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Saturday Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  August 31, 20138:41 pm| 172 Comments

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Low key night tonight, starting with dinner, which was just mac and cheese and stewed tomatoes. Again. Got a bunch of tomatoes from the garden waiting to be devoured, so I see a tomato sandwich in my future.

I’m watching the Georgia v. Clemson game because mom is a Georgia grad and they are kind of my adopted team other than the Eers, and I was on the phone with mom talking about it, and I was petting Steve who was on my lap, and apparently I reached my belly pet limit and he bit me hard, and this happened:

Me: There is just something about the Clemson coach I don’t li… OUCH, DAMNIT TUNCH!

Mom: It’s not Tunch, Seth. Err J.G.

Both of us: Hysterical laughter….

I had to ask if this was ok to post, because she was really mad about my post last night because she knows who Miley Cyrus is and she thinks I made it sound like they are crazy old people. I mean, they are both crazy and old, but they aren’t crazy and old in THAT way. They’re both pretty with it.

And I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you the only reason I wrote this is because my dad made the best pasta fagioli the other day, but with a summer twist with a lot of zucchini and squash, and even though it was soup the squash and zucchini were both crisp and I inhaled it, burning my tongue in the process. So I asked him to make some more and I need to kiss a little ass here.

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  1. 1.

    Randy P

    August 31, 2013 at 8:47 pm

    The squirrels have discovered the tomato plants, so we can’t let them ripen on the plant anymore if we want to actually eat any of our own tomatoes. My wife is doing some pretty interesting and creative things with the green ones (green tomato chili, fried green tomatoes, green tomato omelets). They really do have an interesting lemony flavor.

    But there’s nothing like a ripe red one from your own garden. Sigh.

  2. 2.

    Mnemosyne

    August 31, 2013 at 8:48 pm

    If it’s any consolation to them, that post made you sound more old and out of touch than they did. FWIW.

  3. 3.

    Mnemosyne

    August 31, 2013 at 8:49 pm

    @Randy P:

    Someone here said that if squirrels are going after your tomatoes, they usually want the water in them, not the actual tomato. Try putting a bowl of water out for them and see if they go after that instead.

  4. 4.

    JPL

    August 31, 2013 at 8:50 pm

    @Randy P: The squirrels wiped out my green zebra and cherry tomatoes but they are leaving the plum tomatoes for me.

  5. 5.

    burnspbesq

    August 31, 2013 at 8:53 pm

    I take it that we are not speaking about Bill & Mary’s near-miracle.

  6. 6.

    Redshirt

    August 31, 2013 at 8:57 pm

    Sounds like Steve was loving all over you.

  7. 7.

    Alexandra

    August 31, 2013 at 8:58 pm

    belly pet limit

    There’s almost always that internal clock or counter, the moment when it suddenly comes, when their ears suddenly turn back and they get pissy.

  8. 8.

    hildebrand

    August 31, 2013 at 8:59 pm

    Hmm, Cole seems to be avoiding a rather significant topic of conversation. Wonder why that would be?

  9. 9.

    beer time somewhere

    August 31, 2013 at 9:02 pm

    @hildebrand: Give it a rest. Switch over to Faux News if you’re that concerned.

  10. 10.

    jnfr

    August 31, 2013 at 9:05 pm

    I’ve brought at least five baskets of tomatoes in from the garden this year. Also peppers and eggplants, but the tomatoes have been overwhelming.

  11. 11.

    hildebrand

    August 31, 2013 at 9:05 pm

    @beer time somewhere: What? We can be trolled, but cannot troll? That hardly seems equitable. When our fair blog-king stumbles, it is our duty to take the piss out of him. No?

  12. 12.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    August 31, 2013 at 9:07 pm

    I agree with Herbie, Georgia does not want a racehorse game, they face the “Cocks next week. And I bet after the shit Jadevon Clowney has and will be hearing all week, his “A” game will be extreme.

  13. 13.

    Yatsuno

    August 31, 2013 at 9:08 pm

    so I see a tomato sandwich bunch of frozen tomato sauce in my future

    Not enough bread in the world if you got a good mater crop. Not bad for a fruit that used to be considered poison.

  14. 14.

    Waspuppet

    August 31, 2013 at 9:08 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I know it was completely unrealistic, but until that post I was hoping his parents didn’t know about this blog. Not that they didn’t know what blogs were, just that they didn’t know about this.

  15. 15.

    khead

    August 31, 2013 at 9:09 pm

    Clemson delivered the team to the stadium by bus. For a home game. It took 15 minutes. WTF? I can remember when running through some paper was enough. Also, you kids get off my lawn.

  16. 16.

    lamh36

    August 31, 2013 at 9:10 pm

    Watching the Cosby show.

    It’s hard to decide what my fav Cosby Show episode is. A full list def includes all the obvious musical ones but there is one ep that only an ULTIMATE Cosby Show fan would know. What is the name of the woman from Cliff’s pre-Claire dating life, that he will NEVER be able to live down? I swear the name came to me instantly. Don’t google it, just guess it first. In case you can’t here is the part of the episode to remind you!

