Thanks. I couldn't resist due to A) my birthday, B) several Sixteen Candles references I've seen lately, & C) my love for Jake Ryan. ;)
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One of my favorite Weird Al songs is "Like a Surgeon". Better than Madonna.
A while back we had a little fun posting on on my coffee dilemma. Long story short, we use Keurig machines at work and I wanted a way to brew my choice of coffee in an environmentally friendly fashion.
Eureka! Googling around, I found a web site selling my-kap lids for the K-Cup coffee canisters. I ordered a few lids and tried them out today. Excellent results! :D
I'm brewing dunkin donuts coffee and reusing the canister. The coffee is good, and the environment is saved. Somebody phone Al Gore. :D
The downside of this experiment is excessive coffee consumption. The caffeine high increases my typing speed but the inevitable crash may be catastrophic. Or is it catatonic? Is there such a thing as a catatonic catastrophe? Alas, I digress.
My next mission: find a way to brew beer in the Keurig coffee machines. ;)
Tilly,
Thanks for the Speedo Guy link - I hadn't seen that "look back," totally just made my afternoon!
:)
I love that Judd Nelson was like 32 when the Breakfast Club was filmed.
Just an FYI that it is as dreary as a person who beds female parents in Atlanta, GA right now. Dark, damp, and foggy - much like Gary Busey.
-EarlJam
True that, but those guys weren't part of the usual names I recalls as part of the Brat Pack. As a adolescent/teenage/young adult male in the 80s, there were heated debates about Demi Moore vs. Allie Sheedy. I usually went off the board and nominated Darryl Hannah...
I had to go look it up. Judd Nelson was born in November 1959. The Breakfast Club came out in the spring of 1985, so although not a teenager he was probably only 24 when it was filmed maybe 25.
He is however older than George Clooney.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Or a point you are trying to make.
A good part of my life is spent relating things to George Clooney.
I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
Dibs!
Hey, I was in Melrose today, visiting a friend and her baby. MMMmmm, babies. I love babies.
I love this quote so much. A lot of people focus on the teens' quotes but if you ask me, this was a brilliant line for this movie. It played out the stereotype of how athletes get preferential treatment and almost help increase the divide amongst the clubbers. That guy was the best principal, Ed Rooney was a close second.
They're predicting snow here this weekend.:eek:
You may now resume discussion of the Reagan years and the Brat Pack.:(
Cheers,
Lavabe
I remember Musical Youth. Pass the Dutchie. Please.
And Billy, my friend lives on Circuit Street, just off West Wyoming.
IIRC, he was the vice principal, even lower than lunch lady in the school administration hierarchy in my book. But you're right, his role was critical to the whole "you see us as you want to see us" theme of the movie.
Ed Rooney? I heard that he was feeling ill; headaches, fever, and a chill. I came to help restore his pluck... :D
According to Wiki, he was the principal. That matches my recollection.
Ahh, within sniffing distance of Lavabe again. But, as the saying goes, unless you're the lead dog, the view never changes.
Rooney, it seems, turns to something a little different to restore his pluck.
Damn. Speaking of pluck, he looks more like Dr. Jenning in that photo.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c9...118/howard.png
You could just go with a good strong name - Duke. Dukie while a puppy.
Or Galore either...no offense intended TG.
OK - I'm in love - Antonio Banderas dancing the tango. Sorry, BD, but he beats Clooney in this case.
Wilson, about the Assistant to the most esteemed DBR Head Christmas Elf - I watched the Grinch tonight. (OK - I missed the first few minutes but I have seen them another time. Amazing what a feverr will do to you. :eek:)
And? What did you think? I flipped past it (TBS, right?), but opted instead for mediocre football and TNT movies, because it's just not quite time (though I can smell it...).
You are hereby declared Associate Head Elf (hey, it worked for Johnny D...), regardless of the content of your Grinch review, which I'd really like to hear.
For those of you who are interested, we still have an opening for Director of Yuletide Operations.
What do I have to do to become Director of Yuletide Operations?
I know all three verses to 'Deck the Halls'. One verse starts with the line 'See the blazing yule before us'.
