Thought I would share this picture that Tammy and Brian sent me of Charlie and Sam on the boat:
The look on Charlie’s face as she stares at the camera giving us the “YOU TALKING TO ME?” look is priceless. That’s some serious Cute Overload stuff right there.
Speaking of, have we heard from General Stuck? He never responded to any of my emails.
BarbCat
I am fearing for General Stuck’s existence. Since I’m an idiot, can anyone tell me how to know if someone on BJ has responded to a comment I made. I feel quite medieval having to find yesterday’s post, for example, that I commented on and then scroll through 100+ comments after mine just to see if there was a response. Of course there were, to my doggie pics, and I like to at least say thanks. Thank you in advance if you can help me. I will also attempt to email this request because it is too stupid to actually be referred to as a ‘comment’. Go Pens!
BarbCat
And that pic IS some damage-inflicting cute. Also, should I be all joyful at commenting first? I have seen this in places before.
different-church-lady
Just wrap it up in regulation tonight, boys — I got an early day tomorrow.
pokeyblow
The whole “Boston Strong” slogan, it’s appropriation by Hub sports teams, and the consequent ban on other cities saying “Toronto/Chicago/wherever Stronger” makes me sad.
People are so fucking infantile.
RobertDSC-PowerMac G5 Dual
A Sarah Palin for Senate ad is following me and they used a great picture of her from 2008. Her mental capacity makes a vacuum look spacious, but I always liked looking at her.
pokeyblow
@RobertDSC-PowerMac G5 Dual: I’d definitely hit it.
In any sense.
MazeDancer
@BarbCat:
There may be a sekrit BJ comment response alert about which I know nothing, but you can at least use “find” instead of scrolling, just to make sure you didn’t miss something while reading through the comments. You just “find” your name.
On a Mac “find” is activated by holding down the command key while hitting “F” key. That reveals a little “find” window on the bottom of the screen. Type in your name and search “next” through the whole thread. You’ll see if anyone responded. Guessing the Windows “find” is similar.
Ruckus
@RobertDSC-PowerMac G5 Dual:
For some reason I never thought she is all that. And then she opened her mouth and removed all doubt that I was correct.
TaMara (BHF)
I love their little life jackets, which are a must if you and your dog are on the water.
@MazeDancer: That’s what I do. Control F works on PC.
Ruckus
Also as to the General. I don’t recall seeing a word. Several people have tried to contact him, or find him and from what I saw they all made some progress and then ended up nowhere. Either he really dropped out or I’d say by now I’d expect a problem.
MattR
Is your email address for Stuck a free one (ie gmail) or a paid one (ie verizon)? If the latter, it is probably a good sign that they went unanswered rather than boucing back. That would mean the account is still open and being paid for. If the former, who knows if those ever get closed for inactivity.
TaMara (BHF)
And since this is an open thread, can I vent once again about the MPGs on small cars. I’ve been car shopping for a couple of months and in my price range and the fact I want a smaller, zippier car, gas mileage sucks.
How anyone in 2013 can think 31mpg is GREAT, is beyond me. Anyone have a suggestion that doesn’t include a hybrid which is way, way out of my price range?
I’ve got it narrowed down between 3 cars. And when the Chevy Cruze diesel is actually on the lot, I’m going to test drive that. I like the gas Cruze. We had a diesel New Beetle and it ran great and got great gas mileage.
different-church-lady
@pokeyblow: It worked out real well for Toronto, huh?
After game 7 I was going to alter that photo of the Leafs fan holding up that sign to read, “Toronto Golfing”, but I never got to it.
Ruckus
@MazeDancer:
On my apple I don’t even have to type a compete query, as long as it is unique it goes to the first instance.
pokeyblow
@different-church-lady: I just think it’s stupid. The Boston bombing was obviously awful. But there’s no reason for the city to act like it survived a nuclear assault.
People get blown up all around the world every day. Awful shit happens. Only in America (I think and hope) do greeting-card and t-shirt companies gear up to score some cash in the aftermath.
Renie
what breed are those dogs? they are adorable!!!
johio
That dog is very clearly saying, “avast, me hearties”. Stuck in “talk like a pirate” day.
Ruckus
@TaMara (BHF):
It is great if you are comparing it to a mammoth truck that gets in the teens. Europe has different fuels and emissions regs so their cars can get better mileage. Many cars over there can get 50-60 mpg with some even better. Also many of their cars are pretty small. with several engine choices, a lot of small and mid range diesels for the masses and some pretty powerful stuff that doesn’t do that bad.
