I think I have a Nyquil hangover.
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I think I have a Nyquil hangover.
How was the Covid test?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I’m gonna recommend against a hair of that dog this morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
four American degrees this morning, but sunny. Now I must snow rake the snow off the skylights. Pressure.
Skylights are an evil temptress, waiting for you to fall in love only to shatter your heart, leaving you to pick up the pieces.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
-jk
Kids are both negative so I assume I will be, too. Some upper respiratory gunk from daycare I’m sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
That seemed like a shot at your kids from out of nowhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Did your skylights actually shatter?Quote:
Originally Posted by -jk
They’re actually not a very fussy pair.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Oh God. Those two are going to sucker you guys in to having another.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
We are donzo.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
One of you will crack. It's the problem with having two good kids. You're going to blow it. We will be here to help you pick up the pieces.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
My parents planned on having two.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I'm the middle one.
Of course that was long ago, back before they had figured out what causes babies. :confused:
My grandma used to smoke while she had her morning BM while pregnant with all 6 kids. Back then, smoking was healthy. My grandpa used to drink whiskey while delivering newspapers out in the Indiana country side, too. Different times.Quote:
Originally Posted by camion
They told me they always knew. They just couldn't break it to you. I'm sorry. We never meant for you to find out this way.Quote:
Originally Posted by camion
One neighbor had a skylight shattered by a branch. Several others have had to deal with leaks, both in the skylight itself and in the flashing around.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Our town is under a thick canopy; it's a usual thing for the trees to drop dead branches. Most do nothing to the roof itself, though we did have to repair a 1 1/2" hole where a branch speared us last spring - second time in 25 years.
I don't have any skylights, though our architect wanted to add them when we put our second floor on. He also wanted several gables, in the mccraftsman style. I went with a plain roof - simple gable, no cross gables or dormers or such, so no valleys to catch tree gunk. Given how juicy storms are getting, I didn't want complications. Instead of skylights, we have tons of regular windows.
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The list is seriously flawed. My Favorite Things is not a Christmas song. Of course, the Pentatonix think Hallelujah is a Christmas song, so there's that...Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
But thanks for the list.
Nyquil Hangover would also be a good band name.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
This response is decidedly not one of my favorite things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phredd3
I'm sorry. I snapped like a dry twig. You didn't deserve that. People on the main page don't recognize that zone is what you play when you can't match up physically. And I'm carrying it in my shoulders. I took it out on you and you didn't deserve that.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
True story. In my idle googling, I learned that intentionally getting sick on Nyquil (or, more specifically, the DXM portion) is called robotripping and that adding codeine cough syrup and mountain dew may be called 'drank'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phredd3
This has turned in to the regrets and indiscretions thread.
In my experience, indiscretions usually come before regret.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Regrets - I've had a fewQuote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I'll plead poetic license for my indiscretion.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
They license indiscretions? Well, I suppose if they can license booze they can license what follows. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
But did you do it your way?Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
That turned out being one of my regrets. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
At least until the C&D letter from P&GQuote:
Originally Posted by Phredd3
Just like my Mother taught me since it was her favorite song.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
All fun and games until you have to go back to work after 5 days off.
Hah. All good. I took it in the spirit of this thread. Oh, and: :pQuote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I'm an angry lil fella.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phredd3
In case it wasn't clear, BTW, I meant the last sentence: Thanks for posting your list. I love hearing other people's music choices. It's been an interesting listen.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I'm just messing with you. I know you were being funny. These are all songs that I enjoy and I do think there are some real classic, but there are also some esoteric things that most people probably haven't heard. That James Brown stuff is absolute gold. Comedic and holiday gold. This list was my attempt not to have to listen to crappy Christmas music. If I had to listen to Michael Buble one more time I was driving off a bridge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phredd3
My kids actually like that horrible Mariah Carey thing. And the radio keeps playing the McCartney one, too, which causes instant station switch and has nearly led me to have an accident. (I'm not making that up.) Fortunately my kids hate that one as much as I do, and as much as we both hate that other repetitive piece of schlock that he wrote, nominally for the Beatles.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I won't use the title for any of those. They are anathema.
Humidifiers are smaller than they used to be.
just cut down my own Christmas tree, just like Paul Bunyon. Now it's got the flashing, color changing Chinese lights doing their thing, very exciting.
My kid's used to play that game where you "win" by not hearing Last Christmas a single time during the holiday season. I like to listen to inane Christmas music when I'm driving so it's been a source of tension for the last decade or so, but, luckily they have mostly grown out of caring. The youngest still plays though, so he keeps trying to get me to turn off the Christmas music station in the car. I have won the others over by promising to keep a tally of Taylor Swift vs. George Michael.
