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We’re SAVED!!!! No more MMM
Exactry!
*slaps Brewfan with glove.
Dawn, motherfrencher. Be ready.
*stuffs porcupine into potato gun
My final thoughts on the erection:
http://imgur.com/ajPmU,Kdg1G,lCm3k
HAHAHA! Yes.
Note, from Whitehousedossier comment:
For a distraction.
$6.2 million to distract us.
Happy Birthday, wiser, and wiserbud!
$6.2 million to distract us.
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Kind of a bargain really. $6.2 million of someone else’s money for dodging a serious scandal.
Woo Hoo! The Garmin commercials are back!
Giva giva giva Garmin.
accuser recants the recant. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/reopen_sesame_sex_suit_A5G6BkIB6Frj1VxbuhmoOJ
What I find sooooo very interesting about this is this:
“Clash, a divorced Upper West Side dad, went on a leave of absence from “Sesame Street” last week to fight the sordid accusations.
He has conceded to having a relationship with Stephens, but vehemently insisted that intimate contact didn’t happen until his boy toy became legal.
Clash, who came out of the closet while fighting the allegations, continues to deny any underage sex with Stephens.”
So, in the closet black guy – amid VERY liberal New York elite, etc.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – you will never find more homophobic folks (and thus, often living on the down-low) than among black folks.
I actually had a black woman tell me last week that she doesn’t like going to the place I work because the last time they were there the gay bartender kept taking to them. Her husband did NOT like that.
The fact that she could just come out and tell me that … lol – I only sorta know her. It was just so matter-of-fact.
My boss was pissed at Obama for coming out in favor of gay marriage. We never talk politics, but he felt the need to let me know it was a consideration when he, his wife, and son were filling out their ballots.
Strange bedfellows.
xtactly what I’m saying, MJ.
Too bad there weren’t enough affected by his stance.
Happy Birthday Wiser!
And I’ll have some fries with that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnbpjiwg_vc
What did I do for Tushar to not want to talk to me?
J’ames – that’s because the issue, itself, was on the down-low.
Do you thin he mentioned ANY of that when he was in front of audiences that didn’t want to hear of it?
I bet he barely mentioned, and when it did it was only in the most guarded manner.
Mare, I have to work for a few hours today, so you need to take up the slack, because MJ is complaining.
Also, clean up the living room a bit.
Wow! Who knew this trick?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rRwulpQO6b4
Happy birthday, wisertwins.
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Wouldn’t it be nice to have a media that, oh, I don’t know, asked every black politician about their stance on gay marriage? Kind of like a litmus test? Oh, I don’t know, like those stupid abortion questions.
The more I hear about how regular people vote, this pop culture bullshit really does seem to matter.
Tax policy is secondary to what kind of salsa a candidate prefers. It’s sad, but it’s the truth.
BTW, the total destruction of Rubio is already starting. It’s the same for all minority republicans, but he’s really going to be up against it over the next few years. Allen West isn’t really a threat, but Rubio could seriously fuck some shit up.
People will be going through his garbage, literally.
If Rubio can weather what the press is going to put him through until 2016, he will have earned the presidency and a mandate for Cuban annexation.
I got pandora to work in my office again. It’s great effin’ day, people. You don’t even know.
I expect to hear about rape, murder, tax evasion, murder, rape, rape, a little more rape, and a dash of murder-rape.
You missed RAAAAAAAAACISM, MJ.
Wow! Who knew this trick?
I am sooo using that the day after tomorrow.
And rape-rape.
Whoever figured that out deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
That tip doesn’t help me if I’m peeling them for the crock pot.
Booooooooooooooo!
I wonder if you could par-boil, do the trick, then toss in the cockpot.
I don’t eat potatoes
I like french fries
Happy birthday wiser! Do something fun with your monkey today!
I live.
Happy Birthday Wiser.
Grab an airline sized vodka out of the cart while I create a disturbance.
Has Rosetta gotten out of prison yet?
Hi Brew.
*waves*
Dude…Halloween is over. What’s with the neck-bolts?
Good to hear you didn’t DIAF, Pups. Are you anywhere fun?
No plane crash, awesome!
Hi pups! hahaha. I asked the Doc for Frankenstein stiches in my neck
I asked the Doc for Frankenstein stiches in my neck
For now, that’ll cost you extra. But when O’care comes, it will be FREEEEEEEE!
Nashville today and tomorrow, back home for turkey.
I don’t know why people schedule anything for this week…but what the heck, I get paid for being present, if not particularly productive.
Lookin’ good, Puppy!
http://is.gd/Ol6E54
Sunday night I was in the big city and decided to go by Academy Sports and Outdoors and see what the ammo stock looked like. Wife saw a little .22 in pink and squeeeeeeled so I guess that whole pink thing in marketing works. But I digress. I dont’ buy a gun or any ammo but wifey discovers some toe-socks she’s just got to have and so we’re waiting in the checkout line and the customer in front of us is chatting up the check out girl who is African-American. He asks her if she’s gonna have to work Black Friday and I had to fight down the immediete impulse to scream, “That’s Racist!!!” at him. I blame all of you.
and then what happened?
