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Another Open Thread

by John Cole|  December 31, 20096:11 pm| 122 Comments

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Ten years ago today, you heard this song so much you wanted to kill yourself:

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  1. 1.

    cleek

    December 31, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    Google gives me 69,500 hits for “anopther”. you are not alone.

  2. 2.

    Ben

    December 31, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    And now I want to kill you for putting it back in my head. Such is progress.

  3. 3.

    Comrade Jake

    December 31, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    When did Yglesias get a hold of Cole’s account?

  4. 4.

    r€nato

    December 31, 2009 at 6:14 pm

    It was a great song before 1999, it was a great song again in 2000 and it will live on forever.

    But in late 1998… yeah I was pretty damned sick of it. Don’t be obvious is one of my personal mottos.

  5. 5.

    Laura W

    December 31, 2009 at 6:15 pm

    In keeping with the spirit of the day and year end traditions and all, I feel compelled to share The Second Annual Fat Cat Jokes At Tunch’s Expense Compilation.
    This year’s crop exceeded all expectations. Last year’s list was only 14 entries long! The addition of Lily to the Cole household provided plenty of new material. (Of course this list is entirely subjective and based on what made me laugh the loudest. Your laughter may vary.)

    Remember Tunch: we kid because we love. Don’t hurt us.

    *Happy New Year Thread 1/1/2009*

    Ash Can:
    Does Tunch have his own ZIP code?

    robertdsc:
    Oh, and I won’t ask how much it cost you to bribe the NASA people to use the Hubble to take that shot of Tunch.

    slag:
    Maybe if you went with a landscape shot, he’d look smaller.

    *January 21st, 2009*

    slightly_peeved:

    John said: BTW- Tunch Update. It appears he has a new perch.

    From the pictures of that cat, “perch” is a pretty inaccurate way to describe anything it sleeps on.

    More appropriate terms would probably be “foundation”, “scaffold” or “The forest moon of Endor”.

    *1/28/09*

    Michael D. @TheFountainHead:
    And here’s the link properly embedded so John doesn’t throw Tunch at me…

    Please….
    John can’t lift Tunch.

    *Super bowl open thread, 2/1/09*

    Michael D. @Napoleon:
    I suspect John is dancing with Tunch out of shear joy.

    I bet Tunch leads.

    *Feb 2, Post Super Bowl Thread*

    Ninerdave:
    Credit where credit is due.
    While the pre game was idiotic, the stadium shots from the Goodyear Tunch were awesome.

    *2/2 Tunch photo series, Super Bowl day after*

    ChrisB:
    Being relatively new to your site (commenting occasionally for several months, reading it regularly since the summer), I did not consider it appropriate for me to comment on Tunch’s weight.

    I am wondering, however, did you have to push hard to roll him over like that?

    Media Browski:
    John,
    Could you post a picture of Tunch next to a something that would let us judge his size objectively, like perhaps a Caterpillar Tractor or Rush Limbaugh?

    *2/19 The Cat Diet*

    dr. bloor:
    Hmmmm…at this point, I suspect the easiest way for Tunch to shed those unwanted pounds would be to graft some opposable thumbs onto his paws and teach him how to use Photoshop.

    Socraticsilence:
    I hope he can safely pass the poor orange Tabby he seems to be excreting in the last picture.

    *3/4 Perpetual Bitch-Slap Machine*

    Mentis Fugit:
    I heard that Garfield tells “Tunch jokes”.

    *3/5 Scenes from the TunchCam 2009 (photo of Tunch sitting up screaming at John):*

    AhabTRuler:
    Huh! He can support his own weight. I guess I lost five bucks!

    *5/3 Open Thread*

    Harlana Pepper: btw, my niece found a turkish van kitteh at work and found a home for it – just thot I’d mention it, isn’t it the general consensus that Tunch is a portly version of a turkish van?

    2th&nayle @harlana pepper: I think it’s more the general consensus that Tunch is a portly version of a turkey ham!

    *5/15 New Toy*

    Lesley:
    I can picture Tunch when he’s old, using an electric chair-lift to get up the stairs.

    *Tunch Cam Premiers! 5/22*

    HumboldtBlue:
    Which one of those objects was the couch? The big furry thing that didn’t move, or the other thing that looked like it was covered in a blanket?

    *Tunch Cam Round 2, 5/22*

    HyperIon @jl:
    Poor Tunch is weak and can barely move.

    yeah, that toy makes him look fat.

    Jon H:
    You need a timelapse video.

    Jon H:
    He’s moving… in dimensions you can’t even imagine.

    *March 24 Tunchcam 5*

    You don’t say:
    Is Tunch ambulatory? We’ve only ever seen him on that blue blanket. Does he exist outside that small, blue background?

    Turgidson:
    His hind legs moved in this one. What a letdown.

    Louise:
    That cat moved maybe three times, and you call that “making a ruckus”? He must spend most of the day comatose.

    *Memorial Day Open Thread (dog and man doing squats to Beatles tunes.)*

    The Cat Who Would Be Tunch @Perry Como:
    /r/ John Cole and Tunch doing that routine.

    Tunch seems to have trouble rolling as it is, if the videos are any indication, nevermind doing squats.

    *6/22 Sunday Afternoon Open Thread*

    Betsy @asiangrrlMN:
    Hmm – I’m not really sure, actually! I think she weighs about 8 lbs? She’s just over a year. When we got her she was 5 months old and weighed 4 lbs. So I think she’s got a little bit more growing to do, but not much. She smaller than Tunch, but so is a Shetland pony.

    *6/25 Detente (First photo of Tunch and Lily on futon together)*

    dmsilev:
    Notice how the whole futon appears to be tilting down towards the cat end.

    The Grand Panjandrum:
    Jesus! When Tunch hauls ass, does he have to make two trips?

    Ditch Digger:
    You can just picture the mental conversation they are having:

    Lily: Look, i know its your damn futon, but this guy has me walking 9 miles a day, i’m not used to this. How much does he walk you every day?

    Tunch: Just keep talking cowboy…

    *6/29 Monday Night Open Thread*

    [email protected]:
    Yeah, I want to see Tunch eating – is there something we’re not supposed to see/know?

    His cat dish is actually a punch bowl.

    *7/6 Picking up DougJ’s Slack*

    gbear @Phoenix Woman:
    Totally off-topic, but is Tunch (the cat, not the former football player) a Turkish Van?

    Oh now that’s just being cruel. Tunch isn’t any bigger than a small Japanese sedan.

    *7/7 Tues Night Open Thread*

    Kris:
    I don’t understand why he is so fat if he eats from such a tiny bowl.
    What is in the bowl, lard?

    *8/11 Tunchcam #8*

    AkaDad:
    I think John needs to go into his basement, find the spot under the futon and add a few more support beams.

    *11/17 Adoption Bleg (Tunch “Action” Video update)*

    mextremist:
    ZOMG, that albino manatee is moving around!
    I always thought it had been to a taxidermist…

    *Nov 28 Sat Night Open Thread*

    SiubhanDuinne:
    John, could we please have a picture of Tunch sometime soon? I’m asking as nicely and politely as I know how.

    Dork @SiubhanDuinne: Just picture a morbidly obese white cat with a bad-ass attitute sitting on an ubiquitous futon scowling at the camera.

  6. 6.

    General Winfield Stuck

    December 31, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    @Laura W:

    Jeebus LauraW! I always said BJ needs a Tunch historian. Every King should have one. Bravoskie!!

  7. 7.

    General Winfield Stuck

    December 31, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    Personally, I never make fat Tunch jokes. That whole bad Karma thingy.

    edit- And there is no way in hell I will ever click on a Prince song. It will take extra trickery to complete that mission Mr. Cole/

    And Charlie is celebrating the new year in style. Pics later.

  8. 8.

    freelancer

    December 31, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    @Laura W:

    Damn. That is a yeoman’s job of aggregating. Kudos for the hilarious roundup!

  9. 9.

    Royston Vasey

    December 31, 2009 at 6:23 pm

    @Laura W: You wins teh Intertrons! Excellent!

  10. 10.

    Royston Vasey

    December 31, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    @Royston Vasey: Oh and a Happy New Year to all here at BJ!

    I’m already living in a new decade (it’s gone mid-day on the 1st here in NZ)

  11. 11.

    JenJen

    December 31, 2009 at 6:25 pm

    Kill myself? I was too busy shakin’ dat ass. December 31, 1999 was one of those great nights, the kind your grandparents told you you’d have.

    LauraW, I love you.

  12. 12.

    AhabTRuler

    December 31, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    And Charlie is celebrating the new year in style. Pics later.

    You got him a hooker and an eight-ball?

  13. 13.

    Fair Economist

    December 31, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    Laura W – lol! That was a post with some prep work!

  14. 14.

    Cat Lady

    December 31, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    @Laura W:

    Wow. Impressive.

    They’re all worthy, but I vote for ChrisB on 2/2.

    I am wondering, however, did you have to push hard to roll him over like that?

    Just the right balance of snark and feigned innocence.

  15. 15.

    General Winfield Stuck

    December 31, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    @AhabTRuler:

    You got him a hooker and an eight-ball?

    That’s for me. Charlie ain’t got no money. He gets extra treats and a party hat.