Our federal credit system makes hybrids more affordable so that’s what a lot of the focus is on.
John Cole
@Renie: Morkies. Maltese/Yorkshire mixes.
And I hate the concept of designer dogs and will never get a dog or cat unless I find it in the pound or on the side of the road, but these dogs are fucking awesome. So much personality in such little packages. Really awesome little girls.
Of course, if I could breed Lily’s, I would, so I am, as always, a hypocrite and full of shit.
MomSense
@TaMara (BHF):
Flintstones car?? I’m riding my bike to work in sunny weather but I have a short commute. It is pathetic that our cars get such poor gas mileage.
I too have heard good things about the diesel beetles and know people who run them with biodiesel.
different-church-lady
@pokeyblow: Wait a minute… did you say “ban?”
pokeyblow
@different-church-lady: Yes.
http://www.boston.com/news/source/2013/06/chicago_stronger_t-shirts_now_for_sale.html
fuckwit
@Ruckus: For some reason, the word “hatefuck” comes to mind.
Actually I have known and worked with women like this on several occasions, and I’m usually immune to their charms once I catch a whiff of what sociopathic users and manipulators they are. It’s an instant boner-killer. In up-close situations, that type of attitude sets my warning bells off, and there is no wood. In pictures, yeah, she sure does look good.
But it’s very obvious she’s sexing it up to get what she wants: which isn’t sex, but power.
Women who sex it up because they actually want and like sex get my respect and undivided attention every time. I’ve been very fortunate to have known a few personally. But women who sex it up solely as a power trip are obvious and unattractive to me, just because of that.
Let’s face it: she’s trolling the entire country. Please ignore the troll. You make trolls go away by pretending they don’t exist.
Though I have to say, I’ve never seen anyone do that before on such a scale, and that’s her special claim to fame. She know how to troll, better than perhaps anyone. She uses everything she’s got: outrageous statements, outrageous body, outrageous money (other people’s, of course), and those winks that send such starbursts and sparkles into dumbass pundits eyes.
During and after the 2008 election I wired GreaseMonkey to pie-filter all mentions of her. She went away for a while; now it seems she’s trying for a comeback. I should enable that filter again.
different-church-lady
@pokeyblow: Care to tell me where in that article it says some regulating authority instituted a ban?
Ultraviolet Thunder
@TaMara (BHF):
Economy car gas mileage peaked in the ’70s/80s. But a Honda CRX HF (50 MPG) would be considered undriveable today. Crank windows, lackluster acceleration, noise, harsh ride, etc. The price of gas had been steady or effectively dropping for 20+ years so cars got fancier, heavier and thirstier. the rest of the world has thriftier cars, but a lot of the world pays double what we do for fuel.
pokeyblow
@different-church-lady: I didn’t say “legislated ban.” I’m referring to the practical ban enforced by silly people like BigBadBruins88 who tweeted a picture of the MIT cop who was killed, along with
Tweeting #chicagostronger is mocking Officer Collier who died for his COUNTRY & the countless others maimed! pic.twitter.com/wdf98AN71m #Boston Strong Bruins
different-church-lady
I can’t see this game, but from what I’m hearing on my radio, it’s not sounding good for the sportsmen from the east coast.
pokeyblow
@efgoldman: There is, for example, a “ban” on saying the n-word. That “ban” makes sense.
Boston sports fans appropriating a silly slogan, then acting violated when anyone else fair-uses it is just ridiculous.
JPL
The other day we had a teeny tornado come through.. not the Oklahoma kind but it really freaked my dog out. I have a fenced in yard or had and Miss Moxie wouldn’t go out without a leash. Dogs are weird!
different-church-lady
@pokeyblow: You got a really loose definition of “banned” there, Pokey.
(BTW, the word you’re looking for in regard to that racist slur is “taboo”. Perhaps “stigma”. And there’s a very good reason for it, no?)
JGabriel
John Cole @ Top:
Well that’s eerie — I was just thinking of Gen. Stuck myself. Has anyone heard from him? I’m a little worried about the guy.
elmo
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
I’m tickled to death with the 27mpg I get with my little Nissan Rogue, because I bought it to replace an 8cylinder Jeep Grand Cherokee.
With a hemi.
For a 100 mile round trip commute.
