GlibFlick: Joysticks!

by | Oct 7, 2021 | Film, Fun | 242 comments

Boobies!

So who clicked on the link before scrolling down? I could probably name names. Fooled you!  The real link is below:

Joysticks

Emerging from the doldrums of the 70’s, a ton of new cultural concepts came about. Movies, video games, pop culture and boobies all led an explosion in a market that desperately needed growth. Teen films told amazing stories of parties which actually did not happen to most of us! Video games started to appear in bowling allies, not just high-maintenance pinball and ripped pool tables.  Beer in bowling alleys was still stale, sadly.

That brings me to this particular film, Joysticks. What a romp! It’s non-stop video games, stereotypes, over the top teenage hi-jinks, boobs, and Joe Don Baker.

Joe Don? Did he owe a gambling debt or something? Wasn’t he in Walking Tall and Guns of the Magnificent Seven? What was he doing in this? We may never know.

Joe Don isn’t as important as boobs. So how about them booby girls? They were played by Kym Malin (who was later in Playboy) and Kim G. Michel (who was only in this one film). Challenge – Can you hear their characters’ names spoken during the entire movie? Don’t cheat and look it up!

Corinne Bohrer plays Patsy, the valley girl. She also played Booger’s wife in Revenge of the Nerds IV. No boobies from the valley girl! Boo says 16-year old me!  Adult me likes Corinne for her film and TV roles like Phantom of the Megaplex and Police Academy 4. She stayed busy!

There is a character actor in the film who goes by the name of Jon Gries. He plays King Vidiot and a great many reviews say he carried this film. Actually the boobs carried this film, let’s be honest. Anyone tuning in to “USA Up All Night” to watch this was there for the boobs. But kudos for making a fantastic character.

For many of us, video games were, and still are escapism. How many video games do you recognize in this film? There are a couple of notable examples:

  • During the strip video game scene, you would be forgiven for not concentrating on the video game. The name of the game is Streaking, and it works like Pac Man. You are a naked lady being pursued by the cops. You must eat the bon-bons to keep your energy up and collect your clothes before you are arrested. Did I have to look this one up? No, actually, I have this in my game room as part of a multi-game cocktail cabinet.
  • At one point you can see a screen shot of the video game Satan’s Hollow. This was a great shooter game that had a split screen where you had to build a bridge to Hell and shoot the devil. Gratuitous digital Wagner soundtrack.

Hard dose of reality for any millennials watching this film: The eighties really weren’t like this. I worked nights in high school. I didn’t know anybody who partied and saw boobies every night. Me and all my friends had to bust ass 24/7 for years to make a decent living and find our way. So suck it up!

Next week: Robo-Vampire.  Because life is too short to not watch Robo-Vampire. Slightly less boobies, a robot made out of car hubcaps and a script written by a nine year old. And kung fu!

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R.J.

R.J.

Hello. My name is R.J. I am a Tulpa with extra cheese and sour cream.

242 Comments

  1. Ownbestenemy

    Porky’s at the Arcade?

    • R.J.

      Similar concept. The script basics were shared by a dozen teen flicks.

      • slumbrew

        Does it have jarring subplots concerning anti-semitism and child abuse? If not, it’s not really like Porky’s.

      • R.J.

        No. That was Porky’s-specific. This has cross-dressing instead.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I’m reminded of the Choose Your Own Death scene in The Meaning of Life but in reverse.

  2. DEG

    Teen films told amazing stories of parties which actually did not happen to most of us!

    HAH! I laugh because it is true.

    I think this could be another good one.

    A friend of mine has turned the back room of his restaurant into an arcade. Last time I was in the Philly area he and I hung there after closing playing Cruisin’ USA. It was a great time. No boobies though, but I didn’t give a shit.

    • R.J.

      I have a comparatively tiny game room. Which serves as an extra office too.

  3. BethAnnica

    I am here to bear witness to the fact that R.J. does in fact have a copy of “Streaking” in his game room.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I mean, if you are going to bear witness…we demand pics.

