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Overnight Open Thread (28 Nov 2014)

Howdy morons. I'm back from my little vacation so you're stuck with me again. Hope y'all had a good Thanksgiving.

So you guys tired of turkey sandwiches yet? Perhaps you might want to try one of these 11 insane Thanksgiving-inspired sandwiches, tacos and more then.

Oil Price Effects

Interesting to note the geopolitical impact of cheap oil.

The big losers from falling oil prices include several countries that are not friends of the US and its allies, such as Venezuela, Iran, and Russia. These countries are heavily dependent on their oil revenue to support their governments’ spending – especially massive transfer programs. Even at $75 or $80 a barrel, these governments will have a difficult time financing the populist programs that they need to maintain public support.

h/t

Star Wars

So the new Star Wars teaser trailer debuted today (Ranking the teaser trailers for all seven Star Wars movies). Not too shabby but then again, it is just a teaser. At least there wasn't an overabundance of lens flares or Jar-Jar Binks.

Here's a little video of Batman vs Darth Vader.

A-10's

A-10's return to Iraq. Just a dozen of them but without proper targeting and intelligence, it'll be mostly for show.

Vodka Turkey

The vodka-infused turkey sounds about right for the horde. Might have to try this for Christmas.

Frederick Wilson II

Frederick Wilson is smarter than every Ferguson protester, every celebrity, and every politician that has been outraged by the verdict.

While referring to a separate incident from Brown's, he refers to another shooting in which a black man charged two cops and was shot as a result.

"Why would you think it's a good idea to run up on two cops when they tell you to stop [and] put down whatever you got? I'm gonna keep coming at them, then they gonna shoot me. Now as black people, we supposed to be mad and Ohmygod, Ohmygod, we need to go out there and march! No we don't. No we don't. No we don't. Stop doin' crime."

Dog Video

Tonight's ONT brought to you by how to build a pillow fort:

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Comments

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1 Plethora of Polygender Pronouns

There are plenty of examples of many, many "genders" being available to identify as, and plenty of pronouns that go beyond masculine, feminine, and even neuter. There are people who not only believe that, but also believe that they can be more than one gender at a time.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=7239

Posted by: The Political Hat at November 28, 2014 09:54 PM (lN8KC)

2 Second

Posted by: ALH at November 28, 2014 09:55 PM (btTLZ)

3 No 1?

Posted by: Mr. Natural at November 28, 2014 09:55 PM (/pOl7)

4 Yo.

Posted by: Y-not at November 28, 2014 09:55 PM (9BRsg)

5 Close but no cigar.

Posted by: Mr. Natural at November 28, 2014 09:56 PM (/pOl7)

6 dammit, youse guys are fast...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 09:56 PM (6fyGz)

7 Needs a little gravy on it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 28, 2014 09:56 PM (F2IAQ)

8 Ah dang, forgot about the 5 minute time difference on this dang blog.

Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 09:56 PM (93D1V)

9 The Moist maker!

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 09:57 PM (2cS/G)

10 CDR M!!! Haven't seen you in ages.

Ahoy matey. Arrrggghhh.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 09:57 PM (V+kmg)

11 Actually, it looks like it is 6 minutes now.

Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 09:57 PM (93D1V)

12 We had barbecue turkey sammiches this evening.

Have also had normal sammiches and soup since our early Thanksgiving meal on Wednesday. Fortunately, we like turkey!

Posted by: Y-not at November 28, 2014 09:57 PM (9BRsg)

13 IN!

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 09:57 PM (4Mv1T)

14 Hiya!

Posted by: Alana at November 28, 2014 09:57 PM (QTpuK)

15 What's up Bannion?! I swear I'm gonna make it to the next meet up come hell or high water.

Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 09:58 PM (93D1V)

16 I noticed that the US isn't even on the list for needing oil prices to balance the budget. Hopefully it's good news (we have so many other options) as opposed to bad (we don't plan on balancing it anyway).

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 28, 2014 09:58 PM (GDulk)

17 I suspect Frederick Wilson is about to get an IRS Audit.

Posted by: Mr. Natural at November 28, 2014 09:58 PM (/pOl7)

18 CDR M! Hand Salute. Ready, Two.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 28, 2014 09:59 PM (u82oZ)

19 So I'm home from FL, a good time was had and on the way back I picked up a holster for Grand-dads High Standard. I've been asked to hold off doing a review or posting pics until the matching belt can be made, but suffice it to say I like it well enough that I'm going to order a match for the Sig P220.


I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.


Did anyone think to summon the Horde?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:00 PM (6fyGz)

20 Hello, ONT. Gotta read the content.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 28, 2014 10:00 PM (P1oZa)

21 What's up Bannion?! I swear I'm gonna make it to the next meet up come hell or high water.
Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 09:58 PM (93D1V)


I'll believe it when I see it. The last excuse was 2 tons of mulch.

Plan on 3d week of June 2015.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:00 PM (V+kmg)

22 We had Five Guys. It was pretty good.

Posted by: ALH at November 28, 2014 10:00 PM (btTLZ)

23 Well I survived Disney World but damn it was chilly. 45 degrees the week before Thanksgiving.

Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 10:00 PM (93D1V)

24 That sandwich looks hideous, and possibly alive.

Posted by: @votermom at November 28, 2014 10:00 PM (aH+Ur)

25 What's up Bannion?! I swear I'm gonna make it to the next meet up come hell or high water.


Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 09:58 PM (93D1V)



I'll go out of my way to provide transportation if necessary.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:00 PM (6fyGz)

26 Hey everybody.

And now folks, the first in hopefully a series of qdpsteve's fine junk food serving suggestions! Try 'em, taste 'em, collect 'em! Worth their digital weight in gold!

Tonight's fine junk food serving suggestion is...

- Flamin' Hot Cheetos are great dipped in some straight sour cream.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:01 PM (fGApK)

27 Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:00 PM (V+kmg)

I'll be in Patuxent River in a few weeks.

Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 10:01 PM (93D1V)

28 Turkey, oyster dressing, bread and butter pickles, mayo on light rye bread. Now that's a post-thanksgiving sammich.

Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind at November 28, 2014 10:01 PM (G83Pc)

29 Ah, yes, Christmas time, when Protestants pull Mary out of the store room and dust her off.

I'm listening to Buble singing Ave Maria. Pretty good, but not quite as nice as Sinatra.

Also just painted my nails fire engine red to match my new Christmas lipstick.

You have your traditions, and I guess I have mine....

Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at November 28, 2014 10:01 PM (g+qqc)

30 That sammich looks like the last thread smells!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 28, 2014 10:02 PM (/9Mak)

31 Budget? Never heard of it....

/chuckles gibson

Posted by: anon a mouse at November 28, 2014 10:02 PM (CY8ZR)

32 I'll be in Patuxent River in a few weeks.
Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 10:01 PM (93D1V)


PCS or TAD?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:02 PM (V+kmg)

33 i loooved building forts at my granny's

Posted by: north and judd at November 28, 2014 10:02 PM (qcPjq)

34 Cripe, didn't anyone have ham for Thanksgiving this year?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 28, 2014 10:03 PM (MPK82)

35 I'll be in Patuxent River in a few weeks.


Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 10:01 PM (93D1V)


PCS? In that case...I'll go out of my way to provide transportation. Got some folks in that area that might be worth looking up if I'm ever around IYKWIM.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:03 PM (6fyGz)

36 TAD for 4 days. I'm having the initial planning conference for my next experiment.

Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 10:03 PM (93D1V)

37 Thinking of watching a movie again tonight. Can't figure out which I should go for.

- Catch-22
- the "Totally Inappropriate" version of Horrible Bosses
(watched the theatrical version last night)
- Downfall
- From Russia With Love

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:03 PM (fGApK)

38 How long until Frederick Wilson II is given the Cosby treatment?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (tvB15)

39 From Russia With Love.

Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (93D1V)

40 23 Well I survived Disney World but damn it was chilly. 45 degrees the week before Thanksgiving.

--

Chilly WDW is better than super steamy WDW which is better than no WDW

Posted by: @votermom at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (cbfNE)

41 So now the question is should I spend an extraordinary amount of money on lingerie for Christmas, or just wrap myself in Christmas lights and plug myself in?

Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (g+qqc)

42 Posted by: @votermom at November 28, 2014 10:00 PM (aH+Ur)

Lol, agreed.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (GDulk)

43 That sandwich needs a lens flare.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (oFCZn)

44
Ah, yes, Christmas time, when Protestants pull Mary out of the store room and dust her off.

...........
lol.. it IS something how much Catholics (us non-practicing ones included) venerate Mary, when the Protestants pretty much ignore her.

and.. fire engine red sounds good to me!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (/9Mak)

45 CDR M, not a bad suggestion.

Just watched Dr. No a few weeks ago.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (fGApK)

46 TAD for 4 days. I'm having the initial planning conference for my next experiment.
Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 10:03 PM (93D1V)


Keep us in mind. Especially for June.

If you come, I might be able to lure mpfs down from PA.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (V+kmg)

47 Cripe, didn't anyone have ham for Thanksgiving this year?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 28, 2014 10:03 PM (MPK82)


Yes, but I didn't bring any of it home with me. Eldest Son is going to be pissed, I was supposed to bring a pie home but screwit, it's easier to make one than haul one 500 miles.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (6fyGz)

48 How was Horrible Bosses? I have it on DVR but haven't watched it yet.

Of that list, I'd go for Thunderball.

Posted by: Y-not at November 28, 2014 10:05 PM (9BRsg)

49 Hillary in the A-10 link. Just so you know.


*dry heaves*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 28, 2014 10:05 PM (P1oZa)

50 Evening, Horde. Our ATL friends are leaving tomorrow.

*happy dance*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 28, 2014 10:05 PM (FsuaD)

51 o now the question is should I spend an extraordinary amount of money on lingerie for Christmas, or just wrap myself in Christmas lights and plug myself in?
Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (g+qqc)


Did if just get hot in here all of a sudden? Or is it me?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:05 PM (V+kmg)

52 Hola, amigoz en loz tuboz!

Posted by: cthulhu at November 28, 2014 10:05 PM (T1005)

53 Will do Sean.

Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 10:05 PM (93D1V)

54 Posted by: tcn in AK
..........
my vote is lingerie, tcn.. all too little of that these days.. and stockings..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 28, 2014 10:05 PM (/9Mak)

55 Plan on 3d week of June 2015.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:00 PM (V+kmg)

Glad to see we're increasing the duration of the MoMee to a week!

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:05 PM (fL/7/)

56 It looks like some Saudi sheikhs are going to be putting their harems on the block soon, or at least the ugly ones.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 28, 2014 10:05 PM (MPK82)

57 Fuck the Russians, Fraudis, Iranians, Venezualans, Qataris, Kuwaitis.... actually the only country I am a little bit tempted to side with are the Nigerians. Oil is a renewable resourse like trees and water. It should be no more than 20 to 30 dollars a barrel. I would pay as much as 40 to support domestic. Lets those douchebag cartel type people choke on their oil.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 10:06 PM (jucos)

58 So now the question is should I spend an
extraordinary amount of money on lingerie for Christmas, or just wrap
myself in Christmas lights and plug myself in?

Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (g+qqc)



I'm thinking either way would have the desired effect. Of course we'd need pics to be sure.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:06 PM (6fyGz)

59 I don't know that I can take a report seriously that claims part of the reason for the drop in oil prices is people (investors?) looking toward the upcoming, next wave of solar-powered and other enviro-friendly vehicles.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 10:06 PM (T4t+V)

60 41 tcn in AK

Go with the lingerie. It's the gift that gives, creates heat, and is more environmentally sustainable.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 28, 2014 10:06 PM (u82oZ)

61 Y-not: HB wasn't bad. It's no "Office Space," but then OS is a masterpiece. Just something I like about Jason Bateman.

Wanted to see it to help me decide if Horrible Bosses 2 might be worth a matinee.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:06 PM (fGApK)

62 my vote is lingerie, tcn.. all too little of that these days.. and stockings..
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 28, 2014 10:05 PM (/9Mak)

K.

Black or red? My garter is black lace.

And no, there will not be pics.

Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at November 28, 2014 10:06 PM (g+qqc)

63 Glad to see we're increasing the duration of the MoMee to a week!
Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:05 PM (fL/7/)


Only for selected Morons and 'Ettes.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:06 PM (V+kmg)

64 As a leftover from the previous thread, what about AoS are you most thankful for?

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 10:06 PM (64d6n)

65 41, no pics,no care.

/Would makea great protest slogan and chant, amirite?

Posted by: anon a mouse at November 28, 2014 10:06 PM (CY8ZR)

66 Still can't listen to Ave Maria--Dad had Pavarotti's version leading into Mom's funeral...been 12 years...

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at November 28, 2014 10:07 PM (82lr7)

67 Glad to see we're increasing the duration of the MoMee to a week!


Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:05 PM (fL/7/)



I don't think Alexandria could handle Moron Week.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:07 PM (6fyGz)

68 So now the question is should I spend an
extraordinary amount of money on lingerie for Christmas, or just wrap
myself in Christmas lights and plug myself in?

Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (g+qqc)


Pictures, or it didn't happen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2014 10:07 PM (tvB15)

69 Y-not, also have heard good things about Thunderball.

I admit: a few months back when I won a bit of money playing poker, I splurged on a copy of Bond 50, so now I have 23 Bond movies to see. Would like to watch one each couple of weeks, all in order.

Looking forward to "Thunderball" especially as from what I've heard, it was the first *really good* Bond flick.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:07 PM (fGApK)

70 Robot Chicken gave the Star Wars universe more drama and pathos than Lucas.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 28, 2014 10:08 PM (+4uXG)

71 Black or red? My garter is black lace.
Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at November 28, 2014 10:06 PM (g+qqc)


Black please

http://tinyurl.com/mom8376

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:08 PM (V+kmg)

72 64 As a leftover from the previous thread, what about AoS are you most thankful for?

==

ONTs.

Posted by: @votermom at November 28, 2014 10:08 PM (qlyk5)

73 Thunderball was awesome.

Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 10:08 PM (93D1V)

74 And no, there will not be pics.

Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at November 28, 2014 10:06 PM (g+qqc)


Killjoy.

Red, with black lace trim.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:08 PM (6fyGz)

75 66 Still can't listen to Ave Maria--Dad had Pavarotti's version leading into Mom's funeral...been 12 years...
Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at November 28, 2014 10:07 PM (82lr7)

You know, a good version will be a tribute to her, I should think. But it may still take time.

But for a song you associate with mom, that's a pretty good one. {{{hug}}}

Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at November 28, 2014 10:08 PM (g+qqc)

76 I don't think Alexandria could handle Moron Week.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:07 PM (6fyGz)


Not without an increase in available jail cells.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:08 PM (V+kmg)

77 As a leftover from the previous thread, what about AoS are you most thankful for?

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 10:06 PM (64d6n)


I haven't been banned....yet.

Posted by: BignJames at November 28, 2014 10:08 PM (HtUkt)

78 Dammit. Lost my comment.

Our son played guitar with our ATL friend on piano last night. It was awesome. Everyone was singing and having a great time.

Best Thanksgiving Ever.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 28, 2014 10:09 PM (FsuaD)

79 None you fuckwits are thankful for me?

Posted by: The Barrel at November 28, 2014 10:09 PM (93D1V)

80 34
Cripe, didn't anyone have ham for Thanksgiving this year?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 28, 2014 10:03 PM (MPK82)


I did.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 28, 2014 10:09 PM (T1005)

81 84 The fellow posters and Ace with his razor slices on the Left. This place is full of happy, thoughtful people in grey boxes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 28, 2014 10:09 PM (u82oZ)

82 That Frederick Wilson II guy reminds of the black guy with the cigar talking about Trayvon Martin.

Talk about not pulling any punches.

He called the NAACP and assorted grief mongers "monkeys".

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 28, 2014 10:09 PM (oFCZn)

83 As a leftover from the previous thread, what about AoS are you most thankful for?


Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 10:06 PM (64d6n)


All of it.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:10 PM (6fyGz)

84 From those Progressives over at TPM:

Masturbating Passenger Causes Premature Landing For Virgin Flight

Posted by: Obama F*cks America at November 28, 2014 10:10 PM (e8kgV)

85 Moron movie recommendation on Netflix streaming:

"The Machine."

It's the perfect Moron movie - intelligent, and with a hot killer cyborg chick.

The ending is chilling as hell.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at November 28, 2014 10:10 PM (4ckfx)

86 Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:03 PM (fGApK)

At least watch Catch-22 for the opening sequence. You can pass on the rest of the flick!

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:10 PM (fL/7/)

87 Can I get some damn thanks too?

Posted by: TB3K at November 28, 2014 10:10 PM (93D1V)

88 Red, with black lace trim.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:08 PM (6fyGz)

The horde has spoken, so let it be written, so let it be done.

Thanks, guys, I knew I could count on you.

Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at November 28, 2014 10:10 PM (g+qqc)

89 So now the question is should I spend an
extraordinary amount of money on lingerie for Christmas, or just wrap
myself in Christmas lights and plug myself in?

Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at November 28, 2014 10:04 PM (g+qqc)



Get lingerie and spread it out over the year?

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 10:10 PM (64d6n)

90 59,
it's simple. The evil speculators tracked supply, and amazingly enough were right on (for the most part).
I'm waiting for the MSM lines about how speculation is impacting gas prices....

Posted by: anon a mouse at November 28, 2014 10:10 PM (CY8ZR)

91 Hrothgar, yeah, I've heard Catch-22 is quite uneven.

But then I've read the novel is unfilmable.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:11 PM (fGApK)

92 >>> Masturbating Passenger Causes Premature Landing For Virgin Flight

Like that doesn't happen to everyone.

Posted by: fluffy at November 28, 2014 10:12 PM (Ua6T/)

93 The US doesn't need oil prices high to balance its budget, but the frackers can't make money below a certain price, and we're about to find out who in that industry has borrowed too much money.

Posted by: Oschisms at November 28, 2014 10:12 PM (uqV2n)

94 Get lingerie and spread it out over the year?
Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 10:10 PM (64d6n)

Hmmm... sort of a treat of the month club. That sounds like fun.

Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at November 28, 2014 10:12 PM (g+qqc)

95 41 tcn in AK
******
My vote is bacon

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 10:12 PM (jucos)

96 Glad to be of service.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:12 PM (6fyGz)

97 Masturbating Passenger Causes Premature Landing For Virgin Flight

Posted by: Obama F*cks America at November 28, 2014 10:10 PM (e8kgV)


He would not have had that problem on my airline.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at November 28, 2014 10:12 PM (tvB15)

98
Annoying protestors being annoying tonight in NYC, Seattle, San Fran, LA.

Heh, can't think of many better places.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:12 PM (1Y+hH)

99 BTW, T4t+V or not T4t+V? That is the question.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 10:12 PM (T4t+V)

100 Here's the video about a Trayvon Martin rally where one of the onlookers has a different opinion about what is really going on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sL2f0PoqME

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 28, 2014 10:13 PM (oFCZn)

101 >>> Masturbating Passenger Causes Premature Landing For Virgin Flight

Like that doesn't happen to everyone.
Posted by: fluffy at November 28, 2014 10:12 PM (Ua6T/)


Ladies and Gentlemen! I ask you, who among us has not....

Never mind.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:13 PM (V+kmg)

102 Just think, if the US got 75% of its energy from nuclear power, the way our betters in countries like France do, we wouldn't have to worry about anything but saving up our oil until that glorious time when the sand ticks run out of the oil we found for them.

Oh, and we could let the fucking middle east burn, except Israel, too.

Of course, energy policy has been run by anti-American psychopaths in this country for 35 years, so who am I kidding?

Posted by: Sharkman at November 28, 2014 10:13 PM (w7rUl)

103 Black or red? My garter is black lace.



And no, there will not be pics.

Posted by: tcn in AK,
.............
Always black..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 28, 2014 10:13 PM (/9Mak)

104 TB3K-- thanks for you, too!

Are you the one who changed all of (troll)'s comments into *declarations of cock-love* last night?

LMAO!!

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at November 28, 2014 10:13 PM (82lr7)

105 Meremortal, another reason I'm glad I'm far closer to the OC than LA here in SoCal.

(policeman walking up to Ferguson protestor)

"WE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR MIKE AND TRAYV--"
**bonk**

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:13 PM (fGApK)

106 The US doesn't need oil prices high to balance its
budget, but the frackers can't make money below a certain price, and
we're about to find out who in that industry has borrowed too much
money.

Posted by: Oschisms at November 28, 2014 10:12 PM (uqV2n)



That's the beauty part of US oil production...we don't really have to do it, all we have to do is THREATEN it and the prices come down.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:14 PM (6fyGz)

107 My house guests are getting drunk and frisky.

Later, all.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 28, 2014 10:14 PM (FsuaD)

108 Not without an increase in available jail cells.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:08 PM (V+kmg)

Everyone posts bail before the event begins!

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:14 PM (fL/7/)

109 That's who the Opec price cuts are aimed at, Oschisms. Probably the Alberta oil sands too.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 10:14 PM (T4t+V)

110 TPM does it again:

'F*ck It, I Quit' Reporter Under Investigation For Possible Campaign Finance Violations

Posted by: Obama Forks America at November 28, 2014 10:14 PM (e8kgV)

111 Y-not: HB wasn't bad. It's no "Office Space," but then OS is a masterpiece. Just something I like about Jason Bateman.



Posted by: qdpsteve

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

Jason Bateman was not in "Office Space". He was in "Extract."

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at November 28, 2014 10:14 PM (4ckfx)

112 Hrothgar, no, that doesn't work.

Al Sharpton runs off with the cash and doesn't pay taxes on it.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:15 PM (fGApK)

113 93, a good deal is leveraged, but not as much (industrywide) as one might imagine. Product, OTOH...

Posted by: anon a mouse at November 28, 2014 10:15 PM (CY8ZR)

114 Ladies and Gentlemen! I ask you, who among us has not....



Never mind.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:13 PM (V+kmg)


I don't fly. *shrugs*

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:15 PM (6fyGz)

115 TB3K-- thanks for you, too!

Are you the one who changed all of (troll)'s comments into *declarations of cock-love* last night?

LMAO!!
Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at November 28, 2014 10:13 PM (82lr7)


My favorite TB3K comment change was when every troll comment as changed to, "Hodor!!"

Could. Not. Stop. Laughing.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:15 PM (V+kmg)

116 Just think, if the US got 75% of its energy from nuclear power, the way
our betters in countries like France do, we wouldn't have to worry about
anything but saving up our oil until that glorious time when the sand
ticks run out of the oil we found for them.

...............
I've been arguing exactly this with libtards for years..

They want to reduce carbon.. well, fuck yeah! Build a buncha nuke plants! zero carbon foot print.

But, alas, nukes are.. yucky.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 28, 2014 10:15 PM (/9Mak)

117 treat Meat of the month club roxxx!

Posted by: Sandy Flook at November 28, 2014 10:15 PM (82lr7)

118 Taro: I know. :-)
Extract was pretty good too.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:15 PM (fGApK)

119 Hasta.

In the early menana.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 28, 2014 10:15 PM (P1oZa)

120 Later, all.




Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 28, 2014 10:14 PM (FsuaD)



Post the videos when you can.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:16 PM (6fyGz)

121

They gave Vader too much credit.

Batman has no midichlorians in his system ... how does the "force" work on something live that is not a "force" conductor?

The extended lightsaber duel ... this should have been a couple of swings, the Batman IMMEDIATELY knocks out Vader's life-support circuitry.

Then after knocking out Vader's life support circuitry, and pounding him with the energy gloves ... how does this not stop Vader for at least 5 minutes? Further, Batman does not use another 2 or 3 bat-weapons to immobilize Vader for at least half an hour ... what?

Finally, the Bat-spacemobile-save at the end ... seriously, the 'mobile has no shields, no follow-up shot is fired, and Batman is still inside?

Posted by: Arbalest at November 28, 2014 10:16 PM (FlRtG)

122 Ah, Barrel.

Sorry for not mentioning you. I would not care to spend any time inside -- and since I am very good at cleaning things, you would probably prefer me outside as well.

But I must admit you are a fascinating aspect of the HQ, and you do add a lot to the place's interest.

Posted by: Empire1 at November 28, 2014 10:17 PM (5jTDk)

123 QDPSteve
I am not a fan of Thunderball, but your milage may vary.
Of all the Connery films I like From Russia with Love the best.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 28, 2014 10:17 PM (+4uXG)

124 Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:13 PM (fGApK)

I can only imagine and I'm happy for you.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:17 PM (1Y+hH)

125 But then I've read the novel is unfilmable.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:11 PM (fGApK)

Pretty readable book, but I'd almost buy the Blu-Ray just to watch the opening scenes!

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:17 PM (fL/7/)

126 Ohhh--did I say *month*? I meant *minute*...

Posted by: Sandy Flook at November 28, 2014 10:18 PM (82lr7)

127 But, alas, nukes are.. yucky.




Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 28, 2014 10:15 PM (/9Mak)


If we could only find something to do with the remaining spent fuel that can't be reprocessed there would be no down sides to nukes (libtards being anti-nuke is a feature, not a bug).

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:18 PM (6fyGz)

128 Bourbon, well I'll just have to see about that. :-)
Meremortal, thanks. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:18 PM (fGApK)

129 CNN: "We're in Alexandria, Virginia tonight to report on a strange outbreak of unruly behavior. It is rumored to be associated with recent protests in other cities..., and yet..., the participants seem somewhat undirected. One might even say 'misdirected'..."

Posted by: CNN - All the News, All the Time at November 28, 2014 10:19 PM (F2IAQ)

130 I've been arguing exactly this with libtards for years.
Yeah. During the Fukushima nuclear accident one of the best sites fighting the hysteria was a true-believer AGW site that's pro-nuke for the logical reasons that it's the best way to drop 'evil' emissions but still maintain modern lifestyles.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 10:19 PM (T4t+V)

131 Hrothgar, I don't believe there's a blu-ray of Catch-22 yet.

I have the DVD however. Interesting cast that nowadays would span the entire political spectrum: Alan Arkin, Art Garfunkel, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Martin Sheen, and Jon Voight.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:19 PM (fGApK)

132 Catch-22 also probably would never have gotten made if M*A*S*H hadn't been a huge hit in 1970.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:20 PM (fGApK)

133 It's not a Virgin flight anymore.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 10:20 PM (2cS/G)

134 Al Sharpton runs off with the cash and doesn't pay taxes on it.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:15 PM (fGApK)


Reverend AL doesn't have the cojones to even lurk outside the door of a MoMee!

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:20 PM (fL/7/)

135 Hokies losing to the Wahoos is like a decent Cardinals season: wrong in numerous, unsettling ways.

And hello Horde. Hoping everybody had a relaxing day.

Posted by: joncelli at November 28, 2014 10:21 PM (ENczY)

136 We had a succulent smoked ham for Thanksgiving. It was quite decadent. However. I did not get any of the Ritual Foods. No cranberry sauce. No turkey (and therefore no stuffing). NO PUMPKIN PIE!!! (sobs). Therefore, according to the Sanhedrin, I did not properly observe Thanksgiving. This will be rectified as soon as all those nasty crowds disperse...

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at November 28, 2014 10:21 PM (2buaQ)

137 First a pig, now this..

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 28, 2014 10:21 PM (F2IAQ)

138 Happy Friday morons

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 28, 2014 10:21 PM (y2suD)

139 Bourbon, well I'll just have to see about that. :-)

Meremortal, thanks. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:18 PM (fGApK)


Hey, that's right...I'm HOME!!! *heads to liquor cabinet*

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:21 PM (6fyGz)

140 A late Thanksgiving thought:

You had almost a 60% chance of being born in India, China, Africa or the Middle East. You had a 5% chance of being born in America. Even when you fold in Europe and the British Commonwealth, that's just a 16% chance of being born somewhere prosperous, free and civilized.

That's like playing Russian Roulette in reverse. When we were conceived, a revolver with five loaded chambers was put to our heads, and the hammer dropped on the lone empty chamber.

I won the fucking lottery the day I was born. Gives me the cold sweats when I think about it.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at November 28, 2014 10:23 PM (4ckfx)

141 Well shit, I'm late to the party.

What's up Morons?

I'm drinking to try and contain how fucking pissed off I am.

You seen the shit in Seattle?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:23 PM (GEICT)

142 Hiya, interwebs friends!

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:23 PM (KuU4f)

143 Hillary in the A-10 link. Just so you know. *dry heaves*
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 28, 2014 10:05 PM (P1oZa)

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

Makes sense. Hillary... warthogs...

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 28, 2014 10:23 PM (KlVdw)

144 Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:19 PM (fGApK)

It was probably too cultish a movie to ever warrant the Blu-Ray treatment, but that opening sequence really should be in BR.

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:24 PM (fL/7/)

145 Best part of Thanksgiving:

Showed Dad and Brothers the "Cthurkey" pic from yesterday, said that's what's for supper.

(Collective "eeewwwww" faces...)

Haha, then read aloud George Washington's proclamation of Thanksgiving...Smiles all around!

I thank _God_ for this family! No libtards at the table!

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at November 28, 2014 10:24 PM (82lr7)

146 140 A late Thanksgiving thought:

You had almost a 60% chance of being born in India, China, Africa or the Middle East. You had a 5% chance of being born in America. Even when you fold in Europe and the British Commonwealth, that's just a 16% chance of being born somewhere prosperous, free and civilized.

That's like playing Russian Roulette in reverse. When we were conceived, a revolver with five loaded chambers was put to our heads, and the hammer dropped on the lone empty chamber.

I won the fucking lottery the day I was born. Gives me the cold sweats when I think about it.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at November 28, 2014 10:23 PM (4ckfx)


I think about this a lot, especially when someone's grumbling about how they didn't hit the lottery or some such thing.

Actually, you hit the biggest lottery of them all.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 28, 2014 10:25 PM (oFCZn)

147 Both flicks were from 70, iirc....

Posted by: anon a mouse at November 28, 2014 10:25 PM (CY8ZR)

148 NO PUMPKIN PIE!!! (sobs).

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at November 28, 2014 10:21 PM (2buaQ)


Yeah, I was supposed to bring one of those home for Eldest Son, but to hell with it. I'll make him one tomorrow.


mmm, Elijah Craig, how I've missed you...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:25 PM (6fyGz)

149 Yeah. During the Fukushima nuclear accident one of
the best sites fighting the hysteria was a true-believer AGW site that's
pro-nuke for the logical reasons that it's the best way to drop 'evil'
emissions but still maintain modern lifestyles.

Posted by: andycanuck
............

Yeah.. the basic AGW believers take is we must go back to caveman living.. all move back to the cities.. and ride trains, albeit sparsely.

Nuclear power simply says "Eff You" to these folks.. we can have our modern lifestyles without sacrifice..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 28, 2014 10:25 PM (/9Mak)

150 "If we could only find something to do with the
remaining spent fuel that can't be reprocessed there would be no down
sides to nukes (libtards being anti-nuke is a feature, not a bug).


Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter"

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

We've got a big ol' desert called Death Valley. Pre-labeled and everything.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at November 28, 2014 10:25 PM (4ckfx)

151
OK, OK heading to the wine bottle...

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:26 PM (1Y+hH)

152 You seen the shit in Seattle?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:23 PM (GEICT)


Nnnnope. *drinks*

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:27 PM (6fyGz)

153 What's up in Seattle? Protest turned riot, or just plain riot?

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 10:28 PM (2cS/G)

154 Nnnnope. *drinks*
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter
-------------------------

**clink**

And I'm not watching. But maybe it will wake some folks up.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 10:28 PM (4Mv1T)

155 GGE, make me one too? I'll provide the candied ginger soaked in rum for the garnish :-D (Old family tradition. Hic.)

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at November 28, 2014 10:28 PM (2buaQ)

156 You seen the shit in Seattle?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:23 PM (GEICT)

If I didn't know better, I'd be inclined to think that they are just actively begging for "normal" people to snap and thoroughly clean some progressive clocks.

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:28 PM (fL/7/)

157 So was there also an e.g. 20% chance I'd have been born black despite having white parents?

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 10:30 PM (T4t+V)

158 Idiots libs at my work though EarLeader would move nuclear power forward (when I said if AGW is a real concern we should do that). And these are STEM educated libs, not the ones with SJW degrees.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 28, 2014 10:30 PM (7w/kf)

159 We've got a big ol' desert called Death Valley. Pre-labeled and everything.


Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at November 28, 2014 10:25 PM (4ckfx)

Grind it into dust, and land-spread in ISIS-occupied areas. Dusting for jihadis.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2014 10:30 PM (tvB15)

160 If I didn't know better, I'd be inclined to think that they are just actively begging for "normal" people to snap and thoroughly clean some progressive clocks.
Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:28 PM (fL/7/)
********
This is exactly what they want. From Teh JEF on down. They are trolling the normal people in the meat world hoping for a physical reaction. I actually think they need us to respond in a way to keep them relevant with their retard base.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 10:30 PM (jucos)

161 If I didn't know better, I'd be inclined to think that they are just
actively begging for "normal" people to snap and thoroughly clean some
progressive clocks.


It does seem like a *dare* doesn't it?

Pisses them off when Bait is recognized for being just that, and ignored.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at November 28, 2014 10:31 PM (82lr7)

162 153 What's up in Seattle? Protest turned riot, or just plain riot?

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 10:28 PM (2cS/G)



Tree lighting ceremony. Bunch of 7-10 yr old kids on stage singing. Protestors surrounded the stage and shouted them down. Kids all crying.

http://tinyurl.com/l97wprd

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:31 PM (GEICT)

163 I missed Seattle. It's probably for the better.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:32 PM (KuU4f)

164 I wonder how long it would take to run the Fraudis out of money. How long before open rebellion after the fraudi free shit arm learns "dere aint be no mo free shit"?

Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 28, 2014 10:32 PM (U7H1n)

165 We've got a big ol' desert called Death Valley. Pre-labeled and everything.


Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at November 28, 2014 10:25 PM (4ckfx)


Pshaw. Yucca Mountain, if we could just get them there. What I mean, though, is if we could invent something to do with them other than encase them in glass and stick them in storage.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:32 PM (6fyGz)

166 We've got a big ol' desert called Death Valley. Pre-labeled and everything.


Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at November 28, 2014 10:25 PM (4ckfx)

I'm sure that they'd find an endangered Death Valley scorpion or tarantula that would make that lush green valley off limits.

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:32 PM (fL/7/)

167 160 If I didn't know better, I'd be inclined to think that they are just actively begging for "normal" people to snap and thoroughly clean some progressive clocks.

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:28 PM (fL/7/)

********

This is exactly what they want. From Teh JEF on down. They are trolling the normal people in the meat world hoping for a physical reaction. I actually think they need us to respond in a way to keep them relevant with their retard base.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 10:30 PM (judos)



I'd have obliged them. You fuck with my kids, I'm beating your ass.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:32 PM (GEICT)

168 the bar isn't happening tonight. so think I'll hang out here if you'll don't mind.

making breakfast if anyone is hungry.

Posted by: rich@gmu at November 28, 2014 10:33 PM (OjnNr)

169 Ahhh the holiday tree protest

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 28, 2014 10:33 PM (y2suD)

170 I haven't seen anything yet, probably won't turn on the TV tonight, but I assume you guys are talking about a riot/protest? What was/is particularly bad about the Seattle one? People getting hurt?

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 10:33 PM (2cS/G)

171 I didn't make pillow forts when I was a kid, but I did love making chair forts with two dining chairs and a sheet.

Hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving! We had KFC with homemade sides since my mom and I are getting over the flu.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at November 28, 2014 10:33 PM (nvq3r)

172 Ahhh, got it. Thanks.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 10:34 PM (2cS/G)

173 145 Best part of Thanksgiving:

..............

Oh my I could write a book. The best for me was leaving. After 22 yrs with his family we don't even pretend anymore. They couldn't give 2 shits if I was there and back at em. Sadly for them I bring the best pie and appetizers ever so they do have to come and say thank you and expound on how good they were. This year I decided what the hell and responded " yes they were good, better than anything else here". Didn't rack up any points.

Posted by: Molly k. at November 28, 2014 10:34 PM (UybxK)

174 And Seattle can burn first.

IMHO

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 10:34 PM (4Mv1T)

175
Seattle, reaping what it has sown.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:34 PM (1Y+hH)

176 GGE, make me one too? I'll provide the candied ginger soaked in rum for the garnish :-D (Old family tradition. Hic.)

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at November 28, 2014 10:28 PM (2buaQ)



Deal!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:34 PM (6fyGz)

177 What was/is particularly bad about the Seattle one? People getting hurt?
Posted by: Lincolntf

The last I saw the protestors were laying in front of the door to a Macy's being theatrical.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:35 PM (1Y+hH)

178 Let's see. Per Wikipedia:

M*A*S*H (film): released January 25, 1970.
Catch-22 (film): released June 21, 1970.

So they were most likely in development at the same time, but M*A*S*H was a hit first.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:36 PM (fGApK)

179 Seattle, reaping what it has sown.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:34 PM (1Y+hH)


Those kids didn't sow shit. They don't deserve that bullshit from those assholes.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:36 PM (GEICT)

180 Hello Hordeling!
I was completely ambivalent about the thing in Ferguson. Not at all on board with what the protesters were about until they started burning and looting. THEN I really started to sympathize with their problems. Sympathy oozing from every pore because, Hey, they're burning and looting so obviously this is super serial and I should feel awful about the fact that I am a white person. Now, after reading about protesters in Seattle terrorizing some children who just wanted to sing Christmas songs for the tree lighting ceremony, my goodness! I have even MORE sympathy for these poor souls who only want justice. Because burning, looting, and terrorizing children who never heard of the sainted criminal thug Mike Brown is just sooo damned inspiring. Yup, I now support these protesters completely.

Posted by: madamemayhem at November 28, 2014 10:36 PM (WPm3x)

181 making breakfast if anyone is hungry.

Posted by: rich@gmu at November 28, 2014 10:33 PM (OjnNr)

Have you got any real country ham to go with the grits and eggs over easy?

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:36 PM (fL/7/)

182 161..... I say take the bait, but not in the manner they've expected.

Rather than react in anger and physical violence.....just walk by, pointing at them an laughing.

Nothing demoralizes like disdain, derision and disrespect.

So? Demoralize the living hell out of 'em.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 28, 2014 10:36 PM (RzZOc)

183 What I mean, though, is if we could invent something to do with them other than encase them in glass and stick them in storage.
How about "Hands up; Don't shoot" commemorative jewellery?

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 10:37 PM (T4t+V)

184 White douchebag hipsters ruining a group of kids' carols/tree lighting. Yep, I'd probably show them exactly what I thought of them.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:37 PM (KuU4f)

185 This football game is about to make me riot. Sucks and Sucks Tech

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 28, 2014 10:37 PM (y2suD)

186 Those kids didn't sow shit. They don't deserve that bullshit from those assholes.
Posted by: BCochran1981

Well of course you've got that right, didn't mean it that way.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:38 PM (1Y+hH)

187 Those kids didn't sow shit. They don't deserve that bullshit from those assholes.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:36 PM (GEICT)


To a true progressive, those kids are just bumps in the road towards utopia!

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:38 PM (fL/7/)

188 I understand that radioactive bracelets are a popular 'homeophatic' thing among hipsters.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 28, 2014 10:38 PM (F2IAQ)

189 Well of course you've got that right, didn't mean it that way.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:38 PM (1Y+hH)



Sorry. I'm a little ramped up about this. I've got a 7 yr old and a 4 yr old. In fact, just tonight my 7 yr old had a dance performance at a tree lighting ceremony.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:39 PM (GEICT)

190 182, or as Mrs mouse did once - walked up to the lead idiot and sneezed, coughed, and then hugged it. Lead idiot freaked out as we all laughed.

Posted by: anon a mouse at November 28, 2014 10:39 PM (CY8ZR)

191 Here's a helpful tip for the Ferguson protestors from none other than Chris Rock.
youtube.com/watch?v=igQDvYOt iA
remove the space after the backslash.

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 28, 2014 10:40 PM (KlVdw)

192 Had I been at the Christmas tree lighting, I would have gone after one of the protesters. Not because I'm some tough guy or troublemaker or anything, but I know how I react in situations like that. I immediately justify to myself getting thisclose to getting physical, knowing that 90% of the time the guy will puss out. The other 10% of the time, I take my chances.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 10:40 PM (2cS/G)

193 HOW TO BUILD A PILLOW FART???

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 28, 2014 10:40 PM (s9AKD)

194 >>>Have you got any real country ham to go with the grits and eggs over easy?


Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:36 PM (fL/7/)

yes I do ... through the usb port with the some extra gravy.

Posted by: rich@gmu at November 28, 2014 10:41 PM (OjnNr)

195 At NYT: "The Pain of the Watermelon Joke" Scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel in a desperate search for things to be aggrieved about. Good God, isn't this 2014? You'd think it was 1914 reading editorials at NYT, WaPo, etc. I'm fed up to here with it.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2014 10:41 PM (mk9aG)

196
... if we could invent something to do with them other than encase them in glass and stick them in storage.

One possibility is to "burn" this "waste" in yet another reactor (perhaps a slightly different design). The waste is radioactive, and gets hot when enough of it is brought together (just like in current reactors), so the heat could be used to boil water to make steam to turn turbines ... just like in current reactors.

Posted by: Arbalest at November 28, 2014 10:41 PM (FlRtG)

197 I'd have obliged them. You fuck with my kids, I'm beating your ass.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:32 PM (GEICT)



Wurd. *drinks*

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:42 PM (6fyGz)

198 Posted by: rich@gmu at November 28, 2014 10:41 PM (OjnNr)

Thank you sir. Quite tasty too.

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:42 PM (fL/7/)

199 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:39 PM (GEICT)

Hey no problem, I understand. I was thinking in the general but didn't make that clear in my writing. And congratulations on your grandkids. I have 3 boys, 8, 14, 19. Oldest is at Ft. Bliss.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:43 PM (1Y+hH)

200 Wurd. *drinks*

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:42 PM (6fyGz)



*tosses back shot*

Slainte

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:43 PM (GEICT)

201 Radiation. You hear the biggest lies about it; half-baked gogglebox doo-gooders telling eeeverybody its baaad for you.
You could stand to have a hundred chest x-rays every year. You oghta' have 'em too.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at November 28, 2014 10:43 PM (t//F+)

202 57
Fuck the : Yes, all of them and a few more to.

Lets those douchebag cartel type people
choke on their oil.

Posted by: Truck Monkey

Ya beat me to it.
I hope their peasants revolt and burn the palaces down to the foundations.
This country should have been 80% nuclear power except for the fear mongers that preach death and 3 eyed frogs.

The ecoweenie bastards made it so prohibitively expensive that solar is close to being more economical. Now that Hairy Reed isn't the lead perhaps Nevada may get some glowing rods shoved right where they belong for long term storage, assholes.

Posted by: Gmac- Pondering...something involving rope and a tree at November 28, 2014 10:43 PM (baiNQ)

203 Catch-22: Heller was on a serious interview show once (Frost or Cavett), and was asked about the more remarkable people he'd met. He said without a doubt it was the officers of the Air Corps. Interviewer, taken aback, said b-b-but your book was all about how crazy that life was, no? And Heller dead-panned, "You do understand what the term 'fiction' means, don't you?"

Yucca Mtn: a real high percentage of "nuclear waste" is really mildly-exposed material like used handlers' suits, that could be more safely disposed by burning except for A Certain Agency. And used fuel rods can be re-charged, so to speak, in a kind of reactor whose name we aren't allowed to speak anymore. The whole problem has not been re-thought, in this country at least, since the 70's. We're still diddling ourselves into a paroxysm of fear with China Syndrome BS. Feels good.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 28, 2014 10:44 PM (LDGeY)

204 I admit: a few months back when I won a bit of money playing poker, I splurged on a copy of Bond 50, so now I have 23 Bond movies to see. Would like to watch one each couple of weeks, all in order.

Looking forward to "Thunderball" especially as from what I've heard, it was the first *really good* Bond flick.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:07 PM (fGApK)


I have them all except the Roger Moore episodes. I'll pick and choose my way through those. Some, are just awful, awful movies.

Although I love it, disagree with Thunderball. Goldfinger was the first great Bond flick.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizzaro World at November 28, 2014 10:44 PM (aGL9v)

205 And congratulations on your grandkids.


Heh.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:44 PM (KuU4f)

206 Hey no problem, I understand. I was thinking in the general but didn't make that clear in my writing. And congratulations on your grandkids. I have 3 boys, 8, 14, 19. Oldest is at Ft. Bliss.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:43 PM (1Y+hH)





Thank you, but ahhhhh...kids, not grandkids. *points at the 1981 in bcochran1981*

And congrats on yours.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:44 PM (GEICT)

207 ...The best for me was leaving. After 22 yrs with his family we don't even pretend anymore...

Omg, Molly k-- sorry you have to go thru that!

My first in-laws were like that (Good riddance to them)

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at November 28, 2014 10:44 PM (82lr7)

208 can you all see me? Have I been gone so long no one can see me? Or does no one care?


*weeps into her wine*

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:45 PM (KuU4f)

209 Vader beat Batman? Oh HELL no! And that sammich looks utterly disgusting. It's like someone hawked a massive loogie right in the middle.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 10:45 PM (mx5oN)

210 "progressive" my ass, these assholes are EVIL.

Posted by: seamrog at November 28, 2014 10:45 PM (Ga878)

211
Thanks, BC.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:46 PM (1Y+hH)

212 196. Good thought, but not really feasible.

The thing that makes a used up nuclear fuel-rod "spent", is that the heat-producing nuclear decay also is changing the isotope from one form to another.....

.... and that other form is usually unstable in all kinds of nasty ways that will kill you, and umpteen thousands of your closest friends.

No, not a mushroom cloud fireball....but in ways that control rods and cooling systems just don't agree with.

A "breeder reactor" produces a useable by-product, but the anti nukes really hate that one, big time. (just Bing-search "breeder reactor", and you'll see.)



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 28, 2014 10:46 PM (RzZOc)

213 Beelzobama.

Posted by: seamrog at November 28, 2014 10:46 PM (Ga878)

214 *weeps into her wine*

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:45 PM (KuU4f)



I see you DG!!!

Even though you were laughing at me, still love ya!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:46 PM (GEICT)

215 Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:42 PM (6fyGz)

The generational change is quite alarming. These kind of people would not have walked away from this event two generations ago, and NO ONE would have batted an eye!

Today, you'd be on the DOJ hit list for the rest of your life!

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:46 PM (fL/7/)

216 CAN ANYBODY HEAR HER???

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 28, 2014 10:47 PM (s9AKD)

217 Since we're talking about leftovers...

I saw this on the local news this morning:

http://tinyurl.com/p9kkdc3 'Thanksgiving on a roll.'
(A very creative way to deal with leftovers...)

Izzy's is a first-rate local sandwich chain:

http://www.izzys.com/

Their potato pancakes are incredibly good.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 28, 2014 10:47 PM (/mTq0)

218 I have 3 boys, 8, 14, 19. Oldest is at Ft. Bliss.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:43 PM (1Y+hH


My 19yr old is at Ft. Bliss. My 8 yr old is a girl who is snoring like a lumberjack right now.

Posted by: madamemayhem at November 28, 2014 10:47 PM (WPm3x)

219 Hey DG enjoy the wine don't cry into it

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 28, 2014 10:47 PM (y2suD)

220 Give

Me

More

Pie

Posted by: eman at November 28, 2014 10:47 PM (MQEz6)

221 Once upon a time people had a sense of propriety. Not anymore. Seattle is just the latest in a lengthening list of where the inmates have taken over the insane asylum.

Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind at November 28, 2014 10:47 PM (G83Pc)

222 OK, time for a TEAM DRINK.

All you have to do to join the TEAM is grab your DRINK.

Cheers, everybody!

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:47 PM (1Y+hH)

223 ...in a kind of reactor whose name we aren't allowed to speak anymore.
There's a reactor type called a Bl@zer???

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 10:47 PM (T4t+V)

224 So, Sabrina Chase is a "candied" ginger and she is covered in rum?

I'll be in my bunk, gripping my . . . soul . . . tightly so she doesn't make off with it.

Posted by: Sharkman at November 28, 2014 10:48 PM (w7rUl)

225 "progressive" my ass, these assholes are EVIL.

Posted by: seamrog at November 28, 2014 10:45 PM (Ga87

I thought those two words were synonyms?

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:48 PM (fL/7/)

226 Tree lighting ceremony. Bunch of 7-10 yr old kids on stage singing. Protestors surrounded the stage and shouted them down. Kids all crying.

Assholes. Why didn't the audience beat the shit out of them, that's what I want to know.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 10:48 PM (mx5oN)

227
Oh kids, not grandkids. I'll just sit over here, play some bass and be quiet for a while, carry on.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:49 PM (1Y+hH)

228 I admit: a few months back when I won a bit of money playing poker, I
splurged on a copy of Bond 50, so now I have 23 Bond movies to see.
Would like to watch one each couple of weeks, all in order.




Don't be ashamed. I own every Bond movie ever made. I enjoy the older ones (Connery, Moore, Lazenby, Dalton) for the camp. The newer ones with Daniel Craig for the adventure and drama. I never really have gotten into the Brosnan version, even though I own the movies he was in.




Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:50 PM (KuU4f)

229 227
Oh kids, not grandkids. I'll just sit over here, play some bass and be quiet for a while, carry on.
Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:49 PM (1Y+hH)

So you're all about that bass, eh?

Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 10:50 PM (mx5oN)

230 98 Annoying protestors being annoying tonight in NYC, Seattle, San Fran, LA.
Heh, can't think of many better places.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:12 PM (1Y+hH)

Now there's something to be thankful for. I hope they disrupt traffic for all the liberal douchebags.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 28, 2014 10:50 PM (A/e8X)

231 How about "Hands up; Don't shoot" commemorative jewellery?

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 10:37 PM (T4t+V)


This idea has merit.

CJN...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:50 PM (6fyGz)

232 The Star Wars trailer wasn't as stupid as the Jurassic World trailer, but that's probably damning with faint praise.

Still, SoccerBot *almost* won my heart over.

Posted by: Thrawn at November 28, 2014 10:51 PM (Oo0Xc)

233 I see you DG!!!



Even though you were laughing at me, still love ya!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:46 PM (GEICT)


Thanks, kiddo. I wasn't laughing at you, actually. Laughing at Meremortal who misunderstood. But in the nicest way, I swear.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:51 PM (KuU4f)

234 226 Tree lighting ceremony. Bunch of 7-10 yr old kids on stage singing. Protestors surrounded the stage and shouted them down. Kids all crying.

Assholes. Why didn't the audience beat the shit out of them, that's what I want to know.
Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 10:48 PM (mx5oN)


Yup.

Knock out some teeth and then listen to the kids sing.

Posted by: eman at November 28, 2014 10:51 PM (MQEz6)

235 "Nothing demoralizes like disdain, derision and disrespect.



So? Demoralize the living hell out of 'em."
---------------------

Absolutely.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at November 28, 2014 10:51 PM (82lr7)

236 Dangergirl and 98Z, thanks! :-)

Also thanks to anyone else I missed.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 28, 2014 10:51 PM (fGApK)

237 I'm going to ask this on tomorrow night's ONT as well, but I figured I'd start tonight: Which of you morons was at a 50th birthday party this evening for a guy who shares his name with a literary fence painter?

I'm being absolutely serious. One of the trivia questions at the party was, 'What's a merkin?' And all I could think of was the thread a few weeks ago that dissolved into a very explicit description of merkins. So, which one of you thought I would be a good idea to ask that question?!

Wouldn't it be weird to discover that I knew one of the Morons in meatspace, and neither of us knew it?

*hums Twilight Zone theme song*

Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at November 28, 2014 10:51 PM (ThxKk)

238 Tree's Up, Don't Hoot!

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 10:52 PM (2cS/G)

239 232 The Star Wars trailer wasn't as stupid as the Jurassic World trailer, but that's probably damning with faint praise.

Still, SoccerBot *almost* won my heart over.
Posted by: Thrawn at November 28, 2014 10:51 PM (Oo0Xc)

Don't get too attached. It spends half the movie throwing itself to the ground and faking malfunctions.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 10:52 PM (mx5oN)

240 So you're all about that bass, eh?
Posted by: Insomniac

Yeah, all about it. They are sweet things, they rarely talk back and are usually open to correction when they do.

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:52 PM (1Y+hH)

241 So I have sixteen days in December until my next vacation. Which is roughly twelve actual days of work. I love this time of year. And I love that I will be able to see my mom and dad for the first time this year.


*raises glass*


to the holidays!

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:53 PM (KuU4f)

242 Jim, that"kind of reactor whose name we aren't allowed to speak anymore" IS a Breeder Reactor. There was a runaway at one once (IIRC 1965), but that was a fast breeder; there are other ways to skin that cat.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 28, 2014 10:53 PM (LDGeY)

243 How about "Hands up; Don't shoot" commemorative jewellery?


Order now and get your free Gentle Giant broach!

Posted by: QVC at November 28, 2014 10:53 PM (Dwehj)

244 232 The Star Wars trailer wasn't as stupid as the Jurassic World trailer, but that's probably damning with faint praise.

Still, SoccerBot *almost* won my heart over.
Posted by: Thrawn at November 28, 2014 10:51 PM (Oo0Xc)


Meesa Soccerbot!

Meesa fix your hyperdrive!

Posted by: eman at November 28, 2014 10:53 PM (MQEz6)

245 Sadly, the persecution of those young believers singing those songs was promised.

I never thought that I, or my children, would live in these times.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 10:53 PM (4Mv1T)

246 Only you can prevent crossfires.

Posted by: smokey da bear at November 28, 2014 10:54 PM (T4t+V)

247 Yeah, all about it. They are sweet things, they rarely talk back and are usually open to correction when they do.

Heh. I used to play guitar and some bass as well.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 10:54 PM (mx5oN)

248 Friday Night ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/538491910240079872

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/538497659448082432

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/538498206402113539

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/538498606370914304

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/538499085997989889

Posted by: kbdabear at November 28, 2014 10:54 PM (GrXXa)

249 Heh, can't think of many better places.

Posted by: Meremortal

I can, Glacier Park. -10, 30 knot wind, 2 feet of fresh snow tonight. We could see how dedicated they are to the cause of St Swisher.

Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind at November 28, 2014 10:54 PM (G83Pc)

250 I never thought that I, or my children, would live in these times.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 10:53 PM (4Mv1T)


Nor I, my friend. Nor I.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:54 PM (KuU4f)

251 And used fuel rods can be re-charged, so to speak,
in a kind of reactor whose name we aren't allowed to speak anymore. The
whole problem has not been re-thought, in this country at least, since
the 70's. We're still diddling ourselves into a paroxysm of fear with
China Syndrome BS. Feels good.


Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 28, 2014 10:44 PM (LDGeY)



As I understand at present it's only like 5 percent of the used fuel rods that cannot be reprocessed into new fuel rods.


I'll be in my bunk, gripping my . . . soul . . . tightly so she doesn't make off with it.

Posted by: Sharkman at November 28, 2014 10:48 PM (w7rUl)



Candied ginger???? She can have my soul, I'm not doing anything with it anyway.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:55 PM (6fyGz)

252 I won the fucking lottery the day I was born. Gives me the cold sweats when I think about it.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at November 28, 2014 10:23 PM (4ckfx)

Yes, we are so fortunate. Which is why those gdamned stupid douches in Seattle disgust me so much.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 28, 2014 10:55 PM (+XMAD)

253 Thanks, kiddo. I wasn't laughing at you, actually. Laughing at Meremortal who misunderstood. But in the nicest way, I swear.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:51 PM (KuU4f)



Kiddo?????

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:55 PM (GEICT)

254 Scientific Fact ONT Compliance Pic

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/538362847290748928

Posted by: kbdabear at November 28, 2014 10:55 PM (GrXXa)

255 Don't be ashamed. I own every Bond movie ever made. I enjoy the older ones (Connery, Moore, Lazenby, Dalton) for the camp. The newer ones with Daniel Craig for the adventure and drama. I never really have gotten into the Brosnan version, even though I own the movies he was in.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:50 PM (KuU4f)

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

I have 'em all too. The Brosnan ones are well done, and "Goldeneye" is quite good, but he could have been given better stories.
If you want a good Brosnan spy movie, try "The November Man" which just came out on disc. He plays a retired CIA operative who comes out of retirement for one more mission. The wife and I enjoyed it a bunch.

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 28, 2014 10:56 PM (KlVdw)

256 The new Star Wars Trailer for those who haven't seen it.
https://amishbabymachine.wordpress.com/2014/11/28/new-star-wars-trailer/

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 10:56 PM (jucos)

257 Knock out some teeth and then listen to the kids sing.

Posted by: eman at November 28, 2014 10:51 PM (MQEz6)


You could provide a rhythm accompaniment to "Little Drummer Boy" by bonking protesters on the head with night sticks. Instead of the terribly twee pa-rum-pa-pa-pum, you could provide a "ba-donk-a conk-conk". Would make for a fine rendition.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 28, 2014 10:56 PM (tvB15)

258 Assholes. Why didn't the audience beat the shit out of them, that's what I want to know.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 10:48 PM (mx5oN)

It's Seattle, Jake!

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 10:56 PM (fL/7/)

259 Kiddo?????

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:55 PM (GEICT)


Well, you are five years younger than me. Uh. Oh, I think I'll have another drink. But let me yank this foot out of my mouth first.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:57 PM (KuU4f)

260
*tunes*



Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 10:57 PM (1Y+hH)

261 The best Bond movies have been emotionally anchored, which runs contrary to the concept and the character.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Casino Royale deliver a horrible gut-punch on scale with Empire Strikes Back. These are my favorite movies for whatever reason. From Russia With Love and Skyfall have sweet-and-sour nostalgic themes and are very good.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 28, 2014 10:57 PM (+4uXG)

262 You could provide a rhythm accompaniment to "Little Drummer Boy" by bonking protesters on the head with night sticks. Instead of the terribly twee pa-rum-pa-pa-pum, you could provide a "ba-donk-a conk-conk". Would make for a fine rendition.

Protestors make me sick
Ba donk a conk conk
I have some ass to kick
Ba donk a conk conk

Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 10:57 PM (mx5oN)

263 Posted by: kbdabear at November 28, 2014 10:54 PM (GrXXa)



I must say, I like the way you do leftovers.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:57 PM (6fyGz)

264 Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 10:52 PM (mx5oN)

Posted by: eman at November 28, 2014 10:53 PM (MQEz6)

Thanks for trying to ruin SoccerBot for me, guys.

50 bucks says that the movie is going to start on Tatooine. What the hell is it with that planet? It must be the center of SW's universe.

Posted by: Thrawn at November 28, 2014 10:58 PM (Oo0Xc)

265 Well, you are five years younger than me. Uh. Oh, I think I'll have another drink. But let me yank this foot out of my mouth first.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:57 PM (KuU4f)



A whole 5 years, huh?

Lol.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:58 PM (GEICT)

266 B you were borned in 1981? Damn... I am old.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 10:58 PM (jucos)

267 If you want a good Brosnan spy movie, try "The
November Man" which just came out on disc. He plays a retired CIA
operative who comes out of retirement for one more mission. The wife and
I enjoyed it a bunch.

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 28, 2014 10:56 PM (KlVdw)


Thanks! We have a copy of it, just haven't gotten around to watching it yet. Maybe tomorrow night.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:58 PM (KuU4f)

268 Can't we compromise? Light a protestor for Christmas and everybody wins.

Posted by: t-bird at November 28, 2014 10:58 PM (FcR7P)

269 That Frederick Wilson video is exactly right, and it's why the Left will destroy him.

Posted by: --- at November 28, 2014 10:58 PM (MMC8r)

270 Kiddo?????



Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:55 PM (GEICT)

Well,
you are five years younger than me. Uh. Oh, I think I'll have another
drink. But let me yank this foot out of my mouth first.


Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:57 PM (KuU4f)


Relax kid, have another drink.

(I was three years away from graduating high school in 1981, and I just know I'm stepping on someones lawn right now)

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:59 PM (6fyGz)

271 A whole 5 years, huh?



Lol.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:58 PM (GEICT)



Yeah, yeah. I'm famous for being a doofus. So sue me.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 10:59 PM (KuU4f)

272 Someone should have pissed on those people laying all over the mall floor

Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 28, 2014 10:59 PM (dULJN)

273
268 Can't we compromise? Light a protestor for Christmas and everybody wins.

Posted by: t-bird at November 28, 2014 10:58

That's one carbon footprint I would enjoy

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (y2suD)

274 The Anarcho-socialists in Seattle are doing it wrong

Remember: "While you're out there smashing the state, don't forget to keep a smile on your lips and a song in your heart!"

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (t//F+)

275 G'evening CDR_M and all y'all!



I've had some vodka-infused watermelons but doing that to a turkey is new and a little bit disturbing.....although adding vodka to anything usually makes it better/more interesting.....

Posted by: NC Ref at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (Myqtp)

276 Oh wait...BC you are seven years younger than me....kiddo. I cannot add. Doofus that I am.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (KuU4f)

277 A whole 5 years, huh?



Lol.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 10:58 PM (GEICT)



*Takes Cochran out to the woodshed*

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (64d6n)

278 272 Someone should have pissed on those people laying all over the mall floor
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 28, 2014 10:59 PM (dULJN)

Garden sprayer filled with kerosene.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (mx5oN)

279 I graduated High School in 1981

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (jucos)

280 I enjoy pretty much every Bond film.

It used to be we'd get a marathon on television over Thanksgiving or Christmas, but I haven't seen one for a few years now.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (oFCZn)

281 Btw, are we talking @ a good wine or some Aussie plonk?
NTTAWWT

Posted by: anon a mouse at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (CY8ZR)

282 266 B you were borned in 1981? Damn... I am old.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 10:58 PM (judos)



Lol. Yup. That is indeed what the 1981 in my nic means.


(I was three years away from graduating high school in 1981, and I just know I'm stepping on someones lawn right now)

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 10:59 PM (6fyGz)



You're not too old to almost get me in a bar fight.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (GEICT)

283 I wonder if the little people out there are going to get annoyed at how their local liberal mayors put out the welcome mat for these commie mall protesters. Eventually, lib provocateurs need to be held accountable.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at November 28, 2014 11:01 PM (kso21)

284 *Takes Cochran out to the woodshed*

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (64d6n)



Ooooo....I don't think my Mrs or your Mr would like that.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:01 PM (GEICT)

285 Assholes. Why didn't the audience beat the shit out of them, that's what I want to know.
Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 10:48 PM (mx5oN)

Because it was in Seattle and so the parents are probably squishy libs.

If it weren't for the kids, I'd enjoy the spectacle of squishy libs confronted by the insane hard left. To the deranged protesters those white libs are no different than Tea Partiers.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 28, 2014 11:02 PM (+XMAD)

286 279,
Get off my (looks around for Vic) lawn!

Posted by: anon a mouse at November 28, 2014 11:02 PM (CY8ZR)

287 You're not too old to almost get me in a bar fight.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (GEICT)


He wears a kilt. How about you?

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:02 PM (64d6n)

288 Hellllllllloooooooooo, Horde!

CW Jr and I finished off the leftovers tonight. Not much since I was just cooking for two. Been gaming all day, avoiding the news and just enjoying myself.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:02 PM (rJUlF)

289 279 I graduated High School in 1981
Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (jucos)

Would you mind letting me know where your lawn is, so I can give it a wide berth? Thanks.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 11:02 PM (mx5oN)

290 Who knew this was the kindergarten ONT?

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:02 PM (4Mv1T)

291 289

I graduated in 1984. You staying away from my lawn , too?

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:03 PM (rJUlF)

292 You're not too old to almost get me in a bar fight.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (GEICT)



Hell no, never too old for that.

BTW, I have the new kilt in the Navy tartan on order. For what it's worth.

http://sportkilt.com/product/1391/US-Navy-Original-Sport-Kilt.html

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:03 PM (6fyGz)

293 285 Assholes. Why didn't the audience beat the shit out of them, that's what I want to know.
Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 10:48 PM (mx5oN)

Because it was in Seattle and so the parents are probably squishy libs.

If it weren't for the kids, I'd enjoy the spectacle of squishy libs confronted by the insane hard left. To the deranged protesters those white libs are no different than Tea Partiers.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 28, 2014 11:02 PM (+XMAD)

You're probably right. Where I come from we would have picked up the folding chairs and gone WWE.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 11:03 PM (mx5oN)

294 Pussies picking on children. Chaps my hide

Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 28, 2014 11:03 PM (dULJN)

295 291 289

I graduated in 1984. You staying away from my lawn , too?
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:03 PM (rJUlF)

Yes. Yes I am.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 11:04 PM (mx5oN)

296 Heh. I'm 40 and feel like a baby here.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:04 PM (KuU4f)

297 Bunch of friggen kid4s.

Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind at November 28, 2014 11:04 PM (G83Pc)

298 Hey B, the boy is leaving Flagler next year for either FL State of U of Maryland. The school is a bit too small and strict for him. Wouldn't be sad if he was a Terrapin next year. I miss the kid.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 11:04 PM (jucos)

299 He wears a kilt. How about you?


Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:02 PM (64d6n)


They do have an Irish tartan. Just sayin'...


http://sportkilt.com/product/761/All-Ireland-Original-Sport-Kilt.html

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:05 PM (6fyGz)

300 $hit. By the eighties I was already buying for the first ex...

Posted by: anon a mouse at November 28, 2014 11:05 PM (CY8ZR)

301 I agree the protestors want violence. Right thinking people should just give them their crap back. point and laugh, maybe spit, toss some urine balloons at them when kids or bystanders are not in the splash zone.


I think the saddest thing I saw was a picture from the Aug. Ferguson mess of some armed business owners who saved their business reposted after the verdict and wondering if the DOJ goons had shut them down this week and the business had now been destroyed.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 28, 2014 11:05 PM (7w/kf)

302 297 Bunch of friggen kid4s.
Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind at November 28, 2014 11:04 PM (G83Pc)

Whatever you say, Gramps.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 11:06 PM (mx5oN)

303 I'm 43, I consider myself "young", but I really have no objective basis for that, I just don't feel like I thought a guy in his mid-forties would feel.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 11:06 PM (2cS/G)

304 Evening Horde! Pausing my drinking long enough to say today I officially join the ranks of Senior Citizen.


Now y'all get off my lawn.

Posted by: tbodie at November 28, 2014 11:06 PM (cb/hk)

305 Let's light up a rioter everyday from now through Little Christmas in January. We should start in Ferguson.

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:06 PM (sj3Ax)

306 298 Hey B, the boy is leaving Flagler next year for either FL State of U of Maryland. The school is a bit too small and strict for him. Wouldn't be sad if he was a Terrapin next year. I miss the kid.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 11:04 PM (judos)



Really? Things must have changed since I was there. I mean, there was no inter-dorm visitation and a dry campus (the first was easily gotten around and the second was ignored).

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:07 PM (GEICT)

307 Evening Horde! Pausing my drinking long enough to say today I officially join the ranks of Senior Citizen.


Now y'all get off my lawn.
Posted by: tbodie
--------------------------

*cheers*

I'm not there yet, but damn close.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:07 PM (4Mv1T)

308 Yes. Yes I am.
Posted by: Insomniac at November 28, 2014 11:04 PM (mx5oN)


Eh. I'm antisocial anyway.

I just don't feel like I thought a guy in his mid-forties would feel.

I thought 48 would be different than this, too. Not long ago, my mom told me she still feels young in her mind. It's just that her body disagrees.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (rJUlF)

309 I remember the last fight i was in. Virginia Beach in 1989. Yes, there were drinks involved. I used to road rage a lot too when I prowled the I 95 corridor. I will take every opportunity to avoid a fight now. Not because I am afraid, but because it is just too much work, and I no longer care about much to fight about except for my kids.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (jucos)

310 So regarding the Seattle snowflakes: okay, maybe they don't get the beatdown they so richly deserve, because we live in a post-industrial PoMo world and people don't get into donnybrooks anymore (alas)... but couldn't people have formed their own chain, crowded around them, and pushed them back? Why are we so passive in the face of douchebaggery?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (QBm1P)

311 By the way, if any of you feel so inclined to send good thoughts to our boy, he should be passing his ATC Navy classes in a few weeks and will be taking the E6 exam in September. He has done wonderfully in the past three years and has nothing but (hopefully) great things ahead of him.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (KuU4f)

312 *cheers !*

g'night all, maybe seeya on the tail end of this thread.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (go6ud)

313 $hit. By the eighties I was already buying for the first ex...

Posted by: anon a mouse at November 28, 2014 11:05 PM (CY8ZR)


By the end of the eighties I was already paying the first one off...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (6fyGz)

314 Not a grandpa. I married someone considerably, uhm, shall we say younger than myself. My oldest is still in high school.

Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (G83Pc)

315 Let's light up a rioter everyday from now through Little Christmas in January.




Seconded.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (zMd8i)

316 Posted by: Aslan's Girl at November 28, 2014 10:33 PM (nvq3r) -

hope you are feeling better.

Posted by: rich@gmu at November 28, 2014 11:09 PM (OjnNr)

317 They do have an Irish tartan. Just sayin'...

http://sportkilt.com/product/761/All-Ireland-Original-Sport-Kilt.html

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:05 PM (6fyGz)



If anyone ever convinces me to be in a kilt, it'll be in my Clan's colors.

http://tinyurl.com/k6ho4bk

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:09 PM (GEICT)

318 304, welcome. When you turn the lights off, leave the nightlight in the bathroom.
It's a good thing.
Trust me on that.

Posted by: anon a mouse at November 28, 2014 11:09 PM (CY8ZR)

319 311

Congrats, DangerGirl!

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:09 PM (rJUlF)

320 "The big losers from falling oil prices
include several countries that are not friends of the US and its allies,
such as Venezuela, Iran, and Russia. ... Even at $75 or $80 a barrel, these
governments will have a difficult time financing the populist programs
that they need to maintain public support."

Any president who actually, you know...loves America...would get a big fat woody at this news.

Yeah....so I'm cranky. What of it?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:09 PM (Zu3d9)

321 Aaaaagh! I keep getting booted from WoW!

First-world problem, I know. Grateful though that it's far-and-away the worst thing to happen this weekend.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 28, 2014 11:09 PM (GDulk)

322 I was born when Bush 41 was president.

*stands on your lawn*

Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at November 28, 2014 11:09 PM (ThxKk)

323 Thanks TR. Hope you make it to SR Citizen status.

Posted by: tbodie at November 28, 2014 11:10 PM (cb/hk)

324
By the way, if any of you feel so inclined to send good thoughts to our
boy, he should be passing his ATC Navy classes in a few weeks and will
be taking the E6 exam in September. He has done wonderfully in the past
three years and has nothing but (hopefully) great things ahead of him.


Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (KuU4f)



Yay! Best wishes and Go Navy, Beat Army!

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:11 PM (64d6n)

325
Congrats, DangerGirl!

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:09 PM (rJUlF)


TY, CW! I hope you are recovering well from your surgery!

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:11 PM (KuU4f)

326 322 I was born when Bush 41 was president.

*stands on your lawn*
Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at November 28, 2014 11:09 PM (ThxKk)



*ahem*

*turns hose on you*

Off my lawn.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:11 PM (GEICT)

327 ny president who actually, you know...loves America...would get a big fat woody at this news.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
---------------------------

One has to have a weenie to get a woody

Know what I'm sayin'?

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:11 PM (4Mv1T)

328 Polliwog, I feel your pain. It's been happening with me on Marvel Heroes.

So I went to Champions Online today, since hardly anyone plays that anymore.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:11 PM (rJUlF)

329 I was born when Bush 41 was president.

*stands on your lawn*


*blink* Are you here to sing at the tree lighting?

Posted by: t-bird at November 28, 2014 11:11 PM (FcR7P)

330 I was born when Bush 41 was president.

*stands on your lawn*


Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at November 28, 2014 11:09 PM (ThxKk)



*Smackitysmacksmacksmack*

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:11 PM (64d6n)

331 Yay! Best wishes and Go Navy, Beat Army!

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:11 PM (64d6n)



THIS

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:12 PM (GEICT)

332 Yay! Best wishes and Go Navy, Beat Army!


Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:11 PM (64d6n)


Thanks Vendette! My husband (ex-Army) even roots for Navy these days because of the boy!

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:12 PM (KuU4f)

333 I graduated HS in 1976, and am the son of a career Nuclear Submariner. Have a Tiger Cruise logged in the (now decommissioned) Scamp, and I'm even prouder of the one on the Gudgeon, a Guppy Class diesel-electric boat. Eons and eons ago.

Stringer....I'd mentioned the Breeder Reactor in my posts. It was fellow moron who didn't want to mention it, not me.

While I don't know all the specific isotope numbers n' weights, and what they all do in physicsland, I do grok the concepts involved, as well as the hazards and benefits therein.

The scale falls heavily on the side of benefits, to anyone not swayed by Jane Fonda's tribute to scientific ignorance.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 28, 2014 11:12 PM (RzZOc)

334 I believe the last real fight I was in was 2001, had a few shoving matches since, almost beat the shit out of some guy in Vegas for physically moving my wife out of what he considered his personal photograph zone. On the middle of one of those pedestrian bridges that crosses the main drag. If the guys sons/nephews/whatever weren't there to beg forgiveness and stand between us, I might have thrown his sorry ass over.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 11:12 PM (2cS/G)

335 325

Doing well, thanks! I hope when I go back to the doctor Monday, he gives me the all clear to return to work full-time.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:12 PM (rJUlF)

336 Yeah, this was truly a Thanksgiving to remember. Bitches.

Posted by: Ray Rice at November 28, 2014 11:12 PM (lG2E3)

337
*Line from War Pigs, Cake version*

Posted by: Meremortal at November 28, 2014 11:12 PM (1Y+hH)

338 322 I was born when Bush 41 was president.

*stands on your lawn*
Posted by: right wing whippersnapper

I have a pair of boots older than you.

Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind at November 28, 2014 11:12 PM (G83Pc)

339 I thought 48 would be different than this, too. Not
long ago, my mom told me she still feels young in her mind. It's just
that her body disagrees.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (rJUlF)




Yeah, me too. If I had known I was gonna live this long, etc. etc. It's not so much the age as the mileage.

I remember the last fight i was in. Virginia Beach
in 1989.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (jucos)




Hey...I was IN VaBch in 89, freshly divorced in fact. Do I know you?

Actually, come to think of it, I spent the majority of 89 in J-ville, on the Forrestal.


he should be passing his ATC Navy classes in a few
weeks and will be taking the E6 exam in September. He has done
wonderfully in the past three years and has nothing but (hopefully)
great things ahead of him.


Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (KuU4f)



Outstanding! Fat old retired squid says "Well done shipmate."

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:13 PM (6fyGz)

340 >>>290 Who knew this was the kindergarten ONT?

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:02 PM (4Mv1T)

lol ...

Posted by: rich@gmu at November 28, 2014 11:13 PM (OjnNr)

341 I've, uh, never been in a fight as an adult.


Does this mean I have to turn in my Moron card?

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:13 PM (rJUlF)

342 Know what I'm sayin'?

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:11 PM (4Mv1T)

All too well.

Tonight I have had my fill of 21st century America.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:13 PM (Zu3d9)

343 Bush 41 was the first President I ever voted for (against Clinton, who won, motherfucker).


It's been pretty much all downhill since then.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:13 PM (KuU4f)

344 Cheers! Drink Time Now!
To The Horde, Ace & Cobs!

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:13 PM (sj3Ax)

345 I was born when Bush 41 was president.

*stands on your lawn*


Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at November 28, 2014 11:09 PM (ThxKk)



*Smackitysmacksmacksmack*
Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:11 PM (64d6n)





*What Vendette said*

Posted by: tbodie at November 28, 2014 11:14 PM (cb/hk)

346 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:00 PM (GEICT)

Buncha puppies!

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 11:14 PM (fL/7/)

347 320: EarLeader probably wants to bail Venezuela out. The RINOs better shut it down if he tries.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 28, 2014 11:14 PM (7w/kf)

348 So Ferguson protesters shut down a hockey game?

Dana Loesch @DLoesch
I have family stuck in Scottrade Center at Blues game. They say it's on lockdown because of Ferguson protesters.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 28, 2014 11:14 PM (zwdxl)

349 Gone With the Wind is a long movie.

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:15 PM (64d6n)

350 322 I was born when Bush 41 was president.
*********
I think the underpants I have on right now are older than you.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 11:15 PM (jucos)

351 A cat just sneezed on the back of my head. :/

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:15 PM (KuU4f)

352 Posted by: Jim at November 28, 2014 11:12 PM (RzZOc)

I got to tour the Scamp when she was in port @ Naha in '63 or so.

Posted by: BignJames at November 28, 2014 11:15 PM (HtUkt)

353 I have a pair of boots older than you.

Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind at November 28, 2014 11:12 PM (G83Pc)
That's okay, I do, too. 'Course, I inherited them from my mother; I didn't buy them.

Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at November 28, 2014 11:15 PM (ThxKk)

354 Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (jucos)

My current "me" is slightly embarrassed by the past "me."

Although...that last fight? He desperately needed the beating he got. I have independent verification of that.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:15 PM (Zu3d9)

355 The last guy I punched was in 1974. He was a good friend, but he threw a beer in my face at a keg party, just for laughs.

Who knew my right arm would park my fist in his mouth while I just watched?

Oops.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:16 PM (4Mv1T)

356 Alex the Chick runs USN exams?

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 11:16 PM (T4t+V)

357 Gone With the Wind is a long movie.


Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:15 PM (64d6n)


Oh goodness, yes. I just watched it again a few months ago. I want to smack Scarlett throughout, but that is just me.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:16 PM (KuU4f)

358 Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at November 28, 2014 11:15 PM (ThxKk)

Nicely done.

But you're still getting off my lawn.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:16 PM (Zu3d9)

359 If anyone ever convinces me to be in a kilt, it'll be in my Clan's colors.



http://tinyurl.com/k6ho4bk

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:09 PM (GEICT)




nice...the one I'm getting IS in my clan's colors.


Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:17 PM (6fyGz)

360 So Ferguson protesters shut down a hockey game?



Dana Loesch @DLoesch

I have family stuck in Scottrade Center at Blues game. They say it's on lockdown because of Ferguson protesters.



Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 28, 2014 11:14 PM (zwdxl)



The game is long over.

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:17 PM (64d6n)

361
Arrghhhhhhhh.... I am watching this Va - Va Tech game and espn keeps doing this promotion for a game tomorrow and playing this idiotic portion of this idiotic song and its driving me nuts.

good game, I'll have to turn off sound, but crap can't the f'ing producers notice that.

Otherwise, I'm good, had to rant.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 28, 2014 11:17 PM (NtzGn)

362 Vendette,
Is GWTW on now? I saw commercial on AMC Sunday that it would be on this week but I never looked at TV Guide & it was on Wednesday.

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:18 PM (sj3Ax)

363 It really sucks to lose a fight. I have lost a few. I once called some kid out at his house (it was 2 blocks away from mine) and when the fight was turning in my favor Geoff's big brother came out of the house and knocked my ass out. Thank goodness he didn't continue to pummel me, he could have done real damage. I was out cold.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 11:18 PM (jucos)

364 Cochran, I like your clan tartan better than mine (Wallace). What a borefest.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:18 PM (KuU4f)

365 Vendette,

Is GWTW on now? I saw commercial on AMC Sunday that it would be on
this week but I never looked at TV Guide it was on Wednesday.

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:18 PM (sj3Ax)


Nope, we're watching it on the DVR.

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:19 PM (64d6n)

366 252 -- Donna -- Hmm... Seattle... isn't the place where they have that statue of Lenin?

Wanna retaliate for them being assholes?

Borrow a plasma cutter, and make Lenin's head disappear.

That would put fleas their panties...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 28, 2014 11:19 PM (/mTq0)

367
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 28, 2014 09:58 PM (GDulk) -

they are called firm states and run the gamut from Norway to Venezuela (one could argue that Alaska is one and ND will become one ...) fwiw

Posted by: rich@gmu at November 28, 2014 11:19 PM (OjnNr)

368 Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at November 28, 2014 11:18 PM (jucos)

Anyone who has never lost a fight is a bully.

[That sounds good and may even be true]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:19 PM (Zu3d9)

369 Cheers! Drink Time Now!

To The Horde, Ace Cobs!

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:13 PM (sj3Ax)



oh shit...waitaminute....*pours another drink* OK, ready!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:19 PM (6fyGz)

370 It is really nice to see you all. My new position at work doesn't give me much opportunity to fuck off at work, so I can't come here often.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:20 PM (KuU4f)

371 By the way, if any of you feel so inclined to
send good thoughts to our boy, he should be
passing his ATC Navy classes in a few weeks and
will be taking the E6 exam in September.



Congrats DG.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2014 11:20 PM (zMd8i)

372 357 Gone With the Wind is a long movie.


Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:15 PM (64d6n)

Oh goodness, yes. I just watched it again a few months ago. I want to smack Scarlett throughout, but that is just me.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:16 PM (KuU4f)



I repeat what I told Vendette earlier, I'd hammer it.

http://tinypic.com/r/23phtz/8

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:20 PM (GEICT)

373 366 -- Any 'rons in Seattle know where a plasma cutter can be had?

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 28, 2014 11:20 PM (/mTq0)

374 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:20 PM (GEICT)

Oh, HELL yes.

That is smokin' hot.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:21 PM (Zu3d9)

375 Fournier gotta Fournier.
He's boycotting the NFL cause of Ray Rice.
And he's better than you.

Ron Fournier @ron_fournier 7h
The #NFL, the players' union and sponsors think we'll put up with anything for love of game. With me, they were almost right. No more.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 28, 2014 11:21 PM (zwdxl)

376 Enjoy the evening folks, I am done!

Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 11:21 PM (fL/7/)

377 Irish kilts are usually plain saffron and not tartan.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 11:21 PM (T4t+V)

378 The game is long over.

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:17 PM (64d6n)



That tweet from DLoesch is from a while ago.


Good to see you too, DG!!!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:21 PM (GEICT)

379
I repeat what I told Vendette earlier, I'd hammer it.



http://tinypic.com/r/23phtz/8

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:20 PM (GEICT)



Like, with an actual hammer? Because you'd have to duct tape that mouth shut before anything else could happen.

Fiddle dee dee!!!!

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:21 PM (KuU4f)

380 If we're counting my fights with my older brother, I probably lost the first 200 fights of my lifetime. Eventually, I caught up to him a bit, and put a few beatings on him,but he's still probably 200-5 against me.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 11:22 PM (2cS/G)

381 *drink*

Y'all ready to go?

Posted by: tbodie at November 28, 2014 11:22 PM (cb/hk)

382 GGE,
Ready now??
Cheers!!

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:22 PM (sj3Ax)

383 377 Irish kilts are usually plain saffron and not tartan.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 11:21 PM (T4t+V)


Clan Cochrane has it's roots in Scotland, as do many Irish clans.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:22 PM (GEICT)

384 373 366 -- Any 'rons in Seattle know where a plasma cutter can be had?
Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 28, 2014 11:20 PM (/mTq0)
--
Or cut Vlad Ilyitch off his base and replace him with a statue of Big Boy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 28, 2014 11:22 PM (QBm1P)

385 Good night, Hrothgar!

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:23 PM (64d6n)

386 291 289

I graduated in 1984. You staying away from my lawn , too?
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014

Fucking kids

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 28, 2014 11:23 PM (y2suD)

387 Anyone who has never lost a fight is a bully.

[That sounds good and may even be true]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
------------------------

I picked a fight with the HS JV QB one Friday night for a certain indiscretion. Y'all can translate.

He couldn't fight, but he could damn sure throw a football. And after having his nose and lip bloodied by a skinny me, decided to try his hand at throwing a punch back. It only took one.

I decided to shake hands and be nice.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:24 PM (4Mv1T)

388 374 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:20 PM (GEICT)

Oh, HELL yes.

That is smokin' hot.


Those eyes...damn.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:24 PM (rJUlF)

389 Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 11:22 PM (2cS/G)

Eventually he will be in a hospital bed. That is a perfect time to begin to even up the score.

Even better if he is sedated and you can disavow all knowledge of the event.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:24 PM (Zu3d9)

390 What's up Bannion?! I swear I'm gonna make it to the next meet up come hell or high water.
Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 09:58 PM (93D1V)
I'll believe it when I see it. The last excuse was 2 tons of mulch.
Plan on 3d week of June 2015.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2014 10:00 PM

All you gold card AOS members w/ your fancy MoMees.

Us low rate cardboard Midwesterners never seem to get anything together. Tho Mindy was talking about a Chicago meetup this week.

I knew I couldn't make so didn't pursue it. Did it happen?

Posted by: Farmer at November 28, 2014 11:24 PM (o/90i)

391 Cochran, I like your clan tartan better than mine (Wallace). What a borefest.


Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:18 PM (KuU4f)




hmmmm....



http://tinyurl.com/m8kzhyg

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:24 PM (6fyGz)

392 Was going thru the channels on tv recently and noticed something... odd. An episode of "inside the actors studio" was on which featured... Tina Fey. I thought- "WTF? Who the hell is she that she gets the suck up treatment on that show?" I thought you actually had to, you know, DO something for that. That was weird. Last night it happened again. Was watching "pioneers of television" and guess who shows up? Tina Fey. Tina fucking Fey is a "pioneer" of television? What the fuck? That unfunny hack? Done sweet fuck all except stink up the joint on a couple of tv shows and movies. Something stinks.

Posted by: otho at November 28, 2014 11:24 PM (tBSrv)

393 "50 bucks says that the movie is going to start on Tatooine. What the hell is it with that planet? It must be the center of SW's universe. "
Star Wars and Empire imply a fictional landscape that expands faster than it is filled. Alec Guiness mentioning the Clone wars was more of a tease than a promise.
It's the reason that the guy that made Samurai Jack (each show had as much concept work as any sci-fi pilot) did so well with the material.
Star Trek Into Darkness took all the idioms of that show and turned them up to 11. The die-hard fans might enjoy Kirk being extra Kirky and Spock being extra Spocky, but a stranger to the series might know better.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 28, 2014 11:25 PM (+4uXG)

394 Alright Carol, inquiring minds want to know; watcha drinking?

Posted by: tbodie at November 28, 2014 11:25 PM (cb/hk)

395 Us low rate cardboard Midwesterners never seem to get anything together.

Neither can any of us in rural by-god Oklahoma.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:25 PM (rJUlF)

396 Captain Whitebread
How are you feeling?
100% yet?

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:25 PM (sj3Ax)

397 Those eyes...damn.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:24 PM (rJUlF)

Oh yes.....

They are saying things that don't belong in polite company.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:26 PM (Zu3d9)

398
Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 11:22 PM

Heh Lincoln, I was on the downside at probably 500 to 1 against older brother, he stopped after I finally won 1.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 28, 2014 11:26 PM (NtzGn)

399 A commenter on another blog made a sharp observation: there probably are some cases of police abuse of a genuinely innocent black person out there, given that the militarization of police in recent years is a real problem. So why did the media zero in on the Brown case? And before that on St. Trayvon? It's obvious to most people with 2 working brain cells that these two guys were thugs and there really wasn't much of a case there.

This guy's hypothesis is that the media focused on these cases precisely because they knew damn well Zimmerman and Wilson acted in self defense and things would not go well for the pro-Martin and pro-Brown crowd. That's what they want. If Zimmerman and Wilson were as obviously guilty and racist as the black racists and left wing loons claim they are and were tried and convicted, well, that would prove America has changed since the 1950's and blacks can obtain justice. That's the last thing the media wants.

The Dems need 95% of the black vote. Even a loss of 10% would change the face of national elections. So the Dems have to keep the blacks on the plantation for at least the next few election cycles. After that the Hispanic vote will make up for it and they can kick the blacks to the curb. But until then, they've got to keep them riled up and angry and convinced that white AmeriKKKa is out to get them. And the media is the PR arm of the D party and so devotes itself to exploiting cases like this.

The media knows damn well Wilson acted in self defense. They're grubering their stupid base.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 28, 2014 11:27 PM (+XMAD)

400 Oh yes.....

They are saying things that don't belong in polite company.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:26 PM (Zu3d9)


They're saying something about a bunk.
Musn't give in to temptation...

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:27 PM (rJUlF)

401 GGE,

Ready now??

Cheers!!

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:22 PM (sj3Ax)


Cheers!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:27 PM (6fyGz)

402 Oil price needed to balance the national budget

US: 1,005,eleventyhundred and six thousand,429 per barrel.

Posted by: bour3 at November 28, 2014 11:27 PM (5x3+2)

403 Yeah, it didn't take long after the first time I left some marks on his face for him to stop picking fights every day. Embarrassing to say that your little brother jacked your eye up.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 11:27 PM (2cS/G)

404 Tbodie,
Wine. I'll go get bottle it's not Chardonnay its Semillion Chardonnay & big bottles. I like it & can't tell difference from expensive wines.
Vendage is brand & it's in liter bottle but has cork.

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:29 PM (sj3Ax)

405 Bign'James.

My Dad was a Plank Owner on the U.S.S. Scamp.

If you go to her website, you'll find that he's listed as such on the crew roster, but now sadly in the category of Eternal Patrol.

13 Jan '00.

Another boat of his was mentioned in Sherry Sontag's book "Blind Man's Bluff". Highly recommended reading. As stunning as that book's revelations are.....they barely scratched the surface. Pun intended.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 28, 2014 11:29 PM (RzZOc)

406 They are saying things that don't belong in polite company.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:26 PM (Zu3d9)


*looks around at present company*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:29 PM (GEICT)

407 Neither can any of us in rural by-god Oklahoma.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:25 PM (rJUlF)

CW, if you ever make it to Big Mac drinks are on me... But you must have a doctors note for the good stuff.

Posted by: tbodie at November 28, 2014 11:29 PM (cb/hk)

408 Heh Lincoln, I was on the downside at probably 500 to 1 against older brother, he stopped after I finally won 1.


Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 28, 2014 11:26 PM (NtzGn)



Brother?


yeah...I was the older...but the bastard got bigger than me sometime between my sophomore year and his (we're two years apart). He hit me once by accident long after that, and I'm glad he didn't hit me on purpose cause I think it might have hurt.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:29 PM (6fyGz)

409 Posted by: otho at November 28, 2014 11:24 PM (tBSrv) -

a really good agent.

Posted by: rich@gmu at November 28, 2014 11:30 PM (OjnNr)

410 *looks around at present company*
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:29 PM (GEICT)


Are you insinuating something, sir? I am a paragon of virtue.

(Emphasis on "gone".)

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:30 PM (rJUlF)

411 I think the Brown and Trayvon fake scandals were hyped mostly as short term tactics to boost black turnout in upcoming elections. I don't think it's much more thought at than that.

I expect they'll find another shooting to hyper for 2016. Then another for 2018. Then 2020.

It's an effective tactic. Super evil, but effective.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 28, 2014 11:30 PM (zwdxl)

412 GGE ,
Were we only ones?
It's the thought that counts!

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:30 PM (sj3Ax)

413 hmmmm....



http://tinyurl.com/m8kzhyg

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:24 PM (6fyGz)



OK, so the pattern itself (which you are not looking at in that photo) is fairly boring. The legs are nice.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:31 PM (KuU4f)

414 If you go to her website, you'll find that he's listed as such on the
crew roster, but now sadly in the category of Eternal Patrol.




*salutes* Fair winds and following seas.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:31 PM (6fyGz)

415 Embarrassing to say that your little brother jacked your eye up.
Posted by: Lincolntf
-------------------------
Mine pitched a half a brick bat into my lip for effing with him in the house they were building next door (1966?). Nothing that a couple of stitches couldn't fix.

Ouch.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:31 PM (4Mv1T)

416 OK, so the pattern itself (which you are not looking at in that photo) is fairly boring. The legs are nice.


Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:31 PM (KuU4f)



How can you say that? You don't know, I could be looking at the pattern!


*nudges BC* it's red, right?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:32 PM (6fyGz)

417 Dana Loesch @DLoesch
I have family stuck in Scottrade Center at Blues game. They say it's on lockdown because of Ferguson protesters.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 28, 2014 11:14 PM (zwdxl)

Too bad they can't send the hockey players out there armed with their sticks. The crowd would thin out quickly.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 28, 2014 11:32 PM (+XMAD)

418 Yeah, it didn't take long after the first time I left some marks on his face for him to stop picking fights every day.



Same thing with me, but I used a 2x4 on his ribs. He never touched me again.

Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind at November 28, 2014 11:32 PM (G83Pc)

419 It's not even a coordinated tactic, it's just as an election draws near, the need for Democrats to boost the black vote gets more urgent so a lot of different left-wing pressure groups rally around the same high-profile black victim, it's positive reinforcement feedback cycle.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 28, 2014 11:32 PM (zwdxl)

420 Are you insinuating something, sir? I am a paragon of virtue.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:30 PM (rJUlF)



Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:32 PM (GEICT)

421 It's the thought that counts!

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:30 PM (sj3Ax)


Yep!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:33 PM (6fyGz)

422 *nudges BC* it's red, right?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:32 PM (6fyGz)



*shrug*

Damned if I know.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:33 PM (GEICT)

423 Heh, so I made the husband walk the dogs with me in the park today. Just walked through the bedroom and the husband and both dogs are snoring. Knocked them all out!

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:33 PM (KuU4f)

424 Us low rate cardboard Midwesterners never seem to
get anything together. Tho Mindy was talking about a Chicago meetup
this week.



I knew I couldn't make so didn't pursue it. Did it happen?





Posted by: Farmer at November 28, 2014 11:24 PM (o/90i)


Make it Bloomington. I'll buy a few rounds. No way will I go to Chicago.

Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 28, 2014 11:33 PM (C8x6r)

425 Cthulhu isn't here? I wanted to tell him I made his version of roasted tomatoes for me & best friend tonight, but modified it & use basil & four cheese mozzarella & others.
Best friend attacked it as soon as I took out of oven! He ate 3/4 of it & left me the rest!

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:34 PM (sj3Ax)

426 415 Embarrassing to say that your little brother jacked your eye up.
Posted by: Lincolntf
-------------------------
Mine pitched a half a brick bat into my lip for effing with him in the house they were building next door (1966?). Nothing that a couple of stitches couldn't fix.

Ouch.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:31 PM (4Mv1T)

I have scars from my younger brother. He has more from me however.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 28, 2014 11:34 PM (y2suD)

427 GGE ,
Were we only ones?
It's the thought that counts!
Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:30 PM (sj3Ax)

381 *drink*

Y'all ready to go?
Posted by: tbodie at November 28, 2014 11:22 PM (cb/hk)


I think y'all were late to that party.

Posted by: tbodie at November 28, 2014 11:35 PM (cb/hk)

428 Oh Carol, roasted tomatoes are so good!

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:35 PM (KuU4f)

429 Make it Bloomington. I'll buy a few rounds. No way will I go to Chicago.


Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 28, 2014 11:33 PM (C8x6r)


Yeah. Went to Chicago once. Well, Waukegan actually. No desire to go back. Ever.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:36 PM (6fyGz)

430 They're grubering their stupid base.

Posted by: Donna V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 28, 2014 11:27 PM (+XMAD)

This makes sense....and it makes me want to puke.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:36 PM (Zu3d9)

431 Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:32 PM (GEICT)


Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:36 PM (rJUlF)

432 431
(Achievement unlocked.)

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:37 PM (rJUlF)

433 I have scars from my younger brother. He has more from me however.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
----------------------------------------

Cain, meet Abel. Funny how brothers are. My two boys were thick as thieves till the oldest turned 16, but they at least still like each other.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:37 PM (4Mv1T)

434
ooof....that qb took the hammer sandwich.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 28, 2014 11:38 PM (NtzGn)

435 I knocked a tooth out of my younger brother Paul's mouth. I told him I'd punch him if he moved & he walked into my fist,
It was a first tooth & not a big deal.

We used to fight with legs on couch. I forgot all about that!

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:38 PM (sj3Ax)

436 I haven't stepped inside a bar for 15 or so years. Maybe one last visit will remind me why that is.

Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 28, 2014 11:38 PM (C8x6r)

437 I like it can't tell difference from expensive wines.

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:29 PM (sj3Ax)

Trust me....in a blind tasting, neither could the wine critics.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:38 PM (Zu3d9)

438 425
Cthulhu isn't here? I wanted to tell him I made his version of roasted
tomatoes for me best friend tonight, but modified it use
basil four cheese mozzarella others.

Best friend attacked it as soon as I took out of oven! He ate 3/4 of it left me the rest!

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:34 PM (sj3Ax)


Cthulhu just got off a 53-minute phone call from his fiancee.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 28, 2014 11:39 PM (T1005)

439 424 Us low rate cardboard Midwesterners never seem to
get anything together. Tho Mindy was talking about a Chicago meetup
this week.

I'd love to attend, but I can't make it down there this month. December is a hard month for me to get away, even if it's just down to Chicago.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 28, 2014 11:39 PM (+XMAD)

440 a really good agent.

Posted by: rich@gmu at November 28, 2014 11:30 PM

Maybe. Possibly for ITAS, you can worm your (undeserved) way onto that show... it's not all Laurence Olivier. But Pioneers of TV is a documentary that looks back to the 50's for truly groundbreaking shows and performers. More recent stuff, post 70's has to bring something special to the table to get included, there's not that many. On this episode (comedy) the line up included... Johnathon Winters, Robin Williams, Dick Van Dyke, Cloris Leachman, Jimmie Walker, Jerry Seinfeld and Michael Richards (recent show) and ... Tina fucking Fey?

Posted by: otho at November 28, 2014 11:39 PM (tBSrv)

441 Cain, meet Abel. Funny how brothers are. My two
boys were thick as thieves till the oldest turned 16, but they at least
still like each other.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:37 PM (4Mv1T)



I like my younger brother a lot more now than I did when we were growing up. He's a smartass though, don't know where he got that. No one else in the family is like that.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:39 PM (6fyGz)

442 Cthulhu just got off a 53-minute phone call from his fiancee.


Posted by: cthulhu at November 28, 2014 11:39 PM (T1005)



Outstanding.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:40 PM (6fyGz)

443 Danger Girl,
Roasted tomatoes are delicious. I wish I had half of pound!
It's my house, next time he's going to wait until I serve hom.

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:40 PM (sj3Ax)

444 No one else in the family is like that.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter
------------------------------

THAT, made me LOL.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:40 PM (4Mv1T)

445 Gone With the Wind is a really long movie.

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:41 PM (64d6n)

446 My brother and I never got along. Actively disliked each other from Day One. Now, we get along fine, but for years I wouldn't talk to him except when we ran into each other at family events.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 28, 2014 11:42 PM (2cS/G)

447 Us low rate cardboard Midwesterners never seem to get anything together.

Neither can any of us in rural by-god Oklahoma.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 28, 2014 11:25 PM

Glad that your procedure went well and you are recovering nicely.

Sounds like you had a nice TG. We did also.

Posted by: Farmer at November 28, 2014 11:42 PM (o/90i)

448 Gone With the Wind is a really long movie.
Posted by: Vendette
-----------------------

Seems like you said that on Wednesday.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:42 PM (4Mv1T)

449 Donna, wouldn't have to be this month. Jan, Feb, March. Maybe you could start the arrangements?

Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 28, 2014 11:43 PM (C8x6r)

450
THAT, made me LOL.





Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 28, 2014 11:40 PM (4Mv1T)



I'll have you know that my grandfather was such a humorless man that he only cracked a smile one time, and the shock of it killed him dead right there, poor man.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:43 PM (6fyGz)

451 Cthulhu just got off a 53-minute phone call from his fiancee.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 28, 2014 11:39 PM

2 minutes of I love you & miss you & 51 minutes of silence

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 28, 2014 11:43 PM (y2suD)

452 Clan Cochrane has its roots in Scotland, as do many Irish clans.
Oh. One of those.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 11:43 PM (T4t+V)

453 Carol, I don't know wines at all. My favorites are a blueberry I found 2 days ago and a chocolate raspberry I found last year. My wife likes wines so I look for new things when I can.

I Mostly drink whisky.

Posted by: tbodie at November 28, 2014 11:44 PM (cb/hk)

454 Roasted tomatoes are delicious. I wish I had half of pound!

It's my house, next time he's going to wait until I serve hom.

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:40 PM (sj3Ax)


Carol, you can also pack roasted tomatoes with roasted garlic, basil and olive oil in jars. Process them and then spread it on bread. Oh my goodness so good.
Also good alone on pita bread with mozz, olive oil and basil.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:44 PM (KuU4f)

455 W00t!!! I have an ENTIRE 12 PACK of cherry Coke Zero! It should go well with this bottle of Elijah Craig...



gonna have to get another one of those soon...


but I do have Bacardi, so no problems.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:45 PM (6fyGz)

456 Oh. One of those.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 11:43 PM (T4t+V)



Scratch a mic deep enough and you'll find a Scot. Scratch a Scot deep enough and you'll find a Viking.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:46 PM (GEICT)

457 I dunno, GGE. You and your posh liquors.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2014 11:46 PM (t//F+)

458
2 minutes of I love you & miss you & 51 minutes of silence


"Chores" and "status" might have been involved.

Posted by: Arbalest at November 28, 2014 11:46 PM (FlRtG)

459 hmmm...I have Amaretto also...and cherry coke zero...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:47 PM (6fyGz)

460 So a mix of Scots-Irish-Viking is a (GEICT)!

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 11:47 PM (T4t+V)

461
I dunno, GGE. You and your posh liquors.


Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2014 11:46 PM (t//F+)



*sigh* yes I know...


*drinks*

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:48 PM (6fyGz)

462 460 So a mix of Scots-Irish-Viking is a (GEICT)!

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 11:47 PM (T4t+V)



Hahaha!!!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:48 PM (GEICT)

463 Scratch a Scot deep enough and you'll find a Viking.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:46 PM (GEICT)

You do realize what you get when you scratch a Viking deep enough?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:49 PM (Zu3d9)

464
So a mix of Scots-Irish-Viking is a (GEICT)!

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 11:47 PM (T4t+V)



Exactly.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:49 PM (6fyGz)

465 OK my friends, time to hit the sack. See you all whenever.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:49 PM (KuU4f)

466 You do realize what you get when you scratch a Viking deep enough?


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:49 PM (Zu3d9)



Your ass kicked?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:50 PM (6fyGz)

467 Scratch a mic deep enough and you'll find a Scot. Scratch a Scot deep enough and you'll find a Viking.
Posted by: BCochran1981

Sounds like my family, but they only stuck around Ireland a few years before they went back to Scotland. From there, US, Canada, Australia. Clan Gregor got around.

Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind at November 28, 2014 11:50 PM (G83Pc)

468 Your ass kicked?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:50 PM (6fyGz)



Kicked, raped and then burned to the ground.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:50 PM (GEICT)

469 Speaking of booze....I poured myself a glass of Russell's 10 Year Old this evening.

It sucked.

I'm crushed.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:50 PM (Zu3d9)

470 Our next door neighbors had 10 boys and 2 girls. The girls were around my age and I hung out with them. Walking into that house was like walking into a war zone. I think the ER staff must have known them all by name because it seemed like at least one of the boys had a cast on his arm or leg or hang or had stitches at any given time.

It was a 4 bedroom house. The parents and the girls had 2 of the bedrooms and the boys were in bunk beds in the other rooms. (Two bathrooms - which would be much more of a problem with 10 girls and 2 boys.) I remember one of the boys said when he moved out into an apartment of his own, he luxuriated in the privacy and quiet for a few days -and then he started freaking out. It was too quiet. He said he actually missed his brothers yelling and fighting.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 28, 2014 11:51 PM (+XMAD)

471 Danger Girl,
Thanks for tips, but I don't eat pita bread.
I'll copy others into word doc.

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:51 PM (sj3Ax)

472 Hello fellow morons. Just watched "Battleship" for the umpteenth time. Just love it. This time with commentary. I originally thought that it was going to be crap.

