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is it allowable for zombies to squeee?
of so, consider this an official squee.
looks like the ref is signalling a puppy scored a touchdown
all week long, when I feel stressed or down, I am bookmarking this link.
DO NOT CHANGE THIS TO A PAY SITE, I IMPLORE YOU.
Maybe the ref is signaling a poopy touchdown. Oh ZRM, I hope you really do love the Goob. This blog may be going to that well for awhile.
What a beauty! Go to that well constantly, PP!
This picture has made my Monday.
I would appreciate if this could also be used to taunt Peyton Manning.
CUTIE!!!
For taunting Manning, there is Manning Face.
that’s what i’m talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I notice she still has the detachable hands look. Ah, babies.
Side note: I just discovered why Chocolate Chex cereal was on a discontinuation sale.
Does the chocolate Chex add anything to Chex mix? This must be explored.
Right next to the Chocolate Skittles. Does Mandos need to do a D or D?
I vote:
Initiative 1) YES to more squee
Initiative 2) YES to Mandos needs to do a D or D
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D or D: BRANES.
Delish AND Disgusto.
also, I’m not going back to Saying Yes until the Pie stops Talking.
fulsome and I have destroyed umpteen bags of turtle chex- DELISH
A DorD may be forthcoming when I really start eating them for breakfast AND when I have finished writing the thing that is due on Monday that I was supposed to have the first draft done by Saturday.
Side note: I just discovered why Chocolate Chex cereal was on a discontinuation sale.
The lamblets nearly talked me into buying them. I will now tell them I have it on good authority that we will not be buying… unless otherwise mandated by 3B’s and Mandos for a majority consensus.
also, I’m not going back to Saying Yes until the Pie stops Talking.
ZRM- the youngest lamblet replaced the pie with JFK. However, the pie starts talking after JFK is finished, and… does sound a bit like Marilyn Monroe. The dog is sounding a tad like Peter Lawford.
A possessed devil Chex mix would be awesome. Chocolate Chex and Chocolate Skittles. What else would be in there? Combos? Pretzel Fillers?
Chocolate-covered pretzels…
And maybe those Teddy Grahams.
And… and… some broken up pieces of this.
And then you need to roll a KFC Double Down in it… you know, for that extra crunshhhh…
Jennifer- most of those things are delicious. I feel like educating you and the lamblets.
Yeah, I know… I was going with the serious workable combo at first… and then realized, it’s 3B’s… and I realized you had suggested Combo’s… which would no doubt be filled with that pepperoni toothpaste.
I forgot to add… you don’t need to use your explaining voice.
Actually, if you’ve ever had Pocky, chocolate covered pretzel sticks are quite delicious, if you remove the salt crystals from the pretzels. This is one case where the Japanese failure-to-fully-understand-American-culture phenomenon worked well.
J – I was mansplaining.
I was Mandosplaining.
Can someone post the Killdozer splanation?
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I will Zomsplain….
What’s even better is when a man needs to mansplain that they’re mansplaining.
Killdozer. Now there was a movie!
I wonder why they never did Killzardozer?
I would actually listen if someone could mansplain why I’m waking up, WIDE AWAKE, at 4AM these days…
Because Killdozer, that’s why!
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scared someone will start a Zardoz without ye?
I would actually listen if someone could mansplain why I’m waking up, WIDE AWAKE, at 4AM these days…
Because Saying Yes is on Pacific time.
fish,
That doesn’t make sense. MANSLAMSPLAIN FISHSPLAT.
I actually don’t think I was mansplaining, actually. Mansplaining is actually a little bit different. Like what I am doing now.
I just posted this at 12:14pm EST:
Note the time discrepancy. Clearly Saying Yes is set to PST and that is why Jennifer is waking up 2h early. QED
My blog has been set, per TypePad’s goofy reasoning, to PST since the very beginning… but I have not always been waking up at 4AM… Besides, wouldn’t I be getting up later if I were on PST?
And, I believe RSF is also set to PST. I thought you were an Atlantic fish not a Pacific fish.
But fish, that would mean that her internal clock thinks she should be getting up at 2 am, which is what time it would be PST when she is waking up at 4 am CST. Clearly Saying Yes is just trying to compensate because Jennifer is on Nova Scotia time. Surprised? Not one bit!
(Mansplaining voice) If it is 4am in CA, what time is it in Chicago? Jennifer’s brain thinks she is getting up at 6 but since her brain is (unbeknownst to itself) on PST, it is getting up at 4.
This should be obvious.
No I am not jetlagged by a 16h timezone change. Why do you as?
My blog is set to PST so I can get up at noon and not be late to work.
But fish, that would mean that her internal clock thinks she should be getting up at 2 am, which is what time it would be PST when she is waking up at 4 am CST. Clearly Saying Yes is just trying to compensate because Jennifer is on Nova Scotia time. Surprised? Not one bit!
Exactly! I think…
If it is 4am in CA, what time is it in Chicago? Jennifer’s brain thinks she is getting up at 6 but since her brain is (unbeknownst to itself) on PST, it is getting up at 4.
This makes NO sense… not even to me.
My blog is set to PST so I can get up at noon and not be late to work.
Except for now… since the weasel has set it to EST. fish has now turned into Werner Erhard.
This makes NO sense… not even to me.
Pretend you are traveling to SF from Chicago and once you land, you forget to set your watch back 2h. When you look at your watch, you think it is 4pm when it is really 2pm. This is happening in your brain all the time because your brain is set to PST time but you are actually in CST. The key is that your brain doesn’t know that it is set 2h earlier so it thinks it is waking up at 6am CST even though it is 4am CST because 6am CST would be 4am PST.
fish is set to ZST
fish is insane.
fishsplaining.
fishsplaining
Fortunately… he’s underwater… we can’t hear him…
Pinko- the Chex cereal talk made me realize we’re approaching Easter season… will they be doing the dreaded Blueberry Whoppers again this year?
As long as someone uncorks the Brach’s spice jelly bean spigot, Imma good.
So have we decided to Zardoz a Goobie thread by mansplaining?
I would have to check with Von on the next Big Stone Head landing. I cannot check at Saying Yes, because the talking pie terrifies me.
But considering this has become one of THOSE blogs, I need to check with the Eternals to verify that it would be acceptable. What witht he Ombolyblomboxious, I am doubtful.
Do I have to mansplain it, Mandos?
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Do I have so slow-motion Zardoz this joint all by myself?
Watch me shamble!
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It is clear that Thunder is a bit unclear on the Zardoz hierarchy. Let me go over the various petition steps.
You CANNOT petition THE fish with bread crumbs?
Wait, that can’t be true.
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Jax skells have nothing to do with this.
NOTHING!
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You sure about that?
I think this blog is still on PST… even though Pinko no longer is… will that affect any official Zardozing?
I’ll be happy to go full Zardoz tomorrow at 4AM… 2AM PST.
Mandos- there is new duvet pron over at Befouled! Why haven’t you chimed in yet?
what?
Zardoz the Bulls?
I will need an Ombuds ruling on that.
S’Okay…
The Pantaloons have reached a decision.
ZARDOZ this joint like it’s 1999!
How would that make The Goob feel?
AWESOME
I dunno, we’ve never done one in a place that WANTED it. I have to check with Charlotte Rampling to see if that’s proper…
dunno, we’ve never done one in a place that WANTED it.
Ahemmitty hem, etc.
well, heck, we’re already at 70 comments.
There’s no challenge now…
I think we’re actually meta-Zardozing this place by mansplaining about zardozing this place. Maybe we’ll reach the point of an infinitely recursive meta-Zardoz.
Zardoz the Bulls?
I will need an Ombuds ruling on that.
I don’t think 3B! really needs the help, although we could probably pad comments out by at least another 100 just by announcing a poll to this effect.
Never forget Poll Land!
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I dunno, we’ve never done one in a place that WANTED it.
I’m guessing if we did it, whether inadvertently or intentionally, someone else would steal the comments for their own Zardoz addiction.
Mandos has a point. Is it possible to Zardoz a post that is analyzing Zardoz?
I think not.
Rely on a zombie(s) for t’hinkin’?
Heh. Indeed.
FULL ZARDOZ A’HEAD!
I don’t think you can avoid Zardozing a thread about Zardozing.
Although there is a chance that feesh will steel all our comments, I believe it is R duty to Full Zardoz as it is written in the something somewhere somethings.
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As written in the Book of Emu, verse Π:
And verily did the Listeners speak with one another,
at great length, of events both cosmic and mundane,
well into the night and the following days;
where the Red-Panted One presided,
wielding the sacred Snorkel of Pork to punish the unbelievers.
Those who viewed the gathering from afar could only shake their heads
in solemn incomprehension.
Just checking in… because, you know, it’s a little after 4 freaking AM. Or… 2AM for those of you obsessed with PST.
I would have been sleeping. I was awake a little after 3, but fell back asleep, and then I felt the bedroom shaking, like the dogs were playing. The dresser was shaking and things on it were shaking. I turned on the light… no dogs, no Grizzled, and the door was shut. The clock said, 4AM on the nose. I hopped out of bed to see if I had been dreaming and met Grizzled coming upstairs asking, “Did you feel that? The house was shaking!”
Hmmm, another earthquake? Underground monsters coming to life?
What else would make a house shake? A pretty solid, brick house? Maybe something was outside huffing and puffing.
At least the house wasn’t made of straw, or sticks…
Maybe the house was rumbling because the big stone head was hurtling over me telling me it was time to wake up and ZARDOZ!
No…
I need coffee. Pinko, where’s the 24 hr coffee spigot? The RSF Diner has one.
Ha! It was an earthquake! 4.5… Very bizarre.
And very timely.
Still so quiet over here…
And just the subtle whiff of red leather singlets in the air.
Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On!
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thundra… I was thinking of that this morning.
It could have been Zsrdoz-Claus on your roof.
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It snowed all night here. I didn’t notice any quaking, shaking, and/or baking.
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It snowed all night here as well… and do we get a snow day? Hell no. Pffft! Needless to say, the lamblets were irked.
Zardoz Claus! What would he leave?? Guns? Red, leather singlets? Eternal life??
Hmmm, 95 comments so far… I suspect fish will swoop in at any minute, although, as was mentioned before, a 3B’s post with over 100 comments seems rather… meh.
Perhaps fish is snowed in and cannot get to the comments…
Oh Zombie??
Iced under fish.
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Feesh on ice?
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101 Feesh in the Big Parade!
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It snowed all night here as well… and do we get a snow day?
They are planning a snow month here.
They are planning a snow month here.
Because you’re weak!!!
An inch of snow creates havoc in D.C., at least when I was growing up.
As dawn broke, Washington D.C., had a fresh six inches on top of as much as two feet in some areas from the weekend’s storm.
Snowmageddon!
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An inch of snow creates havoc in D.C
Because they’re weak!!
And, as for Snowmageddon… I believe I saw it here first…
They are planning a snow month here.
Did the Republicans plan on this back-to-back snow so they could continue to say no to working?
I fell like Snowsyphus…. keep on shoveling that snow… get up, shovel some more….
Jennifer, I think your house is faulty. Better get a new one….
Black Ice.
O wait, the AC/DC thread is over at the fish-smellin place…
An inch of snow creates havoc in D.C., at least when I was growing up.
Still true Thundra. Maryland is now reporting critical salt shortages. This is gonna be fun…
You know salt has had important strategic roles throughout history.
fish, behave yourself. Stop triggering Jennifer.
Dang trigger-fish….
the comment box is triggering me.
Inch of snow? Pshaw. I shoveled 3 inches yesterday morning, 9 inches when I got home, and another three this morning. No schools closed.
When the zombocalypse comes, us snow-covered midwesterners will rule. especially the ones who drop from heart attacks while shoveling, and become the first wave of zombies. Drunken, snow-shovel-wielding ZOMBIES!
I hope Goobie is wearing a Red Diaper today.
bread crumbs?
fridge note: Von is still being deflected as spam.
I refuse to Zardoz further until our Vonny Sistren are freed! VONVERINES!!!
I imagine the snow we are getting would make even a tough Midwesterner pause. I think we have hit 50″ and more coming…
You know salt has had important strategic roles throughout history.
I heard that…
Jennifer, I think your house is faulty. Better get a new one….
And that…
I imagine the snow we are getting would make even a tough Midwesterner pause. I think we have hit 50? and more coming…
The record snowfall for one of my high school years was 125.6… and although it was a record, it wasn’t that unusual. Being on the SE side of a big lake tends to do that.
Yes, I also got a signal from Sista Von that her messages are being blocked.
Vonverines.
o, just suck it up, fish.
LOL!
And… we’ve all dealt with salt shortages. It’s part and parcel of every winter newscast. “It’s ONLY NOVEMBER!!! And we’ve used up 90% of our allotted salt!”
Which will fish find more challenging? Dealing with all of the snow, or being on house arrest with all loved ones? 24/7???
Isn’t there a 3B’s contest in there somewhere? If and when fish will crack… and what condiment he’ll lob first when he does?
if you’re fish is cracked, I am pretty sure it’s gone bad and it would probably be best to feed it to the badger.
I meant to put that extra apostrophe in there, knowing FISH WOULD TAKE THE BAIT LIKE A FISH TAKING BAIT.
I can keep pulling Von’s comments from spam, but until she writes something that makes no sense, and possibly appeases zombies, I can’t tell if it will get autospammed or not. Admittedly her email address and comments do sound vaguely spammy if not hamstery.
best to feed it to the badger
Imagine that… ZRM coming out as pro-badger.
And someone tell Von to stop making sense!
well, I have a badger in the backyard, not a fish pond….
Ouch! Sorry! I didn’t mean it!!
Von, Stop making sense.
And how pro-badger can it be to suggest feeding it a broken fish?
I don’t think a badger is going to care if the fish is broken or not. I was merely thinking of your badgerhood.
And… was the fish pond in reference to my FLOODED YARD?!?! Or… did I miss something else.
I had no idea this thread had been zardozed
Mandos
February 9, 2010 at 7:10 pm
I think we’re actually meta-Zardozing this place by mansplaining about zardozing this place. Maybe we’ll reach the point of an infinitely recursive meta-Zardoz.
LOL infinity
I had no idea this thread had been zardozed
Ongoing, Kathleen.
I had no idea this thread had been zardozed
Ongoing, Kathleen.
Exactly.
Is a Zardoz ever finished? No… it’s probably just abandoned. Or, the stone head comes crashing down to the ground.
ZRM- I’m guessing we could hit 200 with no comment theft from fish. He’s, no doubt, fully frozen by now. I always heard that was the best way to euthanize a fish… flushing was cruel, but put them in a Styrofoam cup of water, stick it in the freezer, and they just slowly go to sleep. I think that’s what’s happening to his state right now.
And speaking of people/fish who are freezing… has Mandos been heard from since yesterday? He’s in the thick of this frozen/snowstrocity as well!
but put them in a Styrofoam cup of water, stick it in the freezer
what kind of ‘experiments’ did you do as a child, Jennifer? I am appalled!!
..but then, it’s just a fish. Like Red Foreman says, they’re barely alive anyway.
Von, Stop making sense.
burning down the house!
what kind of ‘experiments’ did you do as a child, Jennifer? I am appalled!!
Hey! I didn’t do this as a kid… as a kid, I flushed.
This method was suggested by a beloved veterinarian. She said if the fish is ailing, and there is no way for it to be cured, the kindest way to put it out of its misery is to slowly freeze it. It will still live for awhile if you flush it, but freezing it slowly lowers its body temp until it just goes to sleep.
STOP MAKING ME FEEL GUILTY!
K- exactly!
However, don’t do this with a badger…
fishcicles.
fishcicles
Guh…
great for teething!!!!!
That is so waiting for a fish follow-up…
So do we get a picture of STB in a red diaper and bandoliers? I guess we can let the braid/ mullet go for now….
Wouldn’t STB be in a Charlotte Rampling ensemble?? I mean… STB is not manly…
Maybe STB needs a crocheted bolero jacket…
But STB is still rocking the diaper. I mean, I assume.
Or are you being Sexist, Jennifer? Do you say that a BABY WOMAN cannot rock the bandoliers?
she’ll have to shop in the boys’ section, unless she wants hearts or butterflies on them
Yes… a baby woman can rock the bandoliers… but, as K said, she’ll have to shop in the boy section, as the youngest lamblet does when she wants her pirate garb or her cargo pants…
I just associate that red diaper and those bandoliers with ENDLESS BODY HAIR! And look at her? She doesn’t have Sean Connery body hair! She has glorious peach fuzz!
Z.A.R.D.O.Z. is willing to accept red bandoliers with hearts or butterflies.
Z.A.R.D.O.Z. is willing to accept red bandoliers with hearts or butterflies.
Will you be buying one??
Also, who is photoshopping the butterflies and hearts onto a SC photo??
damn it- I added VON to the whitelist.
The heartiflyification of all clothing is pretty annoying I have to say. Monkeys, pirates, mooses, ninjas, robots- why are these all boy crap?
The record snowfall for one of my high school years was 125.6…
in one day?
I would accept Mr. Connery even if he was covered in butterflies
I’m alive, I’m alive. I have a doozy of a shovelling session tomorrow. Yeesh.
Now, I am a hardy Canuck and no stranger to snow like this…in a country where the roads would actually have been cleared the day after, and the shovels are not made out of cheap plastic. Southerners, I tells ya.
EXACTLY!
Home from work at last!
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Seems to have been a slow-motion Zardoz. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Apparently this is going to cost the gov’t 0.5 gigadollars in direct costs. 100 megadollars for every day they had to close the gov’t, and the earliest they can seriously consider reopening the store is Friday. Maybe.
0.5 gigadollars. That’s a lot of snowploughs and modern equipment. Enough, maybe, to do everyone’s driveways too.
And since this is proof that there is no global warming, this is probably the Mid-Atlantic New Normal. Time to invest, governments!
If only we could sell that snow to the Eskimos. I mean the Vancouveronians.
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in one day?
Sorry… one month.
I’ll surely pay you Tuesday for next month’s snowfall.
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Furthermore, I will Zardoz this place all by myself, if I have to.
Triumph of the Wheel (and such as)!
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Yore lake of faith disturbs me.
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Should I be concerned that every Zardoz seems to have a section where people are contemplating my murder after accusing me of all sorts of horrible crimes?
No. fish are barely alive anyway.
Rituals are very important, feesh.
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Z.A.R.D.O.Z. WARNING: Various Zombies shall be devoting the bulk of the day and evening to specification writing. As such, these post-living individuals will be dwelling on their computing devices for this period, and are helplessly attracted to Zardoz incidents, even slow motion ones.
Also, specification writing is like watching paint dry on your own eyeball; boring, annoying, moderately painful and seemingly endless. This creates a zombie with a need to vent, and a tendency toward 28 days Later type of behavior. To date, research has not been able to create protection, and if you see a spec-writing zombie, caution is urged. It helps if you give him/her/it/bird a Take Five bar, or a drink.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO GIVE CHOCOLATE SKITTLES.
specification writing is like watching paint dry on your own eyeball; boring, annoying, moderately painful and seemingly endless.
You could get into a big cup of water, put that cup in the freezer, and slowly put yourself out of your misery… It works for fish, which are barely alive… might also work for a zombie.
The thread shambles on!
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Jennifer has very large freezers, apparently.
…plus, and also…. there is a hint of a possibility of a likelihood of a rumor of an indication that I might get paid for writing these specifications, so you know…
Go to work, thundra.
Jennifer has very large freezers, apparently.
All seemingly normal Midwesterners seem to have unusually large freezers in their basements. Mysterious disappearances are also common.
Jennifer has very large freezers, apparently.
Yes, those freezers are called the outdoors…
As missus zombie said about Zombie Dahmer, and his neighbor’s report of construction sounds from his apartment “all sawing, no hammering”
Mysterious disappearances are also common.
Oddly, this seems to correlate with Friday Fish Frys.
Go to work, fish.
All seemingly normal Midwesterners
not one of my problems, fortunately. Or unfortunately, depending on which way I’m facing.
Mysterious disappearances are also common.
Care to come over for dinner?
got to go to bank and then drop the Orange, Leaky-Ass Dog at Doggy Day Care. They better not install creepy dentures.
Be back soon.
Care to come over for dinner?
Said the spider to the fly.
I think Jennifer is still being controlled by spiders.
They better not install creepy dentures.
When you return to get the dog, they’ll give you an Orange, Leaky-Slice Piece of Pie with creepy dentures instead.
Moowaahaaahaaahaaa!!!
Oh, I’m not going back to get the dog. One way transaction, as far as I’m concerned.
True Thing: First song off the iTunes this AM in the Office was “I Was Hoping Winter Was Over” by the Twilight Sad.
That one goes out specially for Fish in the Freezer.
Hey, haven’t I proven that I don’t need help on these things?
Like Duke from Doonesbury:
“Mr. Duke? I have the beverages for your party. Three cases of Wild Turkey, four bottles of tequila, a bag of oranges, fourteen cases of beer. When should I expect the guests to be arriving?”
“Guests? Who the hell invited guests?”
And now, it’s playing elvis: “I Felt The Chill Before The Winter Came”
it’s a theme, I tellsya
Yeah, although this winter has been less soul-crushing than the past two (at least in my area), I kind of had hopes that it might be a freakishly early spring, and a nice spring at that. And then came 14 more inches of snow, lots of ice, blah, blah, blah…
iTunes is messing with your head.
who are you and what are you doing in my Zardoz?
lurking to take #200, eh?
NEVAH!!
Hi Guys! What’s going on?
stop talking to yourself. they’ll hear you.
That’s funny, with that Gregor comment in the middle.
Got my black plastic glasses on….
Bad Zardoz
I am Legion, for I contain multitudes….
who wants #200?
Jennifer? Fish? Thundra?
Goobie?
None for me, thanks, I’m full.
I’ll take it.
Pshaw. I think we need more Rampling in here.
All this is not very balanced. We do not approve.
HOW LONG CAN THIS GO ON?
I am SOOOOOOOO tired…
Pshaw. I think we need more Rampling in here.
I’ve moved on. A little taste of red leather goes a long way.
All this is not very balanced. We do not approve.
Was 3 Bulls! ever balanced? I think we strive to be balanced in our lack of balance.
it would be very full-assed to go to 400 comments.
Unbalanced or imbalanced?
and would 400 comments break 3Bulls? I believe, stress-testing is indicated; in fact,it’s probably required by law.
In hunting 3B’s, I have become 3B’s. I’ve destroyed what I set out to defend.
can we get an inspection of this sub-structure? Will it hold up under this load?
I think you need an ultrasonic analysis. Plus, I think you have inadequate exits. 3Bulls may need to allocate a maintenance account, maybe bring in a code expert…
we need Von, that much is clear.
I think we broke the Bulls, there.
we need Von, that much is clear.
Hey! Don’t look a gift commenter in the mouth!
Why? Did Zed pull out your teeth?
I’m not even going to dignify that comment with a response.
aw,, c’mon Charlotte! Rample me!
….someone else better chime in soon, or I won’t be responsible for the direction this Zardoz takes.
Right into the mucky weeds, that’s where we’re going.
Right into the mucky weeds, that’s where we’re going.
I thought we were there!
And, Charlotte doesn’t rample any Zombies…
I’ve been to paradise, but I’ve never been Rampled…
LOL!
Yes, yes, Charlene…
Bad Charlene wearing Black Plastic Glasses….
And, Charlotte doesn’t rample any Zombies…
sigh….
Fridge Note to the Elders of 3B: The Dahmer header should be linked to a clip of the Violent Femmes “Dahmer is Dead”
That would be AWESOME.
Who am I talking to? Is this Sybil?
I’m not even going to dignify that comment with a response.
Says the Filthbot. O yes, we recognized you, even with no avatar. We hear the talking pie in the background, yes we does.
Oh, I’ve been to Nice and the Isle of Greece while I’ve eaten Chocolate Skittles on a yacht
I’ve moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed ’em what I’ve got
I’ve been undressed by kings and I’ve seen some things (thanks to my black glasses)that a woman ain’t supposed to see
I’ve been to 3Bulls!, but I’ve never been to me
World O Crap has also done a fine job on that song recently. If Somerby is too strong, you might check it out.’
And then come on back here for more Zardoz.
zombie rotten mcdonald
February 11, 2010 at 6:40 am
Go to work, thundra.
THAT wasn’t such great advice, ZRM. It wasn’t much fun at all.
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I think , sir, you misunderstand what the purpose of zombie advice IS.
Does advice have the ability to shamble?
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hey, my advice is kind of lurchy.
.so, did you manage to push through the funding for the Bloggerhood Compound todaY?
did you manage to push through the funding for the Bloggerhood Compound todaY?
Yeah! Did you? Cause I’ve been to Georgia and California and anywhere I could run
Took the hand of a preacher man
and we made love in the sun (and burnt our naughty bits)
But I ran out of places and friendly faces
Because I had to be free
I’ve been to paradise but I’ve never been to… a blogger compound…
Did someone say Lurchy?
I have a loan committee meating tomorrow for some multi-family thinghie in Talla-half-assee.
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screw that. We’re looking for Vancouver.
because of the lack of snow.
NOT because of their permissive attitudes toward certain leafy substances.
NOT AT ALL.
Thank you, Bnd Charlene (if that is your real name).
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NOT because of their permissive attitudes toward certain leafy substances.
NOT AT ALL.
Dirty
Fucking
Hippie
Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
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Ooo, watch the language, Thundra. There is a Goobie present.
Plus, I am a DFZ.
thunderpants is cheating on us.
No f-bombs at the Bulls! Thundra gets a time out.
Time in!
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Wake up, sleepy heads!
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stick a fork in this one, I guess.
What no Zombie Zardoz? IT MUST BE REANIMATED.
Hi guys, what’s going on?
hey look! Gregor’s here to clean up!
That Consuella chick is the one who broke the Romantics CDs..
Yeah, it was Consuella.
put this thread in the freezer
There’s always room for Jello™!
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It’s not over until it’s over.
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Is it over? Then it will be over!
Still not over!
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Can we subscript here? Over1 and over2?
Didn’t work, maybe the stylesheet forbids it.
Let’s try superscript!
No, clearly forbidden by stylesheet. No typographical way to distinguish between denotations of “over”.
Over™
Over²
Over³
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What tag are you using?
I use the keypad.
Hold down the alt key, press 0 1 7 8; release alt key.²
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Oh, but you can only do some characters that way. I was trying to do any subscript, which is allowed in HTML but transmuted to normal font by the stylesheet here.
That’s a windoze code, anyway. I’ll have to find the GNOME compose keys for that.
over¹ and over², OK there, it works.
It’s a superscript, though, which is disappointing. Subscripts would be nice, that’s the standard notation for semantic indices.
Anyway, it ain’t over¹ until it’s over².
Why in any case would you time hugs?
If you don’t time hugs, you won’t know when it’s Huggy Time™²³®©.
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Bingoes.
OK, I’ll bite. When is it Huggy Time?
²Huggy Time™²³®©: Time for a hug!
³Huggy Time™²³®©: Time for fresh diapers.
P.S. I don’t know the half-asscii code for the superscript 1.
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my cat just tried to snuggle through the sleeve of teh Snuggie
Snuggie-fu!
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Snuggie Time™
*gasp* Kathleen, don’t you know that you’re committing a fashion crime?! And in your own home too!
This is a fine Zardoz.
In the absence of the usual heavy lifters, we carry on.
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Counting the medals.
The ones that count, at least, also.
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Not over² yet!
It can’t be over before it’s over.
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Until someone shuts the Overton Window, it’s still not over!
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I thought we were supposed to push the Overton Window.
What would happen if we threw rocks and broke it?
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Then we could step through into Bipartisanship Heaven.
That might not be so great.
Would we have to worship Dave Broder?
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Only half the time.
(The other half, Ann Althouse.)
Oh that sounds awesome.
I’m going sledding for now, but it’s not over!
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Sledding spledding.
OK! I’m here for the Zardoz! Let’s get going.
….Jennifer?
…fish?
where IS everybody?
I’m going to this
Look how the zombie just shambles back when we’re approaching 300.
Clearly Kathleen has succumbed to the Valentine-industrial complex. And cupcakes.
I see it’s been slow sledding (here).
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A brief review of the Hug Timer™ category shows that it has a certain inscrutability.
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Scanning the inner+00bz...
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Re Hug Timer: I know! There are only two things in that category for which it is reasonable to time hugs. Goobie and that kitten at the bottom. Incidentally, both are neonates.
Jimmy Clausen does look like an emu.
I find it interesting that other people are thinking about this topic in ways not explored at 3Bulls!
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Here’s a hint: Gregor picks every possible category. Textbook misdirect. But to what end?????
