Titans played the most pitiful game I’ve ever seen.
Sure hope we have a hockey season this year.
5.
Comrade Mary
I was sleeping most of the day. Toronto had its Nuit Blanche this weekend, so from 1 AM to 4 AM , Le Guy and I were traipsing around downtown Toronto being art. We decided to be spontaneous and just wander instead of looking for some recommended sites, and while we found one really good exhibit (incompletely summed up by this site), and a few small, neat ones (including the City Hall site that seemed to be pretty light and ambient chords that we tried and failed to sing along with), it turned out that we walked by several pieces that we would have loved to have been part of. Most of the night was spent avoiding fratty mobs of young people.
Yes, our art piece was our lawn, and we brought it with us.
6.
raven
@Michael Demmons: God I hate the dome. It’s bad enough sitting through the endless goddamn commercials at Sanford Stadium but that place really sucks.
If they live near me they might actually be outside enjoying the nice weather. Being a reclusive invalid, I’m not, but I hear tell other folks do that sort of thing.
(Don’t think any of the FPers are Bay Area residents, though, are they? Hmph.)
8.
Comrade Mary
WHY AM I BEING MODERATED JOHN COLE? IS THIS YOUR IDEA OF CONCEPTUAL ART?
Hmmph!
9.
JPL
@Michael Demmons: What a nice finish though. It’s hard for me to imagine being their. I was jumping up and down and the dog went running.
John prolly forgot football when Baylor-WVU turned into a track meet instead. Apparently, the Big 12 (WVU in the SWC is like skinny dipping in Paint Creek) doesn’t allow tackling.
11.
raven
The Pack is hosed! hahahahahahahahahah
12.
Violet
I went to a neighborhood gathering. It was fun. We have some new neighbors, so it was nice to meet them.
so does anyone know if there is a website for the Romney/Ryan budget plan, that actually shows their math? Or is it truly just made up of fairy dust, spit and trickle down unicorns?
19.
raven
@JPL: Hope we get something, it’s just spitting right now.
eta If they published it there the bad guys would just use it as more ammo.
21.
Gravenstone
@raven: Considering I live less than an hour south of Lambeau, go pound sand up your puckered ass you fucking Illinois bastard.
22.
JPL
Since this is an open thread, why the hell isn’t the liberal MSM talking about Ann Romney’s concerns about her husband’s mental health. REALLY.. Michele Obama makes a comment about being proud to be American and was attacked.
wtffffffffffffffffff
23.
maya
That settles it. I’m boycotting fooyball until they bring the scabs back. It’s always fun to pick on scabs.
Yes, it’s a typo but it just feels right.
24.
Comrade Mary
God DAMN it, FYWP can’t be fooled by caps lock. /shakes fist.
25.
jwb
@Comrade Mary: These days you can type certain words and the comments are simply obliterated rather than being sent to moderation.
26.
JPL
@raven: Me, too. My son who lives in Sandy Springs had rain on Friday. It just skips over me.
edit.. falcon fans should be cheering for gb btw.. although I do like drew
27.
raven
@Gravenstone: Xin Loi motherfuckers! Charles Martin is all this Bear fan has to say.
28.
Comrade Mary
Wait, wait, I’ve got it: I’ve had two comments in moderation because I can’t refer to a musical genre associated with Eno because it contains the name of a drug.
One more time …
I was sleeping most of the day. Toronto had its Nuit Blanche this weekend, so from 1 AM to 4 AM, Le Guy and I were traipsing around downtown Toronto being art. We decided to be spontaneous and just wander instead of looking for some recommended sites, and while we found one really good exhibit (incompletely summed up by this site), and a few small, neat ones (including the City Hall site that seemed to be pretty light and [Eno-esque] chords that we tried and failed to sing along with), it turned out that we walked by several pieces that we would have loved to have been part of. Most of the night was spent avoiding fratty mobs of young people.
29.
raven
@Gravenstone: I did love going to Sister Bay back in the day! There was a bowling alley with a bar that had a sign “Free Beer When the Bears Win the Superbowl”!
30.
dmsilev
Free copy of Civ V, to a good home (aka to the first person to claim it). I find myself with an extra copy, having pre-ordered the remake of XCOM and getting a Civ V license as a freebie.
You need a Steam account to use it; good for both PC and Mac.
31.
Hill Dweller
Where’s Willard? Is he in an undisclosed location memorizing his zingers?
32.
raven
Makeup fuckers!
33.
different-church-lady
For the record I was working. Then I was watching football.
Checked in with TBogg to see what particular brand of mockery he was laying on #15 today, and got fascinated by some of the comments, then checked the play-by-play and looked at some of the “hilights”. Curious: are the Jets still considering Jesus Jr. a quarterback? They’re using him and Sanchez in the same plays? Where is he lining up? Is this some kind of weird new double-quarterback formation/strategy they’re attempting?
34.
The Fat Kate Middleton
Under a deep blue sky today, next to a still lake surrounded by trees aflame. And just to top it all off, a spectacularly beautiful three-year-old granddaughter who wades in the lake, then sits in my lap to tell me how much she loves me. It doesn’t get any better than that.
@raven: well i’m pretty sure the Prez’s plan is published, just wanted to make sure that it (The Ryan plan, such as it is in it’s skeletal state) could be used as a weapon before suggesting as such.
“The fans wanted Tim Tebow, but it was unclear precisely why. Tebow proved a nonfactor again, unlike the 49ers’ backup quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, who thrived as a change-of-pace option and rushed for 50 yards and the team’s first touchdown. “
You had me until the three-year-old. Then it sounded like hell.
(seriously, people LIKE those?).
44.
Gravenstone
Nice of Jones to pull that catch in off the DB’s hip for the dagger.
45.
dr. bloor
@pseudonymous in nc: Euros did it just like they always do–sinking six-footers on brutal greens at sphincter-puckering time.
I liked the guys on both sides about equally this time out. Euros sure as hell know how to celebrate, though.
46.
Hill Dweller
Rex Ryan is a mediocre head coach, but he has a big mouth, which the media seems to love. He is the Chris Christie of the NFL.
47.
Schlemizel
@Gravenstone: Considering I live less than an hour south of Lambeau
Oh, I’m sorry. 8-{D
I have a lot of family in HellWisconsin and a distant cousin who was an offensive lineman for them until he got replaced by this guy, Jerry Kramer. You may have heard of him ;-)
took the kids to the city pool for 3 hours. then playing with the puppy. then eating chicken parmesan. now watching Alice in Wonderland. a full Sunday.
I’ve been sleeping with a cold most of the day. Seems that getting 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night for three straight days because of two little girls who don’t want to sleep kind of leaves one open tto get sick. I’ve found that it also makes one mighty surly.
Anyway, I’m lying in bed, waiting for tomorrow night’s Regular Show. Best show on television. By far.
@dr. bloor: I’m not a huge golf fan, but the Ryder Cup isn’t like most golf: the swings in momentum, the way in which cheers and groans echo across the course, the atmosphere in the galleries, the unlikely heroes. You can’t fault the Americans for the way they played the pairs rounds, but the spirit of Seve was with the European team today.
@Elmo: Yeah, it’s funny how that happens sometimes. In fact, I’ve had six of them hanging around at that age at one time or another, and it never gets old.
We’re watching Arnold Schwarzenegger tell everyone what a selfish dick he is on 60 Minutes.
God. I had no idea. He didn’t tell Maria he was running for governor until 3 days before the announcement. He wanted to have open heart surgery without telling his wife, worked out a while plan where he could get it done and not tell her. He has a very warped view of family IMHO.
66.
Hill Dweller
@pseudonymous in nc: I’m tellin’ ya, Dubya showed up yesterday, and everything went sideways.
67.
Lojasmo
I think FYWP is blocked at my hospital (place of work)
68.
scav
Grand fall moon just rising over the lake in Chicago. I’ll take it. Made the day better.
It’s really hot in Southern California so we drove up to our cabin near Lake Arrowhead.
Then we watched the first of a double-header, watching the second game now.
76.
dr. bloor
@Hill Dweller: Kind of an interesting thought experiment: When Dubya shows up at a sporting event, is it the shitty former baseball owner or the shitty former president who’s the vessel of the bad karma?
@Downpuppy: C’mon, give ’em the full hillbilly. Paint Creek actually sounds like you could swim there. How about “skinny dipping in Alum Creek”
And I agree about WVU in the Big 12. The coach is from Oklahoma or somewhere, we don’t play Pitt or Syracuse anymore, and all the players are from Florida. As Doonesbury said, we’re rooting for the clothes.
79.
HRA
Calmly watched the plaster dust, wood chips, etc. fly over the rugs, furniture, etc. in the other room while the laundry room was being remodeled. Even though that happened on laundry day, it was no big deal since I had today to do the task. Right? Wrong, took a break from cleaning the errant bits on the deck when I saw my co-ed granddaughter who had been at the Bills game carrying this mountain of clothes in my direction. I haven’t even mentioned cooking for the family redoers for 2 days.
Bills will be Bills.
80.
Hypatia's Momma
@Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (Mumphrey, et al.):
Nuh-uh! For that matter, The Amazing World of Gumball is better than Regular Show. (Which isn’t to say that I don’t find it funny because I do. None of the above is as funny as El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, though.)
81.
Fluke bucket
Watched the meltdown in Medinah. The putts Rose hit on 17 and 18 will be forever remembered. Sometimes I enjoy it when the socialists win.
82.
Liberty60
I mentioned in the other thread about how California banned the gay conversion therapy for teenagers.
I saw it on Memeorandum and was expecting it to blow up on the wingnut blogs, but it seems to be slipping quietly down and off the radar.
I am wondering if this means that social issues are now part of the things that wingers don’t like to discuss, knowing it cuts against them.
I don’t know what Body Builders were using back in Arnold’s day (I don’t recall roids being big back then), but, whatever was in vogue, I’m sure he was pounding them like Pez. That plus wealth made him crazy enough to think that he should run for Governor (he was a joke from Day 1 and wouldn’t have gotten a sniff at the office except for the games behind the recall).
84.
PsiFighter37
Drinking again, getting ready for Giants-Iggles.
PF37 +3 helllllll yeah
85.
Thoroughly Pizzled
@dmsilev: If no one else has taken it, I’d like it.
It seems to me that the “secret son” was the icing on a cake that Ahnuld had been baking for quite some time.
And he thinks he might win her back somehow, too.
Well, it’s obvious he’s a Rethug. No appreciation of reality, at all. Perhaps Dick Morris was his marriage adviser?
87.
dance around in your bones
Well, I am stuck in the wet spot left by my 2 yr old grandboy after his long nap on my bed (put a towel over it). I was on the floor watching footballs while he napped, and reading BJ at the same time.
Yes. my life is very exciting.
88.
dmsilev
@Thoroughly Pizzled: Looks like you’re the first, so it’s yours. Pop me an email (dmsilev (a) gmail.com) with contact info. Steam account name would be best I think, but I believe the Steam gifting process also works with a straight email address.
I think Buffalo fans might disagree. Up 21 to 7 early in the 3rd and lose 52 to 28. Go Patriots! Though I wish their first halves would go better.
91.
AA+ Bonds
I think it’s pretty funny that Romney’s campaign got severely pranked through the Telegraph by parties unknown and it’s in everyone’s interests to forget the particulars of that story
@Elmo: They are much more likeable when there is a generation between you! Your own 3 year old will make you crazy. Your 3 year old grandchild is a delight.
@honus: When I was a kid I rode the WV Turnpike about 80 times. (It was raining about 78, & I was sick about 71) 80 time about 14 bridges over Paint Creek, which could never be seen, leaves a lasting impression.
PublicPolicyPolling @ppppolls
__
Obama up 49-45 on our new OH poll, down slightly from 50-45 3 weeks ago. Obama certainly favorite but silly to think Romney CAN’T win there
101.
raven
@Fluke bucket: I caddied there when I was a kid, just like my dad did before me. He was a very good golfer and loved the game. He died nine years ago today and I thought it was a fitting thing to have such a compelling tournament in that place.
I don’t know what Body Builders were using back in Arnold’s day (I don’t recall roids being big back then), but, whatever was in vogue, I’m sure he was pounding them like Pez.
I don’t know if steroids were popular in Arnold’s day, but he’s admitted to using them. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a jackass before all that, though.
103.
SarahT
@JPL: Totally agree – WTF ? This should be getting at least as much buzz as the rest of her ” major asset to the campaign” material, right ?
104.
SiubhanDuinne
@Comrade Mary: probably someone else mentioned this long ago, but the adjective you used to describe “chords” contains the name of a farmaceutical product. And you know how FYWP hates that.
It was raining pretty hard in Duluth, but didn’t last very long.
106.
JCT
Got tired of talking my boy off the ledge over his beloved JETS and took the husband to look at a new motorcycle.
The usual role reversal around here as I always have to talk him into buying a new bike….
107.
schrodinger's cat
Not sure where everyone went today.
Tunch was hungry. He ate them.
108.
Perfect Tommy
This is getting interesting. Last night I realized that one of the righties decorating my FB wall with pro-Republican nonsense was a postal worker married to a school teacher.
Doing a little further digging, the person who posted a graphic complaining that government workers make 40% more than private sector workers, is employed by the City of NY.
Another one, who today posted a cartoon about kids having their Halloween candy redistributed by a Democrat – is out of work and collecting disability due to a knee injury since 2007…
@Baud:
A search of images on google images shows some floating (much smaller) pumpkins, with an apparent density of about 2/3 that of water. So a 1 ton pumpkin, assuming similar hollow core, would be about 1.2-1.5 cubic meters. Hard to tell from the picture, but it could easily be this size.
Those anniversaries are always poignant. Thinking of you thinking of your dad.
