I’m hoping for a good game.
Yep. It’s Superbowl weekend. After tomorrow, we’re stuck with soccer and basketball. And the rest of February.
No need to cover the balloon story, but it is worth noting that the F-22 finally has two kills to it’s name. Neither one had wings.
Links?
No word if either driver was Asian.
Quai Changs as far as the eye can see.
Prolly not a good idea when you sell Native American art for a living.
That was close. We have not even begun to mine the entertainment value of Fetterlump.
Whoops! Move along, nothing to see here.
When I was a kid, mom and dad were big into Big Band and jazz. I remember the first time I heard this song. It was written on February 10, 1941.
The preschool serves both infants and toddlers and can cost up to $1,500 per month. “The issue is resolved already; 80 percent of the families are okay,” Vitale told the Miami Herald. She then said any further questions should be directed toward her lawyer.
So, did twenty percent of the families die of the vapors?
No, covid.
“Racist tirade” is a misdemeanor now? WTF is this, England?
I would assume it’s an application of the old obscenity laws.
He yells “MAGA Country” which is really quite odd.
He’s also obviously a White Hispanic.
I’m guessing it a disturbing the peace charge or something like it.
How do you manage to run into a commercial airliner?
Well shit, I’m supposed to fly to Florida with the wife and youngest kid tomorrow and the kid probably has COVID-23BTQ+
My wife and I had it a week ago so we’re good, but the eldest kid also has it and we can’t leave the youngest with the other two.
We’ll see if she’s better in the morning, otherwise I just blew a bunch of money on tickets and hotels.
Bummer. Hammer the zin and quercitin. Horse paste(tm) if you have it.
I hope she feels better. Might as well recover in FL.
Just gave her the horse pills. I’ll have her strap on the oat bag next.
Are you out of aquarium cleaner?
Aquarium needed cleaning, so she’s out of luck.
Imagine if we tested for cold or flu… no one would fly ever.
I just follow the adage of “if you’re sick, don’t spread it” or at least I try to.
Why they pushed ‘asymptomatic’ so hard
To get people to vaccinate.
It’s all been about that one goal.
Sorry. I hope your kids recover soon.
Saturday Night links ofSpudlove (snacks. Not the other thing).
The old bomb in jolly old England is clearly Bidens fault. His speeches have been bombing for decades.
No one has ever plagiarized a Joe Biden speech.
That’s a good point. How do you plagiarize incoherent gibberish?
Ask Fetterlump
But last year, the striving that came so instinctively suddenly lost its meaning. She was exhausted by 12-hour workdays and long commutes, then nightmarish pandemic lockdowns. None of it seemed worth the financial payoff, the promise of which dwindled as the economy worsened.
Que?
They were reportedly locking people in their apartments.
Confirmed by two coworkers with family in China.
Still hearsay of course…
Old Guy music
It’s like a small social experiment is taking place in China.
You might even call it a cultural revolution.
Seems like she’s struggling with her purpose in life.
While around, tonight’s going to be one of the unmoderated Zoom/Happy Hour/Socializing link for the evening.
Hiya Spud!
The WWII bomb was wild. Imagine the poor fucker whose it is to cut into an 80 year old bomb. No thank you.
I’m sure it will be a good game, but I’m not excited for it. More excited for the ribs I will be making, really.
So what’s everyone doing tonight?
Just passing’ time
Probably should read a book and learn me sumthin’
My wife and I have been watching ’80s movies. Last night was Tequila Sunrise. I forgot what a fun movie that was.
Tango and Cash
It’s wonderfully 80’s cliche bad.
That soundtrack is wonderful.
Not as wonderful as Kurt Russell’s ’76 Cadillac Seville in that movie.
Drinking. Tacos. Strawberry vodka & coke (yes I am girl). Gummies. Watching Blue Thunder with Roy Sheider. Trying to forget the got dang week.
Strawberry vodka and coke?
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. Excuse me.
Niiice. My daughter likes Pink Whitney, so I understand.
World War II bomb detonates in Great, well now Okay Yarmouth.
Huh. That’s where the American branch of my family emigrated from. I visited in the late 90s, but all in all, I’d say ‘okay’ is a better descriptor than ‘great.’ Any family relevant stuff was bombed out in WW2.
Glenn Miller – I was trying to be cool in junior high & high school but I was somehow also in Jazz Band. We played In The Mood for every.single. Concert.
I stayed in three years- while switching between grumpy to trombone. Trumpets at least get a featured part.
No trombone solos in the song !
Grumpy = trumpets.
No diff.
I thought Dizzy = trumpets?
I played Alto Sax but sadly, high school didn’t have a jazz band.
Me too. Mine did have a jazz band but I was too stupid to join.
My teacher tried to get me to switch to bassoon but I said fuck no.
I was so incredibly dumb.
I played Alto Sax but steered clear of those Jazz Band malcontents. Nothing but communist heroin junkies.
Add me to the Alto sax list. Did time in 3 different schools on that thing. Finally had a band teacher I didn’t like chase me out of band in high school. I think I was pretty good (first chair in 2 of the 3 schools). Unlike most parents, mine actively encouraged me to get into a music career. So of course I didn’t. Funny enough, now my neighbor has a nephew that plays sax for Stephen Colbert’s house band.
My daughter played percussion in jazz band and is now in college playing in two real bands. She’s all excited about a gig tonight. So somehow it all works out.
I wish I wouldn’t have quit after ninth grade. Stupid.
I was asked by my high school music teacher to pick up the clarinet because my tiny school band needed one and I already knew how to read music. She gave me a lesson on where to put my fingers and that was that. The last time I played it was in the BYU band-for-lesser-musicians. I tried taking lessons until my teacher interrupted my blowing and said, “What is that NOISE?” I said, “Oh, that’s just my sinuses rattling around.” She said, “I think this is not the instrument for you.” I happily took my get-out-of-clarinet-lessons-free card and skedaddled.
Your siblings, if any, thank you. Holy crap that’s all I heard growing up – clarinet clarinet clarinet.
And sax and flute and piano but mostly clarinet.
Weird coincidence. My brother played clarinet, one sister played sax, and the other played flute.
All of that was one brother.
At one stage we each had curtained-out “bedrooms” in the basement so it was like playing in my ear for hours on end, every day.
I had to share a bedroom with my brother. 🙁
I have 3 brothers – at various points I shared a room with each of them, and at one point – all of them.
For graduation, we played Pomp and Circumstance in a loop for two hours straight. When we were done, I put it away and never picked it up again. And then my first ex-wife hocked it. I still entertain the thought of picking up a used Selmer and getting back into it.
Oh be glad you didn’t graduate in the late 90s and have this
My mom kept mine, so I picked it up one day and realized I don’t care anymore. Rather mess around with guitars.
My son who should be a guitarist, still sits in his room, playing riffs by ear and solos after a few minutes of listening to them. I hate him.
I’m jealous.
When I was a child, well into adolescence, then trailing along in my 20s, and finally still haunting me in my 30s and 40s was a 20-note earworm the likes of which I thought I had dreamt because for the life of me in 45+ years I had sworn I never heard that song, and I had no other original music floating around in my head, so obviously I HAD heard it but couldn’t find out what it was. I couldn’t hum it for someone because my hold on it was tenuous.
Then my FIL died and bequeathed to my husband his entire iTunes library, which, let me tell you, was a country music fan’s mother lode, much of which was made during my country music phase in the 90s. Score!
It had some big band, too. Late one night, I’m sorting and tagging and meta-dataing all this music and boom, out of nowhere…my childhood earworm.
“In the Mood.” Some 10 notes into the intro was my earworm.
I hate that fucking song.
I hate the song Fat Bottomed Girls cause my dad was a womanizer and overall drunk.
Your dad sounds like a fun guy. What happened with you?
I meat you who is a complete asshole.
You meated Bro? Ew.
ya ya, point still stands, Bro has proven to be an asshole.
I was going to say only in his wildest of fantasies.
I gotta wake up early in the morning or just stay up for a flight back to Cali. Cards are on the table.
Fight through an Ambien and then drink on your flight. It’s a winning combination.
UPDATE!!!: The United States state of the art F-22 Raptor has added a third, unmanned, unwinged kill to it’s vaunted record.
Hey, the most advanced fighter in the world is so capable that it can only down relatively stationary targets!!!!
*I am in actual awe at the F22. Fuck the F35, the 22 is absolutely amazing.
Wait, another one?
The last one was probably one of our own weather balloons that was malfunctioning.
At this rate, we’ll launch ICBMs after detecting balloons from a gender reveal party within a month.
I’m still holding out an unknown drone by an adjacent intelligence agency.
If it’s in defense of Canada does it really count?
Don’t mean to take the focus away, Spud, butthese ladies are good, if you like Led Zeppelin.
Wow.
That’s solid. I like drummer girl a lot!
Noyce. And I want to do the whole band.
Unfortunately old enough to have killed Kennedy, but what else can they bring up?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/02/10/george-santos-amish-puppies/
We get it he is a liar. How about doing the same detailed reporting on the lies of the POTUS.
Not old enough..
In this day and age, I say a plant from the opposition party and they succeeded. Or just a delusional person who had ridden the currants of today’s political wave.
Your second sentence describes half of DC.
Their sneakiness is bearing fruit.
I thought he rode the sultanas to get into Congress.
Any other day, the WaPo would railing against Amish puppy mills. Now they’re whining that a politician stiffed one.
Whatever… Santos for President!
Let’s get this over with.
Good point on the puppy mills!
The Dems and by extension the MSM are pissed that he flipped one of their districts.
Amusingly, I got a flyer from not-my-Representative today. Dude, check your map. I am one block outside your district, thank goodness.
Yeah thats great but you are in the demographic we are polling well with..so…we cool bro/sis/person?
They don’t even care if you are a citizen if you vote the way they want. They don’t even care if the ballot comes from a living person as long it goes D. Living a block outside the district is just a trivial little detail.
And in local news that Sensei and other NJ Glibs will paying for:
https://nypost.com/2023/02/11/nj-school-superintendent-resigns-after-adriana-kuch-suicide/
If he is widowed how is he having an “affair”? Maybe before the death, but unclear. It’s OK now to discuss substance abuse by students by name to the press? And lastly from some other articles showing the beating she took they provided no ambulance or medical treatment.
I’m betting she wasn’t an angel and may have bad friends and a bad habit, but JFC this is what you are paid to deal with.
I may be an asshole, but I’m not a NJ school super intendent leaking personal information about a 17 year old girl who committed suicide to the Daily Mail level of asshole.
I am First, though.
Oh yes you are that level of asshole.
I’d like to link a song I thought should’ve sold everyone on this band :Outlaw Yeah, it’s simple, it’s derivative, it’s whatever. It’s good. That what matters to me..
I think your promotion is 30+ years too late.
There is no cure for stupidity.
I’ve heard stories about watches and injuries including broken bones. I’d like to know if it would be possible to discharge a firearm on its own or by striking with heavy force.
https://www.insider.com/a-lawyer-died-after-gun-discharged-mri-scanner-2023-2
Trigger likely got pulled in the process of it being pulled out of his holster.
https://i.imgur.com/e14Yz6j.jpg
NSFW.
https://i.imgur.com/7ky5hRG.mp4
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/IxMuo/fddbfe40c3bd8646b77693b78a6ae82a39efba7e.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/8U2P5/0e602463289fce02ef7e44cc879d9eb2dbc40f1b.webp
NSFW.
I predict that this will be Spud’s fav.
https://i.imgur.com/RaA1Xwz.jpg
NSFW.
Nope. The one above.
Madonna kind of looks like Johnny Depp now. Just with a bit more botox.
Next stop.
That bad huh.
She was cute back in the day, now she’s just sad. Her face looks like an overstuffed sausage casing.
Johnny Depp looks better.
Keith Richards looks better.
Lol
Keith won the Madonna look-alike contest, Madonna came in second
I had no idea what this was called in the industry.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90846866/pov-digital-advertising-is-dead-good-riddance
Pssst. That isn’t going to happen.
And slideshow lists.
“These 17 things you should never do while on vacation with your gay uncle”
Isn’t that at the bottom of every New York Post article?
I think so. I vaguely remember adblocking that shit a couple times, there and on other sites.
The trick with balloons is the high off-boresight fox 2.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rqF-AEpUkZM
That’s great.
Comments are good too.
Tonight’s ’80s classic is Willow.
Five minutes in and I can’t believe I haven’t watched this weekly.
Do yourself a favor and DO NOT WATCH the TV reboot.
No chance.
Nice, that a good one, I’ve been playing the kids lots of 80’s movies. The 11 year old has his friend sleeping over so it’s gonna be Stand By Me tonite.
That’s a perfect choice. I love that movie!
And the book is really good, too.
I believe it’s called The Body. Before Steph King sucked.
Meeting with the Dallas Glibs tomorrow then back to the hotel to ignore the game.
Cheers, Hobbit!
I saw TOK bury a sweet goal in his game yesterday.
Glibs in real life are amazing.
Met with over a score of Glibs so far (including you!). Tonio and I both mentioned what nice people inhabit this site.
I won’t be in Dallas so I’ll have to ignore the game from here. I’m sure by Monday the results will be in along with some what ifs and complaints about the referees.
We can ignore the game together!
I’ll be ignoring it at The Spaniard’s house later tomorrow, after our lovely lunch.
The Dallas Glibs are good folks. I expect you will enjoy your meeting with them.
Voldemort
OFFS. You went digging for it, lady. You’re the racist.
Kid’ll be ready for the army in no time. We learned some of every flavor.
Wow just finished a crowler of 10.5 a very and feeling it. A little early. Here in Pendleton till Friday. Everyone stay cool.
Nice music selection.
I went to a Swing dance tonight. I bailed. A Big Band which sucked. About 90% of the people at the dance were couples, none of whom were dancers. I’d say I brought the average age down to about 60 or so. What a waste of time.
But, at least you picked a good song for your music selection tonight.
And then?
And then?
After I left I drove home and rethought certain life decisions.
And then….The Squirrel Nut Zippers
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yS2IBMQIjDo
Yeeha! That was fun. I some them one year when they performed on a float during the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. I still have a CD I caught as they were tossing them to the crowd.
Along came Jones
One thing I like about here is the wide variety of hobbies people have.
Me too. I like seeing people really passionate about their interests, even if it’s not my thing.
My oldest brother was 7 years older than I and big band was popular in the ’40s. I was really too young to have much music appreciation so I listened to his choices. I still enjoy the big band sound and the vocalists of those days. I have a couple cds of the WW2 music, reminds me of being a kid again.
I was at my cousin’s wedding reception back in ’03, ’04. The DJ played an old jazz tune. “In The Mood” or “Take the A Train”. Can’t remember which. A bunch of the older crowd, 70s or so, got up and started swing dancing. The really did look like kids again. I liked it.
I love “In the Mood”. My sister’s first kid, my niece, learned to walk by listening to it and dancing.
There’s a radio show on every Saturday night that I listen to when I get off work. Starts at 11 pm in the Mountain time zone on 90.3 FM.
It’s called Blues Before Sunrise, and the DJ plays a lot of music from that era, pre-war and post war. Blues, swing, Hep Harmony, you name it.
Pretty cool.
Edit: the show is out of Chicago, and is played across the country.
I’m hoping for one more revision where you tell us the show is Eddie Trunk Rocks. I will gladly give you the Devil hoens.
Ha ha. No, it’s definitely not hard rock/metal. Music from days long gone.
Just to show you, the intro music is a song called ‘Jodi’. It’s a,prison/chain gang work song.
Video used to be on YouTube.
I’m glad you enjoy it but I’m vaguely disappointed.
