2013 Boston Marathon

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:43 pm

Icepenis wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:
Icepenis wrote:Nonsequitor and I apologize to Boston for noting this in its thread following a tragedy, but every time I get stuck in traffic on 95 I think, man, this is what Tom Cochrane thinks life is like.
Are you saying he's incorrect? Cause I'd be on the side of more stop and go, unscheduled delays and idiots surrounding me rather than free sailing all night long.

Yeah but why is he singing about it like it's awesome and he can't wait to do that all day?

He's canadian. All he has to worry about is dodging moose droppings and or moose.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:44 pm

AB_skin_test wrote: He's canadian. All he has to worry about is dodging moose droppings and or moose.

Yeah but at least he knows that coffee is hot.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:45 pm

Icepenis wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:
Icepenis wrote:Nonsequitor and I apologize to Boston for noting this in its thread following a tragedy, but every time I get stuck in traffic on 95 I think, man, this is what Tom Cochrane thinks life is like.
Are you saying he's incorrect? Cause I'd be on the side of more stop and go, unscheduled delays and idiots surrounding me rather than free sailing all night long.

Yeah but why is he singing about it like it's awesome and he can't wait to do that all day?

All night.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:51 pm

rass wrote:
Icepenis wrote:Nonsequitor and I apologize to Boston for noting this in its thread following a tragedy, but every time I get stuck in traffic on 95 I think, man, this is what Tom Cochrane thinks life is like.

Yeah but why is he singing about it like it's awesome and he can't wait to do that all day?

All night.[/quote]

Seriously. This makes a huge difference. Stick to the highways at night, you are cruising at high speeds, free as a bird. Life is good on the open road. Tom Cochrane ain't driving life at rush hour like a working stiff. He is rocking life like a late night open road drive, mother fucker. All. Night. Long.

Post by **brian** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:52 pm

The Sybian wrote:
rass wrote:
Icepenis wrote:Nonsequitor and I apologize to Boston for noting this in its thread following a tragedy, but every time I get stuck in traffic on 95 I think, man, this is what Tom Cochrane thinks life is like.

Yeah but why is he singing about it like it's awesome and he can't wait to do that all day?
All night.

Seriously. This makes a huge difference. Stick to the highways at night, you are cruising at high speeds, free as a bird. Life is good on the open road. Tom Cochrane ain't driving life at rush hour like a working stiff. He is rocking life like a late night open road drive, mother fucker. All. Night. Long.[/quote]

Livin' the all-freedom, all the time lifestyle. Like a Canadian DadBoner.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:53 pm

FBI says that Tom Cochrane is a "person of interest"

Post by **brian** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:53 pm

(And how did this thread -- of all threads -- somehow get threadjacked by a shitty rock song?)

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:55 pm

brian wrote:(And how did this thread -- of all threads -- somehow get threadjacked by a shitty rock song?)

Like you do.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:56 pm

brian wrote:(And how did this thread -- of all threads -- somehow get threadjacked by a shitty rock song?)

Tom Cochrane could have saved the Swamp if he had made it through all of those cities and all of those towns and gotten here two days earlier.

Post by **brian** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:58 pm

AB_skin_test wrote:
brian wrote:(And how did this thread -- of all threads -- somehow get threadjacked by a shitty rock song?)
Like you do.

Oh, I wasn't casting stones. I was right there with you guys. Of course, in the absence of any apparent real news regarding arrests and/or suspects, why not I guess?

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:59 pm

brian wrote:(And how did this thread -- of all threads -- somehow get threadjacked by a shitty rock song?)

Leave it to CNN!

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:02 pm

There is a traffic jam on the south side of the Big Dig on 93 at all hours of the day. When I was living in Dorchester I came home once at 4 AM Saturday morning and it took me 35 minutes to get from the tunnel entrance to my exit...two miles away.

And a traffic jam at the 93/95 shit show right outside Boston all the time as well. That bad boy was designed and built for 50s traffic and it shows.

The Sybian wrote:
Seriously. This makes a huge difference. Stick to the highways at night, you are cruising at high speeds, free as a bird. Life is good on the open road. Tom Cochrane ain't driving life at rush hour like a working stiff. He is rocking life like a late night open road drive, mother fucker. All. Night. Long.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:03 pm

brian wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:
brian wrote:(And how did this thread -- of all threads -- somehow get threadjacked by a shitty rock song?)
Like you do.
Oh, I wasn't casting stones. I was right there with you guys. Of course, in the absence of any apparent real news regarding arrests and/or suspects, why not I guess?

Just an eddie izzard joke that uses when he talks about things that happened that are not in the least bit normal or explainable.

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:09 pm

this thread has been attacked by the Lunatic Fringe of the Swamp

<ahem>

carry on.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:10 pm

The onion nails the NY post.

temporary howard · Post by **temporary howard** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:13 pm

Korked Bats ‏@korkedbats 16m

CNN has committed so many errors today, they've been called up by the Cubs.
Retweeted by Taylor W

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:24 pm

Bomb threat called into the federal court house in Boston...fully evacuated.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:25 pm

temporary howard?

Where did permanent howard go?

Edit: It sounds like utter chaos.

But Twitter today is hilarious.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:28 pm

CNN's liveblog does not mention the bomb threat at the courthouse, but does have this note:

[Updated at 2:23 p.m. ET] As news of an arrest spreads, a crowd has been gathering outside a federal courthouse in Boston.

temporary howard · Post by **temporary howard** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:29 pm

Permanent howard will be back shortly. A quick administrative maneuver. The lads are on the mf case.

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:33 pm

Jerloma wrote:Bomb threat called into the federal court house in Boston...fully evacuated.

good thing i left work at noon, i work right next door.

i'm going back to Scotland, permanently.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:36 pm

MaxWebster wrote:
Jerloma wrote:Bomb threat called into the federal court house in Boston...fully evacuated.
good thing i left work at noon, i work right next door.

i'm going back to Scotland, permanently.

Hmmm. You conveniently left before the threat. Now you're leaving the country.

Icepenis! Alert the authorities!

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:37 pm

rass wrote:CNN's liveblog does not mention the bomb threat at the courthouse, but does have this note:

[Updated at 2:23 p.m. ET] As news of an arrest spreads, a crowd has been gathering outside a federal courthouse in Boston.

Wait, for real?

temporary howard · Post by **temporary howard** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:40 pm

Just jitters. Typical post-disaster jitters, these two evacs today (Fed courthouse and Brigham/Womens' Hospital). Were I working there today (in the hospital, in the context of this terrorist murder on Monday) I would literally refuse to interrupt a surgical case in progress in response to an evac order. The odds of jitters vs an actual threat override the odds of interruption harming a patient (of course subject to the details of any given surgical case.)

Nonlinear--no, not for real. The crowd is people who have been evacuated from the courthouse.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:41 pm

temporary howard wrote:Just jitters. Typical post-disaster jitters, these two evacs today (Fed courthouse and Brigham/Womens' Hospital). Were I working there today (in the hospital, in the context of this terrorist murder on Monday) I would literally refuse to interrupt a surgical case in progress in response to an evac order. The odds of jitters vs an actual threat override the odds of interruption harming a patient (of course subject to the details of any given surgical case.)

Nonlinear--no, not for real. The crowd is people who have been evacuated from the courthouse.

Is there a way to figuratively interrupt a surgical procedure?

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:42 pm

Dammit. And that was funny, too.

Sorry rass! Didn't mean to be a "the jokes not funny if you have to explain it" buzz kill guy.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:44 pm

AB_skin_test wrote:
MaxWebster wrote:
Jerloma wrote:Bomb threat called into the federal court house in Boston...fully evacuated.
good thing i left work at noon, i work right next door.

i'm going back to Scotland, permanently.
Hmmm. You conveniently left before the threat. Now you're leaving the country.

Icepenis! Alert the authorities!

CNN reporting that FBI interested in Scotch apples herder, also upgrading terror alert to "taintshadow peach"

temporary howard · Post by **temporary howard** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:46 pm

Sorry AB. I do that a lot with 'literally'. But people tend to underestimate my use of the words 'I refuse'. Over and over. I don't get it. Then they get upset when they recognize that to me, refuse means, 'oh shit, that nigga really means it'.

Post by **brian** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:55 pm

Wake me when the alert level is blackwatch plaid.

(For the one or two other Harvey Birdman fans in the Swamp....)

phxgators · Post by **phxgators** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:18 pm

The bomb threat had to be a smokescreen to bring someone in, right? Listening to the WCVB broadcast, at least one judge went into the building while it was still "being cleared". Probably why there were so many conflicting reports about an arrest, it wasn't supposed to be public yet.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:47 pm

I dunno man. They don't have an underground garage? They've got to scare the shit out of hundreds of people, not just here but also a local hospital?

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:52 pm

phxgators wrote:The bomb threat had to be a smokescreen to bring someone in, right? Listening to the WCVB broadcast, at least one judge went into the building while it was still "being cleared". Probably why there were so many conflicting reports about an arrest, it wasn't supposed to be public yet.

It does seem pretty damn convenient.

I'll bet he yells, "I'm just a patsy!"

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 5:57 pm

You know what's really cool?

The crowd now forming with the "Oh, so when a bomb goes off the bomber is blamed, but when someone kills someone with a gun, guns are blamed!!! WHY IS THAT?!?"

People are fucking idiots.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:49 pm

Johnnie wrote:You know what's really cool?

The crowd now forming with the "Oh, so when a bomb goes off the bomber is blamed, but when someone kills someone with a gun, guns are blamed!!! WHY IS THAT?!?"

People are fucking idiots.

Sooooo glad I haven't come across any of those posts yet. Still waiting for my background check to clear on my bomb permit, now that you mention it. Should be coming in any day now [fingers crossed]

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:36 pm

Yup. I teared up.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:23 pm

Oh man...B's lost in shoot-out? Damn.

Have they arrested anybody for this thing yet?

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:02 pm

FBI arrests Mississippi man in ricin letter case (Reuters)

Official: Two men sought as possible suspects in Boston bombing (CNN)

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:06 pm

That Ricin is some scary ass shit. Do they run the mail through special lights or something crazy that they can detect such small amounts (and that it didn't kill someone on the way to DC.)

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:11 pm

I had the bloomberg tv on in the background this afternoon. I heard them talking about some extensive measures they routinely use to screen Congress' mail offsite. Includes xray imaging, chemical screening, irradiation, a lot of shit I had never though about or considered. I wasn't paying close attention.

garyclark · Post by **garyclark** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:21 pm

howard wrote:I had the bloomberg tv on in the background this afternoon. I heard them talking about some extensive measures they routinely use to screen Congress' mail offsite. Includes xray imaging, chemical screening, irradiation, a lot of shit I had never though about or considered. I wasn't paying close attention.

Really, I wasn't. I wasn't paying any attention and I definitely wasn't taking notes.

(I kid).