There’s a bit of a stir on Twitter about Obama’s press conference tomorrow. Apparently some press types believe it’s going to be focused on Trump and Russia. That would be . . . interesting.
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trollhattan
@JMG:
NFL’s bright idea: “Color Rush” uniforms. At least they’re not Steeler bumblebee throwback unis.
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cope
Out of the money in my fantasy league so…meh. The only good thing is that the league owes me $10 from last season so there is that.
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trollhattan
@SiubhanDuinne:
Think Pacific Northwest and salmon lures. Always fishin’.
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Tehanu
Ah, the Sea Schnooks! If I cared about football, I’d probably hate them!
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Yutsano
@trollhattan: I knew the stupid Nike disease from Oregon was gonna spread…
Still: GO SEAHACKS!!!
9.
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: Some folk here in LA may watch now that they canned Fisher.
ETA: A lot of folk here may be more concerned with the hill above them ending up in their house tonight. IT’S RAINING!
Hard to believe any self-respecting salmon would be tempted by a lure that color.
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raven
@HeleninEire: Hey! She’s making progress and doing her therapy on schedule. She baked for another three hours last night so she’s adapting.
thx
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dexwood
It’s that green on green effect that makes the uniforms look terrible. The green uniforms against the green of the field compete for my attention. Change the field color!
@raven: You’ll have to post the hurling scores just to confuse everyone here. Go Mayo!
Approve of the nym, btw. Hope to trim the prens from the back end of my new nym in a week or so.
ETA: Hey! Isn’t it, like, 2 AM there? You should be in bed.
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dexwood
@raven:
Now wouldn’t that be electric on these fancy HD TV machines?
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SFBayAreaGal
@BillinGlendaleCA: It has been raining all day here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Doug R
Hey the other team around here, the hockey team Vancouver Canucks experimented with fluorescent uniforms back in the nineteen eighties that was the first time they made it to the Stanley Cup finals.
Richard Sherman has posted on Facebook watching a Canucks game and some Seahawks have actually showed up in the Canucks locker room
As a Niner fan, I’m here to say, Go Seahawks! Beat the Rams!
@BillinGlendaleCA: Good to hear. We’ve had a fair amount of rain in Northern CA, but you’ve stayed dry. I hope you’re getting a lot. We’ve got urban flood warnings and everything, it’s like old times.
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HeleninEire
@raven: Hey send me some. Although I gotta say the baked goods here in Eire almost, I SAID ALMOST, rival those in NYC. The bagels taste the same, but they don’t exactly have the NYC crunch. Haven’t tried the pizza. There’s a place in the City Center that bills itself as “NYC’s RAY’s Pizza” Dunno if you have ever been to Ray’s in NYC. But it is the best pizza on this planet. So. Prolly not. But scones and such? Super great.
What did Mrs. Raven bake?
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Larkspur
@BillinGlendaleCA: It’s been raining really hard all day up north of SF, too. Much roadway flooding in the usual areas. The wind has died down for the moment. I went out dog-walking in full rain gear. The dogs didn’t mind, even when I toweled them down afterwards. There is nothing so cute as a fully body doggy water-shake.
I wish you hadn’t mentioned the canning of Fisher, because it makes me think of tuna and not in a good way.
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raven
@HeleninEire: All kinds of cookies and bon-bons for her un-birthday open house Monday night. I’m going to serve up a ton of wings for the fais do-do! I’m off work for the rest of the month so it’s home improvement time!
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Yarrow
@HeleninEire: Are you in Dublin? Or elsewhere in Ireland?
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HeleninEire
@Yarrow: Dublin. Ask me why and how I got here and how great it is.
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Yarrow
@HeleninEire: Okay. Why did you go there? How did you get there? How great is it?
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Schlemazel
@JMG:
They look like something the University of Nike would wear up there
@HeleninEire: If you’re in Eire there is Irish rules football, which is a marvelous game to watch – really big field. I have dual nationality and relatives still around so I visit periodically.
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Schlemazel
@raven:
Still that sounds like her wrist is doing nicely.
Make sure she doesn’t over do it
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O. Felix Culpa
@Schlemazel: Or any other thread, for that matter.
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raven
@mainmata: Georgia Teach and Boston College played in Dublin this year.
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Schlemazel
@Steve in the ATL:
baked for 3 hours would be a short day in college!
The killer winds have hit (they were merely ‘orrible winds today when I was walking in them). They blew the top bin of Xmas lights-n-crap off the stack on the side porch, and earlier blew the door off the shed (again). It will get down to 3°above (out in civilization, that’s -19°), with a windchill of -25. It’ll be back up to 5° by 8 when we leave for school.
