Here’s last night’s sunset:
We’re sitting around reading and watching the Rays play the Texasns Rangers on TV. (Go Rays!)
Got anything interesting planned for the weekend?
I’ve got to do some work tomorrow, unfortunately, but we’ll probably make time for something fun too. Weather’s supposed to suck and there’s still a lot of flooding, so hiking is out.
Open thread!
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Our three year old wants to name our new dog (we’re going to get him next week) Mingobat. I don’t know why, but that’s what she told me. He comes with a name, Barney, but I think I’m going to name him Smedley. Our eight year old leans toward Spot, but I think Smedley is going to win the day…
Gravenstone
This could be great, or unspeakably terrible. SyFy is bringing four classic sci-fi novels to television.
Karen in GA
Beautiful sky.
Heading out tomorrow to pick up paints and brushes. Taking a watercolor painting class starting at the end of the month. I’ve drawn, but never painted — should be fun.
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): You need to get your toddler a new stuffed animal or something — anything — just so it can be named “Mingobat.”
And congrats on the new dog. Rescue? Purebred? Details!
JPL
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I vote for batley or spotley.
Mike in NC
Found several fire ant nests in our yard and the mole activity is out of control. Ready to move into a 10th floor condo on the beachfront where we don’t have to deal with this stuff.
Amir Khalid
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Why shouldn’t a dog be named Mingobat?
JPL
@Amir Khalid: Go outside and call mingobat a few times and it will become clear.
SiubhanDuinne
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Mingobat is a wonderful name. I vote for the three-year-old.
Edit: Okay, Karen in GA had a good idea here:
Betty Cracker
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I kinda like Mingobat, though they say it’s best to keep dog names to one or two syllables for training purposes. You can give the dog a couple of middle names so as to incorporate all the kids’ suggestions.
My two dogs have three and four names apiece: Patsy Marie Bouvier and Daisy Mayhem Margaret Kennedy. We get funny looks at the vet.
srv
Would that it was a sunset on Hillary:
The unmitigated gall. Enjoy your Jeb, liberals.
debit
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Mingobat the Merciless. I like it.
Karen in GA
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): @Amir Khalid: For the record, my husband likes Mingobat too. (Not that you were taking votes, but there it is.)
ThresherK
Surely you mean the Rangers.
Sports nickname pedantry time*: The “Texans” play football, whether the Houston Texans, the CFL’s San Antonio Texans from the ’90s, the AFL’s Dallas Texans from the ’60s, or the 1952 NFL Dallas Texans.
(*My favorite kind of pedantry.)
srv
mingobat search on youtube has one result:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ummI81wmt4A
Yer kid must need treatment for dengue fever.
the Conster
Just caught up with Mr. Robot, which is fantastic. Now I’ll go out on the deck to watch the sky for meteors and maybe sleep out there all night. It’s a perfect summer night here. For sure the weekend will involve local tomatoes and corn on the cob and a bathing suit.
PsiFighter37
Not to be a stickler, but there’s no baseball team called the Texans. If you’re going by the ‘T’ on the hat, pretty sure you are talking about the Texas Rangers…
Amir Khalid
@Betty Cracker:
I can’t help but wonder: what if you someday have a human visitor who happens to be named Ms Patsy Marie Bouvier?
Karen in GA
@Amir Khalid: Better than Mingobat.
SiubhanDuinne
@ThresherK:
@PsiFighter37:
:: Shakes head at the sad loss of humour amongst Balloon Juicers ::
Little Boots
everyone stop hating. cause this is a thing.
Peale
@debit: Mingobat the Spotless. Not everyone in that Dynasty was a tyrant.
debit
Open thread? I’ve been having adventures in bike mechanics. My son discovered that you can get a SRAM Automatix hub in a disc brake option if you were willing to pay shipping from Germany. I was, and did, and wound up then getting an All City Nature Boy frame, then built up some wheels and was pretty happy with the result.
The hub, for the unaware, is a two speed that shifts automatically once you hit a certain speed. However, the factory set shift point is ridiculously low, like 11 mph, so I had to crack open the hub and attempt to reset it. After disassembling and reassembling about a dozen times, I finally got it to shift at 18 MPH. Not gonna lie, I felt the same maniacal triumph as Nadine from Twin Peaks when she finally perfected her silent drape runners.
divF
@JPL:
One-syllable names can be a problem as well. My English-major college roommates decided to name their dog Puck. After shouting that across Sproul Plaza a few times, they realized it had some disadvantages, and gave him another name for outdoor use.
