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  1. Christ, what an A’s hold-up:

    Matt Carson does not have the ball from his first big-league home run – the fan who caught it Monday refused to give it up unless he was paid for it

  2. Christ, what a plasma bolus:

    Pitchers Vin Mazzaro and Jay Marshall received platelet-rich plasma injections for shoulder tendinitis

  3. Ladies and gents, may I present Beane’s next regular offseason washed-up veteran RH power hitter signing
  4. The ** FPW methodology:

    These were mostly well-meaning people who rose to the very top because they were likable, not supremely qualified

  5. Aside from the times it doesn’t work perfectly, it works perfectly! ([a] This really needs to factor in “mentions of the candidate on BbTn and prominent espn blogs,” as well as “playing for or having late-season wins against the Red Sox or Yankees.” [b] Anyone else see a similar pattern of Borg-assimilation in Neyer and Young Ezra?)
  6. Unconscious ironies abound
  7. More Franken awesomeness
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134 thoughts on “Pretty explicit language: DLD 092309

  1. monkeyball Sep 23,2009 12:12 pm

    Have I mentioned how much I hate this twat? He really is Barton Fink.

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  2. monkeyball Sep 23,2009 12:12 pm
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    • nevermoor Sep 23,2009 12:16 pm || Up

      The clickable images are unreal. It looks like LA or something.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Sep 23,2009 12:25 pm || Up

        Evere seen pix of Pittsburgh in the ’40s and ’50s?

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        • nevermoor Sep 23,2009 12:26 pm || Up

          Nope. Nor, for that matter, of Industrial Revolution London “fog”

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Sep 23,2009 12:25 pm || Up
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  3. monkeyball Sep 23,2009 12:13 pm
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  4. nevermoor Sep 23,2009 12:15 pm

    1. I would give the guy his ball, but I don’t get outraged when someone else doesn’t.

    3. I hope not. D(y)ust is a terrible RF option.

    4. Objection, assumes likability not in evidence.

    7. This is surreal.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Sep 23,2009 12:21 pm || Up

      3. I agree — but I think it’s pretty darn likely.

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      • mikeA Sep 23,2009 12:24 pm || Up

        very very unlikely.

        • monkeyball Sep 23,2009 12:26 pm || Up

          Why?

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          • mikeA Sep 23,2009 12:31 pm || Up

            It makes no sense. He’s a horrible Ofer; he won’t be any better of a hitter than Cust (probably worse), so there is no point. Thome would make a lot more sense if they want a DH, but I doubt they’ll sign a DH.

            • monkeyball Sep 23,2009 12:39 pm || Up

              I am glad that argument kept Beane from acquiring Giambi II, Big Hurt II, Piazza, Karros, and Nomar.

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              • mikeA Sep 23,2009 12:42 pm || Up

                All of those moves made a lot more sense than this would.

                • nevermoor Sep 23,2009 1:25 pm || Up

                  That’s not true.

                  No move makes less sense than the Giambi one.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • monkeyball Sep 23,2009 1:31 pm || Up

                  I don’t think that’s true, since they signed Nomar after signing Giambi — which, I agree, didn’t make sense.

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                • andeux Sep 23,2009 1:35 pm || Up

                  Nomar and Piazza did.

                  TINSTAAFK
                • mikeA Sep 23,2009 1:45 pm || Up

                  I would say Piazza is the worst of those moves.

                • nevermoor Sep 23,2009 2:48 pm || Up

                  Why?

                  He was ok before the freak 3b collision injury…

                  Nomar was a low risk flier. Giambi we actually paid money for.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • andeux Sep 23,2009 3:12 pm || Up

                  Piazza hit .282/.339/.379 (below replacement level for a DH) before his injury.

                  Just going by what was known at the time of the signings, and comparing Piazza to Giambi: they were the same age, had equally little defensive value (none), Piazza had not hit as well in the previous year (or the one before that, or the one before that), and Piazza had never played in the AL. And Piazza was paid nearly twice as much. I don’t see any argument against Giambi that would not apply equally or more so to Piazza.