  16. 16.

    meh

    December 31, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    so to end a really shitty 2009 on a good note, my wife is pregnant with the 2nd little one. I’ve been forbidden from telling anyone but you savages don’t count as “anyone” Yippee for me!

  17. 17.

    Fair Economist

    December 31, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    Wow, 1999 makes me feel old. It was one of the first albums I bought. So when it became the millennial anthem I could say “wow, I remember when it came out and 2000 seemed so far away”.

    Now my history is history.

  18. 18.

    barstoolcadaver

    December 31, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    The end of a decade, century and millennium. A once in a lifetime event that can only be experienced by a few lucky souls. So of course I spent it in the greatest style imaginable. Sick with the flu. Although the aural hallucinations were interesting.

  19. 19.

    SIA aka ScreaminginAtlanta

    December 31, 2009 at 6:34 pm

    @meh: Hey meh! Congrats on little meh #2. Good news for new years eve. We need libs to reproduce more!

  20. 20.

    danimal

    December 31, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    @JenJen:

    Kill myself? I was too busy shakin’ dat ass. December 31, 1999 was one of those great nights, the kind your grandparents told you you’d have.

    Damn, all I remember is that I had to go into the f#$#ing office early on New Year’s Day to see if the apocalypse Y2K bug had killed us all off.

  21. 21.

    Tomlinson

    December 31, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    @Laura W:

    Applause!

  22. 22.

    cleek

    December 31, 2009 at 6:37 pm

    @Laura W:

    sweeet !

  23. 23.

    Keith

    December 31, 2009 at 6:37 pm

    Anyone catch Sully now apparently wanting the entire CIA chain of command fired? Sounds like he didn’t get that BB gun for x-mas this year.

  24. 24.

    Tomlinson

    December 31, 2009 at 6:38 pm

    @meh:

    so to end a really shitty 2009 on a good note, my wife is pregnant with the 2nd little one. I’ve been forbidden from telling anyone but you savages don’t count as “anyone” Yippee for me!

    Congrats!

  25. 25.

    Violet

    December 31, 2009 at 6:40 pm

    @Laura W:
    Excellent!

    Didn’t John say he was moving soon? Is that because Tunch has grown too big for his current house?

  26. 26.

    AhabTRuler

    December 31, 2009 at 6:40 pm

    The end of a decade, century and millennium.

    Oh, so you are talking about 9 years ago then. The only thing that happened 10 years ago is that the first numeral of the year changed (and 1999 was played to death).

  27. 27.

    Redshirt

    December 31, 2009 at 6:40 pm

    I miss Y2K! Or, specifically, I miss, still, that I missed the Y2K Gravytrain.

  28. 28.

    KCinDC

    December 31, 2009 at 6:40 pm

    I don’t mean to be un-PC, but what definition of “terrorist” is NPR using? Aren’t the Taliban the other side in the war we’re fighting in Afghanistan? Do contractors working for your enemy’s intelligence service really count as civilians? If in WW2 an American had made a suicide attack on German “civilians” running an interrogation center, would that have been a terrorist attack?

    I mean, is any attack on our side a terrorist attack by definition? I know this is hardly the first example, but I’m just getting tired of the propaganda.

    I guess if we’re fighting a War on Terrorism, then anything our enemies do must be terrorism.

  29. 29.

    Cat Lady

    December 31, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    @meh:

    Congratulations! I’m telling everyone I know that meh from Balloon Juice’s wife is having their second baby!

  30. 30.

    cleek

    December 31, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    @KCinDC:

    I mean, is any attack on our side a terrorist attack by definition?

    yes.

    if a terrorist is someone who uses violence to influence a government or civilian populace (which is basically the USA PATRIOT (802c) definition), then everyone who fights against our military in order to change the way we treat their country is a terrorist.

  31. 31.

    South of I-10

    December 31, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    @Laura W: Ha! Have a glass of wine on me, that is hysterical!

  32. 32.

    South of I-10

    December 31, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    @meh: Awww Congratulations! Way to start off the new year with a bang!

  33. 33.

    Violet

    December 31, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    @Keith:
    Yeah, just saw that. It’s going to be pretty funny – in a wry, sad kind of way – if they have hearings on this f^&k up and every single person in all jobs was following the rules as they were written. Especially if said rules were written during the Bush administration, which of course was known it’s eagle eye focus on Defeating Terrorists.

  34. 34.

    Elisabeth

    December 31, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    @meh:

    Congratulations!

  35. 35.

    freelancer

    December 31, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    Ten years ago today, you heard this song so much you wanted to kill yourself:

    Better than hearing this.

