I have never been to either fine establishment of higher ed, but yes. These refs are fucking this chicken hard fucking core.
What game are they reffing? For fuck’s sake.
37.
raven
Little payback there.
38.
Corner Stone
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAA!!!!!
39.
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman: That wasn’t a fucking flop. The dude raked his fucking face!
40.
Juju
@The Dangerman: if you can’t flop around when you’ve been whacked in the face when can you?
41.
raven
@Corner Stone: Remind me to tell you about the 83 regional finals in Rupp. Illinois v KY, the last time a team will ever host a final on their own court. We got fucked.
42.
lol chikinburd
That is fantastic.
The lamb, not whatever corrupt NCAA thing is happening this time.
43.
raven
No one is in UK’s tank in the last 2 minutes.
44.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Juju: @raven: Who could have ever imagined the refs would be so generous with UK?
That is awesome, Betty — so awesome, everyone at your party is gonna want their own individual butter lamb!
(Just tell them you charge for sculpting classes.)
Also, very appropriate for the Year of the Sheep!
48.
sharl
Well done Betty! Major dairy cuteness.
I guess something done in the likeness of Carly Fiorina’s Demon Sheep* wouldn’t do for a lot of Easter-celebratin’ folk, but this’ll work fine.
*By the way, was the actual TV political ad shown in California during that 2010 campaign (to challenge Boxer) really over three minutes long? That must have cost a fortune, especially in CA media markets! I guess she ran her campaign like she did H-P.
But maybe I see her problem – that Demon Sheep didn’t even show up until around the 2m25s mark. If she does in fact run for Preznit – and it sounds like she plans to – I hope she has the right kind of advisers, who will tell her ‘Carly, ad needz MOAR DEMON SHEEP!’
Whine if you will but if the refs were “in the tank” for UK they would have won.
58.
ThresherK (GPad)
Anyone else look at the wooly bits and think “Industrial strength CNC machined Play Doh extruder”?
Wonderful lamb. Safe travels with it.
59.
raven
And just fuck Kentucky.
60.
max
Hot damn!
max
[‘I don’t care about it at all, I was just sick of hearing about fucking Kentucky already.’]
61.
Gin & Tonic
Glad I stayed awake for this one.
62.
Corner Stone
@raven: They gave it their best shot. Look at the tape, it’s not going to lie.
63.
The Dangerman
How many Iso’s did UK run at the end? This loss is on Calipari. Plus, a little bit of a choke (nice airball, Aaron).
As for those saying no flop on the alleged Flagrant, really, go back and watch it again. Whatever, poetic justice given the failure to call the shot clock at 60 all.
I thought the refs were awfully generous with UK but Wiscy won, so I need no longer root for a meteor Monday. I thought, as do many better hoops minds, that the winner of this game will win the final. I hope that’s accurate.
Then, the guy dropped like he got hit with a right cross from Ali.
Definite slap. Definite flop.
71.
SuperHrefna
“Nailed It”? A phrase altogether too appropriate for Easter :-D
That lamb is the cuteness and I wish I had your sculpting skills!
72.
TheVeryReverendCrimsonFireofCompassion
My Polish Mrs. VeryReverendCrimsonFireofCompassion is impressed.
73.
Corner Stone
@raven: Man, you remind me of my 10 yr old. Running his mouth on auto because he can. I know what the fuck I saw, and what I’m talking about.
74.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Is there a team in the history of this tournament that has clearly had as much fun as these Badgers have? Teasing the stenographer? Selfies? Everything the Buzzcuts do undercuts the reputation of Bo Ryan.
Unless it’s that Ryan has so much negative fun that it rushes into the players to fill the vacuum.
75.
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman: Ok, so taking a shot across the face by a full grown man is…?
That’s a flop?
@Corner Stone: Yea yea, you know every fucking thing. it’s all fixed, the refs are paid off and you are crybaby motherfucker. Give the computer back to your 10 year old, punk.
Re the Wisconsin-Kentucky game, I hope this, combined with the earlier win by Duke, don’t sucker the Knicks into taking Okafor over Towns if they get the overall #1 pick.
Monday (MLB Opening Day; screw the Sunday night special) should be a national holiday.
87.
NotMax
Best crucifixion joke ever.
Jesus is dying on the cross, and Peter is down the hill comforting Mary Magdalene when he hears Jesus’ faint voice, “Peter… Peter…”
“I must go and provide succor,” he says and wends his way up the hill, only to be beaten and kicked back down by the Roman centurions guarding the cross. But soon he again hears the insistent, hoarse “Peter… Peter,” even fainter now.
In pain, he slowly staggers up the hill and, on tiptoe, finally gets as near as he can to Christ’s face.
“Yes, master? What wisdom do you wish to dispense?”
“Peter… Peter… I can see your house from here.”
88.
Elie
Shonuff it’s a righteous butter lamb. Tip my hat to you!
89.
Jane2
@NotMax: Best Easter joke: drop that cross one more time and you’re out of the Easter parade.
Betty, you do know you will forevermore get butter lamb duty every Easter because this one so totally nailed it that the family will never accept a store bought one again, right?
Left you a link to Mel Brooks’ take on Yugoslavia on the previous thread.
94.
Anne Laurie
@sharl: Fiorina’s running for the vice-presidential slot — she wants to be Palin v. 2. You want a female candidate? Look, we Repubs have a female candidate too! And she’s cuter than the Hildebeast, since of course all you low-info voters care about is her looks…
Not what you or I would consider a gig worth the expense, but then again, given the intellectual caliber of the “top tier” candidates, she probably envisions herself as the next Dick Cheney.
@Anne Laurie: Yup, someone – maybe you – suggested that scenario recently, and it seems plausible.
The comparison to Cheney is quite apt, when considering Fiorina’s disastrous run at Hewlett-Packard. Given all the unnecessary death and destruction that resulted from our Glorious Iraq Adventure, even well informed folks could be forgiven for forgetting that Cheney was a failed businessman before he became a failed colonizer. I cannot recall where my favorite long read on that is (or was), but Cheney’s pre-Iraq failures at Halliburton are discussed here and here.
Then again, I think Halliburton made out big time in post-invasion Iraq (I wish that 2011 Guardian article – final link above – would have addressed that). Assuming I’m remembering correctly, the company may have achieved a favorable net return-on-investment with Cheney anyway, when all was said and done. Fortunately it doesn’t appear that Fiorina’s team exhibits comparable levels of cleverness and psychopathy; thank goodness for small favors, I guess.
97.
yodecat
Why does that sheep remind me of that awful Carly Fiorina’s pol spot?
98.
Juju
@raven: That was a result of the bad karma from the Lew do.
99.
Juju
Love the butter lamb, and it does resemble Lamb Chop.
100.
sharl
@raven, @Corner Stone: This here sportsball trash talk shows some real promise, gents. It’s probably best that I’m not a {airquotes}sports dood{/airquotes} for a number of reasons, including the fact that this aspect of fandom would not be my cup o’ tea. But quality trash talk? Well that qualifies as some kinda literary performance art, IMO.
101.
cckids
Betty, your lamb completely rocks. It will surely be the hit of the day!
102.
Rob
We too thought of the Fiorina “demon sheep” ad when we saw the butter sculpture. What a great thing to see first thing in the morning.
103.
Iowa Old Lady
Wow. That lamb turned out way better than I was expecting.
104.
gogol's wife
Really good — you should market them!
Happy Easter! Off to church.
105.
Elizabelle
LambCracker!
I likes.
106.
debbie
This guy’s a dead ringer for Shaun in Wallace and Grommit!
Betty, I am late to the party and usually a lurker, but gotta say, this is why I love you! I will show everyone I know your lamb. Please keep doing what you do!
109.
KS in MA
Betty, that’s pure genius.
Happy Easter!
110.
Shana
I’m stunned that no one else has commented on the title of the thread. Glad to see another fan of the Bloggess here. That single post is one of the funniest things I have ever read, and bless you to the person here who nominated it for funniest post of the year a couple of years back.
raven
Lookie here.
Corner Stone
Totes creep.
WaterGirl
She is so cute!!! (don’t listen to Corner Stone)
I want one. What are the eyes made of?
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Nancy Ortiz
Nice work. I love butter and butter in the shape of a lamb–superb!
max
Freeze that fucker!
max
[‘Not the look I was expecting, but very nice.’]
Suzanne
Adorable!!!
