We all have someone or something we know deep down we ought to respect and admire - a paragon of the arts or literature; a founding father; a gourmet food; an humanitarian hero; a philantropic organization; a seminal band; a saintly figure; an example to us all - and, in fact, we do. Sort of. But they still annoy the hell out of us.
Well, I can't stand Nelson Mandela.
Posted by at March 21, 2003 11:43 AMThe planet Jupiter.
It's soooo big and soooo impressive. Give me a damn break.
You're just gas, Jupiter, you hear me? Gas!
Posted by: kafker on March 21, 2003 11:52 AMAnd St. Sebastian. Look, man, I could get shot by a bunch of arrows too, you know. It' not like it's hard.
Then we have to have a bunch of pedophile painters getting all tumescent about it.
It boggles the mind.
Posted by: kafker on March 21, 2003 12:02 PMYou know what else? Corborundum! What a sorry excuse for an element that is.
Ptui!
Posted by: kafker on March 21, 2003 12:07 PMShoes.
What's the big deal?
Feet, too, for that matter. What's the fascination, their transportation devices, thats it.
Posted by: jonmc on March 21, 2003 12:09 PMThe Titanic. I'm sorry, I just can't make myself believe that it's unsinkable.
Posted by: witchstone on March 21, 2003 12:12 PMYou were wise tor ride the Flapping-winged Aerocycle back from Paris, witchstone.
Posted by: liam on March 21, 2003 12:18 PMI actually admit to having enjoyed "Son-in-Law." So shoot me.
Posted by: witchstone on March 21, 2003 12:33 PMFor some reason, Charlize Theron bugs the shit out of me. I can't explain it, but I avoid movies with her in them like the bubonic plague. Not that I would really now how to avoid the bubonic plague. I guess by avoiding rats and fleas and shit like that. And, like, people with engorged lymph nodes.
Not that Charlize Theron is a paragon of anything in the first place.
Posted by: witchstone on March 21, 2003 12:38 PMSeriously, Andie MacDowell. She's awful. I would employ a seven-stage plan with her, beginning with surveillance and ending in her total submersion in brown gravy.
Posted by: kafker on March 21, 2003 12:42 PMHmmm... I have a brown-gravy thing planned for Cate Blancett, but I think my aim is completely different.
Posted by: jpoulos on March 21, 2003 12:47 PMMeryl Streep. Aaack, she's like fingernails on a bloody chalkboard.
Adaptation. I am still trying to decide if I hated it, or hated it a lot.
Posted by: tizzie on March 21, 2003 12:48 PMAndie MacDowell.
*shudder*
I really don't know how that woman ever got work in acting. I've sensed more passion in a stapler.
Posted by: witchstone on March 21, 2003 12:49 PMAh tizzie, I'm sorry about your Meryl Streep hatred. She's really fantastic in The Hours.
Nicolas Cage is the one who bugged me in Adaptation. Seriously, what happened to that guy? I used to like him.
Posted by: witchstone on March 21, 2003 12:53 PMEnglish comedy, notably Monty Python and The Young Ones. I know, I know...there's probably some operation I should have. The problem isn't so much the content, but the delivery. Those bad accents and wacky expressions...it's just trying too hard.
Posted by: liam on March 21, 2003 12:56 PMJulia Roberts. I hate Julia Roberts. Hate Hate Hate (just don't tell anyone that I enjoyed Notting Hill)
Posted by: eyeballscampi on March 21, 2003 12:57 PMThe seriousness with which people take Major League Baseball and professional sports in general, and ESPECIALLY the seriousness with which the players take themselves and the seriousness with which sports reporters take their subjects. It's a muthafookin GAME, and one they all get paid bazillions of dollars to play! Every damn one of them should be cosntantly whistling Zippity Doo-Dah out your assholes! Instead it's a symphony of bitching. Feh!
The MeFi CD Swap, unfortunately.
What?
Posted by: Fes on March 21, 2003 01:01 PMJim Carrey. The demeanor of a six year old trying to be cute for the grownups, the embarrassing inability to express anything remotely resembling a real emotion despite having a face so flexible you could tie a knot in it, and the fact that despite this blatant lack of anything resembling talent, he continues getting these insanely great plum roles and then screws them up beyond recognition (would someone please remake Man On The Moon with, oh I don't care, Buscemi, Jack Black, anyone else in the title role, so I can finally go see it without retching?)
Plus, he broke Lauren Holly's heart. The jihad is on, friends.
Posted by: Chico on March 21, 2003 01:14 PM9622.net: whistling Zippity Doo-Dah out your asshole.
For me it's Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Seriously. I have an immense amount of respect for the man and what he's accomplished. But I went to see him speak in college and had to actively resist the urge to cruch his feeble bones into a fine powder and mix it in with a stir-fry.
Posted by: ufez on March 21, 2003 01:28 PMStephen Fucking Spielberg. Holy Jesus Christ. I mean, Raiders of the Lost Ark was a dmaned fine film. But he's only made pretentious shit since 1990... Yeah, yeah, yeah, Schindler's List. Given, we do, occasionally, need to be reminded that Nazi's were bad people. But augh, gag me! Then there was Saving Ryan's Privates and A.I.... Good god, who let's him stay in the Academy?
Posted by: kaibutsu on March 21, 2003 01:35 PM(Raider's was such a good film... even had a super-intelligent monkey, though they killed him. I think this was foreshadowing Spielberg's following career.)
Posted by: kaibutsu on March 21, 2003 01:37 PMAri Fleischer sets my teeth on edge. I actually hate and fear other figures far more, but there's something that physically turns me green whenever Ari speaks.
Worst. White House speaker. Ever.
Yeesh.
Posted by: readymade on March 21, 2003 01:44 PMYeah! Spielberg killed the monkey! What sort of monster would do that???
I actually was incensed about that when I saw it again a couple of weeks ago. "The monkey! What did he ever do to them? Bastards."
Even though he was a spy-monkey.
But still.
Posted by: readymade on March 21, 2003 01:53 PMspy-monkeys are the best kind!
Especially when they were monocles. i LOVE that.
Posted by: jpoulos on March 21, 2003 02:01 PMSpielberg...
*eyeballkid wonders, "who is this kaibutsu fellow? he speaks my thoughts. i must put back on my tinfoil bonnet."*
Posted by: eyeballscampi on March 21, 2003 02:05 PMexcuse me, he was a Nazi spy monkey, thus doubly bad.
Posted by: cowboy_sally on March 21, 2003 02:06 PMAndie MacDowell.
*shudder*
I really don't know how that woman ever got work in acting.
There's a scene in Short Cuts where MacDowell (a grieving mother who's child has been hit by a car) attacks Lyle Lovett (a baker who crank-calls her home after she cancels an order for the child's birthday cake) with such awkward, incompetent, first-year-of-acting-school screeching that whenever I see it, I scream at the screen "OK. Cut! Do it again!"
It's, IMO, the worst piece of acting I've ever seen in a "real" movie.
Posted by: jpoulos on March 21, 2003 02:09 PMHmm. I would almost have to rate Winona Ryder's truly awful performance in "Night On Earth" on a par with that thespian debacle. It's a testament to how good Jarmusch is that it was still a good film.
Posted by: kafker on March 21, 2003 02:17 PM"Is it raining? I didn't notice."
Worst. Line Delivery. Ever. Andie MacDowell, Four Weddings and a Funeral. She comes close to ruining that movie for me.
Posted by: witchstone on March 21, 2003 02:19 PMOh, I can't even get started on Winona Ryder. Although, as opposed to La MacDowell, I do feel that deep down in Winona's wasteland of a soul, she does try to release a tumbleweed of emotion. It just doesn't ever work.
Posted by: witchstone on March 21, 2003 02:23 PMThis guy says almost the exact same thing as I did!
She came treacherously close to destroying an entire excellent movie with one line (Four Weddings and a Funeral -- "Is it raining? I hadn't noticed"). Andie MacDowell is about as animated as a stale piece of melba toast.
Posted by: witchstone on March 21, 2003 02:29 PMAh, but 4 Weddings and a Funeral is saved by the delectable presence of Kristen Scott Thomas. It's worth watching MacDowell's teeth burr through the scenery for the few glimpses of Thomas and the rich sound of her aristocratic voice.
Posted by: Fes on March 21, 2003 02:29 PMMargot Kidder in the Superman films. That may be the worst acting in history.
Posted by: eyeballkidder on March 21, 2003 02:32 PMThat Winona Ryder debacle wasn't helped by the fact that she was sharing the scene with perhaps the greatest living American film actress. Also you'd think she would have known to err on the side of underacting in a Jarmusch film.
Posted by: liam on March 21, 2003 02:34 PMThe fact that I can download Sexual Healing as a ringtone for my phone, but can't get the chicken clucking, or the monkey eeking. When the hell is T-mobile going to start offering animal noises, for chrissakes?
Posted by: adampsyche on March 21, 2003 02:35 PMI keep my phone on vibrate. Why would you do anything else?
Posted by: Fes on March 21, 2003 02:46 PMLiam, did you ever see Unhook the Stars? That was my first real introduction to Gena Rowlands. It's a really wonderful, quiet movie. Marisa Tomei is great in it, as well.
Posted by: witchstone on March 21, 2003 02:47 PMDear Prudence.
She answered an email of mine once-I was pointing out to her how the advice she'd given in one instance was regionally flawed.
Oh, I have another one.
The Mormon Church. (I refuse to call them by their three-mile-long politically correct name.)
Actually for some weird reason I associate Disney and Mormonism. Hmmm.
witchstone: Yes, I really enjoyed UTS. If you haven't yet seen the films of John Cassavetes, Rowlands' husband and father of Unhook The Stars' director, check them out to see her in full flow ("A Woman Under the Influence", "Faces" and others).
Posted by: liam on March 21, 2003 02:58 PMYou know who I'd like to see barbecued slowly? That smug bowtie-wearing shitstain on CNN Tucker Carlson. He gives repressed-sexual-deviant, momma's-boy, briefcase-in-high-school-totin' Little Lord Fauntleroys a bad name. I'd like to nailgun him to a pallet and swing his snotty arrogant ass over a badger pit.
Posted by: Fes on March 21, 2003 02:59 PMI keep my phone on vibrate. Why would you do anything else?
I just carry around my vibrator and leave my phone at home. All problems solved!
My CNN Hitlist:
The smirking asshole Aaron Brown
That grey-haired ass riding in the tank brigade who keeps saying things like "These boys have metal in their veins"
Um, Bunnyfire, Dear Prudence is the name of a Beatles song. I had gotten the Server Error message, and now I put titles of Beatles songs instead of post, dammit.
Posted by: witchstone on March 21, 2003 03:03 PMWhere is Escrow, exactly? And is it comfortable in there?
Posted by: eyeballkid on March 21, 2003 03:10 PMIn escrow,
We can't come out to play.
In escrow,
It's a brand new dayayayyyy.
The gig is up,
The payment's due.
With bills to pay,
No toys for you!
(sung to the tune of Dear Prudence)
Escrow is the place where you dare not look. Look and you will find me there!
I have taken the water of life.
Posted by: kafker on March 21, 2003 03:16 PMVery nice, Tizzie!
I have to be honest: I prefer the Siouxsie version.
Posted by: kafker on March 21, 2003 03:17 PMSiouxsie:
Dear Prudence == Good
Helter Skelter == Not So Good
I have been in escrow, Mr. K., and know from whence I speak.
Actually, congratulations!
Posted by: tizzie on March 21, 2003 03:21 PMI want a house. I'm sick of the people downstairs making those grinding and screaming noises at night.
Posted by: eyeballkid on March 21, 2003 03:24 PMIt's so much less annoying when they're the people you chose to trap in your crawlspace.
Posted by: kafker on March 21, 2003 03:27 PMBut I'm not really trapping them. When I break in, they're usually just sleeping. After I get the Skil saw all primed up, then the grinding and screaming starts.
Posted by: eyeballkid on March 21, 2003 03:30 PM*seconds call for jihad on Aaron "my teeth and hair are completely fake" Brown*
Posted by: whatnot on March 21, 2003 03:30 PMMarilyn Vos Savant
Rosanna Arquette (if only for that stupid TOTO song)
Lionel Richie (although I like the Commodores)
Who do I hate? The gay-hating Boy Scouts of America. Wait, wait, wait. You want young boys to wear sashes and knee-socks, shower together, and learn how to bake, but if they like those things TOO MUCH, they’re out? What a poor way to teach young men how to respect the differences of others.
(I should say here that I AM an Eagle Scout, fifteen years in the program, worked on a national level, and 75% of the gay people I know, I met through Scouts)
There should be a law against downloadable ringtones.
Aw, come on! Hearing a polymorphic version of 99 Luftballoons beats hearing Take Me Out to the Ballgame anyday.
Posted by: adampsyche on March 21, 2003 03:55 PM9622.net: whistling Zippity Doo-Dah out your asshole.
I can't put anyone down these days(must be the war), use to be good at it. Loved to find people's weaknesses, then splatter the shit out of it, once I had honed in. Feel nothing for my nemisist in life, but for them to find life, itself.
PS, can't is not in the dictionary:P
Ok, the a-holes who told me owning a home would save me money, and to take their wisdom on it. Those in authority whom bullied themselves through my life...
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 21, 2003 04:02 PMI downloaded "If I were King of the Forest" for my phone. I love it.
My observations about TV War coverage:
Last war: Video Games (satellite guided missile shots with sportcaster-like observations: "This right here as the luckiest man on earth" as missile blows up bridge after Iraqi steps off of it)
This war: Reality Television, complete with "embedded journalists" becoming real tv celebrities.
Pick your horror show.
Posted by: readymade on March 21, 2003 04:09 PMWhat I mean is anything but normal ringing. People at my work leave their phones at their desk and subject you to 18 rings of "Mambo #5"
Posted by: kafker on March 21, 2003 04:13 PMI would not recognize "Mambo #5" if it jumped up and bit me on the ass.
Posted by: tizzie on March 21, 2003 04:20 PMYeah, what's with the word "embedded" suddenly becoming Verb of the Year? Like the journalists are a tough stain that even Oxy-5 can't get out of the battalions they're traveling with? Whay isn't "traveling with" an appropriate word?
I'm only hating on CNN because I can't bring myself to even click past any of the other alphabet news dispensers.
If you're talking world events and you're not the BBC or Comedy Central, a pox on your house.
Also, I've been waiting for 20 years to like REM, and it's not yet happened.
I bet you would. It's the worst injustice ever perpetrated on music. Does this sound familiar:
"A little bit of Monica
In my life
A little bit of Jessica
By my --
*BLAM!*
thud!
Oh. You mean this isn't tizzie's ass I'm biting?
Whose is it, then? It's okay, you can own up.
Posted by: Mambo #5 on March 21, 2003 04:25 PMSometimes when I'm walking around with the sun to my back and I can see my shadow real well, I like to form my hands into little G.I. Joe like kung-fu grip fashion. It makes me feel good and like I'm not such a soft, scrawny bastard. Some people notice and look at me in quizzical ways.
Those people are on my list.
Posted by: ufez on March 21, 2003 04:45 PMMost of these are getting away from the spirit of Miguel’s question, but:
Julia Roberts (just to pile on). Prince. Madonna. The fashion industry and everyone that thinks it’s somehow important. People that demonstrate their ringtones on the subway. Like ColdChef, the BSA (and I’m an Eagle Scout, too -– one that contemplated returning my Eagle medal). Gawker. New York magazine. (and the whole rest of that crowd.) Ari “Prince of Darkness” Fleischer. Reality TV. Mayor Bloomberg. Real estate porn. Commercial radio. The fact that Christina Aguilera is more well-known than Mojo Nixon. Assholes on MetaFilter. People with fast metabolisms. Embedded reporters that are way too gung-ho. Delta’s SkyMiles program. The airline industry in general. People that look at you funny when you order a Manhattan.
And war. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
HELP!
Ever since someone mentioned Gena Rowlands I have Laura Brannigan's "Gloria" stuck in my head....
Fes, let me borrow that nailgun. must... end... misery...
Posted by: jpoulos on March 21, 2003 04:47 PMThis war: Reality Television, complete with "embedded journalists" becoming real tv celebrities. for what it's worth, here is some info on that. Saw a piece on this, the fellow in charge of the Marines, when a approached by some journalist about being apart of the war went with it to all the other people running the war...he felt they would be an a useful tool in the scheme of things, with media being a big part of the world as it is today...so in a nut shell the military went on line live like reality TV…
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 21, 2003 04:49 PMCNN -- a bunch of assholes.
Present company excepted, I hope? or do I need to get up all in your face?
Sigh, I hope not. I'm too tired for some face-getting-up-all-in.)
Posted by: Vidiot on March 21, 2003 04:49 PMoooh. That reminds me of someone else: Sharon The-Press-Loves-Me-Of-Utterly-No-Talent-Because-I-Showed-Off-The-Goods-In-Basic-Instinct Stone.
Posted by: eyeballkid on March 21, 2003 04:51 PMAnd war. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
Say it again.
Posted by: ColdChef on March 21, 2003 04:52 PMI also don't care for the many, many women who are currently stalking me.
Posted by: ColdChef on March 21, 2003 04:54 PMI started writing this:
Yeah, really all TV news people should be round up and hung. With maybe the exception of one or two of the BBC Europe crew.
But I was interupted, and now I write this:
All telemarketing companies. I understand the plight of the proletariat working the phones, but those execs have to go.
Posted by: kaibutsu on March 21, 2003 04:55 PMSay it again.
Thanks, CC -- someone had to pick up the ball.
Posted by: Vidiot on March 21, 2003 04:55 PMPresent company excepted, I hope? or do I need to get up all in your face?
Huh?
Posted by: kafker on March 21, 2003 04:56 PMI also don't care for the many, many women who are currently stalking me.
oooh, give them my number, please?
Posted by: Vidiot on March 21, 2003 04:56 PMMacdowell, Andie. The light's on upstairs, but nobody's home. Possibly mildly retarded.
Posted by: Chico on March 21, 2003 04:57 PMVidiot--are you CNN? How can you keep track of yourself? One hour you're Larry King, the next Aaron Brown.... then someone else! Wow.
Now that is a serious case of Multiple Personality Disorder.
Posted by: readymade on March 21, 2003 04:58 PMI work for CNN, Kaf.
*prepares to get up all in Kaf's face, decides to have a glass of milk first*
Posted by: Vidiot on March 21, 2003 04:59 PMWhoa. Hold on. Don't make me have to separate you two.
Posted by: eyeballkid on March 21, 2003 05:01 PMMmmm. Tasty milk. Maybe I'll have a peanut-butter sandwich.
Posted by: Vidiot on March 21, 2003 05:02 PMHa ha ha! I just volunteered to work the Hall & Oates Live By Request on Monday. I LOVE IT!
Private eyes (clap) they're watching you (clap clap)
You're outta touch, I'm outta time, but I'm outta my head when you're not around
I-I-I-I, I'll do anything, that you want me to girl, yeah, I-I-I-I-I'll do almost anything that you want me to girl yeah, but I can't go for that no, no can do (what did she ask him to do? a three some with Michael Jackson? oh, the question, it burns)
Posted by: witchstone on March 21, 2003 05:04 PMthat's cool! They're the method of modern love!
(what do you do, witchy?)
Posted by: Vidiot on March 21, 2003 05:06 PMNot to pile on, but I also don't care for all the women stalking you, CC - they yell outside my window asking for your contact information. All day, all night, jeezus. My stalkers can barely get a word in edgewise.
I can't throw rocks at them fast enough to keep them away. It must be hell by your place if it's like that here.
Posted by: Chico on March 21, 2003 05:06 PMI hate how journalists love to let you know that Iraqi soldiers tried to surrender to them today.
Get. over. it.
Posted by: adampsyche on March 21, 2003 05:09 PMI also hate how my work's firewall blocks port 6667 (IRC). It's not like people are beating down our remaining open doors to buy computers, you know.
Posted by: adampsyche on March 21, 2003 05:09 PMWhat do I do? I'm a concert dancer who explodes out of cakes.
Or conversely, I work for A&E & The Hitler Channel.
*is insanely jealous of Witchy for getting to work a Hall & Oates show, and isn't quite sure why*
Posted by: Vidiot on March 21, 2003 05:20 PMgosh vidiot I finally got enough war aniexty frustration gumption worked up to go off on the boob tube crowd, but you took my words out of my mouth.
so I'll just add one of my most hated movie lines from the movieGhosts: Ditto...or was that my girfriend at the time...[thom thinks then dons tin foil dunce cap]...ah Demi Moore, just lost that lov'in feel'in for her after that...
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 21, 2003 05:21 PMMy condolences, Vidiot. Still, you are in a unique position to give Bill Hemmer wedgies.
Posted by: kafker on March 21, 2003 05:23 PMMax Weinburg of the Max Weinburg 7 (and the E Street Band). I want to rip his face off.
Posted by: Marquis on March 21, 2003 05:25 PMBy which I mean to say I'm sure you are not an asshole, though I think Aaron Brown decidedly is.
Posted by: kafker on March 21, 2003 05:26 PMJust when I think Thom's starting to get all comprehensible on us, he cranks it up a notch.
Posted by: kafker on March 21, 2003 05:27 PM"noone really understands
why my shopping cart is filled with cans
and a top hat and a snare drum and a horn.
and a poster and some magazines with my picture
and some magic beans
and a blanket that i got
when i was born.
different people do the same thing every day,
but i just look the other way.
well i keep on rollin' keep on rollin -
i deny a problem with my attitude
'cause I will work for food -
and i keep on rollin', keep on rollin' on."
-dramarama, work for food.
Posted by: kaibutsu on March 21, 2003 05:28 PMObviously he was saying that his girlfriend at the time was his most hated line in Ghost.
Posted by: witchrosettastone on March 21, 2003 05:28 PMno, thom, go ahead and spout off! (Chances are I agree.)
Posted by: Vidiot on March 21, 2003 05:31 PMI am going to San Francisco this evening to see Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
If I can make it across the Bay Bridge.
Posted by: eyeballkid on March 21, 2003 05:36 PMKafka! Get out of the house! He's calling from the phone upstairs!
Posted by: kafka's local police detective on March 21, 2003 05:43 PMI should be more specific. I'm flying to the Bay Area this weekend and have tickets to see Hedwig tomorrow. Right now, I'm upstairs sharpening my knives.
Posted by: eyeballkid on March 21, 2003 05:44 PMThe Noid is remarkably similar to the little curvy-knife wielding gremlin so eager to steal the young Drew Barrymore's breath in Cat's Eye.
Posted by: kafkascampi on March 21, 2003 06:12 PMid'n that one of those vanity fair pictures where demi painted her nekkid body and posed seductively? I forgot about the rabbit ears.
Posted by: whatnot on March 21, 2003 06:14 PMThe Noid also slighty resembles Bob Sagat in bright red S&M gear.
Posted by: eyeballkid on March 21, 2003 06:16 PMso if the Scarlet Letter is "A", I guess this is official confirmation that the Sable Letter is "N."
Posted by: Vidiot on March 21, 2003 06:19 PMThe Noid also slighty resembles Bob Sagat in bright red S&M gear.
And you know this...how?
(no, never mind. Don't actually tell us. I just ate.)
Posted by: Vidiot on March 21, 2003 06:20 PMThe Noid *is* Demi Moore, then. Hm. I thought so.
Funny. She's better looking than I remember.