What other openings are available?
Huhhhhhhh? I guess that is why this is the longest thread ever...
Maybe Deck the Halls for the tone deaf?
Ahh...see I knew I wasn't a true Southerner. That or all the other Southerners were hiding things from me. 17 lost years.
Perhaps that is what happens when you go to the University of New Jersey - South.
Pogo's creator, Walt Kelly, did the award-winning comic strip from 1948-1975. It was set in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. I remember the last few years of the strip.
When I say southern, the setting was in the South, but the comic strip first appeared in New York.
Cheers,
Lavabe
Haha, geographic confusion...
I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I may have to watch it again. (That may be the fever still talking.) I wasn't overly impressed but that may be because I don't think Christmas should start until after Thanksgiving. It was pretty much what I thought it would be. Who sings the song - I loved the deep bass voice.
How did they make a movie with this? Isn't the movie with Jim Carrey a full lenght feature movie?
Thanks for accepting my application. I'm already starting to work on my plans for converting to Christmas starting Friday after Thanksgiving.
The deep-voiced narrator is Boris Karloff. Yes, that Boris Karloff. Many people mistakenly attribute the song to Karloff as well, because the singer went uncredited. The singer's name is Thurl Ravenscroft, also the voice of Tony the Tiger. Also, think of every booming bass voice you've ever heard on a ride at Disney World or Disneyland. Chances are, it's Thurl Ravenscroft.
Personally, I think Thurl was GRRRRRRRRREAT!
Oh, and I'm glad you enjoyed the Grinch. It truly is a classic. And don't worry; it'll be on several more times between now and Christmas.
As for the Jim Carrey version, I have decided that it doesn't exist. See it if you want, but don't say I didn't warn you.
Wilson, what happened with you and the girl from the restaurant? Did she call you back?
Alas, she did not return my phone call. However, I remain undaunted. No longer shall I allow attractive women to pass through the grocery store unspoken to.
Wilson is partly right. The Jim Carrey version exists, but it's actually an Internet hoax. Even IMDB has been fooled. It's actually a ploy to propagate the worst virus ever. If you find a DVD that says "The Grinch starring Jim Carrey" and attempt to play it on your computer, the virus will reformat your hard drive and use your email address to subscribe to every porn site it can find. If you play it on a generic DVD player attached to a TV, the TV will melt.
So don't say Wilson and I didn't warn you...
Agreed. The really difficult pick is between Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Family Christmas. I might have to make the young Turks watch them both back-to-back and see what they think. They would probably lean toward MFC at this point, but it's been a while since we've watch the Carol.
Wow. Well, it sort of is. It's been discontinued, and the cheapest used copy on Amazon is $78.95. Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (also excellent), however, is only $8.99.
It looks like you can get the complete Muppet Show DVD collection here:
http://www.tvaddicts.tv/movie/childr...ppet_Show.html
Amazon sells individual seasons, and there's a "best of" as well...
What?! No Emmet Otter's Jug-band Christmas??
I'll have to defer to Wilson on that one.
In my (hazy) recollection, I thought the Jug Band got a song (or two?) on one of the Muppet Christmas shows; I didn't remember that they made an entire special...
Hmmm...a lot of Muppet stuff here.
I am not a Muppet. I've never been a Muppet. Just thought I'd stop by & say hi.
Slow night around these parts.
I'm not a Muppet either, but I'd really like to meet some.
Do they let Pulitzer winners on Sesame Street?
I'm not a Muppet (as I mentioned), but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Well, not really.
Can't help you with the Pulitzer Winners on SS. You planning on winning one? :D
If they do, then they will have lowered their standards. :)
Wilson's and Turk's discussion about Christmas movies got me to thinking about Christmas movies. One of my favorites is Love is All Around.
No, it's not. It is not officially The Most Wonderful Time of the Year until next week. I've actually been really fretting about this. I feel compelled to initiate the thread, but I'm worried that my traditionalist tendencies will result in someone else beating me to the punch. If that happens though, so be it; I will be the most prolific poster in the Christmas thread anyway, and I refuse to abandon my principles just to have the first post.