I was filling the tank every three days with that thing.
pokeyblow
@different-church-lady: Well, I hope you don’t let my definition of “banned” ruin your weekend.
Have a look at #4 from dictionary.com:
ban
1 [ban] Show IPA verb, banned, ban·ning, noun
verb (used with object)
1. to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict: to ban nuclear weapons; The dictator banned all newspapers and books that criticized his regime.
2. Archaic.
a. to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon.
b. to curse; execrate.
noun
3. the act of prohibiting by law; interdiction.
4. informal denunciation or prohibition, as by public opinion: society’s ban on racial discrimination.
5. Law.
a. a proclamation.
b. a public condemnation.
6. Ecclesiastical . a formal condemnation; excommunication.
7. a malediction; curse.
JPL
@JGabriel: He had some health issues and hopefully he is okay. I still wonder about his Charlie.
JGabriel
efgoldman:
Does anyone ever really enjoy their first period?
JGabriel
@JPL: Thanks, JPL
different-church-lady
@pokeyblow:
Oh heck no, it was ruined long before tonight.
So, when people were organizing a public-pressure boycott of Chick-Fil-A, was that a “ban” on chicken?
Any rate, I haven’t heard that slogan around these parts much lately anyway. Far as I know the Bruins themselves have made no move to capitalize on it. Don’t doubt we’re going to see some signs on TV, and there will be a ton of independent merchandise with it outside the Garden. But really, we’ve mostly moved on.
pokeyblow
@different-church-lady: Regarding Chick-Fil-A, no there was no ban on chicken(!) attempted or accomplished.
I suspect that, had the boycott been successful such that no one was willing to patronize the restaurants, or the restaurants began to close in response, you could say there was a “ban” in the spirit of definition #4 above.
But I’m a lover, not a lexicographer.
pokeyblow
@efgoldman: Why are you so unpleasant?
All that anger, all that bitterness. It’s not worth it.
pokeyblow
@efgoldman: Maybe instead of saying mean things about people you don’t know on the internet, you should spend some constructive time reading a dictionary.
NickT
@efgoldman:
As Jerome wrote to Augustine:
“You are hated by the heretics – which is a greater glory!”
NickT
@pokeyblow:
Why do all you trolls sound alike? Is there some sort of factory which installs a automatic whiny self-pity program into your pointy heads?
Functioning minds want to know.
Kristine
Those pups are absolutely adorable.
mainmati
@TaMara (BHF): If you want a small car with great gas mileage – well into the 40’s per gallon, try the VW Golf TDI. Ours is a manual transmission because we have always driven a stick. Nowadays, automatic transmissions are equally as efficient, I believe. The Golf TDI not only is fuel efficient but has really great pickup. So, it’s a real alternative, IMO.
pokeyblow
@NickT: As I said before, Nick, the things you write are neither funny enough, smart enough, nor mean enough (and positively not insightful enough) for me to take notice of.
Mike in NC
@pokeyblow: Welcome to our worthless fucking news media. Same as it ever was.
NickT
@efgoldman:
I hope the goats aren’t as bored by pokey as I am.
pokeyblow
@Mike in NC: The same, yes, but new technologies allow the bathos to spread at lightning speed.
NickT
@pokeyblow:
Nice self-refutation there. Don’t worry, I won’t charge you tuition for the new word you’ve just learned.
Punchy
BLAXHAWX GUNNA ROLL THE BREW HENS! CHITOWN STRONGESTER!
different-church-lady
Ah yes, now our sporting boys might afford themselves a fighting chance! Pip pip!
@Punchy:
This is a hockey thread. You appear to be referring to a minor league baseball team.
raven
@different-church-lady: open thread
PaulW
As open thread, just wanna say “Yay” for the Iranian voters.
Punchy
@efgoldman: Really? A “troll” b/c s/he points out the fucking ridiculousness of Boston sports fans co-opting a slogan and accusing anyone else who uses it as “mocking” the deceased? Boston fans are fucking shitty in about 100 different ways, but the excoriation of Chicago fans for pointing out their shittiness is the height of shitty fandom.
different-church-lady
@raven: Open hockey thread.
And apparently one that’s doesn’t appreciate the finer points of odd-names-for-minor-league-baseball-teams humor.
I mean, there’s got to be a single A ballclub somewhere in wheat country called the Brew Hens.
different-church-lady
Three ways chickens will improve your beer.
raven
@efgoldman: A troll because it’s a fucking troll.
pokeyblow
@efgoldman: I did not make shot up.
You’re relationship with the English language is far more damaged than I first realized.
pokeyblow
@raven: You’re such a bitter person.
Isn’t there someone in your real life who cares about you, someone you can talk with?
I hate to imagine the isolation and suffering your life’s become.
trollhattan
@TaMara (BHF):
A buddy has the 1.4L turbo Cruz with six-speed stick (has a California-stupid commute) that delivers 30s in town and low-40s on the interstate. For some reason it has a smaller tank than the regular version, which cuts into range some, but I’ve taken trips of several hours in the thing and am surprised how quiet and non-annoying it is.
Our diesel is so high it’s tough to break even when mileage is considered in dollars per mile, but that may not be the case everywhere.
pokeyblow
@raven: All alone, day after day, night after night, desperately trying to defend meaningless little plots of blog-comment-space turf.
Really? Is there no way out?
It’ll always be like that, won’t it?
A Ghost To Most
@TaMara (BHF):
I get 43 real world mpg in my Prius, and I hammer around in it. Probably not zippy enough for you, but everything is a compromise.
pokeyblow
@efgoldman: You’re right.
I make mistakes, and that was one of them.
But I did not make shot up.
Punchy
@efgoldman: go ahead and wear a shirt tomorrow around town that says “(Your town) stronger” and see what happens. You’ll get told to take it off. Its a de facto ban, not a legal one, but youre being willfully obtuse about it.
pokeyblow
@Punchy: I posted a definition from dictionary.com above which clearly supports my usage of the word “ban.”
These lonely, desperate, shut-in people are so full of anger, so devoid of influence in real-life, that they’ll carry on their hate offensive against someone they know nothing about for as long as possible.
I’d feel sorry for them, if I were a nicer person.
different-church-lady
Toledo Mud Hens
Montgomery Biscuits
Savannah Sand Gnats
Idaho Falls Chukars
different-church-lady
@pokeyblow:
Well, thank heavens that’s not an option.
pokeyblow
@different-church-lady: I love watching baseball, and loathe going to MLB stadiums.
pokeyblow
@different-church-lady: Do you think I’m a troll too?
different-church-lady
@pokeyblow: Commissioner Selig thanks you.
different-church-lady
@pokeyblow: It’s hard to tell: every time you post I just hear insects buzzing.
burnspbesq
@pokeyblow:
Mr. Goldman is correct. If you don’t like being called a troll, modify your behavior.
Corner Stone
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
I have looked for one of those for about a decade now. They are almost impossible to find in nominally “buyable” status in Texas.
I have a 2008 gas Honda Cr-V that gets about 30 blended, and is fairly comfortable for 3+ hour drives.
I’d like to find a diesel Honda I can tune up and see what I can get done.
pokeyblow
@burnspbesq: Please point out my specific trolling behavior.
Responding to those who insult me directly and without provocation is not trolling.
Corner Stone
@Corner Stone: One other project that I’ve been trying to talk myself into is picking up a Toyota BJ40 and dropping a more modern diesel engine into it.
Either way, one day I’m going to pick up a manual Honda Civic (or similar) and teach my son to drive a stick on it.
pokeyblow
@Corner Stone: Not exactly parallel, but I have a late 50s Honda Cub 50 scooter. Some guy had a blog going on about his project to replace the engine with a modern Japanese 125cc version. I thought that sounded cool, and read all his blog posts… then they stopped mid-project, several years ago. I have no idea whether he made it work. I’d love to ride that thing around at speeds over 35 mph!
pokeyblow
@burnspbesq: I’m asking for your help. Will you show me some examples?
different-church-lady
@efgoldman: I grew up in [community near Lowell]. It’s really amazing to see the changes. In my childhood it was somewhat desolate, and the sidewalks rolled up at 5. I think my father worked in a building they tore down to put up the arena. I can’t even remember what was on the land that the stadium is on now.
HAFFNER’S GAS — IT KICKS!
pokeyblow
@efgoldman: Now that you’re past the productive, hopeful segment of your life, I’ll bet those memories, meager as they are, are very important to you.
Anne Laurie
@John Cole:
You could always have some of her DNA stored professionally. Cloning’s still imperfect, and expensive, but hopefully you won’t need a Lily II for at least another decade and the technology is moving fast!
