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[QuikSand]

maybe she meant the Mason Dixon line

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Oh, man -- Great Wolf flashbacks.

100% have to get a cabana at a place like that. won't even go without one

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

Did Del Monte change the ingredients in their mixed vegetable cans?

Before there was more green stuff and corn. I had a can last night and it was more potatoes and carrots.

If they changed the mixture I might as well just get the store brand. Kroger's mixed vegetables are also heavy on the carrots and potatoes but cost 50 cents less.

brilliant use of this thread

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Lathum

That is why we always spring for a cabana when possible. So much better of an experience.

whoa aren't we fancy?

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

whoa aren't we fancy?

Just can’t stand being around the commoners.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Lathum

Just can’t stand being around the commoners.

I...well...you are the smartest person alive, my liege.

[Ksyrup]

Maybe it used to happen, but I can't picture people "yelling and screaming for more" Glenn Miller band.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Maybe it used to happen, but I can't picture people "yelling and screaming for more" Glenn Miller band.

Well ... maybe?

The origin of the encore dates back to the 1700s

[Ksyrup]

Oh I can believe an encore, I just have a hard time picturing people going nuts for Glenn Miller.

[thesloppy]

The albatross and the whales they are my brothers

[CrimsonFox]

oh darn , darwin, etc
no, don't, stop...

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[CrimsonFox]

Whoa! I totally missed that Ian Anderson and Martin Barre each have their own Jethro Tull band now. Completely missed that. I hear they are honorary members of Journey too

[JonInMiddleGA]

Well damn, just weeks after Hardee's got themselves back into my "who could I order delivery from" rotation they close all the ones around here.

Looks like a rash of closures from multiple franchisees, a little googling turns up closures all over north Georgia, South Carolina (one that had been there since 1978), Missouri, and Kansas.

[Critch]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

Whoa! I totally missed that Ian Anderson and Martin Barre each have their own Jethro Tull band now. Completely missed that. I hear they are honorary members of Journey too

Ian Anderson "fired" Martin Barre a couple of years ago.

Ian Anderson tours as Jethro Tull, a bunch of musicians he's worked with for years, he still does the singing but his voice has gone.

Martin Barre tours as "The Martin Barre Band" and plays Jethro Tull songs, got a new singer and if there's an old Tull member around who wants to go a guest slot, it'll be with Martin Barre's band.

My wife decided she didnt want to go to London for her birthday because Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson's version) are playing DC that week.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Oh I can believe an encore, I just have a hard time picturing people going nuts for Glenn Miller.

Have you considered that the band may have been better than before?

[Ksyrup]

Quite possible. I suppose there were groupies even back then? Perhaps they were following his tour around the country and this was an amazing night.

In any event, whether the band came back out or not, it ended all too soon.

[Ksyrup]

I always get Malcolm McDowell and Roddy McDowall confused. I think it's because although Malcolm is apparently the better actor and more famous, I've only ever seen things Roddy is in. So, when I hear the name, I automatically think of this:

[JonInMiddleGA]

Superidle thought for the day: I really wish YouTube had some way of allowing users to avoid seeing those "shorts" in their subscriptions.

I doubt I bother with 1 out of 500 so they're literally just obnoxiously taking up space in my subscribed feed and making content I might watch harder to spot.

I hate to end up unsubbing from a channel over it but that's where things are heading. Those are actually more annoying that the stupid Reels on Facebook at this point.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I always get Malcolm McDowell and Roddy McDowall confused. I think it's because although Malcolm is apparently the better actor and more famous, I've only ever seen things Roddy is in. So, when I hear the name, I automatically think of this:

[CrimsonFox]

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Critch

Ian Anderson "fired" Martin Barre a couple of years ago.

Ian Anderson tours as Jethro Tull, a bunch of musicians he's worked with for years, he still does the singing but his voice has gone.

Martin Barre tours as "The Martin Barre Band" and plays Jethro Tull songs, got a new singer and if there's an old Tull member around who wants to go a guest slot, it'll be with Martin Barre's band.

My wife decided she didnt want to go to London for her birthday because Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson's version) are playing DC that week.

I saw them in the early 90s when they were still together and it....was just horrible. Simply horrible.

I don't think I'd want to see Tull even tho they are coming to my city. Barre band sounds better

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Well damn, just weeks after Hardee's got themselves back into my "who could I order delivery from" rotation they close all the ones around here.

Looks like a rash of closures from multiple franchisees, a little googling turns up closures all over north Georgia, South Carolina (one that had been there since 1978), Missouri, and Kansas.

I have long thought that Hardees are just fronts for money laundering. To say they are never busy may be an understatement. When every other restaurant in town is busy, some so busy the drive through line is in the street, Hardees will be a ghost town. You can drive up at noon, and they respond like they are surprised you are there, and then it takes them 20 minutes to get your order ready. I didn't ride by there today, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if that one is closed. That is not just isolated to that one store either. I have noticed that at three close to me here (though one has already closed). How have they stayed open for decades without customers?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

I have long thought that Hardees are just fronts for money laundering. To say they are never busy may be an understatement.

