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A Special Place in Hell

by John Cole|  January 6, 20147:11 pm| 208 Comments

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For people who ask whether or not it is cold enough out there for you when it’s so cold and windy that if you sneeze it flies back into your face and freezes on your cheek. I’ve been some pretty cold places (Baumholder, Germany, in the middle of winter with a heater broken on my tank), but this just sucks, and I’m older now.

Both my garage door and back door froze shut at various points, and I had to carry Lily outside to piss. And no, footies would not have helped. I opened the back door and she was three feet away and got hit in the face with a blast of frigid wind, immediately gave her “fuck that noise” face, and ran back into the bedroom under the comforter.

Big game tonight? We rooting for the Florida team for our favorite Cracker?

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  1. 1.

    Elizabelle

    January 6, 2014 at 7:16 pm

    Yes, rooting for the Seminoles. Neighbor across the street is an alum. May head over there with champagne if game goes well.

  2. 2.

    Elizabelle

    January 6, 2014 at 7:18 pm

    PS: poor Lily. Have never seen a pic of her in a sweater. Will she wear one, or does she act like you’ve just disabled her?

  3. 3.

    burnspbesq

    January 6, 2014 at 7:18 pm

    Betty is a Gator. More than likely, she’s either rooting for Auburn out of conference loyalty or rooting for a meteorite strike to wipe out both teams.

    Personally, I’m half-rooting for the half-Noles out of ACC loyalty and residual disgust at the antics of the Situational Ethics Conference. However, if there is a decent basketball game on I won’t bother to watch.

  4. 4.

    The Dangerman

    January 6, 2014 at 7:19 pm

    I’m rooting for FSU so the SEC streak is broken (Auburn has been living on miracles all season; I don’t think they have any left).

  5. 5.

    PsiFighter37

    January 6, 2014 at 7:20 pm

    The doormen of our building who were unceremoniously fired the week before Christmas by the hedge fund that bought out my apartment building are outside getting resident signatures to get reinstated. I seriously doubt that will convince those assholes to bring them back, but I signed it and got to give them their holiday tip (with some extra, given the shitty situation they are now in).

    I have no idea if they have any legal recourse or not, but they got shafted hard. I feel bad for the new doormen, as it’s not their fault, but you don’t give the boot to people the week before Christmas like that. That’s fucked up.

  6. 6.

    ranchandsyrup

    January 6, 2014 at 7:22 pm

    Basketball player Dwayne Schintzius (a Univ. of FL product, I believe) once responded to the question “How’s the weather up there?” by spitting on the questioner and telling him “It’s raining”.

  7. 7.

    GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)

    January 6, 2014 at 7:23 pm

    Neighbor’s car battery froze solid, one of my temporary squatter’s battery froze, so I spent way more time outside tham I wanted.

    something like -45 windchill during the day. Should be below -50 tonight.

  8. 8.

    Schlemizel

    January 6, 2014 at 7:24 pm

    One of my best friends is a Gator (I forgive him, hes from Florida so it really can’t be helped) so I have to pretend there is no football game tonight out of respect to him.

  9. 9.

    JPL

    January 6, 2014 at 7:25 pm

    @PsiFighter37: Mitt calls them the losers so it’s okay. Maybe they can just sell some stock to get by.

  10. 10.

    Comrade Jake

    January 6, 2014 at 7:27 pm

    Rooting for the Seminoles because I’m tired of hearing about how awesome the SEC is.

  11. 11.

    Litlebritdiftrnt

    January 6, 2014 at 7:28 pm

    Employment update, my part-time status lasted exactly 4 hours, when it was time for me to leave the office and boss still had things he wanted me to do, told me to forget the whole part-time thing and just go back to normal. I think (although I am just guessing) that his buddy attorneys asked him what he was going to do when another attorney in town offered me a full-time position with benefits. When he announced that he was retiring several years ago (and then decided he didn’t want to economize when it came to his lifestyle) I had 14 job offers within 48 hours. I think he may have remembered that.

  12. 12.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 7:28 pm

    Big game tonight? We rooting for the Florida team for our favorite Cracker?

    That is one complete fucking dick move.
    Kudos, Cole.

  13. 13.

    Violet

    January 6, 2014 at 7:28 pm

    It’s cold down here in the southland too. Supposed to be 20 degrees tonight. That’ll set an almost 18 year record. Right now the clouds haven’t yet moved out. If they stick around it won’t be quite that cold but it’s already below freezing. I’m sure the papaya and bananas are done for.

  14. 14.

    Fuzzy

    January 6, 2014 at 7:30 pm

    Just anybody who is not from the SEC. Go Injuns

  15. 15.

    cathyx

    January 6, 2014 at 7:31 pm

    I’ll take my mid 40’s and rain any day over whatever is happening in the eastern US.

  16. 16.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 7:32 pm

    @Litlebritdiftrnt: If he could find another paralegal to work for sub $15 per hour he probably would have.

  17. 17.

    WaterGirl

    January 6, 2014 at 7:32 pm

    @PsiFighter37: Really appreciate the update! I have thought about your doormen several times since you first told us the story – good for them for trying to do something, anyway. I hope you’re not the only one to give them something extra beyond the tip they would have gotten anyway.

  18. 18.

    Schlemizel

    January 6, 2014 at 7:33 pm

    I may have mentioned this before but our drain bamaged cat insists she wants to go outside. She will howl at the door & yell at us until we open the door. That cold blast hits her & she heads for the hills!. Then she is obviously angry with us. I have come to the conclusion she expects us to open the correct door – the one that goes to summer.

    -13 currently and the wind feels like cold razors opening any exposed flesh. If it were 45 degrees warmer water would still freeze!

  19. 19.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 7:33 pm

    The SEC is awesome!

  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    January 6, 2014 at 7:34 pm

    @ranchandsyrup: I laughed out loud when I read that. I didn’t click the link to see if it’s a true story; I’d rather just believe that it is.

  21. 21.

