Random randomness

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:46 pm

Holy crap! Lawrence Fletcher is Riff-Raff???

I never made that connection until today!

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:07 pm

Took the dog to the vet to see if she had mange.
Turns out I'm the one with it.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:24 pm

Someone in the AP either has a Beavis and Butthead sense of humor or is really dumb.

http://news.yahoo.com/study-cougars-aga ... 28950.html" target="_blank

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:30 pm

And this is why you don't eat the Overlords:

On the basis of their morphology and the presence of the sperm bag, the foreign bodies were identified as squid spermatophores.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:36 pm

Smoove_B wrote:And this is why you don't eat the Overlords:

On the basis of their morphology and the presence of the sperm bag, the foreign bodies were identified as squid spermatophores.

Wow. She got fucked down the throat by a squid and knocked up in the mouth? That's... Wow. I think this belongs in the Prometheus thread. I'm glad the worst I'll get from undercooked food is salmonella. blech

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 2:47 pm

If she hung out here, she'd know about stuff like this already.

Jag · Post by **Jag** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:19 pm

hentzau wrote:Holy crap! Lawrence Fletcher is Riff-Raff???

I never made that connection until today!

I saw that on wiki when I was looking up the voices on the show. I thought it was pretty cool.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:29 pm

Jag wrote:
hentzau wrote:Holy crap! Lawrence Fletcher is Riff-Raff???

I never made that connection until today!
I saw that on wiki when I was looking up the voices on the show. I thought it was pretty cool.

Apparently Tim Curry is going to be voicing Lawrence's arch nemesis on an episode that airs next Friday. As near as they can figure, it's the first time the two of them have worked together since RHPS.

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/06/di ... dad-day/2/" target="_blank

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:53 pm

My son contends that bananas in a bunch will last longer than individual bananas because they share nourishment through their stems.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:45 pm

When you talk to one parent and they indicate they believe your other parent is exhibiting early signs of dementia...and then you have exactly the same conversation with the other parent, whom do you believe?

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:49 pm

What?

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:17 pm

I keep getting my professional judgment questioned lately for being right without having my colleagues onboard.

Remus West · Post by **Remus West** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:31 pm

Smoove_B wrote:When you talk to one parent and they indicate they believe your other parent is exhibiting early signs of dementia...and then you have exactly the same conversation with the other parent, whom do you believe?

The doctor you send them both to so that they can be evaluated. At least that is where I am in the process right now. Dad has some issues and Mom supposedly does not. Mom, however, calls me by my father's name semi-regularly and forgets things she told me five minutes earlier.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:25 pm

32 hours worked out of the last 38. Soon to sleep, perchance to dream.

funnygirl · Post by **funnygirl** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:10 am

Remus West wrote: Mom, however, calls me by my father's name semi-regularly and forgets things she told me five minutes earlier.

This is pretty common and not really as worrisome as it seems. I hope.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:16 am

It's really turning into a [Say X], four hours later [Say Y] and vehemently deny [X] was ever discussed while getting increasingly agitated. Forgetting keys, mixing up names...I do think that's normal. It's the 180 degree turns on conversations that is starting to worry me.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:25 am

Smoove_B wrote:It's really turning into a [Say X], four hours later [Say Y] and vehemently deny [X] was ever discussed while getting increasingly agitated... It's the 180 degree turns on conversations that is starting to worry me.

You're married aren't you?

If the items you mentioned are signs of dementia, I'm in trouble if wife decides to have me evaluated.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:42 am

Say what?

Covenant72 · Post by **Covenant72** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:56 am

How do you keep an idiot in suspense?

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:59 am

There really is something awesome about giving a 6 year old a bunch of Choose Your Own Adventure books knowing full well they were a gateway for most of your own childhood reading and gaming experiences.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:13 am

Or firecrackers.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:16 am

Ahhh...they're not legal in the People's Republic of NJ. I don't remember how I got my hands on some, but I don't think I started blowing things up with Black cats until I was 12 or 13.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:18 am

They weren't legal in Michigan either and yet every kid had them... Or they did where I grew up, anyway.

Today is going to be horribly long when it's only 10:15 and I've been ready for lunch for an hour already.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:19 am

LordMortis wrote:Today is going to beo horribly long when it's only 10:15 and I've been ready for lunch for an hour already.

Shuddup.

silverjon · Post by **silverjon** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:21 am

I just got stopped from buying a day-old pastry because the campus "mall" is shut down. Okayyyyy. Can't be maintenance work because they announce that weeks in advance. Fire alarm went off? Bomb scare?

No. An armored car got robbed last night and three of the guards were killed. Fuck.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:28 am

Detroit is no longer the most dangerous city in the US!

http://www.travelerstoday.com/articles/ ... s-miss.htm" target="_blank

You now have to drive an hour and a half north west to be in the most dangerous city in the US.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:30 am

silverjon wrote:I just got stopped from buying a day-old pastry because the campus "mall" is shut down. Okayyyyy. Can't be maintenance work because they announce that weeks in advance. Fire alarm went off? Bomb scare?

No. An armored car got robbed last night and three of the guards were killed. Fuck.

Holy shit.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:37 am

silverjon wrote:I just got stopped from buying a day-old pastry because the campus "mall" is shut down. Okayyyyy. Can't be maintenance work because they announce that weeks in advance. Fire alarm went off? Bomb scare?

No. An armored car got robbed last night and three of the guards were killed. Fuck.

Reminds of the the time I was late to work because my car was blocked in by a police crime scene van collecting evidence from the building adjacent to mine where a child had been gunned down the night before. I moved less than two weeks after that, gladly violating my lease.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:25 am

LordMortis wrote:They weren't legal in Michigan either and yet every kid had them... Or they did where I grew up, anyway.

Today is going to be horribly long when it's only 10:15 and I've been ready for lunch for an hour already.

I'm leaving in an hour to go watch the Cubs play the Red Sox from the roof of Murphy's Bleachers. On the vendor's dime.

I'll have a brat with kraut for ya, LM.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:27 am

hentzau wrote:I'll have a brat with kraut for ya, LM.

I'd

but I have a distaste for kraut. OTOH if you had a brat cooked in beer, onions, and peppers and then layered in mustard. Now way would I do that to myself. I think it's time for an early lunch and then I don't how I'll get through the next six hours.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:29 am

hentzau wrote: I'm leaving in an hour to go watch the Cubs play the Red Sox from the roof of Murphy's Bleachers. On the vendor's dime.

I'll have a brat with kraut for ya, LM.

I love that place in the off-season. You got one heck of a day, enjoy!

Default · Post by **Default** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:29 am

Can we officially declare this "Horrible Week"?

Reading all the bad stuff that has occurred in this thread makes me hope that the next week is better for all involved. Thank God, it's almost over!

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:39 pm

silverjon wrote:I just got stopped from buying a day-old pastry because the campus "mall" is shut down. Okayyyyy. Can't be maintenance work because they announce that weeks in advance. Fire alarm went off? Bomb scare?

No. An armored car got robbed last night and three of the guards were killed. Fuck.

Now with link:

The search was on for suspects Friday after a midnight heist at an ATM machine on the University of Alberta campus left three armoured guards dead and one in critical condition.
...
The robbery occurred around 12:30 a.m. at HUB Mall, a long, thin rectangular block of shops, eateries and student apartments on the east end of campus, which sits on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River and across from Edmonton's downtown skyscrapers.

The mall is built up over an access road. The third fatality was found on the road, underneath the super-structure and below the shooting scene.
...
The scene had a puzzling twist. While one G4S vehicle was located at the scene, a G4S armoured truck was found some distance away in an east Edmonton industrial park near the G4S offices.

The truck had been left idling, parked at an angle at the side of the road. Police had the area around the truck blocked off Friday and were investigating.

G4S is an international security company with more than 630,000 employees. It has a specialized cash-management arm that delivers pay packets to fill ATMs.

Tommy20 · Post by **Tommy20** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 1:57 pm

hentzau wrote:I'm leaving in an hour to go watch the Cubs play the Red Sox from the roof of Murphy's Bleachers. On the vendor's dime.

Jeez, must be nice. I wish I could go to a ballgame on work.

Wait.

Scuzz · Post by **Scuzz** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 1:58 pm

Smoove_B wrote:When you talk to one parent and they indicate they believe your other parent is exhibiting early signs of dementia...and then you have exactly the same conversation with the other parent, whom do you believe?

Why can't they both be right?

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:27 pm

Kraken wrote:Man writing book on kindness shot in Montana

A West Virginia man who told authorities he was hitchhiking across the country and writing a memoir about kindness was injured in a seemingly random drive-by shooting near Montana’s booming Bakken oil patch.

Ray Dolin, 39, was shot in the arm as he approached a pickup Saturday evening, thinking the driver was offering him a ride, said Valley County Sheriff Glen Meier.
I hope the gunman at least had a smile on his face.

Funny story -- turns out, he actually just shot himself.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:57 pm

So I go to the gunshop this afternoon and I take my stepson with me.
When I get ready to leave he's in his full glory telling everybody a bunch of bullshit and not paying attention to nothing else. I told the shop owner I was going to leave and see if he would miss me.
So I left him there.
After I had gone about a mile I turned back and picked him up back at the shop.
I don't think he's ever going to be able to face those guys again.

KKBlue · Post by **KKBlue** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:44 pm

dbt1949 wrote:So I go to the gunshop this afternoon and I take my stepson with me...

Glad you had some fun today

Kelric · Post by **Kelric** » Sat Jun 16, 2012 1:09 pm

My fiancee is away for the weekend. I just shaved off my beard that I've had for two years. We've been together for 15 months. She's going to be freaked out when she comes home Monday and sees me clean shaven.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:18 pm

So my wife insists on taking me out for father's day even tho I'm not the father of any of her children.
Her son learns of this and insists on coming along. Is he going to pay? HA HA HA HA HA!