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Overnight Open Thread 05/19/16 - [Niedermeyer's Dead Horse]
Keeping it simple tonight. As if you guys click the links anyway.
I love amusement park rides but after a particularly scary experience at the local fair, I no longer ride the rides at those portable fairs. This is one reason why:Here's something your kids will love.
This is hydrophobic sand. Take it out of the water and you'll be surprised. https://t.co/ttOfeMlN5P
— SciencePorn (@SciencePorn) April 28, 2016
If you are so inclined, there are videos on You Tube as to how you can make it yourself.
Fan-cee! Horse groomer takes trimming to a whole other level. Behold.
Feeling frisky? Ten office pranks that probably won't get you fired.
With frightening accuracy, as usual.
@gabrielmalor South Park is basically Nostradamus with profanity and poop jokes. pic.twitter.com/F9K0tEywHc
— Dr. Kankokage (@kankokage) May 17, 2016
Ain't that the truth?
One of my favorite videos to surface since Prince's death. Enjoy.
That's it for tonight. Oh, and P.S., this ONT brought to you by men who served us well. Thinking of Mr. Bennett this evening. Will there ever be another?
Oh, and I'm a bit off as to the ONT coverage for tonight, so don't be completely caught off guard if another pops up later.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: cthulhu at May 19, 2016 10:44 PM (EzgxV)
This totally sucks.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2016 10:45 PM (08Znv)
Despite earlier announcements - no wreckage has been found.
And, I checked - no crashes 370 days before Air Malaysia.
Posted by: Jean at May 19, 2016 10:46 PM (Doh4+)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 10:46 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Secretariat of State Kerry at May 19, 2016 10:46 PM (H9MG5)
That means I'm the 3rd LOSER!
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 10:46 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Jean at May 19, 2016 10:47 PM (Doh4+)
Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at May 19, 2016 10:47 PM (N8ro/)
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at May 19, 2016 10:48 PM (R5HRU)
Posted by: @votermom at May 19, 2016 10:48 PM (7lVbc)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 19, 2016 10:49 PM (1ZOkK)
The American Bar Association considering speech codes that would open up lawyers to punishment if they utter innocuous statements that the Leftist-inclined ABA deems to be expressions of thoughtcrime.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=11749
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 19, 2016 10:50 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Patina Awry Newt at May 19, 2016 10:50 PM (/H5Dl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 19, 2016 10:50 PM (k4M/B)
Posted by: IC at May 19, 2016 10:50 PM (zK6nG)
Thank you, ONT! Thank you!
*woman spreads*
Posted by: Jane D'oh
*****
(Frantically searches for binoculars)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 10:51 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Mis. Hum at May 19, 2016 10:51 PM (voOPb)
There, there, you're safe now!
Well relatively safe, this is AoS after all.
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 19, 2016 10:51 PM (wYnyS)
I started a group for Knit'n Kitten under non-profits. I'd have invited you at mewe, but don't remember if you gave your user name there.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 19, 2016 10:51 PM (GDulk)
Thank you, ONT! Thank you!
*woman spreads*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 19, 2016 10:49 PM (1ZOkK)
Ummmm....I don't think women spreading and men spreading have exactly the same connotations....
Posted by: cthulhu at May 19, 2016 10:51 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 19, 2016 10:52 PM (lg9fx)
Posted by: @votermom at May 19, 2016 10:52 PM (7lVbc)
Posted by: Jim at May 19, 2016 10:52 PM (McRlu)
They ALWAYS dumb down the questions for children and celebrities, BIRM.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 19, 2016 10:52 PM (1ijHg)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2016 10:53 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 19, 2016 10:51 PM (GDulk)
I'll look for your group. My name there is Vi M
Posted by: @votermom at May 19, 2016 10:53 PM (7lVbc)
Keeping it simple tonight. As if you guys click the links anyway.
You know who REALLY clicks on the links?
-- Preznint FourPutt
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2016 10:53 PM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Mis. Hum at May 19, 2016 10:53 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Halloween Industry at May 19, 2016 10:54 PM (N8ro/)
This totally sucks.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2016 10:45 PM
What on earth could make that idiot look good?
Posted by: Farmer at May 19, 2016 10:54 PM (o/90i)
And yet Wolf Blitzer *still* managed to reveal himself as a complete idiot.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 19, 2016 10:54 PM (GDulk)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 19, 2016 10:54 PM (1ijHg)
[harmonica]
Oh I stopped to read the content of the post.
[harmonica]
The content was so satisfyin'
But it made me late, there's no denyin'
No Number One if you stop to read the post
[harmonica]
Posted by: mindful webworker sings the ONT blues at May 19, 2016 10:54 PM (5a8XA)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 19, 2016 10:54 PM (GDulk)
Posted by: flyzked at May 19, 2016 10:55 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 10:55 PM (hVdx9)
Best barber I've ever had.
Posted by: Secretariat of State Kerry at May 19, 2016 10:46 PM (H9MG5)
Neigh!
-- Sarah Jessica Parker
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2016 10:55 PM (BK3ZS)
The studio is planning a reboot, with a female-centric cast.
SMOD, why have you forsaken us?
Posted by: butch at May 19, 2016 10:55 PM (t2NGK)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 10:56 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Mis. Hum at May 19, 2016 10:53 PM
LOL, just tell us what you really think MH.
Posted by: Farmer at May 19, 2016 10:56 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 19, 2016 10:56 PM (1ZOkK)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2016 10:56 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Chi at May 19, 2016 10:56 PM (n8yIs)
Lol. Very clever.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 19, 2016 10:57 PM (GDulk)
Posted by: Mis. Hum at May 19, 2016 10:57 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 19, 2016 10:57 PM (lg9fx)
Not gonna do it. Nope not gonna do it.
Posted by: fryzked at May 19, 2016 10:57 PM (BO/km)
Um, excuse me, dear Jane D'oh, but...
oh, I see it's already been covered. Good.
The thought never crossed my mind.
Posted by: mindful webworker sings off-key at May 19, 2016 10:58 PM (5a8XA)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 19, 2016 10:58 PM (1ZOkK)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
****
Can't. It's protected by a cloud of smug.
The blast won't even touch that.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 10:58 PM (hVdx9)
Yellowstone Caldera has forsaken us.
Gamma Ray Burst has forsaken us.
Abandon all hope, ye non-mentally ill.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 19, 2016 10:58 PM (1ijHg)
Posted by: Mis. Hum at May 19, 2016 10:58 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 19, 2016 10:58 PM (lg9fx)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2016 10:59 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: @votermom at May 19, 2016 10:52 PM (7lVbc)
Biological sex is just a social construct.
Posted by: Obama Administration at May 19, 2016 10:59 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:00 PM (mxCgt)
Posted by: otho at May 19, 2016 11:00 PM (EWg9n)
SMOD has forsaken us.
Yellowstone Caldera has forsaken us.
Gamma Ray Burst has forsaken us.
Abandon all hope, ye non-mentally ill.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 19, 2016 10:58 PM (1ijHg)
Don't give up. We're still in the cross hairs of the Chinese, the Russians, the NORKS and Iran. So we've got that going for us.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 19, 2016 11:00 PM (1ZOkK)
The studio is planning a reboot, with a female-centric cast.
Well thats one way to make the 2003 stinkeroo look like an Oscar winner.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 19, 2016 11:01 PM (nQNVp)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 19, 2016 11:01 PM (voOPb)
Yellowstone Caldera has forsaken us.
Gamma Ray Burst has forsaken us.
Abandon all hope, ye non-mentally ill.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 19, 2016 10:58 PM (1ijHg)
I'm just getting started!
Posted by: Zika-chan at May 19, 2016 11:01 PM (vBeA5)
Even Connery couldn't make that abomination watchable, but I'm sure the grrl power version will be excellent!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 19, 2016 11:02 PM (wYnyS)
Over at lockerdome.com --
It Turns Out Enough Of You Have Googled 'Pikachu Breastfeeding Barack Obama' For This To Be An Economically Viable List To Publish
* guffaws *
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2016 11:02 PM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 19, 2016 11:02 PM (lg9fx)
38 Remember that 2003 stinkeroo "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"?
The studio is planning a reboot, with a female-centric cast.
GRRRRLLL POWER. And the stupid GOP thinks it's wrong for the "fairer sex" to register for the draft.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 19, 2016 11:02 PM (1ZOkK)
Posted by: @votermom at May 19, 2016 11:03 PM (7lVbc)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 19, 2016 11:03 PM (T/cxb)
Don't give up. We're still in the cross hairs of the Chinese, the Russians, the NORKS and Iran. So we've got that going for us.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
Why would they bother? Don't they follow the old adage that if your enemy is destroying itself, step out of the way?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 19, 2016 11:03 PM (k4M/B)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at May 19, 2016 11:04 PM (Xo1Rt)
I wasn't trying to catch you at nothing. Didn't know if you were trying something new.
?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 19, 2016 11:04 PM (lg9fx)
57 They're remaking The Rocky Horror Picture Show now?
Here's the kicker: every character will be straight!
* what a twist! *
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2016 11:04 PM (BK3ZS)
The studio is planning a reboot, with a female-centric cast.
SMOD, why have you forsaken us?
Posted by: butch at May 19, 2016 10:55 PM (t2NGK)
That movie was so bad, Sean Connery quit acting altogether.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 19, 2016 11:04 PM (OR5cC)
Posted by: Mister Magoo at May 19, 2016 11:05 PM (7gCCJ)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
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Did I share jokes about it with a sales guy? Yes. We were laughing out loud.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:05 PM (mxCgt)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 19, 2016 11:06 PM (voOPb)
Yellowstone Caldera has forsaken us.
Gamma Ray Burst has forsaken us.
Abandon all hope, ye non-mentally ill.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 19, 2016 10:58 PM (1ijHg)
***
I'm coming...... - Laws of Thermodynamics
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 19, 2016 11:06 PM (lutOX)
--
How would they keep the title 19th century -
The Circle of Unusual Ladies?
Posted by: @votermom at May 19, 2016 11:07 PM (7lVbc)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr.
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That's been the commie's plan ever since the 30's. Just encourage internal division and conflict.
See: Barack Obama
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:07 PM (mxCgt)
And the you bought one?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 19, 2016 11:08 PM (lg9fx)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 19, 2016 11:08 PM (1ZOkK)
Yes. I think it's time for a serious dose of reality for some females.
Some, not all. Some get it. Some understand the realities and thank God they're women.
Others believe that there's a big Daddy in the sky and when they find out that's not true they lose their shit and become female myrmidons for the Anti-Penis movement.
Yes. A Marine boot camp is just the ticket. Camp LeJeune for preference.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at May 19, 2016 11:08 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at May 19, 2016 11:09 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at May 19, 2016 11:09 PM (YLidQ)
Well, there ya go. An ipad. The devil.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 19, 2016 11:10 PM (lg9fx)
They know what they look like or at least how they look to other Horses. And they LIKE the attention.
It's what attracts them about Humans. (They like being admired)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at May 19, 2016 11:10 PM (Xo1Rt)
Yellowstone Caldera has forsaken us.
Gamma Ray Burst has forsaken us.
Abandon all hope, ye non-mentally ill.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 19, 2016 10:58 PM (1ijHg)<<<
If they build me, I will come...
Posted by: "Skynet" at May 19, 2016 11:10 PM (H9MG5)
Posted by: Ozwerd Heredolpher at May 19, 2016 11:11 PM (FR2VS)
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Thereby self-triggering the May posting of an excerpt from Mickey Spillane's 'One Lonely Night":
"I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hand. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. I pumped slugs in the nastiest bunch of bastards you ever saw and here I am calmer than I've ever been, and happy too. They were Communists, Lee. They were red sons of bitches who should have died long ago..."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:11 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 19, 2016 11:11 PM (1ZOkK)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 19, 2016 11:11 PM (lg9fx)
66 Seriously check out the link @10, it's to twitchy
Posted by: @votermom at May 19, 2016 11:03 PM (7lVbc)
Yes, do! It is hilarious!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2016 11:11 PM (BK3ZS)
Well, there ya go. An ipad. The devil.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 19, 2016 11:10 PM (lg9fx)
Has it deleted your music collection, yet?
http://bit.ly/1WaQ2uN
Posted by: cthulhu at May 19, 2016 11:11 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2016 11:12 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:12 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: @votermom at May 19, 2016 11:12 PM (7lVbc)
I'm still trying to figure out how this would even work. What female characters *from period literature* would be considered sci-fi/fantasy action heroines? So far all I'm coming up with are Mina Harker, possibly Alice Liddell and Irene Adler, and maaaybe Calamity Jane and Annie Oakley if one could convince them to join a group called the League of Extraordinary Ladies.
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at May 19, 2016 11:12 PM (vRQPU)
Also, he gets around damn well with his new rolling walker. (The bedside commode set up over the toilet in his bathroom is helping too!) So I'm thinking adjustments and all will be well, for now.
And I'm going out on this note: ducklings on a capybara.
https://youtu.be/gOqKwCyA0QM
G'night Horde. Hold on to what matters, no matter what.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 19, 2016 11:12 PM (D0J8L)
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 19, 2016 11:13 PM (4rzL1)
Don't have. Company gave us Kindle2's as Christmas present a couple years ago. Sold it. Do not need.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 19, 2016 11:14 PM (lg9fx)
National Park trees are racist!
http://tinyurl.com/h2jgowf
Posted by: Josephistan at May 19, 2016 11:14 PM (7qAYi)
I think y'gotta have cookies on to retain that info.
Posted by: mindful webworker - technically squeaking at May 19, 2016 11:14 PM (5a8XA)
5. "Can't wait for Yoko Ono's next album!!"
4. "And you say this spray will make it look as if I have hair on my head??"
3. "Lena Dunham is the sexiest woman alive"
2. "This ain't pudding"
1. "I'm thinking of voting for that delightful Mrs. Clinton"
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 19, 2016 11:15 PM (ntObR)
They say it turned left 90 degrees then right 360 degrees. The illustration shows the plane turning left 90 then right 360 then another 90. Thus, its original heading.
If the heading was due south and the plane did a 90 and only a 360 as said its new heading would have been due east.
Israel.
Posted by: Patina Awry Newt at May 19, 2016 11:15 PM (/H5Dl)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 19, 2016 11:15 PM (ntObR)
This totally sucks.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2016 10:45 PM (08Znv)
---------------------------
This is the 3rd day this week they had a nominal Republican on. (Ana Navarro today, Michael Steele, S.E. Cupp earlier in the week.)
In each case, during the brief interview period, the RINO was encouraged to express dismay over Trump --- and each obliged, to the merriment of all.
Of course, no one on the other side was invited to express dismay over the Bitch and the Bolshie.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 19, 2016 11:15 PM (T/5A0)
Things been goofy for awhile
I think I will call it iDevil
Thanks Mr. Hammer
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 19, 2016 11:16 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 19, 2016 11:17 PM (R+30W)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2016 11:17 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer)))
Before he made it.
Posted by: Willy J. at May 19, 2016 11:18 PM (LncQn)
Of course, he just stood there almost the entire time and didn't even try to compete with Lara Logan and Anderson Cooper.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 19, 2016 11:18 PM (ntObR)
Good times ensued.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 19, 2016 11:18 PM (Wckf4)
Writer 1: He's right! We've been wasting our lives!
Writer 2: To hell with cartoons! I'm gonna do what I've always dreamed of! I'm gonna write that sitcom about the sassy robot!
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 19, 2016 11:19 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 19, 2016 11:19 PM (lg9fx)
Posted by: Timon at May 19, 2016 11:21 PM (396pH)
The villain could be Typhoid Mary?
Ahhh, who am I kidding. they'll still have a dude as the villain, because Of Course.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 19, 2016 11:21 PM (Wckf4)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2016 11:22 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Timon at May 19, 2016 11:21 PM (396pH)
And she still hasn't bought drinks yet.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 19, 2016 11:23 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Timon at May 19, 2016 11:21 PM (396pH)
****
Why would anyone here have remembered that? Congrats to your niece, but WTF?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at May 19, 2016 11:24 PM (YLidQ)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2016 10:56 PM
Oh, like who won an election w/ ballots in a trunk?
Posted by: Farmer at May 19, 2016 11:24 PM (o/90i)
To great hilarity, I noted that one of the amendments on the bill had been proposed by former State Senator Leland Yee (D). Yee, as some of you may recall, was busted by the FBI for arms smuggling. And not just namby-pamby AKs. No, he was apparently buying RPGs from MILF (that's the Filipino terrorist group, you pervs....), meaning that he was consorting with Islamic terrorists.
That apparently rates you five years in the pokey, btw.
So our good former State Senator Mr. Yee was not only smuggling weapons into the country, but also making it harder for citizens to lawfully purchase them.
What a hypocrite.
Or maybe it was just good business to him? Maybe he figured that with the legal avenues all cut off, more people would turn to him instead?
Posted by: junior at May 19, 2016 11:24 PM (+ULUe)
Posted by: Timon
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Question: How many shows do they film each day? I assume contestants bring changes of clothes?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:24 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty
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I remember. There was something of a stir here at the time.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:25 PM (9mTYi)
No offense ladies, but the first time that the guy next you loses his head to a heavy round, you'll probably get hysterical when you see that. A guy may puke and be scared, but I think that most women would be rendered combat ineffective at that sight. The majority of the men, after a brief moment to puke, would probably get back in the fight. I think the majority of women would either freeze up or run.
So therefore, after all that, I say let's go ahead, draft women and transgendered and what not. After all, if it's all going to hell in a handbasket, let's give them what they want.
Posted by: Old Blue at May 19, 2016 11:25 PM (9iR5/)
But, I know it's a longshot. I've heard you really have to impress the CBS 'screeners' ahead of the taping for them to call your name.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 19, 2016 11:26 PM (ntObR)
Well, I got the knife and fork and just started cutting it up and then spoon fed it to her. She'd protest but eat everything I put in her mouth. It was sort of pitiful. I had a profound, wistful thought: the circle is complete. 48-49 years ago, she was doing that for me, a little publius, and now I'm doing it for her. The circle is complete.
Now, since yesterday, they'd brought in two more patients and they were sitting at the same table as my mother. They were nice enough, but it was obvious they were batshit. Apparently both of them were abused women, husbands beating them, and had driven them crazy.
I heard then talking, as they watched me feed my mother, wondering if I would beat women. Also, wondering about my father. It's sad, I guess. That's all they knew.
I really don't like my mother in there with them like that, but it's fairly supervised I think.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 19, 2016 11:26 PM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2016 11:26 PM (SEXy3)
Posted by: Chi at May 19, 2016 10:56 PM
WFT happened?
I'm just ragging on that idiot Franken. Seeing him presiding over the Senate a few yrs ago told me we were truly down the toilet.
Posted by: Farmer at May 19, 2016 11:27 PM (o/90i)
The studio is planning a reboot, with a female-centric cast.
Posted by: butch at May 19, 2016 10:55 PM (t2NGK)<<<
I will gladly let them work on my sub...
... sammich. In the galley of the Nautilus.
Posted by: Capt. Nemo at May 19, 2016 11:27 PM (H9MG5)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty
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I remember. There was something of a stir here at the time.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:25 PM (9mTYi)
****
Awesome. My question stands.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at May 19, 2016 11:27 PM (YLidQ)
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What?!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:28 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2016 11:28 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 19, 2016 11:28 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Stuart Smalley at May 19, 2016 11:28 PM (EZebt)
But, I know it's a longshot. I've heard you really have to impress the CBS 'screeners' ahead of the taping for them to call your name.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 19, 2016 11:26 PM (ntObR)
There's a casting couch for The Price is Right?
Posted by: Josephistan at May 19, 2016 11:28 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: ThunderB at May 19, 2016 11:29 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2016 11:26 PM (SEXy3)
Would you like to,give the readers digest condensed version?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 19, 2016 11:29 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 19, 2016 11:29 PM (lg9fx)
National Park trees are racist!
http://tinyurl.com/h2jgowf
Posted by: Josephistan at May 19, 2016 11:14 PM (7qAYi)
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Hah!
Reminds me of some college where the crybullies were trying to get a building named after Somebody-or-other Lynch renamed. The very word was a micro-aggression!
(They weren't demanding the impeachment of our beloved Attorney General, though!)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 19, 2016 11:30 PM (T/5A0)
Very strange
Posted by: ThunderB at May 19, 2016 11:30 PM (zOTsN)
I blew the curve.
Posted by: Trigglypuff at May 19, 2016 11:30 PM (LncQn)
A League of Their Own Extraordinary Gentlemen
... and Rosie O'Donnell's Hollywood comeback begins!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2016 11:30 PM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 19, 2016 11:30 PM (DW+jj)
-------
What?!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:28 PM (9mTYi)
I know, that's what I was saying. It's like a leper colony out there!
Posted by: Ed Rendell at May 19, 2016 11:31 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 19, 2016 11:31 PM (lg9fx)
Why would anyone here have remembered that?
Maybe because he fucking mentioned it. Go take a nap, cranky.
Posted by: Mister Magoo at May 19, 2016 11:31 PM (7gCCJ)
The studio is planning a reboot, with a female-centric cast.
SMOD, why have you forsaken us?
Posted by: butch at May 19, 2016 10:55 PM (t2NGK)
And when famous YouTubers such as James Rolfe (AVGN) say they're not going to watch that garbage either, cue all the butt-hurt articles about "white male nerd tears" and misogyny.
Posted by: Thrawn at May 19, 2016 11:32 PM (wQWv4)
Posted by: Timon at May 19, 2016 11:21 PM (396pH)
That was winter 2015 right? Seems recent and threw me off when you said last year. Well, I guess technically
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 19, 2016 11:32 PM (hlMPp)
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I thought it was 5'6" ?
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:32 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 19, 2016 11:33 PM (hlMPp)
My theory is that the majority of women would make vicious last-line defensive fighters but wouldn't do well in offensive fighting. I'm willing to be shown otherwise by those with experience, of course.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 19, 2016 11:33 PM (GDulk)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 19, 2016 11:34 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:34 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Josephistan at May 19, 2016 11:34 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 19, 2016 11:34 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 19, 2016 11:35 PM (Wckf4)
Posted by: Timon at May 19, 2016 11:21 PM (396pH)
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I remember her very well. She was excellent.