295. I will now live blog the olympics in Zardoz 3D
this blog doesn’t like my plan. Also I was about to make fun of this couple’s costumes, but the tv just informed me they were totally broke.
tedium. tee-dee-ummmmmm. Australian International Man Of Mystery Spam King. Who are you and why do I care? perhaps if I was paying attention to this story instead of complaining about it, my questions would have been answered.
the US skiing uniforms look like super ugly pajamas.
WIPEOUT
Johnny Mosley Incomprehensible Index at 80.
how many different special stories/montages on Apolo Ohno does NBC have in the can?
KATHLEEEEEEEEN!
I mean, she just came out of left field and stole the 300 that thunder and I worked so hard for.
It’s like you both were 3 feet from the finish line, and then fell and took each other out, while I cruised to victory
I demand a do-over. We’re taking this to 400.
Even worse, I read in an actual article where some reporter had the guts to write that Apolo Anton Ohno “brought respectability to the soul patch.” You know there are hundreds of NBC techs the think it is a cosmic joke that they have to pimp that guy every four years. They know they are reaching, but they just can’t help it. I guess he did win Dancing with the Stars.
and he brought dignity to the bandana headband…..
THIS RUSSIAN DUDE IS WEARING WINGS!!!!! OMG
I am still at the office trying to write a conference submission due very soon (the agony) but I just bore witness to a Special Moment: a late-night reboot of the vending machines. I feel like a kid who just saw Santa Claus come down the chimney.
On a completely unrelated note, yes it is, I am on my second bottle of Pepsi Max, which as I vaguely recall is the more masculine brand of Diet Pepsi.
it’s so heroic of this pair to go on after they were clearly attacked by wild dogs.
Send. In. The. Clowns.
so what you’re saying is you have fresh Big Texas Cinnamon Rolls?!
It was a software reboot. If Big Texas Cinnamon Rolls can be downloaded as firmware, I guess we have fresh ones.
Man I could do with a chick-fil-a milkshake now.
I think Kathleen is the best person in the world to watch the Olympics with, but also that it would be really fun to go on a sugar/caffeine bender with Mandos at the office, but this is free time that I do not have. I’m not joking about any of this, because those things sound really fun. K- did you notice that Al Michaels looks terrible? Mandos- let’s have a chair race!!!!!!!!!!!!
What time zone are you in Mandos? They might be out of the Sunday Chick-Fil-A dead zone.
AM has seen too much Manning Face. and also set the tanning bed to Old and Extra Crispy.
I am in the post-snowpocalypse time zone, and Chick-fil-A is definitely not open. Also, the UNION MADE vending machine does not have Big Texas Cinnamon roll, but it does have Ruffles cheddar and sour cream flavour. Which I have obtained.
And it turns out that the vending machines were rebooting just for me. They are on motion detectors to save money. Normally there is enough activity around here to keep them running constantly. This being a nerd hothouse I’m really surprised that Sunday night is not busier than it is now.
In the time it took to write this comment, I could have written three more paragraphs of the paper. So why didn’t I?
It’s because writing about feature ablation on support vector machine models is surprisingly soul destroying, that’s why.
After a small bag of Ruffles, I still have the munchies (haha), possibly brought on by two bottles of Pepsi Max but maybe it’s because dinner was at 6pm today. I DID have a milkshake today, it just wasn’t satisfying like Chick-fil-A. There probably is a McD’ohs open somewhere nearby, and of course there’s always the 7-11 wings if I’m really desperate.
Actually, I’d prefer the 7-11 to the McD’ohs
Finish your work Mandos!!! sez teh queen of procrastination.
Yeah!
Don’t be late with stuff, like I am always.
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It’s like you both were 3 feet from the finish line, and then fell and took each other out, while I cruised to victory
I was leaving it for Mandos, as the heavy lifter in the operation.
Plus, fell asleep, also.
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Two of this years football HOF inductees were on Dances With the Stars. Coincidence?
I say international conspiracy.
Someday, they’ll call it Dances With Manning.
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I just bore witness to a Special Moment: a late-night reboot of the vending machines. I feel like a kid who just saw Santa Claus come down the chimney.
You know what happens to those kids, right? IT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN! EVER! NO MORE GOODIES!!!
Also, there needs to be a manlier name for Pepsi Max.
WHERE WERE ALL YOU PEOPLE WHEN WE DROPPED THE BIG STONE HEAD AT JENNIFER’S???
Also, there needs to be a manlier name for Pepsi Max.
I guess Maxi-Pepsi is RIGHT OUT, for reasons I cannot fathom.
How about Pepsi SMASH!!
ZRM- Pepsi Max does indeed make me think of Maxi, which is not a manly word.
Also, I believe they were all absent for the dropping of the stone head at the Vonstang’s.
I’m pretty sure I WAS around for those events!
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They will all have to stay after school.
And watch Manning highlight reels. Narrated by Manning.
At least they kept Al Michaels away from the John Boehner brand Orange Tan Paint Product.
John Boehner is a shame on face of the state of Ohio.
(Far from the only one, of course…Jean Schmidt, anyone?)
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Guess what?!
IT’S SNOWING AGAIN!
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Incidentally, I am definitely now referring to Pepsi Max as Pepsi SMASH. every time.
I seem to recall there being a Cherry Smash soda pop of some variety… I’m guessing Cherry Smash is also masculine.
Thundra- it’s snowing here as well.
sunny here.
Apparently you folks are being punished.
Jean Schmidt, anyone?)
NO THANK YOU.
Jean Schmidt SMASH!
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Apparently you folks are being punished.
Why should things be different.
I’d take snow punishment over Jean Schmidt though… thundra must have been really bad.
Kathleen is obviously the Hannah Kearney of this thread.
Kathleen wears pigtails? I thought that was snag.
Snag eats pigtails. Understandable mistake.
I just want to be in an Olympic Montage!!!!!!111
Pepsi SMASH will be the only carbonated HFCS based beverage allowed in teh Blogger Compound.
When I say snowing, I mean REALLY SNOWING.
Can’t see anything, and it’s all sticking, even on teh roads.
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I’m more of a Classic Coke™ guy meself, and have been all my life.
And that’s why I’m going to need root canal surgery as soon as I stop fear-mongering and procrastinating.
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Wow… thundra gets endless snow, Jean Schmidt AND root canal! Thundra must have been reeeeally bad.
I’m more of a Classic Coke™ guy meself, and have been all my life.
sorry then, no Blogging Compound for you.
I SAID GOOD DAY!
I SAID GOOD DAY!
AHEM!
Shan’t be back, etc.
P.S. Jean Schmidt is actually located near Cincinnati. My Haus Representative is Mary Jo Kilroy (D), who’s campaign I donated to in 2006 (lost) and 2008 (won).
But otherwise, yeah. Although those loan committee people on Friday said I did a good job, and maybe even one or two of them meant it. So I probably won’t get fired (this week).
P.P.S. Maybe that’s actually just more bad news.
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Furthermore, whose.
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Cobags in the nooze.
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I think Apollo Ohno is going to get into the Football Hall of Fame next year.
I THOUGHT IT WAS YR JOB
More Professional Coordination At Democrat HQ!
Yes he is a terrible monster, but really? Seriously? Seriously is this actually literal? “Bayh made the decision not to run on Friday, telling a small group of senior staff, but he did not tell President Obama or Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid until today. His aides say he had been struggling with the decision for months, but Democrats in the Senate seemed to have no clue. Many said his decision caught them completely by surprise.” Aww.
Gee golly, he sure surprised them, just like Martha Coakley did when she became the worst candidate in history. The filing deadline for a Democratic primary in Indiana is tomorrow. Do you want to run, dear reader? The DNC and/or DSCC will be shocked! Who coulda known!
Stolen from Wonkette.
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la la la *fingers in my ears* why don’t we get the skiing live in PST. THAT IS LAME**
**I typed LAMW three times.
so far my Olympic coverage highlight was the background story on JR Celski where they showed his injury last fall where he cut his leg and blood is spurting everywhere and Bob Costas voice overs “warning what you are seeing is extremely graphic”
THANK YOU SHERLOCK HOLMES
Is there any proof that Costas isn’t Peter Pan?
And I am pretty sure “Send in the Clowns” was stolen from Blades of Glory.
I would bet that evan Bayh is a lousy figure skater.
he’ll certainly shortly be wearing an outfit shredded and half torn off of him.
I would bet that evan Bayh is a lousy figure skater.
Yes, but after reading the other thread, perhaps the Lugar would make an excellent luger.
And, Bob Costas needs to lose the gray temples… it doesn’t make him look like a serious, learned man. It makes him look like an old lady who is having trouble getting all hair tucked under her wig.
Dictu mirabile, this afternoon Big Texas Cinnamon Roll appeared in the vending machine.
I have obtained Big Texas Cinnamon Roll.
Who knew an ingredients list could be that long? Wheat Gluten is listed TAKE THAT JENNY MCCARTHY!
It also has a subtle bouquet of “gas station” in the taste.
MANDOS IS EATING BIG TEXAS!!!!! BREAKING BREAKING MUST CREDIT
Wow, this stuff is truly vile, how do you guys eat this *licks fingers*? I need a Pepsi Max to wash this down, hopefully I have enough change.
Dictu mirabile
Thanks to the four years of Latin I took in High S., I can translate Mandos’ mysterious phrase for the enthralled crowd: “I have had wonderful relations with El Snacktator!”
(Spoken by Little Debbie)
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Big Texas Cinnamon Roll appeared in my vending machine shortly after Kathleen mentioned it too. Her connections to the powerful vending machine lobby are starting to freak me out.
Pepsi Max cuts through any flavour, even the undisguised taste of petroleum product.
Little Debbie has been persona non grata ever since she got her puss plastered on the side of a jet along side an impostor of El!
It also has a subtle bouquet of “gas station” in the taste.
Now that was perfect.
It also has a subtle bouquet of “gas station” in the taste.
Mandos must be one of them E-1ee+-ists I’ve herd about.
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Kathleen, forget Send in the Clowns, Love Story is coming, and the self-referencing trials and tribulations of the team chemistry problems are laid bare for all to see. Moving.
Pepsi SMASH Texas Buns
Kathleen
February 15, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Pepsi SMASH Texas Buns
Slash fiction coming (soon!) to an Oakland Dilettante blogspot near you.
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I have to go now and I guess I’m going to lose 400 too. Oh, well.
I’m giving you a virtual 400 (and a 300, too), Mandos.
You rocked!
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Keep eating those Texas Buns and you might be able to go for a different 400…
But the Zardoz is always a group effort…. for when one of us makes the 400th comment, do we not all crest that same hill?
my scrolly finger is sore….
for when one of us makes the 400th comment, do we not all crest that same hill?
Oh dear…
Mandos- I’ll pay you good money to see if you survive washing down a Banana Flip with a Pepsi Max. Banana Flips were definitely made with something petrol-chemical. I’m guessing you’d explode from the combining of the two… much like circus peanuts and orange pop…
“Pepsi SMASH. The soft drink of Zombies”
I have to go now
well, of COURSE you do after all that Pepsi SMASH….
I thought PepsiSHAMBLES was the soft drink of Zombies.
Not manly enough!!
Not all zombies are men!
11 comments, ZRM… should we? Could we?
Maybe Zardozing will be in the next winter Olympics. I tend to think of it as a winter sport, but I suppose the red singlet would lend itself to summer…
looks like its time for more Olympics Live Blogging!
Ever since I upgraded my Firefox, I can’t just refresh 3B’s and comment… Grrrr….
And I can’t comment at all at fish’s… which probably isn’t a bad thing.
me neither. We really have to WORK for that 400. It’s not all fun and games.
I should go turn on the TV and see if there are any more men in expensive, winter unitards. Can I say unitard in front of Sarah Palin?
Yes, all work… and no Cloverhill to get us through.
Zombie?? Where are you?!!? I think Kathleen is taking a bathroom break…
One more! Who’s taking it?!?!
You can not say unitard!!!
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Did someone say emu?
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Thundra got it! Woo-hoo!!!
I am pleased to accept this award on behalf of the Mandos-ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© collective.
We thank all the little people/birds/pants/zombies who made this possible.
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I think Mandos if off noshing a celebratory Cloverhill and washing it down with a PepsiSmash.
About time thunder got one.
406. I am having commenting issues. THUNDERSPIRACY
We really have to WORK for that 400. It’s not all fun and games.
..and refreshing beverages.
Congrats Thunder for taking 400 for the team.
I am now at the Bad Connection Starbucks. I am hoping that it will encourage productivity.
Bad Starbucks?
Is everyone wearing black plastic glasses?
Did someone say refreshing beverages?? Well, don’t mind if I do… in honor of Presidents Day and all… and thundra getting his 400 comment… and Kathleen just being Kathleen… and the fact that we can comment with the zombies in the same thread and still not lose our brains!! Oh, wait, I had already lost mine. Oh well… here’s a beverage for already having lost my brains! Woo-hoo!!
I’ve not heard that the BCS encourages productivity.
But please report your results, Mandos.
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406. I am having commenting issues. THUNDERSPIRACY
fish is probably stealing your comment form.
do you know what does encouarge productivity? Snowboard Cross.
Isn’t thundra supposed to be at work, sending more money down the Black Hole of Tallahassee?
Other news:
1) I’m out of wine and it’s still snowing, so I’ve put on me boots and will sludge/trudge/begrudge my way to the grocery store.
2) Charles Lane at the WaPoop is a giant cobag. Like the rest of ’em.
3) I might take some pictures, but it’s getting dark already. I’ve got sledding pics from yesterday, but thanks to wine-ethernet port issue, I need to get the camera to my crappy laptop at work in order to get them on the innert00bz.
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fish is probably stealing your comment form.
I can’t even comment at fish’s… apparently he’s stealing comments before they’re even in my head.
ZRM- I’m guessing thundra got Preznits Day off, being in the banking world and all…
Ooooh! Snowboard Cross!
The theory behind BCS is that the continuously dropping connection is just enough to let me download my work and write locally, while being too inconvenient to procrastinate on blogs because the connection keeps dropping because AT&T is run by incompetent chipmunks.
However, today the chipmunks are not as incompetent, but I cannot pull an allnighter this time because my co-authors are expecting a 9:30pm draft…
co-author sounds like it should be cob author…
I might take some pictures, but it’s getting dark already. I’ve got sledding pics from yesterday,
My son went sledding with his girlfriend yesterday.
There don’t appear to be pictures.
Good luck, thundra! I think you should be given a wine prize for nabbing #400!
1) I’m out of wine….
CRISIS!!
baby is awake and being unbelievably cute. signing off. for now.
plus I’m hungry and we need more beer. snow board cross demands it.
Sorry Kathleen… I’m drinking your beer as we speak.
Smooch the baby.
I need to go get Grizzled from the train. I’ll smooch him for you.
Sorry Kathleen… I’m drinking your beer as we speak.
Beer is Theft.
Apropos of nothing, really, Recently downloaded:
Gram Parsons Rhino Hi-five
The Jam, all the stuff that was omitted from Compact Snap
The Chords, the Peel Sessions
Wreckless Eric
The Jam, In the City
Paul Weller, 22 Dreams (I been in a Jammy mood, sosumi)
Kirsty MacColl, Titanic Days
The dBs, Like This
Give Em The Boot V
The Negro Problem, Post Minstrel Syndrome
The Bats, At the National Grid
Jon Dee Graham, It’s Not As Bad As It Looks (and I hope he’s right about that)
The Eels, End Times (and I fear he is right about that)
Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything
Glossary, How we Handle Our Midnights
Snipe away at THAT list, my friends.
At least I haven’t stolen K’s comments, Mr. Jammy Mood.
yeah, the Jam was never popular in Chicago.
Don’t you have a spouse to fetch?
He’s on a later train… I’ll fetch him in a few minutes… after I clean off the car and wade through new snow… and steal a comment of two.
You know who I hadn’t thought of in eons?? Michelle Shocked… what became of her? Did she grow up to be an old woman?? Did she have 120 babies?
How many more gold medals will the Americans snatch away from Canada? I am squarely blaming Kathleen.
My son went sledding with his girlfriend yesterday.
Is that what kids are calling it these days?
do you know what does encouarge productivity? Snowboard Cross.
Know what encourages productivity even more? Listening to a Nike sponsored snowboarder complain that the snowboarding outfits people are wearing are too “establishment“.
How many more gold medals will the Americans snatch away from Canada?
Oh, all of ’em.
And fish, be warned that both my son and his girlfriend are second degree black belts and will kick your ass singly and in tandem.
Umm, is “ass” a 3Bulls foul? I may need a ruling from COBA on that one.
I will have my daughter protect me.
SNOWMAGEDDON!
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fish, You underestimate them if you think they cannot occupy your daughter, without really harming her, while zombies NOM your branes.
Their control is..impressive. I find your lack of faith…disturbing.
Admiral Cobnugget says, Set Squee! factor to 11!
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The Bats album is pretty good, ZRM. Also, just reading now made my horrible day feel a lot better. I’m sorry Mandos had to risk life and limb for my amusement.
Carry on. Also, Kathleen on Bayh and the figure skating outfit is pure pure gold.
I will second (or maybe fifth at this point) the notion that Kathleen’s liveblogging of teh 0lympics is wonderful.
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those baby skunks didn’t get any work done at all!!!
LOVE STORY!!!
They thought they were contenders until they lost it.
It’s a shame because they do have some wonderful qualities.
I wonder if Jennifer was thinking of Orange Crush 62 comments ago….
those baby skunks didn’t get any work done at all!!!
True, but now that they’ve had their management training class, they can move on to worker productivity, and such as.
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I hope fish comes back so we can tandem live-blog three hours apart. this will be the awesomest achievment in internet history
Bode is going with the tried and true. this is also good advice in vending machine snacktator selection. as Mandos learned.
I need to know what Bode Miller named his 2 year old daughter. JOURNALISM FAIL
Neesyn Dacey says the internet. I will say nothing.
(also don’t just google “Bode Miller” when you are watching on a time-delay (F.U. NBC) and don’t want to know what happened.)
upcoming dinner in the Dilettante household: jambalaya.
am I filling in comments to get to 500? I will say nothing.
thank the tv gods Lauren Graham has a new tv show.
Moar Bode Miller.
I think the skiers should try to avoid hitting the flags. Physics says that slows them down.
I provide that for free, world.
So selfish.
MANDOS
I hope you aren’t still at work
Canada is pwning the odium rather than owning the podium.
sad conversation that just occurred:
K: that dude looks old
C: he is old. they just said he was 35.
all my training has led me to this moment.
I feel good about my chances
460!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m at home, but working. I’m on a tight deadline. At stake: a free trip to an exotic location. That is why I suffer for my art.
460 is the secret Zardoz comment number of champions.
Endorsements line up now please.
Canada is getting owned by the pwndium.
You’re just lazy to bring us to 500.
Man, this place is filthy. 1.5 weeks of snowpocalypse and deadline-as-in-dead has taken its toll. At least, that’s what I’m telling myself.
Steve Nash is trying to sell me something. I object.
I will inform my endorsement-ees that I will not endorse anything endorsed by an NBA player. Except for Shaq. (that goes without saying I hope)
Confessional time. when I typed:
# Kathleen
February 15, 2010 at 8:26 pm
all my training has led me to this moment.
# 460 Kathleen
February 15, 2010 at 8:26 pm
I feel good about my chances
I had misread the comment number and thought we were at 498. my subsequent commentary is overcompensating for my mistake.
am I filling in comments to get to 500? I will say nothing.
You are Rocking Teh House, K!
And I applaud your stuffing.
P.S. Mandos, I know you will win.
Plz to take some pictures and post on that blog that I know you haz?
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Is it transitive? Will you endorse something that is endorsed by something that is endorsed by an NBA player? Does the signal weaken over the endorsement chain? Enquiring minds want to know.
I love how C was saying something about some odious Red Sox or something and the rejoinder of Kobe Bryant just slipped out of my mouth like a finely savored regurgitation.
Oh, now you’re playing dirty. You need to be tested for ‘roids.
Polar Bears coming up in 13 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post hoc lit review almost completed. I don’t understand why I have to cite anything if I didn’t read anything.
I, commenter of comment #460, proudly endorsement this Pyramid Apricot Ale. I could not have achieved the levels of bloviation and spastic typing required to obtain #460 without the use and enjoyment of Pyramid Apricot Ale. That is why I am proud to be an endorser of Pyramid Apricot Ale, which is a proud sponsor of the McDonald chicken mcnugget, which was a sponsor of Kobe Bryant until it turned out he was a scumbag.
Did Pinko P. just cite Rollos?
We observers who are mere deserve an explanication.
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PP is trolling for Rollo endorsement? Bob Costas has the story
I am reporting all bears to 8675309
Who can I turn to?
What about bulls? I think this blog is pretty bullish.
Hershel Walker would die in the UFC, but how would he do in pairs skating? I think he would stick the triple.
my next set of Olympic live-blogging comments are brought to you by Frank’s Red Hot hot sauce. Don’t try and enjoy your jambalaya without it. You won’t.
Polar Bear Special Comment sans mention of Global Warming. I guess NBC decided that would be *awkward* since the Olympic Coverage is sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute.
Shen/Zhao just got a gift. I think the Chinese judge now owes Croatia a high score in transvestite ice dancing.
Men’s Snowboard Cross Semifinal POV Cam
Seth Westcott, sponsored by Apollo Ohno’s soul patch.
Kathleen, the fact that you don’t rock Crystal Hot Sauce shows you go against the grain. The grain of taste.
I hope NBC introduced the POV cam into pairs figure skating
I find Crystal is better with a little Frank’s on it.
Why not just use sriracha? It goes with everything, as it contains garlic.
did Congress pass a law when I wasn’t looking that all movies must contain Gerard Butler?
Bob just called out Seth for wearing his hat inside. Seth didn’t want to say that his Nike contract states that he wears the hat everywhere for the next 4 years.
is my undying hatred for Cris Collinsworth irrational? discuss.
Frank’s outfranks sriracha though I do love sriracha but Frank’s is better. I SAID IT. this demands the internet.
No it is not irrational. When Collinsworth was discussing how Bode Miller was an evil person at the Torino Olympics because he wasn’t adequately inspired by wearing Team USA colors, I wanted to set his hair on fire.
And
this
is
it’s hot and heavy now!
Mine!
By A N0se
All mine!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think Dick Buttons needs to be sewed back on. Dude is looking ragged.
KATHLEEEEEEEEN! I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!!!!!
LOL!!!
I am laughing so hard right now
YOU THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS!!!!
Kathleen is Seth Wescott!!! Blowing by Mandos at the last minute!
THIS IS PERSONAL NOW! I MEAN BUSINESS! 1000!!!!! I WILL WRITE A BOT IF I HAVE TO!!!
Franks is different it is like the essence of you think it is hot, but it isn’t hot at all, just good, whereas Sriracha- wait- this feels on topic. This thread is making want to watch the Olympics, something NBC could never do.
MAKE THE CALL NBC MAKE THE CALL. I will be up.
Mandos didn’t want it enough. Chris Collinsworth is going to call him names and be disappointed in his attitude.
Kathleen and Pinko have terrible taste, but especially Kathleen. Franks is totally flavourless.
I bet Sarah Palin doesn’t like Frank’s Hot Sauce
is there any other point to snowboard cross besides waiting for them to crash into each other?
That is the point Mandos, you can eat tonnes of it (that was for UC) and just get a vaguely orange and vinegary taste. i.e. delicious.
Also, I quote to your national shame: “This race hardly went off as planned as the final 10 pairs of the first run were delayed for more than an hour past the usual ice resurfacing time because one Zamboni machine was broken and another was spreading water unevenly over the ice, at least in the judgment of some of the coaches and officials.”
If they can’t do Zamboni and ice, what is the point of Canada? This has CCA/AG shenanigans written ALL over it. A broken Zamboni? Pshaw. Someone would drive down from the crowd in their personal Zamboni and fix the problem, in the Canada of my mind.
I need to explicitly hear from the commentators whether the crash was from the course or the collision. Otherwise snowboard cross is like aramaic.
Also, I can read into the future of this thread.
Do 3B readers also get a snowboard cross refund?
I don’t see the point of hot sauce if it’s not risking suffering.
Which reminds me, now my library books are overdue. Thanks PST.
Smalltime Beef: The face that launched 521 comments.
Woo it’s all Canux on the Latest Comment sidebar for this thread.
get some cialis for that Zamboner
is Shani Davis racing any races he is trying to win? – C
You know, we have a long way to go before we reach Sadly No Sammich Warz thread length. Those were epic. And emuoid.
the age difference between this Russian pair: 17-23 is not as disturbing to me as that of the US pair: 16-25. quibbling at the margins? idk
Canada is going nuts- wtf??
Romney attacked on flight
Former governor Mitt Romney was attacked by a passenger on an Air Canada flight Monday.
WHEN CANADIANS ATTACK.
Canada is going nuts- wtf??
Romney attacked on flight
Or brief moment of sanity?
I would think Shani Davis would try harder, at least when he is wearing the ole’ Red, White, and Blue! [/Colinsworth]
Fourth Voice:
Montgomery Ward sent me an emu and a pair of serious pants.
P.S. It’s still snowing.
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WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
The Zardozlettes have left the nest!
I think Bob Costas’ commentary is sponsored by Men’s Wearhouse. All he does is talk about what ppl are wearing.
You’re going to like the way you look. I guarantee it!
You’re going to loathe Cris Collinsworth. I guarantee it!
I either have or haven’t eaten breakfast.
I think everyone’s been mainlining the Pepsi SMASH! again.
time for latte numebr two
what is (not) going on around here?
I am continuing to pwn the odium.
Pounding the podium is the way to impress the splinter movements.
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re: Romney. You should know that I left town the day before. Really.
I think punching romney should be a weekly thing.
Chuck Todd too.
Punching Cheney can be done daily. Hourly, if we can ferret out his undisclosed location.
man I cannot believe Shutter Island hasn’t even been released in theaters yet.
this just happened:
K: isn’t that some sports dude? Joe Buck?
c: yes. but calling him a “sports dude” is like saying Ryan Seacrest is in the music business.
I am starving my own blog of all this fodder, just to keep the zardozment of this thread going. HUG TIMER
this young french figure skater is very compelling. He has taken away my urge to snark. Even Scott’s constant repetition of “he was ABANDONED on the streets of Brazil” isn’t triggering me.
Yevgeny Pleshenko’s mullet brought to you by Audi and the Russian mafia.
he wants to be like Dick Button! smart cookie; knows just how to up his NBC exposure.
Dick Button is not having it.
men’s figure skating and women’s snowboard cross. I can see why I’m the only one here.
Dick Button is a ruthless SOB.
Kathleen you could be tweeting the hell out of this, but I know you desire the possibility of feedback.
Let me help you:
RT @dilettante: Right On!
feliciaday – twitter.com – about a minute ago
I preferred Lindsay Jacobellis when she was an obscure reference C and I made to each other.
The only reason I know what is even happening is because of this thread!
I kind of wish Johnny Weir would cut a hole in the ice and just f*** it.
I love how the above could be believable for either me actually watching the Olympics (I don’t even know what channel NBC is on the TV in Big Texas Cinnamon Bun) and an awesome teh l4m3 special.
I also love the “either/and” construction.
LOL. that tweet would be so awesome.
Shawn White just completely won me over with that dry cleaning story.
a sentence I never ever would’ve imagined typing. the Olympics are majestic!
TOE PICK
I see UC decided the path to gold was to take the US out before the finals. clever.
faux distressed jeans are annoying. Faux faux distressed jeans are outrageous.
this kid is so young I don’t even think his parents were alive when Jimi Hendrix recorded the song he is skating to.
I finally—after two years—worked up the courage to try the canned “spotted dick” they sell at one of my local supermarkets, only to find that the supermarket had finally abolished the disgusting British foods aisle. Harrumph, I say. The nerve. Tally-ho, you colonists.
On the other hand, I found a Target that now carries that delicious Canadian treat, clamato juice. But *sigh* not the Extra Spicy kind.
Also, who is photoshopping the butterflies and hearts onto a SC photo??
There are photos of Smut Clyde?
faux distressed jeans are annoying. Faux faux distressed jeans are outrageous.
Faux faux distressed overalls and skating to J Giles should result in deportation to Guantanamo.
I finally—after two years—worked up the courage to try the canned “spotted dick” they sell at one of my local supermarkets, only to find that the supermarket had finally abolished the disgusting British foods aisle.
Maybe it will show up in the vending machine!
Lindsay Jacobellis has again disappointed me in her quest for redemption after disappointing me in 2006.
I haven’t watched any of the Olympics.
But thanks to Kathleen, I know ALL ABOUT them!
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I kind of wish Johnny Weir would cut a hole in the ice and just f*** it.
Scott Hamilton: Johnny Weir f***ed the ice about as well as he could have f***ed it, but I expect we will see better f***ing later in the evening. While his f***ing technique is excellent, his transitions from making out to f***ing just aren’t as strong as some of his competitors. Weir is always able to raise an eyebrow though, and in my case, I think he is raising a muffin top.
I imagine the following:
“Hey mom, I wanna see Geils!”
“My son is a NAZI! OMG!@”
Can I get a Pepsi SMASH over here, and a Morning Bun? No, you can keep the gas-station Texas Cinnamon roll, what you think I’m a Zombie?
The cruelty of a new episode of Lost airing concurrent with the re-broadcast of the women’s snowboard cross final that wasn’t actually broadcast live when it happened hours and hours earlier has made me wonder whether zombies have taken control of TV programming.
Hey now, UC, there’s no call for that kind of haterade. Zombies may nom your branes, but at lest we’re upfront about it. We won’t melt your branes surreptitiously, like TV.
I’d blame it on Republicans, or at least Ann Althouse.
Or possibly the Norwegian curling team fashion consultants…
yes, they must be punished also….
Incidentally, one of the threedles at Sadly No has a side-subject on driving tanks going on. I can’t read it without thinking of Kathleen roaring down the freeway in her nursing tank, blasting through SUVs….
3Bulls has bent my brain.
malatov cocktails made out of baby bottles
“gas” collected in trashcans
how about the fact that NBC time delays teh west coast broadcast THAT IS IN THE SAME TIME ZONE AS THE OLYMPICS??!!!!
I singled my triple lutz.
too little experience on the international stage.
I kind of wish Johnny Weir would cut a hole in the ice and just f*** it.
this made me laugh so so hard
teh lame is sorely missed
ok time to get some food instead of solo-zardozing on my lunch break. i’ll be back in time for the finals.
Anybody following women’s downhill live? Why can’t we get a video feed for this? Isn’t it epic?
I singled my triple lulz.
what’s really funny fish is that is what I meant to type
LOL! Then you really did single your triple.
I lost 7 men, 6 dogs, 2 sleds, a half-eaten tube of cookie dough, and probably 10-15 points off my eyesight, but I made it to the end of these comments. I must say that the dedication, motivation, talent, and training it takes to pump out nearly 600 repetitions of high-quality half-assedness is…well, it’s a triumph of the human spirit. Bravo, 3B community, bravo.
Can a 1000-comment Zardoz be on the horizon?
The event horizon perhaps.
You know where Mandos tries to cross the threshold, but freezes in time as others cross.
Zardoz vs. 3Bulls. It seems appropriate somehow.
I wonder why it took us so long to bring the Big Stone Head over here? I’m guessing The Fear. Fear of Sink Lettuce.
Stone head v. half ass.
Jon Stewart did a hilarious riff on a man named Dick Sweat asking Obama a question at a town hall, and I kept thinking of Brando. If only he could freelance dick jokes for late night comedy
speaking of things coming full circle (weren’t we?), has anyone checked out Apolo Ohno’s twitter feed? I am afraid to for spoiler reasons, but C’s brother said he would rather smash his nuts in a fridge door than read it, so I am dying to check it out.
confession: last night I pretended to be reading a book while watching the Olympics because I was embarassed for my neighbor to see how long I had been sitting in the chair with the remote and my laptop.
tonight’s live-glogging
sponsored by
Dr. Ferber
I say we leave #600 for Small Time Beef.
d’oh!!!
ah well
good thought
I wish STB would post
OK, Kathleen, you’ve earned your Zardoz merit badge already.
My work/blogging being fueled by Yellowtail Pinot Grigio.
Stone head v. half ass.
The Mekons have a song called Stonehead. The refrain goes “I am a Stone Head. I am the Stone Head”
If Creed doesn’t have a song called “Half Ass” they should.
K takes it by a nose!
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I didn’t know Tron was skating for Australia in short track.
Tron?
Is that one of Sarah Palin’s kids?
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Imagine someone kind of tweeting “Go AMERICA, YEAH! AWESOME”
Apolo Anton Ohno
Kind of the opposite of the Roger Ebert twitter feed, which I don’t read because it is too awesome and I want him to just be only my friend, kind of like Kathleen with whatsherface, only with shunning to spite myself instead of stalking.
What Pinko Said!!
(P.S. What did Pinko say?)
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He said he wishes he was Shaun White’s tweetheart.
Pinko is really Victoriarose89
Jon Stewart did a hilarious riff on a man named Dick Sweat asking Obama a question at a town hall, and I kept thinking of Brando. If only he could freelance dick jokes for late night comedy.
That would be nice. I am sure I could keep the dick jokes coming for them.
I read the Roger Ebert profile in Esquire and immediately wished I knew him. Amazing guy. The article noted that when he lost his voice, they hooked him up with a speech enhancer, and he deliberately chose one with a British accent. I thought that was awesome, even if he later had to switch to a different one because the British version was too hard to understand.
614 COMMENTS!?!?! SERIOUSLY? What is this, the Sadly, No! of baby blogging?
chuckles, did you READ THEM ALL? Z.A.R.D.O.Z. does not accept criticism unless it is from readers who answer a short, seven-part three hundred question quiz AND demonstrate full understanding of Zombie lore.
Seriously, Zardoz Kath and MegaMandos brought the Half of Ass in an impressive way. It was special, and mostly reached 3Bulls levels of incomprehensibility. At times, Pinko’s contributions seemed the MOST coherent.
Chuckles has missed the boat. But he can help us get to 1000. After 1000, I might even be happy to declare it over² at the very least.
Chuckles has missed the boat. But he can help us get to 1000. After 1000, I might even be happy to declare it over² at the very least.
I’m not sure I can agree with the other half of Mandos-ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© collective on this matter.
P.S. Warning for those with crappy old towers running Windows M.E. (heh, that would make all one of me, wouldn’t it?): Clicking the link may cause slow-down or need for rebootage.
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It’s called mis-pumping the wall.
I have nothing to add but adding itself.
Wow, that thread was way back in the day when I was still trying to give the Hypocrite of Corrente the benefit of the doubt.
I’d just like to add to what Pinko had to say.
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sure, it’s easy to get 2000 comments when you’ve got trolls.
All there is here is zombeez
At least zombeez don’t tax you.
Goobie Thread endures.
I will pooooooost again!
Though my space bar is breaking
I will post again
Zardoz only knows…
Will Goobie be the face that launched a thousand posts?
Goobie shore must be at the top of Tres Toros!
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Ice dancing could be massively improved by having way more wipeouts. Otherwise it is only slightly more entertaining than watching CSPAN.
Ice dancing could be massively improved by having way more wipeouts.
I’ve got an idea! While one couple is out performing, they could let a competing couple out on the ice.
With lead pipes.
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Goobie had to leave the Olympic Village after risqué images of her with Lugo appeared on the web.
SCANDAL
THERE IS SOMEONE VYING FOR CÉLINE’S PLACE IN FISH’S HEART:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxnl83HD3R0
But will feeshie be fickle?
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fish, now that I have read up on LAGO, I know how inappropriate your comment appears to be. However, since you wrote LUGO, it is actually even more inappropriate.
Is it time to haul fish into Kangaroo Court?
(Teh Honorable Judge Emu presiding.)
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Can you waterboard a fish?
I don’t know what this Zardoz is, but I do know this: It will be a cold day in the freezer for Ms. Lara Fabian if she lays a hand on my feesh.
INAPPROPRIATE, Celine.
Also, it doesn’t seem that Ms. Fabian knows how to rock the infamous white leather pants.
Inappropriate?? What is inappropriate? And this coming for a zombie?
I’ll tell you what’s inappropriate! The Olympics in Canada and no Celine event!
I think Mandos needs to change his name to Mandoz after this. He’ll also need an honorary red singlet.
I’m also guessing that someone has said that in the above 600+ comments, but by gawd, I’m not going back to read them all… at least not until they’re finished.
Zardozing is easier with alcohol and no sleep. Unfortunately, I have no alcohol and seem to be well-rested.
ZRM? You still there?
My Zardozing is rusty.
This thread seems to be lacking a little seasoning. Perhaps a pinch of salt.
You know, I am the only rock you humans eat. I have made a glittery and often surprising contribution to your history.
I used to be a quite sought-after commodity… as valuable as currency.
It would seem to me that any thread worth its salt would have a comment from salt. It would seem to me that a comment from salt would be worth more than those from mere humans. Without salt, you humans would be nothing more than desiccated zombies.
Of course, not all salt is created equal.
I will speak for ZRM and say “IS THERE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT???”
That other Celine is an imposter. Feesh prefer me. At least some feesh… although I’m good on all feesh.
Anything wrong with what?
FYI- I am no longer in charge.
FdS: anything wrong with being a desiccated zombie, of course.
Good point, Mandoz. Maybe I’ll come back as a desiccated zombie and will once again be in charge.
fish, now that I have read up on LAGO, I know how inappropriate your comment appears to be. However, since you wrote LUGO, it is actually even more inappropriate.
No bonus for mistakenly adding a Letterman reference?
I knew I should have looked up his name.
And I would like to point out it is not me that is nude in the hot tub up there…
you know, I object to Jennifer’s freezing-fish torture.
After all, she says it’s painless.
Thanks ZRM.
HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!!!!
There he is, bailiff.
SEIZE HIM!
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fish shall be seized for making a rude joke about a tiny baby being pictured with either a light hitting ERROR MACHINE 2B/SS or some Olympic crotch medaling Chundernozzle. His choice. The crimes are equally grievous.
What does 2B/SS mean?
Anyway, CNN is now doing a “SIMULATION” of a “CYBER-SHOCKWAVE” with discussion by members of a “BIPARTISAN POLICY INSTITUTE” that include Michael Chertoff and Godzilla.
I got post 666! This is supposed to mean something to some people.
Anyway, fish had better run into the arms of Lara Fabian while he still can. Maybe she can get him Belgian citizenship!
Oooh, it’s not just CYBER-SHOCKWAVE, it’s WE WERE WARNED: CYBER-SHOCKWAVE. Teste David cum Sibylla.
Oh, and John Negroponte is on the Bipartisan Policy Insitute.
I rate for Belgian citizenship.
Bring forth the guilty, filthy fish.
Ahem. The accused.
(This Bench with not officially sanction the term ‘gefilte party’, but users of the term will not face sanctions, if you catch our drift.)
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Too late, we are all sub-Belgian now.
We will not let you go
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Let me go!
Be-el-ze-bub has some tartar put aside for me for me for meeeeeeeeeeee
El heard there was a Zardoz going on!
Grizzled is to blame for the size of El’s package.
Mother Nature is to blame. Nothing could be more awesome. Nothing in this world.
But back to bad fish. Is he going to be fried or boiled?
I’ll try to snap a better picture of him tomorrow. He was fresh out of the oven and still to hot to stand.
still to hot to stand.
One might argue he will always be “too hot”.
I wonder if the grammar hammer will touch that or let it slide due to the unbelievable awesomeness of the Zartator?
TOO!!!!
Apollo Ohono should feel it coming from behind any moment.
zartator wins gold
El Snacktator
February 20, 2010 at 7:19 pm
El heard there was a Zardoz going on!
Ahh, there’s are bailiff. Bring forth the gefilte party!
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“Our” Bailiff, that is.
Can’t have grammar Nazis messing with the mock trial.
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it’s like you guys MISS the Grammar Zombee….
No one misses teh Grammar Zombie…
El is ZED! And can kick any grammar zombie ass at any time.
Zarduce?
Fuhrdoz?
Maximum Leader?
LOL! El likes Zarduce!
Crossposted!
AWESOME!
But I have to post the WoW that came up on teh Zardoz thread:
Words of Wisdom
Hmm… Needs more leather, harnesses, and moustache.
teh l4m3
Not that I recommend anyone try this at home, but a person/bird/meese/pants could go on infinite loop mode between here and El Snacktator’s comments.
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HELP I’M STUCK IN AN INFINITE LOOP.
Step away from the Pepsi Max.
When ONE steps away from teh Pepsi Max, teh Pepsi Max takes another step forward.
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Furthermore, the guilty party has not yet stepped forward.
This will be taken account when he is sentenced to a jar of water in the freezer.
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Cardinal Fang™, produce the Charges!
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In light of all this evidence and hearsay, and such as, how does the gefilte party plead?
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This Court is compelled by the evidence (and such as) to find that the accused, One Guilty, Filthy, Feesh, is in fact guilty.
Punishment will be metered out laterz.
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Mandos
February 14, 2010 at 10:01 pm
I mean, she just came out of left field and stole the 300 that thunder and I worked so hard for.
On behalf of the Mandos, Teh Honorable Judge Emu™³²®©, ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© collective, Comment 700 is claimed.
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Step away from the Pepsi Max.
You will pry the Pepsi Max form my cold dead hands.
THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!
Oh right.
Teh Verdict.
Feesh is sentenced to a large bowl of water in an industrial sized freezer, until such time as he is a fish-cicle.
*Clang*
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Pepsi Max and rum = RUM SMASH!!!
This Court is compelled by the evidence (and such as) to find that the accused, One Guilty, Filthy, Feesh, is in fact guilty.
TEAR DOWN THE WALL!!
You didn’t have to go to court to find out feesh was guilty… geesh.
Do we get to sit in our Sunday best and watch while the freezer door of justice demands its final payment?
Like I said, every thread turns to fantasizing about my death.
Hey ZRM- got yer snow shovel ready?? Another wave is on its way.
Anonymous
February 21, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Like I said, every thread turns to fantasizing about my death.
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You’re only making it worse for yourself!
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I have satisfied a thunderwish:
http://politblogo.typepad.com/politblogo/2010/02/abstraction.html
I think Zed has lost control of this Big Stone Head!!
Where the EFF is K with this Ice Dancing?
She is too busy mocking Canadia for its embarrassing loss in ice hockey to USA despite our mutual respect for the environment and the fact that the US exports more to goods and services to Canadia than all European countries combined.
HOW THE F**K DID AEI GET CONTROL OF MY COMMENTS?
reclaiming my identity.
Miracle on slush
Why is biathlon always on at midnight. You just can’t get more awesome than guns and skis.
What would be more awesome is if they had to ski through a forest with outdoor mechanical shooting gallery- with pop up targets that might be good guys or bad guys. None of this “hold your breath”- I want stereotypical New York muggers and possible innocent collateral damage popping up in the Canadian wilderness!
Also, there should be wolf attacks and such as.
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Where is the Olympic Fish Freezing event?
People on skis, toting rifles, spiking fish into snowdrifts… at 20 paces. Rifles to be used to launch the fish if manual spiking doesn’t work, or if the fish puts up too much of a fight.
Or… perhaps it could be needing to fill a freezer full of fish, closing freezer and riding it down the bobsled course.
Or…
I think this pertains to a previous comment in this thread, but who the heck knows…
FWIW- I break down and buy the damn Chocolate Chex and then neither lamblet is able to make it through even a small bowl of the stuff…
The Chocolate Chex of DOOM!
P.S. Heigh Ho, it’s off to work I go.
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I love how at 3B everything comes around full circle. The lamblets should write the DorD I haven’t.
I love how at 3B everything comes around full circle.
In the end, there’s sink lettuce and the drain.
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Round and round we go…
I was going to say it was more of a half-circle.
Half-ass anchors aweigh!
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I want your love and
your lover’s revenge
you and me could write a…thud*snore*
Yahoouj CANNOT be permitted to push Endless Goobie Thread off the list!
It is the Long Zardoz….
Mandos is apparently hitting the Pepsi SMASH again…
Actually I only had regular Diet Pepsi today.
WEAK!!!
I am having a SMASH Libre.
ZEDHaus will have SMASH Libre vending machines.
SMASH libre on TAP!!
On some days I think we really do need to build that compound.
I think I am going to read this thread backwards until I get to the last time I checked in.
Kathleen- you skipped out right at the moment crazy ass racist ice dancing came on!
You mean “a moving tribute to the Aboriginal peoples”.
Good enough for bronze.
You know they had their own bronze during the dress rehearsal that someone must have had better judgement about.
Yeah, well Plushenko beat them out with his very own custom platium medal.
BOOM!
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Kathleen
February 14, 2010 at 10:50 pm
it’s so heroic of this pair to go on after they were clearly attacked by wild dogs.
My favorite K Olympics Live Blogging Comment.
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Has anyone here ever fantasized about fantasizing about something? (I am writing this in the middle of a reverie about me fantasizing about fantasizing.)
What if what if what if…?
Has anyone here ever fantasized about fantasizing about something? (I am writing this in the middle of a reverie about me fantasizing about fantasizing.)
Mandos- shhhhh… you’re talking out loud. We can hear you.
Diet Pepsi again. Pepsi SMASH is not available in the vending machine currently.
Perhaps they’ll get the message if you smash the machine.
Also, I woke up too early and when I do that, I get ridden hard by the Snacktator. Baked Ruffles cheddar+sourcream and peanut M&Ms.
TMI
oh dear
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Anything to get us to 1000.
Mandos… comment strumpet…
El has never ridden anything hard… with hard being either an adjective or an adverb…. However, El does understand the unrelenting lure of snackie goodness.
I can’t be happier that Mandos dropped a massive Snacktator filthbomb. The corruption of all is nearly complete…
El has never ridden anything hard… with hard being either an adjective or an adverb….
There are little blue candy pills for that.
Just because you pop them like candy, fish, doesn’t mean they are candy.
This explains much.
fish spam
fish spawn
the fisher!
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this broadcast of women’s giant slalom is hilarious. It’s The Fog.
Yaay for K live-blogging!
Tell-us more plz.
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So I have rediscovered the joys of the audiobook. I have now made it through a good chunk of LM Bujold’s Vorkosigan series in unabridged CD form, out of order as they appear on the public library shelf: Cetaganda, The Vor Game, Shards of Honor, and currently Komarr and next The Warrior’s Apprentice.
I betting Kathleen is the only one reading this who knows what I’m talking about.
that’s so awesome Mandos – who is doing the reading?
Grover Gardner, via Blackstone Audiobooks. He has the perfect mildly sardonic voice for it.
It really is a different experience hearing them rather than reading them, and actually the highly cinematic Vorkosigan books are very amenable to the format. Also, I am generally inclined to flip forward a few pages and spoil every tense scene for myself, but it’s a lot harder to do that in the car, so I’m forced to “read” the story in the way Bujold wrote it. I may have a long drive in a few weeks and should maybe save one of the books for the trip.
so this has become less of a Zardoz thread, and more of a corner pub thread, where you drop in to chat with the bloggerhood?
I will need to check the charter, but I believe Z.A.R.D.O.Z. is OK with that.
EXCELSIOR!!
Damn the torpedoes!
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I got no problem with posting silly.
Someone has to get all this back to half ass!
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I wonder who the Dick Cheney of the Obama Administration is (I know, there is only one Dick Cheney, and this is the equivalent of Godwinning my own comment).
Anywho, Rahmbo for the sheer in your face relentless corporate selling out, or Eric Holder for the ongoing banality of evil?
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This only sounds like a corner pub thread because I am trying to restart the Zardoz so that it is not over², let alone over¹ until it reaches 1000 at least.
I think the lesson of the Obama administration is that the Dick Cheney is the system, man. In fact, Dick Cheney’s Dick Cheney may well have been just the system, man.
Anyway, there’s no such thing as “Godwinning”. Godwin’s law is a mere statement of fact. Godwin’s Law: for a thread length t in comments and for the random variable H representing the utterance of the name of the leader of Germany in 1944,
lim[t–>\infty] P_t(H) = 1
Hitler.
OK.
Who’s more Hitler-like, Holder or Rahm?
1) Holder
2) Rahm
3) There is no 3
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Aggressive!
I can’t believe K got bored of the Olympics.
I have been listening to the Complete Collection of Vogon Poetry on audiotape.
Pinko Punko
February 25, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Aggressive!
I can’t believe K got bored of the Olympics.
Me, too. I might have turn on the effing TV meself, just to post a commment.
Or maybe better, I’ll just fake that I turned on the TV, and post a really half-assed comment.
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I feel lucky and plucky and maybe I should play teh lotto, or some such.
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I know what it is. Kathleen thinks this thread is going to be a spoiler. Kathleen does not want Mandos to ruing the skating. Kathleen is in seclusion until the end of the women’s free skate!
NBC has caused Kathleen to be sequestered from us. I hope they make her go on the Tonight Show.
I hope they give her the Tonight Show. Why can’t funny people run the late night talk shows?
I hope they give her the Tonight Show. Why can’t funny people run the late night talk shows?
That would ruin it for everybody.
(And by everybody, I certainly don’t mean the audiences. Har Har, Eff ‘Em!!111!, amirite!)
I mean the past and future non-funny people who will run teh late nite talk shows. And G.E.
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How is it that I just woke up?
Did I really hit the sn00ze button 12 times in a row, in my sleep?
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hee hee! I actually am still totally into the Olympics. I think I was a Viking in a previous life. Nordic Combined baby!!!!!!!!
Pinko called it last night – NO LADIES SPOILERS. it was awesome.
but otherwise I have been trying to finish my stupid overdue library book so I haven’t been logging on the computer. I curse you Revelation Space!!!!!!!!! I think I am going to have to return it and try and check it out again.
Ah so you’ve been holding out on us.
All because of some fascist library rules!
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this book is killing me. Kill. Ing. Me. I love it, but I would like to post an excerpt to give you an idea of what I am going through.
500 pages.
Hmm.
Doesn’t sound all that lovable, K.
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men’s Olympic hockey, US semi-final:
K: C, can you think of something funny to say about the hockey game?
C: no, not really.
K (to baby): Daddy’s not helping Mommy be funny for the internet.
Mean daddy!
mean Daddy!
When will recursion Set in?
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C: Sinbad, stretching the very definition of the word “celebrity”.
K: you’ve heard of him, right? and you’re not related to him? isn’t that the definition of celebrity?
I just saw a Canadian holding a sign that said “Go Rrrrrush”
true story
K- wasn’t the two against one thing easier before B popped out? Isn’t their the danger that C will try to use that against you?
The sad thing is those 500 pages took you three days and that was “slow going.” You are omnivorous!
I meant voracious, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you were omnivorous. Seriously, how many seconds is your rule? Who was it that ate the attic food?
different times for wet vs dry food. attic food is not ringing a bell. I did put a loaf of bread in a storage unit once, but that was an accident.
I eat all books
that is a lie. I actually almost exclusively limit myself to fiction.
apolo ohno is so good he makes other skaters go down just with his mind.
That sounded dirty, Kathleen.
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There’s tons of new snow all over the old snow that never went away.
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I wonder if fish is out there.
Lurking.
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Once again, I am pleased to accept this award on behalf of the Mandos-ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© collective.
We thank all the little people/birds/pants/zombies who made this possible.
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Special thanks to Kathleen, who clearly could have typed 4 more comments, but chose to let someone else have it.
Special, K!
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Thank you, thunder. I was out last night playing Scrabble. Daredevil me. I even used an NSFW word! It’s in the scrabble dictionary, it’s legal.
…an NSFW word!
But you’re not going to tell us what it was?
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Nope! I look at this blog at work! Of course, I also look at Sadly No at work, and they use lots of NSFW, but at least I know that none of the NSFW was mine.
I can’t see Sadly, No! at work. Or any typepad blog.
Blogger slips by them, somehow. (Although nothing really slips by…our pcs are monitored, and reports have been sent to the overlords.)
I wonder how long before my Media Matters For America addiction is called on the carpet.
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That’s because you need to narrate loans! Banks are lending less and less, it must be somehow your fault for reading MMfA.
I wonder if loan narration could be improved if loans were narrated around a campfire, at night with marshmallows.
After all, GEICO tells us that insurance underwriters existed among the Neanderthals.
GLUG: Next cave says that Oogla has pre-existing condition.
GRAK: Deny willow bark. Throw Oogla into tar pits, charge family one deerskin service fee.
I wonder if loan narration could be improved if loans were narrated around a campfire, at night with marshmallows.
I don’t think anything can be done to improve the task of underwriting (and writing loan narratives, which is part of all that).
“How Did I Get Here?” I find myself asking.
I’ve been a foreign exchange trader, an equity derivatives trader, a programmer of bond futures options models (spaghetti BASIC, my specialty!).
And now this.
*sob*
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This yogurt cup I am eating has probiotics. I will have more life!
probiotics?
Did they lose their amateur standing?
They left college early to turn pro.
Never cared about getting a degree in the first place.
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Pro biotics hate visiting their Aunty Biotic.
MMfA comment.
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In a thread this long, one would expect to see some reference to citrus fashions—on a blog that didn’t practice rampant fruitism.
Doesn’t sound all that lovable, K.
Sounds Lovecraftable.
I believe this blog has perfected rampant fruitism, C.L.
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We’ve already done all the fruit puns, so I basically self-censored a big groaner here.
Given the plethora of fashions on display in Olympic curling, I find it more than surprising we didn’t see any citrus fashions on any teams in the competition. Perhaps those teams suffered accidents prior to their matches?
Would Mr. Punko like to expand on his reasons for suggesting that?
Mister Punko is clearly anti-pro fruit punnage.
And doesn’t that speak volumes?
P.S. I was *this close* to saying I shan’t be back. But this is a Zardoz, after all…
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Big Citrus Head.
…an NSFW word!
But you’re not going to tell us what it was?
Snacktator.
USA – Canuckistan heads into OT!!!111!
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“If ya didn’t like that period, ya don’t like hockey.”
-NBC
P.S. This is the first time I’ve turn the TeeBee on in over a week.
I heard a shout from the neighbors, and guessed it was Olympics related.
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Crosby scores, Canuckistan wins in OT!
P.S. That Scott Niedermayer guy was all over the place in overtime. I couldn’t help but think of this.
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The outcome was a bummer, but that fame was teh awesome.
um, game.
fish, your slip is showing.
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I thought fish was talking about Lady Gaga for a minute.
4 on 4 hockey is awesome, but I felt like barfing the whole time because it is a little bit fast paced.
I thought 4 on 4 was nifty. How long before the NHL catches on?
P.S. At least there is Celine lining for feeshie.
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I don’t even watch sports and haven’t seen a single second of this Olympics on account of not owning a TV and NBC’s online viewer being broken and suffering from massive suck, so I only found out about the win from a *Bulgarian* friend in California emailing my mobile.
Bulgarian friends in California are better sports Canucks than I am.
The Citrus Lover is a Canadian? Wow, that explains a lot.
There is no citrus in Canada.
I mean, the astonishing emphasis on political correctness and multifructalism. So Canadian.
Citrus Lover is quite careless to reveal so much personal information. Does Citrus Lover not worry about the Grapefruit Cupacabra????
At last!
*fiendish laughter*
Citrus Lover- I see the Citrus Fashion Association is making headway in the world! It may be a fiber commercial… but Benifiber has been using women clad in skirts, dresses, etc, made of lovely citrus-print slices!
No YouTube yet…
There is no citrus in Canada.
But there is milk.
has Project Runway ever done a fruit fashion episode?
have I made that joke before and just fish-ed my own comment?
That impersona…I mean, that joker pretending to be a non-existent “Grapefruit Chupacabra” once again demonstrates the underlying prejudices that drive this blog. Could this be a less welcoming and inclusive environment for citruskind?
hey, there isn’t HALF as much Citrus Hate as there is Zombism around the 3Bulls. Get in line, round boy.
Lucky for me there’s no ainurism going on here, AFAICT.
If only there were some sort of entity that could address the concerns of this weblog’s readers…
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Yes. We at the Citrus Fashion Association demand satisfaction!
If only there were some sort of entity that could address the concerns of this weblog’s readers…
Apologies. Emus on the loose.
FROZEN TANGERINES
I had a Pepsi SMASH today.
do Brothers in Arms for your car trip Mandos, the one set on Earth. I love that one.
Mandos mandate. Delicious or disgusting?
OMG
WTH is a “Diet Chek”?
I had half a Pepsi SMASH today. I am trying to cut down on my SMASHING.
fish: I will look for it (the “cease fire”). Can you point me to some sources? Maybe 7-11 might carry it.
I will bet the Cease Fire makes a swell mix with cheap rum.
Kathleen: I will look for it (the “Brothers in Arms”). Can you point me to some sources? Maybe 7-11 might carry it.
But seriously, I am apparently not going on the road trip, because the pretext for it disappeared (or has been postponed, really).
I still plan to listen to Brothers in Arms. I’m almost done Komarr which is my own favorite. When I was reading the series in book form for the first time, I always wondered the whole way through what relations were like between the occupier and the occupied beyond the Galen(i) family, and that book finally answered it.
But actually next up is The Warrior’s Apprentice, which I postponed for Komarr. When I see BiA on the library shelf, I’ll pick it up.
Which reminds me, I should actually considering checking to see whether I need to renew anything.
There’s also a French graphic novel of The Warrior’s Apprentice, which has been transmuted in French to The Apprenticeship of the Warrior. Cover of vol1.
that cover is awesome. Komarr is C’s fav. Memory is my fav. The cover on that one is the worst; it’s all super SciFi-y with space ships and lasers and Elli Quinn, and that one almost completely takes place on-planet with no Q. So funny.
this one
IT’S COMING FROM INSIDE HIS HEAD.