The score so far: Taylor - 3, George - 1.
I went through a George Michael phase where I wore a dangling earring and a leather jacket. I can't really grow facial hair now, so I definitely couldn't then. But I wanted to be a ladies man, just like George Michael was. You could make the case that I wasn't really paying attention in the 80s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Shut. The. Front. Door!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
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That case could also be made right now.Quote:
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Yeah. Just yeah.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
MUST . . . NOT . . . TYPE . . . WHAT . . . I. . AM . . . . . THINKING!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Why do you do this to me?!?
Honestly I was hoping you wouldn't see this.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
I dated a woman who was positively batty over he and Josh Groban. Fortunately, I didn't have to attend anything, but I've heard most of the songs.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
My wife loves crappy music. I mean just absolutely loves terrible music.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I cannot UNsee this. Not a pretty mental picture. There will be nightmares.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I know. Nightmare fuel.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Wait. So I DON'T have to say every single thing I think?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
We all have our moments of shame. I attended a Ryan Adams concert for a girl once.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Ugh.
Yikes. This is a safe space. Thank you for sharing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
I had a budding romance going with a girl who was a huge Neil Diamond fan. I took her to his concert in the Charlotte Coliseum. Our tickets were unfortunately in the nosebleed section. On a whim, at an intermission, I walked her down to the front of the stage, hoping to be able to stay for a while when he returned. Amazingly, the security guards allowed us to stay, possibly thinking I was a professional photographer, with my expensive camera gear. Neil proceeded to launch into his hit “You Don’t Send Me Flowers”, motioned my girlfriend to the edge of the stage and presented her with a dozen roses as he kneeled to her and sang. I was busily snapping pictures. Very romantic, and put me in excellent standing with my girlfriend . . . Until I went to have the film developed, and made the mistake of opening the camera before rewinding the film. All pictures were ruined, along with a previously budding romance.
It will come as no surprise to those who’ve known me a while that I love the Christmas music. ALL the Christmas music, with only the barest few exceptions. I have no fewer than 5 Christmas playlists, comprising various selections of an overall Christmas catalog that totals something like 45 hours.
I’m in my Allman Brother phase right now. It might last like the rest of my life or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Funny ending to a nail-on-chalkboard story. Just the thought of Neil Diamond makes me queasy. Luckily, my wife concurs.Quote:
Originally Posted by TruBlu
I am in a Tom Waits phase right now. I might not recover.
(Shuffles feet). What’s wrong with Ryan Adams?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Dodged a bullet there. The forgot to rewind works in mysterious ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by TruBlu
Have you ever really loved a woman?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Please forgive me, you know not what you post.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
isn't that Bryan Adams?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
There is a Ryan Adams who is a singer from Jacksonville, North Carolina who married Mandy Moore. I assume this is who we are talking about. Also I am completely unaware of this person and I'm not 100% sure I know a song Mandy Moore sings unless she did that one about graduation a few years ago. I definitely have my finger on the pulse of pop culture.
I assumed Ymo knew what he was doing? Maybe that's a bad assumption.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Celebrity boxing match: Ryan Adams versus Bryan Adams. Who you got?
Bryan Adams is probably like 65 years old. So the younger dude.
God shuffled his feet
And glanced around at them
The people cleared their throats
And stared right back at Him
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Has anyone ever really been to a Ryan Adams show? Thus no rant. And it sounds like Bryan is broke...
Has anyone ever seen the two in the same room together? Bryan Adams sounds like the name Ryan Adams might come up with to disguise his true identity if he had the intellect of Peter Griffin.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Wow.
I did not see a lengthy B/Ryan Adams discussion coming when I posted that.
For the record, there's nothing wrong with Ryan, just far from my cup of tea. Bryan, is about as cheesy as cheesy gets.
You’re very kind for calling it a “discussion”.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
True. This argument cuts like a knife.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
(I saw Bryan Adams when he inexplicably opened for The Rolling Stones in the mid-‘90’s. MrsPK and I still laugh at this one drunk dude a few rows in front of us who was SO into it, and then promptly passed out before the Stones took the stage).
My favorite Ryan/Bryan story is one where, at a RYAN Adams concert, someone kept yelling, "SUMMER OF '69!!!!!!" and he got very, very pissed.
That just cracks me up.
And, no, I was not actually at the concert.
There is always one in the crowd.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Afraid to reply to Aimo. I better give her a couple of days, so I am replying to you. I still don't have any idea who Ryan is and I refuse to look his music up. Unless he raps, could open for Rage Against the Machine, or plays banjo I won't like him.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
He's actually not far off from this. His first ~four albums or so are excellent modern Americana; too bad he's a gigantic a-hole.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I feel like this is an attempt at retribution for my anti-turkey stance.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
It's really not. To reiterate, Ryan Adams' solo output between about 2000 and 2005, plus his stuff with The Cardinals (band, not baseball team) and at least some of the (pre-2000) Whiskeytown material, is really terrific. But he's a huge, huge a-hole...abundant misogyny and dripping disdain for his own fans (he's big on the "I'm in a bad mood, so I'll sulk off the stage after playing for like 45 minutes" move, for example).Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Okay fine, I'll tell the rest of my story.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
I got dragged to see Ryan Adams with a girl I was dating. I was cranky about the entire concept. The opening act (I don't recall who it was - there may have been gin and tonics involved) was... not good. And I was vocal about this.
Turns out, Ryan was sitting two rows behind me and had me 86'd from the club (it was a very small venue in my Seattle days). I was much more pleased with this result than my date was.
I don't know that this story makes Ryan Adams seems like an a-hole or makes me seem like one. But I did feel that holding back this part of the story was disingenuous.
Both things can be true!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
I had an absolute diaper disaster to contend with at 4:30 am last night (not mine). Baths were needed, new pajamas, too.
Optimism is always underappreciated...Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Now that's a great song. I love me some Dummies.Quote:
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...or else you wouldn't spend so much time around here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phredd3
Well, yeah, but I wasn't going to SAY it...Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Ba dum, tsssssst!Quote:
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I was going to say this ^, bunda beat me to it - like a drum.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
If I'm being honest, and I did enjoy the concert, but the cheesiest musician I ever saw live has probably gotta be Dan Fogelberg.
Word of the day: hippocrips.
A large, violent mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal that forms territorial gangs and claims moral high ground but acts to the contrary.
OK, now I would have LOVED to have seen Fogelberg in concert. His greatest hits is one of my favorite easy listening albums. Along with Little River Band.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Of course, I was just jamming to Joe Jackson in my car just now, so . . .
I love this. Thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Apropos of Mr. Fogelberg, as well as another recent thread topic, I love that Christmas song where he sings about drinking wistfully with his ex in the liquor store parking lot. It's some of the most delicious schlock ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
I thought they were large gangbangers from LA.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
-jk
You may be thinking of the wildebloods or Latin lion kings.Quote:
Originally Posted by -jk
SMH, I just saw a cash back Discover card commercial and the background song was "Baby Got Back"
Edit: Found it: https://www.ispot.tv/ad/qRED/discove...y-common-sense
I ain't watching. My SIL thinks that is the best rap song of all time. I judge her for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Positively, I'm assuming.Quote:
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IncorrectQuote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Scoop, there it is!
Scoop, there it is!
The people who grew up with that song are now in a position to make bad decisions about its use in advertising.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
I’m among the oldest of the millennials, a proto-millennial if you will, and I’ve noticed a marked shift in the number of advertisements and movies intended to activate my nostalgia now that I’m in that prime spending age.
Ultimately, I put the blame on Becky. If she had JUST looked at her butt, this could have all been avoided.
I believe the term is “geriatric” millennial.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
-jk
Proto-millenial. You are having a great day on here. Not good. Great.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Given recent posts, I have to agree with the geriatric assessment.
Good thing we don’t have to put up with the bozo that coached THAT second half much longer, ammirite?!?
Bummer.
An ex of mine is the head of defense policy for a small island nation and I stared at the ceiling last night wondering if I’d ever be able to visit the country again.
I mean, really. The bigger disappointment of the game was that it followed on the heels of an incredible win. It seems there was little in the way of adjustment in the half.Quote:
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Well it is just policy, that is far from being head of the actual defense forces.
Word on the street is, he’s taking the LSU job right before Selection Sunday.Quote:
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I was absolutely thrilled with that game, other than the outcome. That kind of game makes you better. I left the bar I was in with a smile on my face. Duke got better last night by learning a hard lesson about playing on the road.
Thus, you could actually kind of predict the outcome.Quote:
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There was plenty of adjustment from the red team.Quote:
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Hmmmm…Quote:
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I hope K reads the comments so he can figure out what to do next time this happens. I wonder if he goes on message boards for doctors, lawyers and bankers and offers them suggestions?
