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Chuck Open Thread

by John Cole|  September 27, 20107:54 pm| 57 Comments

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  1. 1.

    Daddy-O

    September 27, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    I guess there’s a good reason I read this blog, and only go to FDL once a week or less…

    I like the writers.

  2. 2.

    stuckinred

    September 27, 2010 at 7:58 pm

    Bear down, Chicago Bears!

  3. 3.

    BGinCHI

    September 27, 2010 at 7:58 pm

    Anyone else see the story with the greatest irony quotient today?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/27/jimi-heselden-segway-boss_n_739983.html

    The writers at The Onion weep.

  4. 4.

    Poopyman

    September 27, 2010 at 8:09 pm

    @stuckinred:

    Bear down…

    Um, that’s what my doc tells me when he’s about to check my prostate. So I guess it’s totally appropriate for Da Bears then!

  5. 5.

    JPL

    September 27, 2010 at 8:10 pm

    I’m glad to see Awesome’s back but they should have shown the chute from last weeks episode in the opening scenes. That was awesome.

  6. 6.

    MarkJ

    September 27, 2010 at 8:10 pm

    So will Jeffster make an appearance tonight?

  7. 7.

    Arclite

    September 27, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    Library privatization sucks @$$.

    http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/anger-as-a-private-company-takes-over-libraries/

  8. 8.

    ColleenSTL

    September 27, 2010 at 8:13 pm

    Thank FSM for dvrs! Afraid I have to wait for Chuck while I watch the Pack spank Da Bears.

  9. 9.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 27, 2010 at 8:13 pm

    I’m posting this here because not sure if asiangrrlMN saw it in earlier thread.

    Medical update: Went to ER this morning about 7 am.

    I have a possibly fractured radial head fracture on my elbow (x-rays unclear, but “abnormal”). I have to see an ortho doc on Wednesday for probably more x-rays. arm in a sling, pain meds, stayed home from work today.

  10. 10.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 27, 2010 at 8:14 pm

    @stuckinred: You need to hear this.

  11. 11.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 27, 2010 at 8:16 pm

    @Arclite:

    “A lot of libraries are atrocious,” Mr. Pezzanite said. “Their policies are all about job security. That’s why the profession is nervous about us. You can go to a library for 35 years and never have to do anything and then have your retirement. We’re not running our company that way. You come to us, you’re going to have to work.”

    Wingnut talking point bingo folks.

  12. 12.

    Dennis SGMM

    September 27, 2010 at 8:17 pm

    Never afraid to betray my own ignorance I ask, what is “Chuck”?

  13. 13.

    JPL

    September 27, 2010 at 8:17 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: ouch

  14. 14.

    newhavenguy

    September 27, 2010 at 8:21 pm

    Thesis:

    Jane Hamsher : FDL

    =

    Martin Peretz : TNR.

    I used to like these publications a lot more; they’re still both sort of worthwhile, if you have the time to parse the byzantine internal politics of each. And know which hacky idiots to ignore/mock as needed.

    Now it occurs to me that Spencer Ackerman has had the pleasure of writing for both of these Egos. Lucky him!

  15. 15.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 27, 2010 at 8:21 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: Ow. Were you having fun when you did it at least?

  16. 16.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 27, 2010 at 8:23 pm

    @newhavenguy: Attackerman is a sub?

  17. 17.

    stuckinred

    September 27, 2010 at 8:23 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Bleccch!

    They have their Illini Orange and Blue on!

  18. 18.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 27, 2010 at 8:23 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Sadly, no. Was returning from weekend fun, filling gas tank, tripped over pump hose, broke fall with my arm.

  19. 19.

    stuckinred

    September 27, 2010 at 8:27 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: Dang, my bride tripped over a plastic bag getting out of the van a couple of years ago and broke her leg! Hang in there.

  20. 20.

    Dennis SGMM

    September 27, 2010 at 8:27 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts:
    Damn, nothing like having a broken bone to remind you of how good it feels not to have a broken bone. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

  21. 21.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 27, 2010 at 8:28 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: I smashed up an elbow years ago. I was walking a Canadian girl back to her hotel on one of the Greek islands. Came down on the point of the elbow after she stumbled into me and knocked me over. I passed out momentarily, and she was gone. For the rest of my Greek vacation I steadily sipped ouzo as a painkiller.

  22. 22.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 27, 2010 at 8:28 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: I smashed up an elbow years ago. I was walking a Canadian girl back to her hotel on one of the Greek islands. Came down on the point of the elbow after she stumbled into me and knocked me over. I passed out momentarily, and she was gone. For the rest of my Greek vacation I steadily sipped ouzo as a painkiller.

  23. 23.

    stuckinred

    September 27, 2010 at 8:28 pm

    @Dennis SGMM: And to find out how much you use whatever you can’t!

  24. 24.

    Elie

    September 27, 2010 at 8:29 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Oh how terrible and painful!

