Hello there fellow football and cocktail enthusiasts. Unfortunately this week is another scramble/ thrown together post. I feel like that has become the norm the last few weeks due to re-adjusting from travel and sick kiddos. The latter reason has struck again sadly. Well… Not sick per se, but somehow nits got into our house via kindergarten or nursery school.
We found them on Sharkette’s head while getting her ready for school. Needless to say we kept her home from school and brought both kids in to get checked.
Sure enough, Sharkbait 2.0 had them as well. Mrs. Sharkbait got looked at too, and she too had fallen victim to those bastards. As for me?
Once cleared from our persons, we headed down to FOB Cape Cod to wait out the time it takes for any residual Interlopers to die off at home.
The TL:DR is my grand plan to craft, drink and write about a drink at home was shot. Having just come off rental season, the Cape bar is woefully understocked, so I outsourced the drink this week to a Polynesian place I’ve been going to as long as j can remember, and their to go Scorpion bowl. At least COVID was good for one thing…
Scorpion Bowl for 2
Divide scorpion bowl into two oversized mugs and enjoy with dinner
For a take away scorpion bowl, they sure don’t mess around. Sure it’s missing the burning 151 in the kitschy as hell but still awesome bowl, but it’s just as potent and goes really well with what is essentially Chinese comfort food. I couldn’t tell you what their mix is, but whatever black magic they do behind the bar works and is a perfect way to end a Thursday that was just a gigantic clusterfuck.
So…yeah. Hopefully next week I can get back into my rhythm of looking up, making and writing about new drinks. But sometimes you need to adapt and I think I did well here. Now if only the kids could stay healthy for seven consecutive days….
(Banner image courtesy Matthew Tetrault Photography)
/as if I couldn’t adore John Randle more-he was told that Steve Wisnewski was a dirty player that stepped on players shoes, trying to injure them. He didn’t go to the tape, he looked up his family…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV3lF-rj-b4
/yeah, I’m watching Travel Man again
Ayoade: [at an expensive resto] “The only way through this two-starred Michelin nightmare was to power through.”
There’s a Thai restaurant within walking distance of my house that is going for their star.
If they also served soul food, would it be a black Thai restaurant?
“Black Thais/White Noise” would be an even better tune if David Bowie could spell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuhA6EPpBVo
Me? There’s a racoon carcass within walking distance of my house. We are not the same.
That show is excellent
If you had told teenage-Disneyland-employee-me that Michael Eisner would eventually be standing up for free speech better than just about any CEO, I would have said “Get the fuck out of here” like Axel Foley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHZWWFmaFcI
Bronson Pinchot should’ve won an Oscar for this scene.
This character and his appearance in True Romance were absolute grand slams.
In case anyone is familiar with what a “grand slam” looks like, here is a pretty decent example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX8uw722W6Y
That was a really good managerial decision, bringing in that specific pitcher at that specific time.
/hears loud cursing from the Connecticut region
/Lowratio braces himself for pain
I see Twitter is eager for the Commanders to pick up a Younghoe. I guess there aren’t enough of those in Washington now that all the summer interns went home.
I remember lice checks when I was grade school, back in what us old folks call “the 70’s”
Remember those tablets they’d give out to check your gums, and you could all tell who didn’t brush their teeth by the resulting color of the dye?
Good times. God we were bunch of filthy unhygienic degenerates back then.
Thirsty on a summer day? Nearest hose. Water approx 93 degrees, shut up and drink it.
My kid has never in her life left the house without a huge water bottle.
“Thirsty? What’s the matter, are you too hot under that dress?”
“Now quit whining and let’s go play some jarts.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khHzGqgO2Bw
Hey, I distinctly remember lice checks in the late 1980s, maybe even early ’90s.
And it was plaque candy. It was red, tasted a little like cherry Kool-Aid, and everyone always ate their allotment from the dentist in less than three hours.
Do planes have wheels? 🤔
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/jesus-take-the-wheel-songwriter-brett-james-dead-plane-crash-1236524379/
https://theonion.com/god-answers-prayers-of-paralyzed-little-boy-1819564974/
You just gave me an idea for a Christian-themed remake of Star Wars (since Disney has happily placed itself under the thumb of the Christianist Right) called “Jesus, Take the Targeting Computer.”
this remake is going to be a “short” right, as the Rebel Alliance now falls inline with
TrumDarth immediatelyNo, no, you see it’s now Darth Fauci and he works for the Empire of Public Health. So there’s still plenty of conflict.
Is RFKJr’s brain worm Jabba in this version?
JD Vance as the Wookie?
MTG as Leia?
Kash Patel as Jar Jar Binks
I would think trump would be Jabba, & his cabinet would be a crowd of Salacious B. Crumbs.
“Why would a plane need wheels?”*
-Shinpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai
*Translated from Japanese
We would also have accepted Mohammed Atta.
Or JFK Jr.
Thankfully the wife and kiddos got treated yesterday so no more lice.
Hopefully the school will make sure no one else has it.
“Yes, the new crystals that the Department of Health and Human Services sent over should handle those nicely!” – a local school superintendant who hasn’t made a single remark in over six month that wasn’t dripping with sarcasm
Given that Chip Kelly is OC for the Raiders, I’d refer to this game as the “Duck Derby” but I don’t want people thinking it has anything to do with the next Turning Point USA gathering.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1nl88ls/schefter_now_official_commanders_hc_dan_quinn/
Reunited and it feels so good.
Someone will have to remind Chip that Marcus is on the other team, but I don’t think it would matter anyway.
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Lowratio’s last job.
(yours or hers?)
Yes
& down the rabbit hole I go…
“I’ll never forget a very beautiful form of gentle anesthesia served one night at a luau up in Manoa Valley in Honolulu. The object of greatest interest was a tremendous Chinese earthen crock which easily held twenty gallons of punch. In it our host had prepared Honolulu’s famous Scorpion, a drink which does not shilly shally or mess around in getting you under way”.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion_bowl
Hate it when a cocktail shilly shallies… So annoying.
It’s even worse when they dilly dally.
Lollygagging is right out.
Unless the lollygagging might lead to hijinks or, even better, shenanigans.
Dude.
Sorry to hear that Sharkbait! Your wife & kids must just feel lousy about the whole situati…
Love AOC!
She don’t take no shit.
I once sat in a bar in Baltimore with Sharkbait and I only got a few lice. Otherwise he seems like a pretty nice guy.
Thought experiment:
How much of a lice infestation would you tolerate to hang out with various DFO people?
Today on the back channels I suggested a DFO SoCal meet-up in the next few weeks.
Perhaps we can settle this issue then and there.
Ok, I can bring lice, but right now only pubic.
Just don’t bring Ice.
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I dunno. I think Mike has at least another week. They hung with one of the best teams in the league last night and fought hard.
/news of McDaniels firing comes 15 seconds later
We dealt with the lice thing when the girls were in grammar school and it was awful.
Lost track of the number of times I combed their hair with that skinny ass comb. The shampoo smells pretty horrible too.
Good luck.
My son managed to avoid lice, BUT… when we moved to Bumfuck Georgia, he got too close to those trees with Spanish moss dripping off them- they’re full of red bugs, teeny,evil fuckers. The poor kid.
Yeah, whenever I see pictures of people draping themselves with that stuff I just kinda shake my head
Do you think this drink would be improved with boba? Or like that jelly boba?
Benoit.
Boba.
Snot balls. Ugh.
“Oh my god. Is that a distressed finished kitchen table?! That. Would. Look. So. Goodinyournook! Anyways let’s go antiquing in Chandler after this homo-fest is over.”
-Girl Attendees at State Farm Stadium on Sunday, Scrolling this Post
From what I remember of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” the cure for nits is to completely shave your kids’ heads, then dip them in kerosene every day while it grows back. Probably should keep them away from open flames, so it’s good the flaming 151 wasn’t included in the takeaway
There’s a reason I constructed a whole bit about Hunter Renfrow showing up late to the studio (and put off the whole prom thing until the end of the frickin’ summer). Personally I really appreciate that you’re here EVERY week; it’s hard as hell to maintain that level of commitment and you’re a star for doing it.
And regarding the head lice…
(I wish more people had enjoyed this show as much as I did)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDV3AAAMydY
Much appreciated!
Totally, I write like one or two posts per year and I can barely keep up with that. Weekly is amazing!
THIS LADY DOKTOR ZYMM I CALL HER BEN SHAPIRO’S WIFE BECAUSE THERE’S THIS THING THAT OTHER PEOPLE DO ON A WEEKLY (OR EVEN MORE FREQUENT) BASIS AND YET SHE HAS TROUBLE MOTIVATING HERSELF TO DO IT EVEN ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR.
Nitpicking is the most fun you can have as a parent. Unless it’s literal.