I have long felt that sports coaches should be allowed to sit in on the job performance reviews of some of those fans that loudly criticize their coaching. Seems only fair to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I pointed out on a basketball thread once that people offering insights and input into coaching decisions and strategy was the dumbest thing we did on here. One of the guys responded that he played and watched a lot of basketball so he knew. He don't know. I lived with a basketball coach and basketball literally put food on my family's table. And I don't know. Because that's not what I do for a living.Quote:
Originally Posted by 75Crazie
Expertise is in the eye of the beholder?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Hmmm, you have given me something positive with this comment. I can imagine that what Coach K would feel reading the coaching insights offered by many DBR poster is similar to what some of us who do public health/take of patients for a living feel reading the plague thread. It's possible that I have something in common with Coach K!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
That's a great example. I work in medicine and I am just smart enough that I understand what you, RSV man and John B tell me. That's what I contribute to that thread. The ability know what I don't know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
As my dear Daddy used to say:
“I don’t know much, but when i know something, I know the hell out of it!”
My saying is:
“You are entitled to an opinion. I have facts, whether they are right or wrong.”
Nice to go to a high school basketball game for the first time in 2 years tonight.
70 for the high in NW NC today. It was 70 in Atlanta yesterday and I walked on the beltline in a t shirt and shorts.
I bought these wonderfully ridiculous bad boys for last year's Christmas in the Keys, and will be wearing them again this weekend for the 24th annual Christmas party I've hosted with two good old friends.Quote:
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Is this an ensemble or just the britches?Quote:
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Generator Man allegedly arrives today to theoretically end the nine month process of getting a standby generator.
For 22 years he dressed up in his birthday suit...Quote:
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That was a different kind of "key party".
Any propositions?Quote:
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Just the britches, but overall, the holiday collection is quite a strong segment of my wardrobe, if I do say so.Quote:
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I am not familiar with that Marvel superhero.Quote:
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Nice. We appear to be heading in the direction of family Christmas pajamas. I don't know how I feel about it but I do not have a say in the matter.Quote:
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Well wankerQuote:
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You keep throwing me grapefruits.Quote:
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We did family Christmas pajamas but the compromise was that my husband didn't get them, just me and the boys.Quote:
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YeahQuote:
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Ah, see, I refuse to Scrooge but I still may partake in light grumblies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
I approached Christmas pajamas in the same exact way I approached purchasing a minivan. When you have children you are no longer cool, so you should just lean into it. This year they are Simpsons pajamas.Quote:
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The presupposition in this post is doing A LOT of work.Quote:
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Oh...I assumed we knew they were your kids.Quote:
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I’m hoping I don’t regret not getting one.Quote:
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I don't know about Marvel, but if Triangle Man meets Generator Man, Triangle wins.Quote:
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Are you more Moe or more Barney? Or just plain old Homer?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I missed all but 53 minutes of the Zaga game due to a power failure...we get them all the time...having said that, the total solution (including the propane tank and gas therin) isn't cheap. We primarily want it for when we go on vacation in the Winter (as if we can go anywhere now).Quote:
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I hear they both might be giants so it’ll be a big battle!Quote:
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Professor Frink.Quote:
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“You got garlic in your soul“
I strongly object that this is a bad thing that makes one Mr Grinch.
Generator Man's secret power is that when he gets near you he drains your bank account.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Show pitch: Alone but instead of survival experts, Scottish grandmothers.
Been a while since I've put in a 14 hour day at the office. Wow, what fun I was missing.
I wouldn't say I was *missing* work, Bob.Quote:
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Clem took my stapler, and he never brought it back.Quote:
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Swingline?Quote:
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Yup, and red. You know the one.Quote:
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You know what I would do with a million dollars?Quote:
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Close.Quote:
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Live your dream?Quote:
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Whooooaaaa. Easy posting that so early. A cup of coffee is all the stimulunt I can handle in the morning!Quote:
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I am ummm...filled with so much regret.Quote:
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Battle of the Titans: Generator Man vs. Gas Man. These guys will drive me nuts, not that I have that far to go.
We can all see crazy from where we are standing.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
Last Christmas current tally:
Taylor: 5, George: 2
I do like Taylor’s Christmases when you were mine.
Picked the rest of my basil (brought pots in last week before the hard freeze) and made a nice little batch of pesto. A dozen cubes in the freezer for future numminess.
I dropped a bit of a grenade into the movie thread, and I'm not sorry. I stand by my assertion, which I will confidently reiterate here: A Christmas Story is trash.