    The Cosby Show – Tacky Barrette

  17. 17.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    August 31, 2013 at 9:11 pm

    I am messing about on the internet awaiting my next life on Candy Crush (cause I am too cheap to pay for one) and I keep thinking about the fact that I changed the bedding today and there are fresh outdoor dried sheets on the bed waiting for me and there is nothing more magical than sliding into fresh outdoor dried sheets for the first time. I know I am weird.

  18. 18.

    Just One More Canuck

    August 31, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    @lamh36: How’s your sister?

  19. 19.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 31, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    @lamh36: Any of the ones with Lisa Bonet. Obviously.

  20. 20.

    PsiFighter37

    August 31, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    I’m drunk, I don’t care about what’s going on. I think asking for congressional approval for Syria bombing is 11 dimensional chess.

    PF37 +drinking wine all day long

  21. 21.

    Redshirt

    August 31, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    I’m smelling new reality show on A&E or Lifetime or one of those channels:

    BLOGGER! Follow the Cole family as John blogs and the whole family plays a part. What will Mom say next?!

  22. 22.

    John Cole

    August 31, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    @hildebrand: What am I avoiding? I honestly don’t know.

  23. 23.

    John Cole

    August 31, 2013 at 9:17 pm

    @burnspbesq: Well, I was kind of avoiding THAT…

    I’d be surprised if we win another game this year.

  24. 24.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    August 31, 2013 at 9:20 pm

    Oh and speaking of bacon (what?) I got about four pounds of “bacon ends and pieces” yesterday for $4.00. I spent most of the day cooking it down, used the really lean bits for a bacon butty this morning, drained off a large amount of fat for use later, separated the lean bacon for use over DH’s salads and the fat for treats for the dogs, and am currently feeding Weeny the abandoned kitten pure liquid bacon fat which he loves. That should put some meat on his bones. This evening I had to have breakfast for dinner because there is nothing better than fried bread done in bacon fat. I think getting five uses out of four pounds of bacon is an absolute bargain.

  25. 25.

    NotMax

    August 31, 2013 at 9:22 pm

    Zucchini is the one thing I will not eat. It is an instantly vile abomination to my taste buds, no matter how prepared or what dish it is hidden in, and there is nothing anyone can say or cook that will convince me otherwise.

  26. 26.

    hildebrand

    August 31, 2013 at 9:22 pm

    @John Cole: I thought you might want to comment on the President’s little talk today, especially as you seemed to have a rather strong opinion just the other day – a bit of wisdom that ended with some vague knavery about Peace prizes and assorted whatnot.

  27. 27.

    Jay

    August 31, 2013 at 9:22 pm

    Maybe my picture’s coming out wrong here but…can anyone else see Richard Jenkins playing Cole’s dad in a movie?

    In terms of his mom, I’m trying to think of a veteran actress who can throw the zinger…Sally Field?

  28. 28.

    hildebrand

    August 31, 2013 at 9:24 pm

    @Jay: Judi Dench or Maggie Smith.

  29. 29.

    SteveinSC

    August 31, 2013 at 9:24 pm

    Me: There is just something about the Clemson coach I don’t li…

    Yeah, Dabo is a religious fanatic. Praying and shit all the time.

  30. 30.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 9:26 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    This. The bro’ man, a certified master gardener, uses this technique. You’ll still get a little damage, because the little bastards just like to screw with you, but readily available water really cuts it down.

  31. 31.

    Jane2

    August 31, 2013 at 9:26 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: I have both the Candy Crush and the Bubble Witch monkeys on my back.

  32. 32.

    Mary G

    August 31, 2013 at 9:26 pm

    I loved the post about your parents each reading on their own Kindle/Kindle Fire. They are the real hipsters.

    Brave cat Chenielle is missing since last night. She was meowing out the window, possibly at the neighbors horrible tomcat, Charlie, as I went to bed last night. Haven’t seen her since. We don’t think she got out, but Higgs Boson’s Mate went under the house into the crawl space with a flashlight and we looked everywhere else we could think of.

    I am worried she was feeling sick and I went to sleep without checking on her and she has died somewhere we can’t find. She is microchipped, so I am hoping she darted out when he took the trash out and is lost somewhere. The shelter isn’t open until Tuesday to check.

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    August 31, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt

    Pennsylvania Dutch-style potato salad made with bacon and bacon grease.

  34. 34.

    burnspbesq

    August 31, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    @hildebrand:

    No. Everybody knows everybody else’s position by now. It’s ok to give it a rest for one night. You won’t feel dirty in the morning. Trust me.

  35. 35.

    lamh36

    August 31, 2013 at 9:28 pm

    @Just One More Canuck: my sisters good thanks. No embolism or clot, just extreme muscle pain. They sent her home with some bigtime pain meds (Percacet) and told her to use an anti-inflammatory to help with discomfort.

    thanks for asking

  36. 36.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 9:28 pm

    @Jay: Helen Mirren. Dad Cole by Peter Falk if only he were alive. Maybe Burt Reynolds as backup choice?

  37. 37.

    Jane2

    August 31, 2013 at 9:29 pm

    @Mary G: Well that sucks….I hope you find her soon. If she’s an indoor cat, and she got out, she’s almost 100 percent very close to your house. I spent 3 days one winter on my stomach trying to coach Phil from out under the neighbours steps…not a chance. I even tried a live trap laced with KFC and only caught the neighbour’s cat.

  38. 38.

