@Corner Stone: Not bad for a guy who’s 86 years old.
9.
NickT
Poor old Cole watching another evening go to rack and Bruin.
10.
Suffern ACE
Did the goalie bring the stick with a blade on it this time?
11.
David Koch
A slap across the face of the Steelers. Just threw ’em under the bus.
12.
Corner Stone
@different-church-lady: It’s funny that after all this time he’d be playing “catcher”.
It makes me wonder about Hemingway.
13.
ruemara
Are the Pens like that opposing team that always lost against the Harlem Globetrotters?
14.
MikeJ
I started to watch the hockey, but the channel right below CBUTD has a show called “Tallkin’ Beavers”. I was so disappointed that it was about Oregon that I turned off the TV in disgust.
15.
Spaghetti Lee
You know, I like Cole’s persistence here. If my team had gotten pantsed the way the Pens have these last two games, I’d just say ‘fuck it’ and stop talking about it. I certainly wouldn’t give my readers another way to mock me (as if they need it). Good job taking your lumps, JC.
@Spaghetti Lee: Hey, if you are a fan, you support your team win, lose, or humiliated.
18.
some guy
sweep? yes. please
19.
Omnes Omnibus
@some guy: Not gonna happen, the fucking Kings won last night. Oh, you mean the Bruins. Meh.
20.
Corbin Dallas Multipass
Tonight I was walking to drop a letter off in the mail, and a young male (late high school or early college) at the traffic light near an intersection near me called me Faggot. I calmly walked toward it to get the license plate number MD 29055M3 and to remember that it was a Blue SUV, before the light changed and it took off.
I’m still very confused. The last time I got called a name was when I was working the phones for Question 6 here in Maryland (gay marriage ammendment referendum) and was called a Fudge Packer.
I kindof wish I had a game plan for what to do if this ever happens again.
Ask him if he is looking for some action. And if he says yes, tell him he’ll have to wait because you left your tweezers at home. Or that you’ll be happy to introduce him to your friend “Bubba”.
22.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corbin Dallas Multipass: I am not really a fan of fudge. Too sweet for me. As far as I am concerned you may stop packaging it at any time. I know others have different views, but this is my position and I am sticking with it.
You get the Packers, I get the fudge. Bipartisan solutions fuck yeah and everyone’s a winner. Well, except Marco Rubio.
28.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Last night I was at Mackinac (probably the fudge capital of the US), people were gobbling up the stuff by the pound. We bought our fair share because it freezes well and could be given as gifts.
29.
Corbin Dallas Multipass
@Omnes Omnibus: I actually don’t like fudge packing either.
@Omnes Omnibus: There’s a super delicious store underneath the MGM Grand in Vegas that sells sweets. Including chocolate covered pretzels and tons of different fudge.
We always used to by some to take home with us on the plane back. I bought less and less every year because I just couldn’t take it anymore.
It’s too much!
32.
NickT
Apropos of the fall of empires, I was amused to see that the WaPo is going to put up a paywall so that only people who really, really want to pay to read Jennifer Rubin’s latest emo-fascist declaration will have access to her sacred scroll.. or scrawl, I should say.
@NickT: Great. This will only cut down consumption of their product, creating a death spiral in which the MSM collapses and a glorious new people’s media rises from the ashes.
@Corbin Dallas Multipass:
Consider the source. The guy probably just learned a new word and is testing it out.
Do nothing. It doesn’t matter.
Always remember that someone can have a gun in their car and I would not do anything. That seems extreme, but these days, it’s possible.
@efgoldman: Schneider wasn’t too bad, but Luongo has the national hero cred on his side. The ‘Nucks did rotate them in a pretty smart fashion though I agree.
42.
HumboldtBlue
Huh, Dom Brown hit another home run, the Penguins are being mocked by advanced mass transit operators and the improbable Stanley Cup champion Kings are hanging on like an Obama cabinet nominee.
Pastrami, anyone?
43.
Violet
@Corbin Dallas Multipass: I’m sorry that happened. The guy’s obviously insecure about who he is. That sort of thing is a dead giveaway.