    Violet

    January 6, 2014 at 7:34 pm

    @Litlebritdiftrnt: Is there a reason you’re not looking around at those other potential jobs? This guy sounds like he’s kind of an ass to work for. Maybe you could get a raise, benefits, more time off and not have to work for a jerk who doesn’t know what a good thing he’s got in you.

  22. 22.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 6, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    Hey! No dissing on Baumholder! Baumholder is beautiful! My order of the Community Commander!

    My Professor of Military Science (the head guy at ROTC) when he found out my first duty assignment would be in Germany, wished me to Baumholder. Fortunately, I only visited the place, I was in Bad Kreuznach and then, later, Wiesbaden.

    Just visiting Baumholder (for three weeks training in February, when the temperature, fortunately, stayed below freezing the entire three weeks and we didn’t have to deal with the mud) was enough, thank you.

  23. 23.

    themann1086

    January 6, 2014 at 7:40 pm

    @Comrade Jake: Ditto. I’m still rage-blind angry about the 2011/2012 title game, whereby the SEC coaches rigged the polls to nudge Alabama past OK State for #2. It was a sham and a travesty, and ESPN dutifully dropped to its knees. Disgusting.

  24. 24.

    debit

    January 6, 2014 at 7:42 pm

    Cole, my dog has cold sensitive feet and will not tolerate booties. It’s kind of a problem, since we live in Minnesota. I got in the habit of putting on my boots while still in my sleepwear just in case I had to go rescue her after her potty break. This winter I’ve been putting on Musher’s Secret on her feet and it really seems to help. She still does the sitting down and putting all four feet in the air if outside long enough, but the length of time she can tolerate the cold is longer. Just a tip for Lily’s tender tootsies.

  25. 25.

    jharp

    January 6, 2014 at 7:42 pm

    Minus 9 here. And we got about 16 inches of snow yesterday.

    Had to shovel my driveway and deck 4 times yesterday.

    I’ve had enough for awhile.

    Oh and central Indiana so not really equipped to handle it properly. We had half the neighborhood plowed into their driveway and unable to get out today.

  26. 26.

    debit

    January 6, 2014 at 7:44 pm

    @themann1086: You mean something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bphR-6Xi1_I

  27. 27.

    Keith G

    January 6, 2014 at 7:44 pm

    Ahh….The time honored ritual of watching all the televised bowl games on and around the first of the year.

    Only the games aren’t televised in the old sense. Rent-seeking behavior has put this fine American tradition behind a paywall.

    I guess that’s okay since now the vast monies raised can be shared by those who actually do the work, the athletes.

    No?

    Well then, I guess they can apply a lot of that extra money to a fund to help with the life-long medical bills that athletes will accrue due to tattered and torn bodies injured in service of our entertainment.

    No?

    Well then fuck it. I’ll watch a movie.

  28. 28.

    jharp

    January 6, 2014 at 7:45 pm

    Rooting for FSU and still reeling from the Ball State loss last night.

    Colts are 7 1/2 point underdogs at New England Saturday. Probably shouldn’t get my hopes up but the Colts are very unpredictable this year. They won at San Francisco and beat Seattle at home.

  29. 29.

    Litlebritdiftrnt

    January 6, 2014 at 7:45 pm

    @Violet:

    If I have a fault it is that I am ridiculously loyal, even when it is not deserved. I stayed with my former boss for months even after I was not getting paid for several weeks. The final straw was her not paying me and taking delivery of $2,000 worth of shoes that she had bought in Charleston the previous week on a shopping spree with her sister. This current boss offered me a job around about the same time and I jumped on it. He really is dependent on me, and yes I know it sounds pathetic but it would be totally lost if I left. I think he figured that out today. I think he figured that throwing me under the bus was the last thing he should do.

  30. 30.

    Royston Vasey

    January 6, 2014 at 7:46 pm

    @GHayduke (formerly lojasmo):

    -45F and -50F!
    Even in Celsius that’s -43C and -45C

    It would be a VERY cold day here if it dropped below +28F/-2C
    How the hell do you even move in temps that cold??

    RV in NZ (Currently a cool 70F/21C in Wellington)

  31. 31.

    Laertes

    January 6, 2014 at 7:47 pm

    Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays

    …is equally annoying. Both are the kind of thing someone says when they feel the need to speak, and can’t think of a single goddamned thing worth saying.

  32. 32.

    cathyx

    January 6, 2014 at 7:49 pm

    See? Clearly there is no such thing as global warming.

  33. 33.

    Mnemosyne

    January 6, 2014 at 7:50 pm

    Time for a Porch Potty.

  34. 34.

    Anne Laurie

    January 6, 2014 at 7:51 pm

    @Litlebritdiftrnt: Congratulations!

    You probably still want to update your CV, though, just in case one of your boss’s friends is inspired to make you an offer…

  35. 35.

    danielx

    January 6, 2014 at 7:52 pm

    @Schlemizel:

    An old Heinlein short story called The Door Into Summer, wherein the lead character had a cat that did exactly the same thing. Household felines here aren’t even approaching the doors, except for the one going out to the garage to use his litter box.

    @Schlemizel:

    Fourteen below and so cold the air feels antiseptic or something, or at least it did during the two minutes I spent outside today. Evening news had a story about some kid who spent fifteen minutes outside without gloves or mittens and ended up in the ER with frostbite…

  36. 36.

    Violet

    January 6, 2014 at 7:53 pm

    @Litlebritdiftrnt: Good for you for being loyal. But loyalty should go both ways. Your boss may be pathetic, but he’s perfectly happy to make your New Year (and was it Christmas too?) miserable by informing you that your hours would be cut. He may need you but he doesn’t seem to know it until his back is against the wall. That’s not really loyalty. It’s more like desperation on his part.

    A little strategic networking to find out how much your skills are worth in your community might net you some key information. At the very least you’d have a better sense of what you’re worth. That information might let you negotiate a raise, more time off, better benefits, less work load–something. And who knows–maybe a great job is out there waiting for you.

  37. 37.

    Laertes

    January 6, 2014 at 7:54 pm

    @Litlebritdiftrnt:

    I admire your loyalty. That’s a virtue that’s worth cultivating, and ought to be recognized.