    Scott Alloway

    August 31, 2013 at 9:29 pm

    @Randy P: Do I know squirrel problems. Four pants. 64 tomatoes. Two reds for us. I’m now seeding the grounds with peanuts in the shell, 60 feet from the tomats. Seems to work.

  39. 39.

    John Cole

    August 31, 2013 at 9:29 pm

    @hildebrand: Oh, I read it and liked it. I disagree with his belief that we need to strike, but I like that he is going to Congress.

    Plus, it had the added benefit of pushing that Irish gangster Peter King closer to a fucking stroke.

  40. 40.

    lamh36

    August 31, 2013 at 9:30 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I love the earlier Lisa Bonet episodes, but the one that came after her “hiatus” was just bleh to me. She was boring, but she did lead to an arch where they introduced the Raven-Symone character and there were some great episodes like the one I posted upthread

  41. 41.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 9:30 pm

    @John Cole: He wants you to talk about dick.
    Frankly, he seems a little obsessed with the idea of you disavowing the dick.

  42. 42.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 9:31 pm

    @Scott Alloway: What did they do to your pants?
    And here I thought raccoons were a fucking menace!

  43. 43.

    Thlayli

    August 31, 2013 at 9:32 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    In my experience, Lisa Bonet was the first black woman that a lot of white guys were into. (Janet Jackson was still in her “kid” phase at that point.)

  44. 44.

    lamh36

    August 31, 2013 at 9:32 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Lord help me, but I swore a while back, that if one more person on my FB or elsewhere ask me to join Candy Crush or post anymore Candy Crush updates to my TL I was going to toatlly go “laboratorial” (kinda like going postal, but I work in the lab, so obviously I won’g be going postal…lol) on a mofo…digitally of course, cause to quote MJ to PM, “I’m a lover not a fighter”.

  45. 45.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    August 31, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Nope Lancashire, the North West.

  46. 46.

    burnspbesq

    August 31, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Do they not play K-State this year?

  47. 47.

    Just One More Canuck

    August 31, 2013 at 9:37 pm

    @lamh36: that’s great

  48. 48.

    burnspbesq

    August 31, 2013 at 9:38 pm

    @Thlayli:

    In my experience, Lisa Bonet was the first black woman that a lot of white guys were into.

    You must be too young to remember Denise Nicholas on “Room 222.”

  49. 49.

    PaulW

    August 31, 2013 at 9:39 pm

    If you’re cat-bit, make sure it didn’t draw blood, if it did wash the wound ASAP and antibacterial cream ASAP.

    Also wik, I need 120 more blog visitors in the next hour to get 3000 views for a month for the first time ever, please swing by I’ve got a nice post about Calvin Coolidge please please please… I promise I won’t ask people to buy my ebooks for all of September…

  50. 50.

    MikeJ

    August 31, 2013 at 9:39 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Yeah, but the North of England is the South.

  51. 51.

    beer time somewhere

    August 31, 2013 at 9:42 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Burnley supporter?

  52. 52.

    PaulW

    August 31, 2013 at 9:42 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    Um, there were also a lot of sci-fi geeks back in the 1960s crushing on Nichelle Nichols too

  53. 53.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    August 31, 2013 at 9:42 pm

    @burnspbesq: Josephine Baker? Though I am not that old.

  54. 54.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 9:43 pm

    @lamh36:

    I could remember “Chantilly” but not the first name. I think I was getting bleedthrough because when In Living Color did their takeoff on Dynasty two characters were named Chandelier and Candalabra Carrington.

    Also loved the payoff when Clair opened the package! I had forgotten that.

  55. 55.

    PaulW

    August 31, 2013 at 9:44 pm

    @Redshirt:

    Needs more Kardashian.

  56. 56.

    NotMax

    August 31, 2013 at 9:45 pm

    @burnspbesq

    Or Diahann Carroll in Julia.

    Or Lena Horne in… anything.

  57. 57.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 9:46 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    I think my cholesterol level just doubled reading that. But I’m not complaining!

  58. 58.

    MikeJ

    August 31, 2013 at 9:47 pm

    @NotMax:

    Or Lena Horne in… anything.

    Of course in half the country they cut her scenes out of movies because white people wouldn’t go to a movie with any black people at all in it, even in one musical scene.

  59. 59.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    August 31, 2013 at 9:48 pm

    @efgoldman: That Colton Houston story is reason that we need drone strikes aimed at the NCAA headquarters, plus with all that Johnny Manziel autograph-gate foolishness.

  60. 60.

    Suzanne

    August 31, 2013 at 9:48 pm

    Taking Munchkin the Elder our for pho in a little while to make up for the caterpillar-in-the-food incident. Bought a new dishwasher, which will be installed on Monday. HUZZAH! I shall spend Labor Day laboring in my kitchen.

  61. 61.

    Roger Moore

    August 31, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    I have one word for you, son: gazpacho!

  62. 62.

    lamh36

    August 31, 2013 at 9:51 pm

    @Thlayli: Let’s say one of the first Black actresses they were willing to say they found hot openly, now that I could believe.

  63. 63.

    Davebo

    August 31, 2013 at 9:52 pm

    Obviously you need to put that cat down. Once they develop the taste for blood you really can never sleep safely again.

  64. 64.

    Chuck Butcher

    August 31, 2013 at 9:52 pm

    Parental suckupitude, a good thing after a certain age…

  65. 65.

