there are subtle nuances in every single one of those EXCELSIORS, I'll have you LOL

one of my favorite things to do is to build a miniature apartment building out of $100 bills, then set it on fire, and then get in my firetruck which i made out of $100 bills and spray $100 bills at it until the fire is smothered out with my $100 bills

― you're all going to hello (Z S), Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:30 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that post has given me a mad gigglefit.

Once, after an IT guy’s rottweiler died, (Curt) Schilling presented him with a brand-new pup during an all-staff meeting. There was much applause.

― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, July 26, 2012 7:15 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dont want a new dog! he yelled running in tears to his cubicle

― lag∞n, Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:48 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is about one star born each year in our galaxy

the number of stars in the galaxy is approximately constant

so about one star dies each year in the milky way

there are about 10 billion stars in the galaxy

therefore a random star has a 1 in 10 billion chance of exploding each year.

we can't see individual stars outside or galaxy. the galaxy is about 100 000 light years across. so let's say the most distant star you can observe with the naked eye is 100 000 light years away.

then putting it all together the chance a random star has died since the light you are now observing left it is, at most, 1 in 100 000

― caek, Wednesday, July 25, 2012 7:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs4/1324222_o.gif

― caek, Wednesday, July 25, 2012 7:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xD

awesome

"I don't need to smoke pot! I'm weird enough without drugs!"

*dons black fedora, krumps out of the room*

― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, July 26, 2012 9:56 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one time my friends and i went to a best of the twin cities show at first avenue and one of the bands playing was this awful 12 person jam band fire-twirling and acrobatic nightmare named Wookiefoot and as they played a cover of "Scarlet Begonias" my friend mike started loudly and drunkenly bitching about the horror and a hippie near us retaliated by dumping an entire vial of patchouli on jeff and we all had to share a cab ride home in the winter with all the windows rolled up.

and thats what i think about the Greatful Dead.

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:04 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dying

every word of that post = perfect

hahaha believe me it's even better if you know what wookiefoot is

is it contagious?

http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/53/047b38a2b7f5c0908f3fc52d23bb37b6/l.jpg

contagiously....FUNKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxTu9bVcwU0

lol M@tt I started a thread: WOOKIEFOOT

guess what the first post is

mushroom jazz is my fav musical genre

haa a friend told me a story of ending up at a party and finding out it was all wookiefoot people. like, "everyone was really friendly but there were a lot of backrubs and nobody wanted me to leave. it was like amway or something."

seriously though sometimes when i get the spinning beach ball i lay hands on my mbp and try to send healing vibrations

― the late great, Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:50 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all the intimacy of postsecret combined w/the searing generational critique of marmaduke

― , Blogger (schlump), Thursday, July 26, 2012 7:48 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haa a friend told me a story of ending up at a party and finding out it was all wookiefoot people. like, "everyone was really friendly but there were a lot of backrubs and nobody wanted me to leave. it was like amway or something."

― goole, Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:16 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amwmdma

dying @ caek

monstrous post for sure

Granny Are You Okay

― LISTEN TO THIS BRAD (Nicole), Friday, July 27, 2012 6:11 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(from Michael Jackson thread, obv)

axl looks quite cute there

― thomp, Friday, July 27, 2012 1:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cute as in like how a hamster or similar sized rodent is cute, not like 'i would have sex with axl rose' cute

― thomp, Friday, July 27, 2012 1:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

too late you in in the jungle baby

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, July 27, 2012 2:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loooooooooooool

i wonder how many times axl rose has actually used that tactic

funny!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkJEt1UsUcs

It'd be kind of awesome if Coe went up and lit the flame himself

― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 28 July 2012 00:08 (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

with a fart amirite

― gygax! II: pornograffitti (admrl), Saturday, 28 July 2012 00:09 (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lit himself on fire, threw himself in the cauldron.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 July 2012 00:09 (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

only for Ovett to overtake him at the last

― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 28 July 2012 00:09 (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SPORTS ON THE TELLY WHAT A LARF

Mr Perry, you must remember Jamaican independence well, you were a young man of 25 in 1962...?
1962! What happened then?

Jamaican independence…
Where you are?

I'm in London. I was just wondering if you were involved at all?
I wasn't involved in anything with colonial government business. I have my own music government, black supremacy, Ethiopia family, Africa family, Addis Ababa, something like that. All the riches of the earth is black. The isle is black. When they came and see the isle they brought the vampire with them to eat the children's blood, they hijacked them and they lowjacked them… Do you have a tape machine running?

I do.
That's very good. The old fella sings a cappella and he took his umbrella and here comes the lightning flash, KNNNNNARARCARHHHH.

When did the lightning flash?
It flashed for the government exterminator, the high priest become low priest and then low beast, moo cow HOOOOOWARGHhhhhh.

When did this happen, in 1962?
Nahhhh. It's coming shortly! Fire government, water government, flood government. It's coming soon…!

Will you be around to see it?
I will be coming to you from fire fire fire fire! Super hot hot hot! Here comes the jungle god! Lee Scratch Perry on the wire!

And after you arrive?
A few people will be gods and goddesses and angels! And the others all kaput! Great balls of fire… WAAAAAARGHHH!

Will you be a benign ruler do you reckon?
Cosmic energy telepathic all the time!

Are you receiving that energy already?
In my music.

When did you feel it first?
Back in Jamaica!

Was that before independence?
Independence! I don't want no white coat, I don't want no white goat! Baaaa baaaa! This is the future speaking! I feel the telepathic power! I was born 1936. Nine nine nine, I never changed my mind. I have the hot line... why should I die, I'm not eating dead mwaah, I'm not eating dead moooo, why should I die? I was travelling from BC to AD when you called. I'm in my black coat. My mission is secret. Secret number 9. Nine nine nine... so that's my news on independence!

― s.clover, Sunday, July 29, 2012 9:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

― arby's, Sunday, July 29, 2012 11:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How the fuck did he never collaborate with Sun Ra?

― Sun? Sun? It's your cousin, Marvin Ra (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, July 29, 2012 11:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we'd all be dead

― arby's, Monday, July 30, 2012 12:08 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have long held that scratch would make the world's best children's show host and i have no idea why that isn't on adult swim

OTOH the gravity of moving to a one bedroom (albeit a big one) with a baby is coming down on me hard right now. Anyone had any experience with partitioning?

― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Sunday, July 29, 2012 8:53 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

solomon only mentioned it ironically

― mookieproof, Sunday, July 29, 2012 8:56 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha I didn't get that when I read it on the thread, thought it was an xp

lolol

haha, that is excellent.

In re: The Dark Knight Rises

--

those scenes really could've used a rockin' joe esposito song to juice things up

― Hungry4Ass, Monday, July 30, 2012 2:32 PM (2 hours ago)

I was thinking the same thing, there were a lot of elements of this movie that reminded me of different 80s action movies. Bane is basically Clubber Lang.

― LISTEN TO THIS BRAD (Nicole), Monday, July 30, 2012 3:54 PM (1 hour ago)

anne hathaway as apollo creed. halfway thru this i went from lolling 'o this is basically rocky III' to sighing 'o this is nowhere near as good as rocky III'.

― balls, Monday, July 30, 2012 3:59 PM (58 minutes ago)

No way, it's totally Die Hard With A Vengeance:

* formerly "nighttime" series is suddenly in broad daylight
* things are blowing up all over the city and there's a lot of commuting
* villain's scheme involves phony 'construction' projects
* villain speaks largely in riddles, nobody really is clear what his actual plan is (1)
* but definitely the plan involves bomb(s) whose location in the city is not always clear
* way way longer and more episodic/rambling than previous two movies
* unlike previous two movies, long sequences are devoted to non-lead characters pursuing subplots and tracking the bomb(s)
* hero previously seen as a loner (though sometimes connected by radio links to ground personnel) now has a partner with whom to butt heads
* said partner calls into question hero's assumptions about himself, suggesting he may be a privileged insider to the system
* hero spends most of the movie recovering from a serious physical disadvantage
* also, hero is recovering from loss of his major love interest, a key character in previous two movies but not seen here
* an underground locale is flooded catastrophically by river water
* new villain has family connection to first movie's villain, second movie's villain is not mentioned
* new villain claims to be motivated by revenge re: dead family member, although sometimes they don't really seem to give a shit about that
* villain is actually a villain-pair, male and female, one brains and one brawn (2)
* staggered multi-ending, with final coda at considerable geographic remove from climax
* etc.?