And I (and a few others) will continue to fight you on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
It's interesting: There's a pretty clear generational and regional divide. I can't relate to its midwestern-ness or its Boomer-ness in the slightest. It has genuinely given me the willies since the first time I saw it. Creeps me out to an almost uncanny degree.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
I am not much older than you and I grew up in NC. But, my mom always told me the downtown scenes were just like the old downtown Durham Christmases back in the 40s and 50s. Carolers, decorated storefronts, etc. I am not a boomer, but I can look at it and appreciate the nostalgia for the times. Especially with all the crap going on in the world today.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
I'm officially the last year of being a Boomer by most definitions I've seen, but my father was a historian and passed a piece of that particular bug on to me, so I come across as older than I am, I think. I also wasn't officially raised in the Midwest, but my parents were from there, my mother and sister still live there, and we went back there for vacations often as a family. I completely understand why that movie wouldn't connect with someone who had none of that in their own background.Quote:
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I do think it pulls a particular set of nostalgia heart strings but lots of things can be appreciated without the observer having a personal connection. Agree it definitely helps to have that time/place context for the nuanced laughs.Quote:
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I disagree, sir. It’s one of my favorites!Quote:
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I enjoy that movie. We will watch it, Elf, Sound of Music and we will watch both of the Frozen movies.Quote:
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Basil? Toni Basil?Quote:
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I'm trying to do in the football championship thread what Wilson did in the Christmas movie thread. I am opposed to expanding the playoffs beyond four teams. I could live with six but I don't want more than that. Not that anyone is going to call and ask for my input.
How would 6 work? Play in games?Quote:
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Top 2 get byes.Quote:
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Going to cut down the family Christmas tree.
Why do you hate nature?Quote:
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My children absolutely insist that Frozen is not a Christmas movie. But we watch it during Christmas break, just the same.Quote:
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Closing down an office to move to another is a pain.
They're right. It and Sound of Music are Christmas traditions though.Quote:
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Sounds like a lot of work.Quote:
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ordering two pounds of pastrami, a loaf of rye, and a chocolate babka from Katz's Deli has turned me into a drool machine.
See you soon!Quote:
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If "Fansville" was a show I would definitely give it a chance. Boz as the sheriff is one of the 3 best performances I have seen all year.
wednesday, follow the UPS truckQuote:
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Which family? Aren’t they going to be mad?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
When I was younger, we had a cedar tree in our front yard in a residential neighborhood. My mom had been nurturing it for years so that it could be decorated every year when it got big enough. The Christmas finally came. My parents bought the decorations, and were set to do it. Before that happened, I glanced out the window one day, and saw a man walking out of our yard with our tree over his shoulder. My dad, who was not one to be messed with, caught up with him. I was surprised that there wasn’t a butt whipping. Instead, my dad gave him a stern lecture, using strong Navy language, and brought the tree home. We decorated it, but inside.
Yeah. I would have laid hands on him. I threatened a line cutter at the Smithsonian Natural Science museum this summer. It's a pretty good story.Quote:
Originally Posted by TruBlu
The guy was lucky my dad caught him. My mom would’ve shot him.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Let’s hear the story. My first cousin-in-law once confronted a line cutter, asking them to move to the rear of the line. They refused. Cousin-in-law picked him up and carried him to the back of the line. Received an ovation.
Ha! Fantastic!Quote:
Originally Posted by TruBlu
Hey budwom, have any recommendations for Vermont or Maine summer vacation lake house lakes? More family friendly than summer lake party poo -flinging. Quieter side versus a big time sport boat lake.
Anyone else welcome to offer suggestions but I know bud is a VT expert.
As a follow up to my above story, the reason my dad didn’t get physical was probably due to him knowing the guy, and knowing he was poor with a big family. I recall that after my dad calmed down, he offered to drive the guy out into the countryside to help him get a tree. The guy refused. Probably thought it might end up being a one way trip.
Changes the story. Good on your dad. My kids' dad is nuts. But only situationally.Quote:
Originally Posted by TruBlu
Happy to help. Lake Champlain is the big lake, all sorts of spots available...a few words of caution, though. IF you're going later in the summer, some of the shallower bays can end up getting blue green algae which you do not want to mess with. But the broad lake is deep and algae free...so I'd avoid places like Missisquoi Bay (way up north) or St. Albans Bay (also up north)...Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I assume you are looking to rent? If so, get on it early, because the nice houses get booked fast, lots of repeat customers..if you find a spot feel free to run it by me via PM, happy to help.
Lake Carmi is a fun lake that is much smaller, June is nice there, but algae can be awful in the second half of the summer...what dates are you looking at?
Miller’s Crossing is not a Christmas movie.Quote:
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It is 4:58 PM and I just finished my dinner. I am ashamed...
Havarti with dill goes well with any white wine.
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Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
But what do you use cracker wise.
Triscuits. Although cracked wheat would be nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
That is my favorite cheese.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Yep. Fortunately, I'm only responsible for my office but there wasn't a lot of warning - 2 weeks from first I heard to first day at new location/company.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
It even goes well with my gravy, which I should start shipping out late next week.Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas