The title is apropos, since I’m not sure there won’t be a second Open Thread that pops up from some online folder.
As Sharkbait adequately defined, we’ve been having some server issues ’round these parts,
so we thank you all for your patience as we work through them. Internet Dad is doing yeoman’s service behind the scenes trying to get them resolved, and deserves all the thanks in the world for trying to keep us on the air.
I don’t really understand what’s going on. I just try to stay out of the way, submit my pieces, and then passive-aggressively ask “what’s wrong now?” when the thing I don’t know how to fix gets in the way of my minimum involvement in the site’s operations. If [DFO] were an office, I’m the mailroom kid who desperately needs grease for his cart’s wheels in the midst of the building being on fire.
Nonetheless, we’re hoping that things improve steadily during the course of the week, but I don’t want to make promises I can’t keep.
Tonight’s sports & stuff:
Sports:
- NHL:
- Chicago vs Columbus – 7:00pm | NHLN
- Winnipeg vs Montreal – 7:00pm | Sportsnet / CityTV
- Ottawa vs Toronto – 7:00pm | CBC
- Edmonton vs Calgary – 10:00pm | NHLN / CBC / Sportsnet
- NBA:
- Toronto vs Cleveland – 7:30pm | Sportsnet360
- LA Lakers vs Brooklyn – 8:30pm | ABC / TSN4
- NCAA:
- Football:
- Delaware at Delaware St. – 6:00pm | ESPN2
- A game for scouts looking for a future Flacco.
- Delaware at Delaware St. – 6:00pm | ESPN2
- Hockey:
- NCAA Frozen Four Championship – 7:00pm | ESPN / TSN2
- St. Cloud State Huskies vs. UMass Minutemen
- NCAA Frozen Four Championship – 7:00pm | ESPN / TSN2
- Football:
- MLB:
- Angels at Blue Jays – 7:00pm | Sportsnet1
- Fisticuffs:
- Joe Smith Jr. vs. Maxim Vlasov – 10:00pm | ESPN
- Showtime Boxing: Ennis vs. Lipinets – 10:00pm | TSN2
Stuff:
- SNL – 11:30pm/8:30pm – NBC / Global
It’s a full docket. Hopefully, the site remains viable for us this evening. Your patronage & patience are greatly appreciated. Happy Commenting.
100 comments? Nature is healing.
Are you people all asleep? I’ve been coked out of my mind for three days straight.
Does that go better with J&J or Moderna?
It enhanced my J&J
Finally had to stop messing with that stuff. When John Entwistle was my age, he had already been dead for five years.
My brother and cousin decided to come stay with me this weekend AFTER understanding my wife is out of town. They just took off to the strip. I’m thinking they didn’t appreciate the VEGAS!!!!! limitations on a father of a two year old flying solo for a few days.
I’m glad to have my night to myself actually.
That’s a rarity. Enjoy responsibly!
Wake them up early to go have breakfast. They will appreciate your hospitality!
Ha. I told them the kid’s schedule and there’s no sleeping him in.
Finally trying that Kimchi Sour beer. It’s a little thin and weird but tasty.
That one I’m eager to try
Drinking Glenmorangie and listening to The Cure. How you goin?
Drinking a Dopplebock and listening to my Blue Rodeo station on Pandora.
Balls? Edge of the deep green sea is the best unkown song by The Cure.
This is true.
But they have a TON of those. I honestly can think of 30 Cure songs off the top of my head that I like. That’s an insane number for a band.
I am slowly converting Gumby to a Cure fan. I love them, but he was never on board. He’s starting to appreciate their awesomeness, he was singing along to Friday I’m in Love the other day.
Here we go:
Killing an Arab
10:15 Saturday Night
Boys Don’t Cry
Jumping Someone Else’s Train
Play For Today
A Forest
17 Seconds
Primary
Charlotte Sometimes
The Hanging Garden
Let’s Go To Bed
The Walk
The Caterpillar
The Lovecats
Happy The Man
A Few Hours After This
Close To Me
A Man Inside My Mouth
Why Can’t I Be You?