      • BethAnnica

        Sorry, no pictures are allowed in the Tulpa’s domicile. You’re just going to have to trust me.

  4. DEG

    What a trip down nostalgia lane this opening is.

    Except for the blonde.

    There was no one that hot at any of the arcades I dropped into.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Or anywhere else, for that matter.

      I’m convinced that hot chicks in the 80s were all created in a lab, allowed a few movies each and were then immediately decommissioned and thrown into a blender to be re-used as shitty mRNA vaccines in the early 21st Century.

  5. The Hyperbole

    Was the theme song written by Dennis DeYoung?

    • R.J.

      John Caper Jr. is the music director, and may have written the song. You have me there! Now I have to watch the end credits.

  6. rhywun

    I really want to watch this but it will have to be later if possible tonight.

    Plus I might get to test out my new TV, supposedly I can put Tubi on it.

    • R.J.

      If it is a Roku or Android that is correct.

    • rhywun

      Today in rage:

      I was informed that you can install apps on this TV without a google account. Apparently that is not true.

      • R.J.

        Android I assume?

      • rhywun

        Sony calls it “Google TV” now. Maybe there is some way to sideload a program but it’s not something I’m going to figure out a couple beers in on a Thursday night.

      • Trigger Hippie

        ? Every breath you take
        And every move you make, Google’s watching you ?

      • rhywun

        Sigh. I signed up for a throwaway account. Have fun analyzing my Match Game reruns and Glibflick history, Evil.

  7. Tulip

    I did attend parties that looked like those in the movies once I was in college. I swear, if you brought a camera crew through, that’s how they looked. However, people in the movies seemed to have more fun and I quickly gave them up.

    • Ted S.

      So you were showing off your boobies at college parties?

      • R.J.

        Yes, I was. My portly moobs were q

  8. R.J.

    For anyone who is wondering, the male lead is Scott McGinnis, who was also in Star Trek 3, Search for Spock

    • rhywun

      Yeah, immediately recognizable. Doesn’t hurt that I just saw STIII again the other day.

  9. DEG

    Fox Body Mustang or a Capri? I think a Capri.

    • R.J.

      Later on I’d like to identify the micro – bikes that King Vidiot and his gang are riding.

  10. BethAnnica

    So were sweater vests really a thing in the 80’s? I was born in ’87, so….

    • R.J.

      Depended on your social group. I was more of the nerd / Vidiot / fat guy wearing a Hawaiian shirt variety.

    • DEG

      Yes.

      They were also part of my Catholic grade school’s uniform.

      Which is probably is myself shooting myself in the foot, but I remember them outside of school.

    • rhywun

      I think that means he’s a dork.

      I never saw them much.

      • Fourscore

        Hey, I resemble that remark! I had a couple and a couple sleeveless sweaters. It was what the well dressed man of the ’70s-80s wore. I may still have them, I never throw anything away. Maybe in a box somewhere.

        Cold weather gear has sleeveless down filled vests but I don’t have any, my arms would get cold, I need winter coveralls for outdoor activities like fishing or hunting.

      • rhywun

        To be fair, I was never well-dressed in the 80s.

  11. DEG

    I just realized: The blonde that tricked the kid with glasses: She looks a lot like an ex-girlfriend of mine.

    • R.J.

      That is Kym Malin, who was in playboy. In fact, I think she did a pinup for this very movie!

      • DEG

        She looks more like my ex-girlfriend in the movie. The hair and make-up. But the body is the same.

      • slumbrew

        You dawg. Mazel tov.

      • R.J.

        Indeed! I am not worthy!

      • DEG

        Heh.

        I screwed that relationship up so hold the “Mazel Tov”.

      • DrOtto

        How about the shag carpeting?

      • Festus

        Leaving this one here as a throwaway – I miss 80’s era bush. Not so much of it that you needed a machete but just enough so that when a boy-crab and a girl-crab meet and they love each other very much…

  12. R.J.

    Paging Tonio. Shirtless Scott McGinnis in a policemen’s cap stroking a club…

    • R.J.

      Is this a violation of the family-friendly rating?

