Welcome to BHGP Hamsterdam
by Adam Jacobi on Aug 1, 2011 7:23 PM CDT
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PrintSay, BHGP commenters. We need to talk. We here at BHGP love and cherish all of you, and your continued support of our humble little website. Without you, we would be talking to nobody but a passing-by Internet, devoid of anything but mild acquaintances and random, invariably disappointed googlers. Moreover, the closely-knit community that we've developed has turned into one with a spirit of charity that's nearly unmatched in all of NCAA Blogfrica, as our continuing support of Iowa Touchdowns For Kids has demonstrated (more on that in a couple weeks, by the way; we are full-throttle go for Year 2). We wouldn't trade this community for any else on the Internet. Not a damn one of 'em.
But.
That closeness, over the course of now 4 years, creates a bubble of familiarity that becomes harder and harder for new readers to pierce, and to many it can become off-putting -- especially when the comment threads devolve quickly into interpersonal conversations that have little to no relevance to the topic at hand. We've been told on numerous occasions by casual readers that the comment threads are sufficiently intimidating that the readers no longer feel like participating.
That all said, we're not exactly in the mood to start Godzilla-stomping the networks and friendships you guys have accrued over the years just for the sake of staying on topic. That's happened on basically every other popular Iowa website out there already, and it sucks the fun out of it, plus it makes the admins look like overbearing assholes, and for good reason. We don't want to ban anybody, and we don't want to neuter (or for that matter spay) anybody's personality. But we also don't want to push away new people who read an article about the Hawkeyes and just want to talk about the Hawkeyes and not the Civil War or the state of Pennsylvania or whatever.
So to this, we offer a compromise.
Yes, friends: this is BHGP's Hamsterdam district. Your open thread, your playground, your whatever place. Every weekday, around 7 or so, we'll put up this thread with the understanding that it stays open for conversations of all shapes and sizes for 24 hours or whenever the next Hamsterdam thread goes up. It's our hope that Hamsterdam becomes the most popular part of BHGP for our regular members, so just point your browser at these threads every night, let the comments roll in automatically, keep it open the next day, and have fun.
Of course, that means we also have to come to an understanding that the other threads aren't playgrounds anymore. You can still tell jokes and have fun and all of that, but we just ask that it be at least mildly related to the original topic at hand. To that end, if you feel like someone's going too far off-topic or otherwise unduly calling attention to themselves in a regular thread, there's no need to do anything but politely request that they, well, "take it to Hamsterdam."
If you've just come home drunk and want to say what's up to the world, take it to Hamsterdam. If you like this weird youtube of a farting elephant and want the BHGP commenters to know about it, take it to Hamsterdam. If someone mentions something in a comment thread that reminds you of an interesting tangent, take it to Hamsterdam--and bring them along too, otherwise it would be confusing.
Now, our existing site rules are still in effect. The things that have never been acceptable anywhere on BHGP and will continue to be unacceptable in Hamsterdam and everywhere else on the site are the following:
1) No slurs, be they ethnic, sexual, or otherwise divisive and derisive;
2) No NSFW pictures, and that includes barely-SFW babe stuff that you wouldn't really ever want a boss to see on your screen;
3) No politics, because that ends badly all the time;
4) No solicitation or advertisement without our prior consent;
5) No links to illegal TV streams or other copyright-infringing material. That can get BHGP and SBN in serious trouble, and we don't want no trouble.
But that's it. This is your new play area. We'll use it to post fun stuff every day, we'll pop in every now and then to hang out with you guys and gals, and most of all we'll let it be yours--which means feedback is welcome. So please: comment away, friends.
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Take it to Hamsterd.....oh, hey look you're already there.
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 1, 2011 7:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Clearly "Hamsterdam" was just an elaborate ruse
So that Meg would start posting again.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
by HoyaGoon on Aug 1, 2011 7:42 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
haha I wish
I am the OG of Hamsterdam.
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
another theme song
Start spreading the news,
I’m leaving today.
I want to be a part of it –
Hamsterdam, Hamsterdam.
These vagabond shoes
Are longing to stray
And step around the heart of it
Hamsterdam, Hamsterdam.
I want to wake up in a city,
That doesn’t sleep,
To find I’m king of the hill- ah-
Top of the heap.
My little town blues
Are melting away
I’m gonna make a brand new start of it
In old Hamsterdam.
If I can make it there,
I’d make it anywhere
It’s up to you,
Hamsterdam, Hamsterdam.
Hamsterdam, Hamsterdam!
I want to wake up in a city,
That doesn’t sleep,
To find I’m king of the hill,
Head of the list,
Cream of the crop
At top of the heap.
My little town blues
Are melting away
I’m gonna make a brand new start of it
In old Hamsterdam.
If I can make it there,
I’d make it anywhere
Come on, come through,
Hamsterdam, Hamsterdam.
Long Live the Pellican Whore - like FOREVER
Is this where DRUGS went?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 7:28 PM CDT reply actions
DRUGS ARE SO BAD!
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Both of them are
they are hanging from the phone wires
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
"The Civil War or the state of Pennsylvania"
/waves
Greyshirted No More
Black Shoe Diaries
@runthedive
Hamsterdam is in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 1, 2011 8:16 PM CDT up reply actions
I apologize for my "contributions" that have made this necessary.
/hangs head in shame.
//starts looking for weirdest, funniest, yet safe for BHGP youtube I can find.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
I'm not entirely sure where Hamsterdam came from, but I like it.
Are sexual innuendos allowed here? I hope so.
Good to see you're not reading the post!
HAMSTERDAM IS A SUCCESS!!
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 7:30 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
VIVA HAMSTERDAM!
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Dammit, I meant as where did it originally begin? I didn't watch the Youtube clip.
No captions + Deaf EnergizerHawk = no bueno understanding the clippy clip.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 7:33 PM CDT up reply actions
I thought you people were lip readers.
I was also pointing out the sexual innuendo part since it’s also listed above.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
All is says about "sexual" is slurs.
I did not see any references to innuendo unless it was put in code.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 7:36 PM CDT up reply actions
and the BHGP Hamsterdam is already mirroring the downward spiral of the real Hamsterdam
Amazing.
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
You may want to leave by 11 or so.
That’s when it gets weird.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 7:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I like that Hamsterdam is "real".
You win, Bunny!
"There are no Pan Asian supermarkets down in hell, so you can't buy Golden Boy peanuts." - The Mountain Goats
Downward spiral? I thought Hamsterdam was a success.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
I guess I don't see why you're so aroused by BHGP.
You honestly just want to come up in here and make a bunch of innuendos?
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Not just make a bunch of innuendos.
I hope to learn all about the civil war in the Marvel Universe.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 7:40 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh my god
I just realized that almost all fart jokes are lost on you.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 7:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes.
Yes you are.
Big time.
"I've never seen a supernova, but if it's anything like my old Chevy Nova it'll light up the night sky." - Philip J. Fry
Well, you do get all the SBD jokes.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 7:37 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't get those.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
I guess it means:
Silent But Deadly.
So it’d be a deaf-mute of a fart, but it’d be stinky as hell.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 7:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I do now.
I had to be educated about that recently.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 7:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Wait a minute, almost all fart jokes?
Often you can tell by facial expressions and/or body language.
"School's been blown to pieces." -- Alice Cooper
Or, if you're sharing a couch with the offender,
you can feel the shock wave through the cushions, at least with my friends who aren’t shy about blasting away.
(God bless Hamsterdam)
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Aug 2, 2011 3:46 PM CDT up reply actions
cops set up a zone where selling drugs was legal
they tried to move the dealers there, telling them it was like Amsterdam
one of the crack dealers says “man I aint goin’ to no Hamsterdam”
the name stuck
Thanks.
I guess I haven’t watched The Wire, ever.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 7:37 PM CDT up reply actions
If you're ever renting films/TV DVDs,
it might be worth trying.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 7:40 PM CDT up reply actions
HAVE YOU SEEN JOHN ADAMS??
IT’S REALLY GREAT EVEN THOUGH IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Isn't that a miniseries?
If so, I was looking at that recently. I may see it. Is it worth it?
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 7:44 PM CDT up reply actions
THERE IS NO TALK OF MINI-SERIES IN HAMSTERDAM
ONLY CRACK.
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
I tried to watch it Saturday but my DVR randomly deleted the first episode so I couldn't get into it.
I was very disappointed.
Megan liked it more than me.
It would have been a good 2 hour movie.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
He was a true patriot
often overlooked by the likes of Jefferson or Franklin
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
I was quite disappointed.
I am reading the Andrew Jackson book so I thought I might as well learn a little about Adams via the TV. Giamatti made a lot of weird faces in the first 15 minutes of part two and I was having trouble with that.
Still pissed at my DVR. I lost Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Chinatown the same way.
If only there were some sort of hardware that
a person could purchase these masterpieces on.
/I’m sorry I got sarcastic with you, but this is Hamsterdam. Up is down. Left is right. Warm is cold. Black is…well, black is just the color black.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:02 PM CDT up reply actions
Do you want your house burned down next?
I will cut you. According to BHNP I already have a knife in my hand.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 1, 2011 8:07 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
Well, right now, the air conditioning is too comfortable,
so I guess not.
I look forward to dodging your knife slashes, though.
/No, I don’t. I’ll stop now before I get uber-Hamsterdam creepy.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:09 PM CDT up reply actions
American Lion? How is it?
It’s sitting on my shelf and I’ve been putting off starting it.
Thicker than Delta Burke swimmin in a Guiness.
Meh, it is not told cronologically and that is annoying me.
The author jumps around a in time and I wish he wouldn’t. My uncle read it and liked it so I bought it and it sat on my shelf for about a year and a half. It is a slow read for me I can’t seem to get into it.
Is it a pretty fair treatment of Jackson?
I’ve been stuck lately (for history major classes) reading a lot of very negatively-biased Jackson material. That said, it’s not as if he was known for adopting and raising puppies, but still.
They explored Adams' and Jackson's relationship
in depth. I thought it was pretty fair, well I guess as fair as you can make it with out actually knowing them personally.
We're gonna go America all over their asses!
I definitely don't think it was negative toward Jackson.
I don’t think he was a good guy but it doesn’t dwell on the horrible things he did. It is pretty matter of fact about it.
You are most welcome.
Remember me with a Ferrari when you make your millions. I jest, but no really a Ferrari would be nice.
Ah, but then...
…I’m a history major. So we’ll have a beer at an NU-Iowa game. That’s about the best I can offer. Unless I marry rich.
Yeah, there’s that…
Okay, fine.
I will be at the game this year. Tailgating w/ the rich handicapped people. Sadly, I don’t know where that is anymore since the parking is fuckered up.
LOL
we pull out my Mom’s handicapped permit if we don’t get a reserved spot. The best thing we ever saw in that lot was four old women (I mean, at least 80’s), with no men in their group, commence tailgating after a night game, at about midnight. They started packing up about 1:30am.
It gave me hope for my future.
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
At Iowa you have to buy the HC spot w/ your pass.
And you have to get there EARLY or they are full.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 1, 2011 10:04 PM CDT up reply actions
you pay the same for the HC as a regular spot
they just put you in that area. It fills up quickly too, and it appears to me they use it for large campers that are not in the big RV lot.
For the PSU/Iowa game we’ll most likely have our reserved spot. I am going to put a “Friend of the Pants” sign up and see what happens.
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
Jefferson is way overrated
Seriously. Yes, the Declaration of Independence is one of the greatest pieces of concise, political theory ever written. But Jefferson’s entire life stands in stark contrast to the ideals expressed therein.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Yeah
it makes you wonder if he had his slave bring in coffee when he wrote about how all men were created equal with certain inalienable rights….
The founding fathers all had their flaws but ole’ Tom’s are pretty glaring.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
What part?
The fathering of many illegitimate children with his slave mistress? Or the not freeing ANY of them on his death?
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
I'm not sure what you're talking about either.
Jefferson’s personal life has been discussed and discussed ad nauseum. So he can’t be overrated there, because no one pretends he was great in that area.
What he did in his personal life also fails totally to ruin, by any stretch of the imagination, what he did for the advancement of human freedom, which is what all Americans should be graded by.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:54 PM CDT up reply actions
He was also a fairly bad president
He became increasingly radicalized during Washington’s administration as the French got crazier and crazier. Foreign policy was too closely tied to the French and pointlessly antagonistic towards the British, all the while he refused to do any preparation for possible confrontation (in other words, he kept poking the bear all the while refusing to defend himself). The Louisiana Purchase was obviously a benefit but just as clearly unconstitutional as negotiated/done, something that he excoriated his political opponents for when they did far less making him a hypocrite.
Was Jefferson a bad man or a monster? No, but his best contribution was already behind him in 1777.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
He was our first imperial president, no question.
You left out the war on the Barbary Pirates, which went a little better than the one that is ongoing.
We play tackle football.
Namely because we put boots on the ground.
HINT HINT
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 10:09 PM CDT up reply actions
1777? What about 1787 or thereabouts?
No, he wasn’t as powerful as Madison in the formation of the greatest bunch of laws ever written, but he was still doing a solid job there.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 10:10 PM CDT up reply actions
He was in France at the time
and didn’t take part in the deliberations.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
What was the worst thing about the Louisiana Purchase?
It’s gotta be either Iowa or Louisiana. Probably Louisiana.
Manager at BT Powerhouse a Big Ten basketball blog
@babaoreally
Acquiring Iowa proved useful for a growing nation.
Too bad about the people who were living here before. Maybe that’s the worst thing about the Louisiana Purchase?
Ding ding ding WINNER.
I’ve been sour lately and didn’t want to say it, but I’ll second it for sure.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 2, 2011 3:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Some people can behind the times
even for their own times.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
hbo aired it on Independence Day
wel done, accurate, and showed
the love (sic) between adams and jefferson
Long Live the Pellican Whore - like FOREVER
Famed HBO series "The Wire"
is where it came from.
It was a section of Baltimore that a police captain basically made legal for drug sales. It lowered the crime rate in other parts of that district of the city, but it also became a complete hell-hole of drugs, prostitution, and other stuff.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 7:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Watching "No Reservations"
Tony just ate a cherry covered in ham fat. And I just had a foodgasm.
Welcome to Hamsterdam.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 7:31 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
I try but I can’t get into that show because I hate Tony. Not like Guy Fieri but still.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
If my dad didn't look and sound like me I'd guess Tony was my long-lost father
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 7:36 PM CDT up reply actions
I would like to set Guy Fieri ablaze.
Flambe.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 1, 2011 8:02 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes, but he likes big flavors
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:03 PM CDT up reply actions
Karl Welzein loves TGI Fridays
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 1, 2011 8:12 PM CDT up reply actions
I love Hamsterdam, you guys
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:14 PM CDT up reply actions
The San Diego part of this article is a must read for Guy Fieri haters
http://www.theawl.com/2011/07/snacking-about-baseball-foodstuffs-of-the-major-league-parks
Money quote:
And that day I was just like, they are not paying me enough, dude. And the next day I told my boss I wanted to work the Dippin’ Dots cart or I was fucking done.
And Guy bobbleheads slightly altered and sent to the Gathering of the Juggalos is pretty great as well.
Manager at BT Powerhouse a Big Ten basketball blog
@babaoreally
Yes. In every way.
YEAH BUDDAY!
by With Ferentz Like These... on Aug 1, 2011 11:34 PM CDT up reply actions
We have our mayor of Hamsterdam!
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 7:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes.
The shaved upper face lip of Tim Doyle would never beat Carcetti to become mayor of our less-than-fair hovel.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 7:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Where da ladies at?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 7:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Dangerous! My kind of lady!
Is that a knife in your hand?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:02 PM CDT up reply actions
In no was does this scare me
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:18 PM CDT up reply actions
In no way...
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Please tell me you look like Lisbeth Salander
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:27 PM CDT up reply actions
Cause she would cut me
I would love it
I have so many problems, so many problems.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Not without provocation.
But yes, lots of problems.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 1, 2011 8:33 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
doyle
i cannot figure out why he is employed
not only do northwestern fans hate him as a broadcaster, they hated the fat piece of shit when he was a player.
he once had the temerity to bitch about attendance late in the big ten season when NU was on their way to a 2-14 conference record. amazing anyone paid to watch the fred flintstone body double brick running hook shots and throw behind the back passes out of bounds.
This is just like Deadspin Up All Night
Only with 1/10th the forced hipster indifference!
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
by HoyaGoon on Aug 1, 2011 7:46 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
/was totes into Hamsterdam before it was popular
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
by HoyaGoon on Aug 1, 2011 7:48 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I actually really liked Hamsterdamn
I was sad when they took it down.
I’d be right there providing health services and passing out clean needles.
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
I'm already over this place.
I’m heading to Tofurkeyterdam.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Stay away from Dentaldam
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 2, 2011 3:41 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
yes, cause then you are actually on-topic.
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
So meta.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 1, 2011 8:03 PM CDT up reply actions
Well done good sirs
I have been posting here nearly a year and lurked for six months beforehand so that I felt comfortable with at least some of the characters and inside jokes. The comments section has become one of the things that keep me unproductive throughout the day and one of the reasons, aside from awesome Iowa news, that I visit the site constantly. Well done here on a reasonable solution that should keep BHGP awesome for regulars and more approachable for newbies. That all being said, i’m confused. I just posted a on topic comment in a space designated for off topic.. is this a bannable offense?
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 1, 2011 7:52 PM CDT reply actions
I know I lurked for awhile before I registered in 2009.
But, other than the time it does take to register for a screen-name, I’m not sure why people would feel apprehensive about making a comment.
Unless you got harped on immediately, in which case, yes, I could understand the apprehension. I don’t think there are too many on here that bitch people out at first sight.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 7:56 PM CDT up reply actions
I stopped commenting cause half the conversations made me want to shoot myself in the face
MAN, THAT FELT GOOD TO GET THAT OFF MY CHEST.
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
by dmbmeg on Aug 1, 2011 7:58 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
Also, sometimes half is equal to 83%
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 1, 2011 8:17 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
You bring up an excellent point
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
by dmbmeg on Aug 1, 2011 8:18 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
It's not that people get bitched out
it’s that it can be intimidating to chime in when it’s painfully obvious that the people involved in the threads have a lot of history with each other.
Also, how many threads on here have drifted up through several hundred posts of what boils down to five or six people topic drifting. Bottom line is that the mods have a site to run and most of the comments in a lot of the threads probably come from ten or fifteen of us.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Thieves lurk about in Hamsterdam
Carry your internet shivs with you.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 8:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Alphabet Generals?
Didn’t this happen once where several people started listed Civil War Generals in alphabetical order? For some reason I do really enjoy reading those off beat topics that come about from this website. I guess that’s what makes me come back for more.
Yeah,
we usually chalk that sort of thing up to ReadingRambler.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:35 PM CDT up reply actions
That's really a Rambler thing
if anybody “helps”, they’re really just interrupting him.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
rambler is
my kind of guy
a sense of history
a sense of fair play
and he carries on longer than i do
chaz however
Long Live the Pellican Whore - like FOREVER
Oh, come on.
I’ve always liked your work.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 9:03 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, for my part, it was pretty fuckin easy to tell when something was off-topic.
and drifting to crap ville. Oh, a topic about the Civil war? And all the comments keep going to the right? Well, I guess I’ll skip to the next one on the left. Oh, football! ::read:: Oh, music. ::read::: Oh, Pelican Whore. Skip. Oh Game of Thrones. Read. Oh football. Read (go back and read pelican whore)…
I honestly don’t see what the problem is.
meh
Agreed. Thank god for the "z" button.
You got no fear of the underdog; That's why you will not survive!
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Aug 2, 2011 9:36 AM CDT up reply actions
I lurked b/c I'm a girl and that is part of the reason I specifically chose a name w/o girl in the name.
I don’t think anyone other than Ross, only b/c we emailed about tix, knew until I met the guys at Kyle’s. I think I was officially outed in the P90X thread and it’s been downhill since then.
What are you wearing?
Seriously, this is exactly what we don’t want. LOOK ITZ A GURL!!! DERRRP.
You should be harassed because you’re dumb not because of your bum.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
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by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 8:08 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Wait, are you calling me dumb?
Yeah, but even when I joined there were a lot of inside jokes and relationships. I didn’t know where I could fit my comments in so I started slowly w/ the occasional Son of bitch or Fuck yes! during open threads.
It’s always wise to start with obscenities.
Yeah, the cool thing about SBN sites is that they genuinely create communities. It’s also a problem at times.
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It sucks that you are treated differently because people know you’re a woman. That really sucks.
I was not calling you dumb. Like, after re-reading my comment I have no idea what it means.
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I'm just giving you a hard time.
For the most part I don’t think anyone here treats me differently other than occasionally defending me when I can take care of myself. I have encountered men in my daily life that think that b/c I am a women I don’t or shouldn’t know anything about sports. It is frustrating. I don’t know all the technical stuff and that is why I don’t participate in many ATPs but I have learned a lot.
Mexican is a food, senor
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Thank you.
I have been trying to tell these people that for sometime now. Well, not that specifically but something like that.
daynada
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THESE PEOPLE!?!
Stand down Cdub, just
stand down.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 2, 2011 3:47 PM CDT up reply actions
I think there has only been one incident on BSD
Someone (not a regular poster) insinuated Paige could not know anything about football because she was a woman.
I get it more in real life, I have the internet community pretty respectful
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
I have" found" the internet community
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
me or Paige?
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
most men enjoy some disipline
I find y’all like structure
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
there is always plenty of that
is BSD After Dark our Hamsterdam?
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
That's because women do not exist on the internets
(Of course I know better. Just perpetuating the meme)
Please note that the internet does not, as of yet, have a sarcasm font.
I would like that rhyme-y line if it read:
“You should be harassed because of your dumb not because of your bumb”
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 8:12 PM CDT up reply actions
YOU GOT A GNEW SIGNARUTE
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Yes, thank you.
Subject line people. It allows us to collapse gifs and pics. Particularly important when we’d like to leave these threads open for 24 hours. That could equal tens of comments.
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LOL
I’m betting this one gets to 250, easily.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:03 PM CDT up reply actions
It's the grand opening, I'm shooting for 1000.
Even if I make 900 of them.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
Let's play a game. An alphabet game.
"As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part."
I'm pretty sure
those are on the not allowed ever list.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Genuine sports talk: Is anyone worse at their job than Carolina Panthers GM Marty Hurney?
Before you answer, let me remind you that because of his idiocy they paid Jake Delhomme $8million last year and he was playing for Cleveland.
All responses should include either reasons why I’m smart or things that will make it easy for me to say you’re wrong.
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I submit one Jerry Angelo for title of worst GM in the NFL
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
I'd agree that he's bad but he tends to get rid of guys at the right time
see: Berrian, Bernard; Kreutz, Olin
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And he didn't just sign Donovan McNabb
HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Berrian wasn't that great in the first place.
I’m not sold that it’s time to get rid of Kreutz either. The bit on ESPN I saw is that talks broke down over $500k, which to me means they didn’t really want to keep him.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 1, 2011 8:06 PM CDT up reply actions
I love Kreutz, but he was a speedbump last season
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, he was the big problem with that line.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 1, 2011 8:13 PM CDT up reply actions
His skills were diminishing quickly and he wants to be paid like it's 2008.
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Also he's old and the Bears OL was fucking terrible.
Raze ’em and get a whole new batch.
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 8:13 PM CDT up reply actions
They're planning to start
Carimi. or whatever his name is. He’s practicing with the ones. May as well
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I think the Wisconsin O-Line could have done a better job
One-fifth of that has to be an improvement.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Carimi bossed Clayborn like a punk last year
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Yes.
Bossed him right in the back of the knee.
/not sure that was Carimi, but fuck Wisky anyway.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:21 PM CDT up reply actions
No that was some scrappy little guy
Carimi is a giant
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:22 PM CDT up reply actions
That was the nefarious act of one Bradie Ewing.
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At the time, I wanted to stab that punk ass
Now? I want to punch him in the throat.
Getting better!
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:26 PM CDT up reply actions
I just wanted to slice both his achilles tendons
And I still do.
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Wasn't he a FB?
Man I remember yelling obscenities at the TV for a good 5 minutes. Then realize that I was in front of everyone’s view and sat back down and grabbed my beer.
He was
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I don't think
Clayborn gave 100% last year. Plus, Carimi is obviously really good.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I don't know that he was hurt.
I think that he was asked to back off and play more contain/zone instead of the 2009 “6 seconds of hell” strategy.
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 8:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Proof?
You got no fear of the underdog; That's why you will not survive!
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Aug 2, 2011 9:39 AM CDT up reply actions
Proof of what?
That Clayborn took a shot in the knee and it was painful? Sure. That’s not proof that he was affected by it for more than a day. I don’t deny that what the Wisconsin fullback did was a cheap shot, but Clayborn has said on multiple occasions that an injury had no affect on his play. Since he had an easy excuse to justify his dip in production and chose not to use it, I’ll take his word for it.
by The Mexican't on Aug 2, 2011 9:48 AM CDT up reply actions
Yes, I'm speculating
but since Clayborn seems to have been a star pupil in Ferentz’ “coach-speak” class, and since Clayborn had draft status to worry about, I think he took the high road all season.
You got no fear of the underdog; That's why you will not survive!
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Aug 2, 2011 10:05 AM CDT up reply actions
this picture makes me want to stab someone
no one in particular….
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 2, 2011 9:50 AM CDT up reply actions
Say what you will,
but the man can limbo.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 3:15 PM CDT up reply actions
No one ever admitted it
but I think he was more hurt by the Ewing thing than was let on. And after that was a bit skiitish of getting seriously injured.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Agreed.
It’s a shame and it may not even be smart*, but some of these guys have to protect their future income by the time they are seniors.
*i.e., it’s rarely smart as an injury-prevention scheme, in a contact sport, to try to avoid injury.
We play tackle football.
Can you imagine
Angelo with Al Davis? Find a job for Matt Millen and it’s like the perfect trifecta of OH MY GOD
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Yeah, but he's actually crafty
because he’s pulling millions of dollars of profit from that franchise while usually not spending too much to make it competitive.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 7:58 PM CDT up reply actions
He just won championships, baby
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When?
