Okay, enough of you miscreants seemed to appreciate the effort so here one more. The theme answers in this one are pretty tortured so I’ll add a hint at the very end of the post, if you don’t want a spoiler don’t scroll down to fast. And remember this is for entertainment purposes only, please no wagering. Have fun!
If you prefer a PDF Asset Forfeiture
If you need to cheat help Solution
Lastly you can go here and work an interactive version. The Password is “Ookla > Chewie”
Don Escaped Texas beta tested this one as well and made a few good suggestions (none of which I listened to this time) but any errors are still on him.
Hint: The theme answers* are victims of asset forfeiture. for example 55 across should be DREAMBOATANNIE but the cops seized the boat so now its DREAMANNIE.
Ookla > Chewie
I like you.
The interactive version is still not Kindle compatible. I’ll try this tomorrow.
Are you making fun of me?
(Quite ok if so)
*puzzled*
I have two Thundarr tshirts…And I’ll try the crossword when I can print it at work tomorrow.
Not complicated or even mysterious. In the previous post/ thread, both Hyperion and hyperbole happened to post at about the same time.
I responded with, “I like you, Hyp”
They joked a bit after but it was all playful. No worries
No, she meant me.
So with “ I like you” above I think he was continuing the tickle is all.
Sorry, I thought you were talking to me. But if ‘that’s gay’ for saying introverts have feeling too is what you meant, I’m OK with that also. I didn’t come here to be in a safe space, lol.
(Pssst—-I was talking to you)
I know that, lol.
BUT! We can’t let our guard down, you and that Moj chick could have formed an evil alliance to infiltrate we Glibs and take us down. Don’t think we are not watching you! You always have to be aware of non existent entities who might pop into existence when you least expect it.
Don’t forget Gender Traitor.
SP, Webdom, KK, Banjos. The supply is small but quality is high.
Well, Moj, we already assumed your’re a gender traitor. Ruiner of family friendly sites, oppressor of ponies, all around bad person, confirmed.
One True Athena and Mythical Libertarian Woman and RAHeinlein.
Hyp, you have already declared me The Worst, supplanting Nikki. How much worse than worst can I get?
Also, suppressor of ponies? When did I suppress ponies?
Not that I wouldn’t. I hate those damned beasts. I like my horses in chrome and on 2 wheels.
Riven,
Trshmnstr . . .you never know, he might identify . . .
Formerly EF.
“Hyp, you have already declared me The Worst, supplanting Nikki.”
You were a far better person than Nikki the moment I declared you worse than Nikke. Rejoice in your newfound fame, drink and be merry.
I admit, in all seriousness, that I do not know how Ayn Random Variation identifies.
“Also, suppressor of ponies? When did I suppress ponies?”
Oh please, pulling ponies around? You don’t remember that? Do I need to search the archives?
Um…
Yeah. I think I do.
Now, what did I do with that image?…
Christ, this place is practically
swimming in clungegender-neutral.True story:
I did not remember anything about posting ponies. When I hear “ponies,” I think of this.
It took me a few seconds, but then I remembered.
You do not want to go down the bridle paths of my neurons.
Trshmnstr . . .you never know, he might identify . . .
*tapes moobs together and puckers lips into duckface*
Full disclosure, by 8pm est, I’m well in to bourbon. By 8:30, I’m into vodka and fading fast. I’m usually out by 9.
Anything past 9 pm est should be judged as fully drunk and mostly ignored.
I really want to taste one of the 2 bottles of cachaca my SIL just brought me from Brazil, but I have several meetings tomorrow morning. Work sucks.
But that’s when you’re most entertaining.
Wait… is that not when all of us are at our most entertaining? *still failing to teach Moj stuff*
“You” is both singular and plural in English (she said with a haughty sniff).
Y’all, Y’uns
“Y’all” is not habitual for me, as I am not in the deep south.
“Y’uns”–I am not from Pittsburgh.
Ok ye, although that can be mistaken for the definite article. 😀
Nobody told me I had to wait until nine.
*clinks glasses with Sean*
Sorry Sean, I have no idea how to address/fix that, I’m using a very cheap app?/software? and I’m internet stupid, hope you can enjoy the PDF or Glib version.
This is awesome. TY.
Thanks, Splosives.
I got all excited and then quickly realized I’d already solved it
/ waits to go off topic
The interactive makes it too easy. I’m doing it on paper next time. Good puzzle though and the theme clues were good!
You can turn that feature off. I try not to rely on it but hey I do want to finish….
IOW I did not RTFA
/ just noticed
YA-awwwww, dammit….
/what I imagine that moment was like
That happened to me when I found out I was the beta-tester for the first official release.
🙁
I’m laughing just reading your description. Nicely done.
24 down to 38 across – Soooo RACIST!!
I was kinda worried about that but I did use ‘Peckerwood’ in my first puzzle so I can claim to be an equal opportunity offender
That you are, no doubt.
This one was too hard for me, but I am not a puzzler.
Hell you only gave it 17 minutes, I’ve spent twice that reading your
pornromance novel.That’s enough time for you to come 68 times!
There’s pills for that.
I think Q told us about them.
I know when I’m licked.
Kinky.
Oh, not that sort of licking….
You sure about that?
The late night Glib conversation could get very interesting tonight . . .there’s all sorts of innuendo with the ladies here tonight.
It’s just cuz I’m drunk
Not mojo—she’s Mormon but a lil naughty all the time
she’s Mormon but a lil naughty all the time
There’s entire categories for this on Pornhub
I think the category you are referring to is male on male. Somehow quasi rape of Mormon boys became a fetish.
*blinks*
That’s…interesting.
I’m totally not taking notes.
One of you Glibs said something about naughty Mormons here and I googled, and … Not my thing.
The “Mormon boys” aspect of that quasi rape notwithstanding, I still need to do an article on how, in the romance novel community, straight women who read m/m have very little problem with dubious consent (aka forced seduction) and non-consent (aka rape). We are talking about women who scream bloody murder if the heroine doesn’t sign a step-by-step consent contract.
I guess it’s okay if you’re a dude.
Maybe I’m a deviant, but I found “Mormon Girls” pretty easily..
The Mormon thing plays heavily on the straight guy forced/persuaded to go gay. I think it is just another version of the corruption/seduction of the innocent that seems to play out in every community in one form or another. Fantasies touch odd parts of the mind, and I think we all probably have things lurking that should stay buried, so I try not to judge too much. That said if you want to see me get ranty tell me about how De Sade is in the libertarian tradition lol. Political prisoner my ass.
We’ve discussed deSade here before.
So. Fantasies.
The rape fantasy is the most common one amongst women (no, I am not going to go look up stats). The last figure I heard was 60% of women have them.
Back in the day, Nancy Friday gave us those masterworks My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers, amongst others. Rape featured heavily.
Now we come to romance novels where the Woke, who read them in secret, try to beat out of it everything that Regular Women love about it. Bring up the above stat and you’ll get screamed out of the blog and right off Twitter. And yet…there is a huge market for these things.
Because it’s common.
But then women can have penises and men can have vaginas, so I guess biology doesn’t matter so much.
That’s a common misconception. Women actually fantasize about Tisdale, Saskatchewan.
