesecake shake and a double order of onion rings.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:31 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 22, 2014 10:31 PM (VXV0F)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2014 10:31 PM (AVEe1)
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Sounds like you have a bad franchise, which I admit are out there. I have two Whataburgers within 5 miles of my house, and one is far superior to the other. However both beat McD's, Wendy's, Burger King, ect any day of the week.
Posted by: Lauren Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:31 PM (BPMYx)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:32 PM (Vh4i6)
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=7229
Posted by: The Political Hat at November 22, 2014 10:14 PM (lN8KC)
I am not voting FOR republicans, I am voting AGAINST democrats. Voters need to make the bastards in that party pay for the piece of shit that they put into the white house.
I suspect that things are going to get nasty at a lot of Thanksgiving dinners. My brother and liberal sister in law just had a new grandbaby courtesy of their son and his wife. I'm hoping they don't come to Thanksgiving because I am in a very mean mood. Turkey legs could be hurled at people's heads.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 10:32 PM (uumvJ)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at November 22, 2014 10:32 PM (zauWW)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 22, 2014 10:33 PM (VXV0F)
Posted by: --- at November 22, 2014 10:33 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: ALH at November 22, 2014 10:33 PM (nQY3t)
On Friday, Kentucky State Police Post 2 Troopers took Naysan P. Khadem, 23, of Paducah, Kentucky into custody. State police say the arrest stemmed from a warrant one count of terroristic threatening second degree and one count of terroristic threatening third degree. According to the Christian County Attorney, Khadem made statements intending to harm law enforcement and others at Murray State University.
There is no escape from the world, anywhere.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 22, 2014 10:33 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
Heh! There's this thing on the cooking contest shows in which a contestant admits they added truffle oil, and the editors portray it as the biggest faux pas in the history of cuisine.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2014 10:33 PM (s9AKD)
Posted by: PM Rich at November 22, 2014 10:34 PM (eEBON)
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 10:34 PM (uumvJ)
Posted by: Viv Savage at November 22, 2014 10:34 PM (HRo7B)
There have been times I could have plunged someone's head into the turkey fryer...
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:34 PM (Vh4i6)
Two Chicago dogs with some Cheese fries and gravy and your flying.
Posted by: Kreplach at November 22, 2014 10:34 PM (lPpJL)
On the other hand there've been plenty of Mexican / Texmex restaurants where I'd overpaid for sh!t, and been sent to the john early, and wished I'd eaten at Taco Cabana instead.
Taco Cabana is one underrated joint
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2014 10:34 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: sinmi on the phone at November 22, 2014 10:34 PM (+2zSY)
Plain Vanilla.
Posted by: ALH at November 22, 2014 10:26 PM (nQY3t)
To hell with those guys. Hurricanes and tornadoes are exciting and unpredictable but not exactly anything I'd want to live with.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:35 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: Homer Simpson at November 22, 2014 10:35 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: nerdygirl
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Indeed. I still like a BK Whopper.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 22, 2014 10:35 PM (4Mv1T)
Apropos of nothing, except burgers.
Posted by: flounder at November 22, 2014 10:35 PM (sDapq)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2014 10:36 PM (AVEe1)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/536362076667904000
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/536363269733507072
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/536363504916529152
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/536363819669684265
Posted by: kbdabear at November 22, 2014 10:36 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:31 PM (6fyGz)
The thing about CookOut is that it was a good bit of food for good price and a good taste.
Was it the best burger and onion rings I've ever had? No, but it was pretty good. And again, for very low cost.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:36 PM (GEICT)
That's why I made the snarky comment earlier. Paducah was infamous across the nation in 1997 for a school shooting.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 22, 2014 10:37 PM (o0mD3)
Posted by: Viv Savage at November 22, 2014 10:34 PM (HRo7B)
Corky's, dry rub ribs, Memphis TN. To die for. And in Memphis these days...you just might.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:37 PM (6fyGz)
Well, if it wasn't "high and to the left," then you did the right thing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 22, 2014 10:37 PM (Zu3d9)
You should try getting up to Walter's. Really.
Three Dogs with Mustard and a Large Orange Drink. That's the magic combo, there.
Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2014 10:37 PM (sjUBJ)
Urkel was named after a Czech Pilsner?
I guess we know how he was conceived now :^x
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2014 10:37 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 10:37 PM (R5HRU)
What possesses a business to do that? Mister's team does a lot of flying, mostly Delta, but I'm sure he'll try to shift as much of their travel off of them as he can manage.
Posted by: Y-not at November 22, 2014 10:38 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:36 PM (GEICT)
Best burger and onion rings you're gonna find at 2 AM in Raleigh NC, that's for sure.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:38 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: ALH at November 22, 2014 10:38 PM (nQY3t)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 22, 2014 10:38 PM (o0mD3)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:38 PM (6fyGz)
The place to go when I was in college and you were hammered and wanted a burger....Steak N Shake.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:39 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: kbdabear at November 22, 2014 10:39 PM (GrXXa)
Hey, I feel great about getting on a plane cleaned and loaded by people whose backgrounds are complete unknowns.
Posted by: --- at November 22, 2014 10:39 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:39 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 10:32 PM (uumvJ)
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Yep, I'm anticipating some contentious conversations this holiday. I normally sidestep the politics but I'm kinda itching for confrontation this time. The libs get very shrill and indignant and they know this shuts down the dialog with decent folks who were taught not to bring up politics, sex, or religion (our bread and butter at the AoSHQ, but not in that order).
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 10:40 PM (QBm1P)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 22, 2014 10:40 PM (4Mv1T)
And I like that they have a spicy ghost pepper burger that is *actually* pretty spicy.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:40 PM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: Lauren Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:40 PM (BPMYx)
Posted by: HuuskerDu at November 22, 2014 10:40 PM (gYAkw)
Posted by: Mindy at November 22, 2014 10:41 PM (vDQz+)
Oh sir, yes I am. I couldn't last night as I woke up this morning to play ball at 9am
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 10:41 PM (R5HRU)
Ah, more "global warming" nonsense.
Speaking of which, here's a Salon article that's making the lib-Stupid-Sphere: http://tinyurl.com/md6bf2y
I will guaran-damn-tee you that all the progs saying that this is yet another salvo in the "War on 'Science'" didn't read a damn word of the actual bill. Here's the part of the bill where Linsday Abrams says it's such an outrage:
"Board members may not participate in advisory
activities that directly or indirectly involve review or
evaluation of their own work;"
Gee, I wonder why this clause was put in there? Could it be that it is a wee bit of a potential conflict of interest for people on an advisory board (that could potentially affect laws) to talk directly about their own research (not expertise)?
Would they be fine with an industry scientist saying that whatever process and/or drug they were working on is completely safe and beneficial? Probably not.
Posted by: Thrawn at November 22, 2014 10:41 PM (Oo0Xc)
Posted by: kbdabear at November 22, 2014 10:41 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:37 PM (6fyGz)
Dry rubbed. Sounds great.
Posted by: Viv Savage at November 22, 2014 10:42 PM (HRo7B)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 22, 2014 10:37 PM (Zu3d9)
High and right actually, but he didn't sight it to my dots before we left the house (I have two paper dots on my wall that I use to rough sight scopes from my kitchen island).
And, don't laugh, but whenever I'm going from Jacksonville FL back home I have to stop in Pooler GA to get a bag of Krystals to take home to Eldest Son because it's the closest one to home. Funny thing is, I never had one the whole time I lived in Jacksonville.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:42 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:42 PM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2014 10:43 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: --- at November 22, 2014 10:43 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: fBW52 at November 22, 2014 10:43 PM (fBW52)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:43 PM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: Thrawn at November 22, 2014 10:43 PM (Oo0Xc)
Nighty night.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 22, 2014 10:44 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: zeera at November 22, 2014 10:44 PM (byDue)
Burger, cheese, fries and all the fixings all placed between the buns - then smashed/cooked panini style.
Posted by: PM Rich at November 22, 2014 10:26 PM (eEBON)
I had a burger in Paris and wondered what the "meat" was. It did not taste like beef.
I prayed that it was kangaroo and not horse. I love horses.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 10:44 PM (uumvJ)
Posted by: --- at November 22, 2014 10:39 PM (MMC8r)
Yet another reason I won't fly anymore.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:44 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: fBW52 at November 22, 2014 10:44 PM (fBW52)
Unexpected but the best ribs, dry rub, that I've had recently are from PF Changs. Damn my mouth just watered.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 22, 2014 10:44 PM (o0mD3)
Go Gophers!
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 10:44 PM (R5HRU)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 10:37 PM (R5HRU)
Last seen on twitter wondering where the tub water is in one of my compliance pics
Posted by: kbdabear at November 22, 2014 10:44 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: ALH at November 22, 2014 10:45 PM (nQY3t)
208 I found out watching Craig Ferguson's late night show that Seth Rogen is a huge fan of Red Robin.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:43 PM (Vh4i6)
Yummmmmmmmm
Posted by: buzzion at November 22, 2014 10:45 PM (zt+N6)
Chicken express is another favorite. Their tenders and cream gravy are amazing as well. As for barbecue, slow smoked brisket with barbeque beans and Texas sheet cake for dessert from Cousin's .
I really miss home.
Posted by: Moki at November 22, 2014 10:45 PM (bAB8f)
Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 22, 2014 10:45 PM (/mTq0)
Posted by: kbdabear at November 22, 2014 10:44 PM (GrXXa)
Hahahahhahahahahahaha
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:46 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: ALH at November 22, 2014 10:47 PM (nQY3t)
Never been there, but it's gotten good reviews.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:47 PM (Vh4i6)
I had a burger in Paris and wondered what the "meat" was. It did not taste like beef.
I prayed that it was kangaroo and not horse.
Yeah, that was one of the things you had to worry about over there.
I love horses.
So do they, just in a different way
Posted by: PM Rich at November 22, 2014 10:47 PM (eEBON)
Posted by: kbdabear at November 22, 2014 10:47 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:48 PM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 10:37 PM (R5HRU)
*raises hand*
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 10:48 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 10:44 PM (R5HRU)
Go Go Gophers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHHrI47oE30
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 22, 2014 10:49 PM (W5DcG)
But the rest of my family didn't want chicken, so we ended up eating at a little place called The Hamburger Tree.Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:22 PM (Vh4i6)
Chester is located in an absolutely beautiful area of the country under Mt. Lassen. Grew up in Anderson. Miss the Golden State, too many commies running the place to ever move back.
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at November 22, 2014 10:50 PM (BLFGI)
I think you're talking about The Billy Goat, just beneath Michigan ave on Wacker Drive.
Posted by: Mr. Natural at November 22, 2014 10:50 PM (/pOl7)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 10:50 PM (R5HRU)
Posted by: Moki at November 22, 2014 10:50 PM (bAB8f)
Posted by: Country Singer at November 22, 2014 10:51 PM (nL0sw)
Posted by: LadyS at November 22, 2014 10:51 PM (5dip8)
Posted by: andycanuck at November 22, 2014 10:51 PM (vHjbk)
Old fashioned drug store grill and soda-jerk counter.