I just googled that shit and the last Super Bowl they won was the year I was born. So, in my lifetime, the Raiders have SUCKED.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 8:05 PM CDT up reply actions
They didn't really suck
until 10 year ago. Not that they were great for awhile before that, but they didn’t suck and were occasionally pretty good.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
They lost that Super Bowl that Tampa Bay won.
Was that more than 10 years ago?
And they were in the playoffs for the Tom Brady snow-tuck game.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:12 PM CDT up reply actions
From Memory
It was the one played in January 2002. So almost ten years.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Yeah but the Raiders do have a commitment to.......
…….uh…something or other. My memory fails me. Whatever it was it was good.
A reason why you're smart:
Hurney took Cam Newton at #1, while also breaking in a new head coach.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 7:57 PM CDT up reply actions
Let me finish my initial point
Not only did Hurney throw $42million at Jake Delhomme after a 5 pick (and a fumble) playoff performance (he made $19million last year), he went wild this year by drafting Cam Newton (Bash) to supplant the great Jimothy Clausen (Franklin) who they drafted to replace Delhomme. Every one of these ideas is worse than the one before. Cam Newton will be the biggest bust ever. The guy had to have his plays numbered at Auburn.
Other highlights of this summer:
DE Charles Johnson: 6 years, $76 million, $30 million signing bonus (21 sacks in 4 years)
LB James Anderson: 5 years, $22 million, $8.5 million guaranteed (230 tackles in 5 years)
RB DeAngelo Williams: 5 years, $43 million, $21 million signing bonus (28 yr old RB who’s missed 16 games over the past 2 seasons)
K Olindo Mare: 3 years, $12 million, $4 million signing bonus (38 yr old kicker)
LB Jon Beason: 5 years, $50 million (twice market value, Hurney was in a bidding war with himself)
He has no idea what he’s doing and he compiles it by spending Al Davis money on fading stars and never weres.
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I wish I was a kicker.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
A friend today told me that
under the new NFL cap rules, every NFL team has to get to 99% of the cap by the end of the season.
So, maybe that is motivating some of these deals?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 3:17 PM CDT up reply actions
your friend lied
it is not that cut and dry, and the minimum requirements don’t hit until 2013, what is motivating these deals is a shorter amount of time to get them done means that someone has to give.
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 2, 2011 3:20 PM CDT up reply actions
I knew the short time frame was encouraging this,
but some of those deals (Johnson, Williams) were expensive enough that I almost can’t just chalk them up to time pressure.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 3:27 PM CDT up reply actions
yeah, but i have heard the minimum requirements
do not take effect immediately.. if they do my chiefs better get to signing..they are no where close
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 2, 2011 3:28 PM CDT up reply actions
Is your friend's name Marty Hurney?
Also, I can’t believe I forgot the cherry on top of Marty’s shit pile of fail.
He just signed Derek Anderson to compete with Franklin and Bash for the starting QB job. The same Derek Anderson who was so shitty Cleveland got rid of him in lieu of Jake Delhomme. The same Derek Anderson who has the lowest completion percentage of any QB in NFL history not named Jamarcus Russell.
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Jim Hendry
There is no argument.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Yes. For the Milton Bradley signing alone.
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by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 7:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Thank You!
I wish I could be that incompetent at my job and keep it. I actually feel bad for Cubs fans and the way he turns every year into “Maybe next year.”
by RH's Bookie on Aug 1, 2011 9:00 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I can't really follow the Cubs anymore
I went bandwagon on them. I get too wrapped up in Iowa now, frankly I can only handle so much heartbreak.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Fixed:
I wish I could be that incompetent at my job and keep it. I actually feel bad for Cubs fans and the way he turns every March it turns into "Maybe next year."
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
Have you forgotten the Derrick Lee and Aramis Ramirez acquisitions? Gold, I say.
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A blind bear...
Manages to crap in the woods every once in awhile.
I had hoped Sandberg (sp?) would have gotten the nod and been allowed to clean house and start with guys who haven’t been poisoned by “The Chicago/Hendry way”.
Then again, what do I know. I wish Jocketty (sp?) was still in St. Louis.
by RH's Bookie on Aug 1, 2011 10:28 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Ted Lilly, Kenny Lofton for a Fall...
Hendry’s definitely had his moments. I think if he was allowed to spend himself out of his mistakes, he’d be fine. But the Cubs got all cheap on him (again, they really own spent for like two or three years), and he just has nothing to work with right now.
meh
What about the small goblin secretly making decisions for the Oakland Raiders?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:00 PM CDT up reply actions
Donald Sterling, owner and CEO of the Clippers says "Hello"
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Being a racist does not make you a bad GM
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Elgin Baylor is the GM
Granted, it is almost entirely a position in name only.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
D'OH!
Should have read the thread since Energizer had me beat on this one.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
He won a Grey Cup. YOU LOSE
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David Kahn
1) The Jonny Flynn Experiment
2) The Ricky Rubio Experience
3) The Ty Lawson Trade
4) The Al Jefferson Trade
5) The 2011 Draft
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
Time will tell on that one.
I think with a new coach that will actually, you know, run a system that fits his personnel, we may see that there is a lot of talent on that team.
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by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 10:32 PM CDT up reply actions
"we may see that there is a lot of talent on that team."
bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I didn't say wins.
You know there are 4 lottery picks on that team. By the time the NBA comes back they could all be matured too.
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Matured into D-League players, maybe.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
The most appropriate thing for this thread
has to be this
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 1, 2011 7:58 PM CDT reply actions
Untrue
This is the most appropriate thing for this thread.
We're gonna go America all over their asses!
Pretty sure the Village People just facepalm'd themselves after seeing that clip
Pretty sure the Biker told those guys to man up a bit
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
I more expected:
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
I like the Mexican Nyan cat or even the French one
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
I hate to be an asshole, but is this just a brilliant way for the admins to rack up comments?
/BANHAMMERED
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
The Banhammer lies dormant when comments call admins brilliant
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BSD could have that title whenever they wish.
All you need is Rambler in the house and someone to type:
Abrams.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Rambler once tried to take a thead to 1,000 comments. Alone.
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
"All blog and no life makes Rambler a strange boy..."
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Tried?
I thought he did.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Pretty sure Mike shut it down before it happened, but I don't know for certain.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 8:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Nope, Success or failure, you decide.
http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2010/4/6/1408598/greetings-from-tuscaloosa-alabama
The bottom of that thread is a train wreck.
WE'RE DANCIN!!!
The best part is how ironic the shut down was...
His name was “Run up the Score” and he stopped it when Rambler was on 93 for “100 bottles of Hawkeye Vodka on the wall”.
/you’re welcome for saving you the time from figuring it out.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
That was tons of fun.
I remember it being the best part of that particular work day, but it nearly crashed my office PC.
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 8:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Lord above, I am a crackpot of a man.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:09 PM CDT up reply actions
finally, self-awareness
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
Pennsylvania
is a colonial possession of the Iowa football program
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:02 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
Sir, I've never had the chance to tell you this
but I chuckle internally every time I see your username. It’s such an obvious spin on BHGP’s name, and yet, it incessantly entertains me.
Maybe I’m just 13 on the inside.
Years ago, before I was a commenter back-bencher
That was my handle on a BHGP NCAA pool. I registered and that became my name.
My real name? Count Longrod Von Hugendong.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, then BHNP was certainly the correct choice.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:13 PM CDT up reply actions
No, it's a state.
Both terms are acceptable, but it’s one of the 50 states.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Wrong.
It sold the charter for you know what.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:13 PM CDT up reply actions
Mixed Emotions
I see the need, and if I were in their place I would have agreed to the move. But I’ll kinda miss the insanity that threatens to rear it’s head at any place, any time. So I’ll certainly do my bit for the greater good because the LAST think I want is for this place to devolve like every single other site I really liked.
Grant was a drunk.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
you take your on subject response
to the real thread, get your ass out of hampsterdam
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 1, 2011 8:03 PM CDT up reply actions
For some stupid reason I always feel so proud when I use the subject line as the actual subject, and the content to expand on that. Pathetic, but there it is.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
i'm glad i understand that about you now
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 1, 2011 8:11 PM CDT up reply actions
the randomness is what kept me coming back
The writers are great, but truly the commenters are what got me to sign in 20 times/day. I like, nay love, the tangents from Rambler, Lycurgus, SEG, and the like. Maybe it’s in the best interest of the site, but I kind of doubt it. Tons of Hawkeye info on the interwebs, the community and (extremely intelligent and interesting) commenters here were what made it stand out for me.
I think I’ll make a small defense of my character on the last ATP and then sign out for a while.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Aug 1, 2011 8:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Sounds good.
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Sorry to try to play in your sandbox.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Aug 1, 2011 8:20 PM CDT up reply actions
I thought you were signing out?
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you just said the writers suck
compared to some unintelligible comment thread that only 15 people in the world understand.
At least 95 people can understand Jacobi’s posts. I mean, come on.
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
Hey now!
Take it to…
[looks at address bar]
…aw, shit.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:31 PM CDT up reply actions
trC, I've come to appreciate your posts
You’re a grammar-nazi to be sure and you certainly jinxed my Shakespearean Opponents post by speaking the title of The Scottish Play, but I generally find your insights well-considered and erudite.
It’s strange, I consider you a friend inasmuch as two people who have only obliquely conversed here can.
Fuck Godwin.
Seriously.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Unintended benefit
Welcome to RAW IS HAMSTERDAM
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Oh, whatever.
The Bachelor is a joke.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
It's The Bachelorette, right now.
C’mon. Rafa Nadal just said he loved Ashley.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
I think we just a minor wood sighting on JP
there is really nothing else on
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
I think it's RAW night... But that might be at 9 CDT.
Also, the GRTFL is the only reason I started watching.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
It is on right now.
It almost always starts at 8 pm ct on Mondays.
I don’t know about Smackdown (or even what night that’s on anymore).
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:29 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm watching Mad Men on Netflix
I’m grateful that Netflix was developed so that people like me could watch whatever I want without having to leave the house.
/looks at wallet and wonders if there is enough cash for gas.
Are you a "Cult of Personality"?
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
Just listened to C.M. Punk on the B.S. Report
Granted, I don’t follow wrestling anymore, but I couldn’t decide if he was jerking Simmons’ chain. If he was, he’s the Andy Kaufman of wrestling.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:06 PM CDT up reply actions
I think he is.
The fact that he keeps showing up on WWE TV programs is a big hint that this is all still a big puppet show, and a McMahon is still pulling the strings.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:08 PM CDT up reply actions
I enjoyed the podcast, but I think he Simmons was being a bit of a dipshit.
Seemed like he was trying to suck out a bunch of spoilers from Punk. Why would anyone watch if Punk spilled the beans already, you jackass?
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 8:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Am I the only one that wishes Simmons never became enamored with podcasting?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:14 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't listen regularly.
I couldn’t handle that.
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 8:52 PM CDT up reply actions
Vince must be serious about this Punk guy.
He ponied up the money to give him an actual song for his entrance.
/Living Colour rocks.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:07 PM CDT up reply actions
So, um, CM Punk is back.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
That show was 100% fantastic...
until the horrible “OKAYZ I’LL LIFT MY BELT AND MY MUSIC WILL HIT, AND THEN YOU’LL DO IT, AND THEN WE’LL DO THAT LIKE 10 TIMEZ K?!?!11”
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 2, 2011 12:06 AM CDT up reply actions
We need Meg's picks for which contestants have herpes.
Then I might watch
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:11 PM CDT up reply actions
Nothing to discuss. This bitch is too boring to bash.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
I was actually going to make a meme like that
But the Deal With It generator seems to no longer be online. How disappointing.
No it's not?
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
De de de da de da dodo, da de da dododo...
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
THIS IS LIKE BLECHER REPORT FOR COMENTS
DID U ALL HERE RANDY MOSS RETRIED?
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
not sure if this is a troll comment or not
either way, awesome.
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
This has been up for 3 hours
and no sign of rambler.. I think he died of excitement after reading the post.
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 1, 2011 8:13 PM CDT reply actions
He's out molesting his corn
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:17 PM CDT up reply actions
wait
what if this is an elaborate ruse to get those that enjoy tangents all in the same place so they can identify us more easily… someone pass me the tinfoil
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 1, 2011 8:20 PM CDT reply actions
You just know this Hamsterdam thing is going to be just like this...
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
Capricorn One
Holy smokes, I LOVED that movie when I was a kid. Forgot about it.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
When I saw "No Brakes"
I was really hoping it would be this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYtjpIwamos
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:24 PM CDT up reply actions
For some reason...
Party in the USA was the top suggestion after this video.
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
Isn't Party in the USA the top suggestion after every video?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 1:32 AM CDT up reply actions
There has never been a right time to ask this but now I can
Where did Pelican Whore come from? I really want to know.
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
I think it was during the mNC game thread
and someone said typed “penicillin” and the other read it as “Pelican Whore”. I was wayyy out of the loop on that one.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
Close...someone said hooker, then someone said penis, then someone said
non-dairy creamer and about 37 posts later someone said Pelican Whore.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
But I thought Pain in the Sash, wonder how he is post-graduation, misread penicillin and that is where Pelican Whore was born.