    But there have got to be limits, and a reasonable bright-line test is reliable payment of wages promised and earned. I’ve seen many cases of people hanging on when the pay got wobbly, and I can’t recall a single such case in which they didn’t later regret it. Even if the employer is a mensch (which doesn’t apply in the case you describe) that’s just always a sign that big trouble has arrived and bigger trouble is coming and it’s time to cut one’s losses.

  38. 38.

    shelly

    January 6, 2014 at 7:55 pm

    For people who ask whether or not it is cold enough out there for you

    As bad as when people jollily ask ‘hot enough for you?’ when it’s 99degrees and 100% humidity?
    *******

    Yup, like everybody else, the temp’s are taking a nose-dive tonight. Made sure everythings put away and battened down. Brought in a couple of bottles of wine that were still in the car. Cause last week the trunk froze shut when we had another sub-freezing day. Now, you can keep vodka in the freezer. But if it gets down to 7 degrees, I think a bottle of Pinot Grigio will turn to slush.

  39. 39.

    Karen in GA

    January 6, 2014 at 7:56 pm

    @Schlemizel:

    I have come to the conclusion she expects us to open the correct door – the one that goes to summer.

    She’s not the only one. Open the damned door already!

    I took Iggy out this afternoon in 25 degree weather with nasty cold wind gusts. Little bastard did what I took him outside to do, and then wanted to stay outside. He was looking at homes of neighbors that he knows also have dogs, as if to say, “Where’d everybody go?”

    Everybody’s inside, trying to keep warm, like normal mammals. You fluffy little freak.

    It’s even colder now and I have to take him out again in a little while. What’s this about dog booties? Are they a requirement for all dogs, or does it depend on the breed?

  40. 40.

    MelissaM

    January 6, 2014 at 7:58 pm

    Here in Central IL, the dog is giving me looks for not taking her for a walk, despite the fact that I had her out earlier today and after half a block, she was limping so I carried her in. Last night, trying to get her out the back door for bizniz, a gust of wind hit and she scooted back in a no-way-in-hell motion. Ah, her memory must be quite short.

  41. 41.

    shelly

    January 6, 2014 at 8:00 pm

    Then she is obviously angry with us. I have come to the conclusion she expects us to open the correct door – the one that goes to summer.

    Yes! I know my dog is convinced that, since I obviously can control the lighting and the temperature in the house, why can’t I control the weather outside.

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    January 6, 2014 at 8:01 pm

    @Litlebritdiftrnt:

    I’m with the crowd that thinks you should update your resume and be prepared for the next time this guy dicks you around. Think of it as your own personal “three strikes” rule.

    One of the advantages to working for a Giant Evil Corporation is that it makes it hard for one’s boss to personally screw you over. They can screw people company-wide, but it’s really hard for a boss to single-handedly reduce hours and stuff like that.

    ETA: Apparently the hot new thing in resumes is to have a “Profile Statement” instead of an “Objective.” Kind of funny how fads come and go in resumes.

  43. 43.

    Anne Laurie

    January 6, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    Cole, stop being such a stubborn… person, and buy Lily a nice sweater. Given how much time you say she spends under the comforter, she won’t mind wearing it around the house all day while the cold spell lasts, and it’ll make her more comfortable in the biting wind. Poor girl can’t help her subtropical genes!

    And think of the extra joy you’ll bring all your favorite commentors, as they critique your fashion choices…

  44. 44.

    PaulW

    January 6, 2014 at 8:04 pm

    My mom is pure War Eagle. And as a Gator alum, I got no love for FSU.

    Auburn for the win 44-34

  45. 45.

    The Dangerman

    January 6, 2014 at 8:09 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    …and buy Lily a nice sweater.

    Or go with the Musher’s Secret mentioned previously (and make sure you never confuse Musher’s with the Mustard, if you should ever find it).

  46. 46.

    Mnemosyne

    January 6, 2014 at 8:09 pm

    BTW, Cole, you should probably have someone look at the innards of FYWP — it’s been eating comments again, especially when you include an outside link.

  47. 47.

    JPL

    January 6, 2014 at 8:15 pm

    I’m not looking forward to bringing out the mutt in the morning. He refuses coats and sweaters and since he walks on two front feet while peeing, I’m not sure they’d stay dry. That’s my finch.

  48. 48.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 8:16 pm

    @Keith G:

    well, there are ways….

  49. 49.

    JPL

    January 6, 2014 at 8:23 pm

    My game prediction is simple.. the team that can maintain possession, wins. I just listened to the ESPN and that seems to be the announcers are saying. If I were a betting person, I’d go with Florida State.

  50. 50.

    El Caganer

    January 6, 2014 at 8:28 pm

    What about Rosie’s reaction to the cold? My fox terrier mix (sort of looked like Rosie, a bit larger) liked snow, but she wore a sweater. Wouldn’t take anything on her feet, though, so I wouldn’t have her outside for long when there was snow on the ground.

  51. 51.

    The Dangerman

    January 6, 2014 at 8:28 pm

    @JPL:

    If I were a betting person, I’d go with Florida State.

    I’ll go one further and say this will be like last year (Bama/ND) and not be close. FSU in a rout.

  52. 52.

    Betty Cracker

    January 6, 2014 at 8:29 pm

    Burnsie got it right — as a Gator, I’d root for the Taliban over the damn Seminoles. SEC to make it eight straight!

  53. 53.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 8:32 pm

    go free shoes!

    (native tallahasseean and grew up just east of auburn)

  54. 54.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 8:32 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I’ll settle for a great game. The only National Championship Game I have been at was the Noles and the Hokies. I was for the Hokies and, even though they ended up getting buried, Vick leading the comeback was the greatest performance I’ve ever seen.

  55. 55.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 8:33 pm

    @tybee: Carrollton?

  56. 56.

    burnspbesq

    January 6, 2014 at 8:34 pm

    The snowballing revelations of ongoing academic fraud at UNC are so appalling that I can’t even get any schedenfreude out of them.

  57. 57.

