16
Oct
Give ‘em enough thread
There have been a number of requests for an open thread. This video seems appropriate given the events of the last few days and my own musical predilections:
If you want to complain, please scan in the appropriate documents.
mai naem
I watched Alan Grayson on Bill Maher. How come the Dems aren’t getting him to run for senator? I think he’d give the Repubs a run for their money. Also too, I think Gary Shandling is doing some illegal substances if you catch my drift. Still very very funny.
AhabTRuler
This is going to get confusing!
jl
Is that from some Star Trek epdisode? Aliens take over the behavior of the crew, is it from that one?
Anne Laurie
Dammit, DougJ, I swear this wasn’t here when I hit the POST button! And I’m not taking mine down, because it would make LauraW cry.
Also: FYWP!
Morbo
Terrific.
superluminar
Please don’t…....scan…...
teh documents….
otherwise…..
teh helicopters….
will….....................cry
that is….......
all
madmommy
The 5th Dimension! Marilyn McCoo has the voice of an angel. And those 60’s outfits are made of win!
General Winfield Stuck
How does this scan?
Gus
And the Yankees bring in Rivera while McCarver masturbates furiously. Christ I’m sick of that.
Something Fabulous
@madmommy: SERIOUSLY. And look at how her two-different colored dress coordinates with the tights legs and the sh—- wait, no stop myself—footwear! Two different colored “footwears”! FAN-TAS-TiQUE.
Chuck Butcher
@mai naem:
He’s pretty good and he did a fine job with Mahr which is not a simple thing to do. I’m a pretty smart guy and pretty hard core, but going up against Mahr unscripted would scare me.
Notorious P.A.T.
@AhabTRuler:
Deja vu!
madmommy
@Something Fabulous:
And Billy’s outfit-is that a white belt, or just a stripe? Either way, it is sixties-tastic!
Something Fabulous
@madmommy: Ooh, nice one: sixties-tastic. You heard it here first!
gnomedad
Hope John’s feeling OK. Pretty scarce today.
Morbo
@gnomedad: He has spent all day downloading the many scanned documents in his inbox.
madmommy
@Morbo:
Judging from the exorbitant level of crazy from that post, he’s going to be busy for a while! That thread was the funniest thing I’ve read in quite a while. It was an honor to merely observe the trollery and responses thereto.
AhabTRuler
@madmommy: There’s nothing funny…about a six-year-old…
Punchy
Hockey’s a tough sport to bet.
madmommy
@AhabTRuler:
Ha! I have one, and there is plenty funny about a six year old. When I first saw the video from the Great Balloon Debacle yesterday, I knew immeidately that: a) that kid was not in the balloon. No way that thing could lift a kid, nor could that basket hold a kid. b)the older brothers were in on it, either by hiding the youngest, or putting him up to messing with the balloon in the first place. As a mom of little boys, these are things I just knew.
To find out that hours were wasted following this balloon floating across the sky was just amazing!
Anne Laurie
@madmommy:
That was my first thought also, just from having grown up with younger brothers. What we did not know, then, was that Daddy also has a mental age of approximately twelve.
AhabTRuler
The sublime part was finding out that CNN decided to double down today by playing the 911 tapes!
Head+Desk!
R. Schmidt Orren
@General Winfield Stuck:
Aw shit. This is why I read this blog. Even the jackassery is high quality. That youtube link was great.
Er, or should I say….(ellipses ad nauseam)....even the jackgassery is high quality.
Brachiator
@madmommy:
The world will never be the same after 10/15.
http://bestrooftalkever.tumblr.....ver-forget
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
Now you’ve done it… I have all of the necessary documents… but they are all… in long form… and my scanner… is a shortbed scanner. I could scan them… in two parts… and then Photoshop them together… but then you will just allege that the whole document is a forgery.
You knew that this would happen… you commie liebrul…! Oh, right… No complaints… without the necessary documents. Please see above…
Comrade Baron Elmo
Ah, the glorious Fifth Dimension, one of the great underrated pop ensembles of their day… and they still sound amazingly groovy, even now. Hell, they were the living embodiment of the word “groovy.” Did you know that they were originally conceived as a black version of The Mamas and the Papas?
scott
Amazingly enough, this was on the very first album I ever bought (Age of Aquarius) when I was about 10 yrs old. I think it was because of Marilyn(hotness!)
Fortunately, I moved on.
The Grand Panjandrum
How ‘bout them Yankees!
bey
We were required to memorize the Declaration of Independence in order to pass 7th grade. Seriously, you could have a straight A average up to that point, but if you couldn’t recite the Declaration, you were stuck in 7th for another year.
Thank you, 5th Dimension, for releasing me from the hell of Lincoln Jr. High.
Victory
DougJ’s post is exactly why I hate youtube putting the title on top of every video.
As it used to be, you could lead a person into a video, as Doug does here, and the person had to actually play the video to find out it’s meaning and connection to the topic at hand. It added mystery and surprise, and in this particular case, humor to every youtube link.
Now?
That mystery and surprise is gone. And youtube just got one less click on their site.
Don’t get me wrong, I still l think the humor in Doug’s post is there, it just used to be all that more effective before the titles on top.
matoko_chan
Sully has a interesting post up.
I can recommend these—Winter and Nelson—An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change
Dosi—Innovation, Market Organization and Economic Dynamics: Selected Essays
I think…..the right/left breakdown on book recommendations would segregate into tradition(conservative) vs technology(liberal)......
Gindy51
I saw them live in the 60’s at Disneyland before they’d made it big. They were just great in the eyes of a nine year old kid who heard nothing but freaking Lawrence Welk at home.
DougJ
As it used to be, you could lead a person into a video, as Doug does here, and the person had to actually play the video to find out it’s meaning and connection to the topic at hand. It added mystery and surprise, and in this particular case, humor to every youtube link.
Yeah, I know. It ruins a lot of things.