    Please take care and take those pain meds regularly…first 24 hours are the worst

  25. 25.

    stuckinred

    September 27, 2010 at 8:29 pm

    Ditka is in his colors!

  26. 26.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 27, 2010 at 8:31 pm

    @Dennis SGMM:
    thanks. @stuckinred:
    fortunately my weaker wing, but still – the phrase two hands are better than one is particularly salient atm.

  27. 27.

    Dennis SGMM

    September 27, 2010 at 8:32 pm

    @stuckinred:
    True that. I’m recovering from surgery on my spine and they gave me some pain pills that render me stupid. Sometimes that’s a good thing.

  28. 28.

    stuckinred

    September 27, 2010 at 8:33 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: Here’s an interesting book about “The Hand”.How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture” Cool stuff.

  29. 29.

    stuckinred

    September 27, 2010 at 8:35 pm

    @Dennis SGMM: What did you have, a fusion? I had a fractured T-6 35 years ago and they installed harrington rods. Worked like a charm.

  30. 30.

    MarkJ

    September 27, 2010 at 8:38 pm

    Jeffster is back!

  31. 31.

    MarkJ

    September 27, 2010 at 8:39 pm

    @Dennis SGMM:

    It’s a TeeVee show on NBC.

  32. 32.

    Dennis SGMM

    September 27, 2010 at 8:41 pm

    @stuckinred:
    Blew out some disks and the results pressed on some nerves so they had to go in and scrape. Until it happened, I had no idea that you could nearly pass out from pain while farting.

  33. 33.

    stuckinred

    September 27, 2010 at 8:42 pm

    @Dennis SGMM: Oh yea. . .

  34. 34.

    Dennis SGMM

    September 27, 2010 at 8:45 pm

    @MarkJ:
    Thanks. I grew up in places that had little to no TV so I never learned to appreciate it. Consequently, I find myself catching up with shows via HULU or DVD.

  35. 35.

    John Cole

    September 27, 2010 at 8:47 pm

    For obvious reasons, this may be the best Chuck ever.

  36. 36.

    stuckinred

    September 27, 2010 at 8:49 pm

    And for obvious reasons this could be the best Monday Night Football game of the season! Go Bears!

  37. 37.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 27, 2010 at 8:51 pm

    @stuckinred: I will co-sign the first half of your comment. Go Pack!

  38. 38.

    Kristine

    September 27, 2010 at 8:52 pm

    Was today some sort of record for number of comments, emotional pitch, and Monday to the nth degree? I muttered “Green balloons” and went to visit The Daily Puppy.

    @arguingwithsignposts Ouch and ouch. Feel better soon.

  39. 39.

    stuckinred

    September 27, 2010 at 8:54 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: We used to go to this bowling alley bar in the 70’s in Door County that had a sign that said “Free beer when the Bears win the Superbowl”.

  40. 40.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 27, 2010 at 8:58 pm

    @stuckinred: Back then it was cheap offer. I bet that sign came down in the mid-80s.

  41. 41.

    JPL

    September 27, 2010 at 8:59 pm

    @John Cole: Probably for different reasons, but I agree. I’m glad the boys are back at the Buy More.
    Where’s Red Kitten.. she is normally here on Monday nts.

  42. 42.

    Gravenstone

    September 27, 2010 at 9:00 pm

    And this is why I so rarely watch the local TV channels – Ron Johnson commercial during the Packers game and I start screaming at the lying assholes on my TV machine. *sigh* Is it November yet so I can gleefully vote against Johnson’s science denying willfully ignorant hyper-hypocritical Republican ass?

  43. 43.

    robertdsc-PowerBook & 27 titles

    September 27, 2010 at 9:00 pm

    Hope you’re feeling better, John.

    Moar Tunch pix, plz. Thx. :)

  44. 44.

    MikeJ

    September 27, 2010 at 9:00 pm

    Just won a culture victory on Civ 5. Went poking around the menus to find the Hall of Fame, and saw that it had credits in the same sub menu. Then discovered that a guy I shared an office with was one of the writers.

    It’s a small world. That you should crush with mechanized infantry.

  45. 45.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 27, 2010 at 9:05 pm

    @Gravenstone: I use the mute button as soon as I see his face.

  46. 46.

    socraticsilence

    September 27, 2010 at 9:06 pm

    @newhavenguy:

    That’s a bit far- Jame will have gone the “full Marty” when she starts talking about how Obama is inhuman and frankly shouldn’t be allowed to speak in the oval office.

  47. 47.

    Linda Featheringill

    September 27, 2010 at 9:15 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Sounds like you’re going to live. Good.

    Apparently it was okay to wait until morning to see the doc. If you were in serious trouble, they would have admitted you and you would have seen the Orthopedic Surgeon today.

    I suggest that you look up the John-Cole-god-my-shoulder-hurts comments and post them as your own. :-)

    [and how many people did I hurt with that one?]

    Glad to hear the good news, though.

  48. 48.

    Linda Featheringill

    September 27, 2010 at 9:17 pm

    @Dennis SGMM:

    “Chuck” is some obscure television show that the boys are into these days.