And very good-looking too!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 19, 2016 11:35 PM (T/5A0)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 19, 2016 11:35 PM (hlMPp)
And fugly.
Posted by: Ed Rendell at May 19, 2016 11:35 PM (OxUnq)
Makes me feel a lot better about my current weight. I do wonder who *precisely* they are counting though. Did some of the "women" have Y chromosomes?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 19, 2016 11:36 PM (GDulk)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:28 PM (9mTYi)
-----Yup. Got it off the intertubz. It's the CDC so they must be right. Which means we got a lot of short little porker wymmynz out there. Rosie O'Donnel must be their idol.
Posted by: Old Blue at May 19, 2016 11:36 PM (9iR5/)
This totally sucks.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2016 10:45 PM
I tried out for Jeopardy a long time ago. just missed it and we got tickets to a taping in Chicago.
It was a college deal, interesting to watch. Not so politically slated at that time.
Posted by: Farmer at May 19, 2016 11:36 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Mister Magoo at May 19, 2016 11:31 PM (7gCCJ)
****
A year ago, doofus. See ya after your time out.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at May 19, 2016 11:36 PM (YLidQ)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 19, 2016 11:36 PM (fC9RO)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at May 19, 2016 11:36 PM (kP16F)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 19, 2016 11:37 PM (ntObR)
the local fair, I no longer ride the rides at those portable fairs.
It's almost as if you question the engineering acumen of ex-convicts.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 19, 2016 11:38 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Tiger Woods at May 19, 2016 11:38 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:39 PM (hVdx9)
(People who were here last night will know what this is about)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 19, 2016 11:39 PM (ntObR)
And a change of underwear.
Posted by: al roker at May 19, 2016 11:39 PM (PLnZs)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 19, 2016 11:39 PM (u82oZ)
We have no women we have no wives we have no families we have no babies.
Nothing wrong with that.
Posted by: Patina Awry Newt at May 19, 2016 11:39 PM (/H5Dl)
This totally sucks.
Posted by: Diogenes
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They've been trending that way since Obama was elected. A steady stream of Prog cameos.
Posted by: Tiger Woods at May 19, 2016 11:40 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
Give me a lock back knife and I'll show 'em how it's done.
Posted by: Melissa Lee Williams at May 19, 2016 11:40 PM (c7vUv)
Posted by: Stuart Smalley at May 19, 2016 11:28 PM
Ahh no, he really sucks. Anyone w/ 2 brain cells knows he sucks.
Posted by: Farmer at May 19, 2016 11:40 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: frzzzzed at May 19, 2016 11:41 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 19, 2016 11:41 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:41 PM (hVdx9)
I could barely watch the original and it had Sean Connery in it! I can't see spending money that could have been used to buy good beer on a remake!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 19, 2016 11:41 PM (wYnyS)
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You ain't seen nothing yet.
Posted by: Self-driving 80,000 Lb. Google Semi at May 19, 2016 11:41 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 19, 2016 11:42 PM (1xUj/)
My theory is that the majority of women would make vicious last-line defensive fighters but wouldn't do well in offensive fighting.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 19, 2016 11:33 PM
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This is my opinion as well.
I'm guessing that we are hard-wired to defend the nest at all costs. Men are hard-wired to protect, yes, but also to go out and hunt things down.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 19, 2016 11:42 PM (T/5A0)
Posted by: ThunderB at May 19, 2016 11:42 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Stuart Smalley at May 19, 2016 11:28 PM
Ahh no, he really sucks. Anyone w/ 2 brain cells knows he sucks.
Posted by: Farmer at May 19, 2016 11:40 PM (o/90i)
Did the joke go over your head?
But yeah, he does suck ass. So damn not funny whatsoever.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 19, 2016 11:43 PM (hlMPp)
"Hey yanks, this is England. Why are we being carpet bombed?"
"Oh, I think you *know* why."
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 19, 2016 11:43 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Ozwerd Heredolpher at May 19, 2016 11:43 PM (FR2VS)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:44 PM (9mTYi)
When someone gets a timeout, is a that like a bitch slap?
A bitch slap by a diamond studded glove?
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:44 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Old Blue at May 19, 2016 11:45 PM (9iR5/)
I think so. I'm praying
Posted by: ThunderB at May 19, 2016 11:42 PM (zOTsN)
I am too. Been there, done that on both sides. And I don't want to ask questions in public so I'm here if you ever want to chat off-line.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 19, 2016 11:45 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Wolf Blitzer at May 19, 2016 11:45 PM (89T5c)
We're sending fourth graders into combat now?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 19, 2016 11:46 PM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 19, 2016 11:42 PM (1xUj/)
What, instead of Capt. Nemo? Or were you thinking villain? Really, though, if you just want someone who wields a mean axe, there's always Carrie Nation.
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at May 19, 2016 11:46 PM (vRQPU)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale
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A black diamond studded glove.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:46 PM (9mTYi)
187 What was the name of the Estevez movie about a crazy truck?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:44 PM (9mTYi
The truck wasn't crazy. It was misunderstood.
And 'Maximum Overdrive'
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 19, 2016 11:47 PM (hlMPp)
Bitches!
Posted by: Wolf Blitzer
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You didn't see the Chris Matthews segment, did you?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:48 PM (9mTYi)
Shot Live of the WTC from the NYU DORM
https://youtu.be/ksYBQZ_jqFY
Never before released 9/11 video. Horrifying as ever. From after 1st plane hit until 2nd hits.
Posted by: mindful webworker scours the web at May 19, 2016 11:48 PM (5a8XA)
-----Yup. Got it off the intertubz. It's the CDC so they must be right. Which means we got a lot of short little porker wymmynz out there.
Posted by: Old Blue at May 19, 2016 11:36 PM (9iR5/)
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The 5'3" surprises me the most. Not sure I believe it.
I'm 5'4" and don't see THAT many women shorter than me. I always thought 5'5" was average.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 19, 2016 11:48 PM (T/5A0)
Posted by: Old Blue
****
If it's the one I'm thinking of, she messed up more than her back.
IIRC the living conditions caused her to get a lady infection that left her sterile.
Plus she said before that her body started to break down due to rigors of service. The guys had issues too, but not anywhere near as bad as hers.
She was no delicate flower. She was a college ice hockey player before she served and in excellent shape.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:48 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:44 PM (9mTYi)
Maximum Overdrive.
The soundtrack was by AC/DC
Posted by: The Overdrived Hat at May 19, 2016 11:49 PM (vBeA5)
Reunited: US soldier and escapee who directed troops to Dachau Concentration Camp.
https://youtu.be/8s552ducVvY
h/t Legal Insurrection
Posted by: mindful webworker scours the web at May 19, 2016 11:49 PM (5a8XA)
We're sending fourth graders into combat now?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 19, 2016 11:46 PM (1xUj/)
I'd rather send in 9th graders, they know Everything
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 19, 2016 11:49 PM (voOPb)
Since - cute horse shot aside - NDH forgot to give us a critter video ():
100 Years of Kitten Beauty in 60 Seconds
https://youtu.be/bi6rKIYYA20
h/t BlazingCatFur
Posted by: mindful webworker scours the web at May 19, 2016 11:49 PM (5a8XA)
What was the name of the Estevez movie about a crazy truck?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:44 PM (9mTYi)
------Gimme a minute. It was based on a Stephen King short story and even he said it shouldn't have been made. Maximum Overdrive
Posted by: Old Blue at May 19, 2016 11:49 PM (9iR5/)
And 'Maximum Overdrive'
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA
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Ah. Someone probably made a tasteless Peterbilt joke.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:49 PM (9mTYi)
Lol. Yeah, the dirty secret of women is that they like *their* group (whoever they deem that to be) and everyone else is SOL. That was C.S. Lewis' theory as to why G-d made men the final authority in the family, because it gave all the people each woman *didn't* love a fighting chance at survival.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 19, 2016 11:50 PM (GDulk)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
*****
Ooooo. Makes me almost to take it on the cheek. Almost.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:50 PM (hVdx9)
So I don't want to even imagine the implications of that.
Posted by: lauren at May 19, 2016 11:50 PM (pn+Vg)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
Are you by some coincidence a parent or teacher of ninth graders?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 19, 2016 11:51 PM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at May 19, 2016 11:51 PM (kP16F)
However, perhaps the worst of them all was Glenn Beck, the cheeto-faced doofus still wounded over his inability to nominate Ted Cruz, who flew on his private plane to the land of Zuckerberg and like a smitten school-boy tries to tell the world how wonderfully progressive the social media empire is.
http://tinyurl.com/hdp9afa
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 19, 2016 11:52 PM (R+30W)
But yeah, he does suck ass. So damn not funny whatsoever.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 19, 2016 11:43 PM
No I got the joke, actually Stuart Smaley was a funny bit. I just don't think that qualifies him to steal a Senate seat.
He's an insidious azzhole who wants us to live in his version of a leftist hellhole. Other than that he's a funny guy sometimes.
Posted by: Farmer at May 19, 2016 11:52 PM (o/90i)
Shoulda known better than to wear her Underalls...
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 19, 2016 11:52 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 19, 2016 11:54 PM (ntObR)
A teacher? Heavens no.
Parent. Yes once upon a time I had 3 9th graders. I remember those days vividly
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 19, 2016 11:54 PM (voOPb)
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My favorite scene; where the hood is run down by the flaming Christine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2016 11:54 PM (9mTYi)
Mothballs, Kirtsy MacColl CD, hot salt, St. John's Wort Oil. Yup, just your typical grocery list. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 19, 2016 11:55 PM (ntObR)
I don't know many women who can handle that.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:55 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2016 11:55 PM (ucDmr)
I denounce myself.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:56 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 19, 2016 11:50 PM (GDulk)]
Also Kipling's "The Female of the Species".
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 19, 2016 11:56 PM (HalrA)
I don't know many women who can handle that.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:55 PM (hVdx9)
Types
Deletes
Types
Deletes
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 19, 2016 11:57 PM (voOPb)
I don't know many women who can handle that.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:55 PM (hVdx9)
Types
Deletes
Types
Deletes
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
****
Fire away...unless it will get you banned...
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:58 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 19, 2016 11:26 PM
Best wishes publius. Been in similar circumstances. Prayers up for you and yours.
T
Posted by: Farmer at May 19, 2016 11:58 PM (o/90i)
I'd guess that in third world countries like the one this "disco" ride is in, amusement park safety standards are probably low to non-existent. So yeah, you're taking your life in your hands.
Posted by: OregonMuse at May 19, 2016 11:58 PM (BbOP8)
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 19, 2016 11:59 PM (4rzL1)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 20, 2016 12:00 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: eleven at May 20, 2016 12:00 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2016 11:55 PM (ucDmr)
++++
The Stuart Smalley bit was hideous. Completely awful. I never understood why SNL took bits that were so bad it was painful to watch, like Smalley or It's Pat, and just keep on doing them over and over and over again. Were they trying to make us beg for mercy?