    Baud

    August 31, 2013 at 9:53 pm

    @MikeJ:

    What did they do with Gone with the Wind?

  66. 66.

    NotMax

    August 31, 2013 at 9:54 pm

    @Suzanne

    Installation on a holiday?

    Quite the coup, that.

  67. 67.

    Mnemosyne

    August 31, 2013 at 9:56 pm

    @Waspuppet:

    Oh, his parents have commented here before (at least, his mom has). And a couple of his siblings as well. So it’s a whole family affair.

    Yeah, that doesn’t sound good when you’re talking about West Virginia, does it?

  68. 68.

    lamh36

    August 31, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    @Steeplejack: lol. fake though it was, my young mind just KNEW Phylicia Rashad and Bill Cosby were really married. They just had that married couple chemistry back then (also honestly as a poor black kid from a “broken” home, the “Huxtables” were my dream family…lol). I swear when I finally saw Bill Cosby’s real wife Camille, I was like that Claire Huxtable…lol.

    Oh and speaking of beautiful women, I remembering watching Phylicia Rashad as Clair and I used to love her hair and her clothes. Clair Huxtable was FIRST LADY FLY back in the day. Her style is def dated now though…lol

  69. 69.

    Suzanne

    August 31, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    @NotMax: I had to pay $15 extra. Considering the haboob that hit my kitchen, that is a bargain.

  70. 70.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 31, 2013 at 9:59 pm

    I think we should start awarding daily or weekly headlines to the NewsMax headline that best (and perhaps unconsciously) reflects rightwing paranoia. Here’s my nomination

    Gay IRS Tax Rule to Be Challenged in Court

    “Fire up the RV, Merle! Obama’s got a gay IRS he’s sendin’ after us!”

  71. 71.

    Suzanne

    August 31, 2013 at 10:00 pm

    @lamh36: I had to go to the University of Phoenix graduation ceremony this year (don’t ask), and Phylicia Rashad was the commencement speaker. She was wonderful. I had forgotten what a beautiful voice she has.

    Through discussion with Mr. Suzanne later that day, I learned that he has never seen an episode of the Cosby Show. I was absolutely floored. I loved that show as a kid. I just thought Rudy was the absolute shit.

  72. 72.

    raven

    August 31, 2013 at 10:02 pm

    Jesus Christ on a kiddie car I am dying.

  73. 73.

    Randy P

    August 31, 2013 at 10:02 pm

    @Jane2: Might be feeling unwell. We were missing one of our cats once for nearly two days and one of the kids found him passed out in the basement litter box. That’s when we learned about male cats and the tendency to urinary tract issues such as blockages. He recovered nicely, but spent a few days on IVs in kitty intensive care.

    That little guy was indestructible. On two other occasions he disappeared for MONTHS and was recovered when we got a phone call from some distant location where he’d apparently been living on his own but started getting close to people again.

  74. 74.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:04 pm

    Low key night tonight

    Sooo…you’re going to just not tell us anything else about Walt’s party for you?

  75. 75.

    MikeJ

    August 31, 2013 at 10:04 pm

    @Baud: It was ok to show slaves and even paid servants. Horne dropped out of a Johnny Mercer musical in ’46 when the NAACP boycotted it because it had more shufflin’ than usual, even for 1946.

  76. 76.

    the Conster

    August 31, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    Synchronicity – I just put the cannelinis in to soak overnight so I can make pasta fagioli tomorrow – bought a big handful of basil since mine didn’t survive the bugs. No sooner do I leave the bowl of beans on the counter, and someone else has beat me to it.

  77. 77.

    raven

    August 31, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    Now I’ve heard it all Mrs Cole is a Dawg! Best to you ma’am.

  78. 78.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 10:07 pm

    @PaulW:

    Swung by.

  79. 79.

    hildebrand

    August 31, 2013 at 10:07 pm

    @lamh36: I thought that was Pam Grier.

  80. 80.

    lamh36

    August 31, 2013 at 10:08 pm

    @MikeJ: Lena Horne was def a true celeb activist. She used her celebrity to not only advocate for equality and she refused to compromised. She refused to perform for segregated USO performances and she would even go so far tell promoters she wouldn’t perform until the audience was integrated.

    She truly was a great lady

  81. 81.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:08 pm

    @raven: Goodness. So the dawgs are going to be 3-4 by the time the Gators roll into town in Nov?
    That’s gonna be ugly for them.

  82. 82.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    August 31, 2013 at 10:09 pm

    @efgoldman: It’s nice to see someone other than the Gophers losing to FCS schools.

  83. 83.

    lamh36

    August 31, 2013 at 10:10 pm

    @hildebrand: naw, I always had this sneaky suspicion that the Pam Grier/Foxy Brown attraction for some was the whole Blacksploitation sexuality of the whole Foxy Brown persona.

  84. 84.

    raven

    August 31, 2013 at 10:11 pm

    @Corner Stone: Shows what you know about the SEC.

  85. 85.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 10:12 pm

    @NotMax:

    I gotta go ’70s blaxploitation movies: Pam Grier, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta McGee, etc.

  86. 86.

    raven

    August 31, 2013 at 10:13 pm

    @lamh36: She was great as Jackie!

  87. 87.

