The "Mazes and Monsters" Tribute Album You Didn't Know You Needed

"Mazes and Monsters" was a book and then a TV movie. The story was a fictionalized version of a student at Michigan State (IIRC) who went missing. The Fake News account of the disappearance was that he crazy from playing Dungeons & Dragons and disappeared into the tunnels under the school, lost in a fantasy world. This idea was proposed by a private detective paid to find the kid. He couldn't find him, but he seized on the D&D theory.

In fact, he went to some other school to hook up with someone without telling anyone. It didn't have anything to do with D&D.

But the story was out there for exploitation and got exploited.

Below, the very silly conclusion of the TV movie, taking place atop the Two Towers.

After that, choice quotes from that movie, and that scene, made part of a dungeonpunk synth track.

It's all very, very silly.

I've wanted to post that for a year but kept putting it off because basically three people in the world would even get it.

So here's something else for everyone else.

The music.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/ShqZv5DMT3
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 1, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:00 PM

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1 I am sleeping on the Beach in Delaware to hide from Trump and MAGA Republicans which are trying to...........

"Steal My Precious Bodily Fluids" !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 02, 2024 04:02 PM (aj3Iu)

2 Dang. That's how I dance.
No tutu though.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 02, 2024 04:03 PM (W/lyH)

3 I've wanted to post that for a year but kept putting it off because basically three people in the world would even get it.

I don't get it.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:03 PM (xCA6C)

4
Called 'em.

*waits for treat*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 04:04 PM (FLlbx)

5 Is that Tom Hank scene real, or more editing?

Apparently Tom Hank is getting pissy about people using his likeness for fake scenes.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 04:04 PM (XjaL8)

6 Yeah I remember the stupidity in that era like 'Mothers Against Dungeons and Dragons' and lunacy like claiming rock bands were convincing kids to commit suicide.

I always use it to remind people of the reason so many young people joined the left, because they were sick of the religious busybody Karens on the right.

Now, of course those Karens have moved to the left, and wokeness and racism are their new religions.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at September 02, 2024 04:04 PM (setIA)

7 th!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2024 04:05 PM (7BV1v)

8 Mazes and monsters, hmmm missed that one when it came out. Looks like I didn’t miss much.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 02, 2024 04:05 PM (fIpti)

9 Dancing is for women and hair dressers

Posted by: Charlie Rangel at September 02, 2024 04:05 PM (1FWWQ)

10 that movie was pure disinformation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2024 04:06 PM (uOS9K)

11 Those poor sweet little girls in their adorable tutus. The music is on point.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 02, 2024 04:07 PM (Go6qm)

12 Dancing is for women and hair dressers

Posted by: Charlie Rangel

Yeah, Charlie, I'm sure you did better with the ladies than Baryshnikov or Fred Astaire.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:07 PM (xCA6C)

13 Among my favorite Tom Hank stories, some kid who was supposedly used as a sex toy for the rich and powerful, was going to go public... until he was mysteriously hit by a car that swerved toward him as he stepped off a curb.

Hank subsequently posted a tweet with a photo of the spot on the curb, and some number or whatever, that is used by the Illuminati or some such org.

I don't know if it's true or not, but I could see Tom Hank being a member of the Hollyweird pedo ring. Well, one of the Hollyweird pedo rings. There are several. Allegedly.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 04:08 PM (XjaL8)

14 That it is on Cassette...

*chef kiss*

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:08 PM (zFgy/)

15 A fountain of misinformation.

Posted by: Gorilla Monsoon at September 02, 2024 04:08 PM (4Med0)

16 In fact, he went to some other school to hook up with someone without telling anyone. It didn't have anything to do with D&D.

....just with one "D."

Awwww, yeah.

Posted by: that Michigan State student at September 02, 2024 04:08 PM (DgGvY)

17 Afternoon.

Willow'd.

Holy fuck, I laughed so hard I started to choke.

https://youtube.com/shorts/dtJNcvniSRE

Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at September 02, 2024 04:09 PM (TCRk0)

18 Had a garage sale a few years back, was getting rid of some of DHs old Magic cards. A woman came up to me and told me I was selling satanic ritual merchandise and she was going to report me. To whom, I don't know. People are strange.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 02, 2024 04:09 PM (sRfrW)

19
I don't know if it's true or not, but I could see Tom Hank being a member of the Hollyweird pedo ring. Well, one of the Hollyweird pedo rings. There are several. Allegedly.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 04:08 PM (XjaL

_________

Well, he DID take Greek citizenship.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 04:09 PM (FLlbx)

20 This was pre-Satanic Panic, wasn't it?

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:09 PM (zFgy/)

21 Those poor sweet little girls in their adorable tutus.

I sat through 4 daughter's worth of those performances, and that means the WHOLE 2-3 hour performance by every one of the 20-30 odd classes, because it would be rude to leave after your kid. (Not that that stopped many people from doing so)

I've seen things...

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:09 PM (xCA6C)

22 I don't get it.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:03 PM (xCA6C)

You're not basically three people.

You'd get it if you were fatter.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 02, 2024 04:10 PM (mDTxx)

23 Is that Tom Hank scene real, or more editing?

Apparently Tom Hank is getting pissy about people using his likeness for fake scenes.
Posted by: BurtTC

Oh, Tom Hanks was definitely in that particular *special* movie.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 02, 2024 04:10 PM (ftFVW)

24 Continuing from the last thread.....

Nonsense. A panel of historians has Biden at No. 6, behind Obama, Clinton, JFK and FDR.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

An appropriate amount of math for the HQ.

And even more so for a panel of presidential historians.

Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 04:10 PM (DgGvY)

25 The Greatest American Hero had a similar episode that was even more painfully over the top. I don’t remember the name of the game but it involved lots of candles, rote phrases, and no separation between player and character.

Also a kidnapped Middle Eastern prince who was into the game.

I used to think that the FBI couldn’t possibly be as stupid as depicted in that series.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 02, 2024 04:11 PM (olroh)

26 Well, he DID take Greek citizenship.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 04:09 PM (FLlbx)

The Greeks had a purpose, they would take a young boy under their wing, f**k him, and teach him the ways of Greek culture.

They were showing him how to be a man.

Our pedos just f**k the kids, then kill them off.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 04:11 PM (XjaL8)

27 A woman came up to me and told me I was selling satanic ritual merchandise and she was going to report me. To whom, I don't know. People are strange.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 02, 2024 04:09 PM (sRfrW)

"Report" you?

To whom? The Magic police?

What a dolt.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 02, 2024 04:11 PM (mDTxx)

28 That's the same performance he gave as the drunk Uncle on Family Ties.

Posted by: Rona Jaffe at September 02, 2024 04:12 PM (pIfcn)

29 The music..

was perfect! Those little girls kept perfect rhythm.

Posted by: t-bird at September 02, 2024 04:12 PM (RFx0q)

30 That was James Dallas Egbert at Michigan State

Posted by: one hour sober at September 02, 2024 04:12 PM (Y1sOo)

31 Wish Hanks had jumped....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 02, 2024 04:12 PM (IyPmt)

32 Tom Hanks is such a good actor, with range from moderately retarded to fully retarded.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at September 02, 2024 04:13 PM (5IFb9)

33 Oh, Tom Hanks was definitely in that particular *special* movie.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 02, 2024 04:10 PM (ftFVW)

Was the dialogue shown here real, or edited?

Not sure how much I care though, I'm not one of the three.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 04:13 PM (XjaL8)

34 Ace, my senile grandma repeated herself too.
Seen the chain reaction falling kids dancing.
After the falling shelves hit your head were both your pupils the same size?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 02, 2024 04:13 PM (lYyke)

35 Oh goodness, baby ballerinas!

I will have y’all know, I made my debut on the ballet stage as a little ducky at age 3 and got to do a solo with our teacher before all the other little duckies came out on stage. My part of the solo was battement tendue first position while she danced around me.

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:14 PM (pZEOD)

36 I vaguely remember reading "Mazes & Monsters" umpteen years ago...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 02, 2024 04:14 PM (BpYfr)

37 24 Continuing from the last thread.....

