Happy Thursday! The NFL season is over. Not for the 8 teams left but for the 24 teams at home with their families (does not apply to certain TB Bucs). And Thursday night football won’t rejoin our lives for like 33 weeks. Which means we don’t have Scotchy to kick around/keep us on our toes every Thursday night.
We know how much everyone loves change, but is it really a change when every year (since VodkaBrosephRick hung up his pickaxe) we need someone to pick up the non-game thread Thursday slack? What is a content mine overseer to do? In the case of DFO, can’t offer more money and can’t threaten violence anymore, so we sent up a flare for volunteers.
Or did we get voluntold?
Anyhoodles, no one wanted to go on this long scary journey on their own, so LitreCola and I will tag team Thursday nights (not to be confused with sexy Friday style tag teaming).
You may know me as one of the resident Bears’ fans, author of the (medium lived?) DFO mailbag, spewer of random thoughts, and font of countless links. You may know LitreCola as the man generous with booze and big Turks, DFO’s foremost oenophile/sommelier/prairie wino, snaxx and “home cooking” devotee, and brother in law to BC Dick. What do we have in common? We’re good men (and thorough), we were once in Calgary at the same place at the same time, and when there’s a hole to fill we’re game to fill it. So until and unless someone else steps up, be prepared for the new buddy DFO author gig, Litre and BFC! Maybe we’ll keep some conversations going between threads, who knows? We’ll make jokes and drinks and occasionally share something useful. Or your money back.
So HEY LITRE!
Whatchu want to talk about? Pick a topic to throw back for next week?
What’s on tonight?
College Basketball:
Rutgers at Michigan State, 5:30PM DFO time on FS1
Michigan at Maryland, 6PM DFO time on ESPN
Purdue at Minnesota, 6PM DFO time on ESPN2
Other (hooping) shit, check your local listings
NBA:
GDubs at Irishmen, 6:30PM DFO time on TNT
Hoops at Gas Balls, 9PM DFO time on TNT
NHL:
Lightning at Oilers, 8PM DFO time on ESPN
Tennis:
Australian Open, men and women starting at 6PM DFO time on ESPN2, ESPN+, and whatever replaced the Ocho.
[…] week, Litre teed up a question to me, which is exactly how I predicted these alternating Thursdays would go, and they absolutely […]
This is where I am
https://youtu.be/nRc0yaMW7Mw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPPyWe83p-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHL-6cUtZj0
Love this song.
MILF Hunter Z to his colleagues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUro3Uwq6Mw
Sure is quiet in here tonight
Too….quiet….
I wouldn’t want to be a hobo in Northern Ontario tonight…
There are no good nights.
Note to my future self: you ate beets tonight. Don’t get all freaked out in the bathroom, you’re not dying.
Drink some blue food dye and make it a game.
Turn your colon into a Ravens fan for a night.
Make it more interesting and poop out the shape of a colon.
I’ll invite Steve Kornacki over to analyze the resulting electoral college map.
“Well, it’s looking like Poopsylvania will go blue tonight, and that’s huge for the Democrats if that happens. But Mishitgan is rather reddish, so we could be in for a long night.”
Ciao tutti
is that what Italians say when a fart leaves their butt?
No… that would be; “cin cin”…
Scotchy’s Red Wings not falling ill of the Vegas Flu, up 1-0 early
Whomever came up with these “Upwork” zombie commercials needs to be fed to actual zombies.
Have only had some Bevita crackers for breakfast today. Just drank some 100 proof stuff and am now eating. This could be a disaster, but let’s see in the morning.
Tongue is numb. Abort! Abort!
By abort, I mean drink more. If I can be asleep by 9:30, this will work, I think.
I can vouch for you two being thorough.
Back in the fall I bought several pallets of ground beef, inside rounds, eye of rounds and pork loins. My supplier was very appreciative and threw in a (15kg) case of beef bone-in short loins. I just remembered and brought a piece home thinking it was the equivalent of a prime rib roast. It is not. So I’m now 15 videos in on trying to understand how to bone out a beef tenderloin and a striploin roast from this cut.
/will these white guy problems never end!!!
I doubt you don’t know how to debone hunks of flesh.
So…you can’t just roast it and suck the sweet flesh off the bones?
I feel like you’ve visited with one too many Polynesian tribes…
Ching Chang, Walla Walla Bing Bang!
It would be easier to just cut it into T-bone steaks.
Can I borrow your band saw?
Where the hell is everyone? You can’t ALL be at the Australian open.
I am making French bread and waiting for a nice young lady to arrive at my house so I can do not nice things to her. So this is all you’re getting from me. Beans to Thursday football.
I’m WATCHING the Australian Open, does that count?
I’m releasing the Kraken
Is that pooping, jerking off, both..?
I didn’t see this before I posted my comment. It’s the Yinzer hive mind!
We won’t tell the others.
It’s so much more fun when you spell it without the g.
Poopin!
Make sure you spray some air freshener in the bathroom when you’re finished.
Oh shit. Sitting next to a Fulham supporter with season tickets. Good nna have to arrange a ticket swap
I was reading a book set in France, another country that has an Open, and soon I will be playing poker with people from the US, which also has an Open!
/United Kingdom cries
Well then they should have named it the Wimbledon OPEN if they wanted to be included
BREXIT MEANS BREXIT, DAMNIT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6evzaqpsuU&ab_channel=NewUltraRayden
One of Retro Nickelodeon’s better game shows featuring the cast of one of it’s absolute worst — possibly, THE worst — of it’s comedies.
I didn’t mind Welcome Freshman when I was ten, but holy LORD is it bad.
Here’s another one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOz4vVmtJ5o&list=PLvtqBMFlziB73OOAblJXMZxX7o7_BmXt2&index=22&ab_channel=8GoblinKing5
Leave it to the Japanese and French Canadians do not fuck around with their fairy tales. This series was always much more faithful to the original, completely batshit acid trip that the Brothers Grimm’s tales really are. NO DISNEY HAPPY BULLSHIT HERE LIFE IS HARD SUCK IT UP YA LITTLE PISSANTS GET USED TO TRAGEDY
You’re welcome.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rsFqAyezJvc
Phil Moore was the first black guy I remember being cognizant of as a child.
Holy crap, it’s The Cheat’s fake ID guy!
Nice height
Crosby stills.
https://variety.com/2023/music/news/david-crosby-dead-dies-byrds-crosby-stills-nash-1235495467/
Get it?
One last trip on the Marrakesh Express.
More like Suite: Judy X’s for Eyes, amirite?
I loved 90s Nickelodeon, so I knew of YCDTOTV in passing.
They syndicated the shit out of most shows from 1988-1992 or so because I remember being intimately aware of Double Dare and the like despite not being old enough to see it live.
(Family) Double Dare was the zenith of that channel. Years later, it still holds up. Slick production, the set and design was incredible and Marc Summers was a veteran host by then. Those episodes are fantastic.
You know what doesn’t hold up? Double Dare’s 34 year old cousin that dated a high schooler: What Would You Do? I hated that show even as a kid and the first season is absolute anarchy. The Pie Pod was all right though.
Summer Sanders and Dina from Salute Your Shorts were my first girls that made me feel ‘tingly but not know why’ as a 7-8 year old. Salute Your Shorts fucking ruled.
“Ren and Stimpy” and “Rocko’s Modern Life” were batshit and probably something I’ll appreciate with an adult viewing. R&S had a character named George Liquor, and John K’s deranged ass tried to get this on the network:
https://archive.org/details/RenandStimpyAdultPartyCartoon
Bored at work Buddy is my favorite incarnation.
We took a family vacation to Florida when I was 8 or 9. In addition to giving me a decades-long aversion to eating peanuts, we also went to a taping of Double Dare. I recall it being fun, and it was probably also the first time I ever was asked to clap and cheer on cue.
In addition to the shows you mentioned, I also remember enjoying “Are you afraid of the Dark?”, although as horror for kids I’m sure it would be incredibly tame if watched as an adult
The first time I ever was asked to clap and cheer on cue, was when Uncle Ed took a shit that looked like Irving Fryar
What does Uncle Ed have to say about Zach Wilson?
Small dick energy
My sister was on a local Saturday morning cartoon show, called Adventuretime with Paul Shannon, in 1964. I was 4, she was 8. She got pulled out of the bleachers full of Brownies, Cub Scouts, and kids who hosted backyard carnivals for Muscular Dystrophy to sing Puff the Magic Dragon with Joe Negri, who is a well known jazz guitarist in Pittsburgh. Paul Shannon asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, and she said a missionary nurse in Tangyanika. Not even close, she just retired after 40+ years working for Westinghouse! Paul Shannon played a secret agent kind of guy on the show, in a trenchcoat and shades who had a cardboard car. The characters name was Nosmo King. I can’t believe how many years it took me to figure out that A: it was Paul Shannon in the trenchcoat, and B: Nosmo King is a play on words,No Smoking.
Oh, and Joe Negri also played Handyman Negri for many years on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. He’s still alive, he’s well into his 90’s now.
I loved Mr. Rogers Neighborhood! It was my favorite show when I was in the mid to low single digits!
Good for her knowing so much geography at 8! When I was 8 I wanted to be a chemist, because I thought it was way more mad sciency and explosions than it actually is.
It’s good that kids are gullible and naive, otherwise they would never be able to put in the fun jokes that mean parents enjoy the show too!
They brought the Aggro Crag to the city to climb for a Mountain Dew thing.
I got there around 2:00, until about 6ish to see the NY Phil in the park. Because I was the first person on the outside when they cut the line off at that 6ish time. For my suffering I got… a Mountain Dew selfie stick.
I’d rather get Mike O’Malley to mock me.
Watching #3 Purdue and their Canadian FrankenYeti 7’4″ Zach Edey. He’s a long, tall drink of maple syrup, he is.
This has been my first official week of unemployment (the last couple months were unofficial as I was still under the notice period required by CA law) and it’s been quite a bit of work!
I applied for unemployment, initiated rollover of my 401k since they’re going to start charging me extra fees for not having an income anymore, filed my last wellness claims, and I think I’m getting my COBRA stuff in the mail today so there’s paperwork all set for tomorrow. Still better than actually working though
I also worked out that I should be able to put off working again till October and decided to go to Greenland in July after hiking in Andorra. Greenland was originally planned for May 2020, so I’m resurrecting some old bookings.
Congrats on funemployment!
So far, so good! And I might even get a tax refund this year because of the Meta stock crash!
you be totes winning the game of LYF, Dok. We bask in your reflected glory!
Oh hell yes, we live vicariously through her! She’s Dora the Explorer, but way better!
Dora, with maybe a dash (or more) of Carmen Sandiego?
Where in the world is Dok Zymm? Well, the PoGo postcard says some place we’ve never heard of, but I’ll take the Vivillon!
Ha, that’s who I was thinking of, got them mixed up.
COBRA stuff? Like a uniform? Did you go Cobra Commander:
Destro:
or the Baroness?
I’m going with a sort of pantsless mashup look