    NotMax

    August 31, 2013 at 10:13 pm

    @Corner Stone

    Loki night helps keep one from being Thor tomorrow.

  88. 88.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:14 pm

    @raven: They’ll beat North TX, Vandy and probably Tenn. Lose to Clemson, COCKS, LSU and MO.
    Looks like 3 and 4 before FL stomps their guts out.

  89. 89.

    raven

    August 31, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    @Corner Stone: Yea and Florida will roll into town. You fucking jackass, they play in Jacksonville.

  90. 90.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    @Mr Stagger Lee:

    “Jeepers, I didn’t realize that signing 4,000 items might not just be for that guy’s personal use! And I was happy to do it.”

    What a crock. The half-game suspension was a joke.

  91. 91.

    Jay S

    August 31, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    @lamh36: I think Leslie Uggams predates her on that score.

  92. 92.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    August 31, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    Watching a little Washington-Boise State at the new Husky Stadium, if they lose this one, the Sarkissian death watch begins.

  93. 93.

    raven

    August 31, 2013 at 10:16 pm

    @Steeplejack: He’s such a punk.

  94. 94.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:16 pm

    @NotMax: I’ve always thought the homosexual community should adopt Thor as their comic book icon.
    Well, probably not *always*. But at least for some amount of time.

  95. 95.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 10:16 pm

    @Suzanne:

    What make/model did you end up getting, after all the awesome Balloon Juice advice/kibitzing?

  96. 96.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:17 pm

    @raven: Johnny Football certainly has not been served well by those around him.

  97. 97.

    Honus

    August 31, 2013 at 10:19 pm

    @efgoldman: What’s changed is WVU. Oklahoma may hang 100 on them next week. It wasnt any “near miracle.” WVU is really that bad. Holgorsen and Luck have destroyed a very proud program in two years.

  98. 98.

    raven

    August 31, 2013 at 10:19 pm

    @Corner Stone: You read about his family? Buncha swindling cock fighters.

    OK, I gotta go back to the game. I can’t take the distractions here. GO DAWGS!

  99. 99.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:19 pm

    @raven: It’s marked as a neutral game. Forgive me for the hyperbole of saying they will kick your fucking ass from J-vill back to Shithole.

  100. 100.

    raven

    August 31, 2013 at 10:19 pm

    @Corner Stone: If you had a brain you’d be dangerous,. Out.

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    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 10:20 pm

    @lamh36:

    They did have great chemistry. And I always liked that the show didn’t do the usual sitcom thing where the dad is either a complete idiot or a boob who gets played by everybody else in the family.

  102. 102.

    Suzanne

    August 31, 2013 at 10:20 pm

    @Steeplejack: This one.
    It doesn’t load or unload itself. Sadly.

  103. 103.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    August 31, 2013 at 10:21 pm

    @raven: Manziel is an A-hole I agree, but the NCAA wasn’t going to blow up a cash cow after they got caught doing the same. That story of the Georgia player banned from football because of steroid use that was prescribed and couldn’t shake is reason that organization needs to put out of business.

  104. 104.

    Mike in NC

    August 31, 2013 at 10:21 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: According to CNN, today was National Bacon Day. We celebrated at breakfast at a Cracker Barrel in the Charlotte area…

    P.S – I really hate Cracker Barrel. It screams Swamp People and Duck Dynasty.

  105. 105.

    chopper

    August 31, 2013 at 10:21 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    heh. “you’re Thor? i can hardly pith!”

  106. 106.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:21 pm

    @raven: “I AM…the Danger!”

  107. 107.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 10:22 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Congratulations! “TrueSteam.” That sounds kind of edgy.

    I hope it’s really quiet and it doesn’t keep beeping until you acknowledge that it finished its job. That’s my brother’s complaint with his upscale model.

  108. 108.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:24 pm

    @Mike in NC: God but I hate Cracker Barrel. Fucking disgusting.

  109. 109.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 10:26 pm

    @raven:

    Hey, you’ve been lusting for football. Remember the old saying, be careful what you wish for.

  110. 110.

    Suzanne

    August 31, 2013 at 10:26 pm

    @Steeplejack: We went back to our local appliance dealer to buy it….only to find out that it was on sale, $130 off. I practically came right then and there.

  111. 111.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    August 31, 2013 at 10:27 pm

    If Jadevon Clowney is finished listening to the heat on the radio after his sub-par performance, God help Georgia’s O-line.

  112. 112.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:27 pm

    @raven:

    You read about his family? Buncha swindling cock fighters.

    God. What is it with you people and the cock? Why do you always have to be fighting it? Demanding it, loving it, disavowing it, ignoring it. There’s just something wrong with you people.
    GO COCKS!

  113. 113.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 10:30 pm

    WTF is with one of these school bands hammering away on “Paint It Black”? Is there some Internet football tradition of which I am unaware?

  114. 114.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:31 pm

    @Suzanne: I’ve considered three or four replies.
    Just going to say good luck with the appliance.

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    lamh36

    August 31, 2013 at 10:32 pm

    @Corner Stone: @Mike in NC:

    I have never stepped foot in a Cracker Barrel in my life. But then there wasn’t one in NOLA pre-Katrina or afterwards. There is one closer to Baton Rouge though.

    Is it anything like Picadilly’s (Louisiana) or Luby’s (Texas)?