But, I thought the Franken and Davis bits back at the beginning of SNL were funny. Nothing since then from Franken though.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2016 12:01 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: NCKate at May 20, 2016 12:01 AM (dFKXl)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/733318146610827264
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/733318299489030144
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/733318458897747969
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/733318667174285312
Posted by: kbdabear at May 20, 2016 12:02 AM (Es6LZ)
Here is "Riders on the Storm" by The Doors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DED812HKWyM
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 20, 2016 12:02 AM (vBeA5)
Nah, I'll just let it go. Use your imagination my friend. I bet we are on the same wave length
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 20, 2016 12:02 AM (voOPb)
Maximum Overdrive. A great AC/DC driven soundtrack.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2016 12:02 AM (nQNVp)
Posted by: Patina Awry Newt at May 20, 2016 12:03 AM (/H5Dl)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2016 11:55 PM
LOL, you are probably right. Looking at where the douchebag has ended up and what he's spouting.
I'd be embarrassed to be from MN, but they already had that going on w/ Jesse V.
Posted by: Farmer at May 20, 2016 12:03 AM (o/90i)
Shit, who I am kidding. With this stupid arthritis, one is more than I can handle. The spirit is willing, oh so willing, but the flesh is weak.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 20, 2016 12:03 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Old Blue at May 20, 2016 12:03 AM (9iR5/)
I don't know many women who can handle that.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:55 PM (hVdx9)
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Pshaw!
I put on over 50 lbs in a couple of my pregnancies and I could waddle around just fine.
I mean, if I managed to stand up.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2016 12:03 AM (T/5A0)
He's an insidious azzhole who wants us to live in his version of a leftist hellhole. Other than that he's a funny guy sometimes.
Posted by: Farmer at May 19, 2016 11:52 PM (o/90i
The Smalley bit was telling us the future.
Not everyone has should think they're smart enough, good enough, and hey....some people don't like you.
Not me mind you
But it forecasted the butt hurt special snowflakes. Only society is telling them the the lies instead of personal affirmations.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2016 12:04 AM (hlMPp)
Headline out front shoulda tol' ya.
Posted by: mindful webworker - loose? moose? noose? at May 20, 2016 12:04 AM (5a8XA)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/733318864260325378
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/733319034561761280
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/733319199515348992
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/733319378133999616
Posted by: kbdabear at May 20, 2016 12:04 AM (Es6LZ)
I put on over 50 lbs in a couple of my pregnancies and I could waddle around just fine.
I mean, if I managed to stand up.
"
Hahaha ain't that the truth.
Posted by: lauren at May 20, 2016 12:04 AM (pn+Vg)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/733319608623632384
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/733319783085658112
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/733320077282578432
Posted by: kbdabear at May 20, 2016 12:05 AM (Es6LZ)
Stock footage of the Las Vegas Strip, May 1968:
http://tinyurl.com/zanhd2g
I'd bet virtually none of those buildings anywhere in the film, still exist today.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:06 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: lauren at May 20, 2016 12:06 AM (pn+Vg)
Br well
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 20, 2016 12:06 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2016 12:01 AM
Weren't the Church Lady bits funny? Wait, that wasn't Franken, who was it?
Posted by: Farmer at May 20, 2016 12:06 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 20, 2016 12:06 AM (4rzL1)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2016 11:55 PM (ucDmr)
++++
The Stuart Smalley bit was hideous. Completely awful. I never understood why SNL took bits that were so bad it was painful to watch, like Smalley or It's Pat, and just keep on doing them over and over and over again. Were they trying to make us beg for mercy?
But, I thought the Franken and Davis bits back at the beginning of SNL were funny. Nothing since then from Franken though.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2016 12:01 AM (R+30W
Because SNL will take one comment from a skit the registered well and run. It. Into. The . Fucking. Ground.
One funny comment equals minimum 3 episodes of a bit they'll stretch into 20 minutes per episode.
When I get the chance I still watch to see how awful it has become.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2016 12:07 AM (hlMPp)
The biggest lie I ever told my ex-wife (and I told some doozies) was "if I could, I would carry that for you".
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 20, 2016 12:07 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2016 12:08 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 12:08 AM (PLnZs)
Yeah, clearly having Son practice his night-time freeway driving on wet roads was a much better choice than reading that post. At least there weren't many people between here and Galveston.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 20, 2016 12:08 AM (GDulk)
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at May 20, 2016 12:08 AM (VSenK)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2016 12:09 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: lauren at May 20, 2016 12:06 AM (pn+Vg)
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Yep! The distribution is downright ridiculous!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2016 12:09 AM (T/5A0)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:10 AM (ntObR)
- SNL
- Law & Order: SVU*
(*especially since I found out Stephanie March is a complete Stalinist feminazi)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:11 AM (ntObR)
Very carefully. Not that I'd know. I run to naturalizer the second the line turns pink.
Posted by: lauren at May 20, 2016 12:11 AM (pn+Vg)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:12 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 12:08 AM (PLnZs)
***
YES! With that theme - 'Runaway' - had style to burn and good-ish stories.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 12:13 AM (lutOX)
Shirley Temple aka Mrs Hyde
Edmund Hillary Clinton
Glass Ceiling Lass
Captain Tennille
Agent Becky Thatcher
Posted by: mindful webworker - versus Triggly Puff at May 20, 2016 12:13 AM (5a8XA)
Posted by: lauren at May 20, 2016 12:13 AM (pn+Vg)
She rolled it up and beaned my uncle on the head hard with it. You see, it was his fault she was in the that mess. He just stayed clear of her until after delivery.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 20, 2016 12:14 AM (DW+jj)
That's already nostalgic, as now Fremont Street is "The Fremont Street Experience" and enclosed.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:14 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:14 AM (ntObR)
***
The fate of all reality, even Vegas reality.
Umberto Eco was right - Las Vegas isn't so much a city as it is a semiotic experience - this is item #4,986 in support of that thesis.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 12:16 AM (lutOX)
What drives me crazy is, supposedly, you can visit the Strip once every five years... and get a different experience each time. :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:17 AM (ntObR)
Mothballs, Kirtsy MacColl CD, hot salt, St. John's Wort Oil. Yup, just your typical grocery list. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 19, 2016 11:55 PM (ntObR)
Eye of newt and toe of frog missed the list?
Posted by: cthulhu at May 20, 2016 12:17 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 20, 2016 12:08 AM
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Whoa. I salute you. You have nerves of steel.
If my kids had had to rely on me to practice that, well, they wouldn't have learned it.
Mr. DeVille surreptitiously took them out in rain, sleet, and snow on back mountain roads and the interstate.
It was one of those rare don't-tell-your-mother things.
Because I would have freaked.
There are some things that I don't need to know, that I don't WANT to know!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2016 12:17 AM (T/5A0)
Heels need to be relegated just to the sexy wear category, you know something you just wear for fun. I've seen what constantly wearing heels, and I mean fairly modest ones do to many of the women in my family when the get older. Their feet are just godawful.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 20, 2016 12:18 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 12:18 AM (PLnZs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:18 AM (ntObR)
I don't know many women who can handle that.
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Honey, I'd like to see you haul these girls around day and night, you wouldn't say that.
Posted by: Dolly Parton at May 20, 2016 12:18 AM (w/iDp)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:19 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 20, 2016 12:20 AM (4rzL1)
- SNL
- Law & Order: SVU*
(*especially since I found out Stephanie March is a complete Stalinist feminazi)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:11 AM (ntObR)
Don't even know who March is.
The SNL watching is just background noise. And I usually post my reactions here.
Nothing but a lot of cussing and WTF but it counts
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2016 12:20 AM (hlMPp)
What drives me crazy is, supposedly, you can visit the Strip once every five years... and get a different experience each time. :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:17 AM (ntObR)
***
When the desert reclaims it at last, and a thousand or so years in the future, when archaeologists - assuming there are any - find the place, they're bound to be baffled.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 12:21 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at May 20, 2016 12:21 AM (kP16F)
pregnant. I think that loathsome Kardashian did it, and I've seen some
others. That's just plain idiotic.
Heels need to be relegated
just to the sexy wear category, you know something you just wear for
fun. I've seen what constantly wearing heels, and I mean fairly modest
ones do to many of the women in my family when the get older. Their feet
are just godawful.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 20, 2016 12:18 AM (DW+jj)<<<
This ought to be a law too.
Posted by: Louisiana House stripper ban representative at May 20, 2016 12:21 AM (H9MG5)
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This is about my leather pants, isn't it?
Posted by: Chelsea at May 20, 2016 12:22 AM (w/iDp)
Posted by: mindful webworker - versus Triggly Puff at May 20, 2016 12:13 AM (5a8XA)
Now, that part might actually work, or at least be as (im)plausible as Agents Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Still, they might be better off just making a Girl Genius movie.
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at May 20, 2016 12:22 AM (vRQPU)
There was that stupid Vegas show that was out a few years ago, that supposedly took place around 1955. I think the plot of every episode was:
- Crime committed in Vegas
- Featherhead police force can't solve it
- They go to Mr. Tough Guy main character
- He goes out and beats up a lot of tough guys
- "Here's your man, chief!"
Some TV producers, it doesn't matter how much things change; they're gonna keep spoon-feeding audiences the same ol' rancid crapola that was beyond tiresome 40 years ago, 'til they're literally six feet under.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:22 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 20, 2016 12:23 AM (S2VsH)
Here's the deal, I am buying body armor and it will be about 30 pounds by itself. That is BEFORE a rifle or ANY ammo/supplies.
I don't know many women who can handle that.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 19, 2016 11:55 PM (hVdx9)
30 pounds of armor doesn't feel like much when you're wearing it. I spent almost all of my free time in my 20s doing SCA stuff. It may not be the exact same kind of armor, but if your armor is well-fitted, you barely even notice it.
I've met plenty of women who can fight while wearing that much armor, or more.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 20, 2016 12:24 AM (HalrA)
I finally lost my patience with her when they gave her character, *during a court scene,* a five-minute screeching tantrum to throw at a Rush Limbaugh caricature that the stupid writers had conjured up. Was just purely an excuse to spew hate at conservatives.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:25 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2016 12:26 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 20, 2016 12:26 AM (4rzL1)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 12:27 AM (PLnZs)
change; they're gonna keep spoon-feeding audiences the same ol' rancid
crapola that was beyond tiresome 40 years ago, 'til they're literally
six feet under.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:22 AM (ntObR)
They're bringing back MACGYVER next season. Supposedly an origin story for the Phoenix Foundation, but with some pasty long-haired Millennial dweeb who couldn't hold a candle to RDA as Mac. We Are Not Amused.
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at May 20, 2016 12:28 AM (vRQPU)
But I know how it'll go... the episode will be just another anti-conservative hatefest. They love to spring that shit up again and again and again.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:28 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 20, 2016 12:28 AM (w/iDp)
It did have the very lovely Sarah Jones in it so it had that going for it. She is gorgeous.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2016 12:28 AM (nQNVp)
That's already nostalgic, as now Fremont Street is "The Fremont Street Experience" and enclosed.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:14 AM
I'm old, I remember playing blackjack at 4 Queens. We've stayed the Strip in recent yrs but if you want a taste of old Vegas visit the El Cortez, just north and east of the Freemont bunch.