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BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: The fires on the hillsides burn up the vegetation so there’s nothing to keep the mud on the hillsides.
Since I live in a cave, this is not a problem.
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Shana
@raven: Sounds lovely. Enjoy your time off. I just finished my annual candy assortment to hand off to Hubby for work people, daughter for her work people, and me for friends and various providers – hair stylist, cleaning ladies, etc. Tried a couple of new ones this year, samoas bark and salted chocolate and cookie butter ones that are pretty addictive. And butterscotch haystacks at daughter’s particular request.
Why are those men running around in 37° weather in their pajamas, & why are their pajamas that color?
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Schlemazel
@raven:
Mine got the stitches out of her hand the other day and I found it hilarious that she was so scared I had to go with to hold her other hand. This woman is so strong & confident & scared of nothing but getting those stitches out was too much for her.
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raven
@Shana: Yea, she loves that stuff. She put up a ton of fig preserves and has them all bowed up to give out. I only had a few things to get and they went in the mail this morning. Your stuff sounds good!
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CaseyL
So I come home from work, feed my cats, feed the next-door cats (neighbors being on vacation), change out of my work clothes, turn on the game, and…
…my team appears to be dressed up as radioactive popsicles.
What the hell color is that?? Who came up with that color and decided it would make a perfect football uniform?
Why are those men running around in 37° weather in their pajamas
They get paid a significant amount of money to do so.
why are their pajamas that color?
They’re probably asking the same question.
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raven
@Schlemazel: Yea, I’m on the shit list for that. I had a meeting and couldn’t go when the took the cast off and the stitches out and it was pretty painful. I don’t know what I could have done but she wasn’t to thrilled I wasn’t there.
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BillinGlendaleCA
OMG, I just went to espn and saw a pic of Seattle’s unis, I’m blind now.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
Hoo boy, you all just got me to look at this game to see those uniforms… somebody in marketing who’s gonna get fired when accounting sees what they cost? Or the owner up in the box nodding and saying “that’s what I’m talking about!”
Dunno if you have ever been to Ray’s in NYC. But it is the best pizza on this planet
There’s a “Ray’s Pizza” on every second corner in NYC.
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Lizzy L
Not going to look. Green, right? Bwahahahahaha no.
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Shana
@raven: Do you have fig trees? Fig preserves sounds lovely.
Making candy’s actually pretty easy as long as you have a double boiler or can cobble one together with a pot and a bowl over it. And access to better quality chocolate than what they sell at Michael’s or JoAnn’s.
@raven:
I have had hundreds of stitches and a couple dozen staples taken out & never thought it was awful. But it is always nice to have support when wanted.
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Schlemazel
@raven:
I love fresh fig but they are hard to come by here on the tundra. Preserves on the other hand, OK but not really the same
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Denali
Why is there a petition to shut down the “corrupt” Clinton Foundation at the bottom of the thread? I know all about the corrupt Trump Foundation and would be happy to sign a petition getting rid of it. But Clinton? Show us the proof!
@Gin & Tonic: There’s a “Ray’s Pizza” on every second corner in NYC.
And then you had Original Ray’s, then Ray’s Originals, and even just originals. And they always were suing each other over the name. It became a running joke in NYC.
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BillinGlendaleCA
@SenyorDave: Sounds like Tommy’s here in LA(burgers not pizza).
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Doug R
The shirt by itself actually looks kinda good. But coupled with the same color pants….ugh.
Pants need to be a different color.
Not sure why they brought it in, but the Costco here has gigantic jars of fig preserves. Each time I’ve passed by them over the last several months it sure looks as if they haven’t sold any at all.
New manager really played games with their stock – brought in all sorts of weird and expensive crap and stopped stocking way too many old reliable and popular items. First thing the new manager did was rip out the direct line phone by the registers which one could use while shopping to order a pizza for take-out. Sad,
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: For some reason the League has dictated that Thurs. Night Games be played in monochromatic outfits. Maybe because, the awfulness of the Thurs. game being a given, Park Ave. expects people will only tune in to see how awful the unis are.
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HeleninEire
@raven: Grafton Street, St Stephens Green is my favorite place on earth.
Ought to have read: Frequented by students from Cooper Union and NYU.
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Jeffro
@M. Bouffant: The Chiefs didn’t look too bad in all red last week, although it was kind of funny seeing the mighty mighty Raiders dressed head to toe in white. And losing.
