
What a handsome boy!
I let you know on Sunday that we would be rolling out links to some of the classic posts over the course of the week.
We’ll be naked mopping, losing the mustard, skull-fucking kittens, dining on tire rims and anthrax, faxing credenzas, reaching peak wing nut… Oh wait, that last one didn’t turn out as expected.
Well, here’s the next installment.
Tire Rims and Anthrax
Skull-fucking A Kitten
Faxing Credenzas / The Helicopters Are Laughing
Faxing Credenzas Explained
Peak Wingnut
Peak Wingnut by John Cole
Peak Cole by Tim F.
The Subaru Saga
Another Day In Paradise
Still In The Field
Please Get My Fucking Subaru Out of the Field
And I’ll look up first posts for another 10 BJ peeps, first come, first served!
Open thread.
guachi
Me, please. I’m interested in how long it took me to finally comment. And if my comment wasn’t embarrassing.
Baud
I didn’t realize skull fuck was a mock Rudyism.
JPL
I’ve been on grandma duty, so if you have already researched mine, just let me know. jl, JL with same email.
thanks
mali muso
Me please? I’m curious. ?
WaterGirl
There are some great comments in the skull fuck a kitten thread. It was 2007 and Cole was already tired of the election cycle. I wish this commenter would come back, so much to love in this comment.
JPL
@WaterGirl: Red Kitten’s children must be in their teens by, and that absolutely blows my mind.
guachi
I don’t expect my first comment to be that good. I consider myself a “not valued commenter”, though I did have one comment so good that some regular said it should be a rotating tag. I appreciated that.
debbie
I just found comments from me after the 2016 election. I don’t want to see any more!
Phylllis
I’d like to know. Same nym & email.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I didn’t either! 14 or 15 years later and Rudy just won’t go away. well, actually, i haven’t heard a peep out of him lately. Hmm. It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
WaterGirl
@guachi: Okay, checking on yours now. Same email, I presume?
Edmund Dantes
I’ll take my first post if the 10 spot is still open.
email is same
Roger Moore
I would love to see my first comment on Balloon-Juice.
WaterGirl
@debbie: Were you ready to slit your wrists?
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Yes, he been strangely quiet.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Close; I was seared by my own stridency.
WaterGirl
@guachi:
Unless you changed your email address at some point, your first comment was Feb 2, 2011.
On a DougJ post announcing that Open Left is closing.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Rudy’s probably still recovering from the Mar-a-Lago NYE bash.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
Maybe he’s smart enough to listen to his lawyer. Oh, who am I kidding. It’s far more likely that he’s trying to pitch a fit, but nobody will give him a platform.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I’ll take that as a good sign for our side and a bad sign for Rudy.
piratedan
checking in on my first post request….
if you would be so kind to fax it to my credenza, with a credenza or even credenzaless….
WaterGirl
i just read the first of the Subaru posts. John really does tell a great story.
2liberal
first post for 2liberal please, same email i believe.
Edmund Dantes
The Subaru saga was an all time great.
I think my other favorite is the story of Lilly and the broken shoulder (?). He was carrying her and fell? I forget it’s been so long.
debbie
guachi
@WaterGirl: Ha!
A post that is still true today and applies to Balloon-Juice. When all the front pagers are good I just start reading and then guess who the author is. Which is easy here as they all have a definite style.
Feb 11, 2011? I’d been reading BJ regularly for probably four years by that point.
evap
My first post, please :) or am I too late?
dexwood
Now It Can Be Told / Faxing Credenzas was my introduction to Balloon Juice. Oh, man, I was hooked.
evap
I have used the “tire rims and anthrax” story many times. This may be my all-time favorite post!
WaterGirl
@debbie:
I think you need a palate cleanser. Your first comment was Feb 5, 2009 on John Cole’s post Obama Fiddled While These People Starved. Always helping!
The next was May 21, 2009 on Good news for Mitt Romney. You replied to a question from Joanne:
Your reply:
So you can stop cringing about that other comment now. :-)
WaterGirl
@Edmund Dantes: You don’t have to try to remember, the links are in the post I put up yesterday, which you obviously didn’t read. :-)
debbie
People were wondering about DeathSanti’s disappearance a couple of days ago. Those who had COVID on their Bingo cards, claim your prize!
Scout211
@WaterGirl:
Wow. That was a blast from the past, featuring an “internet protocol” from the way back machine: Remember when posters demanded they get a “hat tip” for being the first person to post a piece of news that a front pager or any blogger picked up? I always thought that was kind of silly. But it was a thing. And now it’s really not a thing, thank goodness.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Bless you! I still remember that skit!
Baud
@Scout211:
Now we just do “second”!
guachi
Comment #4 on Cole’s Peak Wingnut post. So, so true:
MomSense
Does anyone else remember the obnoxious commenter who used to correct us about our gun terminology and other shit? He used to post from some kind of duck tent set up thing while hunting.
WaterGirl
@JPL: I have the RedKitten is having her baby (!) post in the queue for later in the week.
Roger Moore
@guachi:
IIRC, Cole was admitting he might have been overly optimistic by the end of the thread. It just goes to show that the old motto for the blog “Consistently wrong since 2002” was thoroughly earned.
John Cole
@MomSense: Darryl
WaterGirl
@JPL:
Your first comment was on Jan 26, 2009 in a Tim F post called Clinton Post The Third.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Much like the Crazification Factor in terms of never-ending applicability, two things I constantly use from here:
Cleek’s Law
Tire Rims and Anthrax
The Dangerman
Sure, me too. Same email (it’s a burner; I have no idea what the password is any longer).
[email protected]
I’ll be extremely disappointed if I didn’t drop multiple 4 letter words or maybe a 12 letter one. Cmon, boxcars.
WaterGirl
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: you forgot roasting sparrows under the bridge…
Yarrow
WaterGirl, I don’t know if you’re doing posts with comments from favorite commenters, but this comment from 2017 by efgoldman is still one of my favorites. It’s about his granddaughter turning FOUR. He loved her so much and it’s just palpable in his comment. Excerpt:
There’s a lot more if you click through. RIP.
WaterGirl
Okay, The Dangerman at #44 will make 10, which is my limit for one day. :-)
There will be another chance tomorrow!
Steeplejack (phone)
@Edmund Dantes:
Covered earlier this week. Look in the sidebar (or at the bottom on the mobile site) under “Classics” for all of the anniversary stuff so far.
Baud
@Yarrow:
RIP
JPL
@WaterGirl: Thank you. Can’t wait for the Red Kitten post.
early on I did use another email, but that is long gone.
WaterGirl
@Yarrow: Hold on to that link because, yes, nominating favorite COMMENTS over the years is also on the anniversary agenda. :-)
Almost Retired
I wanna know what ultimately happened with “Michael Gass” from the credenza threat. Did he provide John Cole complete documentation of his multiple he-man law enforcement accomplishments in condensation-proof lamination? Was he found to be a front-pager trolling for shits and giggles?
The trolls seemed to be more ubiquitous (and obvious) in these historic threads, although maybe they’re still here and my troll-dar is not very sophisticated.
MomSense
@John Cole:
Thank you!!
cain
me me! I would love to know – it’s hard to search for my main cuz of McCain. :P
JPL
@Almost Retired: I still think it was Doug and he went on to bigger things. Now he just torments the NYTimes.
Yarrow
@WaterGirl: I don’t know if I’ll be around when that thread happens. My schedule, as usual, is extremely chaotic. What I really would like is if someone could find a way to get that comment to his wife, daughter and granddaughter. What a treasure for them that would be.
cain
@Yarrow:
Damn I must have missed that post – egoldman yelled at me once – lol. I can’t remember someone maybe it was Stuck beat him with a stick.
Anyways, the cat’s name was Guybrush which is a CLEAR reference to Guybrush Threepwood!
MomSense
@Yarrow:
?
