Your “It’s Not A Swamp If I’m In Charge” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL Notes:

  • Showing absolute confidence in Le’Veon Bell, the Jets have signed Frank Gore to a one-year deal.
    GORE! GORE! GORE!
    • This is all part of coach Adam Gase’s plan for “load management” to “lighten the load” for Bell, who suffered last year because the Jets had an offensive line that forced Sam Darnold to run around like Russell Wilson despite his Tebow-like accuracy.
    • This will be Gore’s 16th season.
      • He currently stands third on the all-time rushing list (15,347 yards), third in rushing attempts (3,548), third in touches (4,016) and fourth in yards from scrimmage (19,243).
        • He is 1130 yards behind Walter Payton for 2nd all-time.
  • On the topic of veteran signings, rumours are that Beastmode might be back in Seattle for another dance in 2020.
    • The thinking is that the Seahawks need as much help as they can find, considering that they went through their entire depth chart between November 17 & December 15.
    • According to ESPN, based on Lynch’s time in the NFL, he would stand to make at least $1.05 million in base salary if he were to play in 2020.
  • Today’s attempt by Mike Florio to stir Green Bay’s shit comes from a discussion with Phil Simms’ semi-literate son about who could have intervened in the Jordan Love draft decision.
    • In an attempt to besmirch the entire Green Bay organization, he implies that having a single owner might have prevented the GM from making this ‘fateful decision’.
      • Completely ignoring the existence of Jerry Jones (flamboyant), Jimmy Haslam (crazy), Dan Snyder (terrible), and Mike Brown (cheap).

Finally, the NFL announced that the 2020 schedule will be released in a three-hour broadcast on the NFL Network this coming Thursday.

  • “Schedule Release ’20” will be a three-hour show breaking down the upcoming 2020 NFL regular season with analysis of the biggest games, how divisions are looking and the primetime showdowns.


The previous holder of the Green Bay QB position is in a small bit of trouble with the state of Mississippi today.

  • A state audit was released yesterday and it highlights, among other things, that Brett Favre was paid $1.1 million for speeches he never gave on behalf of the Mississippi Community Education Center.
    Remember the guy on the right.
    • Auditors said after reviewing dates and other details they determined Favre “did not speak nor was he present for those events.”
      • Favre doesn’t face any criminal charges related to the misappropriation of public funds.
      • He will likely have to have Favre Enterprises (not the Foundation) repay the money it received.
        • (I don’t want to get us sued.)
  • A total of $94 million in spending was “questioned” by state auditors, meaning the money was in all likelihood misspent or the auditors could not verify that it had been spent legally.
    • The money in question came from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, a federal block grant that states have wide latitude to use to help lower income families, including through cash assistance for very poor families formerly known as the “welfare check.”
      • In 2017 the Mississippi Department of Human Services reportedly rejected 98.5 percent of welfare applicants the previous year.
      • The agency also reported leaving nearly $50 million in TANF funds unused.
    • Because it came from a federal grant from the Dept. of Health & Human Services, the FBI are also involved in the investigation.
  • Former Mississippi Department of Human Services Director John Davis is in jail awaiting trial on embezzlement charges, along with Nancy New, the leader of the Mississippi Community Education Center.
    • MCEC gave contracts to, and hired, family members of Davis, sometimes making lump sum payments. The payments and salaries to his nephew and brother-in-law totaled more than $1 million over the past several years, auditors said.
    • MCEC bought three cars with welfare money, each worth more than $50,000, for New and two sons. Salaries, cellphones and other expenses were paid using welfare money.
  • The News’, Davis and other state and nonprofit employees indicted in what investigators called a “sprawling conspiracy” face hundreds of years in prison.
Nancy New (left) and former Mississippi Department of Human Services Executive Director John Davis (third from left). Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (second from right) & U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (right)
  • Also indicted is Brett DiBiase, son of the “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase.
    • Davis was close to the DiBiase family; his agency awarded more than $2 million in grants to the “Heart of David Ministry” owned by the patriarch, Ted DiBiase Sr.
      • And that Davis and Ted DiBiase Jr. had gone into business together, developing a motivational training program called Law of 16 that they delivered to public agencies on the nonprofit’s dime.
        • Ted DiBiase Jr.’s companies Priceless Ventures LLC and Familiae Orientem received more than $3 million from the nonprofits between 2017 and 2019, but the audit does not show that Davis financially benefited.

i only wanted to link the Favre bit to Florio’s shit-stirring, but the more I read the more I wanted to dig. The whole affair just reeks of a loud, fat-cutting Republican getting put in charge & then just diverting the proceeds to himself and his colleagues at the expense of people who will never vote for him, or likely vote.