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HeleninEire
@Yarrow: I came here because it is the greatest place on earth. I got here cuz my mother was born here. She died when I was 12. I love it here. And I am a citizen because Ireland says you can NEVER renounce your citizenship. So although my mom came here at 18, she died an Irish citizen. And as her daughter I am an Irish citizen too. How great is that?
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Adrift
I am beginning to believe that shitgibbon will NEVER hold a press conference. Ever. He can’t take that kind of heat. And while I’m at it I’ve been wondering if he does make it to POTUS will he get the “You Lie!” moment that Obama had. I mean, the precedent has been set.
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Keith P.
I guess I should be glad the name wasn’t “Steven Seagal”
Donald Trump has drawn ‘first blood’ in the search for his incoming administration’s senior arts role – by tapping up Rambo legend Sylvester Stallone.
Sources have told DailyMail.com the president-elect sees Hollywood icon Stallone as the perfect choice to make art great again.
The likely position would be Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency that doles out funds to aspiring artists and creative projects.
Besides what appalling taste in colors Cole has, I mean.
What’s wrong with pink?
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HeleninEire
@mainmata: Oh wanna here my bestest Irish football story? So. 27 yrs ago; my first visit here. I am walking down O’Connell St (the Broadway of Dublin) and I hear a loud roar behind me. Dunno, I’m a stupid 25 year old. A woman in a shop comes out and pulls me back into her shop. Apparently the Irish just won some football thing. I had no idea.
Now, normally I love a drunk Irish man. But 10,000 of them streaming down O’Connell street? Yeah. Not so much.
@CaseyL: Some college game earlier this season had one team (I think it was the O-Ducks) in their neon green solids, and the other team was in solid orangey-red.
It looked like a battle between highway-worker safety vests and a bunch of traffic cones…
The only way to make it more horrifying would have it be a bowl game played on the Teal Turf in Boise.
Nothing in particular, but the only word I can think of to describe that shade of green is ‘bilious’. Still, could be worse. Years ago I and the spousal unit were looking at houses. We visited one that had been “professionally decorated”. Meaning fresh paint and….in the dining room, wallpaper. In three different patterns.
I have to confess I blurted out “who decorated this room, Ray Charles?”. If by some mischance I’d walked into that room with a hangover I would have wanted to slit my wrists. Did not buy the house, which was just as well since it was on septic and you could smell sewer gas in the basement.
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HeleninEire
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh no. You cannot get outta this. Before the stupid ole fight we all were talking about embarrassing favorite stupid movies (a few months ago???) and I said one of mine was Love Actually. You said the Wisconsin scene was one of your favorites. You can’t get out of it now sweetheart. YOU ARE STUCK WITH ME admitting that the movie is a good movie. Own it.
@Yarrow: You are what my mother used to call an “instigator” And don’t think I don’t remember you from that night. Oh yes I do. Um Sweetie.
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Yarrow
@HeleninEire: Heh. I will defend my love of “Love, Actually” forever. I love it. No one else has to love it, that’s fine. I’m not instigating anything….. *walks away whistling*
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Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s on my list – actually, considering my passionate feelings about All Things Alan Rickman, I’m moderately amazed to consider that i’ve never yet seen it!
Still basking in the glow of Jimmy Cagney in “White Heat” from last night…I was telling someone here that this may be my lasting image of the t-Rump presidency…
@HeleninEire: Or what Paul McCartney in “A Hard Day’s Night” refers to as “a King Mixer!”
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Keith P.
@Trentrunner: I want to say I read on Cracked.com that Sylvester Stallone is pro-gun control. Not sure Trump knows that.
Made the mistake of pausing as I was flipping through channels to see some guy get his bell rung at the start of the 4th quarter and being pulled so they could “run some test” on him on the sidelines.
Poor son of a bitch will probably put a bullet in his head 10 years from now after his brain turns to tapioca.
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Bonnie
The color of the uniforms are known as vomit green. I love the Seahawks; but, hate these uniforms–really, really, really hate them. I actually was wishing for black and white TV when I first saw them. However, we in the pacific northwest were starved for pro sports when we finally got our football team. Before that, we had a brief major league baseball team (the Seattle Pilots) and we had an NBA team, which was eventually stolen by Oklahoma City. So, we love our Seahawks and our University of Washington Huskies, who do deserve to be in the playoffs.
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Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: For a number years i the 80s, the Mariners A club was in my hometown. It was interesting to see the guys whose stay in central Wisconsin was brief.
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Yarrow
Oh wow. I just saw those Seattle uniforms. WTF? Who designed those?
