Otherwise more riots, woo! (I’ll save it for April because the premiere was in April.)
Instead we have news, which isn’t riots.
-Jets fans actually bought Mike Williams a Taylor ham, egg, and cheese, and had it delivered to 1 Jets Drive. And it worked, considering he signed a one-year deal.
(I’ll be honest, we don’t care about the news much, do we. But that’s pretty remarkable since it was actually something wholesome. To my knowledge. Like, there weren’t drugs or razor blades in the sandwich. Also, I’m playing the faculty concert, and making up students, and have to go through my statements and mileages tonight. And I feel like shit, yay!)
LATE BREAKING TUNGSTEN ARM NEWS: IPPEI NO!
Okay, the important stuff: Get your brackets in for Gently Used Fleshlight Madness! (On ESPN.com, name of the group is DFO Bracket Insanity.)
First Four action (where we find truTV for one weekend a year):
”Hoping for a Fairleigh Dickinson reprise” Region: IJLSA vs. Serpentine! (Grambling vs. Montana State, in progress)
“JOHNNIES GOT ROBBED” Region: Terrible Hitchhiking Choices vs. Smurf Turf (Colorado vs. Boise St, 9:10 or 30 minutes later)
Regular-Ass Basketball:
Bucks vs. Celtics (7:30, ESPN)
Regular-Ass Hockey:
Blame Canada vs. Ovi Staying Away from the Frontlines (TOR vs. WSH, 7:30, TNT)
Pull Your Goalie! vs. Now Irrelevant Because Ohtani to the Dodgers Gets All the Hype Now (MIN vs. LAK, 10:00)
And when I finish my stuff I’m going to bed so I can find out how much I owe Uncle Sam tomorrow! All I ask for is “less than last year” thanks to the new vehicle and changes to my car insurance.
I just watched a documentary called Trinity and Beyond – The Atomic Bomb Movie (1995). It was very well done and used a lot of newly restored archival footage.
You’d think with a name like that it would be pretty entertaining, right? No, it was all about people dying and test animals and all sorts of downer shit like that. It almost made me feel bad about being part of Reagan’s Nuclear War Machine in the 80’s. Well, not really but you get the idea.
There were some pretty cool explosions in the film, you can bet on that, and lots of ’em.
https://ibb.co/47Xdkwk
I have utterly failed. (This is about the engine jet model that I totally borked)
1) New drill bits ineffectual. Plus side, I didn’t break them.
2) Super glue (actually Gorilla Glue) completely useless in this application.
3) Extractor bits were worthless. Between the two adaptors to accommodate such a small bit, there was much wobbling. Although I was able to stabilize the wobbling, the extractor doesn’t work without a pilot hole from a drill.
I am getting close to punching in the nuclear codes to fix this. But I still have some options up my sleeve. I’ll report back later.
Call me if you need it fixed.
Will do. Anytime Friday.
Mr. Ayo tomorrow night (artist’s conception):
There will be broken bits on Friday. Clamps, vises, hammers, punches, et al.
This is metal war, and I will prevail
Sounds like an episode of Warhammer…
Drill it all the way out and leave a bigger hole, then replace it with an M2 and nut that’s not threaded in there. Boeing approved!
Seriously, that’s an option, since you’re not trying to make the engine produce thrust. If I remember the picture it’s a bolt in a threaded hole with a nut on the end of the bolt, so it’ll look the same, threaded hole or not. But that will be a pain to drill out the remains of that bolt with a hand drill.
Or figure out how to make some teeny notch on the side of the bolt and tap it CCW with a small jeweler’s screwdriver.
I tried Warhammer 40K: Boltgun, and that 320×200 homage to the days of old FPS kind of turned me off. Which was a shame, because I just wanted to shoot something on the PC. Starfield can scratch my itch for that right now, I guess.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39772596/long-beach-state-dan-monson-fired-coaching-ncaa-tournament-reflects-surreal-situation
If I ever direct a James Bond movie this will be Blofeld’s toilet:
https://ibb.co/fXCDpGr
Shittin on top of the world
College basketball twitter is going at Big East twitter, (who, to be fair, are a bunch of conceited pricks, myself included), about the Big East going 0-3 in the NIT.
a). No one cares about the NIT. Providence had 6 players and their best player stayed home.
b). No one in their right mind was arguing that Xavier, Butler, or Villanova, (currently not doing great against VCU), belonged in the NCAAs.
c). Villanova’s coach may have suffered a traumatic brain injury at some point, given his complete inability to coach in-game. And
d). I repeat, no one cares about the NIT.