Tonight’s … entertainment?:

  • Korea Baseball Organization:
    • NC Dinos at Samsung Lions – 1:00AM | ESPN
  • Wrasslin’:
    • Best of WWE Wrestlemania – FS1
      • Edge – 8:00PM
      • Brock Lesnar – 9:00PM
      • Roman Reigns – 10:00PM

I’m sorry, but none of the regular TV options looks interesting, so I’m not listing anything else of interest. Please talk amongst yourselves.

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Brick Meathook
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The Dr. Mrs. is not making my plan to drink less easier when she fails to finish her beer and I have to pick up the slack.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Rikki; maybe not the hero we asked for, BUT THE HERO WE NEED.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Just throw yourself on the grenade for the team.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Dead Tom Petty plays a lot of songs by a lady named Ann Peebles. Never heard of her before Dead Tom brought her to my attention, but she is fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfVAEDNhDzU

Unsurprised

Mississippi’s Lt. Governor has the weirdest constitutional duties.
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ArmedandHammered

Nope, nothing gay at all, not a thing, nothing to suggest otherwise. Pro Wrestling is good clean fun.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Had a disturbing experience earlier this evening. I was walking to the kitchen to refresh my adult beverage and caught out of the side of my eye that my 16 year old spaniel mix, who is mostly blind and deaf, was in the fucking swimming pool. In all her years here, she has always avoided the pool, which was just fine with me. I went out and called her to come to me by the steps; she was able get over to the steps but her muscle mass is so degraded that she couldn’t even climb out on the steps and I had to drag her out by her collar. So now the entire pool yard is closed off to the dogs. I guess she couldn’t see where she really was, got too close to the pool and her back legs went out from under her as seems to happen with disturbing frequency these days, and off she went into the drink.
What a flashback. 40 years ago when I was 20, this very same thing happened with our 17 year old poodle, me and my mom did not catch it like I did today; my dad was at work. I dove in to get her drowned corpse and buried her wet corpse out back before the old man got home; we told him that she was just laying in bed dead. One of the very few times in my life I have seen him cry. My mom still maintains that if he knew that the dog had drowned due to inattention on her and my part, he would have divorced her. And probably disinherited me.’
As it was, that dog had been my sibling for 17 years, since I was a toddler, and it was pretty tough on me too, especially since we had to maintain the code of silence to cover up the actual death events from my dad. For the last 40 years.

Gratliff

I’d have just started pouring in cement mix. I have no armor when it comes to pets, and the shit just devastates me. Doesn’t stop me from signing up for another tragedy 10-15 years from now, though.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Mildred is probably not gonna see New Year’s 2021. Gertrude is younger by 5 or 6 years, but as a chow mix has a probably shorter lifespan, as I understand it for that breed. I am very much on the fence as to whether I will re-invigorate my dog population when they are both gone. I’m only going to get already-house-trained rescues if I do decide to get another dog, I’m too old and lazy to house train a puppy.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I have a feeling that post-COVID there will be many dogs who need homes, many of whom will have been given plenty of house-training attention by homebound owners.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Hopefully those dogs will not have gone feral after the Great Die-Off that’s coming.

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BC Dick

Goddamn Canadians.

Viva La Tabula Raza

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Sharkbait

Don’t forget the lesser known sequel: Duck, Duck, Goose Step

Viva La Tabula Raza

Sieg heil!

Mr. Ayo

Don’t forget the Minnesoter version: Duck, Duck, Grey Duck.

Viva La Tabula Raza

There’s always the Grey Goose, too.

Mr. Ayo

Thank god!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Gooses is not a real word.

Col. Duke LaCross

If you got a problem with the word Canada Gooses , then you got a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate!
*breaks beer bottle for some reason

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Never forget.

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Dunstan

10% of the time, it works every time! — R. Kraft

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The Viagra ad says it works 99% of the time, now I know what they mean.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Is that a bong or a butt plug? *Asking for a good friend.*

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Brick Meathook

K&E Log Log Duplex Decitrig Sliderule, with the green leather case:

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Senor Weaselo

Remember, hara-kiri and Harry Carey are different things.

Dunstan

True, but both are easier to take when drunk.

Viva La Tabula Raza

that’s the one I’ve got from my dad.

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litre_cola

Fuck you Karen.

BC Dick

She’s not wrong, technically. Kind of a cunt, still.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Yes, she is.

BC Dick

Well. Most viruses you vaccinate with the same virus. Or, if everyone gets it everyone who doesn’t die is immune. Cured.
At least until it mutates.

ballsofsteelandfury

I think we can all agree Karen is a cunt.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I introduced the Smartest Person in the World That I Know, a somewhat plain looking woman from LaGrange Texas, a structural engineer, to the term “Republicunt,” and she has adopted it with a fervor that, to be honest, has really surprised me. She also really took to “Branch Covidians.”

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You were not paying attention again. Her point is if her hairdresser can’t work for a few months of distancing that denying her privilege is worse than 200,000+ deaths, overwhelming the healthcare system, and all the other shit that would hit the fan if we didn’t take precautions. I see from your answer you are a PHD immunologist. You should go to the protest and breath deep. That is such simplistic stupid statement that it isn’t even…. fuck it, not worth it.

BC Dick

Ohh yes. I was missing her point. Too literal, I was.
Does that mean Karen is smarter than me. Fuck me.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

That’s what all these protests are supposedly about. But regardless, as you say; it is not worth either of our precious joke posting time to engage in any discussion based on this and what you’ve said before.

Viva La Tabula Raza

The independent hair-cutting lady who has cut my hair since 2005, who resembles Julie Christie, who I dated for a couple years, and who just had to bury her 30-year-old daughter back in January due to complications from juvenile diabetes and all the attendant side effects (such as kidney failure, which in this case is what finally killed the poor girl), called me last week. She wasn’t trying to solicit revenue, just checking on all her customers. She said she had not cut any hair in 6 weeks. I told her I would be ready as soon as I thought it was safe, but that I did not trust Governor Abbot’s lifting of the restrictions. She was down with that, we both agreed that a lot more people are going to die, sooner rather than later. And this is a diz-gal (but one with some native intelligence) from way deep west Texas.
Fortunately for her, she was a switch-hitter, and when we broke up, she hooked up with a really nice lesbian millionaire heiress who owns a really swanky pet resort/boarding place. So, I guess except for her daughter dying, she’s doing alright. I did cry when we talked about Tyla’s passing.

Gumbygirl

All the hairdressin’ in the world won’t make Karen any less of a fugly cunt. And I reserve that word for Karen’s like her.

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Brick Meathook

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Mr. Ayo

Nice makeup kit.

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Brick Meathook

oh shit this was supposed to be a different picture

Viva La Tabula Raza

“I see everything twice!”
—Captain John Yossarian

Don T

Actually,
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My favorite book.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I tried to read it when I was 13 but it was too dense, finally figured it out when I was in my late teens, and have probably read it a dozen times over the last 40 years. As a USAF employee (environmental/construction) project manager working with various contractors, I instructed them all (this was in Europe) to read the book so they could understand who they were working for.
Everyone gets a share, that’s the beauty of it.

Brick Meathook

Catch 22 is my Bible

Dunstan

You’re getting fake baseball news whether you want it or not. Good news for Yankees-haters today, as we move to the Jack Buck Region:

Top Half:
(16) 1967 Boston Red Sox def. (1) 1975 Cincinnati Reds in five games: 5-2, 6-3, 2-7, 16-5, 7-3
Series MVP: BOS 2B Mike Andrews, .500 AVG, .583 OBP, .650 SLG
Summary: The biggest upset possible according to seedings, though the Sox may have been underseeded and were certainly a tough draw for the Big Red Machine. We’ll have to ask Pete Rose what odds he was getting on his action.

(8) 1993 Toronto Blue Jays def. (9) 1957 Milwaukee Braves in four games: 4-1, 5-2, 5-2, 12-5
Series MVP: TOR 1B John Olerud, .600 AVG, .684 OBP, 1.067 SLG, 5 R, 4 RBI
Summary: A surprisingly easy series for the Jays, who got terrific pitching and held Hank Aaron to just one single and no extra-base hits all series.

(13) 1997 Florida Marlins def. (4) 1932 New York Yankees in seven games: 0-2, 3-2, 7-8, 13-2, 0-7, 1-0, 9-8
Series MVP: FLA 3B Bobby Bonilla, .333 AVG, 4 R, 8 RBI
Summary: After getting blown out in Game Five to fall behind 3-2, the Marlins pulled out a pair of squeakers, a 1-0 pitching battle in Game Six, and a 9-8 slugfest in Game Seven. The finale saw the Yankees take an early 2-0, only to fall behind 7-2 on a pair of homers by Jeff Conine (1, 2) and back-to-back longballs from Kurt Abbott (3) and Gary Sheffield (1). New York rallied to tie it in the top of the 6th, but Moises Alou’s two-run single in the bottom of the inning held up as the margin of victory. Honorable mention for MVP goes to New York’s Red Ruffing, who won both his starts, including a shared no-hitter, and allowed just one hit and no runs in 16 innings, striking out 28 and walking just three.

(12) 2017 Houston Astros def. 1963 Los Angeles Dodgers in six games: 4-5, 4-5, 7-6, 11-6, 7-6, 6-2
Series MVP: HOU 1B Yulieski Gurriel, .444 AVG, 2 HR, 7 RBI
Summary: Four games decided by one run, three of them in extra innings. The Dodgers held a 2-0 lead in Game Six, but six unanswered runs gave the series to the Astros. Houston was able to get to the Dodgers’ pitching, almost as if they knew what pitch was coming sometimes….

Dunstan

Bottom half:
(6) 1910 Philadelphia Athletics def. (11) 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates in seven games: 3-10, 0-10, 4-1, 3-4, 6-5, 1-0, 4-3
Series MVP: PHA LF Rube Oldring, .308 AVG, 6 R, 5 RBI, 2 HR
Summary: The Pirates scored 10 runs in each of the first two games to take a 2-0 series lead. They got ten runs total over the next three games, enough to take a 3-1 lead. But the A’s shut them out in Game Six, and were en route to doing the same in Game Seven until Willie Stargell hit a two-run single in the 8th to tie the game. But Rube Oldring – and you’ve got to love that name – blasted a two-run homer in the bottom of the inning off Dock Ellis to restore the A’s lead for good.

(14) 2012 San Francisco Giants def. (3) 1942 St. Louis Cardinals in six games: 1-2, 10-4, 1-0, 6-11, 7-2, 4-2
Series MVP: SF CF Angel Pagan, .448 AVG, .897 SLG
Summary: Madison Bumgarner won both his starts, including the series clincher in which he held the Cards to one run on four hits in eight innings.

(10) 1966 Baltimore Orioles def. (7) 2001 Seattle Mariners in six games: 5-9, 3-6, 12-7, 5-3, 3-2, 4-3
Series MVP: BAL LF Curt Blefary, .348 AVG, .826 SLG, 6 R, 6 RBI
Summary: The O’s dropped the first two games but recovered to win four straight. Andy Etchebarren’s solo homer, his second of the series, broke a 3-3 tie in the top of the 8th of Game Six.

(15) 1982 Milwaukee Brewers def. (2) 1939 New York Yankees in seven games: 6-3, 13-11, 1-6, 6-14, 6-4, 1-6, 5-4
Series MVP: MIL 1B Cecil Cooper, .357 AVG, 4 HR, 7 R, 7 RBI
Summary: The Brew Crew won a dramatic Game Seven victory to complete the upset. Pete Vukovich, having been roughed up in one start and a relief appearance, took a 3-0 lead into the 7th inning, but the Yankees finally broke through and tagged him for four runs. The lead was short-lived, though, as Paul Molitor hit a two-run single in the bottom of the inning, and Rollie Fingers and Bob McClure got through the final two innings. Gorman Thomas could easily have won MVP honors, with his five home runs and 10 RBI, while Joe DiMaggio did all he could for the Yanks with a .414 AVG, 2 HR, and 10 RBI.

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Mr. Ayo

Welp, at least the M’s made the playoffs for once. Although per rules they didn’t have choice.

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Dunstan

Nicholas Cage’s wedding photos took a strange turn.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I guess there’s not even any point in posting an image, is there?

litre_cola

If Hippo was around I would mock him for losing to the Giants, but he is busy in 2030 in Football manager.

Senor Weaselo

Jack Buck region is BANANACAKES, 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5 all go down in the first round!

Dunstan

Oh yeah, I had been expecting the Yankees to pull that one out, so I missed it.

The final region, Bob Uecker, has four of the eight series going the distance.

Senor Weaselo

BTW, MLB’s copying you for Dream Bracket 2: Probably the last one because maybe baseball in July?
/I still think the three divisions league is sillier than the Grapefruit/Cactus split, but it’s not my billions at stake.

Dunstan

Oh, I just uploaded an Excel spreadsheet of the bracket:

http://www.newfederalbaseballleague.com/MLB_tournament_bracket.xlsx

ballsofsteelandfury

Is it me or are the 1955 Dodgers on there twice?

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Where is WCS?

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BC Dick

My word. Just a pack of smokies and a pile of third-rate mayonnaise? And who is wearing all those sandals?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

You see the joke is….. forget it.

BC Dick

Yeah, I don’t get it. They’re going to power blast the dog and then eat it?

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I’m glad some women save their Halloween costumes.

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Sharkbait

*Reads Favre story*

*Reads news*

We should have let the South secede.

Viva La Tabula Raza

A number of plantation workers from that particular time period would probably disagree with that take.

Sharkbait

Good point.

BC Dick

Hey, HR said they received no formal complaints

Viva La Tabula Raza

I’m sure any complaints from the African-American community were suppressed, just like their votes.

SonOfSpam

Should’ve let Sherman off the leash a bit more.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

“Give it hell, Bill. Let your freak flag fly!”
—Abe

Though it looks like Governor Kemp will probably kill more Georgians than Sherman by the time it’s all said and done.

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Good point.

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litre_cola

This has to be a stupid British stag prank right?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

This has to be a stupid stag prank right?

Viva La Tabula Raza

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Has it occurred to anyone else that COVID spelled backwards is DIVOC? As in Vlade Divoc? I know it’s off by a letter, but I still think maybe he’s behind this.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

It all makes fucking sense now!

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SonOfSpam

Makes sense, now that he is no longer irritating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCTx6K3Irag

Dunstan

So you’re saying we just need to give the virus a little bump and it’ll flop over and cry for mercy?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

This joke flops into first place.

Dunstan

I saw the opportunity and dived right in.

Viva La Tabula Raza

“Hey, who stole my line?”
-Manu Ginobili and Karl Malone

Col. Duke LaCross

I worked for an NAIA basketball team as a manager back when I was in college from ‘99-‘02. One day the Kings were in town to play the Jazz and used our gym for their shoot around. Our coach asked if I wanted to hang out and get them ice and stuff. This is when they were awesome with Webber, Williams, Bibby, and such. It was a cool experience. After their practice their trainer asked me to run a couple bags of ice to Vlade. I found him behind the gym burning a dart and hitting on a couple of my Psychology classmates by the bus.

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Damn, a few beers into it and I’m pretty tight.

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BC Dick

That’s easy. Try a duck vagina.

BC Dick

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herodotus450

Well Im just glad all that stuff was going on in Mississippi and not here in America.
(puts ear to finger)
What’s that? Oh.
(shuffles papers)
Well, this is just another reason to vote for Small Government! If the incompent clowns in “Washington” hadn’t given the state all that money, they wouldn’t have misappropriated it!

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Mr. Ayo

That festival was a great time!

RIP

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You can go and just hang around.

Dunstan

You’d have to be nuts to go this year, though.

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I think the organizer got sacked.

litre_cola

They didn’t have enough Covid -19 testes for everyone

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I liked this joke so much I turned and coughed.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Go for it! The world is your Rocky Mountain Oyster!

Gumbygirl

They didn’t have the balls to go through with it.

theeWeeBabySeamus

South Carolina would like a word with you.

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I image searched “stupid South Carolina” and this popped up.

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Which was beaten out by this.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Nothing like seeing the American flag and the Participation Trophy flag flying side by side.

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“YOUR RONG!!”

BC Dick

Oh that’s good there. Took me a bit.

BC Dick

Fuck. America is fun. The range of people is as varied as the landscape.
Lovely folks, too, once they know you’re not one of them uppity canucks.

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Dunstan

Just made some ginger syrup (Andy Dalton was not harmed), and I have lots of limes and various forms of alcohol. It’s cocktail hour!