  36. 36.

    liberty60

    December 31, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    Looking at all the end-of-decade reviews has gotten me even more embittered than usual over the decade long reign of Repubs; here is a good link from Jason Linkins at Hufpo
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/31/the-end-of-a-decade-we-ar_n_408657.html

    His thrust is we are all Harry Whittington, the poor fuck who got shot in the face by Cheney, THEN APOLOGIZED TO CHENEY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

    Every problem, from getting laid off, to getting our 401(k)s looted, to being foreclosed upon, is simply our fault, the fault of the losers and crybabies, never the fault of the John Galts on Wall Street, or Commander Codpiece and his tools in Washington.
    And for that, as Nooner would say, we must apologize, and keep on walking.

  37. 37.

    Mark S.

    December 31, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    @meh:

    Congrats!

    @KCinDC:

    I’ve always thought that captured Taliban forces should be considered POW’s while Al-Qaeda should not. Of course, I also ascribe to the quaint, dirty hippie notion that it is illegal to torture anyone.

  38. 38.

    Redshirt

    December 31, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    Man, Tunch jokes should be a genre of joke all their own – essentially, Garfield jokes, but more “punch in the throat”.

  39. 39.

    MikeJ

    December 31, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    I’m disappointed my comment about Tunch being most of the mass in the universe was snubbed in the awards.

  40. 40.

    General Winfield Stuck

    December 31, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    Politics is dead to me right now. Just don’t give a tinkers damn about the neverending stoopid. I didn’t care a whit for politics until the beginning of this soon to end decade, if I’m lucky, it was a ten year bug only. But I rarely am lucky.

  41. 41.

    r€nato

    December 31, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    @KCinDC:

    now you’re catching on.

  42. 42.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    December 31, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    @Laura W: Thank God I’d finished the diet coke before I read your post. You win!

  43. 43.

    JenJen

    December 31, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    @danimal: I’m very sorry to hear that. I was nursing the Hangover of the Millennium that morning, and it was SO worth it.

  44. 44.

    KCinDC

    December 31, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    @cleek, do you mean “someone not American who uses violence to influence a government or civilian populace”?

  45. 45.

    General Winfield Stuck

    December 31, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    @freelancer: wouldn’t click that link for love nor money

  46. 46.

    freelancer

    December 31, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    You’d be right to do so.

    Limp Bizkit – 1999

  47. 47.

    Maxwel

    December 31, 2009 at 6:58 pm

    Never heard it before, will never listen to it again.

  48. 48.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    December 31, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    @KCinDC:

    do you mean “someone not white Christian American who uses violence to influence a government or civilian populace”?

    That’s my last fixt for 2009. Happy New Year everybody!

  49. 49.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    December 31, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    @Laura W: Excellent work! I’ll be laughing well into the new year with this trip down memory lane.

  50. 50.

    SGEW

    December 31, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    Happy New Year, one and all!

  51. 51.

    slag

    December 31, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    @Laura W: Bravo, Laura W! At the rate things are going, you could end up with a Tunch-sized compendium of Tunch jokes by the end of next year…Or at least a compendium the size of Tunch’s head…by the end of the next decade.

    My favorite:
    Jon H:
    He’s moving… in dimensions you can’t even imagine.

    Thanks for the laughs!

  52. 52.

    AhabTRuler

    December 31, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    I’ve been here twice for New Years, and I really want to go again.
    Maybe next year.

  53. 53.

    r€nato

    December 31, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    @liberty60:

    thanks for passing that on

    reading that made me want to shoot this decade in the face and make it apologize to me.

  54. 54.

    slag

    December 31, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    @MikeJ: Link please.

  55. 55.

    Laura W

    December 31, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    @MikeJ: I clearly did not read that thread I like to pretend have a life, you know) because your comment here made me howl.
    I apologize. A true oversight and a tragic one at that.
    (Edit: What slag said. Link please.)

  56. 56.

    Svensker

    December 31, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    Laura W — fantastic.

    Meh — fantastic.

    Prince — was fantastic, but got old, at least that song (Raspberry Beret still makes me smile, tho).

    Gen Stuck, Sir — I’m with you. Politics is teh dull and I ain’t interested.

    Opening a very good bott-el (New Joisey pronunc) of red wine to go with the prime rib pot pie (frugal extravagance!) and am thinking about a Coke Float for desert. Disgusting, eh? But so worth it. This shitty decade is about over!

    And just for old times sake: Fuck George W. Bush.

  57. 57.

    MikeJ

    December 31, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    @slag:
    Even pulled to the top of the page:

    https://balloon-juice.com/?p=27172

  58. 58.

    trollhattan

    December 31, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    Laura W for teh win! A certain keyboard headed to dishwasher due to your efforts. And if Tunch reads this thread somebody’s gonna pay…aww who am I kidding, there will be hard stares and annoyed squeaking.

    I have it on Aussie authority it’s a fine new year so far–everybody enjoy yours!

  59. 59.

    inugai_kenzo

    December 31, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    @Svensker:

    –w/asiangrrlMN’s rusty pitchfork!

    (ETA) Happy New Year! :>

  60. 60.

    MikeJ

    December 31, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    @Svensker:

    (Raspberry Beret still makes me smile, tho).

    What was that REM/Warren Zevon band? They covered Raspberry Beret, and it’s still the version I first think of when I hear the title. Or when I walk down the sorbet aisle in the groc-e-ree store. Raspberry sorbet. And if it was warm I wouldn’t eat much more.

    Did I mention there was a line to get in the liquor store? Buncha fuckin alcoholics standing between me and my rye.

  61. 61.

    Demo Woman

    December 31, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    Laura, Great job, the Tunch isn’t laughing though.

    @meh: Exactly who are you calling savages? Congrats to you and the misses!

  62. 62.

    demkat620

    December 31, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    Happy New Year Juicers!

    I am watching a really bad Nicholas Cage movie and drinking a Harp cuddled under my Snuggie.

    Getting old sux.

    demkat +2

  63. 63.

    freelancer

    December 31, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    Jimi – Auld Lang Syne

    @demkat620:
    Windtalkers? Ghost Rider? Next? Wicker Man? Gone in 60 Seconds? Con Air? Knowing? Snakeeyes? Face/Off? Guarding Tess? Firebirds?

    For FSM sake be more specific!

  64. 64.

    meh

    December 31, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    tytyty – considering my wife is a republican, its all about outnumbering her at this point…quite excited – oh and I’m calling people that cook rump roast in a crock pot a savage..

    also…go FSU tomorrow

    which btw – WTB a larger childcare tax credit, pst me.

    meh +3 and gaining speed….

  65. 65.

    demkat620

    December 31, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    @meh: Oh and congrats!

  66. 66.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    December 31, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    @Svensker:

    And just for old times sake: Fuck George W. Bush.

    Some classics never get old. That one’s a keeper.

    And in memory of Steve G.: “Fuck the fucking Yankees”

  67. 67.

    gbear

    December 31, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    Ten years ago today, you heard this song so much you wanted to kill yourself:

    Funny how some things don’t change.

    Oh, and 2010 Prince thinks that teh geh marriage is perverse and unacceptable. Dink.

    Thanks for the h/t, Laura W. I knew I had landed at least one good Tunchline this year.

  68. 68.

    SIA aka ScreaminginAtlanta

    December 31, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    @AhabTRuler: Oh yes. One of my favorite cities. That photo is beautiful.

  69. 69.

    asiangrrlMN

    December 31, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    @Laura W: Love this post. Love it so much, I will marry it (since Tunch himself hasn’t accepted). My favorite is gbear’s.

    And, the thing I was most sick of that year was how it was ‘the new millennium’ the next year. Um, just, no.

  70. 70.

    Corner Stone

    December 31, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    @AhabTRuler: Not to be too kitschy but Vegas at New Years is pretty full of win also.
    Never been to Amsterdam. It’s wayyy down my list. But that’s a great pic.

  71. 71.

    SIA aka ScreaminginAtlanta

    December 31, 2009 at 7:30 pm

    @Svensker:

    And just for old times sake: Fuck George W. Bush.

    That just feels so familiar, and so right.

  72. 72.

    Corner Stone

    December 31, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: Why can’t you take care of your gardening implements? Why are they all rusty and shiz?

  73. 73.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    December 31, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    No, I hated that song so much that on Jan. 27th, 1999 I did kill myself.

    Fortunately I believe in reincarnation and my anger at the fucking DJ’s who kept playing the song powered me through time so I wound up exactly as I had been. Only it was 2335, 31 Dec., 1999 and I only had to suffer through that damn song once more time.

    The End.

    Laura W. deserves a medal. Also.

  74. 74.

    Col. Klink

    December 31, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    La multi ani din Romania!

  75. 75.

    HRA

    December 31, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    @Laura W:

    Awesome!

    @meh:

    Congratulations!

  76. 76.

    Martin

    December 31, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    @ThatLeftTurnInABQ:

    Always fuck the fucking Yankees, but doubly so this year as the Times Square crowd will be especially assholish. I’ll be 3 timezones away, however.

    Martin +0, trying to have a productive day before he ramps up to double digits after dinner.

  77. 77.

    asiangrrlMN

    December 31, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    And, New Year, I haz it. I will be completely off the grid for a few days, so carry on without me. Heh. Xin Xi Quai Le, bitchez!

    @meh: Woot! A bebe BJ’er! Congrats!

  78. 78.

    asiangrrlMN

    December 31, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    @Corner Stone: The rain, the rain, the rain is on fi-uh! I make dem rusty just for poking purposes. Gung hay fat choi!

  79. 79.

    Zuzu's Petals

    December 31, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    @SIA aka ScreaminginAtlanta:

    I cleaned out my bookcase and made sure to toss all the “W Sux” books in the giveaway box. Whew, did that feel good.

    No takers, though.

  80. 80.

    KyCole

    December 31, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    Ten years ago I had 12 and 19 year old daughters, and a 15 year old son. Thus I had much better reasons to kill myself than anything Prince could come up with!
    By the way- I must mention that Bob Dylan”s Christmas CD is my new all time favorite.

  81. 81.

    danimal

    December 31, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: I think the consensus was that the Nerds were right about the actual beginning of the new millineum (1/1/01) but that no one really cared.

    Kind of a trendsetter for the not-so-Reality-Based-Decade.

  82. 82.

    robertdsc

    December 31, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    Love that list, Laura. <3 the Tunchinator!

    Congrats, Meh!

    And just for old times sake: Fuck George W. Bush.

    No fucking doubt.

  83. 83.

    SIA aka ScreaminginAtlanta

    December 31, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    @Zuzu’s Petals: Hey good idea. Think I’ll throw away my “Dumb & Dumber” refrigerator magnet featuring George Bush I & George Bush the Lesser. Just to start the year out right.

  84. 84.

    WereBear

    December 31, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    Thanks, Laura W, for all the Tunch jokes. There were a few I missed…

  85. 85.

    jurassicpork

    December 31, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    While you’re all waiting for the crystal ball to drop in Times Sq., amuse yourself by a collection of 30 of the most epic studio portrait fails in the last half of the 20th century, with original captions.

  86. 86.

    gbear

    December 31, 2009 at 7:45 pm

    @Svensker:

    And just for old times sake: Fuck George W. Bush.

    Wonkette agrees.

    Don’t watch the video or you’ll have to kill yourself. I’m not lying.

  87. 87.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    December 31, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    L-Dub, not to bring up a painful subject, but this is the person who started me on my Kangoo obsession. I thought you might like to see who is really to blame and what Kangoos have done to him:

    Kangoo-Dead

    Edit: Why does Rush get to be a lead story on the news tonight? Well I suppose if beached whales make the news, he can, too.

  88. 88.

    Mnemosyne

    December 31, 2009 at 7:47 pm

    @JenJen:

    December 31, 1999 was one of those great nights, the kind your grandparents told you you’d have.

    My 12/31/99 was spent sitting in a conference room at the hospital I worked at at the time waiting to see if our computer systems were going to fail at midnight.

    Man, that sucked. 2000 was much better since that was my first New Year’s with my now-hubby.

  89. 89.

    geg6

    December 31, 2009 at 7:47 pm

    Laura W, I adore you. meh, congrats on the impending Baby meh. Prince is fucking awesome and I refuse to listen to anyone who disagrees…(Fingers in ears) la la la la. Fuck the Aughts, they sucked donkey balls. Good riddance. And my new year is starting well. The car problem I thought for sure was going to be the computer, the starter, the battery (best case scenario) was a $.57 fix. Just a bad battery terminal clamp. Only had to buy a new bolt. But someone should waterboard whoever designed the engine compartment and put the battery behind a wall in front of the front passenger wheel, necessitating taking the tire off to get to it. Fucking engineers. Idiots, every single one. Off to my John’s for dinner, vino, bubbly, and fun. Happy new year, Juicers!

  90. 90.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    December 31, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    In AsiangrrlMN’s honor: FUCK GEORGE WALKER BUSH WITH A 1936 COMBINE HARVESTER THAT’S BEEN SITTING IN A LEAKY BARN FOR 6 DECADES, COATED IN THE SHIT AND PELLETS OF GENERATIONS OF BARN OWLS AND NEVER CLEANED. TWICE!

    p.s. Google looks different. Is it me, Google or Firefox?

  91. 91.

    SIA aka ScreaminginAtlanta

    December 31, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    @jurassicpork: OK I’m having nightmares tonight. But this one was hilarious. Find the photo that goes with this caption.

    Poor Wayne and Jeffery had the misfortune of getting the only child photographer in North America who focused his young clients with a headless rabbit.

  92. 92.

    Corner Stone

    December 31, 2009 at 7:54 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: Actually, I was looking for “Cause it’ll ert moar!”
    In honor of one of the many fetishes you have.
    But yeah, rock on time traveler.

