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.
raven
Who’s that comin down the track. . .
Davebo
I managed to make two game when I lived in Jax while in the Navy. Definitely a big time cocktail party!
benw
@raven: Casey Junior!
Alert alert! Trick or treaters already spotted on my street! Batten down the hatches!
Gator90
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…
Amir Khalid
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.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
I really need to get up, but it’s hard to do when a cat is laying on your knee and purring contentedly.
SiubhanDuinne
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!!
Amir Khalid
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
That’s God telling you to remain seated.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: Honestly, when it ended up as NZ vs AUS, I sort of lost interest.
Tom Levenson
@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
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: What a spectacular conclusion there.
Amir Khalid
@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.
HumboldtBlue
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.
ruemara
@Mnemosyne (tablet): listen to kitty.
M. Bouffant
What? No Rugby World Cup thread?
Later: What, no reading the whole thing b/4 posting a dumb comment?
Eric U.
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
Phylllis
Gamecocks stayed with A&M in the 1st half; second half starting now. A glimmer of hope, at least.
Goblue72
The Little Brown Jug comes back to Ann Arbor tonight.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Amir Khalid:
God has very sharp claws that need to be trimmed, then.
Amir Khalid
@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.
Debbie
@Tom Levenson:
I’ve seen more than a few of those gestures in my time.
schrodinger's cat
@Mnemosyne (tablet): I worship the same God, sometimes he also bites me with his rather sharp teeth.
WaterGirl
@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.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@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.
satby
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 shoesgas!Mnemosyne (tablet)
@schrodinger’s cat:
I eventually shifted around restlessly enough that she moved, and she is now wrestling the bedcovers. Charlotte is an angry god.
schrodinger's cat
David Brooks is back to pimping Rubio and Ryan after a brief spell of intellectual honesty.
schrodinger's cat
@Mnemosyne (tablet): So is Yogi, although he can be quite loving at times, it depends entirely on his mood.
scav
@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.
Felonius Monk
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
Oh. Jeb? is for sale now?
Amir Khalid
@Felonius Monk:
Well, the campaign does need to raise more money.
Baud
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
So they’re accurate? Unusual for a GOP ad.
Felonius Monk
@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.
Baud
@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.
Felonius Monk
@efgoldman:
Does this look like a real Georgia Dawgs fan to you?
schrodinger's cat
Happy Halloween!
dmsilev
@Felonius Monk: Jeb is on sale; it’s a closeout deal. Buy two Jebs, get one free.
Baud
@efgoldman:
At this point, Jeb attempting to shiv anybody would probably result in nothing more than an uncomfortable tickle. He’s that bad.
Felonius Monk
@efgoldman:
Raven will probably claim the “S” stands for SuperDAWG.
raven
@efgoldman:Obviously, my mom made that for me in 55 or so.
raven
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.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: He’d probably cut himself.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
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.
schrodinger's cat
@Mnemosyne (tablet): P,lease not to eat the kittehs! Kittehs are our friends not food.
schrodinger's cat
@raven: You make an adorable Superman!
schrodinger's cat
@efgoldman: My Chinese friend tells me that doggies are more delicious, kittehs just aren’t that tasty.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@satby:
Why yes, as a matter of fact… :-) Check your store.
Hang in there!
Cheers,
Scott.
Neutron Flux
I am begging you Betty Cracker, to put up a GO METS! post.
JPL
@raven: Go Dawgs!
schrodinger's cat
@efgoldman: I am not eating my cats, Republicans or no Republicans.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
My God, he probably would, wouldn’t he?
PaulW
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.”
benw
Let’s go, Jackets!
gogol's wife
@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.
jl
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.
Gin & Tonic
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.
Mary G
@satby: I ordered all the sensitive skin ones to try. Free shipping on orders over $30! Such a deal!
SiubhanDuinne
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.
raven
Florida sucks and they are way better than us.
JPL
@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.
raven
@JPL: Don’t blame them.
PaulW
damn, the Gators never used the dentist to kick any PATs or FGs. C’mon, guys, give him the Rudy Moment.
satby
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: You’re my hero, you know that? Thanks!
satby
@Mary G: So are you!