First up was an old-fashioned variant, supposedly called the Southern Baptist: rye, ginger syrup, lime, and dash of Angostura. A good start to the evening.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Just made some ginger syrup

“How much did that cost Jason Garrett?”

-Robert K., Cayman Islands

Viva La Tabula Raza

Todd Marinovich has gone missing.

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You see because Bob Kraft got a h….. aw forget it.

BC Dick

What kind of rye you working with?

Dunstan

Bulleit

BC Dick

Ah. I thought was bourbon but it does have a rye bite to it as I recall.
Looked it up and it’s apparently bourbon with a high rye content.
Which would still qualify as rye. Only need a little dash of rye to qualify. Bourbon is much stricter on their rules.
No matter. That’s good stuff. Enjoy.

Dunstan

They make both. This one’s labelled as rye.

BC Dick

Cool. I’ve never had that one then. I go Alberta Premium all the time. 100% rye, 100% cheap… only 40% alcohol but 2/3 ain’t bad.

litre_cola

It is my go to. The cost here has dropped by 20 bucks a 750ml in the last couple years.

BC Dick

I’m gonna put a still in my shed. I’ll be prepared for the next world ending virus.

litre_cola

We make it in to a bar like in England. No need for a grow op anymore. I will come out in the fall or July for a couple days.

BC Dick

Good idea. I’ll be visiting your town too once the rules are lifted. I’ve got plans there.

Dunstan

Drink #2 was the Lion’s Tale: scotch (supposed to be bourbon, but I’m out), lime, ginger syrup, allspice dram, and Angostura. A step up, I think — I love what the allspice dram brings to a drink.

Dunstan

And now going with gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de Violette, lime, and ginger syrup. I call it the Red-Headed Aviator

rockingdog

Found a funny:
elon musk really named his child after the wifi password

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Marcy, Marcy, Marcy. Playground
Not the same era, but…

theeWeeBabySeamus

It’s the newer Jan Brady.

theeWeeBabySeamus
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scotchnaut

“No one likes us Atoll!”

-The Bikini

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BC Dick

I would eat the pudding.

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litre_cola

That’s a good working dog!

BC Dick

He must’ve been at the job quite a while to work his way up to that size.

rockingdog

Thats a rocking dog rite there

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hook that thing up to a coax cable and I could probably get some local TV. Well, at least until he had to take a shit.

Brick Meathook

At my last job we had a house pug dog who ran around to all the offices. I love dogs and this guy was one year old and I loved him too (and I loved fighting with him in his young dog playfulness, where I would sit in my swiveling office chair and he would try to bite my stockinged feet (1 point for him), but i was too quick and would get a stockinged foot up under his ass and give him a little lift (1 point for me). A lot of exercise was had by both parties in five minutes) but I swear to God pugs are actually space aliens.

litre_cola

I agree with the alien take. Every shit day I would have the second I came in the door to that alien Oxipug I would laugh at him and not be pissed off anymore. “How are you a thing?”

Viva La Tabula Raza

After hearing back to back songs by the Kinks and the Pretenders on the Sirius, I remembered that Chryssie Hynde and Ray Davies rubbed genitals for a while back in the early 1980s (Pretenders did a good cover of Kinks’ I Go To Sleep) and she gave birth to a daughter as a result. I thought that with that kind of rock pedigree the daughter would have become quite an artist in her own right, though I had never heard of anything. Quick internet search reveals that, no. Did find this, though : “Hynde’s daughter Natalie was arrested in 2013 following a protest against the felling of trees in Combe Haven, East Sussex, to make way for a road,” with the final verdict: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ray-davies-and-chrissie-hyndes-daughter-guilty-of-besetting-83475/
At least she has the right instincts. Unfortunately, the poor girl looks more like her dad than her mom.

Gumbygirl

They also covered Stop Your Sobbing

Gumbygirl
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My dog had one of those cones around her neck to prevent her from licking her surgery scars once. I guess it’s the same philosophy. Didn’t work all that well for her, she kept trying to tear it off. Same thing’s probably going to happen in this instance, especially given lockdown and social distancing policies currently in place.

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Yes, that’s the joke.

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We had a guy on the ship that could have used one of those. He’d stay on board and jack it instead of going on liberty to hang with bar girls, even in places like the Philippines. His nickname was “Chronic.” Of course, in his defense, he never got the clap or herpes.

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His last name was Ohler, so his alternate nickname was Onan the Barbarian.

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Gothlights.

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BC Dick

I think if you combined them you’d have it

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rockingdog

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scotchnaut

“The Great Dandruffing of 1958 prevented audiences from seeing a truly fine movie.”

/seriously, that’s a beautiful pic

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scotchnaut

This is always fun. Eagles fans reacting to their second round pick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMwWHzn3W90

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That is so Eagles…..

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To be fair; that is about how a few of the radio parasites around here acted about the Donks second rounder.

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And how Hippo reacted to the Drew Lock second, second round pick. But unlike the rest we love us some Hippo.

BC Dick

So this waterhead set up a video camera pointed at his own face just to capture his reaction to a bleeding draft pick? Sweet dirty lord the things people broadcast should be a lot more embarrassing to them.

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Yes!!

Brick Meathook

A collection of things on my desk:

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BC Dick

That’s one goddamn fancy ruler there

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I still have my dad’s 60-year-old college Keuffel & Esser slide rule, with a fancy leather pouch. I couldn’t figure out how to use it if you held a gun to my head. Same as this one, but with green rather than brown leather.comment image

scotchnaut

Insertion-wise, I’m only about 30% onboard. That said, I could be talked into 65% if the price is right.

BC Dick

All of them at once or one at a time?

scotchnaut

Depends. How much money you got?

BC Dick

A roll of loonies.
Gonna get pretty full in there.

scotchnaut

The first one has to be a $50 Tim Horton’s gift card or the whole thing is off.

BC Dick

They only go up to $20. No one has ever wanted $50 worth of Tim Hortons.

scotchnaut

Someone has done way too much homework.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Holy shit. That’s my watch I never wear anymore. Don’t even know where it is. You stole it.

These days I wear a cheap ass Timex Indiglo, which if I break it, I don’t care.

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NFL has new jerseys. They also have a “vintage” one.

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scotchnaut

I feel the same way about Zantac that the US Army felt about Agent Orange-“Sure, it causes cancer but it’s really effective!”

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litre_cola

Spotify Discover gave me this one. I do like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9DjDh3yjSM

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Fucking Texas, man. State motto should be “At least we’re not Florida”.

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theeWeeBabySeamus

He looks fun.

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US Hwy 180 runs through the panhandle. Kind of surprising, up there I’d expect this kinda thing on a pickup. Camaro would seem more east Texas/Houston for this kinda thing.

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litre_cola

Lost my bets on KBO last night. It’s like I know nothing and did no research other than eating kimchi on my smokies last night.

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That is some damn good research tho!

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Meanwhile up North.

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litre_cola

Kimchi on hot dogs/smokies/sausages has changed my life. Went 0 for 3 last night.

Stupid kimchi, I couldn’t be mad at you baby.

BC Dick

Changed it in that now you put kimchi on tube meats?

litre_cola

Yes. It is everything.

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Corn dogs are also versatile.

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ballsofsteelandfury

This is better investigative journalism than on Florio’s site.

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scotchnaut

“Stuck in a glass case of emotion? It’s been done…”

-Will Ferrell

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BC Dick

Holy mother of ducklings, a Gwar reference. Appreciated.

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I think GWAR should all wear Donald Trump latex masks at their live shows, going forward.

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This is quintessential Mississippi. Since “white collar” crime is no longer a crime and in some cases their connections will be overseeing prosecution, I would expect the gentlest of hand slaps.

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Soda/beer can weed pipe was the go-to on the ship and in the barracks. That or the Skilcraft-ballpoint-and-tinfoil combo.

litre_cola

Oh we are all getting alzheimers from smoking like that.

BC Dick

Use an apple. The natural pipe.

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Sometimes difficult to obtain on a ship in the middle of the Indian Ocean; soda machines abounded, however. Adapt, improvise, overcome.

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I had not heard this before; pretty fucking funny.

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Dead Tom Petty just played this on his Buried Treasure app show. I haven’t heard it in decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj_lZ4hkJd8

Dunstan

So you’re saying that when it came time for Favre to deliver speeches or appearances in exchange for taxpayer money, he came up short?

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HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! This comment deserves MANY 50 mLs.

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Guess the Mississippi Dept of Human Services took it’s inspiration from those Capital One David Spade “NO” ads.

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I’m thinking their “child protective services” are in a similar state of disrepair.

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