What a surprise.

Oil prices? Fuck the Russians and the Persians and the Vavazuelas

Oh and fuck George Lucas too.

Other than that, may you be blessed with a happy Advent Season.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 28, 2014 11:52 PM (V70Uh)

473 OK my friends, time to hit the sack. See you all whenever.


Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:49 PM (KuU4f)



G'night DG. Of course you know that forever after you will be linked with this image in my sick twisted mind...

http://tinyurl.com/lngtthv


oh yeah...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:52 PM (6fyGz)

474 Now hear this.
There will be no further scratching. Of anything.
That is all.

Posted by: navybrat at November 28, 2014 11:53 PM (JgC5a)

475 Scratch a mic deep enough and you'll find a Scot. Scratch a Scot deep enough and you'll find a Viking.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 28, 2014 11:46 PM (GEICT)

True....had a DNA test recently....35% Irish....31%....Scandi.

Posted by: BignJames at November 28, 2014 11:53 PM (HtUkt)

476 I don't eat pita bread.

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:51 PM (sj3Ax)

For religious reasons or because it stinks in your neighborhood?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:53 PM (Zu3d9)

477 It's quiet. Too quiet.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 28, 2014 11:53 PM (T4t+V)

478 You do realize what you get when you scratch a Viking deep enough?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:49 PM (Zu3d9)

What Obamas son would've looked like?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 28, 2014 11:53 PM (y2suD)

479 Ray Rice is a scumbag and the fact that his wife is a craven, money-hungry whore doesn't change that fact. Men should never hit women. If she hits you, you just block the punches with your arms. That should be easy for an NFL player.
And while we're on the subject, why is it that so many normally reasonable people cut football players so much slack? George Carlin was right about football vs. baseball. If a baseball player does something wrong, it's " Ban him for life! Expunge his records! Make him give back the money he earned! He's supposed to be a role model!What do I tell my kid?" If it's a football player it's, "The bitch deserved it! It's okay because it's part of his culture! How can the poor guy make a living? Get him out there on the field!! I have money on the game! Fuck yeah!!"

Posted by: JoeF. at November 28, 2014 11:53 PM (8HGb7)

480 It sucked.

I'm crushed.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:50 PM (Zu3d9)



*pours Elijah Craig in USB port*


maybe this will help...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:54 PM (6fyGz)

481 Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:52 PM (6fyGz)

That's a circular link.

Sort of like a circle-jerk.

Oh....never mind.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:54 PM (Zu3d9)

482 451
Cthulhu just got off a 53-minute phone call from his fiancee.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 28, 2014 11:39 PM



2 minutes of I love you miss you 51 minutes of silence

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 28, 2014 11:43 PM (y2suD)


No, a recounting of her entire day in Florida, visiting with her aunt and cousins.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 28, 2014 11:54 PM (T1005)

483 GO HOKIES!!! They finished the season 6-6 which means they are eligible for the Uzbekistan Goat Bowl or something. Still, crazy game against there in state rivals. I enjoyed it. Hard fought game.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at November 28, 2014 11:54 PM (YwS++)

484 I want to see the R-rated version of "From Russia with Love", whereby I get to see her (all of the women (even Moneypenny) titties.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 28, 2014 11:55 PM (V70Uh)

485 CBD,
I think pita bread is fake bread. If people like it, I don't judge.
I don't like it.

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:55 PM (sj3Ax)

486 296 Heh. I'm 40 and feel like a baby here.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:04 PM (KuU4f)


I'm 44. Want to get together and count each other's wrinkles?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 28, 2014 11:55 PM (oFCZn)

487 Pita bread is awesome if it's done right. We had it in my town before anyone ever called it "pita." We called it "Syrian bread" because, well, that's who baked it back then....

Posted by: JoeF. at November 28, 2014 11:56 PM (8HGb7)

488 This is the movie that never ends...


In anticipation of it eventually ending, good night, all!

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:56 PM (64d6n)

489 That's a circular link.

Sort of like a circle-jerk.

Oh....never mind.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:54 PM (Zu3d9)




damn....how did that happen...


Try this one: http://tinyurl.com/m8kzhyg

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:57 PM (6fyGz)

490 Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 28, 2014 11:43 PM (C8x6r)

Chavez the Hugo and I were talking about having a meetup in Green Bay in January or February. The Illinois Morons are welcome too, and we urge you to wear Bears jerseys as it will provide us with great entertainment

So there's that one, but I'd be happy to go to a meetup in Chicago too. (I'll leave my Aaron Rodgers jersey at home though.)

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 28, 2014 11:57 PM (+XMAD)

491 It sucked.

I'm crushed.
Posted by: Charlie
------------------

Pour a second. It has always been my experience that the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th drinks get better.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 28, 2014 11:58 PM (F2IAQ)

492 Donna, You ever hear of the story Brad Pitt? He was on a business trip and missed the chaos of life at home. Loves his wife and kids.

Hey Aniston bitch, bite it.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 28, 2014 11:59 PM (V70Uh)

493 Ray Rice is a scumbag and the fact that his wife is a
craven, money-hungry whore doesn't change that fact. Men should never
hit women. If she hits you, you just block the punches with your arms.
That should be easy for an NFL player.


Posted by: JoeF. at November 28, 2014 11:53 PM (8HGb7)



My ex wife looked me square in the fuckin' eye, not two feet away from me and told me "I'm not sorry I married you, if I hadn't married you I would never have met him."


She walked away unscathed.

So, yeah.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:59 PM (6fyGz)

494 maybe this will help...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:54 PM (6fyGz)

Oh, it will!

My everyday bourbon has become Bulleit and Buffalo Trace.

I'm in a bit of a rut when it comes to something a little bit special.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:59 PM (Zu3d9)

495 We finally hit, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn".

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:59 PM (64d6n)

496 Bummer. Green Bay is a little to far for me to travel.


Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 29, 2014 12:00 AM (C8x6r)

497 495 We finally hit, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn because your clothes are still on".

Posted by: Vendette at November 28, 2014 11:59 PM (64d6n)



Added a little for accuracy.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 29, 2014 12:01 AM (GEICT)

498 I don't like it.

Posted by: Carol at November 28, 2014 11:55 PM (sj3Ax)

Understood.

If you bake and would like a recipe for homemade, just to try....shoot me an e-mail at: nynjmeet at optimum dot net

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 29, 2014 12:01 AM (Zu3d9)

499 It's over.



Good night, all!

Posted by: Vendette at November 29, 2014 12:01 AM (64d6n)

500 My everyday bourbon has become Bulleit and Buffalo Trace.

I'm in a bit of a rut when it comes to something a little bit special.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2014 11:59 PM (Zu3d9)



Really? Might have to try it out.


My biggest problem is I really don't like hard liquor so it has to be really good for me to appreciate it. Which is probably why I'm still not all that fond of scotch.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:02 AM (6fyGz)

501 Completely out of adult beverages here and eating triscuits.

Crap.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 29, 2014 12:02 AM (4Mv1T)

502 Donna, wouldn't have to be this month. Jan, Feb, March. Maybe you could start the arrangements?
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 28, 2014 11:43 PM

Sounds good to me.

T

Posted by: Farmer at November 29, 2014 12:02 AM (o/90i)

503 Good night, all!


Posted by: Vendette at November 29, 2014 12:01 AM (64d6n)


Goodnight Vendette!!!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:03 AM (6fyGz)

504 490 Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 28, 2014 11:43 PM (C8x6r)

Chavez the Hugo and I were talking about having a meetup in Green Bay in January or February. The Illinois Morons are welcome too, and we urge you to wear Bears jerseys as it will provide us with great entertainment

So there's that one, but I'd be happy to go to a meetup in Chicago too. (I'll leave my Aaron Rodgers jersey at home though.)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 28, 2014 11:57 PM (+XMAD)

I would travel

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:03 AM (y2suD)

505 "My ex wife looked me square in the fuckin' eye, not
two feet away from me and told me "I'm not sorry I married you, if I
hadn't married you I would never have met him."


She walked away unscathed.

So, yeah.


Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 28, 2014 11:59 PM (6fyGz)

You chose poorly.

Posted by: The old knight in The Last Crusade at November 29, 2014 12:03 AM (V70Uh)

506 Goodnight everyone, the fluffy, purring cat flopped on my shoulder is telling me it's time to sleep.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 29, 2014 12:03 AM (2cS/G)

507 Completely out of adult beverages here and eating triscuits.



Crap.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 29, 2014 12:02 AM (4Mv1T)



Wow. I have a bottle of Glenlivet 12 here....

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:03 AM (6fyGz)

508 Which is probably why I'm still not all that fond of scotch.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:02 AM (6fyGz)

Do you know what the best liquor in the world is?

The one that makes you happiest.

This is a topic I will rant and rave about forever.

Well....starting tomorrow.

Cheers!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 29, 2014 12:04 AM (Zu3d9)

509 You chose poorly.


Posted by: The old knight in The Last Crusade at November 29, 2014 12:03 AM (V70Uh)



In the long run...not really. Better off, I say, for both of us.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:05 AM (6fyGz)

510 Completely out of adult beverages here and eating triscuits.

Crap.
Posted by: Tobacco Road

Slides a jar of hard cider your way. Don't blame me if your nose goes numb.

Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind at November 29, 2014 12:05 AM (G83Pc)

511 Cheers!


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 29, 2014 12:04 AM (Zu3d9)


Cheers!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:05 AM (6fyGz)

512 Wow. I have a bottle of Glenlivet 12 here....
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter
------------------------------

I appreciate the thought, my friend.

I might actually wake up manana without a headache.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 29, 2014 12:06 AM (4Mv1T)

513 Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 29, 2014 12:00 AM (C8x6r)

Well, like I said I'd be game for a Chi-town (or environs) meetup (went to a LGF one back in 2004 which was lots of fun - Iowahawk was one of the attendees), just not in December.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 29, 2014 12:07 AM (+XMAD)

514 Since either 1) nobody has the sense to laugh at my jokes or 2) I am not funny, I am going to bed. Please do me the favor of NOT pointing out which of the two is real.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 29, 2014 12:07 AM (V70Uh)

515 501 Completely out of adult beverages here and eating triscuits.

Crap.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 29, 2014 12:02 AM (4Mv1T)

Bummer

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:07 AM (y2suD)

516 Slides a jar of hard cider your way. Don't blame me if your nose goes numb.
Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind
-------------------------

Thank you, indeed.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 29, 2014 12:08 AM (4Mv1T)

517 Do you know what the best liquor in the world is?

The one that makes you happiest.


Seagrams 7 is my everyday drink. Crown is my favorite for special occasions.


Why yes, I do live in Little Dixie. Why do you ask?

Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:08 AM (cb/hk)

518 You chose poorly.


Posted by: The old knight in The Last Crusade at November 29, 2014 12:03 AM (V70Uh)



*looks around*

all the ettes gone yet?

I fucked that bitch three years later, then bought that poor fucker a beer afterwards. Best nut I ever busted. Yeah, I'm a pig. You may now worship my awesomeness.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:08 AM (6fyGz)

519 and Buffalo Trace.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


Does it have much buffalo in it?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 29, 2014 12:08 AM (s9AKD)

520 Several years ago I bought what I thought was apple brandy. Looking at the label it turns out to be a blend of apple brandy and neutral grain spirits.
It tastes vaguely of apples.

Still going to have to buy some apple brandy or calvados or the like.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2014 12:08 AM (t//F+)

521 I would travel
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:03 AM (y2suD)

Where to? To GB or to Chicago?

Aren't you closer to the Twin Cities?

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 29, 2014 12:08 AM (+XMAD)

522 Since either 1) nobody has the sense to laugh at my
jokes or 2) I am not funny, I am going to bed. Please do me the favor of
NOT pointing out which of the two is real.



Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 29, 2014 12:07 AM (V70Uh)


G'night GJ, sleep well and wake.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:09 AM (6fyGz)

523 Where you decide, I'll be there in spirit only. I can't travel very far due to health reasons.

I'll still buy the first round for everybody.


Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 29, 2014 12:10 AM (C8x6r)

524 Last week I went to Hannaford's because I've never been in one & it's relatively new in Massachusetts. The deli counter had smoked Gruyere cheese & now that is my new favorite for cheeseburgers. I went to Stop & Shop Wednesday to buy some steaks & that S&S had it. I bought half pound sliced thin. Man behind counter told me smoked Gouda is even better.

I love smoked cheeses. Whole Foods used to have smoked Jarlsberg but all stopped carrying it.

Posted by: Carol at November 29, 2014 12:10 AM (sj3Ax)

525 Step away from the HQ for a moment, then return and catch up on all the new comments...
...
...and now it's bedtime. (Dangit.)

Good night, everyone!

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 29, 2014 12:10 AM (rJUlF)

526 Posted by: Carol at November 29, 2014 12:10 AM (sj3Ax)



dammit...not all the 'ettes were gone...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:11 AM (6fyGz)

527 552

No one laughs at my jokes, either, GJ. I can sympathize.

OK, I really am going now.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 29, 2014 12:11 AM (rJUlF)

528 516 Slides a jar of hard cider your way. Don't blame me if your nose goes numb.
Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind

I'm drinking cider too. Actually, "cidre" the Stella Artois brand. I thought I'd try it - I like the American ciders better. It's OK though.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 29, 2014 12:12 AM (+XMAD)

529 Since either 1) nobody has the sense to laugh at my jokes or 2) I am not funny, I am going to bed. Please do me the favor of NOT pointing out which of the two is real.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 29, 2014 12:07 AM (V70Uh)


Did not realize that was the either/or default. Probably best if I don't over think this one.

Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:12 AM (cb/hk)

530 *Signing off*

**TEST PATTERN**

AM VHF broadcast of **Star Spangled Banner**

'night horde.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 29, 2014 12:12 AM (4Mv1T)

531 521 I would travel
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:03 AM (y2suD)

Where to? To GB or to Chicago?

Aren't you closer to the Twin Cities?
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing

GB, Madison etc probably wouldn't travel to Chicago. Yeah, I'm closer to the twin cities (no not Neenah Menasha )

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:12 AM (y2suD)

532 Seagrams 7 is my everyday drink. Crown is my favorite for special occasions.





Why yes, I do live in Little Dixie. Why do you ask?

Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:08 AM (cb/hk)



I have some crown. *pours tbodie a drink*

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:12 AM (6fyGz)

533 dammit...not all the 'ettes were gone...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:11 AM (6fyGz)



*snickers*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 29, 2014 12:13 AM (GEICT)

534 GGE,
What? I'm an Ette?

Posted by: Carol at November 29, 2014 12:13 AM (sj3Ax)

535 I used to get smoked gouda and put (as much as I could afford) on my pizza.
Soooo nice and creamy and tasty. It set the sausage off so well.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2014 12:13 AM (t//F+)

536 I love smoked cheeses. Whole Foods used to have smoked Jarlsberg but all stopped carrying it.

Posted by: Carol at November 29, 2014 12:10 AM (sj3Ax)

I love smoked Gouda.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 29, 2014 12:13 AM (+XMAD)

537 Nite TR

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:14 AM (y2suD)

538 Thanks GGE.

Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:15 AM (cb/hk)

539 493: You at least called her a lying cheating cunt? Politely of course.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at November 29, 2014 12:15 AM (YwS++)

540 I'm drinking cider too. Actually, "cidre" the Stella Artois brand. I thought I'd try it - I like the American ciders better. It's OK though.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands)


Mine's homemade. I've got 9 gallons in the downstairs fridge. I have to pace myself with the stuff though. Really slaps me upside the head.

Posted by: fairweatherbill bucking the wind at November 29, 2014 12:16 AM (G83Pc)

541 What? I'm an Ette?

Posted by: Carol at November 29, 2014 12:13 AM (sj3Ax)



um...yeah, I noticed...please ignore any postings I may or may not have made concerning my ex wife and her second husband...thanks...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:16 AM (6fyGz)

542 GGE that was awesome

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:16 AM (y2suD)

543 Donna &&&&&&& V,
Smoked cheese are delicious.

I can tell difference between Angus beef & 90% lean ground beef.
When I'm finished with Smoked Gruyere I will try smoked Gouda on burgers.

Posted by: Carol at November 29, 2014 12:17 AM (sj3Ax)

544 493: You at least called her a lying cheating cunt? Politely of course.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at November 29, 2014 12:15 AM (YwS++)



might have had something rude to say...maybe...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:17 AM (6fyGz)

545 GGE,
I forgive you!

Posted by: Carol at November 29, 2014 12:18 AM (sj3Ax)

546 Buy Kraft Mac and Cheese.

Throw away mysterious flavor packet.

Cook mac. Drain.

Milk, smoked gouda, white cheddar, and smidge of sour cream in pan. Heat till smooff.

Add cheese to mac with crumbled baconz. In oven with seasoned bread crumbs on top. 5 - 7 min.

Let cool. Stuff face.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 29, 2014 12:18 AM (s9AKD)

547 *snickers*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 29, 2014 12:13 AM (GEICT)



yeah, yeah. Laugh mf'r...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:18 AM (6fyGz)

548 and Buffalo Trace.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Does it have much buffalo in it?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 29, 2014 12:08 AM (s9AKD)


Not a smidgen.

Posted by: Barack O'Reilly at November 29, 2014 12:18 AM (W5DcG)

549 GGE,

I forgive you!

Posted by: Carol at November 29, 2014 12:18 AM (sj3Ax)



Thank you m'lady, you are as gracious as you are lovely.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:20 AM (6fyGz)

550 524
Last week I went to Hannaford's because I've never been in one
it's relatively new in Massachusetts. The deli counter had smoked
Gruyere cheese now that is my new favorite for cheeseburgers. I
went to Stop Shop Wednesday to buy some steaks that SS
had it. I bought half pound sliced thin. Man behind counter told me
smoked Gouda is even better.



I love smoked cheeses. Whole Foods used to have smoked Jarlsberg but all stopped carrying it.





Posted by: Carol at November 29, 2014 12:10 AM (sj3Ax)


They have wide discretion -- if you ask for it to come back, they might carry it again.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 12:20 AM (T1005)

551 You can smoke cheese? Get out. I would have thought they would be soggy and hard to light.

Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 12:21 AM (s59jq)

552 Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 29, 2014 12:18 AM (s9AKD)

That sounds really good. I thought I was the only person in America who didn't like mac and cheese - not even as a child. Turned out that when it's made with real cheese I like it just fine.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 29, 2014 12:21 AM (+XMAD)

553 Buy Kraft Mac and Cheese.



Throw away mysterious flavor packet.



Cook mac. Drain.



Milk, smoked gouda, white cheddar, and smidge of sour cream in pan. Heat till smooff.



Add cheese to mac with crumbled baconz. In oven with seasoned bread crumbs on top. 5 - 7 min.



Let cool. Stuff face.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 29, 2014 12:18 AM (s9AKD)



*confused* why not just start with elbow macaroni?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:21 AM (6fyGz)

554 OK, everybody hold on till I pour another drink.



Damn, it's good to be home.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:22 AM (6fyGz)

555 yeah, yeah. Laugh mf'r...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:18 AM (6fyGz)



Oh I am.

But only half heartedly.

Distracted. Just fucking love nature shows. Apparently it's Big Cat week on NatGeo. Currently watching a show on lions. Utterly fascinated by these shows.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 29, 2014 12:23 AM (GEICT)

556 544: Does Husband #2 know that history repeats? When she sees that next shiny new toy, she'll dump him too.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at November 29, 2014 12:23 AM (YwS++)

557 *confused* why not just start with elbow macaroni?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November

No packet to throw away silly

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:23 AM (y2suD)

558 544: Does Husband #2 know that history repeats? When she sees that next shiny new toy, she'll dump him too.

Yeah, but then after 3 years, he will get to nail her good and hard, and then go out and swap war stories with GGE.

Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 12:24 AM (s59jq)

559 I can't keep my eyes open despite several Opcon A uses.

Goodnight,Horde!!

Posted by: Carol at November 29, 2014 12:25 AM (sj3Ax)

560 Good night, Carol!

Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 12:26 AM (s59jq)

561 Good night, Carol. Sleep well.

Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:27 AM (cb/hk)

562 544: Does Husband #2 know that history repeats? When she sees that next shiny new toy, she'll dump him too.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at November 29, 2014 12:23 AM (YwS++)



She is now on number 4, who incidentally is the guy who first introduced us, and she is happy...and I'm happy for her, cause she's leaving me the fuck alone. Funny thing, she married him about the same time I married Laura (number 2 for me), which was the worst thing I ever did to her.


Looking for a redhead who will buy me stuff just to keep me around now.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:27 AM (6fyGz)

563 Nite Carol

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:27 AM (y2suD)

564 Apparently it's Big Cat week on NatGeo. Currently watching a show on lions. Utterly fascinated by these shows.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 29, 2014 12:23 AM (GEICT)

The ones I love are the deep sea ones. There's so many freaky weird things that live in the ocean - and because they live in the ocean I don't have to worry about 10 foot long albino worms and crap like that when I'm walking in the woods. I love going to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago - they have great exhibits, although their admission fee is expensive.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 29, 2014 12:28 AM (+XMAD)

565 Number 3 is dead BTW...but they were only married for 3 months. He wasn't dead when they got divorced though. I offered to put flowers on his grave for her. She was rude about it though, the bitch. Called me a wiseass, if you can believe that shit.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:30 AM (6fyGz)

566 The ones I love are the deep sea ones. There's so many freaky weird things that live in the ocean - and because they live in the ocean I don't have to worry about 10 foot long albino worms and crap like that when I'm walking in the woods. I love going to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago - they have great exhibits, although their admission fee is expensive.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 29, 2014 12:28 AM (+XMAD)



*nodnodnod*

I love those too. I really do love all the nature shows. I could, and sometimes do, spend hours and hours watching them.

I just loaded up the dvr with a bunch of shows overnight and tomorrow.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 29, 2014 12:30 AM (GEICT)

567 Goodnight,Horde!!

Posted by: Carol at November 29, 2014 12:25 AM (sj3Ax)


Goodnight Carol!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:30 AM (6fyGz)

568 GGE are you still here? I've got some 7 left was wondering if I'm drinking alone. .

Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:31 AM (cb/hk)

569 >>>Looking for a redhead who will buy me stuff just to keep me around now.----

Aren't we all GGE?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:31 AM (y2suD)

570 Hi Horde. Lovely Husband booked me flights and a hotel. Fly from Yellowknife to Calgary Sunday, spend the night and fly home Monday. Hoooooome. So happy. Little and Dave and routine.

Posted by: Gingy in Canada where it's cold at November 29, 2014 12:31 AM (xBPyN)

571 Apparently it's Big Cat week on NatGeo. Currently watching a show on lions. Utterly fascinated by these shows.

The ones I love are the deep sea ones.


Yeah, the deep sea lions.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 29, 2014 12:32 AM (W5DcG)

572 GGE are you still here? I've got some 7 left was wondering if I'm drinking alone. .

Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:31 AM (cb/hk)


No you are not, but my dog thinks he needs to go out the fuzzy bastard.

Looking for a redhead who will buy me stuff just to keep me around now.----



Aren't we all GGE?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:31 AM (y2suD)



Yes. Yes we are.

BRB.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:33 AM (6fyGz)

573 555
yeah, yeah. Laugh mf'r...



Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:18 AM (6fyGz)





Oh I am.



But only half heartedly.



Distracted. Just fucking love nature shows. Apparently it's Big Cat
week on NatGeo. Currently watching a show on lions. Utterly fascinated
by these shows.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 29, 2014 12:23 AM (GEICT)


Big cats can be dangerous, but far more men are hurt because of a little pussy.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 12:33 AM (T1005)

574 Big cats can be dangerous, but far more men are hurt because of a little pussy.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 12:33 AM (T1005)



Nothing more dangerous than a mean little pussy.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 29, 2014 12:35 AM (GEICT)

575 For you late night shoppers ....

Jennifer Connelly

http://tinyurl.com/kopbjpa

Posted by: kbdabear at November 29, 2014 12:35 AM (GrXXa)

576 Looking for a redhead who will buy me stuff just to keep me around now.----



Talk to kbdabear. He seems to know quite a few redheads.

Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:35 AM (cb/hk)

577 Insty reports Austrian authorities have raided mosques all across Austria as part if a huge anti-terrorist mission.

Posted by: eman at November 29, 2014 12:36 AM (MQEz6)

578 574 Big cats can be dangerous, but far more men are hurt because of a little pussy.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 12:33 AM (T1005)


Nothing more dangerous than a mean little pussy.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk

^^^This^^^^

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:36 AM (y2suD)

579 Well, the cidre's gone and I'm gonna cash it in.

'night, horde!

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at November 29, 2014 12:36 AM (+XMAD)

580 575 For you late night shoppers ....

Jennifer Connelly

http://tinyurl.com/kopbjpa

Posted by: kbdabear at November 29, 2014 12:35 AM (GrXXa)


If we're gonna go Connelly, let's go Connelly.

http://tinyurl.com/qaqctxv

NSFW

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 29, 2014 12:38 AM (GEICT)

581 OK too much turkey. I'm eating left over pizza, have to work tomorrow..

We had a great TG. Hope you all did.

T

Posted by: Farmer at November 29, 2014 12:39 AM (o/90i)

582 Oh FFS. This guy is baiting lions in with a wildebeest carcass and has locked himself in this clear acrylic box with the carcass draped across it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 29, 2014 12:39 AM (GEICT)

583 That sandwich looks hideous.

Posted by: @votermom at November 28, 2014 10:00 PM (aH+Ur)


...and wears khakis...

Posted by: Jake's Hat from State Farm at November 29, 2014 12:39 AM (lN8KC)

584 Insty reports Austrian authorities have raided mosques all across Austria as part if a huge anti-terrorist mission.

Posted by: eman at November 29, 2014 12:36 AM (MQEz6)


ISLAMOPHOBIA !!!!!

Posted by: Ibrahim "Hoppity" Hooper at November 29, 2014 12:40 AM (W5DcG)

585 Nite Donna

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:43 AM (y2suD)

586 The most dangerous "little pussy" is the ones with a sign saying: "Free to a Good Home".

No such thing as free pussy. Just sayin'.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX


Posted by: Jim at November 29, 2014 12:43 AM (RzZOc)

587 I'd mentioned the Breeder Reactor in my posts.

Posted by: Jim at November 28, 2014 11:12 PM (RzZOc)


"Breeder"?

Hetero-normative oppressor!

Posted by: Queer Nuclear Studies Major at November 29, 2014 12:43 AM (lN8KC)

588 This has been a difficult Thanksgiving for me.

First major holiday since Mom passed away. And I know she is in a better place. Just sucks that she is not here.

Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:44 AM (cb/hk)

589 No such thing as free pussy. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Jim at November 29, 2014 12:43 AM (RzZOc)


*ahem*

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at November 29, 2014 12:44 AM (lN8KC)

590 252 -- Donna -- Hmm... Seattle... isn't the place where they have that statue of Lenin?

Wanna retaliate for them being assholes?

Borrow a plasma cutter, and make Lenin's head disappear.

That would put fleas their panties...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 28, 2014 11:19 PM (/mTq0)


Thermite is more fun...

Posted by: The Redox Hat at November 29, 2014 12:44 AM (lN8KC)

591 NSFW

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 29, 2014 12:38 AM (GEICT)



Hell yeah. Go big or stay at home.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:45 AM (6fyGz)

592 588 This has been a difficult Thanksgiving for me.

First major holiday since Mom passed away. And I know she is in a better place. Just sucks that she is not here.

Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:44 AM (cb/hk)

Sorry to hear of your loss. You never forget but it does get easier

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:46 AM (y2suD)

593 First major holiday since Mom passed away. And I know she is in a better place. Just sucks that she is not here.





Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:44 AM (cb/hk)



Not looking forward to that, but I know it's coming. I think that Dad will go first though. Still will suck because my Dad is still my hero and I still want to be just like him when I grow up. Prayers to you and yours tbodie.


*drinks*

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:47 AM (6fyGz)

594 577 -- eman -- It's amazing what can happen when a nation elects a real leader.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 12:49 AM (/mTq0)

595 taking the Excedrin with the bourbon and coke still works, right?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:49 AM (6fyGz)

596 Thanks MH. Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:50 AM (cb/hk)

597 Talk to kbdabear. He seems to know quite a few redheads.

Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:35 AM (cb/hk)


He has a lot of pictures anyway.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:50 AM (6fyGz)

598 *ahem*

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at November 29, 2014 12:44 AM (lN8KC)


Will you promise to shut the fuck up and go away in the morning? Cause if you will we might be able to work something out....

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:52 AM (6fyGz)

599 Do we have our umlauts back yet?

Umlaut test in
5
4
3
2
1


üöÿÆäß

Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 29, 2014 12:54 AM (Vyg9x)

600 Good nite morons. Be well,

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 29, 2014 12:54 AM (y2suD)

601 Wei kann Ich Der Panzer Lied typpen wenn wir haben keine Umlauete?

Wie Pixy Wie?

#zweiwochen #meindahintern!!

Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 29, 2014 12:56 AM (Vyg9x)

602 Do we have our umlauts back yet?

Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 29, 2014 12:54 AM (Vyg9x)


Nö.

Posted by: Thë Pölïtïcal Hät at November 29, 2014 12:56 AM (lN8KC)

603 Posted by: Thë Pölïtïcal Hät at November 29, 2014 12:56 AM (lN8KC)


wise guy...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:58 AM (6fyGz)

604 Those are not real umlauts. Those are fake chicom knock offs.

Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 29, 2014 12:58 AM (Vyg9x)

605 This has been a difficult Thanksgiving for me.

First major holiday since Mom passed away. And I know she is in a better place. Just sucks that she is not here.



Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:44 AM (cb/hk)


I went through that a couple years ago. Her birthday was a little over a week before thanksgiving, so it was a double whammy. In hindsight it definitely had me in better shape to deal with Christmas, which was her favorite. It does get better with time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 29, 2014 12:58 AM (FMbng)

606 You guys aren't making me want to stay up. Ta.

Posted by: Gingy in Canada where it's cold at November 29, 2014 12:58 AM (xBPyN)

607 He has a lot of pictures anyway.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:50 AM (6fyGz)

Pinterest and its search engine are my best friends

Posted by: kbdabear at November 29, 2014 12:59 AM (GrXXa)

608 601
Wei kann Ich Der Panzer Lied typpen wenn wir haben keine Umlauete?

Wie Pixy Wie?

#zweiwochen #meindahintern!!


Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 29, 2014 12:56 AM (Vyg9x)

Shouldn't that be "warum"?

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 12:59 AM (T1005)

609 This has been a difficult Thanksgiving for me.
First major holiday since Mom passed away. And I know she is in a better place. Just sucks that she is not here.
Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 12:44 AM

tbodie, I'm in the same place. Email me if you want, it's in my link below.

T

Posted by: Farmer at November 29, 2014 01:00 AM (o/90i)

610 taking the Excedrin with the bourbon and coke still works, right?


Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 12:49 AM (6fyGz)


Well fuck it, if you're gonna drink I might as well crack open the mead.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 29, 2014 01:01 AM (FMbng)

611 Nïght äll.

Spëäkïng of ümläüts… hërë ïs "Archangel Thunderbird" by Amon Düül II:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pcla5zyZfA

Posted by: Thë Pölïtïcal Hät at November 29, 2014 01:01 AM (lN8KC)

612 Waurm? Because
Wie How

So the answer would be 9

Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 29, 2014 01:01 AM (Vyg9x)

613 Posted by: rich@gmu at November 28, 2014 11:09 PM (OjnNr)

Thank you! I say "flu", but it was actually flu for me and pneumonia for mom... slowly getting better.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at November 29, 2014 01:01 AM (nvq3r)

614 You guys aren't making me want to stay up. Ta.

Posted by: Gingy in Canada where it's cold at November 29, 2014 12:58 AM (xBPyN)


G'nite Gingy, soon you will be back and WeirdDave will be all the better for it.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 01:02 AM (6fyGz)

615 Well fuck it, if you're gonna drink I might as well crack open the mead.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 29, 2014 01:01 AM (FMbng)



Might as well. No sense in me being hung over and miserable by myself.


Pinterest and its search engine are my best friends



Posted by: kbdabear at November 29, 2014 12:59 AM (GrXXa)




Bless you.

FWIW, it seems like people are really fucking slow when I'm driving the 'stang.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 01:05 AM (6fyGz)

616 I'm back everybody.

Well, I chose to watch "Catch-22." Beginning to think the critics were right, the novel's just about unfilmable, as there was a lot of stuff I didn't think quite made sense. On the other hand, it *is* surprisingly funny in spots.

Will definitely watch "From Russia With Love" tomorrow night. Thanks to all with info and tips on the Bond flicks. Yeah, I've a hunch I'll be surprised which ones I like and which I don't so much.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:05 AM (fGApK)

617 So the answer would be 9


Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 29, 2014 01:01 AM (Vyg9x)


42.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 01:05 AM (6fyGz)

618 TAD for 4 days. I'm having the initial planning conference for my next experiment.


Posted by: CDR M at November 28, 2014 10:03 PM (93D1V)


Now I can't help but wonder if we are working parallel projects.

Good evening, everyone.

Posted by: Country Singer at November 29, 2014 01:05 AM (nL0sw)

619 Umlauts are for pussies.

Posted by: The Wizard of Diacritic Mars and Stuff at November 29, 2014 01:07 AM (MPK82)

620 Also thought folks would be interested: have an FB friend who got himself a nice set of salt and pepper grinders as an advance Christmas gift to himself.

Looked nice, but of course I'm trying to be a bit more responsible with my money, so I got myself a "Private Selection" Peppercorn Medley Grinder from my friendly neighborhood Ralphs store (actually Kroger). Surprised how good that stuff tastes on other stuff, including steak and mashed taters (which is what I had tonight).

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:08 AM (fGApK)

621 To all - thank you for the kind words and encouragement.

Farmer, don't know what is wrong with my phone but when I clicked on the link I got the 404 error. So let me say you have my prayers and gratitude. Thank you.

Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 01:13 AM (cb/hk)

622 Seems like every night, someone here has lost someone close to them. Sad.

I admit that once my Mom passes, I'm probably going to have to all but move to another state, because there's too many places, songs, and other things that will most likely repeatedly leave me a blubbering mess here in SoCal, whenever I should encounter them again.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:16 AM (fGApK)

623 620
Also thought folks would be interested: have an FB friend who got
himself a nice set of salt and pepper grinders as an advance Christmas
gift to himself.



Looked nice, but of course I'm trying to be a bit more responsible
with my money, so I got myself a "Private Selection" Peppercorn Medley
Grinder from my friendly neighborhood Ralphs store (actually Kroger).
Surprised how good that stuff tastes on other stuff, including steak and
mashed taters (which is what I had tonight).

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:08 AM (fGApK)


The quality of a pepper grinder is based on how predictable and uniform the results are. If you grind pepper into a bowl, you'll see some particles as small as dust and some good-sized chunks (particularly when grinding a Peppercorn Medley, because all the peppers are different sized going in).

I should also note that the grinders I use most often are not my best ones.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 01:17 AM (T1005)

624 42.


Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 01:05 AM (6fyGz)

Denken Sie bitte.

Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 29, 2014 01:19 AM (Vyg9x)

625 cthulhu, right. Also, the grinder I'm using is obviously plastic and disposable. I imagine you get consistently better results with a grinder with a metal blade.

Having said that, gotta save those pennies for now. But eventually...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:19 AM (fGApK)

626 625
cthulhu, right. Also, the grinder I'm using is obviously plastic and
disposable. I imagine you get consistently better results with a grinder
with a metal blade.



Having said that, gotta save those pennies for now. But eventually...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:19 AM (fGApK)


Oh -- I think I know what you've got now! I use one to grind my szechuan pepper. It's like a little spice jar with a plastic grinder for a lid -- got mine at Trader Joe's.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 01:22 AM (T1005)

627 cthulhu, exactamundo. It works well enough.

I also got one with Italian/pizza seasonings in it. Gonna be great next time I bring something home from Round Table or Pizzamania. Yum...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:24 AM (fGApK)

628
grinder


I picked up a ceramic mortar & pestle at World Market for a couple of bucks. It makes a nice powder.

Posted by: Arbalest at November 29, 2014 01:26 AM (FlRtG)

629 Arbalest, hmm, never thought of that. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:27 AM (fGApK)

630 ...Archangel Thunderbird" by Amon Duul II:

That vocalist reminds me of Geddy Lee.

I hate Geddy Lee.

Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 01:27 AM (s59jq)

631
qdpsteve:

Just be sure to keep it away from potions and brews ... there's a history involved.

Posted by: Arbalest at November 29, 2014 01:29 AM (FlRtG)

632 I hate Geddy Lee.


Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 01:27 AM (s59jq)



whaaaa????

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 29, 2014 01:31 AM (6fyGz)

633 627
cthulhu, exactamundo. It works well enough.



I also got one with Italian/pizza seasonings in it. Gonna be great
next time I bring something home from Round Table or Pizzamania. Yum...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:24 AM (fGApK)


When you get to the part where you refill it, be careful not to get the Mexican oregano -- which, if labeled in Spanish, will say "entero". If you notice that looks an awful lot like "entire", that is correct -- Mexican oregano has bits of stems and flowers in it. You want "oregano leaf" -- otherwise you'll think your 'za just got back from a hike when you eat it.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 01:31 AM (T1005)

634 Hey, did I mention I have another job interview Monday? Only downside: it's with two people who I've *already interviewed with TWICE* for the same freakin' job, and both times in the past they turned me down. Now they have yet another position available.

I'll admit that if they want me to go through the whole rigamorole of answering the same dumb questions a THIRD time, I'm going to have a hard time gritting my teeth and doing it. They already know my qualifications. Either they like me or they don't. I'm hoping they'll at least have the common sense and decency to keep it short and ask me for new information, or let me know why they do and/or don't like me for the job.

Of course the job is at a local community college, so it could also be just another part of their "drive whitey crazy" PC program. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:33 AM (fGApK)

635 628


grinder





I picked up a ceramic mortar pestle at World Market for a couple of bucks. It makes a nice powder.





Posted by: Arbalest at November 29, 2014 01:26 AM (FlRtG)


You might have noted the three I have in my kitchen -- two marble (sizes), one granite....or you may not have, considering they were buried under coupons, cell-phone chargers, and the like.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 01:34 AM (T1005)

636 whaaaa????

I know Lee has many fans, but to me, his high-pitched voice irritates the hell out of me like a fingernail being scraped across a chalkboard. I can't listen to it for more than about a minute without having to forcefully switch off the radio.

Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 01:35 AM (s59jq)

637 Pavianhodensack

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 29, 2014 01:35 AM (fIv/H)

638 Only downside: it's with two people who I've *already interviewed with TWICE* for the same freakin' job, and both times in the past they turned me down.

Yeah, I've been through these. You want to say, 'Look, we've been through this before, you know who I am, you know my qualifications, you know what I can do, so let's just cut the bullshit and either hire me or not.' But you can't, so you have to go through the Kabuki dance one more time.

Sucks.

Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 01:39 AM (s59jq)

639 636
whaaaa????

I know Lee has many fans, but to me, his
high-pitched voice irritates the hell out of me like a fingernail being
scraped across a chalkboard. I can't listen to it for more than about a
minute without having to forcefully switch off the radio.


Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 01:35 AM (s59jq)

It is an acquired taste. How do you like Rush's instrumental works?

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 01:39 AM (T1005)

640 OregonMuse: exactly!!! Thank you.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:40 AM (fGApK)

641 Farmer, don't know what is wrong with my phone but when I clicked on the link I got the 404 error. So let me say you have my prayers and gratitude. Thank you.
Posted by: tbodie at November 29, 2014 01:13 AM

You ever want to talk I'm at tandjules@ comcast.net, just delete the space between @ and Comcast.

Tough to lose your Mother. The world is really different when she is no longer around.

Be well all you Morons. I'm back to work tomorrow...oh joy.

Posted by: Farmer at November 29, 2014 01:40 AM (o/90i)

642
cthulhu:

I did not see them. I was studying the layout and appliances. I noticed that your microwave was at oven-height. I thought about that for a while, and that may be the best location: no counterspace used, no upper cabinet space used, and the lower cabinet is a small one anyway ... and you have a microwave.

Posted by: Arbalest at November 29, 2014 01:40 AM (FlRtG)

643 Hmmm, just discovered a(nother) reality show, "Fat Guys in the Woods" on (of all places) The Weather Channel. Outdoor survival guru teaches couch potatoes how to survive in the wild. Not overly kitschy so far.

Posted by: Country Singer at November 29, 2014 01:41 AM (nL0sw)

644 638
Only downside: it's with two people who I've *already interviewed
with TWICE* for the same freakin' job, and both times in the past they
turned me down.

Yeah, I've been through these. You want to
say, 'Look, we've been through this before, you know who I am, you know
my qualifications, you know what I can do, so let's just cut the
bullshit and either hire me or not.' But you can't, so you have to go
through the Kabuki dance one more time.

Sucks.


Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 01:39 AM (s59jq)


On the other hand, they might be thinking, "There were a lot of things to like about this guy, but he always seemed a bit 'wishy-washy'. If he only gave us some sign he's the sort of person that might say 'cut the crap' and mean it......"

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 01:41 AM (T1005)

645 Evenin' everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 29, 2014 01:42 AM (UVfht)

646 cthulhu, that's also a good point.

I'm tempted to ask them at the end of the interview, "I've seen you both before and I think you remember me. What holes am I leaving in my qualifications that's caused you to have second thoughts about me in the past? Maybe there's more I should tell you about myself so that you'll get a fuller picture of how well-qualified I am."

OTOH, maybe that's a bit too much "on the nose."

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:43 AM (fGApK)

647 It is an acquired taste. How do you like Rush's instrumental works?

I haven't listened to them enough to have an opinion.

Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 01:43 AM (s59jq)

648 I *love* Mystic Rhythms.

It was the theme music for a short-lived Connie Chung newsmagazine years ago titled, "1986." (Which kind of gives away when it was on.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:44 AM (fGApK)

649 I know Lee has many fans, but to me, his

high-pitched voice irritates the hell out of me like a fingernail being

scraped across a chalkboard. I can't listen to it for more than about a

minute without having to forcefully switch off the radio.




Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 01:35 AM (s59jq)

It is an acquired taste. How do you like Rush's instrumental works?


Agreed. It took me a long time to like Robert Plant/Led Zepplin. Nearly everyone of my friends in HS loved Zep. I had to smoke a lot of dope before succumbing.

Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 01:45 AM (2X7pN)

650 642


cthulhu:



I did not see them. I was studying the layout and appliances. I
noticed that your microwave was at oven-height. I thought about that for
a while, and that may be the best location: no counterspace used, no
upper cabinet space used, and the lower cabinet is a small one anyway
... and you have a microwave.



Posted by: Arbalest at November 29, 2014 01:40 AM (FlRtG)


Actually, my oven is at oven-height, and my microwave is crammed under the countertop like ovens are normally crammed under cooktops in ranges. That particular microwave -- while not terribly expensive -- was a real find for that application. It is actually deeper than it is wide, and the entire front face is the door.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 01:46 AM (T1005)

651 Hmmm, just discovered a(nother) reality show, "Fat Guys in the Woods" on (of all places) The Weather Channel.

Do you remember when The Weather Channel had weather?
When the History Channel had history.
When the Learning Channel had learning.
When Biography had biographies of people who mattered.
When MTV had music videos.....................

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 29, 2014 01:47 AM (W5DcG)

652 OTOH, maybe that's a bit too much "on the nose."

No, I disagree, I think it's an excellent question; it's *precisely* the question that should be asked in this set of circumstances.

And don't be surprised if they say nothing, look away, and start shuffling their papers.

Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 01:48 AM (s59jq)

653 Do you remember when The Weather Channel had weather?

When the History Channel had history.

When the Learning Channel had learning.

When Biography had biographies of people who mattered.

When MTV had music videos.....................


Yeah, before I became eligible for the Denny's senior discount. Thanks for the reminder.

Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 01:48 AM (2X7pN)

654 Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 29, 2014 01:47 AM (W5DcG)

It really is bad, isn't it?

Add:

When Arts and Entertainment had arts and entertainment.
When Family had family programming (now they mix in family shows with junk like lesbian "families" and pregnant teens).

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at November 29, 2014 01:50 AM (nvq3r)

655 647
It is an acquired taste. How do you like Rush's instrumental works?

I haven't listened to them enough to have an opinion.


Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 01:43 AM (s59jq)


That might be why you haven't acquired the taste. I don't think anyone starts out listening to Rush because of Geddy's voice....but after you put up with it a while, you can tolerate it better.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 01:50 AM (T1005)

656 Agreed. It took me a long time to like Robert Plant/Led Zepplin. Nearly everyone of my friends in HS loved Zep. I had to smoke a lot of dope before succumbing.

What's funny is that I don't mind Plant in the least, and his voice bears some similarity to Lee's.

Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 01:50 AM (s59jq)

657 OregonMuse, thanks and yep. :-)

I've applied for so many jobs at LBCC over the past several years now, that I'm beginning to give up. It's become more and more obvious to me IMHO, they're *not* evaluating me based on my qualifications. They're doing the same old subjective bullshit too many other interviewers do. "Well gee, he's not our best friend already though..."

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:51 AM (fGApK)

658
646 qdpsteve

I'm tempted to ask them at the end of the interview, "I've seen you both before and I think you remember me. ...

OTOH, maybe that's a bit too much "on the nose."


Let me interfere and meddle ... a bit too much.

If you've seen these guys before, and they've turned you down before, and implicitly, the job is similar, and requires similar experience, then your question might be better asked of HR. Not that these guys are the ones that disqualified you last time, or that they will this time, but you'd like to know why you're here ... again ... interviewing with the same people.

Posted by: Arbalest at November 29, 2014 01:53 AM (FlRtG)

659 Arbalest, good points.

It was explained to me, the department is growing and simply needs additional people.

But, I *would* very much like to write to HR, although my hunch is that they'll clam up. Lord knows how paranoid and averse to sharing this kind of information they are, because they don't want to give folks like me any excuse to sue.

Hate to sound paranoid but I *do* believe that old employers may also very well be badmouthing me, and am giving serious thought to hiring a screening service that will call them for me and find out what information they're giving out. Who knows, it might be quite the eye-opener.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:56 AM (fGApK)

660 Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 29, 2014 01:47 AM (W5DcG)




Remembered all too well. I like the program so far, though. But I'm still trying to figure out why TWC has a designated "survival expert."

Posted by: Country Singer at November 29, 2014 01:56 AM (nL0sw)

661 That might be why you haven't acquired the taste. I don't think anyone starts out listening to Rush because of Geddy's voice....but after you put up with it a while, you can tolerate it better.
Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 01:50 AM (T1005)


His voice smoothed over time.
The instrumentation just got better and better.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 29, 2014 01:56 AM (W5DcG)

662 Well, I chose to watch "Catch-22." Beginning to think the critics were right, the novel's just about unfilmable, as there was a lot of stuff I didn't think quite made sense. On the other hand, it *is* surprisingly funny in spots. Will definitely watch "From Russia With Love" tomorrow night. Thanks to all with info and tips on the Bond flicks. Yeah, I've a hunch I'll be surprised which ones I like and which I don't so much.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:05 AM

Catch 22 isn't a bad film. Some interesting and funny stuff was left out though, including a couple of great characters. Hard to imagine how one could do the book, though. What are you looking for in a Bond flick?

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 01:56 AM (tBSrv)

663 otho: yep, thanks.

Re the Bond flicks? I'm looking for the usual, action and the dry British humor. :-)

Although I'm getting the strong impression the Bond formula that I know didn't really come about until the Roger Moore years.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:58 AM (fGApK)

664 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Novel vs film. Quite different.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 29, 2014 01:59 AM (W5DcG)

665 Have a good night, y'all. I'm going to retire for the evening.

Posted by: Country Singer at November 29, 2014 02:00 AM (nL0sw)

666 What's funny is that I don't mind Plant in the least, and his voice bears some similarity to Lee's.

Interesting. I started getting back into sixties/seventies rock to make a workout playlist.

American Woman - The Guess Who
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
I Know A Little - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Katmandu - Bob Seger
Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Takin' Care of Business - BTO
Footstompin Music - Grand Funk Railroad
Fly by Night - Rush
Rock and Roll - Zepplin
Roadhouse Blues - Doors
Smokin' in the Boys Room - Brownsville Station
Tush - ZZ Top



Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:01 AM (2X7pN)

667 I've applied for so many jobs at LBCC over the past several years now, that I'm beginning to give up. It's become more and more obvious to me IMHO, they're *not* evaluating me based on my qualifications

I wonder if they're interviewing you just to fill some sort of internal quota? In other words, they have no intention of hiring you, they're just going through the motions just to check off a box on a report they have to file with HR.

I've known guys who've flown to another state at their expense for an interview only to be jerked around like this. It's absolutely maddening.

Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 02:01 AM (s59jq)

668 If I ever get to meet Jon Voight, would like to ask him what he thinks today of Catch-22 and the crazy capitalist character he played, Milo.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:02 AM (fGApK)

669 Doesn't anyone remember laughter?

Posted by: Geddy Lee at November 29, 2014 02:02 AM (MPK82)

670 OregonMuse: that's entirely possible as well. And yes, it's beyond maddening.

It's obvious to me by now that some people in charge of hiring and HR have just no sense of humanity or compassion, it's just a bureaucratic numbers game to them.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:03 AM (fGApK)

671 Doesn't anyone remember laughter?

Wasn't that a Guess Who song?

Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:04 AM (2X7pN)

672 651
Do you remember when The Weather Channel had weather?
When the History Channel had history.
When the Learning Channel had learning.
When Biography had biographies of people who mattered.
When MTV had music videos.....................

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 29, 2014 01:47 AM (W5DcG)



Yes. Get off my lawn.

Posted by: rickl at November 29, 2014 02:05 AM (sdi6R)

673 I need to cash in my chips, it's getting late. May Providence smile upon your upcoming interview, qdpsteve.

Night all.

Posted by: OregonMuse at November 29, 2014 02:05 AM (s59jq)

674 Doesn't anyone remember laughter?

Wasn't that a Guess Who song?
Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:04 AM (2X7pN)


I thought it was from Stairway to Heaven.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 29, 2014 02:06 AM (W5DcG)

675 Laughing was the Guess Who song? Maybe it is time for a Denny's senior breakfast run! D@mn!

Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:06 AM (2X7pN)

676 Oregon: thanks!! Goodnight.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:07 AM (fGApK)

677 658


646 qdpsteve



I'm tempted to ask them at the end of the interview, "I've seen you both before and I think you remember me. ...



OTOH, maybe that's a bit too much "on the nose."





Let me interfere and meddle ... a bit too much.



If you've seen these guys before, and they've turned you down
before, and implicitly, the job is similar, and requires similar
experience, then your question might be better asked of HR. Not that
these guys are the ones that disqualified you last time, or that they
will this time, but you'd like to know why you're here ... again ...
interviewing with the same people.



Posted by: Arbalest at November 29, 2014 01:53 AM (FlRtG)


I've hired a whole bunch of people over the years, mainly in the field of accounting, and there is actually a real dynamic that can come into play. You start out with one conception of the job and gradually come around to another. It's like one place I was working where we kept hiring receptionists -- we started out with "attractive, friendly, outgoing, happy"....and kept ending up with "spends all her time chatting with the vendors -- who are flirting with her in our entry hall instead of making the goddamned parts we need to keep the place running" and "comes in late every other day looking rumpled after clubbing" and "ok, which engineer is she dating now?"

And somehow that "attractive, friendly, outgoing, happy" turns into "can reliably get their ugly-ass in to unlock the doors at 8 am". Even though it's the same job.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 02:07 AM (T1005)

678 Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:02 AM (fGApK)

Milo Minderbinder...chocolate covered cotton.

