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Another Thursday, another football-less night. May as well start getting accustomed.

 

Damn:

What can you say about a guy that gave the world of entertainment Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks? I recall walking out of the movie theatre after seeing the former-my buddy and I retired to a patio and just didn’t have the means to convey verbally what had just happened to us. Eventually we came around and started talking but it was so tentative, our notions of how a movie was supposed to affect us had been put through the wringer. What did we just see? What does it mean? Is it meant to mean something? Was it a sequence of dreams? We were at sea.

And then came my first appointment television, Twin Peaks. It was endlessly fascinating, weird, funny, intriguing, curious and on and on. The haunting music at the intro, pie, logs, a dwarf (no one could talk of anything else the day after-in my circle, anyway) A mystery that was so much more and refused to reveal itself. A mystery that was a journey, not a destination. Fantastic stuff.

College Ball: 

Ranked teams playing tonight include Michigan, Gonzaga and Memphis.

Hockey:

The better teams on the ice tonight are Toronto, [spits] Washington, Tampa and Florida.

 

That’s it for me, see you on the weekend.

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blaxabbath

Hawaii offers a bunch of rebates for heat pump water heaters. Says they’re more efficient et al.

I have no experience owning these. Or are they a bitch for maintenance? Low usage, high capacity, energy efficient — that’s me.

Shall the gas tankless on the vision board be the first modern luxury to go? Or does this pump thing run out then take 60 hours to provide hot water again?

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ballsofsteelandfury

Your issue is going to be recovery time. It’s going to take longer to replace the hot water you use.

So, take two showers max and wait until the next day.

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Gumbygirl

Goodnight space cadets, see y
https://youtu.be/RLhFT7YXnoI?si=FW9ZaDoMPWy5B14rou on Aldeberan!

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Hey did you folks know that Peter Scolari is dead? I only found that out because of an “In Memoriam” note at the end of an episode of Evil. It was a few years ago, and he was only 66.

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SonOfSpam

Yeah, it sucks. Bosom Buddies and Newhart were both legendary.

Need some shitty people to die to balance the scales a bit.

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WCS

https://www.wtae.com/article/evgeni-malkin-home-burglary/63427079

Geno had a bit too much potato juice from the Mothercountry and robbed himself.

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Gumbygirl

He’s just Messi

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Gumbygirl

He might be even Messier than I thought!

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Doktor Zymm

The .38 Kimber revolver was my favorite, and that and the .45 were my best groupings (bellybutton and head respectively)

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blaxabbath

Did you first have to yell, “Hey! That’s my purse!” Or “I don’t know you!”?

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Gumbygirl

Or, ” Take that, Ernest Hemingway, you complete bastard!”

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Sharkbait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u9zr6oF4uA

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2Pack

Yeah but what’s with that nut shot? Something tells me it’s not just a simple round out of pattern.

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Brick Meathook

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Gumbygirl

I’m watching a documentary about Ernest Hemingway, and it’s making me want to dig him up and kick him in the dick.

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Doktor Zymm

Yeah, he was very much that kind of dude. I’ll help dig and get us some pointy shoes

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Gumbygirl

Winklepickers!

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Horatio Cornblower

His house in Key West smells of cat urine.

Probably on account of all the cats.

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Gumbygirl

Is there anyplace in Key West that doesn’t smell like piss?

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Probably the urinals in the men’s rooms.

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Sharkbait

Better than his jaw, which I assume was pretty well destroyed by the shotgun

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Brick Meathook

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Sharkbait

I was gonna make a Dragnet joke, but I can’t tell if that’s Jack Webb or not

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Gumbygirl

His name is Claude something?

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Gumbygirl

Ha, it says it twice. Claude Akins. I really should learn to read, I hear it’s fundamental.

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2Pack

Art work man…

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ballsofsteelandfury

YES!!

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Sharkbait

Nope. Can’t unsee

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BeefReeferLives

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BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

C is for cookie

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

I thought c was for chickenshit

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BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

That’s good enough for me

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Gumbygirl

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Why would one want to unsee the Cookie Monster?

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BeefReeferLives

LOL

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Senor Weaselo

Hey, don’t compare them!

In Calvinball you can’t take your mask off.

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Horatio Cornblower

I spent most of my formative years in suburbia. I do not remember anything like this.

https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/1880080100307398789

Perhaps I shouldn’t have slept in as much as I did.

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Brick Meathook

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Gee, thanks Gemini. That’s very helpful.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I wonder if Balls is cut off from Gemini because he has exceeded his quota of requests for explanations of the plots of the AVN film nominees.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Plots?

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ArmedandHammered

you know, the poor excuse of a narrative to give some sort of context to the action on the screen

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ballsofsteelandfury

You mean like what’s missing from Marvel movies?

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ArmedandHammered

and coherence is the main issue with those movies, well the writing and of course the acting

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WCS

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He fixes the cable.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

My apologies. I know you take your craft far too seriously to let some AI chatbot do the leg work, and any implication otherwise was merely in jest.

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King Hippo

I hear tell you can run with the dogs tonight, tho

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Horatio Cornblower

‘Blue Velvet’ increased my enjoyment of Pabst about 1000%

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BugEyedBoo

First time I ever got drunk off of beer was PBR. That shit is dag nasty.