Mnemosyne (tablet)
G couldn’t stop laughing because it looks like Lamb Chop. But he also said, “That’s pretty cool.”
Corner Stone
@WaterGirl:
Creep.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@WaterGirl:
Looks like whole cloves.
WaterGirl
@Corner Stone: What are you talking about? She’s quite feminine, and adorable!
Edit: I especially love the hair on top of her head.
Tenar Darell
Awesome butter wool curls!
Betty Cracker
@Mnemosyne (tablet): Yep, cloves!
Botsplainer
Can no student fans of color of either team afford to travel to the games?
WaterGirl
The ears are also awesome.
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: Very clever. Do you think the cloves make the butter taste like cloves?
raven
@WaterGirl: Cloves
PurpleGirl
Adorable.
How much butter did it take to make it?
WaterGirl
@Corner Stone: I think the molded ones look completely creepy, I’ll give you that.
How do you feel about clowns?
Mike in NC
Jesus, I’m old enough to remember Shari Lewis.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Betty Cracker:
“Nailed it.” True dat. Awesome!
stinger
As the child of a sheep farmer, I can say, Yes, you did! A job awaits you at the Iowa State Fair!
WaterGirl
@Mike in NC: It’s best to just not think about it.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Yay. Butter Lamb. Will she rest in a bed of parsley for the festivities?
raven
@Mike in NC: And Soupy Sales!
Steeplejack (phone)
@Corner Stone:
Slightly eerie resemblance to Kate Upton.
Betty Cracker
@WaterGirl: I’ll find out tomorrow!
@PurpleGirl: About two sticks.
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): That’s the plan!
srv
I can’t believe it’s not margerine.
Suzanne
@WaterGirl: Clowns are fucking FREAKY.
Juju
Is it hits me or does the officiating suck?
raven
@Juju: Corner has it covered on the last thread.
Corner Stone
@WaterGirl: Clowns scare me. As do pandas.
WaterGirl
@Juju: You are not alone. It’s just that all the ref comments are in the previous thread.
Botsplainer
@Juju:
They’re in the tank for the UK Cay-uts.
That Nike money goes a long way.
Juju
Sorry. Watching in a restaurant and felt the need to complain somewhere.
The Dangerman
@Juju:
Should have been Flagrant 1 but Wisconsin player tried to sell it too hard with the flop. Still should have been FTs, though.
Corner Stone
@Juju:
I have never been to either fine establishment of higher ed, but yes. These refs are fucking this chicken hard fucking core.
What game are they reffing? For fuck’s sake.
raven
Little payback there.
Corner Stone
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAA!!!!!
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman: That wasn’t a fucking flop. The dude raked his fucking face!
Juju
@The Dangerman: if you can’t flop around when you’ve been whacked in the face when can you?
raven
@Corner Stone: Remind me to tell you about the 83 regional finals in Rupp. Illinois v KY, the last time a team will ever host a final on their own court. We got fucked.
lol chikinburd
That is fantastic.
The lamb, not whatever corrupt NCAA thing is happening this time.
raven
No one is in UK’s tank in the last 2 minutes.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Juju: @raven: Who could have ever imagined the refs would be so generous with UK?
@Botsplainer: Yup; sure seems that way.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Not now they aint.
Corner Stone
Oh, nuts.
Anne Laurie
That is awesome, Betty — so awesome, everyone at your party is gonna want their own individual butter lamb!
(Just tell them you charge for sculpting classes.)
Also, very appropriate for the Year of the Sheep!
sharl
Well done Betty! Major dairy cuteness.
I guess something done in the likeness of Carly Fiorina’s Demon Sheep* wouldn’t do for a lot of Easter-celebratin’ folk, but this’ll work fine.
*By the way, was the actual TV political ad shown in California during that 2010 campaign (to challenge Boxer) really over three minutes long? That must have cost a fortune, especially in CA media markets! I guess she ran her campaign like she did H-P.
But maybe I see her problem – that Demon Sheep didn’t even show up until around the 2m25s mark. If she does in fact run for Preznit – and it sounds like she plans to – I hope she has the right kind of advisers, who will tell her ‘Carly, ad needz MOAR DEMON SHEEP!’
Corner Stone
Call that?
