A DorD may be forthcoming when I really start eating them for breakfast AND when I have finished writing the thing that is due on Monday that I was supposed to have the first draft done by Saturday.
Side note: I just discovered why Chocolate Chex cereal was on a discontinuation sale.
The lamblets nearly talked me into buying them. I will now tell them I have it on good authority that we will not be buying… unless otherwise mandated by 3B’s and Mandos for a majority consensus.
also, I’m not going back to Saying Yes until the Pie stops Talking.
ZRM- the youngest lamblet replaced the pie with JFK. However, the pie starts talking after JFK is finished, and… does sound a bit like Marilyn Monroe. The dog is sounding a tad like Peter Lawford.
Yeah, I know… I was going with the serious workable combo at first… and then realized, it’s 3B’s… and I realized you had suggested Combo’s… which would no doubt be filled with that pepperoni toothpaste.
Actually, if you’ve ever had Pocky, chocolate covered pretzel sticks are quite delicious, if you remove the salt crystals from the pretzels. This is one case where the Japanese failure-to-fully-understand-American-culture phenomenon worked well.
My blog has been set, per TypePad’s goofy reasoning, to PST since the very beginning… but I have not always been waking up at 4AM… Besides, wouldn’t I be getting up later if I were on PST?
And, I believe RSF is also set to PST. I thought you were an Atlantic fish not a Pacific fish.
But fish, that would mean that her internal clock thinks she should be getting up at 2 am, which is what time it would be PST when she is waking up at 4 am CST. Clearly Saying Yes is just trying to compensate because Jennifer is on Nova Scotia time. Surprised? Not one bit!
(Mansplaining voice) If it is 4am in CA, what time is it in Chicago? Jennifer’s brain thinks she is getting up at 6 but since her brain is (unbeknownst to itself) on PST, it is getting up at 4.
This should be obvious.
No I am not jetlagged by a 16h timezone change. Why do you as?
My blog is set to PST so I can get up at noon and not be late to work.
But fish, that would mean that her internal clock thinks she should be getting up at 2 am, which is what time it would be PST when she is waking up at 4 am CST. Clearly Saying Yes is just trying to compensate because Jennifer is on Nova Scotia time. Surprised? Not one bit!
Exactly! I think…
If it is 4am in CA, what time is it in Chicago? Jennifer’s brain thinks she is getting up at 6 but since her brain is (unbeknownst to itself) on PST, it is getting up at 4.
Pretend you are traveling to SF from Chicago and once you land, you forget to set your watch back 2h. When you look at your watch, you think it is 4pm when it is really 2pm. This is happening in your brain all the time because your brain is set to PST time but you are actually in CST. The key is that your brain doesn’t know that it is set 2h earlier so it thinks it is waking up at 6am CST even though it is 4am CST because 6am CST would be 4am PST.
I would have to check with Von on the next Big Stone Head landing. I cannot check at Saying Yes, because the talking pie terrifies me.
But considering this has become one of THOSE blogs, I need to check with the Eternals to verify that it would be acceptable. What witht he Ombolyblomboxious, I am doubtful.
I think we’re actually meta-Zardozing this place by mansplaining about zardozing this place. Maybe we’ll reach the point of an infinitely recursive meta-Zardoz.
Although there is a chance that feesh will steel all our comments, I believe it is R duty to Full Zardoz as it is written in the something somewhere somethings.
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And verily did the Listeners speak with one another,
at great length, of events both cosmic and mundane,
well into the night and the following days;
where the Red-Panted One presided,
wielding the sacred Snorkel of Pork to punish the unbelievers.
Those who viewed the gathering from afar could only shake their heads
in solemn incomprehension.
I would have been sleeping. I was awake a little after 3, but fell back asleep, and then I felt the bedroom shaking, like the dogs were playing. The dresser was shaking and things on it were shaking. I turned on the light… no dogs, no Grizzled, and the door was shut. The clock said, 4AM on the nose. I hopped out of bed to see if I had been dreaming and met Grizzled coming upstairs asking, “Did you feel that? The house was shaking!”
Hmmm, another earthquake? Underground monsters coming to life?
Hmmm, 95 comments so far… I suspect fish will swoop in at any minute, although, as was mentioned before, a 3B’s post with over 100 comments seems rather… meh.
Inch of snow? Pshaw. I shoveled 3 inches yesterday morning, 9 inches when I got home, and another three this morning. No schools closed.
When the zombocalypse comes, us snow-covered midwesterners will rule. especially the ones who drop from heart attacks while shoveling, and become the first wave of zombies. Drunken, snow-shovel-wielding ZOMBIES!
You know salt has had important strategic roles throughout history.
I heard that…
Jennifer, I think your house is faulty. Better get a new one….
And that…
I imagine the snow we are getting would make even a tough Midwesterner pause. I think we have hit 50? and more coming…
The record snowfall for one of my high school years was 125.6… and although it was a record, it wasn’t that unusual. Being on the SE side of a big lake tends to do that.
And… we’ve all dealt with salt shortages. It’s part and parcel of every winter newscast. “It’s ONLY NOVEMBER!!! And we’ve used up 90% of our allotted salt!”
I can keep pulling Von’s comments from spam, but until she writes something that makes no sense, and possibly appeases zombies, I can’t tell if it will get autospammed or not. Admittedly her email address and comments do sound vaguely spammy if not hamstery.
Mandos
February 9, 2010 at 7:10 pm
I think we’re actually meta-Zardozing this place by mansplaining about zardozing this place. Maybe we’ll reach the point of an infinitely recursive meta-Zardoz.
Is a Zardoz ever finished? No… it’s probably just abandoned. Or, the stone head comes crashing down to the ground.
ZRM- I’m guessing we could hit 200 with no comment theft from fish. He’s, no doubt, fully frozen by now. I always heard that was the best way to euthanize a fish… flushing was cruel, but put them in a Styrofoam cup of water, stick it in the freezer, and they just slowly go to sleep. I think that’s what’s happening to his state right now.
And speaking of people/fish who are freezing… has Mandos been heard from since yesterday? He’s in the thick of this frozen/snowstrocity as well!
what kind of ‘experiments’ did you do as a child, Jennifer? I am appalled!!
Hey! I didn’t do this as a kid… as a kid, I flushed.
This method was suggested by a beloved veterinarian. She said if the fish is ailing, and there is no way for it to be cured, the kindest way to put it out of its misery is to slowly freeze it. It will still live for awhile if you flush it, but freezing it slowly lowers its body temp until it just goes to sleep.
Yes… a baby woman can rock the bandoliers… but, as K said, she’ll have to shop in the boy section, as the youngest lamblet does when she wants her pirate garb or her cargo pants…
I just associate that red diaper and those bandoliers with ENDLESS BODY HAIR! And look at her? She doesn’t have Sean Connery body hair! She has glorious peach fuzz!
I’m alive, I’m alive. I have a doozy of a shovelling session tomorrow. Yeesh.
Now, I am a hardy Canuck and no stranger to snow like this…in a country where the roads would actually have been cleared the day after, and the shovels are not made out of cheap plastic. Southerners, I tells ya.
Apparently this is going to cost the gov’t 0.5 gigadollars in direct costs. 100 megadollars for every day they had to close the gov’t, and the earliest they can seriously consider reopening the store is Friday. Maybe.
0.5 gigadollars. That’s a lot of snowploughs and modern equipment. Enough, maybe, to do everyone’s driveways too.
And since this is proof that there is no global warming, this is probably the Mid-Atlantic New Normal. Time to invest, governments!
Should I be concerned that every Zardoz seems to have a section where people are contemplating my murder after accusing me of all sorts of horrible crimes?
Z.A.R.D.O.Z. WARNING: Various Zombies shall be devoting the bulk of the day and evening to specification writing. As such, these post-living individuals will be dwelling on their computing devices for this period, and are helplessly attracted to Zardoz incidents, even slow motion ones.
Also, specification writing is like watching paint dry on your own eyeball; boring, annoying, moderately painful and seemingly endless. This creates a zombie with a need to vent, and a tendency toward 28 days Later type of behavior. To date, research has not been able to create protection, and if you see a spec-writing zombie, caution is urged. It helps if you give him/her/it/bird a Take Five bar, or a drink.
specification writing is like watching paint dry on your own eyeball; boring, annoying, moderately painful and seemingly endless.
You could get into a big cup of water, put that cup in the freezer, and slowly put yourself out of your misery… It works for fish, which are barely alive… might also work for a zombie.
…plus, and also…. there is a hint of a possibility of a likelihood of a rumor of an indication that I might get paid for writing these specifications, so you know…
Hey, haven’t I proven that I don’t need help on these things?
Like Duke from Doonesbury:
“Mr. Duke? I have the beverages for your party. Three cases of Wild Turkey, four bottles of tequila, a bag of oranges, fourteen cases of beer. When should I expect the guests to be arriving?”
Yeah, although this winter has been less soul-crushing than the past two (at least in my area), I kind of had hopes that it might be a freakishly early spring, and a nice spring at that. And then came 14 more inches of snow, lots of ice, blah, blah, blah…
can we get an inspection of this sub-structure? Will it hold up under this load?
I think you need an ultrasonic analysis. Plus, I think you have inadequate exits. 3Bulls may need to allocate a maintenance account, maybe bring in a code expert…
Oh, I’ve been to Nice and the Isle of Greece while I’ve eaten Chocolate Skittles on a yacht
I’ve moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed ‘em what I’ve got
I’ve been undressed by kings and I’ve seen some things (thanks to my black glasses)that a woman ain’t supposed to see
I’ve been to 3Bulls!, but I’ve never been to me
did you manage to push through the funding for the Bloggerhood Compound todaY?
Yeah! Did you? Cause I’ve been to Georgia and California and anywhere I could run
Took the hand of a preacher man
and we made love in the sun (and burnt our naughty bits)
But I ran out of places and friendly faces
Because I had to be free
I’ve been to paradise but I’ve never been to… a blogger compound…
Oh, but you can only do some characters that way. I was trying to do any subscript, which is allowed in HTML but transmuted to normal font by the stylesheet here.
That’s a windoze code, anyway. I’ll have to find the GNOME compose keys for that.
Re Hug Timer: I know! There are only two things in that category for which it is reasonable to time hugs. Goobie and that kitten at the bottom. Incidentally, both are neonates.
tedium. tee-dee-ummmmmm. Australian International Man Of Mystery Spam King. Who are you and why do I care? perhaps if I was paying attention to this story instead of complaining about it, my questions would have been answered.
Even worse, I read in an actual article where some reporter had the guts to write that Apolo Anton Ohno “brought respectability to the soul patch.” You know there are hundreds of NBC techs the think it is a cosmic joke that they have to pimp that guy every four years. They know they are reaching, but they just can’t help it. I guess he did win Dancing with the Stars.
I am still at the office trying to write a conference submission due very soon (the agony) but I just bore witness to a Special Moment: a late-night reboot of the vending machines. I feel like a kid who just saw Santa Claus come down the chimney.
I think Kathleen is the best person in the world to watch the Olympics with, but also that it would be really fun to go on a sugar/caffeine bender with Mandos at the office, but this is free time that I do not have. I’m not joking about any of this, because those things sound really fun. K- did you notice that Al Michaels looks terrible? Mandos- let’s have a chair race!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am in the post-snowpocalypse time zone, and Chick-fil-A is definitely not open. Also, the UNION MADE vending machine does not have Big Texas Cinnamon roll, but it does have Ruffles cheddar and sour cream flavour. Which I have obtained.
And it turns out that the vending machines were rebooting just for me. They are on motion detectors to save money. Normally there is enough activity around here to keep them running constantly. This being a nerd hothouse I’m really surprised that Sunday night is not busier than it is now.
In the time it took to write this comment, I could have written three more paragraphs of the paper. So why didn’t I?
After a small bag of Ruffles, I still have the munchies (haha), possibly brought on by two bottles of Pepsi Max but maybe it’s because dinner was at 6pm today. I DID have a milkshake today, it just wasn’t satisfying like Chick-fil-A. There probably is a McD’ohs open somewhere nearby, and of course there’s always the 7-11 wings if I’m really desperate.
I just bore witness to a Special Moment: a late-night reboot of the vending machines. I feel like a kid who just saw Santa Claus come down the chimney.
You know what happens to those kids, right? IT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN! EVER! NO MORE GOODIES!!!
Also, there needs to be a manlier name for Pepsi Max.
P.S. Jean Schmidt is actually located near Cincinnati. My Haus Representative is Mary Jo Kilroy (D), who’s campaign I donated to in 2006 (lost) and 2008 (won).
But otherwise, yeah. Although those loan committee people on Friday said I did a good job, and maybe even one or two of them meant it. So I probably won’t get fired (this week).
P.P.S. Maybe that’s actually just more bad news.
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I THOUGHT IT WAS YR JOB
More Professional Coordination At Democrat HQ!
Yes he is a terrible monster, but really? Seriously? Seriously is this actually literal? “Bayh made the decision not to run on Friday, telling a small group of senior staff, but he did not tell President Obama or Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid until today. His aides say he had been struggling with the decision for months, but Democrats in the Senate seemed to have no clue. Many said his decision caught them completely by surprise.” Aww.
Gee golly, he sure surprised them, just like Martha Coakley did when she became the worst candidate in history. The filing deadline for a Democratic primary in Indiana is tomorrow. Do you want to run, dear reader? The DNC and/or DSCC will be shocked! Who coulda known!
so far my Olympic coverage highlight was the background story on JR Celski where they showed his injury last fall where he cut his leg and blood is spurting everywhere and Bob Costas voice overs “warning what you are seeing is extremely graphic”
I would bet that evan Bayh is a lousy figure skater.
Yes, but after reading the other thread, perhaps the Lugar would make an excellent luger.
And, Bob Costas needs to lose the gray temples… it doesn’t make him look like a serious, learned man. It makes him look like an old lady who is having trouble getting all hair tucked under her wig.
Thanks to the four years of Latin I took in High S., I can translate Mandos’ mysterious phrase for the enthralled crowd: “I have had wonderful relations with El Snacktator!”
Big Texas Cinnamon Roll appeared in my vending machine shortly after Kathleen mentioned it too. Her connections to the powerful vending machine lobby are starting to freak me out.
Kathleen, forget Send in the Clowns, Love Story is coming, and the self-referencing trials and tribulations of the team chemistry problems are laid bare for all to see. Moving.
Mandos- I’ll pay you good money to see if you survive washing down a Banana Flip with a Pepsi Max. Banana Flips were definitely made with something petrol-chemical. I’m guessing you’d explode from the combining of the two… much like circus peanuts and orange pop…
Maybe Zardozing will be in the next winter Olympics. I tend to think of it as a winter sport, but I suppose the red singlet would lend itself to summer…
Did someone say refreshing beverages?? Well, don’t mind if I do… in honor of Presidents Day and all… and thundra getting his 400 comment… and Kathleen just being Kathleen… and the fact that we can comment with the zombies in the same thread and still not lose our brains!! Oh, wait, I had already lost mine. Oh well… here’s a beverage for already having lost my brains! Woo-hoo!!
1) I’m out of wine and it’s still snowing, so I’ve put on me boots and will sludge/trudge/begrudge my way to the grocery store.
2) Charles Lane at the WaPoop is a giant cobag. Like the rest of ‘em.
3) I might take some pictures, but it’s getting dark already. I’ve got sledding pics from yesterday, but thanks to wine-ethernet port issue, I need to get the camera to my crappy laptop at work in order to get them on the innert00bz.
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The theory behind BCS is that the continuously dropping connection is just enough to let me download my work and write locally, while being too inconvenient to procrastinate on blogs because the connection keeps dropping because AT&T is run by incompetent chipmunks.
However, today the chipmunks are not as incompetent, but I cannot pull an allnighter this time because my co-authors are expecting a 9:30pm draft…
Gram Parsons Rhino Hi-five
The Jam, all the stuff that was omitted from Compact Snap
The Chords, the Peel Sessions
Wreckless Eric
The Jam, In the City
Paul Weller, 22 Dreams (I been in a Jammy mood, sosumi)
Kirsty MacColl, Titanic Days
The dBs, Like This
Give Em The Boot V
The Negro Problem, Post Minstrel Syndrome
The Bats, At the National Grid
Jon Dee Graham, It’s Not As Bad As It Looks (and I hope he’s right about that)
The Eels, End Times (and I fear he is right about that)
Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything
Glossary, How we Handle Our Midnights
do you know what does encouarge productivity? Snowboard Cross.
Know what encourages productivity even more? Listening to a Nike sponsored snowboarder complain that the snowboarding outfits people are wearing are too “establishment“.
The Bats album is pretty good, ZRM. Also, just reading now made my horrible day feel a lot better. I’m sorry Mandos had to risk life and limb for my amusement.
Carry on. Also, Kathleen on Bayh and the figure skating outfit is pure pure gold.
Is it transitive? Will you endorse something that is endorsed by something that is endorsed by an NBA player? Does the signal weaken over the endorsement chain? Enquiring minds want to know.
I love how C was saying something about some odious Red Sox or something and the rejoinder of Kobe Bryant just slipped out of my mouth like a finely savored regurgitation.
I, commenter of comment #460, proudly endorsement this Pyramid Apricot Ale. I could not have achieved the levels of bloviation and spastic typing required to obtain #460 without the use and enjoyment of Pyramid Apricot Ale. That is why I am proud to be an endorser of Pyramid Apricot Ale, which is a proud sponsor of the McDonald chicken mcnugget, which was a sponsor of Kobe Bryant until it turned out he was a scumbag.
my next set of Olympic live-blogging comments are brought to you by Frank’s Red Hot hot sauce. Don’t try and enjoy your jambalaya without it. You won’t.
Polar Bear Special Comment sans mention of Global Warming. I guess NBC decided that would be *awkward* since the Olympic Coverage is sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute.
Bob just called out Seth for wearing his hat inside. Seth didn’t want to say that his Nike contract states that he wears the hat everywhere for the next 4 years.
No it is not irrational. When Collinsworth was discussing how Bode Miller was an evil person at the Torino Olympics because he wasn’t adequately inspired by wearing Team USA colors, I wanted to set his hair on fire.
Franks is different it is like the essence of you think it is hot, but it isn’t hot at all, just good, whereas Sriracha- wait- this feels on topic. This thread is making want to watch the Olympics, something NBC could never do.
That is the point Mandos, you can eat tonnes of it (that was for UC) and just get a vaguely orange and vinegary taste. i.e. delicious.
Also, I quote to your national shame: “This race hardly went off as planned as the final 10 pairs of the first run were delayed for more than an hour past the usual ice resurfacing time because one Zamboni machine was broken and another was spreading water unevenly over the ice, at least in the judgment of some of the coaches and officials.”
If they can’t do Zamboni and ice, what is the point of Canada? This has CCA/AG shenanigans written ALL over it. A broken Zamboni? Pshaw. Someone would drive down from the crowd in their personal Zamboni and fix the problem, in the Canada of my mind.
this young french figure skater is very compelling. He has taken away my urge to snark. Even Scott’s constant repetition of “he was ABANDONED on the streets of Brazil” isn’t triggering me.
The only reason I know what is even happening is because of this thread!
I kind of wish Johnny Weir would cut a hole in the ice and just f*** it.
I love how the above could be believable for either me actually watching the Olympics (I don’t even know what channel NBC is on the TV in Big Texas Cinnamon Bun) and an awesome teh l4m3 special.
I finally—after two years—worked up the courage to try the canned “spotted dick” they sell at one of my local supermarkets, only to find that the supermarket had finally abolished the disgusting British foods aisle. Harrumph, I say. The nerve. Tally-ho, you colonists.
On the other hand, I found a Target that now carries that delicious Canadian treat, clamato juice. But *sigh* not the Extra Spicy kind.
I finally—after two years—worked up the courage to try the canned “spotted dick” they sell at one of my local supermarkets, only to find that the supermarket had finally abolished the disgusting British foods aisle.
I kind of wish Johnny Weir would cut a hole in the ice and just f*** it.
Scott Hamilton: Johnny Weir f***ed the ice about as well as he could have f***ed it, but I expect we will see better f***ing later in the evening. While his f***ing technique is excellent, his transitions from making out to f***ing just aren’t as strong as some of his competitors. Weir is always able to raise an eyebrow though, and in my case, I think he is raising a muffin top.
The cruelty of a new episode of Lost airing concurrent with the re-broadcast of the women’s snowboard cross final that wasn’t actually broadcast live when it happened hours and hours earlier has made me wonder whether zombies have taken control of TV programming.
Hey now, UC, there’s no call for that kind of haterade. Zombies may nom your branes, but at lest we’re upfront about it. We won’t melt your branes surreptitiously, like TV.
I’d blame it on Republicans, or at least Ann Althouse.
Incidentally, one of the threedles at Sadly No has a side-subject on driving tanks going on. I can’t read it without thinking of Kathleen roaring down the freeway in her nursing tank, blasting through SUVs….
I lost 7 men, 6 dogs, 2 sleds, a half-eaten tube of cookie dough, and probably 10-15 points off my eyesight, but I made it to the end of these comments. I must say that the dedication, motivation, talent, and training it takes to pump out nearly 600 repetitions of high-quality half-assedness is…well, it’s a triumph of the human spirit. Bravo, 3B community, bravo.
Jon Stewart did a hilarious riff on a man named Dick Sweat asking Obama a question at a town hall, and I kept thinking of Brando. If only he could freelance dick jokes for late night comedy
speaking of things coming full circle (weren’t we?), has anyone checked out Apolo Ohno’s twitter feed? I am afraid to for spoiler reasons, but C’s brother said he would rather smash his nuts in a fridge door than read it, so I am dying to check it out.
confession: last night I pretended to be reading a book while watching the Olympics because I was embarassed for my neighbor to see how long I had been sitting in the chair with the remote and my laptop.
Imagine someone kind of tweeting “Go AMERICA, YEAH! AWESOME”
Apolo Anton Ohno
Kind of the opposite of the Roger Ebert twitter feed, which I don’t read because it is too awesome and I want him to just be only my friend, kind of like Kathleen with whatsherface, only with shunning to spite myself instead of stalking.
Jon Stewart did a hilarious riff on a man named Dick Sweat asking Obama a question at a town hall, and I kept thinking of Brando. If only he could freelance dick jokes for late night comedy.
That would be nice. I am sure I could keep the dick jokes coming for them.
I read the Roger Ebert profile in Esquire and immediately wished I knew him. Amazing guy. The article noted that when he lost his voice, they hooked him up with a speech enhancer, and he deliberately chose one with a British accent. I thought that was awesome, even if he later had to switch to a different one because the British version was too hard to understand.
chuckles, did you READ THEM ALL? Z.A.R.D.O.Z. does not accept criticism unless it is from readers who answer a short, seven-part three hundred question quiz AND demonstrate full understanding of Zombie lore.
Seriously, Zardoz Kath and MegaMandos brought the Half of Ass in an impressive way. It was special, and mostly reached 3Bulls levels of incomprehensibility. At times, Pinko’s contributions seemed the MOST coherent.
P.S. Warning for those with crappy old towers running Windows M.E. (heh, that would make all one of me, wouldn’t it?): Clicking the link may cause slow-down or need for rebootage.
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fish, now that I have read up on LAGO, I know how inappropriate your comment appears to be. However, since you wrote LUGO, it is actually even more inappropriate.
I’m also guessing that someone has said that in the above 600+ comments, but by gawd, I’m not going back to read them all… at least not until they’re finished.
It would seem to me that any thread worth its salt would have a comment from salt. It would seem to me that a comment from salt would be worth more than those from mere humans. Without salt, you humans would be nothing more than desiccated zombies.
fish, now that I have read up on LAGO, I know how inappropriate your comment appears to be. However, since you wrote LUGO, it is actually even more inappropriate.
No bonus for mistakenly adding a Letterman reference?
fish shall be seized for making a rude joke about a tiny baby being pictured with either a light hitting ERROR MACHINE 2B/SS or some Olympic crotch medaling Chundernozzle. His choice. The crimes are equally grievous.
Anyway, CNN is now doing a “SIMULATION” of a “CYBER-SHOCKWAVE” with discussion by members of a “BIPARTISAN POLICY INSTITUTE” that include Michael Chertoff and Godzilla.
Not that I recommend anyone try this at home, but a person/bird/meese/pants could go on infinite loop mode between here and El Snacktator’s comments.
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She is too busy mocking Canadia for its embarrassing loss in ice hockey to USA despite our mutual respect for the environment and the fact that the US exports more to goods and services to Canadia than all European countries combined.
What would be more awesome is if they had to ski through a forest with outdoor mechanical shooting gallery- with pop up targets that might be good guys or bad guys. None of this “hold your breath”- I want stereotypical New York muggers and possible innocent collateral damage popping up in the Canadian wilderness!
People on skis, toting rifles, spiking fish into snowdrifts… at 20 paces. Rifles to be used to launch the fish if manual spiking doesn’t work, or if the fish puts up too much of a fight.
Or… perhaps it could be needing to fill a freezer full of fish, closing freezer and riding it down the bobsled course.
Has anyone here ever fantasized about fantasizing about something? (I am writing this in the middle of a reverie about me fantasizing about fantasizing.)
Has anyone here ever fantasized about fantasizing about something? (I am writing this in the middle of a reverie about me fantasizing about fantasizing.)
Mandos- shhhhh… you’re talking out loud. We can hear you.
El has never ridden anything hard… with hard being either an adjective or an adverb…. However, El does understand the unrelenting lure of snackie goodness.
So I have rediscovered the joys of the audiobook. I have now made it through a good chunk of LM Bujold’s Vorkosigan series in unabridged CD form, out of order as they appear on the public library shelf: Cetaganda, The Vor Game, Shards of Honor, and currently Komarr and next The Warrior’s Apprentice.
I betting Kathleen is the only one reading this who knows what I’m talking about.
Grover Gardner, via Blackstone Audiobooks. He has the perfect mildly sardonic voice for it.
It really is a different experience hearing them rather than reading them, and actually the highly cinematic Vorkosigan books are very amenable to the format. Also, I am generally inclined to flip forward a few pages and spoil every tense scene for myself, but it’s a lot harder to do that in the car, so I’m forced to “read” the story in the way Bujold wrote it. I may have a long drive in a few weeks and should maybe save one of the books for the trip.
I wonder who the Dick Cheney of the Obama Administration is (I know, there is only one Dick Cheney, and this is the equivalent of Godwinning my own comment).
Anywho, Rahmbo for the sheer in your face relentless corporate selling out, or Eric Holder for the ongoing banality of evil?
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This only sounds like a corner pub thread because I am trying to restart the Zardoz so that it is not over², let alone over¹ until it reaches 1000 at least.
I think the lesson of the Obama administration is that the Dick Cheney is the system, man. In fact, Dick Cheney’s Dick Cheney may well have been just the system, man.
Anyway, there’s no such thing as “Godwinning”. Godwin’s law is a mere statement of fact. Godwin’s Law: for a thread length t in comments and for the random variable H representing the utterance of the name of the leader of Germany in 1944,
I know what it is. Kathleen thinks this thread is going to be a spoiler. Kathleen does not want Mandos to ruing the skating. Kathleen is in seclusion until the end of the women’s free skate!
NBC has caused Kathleen to be sequestered from us. I hope they make her go on the Tonight Show.
hee hee! I actually am still totally into the Olympics. I think I was a Viking in a previous life. Nordic Combined baby!!!!!!!!
Pinko called it last night – NO LADIES SPOILERS. it was awesome.
but otherwise I have been trying to finish my stupid overdue library book so I haven’t been logging on the computer. I curse you Revelation Space!!!!!!!!! I think I am going to have to return it and try and check it out again.
this book is killing me. Kill. Ing. Me. I love it, but I would like to post an excerpt to give you an idea of what I am going through.
What the Captain resembled was a statue smeared in ropelike silver tendrils, extending tens of metres in either direction; beautifully aglisten with sinister biochimeric malignancy. The reefersleep unit at the heart of the frozen explosion was still, by some miracle of design or accident, nominally functional. But its once symmetrical form had been tugged and warped by the glacially slow but unyielding forces of the Captain’s spread. Most of its status readouts were now dead; there were no active entoptics surrounding it. Of the display devices which still worked, some showed unreadable mush; the senseless hieroglyphics of machien senility.
K: C, can you think of something funny to say about the hockey game?
C: no, not really.
K (to baby): Daddy’s not helping Mommy be funny for the internet.
C: Sinbad, stretching the very definition of the word “celebrity”.
K: you’ve heard of him, right? and you’re not related to him? isn’t that the definition of celebrity?
Nope! I look at this blog at work! Of course, I also look at Sadly No at work, and they use lots of NSFW, but at least I know that none of the NSFW was mine.
We’ve already done all the fruit puns, so I basically self-censored a big groaner here.
Given the plethora of fashions on display in Olympic curling, I find it more than surprising we didn’t see any citrus fashions on any teams in the competition. Perhaps those teams suffered accidents prior to their matches?
I don’t even watch sports and haven’t seen a single second of this Olympics on account of not owning a TV and NBC’s online viewer being broken and suffering from massive suck, so I only found out about the win from a *Bulgarian* friend in California emailing my mobile.
Bulgarian friends in California are better sports Canucks than I am.
Citrus Lover- I see the Citrus Fashion Association is making headway in the world! It may be a fiber commercial… but Benifiber has been using women clad in skirts, dresses, etc, made of lovely citrus-print slices!
That impersona…I mean, that joker pretending to be a non-existent “Grapefruit Chupacabra” once again demonstrates the underlying prejudices that drive this blog. Could this be a less welcoming and inclusive environment for citruskind?
But seriously, I am apparently not going on the road trip, because the pretext for it disappeared (or has been postponed, really).
I still plan to listen to Brothers in Arms. I’m almost done Komarr which is my own favorite. When I was reading the series in book form for the first time, I always wondered the whole way through what relations were like between the occupier and the occupied beyond the Galen(i) family, and that book finally answered it.
that cover is awesome. Komarr is C’s fav. Memory is my fav. The cover on that one is the worst; it’s all super SciFi-y with space ships and lasers and Elli Quinn, and that one almost completely takes place on-planet with no Q. So funny.
I liked Komarr partly because, believe it or not, I really related to it as a Canadian. A Canadian raised in English who followed all the referendums and constitutional bickering and so on and has a reasonably grasp of Canadian history. Canada contains within it a captive nation that never consented to it, and hasn’t genuinely consented to it to this day, complete with revolts and secret separatist bomb plots and so on. Komarr really went through those issues at a level of detail that I’ve only ever seen in SF in the works of C.J. Cherryh. We’re forced to confront the fact that Miles has never actually been the prey, but in fact he is the predator. The whole bit with Dr. Riva is something quite awful, even after we see it from Miles’ blithe perspective…
I had a Pepsi Max Cease Fire today. One has to marvel at modern chemistry. It could be the most unnatural “food” I have ever had. It says on the label that I have to drink it after eating the new Doritos Burn flavors. I am intrigued and a little afraid.
Sing, cobag, the anger of Pelemus’ son Achillemus
and its cobagitation, which put Rolos thousandfold upon the chundermuffins,
hurled in their multemutudes to the House of Substance strong trolls
of plovers, but gave their bodies to the delicate feasting of
chupacabras…
Doritos Late Night isn’t truly late night until they add Deli Haus Pastrami flavor, or Guinness float flavor. Maybe Skittles will come through. Deli Skittles, I would love for ZRM to try you!
I could not find the Dorito Burn at the 7-11, but I did find the Pepsi SMASH Cease Fire. It was quite a bit more on the disgusting side than the delicious. BUT it might work if I had had this Dorito Burn, so I will withhold Great Judgement until I do.
In other news, DRM sucks. Why do publishers think that making libraries impose complicated and broken DRM schemes is going to prevent piracy? Especially for audiobooks that the library carries on CDs? The train has left the station, people, why make my life hard because you think that an MP3 file can be subjected to a single-user requirement? The music industry has finally started to move on…
Has Doritos tried any other fruit flavorings on their chips? I know they did Mountain Dew last year… or the year before… which has a kind of petroleum fruit flavor…
Argh, the dude in the office across the hall is exhibiting a devastating case of plumber’s bum. Naturally, the way his desk is, his butt faces the door. I don’t know how to tell him to pull’em up…
is it allowable for zombies to squeee?
of so, consider this an official squee.
looks like the ref is signalling a puppy scored a touchdown
all week long, when I feel stressed or down, I am bookmarking this link.
DO NOT CHANGE THIS TO A PAY SITE, I IMPLORE YOU.
Maybe the ref is signaling a poopy touchdown. Oh ZRM, I hope you really do love the Goob. This blog may be going to that well for awhile.
What a beauty! Go to that well constantly, PP!
This picture has made my Monday.
I would appreciate if this could also be used to taunt Peyton Manning.
CUTIE!!!
For taunting Manning, there is Manning Face.
that’s what i’m talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I notice she still has the detachable hands look. Ah, babies.
Side note: I just discovered why Chocolate Chex cereal was on a discontinuation sale.
Does the chocolate Chex add anything to Chex mix? This must be explored.
Right next to the Chocolate Skittles. Does Mandos need to do a D or D?
I vote:
Initiative 1) YES to more squee
Initiative 2) YES to Mandos needs to do a D or D
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D or D: BRANES.
Delish AND Disgusto.
also, I’m not going back to Saying Yes until the Pie stops Talking.
fulsome and I have destroyed umpteen bags of turtle chex- DELISH
A DorD may be forthcoming when I really start eating them for breakfast AND when I have finished writing the thing that is due on Monday that I was supposed to have the first draft done by Saturday.
Side note: I just discovered why Chocolate Chex cereal was on a discontinuation sale.
The lamblets nearly talked me into buying them. I will now tell them I have it on good authority that we will not be buying… unless otherwise mandated by 3B’s and Mandos for a majority consensus.
also, I’m not going back to Saying Yes until the Pie stops Talking.
ZRM- the youngest lamblet replaced the pie with JFK. However, the pie starts talking after JFK is finished, and… does sound a bit like Marilyn Monroe. The dog is sounding a tad like Peter Lawford.
A possessed devil Chex mix would be awesome. Chocolate Chex and Chocolate Skittles. What else would be in there? Combos? Pretzel Fillers?
Chocolate-covered pretzels…
And maybe those Teddy Grahams.
And… and… some broken up pieces of this.
And then you need to roll a KFC Double Down in it… you know, for that extra crunshhhh…
Jennifer- most of those things are delicious. I feel like educating you and the lamblets.
Yeah, I know… I was going with the serious workable combo at first… and then realized, it’s 3B’s… and I realized you had suggested Combo’s… which would no doubt be filled with that pepperoni toothpaste.
I forgot to add… you don’t need to use your explaining voice.
Actually, if you’ve ever had Pocky, chocolate covered pretzel sticks are quite delicious, if you remove the salt crystals from the pretzels. This is one case where the Japanese failure-to-fully-understand-American-culture phenomenon worked well.
J – I was mansplaining.
I was Mandosplaining.
Can someone post the Killdozer splanation?
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I will Zomsplain….
What’s even better is when a man needs to mansplain that they’re mansplaining.
Killdozer. Now there was a movie!
I wonder why they never did Killzardozer?
I would actually listen if someone could mansplain why I’m waking up, WIDE AWAKE, at 4AM these days…
Because Killdozer, that’s why!
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scared someone will start a Zardoz without ye?
I would actually listen if someone could mansplain why I’m waking up, WIDE AWAKE, at 4AM these days…
Because Saying Yes is on Pacific time.
fish,
That doesn’t make sense. MANSLAMSPLAIN FISHSPLAT.
I actually don’t think I was mansplaining, actually. Mansplaining is actually a little bit different. Like what I am doing now.
I just posted this at 12:14pm EST:
Note the time discrepancy. Clearly Saying Yes is set to PST and that is why Jennifer is waking up 2h early. QED
My blog has been set, per TypePad’s goofy reasoning, to PST since the very beginning… but I have not always been waking up at 4AM… Besides, wouldn’t I be getting up later if I were on PST?
And, I believe RSF is also set to PST. I thought you were an Atlantic fish not a Pacific fish.
But fish, that would mean that her internal clock thinks she should be getting up at 2 am, which is what time it would be PST when she is waking up at 4 am CST. Clearly Saying Yes is just trying to compensate because Jennifer is on Nova Scotia time. Surprised? Not one bit!
(Mansplaining voice) If it is 4am in CA, what time is it in Chicago? Jennifer’s brain thinks she is getting up at 6 but since her brain is (unbeknownst to itself) on PST, it is getting up at 4.
This should be obvious.
No I am not jetlagged by a 16h timezone change. Why do you as?
My blog is set to PST so I can get up at noon and not be late to work.
But fish, that would mean that her internal clock thinks she should be getting up at 2 am, which is what time it would be PST when she is waking up at 4 am CST. Clearly Saying Yes is just trying to compensate because Jennifer is on Nova Scotia time. Surprised? Not one bit!
Exactly! I think…
If it is 4am in CA, what time is it in Chicago? Jennifer’s brain thinks she is getting up at 6 but since her brain is (unbeknownst to itself) on PST, it is getting up at 4.
This makes NO sense… not even to me.
My blog is set to PST so I can get up at noon and not be late to work.
Except for now… since the weasel has set it to EST. fish has now turned into Werner Erhard.
This makes NO sense… not even to me.
Pretend you are traveling to SF from Chicago and once you land, you forget to set your watch back 2h. When you look at your watch, you think it is 4pm when it is really 2pm. This is happening in your brain all the time because your brain is set to PST time but you are actually in CST. The key is that your brain doesn’t know that it is set 2h earlier so it thinks it is waking up at 6am CST even though it is 4am CST because 6am CST would be 4am PST.
fish is set to ZST
fish is insane.
fishsplaining.
fishsplaining
Fortunately… he’s underwater… we can’t hear him…
Pinko- the Chex cereal talk made me realize we’re approaching Easter season… will they be doing the dreaded Blueberry Whoppers again this year?
As long as someone uncorks the Brach’s spice jelly bean spigot, Imma good.
So have we decided to Zardoz a Goobie thread by mansplaining?
I would have to check with Von on the next Big Stone Head landing. I cannot check at Saying Yes, because the talking pie terrifies me.
But considering this has become one of THOSE blogs, I need to check with the Eternals to verify that it would be acceptable. What witht he Ombolyblomboxious, I am doubtful.
Do I have to mansplain it, Mandos?
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Do I have so slow-motion Zardoz this joint all by myself?
Watch me shamble!
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It is clear that Thunder is a bit unclear on the Zardoz hierarchy. Let me go over the various petition steps.
You CANNOT petition THE fish with bread crumbs?
Wait, that can’t be true.
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Jax skells have nothing to do with this.
NOTHING!
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You sure about that?
I think this blog is still on PST… even though Pinko no longer is… will that affect any official Zardozing?
I’ll be happy to go full Zardoz tomorrow at 4AM… 2AM PST.
Mandos- there is new duvet pron over at Befouled! Why haven’t you chimed in yet?
what?
Zardoz the Bulls?
I will need an Ombuds ruling on that.
S’Okay…
The Pantaloons have reached a decision.
ZARDOZ this joint like it’s 1999!
How would that make The Goob feel?
AWESOME
I dunno, we’ve never done one in a place that WANTED it. I have to check with Charlotte Rampling to see if that’s proper…
dunno, we’ve never done one in a place that WANTED it.
Ahemmitty hem, etc.
well, heck, we’re already at 70 comments.
There’s no challenge now…
I think we’re actually meta-Zardozing this place by mansplaining about zardozing this place. Maybe we’ll reach the point of an infinitely recursive meta-Zardoz.
Zardoz the Bulls?
I will need an Ombuds ruling on that.
I don’t think 3B! really needs the help, although we could probably pad comments out by at least another 100 just by announcing a poll to this effect.
Never forget Poll Land!
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I dunno, we’ve never done one in a place that WANTED it.
I’m guessing if we did it, whether inadvertently or intentionally, someone else would steal the comments for their own Zardoz addiction.
Mandos has a point. Is it possible to Zardoz a post that is analyzing Zardoz?
I think not.
Rely on a zombie(s) for t’hinkin’?
Heh. Indeed.
FULL ZARDOZ A’HEAD!
I don’t think you can avoid Zardozing a thread about Zardozing.
Although there is a chance that feesh will steel all our comments, I believe it is R duty to Full Zardoz as it is written in the something somewhere somethings.
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As written in the Book of Emu, verse Π:
And verily did the Listeners speak with one another,
at great length, of events both cosmic and mundane,
well into the night and the following days;
where the Red-Panted One presided,
wielding the sacred Snorkel of Pork to punish the unbelievers.
Those who viewed the gathering from afar could only shake their heads
in solemn incomprehension.
Just checking in… because, you know, it’s a little after 4 freaking AM. Or… 2AM for those of you obsessed with PST.
I would have been sleeping. I was awake a little after 3, but fell back asleep, and then I felt the bedroom shaking, like the dogs were playing. The dresser was shaking and things on it were shaking. I turned on the light… no dogs, no Grizzled, and the door was shut. The clock said, 4AM on the nose. I hopped out of bed to see if I had been dreaming and met Grizzled coming upstairs asking, “Did you feel that? The house was shaking!”
Hmmm, another earthquake? Underground monsters coming to life?
What else would make a house shake? A pretty solid, brick house? Maybe something was outside huffing and puffing.
At least the house wasn’t made of straw, or sticks…
Maybe the house was rumbling because the big stone head was hurtling over me telling me it was time to wake up and ZARDOZ!
No…
I need coffee. Pinko, where’s the 24 hr coffee spigot? The RSF Diner has one.
Ha! It was an earthquake! 4.5… Very bizarre.
And very timely.
Still so quiet over here…
And just the subtle whiff of red leather singlets in the air.
Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On!
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thundra… I was thinking of that this morning.
It could have been Zsrdoz-Claus on your roof.
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It snowed all night here. I didn’t notice any quaking, shaking, and/or baking.
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It snowed all night here as well… and do we get a snow day? Hell no. Pffft! Needless to say, the lamblets were irked.
Zardoz Claus! What would he leave?? Guns? Red, leather singlets? Eternal life??
Hmmm, 95 comments so far… I suspect fish will swoop in at any minute, although, as was mentioned before, a 3B’s post with over 100 comments seems rather… meh.
Perhaps fish is snowed in and cannot get to the comments…
Oh Zombie??
Iced under fish.
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Feesh on ice?
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101 Feesh in the Big Parade!
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It snowed all night here as well… and do we get a snow day?
They are planning a snow month here.
They are planning a snow month here.
Because you’re weak!!!
An inch of snow creates havoc in D.C., at least when I was growing up.
As dawn broke, Washington D.C., had a fresh six inches on top of as much as two feet in some areas from the weekend’s storm.
Snowmageddon!
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An inch of snow creates havoc in D.C
Because they’re weak!!
And, as for Snowmageddon… I believe I saw it here first…
They are planning a snow month here.
Did the Republicans plan on this back-to-back snow so they could continue to say no to working?
I fell like Snowsyphus…. keep on shoveling that snow… get up, shovel some more….
Jennifer, I think your house is faulty. Better get a new one….
Black Ice.
O wait, the AC/DC thread is over at the fish-smellin place…
An inch of snow creates havoc in D.C., at least when I was growing up.
Still true Thundra. Maryland is now reporting critical salt shortages. This is gonna be fun…
You know salt has had important strategic roles throughout history.
fish, behave yourself. Stop triggering Jennifer.
Dang trigger-fish….
the comment box is triggering me.
Inch of snow? Pshaw. I shoveled 3 inches yesterday morning, 9 inches when I got home, and another three this morning. No schools closed.
When the zombocalypse comes, us snow-covered midwesterners will rule. especially the ones who drop from heart attacks while shoveling, and become the first wave of zombies. Drunken, snow-shovel-wielding ZOMBIES!
I hope Goobie is wearing a Red Diaper today.
bread crumbs?
fridge note: Von is still being deflected as spam.
I refuse to Zardoz further until our Vonny Sistren are freed! VONVERINES!!!
I imagine the snow we are getting would make even a tough Midwesterner pause. I think we have hit 50″ and more coming…
You know salt has had important strategic roles throughout history.
I heard that…
Jennifer, I think your house is faulty. Better get a new one….
And that…
I imagine the snow we are getting would make even a tough Midwesterner pause. I think we have hit 50? and more coming…
The record snowfall for one of my high school years was 125.6… and although it was a record, it wasn’t that unusual. Being on the SE side of a big lake tends to do that.
Yes, I also got a signal from Sista Von that her messages are being blocked.
Vonverines.
o, just suck it up, fish.
LOL!
And… we’ve all dealt with salt shortages. It’s part and parcel of every winter newscast. “It’s ONLY NOVEMBER!!! And we’ve used up 90% of our allotted salt!”
Which will fish find more challenging? Dealing with all of the snow, or being on house arrest with all loved ones? 24/7???
Isn’t there a 3B’s contest in there somewhere? If and when fish will crack… and what condiment he’ll lob first when he does?
if you’re fish is cracked, I am pretty sure it’s gone bad and it would probably be best to feed it to the badger.
I meant to put that extra apostrophe in there, knowing FISH WOULD TAKE THE BAIT LIKE A FISH TAKING BAIT.
I can keep pulling Von’s comments from spam, but until she writes something that makes no sense, and possibly appeases zombies, I can’t tell if it will get autospammed or not. Admittedly her email address and comments do sound vaguely spammy if not hamstery.
best to feed it to the badger
Imagine that… ZRM coming out as pro-badger.
And someone tell Von to stop making sense!
well, I have a badger in the backyard, not a fish pond….
Ouch! Sorry! I didn’t mean it!!
Von, Stop making sense.
And how pro-badger can it be to suggest feeding it a broken fish?
I don’t think a badger is going to care if the fish is broken or not. I was merely thinking of your badgerhood.
And… was the fish pond in reference to my FLOODED YARD?!?! Or… did I miss something else.
I had no idea this thread had been zardozed
Mandos
February 9, 2010 at 7:10 pm
I think we’re actually meta-Zardozing this place by mansplaining about zardozing this place. Maybe we’ll reach the point of an infinitely recursive meta-Zardoz.
LOL infinity
I had no idea this thread had been zardozed
Ongoing, Kathleen.
I had no idea this thread had been zardozed
Ongoing, Kathleen.
Exactly.
Is a Zardoz ever finished? No… it’s probably just abandoned. Or, the stone head comes crashing down to the ground.
ZRM- I’m guessing we could hit 200 with no comment theft from fish. He’s, no doubt, fully frozen by now. I always heard that was the best way to euthanize a fish… flushing was cruel, but put them in a Styrofoam cup of water, stick it in the freezer, and they just slowly go to sleep. I think that’s what’s happening to his state right now.
And speaking of people/fish who are freezing… has Mandos been heard from since yesterday? He’s in the thick of this frozen/snowstrocity as well!
but put them in a Styrofoam cup of water, stick it in the freezer
what kind of ‘experiments’ did you do as a child, Jennifer? I am appalled!!
..but then, it’s just a fish. Like Red Foreman says, they’re barely alive anyway.
Von, Stop making sense.
burning down the house!
what kind of ‘experiments’ did you do as a child, Jennifer? I am appalled!!
Hey! I didn’t do this as a kid… as a kid, I flushed.
