Fanfare For The Common Cold…Tuesday Open Thread

Summer colds: what if you were sweating your tits off AND couldn’t breathe?

As you might imagine, coherent thought is even more elusive than normal right now, so I’m going pseudo-Larry King Dead stream of consciousness here. Buckle the fuck up:

ISSUE THE FIRST: Underappreciated stuff.

1. Ginger beer. It’s the most underrated of soft drinks. Most of the people I know think of it exclusively as a mixer for your Moscow Mules and your Darks and Stormys and whathaveyou. You are missing out, my friends. A good ginger beer makes your mouth tingle like wasabi and whiskey while simultaneously quenching your thirst. Get you some Bundaberg (those Aussies understand these matters). Embrace the pain and live in the light eternal..

2.  The Bangles. Too often they are pigeonholed by people who only know “Walk Like an Egyptian” or “Eternal Flame” as 80s kitsch. Serious musicians who fused a shitload of different influences and styles into their music while under pressure to be the Glam Girls. Go listen to In a Different Light. Don’t worry- I’ll wait.

3. Ernie Hudson. The “other” Ghostbuster who auditioned for HIS OWN ROLE in the animated series and got beaten out by Arsenio Hall. Then he kills it as the warden in Oz. All after being orphaned at TWO MONTHS OLD.

4.   Overcast weather. Snow makes the news. Rain makes the news. Sunshine is the GLORREEE BOY that everyone is so fucking glad to see. Let’s hear some love for that nice medium-dark gray day, where there’s no real threat of precipitation. It’s relaxing. Soothing. No glare, just vibes.

5. Fla-Vor Ice. Specifically the orange ones melted (but still cold). Delicious, and the fastest way to ingest sugar outside of snorting Pixy Stix off a prostitute’s ass.

6. Urinal diffusers. Also known as “urinal screens”.  Everytime I use the urinals at work, it boggles my mind that some Ph.D fluid dynamicist and an industrial designer had to sit down together and come up with a product to efficiently disperse a high-speed stream of urine without scattering or aerosolizing the droplets, all while using the least amount of material per screen. If I see further, it is because I am pissing on the shoulders of giants.

7. Egg Drop Soup. Name a more versatile soup. You can’t. It’s delicious as an appetizer. It can be a main dish. Put some char siu pork in there, a couple mushrooms, some baby corn and you’ve got Mary Ann to ramen’s Ginger. Or some nduja. Fuck, I wish I could taste things right now…

8. Nyquil.

NFL NEWS:

-Free agent running back Leonard Fournette narrowly escaped being cooked when his custom Dodge Durango Hellcat caught fire while he was driving on the highway. No details have come to light regarding the start of the fire. Fournette, who was released earlier this year by Tampa Bay at his own request, instead released a video thanking God for being able to walk away from the smouldering wreckage which would surely have crippled him, if not killed him outright. He probably said some stuff about the car wreck as well.

NON-NFL NEWS:

Italian teacher sacked for 20 years of absence vows to defend herself. Hero.

-No coup in Russia? We’re not couping now? And after I got out the red, black and green
Liberation jumpsuit that I had been saving for just the proper occasion…

WHAT’S ON TONIGHT:

Well, if shitty baseball isn’t your thing, you’ve got a few choices:

CONCACAFACAFO Gold Cup Futbol:

Canada vs. Guadeloupe (6 pm DFO Standard, Fox Sports 1): Cohost Canada kicks off its campaign against the former Swedish colony (look it up- it’s the only thing I remembered from my elementary school book report!).  Normally, I reflexively root against France, and so I would be opposed to Guadeloupe as a French overseas department. However, I am almost always going to support an island group with fewer than 400,000 souls to draw from. Also, I see here that they previously defeated Canada in the 2007 Gold Cup en route to a semi-final berth, which I find delightful.

 

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blaxabbath

Tweaked the back deadlifting yesterday morning. Stupid.

Anyways, quite confident it is just a strain but still embarrassing dumb guy stuff.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I kept hurting myself doing deadlifts and squats, so now all I do is work out my glamour muscles.

Gumbygirl

Now I want egg drop soup. No, make that Hot and Sour. I need to stop thinking about food, I am literally getting too big for my britches. Happy Trails, my lil’ buckaroos!

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2Pack

Buona serata tutti

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

For those who were wondering, Bad Boys II holds up pretty well.

WCS

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Sharkbait

Going to see James Taylor on the 4th. Turns out the place we booked to stay is full of timeshares. How many languages do you think I can say “no” in before they leave me alone for the 4 days I’m there ?

WCS

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Sharkbait

Of course he was on the Simpsons.

SonOfSpam

One of the guys on Jeopardy has the job title of “Oral and Facial Surgeon”

If I were that guy, I would start every conversation with “you need a good Oral and Facial guy?” but then I was never good with small talk.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

You should print up a trophy and put it on display for houseguests to admire.

scotchnaut

a committed relationship

You were a Prison Pen Pal? That must have really hurt when he finally got out.

King Hippo

#ExpressingDominance

BugEyedBoo

Dr. Dumbass’ pickup lines aside, they all kind of sucked tonight. Boo would have given them all a prison beating.

Fronkenshteen

“COULD SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN TO THE DERANGED, TRUMP HATING JACK SMITH, HIS FAMILY, AND HIS FRIENDS, THAT AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, I COME UNDER THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT, AS AFFIRMED BY THE CLINTON SOCKS CASE, NOT BY THIS PSYCHOS’ FANTASY OF THE NEVER USED BEFORE ESPIONAGE ACT OF 1917,”

How are threats to the family & friends of the prosecutor not grounds for pre-trial incarceration?

SonOfSpam

Well sure, but also Hunter Biden. Check and mate, groomer.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

What does this have to do with the Clintons’ cat.

SonOfSpam

Clinton’s socks still less horrifying than Blax’s

WCS

…and Blax’s sock has joined the used fleshlight and Horario’s dwarf on Team DFO Pervo.

litre_cola

*gently used

WCS

Right, sorry.

Horatio Cornblower

Poor, poor Blax.

Mr. Ayo

Woah, no concern about those poor socks?

Gumbygirl

Clinton had an intern to shoulder the load. In a blue dress.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

THIS GUY DONALD TRUMP I CALL HIM HENRY II OF ENGLAND BECAUSE HE TRIES TO HAVE HIS ENEMIES ELIMINATED VIA STOCHASTIC TERRORISM AND IT WOULD BE FITTING IF HE DIED A PAINFUL AND PROTRACTED DEATH FROM A BLEEDING ULCER.

King Hippo

Futbol Fidels like it ROUGH

King Hippo

What is Guatemala known for? Just right wing death squads?

SonOfSpam

They grow bananas and SOSHALIZM

litre_cola

Also Coffee and Cacao! Two of the most important things in the world.

King Hippo

Best get teh CIA down thar quick then

SonOfSpam

(note to self: as an alternate to “orgy” start using “socialjism”)

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

What on earth is wrong with you people? “What is Guatemala known for?” “Bananas. Coffee. Socialism.” It’s like I don’t even know you anymore.

FOR SHAME.

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WCS

One of the “elite” squads of Wagner is now super-pissed at Pierogi.

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Horatio Cornblower

He’s absolutely falling out a window in the near future.

Gumbygirl

He’ll be lucky if that’s all it is. I can see Pootie going medieval on his ass, in front of all his underlings and military leaders, just to keep them all in line.

ballsofsteelandfury

I’m hearing some underlings are not happy he took the money and ran. He may get offed by his own crew.

litre_cola

Whoever this fuckwit is who is doing the commentary in some office for River Plate and The Strongest could very well be the worst. The game is in Buenos Aires, just let the crowd make the noise not you dweebus!

litre_cola

Further to this there should be a button to mute commentators and just get crowd noise.

Or people banging at a baseball game in the upper decks of the stadium.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

…people banging at a baseball game in the upper decks of the stadium.

“No, no, you’ve got this all wrong. The banging was happening in the dugout.” – Houston Asterisks manager A.J. Hinch, holding up a trash can lid

King Hippo

The Glorious #BFIB is putting them IN THERE PLACE as we speak!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“In their place” would be in some Venezuelan league after were ejected from MLB and replaced with the Montreal Expos.

litre_cola

I can get down with this.

Plus! My boss said I have to go to Montreal for work this summer for a week. Mrs. Cola is going to be sooo jealous.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

When? I will try and meet you there.

litre_cola

I will know in a couple weeks. I am going to angle for the week of the 20th of August. Or the 30th of July.

King Hippo

GOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLL de los Guadelupe!

litre_cola

What a clown show without our only good players.

King Hippo

Should the manager really be “Vogueing” for the crowd when he needed a fluke OG to beat fucking Guadalupe AT HOME??

Mr. Ayo

I believe he was just hoisted by his own petard

King Hippo

Yeah, I thought he was acting pretty Darnold too

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Sigh. We bought a new wok today, which would normally be a good thing (or at the very least a neutral thing) but now I must gird my loins for the inevitable argument that will result when I attempt to get rid of the old wok.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

You’ll need to wok the path of enlightenment

SonOfSpam

was gonna tell him to cool off with a nice long wok

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Cake says to wok on by

WCS

Tell it to make like a tree and get outta here.

Mr. Ayo

Give it a long wok off a short pier when no one’s looking.

King Hippo

Tell her you mistook the old one for a bedpan, and made a poop in it. Unless the Dr. Mrs. is German, that should suffice.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

That actually went much more smoothly than I expected.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yeah, will probably happen tomorrow when I try to argue that enough space should be left in the laundry machine for the clothes to tumble a bit as they wash (as opposed to her method, which consists of stuffing the machine so full that it cannot be closed, then taking one item out).

BugEyedBoo

Said, “Hey Rikki, take a wok on the wild side”
And the commenters go
“do, da do, da do, da do do do”

King Hippo

TUDN picture quality is also outstanding. Somebody give Balls another Order of Lenin.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

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King Hippo

So…The Canadia is “quiet quitting” their federation, yeah?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

…instead released a video thanking God for being able to walk away from the smouldering wreckage which would surely have crippled him, if not killed him outright. He probably said some stuff about the car wreck as well.

And that’s how it’s done, folks.

SonOfSpam

Yep, just outstanding work.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Ernie Hudson was fantastic in Airheads. I will not be taking questions.

ballsofsteelandfury

Guadeloupe is also prominently featured in Death in Paradise!

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King Hippo

I’m happy for her 1-nil happiness

Mr. Ayo

In other retired NFL news, Ryan Mallett has died.

SonOfSpam

Apparently drowned in FL, was only 35. That sucks.

King Hippo

He always seemed like he was a Future Methhead, plus at least he ain’t living in Florida no MOAR

SonOfSpam

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King Hippo

I am almost bored enough to overcome my scorn for the Golden Shower Cup, but then I remember Fox is broadcasting it so mucho Alexi Lalas so NOPE.

ballsofsteelandfury

TUDN!!

King Hippo

ah, el pointo bueno, senor

SonOfSpam

All CONCACWEEF competitions are mandatory. Read the bylaws.

WCS

FUCK YEAH ERNIE HUDSON

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