Domination and submission, possession and helplessness. There is always more going on in any person’s mind than they are aware of. The politicization of everything really hurts people. I’m convinced that sexuality is always on a continuum and is more fluid than you are allowed to say these days.
Yeah, but Oh baby canola me, just doesn’t have that zing.
I don’t do BDSM, but I’m definitely not a sub. There was one time when a partner tried to be dominant with me, and I flipped my lid. It was the most aggressive I’ve ever been in bed. She was saying “NO, STOP” but I wasn’t taking orders.
/joke
I thought the women just lay back and thing of England?
I don’t think England does that sort of thing anymore.
Speaking of interesting Glib conversations…
She knows very well when she’s been licked.
It is a lot easier if you start with the solution.
I’m almost done. I liked the theme after I got 66 across.
Very nice, Hype. Thank you.
YW Ozy, glad you got the theme, I know it was a bit of a stretch.
No, I laughed when I finally got each of them. I made that “awwwww….! man…” sound and laughed.
Great Glib theme.
Cool, that was my intention.
Been awhile since I’ve done crosswords, but thank you for putting in the effort.
Having a go, Very nice. Always like 3 down.
Is anyone going to do a big print word search puzzle?
GETTING OLD SUCKS BUT IT BEATS THE ALTERNATIVE
right?
Does it though?
Depends. Which oddly is also a factor in deciding.
Hi five
No shit?
It depends.
Especially if you have wear them and no one near who cares.
Is the alternative Benjamin Button? Or Merlyn?
At the dinner hour again – will commence in fits and starts.
I recommend a different technique.
Oh wait, you’re actually talking about food and such.
Carry on.
Here’s a song for this….cross-over.
Does anyone else wish they were on drugs tonight . . . .I don’t really do any drugs anymore, but what I would kill for a Valium right now. Let’s all thank the government for not letting me be able to relax on the rare occasion I want to imbibe.
I kind of miss coke.
/not really
It sounds like a lot of fun.
It is, for awhile, until the 4th or 5th time you tell yourself “oh, I’ll stop at 2:30” and find yourself still tossing and turning in bed at 6am and you have to leave for work in 2 hours.
I’ve never had a good experience with anything in the stimulant world. If I am looking for any sort of buzz I want it to take the edge off, not sharpen it and pound it into my heart.
Yeah. Instead of nightly bowl and some hooch, I’m trying to keep my head straight. My daughter in all but law is right now at the hospital. Early pregnancy problem. Not looking good. Her Mom, and woman that I love is in shock, so it’s no drugs for me tonight…but god damned I could use them. (Sorry to vent off your vent. Shitty night)
Sorry to hear that. Good luck.
Your turn to be the solid shoulder.
Oh, good heavens. I am so sorry. Is your DIL at risk as well as the baby?
Seems like it’s just the baby at risk. Still waiting to find out if they’re going to do a 32 week C section.
32 weeks is past the very high risk point these days. I wish your family the best possible outcome.
Sending prayers your way.
Sorry Gbob. That’s terrible.
Man, I hope life sees fit to spare you all of that, and you wake up happy and relieved. Sucks that this stuff happens to good people.
I will later. Today was Yom Kippur. Every year I have a horrible time falling asleep. It’s probably because I haven’t eaten for a day and finally get a late dinner. Something that helps me fall asleep before Sir Digby eats lunch would be welcome.
I can delay, if need be…
#SolidShoulder
You’re a true friend.
I’m ya Goy Boy!
/no toy
G’mar tov
I only got 15 across. Fowl Ballz.
Does anyone know if MLW is ever going to revisit the Woke Charmed articles . . .I kind of miss them in a highly disturbing way.
NO! Lol, I always read articles I’m here for and read a smattering after the fact if I’m busy, but Woke Charmed causes brain damage and I need my remaining brain cells!
I read the SF and HM articles . . . there isn’t much left in my head to rot anyways.
SF and HM threaten sanity. Woke Charmed makes you stupid. I can get by insane. Make me stupid and I’m worthless.
Okay, now that hurts. I was willing to accept that there is sportsball and shit on but wow Banginglc1 just salt that wound man, jebus, also what the fuck kinda handle is Banginglc1? is it a military thing or porn?
what the fuck kinda handle is Banginglc1?
I was in a band in high school called the Banging Lawnchairs, it’s been a username ever since.
Wind instrument?
Sorry, that was weak. It’s because the wind sometimes blows my lawn chairs. Whatever.
I assumed “banging LC1” was roughly equivalent to “humping ALICE”
I miss them too.
#MeThree
Hyperion,s comment from previous thread:, regarding the existence of Libertarian women:
There you go, folks. The Hyperion Uncertainty Principle
Yes, but can we cross distance and time subatomically?
You mean quantum entanglement, Einstein’s ‘Spooky action at a distance’? It’s a simulation, that’s you explanation.
Ask Heisenberg. You can get where you want at unknown time, or get someplace at exactly 3pm.
That poor cat…
Schrodinger may have been brilliant, but he did not know cats. Any cat in a box = state (content).
Until they want out of the box, then all hell breaks loose.
Claps enthusiastically as a cat owner, er, staff member.
To wit.
He at least seems unimpressed.
Maybe it’s the eyebrows.
Tangential: I really really really hate the concept of time travel. But often I wonder what it would be like to escort a 6th century (or whatever) person around. Drive them in a car. Take them on an airplane. Put them on a rollercoaster. Show them smartphones.
You know, perform magic.
I really really really hate the concept of time travel.
Please preach this loudly to budding authors! No, you do NOT have a new and interesting take on time travel. No one ever has a new and interesting take on time travel.
The best take on it I have ever seen is 12 Monkeys, wherein he actively tries to change the past, but it always works its way around him to come out to the same conclusion.
It was a bit of an existential revelation.
Speaking of revelations, Dogma was one of the most spiritually uplifting movies I have ever seen.
Dogma was one of the most spiritually uplifting movies I have ever seen.
Oh well, every friend has to have one serious flaw. Seriously? Alanis Morissette as God? Ben Affleck and Matt Damon? Sigh, I’m probably the only person here who thinks Kevin Smith is not funny.
Salma Hayek.
Who cares after that?
I’d have to watch it again to give you specifics, but the existential crisis the angels go through was heartbreaking.
God (Alanis Morrisette or whatever) extended them perfect grace and mercy. It was a very loving and merciful moment.
I love his movies and I haven’t seen that one. It is on my wish list.
I’ve watched Dogma several dozen times. It never gets old.
That is the set timeline theory, it’s not that he was trying everything to change it, it’s the fact that him changing it is what created the timeline. It’s the logical theory of time travel.
I didn’t know there was a name for it.
If you wanted to, you could probably convince them you were god.
To 99% of us these things are magic now. I can parrot a bit about how they work, but my knowledge of science and engineering is so far removed from really understanding how the parts work that it might as well be an incantation. I’m useless as a mechanic, but I can at least look at an IC engine and see how it all works. A smart phone? Electricity does some stuff and stuff happens.
Agreed . . . I know the theory of how an incandescent light bulb works . . .but I’m still astonished by it.
Imagine if you were born in 1920 or so. The crazy stuff you’ve had to try and get used to. Hell, I was a kid in the seventies. Cell phones were something from Startrek. Water was free and coffee basically was too. Safety seals were non-existent. Seat belts were optional, the Japanese made tiny little cars and the big three all made boats. The government sure seemed small, back then.
My MiL was born in a small town in SD in 1912. Her older brother died of complications from war wounds incurred in WWI. She lived to 96 and at the end was emailing relatives and looking up recipes online.
I remember watching Star Trek when it was first broadcast – 10 year old me was convinced I would never hold some tiny, hand-held phone and talk to people miles away or walk up to a door and see it open automatically.
In the late ’40s, Dick Tracy Comics had wrist radios, us kids could not believe it. I remember watching baseball on TV in the late ’40s. Even crappy black and white pictures and we were mesmerized.
LP vinyl in the ’50s, what is this?. I bought a reel to reel tape recorder in ’58, cutting edge. Anymore everything new is just a yawn. Yeah, yeah, yeah, your car can self drive, has a map display and it’ll parallel park itself, so what? Ohyou mean your phone does all that.
When I was a kid in the 70s, I had this cute little transistor radio. I got older, got a boombox, got a Walkman, made my stupid mix tapes from trying to time the radio just right and wondered why I couldn’t just buy one song at a time. ANY song, not just what was pressed on a 45, because there were songs on my very few albums that NEVER got radio play but that I loved more than the singles. I thought, there has GOT to be a way to do this. Alas, I could not think of this way.
Then, around the same time, I was lugging around doorstopper books I’d devour. I thought, there has GOT to be a way to put all these books in a something you can hold in your hand and read. Alas, I could not think of this way. I just knew it could be done.
If you read science fiction there were lots of tropes about ereaders, personal computers etc. The one thing none of them seem to have been capable of imagining was data compression and memory capacity. They talk about loading in a new book, as if it was a tape or record you played on the device.
My first experience with music was with a Soundesign digital clock radio. I would listen to Kasey Kasem on it. The number one hits were stuff like Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles. It had a rolodex style digital system and the cards would make a loud “clack” every minute. Used to just sit and watch it and listen to Kasey play all the hits. I think that was 1975 or so.
I don’t miss a lot of old tech but I totally want one of those clock radios again.
Yeah, I watched that thing for hours. I was amazed by it.
That’s when we had all the time in the world, blackjack
Penn Station just replaced their big sign with all the flippy letters with some digital POS, and I was pissed.
I love Solari boards
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-flap_display
You need to read John Dickson Carr’s “The Devil in Velvet”
I know you’ll love it. Historical fiction, romance, time travel, good and evil.
Oh, and the literal Devil.
Never heard of it. Own it now.
Hmm, that’s weird, for some strange reason I keep having this fantasy of driving Leonardo da Vinci down the JFX on my commute home from work and hearing his reaction to this.
He obviously would not think it is magic, but just as obvious, going back 1000 years and showing your typical peasant an iPad, they would have to think it is magic.
I thought about mentioning him, but then I thought, “Neh, he’d just say ‘told you so.’ Smug bastard.”
Yeah, I don’t want to go back THERE to demonstrate. Being burned alive looks a tidge painful to me.
You either get burned alive or become a God. You have to take some risks!
Have you been watching Lupin the 3rd?
I read a story about a tiny village in the Australian outback where a small band of natives had been housed by the government for a few generations. There was one white guy living there who related this tale from the mid-1980’s.
Most of the village were related t one another and there had long been a story about one uncle and possibly some cousins who were still out there. One day word came in that somebody found tracks and believed that those “lost” relatives must be somewhat close by. A few of the drove out and found one of their “cousins” – a teen age girl – and transport her from Neolithic age to present day world in 20 minutes in the back seat of a car.
This girl and her siblings and dad had been living in the bush their entire lives, had no idea about the modern world (had seen a couple airplanes and thought them some sort of mythical beast).
That story always stuck with me.
Saw an article a couple years ago about some folks that took Ipads to an African village, with no instructions, gave them to young school kids. Within minutes the 12 year olds had figured out how to turn them on and start doing things. A 1/2 hour later were showing the younger kids how to play with them. Kids are smart, curious and ready to learn
+1 Clark’s Law
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Arlan Andrews, Sr.
“There you go, folks. The Hyperion Uncertainty Principle”
We just have to perform the double slit experiment on you fembots now. *euphemisms not in existence*
I’m famous once again, and I must say much deserving. Thanks, HK, when do I get my Glibnoble Prize? That comes with 900K, right?
It would but Maxwell’s Demon sorted it into the other box. Sorry!
It does. It’s yen so a little less exciting.
Johnson & Johnson to pay $8B to man who grew breasts after taking drug
$8 billion for growing man boobs. That’s a bit outrageous. I hope this hasn’t already been. Posted haven’t had a chance to read through the links.
You can get money for man tits? Sweet, I’ll have to start growing mine out.
Well, I hate Doctors and avoid drugs so I’ll be ok in a year when there are literally no pharmaceutical companies left. You people that actually avail yourselves of modern medicine are screwed.
#metoo
I don’t hate drugs, just doctors, because they are part of a ginormous drug cartel who you have to get permission from (permission meaning pay me my extortion fee) to get any drugs you want.
“Pay me–oh, but no, you may NOT have the drugs you want.”
Well, you obviously mean the ‘bad drugs’. Those drugs are bad, Mmkay? We’re from the government and we’re here to help you.
I guess my beef with the drugs is (what feels to me) to be a rampant over-prescription of them. Someone touched on this the other day with all the copy-cat commercials “Skyzizzi!” “Flobana!” GTFOOH.
I am not in need of any (prescription) drugs; if and when that changes some day my opinion may change.
When I was young (er) the strippers I dated paid about 3-5k to get them.
I’m guessing that gets negotiated down by about 99.9%.
So… it’s actually the doctor’s fault. Gosh I wonder why xe’s not suing the doctor.
Ya that’s what always happens. A judge will come in and drop it to a couple million.
This is just a payoff to Senator Moobs, isn’t it?
LOL!
LOL!
Squirrels thought it was funny too.
Just a laugh for each moob.
I would have thought he was the plaintiff.
Some ladies would pay that kind of money to home grow them, so I’ve heard.
Solved it.
Very fun, man! I used to do these all the time. Thanks for reminding me how much I enjoy them.
I still don’t understand 19 across.
Thanks, Hyp. This had to be a ton of work.
Fuck. I just read the cheat. That would have helped A LOT!
Lol. Washing the dishes and I finally got it.
Thanks Tundra, yes the Theme was really forced but I had an idea an went with it. I’m glad at least a few of you “got” it.
Not forced, just tough. Like I said, I used to do these almost daily. Very, very rusty!
Thanks again!
#metoo
Sigh, never mind. Now I do.
This one is definitely harder than the last one. Still not done.
Sorry Hyperbole, my brain just isn’t down for this type of challenge tonight. It’s still grinding away at figuring out a different puzzle.
For those that didn’t see it in the mid-day thread. I was looking through a box of stuff from my childhood. Some of my (deceased) dad’s stuff was also in the box. One of those things was a letter regarding him adopting my oldest sister as a step-parent. I knew my sister was born before my parents married, but this is new information to me, I don’t know if she knows. UCS and Kinnath said maybe he just hadn’t been listed on the birth certificate for some reason. Sounds plausible, I know my parents broke up for a while some time before they married.
But as I kept looking also in the same box was a life insurance policy my dad took out after my sister was born (she would have been almost a year old) and the beneficiaries were neither my mother or my sister, but my dad’s parents.
So I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with this information. Do I try and talk my mom? Do I try get info from a different relative? Should I talk to my sister? Should I just ignore it all?
So, yeah muh brain ain’t up for a crossword.
Let it go and choose to be merely amused at a rank detail from your family’s past because
– the way people think isn’t always logical, so their motives and morals can’t necessarily be deduced from snippets of red tape
– ancient mysteries can’t always be solved
– the little data you have might well lead you to a wrong conclusion that haunts you forever
– you’re quite unlikely to find any answer that improves your life
– you’re unlikely to be able to talk to anyone without resurrecting hurt feelings
– all that matters about your dad is how he treated you; it doesn’t really matter whether he was a saint the rest of the time
I’d be looking at the money from that life insurance policy, myself…
Steady state beats sudden, unpredictable disruption.
My mother left diaries when she died dating back to my brothers and my early childhood. My brother (who was the executor) and I decided to set them aside and talk about looking in them after 5 years had passed. We still haven’t looked, but I probably will at some point, it’s not a great idea to go to far into that stuff when the grief is fresh, it makes perspective very hard.
I don’t see any of this as indictment against my dad, as UCS and Tundra said on the original post, either way him adopting her showed his positive affirmation of raising her. My concern comes in the fact that my sister has always had health issues. Lots of them. If her paternity isn’t what we were lead to believe, there could be answers for her there. But my concern with raising this is she has had almost as much trouble as me dealing with his passing, and bringing this up if it is a thing could make that even worse.
Serious question: are you doing this to help your sister with her medical issues or to answer something for yourself?
There is no ‘this’ as of now. I’m just trying to figure out where to go, what to do. I will do whatever is best for the ones I love, I just have to figure out what that is.
I don’t know if the paternity thing will help her. I’m just trying to figure it all out. I don’t have many people not in the family to help me weigh this decision. It could help her, it could cause undue pain. It could leave me with a burden that is detrimental to my own mental health. That’s why I’m talking about it. I don’t know what to do.
You’ve certainly identified the risks but not your goal. My guess is not knowing will eat at you. Ask your mother about it. Just understand you may get her version of events; not the “Truth.”
Unless I am really, badly mis-informed (which is…well, it’s me), I’m not sure that knowing her genetic history is of that much help, if she already has medical problems. By that, I mean that, any issue she has, it seems her Dr(s) already know what’s wrong, and are treating her accordingly–fingers crossed. So, I’m not sure just how helpful it would be for her/Drs to know this.
Not really knowing the personalities at play here, along with more specifics of each person’s situation (not a request for such, btw), it’s difficult to gauge a best approach.
Some information is only a burden–it does not inform in any helpful way; it does not lift up the audience…it is only negative in nature, and is burdensome. I think, if you determine how this situation applies to that, you can make a more informed decision.
Talk to your mom, anything else and you’re just Nancy Drewing and that never works out. Anything hinky your mom knows about it and it’s probably up to her to tell it (yes I’m assuming here) you’re a big boy you can take it so ask her about it.
I learned several years ago that dad for a time thought I wasn’t his son, on account of mom being sometimes unaccountable, supposedly. Thanks, sis. Could’ve done without knowing that.
I agree. If it concerns you that much, talk to mom.
I’ll tell you, though, my kids have seen plenty of my failures /shortcomings. I’d really prefer they not see them all.
Good luck. Know that you are a terrific son and brother. That’s important.
Man, you can never know what was on someone’s mind way back. Just think of all the times you’ve had worries, thoughts, dreams that you never let on to others. If your dad was cool and he did right by you all, be grateful and leave this other stuff be. He did what’s right, regardless of what he was worried about. No gain in airing it out now (especially because he’s not here to defend or refute any of it.)
That.
What they did is more important to you than what they thought about doing or not doing.
One of my brothers (he’s 6 years older) and I got rip-roaring drunk one night and he told me a LOT of shocking family stuff – nothing I had any reason to doubt, either. I forgot 99% of it within a week, and I’m kind of glad I did.
I’m just trying to figure out what to do with this information. I don’t have ‘real’ people to talk to, just you guys. So my dad might not be my sister’s dad. If someone else is, it could perhaps help her with her medical issues. I don’t know if she knows about this possibility.
I have also suspected my dad may not have been my father, which when raised with my siblings was shot down as ‘mom wouldn’t do that’; bur regardless, I would have no regrets in the sacrifices I made to take care of my dad. But it would make me re-evaluate some things.
My own life has been ruled by that Catholic guilt my mom instilled in me. I don’t regret that; it has made me who I am, but that same has made me resent her for moving on so quickly after my dad died. I’m all kinds of fucked up. Just trying to figure it all out.
Ultimately, it’s not your story to tell. If you do decide to talk to your mother, respect her reply in whatever form it takes. People have a right to secrets if those secrets aren’t actively hurting someone.
I think this falls into that category, unless your sister has unresolved health issues that are a mystery this could potentially solve, I’d probably leave it alone.
@Splosives…
If I fall down the rabbit hole of John Dickson Carr, you are to blame.
Mormon mystery series incoming! I see an Edgar in your future. I’m reading The Proviso. So far I like you as a writer, and like your characterization.
Thank you!
But I am not smart enough to write a mystery. I usually put my villains and their motives up front because I just can’t figure all that stuff out.
So write the hard-boiled kind, less twisty more standing in the rain with your guts beat out.
OT, but fuck it. Tearing my damn hair out.
So I told y’all my grandmother’s in the hospital. The good news is she’s ready to be released. The whatever news is that she’s going to be released to a short-term rehab, which is fine. The shitty news is that none of the rehabs I’ve looked at (the only ones I’ll allow her to go to) are going to have any beds until Friday, and the case worker at the hospital is absolutely insistent that she must leave the hospital on Thursday. They were going to force her out today before I left synagogue to go scream at the hospital.
My mother is sleep deprived and is no help, and my uncle is an asshole and is of no help, which means this is all down to me (an idiot) and my brother (a non-idiot, but living in Chicago) to figure out. Bah.
At least I still managed to keep the fast between the hospital and driving around looking at rehabs. Won’t piss off the man upstairs … too much.
What kind of care does she need? Can you do that for just one night?
At this point she needs full-time nursing care. I could hypothetically do it, but I’m doubting the hospital would release her to me unless I had a real nurse lined up.
I’m annoyed that they said this morning that they were releasing her today, when I told them repeatedly I’d need notice to line up the rehab.
All the hospital is worried about is release from liability I’m guessing. If it’s something you can manage, I would say that is the way if it’s something you can handle.
You kept the fast and were honoring a commandment, I do not think you betrayed your faith. Is there anyone who can take her in and care for her for the day until a bed is available? You will find a way to deal with this. You are not an idiot.
