The pacific northwest definitely has my favorite weather in the country. And I even loved the rest of the year when I was in Oregon. When it was 60-70, cloudy, and either raining or rain on the way soon, for 10 months. Loved it. I especially love that weather where it's not quite "raining", but feels like it just did, and it will again at any second. The Oregon coast has a lot of that. It's like walking in a cloud or something.

Idaho can get like that a little bit in the fall, but these desert summers are just fucking annoying. I hide inside all day.

And on a related topic, I'm a recent first-time homeowner, and it just seems insane to me to have to constantly spray water over my yard to maintain this artificial effect that would never last here naturally. It's like, such a disrespect of water or something. I need to get into that whole movement with the rocks and dirt and shrubs and everything.

At the end of A League of Their Own, does Dotty Henson intentionally drop the ball, letting her underachieving kid sister steal the glory? Or was it a legit drop and David slays Goliath?

I'm watching Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. I'm slightly buzzed. And now I really want a burger and probably shouldn't drive. :(

/tk

I forgot my cell phone.
You wanna run back and get it?
...no. We've gone too far.

I feel like I'm missing out. There is no Sonic particularly close to me. And the nearest White Castle is hella farther. I've never had either.

:(

/tk

I think they got the concept for the movie Inception from the Spongebob episode where Spongebob invades people's dreams.

Intentional as I recall watching it.

white castle is possibly the most disgusting thing you could ever eat!

I've never actually BEEN to a White Castle (stupid west coast not having them) but the frozen sliders from the grocery store are amazing.

I had Krystals a bunch of times, but never had White Castle until recently. To me, the onions that are in the meat give me a massive heartburn. Going down the food(and their crinkle fries) are excellent. But I feel like I pay for it a few hours later.

Plus they have this stuff called the Red Drank, which is awesome.

Have to believe it was a legit drop. If she intentionally did it, then she's a bitch for screwing over her own teammates.

Of course, the play is a perfect fictional example of what we were discussing in the MLB thread. Dottie applies the tag and doesn't drop the ball until she hits the ground. Runner should be out.

Actually had a date on Sunday and then she canceled, so I ended up not having a date on Sunday. It was last minute, so I'm not too bummed out by it.

The only time I was actually bothered about not being able to post on FOFC in the last 2 weeks was last night when someone posted a thread about chess!!

Message from Ebay -

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Was E-Bay wrong?

Ya.

What the hell am I going to do with Star Wars Monopoly tokens?

You'll have to let us know how that works out for you....







...or not.

Does sound like some kind of magical item though, like it should have a +1 after it or at a minimum it is one of the pieces of the Rod of Seven Parts.

Sounds more like a Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity to me.

Here you are...

I think that's for use after a rousing game of Busen Memo.

Four of the kids on my football team are playing for Missouri's 10U Little League state championship. A fifth would be playing as well but he hurt his hand earlier in the month and had to sit out of the tournament.

I get irrationally annoyed when kids are whining to their parents about what they want in a supermarket. Just about every type of food and drink known to man is available in this comfortable, air-condtioned mecca of human innovation, and these brats always come up with something that's not there but that they WANT.

I don't know how parents do it. They deserve a prize.

I have decided there are two things you can do in a situation like that. One is to leave the kids at home if they want to act like a fool. This was the preferred method for my parents. If I had acted the way I see some kids act in a store, not only would I possibly get jacked up in the store, I'd get jacked up in the car and then receive some sort of punishment at home. I certainly wouldn't be making another trip to the store for a while.

I understand a parent can't leave a very young underling at home alone. Leave them with a family member, friend, or take them to a friend's home. That's how the system worked at my place.

The other involves duct tape.

I go grocery shopping around midnight. Amazing how much of a quality of life decision this has been for me. I can't take weaving in and out from people or getting hit by an errant cart. And the kids, goddamn.

Meanwhile I rarely see a kid in any grocery store around here. {shrug} I think it's more a function of the activity-as-babysitter thing that's popular in this area than any change in my shopping habits.

I'd rather put up with kids whining in the store rather than the idiots that go in during the day so they can load up on free samples of stuff and stop at every station or going into the local Wal-mart on a Friday or Saturday night and have to deal with teenagers.

That reminds me of another grocery store incident I had this weekend.

I was checking out some of the local ethnic markets in town, including the Russian market. My friend that went me spent some time in Georgia and speaks a little Russian.

There were a bunch of Russian guys in there, and they were all interested in what we were buying. A few of them were really hyping the meat. One guy told me that the store owner would give me a sample of anything in the display case. I politely declined, and all the Russians looked so dejected and suddenly dispersed. My friend told me that I had offended them by not taking the samples. Damn it. I had no intention of buying anything, so the American in me felt like I shouldn't be taking the free samples. And aside from that, I wasn't hungry. But I apparently ended up offending a bunch of Russians.

I'll definitely go back and try to make it up to them. I'll eat whatever the hell they want me too.

They charge you like 30 dollars to get SAT scores from 1993. Seems a bit dumb that I even need them, but whatever.

24-hour grocery stores are phenomenal.

The only grocery store in the town I grew up in closes at like 6pm on sunday, and 8pm during the week. I couldn't live like that.

In Russia, they make you eat their meat.

In Soviet Russia, free samples eat you!

And I'm more than happy to do it. They were all pretty convincing, bragging about their meat.

I can't believe I didn't try Pandora radio earlier.

its awesome to use....till you hit the 40 hours a month limit :(

I'd go food shopping at midnight, but the self-check out lane closes at 9pm, so I usually go around 7 or 8. The place is usually dead at that time anyway (dunno why, but it is).

I don't like to brag, but, I haven't had any complaints about my meat.

There's a flipping limit??!!

unless you pay....

Is good meat! Came from good farms near Ukraine! Trust me!

Turns out all five boys played in the tournament. Scoring 8 runs in the first inning, we won 12-2. Congrats to the 10U state champs!

What was Warren Evans thinking?

I've had a general rule of never buying anything from "other sellers" on amazon.com. Last week, I broke that rule. They sent me the wrong thing. I will not break that rule anymore.

Is the "other sellers" the same as the amazon marketplace? I've bought through that 10-20 times and have never had a problem.

Yeah, I'm sure most people don't, since most sellers have 95%-99% positive feedback, but I've never once (that I remember) had a problem with amazon.com (must have had several dozen orders over the last 10 years), while this will be time number 2 or 3 with other sellers (out of I don't know how many, but not many). I guess I keep landing in that 1%-5% negative feedback range.

This. Self-checkout FTW

As long as you're not behind somebody who looks at those things like they're the control station for a nuclear submarine.

I wonder the same thing about self-checkouts that I do about airport check-in lines - what the hell are people doing up there? Both take me seconds. I go to the aiport and people ahead of me are having these huge conversations the the airline desk employees. I hand them my ID and get my bag checked. At the self-checkouts, I scan and go. What are other people doing at these things that require so much goddam time? Do they play movies and TV shows or something?