Posted by: Chico on March 21, 2003 06:30 PMObviously he was saying that his girlfriend at the time was his most hated line in Ghost.
Saw the flick with my most hated bitch of a chic to date (her line, no joke) girlfriend. The line, Ditto, Demi Moore used in the movie ghost which was translation for, I love you, just did not sit well with me, again the chic who was sitting next to me whom gave me; the-perfect-reason-why-it’s-best-to-be-single-&-sex-is-never-suffice-even-if-your-young-&-horny. So ditto the bitch & the line too. Then no longer cared for Demi as an actress, pass on all her movies since then, even the stripper/mom one.
Can I please take off my tin foil dunce cap; pretty please my dandruff is now colored sparkles.(Plus I was trying to be dark and funny, as trying to use the word, ditto to Vidiot, sorry for dark humor, no i'm not sorry, turn your light on)
Plus Kaf just likes to poke fun;P
wonder if he bought a house in garbage grove...or dude were so stoned and huntingforthebeach (just playing with you Kaf, good luck with escrow and may it be the smoothest purchase of your life, mine was)
(just saw this)
id'n that one of those vanity fair pictures where demi painted her nekkid body and posed seductively?
id'n; are you saying you would nail that pic, iirc, she was pregnant, about due too..with the American flag painted on her...
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 21, 2003 06:40 PMsgt. You forgot the comma:
"I can't stand, mathowie."
Posted by: ColdChef on March 21, 2003 08:09 PMYou work at A&E witchy?
Can ya tell em to put Northern Exposure reruns back on, please?
Posted by: jonmc on March 21, 2003 08:32 PMI hate The Gilmore Girls. With the heat of ten thousand blazing suns.
My husband loves the show. Thank goodness we have more than one tv in this house.
Posted by: b*nnyf*re on March 21, 2003 08:33 PMNow face west! Think about where you live and why you have it now! Drop and give me twenny, soldier!
Posted by: Vidiot on March 21, 2003 10:02 PMCome on down and meet your maker
Come on down and make the stand
I think James Carville should be deep-fried in poison oil.
Posted by: Mars Crash on March 21, 2003 11:05 PMyour husband has the worst taste in televsion shows.
DUH.
(but he does love the Simpsons. I think I'll keep him.)
It's the far more esoteric: "I can't, Stan." D'mat how, i.e.
Posted by: readymade on March 22, 2003 01:28 AMVidiot--why do you think people look at you funny when you order a manhattan? Ask for it frozen? Tequila instead of bourbon?
It's a pretty common cocktail, is all.
Posted by: brittney on March 22, 2003 02:54 AMOr some hybrid offshoot of Gaelic or Welsh or something. What a funny language in which to sit on mathowie.
(Stand in the place where you live. Now face North. Think about direction, wonder why you haven't got more.)
Posted by: Chico, Still Trying To Like REM on March 22, 2003 02:58 AMHangovers. I really really hate hangovers.
On the other hand, I think I would gladly bear mathowie's manbabies.
Posted by: stavrosthehungoverchicken on March 22, 2003 04:22 AM{Comes back 16 hours later} Looks at thread reads, laughs, then scratches head, has a belly-quake for the day, thanks.
Story to share: received two e-mails on similar subjects, both sent at almost identical times per the posted sent times. But one was central the other eastern so not really sent at the same time, but posted. First sender, an unknown reader from my site, sends a note stating; sender's cousin called by phone, the cousin bartered the use of a reporter’s phone(outstanding). Other e-mail; my mom received call from LIL brother by cell phone. The say it’s fall in Australia, thanksgivings in spring over here...
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 22, 2003 12:53 PMVidiot--why do you think people look at you funny when you order a manhattan? Ask for it frozen? Tequila instead of bourbon?
It's a pretty common cocktail, is all.
Don't I know it, brittney. It's common, classic, and simple. But so many bartenders are utterly clueless -- I had to WRITE IT DOWN for a waitress in an Atlanta hotel bar so she could show it to the bartender. I've had people give me an Old Fashioned instead. One bartender asked me if it was like a Cosmo. (perish the thought.) So many I've had are just badly made. And that's not even addressing what happens if you order it "with a dash of bitters." Mass confusion often results. (And I don't think I'm that much of a drink snob -- I just know what I like.)
Not every bartender/waitress is clueless, but I'm complaining about the ones that are. I just think it's one of those jobs where people often don't give a damn and anyone can say they can do it. (I do notice that since I've moved to NYC, it's easier to get a good cocktail.)
Gosh, I'm starting to sound like Miguel. (That's a good thing.)
Posted by: Vidiot on March 22, 2003 01:20 PMVidiot--why do you think people look at you funny when you order a manhattan?
On the other hand, maybe it's just 'cause people look at me funny.
Posted by: Vidiot on March 22, 2003 01:22 PMcomes back, more laughs & now thirst after reading vidiot's cocktail test... you say a manhattan...will I be looked at as old fashioned ordering this?( side note; same problem with thom collins...gin, the name alone screams british...not vodka...it a be a rusky kollinz, doh.
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 22, 2003 01:32 PMATTN ALL:
Read this. (In particular, the section entitled I Am Thirsty for some Shut-Up Juice.
You will laugh.
Posted by: brittney on March 22, 2003 01:51 PMwhen life hand you lemons, screw lemonade. Make a Tom Collins.
Posted by: Vidiot on March 22, 2003 02:01 PMHey.
I am a big Scorpions fan. Unironically. My first show was the Scorps at the New Have Coliseum in 1985. And may hair is seeping towards mulletude of it's own accord. If someone takes pics tonight you'll see.
Posted by: jonmc on March 22, 2003 02:02 PMjon, did you do something to the sides of your head? You know, like with scissors or a razor or something?
Because I was thinking your shaggitude was approaching an excellent critical mass, and I was rather looking forward to digging your headular hirsuteosity tonight.
Metaphorically speaking, of course.
Posted by: Chico the Comparative Cue Ball on March 22, 2003 02:12 PMNo shaving or nothing, just doing that curl up at the collar thing.
*makes devil horns, fires up Manowar*
Posted by: jonmc on March 22, 2003 02:13 PM*readies brand-new digital camera and prepares to bring you MulletFilter*
Posted by: Vidiot on March 22, 2003 02:14 PMWell, it's not like resplendent...just shaggy..
I call tagline.
Posted by: Vidiot on March 22, 2003 02:46 PMI'm up to my ass in alligators just this second, but rest assured that I got all the last minute SwapMaster declarations, and you are all in. Participant List coming either tonight or (more likely) tomorrow (they're big gators and there are a lot of them). Monday, we'll talk swap lists! Hunh!
Posted by: 'tator on March 22, 2003 02:52 PMHello from the Apple store in SoHo. Can't wait to see some of you tonight.
Posted by: ana on March 22, 2003 02:58 PMrun to the airport, CC. You'll just make it.
What costs more, the ticket or CC being so happy drbnk he buys all the drinks...wait, he lives in sin city, so drinking folks under the table is one of his past times, won't work. I hear bus tickets are cheap plus you get to smell like a monkey when you arrive...{ducks for in coming poo}
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 22, 2003 03:27 PMso happy for those involved, my story forgot to say the unknown sender, the cousin was a Cpl. in the Marines like my brother. Still find it bizarre, good.
May I repeat Cold Chef too from above...f you all. [Scratches head] we live in teh south, say, it; you have to look down your noses to see us, it's ok, I have to look up your nose, looking north, cut those hairs please...!!!/
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 22, 2003 04:06 PM: sniffle : Hey, everyone have a good time tonight...TAKE PICTURES, I wanna see PICTURES!!!
Posted by: roe/metrocake on March 22, 2003 04:58 PMthat's right ,
i only have one leg and numbers are a problem for me..
im not a huge hockey fan , some people think its god but i much prefer soccer ;)
im not jealous or bitter about the ny meetup at all....isn't that great ?
(sound of man urinating in drinks)
(i dont know how this would be much different from the sound of a woman urinating in your drinks but there you are)
Posted by: sgt.serenity on March 22, 2003 05:27 PMHave fun at the meetup. Sorry I can't be there. Maybe next time.
To reiterate what metrocake said: take pictures.
Posted by: jpoulos on March 22, 2003 05:55 PM
Uuummm...I work in IT and I went to a Scorpions show last year...
Extra Shut-up Juice for me!
Posted by: Cyrano on March 22, 2003 10:42 PM*With Dio, Cinderella and Deep Purple opening*
*oh, and a week before I went and saw Poison (opening: Faster Pussycat and Winger)*
Posted by: Cyrano on March 22, 2003 10:45 PM"Bat boyss runnink vild
And you bedder geddowda dere wayee!"
(just out of curiosity, what's the crapiest band you've ever seen open for a band you actually wanted to see? I've got the Bullet Boys. Someone please trump me...)
Posted by: Cyrano on March 23, 2003 08:52 AMJimmy Barnes. *shudder*
Granted I was 14 and the "band I wanted to see" was ZZTop, but he still sucked balls.
Posted by: jpoulos on March 23, 2003 11:28 AMI opened (solo, acoustic) for Nashville Pussy once.
I'm sure that would make someone's list.
Posted by: Chico on March 23, 2003 12:17 PMIn recent memory, it was VHS or Beta, opening up for Cinerama. Apparently these guys are huge--HUGE!!--in Nashville. Can brittney confirm or deny this?
Posted by: cowboy_sally on March 23, 2003 12:50 PMI also once saw George Thorogood co-headlining with Little Feat. (disclaimer: I got in free.) Neither of them sucked as bad as I'd feared.
Posted by: Vidiot on March 23, 2003 01:08 PMWhat Secretly Gets Your Teeth On Edge?
Metatalk threads that mention this site.
Posted by: jpoulos on March 23, 2003 09:16 PMI opened (solo, acoustic) for Nashville Pussy once.
And you lived to tell about it?
Posted by: jonmc on March 23, 2003 09:21 PMI like both George Thorogood and Little Feat (with Lowell George at least). I am really out of it.
The worst opening act I ever saw was D Generation who I saw open for both Kiss at Madison Square Garden and Social Distortion at Roseland, and they bored the audience at bothe gigs.
Posted by: jonmc on March 23, 2003 09:26 PMMetatalk threads that mention this site.
Obviously, we need to start up 9622talk to keep Miguel's restless, inquisitive, mind occupied.
Posted by: yhbc on March 23, 2003 09:46 PMMetatalk threads that mention this site.
Grrr. Bad authorial monkey.
*takes Miguel's drink, sticks his tongue in it*
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on March 24, 2003 02:51 AMHm, I suppose I've been pretty lucky... Bad opener from like, a real show, was SuperButt opening for Henry Rollins. But they weren't so much bad as mediocre and, ah, low brow. (Since I'm so high-brow, hanging out on 9622, a member of the Meiosa, right?)
The real worst opening band I saw was at the "Summer Dying Fest Part Two" in Budapest. The band was Gate From Darkness, opening for Sundone and Sin of Cain. The show was a lot of fun; the venue was kind of like a barn with a bar, about 75% of the attendees stationed at the bar no matter what was happening on stage. Sundone was good, Sin of Cain just kind of scary. Gate from Darkness sported heavy Cradle of Filth influences, which is far from a good thing. I got one of their t-shirts because none of the other bands had any.
Posted by: kaibutsu on March 24, 2003 08:52 AMHootie and the Blowfish opening a show for Alex Chilton - seriously
Posted by: krimur on March 24, 2003 10:59 AMMetatalk threads that mention this site.
Even in thought, or mind .
Feeling stuck... I have helped thousands... I can help you ![from the link] ha haha...imagine some one stumbleing into Metatalk/metafilter thinking it was her site, ouch, for their psychie, it would have to hurt after some of those threads.
Miguel, just don't mention the site on MeFi or MeTa, ok? It ain't hard.
Posted by: kaf on March 24, 2003 01:16 PM*goes and stands in the corner
[flings some poo]Must be nice to have a square cage Mig, mines circular...[eats a banana throws peel aimlessly, then slips on it]
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 24, 2003 01:38 PMWeird behavior migs.
Nashville Pussy? I'm not going over this again.
aw, c'mere ya big lug. I can't stay mad at you.
*hugs Miguel*
*slaps Miguel*
Just don't do it again.
*hugs Miguel*
Posted by: jpoulos on March 24, 2003 02:09 PM
q posts a comment
is it kosher to mention #mefi irc in here?
Posted by: quonsypooffles on March 24, 2003 03:35 PMsucks to yer asmar!
Miguel can't help you now, quonsar...if that is your real name...
Posted by: jpoulos on March 24, 2003 04:54 PMQuonsarucho!
*comes out of the corner fighting
Stop it this instant! Leave the guest worker alone!
*renews pledge, stops sulking, makes a few strides, lifts chin, looks over at CD thread dolefully
I see quonsar round this neck of the woods, I figure that-other-place-that-cannot-be-mentioned-here* is down. Am I wrong?
*Oh right, it's the other way round. ;)
Posted by: Miguel on March 24, 2003 04:58 PM*Oh right, it's the other way round. ;)
I see this neck of the woods round quonsar
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 24, 2003 05:02 PMDude. We need some passwords and secret handshakes and stuff here.
Secret society, my fat flabby ass.
Posted by: ColdChef on March 24, 2003 05:17 PMLike That Other Place That's Also A Number And That Got Its Ass Kicked In The Total Commentathon?
Posted by: Miguel on March 24, 2003 05:19 PMI have no idea what you're talking about. I know of no such place.
(See? That's what I'm talking about. Stealth!)
Posted by: ColdChef on March 24, 2003 05:25 PMLet's not be so stealthy that we forget to put words in our posts, 'kay?
Posted by: Mars Crash on March 24, 2003 06:11 PMThat was the first time I've ever gotten the infamous error.
Posted by: Mars Crash on March 24, 2003 06:13 PMGreat. Left out again. I'm terrible with the secret societies. During the Super Bowl, the host of the party was singing some infantile songs with fraternity brothers he hadn't seen in awhile. I threw a dinner roll at them and yelled quite loudly "Quit your infernal caterwauling, you secret handshake fucks! I'm trying to watch the game!" I just wasn't born to be paddled by other men, I suppose.
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