No problems with the party, although I suppose it is too early to detect food poisoning.
Although, at the rate my guests are drinking, food poisoning will probably be masked by alcohol poisoning.
Open Thread
by John Cole| 74 Comments
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JPL
Have fun and don’t step on the pets while finding your way to the bedroom tonight.
Mark S.
It sounds like time to break out the karaoke machine.
catdevotee
Hint: spend your time with your actual guests while they’re there, rather than with your virtual guests like yours truly! I hope you’re having a great party!
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
So it sounds like the housecleaning was a success?
MikeJ
Just put a timbale in the oven. It looks as if it should be nummy, but I’ve never made one before.
Hugh
What the hell are you doing posting while hosting a party? What’s wrong with you? Jesus. I mean really.
gogol's wife
@Hugh:
That’s what I was thinking. I hope it’s not at the dinner table.
licensed to kill time
Fer fuck’s sake, folks, he typed two sentences AND they were funny!
mclaren
That’s the way to do it! Give the guests funnels along with the kegs. Then they’ll fall down, throw up and pass out before they can keel over from listeria.
Yutsano
@gogol’s wife: Heh. Methinks JC just did an auto-post. We’ll probably get more details from the event later. Biggest tell is if we don’t hear from him for about the next two hours.
Loneoak
In one month I had amoebic dysentery followed by salmonella. I do not find food poisoning jokes funny. The one bright spot was that I realized that the wall mount on television allowed me to angle it for viewing from the toilet.
The dysentery happend on my honeymoon, btw.
JPL
@mclaren: Will John have to purchase an extra mop?
MaryRC
Have you seen this yet?
stuckinred
Long day in Boone at the App State Graduation. I have never seen anything like the Chancellor of this school. He shook hands with the graduates and the connection between him and the students was remarkable. It made the ceremony quite long but it was really wonderful to see in light of the bean counters that run higher ed now.
Roger Moore
@JPL:
I think John should be kept away from mops. Hell, John should probably be kept in one of those protective bubbles like they used to use for kids born with malfunctioning immune systems. Or maybe he just needs to be equipped with the heavy duty padding like the instructors in self defense classes use so their students can attack them for real without doing serious damage.
arguingwithsignposts
OT, but pointed out by The Somebody. For your late night saturday perusal: The British orders and decorations – or something.
kdaug
@JPL:
Oh god no, please tell me the mopping is a solo affair.
“Hey guys, I got a great idea for a party…”
It is WV and all, but still.
arguingwithsignposts
@stuckinred: App State is a weird place, and Boone and Western NC in general are some really beautiful places. Glad everything went well. It’s always good to see a president/chancellor caring about individual students.
ROSSINDETROIT
Has Tunch made a low speed break for the leftovers yet?
Valdivia
@arguingwithsignposts:
Raises hand: what/who is The Somebody?
boss bitch
@MaryRC:
wow. more than a million views already?
stuckinred
@arguingwithsignposts: Here’s the pup’s with Dan’l and his dogs.
Oh yea, at 10am we left the Boone Farmer’s Market and I forgot to put my seatbelt on. $125, 25 fine, 100 court costs from a NC State Trooper.
Steeplejack
@MaryRC:
That is great!
“That’ll be two terms, please.”
arguingwithsignposts
@Valdivia: The Somebody is the person I’m with, whom I met almost a year ago. We’re spending the summer together. Although, apparently, we’re doing the dating thing all wrong.
I’d give you a link to our discussion of music, but it would trip the fywp. here it is arguewithsigns.net/reviews/
Omnes Omnibus
@kdaug: Too Tom Sawyerish.
Valdivia
@arguingwithsignposts:
I like the title. The Somebody is so so much better than girlfriend etc. :)
Also.Too.I have a PhD in how-to-date-wrong, so I support your wrongness wholeheartedly. I am not even going to try to read that link though, cause I don’t want to know if I am already at the Post-Doc stage of wrongness.
Hope you guys have a fab summer together.
ETA: She has The New Porno’s album in there so I approve!
IrishGirl
“…..food poisoning will probably be masked by alcohol poisoning….”
He made that sound like it was a bad thing….. /snort
Omnes Omnibus
@arguingwithsignposts: DeBrett’s and British Orders and Decorations? Is Somebody British or is it a Royal wedding hangover?
Roger Moore
@MaryRC:
He really has the mannerisms down, doesn’t he.
General Stuck
It’s a beautiful day out here in the big empty (southern version). And for the first time, after a specially long and cold winter, it is actually hot. And that is a relief, at least for a while. Other than that, none of my cows have come home.
arguingwithsignposts
@Omnes Omnibus: Um, no. The Somebody has a PHD in medieval history and spent time in the UK on her dissertation. Didn’t even watch the wedding, and she likes hockey. So, um, no. :)
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
Wait, shouldn’t massive quantities of alcohol help prevent food poisoning? I mean, it’s not like bacteria can live in 40% (90-proof) alcohol. As long as they all take several shots, it should be fine.
Valdivia
@MaryRC:
wow he sounds exactly like him. plus the rap was awesome. Too bad he didn’t throw a fuck you bush line in there.
Omnes Omnibus
@arguingwithsignposts: It’s cool. Just askin’.
arguingwithsignposts
@Omnes Omnibus: i hear ya. i keep prodding her to comment. :)
Charity Froggenhall
I finally figured out how to ride a bike today. Nope, never learned as a kid. But my Gods, it finally all came together today, and I rode a bike! I can finally join my husband on biking trips! It’s a whole new world. Even cutting the shit out of my elbow doesn’t bother me so much.
Omnes Omnibus
@arguingwithsignposts: Good god. I am not sure I would want Mme Omnibus commenting on the same blogs I do. For one thing, she would know that I wasn’t actually looking up that book she wanted me to order and was instead making snarky comments about some other commenter’s taste in marinades or something. No good could come of that.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
Said “also, too” aloud today as though it was a legit connective phrase to one of my students.
Thanks, jerks.
arguingwithsignposts
In the interest of Obots everywhere, I submit – Damn you barack obama.
Fucking prescient
AliceBlue
@The Main Gauche of Mild Reason:
Years ago, Katharine Hepburn published a memoir about the making of “The African Queen.” While filming on location, the cast and crew were drinking bottled water, which turned out to be bad. Everyone was sick except for John Huston and Bogie, due to their prodigious consumption of alcohol.
Steeplejack
@Charity Froggenhall:
You do realize that’s not actually part of the “riding the bike” thing?
Omnes Omnibus
@Charity Froggenhall: Congrats. Falling is a part of learning. Biking, skiing, rock climbing…
JGabriel
@Hugh:
Posting while hosting. It’s the new drunk dialing.
.
MikeJ
@Omnes Omnibus: They say you’re not really a cyclist until you’ve broken your collarbone.
hilts
Santorum 150
Romney 61
Cain 44
Trump 29
Bachmann 22
Christie 22
Gingrich 16
Huckabee 16
Daniels 15
Paul 8
Pawlenty 7
Palin 6
Huntsman 4
Bolton 0
Roemer 0
Johnson 0
Write-ins:
DeMint 3
Alan West 3
Paul Ryan 1
h/t http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0511/South_Carolina_Republicans_reward_Santorum.html
cleek
i had that once. it was the Sunday morning after a summer-after-high-school party.
my girlfriend had sneaked in and woke me up on the cellar hide-a-bed where i lay, naked. i woke up sliding around, a half inch deep in warm, stale pinkish-white wine and half-chewed ziti. the pull-out bed had a plastic-covered mattress, so all the wine, sauce and pasta i’d thrown up wasn’t soaked-in, as it would be with a normal mattress. no, it was on top of the plastic, filling the dent around my skinny torso.
too much bad ziti or too much bad box wine? we’ll never know!
good times!
kdaug
@MikeJ:
Passed that qualifier.
Anyone want to buy a used mountain bike?
Omnes Omnibus
@MikeJ: When I am skiing, I look at it this way. If I don’t fall at least twice, I am not pushing myself at all. If I fall more than 5 times, I am pushing too hard. In my 20s and early 30s, the 5 was more like 10, but I have mellowed with age.
Valdivia
@Charity Froggenhall:
Congrats! Same boat here. Never learned as a kid. Someone taught me 5 years ago. Rode a few times but couldn’t get the nerve to do it in the streets of nyc. Living in DC now, just got a bike a month ago and got back on it. Have never been so hurt in my whole life (legs, arms, back, butt, etc) but man is it worth it!
Cheers to you. Enjoy the rides.
AliceBlue
@cleek:
God, cleek. You’re lucky you didn’t choke to death, a la Jimi Hendrix.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@stuckinred: Way back when I graduated, the president of my college shook my hand and said “Congratulations, Frosty” which was my nickname at the time. I was so stunned I did a double take.