Last night I was at Mackinac (probably the fudge capital of the US), people were gobbling up the stuff by the pound. We bought our fair share because it freezes well and could be given as gifts.
You do know that the Michigander term of opprobrium for tourists is “fudgies”, right?
45.
kc
Did anyone ever figure out what happened to General Stuck?
46.
p.a.
Pastrami? Wonder how that would like work. When I need to conjure up dreams to tell my shrink about, late night Burger King does the trick. That pink slime really cranks up the subconscious.
47.
liberal
ThisAtlantic article on Colorado self-destructing is really interesting (and sad).
48.
max
1-1 in overtime! You should be happy Cole!
max
[‘They put the goalie in *front* of the net!’]
But does Cole want to be happy? Do we have the right to try and persuade him from his default hockey-watching fugue state of melancholia and misanthropy?
@Misterpuff: I watched about 4 minutes during a Futurama commercial break. Hockey looks like fast paced, unskilled football. And I have no doubt it would be harder to play football on ice than on a proper pitch, but you could have them play with a helium filled ball and make it just as funny looking.
If you can manage an expression of polite confusion as though he’s used an unfamiliar word rather than giving him the shocked/insulted look he’s looking for, that would probably be sufficiently unsatisfying that he’ll just drive on.
It was probably a good precaution to get the license number and description of the car, though. Some of those assholes are crazy and it’s best not to underestimate them.
55.
Mnemosyne
For the pet lovers, a Buzzfeed link I stumbled across:
Second OT. Pens, desperate for a win, looking exhausted.
57.
Misterpuff
@MikeJ: I’m no hockey expert but the intensity in overtime is awesome. A lot of time teams will play safe, but in OT, they are letting it all hang out.
58.
Bill E Pilgrim
@efgoldman: Cole has stopped talking about it. He just drops the thread and walks away.
That’s just the sobriety talking. He’ll be back.
59.
Amir Khalid
@Mnemosyne:
My own favourite is #29. Now that is where a cat belongs.
Poor old Cole watching another evening go to rack and Bruin.
Your neighbor can sign for these Internets; we’ll just leave ’em on your back porch.
61.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Comrade Jake:
WTF? NSA is collecting from Verizon the call data on every one of its customers. Someone please tell me how this reflects well on the Obama administration.
Misterpuff
Ruh-roh
different-church-lady
Ooops.
Corner Stone
Just catching this thread. Is it 3-0 Broons yet?
different-church-lady
@Corner Stone: [checks watch] — no, but check in again in about 4 minutes.
different-church-lady
Radio guys here in Boston just pointed out Letang has been on the ice for 7 of the 10 Bruins goals so far.
Good thing the Norris is a scoring trophy, eh?
Corner Stone
Awww..yeah. Number 8 HR for Castro!
2-1 Stros baby.
pokeyblow
Patriots loving freedom:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/batavia_geneva_st_charles/ct-met-gun-club-accident-0606-20130606,0,731254.story
different-church-lady
@Corner Stone: Not bad for a guy who’s 86 years old.
NickT
Poor old Cole watching another evening go to rack and Bruin.
Suffern ACE
Did the goalie bring the stick with a blade on it this time?
David Koch
A slap across the face of the Steelers. Just threw ’em under the bus.
Corner Stone
@different-church-lady: It’s funny that after all this time he’d be playing “catcher”.
It makes me wonder about Hemingway.
ruemara
Are the Pens like that opposing team that always lost against the Harlem Globetrotters?
MikeJ
I started to watch the hockey, but the channel right below CBUTD has a show called “Tallkin’ Beavers”. I was so disappointed that it was about Oregon that I turned off the TV in disgust.
Spaghetti Lee
You know, I like Cole’s persistence here. If my team had gotten pantsed the way the Pens have these last two games, I’d just say ‘fuck it’ and stop talking about it. I certainly wouldn’t give my readers another way to mock me (as if they need it). Good job taking your lumps, JC.
