Here are two pretty swans: They live on Lawnguyland. I took this photo last summer when I was in NYC for my sister’s big fat gay wedding.
I’m super busy this weekend, but am taking a short break right now and catching a little of the US Open with hubby, who is a golf nut. Sounds like the players are particularly whiny about the course this year.
What are y’all up to today?
Elizabelle
Betty: did you tell us what you thought of “Kingsman”?
And enjoy your afternoon.
OzarkHillbilly
Getting ready to go mow the hay… I mean the grass.
WereBear
I had to do a blog for work about golf courses, and I’ve never golfed.
However, I am a heck of a researcher. So now I know a lot about golf course architecture. Ask me anything! Penal, birdie, bunkers! The Dunn legacy!
scav
@WereBear: Ok, um….
Why?
Followed by …..
What sprinkler setup for the rough on the third tee, left side? Standard Raingun or would a trickle something or other pass the dress codes?
Betty Cracker
@Elizabelle: I found it amusing in parts but didn’t like it as well as I thought I would. It was incredibly violent, but in a cartoonish way. Sometimes that works for me (I like the “Kill Bill” movies), but I wasn’t expecting it and found it sort of off-putting.
Elizabelle
All the Kings Men on TCM right now. Tis good. Willie is not yet governor. He’s getting dissed by Sadie (Mercedes McCambridge) right now.
Elizabelle
@Betty Cracker: Haven’t seen it myself. Hear it’s good. It’s been holding on at the second run theatre for weeks now … noted re the violence.
It took me maybe 3 times to see Kill Bill Vol. 1 all the way through. And I’ve only watched all of the anime sequence once. That was enough. But love the movie’s stylishness and humor, otherwise.
Liquid
So, my Mother’s sister’s son has moved in with the daughter of an uber-religious mother whose older daughter lives in West Virginia with her Not-Christian husband *SCANDAL*
Despite the obvious, I would appreciate some outside advice for when they “Declare.”
I mean his younger brother married some rich Bostonian chick (There really is a place called ‘Gastonia?’) and she’s already tiring of his quaint PNW ways so…
scav
@WereBear: But seriously, bunkers seem to be part of the architecture, but how are birdies and what is the penal doing in the list, are they built in prisons? I too have no connection to golf, despite having been adjacent to a few large hilly green spaces with no visible gravestones at some point in my life.
Amir Khalid
@Betty Cracker:
How did you like the elegant Savile Row suits? The Kingsman guys make James Bond look like a slob.
shell
We’re supposed to get hit with the remnants of that tropical storm, up from Texas, so it should be a couple of good days for water fowl of all kinds.
OzarkHillbilly
@WereBear:
You misspelled Penile there.
Swiftfox
Mute swans, not native and not good for the ecosystem, and they have nasty dispositions.
JCT
House has been feeling so empty and remaining beagle seems so sad since we lost the older dog. We’re long-term supporters of the Best Friend Sanctuary in UT, so when a pack of little Rottweiler-Shepherd mixes went up on the site last weekend we took the plunge.
Soooo, we’re on puppy patrol around here. I haven’t had a puppy since I was a kid. Luckily since Kaleigh (AKA the naughtiest dog in the universe) still acts like a puppy, the place is already puppy-proofed.
She’s a sweet “little” thing, kids named her Rose (something about a dog predicted to get to 80+ lbs having such a dainty name amused them) – so now we have a Rosie too!
Valdivia
One of my favorite writers, James Salter passed away yesterday, not as well known as he should be and a must read if you haven’t encountered him before.
Major Major Major Major
I guess they’re fairly swan, I don’t know about pretty.
Gonna go see the new Pixar movie and play Diablo 3.
jeffreyw
Neighbors bought a few swans to liven up their pond. They were saying it’s impossible to tell the sexes apart short of a blood test. I’m guessing they were talking about the chicks before they are fledged. She also mentioned they won’t eat their food unless it’s under water. They also keep goats. I may have caused a bit of a chill when I mentioned goat meat would make a delicious burrito.
Germy Shoemangler
Robert
The cat that learned to forgive himself
Jasmine Bleach
Gaack! Although this is probably common knowledge, I just learned that even when they put a woman on the $10 bill, Alexander Hamilton will still be on it!
Not sure how they’ll work that–I’m assuming that they’ll be sharing the space where the face usually goes?
That really pisses me off. Why can’t a woman stand alone on a bill?!? We’ve never had a bill with more than one person on it, I don’t think, so why change that now? This might end up causing more disgruntlement than positive feelings. (Or maybe I’m just being too cynical.) Seems way too American Gothic to me.
