Out of the Blue

[May 20, 2011, 11:16 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

I'm waiting on the honey-do men this morning, as MrsBlue found the handymen to look at the gutter problems we've been having. There's a tree growing into one corner of the gutters, and even worse, one of the downspouts has separated, and is gushing water. It's fairly shocking that we haven't had a basement flood with the gutters in that shape and all the rain we've been having lately, so we're lucky this hasn't been a huge problem already.

Rainy Links:	Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez and Acleacius.
Play:	PSN Protector. Waterslide Inferno. Death Worm. Thanks Daniel.
Links:	Toilet Paper: How America Convinced the World to Wipe.
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Re: Out of the Blue

May 21, 2011, 11:10

Sepharo

xXBatmanXx wrote on May 21, 2011, 03:41:
It has been in 3 stories in the last 3 days. I heard it non stop in multiplayer during Portal 2. It is also the mod version of some games now. It is now the preorder name of new games. It is stupid. It needs to stop.

Actually, shortly after I typed that, I saw a Miller Lite commercial on Hulu with some blondes saying it every other word. It was clearly intended to be annoying and it definitely was.




[I'm not trolling I'm just] tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. -TrollinThundr

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Re: Out of the Blue

May 21, 2011, 03:41

xXBatmanXx

Sepharo wrote on May 20, 2011, 21:42:
Pigeon wrote on May 20, 2011, 19:00:
xXBatmanXx wrote on May 20, 2011, 18:11:
WTF is going on with the word "epic"? It is everywhere. Is it some sort of internet thing that I missed? Holy cripes is it annoying! Did the idiots on Glee say the word or something? I guess I would be super upset if the world wasn't going to end in an hour or so....

Its been a popular internet word for years now, I'd say it's used tongue in cheek, but I think the days of it being something clever are long gone. Its just a tired beaten horse, which is probably why I've heard the media and entertainment industry using it now. Nothing they like more than taking something that's become completely banal, and then driving it into the ground some more.

It's just a word... Why do people say amazing, awesome, great, or excellent.

"I'm sick of everyone saying awesome! Does that really inspire awe, are you awed by that?!"

My personal overused phrase is "pretty fucking ridiculous". Use it for both good and bad things.

It has been in 3 stories in the last 3 days. I heard it non stop in multiplayer during Portal 2. It is also the mod version of some games now. It is now the preorder name of new games. It is stupid. It needs to stop.




In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. / Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder. Playing: RL

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Re: Rapture

May 21, 2011, 01:10

Kxmode

Blue wrote on May 20, 2011, 14:34: Quboid wrote on May 20, 2011, 14:33: I feel that the billboards just show how profitable this can be. They're missing out on my cash. I'd gladly buy a lousy t-shirt that says "I came for the rapture but all I got was this lousy t-shirt." Rap Sure? The concert-in-the-park series by unknown acts?

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Re: Out of the Blue

May 20, 2011, 22:24

Hoop

mag wrote on May 20, 2011, 22:05:
Also, Hoop doesn't know how to use the three seashells.

The three seashells?
I'm guessing poop, scoop & gag?




Um .. Behind you...

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Re: re -Toilet Paper

May 20, 2011, 22:17

Hoop

"Sepharo"May 20, 2011, 21:36
Corncobs were pretty standard for ass wiping. I know that my grandparents used them growing up, and the phone book until it runs out of pages.

Really?
Was it a patriotic thing back then for Mac Arthur?

http://pipedia.org/index.php?title=Missouri_Meerschaum




Um .. Behind you...

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Re: Out of the Blue

May 20, 2011, 22:05

mag

The Macho Man died for our sins. Also, Hoop doesn't know how to use the three seashells.

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Re: Out of the Blue

May 20, 2011, 21:42

Sepharo

Pigeon wrote on May 20, 2011, 19:00:
xXBatmanXx wrote on May 20, 2011, 18:11:
WTF is going on with the word "epic"? It is everywhere. Is it some sort of internet thing that I missed? Holy cripes is it annoying! Did the idiots on Glee say the word or something? I guess I would be super upset if the world wasn't going to end in an hour or so....

Its been a popular internet word for years now, I'd say it's used tongue in cheek, but I think the days of it being something clever are long gone. Its just a tired beaten horse, which is probably why I've heard the media and entertainment industry using it now. Nothing they like more than taking something that's become completely banal, and then driving it into the ground some more.

It's just a word... Why do people say amazing, awesome, great, or excellent.

"I'm sick of everyone saying awesome! Does that really inspire awe, are you awed by that?!"

My personal overused phrase is "pretty fucking ridiculous". Use it for both good and bad things.




[I'm not trolling I'm just] tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. -TrollinThundr

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Re: re -Toilet Paper

May 20, 2011, 21:36

Sepharo

Hoop wrote on May 20, 2011, 18:50:
"Since the dawn of time, people have found nifty ways to clean up after the bathroom act. The most common solution was simply to grab what was at hand: coconuts, shells, snow, moss, hay, leaves, grass, corncobs, sheep’s wool"
Corncobs!
Who the fark is thinking ... clean my arse? clean my arse?.....Corncob!
Shells for that matter or coconut.
I think this article says more about the author than the subject.

Corncobs were pretty standard for ass wiping. I know that my grandparents used them growing up, and the phone book until it runs out of pages.




[I'm not trolling I'm just] tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. -TrollinThundr

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Re: Out of the Blue

May 20, 2011, 19:00

Pigeon

xXBatmanXx wrote on May 20, 2011, 18:11: WTF is going on with the word "epic"? It is everywhere. Is it some sort of internet thing that I missed? Holy cripes is it annoying! Did the idiots on Glee say the word or something? I guess I would be super upset if the world wasn't going to end in an hour or so.... Its been a popular internet word for years now, I'd say it's used tongue in cheek, but I think the days of it being something clever are long gone. Its just a tired beaten horse, which is probably why I've heard the media and entertainment industry using it now. Nothing they like more than taking something that's become completely banal, and then driving it into the ground some more.

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re -Toilet Paper

May 20, 2011, 18:50

Hoop

"Since the dawn of time, people have found nifty ways to clean up after the bathroom act. The most common solution was simply to grab what was at hand: coconuts, shells, snow, moss, hay, leaves, grass, corncobs, sheep’s wool"
Corncobs!
Who the fark is thinking ... clean my arse? clean my arse?.....Corncob!
Shells for that matter or coconut.
I think this article says more about the author than the subject.




Um .. Behind you...

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Re: Out of the Blue

May 20, 2011, 18:11

xXBatmanXx

WTF is going on with the word "epic"? It is everywhere. Is it some sort of internet thing that I missed? Holy cripes is it annoying! Did the idiots on Glee say the word or something? I guess I would be super upset if the world wasn't going to end in an hour or so....




In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. / Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder. Playing: RL

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Re: Rapture

May 20, 2011, 18:10

xXBatmanXx

Blue wrote on May 20, 2011, 14:34:
Quboid wrote on May 20, 2011, 14:33:
I feel that the billboards just show how profitable this can be.

They're missing out on my cash. I'd gladly buy a lousy t-shirt that says "I came for the rapture but all I got was this lousy t-shirt."

I would buy multiple Bluesnews t-shirts.......




In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. / Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder. Playing: RL

Re: Out of the Blue

May 20, 2011, 16:22

Cutter

Woops double post.

This comment was edited on May 20, 2011, 16:34.




"Are you crazy? Is that your problem?" - Jack Burton

Re: Out of the Blue

May 20, 2011, 16:18

Cutter

Holy shit maybe the rapture really is at hand!!!

Randy Savage is dead!!!.

Bleh! I was never that much into wrestling but I always loved the Macho Man! Stupid rapture may as well come tomorrow in that case, there's naught worth living for anymore.

Edit: My buddy sez..." ‎"Macho Man didn't die, he killed himself to go talk some sense into God about this whole Judgment Day thing. And by "talk some sense" I mean "drop some elbows."

PPS: If Judgement Day is waved off tomorrow it will be because of Randy. So he will be our new Chuck Norris!




"Are you crazy? Is that your problem?" - Jack Burton

Re: Rapture

May 20, 2011, 16:13

Cutter

Quboid wrote on May 20, 2011, 13:39:
So, it's the start of the rapture tomorrow. How are people holding up?

Well, I wasn't expecting a sort of Spanish Inquisition.

Heh, I almost though of renting a trumpet and running around blowing it long and lound all over town to freak people out thinking Gabriel was sounding the rapture. Haha!




"Are you crazy? Is that your problem?" - Jack Burton

Re: Rapture

May 20, 2011, 14:34

Blue

Quboid wrote on May 20, 2011, 14:33:
I feel that the billboards just show how profitable this can be.

They're missing out on my cash. I'd gladly buy a lousy t-shirt that says "I came for the rapture but all I got was this lousy t-shirt."




Stephen "Blue" Heaslip Blue's News Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, El Presidente for Life

Re: Rapture

May 20, 2011, 14:33

Quboid

I feel that the billboards just show how profitable this can be.




- Quboid

Re: Rapture

May 20, 2011, 14:29

nin

Quboid wrote on May 20, 2011, 13:39:
So, it's the start of the rapture tomorrow. How are people holding up?

I'm feeling pretty good. Gonna get my drink on tonight and play some more LA Noire.




RollinThundr Apr 17, 2013, 12:25: Eh really tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. If you really want to call that trolling sure. Mr. Tact Apr 17, 2013, 12:33: Pretty sure that's the definition of trolling...

Re: Rapture

May 20, 2011, 14:22

kanniballl

Quboid wrote on May 20, 2011, 13:39:
So, it's the start of the rapture tomorrow. How are people holding up?

Well there's enough rain for it, that's for sure. I think I saw an Ark float by.

What surprised me though was, I actually saw a Billboard about this yesterday when I had to drive to a nearby city.

A billboard. About the end of days on 21-May.




"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you." -Fry, Futurama

Rapture

May 20, 2011, 13:39

Quboid

So, it's the start of the rapture tomorrow. How are people holding up?




- Quboid

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