There's not been much purpose for them after breakfast ends for decades now.

Aside from the hot ham n cheese (which they ended up overpricing terribly) there wasn't a reason to be there after 10a or so.

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

I didn't realize they made a Sting biopic.

[Ksyrup]

Jack in the Box is making a big entry into Kentucky. 5 are opening in the Lexington area all of a sudden. Never been but I don't do the old style fast food places much any more.

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

I have long thought that Hardees are just fronts for money laundering.

... and brick-and-mortar mattress stores.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Jack in the Box is making a big entry into Kentucky. 5 are opening in the Lexington area all of a sudden. Never been but I don't do the old style fast food places much any more.

It's like the Taco Bell of burgers. Great drunk food. Although sometimes you just need a Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger.

RIP Monster Tacos though. Those things were amazing late night food.

[cuervo72]

Why in the world is ESPN sticking with a 6-2 game with 1:44 left rather than a game just underway? Farm the blowout to ESPNU.

OH SORRY 6-3 NOW I GUESS THAT CHANGES THINGS

[Critch]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Why in the world is ESPN sticking with a 6-2 game with 1:44 left rather than a game just underway? Farm the blowout to ESPNU.

OH SORRY 6-3 NOW I GUESS THAT CHANGES THINGS

And are we going to have two months of that annoying Scotts Turf Builder advert with the guy with the awful fake Scottish accent? And two months of the advert with the girl with a mustache? I'm sick of them already.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Atocep

It's like the Taco Bell of burgers. Great drunk food. Although sometimes you just need a Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger.

RIP Monster Tacos though. Those things were amazing late night food.

I just remember the 2 tacos for a buck...it was nothing but beef and gooey cheese in a hard shell but omfg. amazing garbage

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I didn't realize they made a Sting biopic.

lol yeah evber since the 90s when he appeared in that computer game Wing Commander 3 with Mark Hamill, he's looked like that (that was the heyday of trying mesh early CGI with live action actors . Looked terrible lol
WC3, 7th Guest, Phantasmagoria, and of course that crappy Cameron Avatar movie looked exactly like that

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I always get Malcolm McDowell and Roddy McDowall confused. I think it's because although Malcolm is apparently the better actor and more famous, I've only ever seen things Roddy is in. So, when I hear the name, I automatically think of this:

That's a truly classic Columbo episode, one of the best finales of the series.

And yeah I imagine Roddy has been seen by more Americans and by a pretty fair margin, by virtue of an earlier career, a longer career and a more varied career he would be much more accessible to the average person.

By the time Malcolm appeared in Clockwork Orange Roddy already had a career as a child star, had been in a Best Picture winner, had appeared in war epics, biblical epics, historical epics, every TV drama anthology known to man, had multiple Broadway hits, won a Tony, had a major part in a sci-fi classic.

And that's before we even really get to all the guest star work he did in the color era of television

[CrimsonFox]

He is also one of my favorite voice actors of all time. 2 of those pics other than Cornelius in Planet of the Apes (which was no doubt all dubbed in) were Samwise from Rankin Bass Return of the King
and Ratty from Wind in the WIllows

The last was Fright Night

But yeah a lot of his big stuff was 60 70s stuff. He worked so much. Malcolm pretty much had Clockwork and everything else was legacy of that. Got into a lot of scifi these past decades

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by Critch

And are we going to have two months of that annoying Scotts Turf Builder advert with the guy with the awful fake Scottish accent? And two months of the advert with the girl with a mustache? I'm sick of them already.

He looks like what you'd get if you told the makeup artist to make Seth Green look 65.

As far as the mustache girl, we actually had an interesting conversation with the in-laws about whether that was intended to be an LGBTQ-positive message in disguise. They were perplexed with what it had to do with the ad, if not to suggest some sort of androgynous character (especially since it is a woman dressing like a gay man). It's clear at the beginning she's not happy about having a mustache, but it seems the point is to go with what makes you "you" (and oh yeah, buy shit from Amazon). It just might be a little too subtle for DeSantis to get mad about - unless all the snowflake feelings haven't percolated to the top of the internet yet so I haven't seen the outrage and calls for a boycott.

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Superidle thought for the day: I really wish YouTube had some way of allowing users to avoid seeing those "shorts" in their subscriptions.

I doubt I bother with 1 out of 500 so they're literally just obnoxiously taking up space in my subscribed feed and making content I might watch harder to spot.

I hate to end up unsubbing from a channel over it but that's where things are heading. Those are actually more annoying that the stupid Reels on Facebook at this point.

Agreed. There should be a simple "no shorts" option.

[Ghost Econ]

Met some people at breakfast at the Dominican resort we're staying at. They live about 15 minutes from where I grew up. Knew some of the same people.

Last time in St. Lucia we met people who live 15 minutes from where we currently live. Know some of the same people.

It's weird how small the world can be sometimes.

[Ksyrup]

Same thing happened on our cruise. We had dinner at a specialty restaurant and sat with a young couple and the wife grew up in our town, graduated from the same HS my kids did, and they still live 30 minutes away.

[Ksyrup]

Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly is going to be the name of my first album.

[Lathum]

We did a Disney cruise about 6 years ago. Sitting at the pool and this guy sits uncomfortably close to me. Legs touching and says “what’s up man” Inlook over like, WTF, and it was our financial planner. Funny thing was we didn’t tell him we were spending 10K on a cruise!

[Critch]

I was in my local kabob shop to pick up our regular "yay! we've made it through another monday!" reward and I met a guy from my hometown, a fairly small town just outside Glasgow, Scotland. We didnt know each other but we knew a lot of the same people from playing high school soccer back in the 80s. Small world.

Strangest part of the conversation was him saying "say hello to Fergie from me next time you see him" and me having to answer "Fergie has been dead for 30 years".

[JonInMiddleGA]

I'm not even sure where to put this story but it's one of the more consistent clown shows I've seen in a long time. There was some sort of scuffle yesterday, today a defense attorney got arrested (prescription drugs not in original container, AND assault when he fired his phone at a bailiff), another of the 14 defendants was charged when they found he came to court with 2 bags of pot sown into a extra pair of undies he was wearing. Mind you, this occurs months after one defendant was charged with passing drugs in the courtroom to another defendant & then trying to eat the rest of the stash he was carrying in the courtroom.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/def...jury-selection

Meanwhile, jury selection continues (sort of) with hardship claims still being heard & decided ... we haven't even begun the voir dire process, which will have all 14 defendants attorneys take a stab at any questions they have about prospective jurors answers to a 283 item questionaire.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I'm not even sure where to put this story but it's one of the more consistent clown shows I've seen in a long time. There was some sort of scuffle yesterday, today a defense attorney got arrested (prescription drugs not in original container, AND assault when he fired his phone at a bailiff), another of the 14 defendants was charged when they found he came to court with 2 bags of pot sown into a extra pair of undies he was wearing. Mind you, this occurs months after one defendant was charged with passing drugs in the courtroom to another defendant & then trying to eat the rest of the stash he was carrying in the courtroom.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/def...jury-selection

Meanwhile, jury selection continues (sort of) with hardship claims still being heard & decided ... we haven't even begun the voir dire process, which will have all 14 defendants attorneys take a stab at any questions they have about prospective jurors answers to a 283 item questionaire.

Yeah, that is full on crazy stuff.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

Yeah, that is full on crazy stuff.

I'm expecting Terrance Hill (as Trinity) to show up any time now.

[GrantDawg]

I'm at Jordancon convention, abd me and a couple of friends pregamed last night. My mouth tastes of bad decisions.

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[sovereignstar v2]

that's what she said

[GrantDawg]

I think inviting a sailor to this was a bad idea. It is not even 6 pm and already sort of sloshed. We will bring heading to a brewery I'm an hour or so.

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[rjolley]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Superidle thought for the day: I really wish YouTube had some way of allowing users to avoid seeing those "shorts" in their subscriptions.

I doubt I bother with 1 out of 500 so they're literally just obnoxiously taking up space in my subscribed feed and making content I might watch harder to spot.

I hate to end up unsubbing from a channel over it but that's where things are heading. Those are actually more annoying that the stupid Reels on Facebook at this point.

I closed the Shorts section on my YouTube window an it said it would not show me any for 30 days. I haven't seen any since then. I haven't looked to see if there's a way to extend that, but I will at some point.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by rjolley

I closed the Shorts section on my YouTube window an it said it would not show me any for 30 days. I haven't seen any since then. I haven't looked to see if there's a way to extend that, but I will at some point.

I've never even noticed such a thing (an actual section devoted to them)... but I wonder if that applies if it's a channel you're subscribed to?

fwiw, I checked both my desktop (99.9999% of my YT usage) and the phone version (i mean, i know it exists) and found no option to even do such a wonderful thing :/

[thesloppy]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I've never even noticed such a thing (an actual section devoted to them)... but I wonder if that applies if it's a channel you're subscribed to?

fwiw, I checked both my desktop (99.9999% of my YT usage) and the phone version (i mean, i know it exists) and found no option to even do such a wonderful thing :/

From my desktop, if I go to youtube and scroll down through the initial feed I will eventually find a Shorts section and the innocuous looking X to the right will remove shorts for 30 days, but it's not obvious unless you hover over it:

[GrantDawg]

I have had poutine, and I will never be the same again.

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