  49. 49.

    newhavenguy

    September 27, 2010 at 9:18 pm

    @stuckinred: Nice one! Have to admit, it took my boring vanilla ass a minute to get it

    I have to admit that TNR permitted a lot more dissent from Marty’s Arab hating bullshit even when he was a real editor than FDL does now. Amazing… took a look at comments on one of the more fervent Firebagger posts and was disturbed to see that ALL of the 200+ comments were in lockstep agreement.

    Dissent is a patriot’s highest duty— unless you’re dissenting against a professional dissenter, apparently. Reason #1,036 I cannot and will not take Hamsher and the like seriously.

    The Firebaggers, Truthers and PUMAs are as close as we get on the left to what is now the center of GOP politics*.

    The (D)isorganized center/left coalition that I belong to won’t give them the time of day— not a point of pride, but more a point of departure, as far as I’m concerned. I don’t want a coalition with stuck-up, fundamentalist, holier than thou assholes— mostly because it never works. Elitist of me? Maybe.

    Then again, maybe Jane Hamsher should come to New Haven and explain it to us. Or not. (There are a lot of people here who never had a fireplace— maybe she should go back to hers, and watch the damn Lakers with her dog, rather than bloviating about how stupid and impure the rest of us are.)

    *Seriously, can we stop calling it “fringe”? It’s not anymore. It should be, but it’s not. Newt might be nuts, but he was on MTP more than anyone else last year. You might of heard of a certain former half-Governor, or about Angle, Paul, Toomey, the Militia nutter from Alaska, the sex fiend from Delaware, etc.

    Not fringe: those people are Senate candidates and kingmakers. I won’t even get into the House candidates… too depressing. Even if it helps us (D)s hold the House and Senate, there’s no way in hell this bad craziness is good for our country. And after all is said and done, we gotta live here.

  50. 50.

    Gravenstone

    September 27, 2010 at 9:25 pm

    Looking like it’s gonna be a long night for da Bears. Well, I can only hope it continues to be thus.

  51. 51.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 27, 2010 at 9:38 pm

    @Gravenstone: I am enjoying the game so far.

  52. 52.

    newhavenguy

    September 27, 2010 at 9:38 pm

    FOR THE RECORD

    Great blog; excellent comments, and I know it’s not because of moderation. (I know because mine sneak in there, too.)

    That should be implicit every time I comment here.

    A friend of mine is a stagehand, and before the big shows he gathers the staff and gives some variation on the same speech:

    “Please. Thank you. Remember that— that’s attached to every goddamn command I’ll bark at you tonight, and there will be a lot of them. I do mean it, and it’s not bullshit— but time’s short, and I won’t have time for it then. I do now, and I mean it. Now, let’s GO!”

    I’m too lazy to be gracious, too verbose even without the pleasantries— please understand that it’s there. As far as this series of tubes go, Balloon Juice is a pretty cool place, and I appreciate it.

  53. 53.

    Anne Laurie

    September 27, 2010 at 9:59 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts:
    __

    Was returning from weekend fun, filling gas tank, tripped over pump hose, broke fall with my arm.

    I once slipped on an icy curb and greenstick-fractured the top of my femur. Spent two days limping around in increasing pain before I went into the ‘urgent care’ facility and demanded xrays. Really impressed all the medical personnel, because “We never see that in grown-ups! Normally, if you’re past puberty, your ACL tears as your patella slips sideways!” Since fractures heal themselves but torn ACLs require surgery, it helped get me through the ensuing 8 weeks on crutches…

  54. 54.

    Kristine

    September 27, 2010 at 10:17 pm

    In honor of Dentist Day, this tale from Hyperbole and a Half.

    At some point during my childhood, my mother made the mistake of taking me to see an orthodontist. It was discovered that I had a rogue tooth that was growing sideways.

    I do enjoy that blog.

    Must try to do some work now.

    Go Bears.

  55. 55.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 27, 2010 at 10:35 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: I did see it, and I am glad to know it’s not broken. However, it still sounds painful, and I hope you take good care of it. I also hope a certain Someone may be able to fly out and nurse you for a bit? Is Lady Smudge back in the house?

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m still loving your double posts. They are amusing me, so keep it up.

    @newhavenguy: Welcome. We are a fractious bunch, but we’re also lots of fun–especially the late-night shift.

  56. 56.

    LikeableInMyOwnWay

    September 28, 2010 at 2:59 am

    this may be the best Chuck ever

    Hilarious.

    I don’t know for sure but I think the phrase “best ever” means more when it isn’t used over and over again. That’s just been my observation, but what do I know?

    For my money, any show that features two hot women fighting like wolverines in sexy garb is always going to be the best ever. Until the next one.

    Can’t someone just make a show about hot women fighting like rats all the time? That would really make planning our viewing a lot easier.

  57. 57.

    Hedges Ahead

    September 28, 2010 at 7:56 am

    Just sad, because I liked Life more.

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