Today I met up with my nursey friends for the first day of skool.
They made me feel really good about myself.
One said, “You are going to have a hard time finding a husband that’s as funny as you.” And “I see you marrying a truck driver… or someone that’s gone and lot and comes back to occasionally. You are your own person who likes to do her own things.”
I want to stop living right now and just sit in my living room watching movies and drinking from cordial glasses. Maybe have some friends over to shoot the shit with.
I’m not a fan of alcohol. I like fruity things, but that’s it. I tried a shot of cheap tequila when I had a bad cold, and I ended up barfing in the floor before I swallowed the shot.
This is exactly the kind of information I’d expect to find here. If I posted an inquiry like Jennifer, I’d expect to get the answer here. You guys (and Ozzman specifically) rock.
But I couldn’t disagree more. I think Clooney is a fantastic actor, and I don’t see him as smug. He’s one of the few actors in this world that seems to genuinely believe “Hey, I’m basically stealing money here.” I would think that whole smug jackass thing would apply more to a guy like Vince Vaughn, who always seems to play himself in movies. But then again, I like him, too!
Anyway, Clooney being fug? Seriously, come on. I’m a straight man (although it troubles me that twice in this thread I have to point that out), but that Clooney is a handsome devil.
I have an unhealthy gay man-crush on George Clooney
And I’m not gay. But the guy just gets to me. He is so enviable (dates whatever attractive girl younger than him he wants, alternates between money-grab movie roles and movies he really believes in) and seems like a very nice, fun guy. Bastard.
My first comment on the Lounge— indeed, my first time even knowing where the Lounge is— is also very probably my last comment on AN; certainly it’s my last until and unless site management changes radically. 25568 comments and it comes to this.
I suppose we all have to do what we have to do. For anyone who cares, bye. You’ve got about five minutes to read the longer version of this, I figure.
There, I said it. I feel like I’m back in junior high school, parents getting divorced, two different houses, and I’m stuck in the middle feeling like I don’t belong in either one and being left all alone. I’m not a FKer, most the lounge has left AN, and if no one has noticed, I’ve hardly been in a baseball-related thread since April, so what the fucking fuck. I only came to AN for the people, but I don’t want to go to the other site which is only bashing the ones remaining here, so what the fuck am I going to do now. The fucking sucks.
At least I don’t have to go hide in the corner, since no one is here to see me cry anyways.
I couldn’t concentrate on the eliptical, so I killed myself on the weights for a while, which I think I may regret tomorrow, but I just needed to do something.
“Am I not pretty enough” came on to play first. Great, that will lighten my mood immeasurably. “Friends in Low Places” came on next, which made me smile….
I know just how you feel, giggs. I really do like all the people on AN. Even the ones who hammer me. I never minded the arguing. I don’t mind feeling like a little kid, due to my lack of knowledge. Just the disrespect.
I can all but guarantee you that no one on the other side is real happy, either.
Point of contention. The other site is not only bashing the ones remaining here. The other site has been around for about three years now. While there is a lot of complaining about AN going on there now, that is to be expected. People are very upset and cannot express themselves here at all. Eventually, that will die down.
I have, for example, done about three years worth of Breaking Bad analysis there. They discuss politics, both local and national (I don’t really participate, but hey). There’s always a lot of in-depth A’s discussion. The core group of people over there are incredibly bright.
It’s the only place for dissension right now. But that goes away. And no one is saying anyone has to choose. You can do both. I’m a founding member of that website.
the bashing I referred to isn’t new though, it’s been going on since day one, and that’s why I personally feel like I wouldn’t be comfortable over there. that’s definitely a personal opinion though, and I love and respect so many of the people who have gone there, it’s just not for me.
But I have to point out, you’re on the front lines of this battle. If you wanted to try to make things better, you’re closer than most of us to the principal characters in this matter. But I still see your name on the list of mods while I no longer see people like DanBot on that list.
If you don’t want to rock the boat, that’s fine, I understand. I won’t fault you for staying out of a fracas that has already resulted in so much destruction on AN. But if you’re going to come into the lounge and lament AN’s demise, it makes me ask, what are you doing behind closed doors to try and stop it?
it was meant more as lamenting the loss of my friends. I fully understand that I chose the predicament that I am in right now, but I felt strongly that the lounge community could survive.
You’re a man of conviction and after thinking about it I was wrong to use the current situation to bring up past slights that really weren’t slights. I’m very sorry.
What matters is eating healthy and getting good exercise. If it makes you smaller, great. If it doesn’t, still great. It’s about becoming a better you, not a smaller you.
I would like to say goodbye to all of those who have left AN. I can only say that I will miss what you brought to this site and I wish you all the best.
Since AN is changing I’ll be changing with it. All the old jokes are now retired, I’ll no longer use foul language or any of my more crude attempts at humor.
I’ll also no longer be talking about my personal life but I would like to say thanks again for all the nice words many of you have said to me these last few weeks.
I’m going to treat AN as a baseball blog from here on out rather than a place for me to blow of steam and be goofy.
There will also be one last name change as using Bed no longer feels right as those days are over now on AN.
Thanks for putting up with me, you’re a very special group of folks….Brian
and if you don't post about your personal life anymore
let me just say I do truly wish you the best with your little one. at the end of the day, your family should be more important than any baseball team, so I half expected you to disappear when she arrived, but it’s been great fun watching your sleepless nights unfold on AN.
Or To Put This Another (Less Happy) Way: I'm Feeling Completely Homeless
AN was very, very important to me as an NRAF. Now it’s falling apart and everyone left is walking on eggshells.
The alternative is, at least for me, no alternative: FK is—and has long been—obsessed with dressing down “the OC” (NOBODY CALLS IT THAT ;-) ) . . . indeed its obsessions helped lead us to this present mess. I want a place to hang out with other smart, funny folks who care too much about the Oakland A’s. I don’t particularly want to obsess about AN…particularly away from AN.
I just wish that a lot of people that I truly care about on both sides of this nonsense had gotten over themselves and learned to live with each other and treat each other with a little more respect and tolerance. But that seems to be the one thing that didn’t happen.
And now we’re here.
Perhaps we need a third alternative away from both sides of this not-so Cold War?
Unfortunately, I’m a lurker and hanger-on, not an institution builder. Even if I built it, nobody would come.
And I appreciate your pov of this…and other things. You’re among my favorite ANers. I’ll miss you around here if you go (and if I stay), and I’m very tempted by the promise of what you have to say about Breaking Bad (one of my favorite shows).
But I need to go on my experience of FK, which is as I said.
In the interest of full disclosure, I’m an old friend of Nico’s (or, to be even more full in my disclosure, my younger brother is an old friend of Nico’s). Back in the ‘80s we went to countless A’s games together.
Those prone to read these previous two sentences as “I’m ‘in the tank’ for Nico” of course cannot be prevented from doing so. All I can say is that’s not what I wrote or what I mean.
What I do mean is that personal attacks and conspiracy theories regarding people I know and care about are hard for me to swallow. Even when they come from people who who I otherwise respect and whose (online) opinions I otherwise value.
Part of what has happened over the last few weeks involved concrete issues. Those issues have been resolved. My opinions about how they have been resolved have been stated elsewhere. My understanding is that I should not repeat those opinions here and now.
But part of what happened — on both sides IMO — is that people became far, far too invested in personal tiffs, which in turn became vendettas, which then became matters of high principle (as we homo sapiens tend to make such things).
And unlike the concrete issues, these things, pretty tragically, haven’t been resolved. And, especially given the way the concrete issues were resolved, I suspect they never will.
I feel kinda the way I did when Charlie Finley broke up the first team I ever loved. What I want simply doesn’t exist any more. And I’m not going to start rooting for the Yanks just ’cause Catfish pitches for them.
I felt the same way in 2008/9 when FK first started. There was no reconciliation between (or among) the broken pieces. That’s what it felt like last time, like Gigs’s divorce above. I learned to live a fractured life, but AN was never what it was after they shoved that batch out.
Now they shove this batch out, and they will most likely get a new batch in. So you will still have something that resembles AN. No worries.
I’m totally game for going up there — many of my students study in cambridge, so I wanted to get up there anyways. send me an email — gigglingone @ gmail — and I can fill you in on my plans.
Though let me stress: this is really not about who likes whom….though I do think it’s ultimately about how we treat people we don’t like. ‘Cause in AN, like in life, we won’t like everyone.
But I will not provide a link. It has already been mentioned that many know where this place is and providing a link to things on the internet is a petty thing to do.
Hopefully from the past weeks of discussions this makes it clear enough…
I thought it was creative. A little bit too understated for my tastes, but that’s Clooney’s style. He’d rather be subtle than obvious. But overall, I liked the movie.
on other SBNation sites today, ATQ has declared it I Hate Washington Day at the Dawg Pound by going and “liking” all their posts so that the thread turns green. It’s kinda pretty.
(I believe it’s in recognition of it being exactly 3000 days since Washington has won a game in the state of Oregon)
Would we get banned from there and the site wouldn’t show up on our lists anymore (I know I’m not the only person who hates that)? Opening Day or our first game against them?
I still don't get why things turn green on every site.
When I first saw it here, I assumed it was just because green is one of our colors. I figured recommended posts would turn red or blue or whatever on other sites. If that were the case, then they should turn purple on the Husky site so the Duck people couldn’t turn their site green.
Picking the color for recommended posts (and unread, flagged, hidden) should be a control panel choice for each blog.
I would guess it to be a moderate-difficulty software update. Not something simple that’s just changing a few lines, but not something hard that would require major restructuring of the data either.
It’s the sort of thing that could be included in the next major upgrade, I think. If people care about it, they need to be requesting it to the tech guys sooner rather than later, or it won’t make it this round.
We at AN don’t care so much, since the default colors suit us. (In fact, they were probably designed specifically for us, and then everyone else got stuck with them.)
I stood in the pouring rain for three hours to cheer the Raiders after SuperBowl I fergit which one, it was 30 or 31 years ago, and then they split Oakland so suddenly for no good reason, even though they had all those loyal fans, and I’ve never really forgiven them, so, no… That’s how I slid over to the wrong side of the Bay, football-wise.
And, yeah, I know Al is dead, but his memory in the form of Mt. Davis lingers on, so …no.
Mad Men’s portrayal of the 1950s tells us more about our decade than it tells us about the 1950s. The real 1950s weren’t very much like that, but it’s interesting that that’s what we choose to project on them. (It’s also interesting what demographic Mad Men most appeals to.)
I dream someday of having a little house with a basement that I can make into a womancave with a bar and a pinball machine and a giant tv and all my baseball stuff. :(
I HAVE DREAMS. And a sports rug could be in them. If it was less ugly.
I have a better way to keep the JW’s out. I’ll answer the door in nothing but a black robe, pentagram tattoo on my chest exposed. Then I’ll tell them that after sacrificing a goat, I have to go with my girlfriend to get an abortion, then donate blood. So I really don’t have time to talk.
I want a real-life lounge. Old movie style. With cordial glasses and decanters and funky chairs. A record player. A projection screen. Walls and walls of movies. A popcorn popper and a fountain soda machine.
Also Raiders and 49ers rugs marked up like a football field. It’s in the same block as Tap! Tap Plastics! the fantastic plastic place!. I always glance at them when I’m stopped in traffic.
There's also an adorable outdoor kitty that lives next to my current gig.
It’s very hard to explain that I was TECHNICALLY on time to the site for the meeting, I just had to play with the kitty for ten minutes because KITTY. :( Why isn’t kitty as legit an excuse as traffic?
I am fascinated by the recent fascination with zombies. I’m a zombie fan myself, but seriously, zombies have become extremely popular in the last few years.
