Via / for valued commentor LAMH. You don’t have to like the song (although I do) but ya gotta at least admire the choreography!
Device query: I’ve been in the habit of ‘shrinking’ YouTube embeds & other images so they fit inside a 500-pixel box (the ‘standard’ size seems to be 560×315 but that used to hang off the edges on some screens). I deliberately didn’t change the sizes on these embeds; let me know if your device (platform? browser?) still has a problem, okay?
raven
I got some great video of “The Human Jukebox” when Southern visited here in October. This is an official version of “The Whip-Nae Nae. One really cool thing they do, and it can’t be rehearsed, is spell out the score at halftime!
Hawes
I like the SNL version of the song best.
JPL
@raven: So it appears that GA has a new coach.
raven
@JPL: Well goddamn!
raven
@JPL: All my whiny artsy friends will have a stroke when they see this contract!
raven
@efgoldman: Oh what the fuck ever.
guachi
Adele’s eyelashes are ridiculous.
A good song but so slow that it’s almost turgid. It’s paced like a funeral march. By the time she finishes a line I’ve forgotten what she said at the beginning.
The version on Jimmy Fallon with classroom instruments is far better. It’s more melancholy than turgid. A bit faster paced.
SiubhanDuinne
I am seeing Anderson Cooper with the sound off, and I must say, it is a revelation.
He tilts waa-a-a-a-aa-ay backwards, as though he wants to distance himself as much as possible from his guest(s). I am especially noticing it tonight, but it looks familiar enough that I think he must do this all the time. Will have to pay closer attention.
It is a curious way to experience the media, listening to (but not watching) MSNBC in the car, and watching (but not hearing any audio for) CNN in my watering hole of choice.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
Are you back? Happy to come home to your beautifully and expensively renovated digs?
JPL
@efgoldman: That was the initial rumor. Guess it was right. Richt gets the buyout plus a contract to coach at a university of his choice.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Are you talking to me?
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s funny, the addition is new enough that we came back and are having trouble finding stuff! The princess went out at 6:15 to “take some things back” to Target and came back at 9. She made curtains at the beach but she’s still going nuts with all kinds of lamps, rugs and whatever else!
mdblanche
Jeb:( compares self to candidate who dropped out before the voting even began, candidate who dropped out before the voting even began objects.
Another Holocene Human
@raven: Sounds like fun :)
Another Holocene Human
@mdblanche: pfffffffuuuuahaahahahahahaha
eta: I mean, Herman Cain is an asshole and the National Restaurant Association is literally The Worst and Hess sucks such that no pizza sold there could possibly be edible, even to a dog, but my comment stands.
NotMax
@raven
All good as long as she doesn’t decide you don’t match the decor!
;)
Anne Laurie
@NotMax: Nah — like I told the Spousal Unit, you plan the new decor around the well-loved, vintage, “unique” item!
(I actually compared it to redesigning around an 80s pinball machine, ‘cuz he was quite an expert back when he worked the arcade night shift… )
lamh36
Awesome-sauce!
I went to SUBR for my freshman and sophomore year of college right after high school (after that I had to drop out of school and didn’t go back until 3 years later, but not at SUBR). If I had it to do over again, I would have found a way to stay in school at Southern and I’d be a graduating alumni instead of just an attendant.
Still, I consider SUBR more my alma mater than the school I actually graduated from.
Love my time at Southern, and lot of that had to do with the band and social activities I experienced there.
benw
@guachi: I’m not a huge fan of torch songs, but hot diggetty can Adele rip one out.
lamh36
It’s happening again. Damn Hallmark and they stupid, sappy, addictive holiday movies!
Found myself watching what was basically a Maid in Manhattan/Sound of Music knock off mashup, but still watched whole thing… Crown for Christmas…with Winnie Cooper (Danica Keller)
The curmudgeon in me always ends up like THIS, at the end of them.
Ugh…is ruins my cold-hearted persona credits…lol
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Step off from the opussum defaming.
lamh36
@guachi: No matter what, her makeup game is ON POINTE… whoever her makeup artist is, she needs to be paying him/her WELL!
Litlebritdifrnt
@raven: My DH is a HS Band Director. I am amazed at the discipline it must take to learn how to spell out 1-9 (and 0) and then do it on the field on the fly minutes after the half has ended. Color me fucking impressed.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: What cold-hearted persona credits? You are a marshmallow.
ETA: No offense intended.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus:
Feed them bananas.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: A badger would not so demean itself. Look at Scott Walker’s balding pate.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: So creepy. So very creepy.
lamh36
@efgoldman: Lordt…yes…and it’s always around this time too…lol.
They draw me in everytime. Cause I usually watch the Golden Girls run nightly, but during the holiday season, Hallmark, shows all day movie marathons…bastards.
So I end up flipping the channel, surfing the net and the Hallmark movie in the background…lol.
Bastards…
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: ha! I’m the “Sheldon Cooper” of my family…lol.
But they know I’m a sucker for my young godkids and I love spoiling my younger cousins and I’m a big sucker for romantic dramas or comedies
srv
My only problem is the song sucks. And I like Adele.
As for the choreography, Solid Gold did it first.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Have you seen “The Family Stone?” If not, go watch it and bawl your eyes out.
Anya
Sounds like Adele is a dedicated stalker.
p.a.
@efgoldman: rabid badger, but it’s inside his head.
rikyrah
Love Adele and the Southern interpretation.
thanks lamh!
PurpleGirl
The only good thing on the Hallmark Channel is….. Kitten Bowl. Kitten Bowl III is February 9th, 2016. They are also planning some sort of summer games for August. Yay Kitten Bowl.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: So weasel it is then.
p.a.
Have to admit I like The Family Man with N Cage and Téa Leoni. Sucker for redemption stories, even if Nick Cage is involved.
Anne Laurie
@p.a.: “The badger is calling from inside the brain!”
TaMara (BHF)
Ok, I love Adele. I have a bunch of her songs. But I hate this song with a white hot passion and there is no getting away from it. It just feels like she’s trying to hard to be….melancholy (IMO). I was kind of expecting something new and different after five years.
But that voice. Such an amazing voice.
This is one of my favorites.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: I have seen it actually. I may even have it on DVD, not my favorite, but I’m not particularly a Danes or SJP fan.
Still, I do recall liking it when I did see it
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Come on, the adoptive baby was genetically designed to cause people to tear up from over-cute.
TaMara (BHF)
@lamh36: It’s the holiday season, so I allow myself the indulgence. Also see: ABCFamily 25 Days of Christmas holiday movies. I have several favorites that I make sure I rewatch this time of year.
They aren’t on par with my traditional favorites (Christmas Story, Bishop’s Wife, Christmas In Connecticut) but fun to bake cookies or decorate to.
Omnes Omnibus
Also too, Adele was better in her first incarnation as Alison Moyet.
Anne Laurie
@Omnes Omnibus: Ever since we had a plague of opossums at my college apartments, I’ve thought they’d make a far more fitting symbol for the Repubs than the current elephant. Possums are scrimy-looking remnants of a prehistoric idea, scavengers who yowl louder & less harmoniously than feral cats. They attack each other relentlessly, use their prehensile talents to get into the most unlikely places, shit on anything they can’t chew up, and despite all their noisy bravado pass out cold when they’re “threatened”. And they carry / spread every filthy parasite & disease known…
divF
@lamh36:
What with your photos of/with your nieces, I’m afraid that ship has already sailed.
srv
More than you’ll ever get out of W, Jeb or Mitty.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
Isn’t that supposed to be Sponge Ben Crazypants?
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: And yet, IMO, they show more character and decency than the average elected GOPer.
p.a.
@Anne Laurie: and judging by the roadkill evidence they contain a greater ratio of guts per total size than any other animal.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh…I still liked the movie, but I contend Danes and SJP could have been played by anyone and it wouldna made a diff. But the rest of the cast I loved.
mdblanche
@Another Holocene Human:
Somebody once insisted I have a bite of their pizza. One bite was all I could choke down. You don’t want to know how right you are.
@efgoldman:
If Jeb:( can only learn to hit the other candidates like he hits himself, he should be all set.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
I’m a firm believer that it’s just an atrocious combover. If it weren’t permanently attached to his head, it would have fled in shame decades ago.
lamh36
Alright, new work schedule, earlier bedtime for me. So I’m out…Peace.
But first, my movie recommendation for the week/month: Creed.
If you haven’t already, you should def check it out. Micheal B Jordan is so good. It’s been said that this is the best Stallone has been in forever, plus 93% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. To a person, everyone I know who has seen Creed, has LOVED it and have all said, they’d pay to see it again.
Stallone is getting def Oscar buzz.
Oh, and I love that two of the movies getting big business and great critical acclaim of the year includes 2 “contemporary” films with diverse leading cast (Straight Outta Compton & Creed).
Good night BJ.
p.a.
@Roger Moore: For an interview he did last week, the makeup person had to be a Dem. The pancake makeup was gray-green, like for the patient in a hospital scene, except for the 2 pink ovals around his eyes without makeup. Add the ‘do and the look was Halloweenish.
Tommy
I was so late to Adele. Just got 21 3-4 months ago. I don’t listen to much “popular” music. I of course knew who she was but thought she was like Taylor Swift or Kate Perry. Nothing wrong with their music (Fireworks is on my workout mix), but just not my cup of tea.
When I got 21 I was blown away. Same with 24.
Side story that just rocks IMHO I found when I went to the “Google” to try to figure out who this lady was.
As a kid her single mom was poor and Adele would perform Spice Girls songs at b-day parties and such to make money. That was her world of music. She was in a record store and saw in a “bargain bin” CDs by Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone.
Said she had never heard of either lady, but bought the CDs because they were in these elegant dresses, scarfs, and amazing hats. She wanted to dress like that. Not the Spice Girl outfit her mom made for her that included a studed eye patch. I guess she was “Pirate” Spice Girl :).
Got home and listened to them and she started to cry. Didn’t know there was music like this. So for 3-4 years every night she’d lock herself in her room and for hours try to sing like them. Asked in an interview early in her carrer what she wanted people to remember about her, she said the power of her voice. Said something like, “if I am playing a little pub with like 100 people in it I want them to feel like my voice creates a wind turbine.”
Oh and if anybody here is not a fan of hers and don’t own her CDs, try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa_k-dY_L7c
I think about my favorite song by her!
BillinGlendaleCA
@p.a.:
I’d wager that most are.
lamh36
@divF: Le sigh…I know, I know…they are slowing chipping away at my cold heart…lol
Botsplainer
A Ted Cruz Christmas sweater – not from the Onion.
https://store.tedcruz.org/product/cruz-limited-edition-christmas-sweater/
Tommy
@TaMara (BHF): A voice that is flat out stunning. I came to her late. I have to admit I am still wrapping my mind around 24. With any album it takes me listening to it more than a few times before I get a “feel” for it.
p.a.
@lamh36: Once in a while Sly can pull one off: Copland.
Botsplainer
Ted Cruz Christmas Sweater – not from the Onion.
p.a.
@BillinGlendaleCA: Agreed. I just thought The Donald would have his own travelling with him.
Omnes Omnibus
@Botsplainer: Fuck you! What kind of fuck shares something like that with decent people (or people like us), you sick fucking fuck. Fuck!
Omnes Omnibus
I saw a Marco Rubio sticker on an Acura SUV this evening. WTF?
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Have now seen three Kanye West 2020 bumper stickers.
Tommy
@p.a.: Yeah you’d think, but he often looks terrible.
I hate to admit it but I am 46, metrosexual, somewhat vain. I pay attention to how people present themselves, how they dress, you name it. I don’t base everything I think about a person on this of course, but I do factor it in.
His attire is passable, barely. His makeup is flat out terrible. Pretty sure a crack whore could improve on it. And this hair. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I used to have the most amazing, thick head of hair. But I started to go bald. The sides till this day, still as thick as when I was 18. I could do the “comb-over” but I would not be kidding anybody. So I joked when I had hair when that day came I didn’t, I’d shave it off. I did.
Of course there are other ways to deal with it …..
I know I am like the 10th million person to say it, but his hair is flat out embarrassing. His family should have had an intervention many, many years ago if they loved him.
mdblanche
@efgoldman:
It’s a terribly sick tribble with a very nasty tumor growing out of its bottom.
p.a.
@Botsplainer: Trump has one too. No link cause I don’t want coal in my stocking.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Those could be ironic. No hipster would go Rubio and drive an Acura SUV – too easy to be confused with the normals.
NotMax
@Tommy
In internet space, no one can hear you preen.
:)
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: Why do you find that strange? Curious. Now if you said you saw a Rubio sticker on a VW Microbus I could see confusion. But I’d think the “moderate” Republican “soccer” mom in an Acura SUV would be his core audience.
PurpleGirl
@Botsplainer: Did they design it with a bad sweater contest in mind?
p.a.