St. John’s doesn’t even care about the NIT, and they have the most NIT wins! (Granted four of them were pre-moon landing.)
UC Irvine cared so little about the NIT that we took the free trip to Utah and lost.
God, I hate calculating mileage. Especially when I feel like I didn’t do the scientific thing of taking a picture of the trip mileage every time!
Google Maps?
We’re absolutely going to do a Simpsons draft at some point and this is at the top of my list:
https://twitter.com/Criminalsimpson/status/1770536170063089871
Bovine University for me.
Rikki’s a Grade A moron!
DON’T DO THE DRAFT NOW, YOU GRADE A MORONS!!
Sounds like Horatio’s never heard of a little something called the food chain.
Tripe? Never heard of it!
Come back, zinc! Come back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05a9llSLKHU
The Moon of Earth is my pick.
The obvious string kills me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsYaxD5wL6c
Phil Hartman’s last appearance as Troy.
Any of you clowns want to hop into a spades game with me?
It would love to, but I haven’t played in quite some time. And I’m drunk. And I’m currently trying to extract a stupid screw without its stupid head from a stupid jet engine model.
Man, the Boeing jokes just write themselves.
Kind of the same way the planes apparently put themselves together.
I don’t know how to play
It’s easy! A full deck of cards is dealt, the suit of Spades cards are the trumps cards. Everyone plays a card, high card of the opening suit wins, but the highest spade card wins (trumps) over that.
Okay, I’ll try.
Also, WTF! Gather all your shit, and get it together BFC!
This has absolutely made my night.
He don’t give a damn bout his bad reputation.
When idiots set up games where you have to wait hours to play a turn but then the clock ticks on you overnight, yeah they can go fuck themselves.
But also yes.
I don’t even know where the card forum is or how to get in. I used to play spades a lot, if i brush up I may join some near future games.
https://boardgamearena.com/welcome
It’s free.
AND SEXY
Wanna beat me in Yahtzee?
Still in refractory period
Do I need an account? Is there a DFO area? A lot of this is not self explanatory . . .
Yes, you need an account, but it’s free. Once you sign up, you can look for us. Most of us use our DFO names.
I’m BOSAF.
Look for you where?
well I found it . . .
We’re friends now!
Under “Friends”
Found a funny:
🎶Shout, shout. Let it all out
Here is my handle and here’s my spout
Come on. I’m talking to you
Teapot 🎶
/notes how to expose Duke WCS to Tears For Fears; very disappointed didn’t think of the when Lil’ and Lil’er WCS would have laughed
I have one that I sing to my dog:
I’m a little puppy, short and stout,
These are my whiskers, this is my snout.
Can’t remember the third line, but the fourth is…
Take me walking and poop comes out!
Lobster bisque and lasagne bolognese at the pizzeria in the steip mall across the street from me. This is Pizza ala Playa del Rey:
https://ibb.co/xMQMSBF
https://ibb.co/W2q1sMN
Looks delicious!
You could have at least got pics of Lana Del Rey while you were there, Brick!
She’s in Marina del Rey, next neighborhood over.
I know she still pines for you (and this song was meant for you not that Father John Misty fuckhead):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3cpaulOPi8
Without Detroit-style pizza this shop should be called an apizzeria.
On this stretch of little Manchester Avenue, between Lincoln Blvd (Pacific Coast Highway) and Pershing Drive, there is a pizzeria at the top (Beach Pizza), a pizzeria at the bottom (Hank’s Pizza), and a pizzeria in the middle (The Good Pizza), where I just went. It’s really a full-on Italian restaurant with pizza. Also jp at the top are Tower Pizza, a Dominos, and two more Italian restaurant’s, Alejo’s and Italy’s Little Kitchen. You can definitely get a meatball in this neighborhood.
Did I mention that Manchester Blvd runs all the way from the ocean to S. Central Avenue (about 10 miles) where its name changes to Firestone Blvd? It’s true! But the section west of PCH is residential, and mostly crime free because in the same strip mall across the street from me there is a 24-hour donut shop and each night at 2 AM every cruiser from LAPD Pacific division and LAX police are all parked there and the cops are all drinking coffee and eating donuts and keeping my block of Manchester drag racer free.