  13. DEG

    A convertible Carmen Ghia? Whoa.

    • R.J.

      Those were semi-common in Texas due to the weather. I have seen a few.

  14. DEG

    I like the cars in this movie.

    A Lincoln. What a luxury car should be.

    • Trigger Hippie

      I drive a twenty year old Park Avenue

      /poor man’s luxury vehicle

      • DEG

        I went through two mid-eighties Town Cars.

      • Trigger Hippie

        *robot voice*

        “You’re door is ajar”

      • DrOtto

        Great car. Super reliable Buick 3800 V6. 20 mpg real world mixed driving, nearly 30 mpg highway. My daughter just sold hers. I wish she would have kept it, but she got $3,200 for a 20 year old car with 200k on the odo, who am I to argue?

      • Trigger Hippie

        I brought it at a steal for $1500 almost two years ago. It had less than 135k miles on it and so far the only thing I’ve needed to do to maintain it is change fluids, replace my back rotors and brakes, and replace a set of tires due to construction site tire flats and random vandalism. The car itself is a beast. Always starts, always gets me where I need to be.

  15. BethAnnica

    Is it just me or is there a lot of orange in this movie?

    • R.J.

      It was popular! Especially with blue. This was early neon colors prior to the really drastic stuff that occurred late 80’s.

  16. westernsloper

    How many video games do you recognize in this film?

    I recognize all in the opening but only remember a couple names. Pac Man of course and Centipede. Starfighter? Sad no footage of Asteroid. I rocked at asteroid. I don’t remember the name of the road racing game but spent hours on that one.

    • R.J.

      Pole Position

    • The Hyperbole

      Pole Position, **Bevis snicker**

    • rhywun

      Defender and Galaxian or maybe Galaga

      • Ted S.

        Q*bert.

  17. BethAnnica

    Dudes be lookin’ like a Monty Python skit.

    • R.J.

      Are at King Vidiot or the crossdressing Max?

      • BethAnnica

        Crossdressing Max

      • R.J.

        It reminds me of a Bug Bunny sketch.

      • R.J.

        Oh! Unwanted contact from King Vidiot!

  18. DEG

    Flower power Mustang???!?!

    • R.J.

      I cringe when I see it. Nice car, looking rough.

  19. DEG

    “I got an idea”. Heh.

    • DEG

      As I’m watching these next scenes, “What could possibly go wrong?” is going through my mind.

  20. westernsloper

    This is horrible. Nice tits though.

    • R.J.

      …And that is what every high school student said when watching this on USA Up All Night.

      • rhywun

        Yeah I’m not into the tits so I’m not sure why I’m still watching this.

      • Gender Traitor

        Hoping for more shirtless Scott McGinnis in a policeman’s cap stroking a club?

      • R.J.

        I think that comes up one more time.

      • rhywun

        Oh, lord.

      • BethAnnica

        Um, the high-quality cinematography and unparalleled acting?

      • R.J.

        touché. You have cut me deeply.

      • BethAnnica

        Not as deep as some of those nipples. Those things could cut glass.

      • westernsloper

        We didn’t have cable in my town when I was in high school.

      • Spudalicious

        You didn’t have indoor plumbing.

  21. R.J.

    Coming up: Breaking and entering and sex with an unconscious person.

    • DrOtto

      Sounds problematic

  22. Ted S.

    ¡GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

    • rhywun

      I have that on the tv and this on my computer.

      They better not lose this.

      • Ted S.

        It didn’t help that the ref missed two red cards.

  23. DEG

    “Eugene and mommy”

    heh.

  24. DEG

    Gotta join a zoom soon. I’ll pause this and finish it tomorrow.

    Despite it being bad, I like it. There’s some good nostalgia here. More than just the cars. The boobs are good too.

  25. The Hyperbole

    I wanted to say that Joe Don Baker really hit the skids here, but realized that I’m giving “Walking Tall” way too much credit. It was a staple on late night TV when I was a kid so I kind of think of it like “Deliverance” or “For a Fistful of Dollars” or “Jaws” but in hindsight it really was just a bad B Movie.