                  The Nomar signing was stupid because it didn’t rate to improve the team at all, and made a roster spot unavailable to the younger players (specifically Barton/Buck), which retroactively made the Giambi signing worse.

                  TINSTAAFK
                • nevermoor Sep 23,2009 3:54 pm || Up

                  I’ll stand corrected on Piazza. I didn’t remember it being that bad.

                  I also don’t think the Nomar move was smart, just less of a cost for equal crap.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • mikeA Sep 23,2009 6:58 pm || Up

                  Once they signed Giambi, I am much happier that they put Barton in AAA, which saved a year of service time and let him actually play. Having him as a reserve would have been very stupid.

    • mikeA Sep 23,2009 1:24 pm || Up

      1. I would ask for/demand a bat.

      • andeux Sep 23,2009 1:43 pm || Up

        I would want a jersey, but I seem to remember from a controversy about some milestone HR a couple of years ago that it’s the A’s policy not to give those out. Generally speaking I agree with nm on this: it seems kind of stupid not to accept the team’s best offer – it’s not like anyone else is ever likely to offer you more for Matt Carson’s first HR ball – but the team ends up not looking very good when it uses the press to beat up on some fan for being greedy.

        TINSTAAFK
        • the dogfather Sep 23,2009 1:58 pm || Up

          I disagree. They didn’t name him, just expressed regret at the greedy little cocksucker’s avarice. By so doing, and given the (nearly unanimous) response (except hereabouts, where we over-think), I believe it’s slightly more likely the next lucky fan will give it up.

          I also think nm has to train himself to feel that way, at least between the hours of 6AM and 11PM, lest he not represent his megafirm clientele with whole-hearted professional zeal. ;-)

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          • mikeA Sep 23,2009 2:02 pm || Up

            I think the fan comes off better than people who get ludicrously up in arms about it. And to the extent that he asked for $10,000, he comes off more as “comically stupid” than hackles-raisingly greedy.

            • the dogfather Sep 23,2009 2:13 pm || Up

              Sorry — I fear that if I spend very long trying to comprehend that distinction in any meaningful way, my head will asplode. Pass.

              The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
              • andeux Sep 23,2009 2:17 pm || Up

                Regardless of how the fan looks, the organization comes off as chintzy and petty for playing this out in the press. At least to people who don’t under-think.

                TINSTAAFK
                • monkeyball Sep 23,2009 2:22 pm || Up

                  It’s alllllllll part of the plan to alienate the current fanbase out of existence/caring.

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                • the dogfather Sep 23,2009 2:23 pm || Up

                  Fortunately, we are numerous.

                  The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
                • nevermoor Sep 23,2009 2:50 pm || Up

                  Does any other team do this? The A’s seem unable to get enough…

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • the dogfather Sep 23,2009 2:55 pm || Up

                  The only attributed quotes in that blurb are from Carson, BTW.

                  The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
              • JediLeroy Sep 23,2009 2:57 pm || Up

                az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
          • nevermoor Sep 23,2009 2:50 pm || Up

            You forget. We don’t represent the little guy; we crush him.
            /Drago

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • monkeyball Sep 23,2009 2:58 pm || Up

              I said that your friend died screaming like a stuck Irish pig
              < / Drago >

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              • JediLeroy Sep 23,2009 3:02 pm || Up

                az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
            • the dogfather Sep 23,2009 3:01 pm || Up

              …but I don’t get outraged when someone else doesn’t.

              My obscure attempt at humor was to the effect that if you did allow yourself to ponder overmuch on greed and/or cosmic stupidity, it might become difficult to toil on their behalf during those last few pre-dawn hours.

              The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
        • mikeA Sep 23,2009 1:59 pm || Up

          It might be worth more as Matt Carson’s first, last, and only HR ball.

  5. the dogfather Sep 23,2009 12:34 pm

    4.

