NotMax has asked for an open thread while channeling Animal from the Muppet Show, so…
Like you all didn’t see this coming…
And since we are fast approaching the campaign season for the annual War on Christmas:
All Holidays Matter!!!!!
Open thread!
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Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Just put up a Twitter thread on casting positions for WHITE HOUSE: The Trump Years. So far, I have blank spots for Zinke, Pompeo, Price, Mnuchin and Cohn (I didn’t put him in the thread, but I think Will Arnett can play a good Mulvaney). Any suggestions?
NotMax
Mucho mahalo.
Frankensteinbeck
It is past midnight in EST. October 1st has arrived. Rikyah, take a deep breath, and sleep in peace.
And fuck McConnell, every one. And Lindsay “Hurting People Gets Me Hard” Graham.
rikyrah
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
That was too funny. But, the HBO mini-series will be off the chain
lollipopguild
I am not a Muppett! You are the Muppett!
Mnemosyne
@Frankensteinbeck:
She’s not the only one who will be sleeping a little better tonight. Next up, tax “reform.” Sigh.
NotMax
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Jaleel White for Ben Carson, or bust. However prodigious the rest of the male part of the list, cut it down the middle and give half to Jon Lovitz and the other half to Martin Short.
Problem solved.
:)
efgoldman
You posted multiple Animal videos, and left out that battle with the great Buddy Rich?
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@NotMax: White for Tim Scott, maybe. But Wayans is too perfect for the Carson role.
Mike in NC
Trump will certainly be proclaiming a War On Christmas / War Against Those Filthy Muslims by early December. It will be an attempt to distract the cretin base from his other ever-building problems regarding Putin and Puerto Rico and God knows what else surfaces.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Yes, yes I did.
Major Major Major Major
My friends and I were Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem one year in college for Halloween. Still the best costume I was ever part of. (I was Zoot.)
Adam L Silverman
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Any reptiloid alien wearing a fake human suit will work for Mnuchin. Basically you just need to cast someone from his own species.//
FlipYrWhig
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Zinke has to be Lithgow.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Adam L Silverman: Don’t you mean Ted Cruz? (And in all seriousness my first choice, which I wasn’t entirely sold on, was John Oliver).
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
Not only species, planet.
ETA I picture him as a fellow traveler of the bug in MIB. The Vincent D’Onofrio character.
Roger Moore
@Adam L Silverman:
You speciesists are always saying “they all look alike”.
Major Major Major Major
Ooh, Hot Fuzz is on Netflix.
Steeplejack
LOL. Rerun of Elementary, episode “Just a Regular Irregular.” I had completely forgotten Phil Simms’s cameo (as himself) in which he is “arguably the greatest knife thrower in the world.”
Holmes: “Only there’s little money to be made in the impalement arts, so as a youth he turned to what you Americans term football.”
Simms is actually pretty funny in a deadpan, exasperated way.
Major Major Major Major
@Steeplejack: i remember that, always meant to look up who that was, lol.
rikyrah
@Frankensteinbeck:
Hey!!!
I know. It’s October 1st.
We have fights to do. But, we will be ok today ??
Steeplejack
@Major Major Major Major:
Holmes (with disgust): “Fifteen years he spent throwing that misshapen ball around. Fifteen years.”
NotMax
@Frankensteinbeck
It’s gotten to the point where flipping the page on each the calendars is a highlight of any month.
They don’t call me Mr. Adventure for naught. :)
sharl
The bit featuring Animal and Rita Moreno remains one of my favorites.
prostratedragon
From 1974,
Patricia Kayden
@Ruckus: Where’s the Raid when you need it?
NotMax
@Patricia Kayden
Raid?!?
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
One of my favorite mash-up t-shirts is this one. I bought it as soon as I stopped laughing.
(For anyone who skipped the Academy Award-winning Zootopia, that’s Judy and Nick.)
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne:
Eh, weak field ??♂️
TS
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): The White House – the Trump Year will hopefully be more accurate or maybe The Trump Months
Mnemosyne
So apparently this weekend is when we get our annual invasion of the ants. Fuck.
They swarmed the bathroom last night and the kitchen tonight. I hate the little fuckers.
??????????????
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
Sorry, the correct answer this year was, It only won because of all of the SJWs and cucks running Hollywood!
I’m still mad at myself that we did an LA exit* from the party where we were watching it and missed the big “Moonlight” win.