Corner Stone
@raven: BS
Corner Stone
Straight balls!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: True they ain’t now. and man did y’all get fucked in 83. I watched that game in near disbelief.
Corner Stone
No fouls, play keepaway.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I watched in it Rupp. Dicky Beale took 4 steps at mid court.
Corner Stone
Wiscy!!
Fuck these one and done programs.
Botsplainer
Haaaaaahaaahaaaaa, Cay-ut Fay-uns.
Suck it!
raven
Whine if you will but if the refs were “in the tank” for UK they would have won.
ThresherK (GPad)
Anyone else look at the wooly bits and think “Industrial strength CNC machined Play Doh extruder”?
Wonderful lamb. Safe travels with it.
raven
And just fuck Kentucky.
max
Hot damn!
max
[‘I don’t care about it at all, I was just sick of hearing about fucking Kentucky already.’]
Gin & Tonic
Glad I stayed awake for this one.
Corner Stone
@raven: They gave it their best shot. Look at the tape, it’s not going to lie.
The Dangerman
How many Iso’s did UK run at the end? This loss is on Calipari. Plus, a little bit of a choke (nice airball, Aaron).
As for those saying no flop on the alleged Flagrant, really, go back and watch it again. Whatever, poetic justice given the failure to call the shot clock at 60 all.
raven
Cool, Bo didn’t know who won the 1st game.
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman: Dude smacked him across the face.
raven
@Corner Stone: If that’s how you want to go through life drive on.
rikyrah
Betty, you done good.
SiubhanDuinne
Am I the only person here who remembers Fenton, the Death Sheep from Hell?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
I thought the refs were awfully generous with UK but Wiscy won, so I need no longer root for a meteor Monday. I thought, as do many better hoops minds, that the winner of this game will win the final. I hope that’s accurate.
I can go back to my book now. Yay Badgers.
The Dangerman
@Corner Stone:
No doubt.
Then, the guy dropped like he got hit with a right cross from Ali.
Definite slap. Definite flop.
SuperHrefna
“Nailed It”? A phrase altogether too appropriate for Easter :-D
That lamb is the cuteness and I wish I had your sculpting skills!
TheVeryReverendCrimsonFireofCompassion
My Polish Mrs. VeryReverendCrimsonFireofCompassion is impressed.
Corner Stone
@raven: Man, you remind me of my 10 yr old. Running his mouth on auto because he can. I know what the fuck I saw, and what I’m talking about.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Is there a team in the history of this tournament that has clearly had as much fun as these Badgers have? Teasing the stenographer? Selfies? Everything the Buzzcuts do undercuts the reputation of Bo Ryan.
Unless it’s that Ryan has so much negative fun that it rushes into the players to fill the vacuum.
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman: Ok, so taking a shot across the face by a full grown man is…?
That’s a flop?
JCJ
BUCKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
raven
@Corner Stone: Yea yea, you know every fucking thing. it’s all fixed, the refs are paid off and you are crybaby motherfucker. Give the computer back to your 10 year old, punk.
The Dangerman
@Corner Stone:
If you try to sell it too hard, yes.
Note I said it should have been an F-1 but I think the acting didn’t help him.
ETA: I just found out it was Pac-12 refs (P12 officials are notoriously bad).
M. Bouffant
Welp, if it’s the Yr.of The Sheep …
P.S.: Stealing swell image; will credit if used.
Tenar Darell
@Mike in NC: @WaterGirl: Wow, she’s so young in this video.
Corner Stone
@raven: I know what I see, old timer. Sorry you’re past it. Fool.
And if you were as smart as my 10 yr old you’d already be in bed.
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman: He didn’t sell shit. They made a no call.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: I would never name a junior.
I hope you will join me in wishing nothing but the best for Edgar Fieldman Goldman III.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Hah! Well played
Bruuuuce
@SiubhanDuinne: You do mean this guy, right? (mp3)
Bruuuuce
Re the Wisconsin-Kentucky game, I hope this, combined with the earlier win by Duke, don’t sucker the Knicks into taking Okafor over Towns if they get the overall #1 pick.
Monday (MLB Opening Day; screw the Sunday night special) should be a national holiday.
NotMax
Best crucifixion joke ever.