Today I started my OB rotation. I learned I can count the number of wrinkles on a baby’s scrotum to see how many weeks along the baby is gestationally. It was weird.
The smoother the baby’s scrotum, the younger they are. On baby girls it’s the appearance of the labia. On either gender, the flexibility of their ears is also used.
Don’t dip your pen in the company ink. I would say it’s all about how you handle breakups. If you handle them well, then I say go for it. If not, then refrain, because nothing is worse than splitting with somebody and having to see them all the damn time.
And if you tell one person at work, everybody will know.
This woman clocked out for lunch, but stayed at her desk and continued working. She was informed that company policy required her to take a 30 minute break. She wanted to continue working, so she was called into the HR office and ended up getting fired. The company denied her unemployment claim, saying that there was misconduct on her part. In court, they said she committed insubordination during the meeting in the HR office. Anyway, she appealed their unemployment denial 3 times, then sued and won.
But I’ve seen a few workplace romances. They didn’t go well. In one case, I had to fire a guy for harassing his ex at work. Another time, 2 co-workers who were just really good friends became the subject of rumor and innuendo at work. When the guy got divorced, everyone believed that the female friend “wrecked his marriage.” She was actually a really sweet person, but got a terrible reputation at work.
I think that’s key. If it’s a small community — like 20 or less — then you shouldn’t try dating within it at all. If it’s a big company, then I think it’s OK.
The real question is how easy will it be to avoid her if you break up. If you’re stuck working closely together afterward, then that’s bad. If it’s a big company that you’re both in but you don’t have to have direct contact, then I think it’s OK.
Also, make sure the company doesn’t have an official policy forbidding it.
1st knee surgery is scheduled for April 16 !!! Yay!!
The Dr’s name is Eric Hansen. He has been the team Dr for Fresno State since 1996, and has worked with a lot of athletes. Has anyone heard of him? His resume says he has consulted with the A’s… Should I call Dallas Braden? :-)
Or Furio from the Sopranos. Also receiving votes in my own personal poll no one else participated in: Sterling Mallory Archer, The Bunk, and Arthur Fonzarelli
I keep thinking I’m grabbing a Diet Coke and it’s a real Coke…..you’d think after two blood sugar spikes that caused a heart attack I would have learned my lesson.
so, they just opened up a new fancy schmancy science building here on campus
I went over to give myself a tour, and as I’m wandering through the building, this guy is also there too, obviously also giving himself the self-guided tour. he starts asking me about which labs are going to be in there, what faculty members, which departments, etc….. I’m pretty sure he’s checking out all the places to hide out overnight so he can destroy lab experiments….
No new name and if I can’t be goofy I might as well just leave….I hope I’m given a little rope here as I have no desire to be banned but me just posting about baseball is of no help to anyone…..ever.
I just needed a little time to figure out how to find my place on the new AN.
I’ve had a lot of fun here for 3 years and I don’t want to give that up. If I’m out of line then folks should just tell me and I’ll stop but I hope there’s room for goofy here.
follow a game thread and watch the game at the same time.
I can only do game threads when I’m listening on MLB audio (which is most of the time). If the game is broadcast on TV, I can’t game thread. Or if I do try to game thread, then I end up missing the game because I’m looking at the computer screen.
the first time I heard about the movie. (Well, not the ballet part, because I didn’t know yet it was a ballet, but I did wonder how the heck they made a movie out of Taleb’s book.)
HOWEVAH, I am a longtime Saved by the Bell fan. I once even played drunken SBTB trivia in college and I think I won… although I was pretty drunk, so hard to say
It's so cold
can we get summer back?
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
please
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
no.
Leopold Bloom - January 17, 2012
hi bloomie
how you doing?
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
can we get long time posters back>??
hishnik - January 17, 2012
WE WILL HAVE NONE OF THAT!
[whips hishnik]
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
Kinky.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
it's the lounge
{me next?}
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
She has 2 hands, why should you have to wait?
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
OK
Then I’ll take back Gio and Cahill
hishnik - January 17, 2012
They're in a better place now.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I AM SO COLD I CANNOT EVEN PLAY SKYRIM.
That is how fucking cold it is.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
Bitch, it is 20 degrees here.
Come talk to me when it is REALLY cold.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
Humans weren't meant to survive in weather under 65 degrees.
WE WERE MEANT TO CURL UP AND DIE.
I have a quilt and it is my only comfort. :(
Kyli - January 17, 2012
Drink.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
I'm eating a nice warm grilled cheese, chicken and TURKEY bacon sammich to warm up
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
You had me until the fakin'.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Oh my god I want grilled cheese.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
We had broiled salmon over a caesar salad.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Ew.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
Freak. It was dee-lish-us.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
I agree with kyli
eww
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Yeah, we all know what a freak you are in regards to food.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
shut up terrorist
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
You're next.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
I'm SO scared
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Whatever. You're undocumented.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
I'm not mexican
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Are you saying that only Mexicans come to America illegally?
You’re so racist.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
bruck you!
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Cluck you and the van you crossed the border in.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
SEE?!
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
dude, clearly he meant you are an undocumented CHICKEN
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
I read between the lines
I knew what he meant
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
clearly my sarcasm filter is off tonight
(although who knows, perhaps he was accusing you of being an undocumented Stanley…..)
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
Actually, he's undocumented because
they don’t issue birth certificates for the spawn of Satan.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
I have been called worse
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
But this one was true.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
its the hole in the head
it must not have closed all the way yet
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Seafood is creepy.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
yes
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
See, this is why we can't be friends.
There is clearly something wrong with you.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
You mean that the mercury poisoning hasn't rotted my eardrums like certain people I am replying to in this moment?
Kyli - January 17, 2012
If you live in fear of what might be in your food, you'll die of starvation.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
I just don't like shit that stares back at me and tastes like a barnacle.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
When have you tasted barnacles?
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
I'm a woman of mystery.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
Clearly.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
is this a deaf joke?
because i’m slightly amused….
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
No, it's a 'he can't hear good music' joke.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
The joke being on you, of course.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
It's worth it.
danmerqury - January 17, 2012
All non-fish seafood is
either a giant bug or a giant slug.
iglew - January 17, 2012
thank you
I keep telling people this and no one listens. Ew
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
mmm tasty bugs and slugs
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
ew
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
This.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
that sounds fabulous
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
THANK YOU!
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
I'm having a green & yellow stir fry tonight
baby corn, peas, noodles, and for all those who picked on me last time for my lack of meat, there is chicken in it tonight.
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
That sounds really good.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Now THAT is what I want.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
I made extras for my lunch tomorrow
you can come over and eat it if you bring me something to take for lunch.
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
Speaking of drinking....
I have a current obsession with tiny little alcohol glasses. That’s not what they are called, but they used them a lot in old movies.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
Do you mean shot glasses?
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
No, they have stems.
They look like tiny little wine glasses.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
That's a liquer or cordial glass.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
THANK YOU!
I went walking around some stores in town today, and I had to stop myself from buying a set (or ten).
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
We have some. Never use 'em.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
I wouldn't, either.
Unless I took up drinking bourbon or scotch.
I’ve taken up waching a lot of old movies lately, and now I really want to be back in that time.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
No, you'd drink liquers from them.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
I almost bought one of those glass things with a cork.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
Umm... a bottle of wine?
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
No, they are in different designs and are crystal-ish.
The top is a bulb with a cork on it. The fancy people in movies pour booze out of them.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
A decanter?
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Can you tell I am unrefined?
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
We all gotta start somewhere.
I didn’t know it was called that until I bought one for Ozzwife.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Today I met up with my nursey friends for the first day of skool.
They made me feel really good about myself.
One said, “You are going to have a hard time finding a husband that’s as funny as you.” And “I see you marrying a truck driver… or someone that’s gone and lot and comes back to occasionally. You are your own person who likes to do her own things.”
I want to stop living right now and just sit in my living room watching movies and drinking from cordial glasses. Maybe have some friends over to shoot the shit with.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
I'll drop by, as long as I can put water in my cordial glass.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
wimp
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
bitch
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
whore
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Thank you!
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
...you are welcome
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Whatever floats your boat.
I’m not a fan of alcohol. I like fruity things, but that’s it. I tried a shot of cheap tequila when I had a bad cold, and I ended up barfing in the floor before I swallowed the shot.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
If you're gonna drink tequila, drink the good stuff.
I don’t care for most types of alcohol. I’ll take water 9 times out of 10.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
You should see if Brandon McCarthy has a brother.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
I'd break him.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
Maybe we ARE related.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
Someday I want to be rich enough that my booze goes through like three different habitations before I drink it.
As opposed to beer—>my stomach, as is current.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
You can do that now.
Pour the beer into a glass, then a coffee mug, and then a soup bowl.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Hmmmm. This plan may have merit.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
You know another reason I love AN?
This is exactly the kind of information I’d expect to find here. If I posted an inquiry like Jennifer, I’d expect to get the answer here. You guys (and Ozzman specifically) rock.
darooster - January 18, 2012
Rocks glasses? Or shot glasses?
Kyli - January 17, 2012
brrrr
colin - January 17, 2012
It was -5 here yesterday.
I don’t know what that is in your silly measurement of temp.
OldhamA - January 17, 2012
(-5 x 9/5) + 32 = 23°F
You’re welcome ;-)
GreenNGoldSooner - January 18, 2012
fuck Mzulft is long, not challenging at all just long
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
Fuck
Must be cold
darooster - January 18, 2012
So I had a dream last night.
George Clooney was pulling baby alligators out of a shrub and throwing them at my feet, but the last one he pulled out was really un-ripe banana.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Oh, and I was on a croquet field.
Or court, or pitch, or whatever it’s called.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
He is the banana king?
Also, there are two people in Hollywood I want to punch in the face: George Clooney, and Julia Roberts.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
Robert Pattinson and those kids from Harry Potter.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
Anyone that had anything to do with Twilight.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Robert Pattinson amuses me because he walks around talking trash about Twilight and the fans and Stephanie Meyer still love him.
He is such a troll, it makes me laugh.
The ‘I don’t wash my hair for two weeks because it gives it character’ thing… not so much.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
Wht do you have against George Clooney?
If you’re gonna punch someone, punch the Backstreet Boys.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
You couldn't even identify them in a lineup.
And I hate him because he can only play one character ‘smug jackass’. And it’s impossible to watch a movie with him and NOT see George Clooney.
And he is fug as hell.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
Naw.
His character in Syriana, for example, was nothing like O Brother.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
I wanted to punch both in the face. That's the connection.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
It sounds to me like you have anger management problems.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
You're just realizing this?
Kyli - January 17, 2012
Until now, I thought you only reacted that way to me.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Oh honey, you actually thought you were SPECIAL?
Kyli - January 17, 2012
I am. My mommy says so.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Now, your mommy... she's special. REAL special.
(in my pants)
Kyli - January 17, 2012
Are we gonna start the momma jokes?
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
YES!
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Keep out of it, bitchety bitchy bitch.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
make me
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
[shin kick]
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Those hurt!
darooster - January 18, 2012
Don't make me call yo' momma.
She always answers my calls.
ESPECIALLY late at night.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
Yo mama needs a secretary cuz she's too busy to answer calls.
If you know what I mean.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Your mom always answers my calls, too!
(snap!)
darooster - January 18, 2012
...?
Wha?
danmerqury - January 17, 2012
Kyli, I lof you
But I couldn’t disagree more. I think Clooney is a fantastic actor, and I don’t see him as smug. He’s one of the few actors in this world that seems to genuinely believe “Hey, I’m basically stealing money here.” I would think that whole smug jackass thing would apply more to a guy like Vince Vaughn, who always seems to play himself in movies. But then again, I like him, too!
Anyway, Clooney being fug? Seriously, come on. I’m a straight man (although it troubles me that twice in this thread I have to point that out), but that Clooney is a handsome devil.
darooster - January 18, 2012
I do not understand why people find him attractive.
There’s just… nothing there I would touch with ten foot pole. Especially since I don’t know where he’s been.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
I understand the second part of your statement
Dude’s kind of a whore. But you really don’t think he’s attractive?
darooster - January 18, 2012
Nope.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
I had a dream last night that emperornobody banned me right before the thread went up this morning
and changed my email name so that everytime I emailed Blez, he thought I was Rev and wouldn’t reinstatement.
I did not sleep well last night.
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
I could see that happening
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
I would hate to have someone think I was Rev.
But don’t put it past EN.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Being the Rev is probably one of my worst nightmares.
Oh my god, I can’t wait til I learn to punch people through the internet.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
the new prayer
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Love this
Rec’d
darooster - January 18, 2012
Careful
He will Milk Carton box you, real good.
hishnik - January 17, 2012
I have an unhealthy gay man-crush on George Clooney
And I’m not gay. But the guy just gets to me. He is so enviable (dates whatever attractive girl younger than him he wants, alternates between money-grab movie roles and movies he really believes in) and seems like a very nice, fun guy. Bastard.
darooster - January 18, 2012
So apparently they're remaking Total Recall.
Did you know that?
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
what movie are they not remaking?
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Gigli.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
yet
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Anyway, the new Total Recall stars Colin Ferrell, Bryan Cranston, Kate Beckinsdale...
… Jessica Biel, Ethan Hawke, Bill Nighy, and John Cho.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Why doesn't someone come up with some original material?
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
There's none left.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
I need a place where I can buy a shit ton of movies for cheap.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
The bargain bin at Blockbuster.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Too much like work, apparently.
Englishmajor - January 17, 2012
I did, sir.
And you know what? Why the hell not? It’s a good premise, fun movie, let’s have at it.
darooster - January 18, 2012
Damn you Don, making me tear up on the front page.....
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
Front Page?
AN exists only as the Lounge for me.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
I always recommend 67M's stuff....
sniff
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
I avoided it BECAUSE I thought I'd get all choked up.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
It's what I do, gigs. :)
67MARQUEZ - January 18, 2012
why do you have to be so good at it!!! *sniffle*
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Damn.
That guy needs a tan.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Oh, and along with drinking from tiny little glasses,
we will be eating salt and vinegar chips.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
I'm old-fashioned.
I like sour cream & onion.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
she has good running form
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
So I guess we can just post straight-up nudity in the Lounge, now?
Finally!
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
as long as its not you
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Don't look below, then.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
anything to wake up the lounge....
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
Boobies?
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
always
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
Not that kind.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
go look at ozzwife's!!!
in fact, tell her that some chick on the interwebs sent you to grab her ass
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
She gets mad when I do that.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
fondle her nipples?
come on man, give me something here….
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
Yeah, that pisses her off too.
If I wanna seduce her, I have to wash dishes.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
funny how that works...
Berry Jo - January 17, 2012
Now you know
a woman’s definition of the word “sexy”
darooster - January 18, 2012
this
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
How about 2 chicks at the same time?
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
calling mikev!
…oh wait…
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
/yawn
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
:-o
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Three?
darooster - January 18, 2012
always
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
2 chicks and some pussy. Nice.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
Yup...just not meta-nudity
GreenNGoldSooner - January 18, 2012
£5 if anyone knows the name of the man in the photo.
OldhamA - January 17, 2012
you're looking at the man????
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
danmerqury - January 17, 2012
this picture disturbs me for so many reasons....
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
I agree
And yet, I cannot help but Rec it
darooster - January 18, 2012
I assue that is you.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
Yes.
(no)
danmerqury - January 17, 2012
yes
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
I never thought I'd write this
but tonight, I’m actually glad to see Turtle Man.
Englishmajor - January 17, 2012
oh
and thank you for that book. I looooooooooooove it
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
REC'D!
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
damn near....
oh wait….not so funny when he looks so familiar….
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
Bloom?
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
maybe.
Leopold Bloom - January 17, 2012
Hubba hubba
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
[snicker]
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
WHY ARE HIS EYES RED?
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
burning lust
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
And what about the other version?
Englishmajor - January 17, 2012
nooooooooooooooooo
I have now realized that my anti-turtle man Adblock filters were on my OTHER computer.
whiteshoes40 - January 17, 2012
Shoes!!!! How the heck are you?
Berry Jo - January 17, 2012
Hi Jo! Doing well. How about you?
whiteshoes40 - January 17, 2012
just gearing up for the roller coaster that is second semester
Berry Jo - January 17, 2012
Oh dear god
Can’t posting a TM picture be grounds for at least a strike or two??? Haha.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
the lounge is not yet dead
I am happy
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
ok, I need my blankets and dvr
nite all
ChickenStanley - January 17, 2012
Night, bro.
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
bye, Chicken
Englishmajor - January 17, 2012
night chickie
thanks for helping to try to liven this place up. We’ll see who will streak next….
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
Well, since fatties don't streak, it won't be me.
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
I cannot un-see my very large friend streaking through his neighborhood many years ago
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
I think I'm heading out too.
Take care, everyone!
ozzman99 - January 17, 2012
good night ozzy!
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
good night!
Englishmajor - January 17, 2012
I thought the naked rule only applies
when it’s warmer outside than inside.
iglew - January 17, 2012
no, no.
it’s the lounge. everyone goes naked in the lounge.
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
I was always told no pants, which does not imply nakedness
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
okay, fine, no pants
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
jorts are cool right?
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
sure....in the '80s....
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
gives me a reason to pull out the hypercolor, though that may be early 90s
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
are those like skorts?
Berry Jo - January 17, 2012
yes
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
Oh, good!
I’m glad it’s not just me!…… Oh, what?…..It is just me?…… Sheeeeeeeeeeeit (Clarence Royce voice)
darooster - January 18, 2012
Here's some irony for you
My first comment on the Lounge— indeed, my first time even knowing where the Lounge is— is also very probably my last comment on AN; certainly it’s my last until and unless site management changes radically. 25568 comments and it comes to this.
I suppose we all have to do what we have to do. For anyone who cares, bye. You’ve got about five minutes to read the longer version of this, I figure.
PaulThomas - January 17, 2012
See you, man.
Thanks for all the work you put into your Diaries.
Elvez - January 17, 2012
we are always welcoming in the lounge. You can come visit ANY time. We don't talk baseball much tho - a little irony for you
Berry Jo - January 17, 2012
Speaking of actual baseball news, though
Did you hear
wethe Astros signed Jack Cust?Englishmajor - January 17, 2012
no!
wow
Berry Jo - January 17, 2012
I'm so happy for him.
danmerqury - January 17, 2012
woo hoo! He's back in the AL West!
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
I'm disappointed about it.
I thought the A’s would sign him to make the brain explosion complete.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
Happy trails, PT.
Feel free to stop into the lounge and say hi sometime.
I want you to know, I really appreciate the comments you’ve made during the course of the current… situation.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
Dammit.
It’s been fun, Paul. All the best.
danmerqury - January 17, 2012
Understandable.
A (hopefully temporary) goodbye to you, PT. I do hope to see you around other places, at least.
UrgentMirth - January 17, 2012
Darn, I missed it.
iglew - January 17, 2012
it's elsewhere.
Leopold Bloom - January 17, 2012
I sent you an email with it.
justANotherAsFan - January 18, 2012
We'll miss you
Guessing you’ll be on the other side too?
Seriously, I loved the work you put into your stuff.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Can't tell you how much I'll miss your contributions PT
Having lurked and read your comments for years: you have really educated me with your insights and comments. You are a huge loss to AN.
hishnik - January 18, 2012
:-(
Hopefully you find another place for your valuable A’s analysis and hopefully we still all get a chance to read it.
Vaillant - January 18, 2012
When I see "skyrim"
I think of Russian opera. As in skyrim-akovkors.
Like so many things, this proves that I am a dork.
iglew - January 17, 2012
And we love you for it!
Englishmajor - January 17, 2012
Jennifer thinks alien sex act
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
Too much naked in here
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
I just wanted to say "Hi" to everyone, and thank all of you for your prayers and wishes. They mean a lot tu me. I luv all of you.♥
I just got home from the Dr’s. Two polyps, so now it’s wait for the biopsy.
Still sleepy, so “Goodnight”.
Tutu-late - January 17, 2012
sleep well, tu2
Berry Jo - January 17, 2012
Goodmorning, BJ.♥
I slept like a baby.
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
Awesome!!
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
Tutu!
Sleep well. Hope everything checks out just fine.
danmerqury - January 17, 2012
Thanks, dan
I hope everyone here got a well deserved sleep also. The last month has been hell.
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
good luck, and sleepy well!
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
Thanks for checking in -- sleep well!
And have some real food in the morning…
Englishmajor - January 17, 2012
Thanks for the wishes, EM.
They said I could eat anything I wanted immediately after the procedure.
I WENT FOR THE DOUBLE-BACON-CHESEBURGER!!!
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
night, did you make suggestive comments?
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
Nah, the nurse was pregnant.
She’s probably heard them all. No fun if they aren’t surprised, plus, coming from a 52 y.o. makes me sound like Aqualung… Oh….wait a minute….:)
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
Sorry, I didn't know. Get well!
WaddellCanseco - January 18, 2012
No prob, WC. Nothing major.
As I said earlier, I just wanted to have the surgery in honor of our new ace, Bartolo. :) I’m fine this morning, and soooo happy to see everyone here.
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
I'm off to bed....good night, all
Englishmajor - January 17, 2012
NIght. EM....sleep well
Berry Jo - January 17, 2012
good night em!
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
night
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
I gotta go to the gym for a while
too much stress today.
good night!
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
night
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
You go to the gym when Judge Judy isn't on?
Weirdo.
Kyli - January 17, 2012
So.... How's that working out for you?
Jennifer - January 17, 2012
hrm?
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
I fucking hate this.
There, I said it. I feel like I’m back in junior high school, parents getting divorced, two different houses, and I’m stuck in the middle feeling like I don’t belong in either one and being left all alone. I’m not a FKer, most the lounge has left AN, and if no one has noticed, I’ve hardly been in a baseball-related thread since April, so what the fucking fuck. I only came to AN for the people, but I don’t want to go to the other site which is only bashing the ones remaining here, so what the fuck am I going to do now. The fucking sucks.
At least I don’t have to go hide in the corner, since no one is here to see me cry anyways.
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
Yep it sucks
but how was the gym?
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
not useful at all.
I couldn’t concentrate on the eliptical, so I killed myself on the weights for a while, which I think I may regret tomorrow, but I just needed to do something.
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
How about baking or cooking something, that tends to perk me up if I'm downish
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
You mean listening to depressing songs on iTunes isn't the way to go?
damn, I’ve been doing it wrong all these years…..
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
I never got into that whole listen to music to match my mood
I just hit random and go for the most part unless listening to new stuff
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
I did hit random.
“Am I not pretty enough” came on to play first. Great, that will lighten my mood immeasurably. “Friends in Low Places” came on next, which made me smile….
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
heh
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
Okay Cope, I think you're the only one here, so good night.
I need some sleep.
gigglingone - January 17, 2012
night
Copenhagen - January 17, 2012
Whenever I'm down, I crank up the Scorpions
“There’s No One Like You” always picks me up! (Plus, I keep remembering the video for it, where the inmate has the bent forks stuck in his eyes.☺)
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
I have yet to find a time to crank up the Scorpions.
But it’s still early.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
THAT'S the problem!!!
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
It sucks.
Haters gonna hate.
iglew - January 18, 2012
hey
cuppingmaster - January 18, 2012
{hugs} ♥
I know just how you feel, giggs. I really do like all the people on AN. Even the ones who hammer me. I never minded the arguing. I don’t mind feeling like a little kid, due to my lack of knowledge. Just the disrespect.
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
Nicely said.
GreenNGoldSooner - January 18, 2012
love you gigs
You’re one of my favorite people I’ve met through this site, but yeah… this whole situation is just… ugh.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
thanks yon
you are one of the ones I KNOW I’ll see outside of the internet. :)
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
sorry you're in pain.
I can all but guarantee you that no one on the other side is real happy, either.
Point of contention. The other site is not only bashing the ones remaining here. The other site has been around for about three years now. While there is a lot of complaining about AN going on there now, that is to be expected. People are very upset and cannot express themselves here at all. Eventually, that will die down.
I have, for example, done about three years worth of Breaking Bad analysis there. They discuss politics, both local and national (I don’t really participate, but hey). There’s always a lot of in-depth A’s discussion. The core group of people over there are incredibly bright.
It’s the only place for dissension right now. But that goes away. And no one is saying anyone has to choose. You can do both. I’m a founding member of that website.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
thanks bloomie
the bashing I referred to isn’t new though, it’s been going on since day one, and that’s why I personally feel like I wouldn’t be comfortable over there. that’s definitely a personal opinion though, and I love and respect so many of the people who have gone there, it’s just not for me.
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
+1,000
Once again, gigs, I find myself entirely agreeing with you.
GreenNGoldSooner - January 18, 2012
I feel you, Gigs
But I have to point out, you’re on the front lines of this battle. If you wanted to try to make things better, you’re closer than most of us to the principal characters in this matter. But I still see your name on the list of mods while I no longer see people like DanBot on that list.
If you don’t want to rock the boat, that’s fine, I understand. I won’t fault you for staying out of a fracas that has already resulted in so much destruction on AN. But if you’re going to come into the lounge and lament AN’s demise, it makes me ask, what are you doing behind closed doors to try and stop it?
darooster - January 18, 2012
thanks darooster
it was meant more as lamenting the loss of my friends. I fully understand that I chose the predicament that I am in right now, but I felt strongly that the lounge community could survive.
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
I think it can - we just have to gather and hope that some people will eventually come back to lounge - at least.
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
I'd like to apologize to iglew.
You’re a man of conviction and after thinking about it I was wrong to use the current situation to bring up past slights that really weren’t slights. I’m very sorry.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
You are a good man, Bed..
( this is where it was supposed to go):)
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
Thanks, Bed.
That means a lot to me.
Of all the crap that I took in that thread, from both sides, yours was the only one that hurt. I’m glad to know I haven’t lost you.
P.S. I recently read that enormous 1,000-page bio of your hero Harry Truman. Great stuff, I learned a lot.
iglew - January 18, 2012
I must not have given you any crap.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
In the first act of this drama,
I was worried about both you and elcroata. But then we talked enough that I knew we’d be cool no matter what we agreed or disagreed on.
iglew - January 18, 2012
you're just lucky I like you.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
I seem to be popular
with fat, crazy, literary academics.
iglew - January 18, 2012
SKINNY!
ZigFan31 - January 18, 2012
And still dead sexy.
Sorry Bed. Or whoever you are!
ZigFan31 - January 18, 2012
Wait, what?
Is LB skinny now?
iglew - January 18, 2012
Yup
He’s lost a bunch of weight. Really inspiring.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
how are you doing on that front? staying with it?
stm72 - January 18, 2012
I'm losing fat and getting skinnier
But that number doesn’t want to come down. Building muscle, I guess?
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
The weight number doesn't matter.
What matters is eating healthy and getting good exercise. If it makes you smaller, great. If it doesn’t, still great. It’s about becoming a better you, not a smaller you.
iglew - January 18, 2012
Thanks for accepting my apology, iglew.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Also....
I would like to say goodbye to all of those who have left AN. I can only say that I will miss what you brought to this site and I wish you all the best.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
Your a good man, Bed..
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
It works here too
WaddellCanseco - January 18, 2012
You're both too kind.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
To the new managers and editors
Many of you are people I like so I wish you all luck.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
And with that....
I’m not quitting AN but I’ve lost a lot of my affection for this place. I know I’ll be here less and I’ll now be much more guarded in what I say.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
I drove in to work this morning thinking how much more productive I'll be since I won't be on AN all day.....
I don’t know that this is a good thing or not….
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
I'm just glad I don't have access to the lounge when I'm trying to teach my class.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
oh wha the heck - live dangerously!
[says the person who never logs on during the day!!!]
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
But seriously, folks....
Since AN is changing I’ll be changing with it. All the old jokes are now retired, I’ll no longer use foul language or any of my more crude attempts at humor.
I’ll also no longer be talking about my personal life but I would like to say thanks again for all the nice words many of you have said to me these last few weeks.
I’m going to treat AN as a baseball blog from here on out rather than a place for me to blow of steam and be goofy.
There will also be one last name change as using Bed no longer feels right as those days are over now on AN.
Thanks for putting up with me, you’re a very special group of folks….Brian
Bed. - January 18, 2012
Another name change?
WaddellCanseco - January 18, 2012
*snicker*
I had the same thought. :)
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
Yeah, but only one more.
It just feels like the right thing to do.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
and if you don't post about your personal life anymore
let me just say I do truly wish you the best with your little one. at the end of the day, your family should be more important than any baseball team, so I half expected you to disappear when she arrived, but it’s been great fun watching your sleepless nights unfold on AN.
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
I'm sitting here sick as a dog but I just wanted to say you made my day with this post, gigs.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
♥
get well soon! and don’t get the little one sick!!!!!
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
Too late....we're all sick
but we’ll be fine soon enough.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
So...
who is left?
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
I'm sure the place will be repopulated soon enough
WaddellCanseco - January 18, 2012
more product.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
Ouch
It hurts because it’s true
darooster - January 18, 2012
Should've worn a condom when commenting, I guess
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Whore!
darooster - January 18, 2012
I'm not going anywhere.
Or at least I’m not going anywhere else.
But I’m hardly a regular, so I can’t imagine anyone gives s**t.
GreenNGoldSooner - January 18, 2012
Or To Put This Another (Less Happy) Way: I'm Feeling Completely Homeless
AN was very, very important to me as an NRAF. Now it’s falling apart and everyone left is walking on eggshells.
The alternative is, at least for me, no alternative: FK is—and has long been—obsessed with dressing down “the OC” (NOBODY CALLS IT THAT ;-) ) . . . indeed its obsessions helped lead us to this present mess. I want a place to hang out with other smart, funny folks who care too much about the Oakland A’s. I don’t particularly want to obsess about AN…particularly away from AN.
I just wish that a lot of people that I truly care about on both sides of this nonsense had gotten over themselves and learned to live with each other and treat each other with a little more respect and tolerance. But that seems to be the one thing that didn’t happen.
And now we’re here.
Perhaps we need a third alternative away from both sides of this not-so Cold War?
Unfortunately, I’m a lurker and hanger-on, not an institution builder. Even if I built it, nobody would come.
GreenNGoldSooner - January 18, 2012
see above.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
I have read it, Bloomie
And I appreciate your pov of this…and other things. You’re among my favorite ANers. I’ll miss you around here if you go (and if I stay), and I’m very tempted by the promise of what you have to say about Breaking Bad (one of my favorite shows).
But I need to go on my experience of FK, which is as I said.
In the interest of full disclosure, I’m an old friend of Nico’s (or, to be even more full in my disclosure, my younger brother is an old friend of Nico’s). Back in the ‘80s we went to countless A’s games together.
Those prone to read these previous two sentences as “I’m ‘in the tank’ for Nico” of course cannot be prevented from doing so. All I can say is that’s not what I wrote or what I mean.
What I do mean is that personal attacks and conspiracy theories regarding people I know and care about are hard for me to swallow. Even when they come from people who who I otherwise respect and whose (online) opinions I otherwise value.
Part of what has happened over the last few weeks involved concrete issues. Those issues have been resolved. My opinions about how they have been resolved have been stated elsewhere. My understanding is that I should not repeat those opinions here and now.
But part of what happened — on both sides IMO — is that people became far, far too invested in personal tiffs, which in turn became vendettas, which then became matters of high principle (as we homo sapiens tend to make such things).
And unlike the concrete issues, these things, pretty tragically, haven’t been resolved. And, especially given the way the concrete issues were resolved, I suspect they never will.
I feel kinda the way I did when Charlie Finley broke up the first team I ever loved. What I want simply doesn’t exist any more. And I’m not going to start rooting for the Yanks just ’cause Catfish pitches for them.
GreenNGoldSooner - January 18, 2012
yeah, I can relate.
I felt the same way in 2008/9 when FK first started. There was no reconciliation between (or among) the broken pieces. That’s what it felt like last time, like Gigs’s divorce above. I learned to live a fractured life, but AN was never what it was after they shoved that batch out.
Now they shove this batch out, and they will most likely get a new batch in. So you will still have something that resembles AN. No worries.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
among other things, I want the drama to end
And yet the situation makes it nearly impossible not to contribute to it (other than just quietly slipping away).
Even my saying “I don’t want to go to FK” kinda adds to the drama quotient.
When do pitchers and catchers report again?
GreenNGoldSooner - January 18, 2012
32 days!
Englishmajor - January 18, 2012
For me the question is will I know any of the names of those pitchers and catchers?
Bed. - January 18, 2012
Will the players know the names of those pitchers and catchers?
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
It could be a name tag situation.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
Authentic A's uniforms should just come with velcro from now on
Saves time, instead of sewing new nameplates.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Not a bad idea.
Following the A’s is kind of like following a college team now. The names change every year.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
College teams don't need the Conference's permission...
…to build a new stadium across campus.
GreenNGoldSooner - January 18, 2012
I just picture the A's
moving from the AL to the NL to Nippon Professional Baseball League to the Honkbal Hoofdklasse.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Much like Jake Taylor they couldn't cut it in the Mexican League.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
nope - but we will have fun getting to know and then forget them
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
Wait, Gigs is divorced?
That sounds like an opportunity….
OldhamA - January 18, 2012
I had referred to my parent's divorce
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
Ah ok.
OldhamA - January 18, 2012
(see how I didn't answer your question?) ;)
btw, I booked my ticket, so for at least a few days in late July, there will be a second A’s fan in England. WOO HOO!
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
You're coming to Cambridge, right?
OldhamA - January 18, 2012
I'll be in London for sure
but I can easily do a daytrip to Cambridge if you give me a tour ‘round town….I can even bring you A’s swag….
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
I probably still won't know Cambridge that well, but it'd nice to meet you if you can spare the time.
No need to bribe me with A’s swag though. I’m a cheap date.
OldhamA - January 18, 2012
how far is the train ride from london?
I’m totally game for going up there — many of my students study in cambridge, so I wanted to get up there anyways. send me an email — gigglingone @ gmail — and I can fill you in on my plans.
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
I've been here a week! I don't even know how far away London is!
OldhamA - January 18, 2012
lol
I just looked it up — I think it’s an hour train ride from Kings Cross, which is definitely doable for me while I’m in the area.
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
how long are we gonna have to be without you gigs?
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
A MONTH!!!!
Well, I’ll be gone for a month. I imagine I’ll be online off and one from time to time while I’m away. They do have internet in Europe afterall…..
But the first two weeks I’m gone are for school, so I have to take that seriously. (Oh wait, how often am I online here while in school? nm)
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
You can say hi to me while I'm hiding in the bushes!
Kyli - January 18, 2012
want me to bring anything for you from home?
