Good morning, and welcome to the lifeguard edition of Hunky Hump Day. I’m LOL’ing in my pants because that URL has “fap” in it. Fourth grade is fun.
Where was I? Oh yeah, HHD.
You remember this classic from a previous HHD. Say good morning to Thomas Beaudoin.
But wait, there’s a sequel!
Sauza figured out they had a good thing going, so they made more than one ad.
Anderson was in a Kraft ad, too.
I can’t decide if I’m thirsty or hungry.
Thank you for your attention, and y’all have a good day.
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They are tuckers!
Wait…sorry wrong post. My bad. MJ does tuckers not Romy
off to worky worky
Good morning. Snow tomorrow.
No, I’m not kidding.
No comment.
I opened all of the windows in the house before I came to work, and turned on the whole house fan. First chance I’ve had to air the place out from the long winter.
Alright garden bloggers, what is this:
Very fragrant bunch of white flowers with pink tinge, grows like a bush but can get like a tree. Mrs. Pupster wants one.
Pups, those are hydrangeas.
You can grow them different colors based on soil pH – white, pink, blue, purple, green.
Those are the Annabelle variant – I think.
They also are of different sizes.
I’m going to do the window thing when I go home to fence the garden at lunchtime. Supposed to hit 80 today.
Well hell. Hotspurs been assimilated.
Resistance is futile.
Hahahahaha
We had 80 yesterday. It was glorious.
50 when I got up today, and supposedly that’s the high.
http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/63141-product.html#.UYEToMrQOXh
Yup. Good call Hotsoil.
I LOVE HANDRANGEAS!!!
Hotbride gave me one at the meetup, and I’ve been babying it all winter, and it’s leafing out wonderfully. I just need to pick a good spot for it now.
I have several varieties. My favorite is the Oak Leaf Hydrangea. but that’s because I’m sorta weird.
Carin and Lauraw will probably kill me for stepping on their dicks, but “You snooze, you lose.”
It’s flowers grow in cones. http://www.hydrangeashydrangeas.com/oakleaf.html
I have another variety I really like – the climbing one – omg – i love that one. And another that grows more like a tree.
Today is sheer misery. Moving. Get up, disassemble bed, panic.
It’s hard on a dead guy.
I have a hydrangea tree/bush that’s about 15 feet high. It turns red to pinkish in late summer and early fall. Down on Cape Cod most of them turn blue because of the different soil pH.
Ah, found my avatard. Feel a little better now.
Until I saw John E.’s post late last night at HQ. The media truly has no interest in news and is brazen about its dereliction of duty.
Limelight (can grow more like a tree), but mine is still sort of bushy.http://images-p.qvc.com/is/image/h/48/h357248.001?$uslarge$
climbing – http://myfrenchcountryhome.blogspot.com/2010/09/ivy-league.html
I also have the more traditional varieties.
It turns red to pinkish in late summer and early fall. Down on Cape Cod most of them turn blue because of the different soil pH.
That sounds like thinly disguised political allegory. Everything is turning blue these days.
Take ibuprofen now George. Get a head of the curve.
Roamy – niiiiiice.
My tree looks like your first link Car in but surrounded by patchy lawn and a cedar fence falling down behind it. A new fence is needed but I’ve put that off for at least 3 years.
^This from JohnE. at AoSHQ is brilliant.^
Carin, in case you missed it: http://tinyurl.com/cs7n9mq
We talked about this yesterday. Detroit sweeps.
Oh, that’s not my tree Jimbro. My limelight is only a couple years old.
SOmetime …
Someday …
I left Bangor at 1000 yesterday and checked in to my hotel in Toronto at 2300. Fuckin’ A….I could never be a truck driver. Conference begins at 1300. Right now they have an international session of talks but I opted out of that one. I’ve been subjected to them before and it’s painful. Brilliance in surgery and cutting edge techniques happen elsewhere but listening to a native born speaker of Korean, French or Chinese present a paper is awful.
We talked about this yesterday. Detroit sweeps.
Yes, I was here. I grew up in the second most dangerous zipcode. 48207.
The Brits, Ozzies and Kiwis are fun though!
My only reply to John E is that this state of affairs didn’t happen overnight. A public that is prepared to let the press and media spoon feed the nation reality show opiates and pretend that a basketball player’s sexual tastes are more newsworthy than a derelict White House is a public well into profound decline. It deserves the misery it will get over the next four years – and perhaps twelve.
Oh great, now I have garden controversy.
Mrs. Pupster thinks they are this:
http://www.bluegrassgardens.com/mohawk-viburnum.html
Yes, I was here. I grew up in the second most dangerous zipcode. 48207.
Yes, I know you were here. But I wondered who got 1 & 2.
If you click through to the list of the top 25, Detroit gets another at #7, then Saginaw gets 10, and Flint is at 19.
Nice state we have here. Funny how all those cities have been controlled by democrats for decades.
Garden Controversy: two plants enter, one plant leaves…
Viburnum flowers are much smaller.
Although the snowball variety can be loverly.
viburnum http://sandybottom.com/assets/shrubs/Viburnum-arrowwood.jpg
snowball – http://www.arhomeandgarden.org/images/plantoftheweek/snowball_viburnum.jpg
I didn’t know that hydrangeas even have a scent? Are you sure she isn’t thinking of a mock orange?
At any rate at least, my hydrangea is not fragrant. The flower clusters start out cream color, then turn sky blue, then finally they blush rosy on the sunny side of the petals only, in early Autumn.
They require a damp semi-shady spot. A sunny eastern exposure that gets respite from the afternoon Summer heat blast, is great. My spot is a little too sunny in the afternoon, and in a dry year they just scorch.
The newer varieties may be more tolerant of hot conditions.
Nice state we have here. Funny how all those cities have been controlled by democrats for decades.
And all of them are East of Ann Arbor. I’m curious where Benton Harbor would fall out. I’m actually surprised it’s safer than Flint.
BH:
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/search/mi/benton-harbor/millburg/#crime
Flint has nothing left. I mean, there is NO reason to live there – to be honest. No beautiful shore. Not much culturally. I mean, why would anyone live IN flint versus moving to Detroit, where at least there is culture and shit?
That, imho, is why Flint is so dangerous. If you are an artist – or and edgy person – you only remain in Flint because you have zero ambition.
Or, you really like all your drug dealers.
Leon – http://www.thewormdude.com/products-page/new-zombie-worms
My home town isn’t nearly as dangerous as Car in’s:
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/search/mi/niles/11th-st/#crime
I’m gonna order zombie worms, just because.
Thanks Car in, bookmarking that. Reminded me that I wanted to add a bat house next to the pond this year too.
Hmm, zombie worms like room temp. I might have to farm them in the barn.
You should build a brick shit house.
I suppose I could do them out in the pig shelter that we have no other use for. Long walk for the compost, though.
You should build a brick shit house.
There is a very elaborate one at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
You could do them in just a bucket in the garage.
Or a large tupperware container.
I don’t have a garage, just a pole barn and the tiny shelter for a pig way out in the pasture. The horses have a wind shelter, but that’s just for them.
I was going to get some sterilites and drill drainage/air holes. The trouble is extracting the castings.
I was going to get some sterilites and drill drainage/air holes. The trouble is extracting the castings.
Sift and sort.
Sounds like women’s work.
I can’t get my wife to clean the drain catches in the kitchen sink and you think I can get her to sift worm bins.
Funny.
I can’t get my wife to clean the drain catches in the kitchen sink and you think I can get her to sift worm bins.
Tell her there is a sale on Manolo Blahniks in the bins but you have to dig through to get them.
Manolo Blahniks
I got that reference.
Ok, this is kinda funny. Remember that dance professor I told you about a few months back . For today, she posted (on facedouch) the cover from a magazine called “Worker’s Theater” from 1933. black an white male dancer on cover.
“On May 1, thinking about the leftist dancers of the 1930s who believed “Dance is a Weapon of the Class Struggle.” Here’s a photo of Edith Segal’s duet “Black and White” on a 1933 cover of Workers Theatre. If only they let us choreograph union-themed dances when I attended UAW summer camp as a kid!”
Yes. I’m having a bit of fun. Trying not to be mean.
The only time dance has ever been a weapon is capoeira, otherwise it is identically a tantrum.
UAW summer camp
Hitler Youth says what?
Okay, the godwin might have crossed the line.
If dance is a weapon, batik is a goddamn atomic bomb.
Assault Clogging
Why does MJ wear a shirt in his drink videos? Nice work, Romacita!
Good point, Oso.
I dunno, I have been told many times that my dancing is an assault on the senses and good taste
What drink videos?
Well…poop
There…better. I hate the iPhone keyboard
I don’t watch them, Hotspur, but mostly because he wears a shirt.
Was MCPO leaving this morning or this evening?
First Gen iPhones are now officially “obsolete”.
Just like VHS and Nitendo, I guess.
This morning. 08:20 AM. (Waits for it…)
MJ, no shirt, but a bow tie. Make it happen.
Happy May Day.
Let’s all celebrate the hundred million or so proletariat that socialism has set free from the bonds of capitalism. By killing them.
Wanna see my missile?
I like how Geharty said it today:
Today is May 1, “International Workers Day,” or as we free-market capitalists like to call it, “Wednesday.”
That should be Geraghty.
We had pink and blue hydrangeas in St. Louis. They were gorgeous, hardy, did OK without much direct sun, but not fragrant. But there are all kinds of hydrangeas.
MJ, no shirt, but a bow tie. Make it happen.
Magic MJ
MJ, no shirt, but a bow tie. Make it happen.
I just realized it was J’Ames who made this comment. Bahahaha!
*sighs*
So… gardenias are very pretty and quite fragrant too.
One of my gardenias is growing like a weed. The others are just… well, they’re doing fine, but not getting any bigger.
MJ, keep your shirt on and consider demonstrating a cocktail that contains no fruit juice and is not otherwise gay.
Like, for example, how to make a bourbon on the rocks.
how to make a bourbon on the rocks.
Lose the recipe for making ice again, Michael?
Good day, fluffers and nutters.
gardenias are very pretty and quite fragrant too.
Sorta like cute girls with a nice perfume?
Have you rained your derision and contempt down on any underprivileged yet today, Sean?
Speaking of gay drinks, I like two fingers of Mt. Gay Eclipse neat with a twist of lemon.
Do that one.
I’m staying the hell out of downtown L.A. today, ad. Ugh.
That’s two Daddy’s Fingers of Mt. Gay Rum, H/S.
Or, how to get the screw top off a fifth of Valu-Rite Vodka with one hand and not looking while you beat a hobo with the other hand.
(Trudy can play the hobo.)
Hahahaha
No.