    • R.J.

      Next week is an actual Z-movie. Way lower than B – grade!

      • R.J.

        I have not! I liked the trailer so I may watch later.

      • The Hyperbole

        No, but I shall correct this oversight in my education post haste. I did watch Mitchell ( the MST 3000 version) the other day, so that should count for something.

  26. rhywun

    Jesus I need another drink for this.

    • R.J.

      Let the alcohol flow through you… Next week you will have to start early!

    • westernsloper

      I made another drink and turned off the movie. I need to smoke a giant bowl to watch that movie.

  27. BethAnnica

    Trigger Warning: Gratuitous plant violence.

    • R.J.

      That was an unwarranted assault on a helpless plant.

  28. R.J.

    …And now the micro bikes. Supposedly those were a trend. I don’t know that I ever saw one at the time.

  29. BethAnnica

    Well THAT escalated quickly….

  30. kinnath

    TV question: how do I get streaming services to a non-smart TV?

    • BethAnnica

      It depends on how old the set is. If it’s got a USB port you can use Chromecast or a Roku Stick, or a Fire Stick.

      • BethAnnica

        EDIT: HDMI, not USB. My bad.

      • kinnath

        We have three TVs of varying vintages. All three have HDMI.

        I will check out the roku.

        Any similar devices to check out?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I have a fire stick I could send you. I’ve been looking for a way to offload it now that we have smart tvs.

      • kinnath

        message me in the forum

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Will do. I’m not back home until the 16th, so there will be a bit of a delay until I can ship.

      • kinnath

        no hurry

        just investigating options

      • whiz

        Second on the ROKU, we have it on our dumb TV. We also have one hooked up to a monitor — it doesn’t get cable/antenna channels, but does get all the streaming stuff on ROKU.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Complaining to a friend about my “dumb” TV. He says, “I have a Smart(tm) TV that I’m not using that I will give to you.”
      (Good friend, indeed)
      Bring it home, connect to the local wi-fi. All is cool, so I subscribe to Netflix. Email from Netflix, “First month is free”. Cool.
      I think we watched one program.
      End of the month I get two emails from Netflix.
      1) Your free month has ended
      2) We no longer support your Smart(tm) TV.
      OK, Netflix, you win. Cancel my subscription and I will just stick with DirecTV.

      • kinnath

        We have directv set up with three TVs. I never watch it anymore. I spend more time watching netflix and amazon prime on my computer (35 inch panorama gaming monitor and high quality audio).

        So I am about ready to give up on directv.

        My only concern is internet bandwidth. We finally got DSL a couple of years ago, but bandwidth is crappy. That is not going to change any time soon with my semi-rural location.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Similar situation. YouTube is unusable with my connection, 8 seconds of info followed by 40 seconds of buffering.

        Local Telco appears to be running new connection to our area, things might improve in the future.

      • kinnath

        I can watch netflix or amazon prime without problems. One person streaming seems to be no issue.

        I am worried about two or more streaming sessions at the same time once directv is gone.

      • R.J.

        How about StarLink? Elon seems to have done a good thing there.

        https://www.starlink.com/

      • kinnath

        During beta, users can expect to see data speeds vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms in most locations over the next several months as we enhance the Starlink system. There will also be brief periods of no connectivity at all.

        Still shit compared to DSL.

        I was on satellite internet for many years (geostationary). Maybe the LEO/MEO system will be worth it, but I am not holding my breath.

      • kinnath

        Well, the speed test says my download is 100 Mb/s. So starlink is equivalent.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, 150 is not bad at all. It’s better than I have. I haven’t had any problems streaming lately but it’s just me so ??‍♂️

      • kinnath

        The details say this is beta service. Beta service can have times of zero connectivity.

        Not gonna happen when wife and I work from home.

        Maybe when the full constellation is in place.

      • Tundra

        324.43 download
        321.72 upload

        Gonna be hard to leave fiber-land!

      • kinnath

        show off

    • DrOtto

      Roku, worth it for Pluto TV alone.

      • R.J.

