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Wednesday Night Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  June 3, 201510:32 pm| 118 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Open Threads

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This boxer dog isn’t finding the Stanley Cup matchup very interesting:

  

I need to get the kiddo to trim the dogs’ claws. I always hated trimming their claws, but the kiddo has an extremely effective method: She uses Cheddar Cheese Goldfish crackers to bribe them. 

As long as Goldfish crackers are on offer, the dogs will flop over on their backs and let the kiddo trim their claws with one of those Pedi-Paws contraptions (essentially a dremel tool with a file attachment). They get one cracker for each claw.

Please feel free to discuss whatever — open thread! 

ETA: So I hear those twisted monsters of fecundity from the TLC channel are attempting a Fox News rehab. Child molestation is bad for the family values grifting business. Fuck them and their entire sick cult.

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    June 3, 2015 at 10:39 pm

    If one’s favored hockey team screws up, is that called a clusterpuck?

  2. 2.

    lamh36

    June 3, 2015 at 10:40 pm

    After reading about the TLC interview, I don’t think this will do what they think it will.

    IDK since this isn’t LIVE, could Megyn Kelly and Faux News been working as a “trojan horse” so to speak. Cause that interview was just…WOW!

    I’m gonna take a shower to even be able to sleep!

  3. 3.

    Betty Cracker

    June 3, 2015 at 10:43 pm

    Well, fuck! The Lightning played a good 2.5 periods and then fell apart.

  4. 4.

    Mike in NC

    June 3, 2015 at 10:43 pm

    In the supermarket checkout yesterday there were at least five magazines/tabloids with the odious Duggar clan gracing the cover. Might be the Summer of Duggars unless we have a rash of shark attacks and/or missing pretty blondes.

  5. 5.

    mclaren

    June 3, 2015 at 10:43 pm

    If you’re wondering where all the pro-TPP pro-U.S.-military pro-austerity disinformation on forums like these comes from, here’s your answer.

    Large American corporations and the U.S. military is undoubtedly pay beaucoup bucks to the Internet Research Agency and kindred astroturfers to pollute forums like this with fake support for toxic U.S. policies.

  6. 6.

    Elizabelle

    June 3, 2015 at 10:44 pm

    Betty: you must tell us if you hear of any fallout from the lucky 250 Disney World IT staff employees replaced by H-IBs, whom they had to train (thus proving the fired were competent and the jobs still existed).

    Top story at the NY Times today, maddening, and the mouse is not making out well in the comments section (1400 and counting).

    Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements.

    I realize this practice has been common in US business for decades, but it’s good to see the mouse take it on the nose.

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    June 3, 2015 at 10:44 pm

    @lamh36

    The “Hey, every assembly line spits out a lemon from time to time” gambit ain’t gonna cut it.

  8. 8.

    Elizabelle

    June 3, 2015 at 10:45 pm

    @mclaren: Yeah. We’ve been commenting on Bob in Portland’s absence.

  9. 9.

    Betty Cracker

    June 3, 2015 at 10:47 pm

    @Elizabelle: I wish a boycott would gain steam. Until people start making companies that screw workers pay for it, they’ll keep on with their rapacious practices. I never go to RatWorld, so I can’t possibly boycott it more.

  10. 10.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 3, 2015 at 10:48 pm

    Somebody elbowed me in the *something* tonight at Krav class. Left side front just below the ribs, please tell me that’s just muscle

    ETA: oh, and The Fish part 17: https://imjustthisguyyouknow.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/the-fish-17/

  11. 11.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2015 at 10:49 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Would you avoid Frozen?

  12. 12.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 3, 2015 at 10:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I have.

  13. 13.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2015 at 10:54 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: So have I, but through happenstance rather than design.

  14. 14.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 3, 2015 at 10:55 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Well, it helps that I live in a cave that I rarely leave.

  15. 15.

    jl

    June 3, 2015 at 10:55 pm

    Thanks for epic and masterfully moody dog flop pic, BC. That dog got sleep down cold, it damn well knows it from A to ZZZZZZZZZZ.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    June 3, 2015 at 10:55 pm

    @Betty Cracker

    Admit it, you watched the trailer for the new Star Wars.