    IowaOldLady

    January 6, 2014 at 8:35 pm

    Have you ever seen these dog cartoons? They include a dog dealing with moving, snow, and being forced to wear booties:

    http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/11/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html

  58. 58.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 8:36 pm

    @raven:

    columbus

  59. 59.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 8:37 pm

    @tybee: Across from sin city!

  60. 60.

    Betty Cracker

    January 6, 2014 at 8:37 pm

    @The Dangerman: I hope you’re wrong. I’ve got a quarter on Auburn!

  61. 61.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    January 6, 2014 at 8:38 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    BTW, Cole, you should probably have someone look at the innards of FYWP — it’s been eating comments again, especially when you include an outside link.

    John has been intermittently banning you for shits and giggles, and because you suck.

  62. 62.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 8:38 pm

    @raven:

    yes, phenix city, the only u.s. city taken over by the military since the civil war.

    when we moved to columbus, my grandmother was convinced we’d all be murdered in our sleep by the criminals from alabama. and saban wasn’t there yet.

  63. 63.

    mellowjohn

    January 6, 2014 at 8:40 pm

    landed at o’hare last nite on the way home from jamaica. -16 over nite; high of -12 today, with wind chills in the -30 to -45 all day. (i know: boo-fucking-hoo, you were in jamaica.)

    don’t care about auburn. hate fsu, primarily because of that stupid tomahawk chop. gonna watch the first episode of downtown abbey and the finale of treme instead.

  64. 64.

    JaneE

    January 6, 2014 at 8:40 pm

    Cat person here. Why not get Lily a yard of fake grass with piddle pads underneath to absorb the urine? Or just piddle pads?

  65. 65.

    Mnemosyne

    January 6, 2014 at 8:40 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader:

    The cruelest thing is that he was doing it to other people at the same time just to cover up his diabolical plan!

  66. 66.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    January 6, 2014 at 8:42 pm

    I’m home. The car’s at the shop, key dropped through the after hours slot. I’ll learn the damages tomorrow.

    My mother sent me an email this morning telling me that they learned living in Philadelphia decades ago that if your water pipes are in an outside wall you need to keep the water dripping so they don’t freeze. I told her that no home builder that wants to keep getting work in Minnesota would put water pipes in an outside wall.

  67. 67.

    danielx

    January 6, 2014 at 8:42 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    I have an old fleece jacket (like fifteen years old) that someone can perhaps remodel into a dog sweater/jacket. I pulled it on this evening and some miscreant has clearly washed it in warm water and dried it on high.

  68. 68.

    Mnemosyne

    January 6, 2014 at 8:42 pm

    @tybee:

    If the 1950s movie they made about it can be believed, the townspeople totally deserved it. And that version was made under strict censorship.

  69. 69.

    Litlebritdiftrnt

    January 6, 2014 at 8:43 pm

    @Violet: @Laertes: @Mnemosyne: You are all of course correct. He would not think twice about throwing me under the bus come the next financial crisis. It is just stunning to me to think that a business man like him would think that the solution for not making enough money would be working LESS hours. That is so fucked up.

  70. 70.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 8:43 pm

    @mellowjohn: Negril? Did you see the Abbey video I posted last thread?

  71. 71.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    January 6, 2014 at 8:43 pm

    I love heavy breathing on my dog’s leash for 30 seconds before it unfreezes and I can clasp it to his collar. -15 here. And whoever chooses to watch the ESPN2 feed with the multiple talking heads is severely deranged.

  72. 72.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 8:44 pm

    @mellowjohn: Lady Mary

  73. 73.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 8:46 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    i assure you that the folks across the river deserved it and didn’t learn much from the experience either.
    if they ever give the earth an enema, the hose will either go into phenix city or philadelphia and my money is on sin city.

  74. 74.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 8:47 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Their job was to separate us from our money.

  75. 75.

    Anne Laurie

    January 6, 2014 at 8:48 pm

    @Karen in GA:

    What’s this about dog booties? Are they a requirement for all dogs, or does it depend on the breed?

    Booties are good for all dogs who walk on salted streets, because the chemicals aren’t great for their pads & are liable to be licked off, which is worse. Apart from that, it depends on both the dog & the temperature. Dogs like Lily, with very little hair on their toes, feel snow & ice more than ‘northern’ breeds with hairy hobbit toes (like my papillons & your IIRC schnauzer). But for the Iditarod, even the born-and-bred-for-snow sled dogs wear booties.

    Mushers Secret, or similar wax compounds, are more useful as a barrier against salt/ice than for keeping the toes warm, but for a dog who’s only taking a brief trip on sidewalks, it’s probably quite enough.

    In my experience, some dogs fight against wearing booties harder than they do waxes, while others really REALLY object to the feel of the wax on their pads. In most cases, it takes a few tries for any dog to connect the idea of ‘unfamiliar stuff on my feets’ with ‘now my paws don’t hurt so much’ — some fight harder than others. Part of the problem for us urbanites is that the deathly cold spells don’t last… by the time the dog stops fighting, it’s warmed up enough/the snow’s melted enough that the person on the other end of the leash gives up the experiment.

  76. 76.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 8:48 pm

    @raven:
    and it worked quite well.

  77. 77.

    WereBear

    January 6, 2014 at 8:48 pm

    @Litlebritdiftrnt: Woo hoo!

    At least he figured it out rather quickly.

    Fortunately, I was working at home today; it was ugly. All the snow melted, then there was snow sideways, and it’s getting down to 8 tonight.

    I wish it would pick a trend and stay with it!

  78. 78.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 8:50 pm

    @tybee: You know the Cav even took it with them:

    Sin City’ An Khe, Vietnam 1966

  79. 79.

    Roger Moore

    January 6, 2014 at 8:51 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    rooting for a meteorite strike to wipe out both teams.

    As a resident of Pasadena, I’d rather there not be a meteor strike large enough to wipe out both teams. Can we have a blimp crash, or maybe a mass shooting by a deranged Big 10 fan instead?

  80. 80.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 8:52 pm

    @Roger Moore: You mean the kind that thinks the B1G is as good as the SEC?

  81. 81.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 6, 2014 at 8:55 pm

    Just posted this on my FB status:

    January 6, 2014

    My pre-frontal cortex
    Is having trouble coping with this polar vortex.

    I could use a pound, or a kilo,
    Of fur and firewood now that we’re heading for 12 below.

    I’m gnashing my one remaining molar
    To stay warm in these temperatures polar.

    Although I find it somewhat pleasing
    To consider that some of my Facebook friends live in temperatures even further below freezing.

    And despite the fact that I am an Old
    I can remember very few occasions in my life when it was this cold.

  82. 82.

    jharp

    January 6, 2014 at 8:58 pm

    @raven:

    I was lucky enough to be at the Ohio State/Miami Florida title game in 2003.

    Pretty amazing game. Especially for OSU fans.

  83. 83.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 6, 2014 at 8:58 pm

    @tybee: Good old Exit 3.

  84. 84.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 9:00 pm

    @raven:

    pretty funny.
    i do recall the sky being filled with hueys when the 1st was training at benning but i was but a tyke then. had some good times with some officer’s kids on benning later on.

  85. 85.

    Cacti

    January 6, 2014 at 9:04 pm

    If you don’t like living in a place with shitty winters, move to one that doesn’t have them.

    That’s what I did 11 years ago.

  86. 86.

    Schlemizel

    January 6, 2014 at 9:04 pm

    @danielx:

    I was thinking of that book when I wrote that. I have never had a cat like this one. We have always allowed our cats out in our yard when we are with them and it always took them a time or two in the winter to remember it was winter. There were not happy it was winter but they accepted it. This one however seems to think its all my fault

  87. 87.

    Jay C

    January 6, 2014 at 9:05 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    “Fucked up” pretty much sums that sorry story up — where do you live? We live in Manhattan, so taking care of building staff is just a part of life: but in Gotham, they have a strong union which seldom lets buildings – or their owners, however elevated – do crap like mass firings. And if they do, they insist on a union shop for the new folks: so mass cleanouts rarely save anybody anything.

  88. 88.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 9:08 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    i was about halfway between exit 4 and exit 5 on the old exit numbers.

    old numba 3 wasn’t quite to benning.
    buena vista road.
    pronounced “beeyoona vista”.

  89. 89.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 9:09 pm

    @tybee: It was the 11th Air Assault Division that trained at Benning. They “re-flagged” and switched with the 2nd ID, Korea. The story (often called untrue) is that they lost their colors in the Korean War and couldn’t come back stateside until they won them back in battle.

  90. 90.

    may

    January 6, 2014 at 9:09 pm

    I don’t get all the complaining about the cold. It is cold! Here in the north it should be as cold as it was a few days ago for weeks. I’m not so old and I remember minus 20 F as a common January temp. This is just the upper Conn. River Valley. It should be cold.

    As to the dogs, they hate it! Even the husky is all about not going out.

    Deep breath and onward.

  91. 91.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 6, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    @Cacti: You have never once complained about the heat, right? There is a difference between complaining about an individual weather event – a blizzard, a cold snap, etc. – and hating an entire season.

  92. 92.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    This is not an ACC defense girls.

  93. 93.

    Cacti

    January 6, 2014 at 9:12 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    You have never once complained about the heat, right? There is a difference between complaining about an individual weather event – a blizzard, a cold snap, etc. – and hating an entire season.

    I actually moved to southern California originally, and the heat there was never too terrible. Circumstances dragged me to Arizona. But here or there, I miss real winter not even a little bit.

  94. 94.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 9:12 pm

    Did the 1st Cavalry Division lose its colors?

    The 1st Cavalry Division remained in Japan and South Korea after the war until June 1965, when its colors were transferred to Fort Benning, Ga., and the unit was dispatched to Vietnam, said Richard L. Baker, of the U.S. Army Military History Institute in Carlisle.

    “Until 1965 the division simply wasn’t located in the U.S. proper, so few if any individuals would have been seen wearing the patch,” Baker said in an e-mail.

    Unfortunately, the rumor about the 1st Cavalry Division losing its colors gave rise to disgraceful sayings about the division’s combat patch, including, “The horse they never rode, the line they never held, the color running down their back,” said Rob Dalessandro, of the U.S. Army Center for Military History at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C.

  95. 95.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 9:13 pm

    @raven:
    1st air cav was at benning when i started paying attention to the military.

  96. 96.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 6, 2014 at 9:14 pm

    @tybee: I was at Benning for OCS and jump school. Exits 3 and 5 were the main ones we ever got to. Wasn’t/isn’t Ranger Joe’s at exit 5? And, IIRC, William Calley managed a jewelry store in a strip mall at exit 3. There was a Shoney’s right across the street from the store where he allegedly worked.

  97. 97.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 9:14 pm

    @tybee: Yea they did get sent back there. I think they are at Hood now.

  98. 98.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 9:15 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Follow You!

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    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2014 at 9:17 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Ah, so it’s not just me.

  100. 100.

    Betty Cracker

    January 6, 2014 at 9:19 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Ha! It’s even cold here. Supposed to get into the upper 30s tonight, and the wind is blowing like mad.

  101. 101.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 6, 2014 at 9:20 pm

    @raven: I never wanted to be infantry. I do, however, have photos of mom and dad pinning on my bars in front of the big Follow Me statue in front of Building 4.

  102. 102.

    Botsplainer

    January 6, 2014 at 9:20 pm

    My outdoor thermometer says 10 below. I took the dog out to pee, and the dipshit decided he wanted to stay out to play, and then to lay on the ground chewing an old frozen bagel.

  103. 103.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 9:21 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: And well you should! Got your blood wings too.

  104. 104.

    fleeting expletive

    January 6, 2014 at 9:24 pm

    Stupid smoke alarm went off 3 times last night, starting at 2:30 am, and just now went off again. Each time I of course jumped up and inspected the house but there’s nothing amiss. Could that just be the battery? With every other one I’ve had, if the battery starts to go it will just cheep a couple of times. I am annoyed. But of course the next time I’m out I’ll buy new batts for it.

  105. 105.

