I’m not trying to start a fight or anything, but I would like to see some “lively discussion.” The topic? Well, you choose it. Or them.
It’s Open Thread Saturday! We’re turning it over to you to discuss what’s on your mind (about 20% of you_, tell a joke or two (around 15% of you), drunk post (60% of you), or whatever (5% of you).
Take it away.
Well, as long as it’s not:
Who was the best Bond?
Apple or PC?
Star Trek — original series or The Next Generation?
Star Trek or Star Wars?
Ginger or Mary Ann?
Those lively discussions have nine livelys.
Connery
PC for gaming, Apple for everything else
Original series, followed by Deep Space Nine
Both
Mary Ann
Connery
PC (it’s an answer dictated by work)
Original Series
Trek
Hmm
Oh, I should’ve considered that “both” was a viable answer, and used it for the last one.
Connery
Don’t care
Firefly
Firefly
Raquel Welch
Tie between Connery and Craig
PC – I want to get work done, not talk about how wonderful my computer is
Don Giovanni
Le Nozze di Figaro
Jaclyn Smith at age thirty
The toilet paper should come OVER the roll.
Anyone who says otherwise is a moon-loving and moon-living commie hippie pinko who needs to be punched with a nuke.
AKA, proper overhand style! Then, you be stylin.
Is is the way I like it. Makes it easy for us cats to unroll it onto the floor.
ISIS? Me thinks you’ve had a wee nip of catnip.
A wee bit? No.
For what it’s worth, it seems that among Americans there will be a nearly fifty-fifty split on the question of whether an airline does have the right to remove anyone from their airplane at their discretion vs. whether a customer who has paid for a service has a right to that service.
Well, I, for one, am sick and tired of all this buggin’ and snoopin’.
Remote-Access Router Exploit Finally Revealed (Slashdot – plus review the links there!)
Speaking of fighting, did anyone catch the hippie punching at Berkeley today?
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/04/14/left-wing-berkeley-thugs-threaten-man-holding-us-flag-they-quickly-learn-it-was-a-bad-decision/
In observance of Easter I’d like to impart this story.
The Baptist minister as he was giving a sermon noticed a new family in the back pews – a woman and 3 young children – clean but rather shabbily dressed. The family returned next few Sundays he a finally made a point to catch the mother before she rushed away as she usually did. He had a long talk with her and found out that she had been widowed about a year and, while they weren’t going hungry, she was a ashamed that she wasn’t able to keep children in nice church clothes.
The minister told his wife the story and she immediately set about repairing the situation. She of course knew lots of families who were happy to donate their children’s recently outgrown clothes – many pieces were practically brand new. Likewise, the ladies donated dresses for the mother with the minister’s wife contributing a few herself. Over the next several weeks the minister’s wife presented the widow with several bundles of clothes.
Then one week the minister noticed that the widow and her children weren’t in the congregation. The were absent the next week and the week after that too. One day the minister happened to run into the widow on the street a said “Sister Jones! I’m so glad to see you. We’ve missed you the last few Sundays I was afraid you might be ill.” The widow replied “I’m very well minister and I can’t thank you enough for all your help. Now every week when the children and I get dressed for Sunday services we look nice enough to go back to the Episcopal Church.”
In my youth, I knew an Episcopal Deacon. His son (my age) was kind of scrawny and walked on the balls of his feet because his achilles tendons were too short. We called him “Twitchie.”
The moral of the story? Episcopalians: Just like Catholics, only more or less so.
Connery
PC – Windows 7
Original series. Everything else pschobabble!
Star Trek = space cowboy comedy; Star Wars = vomit comet.
Fay Dunaway
The golfers dilemma…I don’t golf but I still found this to be rather amusing.
https://biggeekdad.com/2014/04/golfers-dilemma/
I miss the made-up, insulting dialogs that commenter ussjimmycarter and I had here years ago. Does anyone know what happened to him?
(Basil wants it lively, folks!)
I think the government disappeared him along with MarkoMancuso and SonofBob.
Ah, yes. MarkoMancuso – the kid that Frank thought would be a good understudy. SonOfBob – the guy was always right and had a falling out with Frank and left in 2012. (Do I dare weigh-in on who was right after all?) And, ussjimmycarter – popped-up a few times over the years, but not lately. Funny man. Drove a PSAT and thought it was hot. Loved Hillary Clinton dearly. Coined the phrase “thunder thighs.” Probably works for the Deep State now. I just hope he isn’t feeding microbes. Come back, ussjimmycarter! Come back!
Yeah, many long-time regular commenters (they’re more than that, but I don’t know the words) have left us for various reasons.
Now I’m sad.
Cheer up,Basil – you still have me and Jimmy.
Why are you crying?
If you had 100 cans of tuna, but then three disappeared, wouldn’t you be sad? You’re my tuna.
Best complement ever!
I’m gonna use that on the lady cats.
Many dozens. Thousands of lurkers.
I do miss Son of Bob – he was funny. Not to take anything away from ussjimmycarter and MarcoMancuso – but Son of Bob always had a slightly askew way of looking at things.
Let’s get Son Of Bob back. Go over to his house and pee in his garden like you did to mine, once. That might just do it.
Is there any commenter here who doesn’t look at things slightly (or more) askew?
Two of my favorite things (not mentioned in “The Sound of Music”) here: