Random randomness

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:53 am

stimpy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:45 am It was a toss up between that and the Hamms jingle, but I never really liked Hamms all that much.

I sort of remember "In the land of sky blue waters" set to an Indian beat. I'm sure I filched a Hamm's from my parents at some point. It was one of their go-tos, with Schlitz and Busch.

Hah! The internet always delivers. Remember when commercials were a minute and a half long?

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:26 am

For total grins, I bought one of Daily Steal's "random box of crap". I don't know what I'll get, only that it'll be worth more than $35. It did... sorta.

What I actually got:

* a convertible scarf / rain-hood (wear it as a scarf. If it rains, flip it inside out, and it's a scarf on one side, rain-repellant material with a hood on the other, with pockets for your electronics and whatnot. Meh.

* A single-cup coffee dripper setup using single cup filters, that folds flat (I'm not a coffee drinker)

* A pop-up trash can that also folds flat and zips into itself (car use) -- meh, seen it before

* A couple magnets (meh)

* A Loctite brand superglue (worth a few bucks)

* A "facial sponge" (meh)

* Irish spring face wash (worth a few bucks)

IMHO, should be priced closer to $25 than $35. But that's just me.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:07 am

So it's like going into a store packed with whatever cheap goods fell of the truck this month and closing your eyes while you fill a basket, then peeking to see what on earth you picked up.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:28 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:53 am
stimpy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:45 am It was a toss up between that and the Hamms jingle, but I never really liked Hamms all that much.
I sort of remember "In the land of sky blue waters" set to an Indian beat. I'm sure I filched a Hamm's from my parents at some point. It was one of their go-tos, with Schlitz and Busch.

Hah! The internet always delivers. Remember when commercials were a minute and a half long?

Those commercials must have really impressed me because I can still remember them and the songs. Is Hamms still in business?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 11:29 am

https://www.hamms.com/#

As a kid I remember wondering why a drink was called a ham and imagined it's taste.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 11:32 am

The Hess Triangle.

The story begins around 1910, when nearly 300 buildings in the area were slated to be torn down to widen streets and construct the new subway line. One of the casualties of this project was The Voorhis apartment building, owned by David Hess (no relation to the oil company).
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Hess put up a fight, but eventually lost his property to the city. By 1914, all that remained was the small triangle, measuring in around 27½" x 27½" x 25½". How did this happen? According to a 1928 article that ran in the Hartford Courant, "Hess's heirs discovered that, when the city seized the Voorhis, the survey had missed this small corner of the plot." The city asked the family to donate it, but they refused, and on July 27th, 1922 installed this mosaic, which reads in defiant all caps: “PROPERTY OF THE HESS ESTATE WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN DEDICATED FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES."

Still there today.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:40 pm

To this day I wonder who the body double for Rana Kennedy was in Alice Cooper's Poison video. She had a perfect bosom.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:19 pm

I don't have the parts to know if this is accurate or not, but it seems to me that if you're leaving smears and drops of blood on and around a toilet in a public bathroom shared by 7 people, you'd be aware of it and clean up after yourself.

We have exactly one new person in the building. I've never seen a mess like this in the years I've been here until she showed up for her first day, today.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:23 pm

Time to superglue that toilet seat up.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:33 pm

Record-breaking roller coaster will travel more than 155 miles per hour

A roller coaster now under development in the Middle East is set to smash existing records for speed, height and track length.
Called "Falcon's Flight," the ride will be the main attraction of Six Flags Qiddiya, due to open in Saudi Arabia outside of capital Riyadh in 2023.
According to a press release issued by the Qiddiya Investment Company, which has partnered with US-headquartered Six Flags to build the park, the coaster will travel across four kilometers (about 2.5 miles) of track.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:40 pm

Paingod wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:07 am So it's like going into a store packed with whatever cheap goods fell of the truck this month and closing your eyes while you fill a basket, then peeking to see what on earth you picked up.

Yes, it's just like that, except when I got the package, it took me about 5 minutes of "I didn't order this..." before realizing that's my "box of crap".

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:54 pm

It can be nice to find surprises you order for yourself and realize what it is. I've had that happen a couple of times. Remember the days when you ordered things so infrequently that you'd almost memorize your tracking number and check for status updates as often as you could? Now I order so many things that when something shows up, there's a chance I'll be surprised.

