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by Shirley
Fri Sep 20, 2024 2:04 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Replies: 953
Views: 88937

Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two

Johnny Carwash wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 12:21 pm This might be something everyone already knows, but the one second from the left was Joan of Arc in Bill & Ted.
Wow, I never noticed that. It seems so obvious now. I guess I don't think about the Go-Gos that much.
by Shirley
Fri Sep 20, 2024 2:02 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Jagr's pro hockey career
Replies: 3
Views: 70

Re: Jagr's pro hockey career

He was still playing??


Update: Shit, he's 52. I played pickup hoops last night (3rd week in a row!) at 54 and I feel like I deserve a medal.
by Shirley
Fri Sep 20, 2024 11:33 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9580
Views: 631418

Re: Random Politics

I feel like I should be empathetic to these guys’ wives, because if there aren’t arrangements in place, or there is more to the relationship than is publicly known, these guys are treating their wives like shit for going on Ashley Madison. But at the same time, they have to see what their husbands ...
by Shirley
Thu Sep 19, 2024 4:45 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9580
Views: 631418

Re: Random Politics

HaulCitgo wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 4:43 pm Seems like relatively normal anonymous internet rantings of a guy that didn't think he would be in the national limelight. Still hypocrisy.
He said he'd prefer Hitler as president over Obama. That's not normal.
by Shirley
Thu Sep 19, 2024 4:42 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9580
Views: 631418

Re: Random Politics

This story just keeps getting better. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/1 ... n-00180107
by Shirley
Thu Sep 19, 2024 4:25 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9580
Views: 631418

Re: Random Politics

Nonlinear FC wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 4:20 pm Once again, it's not really the actions (in terms of the trans loving porn stuff), it's the hypocrisy from these folks...

Oh, yeah, and the Nazism. That too.
And the racism - from a black guy no less. Sexism as well. He covered himself in a lot of ism.
by Shirley
Thu Sep 19, 2024 4:18 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9580
Views: 631418

Re: Random Politics

I love that this time, Mark Robinson's awful, crazy behavior has caught the attention of the Internet and national media. He's all over my Twitter. Love it. He's done.
by Shirley
Thu Sep 19, 2024 3:27 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9580
Views: 631418

Re: Random Politics

Quite sure the dude didnt have a sign that said "prospective future governor." The wifes family is from greensboro and overweight black guys are about the level of specificity as white guys wearing UNC jerseys https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/nc-election-governor-republican-mark-rob...
by Shirley
Thu Sep 19, 2024 3:01 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9580
Views: 631418

Re: Random Politics

Damn, CNN really dotted their i's and crossed their t's on that one, didn't they? I love that that idiot posted crazy stuff like that on a porn forum with his real name and email address and is still using that username today on social media.
by Shirley
Thu Sep 19, 2024 2:51 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9580
Views: 631418

Re: Random Politics

Is it better for Harris if Robinson stays in or gets out? I don't have any evidence, but I've thought for a bit that Robinson might be an anchor on Trump's chances in NC. Robinson's campaign has been foundering for a while as people learn more and more about what an awful person he is. That said, N...
by Shirley
Thu Sep 19, 2024 2:29 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9580
Views: 631418

Re: Random Politics

There was a story about him a week or two ago that had several adult video/book store clerks saying he came in every day to their store for years (back 20 years or so ago). Anyone who is that into porn that they regularly went into one of those gross places you know eventually got into the really na...
by Shirley
Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:32 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Hypothetical college football question
Replies: 28
Views: 309

Re: Hypothetical college football question

Football would definitely be the hardest to take over, although it's true that a lot head coaches these days are more senior management than active coaches. You might get away with faking it for one game, leaning on coordinators, but one practice would expose you. Basketball is the next hardest, and...
by Shirley
Wed Sep 18, 2024 7:42 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Godless III - Completing The Trinity
Replies: 2330
Views: 249358

Re: Godless III - Completing The Trinity

Terrible meter Amazingly, I think this fucking idiot went French for one word because he thought it would have kept it on meter, when in fact just saying "without" would have been on meter. Just on that middle couplet I mean. Exactly. I had the same thought. Of course, I'm willing to bet ...
by Shirley
Wed Sep 18, 2024 4:54 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!
Replies: 123
Views: 5506

Re: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!

Sacramento State is apparently making a big push to get added to the Pac 12. It makes sense. 30,000 students, a great athletic program. Would be the largest media market in the conference. I feel like I follow college sports fairly well and I am only barely aware that Sacramento State is a school p...
by Shirley
Wed Sep 18, 2024 4:15 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!
Replies: 123
Views: 5506

Re: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!

Sacramento State is apparently making a big push to get added to the Pac 12. It makes sense. 30,000 students, a great athletic program. Would be the largest media market in the conference. I feel like I follow college sports fairly well and I am only barely aware that Sacramento State is a school p...
by Shirley
Wed Sep 18, 2024 4:12 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Godless III - Completing The Trinity
Replies: 2330
Views: 249358

Re: Godless III - Completing The Trinity

Terrible meter
by Shirley
Tue Sep 17, 2024 8:23 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Ball of Confusion
Replies: 623
Views: 54153

Re: Ball of Confusion

I assumed the 2800 were the Hezbollah targets with the pagers. I guess that'll be hard to prove. From the few videos, they did appear to be very small explosions though, not hurting people who were standing just a couple of feet away. BTW, don't get me wrong. I'm not a fan of war or bombing or killi...
by Shirley
Tue Sep 17, 2024 6:14 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Ball of Confusion
Replies: 623
Views: 54153

Re: Ball of Confusion

I mean, say what you will about Israel's awful tactics in Gaza, but this was some pretty fucking elite shit. They apparently sabotaged Hezbollah's pagers a while ago to include small explosives. That's some creative spy-vs-spy stuff right there.
by Shirley
Tue Sep 17, 2024 3:18 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Things That Make You Feel Young
Replies: 16
Views: 476

Re: Things That Make You Feel Young

Is she the most attractive traveling Phish fan ever?
by Shirley
Tue Sep 17, 2024 3:13 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Defector.com
Replies: 349
Views: 20015

Re: Defector.com

I didn't read the entire thing (dude could use an editor), but that was my takeaway... Musk is just the face of a fairly ridiculous and completely unnecessary idea of colonizing a planet that makes almost zero sense to colonize. With that said, a fairly quick rejoinder to that article is that most ...
by Shirley
Tue Sep 17, 2024 11:53 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Defector.com
Replies: 349
Views: 20015

Re: Defector.com

Albert Burneko shared his thoughts on Musks' attempts to colonize Mars . (you can read the entire post without a subscription). Here's just a smidge OK, so you still want to talk about Mars. Fine. Let's imagine that Mars's lack of a magnetic field somehow is not an issue. Would you like to try to s...
by Shirley
Tue Sep 17, 2024 10:55 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Presidential Election 2024
Replies: 2285
Views: 146002

Re: Presidential Election 2024

Can you lend a miggrant a pencil?
by Shirley
Tue Sep 17, 2024 10:41 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Replies: 953
Views: 88937

Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two

Shirley wrote: Mon Mar 27, 2023 1:58 pm The Go-Gos started out as a punk band.
Adding to this, I just learned that Belinda Carlisle was an original drummer of punk band The Germs, most famous for starting the career of guitarist Pat Smear.

(I also just learned that Pat Smear is a quarter African American and was in Blade Runner.)
by Shirley
Mon Sep 16, 2024 1:17 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2024/2025 pickem and survivor
Replies: 5
Views: 665

Re: 2024/2025 pickem and survivor

asherjackson wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 2:37 am Already Registered.
?????

Is this a real person? I have my doubts.
by Shirley
Mon Sep 16, 2024 1:09 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Live Music thread...
Replies: 2289
Views: 220792

Re: The Live Music thread...

The Smashing Pumpkins are opening for Green Day? I mean, sure Green Day was probably a bit bigger, but not that much. I wouldn't think the Pumpkins would open for nearly anybody.
by Shirley
Mon Sep 16, 2024 12:56 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
Replies: 6425
Views: 474910

Re: Television (no longer temporary)

I just finished season 10 of Alone on Netflix last night. Anyone else watch this show? It's pretty amazing. I'm almost entirely down on reality television, but I'm pretty sure this one is legit. My wife and I enjoy it. They are alone but they get checked up on so they don't go against their own bod...
by Shirley
Mon Sep 16, 2024 10:25 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 9287
Views: 570787

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

i'm fairly confident that this isn't on a Pink Floyd level of naiveté but I've absolutely never heard this song before in any format. We must have had different cable companies...? Which hip hop song from the '90s is used more often than Ante Up for the commercials and the like? https://youtu.be/3M...
by Shirley
Mon Sep 16, 2024 10:18 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
Replies: 6425
Views: 474910

Re: Television (no longer temporary)

I just finished season 10 of Alone on Netflix last night. Anyone else watch this show? It's pretty amazing. I'm almost entirely down on reality television, but I'm pretty sure this one is legit.
by Shirley
Fri Sep 13, 2024 2:29 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The WWLIS Thread
Replies: 413
Views: 27029

Re: The WWLIS Thread

He's obviously doing it for a joke. I gotta say, not bad. I wouldn't have thought Whitlock had any sense of humor.
by Shirley
Fri Sep 13, 2024 2:12 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Replies: 4111
Views: 314118

Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

I had no idea that guy was Steve McQueen's son.
by Shirley
Fri Sep 13, 2024 1:25 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: ID Your Post Survivor Game
Replies: 141
Views: 5176

Re: ID Your Post Survivor Game

Gunpowder wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 10:26 am The ellipses are screaming who this is but I can't place it

Of course the misspelling makes it trickier. Like I don't think it's BillCross
He definitely would have spelled it right. And given a more detailed definition.
by Shirley
Fri Sep 13, 2024 9:34 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: ID Your Post Survivor Game
Replies: 141
Views: 5176

Re: ID Your Post Survivor Game

Sigh...TB is eliminated for not remembering how much he loved Justice League as a child in Cincy. Everyone still alive but BFJ and TB. NEXT Adding some context for fairness here but it's phenomenal... Rballer claimed that him and Brumz made up the word "bukkake" but he spelled it "be...
by Shirley
Thu Sep 12, 2024 4:55 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: WNBA Thread (2016-current)
Replies: 182
Views: 14275

Re: WNBA Thread (2016-current)

I had wondered about some of these records, but it makes sense now to hear that they're playing more games. I feel like announcers should mention that when announcing "most ever in a season" records.

(But that turnover stat is nuts. She's beating the record by like 40%!
by Shirley
Thu Sep 12, 2024 11:38 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: ID Your Post Survivor Game
Replies: 141
Views: 5176

Re: ID Your Post Survivor Game

Jerloma wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 9:26 am I would never partake in such sophomoric blasphemy.

That song is so brilliant
by Shirley
Thu Sep 12, 2024 11:19 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Ed Kranepool
Replies: 16
Views: 622

Re: Ed Kranepool

Technology has changed a bit since the original https://suno.com/song/7b284145-c8ab-4d28-81af-7dd823d037f7 Masterpiece So, did you rap that? It doesn't sound like your voice. No, that's AI singing something I made 15+ years ago That makes sense. I thought the recording was old and there wasn't AI r...
by Shirley
Wed Sep 11, 2024 11:48 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Presidential Election 2024
Replies: 2285
Views: 146002

Re: Presidential Election 2024

That's hilarious, but unfortunately, that's a parody account.

The Simpsons bit up there is fantastic. Enjoying Twitter today.
by Shirley
Tue Sep 10, 2024 5:24 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Ed Kranepool
Replies: 16
Views: 622

Re: Ed Kranepool

Gunpowder wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 1:51 pm Technology has changed a bit since the original


https://suno.com/song/7b284145-c8ab-4d2 ... d823d037f7
Masterpiece

So, did you rap that? It doesn't sound like your voice.
by Shirley
Tue Sep 10, 2024 5:14 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Live Music thread...
Replies: 2289
Views: 220792

Re: The Live Music thread...

Giff wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 12:49 pm This led to a question I never thought about asking...is Possum Kingdom a song that is only popular regionally? It's a staple in Texas.
Had to google it. Had no idea that was the name of that song, but it absolutely is one that got a lot of play around here.
by Shirley
Tue Sep 10, 2024 5:09 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Replies: 549
Views: 79072

Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread

P.D.X. wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 12:40 pm Puzzle just released! Looks... difficult. They gave me an assembled one and a couple boxed ones. Have not tried it yet. (They have a staff artist that draws all the piece shapes - he's quite good.)
Oh shit! We've bought a few of their puzzles for my in-laws. Very cool puzzles. That's awesome.
by Shirley
Tue Sep 10, 2024 5:08 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: What are you reading in 2024?
Replies: 22
Views: 1345

Re: What are you reading in 2024?

Second Life of Nick Mason by Steve Hamilton - I heard Hamilton on a podcast, and he seemed like a very interesting and nice guy. He has won many awards, and other authors seem to love him. so maybe my expectations were too high. I thought this was a just fine crime thriller. But completely formulai...