A Black Hole of Happiness - Page 281

ltl/fb · 07-26-2007, 03:58 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Banshees wail. That's it.

I do not think Siouxie Sioux ever lifted a mop.

I think they signal impending death. Maybe subconsciously ppnyc wants all residents of her household to die? Or one specific one? Hmmmmmmmmm.

LessinSF · 07-26-2007, 04:20 PM

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Originally posted by barely_legal
Do banshees clean? I am not saying this to pick on you, but I have noticed a proliferation of "...like a banshee" in conversations and on television lately and I don't understand why. I thought the original metaphor was "scream like a banshee" because banshees are know for wailing, right? But "clean like a banshee" or "cook like a banshee" doesn't seem to make much sense.

She's made her bed, now she has to lie in it. (inside Big Brother reference)

patentparanyc · 07-26-2007, 04:21 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I think they signal impending death. Maybe subconsciously ppnyc wants all residents of her household to die? Or one specific one? Hmmmmmmmmm.

"Kiss them for Me" played backwards=death??!!!

LessinSF · 07-26-2007, 04:23 PM

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Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Yellow jersey Michael Rasmussen was fired by his team and dismissed from the tour last night. It just keeps getting worse...

The "sport" is approaching hockey in its irrelevance.

sebastian_dangerfield · 07-26-2007, 04:57 PM

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Originally posted by LessinSF
The "sport" is approaching hockey in its irrelevance.

"Approaching?" It's biking. Until Lance got cancer and won 7 times and the subsequent doping scandals erupted, it was the French Mint 400.*

*I watched a piece of it yesterday. Terry Gilliam was savaged for no good reason. It's funnier on subsequent viewings. My kid seems to like it, but not as much as Goodfellas.

greatwhitenorthchick · 07-26-2007, 05:00 PM

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Originally posted by LessinSF
The "sport" is approaching hockey in its irrelevance.

If you define relevance as having mass appeal, rather than catering to a niche market, hockey was never relevant like baseball or football here. It's only relevant in Canada and parts of Europe. Isn't that the same with the Tour -- basically only appeals to a certain niche here?

sebastian_dangerfield · 07-26-2007, 05:04 PM

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Originally posted by ironweed
Just when I think that I couldn't care any less about work, that I couldn't phone it in any more feebly than I do, that it couldn't get any more difficult to force myself to perform even the simplest task, I discover hitherto-untapped and seemingly inexhaustible reserves of apathy. Go me!

Xanax. Xanax. Xanax.

It's near impossible not to answer any question any douchebag asks with "eh, I donno."

Fathoms of apathy you didn't know existed. It is the Jesus Christ of Lawyers Little Helpers.

It even made my office anger go away.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 07-26-2007, 05:04 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
If you define relevance as having mass appeal, rather than catering to a niche market, hockey was never relevant like baseball or football here. It's only relevant in Canada and parts of Europe. Isn't that the same with the Tour -- basically only appeals to a certain niche here?

Thank God NASCAR is the nation's most relevant sport!

sebastian_dangerfield · 07-26-2007, 05:07 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Thank God NASCAR is the nation's most relevant sport!

If that isn't the biggest crock of manufactured horseshit I have ever seen I don't know what is. I have nothing against Nascar, but this "Nascar is America's Sport" nonsense makes me want to start slapping people.

sebastian_dangerfield · 07-26-2007, 05:09 PM

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Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Might of interest to 2 or 3 of you. It's kind of long, but whatever.

Stevie Wonder, SFW, Sound

You should see that crazy fucker play on "Cocksucker Blues." I had no idea he was basically a Jerry Lee Lewis style nut onstage in his youth.

Anne Elk · 07-26-2007, 05:11 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
"Approaching?" It's biking. Until Lance got cancer and won 7 times and the subsequent doping scandals erupted, it was the French Mint 400.*

*I watched a piece of it yesterday. Terry Gilliam was savaged for no good reason. It's funnier on subsequent viewings. My kid seems to like it, but not as much as Goodfellas.

Some of us old folk became fans back when Greg Lemond was riding in the 80's. Thankfully the current proliferation of cable TV stations* and Al Gore's invention of the internets has made following the race much easier.

ltl/fb · 07-26-2007, 05:11 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Xanax. Xanax. Xanax.

It's near impossible not to answer any question any douchebag asks with "eh, I donno."

Fathoms of apathy you didn't know existed. It is the Jesus Christ of Lawyers Little Helpers.

It even made my office anger go away.

So, a friend of mine is really deeply angry, like all the time, lately and honestly I think the root root root basic down-deep cause is that her romantic partner is an ass and an albatross around her neck and a jerk. It's distressing being around her because she's just angry at the world, particularly at any kind of authority figure. I totally can't tell her what I think, can I? I think she is aware that I don't particularly like him.

ETA I thought you, Mr. Formerly Permanently Angry, might have insight.

sebastian_dangerfield · 07-26-2007, 05:14 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
Some of us old folk became fans back when Greg Lemond was riding in the 80's. Thankfully the current proliferation of cable TV stations* and Al Gore's invention of the internets has made following the race much easier.

Yeh, but is that really a "sport?" You follow it the same way you might The Surge in Iraq, or the World Series of Poker.

YMMV... I never understood watching sports like running or biking or swimming. The only one I liked was skiing, becuase it's actually frighteningly fast and only takes a few minutes a run.

notcasesensitive · 07-26-2007, 05:15 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
So, a friend of mine is really deeply angry, like all the time, lately and honestly I think the root root root basic down-deep cause is that her romantic partner is an ass and an albatross around her neck and a jerk. It's distressing being around her because she's just angry at the world, particularly at any kind of authority figure. I totally can't tell her what I think, can I? I think she is aware that I don't particularly like him.

ETA I thought you, Mr. Formerly Permanently Angry, might have insight.

What is the eta of Hank's it must be Mr. Man joke?

Tyrone Slothrop · 07-26-2007, 05:18 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
So, a friend of mine is really deeply angry, like all the time, lately and honestly I think the root root root basic down-deep cause is that her romantic partner is an ass and an albatross around her neck and a jerk. It's distressing being around her because she's just angry at the world, particularly at any kind of authority figure. I totally can't tell her what I think, can I? I think she is aware that I don't particularly like him.

Maybe it's the other way around, and she is unhappy for some other profound reason (depression?) and is hanging around with him because she's unhappy.