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that. :)

  17. 17.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 3, 2015 at 10:57 pm

    I saw about a third of frozen on the screen of the seat next to me on a transatlantic flight. some of the animation was pretty cool

    and there’s a song, apparently

  18. 18.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2015 at 10:57 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Is like an underground lair for a Bond villain or is it just a cave?

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    June 3, 2015 at 10:58 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    My definition of heaven.

    Which reminds me, should trot down to the street to check today’s mail. And yesterday’s as well.

  20. 20.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 3, 2015 at 10:58 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    and there’s a song, apparently

    There is? If it’s not on my Note, I’ve not heard it.

  21. 21.

    Betty Cracker

    June 3, 2015 at 10:59 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I haven’t seen it.

  22. 22.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 3, 2015 at 11:00 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: It’s not underground, but it is protected by a vicious YorkiPom.

  23. 23.

    Betty Cracker

    June 3, 2015 at 11:01 pm

    @NotMax: Argh, forgot the Rat owns Star Wars. Damn it.

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2015 at 11:01 pm

    @Betty Cracker: We might be among the small handful of people in the world who have not.

  25. 25.

    NotMax

    June 3, 2015 at 11:02 pm

    @Omes Omnibus

    Add one more to that handful.

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2015 at 11:03 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: You should be safe then. On the subject of pets and other animals, I found a trilobite-like bug in my apartment yesterday. Quite odd.

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 3, 2015 at 11:05 pm

    @Betty Cracker:
    @Omnes Omnibus:
    You can add me to that list. Haven’t seen it, don’t want to, wouldn’t recognize the song if a group of carolers showed up at my window and serenaded me with it.

  28. 28.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 3, 2015 at 11:06 pm

    God @ TheTweetOfGod
    “Jim Bob Duggar: ‘God Has Forgiven Josh’.” No I haven’t. He’s going to hell, just like you.

  29. 29.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: More of the soul-devouring SD.

  30. 30.

    lamh36

    June 3, 2015 at 11:11 pm

    I am noticing the news org twitter acct now leading with some sort of “Duggars admit son Josh molested/touched sisters”

    so there’s a change. so far nothing but the most staunch defenders are still clinging to Christian persecution.

    oh and Fuq Ted Cruz…P.A.B.!!!

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 3, 2015 at 11:12 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I’m Ammit, dammit.

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammit

  32. 32.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2015 at 11:14 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I am doing my best to follow Ma’at.

  33. 33.

    Tehanu

    June 3, 2015 at 11:14 pm

    Fred Clark at slacktivist (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2015/05/28/the-duggar-family-scandal-a-reader/) has been very good on the whole Duggars thing, and he also collects other posts from other blogs, so it’s a good place to check. Alas, the Duggars are just the tip of the crazy fundie iceberg in this country — there’s many more where they come from. Sick, sick, sick.

  34. 34.

    KS in MA

    June 3, 2015 at 11:17 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    It’s awful. A boycott would be a great idea. A union would be even better.

  35. 35.

    Valdivia

    June 3, 2015 at 11:17 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Eater of hearts I bow in your presence.

    ETA: and though I am late to the party count me as someone who has never seen Frozen, heard the song or even knows what the movie is about.

  36. 36.

    hitchhiker

    June 3, 2015 at 11:18 pm

    Our son was curious about girls! We think looking at girly magazines is a sin, so we made darn sure he wouldn’t be able to do anything ugly like that. What choice did the poor guy have, then, but to try to feel up his sisters while they were sleeping or sitting in his lap?

    He’s all boy, our Josh. Of course we didn’t like it, but we know he meant no real harm.

    DEAR FREAKING FSM. My only consolation is that every time this story goes on the air, another few thousand people decide that this whole Christianity thing is not what it’s been sold as.

  37. 37.

    Elizabelle

    June 3, 2015 at 11:20 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Yeah, same here. Not Disney’s target demographic. But boycotting in heart, and spreading the news of company’s duplicity.

    I wonder if ABC TV will feel any blowback?

  38. 38.

    trollhattan

    June 3, 2015 at 11:22 pm

    So I was out grilling (swordfish and mahi-mahi, cherry wood smoke chips) and noticed mud wasp nests under the eaves, so knocked them down with a grillin’ tool. The cells broke open to reveal dozens of paralyzed spiders packed inside,serving as larvae food. If I were a si-fi/horror movie screenwriter I’d be invading your dreams in a very bad, not good way.

    Shudder.

  39. 39.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2015 at 11:25 pm

    @trollhattan: Ew.

  40. 40.

    trollhattan

    June 3, 2015 at 11:29 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Seriously wrong, in that nature-doesn’t-give-two-shits-about-my-naive-morality sense that reminds me I’m just worm food. Not a spider fan at all, but I felt pity for the little quivering things.

  41. 41.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 3, 2015 at 11:29 pm

    @trollhattan: awesome haha gross. Yeah wasps have this weird mind control zombification thing they do to spiders.

  42. 42.

    mai naem mobile

    June 3, 2015 at 11:30 pm

    NPR did a piece with ProPublica about the Red Cross either wasting or intentionally mismanaging the Haiti money. $500M. God knows how much was flushed down the toilet. Well, not flushed down Haitian toilets being that they don’t have any. I will never donate to the Red Cross.

  43. 43.

    MomSense

    June 3, 2015 at 11:35 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Oh no. I babysat my niece and nephew a couple weeks ago and had that song on constant auto play in my head. Even just the suggestion of that song and it’s back.

  44. 44.

    satby

    June 3, 2015 at 11:36 pm

    @mai naem mobile: been telling people for years not to, ever since I worked under contract for them and saw first hand how they pissed away money, mostly through incompetence.

  45. 45.

    Amir Khalid

    June 3, 2015 at 11:37 pm

    @mai naem mobile:
    This sounds like the kind of thing that warrants an FBI investigation and some serious arresting of Red Cross high officials.

  46. 46.

    satby

    June 3, 2015 at 11:38 pm

    In other news, I heard from WaterGirl, she’s fine and busy but checks in to see what we’ve been nattering about.
    And Belle the boxer is putting on weight! She seems very attached to her foster mom too.

  47. 47.

    MomSense

    June 3, 2015 at 11:38 pm

    @trollhattan:

    I may actually concentrate on that image and see if it can rid me of that damn song.

  48. 48.

    lurker dean

    June 3, 2015 at 11:39 pm

    @mai naem mobile: saw that. it’s unconscionable how much money they squandered when so many are in need.

  49. 49.

    trollhattan

    June 3, 2015 at 11:39 pm

    @MomSense:
    You know what you have to do: you have to let it go, let it gooooooooo

    Having a now 13YO means I’m quite familiar. There are worse animusicals, believe me.

  50. 50.

    MomSense

    June 3, 2015 at 11:40 pm

    @satby:

    Two pieces of good news. Thank you. Any word from Violet?

  51. 51.

    Amir Khalid

    June 3, 2015 at 11:40 pm

    @mai naem mobile:
    You would probably not like me if I mentioned that I’ve heard Let It Go in English, French, German, Malay, Indonesian, and Latin American and Castilian Spanish. Or that I still like it and the movie.

  52. 52.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2015 at 11:40 pm

    @Amir Khalid: “Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.”

    ― Napoléon Bonaparte

  53. 53.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 3, 2015 at 11:40 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I, no lie, watched Frozen for the first time on a transatlantic flight last year. Maybe I sat next to you!

  54. 54.

    MomSense

    June 3, 2015 at 11:41 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Can’t hold it back any mo o ore.

  55. 55.

    satby

    June 3, 2015 at 11:41 pm

    @Amir Khalid: In the USA they still are under a consent decree from mishandling blood donations 20 or so years ago.

  56. 56.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 3, 2015 at 11:41 pm

    @trollhattan: Thank god the kid and the nieces are over 25, anyway I like antimusicals.

  57. 57.

    mai naem mobile

    June 3, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    @Amir Khalid: yeah, they all need to be doing time esp. when you see that $300 house project. Even taking out money for infrastructure, they should have been easily able to knock $50k houses. Instead they’re teaching them to wash their hands with soap and water.

  58. 58.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2015 at 11:44 pm

    @Amir Khalid: But don’t you like Baz Luhrmann’s stuff? Or do I have a confused – if so, I apologize for the slur on your character.