Jesus is dying on the cross, and Peter is down the hill comforting Mary Magdalene when he hears Jesus’ faint voice, “Peter… Peter…”
“I must go and provide succor,” he says and wends his way up the hill, only to be beaten and kicked back down by the Roman centurions guarding the cross. But soon he again hears the insistent, hoarse “Peter… Peter,” even fainter now.
In pain, he slowly staggers up the hill and, on tiptoe, finally gets as near as he can to Christ’s face.
“Yes, master? What wisdom do you wish to dispense?”
“Peter… Peter… I can see your house from here.”
Elie
Shonuff it’s a righteous butter lamb. Tip my hat to you!
Jane2
@NotMax: Best Easter joke: drop that cross one more time and you’re out of the Easter parade.
Violet
Love your butter lamb! Happy Easter!
NotMax
@Jane2
And another:
“Would you mind crossing your legs? We’ve only got one more nail.”
satby
Betty, you do know you will forevermore get butter lamb duty every Easter because this one so totally nailed it that the family will never accept a store bought one again, right?
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
Left you a link to Mel Brooks’ take on Yugoslavia on the previous thread.
Anne Laurie
@sharl: Fiorina’s running for the vice-presidential slot — she wants to be Palin v. 2. You want a female candidate? Look, we Repubs have a female candidate too! And she’s cuter than the Hildebeast, since of course all you low-info voters care about is her looks…
Not what you or I would consider a gig worth the expense, but then again, given the intellectual caliber of the “top tier” candidates, she probably envisions herself as the next Dick Cheney.
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: Nice bit, thanks.
sharl
@Anne Laurie: Yup, someone – maybe you – suggested that scenario recently, and it seems plausible.
The comparison to Cheney is quite apt, when considering Fiorina’s disastrous run at Hewlett-Packard. Given all the unnecessary death and destruction that resulted from our Glorious Iraq Adventure, even well informed folks could be forgiven for forgetting that Cheney was a failed businessman before he became a failed colonizer. I cannot recall where my favorite long read on that is (or was), but Cheney’s pre-Iraq failures at Halliburton are discussed here and here.
Then again, I think Halliburton made out big time in post-invasion Iraq (I wish that 2011 Guardian article – final link above – would have addressed that). Assuming I’m remembering correctly, the company may have achieved a favorable net return-on-investment with Cheney anyway, when all was said and done. Fortunately it doesn’t appear that Fiorina’s team exhibits comparable levels of cleverness and psychopathy; thank goodness for small favors, I guess.
yodecat
Why does that sheep remind me of that awful Carly Fiorina’s pol spot?
Juju
@raven: That was a result of the bad karma from the Lew do.
Juju
Love the butter lamb, and it does resemble Lamb Chop.
sharl
@raven, @Corner Stone: This here sportsball trash talk shows some real promise, gents. It’s probably best that I’m not a {airquotes}sports dood{/airquotes} for a number of reasons, including the fact that this aspect of fandom would not be my cup o’ tea. But quality trash talk? Well that qualifies as some kinda literary performance art, IMO.
cckids
Betty, your lamb completely rocks. It will surely be the hit of the day!
Rob
We too thought of the Fiorina “demon sheep” ad when we saw the butter sculpture. What a great thing to see first thing in the morning.
Iowa Old Lady
Wow. That lamb turned out way better than I was expecting.
gogol's wife
Really good — you should market them!
Happy Easter! Off to church.
Elizabelle
LambCracker!
I likes.
debbie
This guy’s a dead ringer for Shaun in Wallace and Grommit!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_the_Sheep
kc
Ha, nice!
psychobroad
Betty, I am late to the party and usually a lurker, but gotta say, this is why I love you! I will show everyone I know your lamb. Please keep doing what you do!
KS in MA
Betty, that’s pure genius.
Happy Easter!
Shana
I’m stunned that no one else has commented on the title of the thread. Glad to see another fan of the Bloggess here. That single post is one of the funniest things I have ever read, and bless you to the person here who nominated it for funniest post of the year a couple of years back.
Thoughtcrime
Betty,
“I Melt With Ewe” is much butter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkZoO5ElC_o
J R in WV
Baaaaa-Baaaaaa Muther-Fucker!!
Greatest line in the history of B-J!!!
Thanks for all you do on the blog!!!