I’m not going to talk about the NFL this week – why report on an organization that’s hell-bent on being the architect of its own destruction.
It is my practice on Friday to give the office denizens a break from my Monday-Thursday playing of pretentious contemporary jazz and throw a 60’s dance party courtesy of Pandora. This week, they played “Groovin'” by the Young Rascals (they would later drop the “Young” from their band name, no doubt having reached the untrustworthy age of 30). In the song, one lyric always bugged me:
“Life would be ecstacy…you and me and Leslie.”
I always wondered where the hell LESLIE came from and that such an implied threesome was a bit risque for the 60’s. More importantly, why is a.m. radio promoting it? Of course, some years later, I realized the lyric was actually “you and me ENDLESSLY” …
Thanks to William Safire and his most excellent book “On Language” (I STILL have my copy), I would later learn (1) that I was not only the only one who heard these lyrics incorrectly, but (2) there was an actual name for such a thing – a Mondegreen. And there are hundreds of them. So let’s have some fun today. What ones do you recall? You may not use an example of anything from “Blinded by the Light.” The whole song is one long Mondegreen.
In the NFL, these people will be working today:
Vikings @ Browns
Raiders @ Bills
Colts @ Bengals
Chargers @ Patriots
Bears @ Saints
Falcons @ Jets
49rs @ Eagles
Panthers @ Bucs
Texans @ Seahawks
Cowboys @ Redskins (I STILL remember that Landry commercial…..)
Steelers @ Lions
Monday’s Game
Broncos @ Chiefs
These people will not be working today: Cardinals, Packers, Jaguars, Rams, Titans and Giants. Many will not care.
In the World Series, Game 5 of the tied up 2-2 is at 8:00 p.m. on Fox – at Dodger Stadium
In the NHL, three teams are up – check your local listings
Ducks @ Hurricanes
Penguins @ Jets
Capitals @ Flames
NASCAR is at short-track Martinsville this week, as the final four races to decide this year’s champion wind down the longest season in sports.
As per usual, it’s our Sunday OPEN thread, so feel free to yell FIRST! or go off topic right away.
Maybe Leslie is the dog.
“Louie Louie” by the Kingsmen. Everyone thought they kind of mumbled something like ‘fuck all night” but they didn’t actually. It was a well known ‘fact’ that you had to slow the record down to actually hear the obscenities. IIRC, the FBI actually got involved because people couldn’t have THAT playing on the radio.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
what kind of pervert names their dog Leslie? That’s gotta be an Afghan Hound with a perm
@ eaglesoars:
back home now
no surgery yet, that is still 3 weeks away
this weekend was the family reunion/trailride/hog cookin,moonshine drinkin,bluegrass playing way back in the woods shindig
and I’m glad the stupid protesters were shut down by the cops
I guess when they heard that there really were gonna be snipers on the roofs, it didn’t seen like that much fun
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/28/overwhelming-presence-of-tennessee-law-enforcement-ensures-peaceful-white-lives-matter-rally-in-murfreesboro/
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/10/28/white-lives-matter-rally-murfreesboro-tn-live-updates-shelbyville-tn-stream-video/804380001/
@ rain of lead:
hey how are you? did you have the surgery?
One of my favorite mondegreens is one I made up myself! It’s for “R.O.C.K. In The USA” by John Cougar Mellencamp.
The song was released at about the same time a certain pr0N star was actually mainstream. The mondegreen goes: “I love SEKA In The USA”…!
as to the topic:
http://kissthisguy.com/
best tweet of the day
Oh Cincinnati. You have Halloween figured out with all the fans dressed as empty seats.
Over at Politico Mag, there’s a long profile of John Boehner. I haven’t finished it yet, but I thought yinz would enjoy this bit
BOEHNER ON … WHETHER HE EVER SAW OBAMA SNEAK A CIGARETTE
“Oh no. No no no. He’s scared to death of his wife. Scared. To. Death.”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/29/john-boehner-trump-house-republican-party-retirement-profile-feature-215741
To the topic, “I grew up on Mexican Munchies” — Daft Punk “Get Lucky” song
“Rumor Has it” — I have no idea what I thought the words were “uber hazy” or something
morning y’all
a cool 31 deg here
the panther says he no like the cold weather
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/10/4chan-users-attempt-flaming-drone-attack-shia-lebeoufs-will-not-divide-us-flag-france-video/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-brewer-makes-a-play-for-marijuana-beverages-1509300002
https://legalinsurrection.com/tag/a-f-branco/
Here is the Manfort/Gates indictment. 31 pages, but skip to the end. All civil asset forfeiture for what looks like tax fraud charges (but haven’t finished reading)
https://www.justice.gov/file/1007271/download
@ eaglesoars:
Well, I can see how I’m spending my lunch hour today.
