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Nerd Prom/NHL Open Thread

by John Cole|  April 24, 20158:01 pm| 49 Comments

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I’m watching the Pens get systematically dismantled by the Rangers, so I won’t be watching. I’ll catch POTUS and Cecily Strong on youtube later. I hate the whole concept, but at the same time, I think Obama is normally pretty funny.

Gonna really go out on a limb and predict President Obama won’t be making any drone strike jokes this year.

*** Update ***

The nerd prom is tomorrow. I’m not really on top of things with the Pens facing elimination.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    April 24, 2015 at 8:02 pm

    I hate the whole concept, but at the same time, I think Obama is normally pretty funny.

    Agreed.

  2. 2.

    Jay S

    April 24, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    Wait a minute, isn’t the dinner tomorrow?

  3. 3.

    Baud

    April 24, 2015 at 8:10 pm

    @Jay S:

    You don’t expect another new thread between now and then, do you?

  4. 4.

    dww44

    April 24, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    Heard John Oliver on Terry Gross yesterday ( a replay from one some months ago) and when asked about things like the Correspondents Dinner, his response (and I paraphrase) was that there was really something unseemly about reporters and politicians being chummy with each other. That the both of them should be wary of each other and a certain amount of tension ought to be in the air whenever they’re in the same room. He remarked that the only folks that reporters should be friendly with are their families and other reporters. Said the same thing about comedians. He’s right.

  5. 5.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 24, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    @Baud: Sure, an AL late night auto-post that is immediately big-footed.

  6. 6.

    Villago Delenda Est

    April 24, 2015 at 8:18 pm

    It’s not a “nerd prom”. It’s a “hack prom”.

  7. 7.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 24, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    @dww44:

    That the both of them should be wary of each other and a certain amount of tension ought to be in the air whenever they’re in the same room.

    Wasn’t that I.F. Stone’s operating principle as well?

  8. 8.

    Mike J

    April 24, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    I believe even Politico called for getting rid of it.

  9. 9.

    Baud

    April 24, 2015 at 8:34 pm

    @Mike J:

    If Clinton wins, she should get rid of it. It would make liberals happy, and I don’t see her as a good stand-up comedienne.

  10. 10.

    jl

    April 24, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    Hey wait a minute, wasn’t there one of these nerd prom things a few weeks ago?
    Who is more disoriented here, Cole or me?

    Or did I see some BS for the ‘build up’ a couple of weeks ago?

  11. 11.

    Baud

    April 24, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    @jl:

    I think I know what you’re talking about. It was a nerd-prom like event, but it was different. Not televised.

  12. 12.

    jl

    April 24, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    ‘ It’s not a “nerd prom”. It’s a “hack prom”. ‘

    Hack promo?

  13. 13.

    jl

    April 24, 2015 at 8:41 pm

    @Baud: I feel like Ebeneezer Scrooge having to deal with two Christmases. Bah humbug!

  14. 14.

    Baud

    April 24, 2015 at 8:45 pm

    @jl:

    Hack promo?

    Hack porno?

  15. 15.

    Mike J

    April 24, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    @Baud:

    If Clinton wins, she should get rid of it.

    And then it will be proof that she’s too snooty and doesn’t know how to laugh at herself and gross girls just take the fun out of everything!

  16. 16.

    Baud

    April 24, 2015 at 8:49 pm

    @Mike J: That would be the best press she receives during her term!

  17. 17.

    muddy

    April 24, 2015 at 9:10 pm

    I adopted a kitten/cat (kind of borderline) this week. I was afraid my younger dog would have a prey issue, but her maternal side came out instead. It was remarkable, I have never seen crazy Gracie so calm and sweet. Then the big dog barked at the kitty and Gracie ran him off, unnecessarily protecting the wee one.

  18. 18.

    Pogonip

    April 24, 2015 at 9:17 pm

    @Jay S: What dinner?

    No sooner di you turn your back on the Internet than something interesting finally happens.

  19. 19.

    dww44

    April 24, 2015 at 9:19 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I believe you may be right.

    I also remember seeing a Brian Lamb C Span interview with a young female journalist whose name I forget. It was probably 8 or 10 years ago when he had that regular Sunday night interview series. She had the same view of the role of journalists in their relationships with the powerful and privileged. What stood out to me was how critical and almost disrespectful of her he came across when she asserted those opinions. She also proffered that it wasn’t good for journalists to become more famous than those they covered. I wish I remembered her name and I still remember how almost cavalier with her Lamb was in that interview. She didn’t take offense, although I would have.

  20. 20.

    Linnaeus

    April 24, 2015 at 9:31 pm

    I’m watching the Pens get systematically dismantled by the Rangers, so I won’t be watching.

    Dunno, looks like a very exciting game right now.

    ETA: Wow, Rangers were pressing in the offensive zone and missed a WIDE OPEN net.

  21. 21.

    geg6

    April 24, 2015 at 9:46 pm

    I just sent Cole a photo of Lovey and Koda laying side by side, gnawing on a couple of deer antlers. Koda and Lovey are getting along like gangbusters.

  22. 22.

    Howard Beale IV

    April 24, 2015 at 9:51 pm

    Bruce Jenner finally says he’s a she-film at 11.

  23. 23.

    Linnaeus

    April 24, 2015 at 9:57 pm

    @efgoldman:

    I don’t really think it matters who comes out of the East. Nashville, Chicago, or Anaheim will crush them.

    I think the Rangers can hang with any of those teams, though I think they’d still be an underdog.

  24. 24.

    Peale

    April 24, 2015 at 9:58 pm

    @Mike J: yeah…but…look, There are people meant to tell jokes and people meant to laugh at thosr jokes and those who can do neither. Hillary falls into that middle group. She looks good laughing, but Phyllis Diller she is not.

  25. 25.

    Pogonip

    April 24, 2015 at 10:09 pm

    @geg6: If he doesn’t post it I will call his cat and say, “Steve, your owner has a razor in his pocket and is just waiting for you to fall asleep…”

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 24, 2015 at 10:11 pm

    @Pogonip: Wow, the nuclear option.

  27. 27.

    Howard Beale IV

    April 24, 2015 at 10:12 pm

    @dww44: The only place where I hear real journalism (and even there it’s pretty rare) is on BBC World Service.

  28. 28.

    David Koch

    April 24, 2015 at 10:12 pm

    @Mike J:: yet they’re there every year, buying up the largest lot of tickets.

  29. 29.

    Pogonip

    April 24, 2015 at 10:26 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: It ain’t easy to get Cole’s attention! His own cat has been trolling his site for a month and he still hasn’t noticed.

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 24, 2015 at 10:28 pm

    @Pogonip: How are you doing? If I may ask?

  31. 31.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    April 24, 2015 at 10:31 pm

    @Pogonip: A giant cat.

  32. 32.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 24, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): That wasn’t a cat. It was more like some feline form of queen bee.

  33. 33.

    Howard Beale IV

    April 24, 2015 at 10:38 pm

    Richard Corliss, longtime Time movie reviewer, died yesterday, age 71, from stroke.

  34. 34.

    Howard Beale IV

    April 24, 2015 at 10:45 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I call bullshit on that link: that picture is of a Pallas Cat-and when you click on the pic, it cleraly says pallas-cat-300×257.jpg. No way are you gonna domesticate that round-pupiled Felid (the only one, BTW.)

  35. 35.

    Pogonip

    April 24, 2015 at 10:54 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Tired. It was a long day. It was nice to see the relatives but we are all pooped out.

    How you?

  36. 36.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    April 24, 2015 at 10:58 pm

    @Howard Beale IV: It was on the Caddell Williams catalog cover and was funny. That’s the only purpose in posting; sort of a Steve joke…

  37. 37.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 24, 2015 at 11:01 pm

    @Pogonip: I am fine. I didn’t have a funeral to deal with. I don’t know if I would deal more poorly with the loss of my father or my mother. I wouldn’t handle either well. That is why I asked. Good thoughts headed your way.

  38. 38.

    Pogonip

    April 24, 2015 at 11:12 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Thank you!

  39. 39.

    Tenar Darell

    April 24, 2015 at 11:15 pm

    @Pogonip: My condolences on your loss. I was sorry to realize that this was why you stepped away.

    @Pogonip: I have missed your requests for pupdates for chez Cole and friends.

  40. 40.

    David Koch

    April 24, 2015 at 11:25 pm

    @Howard Beale IV: I blame Adam Sandler. His latest idiocy must have killed him off.

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 24, 2015 at 11:32 pm

    @David Koch: Your idiocies don’t. Why should his?

  42. 42.

    David Koch

    April 24, 2015 at 11:56 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: http://i.imgur.com/Z3XUz0U.jpg

  43. 43.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 25, 2015 at 12:01 am

    @David Koch: My just desserts for responding to a troll. Thanks for reminding me.

  44. 44.

    BD of MN

    April 25, 2015 at 12:14 am

    Back to hockey, Wild now up 4-1 over the Blues with 3 min left in the third….

  45. 45.

    S. cerevisiae

    April 25, 2015 at 1:16 am

    @BD of MN: Yep, I love that everyone is dismissing them. GO WILD!

  46. 46.

    David Koch

    April 25, 2015 at 1:49 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owzhYNcd4OM

  47. 47.

    Amir Khalid

    April 25, 2015 at 4:53 am

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
    A Pallas’ cat at 630lbs? No way. It’s a small cat in the same genus as the house cat. Most tigers don’t grow that big.

  48. 48.

    Howard Beale IV

    April 25, 2015 at 9:30 am

    @Amir Khalid: The article is obiously fake.

  49. 49.

    J R in WV

    April 25, 2015 at 4:05 pm

    @Howard Beale IV:

    What is the date of the article? We are in the month of April, after all.

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