115.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Every time i get to a thread tonight, you have gotten there first and made the comment I would have made. So I guess I have to thank you for that!
@Perfect Tommy:
Hey, if Americans were self-aware, the Republicans would have gone out of business ages ago.
117.
Bill Arnold
Re Bibi’s Acme Bomb, there is good review at armscontrolwonk.com: Bibi’s Bomb: Guide for the Perplexed.
It is sufficiently technical to support its points. Also, the comments seem to be well informed.
I wonder which one of you NFL fanboys’ team will get
Q Smith. 3.5 sacks on Saturday, 6.5 in 4 games. He is not huge at 6’5″, 250 lbs, but most teams would like to have a pass rushing DE that can run a 4.5 40.
120.
Bill Arnold
@Bill Arnold:
Re acme bomb, if anyone is wondering why people are concerned about 20 percent enriched uranium since it is not 90 percent enriched, I asked a question in 2007 about uranium enrichment from 0.7 to 4.5 and then to 90 percent and got a good good analogy about sorting a vat of 1000 red and green ping pong balls. (starting with 7 red, 993 green). The first step to reactor grade (4.5 percent) removes 840 green balls. Going to 88 percent involves removing 152 remaining green balls.
121.
Another Halocene Human
@Perfect Tommy: Stockholm syndrome. Or the deeply cherished belief that “those people” are getting gubmint bennies that should be going to them.
122.
opie jeanne
@dr. bloor: I don’t care which. I just want Texas to lose.
123.
cckids
@JPL: Isolated Tornadoes wouldn’t be a bad band name.
124.
Wag
I just got back rom a real football game. The Colorado Rapids hosted David Beckham and the LA Galaxy. Fun game with the kids
When I was little, I thought the signs said Paint Check, and I wondered why we never stopped to get the paint looked into
There were a million ca-bumps between Beckley and Charleston, and the air changed colors, from clear sky-blue to yellow. Dirty yellow. But that was in the 50s, now it doesn’t smell in the valley any more.
Man, I loved Acid Reflux back in the day. Trippy comic.
127.
Radio One
I hope the Eagles take the NFC East division. They need a better o-line that can actually block the pass rush for at least a second, and they need defensive backs that can sniff out a run fake. But ignoring that, they are almost a competitive team.
Other news, about two weeks before my next birthday, and my hair isn’t quite distinguished grey yet, but I do see some silver linings. Ugh, at least I’m not going bald anywhere yet.
raven
They were watching football.
JPL
Some blog owners put up football open threads, just sayin.
Falcons won in case anyone was wondering!
Michael Demmons
I was at the Falcons game and lost four pounds. Who needs to go for a run when a football game gets your heart rate up that much!?
Southern Beale
Titans played the most pitiful game I’ve ever seen.
Sure hope we have a hockey season this year.
Comrade Mary
I was sleeping most of the day. Toronto had its Nuit Blanche this weekend, so from 1 AM to 4 AM , Le Guy and I were traipsing around downtown Toronto being art. We decided to be spontaneous and just wander instead of looking for some recommended sites, and while we found one really good exhibit (incompletely summed up by this site), and a few small, neat ones (including the City Hall site that seemed to be pretty light and ambient chords that we tried and failed to sing along with), it turned out that we walked by several pieces that we would have loved to have been part of. Most of the night was spent avoiding fratty mobs of young people.
Yes, our art piece was our lawn, and we brought it with us.
raven
@Michael Demmons: God I hate the dome. It’s bad enough sitting through the endless goddamn commercials at Sanford Stadium but that place really sucks.
Alison
If they live near me they might actually be outside enjoying the nice weather. Being a reclusive invalid, I’m not, but I hear tell other folks do that sort of thing.
(Don’t think any of the FPers are Bay Area residents, though, are they? Hmph.)
Comrade Mary
WHY AM I BEING MODERATED JOHN COLE? IS THIS YOUR IDEA OF CONCEPTUAL ART?
Hmmph!
JPL
@Michael Demmons: What a nice finish though. It’s hard for me to imagine being their. I was jumping up and down and the dog went running.
Downpuppy
John prolly forgot football when Baylor-WVU turned into a track meet instead. Apparently, the Big 12 (WVU in the SWC is like skinny dipping in Paint Creek) doesn’t allow tackling.
raven
The Pack is hosed! hahahahahahahahahah
Violet
I went to a neighborhood gathering. It was fun. We have some new neighbors, so it was nice to meet them.
raven
@Downpuppy: Georgia 51 Vols 44.
Michael
Lots of blown calls–even after review!!–in the GB game. Great game though.
Gravenstone
@raven: Regular NFL officials, as bad as the scabs, or worse. You decide.
JPL
For the Atlanta folks, the AJC mentioned the possibility of severe storms tomorrow including isolated tornadoes. I sure love those isolated tornadoes…
raven
@Gravenstone: I just hope the whiny motherfucking Packers lose because of it. Fuck em both ways!
piratedan
so does anyone know if there is a website for the Romney/Ryan budget plan, that actually shows their math? Or is it truly just made up of fairy dust, spit and trickle down unicorns?
raven
@JPL: Hope we get something, it’s just spitting right now.
raven
@piratedan: You are kidding, right?
eta If they published it there the bad guys would just use it as more ammo.
Gravenstone
@raven: Considering I live less than an hour south of Lambeau, go pound sand up your puckered ass you fucking Illinois bastard.
JPL
Since this is an open thread, why the hell isn’t the liberal MSM talking about Ann Romney’s concerns about her husband’s mental health. REALLY.. Michele Obama makes a comment about being proud to be American and was attacked.
wtffffffffffffffffff
maya
That settles it. I’m boycotting fooyball until they bring the scabs back. It’s always fun to pick on scabs.
Yes, it’s a typo but it just feels right.
Comrade Mary
God DAMN it, FYWP can’t be fooled by caps lock. /shakes fist.
jwb
@Comrade Mary: These days you can type certain words and the comments are simply obliterated rather than being sent to moderation.
JPL
@raven: Me, too. My son who lives in Sandy Springs had rain on Friday. It just skips over me.
edit.. falcon fans should be cheering for gb btw.. although I do like drew
raven
@Gravenstone: Xin Loi motherfuckers! Charles Martin is all this Bear fan has to say.
Comrade Mary
Wait, wait, I’ve got it: I’ve had two comments in moderation because I can’t refer to a musical genre associated with Eno because it contains the name of a drug.
One more time …
I was sleeping most of the day. Toronto had its Nuit Blanche this weekend, so from 1 AM to 4 AM, Le Guy and I were traipsing around downtown Toronto being art. We decided to be spontaneous and just wander instead of looking for some recommended sites, and while we found one really good exhibit (incompletely summed up by this site), and a few small, neat ones (including the City Hall site that seemed to be pretty light and [Eno-esque] chords that we tried and failed to sing along with), it turned out that we walked by several pieces that we would have loved to have been part of. Most of the night was spent avoiding fratty mobs of young people.
raven
@Gravenstone: I did love going to Sister Bay back in the day! There was a bowling alley with a bar that had a sign “Free Beer When the Bears Win the Superbowl”!
dmsilev
Free copy of Civ V, to a good home (aka to the first person to claim it). I find myself with an extra copy, having pre-ordered the remake of XCOM and getting a Civ V license as a freebie.
You need a Steam account to use it; good for both PC and Mac.
Hill Dweller
Where’s Willard? Is he in an undisclosed location memorizing his zingers?
raven
Makeup fuckers!
different-church-lady
For the record I was working. Then I was watching football.
Checked in with TBogg to see what particular brand of mockery he was laying on #15 today, and got fascinated by some of the comments, then checked the play-by-play and looked at some of the “hilights”. Curious: are the Jets still considering Jesus Jr. a quarterback? They’re using him and Sanchez in the same plays? Where is he lining up? Is this some kind of weird new double-quarterback formation/strategy they’re attempting?
The Fat Kate Middleton
Under a deep blue sky today, next to a still lake surrounded by trees aflame. And just to top it all off, a spectacularly beautiful three-year-old granddaughter who wades in the lake, then sits in my lap to tell me how much she loves me. It doesn’t get any better than that.
pseudonymous in nc
Well, the golf was fun.
raven
@different-church-lady: Shit the Jets don’t know what they are doing.
different-church-lady
@Comrade Mary:
Glam-rockaphed?
Roger Moore
@JPL:
They beat the hell out of concentrated, wall-to-wall tornadoes.
piratedan
@raven: well i’m pretty sure the Prez’s plan is published, just wanted to make sure that it (The Ryan plan, such as it is in it’s skeletal state) could be used as a weapon before suggesting as such.
ranchandsyrup
wifi up and running. directv with nfl package free for this year. ice cold beers on the back porch. nice little sunday in the new home
different-church-lady
@raven: So they’re not running the wildcat so much as the krazy kat?
raven
@different-church-lady:
“The fans wanted Tim Tebow, but it was unclear precisely why. Tebow proved a nonfactor again, unlike the 49ers’ backup quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, who thrived as a change-of-pace option and rushed for 50 yards and the team’s first touchdown. “
Elmo
@The Fat Kate Middleton:
You had me until the three-year-old. Then it sounded like hell.
(seriously, people LIKE those?).
Gravenstone
Nice of Jones to pull that catch in off the DB’s hip for the dagger.
dr. bloor
@pseudonymous in nc: Euros did it just like they always do–sinking six-footers on brutal greens at sphincter-puckering time.
I liked the guys on both sides about equally this time out. Euros sure as hell know how to celebrate, though.
Hill Dweller
Rex Ryan is a mediocre head coach, but he has a big mouth, which the media seems to love. He is the Chris Christie of the NFL.
Schlemizel
Oh, I’m sorry. 8-{D
I have a lot of family in
HellWisconsin and a distant cousin who was an offensive lineman for them until he got replaced by this guy, Jerry Kramer. You may have heard of him ;-)Comrade Mary
@different-church-lady: Oblique-edrine?
some guy
took the kids to the city pool for 3 hours. then playing with the puppy. then eating chicken parmesan. now watching Alice in Wonderland. a full Sunday.
different-church-lady
@raven:
Jeez, HOOCOODANODE something like that might happen?
Whoever’s writing the the Jet’s reality TV series really couldn’t pass on a plot oportunity like Tebow, could they?
Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (Mumphrey, et al.)
I’ve been sleeping with a cold most of the day. Seems that getting 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night for three straight days because of two little girls who don’t want to sleep kind of leaves one open tto get sick. I’ve found that it also makes one mighty surly.
Anyway, I’m lying in bed, waiting for tomorrow night’s Regular Show. Best show on television. By far.
jeffreyw
Mrs J haz a posse.
Hypatia's Momma
Enjoying the relief granted by Gabapentin, reading more about Aung San Suu Kyi, who spoke in S.F. yesterday, and watching videos of Anak Krakatau (Anakrakatoa) exploding.
Hypatia's Momma
Oh, and re-reading the Acid Reflux archive and mourning its loss.
different-church-lady
@jeffreyw: I’ve heard that happens in Minecraft.
Hypatia's Momma
@Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (Mumphrey, et al.):
Adventure Time is better.
Phylllis
Watching Ahhnold’s 60 Minutes interview. Geez, what a scumbag.
gnomedad
@maya:
If you keep picking on them, they’ll never heal.
pseudonymous in nc
@dr. bloor: I’m not a huge golf fan, but the Ryder Cup isn’t like most golf: the swings in momentum, the way in which cheers and groans echo across the course, the atmosphere in the galleries, the unlikely heroes. You can’t fault the Americans for the way they played the pairs rounds, but the spirit of Seve was with the European team today.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: and your hope goes unfulfilled.
freelancer
@Hill Dweller:
Chris Christie has a foot fetish?
gogol's wife
@jeffreyw:
I miss that happening to me when I had five indoor-outdoor cats.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: again
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Elmo: Yeah, it’s funny how that happens sometimes. In fact, I’ve had six of them hanging around at that age at one time or another, and it never gets old.
Southern Beale
We’re watching Arnold Schwarzenegger tell everyone what a selfish dick he is on 60 Minutes.
God. I had no idea. He didn’t tell Maria he was running for governor until 3 days before the announcement. He wanted to have open heart surgery without telling his wife, worked out a while plan where he could get it done and not tell her. He has a very warped view of family IMHO.
Hill Dweller
@pseudonymous in nc: I’m tellin’ ya, Dubya showed up yesterday, and everything went sideways.
Lojasmo
I think FYWP is blocked at my hospital (place of work)
scav
Grand fall moon just rising over the lake in Chicago. I’ll take it. Made the day better.
Hill Dweller
@freelancer:
He obviously has an affinity for bear claws.
MikeJ
Has anybody heard about Glenn Beck saying goonswarm on Eve Online is actually a front for the CIA?
Hypatia's Momma
@MikeJ:
Days ago.
Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (Mumphrey, et al.)
@Hypatia’s Momma:
Blasphemy!
Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (Mumphrey, et al.)
@Hypatia’s Momma:
Blasphemy!
some guy
we vote for Adventure Time, too.
opie jeanne
It’s really hot in Southern California so we drove up to our cabin near Lake Arrowhead.
Then we watched the first of a double-header, watching the second game now.
dr. bloor
@Hill Dweller: Kind of an interesting thought experiment: When Dubya shows up at a sporting event, is it the shitty former baseball owner or the shitty former president who’s the vessel of the bad karma?
Maude
@Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (Mumphrey, et al.):
I got my cold back. It must have been lonely. I haven’t slept during the day today. When does it go away?
honus
@Downpuppy: C’mon, give ’em the full hillbilly. Paint Creek actually sounds like you could swim there. How about “skinny dipping in Alum Creek”
And I agree about WVU in the Big 12. The coach is from Oklahoma or somewhere, we don’t play Pitt or Syracuse anymore, and all the players are from Florida. As Doonesbury said, we’re rooting for the clothes.
HRA
Calmly watched the plaster dust, wood chips, etc. fly over the rugs, furniture, etc. in the other room while the laundry room was being remodeled. Even though that happened on laundry day, it was no big deal since I had today to do the task. Right? Wrong, took a break from cleaning the errant bits on the deck when I saw my co-ed granddaughter who had been at the Bills game carrying this mountain of clothes in my direction. I haven’t even mentioned cooking for the family redoers for 2 days.
Bills will be Bills.
Hypatia's Momma
@Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (Mumphrey, et al.):
Nuh-uh! For that matter, The Amazing World of Gumball is better than Regular Show. (Which isn’t to say that I don’t find it funny because I do. None of the above is as funny as El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, though.)
Fluke bucket
Watched the meltdown in Medinah. The putts Rose hit on 17 and 18 will be forever remembered. Sometimes I enjoy it when the socialists win.
Liberty60
I mentioned in the other thread about how California banned the gay conversion therapy for teenagers.
I saw it on Memeorandum and was expecting it to blow up on the wingnut blogs, but it seems to be slipping quietly down and off the radar.
I am wondering if this means that social issues are now part of the things that wingers don’t like to discuss, knowing it cuts against them.
If so, I take this as a win.
The Dangerman
@Southern Beale:
I don’t know what Body Builders were using back in Arnold’s day (I don’t recall roids being big back then), but, whatever was in vogue, I’m sure he was pounding them like Pez. That plus wealth made him crazy enough to think that he should run for Governor (he was a joke from Day 1 and wouldn’t have gotten a sniff at the office except for the games behind the recall).
PsiFighter37
Drinking again, getting ready for Giants-Iggles.
PF37 +3 helllllll yeah
Thoroughly Pizzled
@dmsilev: If no one else has taken it, I’d like it.
Villago Delenda Est
@Southern Beale:
It seems to me that the “secret son” was the icing on a cake that Ahnuld had been baking for quite some time.
And he thinks he might win her back somehow, too.
Well, it’s obvious he’s a Rethug. No appreciation of reality, at all. Perhaps Dick Morris was his marriage adviser?
dance around in your bones
Well, I am stuck in the wet spot left by my 2 yr old grandboy after his long nap on my bed (put a towel over it). I was on the floor watching footballs while he napped, and reading BJ at the same time.
Yes. my life is very exciting.
dmsilev
@Thoroughly Pizzled: Looks like you’re the first, so it’s yours. Pop me an email (dmsilev (a) gmail.com) with contact info. Steam account name would be best I think, but I believe the Steam gifting process also works with a straight email address.
Villago Delenda Est
@MikeJ:
Someone needs to have tin foil surgically attached to his fucking skull.
Bostondreams
@Southern Beale:
I think Buffalo fans might disagree. Up 21 to 7 early in the 3rd and lose 52 to 28. Go Patriots! Though I wish their first halves would go better.
AA+ Bonds
I think it’s pretty funny that Romney’s campaign got severely pranked through the Telegraph by parties unknown and it’s in everyone’s interests to forget the particulars of that story
Just thinking about that because I ran across this oldie
gelfling545
@Elmo: They are much more likeable when there is a generation between you! Your own 3 year old will make you crazy. Your 3 year old grandchild is a delight.
dance around in your bones
@PsiFighter37:
We eagerly await your forthcoming WordScramble ;)
Bill Arnold
In giant pumpkin news, the 1 ton (english/2000 pounds) barrier has been broken. with a 2009 pound pumpkin.
(This may not yet be an official record. )
Yutsano
I was napping. It’s Sunday dammit!
Baud
@Bill Arnold:
Smaller than I would have expected a 1 ton pumpkin to be. Must be really dense.
Downpuppy
@honus: When I was a kid I rode the WV Turnpike about 80 times. (It was raining about 78, & I was sick about 71) 80 time about 14 bridges over Paint Creek, which could never be seen, leaves a lasting impression.
PurpleGirl
@AA+ Bonds: What was the Romney story?
danielx
Cleaning out a dryer vent (one of the ten least favorite household tasks) and enjoying a crystalline clear fall day…too nice to be inside today.
Violet
Ohio still close:
raven
@Fluke bucket: I caddied there when I was a kid, just like my dad did before me. He was a very good golfer and loved the game. He died nine years ago today and I thought it was a fitting thing to have such a compelling tournament in that place.
Roger Moore
@The Dangerman:
I don’t know if steroids were popular in Arnold’s day, but he’s admitted to using them. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a jackass before all that, though.
SarahT
@JPL: Totally agree – WTF ? This should be getting at least as much buzz as the rest of her ” major asset to the campaign” material, right ?
SiubhanDuinne
@Comrade Mary: probably someone else mentioned this long ago, but the adjective you used to describe “chords” contains the name of a farmaceutical product. And you know how FYWP hates that.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
It was raining pretty hard in Duluth, but didn’t last very long.
JCT
Got tired of talking my boy off the ledge over his beloved JETS and took the husband to look at a new motorcycle.
The usual role reversal around here as I always have to talk him into buying a new bike….
schrodinger's cat
Tunch was hungry. He ate them.
Perfect Tommy
This is getting interesting. Last night I realized that one of the righties decorating my FB wall with pro-Republican nonsense was a postal worker married to a school teacher.
Doing a little further digging, the person who posted a graphic complaining that government workers make 40% more than private sector workers, is employed by the City of NY.
Another one, who today posted a cartoon about kids having their Halloween candy redistributed by a Democrat – is out of work and collecting disability due to a knee injury since 2007…
Geoduck
@AA+ Bonds:
Dittoing PurpleGirl: what prank? A quick Google search doesn’t turn up anything about Romney and the Telegraph.
PsiFighter37
@Violet: not worried. Obama has Ohio locked down. I predict he wins the state by more than he did in 2008.
SiubhanDuinne
@jeffreyw:
Cats here, cats there,
Cats and kittens everywhere.
Hundreds of cats, thousands of cats,
Millions and billions and trillions of cats.
Baud
@Violet:
50-45 to 49-45 is statistical noise.
Bill Arnold
@Baud:
A search of images on google images shows some floating (much smaller) pumpkins, with an apparent density of about 2/3 that of water. So a 1 ton pumpkin, assuming similar hollow core, would be about 1.2-1.5 cubic meters. Hard to tell from the picture, but it could easily be this size.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Those anniversaries are always poignant. Thinking of you thinking of your dad.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Every time i get to a thread tonight, you have gotten there first and made the comment I would have made. So I guess I have to thank you for that!
Roger Moore
@Perfect Tommy:
Hey, if Americans were self-aware, the Republicans would have gone out of business ages ago.
Bill Arnold
Re Bibi’s Acme Bomb, there is good review at armscontrolwonk.com: Bibi’s Bomb: Guide for the Perplexed.
It is sufficiently technical to support its points. Also, the comments seem to be well informed.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Use the free time to volunteer for Obama. ;-)
jake the snake
I wonder which one of you NFL fanboys’ team will get
Q Smith. 3.5 sacks on Saturday, 6.5 in 4 games. He is not huge at 6’5″, 250 lbs, but most teams would like to have a pass rushing DE that can run a 4.5 40.
Bill Arnold
@Bill Arnold:
Re acme bomb, if anyone is wondering why people are concerned about 20 percent enriched uranium since it is not 90 percent enriched, I asked a question in 2007 about uranium enrichment from 0.7 to 4.5 and then to 90 percent and got a good good analogy about sorting a vat of 1000 red and green ping pong balls. (starting with 7 red, 993 green). The first step to reactor grade (4.5 percent) removes 840 green balls. Going to 88 percent involves removing 152 remaining green balls.
Another Halocene Human
@Perfect Tommy: Stockholm syndrome. Or the deeply cherished belief that “those people” are getting gubmint bennies that should be going to them.
opie jeanne
@dr. bloor: I don’t care which. I just want Texas to lose.
cckids
@JPL: Isolated Tornadoes wouldn’t be a bad band name.
Wag
I just got back rom a real football game. The Colorado Rapids hosted David Beckham and the LA Galaxy. Fun game with the kids
J R in WV
@Downpuppy:
When I was little, I thought the signs said Paint Check, and I wondered why we never stopped to get the paint looked into
There were a million ca-bumps between Beckley and Charleston, and the air changed colors, from clear sky-blue to yellow. Dirty yellow. But that was in the 50s, now it doesn’t smell in the valley any more.
brashieel
@different-church-lady:
Man, I loved Acid Reflux back in the day. Trippy comic.
Radio One
I hope the Eagles take the NFC East division. They need a better o-line that can actually block the pass rush for at least a second, and they need defensive backs that can sniff out a run fake. But ignoring that, they are almost a competitive team.
Other news, about two weeks before my next birthday, and my hair isn’t quite distinguished grey yet, but I do see some silver linings. Ugh, at least I’m not going bald anywhere yet.
Mustang Bobby
I spent Sunday with friends in Key Largo, sitting on the deck sipping iced tea and watching the frigate birds soar.