Rainy Days and Mondays a Carpentered open threada

It is Monday,  but not raining unfortunately.  No Warhammer tonight as I totally forgot and also had a bunch of meetings and since I am working on becoming a stoned slacker for the rest of my life I had nothing ready.  Meh, you get what you pay for.

I have a question about the song ” McCathur Park” – why the hell has it been covered more than one?  Richard Harris, Waylon Jennings, Frank Sinatra, and so, so many more and none of them are good.  So why?  Ugh, the reason this hit me was listening to Waylon Jennings and hearing his version, and it sucked as well.

 

Well there is dirt football and ice football tonight I am pretty sure.

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ArmedandHammered
Mid 50's geek/nerd, avid reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, manga, Chinese Web novels, and British mysteries, cult movies are my thing (have you seen Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter?)
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Brick Meathook
Doktor Zymm

David Allen Grier says people still recognize him on the street most of In Living Color
https://youtu.be/YRlFGU-BkOU?feature=shared

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Doktor Zymm

I heard tanning is coming back, so good news for Hispanic immigrants, you can now pretend that you’re from Ohio and just have a bodacious tan!

Brick Meathook
herodotus450

Mercifully few April’s Fools’ “Jokes” today, maybe all those angry letters I wrote worked.

Doktor Zymm

I have one friend who may or may not be moving to Florida, otherwise it’s all good

Doktor Zymm

I’ve heard that workplace humor is a big thing on Tik Tok, I wonder if that applies to the volcano lair workplace? I have some observational humor about the quality of henchpersons today

Sharkbait

Does OSHA inspect volcano lairs?

Doktor Zymm

Only if you REALLY fucked up when registering your corporation and somehow gave real addresses

Doktor Zymm

But as an enlightened employer, I would hope that my henchpeople, despite the lack of government oversight, would find my workplace environment to be not only safe, but INSPIRING. I won’t ask unless disciplinary measures are called for, but if you’re short of quota I DO expect an essay of minimum 500 words on corporate loyalty.

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Doktor Zymm

I take issue with the Sega games in there. DREAMCAST4EVA

Brick Meathook

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Mr. Ayo

Wow, you’re really good at that game

Brick Meathook

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Horatio Cornblower
Sharkbait

What are the chances UConn wins both tournaments?

Mr. Ayo

One in sixteen, all things being equal

Doktor Zymm

Uniform prior!
(Bayesians in the house, woop woop)

Horatio Cornblower

0%. The women have no chance against Iowa or South Carolina. Iowa has the best player on the planet and SC is an absolute wagon. UConn’s on fumes and basically playing 6. They’ve had an amazing year getting to the Final Four.

Anything can happen, of course, but I can’t see Alabama beating the men. Assuming Purdue does its job the title game should be a war, and a ratings bonanza.

Which pretty much guarantees both UConn and Purdue trip over their dicks and no one watches Alabama play NC State for the title.

Horatio Cornblower

Jesus, the new baseball uniforms are just complete garbage.

Sharkbait

Hockey double header has me sore. At least I went 1-1. Had a nice bounce back after a 2-1 loss in game one. Shower beer definitely helped. Also my Tasmanian Devils founding members digital card arrived WOOO!

Doktor Zymm

Holiest of shits! GPZ still exists! Or at least has its original domain and that vintage web design that’s gonna be really sought after in a few years
Guinea Pig Zero Jobzine

Doktor Zymm

I have wayyy too many back issues of 2600

Doktor Zymm

Beck is honestly kinda Gen Z if they listened to him. But then again, I haven’t had access to my Becktionary since that incident with the echidna
https://youtu.be/YgSPaXgAdzE?feature=shared

Doktor Zymm

Even though it’s not actually a great comic looking at it now, nonetheless, if I ever talk about there being bears “outside” this is what I am referring to, and nothing to do with large, hairy, and loveable gay men
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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Lady Huskies really seemed to have this one in hand until they missed SEVEN STRAIGHT FUCKING FREE THROWS down the stretch.

Horatio Cornblower

I was watching through gritted teeth. Aggravating, but you had to keep in mind that they are absolutely on fumes right now. Can’t believe they pulled it out. Huge effort.

My God Iowa is just going to annihilate them.

Doktor Zymm

Never heard this before but it is now my personal anthem!
https://youtu.be/Vqbk9cDX0l0?feature=shared

2Pack

It was a rainy day. And a Monday. That’s all I’ve got to say.

Ciao tutti.

/he just said more after all.

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nika muhl on uconn gotta make a sexy friday appearance to go with the final four appearance

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Horatio Cornblower

Careful. She has absolutely killed someone and hidden the body.

Doktor Zymm

No no, you don’t HIDE the body, you DISPOSE of the body ala Hoffa

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thats the thing about these ballers from eastern europe/balkans, they absolutely know someone that knows someone that can “take care” of something for you

Doktor Zymm
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MIT bitches always be frontin

Doktor Zymm

It’s true tho

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

A Brief History of Rhyme was a great album but E = MC Hawking was his finest achievement.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvLPmmrofEg

internet was pure like 80s cocaine

Doktor Zymm

Not gonna argue cuz it’s all awesome. Chaos theory says we can degenerate into disagreement when we started from a spot that’s only detectably different with more accurate technology than we have today, maaan. (possible 2nd gummy just kicked in)

Horatio Cornblower

Me (pops pill). Yeah, I’m just not getting it, man.

/Probably because the pill is for high cholesterol

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Really hope I don’t need to take a drug test any time soon, because that piece of hamentashen had a fuckton of poppyseeds in it.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“…so the guy’s in a bit of a legal jam and needs a $175M bond to cover a massive fraud judgment against him until he can get the appeals court to look at it. He swears he’s good for it, so I figured, what the heck?”

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SonOfSpam

There was a no-hitter tonight from a guy named Ronel Blanco.

Also, Trout hit a ball 473 feet and the Angels actually won.

Doktor Zymm

I ate at the Kiev quite a few times in its last few years, it closed the year I was living just a couple doors down on 7th. The tradition of selling crap on 2nd Ave/St. Marks was already dwindling by the time I lived there, but a crackhead (they weren’t methheads yet unless you were in Ohio) did try to sell my friend a broken toaster oven for $20
https://youtu.be/NQBPgJQhQHc?feature=shared

Doktor Zymm

These two are inextricably linked in my head for high school theater reasons
https://youtu.be/ppJQKfqhFfE?feature=shared

Doktor Zymm

WHERE THE HELL IS FOURTH WAVE (or fifth or whatever)??
https://youtu.be/uS0HpY8dcCI?feature=shared

Doktor Zymm
Doktor Zymm
SonOfSpam
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
Doktor Zymm

Sin x^2

Love the Pixies but they ain’t ska

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Today’s draft should have turned into let’s remember some guys.

Irving Fryar
Wendell Davis
T. J. Houshmandzadeh
OJ McDuffie
Sterling Sharpe
Curtis Conway
Herman Moore
Ricky Proehl
Mark Ingram
Marty Booker

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city of philly owe wendell davis 2 million in cash

1 mil for each knee

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Horatio, two ideas for drafts in there:

WR3/RB2s you loved
And
Injuries you would like to undo or you want to blame specifically on someone else

Doktor Zymm

Virgin dropped Shaggy after this song because they thought he would never release anything more popular. His next album had ‘It wasn’t me’ and ‘Angel’
https://youtu.be/6W5pq4bIzIw?feature=shared

King Hippo

This makes me wonder if Mormon Death Metal exists

Doktor Zymm

https://youtu.be/PHMzCpy0fXc?feature=shared
Let’s see if this works, didn’t want to give me a shared link so just modified the URL

Doktor Zymm

I find it kind of weird how many songs there were about nuclear weapons in the late 90s, but I was younger than the artists then, and considering the Cold War had only ended a few years before it would have been more salient for them. I have friends who grew up in the end years of the Soviet Union (and despite being very progressive are vehemently anti-communism) but we didn’t really get the nuke fear

Gumbygirl

Falcon 9 launch a few minutes ago.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Saw it from my house too! Pretty cool! You could see the individual satellites deploy too! It’s like the rocket was pooping satellites!

Doktor Zymm

I was at the Gates of Hell when a train of Starlink satellites went by. I’m not sure I like it, although it’s probably worse for people who are super into astrology and suddenly have to figure out how man-made satellites affect their losing lottery numbers when they’re in Aquarius or whatever

ballsofsteelandfury

So, how was the sex?

Doktor Zymm

So, could have been worse I guess?

ballsofsteelandfury

Oh Hippo would be judging mighty WASPily right about now.

ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

Doktor Zymm

Lyrics are all well and good, but you really don’t need more than 5 or 6 words
https://youtu.be/XmKJOdRf_3s?feature=shared

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WCS

definitely remember this from 1996

Doktor Zymm

I slightly hesitate just cuz it’s Moby, but I never went to his LES tea place and I think it’s closed now so whatevs
https://youtu.be/wIvYansK1rw?feature=shared

Doktor Zymm

Not super related to Inspector Gadget, but good enough for a 17 year old!
https://youtu.be/EIUuHi2HzDc?feature=shared

ballsofsteelandfury

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Doktor Zymm

Well done on keeping all these somewhere you can find them quickly enough to take pics! I got all my old cds on a spindle and pretty sure the inserts are all toast