Blurry shot of one of my club’s boats. Vibrant green gennaker, We’re right down the lake from the vmac, have our post race beers at the same bar the Seagals and John Schneider have post practice beers.
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, a lightweight genoa/reaching spinnaker. Not as good as a spinnaker dead downwind, great on a reach, easy to handle with two people instead of the minimum three to properly keep a spinnaker up. No pole, no hassle.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: I know just enough about sailboats to be dangerous. Have you ever read any of Sam Llewellyn’s sailing mysteries? Kind of like Dick Francis on the ocean.
If you’re ever near Seattle, come sailing. Hell, I’ll extend it to all juicers. If you want to go sailing, let me know. I just need an excuse to rig a boat. Hoping I get to take my instructor’s class this year, hoping even more I can get a ride for Swiftsure without having to take our boat up for the short course.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: If I am there again, I’ll take you up on that.
@Mike J: I’d like to go sailing. I haven’t been on a sailboat since I was about 17, and it was pretty small, circle class? I think that’s what my friend’s dad said, and that it was a newish classification in 1966. He was a cabinet maker and built it in his garage, and it was a pretty little thing.
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opiejeanne
That awful green is the contrast color on the Seahawks shirts. It’s too much as the main color. I was so horrified I had trouble at first watching the game and understanding what was happening, too busy gawking at those atrocities.
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JMG
Those Seattle uniforms are seizure-inducing. Did they change team nickname to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers?
SiubhanDuinne
@JMG:
That is by orders of magnitude the ugliest shade of green I’ve ever seen.
Maybe John will paint his living room that color.
randy khan
There’s a bit of a stir on Twitter about Obama’s press conference tomorrow. Apparently some press types believe it’s going to be focused on Trump and Russia. That would be . . . interesting.
trollhattan
@JMG:
NFL’s bright idea: “Color Rush” uniforms. At least they’re not Steeler bumblebee throwback unis.
cope
Out of the money in my fantasy league so…meh. The only good thing is that the league owes me $10 from last season so there is that.
trollhattan
@SiubhanDuinne:
Think Pacific Northwest and salmon lures. Always fishin’.
Tehanu
Ah, the Sea Schnooks! If I cared about football, I’d probably hate them!
Yutsano
@trollhattan: I knew the stupid Nike disease from Oregon was gonna spread…
Still: GO SEAHACKS!!!
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: Some folk here in LA may watch now that they canned Fisher.
ETA: A lot of folk here may be more concerned with the hill above them ending up in their house tonight. IT’S RAINING!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Yutsano:
Ahmmm, Seaweeds. That’s what they called em when I was in Seattle.
dr. bloor
@SiubhanDuinne: John will miraculously choose a dignified, subdued color for his living room.
And Thurston will hurl that particular shade of green all over his walls.
raven
Go Gurley!
HeleninEire
Just checking here with my new nym. Used to be just plain Helen. I know fuckall about football, so I can’t contribute to the conversation.
raven
@HeleninEire: There hasn’t been a sportball thread that has stayed on topic for a couple of years. . . except soccer!
SiubhanDuinne
Those Seahawks uniforms would put Linda Blair’s projectile vomit to shame.
HeleninEire
@raven: Hi Raven. How is Mrs. Raven’s recovery?
SiubhanDuinne
Those Seahawks uniforms make Kermit the Frog look like Mr Carson from Downton Abbey.
SiubhanDuinne
@trollhattan:
Hard to believe any self-respecting salmon would be tempted by a lure that color.
raven
@HeleninEire: Hey! She’s making progress and doing her therapy on schedule. She baked for another three hours last night so she’s adapting.
thx
dexwood
It’s that green on green effect that makes the uniforms look terrible. The green uniforms against the green of the field compete for my attention. Change the field color!
raven
@trollhattan: And Halibut!
raven
@dexwood: SMURF TURF!
Spanky (ex P-man)
@raven: You’ll have to post the hurling scores just to confuse everyone here. Go Mayo!
Approve of the nym, btw. Hope to trim the prens from the back end of my new nym in a week or so.
ETA: Hey! Isn’t it, like, 2 AM there? You should be in bed.
dexwood
@raven:
Now wouldn’t that be electric on these fancy HD TV machines?
SFBayAreaGal
@BillinGlendaleCA: It has been raining all day here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Doug R
Hey the other team around here, the hockey team Vancouver Canucks experimented with fluorescent uniforms back in the nineteen eighties that was the first time they made it to the Stanley Cup finals.