Although, if they do share the space, I would accept it without complaint if the two representatives on the new $10 bill were perhaps engaged in a french kiss, or something. That’d at least be interesting and foster discussion. Y’know, to show togetherness in the country or something. Or even better, the two entwined in lovemaking, perhaps with the woman on top, with long hair covering up the naughty bits!
If there are two of them, they should at least be interacting in some way . . .
Professor
Do you know that all Swans in the United Kingdom belong to the monarch?
Germy Shoemangler
Limited Edition Friskies Cat Food
“Ultimate Climax Tantric Beef”
Major Major Major Major
@Jasmine Bleach: Some sorta watermark or something, I’ve read. Woman will be square bang in the center by herself. They use it in a lot of countries. The queen is on all of the Canadian currency in some form IIRC.
OzarkHillbilly
@shell: Naw… us Miserians took all the water already.
Germy Shoemangler
And Social Justice Kitten Calendar
Elizabelle
@JCT: Sorry to hear you are down an older beagle — love beagles! — but very glad to hear of your new little (for a while) pup Rosie. Enjoy!
Jasmine Bleach
@Major Major Major Major: Oh, I see. Okay, less of an issue then.
I still like my ideas though . . .
OzarkHillbilly
@jeffreyw: I read somewhere that true chorizo is made from burro meat. If true, I think it is safe to say I have eaten ass.
Betty Cracker
@Amir Khalid: The suits were fabulous! I love Colin Firth.
WereBear
@scav: Was that a trick question? Because you don’t water the rough, silly :)
Germy Shoemangler
@OzarkHillbilly: I’ve always assumed anyone who has enjoyed a hot dog has eaten some ass.
Steeplejack
@Betty Cracker:
I had a somewhat similar reaction to Spy, which I saw early this week. It was hilarious, but the violence was incongruously graphic. When someone gets shot in the head, do I really need to see a little red puff of blood mist behind them in a goddamn spoof comedy? It just seemed weird.
WereBear
@scav: A “penal course” is one with no margin for creativity, or error. You must hit the course in certain places to make par.
scav
@WereBear: Was it the dress code that gave away the game?
ETA: and for part two, thanks.
Iowa Old Lady
@Betty Cracker: Did your daughter get the job at the place that wanted to know her spirit animal? I thought of her as I ate fast food a little while ago.
Major Major Major Major
@OzarkHillbilly: This might just be my gay showing, but I always assumed most people had…
OzarkHillbilly
@Major Major Major Major: When did burro meat become a gay thing? ;-)
Steeplejack
@Betty Cracker:
Yeah, there is a contingent that is pissed that it isn’t a perfectly manicured dreamscape, but screw them. They all have to play the same course, so no one’s being disadvantaged, and it’s interesting to see them cope with a “links” style course.
Ruckus
@Germy Shoemangler:
I always assumed they’d eaten a very specific part of the ass. Or was that what you meant?
Major Major Major Major
@Ruckus: I’d assume he meant bung.
Yes, I listen to This American Life.
SiubhanDuinne
@jeffreyw:
I can’t imagine what Hans Christian Andersen was thinking! They’re not ugly at all — they are absolutely adorable.
SiubhanDuinne
@Germy Shoemangler:
I don’t know about Robert, or Robert, but “Tathy Sparmdonner” is one of the best names I’ve ever seen and I wish it were mine!
SiubhanDuinne
@Professor:
One of these years I’ll time a trip to Britain so I can be in London for the traditional “Swan Upping” ceremony.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Upping
West of the Cascades
Heading to Portland’s Juneteenth celebration. It seems like the right thing to do in the aftermath of the Charleston shootings and to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the announcement of the end of slavery to the people of Texas. Also happy to see a white Christian leader calling the “act of white supremacist terrorism” for what it is in a plea to take down that dixie swastika from the S.C. capitol grounds.http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/06/19/southern-baptists-russell-moore-its-time-to-take-down-the-confederate-flag/?postshare=4951434795440742
Germy Shoemangler
@Ruckus: I just assume no part of the animal is wasted. Whatever is left over is ground into paste and pressed into service as hot dogs.
Ass, beak, face, feet, tongue, brain, eyeballs… it all gets used, otherwise they’d be throwing money away.
I try not to think about it because I love barbecue hot dogs with mustard and relish.
Betty Cracker
@Steeplejack: I felt the same way about “Spy,” which was otherwise enjoyable.
@Iowa Old Lady: She did! She hasn’t started yet, but soon the $$$ will be rolling in.
Redshift
I’m making Caribbean vegetable stew for my dad got Father’s Day, trying to make a dent in the clutter that has filled our house ever since we cleaned out the in-laws, and waiting for the Bill-spawned monsoon to roll through.
NotMax
Driving very elderly landlady into town to purchase a new riding mower later on today.
Other than that, playing it by ear for the rest of the day.
NotMax
@Germy Shoemangler
“Everything but the oink.”
BruceFromOhio
Eat too much, drink too much, stagger around and curse. Later, there will be grilling of salmon and asparagus, served with some SPLENDID fresh tomato-basil fettuccine that was just too good to pass up. Gaia smiles up at us through her tears.
BruceFromOhio
@WereBear: The rough! The carts! The beer girls! That’s all I know about golf.
Steeplejack
Whither Randinho? We got some chick fútbol starting up right now. And Germany almost scored in the second minute!
ETA: And a post pops up. Cool.
NotMax
@BruceFrom Ohio
Lots of fun, though, to say “mashie niblick.”
Trivia: Cleek is an antiquated term for a 2 iron club.
Steeplejack
@BruceFromOhio:
Well, no carts or beer girls in pro golf, but they do have rough, so you’ve got that going for you.
Gindy51
@Steeplejack: They’re going to have to get used to such a course esp on the west coast. Drought does bad things to golf courses….
patrick II
@OzarkHillbilly: I think that is safe to say about me too, although I have never been near a chorito.
Steeplejack
@Gindy51:
Srsly.
A Ghost To Most
Roof’s ‘manifesto’ is up now at Gawker.
I wonder if Jeb! Can know what is in his heart now.
Tree With Water
@Jasmine Bleach: The plan is to portray Hamilton as a tattoo on the cleavage of whichever woman is chosen. Or it should be..
opiejeanne
@Steeplejack: I doubt they water that course much in a normal year, because they wouldn’t have to until about August. People here let their lawns die rather than set up a sprinkler.
Betty
@JCT: Oh, we loved our Rotttweiler/Shepherd mix. His name was Baby so same sense of humor, it seems. We lost him when he disapeared without a trace. We grieved for a long time and never found another dog quite so smart, loyal and special. Good luck with Miss Rose.
PurpleGirl
I’ve been doing errands and cleaning out paper from the living room. There is so much paper… does it reproduce itself. I should be heading out for more shopping, in a different direction than this morning’s errands.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
I just had a French turkey dip sandwich with vegetable pho at a Belgian French bakery chain. Basically, it was a turkey bahn mi, which all right-thinking people recognize as the world’s greatest sandwich. Colonialist or post-colonialist?
FlyingToaster
@patrick II: You have been to a grocery store in the past decade, right?
Chorizo, Linguica, Kielbasa, etc. are stored with the sausages in the same fixture as bacon and bologna.
Elizabelle
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Pure delicious.
What are you hearing about fired Disney IT types from Orlando getting any jobs back? Any rumormongering?
PS: new thread by Tim F on the rightwing loon the rightwing dare not claim. Or even speak of.
The shooter with a manifesto (although Fox viewers may not have heard that last bit).
Elizabelle
@Valdivia: Condolences on Mr. Salter. Never heard of him before (my bad). He sounds like a wonderful writer, and a man who lived a full and productive life. A new book out only a year or two before dying at age 90. At a physical therapy session.
Do you have a suggestion on where a new to Salter reader should start? Several in the NYTimes reader comments …
Tree With Water
The NY Times offers up a fine introduction to Roberto Clemente, a trailblazer who possessed all the attributes of Jackie Robinson with none of the publicity. To this day, the highest praise I can extend an outfielder’s arm is to compare it to Clemente. But he was much more than a baseball player, and his story viewed in historical context is legit. Especially in light of the Charleston massacre, a clearer understanding of what he endured in America while achieving what he did is made all the more telling. Anyway, it’s an interesting Saturday afternoon (PST) diversion if you’re inclined to take it:
http://www.nytimes.com/upshot
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: I kind of assumed that Tathy Sparmdonner was a pen name for Germy Shoemangler. Am I the only one?
JCT
@Elizabelle: She made it to 15 and we feel blessed to have had her that long. Hah – I think you and I are the only beagle fans around here. J.C. is definitely not!
@Betty: Everyone I spoke to who has had a rottie- shepherd mixed has loved them. Seems like a unique combo. We had originally planned on waiting before we got another dog but when I saw those adorable faces on the website and one was left… we were goners. It’s awful to lose a dog like you lost Baby, lost one that way when I was still living at home, bolted when a door was left open. My father didn’t get another dog for years.