  59. 59.

    Linnaeus

    June 3, 2015 at 11:49 pm

    Fucking Blackhawks.

  60. 60.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2015 at 11:51 pm

    @Linnaeus: What is the source of your ‘Hawks hate? You seem an otherwise reasonable person.

  61. 61.

    Betty Cracker

    June 3, 2015 at 11:53 pm

    @trollhattan: Nature is gross as shit sometimes.

    @satby: Good to hear. Poor Belle was pitifully skinny. I wish I could donate some of my fat boxer’s blubber to her (I am NOT referring to the one pictured above).

  62. 62.

    Amir Khalid

    June 3, 2015 at 11:54 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    The Baz movies I’ve seen are very much a mixed bag — I found Moulin Rouge agreeably goofy, for instance, while The Great Gatsby is a failure.

  63. 63.

    Linnaeus

    June 3, 2015 at 11:54 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I’m from Detroit. :)

    I will say that I’m hamming up my Blackhawks hate just a bit. I have a great deal of respect for how the Blackhawks play hockey. From a hockey qua hockey standpoint, they’re fun to watch. They’re an excellent team.

  64. 64.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I spent 17 hours of Moulin Rouge just hoping that Nicole Kidman’s character would just die already so the movie could end.

    @Linnaeus: Fuck you, you fucking Red Wings fan!*

    *Nothing personal, you understand.

  65. 65.

    Linnaeus

    June 3, 2015 at 11:59 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    @Linnaeus: Fuck you, you fucking Red Wings fan!*

    *Nothing personal, you understand.

    Trust me, I understand fully.

  66. 66.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 4, 2015 at 12:02 am

    @Linnaeus: I figured you would. I am still upset by the Chelios trade. OTOH, I am happy about the Probert thing. Bob had his problems, but he could play.

  67. 67.

    Amir Khalid

    June 4, 2015 at 12:05 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    I was disappointed by her singing: She ran out of power at the top of her range.

  68. 68.

    Linnaeus

    June 4, 2015 at 12:06 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Oh, Probie was way more than a goon, despite his reputation.

    And when Chelios came to Detroit, I had to set aside my feelings for a while, but then I got quite used to seeing him in a Wings uniform. He still lives in the Detroit area (well, not full time) and people love him there.

    [Fun fact: Chelios’ number in Detroit was 24, which was also Probert’s – Chelios couldn’t wear 7, because the Wings had retired that number.]

  69. 69.

    trollhattan

    June 4, 2015 at 12:06 am

    @Amir Khalid:
    Sensing a theme here, saw “Great Gatsby” on a flight and the only thing that saved it (in a tiny, incremental way) was the comparison to the even worse “Man of Steel.”

    Long flight. It’s as though somebody plumbed my brain to determine two movies that would drive me nuts while trapped in an aluminum tube. MOS needed trimming by 45 minutes. “Will you never end??!!??”

  70. 70.

    Valdivia

    June 4, 2015 at 12:06 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I spent 17 hours of Moulin Rouge just hoping that Nicole Kidman’s character would just die already so the movie could end

    Though the opera goddesses will strike me dead, this was exactly how I felt during Tristan und Isolde. He started dying in Act II and four hours later all I could think was: how can you not be dead already.

  71. 71.

    burnspbesq

    June 4, 2015 at 12:07 am

    @mclaren:

    Large American corporations and the U.S. military is undoubtedly pay beaucoup bucks to the Internet Research Agency and kindred astroturfers to pollute forums like this with fake support for toxic U.S. policies.

    I don’t supposed you would care to provide any evidence to support that hypothesis.

  72. 72.

    burnspbesq

    June 4, 2015 at 12:11 am

    @Tehanu:

    David Ferguson (the Artist Formerly Known as TRex) was live-blogging the Duggar thing over at Salon. Given that there were drinking games proposed, I’m assuming that most of Salon’s readership are now in emergency rooms suffering from alcohol poisoning. Headed over there presently to assess the carnage.

  73. 73.

    Aleta

    June 4, 2015 at 12:12 am

    @hitchhiker:

    We think looking at girly magazines is a sin, so we made darn sure he wouldn’t be able to do anything ugly like that.

    ha.

    My only consolation is that every time this story goes on the air, another few thousand people decide that this whole Christianity thing is not what it’s been sold as.

    To be honest, the damage control seems directed at that possibility and pretty well-organized by professionals, it seems to me.

  74. 74.

    burnspbesq

    June 4, 2015 at 12:12 am

    @Valdivia:

    four hours later all I could think was: how can you not be dead already.

    True, but in the interim you got to hear some of the most sublime music ever written.

  75. 75.

    Cacti

    June 4, 2015 at 12:14 am

    Speaking of the disgusting Duggar cultists…

    Prior to the start of their grift rehabilitation tour, In Touch magazine (ironic, no?) revealed that 15 year old Josh was copping feels on his 5-year old sister.

    That’s the behavior of a pedophile. Not a horny teenage boy. So that defense is pretty much out the window.

  76. 76.

    burnspbesq

    June 4, 2015 at 12:14 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    Will you be happy if the Wolcott and Gibbs for Sterling deal happens?

  77. 77.

    trollhattan

    June 4, 2015 at 12:15 am

    @Valdivia:
    Think I was sufficiently mesmerized comparing Nicole Kidman’s legs to the Oklahoma panhandle that I forgot it was a musical. Just sayin’.

  78. 78.

    jayboat

    June 4, 2015 at 12:16 am

    Dunno if it’s been mentioned but Pamela Geller has been listed as the intended beheading target of the terrahists… this will be fun to watch. Hope it doesn’t take the wind out of the Duggar story- those jackwads still need to be throatjammed with some holy wafers.

  79. 79.

    trollhattan

    June 4, 2015 at 12:17 am

    @Cacti:
    Wait, what?!? That’s felonious stuff. And also, too, “In Touch” magazine?

    This guy needs a Taliban intervention.

  80. 80.

    Valdivia

    June 4, 2015 at 12:19 am

    @burnspbesq: I do think his music is sublime. Maybe it was because I was doing the Ring cycle and I was a little Wagnered out after 20+ hours that I kept wishing Tristan dead.

    @trollhattan: no argument here, those are some long legs :)

  81. 81.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 4, 2015 at 12:21 am

    @Valdivia: As an ex-violinist/violist, I have my classical music pretensions, but opera has always left me cold. And now SD will, indeed, eat my soul. Don’t mourn, organize!

  82. 82.

    Cacti

    June 4, 2015 at 12:21 am

    @trollhattan:

    Under Arkansas statute, Josh committed multiple counts of second degree sexual assault, a Class B felony punishable by 5-20 years imprisonment and registration as a sex offender.

    Jim Bob took great care to run out the clock on the statute of limitations.

  83. 83.

    Olivia

    June 4, 2015 at 12:22 am

    I’ve always thought the word should not be fecundity but fuckendity instead.

  84. 84.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 4, 2015 at 12:22 am

    @trollhattan: Legs are wonderful and so are fesses, but just let her die.

  85. 85.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 4, 2015 at 12:26 am

    @Linnaeus: Probie was far more than a goon. He could play. But when needed, he could out-goon anyone.

    ETA: Confession time: When I was playing rugby, I was an inveterate collar tackler. You got past me on the wing? You weren’t scoring. OTOH, if someone collar tackled me, it was cool -same deal.

  86. 86.

    trollhattan

    June 4, 2015 at 12:29 am

    @Cacti:
    I reflexively disliked those people but paid them no mind beyond cringing at the grift and how the women/girls seemed to be considered a lower class. Palins sans meth. But now I want the menfolk and mom crushed under a rock and the girls sent to deprogramming.

  87. 87.

    Mike J

    June 4, 2015 at 12:35 am

    @jayboat:

    Dunno if it’s been mentioned but Pamela Geller has been listed as the intended beheading target of the terrahists

    She was also a inspiration for the terrorist in Sweden. So fuck her.

  88. 88.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 4, 2015 at 12:36 am

    @Mike J: Sweden?

  89. 89.

    Cacti

    June 4, 2015 at 12:36 am

    @trollhattan:

    I’m waiting for the day when one of the daughters leaves the cult and writes the tell all memoir about how effed up that family really is.

  90. 90.

    trollhattan

    June 4, 2015 at 12:36 am

    Oh fvck, I thought spider-eating wasps were bad. We’re going to have to call the Orkin man frealz.

    After three decades with a Burbank mailing address, the California Republican Party is moving its base to downtown Sacramento.

    The state GOP has paid $1.6 million for the fourth floor of an office building one block north of the Capitol at 1001 K St., party Chairman Jim Brulte confirmed Wednesday. The purchase, first reported by the Sacramento Business Journal, follows the sale last year of the state party’s Southern California headquarters.

  91. 91.

    Mike J

    June 4, 2015 at 12:38 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Sorry, Norway.

  92. 92.

    hitchhiker

    June 4, 2015 at 12:40 am

    @Aleta:

    To be honest, the damage control seems directed at that possibility and pretty well-organized by professionals, it seems to me.

    Yeah, they’re making an effort to provide talking points to their hard core . . . but all the people around the edges who keep hoping there might be something to this whole church thing aren’t going to buy it.

    There’s less and less reason to join a church these days — and this stuff just makes it even harder to consider.

  93. 93.

    divF

    June 4, 2015 at 12:42 am

    @Elizabelle:
    I won’t see Snow Queen – after Joan Vinge’s SF novel of the same name, a Disney remake of the Hans Christian Andersen story would only annoy me. As for Star Wars, I can wait until it is shows on cable.

  94. 94.

    divF

    June 4, 2015 at 12:46 am

    @Amir Khalid:
    How about Strictly Ballroom ?

  95. 95.

    Valdivia

    June 4, 2015 at 12:46 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: as someone who played the cello for a bit I totally understand you. I grew up with opera, my father is mad about it, so it sort of grew on me almost by osmosis. But Wagner I came to via Hegel, which is, I know, kind of perverse.

    @trollhattan: I think you’re going to need something stronger than the Orkin man for that.

  96. 96.

    divF

    June 4, 2015 at 12:48 am

    @Valdivia:

    Though the opera goddesses will strike me dead, this was exactly how I felt during Tristan und Isolde. He started dying in Act II and four hours later all I could think was: how can you not be dead already.

    “Longer than Parsifal, and not as funny”.

  97. 97.

    fuckwit

    June 4, 2015 at 12:51 am

    @MomSense: You’ve just got to let it go.

  98. 98.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 4, 2015 at 12:54 am

    @Valdivia: My dad was a bit of a hipster for his time – I know- acorn, tree – he loved the black music coming out of Memphis and such. Actually, he was a mod. I’ve seen photos. My mother is an Elvis girl. My nephew is a budding hipster. It apparently affects many males in my family. We are weak.

  99. 99.

    lamh36

    June 4, 2015 at 12:56 am

    doesn’t surprise me at all

    Mike Huckabee and the Duggars share PR counsel http://t.co/gcr86dID2C via @CNNMoney

  100. 100.

    Valdivia

    June 4, 2015 at 12:56 am

    @divF: perfect!
    I almost died when I read that my favorite overture by Wagner, Rienzi was also the favorite of the Führer. But then I saw that was debunked and I was glad, I did not want to be cursed by my ancestors.

    ok balloon juice people, I say buenas noches.

    eta: @Omnes Omnibus: lucky you! :)
    thankfully there was more than opera growing up in my house, but nothing mod or very hip. Lots of classical. And much piano. See a theme?

  101. 101.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 4, 2015 at 1:01 am

    @Valdivia: There are music and art stories. Cheers.

  102. 102.

    opiejeanne

    June 4, 2015 at 1:01 am

    @Amir Khalid: I liked it too, but then I don’t currently have any small girl-type children in my life so I haven’t heard it a kabillion times, either.

  103. 103.

    lamh36

    June 4, 2015 at 1:03 am

    @divF: Strictly Ballroom is my first and FAVORITE Baz Luhrmann film ever!

    I even have a soft spot for Australia, but that’s cause I’m a sucker for a romantic epic with a little bit of history attached…plus 3 words: “SHIRTLESS HUGH JACKMAN”!

