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It feels like only a month ago we were celebrating Groundhog Day. /holds hand to ear. What’s that? I’m being told it was indeed a month ago that we marked Groundhog Day, and that no one actually celebrated or gave a shit. Seems like a shame all around, that.
But alas, we’re one sixth of the way through 2023. Not that it won’t be a slog, but time sure does fly when the world keeps hurtling forward while ignoring fundamental socioeconomic imbalances and injustices combined with intentional fomenting of disinformation and hate in a way inevitable to lead to political and/or racial violence in the near future hastening the decline/collapse of Western democracy ahead of chaos, anarchy, and/or a Waterworld-type future.
And yeah, March goes in like a lion and out like a lamb. It snowed here last weekend, and I have no idea if it’s going to be in the 40s or 70s on any given day.
So, as I often pose the question in open threads…what’s good?
Litre has been so kind as to share myriad travel stories, wine knowledge, and other personalized insights, that I felt like perhaps I should tell a story or two on these rotational Thursdays. Inspired by Guttersnipe, I wanted to tell a bowling-related story. No, not about the many times I’ve broken 200, but about some good old fashioned awkwardness.
As has been observed, I’m a bit of a bowler. My high school friends and I enjoyed heading to the local lanes, even when we were back in town from college on break. One fine evening, we were out throwing rocks, and one of my buddies noticed a VERY attractive young lady a few lanes over. My friend perhaps could have displayed some more tact, but he was just staring daggers at the lass. And whilst we were still kids, barely removed from high school ourselves and a mere 19 years old or so, this was almost certainly a 17 or 18 year old high school girl. After a LOT of leering between frames, the young lady unabashedly approached my buddy and said “I’ve noticed you staring me all night. Are you gonna come talk to me, or are you just gonna keep staring?” My friend, who had a girlfriend and was enjoying ogling preconfrontation, stammered out, “uh, I’m just staring,” at which point she stormed off ostensibly disappointed and we all had a good laugh at it.
Honestly, I’m not even sure if that’s a good story anymore, so let me know in the comments.
What’s On Tonight?
76ers @ Mavs, 6:30PM DFO time on TNT
Clippers @ Warriors, 9PM DFO time on TNT
NHL
A shitload of games allegedly on ESPN+
NCAA
Michigan at Illinois, 6PM DFO time on ESPN
Wichita State at Houston, 6PM DFO time on ESPN2
Marist at Iona (wat), 6PM DFO time on ESPN3
Arizona State at UCLA, 8PM DFO time on ESPN
Memphis at SMU, 8PM DFO time on ESPN2
Quinnipiac at Fairfield, 8PM DFO time on ESPN3
Purdue at Wisconsin, 8PM DFO time on FS1
Cal at Oregon, 10 PM DFO time on FS1
Alright, that’s all she wrote. Get to the comments and hasten the arrival of Friday and the weekend!
Any old school hip-hop fans might be interested to know that De La Soul finally cleared all legal hurdles regarding their sampling, and as of midnight 3/3, their early albums are FINALLY available to stream. I’ve been listening to “3 Feet High & Rising” all night in the Uber.
https://youtu.be/pxkOWjZAPLs
I’m gonna toddle off to bed. For Wakey, Blax, and anyone else who had a shitty day, hope it’s better tomorrow!
I had quite a nice day, and then blew it up by coming in 12 of 14 in poker! I can’t say I have huge regrets about any of the hands I played; I burned out fast at the end because I got a series of good hands that required big bets to even see the flop for, which then didn’t turn into anything.
Big bets that barely flopped and got you killed wanting a King?
Wouldn’t that hand be called Holding an Ashlii Babbitt?
[raises glass]
Refs bouncing a guy in the front row behind the monitor.
I do have a question. Is it just me or do all coffee pots dribble instead of efficiently pouring?
Yeah. I think it’s the shape being too concerned with minimizing splash.
It’s gotta be something like that. Over the years and different styles they all seem to do it.
“It” being, not getting sued.
Mr Coffee ain’t Smith and Wesson over here…
Makes sense. Also a reason why we find Waffle House waitresses so attractive. Their skills.
Evening everyone. What’s good? I have a good community, nice hood. Good place good people. Like everywhere as you expand out, problems are there. Be well everyone.
Glad you’re surrounded by good folks! That’s the way to be.
Wife: My friend texted me that she heard UCLA now has the nation’s longest active home winning steak.
Me: The only thing actively streaking around UCLA that I care to hear about is a mass shooter.
So we’re quietly waiting for the check that cannot come fast enough even though i swear that is funny.
Let me get this straight. If someone told you that the UCLA cheerleaders were streaking around UCLA you WOULD NOT CARE? Cheerleaders like this?
All girls dress this way all the time anymore.
Cool that USC has a guy getting over his cardiac arrest last summer and is, “really getting back into playing shape.”
Okay so the Murdaugh kid that got murdered by his own dad was himself a murderer; he drunkenly drove a boat into a piling and killed one of his passengers. Based on that, on a scale of “not deserving at all” to “absolutely deserved that and probably even worse”, where would you put what happened to him? I haven’t been following this case closely but from what I’ve read it sounds like he rates at least a 7.
Apparently the surviving son, Buster the Beneficiary, has a dead gay lover he might be responsible for deading. Nice family, salt of the earth!
you would think this family is into lye instead of salt
I’m waiting to see Bubbles on Wheel of Fortune, but right now everyone on this Jeopardy! episode are excessively grating.
I didn’t get Bubbles as much as Young Colonel Sanders.
He was definitely working this look:
Looks like a young, gay John Candy to me.
Drew Carey
Yeah, I see it. A little bit of this too
https://youtu.be/Xv2VIEY9-A8
McNutty! My mainest man!
Speaking of women I wouldn’t know what to do with, I made a new drink tonight called the Wildest Redhead
https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/the-wildest-redhead-from-meaghan-dorman/
Not sure where I would get allspice dram.
Other than mine and Sharky’s house?
I don’t remember where you live but high end liquor stores tend to have it.
Most common brand name is St. Elizabeth’s
‘Tis indeed the one I have
As is mine.
That’s what mine says too!
— Lea Michele holding a bottle of shampoo
I’m not even sure I’ve seen any others.
<High end liquor store around here> == Kroger’s
I made some, but it takes a couple weeks and a bunch of filtering.
[steals idea, replaces scotch with Irish whiskey, and renames it the “Irish Setter”]
[actually may do this]
Just made one. I think maybe a little too much lemon juice for me but it has potential
I agree. I ratcheted the scotch and all spice dram on my second.
3 weeks ago, I believed I could happily stay at my place of employment until retirement. Now under new management, I’m miserable, the work environment is toxic, and I can’t leave soon enough. Bad management is soul crushing, man.
On Monday, I thought I had a cavity because my mouth hurt. I’m so stressed that I’m grinding my teeth at night and now I need a mouth guard.
How’re we doing?
Certainly can’t complain. Wait, yes can. I have something weird going on with the skin on the fingers of my right hand. It’s somewhere between blisters from a burn and poison ivy. It sucks and the only person I’d wish it on is Jerry Richardson, but that’s only because he’s dead and it wouldn’t bother him.
My bet would be contact dermatitis. A reaction to something you’ve touched that you’re now allergic to. Lanolin will do that to me. No more whacking off with hand lotion.
Thanks, I’ll look into that. Given how randomly it appeared, it would make sense as an allergy.
I didn’t know you worked for Danny Boy Snyder. My condolences.
Pretty much
Just stay in the background and do bad work. Never volunteer, never commit to anything, do nothing not absolutely necessary. Inertia is your friend.
Also, if you can figure out a way to embezzle money while making it look like the boss’s idiot son’s fault I would recommend doing that. it seems to work in movies from the 90’s.
That’s currently the plan.
Sorry to hear that.
Wifey has done the impossible-she’s made Shepherd’s Pie smell like fried chicken. Just try to imagine the level of my disappointment when I found out.
Just..how? Why?
Is this grounds for a divorce in the northern lands?
I have no frickin idea.
/she brings in a ton of bucks job-wise so I have to give her a pass.
1st reversal on VAR for Battlebots.
I don’t know how the judges had 2-1 in control and aggression as well, but that got turned around on Lisa’s card as well.
I had it 9-2.
Jerry Richardson dead at 86, Alex Murdaugh convicted…not a good day for Carolina douchebags.
Pretty sweet for the rest of us though.
The greater Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill male populace is on edge…
Nah, we good, only half of the male pop are douchebags since they moved here from NJ.
For your viewing pleasure
https://youtube.com/watch?v=thJgU9jkdU4
I should have limited my stereotyping to college aged males at U*NC and Duke.
Awww, that’s too bad. That it wasn’t in a fire.
THIS BOT WITCH DOCTOR, I CALL IT JOSEF MENGELE BECAUSE WHAT IT JUST DID WAS PROBABLY A WAR CRIME
Walla Walla Bing Bang.
Starting in 2025, the following JV foobawl matches will be conference games:
UCLA – Rutgers (B1G)
South Carolina – Oklahoma (PAWLWWWWLLLLL)
BYU-Central Florida (Big 12 With Actually 12 Schools)
In 6 weeks the following Basedball games will be
conferenceLeague matches too:Seattle – Tampa (American)
San Diego – Montreal Expos (National)
Wasn’t these always their leagues?
How many teams are in the B1G? Twenty?
Impossible to know for sure.
This guy on Wheel of Fortune looks like Bubbles on Trailer Park Boys.
Just 3 more days, and Mistuh Richardson passes on 3/5.
“What’s a ‘girlfriend’?” – the part of my brain that would have taken over if I were in your friend’s shoes
“Brain” sure, sure…
I’d have thought the same thing, using “had” in the past tense, of course.
It’s a good story but it just brings up more questions:
If she was that attractive, why didn’t any of the other lads pick up the slack and started talking to her once he stammered out his remark?
If the dude has a gf, wouldn’t the fact that he was staring be a sign?
All of us were giant wusses and she was on the cusp of age appropriateness. I also had a girlfriend at the time but wouldn’t have done anything anyway.
@BrettFavresColonoscopy as a college freshman (artist’s conception):
“This is the boy who molested me last month” is one of the best lines ever, and also true terrible.
Fun fact, that actress went on to play Noonan’s Irish girlfriend in Caddyshack and then apparently went on to do nothing ever again.
Yeah, there are rumors that she had some serious drug and other problems, but that she’s now living under a different name.
Her character was the worst part of Caddyshack, but I don’t blame her for that.
Her Irish “accent” was a hate crime against anyone with an ounce of Celtic blood in them.
17 is fine if you’re 18, 19, or Kip Winger.
That’s a good story and one worth mentioning whenever you meet up with buddy for a beer
With his wife present
Oh yeah. Then she can laugh at him too