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College Football Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  October 31, 20151:22 pm| 64 Comments

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These gents once adorned my birthday cake (they’re about three inches tall and now live on my dresser):

  

This is “World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party” day, Florida vs. Georgia, the one day of the year valued commenter Raven and I are sworn enemies. Makes Halloween even scarier this year. Go Gators!

PS: Got a good ghost story to share? Post it here. We’ve got some doozies so far. 

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  1. 1.

    raven

    October 31, 2015 at 1:32 pm

    Who’s that comin down the track. . .

  2. 2.

    Davebo

    October 31, 2015 at 1:36 pm

    I managed to make two game when I lived in Jax while in the Navy. Definitely a big time cocktail party!

  3. 3.

    benw

    October 31, 2015 at 1:37 pm

    @raven: Casey Junior!

    Alert alert! Trick or treaters already spotted on my street! Batten down the hatches!

  4. 4.

    Gator90

    October 31, 2015 at 1:44 pm

    I’m afraid my kids are going to want to go trick-or-treating before the Cocktail Party is over. Could be a real problem if, as I expect, the game is close. Maybe I can bribe them to wait…

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    October 31, 2015 at 1:45 pm

    If anyone’s interested, New Zealand are leading Australia 27-17 in the Rugby World Cup final, with about ten minutes to go. If they hold on, the All Blacks will be the first national side to win two World Cups in a row.

  6. 6.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    October 31, 2015 at 1:48 pm

    I really need to get up, but it’s hard to do when a cat is laying on your knee and purring contentedly.

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 31, 2015 at 1:48 pm

    Only tricks-n-treats in my life today are the tricks of stagecraft and the treats of great music. Wagner’s Tannhäuser is today’s Met Opera Live in HD, and it really is glorious music. Production is a little creaky, but I can live with that.

    Okay, intermission is nearly over! May the best team win!!

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    October 31, 2015 at 1:49 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet):
    That’s God telling you to remain seated.

  9. 9.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 31, 2015 at 1:50 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Honestly, when it ended up as NZ vs AUS, I sort of lost interest.

  10. 10.

    Tom Levenson

    October 31, 2015 at 1:50 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I’m rooting for NZ, but what I really care about is how the opening haka went: http://www.3news.co.nz/sport/video-all-blacks-haka—rugby-world-cup-final-2015110105

  11. 11.

    Gin & Tonic

    October 31, 2015 at 1:50 pm

    @Amir Khalid: What a spectacular conclusion there.

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    October 31, 2015 at 1:50 pm

    @Amir Khalid:
    Make that 34-17, with a couple of minutes left. It will be the All Blacks again.

    ETA: And indeed it is. The All Blacks have achieved the first successful defence of the Rugby World Cup.

  13. 13.

    HumboldtBlue

    October 31, 2015 at 1:55 pm

    No surprise with the All Blacks. Liverpool dismantled Chelsea and Mourinho’s assistant got mad, but oh well.

    No scary stories just two of the best Tiny Desk concerts I have seen.

  14. 14.

    ruemara

    October 31, 2015 at 1:57 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): listen to kitty.

  15. 15.

    M. Bouffant

    October 31, 2015 at 1:58 pm

    What? No Rugby World Cup thread?

    Later: What, no reading the whole thing b/4 posting a dumb comment?

  16. 16.

    Eric U.

    October 31, 2015 at 2:01 pm

    as far as we can tell, we missed trick or treating this year. I was having a meltdown anyway. Wife was out driving our son around, one downside of him going to the local college

  17. 17.

    Phylllis

    October 31, 2015 at 2:02 pm

    Gamecocks stayed with A&M in the 1st half; second half starting now. A glimmer of hope, at least.

  18. 18.

    Goblue72

    October 31, 2015 at 2:04 pm

    The Little Brown Jug comes back to Ann Arbor tonight.

  19. 19.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    October 31, 2015 at 2:06 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    God has very sharp claws that need to be trimmed, then.

  20. 20.

    Amir Khalid

    October 31, 2015 at 2:06 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:
    This is the worst season an English Premier League defending champion has had in two decades. Jose always loses the plot in his third season at a club. That’s what happened in his first third season at Chelsea too. Abramovich must surely remember.

  21. 21.

    Debbie

    October 31, 2015 at 2:11 pm

    @Tom Levenson:

    I’ve seen more than a few of those gestures in my time.

  22. 22.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 31, 2015 at 2:14 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): I worship the same God, sometimes he also bites me with his rather sharp teeth.

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    October 31, 2015 at 2:16 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): The only time I will ever disturb the kitty on my lap is when they are there for so long that I really have to go to the bathroom and I just can’t wait anymore. Even then, I explain it to them so they will know I wouldn’t have disturbed them except for extraordinary circumstances.

  24. 24.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    October 31, 2015 at 2:19 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): Sleep ray generator!

    We’re in Charleston for the weekend and very grateful that we don’t live here. The TV has been riddled with JEB! commercials. They’re…pathetic.

  25. 25.

    satby

    October 31, 2015 at 2:22 pm

    OK so the thing I didn’t count on when I agreed to host teenagers again was how much I’d be driving. 23 miles to and from St.Joe this morning to pick them up after the all night party, almost another round trip that I just said no to this early afternoon (I said she needed to sleep) and in another hour another round trip back to St Joe to go trick or treating for UNICEF (I’ll find a park to hang out in if they’ll be doing it only a couple of hours, because it’s 35 minutes each way). WTF was I thinking??

    Anyone need soap? Mama needs new shoes gas!

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    October 31, 2015 at 2:24 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I eventually shifted around restlessly enough that she moved, and she is now wrestling the bedcovers. Charlotte is an angry god.

  27. 27.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 31, 2015 at 2:26 pm

    David Brooks is back to pimping Rubio and Ryan after a brief spell of intellectual honesty.

  28. 28.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 31, 2015 at 2:28 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): So is Yogi, although he can be quite loving at times, it depends entirely on his mood.

  29. 29.

    scav

    October 31, 2015 at 2:30 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): Generally a jealous god too. Pre-installed with self-beating soft-paddy feet into swords, that sort of thing. Their Chosen people have have to keep up.

  30. 30.

    Felonius Monk

    October 31, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:

    The TV has been riddled with JEB! commercials.

    Oh. Jeb? is for sale now?

  31. 31.

    Amir Khalid

    October 31, 2015 at 2:41 pm

    @Felonius Monk:
    Well, the campaign does need to raise more money.

  32. 32.

    Baud

    October 31, 2015 at 2:41 pm

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:

    The TV has been riddled with JEB! commercials. They’re…pathetic.

    So they’re accurate? Unusual for a GOP ad.

  33. 33.

    Felonius Monk

    October 31, 2015 at 2:44 pm

    @efgoldman: I thought with all those Brinks trucks that Rising Bullshit (or whatever his current nym is) keeps talking about Jeb? would not have to resort to prostitution so soon.

  34. 34.

    Baud

    October 31, 2015 at 2:49 pm

    @Felonius Monk:

    To be fair, Jeb probably did raise enough cash for a candidate who was not grossly inept at campaigning. It’s just not enough for Jeb.

  35. 35.

    Felonius Monk

    October 31, 2015 at 2:54 pm

    @efgoldman:

    I have to root against Georgia to yank @ raven’s chain

    Does this look like a real Georgia Dawgs fan to you?

  36. 36.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 31, 2015 at 2:55 pm

    Happy Halloween!

  37. 37.

    dmsilev

    October 31, 2015 at 3:02 pm

    @Felonius Monk: Jeb is on sale; it’s a closeout deal. Buy two Jebs, get one free.

  38. 38.

    Baud

    October 31, 2015 at 3:03 pm

    @efgoldman:

    At this point, Jeb attempting to shiv anybody would probably result in nothing more than an uncomfortable tickle. He’s that bad.

  39. 39.

    Felonius Monk

    October 31, 2015 at 3:04 pm

    @efgoldman:

    He’s almost as cute.

    Raven will probably claim the “S” stands for SuperDAWG.

  40. 40.

    raven

    October 31, 2015 at 3:06 pm

    @efgoldman:Obviously, my mom made that for me in 55 or so.

  41. 41.

    raven

    October 31, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    Ya’ll have fun. This is one of those where I’ll be totally engaged with the game. Of course, we don’t stand a chance.

  42. 42.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 31, 2015 at 3:11 pm

    @Baud: He’d probably cut himself.

  43. 43.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    October 31, 2015 at 3:13 pm

    I’m eating Trader Joe’s Pumpkin O’s for my post-lapcat breakfast. They’re pretty good — they didn’t overdo the pumpkin spice — and wheat-free.

  44. 44.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 31, 2015 at 3:14 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): P,lease not to eat the kittehs! Kittehs are our friends not food.

  45. 45.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 31, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    @raven: You make an adorable Superman!

  46. 46.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 31, 2015 at 3:18 pm

    @efgoldman: My Chinese friend tells me that doggies are more delicious, kittehs just aren’t that tasty.

  47. 47.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    October 31, 2015 at 3:19 pm

    @satby:

    Anyone need soap?

    Why yes, as a matter of fact… :-) Check your store.

    Hang in there!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  48. 48.

    Neutron Flux

    October 31, 2015 at 3:26 pm

    I am begging you Betty Cracker, to put up a GO METS! post.

  49. 49.

    JPL

    October 31, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    @raven: Go Dawgs!

  50. 50.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 31, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    @efgoldman: I am not eating my cats, Republicans or no Republicans.

  51. 51.

    Baud

    October 31, 2015 at 3:32 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    My God, he probably would, wouldn’t he?

  52. 52.

    PaulW

    October 31, 2015 at 3:36 pm

    One dark night a noise begins echoing down the house’s hallway into my bedroom.

    It wakes me up. I’m nine years old at the time.

    It’s the sound of a baby crying, low and mournful and unsettling, and it won’t stop.

    It’s loud. The rest of the house should hear it but nobody else is getting up. No lights are turning on. My parents have to be hearing this, and there’s no action. Everyone else may be deep asleep.

    Everyone but me.

    There are no light switches near my bed that could brighten my room and steel my resolve. The noise keeps on and on, for minutes, into hours.

    I curl under the bedsheet, terrified that there’s a ghost baby in the hallway and no one else can hear it but me.

    Thirty years later I tell this story to my mother.

    She slaps the backside of my head. “That was a cat in heat, you dummy, out in the front patio.”

  53. 53.

    benw

    October 31, 2015 at 3:40 pm

    Let’s go, Jackets!

  54. 54.

    gogol's wife

    October 31, 2015 at 3:49 pm

    @PaulW:

    My version of that is when I told my friends in Moscow at midnight that we had to go outside quickly, somebody was out there torturing cats and we had to stop them. They looked at me as if I was crazy and said, “You never heard that before? It’s the cats mating with each other.” No, I’d never heard that in the US of A.

  55. 55.

    jl

    October 31, 2015 at 3:56 pm

    You didn’t pay them anything, didn’t give them any food, right? That could be a big NCAA rules violation and they would get in big trouble.

    Edit: well, looks like you did because it looks they aren’t doing squat but warming the bench now. Shame on you, Cracker.

  56. 56.

    Gin & Tonic

    October 31, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    My only real break today was to watch the All Blacks beat down the Wallabies – the rest of the time is cleaning the basement, a seemingly Sysiphean task. Luckily my wife is still in Europe, so I get the misery all to myself. Later tonight I will probably watch the World Series and drink one too many beers.

  57. 57.

    Mary G

    October 31, 2015 at 4:17 pm

    @satby: I ordered all the sensitive skin ones to try. Free shipping on orders over $30! Such a deal!

  58. 58.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 31, 2015 at 6:11 pm

    So I’m out of the opera now. It was long. It was Wagner (but I repeat myself). Have quickly scrolled through this thread and do not see who won the GA-FLA game.

  59. 59.

    raven

    October 31, 2015 at 6:13 pm

    Florida sucks and they are way better than us.

  60. 60.

    JPL

    October 31, 2015 at 6:52 pm

    @raven: The Florida folks across the street left the game to bring their little boy trick or treating. The flag is still waving in front of their house though.

  61. 61.

    raven

    October 31, 2015 at 7:14 pm

    @JPL: Don’t blame them.

  62. 62.

    PaulW

    October 31, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    damn, the Gators never used the dentist to kick any PATs or FGs. C’mon, guys, give him the Rudy Moment.

  63. 63.

    satby

    October 31, 2015 at 10:43 pm

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: You’re my hero, you know that? Thanks!

  64. 64.

    satby

    October 31, 2015 at 10:44 pm

    @Mary G: So are you!

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