Comrade Jake
This joke is still pretty good
http://deadspin.com/boston-pilot-uses-crying-baby-to-burn-sidney-crosby-511296049
Omnes Omnibus
@Spaghetti Lee: Hey, if you are a fan, you support your team win, lose, or humiliated.
some guy
sweep? yes. please
Omnes Omnibus
@some guy: Not gonna happen, the fucking Kings won last night. Oh, you mean the Bruins. Meh.
Corbin Dallas Multipass
Tonight I was walking to drop a letter off in the mail, and a young male (late high school or early college) at the traffic light near an intersection near me called me Faggot. I calmly walked toward it to get the license plate number MD 29055M3 and to remember that it was a Blue SUV, before the light changed and it took off.
I’m still very confused. The last time I got called a name was when I was working the phones for Question 6 here in Maryland (gay marriage ammendment referendum) and was called a Fudge Packer.
I kindof wish I had a game plan for what to do if this ever happens again.
Calouste
@Corbin Dallas Multipass:
Ask him if he is looking for some action. And if he says yes, tell him he’ll have to wait because you left your tweezers at home. Or that you’ll be happy to introduce him to your friend “Bubba”.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corbin Dallas Multipass: I am not really a fan of fudge. Too sweet for me. As far as I am concerned you may stop packaging it at any time. I know others have different views, but this is my position and I am sticking with it.
Redshirt
@efgoldman: True, but he does that for almost all the threads here.
He can’t be bothered to read this shit, could he?
NickT
@Omnes Omnibus:
Given the choice, I’ll take fudge over the Packers for my evenings at home any day of the week.
Omnes Omnibus
@Redshirt: Let’s be honest. Can you blame him?
@NickT: I hope you realize that this means war.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: I like about maybe 2 or 3 oz of fudge. I can’t take any more than that. It’s too much for me.
NickT
@Omnes Omnibus:
You get the Packers, I get the fudge. Bipartisan solutions fuck yeah and everyone’s a winner. Well, except Marco Rubio.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Last night I was at Mackinac (probably the fudge capital of the US), people were gobbling up the stuff by the pound. We bought our fair share because it freezes well and could be given as gifts.
Corbin Dallas Multipass
@Omnes Omnibus: I actually don’t like fudge packing either.
lamh35
NBC Open Court: NBA Legends discuss President Obama’s election and re-election
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: There’s a super delicious store underneath the MGM Grand in Vegas that sells sweets. Including chocolate covered pretzels and tons of different fudge.
We always used to by some to take home with us on the plane back. I bought less and less every year because I just couldn’t take it anymore.
It’s too much!
NickT
Apropos of the fall of empires, I was amused to see that the WaPo is going to put up a paywall so that only people who really, really want to pay to read Jennifer Rubin’s latest emo-fascist declaration will have access to her sacred scroll.. or scrawl, I should say.
Omnes Omnibus
@NickT:
Isn’t this group largely institutionalized?
Comrade Jake
Probably not the best thread for this, but this would seem to be a big deal:
http://gawker.com/nsa-secretly-collecting-phone-records-from-every-verizo-511561485
NickT
@Omnes Omnibus:
I believe that they were liberated from their various institutions by Ronaldus Magnus.
max
Ah. 1-1. Thought the Pens would regroup.
max
[‘In this situation, I believe the key phrase is ‘Fuck this’.’]
Redshirt
@NickT: Great. This will only cut down consumption of their product, creating a death spiral in which the MSM collapses and a glorious new people’s media rises from the ashes.
Maude
@Corbin Dallas Multipass:
Consider the source. The guy probably just learned a new word and is testing it out.
Do nothing. It doesn’t matter.
Always remember that someone can have a gun in their car and I would not do anything. That seems extreme, but these days, it’s possible.
NickT
@Redshirt:
I look forward to the day when Jihad Jenny Goes Galt.
Yatsuno
@efgoldman: Luongo?