Within a couple of years, Puck had more given names than an heir to the British throne.
Little Boots
can I blame omnes?
ThresherK
@SiubhanDuinne: Loss of humour?
Why, there’s nothing funnier than sport nicknames. Even after the Ottawa Rough Riders folded, reducing the number of teams named Rough Riders or Roughriders in the CFL to (1).
Unless it’s rooting for the SEC’s Tigers or Bulldogs, and realizing you need to choose between five different teams, aggregate, in a fourteen team field.
MomSense
@Amir Khalid:
I agree. Mingobat is a charming name. BTW it took me about 5 tries to override autocorrect.
Origuy
Flew into Halifax last night, played tourist today. I like Halifax; people are out walking around, some good restaurants. Listened to an Acadian band in a brewpub. Tomorrow I drive to Moncton, NB for the start of the Canadian Orienteering Championships. Running around there for a couple of days, then taking off to Cape Breton for some Scottish music and some ceilidh dancing. After that, more orienteering on Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.
Tree With Water
@Mike in NC: I was in my bare feet, sitting and stirring some paint a week ago when an ant, or ants, took a humungous chunk of flesh (relatively speaking) out of a toe that landed on a the entry hole to their nest. The toe ached for days, and I didn’t develop any Ant Man-type super strength, either.. As soon as I’m through painting my deck, I’m going to kill the little fuckers. All of them…
Little Boots
by the way, omnes, I know I know, I suck, goddammit, I suck. sorry.
Betty Cracker
@ThresherK & @PsiFighter37: Right you are. Fixed!
@Amir Khalid: That would be awkward, but I think it’s unlikely.
Betty Cracker
@debit: Holy shit, I’d forgotten the silent drape runners!
Amir Khalid
@divF:
For what it’s worth, I would never name a dog Buck Bacall.
Little Boots
@Amir Khalid:
I would never name a dog Omnes.
he’s amazing, but so annoying.
SiubhanDuinne
@Karen in GA:
I have given this a great deal of sober, considered thought, and have come to the conclusion that there actually is nothing better than Mingobat.
Betty Cracker
@Tree With Water: I hate fire ants. I got married outside at a neighborhood garden club, and during the ceremony, unbeknownst to me at the time, fire ants attacked my bridesmaids. God bless them, they maintained their composure until the mister and I were pronounced man and wife (luckily for them it was a short civil dealio rather than a Greek Orthodox ceremony). One of my favorite photos is of the three of them kicking off their shoes and dancing around clawing at their feet as the mister and I retreated up the aisle. The photographer was a sharp one.
MomSense
@SiubhanDuinne:
Yes! I agree. I always make up lots of silly names for my pets so I can imagine lots of fun with Mingobat.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@ Betty Cracker @Debbie from EE open thread.
A former creative writing teacher (now MD) on Franzen (whom her refers to as “the minor talent”):
That’s probably my fault as I’ve discussed some spiteful comments Franzen’s made about DFW since his death. The “reviews” are reviews of End of the Tour, and I sent him the title essay of Farther Away since he’d not read it (in spite of his New Yorker subscription.
redshirt
MINGOBAT!
Peale
Is the A in mingobat short or long? Mingobhat? MIN-go-baht? Min-GO-bat?
Little Boots
we need something. we need …
Mike E
I’d like to believe that Engelbert Humperdinck has/had a pet named Mingobat because, reasons.
the Conster
@Origuy:
We did that same basic trip last summer – 2 weeks through the maritimes, and stayed in all the harbor towns. Halifax has a lot of great history, and is amazingly multicultural and young. PEI is all potato fields, but they go right up to the ocean which is pink at the edge. We stayed a couple of nights in Shediac, and saw Fundy National Park in a hurricane. Have fun!
Peale
Rented a rowing machine today. Since I sold my unused weight bench and treadmill, I’ve been missing something in my life.
Little Boots
no omnes? no anger?
omnes, I get it, I’m a dick sometimes.
debit
@Peale: I hear it like it rhymes with dingo hat.
ETA: Dingohats ate my baby!
Karen in GA
@SiubhanDuinne: I look at Muppet now and I think “missed opportunity.”
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
BuckbuckbuckbuckbaCAAAALLLLLL!
Mike E
@debit: Like there’s any other way to say it, sheesh.
Karen in GA
@Mike E: His real name is Jerry Mingobat Dorsey.
Karen in GA
@efgoldman: All of them, Katie.
SiubhanDuinne
@Betty Cracker:
Ouch! Sorry for your bridesmaids, but goddamn that is a funny image!
A few years ago on a business trip I found myself with a couple of available hours, and went ancestor-hunting in an old cemetery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It was summer. I was wearing sandals. The plot was grassy, and antsy, and not as carefully maintained as one might wish.
My toes burned and itched and wept for weeks.
debit
@efgoldman: I was going to suggest: something to throw your clothes on, but then I realized it wasn’t Cole.
SiubhanDuinne
@Karen in GA:
:-)
NotMax
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Once knew a woman who named her dog named Armadingo.
Did seem the dog didn’t care for the name, as never would respond until the name was repeated at least three times, each time a bit more sternly.
Last dog I owned was Argos, a name many people commented upon as tres cool.
Mike E
@efgoldman: All of them, Katie.
I choose the one still capable of song and woozles.
Amir Khalid
@efgoldman:
I think of the latter Engelbert Humperdinck as a Justin Bieber for grandmothers.
Geoduck
Finally got a day of much-needed rain here in SW Washington state. Hopefully it at least damped down the fire hazard a little. It would be nice to see all the grass start turning green again, too. Back to sunshine tomorrow, evidently.
Peale
@Mike E: When the pup hits adolescence, he’ll be playing around with lots of different pronounciations until he hits on the more adult sounding “Min” as his preference. Although he’ll go by “Myn” for awhile in obedience school, as the mystery spelling is a good conversation starter with the curs.
Mike E
@Karen in GA: Heh, a Welsh drink of your choice to you!
Little Boots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
Little Boots
can we?
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Both.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
I’m a big fan, you will not be surprised, of the real Englebert Humperdinck. H&G was my first opera — I was given the Jane Powell (Gretel) / Basil Rathbone (narrator/Witch) recording in 1946, and that same year was taken to the Lyric Opera of Chicago holiday production (my dad was in the pit orchestra). It is a great opera for little kids, but it is also musically sophisticated, full of Leitmotiven and harmonic surprises, to keep the adults interested. I never tire of it.
ThresherK
@efgoldman: You don’t mean Jimmy Dorsey, the saxophonist whose band made “Green Eyes”, “Tangerine” and other great stacks of wax?
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
uh, huh.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
I’m starting to look over the developmental edits on Part II of Becoming Phoebe. The hope is to have a manuscript ready for copy editing by the end of September.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
I am weeping with nostalgia here.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
i don’t think I’m that bad, really.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Do you really deny the reality of the more modern EH? I am quite willing to try it.
mclaren
@Gravenstone:
I’m guessing these adaptations will not feature WWE Smackdown stars…?
Little Boots
there is no reason omnes needs to hate me.
ThresherK
@SiubhanDuinne: I miss WNEW-AM 1130 in New York. Big city music radio for the teenagers in the 70s who weren’t really into that rock and roll.
Plus Cosmos soccer. (Yes, on the radio.)
Mike E
@Peale: And Myn would eschew bats, opting for a diet of voles…ok, I’ve forgotten what we’ve been talking about :-p
PurpleGirl
Going shopping for a new TV tomorrow. My super neat Sharp began dying on Monday; I have no picture, sometimes just a shadow of one. It still have sound. I think it’s 3-years old so out of warranty. A little surfing on the net found me lots of stories of other people who had the same thing happen. I hadn’t registered it when I bought it so my one phone call to Sharp the other day is it. Sharp tech on the phone implied it was my cable box. Time Warner tech came this afternoon and changed cable boxes. Not a cable box problem. Still had no picture on the TV.
So shopping it is tomorrow…. damn, argh. Comments are welcome.
Little Boots
and incidentally, love, this place. I know, I know, but I really do love this place.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
And to connect this thread back to the one where we were discussing The Iliad and The Odyssey, Argos is the name of Odysseus’ faithful old pooch. When Odysseus shows up at home after so many years away, he shushes Argos because he doesn’t want anyone to know he’s returned. The dog complies, but dies. Such a bittersweet moment. Good dog, Argos. Good dog.
Little Boots
can somebody do music?
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I don’t think I said that, Your Honour.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Because what fun is a joke if you can’t take it too far, or something; and because I always thought Karen in GA was a boring nym. I hope you and, more to the point, your three year old don’t mind my blatant theft.
Little Boots
and I know i am a dick. I miss you so much., I know, I am so annoying. but I miss you so much.
debit
@Little Boots: https://vimeo.com/92009539
Little Boots
can you forgive me? ever?
ThresherK
@PurpleGirl: Wow! We’re also in the market for a teevee, and for once it’s by choice.
Not sure what we want, but let’s just say it may be the last one we ever have. The current one is a CRT dating back to 1998. I’ve noticed that sports camerawork isn’t actually framed and zoomed for small TVs with ye olde 4×3 aspect ratio.
Curious to know what you land on.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@ThresherK: Eleven-three-oh in New York!
mclaren
@Omnes Omnibus:
The modern Englebert Humperdinck is also the old one, but slightly brain-damaged as punishment by the Time Lords for his efforts to kill Hitler and change the timeline.
mclaren
@PurpleGirl:
For most TV in 2015, this is an improvement.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike E:
“We were someplace around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like ‘I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive . . .’ And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: ‘Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?'”
SiubhanDuinne
@ThresherK:
I moved away from NYC in 1969. I mostly remember WBAI, WQXR and WNYC. BAI had some crazeball stuff on. I think it was a Pacifica station.
Betty Cracker
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I’m not a Franzen super fan by any means. I find his early novels unreadable. I thought “The Corrections” was overrated. He often comes across as a narcissistic asshole in interviews and an insufferable, petty boor in essays. But I loved “Freedom.”
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
you are ruthless. you are.
Little Boots
I mean, I know I can be a dick, but damn, ruthless sucks. I hate that. and I get that I can be awful, but sometimes ….
Origuy
Kemal Ataturk had an entire menagerie called Abdul!
NotMax
@PurpleGirl
Bring a familiar DVD and have them play it at the store so that you can see how it looks to you on various sets*. Also keep in mind that the lighting in stores bears scant relationship to the illumination at home.
*If you also have something on disc which is in black and white, bring that along, too. The display of black elements in a picture can vary greatly on different models, from a near true black to a muddy dark gray-black. Having something you’re familiar with viewing will help point out the differences.
Oh, and don’t fall for the 4k TV sales pitch if given one. By the time you need the next TV after this new one there should be sufficient content in 4k; for now, an added expense with little payoff.
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes, WBAI was Pacifica Radio.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
I appear to be stuck in moderation hell. It’s the nym, isn’t it.
mclaren
@Little Boots:
Zorgon. That’s the name you want for a dog.
Zorgon the Malevolent.
That, or Lothar Scrotumweasel…
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Still, it’s a nice dream, isn’t it?
PurpleGirl
Tomorrow is Clear the Shelters Day. Sponsored by PetSmart and NBC-Universal Group, it is a day to get people to adopt a shelter animal. So anyone thinking of getting a pet, go to a shelter tomorrow and save a live.
Plug for the shelter whose operator I’m friends with: Anyone in the/near the north-east corner of Connecticut, go to the Petco in Dayville and Cassie’s Kitten Kastle will have 37 kittens and older cats ready to adoption. Cassie’s Kitten Kastle is an unofficial participate because she regularly holds adoption events at the Dayville Petco. She has some adorable kittens ready for their forever homes.
ETA: Cassie won’t be there but a bunch of her fosters will be there with the kittens.
Little Boots
@mclaren:
i tell you, love you.
Little Boots
omnes, do you still hate me?
rikyrah
Mingobat is cool.
SiubhanDuinne
@Origuy:
Eric the fish (an halibut), Eric the dog, Eric the cat, Eric the fruit bat, Eric the Half a Bee.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Was hoping someone would pick up on the mythological reference after which mine was named.
Thanks.
Little Boots
seriously, omnes?
Little Boots
can I miss you. don’t hate me/
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
A very pretty dream.
Gin & Tonic
In anticipation of what’s expected to be a hot weekend here in the northeast.
mclaren
Just in case anyone is interested, there’s a short video series (3-4 mins per) on YouTube about the new book Trekonomics. Features Brad deLong, an economics prof at UC Berkeley.
Funny stuff. The Ferengi are basically a satire of Ayn Rand fanatics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gu3udBD5dc
Amir Khalid
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:
Rather, it’s the change of nym. That always gets you moderatered the first time. It happened to me a few years ago, when I took the underscore out of my name.
ThresherK
@SiubhanDuinne: WQXR-AM was another one I could receive anywhere in southern New England at night. I didn’t live within FM distance of NYC, so I missed a lot of the early days of FM there.
My acute tuning ear tells me that the AM side of most radios or receivers are for crap now. But the more I find out about modern-day AM programming, the less I miss it.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
I have never traced this down, but because Odysseus was one of Jason’s Argonauts, I have always kind of assumed Argos the dog got his name from that grand adventure. Have not studied Greek, though, and I might be way off base on this.
Little Boots
@Amir Khalid:
and I miss you too, by the way.
Jordan Rules
Mingobat FTW!!!
mclaren
@SiubhanDuinne:
Argos was the name of Odysseus’ dog, but also the name of a Mycenaen-era city-state.
The city-state predates the Homeric dog by a fair stretch.
Little Boots
omnes, do you hate me? seriously?
NotMax
@efgoldman
The name of the fellow who did the first show of the day on WBAI for many, many years escapes me, but it was always a gamble as to what time he would wander in and flip the transmitter’s on switch.
different-church-lady
@PsiFighter37: But you gotta admit, if the Rays actually took on the Texans, it would be a memorable contest.
SiubhanDuinne
@mclaren:
BTW, in case you want to follow a terrific takedown of Atlas Shrugged, check out http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/
Every Friday there’s an update, a close analysis of a scene or chapter in AS. I’ve been following it for about a year, and find myself counting down the days to Friday each week. Everything is archived, so it’s easy to go back and cTch up on earlier chapters. Bonus: reviews of the films.
NotMax
Fixeth we must.
@efgoldman
The name of the fellow who did the first show of the day on WBAI for many, many years escapes me, but it was always a gamble as to what time he would wander in and flip the transmitter’s on switch.
Little Boots
I miss you, seriously, honey.
different-church-lady
@efgoldman: That’s why they play in the local convention center.
Redshift
I’m going to be spending the weekend getting ready to go to WorldCon (with a side trip beforehand.) Also trying to make the house slightly more presentable for the pet sitter. Hopefully I will succeed enough that I won’t be up late in Sunday night. That should be easy to avoid, but somehow it never is.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
Dayenu.
MomSense
@debit:
Was it a mingo who are your batty?
Steeplejack
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
“Smedley Mingobat” has a nice ring to it.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
I’ve never performed in KMK, but I know it as well as I know any musicals apart from the R&H and L&L canons (not counting G&S). Tough tunes, but what a joyous piece of theatre!
Little Boots
no anger.
ThresherK
@efgoldman: From IMDB’s entry on the MGM movie:
Little Boots
can I miss steeplejack?
mclaren
@SiubhanDuinne:
Thanks! Nothing I’ve seen so far beats Scalzi’s “thin strips of Objectivist jerky,” but I’ll take a look…
Also check out McSweeney’s “Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Current
Financial Crisis.”
Amir Khalid
The Biggest Jackass in Football Today, Chelsea FC manager Jose Mourinho, held his weekly press conference while refusing to take questions about the biggest story affecting his club: his universally-condemned punishment of Chelsea’s first team doctor and physiotherapist for merely doing their jobs at last week’s match. The man’s a bully and a coward.
Little Boots
I know … I know … oh, damn.
different-church-lady
@Mike E:
If your name is Engelbert Humperdinck you don’t need reasons.
NotMax
Soon as the cheese gets to room temp, gonna vigorously whisk together the ingredients for the butternut squash-mascarpone gnocchi to accompany tomorrow’s dinner at our weekly gathering. Have to refrigerate it overnight before cooking.
bk
FFS, stfu, LB. And his name is Jerry Dorsey.
Omnes Omnibus
@different-church-lady: It’s more that you have your own reasons and everyone else can fuck right off.
Mike E
@Omnes Omnibus: Classic!
Little Boots
uh, huh, stop hating me.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike E: References to bats almost always take my mind there.
Little Boots
you are such a dick sometimes. damn.
Steeplejack
@PurpleGirl:
Love my Samsung something-something-model-number.
Prices have come down a lot in the last few years, so you should be able to find a good, (relatively) inexpensive TV at whatever size you need.
Little Boots
omnes, sometimes, yeah, I get it, I suck sometimes, but sometimes so do you. man, sometimes you can be less of a dick.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Fans of comic books are eternally grateful that the first animal Bruce Wayne spotted in that cave wasn’t a roach.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: When I was 17, I visited a friend of mine who was at U of S Mississippi, and we took my Chevette to NO for Mardi Gras. My main memory of it was being the most sober person to to drive back to Hattiesburg, and yelling about bats. Also I got to make out with a college girl. And drive through daiquiri stands. But mostly the bats.
Steeplejack
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:
For future reference: when you change your nym, FYWP sees you as a new commenter, and you have to be vetted by a front-pager.
Omnes Omnibus
@PurpleGirl: @Steeplejack: I have a new Vizio something or other. It was a gift so I have no Idea of prices or anything. I just notice the improvement on the 2004 Sony Trinitron and I haven’t even started playing with the smart TV capabilities.
Brachiator
@PurpleGirl:
Some interesting TV reviews here:
http://thewirecutter.com/leaderboard/tvs/
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
yeah, whatever, you really suck sometimes.
different-church-lady
@NotMax: Didactic moment: he was looking out the window of his mansion when he saw it.
Mike J
@NotMax:
If only it had been a tick. Ben Edlund (pbuh) is a genius.
Steeplejack
@Gin & Tonic:
Ann Miller has always rubbed me the wrong way. Dunno why.
Mike E
@Omnes Omnibus: A 3 year old’s imagination can be approximated by HST-style debauchery, but at a tremendous price…flash forward to Miss E getting her own rescue pet and naming her Freya, a big change from her first namesake that got it’s nod directly from Blue’s Clues. Still, classic, nonetheless.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: I don’t think “iconoclastic and contentious” need a citation.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: Ah, youth. And bats.
different-church-lady
Just get the Bravia — they’re not expensive, they look good, and the menu system is and configuration is better than just about anything else out there.
I say this as someone who’s set up a lot of consumer-grade flat panels in trade show booths.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
So you would have played under Steinberg?
Wow.
Thoughtful Today
Bernie’s 50 State Strategy details:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident
Bernie’s in Iowa tomorrow, Saturday, August 15:
Boone, Iowa, Boone Town Meeting @ 10:30 AM
Des Moines, Iowa’s State Fair @ 2:00 PM
Iowa, Sunday August 16:
Eldridge, Iowa, Scott County Democrats Picnic @ 1:00 PM
Dubuque, Iowa, Dubuque Town Meeting @ 6:00 PM
NEW: Reno, Nevada stop on August 18 @ 7:00 PM
South Carolina Friday, August 21:
Greenville Rally @ 11:00 AM
Columbia Town Meeting @ 7:00 PM
South Carolina Saturday, August 22:
Sumter Town Meeting @ 11:00 AM
Charlston Rally @ 7:00 PM
TBD for August: Mississippi, Alabama
[copy & paste at will]
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
miss you by the way.
Mike E
@Steeplejack: But she’ll clear the FYWP filter quicker by eating her weight in voles, or so I’d like to believe.
Gin & Tonic
@Steeplejack: There’s tasteless humor there for the taking.
different-church-lady
@Steeplejack: She always has to make a big production out of everything.
Omnes Omnibus
@Thoughtful Today: In how many counties has he opened offices?
Little Boots
yeah, honey, seriously, come on.
Little Boots
cause, toto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
I’ve always thought she was all wrong in Kiss Me Kate, completely miscast as Bianca / Lois Lane, but terrific in On the Town.
Little Boots
omnes, seriously, I know you hate me, but why?
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus:
Iowa City 3rd precinct Quadrangle Residence Hall University of Iowa
Iowa City 5th precinct University of Iowa Main Library
Iowa City 9th precinct UI Athletic Hall of Fame
Bernie is a mortal lock. Probably a couple in Ames, too.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
I don’t think Odysseus was an Argonaut. His father, Laërtes, was, although some sources don’t include him.
I’m not a Greek scholar but an avid Wikipedia reader.
Little Boots
I am difficult. but dammit, I am not hateful. I seriously am not.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Little Boots:
I saw your apology earlier. I didn’t see the thread that caused you to feel the need to post it though.
We reinvent ourselves every day. We can’t change the past.
Please don’t continue to beat yourself up over whatever it was. Be better instead.
Thread needs more chariots (6:09).
Nighty night. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Mike E
@efgoldman: Nah, poor typing on my part…it’s her newest adoptee, tho she must’ve remembered the name from my friend’s daughter being named thusly.
The Blue’s Clue cat’s still with us btw…Periwinkle!
Little Boots
omnes, and steeplejack, do not hate you.
Little Boots
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
honestly, I will try. I was … well,seriously I was a dick. will try to stop.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Topographically advanced?
mclaren
@Steeplejack:
Argo is not the same as Argos. Just as cheese and cloth are different things from cheesecloth.
Mike J
Stateroom scene is starting on TCM.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
would you stop hating me?
Mike E
@SiubhanDuinne: My mom adored Ann Miller.
Little Boots
@efgoldman:
fine.
Amir Khalid
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
By now, he’s apologised to pretty much everyone — except the female commenter whom he gratuitously called by the c-word.
Little Boots
fine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N-qO3sPMjc
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
Cool. See here.
Steeplejack
@Mike E:
That’s purely anecdotal. But it probably wouldn’t hurt.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
You’re absolutely right. My error.
Little Boots
omnes, goddammit, I know I’m annoying, stop being angry.
Steeplejack
@different-church-lady:
Don’t know if you were being snarky, but that’s pretty much it. She always projects “trying too hard” and a sort of “I’m distracting you with my hotness” fake quality that gets in the way of whatever is really supposed to be there.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
miss you, incredibly, by the way.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus:
I was awaiting DougJ’s explanation of the new pentagon that was discovered, since that’s his thing.
Steeplejack
@Gin & Tonic:
Ba-dum-dum!
Little Boots
@Mike J:
uh, huh
SiubhanDuinne
@Mike E:
Well, I didn’t adore her. I admired her, which is quite another thing; and I can see why her, um precociousness would appeal to efgoldman. But I always pictured someone a little more subdued in that role (which would then make the torchy numbers be that much more powerful. In my opinion.)
Little Boots
no omnes?
Mike J
@Little Boots: http://www.npr.org/2015/08/14/432280676/scientists-discover-15th-convex-pentagon-able-to-tile-a-plane
Little Boots
can we do sixpence?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N-qO3sPMjc
Steeplejack
@mclaren:
I was replying to this:
But, thanks, your condescension is noted.
Gin & Tonic
@Steeplejack: I’m actually “meh” on her, but I love, love that song.
Little Boots
can we blame omnes?
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: I’ve never known what area of math DougJ did.
Mike E
@PurpleGirl:
The Brevia sounds really good, but I opted for the on sale basic 39″ Samsung with a media reader…greatness. I have lots of [coughBorrowedCough] digital content which this teevee plays like a champ. Not top quality, but blueray and 1080i over-the-air broadcasts look very nice. Dunno if it’ll last 3 years, but it’s my 1st newfangled flat screen and I’m pretty pleased with it.
Little Boots
omnes is so angry at me.
and I am so sorry about that.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: mclaren was doing rather well this evening until then.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@Gravenstone: Charles Dance and Colm Meany??? Woohoo!
Suzanne
Spawn the Elder is being a total shithead. Just a complete dick. Lord.
I have been totally overwhelmed at work this week. I should spend the weekend working, but I have lots of family stuff to do. I made plans with some friends to play games tomorrow, and the plan is that I will finally pop my nerd cherry and play D&D for the first time. I hope it’s fun.
It was 117 degrees today. Yesterday, I had to go to one of our government offices, and I was driving back to my office, and I decided to get something to drink at McDonald’s. As I was pulling through the drive-thru, I saw a man searching through the trash looking for something to eat. I took him inside and bought him a meal, with an extra-large drink. This heat literally kills. I am so worried about it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne:
Good for you.
Little Boots
miss omnes.
Mike E
@SiubhanDuinne: The heart likes what it likes!
I can’t get enough of Emma Stone, for instance. Or Jack Black. Dunno why.
Steeplejack
@Gin & Tonic:
I wasn’t trying to be deliberately adversarial. I just looked at the clip and was reminded that she’s one of those stars whose persona—for me—gets in the way of whatever it is she’s trying to do. Like—heresy alert!—Meryl Streep.
Obligatory hate-link to the trailer for Ricki and the Flash.
Jordan Rules
@Suzanne: There was hot ass wind yesterday. It was too much. I wanted to bathe in shaved ice.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Was thinking the same, but then something triggers something and mclaren reverts to type. Circle of life.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jordan Rules:
Kinky.
Suzanne
@Jordan Rules: We’ve had haboobs this week, so everything is dirty. It’s so hot that it makes me want to throw up. Literally get stomach cramps.
SiubhanDuinne
Okay, I’m going to bed. But if tonight is anything like the last few, I may wander back around 3:30-4:00 a.m.
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: If that is kinky, then I must be a total fuckin pervert.
Mike J
@Jordan Rules: Shaved ice or shave ice?
SiubhanDuinne
@Suzanne:
I am such a 12-year-old boy, deep down.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: Noted without comment.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
Okay, yes, we’re all picturing sandy breasts.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Oddly, that wasn’t it.
Amir Khalid
@Steeplejack:
I feel the same way about Nicole Kidman; I find her Great Beauty looks distract me from her acting, and when I finally get past the former I tend to find there’s really not that much of the latter.
SiubhanDuinne
@Amir Khalid:
And I can’t abide Julia Roberts.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: I just can’t forgive her for Moulin Rouge.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Amir Khalid: I haven’t seen many of her films, but I loved her performance in To Die For. “It boggles one with disbelief!”
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid, @SiubhanDuinne:
You guys are going down the list of my Hall of Meh. Let me add Helen Hunt, although she seems to have self-deported from relevance in the last few years.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Steeplejack: The movie in which Meryl Streep and Rick Springfield ask the musical question, “WTF?!”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SiubhanDuinne: In the Ocean’s Eleven remake, they gave her the big build up and the classic “movie star entrance”– everyone turns to look up the escalator and…. THERE SHE IS! Trouble is, she has rarely looked less impressive on screen. She looked like a real estate agent specializing in upscale gated communities
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
She has a surprisingly weak singing voice (not out of tune, just weak) and should never have been cast in a movie musical.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Steeplejack: Can I just express my strong dislike of Reese Witherspoon? She seems like every fake Southern mean girl I’ve ever met.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: I just hate everything about that movie. I spent it wishing that Kidman’s character would just die already so the movie could end. I am not a Luhrman fan.
Mike E
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA: She was precious in Election tho.
Steeplejack
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:
In which the audience—if any—asks the musical question, “WTF?!”
cckids
@PurpleGirl: We had great luck getting a refurbished set on Amazon. Still came with a warranty, shipping was free; I think we saved something like $280-300 by getting one that was about a year old. Had been bought & returned.
We’ve had it now for 2 1/2 years; no issues at all.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mike E: also one of two good Matthew Broderick performances, that and War Games.
The Producers musical… /shudder/
And as I type, I’ll add The Freshman, but that’s Brando’s movie. And the lizard’s.
different-church-lady
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes, hating literally everything is literally posible. One day the DVD of Moulin Rouge was hanging around the shop I was working at. I though, “Hey, let’s find out what this is like.” Honest to god, I didn’t make it past the studio ident sequence before I hit eject.
Steeplejack
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
The movie is a played-out pop-culture cliché now, but Broderick was good in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
ETA: Maybe you have to remember it from the first five or 10 times you saw it.
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Also too, Torch Song Trilogy.
Suzanne
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh, you and this entire city. When the meteorologists started using that word in earnest a few years ago (before that, we just called them dust storms), there were many, MANY jokes. The first time I heard it, I thought it was a proper name, like the ones hurricanes get, and I was ridiculously amused by the idea that there was someone, somewhere, named Haboob.
NotMax
@Suzanne
Haboobi is a variant surname of the more common Habib in some Arabic families.
Anne Laurie
@NotMax:
I renamed one of our rescue papillons Zevon, after Warren, because he deserved it. Might’ve reconsidered if I’d known how difficult it would be for vet techs & groomers to deal with — he usually gets referred to as “Devon” or “Seven” or in one case “Zerox”…
(Actually, I might’ve picked a different name, but no way he was keeping the one his original owners stuck him with. It just wasn’t worthy of a wild & crazy dude with a great sense of style and no sense of self-preservation… )
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@different-church-lady: Wow. I don’t remember that commercial at all.
I was asked to replicate one of her costumes for a teenage dancer who had won some big award, and they insisted she dress very much like the costume in that commercial. I only have vague memories of the project but it was a red leotard base with lots of sparkly stuff added, probably a red fringe skirt. I remember the girl, just don’t remember the details.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@Amir Khalid: Still hasn’t done that? No, of course not.
He doesn’t understand, even though it’s been explained repeatedly.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@Suzanne: That was so nice of you. Are you in Arizona? 117 is too damned hot.
Elizabelle
Another vote for Mingobat! Call the pup Mingo for short.
Omnes Omnibus
@Pie Happens (opiejeanne): To be fair, he may not have been online at the same time as Bella Q since the original offense.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
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