I am the most expansive of celebrators of the season, so anything and everything Christmas-related is fair game. I wouldn't dream of trying to limit or prescribe good cheer. Sometime late in the first day of the thread (as soon as it gets dark on Friday), I'll post pics of the lights on my house. We'll talk Christmas tunes, old and new. Christmas movies. Festivals, parties, and other celebrations. Gift-giving deliberations. You get the idea.
The date of removal of my tree depends on what I end up doing for New Year's. If I go out of town (as has been a common occurrence in recent years), it'll just come down when I get back. I definitely won't take it down before New Year's. I'm not one of those who deems it bad luck to leave it up into the new year. Plus, if we're really going to get traditional, it should remain up through the 12 days of Christmas, before coming down on Jan. 6, the traditional date of the arrival of the magi (and thus the original reason for "the 12 days of Christmas").
Taking down Christmas decorations is the fastest bit of cleaning or other organization that I ever do, because I find it genuinely depressing. I have a couple of days of very real post-seasonal blues every year. De-festooning my house is something that I just want to be done with as quickly as possible.
... what is the official day to the start of Christmas season? When "AFTER" Thanksgiving is the first official day of the season, Head Elf?
See, I'm bugged by the first Christmas commercials starting in October, and I'm bugged by the Christmas stuff appearing in all the grocery stores now. And I'm bugged even by the lights going up now.:mad:
And if logic dictates that Christmas Season starts after Thanksgiving, can you imagine what the folks up in Canada have to deal with, given when Thanksgiving starts up there? [this is a blatant shout out to colchar]
Some serious questions for the Head Elf.:)
To me, the precise moment when the Christmas season begins has traditionally been that when Santa appears onscreen at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. That's when it always hits me, and I shed a tear or two (seriously). In recent years, the parade's quality has really declined though, so I think the line of demarcation is a bit more fungible now. Thanksgiving Day, to me, is its own special day which also ushers in the Christmas season. The first full day of "Christmastime," I suppose, is the day after. In some years, when I particularly need a little Christmas, or when Thanksgiving falls particularly late on the calendar (as it does this year), I have been known to fudge a bit, and declare that the Christmas season begins at Thanksgiving, meaning Thanksgiving break from school. This frees me to listen to Christmas music on the way to my grandmother's for Turkey Day, a day or two early...but don't tell anyone. My decorations, though, never go up until the day/weekend following Thanksgiving.
I won't be able to open the Yuletide thread until Friday morning, as my grandmother is, um, not exactly wired. And anyway, if anybody is hanging out on the boards on Thanksgiving Day, then you have problems (Canucks perhaps excepted...sorry colchar).
Jan 6 has been traditional in our family - but that varies a little based on time constraints. I always find that I have forgotten to put away one decoration in some obscure location, or not so obscure sometimes, and find it at the end of January. Last year, it was my Snoopy Santa so I just changed his clothes.
I gave my mom a little faux Charlie Brown Christmas tree last year. It's not only a great Christmas symbol, but it also has considerable family significance, stemming from a series of half-jokes about the puniest Christmas tree we ever had, which also happened to coincide with the most gut-wrenching emotional challenges we've ever faced at Christmas time. My brother and I put that tree up on a cinder block and actually wired branches back onto the bottom of it after trimming to make it appear a bit taller and fuller, and we collectively wished each other a "Merry Christmas, dammit." We now remember it as a pretty special Christmas, characterized by defiant joy in the face of heartache. As a result, the Charlie Brown tree was quite well received last year, and it's now part of Mom's year-round decor.
I have been listening to Christmas music on the radio already. There is one station that started playing only Christmas music from now until the holiday --last week! I've sneaked a couple of listens although the boys make me change when they are in the car, except for the 4-year old. He doesn't mind it.
December 21st is a big day in our house, it's diagnosis day, we've decided to turn it into a celebration from now on. By the way, Ymo and billy, you're invited to the Winter Solstice Dessert Open House Party at Chez Bostondevil on Saturday, December 20th, 7:30pm until the last scotch drinker decides to head home. Anybody else in the Boston area on December 20th? Let me know.
