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by John Cole|  March 4, 20148:34 pm| 76 Comments

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Let’s Go Pens!

Also, you people suck.

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  1. 1.

    Comrade Mary

    March 4, 2014 at 8:35 pm

    WHAT DID I DO THIS TIME?

  2. 2.

    KG

    March 4, 2014 at 8:35 pm

    What do you mean “you people”?

  3. 3.

    SFAW

    March 4, 2014 at 8:36 pm

    Also, you people suck.

    NOW what?

  4. 4.

    Rob_in_Hawaii

    March 4, 2014 at 8:36 pm

    LOVE YOU BACK!!!

  5. 5.

    gbear

    March 4, 2014 at 8:37 pm

    I’m glad I’m different than you people.

  6. 6.

    Baud

    March 4, 2014 at 8:38 pm

    I do suck. I guess I just needed to hear someone say it for it to finally sink in.

  7. 7.

    BruceFromOhio

    March 4, 2014 at 8:39 pm

    Marriage is like a tornado, at first there is a lot sucking and blowing, and then you lose your house.

  8. 8.

    p.a.

    March 4, 2014 at 8:39 pm

    Is this still about the curtains?

  9. 9.

    John O

    March 4, 2014 at 8:40 pm

    I hope the Pens rebound from the brutal thrashing they suffered at the hands of the mighty SC Champ Blackhawks, because I dream of a Cup final with those two involved because of this blog.

  10. 10.

    Hawes

    March 4, 2014 at 8:41 pm

    @KG: Alpa Chino?

  11. 11.

    Hawes

    March 4, 2014 at 8:42 pm

    Go… Nashville? When did Nashville get a hockey team?

  12. 12.

    Punchy

    March 4, 2014 at 8:43 pm

    Holy sheeeeot. Im watching THE Tom Levenson….from BJ….on the H2 channel of my TV. Surreal. Didnt know he was that famous. When do Cole’s fat digits make the small screen?

  13. 13.

    srv

    March 4, 2014 at 8:44 pm

    We didn’t ask for this blog, or Putin’s giant head in the sky either.

    At least my car is where it’s supposed to be and not some art piece in a farmer’s fi… Oh wait, I don’t own a car.

  14. 14.

    srv

    March 4, 2014 at 8:46 pm

    @BruceFromOhio: But how are the curtains?

  15. 15.

    scav

    March 4, 2014 at 8:46 pm

    Damn it, I personally don’t want to be yelled at by the host eithout my putting some effort into meriting it first. He’s just spoiling us now.

  16. 16.

    mikej

    March 4, 2014 at 8:49 pm

    @Punchy: The Einstein show again? I went through the same freak out a few months ago. Good show.

  17. 17.

    piratedan

    March 4, 2014 at 8:49 pm

    yeah, but swallowing’s extra………………

  18. 18.

    raven

    March 4, 2014 at 8:50 pm

    @Punchy: I think he’s “from” MIT.

  19. 19.

    cathyx

    March 4, 2014 at 8:50 pm

    I agree with John. You people do suck.

  20. 20.

    JPL

    March 4, 2014 at 8:53 pm

    @Punchy: Not all of John’s friends are animals. BTW what is h2? Can I watch by streaming because I’m pretty sure my antenna can’t pick it up.

  21. 21.

    jl

    March 4, 2014 at 8:53 pm

    I think this is a repost.

    Has a familiar ring to it.

  22. 22.

    jonas

    March 4, 2014 at 8:55 pm

    He’s right! Give us hell, Quimby!!

  23. 23.

    raven

    March 4, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    @JPL: h2

  24. 24.

    mainmata

    March 4, 2014 at 9:00 pm

    @KG: Maybe he means Ukrainians or Russians. Who knows; he lives with animals after all?

  25. 25.

    Jebediah, RBG

    March 4, 2014 at 9:01 pm

    @Punchy:
    thanks for the heads up

  26. 26.

    JPL

    March 4, 2014 at 9:07 pm

    @raven: Thanks

  27. 27.

    David Koch

    March 4, 2014 at 9:07 pm

    Yeah, Tom Levenson is actually famous. He’s a pretty big get for BJ. Now of course, this will go to his head.

  28. 28.

    raven

    March 4, 2014 at 9:09 pm

    @David Koch: And he hangs with a woman whose father came to our house and collected lubbers!

  29. 29.

    revrick

    March 4, 2014 at 9:12 pm

    For a real full contact sport that leaves a lot of blood on the floor, you gotta watch Fashion Police with Joan Rivers. Never has backstabbing been so hilarious.
    Oh, and John, us Calvinists call the suckitude of humanity total depravity. Sounds classier, too.

  30. 30.

    mainmata

    March 4, 2014 at 9:12 pm

    Wow, this thread is totally spacey. Not seeing BJ-ers so wildly random on an Open Thread in a while. Or I’ve missed stuff. For the record, I think Czar Putin’s “press conference” was under the influence. He is either delusional or indulging in the “little water” (translation of vodka).

  31. 31.

    Howard Beale IV

    March 4, 2014 at 9:13 pm

    @srv: My Prius is finally paid off-got all of 49,500 miles on it just shy of 5 years.

  32. 32.

    IowaOldLady

    March 4, 2014 at 9:15 pm

    @mainmata: Are we doing random? I won an award today from IEEE–Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communication. How’s that for an English major?

  33. 33.

    Pogonip

    March 4, 2014 at 9:18 pm

    @p.a.: Probably about the mustard.

  34. 34.

    JGabriel

    March 4, 2014 at 9:18 pm

    We’re here at the NY meet up and someone who I guess overheard us wanted to know who the “sick bastard” was who shaved his cat’s ass.

  35. 35.

    joel hanes

    March 4, 2014 at 9:20 pm

    @IowaOldLady:

    Congratulations.

    If you happen to meet Angela Burgess in the award process, please tell her that joel hanes says “Hi”.

  36. 36.

    Chickamin Slam

    March 4, 2014 at 9:22 pm

    I think John Cole wants to invade Russia by himself. Just give him a jar of mustard and Cole will be making Putin sing in no time.

  37. 37.

    lurker dean

    March 4, 2014 at 9:22 pm

    there were some funny folks on that curtain thread. the burlap idea was winning.

  38. 38.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 4, 2014 at 9:23 pm

    @IowaOldLady:

    Fucking awesome, as my English major friends might have said.

  39. 39.

    IowaOldLady

    March 4, 2014 at 9:23 pm

    @joel hanes: Will do, but I have to write it down because I will never remember.

  40. 40.

    Pogonip

    March 4, 2014 at 9:24 pm

    @David Koch: Meh. The rest of us are INfamous. Let’s see Tom beat that.

    My car is not paid off, but I am pleased to report that it does not live in a field. Also pleased to report that my father just turned 87. When asked how it feels, he reported that it feels much like being 86. So now we know.

    Also, I hope everyone is enjoying Fat Tuesday.

  41. 41.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 4, 2014 at 9:24 pm

    @lurker dean:

    That was (of course) Betty Cracker.

  42. 42.

    Pogonip

    March 4, 2014 at 9:26 pm

    @lurker dean: What curtain thread? I missed that one.

  43. 43.

    Pogonip

    March 4, 2014 at 9:30 pm

    @Chickamin Slam: John, Steve, a jar of mustard, and a guy who does not seem to own any shirts… I sense disaster in the offing.

  44. 44.

    kc

    March 4, 2014 at 9:32 pm

    Thanks!

  45. 45.

    Comrade Mary

    March 4, 2014 at 9:32 pm

    @Pogonip: I’m out of flour. I’M OUT OF FLOUR. I was not able to make either pancakes or communion wafers today.

  46. 46.

    MomSense

    March 4, 2014 at 9:34 pm

    Just watched an episode of icarly with my youngest. Are they serious with that show??

  47. 47.

    IowaOldLady

    March 4, 2014 at 9:34 pm

    @Pogonip: https://balloon-juice.com/2014/03/04/late-night-open-thread-197/#comments

  48. 48.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 4, 2014 at 9:37 pm

    @Pogonip:

    Here ya go:

    https://balloon-juice.com/2014/03/04/late-night-open-thread-197/

    ETA: Curse you, Iowa Old Lady (shakes arthritic fist)

  49. 49.

    Mnemosyne

    March 4, 2014 at 9:40 pm

    Since I like holidays but am also lazy and willing to slowly kill myself with wheat, sugar, and preservatives, I’m making a Zatarain’s mix for dinner.

  50. 50.

    scav

    March 4, 2014 at 9:40 pm

    @Comrade Mary: Premptive Lent! And a misfire en plus. ow.

  51. 51.

    Belafon

    March 4, 2014 at 9:41 pm

    @MomSense: What do you mean by serious? The only thing truly serious about that show was whether Freddy would choose Carly or Sam, and that more people watched that show than anything that has ever been on Nick.

  52. 52.

    Mnemosyne

    March 4, 2014 at 9:43 pm

    Also, as an update to this morning, I put two King Cakes on the table in our office kitchen at 9:00 am. When I went back at 9:25 am, one was completely devoured. The kids love their King Cake.

  53. 53.

    Anne Laurie

    March 4, 2014 at 9:46 pm

    @IowaOldLady:

    I won an award today from IEEE–Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communication. How’s that for an English major?

    Congratulations!

    Spousal Unit (dual major, English/linguistics) is a technical writer. He describes his job as translating what the software developers think is English into something non-computer-oriented business people can understand.

    I sometimes refer to him as a Speaker-to-Hacker; since most geeks have read the Ringworld books, they get the joke.*

    *in the Ringworld universe, there is a race of ferocious carnivores whose word for ‘diplomat’ translates as Speaker-to-Animals.

  54. 54.

    NotMax

    March 4, 2014 at 9:48 pm

    Also, you people suck.

    Practicing the line in case you should suddenly have the urge to crash CPAC?

  55. 55.

    Anne Laurie

    March 4, 2014 at 9:48 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Actually, that was ME! (comment #17)

  56. 56.

    IowaOldLady

    March 4, 2014 at 9:51 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Oh yeah! That sounds familiar. I was an academic, so what I did was shadow engineers in industry watching them try to communicate. We borrowed methods from ethnography and observed engineers in the wild, so to speak. In their native habitat.

  57. 57.

    IowaOldLady

    March 4, 2014 at 9:51 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Ya gotta be fast.

  58. 58.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 4, 2014 at 9:51 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    Actually, it was! Big apologies!

  59. 59.

    Mnemosyne

    March 4, 2014 at 9:53 pm

    For the knitters (I think there are a couple around tonight), I’m almost done making a pair of these Mary Jane slippers. I would have finished sooner, but I was lazy and got sucked into TV Tropes. I just have to sew up the back of the second one and then add the strap to both.

    (I used Deborah Norville Serenity Chunky — because I had a ball I had bought on sale — and size 7 needles. I knit pretty loose, but the recommended needle size is 8 so they’re dense enough.)

  60. 60.

    MomSense

    March 4, 2014 at 10:05 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Cool! I made duffers for everyone this Christmas. I love wearing knit slippers because they are so soft and warm and you can curl your feet up under you and not have hard soles get in the way.

    I’m almost done with a sweater I’m designing for my son and am at that I’m so sick of this I just want to be done already stage. It’s an Irish fisherman sweater in a bold blue.

  61. 61.

    Jacks mom

    March 4, 2014 at 10:06 pm

    I’ve got a brother that sucks worse than anything you guys can ever come up with.
    My mother and father worked their asses off to raise and educate 5 children. They had a small business and at the end of my dad’s life he gave the business to my brother (who had worked it but also made sure that his siblings didn’t have a chance to). The deal was that my brother would pay them (my parents) the legal amount that could be gifted for tax purposes and he would get this business.
    My dad passed away from cancer in August of 2084. In January that brother I mentioned above cut his moms payment in half.
    She is now 87 and I’m trying to take care of her on a reduced payment and he has informed me he isn’t obligated to pay her anything. My dad expected him to take care of them.
    Any advise out there?

  62. 62.

    MomSense

    March 4, 2014 at 10:08 pm

    @Belafon:

    I just can’t believe that it is a show. It’s just awful–overacting and stupid plots. Tonight they all wore purple clothes and wigs for a skit and one of the kids misunderstood the directions about the dad’s car and spray painted the car entirely purple.

  63. 63.

    Jacks mom

    March 4, 2014 at 10:10 pm

    @Jacks mom: should be in2010 when dad passed he was 84

  64. 64.

    p.a.

    March 4, 2014 at 10:11 pm

    @Pogonip: follow those links; it really was a classic.

  65. 65.

    Mnemosyne

    March 4, 2014 at 10:12 pm

    @MomSense:

    I have a sweater I’ve been knitting for G for … four years now? Poor guy. It’s hard to be an ADHD knitter.

  66. 66.

    p.a.

    March 4, 2014 at 10:16 pm

    @Comrade Mary: I live near a wafer company.

  67. 67.

    Pogonip

    March 4, 2014 at 10:18 pm

    @IowaOldLady: It’s curtains!

  68. 68.

    MomSense

    March 4, 2014 at 10:20 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Well it is a great pattern and will be totally worth the wait. One of these days I am going to try steeking and zippers.

    Forgot to ask if you are on ravelry.

  69. 69.

    Howard Beale IV

    March 4, 2014 at 10:29 pm

    @NotMax: A few years ago there was a Conservative Cruise. Too bad it didn’t get whacked with a fatal strain of norovirus.

  70. 70.

    Renie

    March 4, 2014 at 10:41 pm

    Anne Romney is blogging here now?

  71. 71.

    Comrade Mary

    March 4, 2014 at 10:47 pm

    @p.a.: JEALOUS! I haven’t had a wafer in decades, but I really miss the lack of taste and suffocating texture.

  72. 72.

    elftx

    March 4, 2014 at 10:52 pm

    So it is about the curtains and he is too chiken chit to ask his mom LOL

  73. 73.

    p.a.

    March 4, 2014 at 11:10 pm

    @Comrade Mary: I haven’t had one in decades. My main memory is of the occasional one that would weld itself to the roof of my mouth. You can even touch them now!

  74. 74.

    HRA

    March 4, 2014 at 11:12 pm

    I was reading about the curtains when we had a blackout at work and didn’t get a chance to ask my question about them.
    Are those shower curtains?

    Ducking…..

  75. 75.

    Irony Abounds

    March 4, 2014 at 11:43 pm

    @p.a.: That would be “curtains” – I saw the picture.

  76. 76.

    Elizabelle

    March 5, 2014 at 1:58 am

    @Jacks mom:

    No advice, but I’m sorry to hear of the situation.

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