This method was suggested by a beloved veterinarian. She said if the fish is ailing, and there is no way for it to be cured, the kindest way to put it out of its misery is to slowly freeze it. It will still live for awhile if you flush it, but freezing it slowly lowers its body temp until it just goes to sleep.
STOP MAKING ME FEEL GUILTY!
K- exactly!
However, don’t do this with a badger…
fishcicles.
fishcicles
Guh…
great for teething!!!!!
That is so waiting for a fish follow-up…
So do we get a picture of STB in a red diaper and bandoliers? I guess we can let the braid/ mullet go for now….
Wouldn’t STB be in a Charlotte Rampling ensemble?? I mean… STB is not manly…
Maybe STB needs a crocheted bolero jacket…
But STB is still rocking the diaper. I mean, I assume.
Or are you being Sexist, Jennifer? Do you say that a BABY WOMAN cannot rock the bandoliers?
she’ll have to shop in the boys’ section, unless she wants hearts or butterflies on them
Yes… a baby woman can rock the bandoliers… but, as K said, she’ll have to shop in the boy section, as the youngest lamblet does when she wants her pirate garb or her cargo pants…
I just associate that red diaper and those bandoliers with ENDLESS BODY HAIR! And look at her? She doesn’t have Sean Connery body hair! She has glorious peach fuzz!
Z.A.R.D.O.Z. is willing to accept red bandoliers with hearts or butterflies.
Z.A.R.D.O.Z. is willing to accept red bandoliers with hearts or butterflies.
Will you be buying one??
Also, who is photoshopping the butterflies and hearts onto a SC photo??
damn it- I added VON to the whitelist.
The heartiflyification of all clothing is pretty annoying I have to say. Monkeys, pirates, mooses, ninjas, robots- why are these all boy crap?
The record snowfall for one of my high school years was 125.6…
in one day?
I would accept Mr. Connery even if he was covered in butterflies
I’m alive, I’m alive. I have a doozy of a shovelling session tomorrow. Yeesh.
Now, I am a hardy Canuck and no stranger to snow like this…in a country where the roads would actually have been cleared the day after, and the shovels are not made out of cheap plastic. Southerners, I tells ya.
EXACTLY!
Home from work at last!
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Seems to have been a slow-motion Zardoz. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Apparently this is going to cost the gov’t 0.5 gigadollars in direct costs. 100 megadollars for every day they had to close the gov’t, and the earliest they can seriously consider reopening the store is Friday. Maybe.
0.5 gigadollars. That’s a lot of snowploughs and modern equipment. Enough, maybe, to do everyone’s driveways too.
And since this is proof that there is no global warming, this is probably the Mid-Atlantic New Normal. Time to invest, governments!
If only we could sell that snow to the Eskimos. I mean the Vancouveronians.
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in one day?
Sorry… one month.
I’ll surely pay you Tuesday for next month’s snowfall.
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Furthermore, I will Zardoz this place all by myself, if I have to.
Triumph of the Wheel (and such as)!
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Yore lake of faith disturbs me.
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Should I be concerned that every Zardoz seems to have a section where people are contemplating my murder after accusing me of all sorts of horrible crimes?
No. fish are barely alive anyway.
Rituals are very important, feesh.
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Z.A.R.D.O.Z. WARNING: Various Zombies shall be devoting the bulk of the day and evening to specification writing. As such, these post-living individuals will be dwelling on their computing devices for this period, and are helplessly attracted to Zardoz incidents, even slow motion ones.
Also, specification writing is like watching paint dry on your own eyeball; boring, annoying, moderately painful and seemingly endless. This creates a zombie with a need to vent, and a tendency toward 28 days Later type of behavior. To date, research has not been able to create protection, and if you see a spec-writing zombie, caution is urged. It helps if you give him/her/it/bird a Take Five bar, or a drink.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO GIVE CHOCOLATE SKITTLES.
specification writing is like watching paint dry on your own eyeball; boring, annoying, moderately painful and seemingly endless.
You could get into a big cup of water, put that cup in the freezer, and slowly put yourself out of your misery… It works for fish, which are barely alive… might also work for a zombie.
The thread shambles on!
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Jennifer has very large freezers, apparently.
…plus, and also…. there is a hint of a possibility of a likelihood of a rumor of an indication that I might get paid for writing these specifications, so you know…
Go to work, thundra.
Jennifer has very large freezers, apparently.
All seemingly normal Midwesterners seem to have unusually large freezers in their basements. Mysterious disappearances are also common.
Jennifer has very large freezers, apparently.
Yes, those freezers are called the outdoors…
As missus zombie said about Zombie Dahmer, and his neighbor’s report of construction sounds from his apartment “all sawing, no hammering”
Mysterious disappearances are also common.
Oddly, this seems to correlate with Friday Fish Frys.
Go to work, fish.
All seemingly normal Midwesterners
not one of my problems, fortunately. Or unfortunately, depending on which way I’m facing.
Mysterious disappearances are also common.
Care to come over for dinner?
got to go to bank and then drop the Orange, Leaky-Ass Dog at Doggy Day Care. They better not install creepy dentures.
Be back soon.
Care to come over for dinner?
Said the spider to the fly.
I think Jennifer is still being controlled by spiders.
They better not install creepy dentures.
When you return to get the dog, they’ll give you an Orange, Leaky-Slice Piece of Pie with creepy dentures instead.
Moowaahaaahaaahaaa!!!
Oh, I’m not going back to get the dog. One way transaction, as far as I’m concerned.
True Thing: First song off the iTunes this AM in the Office was “I Was Hoping Winter Was Over” by the Twilight Sad.
That one goes out specially for Fish in the Freezer.
Hey, haven’t I proven that I don’t need help on these things?
Like Duke from Doonesbury:
“Mr. Duke? I have the beverages for your party. Three cases of Wild Turkey, four bottles of tequila, a bag of oranges, fourteen cases of beer. When should I expect the guests to be arriving?”
“Guests? Who the hell invited guests?”
And now, it’s playing elvis: “I Felt The Chill Before The Winter Came”
it’s a theme, I tellsya
Yeah, although this winter has been less soul-crushing than the past two (at least in my area), I kind of had hopes that it might be a freakishly early spring, and a nice spring at that. And then came 14 more inches of snow, lots of ice, blah, blah, blah…
iTunes is messing with your head.
who are you and what are you doing in my Zardoz?
lurking to take #200, eh?
NEVAH!!
Hi Guys! What’s going on?
stop talking to yourself. they’ll hear you.
That’s funny, with that Gregor comment in the middle.
Got my black plastic glasses on….
Bad Zardoz
I am Legion, for I contain multitudes….
who wants #200?
Jennifer? Fish? Thundra?
Goobie?
None for me, thanks, I’m full.
I’ll take it.
Pshaw. I think we need more Rampling in here.
All this is not very balanced. We do not approve.
HOW LONG CAN THIS GO ON?
I am SOOOOOOOO tired…
Pshaw. I think we need more Rampling in here.
I’ve moved on. A little taste of red leather goes a long way.
All this is not very balanced. We do not approve.
Was 3 Bulls! ever balanced? I think we strive to be balanced in our lack of balance.
it would be very full-assed to go to 400 comments.
Unbalanced or imbalanced?
and would 400 comments break 3Bulls? I believe, stress-testing is indicated; in fact,it’s probably required by law.
In hunting 3B’s, I have become 3B’s. I’ve destroyed what I set out to defend.
can we get an inspection of this sub-structure? Will it hold up under this load?
I think you need an ultrasonic analysis. Plus, I think you have inadequate exits. 3Bulls may need to allocate a maintenance account, maybe bring in a code expert…
we need Von, that much is clear.
I think we broke the Bulls, there.
we need Von, that much is clear.
Hey! Don’t look a gift commenter in the mouth!
Why? Did Zed pull out your teeth?
I’m not even going to dignify that comment with a response.
aw,, c’mon Charlotte! Rample me!
….someone else better chime in soon, or I won’t be responsible for the direction this Zardoz takes.
Right into the mucky weeds, that’s where we’re going.
Right into the mucky weeds, that’s where we’re going.
I thought we were there!
And, Charlotte doesn’t rample any Zombies…
I’ve been to paradise, but I’ve never been Rampled…
LOL!
Yes, yes, Charlene…
Bad Charlene wearing Black Plastic Glasses….
And, Charlotte doesn’t rample any Zombies…
sigh….
Fridge Note to the Elders of 3B: The Dahmer header should be linked to a clip of the Violent Femmes “Dahmer is Dead”
That would be AWESOME.
Who am I talking to? Is this Sybil?
I’m not even going to dignify that comment with a response.
Says the Filthbot. O yes, we recognized you, even with no avatar. We hear the talking pie in the background, yes we does.
Oh, I’ve been to Nice and the Isle of Greece while I’ve eaten Chocolate Skittles on a yacht
I’ve moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed ‘em what I’ve got
I’ve been undressed by kings and I’ve seen some things (thanks to my black glasses)that a woman ain’t supposed to see
I’ve been to 3Bulls!, but I’ve never been to me
World O Crap has also done a fine job on that song recently. If Somerby is too strong, you might check it out.’
And then come on back here for more Zardoz.
zombie rotten mcdonald
February 11, 2010 at 6:40 am
Go to work, thundra.
THAT wasn’t such great advice, ZRM. It wasn’t much fun at all.
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I think , sir, you misunderstand what the purpose of zombie advice IS.
Does advice have the ability to shamble?
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hey, my advice is kind of lurchy.
.so, did you manage to push through the funding for the Bloggerhood Compound todaY?
did you manage to push through the funding for the Bloggerhood Compound todaY?
Yeah! Did you? Cause I’ve been to Georgia and California and anywhere I could run
Took the hand of a preacher man
and we made love in the sun (and burnt our naughty bits)
But I ran out of places and friendly faces
Because I had to be free
I’ve been to paradise but I’ve never been to… a blogger compound…
Did someone say Lurchy?
I have a loan committee meating tomorrow for some multi-family thinghie in Talla-half-assee.
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screw that. We’re looking for Vancouver.
because of the lack of snow.
NOT because of their permissive attitudes toward certain leafy substances.
NOT AT ALL.
Thank you, Bnd Charlene (if that is your real name).
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NOT because of their permissive attitudes toward certain leafy substances.
NOT AT ALL.
Dirty
Fucking
Hippie
Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
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Ooo, watch the language, Thundra. There is a Goobie present.
Plus, I am a DFZ.
thunderpants is cheating on us.
No f-bombs at the Bulls! Thundra gets a time out.
Time in!
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Wake up, sleepy heads!
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stick a fork in this one, I guess.
What no Zombie Zardoz? IT MUST BE REANIMATED.
Hi guys, what’s going on?
hey look! Gregor’s here to clean up!
That Consuella chick is the one who broke the Romantics CDs..
Yeah, it was Consuella.
put this thread in the freezer
There’s always room for Jello™!
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It’s not over until it’s over.
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Is it over? Then it will be over!
Still not over!
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Can we subscript here? Over1 and over2?
Didn’t work, maybe the stylesheet forbids it.
Let’s try superscript!
No, clearly forbidden by stylesheet. No typographical way to distinguish between denotations of “over”.
Over™
Over²
Over³
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What tag are you using?
I use the keypad.
Hold down the alt key, press 0 1 7 8; release alt key.²
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Oh, but you can only do some characters that way. I was trying to do any subscript, which is allowed in HTML but transmuted to normal font by the stylesheet here.
That’s a windoze code, anyway. I’ll have to find the GNOME compose keys for that.
over¹ and over², OK there, it works.
It’s a superscript, though, which is disappointing. Subscripts would be nice, that’s the standard notation for semantic indices.
Anyway, it ain’t over¹ until it’s over².
Why in any case would you time hugs?
If you don’t time hugs, you won’t know when it’s Huggy Time™²³®©.
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Bingoes.
OK, I’ll bite. When is it Huggy Time?
²Huggy Time™²³®©: Time for a hug!
³Huggy Time™²³®©: Time for fresh diapers.
P.S. I don’t know the half-asscii code for the superscript 1.
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my cat just tried to snuggle through the sleeve of teh Snuggie
Snuggie-fu!
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Snuggie Time™
*gasp* Kathleen, don’t you know that you’re committing a fashion crime?! And in your own home too!
This is a fine Zardoz.
In the absence of the usual heavy lifters, we carry on.
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Counting the medals.
The ones that count, at least, also.
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Not over² yet!
It can’t be over before it’s over.
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Until someone shuts the Overton Window, it’s still not over!
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I thought we were supposed to push the Overton Window.
What would happen if we threw rocks and broke it?
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Then we could step through into Bipartisanship Heaven.
That might not be so great.
Would we have to worship Dave Broder?
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Only half the time.
(The other half, Ann Althouse.)
Oh that sounds awesome.
I’m going sledding for now, but it’s not over!
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Sledding spledding.
OK! I’m here for the Zardoz! Let’s get going.
….Jennifer?
…fish?
where IS everybody?
I’m going to this
Look how the zombie just shambles back when we’re approaching 300.
Clearly Kathleen has succumbed to the Valentine-industrial complex. And cupcakes.
I see it’s been slow sledding (here).
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A brief review of the Hug Timer™ category shows that it has a certain inscrutability.
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Scanning the inner+00bz...
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Re Hug Timer: I know! There are only two things in that category for which it is reasonable to time hugs. Goobie and that kitten at the bottom. Incidentally, both are neonates.
Jimmy Clausen does look like an emu.
I find it interesting that other people are thinking about this topic in ways not explored at 3Bulls!
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Here’s a hint: Gregor picks every possible category. Textbook misdirect. But to what end?????
295. I will now live blog the olympics in Zardoz 3D
this blog doesn’t like my plan. Also I was about to make fun of this couple’s costumes, but the tv just informed me they were totally broke.
tedium. tee-dee-ummmmmm. Australian International Man Of Mystery Spam King. Who are you and why do I care? perhaps if I was paying attention to this story instead of complaining about it, my questions would have been answered.
the US skiing uniforms look like super ugly pajamas.
WIPEOUT
Johnny Mosley Incomprehensible Index at 80.
how many different special stories/montages on Apolo Ohno does NBC have in the can?
KATHLEEEEEEEEN!
I mean, she just came out of left field and stole the 300 that thunder and I worked so hard for.
It’s like you both were 3 feet from the finish line, and then fell and took each other out, while I cruised to victory
I demand a do-over. We’re taking this to 400.
Even worse, I read in an actual article where some reporter had the guts to write that Apolo Anton Ohno “brought respectability to the soul patch.” You know there are hundreds of NBC techs the think it is a cosmic joke that they have to pimp that guy every four years. They know they are reaching, but they just can’t help it. I guess he did win Dancing with the Stars.
and he brought dignity to the bandana headband…..
THIS RUSSIAN DUDE IS WEARING WINGS!!!!! OMG
I am still at the office trying to write a conference submission due very soon (the agony) but I just bore witness to a Special Moment: a late-night reboot of the vending machines. I feel like a kid who just saw Santa Claus come down the chimney.
On a completely unrelated note, yes it is, I am on my second bottle of Pepsi Max, which as I vaguely recall is the more masculine brand of Diet Pepsi.
it’s so heroic of this pair to go on after they were clearly attacked by wild dogs.
Send. In. The. Clowns.
so what you’re saying is you have fresh Big Texas Cinnamon Rolls?!
It was a software reboot. If Big Texas Cinnamon Rolls can be downloaded as firmware, I guess we have fresh ones.
Man I could do with a chick-fil-a milkshake now.
I think Kathleen is the best person in the world to watch the Olympics with, but also that it would be really fun to go on a sugar/caffeine bender with Mandos at the office, but this is free time that I do not have. I’m not joking about any of this, because those things sound really fun. K- did you notice that Al Michaels looks terrible? Mandos- let’s have a chair race!!!!!!!!!!!!
What time zone are you in Mandos? They might be out of the Sunday Chick-Fil-A dead zone.
AM has seen too much Manning Face. and also set the tanning bed to Old and Extra Crispy.
I am in the post-snowpocalypse time zone, and Chick-fil-A is definitely not open. Also, the UNION MADE vending machine does not have Big Texas Cinnamon roll, but it does have Ruffles cheddar and sour cream flavour. Which I have obtained.
And it turns out that the vending machines were rebooting just for me. They are on motion detectors to save money. Normally there is enough activity around here to keep them running constantly. This being a nerd hothouse I’m really surprised that Sunday night is not busier than it is now.
In the time it took to write this comment, I could have written three more paragraphs of the paper. So why didn’t I?
It’s because writing about feature ablation on support vector machine models is surprisingly soul destroying, that’s why.
After a small bag of Ruffles, I still have the munchies (haha), possibly brought on by two bottles of Pepsi Max but maybe it’s because dinner was at 6pm today. I DID have a milkshake today, it just wasn’t satisfying like Chick-fil-A. There probably is a McD’ohs open somewhere nearby, and of course there’s always the 7-11 wings if I’m really desperate.
Actually, I’d prefer the 7-11 to the McD’ohs
Finish your work Mandos!!! sez teh queen of procrastination.
Yeah!
Don’t be late with stuff, like I am always.
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It’s like you both were 3 feet from the finish line, and then fell and took each other out, while I cruised to victory
I was leaving it for Mandos, as the heavy lifter in the operation.
Plus, fell asleep, also.
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Two of this years football HOF inductees were on Dances With the Stars. Coincidence?
I say international conspiracy.
Someday, they’ll call it Dances With Manning.
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I just bore witness to a Special Moment: a late-night reboot of the vending machines. I feel like a kid who just saw Santa Claus come down the chimney.
You know what happens to those kids, right? IT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN! EVER! NO MORE GOODIES!!!
Also, there needs to be a manlier name for Pepsi Max.
WHERE WERE ALL YOU PEOPLE WHEN WE DROPPED THE BIG STONE HEAD AT JENNIFER’S???
Also, there needs to be a manlier name for Pepsi Max.
I guess Maxi-Pepsi is RIGHT OUT, for reasons I cannot fathom.
How about Pepsi SMASH!!
ZRM- Pepsi Max does indeed make me think of Maxi, which is not a manly word.
Also, I believe they were all absent for the dropping of the stone head at the Vonstang’s.
I’m pretty sure I WAS around for those events!
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They will all have to stay after school.
And watch Manning highlight reels. Narrated by Manning.
At least they kept Al Michaels away from the John Boehner brand Orange Tan Paint Product.
John Boehner is a shame on face of the state of Ohio.
(Far from the only one, of course…Jean Schmidt, anyone?)
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Guess what?!
IT’S SNOWING AGAIN!
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Incidentally, I am definitely now referring to Pepsi Max as Pepsi SMASH. every time.
I seem to recall there being a Cherry Smash soda pop of some variety… I’m guessing Cherry Smash is also masculine.
Thundra- it’s snowing here as well.
sunny here.
Apparently you folks are being punished.
Jean Schmidt, anyone?)
NO THANK YOU.
Jean Schmidt SMASH!
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Apparently you folks are being punished.
Why should things be different.
I’d take snow punishment over Jean Schmidt though… thundra must have been really bad.
Kathleen is obviously the Hannah Kearney of this thread.
Kathleen wears pigtails? I thought that was snag.
Snag eats pigtails. Understandable mistake.
I just want to be in an Olympic Montage!!!!!!111
Pepsi SMASH will be the only carbonated HFCS based beverage allowed in teh Blogger Compound.
When I say snowing, I mean REALLY SNOWING.
Can’t see anything, and it’s all sticking, even on teh roads.
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I’m more of a Classic Coke™ guy meself, and have been all my life.
And that’s why I’m going to need root canal surgery as soon as I stop fear-mongering and procrastinating.
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Wow… thundra gets endless snow, Jean Schmidt AND root canal! Thundra must have been reeeeally bad.
I’m more of a Classic Coke™ guy meself, and have been all my life.
sorry then, no Blogging Compound for you.
I SAID GOOD DAY!
I SAID GOOD DAY!
AHEM!
Shan’t be back, etc.
P.S. Jean Schmidt is actually located near Cincinnati. My Haus Representative is Mary Jo Kilroy (D), who’s campaign I donated to in 2006 (lost) and 2008 (won).
But otherwise, yeah. Although those loan committee people on Friday said I did a good job, and maybe even one or two of them meant it. So I probably won’t get fired (this week).
P.P.S. Maybe that’s actually just more bad news.
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Furthermore, whose.
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Cobags in the nooze.
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I think Apollo Ohno is going to get into the Football Hall of Fame next year.
I THOUGHT IT WAS YR JOB
More Professional Coordination At Democrat HQ!
Yes he is a terrible monster, but really? Seriously? Seriously is this actually literal? “Bayh made the decision not to run on Friday, telling a small group of senior staff, but he did not tell President Obama or Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid until today. His aides say he had been struggling with the decision for months, but Democrats in the Senate seemed to have no clue. Many said his decision caught them completely by surprise.” Aww.
Gee golly, he sure surprised them, just like Martha Coakley did when she became the worst candidate in history. The filing deadline for a Democratic primary in Indiana is tomorrow. Do you want to run, dear reader? The DNC and/or DSCC will be shocked! Who coulda known!
Stolen from Wonkette.
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la la la *fingers in my ears* why don’t we get the skiing live in PST. THAT IS LAME**
**I typed LAMW three times.
so far my Olympic coverage highlight was the background story on JR Celski where they showed his injury last fall where he cut his leg and blood is spurting everywhere and Bob Costas voice overs “warning what you are seeing is extremely graphic”
THANK YOU SHERLOCK HOLMES
Is there any proof that Costas isn’t Peter Pan?
And I am pretty sure “Send in the Clowns” was stolen from Blades of Glory.
I would bet that evan Bayh is a lousy figure skater.
he’ll certainly shortly be wearing an outfit shredded and half torn off of him.
I would bet that evan Bayh is a lousy figure skater.
Yes, but after reading the other thread, perhaps the Lugar would make an excellent luger.
And, Bob Costas needs to lose the gray temples… it doesn’t make him look like a serious, learned man. It makes him look like an old lady who is having trouble getting all hair tucked under her wig.
Dictu mirabile, this afternoon Big Texas Cinnamon Roll appeared in the vending machine.
I have obtained Big Texas Cinnamon Roll.
Who knew an ingredients list could be that long? Wheat Gluten is listed TAKE THAT JENNY MCCARTHY!
It also has a subtle bouquet of “gas station” in the taste.
MANDOS IS EATING BIG TEXAS!!!!! BREAKING BREAKING MUST CREDIT
Wow, this stuff is truly vile, how do you guys eat this *licks fingers*? I need a Pepsi Max to wash this down, hopefully I have enough change.
Dictu mirabile
Thanks to the four years of Latin I took in High S., I can translate Mandos’ mysterious phrase for the enthralled crowd: “I have had wonderful relations with El Snacktator!”
(Spoken by Little Debbie)
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Big Texas Cinnamon Roll appeared in my vending machine shortly after Kathleen mentioned it too. Her connections to the powerful vending machine lobby are starting to freak me out.
Pepsi Max cuts through any flavour, even the undisguised taste of petroleum product.
Little Debbie has been persona non grata ever since she got her puss plastered on the side of a jet along side an impostor of El!
It also has a subtle bouquet of “gas station” in the taste.
Now that was perfect.
It also has a subtle bouquet of “gas station” in the taste.
Mandos must be one of them E-1ee+-ists I’ve herd about.
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Kathleen, forget Send in the Clowns, Love Story is coming, and the self-referencing trials and tribulations of the team chemistry problems are laid bare for all to see. Moving.
Pepsi SMASH Texas Buns
Kathleen
February 15, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Pepsi SMASH Texas Buns
Slash fiction coming (soon!) to an Oakland Dilettante blogspot near you.
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I have to go now and I guess I’m going to lose 400 too. Oh, well.
I’m giving you a virtual 400 (and a 300, too), Mandos.
You rocked!
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Keep eating those Texas Buns and you might be able to go for a different 400…
But the Zardoz is always a group effort…. for when one of us makes the 400th comment, do we not all crest that same hill?
my scrolly finger is sore….
for when one of us makes the 400th comment, do we not all crest that same hill?
Oh dear…
Mandos- I’ll pay you good money to see if you survive washing down a Banana Flip with a Pepsi Max. Banana Flips were definitely made with something petrol-chemical. I’m guessing you’d explode from the combining of the two… much like circus peanuts and orange pop…
“Pepsi SMASH. The soft drink of Zombies”
I have to go now
well, of COURSE you do after all that Pepsi SMASH….
I thought PepsiSHAMBLES was the soft drink of Zombies.
Not manly enough!!
Not all zombies are men!
11 comments, ZRM… should we? Could we?
Maybe Zardozing will be in the next winter Olympics. I tend to think of it as a winter sport, but I suppose the red singlet would lend itself to summer…
looks like its time for more Olympics Live Blogging!
Ever since I upgraded my Firefox, I can’t just refresh 3B’s and comment… Grrrr….
And I can’t comment at all at fish’s… which probably isn’t a bad thing.
me neither. We really have to WORK for that 400. It’s not all fun and games.
I should go turn on the TV and see if there are any more men in expensive, winter unitards. Can I say unitard in front of Sarah Palin?
Yes, all work… and no Cloverhill to get us through.
Zombie?? Where are you?!!? I think Kathleen is taking a bathroom break…
One more! Who’s taking it?!?!
You can not say unitard!!!
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Did someone say emu?
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Thundra got it! Woo-hoo!!!
I am pleased to accept this award on behalf of the Mandos-ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© collective.
We thank all the little people/birds/pants/zombies who made this possible.
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I think Mandos if off noshing a celebratory Cloverhill and washing it down with a PepsiSmash.
About time thunder got one.
406. I am having commenting issues. THUNDERSPIRACY
We really have to WORK for that 400. It’s not all fun and games.
..and refreshing beverages.
Congrats Thunder for taking 400 for the team.
I am now at the Bad Connection Starbucks. I am hoping that it will encourage productivity.
Bad Starbucks?
Is everyone wearing black plastic glasses?
Did someone say refreshing beverages?? Well, don’t mind if I do… in honor of Presidents Day and all… and thundra getting his 400 comment… and Kathleen just being Kathleen… and the fact that we can comment with the zombies in the same thread and still not lose our brains!! Oh, wait, I had already lost mine. Oh well… here’s a beverage for already having lost my brains! Woo-hoo!!
I’ve not heard that the BCS encourages productivity.
But please report your results, Mandos.
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406. I am having commenting issues. THUNDERSPIRACY
fish is probably stealing your comment form.
do you know what does encouarge productivity? Snowboard Cross.
Isn’t thundra supposed to be at work, sending more money down the Black Hole of Tallahassee?
Other news:
1) I’m out of wine and it’s still snowing, so I’ve put on me boots and will sludge/trudge/begrudge my way to the grocery store.
2) Charles Lane at the WaPoop is a giant cobag. Like the rest of ‘em.
3) I might take some pictures, but it’s getting dark already. I’ve got sledding pics from yesterday, but thanks to wine-ethernet port issue, I need to get the camera to my crappy laptop at work in order to get them on the innert00bz.
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fish is probably stealing your comment form.
I can’t even comment at fish’s… apparently he’s stealing comments before they’re even in my head.
ZRM- I’m guessing thundra got Preznits Day off, being in the banking world and all…
Ooooh! Snowboard Cross!
The theory behind BCS is that the continuously dropping connection is just enough to let me download my work and write locally, while being too inconvenient to procrastinate on blogs because the connection keeps dropping because AT&T is run by incompetent chipmunks.
However, today the chipmunks are not as incompetent, but I cannot pull an allnighter this time because my co-authors are expecting a 9:30pm draft…
co-author sounds like it should be cob author…
I might take some pictures, but it’s getting dark already. I’ve got sledding pics from yesterday,
My son went sledding with his girlfriend yesterday.
There don’t appear to be pictures.
Good luck, thundra! I think you should be given a wine prize for nabbing #400!
1) I’m out of wine….
CRISIS!!
baby is awake and being unbelievably cute. signing off. for now.
plus I’m hungry and we need more beer. snow board cross demands it.
Sorry Kathleen… I’m drinking your beer as we speak.
Smooch the baby.
I need to go get Grizzled from the train. I’ll smooch him for you.
Sorry Kathleen… I’m drinking your beer as we speak.
Beer is Theft.
Apropos of nothing, really, Recently downloaded:
Gram Parsons Rhino Hi-five
The Jam, all the stuff that was omitted from Compact Snap
The Chords, the Peel Sessions
Wreckless Eric
The Jam, In the City
Paul Weller, 22 Dreams (I been in a Jammy mood, sosumi)
Kirsty MacColl, Titanic Days
The dBs, Like This
Give Em The Boot V
The Negro Problem, Post Minstrel Syndrome
The Bats, At the National Grid
Jon Dee Graham, It’s Not As Bad As It Looks (and I hope he’s right about that)
The Eels, End Times (and I fear he is right about that)
Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything
Glossary, How we Handle Our Midnights
Snipe away at THAT list, my friends.
At least I haven’t stolen K’s comments, Mr. Jammy Mood.
yeah, the Jam was never popular in Chicago.
Don’t you have a spouse to fetch?
He’s on a later train… I’ll fetch him in a few minutes… after I clean off the car and wade through new snow… and steal a comment of two.
You know who I hadn’t thought of in eons?? Michelle Shocked… what became of her? Did she grow up to be an old woman?? Did she have 120 babies?
How many more gold medals will the Americans snatch away from Canada? I am squarely blaming Kathleen.
My son went sledding with his girlfriend yesterday.
Is that what kids are calling it these days?
do you know what does encouarge productivity? Snowboard Cross.
Know what encourages productivity even more? Listening to a Nike sponsored snowboarder complain that the snowboarding outfits people are wearing are too “establishment“.
How many more gold medals will the Americans snatch away from Canada?
Oh, all of ‘em.
And fish, be warned that both my son and his girlfriend are second degree black belts and will kick your ass singly and in tandem.
Umm, is “ass” a 3Bulls foul? I may need a ruling from COBA on that one.
I will have my daughter protect me.
SNOWMAGEDDON!
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fish, You underestimate them if you think they cannot occupy your daughter, without really harming her, while zombies NOM your branes.
Their control is..impressive. I find your lack of faith…disturbing.
Admiral Cobnugget says, Set Squee! factor to 11!
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The Bats album is pretty good, ZRM. Also, just reading now made my horrible day feel a lot better. I’m sorry Mandos had to risk life and limb for my amusement.
Carry on. Also, Kathleen on Bayh and the figure skating outfit is pure pure gold.
I will second (or maybe fifth at this point) the notion that Kathleen’s liveblogging of teh 0lympics is wonderful.
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those baby skunks didn’t get any work done at all!!!
LOVE STORY!!!
They thought they were contenders until they lost it.
It’s a shame because they do have some wonderful qualities.
I wonder if Jennifer was thinking of Orange Crush 62 comments ago….
those baby skunks didn’t get any work done at all!!!
True, but now that they’ve had their management training class, they can move on to worker productivity, and such as.
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I hope fish comes back so we can tandem live-blog three hours apart. this will be the awesomest achievment in internet history
Bode is going with the tried and true. this is also good advice in vending machine snacktator selection. as Mandos learned.
I need to know what Bode Miller named his 2 year old daughter. JOURNALISM FAIL
Neesyn Dacey says the internet. I will say nothing.
(also don’t just google “Bode Miller” when you are watching on a time-delay (F.U. NBC) and don’t want to know what happened.)
upcoming dinner in the Dilettante household: jambalaya.
am I filling in comments to get to 500? I will say nothing.
thank the tv gods Lauren Graham has a new tv show.
Moar Bode Miller.
I think the skiers should try to avoid hitting the flags. Physics says that slows them down.
I provide that for free, world.
So selfish.
MANDOS
I hope you aren’t still at work
Canada is pwning the odium rather than owning the podium.
sad conversation that just occurred:
K: that dude looks old
C: he is old. they just said he was 35.
all my training has led me to this moment.
I feel good about my chances
460!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m at home, but working. I’m on a tight deadline. At stake: a free trip to an exotic location. That is why I suffer for my art.
460 is the secret Zardoz comment number of champions.
Endorsements line up now please.
Canada is getting owned by the pwndium.
You’re just lazy to bring us to 500.
Man, this place is filthy. 1.5 weeks of snowpocalypse and deadline-as-in-dead has taken its toll. At least, that’s what I’m telling myself.
Steve Nash is trying to sell me something. I object.
I will inform my endorsement-ees that I will not endorse anything endorsed by an NBA player. Except for Shaq. (that goes without saying I hope)
Confessional time. when I typed:
# Kathleen
February 15, 2010 at 8:26 pm
all my training has led me to this moment.
# 460 Kathleen
February 15, 2010 at 8:26 pm
I feel good about my chances
I had misread the comment number and thought we were at 498. my subsequent commentary is overcompensating for my mistake.
am I filling in comments to get to 500? I will say nothing.
You are Rocking Teh House, K!
And I applaud your stuffing.
P.S. Mandos, I know you will win.
Plz to take some pictures and post on that blog that I know you haz?
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Is it transitive? Will you endorse something that is endorsed by something that is endorsed by an NBA player? Does the signal weaken over the endorsement chain? Enquiring minds want to know.
I love how C was saying something about some odious Red Sox or something and the rejoinder of Kobe Bryant just slipped out of my mouth like a finely savored regurgitation.
Oh, now you’re playing dirty. You need to be tested for ‘roids.
Polar Bears coming up in 13 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post hoc lit review almost completed. I don’t understand why I have to cite anything if I didn’t read anything.
I, commenter of comment #460, proudly endorsement this Pyramid Apricot Ale. I could not have achieved the levels of bloviation and spastic typing required to obtain #460 without the use and enjoyment of Pyramid Apricot Ale. That is why I am proud to be an endorser of Pyramid Apricot Ale, which is a proud sponsor of the McDonald chicken mcnugget, which was a sponsor of Kobe Bryant until it turned out he was a scumbag.
Did Pinko P. just cite Rollos?
We observers who are mere deserve an explanication.
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PP is trolling for Rollo endorsement? Bob Costas has the story
I am reporting all bears to 8675309
Who can I turn to?
What about bulls? I think this blog is pretty bullish.
Hershel Walker would die in the UFC, but how would he do in pairs skating? I think he would stick the triple.
my next set of Olympic live-blogging comments are brought to you by Frank’s Red Hot hot sauce. Don’t try and enjoy your jambalaya without it. You won’t.
Polar Bear Special Comment sans mention of Global Warming. I guess NBC decided that would be *awkward* since the Olympic Coverage is sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute.
Shen/Zhao just got a gift. I think the Chinese judge now owes Croatia a high score in transvestite ice dancing.
Men’s Snowboard Cross Semifinal POV Cam
Seth Westcott, sponsored by Apollo Ohno’s soul patch.
Kathleen, the fact that you don’t rock Crystal Hot Sauce shows you go against the grain. The grain of taste.
I hope NBC introduced the POV cam into pairs figure skating
I find Crystal is better with a little Frank’s on it.
Why not just use sriracha? It goes with everything, as it contains garlic.
did Congress pass a law when I wasn’t looking that all movies must contain Gerard Butler?
Bob just called out Seth for wearing his hat inside. Seth didn’t want to say that his Nike contract states that he wears the hat everywhere for the next 4 years.
is my undying hatred for Cris Collinsworth irrational? discuss.
Frank’s outfranks sriracha though I do love sriracha but Frank’s is better. I SAID IT. this demands the internet.
No it is not irrational. When Collinsworth was discussing how Bode Miller was an evil person at the Torino Olympics because he wasn’t adequately inspired by wearing Team USA colors, I wanted to set his hair on fire.
And
this
is
it’s hot and heavy now!
Mine!
By A N0se
All mine!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think Dick Buttons needs to be sewed back on. Dude is looking ragged.
KATHLEEEEEEEEN! I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!!!!!
LOL!!!
I am laughing so hard right now
YOU THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS!!!!
Kathleen is Seth Wescott!!! Blowing by Mandos at the last minute!
THIS IS PERSONAL NOW! I MEAN BUSINESS! 1000!!!!! I WILL WRITE A BOT IF I HAVE TO!!!
Franks is different it is like the essence of you think it is hot, but it isn’t hot at all, just good, whereas Sriracha- wait- this feels on topic. This thread is making want to watch the Olympics, something NBC could never do.
MAKE THE CALL NBC MAKE THE CALL. I will be up.
Mandos didn’t want it enough. Chris Collinsworth is going to call him names and be disappointed in his attitude.
Kathleen and Pinko have terrible taste, but especially Kathleen. Franks is totally flavourless.
I bet Sarah Palin doesn’t like Frank’s Hot Sauce
is there any other point to snowboard cross besides waiting for them to crash into each other?
That is the point Mandos, you can eat tonnes of it (that was for UC) and just get a vaguely orange and vinegary taste. i.e. delicious.
Also, I quote to your national shame: “This race hardly went off as planned as the final 10 pairs of the first run were delayed for more than an hour past the usual ice resurfacing time because one Zamboni machine was broken and another was spreading water unevenly over the ice, at least in the judgment of some of the coaches and officials.”
If they can’t do Zamboni and ice, what is the point of Canada? This has CCA/AG shenanigans written ALL over it. A broken Zamboni? Pshaw. Someone would drive down from the crowd in their personal Zamboni and fix the problem, in the Canada of my mind.
I need to explicitly hear from the commentators whether the crash was from the course or the collision. Otherwise snowboard cross is like aramaic.
Also, I can read into the future of this thread.
Do 3B readers also get a snowboard cross refund?
I don’t see the point of hot sauce if it’s not risking suffering.
Which reminds me, now my library books are overdue. Thanks PST.
Smalltime Beef: The face that launched 521 comments.
Woo it’s all Canux on the Latest Comment sidebar for this thread.
get some cialis for that Zamboner
is Shani Davis racing any races he is trying to win? – C
You know, we have a long way to go before we reach Sadly No Sammich Warz thread length. Those were epic. And emuoid.
the age difference between this Russian pair: 17-23 is not as disturbing to me as that of the US pair: 16-25. quibbling at the margins? idk
Canada is going nuts- wtf??
Romney attacked on flight
Former governor Mitt Romney was attacked by a passenger on an Air Canada flight Monday.
WHEN CANADIANS ATTACK.
Canada is going nuts- wtf??
Romney attacked on flight
Or brief moment of sanity?
I would think Shani Davis would try harder, at least when he is wearing the ole’ Red, White, and Blue! [/Colinsworth]
Fourth Voice:
Montgomery Ward sent me an emu and a pair of serious pants.
P.S. It’s still snowing.
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WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
The Zardozlettes have left the nest!
I think Bob Costas’ commentary is sponsored by Men’s Wearhouse. All he does is talk about what ppl are wearing.
You’re going to like the way you look. I guarantee it!
You’re going to loathe Cris Collinsworth. I guarantee it!
I either have or haven’t eaten breakfast.
I think everyone’s been mainlining the Pepsi SMASH! again.
time for latte numebr two
what is (not) going on around here?
I am continuing to pwn the odium.
Pounding the podium is the way to impress the splinter movements.
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re: Romney. You should know that I left town the day before. Really.
I think punching romney should be a weekly thing.
Chuck Todd too.
Punching Cheney can be done daily. Hourly, if we can ferret out his undisclosed location.
man I cannot believe Shutter Island hasn’t even been released in theaters yet.
this just happened:
K: isn’t that some sports dude? Joe Buck?
c: yes. but calling him a “sports dude” is like saying Ryan Seacrest is in the music business.
I am starving my own blog of all this fodder, just to keep the zardozment of this thread going. HUG TIMER
this young french figure skater is very compelling. He has taken away my urge to snark. Even Scott’s constant repetition of “he was ABANDONED on the streets of Brazil” isn’t triggering me.
Yevgeny Pleshenko’s mullet brought to you by Audi and the Russian mafia.
he wants to be like Dick Button! smart cookie; knows just how to up his NBC exposure.
Dick Button is not having it.
men’s figure skating and women’s snowboard cross. I can see why I’m the only one here.
Dick Button is a ruthless SOB.
Kathleen you could be tweeting the hell out of this, but I know you desire the possibility of feedback.
Let me help you:
RT @dilettante: Right On!
feliciaday – twitter.com – about a minute ago
I preferred Lindsay Jacobellis when she was an obscure reference C and I made to each other.
The only reason I know what is even happening is because of this thread!
I kind of wish Johnny Weir would cut a hole in the ice and just f*** it.
I love how the above could be believable for either me actually watching the Olympics (I don’t even know what channel NBC is on the TV in Big Texas Cinnamon Bun) and an awesome teh l4m3 special.
I also love the “either/and” construction.
LOL. that tweet would be so awesome.
Shawn White just completely won me over with that dry cleaning story.
a sentence I never ever would’ve imagined typing. the Olympics are majestic!
TOE PICK
I see UC decided the path to gold was to take the US out before the finals. clever.
faux distressed jeans are annoying. Faux faux distressed jeans are outrageous.
this kid is so young I don’t even think his parents were alive when Jimi Hendrix recorded the song he is skating to.
I finally—after two years—worked up the courage to try the canned “spotted dick” they sell at one of my local supermarkets, only to find that the supermarket had finally abolished the disgusting British foods aisle. Harrumph, I say. The nerve. Tally-ho, you colonists.
On the other hand, I found a Target that now carries that delicious Canadian treat, clamato juice. But *sigh* not the Extra Spicy kind.
Also, who is photoshopping the butterflies and hearts onto a SC photo??
There are photos of Smut Clyde?
faux distressed jeans are annoying. Faux faux distressed jeans are outrageous.
Faux faux distressed overalls and skating to J Giles should result in deportation to Guantanamo.
I finally—after two years—worked up the courage to try the canned “spotted dick” they sell at one of my local supermarkets, only to find that the supermarket had finally abolished the disgusting British foods aisle.
Maybe it will show up in the vending machine!
Lindsay Jacobellis has again disappointed me in her quest for redemption after disappointing me in 2006.
I haven’t watched any of the Olympics.
But thanks to Kathleen, I know ALL ABOUT them!
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I kind of wish Johnny Weir would cut a hole in the ice and just f*** it.
Scott Hamilton: Johnny Weir f***ed the ice about as well as he could have f***ed it, but I expect we will see better f***ing later in the evening. While his f***ing technique is excellent, his transitions from making out to f***ing just aren’t as strong as some of his competitors. Weir is always able to raise an eyebrow though, and in my case, I think he is raising a muffin top.
I imagine the following:
“Hey mom, I wanna see Geils!”
“My son is a NAZI! OMG!@”
Can I get a Pepsi SMASH over here, and a Morning Bun? No, you can keep the gas-station Texas Cinnamon roll, what you think I’m a Zombie?
The cruelty of a new episode of Lost airing concurrent with the re-broadcast of the women’s snowboard cross final that wasn’t actually broadcast live when it happened hours and hours earlier has made me wonder whether zombies have taken control of TV programming.
Hey now, UC, there’s no call for that kind of haterade. Zombies may nom your branes, but at lest we’re upfront about it. We won’t melt your branes surreptitiously, like TV.
I’d blame it on Republicans, or at least Ann Althouse.
Or possibly the Norwegian curling team fashion consultants…
yes, they must be punished also….
Incidentally, one of the threedles at Sadly No has a side-subject on driving tanks going on. I can’t read it without thinking of Kathleen roaring down the freeway in her nursing tank, blasting through SUVs….
3Bulls has bent my brain.
malatov cocktails made out of baby bottles
“gas” collected in trashcans
how about the fact that NBC time delays teh west coast broadcast THAT IS IN THE SAME TIME ZONE AS THE OLYMPICS??!!!!
I singled my triple lutz.
too little experience on the international stage.
I kind of wish Johnny Weir would cut a hole in the ice and just f*** it.
this made me laugh so so hard
teh lame is sorely missed
ok time to get some food instead of solo-zardozing on my lunch break. i’ll be back in time for the finals.
Anybody following women’s downhill live? Why can’t we get a video feed for this? Isn’t it epic?
I singled my triple lulz.
what’s really funny fish is that is what I meant to type
LOL! Then you really did single your triple.
I lost 7 men, 6 dogs, 2 sleds, a half-eaten tube of cookie dough, and probably 10-15 points off my eyesight, but I made it to the end of these comments. I must say that the dedication, motivation, talent, and training it takes to pump out nearly 600 repetitions of high-quality half-assedness is…well, it’s a triumph of the human spirit. Bravo, 3B community, bravo.
Can a 1000-comment Zardoz be on the horizon?
The event horizon perhaps.
You know where Mandos tries to cross the threshold, but freezes in time as others cross.
Zardoz vs. 3Bulls. It seems appropriate somehow.
I wonder why it took us so long to bring the Big Stone Head over here? I’m guessing The Fear. Fear of Sink Lettuce.
Stone head v. half ass.
Jon Stewart did a hilarious riff on a man named Dick Sweat asking Obama a question at a town hall, and I kept thinking of Brando. If only he could freelance dick jokes for late night comedy
speaking of things coming full circle (weren’t we?), has anyone checked out Apolo Ohno’s twitter feed? I am afraid to for spoiler reasons, but C’s brother said he would rather smash his nuts in a fridge door than read it, so I am dying to check it out.
confession: last night I pretended to be reading a book while watching the Olympics because I was embarassed for my neighbor to see how long I had been sitting in the chair with the remote and my laptop.
tonight’s live-glogging
sponsored by
Dr. Ferber
I say we leave #600 for Small Time Beef.
d’oh!!!
ah well
good thought
I wish STB would post
OK, Kathleen, you’ve earned your Zardoz merit badge already.
My work/blogging being fueled by Yellowtail Pinot Grigio.
Stone head v. half ass.
The Mekons have a song called Stonehead. The refrain goes “I am a Stone Head. I am the Stone Head”
If Creed doesn’t have a song called “Half Ass” they should.
K takes it by a nose!
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I didn’t know Tron was skating for Australia in short track.
Tron?
Is that one of Sarah Palin’s kids?
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Imagine someone kind of tweeting “Go AMERICA, YEAH! AWESOME”
Apolo Anton Ohno
Kind of the opposite of the Roger Ebert twitter feed, which I don’t read because it is too awesome and I want him to just be only my friend, kind of like Kathleen with whatsherface, only with shunning to spite myself instead of stalking.
What Pinko Said!!
(P.S. What did Pinko say?)
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He said he wishes he was Shaun White’s tweetheart.
Pinko is really Victoriarose89
Jon Stewart did a hilarious riff on a man named Dick Sweat asking Obama a question at a town hall, and I kept thinking of Brando. If only he could freelance dick jokes for late night comedy.
That would be nice. I am sure I could keep the dick jokes coming for them.
I read the Roger Ebert profile in Esquire and immediately wished I knew him. Amazing guy. The article noted that when he lost his voice, they hooked him up with a speech enhancer, and he deliberately chose one with a British accent. I thought that was awesome, even if he later had to switch to a different one because the British version was too hard to understand.
614 COMMENTS!?!?! SERIOUSLY? What is this, the Sadly, No! of baby blogging?
chuckles, did you READ THEM ALL? Z.A.R.D.O.Z. does not accept criticism unless it is from readers who answer a short, seven-part three hundred question quiz AND demonstrate full understanding of Zombie lore.
Seriously, Zardoz Kath and MegaMandos brought the Half of Ass in an impressive way. It was special, and mostly reached 3Bulls levels of incomprehensibility. At times, Pinko’s contributions seemed the MOST coherent.