Our first Papillon (my first dog) was a top breeder’s ‘failure’ — too big to show — and I felt about him the way you feel about Lily. All of our guys have been castoffs or rescues, but I’m not ashamed to admit that if I had a the means & opportunity to clone Galliard I’d do it in a heartbeat. And, yes, I know a clone wouldn’t be “the same” but Galley was the kind of beautiful, loving, adaptable heartstealer that comes along once in a lifetime…. if we’re lucky.
different-church-lady
@efgoldman: It’s come up quite a bit since then. Many a young renter found more affordable real estate there during the bubble. It got younger, hipper, and cleaner — people care about the place more now, more of the abandoned mills have been converted to office space.
Yet there’s still all this old-school stuff to be found. Last time I was there, I was like, “Holy crap, that furniture store is STILL there?” It was one of those places literally packed with stuff, and you have to ride an old freight elevator between six floors to see it all.
The canals never got filled in, the ice cream places are still on each side of the river, the SUN neon is still lit. But the hospital I was born in got torn down recently — that was a shocker.
pat
@TaMara (BHF):
I bought a 2013 VW Jetta Sportwagon Turbo Diesel (TDI) 6 speed manual transmission for something like $24000, three year no interest, three year full maintenance,
and I’m getting 42-44 mpg.
Anne Laurie
@JPL:
The leash is not so you’ll know where she is, it’s so she’ll know where you are! As long as you’re at the other hand, the contract says that you’re in charge and it’s Not Her Problem. That’s comforting, for a little dog in a big, dangerous world. With that fence down, who KNOWS what monsters might stroll in when you’re not watching?
Almost all dogs are Lawful — like our blogmaster.
pokeyblow
@efgoldman: Did you ever think, back then, that you’d wind up where you are now?
No, of course not. You wouldn’t have been able to go on.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Is it too late to bet on how many overtimes there will be?
different-church-lady
@efgoldman: Wow, the looms were still working in the 70s? I was in Fall River on a job recently, and it was eerie how much it reminded me of Lowell.
Providence has come a long way too. I had a friend who built out AS220. She said they actually hauled the peep show booths out of the building themselves. I’d love to see some old pictures of what it looked like when the river was covered over.
Corner Stone
I’m just going to leave this here:
NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants
“National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too.”
JGabriel
pokeyblow:
Live by the pen, die by the pen.
pokeyblow
@JGabriel: What do you mean?
different-church-lady
@Corner Stone: OK, now we got something to fix.
pokeyblow
@Corner Stone: Obama has to listen to your phone calls. Because of Max Baucus.
Corner Stone
@different-church-lady: In the interim you could always claim CNET isn’t a reliable broker of information. I’m sure that’s what we’ll see from others here moving forward.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@efgoldman: Boston to Chicago isn’t nearly as bad as it would be if it were an LA/Boston final.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@different-church-lady: Don’t hold your breath
The report doesn’t have the names of who attended, who didn’t.
pokeyblow
@efgoldman: Wow, I never realized how exciting it would be to watch two cartographic prodigies talk shop.
different-church-lady
@Corner Stone: Well, Charles Johnson is already on it, but I’ll wait to see what shakes out before placing any bets.
I mean, why the hell should anyone trust Charles Johnson over anyone else?
I suppose it’s possible for CNET to have the details wrong — or even be monumentally wrong — but they don’t have a well-established reputation for being full of shit.
In the meantime, shriekers gotta shriek.
Corner Stone
This commentator has a Blackhawk hanging off the tip of his nose. Driving me batty.
StringOnAStick
Yesterday I watched a guy take a left hand turn too fast in his SUV, and his poor little dog flew right out of the open window on the passenger side. The dog rolled a few times, got up limping a bit, and then hopped back in the car when the driver opened his door. I don’t know how the poor thing avoided getting run over, but it survived.
Dear dog owners: please don’t drive around with your dog leaning out the open window, especially when it is a small enough dog that it can be ejected from the vehicle because of your crap driving habits.
John O
I was born in ’59. I thought the Hawks with Makita and Hull (B) would win lots of Cups, but it turns out to be really hard.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Ruckus: I worry about Stuck. He’s a Reds fan, so I’ve expected him to chime in now and then.
And cute Morkie picture Cole. Rats on a rope ride in a boat (off rope and with proper life vests).
Corner Stone
@different-church-lady: Sure. But CNET was a key source for everyone screaming at the top of their lungs how this story was all wrong.
Now they are quoting officials, on the record, so I am interested to see what happens next.
My guess is we will be treated to the most intense semantic pedantry since what the meaning of “is” is.
And they will continue to all scream that what this means isn’t what that other thing means and this has nothing to do with that and you can’t take what this is reported to be about and make any conclusions about the other thing and so on, so forth.
I am also still waiting to learn more. I also don’t have any faith in Charles Johnson, about anything. If GG gets slagged for writing an intro to a book commenting on his Iraq War thought process then Charles Johnson should get dunked in a fucking acid bath.
Corner Stone
Fucking Jagr.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: Not to be dirty, but I didn’t even see his stick move when he flicked that freakin puck.
Corner Stone
Jagr is going to have to post up in the zone because he just doesn’t have the quicks to beat anyone to or off the puck.
Corner Stone
Goodness. Who knew that Joey Crawford was not only an excellent NBA game fixer as a ref but also a freakin stud between the posts.
Corner Stone
This is just fucking crazy.
different-church-lady
Dammit, this is going to be one of those games where one team carries the play the whole overtime, and the other team scores.
Corner Stone
Power play? Power play!
ETA, no penalty.
pseudonymous in nc
@TaMara (BHF):
Diesels would be the obvious place to look, but the US makers don’t build models with diesel engines for the US market (even though they sell diesel versions in Foreign) and the foreign makers mostly don’t import them. And fuel standards are a problem, too, since diesel in the US has to be somewhat backwards-compatible with the dirty old vehicles that run on it.
Ruckus is right that the incentives are different in Europe — higher fuel taxes, emissions-based vehicle taxation. So you get low-emission diesels because there’s a market made for them, while the US market is more amenable to hybrids and EVs.
Emma
@Corner Stone: Ah. Listen to the actual video before you celebrate. Really.
different-church-lady
OK! SHOWS WHAT I KNOW!
Corner Stone
Broons.
reflectionephemeral
PAILLE!!!
Thank fucking god.
The Moar You Know
Good lord. I’m running Troll-B-Gone and over half this thread is blocked. What the hell are you people doing?
To business: I fear the worst about Stuck. He was pretty involved here since before I found the place, he wasn’t the type to take time off from the place, and we know he was not in good health. I’m not one who will chase a guy down outside of the internet – that’s poor form and frequently when people vanish from the net it’s because they don’t want to be found, or are sick of somebody’s shit – but I’d sure like to know what’s happened to him regardless. Sure, he was a bit crazy and unreasonable sometimes, but then again, so am I. So are we all.
Corner Stone
Damn, half an inch more and it pings off the post.
James E. Powell
Only one overtime? I feel cheated.
Linnaeus
Bruins!!!! Yes!!!!
Corner Stone
@Emma: I’m watching the video now. That was one hell of an OT period.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
This is going to be a loooong series.
Linnaeus
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS):
It’s going seven. Awesome.
different-church-lady
That first period makes a hell of a case for Conn Smythe Trophy to Rask.
James E. Powell
@John O:
Not to mention Tony Esposito.
j
So I guess Boston “won” 2-2 thanks to Mr. Magoo blowing a call.
Call the IRS on his ass! He obviously threw the game.
max
@different-church-lady: That first period makes a hell of a case for Conn Smythe Trophy to Rask.
The Bruins being in this series makes the case for Rask.
max
[‘They wouldn’t be here otherwise. He’ll be able to name his price after this.’]
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@max: to be fair, Crawford or Rask would be worthy of the trophy at this point. They’ve both played hella good.
different-church-lady
REPORTER: Was there anything you did differently after the first period?
CLAUDE: Yeah, we started playing.
different-church-lady
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): Crawford is mighty impressive. With up to 5 games left, there’s lots of case left to be built for both of them.
But dayum… B’s would have been down 3 at the end of 1 with a merely above-average goalie.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@different-church-lady: Yep. They’ve already played three games if you think about it.
BarbCat
@MazeDancer: Thanks a bazillion. I feel like I’m in the 21st Century. Mac person I am.
Emma
@Corner Stone: I am truly confused, as is Kevin Drum at Mother Jones and now suddenly Nadler isn’t talking. Well, at least the guy actually attended the briefing, but since he put it out there wish he would clarify.