  116. 116.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 10:34 pm

    @Suzanne:

    LOL. That’ll go toward a few architectural exam fees.

  117. 117.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:34 pm

    That’s not a TD. Not that it will matter much.

  118. 118.

    Keith P

    August 31, 2013 at 10:35 pm

    @lamh36: I’d have to look at a list to jog my memory, but I really like the one with the Gordon Gartrell shirt that Theo wanted, so he had Denise make one for him.

  119. 119.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:36 pm

    @lamh36: No, it’s nothing like Luby’s. It’s a third grade “comfort food” for old white people who have lost all their taste buds and still enjoy kitsch from 40 years ago.
    It’s garbage food and bullshit rinky dink “souvenirs” for sale.

  120. 120.

    lamh36

    August 31, 2013 at 10:36 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    I’ve posted this before I think. But everytime I watch a collegiate game outside of the SWAC and HBCU schedules, I think of this skit by Rickey Smiley.

    Ricky Smiley: Black vs. White Marching Bands

    Although, I have noticed a difference since movies like “Drumline” became popular.

  121. 121.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 10:36 pm

    @lamh36:

    I love(d) Luby’s! Used to live in west Texas as a kid, and when we had to go to San Antonio to the orthodonist a high point of the trip was lunch or dinner at Luby’s in the North Star Mall.

  122. 122.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:38 pm

    I like a good Luby’s. Even though their prices have gone through the roof over the last 7 or so years. Just ridiculous for a meal there now.

  123. 123.

    Honus

    August 31, 2013 at 10:40 pm

    Georgia-Clemson huh? I guess there’s nothing else going on sports-wise in Pittsburgh this weekend.

  124. 124.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:41 pm

    Pretty nuts for a call like that in their territory with so much game clock left.

  125. 125.

    Corner Stone

    August 31, 2013 at 10:43 pm

    Good God Clemson. Georgia just went through you like something something through a goose.

  126. 126.

    lamh36

    August 31, 2013 at 10:44 pm

    @Keith P: Oh yeah, the Gordon Lattrell episode is classic. I particularly love the dynamic between the Huxtable siblings too. It was very well acted by a young group of kids, from Bonet to Keisha P. The whole clan were so cohesive they def had the family dynamics down.

    But the best family sitcoms do have the same cohesiveness I guess. It’s what makes them so great

  127. 127.

    Botsplainer

    August 31, 2013 at 10:46 pm

    Rewatching Von Ryan’s Express, and noticed the nuttiest thing. There are big assed bumpers on those old trains, two per end, convex and on a spring. As two train cars come together, a guy ducks his head under and comes to the middle to couple the cars. These two cars were moving together as this little dude was doing it – a few inches either way or a slip, and his head would’ve been crushed.

  128. 128.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    August 31, 2013 at 10:47 pm

    @Honus: Pittsburgh-Florida State on Monday though i wonder how did the Bucs do today?

  129. 129.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 10:49 pm

    @lamh36:

    That’s hilarious!

    I used to live in Mobile, and the Mardi Gras parades always had some kick-ass high school marching bands in them. Seems like “Soulfinger” was the go-to song back then.

  130. 130.

    Botsplainer

    August 31, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    Do I want to see Olympus has Fallen?

  131. 131.

    Botsplainer

    August 31, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    Do I want to see Olympus has Fallen?

  132. 132.

    Botsplainer

    August 31, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    Do I want to see Olympus has Fallen?

  133. 133.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Point taken. It reminds me how the music in every TV car commercial reveals the creative director to be 50-60 years old, no matter the target audience for the car. (Volkswagen the notable exception.)

  134. 134.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 10:53 pm

    @Botsplainer:

    Probably not, and definitely not three times.

  135. 135.

    ? Martin

    August 31, 2013 at 11:00 pm

    @Steeplejack: My son’s band is mostly asian, then white, then a bunch of everything else. They definitely don’t have a black marching band style, but more k-pop, which is kind of unique. But the asian kids definitely have more rhythm than the white kids.

  136. 136.

    Botsplainer

    August 31, 2013 at 11:02 pm

    @efgoldman:

    On European trains, not in the US. Railroad workers in the 19th and early 20th centuries were killed and injured at an alarming rate, almost as bad as underground mining.

    I can imagine. The guy looks like he nearly slipped in this bit of film, it was so clumsy a process.

  137. 137.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 11:03 pm

    @? Martin:

    “Gangnam Style” is probably ideal for marching bands.

  138. 138.

    Suzanne

    August 31, 2013 at 11:03 pm

    @Steeplejack: That’s about half of one exam. Not counting rescheduling fees, study materials, or retakes.

  139. 139.

    Suzanne

    August 31, 2013 at 11:07 pm

    @Corner Stone: LMAO. Discretion is the better part of valor.

    I should learn that.

  140. 140.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 11:11 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Motivate yourself with the thought that if you don’t pass those tests—including the one on dirt—you’ll live out the rest of your days as a scullery maid serving that big-ass dishwasher. No one wants that.

    /Steep + I don’t want to say I’m getting into the PsiFighter37 zone, but I think I’m getting into the PsiFighter37 zone. Maybe the PsiFighter23 zone.

