Christmas Day Open Thread
by duck on Dec 25, 2010 6:00 AM EST
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PrintFor those who celebrate, Merry Christmas. For those who don't, have a great Saturday. 
And Happy Birthday to Andrew_G and my mom.
Remember, George: No man is a failure who has friends.
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My boring old girlfriend won't wake up to open presents...
so Merry Christmas to all of you while I sit and wait.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Good for her for fighting a world where the first person awake gets to dictate present opening time
I used to want to kill my little brother.
Yes my little bro used to drag my ass out of bed at the butt crack of dawn as well
"I guess if there wasn't any luck involved I'd win everytime." -Phil Hellmuth
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Dec 25, 2010 5:41 PM EST up reply actions
My favorite Christmas songs are
Christmas Wrapping
Mary Did You Know
Baby It’s Cold Outside (which isn’t a Christmas song but whatever)
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
Gotta go with
Carol of the Bells (especially Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s take)
And Oh, Santa from Veggietales.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
almost an oldie, almost forgotten
single-parent christmas by saffire
The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST
by the fix is in on Dec 25, 2010 11:00 AM EST up reply actions
I prefer Carol of the Meows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CQr5CC_28E&sns=em
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
VEGGIETALES!
I used to watch that with my Christian neighbors when I was little!
Where are my shoelaces?
Silly Songs With Larry
was worth the price of the tapes.
We are the Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything. We just stay at home and lie around. And if you ask us to do anything, we’ll just tell you – we don’t do anything.
Pure poetry. Do yourself a favor and Google who the company went into bankruptcy. Fascinating story.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
When I was little, I didn't get some of the blatant religious stuff.
It was more fun for me when I didn’t. It’s still sentimental, though, so I may buy some Veggietales tapes with my own money.
They’re so adorable. It’s a great idea.
Where are my shoelaces?
I love the French peas
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
They ARE adorable
I Can’t Believe It’s Christmas!
No video, but here’s about 15 seconds of the Peas doing Keep Walking from “Josh and the Big Wall.”
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
It's plain to see your brains are very small
Love that. I’m also a Junior Asparagus fan, obvi. Oh and Madame Blueberry.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
by Stacey on Dec 25, 2010 12:42 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
LOVE Junior Asparagus!
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Here's a listing
of most of the Silly Songs.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
I'll listen to them later.
I’m listening to an NPR Christmas special. They just had Dick van Dyke on. So awesome.
Where are my shoelaces?
I had a book of opposites with veggietales
When I was 4 I loved reading it. I always felt bad for the tomato (?) because he was “hot” and sweating and another veggie had a nice iced tea and was in the shade. I felt it needed to share the drink with the tomato.
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Dec 25, 2010 12:53 PM EST up reply actions
I'm a fan of the cheesy Christmas songs
Jingle Bells, White Christmas etc. etc.
Obviously, I’m into the heavily religious stuff.
Where are my shoelaces?
Favorite "new" Christmas songs ...
“Get Behind Me, Santa!” by Sufjan Stevens
“I Won’t Be Home for Christmas” by Blink-182
“2000 Miles” by The Pretenders
And Relient K does a great job with the “12 Days of Christmas”
What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big.
by mystery tramp on Dec 25, 2010 3:46 PM EST up reply actions
My number one, and it isn't even close...
Don’t Let the Bells End – The Darkness
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
A few fave Christmas links
Jack Bauer interrogates Santa Claus
Was George Bailey a sub-prime lender?
“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” No, and they don’t care. And shouldn’t have to.
And don’t get me started on "Thank God it’s them, instead of you". I‘m supposed to THANK God for someone else’s misery? Like, if they’re miserable, that means I’m not? Where’s the logic there? There’s only so much misery to go around, and if you have some, that’s less for me?
Some of my best work, I do believe.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Happy Christmas
We’re watching Star Wars.
My parents gave me this stuffed bacon last night.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
If you tell me that is > 4 feet long,
the gf might have to get used to my bed being a little more crowded. I want to be able to sleep with bacon.
Haha sadly it is not
It’s about 20" probably.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
We're watching an astrophysics lecture
No lie. We bought my daughter a 2 DVD set of lectures on astrophysics, and she’s enthralled. Hey, better than a Hannah Montana concert DVD…
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Bacon - It's What's For Breakfast
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
by duck on Dec 25, 2010 10:38 AM EST up reply actions 4 recs
I have a Pavlovian reaction to rec this
Now, Harold, he's a friendly guy. He rambles on and on. He'll talk the balls off a rhino-saurus.~Primus, Harold of the Rocks
by PBR me ASAP! on Dec 25, 2010 11:01 AM EST up reply actions
I hope they know what they're getting themselves into
it talks you know.
Get 'em.
by danielreese05 on Dec 25, 2010 11:05 AM EST up reply actions
He says, "I'm bacon."
And his mouth moves! He is brilliant.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
Ho-Ho-hi there from Christmassy upsate NY-- which ain't your average Moscow, and praise be for that.
But in fairness, I have to add that Moscow can have its virtues, even for Christmas. Let me explain.
I’ve seen my share of Sunday school Nativity plays, as you might imagine, and my sense of these commendable pageants is that their memorability is directly proportionate to the number your offspring appearing in them.
Or so I thought until Dec. 12, when the Sunday school of St. Andrew’s Moscow put on a remarkably clever, entertaining and yes, memorable Nativity play. It was a modernized-format version, treating the story as it would be covered today by the BBC (Bethlehem Broadcasting Corporation) – and I can’t say enough about its freshness and the wise use of 4-10 year olds (a phrase which itself speaks volumes about the producers).
Anyway, in the same vein of modernizing this great and timeless story, I pass along this one-click gem, which answers the eternal question: What if the Magi had been able to use Amazon…?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkHNNPM7pJA
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
Oh, and the answer to the other obvious question — Are you going to schlep back to Moscow almost the entire arsenal of Iron Man regalia (muscle suit, gloves, boots, coloring book etc.) for the GF’s super-hero obsessessed kid to get on Orthodox Christmas (Jan 7)? — I will simply respond Duh.
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
So, I'm off to Philadelphia and then New York.
I’ll be studying SAT vocab while listening to Jack Johnson on repeat on the ride up.
Where are my shoelaces?
That's not much of a Christmas spirit.
"One way to lower a flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way, though. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height." - Infinite Jest
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 25, 2010 11:15 AM EST up reply actions
For reals
Even I don’t feel compelled to curse on Christmas. My mommy is making pancakes and there is a fire roaring, what is there to get worked up about?
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
Now THIS is Christmas breakfast.....
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Santa's HR
2 straight hours of jr. clutching his new foam bat and ball to his chest. Success! Merry Xmas to all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vF3cRi8bkA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
"They're throwing bottles at your house...Come one, let's go break their arms." - Henry Fool
by Fahrenheit 451 on Dec 25, 2010 11:17 AM EST via mobile reply actions
What did everybody get for Christmas?
This question seems to be a yearly tradition here, and I’ll go first
- Vizio Blu-Ray player
- LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring Blu-Ray
- Darrell Green 1986 Mitchell and Ness throwback jersey
- Land’s End down vest
- gloves
"I'd like to do something. We all would here," he added. "As I've said before, you just don't want to do anything stupid that you're thinking in May, 'What in the God's green earth was I thinking about?'" - Andy MacPhail 12/8/09
I got my stuffed bacon
And a food processor and two cute Ravens shirts and an Orioles calendar. And some people in India got a water filtration system in my name and some other people in Asia got two pigs.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
That's pretty awesome.
My mom got a food processor and has been reading the instruction manual for the last hour
"I'd like to do something. We all would here," he added. "As I've said before, you just don't want to do anything stupid that you're thinking in May, 'What in the God's green earth was I thinking about?'" - Andy MacPhail 12/8/09
Orioles pet calendar?
I got that, an opening day 4 pack, a new bag for work now that I have to fucking commute to a fucking office every fucking day again (fuck!), a blue-ray player, and my parents are taking me and the mrs. to American Idiot tonight. Pretty pumped about it all.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I went to AI a couple of years ago
it’s kind of like the reunion tour right? where all the contestants (or the good ones at least) do a show? it was a lot of fun.
Get 'em.
by danielreese05 on Dec 25, 2010 2:46 PM EST up reply actions
Wait what?
American Idiot the broadway show is what I was talking about. It’s only existed this for about 8 months.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Its just an amusing music video
poking fun at American Idiot the musical. I dunno if you watched it, “openly mocks” is a bit harsh of a title.
nah this stupid work computer blocks almost all videos
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
wow
I read it as Ameircan Idol…my bad. American Idiot is the Green Day musical right?
Get 'em.
by danielreese05 on Dec 25, 2010 3:01 PM EST up reply actions
- Titans jersey
- Vols and Mizzou sweatshirts
- ski bag
- some cash
- new watch
- Juwan Howard throwback Bullets jersey
Get 'em.
by danielreese05 on Dec 25, 2010 11:42 AM EST up reply actions
oh
and two books
The Death of Crazy Horse & Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Get 'em.
by danielreese05 on Dec 25, 2010 11:47 AM EST up reply actions
Juwan Howard Bullets jersey? That's kind of random.
"One way to lower a flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way, though. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height." - Infinite Jest
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 25, 2010 11:58 AM EST up reply actions
that's the appeal
it’s awesome. Bullets jerseys by themselves; cool. Bullets jerseys of obscure players; cooler
Get 'em.
by danielreese05 on Dec 25, 2010 12:05 PM EST up reply actions
Is a Juwan Howard jersey some kind of hipster trend?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Dec 25, 2010 3:50 PM EST up reply actions
my explanation won't do it justice
this kind of hits the nail on the head.
just so there’s no confusion, I don’t like hipsters very much either.
Get 'em.
by danielreese05 on Dec 25, 2010 3:57 PM EST up reply actions
Book of Metallica photos
“Col. Roosevelt” by Edmund Morris. Been waiting 7 years or so for this book to come out!
Land’s End sweater
Keychain flashlight
Toy Story 3 on DVD
3 bags of cough drops
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Toy Story 3 is the saddest kids movie
that doesn’t involve a dog getting shot.
"I'd like to do something. We all would here," he added. "As I've said before, you just don't want to do anything stupid that you're thinking in May, 'What in the God's green earth was I thinking about?'" - Andy MacPhail 12/8/09
Or a Mom getting killed
“Bambi” was pretty intense
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
That, too.
"I'd like to do something. We all would here," he added. "As I've said before, you just don't want to do anything stupid that you're thinking in May, 'What in the God's green earth was I thinking about?'" - Andy MacPhail 12/8/09
Yeah, I watched that with a four-year-old about a month ago.
I was crying and she was completely fine. It was a bit embarrassing.
Where are my shoelaces?
watched The Fountain yesterday for the 2nd time
now that’s a movie that could make you cry. heck, the characters themselves are crying throughout half of it. not a kid’s movie, though.
I'm a sucker for Nicholas Sparks movies
At least one person has to die in every book/movie. They’re predictable, but they still get me.
Where are my shoelaces?
It's bittersweet.
The end brought me to tears but you could argue that it’s a happy ending.
Where are my shoelaces?
watched it last night
not as close to crying as I was in Up but it’s a tearjerker fo sho
cxcxcxcxzzzzzzzzz
A whole bunch of beer
I <3 my Aunt. Every year she makes me a huge bag of her garlicy oyster crackers and gives me a case-worth of random beers. Best gift a lush could ask for.
Also, a few books: The Walking Dead Compendium, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, The Wilderness Warrior (a book about Teddy Roosevelt’s environmental legacy), Crash of the Titans (about Merrill Lynch and Bank of America during the financial crisis)
And a new entertainment center.
Now, Harold, he's a friendly guy. He rambles on and on. He'll talk the balls off a rhino-saurus.~Primus, Harold of the Rocks
by PBR me ASAP! on Dec 25, 2010 3:14 PM EST up reply actions
I got....
1. Framed family crest with a description of what part of England my family’s from, history, etc. (not really into my lineage but this was an unusually cool idea from my mom)
2. Bottle of Jameson Gold
3. A ton of clothes from Express, which my brother and his gf have decided is the new awesomeness and have practically revamped my wardrobe with in the past two months between bday and xmas
"I guess if there wasn't any luck involved I'd win everytime." -Phil Hellmuth
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Dec 25, 2010 5:46 PM EST up reply actions
I received a sweater vest from my parents.
I’ll be working on my Andy MacPhail impression from here on out. If somebody gives me $4.5 million I can sign Garrett Atkins.
"One way to lower a flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way, though. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height." - Infinite Jest
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 25, 2010 7:19 PM EST up reply actions
it's a shame the Pirates beat you to him
I hear he has serious comeback player of the year potential.
Get 'em.
by danielreese05 on Dec 25, 2010 7:43 PM EST up reply actions
A sweater vest sounds like the clothing equivalent of a lump of coal
"I guess if there wasn't any luck involved I'd win everytime." -Phil Hellmuth
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Dec 25, 2010 7:50 PM EST up reply actions
I don't think it looks awful.
But my lack of fashion sense is well-documented on CC.
"One way to lower a flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way, though. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height." - Infinite Jest
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 25, 2010 8:03 PM EST up reply actions
Jim Tressel COMMANDS respect in that sweater vest
But he may be looking for work as of today due to these suspensions. Maybe that’s why the Terps haven’t offered Mike Leach a job yet??? This fridge firing couldn’t have come at a better time.
"I guess if there wasn't any luck involved I'd win everytime." -Phil Hellmuth
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Dec 25, 2010 8:12 PM EST up reply actions
If Tressel ends going to Maryland
I will personally write his paycheck for the first year.
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Dec 25, 2010 8:16 PM EST up reply actions
That's a pretty serious trust fund.
"One way to lower a flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way, though. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height." - Infinite Jest
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 25, 2010 8:20 PM EST up reply actions
why would he ever leave OSU?
look at the teams he plays without those 5 players. the only one they should have any trouble at all with is Michigan State. they’ll still win the Big 10 easily.
Get 'em.
by danielreese05 on Dec 25, 2010 9:44 PM EST up reply actions
That's my point
I’m saying there’s no chance, so I’ll make a ridiculous statement like that.
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Dec 25, 2010 10:05 PM EST up reply actions
in that case
more power to you
Get 'em.
by danielreese05 on Dec 25, 2010 10:12 PM EST up reply actions
Google and Yahoo buzzing with Tressel rumors
Cmon man we’re Orioles fans. There’s nothing better than speculating about what could be.
"I guess if there wasn't any luck involved I'd win everytime." -Phil Hellmuth
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Dec 25, 2010 8:24 PM EST up reply actions
I love a good sweater vest.
Nothing wrong with it.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
It's a new look for me. Mostly because I don't think I ever had a look before.
Although I think I confused my grandmother… she was calling me the wrong name all night. For my entire life she generally tries to refer to me by my dad’s name, but tonight she was calling me by other cousins’ names.
"One way to lower a flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way, though. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height." - Infinite Jest
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 25, 2010 8:31 PM EST up reply actions
I also literally got about 50,000 calories worth of chocolate and candy
no joke. I got so much candy that it’s sickening. I actually sneaked a bunch of it into a gift for my GF’s cousin that we’re giving him tomorrow. His parents will be thrilled, I’m sure.
let's see...
some books, some movies, some more books, some pants, some candy, some cookies, and a rifle.
So I have a question for all you Christians:
What does the traditional Christmas meal for you entail? I’ve always wondered.
Where are my shoelaces?
Our big Christmas dinner is on Christmas Eve
We usually have lasagna but my mom didn’t get a chance to make her lasagnas this year so instead I made baked ziti.
On Christmas morning we have a nice breakfast and then go our separate ways to visit other parts of the family and my parents take their annual Christmas nap.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
Sounds good, too.
For some reason in my mind I always thought a traditional Christmas fare was goose. I don’t know why.
Where are my shoelaces?
Turkey, ham, dumplings
mashed potatoes, lima beans, mac and cheese with the bread crumb top, cranberry sauce from the can, biscuits, corn. Iced tea when we’re at my parents’ house.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Sounds almost like Thanksgiving
Except for the ham. I’ve never been a fan of lima beans. My mom likes them.
This year at Thanksgiving my dad made homemade cranberry sauce. It was amazing. And two nights ago I made mac and cheese.
Hah, sounds nice. Who cooks in your family?
Where are my shoelaces?
Usually my mom
and my sister and I make the dumplings,. This year, it’s just us, so I’m going to teach my kids. Should be a blast. Or a disaster. Or both.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Flour dumplings
that will cook in the turkey juice.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
to me that makes it sound like you ate a vegetarian. which is the opposite of what it’s supposed to mean. i think.
it's a parallel failure
chicken and beef are what’s in the first two, but the third one does not have vegetarians in it (presumably). it’s for vegetarians. it’d be like calling the first two carnivore dumplings.
This year at our house...
Pime rib
Crab imperial
Broccoli + cheese casserole
Baked corn
Garlic mashed potatoes
Homemade rolls
Roasted asparagus
"I'd like to do something. We all would here," he added. "As I've said before, you just don't want to do anything stupid that you're thinking in May, 'What in the God's green earth was I thinking about?'" - Andy MacPhail 12/8/09
They are.
I got into them not too long after breakfast.
"I'd like to do something. We all would here," he added. "As I've said before, you just don't want to do anything stupid that you're thinking in May, 'What in the God's green earth was I thinking about?'" - Andy MacPhail 12/8/09
we had seafood
I didn’t really get how it was Christmas-ey but it was tasty.
Get 'em.
by danielreese05 on Dec 25, 2010 11:43 AM EST up reply actions
When I was a lot younger, we used to just have lunch at my grandparents'.
And that was like… lunchmeat, crackers and cheese (no cheese for me).
Last few years it’s been a big dinner at my parents’ house, with a big beef brisket and ham (we dropped turkey this year), one of those nasty kinds of potatoes that’s made with cheese, green beans, dinner rolls and for dessert my sister’s coconut cake. Probably a couple of things I’m forgetting. My favorite’s the ham, which is probably the only area of my life where I lose honorary Jew points.
"One way to lower a flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way, though. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height." - Infinite Jest
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 25, 2010 12:04 PM EST up reply actions
I'll welcome you to the tribe anyway.
Nobody’s perfect.
Oh and the first lunch you described, that’s typical Saturday after-synagogue lunch for me. So there you go, you’re back in.
Where are my shoelaces?
People randomly assume I'm Jewish and they always have.
I guess I have enough of the look. Jewish kids would tell me Happy Hanukkah in school. When I was in high school, I was around a Jewish friend of mine and I saw a penny on the sidewalk and stopped to pick it up. He then exclaimed, “This is why everyone thinks you’re Jewish!”
In the same vein, I made friends with a Jewish girl when I was in college and there were a few occasions where we were in proximity while ordering food at a deli. A couple of years ago she asked me what I was doing on (Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashanah, I forget which), and I informed her that I’m not actually Jewish. “But you always ordered pastrami on rye!”
"One way to lower a flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way, though. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height." - Infinite Jest
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 25, 2010 12:20 PM EST up reply actions
And you've got a jewfro if my memory serves me correct.
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Dec 25, 2010 12:49 PM EST up reply actions
You haven't even seen it in all its glory.
When I was 16-17 I didn’t cut it for a full year. My 12th grade yearbook will have some funny photos for my kids to look through, if I ever have kids.
"One way to lower a flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way, though. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height." - Infinite Jest
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 25, 2010 7:20 PM EST up reply actions
Christmas Eve
is just immediate family and we usually grill up a tenderloin and open presents after church in the afternoon.
Christmas morning is relaxed and we have a bacon egg casserole awesomeness. Christmas dinner is at my grandparents’ where this year there will be 59 of us packed into the little house.
cxcxcxcxzzzzzzzzz
On Christmas day or Christmas Eve?
My mom’s a minister so we usually do takeout around the service on Christmas Eve (Thai has been the tradition the last few years) and then do something more involved on Christmas day.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Hey, another PK
My mom is a Lutheran pastor. She used to be United Methodist, but went to Lutheran Seminary and then was actually a United Methodist pastor for a while before going full-on ELCA Lutheran.
no tradition
but this year, my step-sister-in-law (that’s a mouthful) made smoked turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and rolls. it was pretty much thanksgiving redux, i guess.
Hey! It's snowing up here in Delaware.
Hopefully it continues straight through Monday so I can get off work.
Now, Harold, he's a friendly guy. He rambles on and on. He'll talk the balls off a rhino-saurus.~Primus, Harold of the Rocks
The Weather Channel is showing that it isn't supposed to really get going until tomorrow.
But Monday has the potential to see significant nor’easter event.
Now, Harold, he's a friendly guy. He rambles on and on. He'll talk the balls off a rhino-saurus.~Primus, Harold of the Rocks
by PBR me ASAP! on Dec 25, 2010 11:36 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah, well, we're supposed to drive back to Maryland on Tuesday.
We’ll see. At least I’m on break so I won’t miss school…although, I guess that could be a good thing.
Where are my shoelaces?
it's from It's a Wonderful Life
and you have to say in Mr. Potter’s voice to make it awesome.
Spewing negativity.
Awesome
I just started playing Fifa 11 and the default manager name is “Mr. Manager”
“Wow. I’m Mr. Manager.”
’Well, manager; we just say "manager."
I hate that
and I always screw it up too
Get 'em.
by danielreese05 on Dec 25, 2010 12:24 PM EST up reply actions
I'd want to play you online sometime
Even though I know you’d kill me. What is your PSN again?
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Dec 25, 2010 12:56 PM EST up reply actions
Free DVD ripper and converter for 2 more days
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-20026495-58.html?tag=mncol;title
If you need that sort of thing. Requires a Facebook account.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Thanks!
Now, Harold, he's a friendly guy. He rambles on and on. He'll talk the balls off a rhino-saurus.~Primus, Harold of the Rocks
by PBR me ASAP! on Dec 25, 2010 12:23 PM EST up reply actions
That's awesome. Even more awesome is the Windows Holiday Bundle
$220 worth of stuff for $19, 40% of which goes to Charity Water.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-20026134-58.html?tag=mncol;txt
And today only if you buy one at $19, you can send THREE as gifts to someone else.
Duck, I’m sending you one because I wouldn’t know about if if not for you. Merry Christmas!
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
Why thank you!
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Welcome!
FYI the email they sent me for the downloads went into my spam folder for some reason, so if you don’t see it, check there.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
Got it
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
It's telling me I need to spend the $19, too
Hmm….
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
It is?
That’s not supposed to happen.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
I think I got it
although GMail really doesn’t like these guys.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
I may not end up using many of them either
But it’s a good cause and I’m feeling all full of cheer today.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
Now I have to shop for you.... :(
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
I prefer cash, thanks.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
Plants vs Zombies
sooooooooooo much fun.
Get 'em.
by danielreese05 on Dec 25, 2010 2:53 PM EST up reply actions
Wait, Ralphie steps on his glasses and doesn't shoot his eye out?
I’ve never actually seen “A Christmas Story” until today.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
coming out of off-season lurking mode to share my favorite version of do they know it's christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7nNo1la884
Great for fans of stand-up comedy
Merry Christmas everybody
"Girls laughed at me my whole life, doesn't mean I was funny"
-Gary Thorne
Merry Christmas fellas'
Nearly burned the house down and have a virus on my computer. Other than that, pretty solid day.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
I've got a netbook with nasty malware
and discovered my son’s computer’s DVD drive doesn’t work. Hell of a day so far,
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Yea...got one of those damn fake hard drive scanner things
Can’t seem to get rid of it.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Dec 25, 2010 5:10 PM EST up reply actions
MalWare Bytes about 2 times
And trying HitMan Pro
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
MalwareBytes has failed for me
I’ll try hitman pro
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Dec 25, 2010 6:18 PM EST up reply actions
Did you use RKill first?
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
No, I didn't
But HitMan found several traces of malware that the other scans didn’t find. I’m going to try RKill too, although I hesistate to remove anything without asking somebody who knows since I don’t know if these things alter the registry.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Dec 25, 2010 6:30 PM EST up reply actions
Here ya go
Boot in safe mode with networking
Run Rkill from your desktop
Then run MWB
Reboot in regular mode
Run Rkill
Run MWB again
Reboot
Try HitMan Pro
That should do it.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Does this work for the fake-o hard drive things?
From what I’ve read, they can get messy with registry entries and whatnot, so you might not fully remove them even though you’ve eliminated the main infection.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Dec 25, 2010 11:16 PM EST up reply actions
i've had to run several avast scans with the computer shutdown
but seem to have gotten rid of it. crosses fingers
Merry Xmas/Saturday, O's fans!
What did people do on Christmas day before they started airing Star Wars Trilogy marathons on TV? I can’t imagine.
"If you’re not in with the Orioles, then you can ply your trade somewhere else." - Buck Showalter
Switched between "A Christmas Story" on TBS and "Scrooged" on AMC
That’s what I did today.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
I downloaded "Scrooged" yesterday.
a quality holiday film, for sure.
"If you’re not in with the Orioles, then you can ply your trade somewhere else." - Buck Showalter
Bobcat Goldwaith makes that movie
There’s a sentence you don’t get to type too many times in life.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
it really says something that he's almost the straight man in that movie
"If you’re not in with the Orioles, then you can ply your trade somewhere else." - Buck Showalter
I have not
Guess I’d better put it on the Netflix queue
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
It's the Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies!
To be understood is to be a prostitute. ~ Fernando Pessoa
Snowing in Salisbury
Pretty!
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
snowed in Towson this morning -
it was perfect, pretty but didn’t stick.
"If you’re not in with the Orioles, then you can ply your trade somewhere else." - Buck Showalter
That's pretty much what we had at sundown
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Word
No wind, not that cold. We got out and threw the football around a little. Good snow.
"I guess if there wasn't any luck involved I'd win everytime." -Phil Hellmuth
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Dec 25, 2010 5:57 PM EST up reply actions
How would one manually allow a MAC address to join a WEP network?
My mom got a Color Nook and they don’t play well with WEP security.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
I have NO IDEA how to do that
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Honestly, i don't either
I just know my old roommates router allowed him to set it up to only recognize certain mac addresses, so its possible.
We had so many problems with this that we had to get an Apple router
Good luck
"I guess if there wasn't any luck involved I'd win everytime." -Phil Hellmuth
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Dec 25, 2010 8:15 PM EST up reply actions
Soon as I win the lottery, sure
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
boys are stupid
I just thought I’d throw that out there.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
Only when it comes to like, girls' feelings and stuff
"I guess if there wasn't any luck involved I'd win everytime." -Phil Hellmuth
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Dec 25, 2010 10:01 PM EST up reply actions
What did he do/not do now?
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Oh, and girls are weird
You forgot that half of the equation.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
I don't think I'm being weird at all in this situation
Anyway it was stupid of me to even bring it up because I’m not gonna talk about it here. I blame the bottle of wine.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
Not in this specific case
The “Boys are stupid/Girls are weird” school of thought is more of a general philosophy.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
And hey, I'm not the only one drinking wine!
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Isn't it a Christmas tradition for everyone to drink a bottle of wine and argue?
or is that just my family…
Aside from computers
my day has been pretty stress free
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
we were fine
until my grandmother regifted a candle from my aunt to my mother, all of which who were over the house. then there were fireworks.
See, I just avoided all my relatives today
except my parents for 10 minutes
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Haha
That’s why we pretty much only buy gifts for the toddlers and then watch them struggle to remove the ribbons for hours on end
"I guess if there wasn't any luck involved I'd win everytime." -Phil Hellmuth
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Dec 25, 2010 11:15 PM EST up reply actions
Heh. No one cares about regifting in my family.
"One way to lower a flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way, though. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height." - Infinite Jest
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 25, 2010 11:46 PM EST up reply actions
Although, that said, my grandmother basically stopped giving a shit about manners when my grandfather died.
Some of the stuff that comes out of her mouth lately is getting pretty out there.
"One way to lower a flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way, though. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height." - Infinite Jest
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 25, 2010 11:48 PM EST up reply actions
No haha
We’ve been drinkng wine/beer/cocktails all day…..starting from mimosas in the early morning while opening gifts and such. It just hasn’t ended (just finishing my last swig of beer now)
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Dec 25, 2010 11:18 PM EST up reply actions
White Zin myself
although watching Inception with one of my kids, so keeping the intake reasonable.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
I'm drinking pinot noir
But this bottle is empty so when my glass is I gotta switch to something else. I think maybe the cabernet I have, it’s the only red left in the house.
And I’m watching Salt, which appears to be a terrible Angelina Jolie movie. And I’m all by myself, which is part of the problem.
You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990
The puzzle is starting to piece itself together.....
He’s just a boy. He just doesn’t know. He still needs training,
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
This.
Otherwise, I’d probably be an alcoholic…drinking on my own and such
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Dec 25, 2010 11:35 PM EST up reply actions
One of my rules to live by.
"One way to lower a flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way, though. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height." - Infinite Jest
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 25, 2010 11:47 PM EST up reply actions
Watched "Inception" again today
Just an awesome, awesome movie.
"It has nothing to do with corruption. It's sheer, complete, total incompetence." - Joe Rogan
Yea...I kinda like that song.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Dec 26, 2010 12:21 AM EST up reply actions
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