And I wouldn’t know the Bruins from the Blackhawks *ducks and runs*
BarbCat
@The Moar You Know: Yes. His handle is a BJ Icon, for what it’s worth and I’d say a lot.
different-church-lady
@Emma: The Bruins are the really good team, and the Blackhawks are the other really good team.
scav
@pokeyblow: Cartographic? Seriously? How’d I miss the extensive discussion of Conic Conformal Projections v. Cylindrical; the far-ranging explorations of the properties of Goode’s Homolosine; the latest developments in the automated creation of cartograms; and the rants about symbology — or do you just fling out multisyllabic words for the self-indulgent hell of it? Christ you must get an upper body workout dragging those personal spotlights about with you constantly.
James E. Powell
@efgoldman:
Tony O played three seasons with Mikita and Hull, before Hull left for the WHA. Esposito won the Vezina in two of those seasons. This was, coincidentally, when I was in high school, which is when I became a hockey fanatic.
dance around in your bones
General Stuck was a fixture around here for so many years….he often said very insightful things and other times he got bit tedious. To have him just disappear is weird and, I suppose, in the nature of online ‘relationships’. They can feel so intimate and yet ultimately so ephemeral.
Sigh – I hope he’s ok, but I fear the worst.
Yatsuno
Sheesh. I take one Saturday off and it turns into pot around heah.
@dance around in your bones: I’m not going to fear the worst without something to base that fear on. I am concerned however.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@Yatsuno: Yes, and we are holding you personally responsible. This will go down on your permanent BJ record.
dance around in your bones
@Yatsuno: All we can do is hope, I guess. I think Stuck would be/will be gratified to see so many people expressing concern about his well-being. It’s more than a lot of people get in the end.
Yatsuno
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): I r irrepressible. So nyah. Plus I’ve been doing meatspace type things with family and stuff.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@Yatsuno: eh, works for me. So, what’s this “meatspace” thing like? I hear about it a lot.
j
@efgoldman:
That slant 6 / 225 was one of the best engines ever made. Ran forever with almost no maintenance, but eventually was killed off by the lead free gas mandate. They just couldn’t figure out how to modify it to be compatible with catalytic converters.
Dodge / Plymouth used it in the Dart, Duster, Valiant, Demon, Fury, Barracuda, etc. (And just about every small town cop car ever made in the 60’s and early 70’s. )
Yatsuno
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): It can be a bit skeery, but also kinda fun. I kinda like it in small doses.
@dance around in your bones: I guess until there’s some kind of news all we can do is hope for now.
MomSense
@efgoldman:
Ooh, do you know if that diner Four Sisters is still a going concern. I used to love to go there.
James E. Powell
@efgoldman:
Maybe true, but I’m from Cleveland. We had a pretty decent AHL team, then a WHA team, then a very bad NHL team. My family accounted for ten season seats at our peak.
Amir Khalid
We can only hope the General decides to check in, after he’s had enough fun watching us worry about nothing.
In the meantime, the Beeb offers an amusing little history of the oopsie.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Amir Khalid: “Sonning welcomes careful drivers”, heh heh.
j
@John O: That, and the fact that Bill Wirtz would order the teams to purposely lose playoff games on the road just so the team would have to come back home. (So Wirtz could sell more tickets.)
All he ever cared about was asses in the seats. When the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup on the road in 2010, some sports reporter asked Rocky Wirtz “I bet your old man would be really proud now, right?” Rocky laid it out on TV exactly what his old man would have done. He would have ordered the team to throw the game and force another one in Chicago just so he could sell another 20,000 tickets. Screw the team, screw the fans, just sell more seats and beer.
And if the Hawks lost? Who cares, Dollar Bill sold another 20,000 tickets.This shit went on for decades.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/sports/hockey/02wirtz.html
? Martin
@j:
Yeah, no kidding. My mom had a Dart with that engine. After my parents split up, the maintenance on the car just stopped. A number of years later I hit my teens and her new boyfriend (now stepfather) decided to show me how to change the oil. So we pulled the oil plug – and nothing came out. Shoved a screwdriver up there and pulled out something with the consistency of saltwater taffy. I don’t think the oil had been changed in about 4 years. Car ran fine. He was afraid to put new oil in it for fear the shock would just break it. Anyway, after a full weekend of working on it, it was as it should have been. Soon after she traded it in to buy a VW – which also ran pretty much without any need for maintenance (as I later learned).
The Dart was gold with a dark green plastic interior that in the summer your skin would molecularly fuse to. I must have puked 100 times in that car – I had terrible carsickness as a kid.