  104. 104.

    fuckwit

    June 4, 2015 at 1:04 am

    I can only hope that this Duggar pedopheila scandal does for fundamentalist christianity in the USA what the priest pedophile scandal did for the catholic church in Ireland: utterly destroy it and render it powerless.

  105. 105.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 4, 2015 at 1:08 am

    @lamh36:

    “SHIRTLESS HUGH JACKMAN”!

    To quote “Say Anything:” DUDE, YOU MUST CHILL!

  106. 106.

    fuckwit

    June 4, 2015 at 1:08 am

    @Amir Khalid: Just tell them there may be soccer involved, it’ll happen.

  107. 107.

    divF

    June 4, 2015 at 1:11 am

    @lamh36: Mine and Madame divF’s as well (it doesn’t hurt that we courted by going out dancing together).

    Another Australian musical fave: Gilliam Armstrong’s Starstruck (1982). Also set in Sydney.

  108. 108.

    Suzanne

    June 4, 2015 at 1:14 am

    I have heard “Let It Go” enough times for all of you. Spawn the Elder is learning to play it on the piano. This is in between making her new trumpet sound like a fart. Um, I mean “practicing”.

  109. 109.

    Aleta

    June 4, 2015 at 1:14 am

    @Valdivia:
    Aria da capo con violoncello :)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GczSTQ2nv94

  110. 110.

    Timurid

    June 4, 2015 at 1:25 am

    Quiverfulls are the people Scientologists make fun of when they’re feeling insecure…

  111. 111.

    NotMax

    June 4, 2015 at 1:27 am

    @Valdivia

    Corollary to “It ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings” :

    When Camille does a walk-on and, between phlegmy hacks, shouts “Stop milking it and get it over with!” one knows it’s gone on too long.

  112. 112.

    Calouste

    June 4, 2015 at 1:27 am

    @fuckwit: In that vein, the Brits didn’t really care much that the News of the World was hacking the phones of celebrities and politicians. But when it came out that the NotW had hacked the phone of a missing 12 year old girl and even wiped voice messages from it because the inbox was full, the paper closed within a week. Funny how humans seem to get upset by the abuse of children. But that’s something psychopaths like Huckabee will never understand.

  113. 113.

    opiejeanne

    June 4, 2015 at 1:30 am

    @trollhattan: Jim Brulte. Wasn’t he one of the so-called bomb-throwers in the legislature? The guys who voted no on everything no matter what? Curt Pringle was one and he ended up as mayor of Anaheim. Gah!

  114. 114.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 4, 2015 at 1:33 am

    @Calouste: Um, our ability to do fuck all about this is?

  115. 115.

    NotMax

    June 4, 2015 at 1:35 am

    In (kind of, sort of) the spirit of some of the above, not classical but still a fun instrumental:

    Dueling Hackbrett

  116. 116.

    Amir Khalid

    June 4, 2015 at 1:59 am

    @burnspbesq:
    Since Raheem really really wants to go …
    Let it go, let it go
    Can’t hold it back anymore
    Let it go, let it go
    Turn away, and slam the door!

  117. 117.

    Anne Laurie

    June 4, 2015 at 2:15 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’ve always been an adherent of Sekhmet, Goddess of Consequences. Her earliest incarnation was as a solar goddess, specifically representing the power of the Egyptian sun. The source of all life and light, and yet, if you wander out unprepared into the desert, you will die — be you never so young, so innocent, so pious or so valuable.

    (There are some very cool Sekhmet statues at the Metropolitan Museum, and my parents explained to me by the time I was four or five that they were unusually well-preserved because they’d been commissioned by the Pharaoh Hatshepsut… and buried in retaliation after her worthless nephew/stepson Thutmose III took over after her death. Not a big surprise Hatshepsut favored the Goddess of Blood & Power, somehow… )

  118. 118.

    MaryRC

    June 4, 2015 at 11:24 am

    @lamh36: Yes, I don’t think that interview will have the positive impact that the Duggars obviously hoped it would.

    By the way, we now know the names of two of the Duggar sisters who were Josh’s victims — not through the supermarket gossip rag that broke the story (and redacted their names), but through the Duggars and Fox News. Nice going, Mom and Pop Duggar. Hopefully the proposed follow-up interview with these girls will drive the final nails into this cult’s coffin.

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