Just got back from a night on the town, and what I learned is that not everyone understands what you mean when you say “Love your body, Larry” in place of goodbye.
I hate being old.
by John Cole| 64 Comments
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Just got back from a night on the town, and what I learned is that not everyone understands what you mean when you say “Love your body, Larry” in place of goodbye.
I hate being old.
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Just Some Fuckhead
I’m guessing it was a dude named Larry you said goodbye too.
LT
Dude, I’m older than you and I had no idea what that meant.
freelancer
We can’t all be Geena Davis, Cole.
And don’t talk to me like that Assface, I don’t work for you, yet!
Joel
Previous thread? COLE SMASH!
piratedan
another moment in network news history as Faux News forgets to install a delay while performing a breaking news segment where a high speed chase ends up with the driver committing suicide on live TV. Obviously these guys aren’t that great at handling anything that they don’t manufacture themselves.
Violet
No idea what that was from. Have never seen that movie. Don’t like Chevy Chase all that much, so that’s probably why.
freelancer
@piratedan:
That’s not too awful, CNN reported for an hour before, that he had already surrendered.
MoeLarryAndJesus
@Violet:
Too bad. It’s a good movie.
piratedan
@freelancer: and we wonder why these guys can’t ask the tough questions of candidates.
joeyess
@John Cole
I can’t imagine why. What with you only in your jocks and a Peruvian belt.
eemom
Too many new threads. Needz moar Conor Jerkdorf.
joeyess
Goodnight, Balloonyloons. joeyess, over and out.
Omnes Omnibus
@joeyess: Are we sure it ain’t faux?
Mark S.
I’ve seen the movie a couple times and had no idea what you were talking about.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@joeyess: So long and thanks for all the halibut.
different-church-lady
Dude, a lot of older people have paid good money to have the bits of their brains that remembered Fletch surgically removed.
Omnes Omnibus
@different-church-lady: Grain alcohol is cheaper and just as effective.
ETA: It’s all ball bearings these days.
Steve V
You actually say that to people?! Hahahahaha!
Punchy
The fact that yer blogging and not hiding the sausage is a disturbing and disheartening develly….
James E. Powell
I get a similar response when I say “Stay gold, Ponny Boy.”
I mean, I thought everybody read that book.
Omnes Omnibus
@James E. Powell: Well, if you don’t spell it right….
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: oh Ponny Boy, one of the last great Irish songs of yore
chris
Mark Hamill is now older than Alec Guinness was when they started filming Star Wars.
Pass me the booze, please.
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: I laughed.
karl
Old? Aren’t you, like, 40? You could be my illegitimate son or something, not that I have one. I don’t. And even if I did he wouldn’t look like you — that’s not an insult, we just don’t look alike. But that’s not the point, the point is… What’s your question again?
JGabriel
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Violet:
Me neither, which led me to first conclude that John’s “I hate being old” was actually a typo for “I hate being odd.”
Erroneously, I’m guessing, but not 100% sure.
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wasabi gasp
Next time lay on some later alligator.
Omnes Omnibus
@karl: Where is the nearest Burger King?
piratedan
@JGabriel: I was presuming it was a line from the old Leisure Suit Larry game…..either that or that video of The Three Stooges… the Untold Stories…
Suffern ACE
@chris: Nope. I needed to research that and you actually have about one more year before that is true. Bullet dodged.
Jamie
I just went to a job interview today. The grey hairs in my goatee (yes, I’ve worn it since college since before your were born and it wasn’t cool so go card-loom a sock and shove it in your mutton hole) seemed to attract attention.
Tech don’t like 40 year olds so much.
Time to sell sock monkeys on eBay.
Narcissus
I’m more of a “Sugar, Mr poon?” man myself
Some people just don’t “do” movie quotes
I don’t how those people live
Librarian
“Can I borrow a towel? My car just hit a water buffalo.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Librarian: God, I admire you.
John Koktosen
“Are you always this forward?”
“Only with wet married women.”
Librarian
“Ever seen a spleen that large?”
“No, not since breakfast.”
Legalize
I hate Tommy Lasorda.
wasabi gasp
When refleshing the page there is not lots more comments for prolonged enjoyment.
karl
@Omnes Omnibus:
Is that a joke? If so, I don’t get it. Are you making fun of me? Show some respect!