  93. 93.

    Terri

    December 31, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    Tomorrow kicks off the year long celebration of my 50th birthday. Have a whole bucket list of shit I want to do. So, lock up the silverware and hide the chirrens. It’s gonna be a wild one.

    Thank God and John Cole for this blog. It gives me a place to come and muse over the clusterfuck that politics in this country have become, without wanting to shoot someone. Well, I still want to shoot someone, but I don’t, because here I realize I’m not alone. Thanks to all the BJers who teach me and make me laugh.

    Finally, thank you to whatever Supreme Being that saw fit to give Rush Limbaugh chest pains. I realize it doesn’t sound very nice to say that, but I’ve never played well with others, and the thought of that fat fucker in pain, really made the end of my year. A bowel obstruction would have been much more fitting and debilitating, but a this point in my life, I’ve learned to appreciate small gestures.

    Happy New Year everybody! Be safe.

    Terri+3

  94. 94.

    mcd

    December 31, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    If you haven’t seen the Sanchez take-down of Ensign re: his mistress, it’s worth a look. On occasion, things really do work they way they’re supposed to.

  95. 95.

    SIA aka ScreaminginAtlanta

    December 31, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    @AhabTRuler: You have some wonderful photos on your flickr site! I liked the cat video, but the music reminds me of a pr0n movie I saw back in the 80’s. :)
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4200297611/

  96. 96.

    The Moar You Know

    December 31, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    In socialized medicine, government health care — you heard him say, the overweight are to blame. Yeah, folks, I gotta tell you something. I think those of you that regularly exercise — playing softball, baseball, basketball, soccer, mountain biking, running, rock climbing, skiing, skating, running — you’re the people getting injured. You’re the people showing up at the hospital with busted knees and tendons and skin cancer, ankle sprains, knee and hip replacements, broken bones, concussions, muscle, ligament, tendon, cartilage strains and tears, tendinitis, rotator cuff tears. All you exercise freaks, you’re the ones putting stress on the health care system. What happens when people don’t regularly exercise and keep their weight relatively under control? Nothing! They probably don’t even know their doctors’ names. So you’re urging to go out there do all of this stuff and you’re ending up in the hospital all the time with these injuries and some people think these injuries are badges of honor. A knee surgery scars a badge of honor shows toughness. Yeah. Toughness, somebody else has to pay for.”

    -Rush Limbaugh, who I hope continues his current fitness regimen of Oxycontin and boy rape.

  97. 97.

    Jean

    December 31, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    You know who isn’t laughing at Tunch Jokes? The helicopters.

  98. 98.

    John O

    December 31, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    Happy New Year, BJ.

    I’m getting perverse joy out of watching military football teams kick ass, am happy this year and decade are over, and am +3 and wondering if I’ll see midnight, but the year was so bad I think I will just to wish it death.

    Cheers to one of the smartest and funniest blogs in the ‘sphere.

  99. 99.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    December 31, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    Happy New Year to all!

    Just received word moments ago that my cousin will be discharged on Tuesday, her progress is that amazing. Everyone in the family is thrilled. I’m still a bit stunned at near death to discharged in a little over 2 months. I really don’t know how her parents are still functional.

    But a great way to start the new year in my little corner of the world.

  100. 100.

    The Moar You Know

    December 31, 2009 at 8:04 pm

    Losing Weight Does Not Require Exercise

    More brilliant fitness advice from a whale of a radio host that is currently beached in a Honolulu hospital. Hopefully, the gurney is properly reinforced.

    Sadly, last reports have this paragon of American intellect still alive.

  101. 101.

    SIA aka ScreaminginAtlanta

    December 31, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    @Bad Horse’s Filly: So glad for your family. I must have missed it when that happened, but very glad the news is good.

  102. 102.

    SIA aka ScreaminginAtlanta

    December 31, 2009 at 8:08 pm

    @mcd: I saw that – amazing. Ensign looks rough.

  103. 103.

    John O

    December 31, 2009 at 8:10 pm

    Rick Sanchez entertains me from time to time, but one of my ’09 successes was turning off cable “news” and chat.

    It’s hard to tell if it helped.

  104. 104.

    slag

    December 31, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    @MikeJ: Hilarious! And true. Now that Lily’s around, Tunch is like a black hole.

  105. 105.

    Cat Lady

    December 31, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    @Jean:

    I see what you did there.

  106. 106.

    Svensker

    December 31, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    @jurassicpork:

    Ha ha ha. The headless rabbit comment is perfection.

  107. 107.

    Svensker

    December 31, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    @Bad Horse’s Filly:

    Yay. Focuses the priorities, dunnit.