:: ducks ::
Yatsuno
@efgoldman: Schneider wasn’t too bad, but Luongo has the national hero cred on his side. The ‘Nucks did rotate them in a pretty smart fashion though I agree.
HumboldtBlue
Huh, Dom Brown hit another home run, the Penguins are being mocked by advanced mass transit operators and the improbable Stanley Cup champion Kings are hanging on like an Obama cabinet nominee.
Pastrami, anyone?
Violet
@Corbin Dallas Multipass: I’m sorry that happened. The guy’s obviously insecure about who he is. That sort of thing is a dead giveaway.
Anne Laurie
@Omnes Omnibus:
You do know that the Michigander term of opprobrium for tourists is “fudgies”, right?
kc
Did anyone ever figure out what happened to General Stuck?
p.a.
Pastrami? Wonder how that would like work. When I need to conjure up dreams to tell my shrink about, late night Burger King does the trick. That pink slime really cranks up the subconscious.
liberal
This Atlantic article on Colorado self-destructing is really interesting (and sad).
max
1-1 in overtime! You should be happy Cole!
max
[‘They put the goalie in *front* of the net!’]
NickT
@max:
But does Cole want to be happy? Do we have the right to try and persuade him from his default hockey-watching fugue state of melancholia and misanthropy?
Misterpuff
Damn, what a great 8 minutes.
OT Playoff hockey is the best.
Steeplejack
@kc:
No.
MikeJ
@Misterpuff: I watched about 4 minutes during a Futurama commercial break. Hockey looks like fast paced, unskilled football. And I have no doubt it would be harder to play football on ice than on a proper pitch, but you could have them play with a helium filled ball and make it just as funny looking.
max
@NickT: But does Cole want to be happy?
Yes. Because the whining is annoying.
Do we have the right to try and persuade him from his default hockey-watching fugue state of melancholia and misanthropy?
He could be trolling NetFlix!
Rask is puttin’ on a show – 42 stops v. Vokoun’s 30.
max
[‘It would be good for that fabled offense to show up.’]
Mnemosyne
@Corbin Dallas Multipass:
If you can manage an expression of polite confusion as though he’s used an unfamiliar word rather than giving him the shocked/insulted look he’s looking for, that would probably be sufficiently unsatisfying that he’ll just drive on.
It was probably a good precaution to get the license number and description of the car, though. Some of those assholes are crazy and it’s best not to underestimate them.
Mnemosyne
For the pet lovers, a Buzzfeed link I stumbled across:
30 Photos Proving the Clinton Administration Was the Golden Age of White House Pets
The link goes to my favorite one.
James E. Powell
Second OT. Pens, desperate for a win, looking exhausted.
Misterpuff
@MikeJ: I’m no hockey expert but the intensity in overtime is awesome. A lot of time teams will play safe, but in OT, they are letting it all hang out.
Bill E Pilgrim
@efgoldman: Cole has stopped talking about it. He just drops the thread and walks away.
That’s just the sobriety talking. He’ll be back.
Amir Khalid
@Mnemosyne:
My own favourite is #29. Now that is where a cat belongs.
Ash Can
@NickT:
Your neighbor can sign for these Internets; we’ll just leave ’em on your back porch.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Comrade Jake:
WTF? NSA is collecting from Verizon the call data on every one of its customers. Someone please tell me how this reflects well on the Obama administration.
kc
@Mnemosyne:
Socks!
I love those. Thanks!
NickT
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
They’ve been building a huge data and decryption center in Utah pretty much for this purpose:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
Steeplejack
@Mnemosyne:
Never realized Socks was a semi-Kitler. That explains a lot. A lot.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@NickT:
Well I’ll be fucked. It turns out that William F. Burroughs’ was right in Nova Express.
Chuck Butcher
@Omnes Omnibus:
So you were all of 40 miles away and didn’t stop to say “howdy”?
NickT
Well damn. Seems hardly fair for either side to lose that game.
the Conster
Wow. Can’t take another one of those. Holee sheeeiiite.
Omnes Omnibus
@Chuck Butcher: My then wife never really cared for you. Sorry.