I think about his wife sometimes, too. I remember EF said she watched all the cheesy Christmas movies. At some point during TFG’s maladministration I felt so overwhelmed with everything T that I started watching them. Made me think of them.
cain
skullfuck a kitten was a popular saying and I remember when John mentioned that if you googled it you get balloon-juice as the only place that it shows up. haha!
schrodingers_cat
I lurked for a longtime before I first commented. I think my first comment was in the post about Tunch and the furminator. Which I immediately bought for my ginger kitteh with copious floof.
WaterGirl
@mali muso:
Your first comment was on June 20, 2014 in a soccer thread by Randinho Italy v Costa Rica Open Thread!
WaterGirl
@piratedan: You’re up next.
cain
BTW the naked mop thing – I thought remembered different. Didn’t John strip naked to mop the house because it was goddam humid that he was trying to stay cool as well????
WaterGirl
@JPL: The email doesn’t need to be functional in order for me to search on it, if you still know what it was.
Another Scott
I had forgotten about balloon boy and Mr. Gass and his credentials. “Gass” appears 137 times in that thread – he was busy! Now I don’t feel so bad about commenting more than 10 times in a long thread…
Thanks. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Almost Retired: DougJ had a reputation for trolling on Bj under assumed names, but I have no idea.
Were you here for faxing the credenzas? i haven’t re-read that post yet, but it was hysterical in real time.
Mike E
I really enjoyed the calm, collegial backdrop to the DougJ interview of JGC, where “skullfcuk a kitten” can be casually dropped in conversation with no warning lights going off or circuit breakers tripping. And John kinda reminded me a little bit of Stephen Jay Gould…if he ever worked blue, heh.
WaterGirl
@Yarrow: Best bet on that might be Subaru Diane. She knew how to get in touch IRL.
JPL
@Another Scott: If it sounds like Doug, and writes like Doug, it’s Doug. imo
Almost Retired
@WaterGirl: I wasn’t here then, so I was a “faxing the credenzas” virgin until this afternoon.
WaterGirl
@cain: I believe John said he combined housekeeping with hygiene.
JPL
@WaterGirl: Thanks, but I don’t remember. It really doesn’t matter, but this site has given me close to two decades, of laughs.
WaterGirl
@Almost Retired: If it wasn’t funny unless you were there, please don’t tell me, I would be crushed.
On the other hand, as long as the helicopters aren’t laughing, I guess it’s okay.
dkinPa
Just wanted to say that the painting of Steve is gorgeous! Also, as someone who came late to this blog, I am enjoying the classics — especially enjoyed the story of how John fell in love with Lily!
WaterGirl
@piratedan:
Your first comment was on Aug 18, 2010 on a John Cole post called The Clown Princess Tweets. That’s intriguing, will someone read that post and let me know what it’s about?
cain
So.. have we reached Peak COVID yet? Nope…
cain
@WaterGirl: It must have been a Sarah Palin thing.
cain
@WaterGirl: Yeah, I don’t remember the shower part I guess. I just remember him sweating it out and mopping the floor.
WaterGirl
@dkinPa: I love that painting of Steve, too!
Your comment reminded me that in today’s post I forgot the notation that the artwork was done by Avalune. I just remedied that.
Avalune is so talented!
Steeplejack (phone)
@cain:
“Naked Mopping” is also under “Classics” in the sidebar (or page bottom on the mobile site).
WaterGirl
Apropos of nothing, I guess, except maybe leopards eating faces…
Here’s a photo of Tucker’s Christmas present. He just finished plucking the eyes out and eating the face. That’s apparently the best part! :-)
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: I guess he ate a hand, also.
Another Scott
@JPL: It doesn’t sound like DougJ to me. I wasn’t here, I don’t think, when he was trolling the place, but I do remember him trolling the WP (?) comments and getting some writer there to agree with his astute observation… There’s a slyness to the writing that was missing with Mr. Gass, IMO. (Plus Gass gave names of other places where he posted.)
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Phylllis:
Your first comment was on Dec 16, 2016 on an Anne Laurie holiday post called Friday Morning Open Thread: Not Getting Into the Holiday Spirit.