Richard Sherman has posted on Facebook watching a Canucks game and some Seahawks have actually showed up in the Canucks locker room
raven
@Spanky (ex P-man): Say what?
Steve in the ATL
@raven:
Damn straight
Steve in the ATL
@raven:
reminds me of college….
Lizzy L
As a Niner fan, I’m here to say, Go Seahawks! Beat the Rams!
@BillinGlendaleCA: Good to hear. We’ve had a fair amount of rain in Northern CA, but you’ve stayed dry. I hope you’re getting a lot. We’ve got urban flood warnings and everything, it’s like old times.
HeleninEire
@raven: Hey send me some. Although I gotta say the baked goods here in Eire almost, I SAID ALMOST, rival those in NYC. The bagels taste the same, but they don’t exactly have the NYC crunch. Haven’t tried the pizza. There’s a place in the City Center that bills itself as “NYC’s RAY’s Pizza” Dunno if you have ever been to Ray’s in NYC. But it is the best pizza on this planet. So. Prolly not. But scones and such? Super great.
What did Mrs. Raven bake?
Larkspur
@BillinGlendaleCA: It’s been raining really hard all day up north of SF, too. Much roadway flooding in the usual areas. The wind has died down for the moment. I went out dog-walking in full rain gear. The dogs didn’t mind, even when I toweled them down afterwards. There is nothing so cute as a fully body doggy water-shake.
I wish you hadn’t mentioned the canning of Fisher, because it makes me think of tuna and not in a good way.
raven
@HeleninEire: All kinds of cookies and bon-bons for her un-birthday open house Monday night. I’m going to serve up a ton of wings for the fais do-do! I’m off work for the rest of the month so it’s home improvement time!
Yarrow
@HeleninEire: Are you in Dublin? Or elsewhere in Ireland?
HeleninEire
@Yarrow: Dublin. Ask me why and how I got here and how great it is.
Yarrow
@HeleninEire: Okay. Why did you go there? How did you get there? How great is it?
Schlemazel
@JMG:
They look like something the University of Nike would wear up there
raven
On Grafton Street at Christmas time
The elbows push you round
All I carry now are memories
Schlemazel
@HeleninEire:
Nobody here ever let ignorance of the subject stop them from commenting on a football thread!
mainmata
@HeleninEire: If you’re in Eire there is Irish rules football, which is a marvelous game to watch – really big field. I have dual nationality and relatives still around so I visit periodically.
Schlemazel
@raven:
Still that sounds like her wrist is doing nicely.
Make sure she doesn’t over do it
O. Felix Culpa
@Schlemazel: Or any other thread, for that matter.
raven
@mainmata: Georgia Teach and Boston College played in Dublin this year.
Schlemazel
@Steve in the ATL:
baked for 3 hours would be a short day in college!
raven
@Schlemazel: HAHAHAHAHA, yea, I’ll make sure ok.
Schlemazel
@O. Felix Culpa:
Well, I was try to stay on topic :)
FlyingToaster
The killer winds have hit (they were merely ‘orrible winds today when I was walking in them). They blew the top bin of Xmas lights-n-crap off the stack on the side porch, and earlier blew the door off the shed (again). It will get down to 3°above (out in civilization, that’s -19°), with a windchill of -25. It’ll be back up to 5° by 8 when we leave for school.
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: The fires on the hillsides burn up the vegetation so there’s nothing to keep the mud on the hillsides.
Since I live in a cave, this is not a problem.
Shana
@raven: Sounds lovely. Enjoy your time off. I just finished my annual candy assortment to hand off to Hubby for work people, daughter for her work people, and me for friends and various providers – hair stylist, cleaning ladies, etc. Tried a couple of new ones this year, samoas bark and salted chocolate and cookie butter ones that are pretty addictive. And butterscotch haystacks at daughter’s particular request.
M. Bouffant
Why are those men running around in 37° weather in their pajamas, & why are their pajamas that color?
Schlemazel
@raven:
Mine got the stitches out of her hand the other day and I found it hilarious that she was so scared I had to go with to hold her other hand. This woman is so strong & confident & scared of nothing but getting those stitches out was too much for her.
raven
@Shana: Yea, she loves that stuff. She put up a ton of fig preserves and has them all bowed up to give out. I only had a few things to get and they went in the mail this morning. Your stuff sounds good!
CaseyL
So I come home from work, feed my cats, feed the next-door cats (neighbors being on vacation), change out of my work clothes, turn on the game, and…
…my team appears to be dressed up as radioactive popsicles.
