Your “How Will We Go On?” Thursday Night Open Thread

I feel a void. Do you feel it as well? I sat down to throw a game intro together and… nothing. No game. Thing is, I like Thursday Night Football. Like, the idea of it. It’s the universe telling me that the week is pretty much done and there is tons of football on the horizon.

But here we are stuck with only college basketball, minor bowl games, the NBA (no thanks personally, but you do you), the NHL, our genitals, our imaginations and each other. I think we can do this.

I should say a sayonara to Josh Gordon and his bucket-full of troubles. Seems like the only thing he ever had a grip on was a football and he doesn’t even have that anymore. He was given a great many chances (was it because he never knelt before a tilt?) and just couldn’t put it together. I honestly don’t want this story to have a lousy ending.

TO THE GAMES!

Marshall/South Florida:

This is that game where a Thundering Herd meets a bunch of Bulls. Which one shall yield? I haven’t a clue but I’m guessing that a number of baby boomers will have flashbacks to November 22nd, 1963 when USF’s rb Cronkrite is introduced.

Texas Tech/Duke:

This bowl game isn’t one at all. It’s a basketball game. TTU has blown out the majority of their unranked opponents and Duke is the same unlikable collection of shitheads that everyone gathers the energy to hate year in and year out. That said, this Zion Williamson character is someone that’s going to be around for the next 15 years or so. Get accustomed to it.

Give me your best dry-brined turkey recipes. Also, dance like you’re a Canadian.

 

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[…] Before I leave you, and in the spirit of the holidays, here’s a reprise of a request for advice that showed in an open thread the other night: […]

Unsurprised

I cut up the source video into clips to make gifs but then I realized it was stupid and stopped.
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Unsurprised
Unsurprised

Whatever performative wokeness led LOVE Magazine to not put out their advent video series this year can fucking eat the biggest bag of dicks. I didn’t realize they began so long ago. This is from 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6L1QQ9FZWc

Brick Meathook

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Unsurprised

[Why is she wearing dog shit on her head?]

BrettFavresColonoscopy

We’re all out of Trader Joe’s scotch

Unsurprised

Oh, man. I guess there is a positive side to Oregon prohibiting hard liquor sales to dedicated stores or else I’d have eventually drunk myself to death walking home from TJ.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I plan to assert my right to get as drunk as I want every night as long as my wife’s parents are staying with us, which might be all the way into fucking January.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Someone isn’t onboard the Iron Butterfly train

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’ll be playing the role of Smithers from this scene for the next two weeks.
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blaxabbath

Pray
For
Rikki

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Seriously, please do.

Unsurprised

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Dolph Ucker

Saw Aquaman tonight with the young’un. It didn’t suck.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Did it gargle?

blaxabbath

Water Thor

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

If it were basically Conan the Barbarian but, you know, wet, I could dig it. But I have little doubt it is way too cutesy for me to enjoy.

Unsurprised

I mean, I’ve been calling it Wet Panther since the first trailer and after watching a copy that fell off the back of a Chinese truck, I was right.

Senor Weaselo

Was it about fighting… EEEEEEVIL?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ0c4_P2uno

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Busting out the Trader Joe’s scotch

King Hippo

Does it Scot-ify the name, like they do Trader Jose beer?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Just says “Trader Joe’s Highland Single Malt Whisky Aged 10 Years Matured in Oak Casks”

But on the back there’s a picture of a guy fucking a sheep

King Hippo

chuh fookin’ chuh!

Brick Meathook

Nothing beats the old Sav-On brand Charcoal Filtered vodka, in the convenient 2 liter plastic jugs

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yes, have some.

Senor Weaselo

Evening lizard people. So we all gon’ die, right?

blaxabbath

I could live with that.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

You know what’s fun? Getting an email reminder to submit 2018 expense reports and realized you haven’t filed any since May.

King Hippo

good think you ain’t got to celebrate Christ’s Mass, eh? 😀

BrettFavresColonoscopy

That guy shouldn’t have been standing there

Brick Meathook

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Mr. Ayo

Boop

BrettFavresColonoscopy

You know what’s dumb? Laundry. Let’s wear disposable clothes.

WCS

They do that in The Andromeda Strain. One of the characters even mentions how much of a waste it is. Of course, they’re doctors and scientists in an Level 5 Containment Facility, trying to understand the alien virus.

King Hippo

Andromeda Strain is a very, VERY good book. As is most of Crichton’s stuff.