        Agreed. Pluto TV is basically free cable. And Tubi gives you a huge library for the price of watching commercials.

      • rhywun

        So I bit the bullet and joined the Borg, my TV installed a bunch of shit just now including Tubi and Pluto TV (which I never heard of before today).

      • rhywun

        Remind me to disable the eavesdropping “features”.

  31. R.J.

    GERMS!

  32. BethAnnica

    I don’t see how exercise is helping this situation.

  33. R.J.

    The 7-11 commercial never stops… Is this some kind of cosmic punishment?

  34. R.J.

    Shirtless Scott McGinnis again, surrounded by candles.

  35. rhywun

    Preppy sweater tied around the neck alert.

    I have actually done that one, I’m ashamed to admit.

    • Gender Traitor

      But do the polo shirts have collar erections? [Disclaimer: I’m not watching the movie.]

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        The up-turned collar hits the same “DORK” button that the backwards-hat hits.

        Yeah, yeah, I’m a boomer but you’re still a dork.

      • rhywun

        Hm. I don’t get “dork” from popped collar, I get “smug asshole”.

      • Gender Traitor

        That was my experience at a VERY preppy college campus Back In The Day™.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        True dat.

    • Mojeaux

      *hangs head*

      I like the preppy look, yes, even that.

      • rhywun

        Heh. The fun part is I only did it with the German family I lived with in Europe in 1985.

        They were soooo preppy.

        I would have got my ass kicked if I dressed like that in the states.

        /JK, but I would have stuck out

      • Tundra

        We all did it. Chicks dug it!

      • rhywun

        Yeah… I wasn’t dressing for them.

      • Mojeaux

        *sigh*

        I miss the 80s.

      • Tundra
      • rhywun

        I was probably wearing said outfit one late evening as we were relaxing at a beach-side hotel resort in northern Spain sipping sangrias with Alphaville and Peter Schilling coming out of the loudspeakers at a tasteful volume.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, stop. Now I’m just green.

      • rhywun

        Fun times. My regular white trash life in upstate NY resumed in 1986.

      • pistoffnick

        Thanks. I like it. It looks like they are from Ely, MN. That is Stillhunter’s territory.

      • PudPaisley

        The main guys are around Minneapolis area now, and a couple of the guys in the band live in La Crosse. Now that they are older with families and such they don’t play out as much. Really fun band to see live. I call most of their stuff foot-stomping, honky tonkin’ drinking music.

  36. R.J.

    Ok, next week is Robo Vampire. After that it’s new stuff! Deathgasm and ZomBeavers to round out October.

    • rhywun

      This movie was truly awful – you should be ashamed of yourself.

      ?

      • R.J.

        I always am!
        Now if anyone is listening – I have a list of ideas for November. Has anyone seen:
        The Ash Lad series
        Hobo with a Shotgun
        Netherbeast Incorporated
        Danger 5
        Aquabats Super Show

      • LCDR_Fish

        Good call on Zombeavers R.J. That’s a fun one. (I imported the UK bluray).

        For the future – good consideration is “Call Girl of Cthulhu”

      • pistoffnick

        “This movie was truly awful …”

        So bad it’s good.

      • rhywun

        No, truly awful.

  37. westernsloper

    I decided tomorrow will be a cheat day. Dough has been made and a pizza shall be constructed.

    • slumbrew

      You’re going to fuck a pizza?

      • slumbrew

        (cue best line from “What We Do In The Shadows”)

      • pistoffnick

        Excellent movie!

        “What are we? Werewolves not swearwolves.”

      • slumbrew

        I love that line.

      • slumbrew

        although still not as good as the line I referenced above (spoiler: funniest line in the movie)

  38. pistoffnick

    We got trouble right here in River City.

    I had to …pause…several times during the mud wrestling scene…

    *thoroughly cleans joystick of germs after vigorous gaming*

    • rhywun

      We got trouble right here in River City.

      With a capital suck.

  39. straffinrun

    I like that arcade that is set up in a trailer in the desert. You sit in a comfy chair and try to take out as many Afghan children as you can. They didn’t even make me put a quarter in.