Besides, I don’t eat fast food — I make my own tasty, old-timey burgers in the privacy of my own, god-given, home. With real beef, real cheese, real mushrooms, deliciously real bacon, and non-iceberg lettuce (yeah, that’s real, too) — top that, fast food chain!
I’m an American, dammit, so don’t make me come over there.
RossinDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
@Jamie:
I’m 53 and I just started probably the last tech job that will have me. And I have entirely white hair. I used my age as a selling point and it kinda worked. OTOH, it’s probably not easy to find qualified people who will travel 280 days out of the year.
Insomnia blows. 3 hours of sleep under my belt and 15 hours of travel ahead of me. I sure hope I get out of Mexico today. It’s been groovy but I really really need my own bed & blanky very soon.
Worn out & bumming in Puebla.
karl
@wasabi gasp:
Have you tried the “ribbed” reflesh?
Omnes Omnibus
@karl: If you come here, please bring a burger. They sound delicious.
You had asked what Cole’s question was, right? I was offering a suggestion.
RossinDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
Jesus Christ there is a goddamn earthquake happening here right now. Holy FUCK!
eTA: and it’s over. I hope. FSM get me out of there in one piece and I will have Ramen for lunch for a month I promise.
Omnes Omnibus
@RossinDetroit, Rational Subjectivist: In Detroit?
RossinDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’m in Puebla, Mexico. Apparently there was a biggie in ’09. The volcano outside town was kinda extra-smoky today so maybe that means something.
Yutsano
@RossinDetroit, Rational Subjectivist: Yes. GTFO NAOW!!
Omnes Omnibus
@RossinDetroit, Rational Subjectivist: Aha. Is everything cool?
dance around in your bones
I love refleshing the page.
OOOOh, baby!
RossinDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
Sirens, all of a sudden, but the lights are all still on and the traffic is still moving. Maybe this explains all of the very low architecture in town.
Things got very wobbly for about 30 seconds and I heard the elevators abruptly stop. This is probably routine but my nerves are frayed and it wouldn’t take a lot of seismic activity to freak me out.
? Martin
@RossinDetroit, Rational Subjectivist: Smoky volcano means that its happy and ready for sleepy time.
? Martin
USGS says there was a 5.8 about 200 mi south of Mexico City. If it was wobbly, it was far away. 200 mi is pretty far to feel a 5.8. No biggie. I bet that smoky volcano next to you hardly noticed.
Yutsano
@dance around in your bones: I find your ideas intriguing, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
dance around in your bones
@Yutsano: Gosh, if only I HAD one!
“You can subscribe for only $19.99 per week, plus shipping and handling ($39.99) AND get your very own refleshlight for FREE!”
wasabi gasp
Keep head cool and charge the smartphone for prolonged enjoyment.
Anne Laurie
@RossinDetroit, Rational Subjectivist:
Hah, the only time I’ve been through an earthquake was back in Michigan! I was somewhat alarmed, because there was renovation work being done on the floor right above my office & I thought the contractors might’ve brought down a load-bearing wall. It felt as though the entire building had just been driven over a rumble strip, but a few minutes later someone burst in yelling OH MY GOSH THE NEWS SAYS THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE!…
Yutsano
@Anne Laurie: I have yet to live through an earthquake ever. And I went to high school west of Seattle and spent some of my childhood in California. I feel cheated.
Batocchio
Man, it’s been well over a decade since I’ve seen Fletch. It used to run on cable all the time.
Lojasmo
@LT:
I am also old, and I also don’t understand.
TheMightyTrowel
@Yutsano: I went through one in CA (4.6) the only time I ever went to CA and then slept through one here in Australia about 4 months ago (but that was only like 3 or 2.9 so it was normal to sleep through it)
NotMax
Old enough to be your father and have never once heard that expression.
So you’d best go wash your mouth out just in case, whippersnapper.
El Cid
I don’t think that too many people are up on Fletch references, of any age.
karl
@Omnes Omnibus:
Oh. Thanks, then, and never mind the rest.
RossinDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
The earthquake was a big nothingburger. Apparently I was the only person with a cup of coffee right in front of his face at 2:13 am when it hit.
I’ve made it to Monterrey, wherever that is (note to self: Google Monterrey, Mexico during 5 hour layover.)
With luck I’ll be home in less than 8 hours!
Cheers
ABL
It’s all ball bearings nowadays.