Posted by: BignJames at November 29, 2014 02:09 AM (HtUkt)

679 Re the Bond flicks? I'm looking for the usual, action and the dry British humor. :-) Although I'm getting the strong impression the Bond formula that I know didn't really come about until the Roger Moore years.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:58 AM

Hmmmm. Do you like the Moore years? Which ones have you seen (all eras)? I'm a Bond fan, but there aren't that many I'd actually call classics, as in near perfect blend of Bond formula coupled with super filmmaking. However, they're all pretty good fun if you just want some yucks, some action and whatnot. If there's one thing I give the "new reboot" Bond movies and Daniel Craig credit for... it's making me reevaluate the Moore years. I know think "jeez, you know what? those weren't so bad after all."

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 02:10 AM (tBSrv)

680 Geddy Lee probably hasn't sung in a high pitch voice in 30 years. They don't even tune normal when they do their older stuff, they are usually tuned down a lot just so he can get anywhere near where he used to be. Compared to how he sang on the 2112 album he's practically a tenor these days.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 29, 2014 02:14 AM (FMbng)

681 No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!

Posted by: Auric Goldfinger at November 29, 2014 02:15 AM (W5DcG)

682 Lede on Late News in Seattle (ABC,NBC,CBS) was...
SNOW MAY FALL!
At least terrorized kids came up on the second report, five minutes in.
Cops looked really pissed that they could not clean up the trash. DOJ sued them and they are on a choke chain from City Hall. Can't wait for a statement by Mayor Eunich.
They could not scare up a 5 person vigilance committee in that city.

Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at November 29, 2014 02:16 AM (0atFl)

683

cthulhu:
" ... You start out with one conception of the job and gradually come around to another ..."


I've run in to several different bad situations: one where I had everything except "digital design" (I'm a software engineer; why would I do digital design or do board bring-up?), a "startup mentality" (the job was at a large company), one where the last interview was with the GM, who had not read my resume, and tried to wing it, "AGILE!!1!1" (may they get all the prototypes they can stand for their time and budget) ... and a few recent applications where I get an e-mail asking me to fill out a questionnaire, and then another e-mail, perhaps 10 minutes after the first, saying, effectively, that I'm not a fit (I respond with "No Interview" and that I will call the state in a month or two, to ensure this).

Sometimes, the fault is indeed within the company, and they need to be called out.

You won't get the job, but you might not want it.

Posted by: Arbalest at November 29, 2014 02:19 AM (FlRtG)

684 I'll always associate Rush and Geddy with pool halls. First place I heard the band. I had no idea what the fuck he was saying but I found them to be much more interesting than the other fare on the jukebox like Van Halen, Ozzy, Poison, etc.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 29, 2014 02:20 AM (s9AKD)

685 663
otho: yep, thanks.



Re the Bond flicks? I'm looking for the usual, action and the dry British humor. :-)



Although I'm getting the strong impression the Bond formula that I know didn't really come about until the Roger Moore years.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 01:58 AM (fGApK)


In Dr. No, the first Bond film, early on (when Bond just arrives in Jamaica), he has a brief fight with a would-be assassin. When Bond starts to interrogate him, he kills himself with a cyanide cigarette. Bond then puts him in Bond's car, drives to Government House, gets out, and hands off the keys to security saying, "Sergeant, make sure he doesn't get away."

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 02:21 AM (T1005)

686 The Oakland protesters crossed the bay and attack San Francisco today/night. They blocked BART for two hours, pissing off the entire Bay Area (incluidng all ethnicities), and then went to Union Square and tried to spoil the "holiday tree" lighting. When they were rebuffed by the cops, the protesters went berserk and smashed up a...

...a...

...hmmm, what would make a strong political statement...

...what for it...

...a Pinkberry frozen yogurt shop! Yeah! Revolution! Goddamn fuckin' capitalist yogurt! Grrrrrr!

Posted by: zombie at November 29, 2014 02:21 AM (K4YiS)

687 otho: interestingly actually, I don't think there's a single Roger Moore Bond flick I've seen *all the way through.*

I *did* see Golden Eye years ago and thought it was good but nothing spectacular.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:21 AM (fGApK)

688 what for it = wait for it

Posted by: zombie at November 29, 2014 02:22 AM (K4YiS)

689 And yeah, the thing I'm hearing now is that the most recent Bond flicks are kind of humorless.

To me the humor is *exactly* what made the Bond flicks special.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:23 AM (fGApK)

690 cthulhu, LOL. :-)

And Arbalest, yep. Too much procedure and not enough actual evaluation.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:24 AM (fGApK)

691 This is the pepper mill I have:

https://tinyurl.com/ouaah74


Oddly, there are no reviews. The 7.1" size has plenty of reviews:

https://tinyurl.com/pstpjcs


That's the one I first bought, then found that it didn't quite fit on the shelf where I wanted to keep it, so I exchanged it for the 4.7" version.

Zassenhaus makes four different sizes. There are also 9.4" and 11.8" models. They all have the same grinding mechanism; the only difference is the storage capacity for peppercorns. The smallest size is perfectly adequate for home use. If you own a restaurant, you'll want one of the larger ones.

Posted by: rickl at November 29, 2014 02:25 AM (sdi6R)

692 cthulhu, I missed that line in Dr. No.

I admit I'm the type who needs to watch a movie at least twice most of the time, to "get" most of the dialogue, twists/turns and jokes.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:26 AM (fGApK)

693 In Dr. No, the first Bond film, early on (when Bond just arrives in Jamaica), he has a brief fight with a would-be assassin. When Bond starts to interrogate him, he kills himself with a cyanide cigarette. Bond then puts him in Bond's car, drives to Government House, gets out, and hands off the keys to security saying, "Sergeant, make sure he doesn't get away."

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 02:21 AM

yeah, the ingredients were all there, right from the start. The difference between the Conery years and the Moore years was the balance... or something. Most of the Moore ones lacked... gravitas. Well, whatever gravitas you can put into a Bond flick, anyway.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 02:26 AM (tBSrv)

694 rickl: ah, the classics. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:27 AM (fGApK)

695 Geddy Lee probably hasn't sung in a high pitch voice in 30 years. They
don't even tune normal when they do their older stuff, they are usually
tuned down a lot just so he can get anywhere near where he used to be.
Compared to how he sang on the 2112 album he's practically a tenor these
days.


I wanted to see Rush the last time they were in Orlando, but they wanted $250 for the worst seats. While I do have disposable income, I'm not that big a Rush fan.

Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:27 AM (2X7pN)

696 http://tinyurl.com/knl2arv

"Demonstrations in San Francisco's Union Square escalated Friday evening as several hundred protesters marched on Market Street and some smashed businesses' windows or set off fireworks along the way....

Several hundred protesters tried to enter the square and join the demonstration when police herded them down Market Street.

Protesters could be heard yelling, "Missouri, Palestine, justice now," and "No justice, no peace."

At one point, the window at Crate and Barrel was smashed, along with windows at Grace Jewelry, located at 121 O'Farrell St. An employee at Grace Jewelry said he saw a young man use a sledgehammer to smash the window.

"It's hard to imagine someone being so violent," the employee said.

The Apple store locked their doors and wouldn't let people in or out. ...

At one point, protesters threw a brick through a police car's window. An officer was also hit in the head with a brick. That officer is expected to be OK.

Some people set off fireworks and chanted, "SFPD, how do you spell murder?" as drivers in cars honked their horns in support."

Insert sarcastic comment here. Though nor are even necessary at this point, the leftists having long since become self-parodies who are their own worst enemies -- a walking public-relations disaster.

Posted by: zombie at November 29, 2014 02:28 AM (K4YiS)

697 Protests are mostly worthless acts anyway. Make a politician/government employee fear for their job is much more effective.

Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:30 AM (2X7pN)

698 I wanted to see Rush the last time they were in Orlando, but they wanted $250 for the worst seats. While I do have disposable income, I'm not that big a Rush fan.
Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:27 AM (2X7pN)


Back in the 70's a concert ticket cost about the same as an album. They went crazy later on.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 29, 2014 02:31 AM (W5DcG)

699 I admit: if I ever make it as a screenwriter, I'm gonna try to write a Bond movie... and have it set entirely in Orange County.

Let's see James navigate some of the crazy traffic on the Northbound 5, shall we? ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:31 AM (fGApK)

700 683




cthulhu:

" ... You start out with one conception of the job and gradually come around to another ..."





I've run in to several different bad situations: one where I had
everything except "digital design" (I'm a software engineer; why would I
do digital design or do board bring-up?), a "startup mentality" (the
job was at a large company), one where the last interview was with the
GM, who had not read my resume, and tried to wing it, "AGILE!!1!1" (may
they get all the prototypes they can stand for their time and budget)
... and a few recent applications where I get an e-mail asking me to
fill out a questionnaire, and then another e-mail, perhaps 10 minutes
after the first, saying, effectively, that I'm not a fit (I respond with
"No Interview" and that I will call the state in a month or two, to
ensure this).



Sometimes, the fault is indeed within the company, and they need to be called out.



You won't get the job, but you might not want it.



Posted by: Arbalest at November 29, 2014 02:19 AM (FlRtG)


Hiring/Firing is an intensely fucked-up process from both sides.....and, as government gets increasingly involved, it's getting worse. The fiancee actually was a manager of tech support at Resumix, and the cat-and-mouse games of "buzzword bingo" are just insane. I don't know of any hiring manager who isn't pissed-off at HR for filtering all the qualified people out of resumes submitted, while pushing dubious candidates who utterly collapse during interviews. And then, if you do hire someone they give you -- after all, you've got a crying need if you put yourself through the process at all -- any employee problem that ever arises afterwards is entirely your fault. It's like they want you to filter out the crazies and let them filter out the qualifications, when it really should be the other way around.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 02:32 AM (T1005)

701 616 -- qdpsteve -- I think you'll like FRWL... I regard it as one of the classic Bond films that stuck the right balance. The Q 'tricks' are kept to a minimum; it focuses on spy craft and the usual Bond/female(s) high-jinks.

Yeah, I know that gadgets are part of the Bond schtick, but there were films were that aspect became a plot crutch, or so gratuitous that I got the feeling that the writers/production folks were pandering to the audience.

I part, that's why I appreciated the recent Craig films... they were examples of the franchise returning to its roots.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 02:34 AM (/mTq0)

702 Back in the 70's a concert ticket cost about the same as an album. They went crazy later on.

I saw the Rolling Stones in Syracuse's Carrier Dome in 1982 for $25. Molly Hatchet and Santana played first. Great concert.

Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:34 AM (2X7pN)

703 The recent Bonds do have humor; it's just a bit more subtle. And again, too much spoils the broth.

The only thing that's become annoying is the BBC-style Multi-Culti Disease; forcing ethnic characters into the mythos is so transparently obvious it's just annoying.

They could have just inserted the most obvious twist; instead of Bond going 'rogue' in Der Schweitzer Alpen, just have him wandering around in Bombay - err, excuse me, Mumbai.

No pandering, no affectation. Just a straight, hard as nails spy story with realistic cross-cultural awkwardness and eventual heroism.

They could have done a half dozen episodes of Bond in former colonies to satisfy all that zealous multi-culti fantasy shit.

ABER NEIN!

I'm still half-contemplating a pseudo-Bond novel in India just out of spite.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 29, 2014 02:35 AM (s9AKD)

704 Insert sarcastic comment here. Though nor are even necessary at this point, the leftists having long since become self-parodies who are their own worst enemies -- a walking public-relations disaster.

Posted by: zombie at November 29, 2014 02:28 AM (K4YiS)


Yet, who keeps getting reelected in CA. ?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 29, 2014 02:35 AM (W5DcG)

705 otho: interestingly actually, I don't think there's a single Roger Moore Bond flick I've seen *all the way through.* I *did* see Golden Eye years ago and thought it was good but nothing spectacular.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:21 AM

Each of the Moore flicks have something to offer, but none are what I'd call classic (but, what makes a "classic" Bond flick is highly subjective). "Live and Let Die" is probably Moore's best Bond portrayal, it's his first and he he kind of makes it work. Dumb flick, though, but it has it's moments. "For Your Eyes Only" is arguably his best one, overall. "A View to a Kill" is woeful, but dammit, it has Christopher Walken and Grace Jones chewing scenery as baddies, so there's that. "Moonraker" is excrement. 'Nuff said."Octopussy" is pretty trite, also.

I rate "Goldeneye" highly. An actual classic. The last great Bond flick. Maybe even the last good one. The Daniel Craig Bond flicks are not Bond. They're charmless actioners that just go through the motions and are not even very well made. "Casion Royale" is decent enough, if you ignore Craig as Bond. "Skyfall"... oh my God. Worst. Bond. Ever.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 02:36 AM (tBSrv)

706 686
The Oakland protesters crossed the bay and attack San Francisco
today/night. They blocked BART for two hours, pissing off the entire Bay
Area (incluidng all ethnicities), and then went to Union Square and
tried to spoil the "holiday tree" lighting. When they were rebuffed by
the cops, the protesters went berserk and smashed up a...



...a...



...hmmm, what would make a strong political statement...



...what for it...



...a Pinkberry frozen yogurt shop! Yeah! Revolution! Goddamn fuckin' capitalist yogurt! Grrrrrr!

Posted by: zombie at November 29, 2014 02:21 AM (K4YiS)


They're actively looking for a crackdown, so they can point their fingers at cops and reasonable people and call for a government action. They'd better be really careful about doing these little field trips to SF, 'cause they could all end up in BD dungeons instead.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 02:36 AM (T1005)

707 695
I wanted to see Rush the last time they were in Orlando, but they wanted $250 for the worst seats. While I do have disposable income, I'm not that big a Rush fan.
Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:27 AM (2X7pN)


Holy crap. I saw Bob Dylan last weekend, and the best seats were $139. That's by far the most I've ever paid for a ticket. It was worth every penny, BTW.

Posted by: rickl at November 29, 2014 02:38 AM (sdi6R)

708 ...a Pinkberry frozen yogurt shop! Yeah! Revolution! Goddamn fuckin' capitalist yogurt! Grrrrrr!

Yeah, I can't remember where the college protest was that some douchenozzle was decrying "corporate" water while trying to find an outlet for his iPad.

Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:40 AM (2X7pN)

709 CPT Charles: well, you made me look forward to FRWL even more then, thanks. :-)

Weft-cut loop, yep, sounds like what I call Disney Disease. Multiculturalism sometimes comes before being entertaining too often in too many films.

And otho, thanks for that too. Will have to look at Goldeneye again. I do remember I was in a bit of a mood when I watched it-- I had been arguing with a loved one-- so it's entirely possible I missed a lot there.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:41 AM (fGApK)

710 Holy crap. I saw Bob Dylan last weekend, and the best seats were $139.
That's by far the most I've ever paid for a ticket. It was worth every
penny, BTW.


Bob Dylan's voice has probably held up better than most. Talk about an acquired taste.

Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:42 AM (2X7pN)

711 693
In Dr. No, the first Bond film, early on (when Bond just arrives in
Jamaica), he has a brief fight with a would-be assassin. When Bond
starts to interrogate him, he kills himself with a cyanide cigarette.
Bond then puts him in Bond's car, drives to Government House, gets out,
and hands off the keys to security saying, "Sergeant, make sure he
doesn't get away."



Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 02:21 AM



yeah, the ingredients were all there, right from the start. The
difference between the Conery years and the Moore years was the
balance... or something. Most of the Moore ones lacked... gravitas.
Well, whatever gravitas you can put into a Bond flick, anyway.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 02:26 AM (tBSrv)


The Connery films were edgy and disturbing. In Goldfinger, everyone at Fort Knox could actually be dead. Bond was occasionally brutal -- in Dr. No, there's this little exchange:
[Professor Dent tries to kill Bond, but his gun is out of bullets]

James Bond: That's a Smith Wesson, and you've had your six.

[shoots Dent twice]

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 02:44 AM (T1005)

712 cthulhu, *that* line I caught in Dr. No.

I know that the early Bond films were unapologetically (a) violent, and (b) *un*feminist.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:45 AM (fGApK)

713 I wanted to see Rush the last time they were in Orlando, but they wanted $250 for the worst seats. While I do have disposable income, I'm not that big a Rush fan.


Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:27 AM (2X7pN)


yeah that shit is obscene. Last time I saw them it was $100. Rush used to be my only break from metal, but I haven't liked the last 20 years of albums to pay $250 to see them. On the other hand, I'll think nothing of blowing 2K on a metal cruise and see a fuck ton of bands.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 29, 2014 02:45 AM (FMbng)

714 710
Bob Dylan's voice has probably held up better than most. Talk about an acquired taste.
Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:42 AM (2X7pN)


His voice sounded better than I've heard it in years. The venue was Philadelphia's Academy of Music, which normally hosts symphony orchestras and operas, so maybe the acoustics were better than most of the places he plays.

The first concert I ever saw was Lou Reed when I was in college in 1978. The ticket cost $8.

Posted by: rickl at November 29, 2014 02:48 AM (sdi6R)

715 Berserker, metal fan eh? ;-)

Don't know if they count as metal, but my most recent CD purchase at Amazon was a copy of Slade's "The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome." I had a copy of "Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply" back in the day, and still love it (as well as that title!).

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:48 AM (fGApK)

716 The first concert I ever saw was Lou Reed when I was in college in 1978. The ticket cost $8.

My first concert was free. Blue Oyster Cult at the Saratoga Performing Art Center.I think it was 1974.

Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:51 AM (2X7pN)

717 The Connery films were edgy and disturbing. In Goldfinger, everyone at Fort Knox could actually be dead. Bond was occasionally brutal -- in Dr. No, there's this little exchange:[Professor Dent tries to kill Bond, but his gun is out of bullets]James Bond: That's a Smith Wesson, and you've had your six.[shoots Dent twice]

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 02:44 AM

Yeah, that's a good description. They had an edge and were disturbing. But, not all the Connery flicks were so inclined (overall). After "Goldfinger", they got a bit... dunno, lighter? Even Goldfinger was a big departure from No and FRWL. However they still carried weight. I've come to really dig "You only Live Twice" over the years and I think it has displaced FRWL as the best Connery Bond film. Dunno why... it just works better and has a grand quality that the earlier ones lacked. Yes, it's often silly, but dammit, it's Bond, James Bond. Even the mostly laughable "Diamonds are Forever" works due to Connery!

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 02:51 AM (tBSrv)

718 686 -- zombie -- In a way, it's a pity that stupid shit like this isn't happening in 2016...

...given the chain of relationships, this sorta crap reflects badly on the Left, which is increasingly being linked to the 'rats.

Just imagine someone like Warren being put on the spot about such behavior... IMO, she'd reflexively defend their 'acting up'.

The democrats were clever about this, they'd publicly turn their backs on these scumbags... but they can't... because they are the 'rats most reliable foot-soldiers.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 02:53 AM (/mTq0)

719 Have a good night all. I'm going to watch Lone Survivor on HBO and then cook breakfast for the family. Fcuk Denny's and my senior discount.

Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:54 AM (2X7pN)

720 There's no amount of crapping on Roger Moore that will cause me to rethink my affection for his Bond flicks.

The first Bond I saw in a theater was View To A Kill. First time I heard Duran Duran for that matter.

Yes, Moore's a hammy, animated manikin who just slinks through scenes without any kind of traction to the plot.

It was a spectacle in the original sense. Just excess, over-the-top cinema.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 29, 2014 02:54 AM (s9AKD)

721 I can burn my own bacon!

Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:54 AM (2X7pN)

722 And otho, thanks for that too. Will have to look at Goldeneye again. I do remember I was in a bit of a mood when I watched it-- I had been arguing with a loved one-- so it's entirely possible I missed a lot there.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 02:41 AM

It's really, really good. Well filmed, great pacing, killer theme, arguably the best opening setup scene of all, Sean Bean as villain, Joe Don Baker and Robbie Coltrane are great, Brosnan actually makes a stellar Bond... and it has the perfect blend for what plays out like a classic mid 60's Connery fun fest. Classic.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 02:57 AM (tBSrv)

723 717
The Connery films were edgy and disturbing. In Goldfinger, everyone at
Fort Knox could actually be dead. Bond was occasionally brutal -- in Dr.
No, there's this little exchange:[Professor Dent tries to kill Bond,
but his gun is out of bullets]James Bond: That's a Smith Wesson, and
you've had your six.[shoots Dent twice]



Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 02:44 AM



Yeah, that's a good description. They had an edge and were
disturbing. But, not all the Connery flicks were so inclined (overall).
After "Goldfinger", they got a bit... dunno, lighter? Even Goldfinger
was a big departure from No and FRWL. However they still carried weight.
I've come to really dig "You only Live Twice" over the years and I
think it has displaced FRWL as the best Connery Bond film. Dunno why...
it just works better and has a grand quality that the earlier ones
lacked. Yes, it's often silly, but dammit, it's Bond, James Bond. Even
the mostly laughable "Diamonds are Forever" works due to Connery!

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 02:51 AM (tBSrv)


Don't forget "Never Say Never Again" -- which has an amazing backstory as to how it exists at all.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 02:57 AM (T1005)

724 716
My first concert was free. Blue Oyster Cult at the Saratoga Performing Art Center.I think it was 1974.

Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:51 AM (2X7pN)



I saw the Grateful Dead there in 1984 and 85. They weren't free, but good times were had by all.

Posted by: rickl at November 29, 2014 02:58 AM (sdi6R)

725 Okay folks, gotta call it a night.

Thanks for all the great chat!! Will share my thoughts on FRWL tomorrow night. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2014 03:04 AM (fGApK)

726 723
Don't forget "Never Say Never Again" -- which has an amazing backstory as to how it exists at all.


Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 02:57 AM (T1005)


Just a taste: "This "Bond film" was not part of the franchise produced by MGM and Danjaq. Kevin McClory, who was producer and co-writer of Thunderball (1965), won a legal battle against Ian Fleming to make his own Bond movie. The settlement stipulated that it had to effectively be a remake of Thunderball."

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 03:04 AM (T1005)

727 Don't forget "Never Say Never Again" -- which has an amazing backstory as to how it exists at all.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 02:57 AM

I liked that one. For some reason it holds up well compared to Thunderball, maybe even better, in some ways. I alwys thought Thunderball is a bit clunky, which NSNA manages to avoid (mostly)... or something.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 03:05 AM (tBSrv)

728 717 -- otho -- The major factor of Goldfinger vs. the other early Bond flicks, was the emphasis of the 'Bond and Babes' angle... he went thru 3 women in that film; it was damn-near a record in that respect.

Yes, you had the gadgets, the grand scheme of a (non-SPECTER) villain, and a globe-spanning plot, but that film, the varied women in the film stood in the first rank of the film's crafting.

With YOLT, the was an equal number of women, but the plot drove the film, first and foremost. It too is in my 'top 5' Bond flicks...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 03:09 AM (/mTq0)

729 "
There's no amount of crapping on Roger Moore that will cause me to rethink my affection for his Bond flicks.
"


My favorite Bond movies are Connery. But, but, I do not discount Moore. Just liked the guy. And he is a good guy by all accounts in real life. He was great in "The Saint."

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 29, 2014 03:11 AM (1/vWy)

730 727
Don't forget "Never Say Never Again" -- which has an amazing backstory as to how it exists at all.



Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 02:57 AM



I liked that one. For some reason it holds up well compared to
Thunderball, maybe even better, in some ways. I alwys thought
Thunderball is a bit clunky, which NSNA manages to avoid (mostly)... or
something.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 03:05 AM (tBSrv)


It's a bit unusual for cinema to get two bites of the apple....with the same lead.

Favorite bit from Thunderball -- in spa, walks briskly down corridor.... without breaking stride, elbow shoots out and hits fire alarm. Favorite bit from NSNA -- in spa, after lab fight, finding out the source for "pepper spray".

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 03:12 AM (T1005)

731 704 -- Bertram Cabot Jr. -- I've said it before, and I'll say it again: clean the illegals and zombies off the voter roles and Cali would look a bit redder than it currently does.

Are there actual pockets of Lefty Idiots in Commiefornia? Hell yes, but they wield power way above their actual numbers.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 03:18 AM (/mTq0)

732 I've been to Scaramanga's island.

Not out of being a fan of Bond films or any weirdo megalomaniac impulse, mind you. But there are only so many themed tours in Thailand that don't involve ... um, well, massages?

Sadly, there is no elevator down to his 'lair.' Or so they insisted.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 29, 2014 03:20 AM (s9AKD)

733 otho -- The major factor of Goldfinger vs. the other early Bond flicks, was the emphasis of the 'Bond and Babes' angle... he went thru 3 women in that film; it was damn-near a record in that respect.Yes, you had the gadgets, the grand scheme of a (non-SPECTER) villain, and a globe-spanning plot, but that film, the varied women in the film stood in the first rank of the film's crafting.With YOLT, the was an equal number of women, but the plot drove the film, first and foremost. It too is in my 'top 5' Bond flicks...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 03:09 AM

"Goldfinger" is a better film, for a number of reasons and I often have to check myself when naming YOLT as Connery's best. FRWL is very strong and well, Goldfinger is Goldfinger. But, for some reason I get a bigger kick out of YOLT. Maybe it's having the cliches turned up to 11 in a Connery flick?

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 03:21 AM (tBSrv)

734 My favorite Bond movies are Connery. But, but, I do not discount Moore. Just liked the guy. And he is a good guy by all accounts in real life. He was great in "The Saint."

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 29, 2014 03:11 AM

I USED to rubbish Moore. Back in the day when they were coming out. I've adjusted my opinion since then. Compared to the Craig flicks? Every Moore one is a classic. Even the terrible ones.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 03:24 AM (tBSrv)

735 716 My first concert was free. Blue Oyster Cult at the Saratoga Performing Art Center.I think it was 1974.


Posted by: hadoop at November 29, 2014 02:51 AM (2X7pN)
It was Saturday, September 14, 1974, according to:

http://www.blueoystercult.com/Road-main.html

I dig BOC also...

Posted by: Ian Galt at November 29, 2014 03:24 AM (dmepw)

736 733
otho -- The major factor of Goldfinger vs. the other early Bond flicks,
was the emphasis of the 'Bond and Babes' angle... he went thru 3 women
in that film; it was damn-near a record in that respect.Yes, you had the
gadgets, the grand scheme of a (non-SPECTER) villain, and a
globe-spanning plot, but that film, the varied women in the film stood
in the first rank of the film's crafting.With YOLT, the was an equal
number of women, but the plot drove the film, first and foremost. It too
is in my 'top 5' Bond flicks...



Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 03:09 AM



"Goldfinger" is a better film, for a number of reasons and I often
have to check myself when naming YOLT as Connery's best. FRWL is very
strong and well, Goldfinger is Goldfinger. But, for some reason I get a
bigger kick out of YOLT. Maybe it's having the cliches turned up to 11
in a Connery flick?

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 03:21 AM (tBSrv)


YOLT has far better toys and settings than FRWL, and is much further removed from the book. FRWL is perhaps the best embodiment of the original novel (save Thunderball -- where the novel was more like a novelization with a collaborator).

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 03:31 AM (T1005)

737 727 / 730 -- I'll restrain myself for this one... NSNA is one of those Bond flicks that will send me into a minor rant.

As a way of understanding my POV concerning Bond films; this was a film franchise that I literally grew up with... for me, Thunderball was one of the classics (Bond-wise). Granted, I was on the young side when it was released, so that might be a factor in my affection for it (Yes, I saw it in a theater... not a TV screen), but it had everything that made a Bond flick a 'Bond film'.

NSNA, by my viewpoint, was a fun, but ultimately pointless remake of a classic Bond film... I viewed it as merely eye candy and an unseemly attempt by a studio to rake in box-office $'s... sorta like Octopussy.

...it added nothing else to the progression of the Bond character.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 03:35 AM (/mTq0)

738 ...how to build a pillow fort:

The second job I ever had after leaving high school was for a computer maker. The boxes they were shipped in had those egg-crate foam inserts, and truckloads of the stuff would be delivered. Those of us that worked in the stockroom would pile them up in the corner of the warehouse in a manner that allowed for creation of a hidden passage that led to a cubby hole the middle of the foam pile, and we put a couple of beanbags in there, so that whoever needed or wanted to take a nap could do so without fear of being caught by the brass. The only people not allowed to use it were those known to snore loudly.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at November 29, 2014 03:37 AM (9srI4)

739 YOLT has far better toys and settings than FRWL, and is much further removed from the book. FRWL is perhaps the best embodiment of the original novel (save Thunderball -- where the novel was more like a novelization with a collaborator).

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 03:31 AM

Dude. Robert Shaw as the villain. What more could you ask for? My fave Bond flicks...

OHMSS... the best, arguably.
YOLT
Goldfinger
FRWL
Goldeneye
Licence to Kill
The Living Daylights

TLD is the better film, of the 2 Dalton ones... but, like YOLT, LTK is more fun, for some reason.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 03:41 AM (tBSrv)

740 736 -- cthulhu -- Heh... YOLT is my guilty pleasure.

The ending is gloriously 'over-the-top', but in a classic Bond way...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 03:46 AM (/mTq0)

741 737
727 / 730 -- I'll restrain myself for this one... NSNA is one of those Bond flicks that will send me into a minor rant.

As
a way of understanding my POV concerning Bond films; this was a film
franchise that I literally grew up with... for me, Thunderball was one
of the classics (Bond-wise). Granted, I was on the young side when it
was released, so that might be a factor in my affection for it (Yes, I
saw it in a theater... not a TV screen), but it had everything that made a Bond flick a 'Bond film'.

NSNA, by my viewpoint, was a fun, but ultimately pointless
remake of a classic Bond film... I viewed it as merely eye candy and an
unseemly attempt by a studio to rake in box-office $'s... sorta like
Octopussy.

...it added nothing else to the progression of the Bond character.


Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 03:35 AM (/mTq0)


Oddly, it was released in the same year as Octopussy, IIRC. It was billed as a "battle of the Bonds" between Roger Moore and Sean Connery, but could well have been a battle of the Ian Fleming version of Bond (based on Thunderball, a project he had something to do with) and the Hollywood version of Bond (where Octopussy is a short story that has nothing to do with the film other than its title).

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 03:49 AM (T1005)

742 Well, I'm certainly having fun tonight. My perceptions of digitally displayed words is very gnarly tonight. Words I have typed have acquired 3 dimensionality on the screen. Every word or letter is displaced by position an results in words that have 3 dimensions to them as they are displayed.

Probably only for me though. I currently writing with texture in mind as well as word position and perceptual point.

All this from sleep deprivation combined with certain psychotropic chemicals that allow ones personal dimensions to be perceived less strictly than is usual.

Let's launch this gem off to see what result occur.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 29, 2014 04:01 AM (KK+mC)

743 Oddly, it was released in the same year as Octopussy, IIRC. It was billed as a "battle of the Bonds" between Roger Moore and Sean Connery, but could well have been a battle of the Ian Fleming version of Bond (based on Thunderball, a project he had something to do with) and the Hollywood version of Bond (where Octopussy is a short story that has nothing to do with the film other than its title).

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 03:49 AM

There isn't much contest between Octopussy and NSNA. The Connery one wins. I've never actually watched Thunderball and NSNA back to back. I should. I think my memory has been tainted by the fact that Thunderball doesn't fare as well on the small screen compared to the big screen. NSNA translates to TV better... or so I recall. Dunno.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 04:03 AM (tBSrv)

744 Hmmm.....the combined gross for the Bond films to date is nearly five billion dollars....

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:05 AM (T1005)

745 Only one Bond. Ever.

Sean Connery IS James Bond as Bond was meant to be by Ian Fleming.

All these other guys are about ego and money for the franchise or to attract new fans.

The Bond of all Bonds Is Sean Connery, his accent, carriage, masculinity and poise all the while outwitting the dangerous and deranged enemies of the Empires Final Days.

None can compete for the totatality.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 29, 2014 04:07 AM (KK+mC)

746 What is that sandwich at the top of the post?

It looks intriguing but I'm not biting until I Know what' in it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 29, 2014 04:08 AM (KK+mC)

747 742 -- Bitter Clinger and All That -- Well... that means it'll either be epic beyond the comprehension of mortal man, or...

...a train wreck of biblical proportions.

Let's see what happens next...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 04:11 AM (/mTq0)

748 745
Only one Bond. Ever.

Sean Connery IS James Bond as Bond was meant to be by Ian Fleming.

All these other guys are about ego and money for the franchise or to attract new fans.

The
Bond of all Bonds Is Sean Connery, his accent, carriage, masculinity
and poise all the while outwitting the dangerous and deranged enemies of
the Empires Final Days.

None can compete for the totatality.


Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 29, 2014 04:07 AM (KK+mC)

Sean Connery's selection as James Bond owed a lot to Dana Broccoli, wife of Cubby Broccoli, who is reputed to have been instrumental in persuading Cubby that Sean Connery was the right man. James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, originally doubted Connery's casting, saying, "He's not what I envisioned of James Bond looks" and "I'm looking for Commander Bond and not an overgrown stunt-man," adding that Connery (muscular, 6' 2", and a Scot) was unrefined. Fleming's girlfriend told him Connery had the requisite sexual charisma. Fleming changed his mind after the successful Dr. No premiere; he was so impressed, he created a half-Scottish, half-Swiss heritage for the literary James Bond in the later novels. -- http://tinyurl.com/ng58486

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:14 AM (T1005)

749 745 -- Bitter Clinger and All That -- Can't say I disagree with that assessment... he is the bench-mark that all other Bonds were measured by.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 04:15 AM (/mTq0)

750 Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:14 AM (T1005)



IOW -- James Bond was originally meant to be someone else, but when Ian Fleming saw Sean Connery in the role, he changed Bond to be more like Sean Connery.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:17 AM (T1005)

751 IOW -- James Bond was originally meant to be someone else, but when Ian Fleming saw Sean Connery in the role, he changed Bond to be more like Sean Connery.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:17 AM

David Niven, or somebody?

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 04:18 AM (tBSrv)

752 OMG. When Sean Connery said he wanted out, one of the people considered as a replacement went on to be.......Dumbledore.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:21 AM (T1005)

753 751
IOW -- James Bond was originally meant to be someone else, but when Ian
Fleming saw Sean Connery in the role, he changed Bond to be more like
Sean Connery.



Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:17 AM



David Niven, or somebody?

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 04:18 AM (tBSrv)

According to Ian Fleming -- Hoagy Carmichael.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:23 AM (T1005)

754 OMG. When Sean Connery said he wanted out, one of the people considered as a replacement went on to be.......Dumbledore.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:21 AM

Dalton turned it down. He thought he was too young. Probably right. Who is "Dumbledore"?

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 04:23 AM (tBSrv)

755 According to Ian Fleming -- Hoagy Carmichael.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:23 AM

Really? Wow.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 04:24 AM (tBSrv)

756 752
OMG. When Sean Connery said he wanted out, one of the people considered as a replacement went on to be.......Dumbledore.


Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:21 AM (T1005)


Makes you think of a James Bond intro where -- instead of looking down the barrel of a gun, you're looking along an extended wand....

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:25 AM (T1005)

757 Sean Connery was a prize winning body builder before being cast as James Bond. Years before Arnold Schwarzenegger took the same path to fame.

Posted by: Emotional Support Pig at November 29, 2014 04:29 AM (zxQ4h)

758 754
OMG. When Sean Connery said he wanted out, one of the people considered as a replacement went on to be.......Dumbledore.



Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:21 AM



Dalton turned it down. He thought he was too young. Probably right. Who is "Dumbledore"?

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 04:23 AM (tBSrv)


Check http://tinyurl.com/ng58486 at "Diamonds Are Forever".

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:30 AM (T1005)

759 755
According to Ian Fleming -- Hoagy Carmichael.



Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:23 AM



Really? Wow.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 04:24 AM (tBSrv)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:31 AM (T1005)

760 I kinda liked Pierce Brosnan's bond. To me that was the turning point into some serious "action" bond. Instead of driving a car that turns into a toaster or some shit he'll just jump into a tank and fuck the town up, not to mention fuck up a room with an AK-47 instead of that pos PPK pocket pop gun. Golden eye was great, you would think you would get powder burns if you sat too close to the screen.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 29, 2014 04:33 AM (FMbng)

761 751 -- otho -- Niven???

I kinda doubt it. Niven played many roles, but 'manly with his fists' was never high on the list.

Many of his characters were 'thoughtful', and 'clever'; hell, Robert Shaw would have been a better fit... or a younger version of Cary Grant.

If not Connery, then I haven't a clue... my knowledge of English actors from that time period is somewhat lacking.

Frankly, I can't imagine anybody else stepping into the role...


Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 04:33 AM (/mTq0)

762 @121
"They gave Vader too much credit.

Batman has no midichlorians in his system ... how does the "force" work on something live that is not a "force" conductor?

The extended lightsaber duel ... this should have been a couple of swings, the Batman IMMEDIATELY knocks out Vader's life-support circuitry.

Then after knocking out Vader's life support circuitry, and pounding him with the energy gloves ... how does this not stop Vader for at least 5 minutes? Further, Batman does not use another 2 or 3 bat-weapons to immobilize Vader for at least half an hour ... what?

Finally, the Bat-spacemobile-save at the end ... seriously, the 'mobile has no shields, no follow-up shot is fired, and Batman is still inside? "
*****
deus ex forcina trumps deus ex machina

Posted by: Cameron at November 29, 2014 04:41 AM (rpEhk)

763 I kinda liked Pierce Brosnan's bond. To me that was the turning point into some serious "action" bond. Instead of driving a car that turns into a toaster or some shit he'll just jump into a tank and fuck the town up, not to mention fuck up a room with an AK-47 instead of that pos PPK pocket pop gun. Golden eye was great, you would think you would get powder burns if you sat too close to the screen.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 29, 2014 04:33 AM

Goldeneye was fucking awesome. Saw it on the big screen and it kicked ass totally. Wasn't that impressed since seeing OHMSS on the big screen. Goldeneye took you by the throat from the first second and didn't let go. I was shocked, as an avid 60's Bond fan... it was that good.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 04:42 AM (tBSrv)

764 Somewhere around this dump I have Roger Moore's "James Bond Diary" and a British "Encyclopedia of James Bond". Also, I have vinyl of the classic James Bond soundtracks and all the Fleming novels, as well as Kingsley Amis' "Colonel Sun".



But somewhere along the way, I lost interest.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 04:46 AM (T1005)

765 Shit... it's almost 0500.

This is what happens when you start talking Bond flicks.

Besides, teh kitteh is staring at me... she wants her human hot water bottle back.

Later y'all, I go now to sleep the sleep of the just.

Or something like that...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 29, 2014 04:48 AM (/mTq0)

766 The rumor is that Christopher Waltz will play Blofeld in the next movie. I love the actor and I love the character, but I am unsure.

OHMSS was panned by the critics, and it seems like the franchise was hurt as a result.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 29, 2014 05:15 AM (+4uXG)

767 766
The rumor is that Christopher Waltz will play Blofeld in the next movie.
I love the actor and I love the character, but I am unsure.



OHMSS was panned by the critics, and it seems like the franchise was hurt as a result.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 29, 2014 05:15 AM (+4uXG)


Not vouched nor verified, but a quick search on youtube yields: http://tinyurl.com/keyhe4w

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 05:35 AM (T1005)

768 Morning, all. I tuned out as soon as the panty fetish got rolling last night. That chatter bores me so much that I'm boycotting underwear for the rest of the month.

Ladies, if you boycott with me, we can elevate the HQ discourse back to reloading shotgun shells and disrespecting the First Black First Lady of the United States.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at November 29, 2014 05:42 AM (z899H)

769 By the way, if any of you feel so inclined to send good thoughts to our boy, he should be passing his ATC Navy classes in a few weeks and will be taking the E6 exam in September. He has done wonderfully in the past
three years and has nothing but (hopefully) great things ahead of him.


Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at November 28, 2014 11:08 PM (KuU4f)


Been there, done that. NAS Memphis, 1976. Best fucking MOS in the USMC.

Tell him good luck.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizzaro World at November 29, 2014 05:46 AM (ljO/a)

770 768
Morning, all. I tuned out as soon as the panty fetish got rolling last
night. That chatter bores me so much that I'm boycotting underwear for
the rest of the month.



Ladies, if you boycott with me, we can elevate the HQ discourse back
to reloading shotgun shells and disrespecting the First Black First
Lady of the United States.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at November 29, 2014 05:42 AM (z899H)


Just like everything else in this world, you've gotta give if you wanna get. 'Rons and 'ettes have ample opportunity to influence every thread, and most viewpoints are respected and debated.

Just lay down something with a hook, instead of a thread-killer.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 29, 2014 05:48 AM (T1005)

771 ATC? Are you still a Marine if your socks are dry when you go off duty?

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at November 29, 2014 05:50 AM (z899H)

772 Oh good.
Morons...

G'morning, all.

Looks like Fortress VIA will be participating in a day of Paintball woods ball, and speedball out near Tannytown Md today.
36-41 degrees, and ten mph winds most of the day.

Been about a year since I have actually played, instead of being the support team.

So, will be in and out most of the day.
Have fun, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 29, 2014 06:23 AM (wPA9Q)

773 13.5 hours till the premiere of "Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever." The Sharknado of made-for-Lifetime movies.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at November 29, 2014 06:25 AM (z899H)

774 Hope everyone survived the Turkey assaults?
I had to work on T-day, but on Monday my firm announced their"Accelerated Leverage" (aka. down-sizing) program will be going in effect in January. Looking to slash 2000 positions, but I wasassured our department won't be effected (this round). I preemtively took Friday off and went to an interview.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at November 29, 2014 06:30 AM (GS2fb)

775
G'morning, all. Will be hitting the road to close up our summer place down in Sussex County by 8:00. I am not liking forward to tomorrow when I'll have to crawl underneath the place to open some lines while draining the water system.

Scored the portable vise and small anvil the missus and I wanted to obtain for our metalworking exploits at auction last night, but with them bundled together with other tools. About half of them were useful to us in their own right, so a successful event all around.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at November 29, 2014 06:40 AM (/dvmK)

776 Sean Connery is James Bond. Period.

Though I do like Daniel Craig's Bond inhis first movie-- more darker, sinister as an operative should be. The rest of his Bond films however....

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at November 29, 2014 06:45 AM (GS2fb)

777 I never understood why George Lazenby and OHMSS was considered so bad.

C'mon. It's an effing James Bond flick. We're not talking great art.

There is the scene where he fakes being gay. Is that why?


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 29, 2014 06:46 AM (V70Uh)

778 Arrg. Got up this morning and it's a f'n minefield in the sunroom. Cat puked and crapped all over the place.

Today's vehicle maintenance day for me. Mrs. Freaked can deal with the damn cat.

Posted by: freaked at November 29, 2014 06:54 AM (JdEZJ)

779 Krebs planning on doing some blacksmithing?

Posted by: freaked at November 29, 2014 06:55 AM (JdEZJ)

780 Nice ONT CdrM...

hope you are well, and safe...

I favor the double walled type 3 pillow fort as it offers the best protection against radiological incursion by the kid.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at November 29, 2014 07:00 AM (/4AZU)

781 776 Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at November 29, 2014 06:45 AM (GS2fb)

The "prequel trilogy" of Craig films is about his becoming Sean Conneryesque...(in theory)

of course it goes w/out saying "fuck you trebek"

http://youtu.be/Bdt9Piq5s0g

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at November 29, 2014 07:02 AM (/4AZU)

782 man I always seem to massacre these things....

it feels like I show up in the AM and chase off all the night stragglers and the dawn patrol is in a holding pattern...

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at November 29, 2014 07:10 AM (/4AZU)

783 I'm here Sven waiting for the sun.

Posted by: freaked at November 29, 2014 07:12 AM (JdEZJ)

784 783 Posted by: freaked at November 29, 2014 07:12 AM (JdEZJ)

I'm here fleeing from the sun

//Undead Local 957

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at November 29, 2014 07:13 AM (/4AZU)

785 Sven, it's the reload time. I'm holding off for an AM thread.

Posted by: fluffy at November 29, 2014 07:13 AM (Ua6T/)

786 I never understood why George Lazenby and OHMSS was considered so bad.C'mon. It's an effing James Bond flick. We're not talking great art.There is the scene where he fakes being gay. Is that why?

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 29, 2014 06:46 AM

Beats me why it would be considered bad. It's a great flick and very well put together. It's got a bit of everything in it and it's told really well. Lazenby was adequate as Bond. Nothing special, but he certainly is convincing in the physical scenes. A middle tier Bond. It's the one I always go back to as the best overall film. If Connery was in it how could anyone rail against it? Lazenby did Ok. I thought Savalas made a great Blofeld. Sinister and intimidating.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 07:13 AM (tBSrv)

787 I guess I should get myself to the parts store. They should be open.

Posted by: freaked at November 29, 2014 07:14 AM (JdEZJ)

788 My head kinda hurts.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at November 29, 2014 07:15 AM (GKxF1)

789 I never understood why George Lazenby and OHMSS was considered so bad.C'mon. It's an effing James Bond flick. We're not talking great art.There is the scene where he fakes being gay. Is that why?
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 29, 2014 06:46 AM (V70Uh)

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I liked On Her Majesty's Secret Service and think that Lazenby could have really grown into the role if given time.

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 29, 2014 07:16 AM (KlVdw)

790 785 Posted by: fluffy at November 29, 2014 07:13 AM (Ua6T/)

Good to know, I was afeared that last night's poker game at the Skunk family's house left me in a foul odor...

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at November 29, 2014 07:17 AM (/4AZU)

791 Mornin' all.
Been here a bit, reading through some of the comments.
Have no fear. I'm sure the morning thread is popping up even as I type.

Posted by: teej says go K-State at November 29, 2014 07:23 AM (cneZH)

792 Hmmm, strange.

Posted by: teej says go K-State at November 29, 2014 07:25 AM (cneZH)

793 >>> Good to know, I was afeared that last night's poker game at the Skunk family's house left me in a foul odor...

We have basic cable, so odor is not included.

Posted by: fluffy at November 29, 2014 07:28 AM (Ua6T/)

794 392 - otho - She is being rewarded for Meritorious Service to the Party, presumably for what she did to Sarah Palin.
Same thing with Kanye West (Bush hates black people) and Lena Dunham (your first time), among others.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 29, 2014 07:29 AM (go6ud)

795 Oh, and g'mornin everyone !

First cup of coffee in hand as it gets light in the east.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 29, 2014 07:32 AM (go6ud)

796 David Niven is my quintessential Bond.

Posted by: --- at November 29, 2014 07:32 AM (MMC8r)

797 392 - otho - She is being rewarded for Meritorious Service to the Party, presumably for what she did to Sarah Palin. Same thing with Kanye West (Bush hates black people) and Lena Dunham (your first time), among others.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 29, 2014 07:29 AM

That's what I figure, as well.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 07:35 AM (tBSrv)

798 My guess on the burger -- Turkey with swiss, topped by baked apples, stuffing, and cranberry sauce.

Which I would totally try at least one bite of.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 29, 2014 07:35 AM (Eyj3i)

799 Did Vic post his news yet? You know they wait for him to be done before they post a morning thread, right?

ha + ha

Howdy, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker is not quite awake yet at November 29, 2014 07:41 AM (OG7NC)

800 I liked On Her Majesty's Secret Service and think that Lazenby could have really grown into the role if given time.

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 29, 2014 07:16 AM

Yeah he had a certain... something. If the films had continued in the 60's tradition, he could have really served as a good replacement for Connery. Poor bastard had to follow Connery. But with the direction it took in the 70's it was probably just as well he did just the one. I'm not sure he could have suited the more comedic Bond flicks of the 70's. Connery almost struggled in Diamonds.

Posted by: otho at November 29, 2014 07:42 AM (tBSrv)

801 Hi mindful!

I grabbed the link to Unicode tools and have it stashed for potential future use.

Posted by: fluffy at November 29, 2014 07:43 AM (Ua6T/)

802 798
My guess on the burger -- Turkey with swiss, topped by baked apples, stuffing, and cranberry sauce.

Which I would totally try at least one bite of.


Posted by: GnuBreed at November 29, 2014 07:35 AM (Eyj3i)

One does not simply...mix their sweets with their savories.

Posted by: Boromir at November 29, 2014 07:44 AM (yxw0r)

803 Well signing off for now. There is a certain Football Game coming up that I need to prepare for.


PS - How do you make Michicgan cookies? Put them in a Bowl and beat them for 3 hours.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at November 29, 2014 07:48 AM (GS2fb)

804 One does not simply...mix their sweets with their savories.

Posted by: Boromir at November 29, 2014 07:44 AM (yxw0r)

It's like Thanksgiving on a bun.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 29, 2014 07:50 AM (Eyj3i)

805 What's up Horde?

Gotta go debone a turkey (no, it's not code).

Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 29, 2014 07:51 AM (QBm1P)

806
Like a turd that won't stay flushed, that sammich picture keeps bobbing to the top...

Will no new thread be posted to rid us of that accursed sammich?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at November 29, 2014 07:52 AM (/dvmK)

807 806 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at November 29, 2014 07:52 AM (/dvmK)

We can't cook anything new until the leftovers are eaten mein fruend...

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at November 29, 2014 07:53 AM (/4AZU)

808 If the Illini win today they will be 6-6. Thus eligible for the Bank of Nigeria International Funds Disbursement Division Bowl.


Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at November 29, 2014 07:59 AM (U7H1n)

809
I had not encountered dressing being added to a submarine sammich until I came to Delaware, where it is a Big Gastronomical Thing. I saw them first at a working luncheon with subs procured from a local shop. To my "Da fuq", I was assured that this was really, really good. To which my response was, "I take my dressing on the side, with gravy. No, thanks."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at November 29, 2014 08:03 AM (/dvmK)

810
779 Krebs planning on doing some blacksmithing?
Posted by: freaked at November 29, 2014 06:55 AM (JdEZJ)


Silversmithing and copper smithing, actually, with perhaps other precious metals down the road after having developed some experience with the craft.


Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at November 29, 2014 08:08 AM (/dvmK)

811 fluffy: "I grabbed the link to Unicode tools and have it stashed for potential future use."

Another of the many auxiliary tools required to successfully play the AoSHQ online commenting game!

Posted by: mindful webworker is mostly awake at November 29, 2014 08:09 AM (OG7NC)

812 > 399 That was on powerlineblog.com ! A very good article - "Trayvon and Mike." John Hinderaker is spot on!

Posted by: Lurks on Holidays at November 29, 2014 08:18 AM (aXCDY)

813 Just when did "spot on" enter the American language? Seems t'me t'be a rather recent development.

WTX does it even mean?

Posted by: mindful webworker - amateur Anglophile at November 29, 2014 08:22 AM (OG7NC)

814
Hello from Way Down Here (hello fellow Sydneysider otho)

Holidays and the place is all quiet....and that food thing looks so awful -vomit in a bun - but as in quite a few disgusting looking food things, it probably tastes wonderful!

Posted by: aussie at November 29, 2014 08:23 AM (U+r+e)

815 Spot on = exactly, precisely, bullseye.

Posted by: fluffy at November 29, 2014 08:24 AM (Ua6T/)

816 Die Another Day is not the worst Bond movie, but it angered me the most.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 29, 2014 08:24 AM (+4uXG)

817 "spot on" is another British Import.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 29, 2014 08:25 AM (V70Uh)

818 Ah, the smell of fresh.... err. ?

Heh

Posted by: anon a mouse at November 29, 2014 08:27 AM (CY8ZR)

819 fluffy: "Spot on = exactly, precisely, bullseye."

I know what it intends, just not what the words mean. So, yeah, I guess, on-the-mark is the general idea. Still sounds... poufy.

I'm no French-style language purist, but I think we ought to be cautious on importing Britishisms, before we're overrun with egregious 'u's and sticky wickets.

Posted by: mindful webworker - speak American, y'all at November 29, 2014 08:32 AM (OG7NC)

820 and instead of envisioning things we will be envisaging them.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at November 29, 2014 08:38 AM (V70Uh)

821 I could do without "takeaway" too.

Of course it's equally disconcerting to read British articles and spot all the Americanisms that have been adopted, especially the Yiddish ones (yes I feel they are ours - OUR Joos control the global media, MWAha!).

Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 29, 2014 08:56 AM (QBm1P)

822 Gucci Online Store

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