Moronworthy, in the extreme.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 22, 2014 10:51 PM (RzZOc)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:51 PM (Vh4i6)
There have been times I could have plunged someone's head into the turkey fryer...
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:34 PM (Vh4i6)
I wouldn't do that. You could start a fire. No liberal is worth burning your house down for.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 10:51 PM (uumvJ)
Racist video. Not cool.
/sarc
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 10:52 PM (R5HRU)
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 10:52 PM (uumvJ)
Posted by: kbdabear at November 22, 2014 10:47 PM (GrXXa)
But someone left the cake out in the rain, and I'll never have that recipe again.
Posted by: Richard Harris at November 22, 2014 10:53 PM (lN8KC)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2014 10:53 PM (FMbng)
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That's okay LadyS, I've got plenty of other revoltingly flavored vodkas to take up the slack.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 10:53 PM (QBm1P)
Posted by: ALH at November 22, 2014 10:53 PM (nQY3t)
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 10:54 PM (e+1S5)
Wings... MMmmmm
Anybody tried Quaker Steak and Lube. They are spreading out via franchising.
Only been to the original in Sharon, PA. Great place, and the name comes from the fact that the location used to be a Quaker Statestation. The lift over the bar is real.
Posted by: PM Rich at November 22, 2014 10:55 PM (eEBON)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 22, 2014 10:55 PM (jucos)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2014 10:55 PM (s9AKD)
They've got lots of great local craft beers and if elk, venison, bison, ostrich, emu, or kangaroo is your thing, you're in luck.
http://twistedrootburgerco.com/
Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at November 22, 2014 10:55 PM (oWhIO)
Posted by: freaked at November 22, 2014 10:55 PM (JdEZJ)
I too am in the wilds of western Kentucky, and will be in Paducah on Tuesday. If you're around, I'd love for you to buy me a burger. I'll buy the beer.
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 10:56 PM (e+1S5)
I think he mistook "deep frying a turkey" with "touching off a flame fougasse"
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2014 10:56 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 10:53 PM (QBm1P)
And that's a damn shame.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:56 PM (GEICT)
Hey, I feel great about getting on a plane cleaned and loaded by people whose backgrounds are complete unknowns.
Posted by: --- at November 22, 2014 10:39 PM (MMC8r)
You haven't heard? Jugears is gonna have all of them background checked. All 3.5 million. Smirk.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 10:56 PM (uumvJ)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 10:56 PM (R5HRU)
I've been to that Quaker Steak and Lube. My friends and I liked it.
Posted by: Thrawn at November 22, 2014 10:56 PM (Oo0Xc)
I understand TFG was pretty vague in his speech so all the details are going to have to be seen in what he actually has written up and signs.
Posted by: andycanuck at November 22, 2014 10:57 PM (vHjbk)
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 10:57 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 10:57 PM (QBm1P)
Just add some chianti and fava beans, and you're all set for a de-lish Thanksgiving.
;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 10:57 PM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: ALH
Proof, proof?
What possible standard of prood is necessary when the admin has avoided enforcment of laws for the past 6 years?
Politics, discretion, and the Deep State are the controlling factors now.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2014 10:57 PM (s9AKD)
It is a deeply subversive movie. Subversive of all the false pieties of an evil, unhappy age.
Subversive of the notion that redemption, even sainthood, is impossible in the environs of Sheepshead Bay.
Subversive in alluding strongly to Jn 8.
A strongly anti-abortion movie...
Deeply subversive in that it shows the natural yearning of the child-soul for God.
Subversive in that it depicts R.C Religious in a positive, even admirable, light.
It is so subversive, they may come after Bill Murray for it.
Posted by: fBW52 at November 22, 2014 10:58 PM (fBW52)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2014 10:59 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Mrs. Ida Lowry at November 22, 2014 10:59 PM (8N+Kq)
In my basement now are seven 12 year-old boys, celebrating middle son's sleepover birthday party. We are trying to get them to go to sleep. I took them to,the trampoline place and Hate-Fil-A.
**clicks glass to everyone else here I failed to mention before**
Posted by: LadyS at November 22, 2014 10:59 PM (5dip8)
Posted by: andycanuck at November 22, 2014 10:59 PM (vHjbk)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 10:56 PM (GEICT)
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Oh, the vodka's just for church picnics and book club meetings. Expect to see me slam back the tequila at the next MoMee.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 11:00 PM (QBm1P)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 22, 2014 10:24 PM (o0mD3)
*******
That place is the Billy Goat Tavern on Lower Wacker Drive.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 22, 2014 11:01 PM (Lf1Q9)
Posted by: Wolfish Grin at November 22, 2014 11:01 PM (qPJBi)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 11:00 PM (QBm1P)
Suuuuuure. I'll make sure they have marshmallow pinnacle behind the bar.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:01 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: puddleglum at November 22, 2014 11:01 PM (k82u2)
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 10:56 PM (uumvJ)
Background checks - Overruled by judge
Pay fines - Overruled by judge
Learn English - Overruled by judge
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 22, 2014 11:02 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2014 11:02 PM (Vh4i6)
Here in Boulder, Larkburger seems to be the thing. Mostly because truffle oil. Hey... Boulder.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
Heh! There's this thing on the cooking contest shows in which a
contestant admits they added truffle oil, and the editors portray it as
the biggest faux pas in the history of cuisine.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2014 10:33 PM (s9AKD)
A lot of that is that very little commercially available "truffle oil" is actually made from truffles.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 22, 2014 11:02 PM (T1005)
took a culture; should be back on Monday. My husband had an antibiotic-
resistant earlobe infection for the last 3 weeks. hmmm.
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Hmmm, indeed. Nose? Earlobe? That's some kinky conjugal bliss you two must be up to!
Seriously, though, get well soon!
Posted by: Y-not at November 22, 2014 11:03 PM (9BRsg)
Ugh, sounds awful. Is it cellulitis?
My husband got a form of it called erysipelas, in Saudi arabia, and it almost killed him. Do not mess around with that.
Posted by: Moki at November 22, 2014 11:03 PM (bAB8f)
That's the place. Forgot the name but that's the location. Was that indeed the place that was the inspiration for the skit ? I was only told it was.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 22, 2014 11:04 PM (o0mD3)
That is all.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:04 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: ALH at November 22, 2014 11:04 PM (nQY3t)
Posted by: Wolfish Grin at November 22, 2014 11:05 PM (qPJBi)
Researchers are also walking back that the European Bronze Age collapse was the result of climate-change at all:
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/mediacentre/news-releases/climate-change.php?bnr
The disruption was - brace yourself - the result of the collapse of the bronze market. Because people were buying steel instead. Because the Bronze Age had just ended. I know, right?
(I got into this because it looks a lot like there wasn't a lot of ClimateCHAOS!!1! in the 1100 BC either.)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2014 11:05 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:05 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 10:57 PM (QBm1P)
That's up the HMEIC (Head MFin' Ewok In Charge). I have no idea if Ace even wants one done. I just decided "what the hell," wrote one up, and emailed it to AOSHQ email address.
The worst that can happen is that I get told to F Off.
Posted by: Country Singer at November 22, 2014 11:05 PM (nL0sw)
Wow. I've heard nothing but good things about it and am excited to see it.
Posted by: Lauren Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:05 PM (BPMYx)
Posted by: The Political Hat at November 22, 2014 11:05 PM (lN8KC)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 11:06 PM (R5HRU)
**clicks glass to everyone else here I failed to mention before**
Posted by: LadyS
Holy crap! What Djinni bet did you make 20 years ago?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2014 11:06 PM (s9AKD)
I'm doing Irish Car Bombs. You in?
Anyone else?
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:05 PM (e+1S5)
Holy moly. There's something I haven't done in a while.
I can hang with you for one or two drinks.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:06 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: puddleglum at November 22, 2014 11:01 PM (k82u2)
Looks like I'll have a bit of spending money after I pick up my winnings at the book
Posted by: The Gamblin' Hat at November 22, 2014 11:06 PM (lN8KC)
That's the moron spirit. Gimme a second to pour, and I'll be back with a toast.
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:07 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Lauren Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:07 PM (BPMYx)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 11:00 PM (QBm1P)
I'll bring the Tabasco.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:08 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:01 PM (GEICT)
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**narrows eyes**
Just for that remark I plan on busting out the souju. What happens to the unsuspecting town of Alexandria will be on your head, BC.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 11:08 PM (QBm1P)
Same was true of Juno (which was also an anti-hipster movie).
I don't get what happened to Ellen Page (the title actress), but Diablo Cody (the writer) seems pretty cool.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2014 11:09 PM (AVEe1)
I think not. Owensboro is where it's at. We can make sheep taste good... That takes skill. Anyone can BBQ some ribs.
But good to know there's some West Kentucky blood here at the page.
Posted by: Rory at November 22, 2014 11:09 PM (R/01c)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 11:08 PM (QBm1P)
*shrugs*
I'm ok with that.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:10 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 11:08 PM (QBm1P)
Any reservation I ever had (which was none to begin with) about attending the next NoVaMoMe is now completely gone.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:10 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: Wolfish Grin at November 22, 2014 11:11 PM (qPJBi)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 11:11 PM (R5HRU)
My grandfather washed out of Navy Bootcamp in 1918 from erysipelas. The story is that grandpa called his mom (g-grandma to me) and told her what was going on and why he was being medically discharged, she was slightly deaf and it was a terrible phone connection, and she thought he said "syphilis" and was horrified.
(and Salvarsan was pretty much the only treatment other than Mercury, and it was not common at that time)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2014 11:11 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:11 PM (6fyGz)
vimeo.com/66527863
Posted by: fBW52 at November 22, 2014 11:11 PM (fBW52)
For one, she came out as a lesbian.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 22, 2014 11:11 PM (o0mD3)
Posted by: (puh-DO-kuh) chamber of commerce at November 22, 2014 11:11 PM (XYKz+)
Posted by: andycanuck at November 22, 2014 11:12 PM (vHjbk)
Posted by: Alana at November 22, 2014 11:12 PM (ecqEv)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 10:40 PM (QBm1P)
Well, I'm from Michigan, so I'm falling back on a democrat in the white house resulting in freeloaders expanding their list of what they think they shouldn't have to pay for. A large number of people in Detroit now think that they shouldn't have to pay their water bills. The unions are backing them up. So my retired teacher union sister in law may be in for an earful about liberals and their welfare mentality.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 11:12 PM (uumvJ)
Posted by: (puh-DOO -kuh) chamber of commerce at November 22, 2014 11:13 PM (XYKz+)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:11 PM (6fyGz)
You mean other than Thanksgiving?
I don't think anything big is going down.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:13 PM (GEICT)
I've never been to Paducah and I'm okay with that.
I've never understood the whole crafting or claiming of the perfect burger. There will never be a perfect one because of that whole individual prefence thing.
Some of us think a White Castle slider is a slice of heaven.
Posted by: Sweets Mcgee at November 22, 2014 11:14 PM (9Sizj)
Posted by: Rory
Most lamb I've had was greasy to the extreme.
So, boil it, slow roast? Was ist das sekret!!!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2014 11:14 PM (s9AKD)
*clears throat*
To our wives. To our girlfriends. To the women we love.
May they never meet!