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ballsofsteelandfury

I went to dinner the other night with a high school buddy. He is probably the cheapest bastard I know. We went to a local place we used to go to in HS that’s now blown up. Huge selection of beers.

Motherfucker orders a PBR…

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blaxabbath

That’s his brand.

https://youtu.be/FwuV2fL8AVw?si=BtbC_sBrFaYz72f4

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Don T

I got a Blue Velvet story.* Here goes.

Into my second year of marriage (late 90s, already regretting writing this), I rented “Blue Velvet”. My then-wife and I had a “Let’s cool off by you being in this room and I go to another room for a big while” kind of disagreement. Probably about pillowcase colors. It always got bad about dumb everyday shit ANYWAY: she watched “Blue Velvet” alone.

Next morning, I asked her how was the movie. “Mostly shit. You would have hated it.” And I asked her why she thought I would hate the movie. From that moment, until we got divorced about 20 years later, my ex-wife never EVER explained to me why she thought I would hate “Blue Velvet”, just saying “Because you wouldn’t get it” and more general or overtly infuriating stuff.

I almost got a stomach ulcer outta you, David Lynch. I promise to watch “Blue Velvet” and do my b st to get it. RIP, sir.

* “Tedious but revealing.”
—rogerebert.com

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Gumbygirl

I have a Blue Velvet story too! Mine has nothing tp do with the movie. Not THAT movie, anyway.

Gumby and I got married on a Friday evening in November, during the first snowstorm of the season. He only got 4 or 5 days off, we were lucky to get that. We were spending our “honeymoon” at a nice hotel in Pittsburgh, but after the wedding, reception, and afterparties at both of our parents houses,.plus the snow, we spent that night in the honeymoon suite at the only hotel in our town. At the time, it was a Holiday Inn, now it’s a Ramada. We opened the door, and walked into a porn set. Blue crushed velvet on the bed and walls, huge mirrors everywhere. We laffed and laffed, and then put on a show for whatever perv was behind the mirror- it was our wedding night! We were always convinced that we are huge stars in some third world country to this very day!

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blaxabbath

Good blue velvet story.

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Gumbygirl

I hope it made David Lynch smile.

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Unsurprised

There are so many dickheads who deserve to die instead of these two.

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Redshirt

I knew the Rapture was coming, but not that it wouldn’t be slow.

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Doktor Zymm

Imma go shoot some guns

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Downrange only, please

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Unsurprised

That sounds fun.

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Redshirt

Ugh, better get ready for another visit from the FBI.

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Jimbo

-Kyle Shittenhouse to his mom probably.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I feel like he probably used a different word than “guns”. Something more along the lines of “people who annoy him.”

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Me too!” – Balls, loading up his trusty forefingers

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blaxabbath

Give me Coach Deion “Business Decisions” Sanders hosting Dan Campbell every Thanksgiving, kicking off about 45 minutes before the late-afternoon Sun begins to drop.

Annually.

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ballsofsteelandfury

I didn’t get a chance to post this on the last thread, but there were A LOT of business decisions being made by the Steelers in the Ravens game…

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Redshirt

I hope so, because if that was the Steelers trying to win, then we’re starting to enter Marvin Lewis territory with the Steelers.

I hate to say it, but there are alarmingly similarities.

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WCS

That was pointed out in Yinzer sports yak the other day.

Actually, Marvin Lewis had a better regular season record than Mike Tomlin in the last six seasons, too.

Eep.

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Redshirt

Yeah, but unlike the 00s Bengals you guys didn’t get in with an above average QB and offensive. You went in with a journeyman QB. If anything, that’s the ‘02 Bengals with Jon Kitna, ‘98 Bengals with Neil O’Donnell or the ‘00 Bengals with (shudders) late career Scott Mitchell.

Any coach who can pull that off shouldn’t be compared to Marvin Lewis and discarded easily.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Ok, who will be the third? Is Verne Troyer already dead?

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Been dead since 2018 apparently. Warwick Davis then?

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blaxabbath

I’m about thrashed as fuck. Just need a good sit.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Your yard reminds me of something; I can’t think of what.

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Unsurprised

Clint Howard-looking bridge troll

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blaxabbath

Weird world.

If I get to my goal of like selling my company or like “being a Success”, I’m gonna take like a week-long survival class for Hawaii — to start. That’s a skillset I cannot buy. I got like a deck of knot tying cards and that shit is more difficult than I expected. Feels like another, do it enough without understanding and then you’ll understand.

Basically going hipster. Or whatever hipsters all said they could do. But then Covid hit and like, hey, do you tinkering-with-odd-bikes and knowledge-about-old-actresses translate to actual needs and they were all like, “well now that I just grow a manbun and drink hoppy beers…..no.”

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ballsofsteelandfury

Yeah, you don’t need that.

The one thing you do need is solar panels on your Hawaiian roof. I hear the electric company over there is a bigger mess than PG&E, SCE, and LADWP combined.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

To put it in football terms, that’s a bigger mess than the Jets, the Browns, and the Raiders combined.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Those palm trees are begging for a hammock.

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litre_cola

Zymm will tell you where to get one. I think you can pick one up in the hammock district.

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