What the hell color is that?? Who came up with that color and decided it would make a perfect football uniform?
BillinGlendaleCA
@M. Bouffant:
They get paid a significant amount of money to do so.
They’re probably asking the same question.
raven
@Schlemazel: Yea, I’m on the shit list for that. I had a meeting and couldn’t go when the took the cast off and the stitches out and it was pretty painful. I don’t know what I could have done but she wasn’t to thrilled I wasn’t there.
BillinGlendaleCA
OMG, I just went to espn and saw a pic of Seattle’s unis, I’m blind now.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Hoo boy, you all just got me to look at this game to see those uniforms… somebody in marketing who’s gonna get fired when accounting sees what they cost? Or the owner up in the box nodding and saying “that’s what I’m talking about!”
Gin & Tonic
@HeleninEire:
There’s a “Ray’s Pizza” on every second corner in NYC.
Lizzy L
Not going to look. Green, right? Bwahahahahaha no.
Shana
@raven: Do you have fig trees? Fig preserves sounds lovely.
Making candy’s actually pretty easy as long as you have a double boiler or can cobble one together with a pot and a bowl over it. And access to better quality chocolate than what they sell at Michael’s or JoAnn’s.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Lizzy L: a Cole-wall-yellow shade of green
Schlemazel
@raven:
I have had hundreds of stitches and a couple dozen staples taken out & never thought it was awful. But it is always nice to have support when wanted.
Schlemazel
@raven:
I love fresh fig but they are hard to come by here on the tundra. Preserves on the other hand, OK but not really the same
Denali
Why is there a petition to shut down the “corrupt” Clinton Foundation at the bottom of the thread? I know all about the corrupt Trump Foundation and would be happy to sign a petition getting rid of it. But Clinton? Show us the proof!
NotMax
Open thread holiday-related fun:
More than you wanted to know about sugarplums.
@Gin & Tonic
Not mention Original Ray’s. (For those unfamiliar, NYC pizza shops not to be confused with Ray’s.)
raven
@Shana: Yea, damn thing is huge and getting huger!
O. Felix Culpa
@Lizzy L: Not just any ordinary green. A burn-your-eyeballs off and scare young children kinda green.
raven
@Schlemazel: Ya gotta do something with em. The birds get on them lickety split when they ripen.
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: The real Ray’s (maybe.)
randy khan
@Gin & Tonic:
There is only one actual Ray’s. But you have to figure out which one it is on your own. It requires eating a lot of pizza, but that’s not a bad thing.
BillinGlendaleCA
Creepy Santa will take your mind off the Seaweeds uniforms.
SenyorDave
@Gin & Tonic: There’s a “Ray’s Pizza” on every second corner in NYC.
And then you had Original Ray’s, then Ray’s Originals, and even just originals. And they always were suing each other over the name. It became a running joke in NYC.
BillinGlendaleCA
@SenyorDave: Sounds like Tommy’s here in LA(burgers not pizza).
Doug R
The shirt by itself actually looks kinda good. But coupled with the same color pants….ugh.
Pants need to be a different color.
NotMax
@raven
Not sure why they brought it in, but the Costco here has gigantic jars of fig preserves. Each time I’ve passed by them over the last several months it sure looks as if they haven’t sold any at all.
New manager really played games with their stock – brought in all sorts of weird and expensive crap and stopped stocking way too many old reliable and popular items. First thing the new manager did was rip out the direct line phone by the registers which one could use while shopping to order a pizza for take-out. Sad,
M. Bouffant
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: For some reason the League has dictated that Thurs. Night Games be played in monochromatic outfits. Maybe because, the awfulness of the Thurs. game being a given, Park Ave. expects people will only tune in to see how awful the unis are.
HeleninEire
@raven: Grafton Street, St Stephens Green is my favorite place on earth.
Steeplejack (phone)
@HeleninEire:
It doesn’t have to be run together. Why not “Helen in Eire”? It’s more readable.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: @HeleninEire: Hey kids, I am watching Love, Actually.
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
Can remember back to when there was just the one. Frequented by students from NYU.
Sacrilege to any Manhattanite, but can get better pizza in Queens.
NotMax
@NotMax
Ought to have read: Frequented by students from Cooper Union and NYU.
Jeffro
@M. Bouffant: The Chiefs didn’t look too bad in all red last week, although it was kind of funny seeing the mighty mighty Raiders dressed head to toe in white. And losing.