Sorta like Athena from the head of Zeus.
I think PITS's mis-reading of things often started interesting threads.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:30 PM CDT up reply actions
I miss Pop Rocks.
Those were good.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
But the formula is different
Back in the day they would pop so hard it became difficult to breath. I felt like I kissed death every time I ate them.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
That's true with a lot of the candies out there.
Those candy sticks aren’t nearly the same thing they used to be.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 8:37 PM CDT up reply actions
Do they still sell shock-tarts?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:40 PM CDT up reply actions
I think they're called cigarettes now.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Kids don't like candy anymore.
They’re too busy buying K-2 “incense”.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:41 PM CDT up reply actions
we have an issue with "bath salts" here in the NEPA region
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
Ha! I was just going to ask if anyone had ever gotten high on the salts.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
For some reason
people are smoking bath salts to get high.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
That seems dangerous
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah,
I think it killed at least one person, and other people develop dangerous fevers and then have serious problems with mental health for weeks or months afterward.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:49 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm guessing they had mental health problems in the weeks and months previous as well
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Maybe.
But it sounded like the salts really messed them up.
http://www.centredaily.com/2011/03/20/2593867/bath-salts-trend-worries-authorities.html
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:54 PM CDT up reply actions
Generally speakingw
using household chemicals to get high really fucks people up. Watch COPS, wait for the huffers. Nasty nasty stuff. Regular drugs take their toll, but not anything like paint and the like.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
these are not really bath salts
it’s a legal drug, like salvia
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
Sounds like natural selection to me.
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
If you lived in an area as depressed as NEPA, well....
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:04 PM CDT up reply actions
it's not that bad
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
Yeah, but it's *pretty* bad.
I mean, come on, EPA superfund sites are never a badge of honor.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:06 PM CDT up reply actions
it's a drug
I didn’t understand, not being down with the drug culture. It’s slang for something they sold in head shops.
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
here
Hallucinogens Legally Sold as ‘Bath Salts’ a New Threat
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
I am totally taking a bath now
and going to kill my neighbor’s goat. Or my neighbor. Whatevs.
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
Well played
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:52 PM CDT up reply actions
I saw the lady from PA on My Strange Addiction that had been huffing gas for 30+ years.
I know nothing of what is done w/ bath salts. I’m so sheltered.
I don't even like baths but this story intrigued me so
http://wvgazette.com/News/201105020871
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Just to reiterate...
The goat was a present for a 4-year old.
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 1, 2011 8:48 PM CDT up reply actions
It was the salts, bro
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
There are so many things wrong in this story I don't even know where to begin.
The story is from WV, these people bought a 4 yo a goat as a present, he fucked the goat didn’t he? I just hope he did it b/4 it was dead I guess.
What the hell is wrong w/ people? There are no winners in this story.
So RichRod moved back?
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Well, was he able to unload
all that real estate?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Bill Stewart,
Rich Rodriguez, Dana Holgerson all nod in agreement, Boiler.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:52 PM CDT up reply actions
I thought that part went w/o saying.
And that is why George Brett’s parents moved to CA. He is a winner.
I'm just grateful it did not happen in PA
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
they killed Mikey
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
He spends time over at EDSBS
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:32 PM CDT up reply actions
son of a bitch
is cheating on us
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 1, 2011 8:33 PM CDT up reply actions
He's throwing his pussy all over town?
Fine.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
I don't think he owns a cat
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:34 PM CDT up reply actions
better not bring
that EDSBS shit home though.. i’ll throw him out
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 1, 2011 8:35 PM CDT up reply actions
I prefer not to get SEC cooties on my favorite blog now
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
It happened during one of the bowl games last season.
I think it was just a meshing of brilliant and insane ideas all coming together and awesomeness.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 8:25 PM CDT up reply actions
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 1, 2011 8:26 PM CDT reply actions 19 recs
/every HFMR comment or post, ever.
//please don’t hate me, I meant that partially as a compliment.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:27 PM CDT up reply actions
Anybody have a link to that picture
of the weird guys in the backyard, I recall beer and somebody wrapped in a hose.
That’s what HFMR’s post and this thread is reminding me of
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
But he's still wearing a shirt and tie
So it’s classy
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:28 PM CDT up reply actions
I need you to remind me of that next time I go to masturbate publicly
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
I'd expect nothing less.
YEAH BUDDAY!
by With Ferentz Like These... on Aug 1, 2011 11:42 PM CDT up reply actions
Is the same thing happening to the Daily Show?
Or am I just getting older? I used to love the Daily Show and its still good, but it’s so down in the weeds now of its subject that I lost interest.
I actually think it has been better than Colbert the last two weeks.
Colbert was on an absolute roll right before he left for vacation.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Point Of Order
If it’s a batshit insanity post, like the Girls Generation getting kidnapped, does that kinda just count as that days Hamsterdam? Because it’s pretty hard to stick to topic when you start off in the cuckoo’s nest.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Are you really asking for rules
about the thread with limited rules?
Just breathe it in an enjoy the air here, even if it includes the smoke from HFMR’s drugs and the acrid cloud from the countless tire-fires.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:34 PM CDT up reply actions
No tire fires here.
That’s only in West Virginia.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 8:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Not asking for rules
just double checking where the old rules apply.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Just let your freak flag fly
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
If anyone quotes Fight Club I will cut them
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
that would be more entertaining than cutting myself
First rule of fight club
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 1, 2011 8:40 PM CDT up reply actions
When I close my eyes and picture Hamsterdam:
"You're going to go out there with a dick full of confidence. Then, you're going to go out there and shoot that confidence all over the stadium." -Blue Mountain State
Because of Hamsterdam,
I feel like Randy Marsh in the post-2008-election episode.
CHANGE! CHAAAAANGE!
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
Who's Ashley gonna dump?
I’m still guessing JP.
/last Bachelorette post.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
Dumping Ben
I called it on episode 2. JP is her man.(although they’re probably already broken up)
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Bro, Spoiler Alert. Please.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Wait... is that JP's MUSIC???
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
I lied...
That was a shocker. Rafa was just the lover. So cold for Ashley to not let him just walk.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
the show sucks
But Figi tourism seriously has me sold. Look at that water.
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
Keeps JP
dumps the other one, who looked just like another one that left already
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
I'll say she dumps the guy with the hair
And then she picks the guy with the shirt, except the guy with the shirt dumps her.
Then Chris Harrison takes her to the honeymoon suite and destroys her with one of those boom mics.
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 1, 2011 8:45 PM CDT up reply actions
you think Chris Harrison cares about that?
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
If there's one thing you need to know about Chris Harrison
It’s that he doesn’t give a shit about boom mic’s.
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 1, 2011 8:51 PM CDT up reply actions
THAT HAD NO SIGN LANGUAGE, SIR
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Well, I'm off for my evening walk
And by walk, I mean window peeking and masturbation.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 8:54 PM CDT reply actions
/takes dick back out
/high-fives Jacobi with same hand
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 1, 2011 9:38 PM CDT up reply actions
/cock pushups
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 2, 2011 11:40 AM CDT up reply actions
Oh yes I did
But I did wash my hands.
Commitment to fitness!
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 11:45 PM CDT up reply actions
I know that I speak for all the serious posters
thanks Adam. Finally we serious Hawkeye posters won’t have to put up with those tasteless miscreants
I swear the "robbed a place" was actually not ment as a smart ass remark. I just forgot that he actually robbed a place for a second. ~ justsomehawkeyefan
you are unleashed Kluginator
full steam ahead to looney land
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 1, 2011 8:55 PM CDT up reply actions
WHAT IS GOING ON
I AM READING KEEGAN’S THE FACE OF BATTLE. IT IS AWESOME, AND ONLY ADDS TO MY HEARTY RESPECT FOR ALL FIGHTING MEN. ALL PEOPLE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK, REGARDLESS OF THEIR INTEREST LEVEL IN MILITARY HISTORY. WITHOUT SOME KNOWLEDGE OF MILITARY HISTORY, HOW CAN YOU TRULY UNDERSTAND HUMANITY?
YEAH.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 8:56 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Tom Brands approves of your intensity.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 8:57 PM CDT up reply actions
and now I sit back and watch
welcome to Hampsterdam RR
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 1, 2011 8:57 PM CDT up reply actions
YOU'UNS GET ANY STORMS OUT THERE THIS WEEK???
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 8:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Not in Tejas. At least not while I was here.
We really need the rain too.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 8:58 PM CDT up reply actions
TOO BAD IT NEVER RAINS IN HELL! BWAHAHAHA!
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 8:59 PM CDT up reply actions
If I'm in hell now, then I'm going to heaven tomorrow.
I leave in a couple of hours and should be in the Motherland by lunch tomorrow.
VIVA LA IOWA.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 9:01 PM CDT up reply actions
We had one Saturday morning.
It made the city smell like sewer. We don’t get that much in Johnson County. I’m pretty sure there are smell ordinances.
Keegan's history is first rate
but his writing is less than exciting. Although it’s been quite awhile since I read The Face Of Battle. I’ll have to see if I can find it.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Worrying about exciting writing style.
Lose fifteen Rambler points.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:00 PM CDT up reply actions
It helps
that’s all I’m saying.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Here's how I wrote it:
Waterloo was a very hard battle. The French Cavalry charged the squares but didn’t do nothing because the squares stopped them. The artillery was very hard and killed many people. The Imperial Guard was hurt very bad by British artillery. This is one of the top ten reasons in why the Imperial Guard failed.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:02 PM CDT up reply actions
Agincourt
turned into a Who concert.
Actually I think Face Of Battle was his best book. Like I said, it’s been a long time since I read it.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Hmm.
I don’t know. So far I think I prefer The Mask of Command, the first book that made me fall in love with Grant.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:06 PM CDT up reply actions
His observations on Hitler's WW1 service in that book were most outstanding.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:07 PM CDT up reply actions
I'll have to read it
I haven’t read as much lately as I used to.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I took a break from Westeros
Reading Gilbert’s World War I
It just turned 1916. Think it’s gonna be a good year.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 1, 2011 11:48 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm about half way through A Dance With Dragons.
I’m starting to see a bunch of shit heading in one direction. Now I just need to hurry up and get to it.
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
Yes, he's very smart about Grant's literacy and horsemanship --
without either, he’s a failed general.
We play tackle football.
The thing with Grant
was that he wrote detailed orders of battle each night, for hours; by day, he rode the front lines to see for himself what was going on. Even at West Point he was considered a superior horseman.
We play tackle football.
And of course, in Mexico, he suffered the losses of the horses.
But his memoirs, written under morbid duress, prove his literacy (if you haven’t read them, you are missing one of the great 100 American books).
We play tackle football.
I have his Memoirs.
Prized possession.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:18 PM CDT up reply actions
The question is not
Has Rambler read them, it’s how many times has he read them
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I haven't finished them, actually.
I’ve read up to the end of Part 1, at Chattanooga.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:19 PM CDT up reply actions
This is also why we have Hamsterdam
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Ok, I thought you were dissing him.
I seriously cannot stand the disrespect even Americans outside of the South have for the man.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Too many see him as a butcher
Which is really just them not understanding that weaponry had badly outpaced tactics in the 1860’s.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Same thing in World War 1: ships had big engines to power radios, no such luxury for generals. Thus, the “chateau generals” weren’t bloody butchers, they were just overwhelmed by everything.
Still, Grant, in all of his campaigns, took considerably less casualties than did Lee in all of his campaigns. How about that, huh?
Also, Cold Harbor would have been a victory if the Army of the Potomac wasn’t, as Bruce Catton put it, “Heroic but slow.”
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:29 PM CDT up reply actions
I dunno
when you lose 60k guys in one day and the next day you send the survivors back into the machine guns? That is just all kinds of messed up. Or Paschendale? Sometimes you just have to stop the damn offensive.
It was just luck that the tank was invented when it was or who knows how that war would have ended.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
But I can't call it butchery.
I try not to judge men in combat because I’ve never seen the face of battle and because I’ve never really studied it in depth. Likewise, it’s hard for me to truly comment on the decisions made by the leaders of World War 1. Granted there were guys who were obviously morons like Luigi Cadorna (He of the TWELVE battles of the Isonzo. TWELVE!). But, and I must say that I’m talking out of my butt, we have to remember that they had truly sunk in a hole, and it was one they didn’t really comprehend. I don’t think the British generals were butchers. I think Gamelon and the like French generals (Spelling?) was incompetent, but not a butcher. Stubborn, and unable to cope with the overwhelming nature of modern warfare, certainly.
The real blame for the hell of that war lies with those who started it. One cannot predict the nature of a war, and one cannot know always how to fight it because it’s so fluid. World War 1 may never come around again; the disparities in technology (See: effectiveness of modern artillery vs. lack of effective radio communications for ground commanders) were just so freakish. One can only avoid the aggression shown by the Germans (And, yes, I do hold them mostly responsible for the beginning of the war).