    • Chafed

      Too soon!

  40. db

    I love Kentucky. Where else in the country can you go to a gay karaoke bar and have patriotic and country songs be the primary fare? Just heard a very good rendition of God Bless the USA.

  41. UnCivilServant

    Morning, Glibs.

    I’m glad I’m taking a half day today, I woke up at midnight. So I just have to make it to noon.

    • hayeksplosives

      You can do it, Bobby Bouchet!!

      • UnCivilServant

        I do need to go buy more caffiene before work.

        Thankfully the grocery store opens at 6am.

    • Sean

      Mornin

      • UnCivilServant

        How goes it in your neck of the woods?

      • Sean

        Other than traffic levels, I have no complaints.

        I may have yet another new hire to start next week and a promising interviewee today.

        You?

      • UnCivilServant

        I have a technical problem that’s stumping me as to how to fix it (I’m sure it’s a problem of old security protocols not being supported by new browsers), and I have to rewrite a project description as well as put together the plan so that we can get buy-in from the client agency, even though we can’t not do the project (failure to upgrade would interrupt legally and contractually required transactions).

      • Sean

        Sounds exhausting. Maybe you should get some tall cans or something instead.

        Time to get ready for work.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Mornin’. Intravenous Covfefe would be a good idea.

  42. hayeksplosives

    #articlesowhitemale

    • Sean

      *waves*

    • UnCivilServant

      WalMart parking lot.

      Not surprised.

    • Tres Cool

      I bet there’s a whole collection of related material on pr0nhub

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Careful, that’s how they got Assange.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Legislative analysts said then that it could already be considered misdemeanor sexual battery, though it is rarely prosecuted given the difficulty in proving that a perpetrator acted intentionally instead of accidently.

      Proving that it actually happened would be a bigger issue, I think. Unless there’s video evidence …

    • TARDis

      Taking your condom off during an encounter with a sex worker seems like a really bad idea.

      Funny thing though, didn’t Kali recently reduce giving someone HIV to just a misdemeanor? That’s whack, if true.

  43. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam

    whats goody

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Well it is Friday. So we’ve got that going for us.

      • Tres Cool

        Friday for you, perhaps.

        Based on my schedule, its essentially Tuesday in my head. I work the next 3 nights.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, homey et al! Last day of work before a three-day weekend, and AFAIK, I’m all but done with my month- and quarter-end reports.

      I expect the mountain of returned quarter-end statements that didn’t materialize yesterday.

      • UnCivilServant

        🙁 I got other paperwork I need to get filled out, and I think the people I need for it are off today.

      • Gender Traitor

        All the more reason to knock off early.

        The important thing is, have you replenished your caffeine supply?? (I may indulge in a Dew today myself!)

      • UnCivilServant

        Yes, I got to the store and restocked.

        I have to check my calendar, but I know I blocked off the afternoon for not being in.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Burn the heretic!

      • UnCivilServant

        *lights all of UC Irvine on fire*

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      It amazes me every day how the crusader class is happy to blow through every check and balance set up to prevent evil and nobody seems to notice. I have thought that they wouldn’t be so brazen as to bring back the railcars and the ovens, but now I’m not so sure.

  44. Festus

    Hah! I miss those early 80’s jiggle-romps! Almost every movie back then had gratuitous boobs. Little wonder that the moral majority was up in arms. It was like the producers discovered in the late 60’s that they could put a titty shot wherever they wanted and the skeezy ones just ran with it. It was a fine time to be a boy! Boy-howdy they made some terrible films. Defender is still the best cabinet game ever made.

    • Tres Cool

      Stargate > Defender.

      Zaxxon fits in there, too.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Mornin’, Festus

      Defender is still the best cabinet game ever made.

      I liked Q*Bert for the sound effects, which significantly enhanced whatever buzz you were experiencing at the time.

