Your “I GOT THINGS TO SAY!” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

  • Mike McCarthy has OPINIONS about how the Packers treated him, and went deep with ESPN. Here are my pull quotes:  
    • He “did not see it coming” after the Arizona loss, or did he hear any of the boo-birds that preceded the game.
    • “It’s clear to me now that both sides needed a change.”
      • “Mark said it was an ugly loss, and it was time to make change. He said something about the offense and the special teams, and he didn’t think it was going to get any better. There was no emotion to it. That was hard.”  
    • “The emotional challenge of shifting from humiliation to reflection was a very important step in seeking clarity so I could personally grow from the experience of my entire Green Bay Packer career.”
      • “It was hard to swallow.” (Likely the first time he’s ever said that.)
    • Feel free to go read the whole thing.
  • Not funny – Matt Stafford’s wife is getting surgery for a brain tumour.
    • She started having dizzy spells after giving birth, and developed vertigo soon after.
    • An MRI showed a benign tumour on her cranial nerve.

A sad anniversary in Canada today, as the nation marks one year since the Humboldt Broncos bus tragedy.

The driver of the rig involved, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, pleaded guilty to 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death and 13 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison for vehicular manslaughter, and will be deported back to India after his sentence concludes.

A positive that has come out of the tragedy is that organ donation awareness has increased, in part due to Logan Boulet signing his organ donation card on his 21st birthday. That act allowed his organs to be donated to six people who are now living extended lives due to his selflessness.

His family honoured that act by working to make April 7th “Green Shirt Day”, a day to promote & encourage organ donation awareness & registration.

Sports Illustrated also produced a short documentary on Logan,

and now it’s all dusty in my classroom. No – you stop cutting those onions.


Tonight’s sports:

  • NHL:
    • Senators at Rangers – 7:30PM | Sportsnet
    • Blues at Blackhawks – 8:00PM | NBCSN
  • MLB:
    • Cubs at Braves – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
  • NBA:
    • Raptors at Nets – 7:30PM | TSN4
    • Celtics at Heat – 7:30PM | NBATV
    • Rockets at Clippers – 10:30PM | NBATV
  • NCAA:
    • CBI Basketball Tournament:
      • Finals Game 2: South Florida at DePaul – 8:00PM | ESPNU

Mike McCarthy: The 25th winningest head coach of all time, and yet the Jets passed him over for Adam Gase. WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?!

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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Fronkenshteen

If you have twelve minutes, you could do worse. FUCKING COBRA TRAP!!
https://youtu.be/MWPFqqtaLTc

Fronkenshteen

Liquor costs at the restaurant clocked in at 50%. Oof!! That’s a fucking HEIST going on. Security cameras will be installed this month. I’m gonna start writing weird shit like “FIERY KILLROCK” on my aprons.

Brick Meathook

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

My wifi eats balls, lady BFC’s on the road, and I made myself go to the gym tonight. Time to call it a day.

ALXMAC

What is this new gold and red pin that I keep seeing politicians wearing on their left lapel instead of the American flag? Is it a House Targaryen symbol?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Was it on Republicans? They could just have fucked up their swastika colors.

Unsurprised
ALXMAC

Probably? I’ve seen it on both D’s and R’s so far.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

This is his house

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Brick Meathook

Here’s a comparison between a straight-edge line drawn using a 1961 K&E DeciLon slide rule (top) and a modern Shinwa ruler from Japan. The lines were of course drawn with a 1.1mm Durolite with an IBM Electrographic lead.

The top line clearly benefits from the Deci-Lon’s eight Lon scales (as opposed to the six Log Log scales of it’s Decitrig predecessor), while the hardened stainless steel of the Japanese challenger certainly makes this a close call.

The winner? I’d say that we all win, but I win a little more than you do. Thank you and god bless.

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WCS

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ALXMAC
Mr. Ayo

Well I, for one, certainly feel like a winner now.

ALXMAC

Maybe try it with some Hanzo steel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnjtQQQaDKo

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

I honestly dunno what she was trying to do there.
But she did seem attractive.

I mean ya know, before she broke her face on the sidewalk.

WCS

What do you mean? Breaking her face was exactly what she was trying to do.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Kudos to her then I guess on a job well done?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Mr. Ayo

Pretty sure I did the same thing on my first ollie attempt.

Fortunately, my face was already described as “busted”.

ALXMAC

So you jumped off the board with both feet at the same time? I’m not sure that’s what she was trying to do.

Brick Meathook

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theeWeeBabySeamus

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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WCS

Dammit, Dee! You and your friends get out of here!

theeWeeBabySeamus

BIRD!!!!!!

theeWeeBabySeamus

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Yep, learn your lesson now kid….

Hot blonde chicks always fuck you over.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

I mean, ya can’t blame him.

Mr. Ayo

This reminds me of my last threesome. Couldn’t get either of them wet enough and turns into a train wreck.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hehehehe

WCS

I’ve done this more times than I care to admit, and I have a 175 average.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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ALXMAC

THANKS TRUMP TARIFFS!!

Brick Meathook

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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I’m hungery.

ALXMAC

MLB: The SHOW (c. 1954)

theeWeeBabySeamus

So, it’s still a strike, right?
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Brick Meathook

I saw Fred Flintstone do that.

theeWeeBabySeamus

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WCS

Wwweeeeeeeee!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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WCS

Truck driver, to passenger: “Feel like this thing’s running a bit lighter?”

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Hey, we’re getting better gas mileage all of a sudden!!!!!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Mr. Ayo

These pallets aren’t going to deliver….

Wait, what?

Mr. Ayo

Honestly, that looks more fun.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

For the dad since little Billy was never heard from again.

theeWeeBabySeamus

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ALXMAC

“Dammit Bobby!! I said take out the trash!”

Unsurprised

He’s halfway there.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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ALXMAC

Seems like a last minute addition to put the stripper pole directly above a stairwell.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

9/10….would pedal into her backwards….if you know what i mean.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I’d be fine with just the bicycle seat after she’s done.

Brick Meathook

Hey look! Here’s my five new vintage 1.1mm Durolite mechanical pencils that I bought off eBay! They just arrived today!

That’s them in the foreground. I’ll replace the erasers with some new ones from Autopoint, and I’ll toss the leads that came with them and load authentic IBM Electrographic leads (no longer made) that have a high graphite content and a clay base, which makes them soft and silky smooth and unlike anything you’ve ever written with, Blackwings be damned.

(In the rear are two Bell System stamped Durolites, three U.S. Government stamped Autopoints, and three more blue Durolites)

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Here’s my arsenal of vintage IBM 1.1mm Electrographic leads and brand new Autopoint erasers:

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If you took one of the U.S. Government Autopoints and used the 1961 K&E Deci-Lon slide rule (top), you could work on the design, construction, and or operation of Project Apollo and fly yourself to the moon and back:

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Brick Meathook

I’m such a Luddite! But I have awesome handwriting!

Unsurprised

Sexy

Mr. Ayo

Nice post. Nerd.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Holy shit, it’s like I’m at Walmart all over again.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

More like can’t-fit-though-the-DOOR Mart, amirite?

Unsurprised

I’d say it’s more of a RESCUE-HER-BY-CUTTING-A-HOLE-IN-THE-WALMART

Mr. Ayo

Hips don’t lie!

Brick Meathook

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Unsurprised

It delivers on its promise.

Col. Duke LaCross
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Wakezilla

Did we just witness the death of two fucking idiots?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

At least one got out. The other has free disability.

Mr. Ayo

I don’t know how you do it, but that doesn’t look like fucking to me.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Defective Shelving!!!!!!!!
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Sharkbait

Ice Giants lose to the last place team in the league. #LoseForHughes

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

From the banner pic, McCarthy could sub in for Tucker Carlson and no one would notice.

litre_cola

Teams from Toronto beat both our Nets, and the Orioles (still have em right where they want em).

A plague o’ both your houses!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

Aye. The sea, she is a cruel mistress.

theeWeeBabySeamus

He seems to be enjoying his day at the waterpark.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

At least until the Super Water Wedgie……..

theeWeeBabySeamus

Who has two thumbs and no longer needs that colonoscopy next week?
(wait, does he still have both thumbs?)

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Maybe he did enjoy that part.

Unsurprised

I guess Stafford’s “eat until you have a layer of protective head fat” diet didn’t work out for the missus.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

Pin the franchise tag on her, because she’s a keeper.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yeah she is.

Wakezilla

She’s a spitter. 3/10, would bang in a heartbeat

King Hippo

#BFIB? PRESENT!!!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

They’re not saying HISSS. They’re saying NI—

/A GIANT HOOK DRAGS UNSURPRISED OFFSTAGE

Wakezilla

Snake orgy?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

So that’s how Bailey Jay became so flexible— I mean, I have no words. Eww.

scotchnaut

Jeeves has run my bath. I’ve instructed him to drown me. Good night to you all, forever and always.

LemonJello

I think this is a set-up for one of next season’s Hobo Killin’ Tales…

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

Using an iPhone is immensely easier for my fat fingers with this Bluetooth keyboard.

Unsurprised

JFC. Get these losers off my fucking planet.

Spoiler

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LemonJello

Swiping right or left?

Unsurprised

Right on her, Left on Jarvanka using WhatsApp to communicate nuclear arms sales to the dumbest man in the world (MbS, not Trump. Trump’s a close #2.).

scotchnaut

Worst Decision #1: moving in with a girl that morphed into a cokehead.

Worst Decision #2: deciding to read The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes*

*Come for the never-ending references to silk-centric fashion by Roman historians! Stay for the never-ending references to silk-centric fashion by Roman historians!

/GAH!

herodotus450

Worst Decision #1: moving in with a girl that morphed into a cokehead.

Fixed that for you. No, wait, we can do better.

Worst Decision #1: moving in with a girl that morphed into a cokehead.

There we go.

scotchnaut

I hate you.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

I’d gift so many people with these.

Wakezilla

I’m fucking dying. Hilarious!

Unsurprised

Awwww

Mr. Ayo

Worst Decision #2: deciding to read The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes*

Fixed that for you. No, wait, we can do better.

Worst Decision #2: deciding to read The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes*

There we go

scotchnaut

I hate you.

LemonJello

Mr. Ayo bucking for a senior position in the current Presidential Administration, I see.

Mr. Ayo

Aim high, and settle for anything is my philosophy.

LemonJello

Those are the same instructions Katinka was given by Herr Charlemango himself!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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LemonJello

Thanks, Obummer-era OSHA!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised
Unsurprised

I forgot the URL for these to embed. Oh well.

Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

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Redshirt

That’s the same for O- blood. The blood bank keeps calling so much, I figure if I don’t donate, I’ll probably wake up in some seedy motel with my arm bandaged and a sugar cookie and apple juice box next to me.

LemonJello

Eli would never leave his juice box behind.

Unsurprised

The joke’s on the organ harvesters if they tried that with most of us.

Redshirt

Please settle a debate in my family. The menu said “Fish and Chips”, so I cooked fish and fries, only to be told that it was supposed to be tater tots instead of French fries.

Are “Fish and Chips” fish and fries or can it be fish and tater tots too?

Mr. Ayo

Tots are not Chips here or overseas. You are correct.

ballsofsteelandfury

Tell your son he can have tots on Saturday mornings with cartoons like all decent people that grew up in the 80s did.

Redshirt

My family rule: “If you don’t like what the kitchen serves, you’re welcome to take your business elsewhere.”

That’s #2 behind: “If I’m driving, if you’re not in the car when I get in, arrange for alternate transportation.”

LemonJello

Dad? You said you were just going out to get some scratch-offs and smokes!

Redshirt

I thought you’d figured out by know I won.
Oh, and you’re the mailman’s son.

LemonJello

**shrugs**
“Math checks out.”

LemonJello

Fun Fact: “Fish and Chips” was a proposed crossover buddy-cop show starring Abe Vigoda and Erik Estrada.

SonOfSpam

I WANT TO SEE THIS SHOW. Wait…Abe Vigoda’s dead. EVEN BETTER.

scotchnaut

Your family is sucking what’s left of your sanity out of you. This debate is beneath you. Move on/out.

Unsurprised

Tots aren’t chips, but tater tots fucking rule.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Jesus; how fucking sheltered are you?

Unsurprised

Have you seen the Brendan Frasier comedy Blast From The Past?

scotchnaut

Green Shirt Day is great. Greenpeace is great. Green Day sucks all the balls.

LemonJello

Are you trying to get tWBS to spam their “music” here, tonight?

scotchnaut

No worries-tWBS never over-reacts to anything, ever…

/waits
//starts giggling

Unsurprised

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herodotus450

There should be an automatic commenting unit (a “bot” if you will) that just replies this to every one of his comments.

Unsurprised

THEIR TAKING OUR JERRRBS!

Mr. Ayo
blaxabbath

I like that green shirt day shirts are green shirts featuring an image of a green shirt.

SonOfSpam

GREENCEPTION

LemonJello

Is Blue Bunny ice cream not available in NYC and the surrounding areas? Maybe THATS what decided things.

scotchnaut

These folks on reality shows must be held to a higher standard. Sure, you can tattoo the visage of Lady Gaga onto the balls of an internet comic. That’s all well and good. But can you follow that up? Can you get elected to the council of a small town and improve its infrastructure with the issue of municipal bonds that return more than 16% after twenty years?

LemonJello

I will only accept “These folks on reality shows must be fed into a wood chipper.”

Mr. Ayo

Speaking of which, where was today’s TIT update?

Paging Balls to the content factory phone.

ballsofsteelandfury

It was originally scheduled for Tuesday, but I couldn’t complete in time. I’m aiming for early next week.

Mr. Ayo

*updates reading schedule*

Can’t wait to see how these lovebirds end this season.l

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

GODDAMNIT NO I NEED IT NOW.

LemonJello

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Redshirt

So now my Nom de Internet is offensive to Organ Donors? Oh, perfect!

ArmedandHammered

That is one hell of a pop rock.

Redshirt

You know who else was a redshirt? Scotty. Also, Kyle. Plus Uhura but that may be considered a redskirt.

They survived!

Wakezilla

Not to the coloUr bIind ones!

Wakezilla

NY Jets’ new jerseys are exactly like the Saskatchewan Roughriders which is fitting because they definitely play like a mediocre Canadian football team

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Day 3 without drinking: I have been told that I am an angry sober.

scotchnaut

You might want to ignore that voice in your head. He’s a son of a bitch.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Man, I can’t even imagine what LCSS is gonna be like if he tries to go three days *and* three nights without drinking.

LemonJello

Those poor Super Soldiers that have to deal with a sober Low Commander!

Won’t someone think of the Super Soldiers!?!?

Redshirt

At this point, you’re probably hearing a voice instructing you to kill everyone you see, or if you already hear that voice when you were drinking, it will be louder and making good points and valid reasons. That would be detrimental.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Where did you think my BOLTMAN writing came from?

scotchnaut

“Green Shirt Day? What about brown? I think that might give our movement that little extra putsch!”

-Hitler, 1923

Wakezilla

Mild taek: If the government is actually serious about honoring Humboldt Broncos players, they can start by removing stop signs on 100km/hr+ highways.

It’s ass backwards to me that there are stop signs on the middle of a highway. That’s hard for a small car to suddenly stop, let alone a semi.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

My hometown just added speed bumps to the highway, and they’re about to put in round-a-bouts. I want to throttle the entire city counsel.

ballsofsteelandfury

The only problem with roundabouts is that Americans don’t understand them.

In countries with good drivers, they’re awesome.

Given that, speed bumps on a highway is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

Brick Meathook

I learned to drive in Washington D.C. where there are traffic circles that cause foreigners to shit their woolen pantaloons. I was driving a stick-shift downtown when I was 14 years old, folks.

FUN FACT #1: Pierre L’Enfant layed out the Washington street system in a pattern of circles with avenues radiating like spokes. This was done specifically so that if there was a revolution or armed insurrection the Army could seize just the circles and have clear lines of fire down all the avenues.

FUN FACT #2: “Roundabout” is a metric term used by wooden shoe wearing soccer loving yodelers in their thatched huts. Real Americans, who traditionally love to fight and love the sting of battle, call them “traffic circles” and also love to call in napalm strikes on thatched huts and other enemy fortifications.

LemonJello

Meathook 2020, motherfuckers!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

He’ll get the Trump vote.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

True on the first two.

You can get magic air if you are going fast enough.

Game Time Decision

There’s a place on the highway, in Quebec, on the way from Toronto to Montreal, where a train, a FUCKING TRAIN crosses the highway. seriously WTF

ballsofsteelandfury

I would award extra points if there were no arms coming down to stop traffic.

Redshirt

That’s one advantage about video games, you can drive like a maniac with no consequences.

In Real Life, I’m drive safer and slower than an old man behind the wheel.

In Saints Row or Ghost Recon, you put me on a motorcycle and suddenly I’m one with the Matrix.

Also, I have one races in Need for Speed with my car driving on the side of a building as it crosses the finish line.

Unsurprised

That seems like the kind of gamble Hippo would kill to bet on.

Redshirt

I think they’re farms in Texas with access roads end at Interstates. Plus there’s a park access road connecting to I-40 in the mountains near the TN/NC state line where its very hilly and winding. Its like they’re trying to summon an accident.

Wakezilla

If they tell Matt hat brain cancer tastes like Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn, that thing will be taken out no time.

/Prayers for the Mrs

/Edit: fuck autocorrect

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Captain Bluebunny should rot of gonorrhea and burn in hell

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I dunno, as far as I can tell, he’s the main reason the Packers haven’t won more Super Bowls.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

After all, he killed a lot of children.

Unsurprised

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