Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day.
I was listening to “Moondance” with the full moon just waning tonight, which led to this song.
I am happy that Atlanta Braves’ pitcher John Smoltz made it into the Baseball Hall of Fame on his first ballot. I had a crush on him starting in 1991. Anyone who could pitch a decent game in the old Launching Pad had my attention. This is a funny video, but it’s better to open up in another tab and listen than to try to watch.
So, congratulations, John! **waits for smack-talk from Osoloco**
Now for some shirtless hunks.
Black and white pretend redhead for Carin.
Lots of tattoos today.
I think TiFW pushed him down.
Roll me away.
That’ll do. Thank you for your attention, and y’all have a good day.
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Worky worky
I don’t think there’s a school open in Iowa today. -20 to -30 wind chills.
balmy j’ames. a couple of feet of global warming on top of that and it’d be perfect
BUNKOLICIOUS!
The lawnboy’s attention to the trimming detail is exquisite.
I thought Iowa grew corn and not pansies?
http://is.gd/OFKb5x
What is this “cold” you keep referring to? Gonna be in the 70’s today?
I don’t remember getting out of school for cold. There were days when the actual temp (not wind chill) was -20 to -30. We also didn’t get out of school when it was hot.
Pansies can survive freezing temps. Just sayin.
/gardening blog
Tulips can survive too.
Erm… maybe I shoulda saved that one for BBF.
Heh, Mark Levin is great from yesterday.
12 comments? Seriously?
Might be the nipple ring up there throwing everybody off.
Anybody know if MJ made it to Michigan yesterday?
Come for the nipple ring, stay for the tulips.
Reading “The Last Stand of Fox Company”, a weeklong battle by a company of Marines at Chosin in late Nov of 1950.
Day one the high temp was -30F. BARs and Browning water-cooled light machine guns froze up. Grenades wouldn’t always explode.
And frozen blood on a wound sometimes saved a Marine’s life.
So I guess I can live with 18 tonight.
My Uncle Don was a Marine at Chosin. Suffered severe frostbite in his feet, the shock of which, according to his doctors, triggered diabetes. He was diabetic the rest of his life, and only lived to 65 (my age now). He died in 1993.
My dad told me the story of the fighting, and the agonizing retreat. Uncle Don didn’t want to discuss it.
Oh, and BTW, he was the BAR man in the platoon. I don’t know what company he was in though.
Liberal FB comment in reaction to the Paris attack: “Such good news for the resurgent European right wing that you wonder if they might have discussed it beforehand, sort of like the KKK meeting with Marcus Garvey.”
What time are yiu getting to the ghetto bar?
Well, since it’s five blocks from my house, I will leave that up to you.
I’m not gonna make it, MJ, sorry. Too cold.
Pussy.
5 blocks! You probably make it home most nights.
Jay. Dogsled. Think about it. Dogsled, and muk a luks. Think about being a trendsetter. Go full inuit.
Pansy
Mush!
Jimebro, I read on a certain gardening blog that pansies can withstand freezing temps like -100 degrees farengrade so calling Jay a panzer isn’t really spot on. Jay is a Hot haus flower or an orchid or something more delicate.
Speaking of Hall of Famers, not exactly a handsome man, but you just know Cyn likes any guy called The Big Unit.
http://tinyurl.com/lgenhsf
Jay the Panzer. I like it.
*rumbles over the blog
Big Unit kills a bird
I remember that bird explosion with Johnson – that was epic.
That bird had it coming.
That bird’s name? Your mom.
The Big Unit was hard to beat.
I’m serious. It’s funny BECAUSE…its a wiener joke.
I’m going outsides. If i’m not back in 15, Jay know that i froze in flip-flops.
Wiener Wiener, chicken diener.
The Big Unit was hard to beat.
http://www.hiyoooo.com/
I’ve had to scrape Ice from my windshield and windows 3 days in a row in order to get to work. Total bullshit. Fuck Ice!!!
Other than Ray Charles and the unknown Beisboll player it appears that we’ve become a gay blog. And by gay I mean queer as a $3 bill.
I should bring my workout clothes inside. It’s gonna suck putting on shoes that are -7 degrees.
Queerer than Mr. Chumpo donning his gay apparel at Christmas?
Look, PG, I don’t wanna judge, but you’re the only guy here wearing a wig.
Cocksucker.
How’s that gun control working out over there in Fwance?
Who doesn’t enjoy a good wig powdering now and again?
I may wear a wig. But I also have undamaged nipples and I usually wear a shirt. But then again, when you put all my six packs together it sorta resembles a pony keg.
And who the fuck’s to say that’s not my real hair!!!!!
Lunch time. Cambell’s soup and Ritz crackers. mmmmmm
3 HoF pitchers in the same rotation, and only one WS championship. Heh. Randy Johnson is one day older than I am. Dan got a lot of mileage out of “Aging” and “Old” references to the Big Unit. Saw him pitch a few times.
When they asked the muzzie why he shot Charlie Hebdo, his response was “He drew first.”
You should see my Arbor Day Apparel.
Hotspur,
“Three policemen had arrived on bikes but had to leave because the men were armed, obviously … Then the attackers took off in a car.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/07/paris-terror-attack-huge-manhunt-under-way
I look forward to weeks of the No True Scotsman argument bursting forth from leftist apologists for Islam.
Liberté, fraternité, capitulation!
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — The White House criticized French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2012 for publishing cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad.
Then White House Press Secretary Jay Carney questioned the magazine’s judgment after publishing images of Muhammad naked.
“We are aware that a French magazine published cartoons featuring a figure resembling the Prophet Muhammad, and obviously we have questions about the judgment of publishing something like this,” Carney told reporters in September 2012.
I wonder if Eric Holder surreptitiously sold weapons to Al Qaeda in Yemen for this French attack. I mean, it’s a great publicity stunt to push gun control.
I am only half-joking.
“Three policemen had arrived on bikes”
I spent two weeks in Gay Paris in 2005. Every five blocks or so you would see a green van w at least Eight commandos sitting inside or smoking outside. I remarked to my bride that they were well set up for a terrorist attack and could at least apprehend perps before they could “Take off in a Le Carr.”
I guess those commandos were in reality PC Police there to make sure no one crosses their eyes at an Immigrant. Or Tax collectors.
Vive!
Never let a serious crisis go to waste.
I went to France in June of ’01. Glad I got it out of my system before 9/11.
Two masked gunmen stormed the offices of the controversial publication, which has previously been attacked over its portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed.
They were armed with Kalashnikov rifles and are also believed to have had a rocket-propelled grenade.[…]
It is reported both the publication’s editor and lead cartoonist were among those killed, as well as two police officers.
Some 20 people have also been injured, at least four seriously.
A manhunt is under way for the gunmen, who escaped after a shootout in the street with police.
Shocking footage has emerged of a wounded police officer being shot in the head as he lies on the ground, holding his hands up.
The killers then calmly return to their getaway car, which was later found abandoned.
Goddamn Tea Party.
I suspect the Paris attack occurred because Obama must have drawn a red line in front of Charlie Hebdo’s doorstep.
How exactly does a shootout work with unarmed cops?
Furthermore, I suspect that leftists are outraged over this incident because of the getaway car. It was not a hybrid.
Provocateur in Chief.
All Hail!
Goddamn Tea Party.
See: Comment by Hotspur on January 7, 2015 12:30 pm
http://is.gd/Ckl87t
Pass it on.
*surprised that Hotspur thinks I’m coherent enough to read upthread*
That formaldehyde has gone to your head?
*hic*
This lampshade looks fetching on my head.
Who the fuck puts a pdf in the comments?!
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/01/video_of_woman_yelling_at_ypsi.html
Down the street from the ghetto bar.
Who the fuck puts a pdf in the comments?!
Well, at least it wasn’t a collection of steroid tuckers.
Note that Charlie Hebdo has for the most part a leftist editorial slant. I hope the French Left enjoys the fruits of its multiculti culture.
I spent one day in Paris two summers ago. Took the train over from London. Gare du Nord to Notre Dame cathedral to the Eiffel Tower back to Gare du Nord. That was enough of that shithole dump for me. I remarked to my brother, who lived in Houston at the time, that there appeared to be more brothers in Paris than in Houston. He replied, “Closer to Africa”. Heh.
Ironically, a leftist buddy of mine changed his avatard to a solid black square. When someone asked him about it h responded “Dark day for the press and satirists.”
Funny he never used a black avatar on 9/11, or the Ft. Hood massacre, or the Boston Marathon massacre, or the eighty eight other Muslim terror attacks.
Geez hotspur, too bad the employee didn’t have a taser.
http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/01/tea-party-attack-charlie-hebdo/
I spent 4 hours at Charles DeGaulle airport on the way to Zurich from Boston. Had an authentic French croissant and got back on the plane.
That was a long time ago, in ’91, before we knew the gluten in croissants will kill you dead.
Wind chill right now is 8 degrees and I am smoking meat.
Heh, I cooked brats on the grill once when it was -10. It was like cooking in a freezer.
Braggers.
Cold front just went by, supposed to go to -3 tonight.
I like the daytime when the sky is clear, and everything is snowy. So pretty.
At night, not so much. Man, it gets COLD without some clouds in the sky.
Have you spent time in cold weather, chumpo? Like a whole season?
My wife works for a cable company. Someone from Australia was spending his first winter in Iowa, when a cold snap hit in December. He came in to the office, and declared “I can’t feel my face!”
She didn’t have the heart to tell him it would only get colder from there on out.
Holy Shit. Deluxe Checks is a fucking scam. Two boxes with shipping and handling comes to almost $90. Checks.com – $21.
I am smoking meat.
I hope to hell that’s not a euphamism.
Good to know, spur. I gotta order checks before long.
Yep, clear nights are cold nights.
Yes. I miss it. I also envy your wide open spaces and seasons and communities of local people who have never lived anywhere else. Sometimes I tease about the weather but in reality I don’t like living in my hometown anymore. It’s just a passing time for me as we are taking care of my wife’s frail and beleaguered grandparents. One fine day I hope to make it back to ID where I was happy living in the cold ass cold and shoveling snow.
I was floored. I went to their online ordering page, and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. So I called my bank and they said there are online sites that are much cheaper. As long as the personal information, routing number and account number are correct it does’t matter where you buy your checks.
“checks”
*sniggle*
I use checks to pay the snowplow dude and other random people. All my other bills are paid electronically now. I go through a box every couple of years.
Hotspur has checks so he can whip out that checkbook at the last minute at the supermarket.
I seem to recall that until not so long ago, you could write out a check on anything, as long as it contained the pertinent information and was accepted by the merchant. Then the bank would honor it as a check payment from your account.
I use checks to pay the snowplow dude
I’ve heard similar stories about prescriptions too Laura. Now they need to be on tamper proof paper and they get pissy if they’re not electronic.
I like the ones that are electronic, but they have a paper copy too. Stupid narcotics.
Mr. Plow has scraped the dirt off my driveway off every year. The lawn at the edges for good measure. It’s a wild ride down my driveway until the snow and ice fill the holes. I add dirt to fill the holes in the spring and that lasts a few weeks until the rain hits.
I’ve been using Checks In The Mail dot Com for years. For all that I write them, I’ve maybe ordered three times.
I go through a box every couple of years.
Same here, but when you run out, you run out.
ever get a truckful of rock, jimbro?
Yep; I’m due for a reorder myself.
Me too! Checks for everyone!
*gets blank sheets of paper for laura
Dinner was Omaha Steaks.
yum
I put crushed rock at the entry to my garage to ease the transition from the dirt to the garage floor. If I put down crushed rock dowwn it would just be a more expensive item for him to ruin. My neighbor has a shorter driveway covered with rock and he or his wife snow blow it. Fook that, I’d be out there for 2 hours in the morning before work to clear mine.
I’m putting in a call to the Gravel Doctor in the late winter and getting an estimate for compacted gravel which may last longer.
Heading home for some burgers
Jay. Dogsled. Think about it. Dogsled, and muk a luks. Think about being a trendsetter. Go full inuit.
Never go full Inuit.
Sean Penn? I Am Sauri? Went full Inuit and wasn’t even nominated.
My handyman is a goofball. I hinted to him a few times that I could pay him in cash. But he wants checks because it is easier to track.
Yeah, bro. It is easier to track. And you are a goof.
Just had a brief fight with my dog. Lie I do every night. Because, he’s an asshole. Some of you who have met him may remember.
Anyway, he’s pushing 16 years old, and he’s still a motherfucking feisty dipwad that barks at me and bites me. Hate him. So sick of him.
The only reason he’s still alive is that time he probably saved my honor and my life from some huge scary dude, fourteen years ago.
Other than that, he has been Hell on wheels for the last fourteen years. He made sure to get his good deed out of the way early, and then sit on his laurels and coast. Asshole.
I am punching him right now. Very slowly, because he is old. But he knows. He knows.
I go through a book of checks (stupid thing is 24, not 25) a month. Church, school, water, landline phone, utilities, etc. Mortgage company charges $25 each time to pay electronically. Screw that.
Any handyman who doesn’t prefer cash just doesn’t get it. I’ve asked for a cash price on a few big ticket items over the past 10 years or so and have received a modest discount. Not OMG huge but still better than the asking price.
Punch that puppeh slowly once for me.
We write checks for Church and HOA payments.
I have destroyed him many times with punches, which he loves, and kisses, which he hates. Macho jerkwad.
The vortex has arrived. It was 20 two hours ago, it’s 10 now.
I made a block heater our of a styrofoam cooler and a 150 watt bulb.
It works a lot better than you would think.
We’ve got an 8 degree reading now and it’s forecast to be minus 16 degrees at 7AM tomorrow.
*dons styrofoam cooler hat*
Our high is supposed to be 49 tomorrow and 39 on Friday. Brrrr. Back into the high 50s on Saturday.
Law Raw. What type of dog do you have? The 10 dogs a shedding on the 12 Bullwhips of Xmas was for you and Scott. I used a Sheepdog because I didn’t know what kind of bowser you kept.
16 here and getting colder. Down comforters tonight.
the big 0°F here
grilling the pork chops is going sloooowwwww!
*pos grill*
He’s an Australian Cattle Dog.
In Alabama? Crap, people are going to die.
Scott, yes in Alabama. I’ve heard predictions as low as 7.
“Al Gore is unable to comment on today’s record low temperatures because his tongue is stuck to a flagpole in Tennessee.” @CronkiteSays
Styrofoam and a light bulb?
Yep. Somebody probably saw them warm up for Hall and Oats in 1982.
Cattle Dog, Chumpo. Natcherl born a-holes. Blue heeler. With an unfortunate sense of humor that borders on macabre. I believe he might be part Honey Badger. Or hyena.
Hide yo kids, hide yo wife. Hide yo husbands, ’cause they herdin’ errybody up heah.
Did anybody issue a completely feckless response to anybody else’s barbarity today?
Yep. I also linked cute puppeh videos and shared stuff on FB
Sorry, I was busy making cornbread.
“Did anybody issue a completely feckless response to anybody else’s barbarity today?”
i i sent a super secret coded memo to josh earnest:
on’tday alktay aboutway islamicway erroriststay
Cornbread……..sure, that’s what you were making.
intellicast are a bunch of lying mfer’s…. not supposed to go below 2…. it’s now -1
i may have to pull in the nipple rings
Scott, do I need to Instagram a pic of the corn muffins? Don’t make me break out the camera phone!
Cornbread or corn muffins? Which is it? *Shines light in XBs eyes.
Corn muffins aren’t allowed in the clubhouse.
Jiffy made in muffin tins, Oso.
And of course they aren’t allowed in the clubhouse. That’s why I had to make them here.
Ah like Jiffy carn bread muffins if’n they’re made w enuf honay.
(duly noted W’s. AUS breeds a fine dag fer kickin’)
I’m sorrrrry, I couldn’t resist.
http://tinyurl.com/bwg3kns
Jiffy and syrup, yum.
So I called the insurance company today to find out the status on my car. It’s still at the tow lot where it’s been for the past two weeks. They were supposed to have someone pick it up today, but he called in sick. They might get someone out tomorrow to pick it up.
Meanwhile, I turned in the rental car on Monday when I flew out of Colorado Springs, so I asked the company to arrange for another one when I fly back on Friday. They told me that the contract was still open so I should just contact the rental agency. The rental agency at the airport told me that they couldn’t and i’d have to have the insurance company make a new arrangement. The insurance company says sure, they’ll do that.
They made the rental arrangement with the wrong rental office. The one they made it with is on the opposite side of town from the airport. Which means that I get to try and sort this mess out tomorrow.
Ugh, that sucks, Alex. Sometimes I’ve had good experiences with car insurance, others not. Progressive was the best, Allied the worst, Allstate was meh, Farmers was pretty good. I get run into a lot.
*scratches a note to self to never ride with Jay at a meat-up*
Comment by Cyn on January 7, 2015 10:06 pm
*scratches a note to self to never ride
withJay at a meat-up**scratches note to self to beat GlobeAlex with wooden spoon in one hand and spatula in the other*
Oh goody. I’ll get my gimp mask.
*and sends sooper seekrit insurance memo thru the sooper seekrit insurance memo email service to his auto carrier to hose him on the rental car and his repairs*
You play dirty, ma’am.
Spatchcocked!
Mr Chumpo, Antoine is hilarious. He opines about H8CHKN and stuff on his FB page.
Hey, not one of them has been my fault!
I sincerely hope that all you peeps are snug and warm tonight. It really does look like it’s gonna be colder than snot across the country.