I liked Komarr partly because, believe it or not, I really related to it as a Canadian. A Canadian raised in English who followed all the referendums and constitutional bickering and so on and has a reasonably grasp of Canadian history. Canada contains within it a captive nation that never consented to it, and hasn’t genuinely consented to it to this day, complete with revolts and secret separatist bomb plots and so on. Komarr really went through those issues at a level of detail that I’ve only ever seen in SF in the works of C.J. Cherryh. We’re forced to confront the fact that Miles has never actually been the prey, but in fact he is the predator. The whole bit with Dr. Riva is something quite awful, even after we see it from Miles’ blithe perspective…
861 comments? Seems like a good time for a drum solo.
Ye Olde Skoole.
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Damn kids, get off the lawn before I call the cops.
I thought the orange leprechaun actually commented here for one femtosecond.
Ye Olde Muppet Skoole
I thought the orange leprechaun actually commented here for one femtosecond.
He’s Protestant?
Hieght challenged creatures playing drums?
I had a Pepsi Max Cease Fire today. One has to marvel at modern chemistry. It could be the most unnatural “food” I have ever had. It says on the label that I have to drink it after eating the new Doritos Burn flavors. I am intrigued and a little afraid.
more unnatural than Pepsi Clear?
Unpossible
Pepsi Max Cease Fire? Are they getting into lobbying now?
That Citizens United ruling is having all kinds of repercussions.
If you didn’t pair it with the right food, well I can’t really consider this a real “try”.
I would like to more about these Doritos Burn. And while this comment was hanging in the window, I used the internet to do so. Now I know! Thanks NBC!
I’m going to have to try this now, fo’ real.
I would like to more about these Doritos Burn.
Buddy Rich Chews Out His Band
Fur, the More
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The first few lines of Hoser’s Emuad:
Sing, cobag, the anger of Pelemus’ son Achillemus
and its cobagitation, which put Rolos thousandfold upon the chundermuffins,
hurled in their multemutudes to the House of Substance strong trolls
of plovers, but gave their bodies to the delicate feasting of
chupacabras…
I had Ball of Fire tivoed but it got deleted.
I always liked Love and Rocket’s cover of Ball of Confusion.
ball of wax vs. ball of fire
I jsut went into 7-11 to scout out Dorito Burn. They had Dorito Late Night All-Nighter Cheeseburger flavor.
Doritos Late Night isn’t truly late night until they add Deli Haus Pastrami flavor, or Guinness float flavor. Maybe Skittles will come through. Deli Skittles, I would love for ZRM to try you!
I could not find the Dorito Burn at the 7-11, but I did find the Pepsi SMASH Cease Fire. It was quite a bit more on the disgusting side than the delicious. BUT it might work if I had had this Dorito Burn, so I will withhold Great Judgement until I do.
why does Pinko hate Zombeez?
Mandos, make sure you try the Cease Fire with the Cheap Rum Optional Upgrade.
Adding rum to the Pepsi SMASH Cease Fire sounds rather rash to us.
What flavor is the Pepsi SMASH Carpet Bomb?
Next month: Pepsi SMASH Daisy-cutter.
In other news, DRM sucks. Why do publishers think that making libraries impose complicated and broken DRM schemes is going to prevent piracy? Especially for audiobooks that the library carries on CDs? The train has left the station, people, why make my life hard because you think that an MP3 file can be subjected to a single-user requirement? The music industry has finally started to move on…
Cobaggers will cobagitate, Mandos.
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Words of Wisdom
How did I know I’d come to this site and find a “cobag” joke within the first post?
Brad R.
Yes, those were the WoW when I posted the comment above.
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What flavor is the Pepsi SMASH Carpet Bomb?
I imagine it having dog hair and crumbs in it… and perhaps, a slightly soapy aftertaste.
Pepsi SMASH Cease Fire in the HOUSE!
…errr, office. in tha OFFICE!
More reports as events warrant.
Is there a Pepsi Cease and Desist?
What Dorito would go with it? Dorito Breaking and Entering?
Has Doritos tried any other fruit flavorings on their chips? I know they did Mountain Dew last year… or the year before… which has a kind of petroleum fruit flavor…
Maybe mango…
What Pepsi Smash flavor would work with the mango? Or would the Pepsi have the undertones of mango and the Doritos… perhaps a bbq chicken flaveur.
I think they should try a dessert Dorito.
Creme brulee perhaps… accompanied by a Pepsi Cream Soda… a guaranteed puker.
And, Pepsi should seriously consider the Deep Sea Pepsi… think of the Dorito possibilities!
Maybe a full meal of Pepsi/Dorito combos…
appetizer…
900!
Entree…
And dessert.
A veritable food pyramid consisting solely of Pepsi and Dorito combos…
Jennifer, don’t get teh six -pack of espresso at Starbucks anymore.
Or would the Pepsi have the undertones of mango and the Doritos
The place we went to eat on Friday had Mango Margaritas. But I stayed in the boat and just had the Patron Gold.
Jennilanche.
Pepsi Restraining Order. SMASH.
Pepsi SMASH Cease Fire in the HOUSE!
…errr, office. in tha OFFICE!
More reports as events warrant.
We will see if it is as effective on Zombies as Milla Jovovich.
Pepsi Clear and Tequila Margarita. SMASH.
fishpocalypse.
Milla can be EFFECTIVE on this zombie whenever she wants.
Rowr.
Plus, I liked her album.
Not a six pack of Starf***s, but rather home brew and paint fumes.
Maybe Pepsi could make Pepsi Meth
Crystal Lite Meth
Oops, Crystal Lite is a Kraft product… not Pepsi.
Perhaps they can make a Crystal Lite Mac N’ Cheese flavor.
Perhaps a winning combo, in honor of the wars, would be Pepsi Shit and Doritos Shingles (architectural style of course).
Pepsi Mace… Dorito Attack
Dorito Fourplay
Pepsi Afterglow
FOREPLAY!!!
I was thinking it could have four flavors…
Grrrr.
Pepsi McGriddles Legume and Doritos Smalltime Beef
perhaps we should all just stand back and let Jennifer and her Paint Fumes take this one to 1K.
and of course, I will do just that after noting that “Jennifer And Her Paint Fumes” is an excellent punk band name.
Pepsi Top Hat
Dorito Tails
Pepsi Mint Jelly
Dorito Lamb
Pepsi Sorbet or perhaps Pepsi Saltine… to cleanse the palate when switching flavors of Doritos.
Pepsi Tide
Dorito Stain
Pepsi Stain would be a flavor of your own construction.
Pepsi Summer’s Eve
Dorito Not So Fresh
Ok, that even grossed me out…
Dorito Sin
Pepsi Redemption
Pepsi Erase
Pepsi Delete
Pepsi Negate
All diet, of course.
Jennifer comments now come in the Economy 20-pak.
Which isn’t saying much given I rejoined the comment section somewhere around 880… I believe Mandos and Kathleen comments are coming in grosses.
I think Jennifer is on FIRE.
Hey, wait a minute, I think we’re missing the important part of Jennifer’s Fiery Comments (Cease Fire, indeed!):
Mainly, Home Brew? How comez Zombie hazzn’t had any of this Home Brew? Holding out on the bloggerhood, is all.
I think Jennifer is on FIRE.
paint fumes ARE flammable, after all.
Argh, the dude in the office across the hall is exhibiting a devastating case of plumber’s bum. Naturally, the way his desk is, his butt faces the door. I don’t know how to tell him to pull’em up…
Pepsi Crack
I believe Mandos and Kathleen comments are coming in grosses.
Some of them were definitely gross.
Clamepsi
Doritos Red Tide.
Mainly, Home Brew? How comez Zombie hazzn’t had any of this Home Brew? Holding out on the bloggerhood, is all.
No… just zombies…
Pepsi Pope
Dorito Altar Boy
You’re going to hell for that one.
Pepsi Pope- Cleansing away minor sins.
Or should that have been… washing down the aftertaste of minor sins…
Pepsi Swallow
Pepsi 6
Doritos 9
Capt Trolleypants is an evil being.
Filthbot alert. Filthbot joke approaching….
O, and that was just hurtful, Jennifer.
ZRM- Zombies don’t need coffee…
Dorito Death Panel
Pepsi Overdose
home brew COFFEE?!?!?!?
now I AM disillusioned.
Yep. Sorry…
Pepsi Regret
Dorito Transgression
Dorito Fish
Pepsi Freezer
Pepsi MSG
Kung Pao Doritos
Pepsi MSG
Or perhaps
Green Tea Pepsi
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? I think I see what Jennifer is trying to do.
Dorito Blah
Pepsi Meh
Home brew has left the building… and the body.
Jennifer is using up the rest of the time until she must take a lamblet to dance class. I suspect 1000 will happen before I return.
Pepsi Regret
Dorito Transgression
Pepsi Forgiveness
Dorito Permission
BUBBLE TEA DORITOS
Pepsi Chupacabra SMASH.
Pepsi Peter Gabriel
Doritos Phil Collins
Doritos BAD RELIGION
Pepsi RUSH
Pepsi Penis
Doritos ?
Pick your poison.
Pepsi Beer Goggles
Doritos Shame
Doritos One Night Stand
Pepsi Penicillin
Doritos Prop 8
Pepsi Busted Outside the Gay Bar
Any Doritos
Pepsi Atrazine
Doritos Hope and Change
Pepsi Screw You
Dorito Miracle Whip
Pepsi Peanut Butter
Dorito Cottaging
Pepsi Wide Stance
Doritos Appalachian Trail
Pepsi Soul Mate
Squirt
ZOMG I got here just in time.
WHERE IS MANDOS??
Critical Alert!!!!
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I’m here, I’m here.
I can just see Kathleen lurking behind a router, her typing appendages poised to steal our glory at the last minute!
Jennifer has been frozen out somehow- NEFARIOUS
I’M UNFROZEN!!11!@!!
Dorito Spam
Pepsi Unfrozen!!@!
That is so K. “Hey let me get this piece of fried chicken sandwich off of B’s head and non-chalantely blah blah BLAM 1000!!!!!!!!’
Back! Back I say!
FYI- fish is supposed to be frozen, not me.
Elsewhere, on the internets, I managed to work in a reference to Papua New Guinean penis gourds.
Did they have Pepsi in them?
With the power of Windoze M.E. I strike at thee!
P.S.
Words of Wisdom
Battle raps are never fair.
this needs to go in Words of Wisdom.
Kathleen
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I DISTRACT YOU! WITH…..
THIS~!!!###
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE
Dorito Old Lady
Pepsi Old Spice
LOL @ PINKO!
I rocket Old Skool!1@#!1!
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FYI- Goobie has been in that damn bath since Feb 7th!
Words of Wisdom
it allows them to chg up to $22 a cup
only someone with piss for brains would spend that for a cup of coffee. any one that will even attempt to rationalize that stupidity must have a mother and father that were bro. and sister
foodperv
Who am I to dispute the WoW?
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I bet it’s not a Pepsi bath.
It is slowly becoming clear to me that Kathleen is the smartest person in the history of the world.
Words of Wisdom
so you’ve never found anything new whose deliciousness or digustingness is in question? Because I can go on posting about how yummy egg nog is until the Yuletide is over.
Kathleen
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Pepsi Bath
Dorito Towel
This kissing up to Kathleen is still not going to get you comment 1000…
Dorito Towel.
Ow!
Or will it?
Oh yeah?
Then we will just have to kiss up to Ann Bartow:
Words of Wisdom
I liked what she had to say a lot. Your post was very useful because it created a place for women who don’t like giving blow jobs to express this, or to learn that they are not alone. Heart expressed this better than I could and I wanted to make sure you saw her post. Warmest regards.
Ann B@rtow
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fine…
Thundra needs a WoW intervention.
I suspect he’s taking too many root canal pain killers.
Home stretch, slow browser…
Goobie had a blowout!!!! Did I miss it???
Words of Wisdom
Actually, Wang Chung would make a better Secretary of State.
billy pilgrim
B.P. ftw!
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Perfect timing on the announcement of the blowout!
Goobie gets the 1000th comment!
Pinko wins. Goobie did indeed have a blowout. I suppose it is only fair that the father of the face that launched a thousand comments would get the 1000th comment. Well played.
And where was Kathleen? Out of the running.
Of course yours truly did not get a single 100 on his own. I’ll just go play with my Razzie.
1) I truly didn’t know
2) Firefox making me click three extra clicks to recomment after the last one somehow worked out.
3) A successful Zardoz is concluded with a river of poop.
I love that commercial.
Words of Wisdom
This is the dumbest thing ever. Do I get any points for peeing on this blog?
Res Publica
Rockz It.
As far as Mister Punko stealing 1000, I call shenanigans.
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P.S. Not really calling out P.P. for shenanigans. Without P.P., this thread itself would by unpossible!
But the WoW was kinda funny.
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WoW
Hi _____,
I am giving you the respect you do not give me — and asking you in private to please leave me and my blog posts alone. I am not interested in your games anymore. They are old and tired. Please take your sideshow elsewhere.
_____
YOU’LL NEVER GUESS!!!!!!!!
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Goobie gets the 1000th comment!
This is highly appropriate. You may now speculate on the prize to be awarded (’cause I’m plum out of ideas).
Thanks for crossing me. It tickled a little.
I think I can make a good guess on that WoW, Pinko!!!
I think most of us can…
holy shit! I missed like 200 comments and Goobie thread went over 1000. effing job…..
Sorry K. I had a lot of coffee yesterday…
I love how everyone was expecting K to swoop in at the millenium, but you were all being set up for days now by Pinko. Who do you think sent all that coffee to Jennifer?
upon review it seems that at the fateful turning of the 1000 comment and the Goobie blow-out and the missing of the vulturing of the Ultimate Zardoz I was passed out in my bed after drinking cranberry vodka and ginger ale at the office. which one is more shameful? you decide.
Depends, Kathleen — was B drinking with you?
I was passed out in my bed after drinking cranberry vodka and ginger ale at the office
With a wastebasket by her side.
Oh wait, according to Brando’s comment, she didn’t need a wastebasket.
Depends, Kathleen
Who do you think sent all that coffee to Jennifer?
I had a slight clue when upon opening the package, I smelled not only coffee beans, but the slight aroma of baby puke.
the wastebasket is a twofer, so more valuable in these situations.
Who do you think sent all that coffee to Jennifer?
and now I am wondering who sent the cranberry vodka to my boss. I smell Thunder Shenanignas.
and now I am wondering who sent the cranberry vodka to my boss. I smell Thunder Shenanignas.
I bet you’re right!!!
And, I’m suspecting GC ate Mexican food earlier in the day, thus causing Goobie’s timely blowout…
It “would be” hilarious of Thunder took out K with the Cape Codders, somebody took out Jennifer with the coffee (Zombiez), GC tries to take me via the masterful consumption of Mexican, but the Goob comes through with a massive blowout, but not too massive. Gentleman and ladies, that is how you cobagitate.
I don’t know who that WoW could have been, because my 3Bullzitude does not go back that long.
But I was inferring from P.P.’s implication that it was Res.
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Heh- Res would have to have been pretty hammered to send that e-mail. RP is more of the write “blog sl*t” on your web log’s virtual forehead after you virtually passed out from some sad sausage sousing.
this TNG episode makes no sense. Picard just transformed the Enterprise into an alien temple in order to save it from being transformed into an alien habitat.
Brent Spiner is acting the shit out of this ep though.
The Worf menopause ep is my favorite.
I do have to say the Nutter has the best line:
“How does Worf keep his job? The Enterprise gets boarded every week?”
It only now just hit me that this could be a possible anti-affirmative action/anti union/anti-minorities screed on his part.
“if anyone has a better idea, I am happy to entertain it.” – Picard, shutting down the critics.
I am so going to use that in Life.
The Enterprise is en route somewhere!!!!
I propose to reconfigure the shield generators.
they don’t even have money in this universe. how could the Nutter deal?
I suggest rerouting power through the phase modulators.
Is it time to send Yeoman Pinko down to the planet with the away team?
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Also, Picard is French and the Federation is essentially the latest, greatest in UN Black Helicopters.
I know what you are on about, Thunderpants! I think fish should be beamed down to the ice planet.
In that case, how about some WoW?
Words of Wisdom
On a completely unrelated note, yes it is, I am on my second bottle of Pepsi Max, which as I vaguely recall is the more masculine brand of Diet Pepsi.
Mandos
RECURSIVE!
Exactly.
Soon, this goobie post will gain full consciousness and take over the planet. So I’m going to bed.
Good luck with the rap battle!
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Aho! The Megapode! There she bumps! Ho, the Megapode!
I think fish should be beamed down to the ice planet.
Red-shirted again.
At least we got comments 999 and 1001, Mandos.
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I am starting to fear the Zardoz now….
Now???
before it was manageable.
NOW IT IS ALL OUT OF CONTROL!!
Hot Tub Time Machine, anyone?
That’s a Great Idea, Katleen.
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I CAN’T GET BACK!!
I DON’T KNOW HOW IT WORKS!!
11ty hundred. It is within our grasp.
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The vending machines were out of Pepsi SMASH, so I tried for Diet Pepsi. I absent-mindedly pulled it out of the hopper and went back to my office, opened it, and started chugging, and spluttered.
The Diet Pepsi was mislabelled. I got Dr. Pepper, non-diet.
Does the sugar count if I got it by accident? Or is it Ghost Sugar?
Is it over²?
It’s not over UNTIL WE SAY IT’S OVER!!!
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It’s over, thundra.
But over¹ or over²?
I’ll believe it’s over when a quorum is convened, and a motion is properly introduced and voted upon.
Or however that crap is supposed to go.
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I’m thinking of live blogging the NCAA tournament.
I’ll start out by noting that a player in the game I’m watching is named BJ Gay.
true story
I worship the ground Kathleen walks upon.
OK, if Kathleen is live-blogging something, it’s not over.
Off-topic on-topic: I didn’t go in to my office today because they are Meatspace live-blogging the tourney in downtown Milwaukee today, and the parking structure wants 50 bucks to park all day.
That’s 100 emusic downloads!
50 bucks to park all day
those are practically SF rates!!
Emu-sick downloads?
I KNOW, Kathleen!
Normally, it’s 80 bucks a month, and i could get away with 50 if I didn’t want to park in a covered structure 1/2 block from my office.
On the other limb, if I lived in SF I would not only make more money, but be able to get to work without a car. Also, you guys have TONS of cycle/scooter parking.
umm, can you help me find a job in SF?
I wish – how awesome would that be?
live drunk blogging the Cal game. except this game is super boring.
still 13 points ahead. wheeeee
I really want to go play the Ocarina of Time, but that doesn’t really lend itself to live-blogging.
“Now I’m trying to get a heart piece from the Gerudo thieves”
“Now I’m going back to Dodongo’s Cavern to kill that last skulltula with the bombchu”
“Now I need to figure out how to find out who to give the rabbit mask too. Looks like I need to talk to everyone in the Market again, in case I missed a clue!”
mmmmmm hurricanes
The wheels are off this thing.
this thread had wheels?
Maybe PP meant K Unit!
If this thread had wheels, it would be a ______.
If this thread had wheels, it would be a
Catherine!!!!!
It’s the color of her skiiiiiiin!
So, what you’re saying is, you feel that this thread is breaking you.
I will ref myself
I love the movie Maverick, but the string bets make it almost unwatchable.
http://twitter.com/dilettante/status/10760421298
has Alfred Molina ever not been awesome? no.
a challenge for trollypants ans other haters of pants and whole foods and such.
hey I recognize that guy in the background. the last I saw him he was being killed in Hong Kong for being friend’s with Indiana Jones
I finally saw that Modern Family episode. Zsa Zsa Gaboa, haha funny.
Haha.
Georgetown lost. When I was in H.S., we used to sing “drive ’em back to the country club!”
P.S. That was @Georgetown Prep, but same thing.
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has Alfred Molina ever not been awesome?
Steamboy?
By appearing in Not Without My Daughter.
Shirley his appearance as Dr. Otto Octavius in Spiderman II makes up for that, Mandos?
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I barely remember that movie now but it must have been awesome.
I haven’t seen it yet, I don’t want to ruin it for myself.
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Baked Cheetos are inferior to the regular kind. That’s interesting, because I rather like the Baked Lays versions of their chip flavours. I guess Cheetos is not Cheetos without the trace tastes of vinyl and acrylic.
half-baked makes Baked Cheetos better. Discuss.
I haven’t teh faintest idea what Kathleen is talking about.
Ossifer.
I guess Cheetos is not Cheetos without the trace tastes of vinyl and acrylic.
True. You also need that oil ooze that seeps out when you bite them. If you really want to scare yourself, buy the Giant Cheeto Balls (do they still sell those?) and open them from the bottom. They should have called them Cheetos Shale.
These appear to be a recent invention, Jennifer.
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I stopped at the vending machine on my way home night and Baked Cheetos had just been deposited. I had to buy them, obviously.
Verdict:
they were tastier than I was expecting, though they really didn’t taste like Cheetos (like Coke/Diet Coke) except for when you got to the very bottom. Then, even though it wasn’t oily, the overload of powder felt Cheeto-esque. Otherwise they tasted more like Pirate booty.
These appear to be a recent invention, Jennifer.
Within the past couple of years, yes, but I haven’t seen them around lately, and after opening a bag at the wrong end, I’m kind of glad I haven’t.
Baked Cheetos still sounds like it should be some funky 50’s casserole.
tasted more like Pirate booty.
ewww.
clearly you’ve never indugled. I guess the mid-west* pirates & their booty aren’t that abundant.
* it took me 5 tried to spell that correctly.
oh my god a comment for the ages.
5 tried
Lay off the cranberry vodka, Kathleen!!!
I saw that Kathleen comment at work! (I can’t see typepad or 3Bulls! at work, btw.)
My immediate thought was grapefruit juice.
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Kathleen just killed me.
Kathleen speeled induggled wrong.
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For Teh Collective™?
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All of Kathleen’s comments smell of NOT WORKING!
Boozehound!
Once again, I am pleased to accept this (11-tee hundreth) award on behalf of the Mandos-ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© collective.
We thank all the little people/birds/pants/zombies who made this possible.
In other matters, these are the 11-tee hundreth WoW. (Kathleen, of course.) AKA what Jennifer said.
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I AM OD WORKING
Are we counting off the hundreds at this point? I thought we were just going for the thousands…
SO
Kathleen is piling up more WoW cred as we speak.
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That comment is almost as legendary as Kathleen’s tequila comment…
I should have said that Kathleen’s comment was degenlary.
fish is creel
Is this the end of Rico?
I mean the Goobie thread?
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NEVER! I must know the secret of curing tinnititis!
er, tinnitus
Madonna has tinnytits.
and I was sober for that one…
That can be remedied with some cranberry vodka, Kathleen.
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My last three vending machine purchases (not counting Pepsi SMASH) have been Baked! Ruffles cheddar and sour cream flavour. Those are like crack.
Mandos, the Zardoz has moved to Thundra’s.
That doesn’t mean it can’t come back.
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This is beyond Zardoz. We are now in meta-Zardoz territory.
Zardoz is a Moveable Feast.
of brains. Oh, look, Song of the Day!
I’m going to need a 3Bulls! ruling on the “Raspberry flavored Chocolate Covered” Matzo crackers sitting in my office kitchen.
UC?
I think UC will say yes because Passover is such a slog, any variety is welcome. Matzoh BLTs?
Matzoh BLTs?
With cheese.
squeeeeeee
(not cat or dog or babee related)
LOL!!!
(not cat or dog or babee related)
What about skittles? Or cranberry vodka related?
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C’s premature review of Moon was absolutely on the money. I especially loved it when Dave asked Hal to open the pod bay doors, and Hal obeyed instantly.
1200, Mandos, it’s just a shot away.
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Chocolate Cheerios are SO MUCH BETTER than Chocolate Chex. I would definitely recommend them to the Grizzifer household. Naturally they buy everything that pseudonymous Internet people recommend to them.
This is Department of the Army. Our records show you are the Rockford, James who failed to turn in his service automatic in May 1953. Contact us at once!
This is indeed a great post.
Perhaps the greatest post that was ever posted greatly.
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I like these type of people who share knowledge with others, free of charge too
I agree John Gardner except nobody except for Pinko has addressed the elephant in the room- Raspberry flavored chocolate covered Matzo. What is the deal with these crackers? am I taking crazy pills here?
The deal here is you should be taking those crackers, Kathleen.
Because we need to know…D, or D?
Deal?
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Kathleen, chocolate covered any variety of matzoh is delicious to no end. Raspberry flavouring that chocolate is moot.
Cereal consumers, pay attention to the Doom of Mandos!
It sounds like he knows what he’s talking about.
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Did you buy the Chocolate Cheerios, if?
if they’re still there on Monday I will do a DorD. Outstanding questions include: which is ‘raspberry flavored’, the matzo or the chocolate coating?
Almost assuredly the chocolate coating. Matzoh itself is utterly resistant and impermeable to flavour.
Boing boing on the ideological pollution that is the iPad:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-you-shouldnt-either.html
I thought I already commented about how that was pretty wanky. Poor Cory. A cool gadget for the masses. I bet if their were only two in the world he’d want one.
You’re trolling me.
Oh, I meant if “there.” Rain down some chocolate cheerio pain!
Apple probably refused to allow Boing Boing early access to iPad, also Donut Wheel donuts, Cory waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahed so hard he had to strike a blow against the monolith. Kind of like the people that argue that Google is supposed to be their pal so when they do something evil, they are all “you promised!!!!!!!!” and Google is like “sorries!!!!!” Apple is the same way. Chunderknobs act like “but the Apple II EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” when owning one was probably akin to having a wall mounted Bang and Olufson record player in the bathroom.
THAT is a troll.
I hardly think that Google is angelic and I don’t actually use Gmail for anything but trolling. Most of my colleagues are annoyed at me because I won’t use the Google scheduler to make my life available to them. It’s less evil than Apple but only just. Android (the emu-lator at least, I don’t own an Android phone) has helped me break certain kinds of DRM, so I appreciate them for that.
For me the problem is once again the ideological pollution of a system specifically designed as propaganda for the idea that we should no longer expect to tinker. That cars have the engine block covered now is not an excuse; that’s a problem too.
You are trolling me back. Touché. Specifically designed indeed. Just like 3B!
3B! is designed on open standards based on freely available WikEmu. It’s complemutely different.
I didn’t buy the Chocolate Cheerios, Mandos, as I’m not a breakfast person. If I have a orange or a banana, that is more than most days.
Also, I had an Apple II+, and I was actually paid to write programs for it by Kidder, Peabody.
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I told myself that if the choc cheers had a recipe on the box for coverting them to something allegedly edible using marshmallows and butter I would buy them. They didn’t so I passed.
Also, I was under the impression that 3B was based on the LEMUX OS.
Oh no, not this again.
You know, back in the day, I used to tinker with my car. I usually effed it up, and had to pay somebody to fix it properly anyway. Nowadays, I just pay the mechanic first, and avoid wasting all my time. My time is worth something to me, I dont’ get anything out of working on my car myself, and am lousy at it anyway.
The iPod, iPhone, Ipad? same thing. I wouldn’t get anything out of tinkering with them, they already pretty much perform the way I would want (I am making a supposition on the iPad here. Let’s not get too pedantic) I do understand that one way to achieve greater reliability is to reduce complexitiy and unknowns, and exerting greater control helps to do that. I don’t see the great moral offense there.
Does Mandos tinker with his TV? His phone? his refrigerator?
There are products which are more ‘open’, whatever that means, such as netbooks. And I am sure there will be a long series of “iPad killers” from the usual suspects, just as there were with the iPod and the iPhone.
Hey, I don’t care. it’s a product, not a way of life. If it does things that help me in my work or daily life, quietly and without fuss, I’m probably gonna count it a win. I’d rather NOT have to futz with the inner workings, that’s time I can’t be spending designing wonderfully energy efficient houses…
In fact, I think I may go out and buy an iPad TODAY, just to irritate Mandos.
THAT’s trolling.
Let’s not get too pedantic)
Too late.
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100% of computers are rendered non-tinkerable to 99.999% of humans on Earth simply for being computers. Cory has exquisitely wanked on this topic. It is like he wants to protect the freedom of the hypothetical budding computer genius somehow hypothetically being stifled by the Apple pillow on his face, kind of like libertarians care more about hypothetical future Sam Waltons and their freedom to make ultrabillions instead of living, actual persons.
Forgive me if I repeat myself.
I’ve been “exquisitely wanking” on this topic at least as long as Cory.
I don’t own a TV but in the past I have opened them up. I have disassembled and reassembled parts of a malfunctioning fridge. I have definitely tinkered with multiple kinds of phones including cell phones both in software and hardware. (Full disclosure: both paid and unpaid to do it.) I’m not a fan of fixing cars myself, but have done so and only ever had cars where I have the option to do so (yes, some manufacturers still make them!).
Media is the “oxygen of democracy” to quote a certain convicted felon and noted popular historian. The tools we use and the expectations we create actually matter to how we arrange our society. The question is, to what extent to we cede control over media to rentiers?
Microsoft started the process but kind of botched it. Apple may actually be a lot closer to the right formula. The design of the iPad (and other Apple media consumption products) is not only meant for non-tinkerers, but actively militates against the tinkerer. And it may be a lot more effective at creating those cultural expectations than Microsoft was.
But I’ll never convince you that media is different, and that a utilitarian defense of alleged ease-of-use is also a pernicious assault on our minds by rentiers to turn us into media consumers that unthinkingly pay the toll on our minds at every opportunity.
Anyway, enjoy your dystopia of media illiteracy as aggressive popular fashion statement, suckers. I just wish you wouldn’t take the rest of us with you.
Mandos is in fine form here, but I counter his claims of Apple as monolith stultifying the poor masses with the fact that Apple promoting ease of use makes technology accessible to the masses. I think the Nintendo Wii is kind of the same thing with video games. Apple products may not be available to the masses but they create a desirable aesthetic for people unfamiliar with or unable to keep up with technology that may be leaving huge swaths of people behind. They drive the market for accessible products.
What is Twitter except RSS+mass texting for people that would never be able to understand RSS? What are many apps besides custom web interfaces that make certain web tasks automated or easier to use? Didn’t we already have the web, with the ability to bookmark different sites?
Mandos dislikes the invisible hand. Apple, as constant underdog for a large number of years can make a case for actual market-driven innovation. However, they have used their nascent monopoly to make money.
I claim Mandos’ position is elitist and utopian. TROLL ON.
Mandos is probably busy emptying the vending machine of nutritious snacks right now.
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Actually, no, but earlier today I had a bag of Baked! regular Fritos, a Pepsi SMASH, and a Snickers bar (rare treat).
I do have a response in my head but I’ll get it down on blogcomment tomorrow.
Whoa- baked fritos? They don’t have those around here, I presume they consider it an affront to Frito Pie, and consider it much less than Full Frito.
I meant Baked! Lays, except I thought that sounds too filthbot.
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE DOOM OF MANDOS. ON SECOND THOUGHT, THERE IS NO PREPARATION POSSIBLE.
So some of you seem to be seeing this in terms of what you do with your devices and what you don’t do, and that is explicitly not the point.
Let me remind you of some of the history: I was reading IT trade magazines in the 90s just when the Internet went mainstream. And as more and more people connected to the Web, the marketing types began to panic in a weird way. Not a month went by when someone didn’t write an article about the antiquated “pull” paradigm for the Web (ie, people actively have to search, click links, etc) and the newest startup company that would finally implement a “push” paradigm (users passively accept what the Web rentiers tell them to see) that users would accept.
And the reason why I call this a “panic” was that most marketing to consumers is ultimately founded on a notion of captive eyes and minds—cable and network TV. In a world where anyone could now install any application and use the internet in any way they pleased and consume content in any way they like, it was a huge threat to them. It upended standard marketing paradigms and a huge infrastructure built to place limits on our ability to decolonize our heads.
So the “push” paradigm was an attempt to get us to a Cable TV Plus model for the Web.
But from about 1995 to 2005 or so, none of these “push” paradigm attempts ever worked in any big way. Such a failure they were, even when the masses all had hotmail accounts—people would simply rebel and move elsewhere at any serious “push” thrust—that one could almost imagine that we really were moving into an era of media and information liberty.
However, oddly correlated with the rise of Apple and Facebook, it appears that the “push” paradigm has finally found traction. The basic paradigm of the iPad (and the iPhone, which made it work) is to treat software as served up like cable channels. That’s the point of the App Store.
And among the biggest fan boys are a good chunk of the early adopter tech gurus. Who knew that all it would take was a touch screen and a few cute Ikea pictographs to throw us all back into Cable TV Plus?
So now before y’all turn around and use the Consumer’s Free Pass on me (“WANT. Suck on that, l33+ n3rd haXX0rz!”), a couple of more points.
Let’s talk about the whole ease of use claim, and the whole idea that this is bringing a whole new set of people onto the web. You know, the whole “This is a computer even me [insert female stereotype] can use!” Don’t we call this the soft bigotry of low expectations? I thought the point is that access to IT over make users less dependent on information rentiers—“disintermediation”.
So, fine, there are users who will never want to tinker. Agreed. I’m afraid that I also agree that people like Cory miss the point to some extent: it’s not just about the little kid who will never open a computer case. It’s about an entire new social expectation that not only will software be served to you, but you will not be able to look for alternatives once you have signed on with one rentier or another.
When we should be disentrenching rentiers in health care, in war, and so on, the sole acceptable liberal rentier appears to be Apple.
You might say that this is not Apple’s intent, but how are we to interpret Apple’s position on the illegality of jailbreaking? Whatever they intend, mental closure is the effect, anyway. So it’s not just our children who won’t tinker, but our grandmas, whether they wanted to or not.
Impressive rebuttal, Mister Doom.
The ball is in your court, Mister Punko.
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I object. That was way too informative and interesting. I learned and had serious thoughts.
Ombudsjudge ruling?
also, I think Cory is reading this thread.
doctorow No. 1 #iPad misconception: APPL’s device isn’t tinkerer-friendly. No. Apple’s device is ILLEGAL to hack w/o permission, thanks to DRM.
about 1 hour ago via web
I will correct Mandos’ balky/inappropriate analogies anon.
If Cory were reading this thread, he’d be tweeting about Pepsi Smash and Choc Cheers.
I guess I will just add my unwillingness to write my own programs, work on my refrigerator, and build my own car to my list of moral failings and ideological transgressions, I guess.
ARGH! You’re missing the damn point! It doesn’t matter what you want to do or not do. No, we’re not all going to be refrigerator repairman.
Zombie has a vested interest anyway. Both he and Apple want to nom our branes.
I think I’d rather be a refrigerator repairman than continue in my current career.
Is there some University of Refrigerator Repair that I might apply to?
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Relevant link.
(Not Safe For Goobies)
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Let’s talk about the whole ease of use claim, and the whole idea that this is bringing a whole new set of people onto the web.
I know my 3yo daughter can use my iPhone.
And the soft bigotry line is bs. My mom and dad are barely functional on computers. Things got a lot better for them (and for me) when the switched to a Mac. There will always be gear for the real tinkerers, but Mandos, most people actually want what you find so horrific, i.e. “a Cable TV Plus model for the Web.”
I am sure the circles you travel in (me too, I have even chatted with Stallman) it matters a lot if you can work directly with the source code. There are also very active environments/communities for people who want to do so, but the reality is that the vast vast majority of users are just that, users. They will never ever pop the hood. Code freedom is just not an issue. In addition you said:
“In a world where anyone could now install any application and use the internet in any way they pleased and consume content in any way they like, it was a huge threat to them.”
With a web browser on the phone, content consumption is still not restricted. They are only controlling what can be installed. I know for you this is not an “only”. To me it is. If you don’t want an iPad, iPod, or iPhone because of restrictions, you can get a little linux netbook, and go to town. This is actually a rare example (for me) of when market competition is successfully bringing products people want. Windows rose was dominant for a while, started cheating when they lost their edge, regulators stepped in, and now they are being beaten by more nimble competitors like Apple and Linux suppliers. Linux is actually doing quite well where it really matters, in IT infrastructures, Apple in the casual user category. Using PP’s example Apple is the Wii while Linux is the PS3 (laughingly, Windows is the Xbox).
I will extensively go into why the cable analogy isn’t even appropriate and the Apple model is vastly more consumer friendly than the cable model. Cory is going to go all in on this wank I can tell. It will be like Hamsher and healthcare. I just trolled fish and Mandos at the same time!!!!!!!!!
It doesn’t matter what you want to do or not do.
it does to me.
First they came for the linux users, and I did not protest because I was not a linux user.
Mandos has tinkered with the heinous tuna melt.
And, wouldn’t a baked Frito just be a taco shell?
Pinko- you don’t need a chocolate Cheerio recipe. You had it all along!!!
Look, most of the counterarguments boil down to this, in a very small précis:
[Spock]”The liberatory potential contained in the usability emanations of superior aesthetics outweighs the negative cultural consequences of inculcating an expectation of use restriction on general users.”[/Spock]
Yes, it’s a mouthful, but I think it’s a fair one-sentence description of your positions. (Aside from Zombie’s which is, as far as I can tell “ME! ME!”)
So, to me, this type of argument is equivalent to saying that the fact that the witch’s house is made of candy is a positive argument for Hansel and Gretel to go inside.
Anyway, more detailed responses maybe on Thursday because I should be preparing for a *cough*candidacyexam*cough* big presentation I have to make or something.
But Mandos,
Your position cannot even be boiled down because it seems so inherently false or at least based on a slope of indeterminate angle and unknown coefficient of friction towards a debased state where cultural consequences are somehow expressed. I find this similar to arguments where racial components are argued in the face of a massive number of other variables. I purport that the cultural consequences would be impossible to measure in the face of a massive amount of noise, in either the same direction from other aspects of society, or be completely immeasurable due to various negative effects on “culture” from dominant, unrelated forces. In short, I find the position somehow both elitist and luddite. And that is how I troll.
Mandos have you read Shop Class as Soulcraft? did we talk about it already? Has anyone else read it? It had its flaws, but he was making similar Mondaos arguments w/r/t cars/motorcycles.
someone please have read it so I can contribute!
the counter arg I see to Mandos’ cultural concerns is exactly his TV analogy. TV from its inception was the passive viewer-takes-what-he-is-given model but as soon as instant Netflix, on-demand and internet streaming come along, people lap it up. If the kind of cultural conditioning you are afraid of happening was really likely, wouldn’t that not have happened?
Mandos’ point is you get only what the cable people offer. You may pick and choose off the menu, but they set the menu. That is how the iPad is different from a laptop. The only way to put software on is through the Apple store. So they control completely what you can and can’t load on the computer. Part of the user “agreement” is that it makes it illegal to hack in and put other software on. Admittedly draconian.
K- were you discussing this on FB or was I talking about it with my sister?? I read an article on this book and ended up getting it for Grizzled. I may have to borrow it back.
I haven’t read SCaSC but I’ve heard him talk on the radio and partially agreed with what he said. As I said, it’s not just about the tinkering. I have fixed (a limited part of) a fridge, but it’s not something I plan to do every time my fridge breaks, if I could afford to do otherwise.
I understand his point, but it is only accurate so far. Apple discovered this model because of DRM requirements from music companies. Apple realized that this was also a moneymaker for them, which is clearly important for them in terms of leveraging their devices and also the survival of their pricey aesthetic. Where the model is not accurate is that cable is a subscription service and package driven, so it is anticonsumer in those ways. Consumers do not want a subscription service for music, software or content, and they want a la carte options. In my mind this is the bigger restriction in terms of a true cable model, and also why it isn’t appropriate for Apple.
Mandos does not touch upon whether there could be any IT security issues for Apple to want to control content delivery. Additionally, Apple is behaving like a relatively benign dictator in terms of the content they allow- restrictions are primarily based on sexually themed apps. However, they are clearly anti-competitive in terms of Google Voice. What aspects of these decisions are linked to the exclusivity deal for the iPhone with ATT, initially the only leverage Apple had on phone price. I think if there were an initial model for Apple to introduce the iPhone without a provider monopoly we would not have seen it travel down this path. Now that it is, however, the money is talking.
The anti-tinker argument is just moronic for the vast proportion of society that wants an item to do something, regardless of whether the possibilities of that product are restricted. My blender blends and I have decided that is enough for me.
The dumbing down of society argument is also tired because it is an eternal argument and the nature of capitalism is a trend towards monopolies and dumbness. To specifically wield it against Apple doesn’t seem to make sense because the forces at work are pretty universal (even if it seems counterintuitive that they be yoked to what we normally view as an innovative process). Their are countless ways in which innovation towards mass distribution/consumption are introduced in all areas to make society dumber (marketing, media, everything).
I really should stop, but… Via ueber-fanboy John “Forgive me Jobs for I have sinned” Gruber, we get this interesting “moderate” viewpoint:
It’s interesting to note how Gruber approves of this as “thoughtful and reasonable”, which just shows what political airheads the fanboys are. This position is not even moderate—it’s far more radical than Cory’s position. Apple would almost certainly rather put screws on the hardware so we can install expansion boards rather than implement any of this because it defeats the entire purpose of the iPad far more than any hardware tinkerability does. It defeats the business model itself.
To be clear, that’s by Alex Payne, not John Gruber. I think that Payne understands what he is saying and the tone of voice in the whole post is suspiciously “Modest Proposal” Swiftian.
STOP ME BEFORE I POST AGAIN!!!!!
Oh hello rant space:
Gruber’s a fanboy who writes like a tastemaker. A neat trick, when you basically never say anything bad about the company you’re writing for/about.
The iPad is a particularly interesting example because it appears to have built entirely for the purpose marketing it to tech geeks and analysts, down to the insanely drawn-out rumours and speculation before the actual product announcement, and including much-debated high-ball price estimates that kept Apple in the news.
Every single estimate and spec nugget has been gleefully regurgitated, and all its presumed shortcomings (lack of Flash support being the big one) either ignored or dismissed. We don’t need Flash! We’ll just get a bunch of news sites to create a new webpage layout JUST FOR US! We’re so special!
And there’s Gruber helpfully pointing out that the OS “technically” supports multitasking. Which is to say for iTunes to run in the background, and nothing else. But he does it by linking to some other fanboy he happens to agree with. He’s like the Instapundit of tech blogging.
Bleh. Ranting in the throes of exhaustion doesn’t do much for my writing.
Not getting enough sleep? There’s a nap for that.
Yeah thanks Mandos
like I even want to participate in this discussion now; admittedly I may not be as tech savvy as others but the condescension is nauseating
I don’t know why you react so viscerally to my argument. Is it because you feel I’m judging you? Trust me, I am a sinner in other ways, if that’s how you want to think about it.
M- the argument comes across as Apple is dumbening humans, thus humans that enjoy their APple products are endumbened. I know you wouldn’t want to be that way. Perhaps though if you get any grapefruit-themed headwear from the midwest you should pass on modeling it.
I watch Desperate Housewives on hulu. It definitely endumbens me and you may judge me now.
About 2/3rds of the people I meet and work in real life with appear to use Apple products—sometimes exclusively Apple products—and I don’t consider most of them to be dumb. Blinkered in many cases, but not dumb or endumbened. Unfortunately I can’t hide the fact that I think some people are deeply mistaken…
The main targets of my ire are the early adopter tech-head fanboys, some of whom are very clever people.
My understanding is that multitasking is throttled back to preserve battery life. There is a huge cost in CPU time for multiple threads.
I’d be almost certain that Apple knows that if they offered the choice of multi-tasking, but gave a warning about battery life, people would complain about the device not being up to the task, and also there would be no way to even estimate battery life. So now Droid can go after them for not being able to multitask. I note that George Lucas makes money off of that.
And if anyone is interested, I have a several-year-old unpublished full-length journal article on why UI designers should make computers harder to use and why users really are stupid and we should be rid of them forthwith. Not kidding. I was trolling a bunch of people…sort of.
I should really have gotten a job at Apple so that I could have led them into bankruptcy.
I don’t know why you react so viscerally to my argument.
Argument?
(Aside from Zombie’s which is, as far as I can tell “ME! ME!”)
Imma done.
Well, you were completely focused on what you do with technology and what you don’t do, and I really couldn’t understand why, when I was talking about its aggregate social effects. I kept trying to say that it wasn’t about you, and you seemed to keep repeating that yes, it was.
Droid can multitask because it has no applications to multi with its tasks.
I can text and text.
I
AM
STILL
HERE!
Finally, a multiple of 100 won by the Mandos party of the Mandos-ITTDGY(tm) collective.
But it does seem to be all about Mandos.
Golf clap for Mandos!
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FYI- the Chocolate Cheerio treats aren’t bad…
But I wouldn’t go so far as to try a Chocolate Cheerio Melt.
I’m eating homemade fudge. nary a cheerio in sight.
So I had promised more detailed responses to Pinko and fish, and I had them planned out in my head for the past couple of days, but I’ve decided that for some reason, how people use technology is such a personal and emotional issue (including for myself) that it’s one of those topics that is beyond mere serious pants, so I’ll save it for some other life.
But I’ll say this:
I was out of line with the “ME! ME!” thing for Zombie, for the same reason, and I’m sorry for that. I succumbed to communicative frustration, especially on an issue on which both I and Mandos-realself are pretty passionate about. We’re just not speaking the same language there.
This week inevitably one of Mandos-realself’s colleagues at the office acquired an iPad, and naturally there was much oohing and aahing. I had a chance to take a close look, and I never doubted that it would be beautiful, and it was. Most of Mandos-realself’s colleagues know my idiosyncratic opinions on technology, and so some of them earnestly attempted to convince me (I have this argument frequently) that this really was an advancement for the human race and not the incipient triumph of Applefascism. (They also extracted a promise from me to announce to them when in five or so years—not if, according to them—I join the Jobsian Horde, just for the satisfaction of knowing they were right.)
I remain, of course, unconvinced—almost because it was beautiful. I have this feeling that ease of use has a slightly negative relationship to liberty. I do think that maintaining a truly public culture means that the end user is going to have to face some kind of a learning curve almost for its own sake. Geek I am through and through, I’m suspicious of completely pervasive, subliminal computing. And I don’t think that our communication and media technologies are in the same politically neutral position as a hammer or a screwdriver might be.
Anyway, I’ll be happy to eat my words if in 20 years it turns out that not only does the iPad create a new generation of “power users” of technology on the iPad (and successors) terms, but they retain the level of public expectation we have now: that the computer is their personal sovereign information space, and that the Internet as a whole is a public space. But right now I’m not convinced.
Mandos- that was a nice comment. Now what if they came out with an iTunamelt?
I have this feeling that ease of use has a slightly negative relationship to liberty.
Interesting thought to ponder across the board. Ease of use usually has an end price, doesn’t it.
Last word.
I have this feeling that ease of use has a slightly negative relationship to liberty.
if only the Constitution had been written in Braille…
stupid Jefferson.
Well, I did say “slightly.” I mean, do YOU think that this enormous run-on is easy to read?
I think Jefferson would not buy an iPad. SO THERE.
But Franklin and Adams totally would.
Thomas Paine would use Linux. Not Ubuntu Linux, that’s for wimps. He would download the source code and compile it from scratch WITHOUT makefiles.
Alexander Hamilton would secretly install DRM and spyware on everyone else’s machines regardless of OS. He wouldn’t be able to break into Tommy Paine’s machine, though, because Tommy uses only one-time passphrases.
King George would be using Windows Vista!!!!!1111!!11!!@!
LOL!
George Washington would not use a computer or e-mail, much to the frustration of Paine.
Patrick Henry would be using OS/2 Warp.
I think Jefferson would not buy an iPad.
He would just borrow Sally Heming’s
I think they had iRags back then, not iPads.
Betsy Ross sewed the iFlag out of iRags.
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CLASSIC
I am having a Jell-O Møøse Temptation, rumen flavoured.
I am having a Jell-O Møøse Temptation, rumen flavoured.
Don’t they also have a red antler velvet flavor?
I harmonize with Jennifer’s conclusions.
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Release the Kraken!
AHHHHHHHHH!!!!
I know, right?!@!
LOLzzzz!
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Ahem.
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We at the Citrus Fashion Association resent that you continue to spread lies about Citrus to other well-read blogs like Wonkette. In fact, that image is evidence of the non-existence of the so-called “grapefruit chupacabra”.
psst…..
…this is comment number 1234.
I DEDICATE THIS VICTORY TO GEDDY, NEIL AND ALEX!!!!
AND ZOMBIZZLES EVERYWHERE!!!
Trader Joe’s frozen chicken vindaloo is kind of meh.
I mean, I don’t detect a trace of kumquat in it, or a hint of tangelo. No citrus images on the packaging. What kind of readymade food is this?
So Citrus Love admits to the desire for citrus beyond fashion. The desire for juicy blood of the citrus fruit to be dripping down its greedy chin. I thought there was more than the fashion angle there. I wonder.
The Citrus Fashion Association has always promoted the nutritional value of consuming humans citrus and citrus products, as well as wearing them. We are an organization that opposes fruitism, with a particular focus on matters sartorial.
I think we all know what punctuation is missing from the above.
Frank’s hot Sauce > Crystal
Not true. Frank’s has more taste, crystal gives you the feeling of a massive amount of orange, where the same quantity of Frank’s would be too much.
Don’t troll the Goobie thread, K. Ask C if he wants the hypothetical LA NFL team to trade for Big Ben. You know, to go with Kobe.
That is a troll.
That is a troll. Mel Hall wants tickets.
I saw Mel Hall hit a 450 ft homer into an upper deck passageway at Tiger Stadium.
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1992/B04110DET1992.htm
Now he is hitting them past the guard tower.
We at the Citrus Fashion Association resent that you continue to spread lies about Citrus to other well-read blogs like Wonkette.
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C.L. miss-speeled “Well, Red”.
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It’s like this entire blog is a testament to Bizarro David Corn
also, for bonus enjoyment, check out the list of who the Atlantic asks “what I read”. women: 4 of 21.
During the day, as I report, write, edit, manage, and punditize, I keep an eye on Twitter, Facebook, and cable news (MSNBC or CNN)–while contending with a barrage of email.
…
Never before in the history of the known universe has there been so much information available to us humans. And never before has it been so difficult to process all the information we receive.
That’s no excuse, Mr. Corn.
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Sew. It comes to this.
(Accidentally omitted link.)
the CFA is more sensitive to imagined slights than the teabaggers.
experience media for frivolity’s sake
Has there been a better single phrase summation of 3Bulls?
Argue.
I would like to add that I used to like Mother Earth, then they hired David Corn and Kevin Drum. Is nothing uncorruptable? And how the hell do you spell uncorruptible? “Turning Kathleen” should be a song by the Vapors about commenting while drinking.
I’m turning Kath-a-leen I’m turning Kath-a-leen I’m turning Kath-a-leen I really think so.
Jean Luc, cur-ling, Jersey shore, no wonder its dark
Random postage from some postal stamps
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P.S. Citrus Loverboy can’t Handel the truth.
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Citrus Lover, come out to pla-ay…….
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I learned the other day at a gas station that professional wrestling has an official meat stick.
One never knows what one is about to learn at a gas station.
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I have no problem believing that gas stations are the repositories of wrestling knowledge.
Enormous Goobie Thread looks like it’s going to get fall off the recent comments. Quick! Better bump it back up!
Goobie Thread will live 4evuh, Mandos.
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I can’t wait until we get to 2112 comments….
Pondering the ponderousness.
I can’t wait until we get to 2112 comments….
I am hopeful that it will before President Palin’s coronation.
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Maybe we can send Kathleen a bottle and have her liveblog some sporting event….
3:00-6:00 p.m., Valero Texas Open (HD) at TPC San Antonio
Golf is on at 3 (EST)…
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I’m just biding my time until the World Cup
I’m not sure we can wait that long. Can’t you liveblog teh CA budget hearings or something?
that would be an uplifting live blog
Michael Ballack!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I had to use teh Great Gazoogle to figure out who Kathleen was talking about.
Quite the comment section here.
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I knew that was bad news bears.
I had to use teh Great Gazoogle to figure out who Kathleen was talking about.
oh you guys are going to LOOOOOOVE my WC2010 live blogging
will this help?
GC got that in the mail yesterday and at first she was all “why are we getting porn?”
Ronaldo is so obviously enhanced, it isn’t even funny. “My lack of neck isn’t anything to think about!”
I’m not looking at his neck
It is all fake, K. Surely your lecherous gaze knows some bounds!
*skeptical face*
P.S. Party at Snags.
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I’m not looking at his neck
I think Ronaldo is bifurcated.
at least no one is mocking Drogba since the man STOPPED A CIVIL WAR
I’ve got a bottle of cheap rum here, Kathleen, AND I AM NOT AFRAID TO USE IT.
….once I get these CAD files uploaded, that is.
Nyquil blogging
It must have worked, Kathleen, since that was your last post.
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seriously.
also I would like to report the following: because I upped teh security features on my web browser, now it won’t remember my info so I have to type it all in for each comment. Yesterday I mistyped my blog address “.cmo” – I noticied but was too lazy to change it because “who is really going to click over to my blog from my comment”. I am totally not shitting you as to what happened next. I clicked on my own name to go to my blog. Then I spent the next 15 minutes waiting for it to load and refreshing and being annoyed that Blogger wasn’t working.
That’s so Kathleen!
Did you cringe inside to see if omniscient C was somehow looking over your shoulder for the overhead smash?
C is so insensitive sometimes.
It’s true but I just triple-double-super nailed him, so I basically have a free pass for all time.
I’m savoring the deliciousness of this moment.
He’s probably been reduced to this. Indeed.
it was like a choir of angels were singing in the background
I’m imagining some sort of sworn testimony from the In and Out President, plus archival and current footage side by side of In and Out Burgers being produced, but times a MILLION.
First impression of LA is suXX0rz. However, the I-5 is really a surprisingly scenic drive.
Mandos is trolling. He knows the I-5 is an abomination. Perhaps because he hasn’t compared it to I-80, I-15, or I-10. All superior nothingness, and less trucks.
When Mandos discovers that every kind of food is supposedly better in LA than in the Bay Area, he will realize that LA has its purpose.
Also, it is vastly superior to Cloverhill BTHB!
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Woo-hoo! Thanks for the nudge, MenD!
I hereby suggest the next Goobie thread involve MASSIVE FACEPALM.
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Jesus facepalm
.
Someone just sent me that earlier in the week. How fortuitous.
there is always a purpose for everything
fish will complain about how the facepalm was “just so” and didn’t really explain the 1300 comments before it, and how he wanted more and then UC will tell him to suck it and them the BSG tagline “ALL OF THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE AND WILL HAPPEN AGAIN” will come on and “THEY HAVE A PLAN” but they really don’t and then he’ll be pissed and facepalm.
That will get us to what, comment 1337?
You know, what does the facepalm actually have to do with the original post. The writers clearly lost there way, on that one. Really, the thread is exactly the same now as it was when it started. Meandering, filled with red herrings (and tasty moose bits), and it never really connects with the deeper struggle that goobie supposedly represents. The struggle for release, so evident in goobie’s nearly desperate self-denial of “pumping gas”, is an all too human struggle, yet by the end, the facepalm is converted to inhuman dots and dashes, a rather poor form of reductio ad absurdum.
I shant be back.
Uh, their way.
this thread needs more moose
say, when are you going to do something about that Billy Pilgrim jerk in Words of Wisdom? That guy never even comes around here any more.
And Jennifer is not playing fair, only half-assed posts allowed over here.
something something LOST reference; I never watched it.
phish is wrong.
No I am RHAGE!
Don’t you get it? The thread *is* purgatory!
Hell is other people.
Hell is no people too.
All hell, all the time!
hell is a mesh trashcan
Hell is nutz-less trucks.
hhel is crnberry voddaka
STOP IT JENNIFER!!
this thread went sideways a long time ago
But it was the place we all agreed to meet so we could go into the light togethra.
I didn’t know we were going into the light!
I thought we were going to have drinks at the bar.
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I don’t drink light beer.
I didn’t know we were going into the light!
I thought we were going to have drinks at the bar.
first we are going to learn about this fabulous time share opportunity
Maybe Kathleen will get you a Cranberry Vodka and ginger ale, fish.
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yeah that’ll put him right up on the light beer bandwagon
So the US-101 is even scenicker than the I-5. Too bad I don’t have time for the CA-1. I wish I had asked for a better car than an Elantra though.
So I’m now in LA and it really is as highway-y as people say it is. What would be main city roads elsewhere are enormous freeways here, and 40 mi is considered a short drive. Huh.
true story.
Yeah, and everything is frustratingly a lot better than Big Texas Honeybun. Please don’t describe anything delicious that you ate.
like especially best Cuban ever at Versailles.
What, you mean the absurdly delicious Tom Kha chicken soup at Noodle Express near UCLA with rice noodles? Where they actually believed me when I said SPICY SPICY? (They never do this on the East Coast.)
Or those odd cookie ice cream sandwiches? Actually these weren’t that spectacular—but at $1.50 each they were totally full of per dollar win.
I have more than a week to try what else LA (and Orange County) has to offer.
And San José really knows how to serve Valar properly. Prompt service everywhere.
DEE DEE REESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep. I still had to eat the sandwiches with a spoon though. Didn’t want to get Rocky Road all over my nice museum clothes.
I was a little disappointed that the Getty Center’s exhibition on Old Testament illuminated manuscripts would only be open next week when I wouldn’t have time to see it. Also, who is WAR and why were they blocking my trip to the Griffith Observatory?
Also having now confronted a true Orange County gated community in the flesh, it just seems all the more absurd to me. Do they really think that that little gate with the silly guard is going to keep them safe from burglars? Totally and only class marker. Oh well, gotta keep the California Ainur comfortable.
C’mon Mandos, I am sure PP can get perfectly good bi bim bop or dosa in Big Texas Honeybun. All the restaurants can’t be chain restaurants. Can they?
Otherwise, what would be the point of living?
fish has deduced that living has no point in this collection of zip codes. The worst part is the terrible mexican food. fish, imagine that torta we had near the University of Suck. Now imagine not every having that.
Seven more comments to go.
I can’t believe Kathleen hasn’t even noticed yet that Facepalm is Patrick Stewart, especially with non-3B line spacing.
I think it’s Vin Diesel
Texass has terrible Mexican food?
Waht a sorry ass state of affairs.
Also, news from the National Laboratory for Bad Government. And such as.
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or to be more in keeping with the World Cup liveblogging I shall be bringing this thread: Tim Howard
one more comment to go.
Til what?
UNTIL I AM THE KING WIELDING MY BAG OF TEA
It’s like a self unfulfilling prophecy.
I was on to your AG shenanigans.
imagine that torta we had near the University of Suck. Now imagine not every having that.
I learned in the Chinese restaurants around here, you have to ask for the real menu.
Maybe when you visit, you can share the pain. I look forward to it.
Yesterday one of the California Maiar kindly lent me his car. I chose to drive around Orange County for a bit to see how the natives lived. It is the Jerusalem and ideal of suburbia and the Last Stand of a certain way of life, so I thought it was inherently interesting sociologically.
Then I went to Universal Studios and had a mehxcellent and interesting mehxperience, at a rather expensive price.
I took care to eat before going there, at a little pizza joint on Cahuenga called 161st Pizzeria. For a little pizza joint, it had *excellent* pizza by the slice. Usually pizza by the slice is meh, but this was really good! With “fresh garlic” topping. I forgot to breathe all over the Universal Studios guests.
I had dinner with the aforementioned Maia at an In-n-Out burger. I have never eaten at In-n-Out and felt like I was getting the full California experience there. Pretty good.
Today I do some more Orange County driving. Then tonight this trip turns into a business trip for a week or so.
I’m so sorry that Big Texas Honeybun is made of culinary suck. I thought that Honeybun was the good part of Big Texas. Shouldn’t it have better food than Big Texas Ribeye Steak or Big Texas BBQ Sauce Taco?
I would have thought there was good Mexican food, at least. Admittedly, the last few times I was in Texas aside from connecting flights at Dallas-Fort Worth were at South Padre Island in the late 80s.
I wonder what will happen to that place now.
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Is not Texas gigantic, is not Cloverhill Big Texas Honeybun but a tiny hump on the giant bumble? This goes a long way to explaining, my long-threaded friends.
NO HINTING!!!!
Holé Molé enchiladas are amazing!!! Eaten just outside of Long Beach.
Mandos is triggering PP.
And not in a haha way.
I thought the face-palm was Kif!
This unbalanced thread cries out for Justice.
Will it have none, 3Bulls!ions?
sure.
I mean, no.
Wait, what?
No Balance, No Peace!
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Drogba possibly out. K shattered
I’ve been in downtown LA for the past several days. I’ve been mostly eating catered conference food and office-lunch-place food which has been pretty good as these things go but nothing to try to make Pinko jealous about.
However, there is a regional chain restaurant called La Salsa which has been *quite* good, especially with an astoundingly good salsa bar.
And I could use some salsa right now. Unfortunately, I stopped by Kroger’s and forgot that I was out of it.
CURSES!
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yes La Salsa is surprisingly tasty.
Their burritos used to be bigger though.
La Salsa is the big chain version of Ana’s in Boston. Ana’s is better, but La Salsa is 50 billion times better than Crap Burrito.
And, heh. I see what you did, K.
I did have good kalbi in Little Tokyo. I realize I should have gone to Koreatown, but I didn’t have the time. The kalbi was good but the kimchi left something seriously to be desired. I had excellent Indonesian most of the way to Santa Monica but had to suffer LA public transit (which is better than I thought it would be, but out there still pretty bad) for it. OKish Italian in Hollywood.
oddly enough, we have a fair amount of pretty good restaurants in Milwaukee, of all ethnicities.
Maybe they aren’t up to SF qualities, but maybe we make up for it in alcohol? Or at least outdoor festivals?
also, zombies. But that’s not in the tourism brochures.
i do acknowledge, howsomever, that we may not be properly supplied with cranberry vodka.
no one ever is. or is too much so.
also allow me to introduce Glee live-blogging:
JOURNEY MEDLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Josh Groban is in da house!!!!!!!
“Josh Groban loves a blousy alcoholic.”
I still miss the mohawk.
how often do you think that?
well I totally saw THAT coming
those suspenders are so ridiculously thin, I suspect they are only for show.
those days were so innocent
“brunettes have no place in show business”
ok they just totally made me cry. I ADMIT IT
I will punch Glee in the mouth!!!!!! I’m behind every single episode.
I want to steal this code and post it all over everyone’s blogs.
We are not amused.
fish is trying to suppress a giggle.
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Maybe if they have a gasoline fight in the next image will it be acceptable.
More Goobie, please!
is that like a baseball team or something, Kathleen?
good one PInko
My trip to CA ended on Monday. CA – nice weather, risk of resurrecting Robot Nixon.
I wish teh goopers had put Orly in for S.O.S., Mandos.
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can the Goobie thread handle a Celtics-Lakers live blog?
2-2
Only one way to find out for sure, Kathleen.
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K, if awake:
“Higuain kind of looks like Bradley Cooper after he blows a chance.”
USA UK 1-1!
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The UK does not have a team in this competition. England does, however.
Or just another country
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Pinko, I think Roy is calling you out.
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Possibly related video
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All right.
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Once again, I am pleased to accept this award on behalf of the Mandos-ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© collective.
We thank all the little people/birds/pants/zombies who made this possible.
And no, I’ve never said this before, not very helpful spam overprotection scheme.
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Mandos abandoned you to eat aweomse food in Cali and you’re still calling yourself a “collective”? that’s love baby.
I couldn’t live blog. First, because we were watching on TiVo. Second, because it was too stressful. I will tell you that Green can come to America to play. ESPN radio called him “Thomas” green, so no one here will know who he is.
that three lion patch is awesome.
The Serbian goalie looks like Antonio Bandaras.
I would also like to point out to Pinko that our local buffet restaurant doesn’t have macaroni and cheese and chocolate pudding, it has shrimp shu mai, bok choi, Hunan pollock, and salt and pepper squid. All you can eat, $9.99.
Also, NEWSFLASH, Alexi Lalas is a douchecob. Get him off of my TV.
Getting closer to 2112. Keep going, people! Don’t falter now!!!
Get him off of my TV.
…doesn’t he keep falling off?
Mandos abandoned you to eat aweomse food in Cali and you’re still calling yourself a “collective”?
yea, you’d be better off allying yourself with the zombies.
ZRM, I am officially disappointed in you. Please note: new Songs of the Day.
I officially played them all already.
Better off Red.
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ZRM, I am officially disappointed in you.
You’re gonna have to take a number.
See how Kathleen attempts to drive a wedge.
I officially thought of this blog today in the car when I was listening to a truly terrible song and thought to myself “I bet Pinko and UC love this. It’s probably SOTD.”
But in Kathleen fashion, you don’t know the song, you don’t know the words, and you can’t even hint what it is, leaving your aspersions cast with no redress for us.
I did just listen to all of teh recent SOTD though, on the hilarious chance it really was one.
it was a little Mars Volta combined with Gogol Bordello but sung by women. No one knows the words, probably not even them.
Was it Sleigh Bells? They don’t sound anything like that, but for some reason I could see you describing them as that.
Although, UC might think you meant Fiery Furnaces or St. Vincent in which case he would think it was awesome.
I totally heard that same song, Kathleen, and I thought it was awesome!
it was too mainstream for me.
it kind of did sound like Sleighbells actually
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z8ppcFGPlY
I can’t wait for UC to play whatever that is and declare it to be the 100% opposite of those two bands you mentioned, but of course he will claim that those two bands are unknown to him, so he’ll have to use the two bands that I mentioned that will sound nothing like Sleighbells.
I am torn. I both hate and kinda late the Sleigh Bells, and probably hate and kinda like the song Kathleen heard.
it was a little Mars Volta combined with Gogol Bordello but sung by women.
Definitely the Mekons then.
I note that K dodged Mandos’ comment.
I’m not wondering about wedge driving distance, how about with the driver?
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iceberg wedge?
Pull up, Wedge!
Bland tomato joins with iceberg wedge and French dressing in support of this massage.
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In any case, I didn’t abandon ittdgy. Verizon has separated us across a gulf of many screwups and long hold muzak intervals. But I’m going to be on hiatus for a week or so.
just letting everyone know I survived.
in other news, won’t it be awesome when Andy Roddick discovers LOLcats?
Greetings from the Blessed Realm! It’s hot and humid and the traffic is terrible. Emirates is actually pleasant to fly on, though. I finally got to watch Astroboy.
why does cranberry juice + vodka taste so good, while cranberry vodka taste so vile?
A fine question, although this may be particular to fruit-flavoured vodkas. I have yet to apply this dichotomy to maple-flavoured vodka, although I imagine it would be somewhat inferior to pure maple syrup and vodka.
pure maple syrup and vodka.
Known as the Geddy.
or in more raggedy joints, the Toronto Jew?
Seriously, if we can’t get this post to 2112 comments, I will post a Rush video on 3B every day until I pass out.
I’m hoping for some live World Cup blogging, USA – Algeria.
(Of course this means 9:30 A.M. EST, so K will have to stay up late.)
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I have training that starts at 9:30 EST. Suckwad.
I hope it’s diversity training.
I will say that vodka infused with dill is surprisingly good.
Chili pepper vodka, not so much.
Did they take the goal back yet?
I never remember my comments in this thread. I come back and am always surpruised.
How was diversity training Pinko?
I’m hoping for some live World Cup blogging, USA – Algeria.
sorry thunder. waaaaaay too stressed. I’ll give you an after-the-fact live blog to recap as follows:
here we go!
F*********ck
oh crap oh crap oh crap
YAY! NOOOOOOOOOO!
you’ve got to be shitting me! noooooooooooooo
f*ck f*ck f*ck
F***
f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck
oh god oh god please please please F***********
f*ck f*ck f*ck
OH MY GOD does it count?! does it count?!
YES!!!! I don’t believe it!
YAY!!!!!!!!
I really hope this is about the soccer game.
am always surpruised.
this is a surprise that leaves you bruised. Add it to the 3Bulls Dictionary!!
What? we don’t have a 3Bulls dictionary? I wish to complain to the Zombudszizzle!!
I really hope this is about the soccer game.
Speak for yourself.
I am, however, impressed at Kathleen’s ability to edit the *u** out of that comment.
Annnnnd there’s more futebol live blogging in our future!
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even the World Cup isn’t safe from the fish filthbot
I’m surpruised that Kathleen didn’t include a bit about using protection in that screenplay, also there was no plot, just constant f***ing!
I should have started with “You’re not the regular sideline judge…”
preview, review, and such as.
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nice link thunder! thanks. No I will officially get no more owrk done today. might as well crack open the vodka et al.
I’ve got the vino open.
Wrooking 4 teh weakend!
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1-1!
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oooof.
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sob
I’m baaaack! Does anyone know why Verizon is a major emu nest? I still don’t have home internet access…
I tried coconut m&ms. They are not as tragic as chocolate skittles but they are like wannabe CS. the coconut is totally chemical flavoring. like eating a computer-generated mounds bars in circle candy form.
I just dreank three beers at teh irish pub wathcing SPA-POR is anyone going to join me in the blogs?
I tried coconut m&ms.
D or D coming soon to a theater near you.
I nominate Geenie Cola to do the D or D for coconut M&Ms
the coconut is totally chemical flavoring. like eating a computer-generated mounds bars in circle candy form.
well, that’s evocative.
I am leaving my office to attend a “southern” good bye party in the office space by the printers and copier. There will be Southern Comfort. There will not be cranberry vodka.
I read that first as an Office Space goodbye party to the printers and copier.
much more violent
I, too, was wondering where the printers and copier were going…
I, too, was wondering where the printers and copier were going…
Because we’ve been bought out by an LLC, and the printers and copiers were not carrying their own weight.
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Must…not…let…Endless…Goobie…Thread…fall…too…far.
and the printers and copiers were not carrying their own weight.
Particularly the copiers. They had nothing original to add.
Mind your toner, fish.
What type of blog do you think this is? 3Bulls, ink?
Sorry, I was three sheets to the wind.
Sheets don’t fail me now.
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Does thunder have all the fax? I bet he is scanning the internet for more puns.
Nope. Just reading the paper, jam on his bread.
fish’s comments are like a laser. I feel like I’m in the matrix. He always dots the is. I feel like I’m riding on a jet.
Page me when you are ready to get serious.
I’ll be in the yard
Punching cards
The S/370
Is hungry
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talk about toner deaf
Pathetic, Kathleen, pathetic. Please see above. Tray harder. Be more Sharp. When they film the movie of this it will star Nick Minolte. And Michael J. Xerox.
Pinko is displaying a mere facsimile of wit. Ditto for myself.
I fear that the acrimony on display here will mar attempts at Futebol live-blogging.
Think of the children, peeple!
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I hear many angry hornets.
Whoa! Spain looks ready to play.
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Kung Fu kick to the chest?
Yellow card?
OK I admit it, I’m routing for Paul and Spain, now.
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I decline to join the pun episode because I am afraid I would only duplicate the efforts of others.
I do not, however, presume to dictate to others in their work. I know it helps you all bond.
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These printer puns make me want to take a bath in Epson salts.
an Apple a day, Mandos.
What? I had an Apple branded printer once.
It’s a nice Postscript to this discussion.
What is all this appletalk. I like this thread for networking, and the queue of commenters. Kathleen should still be reamed for her stealing. Is anyone else on the case? Don’t let here paper over it. Then it would be raining secret dundermifflins.
We’re on the case with legal. We’ll meet them at the steakhouse for the ribeye special with A4 sauce.
Well, look at this…
a comment thread left unattended…
Nearing a critical point…
Someone familiar with fillings, of the cream variety or otherwise…
might be able to fill up the comments…
Of course this damn loading and reloading my thwart El’s efforts.
Mandos is probably lurking…
Nope. El wins again.
We’re heading for 2112, El!
We’re heading for 2112, El!
You must be referring to the Snacktator/Shatner ticket.
I must be, Geddy.
You must be referring to the Snacktator/Shatner ticket.
Shatator is probably a bad marketing choice.
I feel sad. No one was interested in my resolute live-blogging of the Netherlands-Spain mugging.
I thought you were my friends!
*sniff*
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how could we improve on the perfection of livethunderblogging?
It was a total respect move.
Who is thunder?
Free Thundra!
Is Free Thundra like Free Bird? Or Free Willy? Or Free Fallin’??
Your Free Thundra t-shirt won’t get you into heaven anymore, Jennifer….
1500s were last when Spain was on top of the world
also this is epic and must be watched. nothing else can ever be describes epic. Must have sound on.
http://kottke.org/10/07/there-is-bergkamp
nothing else can ever be describes epic.
Klassic K™.
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Nothing is better than that goal. Ever. I watched it live and I already loved Bergkamp, and I practically started crying it was so awesome and perfect. The ol’ “hey, Kluivert, play a 65 yard ball onto my foot, then I’ll control it and poke home from an acute angle with the outside of my foot. Why not.”
It is time to *BOOP*.
Turn the speakers up…the sound is everything.
She BOOP–he BOOP–a–we BOOP…
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Off the front page? Not acceptable.
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D’oh! I was lax. Preoccupied. Mustn’t let this happen again.
I am just stopping in to say I am going away now.
ZRM = Last Night’s Beer and Pizza Dinner
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great blog.try olive oil or lemon.
Too much activity on other threads, none of which involve olive oil or lemon!
aTTRACT GRILLS is TRYING TO distract US!
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I thought I SAID:
We would also work well with olive oil and lemon.
I thought *I* said:
Beluga caviar would also work well with olive oil and lemon.
A pickle for your thoughts?
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The rush of spammers keeps pushing Endless Goobie Thread off the front page! Argh.
great for fishing.love this blog.
will bookmark it and keep coming back!
Very thoughtful. With posts like this, there will be plenty of discount capons in your future.
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I cant figure out if this blog is for me or not.will keep coming back.
learn to roll yourself in suet and cracked corn.great blog you have here.
Attract pills:
Where are thills and bellyache?
Attract spills:
I have enjoyed very much this post [link to sippycupsavings.ru]
attract kills:
It is I, Lake Erie, and I have become Death.
attract krills:
Here fishy shrimpy!
attract trills:
Read all about Jethro Tull
attract mills:
Moonspinners!
There’s nothing to be afraid of.
Wonderful writing here. Same as with our nonreality show!
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love your window like it’s your girl
There are no windows to protect you in NATURE.
come up to the front of store kaching
you kids have disappointed me for the last time!!!!
Read more Stephen King!
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are you running for congress and can’t get those lobbyists to pay attention
changlenge!
*BOOP*
Mmm blueberries.
Announcepants! I am pleased to announce in this Goobie Shore thread, and under the watchful eye of Pinko Punko and Geenie Cola, that there is now a Mrs. UC and that the two of us could not be happier. Now it is time to *BOOP*
*BOOP* *BOOP* *BOOP*
I hope you’re not going to later clarify that she is a puppy
seriously though – congratulations! that is awesome
Thanks, K. I should add that Goobie had plenty to say about the wedding as well.
The Goob was marginalized during the proceedings, and also the most potent baby asparagus ever was served. Two days of asparagus pee.
I had the insane asparagus pee as well. Shouldn’t that be cross-referenced with broccoli farts in DorD?
Although we have never met, UC, congrats as well on behalf of Zomboids and Cheeseheads. And interim Ombuds. However, I think I will pass on the Canadian Weddings, as they are apparently far more asparagus-intensive than I am comfortable with.
Congrats, U.C.!
What a happy thread. Now with more asparagus!
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I confess to being more than a little afraid of Insane Asparagus.
Between that and the Grapefruit Chupacabra….
Yet another Krugman article ends with the statement “David Brooks is off today.” Indeed.
can you stab the Grapefruit Ch. with an asparagus spear?
Would you asparagus pee in a wastebasket? I think you have your answer.
I find P.P.’s asparagus peepee remarks disparagusting.
I hope he is attending some diversity training classes.
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Spear me, thunder. I’ve heard it all.
look, if you’re gonna just be punning your way through an old Zardoz thread, why not take it over to B^4’s? He’s having his Zardoz seal broken this weekend.
HARUMPH!
You’ve never heard of disparagusting before.
I invented it.
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Such floretid prose.
Paging all Mandos…
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Apple Magic trackpad update with inertial scrolling makes this thread AWESOME
awesome- ER.
Apple Magic trackpad update with inertial scrolling makes this thread AWESOME
Fascist.
Facetiousist.
Douché.
Zombiefascism is the Pastafarianism of Brain Nom Nom Nomism.
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zombies aren’t fascists.
We hardly ever eat the face.
Facetiousist.
LOL
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2010/8/12hague.html
Our Daughter Isn’t a Selfish Brat; Your Son Just Hasn’t Read
Atlas Shrugged
That’s why, when Johanna then began berating your son, accusing him of trying to coerce from her a moral sanction of his theft of the fruit of her labor, in as many words, I kind of egged her on. Even when Aiden started crying.
Egg her on, my wayward son. There’ll be peas when you are done.
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The Diet Solution Program (IF that is his real name!) will not be allowed to move the Goobie thread from the top of the charts.
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A wop bop a loo bop boo bam BUMP!
Hello people, I am finally back from Zhongguo, roughly translated “Pinko is banned”. I have an enormous pent-up stack of D or Ds to belch forth, including one of the famous Beijing Duck, but the question is, will I ever get around to it, or get around to organizing my dozens of Forbidden City photos, or even get around to ridding my clothes of the body lice that was presumably afflicting my extremely cheap, dirty hotel?
Is it safe for zombies to do The Bump?
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Prioritize:
Rid the vermin
THEN
D or D!
Also, what Pinko said.
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Mandos, let’s hear about the Bejing Duck, I went to a famous place in Beijing (QuanJuDe), while reviews online are pretty uneven for the place, my experience was one of near religiousness…
A religious fish-duck?
Curious.
I too went to Quanjude, the Sanyuanqiao/Guomen branch in the inner suburbs. My evaluation is basically written up but needs some editing.
OK, now it is in Pinko’s hands.
Pinko’s, or Captain Trollypants’?
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Among the many things I ate, I also had Uighur food, especially since I was very unlikely to find it in NA. And the most amazing garlic breadsticks. And moon cakes of various kinds. And a stupendous Sichuan fried-chicken-and-pretzel-twists-in-a-basket-of-dried-red-chilis treasure hunt dish. It was easily one of the best things I have ever eaten period.
I am not a fan of the egg moon cakes.
Chong Qing chicken is AWESOME
I looked Chongqing chicken up. This was similar but a bit different. I went to the restaurant that served it with a bunch of random Europeans after letting them distract me from going to a known Beijing Duck location in the outer burbs with claims that there was one in downtown they knew about. Except they didn’t. It fell to me to salvage the situation as I was the only one with a phrasebook and who knew what the character for “duck” was. Except this didn’t work either. So we went to a really good random restaurant on Tuanjiehulu.
The food was great, particularly the chicken, except they kept messing up our order, and then assuming we could read Chinese like civilized people rather than ocean devils and in my case, “Yinduren.” Massive and hilarious use of approximate terms from phrasebook ensued. I’d definitely go back to this place on another trip to Beijing…if I knew what it was called, since it had no English signs. Big restaurant though.
I had one of the duck egg moon cakes…from a 7-11, no less, and I actually kind of like it better than the all-red-bean kind. Actually, the Weiduomei bakery/cafe chain (one of my mainstays there) was advertising a “France moon cake” which of course has nothing to do with France except that Beijingers seem to love France. For example, there’s a cosmetic brand called “Marie France”. It doesn’t matter that it’s not French, it just needs to have the word “France” in it and Beijingers hoover it up, apparently.
They were delicious though. The “France” moon cake. Also Weiduomei is the source of the unbelievable garlic breadsticks.
vive la France!
Icy France!
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Do-wop do-wop, HOP!
Do-wop do-wop just hop, don’t stop.
Rubber ducky, you’re the one!
Yipyipyipyipyip, uh huh, uh huh.
Telephone. Te-le-phone. BRRING BRRING.
I’ve lost my “L”. Oh my poor little “L”.
C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me.
Family, neighbours, friend, that’s WHERE WE MEET! Can you tell me how to get, how to get to…
Brought to you by the letter M and the number 6.
1600! 1600 comment! A-a-a-a-a! *thunder and lightning*
The achievement was produced by the Mandos-Thunderpants Blogcomment Workshop.
Nicely Done, Mandos!
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I feel like Mandos just spent the afternoon babysitting for B
best Yelp thread ever?
LOL! You could be right:
Seriously, they should call it “Peen Murmur.” HA! Can’t believe I just came up with that. So apparently there really is some art here. That’s cool. Whatever though, I saw this band here that was pretty rad, with a really insane rad dancer who looked like he was going to vomit into his mock-praying hands. SIIIIICK! (In a good way).
Seriously though, if you want to meet up and have some kind of weird “sex” thing happen tomorrow (March 5), then that’s cool. Like, really cool. I love art night.
Yelp! page for Yelp! Art Murmur Yelp! page:
“Hipsters making fun of hipsters and making skinny jeans jokes. Skinny jeans jokes are so over, I mean some of those people have never even seen actual skinny jeans. I mean I don’t think I would ever really want to go the Yelp! Art Murmur page but my friends asked me if I wanted to go so I just decided to go because I was procrastinating. I guess I will admit that Yelp! Art Murmur Yelp! page, while pretty hyped up did have some laughs, so kudos there, but after the 30th unoriginal comment about hipsters and camo 40s I had to get out of there. I enjoy Oakland Chillaxitante more but wait until that gets popular and they it will be the same thing all over again. “GREAT POST_ HAHA BUBBLE TEA!#@ I LOVE SOMETHING> SOMETHING ELSE IS STUPID LIKE THIS DUMB BOOK HAHA FUNNY BRANDO COMMENT” I mean does that dude even know Brando? No, I didn’t think so.”
Hrmph, that review didn’t even mention the Beijing duck reviews with photo.
And cue MattY for the fail:
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/09/the-price-of-paid-vacation/
MANDOS!!
DoD TODAY
“Both blog traffic statistics and common sense indicate that people do a lot of stuff that’s not work while ‘working'” -MY
I’ve noticed my Safeway cashiers spend a lot of time blogging on the clock. Farm workers too.
MY is a deliciously obtuse object of my disdain.
Excellent radiometry.
Very helpful and obliging post. I shall be back.
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Well see here, Mr. Rich Tapestries (IF that is your real name!), there are not many thinking Americans that could be so insulted.
So you can take yourself back to Fleet Street and enjoy Fleet Week (or whatever it is that they do there, also) and leave us pignorants to vote for Preznit Palin.
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They need a Bleat Street so they can have a Bleat Week where we all stand around “baa”-ing.
Emergency *BOOP*
This is a test. This station is conducting a test of the Emergency *BOOP* System. This is only a test.
If this had been an actual emergency, the Attention Signal you just heard would have been followed by official information, news or buttered crumpets.
Or goobie pic.
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*POOB*
Even the spambots are contributing to sustaining the metazardoz!
I am shocked (and TASERED) to find that this blog post has a mere 1,622 comments.
What does it take people?
Your complacency shrieks from the rooftops.
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mmmmm crumpets
It is obvious that it can’t be done without a zombie.
HELLO SAKE
HI GUYS WAT’S GOIND ON?
OK. Fine, I’ll bite. Why did the ‘e’ move from your URL?
Would you like to meet a “bowel buddy”? It’s Canadian!
http://markyoungtrainingsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/bowel_buddy-300×225.jpg
And it’s safe for work too!
And the NIH is no excuse for not posting.
Mandos is right. Can an ombudsmooseperson address our concerns?
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And the NIH is no excuse for not posting.
Yes it is.
Fish has sunk to the bottom of the tank (again). Just like 3Bulls!
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I mean, why does getting money to treat fatal diseases and extend human life span get more attention than posting on a blog that no one actually understands, including the posters? I ask you, and such.
I have been too busy playing Bounce OUt
in other news, I have become obsessed with hand washing, but I am refraining from lining up trash cans of pee along my wall so I’m think I’m ok.
I now have to drink cranberry vodka.
I love how the argument “my fingernails are only 3 inches long so I am OK” has been broached on this blog, in different form.
I am trying to decide between going to work out or having a beer.
Also, I am sad b/c I have to dislodge a kitty to turn on project runway.
Since PR is 90 minutes, I guess I just made my decision on the first dilemma.
Project runway live blog!!!!!
9:03pm: design a look for Heidi’s line of activewear. This will be tricky because Heidi’s line is hideous and boring.
9:06 – those clothes were so ugly they just woke up the baby.
9:08 – best line of the ep already “it’s clear that Heidi’s line is not meant to be worked out in”
9:10 – ouch. I’ve seen picks of Heidi wearing hammer pants picking up her kids, so I’m not sure “can you see me wearing this to pick up my kids?” has quite the critical effect she intends.
9:18 – Gretchen apparently thought she should make a piece for Heidi’s line not using the actual fabric from Heidi’s line. That makes sense.
9:31 – this website doesn’t like my love blogging
best typo ever?
Bow chicka wow wow!
I smashed my finger trying to rescue a lizard invader in our home, and I can tell you this thread is a Bataan Scroll March.
Please note my inappropriate word switch.
Do. A. Shot.
I like your love blogging.
I, like your love blogging.
I like, your love blogging.
I like your love, blogging.
Heh.
3B crashed my network, my internet connection, and the USB hub leading to my music hard drive.
I wish to complain most strenuously to the CCA and the Citrus Fashion Association. Having endured a tenure as Zombudspants, I not only recognize that the position is design to obfuscate and confuse readers, but I also know that Prime Ombuds is on vacay!!
But otherwise, well played, Bullsies. Martini?
We aim to please- 3B
We aim to pees- Kathleen
We aim two peas- Goob
We aim to appease- Neville Chamberlain
We aim to fleas- not Smokey and Pugsley
We aim to sneeze- Black Pepper
We aim to freeze- Slurpees
We aim to cheese- this comment
Pay more fees – UC Regents
More tees – hipsters
No more Dees – punk rock
HOly Shit no bees – scientists
I want your keys – B
We aim three b’s. -various clamz and oysterz
Freezing us out, eh?
you guys are too uneven.
I got some weird allergic reaction (swelling all around the eyes, aka periorbital edema) from my trip to Wisconsin.
Was it the shrimp fajitas at Karina’s in Whitewater? Some long deferred reaction to the calcium channel blocker in the 10/40 Azor? A deadly bite from a butterfly in Milwaukee?
Stay tuned, bat-fiends!
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sorry thunder.
It’s OK, ZRM.
I’m pretty sure the vodka special pasta dish at Via had nothing to do with any bad effects.
Because that was awesome.
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From the arcive:
Yosef
October 5, 2005 at 7:43 pm
Are you crazy?! My 27 kids don’t get no parkas. I use that money on game tix and beer.
That was a hell of a game on Monday night! I’m glad I got to see Favre before he retires, and even happier I saw him lose!
STILL RELEVANT!!!
Yosef is still the master.
I canNOT believe Von is spam over here and I am not.
That sitch should be reversed, at least….
What the hell is an arcive?
Like I said. The master.
like an endive, only with an arc.
what does plover think of that?
A better question is “what the hell is relevant?”
fish is out of order.
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We need to call the fish repairentity.
Would a curved green onion be an arced chive?
Don’t be a rap scallion.
Like Onion DMC
This place is turning to endive. We’re leeking commenters.
Don’t get hot under the collard Mandos.
Mandos is green with envy and I’m red in the face. Lettuce come to some sort of understanding. I don’t think we can do vegetables again. It’s uncauliflowered for.
Don’t you think we should leaf a better internet to our children and grandchildren? Or at least to anise or two?
Pinko beet me to the obvious lettuce joke.
I rabed you.
I vote we kale off this line of puns.
That might be chard.
I wish to thank the thankless punsters at 3B for moving this thread further toward teh inevitable RUSH DOMINATION.
Y’all are okra by me.
“okra by me”? Cremini! That must be the basiline now.
Let’s not rush into anything ZRM, the Genesis of such a movements could quickly lose control like a Rolling Stone. It is a pretty Cheap Trick on your part.
Wait, am I in the wrong thread?
What kind of Journey are we on now? Emerson, this isn’t no Lake with Palmer trees.
You all need to be hit with Styx.
Well, at least these new puns helped create a Renaissance for this thread, making it into a Giant, if a Gentle one.
Yes.
Bach with your silly music I say. Bach I say!
This thread is going to Alan a handbasket. Due to the Project of some unnamed Parsons.
Mandos breaks out the Orchestra!! Turn on the Electric Lights!!!
ZRM is just Mr. Blue Sky today. Mandos, Don’t Bring Me Down. Oh great. Now I Can’t Get it Out of My Head. Do Ya think you can match me? Kathleen, Evil Woman, usually can, but not you guys.
Witchy Woman?
glad to see people stopped composting veggie puns.
looks like I timed my entry into this thread perfectly! COme Sail Away with me to 1700!!!!!
C took a class called Gods of Rock Guitar once. god I miss college.
Goobie Shore Threads asks Do You Feel LIke We Do? or are you People Strange?
I wish you were here
I am indeed an owner of a lonely heart.
perhaps if others would join in, like Emerson or Lake or a Palmer, we could blog it up to the Spirit in the Sky!
my comments seem blue. almost moody
is this the greatest album cover of all time?
that is just jive talkin
time to add cranberry vodka to my tequila sunrise.
LET THE EAGLE SOAR
does this long thread seems like I was clicking away over at Amazon for ideas?
If everybody would Come Together, Kathleen wouldn’t be Alone, Again.
Maybe I should just Surrender. This thread fills me with Sweet Emotion. I feel like we’re Back in the Saddle.
aking it into a Giant, if a Gentle one.
It Might be Giant.
I am starting to suspect Pinko is not in Kansas anymore.
I was thinking that our chances at 2112 were Dust in the Wind, but not anymore, we’re almost to the Point of Know Return. I can see the Forest for the Trees.
Pinko unleashes the Canadian Power Trio references!! What a Triumph!!!
Truly, he has ascended to rapture. Climbed that Stairway to Heaven, and been declared a Duke.
I cannot Guess Who will come up next. This is like Utopia!
I hope there’s no Misunderstanding. Sometimes I get No Reply At All.
Makes me wish I lived in a Home By The Sea, watching the Ripples, until someone would say that Supper’s Ready. More Fool Me, I guess, but I Know What I Like.
I better be careful not to get In Too Deep; on the other hand, falling into Stagnation would be Throwing It All Away. Please Don’t Ask me to stop, I enjoy basking in the Afterglow.
BTW, Pinko, how’s your Carpet Crawler?
time to add cranberry vodka to my tequila sunrise.
Does that work? What do you call it, a Pink Floyd?
nice
Dear. Lord.
I need a cranberry vodka before delving into this. Dealing with woodies was much easier.
Jennifer is a New World (wo)Man.
I am surprised Brando has not stopped in to join in the Spirit of Music.
Brando seems to have checked out of the innertoobz for the weekend.
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If you have ever damaged your iPhone screen previously, then you will know that you need to do something about it ASAP. You must replace the iphone screen or fix the digitiser, or else the phone will be worthless with broken glass. The replacement iphone screens are available all over the net, just take a look!
Mandos is spamming!
DIGITIZE HIM.
I am in an awful mood. And yet, I am hungry.
I dunno. Maybe I just need Brain Salad Surgery.
Spreading iPhones among the Bio-Dread Youth? What a dastardly plot to DIGITIZE humanity’s future! We must stop the Steve Jobs OVerMind!
Spambos is Manning.
Abacab-dabra and the thread is going again. Mandos will soon be on the Lamb. We won’t be taking this- does he think we will just Lays Down in the middle of Broadway?
and ka-Bob’s your uncle!
K is Step On toes with non-classic rock, notwithstanding her Kinky Afro. Her pun is definitely a Loose Fit for this theme. Happy Monday everyone!
GO GIANTS KICK W IN THE NUTS
Great help, I am new to this site, but learn a lot. Auto insurance is a funny thing.
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We are all spam in MenD’s world.
yesterday afternoon was spent playing Mario Kart on our N64
That makes me feel like I wasted my day with martial arts, live theater, and reading “The Countess”
Kathleen lives in a TV show where the characters apparently live in a dorm. Or maybe it’s an American “The Young Ones”
at least it’s not ‘Coupling’
Or Fred Couples.
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Maybe Kathleen lives in “That Metal Show”.
I hope Benjamin Franklin shows up for comment 1776.
Real Househusbands of Oakland
The trashiest of them all!
Might be time for a new blog post, P. Punko.
Might.
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This blog post is All Blog Post
GLOOOOB.
This blog post is the GLOOOOB and the BOOOOLG.
?? ? ??? ?? ?
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that is a lot of sidebar spam
The forces of Lord Dread have been defeated! The American way has been restored!
The fierces of Athlete’s Feet have been defooted!
ALL HAIL DESITIN™!
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Shhh! Protein coding in session.
POPULAR TV SHOWS OF THE PLANTIVERSE
Fronds: a group of ferns planted together. Their leaves keep getting in each other’s view of the sun! Hilarity ensues.
Houseplant: A curmudgeonly geranium sits in a patient room, ignored.
A spider plant wonders what’s the big deal about Jesus because it constantly dies and comes back to life.
What show would that be?
Pushing Daisies: A row of daisies are lined up in a gust of magical wind.
Deep Space Vine.
The Office Plant
30 Rock Garden
Uh, House Plant? (this is how ZOMBEEZ would answer) I will go with Dirt.
Sphagnum, P.I.
Ficus Welby, MD
Two and a Half Mentha
Magnolia, P.I.
Sunflower and Cher
Hey, it’s early…
Top Schefflera
On the Rhododendron with Creeping Charlie Kuralt
Zinnia: Warrior Princess
Boston Fern Legal
Fringe Plant
Kung Fruit
Little House Plant on the Prairie
Wheel of Forsythia
Grey’s Anemone
The Amaryllis Race
Thistle Old House
The Good Loosestrife – Peter the Loosestrife grows a little too close to town, and SCANDAL and herbicide erupts.
The Dandelion in Winter (film)
A Dandelion grows at Christmas in medieval England, and then it snows.
Films:
Silence of the Lamb’s Ear
Rosemary’s Baby (perfect as is!)
Blade of Grass Runner
Psycoleus
Terms of Endearmint
Plantet of the Grapes
Daylily of the Locusts
Pinks Planther
Fantastic Mr. Foxglove
Gardens of Stonecrop
Mandos- we need some plots for these.
I kill me.
Miniseries edition:
Rich Man, Spore Man
Roots (heh)
The Plant Stand
War and Remembranch
Mandos- we need some plots for these.
It will take some time to germinate.
Before K gets to it:
Weeds
Leaf it alone, fish. I know that your antagonism to Mandos stems from some apple disagreement. Your comment is the fruit of the poisonous tree.
this thread fills me with joy
Some might say it is fertilizer for the soul. Others might say it is just fertilizer.
don’t soil my sentiments
I can’t understand the root of some people’s problems. They should chlorophyll their hearts with love for the Goobie thread. Maybe we should stalk them?
Is that too corny?
Undercover Moss
Plantains, Terrains, and Autotrophs.
We should Roundup all of these comments!
Flashplants
Breakfast Shrub
Despicable Tree
Planted in Pink
Pear in the Big Greenhouse
The Shovel Wears Pratia
(The Lamblet has been infected with 3Bitis)
Independence Hay
The Backup Plant with Jennifer Lotus
Some Lichen It Hasta
The Lichen King
That should have been: Some Lichen It Hosta
Nightmare on Elm Tree
J: Mache starring Allium Alda
EL: Disney’s The Little Nightshade
Legally Frond
these are dahlia-cious
Some are daffodilly.
Some can’t be peat.
But I don’t want to bog this down, carry on!
Little Hass on the Prairie.
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True Blood Orange
An spanish citrus fruit struggles with authenticity and thoughts of a possible mythical creature, we’ll call “the world” sent to dra-yi-yi-yi-yain”
Or other NOT so mythical creatures. I think you know who I’m talking about.
Hey, how did FISH for from plant to fruit?
From seed to tree, these are the Hays of Our Lives
I think EL introduced the fruit theme with plantain.
Also, “How I Met Your Mothers-in-Law Tongue”.
you folks watch a LOT of TV.
Community Garden
Three Men and a Baby’s Breath
The Snapdragonslayer
Belladonna 5
Anyway, I think we’ve exhausted this meme.
I mean, how many more plant puns can we make?
Oh, here’s one. Crouching Tiger Lily, Hidden Dragon.
Good Willow Hunting
Yew’ve Got Mail
Mull-holly-and Drive.
Let’s see if I can think of more.
Spinach City!
3rd Crocus from the Sun?
And without further adieu…
…we present…
…1800!
I’d like to thank ITTDGY[symbols] for his long-term moral support. We only have 200 left to reach the next level of awesome.
it will be mine. oh yes, it will be mine.
What’s Up Tiger Lily?
We only have 200 left to reach the next level of awesome.
308, actually.
After that, it will be time to sneak Bad Religion references into 3B!
Bad Relijuniper?
My Darling Clementine- I’m certain that is shown at the Grapefruit Chupacabra Film Fest.
Along with What’s Eating Gilbert Grapefruit.
Bad Relijujube
The Curious Case of Benlemon Button
Lemony Snicket
Too bad Jack Lemmon is dead.
We at the Citrus Fashion Association would like to inform the public that there *is* no Grapefruit Chupacabra Film Fest, and we would like to invite the public to our Hesperidian Orange Screen Celebration, location and date TBA. We will be presenting our annual film award, the Chapeau Citron.
screening the Rocky Horrange Picture Show at midnight
Or the Lime Rickey Horror Picture Show.
Mandos
November 8, 2010 at 9:38 pm
I’d like to thank ITTDGY[symbols] for his long-term moral support. We only have 200 left to reach the next level of awesome.
Hurray for us, the only team that can save Amurka from itself.
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Hurray for us, the only team that can save Amurka from itself.
better hurry, I don’t think we have much time left.
save us from the acidic bite of teh Grapefruit chupacabra!!!!!!
HALP!!!!1!!!!!
this part didn’t really follow:
“after police found him in an orange grove smelling of spray paint.”
Also, the offensive “red handed” line- wouldn’t that suggest they found him with actual oranges not just sniffing glue amongst the oranges?
I wonder if he would be toxic or delicious to the grapefruit cupacabra?
singapore slings in the house!!
singapore slings in the house!!
singapore slings in the house!!
singapore slings in the house!!
Four rounds? You be IN a sling.
That was so fun when we went to the Tonga room. I can still imagine how surprised C was not to consider the entire evening torture (I hope!).
Ugh, 3B Pandora just dropped latter day Jethro Tull. And here comes the flute. -1 to UC!!!!!!!
LOL oops
and where is the thunder and lightning in my living room?!!!
yes, that night was awesome. I knew it would be.
I want my 3B Pandora link!!
I’ve been reduced to a person who presses “enter for yes” all the time at a command prompt like in that Simpsons episode where Homer decides to work at home and gets bored pressing “yes” all the time on that nuclear safety interface.
and where is the thunder and lightning in my living room?!!!
1) 3B! Radio needs More Joan Jett.
2) And more where that came from/.
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Mini-DorD – Doritos First Degree Burn Blazin’ Jalapeno is DELICIOUS. It actually made my mouth burn.
“Skating with the Stars”
stretching the definition of “star” even further than I thought possible
yikes I just saw a Radio Shack commercial starring Lance Armstrong’s grandfather, but then realized it was Lance Armstrong.
I turned down that show you know.
the 3BRadio thread is starting to threaten the Goobie thread.
As post-ombudsperson, I suggest that intercession may be necessary.
I can’t find where we were talking about Damn You Auto Correct, but this one seemed 3Bullsian
http://damnyouautocorrect.com/1119/pics-or-it-didnt-happen/
and especially this one:
http://damnyouautocorrect.com/1134/english-class/
and this one I laughed really really hard at but felt bad about it
http://damnyouautocorrect.com/1120/the-big-d/
Preserving its place.
and this one I laughed really really hard at but felt bad about it
Better to do the divorce.
Like I can talk. I’m watching “2012”. At least Woody Harrelson got smoked Baked. Wev.
This is just hard feelings for his role in Zombieland.
I just scared the dogs with the uncontrollable scary laugh after reading a few of those auto-corrects.
yeah they are pretty addicting.
I got half of my office reading them at the same time at each of our computers. it was a chain reaction of giggling.
BREAKING
Frank Gore out for year
Is he Al’s brother, Pinko?
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He’ll do Kathleen just as much good.
yeah that single-handedly lost me my play-off spot
I think Goobie needs this for her first b-day.
End of the open internet (through cloud computing and the like):
http://www.ianwelsh.net/wikileaks-and-the-end-of-the-open-internet/
I think Jennifer is right.
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Jennifer, EL, and I now have our own special in-joke: “totally encased”.
I’ve been off-line for days. can someone summarize what happened on the internet for me?
Things eaten in Chicago. Well, so, I wasn’t there long enough to try much, and I don’t think you’d be interested in emergency stops for coffee at big chains. But I did try a few:
Dinner at the Adobo Grill just next to the Second City. Delicious. I had the chips and salsa for an appetizer; it’s not free like at some (relatively good) Mexican places, but it comes with a sampler of four of the chef’s salsas. None of them were very hot (FOR ME) but they were all very flavourful, including a pico de gallo that was somehow more awesome than any pico de gallo that I had ever tasted. Seriously. How do you make pico de gallo that interesting? I also had an appetizer-as-entrée in the form of something called chicken “cavuela” or “cazela” or something like that: chicken and mushrooms simmered in a creamy red sauce with cheese on top, and served with tortillas. I experimented with the dish, trying out different combinations of salsas in the tortilla along with the chicken and sauce. I also tried their homemade habañero sauce that comes in a bottle. Not the hottest I’ve had, but quite tasty.
In the morning, I had a steamed bun from Wow Bau, a kiosk at the bottom floor of the Water Tower mall. They specialize in interesting fusion fillings for Beijing-style steamed buns. Their selection wasn’t fully ready it being so early in the morning, but I did try the teriyaki chicken filling. Again, delicious and more garlicky than the usual teriyaki flavour, which I consider to be a good thing. Inexpensive $1.50 or so, and four of them would make a meal.
Then a couple of intrepid Chicagoans took me to a diner in the burbs, whereupon I noticed that there was a section of the menu devoted to “totally encased” foods. Naturally, the consensus was that I should order it. When it came, I took a picture; indeed it was “totally encased.” A D-or-D may be forthcoming…
I’ve said “totally encased” at least 25 times since yesterday.
If I had had the beef version of it, it could have been a totally encased Hall of Mammals.
I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts.
TMI…
Did you accidentally let Dave Broder steal your powers of Doom, Mandos?
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for all
http://whatever.scalzi.com/about/the-canonical-bacon-page/
I really want to hang out with a guy that would tape bacon to a cat.
This thread is slowing down. It’ll never make the SinguRushity at this point!!
ACTION IS NECESSARY, BRANDO!!
John Scalzi must be REALLY tired of being forwarded 3Bulls and/or Snag threads at this point.
Huh. The top of this thread says “1,862 comments”. The sidebar says “1,860 comments”.
WHICH IS IT 3BULLS?!??!
Perhaps Pinko needs to count the comments. Otherwise, the Scoring Committee will be unable to determine when Goobie Thread reaches sentience.
well, you know, it beats working.
Things eaten in Minneapolis:
Head cheese with jalapeno
Steak and potatoes with bone marrow sauce.
Cave aged cheeses.
Wild rice bratwurst
linguisa
lamb sausage
Other deli meats and cheese, I can’t remember, maybe Snag can fill in.
Things drunk in Minneapolis:
Zombie.
Things drunk in Minneapolis:
Zombie.
I believe I figured that out.
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I think I’m being mocked.
fishee:
http://www.stuffonmycat.com/
I will say awesome.
I presume a K flyby of LOL. I think that is safe to be presumed.
LOL
why did I even bother to look at the comments when I saw a new Kathleen comment?
LOL
Dear. Lord.
And… what about Shatmas??? Hmmm??
William Shatner is dead to me until he comments on this thread.
did someone say CAPTAIN KIRK?
http://io9.com/5715101/all-the-greatest-scenes-where-someone-talks-a-computer-into-self+destructing
We are slowly circling one another, no one willing to instigate the final adrenaline-inducing race to the 2000-post line.
Perhaps I will post my proof of P ? NP in this thread.
Perhaps I won’t.
Pinko is Trollypantsing the thread.
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Pinko is Trollypantsing the thread.
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Perhaps I am. Perhaps I am not. What is weird is if you knew that was what I was doing before hand, you could easily verify it, but if you had to figure it out computionally, it would be difficult.
What Pinko is doing may actually be undecideable.
Why don’t you prove it.
Don’t make me pull my Zombudspants cred and…
oh, what the hell.
thunder has a duplicative foul.
Pinko was over the line on indeciderousness.
Off setting fouls. Both commenters need to respond with well reasoned comments that include literary AND musical references. Rush allowed.
Happy New Year, chumpalos.
Will I make it to 11? Making GC a drinky, hoping UC is flying, wondering if the rest of the gang are having a nice night.
Happy New Year, PP, GC, and Goobie!
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Happy 2011 all! B went to a sleepopver so C and I had a sweet night out and about. fancy prix fixe dinner, bottle of champers, choco torte.
also, we need a Goob New Year pic update
This stagnation is killing me!!!
Happy New Year, Pinko.
Come back! You can shirk on work and parenting just like everybody else!
I agree with K- Goobie photo update.
Also, Mandos… if you’re lurking, I hope you’re working on a totally encased dord.
It’s meditation, Jennifer.
We’re goobie-flecting.
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Ommmmmm.
Ommmmmm. Nommmmmm! Nommmmmm!
Just a warning sign: Watch out for Zombies while meditating.
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I lost my brains long ago… I don’t have to worry.
The pressure!
As we tiptoe up to the line…is it 1889 or 1892?
I understand that you sciency types date carbon to solve these types of questions.
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Trackbacks count as commentos, but I’m deleting the spam one NOW
That is quality hug-timing, P.P.
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I’ve only been counting comments sans trackbacks but for extra ambiguity we could use both.
In the meantime I have sent Pinko a DorD. HAPPY NOW JENNIFER?
Counting Comments Counting Crows
How does it end, people?
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HAPPY NOW JENNIFER?
probably not. She’s busy hunting down Parking Miscreants.
Jukebox
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Hero
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Cheeseheads
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Nero
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I almost put up a Jersey Shore pic here, but I just can’t do it.
BlehhhHH!
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One toke over the line.
Lawrence Whelk, y’all! Get outta yur shells.
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In the meantime I have sent Pinko a DorD. HAPPY NOW JENNIFER?
Yes.
probably not. She’s busy hunting down Parking Miscreants.
There was another one this morning, at chorus drop-off… holding up the entire line. I remained calm and beamed them love and the momentum it takes to get one moving… just so the rest can, you know??
As I was the one directly behind the person, watching their kid walk in with mine, and the other half dozen or so who were being dropped off a block off due to this clog… I was able to see that the child made it safely into the building. No pervs, no random lightning, no black ice, was lying in wait for the child.
There is no way to drive around waiting cars at this drop-off, so it is kind of important that things keep moving, but I am filled with nothing, but love and respect for all drivers… whatever their choices may be… including myself, who is far from perfect… and needs new glasses, as Mandos can attest, as I took him on a terror ride to the airport.
Moowaahaahaaaa!!!!
Could you beam me some love and momentum, Jennifer?
I think I’ll need it to get up out of bed and slog off to work through tomorrow’s snowpocalypse.
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It would be wasted if it were spent on your job. I’ll just beam you a thunderiffic day… with exciting career opportunities and lots of animule and orb excitement.
It’s very quiet in Goobietown these days. I presume P.P. is preparing to run for Senator.
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*gasp* this fell off the front page. I was AFK all day.
Spammers have no sense of tradition.
HI GUYS WAT’S GOIN ON
Note the already amazing goobie changes from here to the new thread.
Changes?
Goobie still agrees with all, re: fish, refrigerators.
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This might be fun. Got it via a certain econ blogger.
Humours: their imbalances and how they shape our world
Chinese gunpowder and its connection to the worldwide plague of witches
Why people accuse me of being a vampire, and a peek behind the curtain of the life of an Impaler
On the nature of Swampes and the Fevers they Possess
Longitude, damn would it be useful to figure that out
Muffins, chunder and otherwise
Harnessing the power of female hysteria: wandering wombs as a renewable energy source
Opportunities for cooperation with the Saracen infidel
Jonathan Swift revisited: The new potato economics and how it is benefitting the Irish
Raised by wolves: the founding of Rome
Planting the salty seeds of peace in Carthage
Sad but true: why Dido had to die in the cave so Rome could live
Lead into Gold: A Case for an alchemical stimulus package
Witches: They Float like Wood. Now What? A Group Discussion
Witches/Bitches- the Secret Duality of Strange Village Women: Why we should burn them
The Holy Land: Why it Might be A good Idea to Convert or Kill Everyone, and why not Sack Constantinople on the Way? A musing on Holy Roman Empire Foreign Policy
A Tool that Finds 3x more Stomach Trolls, and Why It’s Not Available to You
Pope Pious VI: Buy Dispensations or the Witches Win
Unlocking the Black Death Achievement
Five Earls who are making a difference
The Children Are The Future Of Crusading
Markets in Princesses
Unlocking Paths to an Heir- Telling the Pope to Stuff It
Why we are totally encased in constant degradation
Fundraising the Spanish Inquisition Way
Feel Free to Discuss your Jewish or Moor Heritage We’re Just Taking a Census- My Personal Musings
Presented by Torquemada
Accessorizing: finding the perfect colored servant for any occasion.
Learning to compromise, 3/5 of a person is better than nothing.
Wipe away that trail of tears, Tulsa is the new Miami.
Why the Goobie Shore thread must not be allowed to fall off the recent comments
MattY brings the shrill unholy madness:
http://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/33236410416906240
How long until he gets McArdle’s gig, do you think?
If the goobie thread falls off the comments, but no one is there, does it make a sound?
Seriously- he’s co-adopting a baby with the McArdles at this point.
If the goobie thread falls off the comments, but no one is there, does it make a sound?
No, it just waits for a spammer to bump it up again.
The Goobie Thread is like the Ferris Wheel of threads… it doesn’t matter how many times it has gone around, you can still hop on and enjoy the ride and the view.
maybe MY is asking why Bittman is saying it. Stick to cookbooks jackass and leave the politics to us 25 year olds.
Maybe he will jump back on his Olive Garden train.
Yeah, us 25 year olds.
Wait, what?
Olive Garden Train in Vain
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Wrong thread. I also think I don’t like that guy. I can’t remember what it was, but I think he was acting crazy about something.
Wait where did your comment go, MENDACIOUS D
Having admin rights occasionally comes in handy. It’s not like I use them for posting.
status update: microwaving bean and cheese burrito.
status update: listening to Glee Pandora
K status update translation: “breathing”
Columbus status update: HUGE Orbs tonight.
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comment status update: 1950!!!!!!!
As we slide towards Armageddon.
Stupid time machine. Never works right.
status update: not breathing. curious about the contents of the liquor cabinet. further updates as events warrant.
Jesse Eisenberg owes 3B some serious coin in royalties.
Bad link, fish… back in the freezer.
my Pandora keeps streaming ads for DC area things. I think fish hacked it.
3Bulls insists on inserting its thingie into my link (shut up, smut).
http://oneupme.com/
I think fish hacked it.
Hacking… just another form of stealing. Not surprised…
3Bulls insists on inserting its thingie into my link
Isn’t it supposed to work the other way around?? Santorum would not approve.
after my comment it went back to Bay Area ads. PROOF POSITIVE
Pinko’s been robbed! And it wasn’t even by fish!
Pinko… time to ignore the day job and get back to your real work… before it’s all gone… and you’ve been one-upped by lesser beings.
I think the first day of class next year I may ask my conceal and carry students to just finish the job oneupme started. Goddamn.
VIDEOGUM!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://videogum.com/277461/thom-yorke-dances-to-comically-inappropriate-songs/news/#comment-8371261
People are funny on the internet. I am at peace.
I think that oneupme post about “she’s like a telephone book” needs a trigger warning. Jesus christ.
BTW C is at this moment going through and mocking Pitchforks’ Best 100 Albums of the 1980s. I told him to write a guest post and email it to PP. I said “80% of their content is Pitchfork-related”
he said “No, Pitchfork is the anti-Pinko. They are teams of people obsessed with the trivial; he is one guy obsessed with everything.” I said, “the other 20% of 3B is making fun of PP, it’s perfect.”
If this were Stereogum, the next 20 comments would be:
“C making fun of P-fork signals that he’s reached 2006 in his personal timeline. Time to put the Decemberists on his iPod Classic.”
“This sounds like a comment about being over. Since my
personal timeline is 2008, I will say FAIL.”
“Nice try, irony.”
“I actually like the fact that C
both rips Pitchfork and 3Bulls
based on an arguably shaky grasp
of both. He’s like Bredan Fraser in
Encino Man, tapping deep truths.”
“Where is YOUR personal
timeline???”
“UPVOTE”
Thanks *sshole commenting window. I made the above look THREADED and AWESOME.
I don’t understand any of this.
I would defend P-fork because they put The Mekons Rock ‘n’ Roll in that Top 100, but will instead deprecate them for putting it at number 97.
NUMBER 97!! Bastards.
To be honest, I don’t recall ever listening to the Mekons. Are they kind of like the Supersuckers?
See, this is why I hate Pinko.
Actually, two Mekons albums on the list, and [i]Daydream Nation[/i] at #1. Seems like an alright list to me.
I accept the fact that talking approvingly of Pitchfork will get me banned. Maybe I can redeem myself by saying that the Forkers were likely not even alive when those albums were released, and if they were, probably hated them in favor of Journey.
We don’t approve of Pfork. Just their writing, choices, lifestyle and attitude. Otherwise, they have a nice little site there.
Pinko, do I need to do a D or D for the Bahn Mi I had at the Eden Center on Saturday or would it cause you to spiral into an irretrievable void of hate?
Let’s just say that I think my eyes rolled back in my head at one point…
would that have been D or D, fish?
To be honest, I don’t recall ever listening to the Mekons. Are they kind of like the Supersuckers?
Barely at all. One of Langford’s side projects, the Waco Brothers, is more like the Supersuckers.
Meh, don’t bother. Nobody likes the Mekons anyway. If they were any good, they would have a Grammy by now, wouldn’t they?
D
This is the Proust of comment threads.
Maybe the Mekons can pair up with Taylor Swift…
“The Way I Loved You, Silly Rabbit!”
Or maybe, Justin Bieber…
“Never Say Everywhere!”
I believe Jennifer it taunting ZRM, who was attacking PP, for making fun of ZRM.
This proves Kathleen was right, and I blame fish.
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Jennifer’s mockery is too sophisticated for me.
Sophisticated mockery is fulsome’s game.
fish- send in the D/D. The even more painful aspect of that is that I identified that place previously to tell Chuckles where the good ones were supposed to be in the area. Chuckles isn’t very good at the internet. Little did I know it would ironically tell me to eat it.
Sophisticated Mockingbird.
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thundra, check the viddeo I left at Jennifer’s…..
I played it already!
I might have to use it with my birdie post tomorrow. (Assuming that I get the videos off my camera, they’re actually decent, and I upload them to youtube by tomorrow).
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thunder collects the Orwell Comment.
And I posted some videos.
I am Mr. Productivity!
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I keep expecting a post about golf when thundra says he’s putting up something about birdies.
I bet Mandos has a 3B’s open all day… just waiting to pounce on 2000, but of course, that will be the time fish springs back to life and leaps out of the freezer. Did someone remember to put a lock on it?
I will be the bequethed of the 2000!
Bat Signal
This thread takes so damn long to load now! argh
I need to be a lot tipsier to deal with this
INSET CHARLIE SHEEN JOKE
I can’t leave my desk to go pee until we get to 20000000
there was a farmer who had a dog
my mom loves giving the gift of decorative throw pillows
comment randomizer is working AWESOME today
Hitchcock’s The Birds is showing in Oakland next week. this is relevant to Jennifer’s and Thundra’s interests.
where is teh promised DorD on banh mai? I am starving over here!
VICTORY
my clever plan to district you all with not caring anymore WORKED.
Kathleen is a weasel in dilettante clothing!!
Isn’t Kathleen a lawyer?
Thanks *sshole commenting window
Pinko SO wanted to unload an eff-bomb there…
Duh! I thought the comment count was at 2010… and then I realized that was the year of the post.
Oh, are we still going on about this? Getting to 2000 is so 2010.
Are we at 3000 yet?
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It was only the 10th post in base 2000 anyway.
Does this thread need some Citrus Love?
I think it does, C.L.
Do you know where we can get some?
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ENTRAPMENT!!
Did you know? Citrus goes well with fish.
I did not know this.
Could you sing us a song?
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Has Lady Gaga put her spin on citrus fashions yet?
Citrus goes well with fish.
So does ice…
related
related
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY CHILDREN?!?!?!?!?!
They were delicious…
forgive me
they were so sweet
and so cold
LOL!
I was going to link to your plum poetry-fest, but forgot, fish’s history has been wiped clean.
Yeah, the lost poems was the worst.
All those comments lost in time, like tears in rain.
I remember watching that Jim Carey bit when it aired.
In comment 2525
if this thread is still alive
if goobie can survive
we may find
In comment 3535
If fish is still alive
the freezer industry may thrive
We built these comments
We built these comments on Goobie Shore
Built these comments
We built these comments on Goobie Shoooooorre
Brando leaves the worst comment ever. EVER.
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down…
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I need like the whole Phoneix album to cleanse my brain
Phone IX? When did Apple release the next four iterations?
Or five for those who use base 10.
Great.
I’m not even drinking.
I am just going to lock myself away from the internet forever.
Then the fish will have won one.
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battle of teh bands between Florence + the Machine and Rage Against the Machine: Great Idea or Greatest Idea?
refereed by Florence Henderson.
Managed by Harry and the Hendersons
Called by Harry Caray
Advised by Kary Mullis
Rooted for by Chris Mullins
Written about by Christopher Hitchens
Talked about in my kitchens
Imitated by Kary Mullis.
BTW, is there any greater insult to scientists than Mullis giving a TED seminar?
Yeah, Capt. Trollypants.
Not sure about that. Maybe Shirley.
BTW, is there any greater insult to scientists than Mullis giving a TED seminar?
David Brooks, because it insults EVERYBODY. Wish I was kidding.
ZRM killed the thread with David Brooks… happy now?
happy now?
Jennifer makes a funny.
Actually, I could pick up David Brooks by the ankles, kill the thread with him.
AND THERE”S NO MURDER WEAPON.
Plus, David Brooks is dead. If Goobie Thread has to die, at least it dies making the world a better place.
Goobie thread is immortal.
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Goobie Thread rules over us all with an adorable, mitten-covered fist.
GOODBIE THREAD 4EVA
even though it takes me about 5 minutes to post one comment at this point.
I JUST FOUND 7000 MORE GOOBIE THREAD COMMENTS IN WALKERSHA.
I drove through Walkersha on my way to Whitewater. It was pretty white, amirite?
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Kathleen sapped the life from this thread with her cheating 2000th post.
I support Mandos’ vindictive rage against the machine.
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LOL @ zombee
They were all by Capt. Trollypants.
even though it takes me about 5 minutes to post one comment at this point.
Sounds like Chez Kathleen has restocked the cranberry vodka!
Kathleen and her NTO cranberry vodka!
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I am so busy!!!!!!!!! /cry
Bloogspot is not accepting my comments, blooger bloogers.
Mandos, there is a Firefox bug with some comments on Blogger, you need to “accept 3rd party” cookies in prefs, and you can comment. It is annoying.
Pinko, I have disagreed with Mandos before, but I wouldn’t call his comments “annoying”.
Although he never comments at my place, so I dunno, THAT might be annoying. Although who can blame him, really?
Also, Firefox Bug. heh.
You realize, of course, now people like thunder and Kathleen and fish will do nothing all week but leave filthbot bait all over the place.
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We must stiffen our resolve.
We must be firm when challenged by temptation.
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Oh nuts. I’m taking my balls home to play by myself. You make me want to cry. Does anyone have a kleenex?
Is that a post or are you just happy to see me?
my what a long thread you have
Vin Diesel stars in Pinocchio XXX: it isn’t his nose that grows.
plant news
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It’s totally amazing how much suck there exists in Blooger. It’s like their are an emu-based business running on chundermuffins.
I should have known… the Goobie thread turns into a filthbot depository.
Pinko- are you making a pilgrimage to one of the new Texas In-N-Out Burger joints?
No time for the old in-n-out love, I’m just here to check the meter.
In n Out joint?
I guess the filthbottery will be resuming its normal schedule now.
I think it really has to start Out then In
chicken – egg conundrum
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I guess the filthbottery will be resuming its normal schedule now.
RADIO EDIT
Blog not found
Sorry, the blog you were looking for does not exist. However, the name filthbot is available to register!
So untrue, blogger!
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What this thread needs now is some gratuitous Zardoz references.
Niall Buggy!
Friend! (John Alderton)
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I am going to break this thread wide open with a random live blog of something.just you wait!
Like the Champions League final? Whoops.
and the project runway marathon
Don’t forget this year’s World Chess Cup!
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Live blogging Zardoz, or a Genesis concert.
Live blogging a zardoz would be so meta.
I am sure I did that already, fish, but I can’t find it at my blog and can’t remember if I did it at someone else’s.
Alcohol may have been involved.
The Zardoz at Saying Filthbot has been relatively subdued, but fish’s was going hot and heavy until aforementioned filthbot had to return to “real life”, whatever that means.
And now the zombie is beginning to whine, we may have reach Zardoz impasse for the rest of the day or the next hour and 20 minutes, sports fans!!!
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Alcohol may have been involved.
May??
but fish’s was going hot and heavy until aforementioned filthbot had to return to “real life”
You can’t be a Zardoz voyeur, thundra… that’s not right.
A THIRD FRONT?!?!?!?
A THIRD FRONT?!?!?!
Trizardoz!
I can’t do three, Captain! I haven’t got the power!
I was live-blogging, Jennifer. It’s different, somehow.
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Nuance…
I wear a trizardoz hat to the Tea Party rallies.
New Ants
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I always miss all the fun
Miss Fun says that onions always make her smile.
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Thinking about onions is in no way inspired by teh Wienermobile.
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If only Tony Weiner had tweeted a Wienermobile pic, everyone would be dancin’ and laughin’ instead of crying the crocodile tears.
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I pity da fool who thinks that I am through.
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OMG!!!
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I can’t believe it!
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Maybe bunnies like money, too?
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And here is the best Carolina Wren video on all of Youtuber.
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Go thundra!
what’s going on peeps?
I see you shiver with antici….pation
Whatever could I mean? thundra?
Thank you, Sir.
The Mandos-ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© collective remains a force for justice and silliness on the internet, in spite of what all the detractors say.
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We are the priests!
Of the temples!
of Syrinx!
Geddy, you rock!
my lyrics are often misinterpreted, you know.
We will be on tour this year!
Free tickets for all the 3Bullsians!
But I really do work at my drumming.
I also hope Brando is reading this.
You know, you folks made the number of comments on this thing kind of weird. Depending on where you look, the numbers are different. It makes it tough to do a numerically-oriented joke.
I suspect it is because you lack modern health care, eh?
Fortunately, Lerxst, there are three of us.
Me? I thought YOU were Lerxst!
No, he is Pratt.
I AM NOT PRATT!
AWESOME.
The Mandos-ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© collective remains a force for justice and silliness on the internet, in spite of what all the detractors say.
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But you must give Rush credit for the assist.
I LOVE YU GUYS!
Don’t listen to the Phil Collins lovers around here.
Really? That’s so lame.
Yeah, I jammed with him once, and when I did my solo, HE HAD TO WEAR EARPLUGS!
Guys, he’s actually a pretty good drummer.
Ok.
But who is that awesomely cute little girl up at the top of the post?
TOO MUCH!
Agreed.
GOOBIE RAWKS HARDER THAN WE DO!
Just because you guys were so nice to stop by the Goobie Thread, I am going to put in Rush in Rio and LIVEBLOG IT!
AWESOME, DUDE.
Skip right to the drum solo.
I think Kathleen missed all the fun, again.
RUSH!!!!!!!!
Is banned.
Pretty extreme.
We might need a ruling from the Brando Collective and Penis Joke Factory.
IT’S NOT A MULLET!!! STOP SAYING THAT!!1!!!1one!!
Not sure what’s worse… a jumping spider or the Rush turn this thread took…
It was funnier when the comment thread count was at 2112 and all the recent comments were from Alex, Geddy, and Neil.
All I can say is it is too bad this blog doesn’t allow inline videos, or it would be VERY RUSHY all up in this blogizzle.
*shakes fist*
I’m going to liveblog Kathleen’s fist shaking.
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Rush Spiders.
Now that The Three Canucks have appeared, and been enshrined in Three BullsHeaderdom, it may be time to put Goobie to bed….
Rush Spiders
I heard that…
Look at zrm…moderatin’ comments, suggesting the Goobie thread is ready for bed…what next???
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Goob Sawyer.
The Spirit of Goobie.
Roll The Goobs.
Goobie and the Pug-Dog.
Working Goob.
The Great Goobie.
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I can’t even believe ZRM combined the innocent little Goob with Rush titles!! Is nothing sacred?? And do say, “Rush!”
I AM ON VACATION
Things I ate during a week in Portland:
* Honest salmon, not that fake cardboard stuff we get in the East.
* The most stomach-curdlingly spicy Thai food I have had in a long time. SO DELICIOUS, SO DEADLY. I didn’t know whether to scream in agony or shout for joy. I also had a terrible stomach for a couple of days after.
* Shallot-glazed roasted chicken with a mushroom bread pudding.
* Moules frites in some kind of almond-white wine reduction with some of the best fries I had in a long time.
And that’s just that highlights. But I’m sure you can get great food like that ANYWHERE in the USA, even the further reaches of Texas. I’m SURE.
PUNCH
Mandos, get your header in.
OK, OK. Tomorrow, even though I should get down to writing that Thing. You know that Thing. Yes, that Thing. I have like a month to give it life.
Probably no header today. Maybe tomorrow.
Maybe tomorrow.
I’ve grown kind of disillusioned with this line of excuse.
Just kicking the tires here.
It’s in.
Pinko: the answer is yes and I’ll leave it up to you to decide where, and that’s all I’m going to say
it’s so far in it’s out!!
I think tirebiting is o.k., as long as an appropriate governmental authority is regulating the tire health content.
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how does the Goob feel about citrus? this question has never been answered
Dangerously,
She enjoys clementines. I fear two things: this is a gateway citrus to more nefarious citrus pastimes (they made us watch Scared Straight- Grapefruit edition in elementary school) or she will be preyed upon by the legendary beast of the southwest- need I name it?
No citrus fashion for the Goob??
I don’t want to succumb to peer pressure from fashion associations.
I read that as peel pressure.
Pithy, J, pithy.
Also, the blog is broken. This page is 10 miles wide.
Just kidding, it was thunder. Of course– the seed of all our problems. If he were anyone else, I’d mash him to a pulp.
I deny all charges.
You will be hearing from my attorangey.
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Pinko is juicing like the Tour de France
Another pun segment on Endless Goobie Thread!
Mandos, this is the thin end of the wedge.
Eh. Puns should have a bit more Tang.
Goobie front-page status is Mandos-tory.
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thundra-ous applause
The sound of one fish clapping.
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it’s you and me holding the fort
They’ll never stop us now!
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I have emerged from my cocoon and am now officially a beautiful butterfly.
AWESOME
THAT is AM-A-ZING
Hurray for Mandos!
He can fly.
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Ah! But fly where? Where indeed. Perhaps to the Landlocked Island Schnitzel Kingdom, where there is decent public transit and it even runs on time. Where the food is inedible except the bread and cheese, and the movies are dubbed in a harsh, guttural tongue, and where even the right-wing political parties are a little bit commie. Where it is impossible for me to melt into the aboriginal population, even for pretend.
Since Germany does have ports, you are in Austria?
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I was thinking more at a state level, but I am still in the Oosah.
Wisconsin? Illinois? Minnesota?
Where in the world is Mandos, he new-booked.
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Oh, I am in the Oosah only for a little while more, before I waft off to renew my CCA membership and then alight on the Landlocked Island. Yes, it requires crossing a pond or two.
Gack! Chuckles knocked the Eternal Goobie Thread off the Recent Posts! How inconsiderate!
Don’t worry, it could never be for long.
I, for one, welcome the return of prodigal Chuckles.
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what amazements will we see in post 2200? teleportation?
2300
Two DevilBunny™ Headers in a row.
DevilBunny™ Header is trending now.
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pump bump
I live for the day when the Goobie Thread is a new reality show on Bravo.
I believe in comment 2500, Future Pinko will appear from comment 3500 and tell present Pinko that fish is trying to travel back to steal Pinko’s 1000th comment, which would render this post out of existence.
Thus proving that it’s all fish’s fault. It always has been all fish’s fault. And it always will be all fish’s fault.
– Tralfamadorians
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said…
We’ve gone through the wormhole, zrm.
Mandos is Steve Jobs.
IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!!!
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10:42 AM, August 25, 2011
At last we know.
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Things eaten on the Landlocked Island include Mexican/Tex-Mex food that was surprisingly good and very bad Thai, a terrible pizza, and pretty good pizza. Stupendous gelato at dirt-cheap prices.
I SPENT AN ENTIRE SEASON WITH AN INTERPRETIVE DANCE GROUP IN BUFFALO
I HAVE A THEORY
It could be bunnies
we haven’t played golf in forever. This is going to be fun. Plus, I promise to keep my “Caddyshack” references to a minimum.
I cannot back that up
you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower
How about a Fresca?
A donut without a hole is a Danish.
Then how do you measure yourself with other golfers?
By height.
Gambling is illegal and I never slice
whew. that was exhausting.
one more
In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, ‘Au revoir, gopher’.
Pfft. 3000 is where it’s at.
I never slice
K is a hooker?
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If you kill all the golfers, who’s going to play golf?
Gophers you idiot!
Peep!
I played golf today. Took some pictures…
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Pinko’s latest post pushed this off the Recent Comments list, so as a responsible Zombudspants, I am bumping.
I can still comment here, at least.
For now.
That was a quality bomp, zrm.
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Uh-oh. I think I can be banned for exceeding .5 ass.
Nothing is quite so .5 ass as having new comments appear in the middle of the comment section.
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In order to bomp this thread, I wish to report that one of our new kitties just launched a full scale attack on her own tail.
Nothing is quite so empowering as the ability to amuse oneself.
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Have we ever done an NYT-off? Such as:
Will the USA have to repeal DADT on fungisexuality?
the fungus among us
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Oh no! This thread was neglected and fell off! Back up it goes!
I blame fish.
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It’s usually a safe bet.
Oh thuuunderous one! I updated my bloggy mcbloggerson! My personal one!
I have visited, and approved on behalf of all the devil bunnies (and their totally awesome headers!).
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*bumpf*
Words of Wisdom
Mandos
February 15, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Dictu mirabile, this afternoon Big Texas Cinnamon Roll appeared in the vending machine.
Mandos
February 15, 2010 at 1:05 pm
I have obtained Big Texas Cinnamon Roll.
Who knew an ingredients list could be that long? Wheat Gluten is listed TAKE THAT JENNY MCCARTHY!
Mandos
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This is the day of all saints. Anyone celebrating it?
It’s actually getting difficult to keep floating this thread again. Look at what a little poosting can do.
Dia de Los Muertos
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Hey! Guess where I can’t comment!
I fished you out. I am going to give you an account on there so you can login. LE SIGH!
this thread takes so long to load I can never comment on it anymore
You mean after that comment?
it took me like 20 min to post that comment
This is how I’m eventually going to take 3000.
It loads just fine with Chrome, he chortled.
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Allow me a brief moment of squee.
Is that the right word you are using?
Should I have said “HOORAY!!!1!!!” instead? I’ve been waiting for months.
Sounds like a question for Captain Trollypants.
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Oh, Mandos. I can’t wait for PCW 2011.
PCW? I googled it, it could be one of a million things. PC World, Primary Care Week, a brand of personal computers from the 80s, …
What about some sort of google thing restricted to the local environment?
I never thought of it in acronymous terms. It was always the full phrase, “Pitchfork Cobaggery Watch”.
I doubt that song will appear on Pitchfork. Everything I like is either too mainstream or not mainstream enough to appear on Pitchfork.
Yeah, but Mandos-anti-Mandos interactions are always interesting.
is 3Bulls! going to do a holiday gift guide?
Maybe 3Bulls! could liveblog one of the next gazillion gooper debates?
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We should keep Goobie thread frontpaged until Goobie graduates high school.
Assuming, that is, that Texas will have high schools for that much longer.
I’m planning to keep it up at least until Goobie can write intelligent and perceptive comments on it. Then the circuit of Goobie Thread will be complete.
I’m planning to keep it up at least until Goobie can write intelligent and perceptive comments on it.
Well, it will be a breath of fresh air for ONE commenter here to be able to do that.
Plover excepted, of course.
Up up up past the Russell Hotel…
well, if I serve no other purpose nor am allowed other comments here, at least I can BOMP this up, when the spambots try to push Goobie off the front page.
Because it is the tradition, you see.
Are we at 3000 yet? Has ZRM pissed everybody off yet? Can Teh Goob read yet?? Is she 2 yet?? It’s got to be close.
I need an afternoon danc-a-thon. I’m desperate enough to tune in 3B rahdio…
3B is being way too emo for an afternoon pick-me-up.
Damn, this thread takes a long time to load… not to mention, refreshing does not truly refresh. I had forgotten.
Did I miss comment 2112 yet?? How about 1212??
I have shifted from 3B rahdio to Brick House rahdio… much more uplifting, and what does a brick house need if not something that lifts and separates…
That was deep, Jennifer: “Refreshing does not truly refresh.”
Jennifer missed when Geddy, Alex and Neil celebrated the 2112 episode of Goobie shore?
Jennifer missed when Geddy, Alex and Neil celebrated the 2112 episode of Goobie shore?
Thank gawd!
I HAVE ARRIVED
It’s about time.
I AM HERE NOW.
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Always remember, wherever you go, there you are.
heh. I saw the “Zardozing The Goobie Shore” header for the first time when I visited Goobie Shore today.
Whose was that one, by the way? Well done. Could have used a red diaper, but otherwise….
ZRM- I nearly emailed you from the grocery store today. They had a lovely selection of Great Lakes brews, but alas, no spiced variety. I was curious which you’d recommend out of those they had.
Not Great Lakes. Lakefront. LAKEFRONT!
Same difference, right, J?
Someday, Goobie and her prom date are going to show up at dad’s.
And Pinko and Geenie C. will produce this thread as a reward.
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heh. I drive by the Lakefront brewery on my way to my office. Yesterday, there was a platoon of Santas riding bikes congregating at the brewery.
I had to double check to see if yesterday was the day I was working while on LSD or not. Nope! It really happened.
I have seen both lake fronts, Pinko. (Although I have only take a dip in the bigger lake, in the last decade.)
The thing about lakefront is it’s front. ON A LAKE.
(Even if the lake isn’t Lake Michigan.)
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BEER, thundra. I am talking BEER.
I’m sure lakes are very nice if you must make do.
Never forget, people!
fish poops in our lakes.
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trolling
trolling
trolling on the INTER(nets)
Hi, Kathleen!
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Egads. I started reading at what I thought was the bottom of the thread. It didn’t make sense, but that’s nothing new… the jokes were rehashed puns… again nothing new… and then I realized I was reading comments from over a year ago! After reading the most current, I realized the comments from a year ago were somehow fresher.
The posting rate at Goobie Shore is currently a function of the posting rate on the rest of the site. We work to keep it on the front page is all.
It is also affected by how frickin long it takes to load. I think Windows boots up faster.
It is inevitable that Goobie Thread will eventually break 3 Bulls. we will sift through the smoking wreckage, looking for Remnants of Plover (and doesn’t THAT sound like an Anthony Phillips song) and the errant Song of The Day. Sadly, sadly.
I must say, being an escort service , we have a fairly wide range of views when it comes to issues. And we like to share the opinions with others like all of those above this comment. Really we would like commend everyone within this thread as well as on this blog to take part and never being scared to express the way they feel about things, We need more of that in this world! Thanks everyone
I became alarmed when I saw the spambots hitting the Bulls that the Shore of Goobie might fall off the front page.
But then I saw that escort calgary took care of it. This is particularly chucklesome:
And we like to share the opinions with others like all of those above this comment.
ALL opinions.
This is Three Bulls!
We only have one opinion. Terminate the newcomer!
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one thing 3bulls is never afraid of is to express the opinion
It is time for some bumpf.
We value your opinion, Mandos.
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I think I shall let someone else step forward to bump this up.
I for one am passing the bumping baton to others
bump it forward
Just because you tell me to, I’ll swim to Spain, I’ll fly for you.
It will be amazing when Goobie turns 18 and inherits this thread.
“This…ALL THIS, is yours, Goobie!”
– Pinko P.
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“The World Is Yours” in neon. On a fountain. In the Foyer.
OMG, Goobie Montana!
“Say hello to my li’l pug!”
Bumple.
the spambots are trying to bump Goobie off the Fronter.
NOT WANT!
At least we can see all of the comments here… without needing to comment, unlike at some blogs.
It now takes 6 days for goobie thread to load. I timed it.
Agreed. I had to cross the Goobie Sea to get to the Goobie Shore.
totally worth it though.
Although at some point we will cross the Goobie Horizon, in which case Goobie will be aging faster than the page will load.
And yet this is the typical comment thread length for a Yahoo article about Snookie’s underwear.
Snookie wears underwear?
I would have bet otherwise.
Didn’t say she was wearing it…
she never is…
2298
2299
So all those idiots who can’t do simple math are not actually human?
I am kind of relieved, frankly.
One
Two
It is mine! 2300
Mandos goes Full Metal Fish.
that is so so funny
I was already there. I think some spam got erased, pushing me back up the list. Check Riddled for recent use of the time machine…
competitive much, fish?
AAAAARRGH! We’ve lost most of Goobie Shore! All that work!!!!
It’s still there. Almost like secret thread.
I can’t find any of it *weep*.
Seriously- where did it go? It wasn’t like this yesterday? Is it something about think link change?
Guys, I can’t handle this. I need to know where those comments are!
fish- when comments were broken into pages- where were the links to go back pages in comments etc.? They must be the wrong color. Also, I didn’t even know that setting existed.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©
February 9, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Although there is a chance that feesh will steel all our comments, I believe it is R duty to Full Zardoz as it is written in the something somewhere somethings.
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So was it written. So was it done.
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I think if a link back could be made visible that setting might even be better. Allow continuation of Eternal Goobie Thread without loading delays.
I am also seriously tempted to answer “What is 8 + 10 ?” with “10 + 8 due to the commutative property of +.”
the New Bulls Mountain Lion deployment loads pretty snappy, actually.
“A simple math equation” is also acceptably smart-ass, Mandos.
I know, Mandos- that would almost be full assed. Unfortunately, I don’t know how that is controlled in the style sheet. Let me look for it tonight if the blog is still functional that far into the future.
It’s not an equation. It’s a formula or an expression.
It’s not an equation. It’s a formula or an expression.
Sheesh. Maybe I will stay away from here too.
Huzzah!!
back to taking forever to load THANK GOD
I missed my Goobie Thread
YOUR Goobie thread???
I am MATHING IT UP!
Awesome. Event he spambots are bumping Goob!
Little surprised to find Goobie has a car already though. It seems a little advanced, Pinko.
Even though MGT deserves its own bump.
ZARDOZ, he explained.
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Goobie thread, somebody said.
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Hey now.
It seems like some further bumpf is required.
Constant
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This child needs mustache acclimatization.
Forward!
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Thank you for doing bumpf duty!
It was an honor.
P.S. Isn’t it time for Goobie and P. Punko (IF that is his real name!) to visit the monster park or some such again?
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Needs to be bumpfed.
LOL
That is a lot of math for an LOL
Earth to P. Punko (IF that is your real name!!!???):
Time to put up another picture.
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I have nothing to say, I just felt like mathing it up.
As much as I hate all the insulting attempts at comedy on The Big Bang Theory, I would like my pick of the various t-shirts the guys on that show wear.
In somewhat more related topics, my niece, Baby Dinosaur, is already preparing for high school by only playing with me when no one else is around. Somehow, I think the only way you can get unconditional love is by being the parents. But that is just way too much work for me.
Hmpf. Young Zombie is getting ready for college.
Impossible.
I thought that was spelled unpossible.
Gasp! The Goobie thread fell off!
Mandos with the save!!!!!
Zombie is an imdead.
An imdead with Ondead pilot.
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Speaking of Pork Snorkels, I was able to visit that same Casita Chilanga, Mandos. I have some pictures, and they will be up soon.
How come Mandos doesn’t provide us with content anymore?
nobody provides content anymore. The internet is running out of steam.
zrm ate its brainz.
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Mandos has been in transit.
I saw you!
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Precisely except wrong continent.
15 yards and loss of down:
zrm, for unattributed spider money spendage.
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Upon further review, we’re going to have to suspend zrm for the first four games of the season.
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I had “Special Edition American Cream” flavoured potato chips recently. I have no idea what they meant by “American Cream.” On the cover of the package there was a picture of a yellow squeeze bottle squirting out something white. The chips tasted mildly salty with an unidentifiable aftertaste.
Mayo???
Mayonnaise is widespread here and very popular. People have it with fries, more often than they have e.g. ketchup with fries, which is of course still quite common.
I think they *might* be referring to Miracle Whip, but it could just be another example of the genre of “American” products that they sell around here where “American” is used as a placeholder for something they didn’t have another name for. Basically, they make a lot of stuff up and call it “American” because they assume that the locals will just nod their heads knowingly about the disgusting bad food Americans eat, and ask for seconds.
And I never seem to have gotten around to reviewing the horrible peanut-flavour cheesies. *shudder* *graps another*
squirting out something white. The chips tasted mildly salty with an unidentifiable aftertaste.
Subtle filthbottery.
Exposed!
my preferred condiment with fries, similar to paleotectonics a man of discernment and taste, is tartar sauce; in the absence, I also like mayo.
Ketchup is a distant fifth or sixth YES I SAID IT.
POOP!
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Furthermore, Meese!
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Think thread requires some bump.
Is this thread up to a Zardillion comments yet?
No not yet. It’ll be there by the time Goobie is ready to comment.
She is getting close I would imagine, though I wonder if Word Press will be compatible with Goobie Glass?
Although no one is really commenting anymore, this thread still felt perilously close to being off of the front page.
Even the math question generator knows no one is commenting. My questions were tres easy… “6x?=6″…
LUCKY!
I got “seven – 3 =” and “What is 75 + 9?”
HALP!
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oh good, someone paid the rent.
Nothing going on but the rent. I’ll put up something soon, though.
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This has somehow fallen to the bottom. Bumpf you go!
Well well, if it isn’t MANDOS, the Hand of Fate!
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