start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

Look, I've obviously struck a nerve here, so I'll withdraw my complaint.

Hear me out, it's not that big of a deal.

gaaaaaaahh

I think that this is similar to adding ", right." to every sentence.

http://i.imgur.com/gw6XV8m.jpg

Elvis Presley: What? Why?

Thanks for catching what might be the funniest magazine cover copy ever.

pplains would appreciate this -- someone in my city owns the original LOOK magazine logo that was on the building and had it in their front yard, or at least they did when I used to drive through their neighborhood years ago.

Look was a bi-weekly, general-interest magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles.

I did not know that.

Definitely did not know about the sign in the front yard either.

if I have occasion to drive that way I will take a picture

IT'S STILL THERE?

I am showing enormous restraint on my part here, but I have to post this one:

http://i.imgur.com/RYabjwa.jpg

THIS LADY RIGHT 'CHEER, AMIRITE?

"The Child – Divorce's Big Problem"

The front yard sign is still there, I think! It was just in front of someone's house

You can live in the former LOOK magazine headquarters, though: http://111citylofts.com/

Also, anybody who starts a sentence with "Look, _____"

My wife says any time I start a sentence with "So listen," she braces for bad news.

God yeah. That's like opening a conversation with, "We need to talk."

"Don't be alarmed, but-"

"I need to tell you something"

I've done that to Jeff a few times without realizing how bad it sounded.

"I need to tell you something. The chicken didn't thaw so we need to order a pizza for dinner."

Hahahaha, I did that to my boss today. "I need to give you some news...something that's been going on since November but I haven't told you about." I had her in a total panic but then just told her I'm diabetic and that she needs to quit putting sweets in the gift baskets she sends me at Christmas and Easter.

I misread one of the captions on that last LOOK mag as "boy firemen - touching children safely"

Also WTF at that Roosevelt pic, was he drunk!?

My dad's 'I'm about to get at you' opener is always, "I'm not getting at you, but--"

LOL I admit I do that with "look I'm not having a go, but..." sometimes.

I need to tell you something

Men of a Certain Age was cancelled

I think you should sit down. You only have two more...punches on your card until you get a free sub.

that Look cover looks like a precursor to Inside Edition teasers

NEXT: CATS WASHING DOGS
THEN: PLANTS THAT CAN KILL
AND: WHAT IS IN THIS WOMAN'S EAR?
THEN: CHILD PIMP

who is to blame for advertisers urging us to 'join the conversation' via various internet methods

(i think it was one of hillary's slogans in '08, tho obviously she didn't start it)

the idea of needing to have a "conversation" about anything is really pissing me off right now. we just need to have a conversation about police brutality. ok.

a national conversation, too

I hate this phrase soooo much.

Will there be a 'listening exercise' as part of this national conversation?

think this goes back to some point in the 90s when politicians decided that the public didn't hate their horrible policies, they just weren't "getting the message"

feel like this is v much true to the original premise of the thread because it is hard to have any kind of emotion about a beatles cover band never mind anger but at a couple recent shows i have seen advertisements for forthcoming appearances by the 'Fab Faux' accompanied by photos of the crumbs who make up this shitcircus, old enough to be the actual beatles btw except with the advantage of being alive i guess, and there are five (5) of them. maybe another band it wouldn't have mattered so much but they were particularly famous for having 4 ppl, in fact it is in their nickname which these guys have even acknowledged with their garbage rote pun name. it seems like whatever the challenges of being a beatles cover band are, this is the easiest part to get right. i am v worked up about this for some reason.

I always wonder if there are beefs between Beatles cover bands...or if audiences clearly prefer some over others.

Bassist for the Fab Faux is Will Lee, David Letterman's bass player in the CBS Orchestra since forever. (Actually 1982.) And their guitarist was in the Max Weinberg 7 on Conan's show.

Not that that mitigates your anger, probably.

when i was 9 or so i went to see a Beatles cover band called 1964 with my parents. I was a huge Beatles fan and I had been to big concerts where the performers were like 1 in tall and on a huge stage, but this was different. Now I was in a small room (probably a restaurant lol) and they busted out with "I Saw Her Standing There" (a personal favorite for me at the time) and I got ants in my pants so bad that I started crying. I got Beatlemania! So imo they are the best Beatles cover band. Also I found out much later that my friend's uncle was Ringo.

The Fab Faux have some work to do.

I got ants in my pants so bad that I started crying

:D

i bet there were 4 ppl in 1964. if there had been 5 the spell would've been broken. no ants, no tears

I know a guy (we used to go to church together many, many years ago) in a Beatles cover band called Revolution Pie. They also have five people so that they can have keys on the later stuff.

i guess if the 5th guy is suitably ostracized on stage, barely visible. and paid less. definitely don't put him on the poster tho.

sometimes I get cranky about the universe's continued Beatles fixation, but LL's story has just entirely justified this entire over-half-century of Beatlemania

I was just thinking it might be OK if the 5th guy looked like George Martin, but then I realised that A Guy Looking Like George Martin wouldn't be super-recognisable, so they would have to look like Yoko or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi or something

if the 5th guy is actually jeff lynne then anything goes

billy preston, obv

And I thought I was bad about getting IA over McCartney impersonators who don't play left-handed.

Posters who breeze into a thread with nothing more than "I can't believe you people are still arguing about ____________."

You mean Shakey?

That was the instance I noticed most recently, but I get IA whenever it happens. Actually he's one of my favorite ILXors so I should say "occasions when" instead of "posters who."

Oh certainly, I kind of groan/laugh whenever he does it, it's a bad habit, though. I have definitely been guilty of it.

So I had lunch at a chain sandwich shop that has three refuse containers divided into recyclables, compost, and trash, and the pictures that are supposed to guide you to putting your garbage into the correct receptacle are so singularly unhelpful. My lunch companion and I had the same items left on our trays: a paper plate, a paper cup, a napkin, some sandwich remnants, and a chip bag. The pictures included items like: broken china plates (in a Blue Willow pattern, no less), a container of Silk brand soy milk (garbage, explicitly not compostable, not sold at this sandwich shop), bleach and laundry detergent bottles (recyclable), fabric rags (sure, sure). There were cups pictured in both the recyclable and compostable illustration, food waste wasn't pictured anywhere, I couldn't tell where a napkin would go. We stood there for like five full minutes debating the fate of each piece of trash until I gave up and dumped everything in the can bound for the landfill. Sorry, seven future generations.