Octopus Overlords

I don't know how threads get lost.

Kraken wrote:Government coffee keeps Maxwell House in business.

Coffee runs are the new Major League Baseball hazing ritual

Tuesday morning, a handful of St. Louis Cardinal rookies were photographed making a coffee run at a Starbucks next to Wrigley Field before the first game of a day-night doubleheader against the Chicago Cubs. Among the rookies sent to fetch the lattes were pitchers Mitch Harris and Miguel Socolovich and bullpen catcher Kleininger Teran.
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This isn't the first time an MLB team has sent the rooks on such a run. The Dodgers started the trend last fall when they sent a few new players, including Joc Pederson, to the same Chicago Starbucks.

I await the call from the 2nd amendment crowd to arm reporters and cameramen. Between them and the teachers, the first day back to school will be the safest day ever.

I've never heard of someone changing a diaper with the baby face down!

Oh, I definitely agree we should ban Isgrimnur, it's just a matter of how we trump up charges against him.



Wait - should I not be posting abandoned posts from the super-secret mod forum here?

Brian wrote:Hint: It involved a special shampoo and a tiny comb.

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Not really an abandoned post, BUT

I almost just replied in a thread to someone thinking they were someone else who posted earlier in the thread. My confusion was because they had an avatar with a couple of the same colors that almost, kinda looked nearly similar.

You people all look alike to me.

Rip wrote:Not really an abandoned post, BUT

I almost just replied in a thread to someone thinking they were someone else who posted earlier in the thread. My confusion was because they had an avatar with a couple of the same colors that almost, kinda looked nearly similar.

You people all look alike to me.

Racist.

I was going to post that things look good for actually getting out of here by 19:00 tonight. But then I thought better of it.

When literally everyone is disagreeing with you, perhaps it's time to reevaluate your adamant stance.

ImLawBoy wrote:When literally everyone is disagreeing with you, perhaps it's time to reevaluate your adamant stance.

Flopper!

Pro tip: When inventing words that you hope will go viral, pick something easily pronounceable and spell it phonetically. Advanced hint: words beginning with X don't qualify.

Xcelsior!

Abandoned from FB, so as not spoil Zaxxon's fun.

Apparently I am not the only one who should not be able to post .gif files on FB

Great, another person who can claim GoneGold cool kid status.

Sounds like if you put your foot down it would come back pretty messy.

I thought this thread had been abandoned?

dbt1949 wrote:I thought this thread had been abandoned?

Which thread did you almost post that in?

Puttin' My Food Down

Putin My Foot Down

Suspended from the football team.
Still did his job.

I only eat Hindu cows.

Check every mosque within a ten mile radius!

hookers and blow

May I humbly suggest that a separate thread be started for what I am sure will be a lengthy and spoiler filled detailed microscopic analysis of the movie? I have tickets for Sunday and want to share in the excitement with my fellow OO'ers in this thread but don't want to accidently catch a spoiler. Either that or mark the thread title with a spoilers tag and I will abstain from viewing for a few days.

Wait what?

Daehawk wrote:Wait what?

He wants to be able to share his Star Wars excitement in the movie thread through Sunday without having anything spoiled.

Someone should check on Ozzy. Black Sabbath lives matter.

For the Cops Behaving Badly thread. I wrote it up, thought it was a mess, and deleted it.

Maybe we can even further simplify it by removing the financial incentive for traffic stops and making any stop require the cop to arrest the driver and bring them in. Speeding? That's 2 hours in jail for every 5mph over the limit. Failing to use a signal? That's 2 hours. No "criminal" record, but a mark on your license like you get now. Contesting the "ticket" then becomes a matter of getting the mark taken off your record. Without the cash incentive to pull people over, you might see police just not bothering to pull people over for very petty, minor things because it's a big hassle to go through the motions and only people behaving dangerously get their real attention. Then we limit public exposure to police and keep police focused on things that matter more.

Thank once again OO for having me relive what it feels like to be super stoned.

Super Bowls scheduled under President Trump:

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Allman joy

You only say that to deny me the sweet joy of victory. And your tears.

Zarathud wrote:You only say that to deny me the sweet joy of victory. And your tears.

That's a good album title.

So if India isn't considered Middle East, and it's not considered Far East, what is it?



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Oh.

I'd have said "the subcontinent."

Also acceptable.

The Meal wrote:I'd have said "the subcontinent."

Not to be confused with the submerged continent, Zealandia.

Not to be confused with the submerged content of Sea World.

We're an atheist household, and just walking into a typical church makes my skin crawl because of the long history of ignorance, open hatred, and abuses I associate with them. I joke with my wife that I'll burst into flames if I'm ever forced into one. I'd probably feel more comfortable sitting in a 8x10 cell with a confessed rapist and murderer (I did work in a jail for a while and I've interacted with many murderers and rapists - none give me the willies like a priest does).

Even as a child, I wasn't comfortable with the way scouts were expected to provide a casual (or more) hat-tip to God. My wife's brother is also an atheist and had to do some strange mental juggling of the "space-time continuum" as his "higher power" that he felt pretty uncomfortable with in order to pass into Eagle Scout when he was a teen.