Friday Night Open Thread

Posted by Basil on 15 June 2018, 9:00 pm

I love Weird Al.

Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s Friday Night Open Thread.

What’s on your mind?

Can They Even Count That High?

Posted by Harvey on 15 June 2018, 8:00 pm

A new study shows that half of Millenials expect to be millionaires.

Millionaires? These slugs couldn’t even get a million likes on Facebook, and you can get a bot to do that for you.

Now THIS Is How to Make Capitalist Propaganda

Posted by Harvey on 15 June 2018, 7:00 pm

[The action-movie style trailer Trump says he played to Kim Jong-un] (Viewer #411,016)

It’s all about the feelings, folks. Doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to associate good feelings with the words and images you want to promote. This does it even better than a Michael Jackson Pepsi Generation commercial

Link of the Day: Surprised This Didn’t Happen Years Ago

Posted by Harvey on 15 June 2018, 6:00 pm

[High Praise! to Duffel Blog]

Captain America promoted to major, moved to staff position

[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]

Icebreaker: Have You Ever Completed Anything On Your “Bucket List”?

Posted by Harvey on 15 June 2018, 4:00 pm

Previously: “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data”

76 Fun Icebreaker Questions

Currently: The Only List of Icebreaker Questions You’ll Ever Need (Not all of which will be used, since some are either/or questions, which are boring.)

Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.

If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.

Have you ever completed anything on your “bucket list”?

Well, I was stationed in Alameda CA back in the 80’s and spent a lot of time doing touristy stuff in San Francisco. 20 or so years later, I went back to see how it had changed. Short answer: not enough to be unrecognizable.

Also, the street performer I took a picture of in the 80s while he was juggling torches while standing on a slack rope, was STILL working Pier 39, juggling torches while standing on a slack rope.