And where does Firestone Blvd end?
At the Santa Fe Swap Meet.
The Circle of Life, folks!
Of all those pizza places, which one has the best pizza? I’m in that neighborhood quite a bit for work…
“The Good Pizza” in the strip mall. By far and away. Let me know and I’ll join you.
Cool. Next time I’m in the neighborhood, I’ll let you know.
Some more about Playa del Rey, the mysterious and hidden neighborhood.
That’s the Marina del Rey breakwater in the upper left, LAX in the lower right, and yes there is a real neighborhood called “The Jungle.”
Playa del Rey definitely has a secret resident’s grapevine that you can’t be exposed to unless you’ve lived here five years and own. Seriously. And we look down on people who live in Playa Vista, the huge new development built on the old Hughes Aircraft site, which is east of PCH. East of PCH!!! That’s like Iowa.
https://ibb.co/N3ZhCyb
When you enter that neighborhood, does Guns n’ Roses start to play?
Some claim it was written about that neighborhood, but I think it’s been disproven. Global warming will not be kind to The Jungle, nor will a tsunami.
PCH is in upper right, Manchester is unmarked but is the gray road in the middle there. Playa has hosted two DFO summits and it’s where I first met BFC and tWBS.
Oh, Playa Vista people are low level scum to Playa Del Rey folks. I know that all too well.
It’s not a coincidence they’re at the bottom of the hill. They LITERALLY look down on them.
Playa Vista is like a zombie community of residents. It’s got a weird vibe. But there’s also some serious money there (Google, YouTube, Deutsch, D2, ad agencies galore, etc . . .)
There is a Jeopardy UK????
Pete Cowpie: “This piece of shat deserved what he got, tell me true.”
Contestant: “Who is that dirty sub-human Bobby Sands?”
Pete Cowpie: “Ah, lad-ye forgot to spit at the end of the question!”
Contestant: “Ay-that be true but watch your back when yer headed to your car later, laddie. This shiv has your name on it.”
Pete Cowpie: “No worries-if it’s as sharp as you I’ll get no more than a bruise.”
Audience: [sings some sort of incredibly racist song]
“Love this show.” – Eric Clapton
Is this too long for a banner? Can we make the banner longer?
You tell me
I mean, I laughed my ass off, so I’ll nominate it.
TIL-James Cagney became such a big star that he had the pull to demand that live rounds not be used in shoot-out scenes in his movies. That was around 1932.
Alec Baldwin: B-List actor
Saint Joseph’s/Seton Hall heads to OT.
Watching Mon St v Gra St, announcer just said “that is a real big money shot right there.” this game changed quickly.
“Why are my ears burning?”
-Balls
FUCK! Stupid Grambling St.
I put 25 on Boise St. to win next. NW bias. I get more cable Gonzaga hoops coverage up here but during football season it is all Broncos.
Folks are saying Gonzaga men are way over-seeded based on reputation-what say you?
They will win the first 2 rounds. People are tired of them being a wee Jesus school in Spokane and being so successful. They aren’t as mediocre as people are saying. I am by no means a fan but I do get their games on cbs.
My feeling is St. Mary’s. Randy Bennett is getting up there in age, and it seems like time for everything to click for his special season.
Folks are correct. Instead of choking in the last few rounds, they’re going to choke to first few rounds this year.
Nein!
This is quite the strong rebuttal. I am struggling to argue with the points of your defense of this terrible team.
UConn dispatched them without much trouble earlier this year. Other than that I haven’t seen much of them. My understanding is that they’re on of the favorites to leave earlier than they should this year.
I finally figured out how to submit my DFO entry, here’s the link to the Group page:
https://fantasy.espn.com/games/tournament-challenge-bracket-2024/group?id=882ba88d-4411-300a-b41b-5507983a1764
Password?
I think “DFO”? It logged me in automatically to group when I logged into ESPN acct
Never mind, create bracket then join group
yeah, platform is kinda counterintuitive
Women’s bracket here
https://fantasy.espn.com/tc/sharer?challengeId=241&from=espn&context=GROUP_INVITE&edition=espn-en&groupId=3091b7f6-f188-39eb-b717-67ed52de3b9e&joinKey=78ba9597-6069-326c-8163-a9b5c933566c
Wait, which Mike Williams? Did the Jets fans mean to send it to the dead one?
Saint Joseph’s pulling away-reminds me of one of the first big college basketball upsets that blew my mind was that team beating DePaul. The latter were 27-1 in ’81 and had future NBA All-Stars Mark Aguirre and Terry Cummins on the team. But coach Meyers was a very bad in-game coach and he let Saint Joseph’s dictate the tempo. As far as Meyer’s victory total was concerned? It could have been so much higher but he never cornered the Chicago high school player treasure trove. He was a dummy and a win compiler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6moaZh9CvBw&ab_channel=KevinMcBurney
Good thing he wasn’t into nepotism, or else he might have let his failson Joey take over and drive DePaul into irrelevant and…oh. Oh, dear.
I think I remember being up very late to watch that game, because for some reason I liked DePaul. Was that the biggest upset in terms of seeds then to date?
Good question-my cursory search didn’t bring up anything in the 70’s but lo and behold, #15 Temple’s upset of #2 seed Sillycuse* pops up over and over again.
*very first time a #2 seed lost! Yeah…
So Sillycuse said “No” to the NIT and I was puzzled. It didn’t make sense until I found out that Mintz is gone and Justin Taylor and Qadir Copeland have entered the portal. That’s three of the top six players not being available for the tourney. Yikes.
/Copeland is the most dynamic guy to play for Cuse since Jerami Grant and/or Jonny Flynn but the rumor is that the coach ‘didn’t like his play style’. Just one problem-YOU RECRUITED HIM, DICKBAG!
Recruiting a kid should mean getting him for four years in his prime to do with him whatever you want. It’s like the Army!
why didn’t you stay and become Boss of Army?
Oof! That’s not my point at all. I’d think you’d recruit players that best fit the system so that he/she would be inclined to stick around-that’s the new reality now that players have options. The portal is the portal-if he could get a bigger “bag”* somewhere else, good for him.
*that’s what all the kids are saying, apparently, and it’s spilled into oldies nomenclature now and it sounds pathetic when a 50+ guy says it
She?
Talking about recruiting as a whole.
The portal needs to be moved back three weeks or you can forget about the NIT.
The NIT has been on life support for 20+ years-I don’t know why it’s still a thing and hasn’t been replaced by something else.
I like it as a fun little thing for the also-rans, and because it gave UConn their first taste of success back in ’92.
Of course then they got to defend that title in ’93, and that wasn’t so great.
So…how did Ippei get hold of millions of Shohei’s dollars to gamble?
Methinks Arte Moreno played 4-D chess and got rid of the problem player before the scandal broke. (j/k Arte’s a tool) (but also maybe Ippei is falling on his proverbial/literal sword for Shohei)
Oh, this story is definitely evolving.
I mean, as the translator, can’t you just turn, “Don’t bet anything against the Cardinals” to “Bet everything against the Arizona Cardinals” and *poof* that’s how I’d get 2million yeneroos.
Because Shohei has a gambling problem and gave it to him to make (apparently very, very, very, very wrong), bets on various sporting endeavors.
Wrong meaning he lost money?
$4.5 million, yes.
I have no idea if this is true or not, of course, but let’s just say I have suspicions that, no matter how good a friend someone is, or how rich you are, you just agree to pay a bookie $4.5 million to get your friend out of debt.
I have friends I’d dump a body in a reservoir for and even if I had Ohtani money I wouldn’t do that for them. Hey, you were dumb enough to bet on Dallas in the play-offs, you deal with the consequences!
I wanted the Johnnie Cakes (and Minuteman Pitino in his Colonel Sanders suit) in, too. But Indiana State was the true travesty. They have a guy nicknamed “Cream Abdul-Jabbar”
ISU’s “Entertainment Factor” wasn’t included as a factor when seeding was done, obviously.
Seton Hall I think got screwed the worst.
But yes, Cream Abdul Jabbar needed to be in the big dance. That’s just marketing 101.
https://twitter.com/CrossingBroad/status/1770470726090309962
Depends. Daddy historically only carries the rock for pedophiles and losers.
Kate Mara is here to make sure you weren’t calling the Giants pedophiles.
Losers she has to admit you have her on.
My lady friend claims to have seen her naked at one of those spas where all the ladies are naked.
I’m sure that was awful.
That’s Rocking