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Oh Yeah- World Series Open Thread

by John Cole|  October 30, 20159:24 pm| 105 Comments

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Soooo this just happened a little bit ago.

I decided to give the dogs some of those skinny rawhide twist treats, and as I was opening the bag, a bunch fell out. The dogs were there in the kitchen waiting for them, and rather than pick them all up, I just tried to kick them into the living room since they are so small.

I made the kicking motion, missed the treats, my slipper flew off and hit Lily in the face, and rather than go for a treat, Thurston grabbed the slipper and took off into the yard with it. I was left standing there wearing one slipper with my other being ravaged in the backyard by Thurston, Lily was looking at me giving me sad eyes like she had done something wrong, and Rosie couldn’t believe all the treats were hers and no one else wanted one.

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  1. 1.

    Gin & Tonic

    October 30, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    So the Thurston rehoming project isn’t going so well?

  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 30, 2015 at 9:28 pm

    Poor Lily :-(

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 30, 2015 at 9:29 pm

    I’m almost afraid to say it, because my fandom almost always turns into a curse on the team, but … Mets are lookin’ not bad.

  4. 4.

    lamh36

    October 30, 2015 at 9:29 pm

    I’m already laughing at this on FB John, now I get to continue that laughter on BJ…

    BWHAHAHAHA…Dude were you accident prone as a child too? If so how did you make it out of childhood.

  5. 5.

    cbear

    October 30, 2015 at 9:30 pm

    That’s all very interesting, but unless there’s missing mustard or actual injuries, I’m less than entertained.
    Please try harder.

  6. 6.

    worn

    October 30, 2015 at 9:33 pm

    Just got home from a long, hard week at work. Envisioning this scene, especially each canine’s take on the situation, just made me laugh out loud. Thanks, JC!

  7. 7.

    Gravenstone

    October 30, 2015 at 9:34 pm

    Your life really should be a pay per view event.

  8. 8.

    seaboogie

    October 30, 2015 at 9:37 pm

    And so everyone acted true to type, including you, John.

    If Steve was watching, his thought was likely “annnd there you have it – every one of these yobbos in a nutshell!”

  9. 9.

    mellowjohn

    October 30, 2015 at 9:41 pm

    You know, my little Roseanne Roseannadanna, it’s always something.

  10. 10.

    Renie

    October 30, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    and another great misadventure in the Cole home; i love reading these!!

  11. 11.

    dedc79

    October 30, 2015 at 9:46 pm

    I jinxed deGrom on Wednesday. Not making that mistake again.

  12. 12.

    Exurban Mom

    October 30, 2015 at 9:49 pm

    I was afraid the story would end with another trip to the E.R. Glad it was only the slipper that got injured this time.

  13. 13.

    Nom de Plume

    October 30, 2015 at 9:50 pm

    You should rename this blog “Bigfoot”.

  14. 14.

    justawriter

    October 30, 2015 at 9:52 pm

    On the good side, no paramedics were involved

  15. 15.

    benw

    October 30, 2015 at 9:54 pm

    Let’s go, Mets!

    Oh no, Cole!

  16. 16.

    different-church-lady

    October 30, 2015 at 10:00 pm

    Meh, needs more broken shoulder.

  17. 17.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 30, 2015 at 10:01 pm

    @efgoldman: Yeah, wait until he tries to get the slipper back.

  18. 18.

    Gin & Tonic

    October 30, 2015 at 10:03 pm

    I hate cancer, too, but that break was awful.

  19. 19.

    lamh36

    October 30, 2015 at 10:07 pm

    Watching House Hunters International with my sister. A couple moving to Paris, France from Tennessee. Husband is a businessman, wife likes to take pictures…!

    Now watching another this time they in London. We just LMAO at the expression on the husbands face when he found out the budget for the houses they wanted…lol

    So the realtor brings the couple in London to a “bigger” space that fits their budget but it’s not “quite like the others” ya’ll know what that means…uh huh

    they keep showing the same graffitti and the same bag of trash, and homegirl just right on said…”she wouldn’t feel safe”…

    So they went for the over budget place, but this time home girl went out and got a job…withing 3 months…

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    October 30, 2015 at 10:11 pm

    Promise you’ll never, ever attempt to use superglue.

  21. 21.

    Robert

    October 30, 2015 at 10:18 pm

    We need photos (especially Thurston).

  22. 22.

    22over7

    October 30, 2015 at 10:19 pm

    You need to apologize to Lily.

  23. 23.

    Pogonip

    October 30, 2015 at 10:20 pm

    Your dogs heard FOOD HIT THE FLOOR and there was no stampede? Get thee to the vet and get these critters checked out!

    Incidentally, does the vet address you by your Anglo name, Mr. Cole, or by your Native American name, Stands With One Slipper?

  24. 24.

    max

    October 30, 2015 at 10:25 pm

    Lily was looking at me giving me sad eyes like she had done something wrong

    I’d bet she’d feel better if you gave her a jar of mustard.

    max
    [‘Nothing says ‘I love you…”]

  25. 25.

    Peale

    October 30, 2015 at 10:29 pm

    Confused by the yard part. Is the kitchen outside? Do you stand in your kitchen with the door open?

  26. 26.

    Culture of Truth

    October 30, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    Ha ha ha

    I accidentally stepped on Tiger’s foot the other day. He looked so shocked, like I did it on purpose. Lucky he had no memory.

  27. 27.

    lamh36

    October 30, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    Coolest Costume evah…?

    Mini FLOTUS and POTUS

  28. 28.

    jl

    October 30, 2015 at 10:35 pm

    The refs have blown many blown too many off sides, traveling, and illegal motion penalties. I’m turning it off.

    Edit: didn’t check for improperly inflated balls either.

  29. 29.

    dedc79

    October 30, 2015 at 10:35 pm

    Mets need more runs. No lead is safe with this KC team.

  30. 30.

    Wally Ballou

    October 30, 2015 at 10:36 pm

    @efgoldman: Dan Shulman and Aaron Boone do a marvelous job on the ESPN Radio broadcast.

    Mets are making a statement tonight. 8-3 now.

  31. 31.

    Culture of Truth

    October 30, 2015 at 10:40 pm

    Bases loaded!

  32. 32.

    Culture of Truth

    October 30, 2015 at 10:41 pm

    Cespedes! For the rest of us!

  33. 33.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    October 30, 2015 at 10:42 pm

    @lamh36:

    They had good First Family costumes on Black-ish this week.

  34. 34.

    randalms

    October 30, 2015 at 10:44 pm

    Why I read this blog.

  35. 35.

    Citizen Alan

    October 30, 2015 at 10:46 pm

    I was actually surprised by the involvement of the slippers. Usually, you’re naked in stories like these.

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    October 30, 2015 at 10:48 pm

    @lamh36:

    I think I hate-watch that show the most. All these people moving to cool, exotic places, and they get pissed when they can’t find a huge, American-style apartment right on the town square (or beach) for Wichita prices. There’s this thing called the Internet they could have checked before they moved.

    I know the producers heighten the “drama,” but it’s ridiculous on that show.

  37. 37.

    Culture of Truth

    October 30, 2015 at 10:49 pm

    @Citizen Alan: He didn’t mention any other clothes.

  38. 38.

    Ruckus

    October 30, 2015 at 10:51 pm

    I thought my life was a series of stupid shit. But I’ve got nothing on you. Hope you can laugh at yourself a bit, your life sounds like a Charlie Chaplin movie.

  39. 39.

    chopper

    October 30, 2015 at 10:54 pm

    now there’s a classic Cole story.

  40. 40.

    HRA

    October 30, 2015 at 10:55 pm

    I have to thank you for this scene in the day of your life, John. I forgot all my pains as I laughed out loud. Thurston took care of the slipper that hurt Lily. He deserves a treat for it.

  41. 41.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 30, 2015 at 10:56 pm

    @lamh36:

    Saw this on FB from, like, a million of my friends. Love it.

  42. 42.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 30, 2015 at 10:58 pm

    @dedc79:
    I agree. They’re only leading 9-3 bottom of the 7th. Could use some insurance.

  43. 43.

    Garbo

    October 30, 2015 at 11:03 pm

    All the LOLs.

  44. 44.

    benw

    October 30, 2015 at 11:05 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Could use some insurance.

    Luckily we have Obamacare!

  45. 45.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 30, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    @benw:

    Now waiting for Richard Mayhew to weigh in with a “You be the umpire” post.

  46. 46.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    October 30, 2015 at 11:11 pm

    Starting with The Seventh Victim on TCM. Don’t know if I can last. Might throw it on the DVR for tomorrow.

  47. 47.

    Corner Stone

    October 30, 2015 at 11:13 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 2
    I feel like Charlie pretty much every day.

  48. 48.

    justawriter

    October 30, 2015 at 11:14 pm

    @Ruckus: Had he lived, I think John Candy would have played Cole in the movie.

  49. 49.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    October 30, 2015 at 11:15 pm

    The Gophers lost to North Dakota. ESPN decided that there’s no money in quality sportswriting and killed Grantland.com. And Dirk is facing surgery for bladder stones in the next day or two.

    So, yeah, it’s been a really sucky day, and I just started my shift at work.

  50. 50.

    Stacy

    October 30, 2015 at 11:17 pm

    My 16 year old cat took a crap on the basement floor last night. Of course the doggie gate was left open so my 1 year old Brittany puppy took the opportunity to sneak down and roll around and eat it before we got the chance to stop him. Wow did he stink.

  51. 51.

    benw

    October 30, 2015 at 11:18 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: the home plate umpire whips out a dildo! You are the first base umpire in a 8-3 home game between Chartreuse and Teal. What is the correct call?

  52. 52.

    Corner Stone

    October 30, 2015 at 11:19 pm

    @benw: Technique! Technique or die!

  53. 53.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    October 30, 2015 at 11:19 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Re Law and Order: I often wish Lt. Van Buren could have been my mother, or my boss at any of my stupider jobs.

  54. 54.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 30, 2015 at 11:19 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    I hope Dirk has stabilized since this morning, and that the surgery goes smoothly. Scritch him between the ears for me.

  55. 55.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    October 30, 2015 at 11:21 pm

    I hate “Piano Man.” The fact that they’re doing it as a stadium song makes it a hundred times worse. I want to use that Corner Stone trademarked phrase, but I will restrain myself.

  56. 56.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    October 30, 2015 at 11:22 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    I feel a little meh towards “Seventh Victim.” It was cut down from a much longer script and IMO it shows. It has a great look, though.

    I’m trying to make G watch “Curse of Frankenstein” (the Lee/Cushing one), but he keeps falling asleep.

  57. 57.

    Corner Stone

    October 30, 2015 at 11:22 pm

    @justawriter: John Goodman. Period.

  58. 58.

    Corner Stone

    October 30, 2015 at 11:28 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): You conveniently forget she killed a black child at an ATM.

  59. 59.

    Pogonip

    October 30, 2015 at 11:28 pm

    @Citizen Alan: Maybe he was wearing ONLY slippers.

  60. 60.

    Darkrose

    October 30, 2015 at 11:29 pm

    @efgoldman: The World Series mantra in my house for the past two years has been: “SHUT UP, HAROLD!”

  61. 61.

    benw

    October 30, 2015 at 11:30 pm

    @Corner Stone: in that case I choose… technique?

  62. 62.

    Pogonip

    October 30, 2015 at 11:30 pm

    @HRA: Bad slipper! Bad!

  63. 63.

    Steeplejack

    October 30, 2015 at 11:38 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet):

    I either haven’t seen it all the way through or haven’t seen it in ages. Can’t remember much about it, anyway. I think the on-screen guide sucked me in because it mentioned Greenwich Village. There’s another movie from about the same time, maybe even called Greenwich Village, with Brian Donlevy and some woman (his wife?) solving a mystery.

    . . . Okay, went to IMDB, and it’s A Night to Remember (1942) with Brian Aherne and Loretta Young. The IMDB page makes it seem worse than I remember. Hmm. But I digress.

    I know what you mean about the “great look.” I can’t pin it down exactly, but even in the zone of B&W movies there was a particular sweet spot in the ’40s that I really love. I seem to associate it with “urban,” big-city movies. So the beginning of The Seventh Victim is right in there. (I did decide to put it on the DVR for later.)

  64. 64.

    Steeplejack

    October 30, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    I believe the kid and his companion were “resisting arrest.” Plus it was Giuliani time.

  65. 65.

    Schlemazel

    October 30, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    @efgoldman:
    I really hate that one song in particular & they have started playing it at hockey games. Not my favorite team’s games but plenty of others I go to. It sucks, particularly when the crowd has to join in

  66. 66.

    max

    October 30, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    @Steeplejack: I know what you mean about the “great look.” I can’t pin it down exactly, but even in the zone of B&W movies there was a particular sweet spot in the ’40s that I really love

    DOA and post that period.

    max
    [‘Early middle 50’s has that great washed out thing going.’]

  67. 67.

    Steeplejack

    October 30, 2015 at 11:47 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Billy Joel is worse for me. I don’t defend the playing of “Sweet Caroline” in any situation, but early, pre-Vegas, pre-Streisand Neil Diamond is pretty good, e.g., “Kentucky Woman,” “You Got to Me,” “Girl (You’ll Be a Woman Soon),” etc.

    Billy Joel has maybe two songs that aren’t maudlin, shmaltzy, overwrought bullshit. IMHO, of course.

    Hey, at least they play “Dirty Water” at Fenway. Now there’s a classic!

  68. 68.

    Steeplejack

    October 30, 2015 at 11:53 pm

    @max:

    I think for me it’s the combination of the high-contrast B&W photography and the city settings, whether fake (The Seventh Victim, Laura, etc.) or location (Kiss of Death, etc.) There’s almost a weird coziness about all the little clubs, stores and apartment buildings we go into.

  69. 69.

    Nate Dawg

    October 30, 2015 at 11:56 pm

    I don’t know who is in the so-called “World” Series this year, and it is my intention to not find out. As long as I stay off Huffington Post, I think i’ll manage.

  70. 70.

    Steeplejack

    October 30, 2015 at 11:56 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Blech.

  71. 71.

    Feebog

    October 30, 2015 at 11:56 pm

    So Thurston would rather do a smash and grab on a smelly old slipper than gobble down a bunch of treats? Weird.

  72. 72.

    seaboogie

    October 30, 2015 at 11:57 pm

    @efgoldman: Awwww – hell no!

    Could be worse. At least they’re not playing that no-talent Neil Diamond like at Fenway.

    When I was 14/15 and lost and struggling, I was just channeling ND, waiting for him to leave his wife and save me. He gave voice to my teenage angst, and I got to see him in concert once or twice. Kinda different from the fangirls then, and the fangirls now. Actually played “Holly Holy” for my therapist a while back.

    Also, he wrote some wonderful, catchy good music….

  73. 73.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    October 31, 2015 at 12:01 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Random fact for when you watch it: Tom Conway, who plays Dr. Judd (and appeared in several Lewton films) was George Sanders’ brother.

  74. 74.

    Mike J

    October 31, 2015 at 12:01 am

    Missed the F1 practice session this afternoon, watching the rerun now. Wow. Cars aren’t meant to run at 200mph at 7500′.

  75. 75.

    Steeplejack

    October 31, 2015 at 12:03 am

    * DVR Alert *

    The Fearless Vampire Killers was mentioned by several people in the thread the other day about favorite Halloween/horror movies. TCM will show it at 11:15 a.m. EDT tomorrow.

  76. 76.

    seaboogie

    October 31, 2015 at 12:07 am

    @efgoldman: I have been fortunate enough to see both Billy Joel and Neil Diamond at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. I was very, very, very young. Neil’s lyrics and music claimed my heart when I was so lost in my early teens when my world got seriously turned around. Cathartic – he was, for me.

    Billy Joel was fun, and of the moment. I cannot even begin to explain and give context to what we wore, who we were with, and what that was – suffice it to say that I was too young for that, but it happened. Hormones.

    Love ’em both, but giving Neil all due props.

  77. 77.

    Mike J

    October 31, 2015 at 12:08 am

    @seaboogie:

    Also, he wrote some wonderful, catchy good music….

    When I was in HS, I interviewed some cool college kids that had a band for my radio show. They got me into[1] the Antenna Club to watch them. One of the highlights of my high school years was Barking Dog doing a cover of Solitary Man at the only punk club in Memphis.

    [1] They put my 16 year old self on the guest list once, and I was never asked for ID once after that. Of course nobody else was either, but I didn’t know that.

  78. 78.

    SFAW

    October 31, 2015 at 12:11 am

    @efgoldman:

    Re: Reynolds:

    I called my brother up, and asked if there was some way we could pull a “knicks” on the game. Unfortunately, no.

    (Explanation for those who are not New Yorkers, past or present, of a certain age: we used to listen to Marv Albert –back before he became a Big Time Sports Guy — calling the Knicks game on radio, while watching the game on TV with the sound off. Much better than listening to the TV jokers.)

    Reynolds is pretty atrocious. I muted the game more than once when he was speakiing. And Joe Buck is nothing to write home about, either. And then we have the post-game, with Fucking Pete Rose, that fucking fuck. Things were so much better when the Fox broadcast bus lost power the other night.

  79. 79.

    burnspbesq

    October 31, 2015 at 12:14 am

    I have no particular beef with Billy Joel, but this is the song they should play at Citi Field after every Mets win.

    http://youtu.be/hLf8_wSq4Is

  80. 80.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    October 31, 2015 at 12:16 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: When I spoke to the vet this evening, she said that Dirk is doing pretty well, though they weren’t going to do the blood work to see whether his kidney values have improved until morning.

  81. 81.

    kindness

    October 31, 2015 at 12:16 am

    Poor Lilly. Better give her extra hugs (and a treat).

  82. 82.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    October 31, 2015 at 12:17 am

    @Steeplejack: What do you consider the last old-style B&W NYC drama from Hollywood?

    “Sweet Smell of Success” always has that end-of-an-era vibe to it, and by that time most all the “big” films were shot in color.

  83. 83.

    seaboogie

    October 31, 2015 at 12:21 am

    @Mike J: Wow – here’s the thing…

    Forty years later, and it’s still pretty shifty and unstable, and with so much more water under the bridge. A marriage, two lovers, all dead…another couple of lovers not so good, true love puppy gone now too. I met my orthodontist at the first ND concert I attended.

    And so you get back to what is visceral and true:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCmrEase3BU

    I

  84. 84.

    burnspbesq

    October 31, 2015 at 12:29 am

    I’d kill for the Mets broadcast crew, Cohen isn’t great, but Hernandez and Darling give a 400-level seminar every night.

  85. 85.

    rikyrah

    October 31, 2015 at 12:33 am

    Poor Lily…..I feel her pain through the screen.

  86. 86.

    Duane

    October 31, 2015 at 12:37 am

    Happy Halloween, Jackels and Hides!

  87. 87.

    Steeplejack

    October 31, 2015 at 12:40 am

    @ThresherK (GPad):

    The B&W photography in Sweet Smell of Success is different to me; it has that “cleaner” look that I associate with ’50s movies (see also The Night of the Hunter) and then ’60s movies that were deliberately shot in B&W after color was commonplace (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, etc.). The ’40s movies have a more luminous “glow” that is probably the result of the less advanced film stock and lenses available at the time.

    Last great B&W New York drama? Tough question, because I don’t keep a rigid time line, but it’s probably something from the early ’50s. What immediately came to mind, though, was Naked City (1948), which captures the city so well you can almost smell it.

    (I don’t know why IMDB calls it The Naked City. It seems clear from the original posters that it’s just Naked City. I’ll have to check the actual title credits the next time I watch it.)

  88. 88.

    Goblue72

    October 31, 2015 at 12:43 am

    @efgoldman: Oh pish posh. Games I’ve been to at Fenway, the crowd seems to love it. And at most Sox bars I’ve been to, it’s de rigeur during big playoff games. It’s a group bonding experience. It’s what cheesy showy pop songs like that are for.

  89. 89.

    SFAW

    October 31, 2015 at 12:43 am

    @burnspbesq:

    I’d kill for the Mets broadcast crew, Cohen isn’t great, but Hernandez and Darling give a 400-level seminar every night.

    My brother agrees completely re: Hernandez and Darling.

    During the NLCS, it was semi-easy to tell Darling from Ripken (I’m lousy with voice ID), because Ripken’s semi-useless. Not as bad as Reynolds, of course, but still nothing to write home about.

  90. 90.

    Mike J

    October 31, 2015 at 12:47 am

    Was hoping for practice to be scratched tomorrow. 15 gusting 30 will make for, uhm, interesting sailing.

  91. 91.

    Steeplejack

    October 31, 2015 at 12:50 am

    @efgoldman:

    Speaking of Skip Caray, I’ve vented at length about this before, but he was part of my all-time favorite broadcast team, that of the Atlanta Braves on TBS in the era centered around the ’90s. He, Don Sutton, Pete Van Wieren and Joe Simpson paired up in various combinations. One pair would do radio for half the game, the other TV, then they would switch in the middle. They generally did a good, low-key job, kept things flowing, weren’t obnoxious partisans and didn’t leave you feeling like they talked incessantly.

  92. 92.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 31, 2015 at 12:51 am

    @Mike J: Isn’t that enough to keep small boats in?

  93. 93.

    SFAW

    October 31, 2015 at 12:51 am

    @Goblue72:
    And 47 percent of the electorate will vote for whichever Presidential candidate has an “R” after their name, no matter how bad a candidate he/she is.

    Doesn’t grant that candidate instant respectability or worth.

  94. 94.

    seaboogie

    October 31, 2015 at 12:52 am

    @burnspbesq: Saw that concert too! Packed a lot into my early years before I became a hermit listening to kirtan chant music.

  95. 95.

    John Revolta

    October 31, 2015 at 12:53 am

    You Got to Me
    Thank the Lord for the Night Time
    Cherry Cherry

    And even the Monkees couldn’t fuck up I’m a Believer

    and yeah, Billy Joel had……………um………………..well, I didn’t hate The Longest Time. So there’s that.

  96. 96.

    Steeplejack

    October 31, 2015 at 12:55 am

    @efgoldman:

    I believe that is from the cover of the Criterion Collection DVD.

    Here is what I take to be a contemporary theater poster.

  97. 97.

    Ruckus

    October 31, 2015 at 12:56 am

    @justawriter:
    John Candy plays Cole. I can see that. And now I’m laughing again.

  98. 98.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 31, 2015 at 12:58 am

    @John Revolta: You better step off the Monkees; Mike Nesmith wrote “Different Drum” which is better than anything Diamond ever did.

  99. 99.

    Steeplejack

    October 31, 2015 at 1:03 am

    @Steeplejack:

    FYWP!

    ETA: I believe the “the” poster is later because it highlights Jules Dassin, the director, rather than the producer. Dassin got a huge reputation later but was pretty much a journeyman in 1948. And directors in general weren’t so much the focus before the whole auteur thing in the late ’50s.

    Like I said, I’ll be sure to scope the exact title the next time it comes up on TCM.

  100. 100.

    Mike J

    October 31, 2015 at 1:08 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Isn’t that enough to keep small boats in?

    Boats that aren’t racing yes. We’re practicing to race. We’re racing against 40 footers, and we’re 24′.

    I expect to be extremely cold, extremely wet, and extremely tired by sunset tomorrow.

  101. 101.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    October 31, 2015 at 1:18 am

    @Steeplejack: I like your use of the terms clean and glow for the two eras.

    I’ll probably agree with you re the luminescence. At some point Naked City does have a different look than the later ones.

  102. 102.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 31, 2015 at 1:19 am

    @efgoldman: I went to bed. The Trey Gowdy thing was all I needed to know that TT is a silly person.

    @Mike J: Back when I was playing rugby an older player once offered these words of wisdom: “It is cold, windy and drizzling. I am hungover. I may as well play rugby; it can’t get any worse.”

    I hope this helps.

  103. 103.

    John Revolta

    October 31, 2015 at 1:41 am

    Different Drum, whatever its merits, is not a Monkees song. My case, I rest it.

  104. 104.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 31, 2015 at 1:50 am

    @John Revolta: Please learn to use the reply button. Thanks.

  105. 105.

    J R in WV

    October 31, 2015 at 2:05 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    Hoping your fuzzy kid is doing OK, and gets over this problem. It’s so hard when the get sick, and we can’t explain to them why we do the things we have to do for them to get better.

    Best of luck to all of you!!

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