As is our custom on Fathers’ Day, the mister got to pick a dessert and have it served to him while watching television, as if he were the King of Sheba. He chose a banana split:
I had a junior version, and it was delicious. Please feel free to discuss whatever. Open thread!
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
I can’t wait to get home tonight to watch The Deadly Adoption with Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig on the Dvr. Got home too late yesterday to watch.
Anybody watch The Spoils of Babylon?
Brachiator
What is this, a PC banana split? Where are the peanuts sprinkled over the top?
The banana split I grew up with also featured a scoop of vanilla, a scoop of strawberry and a scoop of chocolate.
Just the thing on a hot summer day.
NotMax
Impressed that you actually have the traditional serving ware for a banana split!
(Or is that repurposed pickle dish?)
OzarkHillbilly
You know what I got for Father’s Day? The dishes. Never have celebrated that, never will. Come to think of it, I don’t celebrate my birthday or Xmas either. (I do acknowledge Xmas but only if someone says, “Come over for Xmas.”)
nanute
Wasn’t Sheba a queen? Not that there’s anything wrong with that
Germy Shoemangler
I saw this interesting comment from Tree With Water in a thread below:
Sometimes really good, thought-provoking comments appear at the end of fading threads and get overlooked.
OzarkHillbilly
@nanute: Sheba was a place.
JPL
@Germy Shoemangler: A week and a half ago, my computer was slower than a snail’s space. The computer was fine, it was the feed from Uverse. Next time, I’m going to call.
JCJ
@Germy Shoemangler:
Huh. My daughter is a gamer and has noted some slowness of the internet recently (U-verse) and yesterday I could not get to gmail. Hmmmm…
Patricia Kayden
I’ve never had a banana split before. That photograph is so tempting. It’s now on my bucket list.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@JPL: UVerse is getting ready to add a new higher speed tier. I figured the slowdown was to encourage people to think about upgrading.
JPL
Josh Ernest needs a big raise. I have no idea how he puts up with the bullshit questions. Does the President use the n word in his own home?
A majority of the questions had to do with the President’s use of a word.
nanute
@OzarkHillbilly: OK. Did it have a King?
Brachiator
@Patricia Kayden:
Never had a banana split?!
Hie thee to a Baskin Robbins.
Gin & Tonic
@JPL: Speaking as someone who frequently finds himself on the receiving end of those types of calls, it works a lot better if you have actual data. Two independent sites worth bookmarking are speedtest.net/ and bandwidthplace.com/ (you can also get “speed tests” from your ISP, but they play all sorts of tricks.) Run tests from time to time, write down the results. See if you get variability by time of day, day of week, etc. That way when you call you can sound well-informed. If there is a genuine issue, the person you’ve called will be happy for the information.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@JPL:
The president has two young daughters in his home. Does the press really think he uses that word in front of them in any context other than, “Don’t say that word in this house”?
gbear
When I was about 4 or 5 years old, a Dairy Queen was built less than a block from our house, so anything fancier than a bowl of ice cream came from up the hill. A banana split was the ultimate treat; three blobs of ice cream with strawberry, chocolate and pineapple toppings. No nuts. I can’t remember if they had whipped cream or not. Seems like everything at the DQ has whipped cream now…
JPL
@Gin & Tonic: Thanks.. My son was here at the time and ran the tests.
I’m going to bookmark them though.
Since I don’t download a lot of movies, I thought that ATT was punishing me since I don’t use their tv service,
JPL
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Well before he asked that question, he spoke at length about parents teaching their children, not to say the word. I caught his name and yup, works for FOX.
Kevin Corke
Germy Shoemangler
@Gin & Tonic: I remember youtube checking my speed. A video wasn’t loading, and they prompted me to click to learn my speed.
OzarkHillbilly
@nanute: Does now!
beltane
@Germy Shoemangler: I noticed this happening a lot lately. An aunt who lives in South Africa assured me that broadband service there is lightning fast, affordable, and very reliable. She said, “See, the big bad United States isn’t the best at everything.”
Freedumb!!
Patricia Kayden
@Brachiator: Will do. I wonder if Cold Stone sells them. They sell the best ice cream – in my humble opinion.
Brachiator
@Patricia Kayden:
Sounds great. Looks like they do not use the standard “official” banana split dish.
coldstonecreamery.com/icecream/sundaes/bananasplitdecision/index.html#.VYhPkU3bJi4
But if it tastes good….
beltane
@Brachiator: I miss Baskin Robbins. Remember the clown cones? Yum.
Face
So SCOTUS really is going to issue the 2 biggest cases next Monday, eh? Anyone have a feel on waiting unitl the last possible day might indicate the outcome?
Patricia Kayden
@Brachiator: Yes!! Mouth is watering already.
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
Also dslreports, which provides lots of useful info aside from just speed.
Caveat, too, to not succumb to clicking on the detritus on speedtest.net, other than the actual test itself.
NotMax
@Face
No surprise there. Whichever cases the conventional wisdom tags as “big” are nearly always left until the last day.
Tom Q
@Face: Didn’t they say last week that, because of the volume of cases, they were going to issue some rulings this Thursday, as well?
In any case, it’s not unusual for the Court to hold the headline cases till the end. I remember the Webster case (which we thought would be the final word on abortion) came on the last day of the term.
NotMax
Fixed the link from #28:
Also dslreports, which provides lots of useful info aside from just speed.
Caveat, too, to not succumb to clicking on the detritus on speedtest.net, other than the actual test itself. .
Keith G
@Face: No. They are isolated enough that I doubt such considerations cross their minds.
In fact, if they were choosing, it might be better to announce controversial decisions when they still have time to spend in the Court’s bubble.
Brachiator
@Face:
No. It’s not unusual for the Court to leave big cases until the end of the term.
But even here, there will be room for a lot of discussion with friends, family and other folk over the holiday weekend. Social media may be very lively as well.
nanute
@OzarkHillbilly: lol “as if he were…”
Elizabelle
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Yup. It’s squid ink.
Omnes Omnibus
@Face: The “big” cases are frequently the last opinions to be released. Nothing to be read into it.
raven
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) will call for the Confederate flag to be removed from the state capitol, multiple outlets reported Monday.
Haley is set to speak at a press conference at 4 p.m. ET Monday. According to CNN, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will join the governor and call for the flag to be placed in a museum.
Graham previously said the flag “is part of who we are,” but that he would be “fine” with taking the symbol down.
Chet
This is horrible: Former baseball player and MLB Network analyst Darryl Hamilton was found shot to death yesterday in an apparent murder-suicide.
And in other baseball news, it seems ESPN has uncovered a notebook from Pete Rose’s old bookie showing that Charlie Hustle gambled on games while playing as well as managing. One would assume this puts the kibosh on Rose’s attempts at reinstatement.
OzarkHillbilly
@nanute: He seems to have convinced Betty, and who else matters?
Patricia Kayden
@raven: Have to race home to see that. Looks like history will be made. Good.
Mr. Longform
@gbear: although DQ is goss fast food crappy etc., it was pretty much my ideal as a kid. We were promised a banana split if we ever hit a homerun in little league. In my entire career, I had one flukey, inside-the-park homer (I imagine the scoring would be more like a bloop single, one or two errors, and fielder indifference); but the resulting banana split is still on my list of favorite things in my life.
JPL
According to TPM, Cruz’s dad said that Northeastern Jews and Catholics put the Democratic Party before they their religion.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@raven: @Patricia Kayden: Lamar (!) Alexander too
I guess we can’t pick nits about the weaselly wording
ETA: “According to TPM, Cruz’s dad said that Northeastern Jews ” is that what used to be known as “Noo York Joos”?
OzarkHillbilly
@Chet:
An unexpected twist in that it appears she shot him.
Valdivia
I am glad and surprised that Haley, Scott and Graham are now clamoring to take down the flag. Though it shouldn’t matter it feels it’s all about political expedience (GOP debate in SC where flag issue is the focus?). Then again the fact that political expedience has swung in the direction of finally taking down the flag is a triumph. A late one but I will take it.
SFAW
@Chet:
One can only hope.
I hope that, somewhere, Bart Giamatti is saying to his fellow angels “See? I fucking TOLD YOU!”
[Yes, I realize that some random notebook from some nameless bookie is hardly a slam-dunk conviction, etc., but I can dream, can’t I?]
Betty Cracker
@Valdivia: Agreed. And the icing on the cake is that the domestic terrorist whose murder spree sparked the debate will be appalled at this development, if he has sufficient sentience to process it.
Valdivia
Because I saw this and could not believe it was even possible to get this low…
@Betty Cracker: Yes, not the race war he was hoping for…
SFAW
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
They do now. (Cokie’s Law, Moron Release/Version)
Chet
@SFAW: As somebody on Twitter put it, Rose was a short white guy who ran to first base on walks so that still makes him a better person than A-Rod.
SFAW
@Valdivia:
You’ve been coming here HOW long, and you still believe in Peak Wingnut?
Omnes Omnibus
@Valdivia: What.The.Fuck?
Valdivia
@SFAW: I know, but, come on. They’re not even at the level of intelligence of OK! Magazine these people.
@Omnes Omnibus: I almost let that exact phrase out in the middle of the bus when I read it.
@JPL: I see you got there first.
SFAW
@Chet:
I don’t know if A-Rod is a prick, but I’ve never seen anything indicating that Rose isn’t.
Yeah, he was a great baseball player, but I think maybe I would rather have hung out with Ty Cobb. (And, yes, I’m well aware of Cobb’s extensive and very large personality flaws.)
JPL
@Valdivia: Yup.. I was listening. Josh called on Kevin and I typed in Kevin and white house reporter fox.. My guess was correct, Kevin Corke.
Also, Josh said “that was a question he never asked him”
Look at my comment at 12.. the entire briefing sucked.
.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
For your reading “pleasure.”
cnn.com/2015/06/22/politics/barack-obama-n-word-race-relations-marc-maron-interview/index.html
SFAW
@JPL:
Where’s Luther when we need him?
Chet
@Mr. Longform: Don’t know if this was strictly a Michigan thing or nationwide, but DQ always had the best Boston Coolers when I was a kid.
I’m also remembering that they had Dennis the Menace as a mascot back then. Lord, I’m getting old.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Omnes Omnibus: @Valdivia:
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: Jesus Fucking Christ in a push-bra and stripper heels, the Village is full of idiots.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW:
Not if you are black.
Valdivia
@JPL: I saw bits on twitter and kept thinking: they make Obama’s point for him about their own uselessness.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: @Omnes Omnibus: Amen to that. they pearl clutch and miss the content and intent of what he was trying to say. Also, because I saw someone mention it—Do these a-holes not know the difference between mentioning a word and using it?
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: Luther had a stroke. It is sad, but it was inevitable.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
No shit
As I commented somewhere, I always knew Fox (which had a few black shills doing things like calling Obama “rapper-in-chief”) was intellectually dishonest, but I didn’t think they’d go as far as they did today. (I guess I’m guilty of the same thing I “accused” Valdivia of.)
But WTF is it with you and Jesus in a push-up bra?
Valdivia
More SCOTUS tea leaves:
@SFAW: I think it’s because we are still capable of being shocked at their lack of shame.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
As I said, I’m aware of his flaws.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Really? Or are you just yanking me? (I rarely watch Key & Peele, except well after the fact.)
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: None of your business. Some things are private.
Amir Khalid
@SFAW:
Obama also wrote the word “motherfucker” a couple of times in Dreams From My Father. And you can hear him say it in the audiobook. He’s clearly a degenerate man, who uses foul language in even the most serious context.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
OK, it’ll be our little secret. Who else would possibly know? (Outside of L.B., of course.)
japa21
If anybody thinks Obama didn’t realize what the reaction to his using the word would be, they are out of touch with reality.
And the reaction itself shows how accurate his statement is.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: Than I wonder why you would want to sit in the same stadium as him. Pete Rose has his faults but as far as I know violent racism is not among them.
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
Well, sure. I hear he’s also uppity, at least according to the VSP.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
As I said, I have yet to see anything to dissuade me from the idea that Rose is an arrogant prick, with a big victim complex.
That being said: I guess you’re right, and should probably re-think my choice.
Poopyman
@Germy Shoemangler: NOT coincidentally, it took forever to get to theguardian.com and download that article.
JPL
@japa21: So true!!
JPL
@Valdivia: One can hope that marriage for all is announced. Fulton Cty is prepared whenever the decision comes down.
Elizabelle
I put up some links at the end of the previous thread. Long excerpts from a link Davebro put up, a 1999 interview with Dr. Daniel Hollis, Civil War expert and longtime prof at the University of South Carolina. Governor Fritz Hollings appointed him to the commission planning the Civil War centennial.
Lots of detail of what was going on in South Carolina in 1961 around the time the flag went up. Grim.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: Kidding.
Elizabelle
Watching Christopher Lee in “Horror Train,” but checked Fox News at the half hour. Host was scoffing at Obama saying the US has more mass shootings than anywhere else.
That’s their meme — what does that Obama know? — and they’re sticking to it.
Nothing about the flag of treason. Back on the Horror Train (which is not a bad nickname for Fox News, come to think of it…)
JPL
@Elizabelle: The United Daughters of the Confederacy have done a lot of damage to this nation. They are responsible for some of the statues, also.
Elizabelle
From “Horror Train”:
“Perhaps one of you is the monster.”
“Monster? We’re British.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Elizabelle: My god, woman, you have a problem. Stop doing this to yourself! I beg you.
Elizabelle
@JPL: The United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Just like Southern patriots to hide behind the ladies, hmmm?
Where have we heard that strategy recently? ….
shawn
that looks so good – somehow bananas were giving me the gout though so no more banana splits for me hashtag first world problems
Valdivia
@Elizabelle: Thanks for those links. Grim indeed.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Good. Thanks for easing my mind etc etc
Elizabelle
Telly Savalas arrives to steal the movie. Dressed more resplendently than Kojack.
shell
Speaking of Graham, has he set set foot in his home state since this tragedy happened?
Brachiator
@Elizabelle:
I don’t think I ever saw this one. It’s noted as “Horror Express” in the Wiki.
A couple of production details (no plot spoiler stuff)
Punchy
@SFAW: I’ve actually personally met Rose and had a drink with him (and a few of his lady “friends”). He’s as big a dick, asshole, pompous egotistical shitbag as you’ve heard. Needless to say, it was one drink and then I bailed.
Elizabelle
@Brachiator: The Hammer movies have had great music. This one has an exit theme that would not be out of place in a Tarantino movie.
You seem to be able to trace the evolution of special effect contact lenses too …
SFAW
@Punchy:
“We watch Fox and have a drink with Pete Rose so you don’t have to.”
Iowa Old Lady
@JPL: They listened to that whole great interview, and that’s what they got out of it.
Wait. I’ll bet they didn’t listen to the interview. That would mean they had to know something to ask a good question. Can’t have that.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Huh. I have kind of a fondness for that phrase of yours. As my mom used to say, if we were all the same, it wouldn’t be any fun.
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Nope, the pejorative was Hymietown.
J R in WV
You can’t discuss the history of the civil rights movement without mentioning the n-word.
You can’t summarize the hatred of Jim Crow without…
You can’t define racism in America without referring to the n-word.
Discussing racism while opposing it and discussing the n-word in the context of how racists use it is NOT the same thing as using the n-word as an inflammatory racist slur. I’m sorry if people are offended by the use of the word historically… we have had some very hostile history in this world.
It is a good thing that we now have a proper attitude about calling people terrible things and using their race as a weapon against them. This is despicable behavior at any time, and I would never engage in racist hatred as many southerners have, racists have all over the place not just down south, I guess.
Some days all the news is bad. Sounds like the first line of a sad song…
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: The mental picture makes me giggle.