That sucks. My wife dealt with a several cycles of hospital/rehab/assisted living with her mom. As frustrating as it is, you (or another family member) is the only one who is going to put your grandma first. My (((knowledge))) is limited but i can’t imagine the big guy is anything but pleased that you’re stepping up for grandma.
JB you did a mitzvah. No need to worry about divine retribution.
This is about Social Security paying the hospital. They cannot discharge her without a suitable placement. Is the case worker a social worker? If not I’d get the hospital’s social worker involved. Sometimes they can be helpful.
I’m a little unclear from your post (maybe because I just broke the fast) if your grandmother needs a SNF solely for rehab or if it is also a long term placement.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_S._Currey
Medal of Honor, Silver Star, Bronze Star, three Purple Hearts, and First Sgt before he turned 21.
Just a quick question, you said MIL was born in 1912? That’s older than my grandma. I didn’t think you were that old.
I’m not. My wife and I are a May-December to begin with, and she was born very late in her family. She has nieces of the same age.
Ok. That just kind of took me by surprise.
It is a bit strange. My uncle-in-law served in WWI before one of my own grandmothers was born.
My mom’s family is like that. My grandma (that I mentioned) had 9 kids over a 20 year span, and she herself had aunts younger than her.
Died yesterday?
From his MOH citation
The following I believe is one of those wonderful modern quotes that someone made up and attributed to a historical figure, in this case Heraclitus.
The Warrior?!
I remember thinking she was so much older and mature and now I look at her and she’s just a girl.
*sigh*
Bang, bang.
Amazing! Those dudes deserved those medals. Ain’t one of them wearing a manbun, imma guess.
I always figured I would be one of the 80 targets – but was determined to go anyway and hoped to live long enough to learn enough to be a real fighter.
I’ve known a few warriors though. Almost a separate species.
Careful this weekend. Looks like big one is coming.
Guess I should explain that.
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20191010-00000001-kobenext-soci
I thought the latest forecasts had the predicted track more easterly than before.
Looks like there’s a good probability we’ll get the uppercut. Never worried about typhoons much until that one the recently hit kansai. Winds actually tossed cars around.
The one that damaged KIX? I can imagine. It always seemed like the Japanese typhoons were generally less destructive than Gulf/Atlantic hurricanes (and I realize that there have been many destructive typhoons in history)
Oh, I thought you were referring to Godzilla. Glad I paid that nice guy for that Godzilla insurance policy. Kinda expensive but seems worth it.
https://youtu.be/TvQWBXJOgAI
Top comment: “If you play a Godzilla movie backwards it’s about a benevolent lizard who rebuilds Tokyo and then moonwalks into the ocean”
Michael Jackson’s Godzilla, on Sega Genesis/Master Drive
Whew! Solved it! Used the interactive one for the first time. Found it tricky at times to select the square I wanted to correct, but finally got it done. Next time, I’ll try it without the error checking.
Thanks, Teh Hyp! Now do a double acrostic!
I couldn’t finish this one. Some of the answers were just beyond my ken.
They don’t make knockoffs like they used to.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/more-than-dollar22-million-worth-of-fake-nike-shoes-seized-in-los-angeles/29416089
Those look like a grade-school crafts project. Maybe the originals did too, I dunno.
I’m pretty sure the swoosh wasn’t stapled on the originals.
Yeah. Those are particularly bad.
Mr. Fancy! What, with your “high Quality” footwear….
I’m taking a knee in protest.
In before CPRM
How can that be in before me, when I posted that over a month ago!? The internet confuses and scares me!
Wait…I thought we weren’t doing time travel….
I never said that. This is why unions suck ass.
A time union??
When you understand unions are thieves, then you’ll see the connection…
In my defense, My ‘time union” comment was meant to be incredulous, not confused.
https://archive.li/2hkYy/15a3b89f3e907514f8dad7b6924493a5ea485f07.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/nJ1k8/3104170827fcd5eda8782917c980bd23b77e1f1d.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/xidH6/2e0adb7c9dd9548d7267c844e7b10ee1629ca30c.jpg
NSFW.
http://66.media.tumblr.com/462f9b6f205c6247983865270ba1e610/tumblr_mfhhc1Gyng1qf25wuo1_500.gif
NSFW.
I didn’t see any of them in synagogue today. How odd.
Shiksas are for practice.
/Said the old men where I grew up.
For (((you)))
Lol.
This is exactly when to ask the question: Nice round, plump tiddies with meh nipples or a little smaller with perfect nipples? I’m torn.
Define perfect nipples.
And by “meh” you mean oversized areola? Downward pointing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation#Laboratory_reports
I’m starting to think this is the NBS’s Kapernick moment.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/10/09/gotta-hear-both-sides-warriors-steph-curry-cant-address-the-nba-china-controversy-because-he-doesnt-know-enough-about-chinese-history-video/
The public likes you, your ratings are good, so let’s piss on America’s leg and say it’s raining.
Where NBS = NBA.
Hey, I was told there’d be NO MATH!!
Sorry, but it’s math all the way down
PLINK!!!
Wait….there’s MOAR?!?
A=A
/Ayn Rand
+1 school for tots
Do they use Steve Ditko’s Mr. A as their textbook?
The NBA is uniting the country.
Ted Cruz, Ben Sasse, Tom Cotton, Ron Wyden, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Send Bipartisan Letter To NBA: Stop Kissing China’s Ass And Suspend Your Operations There For Now
Nice of the Chicoms to bring us together.
Just saw a picture of the NBA cimmish (I don’t get out much). Yikes!
Elsworth Toohey lives.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/china-nba-dispute-woke-capital-hypocrisy-exposed/
I don’t know the name (yeah, that’s right) but yeah he is a specimen of… something eldritch, perhaps?
So I called my home warranty company today about the sound the furnace is making as it dies.
She said, “What does it sound like?”
“The yelping of a puppy burning alive.”
Silence. “Um. Okay. Let me just put that down.”
This is why:
You are a glib
You are a professional writer.
Then her response should have been, “The sound all of STEVE SMITH’s victims make.”
Now, I’m thinking you should animate the STEVE SMITH Chronicles….
Eh, maybe not.
That would be a for sure break a sex law.
If he isn’t careful, he may get a visit…and, I like some of his tunes.
I just remembered that because the furnace just kicked on and now the entire house is awake again. It is LOUD. And LONG.
Aye. 😉
Loud and long: Cuntes and Cods II, The Reckoning
Well. You owe me a new keyboard.
I love hearing reports of Glibs in the Mist.
No 2020 NHK weather presenter or JAL cabin attendant calendars… next year is already shaping up to suck.
*flips keyboard*
Don’t know what that means, but you acknowledge Rachel Stevens as the one true Mecca, so I will follow!
I take it they are already available by now? Should we send you a Demotivators calendar, instead.
A close friend of my wife was a JAL international cabin attendant. Japanese lady fluent in Japanese, English and Italian. Smoking hot. She came to our wedding – all my buddies and my step-mom had to know what the connection was.
Pics? Phone number? Introduction?
So, when you said you were hungry….
She’s married with kids now.
*sad trombone*
Gustave: You mentioned walking pieces of shit the other day….
Oh. Found in the same box as the documents listed above were some drawings I did in middle school. Super Hero type stuff. then I came upon a drawing of the dad from 101 Dalmatians with one of the pups. Very well drawn. I flipped to the next picture; it was again the dad and pup from 101 Dalmatians, but the dad dog was foaming at the mouth, and the pup lay bleeding to death. No wonder I make Hat and Hair cartoons.
Yeeesh, man. That might actually make me hope for a SS cartoon….
In fact–a starting point.
I thought you were heading here.
https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=181146.135
I was wondering if/when that joke was coming my way.
Kudos, dbl!
These walking Profiles In Courage are something else. They are experts on everything that happens in the US regardless of the subject. The moment their paychecks are threatened by a foreign entity its too complex to comment on.
STFU and play ball. It will be better for everyone.
Some people should not try to school me on Motley Crue.
Who dares?
Some chick on FB. I posted the playlist for Cuntes & Cods and said something about the lead singer for Sixx:A.M. was 50-ish and relatively similar to how I pictured my male character.
She said, “No, that’s Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue.”
Bitch I totally know who Nikki Sixx is, and who he is NOT is the lead singer of Sixx:A.M.
You need us to do an ass-kicking? Or, watch you deliver said ass-kicking….?
Neh. I was polite there and then came over here to bitch. That’s why you’re here, right?
Indeed, it is!
*Gets pipe* Where is she Mojeaux? We’re ready to roll.
https://youtu.be/u5G1D9XO_C4
Chafed wants to get a hit, before giving a hit….
You get me. You sooooo get me.
*Flashes smile* How you doing?
Much better NOW.
Hey–I offered first!
::kicks rock down the road::
Wait, what? I could be in my own reverse harem situation?!
*Flashes smile* How you doing?
Much MUCH better now.
I’m willing to consider it but I won’t cross swords with Sir Digby. Yes, it’s a euphemism.
Maybe you’ll be much MUCH MUCH better after this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU4EfkzNYBY
Heh.
So I guess this reverse harem thing started in anime, from what I can gather. Then it spread out to romance and because it’s a target-rich opportunity for some quick cash, I thought I’d just slap one out.
No dice.
I had a great plot and characters, but the whole 6 men lusting after 1 woman and sharing thing is not to my taste.
At. All.
Cucks.
No, I won’t be doing a Ghostbusters ending with Chafed.
You see this, Chafed?? “Cucks”!!!
Meh, over it.
Is he like some kind of bulletproof dude?
Already?? It was only a couple of days ago….
You gettin’ fickle on us?
*dons serious cap*
I don’t remember faces very well. Like, all white people look alike to me. So do all black people. And all Asian people. And all Indian people. I don’t pick out ethnicities very well, either. I wouldn’t be able to pick my 14-year neighbors out of a lineup.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s because I’m not paying attention. I would be able to remember if everybody went around wearing nametags because I can associate the letters with their faces.
But once in a while…every once in a while, someone will catch my eye. I don’t know why. There is no rhyme nor reason to it. Most of the time, those people are not what you would consider conventionally beautiful.
Sadly, staring is verboten in polite society and I don’t want to get tagged as a potential serial killer.
That kid was fine on first and second glance, but no more than that.
I’m somewhat there with you–as in, I often have trouble remembering faces. And, mine IS usually due to not paying attention (not caring).
I remember faces like a hard drive. Names? Not so well.
I developed a mnemonic which helps but not all the time.
This really sux when I get thrown into a new professional environment where there are hundreds of people to deal with.
Did it knock your dick in the dirt before the pot fell out of your ass?
Did you get me mixed up with someone who has a dick?
::whispers to Mojeaux::
He’s mixing in-jokes…just go with it.
😉
Sorry. Got Stars in my eyes.
It was a call back to my Marvelous 3 links from yesterday. gah, you don’t even get me!
She didn’t even umlot. She’s a faker. *points finger*
That’s “umlaut.”
*four pointing back at you*
A true crew fan wouldn’t know the difference! *insert body snatchers Donald Sutherland gif*
Crewe…to the fan in New Orleans.
Yeah, that’s supposed to be a joke.
Krewe
Spelling lessons, sheesh.
Not an N.O. fan…
You aren’t?
I love NOLA, though I have only been there twice.
Been once–can’t wait to bypass it again.
Dirty (not the good kind….OK, it has that, too), and shitty people, to boot.
I found it cleaner than NYC. Nicer people, too.
But I still love NYC.
Never been to NYC, and not rally all that eager to go.
The N.O. thing honestly comes down to a shitty waiter in a shitty restaurant. Only time I’ve ever not tipped*, and argued with waitstaff.
*well, I’m not counting those pennies…
Earth would have done us a favor if the ocean reclaimed New Orleans. I went there once in 2001. I will never go back.
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
My experience was ’99. Good/Sad to know nothing changed in 2 years….
Don’t sell New Orleans short. It may have gotten worse. It was disgusting. Just filthy. We saw rats scurrying from sewer to sewer.
I always felt a mugging was possible. The drunks are not confined to Bourbon Street. DIY 2 AM parades complete with instruments suck.
It’s the only city that had me rooting for the hurricane.
I’m glad it’s a FB dust up. I thought you were pissed about my comments the other night.
Oh, goodness no! I enjoyed your comments immensely and I’m so sorry I didn’t give you a shout-out. I do not feel worthy of being a saint. 🙂
So you did see it. Good.
So…that wasn’t you on FB??
She has bowed to my superior knowledge of Mötley Crüe, Sixx:A.M., and Nikki Sixx.
*puffs on fingernails*
*buffs on shirt*
No notch on your belt?
No need to rub people’s faces in the dirt, sheesh.
Chafed is a man of many…’passions’.
All right, I’ll sleep on all your advice, and maybe talk to the one real world person I can about all this tomorrow. Man, why does shit always got to be so fucked up? documentary time.
Doc time….
I lived in NYC for a few years and found it fascinating. Commuting (against the flow) on the Staten Island Ferry was a treat. That said a couple of things kept my sanity.
-Hiking and backpacking on the Appalachian Trail
-Having my firearms in my house in NC and hunting in NC every fall
-Regular business travel to Europe
-Free Space-A travel for vacations
-Strand Books- a world class bookstore (few blocks south of 14th Street)
-The knowledge was time in NYC was defined and I’d move elsewhere
But NYC is much more the capital of the US than DC and I’m a glad I got to spend some time there.
Well………….YEAH, when you put it that way!
That old saying, “It’s great to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.” Yeah, that. However, I do love it.
I love DC too. I can’t really think of a place I’ve been that I just don’t like at all.
Oh, wait. Salt Lake City. Provo. Hell, all of Utah.
Why such a dislike for the LDS Promised Land?
I lived there for a while and learned to hate it. It’s not really the place. It’s just the things that I went through there that color my view. They’re perfectly lovely cities, I suppose.
One of the three names I enjoy.
The Colorado Plateau is a special place. I always enjoy being in slickrock country. Living there might be tough but by gumption the beauty will knock your socks off.
The skiing and ice climbing in the Wasatch Range is some of the best in the world.
Following the right of ways for the original Transcontinental Railroads is a treat for a history and desert lover.
But Moj, to be frank, your co-religionists pretty well fuck up everything else.
While I can agree we fuck shit up, I’m not sure which thing(s) you’re referring to.
I don’t like living in the middle of a desert. The only thing I miss is the scent of fresh humidity-free air, especially after a rain.
I never got to go skiing. Utah Lake is gross. The Great Salt Lake is grosser. Provo, being a college town, is wall-to-wall people and I cannot deal. Yes, I can deal with it fine in NYC. Packed subway car, no problem. Provo? I gotta get outta Dodge.
I-15 is a right mess. Now, look, folks from California might be used to sitting on a freeway for 6 hours a day, but I am not. We have LOTS of traffic here, especially during rush hour, bumper-to-bumper, but our rush hour moves at 70mph.
There’s nothing really WRONG with it. Something bad happens every time I’m there.
Feeling a bit homesick for the US. For the first time since I can remember it looks like I won’t get back to the US at all in 2019. DAYUM. And now that I’m retired from the Reserves I feel like I’m really out of touch with non-expat Americans. Funny thing is I have done a bunch of work traveling this year – just all in Asia.
I have not laid a finger on a firearm all year. That is really unusual for me.
That bites. Can you go back home in 2020?
Well, I do have a good reason to do that – need to renew my driver license. I also would like to hit a couple gun shows to unload some inventory. And while I’m at it I could move my NFA items from AZ to NM.
Not sure if the wife would be happy about me being away for a week or so.
Most people enjoy AZ in the spring. Maybe she’d want to take the trip with you?
As a retiree you are eligible to use Space-A. Get to the west coast for free and travel from there.
I lived in AZ before. Miss it like a lost family member. I’d love to take the whole family but wife has work and boys are in school and it’s difficult for them to get away. And Space-A for 4 is not so easy to make happen.
I know what you mean. When I get back to the mainland it feels like I am visiting another country. I think that is odd because during my years in the Army I lived all over the country. Sometimes I feel like the Neil Diamond song “I am I said” “(Hawaii’s fine but it ain’t but it ain’t home…” I miss AZ and WY something fierce, especially when fall rolls around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxDyXK93o6g
Work may make me miss the elk hunt this fall and that is totally ruining autumn for me.
We don’t get enough Neil linked around these comments.
TY, dbl.
It was bizarre for me – I did 15 years in the Army Reserves in a couple different units and never once set foot in CONUS in uniform. All my drills, exercises, training, and schools were all over the Pacific.
OT: Weird wardrobe question… When you have black pants and a dark grey shirt, what color jacket goes with that?
Charcoal.
This is correct.
Hugo Boss thought a black jacket with silver trimming.
Oooh…fancy!
…with knee-high black leather boots.
Oh! Don’t forget the snazzy red arm band!
Women have assured me that accessories make the outfit.
Like a nice hat? Perhaps with a nice silver pin on it?
Count the strawmen.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/09/libertarians-reject-traditional-institutions-doomed-america/
Anyone know the author? I’ve never heard of him.
This is what I found: http://www.nickhankoff.com/articles
Also, I was told there’d be NO MORE MATH!!
There is no math. But be warned there is an opposition……..
https://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/614/170/d3c.png
Eins! Zwei!
/Dammit!
Just when you think leftists are the worst at misrepresenting libertarian views, you read read stuff like that.
Well, TJ, it sounds like it’s time for drinks sometime soon. I’ll try to act like a non expat American.
I’ve been thinking the same thing, Straff.
Send me a text. Around Halloween?
I’m “supposed” to be in Hong Kong during Halloween week. I say “supposed” because the main vendor from the US (who we are supporting) seems to be getting cold feet – probably over the protests.
Might be easier if we plan for the week after that – if that works for you.
November is 50th birthday month. Good for me.
Sounds like an occasion for BIIIIG drinks.
As in…this Or, this..
Got a couple hours to kill between jobs. Fucking old fart sitting across from me at the coffee shop is plucking nose hairs one at a time and laying them on the table. He must have 50 of them already.
Maybe he’s gonna make a shirt, or, blanket, or, some craft piece.
NoseHair Shirt?
The shirt that hurts other people.
What I was thinking…
That’s disgusting. How do you publicly shame an old Japanese man?
Absolutely disgusting. I resorted to “Jesus Christ!” and he looked at me, stopped, and then started right back at it.
Is/was he crying? Because, that shit hurts.
I hope it hurts more than seppuku.
This is bold but maybe grab the tweezers, yell at him for being disgusting, and throw it out the door. If nothing else, I’ll bet the waitstaff will be grateful.
Tweezers? He’s doing it with his goddamn gross overgrown fingernails.
Wow…You appear to have some kind of Jeremiah Johnson-type dude there.
Is he knitting a sweater?
Sweater! Shoulda gone with ‘sweater’….
I’ll say this for Bernie, he’s sincere.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/just-not-sustainable-sanders-campaign-union-contract-allows-workers-up-to-57-days-of-paid-leave
He’s as dumb as a box of rocks. He’s going to have this bite him in the ass. But he really believes it.
This just came up. Another voice gone too soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCoFz-Fi_40&list=RDsxDyXK93o6g&index=29
Ugh–poor guy died in Natchitoches, LA….
Not my favorite part of the US.
/I promise that I do like Louisiana.
You’ve got quite the taste in music. Granted, this is better than “I’ve Never Been to Me”.
Bwaaa HAA HAA! What has been heard can not be unheard. Kinda like what you are watching will haunt your nights.
It was “unavailable in your country”. It did cue up in my head, so I’ll give you that.
Having to lick that old geezer’s nose hair up off the table would be better than “Never Been to Me”. Way to define a floor, dude.
Whoa! We’re getting a little extreme here.
Having to lick that old geezer’s nose hair up off the table would be better than “Never Been to Me”. Way to define a floor, dude.
He linked it last week. It turned me into an even bigger misogynist.
I noted the discussion last week – didn’t click it then either.
When that song came out I still clearly remember the bug eyed fury it would spark among women. Even my mother would stab the buttons on the car radio. It was the first time and last time I heard her mutter “fuck you”.
I am sure there is something worse out there. But I don’t care to search for it.
Here is one nominee. It has been translated for an American can understand the words. You are hereby warned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqR1V3DN8hM
(With a shout out to a very special Glib.)
I’m tempted to guess, although I suppose there are a few to whom this could apply.
The various Smiths (Sasquatch reference)
Ah, gotcha. Was thinking more along the lines of a dedication.
The pot roast got a lol.
Ha ha ha! I haven’t laughed like that in ages. I’m gonna send that to a guy in my old Reserve unit – Russian kid who emigrated to the US in his teens.
SiriusXM was just playing that the other day.
I’ve Never Been to Me or I am Woman? Go!
As in which one’s worse? Never Been to Me. Hands down.
Since it’s late for y’all, I’ll come clean on references that I’ve never bothered to look up and have no idea what they are.
Sous Vide, manbearpig, alt text, Nikki the worst. And a few more.
Do you want actual definitions, or, glib definitions?
Actually, I wanna know your gaps. I’m enjoying not knowing.
Well, I do have a heckuva “man-spread”, TYVM.
More things I know zilch-o about: famous band drummers, movie directors, the difference between fat and tallow and lard.
Football (US & soccer), Cricket, parliamentary government,
Cricket. Yessir. I can’t even tell who won by looking at the score.
Pool vs. Billiards Vs. Snooker
Golf….ugh. I mean, I get the gist, but, not why it’s considered fun.
If things are going to get knocked/flung into the air, I associate it with target shooting.
I love snooker. Might be my favorite sport/pastime to watch. Billiards is ridiculous. Pool is ok.
Of course you can’t understand cricket. It’s nothing but mutual, organized Calvinball which they make up as they go along. Points are awarded as penalties to players who can’t maintain a straight face in pretending to be serious.
Prove me wrong!
Nikki the worst was from TOS – I remember when it first came up but don’t remember the details clearly.
Manbearpig seems to be some general internet thing but I couldn’t be arsed to figure it out.
The other two you mention are “things” IRL.
I am more lost than you are because there are whole decades of movies which I never bothered to watch 80% of what was out there. Horror movies have always bored me. The LotR series – never read the books and fell asleep during the first movie. I hadn’t even remembered that I skipped watching the last of the first 3-part Star Wars series – until just recently when my oldest started watching them. I guess big chunks of American pop culture just didn’t translate well for a guy who grew up in a Barrio.
Spoiler. Same for me with any TV shows after 99. Netflix? No clue.
Manbearpig is a Southpark creation…fairly early in it’s run. I know I’ve seen it, but don’t remember much beyond it involving Al Gore.
Manbearpig is from South Park busting on Al Gore
alttext refers to alternate captions on pictures in articles (hover your cursor over the picture and they’ll appear)
The only LoTR book or movie I could get through was the Harvard Lampoon parody “Bored of the Rings”. I purchased it at the university bookstore in 1978 and still have my copy. Depending on the LoTR fan it can send them into a rage or a laughing fit.
Funny, Al greeted me and gore shook my hand one morning when I was working security on a job (non-military). I was so tempted to thank him for the internet in reply but decided to keep my job.
“…Al greeted me and gore shook…” – should have been “…Al Gore greeted me and shook…”
The original way works too.
::nods in agreement::
After you’ve learned more than four languages sometimes when you’re tired the mind jumbles them up – but in ways that can make sense from a different perspective.
That’s a lot of grammar to be rolling around in one’s head.
I have that too. Laughter here and I was big into reading all of Tolkien at one time.
Sous vide is a low temp water bath method of cooking.
My own gap is from basic training. Pretty much everything that happened in those four months I learned about later, sometimes surprisingly. Felt and feels like reading about it in the history books.
Almost daily I hear some famous name that sounds vaguely familiar, but I haven’t a clue who they are. I believe Lou Reed is a musician of some sort, but I couldn’t tell you genre or band.
I’ve pretty much unplugged from popular culture now that I don’t watch very much TV and don’t do social media, so I hear a bunch of references here for the first time.
I don’t watch TV and don’t do social media – and in addition I don’t even live in the US so most of my input from people around me isn’t even connected to US culture, at least not directly.
I check out the news on-line but most of my updates come from here.
Time to call it a night. Good luck with your night, or day.
Something for your ears. I promise it is no where near the floor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohXI3po8hK0&list=RDsxDyXK93o6g&index=47
Just, all class, dbl. Treating us like were Ladies and Gentlemen.
*we’re, not were
/gotta watch out for those Grammar Nazis….
For those of you who may still be around: This looks promising!
That was a good one! I’ve been watching enough of these that my YouTube feed is full of them. Thanks Diggy, thanks a lot.
You bitches up yet?
This bitch is. Howdy, Pie! ‘Sup?
Hei there G
‘Fraid I’m not here for long – gotta go clean up soon & leave for the day job in about 45 minutes. You knocked off for the day?
Neah tis barely 14 15, two more hours to go. Just waiting for simulations to end.
Inna Gadda da Vida might wrap up by then, and I might be awake.
Pie, if you’ll pardon a barely-informed (and certainly dated) question re: Romanian social studies, what’s the current status/long-term legacy of the generation of orphans that emerged due to Ceausescu (anti-)contraception policies? Remembered hearing at the time of AIDS epidemic among them due to transfusions in place of food, and later that many grew up to be homeless youth.
I have no idea really. I did not investigate the topic much myself. Many ended up homeless and some ended up ok-ish. I am not aware as these things are not properly investigated. All I can say is there are fewer of them than in the 90s in Bucharest, but why I am not sure, I doubt they turned their life around. Many of them were called somewhat derogatory aurolaci, because of their habit of sniffing paint lacquer solvents from a bag.
At least somebody works around here.
I hate that I have to go to bed so early and miss all the snot, snark, and contumely.
We can’t all be dimensionally trancendental time-space vessels.
Yeah, but I’m broken so I still have to go to stupid morning meetings.
Inorite?? I get up 6ish US EDT, sip coffee & catch up on previous night’s wee hours chatter, usually wishing I could get $0.02 in. Many times, it may be just as well that I don’t.
Often it’s pretty thin gruel. Not a lot going on during my evening hours.
“Many times, it may be just as well that I don’t.”
Amen, sister.
Up here.
I don’t wanna go to work. *Sigh*
The don’t! quit! become an artist!
I like money. ?
rob a bank. it is where the money is
I guess e’rbody’s just waiting for the AM linx to drop
I’m waiting for the caffiene to kick in and my brain to finish booting for the day.
Yup, but I have to be on the road by then, and can only access afterward via barely-one-standard-deviation-above-normal-IQ phone. Damn day job.
life on the road can be tough
I need to hop in the shower and cook up breakfast. Then a quick scan of the lynx if the kiddo doesn’t want to “help” cook my breakfast.
Just finished up a dawn to dusk work day. These late night threads make breaktime fun. Except for DBL eagle’s music links.
I’ve still got the Soviet anthem going through my head from this link from upthread –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqR1V3DN8hM
That hit home. Another weak point; I never listen to song lyrics.
Take a shower every 3 days to preserve water and protect the environment
He already lives in a trash can, he’d get mistaken for a San Fransiscan if he cut back on showers.
I’m waiting for some program my kids are watching to finish so I can get them into the bath and ready for bed. After the last bed time story when my youngest conks out I come back to check on what’s going on here.
Looking like we planned our Pocono weekend getaway for the right weekend. Fall foliage in full swing, decent daytime weather – maybe some rain Saturday night.
Really looking forward to it. Just have to get through the next two days.
OFFS.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sesame-street-character-tackles-opioid-crisis
HEY save it for the lynx
I can only hope that headline means they’re killing off Elmo by way of a Fenatyl overdose.
I mean, it’s clear that most of the residents of that neighborhood are mentally ill or addicts in some way shape or form.
Should’ve used Methalotapus.
Can’t, it ate Grover’s face and got arrested.
https://pagersdirect.net
They still sell beepers. Why?
Because it’s almost time for 90’s nostalgia.
I can start wearing flannel shirts again? Nice.
How did the nineties get to have the flannel shirt thing? In the eighties, we called them pendeltons.
Pretty soon most of you’se guys will do your daylight savings thing and all this will happen an hour later for me. Bleah