  141. 141.

    max

    August 31, 2013 at 11:12 pm

    @Suzanne: only to find out that it was on sale, $130 off. I practically came right then and there.

    I guess we’ve established what the current going rate is. Handy to know.

    Cole: I had to ask if this was ok to post, because she was really mad about my post last night because she knows who Miley Cyrus is and she thinks I made it sound like they are crazy old people.

    They Might Be Giants (1986) – Youth Culture Killed My Dog (2:53)

    Youth culture killed my dog
    And I don’t think it’s fair (I don’t think it’s fair)
    And his suicide can be justified
    By the tastemakers, how they cried and cried and so

    I mean, they are both crazy and old, but they aren’t crazy and old in THAT way.

    The Cramps – Psychedelic Jungle (1981) – Don’t Eat Stuff Off the Sidewalk (2:10)

    So I asked him to make some more and I need to kiss a little ass here.

    Devo – Gates of Steel (Live @ 2010 Olympics)

    max
    [‘Well, this will get moderated.’]

  142. 142.

    JordanRules

    August 31, 2013 at 11:13 pm

    @lamh36: One of my favorite eps was when Theo thought he was grown so they treated him as such. Made him pay rent and everything. Which also reminds me of a great scene from another ep when Vanessa was lamenting being rich and Dr. Huxtable was like “You’re not rich, we’re rich”. LOL!

    Great, great show! Happy childhood memories for me.

  143. 143.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    August 31, 2013 at 11:14 pm

    @Steeplejack: I saw your youtube link a few threads back. Much thanks. My search history was filled with as many butt hurt variations as I could muster but I failed. Cheers. (This is going to sound like a strange comment to many…lol)

  144. 144.

    ? Martin

    August 31, 2013 at 11:16 pm

    @Steeplejack: They did Gangnam Style for receiving awards, which was cool because they started doing it just before the video went viral. Benefits of half of the drum majors last year being Korean, I suppose.

    But the timing of when it hit wasn’t quite right for working into any of their stuff beyond that.

  145. 145.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 11:20 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Now I’m sorry I brought it up. Some things truly cannot be unseen/unheard.

  146. 146.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 11:21 pm

    @Old Dan and Little Ann:

    So was that what you were looking for? Glad to help.

  147. 147.

    madmommy

    August 31, 2013 at 11:24 pm

    @lamh36:

    There is one on I-12 between Mandeville and Madisonville. It’s in the big new shopping area that straddles the interstate and sat empty for so long after it was first started because the special snowflakes threw a fit when it came out that plans for a Supercenter were in the works. They ended up building a Sam’s Club anyway.

  148. 148.

    Yatsuno

    August 31, 2013 at 11:26 pm

    @Steeplejack: I happen to know the band director for Oregon. I’m pretty sure the kids insisted on this one.

  149. 149.

    J R in WV

    August 31, 2013 at 11:28 pm

    So a month or so ago we adopted a 10-month-old sweet white lab mix from the local shelter. She didn’t know what grass was, let alone a butterfly. The older dog and she struck up a great relationship, and we got her toilet trained quickly. We learned that her name was Alice. I think she lived in a box or small pen before being dropped at the shelter.

    Then Wednesday late afternoon Alice and Happy, the older dog, ran after a deer behind the house. This is pretty much a daily distraction, and Happy usually only chases them 50-100 yards. If they stop and glare at Happy, she gets intimidated and runs back home.

    Alice didn’t stop. She also didn’t come home. We spent all day yesterday driving around the mountain, going up each hollow, stopping to talk with anyone who was mowing or sitting on the porch. I had a picture, and left our phone number with probably 20-30 people. No luck yesterday.

    This morning she showed up about 10 am. She was way hungry, and a little dirty around the edges, but it doesn’t take much on a white dog. Very relieved!

    Now, what about that football team? Do they have a chance in the Big-12 or not? Murderer’s Row, isn’t that what they call it?

    What a bummer!

  150. 150.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2013 at 11:29 pm

    @Yatsuno:

    So much enthusiasm, so little rhythm . . .

  151. 151.

    Seanly

    August 31, 2013 at 11:35 pm

    @khead:

    They have a tradition of running down the hill. The home locker room is on the opposite end. A little silly but we love our traditions.
    Go Tigers!
    Edit: JR, glsd your dog made it home.

  152. 152.

    Yatsuno

    August 31, 2013 at 11:44 pm

    @efgoldman: Visiting the folks, so been sorta here and there this weekend. I’m pretty much settled in for the eve though. And it’s 10-3 at the half and the Broncs better find their damn offence.

  153. 153.

    Suzanne

    August 31, 2013 at 11:45 pm

    @Steeplejack: Don’t worry. Those tests are going down like a five-dollar hooker for a ten-dollar tip. It’s just a matter of time.

  154. 154.

    madmommy

    August 31, 2013 at 11:47 pm

    @Steeplejack:
    I miss that they never show the bands at halftime anymore unless it is a bowl game. Seems the only time you get to see the halftime show is during the Bayou Classic because…damn those bands are good! Tonight for the first time since he started band 2 years ago, my son suggested that it might be kind of cool to play in a college band. He is playing at his first middle school football game on Tuesday-just sitting in the bleachers. Marching doesn’t start till year after next when he gets to high school.

  155. 155.

    MikeJ

    August 31, 2013 at 11:47 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Crying and drinking about UDub?