Slainte!
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:14 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:10 PM (6fyGz)
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What with the bridesmaid snogging, catfights, brawling Irishmen, and the promise of frilly knickers, it should be epic.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 11:14 PM (QBm1P)
Posted by: Blow em up Pete at November 22, 2014 11:15 PM (XYKz+)
Voter registration from 2008.
Posted by: t-bird at November 22, 2014 11:15 PM (FcR7P)
Still one of my favorite toasts.
*knocks shot back*
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 11:15 PM (R5HRU)
raykon?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2014 11:15 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 11:14 PM (QBm1P)
Always something.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:16 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:11 PM (6fyGz)
........
Well, GA does have promises of post Ferguson GJ verdict rioting in many locations. So, that'll be nice.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 22, 2014 11:16 PM (Lf1Q9)
http://bit.ly/1vALQXY
Posted by: The Gamblin' Hat at November 22, 2014 11:17 PM (lN8KC)
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:14 PM (e+1S5)
Here's mud in yer eye...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:17 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:18 PM (e+1S5)
In the meanwhile, it's weird to have more boys in my basement than the Searchlight Strangler. It's hub's turn next to shush 'em. Parent tip: never agree to a sleepover.
**clicks glass again**
Posted by: LadyS at November 22, 2014 11:18 PM (5dip8)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:18 PM (6fyGz)
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I'm a Michigander too! It's appalling what's become of Detroit. The one slim hope I cling to is that young entrepreneurs will breathe life back into some parts of that once great city.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 11:18 PM (QBm1P)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:18 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 22, 2014 11:16 PM (Lf1Q9)
Latest announced protest: Sanford, FL. That should be interesting.
Here's a more comprehensive list: http://fergusonresponse.tumblr.com/
Posted by: Country Singer at November 22, 2014 11:19 PM (nL0sw)
**clicks glass again**
Posted by: LadyS at November 22, 2014 11:18 PM (5dip
Summertime, outside in tents.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:19 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: creeper at November 22, 2014 11:19 PM (QsrJt)
raykon?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
Yeah, RayCon. couldn't remember the name of that asshole.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2014 11:19 PM (s9AKD)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 11:14 PM (QBm1P)
Always something.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:16 PM (6fyGz)
I was telling my dad tonight about the almost brawl.
"I've never told you that story, dad??"
"Oh shit. Ok, so one of my buddies showed up in a kilt."
"Ahhhh...you can stop right there. I see where this is headed."
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:20 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: harry reid's parrot at November 22, 2014 11:20 PM (vHjbk)
of Detroit. The one slim hope I cling to is that young entrepreneurs
will breathe life back into some parts of that once great city.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 11:18 PM (QBm1P)
It's a crying shame the fate that has befallen MoTown. I have a feeling though that the only way the Motor City will ever regain its lost glory is by burning to the ground first and starting all over again.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:21 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:18 PM (e+1S5)
That's fucked up.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:21 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: LadyS at November 22, 2014 11:21 PM (5dip8)
Posted by: Blow em up Pete at November 22, 2014 11:22 PM (XYKz+)
I'm tired and I was on a puddle jumper from Denver to Calgary full of turbulence and I need sleep.
Posted by: Gingy in Canada where it's cold at November 22, 2014 11:22 PM (NYEU2)
Yeah, one of them is scheduled about two miles from my office. I will most assuredly be carrying that day.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:22 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: LadyS at November 22, 2014 11:22 PM (5dip8)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:20 PM (GEICT)
Why does everyone always say that???
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:23 PM (6fyGz)
kindltot, that is hilarious. Your poor great grandma was having the vapors, at the very least!
My husbands boss told him that the disease causing us head to swell like a giant football was at the back of some sort of south Asian person's throat the week before. This happened just after hajj, when the swirling mass of people shared terms, which mutated into horrible diseases back in Riyadh. He had to take vancomycin to kill the stuff.
Posted by: Moki at November 22, 2014 11:23 PM (bAB8f)
I prayed that it was kangaroo and not horse.
--------------------------
Burger? I had Steak Tartare.
Doubling down...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2014 11:23 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:23 PM (6fyGz)
Lol. He also knows me and how I am about friends. I also got to explain the term "pop collared brosephs".
"Oh, those fucking guys deserve a punch in the face just cause."
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:25 PM (GEICT)
http://bit.ly/1vAMSn1
Posted by: The Fire-Breathing Hat at November 22, 2014 11:25 PM (lN8KC)
Posted by: Moki at November 22, 2014 11:25 PM (bAB8f)
Posted by: puddleglum at November 22, 2014 11:26 PM (k82u2)
Stay warm. And don't worry about Dave & the kids, we're looking after them.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2014 11:26 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: cthulhu at November 22, 2014 11:02 PM (T1005)
Truffle oil? I can't, off the top of my head, think of any member of the plant kingdom with less fat in it than a fungus, and truffles are fungi. I think you'd have better luck getting oil out of a stone. In fact, I know that! Getting oil out of stones is why I have a job.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2014 11:27 PM (7MWCL)
I'm about a five hour drive from the nearest one, but I'm throwing a pistol in the car on Monday. It's like a parachute. You almost never need one, but when you do, if you don't have one, you'll never need to worry about it again.
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:27 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: LadyS at November 22, 2014 11:21 PM (5dip
Ah, indeed.
On this day Nov 22 1963 our beloved president JFK 'The Last Democrat'
was assassinated . We all cried and rightfully so. May he Rest In Peace.
Posted by: Blow em up Pete at November 22, 2014 11:22 PM (XYKz+)
To kick off the two minute hatefest I will submit that the only thing noteworthy that JFK ever did was die. The best of the Kennedys was killed in a bomber over Europe, and I have the feeling he was the best of them only because he died too early to fuck anything up.
I'm tired and I was on a puddle jumper from Denver to Calgary full of turbulence and I need sleep.
Posted by: Gingy in Canada where it's cold at November 22, 2014 11:22 PM (NYEU2)
God keep you in the palm of His hand Gingy, my condolences to you and your family.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:27 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: Lauren Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:27 PM (BPMYx)
Posted by: andycanuck at November 22, 2014 11:28 PM (vHjbk)
Yeah, one of them is scheduled about two miles from my office. I will most assuredly be carrying that day.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:22 PM (GEICT)
One of those "protests" is scheduled at a Nuclear Research Lab:
http://politicalhat.com/?p=7330
Posted by: The Nuclear Hat at November 22, 2014 11:28 PM (lN8KC)
Condolences, Gingy. Stay warm.
Posted by: Country Singer at November 22, 2014 11:28 PM (nL0sw)
Posted by: LadyS at November 22, 2014 11:21 PM (5dip
*********
It seems Damon fine people were born on that day. It is my birthday as well. Happy, happy!
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 22, 2014 11:28 PM (Lf1Q9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2014 11:28 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: creeper at November 22, 2014 11:29 PM (QsrJt)
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:27 PM (e+1S5)
There was a march for Trayvon back when. I wanted to go down there and grab some pics. First NDH yelled at me via twitter for a while, then my wife went nuts when she found out.
Ekdahl said "Hey, if you go, get pics and vid for the site, ok?"
I didn't go and the march turned out to only be about 30 ppl.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:29 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:25 PM (GEICT)
Wise man, your father.
And don't worry about Dave the kids, we're looking after them.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2014 11:26 PM (vPh3W)
Oh, THAT should put her mind at ease...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:29 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 11:30 PM (QBm1P)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:30 PM (6fyGz)
I'm tired and I was on a puddle jumper from Denver to Calgary full of turbulence and I need sleep.
Posted by: Gingy in Canada where it's cold at November 22, 2014 11:22 PM (NYEU2
Hey man you are in the right place. My sincerest condolences on you loss and may God Bless you in this time of need
Posted by: Blow em up Pete at November 22, 2014 11:30 PM (XYKz+)
Stay warm. And don't worry about Dave & the kids, we're looking after them.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2014 11:26 PM (vPh3W)
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Could someone run a vacuum over the place?
Posted by: Gingy in Canada where it's cold at November 22, 2014 11:30 PM (NYEU2)
What possible standard of prood is necessary when the admin has avoided enforcment of laws for the past 6 years?
Politics, discretion, and the Deep State are the controlling factors now.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2014 10:57 PM (s9AKD)
Proof is immaterial when you're pandering to voting blocks.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 11:31 PM (uumvJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2014 11:27 PM (7MWCL)
Fracking for burger oil.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 22, 2014 11:31 PM (W5DcG)
http://politicalhat.com/?p=7330
Posted by: The Nuclear Hat at November 22, 2014 11:28 PM (lN8KC)
what could possibly go wrong...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:31 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: Gingy
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Uh..., normally that is T9's job..., and he's out of the country, so....
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2014 11:32 PM (vPh3W)
http://bit.ly/1vANGbl
#FacePalm
Posted by: The Intellegent Hat at November 22, 2014 11:32 PM (lN8KC)
Posted by: Gingy in Canada where it's cold at November 22, 2014 11:30 PM (NYEU2)
No worries, we got it.
Lolololol
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:32 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: puddleglum at November 22, 2014 11:32 PM (k82u2)
Safe travels, ma'am.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 22, 2014 11:33 PM (RzZOc)
I got you on the re-up then!
BC, don't get jealous bruh.
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 11:34 PM (R5HRU)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:35 PM (GEICT)
*clutches sides*
Et tu BC?
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 11:36 PM (R5HRU)
Posted by: puddleglum at November 22, 2014 11:32 PM (k82u2)
who make a mockery out of everything that is good in an infantile "looky I just made poo" sort of way? pretty much.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:36 PM (6fyGz)
brother-in-law died in a snowmobile accident Tuesday night/Wednesday
morning and I'm here for the funeral. Which will be next Saturday in
Yellowknife. I'm full of ugh and fuck this and dread and what's this
white stuff on the ground and who the hell goes to Yellowknife in the
winter on purpose?
I'm tired and I was on a puddle jumper from Denver to Calgary full of turbulence and I need sleep.
Posted by: Gingy in Canada where it's cold at November 22, 2014 11:22 PM (NYEU2)
Barons? I have been there. Tried to get gas there on a Sunday. My condolences on the loss of your BIL. Have you considered flying to Yellowknife rather than driving? You might be able to wangle a discount on the ticket by reason of bereavement. Couldn't hurt to ask, at any rate.
I am on a well near Dawson Creek right now, but I will be hitting the road for home tomorrow.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2014 11:39 PM (7MWCL)
So it's all bullshit and turtles all the way down but mostly bullshit.
Posted by: Kreplach at November 22, 2014 11:40 PM (bKSy7)
Posted by: Gingy in Canada where it's cold at November 22, 2014 11:40 PM (NYEU2)
There we go. *brushes off hands*
Posted by: BCochran1981
*Iron oven grate clanks to the ground*
Posted by: sfx at November 22, 2014 11:41 PM (s9AKD)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:41 PM (GEICT)
Go to bed. Turn off the tv, your devices, leave your children if any a line to reach you.
Your relatives will be doing the same for you in due course.
Be thankful you're so far north. Weather permitting, keep an eye out for aurorae.