Nonsense. A panel of historians has Biden at No. 6, behind Obama, Clinton, JFK and FDR.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

As the 6th worst ? because I think he's more like 2nd behind Wilson

Posted by: It's me donna at September 02, 2024 04:14 PM (IyPmt)

38 My part of the solo was battement tendue first position while she danced around me.

I speak a wee bit of French, but I don't understand what battered chicken tenders have to do with ballet.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:15 PM (xCA6C)

39
I sat through 4 daughter's worth of those performances, and that means the WHOLE 2-3 hour performance by every one of the 20-30 odd classes, because it would be rude to leave after your kid. (Not that that stopped many people from doing so)

I've seen things...
Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:09

I would want to leave after my kids performance but I wouldn't do that to the other kids.

At my kid's school Christmas pageant, one of the kindergarteners threw up on the carpeted steps of the church and the music director put a towel over it and then when the song was over all the kids did a running leap over the throw up towel, everyone was laughing but I still feel terrible for the poor kid that was sick.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 02, 2024 04:15 PM (Go6qm)

40 My sister took ballet for years as a kid. She's still the biggest spazz on the planet. But she got to do the Nutcracker repeatedly, so there's that.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 02, 2024 04:15 PM (sRfrW)

41 I remember watching that movie.

Posted by: Tuna at September 02, 2024 04:15 PM (oaGWv)

42 A woman came up to me and told me I was selling satanic ritual merchandise and she was going to report me. To whom, I don't know.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief

To God, I guess?

She should have gone all out: jammed a lighting rod into the ground next to you, and run away yelling about "judgement at hand."

Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 04:15 PM (DgGvY)

43 In fact, he went to some other school to hook up with someone without telling anyone. It didn't have anything to do with D&D.

----------

I remember the story of this IBM cubicle drone who was always talking about how much he hated the grind and how one day he was going to chuck it all and head for a tiny island in the Caribbean to live out his years in a carefree paradise.

One day, he didn't come in. Didn't call, didn't email. He just disappeared. Nobody had a clue what happened to him.

Over time, a mini-cult developed around the guy. Folks at IBM would gather in bars periodically to commemorate the one slave who broke the mold and decided to live life on his own terms. They would imagine where he was now and what he was doing. It always involved beaches, sunsets, grass huts and beautifully exotic women.

Years later one of the IBM workers ran into him. In a convenience store in San Jose. Turns out the guy had left IBM for a better job offer at Compaq.

I love this story for its hope-crushing qualities.

Posted by: Disembodied Punchlines at September 02, 2024 04:15 PM (WBQfF)

44 This was pre-Satanic Panic, wasn't it?
Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:09 PM (zFgy/)
******************************************

The Michigan State University student went missing on August 15 1979, an Associated Press story about it reached national attention on September 7, and he was located on September 14.

The "Mazes and Monsters" made-for-TV movie released December 28 1982, adapted from a novel published the previous year.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at September 02, 2024 04:15 PM (bnSKR)

45 Tom Hanks is such a good actor, with range from moderately retarded to fully retarded.
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at September 02, 2024 04:13 PM (5IFb9)

I stopped watching his movies, but yeah, the last one of his I saw was him having an affair with a volleyball.

I can't recall seeing the guy play anyone who was supposed to be smart.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 04:16 PM (XjaL8)

46 The craze to vilify D&D got nutso, for sure. Though, the late Kate Winslet's Boobs' mother saw value in it's ability to get boys to read and allowed it for him despite her otherwise very straight-laced, religious tendencies.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 02, 2024 04:16 PM (ftFVW)

47 Oops. Off dumb sock.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:16 PM (WBQfF)

48 At my kid's school Christmas pageant, one of the kindergarteners threw up on the carpeted steps of the church and the music director put a towel over it and then when the song was over all the kids did a running leap over the throw up towel, everyone was laughing but I still feel terrible for the poor kid that was sick.

Ah, the pas de barf.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:16 PM (xCA6C)

49
Ah, the pas de barf.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:16 PM (xCA6C)

This is the best

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:17 PM (pZEOD)

50
An appropriate amount of math for the HQ.

And even more so for a panel of presidential historians.
Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 04:10 PM (DgGvY)

__________

*throws phone across room*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 04:17 PM (FLlbx)

51 I that is classic Tom Hanks anguish face. He does it in about every movie. Except Forrest Gump on account of the character being autistic and unable to show anguish. Great actor.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 02, 2024 04:17 PM (fs1hN)

52 Never heard of Mazes and Monsters

Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 04:18 PM (fwDg9)

53 Ahh the good old days of Dungeons and Dragon, Heavy Metal and Satanic cults ( and nuclear war)being the main things mothers worried about

Posted by: steevy at September 02, 2024 04:18 PM (HJ9BW)

54 Show of hands. How many'Ro s and 'Ettes met their spouses this way?

https://youtube.com/shorts/IbNp0C3gnHc

Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at September 02, 2024 04:19 PM (v82/l)

55 >>The Michigan State University student went missing on August 15 1979, an Associated Press story about it reached national attention on September 7, and he was located on September 14.

Yeah...I remembered it being the D&D stuff -> Ozzy Osbourne/Suicide Solution ->PMRC - > Satanic Panic.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:19 PM (zFgy/)

56 In fact, he went to some other school to hook up with someone without telling anyone. It didn't have anything to do with D&D.

....just with one "D."

Awwww, yeah.
Posted by: that Michigan State student

You never know. It might have been DD, just no &.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 02, 2024 04:19 PM (VNX3d)

57 Oh goodness, baby ballerinas!

I will have y’all know, I made my debut on the ballet stage as a little ducky at age 3 and got to do a solo with our teacher before all the other little duckies came out on stage. My part of the solo was battement tendue first position while she danced around me.
Posted by: Piper

There was an actual ballet made of "Princess Tutu?"

.....since that's another "three people will get it" comment, Pixy describes Princess Tutu as "the greatest story ever told about a duck who saves the world through the power of ballet."

Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 04:19 PM (DgGvY)

58 Now they vilify Gary Gygax anew, he was a racist don't you know?

Posted by: steevy at September 02, 2024 04:20 PM (HJ9BW)

59 In fact, he went to some other school to hook up with someone without telling anyone. It didn't have anything to do with D&D.

-

Hmm... That was back when it was difficult to be a nerd / geek / weirdo outcast, so I'm betting the first sentence was closely tied to the second.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 04:20 PM (ChwNg)

60 Ned Sparks was a natural to portray Forest Gump.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 02, 2024 04:20 PM (lYyke)

61 Was the dialogue shown here real, or edited?

Not sure how much I care though, I'm not one of the three.
Posted by: BurtTC

Hahaha, I think I must be one of the three... but it's been SO long since I've seen it that I can't 100% confirm the legitimacy of that scene. (Resists urge to check if it is in this hobbit hole's DVD collection...) However, it seems very aligned with my memories of that made for TV masterpiece.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 02, 2024 04:20 PM (ftFVW)

62 49
Ah, the pas de barf.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:16 PM (xCA6C)

This is the best
Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:17 PM (pZEOD)

Is that the one when you spin around really really fast?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 02, 2024 04:20 PM (PiwSw)

63 I was a student at MSU when Egbert went missing. Lots of crazy rumors about it at the time.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 02, 2024 04:20 PM (Y1sOo)

64
DD >>>> D&D

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 04:21 PM (FLlbx)

65 That was also the age of the Toy Recalls that cost us the Red Projectiles off our X Wing Fighters.

I hated that stupid kid that fell out the window and cost me my Toy Ordnance.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:21 PM (zFgy/)

66 Yeah...I remembered it being the D&D stuff -> Ozzy Osbourne/Suicide Solution ->PMRC - > Satanic Panic.
Posted by: garrett

-

(reads this backwards)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 04:21 PM (ChwNg)

67 No amount of Razor Filled Caramel Apples could soothe me.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:21 PM (zFgy/)

68 I can't recall seeing the guy play anyone who was supposed to be smart.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 04:16 PM (XjaL

He was pretty smart in Saving Pvt. Ryan.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at September 02, 2024 04:22 PM (g8Ew8)

69 It was a Battlestar Galactica toy that caused the kid to choke. Apparently he launched the missile right down his throat and it plugged his windpipe

Posted by: steevy at September 02, 2024 04:22 PM (HJ9BW)

70 @67 lol

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 04:22 PM (NMT5x)

71 So inspiring...

@Breaking911 16m
BREAKING: The FAA has issued a ground stop at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey because of a "potential radar outage" - CNN

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2024 04:23 PM (IG4Id)

72 have y’all know, I made my debut on the ballet stage as a little ducky at age 3

Had a sweetie who was a sugar plum fairy.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 02, 2024 04:23 PM (lYyke)

73 >>It was a Battlestar Galactica toy that caused the kid to choke. Apparently he launched the missile right down his throat and it plugged his windpipe

That was after some dipshit kid dodged one of the X-Wing Missiles and fell out the apartment window.