(1) though, to be fair, Joker's schoolbus heist in TDK is a lot closer to the DHWAV heist
(2) DHWAV makes the woman the brawn, somewhat refreshingly

― Doctor Casino, Monday, July 30, 2012 4:25 PM (33 minutes ago)

Oh, and

* villain answers mainly to an adopted name which makes him more sinister
* villain speaks in a crisp, somewhat hard to place Euro-accent
* villain constructs elaborate scenarios designed to torment the hero as a sideshow to his REAL plan

― Doctor Casino, Monday, July 30, 2012 4:29 PM (28 minutes ago)

Doctor Casino you are the true mad genius here.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, July 30, 2012 4:33 PM (25 minutes ago)

wow

― Number None, Monday, July 30, 2012 4:36 PM (21 minutes ago)

Haha that is amazing.

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, July 30, 2012 4:37 PM (20 minutes ago)

what would be the equivalent of bruce willis forced by the villain to walk into a black neighborhood wearing a racist sandwich sign?

― mythical mickey rourke jacket (latebloomer), Monday, July 30, 2012 4:44 PM (14 minutes ago)

Dr. Morbius being forced to watch this movie

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, July 30, 2012 4:49 PM (9 minutes ago)

spoiler alert?

I'm sure Morbs will be fine.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/207620_408026672596744_1436649335_n.jpg
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Monday, July 30, 2012 1:46 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahahhahahaha

― balls, Monday, July 30, 2012 1:52 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"and I'd just like to add to that...you should go to Idaho, and shoot yourself in the mouth."

― Vic Perry, Monday, July 30, 2012 1:52 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow

I used look through all these old National Geographics in high school (in Idaho!), and in the '70s, Idaho tourism board was taking out full-page ads with a quote something like:
"What a place, this...Idaho." – Ernest Hemingway
and I always wanted to write in 'to kill yourself' above the ellipses

good timing:

I'm remembering the 80s/90s when you could see a doc in a theater maybe three times a year (if you weren't in one of the bigger cities) and the video store documentary section was like two shelves, full of movies you'd already seen.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Yeah what changed that? Was it the relative success of someone like Morris? Or something like Hoop Dreams?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, July 31, 2012

michael moore, supersize me
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Tuesday, July 31, 2012

^^Worst leaked sex tape ever.
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, July 31, 2012

really disappointed in louie for following that all-too-familiar arc of filing the difficult edges off your fx sitcom in a direct play for the wallets of soft-headed mindless consumer chicks who get wet for lucky peach bullshit. fuck this gay earth. hope wilfred stays pure.

― planks, Tuesday, July 31, 2012 3:21 PM

oh for the searing purity of Wilfred

They need to quit being so cautious and let Tarantino direct one, someday.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 11:14 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM oh shit I wrote that

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, July 31, 2012 7:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What I find interesting about this whole kerfuffle is that the camp workers seem to have provoked the whole thing. It's as if they're saying, "We're here. We're Muslim. Get used to it!"

― sive gallus et mulier (Michael White), Wednesday, August 1, 2012 10:31 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I guess maybe that rhymes in French?

― pplains, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 10:32 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Something just looks...wrong about these? Like I imagine Mark Knoppfler wailing away and then I'm like "Uh, uh" and I point to it, and he looks down at it and suddenly his eyes bulge and he starts screaming.

― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Wednesday, August 1, 2012 12:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha

so the local sports talk station's "Power Trip Morning Show" has a recurring guest, this dude from the band Motion City Sountrack, a sort a b-level pop punk/emo type major label band, seems like they do ok, the are from mpls....anyway, they do that thing where they run ads for their shows with funny highlights from a recent show, etc....

anyway, i only heard the soundbite in the ad, but i take it that one of the dudes in the band (or maybe some other guy they know) is a songwriter as well for bigger rock bands....

and scene:

He's supposed to meet Chad Kroger of Nickelback at a restaurant. The meeting is about how this guy might sell some songs to Nickelback for an upcoming album. So they are talking and he gives Kroger the demo CD, etc, and Kroger is like, "Well, are you going to sing them?".....the guy says, "Well, I'd prefer if you just listen to the stuff, we're in a crowded restaurant not really comfortable doing that".....Kroger interrupts and is like "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE IN YOUR SONGS IF YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE BALLS TO SING THEM RIGHT NOW??"

then, Kroger stands up, kicks over his chair and belts out LOOOOOOK AT THIS PHOOOOTOGRAAAPH/EVERYTIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAAAAUGH like LOUD AS FUCK and the whole restaurant is obviously looking at him and Kroger just struts out of the restaurant and leaves the dude sitting at the table.

― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, August 2, 2012 2:16 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink