The Swamp

Gunpowder wrote:Anybody see Hot Tub Time Machine?

I have not but was told my movie premise is similar and that sucks. Is this similar to HTTM?:

I go back in time to like the early 80s or so. I steal rap songs, mostly DMX's and I'm HUGE. Like, Ruff Ryder's Anthem is the top song of 1982 and I'm killing it. However, 15 years later, struggling rapper and petty criminal DMX is fed up with his failures in the rap game and he ends up killing the Canadian Prime Minister, sparking WWIII. My son is eventually drafted into the war effort so I'm conflicted as hell. Yada yada yada.

Gunpowder wrote:Anybody see Hot Tub Time Machine?

I have not but was told my movie premise is similar and that sucks. Is this similar to HTTM?:

I go back in time to like the early 80s or so. I steal rap songs, mostly DMX's and I'm HUGE. Like, Ruff Ryder's Anthem is the top song of 1982 and I'm killing it. However, 15 years later, struggling rapper and petty criminal DMX is fed up with his failures in the rap game and he ends up killing the Canadian Prime Minister, sparking WWIII. My son is eventually drafted into the war effort so I'm conflicted as hell. Yada yada yada.

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rass wrote:How many times has Charles Manson had his tattoo touched up over the years?

You know how like a few times a year some kid dies of a completely treatable affliction due to medical neglect because the parents belong to some Christian Science church that promotes faith-healing only and then they get like 10 years for manslaughter? Ever wonder why you don't see the pastors of these churches charged? I mean what's the difference between a guy that brainwashes people into letting their children suffer and die and Charles Manson?

Have you ever read about what the Manson Family did in those houses?

You know, I haven't. I'm working under the impression that Chuck never directly committed any crimes though.

Johnny Carwash wrote:My mom was friends growing up with Leslie van Houten of the "Family." Midway through high school Leslie started getting "strange" and drifted away from my mom and the others in that circle of friends. They lost contact with her and did not hear from her again until she showed up in the news after the killings.

Wait--should this go in the Brushes thread?

P.D.X. wrote:The other day I'm going to my gym, which happens to be in an office building so I pass through the lobby every time, and I notice this older guy sitting outside the sandwich shop with an entire loaf of bread in his hands. He's just taking bites off it, one at a time. No butter or anything. It's one of those large, roundish, artisan-type loafs. So I go do my workout, and on the way out, he's polishing off the very last of it. For 45+ minutes, this guy just sat there and ate an entire loaf of bread. Crazy.

brian wrote:

P.D.X. wrote:The other day I'm going to my gym, which happens to be in an office building so I pass through the lobby every time, and I notice this older guy sitting outside the sandwich shop with an entire loaf of bread in his hands. He's just taking bites off it, one at a time. No butter or anything. It's one of those large, roundish, artisan-type loafs. So I go do my workout, and on the way out, he's polishing off the very last of it. For 45+ minutes, this guy just sat there and ate an entire loaf of bread. Crazy.

I have to admit I've actually done this before. (Though not out in public.)

P.D.X. wrote:

brian wrote:

P.D.X. wrote:The other day I'm going to my gym, which happens to be in an office building so I pass through the lobby every time, and I notice this older guy sitting outside the sandwich shop with an entire loaf of bread in his hands. He's just taking bites off it, one at a time. No butter or anything. It's one of those large, roundish, artisan-type loafs. So I go do my workout, and on the way out, he's polishing off the very last of it. For 45+ minutes, this guy just sat there and ate an entire loaf of bread. Crazy.

I have to admit I've actually done this before. (Though not out in public.)

Just sitting there, not even watching tv or reading a magazine?

rass wrote:What's for dinner?

rass wrote:We get 10 work from home days a year. If I'm going to take advantage of even half of those I'm going to need to buy a real computer chair.

rass wrote:

Gunpowder wrote:Never saw that either.

I know. I remember.



In all seriousness(?), the ridiculous conflict with Canada causing WWIII sounds way too close to the South Park movie.

rass wrote:We get 10 work from home days a year. If I'm going to take advantage of even half of those I'm going to need to buy a real computer chair.

sancarlos wrote:Three and a half years ago, when they were packing up the office furniture for the move of the corporate office from San Mateo to Ann Arbor, I nipped the VP of HR's awesome Herman Miller office chair, and took it home to use in my home office.

Maybe that goes in the confessions thread...

brian wrote:

rass wrote:

Gunpowder wrote:Never saw that either.

I know. I remember.



In all seriousness(?), the ridiculous conflict with Canada causing WWIII sounds way too close to the South Park movie.

It's closer to Canadian Bacon than anything. And I don't get the Spaceballs reference at all (unless it was a joke...which I then didn't get).

sancarlos wrote:Three and a half years ago, when they were packing up the office furniture for the move of the corporate office from San Mateo to Ann Arbor, I nipped the VP of HR's awesome Herman Miller office chair, and took it home to use in my home office.

Maybe that goes in the confessions thread...

mister d wrote:Work drinkin', huh?

Johnny Carwash wrote:I'm pretty sure no retail store employee has ever responded to an intercom request.

rass wrote:Family. Day after Thanksgiving. Sunset. Beer. Screened porch. Fiona Apple? Fiona Apple. Leaves. Cool. Crisp. Fall. Smell? Pig rendering plant. North Caorlina? North Carolina!

rass wrote:I love it down ... Where my ... pretty ... sister ... i...s flat and empty.

rass wrote:Goldsboro, sir.

I love it down here, in small doses. Where my parents (still) live in DE was never all that South-ern (though you can find it if you look) and is pretty built up at this point. My sister lives out of town, where it's flat and empty.