As for the tanks, I don’t consider technological developments to be luck. The concept of the tank was simply a brilliant idea born from the mind of several soldiers.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Luck in the sense
that the various chunks of technology got invented when they did. Basically the internal combustion engine and caterpillar tracks. Take away the airplane and the war doesn’t change much. Take away the tank and who knows. Germany might actually win that one.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
No.
The tank was not a decisive factor in World War 1. They never mastered the tactics, or the technology. They were almost always destroyed before a breakthrough was secured.
I have the utmost respect for the British and French who gave everything for what seemed to be no reason. They stood and stood and stood, and I think those who think they died for nothing are wrong. In any event, the decisive factor on the Western Front was the arrival of American soldiers and Marines, American capital, American food, and American supplies, of all kinds.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:58 PM CDT up reply actions
i.e., the unique American 20th century capacity for two things:
a. superior NCOs
b. superior logistics.
We play tackle football.
It helped even less than the tank, man.
I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 2, 2011 10:12 AM CDT up reply actions
The flu ravaging Central powers didn't help?
I agree completely that American numbers were a decisive factor in the war, I’m just saying that Andrew Price-Smith’s assertions about the flu are compelling enough to put it above the tank at the very least.
Consider that the American presence in the Italian front was minimal (1 regiment) during Vittorio Veneto. What was the difference? Food shortages for one, which spurred both social unrest and susceptibility to disease in the Habsburg Empire. The social unrest affected the ability to govern (understatement), the disease affected the ability to fight. Coupled together, they led to capitulation—not the fear of Yanks charging up the Danube.
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I’m just not at all convinced that the Austrians ever had the ability to exploit a decisive advantage in the Italian theater. They were the true sick man of Europe.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 2, 2011 11:45 AM CDT up reply actions
Oh, and I wasn't talking about the Eastern Front.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 2, 2011 11:46 AM CDT up reply actions
He did invent total war. One should admit that.
It took a general who was a commoner to understand how to win that war.
We play tackle football.
Mmm hmm.
What so many forget is that Grant was responsible for Sherman. Sherman, before the final moves on Vicksburg, was totally opposed to Grant’s idea for the campaign – living off the land, marching without a supply line – and said so.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Hanson's discussion of Sherman and the Iowa (democratic freemen) volunteers
in their march across the south to the sea, is fascinating as well, because he points out that it became a fight between the landed and democratic, and the feudal and slaveholding — and that once again, those who fight for their homes, defeat those who fight for a tyrant.
We play tackle football.
That reminds me.
Something like 200,000-400,000 or more Union soldiers were from the Deep South states (In addition to the many from “Southern” states like Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri). Most of them were from the mountains, all were yeomen.
If you add those men to those from the three chief border states, the Union had, IIRC, nearly as many men as the Confederacy fielded and enough men to replace all Union losses.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:49 PM CDT up reply actions
There was a county
in Mississippi that the Confederate army refused to enter because the locals would attack them.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I've got the '88 version.
In the preface, he admits that his original last chapter, in which he predicted an end to battle, was a naive hope all too common to Cold War academics.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:00 PM CDT up reply actions
Probably because the Cold War
had it gone hot was going to end very, very badly for everyone. Nuclear war scared the shit out of me as a kid from time to time.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Thankfully, by the time I was a kid,
they didn’t really talk about those things to us. We didn’t have to do duck-and-cover drills. And I didn’t watch enough news to realize that all those green mobile missile-launchers were probably meant to be pointed at us.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 9:06 PM CDT up reply actions
The 70's and 80's
were when more people starting speaking the truth about what would happen if the balloon went up. “The Day After” was bad enough until “Threads” made it look like fuckin’ Disneyland. There was a BBC series in the 60’s that was supposed to be so disturbing it was only ever aired once because it freaked people out so bad.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I didn't see "The Day After" until the late 90s or early 2000s.
I’m sure it would have freaked me out if I had seen it when I was 5 or 10. Partially because you get to see Steve Guttenberg slowly disintegrate.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 1:40 AM CDT up reply actions
We, and by that I mean the entire world, got very lucky
that both Andropov and Chernenko died so quickly and were succeeded by Gorbachev. And that Gorbachev had the courage to acknowledge the reality of the Soviet situation.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Well, in reading Keegan on Azincourt,
and the socio-economic background of the longbowmen, you understand why Iowa wins. Not a bunch of royalist knights, just a bunch of yeomen with longbows and quiet demeanors.
We play tackle football.
Really?
I don’t have the book in front of me, but I’m pretty sure he said the longbowmen weren’t the idealist yeomen people assume them to be. In fact, a lot of them may have been petty criminals, some even murderers.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:13 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't think that was the long bowmen
it was the light infantry on the flanks that protected the longbowmen behind them.
I always saw myself as one of them, btw. They charged in and slaughtered.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
It was the unique social structure of the English, which created property opportunities
for the otherwise downtrodden, and fostered the culture of the yeoman longbowman, that created victory at Azincourt. The French had nobles and horses; the English had men fighting for their land, with backs and right arms trained for 20 years to pull the long bow. It was a triumph of both democratic culture, and technology.
We play tackle football.
If you're quoting Hanson
there needs to be a long-winded discussion of the Greeks and how Salamis saved us Westerners from falling into perpetual dictatorship endemic to the Eastern “satrapies.” The guy is interesting, but he’s also a hopeless racist.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
I can't respond to that appropriately without being political, which you are being, and that will get us both banned.
We play tackle football.
Ok, but you seemed to be citing Keegan, and that just didn't sound right.
I haven’t yet read Hanson, probably will shortly.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Hanson's got a thing for tracing the democratic stream from the Greeks to the present.
A democratic impulse, in his view, is a military advantage that no totalitarian regime can defeat. And that’s why wars between democratic countries (e.g., Germany v. the world) are the most terrible.
The longbowmen literally were a technical innovation. No other nation had men with the arms and backs strong enough to pull that bow, because no other nation wanted commoners to have that power. The English were outmanned at Azincourt by what, 5-1?, after a winter bivouac of dysentery. Anyhow, if the story interests you, be sure to see the Branagh Henry V.
We play tackle football.
We take our military historians for granted, by the way.
(As Keegan said in the book I’m currently reading) So many, too many to name, have been truly excellent. Compare to countries like France, Germany, and Russia, which have taken years – for all I know, they may still lack quality – to attain high quality in their works because, in order, the French and the Russians were mentally hurt by devastating losses in wars or communism while the Prussian kind of overly-militaristic, distinctly Prussian military history was always at the forefront of German works.
So, anyway, the US and the UK are really the only countries to produce insightful, great military historians in large numbers. That’s what happens when democratic societies or mostly democratic societies win.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:39 PM CDT up reply actions
There is no military history taught in the academy
and hasn’t been since Vietnam.
We play tackle football.
Which is too bad
Viet Nam, (and Iraq and Afganistan) could be covered in “What happens when you fuck around for a few years without really having a plan” aka “Politicians don’t know how to win wars”
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Iraq will be studied 1000 years from now, as a model of counter-insurgency and urban combat.
There has never, ever, been even the fantasy of an urban combat episode to rival Fallujah, and you can bet the Russians (the guys who reduced Grozny to gravel? meter by meter, with remote artillery) will not be fucking around with the US Marines in an urban battlespace, any time soon.
We play tackle football.
I need to study Hue in more detail.
I read Phase Line Green, which is excellent, but I would like some more details. I’m not sure I’ll find too many, since many of the powers-that-be in the military and especially the damned politicians knew who was responsible for the idiotic ROEs of that battle.
In any event, yes, the Marines are proficient as always.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:51 PM CDT up reply actions
My friend was in Fallujah for a little over a year. He came back a different man, would only mumble about “the shit I have seen” and died of Alcoholic Ketoacidosis in October.
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
War is hell.
I don’t mean that as just a pithy saying, like “well what do you expect,” but really—it’s fucking hell. I’m sorry to hear about your friend, and I hope we as a people send as few young men to hell as possible.
Ceci n'est pas un blogue.
Thanks
he was a SeaBee, so he was not in combat but dealt with women and children. That’s what put him over the edge. I think he would have handled combat better.
He told us the things that the women and children endure there are unimaginable.
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
We won the battles
but we were not winning the war in Iraq. We were just holding on due to firepower and technology while we racked up really lopsided body counts. Not until you get to the surge period did we really start “winning”.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
There's never been a counterinsurgency campaign that so quickly defeated its enemy.
Counterinsurgency (cf. Killeen) is a decades-long effort, in the normal case.
We are talking about different things here: conventional, urban, and counterinsurgency warfare. All were demonstrated successfully in Iraq. No one short of China is going to screw around with the US military for quite a while.
We play tackle football.
Yes, and then we won.
What’s interesting is this notion that we hadn’t done anything like that before. Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard of Creighton Abrams. Well, he was the man who, with the help of the idiotic Tet Offensive, Ambassador Bunker, and several others, basically won the Vietnam War. Bellanca’s right; it took him slightly longer to crush the insurgency in the South, but our guys did it. The Viet Cong was utterly finished by 1970-1971 and the NVA had resorted to conventional offensives which were all destroyed by South Vietnamese infantry and, of course, massed B-52 raids. He probably also did a more effective job of preparing the South for what would come ahead, although credit there is also due to President Thieu.
See, America had given up because all of the lies of the LBJ administration had been exposed and because there was a terrible disconnect between the press and the media. So there was no will to fund airpower in Vietnam. Without American ground forces but with American air forces, the South Vietnamese could have remained independent because the Chinese were no longer acting as a safe haven (Or as a supplier of troops: The Chinese had several hundred thousand men working as anti-aircraft personnel and engineers in North Vietnam).
And that state, where the farmers of South Vietnam didn’t have to worry about being threatened by dudes with blunt Hanoi accents, and where the NVA’s only offensive modus operandi put them square in the jaws of the Stratofortress, is due the Creighton Abrans.
Oh, and he also laid the blueprint for our modern, excellent, volunteer army. So he’s got that going for him too.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 10:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Once we got to the part
that we had an effective strategy, be it Abrams or the Surge, we started winning. Before that time, we were not winning. We may not have been losing, but we weren’t really winning unless you count “by attrition” Not through the fault of the troops, they went where they were told and did as ordered, but they were not being given the proper orders.
It’s a damn shame that it took so long and so many lives in both cases before the powers that be went “gee, this isn’t really working very well, let’s try something else”.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Giap has stated and written
that Tet destroyed the NVA. It was 18 months before they could field a force again.
Cronkite reported that Tet marked the defeat of the USA. (He was in country for 10 days.)
Cronkite had more sway with the American public.
We play tackle football.
I find Cronkite and the like vastly more reprehensible than almost anyone but LBJ, who was a compulsive liar..
Really, I do. There’s just something about pretending to be an expert that is rather…annoying.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 10:30 PM CDT up reply actions
The U.S. never could have "won" in Vietnam
Because ultimately it would come down to a force of wills, and our interests were so minor in comparison to make the whole thing futile.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
No, that's not true.
It didn’t come down to a force of wills. Again, as stated below, once the Viet Cong took tremendous casualties, the U.S. and South Viets brought 95% or more of the villages under governmental protection. The insurgency was dead. That’s why the NVA turned from “revolutionary warfare” to purely conventional warfare like the Easter Offensive. And South Vietnamese ground forces combined with American air to destroy anything of that nature.
It was only when Congress removed funding (Nixon didn’t fight back, because he would have lost, and Ford didn’t fight back because it wasn’t his nature and because he would have lost) for everything – air, supplies for the South, training for the south, on and on – that the North was able to win. And it still took them two years to do so from positions surrounding their enemy.
Also, we were getting close to shutting down the Ho Chi Minh Trail with our bombers before we pulled out. The real betrayal of the South Vietnamese was not, I think, that we left, but that we left them with the North Vietnamese still sitting in their border bastions in Cambodia and Laos. It’s one thing to leave, it’s another to dismiss the fact that your supposed ally is surrounded from nearly all directions by an enemy that is still getting supplied by the Soviets and Warsaw Pact.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 2, 2011 8:06 AM CDT up reply actions
And make no mistake about it
No matter how many arms and tanks Eastern Europe sent, the North could have not have kept sending men to be blown up by B-52s forever. And that was all that was going to happen had we kept the United States Air Force in the area (Especially since, as stated somewhere else here, the Chinese were no longer acting as a giant safe haven due to the Soviet-Sino ideological split).
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 2, 2011 8:08 AM CDT up reply actions
Even Bo Gritz quit reading about this
4 comments ago.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 8:23 AM CDT up reply actions
Here, let's get him to read it again:
POW POW POW RAMBO POW
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 2, 2011 8:52 AM CDT up reply actions
Now, he enjoys it.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 8:54 AM CDT up reply actions
I do not read military history books
but I feel as if I am getting a free education by reading these tangents for the past year. The thing about education though.. is that you get what you pay for. This place is only contributing to my warped world view.
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 2, 2011 8:54 AM CDT up reply actions
The NVA was shattered, and the Christmas bombing drove Hanoi to the table.
Things were bad for the NVA as they literally ran out of 16 year-olds to throw into combat.