HeleninEire
@Yarrow: I came here because it is the greatest place on earth. I got here cuz my mother was born here. She died when I was 12. I love it here. And I am a citizen because Ireland says you can NEVER renounce your citizenship. So although my mom came here at 18, she died an Irish citizen. And as her daughter I am an Irish citizen too. How great is that?
Adrift
I am beginning to believe that shitgibbon will NEVER hold a press conference. Ever. He can’t take that kind of heat. And while I’m at it I’ve been wondering if he does make it to POTUS will he get the “You Lie!” moment that Obama had. I mean, the precedent has been set.
Keith P.
I guess I should be glad the name wasn’t “Steven Seagal”
Donald Trump has drawn ‘first blood’ in the search for his incoming administration’s senior arts role – by tapping up Rambo legend Sylvester Stallone.
Sources have told DailyMail.com the president-elect sees Hollywood icon Stallone as the perfect choice to make art great again.
The likely position would be Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency that doles out funds to aspiring artists and creative projects.
danielx
@SiubhanDuinne:
Now that is seriously badass insult. See, there is always something to learn at BJ! Besides what appalling taste in colors Cole has, I mean.
Walked outside, 6 degrees and it feels astringent and is so still it’s hard to believe.
Baud
@HeleninEire: Is there an Irish Balloon Juice?
@Keith P.: Could have been worse.
Baud
@danielx:
What’s wrong with pink?
HeleninEire
@mainmata: Oh wanna here my bestest Irish football story? So. 27 yrs ago; my first visit here. I am walking down O’Connell St (the Broadway of Dublin) and I hear a loud roar behind me. Dunno, I’m a stupid 25 year old. A woman in a shop comes out and pulls me back into her shop. Apparently the Irish just won some football thing. I had no idea.
Now, normally I love a drunk Irish man. But 10,000 of them streaming down O’Connell street? Yeah. Not so much.
NotMax
@Keith P.
A chicken in every pot and a
carside of beef in every garage.Didn’t Seagal skedaddle to (wait for it) Russia?
HeleninEire
@Omnes Omnibus: Rut Roh.
HeleninEire
@Omnes Omnibus: Can’t you cause trouble elsewhere?
Trentrunner
@Keith P.: People will laugh, but if true, that would be Trump’s least-worst pick so far, by a long, long distance.
Omnes Omnibus
@HeleninEire: Sure, I can. But will l? No.
HeleninEire
@Omnes Omnibus: Especially cuz you think the stupid Wisconsin scene is the bestest!!!!!
Inmourning
Omnes, how wonderful for you. One of my faves. Love the Wisconsin scene. Bring it on, I need Love Actually.
NotMax
@HeleninEire
Wisconsinites are required by law to watch cheesy movies.
:)
Omnes Omnibus
@HeleninEire: He walks in to a bar in Milwaukee and order a Budweiser? Fuck that scene.
HeleninEire
@Gin & Tonic: Yes. But you gotta know where the real Rays is. Do you? I do.
3Jane Tessier-Ashpool (a/k/a Lorinda Pike)
@CaseyL: Some college game earlier this season had one team (I think it was the O-Ducks) in their neon green solids, and the other team was in solid orangey-red.
It looked like a battle between highway-worker safety vests and a bunch of traffic cones…
The only way to make it more horrifying would have it be a bowl game played on the Teal Turf in Boise.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Maybe each time he tried to say Blatz he and the crew burst out laughing?
danielx
@Baud:
Nothing in particular, but the only word I can think of to describe that shade of green is ‘bilious’. Still, could be worse. Years ago I and the spousal unit were looking at houses. We visited one that had been “professionally decorated”. Meaning fresh paint and….in the dining room, wallpaper. In three different patterns.
I have to confess I blurted out “who decorated this room, Ray Charles?”. If by some mischance I’d walked into that room with a hangover I would have wanted to slit my wrists. Did not buy the house, which was just as well since it was on septic and you could smell sewer gas in the basement.
HeleninEire
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh no. You cannot get outta this. Before the stupid ole fight we all were talking about embarrassing favorite stupid movies (a few months ago???) and I said one of mine was Love Actually. You said the Wisconsin scene was one of your favorites. You can’t get out of it now sweetheart. YOU ARE STUCK WITH ME admitting that the movie is a good movie. Own it.
NotMax
@3Jane Tessier-Ashpool (a/k/a Lorinda Pike)
It’s an insidious plot to burn out components of people’s big screen TVs faster.
HeleninEire
@Steeplejack (phone): Why not Steeple Jack?
Yarrow
@Omnes Omnibus: Good for you. Excellent choice.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Sprecher.