In college there was a guy on my hall who had a /6 Barracuda, which he loved more than a person should love a car. It seemed fast, too. He’d done work on it, but I bet it still wasn’t north of 200HP. But against any early 80s car, it was a fucking rocket. Anyway, he was the guy on the hall that would pass out after a few and not wake up for 6 hours, so after we were done drawing dicks on his face with sharpies, we’d go and move the Barracuda and leave it somewhere on campus. Middle of the soccer field. We had this big gazebo in the middle of the large open area in the middle of campus. We put it on the gazebo once. There was a big quarry behind the campus where we’d go skinny dipping in summer, with an old abandoned narrow gauge line that served it. You’d have to go through this big thicket of woods, but we managed to get it back there onto the rail line. It was loud as fuck, so you couldn’t really drive farther than a parking lot, so we’d roll it, pull it with a come-along that we’d borrow from the physics lab, pick it up for short distances (wasn’t that heavy, as it turns out). He’d get so pissed, which just made us want to do it again, and sure enough next weekend he’d be out, we’d run out of space to draw, and we’d start assembling the group…
pokeyblow
@scav:I didn’t realize that “cartographic” was too advanced a word for this audience.
Plainly my fault, since I learned on this very thread that the monosyllabic “ban” was outside the typical bitter, failed shut-in’s working vocabulary.
pokeyblow
@efgoldman: Yeah, because the only kids born in those cities were either prosperous white kids whose daddies took them to games, or poorer ones who played broomstick hockey on skates homemade from Chuck Taylors, duct tape, and butter knives.
Anne Laurie
@The Moar You Know:
True dat. The one point of light: I tried plugging his meatspace name (or at least the one he uses for selling photos, that’s how I knew it) into Legacy.com’s SS screen, and nobody by that name has died since last year.
I most sincerely hope Gen. Stuck is just sick of the trash talk here, and that he & Charlie are busy having adventures together.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@Anne Laurie: Did you check the N.M. newspapers? I remember a while back he took an extended vacation from the comments. Hopefully that’s all this is.
patrick II
@James E. Powell:
Don’t confuse Phil Esposito with Tony Esposito. Phil was the older brother and played with the Blackhawks a few years with Bobby Hull before being traded to Boston where he became one of the all time greats.
The Hawks had the makings of one of the great all time hockey teams with Hull, Mikita and Esposito, but owner Bill Wirtz did not like to pay players and traded Esposito and eventually let Hull go to the WHA.
? Martin
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): Yeah, he once told us he was sick of some of the people here and was going to take off. And he did for a while and then came back. He’s probably fine. If he’s not, then I think it’s obvious to all that Corner Stone should be held responsible.
MikeJ
@? Martin: Is there anything for which we should not hold corner stone responsible? Obviously the good stuff, but anything bad I mean.
? Martin
@MikeJ: Not that I can think of.
Steeplejack
@? Martin:
Trolls. Even at his worst he’s not as bad as some of the trolls. But low bar, etc., etc.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@MikeJ:
Original sin, maybe? Everything after that…
scav
@pokeyblow: Please, continue with your definition of carography, with illustrations of how it was relevant in the context of comments in this thread. Whole you’re at it, define homolosine and the three properties one can preserve with alternative projections, carefully noting if they can be simultaneously optimized. Elighten us, O! sage.
pokeyblow
@scav:Hey, I’m simple ‘ol pokeyblow, and I don’t know those things.
I referenced cartography after it was asserted by your fellow Mensans that both Lost Angeles and Vancouver are further from Boston than Chicago is.
I was just acknowledging the breadth of learning which necessarily supports that sort of knowledge.
scav
@pokeyblow Add to the list of things you don’t know the difference between cartography and geography.
pokeyblow
@scav:
Ortelius redivivus!
Roberta in MN
@BarbCat: Love the pictures. I will have two of them. :) I have a Yorkie, can’t live without her, she is 15 there will be a day.
NickT
@scav:
It’s a small consolation to think that the NSA have to download a fresh version of that list for every hour that pokeytroll spends on the intertoobz.
BruceFromOhio
@j: Ah, Slant 6 brings back some awesome memories. That it was a punk band staffed by three women made it tres bien.
jayboat
Throw in a couple Buicks and an Oldsmobile, and this thread would have the makins of a Tom Waits tune…
Just Some Fuckhead
Has anyone called all the mental institutions in and around New Mexico?
Emerald
John, you know his name. You can find his address on the internet White Pages. Perhaps send him a snail mail letter expressing our concern for him?
He might reply privately. I just hope he and Charlie are OK. I really miss them both.