    He’s from the wrong side of the mountains. He laughs and laughs when Udub loses.

    ETA: Nevermind. I don’t follow your foosball. Checked the score and understand now.

  156. 156.

    burnspbesq

    August 31, 2013 at 11:49 pm

    @efgoldman:

    That seems unlikely, since Yats is a Wazzu man.

  157. 157.

    ? Martin

    August 31, 2013 at 11:56 pm

    @Steeplejack: Yeah.

    The throwback contribution to my son’s band last year was The Breakfast Machine, which was actually a very good piece for a large band (250 – about the size of Ohio State’s band, but not all-brass)

  158. 158.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    September 1, 2013 at 12:11 am

    @Yatsuno: LMAO

    Bruins & Huskies winning.

  159. 159.

    Corner Stone

    September 1, 2013 at 12:12 am

    WAH-WAH-WAAAAAHHHHHH!!

  160. 160.

    madmommy

    September 1, 2013 at 12:14 am

    @efgoldman:

    That Georgia/Clemson was a hell of a thing-got no dog in that hunt so it was just fun to watch for me since Bama had already won earlier. My step-brother is a Dawg so he had his son all dressed up in his toddler UGA colors today.

  161. 161.

    Steeplejack

    September 1, 2013 at 12:17 am

    @madmommy:

    What’s his instrument?

  162. 162.

    Corner Stone

    September 1, 2013 at 12:20 am

    @madmommy:

    My step-brother is a Dawg so he had his son all dressed up in his toddler UGA colors today.

    So the boy was playing on the Georgia D-line?
    OH!! SNAP!!

  163. 163.

    Steeplejack

    September 1, 2013 at 12:21 am

    @? Martin:

    Man, that’s a big-time production.

    Back in the day I used to set an alarm to get up Saturday morning to watch Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. As an adult. Good times.

  164. 164.

    Yatsuno

    September 1, 2013 at 12:22 am

    @madmommy: A friend of mine from college played in middle school then stopped by high school. He picked it back up again his freshman year and had the time of his life. High school band is fun, but college is a totally different and much more exciting animal.

  165. 165.

    madmommy

    September 1, 2013 at 12:22 am

    @Steeplejack:
    He started on clarinet in 5th grade, switched to alto sax in 6th and is now playing tenor sax in 7th. There was a suggestion from his band director at the end of last year that he would move him from alto to baritone, but he decided to give the bari to a kid who was going into 8th grade this year, which is a good thing because that horn is huge!! Now he thinks it would be fun to move up to bari next year. We’ll see how it goes.

  166. 166.

    Steeplejack

    September 1, 2013 at 12:23 am

    @efgoldman:

    Hell, I’m old enough to remember when they showed the “guest” bands (usually local high school or college bands) during halftime of pro games.

    I was thinking the same thing.

    And you got one game on TV on Sunday afternoon and you liked it, goddamn it.

  167. 167.

    Steeplejack

    September 1, 2013 at 12:28 am

    @madmommy:

    I played clarinet, gave up the band thing right before ninth grade because the high school band director was a colossal dick—so colossal that even I recognized it as a callow yoot.

    Wish I had switched to sax, because that could have segued into “fun” band stuff later (rock, jazz, etc.) But I picked up the guitar in college.

  168. 168.

    madmommy

    September 1, 2013 at 12:36 am

    @Steeplejack:

    He loves playing the sax! Being the band noob I was when he first started I bought him a clarinet. When he switched to alto I decided to rent, and if we rented it for 2 years it was paid for. The tenor he is playing now is a school instrument, and since we only had 6 months left to pay off the alto I decided to keep it up. So now we have a clarinet and an alto sax, and he said today he tried to play them and couldn’t squeak out a note on either one. He did his first band camp this summer and played in the jazz ensemble and really liked it.

  169. 169.

    Anne Laurie

    September 1, 2013 at 1:07 am

    @Jay:

    In terms of his mom, I’m trying to think of a veteran actress who can throw the zinger…Sally Field?

    Judi Dench, if John’s Mom doesn’t mind offshoring. Otherwise, Meryl Streep in her Doubt mode.

  170. 170.

    Anne Laurie

    September 1, 2013 at 1:16 am

    @Thlayli:

    In my experience, Lisa Bonet was the first black woman that a lot of white guys were into.

    You’re too young to have watched Original Star Trek with the geek boys, then, because it wasn’t just Whoopi Goldberg Nichelle Nichols made an impression upon!

    And if we’d been maybe five years older, it would’ve been Diahann Carroll in Julia…

  171. 171.

    Chuck Butcher

    September 1, 2013 at 1:53 am

    @Anne Laurie:
    I honestly have been wracking my brain to remember if it ever made a damn bit of difference to my horny self… I don’t remember it. In my family bigotry was a mark of ignorance and stupidity, though I’m not sure that lust was included in the approved list. I’m a bit older than you, evidently. Lately I find myself a bit older than most I associate with… don’t even say mid-life crisis – I’m too damn old for that shit. (or too childish)

  172. 172.

    barbara

    September 1, 2013 at 7:28 am

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    Fried bread, yes! Last night I had a dream that I was shopping in the market with my husband and he said, I’ve found a nice big package of bacon. It’s a “leg of bacon.”

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