Make this one.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/sonic-peanut-butter-bacon-milkshake/
How exactly does the state of Massachusetts just go ahead and issue “TERRORISTA #1” license plates?
It was a license plate frame, Hospurt. I don’t think any state issues license plates with that many characters.
I fear our requests to MJ are falling on deaf ears, because he is (1) rather stubborn and (2) not here. Mostly #2.
Oh great, now I have garden controversy.
Mrs. Pupster thinks they are this:
Mrs. Pupster may be correct. Compare the leaves in your first picture to that one. I have hydrangeas and the leaves don’t look like that.
Beasnes slices like a hammer.
What is going on in LA, Sean?
Hydrangeas aren’t scenty either. At least the run of the mill kind.
Mrs. Pupster is correct! Those flowers look right, too.
May Day
Immigrants’ RightsLawlessness events, Puppeh.Well, I never claimed to be an expert. In fact, I don’t know shit.
My hydrangea leaves look like that. Just saying.
Real estate agent just showed up to make sure I understand who to send the next rent check to. Hoo boy. I told him there would be no more rent checks.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mohawk+viburnum&client=firefox-a&hs=1iw&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=nk2BUaazHuf62gW-noGQAw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1058&bih=625#imgrc=p-fcoDMvklTbPM%3A%3BIxbr3jOeyyAxdM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.hageesnursery.com%252Fimages%252Fstories%252F3_viburnum_juddi.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.hageesnursery.com%252Fviburnum%252Fjudd-viburnum.html%3B627%3B500
Ugly link – mohawk viburnum leaves close up.
tinyurl is your friend, Cari n.
Heh, how did that go, laura?
I’m pretty sure we have at least one viburnum or hydrangea in the back yard already, but it is ugly as sin. I’ve had to cut it back every year because it blocks the gate and smacks me in the face when I mow, so I’ve probably prevented it from flowering because of all the trimming.
Last year I cut it down to a couple of stumps, so I can let it go for this year, and next year it will hopefully flower and I can figure out what the hell it is.
Obviously you should have moved the gate.
This chick rocks: http://www.lyndakay.com/fr_home.cfm
Once again, good triumphs over evil because evil is stoopid.
Five of them took a homemade bomb to an EDL rally in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, last June but arrived after it ended.
They were caught after their car was stopped and found to have no insurance.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22344054
Audry II
Study: Porn Has Small Effect On Sexual Behavior
Hmm, anyone agree?
Meeting is interesting so far. Study was on Drudge though.
Tall blonde nurse sat in the row in front of me. Big hair do and too much perfume. Gah!
gonna get her a doctor at the seminar, jimbro?
Study: Porn Has Small Effect On Sexual Behavior
*giggles at the word “small”*
I’m thinking she trolling for one. I’m turning my nose up at that chum!
Our asshole Governor has proposed eliminating the property tax on cars.
I couldn’t figure out why until today. It transfers a bunch of taxes from his voters (worthless leeches) to us.
Towns will need to raise property tax rates, so rents will go up and his voters don’t pay rent. We pay for it.
It’s just another gift to the leeching class.
There’s property tax on cars in CT? Wow.
Study: Porn Has Small Effect On Sexual Behavior
Hmm, anyone agree?
Oh, totally.
Tall blonde nurse sat in the row in front of me.
ASK HER IF YOU CAN GIVE HER A SERIES OF “INJECTIONS” DO IT NOW!!!!!!
Regressive taxes are racist.
I may get away with it—does Canada have stalking laws? Do they know about rape rape here?
I think we paid about $800 in car tax last year.
One car is 10 years old, the other is 5.
They call it registration here. Mine ran about $400 for 3 vehicles.
I told him there would be no more rent checks.
Missed the back story on this. You moving out, or becoming part of “Occupy whatever-the-hell-we-want-to-take crowd”?
1. Tall
2. Blonde
3. Nurse
4. Big Hair
5. Much Perfume
Goodlawdamighty. That’s like saying you had the privilege and rare honor of encountering a unicorn or leprechaun or something.
Are those the same as vehicle excise taxes? I paid $230 last fall for my 2007 Tacoma.
AD, Laura has decided to change occupations, as follows:
1.
Tall2.
Blonde3. Nurse
4.
Big Hair5.
Much PerfumeMeh.
During a decade of med school and residency I had the privilege of test riding nearly every version of female nurse on the lot. At this point in my life those memories are enough. My real life soon to be nurse does it for me.
She will have to add much perfume to her repertoire, to cover the stench of death.
She will have to add much perfume to her repertoire, to cover the stench of
deathhump.I mean, they’re close, but not quite synonymous.
She always smelled nice when I was around her.
She wasn’t dispensing meds, taking blood samples, and starting IV’s then, Hospitalspur.
Okay, check this out. It’ll take a minute or two.
Done? Alright, now do an image search for “Tyler The Creator.”
Yeah.
Well Scott, our governor denied for months that his office gave MO citizen’s private information to anyone, but documents tell us otherwise, including a thank you letter from Napolitano. A higher up in the SS office testifies that it was put on a CD and sent USPS, regular mail.
Bastage should be impeached and I hope it goes there.
This is regarding CCW info. Nixon signed the law which prohibits the giving of info out in MO and then breaks it.
Isn’t it against the law for goats to rape women?
This story is amazing:
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/05/01/True-Story-Even-the-Kinko-s-Guy-Knows-About-Pigford
Front flower garden mostly planted. Veggies to go in later.
AND my lilacs finally have blooms and smell heavenly, esp. the white one – which are now sitting in a vase.
*snnnarrrrrf*
During a decade of med school and residency I had the privilege of test riding nearly every version of female nurse on the lot.
Do you happen to know a med school I could apply to that accepts really old law school course credits?
We pay registration fees separately.
Interesting gardening blog you all have here.
Who left the fag entrance open?
Maybe somewhere down in the Caribbean Michael. If you pay the freight you’ll get your degree. You may need to practice in a Thirld World hellhole though.
“Sugar Daddy Gringo, MD at your service ladies!”
Ironic that a man who wears a skirt is wondering about fag entrances.
Oof,paper presentation about surgery on sheep hips. They always say “sacrificed” when they need to look at the hips under the microscope.
You can practice medicine in Oklahoma with a law degree.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/01/Pro-Gun-Billboard-Has-Some-Native-Americans-Upset
I let Mrs. Caruthers plan and do all the measurements for the garden. Looks like we’ll have to add a gate or buy more wire fencing to bridge the 3′ gap.
4 box limit on 9mm yesterday. Supplies must be increasing.
I’ve seen more AR’s for sale to with email offers from CDNN and Cope’ Distributing.
“too”
The porn study linked earlier has some flaws. It was only looking at the effect of porn consumption on “high risk behaviors”. No investigation into it’s effect on risk aversion/decreased ambition. No investigation of erectile dysfunction correlated to consumption. No queries about cross-addiction to other behaviors or substances. It doesn’t appear to have looked into porn consumption as an addictive behavior at all, really.
Meh, it’s an observational study with self-reported observations and excess bias inherent in the questions. This isn’t science, it’s just a poll.
Good afternoon, shmoopies.
Whose turn is it to take Pupster’s temperature?
I guess more pr0n will need to be studied
I guess more pr0n will need to be studied
Let’s outsource that to the Japanese “herbivore” guys who are repulsed by the idea of a RL sexual partner.
Afternoon.
You can practice medicine in Oklahoma with a law degree.
I don’t want to practice medicine. I just want to go to med school for a couple of semesters.
Afternoon.
Don’t you be takin’ that tone with me, bitch!
Today I became a black man.
And I don’t want to live in Oklahoma. No sane person wants to live in Oklahoma.
Unless they already live in Hammond County, Indiana.
I guess that means Wickedpinto should move to Oklahoma and get his shit together.
Today I became a black man.
Fuck you honky. You’re not even Jewish, you poser.
I don’t know where Hammond County IN is, but the city of Hammond, IN is indeed fucked up. Having worked there for four years.
Cue the Lili Von Shtupp quote from Blazing Saddles
Hammond County includes Gary. Gary is Chicago across the state line, and it’s sort of like what Detroit might become if Detroit gets really bad.
Michael, that’s Lake County, you ignorant ass.
You’re right.
I lived in Porter County. We tried to pretend that everything west of us did not exist. Civilization stopped with Porter County, the home of Orville Redenbacher.
You guys have a funny way of showing your affection for each other.
Sadly, the last OR plant in Porter County closed about 15 years ago.
Jimbro, after tours in great places like Hawaii, Germany, and Colorado, Uncle Sam got his pound of flesh, and sentenced me to a tour as a recruiter for Gary/Hammond/East Chicago, etc., IN.
Cathy actually saw Orville standing line at the bank.
It’s not so often that a guy like me gets such a close connection with greatness.
Gary, IN is a scary place. When I drove to CO for my fellowship year I stayed one night there because I couldn’t drive any longer. I took all my shit out of my Jeep and cracked the shade just enough so I could watch it. It was the opposite of a restful night.
Jimbro, after tours in great places like Hawaii, Germany, and Colorado, Uncle Sam got his pound of flesh, and sentenced me to a tour as a recruiter for Gary/Hammond/East Chicago, etc., IN.
So basically a deployment to Baghdad without the combat pay or the ability to shoot back. 😀
Also, my mother-in-law served Robert Redford at an American Airlines ticket counter, I saw Robert Conrad at the San Diego zoo, and my mother graduated from the same high school in Falconer, New York as Lucille Ball (a few years apart), and I went to the high school one year behind The Rationals, an Ann Arbor high school band who became nationally famous for covering Otis Redding’s “Respect,” later to become the signature song of Aretha Franklin.
Not that I’m trying to bring up the Cover Song Theory™. I would not do that.
Alex, I wasn’t a young black male, so actually, I was pretty safe most of the time in Gary. Even after dark, as long as I was in uniform.
Hammond wasn’t so bad in most spots. But East Chicago? Shit. I hated going to parts of that place. Not as much murder as Gary, but a more “diverse” victimology.
I’m so glad I only have quaint memories of my hometown in Indiana: the state prison and Jaymar-Ruby/Sansabelt slacks.
Also, Xbrad, 5000 points for linking KISS to be used for bacon, bourbon, and brownies.
Driving through Gary in 1977 looked a lot like the news photos of Beirut at the same time. The Gary Steel Works was still operating downtown, right on the lake, and the city was otherwise a wasteland.
I actually got offered a summer job there, to stand in front of a blast furnace and do something. I decided to clerk at a law firm instead.
I spent a brief moment in a sauna with Fergie, Duchess of York.
She was rather short, but very attractive
I’d sooner live in Gary than Chicago. IN concealed carry permits are super easy to get.
My woman is sad tonight. Most times when I go away the youngest boy sits on my side of the bed while she studies or chats with her friends, “just for a while”. Just for a while usually means sleeping all night. This time he went right to his room and settled in to bed. She’s slightly broken-hearted.
Michael?
This time he went right to his room and settled in to bed. She’s slightly broken-hearted.
I know this one.
The only thing of Gary that I remember was the smell. The. Smell.
Just to be more of a “Michael-type” douche…
The sauna was in Davos, Switzerland.
True story
I still say the next major war in North America will be when Ohio and Indiana settle the issue of who has the best sweet corn.
It’s going to be a bloody mess.
My brush was working for Merv.
Davos is the world headquarters for the AO which is where they developed most of the principles of fracture fixation post WWII. AO is something like Arbeitgemeinschaft Osteosynthesfragen IIRC. People do dubious “fellowships” over there that coincide closely with prime skiing weather.
Indiana’s going to win that. Michigan’s corn is better than both, but we already kicked Ohio’s ass once, and Indiana scares us.
http://tinyurl.com/clk8xdl
I dated a girl from Benton Harbor. I should have married her but I was too wild at the time.
I have been within 5′ of Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Robert Denero and a others I cannot bother to remember.
We made it to Naples. Our suite is gorgeous and the resort is fabulous! Herself says you should be jelly.
Who’s turn is it to bail out mare?
http://tinyurl.com/ckwlnc7
http://tinyurl.com/cmjumsq
Laura ALWAYS wins flamewars at AoSHQ.
http://tinyurl.com/blw5eft
I sat at a table in a restaurant next to Senator Phil Graham in College Station once.
“It was the opposite of a restful night.”
I stayed in one of those near DC. It was the only hotel I have ever been in that made you prepay.
I moved a dresser in front of the door and slept with a knife.
The fecund floodplains of the Connecticut River Valley, filled with soft, deep, rich loam, produce the finest sweet corn you ever sank your fangs into, and anyone who disagrees IS AN INFIDEL DESCENDED OF DOGS AND SWINE.
I’ve been on the same flight as Carl Levin on numerous occasions. Never had the chance to trip the bastard.
How was your trip through the TSA Chief? Did any of those suggestions help?
Probably not since you’re at your destination.
It’s cute that you think that, Laura, but it’s objectively false. Corn doesn’t actually grow in god-forsaken places like Connecticut, it is imported and fraudulently labeled.
http://tinyurl.com/dxa3z4f
Fetid.
We made it to Naples. Our suite is gorgeous and the resort is fabulous!
Hooray! Chief made it through the body cavity search game with TSA!
Michigan loam contains toxic compounds that leach into the groundwater and lead people to make false claims about the quality of their local produce.
This is a scientific fact. Look it up. You won’t believe it, of course. Because of the compounds.
I have had Midwest corn, we call that cow corn here.
“Best damn bananas I ever tasted!”
– Joanne Niedermeyer of Ann Arbor, chewing on a tree branch
All we grow in Texas is feed corn. You don’t harvest it until it dries out and looks inedible.
Cows will eat anything.
http://tinyurl.com/bummsb3
*gets chem textbook out*
Which compounds? I’ve heard that the communist government of CT adds addictive substances to the water supply that alter the palate and keep people from leaving the state with chemical dependency. This probably explains why you live there and don’t know anything about how awful your corn is.
– Joanne Niedermeyer of Ann Arbor, chewing on a tree branch
We don’t call it “25 square miles surrounded by reality” for nothing. I wouldn’t judge Texas by Austin, either.
Washington state feed corn was surprisingly tasty.
The only reason they grow corn in the Midwest is to hide the marijuana plants.
Vermont has good sweet corn. Since their water runs downhill to Connecticut I’d believe Laura’s story. Maine farmers grow cow corn.
I never cared because I don’t like corn.
But we grow corn here so you can have steaks. That’s pretty darned nice of us if you ask me.
True story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Eo9xnRXbA
Your cigars would suck if it weren’t for us.
The only reason they grow corn in the Midwest is to hide the marijuana plants.
True. Having awesome corn is incidental. We’re just that good. It helps that we had a glacier steal all of Ontario’s topsoil for us in the last ice age.
Huh, Canadian bartenders don’t pour as much scotch in a rocks glass as I do at home. WTF, shoulda ordered a double.
– Joanne Niedermeyer of Ann Arbor, chewing on a tree branch
Ha ha ha! That just made me ship my chair.
First time I saw tobacco barns driving thru CT I remember the discordance in my mind. I’d always associated tobacco with the dirty south. A good Connecticut wrapper makes a damn good cigar.
“You don’t harvest it until it dries out and looks inedible.”
Huh. Whenever I saw that I assumed drought.
I think the only way Leon and I can come to an agreement on this is through a duel.
Choose your weapon.
*points to a rickety piece of masonite pegboard on which hang two cordless drills without bits, two pieces of broken, sharpened aluminum siding, and two dragonfly-shaped robotic drones equipped with deadly lasers*
Our corn is grown in American soil.
http://tinyurl.com/cay5ee7
http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/may/01/man-disarms-shotgun-robber-new-orleans-video
*points to a rickety piece of masonite pegboard on which hang two cordless drills without bits, two pieces of broken, sharpened aluminum siding, and two dragonfly-shaped robotic drones equipped with deadly lasers*
*picks up cinderblock from floor under pegboard*
Our corn is grown in American soil.
So is ours. The Canadian topsoil became American in the 1986 Amnesty.
Thanks, Reagan!
OK.
*picks up cinderblock*
So…what? Is this like dodgeball, or are we just going to try to brain each other by bludgeoning?
*Leon advances with his cinderblock*
Hey…wait…ANSWER THE QUESTION
>> Huh. Whenever I saw that I assumed drought.
So did I. But they let it do that until mid-Sept. If it dries early, like in July, it is drought and they can’t harvest it, they just plow it back into the ground. It makes toxins if it dies fast.
I really didn’t want to know much about feed corn when I moved here but the farmers fucking INSISTED.
Hey, if anyone ever talks me into moving again, just take a 2×4 to my head and spare me the misery. It’s so miserable even being already dead doesn’t help.
Did anybody expose anybody else’s role in the interstellar reptilian conspiracy to enslave humanity today?
*puts “two in the hat and one in the chest” on George
Did anybody expose anybody else’s role in the interstellar reptilian conspiracy to enslave humanity today?
I may have chapped DG’s cheeks with all the kisses I gave her!
“Hey, if anyone ever talks me into moving again”
HA HA HA.. I have hated my house for 25 years.
Moving is for suckers.
Thanks, Jimbro. I needed an act of mercy. Now trying to enjoy a 90 Miles 1980 edition robusto with my corpse-like legs soaking in my 30000 gallon reservoir of hate.
I mean, “pool.”
I hope mesa doesn’t drop by and see that, Eric. The Gorn thing is a sensitive topic for him.
Sensitive about Gorns? Is there something I should know?
I feel for you George.
I bought a house because I hated moving. Still had to move.
He knows a guy. But perhaps I’ve said too much.
Anyway, I gotta run. Try not to drop anvils on each other while I’m gone.
Meh, the NE Cabal just has to convince itself it knows good corn. It doesn’t.
I’ll put the Iowa stuff against it every time. There’s a reason we grow a lot of it.
“It’s so miserable”
I could have helped George.
Idiot.
Iowa corn? Never heard of it!
At least you’re in Texas, right Vmax? We’re trapped in Clownifornia.
Iowa corn? Never heard of it!
Hey, that’s my line!
Does praising corn make you a cornball brother?
Oh sure!
Iowa corn = ethanol
There’s a reason we grow a lot of it.
http://is.gd/KTLe26
Well yeah, Iowa wins that battle, goes without saying.
Iowa corn = ethanol
I’m sold. As long as it’s 90 proof.
http://tinyurl.com/cfwrwgp
Iowa corn = ethanol
Also true for South Carolina corn, Kentucky corn, Tennessee corn…
The difference is that the southerners have the good sense to drink it.
No, the subsidies are NOT to grow corn. The artificial market for ethanol has already altered the market.
How does a farmer double his income?
Puts up another mailbox.
Iowa FIELD corn is ethanol, not sweet corn.
Holy posole! Enough of this corn talk
SWIDT?
And ethanol is more like 190 proof.
Iowa FIELD corn is ethanol, not sweet corn.
It’s like the cover song theory of agriculture.
drinks me some ethanol
If you are eating field corn, that is why it tastes bad.
You can make tortillas out of them, as long as you soak them in pickling lime first.
Or cornbread. But that has sweet corn in it, too. If it’s made right.
*imagines Nike ad*
“Jay knows corn”
*finger guns
*finger guns
You need a universal background check to have those, buster.
I’ve been at a busy hotel pub for the last hour and I’m right near a window. I haven’t had whiplash from turning to see a hot woman walk by the whole time.
1. I’m disappointed
c. Chicks in Toronto dress conservatively
¥. Or, too many ugly Americans are here
What’s the weather like, Jimbro?
It doesn’t get interesting here until June.
I’m getting that wonderful schadenfreude feeling about the hockey game though. Bruins (who are not winning the Stanley Cup this year) are beating the Maple Leafs and people are not happy here.
Bwahahaha !!!
I could not give a shit either way-just like other people’s hockey misery
60’s and overcast. I’ve been indoors most of the day. Back in Maine it was 77 at home with a few 80’s reported. I leave and good weather slips in like a cuckold…bastard
It’s 82 degrees here.
Fish sticks and french fries. Old school.
And Sensa.
Evenin’, accessories after the fact.
Main part of my new shop is finished. Still have to do electrical, insulation, and finish the inside. The builders/carpenters did a fantastic job. It’s really nice to see people who know what they’re doing and work hard.
*slides Andy a firecracker cocktail*
Sounds great, Pepe. Will you be doing any of that final work yourself, or preferring to keep all your appendages instead?
I’ll be doing quite a bit of it. Am getting a quote for the insulation. Hopefully I’ll retain all appendages.
1835: “Shots fired. Neighbor smashed-out the window with a hammer and climbed through. No rush, though, as he appears to be dead. He came at me & I shot him.”
That was an interesting call.
The cops got there, called it, and called for the M.E.
Nice & tidy…
MOM!!! Chris is lurking on the police scanner channel again!!
Mmmm
*picks gunpowder flakes from teeth*
I’ll be doing quite a bit of it.
Fun. Take some pics.
Corn on the cob today, corn on the log tomorrow.
We gave a client a cost estimate for 2 – 200 lot subdivisions on his 3600 acre parcel today.
He wants cost estimates for the remaining 8 subdivisions that do not exist. By next Friday.
A team of myself, and 3 others will do 400 lots each by Tuesday. Check each other on Wed, have the engineer review it Thurs, and give it to the client Friday. Water, sewer, storm, pavement, pipes sized, services counted, and stormwater calcs done.
Overtime – is authorized.
I may not be around much. Heh
JImbro, I gots a medical type question that I don’t want trolled, as I mean it in all seriousness:
If some STI’s have asymptomatic manifestations occasionally, why haven’t those become predominant among the expression of the disease? it would make it seem that selection pressure would make those more common than the “ZOMG! I AM PEEING FIRE!” variety.
You mean as opposed to “Does this look infected to you?”
Not that kind of infection…
Overtime – is authorized.
Outstanding, Vmax! You’d better start ironing a few shirts at a time so you can grab one and go back to work.
I gots a medical type question that I don’t want trolled…
Bwahahaha. Welcome to The H2.
Not that kind of infection…
Fire is a cleansing thing.
I know, Cyn, I know.
But the students ask this kind of stuff sometimes and I hate having to say, “I don’t know. let me get back to you.” Ruins my image as The Amazing Science God of Room 402!
You can still be the Science God of Room 402… by telling them to go look that stuff up themselves. Isn’t that now a ‘no-no’ to even have those discussions outside a “proper forum”?
And by “proper forum”, I mean with a nurse at the front of the room and the school’s attorney at the back of the room during that one day a year called “Sex Ed”.
Just tell them penicillin is their friend.
Cyn…I have never, and will never, fail to answer a question that a student has the fortitude to ask. This question is less about sex education though and more about evolutionary selection of genes.
As well, if the parents gave a good goddamn about their kids in the first place, they would not be a student at the School of Misfit Toys.
Finally, it is stupid to limit ANY discussion. I want the kids to learn. really learning happens not when they answer the questions I ask, but when they ask the questions that I answer.
I’m the same way as you, Mundo; all questions are good questions and deserve answers.
And to your point, I think you may have presumed that typically asymptomatic STI are less prevalent. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/21858967
Somewhat on point, it seems that with many of these afflictions, most people don’t even know that they have an STD.
School of Misfit Toys
I LOL’d in my… wait, I took my pants off hours ago.
I knew I’d just glanced at something on this as to natural selection:
Killer Gonorrhea
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/1/doctor-gonorrhea-superbug-might-be-lot-worse-aids/
I wasn’t thinking about Herpes, and that article is so poorly written they repeat some information twice in the space of three paragraphs. WTF…editors, YOU FAIL! But, I think the HSV-1 is a fairly common virus in the human body anyway. It is very hardy outside the host and can be passed by indirect contact.
The student was talking about chlamydia and gonorrhea being asymptomatic in 5% of the men and 30% of the women (as per our traveling sex ed eduplay handouts) and I was talking about how some parasites evolve to not be noticed by the host or kill it so they can live on the free food the host provides.
I saw that too, Cyn. That article is churnalism…Super Gonorrhea has been talked about since at least 2008.
Also, I posit that total number of death from the clap alone will be on the order of those killed by bee stings.
I think that the articles, at least the reason that I pulled the first one, show that natural selection HAS resulted in STDs that have low detection rates, thus then making them more prevalent after all. Which was your question, if I understood it correctly, non?
Except that my textbooks quote the exact same proportions and they were published just after the Earth’s crust cooled (1987)
A bunch has changed since then. 26 years ago? Tons of changes.
Why, I didn’t even have my driver’s license then.
That text book sounds like it might be good for leveling tables.
The questions that don’t ask questions at this point can be labled under the response, “Nigga Please”. That’s my adjustment.
Bacteria evolve very quickly because they reproduce so rapidly. In 1987, there were no superbugs and resistance to antibiotics in bacterial infections was just found in the penicillin family. in 25 years, antibiotics are very much outclassed.
**driveby squishy hugs, leaves boxes o’wine and cans of Diet Dr. Pepper.**
**leaves bottle of bourbon for XBrad but only if he links ‘splodey, P-51s, or A-10s.**
*gives PG the “Qualified Nigga Adjustment”; twice*
Hi Roamy!
*waves*
Bye Roamy!
Hi Roamy!
Shit. Gotta find some splodey. BRB.
Kitchen stove returned to service, and the big-assed roll-out drawers replaced.
Remodeling or spring cleaning?
The stove went wonky on Friday, and couldn’t get the repair guy here till today. To unplug it and shut off the gas, I had to pull out the two big roll out drawers underneath.
wonky
Too Technical!
isn’t the gas in the basement?
No basements to speak of here out west. Usually near the garage is the shut off.
The shut off valve for the house is out front. But there’s a stopcock (SYWM) for the stove itself under the countertop. It’s just normally hidden by the kitchen drawers.
I keep forgetting the basement thing.
We don’t even have a crawl space to stuff bodies into.
Joggers and hikers are always finding bodies out on the mesa.
Best top of the night- $35 on $115. Worst- $1.50 on $44.
$1.50? WTF?
Just how many hobos are you leaving out there, Oso?
$1.50 on $44?
Did you shit on their table? I mean, you really have to provide pretty bad service for that level of tipping.
I was only questioned in one Hobo killing, and that was almost 30 years ago.
So… you’re really careful now.
*sips my bourbon*
The Three S’s.
Jim Beam has a White Whiskey that we bought to try, but my allergies have been killing me. I still sound like a pack a day smoker.
I want the kids to learn.
I should be a teacher at Mundane’s school.
Eager Student: Sir, I have a question about asymptotic manifestations of an STI, and how that relates to the evolutionary selection of genes.
Michael: If evolution always worked, you wouldn’t be here.
^I lulz’ed^
Which seal is that? 5th or 6th?
For MJ, none of you other cocksmokers click
http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/smokin-mila-kunis-named-fhms-sexiest.html
Love forever love is free
Let’s derp forever you and me
Windmill, windmill for the land
Is everybody in?
Cyn?
I’m sharing this in the vain hope we see more Trudy come Friday. Or at least, Faceripper.
http://www.fhm.com/girls/100-sexiest-women/15-gif-reasons-why-mila-kunis-is-the-sexiest-woman-in-the-entire-world-83897
Thanks xbrad. Nice Mila.
Mundy: I have no more idea of why there are different incidences of asymptomatic STD’s vs OMG STD’s. the only time I think of STD’s is in the work up of joint effusions which have no other explanation. Gonococcal arthritis is a real thing but I don’t have to deal with it to often. The only warts I see are plantar warts or warts on fingers. There is a thing called a herpetic whitlow that can happen on a fingertip…again, not common.
You think about the science of it more than me. The whole antibiotic resistance topic is important. Bacteria can efficiently transmit resistance via plasmids. It’s a battle we will never win.
*shudders*
Worky worky
I know it is not that early but I am on Texas time so it is kind of early shooting for 2 hours of OT today. Pay me OT and I am much closer to those welders pay.
Of course Zeke pays a price. Perhaps doggy day care will help.
I LOVE May snowstorms! 3-6 inches today!
wakey wakey
$1.50 on $44?
Did you shit on their table? I mean, you really have to provide pretty bad service for that level of tipping.
Nope. same service I give everyone. I’ve waited on them before, and they’re just asses. cheap. Guy missing various teeth in the front of his mouf. Very young kid (2-ish) out of control. It was 9:30 at night.
Just idiots. I don’t have to wait on those types very often, but it does happen.
Speaking of education – my son (senior in high school) not only had “The Five People you Meet in Heaven” assigned to him , but now they’re reading Frankenstein.
Or should I say “The Spark’s Notes” of Frankenstein, but pulling out essential parts of the text.
You can’t imagine the level of FUUUUU I’m at.
Morning children. Have fun VMax-exas.
AWESOME, Jay!! WHEEEE! You lucky ducky!
Is Al Gore in town?
Al Gore better stay the hell out of Michigan. My lilacs are picking up steam, and I’m counting on some banner production of blossoms this year.
Al Gore should have to wear a tracking device that reports to the national weather service.
If it’s gonna be in the 30s here tonight Ca rin’s lilacs are effed.
We will be flirting with 80 degrees.
Wait, what? They’re not reading the book, but a summary of the book?
WTFF?
It was 85 here yesterday. We will break some records tonight.
Frankenstein isn’t even that long, for Pete’s sake. The Harry Potter books are all longer.
And Mary Shelley wrote it when she was 20, barely older than they.
Buncha goddamn slackers.
It’s pissing me the hell off. My son is reading the book, though. I told him it was a really great book, etc, so he’s defying the teacher and reading it.
Leon – please do not blame the kids. BLAME THE FUCKING TEACHERS AND EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT.
But, they need more money. And better health care. And they don’t want to pay anything extra, but they’re going to retire at 55.
If it’s gonna be in the 30s here tonight Ca rin’s lilacs are effed.
Shut. Up. You.
I kind of like The Five People You Meet in Heaven, book and movie.
I don’t like Mitch Albom, but I enjoyed the story.
I’ve never read Frankenstein.
I don’t make the weather rules.
The bleeding heart that grows by the front door looks really sad with snow all over it. I hope it makes it.
The tulips are filled with snow, like little cups. Should have taken a picture.
It shouldn’t be a book kids read in high school, pupster.
For the next week our lows are in the 50’s.
Yeah, we don’t go below 55 overnight here for 10 days.
Nope, wrong, 48 next week sometime.
A ten day forecast in Michigan is about as useful as tits on a boar hog.
Good Morning Cool Kids.
NEW POAT
Oh, I know. The only part of it worth noticing is the rain %. That’s usually accurate to +/- 40% and +/- one day.
Good morning, Car in, Jay, Dave, Leon, MJ, Mr. and Mrs.lauraw. Trust you are all well, despite snow in May. April showers bring May flowers….Snow in May, well that’s just gay? (No offense to the newly African-Americanized Jewstin.)
It shouldn’t be a book kids read in high school, pupster.
K.
http://tinyurl.com/d7nk7ur
I’m generally opposed to any book that is easily accessible being assigned in school. Especially to high school seniors.
My son said the pace of the assigned reading of the Albom book was glacial.
I find it offensive that the teacher would spend the time (weeks) to insure that the kids read THAT book, while they spark-noted one of the classics.
The excuse given is that these easier readers will draw in the less able students.
But you know what?THEY’RE NOT READING IT ANYWAY.
Even the easier books. They’re blowing it off.
And do we end up with? An adult population reading that Shades of Gray book, and believing it actually counts as “reading.”
There is a NEW POAT if you’re so inclined
Thanks for filling me in, Jackholes.