Wrong thread.
But while I’m here, wow, is it smoky around here. There are apparently 52 separate wildfires burning in Quebec at the moment, and the wind is carrying the smoke right to my doorstep.
Between that and the pine pollen, it’s a good day to stay in.
YEAH! Totally agree. I miss the VO dude saying “It’s vat de people vant!” THERE WERE SOME OTHER THINGS THE GERMAN PEOPLE WANTED BACK IN THE '40S, AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED! Or something.
Rimbo
1903
There’s a girl in this bar that looks kinda like a dark-haired version of fire, complete with a cute little tyke about the same age as hers.
I like this photo of the smoke from those Quebec forest fires settling into the Champlain Valley yesterday:
Credit goes to Tim Wilmot of the University of Vermont’s Proctor Maple Research Center.
Kael
1907
I have the wife on a strict rule that she cant buy anything for herself within a month of a holiday because of this. Just ebcause she waits until the last minute to go present shopping doesnt mean the rest of us do.
Gyms have hot women stretching and jiggling in tiny little workout outfits. Get some of those and I can promise a room full of hetero males eager to flex muscles.
Rimbo
1908
Seriously, fire’s kid is the second-cutest tyke I’ve ever seen.
The only high point of my trip to Virginia was getting to play Uncharted 2 on a 60-inch HDTV. Now I must own one.
Acid
1910
Well, no offense intended to fire or her family, but my kids are THE cutest. ;)
Acid
1911
ACK! I’m in too many discussion and I have work to do.
MUST HIT CTRL-F4 AND PRODUCE CONTENT. Blah.
robsam
1912
Sinkhole in Guatamala. It looks like something you would see on the Onion in a fake story.
Kael
1913
Only slightly worse than the surrounding area.
robsam
1915
From Rick Reilly’s ESPN column, a couple of these items made me wonder how Rimbo would respond. ;) Wasn’t sure where to post this, so Random Thread it is.
The Texas State Board of Education just hit on a genius idea. They just made history by making history up.
With a conservative majority on the board, they’re about to make sweeping changes in what Texas students will be taught and what will be written in textbooks about American history, including:
• Largely deleting the civil rights movement.
• Replacing any reference to “slave trade” with the “Atlantic triangular trade.”
• Changing any reference to “democracy” to “constitutional republic.”
• Treating Jefferson Davis the same as Abraham Lincoln.
• Describing the Civil War as a battle over states’ rights, with reference to slavery minimized.
Well, why not? If you have the votes, who needs the truth? But why stop there? Now Texas needs to change sports history. For instance, Texan kids need to learn that:
• Roger Staubach was our 38th president.
• The Negro Leagues will now be referred to as “The Unaffiliated and Absolutely Fine with How Things Are Baseball Volunteers.”
• Texas’ George Foreman retained his world heavyweight championship when Cassius Clay was disqualified for using an unpatriotic name.
• In 1943, Sammy Baugh led the NFL in passing, punting and interceptions while also single-handedly routing the Germans at Salerno using nothing more than the forward pass and a Bowie knife.
• The Texas Longhorns were national champions of the 2009 college football season, then played an “honorary” and “non-registering” game against Alabama in 2010, which they didn’t even take half seriously, playing their second-string QB.
• Dirk Nowitzki is now Dick (Bubba) Treetops, of Lubbock.
• Texas’ Ben Hogan won the 1953 Grand Slam by winning all three majors.
• Tom Landry named greatest all-time thing ever, followed by George W. Bush and Bevo.
• Yes, the University of Texas was one of the last college football powers to integrate its team, but this is only because the American-Africans in school never made it clear they wanted to play football, despite being asked repeatedly by their white friends. The American-Africans always said, “We hadn’t really thought about it. We’re too busy not being angry about Atlantic triangular trade.”
Rimbo
1916
I think it’s fucking hilarious. :)
Overheard in line at a McDonald’s in central Virginia: “I want a carr-mull frap.”
I really hate where I’m from.
Everything costs $300. I remember when everything used to cost $20. I miss those days.
H.
Yeah, and in certain company you can’t even effectively complain about it!
ME: “Man, I remember when pay phones only cost a dime!”
TEEN: “What’s a pay phone?”
Scrax
1920
Well, how do YOU pronounce it.