Fuck that kid. Obviously The Force had no use for him and neither did I.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:23 PM (zFgy/)

74 69 It was a Battlestar Galactica toy that caused the kid to choke. Apparently he launched the missile right down his throat and it plugged his windpipe
Posted by: steevy at September 02, 2024 04:22 PM (HJ9BW)

-----------

Clearly it was well-designed anti-Sarlacc ordinance.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:23 PM (WBQfF)

75 There was an actual ballet made of "Princess Tutu?"

.....since that's another "three people will get it" comment, Pixy describes Princess Tutu as "the greatest story ever told about a duck who saves the world through the power of ballet."
Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 04:19 PM (DgGvY)

And because of that one Pixy comment I bought the series on bluray.

Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at September 02, 2024 04:24 PM (fTTnm)

76 I must be the only person here who had never heard of D and D until probably the early 90s. I don't remember anyone playing that game.

I'm sure the boys that hung out in the computer lab all the time were the ones playing it but they didn't talk much, not unless I talked to them first so they never talked about their games.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 02, 2024 04:24 PM (Go6qm)

77 Or ordnance.

Whatevz.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:24 PM (WBQfF)

78 >>I'm sure the boys that hung out in the computer lab all the time were the ones playing it but they didn't talk much, not unless I talked to them first so they never talked about their games.

They were desperately trying to cover their erections with the Dungeon Master Manual, I am sure.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:25 PM (zFgy/)

79 It was a Battlestar Galactica toy that caused the kid to choke. Apparently he launched the missile right down his throat and it plugged his windpipe
Posted by: steevy

--

Not joking: Bic started putting holes in their caps in the 90s because hundreds of people a year were dying from choking on them.

Now only 100 a year do. I'm willing to bet that's more than AR-15 deaths, but shut up because reasons.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 04:25 PM (ChwNg)

80 Is it considered willowed if it goes back days to an old thread? Maybe it's called mildewed?

Anyway, adding an 'r' to a movie name to make it x-rated.

Sawr.

As in, I sawr getting out of the shower. *insert wolf whistle here*

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 04:25 PM (NMT5x)

81 I did really like Hanks in Money Pit, because if you’ve ever completely redone a big old house, you’ve lived that movie.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 02, 2024 04:25 PM (fIpti)

82 57 There was an actual ballet made of "Princess Tutu?"

.....since that's another "three people will get it" comment, Pixy describes Princess Tutu as "the greatest story ever told about a duck who saves the world through the power of ballet."
Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 04:19 PM (DgGvY)

I think this may be backwards as my ballet debut occurred in the mid 70’s. Obviously, someone found the pictures from the momentous event and wrote Princess Tutu.

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:25 PM (pZEOD)

83
I can't recall seeing the guy play anyone who was supposed to be smart.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 04:16 PM (XjaL

He was pretty smart in Saving Pvt. Ryan.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons

==============

Whatever your opinion about the subject matter, he was pretty smart in Philadelphia. Also Cast Away. He has this great "What is life?" close-up sort of face.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 02, 2024 04:26 PM (lCaJd)

84 It's all been downhill since Bachelor Party for Tom Hanks.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:27 PM (zFgy/)

85 I used to think that the FBI couldn’t possibly be as stupid as depicted in that series.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 02, 2024 04:11 PM (olroh)

———

I always like Robert Culp. Though his character in GAH was pretty good. Though looking back on it, he’d probably be right there in Crossfire Hurricane looking for Ruskies.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 02, 2024 04:27 PM (2fIO4)

86 Hanks played smart as Jim Lovell in Apollo 13. He played stupid in Forrest Gump and the guy who got AIDS in Philadelphia

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 02, 2024 04:27 PM (1G9mh)

87 Breaking911 16m
BREAKING: The FAA has issued a ground stop at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey because of a "potential radar outage" - CNN
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2024 04:23 PM (IG4Id)

Once again I'm reminded of the prescience of Ayn Rand.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at September 02, 2024 04:28 PM (g8Ew8)

88 In fact, he went to some other school to hook up with someone without telling anyone. It didn't have anything to do with D&D.

Well, yeah, getting some is the polar opposite of D&D.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 02, 2024 04:28 PM (jbPJz)

89 So inspiring...

@Breaking911 16m
BREAKING: The FAA has issued a ground stop at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey because of a "potential radar outage" - CNN
Posted by: weft cut-loop

They're trying to get that guy who did the sound effects in Police Academy, so they have the proper radar sounds in the tower....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 02, 2024 04:28 PM (VNX3d)

90 Notting Hill Festival > West Indian Day

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 02, 2024 04:29 PM (RIvkX)

91 Philadelphia fucking sucked. He had AIDS and got fired for being a fuck up but he sued his firmer employers out of business cuz someone made a joke and that gave him the sadz.

What a stupid movie.

Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at September 02, 2024 04:29 PM (fTTnm)

92 It's either a radar outage at Newark, or heavy gunfire from Newark

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 02, 2024 04:29 PM (1G9mh)

93 BREAKING: The FAA has issued a ground stop at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey because of a "potential radar outage" - CNN

The fuck is a "potential radar outage"? It either works or it doesn't.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 02, 2024 04:29 PM (jbPJz)

94 >>Well, yeah, getting some is the polar opposite of D&D.

Any sensible PI would throw that option out on its face, though.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:29 PM (zFgy/)

95 Philadelphia fucking sucked. He had AIDS and got fired for being a fuck up but he sued his firmer employers out of business cuz someone made a joke and that gave him the sadz.

-

It's crazy how prescient that movie was.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 04:29 PM (ChwNg)

96 Basically the guy had a Sword of Sharpness he needed to swing and thus descended on a solo quest into the crypt of Sorority Gamma Alpha Omega with five gold pieces, three silver pieces, two hundred copper pieces and a suit of amor made from latex rubber.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at September 02, 2024 04:30 PM (NDiT4)

97 >> Philadelphia fucking sucked. He had AIDS and got fired for being a fuck up but he sued his firmer employers out of business cuz someone made a joke and that gave him the sadz.

Been a long time since I saw the Trailer for that...but I thought he caught the Sadz from a Toilet Seat?

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:30 PM (zFgy/)

98 I think this may be backwards as my ballet debut occurred in the mid 70’s. Obviously, someone found the pictures from the momentous event and wrote Princess Tutu.
Posted by: Piper

This checks out.

Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 04:31 PM (DgGvY)

99 BREAKING: The FAA has issued a ground stop at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey because of a "potential radar outage" - CNN

The fuck is a "potential radar outage"? It either works or it doesn't.
Posted by: Ian S.
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It's like the FBI's recent announcement about the election.

There will be interference, and it will cause problems / lapses with voting, but it won't interfere with the election results.

Because they can see the future. Shut up.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 04:31 PM (ChwNg)

100 71 So inspiring...

@Breaking911 16m
BREAKING: The FAA has issued a ground stop at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey because of a "potential radar outage" - CNN
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2024 04:23 PM (IG4Id)

They found the problem:

https://youtu.be/LJBZmuv7FtQ

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 02, 2024 04:32 PM (PiwSw)

101 hahahaha, oh man, remember back when the government and health agencies were insisting that normal people were susceptible to catching AIDS in their day to day life?

Posted by: monkeypox at September 02, 2024 04:32 PM (ChwNg)

102 >>The fuck is a "potential radar outage"? It either works or it doesn't.

BREAKING: Local Newark Muslim Association Sues in response to backlash from tomorrow's Terrorist Attack on Newark Airport.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:33 PM (zFgy/)

103 Been a long time since I saw the Trailer for that...but I thought he caught the Sadz from a Toilet Seat?
Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:30 PM (zFgy/)

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According to Fauci, toilet seats accounted for about 97% of AIDS cases.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:33 PM (WBQfF)

104 81 I did really like Hanks in Money Pit, because if you’ve ever completely redone a big old house, you’ve lived that movie.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 02, 2024 04:25 PM (fIpti)

Yes... I have.... Two weeks

Posted by: It's me donna at September 02, 2024 04:33 PM (IyPmt)

105 BREAKING: The FAA has issued a ground stop at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey because of a "potential radar outage" - CNN

The fuck is a "potential radar outage"? It either works or it doesn't.
Posted by: Ian S.

Maybe "potential" modifies "radar" and not "outage?"

They shut down because their radar that looks into the future stopped working. Because they saw a mid-air collision, corrected the flight path so it wouldn't happen, and broke causality.

Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 04:34 PM (DgGvY)

106 102 >>The fuck is a "potential radar outage"? It either works or it doesn't.

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Just a moment, just a moment...

Posted by: HAL 9000 at September 02, 2024 04:34 PM (WBQfF)

107 >>> 71 So inspiring...

@Breaking911 16m
BREAKING: The FAA has issued a ground stop at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey because of a "potential radar outage" - CNN
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2024 04:23 PM (IG4Id)

It's not us!!!

Posted by: Boeing at September 02, 2024 04:35 PM (FnneF)

108 Philadelphia fucking sucked. He had AIDS and got fired for being a fuck up but he sued his firmer employers out of business cuz someone made a joke and that gave him the sadz.

What a stupid movie.
Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at September 02, 2024 04:29 PM (fTTnm)

Yeah!

*throws batteries at Philadelphia movie*

Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2024 04:35 PM (eDfFs)

109 >>The fuck is a "potential radar outage"? It either works or it doesn't.

Calculating.

Posted by: SIRI at September 02, 2024 04:36 PM (zFgy/)

110 According to Fauci, toilet seats accounted for about 97% of AIDS cases.
_____

Toilet seats? Is that slang for uncovered gay schlong in the colon?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 02, 2024 04:36 PM (fs1hN)

111 If we had an actual press, that fucking Alfred E. Buttman would be being grilled right now.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2024 04:36 PM (IG4Id)

112 I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit. It's going to go 100% failure within 72 hours.

Posted by: HAL 9000 at September 02, 2024 04:37 PM (WBQfF)

113 Amana Radar Range >>>> Potential Radar Outage

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 04:37 PM (NMT5x)

114 Posted by: CaliGirl at September 02, 2024 04:24 PM (Go6qm)

I was big into D&D when that TV movie came out. I've drifted away from that stuff though, haven't played in decades.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at September 02, 2024 04:37 PM (zrlyb)

115 and a suit of amor made from latex rubber.

Deliberate, or happy coincidence?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:37 PM (xCA6C)

116 hahahaha, oh man, remember back when the government and health agencies were insisting that normal people were susceptible to catching AIDS in their day to day life?

People are still having sex
Lust keeps on lurking
Nothing makes them stop
This AIDS thing's not working

(Apologies in advance for the ear worm)

Posted by: Ian S. at September 02, 2024 04:37 PM (jbPJz)

117 >>> 103

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According to Fauci, toilet seats accounted for about 97% of AIDS cases.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:33 PM (WBQfF)

Well, Anthony, you probably shouldn't cram anything up your butt, let alone a toilet seat from a public bathroom.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 02, 2024 04:38 PM (FnneF)

118 Movie was vintage 80s. I don't recall it though, and only vaguely remember the D&D satanic stuff. I played D&D occasionally. I preferred the PC D&D games. I could do those solo. Too introverted for the paper, dice, and pen version. Most of my friends in HS were redneck gearheads anyway. Not really the D&D demographic.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 02, 2024 04:39 PM (sAmhv)

119 From the Bee:

Source Says Kamala Was Promoted At McDonald's After Having Affair With Mayor McCheese

https://tinyurl.com/yjx9ymn5

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:39 PM (xCA6C)

120
"Philadelphia"s main value as a movie was that supposedly starring in "such a controversial movie" guaranteed both Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington the pick of prime roles in big budget movies for the rest of their careers.

And the rumor seems to have been borne out by reality.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2024 04:39 PM (eDfFs)

121 95 Philadelphia fucking sucked. He had AIDS and got fired for being a fuck up but he sued his firmer employers out of business cuz someone made a joke and that gave him the sadz.

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It's crazy how prescient that movie was.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 04:29 PM (ChwNg)
They blamed it on Ronald Reagan, when all along it was Fauci.

Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2024 04:40 PM (LHPAg)

122 I saw Receptive Colon open for Unsheathed Schlong at Monkeypoxalooza '24

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 04:40 PM (NMT5x)

123 I was big into D&D when that TV movie came out. I've drifted away from that stuff though, haven't played in decades.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer

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I never painted figurines or the like, but I was invited to play with some serious folks in college. I could see the appeal if you had a good dungeon-master. I sat through a few games that I genuinely was excited to see how they played out.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 04:40 PM (ChwNg)

124 Toilet seats? Is that slang for uncovered gay schlong in the colon?

I forgot about that part of the AIDS fiasco! Fauci insisted that if you sat on a toilet that had previously been used by someone with AIDS you would get AIDS. 100%, he is the science, etc, etc.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 02, 2024 04:40 PM (jbPJz)

125 So my true D&D story.

I was playing with my brother and a couple of friends of his in the early 80s. One of his friends was the DM and I don’t remember the particular quest or whatever. I was an elf wizard (lawful good I think).

Anyway I had acquired a fireball wand somewhere during our quest. We eventually made it to a dungeon or caverns in a mountain and after awhile we came upon some altar with candles burning. A demon started coming out of the altar so I started using my fireball wand, I didn’t stop either, just kept pumping him full of fireballs. I think my brother and his friend were taking some damage from the blowback (maybe me too) but I didn’t care.

Eventually I defeated the demon so I got to roll for power increase or whatever you call it. After rolling the dice and the DM looking in the manual, he looked up in disbelief and told me I was now a level 85 wizard. At that point the game was pretty much over. I think I was so powerful that Gandalf, Sauramon, and Sauron would’ve been my bitches. LOL.

I was so amped up I wanted to find the nearest skyscraper IRL and jump off to see if I could fly.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 02, 2024 04:41 PM (2fIO4)

126 >>I forgot about that part of the AIDS fiasco! Fauci insisted that if you sat on a toilet that had previously been used by someone with AIDS you would get AIDS.

...if you weren't wearing a mask.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:41 PM (zFgy/)

127 Philadelphia fucking sucked. He had AIDS and got fired for being a fuck up but he sued his firmer employers out of business cuz someone made a joke and that gave him the sadz.

What a stupid movie.
Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at September 02, 2024 04:29 PM (fTTnm)

Yeah!

*throws batteries at Philadelphia movie*
Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2024 04:35 PM (eDfFs)

*pats self on back for making obscure joke going totally unrecognized on thread about obscure things*

Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2024 04:42 PM (eDfFs)

128
hahahaha, oh man, remember back when the government and health agencies were insisting that normal people were susceptible to catching AIDS in their day to day life?

____________

About as an avoidable disease as there could be. But gays to this day blame everyone but themselves.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 04:42 PM (FLlbx)

129 >>*pats self on back for making obscure joke going totally unrecognized on thread about obscure things*

Oh, I got the joke. It was a good one.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:42 PM (zFgy/)

130 Eventually I defeated the demon so I got to roll for power increase or whatever you call it. After rolling the dice and the DM looking in the manual, he looked up in disbelief and told me I was now a level 85 wizard. At that point the game was pretty much over. I think I was so powerful that Gandalf, Sauramon, and Sauron would’ve been my bitches. LOL.

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I once owned four hotels on Marvin Gardens.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:43 PM (WBQfF)

131 Hahaha, I think I must be one of the three... but it's been SO long since I've seen it that I can't 100% confirm the legitimacy of that scene. (Resists urge to check if it is in this hobbit hole's DVD collection...) However, it seems very aligned with my memories of that made for TV masterpiece.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 02, 2024 04:20 PM (ftFVW)

Sometimes bad ADR makes a scene look like fake dialogue, which I suppose it is. When they turn R rated films into PG, an actor will be dropping F bombs, and the produced film will have him saying "Get out of the car, mumblefinger!"

Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 04:43 PM (aMSDu)

132 Hey sometimes you just get lucky

Posted by: Nerdy College Student that just rolled a natural twenty at September 02, 2024 04:43 PM (NDiT4)

133 Got the monthly PMCS knocked out for the house, both motorcycles, and both cars.

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 02, 2024 04:43 PM (MsrgL)

134
*pats self on back for making obscure joke going totally unrecognized on thread about obscure things*
Posted by: naturalfake

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I figured it was the well-known sports reference. Do they routinely throw batteries at other things?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 04:43 PM (ChwNg)

135 About as an avoidable disease as there could be. But gays to this day blame everyone but themselves.

I don't judge. There is a finite chance you slip in the shower and fall on another man's erection.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:43 PM (xCA6C)

136 Also I think Tennessee has taken the reins on that particular wagon for the next little bit.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 04:44 PM (ChwNg)

137 *throws batteries at Philadelphia movie*
Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2024 04:35 PM (eDfFs)

*pats self on back for making obscure joke going totally unrecognized on thread about obscure things*
Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2024 04:42 PM (eDfFs)

I got the joke, I just didn't have a good one for a reply.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 02, 2024 04:44 PM (jbPJz)

138 Tim Walz is out there saying Trump will impose forced child labor.

I have determined there is nothing factual for them to say that doesn’t make Trump sound amazing, so they are just pulling things out of their right ears now.

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:44 PM (pZEOD)

139 What'd I miss today?

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 02, 2024 04:44 PM (MsrgL)

140 126 >>I forgot about that part of the AIDS fiasco! Fauci insisted that if you sat on a toilet that had previously been used by someone with AIDS you would get AIDS.
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...if you weren't wearing a mask.
Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:41 PM (zFgy/)

Here, take these drugs. They're totally safe, we tested them on beagles and orphan children.

Posted by: Herr Doktor Mengele Fauci at September 02, 2024 04:44 PM (aMSDu)

141 >>I figured it was the well-known sports reference. Do they routinely throw batteries at other things?

When they aren't beating up Santa Claus.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:44 PM (zFgy/)

142 Trump sound amazing, so they are just pulling things out of their right ears now.
Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:44 PM (pZEOD)

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Ears?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:45 PM (WBQfF)

143 138 Tim Walz is out there saying Trump will impose forced child labor.

I have determined there is nothing factual for them to say that doesn’t make Trump sound amazing, so they are just pulling things out of their right ears now.
Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:44 PM (pZEOD)

I read that Kamala's campaign is just gonna be attacks on Trump.. Not policy

Posted by: It's me donna at September 02, 2024 04:45 PM (IyPmt)

144
Tim Walz is out there saying Trump will impose forced child labor.

_________

Those kids will be working in mines and mills instead of pedo rings!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 04:45 PM (FLlbx)

145 >>Tim Walz is out there saying Trump will impose forced child labor.

Make Child Labor Great Again!

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:45 PM (zFgy/)

146 Okay, I admit, I didn't get the joke.

Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at September 02, 2024 04:45 PM (X9MSy)

147 I never painted figurines or the like, but I was invited to play with some serious folks in college. I could see the appeal if you had a good dungeon-master. I sat through a few games that I genuinely was excited to see how they played out.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 04:40 PM (ChwNg)
----
It's a hoot when you have a good group of friends and an excellent game master. Some of the best adventures occur when the party goes "off script."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 02, 2024 04:45 PM (BpYfr)

148 Tim Walz is out there saying Trump will impose forced child labor.

I have determined there is nothing factual for them to say that doesn’t make Trump sound amazing, so they are just pulling things out of their right ears now.

It's going to be fun as their campaign circles the drain and they scream about increasingly ridiculous things. I'm really hoping for a lizard people reference.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:46 PM (xCA6C)

149 Walz is a Marxist and anything he says is a lie

Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 04:46 PM (fwDg9)

150 To be fair, the urchins will be allowed to unionize.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:46 PM (WBQfF)

151 About as an avoidable disease as there could be. But gays to this day blame everyone but themselves.

Funny thing about that: back 30-odd years ago, the Village Voice actually had a cover story blasting Fauci because his stupidity delayed working AIDS treatments by at least 5 years.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 02, 2024 04:47 PM (jbPJz)

152 To be fair, the urchins will be allowed to unionize.

Huh, I didn't know they'd been charged.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:47 PM (xCA6C)

153 138 Tim Walz is out there saying Trump will impose forced child labor.

I have determined there is nothing factual for them to say that doesn’t make Trump sound amazing, so they are just pulling things out of their right ears now.
Posted by: Piper

PLEASE STOP!! I'M ALREADY VOTING FOR HIM!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 02, 2024 04:47 PM (sAmhv)

154 Every family Legacy Story starts the same way...

'he went to work when he was 12.'.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:47 PM (zFgy/)

155 Tim Walz is out there saying Trump will impose forced child labor.
Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:44 PM (pZEOD)

Old & Busted: Two income households.

New Hotness: Three, four, five+ income households.

That mortgage ain't gonna itself.

Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at September 02, 2024 04:48 PM (X9MSy)

156 150 To be fair, the urchins will be allowed to unionize.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:46 PM (WBQfF)

No capes !

Posted by: Edna Mode at September 02, 2024 04:48 PM (IyPmt)

157 >>> 138 Tim Walz is out there saying Trump will impose forced child labor.

I have determined there is nothing factual for them to say that doesn't make Trump sound amazing, so they are just pulling things out of their right ears now.
Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:44 PM (pZEOD)

What sort of forced child labor has Timmy imposed on minors? Something in Nebraska maybe?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 02, 2024 04:48 PM (FnneF)

158 128
hahahaha, oh man, remember back when the government and health agencies were insisting that normal people were susceptible to catching AIDS in their day to day life?

____________

About as an avoidable disease as there could be. But gays to this day blame everyone but themselves.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 04:42 PM (FLlbx)

———

Don’t worry, the Feds were able to gather the resources to spend probably $100 billion over the next 30 years to fight an easily preventable disease. But heaven forbid homos stop having anal sex!

Meanwhile heterosexual males die of heart disease at 100x the numbers of AIDS deaths but get a measly $1 billion in research dollars over the same period.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 02, 2024 04:48 PM (2fIO4)

159 Tim Walz is out there saying Trump will impose forced child labor.

Are they all going to become chimney sweeps?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2024 04:48 PM (dTTBf)

160 148 It's going to be fun as their campaign circles the drain and they scream about increasingly ridiculous things. I'm really hoping for a lizard people reference.
Posted by: Archimedes at September

I have started the rumor he plans to steal the moon, too.

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:49 PM (pZEOD)

161 >>> 146 Okay, I admit, I didn't get the joke.
Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at September 02, 2024 04:45 PM (X9MSy)

HOW CAN I EXPLAIN IF YOU DON'T SAY *WHICH* JOKE?!

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at September 02, 2024 04:49 PM (FnneF)

162 So Horse Balz Walz makes stuff up?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:49 PM (WBQfF)

163 I never played D&D, too difficult and complicated. I was deadly at Trivial Pursuit, though.

Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2024 04:49 PM (LHPAg)

164 Meanwhile heterosexual males die of heart disease at 100x the numbers of AIDS deaths but get a measly $1 billion in research dollars over the same period.

To be fair, heart disease (and a lot of other illness) is largely caused by the government's idiotic "food pyramid". And they can't just admit that.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 02, 2024 04:49 PM (jbPJz)

165 159 Tim Walz is out there saying Trump will impose forced child labor.

Are they all going to become chimney sweeps?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September

We better get to work teaching them the song!

Chim chiminey chim chiminey chim chim Charrooo!

