Out of the Blue

[Jul 29, 2012, 3:21 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

About a week of rain is to be followed by another week of rain around here. There's an old joke about rain always coming right after you wash your car, but that can't happen to us because you aren't allowed to wash your car here because we are apparently in the midst of a drought. A really wet drought.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Jul 31, 2012, 00:51

Ant

Olympics has porn? J/K.




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Re: Out of the Blue

Jul 30, 2012, 12:44

Endo

Where I grew up the joke is it always rains during county fair week. This year after weeks (months?) of drought, sure enough it started raining the week before fair week, and continued throughout fair week. Never fails.

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Re: XXX Olympics Opening Ceremony Is Most-Watched Ever As NBC Scores Ratings Gold.

Jul 30, 2012, 11:20

Quboid

PropheT wrote on Jul 29, 2012, 22:44:
jdreyer wrote on Jul 29, 2012, 16:40:
But they didn't live stream it. Apparently because:

It was never our intent to live stream the Opening Ceremony or Closing Ceremony. They are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online because they require context, which our award-winning production team will provide for the large prime-time audiences that gather together to watch them.

So, basically: F U internet users.

I think that's funny since I thought the commentary and pieces they did during the opening ceremony were nauseatingly terrible. I'd rather they just hadn't said a word and just showed video of the whole event :p

XXX Olympics kind of gives a whole new meaning to getting screwed by the Russian judge.

Is it true that NBC cut out 'Abide with me'? Can you imagine the outcry if a foreign broadcaster cut a 9/11 tribute from a US show?




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Re: Out of the Blue

Jul 30, 2012, 08:21

Mr. Tact

The farmers here in central Illinois are definitely feeling the lack of rain. Predictions on the corn harvest move downward daily. Based on what they are saying on the local ag. radio shows, we are approaching dust bowl levels of drought.




Truth is brutal. Prepare for pain.

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Re: Olympic TV Ratings

Jul 30, 2012, 08:16

Mr. Tact

Oh boy! Kicked the shit out of repeat television! So awesome!




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Re: Out of the Blue

Jul 30, 2012, 05:24

Hoop

Alamar wrote on Jul 29, 2012, 23:55:
So much showboating, so little cool shit...

There you go, you just wrote the definition of Parkour.




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Re: Out of the Blue

Jul 29, 2012, 23:55

Alamar

Disappointing Parkour vid.. So much showboating, so little cool shit... -Alamar

Re: XXX Olympics Opening Ceremony Is Most-Watched Ever As NBC Scores Ratings Gold.

Jul 29, 2012, 22:44

PropheT

jdreyer wrote on Jul 29, 2012, 16:40: But they didn't live stream it. Apparently because: It was never our intent to live stream the Opening Ceremony or Closing Ceremony. They are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online because they require context, which our award-winning production team will provide for the large prime-time audiences that gather together to watch them. So, basically: F U internet users. I think that's funny since I thought the commentary and pieces they did during the opening ceremony were nauseatingly terrible. I'd rather they just hadn't said a word and just showed video of the whole event :p XXX Olympics kind of gives a whole new meaning to getting screwed by the Russian judge.

Re: XXX Olympics Opening Ceremony Is Most-Watched Ever As NBC Scores Ratings Gold.

Jul 29, 2012, 21:10

nin

Quboid wrote on Jul 29, 2012, 19:48:
No wonder it was so well watched. How many people tuned in expecting the 'XXX Olympics' to be something very different?

I noticed that title on a friends DVR the other night...couldn't help but chuckle.




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: XXX Olympics Opening Ceremony Is Most-Watched Ever As NBC Scores Ratings Gold.

Jul 29, 2012, 19:48

Quboid

No wonder it was so well watched. How many people tuned in expecting the 'XXX Olympics' to be something very different?




- Quboid

Re: Out of the Blue

Jul 29, 2012, 19:26

Cutter

Hey, there are droughts all over. Up here in Hogtown they state this has been the least amount of rain we've seen in a summer in 20 or 30 years.

Nature being cyclical this means we're in for a brutal winter in the Northeast and Midwest. You can mark these words today, gents, and see if they're not true come this winter.




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XXX Olympics Opening Ceremony Is Most-Watched Ever As NBC Scores Ratings Gold.

Jul 29, 2012, 16:40

jdreyer

But they didn't live stream it. Apparently because:

It was never our intent to live stream the Opening Ceremony or Closing Ceremony. They are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online because they require context, which our award-winning production team will provide for the large prime-time audiences that gather together to watch them.

So, basically: F U internet users.




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Re: Out of the Blue

Jul 29, 2012, 16:31

Mashiki Amiketo

Yeah they're calling for the same here. We're sitting at 60-80% under normal, I was out talking with a buddy who was doing maintenance on his field pumps. Next year he's going with an underground feeder system, but he's dug a 3rd and 4th pond just incase, as he likes to put it. Better to be paranoid and prepared than not. On the upside, his soy and corn are going to sell very well.




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Re: Out of the Blue

Jul 29, 2012, 16:00

nin

We'd kill for rain here, Blue.




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...

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