@Tommy:
You buried the lede.
Tommy
@NotMax: Thanks, as always, for your stellar input.
lamh36
One last thing, on the subject of Adele…I like Hello, but it’s no “Someone Like You”.
I haven’t listened to the entire album, but she performs a different song from the album at every US appearance so far. Her latest “Water Under The Bridge”, is faster pace and I really like that one.
my younger sister loves this album, but I’m still not sure, but 19 & 21 are great albums…I have them both and can literally listen to both albums in their entirety on a loop.
Also too, in today’s world of studio born pop stars, Adele literally sounds better LIVE then she does on the recording…and she sounds damn good on the recorded album
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
No longer skilled at recognizing auto brands and models, but one of them was on a mini-hearse.
srv
@Botsplainer: At least Cruz has Seasonal items, unlike this godless website.
You’d think liberals could monetize on Christmas Hate, but not the John Coles of the Left.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy: Tommy, I live in Madison, Wisconsin. You know your little blue town that just happened to go red last election we don’t. The city goes 70% D every election and a good number of those who don’t vote D don’t do so because they are Greens, or Socialists, or Anarcho-Syndicalists. Rubio would be an oddity here.
The Other Chuck
@TaMara (BHF): I didn’t think too much of the song til I learned that the song isn’t some post-breakup call, it’s a call from her current self to her younger self. “The both of us are running out of time” means her younger self doesn’t have much time left til fame robs her of all of her innocence, while her current self is acknowledging that the fame and fortune she admittedly is enjoying despite the personal price (“it clearly doesn’t tear you apart”) is still fickle and fleeting.
Damn if I don’t like it a lot better than the angry-vindictive-bitch lyrics of Rolling in the Deep.
Feudalism Now!
Trump X-mas Sweater
Es muy guapo.
Tommy
@p.a.: Yeah, I watched his NBC show. Mom and I don’t have a lot in common. She doesn’t understand what I do for a living. Heck doesn’t understand much of what I enjoy doing when I am not working.
So I looked for things that she enjoys and tried to engage in them so we have stuff to talk about.
The Apprentice was one of those things (there were others thank God).
Clearly it is a scripted show even if they call it a “reality show.” Edited. So who knows who these people are.
This son Donald is a total asshat.
But Ivanka seems to be somewhat sane. From the press reports I’ve read she is the only “insider” with Trump that has been telling him to tone it down and stop this or that. “Love.” I often wonder if nobody either “loves” the man or if they are in a such a “Trump Bubble” they lost touch with reality a long, long time ago.
But if somebody loved him they ought to have a long, long conversation with him.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Being that it’s the state capitol, could be the car of one of the Republican reps from out in bumfuck.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Alison Moyet did it first and better.
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: Got it.
Omnes Omnibus
@BillinGlendaleCA: Creeped me out it did.
NotMax
@Feudalism Now!
Without the tilde over the n, it reads “ano,” which translates to anus.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: I once caught about 5 minutes of “The Apprentice” when it ran over into the time when the news was supposed to broadcast. I’m not getting that 5 minutes back.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: When you mentioned it, it reminded me of the line “Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac”.
eemom
It is my understanding that an opossum and a possum are the same animal. Nobody has ever satisfactorily explained to me why there’s sometimes an o and sometimes not.
Tommy
My gosh I am terrified ……..
About an hour ago got off the phone with mom. I got her a tablet I’ll give her for X-mas. Bought her a laptop a few years ago but she seems to think the entirety of the Internet is eBay. Feel like with the tablet she’ll engage more.
So it gets here Friday and I’ll open it up and get everything set-up for her. Asked her again today what she wants to use it for.
Text messages with my brother so she can get the pics he sends out of her granddaugther, the phone she shares with my father has like a 1.5 x 1 inch screen.
Watch some soaps that I guess are only online (just order her a Fire Stick).
Notes about her collectables.
Take pics.
Then, the stunner, she really wants to get on Facebook and Twitter. Said she thought that would be fun.
What “monster” have I created :)?
Roger Moore
@Feudalism Now!:
Still not as good as the Trump piñatas.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy: My mom is cyber-stalking Aaron Rodgers and Olivia Munn. Deal with it.
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: There might be something kind of “nice” about cyber-stalking Olivia Munn in a very polite manner. I will just say. Olivia Munn. G4. Attack of the Show. Drops mic ……
Punchy
@eemom: that is correct. My guess is that the “possum” peeps are just too lazy to employ the “o”. The one my wife ran over was called a “OH SHIT possum” as it went beneath the car tire.
Roger Moore
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Did a voice inside your head say, “Don’t look back. You can never look back.”?
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: True. You might be being followed by a Saab. Terrifying.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.
Omnes Omnibus
@BillinGlendaleCA: Wrong song.
/head desk
BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Same song writer.
Tommy
@Punchy: Well can’t we all agree they are terrible animals. I live in a very rural area and I hate, let me say this again, I fucking hate them. Look I get the eco-system thing. Food chain. But if they ceased to live on this earth tomorrow I would not cry much. I might stand up and cheer. Give me rats, racoons, anything but possums.
Roger Moore
@eemom:
They’re both ultimately from Algonquian, so it’s possible that they’re just different transliterations. You’ll see that sometimes, viz our discussion of amok vs amuk.
Omnes Omnibus
@BillinGlendaleCA: True. But, if we start playing that game, who knows what may happen. Be it on your head.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Or worse, a Citroen.
Roger Moore
@Tommy:
Skunks? Squirrels? Beavers?
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: I happened to be in a Saab.
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
Or a Trabant- but only if you’re driving slowly.
NotMax
@eemom
Opossums are fer huntin’ and skinnin.’
Possums are fer eatin’.
/Granny Clampett
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
That certainly sounds like an explanation for why it would be terrifying.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: Don’t even start me on those abominations…
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: When we had them around the house where I grew up, my dad used to pick em up by the tail and show them to my mom and me. We get them around here on occasion, usually on the brick wall in back of the cave.
max
@Omnes Omnibus: I saw a Marco Rubio sticker on an Acura SUV this evening. WTF?
I’ve seen a Trump: Make America Great Again 2016 sticker on a Prius.
Ha! Top that!
max
[‘Video size is fine.’]
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
Fine, a Wartburg. Does that make you happy?
Mike J
@Roger Moore: OED lists many variants:
but possum has its own entry, defined as a colloquial version of opossum.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: A bit better. Wartburgs could do something near the speed limit in West Germany. Trabbies couldn’t. Just imaging coming around a corner at speed in a GTI finding two Trabbies fighting with one another at 37 mph. One dives for the clutch and brake very quickly. Add in that we didn’t actually know the seismic shift that was occurring. They were just in the way.
ETA: You started me.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Classic Billy Wilder car chase scene: Moskvitch chases Mercedes.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
Do you think death could stop that level of shame?
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
I actually got to ride in a Wartburg once. It wasn’t bad for the short distance I was driven. Of course my judgment wasn’t necessarily the best at that point; I hadn’t slept in 36 hours or so, the last 6 of which I had spent on Friedrichstrasse just past Checkpoint Charlie trying to figure out why the hell our East German translator wasn’t there. Any car that was taking me somewhere I could eat and sleep would have seemed wonderful.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
Call Chuck Testa for the most lifelike dead animals, period.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: These things happen. It’s Berlin.
scav
@srv: Theoretically, I should be inspired by someone so content with so very little. Theoretically also, I should be concerned for the long-term health of someone consuming nothing but such nutritionally weak pablum.
David Koch
@max: Last week I saw a Sanders sticker on a Subaru SUV; driver had no passengers. Guess U can oppose carbon emissions and “free trade” in name only.
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
Technically speaking, it was East Berlin at that time, which was what made being on that side of Checkpoint Charlie most definitely The Wrong Side. It also made the Wartburg a status symbol for the person who owned it, as ridiculous as that might sound.
Tommy
@Roger Moore: Yes. But maybe not Beavers if I had a stream near my property. I knew Beavers were builders but gotten into these outdoor shows the last year or so and I had no idea, I mean no idea the damage they could do.
Tommy
Tech question. Anybody here have a:
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Do you like it? Would you suggest it to somebody you liked :)?
I’ve got a Samsung Galaxy Note II which clearly is more than two years old.
I am the dude that always wanted the newest tech. The bright shiny thing. But learned often through some painful upgrades (looking at you Apple, that first $5,500 PowerBook) isn’t always smart if what you have works.
My phone still works well, stellar actually, but just started to notice some problems with my new Fitbit.
The Edge seems to me from the reviews either you love it or hate it. Doesn’t make a purchase easy.
normal liberal
@Omnes Omnibus:
Good God, I knew I’d seen her somewhere before. Although I don’t remember Alison doing the red lipstick look.
Tommy
@David Koch: My favorite political bumper sticker of all time, around 2002. On a beat up VW:
There are layers of how cool that bumper sticker is.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy: BTW you should understand that your first comment on that thing along with your assumption that no one got your reference is the impetus for my iffyness (okay/) about you. It was insulting.
Tommy
@efgoldman:
LOL. I worked in advertising for decades. The best book I ever read about advertising and what it was actually like to work at an ad agency was “Where the Suckers Moon.”
Subaru and the agency gave the author total access to anything and everything they did. This was in the mid-90s. The agency went out and did their research and literally came back and said the liberal in Vermont is your target audience.
You have all-wheel-drive cars (most didn’t at the time). Amazing gas mileage,
The person that will buy your car is going to put their family in it (and pets), skis or a kyack, and spend their weekends out in the woods. During the week they need a car, not a truck. They are your target audience and they are all throughout the country. Not just Vermont.
You can make a fortune.
Subaru pushed back again and again until they fired the agency.
I now see ads, like the “dog Subaru” ads and think, well those folks were right 20 years ago and Subaru just didn’t listen :).
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: How was it insulting?
Please explain it to me, because to be honest I think you are trying hard to find something to be insulted about.
David Koch
@efgoldman: Red Sox now have Change they can believe in
I love how Jonny Gomes is the ultimate Obot.
max
@David Koch: Last week I saw a Sanders sticker on a Subaru SUV; driver had no passengers. Guess U can oppose carbon emissions and “free trade” in name only.
Enh, that’s not that big a deal. A Sanders sticker on a diesel VW, or on a Ferrari, OTOH…
max
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Amir Khalid
@Feudalism Now!:
No, no es guapo.
Tommy
@efgoldman: I think more than 4. But as a Cards fan, just a tier IMHO, we can’t offer this money. That is got awful money.
scav
@Amir Khalid: Es muy guano.
David Koch
President and Secret Service Agent Robert Buster hug on his last day on the job.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: Wait for the Galaxy s7 series, they should come out early next year.
Peale
Cnn headline
Supporting facts:
In other words, unprecedented levels of support are surprisingly small considering the press has spent the past three years making it seem that ISIS is a group of super villains with super powers of persuasion.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Peale:
So, less than 1 in a million. I think that’s probably a bit more than the chance of being struck by lightning.
? Martin
There are 61 chapters of the National Socialist Movement in the US. Probably easily 30x as many members as ISIS supporters. Nobody seems to mind our National, let alone Illinois Nazis.
Betty Cracker
@David Koch: We were sad to see David Price leave the Rays. But it really sucks to see him go to the goddamn Red Sox.
Matt McIrvin
@Botsplainer: I like it! The snakes are just about to strike.
Matt McIrvin
@Tommy: What’s wrong with opossums, aside from their kind of ugly faces and tendency to get squished by cars? I’ve always liked that there is a North American marsupial; it pleases my sense of the odd.
And they eat ticks. Huge numbers of ticks. If you are anti-opossum you are pro-tick.
Matt McIrvin
@eemom:
Technically, opossums are the ones that live in North and South America. Possums are the distantly related animals that live in Australia, and are invasive species in New Zealand.
Australian possums were named after the informal shortening of “opossum”, which is an Algonquin word, but it became more official there.
Matt McIrvin
@Peale: Some Americans are murderous idiots? That’s unpossible!
Matt McIrvin
@Roger Moore: I recall visiting Berlin just after German unification. There were still Trabis and Wartburgs all over on the east side of town, and the Trabis definitely made the Wartburgs look like luxury cars.
Althea
I can’t make it through an Adele song without falling asleep.
J R in WV
@Punchy:
While it is spelled o’possum, the o isn’t pronounced… so people not hearing the o prefix wither never learn it or forget it should be there. Or just contract that awkward spelling to match the pronunciation.
I frequently spell it possum in informal usage, just to save the extra fingerstrokes needed. I note that FYWP spell checker things the correct speling is without the o’ – which is just wrong.
EthylEster
I’m not getting the love (obsession) for this song. It doesn’t have a great beat and you can’t dance to it. And I haven’t figured out the melody yet. But several outlets have informed me that this song is the greatest EVAH! I guess I’m just too old.