* For the uninitiated, an “LA exit” is when you leave an event early to avoid traffic. I get pretty pissed at the theatergoers at the Pantages who decide to leave while the cast is taking their bows. Assholes.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: I thought that was a French exit. Or an Irish goodbye. Wait, that’s when you leave without telling anyone.
Patricia Kayden
@NotMax: Now that’s what I’m talking about. I have one in every room in my house cause I hate bugs so much.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Looks like I’m going to have to put a WiFi card in my Hackintosh, the location services don’t like the USB dongle. SAD.
Suzanne
I am trying to find a new mystery/thriller/crime novel to read. I have read two of the Dublin Murder Squad books this year and enjoyed them both.
ThresherK
@Suzanne: I suggest Nevada Barr’s Anna Pigeon series, starting with “Track of the Cat”, if you like writing on the outdoors.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
Now that I married into an almost 100 percent Irish family, saying that someone did an “Irish goodbye” by leaving quickly and quietly makes ZERO sense to me. I’m assuming it’s just a random ethnic slur that gets applied to whatever group is considered inferior to one’s own group.
That’s why the historical novels I read that take place in England during the Napoleonic Wars call it “taking French leave.” ?
opiejeanne
@Mnemosyne: What did I miss, that you will be sleeping better tonight? I’ve been out of touch most of the day. I know that today was the deadline for a simple majority vote on repealing the ACA, but I also know that CHIP expired at midnight.
opiejeanne
@Mnemosyne: Aha! Is that what French leave is? It’s undoubtedly what you said, a random ethnic slur.
Major Major Major Major
@Suzanne: I highly recommend the Peculiar Crimes Unit books by Christopher Fowler.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Installed the card and location services work, the card works well in Windoze and Linux Mint. ?
(Does happy dance, the cocker spaniel is giving me a funny look.)
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Woohoo!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: Just did a reboot from macOS to Windows to Linux and back to macOS. The speed on the network card is pretty good and I got the HDMI sound to work.
(And in my spare time, I worked on this picture.)
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Very nice.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: Thanks.
Bruce K
The kind of year we’ve been having, Muppets are like a necessary antidote to all the evil.
On a tangent, I’d postulate that two things that automatically mark the greatness of a song are a parody by Weird Al, and a cover by the Electric Mayhem (which also automatically makes that song better). Not that a song can’t be great without one of those things, of course…
rikyrah
@Mnemosyne:
Eeeeekkkk ???
Do you use Terro?
bystander
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Kelly Anne would be Catherine O’Hara, and Sessions has to be Leslie Jordan, Beverley Lesley from Will & Grace.
I wouldn’t mind Peter Serafinawicz as Sassy Trump, or the more traditional, but equally hilarious, guy from The President Show.
Frankensteinbeck
@Mnemosyne:
Back when I was in college entomology, ant baits were a total scam. The technology has come a LONG way. These days I put them as close to the spot they’re getting in as possible, and a couple of days later the invasion is over. I have to do it a couple of times a year, but that’s such a small rate of ant trouble I’m cool with it.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@bystander: I already listed Atamanuik as the natural choice in the linked Twitter thread, although I chose Bill Maher as a left-field alternative.
Still no choices for Price, Nikki Haley, Pompeo or Cohn, though.
The Pale Scot
Muppet Music?
The swinging Put Down the Ducky, with a cast of dozens of NYC celebs, from Tommy Tune to Danny DeVito to Carl Banks
Kathleen
@Ruckus: I picture all Rethuglicans that way. I’m always waiting for the slimy tentacle to pop thru the suit jacket.
hedgehog mobile
@Suzanne: Steven Saylor’s Roma sub Rosa series. Set in Rome during (IIRC) Julius Caesar’s rule. Good stories and marvelous character development.
Laura
@Suzanne: check out the Dr. Siri series by Colin Cotteril. There’s a slew of them and they are swell!
J R in WV
@Mnemosyne:
Wife calls it the long WV Goodbye, First just inside the door, then just outside the, then down the walk, lastly by the car. Then you wave as they drive out the road. Hugging/kissing randomly inserted all along the way.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
@Frankensteinbeck:
We have three cats, so ant baits are problematic. We usually have the best luck tracing the ant trails back to where they start, squirting a bunch of (pet-friendly) ant spray there, and then lining the floor edges with cinnamon. I was skeptical about the cinnamon at first, but it really seems to work.
Plus we vacuumed a bunch of the little bastards up, which should also disrupt their trails. Goddamned ants.
Duane
@NotMax: efg is so old, when the month changed, he flipped rocks.