    PsiFighter37

    January 6, 2014 at 9:24 pm

    @Jay C: I live in Manhattan, somewhere in the nexus between Gramercy, Flatiron, and Murray Hill.

  106. 106.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 6, 2014 at 9:25 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    If I recall my Tampa years accurately, that is some wicked cold!

  107. 107.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 9:27 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    there was a shoney’s at at both old exit 1 and at old exit 4. don’t remember one at 3 but it’s been a while ago.
    rusty calley was employed, at least at some time, at a jewelry store at exit 4 (the old rosemont shopping center). used to ride my bike to that shopping center to hang out.
    i’ve been to ranger joe’s but don’t recall exactly where it was. i’m thinking it was at exit 1 as that’s where all the sojer boys where. i could be wrong.
    a detail: i do recall harassing the cadets from west point when they visited benning and the “visitors” to the school of the americas. was warned by a ranger captain that you could pick on the cadets (they had too much to lose to fight with the locals) but them furriners had no such issues.
    good times.

  108. 108.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 9:30 pm

    FSU doesn’t know whether to shit or go blind.

  109. 109.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 6, 2014 at 9:30 pm

    For those who don’t care about the game, The Third Man is about to start on TCM.

  110. 110.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 9:33 pm

    Someone just posted the menu from the hot dog joint I went to as a kid. Chili Dog .40 w/Fries .45!

  111. 111.

    Schlemizel

    January 6, 2014 at 9:33 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I love that movie! Wife hates it so I won’t be seeing it again. Seriously though the whole thing is a lesson in how to make a movie.

  112. 112.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2014 at 9:35 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Mucker footnote.

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    ruviana

    January 6, 2014 at 9:35 pm

    @Betty Cracker: This is the attitude I respect and understand. As a UCLA alum, there are no circumstances on earth that I would ever ever root for USC,

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    Omnes Omnibus

    January 6, 2014 at 9:35 pm

    @tybee: It must have been Exit 4 then. It was 25 years ago. And Ranger Joe’s is on Victory Drive, so that should be Exit 1.

    Yes, I remember it well.

    @Steeplejack: Cool, thanks.

  115. 115.

    WaterGirl

    January 6, 2014 at 9:39 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: In all the discussions of Sherlock returning on january 19, do you know if anyone has mentioned the show “Sherlock: Unlocking Sherlock” ? It’s scheduled for january 12.

  116. 116.

    Violet

    January 6, 2014 at 9:41 pm

    @Litlebritdiftrnt: He doesn’t sound like he’s the smartest businessman. You’re talented and sounds like you are also in demand. That’s a good position to be in. No need to waste your talents. Have a look around. Talk to some folks in your area. See what you’re worth. Then have a chat with your boss or the other lawyer you mentioned who sounds like he values you. Make sure they know they can’t pull that “cutting your hours in half” shit again and that you know your own worth.

  117. 117.

    Betty Cracker

    January 6, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Yep — cold for us. I’m a good bit south of Tampa.

    @raven: They don’t know if they should scratch their watches or wind their butts!

    ETA: How do you miss that goddamn field goal? My granny could’ve kicked that one through the uprights!

  118. 118.

    PurpleGirl

    January 6, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    @raven: Hilarious.

  119. 119.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 9:43 pm

    @ruviana: That’s what makes this one hard for me. Auburn-Georgia is ofter characterized as “brothers”. My boss and co-worker are both grads (even though she has one grad degree and is working on her doctorate at Georgia) and die-hards. It just sucks that we gave this fucking team one of the two miracles they needed to get where they are. I guess I’d like to see the team that we should have beaten win it all.

  120. 120.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 6, 2014 at 9:43 pm

    @WaterGirl: Not that I know of.

  121. 121.

    dexwood

    January 6, 2014 at 9:46 pm

    Aussie wool dog coats. They’re great. Easy to put on and take off. Two of my dogs who hate sweaters will wear these coats without drama. Being wool, they stay warm even when wet, unlike acrylics and cotton. They block the wind and snow. My third and smallest dog, brings me his when he wants to go out on cold mornings.

  122. 122.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 9:46 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    i was long gone by ’88.

    still have relatives there, visit a few times a year and do plan on doing the whitewater course they’ve created downtown on the ‘hooch.

  123. 123.

    Karen in GA

    January 6, 2014 at 9:46 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Thanks for the boot info. Also, you remembered correctly, Iggy is a (slightly oversized) mini Schnauzer.

    And I’m convinced he’s part penguin. I took him out, and he had no problem with the cold. I, OTOH, was miserable. But then, I’m not part penguin. He is. The little mutant freak.

    We’re in a small exurban subdivision — no salt anywhere to be found. Which is a very good thing, because I hadn’t thought of the danger/discomfort it might pose to Iggy. Wow.

  124. 124.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2014 at 9:48 pm

    I hate Brent Musburger. I’m lazy, but I’m almost to the point of of sync’ing the SiriusXM audio with the TV so I don’t have to listen to him.

    ETA: My nightmare game would be Musburger and Al Michaels doing a sort of “Dueling Banjos” tag-team thing. Brr!

  125. 125.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 9:50 pm

    @tybee: Now that they took the dam out.

  126. 126.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 9:50 pm

    Lou Rawls talks about “The Hawk, the Almighty Hawk blowin down Michigan Avenue like a razor blade. That, boys and girls, is what we have here tonight.

  127. 127.

    Betty Cracker

    January 6, 2014 at 9:51 pm

    BOOM! 21-3.

  128. 128.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 9:52 pm

    @Steeplejack: On the “megacast” ESPN Classic will show the game broadcast — minus the announcers — with mics picking up sideline and public-address sounds.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2014/01/06/bcs-championship-espn-megacast-has-it-covered/

  129. 129.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 9:52 pm

    @raven:

    i need to do that once in a raft to see it.

    then i need to take the yak….

  130. 130.

    Karen in GA

    January 6, 2014 at 9:55 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Bravo!

