Hello, everyone. Everything is still more than a bit shit, but I got to enjoy the schadenfreude of the Redshite filth blowing their lead and crashing out of the Shempions at mid-week. So you get a cheer pic, which is also a complete sop to Mister Pickle (odds-on favoUrite to become the next Pope).
I also like that the new Prime Minister of The Canadia is a fellow Evertonian. He’ll know how to look a challenge dead in the eye, and kick it straight in the bollocks. Surely, that’s at least half the battle?
NC State is still looking for a hoopsball coach (men only, as the womenfolk are REALLY good), and we Wolven Sort all have McNeese State’s Will Wade on our hope chest. His black hat/Johnny Cash showmanship would sell like hotcakes in West Raleigh.
Fuck Chuck Schumer. This is a rare uprising that doesn’t threaten any ideological schisms – the centre-left, the Very Online left, shit, even The Bulwark centre-right types are all up in arms. We don’t have much leverage, but where we DO have a little, we motherfucking expect a motherfucking FIGHT.
I could listen to this song on repeat forever, I do declare. Plus, what’s to wait for? Doomsday is already here, the point of no return is in teh rear-view.
Thought MSU got screwed but nope, that was all ball.
Sorry, Yeah Right.
https://twitter.com/Underdog__NFL/status/1900964878313046112
Please let it be so.
As was foretold
Fuck. I’m definitely out if this happens. I only started rooting for Mini n the 90’s when LA didn’t’ have a team
Viking fans can join birds in banging their heads to death against the stadium windows.
Still not buying it. Makes no sense for them.
He’s gonna begin his Tonya Harding phase?
Wisky up on Izzo.
fo shizzo-Snoop
That’s my flip to during commercials.
*this komment brought to you by draft kings.
*just ask your doctor if ozempic is right for you
The more I play, the more I like Civ 7
POPE Says, Fear not for there will be divine intervention.
And bubbles!
Gonna start our taxes today. Have a zillion papers to go through to find all the stuff
Fun times
Oh right, I need to do those too. But not today, because I’m already drunk.
I need to arrange stuff so I have a zillion papers worth of deductions.
Or we can just push my income tax burden onto the consumer class, as was clearly promised and overwhelmingly approved by voters. And being implemented by Paul Ryan disciple, Chuck Schumer.
Kewpie says
If Memphis looses, so does Pickle.
Holy Crap, GO TIGERS GO!!
Memphis folk be hard core yo
Taj, what type of hallucinogenic items have you imbimbed today?
/I thought kewpie was Japanese mayo.
Kewpie is a depression-era doll.
Nope, I’m wrong, they predate the depression, but celluloid versions were very popular in the 30’s. The first ones were porcelain, made in Germany.
Cold and snowing outside. To the basement pub for couch surfing and sports watching all day!
/funny how some things get scrubbed from the Internet
I was looking for a bio of Dave Gavitt-the originator of the Big East-and knew he was the coach of a Providence team that made the Final Four in ’73 or ’74 and had their wins vacated because Marvin Barnes* had signed with an agent.
*Mr. Barnes once was told that his arrival time in a city was before the takeoff time because they were going through time zones. Apparently his reply was, “I ain’t going on no time machine”.
Reminds me of one of Jim Valvano’s favoUrite stories – 7’6″ doofus center (and future long-tenured NBA bench warmer) Chuck Nevitt was having an awful practice. When V called him out, he said he was nervous because his sister was having a baby and I don’t know if I’m going to be an aunt or an uncle.
There’s a story out there about a basketball prodigy from Detroit that tried to rob a convenience store one time. His name was Reggie Harding.
Harding: [has a mask over his face] “Give me all your money.”
Store Owner: “Reggie, don’t do this.”
Harding: “How do you know my name is Reggie?”
Store Owner: “YOU’RE SEVEN FEET TALL AND I WATCHED YOU HAUL DOWN 27 REBOUNDS YESTERDAY!”
Harding: “Oh. Nevermind.” [leaves store]
**For the longest time I believed that this was a criticism of a super dumb guy that didn’t take school seriously. Turns out the criticism was in the lap of eager and lazy sportswriters that wanted to crush a black kid.*
*they eventually succeeded
Kewpie for Christ sake no!
BANG!