Diner was a nice old fashioned deal, but the crowd was really scuzzy in the gambling areas, interesting.
Posted by: Farmer at May 20, 2016 12:29 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at May 20, 2016 12:28 AM (vRQPU)
Hadn't heard about that. Wow, sounds awful. Just goes to show that Hollywood is out of ideas.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 20, 2016 12:29 AM (HalrA)
And let's be honest, a lot of those real-life "consultants" have a vested interest in portraying themselves as nothing less than superhuman. "Let me tell ya the story of how I took down an entire mob ring at Circus Circus with just my wits, my blackjack acumen and a crowbar..." :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:29 AM (ntObR)
That lawyer on that show with the umlate in her name was way hotter.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2016 12:30 AM (89T5c)
Posted by: kbdabear at May 20, 2016 12:30 AM (Es6LZ)
- SNL
- Law & Order: SVU*
(*especially since I found out Stephanie March is a complete Stalinist feminazi)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:11 AM (ntObR)
Hey, it's where I learned how to "level up", because that's what happens to women at gaming conventions...
Posted by: "GamerGater" with a stupid hat on at May 20, 2016 12:30 AM (wQWv4)
- SNL
- Law & Order: SVU*
(*especially since I found out Stephanie March is a complete Stalinist feminazi)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:11 AM (ntObR)
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Sorry --- though not surprised --- to hear that about March because she was one of my favorite characters on the show way back when.
I say "way back when" because I haven't watched it since Christopher Meloni left.
That show got soooo preachy. Even in the instances when you agreed with the preaching, it was annoying as hell. And so unrealistic, as regards police procedure.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2016 12:30 AM (T/5A0)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:31 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:31 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Richard Belzer at May 20, 2016 12:32 AM (89T5c)
She doesn't give a shit about 'maintenance.' She just wants to stick it to a man she doesn't like anymore.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:33 AM (ntObR)
***
Well, the man's got two hands....
Seriously, though, a blackjack is about the nastiest pocketable instrument of personal mayhem.....
Knew a girl who used to carry one, and the one and only time she used it, she didn't aim for the guy's skull, but went for his chin. She shattered his jaw - took the fight right out of him, it did.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 12:33 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:33 AM (ntObR)
Supposedly an origin story for the Phoenix Foundation, but with some
pasty long-haired Millennial dweeb who couldn't hold a candle to RDA as
Mac. We Are Not Amused.
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at May 20, 2016 12:28 AM (vRQPU)<<<
No shit. MacGuyver played hockey and had a mullet. A MULLET! This little ponce is probably going to be sporting a man-bun by episode 3.
Posted by: the REAL MacGuyver, prepping the scissors in his pocket knife at May 20, 2016 12:33 AM (H9MG5)
"Here's how you cure Zika with just a two-by-four, a ream of copy paper and a bottle of Tabasco!!" :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:35 AM (ntObR)
Don't want to take too much credit. Son is most of the way through driving practice by now, the rain had stopped or we wouldn't have gone, and the freeway was probably as empty as I've ever seen a stretch of freeway *ever*, so it could have been much worse in many ways.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 20, 2016 12:35 AM (GDulk)
Yes, they hire temporary employees to come and help set up those rides that go up and down the road 52 weeks a year to run all day long after having the stress of putting them up and taking them down.
Nope. Nope. Nope.
Also, 6'4", 275lbs, those rides do not "fit" me.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Triggly at May 20, 2016 12:36 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Chi at May 20, 2016 12:36 AM (n8yIs)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2016 12:39 AM (89T5c)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 12:39 AM (PLnZs)
http://tinyurl.com/hkhmr2q
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:41 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Serena Southerlyn at May 20, 2016 12:42 AM (PLnZs)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 12:42 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Willy J. at May 20, 2016 12:42 AM (LncQn)
That's already nostalgic, as now Fremont Street is "The Fremont Street Experience" and enclosed.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:14 AM (ntObR)
More importantly, I was always aggravated that the character on "Vega$" played by actor Bart Braverman was named Bobby 'Binzer' Borso. WTF?!? Enough with the effin' B's!!!!!!
Posted by: Slappy at May 20, 2016 12:44 AM (rtfSu)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 20, 2016 12:24 AM (HalrA)
After PRACTICE? yes....
No practice? no...
Posted by: Don Quixote at May 20, 2016 12:44 AM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:31 AM
LMAO, if told my wife we were staying there she wouldn't go.
*light bulb goes on, searches for El Cortez rates*
Be well all and thanks for being here, good chat. I'm off for a snooze.
Posted by: Farmer at May 20, 2016 12:45 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2016 12:45 AM (89T5c)
Posted by: Willy J. at May 20, 2016 12:42 AM (LncQn)
***
Xe prefers to think of xerself as 'gender-fluid' - gets us both demographics that way. I'm tellin' ya - this is guaranteed network gold, baby!
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 12:45 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:46 AM (ntObR)
Big upgrade. Nice sweater puppies, too.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 20, 2016 12:39 AM (89T5c)
Gia Delaurentis is attractive but, to quote a line from "So I Married An Axe Murderer," her head is like an orange on a toothpick. It's too large for that tiny body of hers.
Posted by: Slappy at May 20, 2016 12:47 AM (rtfSu)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:47 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Serena Southerlyn at May 20, 2016 12:42 AM
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Oh, shut up. You were only a lesbian for a short while before you left the show. And then they decided to make the Asian psychiatrist the obligatory gay and they forgot all about you.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2016 12:47 AM (T/5A0)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 12:48 AM (PLnZs)
Posted by: Serena Southerlyn at May 20, 2016 12:49 AM (PLnZs)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 12:48 AM (PLnZs)
***
Nope - smoking-hot cooking show babe.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 12:49 AM (lutOX)
Margarita, LOL.
Probably the reason Meloni left: he didn't want to have to get caught up in all the new pronoun BS. Plus, being a white male, it was only a matter of time before *he* was the bad guy in an episode.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:50 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 12:50 AM (PLnZs)
Posted by: Slappy at May 20, 2016 12:47 AM (rtfSu)
***
Bet she looks like a bobble-head when she's, well...
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 12:51 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Willy J. at May 20, 2016 12:42 AM (LncQn)
Honestly? Judging just from the promo pics on the CBS website? That would have been an improvement. (Heck, Felicia Day would have been better casting.)
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at May 20, 2016 12:51 AM (vRQPU)
That's so it wouldn't be weird when the mobsters would say "badda-bing badd-boom" to him!
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 12:51 AM (PLnZs)
I know for a fact most gay people aren't anything like how they're portrayed on TV. They have zero interest in drag, mind their own business and have bills to pay and issues to worry about like everyone else.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:52 AM (ntObR)
The one thing I can say about Hargitay though, is that IRL she seems to be good at keeping her mouth shut about politics. I can't remember her making one nasty comment about anybody, anywhere, ever.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:54 AM (ntObR)
portrayed on TV. They have zero interest in drag, mind their own
business and have bills to pay and issues to worry about like everyone
else.
Wow, you must have dated a lot of them.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 20, 2016 12:54 AM (T/cxb)
Bet she looks like a bobble-head when she's, well...
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 12:51 AM (lutOX)
She doesn't strike me as the type that would EVER do what you're implying, which is probably part of the reason why she and her husband got divorced recently.
Posted by: Slappy at May 20, 2016 12:54 AM (rtfSu)
And the *one* out/open lesbian I ever knew, was also a *huge* conservative and Christian. I'd bet she's a full-throated Trump supporter nowadays.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:56 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 12:57 AM (PLnZs)
:-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:58 AM (ntObR)
I saw him at the Mabuhay Gardens in SF back in the early '80s.
He was awesome.
Posted by: navybrat at May 20, 2016 12:58 AM (w7KSn)
I'm pretty sure we all have, and didn't know, or care, unless they made an issue of it.
Which, to your point, is the opposite of TV.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 20, 2016 01:00 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 01:01 AM (PLnZs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:50 AM (ntObR)
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I wouldn't be surprised if that played a part in his decision. The writing was getting worse year by year, to the point where his normal-hetero-male character wasn't fitting in so well.
(From what you and others have said, the show has gone even more completely around the propaganda bend since he left.)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2016 01:01 AM (T/5A0)
anything like how they're portrayed on TV. They have zero interest in
drag, mind their own business and have bills to pay and issues to worry
about like everyone else.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:52 AM (ntObR)
But that's not the way they sell it on TV, because they've got an agenda to push, and that agenda is bolstered by selling stereotypes to confused identity-seekers so that they can grow their numbers.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 20, 2016 01:01 AM (J+mig)
Or both.... I suppose I could do both.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 01:01 AM (lutOX)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/zjzdcmt
Posted by: Willy J. at May 20, 2016 01:01 AM (LncQn)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:02 AM (ntObR)
I know for a fact most gay people aren't anything like how they're portrayed on TV. They have zero interest in drag, mind their own business and have bills to pay and issues to worry about like everyone else.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:52 AM (ntObR)
I have to disagree. I heard a lot of Internet rumors about Rod Stewart and Richard Gere over the years that not only claimed they were gay but that they engaged in a certain sex act so much that they needed to have their stomachs pumped. It is a problem male heterosexuals certainly don't have to deal with. Those rumors about Stewart and Gere are true, right?!?
Posted by: Slappy at May 20, 2016 01:02 AM (rtfSu)
http://tinyurl.com/hkhmr2q
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:41 AM (ntObR)
The ladies didn't wear underwear like that when I was in college.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Triggly at May 20, 2016 01:02 AM (1JnAL)
also a *huge* conservative and Christian. I'd bet she's a full-throated
Trump supporter nowadays.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:56 AM (ntObR)
People are a lot more complex than the Leftist worldview could ever appreciate. People don't just fit into a bunch of nice neat little categories. Life isn't just high school cliques on a bigger scale. But they're always about trying to reduce everyone into manageable little data chunks so that their elite central planners can figure out what to do with them.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 20, 2016 01:03 AM (J+mig)
Margarita, yup yup yup. Seems like a few years ago, the show was getting more and more political by the minute. Bleah.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:03 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:04 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:04 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:05 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 01:06 AM (PLnZs)
I know for a fact most gay people aren't anything like how they're portrayed on TV. They have zero interest in drag, mind their own business and have bills to pay and issues to worry about like everyone else.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:52 AM (ntObR)
I have to disagree. I heard a lot of Internet rumors about Rod Stewart and Richard Gere over the years that not only claimed they were gay but that they engaged in a certain sex act so much that they needed to have their stomachs pumped. It is a problem male heterosexuals certainly don't have to deal with. Those rumors about Stewart and Gere are true, right?!?
Posted by: Slappy at May 20, 2016 01:02 AM (rtfSu)
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Rod Stewart had to have the semen pumped out of his stomach, but Richard Gere had to have the gerbil removed from his rectum.
I heard both of those rumors before there even was an internet.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2016 01:06 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: John Matrix at May 20, 2016 01:07 AM (4A5fG)
The *only* cajun place I know of that's managed to stay open lately, is Ritter's in Santa Ana. Oh btw, did I mention to you all, I got to *meet* Chef Ritter himself the last time I went there? Great guy, very friendly, and we talked a bit about some of his secrets for staying above water in the marketplace; one of them was, he's *extremely* focused on what the menu should versus should *not* contain.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:08 AM (ntObR)
anything like how they're portrayed on TV. They have zero interest in
drag, mind their own business and have bills to pay and issues to worry
about like everyone else.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 12:52 AM (ntObR)
But that's not the way they sell it on TV, because they've got an agenda to push, and that agenda is bolstered by selling stereotypes to confused identity-seekers so that they can grow their numbers.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 20, 2016 01:01 AM (J+mig)
Half the female characters on shows these days seem to be full blown lesbians or more than willing to be bi.
The male characters are even worse. Almost all of them will open up their squeekholes to anyone.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Triggly at May 20, 2016 01:09 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:09 AM (ntObR)
That's part of the reason I just can't get very much into The Big Bang Theory, in fact. Anybody anything like Jim Parson's character, IRL, would probably die a virgin. But oh no, he's got to be having sex because that's TV these days.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:11 AM (ntObR)
Like Alvin & the Chipmunks!
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 01:11 AM (PLnZs)
Rod Stewart had to have the semen pumped out of his stomach, but Richard Gere had to have the gerbil removed from his rectum.
I heard both of those rumors before there even was an internet.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2016 01:06 AM (R+30W)
You're correct, though I've heard Gere used for both situations. Do you think it was ironic that their first names were Rod and Richard (Dick)?
Posted by: Slappy at May 20, 2016 01:12 AM (rtfSu)
Just ONCE I'd like to see a show about someone who's lonely, who has trouble meeting people, who hasn't had the greatest social life ever all their life.
But again, it's Hollywood bigotry and bubble-headedness. THEY'RE all having the times of their lives socially, so no matter what, all the characters have to mirror their lives. They can't imagine that out there, somewhere, some people might live differently, or worse yet, HAVE to or CHOOSE too.
/end rant
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:13 AM (ntObR)
I know for a fact most gay people aren't anything like how they're portrayed on TV. They have zero interest in drag, mind their own business and have bills to pay and issues to worry about like everyone else.
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There are exceptions.
The Flash has two known gay characters. Capt. Singh, the head of the police station, is pretty low-key. He's gay. He doesn't beat people over the head with it. If he hadn't mentioned his boyfriend a couple of times (the first time was to complain about said boyfriend forcing him to watch his weight), you likely wouldn't know. IIRC, the only time said boyfriend has appeared onscreen so far is when Singh ended up in the hospital.
Apparently the show's writers are smart enough to recognize that they shouldn't let Singh's sexual orientation distract from the superheroics.
Hartley Rathaway is possibly the more interesting one, though. And I'm somewhat surprised that the LGBT crowd hasn't whined about him (or maybe they have; it's not like I check to see). Rathaway is known in the comic books as Pied Piper. And like Singh, he's gay in both the comics and the TV series.
When he's introduced in a first season episode, he's an arrogant jerk that no one likes. He's smart, he knows it, and he wants to make sure that everyone else knows it. He's gay. He knows that he can use his sexuality to annoy people. And he doesn't get along with his very rich parents. We're left to guess that it's because of his sexuality. He's also the bad guy of the episode that he appears in.
During season two, Flash ends up traveling back in time one year to when Rathaway appeared, and ends up changing the timeline when Flash preemptively brings an end to Rathaway's plans before the episode's new threat appears. Rathaway teams up with the good guys to put a stop to the episode's new threat, and Flash returns to his starting point, one year later.
When Flash arrives at when he started, he's shocked to discover that Rathaway is now a fairly decent guy. And he happens to have dinner plans that night... with his parents.
Ergo, one takeaway from this character is -
If you're gay and having fights with your parents, maybe it's not your sexual orientation that's to blame. Maybe it's just you!
Posted by: junior at May 20, 2016 01:14 AM (+ULUe)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:05 AM (ntObR)
No, not really. I had some girlfriends back in college that would have looked really good in those underwear.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Triggly at May 20, 2016 01:15 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 01:15 AM (PLnZs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:13 AM
Silicon Valley.
Posted by: otho at May 20, 2016 01:15 AM (EWg9n)
Posted by: John Matrix at May 20, 2016 01:07 AM (4A5fG)
In that scene in "Commando," how does the pipe Matrix threw at Bennett go through him into the wall anyway? And how would steam come out of the pipe after it got lodged in Bennett? That doesn't seem very scientifically sound. I'm just asking questions because it's important to me that all parts of Schwarzenegger movies are logical and realistic.
Posted by: Slappy at May 20, 2016 01:16 AM (rtfSu)
In the Hollywood world, curmudgeon yells "Get on my prong!"
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 20, 2016 01:16 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:16 AM (ntObR)
It would also help IMHO if there were more shows about people who *have* to work for a living, rather than who are fabulously wealthy yet choose to work anyway.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:17 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:17 AM (ntObR)
Er... have you people read what you've been writing? Yow! You should save that kind of stuff for the overnight thread!
Oh, wait, wait... never miiiiind.
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Home late. Dog is out there barking at the neighbor dogs. Canine version of the overnight thread.
Cool and drizzly tonight. We had June days back in February and March and I got spoiled. Well, clear and warmer days coming up this week, so they say. Oklahoma, where it's always too clammy, too muggy, too hot or too cold, except for that five minutes when it's just right.
Posted by: the variable mindful webworker at May 20, 2016 01:20 AM (Yf6eY)
Of course, by the end of the show he had solved those issues by marrying Amy (played by Monica Horan). Still, at least the writers were smart enough to make his transition extremely awkward as well as funny.
IMHO some shows appear to be written by people who've actually *left* Hollywood and had to make it in the real world, and some shows appear to be written by people whose whole lives have been a Hollywood fairy tale.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:22 AM (ntObR)
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Phrasing!
And see you folks tomorrow; it's late here.
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 01:22 AM (PLnZs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:09 AM (ntObR)
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I have no idea how hetero or homo either of them are. Public figures are very concerned about their marketability, so they both have a reason to want to be seen as hetero even if they are homo. But, if they really were hetero, they would still want to be seen as hetero.
The rumors always seemed a little to "good" to be true, so I am skeptical about them.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2016 01:23 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:23 AM (ntObR)
by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:17 AM
Lonely? Technically, I guess, none of them actually are. However I was alluding to the whole sex life thing. Gilfoyle seems to be able to pull chicks, now and then, but, the rest, not so much. Bachman talks a big game, but doesn't get as much as he thinks he should. Jared/Donald is down for the count. Hendricks would like to, but doesn't know how to seal the deal. Bighead has millions of $$$ but would still be relying on his Nip Alert. Dinesh is so hopeless, the other hopeless casesx make fun of him.
Posted by: otho at May 20, 2016 01:23 AM (EWg9n)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2016 01:24 AM (PLnZs)
Example: Ellen Page. Complete has-been/nobody, then she came out as gay. Now has a whole new drooling group of followers and a reality show.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:25 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2016 01:25 AM (nQNVp)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:26 AM (ntObR)
That's part of the reason I just can't get very much into The Big Bang Theory, in fact. Anybody anything like Jim Parson's character, IRL, would probably die a virgin. But oh no, he's got to be having sex because that's TV these days.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:11 AM (ntObR)
The chick Shonda or something, that does every show on ABC on Thursdays has about half the characters gay or bi, and they pretty much use their sex to get whatever they want. I actually feel sorry for the characters and don't find it "sexy" at all.
Years ago when Modern Family started, about midway through the first season, the SJW's had a big "Let Mitch and Cam Kiss" campaign. They didn't get the characters at all. It wasn't that they didn't kiss, it was that this is a "documentary" type of show with cameramen following them around, and Mitchell is probably the most high strung guy in the world, and he is someone with a really hard time showing affection. If you watched his interactions with his dad and sister, you would have seen that, but..... they didn't kiss because the writers were too afraid to do it. IIRC, when they finally did kiss, they turned it into an episode showing how much Mitchell hated showing affection towards anyone.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Triggly at May 20, 2016 01:26 AM (1JnAL)
Just ONCE I'd like to see a show about someone who's lonely, who has trouble meeting people, who hasn't had the greatest social life ever all their life.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:13 AM (ntObR)
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Well, I think The Big Bang Theory came close in the first few seasons. It's just gotten more Hollywood the longer it goes on.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2016 01:26 AM (T/5A0)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:26 AM
You haven't been watching SV? I thought you were? If you haven't caught it, watch it. Watch it now!
Posted by: otho at May 20, 2016 01:28 AM (EWg9n)
I admit I've avoided Modern Family, it seems a bit too PC for me as well. But that's good to hear, that it's not "being gay is fabulous!!" tropes all the time.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:28 AM (ntObR)
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James Cameron spoke at my university graduation. The people sitting around me were muttering rude things about how he'd run out on his wife.
Posted by: junior at May 20, 2016 01:29 AM (+ULUe)
Valley (which I'm still hoping to get on TV or Amazon/Netflix/Hulu
one of these days), I have one faithfully married heterosexual couple,
two outright asexuals, a dashing officer who's horribly shy around
ladies but nevertheless straight, an equally dashing officer who's not
quite ready for marriage but nevertheless a gentleman, and a teacher who
just... doesn't have a love life. I got soooo tired of the idea that the hero always has to get all the girls ever. (Plus, my plots are complicated enough without throwing in unnecessary sex!)
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at May 20, 2016 01:29 AM (vRQPU)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at May 20, 2016 01:30 AM (OQ9R7)
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Speaking of people named Ellen who are openly lesbian...
Is it just me, or does spending time in a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres turn women straight?
Posted by: junior at May 20, 2016 01:30 AM (+ULUe)
The one show where Chuck Lorre seems to at least halfheartedly *try* to break the mold, is Mike & Molly. It's also way to infused with sex and the plots make Three's Company look like Shakespeare, yet at the same time the couple are *very* traditional and take their Catholicism quite seriously, which in today's TV world is seriously countercultural.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:31 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:32 AM (ntObR)
traditional and take their Catholicism quite seriously, which in today's
TV world is seriously countercultural.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:31 AM (ntObR)
Being Christian is an act of rebellion these days.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 20, 2016 01:33 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:34 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Richard Queen Anderson at May 20, 2016 01:35 AM (gwG9s)
Page had a couple of hits, but nothing like Gere's profile. I don't think she was a has been, more like a minor star. But, I haven't really followed her, so maybe coming out helped her. I'm guessing she was more like someone who nobody ever paid much attention to what she was. So she came out and briefly got a little extra press. But, if she hadn't made an official announcement, would anyone even care one way or another?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2016 01:35 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:37 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: L, Elle at May 20, 2016 01:37 AM (6IPEM)
#BDULivesMatter
Oh, I wish I was in the district of Tom Cotton, Stupid GOPe should be forgotten, Look Awaaaaay! Look Awaaaaaaay! Look Awaaay.......TV-Landddddd......
Posted by: The Midnight Chalkening at May 20, 2016 01:38 AM (iMDvh)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:38 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Zombie Stephen Foster at May 20, 2016 01:39 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:38 AM (ntObR)
***
Did someone say 'Cotton-Eye Joe'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOYZaiDZ7BM
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 01:40 AM (lutOX)
I dunno, I think women are, at times, much stronger than men.
Don't believe me?
Let me see you push a bowling ball out your ass.
Posted by: navybrat at May 20, 2016 01:42 AM (w7KSn)
Of course, by the end of the show he had solved those issues by marrying Amy (played by Monica Horan). Still, at least the writers were smart enough to make his transition extremely awkward as well as funny.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:22 AM (ntObR)
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There was something extraordinary about that romance. Amy was ---(gasp! I don't know if I should even write the dirty word) --- a virgin. And, although there was plenty of kidding around about her being an all-around goody-goody, she wasn't portrayed as being a neurotic freak.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2016 01:42 AM (T/5A0)
Not that I'd see either personally. I'll wait to see what my Internet based crystal ball tells me.
Posted by: dissent555 at May 20, 2016 01:44 AM (GdgAM)
Yes, could I also get a Tex-Mex Rug-Muncher with Spicy Ketchup and Fries with that GBLT? Oh, and a DDD Milk-Shake? Thanks!
Posted by: Starving dude in the What-A-Burger Drive-In at May 20, 2016 01:44 AM (iMDvh)
Whoa!! I'm still sitting at the computer?
I was dreaming something about .. um... never mind.
Think I better check out and head for bed now.
Because, zzz___
Posted by: the variable mindful webworker at May 20, 2016 01:45 AM (Yf6eY)
I also like that while her ultra-conservative parents (played by Georgia Engel and Fred Willard) were, well, conservative, they were still IMHO portrayed somewhat empathetically and positively. They were as messed up as everyone else, but they weren't portrayed as hypocrites.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:45 AM (ntObR)
Don't believe me?
Let me see you push a bowling ball out your ass.
No problemo, sweetheart!
Posted by: The Folsom Street Fair and Up Your Alley crews at May 20, 2016 01:45 AM (T/cxb)
I was in something sort of like that for a very long time, and the portrayal of the pathetic, aching hopelessness and undeniable humor of it all was quite deft.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 01:46 AM (lutOX)
--- the couple are *very* traditional and take their Catholicism quite seriously, which in today's TV world is seriously countercultural.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:31 AM (ntObR)
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Never seen it, so I had no idea.
That is remarkable today.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2016 01:46 AM (T/5A0)
Now if only the plots weren't the all-time stupidest, they might be able to turn me into a regular viewer.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:47 AM (ntObR)
traditional and take their Catholicism quite seriously, which in today's
TV world is seriously countercultural.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:31 AM (ntObR)
Being Christian is an act of rebellion these days.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 20, 2016 01:33 AM (J+mig)
On "The Middle", the family is usually seen going to church or the kids spending time with the youth minister. One of the kids always seems to go talk to the youth minister when she has a problem.
That's kind of nice to see on television.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Triggly at May 20, 2016 01:47 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Starving dude in the What-A-Burger Drive-In at May 20, 2016 01:44 AM (iMDvh)
***
Dude - get something for me....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 01:48 AM (lutOX)
Anyone else notice how much Eden Sher (who plays Sue Heck) looks like a young Mayim Bialik? I'd bet she hears that from fans all the time...
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:49 AM (ntObR)
I most definitely did.
That is until it became apparent my PC generates, after each click, an hither to unknown electromagnetic force known as 'snark.'
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 20, 2016 01:51 AM (p2X2f)
I also like that while her ultra-conservative parents (played by Georgia Engel and Fred Willard) were, well, conservative, they were still IMHO portrayed somewhat empathetically and positively. They were as messed up as everyone else, but they weren't portrayed as hypocrites.
Agree completely. That was actually a very well-written show. BTW - anybody ever see the documentary about Rosenthal trying to help the Russians make their own version of ELR? Very funny, and very interesting, and really explained a lot about how drama/comedy is made.
Posted by: Vertov at May 20, 2016 01:51 AM (RTOcO)
I know they had a bit on the show where Jim is doing something but trying to avoid the priest, who catches him anyway. "I'd love to see you next Sunday!" he says.
"Oh," Jim responds, "I attend the Tuesday evening service."
"That's great!" the priest responds. "I had no idea you were so fluent in Mandarin Chinese!" ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:51 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:52 AM (ntObR)
Don't believe me?
Let me see you push a bowling ball out your ass.
Posted by: navybrat at May 20, 2016 01:42 AM (w7KSn)
In my experience, guys don't handle blood or puke or any other bodily fluid very well. Women? Hell, we bleed regularly, and sometimes it is really disgusting. And who do you think ends up changing the diapers and wiping up the baby puke?
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 20, 2016 01:53 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: TRUMP! at May 20, 2016 01:53 AM (gwG9s)
"That's great!" the priest responds. "I had no idea you were so fluent in Mandarin Chinese!" ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:51 AM (ntObR)
***
Heh!
My angel and her family drag my Germano-Polish Hebrew ass to Mass every week - let me tell you, while there's an undeniable majesty to the Mass in Latin, it's absolutely brutal in Vietnamese, which proves these people must love their God, because it sure as Hell ain't the sound of His words that persuaded them.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 01:54 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 01:48 AM (lutOX)
Okay! *pushes 2x Hetero Fish Tacos w/extra fries & a Root Beer Float through the USB port*
Posted by: Starving dude in the What-A-Burger Drive-In at May 20, 2016 01:54 AM (iMDvh)
Posted by: Vertov at May 20, 2016 01:55 AM (RTOcO)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:55 AM (ntObR)
This isn't opinion, BTW. This is medical knowledge going back at least 50 years.
Posted by: navybrat at May 20, 2016 01:56 AM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Starving dude
<--Tinder's over that way, guys.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 20, 2016 01:56 AM (p2X2f)
Funny IMHO how in so much of Europe and Asia, they prefer slapstick comedy to the more American styles. OTOH, I guess they have a far more horrific history to try and mentally escape from...
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:58 AM (ntObR)
***
Noice.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 01:58 AM (lutOX)
This isn't opinion, BTW. This is medical knowledge going back at least 50 years.
Posted by: navybrat
Pain tolerance I've read about, haven't seen the studies on endurance. What do you mean by 'endurance'?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 20, 2016 01:58 AM (p2X2f)
In Nomine Patris, Ching-Chong, Ching-Chong, Amen....
Posted by: Bishop Rosie O'Donnell of the Leaky Sphincter at May 20, 2016 01:59 AM (iMDvh)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:55 AM (ntObR)
***
Yep..but, as Napoleon observed "Paris is worth a mass."
Yeah, it's agony, but worth it.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 01:59 AM (lutOX)
The word I used is "stamina".
Posted by: navybrat at May 20, 2016 02:00 AM (w7KSn)
Posted by: TrigglyPuff at May 20, 2016 02:00 AM (gwG9s)
I also like that while her ultra-conservative parents (played by Georgia Engel and Fred Willard) were, well, conservative, they were still IMHO portrayed somewhat empathetically and positively. They were as messed up as everyone else, but they weren't portrayed as hypocrites.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 01:45 AM (ntObR)
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Yep. I remember an evangelical friend of mine complaining about them being portrayed as too uptight and Bible-thumpy. But as I pointed out to her, they still came across as somewhat more decent than the Barones.
In most programs the Christians are just made fun of and portrayed as inferiors. In ELR they're....human.
The Big Bang Theory also has done (relatively) well with Sheldon's mother. They ascribe a lot of silly, bigoted views to her --- (lefties don't really know what conservatives believe) --- but she comes across as one of the most sympathetic characters.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2016 02:00 AM (T/5A0)
Posted by: Bishop Rosie O'Donnell of the Leaky Sphincter
UNCLEAN!! UNCLEAN!!!
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 02:00 AM (ntObR)
One of the most famous. He spent some 20 or so takes doing a scene in a restaurant. Then he decides - this shouldn't be the first scene - this should be the last scene. That's The Immigrant.
Posted by: Vertov at May 20, 2016 02:00 AM (RTOcO)
***
Worse...sounds like the priest is alternately strangling and setting fire to a bunch of cats.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 02:01 AM (lutOX)
The word I used is "stamina".
Posted by: navybrat
Ah, indeed you did. So what's 'stamina'?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 20, 2016 02:01 AM (p2X2f)
Margarita, also yup, and I'll have to look for those BBT episodes, thanks. :-)
Some writers just seem to "get" true American culture, while others don't and have no interest in understanding it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 02:03 AM (ntObR)
I want to get the new Criterion edition of his classic "The Kid" because I've read, it's considered the original, super-basic Hollywood story, and done so well to boot, that just watching it qualifies as a master class in quality screenwriting.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 02:04 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: IC at May 19, 2016 10:50 PM (zK6nG)
Were it not for being a pop star, he could have made a name for himself as a jazz pianist. And might still be alive and well today, if a lot less wealthy. But you can't take it with you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2016 02:05 AM (zKSco)
In a foot race, short bursts of speed vs. ability to go farther than the man who burned up all of his calories in a sprint.
Posted by: navybrat at May 20, 2016 02:06 AM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 20, 2016 02:09 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at May 20, 2016 02:09 AM (WVsWD)
I never served but most of my friends that have complain mostly about how the weight they had to carry over distance screwed up their joints/feet/ankles. So body architecture may be as important as pain and endurance.
Posted by: Willy J. at May 20, 2016 02:09 AM (LncQn)
http://tinyurl.com/z5ee8zm
Posted by: navybrat at May 20, 2016 02:14 AM (w7KSn)
Worse...sounds like the priest is alternately strangling and setting fire to a bunch of cats.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 02:01 AM
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I was in Washington, DC a few months ago and decided to go to a real (Tridentine/Latin) Mass at St. Mary's. Somehow I got the time wrong.
I'm looking around me and wondering why so many Chinese were there. Hmmm. Turns out they have a Cantonese Mass at St. Mary's too.
It was a nice experience but, yikes, the tonal language in that setting sounds weird to the Euro-ear!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 20, 2016 02:16 AM (T/5A0)
Something that is also not opinion but a fact you can verify. In one of the most grueling tests of endurance and stamina, U.S. Army Ranger training, no woman ever passed that test. Without receiving three tries to do so.
Something no man has ever been granted. Nor have the requirements ever been relaxed for a man to wear those Tabs.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at May 20, 2016 02:17 AM (WVsWD)
I am sure a hell of a lot of men also failed that test.
I'm not a scientist, I am just relating what I have read about the subject.
Posted by: navybrat at May 20, 2016 02:20 AM (w7KSn)
A lot of "might be's, probably's, could's"
That article was nothing more than an opinion piece.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at May 20, 2016 02:21 AM (WVsWD)
They sure did. But until 3 tries were allowed, no woman ever did.
Reasons?
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at May 20, 2016 02:23 AM (WVsWD)
the most grueling tests of endurance and stamina, U.S. Army Ranger
training, no woman ever passed that test. Without receiving three tries
to do so.
And some Rangers put themselves through worse to compete in the in fucking human Best Ranger Competition.
http://www.bestrangercompetition.com/
Posted by: Willy J. at May 20, 2016 02:23 AM (LncQn)
Posted by: navybrat at May 20, 2016 02:24 AM (w7KSn)
X-Ray Vision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8cmbmwFAl8
Driving sound, but the lyrics are surprisingly erudite.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 20, 2016 02:25 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 19, 2016 11:59 PM (4rzL1)
Raining here, too, near Hwy. 21. Just got back from a quick road trip to Red Deer, and ran through some pretty heavy bands of rain on the road home.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 20, 2016 02:25 AM (zKSco)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 20, 2016 02:01 AM (p2X2f)
My constitution is about a 12 on a scale from 3 to 18.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 20, 2016 02:27 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: navybrat at May 20, 2016 02:29 AM (w7KSn)
What the heck happened???
Posted by: navybrat at May 20, 2016 02:33 AM (w7KSn)
What the heck happened???
Title IX.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 20, 2016 02:36 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 20, 2016 02:46 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 20, 2016 02:46 AM (sl+zA)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 20, 2016 02:56 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Vertov at May 20, 2016 02:59 AM (RTOcO)
Hanen seemed to lament that he couldn't disbar the attorneys involved, but he barred the out-of-state attorneys from enjoying the right to practice law in Texas.
"The court does not have the power to disbar the counsel in this case, but it does have the power to revoke the pro hac vice status of out-of-state lawyers who act unethically in court," he wrote. "By a separate sealed order that it is simultaneously issuing, that is being done."
Posted by: unlawful attorney at May 20, 2016 03:33 AM (e8kgV)
This wasn't an accident, but a result of Trump's deliberate communications strategy to flood the zone. In the Republican primary, the New York businessman's ubiquitous presence on television, and social media, primarily Twitter, helped sink an experienced field of opponents.
They were constantly off balance and on defense -- and being forced to respond to Trump reinforced an image among GOP voters that the real estate mogul was the only candidate offering solutions to their problems.
Posted by: unlawful media consultant at May 20, 2016 03:50 AM (e8kgV)
But it's Friday, it's Friday, 8 hrs of work to go.
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2016 03:52 AM (3wHFl)
"Sexism is not limited to one political party or the other," said Susan Carroll, a professor of political science and women's and gender studies at New Jersey's Rutgers University. "It clearly manifests itself across the political spectrum."
And Democrats gave two prime examples this week. Rendell, in an interview with The Washington Post, said Trump's comments about women will backfire on him because "There are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women."
Posted by: unlawful media consultant at May 20, 2016 03:53 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2016 04:00 AM (3wHFl)
I now avoid watching the prison documentary "Locked Up" reruns on TV for fear I might start envying the institutional life. At least those ass rapings in the big house would be on a schedule.
Posted by: derit at May 20, 2016 04:06 AM (OC+TJ)
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Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 04:54 AM (lutOX)
But, on the precautionary principle, it's an obvious troll.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 05:08 AM (lutOX)
At this time of the morning, who cares?
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at May 20, 2016 05:15 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2016 05:20 AM (3wHFl)
Posted by: fluffy at May 20, 2016 05:31 AM (2hcmo)
So, use your imagination.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at May 20, 2016 05:31 AM (WVsWD)
Consequently, the better we get at carrying on, the more difficult it becomes to do so.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 05:43 AM (lutOX)
In the end, it becomes a doomed welfare state, with a small elite trying to keep the show on the road, and a large and ever-growing mass of sullen, resentful human parasites determined to 'get theirs.'
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 05:46 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 05:47 AM (lutOX)
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Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 05:55 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at May 20, 2016 05:56 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: fluffy at May 20, 2016 05:57 AM (2hcmo)
That's about all I am willing to say about it.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at May 20, 2016 05:56 AM (WVsWD)
***
Let's finish up with a quote from - I believe - Baroness Thatcher, may her enemies die screaming: 'We can't go on like this.'
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 06:01 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: fluffy at May 20, 2016 05:57 AM (2hcmo)
***
Heh!
Talk about a celeb sho was and is well pas her 'sell-by' date...
Sonny lucked out. We're still stuck with her.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 20, 2016 06:03 AM (lutOX)
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Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 20, 2016 06:23 AM (vvmPQ)
Morning Vic. Thanks for the depression
I'm glad the NFL paid the money back. We shouldn't have to pay for patriotism.
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at May 20, 2016 06:24 AM (SuWs0)
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Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at May 20, 2016 06:24 AM (SuWs0)
The intent of those performances was not to engender "patriotism", it was advertising for Army recruitment. But even if it had been "for patriotism" I object to how it was cancelled and the funds returned. They should not have surrendered to a bunch of whiners.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 20, 2016 06:29 AM (vvmPQ)
mean clean the sidewalks of the scummiest past of SF.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 20, 2016 06:27 AM (1ijHg)
I assume that was a typo, I would like for them to try to clean the "scummy past" of SF but that would be hard. But if you meant the scummy sidewalks, yeah since they are also public bathrooms in SF.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 20, 2016 06:32 AM (vvmPQ)
Good Morning Daywalkers.
Almost prime time here at the HD so I'll just say "Ya'll have a great weekend!" I'm out to talk to customers.
Posted by: Gmac- All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war. at May 20, 2016 06:35 AM (4pjhs)
Posted by: Jean at May 20, 2016 06:35 AM (Doh4+)
If you look up the unaired pilot (it can be found on torrent sites and maybe it's on one of the DVD sets) the original versions of the characters were somewhat different. The opening scene had them making donations at a high IQ sperm bank for extra money and the jokes made it clear that Sheldon had some very specific desires in women that were unsatisfied by the pornography offered to donors.
The Howard and Raj characters didn't exist and the female lead was completely different, being a rather nastier sort of girl that that Sheldon and Leonard take in like a stray dog.
Posted by: Epobirs at May 20, 2016 06:36 AM (IdCqF)
Posted by: Hanoverfist at May 20, 2016 06:36 AM (7OrCI)
Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.
Here are a couple of pix of the Ziegfeld girl Adrienne Ames. First, a studio portrait where she's got a bit of the Nora Charles look:
http://goo.gl/sFbxbl
And what may be a movie still, where she's doing a Greta Garbo bit:
http://goo.gl/E1QXEM
Ames wasa Texas lady, born in Fort Worth and after her Ziegfeld stint, moved over to silent pictures, starting out as a stand in for the temperamental star Pola Negri. But by the late 1930s, her career had fizzled out, so she moved to NYC and, according to wiki, hosted a talk radio show on station WHN until dying in 1947.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 20, 2016 06:39 AM (X6fMO)
Cher is worth over 300 million. Last I heard, she's on the outs with both her kids.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 20, 2016 06:45 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang
If John Kerry is your role model and you don't ski
Posted by: Jean at May 20, 2016 06:46 AM (Doh4+)
Posted by: Epobirs at May 20, 2016 06:36 AM (IdCqF)
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That is pretty much the only TV show that I like.
Posted by: Kudzu King at May 20, 2016 06:48 AM (HSmrB)
I'll admit I'm just going off a blurb on Fox. I'll read more when i get to work.
But thanks for the VNN. Sorry you got more rain. We may have our 2nd day of not absolutely shit weather here.
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at May 20, 2016 06:48 AM (SuWs0)
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at May 20, 2016 06:48 AM (SuWs0)
I like a little rain, its good for the grass. But we have had so much rain already this Spring it is pathetic. And the real killer is when we get this much early rain the Summer usually turns into a drought,
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 20, 2016 06:50 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2016 06:52 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 20, 2016 06:53 AM (1ijHg)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 20, 2016 06:53 AM (1ijHg)
I have enough of those too.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 20, 2016 06:56 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2016 07:03 AM (eyMbF)
I'm in the N. Panhandle of WV and last night was the first night of the zombie cicada parade...they've been telling us they are on the way, but after the warm sunny day yesterday, Oh My! Home from a school event in the early evening, there was a literal parade of creatures crawling towards the large oak trees on the street. Looking at our yard, it looked like it had just been aerated, but those little dirt clods were all crawling and moving. Many of them don't make it, and die on the sidewalk. What a mess. Not as bad (yet) as I had imagined, but I think it's still going to get worse. They haven't starting 'singing' yet, so nights are still quiet.
Stuff of nightmares for this west coast city girl, I tell ya...
Posted by: RedDish at May 20, 2016 07:12 AM (5eXg1)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 20, 2016 06:50 AM (vvmPQ)
I think we had 22 days of rain out of the last 24. It really started effecting my mood. But yeah, gonna turn it into one hot ass summer.
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at May 20, 2016 07:19 AM (SuWs0)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2016 07:19 AM (eyMbF)
Posted by: RedDish at May 20, 2016 07:12 AM (5eXg1)
Amazingly enough, I haven't heard or seen any of them yet here and I am much further South than WV.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 20, 2016 07:19 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 20, 2016 07:23 AM (ptqRm)
Vic, these are the 17 year variety. Otherwise, they are the sign that summer is coming to an end, not the beginning.
Posted by: RedDish at May 20, 2016 07:24 AM (5eXg1)
Anybody got any cicada recipes?
For the burnin' tymes....
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 20, 2016 07:23 AM (ptqRm)
You'll have to ask those of Indian extraction. Send an e-mail to Nikki Haley. She needs something to do besides crap on the confederate flag.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 20, 2016 07:26 AM (vvmPQ)
Stuff of nightmares for this west coast city girl, I tell ya...
Posted by: RedDish at May 20, 2016 07:12 AM (5eXg1)
Good protein there
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at May 20, 2016 07:27 AM (SuWs0)
Posted by: RedDish at May 20, 2016 07:24 AM (5eXg1)
Never heard that. My great grandmother used to say it meant the rattle snakes were about to start crawling.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 20, 2016 07:27 AM (vvmPQ)
Euphemism for "Election time is around the corner"?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 20, 2016 07:31 AM (ptqRm)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 20, 2016 07:31 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 20, 2016 07:31 AM (ptqRm)
Euphemism for "Election time is around the corner"?
LOL; and she was a yellow dog Democrat.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 20, 2016 07:33 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 20, 2016 07:34 AM (vvmPQ)
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I agree Vic, not that good (especially compared to the books). Maybe the pacing just doesn't translate well to the screen.
Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2016 07:36 AM (/m8T6)
...and locust of a two legged variety.
Posted by: RedDish at May 20, 2016 07:37 AM (5eXg1)
Posted by: Jean at May 20, 2016 06:22 AM (Doh4+)
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Totally right. She spoke at one of my kids graduations and, in front of the whole crowd, the kids, parents, and proud grandparents, she proceeded to kick things off by telling the story of having sex with her boyfriend right on the same spot where the speakers podium stood that day. TMI just doesn't even begin to cover that little nugget. What a tool.
Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2016 07:40 AM (/m8T6)
But another poc was shot yesterday by the SFPD, so that's that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2016 07:42 AM (EZebt)
522 mean clean the sidewalks of the scummiest past of SF.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 20, 2016 06:27 AM
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But there are so many scummy parts to choose from!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2016 07:48 AM (EZebt)
Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2016 07:36 AM (/m8T6)
maybe I will get the book from the library and read it when I get caught up on the ones already loaded on the my Samsung.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 20, 2016 07:55 AM (vvmPQ)
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