Your “So Very Tired…” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

Season’s greetings!  Cervezahombreroberto is still on furlough from the content mines, so you’re getting a very worn out mongoose handling the reins instead.  I have been hosting relatives since December 18th.  Mostly it’s been my wife’s parents, who arrived that day, but during the last few days I’ve also hosted my brother-in-law, his wife, and their three children.  On the 23rd my mother and her husband came by, followed by my sister, her husband, and their two boys.  Which meant that I was cooking for a total of fifteen people.  Hosting such a large group was my own fault; I’d bought a 21-pound turkey at Costco the week after Thanksgiving for $6.00 (i.e. one-half of one dfo-dollar) and needed to get rid of it, so I invited everyone over.  I’m still exhausted from entertaining so many people, but I’m also exhausted from managing the household during this time, which included a very major plumbing scare that has turned out to be a very minor repair, thankfully.  I also installed a microwave, which was no picnic, then combined two broken microwaves to produce a single working SUPERMICROWAVE.

I don’t think I’ll be getting much of a chance to watch sports tonight, but you will, so here’s what’s on tap for you:

  • NHL:
    • Everybody vs. Everybody Else, apparently.  Oh wait, no, that’s tomorrow.  Tonight it’s Nobody vs. Nobody Else.
  • NBA:
    • All the Teams that Didn’t Play Yesterday vs. All the Other Teams that Didn’t Play Yesterday
  • NCAA:
    • QUICK LANE BOWL (sorry about that Mrs. Kiffin)!
      • Minnesota vs. Georgia Tech – 5:15PM | ESPN
    • CHEEZ-IT BOWL!
      • Cal vs. TCU – 9:00PM | ESPN
    • Basketball
      • Teams with an aggregate record of 52-7 go up against teams with an aggregate record of 17-47.  Probably not a lot of excitement from this slate.

I hope your Christmas hangover isn’t too strong.  I’ll see you in the comment section for more griping.

 

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Brick Meathook

The Agony of Defeat:
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rockingdog

bahahaha I just farted laughing at that!

WCS

It’s definitely fun to watch Disney’s Frozen withe MetallicA’s “Master of Puppets” as the soundtrack. It actually sort of syncs up.

Brick Meathook

The Agony of Defeat:
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Brick Meathook

The Agony of Defeat:
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WCS

(Caption: Scenes from the DFO Olympics)

herodotus450

7 total points, 6 total interceptions

rockingdog

yea points!!!!!!!

Brick Meathook

The Agony of Defeat:
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theeWeeBabySeamus

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

What’s the haps?

rockingdog

Half Time!
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Brick Meathook

What’s up with the field lighting in this Cheez-It Bowl? Is this a high school stadium? Are only half the lights on?

ballsofsteelandfury

It’s a baseball stadium.

Brick Meathook

That’s what they WANT you to think

theeWeeBabySeamus

And not even a very good one aside from the roof that opens.
Admittedly, the opening roof is pretty cool.

Brick Meathook

Is that the Phoenix baseball stadium? I saw games there when it was Bank One Ballpark. All the lights were on during those MLB games. I never got in the pool.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yup.

ballsofsteelandfury

But SonOfSpam did!

herodotus450

Yahoo! sprots article just informed me that more than one person watched basketball on Christmas day. Wow!

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m going back to Florida next week. Yes, yes I know….don’t say it.

But I just realized that I’m going to be on a plane on January 8 during the U*NC/NC State bball tilt.

I don’t plan well, is my point.

herodotus450

And another thing, back in my day the bowl games at least at a semblance of propriety. It would be the Cheez-its Holiday Bowl or something, for example. Now it’s just Cheez-its. Did the Kaiser take all our bowl names?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

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litre_cola

Anyone have a good vpn?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Duckduckgo and turbo VPN seem to be a decent combo

herodotus450

The fact that this bowl game doesn’t feature any of the military academies is the greatest travesty in the history of the universe.
“Cheez-it, it’s the Feds!”

theeWeeBabySeamus

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rockingdog

whooooo!!!!!
oh yea INT for the BEARS!!!!!!!

litre_cola

This football game has entered bananacakes territory.

theeWeeBabySeamus

INTERCEPTION IN THE END ZONE…HE COULD GO ALL THE….

Never mind.

King Hippo

what was that, FOUR in the last 3 minutes of game action?

rockingdog

gaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!

WCS

Kids wanted to watch “Snowman!” which is their term for Frozen. This movie is going to end up overtaking The Thing, Ghostbusters, Big Lebowski, and Dawn of the Dead for most watched in WCS’s lifetime.

I’ve decided to tune out with MetallicA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7blkui3nQc&ab_channel=Metallica-Topic

herodotus450

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King Hippo

You should read them the Jo Nesbo novel as a bedtime story. Let ’em grow up with a real sense of the world they live in!

Senor Weaselo

As the guy who wrote it graduated from my HS, I apologize. But he also wrote Avenue Q who told yang that the Internet is for porn. Which is correct.

rockingdog

Gonna smoke a bowl for every Bears TD….
yoooooo…..
TD CAL BEARS!!!!!
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theeWeeBabySeamus
theeWeeBabySeamus

TCU should be ashamed of theyselves.

rockingdog

Found a funny:

a : I has superpower
b : wut superpower u has
a : force field
b : you has force field
a : ya
b: lemme see
@ :
b : oh dang

King Hippo

pretty gross finger injury there

rockingdog

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Senor Weaselo

Some guy just bought Hermana Weaselo and me Jagerbombs and then won at bar video roulette. So that’s my evening right now.

Senor Weaselo

The guy also asked if we were a couple so we got to add another tally to the “people who have thought that.” Like the halal cart guy when he told us about his experience with cocaine!

Brick Meathook

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WCS

I’ve consumed nothing else today but water, my daily prescriptions, a piece of bread. I’ve also been drinking since heavily for the past hour. That’s good DFO parenting, right?

/my kids have eaten all day
//keep pissing me off, with Lil’ WCS saying she’s “bored,” despite all of the new toys Christmas brought
///continuing to destroy the living room with scattered parts of new said toys

….time for another whiskey

King Hippo

Lose the bread, fatty! – Karen C.

litre_cola

Toilet paper is a food group. – K. Carpenter

WCS

Oh, banner worthy.

Redshirt

https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/30/world/auld-lang-syne-lyrics-trnd/index.html

Huh. Some of the lyrics appears to be written for the common drunk.

WCS

So… us?

Redshirt

No. We’re Semi-Professional Drunks.

WCS

Oh, we don’t get paid. I understand.

Brick Meathook

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WCS

In Yinzburgh, the former is called “City Chicken,” and it’s probably pigeon meat, with some filler. And it’s delicious!

Redshirt

In the Cincinnati Tri-State area, we called the former stray cat.

WCS

Like I said, “some filler.”

litre_cola

The Scot in me says go for the Chicken.

Redshirt

A moment of silence for the brave members of the Armed Forces who met President Trump but had to treat him with respect and not kick him square in the nuts just because of stupid insubordination charges.

Senor Weaselo

The spin-off from Chi****: The Musical. The Court Martial Tango!

Redshirt

“THE COPS, ALRIGHT! I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING THE COPS!!!”

Redshirt

“What do you mean he’s white?! He looks like a Muppet left in the dryer too long!”

Gratliff

All these years later, I’m getting started on Deadwood. Assuming this is a good decision.

King Hippo

VERY

Viva La Tabula Raza

Yes. And after you’re done with that, you should consider engaging with Timothy Olyphant again, this time as a modern day US Marshal, in Justified. It is very awesome.

King Hippo

He plays basically the same guy, in a different time and place.

Brick Meathook

And then watch the Archer episode “The Wind Cries Mary” with Timothy Olyphant as Archer’s BFF Lucas Troy:
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King Hippo

This really is an absolute, merciless skullfucking of Georgia Tech.

Redshirt

And by Minnesota too. That’s the team the other Big 10 teams make fun of behind their back.

Senor Weaselo

I would’ve thought that’s Rutgers but they do it to their face because what are they gonna do about it?

blaxabbath

Shouldn’t you have created a Macrowave? Or Nanowave?

Senor Weaselo

1,000 microwaves=1 milliwave

Senor Weaselo

I am watching the neon clutches of GAMBLOR. And by that I mean I’m at a casino bar watching Padre Weaselo’s Aretha tribute band play.

Brick Meathook

FACT: In 1975, in order to restructure British debt payments to the U.S. from the Second World War, President Gerald Ford fucked the shit out of Queen Elizabeth II and got a wake-up blow job the next day.
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Redshirt

That’ll be an interesting episode of “The Crown”.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Kelsey Grammer looks terrible.

scotchnaut

‘Das boot were made for walking,

Walking all over you.

One of these days das boot gonna

walk all over you

………

Walk all over you.’

-Wolfgang Peterson

WCS
scotchnaut

I’m not going to varnish the truth: JFK’s nose on Mount Rushmore during the North By Northwest reboot has been ‘shopped down to 1/3 of its original size.

King Hippo

I would have bet MOAR if I knew Minny’s best player was a Moooooslim!

/also FUCK Paul Johnson and his junior high offense

Don T

THREE KIDS?
/faints
//head hits arm of fainting couch

King Hippo

I might be buying a new car (UGH), I drove a rental one recently, and it was really neck comfortable (which is YUUUUUGE to me). It gets dinged on reviews for being “sluggish” but I didn’t find that to be the case. And the higher rated Mazda looks like an old lady car. Everything else in the line is significantly more expensive.

Any of y’all know anything about ’em?

Don T

I always wanted an Italian car. So I bought a Jeep Renegade.
[OK engine, just the right size to park anywhere easily, and it goes over mudslides and shit.]

King Hippo

I pretty much limit myself to Japanese cars due to repair/maintenance cost and/or difficulty. I drive cars for about 12 years, on average.

Redshirt

My family has cut the cord. Thankfully I am only one that know where the HD Antenna is and how to work it so I should be able to survive on Sunday.

King Hippo

Like I have said before, they will take away cable teevee when I am cold and ded.

King Hippo

I bet Minny to win the half AND the game moneyline! And I insured my “full game” bet at +1050 after it went to 20-3.

chuh fucking chuh GAMBLOR!

scotchnaut

/watching North By Northwest for the umpteenth time

Me: “WATCH OUT, CARY! FIGURE THIS OUT, GODAMNIT!!!

King Hippo

I’m not saying Ted Bundy was RIGHT, I’m just saying I understand!” – Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Brick Meathook

If you’re gonna kill ‘em for God’s sake at least don’t eat ‘em. It’s like dogs and cats, people go ape-shit if you eat something that has a name. Look at what they did to Jeffrey Dahmer because of that.

King Hippo

yeah, old Ted just banged a few corpses, and FFS they were still pretty WARM

Brick Meathook

You gotta set limits

Redshirt

Agreed. Anyone at least can understand it when someone has a sudden urge to filter the genepool.

SonOfSpam

Week 17 impromptu Request Line!

SonOfSpam
scotchnaut