— M. Breen
Does this make Kewpie an Anti-Pope??
I ‘m not relishing the murder of Mr. Pickle
/begins elaborating on comment below
“Wisconsin Basketball” would be a joke if you bothered to tell it. (Steve Yoder coached the team for 11(!) years and amassed a 30-150 conference record) from ’82 to ’92. No one gave a shit. It’s Wisconsin basketball after all.
In comes Bo Ryan-and with the support of administration and his own hard work recruiting, there’s a team that has to be reckoned with.
What a goal by Everton.
I legit yelled, so much effort in the buildup. Nothing was falling right, but like they say – you never shame yourself by working hard.
St. John’s is one of those programs whereby I’m stunned that they hadn’t won a Big East title since 1985. The amount of talent that comes out of the New York city (and environs) basketball scene is overwhelming and you can’t get a piece of that recruit-wise? That tells me that the school doesn’t value the program, not one bit.
I was always similarly confused by DePaul being so hopeless. Then again, I started watching hoopsball when Ray Meyer was at his peak.
#spiritanimalalert!
Guh! It makes no sense whatsoever! Administrations that can’t see the value in putting effort into recruiting local talent and having a national profile and how that could affect enrollment just befuddles me.
You know who gets it right more often than not? Memphis. An underrated basketball hotbed that recruits its own and makes an effort to hire a high profile coach.
St. John’s got its swag back when it started listening to a billionaire alumnus who pushed for Pitino and apparently has donated about 1/2 of the $3.5-$4 million they’re paying out in NIL deals for basketball.
In this era of college ball that’s pretty much what it takes, administration and geography be damned.
Good point. I was talking about the hiring of Chris Mullin, Norm Roberts, Steve Lavin, Mike Jarvis and Brian Mahoney (all pre-NIL) down through the years. They’re mediocre guys through and through. Pretty obvious that no one cared about the program.
OH Shit, Kewpie says he’s going to kill Mr Pickle and take the pope gig for himself.
another twist in the tale!
Nooooooooo! Bad doll!
I don’t remember this part of ‘Conclave’
Yes, well, that’s what getting blackout drunk will do to you.
All hail Pope Kewpie I!
https://twitter.com/NBCConnecticut/status/1900943577066172556
Climate change isn’t real.
Up here in The Northern Ontario Canada it’s gonna rain for 48 hours straight. Everyone is supposed to be making “wearing parkas in the spring” jokes about us. Not applicable.
We finally got some decent rain days the last couple weeks.
If that means tornados for everyone else, then that’s just the [massive tax] breaks.
That’s what Secret Trumper says…
Rain today and tomorrow and highs in the double digits in fucking metric.
Monday just above freezing
Long term has snow next weekend with all the seasons in between
Love me some Smarch weather
Future is Looking Shiny and Chrome
If you ever wondered how Larry Bird would have been treated in this media environment, just take a gander at Cooper Flagg and the coverage he’s getting for not playing against North Cackalacky.
Every year when I do brackets it’s fun to figure out which mid-level teams with single-digit losses are legit or whether they beat up on vastly inferior competition.
Hard season to make waves, since everyone loves the Drake
“Not everyone”
-Kendrick Lamar
ngl, I miss the rap battles actually involving guns and knives
“Not me.”
-Tupac
“Yeah, we’re not really big fans either.” – Spanish galleons
Auburn. I’ve seen them a few times and they can play.
I’d not categorize Auburn as a mid-level program at all. They’re SEC.
Just thinking a team with a legit shot to win the whole damn thing.
I bet on Houston, Bama and Texas A and M futures, Auburn be damned. Tennessee is very good.
/been watching only thr last 2 weeks for prep.
Ah man
This doesn’t seem rocking 😔
VAR gonna flip this
And Hippo no complain
Pious pontiff pickle praises your sage decision making.
These just get better and better!
inorite???
Thank you my lady.
If Schumer had been a politician in the 19th century he’d be known as The Great Capitulator.
He went to France and surrendered when a Parisian waiter was obnoxious about taking his order
The Scottish coloUr commentator in the Everton game is sublime!
Fun match so far, too
I mean, yes, it’s kinda scary what might happen during a government shutdown right now, but Congress ional Trumpkins wouldn’t have pushed through the CR if it wasn’t better for them than a shutdown
Explain that to Chuck Schumer like he’s 5.
I’m pretty sure most 5 year olds would understand it just like that. Schumer’s kids must have ended up eating candy at 10 pm every time he tried to put them to bed at 8
“Do you need to me to hold her down so she doesn’t struggle so much?” – Chuck Schumer’s ad-libbed line as an extra in The Accused
As you may know, in Chicago they go hard for St Pats on the weekend before, aka this weekend. Friend of mine somehow got talked into escorting a group of bagpipers around to 11 bars today, for free.
Now I’m trying to picture a scenario involving a “Bagpiper Escort”. Thanks.
Never forget the time the Bears social media hamster decided it would be a good idea to dye the Chicago River orange for St. Pat’s.
Up the Union!!
I saw SPD described as Freaknik for white people, which amused Hippo greatly
Yeah they do that every year…
Gene Hackman- fuck dem kids
https://www.tmz.com/2025/03/14/gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-will-estate-children/
If she died first then her estate passes to Gene. Gene then dies, his will leaves everything to her but she’s been dead longer than he has, so there’s a solid argument that his kids, as the nearest living relatives, get everything.
Regardless, a couple or four attorneys are about to get paid, and isn’t that what’s really important here?
Trusts and Estates was just the fookin’ worst, yo
I think I managed to get out without taking that course. My “knowledge” is based on a friend of ours dying, (Mrs. Horatio found her; there was a lot of screaming during that phone call), and not leaving a will.
Eventually some cousins she didn’t like and hadn’t spoke to in years were discovered and they got everything.
Except her dog, which I took out of the house and gave to my mother, and her parrots, which we got together with a neighbor and took to a rescue operation in Rhode Island, which was filled with dozens of exotic birds and which may have been louder than a Motorhead concert.
Long story short, update your wills kids.
Family Law and Income Tax were my dodges. They made me take T & E
I was given the ‘Gentleman’s C’ in Income Tax Law.
I pay someone else to do my taxes.
My sis passed away without a will and my mother trying to give the former’s car to my youngest skull fracture boy is a lengthy, ridiculous, involved process.
/get some sort of rudimentary will done or update the one you forced yourself to do 10+ years ago if circumstances have changed
My mother-in-law also died without a will and we just took her car, gave it to my daughter, and told my wife’s sister to fuck off, she wasn’t the one who’d been picking up mortgage payments and groceries for the MiL in recent years.
In hindsight I’m not sure that was legal.
I’m curious as to who gets the ownership of the incredibly lucrative Popeye Doyle’s Haberdashery franchise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYv8K_joa6A
Am I gonna have to watch this moviefilm?
You’re gonna watch it and you’re gonna like it.
/when I watched it as a kid I was blown away by Hackman’s intensity-I hadn’t seen anything like it before. I’m curious as to whether it stands up.
I saw it for the first time recently and wasn’t terribly impressed. My father explained that no one had seen a movie like that when it first came out. Broke a lot of ground, but if you’re used to seeing films where the cops aren’t exactly good guys, and that is filled with car chases, you won’t see what the big deal is.
It’s not a bad movie, by any means.
Yeah, that sort of “honesty” hadn’t been seen before in such a raw fashion. Watching it now, you’d have to forget everything that came after it and that’s impossible to do.
New Order’s last bit of brilliance…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ZHVmSuBJM
Thieves Like Us popped up on the New Wave Sirius channel two days ago. I’ve kinda left New Order behind but those first two albums after Ian Curtis passed away are brilliant.
This is the worst idea Schumer has had since he declined that scholarship for the trip around the world because he’d end up breaking up with his HS girlfriend, only for her to break up him at the end of the summer anyway.
No scholarship, no trip around the world, no girl, no democracy.
(I heard that speech at least twice, possibly thrice. I don’t remember if he was at my Master’s graduation.)
Wait, is that a real story he tells.
Holy Christ, what an asshole.
So basically he’s always been a simp?
Happy Moyes-Derby Day to you, good Sir Hippo!
pre-Derby hype music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OT9ji7ojFM
I mean, if you’re disappointed in Chuck Schumer, I think that says more about your need to start set realistic expectations than his need to change his Palenstinian spots.
lookit Billy Big Bollocks, now that the Fightin’ Blax are in the conference title game smgdh….