WCS

Jurassic Park is my favorite novel, and Sphere is right up there. Congo was fine, if forgettable, but, The Terminal Man is highly underrated.

King Hippo

now that you mention it, The Terminal Man is probably my favourite (I always forget it). Prey and Eaters of the Dead are my two other super-high recommends.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

The Congo gave us amazingly terrible movie dialogue.

King Hippo

the movie was so bad I walked out of it (even for a $1 theatre show), but I liked the book. This is the case for many Crichton thingamabobs

BrettFavresColonoscopy

“The same hee-ro-glyph-aks overrr and overrr”

Unsurprised

Yeah. Explaining how wasteful it is in the aggregate was part of a brilliant take down of how the guy who founded Soylent’s idea to go emission and waste free was entirely bullshit because, in this case, the energy to make and dispose of daily sets of clothes is far higher than the energy and water used for laundry.

Unsurprised

They sell that in I think Japan or something in vending machines.

WCS

How’s it going, dickshits?

King Hippo

Am I to assume that Dook won? Assume there would have been rejoicing otherwise. I have a rule about watching Dook play, when my Shitty Wolves ain’t involved.

That rule is, NO.

King Hippo

Any of y’all dorky enough to do a sim/replay-based dynasty baseball league (be your own asshole GM), let me know. Openings in the two leagues (same rules and platform) I play in right now.

There are even plenty of (gross) Small Bear fans.

Wakezilla

I am intrigued by this. Is this through a videogame?

King Hippo

PC-based. This is the simulator product, which is really quite excellent:

https://diamond-mind.com/

I bought the board game for this (to play with my little brother) when I was 13, have been playing the “League” version on computer since I was like 16 or 17, back in the days when we had to send out written managerial directions, and submit our home game results on floppy disc.

King Hippo

and this is the main League website (the other league is PFBL-A, but the website gets updated less often):

http://locrasto.com/pfblb/

herodotus450

People are down on Detroit but they have a whole Fox Sports network all to themselves. Meanwhile, two whole states have to share Fox Sprots Carolinas. Take that ya Confederate bastards.

King Hippo

We’uns rising again, as soon as we get your dirty Yankee gubment hands off our Medicare!!

herodotus450

This bowl game is exhibit A in my argument against expanding the college playoff to 48 teams.

herodotus450

Girl you know it’s true

herodotus450

Do the Rangers have anyone left they can trade to Tampa so they can beat the Leafs? Otherwise we looking at a Tanya Harding situation

litre_cola

Ice Stamps and Ice Bucs has been phenomenal.

Sharkbait

Well, they don’t have a captain, and only 1 Ryan. Strome to Tampa confirmed.

Senor Weaselo

I was going to say Strome as captain and THEN to Tampa.

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s a bad exhibit. It’s not like these teams would play each other in the playoff.

Brick Meathook

I have a new Sony camera that is a technological marvel but is completely unintuitive and has a three month learning curve. It’s menu system is endless and nonsensical, and Sony’s online help pages are a joke. They manage to say something yet say nothing at the same time.

I don’t even care about this particular feature but it represents the Sony help experience in a nutshell:

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Brick Meathook

オッターはマスターベーションしています

このカメラは吸う

Horatio Cornblower

Nice to see Duke getting screwed on a questionable call for a change.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

So THAT’S why I can’t understand a single word he says…

herodotus450

Marshall has been dead to me ever since they left the MAC.

Senor Weaselo

Marshall has been dead to me ever since… something involving Chapecoense, there’s no way I can pull it off. Maybe Spam can.

King Hippo

hey youse, I figured you would be one of my prime targets for sim baseball recruitment!

/see up a bit

Senor Weaselo

Possibly. When do I have to make up my mind by?

King Hippo

rookie draft starts in the next few weeks, that’s really the key event (though no real deadline, the rookie draft, which is by e-mail and rolls over about 3-4 weeks, is the most fun part).

Horatio Cornblower

So close to a Fat Guy Down there.

Unsurprised

This fat guy is always down.

King Hippo

#ThinOpressors

Unsurprised

That too, but I meant it as in “down to party.”

Col. Duke LaCross

Get a smaller bird in the twelve pound range, preferably one that’s not shot up with a bunch of added moisture. Spatchcock it, and clip the wingtips. If you can dislocate the hip sockets, it’ll make carving a shitload easier and it’ll be flatter. Freeze the backbone, neck and wingtips for future stockmaking. Get a medium-sized mixing bowl and soften some two sticks or about two fingers of that Amish rolled butter in it. Chop up some fresh herbs finely, I go with some thyme and rosemary that I grow on my patio and then add a few sage leaves and some terragon. Add them to the softened butter and a glug of cognac and whisk it all together. You’re going to have to work it pretty good because alcohol and fat doesn’t mix very well but eventually it’ll all come together.

Back to the bird, generously salt and pepper the underside and flip it over on a half sheet pan. Carefully loosen the skin with your hand over the breast and down to the thigh and leg. Be careful not to tear the skin. Do that on both halves. Separate a third of the butter/herb/cognac mixture into its own bowl, cover and put it in the fridge. For the other two thirds, grab handfuls of the butter and massage it over the meat and under the skin all the way down to the leg on both halves. Salt the skin on top, and stow the whole thing on the sheet pan as flat as you can get it overnight on the bottom shelf of your fridge.

Prep a kettle grill with about fifteen unlit pieces of charcoal on the outer edge of one side and fill a chimney and light it. If you have a gas grill fire up the main burner only. Pull your bird out of the fridge, Pat the bottom dry and rub a little canola oil on the skin and give it a few grinds of pepper. Once the chimney coals have all lit and are white put them in a banked pile over the unlit coals and set a drip pan on the other side and put the grate on. You’re looking for a target temperature of 325*. Once your grill gets there adjust your vents to maintain that temperature and put a small handful of soaked fruitwood chips (I prefer cherry, peach, or apple with poultry) on the coals. You’ll have to do a foil pack on the gas grill for the chips. Put a little foil on the ends of the drumsticks and set your bird over the drip pan, wings toward the coals laying as flat as you can. Jam a probe thermometer deep in the breast and put the lid on with the vent over the turkey.

Melt the remaining herb butter in a bowl. Every half hour or so, drizzle some of that melted butter over the skin. An hour into cooking turn the turkey so that the legs are facing the coals. A half hour after that, pull the foil off the ends of the drumsticks for even browning. It should take roughly two hours as long as you maintain that 325* temperature to get that breast meat up to 165*. Evacuate to a carving board and loosely tent with foil for about ten minutes. Dump the contents of the drip pan into a fat separator and serve them as is, or use them in a roux based gravy if you’d like. Carve it up and eat like a king!

I did this twice in the last month, once just to try it out and then once for Momsgiving (the only nice thing about growing up in a broken home is doubling up holiday meals!) And they turned out great both times. No flabby skin, and the butter underneath basted the meat as it cooks. And it has a slight smoky flavor that just ties it all together. It’s a little labor intensive, but even my dad liked it and he fucking hates turkey!

Horatio Cornblower

This is also how Scotchnaut disposes of hobo carcasses.

Unsurprised

This gives me an idea for a saga about Scotchnaut vs. Boxcar Jim.

Brick Meathook

Where do you get Amish butter? Ain’t no horse & buggies round these parts.

Col. Duke LaCross

I find it at the slightly higher end grocery store (think midrange between Kroger and Whole Foods). Comes in like a three pound roll wrapped in wax paper for about ten bucks. It’s good for cooking when you don’t need an exact measurement.

And even though it’s probably as mass produced as anything else, I hear it’s got bits of real Amish in it, so you know it’s good.

Game Time Decision

So it’s got some chin pubes in it….

herodotus450

Why is a kangaroo sponsoring this bowl game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koZFca8AkT0

Horatio Cornblower

The Bad Boys Mowers Gasparilla Bowl!? is this for real, or have I stumbled onto a Kids In The Hall sketch?

Senor Weaselo

It’s the current San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl!

Horatio Cornblower

A classic, but I prefer the Daddy Drank Bowl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVn4LwIw9dc

Horatio Cornblower

“Figure that one out, ya little mathematician” kills me every time.

Brick Meathook

This guy doesn’t drink, but he lost his pen:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cy0UpRIncYM

Don T
Brick Meathook

Homemade blueberry pie and fancy store-bought brandy
Buffalo, NY
Monday
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Horatio Cornblower

Aww yeah, that’s the good shit.

litre_cola

That pie looks superb.

King Hippo

I hate to say I want to eat Brick’s pie, but…

BrettFavresColonoscopy

We otter memorialize him

Game Time Decision

We should CTE that he gets a proper burial

Redshirt

I would suggest a 21 stroke salute, but I’m not sure if everyone’s into Post Orgasm Torture.

Horatio Cornblower

Jesus Christ.

Brick Meathook

So did Alexander the Great and John Belushi

(Runners up: Eva Braun, Timothy McVeigh, David Koresh)

Unsurprised

I thought Alexander the Great was in the 27 Club. Oops.

Brick Meathook

I’ll bet Eddie the Otter jerked off very playfully and was fun to watch, unlike the monkeys and chimps who jerk off with such joyless disdain, like they’re not even trying to entertain the crowd.

Unsurprised

GFDI. I have lived her for over three years and live down the hill like half a mile from the zoo and have never gone. Like a New Yorker who never goes to the tourist traps, I guess. Or a fucking homebound loser idiot.

Unsurprised

The article links to a video of him sucking himself off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3QZ4BcEy2Y

Unsurprised

Funny. I only associate that with The Hedgehog.

tomsellecksmoustache

How do I ensure that what will eventually be my inlaws leave my goddamn house at a reasonable hour? Clog all the toilets? Walk around nekkid because that’s my sleepin attire? Tell their daughter that its time she did her duties?

herodotus450

“So who wants to watch Oldboy again?”

Redshirt

“Time for our annual family tradition, watching Freddy Got Fingered.”

tomsellecksmoustache

Actually, I’m not a nice guy and most regard me as an asshole unworthy of human contact.

tomsellecksmoustache

So glad that someone is appreciative of my charms, and I wish nothing but a plague on you and your house.

ballsofsteelandfury

ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Can I address this in the next advice mailbag?

tomsellecksmoustache

Please do, provided that it happens before Saturday when my house will be mobbed by people I neither like or want.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

You’re dead to me

tomsellecksmoustache

You’re just like my parents

Brick Meathook

At the magic hour sit in your favorite chair, watch TV and fart loudly. If that doesn’t work start jerking off, like that otter up there. You can also do this after everyone has left and before they arrive.

Horatio Cornblower

Get drunk and pass out. They may still be there, but you definitely won’t care.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

My dad’s solution to this was to play Inna-Gadda-Davida whenever he wanted the party to wrap up. The whole 17 minute and 5 second version. It worked most of the time.

Apparently Robert Mueller does that thing where he flicks the lights on and off repeatedly when he wants everyone to go home. I generally prefer the “thanks for coming but we have to wake up early in the morning so let’s wrap up for tonight. Look forward to seeing you ______”

Redshirt

Too bad with Josh Gordon. He has talent that most of us would sell our soul for, but his inner demons are too strong.

Brick Meathook

WESTERN NEW YORK SPAGHETTI SHOWDOWN

Spaghetti Parm w/ Sausages
Chef’s Restaurant, Buffalo
Friday
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Spaghetti w/ Gigantic Meatball (behind plate of former Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms)
Mulberry’s Restaurant, Lackawanna
Tuesday
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Game Time Decision

Why are you there?
Get out while you can and before is starts snowing

Brick Meathook

Left yesterday. I wish it would snow. Wherever I go I bring warm weather.

Game Time Decision

Snow is fine. Buffalo snow is not.
Was there a few years ago for a concert. We were going to stay over but dicided to go home that night (3 hour drive). Check the news the next day. That area got 8 FEET of snow.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

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WHERE’S. THE. NUTMEG?!

Unsurprised

He was an incredible drunk driver.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

My best dry brined turkey recipe is to find a wild turkey, bring it on a plane as your emotional support animal, fly to Israel, drown it in the dead sea, then bring it to the wailing wall where you trade it for a few shekels to buy some fresh hummus. Then fly back and go to yeahright’s house until he cooks you an entire turkey.

herodotus450

But here we are stuck with… our genitals, our imaginations and each other.

Mr. Scotchnaut, are you trying to seduce me?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Checks out
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Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Fun fact: A lot of people came up to me as a kid thinking that I was him. Some dude once shouted “SHOW ME THE MONEY!” in my face in an airport (I want to say Dallas), which was pretty unsettling and lazy, considering that wasn’t even his line. Thankfully, I don’t look like his goofy adult self and turned out alright.

Now if you’ll excuse me, time to resume writing about an NFL mascot turned Elder God who mutilates his victims and plays the drums with their bones for a free website.

King Hippo

TOTES void-like in mah cold, dark soul. It’s raining buckets so there will be no leaving of the house.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Yeah, it’s freezing. When I woke up it was barely 51 degrees and now it’s still only 66 or so

ballsofsteelandfury

And you’re on the WESTSIDE!

herodotus450

/Double checks the life insurance policy I took out on Scotchy.
As you were.