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:50 PM (pZEOD)

166 Seriously, though, and I realize Walz's comment was ludicrous-what would be the point of Trump wanting to impose child labor?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2024 04:50 PM (dTTBf)

167 LA has some darker, seamier history for sure. Lots of murderers and the usual depravity right from the start. Lots of fires, too. Dave McGowan wrote a book about Laurel Canyon and inhabitants that discusses some of the weirder things, and there were a lot. One of the earliest, if not the first “hippies” in LA was a Rockefeller cousin. True story. The “Counterculture” was an OP, brought to you by Time-Life.

Freedom Rock!

The “Black Dahlia” murder was an indication of some weird stuff in the 50s.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 02, 2024 04:50 PM (gkbzD)

168 >>Are they all going to become chimney sweeps?

Only the diminutive ones with the weak lungs.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:50 PM (zFgy/)

169
Actually, kids would be better off picking cotton than going to today's public schools.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 04:50 PM (FLlbx)

170 159 Tim Walz is out there saying Trump will impose forced child labor.

Hey, when Trump was President he didn't lose over 300 thousand kids

Posted by: It's me donna at September 02, 2024 04:51 PM (IyPmt)

171 Dang, it stinks to realize Trivial Pursuit couldn't exist in modern society because we've become so specialized and don't share any meaningful social connections in music, TV, film, etc. any longer.

Well, that and people not speaking the same language, but you know what I mean.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 04:51 PM (ChwNg)

172 I read that Kamala's campaign is just gonna be attacks on Trump.. Not policy
Posted by: It's me donna at September

And JOY. Don't forget the ducking JOY !!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 02, 2024 04:51 PM (mirkZ)

173 So Horse Balz Walz makes stuff up?

Reportedly over 40% of Michigan registered Dems polled say they're voting third party because Officer Harris hasn't promised to nuke Tel Aviv.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 02, 2024 04:51 PM (jbPJz)

174 The irony is, that if Fauci imposed "social distancing" on gays to prevent AIDS, it would have worked.

Nobody can buttfuck across six feet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:51 PM (WBQfF)

175 >> LA has some darker, seamier history for sure. Lots of murderers and the usual depravity right from the start. Lots of fires, too.

Fire is literally a part of their ecosystem.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:51 PM (zFgy/)

176 Back in the 80s the gay white boys with AIDS had to figure out how to tell their parents they were Haitian

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 02, 2024 04:51 PM (1G9mh)

177 We better get to work teaching them the song!

Chim chiminey chim chiminey chim chim Charrooo!
Posted by: Piper

I vote for Step in Time. Let's get those urchins acrobatic!

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 02, 2024 04:51 PM (ftFVW)

178 Seriously, though, and I realize Walz's comment was ludicrous-what would be the point of Trump wanting to impose child labor?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2024 04:50 PM (dTTBf)

That bastard wants children as young as 26 to be ripped from their loving homes and forced to work for a living.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 02, 2024 04:51 PM (mDTxx)

179 The irony is, that if Fauci imposed "social distancing" on gays to prevent AIDS, it would have worked.

Nobody can buttf*** across six feet.

*awaits inevitable Paolo joke*

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:52 PM (xCA6C)

180 I bet Trump said something like "families are concerned that their kids can no longer easily find entry level jobs because of illegals," which means he wants child labor.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 04:52 PM (ChwNg)

181 Nobody can buttfuck across six feet.

Speak for yourself.

Posted by: Peter North at September 02, 2024 04:52 PM (jbPJz)

182 About as an avoidable disease as there could be. But gays to this day blame everyone but themselves.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 04:42 PM (FLlbx)

Anyone who has not seen the movie, "And the Band Played On" should do so, even though they try to lay some of the blame on the Reagan administration. It's clear who the bad guys are. If you've never seen Alan Alda play a purely evil character, see how he portrays Bob Gallo, the bureaucrat who tried to steal the virus discovery from the french.

If you have the time, read Randy Shilts' book instead. Randy pulled no punches. He names name among the Californican pols and gay activists who caused more death than Covid ever dreamed.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 04:52 PM (ss0N6)

183 Tim Walz is out there saying Trump will impose forced child labor.

Are they all going to become chimney sweeps?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September

The Little Match Girl enters the conversation...

Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2024 04:52 PM (eDfFs)

184 Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:50 PM (pZEOD)

They'd have to learn a different song. That song is only for chimney sweeps who are over 21 and look Dick Van Dyke.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2024 04:53 PM (dTTBf)

185 Tom Hanks's best role ever was in a "Wayne's World" cold open on SNL as Garth's cousin who was a roadie for Aerosmith. He gave it 100% like he was acting for an Oscar.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at September 02, 2024 04:53 PM (r5tfK)

186 *throws batteries at Philadelphia movie*
Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2024 04:35 PM (eDfFs)

*pats self on back for making obscure joke going totally unrecognized on thread about obscure things*
Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2024

Is that because the fans in Philly throw batteries at sports games? I got it but wasn't positve.
There's a guy that's in the same business as my husband and none of the girls like him because he's rude and my husband and the other guys stick up for him and say, well, he's from Philly, and our reply is, they don't have manners in Philly?
After watching it's always Sunny, I finally understand.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 02, 2024 04:54 PM (8c7iY)

187 Went to son and DiL's for steaks, etc today for Labor Day. On the way saw a Tesla cybertruck with an awesome--and very prominent--Trump wrap. Very cool.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at September 02, 2024 04:54 PM (FEVMW)

188
We better get to work teaching them the song!

Chim chiminey chim chiminey chim chim Charrooo!

Posted by: Piper

Dammit!

*plays korn's "y'all want a single?" to get rid of ear worm*

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 02, 2024 04:54 PM (MsrgL)

189 166 Seriously, though, and I realize Walz's comment was ludicrous-what would be the point of Trump wanting to impose child labor?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September

Because he is evil and this is what evildoers do from their lairs. Obviously.

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:54 PM (pZEOD)

190 Now I'm picturing someone with a dick Van Dyke.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:54 PM (WBQfF)

191 >>they don't have manners in Philly?

No. Manners are for people.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 04:54 PM (zFgy/)

192 The irony is, that if Fauci imposed "social distancing" on gays to prevent AIDS, it would have worked.

Nobody can buttfuck across six feet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:51 PM (WBQfF)

Could and would are two different things.

Posted by: Zombie Uncle Milty at September 02, 2024 04:54 PM (ss0N6)

193 I never played D&D, too difficult and complicated. I was deadly at Trivial Pursuit, though.
Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2024 04:49 PM (LHPAg)
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Preposterous, the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules are only 370 pages in length, 470 pages if you include the Monster Manual.

Posted by: Zombie Gygax at September 02, 2024 04:54 PM (bnSKR)

194 Because he is evil and this is what evildoers do from their lairs. Obviously.

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Trump thinks not everyone should go to college!!!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 04:55 PM (ChwNg)

195 @182 Burt , that book was a punch in the nose to just about everyone involved in the AIDS debacle. The disease eventually got Shilts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 02, 2024 04:55 PM (1G9mh)

196 104 81 I did really like Hanks in Money Pit, because if you’ve ever completely redone a big old house, you’ve lived that movie.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 02, 2024 04:25 PM (fIpti)

Yes... I have.... Two weeks
Posted by: It's me donna at September 02, 2024 04:33 PM (IyPmt)

BrainFog....

Posted by: Joe, Looking at a Volcano at September 02, 2024 04:55 PM (xaFKb)

197 Blow up the moon frank j

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 02, 2024 04:55 PM (PXvVL)

198 No way … Just finished game wizards by Jon Peterson Wherein this story is told! Ace Corp. has some really wicked, strong algorithms whoa!

Posted by: TG Sam at September 02, 2024 04:55 PM (ud9p9)

199 Because he is evil and this is what evildoers do from their lairs. Obviously.
Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:54 PM (pZEOD)

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Can sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads be far behind?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 04:55 PM (WBQfF)

200
If you've never seen Alan Alda play a purely evil character

__________

Alan Alda is a purely evil character.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 04:55 PM (FLlbx)

201 160 148 It's going to be fun as their campaign circles the drain and they scream about increasingly ridiculous things. I'm really hoping for a lizard people reference.
Posted by: Archimedes at September

I have started the rumor he plans to steal the moon, too.
Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:49 PM (pZEOD)
Him and Elon.

Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2024 04:56 PM (LHPAg)

202 >>If you've never seen Alan Alda play a purely evil character

"It wasn't a chicken...IT WASN'T A CHICKEN!!"

Posted by: Alan Alda at September 02, 2024 04:56 PM (zFgy/)

203 199 Can sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads be far behind?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September

And just why do you think Elon is involved now?

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:57 PM (pZEOD)

204 184 Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:50 PM (pZEOD)

They'd have to learn a different song. That song is only for chimney sweeps who are over 21 and look Dick Van Dyke.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2024 04:53 PM (dTTBf)

Poor Bert... Mary Poppins was such a tease... she even kissed a PENGUIN... but Burt? got bupkis...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 02, 2024 04:57 PM (xaFKb)

205 Can sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads be far behind?
Posted by: Cicero

You want sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads; you'd accept just sharks; you'll get sea bass.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 02, 2024 04:57 PM (ftFVW)

206 Tom Hanks's best role ever was in a "Wayne's World" cold open on SNL as Garth's cousin who was a roadie for Aerosmith. He gave it 100% like he was acting for an Oscar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86AAjLLRKo

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:57 PM (xCA6C)

207 Fauci also denied bactrim which was a cheap effective therapy

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 02, 2024 04:58 PM (PXvVL)

208 195 @182 Burt , that book was a punch in the nose to just about everyone involved in the AIDS debacle. The disease eventually got Shilts
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 02, 2024 04:55 PM (1G9mh)

Yep, Randy had, as they say, skin in the game.

Posted by: Zombie Uncle Milty at September 02, 2024 04:58 PM (ss0N6)

209 160 148 It's going to be fun as their campaign circles the drain and they scream about increasingly ridiculous things. I'm really hoping for a lizard people reference.
Posted by: Archimedes at September

I have started the rumor he plans to steal the moon, too.
Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 04:49 PM (pZEOD)
Him and Elon.
Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2024 04:56 PM (LHPAg)
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Pikers. A TRUE supervillain write his own name on the moon.

Posted by: Chairface Chippendale at September 02, 2024 04:58 PM (BpYfr)

210 "I was deadly at Trivial Pursuit, though."

I was, too, Eromero, at the original version. The rest of the family would team up against me and I'd still win. I wouldn't have a chance with my knowledge of today's pop culture though.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at September 02, 2024 04:59 PM (FEVMW)

211
If you've never seen Alan Alda play a purely evil character

Here's another obscure reference:

Alda becomes a totally evil character at the end of the movie, "The Mephisto Waltz".

I think three people saw TMW on its initial run in the theaters.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2024 04:59 PM (eDfFs)

212 The only movies I have seen Tom Hanks in are "Sully" and "Saving Mr. Banks" which I think he did a good job in and as the voice in "Toy Story".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2024 04:59 PM (dTTBf)

213 212 The only movies I have seen Tom Hanks in are "Sully" and "Saving Mr. Banks" which I think he did a good job in and as the voice in "Toy Story".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2024 04:59 PM (dTTBf

He was very good in Saving Mr. Banks

Posted by: It's me donna at September 02, 2024 05:00 PM (IyPmt)

214
Apple wood smoking chicken quarters for dinner tonight. If I'm not setting off smoke detectors up and down my street I'm disappointed.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 02, 2024 05:00 PM (RKVpM)

215 IT WASN'T A CHICKEN!!"

Saw video of young gal carving a turkey stuffed with a Cornish hen, unknown to her.

"Reeeeee! It was pregnant!!"

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 02, 2024 05:01 PM (lYyke)

216 I've wanted to post that for a year but kept putting it off because basically three people in the world would even get it.
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To the surprise of no one, I am not one of the three.

Posted by: bluebell at September 02, 2024 05:01 PM (bS+DD)

217 I have yet to see Greyhound, would like to

Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 05:02 PM (fwDg9)

218 The Hamas crowd celebrating in NYC.

Stay safe, Elric.

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 05:02 PM (pZEOD)

219 I have started the rumor he plans to steal the moon, too.
Posted by: Piper

Him and Elon.
Posted by: Eromero

He's working with Elon to use a super-heavy rocket to carry up a bunch of that cornstarch powder that the enviro-nuts covered Stonehenge with. Coat the whole light side of the moon with it.

He's gonna make Orange Moon Bad.

You heard it here first.

Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 05:03 PM (DgGvY)

220 I can't hear Saving Private Ryan without thinking of the porn version Saving Ryan's Privates

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 02, 2024 05:03 PM (1G9mh)

221
Yes... I have.... Two weeks
Posted by: It's me donna at September 02, 2024 04:33 PM (IyPmt)

You testing missiles here?

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 02, 2024 05:04 PM (elaR+)

222 >>"Reeeeee! It was pregnant!!"

That's funny on too many levels.

Posted by: garrett at September 02, 2024 05:04 PM (zFgy/)

223 Shedding my Uncle Milty sock, which is about 7 inches longer than mine.

I mean three inches. Two actually.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 05:04 PM (ss0N6)

224 I can't hear Saving Private Ryan without thinking of the porn version Saving Ryan's Privates
Posted by: Smell the Glove

And the sequel Shaving Ryan's Privates?

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 02, 2024 05:04 PM (ftFVW)

225 220 I can't hear Saving Private Ryan without thinking of the porn version Saving Ryan's Privates
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 02, 2024 05:03 PM (1G9mh)

Now I'm going to as well. I didn't need to know this existed. Brain bleach fast.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 02, 2024 05:04 PM (8c7iY)

226
I have yet to see Greyhound, would like to
Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 05:02 PM (fwDg9)

_________

Hanks in that movie could have been swapped out for any number of alternatives. The story carries the film, not the actors.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 05:05 PM (FLlbx)

227 223 Shedding my Uncle Milty sock, which is about 7 inches longer than mine.

I mean three inches. Two actually.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 05:04 PM (ss0N6)

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Cute sock.

Posted by: Forrest Tucker at September 02, 2024 05:05 PM (WBQfF)

228 I can't hear Saving Private Ryan without thinking of the porn version Saving Ryan's Privates

I believe that was actually "Shaving Ryan's Privates".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 02, 2024 05:05 PM (Yqpb4)

229 Cute sock.
Posted by: Forrest Tucker at September 02, 2024 05:05 PM (WBQfF)

Don't know that I ever heard about FT's sock size.

Allegedly Berle's was size 11.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 05:07 PM (ss0N6)

230 The craze to vilify D&D got nutso, for sure. Though, the late Kate Winslet's Boobs' mother saw value in it's ability to get boys to read and allowed it for him despite her otherwise very straight-laced, religious tendencies.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 02, 2024 04:16 PM (ftFVW)

I used to tell people that D&D was the perfect introduction to determining what the applicable statute, law and legal decision at the administrative law level was. First you look up the rules, then you roll and check the index in the back then you find the monster manual and then rely on what the DM says.

"Your saving throw has failed and have just been found liable for an additional 24 hours of overtime premium."

Posted by: Kindltot at September 02, 2024 05:09 PM (D7oie)

231 Cute sock.
Posted by: Forrest Tucker at September 02, 2024 05:05 PM (WBQfF)

Don't know that I ever heard about FT's sock size.

Allegedly Berle's was size 11.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 05:07 PM (ss0N6

Something tells me this isn't really about socks.

Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at September 02, 2024 05:09 PM (qtZvE)

232 Getting awful fruity in here.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 02, 2024 05:11 PM (elaR+)

233 210 "I was deadly at Trivial Pursuit, though."

I was, too, Eromero, at the original version. The rest of the family would team up against me and I'd still win. I wouldn't have a chance with my knowledge of today's pop culture though.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at September 02, 2024 04:59 PM (FEVMW
Maybe the things we knew are still important? I believe they are more important now than ever, certainly more important than knowing what some politicians favorite ice cream is.

Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2024 05:11 PM (LHPAg)

234 Ned Sparks was a natural to portray Forest Gump.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 02, 2024 04:20 PM (lYyke)

One of my favorite Warners contract players.;

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 02, 2024 05:13 PM (iODuv)

235 Something tells me this isn't really about socks.
Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at September 02, 2024 05:09 PM (qtZvE)

No, but it's almost about a foot.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 05:13 PM (NMT5x)

236 Walz is a Marxist and anything he says is a lie
Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 04:46 PM (fwDg9)

Though he uses Marxist language, I doubt he is anything but a corporatist who is looking to get a lot of well heeled patrons to give him unlimited money to make decisions in their favor, just like Ol' Scranton-to-Kyiv Joe

Posted by: Kindltot at September 02, 2024 05:13 PM (D7oie)

237 210 "I was deadly at Trivial Pursuit, though."

I was, too, Eromero, at the original version. The rest of the family would team up against me and I'd still win. I wouldn't have a chance with my knowledge of today's pop culture though.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at September 02, 2024 04:59 PM (FEVMW
Maybe the things we knew are still important? I believe they are more important now than ever, certainly more important than knowing what some politicians favorite ice cream is.
Posted by: Eromero

This is why they now have all of the themed editions. But you have to find other people who specifically share your interest in whatever the theme is or it's no fun.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 02, 2024 05:14 PM (ftFVW)

238 Though he uses Marxist language, I doubt he is anything but a corporatist who is looking to get a lot of well heeled patrons to give him unlimited money to make decisions in their favor, just like Ol' Scranton-to-Kyiv Joe
Posted by: Kindltot at September 02, 2024 05:13 PM (D7oie)

Yeah, none of them are really marxists. For reasons, they sometimes use marxist language, and the only question is, does it do any good to call them marxists?

I'd suggest not, but who knows.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2024 05:16 PM (ss0N6)

239 125 Anyway I had acquired a fireball wand somewhere during our quest. We eventually made it to a dungeon or caverns in a mountain and after awhile we came upon some altar with candles burning. A demon started coming out of the altar so I started using my fireball wand, I didn’t stop either, just kept pumping him full of fireballs. I think my brother and his friend were taking some damage from the blowback (maybe me too) but I didn’t care.

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Don't demons have fire resistance?

Posted by: sharksauce at September 02, 2024 05:16 PM (y7wyF)

240 Kim Fox...the Jussie Smollett of Merrick Garlands.

https://youtu.be/PBJ2vaZu9pA?si=oA1p7eNsVeN_3nke

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2024 05:16 PM (7BV1v)

241 Seriously, though, and I realize Walz's comment was ludicrous-what would be the point of Trump wanting to impose child labor?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2024 04:50 PM (dTTBf)

One does not question why one hates Goldstein, it is enough to know that the Party demands it

Posted by: Kindltot at September 02, 2024 05:16 PM (D7oie)

242 NOOOOOOD

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 02, 2024 05:17 PM (elaR+)

243 237 210 "I was deadly at Trivial Pursuit, though."

I was, too, Eromero, at the original version. The rest of the family would team up against me and I'd still win. I wouldn't have a chance with my knowledge of today's pop culture though.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at September 02, 2024 04:59 PM (FEVMW
Maybe the things we knew are still important? I believe they are more important now than ever, certainly more important than knowing what some politicians favorite ice cream is.
Posted by: Eromero

This is why they now have all of the themed editions. But you have to find other people who specifically share your interest in whatever the theme is or it's no fun.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 02, 2024 05:14 PM (ftFVW)
Do they have a Trivial Pursuit named Gubs And The People Who Love Them?

Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2024 05:17 PM (LHPAg)

244
*runs in excitedly*

NOOOOOOOD!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 05:17 PM (FLlbx)

245 It's not as bad as it was, but for decades the tabletop games community used to refer to the early 80s as The Great Burning, likening it to the Salem witch trials and (I am not kidding) the Holocaust.

Despite generations of asking, I have yet to encounter a single person who played D&D at the time who suffered anything worse than their parents throwing away their D&D books.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at September 02, 2024 05:17 PM (0Go0g)

246 I knew someone in high school who did indeed go somewhat crazy after losing himself in DnD. I don't think the game itself drove him nuts -- I believe he was diagnosed with schizophrenia -- but the "quest lifestyle" and middle-earth fantasy ethos certainly inspired him. When they found him, he was living in a cozy little compound he had built in the infamous ravine at the west side of (then-named) Toronto International Airport. Also knew someone in university who lost at least one year to her obsession with DnD. She could recite many of the rule and expansion books by heart, but could not focus on her classes. Lost at least one year; was not looking good for her following year when I lost contact with her.

Posted by: Lickmuffin at September 02, 2024 05:18 PM (QHFzy)

247 You want sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads; you'd accept just sharks; you'll get sea bass.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 02, 2024 04:57 PM (ftFVW)

clownfish with halitosis

Posted by: Kindltot at September 02, 2024 05:20 PM (D7oie)

248 "Your saving throw has failed and have just been found liable for an additional 24 hours of overtime premium."
Posted by: Kindltot

So, D&D encouraged kids to be lawyers? Wow! D&D really was satanic!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 02, 2024 05:24 PM (sAmhv)

249 Dad's friends told me they would try to get Dad liquored up for Trivial Pursuit because it would slow down his reflexes on hitting the button, and that was the only way they could get an advantage outside of sports and entertainment.
Dad was a genius and could hold surprising amounts of liquor.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 02, 2024 05:25 PM (D7oie)

250 A YouTube series War and Truth brings up lots of errors and downright made up things in the Band of Brothers series. Some guys had stories spot on, others get back stabbed or wrong time events . It's a good video series

Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 05:28 PM (fwDg9)

251 This is why they now have all of the themed editions. But you have to find other people who specifically share your interest in whatever the theme is or it's no fun.

Ya know what really grinds my gears? People who think that the "Genus Edition" is the "Genius Edition" and that they're geniuses if they don't totally suck at it.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 02, 2024 05:35 PM (xqkFU)

252 The only movies I have seen Tom Hanks in are "Sully" and "Saving Mr. Banks" which I think he did a good job in and as the voice in "Toy Story".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2024 04:59 PM (dTTBf)

I like "That Thing You Do". Brought me right back to a very happy time period in my life. The movie was written and directed by him and he also wrote a few of the songs used in the movie.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 02, 2024 05:36 PM (iODuv)

253 >>>20 This was pre-Satanic Panic, wasn't it?

people roll it into the Satanic Panic but as I remember it, this was pre or proto Satanic Panic. This was like 1983-84, and I dont' think the real Satanic Panic started until Geraldo and Sally Jessie Raphael in the early 90s.

Posted by: ace at September 02, 2024 05:42 PM (KRtlO)

254 >>>25 The Greatest American Hero had a similar episode that was even more painfully over the top. I don’t remember the name of the game but it involved lots of candles, rote phrases, and no separation between player and character.

That was after they cancelled the show. I think they burned off the last episodes in a couple of nights.

Simon and Simon had one with a game called "Angels and Demons."

Posted by: ace at September 02, 2024 05:55 PM (KRtlO)

255 I used to have 'Mazes and Monsters' on a Beta cassette. We taped it off TV. ABC Movie of the Week or something. 80's film staple Chris Makepeace was in it too with his giant Jew-fro.

Posted by: D-fens at September 02, 2024 07:07 PM (/kaZP)

256 I am surprised Tom Hanks didn't buy the rights and bury that stinkbomb.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at September 02, 2024 07:35 PM (hQ70O)

257 The movie was silly.

The book by Rona Jaffe was very good.

Playing D+D was a way for some of the books characters to entertain themselves, get away from some of the pressures of family and college life for a while. The main focus of the book was the characters relationships to each other.

I read the book 35 or so years and and still vividly remember it.

The movie tried to cash in on the late 70s - early 80s D+D craze, and didn't succeed.

Posted by: mild_cigar at September 02, 2024 10:22 PM (+SloI)

258 206 Tom Hanks's best role ever was in a "Wayne's World" cold open on SNL as Garth's cousin who was a roadie for Aerosmith. He gave it 100% like he was acting for an Oscar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86AAjLLRKo
Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 04:57 PM (xCA6C)

I might never stop laughing.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2024 04:49 AM (64Zez)

259 post-nood ace-sighting!

Posted by: ace at September 02, 2024 05:42 PM (KRtlO)
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