Antoine lives in Huntspatch. I saw him at Lowe Mill one Saturday.
It’s been cold all week. Same thing tomorrow. I don’t think it got above zero today.
Roamy, I was surprised by how “Conservative” he is. Did you wave?
It’s so cold, I might have to put on socks.
But not Sox.
Sox would be warmer.
Sox would also claw the shit out of me. I’d get cold from blood loss.
You know what’s warm on a cold night…
M80 at a local NAACP building?
Chernobyl?
Mare?
Some dickbutt set of a small device near the Denver offices of NAACP. So of course, we should have a national conversation about race. By which they mean shut up.
MJ was his usual enjoyable company, but whatever you do, don’t let on like I told you.
Hotspur tried to finger me.
I had the fish sticks.
Your mom?
Close. MJ’s mom.
Mmmmm fish sticks
Of course he tried, it’s Hotspur!
Hahahahaha. Perfect timing. I didn’t see HSs comment.
Seriously, you’re one of my favorite people and I love the ghetto bar.
So did you fingering fishermen take any pix for the Meat Locker?
CoSprings XB. Not Denver. Good thing GlobeAlex is in Globe.
Will post a pic tomorrow.
Yay – I will allow you to remain on the blog. ;)
Nighty cool dreams, cool kids.
Holy crap, it’s so cold out tonight that the Great Pyrenees wants to sleep inside….
Cold. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Gnite!
You have to stay for the explosion. Actually, stay for the stinky deal whale parts landing all over the place.
http://tinyurl.com/pedl7gx
Fishsticks.
cold would be the temperature of Jay’s heart if ‘e ‘ad a heart.
one half ton of dynamite.
thats a lot. not enough.
They clearly needed at least .5 lbs per 1 lbs of whale.
Right?
…250,000 lbs of tnt to 1 lb of dead fucking whale ass. That would bloow that bitch across the sea!
I just lost Gay Music challenge to a couple of gay friends. They both had music way more gay than my Liberace, Queen, etc links.
I have…
…no…
…response to that.
I…
say it.
…don’t…
s a y i t
…either.
Ha.
Awesome.
The words are in an order, I read them.
The crux gets past me ‘ere I’m finished.
You know your green from your red
You know the derp from the dead
So much better than the rest
You think you’ve been blessed
But I know you
Time to wake up, and face the day!
Worky worky.
Werdderp said that was a duplicate comment. I suppose it is, but I have nothing else to say other than y’all have a good day.
Minus 13
Hope you don’t get a bunch of snow to go with it, jimbro. Only -4 here today, but schools are delayed again.
We’re predicted to get a couple of inches Friday. I’m busy most of the day with cases then off the weekend. Today and tomorrow are going to be the coldest before a small warm up.
I’ve kept the heat lower upstairs this year and everyone is piling on more blankets. Same with the downstairs and the woodstove is getting used so much more. Usually we get burnt out lugging wood back and forth but when it makes a difference between being comfortable in a t-shirt or chilly with a hoodie on, lugging wood becomes easier.
Wakey wakey. It’s effen cold up here. I have rock on my driveway, Jimbro, and we still get holes
Did you get a chance to read that book your not so secret Santa sent you? It’s a bit simplistic but it’s written from a kid’s perspective. The author still gives talks to school kids throughout Maine. He went to our little guy’s school a few years ago. His nephew is my financial advisor who I realize I haven’t met with in a few years now that I mention that…
I have not Jimbro. I haven’t really read anything in the last few weeks. I’ll give it a looksie.
It’s a quick read but, trust me, I know how that goes. If I never bought another book again I’d have enough to go for a long long time. And then I could tackle the books I’ve already read and decided to keep to read again.
*doesn’t mention unread kindle books*
Let’s just not talk about that.
I’ve made a resolution to read more this year. I did that two years ago … kept a list, etc, and it really did encourage me to read more. And I was happier.
Measles outbreak tied to CA Disney park in December. Probably a mouse vector.
Mickey?
If Mickey was an unvaccinated foreigner, then, yeah.
Cathy just told me on facedouche that Michael passed away last night.
So sad. Godspeed, Michael. I’m glad your suffering is over, but you will be missed.
Rest in Peace Batman.
:’-(
I’m working on a poat.
Peace to our friend and his family.
Prayers for Michael. He was a good man, and a good friend.
New Poat
https://thehostages.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/in-memoriam-2/
FOLKS…
I’ve been asked to table the condolences post
New Poat Here:
https://thehostages.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/it-is-after-all-thorsday/