Chuckles has missed the boat. But he can help us get to 1000. After 1000, I might even be happy to declare it over² at the very least.
Chuckles has missed the boat. But he can help us get to 1000. After 1000, I might even be happy to declare it over² at the very least.
I’m not sure I can agree with the other half of Mandos-ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© collective on this matter.
P.S. Warning for those with crappy old towers running Windows M.E. (heh, that would make all one of me, wouldn’t it?): Clicking the link may cause slow-down or need for rebootage.
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It’s called mis-pumping the wall.
I have nothing to add but adding itself.
Wow, that thread was way back in the day when I was still trying to give the Hypocrite of Corrente the benefit of the doubt.
I’d just like to add to what Pinko had to say.
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sure, it’s easy to get 2000 comments when you’ve got trolls.
All there is here is zombeez
At least zombeez don’t tax you.
Goobie Thread endures.
I will pooooooost again!
Though my space bar is breaking
I will post again
Zardoz only knows…
Will Goobie be the face that launched a thousand posts?
Goobie shore must be at the top of Tres Toros!
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Ice dancing could be massively improved by having way more wipeouts. Otherwise it is only slightly more entertaining than watching CSPAN.
Ice dancing could be massively improved by having way more wipeouts.
I’ve got an idea! While one couple is out performing, they could let a competing couple out on the ice.
With lead pipes.
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Goobie had to leave the Olympic Village after risqué images of her with Lugo appeared on the web.
SCANDAL
THERE IS SOMEONE VYING FOR CÉLINE’S PLACE IN FISH’S HEART:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxnl83HD3R0
But will feeshie be fickle?
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fish, now that I have read up on LAGO, I know how inappropriate your comment appears to be. However, since you wrote LUGO, it is actually even more inappropriate.
Is it time to haul fish into Kangaroo Court?
(Teh Honorable Judge Emu presiding.)
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Can you waterboard a fish?
I don’t know what this Zardoz is, but I do know this: It will be a cold day in the freezer for Ms. Lara Fabian if she lays a hand on my feesh.
INAPPROPRIATE, Celine.
Also, it doesn’t seem that Ms. Fabian knows how to rock the infamous white leather pants.
Inappropriate?? What is inappropriate? And this coming for a zombie?
I’ll tell you what’s inappropriate! The Olympics in Canada and no Celine event!
I think Mandos needs to change his name to Mandoz after this. He’ll also need an honorary red singlet.
I’m also guessing that someone has said that in the above 600+ comments, but by gawd, I’m not going back to read them all… at least not until they’re finished.
Zardozing is easier with alcohol and no sleep. Unfortunately, I have no alcohol and seem to be well-rested.
ZRM? You still there?
My Zardozing is rusty.
This thread seems to be lacking a little seasoning. Perhaps a pinch of salt.
You know, I am the only rock you humans eat. I have made a glittery and often surprising contribution to your history.
I used to be a quite sought-after commodity… as valuable as currency.
It would seem to me that any thread worth its salt would have a comment from salt. It would seem to me that a comment from salt would be worth more than those from mere humans. Without salt, you humans would be nothing more than desiccated zombies.
Of course, not all salt is created equal.
I will speak for ZRM and say “IS THERE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT???”
That other Celine is an imposter. Feesh prefer me. At least some feesh… although I’m good on all feesh.
Anything wrong with what?
FYI- I am no longer in charge.
FdS: anything wrong with being a desiccated zombie, of course.
Good point, Mandoz. Maybe I’ll come back as a desiccated zombie and will once again be in charge.
fish, now that I have read up on LAGO, I know how inappropriate your comment appears to be. However, since you wrote LUGO, it is actually even more inappropriate.
No bonus for mistakenly adding a Letterman reference?
I knew I should have looked up his name.
And I would like to point out it is not me that is nude in the hot tub up there…
you know, I object to Jennifer’s freezing-fish torture.
After all, she says it’s painless.
Thanks ZRM.
HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!!!!
There he is, bailiff.
SEIZE HIM!
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fish shall be seized for making a rude joke about a tiny baby being pictured with either a light hitting ERROR MACHINE 2B/SS or some Olympic crotch medaling Chundernozzle. His choice. The crimes are equally grievous.
What does 2B/SS mean?
Anyway, CNN is now doing a “SIMULATION” of a “CYBER-SHOCKWAVE” with discussion by members of a “BIPARTISAN POLICY INSTITUTE” that include Michael Chertoff and Godzilla.
I got post 666! This is supposed to mean something to some people.
Anyway, fish had better run into the arms of Lara Fabian while he still can. Maybe she can get him Belgian citizenship!
Oooh, it’s not just CYBER-SHOCKWAVE, it’s WE WERE WARNED: CYBER-SHOCKWAVE. Teste David cum Sibylla.
Oh, and John Negroponte is on the Bipartisan Policy Insitute.
I rate for Belgian citizenship.
Bring forth the guilty, filthy fish.
Ahem. The accused.
(This Bench with not officially sanction the term ‘gefilte party’, but users of the term will not face sanctions, if you catch our drift.)
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Too late, we are all sub-Belgian now.
We will not let you go
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Let me go!
Be-el-ze-bub has some tartar put aside for me for me for meeeeeeeeeeee
El heard there was a Zardoz going on!
Grizzled is to blame for the size of El’s package.
Mother Nature is to blame. Nothing could be more awesome. Nothing in this world.
But back to bad fish. Is he going to be fried or boiled?
I’ll try to snap a better picture of him tomorrow. He was fresh out of the oven and still to hot to stand.
still to hot to stand.
One might argue he will always be “too hot”.
I wonder if the grammar hammer will touch that or let it slide due to the unbelievable awesomeness of the Zartator?
TOO!!!!
Apollo Ohono should feel it coming from behind any moment.
zartator wins gold
El Snacktator
February 20, 2010 at 7:19 pm
El heard there was a Zardoz going on!
Ahh, there’s are bailiff. Bring forth the gefilte party!
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“Our” Bailiff, that is.
Can’t have grammar Nazis messing with the mock trial.
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it’s like you guys MISS the Grammar Zombee….
No one misses teh Grammar Zombie…
El is ZED! And can kick any grammar zombie ass at any time.
Zarduce?
Fuhrdoz?
Maximum Leader?
LOL! El likes Zarduce!
Crossposted!
AWESOME!
But I have to post the WoW that came up on teh Zardoz thread:
Words of Wisdom
Hmm… Needs more leather, harnesses, and moustache.
teh l4m3
Not that I recommend anyone try this at home, but a person/bird/meese/pants could go on infinite loop mode between here and El Snacktator’s comments.
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HELP I’M STUCK IN AN INFINITE LOOP.
Step away from the Pepsi Max.
When ONE steps away from teh Pepsi Max, teh Pepsi Max takes another step forward.
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Furthermore, the guilty party has not yet stepped forward.
This will be taken account when he is sentenced to a jar of water in the freezer.
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Cardinal Fang™, produce the Charges!
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In light of all this evidence and hearsay, and such as, how does the gefilte party plead?
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This Court is compelled by the evidence (and such as) to find that the accused, One Guilty, Filthy, Feesh, is in fact guilty.
Punishment will be metered out laterz.
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Mandos
February 14, 2010 at 10:01 pm
I mean, she just came out of left field and stole the 300 that thunder and I worked so hard for.
On behalf of the Mandos, Teh Honorable Judge Emu™³²®©, ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© collective, Comment 700 is claimed.
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Step away from the Pepsi Max.
You will pry the Pepsi Max form my cold dead hands.
THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!
Oh right.
Teh Verdict.
Feesh is sentenced to a large bowl of water in an industrial sized freezer, until such time as he is a fish-cicle.
*Clang*
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Pepsi Max and rum = RUM SMASH!!!
This Court is compelled by the evidence (and such as) to find that the accused, One Guilty, Filthy, Feesh, is in fact guilty.
TEAR DOWN THE WALL!!
You didn’t have to go to court to find out feesh was guilty… geesh.
Do we get to sit in our Sunday best and watch while the freezer door of justice demands its final payment?
Like I said, every thread turns to fantasizing about my death.
Hey ZRM- got yer snow shovel ready?? Another wave is on its way.
Anonymous
February 21, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Like I said, every thread turns to fantasizing about my death.
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You’re only making it worse for yourself!
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I have satisfied a thunderwish:
http://politblogo.typepad.com/politblogo/2010/02/abstraction.html
I think Zed has lost control of this Big Stone Head!!
Where the EFF is K with this Ice Dancing?
She is too busy mocking Canadia for its embarrassing loss in ice hockey to USA despite our mutual respect for the environment and the fact that the US exports more to goods and services to Canadia than all European countries combined.
HOW THE F**K DID AEI GET CONTROL OF MY COMMENTS?
reclaiming my identity.
Miracle on slush
Why is biathlon always on at midnight. You just can’t get more awesome than guns and skis.
What would be more awesome is if they had to ski through a forest with outdoor mechanical shooting gallery- with pop up targets that might be good guys or bad guys. None of this “hold your breath”- I want stereotypical New York muggers and possible innocent collateral damage popping up in the Canadian wilderness!
Also, there should be wolf attacks and such as.
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Where is the Olympic Fish Freezing event?
People on skis, toting rifles, spiking fish into snowdrifts… at 20 paces. Rifles to be used to launch the fish if manual spiking doesn’t work, or if the fish puts up too much of a fight.
Or… perhaps it could be needing to fill a freezer full of fish, closing freezer and riding it down the bobsled course.
Or…
I think this pertains to a previous comment in this thread, but who the heck knows…
FWIW- I break down and buy the damn Chocolate Chex and then neither lamblet is able to make it through even a small bowl of the stuff…
The Chocolate Chex of DOOM!
P.S. Heigh Ho, it’s off to work I go.
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I love how at 3B everything comes around full circle. The lamblets should write the DorD I haven’t.
I love how at 3B everything comes around full circle.
In the end, there’s sink lettuce and the drain.
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Round and round we go…
I was going to say it was more of a half-circle.
Half-ass anchors aweigh!
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I want your love and
your lover’s revenge
you and me could write a…thud*snore*
Yahoouj CANNOT be permitted to push Endless Goobie Thread off the list!
It is the Long Zardoz….
Mandos is apparently hitting the Pepsi SMASH again…
Actually I only had regular Diet Pepsi today.
WEAK!!!
I am having a SMASH Libre.
ZEDHaus will have SMASH Libre vending machines.
SMASH libre on TAP!!
On some days I think we really do need to build that compound.
I think I am going to read this thread backwards until I get to the last time I checked in.
Kathleen- you skipped out right at the moment crazy ass racist ice dancing came on!
You mean “a moving tribute to the Aboriginal peoples”.
Good enough for bronze.
You know they had their own bronze during the dress rehearsal that someone must have had better judgement about.
Yeah, well Plushenko beat them out with his very own custom platium medal.
BOOM!
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Kathleen
February 14, 2010 at 10:50 pm
it’s so heroic of this pair to go on after they were clearly attacked by wild dogs.
My favorite K Olympics Live Blogging Comment.
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Has anyone here ever fantasized about fantasizing about something? (I am writing this in the middle of a reverie about me fantasizing about fantasizing.)
What if what if what if…?
Has anyone here ever fantasized about fantasizing about something? (I am writing this in the middle of a reverie about me fantasizing about fantasizing.)
Mandos- shhhhh… you’re talking out loud. We can hear you.
Diet Pepsi again. Pepsi SMASH is not available in the vending machine currently.
Perhaps they’ll get the message if you smash the machine.
Also, I woke up too early and when I do that, I get ridden hard by the Snacktator. Baked Ruffles cheddar+sourcream and peanut M&Ms.
TMI
oh dear
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Anything to get us to 1000.
Mandos… comment strumpet…
El has never ridden anything hard… with hard being either an adjective or an adverb…. However, El does understand the unrelenting lure of snackie goodness.
I can’t be happier that Mandos dropped a massive Snacktator filthbomb. The corruption of all is nearly complete…
El has never ridden anything hard… with hard being either an adjective or an adverb….
There are little blue candy pills for that.
Just because you pop them like candy, fish, doesn’t mean they are candy.
This explains much.
fish spam
fish spawn
the fisher!
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this broadcast of women’s giant slalom is hilarious. It’s The Fog.
Yaay for K live-blogging!
Tell-us more plz.
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So I have rediscovered the joys of the audiobook. I have now made it through a good chunk of LM Bujold’s Vorkosigan series in unabridged CD form, out of order as they appear on the public library shelf: Cetaganda, The Vor Game, Shards of Honor, and currently Komarr and next The Warrior’s Apprentice.
I betting Kathleen is the only one reading this who knows what I’m talking about.
that’s so awesome Mandos – who is doing the reading?
Grover Gardner, via Blackstone Audiobooks. He has the perfect mildly sardonic voice for it.
It really is a different experience hearing them rather than reading them, and actually the highly cinematic Vorkosigan books are very amenable to the format. Also, I am generally inclined to flip forward a few pages and spoil every tense scene for myself, but it’s a lot harder to do that in the car, so I’m forced to “read” the story in the way Bujold wrote it. I may have a long drive in a few weeks and should maybe save one of the books for the trip.
so this has become less of a Zardoz thread, and more of a corner pub thread, where you drop in to chat with the bloggerhood?
I will need to check the charter, but I believe Z.A.R.D.O.Z. is OK with that.
EXCELSIOR!!
Damn the torpedoes!
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I got no problem with posting silly.
Someone has to get all this back to half ass!
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I wonder who the Dick Cheney of the Obama Administration is (I know, there is only one Dick Cheney, and this is the equivalent of Godwinning my own comment).
Anywho, Rahmbo for the sheer in your face relentless corporate selling out, or Eric Holder for the ongoing banality of evil?
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This only sounds like a corner pub thread because I am trying to restart the Zardoz so that it is not over², let alone over¹ until it reaches 1000 at least.
I think the lesson of the Obama administration is that the Dick Cheney is the system, man. In fact, Dick Cheney’s Dick Cheney may well have been just the system, man.
Anyway, there’s no such thing as “Godwinning”. Godwin’s law is a mere statement of fact. Godwin’s Law: for a thread length t in comments and for the random variable H representing the utterance of the name of the leader of Germany in 1944,
lim[t-->\infty] P_t(H) = 1
Hitler.
OK.
Who’s more Hitler-like, Holder or Rahm?
1) Holder
2) Rahm
3) There is no 3
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Aggressive!
I can’t believe K got bored of the Olympics.
I have been listening to the Complete Collection of Vogon Poetry on audiotape.
Pinko Punko
February 25, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Aggressive!
I can’t believe K got bored of the Olympics.
Me, too. I might have turn on the effing TV meself, just to post a commment.
Or maybe better, I’ll just fake that I turned on the TV, and post a really half-assed comment.
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I feel lucky and plucky and maybe I should play teh lotto, or some such.
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I know what it is. Kathleen thinks this thread is going to be a spoiler. Kathleen does not want Mandos to ruing the skating. Kathleen is in seclusion until the end of the women’s free skate!
NBC has caused Kathleen to be sequestered from us. I hope they make her go on the Tonight Show.
I hope they give her the Tonight Show. Why can’t funny people run the late night talk shows?
I hope they give her the Tonight Show. Why can’t funny people run the late night talk shows?
That would ruin it for everybody.
(And by everybody, I certainly don’t mean the audiences. Har Har, Eff ‘Em!!111!, amirite!)
I mean the past and future non-funny people who will run teh late nite talk shows. And G.E.
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How is it that I just woke up?
Did I really hit the sn00ze button 12 times in a row, in my sleep?
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hee hee! I actually am still totally into the Olympics. I think I was a Viking in a previous life. Nordic Combined baby!!!!!!!!
Pinko called it last night – NO LADIES SPOILERS. it was awesome.
but otherwise I have been trying to finish my stupid overdue library book so I haven’t been logging on the computer. I curse you Revelation Space!!!!!!!!! I think I am going to have to return it and try and check it out again.
Ah so you’ve been holding out on us.
All because of some fascist library rules!
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this book is killing me. Kill. Ing. Me. I love it, but I would like to post an excerpt to give you an idea of what I am going through.
500 pages.
Hmm.
Doesn’t sound all that lovable, K.
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men’s Olympic hockey, US semi-final:
K: C, can you think of something funny to say about the hockey game?
C: no, not really.
K (to baby): Daddy’s not helping Mommy be funny for the internet.
Mean daddy!
mean Daddy!
When will recursion Set in?
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C: Sinbad, stretching the very definition of the word “celebrity”.
K: you’ve heard of him, right? and you’re not related to him? isn’t that the definition of celebrity?
I just saw a Canadian holding a sign that said “Go Rrrrrush”
true story
K- wasn’t the two against one thing easier before B popped out? Isn’t their the danger that C will try to use that against you?
The sad thing is those 500 pages took you three days and that was “slow going.” You are omnivorous!
I meant voracious, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you were omnivorous. Seriously, how many seconds is your rule? Who was it that ate the attic food?
different times for wet vs dry food. attic food is not ringing a bell. I did put a loaf of bread in a storage unit once, but that was an accident.
I eat all books
that is a lie. I actually almost exclusively limit myself to fiction.
apolo ohno is so good he makes other skaters go down just with his mind.
That sounded dirty, Kathleen.
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There’s tons of new snow all over the old snow that never went away.
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I wonder if fish is out there.
Lurking.
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Once again, I am pleased to accept this award on behalf of the Mandos-ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© collective.
We thank all the little people/birds/pants/zombies who made this possible.
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Special thanks to Kathleen, who clearly could have typed 4 more comments, but chose to let someone else have it.
Special, K!
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Thank you, thunder. I was out last night playing Scrabble. Daredevil me. I even used an NSFW word! It’s in the scrabble dictionary, it’s legal.
…an NSFW word!
But you’re not going to tell us what it was?
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Nope! I look at this blog at work! Of course, I also look at Sadly No at work, and they use lots of NSFW, but at least I know that none of the NSFW was mine.
I can’t see Sadly, No! at work. Or any typepad blog.
Blogger slips by them, somehow. (Although nothing really slips by…our pcs are monitored, and reports have been sent to the overlords.)
I wonder how long before my Media Matters For America addiction is called on the carpet.
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That’s because you need to narrate loans! Banks are lending less and less, it must be somehow your fault for reading MMfA.
I wonder if loan narration could be improved if loans were narrated around a campfire, at night with marshmallows.
After all, GEICO tells us that insurance underwriters existed among the Neanderthals.
GLUG: Next cave says that Oogla has pre-existing condition.
GRAK: Deny willow bark. Throw Oogla into tar pits, charge family one deerskin service fee.
I wonder if loan narration could be improved if loans were narrated around a campfire, at night with marshmallows.
I don’t think anything can be done to improve the task of underwriting (and writing loan narratives, which is part of all that).
“How Did I Get Here?” I find myself asking.
I’ve been a foreign exchange trader, an equity derivatives trader, a programmer of bond futures options models (spaghetti BASIC, my specialty!).
And now this.
*sob*
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This yogurt cup I am eating has probiotics. I will have more life!
probiotics?
Did they lose their amateur standing?
They left college early to turn pro.
Never cared about getting a degree in the first place.
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Pro biotics hate visiting their Aunty Biotic.
MMfA comment.
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In a thread this long, one would expect to see some reference to citrus fashions—on a blog that didn’t practice rampant fruitism.
Doesn’t sound all that lovable, K.
Sounds Lovecraftable.
I believe this blog has perfected rampant fruitism, C.L.
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We’ve already done all the fruit puns, so I basically self-censored a big groaner here.
Given the plethora of fashions on display in Olympic curling, I find it more than surprising we didn’t see any citrus fashions on any teams in the competition. Perhaps those teams suffered accidents prior to their matches?
Would Mr. Punko like to expand on his reasons for suggesting that?
Mister Punko is clearly anti-pro fruit punnage.
And doesn’t that speak volumes?
P.S. I was *this close* to saying I shan’t be back. But this is a Zardoz, after all…
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Big Citrus Head.
…an NSFW word!
But you’re not going to tell us what it was?
Snacktator.
USA – Canuckistan heads into OT!!!111!
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“If ya didn’t like that period, ya don’t like hockey.”
-NBC
P.S. This is the first time I’ve turn the TeeBee on in over a week.
I heard a shout from the neighbors, and guessed it was Olympics related.
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Crosby scores, Canuckistan wins in OT!
P.S. That Scott Niedermayer guy was all over the place in overtime. I couldn’t help but think of this.
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The outcome was a bummer, but that fame was teh awesome.
um, game.
fish, your slip is showing.
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I thought fish was talking about Lady Gaga for a minute.
4 on 4 hockey is awesome, but I felt like barfing the whole time because it is a little bit fast paced.
I thought 4 on 4 was nifty. How long before the NHL catches on?
P.S. At least there is Celine lining for feeshie.
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I don’t even watch sports and haven’t seen a single second of this Olympics on account of not owning a TV and NBC’s online viewer being broken and suffering from massive suck, so I only found out about the win from a *Bulgarian* friend in California emailing my mobile.
Bulgarian friends in California are better sports Canucks than I am.
The Citrus Lover is a Canadian? Wow, that explains a lot.
There is no citrus in Canada.
I mean, the astonishing emphasis on political correctness and multifructalism. So Canadian.
Citrus Lover is quite careless to reveal so much personal information. Does Citrus Lover not worry about the Grapefruit Cupacabra????
At last!
*fiendish laughter*
Citrus Lover- I see the Citrus Fashion Association is making headway in the world! It may be a fiber commercial… but Benifiber has been using women clad in skirts, dresses, etc, made of lovely citrus-print slices!
No YouTube yet…
There is no citrus in Canada.
But there is milk.
has Project Runway ever done a fruit fashion episode?
have I made that joke before and just fish-ed my own comment?
That impersona…I mean, that joker pretending to be a non-existent “Grapefruit Chupacabra” once again demonstrates the underlying prejudices that drive this blog. Could this be a less welcoming and inclusive environment for citruskind?
hey, there isn’t HALF as much Citrus Hate as there is Zombism around the 3Bulls. Get in line, round boy.
Lucky for me there’s no ainurism going on here, AFAICT.
If only there were some sort of entity that could address the concerns of this weblog’s readers…
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Yes. We at the Citrus Fashion Association demand satisfaction!
If only there were some sort of entity that could address the concerns of this weblog’s readers…
Apologies. Emus on the loose.
FROZEN TANGERINES
I had a Pepsi SMASH today.
do Brothers in Arms for your car trip Mandos, the one set on Earth. I love that one.
Mandos mandate. Delicious or disgusting?
OMG
WTH is a “Diet Chek”?
I had half a Pepsi SMASH today. I am trying to cut down on my SMASHING.
fish: I will look for it (the “cease fire”). Can you point me to some sources? Maybe 7-11 might carry it.
I will bet the Cease Fire makes a swell mix with cheap rum.
Kathleen: I will look for it (the “Brothers in Arms”). Can you point me to some sources? Maybe 7-11 might carry it.
But seriously, I am apparently not going on the road trip, because the pretext for it disappeared (or has been postponed, really).
I still plan to listen to Brothers in Arms. I’m almost done Komarr which is my own favorite. When I was reading the series in book form for the first time, I always wondered the whole way through what relations were like between the occupier and the occupied beyond the Galen(i) family, and that book finally answered it.
But actually next up is The Warrior’s Apprentice, which I postponed for Komarr. When I see BiA on the library shelf, I’ll pick it up.
Which reminds me, I should actually considering checking to see whether I need to renew anything.
There’s also a French graphic novel of The Warrior’s Apprentice, which has been transmuted in French to The Apprenticeship of the Warrior. Cover of vol1.
that cover is awesome. Komarr is C’s fav. Memory is my fav. The cover on that one is the worst; it’s all super SciFi-y with space ships and lasers and Elli Quinn, and that one almost completely takes place on-planet with no Q. So funny.
this one
IT’S COMING FROM INSIDE HIS HEAD.
I liked Komarr partly because, believe it or not, I really related to it as a Canadian. A Canadian raised in English who followed all the referendums and constitutional bickering and so on and has a reasonably grasp of Canadian history. Canada contains within it a captive nation that never consented to it, and hasn’t genuinely consented to it to this day, complete with revolts and secret separatist bomb plots and so on. Komarr really went through those issues at a level of detail that I’ve only ever seen in SF in the works of C.J. Cherryh. We’re forced to confront the fact that Miles has never actually been the prey, but in fact he is the predator. The whole bit with Dr. Riva is something quite awful, even after we see it from Miles’ blithe perspective…
861 comments? Seems like a good time for a drum solo.
Ye Olde Skoole.
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Damn kids, get off the lawn before I call the cops.
I thought the orange leprechaun actually commented here for one femtosecond.
Ye Olde Muppet Skoole
I thought the orange leprechaun actually commented here for one femtosecond.
He’s Protestant?
Hieght challenged creatures playing drums?
I had a Pepsi Max Cease Fire today. One has to marvel at modern chemistry. It could be the most unnatural “food” I have ever had. It says on the label that I have to drink it after eating the new Doritos Burn flavors. I am intrigued and a little afraid.
more unnatural than Pepsi Clear?
Unpossible
Pepsi Max Cease Fire? Are they getting into lobbying now?
That Citizens United ruling is having all kinds of repercussions.
If you didn’t pair it with the right food, well I can’t really consider this a real “try”.
I would like to more about these Doritos Burn. And while this comment was hanging in the window, I used the internet to do so. Now I know! Thanks NBC!
I’m going to have to try this now, fo’ real.
I would like to more about these Doritos Burn.
Buddy Rich Chews Out His Band
Fur, the More
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The first few lines of Hoser’s Emuad:
Sing, cobag, the anger of Pelemus’ son Achillemus
and its cobagitation, which put Rolos thousandfold upon the chundermuffins,
hurled in their multemutudes to the House of Substance strong trolls
of plovers, but gave their bodies to the delicate feasting of
chupacabras…
I had Ball of Fire tivoed but it got deleted.
I always liked Love and Rocket’s cover of Ball of Confusion.
ball of wax vs. ball of fire
I jsut went into 7-11 to scout out Dorito Burn. They had Dorito Late Night All-Nighter Cheeseburger flavor.
Doritos Late Night isn’t truly late night until they add Deli Haus Pastrami flavor, or Guinness float flavor. Maybe Skittles will come through. Deli Skittles, I would love for ZRM to try you!
I could not find the Dorito Burn at the 7-11, but I did find the Pepsi SMASH Cease Fire. It was quite a bit more on the disgusting side than the delicious. BUT it might work if I had had this Dorito Burn, so I will withhold Great Judgement until I do.
why does Pinko hate Zombeez?
Mandos, make sure you try the Cease Fire with the Cheap Rum Optional Upgrade.
Adding rum to the Pepsi SMASH Cease Fire sounds rather rash to us.
What flavor is the Pepsi SMASH Carpet Bomb?
Next month: Pepsi SMASH Daisy-cutter.
In other news, DRM sucks. Why do publishers think that making libraries impose complicated and broken DRM schemes is going to prevent piracy? Especially for audiobooks that the library carries on CDs? The train has left the station, people, why make my life hard because you think that an MP3 file can be subjected to a single-user requirement? The music industry has finally started to move on…
Cobaggers will cobagitate, Mandos.
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Words of Wisdom
How did I know I’d come to this site and find a “cobag” joke within the first post?
Brad R.
Yes, those were the WoW when I posted the comment above.
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What flavor is the Pepsi SMASH Carpet Bomb?
I imagine it having dog hair and crumbs in it… and perhaps, a slightly soapy aftertaste.
Pepsi SMASH Cease Fire in the HOUSE!
…errr, office. in tha OFFICE!
More reports as events warrant.
Is there a Pepsi Cease and Desist?
What Dorito would go with it? Dorito Breaking and Entering?
Has Doritos tried any other fruit flavorings on their chips? I know they did Mountain Dew last year… or the year before… which has a kind of petroleum fruit flavor…
Maybe mango…
What Pepsi Smash flavor would work with the mango? Or would the Pepsi have the undertones of mango and the Doritos… perhaps a bbq chicken flaveur.
I think they should try a dessert Dorito.
Creme brulee perhaps… accompanied by a Pepsi Cream Soda… a guaranteed puker.
And, Pepsi should seriously consider the Deep Sea Pepsi… think of the Dorito possibilities!
Maybe a full meal of Pepsi/Dorito combos…
appetizer…
900!
Entree…
And dessert.
A veritable food pyramid consisting solely of Pepsi and Dorito combos…
Jennifer, don’t get teh six -pack of espresso at Starbucks anymore.
Or would the Pepsi have the undertones of mango and the Doritos
The place we went to eat on Friday had Mango Margaritas. But I stayed in the boat and just had the Patron Gold.
Jennilanche.
Pepsi Restraining Order. SMASH.
Pepsi SMASH Cease Fire in the HOUSE!
…errr, office. in tha OFFICE!
More reports as events warrant.
We will see if it is as effective on Zombies as Milla Jovovich.
Pepsi Clear and Tequila Margarita. SMASH.
fishpocalypse.
Milla can be EFFECTIVE on this zombie whenever she wants.
Rowr.
Plus, I liked her album.
Not a six pack of Starf***s, but rather home brew and paint fumes.
Maybe Pepsi could make Pepsi Meth
Crystal Lite Meth
Oops, Crystal Lite is a Kraft product… not Pepsi.
Perhaps they can make a Crystal Lite Mac N’ Cheese flavor.
Perhaps a winning combo, in honor of the wars, would be Pepsi Shit and Doritos Shingles (architectural style of course).
Pepsi Mace… Dorito Attack
Dorito Fourplay
Pepsi Afterglow
FOREPLAY!!!
I was thinking it could have four flavors…
Grrrr.
Pepsi McGriddles Legume and Doritos Smalltime Beef
perhaps we should all just stand back and let Jennifer and her Paint Fumes take this one to 1K.
and of course, I will do just that after noting that “Jennifer And Her Paint Fumes” is an excellent punk band name.
Pepsi Top Hat
Dorito Tails
Pepsi Mint Jelly
Dorito Lamb
Pepsi Sorbet or perhaps Pepsi Saltine… to cleanse the palate when switching flavors of Doritos.
Pepsi Tide
Dorito Stain
Pepsi Stain would be a flavor of your own construction.
Pepsi Summer’s Eve
Dorito Not So Fresh
Ok, that even grossed me out…
Dorito Sin
Pepsi Redemption
Pepsi Erase
Pepsi Delete
Pepsi Negate
All diet, of course.
Jennifer comments now come in the Economy 20-pak.
Which isn’t saying much given I rejoined the comment section somewhere around 880… I believe Mandos and Kathleen comments are coming in grosses.
I think Jennifer is on FIRE.
Hey, wait a minute, I think we’re missing the important part of Jennifer’s Fiery Comments (Cease Fire, indeed!):
Mainly, Home Brew? How comez Zombie hazzn’t had any of this Home Brew? Holding out on the bloggerhood, is all.
I think Jennifer is on FIRE.
paint fumes ARE flammable, after all.
Argh, the dude in the office across the hall is exhibiting a devastating case of plumber’s bum. Naturally, the way his desk is, his butt faces the door. I don’t know how to tell him to pull’em up…
Pepsi Crack
I believe Mandos and Kathleen comments are coming in grosses.
Some of them were definitely gross.
Clamepsi
Doritos Red Tide.
Mainly, Home Brew? How comez Zombie hazzn’t had any of this Home Brew? Holding out on the bloggerhood, is all.
No… just zombies…
Pepsi Pope
Dorito Altar Boy
You’re going to hell for that one.
Pepsi Pope- Cleansing away minor sins.
Or should that have been… washing down the aftertaste of minor sins…
Pepsi Swallow
Pepsi 6
Doritos 9