  108. 108.

    arguingwithsignposts

    December 31, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    @Jean:

    And a special happy new year to Michael Gass. I’m sure JC and Doug are enjoying the credenzas he faxed over. (that was an epic thread. Balloon Boy, oh, Balloon Boy, we miss you so)

  109. 109.

    Steeplejack

    December 31, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    @meh:

    Congratulations!

  110. 110.

    Mike G

    December 31, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    Ten years ago this evening I was at the hospital where I worked in IT support, where panicky management demanded all the IT staff and all department heads be on site for the expected disaster at midnight.

    Me and the other IT guy had pretty much worked out that nothing would happen (with a certainty which rose to 100% at 4pm when the servers using UTC (similar to Greenwich Mean Time) ticked past midnight without incident), so we were the calmest guys in the building.

    At midnight we celebrated the new millenium with several rounds of surreptitious drinks in the IT office. For the managers it was the culmination of a year of needless panic (potential for riots! societal collapse!) and useless paperwork and meetings for Y2K demanded by clueless consultants, and us IT peons pissed them off greatly by saying we knew months ago that nothing would happen.

    We found some empty patient rooms and slept off our celebrations and went home in the morning.

  111. 111.

    Mnemosyne

    December 31, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    @The Moar You Know:

    Much as I hate to say it, he’s sorta right. Weight loss depends a lot more on food intake than exercise. If you’re not watching what you eat, exercise will only go so far because you won’t be able to get rid of the excess calories through exercise alone. (Unless you devolve all the way into exercise bulimia, but no one advises that.)

    However, maintaining weight loss requires some exercise, so getting at least moderate exercise while you’re losing weight is a good habit to get into.

    Hey, even Rush has to have a stopped-clock moment every once in a while, right?

  112. 112.

    Steeplejack

    December 31, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    @Bad Horse’s Filly:

    That’s great news going into the new year.

  113. 113.

    Betsy

    December 31, 2009 at 8:57 pm

    Laura W = Her Awesomeness.
    @Bad Horse’s Filly:
    Hell yeah!! That’s wonderful news. Happy new year, indeed.

    @asiangrrlMN: Aww. You will be missed ’round these here parts.

  114. 114.

    Betsy

    December 31, 2009 at 8:58 pm

    @meh:
    Mazel tov!! When is the baby due?

  115. 115.

    SIA aka ScreaminginAtlanta

    December 31, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    Just curious, any BJ’ers ever lived in Italy or England for a period of a year or more? Off chance we may have an opportunity for my SO to work abroad for a few years. I am such a homebody it’s hard for me to imagine, but it’s an exciting thought too.

  116. 116.

    Steeplejack

    December 31, 2009 at 9:03 pm

    You guys be hatin’ on the Tunch tonight. But let’s not forget his finest hour in ’09–the GOP.am pwnage raid of December 14.

    White paw of death, bitchez!

  117. 117.

    Svensker

    December 31, 2009 at 9:34 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    But let’s not forget his finest hour in ‘09—the GOP.am pwnage raid of December 14.

    And notice it says “Download the Large Size” ? The jokes write themselves on the intertubes.

  118. 118.

    Steeplejack

    December 31, 2009 at 9:36 pm

    @Svensker:

    Hey, Tunch only comes in the one size!

  119. 119.

    Happy Freaking New Year

    December 31, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    Another 40 minutes and we can put 09 to bed. Dick Clark and heir apparent Ryan Seacrest welcome in 2010. Just to date myself I remember when it used to be Guy Lombardo, a bag of Ruffles potato chips and a bowl of french onion dip. Anyhow, here’s hoping that 2010 does’t suck as much as 2009 did.

  120. 120.

    Platonicspoof

    January 1, 2010 at 1:50 am

    @Laura W:
    Can I nominate one more comment for the ‘Tunch Is Fat’ list?
    From Dec. 09, 2009: Ho! Ho! Uh-Oh!
    Comment 21:
    ethan salto
    It’s cute how those cats are all huddling together and it looks like one giant Voltron cat!

  121. 121.

    asiangrrlMN

    January 1, 2010 at 3:55 am

    @Betsy: Thanks, Betsy. I miss y’all, too. And, I miss Tunchie very much.

    @Steeplejack: I NEVER hate on Tunchie-Wunchie. I lurves him.

  122. 122.

    estamm

    January 1, 2010 at 8:54 am

    God, I hate Prince. I hate his misogyny. I hate his arrogance. I hate his cutesy way of ‘abbreviating’ words with letters and number (‘2’ instead of ‘too’) like he is illiterate but doesn’t want anyone to know. I hate the way he treats his guitar like a penis. His ‘music’ sucks. How this creep became famous is totally beyond my comprehension.

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