Heh. 14 Day Murder Solutions™!
I wonder if a potato should be peeled or unpeeled when using as a silencer.
“I DON’T!” –deaf guy with potato scraps all over his face
PG, blames y’all for wanting to say “That’s racist!” I blame y’all for making me think “Ass Potato”
I’d think you’d want to go with unpeeled to keep the tensile strength of the potato skin.
And the pennies.
happy b-day Wiserdude –
here’s a present:
http://tinyurl.com/dxpd495
FYI, the coke bottle trick (or oil filter trick) work much better as silencers.
I’m just gonna borrow the time machine, and POOF, they disappear.
hahahahaaa!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V-Tw6Iw3qKA
Bionic eye tests to 20/25
My boy Luke here can eat 50 potatoes in an hour.
The nice thing about borrowing the time machine is you can return it before you borrowed it, and no one’s the wiser.
No man can eat 50 potatoes.
Pupster…?
http://tinyurl.com/cvhl86e
No man can eat 50 potatoes.
You can if you borrow the time machine.
Happy Birthday, Wiser!
I realize most of you paste eaters will be spending time with family this weekend, but I highly encourage you to stop by for BBF.
The model is so unbelievably beautiful that you’ll probably pass the ol’ iPad around to your relatives.
and then what happened?
I got in the car and went home.
Power is what you can get away with, right? I mean laws don’t mean shit if they aren’t enforced.
The model is so unbelievably beautiful that you’ll probably pass the ol’ iPad around to your relatives.
Will we get a full view of her on the iPad mini, or do we have to go with the full version?
The model is so unbelievably beautiful that you’ll probably pass the ol’ iPad around to your relatives.
http://is.gd/2IC5Aj
Hello, Tuesday rubes.
and no one’s the wiser.
whut?
Thanks for all the b-day wishes, everybody.
And for my birthday, the local high school has given me something to rant about, in case you missed it last night.
I decided that I probably would get pretty heated if I spoke to the principal in person, so I am sending him an e-mail and asking it to be forwarded to the teacher, and requesting a reply re: this situation.
Don’t want to go to 11 just yet.
Pendejo Grande on November 20, 2012 at 12:23 pm
At least warn us to wear welding goggles if you’re going to poat that.
The model is so unbelievably beautiful that you’ll probably pass the ol’ iPad around to your relatives.
FINally… a Rosie O’Donnell BBF.
Long overdue, iffin you ask me.
At least warn us to wear welding goggles if you’re going to poat that.
(obligatory)
THE GOGGLES! THEY DO NOTHING!!!
Ever notice there’s no Rule 34 for Rosie?
Ever notice there’s no Rule 34 for Rosie?
thank Gaia.
I just hope there’s no Rule 34 for Rosetta.
Happy Birthday, wiserbuns!
thanks, kittycat
I just hope there’s no Rule 34 for Rosetta.
Ewww.
Happy Birfday, Wiser. I baked you a cake.
http://tinyurl.com/czyvmdc
The bakery has delivered another one, wiser.
http://i.imgur.com/Am1DF.jpg
Happy Birfday, Wiser. I baked you a cake.
no corona?
The bakery has delivered another one, wiser.
my mother loves me.
Congrats on not dying for another year, wiser.
Birthday salutations, Wiser.
Congrats on not dying for another year, wiser.
trust me, t’wasn’t easy.
PG’s “model” reminds me of somebody…
http://tinyurl.com/8zb6k5l
Birthday salutations, Wiser.
and from Gland too?
This is turning into the bestest birthday EVAH!!!!!!
Birthday salutations, Wiser.
Am I the only one who just read that as “Birthday solutions”?
There is ONE solution to birthdays! Step right this way…
It’s Wiser’s birthday? Happy cake day doooood! Are you “old” yet?
and no, you weren’t the only one, Sean.
Are you “old” yet?
Even Hotspur drives faster!
Question of the houir…. Does the rabbit have nipples?
http://i.imgur.com/bPqLf.jpg
I got you some beer for your b-day – the delivery girls should be there any minute.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/gmland/bud.jpg
Are you “old” yet?
you’re only young once, but you can be immature forever
I just forwarded to the school board, an email I received from the principal of my grandson’s elementary school. Her email contains no fewer than eight spelling/grammatical errors.
I’m sure it’s bound to peg their Give A Shit Meter™.
you’re only young once, but you can be immature forever
I plan on it.
Careful, or you’ll have a teaching job!
the delivery girls should be there any minute.
Those ladies are standing in the wrong places.
AND NO MEAT-UP PICS ON THE MAIN PAGE!!!
There is ONE solution to birthdays! Step right this way…
RUN, LOGAN! RUN!!!
Hey, check out what was going on pretty much in my backyard.
Wonderful.
remember the outrage?
OMG!!! GEORGE BUSH TOUCHED ANGELA MERKEL!!1!eleventy!1!
http://www.wtfeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/merkel-bush-shoulder-massage.jpg
Obama did what now? *yawn*
http://static.dnaindia.com/images/cache/1766962.jpg
I sometimes consider getting a teaching cert just so I can subvert the system from within. I’m just not sure I have the patience.
Hey, check out what was going on pretty much in my backyard.
In your backyard???
Dude, you really need to go outside more often…..
At the very least, open the curtains…
No way, man. There’s terrorists out there.
*locks patio door*
No way, man. There’s terrorists out there.
oh yeah… good call.
What a surprise, terrorists in a media building, and the NYT pissed when Israel does something about it:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/11/19/NYTimes-Rips-Israel-for-Bombing-Gaza-Media-Offices-Ignores-4-Terror-Leaders-Inside
How much to get Israel to bomb the NYT offices?
Well, they kinda did. In a way.
Well, they kinda did. In a way.
moar pleeze
Why aren’t more Jewish subscribers pissed at the obvious misdirection of these NYT articles?
Happy Birthday Wiser.
Happy Birthday Wiser.
thanks, Sprout
Hotspur, who is old as fuck, makes an interesting point. You people (old, not black) should go into teaching, at least part time. It would save the schools money because you are already sucking mightily from Uncle Sugar. No need for benefits.
Then you indoctrinate the kids.
*claps hands together.
Why aren’t more Jewish subscribers pissed at the obvious misdirection of these NYT articles?
shut up, that’s why.
Wiserbud caught ordering coffee on his birthday.
http://tinyurl.com/bnpeync
Then you indoctrinate the kids.
seems the left is already all over that idea, considering what I’m dealing with at wiserson’s school right now.
I’d teach the little fucksticks to kill their parents, then kill themselves.
Wiserbud caught ordering coffee on his birthday.
WHADDYA MEAN YOU DON’T HAVE ANY SOY MILK?!?!?! WTF!?!??!
I’d teach the little fucksticks to kill their parents, then kill themselves.
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You see? This is why I like you. Straight to the A. No fucking around.
Don’t think I haven’t given it serious thought, MJ. I’m just not sure I could endure the years of misery.
On that note, happy birthday, Wiserbud.
I’d teach the little fucksticks to kill their parents, then kill themselves.
wait.. you’re a liberal?
On that note, happy birthday, Wiserbud.
thanks, Buffy
Why aren’t more Jewish subscribers pissed at the obvious misdirection of these NYT articles?
You have maybe heard of the concept of the self-hating Jew?
Okay, blue dress shirt, yellow tie and “fuck you, it’s my birthday” pin on.
Off to work at the
recordmusic store.catch you shenaniganers later
Fucking coffee. Fucking black.
One . . . two . . . aw fuck this math shit, I’ma tuck my dick back “just in case”.
HAVE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY SELLING DON HENLEY RECORDS TO 14-YEAR-OLDS, ELMOWISERBUD.
strik tag failDon’t think I haven’t given it serious thought, MJ. I’m just not sure I could endure the years of misery.
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My plan has always been to work until I’m satisfied that I’ve reached my potential in the business world, then bail, get a PhD and teach college.
It’s so pervasive, it makes me sick. Went to the Orchestra a few weeks ago and was treated to a lecture about how the piece had strong homosexual undercurrents because the lyrics were taken from a Whitman poem. He was gay, hence the scene where the living man bends over and kisses the dead enemy as he realizes they are both human is some how indicative of Whitman’s homosexuality creeping into the plot of the poem, then the musical piece.
It simply can’t be that customs were different back then, and in the epiphany of the poem, the subject is realizing that his enemy is human and is sad, not aroused, that death is between them. Regret is present, not a boner. That would be too simple, though.
This crap has to stop. The world isn’t very complicated, we just want to make it revolve around us in every sense for some reason.
Huh. I thought the homosexual undercurrents had to do with all the French horns.
Stuff like this really bothers me, Sean. I can’t tell you how many lectures I had to sit through where intelligent people discussed the cross gender sexual tension in the Merchant of Venice. Or a Midsummer Night’s Dream. Or whatever.
Applying the standards of today to Elizabethan text is silly.
And you’re right. The french horns surrender before they even get out of the case.
Heh. I just had a thought (SYWM)…There’s got to be quite an overlap between the people who chide certain Christians for having pictures of a light-skinned and blue-eyed Jesus and the people who are constantly screaming “[Historical Figure] was gay!”
Do you think Jesus ever pitched a tent?
I’d be teaching math, so I’d have less room for lecturing.
Unless I worked in “example problems” about Federal Reserve accounting…
Hmm.
I already have a MA, so getting a PhD would potentially be pure masochism.
Intellectual honesty? Never heard of it.
I keep going back and forth between Engrish or history. I’m thinking Engrish.
Othello could be interesting.
One of the biggest problems we ever created was calling PhDs doctors.
It’s bullshit. I go to my grandson’s school and it’s doctor this and doctor that. They’re not fucking doctors. They’re fucking teachers – and half of them can’t even spell.
I also don’t know that I’d want to teach college, so what I have is sufficient for high school. I can live without the temptation of college freshman girls.
Sick of messing with this nitpicky prospect. I just basically told him to hire us now, or stop bothering me.
I’d be teaching math, so I’d have less room for lecturing.
Poor, naive leon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnomathematics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-racism_in_mathematics_teaching
An old friend has some sort of doctorate in dance theory/studies.
Because THAT’s necessary.
You can guess who she voted for.
I was told as an undergrad that my writing skillz weren’t good enough for grad school.
That might be true, but having lived in the real world for a bit, I feel pretty strongly that most professors are total idiots, so I think I have a shot.
“The study of mathematical ideas of a non-literate culture”.
Right, because they’ve contributed frackall to the discipline.
I’m pretty sure I’d do someone bodily harm if they suggested I spend even a femtosecond teaching that to a human being.
Having lived in the real world for a while has not likely improved your academic writing, MJ. It also sounds like it may have damaged your obsequiousness beyond repair.
Here, read this pamphlet I’ve written called “Famous Mathematicians of Sub-Saharan Africa”.
*hands you a blank piece of paper*
Oh, and this one, “Topological Theorems and Proofs of the Amazon Rain Forest”.
*hands you a blank piece of paper*
I can’t tell you how many lectures I had to sit through where intelligent people discussed the cross gender sexual tension in the Merchant of Venice. Or a Midsummer Night’s Dream. Or whatever.
Bear in mind that the people who have the time to think that shit up are people who deal with “literature” all day long.
“Literature” as in “fiction” = make believe.
People like that live in a fantasy world 24/7, and many of the ones who can’t make it as authors are the ones who end up teaching at colleges.
The crap they talk about is make-believe shit based on make-believe stories.
Which is why it’s so easy for them to “believe” in global warming – they live in a fantasy construct every waking second of every waking day.
Lotsa h8ty hate here today.
Oh, I see. It’s Wiser’s birthday.
Happy Birthday Wiser. And Michael.
Thanks Car in, I keep forgetting it’s Michael’s birthday.
I was told as an undergrad that my writing skillz
weren’t good enough for grad schoolwould have exposed the professors for the talentless hacks they really are.FTFY.
Sick of messing with this nitpicky prospect. I just basically told him to hire us now, or stop bothering me.
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This sentence is full of hidden meaning. Laura is clearly trying to tell her customer to either shit or get off of the pot.
She’s an anal retentive, bong smoking lass.
Bear in mind that the people who have the time to think that shit up are people who deal with “literature” all day long.
“Literature” as in “fiction” = make believe.
People like that live in a fantasy world 24/7, and many of the ones who can’t make it as authors are the ones who end up teaching at colleges.
It isn’t dealing with “literature” that did them in.
It was, as Jeff would argue, the idea that they could interpret whatever they wanted from that literature.
That the author’s intent and meaning didn’t matter, and/or that they could infer meaning NOW that the author did not.
Critical Lit theory.
*spits*
It’s about as valuable to society as reader response criticism.
Secondary and higher-ed screen out conservatives. You’d be swimming upstream no matter how impressive your credentials. Even the business schools are politically liberal.
Good luck with all that.
*slips English diploma under sofa while Teresa isn’t looking*
I got your back, Sean.
My best bet is probably to find a charter school rather than public. I’d be in less misery.
Refinanced to 3% interest today. I guess it’s safe to say I will never need to do that again.
http://tinyurl.com/CaRiN-11 !!
*rattles ice cubes in empty water glass*
Lefties indoctrinate kids and take over institutions because they can’t help themselves but do it- they are religious zealots on a mission. They are inexhaustibly driven; they will not find the process tedious because they are motivated by the inner zeal of the true believer.
There is no comparable behavior on the Right, except in actual religious institutions.
If conservatives decided to ‘take over schools’ (which they won’t, because they are not religiously driven to proselytize the world and brainwash other people’s kids), they would teach the subjects at hand, and competently. Period.
Kids would learn math, literature, arts and sciences, and their political beliefs would be unformed, as they are supposed to be at that age anyway, because kids, are dumb.
This must be the pre turkey day hate fest I’ve been dreaming about. So who’s house can the wife and I crash?
What ought to frighten all of us is that our society has become so prosperous (compared to the millennia of recorded history) that we can indulge, without consequence, in outright falsehoods like “ethnomathematics.”
Mrs. Caruthers and I should be home around 9 or 10pm, MJ. Feel free to make yourself some eggs and bacon if you get hungry, fire up NetFlix on the ps3, whatever.
No horse rides while we aren’t there, though. I want to be there when you fall off.
George, it’s this level of prosperity that usually presages a Darwinnowing* of the species.
*portmanteau of “Darwin” and “winnow”
Did wiser go to the record store? I was gonna give him a birthday hug.
No horse rides while we aren’t there, though. I want to be there when you fall off.
How do you know they wouldn’t rather do something else with the horse?
I don’t judge.
Darwinnowing!
*golf clap*
Refinanced to 3% interest today. I guess it’s safe to say I will never need to do that again.
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Hmm. A friend of mine has been hounding me to do this for awhile. I don’t really get it.
It doesn’t really cost me anything, but I get a lower rate and a lower term. The payment goes up slightly, but I’ll have 15 rather than 27 years.
I may have to call you people to understand that process.
How do you know they wouldn’t rather do something else with the horse?
I’ve got two mares (SYWM), I doubt there’s any such interest.
It was a wash for us. We added about 8 years to the loan, but the payment was chopped in half.
Obama made the 2nd part more important.
Orwell rides a horse.
http://i.imgur.com/ALan3.jpg
Happy Birthday Wisersweetie!
We’ll have to find a way to get together between the holidays at some point.
…I have no intention of actually using those extra 8 years, of course.
30 year mortgages are for suckers.
We’re a home mortgage finance blog now?
I refinanced my mortgage and found $20
In thirty years I’ll be 93. And dead.
Maybe not?
I’m already dead. Think I’ll take out a 500-year mortgage. I don’t have a lot of equity in my coffin.
I promise to make sure Hotspur is well and truly dead well before his 93rd birthday.
I’m a giver that way.
When are you supposed to start maxing out credit cards? 80?
ummmmm http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr02/2012/11/20/14/enhanced-buzz-8271-1353439038-6.jpg
Credit cards are awesome. Buy shit on sale, then pay for it over the next 10 years.
So that $80 pair of jeans is like $900. A true bargain.
*slips English diploma under sofa while Teresa isn’t looking*
*puts mine in the freezer*
Happy Birthday, Wiserdude!
‘ello folkses
Lipstick! Yo, girlie; whatup?! Any plans for Turkey Day?
*hugs Sean and Lippy ‘cuz they aren’t “those” kind of English majors*
Didn’t mean to offend anyone.
Wasn’t the first time; won’t be the last.
Completely inadvertent on my part – mucho apologiasties……
I’m one of those kind of English major.
My oldest kid is some kind of English major too, I forget which.
Our mortgage is already a 15-year one; we’ve only got about 2 1/2 years left on it. We figure it would cost us more to refinance it than we would save on it (I think the interest rate on it was around 6%).
*shoots MJ with bazooka full of prepositions*
Hey Cyn, Teresa! No plans for T-Day except a Costco marinated turkey breast, Stovetop and frozen corn brought back to life.
What about youzes?
How cool is this?
The Container Store lets you order stuff online and they will bring it out to your car for you!
Mr. TiFW is gonna pick up my Christmas wrapping paper order on his way home from work today –
I love America……
MJ, confessing in order to get in on the hugs?
Thanksgiving Orphans’ Feast, Lippy –
A bunch of us have been getting together for the past 25+ years; everyone brings one or more side dishes, and the host family makes the turkey.
It started out when everyone was fresh out of college (Mr. TiFW and I were the only married couple) and strapped for cash for airfare. Since the plant shuts down for a week between Christmas and New Year’s, everyone saved their pennies to go home at that time.
It’s a fun tradition, and everyone gets along really well. No drunk uncles or airing of grievances – instead, we all stuff ourselves and fall asleep while the Cowboys play.
MJ, confessing in order to get in on the hugs?
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Pretty much.
*grabs booty
Hey, Lipstick.
How are your feet?
Tiffy, those kind of Thanksgivings are nice. I used to cook for some college friends that also migrated to CA and it was always a nice time. One time I put the turkey carcass in the oven to get it out of the way and it stayed there till someone opened the oven many months later. That’s the kind of thing that’s hard to live down.
*jumps* Ouch! Who the. . .?
MJ, confessing in order to get in on the hugs?
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Pretty much.
Awwww – here ya go: {{{hug}}}
Sorry about the boobs – since we’re roughly the same height, your face will hit my shoulder instead…..
LOL, Lippy!
NO STOVETOP STUFFING!!
Go find some Pepperidge Farms Herb Seasoned Breadcrumbs, pick up a chub (SYWM) of your favorite sausage (Owen’s Mild is terrific), butter, onion, celery, and some chicken stock. The recipe is right on the PFHSB package. Easy-peasy and so very worth the effort.
Hey Xbrad, they’re swollen, which makes them even huger.
What’s up with you?
A friend recommended La Quinta for a getaway with my sis and mom. The casinos nearby would be fun for Mom. Good advice, do you think?
Better do what Cyn says.
She’ll totally kill you.
I dunno. I’ve had lunch at La Quinta resort a couple times. But I’ve heard it has gone downhill some. Palm Desert Marriott Resort is pretty popular. And the casinos are still pretty close.
Stovetop stuffing causes prostate cancer.
I heard.
Hey Xbrad, they’re swollen, which makes them even huger.
Context.
It helps sometimes.
Mr. Lipstick “What’s that rotten smell in the kitchen?”
Lipstick “I dunno, want to get pizza?”
The bird is in the brine.
Tomorrow I need to hunt down some angus top round roasts.
Don’t forget to dress those with some bacons, Scott.
I’d teach the little fucksticks to kill their parents, then kill themselves.
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BTW, that should be in the comment hall of fame.
Cyn, you’re right, I’ll try to get some PFHSB and the fixins.
Pups, the carcass didn’t smell at all. When my friend opened the oven (at Easter, now that I recall) there was just some blue fluffy stuff on it. ewww.
My story is better.
Not a whole lot going on tonight.
*bans Wiserbud*
Lippy, love the story! My cardboard under the frozen pizza doesn’t seem so bad now. You’re my kitchen idol!!!
They had pizza that Easter.
Waiting at a kid pick up. Where the heck is she?
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Back to teacher talk, NM changed the rules for teaching certification my 3rd year in college. For private schools too. All teachers come out of the College of Education now. The teachers union ended a program that had people from the labs teaching math and science to Mid Schoolers too.
You’ll put someone else’s eye out, kid!
http://tinyurl.com/anghs2d
xbrad, have you taught pole dancing, or just a student?
Pups, one of the funniest things I ever heard was Norm MacDonald having a conversation as a croc that let Irwin get away.
Fuckity fuck fuck. Effen sports meeting on the night before thanksgiving break?
Really.
I need rosie here to come up with a thorough expression of my current emotional state.
My dad’s rule was 30 minutes after practice is supposed to be over he’d roll up. If I wasn’t standing waiting, I had a long walk ahead of me.
Pull the fire alarm.
My dad would go to the bar and forget me at school/sports. I accepted a ride home once and he showed up 30 minutes later and couldn’t find me. SHTF. $20.
Oso, you should have texted him.
It was 1977. The bartender knew to say he “wasn’t there” so my pay phone money would’ve been wasted.
Facetime?
Bartenders are awesome.
http://www.pubsignshop.com/media/ss_size1/PDS-2035.jpg
When I was younger, my mom would send us to the gedunk or NCO club to get my dad. His guys would buy us sodas or meals and we’d sit in the bar or play darts and shuffle board until my dad was ready to go home. It was great.
Proof of Global Warming:
Over the river and through the woods,
To Grandmother’s house we go.
The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh,
Through the white and drifting snow.
We have no snow – none in the forecast. Or the backcast.
We have beautiful blue high desert skies.
No snow in our forecast, either HS.
*ducks*
Gonna try something new this year – saw it on the Interwebz – Stuffin’ Muffins.
Mostly because I couldn’t find the pan that I normally use for stuffing, but still……
I made reservations.
Laura ran out and we now have about 12 lbs of angus roasts.
That makes 27 lbs of animal to cook on Thursday for 10 people.
We should pick up more just to be safe.
Big Green Egg is hungry!!! Feed it!
Thursday is a 3 grill day. It’s getting complicated.
Heh. I work with a guy that has 3 smokers. He and his nephew make BBq sauce and rub and sell it on the internet. He gave us free samples. I accused him of getting me addicted with the free stuff and now I have to pay to feed my addiction. He’s black and said that I was “Rayciss”
* calls the ghetto bar and asks for Amanda Hugankiss *
* gets Hotspur *
I just recently learned that BBQ was invented by slaves.
I might be a little slow.
Did anybody see right through anybody else’s clever disguise today?
We made it to Michigan. Traffic was not too bad. We’ve had dinner and are having a martini.
Fajitas were invented by Mexicans. The part of the cow nobody wanted. Whatever…yum!
MCPO, smooch the baby for me.
Tickle DG for me.
Give DG a good snuggle for me!
* calls the ghetto bar and asks for Amanda Hugankiss *
* gets Hotspur *
8,000 points to be used for a meat thermometer and mesquite chips to Scott.
That would be a little weird.
I need another thermometer.
Sean, my glasses aren’t that clever. Rimless and clear. I put them down and can’t find them. I need the Clark Kent’s.
I find it funny that I talk about BBQ with a guy, and we both agree that if the meat is smoked correctly, it doesn’t matter about sauce or rub, and then he brings me 3 sauces to try and a rub. The honey chipotle was delish.
Rimless and clear. I put them down and can’t find them. I need the Clark Kent’s
The only problem with those is they only work if you’re wearing leotard underwear in primary colors.
Hostess mediation fails. Liquidation to proceed.
Stupid greedy fucking leeches hardest hit.
http://tinyurl.com/b538fw3
My favorite quote from the article:
Doug Mansky, a Hostess driver in Detroit and a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was in the process of moving to a cheaper condominium on Tuesday, after his union had agreed to an 8% pay cut that he said would shave $200 a week from his income.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??????
HOSTESS TRUCK DRIVERS MAKE APPROX. $2400 PER WEEK?!?!?! That’s approx. a quarter of a million dollars a year!!! for driving a fucking truck full of Twinkies!!!!
No wonder Hostess couldn’t make a profit.
I find it funny that you talk about food with a guy and it’s not him telling you to make him a sammich.
*runs away*
GO, damn. Shazam!
Sean, hahaha I can’t even make a frozen pizza. No one expects a sammich!
I am not driving that truck unless I get a good pension.
Wiser, that has to be incompetent reporting. 250000 per year is 5200 per week, and that is impossible.
Hey birthday boy, I have a friend that just got a route with Frito-Lay. It isn’t pretty.
You should see what UPS drivers of 20 years make. It is the pension liabilities that are insane.
Get some maple syrple.. mix it into the punkin filling, just a few tablespoons.
Bake pie. Drizzle finished pie with a little more syrple, or toffee, crumble bacons on it.
I’m not shitting you, it’s awesome and I don’t even like punkin pie.
My oldest kid invented this I think
Check my math.
an 8% cut is $200 per week. So he has to be making over $2400 per week.
Times 50 weeks
Okay, $120,000 a year
Even if you divide 250000 by 52 it’s about 4800. 250000 /12/4 is 5200.
Gross? Net? What about other deductions or parts of the deal that affect take home pay? It’s pretty hard to believe 120000 per year for that job. But… If so, we have our answer.
So it appears unionized truck drivers are the 1%, or damn close.
Well, used to be.
Wiser:
($200 / .92) * 52 = $11304
that $120k is before pension and health plans, and I bet they are not only getting two weeks vacation a year.
What are the benies like?
Those UPS guys work pretty hard for their money I’ve heard.
($200 / .92) * 52 = $11304
Holy crap, you’re worse at this than I am.
Many UPS routes are owned by the drivers.
Gross? Net? What about other deductions or parts of the deal that affect take home pay?
Does it really matter?
42£. I’m pretty sure that’s it. And by it I mean vodka.
I have friends that went to work for UPS in college to pay for school, that are still there. Too much money. Especially once they became drivers. My Frito-Lay friend left a $17 dollar an hour job at Target to get a route with Frito. He is doing very well after 2 years both vacation and pay wise.
You’re right, I screwed that up.
It actually works out to $130,000.
I don’t believe that.
Own the routes? Wow. I wonder if they are inheritable.
well, time to head home to a wonderful dinner of General Tsao’s chicken take-out and maybe a beer, if wiserbride thought to buy me some today.
But probably not.
Maybe if I’m lucky, they’ll be an accident on the way home and I’ll get to blow out a road flare to celebrate.
wheeeeeee…….
We have guys that make well over 100k inspecting fire extinguishers. They are basically putting a paper tag on it and punching out the date. It’s not rocket science but they hustle.
I don’t believe that.
Just going by what he said.
You’re right, I screwed that up.
It must have just killed you to type that.
We have guys that make well over 100k inspecting fire extinguishers.
you hiring?
Don’t run out of breath blowing out all those candle, wiser. Happy Bday.
Wiser, it’s not same same. As is so common with union jobs, drivers who have made it to the top get to bid (win) on the most lucrative routes. They get a cut of the spend.
Wal-Mart, and my old company did that too. 20% of the drivers make the insane cash, but all don’t.
I submit credit apps for illegals that make 100K
What Dave said.
We have guys that make well over 100k inspecting fire extinguishers.
you hiring?
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Quite the contrary. Booooooooo!
UPS drivers do not “own” a route. But since UPS is a union shop, seniority rules apply, and senior drivers bid on the routes they want.
The two days I spent hopping on and off a UPS truck at Xmas? Brutal on my poor knees and feet.
I submit credit apps for illegals that make 100K
Heinous
XB, Dan nearly did the Xmas UPS thing when he was out of work. Insane. Friend did it last year.
Cyn, it is beyond heinous. Most are on EBT, have multiple socials, and use their kids to interpret. A BUNCH have AZ DLs that don’t expire for 20 years.
Maybe it’s Fed Ex. They are independent contractors, not employees.
Burp.
My kitchen speaks spanish. A few barely understand engrish.
A BUNCH have AZ DLs that don’t expire for 20 years.
This *points* is my shocked face.
I should add, WalMart and my former company were not union shops.. we were trying to find a way to incent the best drivers.
My federal attorney uncle made less money than my HS graduate Target manager. His ex-wife was appalled.
I have been news-less all day, but I just glanced up at Greta and see that West has conceded the race and I am sad.
we were trying to find a way to incent the best drivers
Seems to be that is the way it SHOULD be done. Damn unions. They served a purpose at one point a very long time ago, but not now. They are such a drain on society and our economy. I think I’d go on a 57 state spree if I were forced to join one. *spits*
be=me
oui, oui!
Cyn, it was sad but he conceded with resolve. He hasn’t given up.
we kept the unions out for 20 years. Seemed to work. You know drivers, they all compare notes at the truck stops.
Target was all GOTV in ’08 and then spent lots of money sending us to classes on Unions and NLRB and card check. Would’ve been cheaper to just say “Don’t vote for the commie”
He hasn’t given up.
Good to hear. He’s a good man with great potential.
http://tinyurl.com/bywffap
He has been tearing it up on twitter and FB and getting his face out on FOX. I’m still in the “Own it Bitches” LIB camp. Most libs seem to be in shock that they “won”
I like that phrase, “Mortal Peril”. I think I will make the effort to use it again soon.
Fa La la la la laaa, la laa laaa laaaaaaa
Will you be dressing Sparky up as a turkey this year, Ms. Cyn?
Unfortunately not this year. Didn’t have time to get his costume done.
How about you with Dolly? or Sox??
<<Most are on EBT, have multiple socials, and use their kids to interpret. A BUNCH have AZ DLs that don’t expire for 20 years.
Thank Gaia the Pragmatic Republicans want to import more of these.
Dear Lawdy Reegis, George, I do hope that they re-do the math and reconsider that horrid position. No good will come of it. Evar.
Dolly’s dressed as a sheep, and Sox told me he’d drain all my blood if I touch him.
fuckin cats
So you’re doing haggis for Thanksgiving then.
I wonder how that would do on the smoker…
Grrr.
http://i.imgur.com/pM0A5.jpg
fuckin cats
I KNOW!!
That made me heartily LOL, George. Well done, sir.
Meow.
http://www.danacountryman.com/danacovers/ORGTigerOnOrgan.jpg
Battening down the hatches for the annual invasion of the in-laws.
In-Law aunt and uncle already here from Ohio. They’re older (65+) and pretty cool. We do spend a lot of time sitting around staring at each other, though. The rest show up on Thursday and luckily do not spend the night.
We will have 17 in the house for Thanksgiving dinner. At least there’s football on and I don’t have to smoke two turkeys this year.
Haggis isn’t nearly as bad as you’d think it would be.
I don’t know. They say the South will rise again, but I just don’t know.
http://www.danacountryman.com/danacovers/B-LennyDee.jpg
My sister-in laws family is the fun part.
5, maybe 6 kids. I lose count. Seems like they have a new one every year. They’re farmers, so I guess you need extras. Never know when you’re going to lose one in a baler or thresher mishap.
To keep them occupied this year I built a potato cannon. Should be fun for hours.
Potato cannon?! You HAVE to bring that to the next meat up, Phat.
Heh. Always comes back to the potato here. Do we look Irish? Pepitos for mi familia! WORD!
Smokers, football and tater cannons, what more do you need Phat?
Ok solitude 17 is a crowd
HAHAHA! Potatoes for every season. Man, I love 4th grade.
http://www.chronicletimes.com/photos/17/68/26/1768263-H.jpg
Do NOT use the cannon to make Ass-Potatoes.
Cyn,
They are ridiculously easy and cheap to make. And a LOT of fun to shoot.
WooHoo we’re a potato blog now!
Seems to me that the quickest way to make ass-potatoes is with a cannon…!
I have never tried one, Phat, but it sounds like a blast. Yes, that will have to make a showing at the next meat up. Phoenix in the spring is quite lovely and the potatoes won’t cook mid-flight either.
Ass-Potatoes
Fingerlings work best.
Cactus League in March would be lovely. I’m looking at the week before St Paddy’s. Thanks early Easter for ruining Spring Training/March Madness.
Daddy’s Potato Fingerlings??
Fingerlings are Elmo’s favorite potatoes.
If I threw one, it would be at the tail end of the boys’ spring Break which ends that weekend of St. Patty’s. Hmmmmm
Are Fingerlings closer to a Shoestring or a Steak-cut fry? I’m asking for a friend.
Hmmm…$ tourney’s in Vegas St Pat’s and everything is $$$ so we’re already looking at Reds games. LOL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerling_potato
Never made ‘em, only had them in restaurants. They’re a variety of spud.
I get my second and last paycheck tomorrow.
Boo His
Fingerlings are gross. Made me think of the original The Hitcher.
sssssssssss sssssssssssss
Smoking turkey tomorrow
Oh, it’s the whole potato.
Daddy’s Sausage-like Potato Fingerlings.
Phat owns an official AOSHQ black T-shirt?
Who knew?
Boo Hiss indeed, Vman. And cuddly hugs.
Daddy’sElmo’s Sausage-like Potato Fingerlings.HA! Ow.
WTF Vmax?
Still torturing St Joe for you, Vman.
Whatchoo talkin’ about, Chrispy??
Cyn,
Back in the early days of his blog, Ace sold some black AOS T-Shirts. I bought one because at the time we had to wear black t-shirts under the flight suit.
This was maybe around 2006? Around the original Paul Anka post. I forget when that was.
George
I was hired and fired in 8 days
The cad drawings were so fucked up with orphaned xref’s and orphaned images that I took 4 hours to draw a 2 hour thing.
Thanks Oso I need all the help I can.
I am taking Zeke
I don’t care
Ace could probably still make some coin if he wanted to have some users come up with designs and put them on cafepress or some other similar site.
Don’t know the guy, but I get the feeling that he doesn’t like to get down into the weeds of the business end of blogging.
Miserable news, Vmax. Ugh.
Vman, have you considered the underground economy. The people around me seem to be doing well.
Oso’s not talking about bank robbery, BTW.
Yet.
Primitive Obama.
http://www.danacountryman.com/danacovers/aaacaveman.jpg
G’night and sweet dreams, lurkers and Hotages.
A book from Rosetta’s childhood.
http://i.imgur.com/vtNtB.jpg
Underground beautician does great color and haircut work. Still negotiating with underground contracter. Wish the HOA had under the table groundskeepers.
I’ve been wondering if there are lots of webpages posted in European countries that describe the down low on underground economies. I’ll bet they have been burying a lot of activity underground for decades.
Apparently, the thread went underground.
Happy Birthday, Michael!
http://tinyurl.com/axjwunr
Oh I was derp and I was cold
Yeah with a hunger in my soul
When it almost seemed too much
I see your face
And sense the grace
And feel the magic in your touch
Wow. Old skool derp tonight.
Wake the fuck up. I need a ride to soccer practice.
Phat, I bought one of those AOSHQ tee shirts also. I think you and I were two of about 16 customers.
Coffee, no coffee.
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http://is.gd/AGOPrG
Oh sure, now this is available.
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Is it Friday yet?
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Those are some good ones, Pups.
HHD is here!