HeleninEire
@Baud: Haven’t found it. And why should I? I have you all.
Yarrow
@HeleninEire: Sounds great! Glad you are enjoying it.
Omnes Omnibus
@HeleninEire: Okay, I’ll admit that I am angry that I can’t find that bar.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Gin & Tonic:
Srsly. It’s like “Nick’s” for roast beef in Philadelphia.
Yarrow
@Omnes Omnibus: I can understand that….
HeleninEire
@Yarrow: You are what my mother used to call an “instigator” And don’t think I don’t remember you from that night. Oh yes I do. Um Sweetie.
Yarrow
@HeleninEire: Heh. I will defend my love of “Love, Actually” forever. I love it. No one else has to love it, that’s fine. I’m not instigating anything….. *walks away whistling*
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s on my list – actually, considering my passionate feelings about All Things Alan Rickman, I’m moderately amazed to consider that i’ve never yet seen it!
Still basking in the glow of Jimmy Cagney in “White Heat” from last night…I was telling someone here that this may be my lasting image of the t-Rump presidency…
@HeleninEire: Or what Paul McCartney in “A Hard Day’s Night” refers to as “a King Mixer!”
Keith P.
@Trentrunner: I want to say I read on Cracked.com that Sylvester Stallone is pro-gun control. Not sure Trump knows that.
HeleninEire
@Omnes Omnibus: @Yarrow:
You stupid men.
Steeplejack (phone)
@HeleninEire:
I’ll just fuck off, then, shall I?
Omnes Omnibus
@HeleninEire: Your point is?
HeleninEire
@Omnes Omnibus:
Which part of YOU STUPID MEN is confusing? You want the bar. The bar is right in front of you. If only you can see it.
Omnes Omnibus
@HeleninEire: The next bar or club always holds out the possibility of being better.
HeleninEire
@Omnes Omnibus: OK you’re just messing with me now. Going on to the next thread. The I’m going to sleep. Its after 4am here
Omnes Omnibus
@HeleninEire:
You bought in to my premise. Yea!
Amaranthine RBG
Made the mistake of pausing as I was flipping through channels to see some guy get his bell rung at the start of the 4th quarter and being pulled so they could “run some test” on him on the sidelines.
Poor son of a bitch will probably put a bullet in his head 10 years from now after his brain turns to tapioca.
Bonnie
The color of the uniforms are known as vomit green. I love the Seahawks; but, hate these uniforms–really, really, really hate them. I actually was wishing for black and white TV when I first saw them. However, we in the pacific northwest were starved for pro sports when we finally got our football team. Before that, we had a brief major league baseball team (the Seattle Pilots) and we had an NBA team, which was eventually stolen by Oklahoma City. So, we love our Seahawks and our University of Washington Huskies, who do deserve to be in the playoffs.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: For a number years i the 80s, the Mariners A club was in my hometown. It was interesting to see the guys whose stay in central Wisconsin was brief.
Yarrow
Oh wow. I just saw those Seattle uniforms. WTF? Who designed those?
Mike J
Blurry shot of one of my club’s boats. Vibrant green gennaker, We’re right down the lake from the vmac, have our post race beers at the same bar the Seagals and John Schneider have post practice beers.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: Gennaker is a spinnaker/genoa?
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, a lightweight genoa/reaching spinnaker. Not as good as a spinnaker dead downwind, great on a reach, easy to handle with two people instead of the minimum three to properly keep a spinnaker up. No pole, no hassle.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: I know just enough about sailboats to be dangerous. Have you ever read any of Sam Llewellyn’s sailing mysteries? Kind of like Dick Francis on the ocean.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: Going to get them now,
If you’re ever near Seattle, come sailing. Hell, I’ll extend it to all juicers. If you want to go sailing, let me know. I just need an excuse to rig a boat. Hoping I get to take my instructor’s class this year, hoping even more I can get a ride for Swiftsure without having to take our boat up for the short course.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: If I am there again, I’ll take you up on that.
Mart
Being from the Lou, I am again a happy boy.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mart: Huh?
opiejeanne
@Mike J: I’d like to go sailing. I haven’t been on a sailboat since I was about 17, and it was pretty small, circle class? I think that’s what my friend’s dad said, and that it was a newish classification in 1966. He was a cabinet maker and built it in his garage, and it was a pretty little thing.
opiejeanne
That awful green is the contrast color on the Seahawks shirts. It’s too much as the main color. I was so horrified I had trouble at first watching the game and understanding what was happening, too busy gawking at those atrocities.