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
and for the record, when I first showed up on AN, I LOVED Nico.
He was very kind to me. But he was not yet Blogfather.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
Thanks again, LB
Though let me stress: this is really not about who likes whom….though I do think it’s ultimately about how we treat people we don’t like. ‘Cause in AN, like in life, we won’t like everyone.
GreenNGoldSooner - January 18, 2012
I don't even like myself half the time.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
The other half I'm just unsure.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
Ah, from Berkeley, eh?
That’s why we get along. :)
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
but we'd like to say you're a regular...so you can just become more - er - regular
wait….not sure that’s what I meant.
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
I'll be in the lounge.
Assuming that I don’t manage to get myself booted, I’ll be here.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
I sure hope no one else gets booted.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
I'm not optimistic.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
Damn.
Just….. damn.
darooster - January 18, 2012
Not going anywhere
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
Much like Ryan Reynold's movie career.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
Long as he keep getting roles and they do Deadpool right Ill be okay with it
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
It's going somewhere...
to the bank.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
I was reading something that his films lost so much money last year they want to move to San Jose.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
YAY!
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
what is the alt location of paul thomas's farewell address?
stm72 - January 18, 2012
There is a place that has it
But I will not provide a link. It has already been mentioned that many know where this place is and providing a link to things on the internet is a petty thing to do.
Hopefully from the past weeks of discussions this makes it clear enough…
5Aces - January 18, 2012
fair enuff. i'll find it. thanks.
stm72 - January 18, 2012
Email me if you can't find it
I’m in both places for now, and am happy to serve as a conduit.
Englishmajor - January 18, 2012
i may ask for help but i'll do a more thorough search. thanks.
stm72 - January 18, 2012
I'd now like to post everything I know about Seth Smith.
He’s named Seth Smith.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
He was Eli Manning's backup at Ole Miss
Between him and Gabe Gross… is backing up star NFL quarterbacks in college the new market inefficiency?
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Now I know two things about Seth Smith.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
He is meh.
Seth meh Smith. Smehth.
iglew - January 18, 2012
Is this in an effort for us to know about our players before the season starts....is this wise?
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
Saw 3 DVD's yesterday
Margin Call…..solid look at Wall Street mess – 2 1/2 stars
Colombiana…..not much too it – 2 stars
Ides of March…..a lot of great actors but the story was predictable – 2 1/2 stars
Bed. - January 18, 2012
You think Ides of March was predictable?
I thought it was creative. A little bit too understated for my tastes, but that’s Clooney’s style. He’d rather be subtle than obvious. But overall, I liked the movie.
darooster - January 18, 2012
I thought where the plot went was very obvious.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
So they're re-releasing the Star Wars movies in 3-D?
Will Han Solo go back to shooting first in this version?
Bed. - January 18, 2012
I'm pretty sure Jar Jar Binks in 3D is one of the first signs of the apocalypse.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
I'm pretty sure this is true.
I have no plans to see the prequels in 3-D but when the original movies come out I’ll be there.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
luckily I refuse to watch movies in 3-D
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
It's not my favorite format
but I’m curious to see what Lucas has done with it.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
They are not my favorite, either....rarely go JUST because it is 3D
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
ugh, I was hoping they would erase him when they do the 3D imagery
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
I saw a preview for it when I went to see Hugo
The audience booed the Binks. It looks really bad. And then right after they showed the Titanic 3-D movie and everyone sniggered at that, too.
stormtown - January 18, 2012
Still waiting for Kazaam in 3D.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
That could be a long wait.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
So do you think the Rangers will sign both Fielder and Darvish?
The A.L. West is having quite the arms race at the moment.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
Well....here we go.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
what?
stm72 - January 18, 2012
that's what I'm wondering too.....
{checks Arkansas storm radar…..}
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
My boss is out tomorrow. Hurrah!
OldhamA - January 18, 2012
Reading Jonah Keri's latest story
about the Royals makes me feel really spoiled as an A’s fan.
Well, this sentence did:
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Jonah Keri likes kicking 'em when they're down, doesn't he?
I thought Jazayerli wrote for Grantland, odd they wouldn’t have him do it.
stormtown - January 18, 2012
*snerk*
on other SBNation sites today, ATQ has declared it I Hate Washington Day at the Dawg Pound by going and “liking” all their posts so that the thread turns green. It’s kinda pretty.
(I believe it’s in recognition of it being exactly 3000 days since Washington has won a game in the state of Oregon)
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
ah, so if we did that to Halos Heaven
Would we get banned from there and the site wouldn’t show up on our lists anymore (I know I’m not the only person who hates that)? Opening Day or our first game against them?
stormtown - January 18, 2012
omg, that sounds awesome
we should totally do that!!!!!
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
that would require joining HH
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
a bunch of us joined when Adenheart was killed so we could express our condolences
and we have all regretted it.
What’s funny is how upset they are, it’s a harmless prank. It’s not like someone painted your house green.
Our first game against the Angels is Monday, April 16. Just sayin’.
stormtown - January 18, 2012
ugh, I could at least spell the poor guy's name correctly
Adenhart.
stormtown - January 18, 2012
Some guy who used to post here
frequently recommended that there ought to be an option for unsubscribing to an SBN blog. It’s stupid that once you sign up you’re signed up for life.
iglew - January 18, 2012
but now I see a silver lining
stormtown - January 18, 2012
I still don't get why things turn green on every site.
When I first saw it here, I assumed it was just because green is one of our colors. I figured recommended posts would turn red or blue or whatever on other sites. If that were the case, then they should turn purple on the Husky site so the Duck people couldn’t turn their site green.
Picking the color for recommended posts (and unread, flagged, hidden) should be a control panel choice for each blog.
iglew - January 18, 2012
I suspect as a result of this prank, the Dawg Pound will be asking SBN to change the color scheme
It can’t be that difficult, right?
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
I'm sure it's not easy.
I would guess it to be a moderate-difficulty software update. Not something simple that’s just changing a few lines, but not something hard that would require major restructuring of the data either.
It’s the sort of thing that could be included in the next major upgrade, I think. If people care about it, they need to be requesting it to the tech guys sooner rather than later, or it won’t make it this round.
We at AN don’t care so much, since the default colors suit us. (In fact, they were probably designed specifically for us, and then everyone else got stuck with them.)
iglew - January 18, 2012
this is why I'm a Ducks fan too.
didn’t have to change any color schemes.
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
I subscribe to that myself. A's, Ducks, Pack
justANotherAsFan - January 18, 2012
I fixed it for you
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
In truf, if they had played each other, I'd have gone 9ers.
But I like the whole deal with the Packers being city-owned and all that…
justANotherAsFan - January 18, 2012
Let's try this again
darooster - January 18, 2012
As a Cal grad, I do like the Bears, but ...
I stood in the pouring rain for three hours to cheer the Raiders after SuperBowl I fergit which one, it was 30 or 31 years ago, and then they split Oakland so suddenly for no good reason, even though they had all those loyal fans, and I’ve never really forgiven them, so, no… That’s how I slid over to the wrong side of the Bay, football-wise.
And, yeah, I know Al is dead, but his memory in the form of Mt. Davis lingers on, so …no.
justANotherAsFan - January 18, 2012
And sure, I love the Bears, I really do, but they are kind of Lucy with the football for me...
justANotherAsFan - January 18, 2012
Clearly, you all need my help.
You’re welcome.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
You're switching up sports on us
I have nothing against the Sharks, though, I’m a semi-fan.
darooster - January 18, 2012
Oops. Haha. I saw Ducks and thought of hockey.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Eh, close enough, I guess.
darooster - January 18, 2012
It's funny how all of a sudden this year, I discovered that I no longer hate the Raiders.
That’s not to say that I like them, I just don’t hate them. I’m really starting to hate the Giants and Lions, though.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
When did gray, chrome and highlighter yellow become A's colors?
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
alt jerseys!
iglew - January 18, 2012
good point
the Ducks wore the first GOLD ALTS! (and GRAY ALTS and BLACK ALTS and GREEN ALTS and….)
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
I think every uniform they have is an alt
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
WINNING ALT!
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
Do they even have an "official" uniform at this point?
Because I don’t think I’ve ever seen them wear the same uniform twice. Their official jersey should just be white with a big question mark on it.
darooster - January 18, 2012
Oh, and a Nike swoosh
Can’t forget the benefactor
darooster - January 18, 2012
Good news: my car is ready to be picked up
Bad news: for $1,025. I only owe $800 more on this fucker. Fuck.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
ugh. sucks.
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
That really sucks. Sorry.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
I hate getting my car fixed...it's ALWAYS too freakin' expensive!
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
have I been banned yet?!
…damn
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
Banned, rested, and ready?
Englishmajor - January 18, 2012
yes I am!
and packed!
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
the amazing part isn't that you haven't been banned. The amazing part is that I haven't been banned.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
I haven't tried yet
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
well, I haven't really, either, I guess,
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
Other people were banned
without actually trying
darooster - January 18, 2012
But when given an option to get themselves unbanned, they decline.
(At what point do we cross the “inflammatory” line? Rooster’s comment, my comment, or the next one after mine?)
iglew - January 18, 2012
Flagged for pondering.
LoneStranger - January 18, 2012
that's been my Q - who decides?
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
darooster - January 18, 2012
OH Shit.....we're in trubble
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
Sometimes
I almost miss him
darooster - January 18, 2012
Ack! Subject line, please!
iglew - January 18, 2012
or he WILL BA....oh. Never mind.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
My bAN wANd got expelliarmussed.
iglew - January 19, 2012
at least you willingly gave yours up.
Leopold Bloom - January 19, 2012
Now you're just being a drama queen about it.
iglew - January 19, 2012
Please don't try, guys.
I likes all of you. ♥
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
It would be so unkind of any of you to ban me, considering I never officially quit being a mod...
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
Regardless of that. I like the family here.
You all have been good to me.
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
then there's the fact that I've got more fucking comments than anyone on here by a good 30k...
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
I quit for a few years,
or I’d have your ass beat.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
hmmm. But I quit for a couple years, too...so, probably not.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
You quit for a few years? When?
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
2006 and 2007...?
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
Ah. I don't remember you.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
from before?
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
No, now.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
oh. I'm Bloom.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
I don't really like you already.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
oh. okay. you could ask one of the thirty mods to ban me.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
I heard you were a mod but they kicked your ass to the curb!
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
tis true.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
Hoodlum.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
truf.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
Teehee. Sig.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
crap
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
I'll flag every one of your comments till you're gone.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
yay!
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
This is the new face of terrorism in 2012.
Forget killing people, we’ll just get you booted from your favorite websites.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
the real way to shut down the net
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
SOPA is our doing too.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
I want to start a rap beef
Because this Drake-Common one is just silly. They don’t even say clever things.
I’m calling out Leopold Bloom! You whack, sucka!
darooster - January 18, 2012
step off, fool!
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
Bloomie, you betta bust a cap in his ass, yo!
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Or is it "pop" a cap?
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
It's "pop a top"
BEER!!!!!
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
Oh now you done done it, son
Now you done done it. It’s on!
darooster - January 18, 2012
don't start nuttin, there won't be nuttin.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
I don't have space for an A's rug, nor do I need an A's rug, but dammit, the fact that I can get it half-off on groupon makes me crave one.
DAMN YOU GROUPON.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
My bday is in less than 3 months, if that helps.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
I got you Justin Timberlake for your birthday.
I hope you like it.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
If I have to listen to pop, that's about the least bad.
I’ll still eventually kill myself, though.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
I think he might be pretty fun to hang out with
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
Yeah, he's pretty funny.