Just Like Heaven
Hot Hot Hot
Plainsong
Pictures Of You
Love Song
Lullaby
Fascination Street
The Same Deep Water As You
Disintegration
Untitled
Open
High
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
Friday I’m In Love
Trust
Cut
To Wish Impossible Things
I forgot The Exploding Boy!
And Halo and Burn and Scared As You!
Shit, I’m up to 40!
In Between Days
Never Enough
I was driving a cab in San Diego while sleeping on the floor of an apartment in PB and 91X said there was a release of single tickets for a show at the Sports Aroma.
I had a single seat about 14 rows from the stage.
Fuck yes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eh6_FFUSg4
Drinking a negroni and watching Ted Lasso again.
Domestics and Souixsie Sue. So even wavelength.
Enjoying a gin while listening to the finest martial music south of Lake Victoria. ‘Tis a great time to be alive.
So is the site still down?
Down to party.
With OPP?
Yeah you know me!
night one of wrestlemania was a lot better than expected
Any night with Sasha Banks is a lot better.
Jesus.
https://twitter.com/BulletClubIta/status/1381089156227604480
I don’t recall this young lady’s match.
Here’s a lo-res rough speed test, but I just had to share the route through the cones I went through today. It all went very smoothly though, I must say.
This is from entry to check-in to vaccination tents to exit.
https://vimeo.com/535398259
That’s awesome! I know exactly where that is as I got my graduate degree there. I used to park in those lots. Glad to hear everything went well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Af8r49B4iQ&feature=youtu.be
Hey, Shane, don’t think you’re going to win over your dad after 51 years with this.
But good luck anyway.
No, but he might get put back into the will. Anything to water down Hornswaggle’s portion.
Who just got his J&J vaccine?
Me, that’s who!
I have astonishing motion picture footage of the drive-thru process at Cal State University Los Angeles, which I’m generating into a short time-lapse driving film. It might take a day, but I’ll share it. It is amazing.
CAN’T WAIT!
Got my first today, was amazed at how organized it was, they must not have used NCDOT planners.
TRUE HIPPO FACT! I originally wanted to be a traffic engineer, but quickly discovered I was too stupid.
Everyone in law school failed upwards to it.
“What if green also meant… stop?”
-Young Hippo
I saw they had a drive thru one in San Pedro today, next to the USS Iowa. I’m looking forward to your time-lapse, they are always cool!
Yeah, mine was in a parking garage. Not quite drive-thru, as you pulled into a parking spot to get checked in, get your shot, and wait out the “let’s see if he passes out” period. But a pretty smooth operation. Probably helped that I had the earliest appointment slot of the day.
Got mine a few days ago. FEELING INVINCIBLE.
Did not go to LA for it, since it’s dirty and there are scary people there.
“It’s true, you’ll get stabbed just for wearing any apparel with an American flag on it.” – Fox News
fuck yeah iohnson club!
worse short term side effects, but only 1 shot.
The only side effect I’ve noticed is an insatiable craving for alcohol.
To build on RTD’s Clue concept, I present to you: Porn Clue
Weapons:
Dildo
Anal Beads
Magic Wand
Butt Plug
Nipple Clamps
Whip
Candle Wax
People:
Blonde MILF (Mrs. Robinson)
Asian Girl (Miss Jade)
Ebony Girl (Miss Chocolate)
Canadian Guy (Colonel North)
Black Guy (Mr. Marcus)
She-Male (Professor Moriarty)
Rooms:
Cauldron
Kitchen
Sex Dungeon
Rubber Room
Bathroom
Bedroom
Mr. Marcus! Pretend Everton (then Pretend Man City’s) rampaging “squad player” fullback!
No gently-used Fleshlight?
That’s always the prize!
This also has potential as a film.
She’s currently in “Promising Young Woman”,
?w=620&h=360&crop=1
which Twitter tells me is revenge porn for girls people won’t fuck.
She seems miscast, in my opinion.
Agreed, plenty of guys with a Rainbow Brite fetish would crush that like she was a beer can at a frat party.
I am still not over Brocky revealing there was Wednesday Addams-related kink
You say that like it’s a bad thing
Should have posted this yesterday on his 93rd birthday, but better late than never. Here’s Tom Lehrer with a song about the delights of springtime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY
He should be on our money.
Brazilians put artists on their money.
The Brits have honored Darwin and Jane Austen, and probably a bunch more non-politicians (and non-monarchs) who I’ve forgotten.
I like all the portraits on American currency (the only real money). But if they’re going to change one, the new guy should be Neil Armstrong.
Huh, turns out it’s Kid Cud-ee, like the cows chew, and not King Coo-dee, like he haz cooties. Still don’t know who he is, and I haven’t watched SNL in at least 20 years, but the more you (don’t) know!
Surprised by this. My mom told me about him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xzU9Qqdqww
What a coinkidink, this is what he told me about your mom!
I meant everyone’s response here, not just yours.
But well done. (Also what he said about her obviously)
I’m just messing with you. Your mom isn’t actually banging Sesame Street characters! Everyone knows they all have teh gay!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDfSZ_6f4U
Really like this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDfSZ_6f4U
I see the bow tie, and am all liek – Black Republican or Nation of Islam?
He’s from Cleveland if that informs your guess.
Very Sad #ThePauls supporter, then
So he always dresses like everyday is a funeral?
assam alego, homey
so i got my shot Thursday, and people at work are complaining that they signed up too late for an earlier dosage. apparently its my fault they don’t know how to use the website
This NASCAR anthem was something else.
Literally, it was not the anthem.
🎵the election was rigged, Joe has dementia🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxHnXajIex4
So I had an idea when I woke up this morning about a board game vaguely similar to Clue but instead the setting is a mental asylum and the characters are types of patients – a sociopath, an extra chromosome-having fellow, a paranoid schizophrenic…no idea how the actual gameplay works, but the rooms would be things like the electroshock therapy room, the water therapy room, the rubber room, etc.
Alternately, it could be a video game – Angry Birds: Cuckoo’s Nest.
One guy is legitimately sane but no one believes him.
This is a good Among Us tie in.
so basically you’re describing one of those gimmick versions of clue with the characters replaced with a particular pop culture subject?
like there’s regular monopoly and Simpson’s monopoly. there’s regular clue, and Simpson’s clue.
the idea has potential, but it would need more to just not simply be a cut and paste job
My dark/million dollar idea was to re-boot Quantum Leap – but this time, Scott Bakula has to rape a cacophony of history’s worst monsters (Idi Amin, Pinochet, MRSA Dreamboat, etc.)
Escape from the Asylum | Board Game | BoardGameGeek
Sounds different, but neat!
Oh yeah, wasn’t suggesting your idea had been done. I just figured someone must have done an asylum-themed game of some kind.
Decided to make extra sandwiches and store them in the fridge for tomorrow.
*visible confusion at concept of “extra” sandwiches intensifies*
I couldn’t decide whether to be annoyed by the MAGA protest I drove by today, or laugh at how small it was.
I’m thinking laughter was the right call.
We also have Wrestlemania (all times Pacific)
17:00 Wrestlemania 37 Night 1
We also have NASCAR (all times Pacific)
(Whenever the rain decides to fuck off) NASCAR Cup Series – Martinville
Oh fuck me, Wrestlemania is under a weather delay too.
Well, you never know when Hulkamania is gonna come raining down on you.
/only knows 30-year-old references in wrestling
//or music
assuming you don’t know, hogan was there giving a promo
Was he promoting that new media property that he owns?
FOAR teh record, I have no idea who Carey Mulligan or Kid Cudi are.
git off-a mah lawn
Can’t believe you don’t remember that Carey played Sally Sparrow on one of the best Doctor Who episodes.
/nerd rage builds
She’s the girl from Blink? woooow.
We also have AFL (all times Pacific)
8:10 PM – North Melbourne v Adelaide
10:10 PM – Melbourne v Geelong
11:40 PM – Fremantle v Hawthorn
That’s what happens when they don’t soak the cork enough.
You gotta lube the cork properly before shoving it in there, or else it ruins the whole experience.
but enough about the newly-available Queen’s pussy!