🙂
My youngest turned 17 years old today. I have a house full of (mostly) 17 year old girls. I so wish I knew then what I know now.
(⊙_◎)
🍆
Hey, I’m in a hotel room this weekend. If any of you yokels wants to do a Superb Owl zoom, I’d be down. Otherwise i will check out the local sportsball bar scene.
Also, Are there any Glibs in Everett WA?
You are on the wrong end of the state.
I’m hoping this means you are field testing a pulse weapon by firing it at downtown Seattle.
As if. I have a lot going on, to be honest. If you want to know, ping me at hayeksplosives@protonmail
Fellow teenagers.
CPRM and Swissy were kind enough to listen to my woes on Zoom earlier, but I’m always down for a chat.
Wow. This Pompeo guy is growing on me. Also, I love Stossel’s interview style.
https://youtu.be/j0lT-KPcLQ4
Morning, Glibs
Good morning.
Howzit goin?
Good morning, Shirley and U!
What’s up in your neck of the woods?
I had a heck of a time just now getting my chai latte mixed up and put on the stove to heat because a certain Little Black Cat was climbing my leg and insisting on getting picked up and cuddled. Happily, he let me put him down before the stuff on the stove boiled over. 🙄🐱👤
How about both of you?
My sleep schedule is seriously off, and I’m not sure the best way to fix it.
Oh, dear! Are you taking tomorrow off or saving that Floating Holiday for later? That might give you some time to get back on track, but you might need that day off another time (depending on how long you can save it.)
I can save it for a year.
I plan to be in to work tomrrow, since I haven’t been in this role long, and it’d be bad form to have an unplanned absense so soon.
That sounds like like the best course of action. Think you can tough it through the day today with no (or minimal) napping and get to bed at the best hour for waking well-rested for work?
It’s a possible plan. I’m not sure how well I’ll manage it.
Mornin’ GT!
Hey, Shirley – it’s supposed to warm up some here today. Hope you’re getting a little of that up nort’!
Yup — warm and sunny yesterday, warmer and sunny today.
Got my dishwasher running, and laundry going, so my chores approximate half done 😉
I hope you get some warm and pleasant?
Good morning, everybody!
Good morning, Ted’S! You slept in this morning, eh? 😉
Hey everyone!it’s
Dunno where that it’s came from…
Good morning, Sean! What’s going on the grill today?
Strip steaks. 😉
Had a smoked turkey breast in the freezer since Christmas – a gift from a vendor that my boss passed along to me. It’s in the fridge thawing, so with any luck it’ll be good for eating while observing the Feast of the Magnificent Vessel.
😋
I thought it was the Feast of Wonderful Strigidae.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!
Good morning, homey! How are you, Jugsy, and your pack o’ hounds?
On the agenda for this afternoon: pick up sticks in the back yard blown down and around during the blowsy bluster the other day.
I work tonight, so after breakfast its likely naptime once I get a couple of beers in me.
In my head its 5 pm after all
*akshually, TALL CANS after I have breakfast with Tres Ver. 2.0
Im feeling some Waffle House right about now.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/lehigh-valley-zoo-hosts-its-annual-otter-bowl/article_f8882c08-aa10-11ed-a7d4-3367bc8db160.html
Otter bowl!
Otters are great! I can (could) spend hours watching the huge otter pool at Monterey Bay Aquarium. The webcam is great, but is still just a ghost of a shadow of seeing it/them in person.
The local natural history museum has two otters in their small, indoor zoo. They have a great watery habitat in which to play together.
(I just discovered they also have a sloth named “Patience.” 😄🦥)
Heh. Patience is what I named my Fortmanis(?) plush hand puppet.
Needz moar otterz!!! Let them play each other with fishy footballs! That would be even better than Puppy Bowl! 😃🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦
But a muskrat rambles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vpuFYQwZ5o
I caped deer for a taxidermist when I was a kid: super easy work most city kids aren’t any good at.
They gave me too otters to skin and I never went back.
Who the fuck shoots an otter?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3tUh-x-fp8Q
🎶