And a decent actor to boot.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
and you can get all the leftover women he passes over
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
Not a fan of sloppy 2nds.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Oh wait, you mean his rejects.
Ok!
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
exactly!
and they will be properly liquored up already, so low cost too!
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
He can buy the alcohol and I'll do the rest!
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
there ya go!
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
Don't make me flag you.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
for telling the truth?
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
For creepiness.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
You're gonna be flagging a lot of people, then.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
especially you
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
Well duh.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
I have a lot of free time.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
channel that time in killing dragons
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
Srsly
You’re gonna get carpal tunnel from clicking the flag button so many times
darooster - January 18, 2012
I hope she likes having AN all to herself.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Pretty sure I'm safe
I hate Gold Alts, don’t mind if Conor returns and well SKYRIM
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
suck up
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
Cope is a protected species when I go on a flagging spree
because SKYRIM
Kyli - January 18, 2012
I like the leg room.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
his sloppy seconds might be worthy.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
Maybe I can get one preggers and then she can sue him for paternity.
This is the 1950’s and there are no DNA tests, right?
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Yes
Now let me drink this scotch while I sexually harass the secretary and no one says a damn thing!
darooster - January 18, 2012
ah, good times
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
Ah, the 1950's.
When men were men and women were property.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Mad Men!
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
If you'll forgive my pedantry,
Mad Men’s portrayal of the 1950s tells us more about our decade than it tells us about the 1950s. The real 1950s weren’t very much like that, but it’s interesting that that’s what we choose to project on them. (It’s also interesting what demographic Mad Men most appeals to.)
It’s exactly like Orientalism.
iglew - January 18, 2012
I'm actually an assassin and there's a contract out on you.
This is my preferred method of business.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
I can't believe anyone would pay money to kill me.
Just buy me a few pounds of bacon and let nature take it’s course.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
dammit!
you discovered my plan!
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
I don't think you could bring yourself to buy real bacon.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
I do buy bacon
I just don’t eat much of it when I make some. I stop at 2 pieces. Turkey bacon I can eat lots of!
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
I used to know a guy who ate a pound of bacon every morning.
And no, he’s not dead. He is a douche, though.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
hi
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
No, a different guy.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
LOL
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
NICE
darooster - January 18, 2012
aroo?
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
this
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
tease,
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
kyli, what the heck you talking about? what A's rug?!!
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
This is the groupon.
Their site has these. Alas, a little too gold-jerseyish for my taste. And my panda rug would get jealous.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
Damn it, why didn't that open in another window???
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
always right click links
just in case
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
Thanks.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Because the baseball gods hate you.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
LumberJackson is no god.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
He is the All-Father.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
There's just no response to this.
Sometimes, you have to just concede defeat when talking to a crazy person.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
I dream someday of having a little house with a basement that I can make into a womancave with a bar and a pinball machine and a giant tv and all my baseball stuff. :(
I HAVE DREAMS. And a sports rug could be in them. If it was less ugly.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
I dream of a man cave with beautiful gold rugs and alts and GOOD music.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
I dream of my little house having a doorbell that plays 'Everybody (Backstreet's Back)'.
TAKE THAT JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
Also a good way to keep me away.
I have a better way to keep the JW’s out. I’ll answer the door in nothing but a black robe, pentagram tattoo on my chest exposed. Then I’ll tell them that after sacrificing a goat, I have to go with my girlfriend to get an abortion, then donate blood. So I really don’t have time to talk.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Pinball!
iglew - January 18, 2012
Can we live together?
I want a real-life lounge. Old movie style. With cordial glasses and decanters and funky chairs. A record player. A projection screen. Walls and walls of movies. A popcorn popper and a fountain soda machine.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
Yes. Yes we can.
I’ve already got the record player.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
We have to dance like this:
http://youtu.be/xbK0C9AYMd8
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
Yay!
Chubby Checker > Beyonce.
iglew - January 19, 2012
I'll bring the cordial glasses
I think my mom has a ton of them in her house that she rarely uses….
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I'll bring beer and dessert to your basement womancave.
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
We need servants.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
that rug is seriously ugly.
Berry Jo - January 18, 2012
There's a rug store on Van Ness that has these
Also Raiders and 49ers rugs marked up like a football field. It’s in the same block as Tap! Tap Plastics! the fantastic plastic place!. I always glance at them when I’m stopped in traffic.
Englishmajor - January 18, 2012
The site has the football ones too!
Oh snap, I didn’t know there was rug store over there.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
seems expensive.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
Rugs are expensive.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
For reals
I don’t want to be a real grown up with a house someday, cuz shit is expensive. $100 for a damn rug? Crikey.
darooster - January 18, 2012
$100? A good toupee will set you back $300 or more.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Seriously, grown-up things are expensive. D:
Kyli - January 18, 2012
there's an A's rug on groupon?!?!!?!?
omg
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
There's also an adorable outdoor kitty that lives next to my current gig.
It’s very hard to explain that I was TECHNICALLY on time to the site for the meeting, I just had to play with the kitty for ten minutes because KITTY. :( Why isn’t kitty as legit an excuse as traffic?
Kyli - January 18, 2012
Every time I tell my boss I was late because I was loving on some pussy, he just laughs and refuses to believe me.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
That's because he's seen your face.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
His WIFE doesn't laugh!
Actually, ugh. But whatever.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Let's recap
In this thread you’ve talked about pussy, bananas, fish and rugs. Are there any euphemisms for genitalia you won’t be covering today?
darooster - January 18, 2012
Wait for Oldham to get here
and ask him if he ate any crumpets today.
Englishmajor - January 18, 2012
I don't know about euphemisms, but
she did say something about half getting off with a group on a rug.
iglew - January 18, 2012
todays lesson
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
Heh
I am fascinated by the recent fascination with zombies. I’m a zombie fan myself, but seriously, zombies have become extremely popular in the last few years.
darooster - January 18, 2012
Soon they will sparkle and will suck like what happened to vampires
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
Fucking Twilight.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
then I will just rewatch Fido and Shaun of the Dead again and again
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
Shaun of the Dead is a great movie
I like most everything Simon Pegg does, but that might be his best work. Great blend of serious zombie movie and comedy.
darooster - January 18, 2012
God I hope not
Twilight is trying its damnedest to ruin vampires
darooster - January 18, 2012
Says you.
Zombies are a very reasonable group, as a general rule.
UrgentMirth - January 18, 2012
shit
I knew I forgot to cut off your head
ChickenStanley - January 19, 2012
I know this isn't a DLD, but...
Have you heard that Mark Wahlberg would’ve single-handedly prevented 9/11? And speaking of hands, he doesn’t jerk off.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Mark Wahlberg is such an asshole. Always has been, always will be.
Donnie = the superior Wahlberg.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
I never really knew anything about him before.
Except that I liked a few of his movies. But it sounds like he’s a tool.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
When he was a teenager, he beat up two Vietnamese men while yelling ethnic slurs, and permanently blinded one of them in one eye.
So yeah, he’s a tool.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
nice guy
ChickenStanley - January 18, 2012
Jeez, I didn't know about that.
What an asshole.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
I'm always kind of horrified at how many celebrities have incredibly disturbing, violent histories.
I go to a LOT of movies, so it makes me careful where I spend my movie cash.
Kyli - January 18, 2012
I know very little about most celebs. It's hard enough to keep up with my own life.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Seriously?
That really happened? Holy smokes, what a dick
darooster - January 18, 2012
Marky Mark
comes off as kind of an idiot. And I will never be able to stop referring to him as Marky Mark.
darooster - January 18, 2012
{{peeks in to snuggle all of you regardless of gender}}
{{snuggly times}}
emperor nobody - January 18, 2012
Hussy
darooster - January 18, 2012
Dead Lounge is dead.
Maybe we need a little meta to liven things up.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Email me.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Meet me in person.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Stalk me.
LoneStranger - January 19, 2012
Whip me, spank me...
Call me Judy
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
.
darooster - January 18, 2012
So, presenting the latest in Yon's questionable life choices...
… I’m considering asking out a coworker. Good for ball, bad for ball?
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
You're young, and the economy is showing signs of recovering.
I say go for it.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
She's part-time, if that matters
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Not really.
Honestly, I’m kind of split on the issue.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Me too
I don’t know how to go about this.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Easy. Fire her.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
I don't have that kind of authority
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Frame her for something to get her fired.
Then be there to console her.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Do you really think the economy is showing signs of recovery?
Seems like it’s rather stagnate to me
darooster - January 18, 2012
I believe everything I hear on the news.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Which ball? Left or right?
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
Oh, I should've said good for balls/bad for balls, I guess, haha
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Speaking of balls....
Today I started my OB rotation. I learned I can count the number of wrinkles on a baby’s scrotum to see how many weeks along the baby is gestationally. It was weird.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
No kidding
That is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever heard.
I’m definitely telling someone else that fact this week.
darooster - January 18, 2012
There is also some touching involved, but yeah.
The smoother the baby’s scrotum, the younger they are. On baby girls it’s the appearance of the labia. On either gender, the flexibility of their ears is also used.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
I'm gonna use the "smoothness of the scrotum" line on a girl
“Wanna know how old I am? Feel how smooth my scrotum is and try to guess.”
darooster - January 18, 2012
I hope you like getting slapped.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
as long as it's not on the scrotum
darooster - January 18, 2012
No, that they'll kick.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
It just might work.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
On you?
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Not now
We told her about it, damnit
darooster - January 18, 2012
But she may want to guess your age.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Try it at your next party.
“Step right up and let me guess your age! I’ll just need everyone to remove their pants and underwear.”
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
I don't need to ask, just pass around the Firefly.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
You never know.
Try it and see.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
I'll pass.
Ozzwife wouldn’t approve. But darooster (Chikie 2?) might want to give it a shot.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Way ahead of you!
(unzips pants)
darooster - January 18, 2012
Best of luck.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
I forgot to mention I have a hook for a hand.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
Hawt.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
FWFDGSDWE
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
Yeah, I don't know what that means.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
That was my claw typing.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
A claw and a hook?
You get hawter by the minute.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
[polishes claw]
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
Where does one purchase claw polish?
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
In the aisle with the silver polish.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
I thought you're supposed to cut them in half and count the rings.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Heh
darooster - January 18, 2012
A friend of mine likes to say
Don’t dip your pen in the company ink. I would say it’s all about how you handle breakups. If you handle them well, then I say go for it. If not, then refrain, because nothing is worse than splitting with somebody and having to see them all the damn time.
And if you tell one person at work, everybody will know.
darooster - January 18, 2012
So just wait until one of us gets another job?
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Does that seem imminent?
darooster - January 18, 2012
I'm trying...
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Well, if you think you might be working elsewhere relatively soon
I say take a chance
darooster - January 18, 2012
Or start investing heaily in lotto tickets.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Sound investment strategy
Or just save up a bunch of money, go to a casino, and bet it all on black on the roulette wheel
What could go wrong with such a foolproof plan?
darooster - January 18, 2012
Bet on a number, bigger payoff.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Eh, I have no idea when "relatively soon" is
But… I’m working on it.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Punching your boss in the back of the head tends to accelerate the process.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
I really like my boss, actually
And I’d prefer not to get fired, haha. I just want to take a career step up.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Apparently you can get fired for actually working.
You heard about the woman in Illinois?
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Huh?
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Guess you didn't hear about it.
This woman clocked out for lunch, but stayed at her desk and continued working. She was informed that company policy required her to take a 30 minute break. She wanted to continue working, so she was called into the HR office and ended up getting fired. The company denied her unemployment claim, saying that there was misconduct on her part. In court, they said she committed insubordination during the meeting in the HR office. Anyway, she appealed their unemployment denial 3 times, then sued and won.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
What a stupid fucking reason to fire her
I hope she got a truckload of cash
darooster - January 18, 2012
I think all she got was her unemployment in a lump sum.
She found another job within a few months, I believe, so it won’t be that much money.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Um. Shit.
I do that a lot. Almost every week.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
You're fired.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Hey, now you can ask that coworker out!
darooster - January 18, 2012
It all worked out!
Except she’ll have to pay, since you’re now unemployed.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Pfft
I’ll take her to McDonald’s… she can get any three Dollar Menu items.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Damn, you're generous!
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Nothin but the best for my women
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
You must have to beat them off with a stick.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
In all seriousness
I’d never go THAT cheap for a first date, but I need to scale things back. My last two first dates, dinners, I dropped $90 and $60.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
Fucking expensive, ain't it?
Stupid girls wanting to go out and shit
darooster - January 18, 2012
Find a good mom n' pop type of place.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Yeah, I went a little too upscale
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
I'm sure you can find some good bargain spots.
Plus, you won’t look pretentious.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Not until the third date at the earliest
He’s a classy dame
darooster - January 18, 2012
As Herman cain might say
Nein Nein Nein
darooster - January 18, 2012
Cain is German?
He doesn’t look it. I pegged him for Latvian.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
A Druish Princess?
That’s funny, she doesn’t look Druish
darooster - January 18, 2012
Princess Vespa?
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Precisely
darooster - January 18, 2012
I've never dated a co-worker.
But I’ve seen a few workplace romances. They didn’t go well. In one case, I had to fire a guy for harassing his ex at work. Another time, 2 co-workers who were just really good friends became the subject of rumor and innuendo at work. When the guy got divorced, everyone believed that the female friend “wrecked his marriage.” She was actually a really sweet person, but got a terrible reputation at work.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
ask her out right after you turn in your resignation letter.
“I just quit because I got a new job, which means we don’t work together anymore, which means I can finally ask you out”
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
that doesn't always work.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
well, neither does taking gigs' dating advice
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
hmmm.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
this just got too Charlie Kaufman-esque for me to parse.
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
How big is the company?
I think that’s key. If it’s a small community — like 20 or less — then you shouldn’t try dating within it at all. If it’s a big company, then I think it’s OK.
The real question is how easy will it be to avoid her if you break up. If you’re stuck working closely together afterward, then that’s bad. If it’s a big company that you’re both in but you don’t have to have direct contact, then I think it’s OK.
Also, make sure the company doesn’t have an official policy forbidding it.
iglew - January 18, 2012
This AP writer is just having fun with his lead
“Some of the most prominent purveyors of porn say they’ll start packing up their sex toys…”
I guess if you’re gonna make a reporter write about porn, he’s gonna have some fun with alliteration
darooster - January 18, 2012
Clearly he wasn't pussyfooting around.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
So did y'all hear that cruise ship captain's excuse for leaving his ship with passengers still aboard?
He’s the Gerald Ford of captains.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
It was one of those "I was fixing my pants and I slipped right onto her, officer, I promise!" excuses, wasn't it?
UrgentMirth - January 18, 2012
I heard he slipped and got knocked into a rescue boat
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
Probably the FIRST rescue boat.
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
I feel as if I should do some kind of penance...
I heard a Nickelback song on the radio. And liked it.
YonYonson - January 18, 2012
No penance, just go hang out with Kyli.
She’d probably like it too.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Ok, bold prediction: 49ers beat the Giants, 13-3.
While the Giants are playing really well, the 9ers have a better defense and an actual running game.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
I can see the Niners winning
But 13-3? Eli is hot right now. I’m thinking the Giants score at least 22-24 points.
Overall, really unsure about this game. I pick the Giants in a toss-up
darooster - January 18, 2012
Eli is good, but the 9ers force turnovers and don't really need to respect the run against the Giants.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
So. I went to the orthopedic surgeon today..
1st knee surgery is scheduled for April 16 !!! Yay!!
The Dr’s name is Eric Hansen. He has been the team Dr for Fresno State since 1996, and has worked with a lot of athletes. Has anyone heard of him? His resume says he has consulted with the A’s… Should I call Dallas Braden? :-)
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
Are you sure he didn't almost pitch a perfect game against the A's?
Mention Ken Phelps in front of him and see how he reacts.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Am I the only one that remembers that?
Damn, I’m old.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
this game?
http://www.proballnw.com/10-2011/the-greatest-game-ever-forgotten/
I remember.
stormtown - January 18, 2012
Eric Hansen? The "To Catch A Predator" guy?
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
Watch out for hidden cameras.
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
Did he ask you to "have a seat over there?"
darooster - January 18, 2012
No, but the nurse phoned me while I was filling out paperwork.
I could hear her talking on to me from the back room. Kinda weird.
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
hehe I don't think so...
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
Time for my rest period.
Good night, all!
ozzman99 - January 18, 2012
night
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
Goodnight, ozz
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
Holla
noava22 - January 18, 2012 via mobile
[echo]
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
hi
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
OMG Cope.
New Girl this week!
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
didn't watch yet, probably Saturday so backed logged already after almost catching
up over the winter break.
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
hullo
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
Please, someone take all the scissors out of my house until my head heals.
{side note: there is less hair on my head now}
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
Shave your head.
That’s what I do now. I rub my own head a lot cause I like the way it feels.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
TWHS
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
if I ever have to get another cyst cut out, I'm totally shaving my head.
can’t do it now because the stitches will get caught….
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
Another part of my job I love: Sometimes I get to give people haircuts.
With a pair of safety scissors.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
dammit, I shoulda flown out to missouri to get my haircut
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
Those scissors see a lot of action.
I cut off bras and pants and shirts and bandages and tape and underwear! Oh, and sometimes I cut paper.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
your job is so much more interesting than mine
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
...they're safety scissors, aren't they?
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
for the safety dance?
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
It's so we can dance if we want to.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
Yes.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
I got them in the craft section at Wal-Mart.
True story.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
Goodnight!
Tutu-late - January 18, 2012
night tutu!
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
night
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
night
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
Dick Casablancas!
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
Richard White Houses?
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
Richard Cheese?
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
Ricardo Mozzarella?
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
learn your Veronica Mars
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
who?
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
this makes me all kinds of sad
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
awww, there there.....
if it makes you feel any better, I don’t know any shows that aired on UPN or The CW. (Oh, but I remember CW had a frog in their ads…..)
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
Zoey Duncan Jack and Jane
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
John Paul George Ringo
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
So who exactly is going to enforce this condoms in porn rule and where will their
funding come from?
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
Job Opening!!!!!!!!
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
There will be a rubber man.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
another long day tomorrow, so I shall go sleep now.
good night Cope and Jennifer (and anyone else who is around)
gigglingone - January 18, 2012
night gigs
Leopold Bloom - January 18, 2012
night
Copenhagen - January 18, 2012
Took a hit of Nyquil and 11 hours later I woke up.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
That shit does nothing for me.
Jennifer - January 18, 2012
It puts me in a coma....still sick though.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
I'm glad to see the lounge filled up nicely today.
That’s a good sign.
Bed. - January 18, 2012
mainly mods making sure there's no rabble rousing going on...
Leopold Bloom - January 19, 2012
As a Democrat who lives in the South I'm used to being on the losing side of things
I’m over our little war but I do think the site is now a different place.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
If anyone would like to donate to the Brian needs to pay for his kids college club please feel free.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
start an internet jar
everytime someone on the internet is wrong, you put in a dollar. you’ll have enough for undergrad and grad school in about a week.
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I might even get that from just one site....I'm not going to say which one though.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
No, you'll quickly run out of dollars to put in the jar.
So you’ll have to put in IOU’s instead. And then you’ll spend the rest of your life paying off your jar loan debt.
iglew - January 19, 2012
Well....here we go, again.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
you still around?
cuppingmaster - January 19, 2012
Nope
Bed. - January 19, 2012
[peeks in]
you people can’t stay up late. wusses
ChickenStanley - January 19, 2012
I'd like to be tougher but it seems like a lot of work.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I'm saving my awake hours for Reno.
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I'm saving my love for Fresno.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Sat at work bored out of my mind - but I don't want to ring up my boss to ask for more work (he's out of the office).
Web surfing it is then!
OldhamA - January 19, 2012
What time is it there?
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
3pm.
OldhamA - January 19, 2012
So close to Happy Hour!
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
woo hoo!
{pours some kahlua into my coffee}
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
So what does the butcher's bill look like?
Who has deserted us?
OldhamA - January 19, 2012
Is this code?......are you Brits attacking us again?
Bed. - January 19, 2012
'Casualty list'
OldhamA - January 19, 2012
So am I cheating when I'm here or when I'm at the new place?
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Just watched the first episode of the new season of Justified....good stuff as always.
No one’s cooler than Raylan Givens.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I don't know that show
what’s it about? and what channel is it on?
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
FX....It's about a US Marshall based on a Elmore Leonard book....really cool show
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Really awesome show that everyone should watch
Copenhagen - January 19, 2012
Cope....we agree on something!
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I always used Bloom's name to find the Lounge now I guess I'll use gigs name.
and from the looks of it gigs might be the only person left who puts up lounge threads.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I'll start a new one tonight before I leave for the weekend
one thread for three days? should be plenty of space….
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
That should work
I doubt we’ll need one of these a day anytime soon. Maybe it’s the right time for the return of DLD’s.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
the DLDs really did disappear with the advent of the Lounge
perhaps we should have DLDs for the daytime, and Lounges for the evenings?
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I'd love to see the DLD make a comeback
or we could just all do posts about Seth Smith.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
lol, maybe on Monday, I'll do a Seth Smith-themed DLD
heck, you could do the DLD! and I’ll add all my Seth Smith links when I get to work!
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
A Seth Smith themed DLD?....why that will get at least 4 hits....which might be more than Smith will ever get.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
did you know his name is actually Garry Seth Smith?
yup, I’m starting my research of useless facts now.
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
Now I know three things about him.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
he used to play college football at Ol'Miss too
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I think that was the second thing I learned about him so I'm still at 3.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
ummmm.....
his batting song is Manifesto by The City Harmonic
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I'm up to 4 things
at this pace by the time I get to 10 he’ll have been traded.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
So Raylan Givens and Don Draper are the two coolest TV characters
I can’t come up with who should be third.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Captain Mal Reynolds is #1.
OldhamA - January 19, 2012
Current TV?
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Keith Olbermann is definitely not among the coolest tv characters
stormtown - January 19, 2012
Ha!
This might be AN’s first Current TV joke.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
[sobs]
OldhamA - January 19, 2012
Barney Stinson.
Kyli - January 19, 2012
Omar Little
Copenhagen - January 19, 2012
I prefer Jimmy McNulty
Or Furio from the Sopranos. Also receiving votes in my own personal poll no one else participated in: Sterling Mallory Archer, The Bunk, and Arthur Fonzarelli
darooster - January 19, 2012
Two days is a row of Seth Smith articles.....it's such an exciting time to be an A's fan.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I hope whoever posts on Fridays isn't also planning to do a Seth Smith article....
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
Yeah that might be redundant or something.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
the Friday guy is probably frantically rewriting his post now
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
My advice....it's been too long since we had an Ed Crosby post.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Now they can pen a Gomes article
Copenhagen - January 19, 2012
That should be fun for the whole family.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
huh...
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
Man, you're going hard on the poor guy who did the Seth Smith article
darooster - January 19, 2012
Nah, just shows how pathetic the A's offseason has gone
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
Now to see what's behind door number 2.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
This having Coke in white cans is confusing me
I keep thinking I’m grabbing a Diet Coke and it’s a real Coke…..you’d think after two blood sugar spikes that caused a heart attack I would have learned my lesson.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
so, they just opened up a new fancy schmancy science building here on campus
I went over to give myself a tour, and as I’m wandering through the building, this guy is also there too, obviously also giving himself the self-guided tour. he starts asking me about which labs are going to be in there, what faculty members, which departments, etc….. I’m pretty sure he’s checking out all the places to hide out overnight so he can destroy lab experiments….
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
It's always good to plan ahead.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
#occupythenewbuilding
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I'm occupying my bed
Bed. - January 19, 2012
If folks want it I'll tell you what.....every Monday I'll put up a DLD in the morning.
I’ll put the first one up on the 30th.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
excellent.
maybe you should call it a WLD or a MLD though, because we won’t need one daily.
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I'll do one a week and see if that gets the franchise going again.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
thank you!
I’m happy to try to put them up more frequently also, maybe Thursdays?
stormtown - January 19, 2012
That would be great.....you'd like to think AN can handle 2 DLD's a week
If you want to put one up sooner than mine on the 30th please feel free to do so. I’ll be happy to rec it and post in it.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
More DVD reviews
Killer Elite….moves fast, good action scenes – 3 stars
Friends with Benefits…..2 stars for the movie…..4 stars for Mila Kunis.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I thought I had talked myself into it but I guess I haven't.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I've become as bland as the color beige.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Okay....screw it....I have to be me.
No new name and if I can’t be goofy I might as well just leave….I hope I’m given a little rope here as I have no desire to be banned but me just posting about baseball is of no help to anyone…..ever.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I miss the goofy bed
pluto, on the other hand…..
oh wait….
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I just needed a little time to figure out how to find my place on the new AN.
I’ve had a lot of fun here for 3 years and I don’t want to give that up. If I’m out of line then folks should just tell me and I’ll stop but I hope there’s room for goofy here.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Turkey sausage is the work of the devil.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
so is turkey bacon or any fake bacon product
Turkey sucks anyways unless bacon and or avocado is on it
Copenhagen - January 19, 2012
Is that when a pig and a bird have relations?
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
I feel better now
Bed. - January 19, 2012
This little Bed freakout/talking to himself was brought to you by Seth Smith for President 2012.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
This just in Rob Lowe now says Peyton Manning won the Iowa Caucus.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Rob Lowe says I'll be winning Nevada this weekend.
I hope he means I’ll be winning in Nevada….
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I've been lucky in Nevada....never did any gambling there though.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Dayquil just isn't as much fun as Nyquil.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Being unfunny on two blogs is more work than a man should do when he's sick.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
never understood how Bloom handled it
and I really don’t understand people who can manage multiple game threads.
stormtown - January 19, 2012
you mean going back to the old one once a new one is posted?
Copenhagen - January 19, 2012
that too
but I meant multiple blogs.
stormtown - January 19, 2012
I do FTF game threads and lounge/game thread here on occasion
It isn’t that hard to keep up.
Copenhagen - January 19, 2012
I'm sure your parents are proud.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
My parents mostly felt regret when it comes to me.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Bloom is a better man than I am
I think for now i’ll mostly be here…..sorry AN.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I don't even understand how one can
follow a game thread and watch the game at the same time.
I can only do game threads when I’m listening on MLB audio (which is most of the time). If the game is broadcast on TV, I can’t game thread. Or if I do try to game thread, then I end up missing the game because I’m looking at the computer screen.
iglew - January 19, 2012
much easier in baseball with the breaks, more difficult with say hockey
Copenhagen - January 19, 2012
Back when I did game threads I'd focus more on the thread and less on the game.
But I hardly ever talk about baseball when I do threads.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I hardly talk about baseball at all now....
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
Me either....but that fits with this A's team.
I’m glad 9 year olds are pumped about the team but I’ll be doing other things in 2012.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
baseball is still awesome even when the A's aren't
Don’t forget that.
stormtown - January 19, 2012
You know when you hardly get out of bed the day really flies by.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Oddly enough I've never had Rice-A-Roni in San Francisco.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
You know none of my problems couldn't be solved by a billion dollars.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
well, that and the metric system
sorry….this was only to make myself laugh.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I read this as "...the septic system"
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
Well....it was a crappy joke.
Today is the first time I’ve run a joke into the ground in more than one place.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I think I'm flashing back to my Tuesday Dr visit.
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
"using the whole hand their doc?"
stm72 - January 19, 2012
heehee
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
Could someone bring me some Red Vines from California please
all we have here is that awful Twizzlers crap.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Not a chance. The kiddies won't let them out of their sight.
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
send me your address, I'll mail you a Costco container of them.
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I just found out the movie Black Swan has more than one scene in it.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
i'm still trying to figure out who they turned nassim taleb's black swan concept into a ballet movie. genius really.
stm72 - January 19, 2012
*how*
stm72 - January 19, 2012
The only "Black Swan" movie for me has Tyrone Powers, and Maureen O'Hara in it.
Pirates and Wenches! WooHoo!
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
Mine has Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis doing things.....really, really good things.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
talking about "fat tailed distributions?"
stm72 - January 19, 2012
hmm...the scene I liked Mila was using her mouth in a different way.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
i've read the book, but i recall nothing about a mila in it. i'll have to read it again.
stm72 - January 19, 2012
This is why I never read books.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
it's an excellent book, but again it's now about the ballet
stm72 - January 19, 2012
I read a book once and I went to the ballet once....both were over my head.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
i'm short, so many things are over my head
stm72 - January 19, 2012
These days there isn't much on my head.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
i keep a buzz cut up top, so similar issue but different reason
stm72 - January 19, 2012
My buzz cut was given to me by genes.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
i use norelco clippers
stm72 - January 19, 2012
I actually thought that for real
the first time I heard about the movie. (Well, not the ballet part, because I didn’t know yet it was a ballet, but I did wonder how the heck they made a movie out of Taleb’s book.)
iglew - January 19, 2012
If you could have one show comeback on the air what would it be?
and please don’t all say Cop Rock.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
BBC's 'Hustle"
Basically the same as ’Leverage" but better plots and characters.
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
I think I've seen Leverage before....the show with Timothy Hutton?
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Yes.
The British one came out first, and was much better.
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
it's not still on?
I see it listed on UK torrent sites all the time.
stormtown - January 19, 2012
I'm not sure.
I do know the female lead does a lot of guest spots on show here
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
pfft....okay OldhamA.....America FUCK YEAH!
Bed. - January 19, 2012
rec'd
stm72 - January 19, 2012
There is nothing wrong with Brits.
How else would we know how far ahead we are?
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
or proper sized ears or straight teeth
stm72 - January 19, 2012
argh..
I just snorted my tea. ICED tea.
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
tee hee
stm72 - January 19, 2012
well it's so unoriginal to say Deadwood
Even though that’s probably my #1, so I’ll say Dr. Katz.
stormtown - January 19, 2012
I love westerns and David Milch but I never saw much of Deadwood.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Terriers for me.......I miss that show so much.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
macgyver
stm72 - January 19, 2012
Awesome answer.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
thank you sir
stm72 - January 19, 2012
West Wing
or Sports Night
or Night Court
or Saved by the Bell
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I've seen all those shows
and I liked 3 of them…..I won’t say which though as I need to save some mysteries about myself.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
love west wing and sports night. same writers, same jokes, same awesome.
stm72 - January 19, 2012
Something about sending Elizabeth Berkley back to High School seems wrong.
The boys couldn’t handle it.
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
but her whole thing now is working with high school girls
http://ask-elizabeth.com/
stormtown - January 19, 2012
I was more a Tiffani Amber-Thiessen man but Ms. Berkley was also quite nice.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
If they would like to do the Black Swan scene I'd happily pay $39.95 on pay per view.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
SAVED BY THE BELL.
FOREVER.
Kyli - January 19, 2012
♥
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I have all the DVDs.
The keep me warm at night.
Kyli - January 19, 2012
omg, we need to do a Zach Morris & Wine night.
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
fixed
Zach Morris and
WineWhine night.Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
YES.
Zack is my perfect man.
Kyli - January 19, 2012
One that can stop time?
OldhamA - January 20, 2012
Best show EVER
darooster - January 19, 2012
You're just trying to impress the AN Hotties.
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
Continuously
HOWEVAH, I am a longtime Saved by the Bell fan. I once even played drunken SBTB trivia in college and I think I won… although I was pretty drunk, so hard to say
darooster - January 19, 2012
Outside of air conditioning the On Demand Channel is my favorite invention ever.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
3rd favorite?....a creative use of silicone.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
The flushing toilet for me.
making women from my rib is a close second.( that ought to rile them up):-)
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
Wait...what?....toilets flush now?......what will they think of next?
I wonder when those will come to Arkansas?
Bed. - January 19, 2012
About the same time frame as the Keystone pipeline.
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
I've been laying pipe in Arkansas for years now.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
elevators, cars and planes are good ones too
stm72 - January 19, 2012
and Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a good movie.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
You know if Hamburger Helper really wants to help it needs to try harder.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
do or do not. there is no try
stm72 - January 19, 2012
Yogi Bear was dead on about that one.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
i thought it was yoda?
stm72 - January 19, 2012
Yoda?.....sorry, I can't bend like that.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
The last time I was in bed all day there were several cans of whipped cream involved.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Eat lots of chicken noodle soup.
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
I'm taking drugs instead
Bed. - January 19, 2012
and then the whipped cream?
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
No whipped cream today
we save that for when Black Swan is on.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Yeah, Maureen does that for me tuu!
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
We have different tastes in Black Swans.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
It's a generational thingy.
(Natalie does it for me as well)
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
As far as red heads from the past I'll go Rita Hayworth.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
That works.
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
I only dated one redhead but after some research
I found out she was only ginger on top.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Research?
How did….. oh nevermind.
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
If you come to a fork in the road....turn around as you're going the wrong way.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Since watching Justified today I've been talking with a southern accent
to keep with the theme all my posts will now be about the Civil War and Dukes of Hazzard.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Am I the only one who liked the Dukes of Hazzard movie they made a few years ago?
Of course it should be said I watched it with the sound off and only the scenes Jessica Simpson was walking in her Daisy Dukes in.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Catherine Bach was the one who designed the Daisy Dukes
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
I remember her well.
It’s quite possible she made me feel a few things for the first time at one point.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Oh man! She did do that for a lot of us.
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
This just in Rob Lowe says Peyton Manning and Marky Mark could have stopped the 9-11 attacks.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
but the funky bunch are useless, eh?
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
They were always holding him back.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Just remember when you shakedown and breakdown you're busted.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
The main reason I do great with the ladies....I've never lost a game of Battleship.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I don't feel a day over 87.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
If vampires are dead how do they get an uh...well, uh...do they use Viagra?
Bed. - January 19, 2012
This is the first time I've used this laptop in my lap....what's that burning smell?
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I just asked Grandma what she wanted for her 93rd birthday
she said she needs me to send her another cake with a shiv baked in it to her in prison.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Since we need to stretch out these lounge threads I should only post my A material.
I’ll let you know when I find some.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
don't worry, I'm going to make a new thread before I leave work
so you’ll have plenty of room in the new one to try out all your material…
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
I wasn't that worried and besides the lounge I have running in my head I'm killing it today.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
With Rick Perry dropping out of the race today it really is the perfect time for a Nixon comeback.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
It's time for more Dick.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Dick More-ass
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
I hear he goes both ways
and I mean that in more than one way.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
I just lost a game of tic tac toe to myself.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Were you "x" or "o"?
Tutu-late - January 19, 2012
Hmm...I went with a U....might be why I lost.
Bed. - January 19, 2012
Here's a new thread!!!
NEW THREAD
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
with a special treat for you Bed. :)
gigglingone - January 19, 2012
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