    Now I feel like I’ve been in Georgia for a long time — I’ve been correcting people who’ve been saying “It’s never been in single digits here!” Yes it has, about 10 years ago. I used to work an overnight shift, and I smoked, which meant I’d frequently venture outside in the wee hours o’ the morning. I remember showing up at the office one night dressed in layers with my hat pulled down over my head, scarf, etc. — extremely bundled up. I distinctly remember the forecast calling for a low that night of 8 degrees.

    I was a determined smoker.

  131. 131.

    Anne Laurie

    January 6, 2014 at 9:55 pm

    @Steeplejack: Well, ERBurroughs is not exactly an unbiased source when it comes to the Irish or Irish-Americans!

    Seriously, “mucker” certainly has thuggish aspects, but it’s also political. The nun who taught religion in my fifth-grade class said that St. Peter was a mucker — the guy was a hothead, violent, and denied ever knowing his leader when the chips were down, but he still got to be the first pope. William Calley was a mucker, or H.R. Haldeman; Nixon wanted to be, but he didn’t have sufficient self-regard to just ignore the naysayers and cleave fearlessly to his own immediate best interests, history be damned. Putin is a mucker (or whatever the Russian word for the species is); so was GWBush, and Tony Blair. Muckers aren’t natural leaders, they have no charisma, and when they end up at the head of the party it’s usually due to a series of flukes and seldom ends well for either them or their party. (St. Peter was supposed to have been crucified, eventually.)

  132. 132.

    Violet

    January 6, 2014 at 9:56 pm

    So far the clouds are hanging in and the temps haven’t dropped. It’s cold, but it’s hovering around freezing. None of this temps in the 20’s stuff yet. We’ll see how it goes.

  133. 133.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 9:57 pm

    @Karen in GA: I moved here in 84 and the winter of 85 was a killer. I lived out in the country in Oconee and, while we were in Illinois for xmas, all our pipes froze and burst. Luckily they were pvc so I laid in the mud and replaced them.

  134. 134.

    raven

    January 6, 2014 at 10:05 pm

    Fuck it, DVR set.

  135. 135.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 10:06 pm

    @Karen in GA:

    in 1985, it was 3 in savannah.

  136. 136.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    @Violet: I had a call today with a friend of mine in Chicago.
    I completely wimped out over “how cold” it is here, and how we’re all dying.
    I could not be sure but I think he wanted to reach through the tubes and choke me.

  137. 137.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 10:09 pm

    @raven: C’mon, old timer! You got to stick this one out, dawg!

  138. 138.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 10:13 pm

    In what version of a reality are we existing where we shift from analysis from Nick Saban directly to Lee Corso?
    That was some kind of whiplash bullshit, right there.

  139. 139.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    January 6, 2014 at 10:16 pm

    @fleeting expletive:

    Is it for sure only a smoke alarm, or is it one of those combination smoke and CO2 alarms? Because you could be having a problem with your furnace that’s causing an excess of CO2, very common in the winter when vents get blocked off by ice and/or snow. You should probably get that checked out just to be sure.

  140. 140.

    danielx

    January 6, 2014 at 10:17 pm

    @raven:

    They did get their asses pretty thoroughly kicked in Korea at one point, if you call having two regiments cut to pieces getting your ass kicked. Don’t know about losing any flags.

    Thanks, Douglas MacArthur!

  141. 141.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 10:20 pm

    Is nobody watching this fucking NCAAF Championship?

  142. 142.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 10:21 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    it’s half time.

  143. 143.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 10:22 pm

    @tybee: Oh, sorry. Thought this was an old home week thread.

  144. 144.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 10:23 pm

    between plays, it is.

    and both teams’ towns bring back memories.

    so hui tebe, tovarisch.

  145. 145.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 10:24 pm

    Fuck it. Imma watch some intertube videos on aquaponics.

  146. 146.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 10:27 pm

    ground up georgians make excellent hydroponic fertilizers

  147. 147.

    Cassidy

    January 6, 2014 at 10:31 pm

    Watching the SEC win is always fun.

  148. 148.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2014 at 10:31 pm

    @raven:

    You’ve got the wrong song. For the almighty hawk it’s “Dead End Street.” The only bird mentioned in your song is an eagle, as in “the eagle flies on Friday” (payday).

  149. 149.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 10:31 pm

    FSU has to put points on the board here.

  150. 150.

    MattR

    January 6, 2014 at 10:32 pm

    Coldest I experienced was Winnipeg about 10 years ago. It was somewhere in the -10 range (fahrenheit) without wind chill and we were outdoors at a funeral. Made me finally appreciate the need for heated car seats.

  151. 151.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 10:32 pm

    Or, FSU could just get their balls blitzed off.
    Either way, I guess.

  152. 152.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 10:33 pm

    Why does the QB for FSU look like Geordi LaForge when he has his visor taken away from him?

  153. 153.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 10:35 pm

    I thought FSU was supposed to have the better offense?

  154. 154.

    Betty Cracker

    January 6, 2014 at 10:43 pm

    @Corner Stone: OMG, he does!

  155. 155.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2014 at 10:47 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    My point was that mucker has a history and definition beyond your somewhat parochial Irish interpretation. In particular, it’s not specifically a political reference to someone in a position of power, as you seemed to indicate. A Peter King or a Putin may well be a mucker—a thug, a dirty fighter always looking for the main chance, ethics be damned—but a mucker is not automatically someone in power. And Tony Blair a mucker? Dubya? They wouldn’t get their hands dirty. William Calley? Puh-leeze.

    And Edgar Rice Burroughs’s views on the Irish don’t come into it. Mucker is not a specifically Irish word. It comes from the Middle English muk and has had its current connotations since the 19th century. English literature has plenty of references to muckers that have nothing to do with the Irish.

  156. 156.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2014 at 10:50 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Thank you, football Albert Einstein.

  157. 157.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    I was thinking Peele (of Key and Peele) in one of their football sketches.

  158. 158.

    ThalarctosMaritimus

    January 6, 2014 at 10:52 pm

    “but this just sucks, and I’m older now”

    When even the polar bears are packing it in, you don’t need to explain.

    http://chicagoist.com/2014/01/06/its_officially_too_cold_for_local_p.php

  159. 159.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 10:54 pm

    @Steeplejack: Go screw.
    There ain’t no other fool chitter chatterin’ bout this here dust up.
    So, might’s as well do my best ESPN anal ist impression.

  160. 160.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 10:59 pm

    Has there been an actor since Clark Gable who totally owned that cheesy mustache as well as George Clooney?

  161. 161.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2014 at 11:03 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    I’m sort of half watching it, but it’s oddly unexciting. Maybe I’m just mad because if my Missouri Tigers had beaten Auburn they would probably be in this thing.

    ETA: “Oddly unexciting.” Maybe Musburger’s voice is just giving me a raging soft-on.

  162. 162.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:05 pm

    That was nasty by Auburn special teams.

  163. 163.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:06 pm

    Jane Wilder? Is this Romancing the Stone ?

  164. 164.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:07 pm

    Woof!!

  165. 165.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 11:08 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    joan was the wilder in RTS

  166. 166.

    Keith P

    January 6, 2014 at 11:09 pm

    Auburn has quite the defensive strategy – pressure the redshirt freshman. And their offensive strategy – assume the FSU secondary, like most college teams, sucks – is working like a charm so far.

  167. 167.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:12 pm

    Go Geordi! Recalibrate the reflector dish! Or something!

  168. 168.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:13 pm

    Old people.
    What are you gonna do, amirite?

  169. 169.

    Betty Cracker

    January 6, 2014 at 11:15 pm

    Come on, Auburn.

  170. 170.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:17 pm

    …wooops…

  171. 171.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 11:19 pm

    come on, shoes.

  172. 172.

    Betty Cracker

    January 6, 2014 at 11:20 pm

    Damn. There was an elderly couple who lived down the road from us. They died within a few months of each other last year. They were both RABID Auburn fans from Alabama. If they weren’t already dead, this game would probably kill them.

  173. 173.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    January 6, 2014 at 11:34 pm

    @ruviana: Agreed, never root for $C for ANYTHING. FSU reminds me of $C in a few ways: colors, band, etc.

  174. 174.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 11:35 pm

    here we go. i hope.

  175. 175.

    Betty Cracker

    January 6, 2014 at 11:37 pm

    Goddamnit!

  176. 176.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:38 pm

    OUCH!!

  177. 177.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 11:38 pm

    go for 2

  178. 178.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:39 pm

    Is that dude 5’4″ ??

  179. 179.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 11:39 pm

    i guess not.

  180. 180.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:40 pm

    A 4.37 40yd dash?
    How many human beings can we have at one time who can run a sub -4.4 40yd dash?

  181. 181.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:42 pm

    FSU is feeling it now.

  182. 182.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:47 pm

    HOLY SHITBALLS!!

  183. 183.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2014 at 11:48 pm

    Holy shnikeys!

  184. 184.

    Betty Cracker

    January 6, 2014 at 11:48 pm

    Woohoo!

  185. 185.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    January 6, 2014 at 11:48 pm

    @Corner Stone: As is Auburn.

  186. 186.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:48 pm

    Fucking Perry Mason running for days and days!

  187. 187.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 11:49 pm

    oops.

  188. 188.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:50 pm

    If they don’t squib kick this they deserve to lose.

  189. 189.

    Betty Cracker

    January 6, 2014 at 11:50 pm

    Has this been an awesome bowl season or what? I wasn’t always happy with the outcomes, but there have been a lot of close, exciting games.

  190. 190.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 6, 2014 at 11:51 pm

    As De la Soul reference? From Musburger?

  191. 191.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:52 pm

    @Betty Cracker: It’s been nasty.
    And, honestly, NFL Wild Card weekend went waaayyy beyond what I could have hoped for in exciting games.

  192. 192.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:52 pm

    Ruh Roh. Clock?

  193. 193.

    Betty Cracker

    January 6, 2014 at 11:53 pm

    Christ on a Trisket!

  194. 194.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 11:53 pm

    yee haw

  195. 195.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    January 6, 2014 at 11:54 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Musburger is a fount of knowledge or something.

  196. 196.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:55 pm

    This is just straight balls.

  197. 197.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:57 pm

    FLAGS!!

  198. 198.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:58 pm

    Jeebus. Dude looked like me at a strip club at 1:55am on a Tuesday.

  199. 199.

    Corner Stone

    January 6, 2014 at 11:59 pm

    FUCKBALLS!

  200. 200.

    Betty Cracker

    January 6, 2014 at 11:59 pm

    Crap! That stupid penalty teed it up. It wasn’t even necessary since the pass sucked anyway.

  201. 201.

    tybee

    January 6, 2014 at 11:59 pm

    yesssssssssssssssss

  202. 202.

    Corner Stone

    January 7, 2014 at 12:02 am

    Let me guess Musberger. I am deep enough to be playing Safety for FSU right now.

  203. 203.

    Betty Cracker

    January 7, 2014 at 12:04 am

    How big is that missed 32 yard field goal looming now? Shit.

  204. 204.

    Keith P

    January 7, 2014 at 12:12 am

    Auburn gave that one away. Mason did all he could, but Marshall looked like crap tonight. Bad throws on two would-be TDs, an INT, and largely bad running. Hate to see them lose, but they had plenty of opportunities to put the game away in the 3rd but just screwed the pooch.

  205. 205.

    raven

    January 7, 2014 at 5:57 am

    I can’t wait to tell all my Auburn friends that it was “a really good game”.

  206. 206.

    tybee

    January 7, 2014 at 7:41 am

    i’ve “congratulated” a few on how well all barn hung in there….

  207. 207.

    GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)

    January 7, 2014 at 11:03 am

    @Royston Vasey:

    Just dress up. I’m wearing flannel under my pants, a smart wool shirt and a hoodie walking around the house. If i walk the dog later, I’ll be wearing my whole snowboarding getup.

  208. 208.

    Corner Stone

    January 7, 2014 at 5:11 pm

    @GHayduke (formerly lojasmo):

    a smart wool shirt

    Well, to be fair, the wool shirt doesn’t actually have to be all that bright to be smarter than you.

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