Mind, it was a very small school (400 students) and we all knew each other by sight and by name, but still.
Omnes Omnibus
@AliceBlue: He did; zombie cleek is posting and it wants brains.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): I have come far too close to saying “Also, too” in the Real World. Beware the Bloggerspeak!
Jay C
BTW, John: did you ever take any of our suggestions for a vegetable side?
Or did you just go with the ton-o-food you had already planned?
AliceBlue
@Omnes Omnibus: @Omnes Omnibus:
Brains … with a little boxed wine, perhaps?
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Omnes Omnibus:
… Hang gliding. Rule 1: Never fly higher than you’re prepared to fall.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: Man, it rolls right off the tongue.
cleek
@AliceBlue:
totally.
but somehow it took me like 8 years to realize that. (that i almost choked, not that wine is bad… haven’t learned that yet)
youth is wasted, etc.
Amanda in the South Bay
Well, as long as John doesn’t complain in the morning about needing cold compresses and pedialite.
Omnes Omnibus
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: I have never tried it. Should have done it when I was single. If I do it now and live, my wife will kill me. Future skydiving has been nixed as well.
Amanda in the South Bay
@Roger Moore:
So, apropos of me procrastinating, are you Roger W Moore on Slashdot? I only ask cause right after I read this thread I read a recent thread on Javascript where someone with that name posted, and sorta remembered you said you were in academia…so…*gets back to doing productive things*.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Omnes Omnibus: Re: hang gliding. I was in my late 20s / early 30s and took a half hour lesson at Kill Devil Hills on the Outer Banks. You’re running down a sand dune, so it’s almost impossible to fly too high, but through an amazing set of errors I just about accomplished it.
On one run I ended up aiming toward the sand, tried to gain some altitude, pushed the control bar (the wrong way) and flew the kite into the ground.
If I had been successful at doing what I was trying to do, I’d have soared skyward about 20 feet, stalled and crashed.
Skepticat
There’s just a sliver of moon, but it’s red.
Recuperating from two days of either food poisoning or a bad reaction to a diptheria/pertussis/tetanus shot–alcohol is not helping.
Roger Moore
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
I’ve accused people of hating America and/or making Baby Jesus cry for minor infractions. It’s a hazard of reading too many political blogs.
Roger Moore
@Amanda in the South Bay:
Nope, I’m “rgmoore” (UID 133276) on Slashdot.
cckids
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: Isn’t “also, too” an original Palinism?
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@MikeJ:
ironic we tax cigarettes because smokers use too much health care.
all the busted knees, hips and collarbones, you would think they would tax running shoes bike tires, and light up apparel for night running/biking.
asiangrrlMN
@MaryRC: Yes! I saw that at RumpRoast. I love Alphacat. He’s really honed his impression.
@Amanda in the South Bay: Hey, been thinking about you. Saw your comment in the thread below. Thanks for the update.
@arguingwithsignposts: That was great, aws. I love slam poetry when it’s done well as it was in that clip. When it’s not….shudder.
And, I’m so glad you and the Somebody are still together. As for dating wrong, if that link is right, then keep on doing what you’re doing.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel), snort. I’ve had to watch my internet speak in real life before. People don’t really get ‘fuck you with a rusty pitchfork.’
asiangrrlMN
This is a test post to see if I fucked up the blog.
ETA: I am pleased to announce that I did not.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN:
I would think the emphasis would be rather obvious. But then again people iz dumb.
Hi hon. Don’t got much really.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Hey, hon. No, no, no, they get the ‘fuck you’ part–just not the rusty pitchfork. They get this quizzical look on their faces as if they are saying, “rusty pitchfork? Huh?” Sometimes I enlighten them, and sometimes I don’t.
Badtux
Good news, it’s now safe for you to visit Florida with Tunch! In a crushing blow to the tourist scene in Mossy Head, Florida, after four years they have finally passed a law making bestiality illegal in Florida. “My Pet Goat” had an entirely different connotation in Mossy Head [nudge, nudge, wink, wink]. But I guess Florida’s going to have to come up with some new tourist slogans now that “Come to Florida, where the phrase ‘petting zoo’ has a different meaning!” is inoperative.
SRW1
@Hugh:
He just stole away for a minute while his guests were doing the dishes.
The Disgruntled Chemist
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
My mother-in-law does this, and it’s not because she reads this blog. Every time, I nearly have an aneurism as my face decides whether to grimace or laugh.