WTF have we become...

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:21 pm

I never grew up. I think thats why I used to sub to LootCrate in the early days. I just liked getting random neat stuff. Always enjoyed when I could grab a 'Bag of Crap' from WOOT.com. This was before Amazon bought them out.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:36 pm

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:46 pm

Funny...I'm dying to get crap *out* of my house. Stuff that still works and a shame to throw out (very wasteful), but I will never in a million years need and would love to just give away. And people are paying for someone to ship them more junk

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:11 pm

Speaking of TV jingles, any Canadian who grew up in the 80's or even earlier would remember have this etched in their brains:

This commercial from the 90's has a better version though:

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:33 pm

I still say a local title pawn one. I HATED it in the 90s .Everyone I know hated it. And they paid to have it EVERY damn commercial break on a local channel. It had some guy dressed in a chicken suit and he would strut back and forth saying "Come on down and see me brother! I got it! I got it I got it! Come on and see me! I got it! I got it! I got it...." all the while strutting back and forth with a spread of money in his hand / wing. Damn bastard. Stuck in my head all these decades. Bastard

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:15 pm

Ive had a little much to drink today and went to look up tender chicken thigh recipes. I forgot the chicken part. Theres some weird shit out there.

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:40 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:15 pm Ive had a little much to drink today and went to look up tender chicken thigh recipes. I forgot the chicken part. Theres some weird shit out there.

Here's one of my favourite methods for making super-crispy chicken thighs (his recipe for BBQ rub is terrific):

Default · Post by **Default** » Fri Feb 05, 2021 10:07 am

My cat has glaucoma in both eyes. Because I was working so many hours, I missed the window on treatments to get her sight back.
Fuck.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:01 pm

From the RIP Christopher Plummer thread which I didn't want to derail:

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 2:37 pm I'll take a Klingon quoting Shakespeare over a robot quoting scripture any day.

I'm not sure what the latter is a reference to, but I was going to joke that I'd buy Brent Spiner's The Bible on Tape. However, a googling turned up this. What the ever-loving hell?!

Gail Chord Schuler (pen name Gabrielle Chana) is a true Renaissance woman. She specializes in non-fiction history (memoir and non-fiction novels) about herself and the famous men who love her (Brent Spiner, Matthew McConaughey, Vladimir Putin, Gerard Butler, Hugh Jackman, Keanu Reeves, and others). Starting in 2012 Jesus Christ made personal appearances to Brent Spiner M.D. (who portrayed Data in Star Trek) and Judge Terrance Jenkins (both men who adore her) and made Brent Spiner his personal transcriber. Gail kept copies of all their conversations with her, including verbatim transcripts of what Jesus said to her, which became her Bible for Tribulation Saints. ...

I'm presuming we're looking at the effects of untreated schizophrenia, hallucinogenics, or both.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:37 pm

https://www.cc.com/video/sd5wby/tosh-0- ... press-gail

google says:

Gail Chord Schuler, also known by her pen name, Gabrielle Chana, is a YouTuber, novelist, screenwriter and leader of the Church of Gail, an organization fighting against the Jesuit Order to prevent them from achieving universal domination.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:40 pm

Syphilis.

And Default Im sorry about your little cat's eyes.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:52 pm

Sudy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:01 pm From the RIP Christopher Plummer thread which I didn't want to derail:

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 2:37 pm I'll take a Klingon quoting Shakespeare over a robot quoting scripture any day.
I'm not sure what the latter is a reference to, but I was going to joke that I'd buy Brent Spiner's The Bible on Tape.

Avengers: Age of Ultron.

And I'd go with Nimoy over Spiner.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:53 pm

Default wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 10:07 am My cat has glaucoma in both eyes. Because I was working so many hours, I missed the window on treatments to get her sight back.
Fuck.

Sorry about your cat's eyes. I did something similar 6 or 7 years ago. My elderly cat started shaking his head and scratching at his ears a couple of days before we went on vacation, as if he had mites or an infection. I didn't want to deal with it and decided that if he was still uncomfortable I'd take him to the vet after we got back. When we came home he was hiding in the cellar and crying at the top of his lungs. He'd gone deaf, and that made him miserable for the last year of his life. It was my fault and I'll always regret that stupid lazy decision.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Feb 05, 2021 6:12 pm

The First Lady is doing a message during Puppy Bowl this year so Major and Champ are part of Puppy Bowl too. Doubt they'll play with the pups...more likely just in her msg part.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Feb 05, 2021 11:51 pm

See and play the song that was #1 on your birth date.

https://www.birthdayjams.com/

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 12:07 am

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 12:11 am

I never knew John Boy Walton sang that.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:06 am

I was thinking. Yes I know thats dangerous. I was wondering how hard it might be to create a picture frame like those in Harry Potter. A video screen picture that is animated and could track your movement and convey emotion like a smile sometimes or a blush. We've had the screen frames for decades. Theres photo morphing and CGI. And theres 3D effects. So why dont we have those HP portraits?

I know to some it would be hurtful or sad if it was a loved one or pet that has passed away. But others might actually like them and of course living people and pets would be nice to have those types portraits of. Im actually a little surprised we dont have them.

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 4:20 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:06 am I was thinking. Yes I know thats dangerous. I was wondering how hard it might be to create a picture frame like those in Harry Potter. A video screen picture that is animated and could track your movement and convey emotion like a smile sometimes or a blush. We've had the screen frames for decades. Theres photo morphing and CGI. And theres 3D effects. So why dont we have those HP portraits?

I know to some it would be hurtful or sad if it was a loved one or pet that has passed away. But others might actually like them and of course living people and pets would be nice to have those types portraits of. Im actually a little surprised we dont have them.

That sounds like the type of contrivance Kasey Chang would purchase in a Bag of Dubious Value.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 4:34 am

A.I. taxidermy is right around the corner, I'm sure.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 8:28 am

Just so a newslette with a stick figure picture, and I all I could think was why are they ripping off XKCD. Every six year old in the world would groan at me.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 10:27 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:06 am I was thinking. Yes I know thats dangerous. I was wondering how hard it might be to create a picture frame like those in Harry Potter. A video screen picture that is animated and could track your movement and convey emotion like a smile sometimes or a blush. We've had the screen frames for decades. Theres photo morphing and CGI. And theres 3D effects. So why dont we have those HP portraits?

I know to some it would be hurtful or sad if it was a loved one or pet that has passed away. But others might actually like them and of course living people and pets would be nice to have those types portraits of. Im actually a little surprised we dont have them.

Create it based on a real person? Not hard, using the same tech as deep fakes.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 2:49 pm

Have an urge to watch The Hollywood Knights again. it came out in 1980 and I was just 11 so missed it. My wife told me about it and got me to watch it around 1990. One of those classic 80s young comedy movies that were so prevalent then. Like Porkys or American Graffiti. It stands on it's own though. No idea why it re entered my head today.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 3:39 pm

Man the world really is in dire times....

Jamaica faces marijuana shortage as farmers struggle

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 11:48 pm

Caiden's in band. Tonight the girls won the sectionals, so the coaches and teachers decided to have a celebration after the game, which included a detour on the way back and an unplanned event at the school.

They did this on a night on which there was a winter storm forecast sometime around 9:30. So instead of the kids leaving the school at around 8:15, they left at 10:00, right in the middle of the *#*!& storm that I had to drive home across two counties in. Completely preventable. Stupid fucking teachers.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:49 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 11:51 pm See and play the song that was #1 on your birth date.

https://www.birthdayjams.com/

Number 1 on my birthday was Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It through the Grapevine," and number 1 on the country charts that day was Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman."

I am therefore objectively awesome.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:54 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 2:49 pm Have an urge to watch The Hollywood Knights again. it came out in 1980 and I was just 11 so missed it. My wife told me about it and got me to watch it around 1990. One of those classic 80s young comedy movies that were so prevalent then. Like Porkys or American Graffiti. It stands on it's own though. No idea why it re entered my head today.

I'm guessing you'll find that it (like Porky's) doesn't age well.

So many of those 80s sex comedies feature assault, stalking, and casual bigotry in ways that feel very creepy today.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:55 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:49 am
Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 11:51 pm See and play the song that was #1 on your birth date.

https://www.birthdayjams.com/
Number 1 on my birthday was Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It through the Grapevine," and number 1 on the country charts that day was Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman."

I am therefore objectively awesome.

Your birthday is either the same as mine or really close. Since those were mine as well.