Posted by: fBW52 at November 22, 2014 11:41 PM (fBW52)
Posted by: sfx at November 22, 2014 11:41 PM (s9AKD)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2014 11:42 PM (AVEe1)
Unless betryal, mockery and death is part of the membership, if so.....I"M IN THIS MUFUCKA!
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 11:42 PM (R5HRU)
Posted by: LadyS at November 22, 2014 11:43 PM (5dip8)
Jeff Goldstein tried that recently with Southwest and Southwest took that opportunity to soak him. So, don't fly Southwest.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2014 11:43 PM (AVEe1)
To kick off the two minute hatefest I will submit that the only thing noteworthy that JFK ever did was die. The best of the Kennedys was killed in a bomber over Europe, and I have the feeling he was the best of them only because he died too early to fuck anything up.
A high and hearty fuck you to you !
http://tinyurl.com/brglc82
Posted by: Blow em up Pete at November 22, 2014 11:44 PM (XYKz+)
Posted by: Han Yolo at November 22, 2014 11:44 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: sfx at November 22, 2014 11:41 PM (s9AKD)
*wip, said the serape*
Posted by: sfx at November 22, 2014 11:41 PM (s9AKD)
o_O
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:45 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 22, 2014 11:46 PM (Lf1Q9)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 22, 2014 11:46 PM (Lf1Q9)
I'll be in J-ville FL, but I'd be glad to meet halfway.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:47 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:47 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 22, 2014 11:47 PM (QBm1P)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at November 22, 2014 11:48 PM (kqGWM)
I don't quite know how to break this to you...but according to an infographic I saw on these here interwebs, AOSHQ is considered more respectable than NRO.
*dons smoking jacket*
*puffs pipe*
*looks thoughtfully at horizon*
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:48 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 11:48 PM (R5HRU)
*puffs pipe*
*looks thoughtfully at horizon*
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:48 PM (e+1S5)
*rips of that jacket*
*crushes pipe under heel*
*punches you in the thoughtful eye*
Now, are we drinking or what?
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:49 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:49 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 11:49 PM (R5HRU)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde
"Aim for the heart, or you'll never stop me."
A Fistful of Dollars
http://youtu.be/WxuVau6qiiw
(turn down volume to avoid damage)
Posted by: sfx at November 22, 2014 11:50 PM (s9AKD)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 11:50 PM (R5HRU)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:47 PM (6fyGz)
*******
Between work obligations and then family holiday stuff I could not do that unfortunately. Have a great trip though!
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 22, 2014 11:51 PM (Lf1Q9)
Motherfucker! that pipe had good bud in it!
*crosses BC off of Christmas card list*
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:51 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Blow em up Pete at November 22, 2014 11:44 PM (XYKz+)
All they needed was fake Greek columns...
The last good Democrat was Truman. All D's since then have been more classless and clueless as they go along, culminating in Mencken's predicted imbecile currently occupying 1600 Pennsy Ave, Wash DC.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:52 PM (6fyGz)
You sure that was just pipe tobacco he was smokin' there?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 22, 2014 11:52 PM (RzZOc)
http://youtu.be/WxuVau6qiiw
(turn down volume to avoid damage)
Posted by: sfx at November 22, 2014 11:50 PM (s9AKD)
Ah, now I get it...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:53 PM (6fyGz)
Any who...all morons/ettes who are in...here's the toast. A bit of a different one that normal.
The dew may kiss the morning grass,
The clock may kiss the hours past,
A Knight may kiss a maiden lass,
And you my friends... drink hardy!
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:53 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 22, 2014 11:16 PM (Lf1Q9)
The MSM is really looking forward to all this rioting. It would be hilarious if it never materialized.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 11:55 PM (uumvJ)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2014 11:43 PM (AVEe1)
BTH, Southwest doesn't fly into the Far North. Air Canada, Canada North, and First Air do. There is regular 737 service from Edmonton to Yellowknife. And Buffalo Airways, the company featured on that Ice Pilots TV series, is based out of Yellowknife.
By the way, "wangle" and "wrangle" are different. The latter means to control or manipulate something, e.g. cattle. A cattle wrangler would load them into a truck, for instance. "Wangle" means to obtain something through persuasion or negotiation. For example, "I schmoozed with the client, and wangled two tickets to the hockey game."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2014 11:56 PM (7MWCL)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 11:57 PM (R5HRU)
huhuhuh uh huhuh... you said "wang"... huhuhuh
Posted by: butthead at November 22, 2014 11:57 PM (tBSrv)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2014 11:53 PM (GEICT)
Nicely done. *tips bottle back*
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:58 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 22, 2014 11:59 PM (R5HRU)
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 11:55 PM (uumvJ)
I strongly suspect, given some of the locations, that much of it will not. Dunlap, TN? There's nothing there, it's got a population of about 4000. Places like that don't cotton to hijinks.
Posted by: Country Singer at November 22, 2014 11:59 PM (nL0sw)
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 11:55 PM (uumvJ)
What if they had a riot and nobody came?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 22, 2014 11:59 PM (W5DcG)
The clock may kiss the hours past,
A Knight may kiss a maiden lass,
And you my friends... drink hardy!
Slainte!
Shit, I just realized I'm out of beer. And the stupid blue laws means I can't buy more tomorrow. I guess I'm headed to BWW as soon as the Christmas decorations are up. Daddy needs Sunday Funday.
Posted by: DC in River City at November 22, 2014 11:59 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:59 PM (6fyGz)
There we go. *brushes off hands*
---------------
Aren't you supposed to be vacuuming?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:00 AM (vPh3W)
Posted by: GGE
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Maybe. He was ready to go to the mat with the Rooskies over Berlin. He gets plenty of points for that. About Korea though...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:01 AM (vPh3W)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:59 PM (6fyGz)
Didn't he try for "single payer" medical?
And there was that thing in Korea.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 23, 2014 12:02 AM (W5DcG)
Apparently he's too cool to actually comment, but still, he probably the only moron within 300 miles of me.
Posted by: DC in River City at November 23, 2014 12:02 AM (e+1S5)
Posted by: model_1066 at November 23, 2014 12:02 AM (P+ZSo)
Posted by: Country
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Yeah. I'm looking forward to Kennesaw, Ga. too.
I wonder how many of those cities and towns have Universities/colleges. Most, I would bet.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:03 AM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:00 AM (vPh3W)
*glares*
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 23, 2014 12:03 AM (GEICT)
And there was that thing in Korea.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 23, 2014 12:02 AM (W5DcG)
We are talking about Democrats here. Good is a relative term.
FDR, by the bye, should have been impeached in his first 100 days then pulled out of the WH by a lynch mob and publicly hanged in front of the Washington Monument. As a warning to the others.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2014 12:04 AM (6fyGz)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:59 PM (6fyGz)
ಠ_ಠ
Posted by: Grover Cleveland at November 23, 2014 12:05 AM (lN8KC)
Yeah. I'm looking forward to Kennesaw, Ga. too.
I wonder how many of those cities and towns have Universities/colleges. Most, I would bet.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:03 AM (vPh3W)
Kennesaw is the place where there is a town ordinance that all households be armed, right?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2014 12:05 AM (6fyGz)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 23, 2014 12:05 AM (R5HRU)
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Dad? Is that you?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:05 AM (vPh3W)
Posted by: GGE
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Yup.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:06 AM (vPh3W)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 23, 2014 12:07 AM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Country
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Yeah. I'm looking forward to Kennesaw, Ga. too.
I wonder how many of those cities and towns have Universities/colleges. Most, I would bet.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:03 AM (vPh3W)
Jacksonville has a population of roughly close to 1 million. 30% of that is black.
If it actually went off, yeah, it could get hairy.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 23, 2014 12:07 AM (GEICT)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:52 PM (6fyGz)
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For the life of me I don't get why peoplle call him an imbecile or stupid or whatever. In 6 short years he has managed to do what liberals have been dreaming of for a century.
He's not stupid. He's a fucking evil genius.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:08 AM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Bubba Clinton at November 23, 2014 12:08 AM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at November 23, 2014 12:08 AM (mHiqJ)
I would imagine the Kennesaw "event" was likely drummed up by whatever token libs attend Kennesaw State U.
Posted by: Country Singer at November 23, 2014 12:08 AM (nL0sw)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 23, 2014 12:08 AM (AVEe1)
Posted by: GGE
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Yup.
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Also, home of Wild Man Dent : http://tinyurl.com/lrqy53j
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:09 AM (vPh3W)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde
Fixed, for a previous mistake's mistake.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 12:10 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: Jean at November 23, 2014 12:10 AM (TETYm)
Well, GA does have promises of post Ferguson GJ verdict rioting in many locations. So, that'll be nice.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 22, 2014 11:16 PM (Lf1Q9)
The MSM is really looking forward to all this rioting. It would be hilarious if it never materialized.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 22, 2014 11:55 PM (uumvJ)
I'm kind of sensing "Occupy 2: Electric Boogaloo" in the making.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 12:10 AM (T1005)
*salutes the former President* My apologies, Sir. I stand corrected.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2014 12:10 AM (6fyGz)
...he probably the only moron within 300 miles of me.
And you're in eastern KY? Google maps says that Paducah is 336 mi from my home - on the north side of Cincy
You probably have a few local morons
Posted by: PM Rich at November 23, 2014 12:11 AM (eEBON)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:11 AM (0LHZx)
Moment of your time.
AllenG could use some prayers. Went to a kids' bday party today. Roller rink. He decided to give it a whirl. While roller skating, a little girl fell right in front of him. Rather than crush her, he attempted to veer out of the way.
He crashed. That crash resulted in a broken humerus and may need surgery to fix it.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 23, 2014 12:11 AM (GEICT)
should have been impeached in his first 100 days then pulled out of the
WH by a lynch mob and publicly hanged in front of the Washington
Monument. As a warning to the others.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde
Fixed, for a previous mistake's mistake.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 12:10 AM (s9AKD)
Fixed, we need to stop blaming Democrats for our mistakes.
Posted by: Jean at November 23, 2014 12:12 AM (TETYm)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 23, 2014 12:12 AM (R5HRU)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:08 AM (0LHZx)
Or he is the puppet (tool) of one.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 23, 2014 12:12 AM (W5DcG)
I wonder how many of those cities and towns have Universities/colleges. Most, I would bet.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:03 AM (vPh3W)
******
I have the great good fortune to be working at Kennesaw State University on Monday. There will be concealed carrying going on whether they like it or not.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 23, 2014 12:13 AM (Lf1Q9)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:11 AM (0LHZx)
But he failed to hang H Dexter White and fellow travellers, the day after they buried FDR.
Posted by: Jean at November 23, 2014 12:14 AM (TETYm)
should have both been impeached in
WH by a lynch mob and publicly hanged in front of the Washington
Monument. As a warning to the others.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde
Fixed, for a previous mistake's mistake.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 12:10 AM (s9AKD)
Fixed again, for obvious reasons.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2014 12:14 AM (6fyGz)
Posted by: BC
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AllenG? Roller skating with little girls?
Pain and suffering aside, this has the making of an epic meme.
Broken bones = no fun.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:14 AM (l1zOH)
Paid agitators failing to agitate anyone else beyond the circle? Could be.
We were all being told night and day that Zimmerman HAD to be convicted or else riots. The only riot that was had was that by swarms of Gryllus assimilis.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 23, 2014 12:14 AM (AVEe1)
434 Moo Moo
For the life of me I don't get why people call him an imbecile or stupid or whatever. In 6 short years he has managed to do what liberals have been dreaming of for a century.
Teh JEF is an imbecile. He has achieved nothing; it's his puppet-masters who have achieved things ... his election for one, his willingness to read whatever he's told to read. There's a reason Axelturf flees Val-Jar Blinks ...
Posted by: Arbalest at November 23, 2014 12:14 AM (FlRtG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 23, 2014 12:12 AM (W5DcG)
No idea.
Posted by: George Soros at November 23, 2014 12:14 AM (0LHZx)
Posted by: PM Rich at November 23, 2014 12:15 AM (eEBON)
Posted by: BobJustBob at November 23, 2014 12:15 AM (GNhPW)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 23, 2014 12:11 AM (GEICT)
Ow. Damn.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2014 12:15 AM (6fyGz)
Not a laughing matter, then?
[speaking of crickets . . .]
Seriously now, I hope AllenG gets better. I'd say break a leg, but
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 23, 2014 12:15 AM (AVEe1)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 23, 2014 12:16 AM (Lf1Q9)
Billy goat tavern? Cool in a greasy dive way.
Posted by: free tibet, etc. at November 23, 2014 12:17 AM (lAXNl)
Pain and suffering aside, this has the making of an epic meme.
Broken bones = no fun.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:14 AM (l1zOH)
Lol. He took his son to a bday party at a roller rink. Figured, what the hell, why not?
Little girl wiped out in front of him. He tried to dodge her, and did, but lost it and wiped out. Crunch.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 23, 2014 12:17 AM (GEICT)
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Possibly spurious correlation, but the crime rate in Kennesaw is low...., *very* low.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:17 AM (l1zOH)
Posted by: John Roberts at November 23, 2014 12:17 AM (0LHZx)
Ouch. Hope he mends quickly and that surgery isn't needed.
Posted by: Country Singer at November 23, 2014 12:18 AM (nL0sw)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 23, 2014 12:18 AM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Jean
The Teddy that went Third party after he didn't get the nomination?
Yeah, about that, Charlie Christ, and Arlen Spectre both said "boo!"
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 12:18 AM (s9AKD)
I'm kind of sensing "Occupy 2: Electric Boogaloo" in the making.
Paid agitators failing to agitate anyone else beyond the circle? Could be.
We were all being told night and day that Zimmerman HAD to be
convicted or else riots. The only riot that was had was that by swarms
of Gryllus assimilis.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 23, 2014 12:14 AM (AVEe1)
Exactly. What was that line from Obola? "Sometimes, I start to believe my own shit."?
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 12:19 AM (T1005)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2014 12:19 AM (6fyGz)
G'night kids.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:19 AM (l1zOH)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:17 AM (l1zOH)
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It's also very low in the towns surrounding it which don't have the gun ordinance. The northern Atlanta suburbs are low crime in general.
Atlanta itself.....not so much. Although ironaically I think there are more household with a gun in ATL than in Kennesaw (% wise).
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:19 AM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:17 AM (l1zOH)
*******
I know, I live and work here. The gun crime rate rate is low, but other crime is on the rise as the city reaches out to those of us in the suburbs.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 23, 2014 12:19 AM (Lf1Q9)
Billy goat tavern? Cool in a greasy dive way.
Posted by: free tibet, etc. at November 23, 2014 12:17 AM (lAXNl)
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Yeah, Dave and I have.
Posted by: Gingy in Canada where it's cold at November 23, 2014 12:20 AM (NYEU2)
Posted by: Man
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Combination of two things, MARTA and apartments.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:21 AM (l1zOH)
I don't think he gets away with any of this with Gingrich or Delay as his opposition.
Posted by: Kreplach at November 23, 2014 12:21 AM (bKSy7)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:21 AM (0LHZx)
Here is "Country Girl" by black Sabbath:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X10xr96RzQI
Posted by: The Political Hat at November 23, 2014 12:22 AM (lN8KC)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 23, 2014 12:21 AM (l1zOH)
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Except MARTA doesn't got to Kennesaw. Cobb Co. was smart when they said thanks but no thanks.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:22 AM (0LHZx)
462 Anyone else eat at the Chicago burger joint that was supposed to be the inspiration for the SNL skit
Billy goat tavern? Cool in a greasy dive way.
Posted by: free tibet, etc. at November 23, 2014 12:17 AM (lAXNl)
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Yeah, Dave and I have.
Posted by: Gingy in Canada where it's cold at November 23, 2014 12:20 AM (NYEU2)
Been there, done that. Billy Goat Tavern. Great place for a Scjlitz draft and a chizzborgor and cheeps (no pepsi)
Posted by: Eric in Hollywood at November 23, 2014 12:22 AM (JW7Fw)
Posted by: Eric in Hollywood at November 23, 2014 12:23 AM (JW7Fw)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:21 AM (0LHZx)
******
Sounds like a bar named Taco Mac.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 23, 2014 12:23 AM (Lf1Q9)
Now, if the rest of the Horde would join in, we could get a Time on Target barrage landing on his grid in..... 3..... 2...... 1......
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 23, 2014 12:24 AM (RzZOc)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:22 AM (0LHZx)
*******
MARTA gets to Marietta, and Cobb County Transit picks up from Marietta. So, it is all connected now.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 23, 2014 12:26 AM (Lf1Q9)
Sounds like a bar named Taco Mac.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 23, 2014 12:23 AM (Lf1Q9)
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AHH yes, that's the one.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:26 AM (0LHZx)
MARTA gets to Marietta, and Cobb County Transit picks up from Marietta. So, it is all connected now.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 23, 2014 12:26 AM (Lf1Q9)
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You mean buses? OK. I meant the subway.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:26 AM (0LHZx)
Target barrage landing on his grid in..... 3..... 2...... 1......
*joins in*
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2014 12:28 AM (6fyGz)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 23, 2014 12:07 AM (AVEe1)
Heh, I saw that you'd helpfully "corrected" my use of it, and it occurred to me that you are a transplanted Brit, and therefore might not be acquainted with that North American slang. Common both in Canada and the USA, AFAIK.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 23, 2014 12:28 AM (7MWCL)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2014 12:28 AM (6fyGz)
Posted by: Eric in Hollywood at November 23, 2014 12:23 AM (JW7Fw)
Makes it easier to read.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 23, 2014 12:28 AM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:26 AM (0LHZx)
******
Currently it is by bus, but with building the new Atlanta Braves Stadium in Cobb County it will also be by rail from Atl.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 23, 2014 12:29 AM (Lf1Q9)
Second, reminds me of a very nice short trip I once did. Out of DC, with the now-wife, a short golf tript to the Roanoke area. Friday, last day of our package, I started to think - hmmm, lookee here, we're no more than a hop and skip from Lexington NC, one of the meccas of barbeque. So I changed our plan, instead of returning to DC we drove south to Lexington.
Friday night dinner at the Honey Monk/Lexington #1. Early-ish lunch at another barbeque place I cannot remember, then took out a good portion of pulled pork and rolls from Speedy's. Drove to Winston-Salem. Had a donut at the original Krispy Kreme location. Poked around old town Salem a bit, then drove east toward the interstate, stopping at a winery/cheese-making farm (stunned by the quality of the cabernet franc). Then back to DC.
I call it my "Redneck Gourmet Tour". Wow was that stuff good.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 23, 2014 12:29 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 23, 2014 12:29 AM (Lf1Q9)
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Really? Is that something announced or something you think will happen?
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:30 AM (0LHZx)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2014 12:31 AM (6fyGz)
Posted by: Dr Alice at November 23, 2014 12:32 AM (cFCmn)
WZZL (active rocker, if it's still on the air there) was my first radio gig, so I got my start in Paducah. I was released on good behavior after only six months
Posted by: Ravenloff at November 23, 2014 12:32 AM (nopwR)
NSFW for language
Ferguson dipshits causing car accidents: http://tinyurl.com/nufkg4q
Posted by: Country Singer at November 23, 2014 12:32 AM (nL0sw)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 23, 2014 12:30 AM (0LHZx)
*******
This is a done deal, with all land swaps already having been accomplished. The deal includes non-stop rail from downtown to the new stadium.I just cannot wait for that to happen. 2017 estimated completion date.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 23, 2014 12:33 AM (Lf1Q9)
I think it went out of business and came back a couple of times since then.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 23, 2014 12:34 AM (W5DcG)
'Nuff said.
Posted by: Dr Alice at November 23, 2014 12:32 AM (cFCmn)
Pasadena TX?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2014 12:37 AM (6fyGz)
The incomprehensible evaporation of jealously guarded institutional prerogatives is one of the most distressing - and possibly consequential - developments of this dark period.
Gingy/others - my hockey team made sure to have lunch at the Billy Goat Tavern when we had a tournament in Chicago. Decent burgers and fries, no "cheeseburgie cheesburgie" though. This was the same trip where we followed our last game with dinner and beers at a sports bar talking with Blackhawks' legend Denis Savard, who just happened to be there.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 23, 2014 12:38 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: DC in River City at November 23, 2014 12:41 AM (e+1S5)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 22, 2014 11:52 PM (6fyGz
You are either too young to have experienced the transition from Gen D Eisenhower to JFK or are talking out your ass.
Posted by: Blow em up Pete at November 23, 2014 12:42 AM (XYKz+)
Because it was on the ground - if it was an impact event - I would guess an Iron meteorite.
Remember that sound takes over 4 minutes to cover 50 miles - so a rumble coming that size blast at a long distance might not be associated with the light by observers.
I would be interested to see if seismographs show anything.
Posted by: An Observation at November 23, 2014 12:44 AM (ylhEn)
Posted by: (puh-DOO-kuh) chamber of commerce at November 23, 2014 12:45 AM (XYKz+)
Oh shit, I'm watching that movie now.
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 23, 2014 12:45 AM (R5HRU)
Posted by: rhomboid at November 23, 2014 12:47 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Blow em up Pete at November 23, 2014 12:42 AM (XYKz+)
I read a lot.
And now I'm out. Later roonz and roonettez, fear no evil!
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 23, 2014 12:49 AM (6fyGz)
Thanks for the tasty ONT !
Posted by: tom_ohio at November 23, 2014 12:51 AM (Zz48T)
I was nine years old then.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 23, 2014 12:57 AM (W5DcG)
It was not, as often portrayed today, some huge "OMG this is a completely new horrible thing, do we dare cross this rubicon?!" decision. Not even close.
By summer of 1945 the Allies had been incinerating Axis cities for 2+ years. The prosaic 2.5-lb (?) firebomb had, just 5 months before Hiroshima, killed nearly as many Tokyo residents as did the first atomic strike. And that was just the start.
My copy's in storage, but I believe in Richard Frank's "Downfall" he nicely sets the record straight, that "the decision" to drop the bomb had almost none of the framework and freight ascribed to it today. The (silly) idea of some scientists for a "demonstration" strike was never taken seriously, and the few objections (such as Adm. Leahy's rather contemptible and illogical and cynical "objection") were never big factors. The Allies used every militarily useful weapon and tactic they had as they became available -the bomb became available in July 1945.
It is simply upside-down to assume/imply that a potentially highly effective weapon, whose development had consumed a measurable % of even the highly mobilized US economy during the war, would simply not be used due to moral considerations that had not affected any other war-time decision. It was just a big bomb.
In the event, the hope that novelty and shock value would compel Japanese acceptance of Potsdam was dashed. The Japanese military literally did not change their minds about their high-cost strategy (not crazy fanaticism, strategy) to resist the US in order to secure terms short of unconditional surrender. The Emperor and Lord Kido didn't change their minds due to the bomb - they merely seized on it as a convenient rationale for ending the war, as they already wanted to do.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 23, 2014 01:00 AM (afQnV)
Ferguson police should announce they are deploying Claymores at key locations downtown, and will use them if the need arises.
Then, they should use them when the need arises.
Posted by: Noam Sayen at November 23, 2014 01:07 AM (HFSaY)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 23, 2014 01:09 AM (R5HRU)
Posted by: bumbu sauce at November 23, 2014 01:09 AM (OvUux)
Posted by: bumbu sauce at November 23, 2014 01:09 AM (OvUux)
True story, happened a couple of weeks ago:
I have friends of various ages. At a small get-together was me, a couple of friends in their mid-30s, and another friend who was born in 1959 (and thus is 55).
During the course of the conversation, the guy born in 1959 said, lamenting how old he felt amongst younger people, "Here's how old I am: My mom said that one of the first words I ever said was 'Eisenhower'!" [Guffaws, takes a drink.]
This story met with blank stares from the thirty-somethings.
"You first word was what?"
"Eisenhower. Seriously"
"What's an 'Izen-howser'?"
"Y'know -- Eisenhower. He was still president when I learned how to talk! I'm that old!"
The thirty-somethings looked at each other quizzically, then shrugged.
The 55-year-old clarified:
"President Eisenhower. People forget he was president up though January 1961! How weird is that?"
Well, rather than recount the whole conversation, the upshot was:
The thirty-somethings not only didn't know Eisenhower was president until 1961...
...They not only didn't know that Dwight Eisenhower had ever been elected president...
...but they had never heard of Eisenhower!!!
And they both had master's degrees!
What did they learn in college? Nothing, apparently.
What did they learn from life? Nothing, apparently.
And these are the smarter, more educated members of their generation.
Doomed, I say we are. Doomed.
Posted by: zombie at November 23, 2014 01:11 AM (K4YiS)
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 01:13 AM (T1005)
No.People.
Anywhere.
ANYWHERE.
Not on campus, not at church, not at any of the shopping place, not at any of the offices, not in any of the neighborhoods
No people -- anywhere.
Posted by: Clayton in Mississippi at November 23, 2014 01:13 AM (BTwE3)
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 01:15 AM (T1005)
Doomed, I say we are. Doomed.
Posted by: zombie
Me thinks you are preaching to the card-carrying members of the Carmina Burana Doom Choir.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 01:16 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 23, 2014 01:17 AM (R5HRU)
But did they get off your lawn?
Posted by: cthulhu
No! Even after I shook my rake at them and took a few potshots at them with my blunderbuss, aiming from my rocking chair on the porch, they still refused to get offa my lawn!
Posted by: zombie at November 23, 2014 01:18 AM (K4YiS)
Posted by: otho at November 23, 2014 01:18 AM (tBSrv)
That's a good thing, 'cause Obama was offering to walk Boehner's dog to a barbecue place he happens to know.....
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 01:19 AM (T1005)
With comments like these I can't leave easily.
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 23, 2014 01:20 AM (R5HRU)
April 1945, JCS estimated total casualties on the Allied side to be around 1.2 million missing, dead, or wounded for both invasions of Downfall.
William Shockly tried to put an estimate on Japanese casualties, he was in the ballpark of 5 million to 10 million dead Japanese.
That is what the idiots who tsk tsk the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki forget. To feel morally superior they are willing to accept that horrendous butcher's bill. Give me the atomic weapons please.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 23, 2014 01:22 AM (gW1Ru)
Posted by: RWC at November 23, 2014 01:23 AM (xbWRx)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Wow -- we went from common knowledge to esoterica in one giant step!
Why is it that I know what the Carmina Burana is, yet these people don't know Fact One about jack squat, and yet I'm not that much older than them?
What the hell happened to (liberal arts) education in the last 20 years? Apparently it, just, died. And no one seems to have noticed.
Posted by: zombie at November 23, 2014 01:23 AM (K4YiS)
Most of what I know about LBJ, I learned in just the last 10 years.
Not saying your story isn't scary, but...
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 01:24 AM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 01:25 AM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 23, 2014 01:25 AM (gW1Ru)
It's coming out on Criterion blu-ray and I was just reading about it at Wikipedia. It sounds pretty good.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 01:27 AM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 23, 2014 01:30 AM (gW1Ru)
It's coming out on Criterion blu-ray and I was just reading about it at Wikipedia. It sounds pretty good.
Posted by: qdpsteve
Very intriguing that you asl about that film!
There are VERY divided opinons about it in the zombie household.
I found it extremely well-done, atmospheric and spooky. And despite the fact that I LOATHE Donald Sutherland intensely, this is the only film of his I can tolerate watching.
Conversely, another member of the zombie household ranks "Don't Look Now" as among the five worst films ever made. Tedious, pretentious, pompous, incomprehensible. And then, yes, the presence of Donald Sutherland.
So I can report that it's either a supernatural classic, or an atrocious bomb. You decide!
Posted by: zombie at November 23, 2014 01:31 AM (K4YiS)
the Carmina Burana Doom Choir.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Wow -- we went from common knowledge to esoterica in one giant step!
Why is it that I know what the Carmina Burana is, yet these people don't know Fact One about jack squat, and yet I'm not that much older than them?
What the hell happened to (liberal arts) education in the last 20 years? Apparently it, just, died. And no one seems to have noticed.
Posted by: zombie at November 23, 2014 01:23 AM (K4YiS)
I noticed when I was in college in the early 80's. I could take courses and get credit for knowing stuff I'd already read about when I was younger.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 01:33 AM (T1005)
I like it... a lot. OTOH, my sister and bro-in-law HATE that it (I admit) basically doesn't have any kind of satisfactory ending.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 01:33 AM (Vh4i6)
http://tinyurl.com/pm3tglz
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD)
Last night I watched an anime called "Paprika".
Holy Cow! Got to be one of the most bizarre films ever made in any format. If you haven't seen it -- recommended! (That is, if you have a high tolerance for outer-fringes anime.)
Posted by: zombie at November 23, 2014 01:34 AM (K4YiS)
Again, I kind of like it... but admit that objectively speaking, there isn't much there.
I've actually called it the "2001" of horror flicks. Not in terms of how good it is, but in terms of: you pretty much get out of it what ideas you bring into it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 01:35 AM (Vh4i6)
I like it... a lot. OTOH, my sister and bro-in-law HATE that it (I admit) basically doesn't have any kind of satisfactory ending.
Posted by: qdpsteve
I looooooove Picnic at Hanging Rock. You have good taste.
If you like it, as you say, you'll definitely like Don't Look Now. Similar atmospherics.
Posted by: zombie at November 23, 2014 01:36 AM (K4YiS)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 01:27 AM
Tried it long ago. Looked interesting. Bored me senseless. But, others liked it.
Posted by: otho at November 23, 2014 01:36 AM (tBSrv)
the Carmina Burana Doom Choir.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Wow -- we went from common knowledge to esoterica in one giant step!
Why is it that I know what the Carmina Burana is, yet these people don't know Fact One about jack squat, and yet I'm not that much older than them?
What the hell happened to (liberal arts) education in the last 20 years? Apparently it, just, died. And no one seems to have noticed.
Posted by: zombie at November 23, 2014 01:23 AM (K4YiS)
Oh, and Carmina Burana -- http://tinyurl.com/cy8exm4
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 01:36 AM (T1005)
:-)
And yeah, PAHR is a classic. Let's face it: if it had been an American film, I'd bet the studio would have *demanded* an ending that explained at least some of the mystery. Which IMHO would actually detract from it somewhat.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 01:38 AM (Vh4i6)
But then again from 1977 is Hausu - http://youtu.be/_56YNCeu2fo
They actually republished the novel Picnic at Hanging Rock with the writer's original ending. No one wanted to find out its a portal. So stick with what the editors and the filmmaker went with.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 23, 2014 01:38 AM (gW1Ru)
But let me reinforce your point.
Forget Japan itself for a moment. Every day the war continued, across the remaining swath of Japanese-controlled Asia/Pacific - eastern China, Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia(using current names) - many many deaths occurred. There are estimates of daily numbers but I forget them. Combat casualties, depredations against resistance elements, and the largest category of all, excess deaths from disruption and privation, always the biggest "killers" of mankind.
I need to look at Shockly's analysis. Remember - as always in war-time, prosaic public health problems kill multiples of those killed by weapons. Japan was on the precipice of a major public health catastrophe by summer 1945 (hell, it stayed near that precipice til nearly 1947, occupation forces were barely able to avert major crises in the early years). So an Operation Olympic, besides generating horrific Japanese casualties on Kyushu, would imply a continuing and worsening situation elsewhere.
US commanders were having arguments about attacking *fishing boats* in the mined, blockaded, increasingly heavily patrolled (aircraft and subs) waters off Japan. THAT is how totally the crushing vice of American dominationwas affecting Japan.
Oh - and there never was an "either/or" about bombs and invasion. The Pentagon hoped to use up to 15 (? may be wrong, but number was in the teens) atomic bombs in support of Olympic landings in Kyushu. It was going to be atomic bombs AND invasion holocaust if surrender did not occur.
As with (almost every?) so many issues today, barely a single solitary element of the framework, much less the "points of view", has any basis in reality. The entire "debate" over using the bomb today proceeds from false assumptions and frameworks.
Oh - and I believe there are still 100,000+ Purple Heart medals struck just for Olympic/Coronet that have yet to be awarded to US servicemembers. We are STILL using the first tranche of medals intended for those operations today, 70 years later.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 23, 2014 01:38 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 01:40 AM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 01:41 AM (Vh4i6)
***
I saw Bob Dylan tonight (well, last night by now) at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. That's a place that normally hosts symphony orchestras and operas, so the acoustics are excellent and I was seated near the soundboard.
Dylan's voice sounded excellent, better than I've heard in a long time. Maybe some of the complaints about the quality of his voice have to do with the acoustics at the venues where he normally plays. The band, of course, was awesome as usual. These guys have been playing together for years and are just an amazing bunch of musicians.
They played 19 songs in all, and it broke down as follows: 2 from the 60s, 2 from the 70s, 1 from the 80s, 2 from the 90s, 2 from the 2006 album "Modern Times", 2 from the 2009 album "Together Through Life", and a whopping 6 from the 2012 album "Tempest".
That leaves two outliers. I got home awhile ago but I've been busy tracking down some stuff before posting my review.
The last song he did was "Stay With Me" which turned out to be a cover of a song Frank Sinatra sang in a 1963 movie I've never heard of. Here is a website that features both versions. The Dylan version is an audience recording which is lacking in quality.
https://tinyurl.com/lszr7bm
The other one was "Waiting for You" which I've never heard of, and which was the highlight of the concert for me. It was a playful waltz. It doesn't appear on any album. He played it twice in 2005, so it may have been an outtake from "Modern Times". But it's been featured continuously since October 2013.
Here are the lyrics:
http://www.metrolyrics.com/waiting-for-you-lyrics-bob-dylan.html
Here is an April 2014 audience recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCPrS2nmQfs
Unfortunately, the visuals in the YouTube are dumb, distracting, and have nothing to do with the song. So I recommend that you open the lyrics and the YouTube in separate windows, start the music, then drag the lyrics window on top and follow along. Or else just close your eyes and listen.
This was the most expensive concert I've ever attended, and it was worth every penny.
Posted by: rickl at November 23, 2014 01:44 AM (sdi6R)
Me, "So you think invading Japan would have been less cruel?"
Idiot, "Yes."
*punches* "Thanks for wishing I never had an aunt, an uncle, and over a dozen cousins. Step-grandfather would have been part of the first wave."
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 23, 2014 01:45 AM (gW1Ru)
Posted by: Simon at November 23, 2014 01:45 AM (5/dot)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 23, 2014 01:49 AM (gW1Ru)
Posted by: Simon
Welcome Southern Hemisphere dweller!
We don't bite ... much.
Burger joints:
If Mos Burger from Japan ever arrives on your shores, try it. Supposedly the owners were trying to copy the US West coast chain "In 'n Out."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 01:49 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 01:50 AM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: rickl at November 23, 2014 01:51 AM (sdi6R)
This is usually enough to remind them that they really know nothing about the subject, and risk humiliation and intellectual disembowelment if they persist ....
Posted by: rhomboid at November 23, 2014 01:51 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 23, 2014 01:49 AM
Spiders got 'em.
Posted by: otho at November 23, 2014 01:54 AM (tBSrv)
Nanking before the war.
250,000 Chinese civilians massacred in reprisal for the Doolittle Raid.
Various and numerous war crimes carried out on the battlefield.
When USS Pampanito and her wolf pack sank Japanese transports to find, in violation of the laws of war, that Japan was transporting POWs, mainly Australian and American, to Japan on unmarked transports.
And so on.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 23, 2014 01:55 AM (gW1Ru)
Spent quite a bit of time in Kobe - otherwise would not likely have gone to a burger joint. Though the distinctive, memorable food of Kobe for me will always be ...... fine European pastry and chocolates. You could blind-fold someone, take them to a few pastry shops in Kobe, and they'd think they were in Paris or Brussels.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 23, 2014 01:55 AM (afQnV)
Actually your explanation isn't that far from the actual author's.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 01:56 AM (Vh4i6)
Family
Posted by: Swatara at November 23, 2014 01:57 AM (AvP4a)
Posted by: The Progs at November 23, 2014 01:57 AM (iQIUe)
Getting back in from being the DD for Mrs. Crank's birthday celebration at Buca di Beppo and Big Bang Piano Bar. Up for work in 3 hours.
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at November 23, 2014 01:57 AM (R+XDI)
From 1776
(J. Adams and Franklin have been delegated to investigate reports of alcoholism and venereal diseases at the Continental Army encampment in New Brunswick, NJ.
John Adams: Wake up, Franklin, you're going to New Brunswick!
Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Half asleep] Like hell I am. What for?
Stephen Hopkins: The whoring and the drinking!
[Franklin gets up and marches off right behind Adams]
(From the IMDB page for Stephen Hopkins quotes, http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0030768/quotes )
Posted by: Fox2! at November 23, 2014 01:58 AM (brIR5)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 23, 2014 01:58 AM (gW1Ru)
The Paducah Song Paducah? Paducah!
If you wanna you can rhyme it with bazooka
But you can't pooh-pooh Paducah
That's another name for Paradise.
Paducah, Paducah
Just a pretty little city in Kentucky
But to me it rhymes with lucky
When I look into two blue eyes.
Tulip time, they get excited over tulip time But I'm delighted over
julep time Because I happen to love A resident of...
Paducah, Paducah
If you wanna you can rhyme it with bazooka
But you can't pooh-pooh Paducah
That's another name for Paradise.
- Leo Robin, lyrics
- Harry Warren, music
Went to school in Carbondale, IL and watched the TV channel from the nearest big city of Paducah, which gives you an idea of how small C'dale was. The Paduch song was from "The Gang's All Here" and sung by Benny Goodman and Carmen Miranda. I was jazz crazy at the time and whenever I heard the name, I always heard the song, too. Haven't hummed that tune in over 20 years, but the moment I saw this post, I burst into song as if I were 18 and back in college, again.
Posted by: Delurking Lurker at November 23, 2014 01:59 AM (Z/irl)
rickl
Thank you for the review of the concert.
I grew up in Hibbing, MN, where Bob did, and I have been a fan forever.
I have seen him twice, and enjoyed his shows each time.
I hope I get another chance
Posted by: alamrgo at November 23, 2014 02:00 AM (mk9G5)
http://www.aniplexusa.com/expelledfromparadise/theaters.php
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 23, 2014 02:01 AM (gW1Ru)
Yeah, it seems that every Jpns chain store opens a branch in HI just to say they made it internationally. My guess was that Mos was at some point looking at expanding beyond that. Family Mart tried a big roll out in LA and only managed to keep 2 stores going.
My fav curry joint over there, Coco Curry has open up stores in LA.
Spent quite a bit of time in Kobe - otherwise would not likely have gone to a burger joint. Though the distinctive, memorable food of Kobe for me will always be ...... fine European pastry and chocolates. You could blind-fold someone, take them to a few pastry shops in Kobe, and they'd think they were in Paris or Brussels.
Posted by: rhomboid
They do bakery and pastries quiet well, but since I have that lactose thing, I was much more fond of the izakaya fare and .. heh, did you ever go to one of the beer gardens during summer?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 02:02 AM (s9AKD)
Good night all.
Posted by: Swatara at November 23, 2014 02:02 AM (AvP4a)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 01:56 AM
I'm not surprised. Locals know the score. That joint is filthy with really big bastards. They cleaned out the dingo population back in the day when it happened. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to put it together. The bodies were dragged into a burrow.
Posted by: otho at November 23, 2014 02:02 AM (tBSrv)
Oh, and anyone have a wild guess which city in Japan had the highest % of military personnel among its total population on August 6, 1945? And which was the main rear Japanese HQ for the correctly anticipated US invasion of Kyushu? Uh huh. You know.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 23, 2014 02:02 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: The Progs at November 23, 2014 02:03 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Delurking Lurker at November 23, 2014 02:03 AM (Z/irl)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 23, 2014 02:04 AM (gW1Ru)
PAHR's original author's explanation was that the girls were *transformed* into insects and lived the rest of their lives in the cracks of the rock.
Like Anna said, the unresolved ending of the film is much superior.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 02:06 AM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 02:08 AM (Vh4i6)
The harbor, the old brick buildings, the European trading history, a Chinatown, hills ...
It's scary almost.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 02:08 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: goon at November 23, 2014 02:10 AM (gNTQS)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 23, 2014 02:11 AM (gW1Ru)
My wife (Japanese) now makes a Jap. curry every bit as good as Coco Ichi, so that's covered.
I too love the izakayas. We've had two sets of friends over recently and basically did izakaya-style meals for them, great success. (we don't have the awesome plastic food out front, though ..... BTW, almost bought some that stuff for kicks, we came across a restaurant supply store in Osaka once)
Never have been to Japan in summer, come to think of it, so no to the beer gardens. Did do my only brewery tour ever (shameful and odd), however, at the (now closed?) Asahi brewery in Nishinomiya near Kobe.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 23, 2014 02:11 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 23, 2014 02:16 AM (R5HRU)
Posted by: rhomboid
Ah, but the secret to Coco Curry is that pickles stuff; yellow lotus root pickle thing. I used to buy pick up at least one a week. AAAAGGGG, insanely good.
I too love the izakayas. We've had two sets of friends over recently and basically did izakaya-style meals for them, great success. (we don't have the awesome plastic food out front, though ..... BTW, almost bought some that stuff for kicks, we came across a restaurant supply store in Osaka once)
That must take a lot of time and/or a good fryer! HAHA!
Never have been to Japan in summer, come to think of it, so no to the beer gardens. Did do my only brewery tour ever (shameful and odd), however, at the (now closed?) Asahi brewery in Nishinomiya near Kobe.
I just liked the concept that in every metro locale during the season you could find a lively restaurant on top of a building that served decent beer, brats, and mustard.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 02:18 AM (s9AKD)
Those hills, and the generally mishap-plagued nature of Bock's Car bombing mission, in the end saved lives in Nagasaki. Sweeney (reasonably, under the circumstances), decided to defy orders and bomb blind (radar).
The bomb "missed" in the sense of not being close to the intended ground zero, instead detonating over the largest Catholic cathedral in Asia (Anna noted the city's western influences above). The divergence from the intended aim point, and the hills, served to reduce casualties and damage.
Which was a great thing from all viewpoints, as the process of engineering the surrender was already under way, and the Nagasaki attack would not figure into it (I think the Big Six were getting their marching, er, surrender orders from the Emperor that very morning).
Posted by: rhomboid at November 23, 2014 02:18 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 02:21 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: Russ at November 23, 2014 02:22 AM (wOyrZ)
rickl
Thank you for the review of the concert.
I grew up in Hibbing, MN, where Bob did, and I have been a fan forever.
I have seen him twice, and enjoyed his shows each time.
I hope I get another chance
Posted by: alamrgo at November 23, 2014 02:00 AM (mk9G5)
When did you see him? His shows since about 1990 have been uniformly excellent. His current band is awesome. And his last four or five albums since 1997's "Time Out Of Mind" are among the best of his career.
He averages 100 concerts a year, a pace that would kill musicians half his age. Dude is the Energizer Bunny of music.
I try to see him every time he's in my area, which averages out to once a year, sometimes twice. So I've seen him about 40 or 50 times since my first show in 1978.
Posted by: rickl at November 23, 2014 02:23 AM (sdi6R)
Movie discussions.
Japanese food and restaurant chains.
Geeky erudite discussions of the horrible human cost of the atomic bombs not being dropped and Japan not surrendering when it did.
Pretty standard ONT.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 23, 2014 02:24 AM (afQnV)
Does Julie Christie get nekid?? Otherwise, I'll skip it. Sometime back, I watched Shampoo on TCM. Even though I loath Warren Beatty, it had Julie Christie in it, so I watched it. She got nekid and that is the only thing I remember about it. I remember reading the MAD magazine version when i was a kid. The MAD version was better than the movie.