Had the USA honored its treaty with SVN, and maintained its air support, the south would not have been overrun. Now, how long we would have had to keep air forces active and in place, and how the USA would have fared with the balance of the western world while continuing to support the south, those are more difficult questions. But Rambler is certainly right: had Congress not abrogated our security treaty with SVN, and had Nixon not destroyed his presidency, the popular perception today of defeat and retreat would be very different.
I share Rambler’s enthusiasm for Abrams’ transformation of the our core objectives. By making civilian security, not NVA/VC attrition, the primary military objective, Abrams turned the tide.
For a good and interesting book on the air war, and our bizarre ROE, you might enjoy Robin Olds’ biography. Also, MoH winner Bud Day (of Sioux City) offers an informative bio.
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by Bellanca on Aug 2, 2011 9:09 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
ROBIN OLDS!
And, yeah, they made him shave it when he went back stateside. Losers.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 2, 2011 10:12 AM CDT up reply actions
My airport manager, who also sprays in the summer,
was a Thumper mechanic in Thailand with Olds. Olds led from the front.
We play tackle football.
er
Between press and the military
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 10:11 PM CDT up reply actions
Politicians couldn't win Iraq.
Petraeus, Odierno, and the American fighting man won there, and they can win anywhere if we give them a good job and the ability to win.
God, I love them.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:52 PM CDT up reply actions
Why is that?
Does Batshit Insanity go on over at BSD as much as it does here? I really should check that blog out. Wait is that considered cheating? Damn I want to be faithful but at the same time keep looking. What to do?
Hey.
Only like 100 days until wrestling.
YYEAHHH WOOO WRAESTLUNG HELL YES
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:03 PM CDT up reply actions
It seems like a good school of thought, too.
He did his best work in the late 1700s, he’s a Ramblantic.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 9:04 PM CDT up reply actions
No.
I did my best work in the 1980s.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:05 PM CDT up reply actions
The guy in that picture did do good work in the 1700s, though.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 9:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Something, something, their football team caters to ours, somethign.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 1, 2011 9:00 PM CDT up reply actions
So, we hired a new reporter and she was training this past week
and was in town over the weekend (she’s going to be a bureau reporter for us). So we were all hanging out and getting to know her, and the whole time, I’m thinking there’s something off about this girl. She’s attractive and funny, yes, but I keep getting the feeling there’s something lurking beneath the surface.
She says she graduated from Columbia College in Illinois. Okay, that’s cool. But wait, she graduated 2 years after I did, and only graduated high school one year after I did. Where’s that extra year? She’s clearly not the type to need more than 4 years for a degree in journalism.
She spent her freshman year at the University of Iowa. Suddenly, everything made sense— the meth addiction, the corn obsession, and beating me in every drinking game we played despite being half my size. Or less. It all clicked.
And I wept.
And I saluted Kirk Ferentz from afar for his ability to torture even after I moved away from the confines of Happy Valley.
by psuwxman on Aug 1, 2011 9:00 PM CDT reply actions 5 recs
Bienvenue Hampsterdam
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by Kluginator on Aug 1, 2011 9:09 PM CDT reply actions 11 recs
most excellent
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by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 1, 2011 10:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Has it really come to this?
Are we so thin skinned we can’t tell each other to go fuck themselves and still get along?
Admittedly, I myself have refrained, for the most part, from posting because apparently Ross and myself can not have a conversation… but now the whole site?
What? Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell No!
And it ain’t over now.‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough…
The tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!
What the fuck happened to the BHGP I used to know? Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you’re gonna let it be the worst. Ooh, we’re afraid to go with you Grixxly, we might get in trouble. Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I’m not gonna take this. Tressel, he’s a dead man! Fickell, dead! Hoke? Kill? Dead…
Look, if you want to comment, just comment.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Say what you want
But this is at least two articles now that basically say ‘this is our playground play by our rules’. Just own up to it… No opposing views… No nitpicking… Any opposition is crazy talk…
Just comment… my ass…
I don't understand what you want.
BHGP is not, nor has it ever been, an anything goes land of anarchy in the comments.
No opposing views… No nitpicking… Any opposition is crazy talk…
If that’s your takeaway from this, you are sadly mistaken.
And if you don’t want to comment because you’re worried of getting “yelled at” by an anonymous internet person… I’m sorry, I can’t help you with that.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Example?
Fuck off.
Seriously, fuck off. 1900 words and nothing constructive in response. Again.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I’m basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Aug 1, 2011 10:35 AM CDT
Note author…
Okay. Then don't comment.
I don’t understand why someone that doesn’t like a site or its writers continues to read or interact at said site. No one’s forcing you to read BHGP. Why act like a jackass if it’s not run the way you, random commenter, want it to be run?
I, for one, appreciate the idea that there’s going to be an off-topic thread, because I was sick of having to bypass entire sections of threads due to an inability to keep comments on topic. I also think it’s beyond fair that the guys decided to handle it this way instead of simply saying, “Look, assholes, stay on topic or get the fuck out.” If you want to discuss things that have nothing to do with a story, then you’ve got a place to do it. If a random conversation starts organically in a thread which does not relate to the conversation, then you’ve got a place to continue that conversation. Bitching about the creation of an off-topic thread is asinine.
Also, this IS their playground, so you should play by their rules. Why is that hard to understand?
by The Mexican't on Aug 2, 2011 4:55 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
Sure.
However, context and posting history are not irrelevant factors to this conversation, either.
Your cherry-picking fails to note that Catnuts provided a more substantive comment later on in the thread and Patrick responded in kind.
Forgive us for being a little tired of some of the hit-and-run commenting around here that has sent the signal-to-noise ratio spiraling into absurdity in far too many threads.
BHGP is not, nor has it ever been, a true democracy nor an anarchist’s playground. We like the community and we welcome contributions, but it isn’t your house, either. If you want to go into your house and throw your stuff around in every room — hey, knock yourself out. It’s your house. But you wouldn’t go into someone else’s house and do that. (At least I hope not.) So we just ask that you follow those same general rules here.
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by RossWB on Aug 2, 2011 5:01 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ummmmmm....
In Hamsterdam I made a joke about window peeking and wanking. No banhammer.
The founders are just trying to keep a light leash on things.
It will be OK.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 2, 2011 5:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes, but you didn't make a joke about or disagree with the mods.
See how that works out. I bet it involves a mod telling you to fuck off in a demeaning and dismissive tone. That is the crux of Grixxly’s point that nobody here wanted to comment on.
BHGP is indeed a free-for-all in a lot of ways and fosters open-mindedness by explicit tenet, but disagreeing with some of the mods (and in turn some of the hivemind that sets in) leads to mean-spirited dismissals by the same people intending to keep an open-minded site going. It also in turn makes it hard for people that might agree with the dissenter because they don’t also want to get shouted down by the mods and the people that support them a little too strongly at times.
I realize that this is BHGP’s playground and the mods set the rules, so it will be as it will have to be. I agree that some curtailing of the anarchy was in order. Maybe Hamsterdam is the way to do it. I suspect it’s actually destined for failure as it’s very hard to limit conversation to sports only in the main threads and somehow keep the strangeness contained in a separate section, but God help me if I mention that earlier in this here thread. I get jebushchrist telling me my opinions/presence are unwanted. Fuck that. He’s very funny and extremely intelligent, but that kind of mean-spirited dickishness is not kosher in my book. If we were face-to-face I’d punch him for that, but here it’s allowed? Not much fun IMO.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I think that is also one of the intimidating things that keeps new people from posting. I think it’s a bigger factor than Civil War discussions.
I realize this is the Internet and rules are different than real life but I won’t ever be OK with bullying and meanness. I’ve had a couple battles with some of the mods here, but I’m done doing so.
I personally can’t continue to be as active as I have been in commenting on so many other things if the times I disagree with the mods it turns into the type of BS Vint layed down and Grixxly brought up. My decision is that I will now become primarily a lurker. No more daily contributions and certainly less page views from this guy. It looks like that’s fine by BHGP and it will be fine by me. I’ve got plenty of other things to take up that time.
I love the writing of the site (I truly do, it’s fantastic) and I’ll continue to be a reader and infrequent commenter. There’s a lot of funny shit that happens here and a lot of great writing and commenting that goes on. I just won’t be an active community member, or at least intend to stop. Lord knows addictions can be tough to kick, but this will be better for me. My type of commenting was apparently what was a problem for the mods, so maybe it’s also better for BHGP that I step away.
I realize part of the reason the site is so good is that jebus, HFMR, Vint, Ross and the other mods are good at the internet. I’ve just grown to dislike the internet protocol. I have grown to severely dislike the heavy sarcasm and snark. It’s mean, intending to hurt other people, and I’m done with it. It appears this may be a problem for only me, but so be it.
I love and respect many of the people here, and I’m still interested in BHGP meetups, especially with some of the commenters I’ve most enjoyed talking with (last shout-out to Lukateake, Lycurgus, Rambler, BB, rockyh, HawKCP, Chazz (most of the time), SMKS, TFG, Kluginator, I’m sure I’m forgetting many). For anybody that actually cared enough about my opinions to read this far, my email is in my profile now. Or I guess you could reply to this comment as well. I don’t twitter or facebook, but feel free to drop me a line if you’re in L.A. Hopefully for the Rose Bowl. We’ll grab a beer. Maybe become real friends instead of just internet friends.
/feel free to flame away, I won’t be responding.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Aug 2, 2011 6:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Catnuts
I am saddened by this. I would like to take you up on your offer of staying in touch via email. However, I don’t see it in your profile. My email is in my profile, please drop a line.
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 2, 2011 6:58 PM CDT up reply actions
I get your point here
but I disagree, I am just not the type to take a verbal berating on an internet forum all that seriously. I respect the mods and writers here and for that reason I will do what they ask with the hampsterdam idea. I think it is a very reasonable compromise given the situation. Come on back sometime TRCN.
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 2, 2011 7:19 PM CDT up reply actions
Respect is great
But respect needs to flow both ways.
I don’t know the history nor do I know the whole situation, but I will say this, if some one on here, even though it is the internet, told me to go “fuck off” and they were not joking, then I would take that seriously and I would be offended.
I don’t believe Catnuts is leaving because the mods would like us to use Hamsterdam as a “catch-all” for our way off topic topics. I believe he has been personally offended by a mod on a blog that likes to promote open-mindedness and fair play.
So, respect is great but again it has to flow both ways.
This is all I am going to say on this topic. Moving on to more lighter things. After all i come here to escape real-life drama, don’t need to have blog-drama.
Lets all take a lesson from what happened at BSD and not let this shit get out of control.
Now everyone hug and make up.
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 2, 2011 7:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Cry me a river
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 3, 2011 12:15 AM CDT up reply actions
OH!
The damage is done so I better be leavin’.
/Timbaland’d
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 9:34 AM CDT up reply actions
again
i’m a random guy that likes reading the articles here and communicating with like minded football fans. I am just not going to take any serious offense to anything that happens on a blog. Just a difference in personality i guess.
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Aug 3, 2011 9:22 AM CDT up reply actions
Sounds like you've put some thought into this
Godspeed
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 2, 2011 7:29 PM CDT up reply actions
@ Catnuts and Grixxly: please still hang around and comment once every couple days.
I understand Grixxly and Catnuts’s viewpoint. I’m sure people think I deserve it more than others, but it really isn’t fun to be told to fuck off or other stuff, by anybody.
Personally, I think people (including myself at times) take things too seriously on here. There came a point where I had to say “Sometimes I deserve ridicule, Some people just don’t like you, and some people have bad days and then comment on here.” Sure, it doesn’t explain everything, but in the end, we are all humans.
Comments sections are comments sections, they are not CNN, and they are not a law library (I suddenly feel like I need to use the rest room.) At the same time, I very much understand the need to not have it become a Wild West Shootout around here, so I think it is wise to have the “no politics rule”, the “no slurs/stupid name-calling rule”, and the “no porn/illegal streams” rule. Beyond that, I think it is a good idea to have people be slightly free to politely express their viewpoints.
I think most people enjoy Catnuts’s comments most of the time. I’d say the same about Grixxly, except that I think you have commented so much less because you haven’t been enjoying it, that I’ve kind of forgotten your style/frame of mind.
To the Moderators/Administrators/Founders of BHGP, I thank you for making this place. I thank you for your written work. I don’t disagree with the Hamsterdam Initiative TM . One polite criticism I’d suggest is that, when you do disagree with somebody, or when you want them to stop “being an idiot like WaterlooChazz”, then maybe do so politely. I know it takes time and patience, but you’ll make some people feel more comfortable, and you’ll probably get them to do what you want them to do.
Bless you all, and Go Hawks!
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 9:23 PM CDT up reply actions
I can't believe you spend this much time bitching in a thread with a monkey doing push-ups
It just seems like a lot of negative energy aimed at BHGP based on your displeasure with the entire internet.
Hamsterdam was created to allow for a series of free flowing conversations that will occasionally touch on mature subjects to free up posts in which the authors spent their free time away from work and life to write.
If you’re upset by the direction of the site then you’re free to spend your time elsewhere. It’s really that simple.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 3, 2011 12:14 AM CDT up reply actions
also
a real man doesn’t shout at everyone that he is leaving. That’s a cry for attention if I’ve ever heard one. Just fucking leave dude. I’ll pick up where you left off with the page views as I couldn’t stand the comment threads anymore from blowhards like you. Now maybe I can comment again.
Cheers!
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
BAM.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 3, 2011 1:27 AM CDT up reply actions
OOH
I just realized that we now have an excellent chance of having an inpromptu Point Break open thread whenever that stupid piece of cheap garbage film par excellence is on.
Bydand.
it was on yesterday
I was going to tweet about it but I fell asleep, and I don’t think you follow me anyway
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
Of course it was on yesterday.
It’s on basically everyday except for when I can watch it.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 1, 2011 9:14 PM CDT up reply actions
whoa
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 9:17 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
that's just animal cruelty
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
this is why we have the internet and hamsterdam and his knees are bent but that's ok monkey
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 9:17 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
he said knees are bent, not touching the ground
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
Ah... I love Hamsterdam.
A place where people can comment on their own comments.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
I think someone just said something to the effect of:
“Now I see where you got the name Rambler.”
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
Yeah, that was me
To respond to your own comment is now called “The Rambler”
"He lowballed us and said: 'Take it or leave it. If you don't take our offer, you are rolling the dice.' I said: 'Consider them rolled.' " - Jim "Huge Brass Balls" Delaney
by ClaybornSmash on Aug 2, 2011 9:47 AM CDT up reply actions
he does that everywhere
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
Fuckers swole though. Look at his back.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Of course he is.
He’s been doing pushups non-stop for 9 minutes now.
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 1, 2011 9:24 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Monkey's have the strength
of at least ten men.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I mean, hand to monkey-hand...
How many average sized men would it require to take down one similarly sized monkey? Over/under has to be 7.5 or so.
by Chris Grovich on Aug 1, 2011 9:29 PM CDT up reply actions
THIS CHIMP KNOWS KARATE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sXM-JRTDL8&feature=related
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
That makes no sense. Why would you mug a chimp?
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
They have the strength of 10 men [see:above]
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
That is why you bring 10 men of your own.
I bet you could get 10 of these jokers to go with you to rob a chimp. In tomorrow night’s Hamsterdam just say “I need 10 guys to help me rob a chimp, who’s in?” I bet you’ll have your 10 in no time.
Don't chimps hunt in packs?
I’ve seen those Planet of the Apes trailers.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
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Maybe but it isn't difficult to lure one away from the pack.
You just need a banana or something shiny. But make sure you only get one. That there’s the tricky part.
We'll groupthink this and eventually we'll figure out how to mug a chimp.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
We need to start with about 4 drunk frat boys
We’ll call them the first wave.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
PitS' roommates?
What say there, Fuzzy- Britches?
can you distract them like men
with boobs?
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
Not if you want to keep your boobs in their current condition.
I would not recommend it. I would liken it to surgery w/o anesthesia. Chimps, like early and current man, really like boobs. This is where I would be wary of the strength of 10 men part.
thanks for the tip
I will keep em covered when ever I spot a chimp. Or a man.
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
I'm in.
But I won’t be the one who goes after it first. I’d be the 6th or 7th and get a good punch or two in.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
Now here's the real question:
If a pack of kindergarteners came at you, how many do you think you could fend off?
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
Can I use the tether ball pole?
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Can I use one of the children as a broadsword?
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
All of them. I could take all of them.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
I was skimming and read this as "breadsword"
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 1, 2011 10:49 PM CDT up reply actions
only for the big loaf
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 10:51 PM CDT up reply actions
Pizza. Lots and lots of pizza.
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
The organ grinder makes all the dough.
The badass monkey is there for protection.
by MotorHawk on Aug 1, 2011 9:38 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
First they start doing push ups
next thing the Apes are taking over the entire planet!
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Today is Kirk's 56th birthday, obviously he's having a good time.
by hawk6894 on Aug 1, 2011 9:34 PM CDT reply actions 7 recs
Totally cracked me up when I saw that
He’s wishing KF happy birthday in a way that he’ll never actually see it.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 1, 2011 10:50 PM CDT up reply actions
BAHAHAHAHA
EJ prolly found it. And then didn’t tell Kirk about it because Kirk hates computers.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
Good point
Forgot EJ (& Levar) twitter- do you suppose they follow DJK?
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 1, 2011 11:01 PM CDT up reply actions
You have reached the end of my twitter expertise
So… You can see who people follow off their profiles then?
/peels off & heads over to the Twittersphere
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 1, 2011 11:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Unless I'm totally incompetent,
Neither follows DJK
I don’t know whether I’m surprised or not
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 1, 2011 11:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Knee fetishist, Barta is
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Kirk is probably wondering what her 40 time is
I swear the "robbed a place" was actually not ment as a smart ass remark. I just forgot that he actually robbed a place for a second. ~ justsomehawkeyefan
Also, it makes total sense that Barta is there, enjoying the show,
while Kirk is in the back feeling weirded out.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
and no one noticed NPH in the background?
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
Greatest show EVER.
Well, one of them anyway.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 9:51 PM CDT up reply actions
yes
It is also especially quotable, which is the sign of a great show or movie
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
I was unable to catch every episode of the most recent season.
Therefore, I am anxiously waiting for season six to come out on DVD so that I can review it all in its glory. My current favorite episode is Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 9:58 PM CDT up reply actions
ANY episode with the slap bet is awesome
I like the one with the plays
“moist, moist, moist”
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
Oh that musical episode was brilliant too.
SUIT UP!
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 10:02 PM CDT up reply actions
Robin Sparkles
FTW
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
I know so many men that don't like the word moist.
Sometimes it’s just fun to say it around them.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 1, 2011 10:02 PM CDT up reply actions
someone has a Twitter name "moistweets"
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
Banned
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 10:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Shoot.
Hey wait! I’m the first person banned in Hamsterdam. Fuck yeah!!
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 1, 2011 10:06 PM CDT up reply actions
"Crusty" is also one that gets a few people
And “panties.” A friend of mine hates all three, so asking her about her “moist, crusty panties” will send her into epileptic seizures.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Okay, when you put the three of them together I almost threw up.
Separate I have no problem but together that is no right.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 1, 2011 10:07 PM CDT up reply actions
'Panties' I hate,
‘crusty’ I don’t mind at all & ‘moist’ is just sort of ‘meh’.
But, yes, put them all together & I’m chewing tinfoil
Thanks so much
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 1, 2011 10:54 PM CDT up reply actions
none of them alone bother me
but together, just gross
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
Moist?
I don’t get why it’s so off-putting. It could be just me being deaf, but is it the way it sounds or what?
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 10:07 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Fluid and liquid are also disturbing
Not sure why
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 10:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Foreigners believe...
Diarrhea is one of the more beautiful sounding words in the english language. Who knows if they know what it means.
They probably also enjoy saying “Moist,crusty, diarrhea panties.”
by RH's Bookie on Aug 1, 2011 11:31 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Go for Barney!
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
Cyber high five -
NICE!
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
Good wingmen are hard to find.
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
True that.
I had a bad experience with a wingman a while ago. Totally fucked up the night by trying to put the moves on BOTH girls. DUMBASS.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 10:09 PM CDT up reply actions
That is a clear violation of the Bro-Code
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
Did you promptly hint to them that he was either married or had some sort of contagious disease?
You would have been justified.
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
Actually, I had two wingmen
And one of them was engaged. The other’s gf was in Thailand at the time. Douchenozzles.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 10:17 PM CDT up reply actions
You clearly need new wingmen.
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
Yep, I dumped them that night.
Fuck ’em.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 10:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Wow...
Last weekend, I went out in Chi-town. The girls said I was too young. Frustrating then. Hilarious now.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
I have recently found a wingwoman. She is hot.
She is dating a guy I respect, so I don’t want to go for her. She’s cool as fuck. There is nothing like a cool, hot chick to talk you up to break the ice.
meh
It's gonna be legend-... wait for it...
and I hope you’re not lactose intolerant because the second half of that word is DAIRY!
I've just read through this whole thread....
My eyes are bloodshot, my head hurts, and I’m pretty sure I dropped 10 or 12 IQ points.
I’m ready for Hamsterdam…maybe…..
This is a good idea.
Now people have a place to go to discuss their personal sexual practices, the discussion of which embarrasses me.
We play tackle football.
this place is going to be gold for the traffic stats of BHGP
also, i just noticed the “sitemeter” thing at the bottom of the page where you can look at them
What say there, Fuzzy- Britches?
Yeah, it's down there.
or it was a minute ago.
FREE FALLIN’!
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 10:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Wow, this place is blowing up like we just re-hired Coach Redacted or something.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 1, 2011 11:11 PM CDT up reply actions
that includes barely-SFW babe stuff that you wouldn't really ever want a boss to see on your screen
There goes half the threads on the site.
I am getting my ass handed to me in Word Feud, again.
I bet I would be better at this game if could spell.
Someone needs to tell jNW that this is not how things are done in the BigTen.
Fans are not allowed to help make decisions. Fans can’t decide things like what the basketball court should look like.
I say let them choose.
If we’re lucky, the ridiculous purple court will win and we can all point and laugh.
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 10:00 PM CDT up reply actions
I want the purple one.
I think it is awful but I want to see what it would actually look like.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 1, 2011 10:01 PM CDT up reply actions
Yup. I'd vote, but that means I'd have to "Like" a jNW page on Facebook.
I will never stoop that low.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
those are um...great...
“Chicago’s Big Ten Team”
What say there, Fuzzy- Britches?
Is every B1G team putting the new conference logo on the free-throw stripe?
Also, I really wish Iowa would put a Tigerhawk at mid-court, like they did on the practice court (Note: I don’t think that link goes directly to the gallery in question, if not, you can find it in the “General Release” list)
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 10:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeaaaaah...
I don’t wanna talk about #3. That’s just like, are we that desperate to be Oregon or Boise State? And are we gonna put 2K more asses in the seats by painting our court purple or grey or something? Put a good team on the court first.
Although, I think it would be classy if they did something similar, but not with those colors.
I think the court should appear to be wood and then have the block N in purple in the center so that it’s read the same way from either side of the court and don’t have the Wildcat logo in there.
Also – Chicago’s Big Ten Team? Okay. That’s like Milwaukee claiming Madison. Well, maybe not, but you get my point.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 10:33 PM CDT up reply actions
So.
(1) If they were maybe to do something in grey, I would consider it. But the all-purple design is a lot to take in.
(2) Chicago’s Big Ten Team has been Jim Phillips’ marketing pitch for a while, and I don’t think it’s anything he should really be ashamed of. It’s a huge-ass market with only one B1G in immediate proximity; I understand our alumni base there is not huge, but hell, who else can we appeal to? Winnetka?
I think they've been trying to get that Chicago line to stick all summer.
Maybe longer.
With the “N” the wildcat head looks ridiculous. I think #1 with just the “N” would be best.
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 10:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Definitely longer.
And the “N-cat” (N with wildcat head) is kinda a program staple as of late… I don’t know if it’ll change.
I don't mind it on the football helmets.
And it’s better than just the cat, but I think the “N” at the center of the purple court is the best mid-court look. It’s just ruined because it’s surrounded by never-ending purple.
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 10:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I think a redesign of the court is premature
The athletic department is coming up with a master plan for revamping our athletic facilities on Central Street -ie Ryan Field, Welsh Ryan Arena, and the baseball and softball stadiums. This is extreme but I think welsh-ryan should be torn down and rebuilt.
If we’re going to redesign the court, then lets go all out with the purple choice.
Here’s another thing: On television, it looks like Donald Duck urinated all over Oregon’s new baseketball court
by LincolnParkWildcat on Aug 2, 2011 5:05 PM CDT up reply actions
UFC 133 Countdown is on Spike right now
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
That's one mighty average looking card.
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 10:11 PM CDT up reply actions
The card was riddled with injuries. maybe more than any card ever.
It’ll still be better than any Strikeforce card.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 10:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, that's a given.
Especially since Strikeforce’s best two fighters (Diaz & Melendez) would rather fight in the UFC to unify their titles than defend them in Strikeforce.
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 10:20 PM CDT up reply actions
If Dana wants to turn it into the WEC, fine, but let's get guys like Melendez, Jacare, and Overeem into the UFC
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
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by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 10:22 PM CDT up reply actions
I'd love to see all three get one top 5 contender and then a title shot.
But leave King Mo behind, and kill the commentating team.
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 10:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Agreed 100%
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
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by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 10:28 PM CDT up reply actions
I bet ALL the Strikeforce champs (if not all the fighters, period) would rather fight in UFC.
Lots more exposure and money there. The WEC guys got screwed for years by Zuffa keeping UFC and WEC separate.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Also, I think you missed Ross and my's (that sounds dumb, but I think it's correct) discussion about Fedor on Saturday.
I think you were busy trying to kill a bouncy house. Basically, I’ve decided the talk of Fedor as the GoaT is hilariously stupid.
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 10:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Or was the bouncy house trying to kill Jebus?
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
YOU DON'T KNOW. IT WAS HOTT IN THERE AND DIMENSIONS WERE VERY MISLEADING
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 10:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Memo to the wise:
Bouncy houses are not for adults. Sad, I know.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 10:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, well people will be saying the same things about Anderson Silva in 3 years when he drops 3 in a row
This sport is so young it’s hard to say. I’d put Fedor up there in the top 5 with GSP, Spider, Wandy, and Chuck.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 10:25 PM CDT up reply actions
And I supposed Dan Henderson should be in that conversation as well.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 10:31 PM CDT up reply actions
If Fedor lost 3 fights, but sprinkled a decision in there I may not have been so adamant.
Instead, he was finished in all three. And none of the fighters that defeated him are top 5 HWs. Hell, Hendo is a middleweight.
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 10:31 PM CDT up reply actions
I think not fighting any real competition for several years before coming to Strikeforce really hurt him
Then when he had to crank it up a level that level was gone.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 10:34 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
That's probably true.
It would also help if he wasn’t so willing to rest on his laurels and put a little effort into getting into the correct weight class. Or maybe training with fighters that were worth a shit.
M-1 just kept feeding him full of bullshit and, likely, tarnished his legacy.
by The Mexican't on Aug 1, 2011 10:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Like Rocky. Totally.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 10:40 PM CDT up reply actions
He was in the proper weight class, I think.
The heavyweight division has changed in the last few years with guys like Brock, Cain, Carwin, and Dos Santos emerging as guys who were really big AND really skilled, but until that happened, it was totally reasonable to have guys like Fedor or Couture in the heavyweight division. There were lots of guys who had skill or size, but rarely did they have both.
The fact that the fought a bunch of scrubs, freakshows, and middling contenders certainly didn’t help his cause, though. They did nothing for his legacy (except give him a gaudy W-L record) and probably detracted from his ability as a fighter since he wasn’t fighting guys who could legitimately push him. So that sucked. Especially since we could have had Fedor-Couture if Dana and M1 could have gotten over their bullshit.
I still think Fedor’s probably the heavyweight GOAT. P4P GOAT is, as I said the other night, a weird argument because I find P4P arguments kinda bizarre in general. It’s hard to measure guys when they stick to a single weight class — can you conclusively say that the competition, say, GSP fought at 170 was better than the competition Silva fought at 185? It helps that guys like Silva, Penn, and Couture fought (and won) at multiple weight classes, but still: strange argument and I don’t know where I stand on it. It makes a little more sense to me in boxing where guys move between weight classes more frequently.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
The boxing jump is always smaller, though, making it easier to move between classes.
When weight classes are separated by just 4 pounds, moving up or down is a matter of sitting in a sauna for an extra hour or not. I do understand the point, though. And all of the current kings have arguments against them. GSP’s inability & seeming unwillingness to finish anyone lately. Silva’s lack of a true challenger and obvious boredom in recent fights. Aldo has shown that he’s an absolute freak, but he’s only been doing that for about a year.
A P4P argument is always tough to make.
by The Mexican't on Aug 2, 2011 8:15 AM CDT up reply actions
"Fedor as the GOAT is hilariously stupid"
I thought this even before he started losing.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 2:01 AM CDT up reply actions
I prefer fake punches, hurricanranas and
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 2, 2011 12:11 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Oh, hey
I’ve never seen Joe Paterno as cocky as he is this year. I like it, but I have no idea what it means aside from one thing: he most likely thinks we’re going to be really good.
Back in April, he gathered all of his seniors for some fan function. They were all dressed in suits, except for Derek Moye. Joe pointed at Derek and said, “I’ll call Tressel and ask him to sell Derek a suit.”
Bydand.
Kirk Ferentz was about as cocky as I've ever seen him before last year.
Worked out real well, as I recall.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
One cannot compare Kirk Ferentz's personality to Paterno's personality.
That’s like comparing a rock to a crazy and smart Italian guy from Brooklyn.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 2, 2011 8:09 AM CDT up reply actions
They might want to assemble an offense before they start rearranging trophies.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 2:05 AM CDT up reply actions
Man, I just wanted to repeat that joke about Ohio State.
Bydand.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 2, 2011 8:10 AM CDT up reply actions
OK.
Ohio State might want to assemble an offense before they start rearranging trophies (or buying them back from pawn shops).
/I realize you wanted to repeat the Paterno joke about buying a suit.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 8:20 AM CDT up reply actions
Hey, soccer peoples.
ESPN has a nice article about the EPL building fandom in the US. The bit about Anfield makes me sad because I may never be able to afford the trip.
I've adopted a new EPL team after Blackpool was relegated.
Norwich City FC. Go Canaries!
Bloggin' at JoePasDoghouse.com
She wanted to have fun
With her daddy’s shotgun
So she held it to his head
His glasses fell off first
But they were followed by a burst
Of firey hot piles of lead
by freshwaterorca on Aug 1, 2011 10:39 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
OhioHawk got a new username, eh?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 2:06 AM CDT up reply actions
I think it's GaryDolphinSafeTuna's brother or something.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 2, 2011 3:38 PM CDT up reply actions
I see what you did there.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 3:45 PM CDT up reply actions
What's better than 1 video?
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
I... just watched that whole thing.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
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by jebushchrist on Aug 1, 2011 10:49 PM CDT up reply actions
It repeats...
I’m on my 6th time through the left video
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
Are you trying to drive yourself insane?
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 10:57 PM CDT up reply actions
If I wanted to do that I would have used the tO$U version of the left video.
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
I was referring to the 3 1/2 hour long video clip on the right.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 10:59 PM CDT up reply actions
I turned it's volume down so it's more like a percussion instrument in the background of the left video.
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
Ah, I didn't hear that.
Never mind. I had already gone deaf for the night, so uh yeah, disregard my commentary.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 1, 2011 11:02 PM CDT up reply actions
I just finished my first hour.
And I have to quit. I’m actually bobbing my head to the left video as if I actually enjoyed it.
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
my pappy said
watching that
would grow hair on my palms
or was it go blind?
Long Live the Pellican Whore - like FOREVER
In short; DUAN has nothing on this shit.
AJ Daulerio and his butt boys have one nightly open thread a week. ONE.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 2, 2011 12:05 AM CDT reply actions
shiiiiiiit...
Came home from work, sat down with a beer and popped in The Wire. What do I find when check in here? Hamsterdam. I might just be in heaven.
I can't decide if Hampsterdamians are more like
the Lord of the Flies kids or Never-Never land kids. Either way, I am probably the fat kid who doesn’t end up so good.
I swear the "robbed a place" was actually not ment as a smart ass remark. I just forgot that he actually robbed a place for a second. ~ justsomehawkeyefan
As a fellow fat guy who wears eye-glasses, I must vote for Never-Never Land.
/hears conch shell in the distance, runs for cover.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 8:24 AM CDT up reply actions
Either way it is probably between the two of you which one we are eating first.
Yes, I know that did not happen in either of of those two movies. And yes, I know they were books first.
The joke I was going to make was:
“You can eat me anytime.”
But thankfully, I’m a classy individual, so I didn’t.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 3:24 PM CDT up reply actions
You might as well have Chazz!
And somebody was bound to say it!
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
There's 32 days until kickoff of the season opener, "Sunset Boulevard" is ranked 32nd by IMDB users
I thinks it’s time for a countdown
by hawk6894 on Aug 2, 2011 8:50 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
last.fm
There are a bunch of music fans on here and I’d be interested in seeing what they’re listening to. Anyone else on last.fm? I’m easy to find.
This post is so far down that it will likely end up like the basketball hoop Carver put in Hamsterdam, but what the hell.
"There are no Pan Asian supermarkets down in hell, so you can't buy Golden Boy peanuts." - The Mountain Goats
If you haven't already read this story from The New Yorker which details the bin Laden raid, then you should do so now.
by The Mexican't on Aug 2, 2011 10:43 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Neptune's Spear, FTW
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 2, 2011 12:26 PM CDT up reply actions
What?
No mention of the totally awesome psych out that the CIA pulled on the locals, offering the medical services that they so desparately need, but then delivering agents instead of doctors because they were just trying to get UBL’s DNA?
Sorry. I’m just being contrarian. I’m happy they got him, but damn, some of the shit we pull is just wrong.
Honestly, my first response was “This reminds me of the Rolling Stone article that the kid writes in Almost Famous.”
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 2, 2011 3:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Special Ops are a hell of a drug.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 3:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Also, without getting too political,
if only the Pakistanis could use some of those dozens of billions of dollars in aid that we provide for “those medical services they so desperately need.”
Pakistan is one of those places I don’t have a ton of sympathy for, considering that any time they get a leader that might help them actually grow, that leader gets killed or exiled, and a military dictatorship takes over.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 3:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Are you being tongue in cheek?
You do know who is often (usually?) at the center of “leader gets killed or exiled, and a military dictatorship takes over” don’t you?
I’ll say no more, but it’s not a dem/rep political thing at all.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 2, 2011 11:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, but I'm not sure the USA was behind it in Pakistan. I could be wrong.
I know we’ve been overly-involved in those type of things in South America. In Pakistan, I wonder if we have more likely been approving of whoever took over (like we were with Musharraf).
I don’t think the USA was offing the Bhuttos. I still have just enough faith in the USA to think that we aren’t using the Castro plans too much these days.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 8:28 AM CDT up reply actions
I like beer.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Aug 2, 2011 10:46 AM CDT reply actions 2 recs
Me too.
Like this one.
You won’t find a better American-made lager/helles on the market right now.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 2, 2011 11:51 AM CDT up reply actions
Thanks
It’s on the grocery list.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Aug 2, 2011 1:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Go with Surly Hell or Surly Furious
Depending on if you like Lagers or IPAs.
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
Can you get that at the grocery store?
And what is the cost?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 3:25 PM CDT up reply actions
If you live in MN you should be able to find it a lot of places. Otherwise you're fucked.
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
Aha.
I live in Iowa.
But maybe I’ll look for it the next time I’m in Minnesota.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 9:27 PM CDT up reply actions
There are some grocery stores with liquor stores attached up here in MN.
My liquor store is right down the street from my grocery store. Other Surly products are $11 for 4 16oz. cans.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Aug 2, 2011 11:03 PM CDT up reply actions
What the rest of them said.
To be truthful, Chazz, despite this being a craft beer, you’d really dig it.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 3, 2011 12:51 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah.
You had me at “American-made lager.”
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 8:29 AM CDT up reply actions
My Kind of Town Hamseterdam is
(with apologies to Frank Sinatra)
Now this could only happen to a guy like me
And only happen in a town like this
So may I say to each of you most gratef’lly
As I throw each one of you a kiss
This is my kind of town, Hamsterdam is
My kind of town, Hamsteram is
My kind of people, too
People who smile at you
And each time I roam, Hamsterdam is
Calling me home, Hamsterdam is
Why I just grin like a clown
It’s my kind of town
My kind of town, Hamsterdam is
My kind of town, Hamsterdam is
My kind of razzmatazz
And it has all that jazz
And each time I leave, Hamsterdam is
Tuggin’ my sleeve, Hamsterdam is
Reading Rambler, Hamsterdam is
Ross, Hamsterdam is
Boilerhawk, Hamsterdam is
Carfino, Hamsterdam is
Jebushcrhist, Hamsterdam is
Energizer, Hamsterdam is
Bellanca, Hamsterdam is
Mexian’t, Hamsterdam is
Blackheartnopants, Hamsterdam is
SaturdayMorningKegStanzis, Hamsterdam is
SomeJerkPoster, Hamsterdam is
HoyaGoon, Hamsterdam is
Chaz, Hamsterdam is
Fucking Pellican Whore Forever \, Hamsterdam is
One town that won’t let you down
It’s my kind of town
Long Live the Pellican Whore - like FOREVER
Aw, that's for the shoutout!
OhioHawk, Hamsterdam is
/since you’re too humble to shout out yourself.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
I made it into an OhioHawk comment!!
Hells yeah!
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 2, 2011 11:08 PM CDT up reply actions
That's an effort right therert right there
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 12:09 AM CDT up reply actions
Damn phone
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 12:11 AM CDT up reply actions
800+ commments
800. Plus. Comments.
In the Seinfeld of Threads (a thread about nothing).
Well done.
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
It's freaking humid in Iowa today (and probably much of this week?)
So you can understand why people might like to hang inside on a keyboard rather than go outside and get melted.
To our friends in Texas, Kansas City, and other very warm places, I realize that our heat index is only approaching your actual temps this week, and I’m sorry.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 2, 2011 9:30 PM CDT up reply actions
we had a hot day but the humidity finally went away
also, I think Hamsterdam is awesome, no sarcasm!
"Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees."
Mike Leach - Arrrrrrrrrr
I want to cry.
It has been over 100 degrees for I don’t even know how many days straight. I fucking hate summer. I’m so sick of this shit. I can’t wait to go to Minneapolis on Thursday. Do you see what the heat has done to me? Who says that? Who says I can’t wait to go to Minneapolis? AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 2, 2011 11:10 PM CDT up reply actions
It is a rare trip to Minneapolis that I don't enjoy.
Although, if I do not enjoy it, it is usually because of a verbal conflict with my father. He gets pretty testy if he gets lost and isn’t sure how to get back to the interstate.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 8:32 AM CDT up reply actions
Never mind...
It was only a shade over 600. But it started at like 10 PM ET.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
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