      • Festus

        Much like his taste in women, Baby-head is demonstrably wrong! Stargate was a cheap knockoff of Defender. Fuck that game was hard. When I was about 16 I used to obsess over it. Quarters like crack cocaine. The nerdy stoners taught me the cheat for Asteroids, though. Reduce them to one floating pebble and then fly diagonally across the screen, picking off the alien space vessels. Kind of lost its charm after that. Never did best the Defender. Missile Defender was too much for me but the future engineers could see the patterns.

      • Tres Cool

        “quarters like crack”

        I remember helping myself to my older brother’s change jar to feed my Battlezone addiction.

      • Festus

        Galaga was pretty fun!

      • Not Adahn

        Mmmmm. Ray trace graphics. Star Wars 4 lyfe.

      • rhywun

        I spent ten bucks birthday money on Frogger once and I didn’t even like that game.

        That bubba in the movie was right, video games are crack*.

        *I don’t remember if he actually said that.

      • Ghostpatzer

        I tricked my two sons into learning arithmetic with this:

        https://tuxmath.en.softonic.com

        Gave them quite a head start in elementary school.

    • Tres Cool

      that better not be Bill Withers

      • Ghostpatzer

        Nope. But there ain’t no sunshine this morning, and I’m all used up.

      • Tres Cool

        It may be kinda early for you “normies” to hear this but Ive been up since 2030h yesterday, and some Freddie King works for me.

        Check out my man’s collar.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Oh yeah. Freddie King > Clapton.

  45. Tres Cool

    I would like it entered into the record that, while she’s no Gabrielle Enright, Kayla Courvell has potential.

    Her burgeoning bingo-wings could really take the wrinkles out of my love-sausage.

    • Festus

      She’s a pretty girl but think what happens after childbirth. Mama June comes to mind…

      • Tres Cool

        Hope springs eternal.

      • Festus

        HA!

  46. UnCivilServant

    I love stumbling onto something that’s been in place for decades so horrifyingly stupid that I have to ask if anyone spent more than a moment’s thought before outsmarting themselves.

    There is a procedure that grants unchecked privilege elevation by design with nary a thought to how a malicious actor might abuse it. I think I’ve fixed it without breaking the legitimate function it was meant to fulfill. It took all of two minutes.

    • Festus

      It’s cool to fix problems! Last night I used an acid based cleanser to rehab a forty year old basin sink. This is my life.

      • UnCivilServant

        You said you had to fix up that ‘first aid room’. How did it go?

      • Festus

        The plumber just need to repair the faucet. That stuff I applied to the yuck started reacting immediately and with about five minutes of elbow grease the basin looks like new. I deserve a gold star that will not be forthcoming. Plus I got to breathe the fumes. It was really quite something.

    • Ghostpatzer

      I hope you had the good sense to leave a back door for yourself /ducks

      • Not Adahn

        You people must have loved Guardians of the Galaxy.

      • UnCivilServant

        Never saw it.

        Probably never will.

      • Sean

        I liked it.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Fun movie.

      • TARDis

        Yes, quite fun.

      • Tres Cool

        I think Im the only one that got that.

      • Not Adahn

        I am a comedy ninja.

      • Gender Traitor

        No, you’re not.

  47. Festus

    I bitched about the price of gas jumping last night by 5 cents/L Yesterday it hopped another 13 cents. That’s basically an 80 cent rise per gallon in two days. Long weekend and they are punishing people for travelling on fake Canadian Thanksgiving. Stay home, stay safe, stay alone.

  48. TARDis

    I miss pinball machines. That is all.

    • Gender Traitor

      ::looks at TARDy’s new avatar::

      Awww, don’t cry!

      You might blink! ?

      • Tres Cool

        +1 Dr. Who

        (I just watched that episode 2 nights ago)

      • TARDis

        Best I can do for Halloween.
        *shrugs*

      • TARDis

        Maybe I could be transported to a different timeline. 🙁

  49. Sean

    It’s fun passing out some unexpected cash amongst the field staff and it boosts morale instantly.

    Gotta be sort of quiet about though, cuz not everyone gets it at the same time. More of a reward based system.

    • Festus

      I identify as field staff! I want my two dollahs!

      • Sean

        Lol