Posted by: puddleglum at November 23, 2014 02:27 AM (k82u2)
Posted by: rhomboid
Yeah, I visited the location of the former prison/church. And, no, the surrounding area was hill land before our resurfacing project. There is another arm of the bay north, and south. You know, like a bay.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 02:27 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: rickl at November 23, 2014 02:27 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 23, 2014 02:28 AM (R5HRU)
Outside of Ferguson itself, I'd not be surprised by *crickets*, whatever the outcome (though it's pretty hard to imagine any sort of indictment for what sounds like a sadly everyday open/shut case of a cop defending himself from a violent and irrational attack.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 23, 2014 02:30 AM (afQnV)
It's coming out on Criterion blu-ray and I was just reading about it at Wikipedia. It sounds pretty good.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 23, 2014 01:27 AM (Vh4i6)
I saw it when I was in college in the late 70s. I thought it was excellent.
I don't remember whether or not I was stoned or tripping while watching it, and I haven't seen it since then. So that's a caveat.
Posted by: rickl at November 23, 2014 02:31 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: thathalfrican at November 23, 2014 02:33 AM (R5HRU)
From the Ace Archives:
"Thank God For The Atom Bomb" [ArthurK]
http://minx.cc/?post=342242
Selected excerpts:
"The A-bombs meant, he [ John Kenneth Galbraith ] says, "a difference, at most, of two or three weeks." But at the time, with no indication that surrender was on the way, the kamikazes were sinking American vessels, the Indianapolis was sunk (880 men killed), and Allied casualties were running to over 7,000 per week. "Two or three weeks," says Galbraith. Two weeks more means 14,000 more killed and wounded, three weeks more, 21,000. "
and:
"During the closing phase of the Pacific War, average monthly deaths, military and civilian, in Japanese held-territories in China, southeast Asia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, from disease, starvation, atrocities, or combat, was about 400,000 men, women, and children."
Out of sequence, but ... needed:
"That's a bit 'of what happened in six days of the two or three weeks posited by Galbraith. What did he do in the war? He worked in the Office of Price Administration in Washington. I don't demand that he experience having his ass shot off. I merely note that he didn't."
Posted by: Arbalest at November 23, 2014 02:34 AM (FlRtG)
Smashed wrinkly hamburger, smushed doughnuts in a box
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha , you're killin' me over here.
Posted by: bour3 at November 23, 2014 02:37 AM (5x3+2)
Posted by: qdpsteve on his phone at November 23, 2014 02:38 AM (Vh4i6)
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 02:42 AM (T1005)
Posted by: otho at November 23, 2014 02:43 AM (tBSrv)
Posted by: Wolve at November 23, 2014 02:44 AM (6E6gZ)
Posted by: RickZ at November 23, 2014 02:46 AM (8GQ0X)
It insists on itself. Otherwise, I enjoyed it.
The story ain't bad, and the actors did well with it (I would marry Charlize Theron if she showed up here tonight).
I think a little LESS time spent on explaining to us how nasty and brutish live was in the 1800s-era Arizona Territory, and the movie would be up there among the better Western parodies. Not "Blazing Saddles" good but certainly "Three Amigos" good.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 23, 2014 02:52 AM (AVEe1)
WTF could have been Galbraith's reasoning on 2 or 3 weeks? I'm not aware of any developments at the time that would have likely caused Lord Kido and Hirohito to suddenly decide on surrender. Soviet entry into the war? Don't buy that. Tokyo had hollowed out the Kwangtung Army in Manchukuo to fight the Americans and bolster home island defenses, so the Soviets rolled over a very weakened force. If Tokyo feared the Soviets more than the Americans, they had a funny way of showing it when allocating some of their last prime military assets.
The Soviets would not be in a position to actually invade Japan before November (date for Olympic).
In any case almost none of the specifics of the internal process were known to the US - hell, it's hardly an exaggeration to say that two people in all of Japan were relevant to the actual decision. Not a chance we could play a clever game, the enemy was a plain black box with no leaks (the various initiatives and views of minor players that we did know from signals intel didn't amount to anything usable).
Posted by: rhomboid at November 23, 2014 02:55 AM (afQnV)
Hmmm
Obama is a snooty nincompoop with a God complex.
Try that on the 27th and see what happens.
Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at November 23, 2014 02:58 AM (0atFl)
Holy Fuck.
Posted by: Kaner at November 23, 2014 02:58 AM (evUpK)
Yeah, if you believe what zombie is saying, then yeah.
Zombie is believable to the extent s/he brings images and direct links. Otherwise, not so much. A few reasons: first, there are an awful lot of allegations zombie has brought here that come from "oh I wasn't here and you didn't see this" sources; second, zombie has on several occasions claimed to be trolling and delivering dezinformatsiya against the Left.
Are you THAT confident it's not a double-agent?
So, frankly, I don't believe a single word zombie says in here. Unless it's sourced.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 23, 2014 03:05 AM (AVEe1)
It insists on itself. Otherwise, I enjoyed it.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
How do I know you're drunk?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 03:08 AM (s9AKD)
Kaner - Holy Fuck.
Yeah, if you believe what zombie is saying, then yeah.
Zombie is believable to the extent s/he brings images and direct
links. Otherwise, not so much. A few reasons: first, there are an awful
lot of allegations zombie has brought here that come from "oh I wasn't
here and you didn't see this" sources; second, zombie has on several
occasions claimed to be trolling and delivering dezinformatsiya against
the Left.
Are you THAT confident it's not a double-agent?
So, frankly, I don't believe a single word zombie says in here. Unless it's sourced.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 23, 2014 03:05 AM (AVEe1)
WTF? Do you have any reason to disbelieve zombie's personal testimony of personal matters? Can you bring documentation and/or links for such "allegations zombie has brought here"? Do you have a single link for an instance where "zombie has on several
occasions claimed to be trolling and delivering dezinformatsiya against
the Left"?
That's a hell of a weight to be swingin' with no sources. Maybe "So, frankly, I don't believe a single word
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 03:11 AM (T1005)
cthulhu:
I'm intending to get a ton of stuff done.
Does this mean that you will install a BBD system above your refrigerator? Now is your chance ...
Posted by: Arbalest at November 23, 2014 03:14 AM (FlRtG)
Posted by: Kaner at November 23, 2014 03:19 AM (evUpK)
cthulhu:
I'm intending to get a ton of stuff done.
Does this mean that you will install a BBD system above your refrigerator? Now is your chance ...
Posted by: Arbalest at November 23, 2014 03:14 AM (FlRtG)
The space above the fridge is full of "entertaining dishes" -- platters and serving bowls.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 03:19 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 03:25 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 03:36 AM (T1005)
Storming Paradise, a graphic novel that needs to be a game.
Damn, I need to go back to sleep
Posted by: Jean at November 23, 2014 03:42 AM (TETYm)
Posted by: william at November 23, 2014 03:43 AM (ADCXs)
Posted by: cthulhu
....and that is like the sixth time I've nearly killed myself tripping over her luggage in the hallway.....
Posted by: cthulhu
trebuchet, m'lord?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 03:51 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: cthulhu
....and that is like the sixth time I've nearly killed myself tripping over her luggage in the hallway.....
Posted by: cthulhu
trebuchet, m'lord?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 03:51 AM (s9AKD)
Baseboard painted in the new old house master bed room.
Film at 11!
Posted by: Adriane the Clio Award Critic ... at November 23, 2014 03:55 AM (P+IZm)
on Thursday (they get priority because I don't want someone to slip
and fall) and I raked the ones on the lawn on Friday. As of Saturday
night, you can't tell. Farkin' tree.....
Posted by: cthulhu
....and that is like the sixth time I've nearly killed myself tripping over her luggage in the hallway.....
Posted by: cthulhu
trebuchet, m'lord?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 03:51 AM (s9AKD)
It's the time of year for feeling grumpily domestic.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 04:02 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Epobirs at November 23, 2014 04:44 AM (IdCqF)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 04:44 AM (s9AKD)
It's the time of year for feeling grumpily domestic.
Posted by: cthulhu
No idea, bro.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 04:44 AM (s9AKD)
It's the time of year for battening-down the hatches. For clearing out the cornstalks. For raking up the leaves.
Exuberance and celebration are out. It's time to buckle-in.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 04:52 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Jean at November 23, 2014 04:54 AM (TETYm)
Posted by: Jean at November 23, 2014 04:55 AM (TETYm)
Posted by: spike at November 23, 2014 04:59 AM (vxKe0)
I wonder if "the Bitch set me up" worked with St Peter?
Posted by: Jean at November 23, 2014 04:55 AM (TETYm)
I'm guessing it would be "no".....but Barry probably took the express bus and never even tried to appear before St. Peter.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 23, 2014 05:00 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Jean
No pope expects a Spanish Inquisition!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 05:03 AM (s9AKD)
The oil lease across from my house, for no reason I can understand, has set up a checkpoint. RV, spotlight, generator.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 23, 2014 05:03 AM (VXV0F)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 05:05 AM (s9AKD)
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Posted by: Hans Schultz Feldwebwel at November 23, 2014 05:13 AM (91eZY)
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Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 05:14 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 23, 2014 05:16 AM (91eZY)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 23, 2014 05:16 AM (VXV0F)
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Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 23, 2014 05:18 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at November 23, 2014 05:26 AM (IAe6t)
I think I'll go out and milk the elk."
Otis, I'd love to hear how that turns out. Please do regale us.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 23, 2014 05:29 AM (VXV0F)
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 23, 2014 05:40 AM (91eZY)
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at November 23, 2014 05:41 AM (IAe6t)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 23, 2014 05:48 AM (VXV0F)
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 23, 2014 05:50 AM (91eZY)
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 23, 2014 05:56 AM (91eZY)
Also, just heard Marion Barry passed away.
I've gone to that other place to suck that big glass dick in the sky.
Posted by: Marion Barry at November 23, 2014 06:13 AM (kFsMw)
Instead, I'm like that guy in Apocalypse Now, the guy sitting on the edge of the door in the huey screaming hysterically "I'm not going. I'm not going. I'm not going."
It would be better to go now rather than in the middle of the holiday hysteria, instead I'm screaming. "I'm not going."
Posted by: Rudolph the Depressed at November 23, 2014 06:26 AM (PyNMY)
I'm not going.
It all gets a little blurry.
Posted by: Rudolph the Depressed at November 23, 2014 06:28 AM (PyNMY)
Great, Rain on top of snow. Fog, freezing rain, freezing fog. low visibility. terrible roads
I'm not going. I'm not going.
Posted by: Rudolph the Depressed at November 23, 2014 06:31 AM (PyNMY)
just got a chill, a premonition.
Posted by: Rudolph the Depressed at November 23, 2014 06:35 AM (PyNMY)
Posted by: Saluki at November 23, 2014 07:02 AM (bGLSw)
Posted by: Kentucky kid at November 23, 2014 07:12 AM (1weFB)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at November 23, 2014 07:13 AM (GVMts)
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Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at November 23, 2014 12:51 PM (18q33)
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at November 23, 2014 01:00 PM (18q33)
This is no bull: Vernon Rudolph was my maternal grandfather's uncle.
Grew up in Paducah. Now I'm two counties southeast but every once in a blue moon I get up there. May have to forego a stop to Chick-fil-A and hit that burger place next time.
Posted by: Mike in KY at November 23, 2014 05:55 PM (d25aA)
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