You were having a back-and-forth conversation with satby. Bonus points for using the word ruthless in your comment.
Yarrow
@cain:
You got off lucky. He told me I and everyone around me deserved to die.
WaterGirl
Are any of you guys who wanted your first comments still here?
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
I’m still here! I think I’ve used the same email consistently for as long as I’ve been posting.
The Dangerman
@WaterGirl: *raises hand
piratedan
@WaterGirl: aye, it was a Sarah Palin commentary regarding one of her tweets where she illustrated just how ill-equipped she was for any job and emblematic as a harbinger of what the GOP was turning into
and ty!
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore:
Your first comment was on Oct 30, 2008 in a John Cole post titled Profiles In Douchebaggery. There was a conversation about The Onion.
WaterGirl
@The Dangerman: Okay, just got done with Roger Moore’s, you are next.
WaterGirl
@piratedan: Was she the one that wrote notes on her had for a debate?
mali muso
@WaterGirl: Woohoo! Thanks for blast from the past. I knew I delurked during a World Cup, but couldn’t remember which one. I think I started lurking somewhere between 2009 and 2010, so it only took me 4 years to get the courage to post. lol
Scamp Dog
@WaterGirl: Ooh, pick me! Same nym and email as I use now.
Fair Economist
@WaterGirl: Oh man, OpenLeft closed almost 11 years ago? I feel old.
Phylllis
@WaterGirl: Well that was…prosaic. I know I had been lurking for ages before that.
Steeplejack (phone)
The “helicopters and credenza” thing (with condensation!) was one of the gnarlier topics I researched for the anniversary. I couldn’t find some specific things that I “knew” were true. I ended up searching for my later explanation from when the topic came up a few years later, although I’m not completely satisfied with that either.
I’ll just say that it was one of those epochal blog events where people’s memories quickly overtook the reality. You have to pick through several days’ threads to get all of the reverberations.
I think Omnes accurately likened it to the line from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
The Dangerman
I’m actually a bit afraid of my first post as it was during the Obama/Hillary days.
UncleEbeneezer
WaterGirl
@mali muso: 4 years!
WaterGirl
@Scamp Dog: You’re next after The Dangerman because I think you were a request on a different post when I had already reached 10.
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
The link has apparently rotted, but I know which Onion article I was thinking of.
cain
@UncleEbeneezer: This feels like deja-vu – I could have sworn that I heard something similar back in 2021 or even in 2020.
ETA – yup – https://www.insider.com/spanish-authorities-broke-up-50-person-madrid-orgy-2020-10
ETA2: the funny part is that it was the same number of people in both cases.
WaterGirl
@The Dangerman: Your first comment was on my birthday, June 13, 2008. On a John Cole Open Thread.
Major points for speaking of yourself in the third person! :-)
I added the part in italics so you wouldn’t be disappointed at no swear words.
guachi
I’m fascinated by how many comments first comments are about generally mundane things. Just jumping in and adding to the conversation.
ThresherK
I’ve been laughing harder at Please Get My Fucking Subaru Out of the Field than I ought to over something that’s nine years old. The link title alone set me off.
WaterGirl
@UncleEbeneezer:
hahaha
WaterGirl
@guachi: When you’re smart, that’s how you do it. You just ease in with a comment that doesn’t make you feel too vulnerable, and before you know it people know your nym and then you’re maybe a bit looser.
Baud
@guachi:
I had the same thought.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Roger Moore:
Ha! I’m glad you remembered.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Maybe I’ll have to look up Baud.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
I looked up mine a long time ago. Something about the tea party.
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore: I fixed the link in your “original” comment.
Alison Rose
I’d totally forgotten the Subaru Saga.
The Dangerman
Hmmm. Might have been, um, impaired. Now I gotta go look up the context. Thanks!
WaterGirl
@Scamp Dog:
Your first comment was on Jan 17, 2010 in a DougJ post called Junkies only.
WaterGirl
@The Dangerman: I liked it. Thought it was fun.
2liberal
watergirl, I think you passed over my request for my first post at #23
WaterGirl
i am reading the middle Subaru post now. i know i said this earlier but Cole is such a great story-teller.
edit: holy fuck, i forgot how serious the accident was. but the beginning and the end of the post are both still funny.
Argiope
@WaterGirl: It’s a pack of snarling jackals…probably best to kind of sneak in slowly at the edges, roll over and show a soft underbelly at first to make friends. Pretty sure that’s how I did it.
WaterGirl
@Baud:
I found your first comment on Oct 28, 2010. Nothing about the tea part. You were strong right out of the gate!
Argiope
@WaterGirl:
It’s a pack of snarling jackals…probably best to kind of sneak in slowly at the edges, roll over and show a soft underbelly at first to make friends. Pretty sure that’s how I did it.
WaterGirl
@Argiope: Pretty sure that’s how we all did it, but you phrased it much better than I did!
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Oh. Hmmm. Do you have a link?
WaterGirl
@2liberal: I didn’t forget you, it just seemed like maybe people who had asked weren’t still on the thread, so i switched to the people who chimed in to say they were still here. And then took one person who had asked in an earlier thread this week, but was not one of there first 10.
There was a method to my madness. You’re up next.
Scamp Dog
@WaterGirl: Huh, that’s a lot later than I expected. I thought I started reading this blog in the mid oughts.
WaterGirl
@Baud:
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
WaterGirl
@2liberal:
Your first comment was in this post No Nipple Uncovered on May 1, 2010.
Manxome Bromide
It wasn’t my first post, but my high-water mark on this blog was clearly answering a question nobody wants an answer to.
WaterGirl
@Scamp Dog: Maybe you used a different email at first?
Omnes Omnibus
I am glad to see that my memory of being in early on the credenza thing but not at the beginning was accurate.
Argiope
@WaterGirl: Sorry for the double post. Visual composition window wasn’t working in Firefox (on a Mac, Firefox version 95.0.2 (64-bit), with a keyboard covered by a kind of frayed rainbow-colored silicone thingy to keep me from spilling various liquids into it. TMI?) When I wrote the comment in text mode and hit submit it just kept spinning….so I abandoned Firefox and went to chrome. Firefox apparently did eventually decide to work after all. Crafty little browser….it just made me THINK it was sleeping.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Thanks. Fascinating. Aside from the reference to Obama, I could have made similar comments last week.
I haven’t grown at all.
ETA: Why mess with perfection?
WaterGirl
@Scamp Dog: Yep, i searched for Scamp Dog instead of your email, and you had a different email address early on.
Quote of the Day has your first comment on Aug 6, 2008.
You replied to this, probably from up top in the post itself/
You replied with this;
WaterGirl
@Baud: Why, indeed!
mrmoshpotato
Ahh the Subaru Saga… :)
It’s currently being a windy bastard in the Windy City. And it’s 14 degrees outside.
WaterGirl
@Argiope: They are all crafty! Glad to know how it happened, though.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Very windy here, also, for about 24 hours now, maybe more.
WaterGirl
okay, finally had time to read the third Subaru post. Too funny! This is why we all love John.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Same. Looking at 19F/5F for tomorrow. Hoodie around the house it is!
WaterGirl
Okay, I have looked up my last “first comment” for the night.
If I didn’t get to you, be sure to show up in the next anniversary post and mention that you asked in this one.
cope
@WaterGirl: Our terrier Jesse has eviscerated every stuffed dog toy and three comfy dog beds in the year we’ve had her. If there’s a squeaky thing in it, she rips out out in a violent biting and shaking attack that brings to mind the bad Indiana Jones movie.
She treasures these trophies and carries them around for long periods of time. I dread the thought of her ever getting her sharp little teeth into a small, living animal.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Next time you take a trip, maybe we should transplant some older comments and just make it look like you’re still commenting?
WaterGirl
@cope: We have furry body parts strewn all around the house. A foot here, a torso there, a faceless bear over there.
Life with dogs.