    “He was what all the liberals said he was: the villain. And to make matters worse, a clumsy one at that. He employed ham-handed tactics, put forward obviously unqualified subordinates, and stubbornly defended them. He’d turned out to be less a Voldemort than a Boris Badenov chasing Rocky and Bullwinkle.”

    He (who-need-not-be-named) did way too much damage, in my view, to be considered cartoonish.

    The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
  6. FreeSeatUpgrade Sep 23,2009 12:38 pm

    Another Free Kraut free ticket giveaway!

    This time you don’t have to find the right piece of BART lot garbage to rummage through. You just have to find me, in pretty much the exact same spot, though I’ll probably be covered by slightly less garbage. I’ll be there between roughly 5:30 and 6:30. Stop by if interested in saving yourself the two whole dollars it’d cost you to buy a comparable ticket at the box office.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  7. JediLeroy Sep 23,2009 2:55 pm

    Absolutely unforgivable.

    I’ve never seen anything like this and I find this very offensive…shocking, embarassing… (We’re) extremely embarassed by this behavior

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    • nevermoor Sep 23,2009 3:12 pm || Up

      Seriously. Break out some madden or something.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Sep 23,2009 3:19 pm || Up

        GTA

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        • JediLeroy Sep 23,2009 3:33 pm || Up
          az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
          • monkeyball Sep 23,2009 4:31 pm || Up

            All logged on to ** and commenting during a game thread

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  8. mk Sep 23,2009 4:55 pm

    2. I don’t understand why people find steroids more objectionable than stuff like this.

    4. I don’t understand why people are fascinated by this stupid Matt Latimer book.

    5b. No.

  9. monkeyball Sep 23,2009 5:00 pm

    Needs moar clown:

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  10. monkeyball Sep 23,2009 5:01 pm
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    • nevermoor Sep 23,2009 6:02 pm || Up

      There isn’t.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • Poppy Sep 23,2009 6:34 pm || Up

      I say we appoint a czar czar.

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • salb918 Sep 24,2009 7:46 am || Up

      “He’s clearly just ticking through a checklist of wingnut buzzwords, things that he believes will have some special meaning to his intended audience of Glenn Beck watching GOP primary voters.”

      Hope! Change!

  11. monkeyball Sep 23,2009 5:02 pm
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  12. Leopold Bloom Sep 23,2009 5:30 pm

    A link for all you fuckers to relate to.

    So there.

    • monkeyball Sep 23,2009 5:45 pm || Up

      Who?

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      • Leopold Bloom Sep 23,2009 5:47 pm || Up

        Stop being so ironically hip!

        • mk Sep 23,2009 5:53 pm || Up

          I don’t understand that post, that blog, or the point you are making.

          Does that mean I’m too ironically hip, or not ironically hip enough?

    • nevermoor Sep 23,2009 6:03 pm || Up

      That is an odd concept for a blog.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  13. mikeA Sep 23,2009 7:03 pm

    On-topic weather note: I was riding around in the hills, and there was a giant, ugly, smog cloud covering the entire south bay that ended right around the border to Oakland.

  14. monkeyball Sep 23,2009 8:17 pm

    Newest uber-cheap music-library (re-)acquisition (treating self while buying baby crap). Man, what a great band.

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  15. salb918 Sep 24,2009 7:53 am

    For some reason, it reminds me of you all.

    • nevermoor Sep 24,2009 8:40 am || Up

      I should not be allowed to own an RPG

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  16. salb918 Sep 24,2009 10:06 am
    • nevermoor Sep 24,2009 10:22 am || Up

      Seriously? A basketball team is picking fights with a football team? I don’t care that they’re better… that’s like 12 on 50.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • salb918 Sep 24,2009 10:30 am || Up

      To be fair, my buddies and I did occasionally throw down with the electrical engineers.

      • 5Aces Sep 24,2009 11:02 am || Up

        My marching band would fight with the drama club if need be. And we had to be seperated several times from an opposing band.

        Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
    • mk Sep 24,2009 10:50 am || Up

      When I was in high school, I thought “College will be different. No more high school pettiness.”

      When I was in college, I thought “The working world will be different. No more college pettiness.”

      Now I think “The RV parks will be different. No more corporate pettiness.”

      • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 11:09 am || Up

        N+1: “Moldering in the ground/Heaven will be different”

        N+2: “Staggering around very slowly and eating the brains of the non-zombies will be different”

        N+3: “After the Rapture will be different”

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  17. monkeyball Sep 24,2009 11:28 am

    Mrs Monkeyball last night, after quickly glancing at the tv during the top half of an early inning: “Cool! The A’s signed Viggo! Do they call him ‘Slider’?”

    And another nickname was born …

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  18. monkeyball Sep 24,2009 12:12 pm

    Isn’t Eldnik Nozama the name of that crazy “historian” that Glenn Beck reads?

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  19. mjdittmer Sep 24,2009 2:16 pm

    1. Some combo of shyness and false modesty kept me from posting this here immediately after I wrote it, but here is some love for FK.
    2. What (else) I like about you (FK-niks) are the links to DFW. The latest one (from a few days ago) sent me to this 2001 essay about SWE usage issues, dictionaries, and usage guides. I wonder what he would say about dictionary.com?
    3. You don’t need to be my facebook friend to know I like pseudonyms, so of course I thought it was cool when my latest gang of editors gave me a new one by accident.

    • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 2:27 pm || Up

      1. Andrew Sullivan owes me money
      3. Bittmer much?

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      • Leopold Bloom Sep 24,2009 3:45 pm || Up

        1. Wasn’t he George Michael’s original singing partner?
        2. Gesundheit.

    • andeux Sep 24,2009 2:32 pm || Up

      Maybe you’re slowly morphing into Mark Bittman. Or Steve Bitker.

      TINSTAAFK
      • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 2:43 pm || Up

        Bark Mittman!

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      • FreeSeatUpgrade Sep 24,2009 4:08 pm || Up

        Hey, Steve Bitker is married to County Supervisor Alice Lai-Bitker (whose license plate frame reads “You are following County Supervisor Alice Lai-Bitker.”) High-powered sports and media couple…you could do worse, Bark Mittman.

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        • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 4:39 pm || Up

          I would like to subscribe to your newsletter, The Alameda County Politico Tailgater

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    • mk Sep 24,2009 2:59 pm || Up

      3. Why haven’t they fixed that?

      • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 3:05 pm || Up

        TWSS

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      • dmoas Sep 24,2009 5:41 pm || Up

        *Edit note: “This story has been edited to correct the Author’s name. We’re a bunch jackasses and incorrectly bylined him.”

    • nevermoor Sep 24,2009 3:37 pm || Up
      Re: 1

      Sorry, he’s taken.

      Signed,
      Mrs. Monkeyball

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  20. monkeyball Sep 24,2009 2:44 pm

    But … do they have kraut? (And is it free?)

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    • nevermoor Sep 24,2009 3:39 pm || Up

      Is a “Thuringian bratwurst” a Germanic sex act?

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  21. monkeyball Sep 24,2009 2:45 pm

    Ain’t that tha troof:

    The web often is rougher.

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  22. monkeyball Sep 24,2009 2:47 pm

    {snerk}

    “P. Strop”

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  23. monkeyball Sep 24,2009 3:06 pm

    Niedermeyer … dead. Public option … dead.

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    • nevermoor Sep 24,2009 3:51 pm || Up

      If that’s what it takes at this stage, that’s what it takes.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • mk Sep 24,2009 4:06 pm || Up

      I don’t think the linked article says what you think it says. Either that, or you are turning into Rupert Murdoch.

      • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 4:14 pm || Up

        Oh, come on — this is a clear “It’d be a shame if something were to … happen to Mr. P. Option” {shrug of Brioni-clad shoulders}

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        • mk Sep 24,2009 4:25 pm || Up

          You are overreading a comment that contains no news. This wasn’t anything other than a statement of the facts. We’ve known for awhile that nothing called a “public option” was going to clear the Senate. We don’t yet know what will happen in reconciliation. Which is exactly what he said.

          Every time Rahm says anything to the press about the bill, the blogosphere goes apeshit with premature tea leaf reading. Not every word he utters is calculated to pave the way for some diabolical, eight steps ahead endgame.

          • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 4:42 pm || Up

            I agree with your final sentence: not every Man-Rahm/A-Rod/Bor-as end game is diabolical.

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            • JediLeroy Sep 24,2009 4:58 pm || Up

              Fixed, for TWHS-ness

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              • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 5:02 pm || Up

                And fixed again.

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                • JediLeroy Sep 24,2009 5:08 pm || Up

                  As opposed to a Boras/A-rod man-ram endgame

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            • nevermoor Sep 24,2009 5:31 pm || Up

              TWSS

              end game is diabolical

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
              • Leopold Bloom Sep 24,2009 9:41 pm || Up

                only if you don’t use the right lubricant.

    • Poppy Sep 24,2009 7:35 pm || Up

      If they decide within the next two weeks to not tamper in any way with Flexible Spending Accounts, my current story is fucked.

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  24. monkeyball Sep 24,2009 3:08 pm

    More evidence of the nefarious effects of (a)corn.

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  25. monkeyball Sep 24,2009 3:40 pm

    Grover on the A’s recent drafts?

    “These are horrible choices”

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    • nevermoor Sep 24,2009 3:53 pm || Up

      Froot Loops = Wallace?

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 4:05 pm || Up

        I think he’s the breakfast donut. (And another nickname is born!)

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      • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 4:07 pm || Up

        … and Smoak (II) is the bowl of oatmeal with wheat germ, fresh fruit, and soy milk.

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        • nevermoor Sep 24,2009 5:31 pm || Up

          Smoaked wheat germ?

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • JediLeroy Sep 24,2009 4:53 pm || Up

      “You’re rushing around, you’re trying to think about ( A ) and you have a choice between a ( B ) and a ( C ),” Dr. Kennedy said. “So ( D ) is a better choice.”

      1. Stop rushing around. Take a minute to stop your overly busy life and make a rational f#$&ing decision.
      2. These could really be anything:
      A: Getting along with your boss after a rift
      B: Murder
      C: Confronting the issues
      D: Telling your boss he’s a pompous jackass

      az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
      • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 4:55 pm || Up
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      • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 4:57 pm || Up

        Man, last time I “evoked a hypothetical parent in the supermarket,” they confiscated my Ralph’s Club card.

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        • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 5:22 pm || Up

          And another entry in the euphemism directory:

          defrauding an innkeeper

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          • JediLeroy Sep 24,2009 5:29 pm || Up

            “getting your Ralph’s Club card confiscated”

            az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
            • nevermoor Sep 24,2009 5:36 pm || Up

              See Cal. Pen. Code 290

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
              • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 5:39 pm || Up

                “linking to the Penal Code”

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            • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 5:37 pm || Up

              “putting an entry in the euphemism directory”

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  26. monkeyball Sep 24,2009 5:10 pm
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  27. monkeyball Sep 24,2009 5:37 pm

    In college, I played bodhrán for the Metal Detectorists.

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    • nevermoor Sep 24,2009 5:49 pm || Up

      “(It is) absolutely the equivalent of finding a new Lindisfarne Gospels or Book of Kells.”

      Wrong.

      Also, I’m 97.21% sure you were a drummer for the Clods of Earth.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Sep 24,2009 6:02 pm || Up

        ICIPxFyOTM

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    • andeux Sep 24,2009 5:59 pm || Up

      It has been declared treasure by South Staffordshire coroner Andrew Haigh, meaning it belongs to the Crown.

      Oh, to be in England.

      TINSTAAFK
      • nevermoor Sep 24,2009 9:36 pm || Up

        Fancy language for eminent domain is all

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  28. mikeA Sep 24,2009 7:47 pm

    They’re showing game 19 of the streak right now. Zito just gave up back to back HRs to Neifi Perez and AJ Hinch…

  29. JediLeroy Sep 24,2009 7:52 pm

    MJ wished he could be part of a Hitler man-ram endgame:

    The rabbi put it to the singer, who died of heart failure in June aged 50: “You believe that if you had an hour with Hitler you could somehow touch something inside of him?”

    Jackson declared: “Absolutely. I know I could.”

    az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
    • mikeA Sep 24,2009 8:04 pm || Up

      If our politicians had any spine, one of them would have sent him down to Argentina, he would have returned with an apology, and we could all have finally put that nasty episode behind us.

      • JediLeroy Sep 24,2009 8:33 pm || Up

        There’s always tomorrow:

        az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
        • salb918 Sep 24,2009 9:10 pm || Up

          An Allan Folsom reference. Never thought I’d see one of those.

          • nevermoor Sep 24,2009 9:40 pm || Up

            FK – bringing the obscure references since 1997

            (___)

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • Leopold Bloom Sep 24,2009 9:45 pm || Up

              so we have about six years before we can market our single serving FreeKraut brand Kraut?

  30. Leopold Bloom Sep 24,2009 9:43 pm

    So does anyone else laugh like a little school girl when the Cubs hit a two run homerun in the top of the ninth versus the pumpkins across the bay?

    • mikeA Sep 24,2009 9:46 pm || Up

      I laughed like an old lady at the opera holding those glasses-on-sticks.

      • Leopold Bloom Sep 24,2009 10:50 pm || Up

        I laughed like a fat man at an all-you-can-eat rib place.

  31. mikeA Sep 24,2009 9:43 pm

    2002-Beltran looks exactly the same as Carlos G. at the plate. Same size, same swing.

  32. mk Sep 25,2009 8:51 am

    I am hopping mad about the recent lack of Science Thursdays.

    Once again, I’ll be forced to brave the weekend cocktail party circuit without any science-y tidbits in my small talk arsenal. Lefty polemics and Betty Draper dream sequence hypotheses tend not to set hearts aflutter (“Who do you think bailed out these Wall Street fat cats? The goddamn CIA, that’s who! Maybe you don’t care, but we’re torturing uninsured lesbian illegal immigrants at coal burning black sites in Yemen, it’s all off the fucking books, and your self-satisfied flag waving suburban latte conscience is at stake, asshole! … Medgar Evers. It was Medgar Evers, and her dad was huge, like a comic book villain, because he loomed large, see, even though he’s dead, and she was plastic perfect like a Barbie doll, but it wasn’t real, okay? It wasn’t real.”), but when I’m able to mix in some shape memory polymer talk, it’s a totally different story. I sound positively da Vincian. Suave. Sophisticated. A man of many disciplines.

    Whatever. I guess that’s all in the past. It’s back to numbing chit chat (where I work, what I do with my time, do I know so and so, Paula’s Ellen impersonation was so fantastic, don’t you think?, etc.) and red faced rants (see above). Or the slightly less nauseating alternative: stay home, eat Totinos, read Harper’s, fire off unhinged letters to various congressmen.

    Thanks Sal. Thanks a lot.

    • salb918 Sep 25,2009 10:22 am || Up

      You’re welcome.

      I actually had a pretty cool idea for a Mad Scientist Thursday, but I the youtube videos were pretty graphic and depicted acts that were unkind to dogs. Given TDF, I decided to restrain.

      • the dogfather Sep 25,2009 12:45 pm || Up

        Why thanks, sal. Not showing them is good; not doing them is even better.

        Besides, I have read enough of mk’s stuff to suspect he doesn’t really need the help facilitating his weekend’s assignations.

        The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
        • monkeyball Sep 25,2009 2:11 pm || Up

          Christ, what an assignation

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come

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