Hello there fellow DFO’er. Hope you’re well today. And thanks for coming back to see last weeks comments of the week as decided by my brain. There’s no reason as to why some comments make it and others don’t. Seriously. There isn’t.
This weeks cheesy motivational quote is:
May your Boxing Day be filled with all the things that make you smile [in bed]
Unknonwn
If you celebrate Boxing day, then you’ll have a smile as you sleep in. If not, ya shoulda taken it off.
Also, Congrats to all that made it through the LDBC. Stupid birthday dinner for the kids knocked me out.
As a reminder, Sunday comments stand alone and Monday comments will go on the next week’s post.
Note that during the offseason, I’ll probably look at the Sunday posts.
Without further ado, here are the comments of the week.
Don T
have to do disability training for the work, so whilst it’s playing in the background, I’m reading Hippo thoughts and getting the comments post ready. Much better use of my time
/ the disability training is basically common sense, not sure how you fail it
Game Time Decision
You should get retDarnold Training Credit FOAR reading HippoSPEAK
King Hippo
Congrats to Weaselo for beating me in FF by 0.10 points. Now please excuse me, Imma commiserate with year 2000 Al Gore. He lost Tennessee, I left Keenan Allen on my lineup. Same thing.
Don T
Brick Meathook
I have to go into the office tomorrow. and you know what that means? i have to wear dress socks. and i fucking hate wearing dress socks.
jjfozz
At the office: artist’s conception
BugEyedBoo
Someone find out if Litre can get a Custom Made Baby Seal Skin Leather Boots on the Ground….
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-ring-road-open-1.7062792
blaxabbath
The existence of a Trans Canada Highway argues for the existence of a Cis Canada Highway.
SonOfSpam
I spent an inordinate amount of time the last 2 days trying to get my parents old late 1970s era turntable up and running. Now that it is, I went looking for some good albums from their collection and found this. Does this make me an hono(u)rary Canadian?
Sharkbait
Currently in Chicago watching the Ice Bears take on the Ice Donks. Connor Bedard is something special, folks.
Also, deep dish is gonna give me the shits tomorrow.
The Maestro
If we tell Qaaron that his family applauds and supports his decision not to play will that get him out onto the field so we can watch his invermectin filled leg asplode in a meaningless game?
Doktor Zymm
If someone asked me what my greatest weaknesses were I would say that, in addition to caring too much, not letting go of a project until I know it’s perfect, and women with long legs and pony tails, my greatest weakness is an inability to stop watching a terrible TV series even after it’s clearly become terrible. I simply must finish it. The only time I successfully tore myself away from a series was S4 of ‘Westworld,’ the series having gotten so bad that even the promise of see RTD’s (no doubt extremely clean) house was enough to drag me back.
Anyway, in a not-at-all related note, I’m pretty tired after the power failure and subsequent up most of the night dealing with stuff, so I’m going to try to finish S2 of Apple’s ‘Invasion’
If they make a S3 I would prefer that no one told me.
Horatio Cornblower
Don T
I’ve never gotten the antipathy towards ‘happy holidays’. Do they want people to be unhappy on holidays they don’t personally celebrate? Is it like “Merry Christmas but I hope you feel like crap all through Kwanzaa and your dog pukes on your carpet for each day of Chanukah”?
Because that’s a pretty un-Christian sentiment. I’m pretty sure ol’ Jesus didn’t run around telling everyone to have a horrible Zarathosht Diso
Doktor Zymm
I live near a reservoir, and the road I live on bisects the reservoir. In times of extreme rain, like the last two weeks, the reservoir will come up over the road and the road will be closed. The town puts up signs at the top of the road, and a partial barrier a little farther down. You can still get around that barrier, because there is a State park entrance and a few houses beyond it.
If I had a dime for every car that has paused at the barrier and then confidently swerved around it, then reappeared a few minutes later after getting to the locked gate across the road just past the park, I would be retired and living in a mansion in the Caribbean.
Horatio Cornblower
Just this, all freaking day
Horatio Cornblower
This is what the road looks like at the present time.
I promise, the sign is not lying to you.
Horatio Cornblower
Ben Shapiro insists that your photo is clearly ‘shopped; there’s nothing in nature that gets that wet.
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
It was even wetter yesterday, Ben.
/Mrs. Shapiro immediately moves to eastern CT
Horatio Cornblower
The Dr. Mrs. wants us to bring a party of eight to Din Tai Fung – at the mall – on Christmas Eve morning, which is also a Sunday. Sure. That’ll be easy as pie.
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
We’re busy, so the good news is you’re down to 6.
Horatio Cornblower
5 1/2
WCS
Random updates:
-one of the Christmas lights strands got cut just below the plugs so not sure if I can fix it as the wire was baked into the plug and is cut right at the end of the plug and I haven’t found anything as a replacement on Amazon yet
-today’s both of my kids birthday. Happy 18th and 21st birthday “in game changes” and “halftime adjustment
-so for their birthday we went out for dinner in which I heard some Jamaican version of the LDB. I would not have noticed but Mrs GTD laughed and pointed it out to me, along with something like “rum PA dum done”. FAWK
Game Time Decision
Both your kids have the same birthday, three years apart? Wow, you’re screwed
WCS
He certainly was on or about March 20, 2002 and 2005 respectively.
Horatio Cornblower
March Madness means something else entirely at the GTD abode.
WCS
He kept claiming to he got the snip so he could take those days off.
Lady tested him each time and he failed.
Mr. Ayo
As I’ve explained dozens, if not hundreds, of times, I DID get snipped.
Oh right, we’re not talking about me..
WCS
You know your team is not having a good season when the player they use for the game promo is a cornerback.
hippofant
Could be worse. Amazon used Belichick for a promo
Sharkbait
Desperate Housewives?
scotchnaut
(sigh) I did it. I am done working in 2023.
(checks score)
I see so are the Saints.
Redshirt
Guys…
2Pack
I was cleaning out my kitchen today and found an unopened jar of tamarind paste that expired in 2014. That means I must have moved it to California when it was already 3 years expired
Doktor Zymm
You and Mrs. Scotchnaut would get along famously.
Me: “You need to go through this larder and throw away everything with an expired date.”
Her: “You do it.”
Me: “Ok, you won’t interfere?”
Her: “Nope.”
Me: [throws out a ton of stuff, catches her going through the three boxes of expired product later]
Her: “WHAT? You could have read the label wrong!”
scotchnaut
I’m lying in bed while attending a Zoom meeting with the camera off and the audio muted. But they can see my name and know I’m there, even though I’m mostly asleep.
I love the 21st Century.
Brick Meathook
How is Sharkette doing with the interloper?
Gumbygirl
Adores him. She’s always asking to hold him, says goodnight etc. No issues yet. Get back to me in a few years though….
Sharkbait
Mother-in-law’s arrival is imminent tonight, followed by five more members of my wife’s family tomorrow. Pray for Rikki – I’ll see you all on the other side.
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
Redshirt
Redshirt
ballsofsteelandfury
An old familiar tale…
2Pack
Me: “That site that I write for-I’ve got a running joke that a black coach practices Voodoo. Is that racist?”
Wife: [stares at me]
Me: “Ok, right. But what if it works IRL?”
Wife: [doesn’t even bother to look up from her phone]
scotchnaut
mRs. fozz just advised me to slow down, so of course, i interpret that as “Full fucking speed ahead.”
jjfozz
We’re fostering 4 rescue kittens and I went to check on them in our foster room before turning the game on.
I now have 3 kittens sleeping on me. I can not get up.
ThePirateSloth
Peter is the all black kitten on the left, Oliver is the tuxedo kitten on the right, Matilda is the white mottled kitten in the back.
Matilda is the shyest, she stayed in there during my visit, but is friendly enough.
Coraline is not pictured because she is the brave ringleader who was laying on my back as I took this photo.
ThePirateSloth
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Thanks for all the comments and funny and everything else.
Stay busy and safe out there.
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Made turkey soup with the carcass today. Gonna be eating it for a week, yum
I too am making stock today. Mine’s with chicken and steak bones.
Is this the Overlook Hotel?
Another excellent self portrait
The live action Grinch movie with Jim Carrey is a blatant crime against humanity.
[snorts] “The kids these days…”
-Hannah Arendt
As a Grinch fan, I cannot agree enough
When you think about it, if Nebraska of all places could have a dominant football program, why can’t Minnesota?
Because hockey.
But what would you do with all those 6’4″ 250lb white farm boys? Tom Osbourne knew what to do with them.
Larry Craig knew what he *wanted* to do with them…
My French onion soup lunch. This is a soup recipe made with onions. It originated in France.
That looks so fucking good.
And it was!
Men Untied, still in knots
Not so fast!
Gonna cheer for Minnesota in this here bowl game. If any state were to seek asylum in Canada they would be my choice, the overall politics seem ok, the weather is a match and they have funny accents as well.
/besides, Bowling Green had that horrible massacre
Also hotdish:
Xmas day passed relatively without anger.
Although . . . my wife forgot to get potatoes yesterday. So I drove 15 miles to the only fucking grocery store open.
I came home, calmly put the potatoes on the counter. And then was told, “you need to wash those.”
The nerve.
They were probably talking about your hands.
Or balls. He probably went there sans pants.
When they drag on the ground, like mine do, they pick up alot of dirt and filth.
[image of Fozz being disgusted after accidentally dragging his scrotum through dogshit and checking the underside of his balls]
At first I thought he was talking about his hands still, as though he were some kind of ape-man hybrid. You know, like Trevor Siemian.
Permanently banned from Reddit. The comment, 9 days ago, was on a video for caning. All I said was that this should be punishment adopted by every country in the world.
Those mods can suck it.
You’re better off.
My mother-in-law is too much. She uses a bucket in the shower to save water, but when washing the dishes runs the tap full blast the whole time and will literally walk away and do other things while it’s still running.
I’m pretty sure Mrs. Horatio does this on purpose, knowing that I’ll snap and shove her out of the way within three minutes, then finish the dishes myself without constantly running the faucet.
Litre’s goalie is a shithead. Boo that man!
But what about his pants?
/Borjan
Hey, if the kid wants to play a role in the game he can expect a bit of contact.
I’ll have you all know . . .
I’m setting up (and currently working at while in progress) a permanent East Coast studio set-up since I’m here half the year now to look after family matters.
This is now the Atlantic Seaboard Operations Division of my mighty California S-Corp VFX production company, of which I am the CEO, janitor, sole stockholder, and reigning Employee of the Year.
I am literally working in my mom’s basement.
Bare bones so far, but I have a big desk, some lamps, and another monitor coming.
If I played video games this is where I would play them, but I don’t so this is not the place. I am, however, working on a Marvel movie that I don’t even know the name of or even what it’s about or who is in it. Don’t care either.
You’re doing the Lord’s Work
An obscure visigoth deity of orderliness, but a lord nonetheless.
Martin Prince’s Lutes survive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtwIDKC9qW0
Adventures in Mother-in-Lawing: Part Infinity
My eldest son who 6’2″, 215 received some pyjamas from her, size small.
Wife: “WTF?”
Me: “Duh. She got them on sale.”
Son: “You’re right, she left the price tag on. [shows tag] $9.99.”
pour one out for Herman Cain there!
Have him try it on in front of her, if she doesn’t learn (and she won’t), it’s worth the cringey look from her when she sees it on him
Happy San Sabastian day.
Sent the entire day doin jax chit.
Totally enjoyed said day with no remorse.
Did make some killer sausage sugo and polenta for lunch however.
Be well people.
“All in all, I’d rather be on the Côte d’Azur, maybe sipping a drink.”
-Sebastian, Saint
Yeah that Dude got hosed.
Make that San Stephen.
I simply cannot keep my Italian saints straight.
Jan. 20 is San Sebastián. Which marks the end of PR Xmas 🥲
Y’all have a whole holiday for that little horse from Parks & Rec?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGg3tcLyRuU
Probably.
I personally have that, men of a certain age, Cure-Cult thing apparently.
Holy cats, Newcastle has fallen apart like a body you’ve dismembered with a bonesaw and then tried to smuggle out of an embassy in one poorly secured trash bag.
Oh the irony.
“Pfft, amateurs!”
-Scotchy
I love the clubhouse
Best of Boxing Day luck to litre in the Cherry/Cola derby!
A Litre of Cherry Cola is a lot to chew on!
These are yeah right’s cherries, too aren’t they?
Yup!
Unfortunately we seem to have a developing Fulhamish situation. That’s bad.
But it’s working to the benefit of Yeah Right. That’s good!
Saying them Cherries is shit hot is putting it mildly. All looks sustainable, too.
I don’t even know what to say. Holy shit!