And of course, December 20th is party time around here, it's the first anniversary of the LTE. I'm hoping celebrations will breakout all over DBRLand.
Another good place to celebrate on 12/20 would be the Cameronlands in Jersey, when the Devils take on perennial A-10 powerhouse Xavier.
As for the Christmas discussions, I vote that Christmas officially starts the Monday after Thanksgiving weekend, or the first day of the first week of Advent, for those following the Christian calendar. Your choice - I'm fine either way, but you have to wait until after Thanksgiving weekend.
Regarding radio stations that play Christmas music before Thanksgiving, I have heard rumors that they will get infected with the same kind of catastrophic mechanical failure that happens to TVs that play Jim Carrey's version of the Grinch.
I got my kitties a gift to celebrate 1 year together. They chewed on the box and were unimpressed.
I'll be grading.:mad:
But it looks like the family will be heading to NC a couple of days afterwards.
If puppy is not house-trained (likely), I'll be staying at home.
Cheers,
Lavabe
You don't really need to stay home with a not-fully-housebroken puppy (unless that's a really convenient excuse to avoid in-laws). It's really not too hard to travel with a little one like that. Just as you would at home, just take her out more often than seems natural or necessary. And get a package of those puppy pads.
Will you be crate training little Van Gorp? That would also be really helpful. You'll be surprised how much she'll learn in just a few weeks, and with a bit of diligence, you can travel with her just fine.
My nephew has been accepted at the main campus of Penn State - Engineering. He no longer has to practice "Do you want fries with that?", which his family was making him do in front of a mirror since he wasn't working on his college applications very diligently. What a relief.
Hopefully, he will continue to apply to the other schools he is considering.
I was going to post some smartaleck comment that JB Duke was not an engineer, but in fact a businessman. In trying to find something to back up my statement, I googled JB Duke and stumbled on this very interesting article in which Mr. Duke addresses the economy of the late 1800's/early 1900's and the then current presidential election (I didn't see a year corresponding with the article, and don't know my history well enough to pin down a year). Change a few names and it almost reads as something written today.
Did not mean to turn this into a PPB discussion, but found it interesting and wanted to share with my friends.
Wonder what Mr. Duke would say if he knew of this board with his family name on it celebrating a sport at a school named after his family.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...659C946396D6CF
A few other amusing tidbits, the correspondent (I love that the author kept referring to themself throughout the article as "the correspondent") initially approached Mr. and Mrs. Duke to inquire about specifics as regards the dress Mrs. Duke wore to meet their majesties.
I found this on the second page. Not sure what it was doing there...
I think that, if we really put our minds to it, we can throw down 1000 posts on the LTE's birthday. It's the Saturday before Christmas, and since we're all such diligent little elves, I know we'll all be done with our shopping. My friends' annual Christmas bash is at my house the night before, so I fully expect to be royally hung over. That makes me good for a lot of posts (and once I pull through, I suspect that another round of drinking will render my posts progressively more gratuitous and less coherent).
It would take 41.67 posts an hour for the entire day to get 1000. That's a post every 1:26.
Can we do it?
We have had a lot of difficulty but after three tries, we did manage to do an LTE post in every hour for 24 hours. I don't believe we got above twenty posts in any one hour.
Another complication is that 'breen is traveling that day.
Perhaps you could recruit greybeard and Shammrog to take billybreen's place?:D
Cheers,
Lavabe
Or we could set a more manageable goal, like 250 posts, slightly more than 10 an hour, that I bet we could do.
Wow, we're closing in on 6000, seems like we just passed 5000. Is this thread finally picking up steam? ;)
Hopefully I will be done with my Christmas shopping. Perhaps that will be my Christmas craft present day. Nevertheless, will try to do my part to meet whatever goal we set for the day.
ATTN: Lavabe-please look up your favorite coconut custard loving poster;).
And if Sue's around on the boards tonight, YOU may be crossing into the 2,000 zone later today!!:eek:
Congrats!!:D
NOTE: which will mean you'll be hitting Spanarkel level soon as well, which will mean devildeac will post another three posts, you'll comment twice, and so will I.
:cool:
You know, all the condiment, Scrabble, pickle, and "Off with your head" talk has put this thread in serious danger of falling to the second page.:eek:
I used to play board wargames. They never translated them well into computer games. Well, they did but the games have been passed by.
I tried an earlier version. I stuck with Civ through its various incarnations...
I need a jump start.
Just to share here --
I'm going crab hunting tomorrow!
I suppose others might say, "I'm going crabbing," but that, to me, implies using a trap or bait line. I'll actually be SCUBA diving, chasing after the little buggers. (Well, big buggers, as they have to be a certain size and all.) It is more of an actual hunt, as I have to find and grab them up.
Shortly after the dive - ymm, crab boil!
And Devildeac, I picked up a couple growlers of beer from the local Mac & Jack's brewery, to add to the feast. Can't wait.
Oh, and also to share -- thanks, MBB team, for winning a game on my b-day yesterday. I didn't get to watch, as I was still at work, but it was nice to know the game was going on and our guys pulled it out.
My b-day treat to myself was hiring housekeepers to come in and clean the place up. It's so nice to go into this weekend not worrying that i have to spend the next two days cleaning for my parents' arrival next week! Ahh, shiny clean bathrooms and floors -- loverly.
Oh, and lastly, Mr. DA rocks for, amongst other nice touches yesterday, getting me microwaveable socks as a b-day present! My feet are always cold, so he went out and found "Spa Socks," to help keep my tootsies toasty! :D
My plan for tomorrow evening, after being full on crab, is to curl up on the couch with my hot socks, with some Mac & Jack's beer, and watch the tivo'd Duke vs. Mich game. Bliss!
We are almost at 300 pages...
I can't believe I'm up this early posting on DBR.
Oh big news my friends, I'm going to Hawaii in April/May. My parents bought the tix last night and guess what? They only cost $10 each. Thank you Mom and Dad for using your credit card to accumulate points, then buy $10 tix to Hawaii.
We're going to Oahu for a few days, then on to Hawaii. Woo hoo!!!!
I was born in Hawaii. We left when I was 6 months old. I haven't been back yet. :(
If you're going on Delta, you'll pay for your bags. Then if you need an aisle seat like I do, you'll pay even more. And then if fuel goes up, you'll pay more (but the price will never go down). And those food items? Earphones? Soda? And then there's the Homeland Security Tax.
I long ago gave up on the illusion of free tickets.
Still, $98 to Hawaii is a steal! Congrats!:)
1. Lavabe, it's not like you're 7' tall. ;)
2. Food- bring your own. Make a sandwich, stop at Subway, whatever. Bring snacks too. Or a piece of fruit. (HI is a 4 hr flight for me, and I'm in CA.) At least you'll make friends on the flight. Hahaha... people on flights to HI tend to be quite easygoing and happy. Gee, I wonder why...
3. Bring headphones.
4. It's Hawaii... you don't have to pack too much- swimsuits, shorts/skirts/capris and tops, sundresses- it's quite casual. And you can get throwaway stuff there (sunscreen, towels, etc).
As an aside, the best sunscreen I have EVER used I discovered in HI. Australian Gold is the brand- it's so good that a co-worker went to HI and i gave him cash to get me some because for some reason it's not available in the states.
Have a great time! I was on Maui last year... I wish I could've gone to the Big Island to see the volcano, but alas, that will have to be another trip. :rolleyes:
I know you're tall... I've seen the Brunchgate pics. ;)
I used to work with a guy who was about 6'7 or so... some little kid came up to him one time and asked how tall he was- if he was 7 feet tall (in awe). Guy answered, "No, I'm 6'12"."
He was then known as 6-12. Whenever we'd call him on the radio or ask someone about him, it'd be, "Where's 6-12?"
Growing up (and still today among a lot of people), I went by Wil. Not Will. It's short for Wilson, not William, so there's no reason for it to have 2 L's. As you might imagine, this has been cause for considerable confusion on a lot of people's part. Sometimes when asked my name for a list or something, I'll say, "Wil...with one L."
So a few people over the years have taken to calling me One L. I always rather liked that one.