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Saturday Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  December 29, 20077:48 pm| 20 Comments

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I officially am sick of pea soup. Until lunch tomorrow.

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  1. 1.

    Tom

    December 29, 2007 at 8:03 pm

    Don’t watch The Exorcist tonight!

  2. 2.

    Elvis Elvisberg

    December 29, 2007 at 8:18 pm

    Wait a minute. I’ve been hearing Pats hatred all year from a guy who roots for a Bob Huggins-coached school? Ugh.

  3. 3.

    Jake

    December 29, 2007 at 8:28 pm

    Don’t watch the current incarnation of I am Legend … ever.

    Get your Will Smith fix on teh interntubes, but please don’t encourage whoever made that crapfest.

  4. 4.

    Michael D.

    December 29, 2007 at 8:48 pm

    I could honestly eat two pea soup meals a day. I don’t know if people around me could handle it. But I love me some!

  5. 5.

    calipygian

    December 29, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    Crock pots are wonderful…until you try to actually eat everything you cook.

  6. 6.

    Robert Johnston

    December 29, 2007 at 8:56 pm

    As someone who doesn’t ordinarily get the NFL network . . .

    Who the hell thought it was a good idea to give Bryant Gumbel a play-by-play announcing gig? That decision rivals the Knicks continued employment of Isaiah Thomas for sheer magnitude of dumb. Time to hit mute and turn on the radio.

  7. 7.

    Chuck Butcher

    December 29, 2007 at 9:57 pm

    I was sick of pea soup the first time I ever had the nasty green stuff. Not that stuff or liver, ever, not for lots of money, no way. Yuck

  8. 8.

    Mary

    December 29, 2007 at 10:17 pm

    But yellow pea soup is awesome. Too bad Habitant doesn’t make good canned pea soup any more. Even my sister has given up on it.

  9. 9.

    Mike

    December 29, 2007 at 10:27 pm

    Who the hell thought it was a good idea to give Bryant Gumbel a play-by-play announcing gig?

    The same sort of person who thinks that Tim McCarver should ruin the World Series every single year.

  10. 10.

    Krista

    December 29, 2007 at 10:39 pm

    I could honestly eat two pea soup meals a day. I don’t know if people around me could handle it. But I love me some!

    Never been crazy about the pea soup. Husband loves the Habitant stuff, though. Now squash soup? Oh yes.

    Although I’m now curious as to whether my wild-mushroom soup with sherry would work in the slow cooker. I will have to try that and let you know.

  11. 11.

    Robert Johnston

    December 29, 2007 at 10:52 pm

    Who the hell thought it was a good idea to give Bryant Gumbel a play-by-play announcing gig?

    The same sort of person who thinks that Tim McCarver should ruin the World Series every single year.

    I think Gumbel’s worse. Sure, they’re similar in their total lack of knowledge of what they’re talking about. But I find Gumbel’s voice much more annoying, and I think he manages the impossible of stylistically being worse than McCarver; I prefer irrelevant meanderings to continuously repeating the monumentally obvious. I really don’t need to be told on every second and twelve resulting in a four yard gain that the play was short of the first down.

    Admittedly those are very subjective measures of difference between the two, but I know which torture I’d choose if forced to make the choice.

  12. 12.

    Jake

    December 29, 2007 at 11:05 pm

    Although I’m now curious as to whether my wild-mushroom soup with sherry would work in the slow cooker. I will have to try that and let you know.

    Could depend on the mushroom. My only experience with wild mushrooms is morels and they tend to disintegrate if cooked in liquid for too long.

  13. 13.

    tom.a

    December 29, 2007 at 11:41 pm

    The 50 Most Loathsome people in America:
    http://www.buffalobeast.com/122/50mostloathsome2007.html

    I agree completely, though I could find a few local community ass hats to add to that list.

  14. 14.

    UberMitch

    December 29, 2007 at 11:41 pm

    Fucking Pats motherfuckers!

  15. 15.

    rachel

    December 30, 2007 at 2:23 am

    calipygian Says:

    Crock pots are wonderful…until you try to actually eat everything you cook.

    So freeze what you don’t want now in serving-size portions, and you’ll have home-made dinner someday when you’re too tired to cook.

  16. 16.

    Sensitive Pony Tailed Girly Man

    December 30, 2007 at 8:09 am

    I’ve decide to rethink my position on the NFC East. There are two professional teams in it, and one of them are in the playoffs. It’s not fair to taint an entire division, just b/c the Washington Crybaby Johnnies are in it.

    ‘Scuse me while I try to staunch the flow of blood from my ears. Didn’t even notice Gumbel but man that Collinsworth didn’t shutup. I can only imagine what it was like for non Pats fans.

  17. 17.

    The Briscoe Kid

    December 30, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    Pea Soup Trivia: Pea soup was famously used in the vomit takes from The Exorcist. But in the very first vomit take — when Linda Blair opens her mouth and projectile vomit flies out — the puke was animated. It was hand drawn onto the film by a cartoonist.

  18. 18.

    Robert Johnston

    December 30, 2007 at 3:36 pm

    Didn’t even notice Gumbel but man that Collinsworth didn’t shutup.

    Collinsworth definitely talks too much, but at least he sometimes has something to say. He’s better as a pregame/halftime/postgame analyst than as an announcer.

    If you really didn’t notice Gumbel, I’d like to know what medication you’re on that lets you completely tune out “profoundly inane and stupid” so I can get me some.

  19. 19.

    D-Chance.

    December 30, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    The most-watched television broadcast in US history.

  20. 20.

    Sensitive Pony Tailed Girly Man

    December 31, 2007 at 11:01 am

    It was that Peach Lambic Cocktail that someone shared with us last week, Robert. (Sorry I don’t know how to that quote thing, unless it’s just straight html you all are doing). Peach Lambic Cocktail, pure Gold. The other half of the secret was that I didn’t get home in front of the tube until there were only 12 minutes left.

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