WaterGirl
Are you guys enjoying all these links?
danielx
@mrmoshpotato:
Fifteen degrees in Indianapolis and high wind….time to keep space heater on low in the garage so the damn refrigerator will keep refrigerating.
Origuy
Is there a link to a post with the whole Waltersaga?
Benw
Haha peak wingnut! What sweet summer children we were.
@WaterGirl: the links are awesome.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: I’m hoping to get to them eventually. Just too much going on right now. Thanks for all this work!
WaterGirl
@Origuy: We thought that might be too hard since things were pretty grim at the beginning, so that wasn’t in the plan. Though maybe we could link to a couple of the happy Walter posts and then people could find the others on their own.
danielx
@WaterGirl:
I certainly am, although…
Cole’s powers of prognostication are barely better than mine.
But his and my error were the same, a mistaken assumption. Peak wingnut will never be reached as long as there is a wingnut mediaverse to keep the cauldron boiling in perpetuity, sort of like a nuclear reactor. Once a self-sustaining reaction has been achieved, it doesn’t go out until it runs out of fools – er, fuel.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: I will share your thanks with Steeplejack who did a lot of the tracking down of links, too.
WaterGirl
@danielx: Consistently wrong since 2002! :-)
danielx
@WaterGirl:
I gotta be me. Often wrong and often uncertain.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
I certainly am, thanks!
frosty
@WaterGirl: The links are great. So many commenters have left though! On one The Moar You Know was the only nym I recognized from the current crew of jackals.
Did you get a chance to look up my first comment? You may have posted it in a thread with 200+ comments that I didn’t get to. (sorry for the nagging)
ETA There are some great baked goods in the pie filter tonight. Holiday related!!
WaterGirl
@frosty: You’re not nagging!
I’m not keeping a running list, though. But anyone who asks again in a new post makes it into the 10 for that post, unless they are a total straggler! :-)
So jump in on the next thread and I’ll make sure to get it done.
WaterGirl
@frosty: Thanks for the reminders about the holiday pics in the pie filter. I suppose I have to take those out soon?
frosty
@WaterGirl: Yes, still here. Same email as always.
WaterGirl
@frosty: I have done my 10 for tonight. :-)
Please see my comment at #156.
frosty
@WaterGirl: 12th Night, whenever that is, ends the holidays? I usually take the lights down a week after New Year’s so that seems like a good time to tidy up the pie filter.
Ken
Holiday pics? I should pie people, I’m clearly not getting the full benefit of this nearly-top-10000 blog.
As for removing the pictures, remember that Scrooge pledged to keep Christmas in his heart every day of the year. Should we not aspire to the same lofty goal?
danielx
Ooooh! College football national championship IN THE HOUSE this weekend! With free concerts and many other opportunities to spread disease, not to mention the city being infested with rich shitheads from Georgia and Alabama! What’s not to like?
geg6
I was there for the whole credenza, condensation and laughing helicopters saga which lasted several days. It was the most epic thing ever on the tubes. Although I had been around BJ quite a while by that time, that whole thing is what made me fall in love with this place forever. Start to finish, commenter after commenter, I never laughed so hard and so long in my life.
Jean
I remember the Subaru saga, the credenza and the laughing helicopters. The credenza and helicopters, I know, made me laugh out loud but I couldn’t for the life of me say what the context was or why it was so funny. Was it some troll trying to make himself important or superior? The commentary just became crazier and crazier. I’ll go back and read them. Thanks, WaterGirl.
Poe Larity
@UncleEbeneezer: They’re not orgies! They’re Omicron parties. All the kids are doing it. Stop being a fuddy-duddy,
NotMax
@Poe Larity
Virusfest ’22. Going out with a bang!
//
danielx
@Poe Larity:
All in a good cause, better than a lot of other gatherings of which I have heard and read.
If you are going to spread a virus (of whatever sort), do it with feeling.
zhena gogolia
OMG, I’ve dipped into the “helicopters” thread and my husband can’t figure out why I’m crying with laughter.
Suzanne
Spawn the Youngest is my uber-cuddler. This pandemic has been going on for 80% of her life, so she is used to having her people nearby to love on her constantly. Not going to lie: this part is a bright spot.
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne: What’d say the other day – “The cuddles are epic.”?
Suzanne
@mrmoshpotato: Yes. Epic. She cannot sleep if she isn’t touching someone. And she’ll rub your ear to soothe herself. It’s really cute.
MomSense
@zhena gogolia:
INORITE
As soon as condensation came in to the thread I knew it was going to be epic.
NotMax
First time since before Xmas with enough days of sun (2) to sufficiently dry out the ground in order to do mowing of the entire property. Grass in places was between knee high and thigh high. 2½ hours on the riding mower, now feel as if I ran a triple marathon – in work boots.
danielx
@NotMax:
It’s 14 degrees with a 30 mph wind from the northwest here and I damn near froze my fingers off using chainsaw on fallen limbs earlier. Fuck you and the riding mower you rode in on.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax:
How do you think the rider mower feels?!
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: I doubt that the mower is laughing.
Poe Larity
Looks like Brandon Brown flip-flopped on wanting to monetize that meme, but Nascar noped:
James E Powell
@WaterGirl:
Yes, I am. And I am only posting this comment so that I can reference it in the next anniversary thread, as you mentioned.
Sebastian
I am not sure I want to see my first post haha
James E Powell
Reading Cole’s Peak Wingnut filled me with nostalgia and melancholy.
Sebastian
Good boy!
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/05/1070626680/dog-rescues-injured-owner-car-crash-new-hampshire-highway
EDIT: Good girl!!
Jean
@zhena gogolia: I reread the whole thread and couldn’t believe how funny all the commenters were in response to Gass. I forgot about Brick Oven Bill and noted so many others who were popular at the time (General Stuck) and many who still are. I didn’t see where “credenza” showed up unless it was, as someone noted, a riff on misspelling of “credential,” making fun of Gass’s misspelling of “condescension” as “condensation.”People just started riffing off the theme–“jazz commenting” as someone said.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
in an oped for the WSJ, so no link. Judging from the comments and replies to Axelrod, Rove is Rove, and tries a little “Democrats are being mean”. But Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove– cause I never forget and infrequently forgive– has now spoken up more than anyone named Bush.
Another Scott
ICYMI, this fits with the Mr. Gass thread.
(via Popehat)
Cheers,
Scott.
Sebastian
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I have a hunch it’s on purpose. Coming out openly would only lead to polarization.
I read a while ago that there were concerted activities by Obama and GWB (&Co). Obama was responsible for our allies and W (and his gang) for within US.
With that in mind, look again at Liz Cheney, Karl Rove, and William Kristol.
Bill has created a bona fide anti-Trump NRA named RAP (Republican Accountability Project) with ratings for politicians and all that jazz and they are running a brutal ad on FOX on 6 JAN during every commercial break, incl. Tucker and Hannity.
https://twitter.com/accountablegop/status/1478548703673827331
EDIT: Apparently also on Fox and Friends. This is a Cheney double-barrel.
CaseyL
I do love that portrait of Steve. It captures him so well.
I’m not all agog to see my first comment. I think I remember it. I didn’t know John yet, and just tore into him about something he said (regarding welfare, I think). Gah.
No name
@WaterGirl: Yes!
Miss Bianca
@WaterGirl: Late to the thread, but YES.
Can’t wait to revisit the Subaru saga and of course, faxing the credenza, a thread (multiple threads?) I remember reading and just being in agony from laughing so hard. Litlebritdifferent (spelling? ack!) was en fuego in that thread, as I recall, trolling the troll like nobody’s business.
Primer Gray (formerly Yet Another Jeff)
@WaterGirl: Sparrows and curtain rods…I use that one a lot…up there with Tire Rims and Anthrax for evergreen usefulness.
Primer Gray (formerly Yet Another Jeff)
@WaterGirl: Well, since this is a possibility, please let me know mine.