Mrs Thunder, Doglius and I just got back from the pooch’s daily survey of all vertical objects in the neighborhood. Where a deficit of canine urine was found remediation was swiftly applied.
And all is right with the world for another day.
11.
raven
@redshirt: Any of it, this place is bad enough about football but no one cares about the hoop. Now, in the old days here. . .
@raven: College football, I assume? Pro football seems popular enough here. Betty Cracker’s pick ’em threads are always lively.
Know your audience. I bet there’s like 5 (if that) people here who give a fuck about the Big 12 championship. Hell, Cole knows how to Twitter – in fact, he had a bigger tweet on this subject then this lame post.
Appropos of nothing, can you imagine being a Secret Service agent tasked with taking a bullet for Donald Fucking Trump? They can have all the hookers and blow they want, AFAIC.
@dr. bloor:
News reports have Trump ‘spooked’ by the protester. Almost certainly he was spooked by the converging mob of armed and body armored men encircling him. That would get my full attention.
WV is very fun to watch. As an ex-hooper, they would’ve been a blast to play, too, because if you can keep your head (no small feat; also, “the trick”) against the constant pressure you get a lot of open shots and it’s fun to be playing at a semi-hectic pace.
Can’t find any pure cold-blooded dead stone-eyed shooters on the Eers, though, and that’s a death blow in today’s game.
37.
raven
@Pogonip: Well there were 52 comments on that thread when you posted “too late to put below” and there are over 130 now so I guess it wasn’t too late was it?
38.
raven
@Felonius Monk: Sure sounds like the Alabama King Snake!
@redshirt: Yea, the only reason I said it was the Electric Strawberry was that it was pretty much a parody of Platoon and that was the 25th ID. I liked Thunder Ok, sort of like MASH I guess.I just didn’t think the whole thing was that funny so it sort of took the wind out of it for me.
@raven: I thought so but you’re cryptic sometimes so I wanted to be sure.
I was not in Vietnam, obviously, but I found the movie hilarious because it’s not just a parody of Platoon, but of all Vietnam War movies, and books, and the entire Hollywood representation of Vietnam, while at the same time it’s a parody/mockery of Hollywood itself. It’s got multiple layers of satire which I find brilliant. And hilarious.
@redshirt: In Future Crimes, Marc Goodman builds a persuasive case that to far too many of us, reality is whatever the computer says it is. He starts with the Stuxnet worm and builds from there.
Well, that’s it for me. Ever since Cole improved FYWP it will start kicking me out at random intervals and once it does that’s usually the end for 12 hours or so. Enjoy the game!
57.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Katy Tur @ KatyTurNBC 6m6 minutes ago
You see they’re single – Trump says of two women protestors.
Classy, classy like a mirrored bathroom with all faux-gold plated fixtures where the hot and cold water runs out of a mermaid’s boobs. That kind of classy.
@redshirt: Good read. There are a couple of pretty decent films. Go Tell Spartans and the aforementioned Platoon. I just finished reading “The Only War We’ve Got: Early Days in South Vietnam” by Daniel Ford, the book that was the basis for Spartans. There is also a very good overview of Vietnam film and music in “Late Thoughts on an Old War:The Legacy of Vietnam” by Philip D. Beidler .
“Beidler brings back the war he knew in chapters on its vocabulary, music, literature, and film. His catalog of soldier slang reveals how finely a tour of Vietnam could hone one’s sense of absurdity. His survey of the war’s pop hits looks for meaning in the soundtrack many veterans still hear in their heads. Beidler also explains how “Viet Pulp” literature about snipers, tunnel rats, and other hard-core types has pushed aside masterpieces like Duong Thu Huong’s Novel without a Name. Likewise we learn why the movie The Deer Hunter doesn’t “get it” about Vietnam but why Platoon and We Were Soldiers sometimes nearly do.”
Big East still exists. We just got rid of the programs that cheat.
62.
raven
@Pogonip: Well,, before you leave, my only point was that it wasn’t really too late for your post and I figured that post would get more action than this. It did.
they walked in that door, that hell might break out. And it did. What did they think was going to happen?”
He’s just an engaged citizen trying to inform himself before voting
“Go back to Africa!” yelled one man dressed in camouflage clothing.
Another man trailed the black protesters as they dispersed, taunting them with, “I like your hair! Nice weaves!”
At one point Honeywill got in on the action, getting into the face of a young black college student.
“Get off welfare!” he screamed, before adding, “Dogs!”
But it’s all about economic anxiety, because it’s always about economic anxiety.
Advisers recall that Obama would cite a pivotal moment in The Dark Knight, the 2008 Batman movie, to help explain not only how he understood the role of isis, but how he understood the larger ecosystem in which it grew. “There’s a scene in the beginning in which the gang leaders of Gotham are meeting,” the president would say. “These are men who had the city divided up. They were thugs, but there was a kind of order. Everyone had his turf. And then the Joker comes in and lights the whole city on fire. isil is the Joker. It has the capacity to set the whole region on fire. That’s why we have to fight it.”
Obama cites comic book movie for actual real world decision.
Comics are our modern myths.
87.
delk
Hillary issued a second and very lengthy apology for the AIDS comment.
redshirt
LoL. You should remove the text for maximum low effort post.
Pogonip
More news from the animal world that I found too late to put below.
Ant poop is called “frass.”. So I guess an ant will frass, from her ass, frass that will pass into the grass.
patroclus
After the hated Mountaineers beat TCU in the quarters, I think the tag for this thread should be “We are all Baader-Meinhof Now.”
John Revolta
@Pogonip: Ant frass in the grass, alas!!
raven
Huggins is such a thug.
raven
@Pogonip: Too late why? No one gives a shit about this.
PaulWartenberg2016
It’s your damn fault the Big East no longer exists.
PaulWartenberg2016
@patroclus:
Thank God I have Florida Gulf Coast as a proxy team to root for.
redshirt
@raven: You mean the Big 12 Championship?
Ultraviolet Thunder
Mrs Thunder, Doglius and I just got back from the pooch’s daily survey of all vertical objects in the neighborhood. Where a deficit of canine urine was found remediation was swiftly applied.
And all is right with the world for another day.
raven
@redshirt: Any of it, this place is bad enough about football but no one cares about the hoop. Now, in the old days here. . .
dr. bloor
@redshirt: Eh. Twitter, blog, all the same.
redshirt
@raven: College football, I assume? Pro football seems popular enough here. Betty Cracker’s pick ’em threads are always lively.
Know your audience. I bet there’s like 5 (if that) people here who give a fuck about the Big 12 championship. Hell, Cole knows how to Twitter – in fact, he had a bigger tweet on this subject then this lame post.
dr. bloor
Appropos of nothing, can you imagine being a Secret Service agent tasked with taking a bullet for Donald Fucking Trump? They can have all the hookers and blow they want, AFAIC.
raven
@redshirt: Betty’s a gator.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@dr. bloor:
News reports have Trump ‘spooked’ by the protester. Almost certainly he was spooked by the converging mob of armed and body armored men encircling him. That would get my full attention.
Howard Beale IV
Idatrod dog killed by dunk snowmachine rider, other dogs injured
RIP, Nash.
debbie
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
Maybe Trump will think twice before shooting his mouth off like that again.
raven
@debbie: oh right
redshirt
@raven: I don’t hold it against her.
raven
@redshirt: You ain’t a Dawg
redshirt
@Ultraviolet Thunder: As a fitbit addict, I wonder how high Herr Trump’s heartbeat went up during the rush. I like to chart such things.
redshirt
@raven: That’s for sure. College football is dumb! Except as a minor league for the NFL. But even as that it’s hypocritical beyond compare.
Steeplejack
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
Gotta keep up with the p-mail! “Reply all . . .”
raven
@redshirt: I love it.
redshirt
@raven: I know you do, and I respect that. I just don’t “get” that.
But hey, did you see the new Captain America trailer?
Kryptik
As about the only other person on this blog interested in this game, GO ‘EERS
It’s been back and forth all game up to half-time. I really don’t know who’s gonna win this.
raven
=@redshirt: I don’t “get” sci fi.
redshirt
@raven: Didn’t you watch Flash Gordon back in the day?
raven
@redshirt: Not much, Rocket J Squirrel.
redshirt
@raven: Tangentally, have you seen the movie “Tropic Thunder” with Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr?
raven
@redshirt: Yea, the Electric Strawberry! Well, Platoon was anyways!
Pogonip
@raven: And no one gives an ant’s frass about your opinion.
redshirt
@raven: Released in 2008?
I hope you have because I’d love to hear your opinion about it.
Felonius Monk
@raven: Do you know anything about Packrat Thompson?
John O
WV is very fun to watch. As an ex-hooper, they would’ve been a blast to play, too, because if you can keep your head (no small feat; also, “the trick”) against the constant pressure you get a lot of open shots and it’s fun to be playing at a semi-hectic pace.
Can’t find any pure cold-blooded dead stone-eyed shooters on the Eers, though, and that’s a death blow in today’s game.
raven
@Pogonip: Well there were 52 comments on that thread when you posted “too late to put below” and there are over 130 now so I guess it wasn’t too late was it?
raven
@Felonius Monk: Sure sounds like the Alabama King Snake!
Pogonip
Ant pauses to frass
In sun-warmed, brittle high grass
Stepped on–alas!
Haiku!
Baud
Oh look. MSNBC is airing a Trump rally. What a surprise.
Pogonip
@raven: 49, frasshead.
Go away, the grownups are talking.
redshirt
@Baud: Freaking Liberal Media.
raven
@redshirt: Yea, the only reason I said it was the Electric Strawberry was that it was pretty much a parody of Platoon and that was the 25th ID. I liked Thunder Ok, sort of like MASH I guess.I just didn’t think the whole thing was that funny so it sort of took the wind out of it for me.
Baud
@redshirt: They preempted Lockup!
Iowa Old Lady
@raven: I like a lot of science fiction but I’m totally missing the super-hero appreciation gene.
Pogonip
@Baud: I thought he was contracted with Fox for that? Guess not.
Fear not. You, Jane, and the other two shall prevail.
raven
@Pogonip: Hey, how about you go fuck yourself asshole? Your comment stupid.
Iowa Old Lady
@Baud: They’re rooting for injuries?
hilts
@Baud:
This is the new crack cocaine for MSNBC, CNN, and FNC
Pogonip
@Baud: Those frassheads.
Pogonip
@raven: Sexist.
Baud
@Iowa Old Lady:
Only if injuries = ratings.
redshirt
@raven: I thought so but you’re cryptic sometimes so I wanted to be sure.
I was not in Vietnam, obviously, but I found the movie hilarious because it’s not just a parody of Platoon, but of all Vietnam War movies, and books, and the entire Hollywood representation of Vietnam, while at the same time it’s a parody/mockery of Hollywood itself. It’s got multiple layers of satire which I find brilliant. And hilarious.
redshirt
@Baud: Ratings dictate truth.
Pogonip
@redshirt: In Future Crimes, Marc Goodman builds a persuasive case that to far too many of us, reality is whatever the computer says it is. He starts with the Stuxnet worm and builds from there.
Pogonip
Well, that’s it for me. Ever since Cole improved FYWP it will start kicking me out at random intervals and once it does that’s usually the end for 12 hours or so. Enjoy the game!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Classy, classy like a mirrored bathroom with all faux-gold plated fixtures where the hot and cold water runs out of a mermaid’s boobs. That kind of classy.
Steeplejack
@Pogonip:
You’re one syllable shy of a load.
raven
@redshirt: Good read. There are a couple of pretty decent films. Go Tell Spartans and the aforementioned Platoon. I just finished reading “The Only War We’ve Got: Early Days in South Vietnam” by Daniel Ford, the book that was the basis for Spartans. There is also a very good overview of Vietnam film and music in “Late Thoughts on an Old War:The Legacy of Vietnam” by Philip D. Beidler .
“Beidler brings back the war he knew in chapters on its vocabulary, music, literature, and film. His catalog of soldier slang reveals how finely a tour of Vietnam could hone one’s sense of absurdity. His survey of the war’s pop hits looks for meaning in the soundtrack many veterans still hear in their heads. Beidler also explains how “Viet Pulp” literature about snipers, tunnel rats, and other hard-core types has pushed aside masterpieces like Duong Thu Huong’s Novel without a Name. Likewise we learn why the movie The Deer Hunter doesn’t “get it” about Vietnam but why Platoon and We Were Soldiers sometimes nearly do.”
Felonius Monk
@Baud:
They’re showing the prequel: Criminally Profane.
DesertFriar
@PaulWartenberg2016:
Big East still exists. We just got rid of the programs that cheat.
raven
@Pogonip: Well,, before you leave, my only point was that it wasn’t really too late for your post and I figured that post would get more action than this. It did.
Steeplejack
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Where do you get those? Asking for a friend.
Mr Stagger Lee
@redshirt: I did not know until nearly the end of he movie that Tom Cruise was Les Grossman, one his best roles.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Steeplejack: At Ronald Rumpf’s House of Classy Bathrooms, down the street from Fountains Of Wayne.
(My apologies to all Garden Staters)
redshirt
@Mr Stagger Lee: He’s totally hilarious. I gained a huge amount of respect back for Tom Cruise after this role, which was post Oprah Couch.
Suzanne
Almost home after a week and a half in Rome and Athens with the family. It was great to have time away from the Trump shitshow.
Sitting at a gate lounge at Sea-Tac. Ready for my bed, and my pets, and a shower. Been up since 3am Athens time.
redshirt
@Suzanne: What was your favorite Roman ruin?
Baud
@Suzanne:
Welcome back! You were missed.
ThresherK (GPad)
@Steeplejack: Down aisle 6, right next to the bidet spigot in the shape of a boy urinating.
Carolina Dave
Big 12? ACC Championship starts at 9.
SiubhanDuinne
@John Revolta:
How crass.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Thuggins.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
they walked in that door, that hell might break out. And it did. What did they think was going to happen?”
He’s just an engaged citizen trying to inform himself before voting
But it’s all about economic anxiety, because it’s always about economic anxiety.
Good luck with your future sales, Ed.
SiubhanDuinne
@debbie:
Oh, debbie, you are so droll. I laughed and laughed….
Bruuuuce
Also, congrats to alma mater Stony Brook, making it to the Big Dance for the first time ever! Go, Seawolves!
redshirt
@SiubhanDuinne: t-Huggs.
JPL
@Bruuuuce: nice Decades ago no one heard of Gonzaga. Stony Brook can be the new Gonzaga.
DemJayhawks
Is this thread for celebrating?
Bruuuuce
@JPL: But do we really want to produce the next Adam Morrison? :-)
Baud
@DemJayhawks: Every thread is.
JPL
@DemJayhawks: At your own risk.
MomSense
@Suzanne:
Welcome home. I’ve been thinking about you and hope you and fam had a wonderful time.
raven
And the previous thread continues! Oh Pogo. . . . !!!
raven
@JPL: Anybody who knew about Bing did.
redshirt
Obama cites comic book movie for actual real world decision.
Comics are our modern myths.
delk
Hillary issued a second and very lengthy apology for the AIDS comment.
Baud
@delk:
The apology part isn’t any lengthier. But I was fine with the original apology, so it’s not my call.
Davebo
Having WV in the Big 12 sort of makes up for aTm leaving.
delk
@Baud: I was fine with the original as well.
Chales P. Mcdermott
stop eer
Suzanne
@redshirt: I love Trajan’s Column.
But I freaked out at the Acropolis. Mind-blowing.