Fascinating the timing, don’t you think? Mueller/Comey suddenly are not only in the spotlight for their involvement in Uranium 1 and the Steele Dossier, and this WSJ editorial demanding Mueller resign, plus Grassley now calling for Special Counsel to investigate these matters (and Sessions isn’t RECUSED so can make his own appointment), this is looking quite a bit like a “Look!
Squirrel! moment).
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
What I’m not seeing – agreeing with, I guess – is the scenario that this is how Mueller flips Manafort to get to Trump. Manafort wasn’t with the campaign that long, if he had anything to do w/the Trump Jr mtg w/the Russian chick, so what, the Trumps didn’t take the bait. I don’t see how a connection can be made.
BUT. During the time period covered, there was a firm relationship with the Podesta group in place.
but what do I know….
@ eaglesoars:
I think Mueller realizes there is no “there” there vis-a-vis Manafort’s ability to implicate Trump as there is nothing to the Trump collusion allegations. This is just “make work” $$ for his buds. The Uranium 1 / Dossier stories forced his hand to actually come up with something because like Comey thinking that criticism of Trump would keep him from firing him, Mueller now believes that issuing an indictment is going to provide insurance against Trump’s firing him (Trump wouldn’t do it anyway at this point).
Also, there is a strong whiff in the air that that whole “hotel meeting” with Donald Jr. was a setup by Fusion GPS as they worked with that Russian lawyer chick in the past. I give these devious sh*ts credit – they look at things from the long haul to get the ducks in place if they need them.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
thank you. you’ve just allowed me to articulate something that’s been squirming around in my head and I just could not grab it.
Trump has frightened people far beyond any real threat to their world he actually carries – as far as we know
If, say, Cruz had got the nomination, would they have pulled this? No. So it’s NOT just that they got worried that all Hillary’s crimes would be exposed if she didn’t win. It’s that TRUMP won.
As for the idea put forward in the book Shattered, that trying to delegitimize Trump’s election by using the Russia lie was a decision made right after Hillary lost – that lie was already being constructed by the traps they tried to set before the campaign.
I just have the sense that the ordnance deployed against Trump seems comparable to taking an Abrams tank against a rabbit.
Unless it’s not a rabbit.
eaglesoars wrote:
before the election, during the campaign
@ eaglesoars:
Trump is a “Guy from Queens” – he talks like a Guy from Queens and he fights back like a Guy from Queens. Sure he drops his foot in his mouth a lot – people do this. They don’t have measured words and phrases written for them. And when they disparage Trump, they disparage the every man.
Fox should be ashamed of itself for allowing Tom Steyer’s ad to impeach Trump to air before the World Series. I hope they’re catching HELL for it this morning.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
I didn’t watch, but I’m glad they did. Most people couldn’t tell you who Steyer is and it’s a great way to get a lot of people introduced to him and his agenda. And also to take his money. Make him spend it all.
Ok, now we hear about this guy Papadopoulos for the first time. Indicted for lying. Former ‘foreign policy advisor’ to Trump campaign. Yeah, he wasn’t a big deal. He did convey that ‘Russians’ had reached out to him saying they would like to meet with Trump and Pap forwarded that info to the campaign. The info got forwarded up the chain of command until it hit THIS wall:
The government notes that the official forward PAPDOPOULOS’s email to another Campaign official (without including defendant PAPDOPOULOS)and stated: “Let[‘]s discuss. We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips. It should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal.”
Got that? Trump ain’t making any trips to meet Russians, if anybody does it will be a nobody.
https://twitter.com/davidaricjones/status/925026015839170563
Tony Podesta stepping down from Podesta group, will try to find link
Tony Podesta stepping down from lobbying giant amid Mueller probe
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/tony-podesta-stepping-down-from-lobbying-giant-amid-mueller-probe-244314
@ eaglesoars:
Weasel Zippers has the Plea Agreement: https://www.weaselzippers.us/362199-breaking-former-trump-advisor-george-papadopolous-pleads-guilty-to-lying-to-fbi/#disqus_thread
Smacks of the same BS they got Scooter Libby on. Never did anything wrong but lied to the FBI. It’s going to be the same here.
What is interesting is there do not appear to be any NAMES here regarding the people that Papadopolous met with. Why am I still highly suspicious of all this and smelling set up. I do not believe for a minute that the Russians wanted Trump elected, not with the Uranium 1 blackmail goods they had on Clinton.
eaglesoars wrote:
having read the entire article, I see that it’s not just Podesta stepping down, they’re dissolving the entire firm and reconstituting it as another entity. They say it’s been “in the works for months”, which I suspect means “As soon as we realized we fucked up”.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
Apparently, this guy wasn’t even on the payroll. why they bothered with him remains a mystery to me.
I have never believed that Putin wanted Clinton to win. She’s far too unstable and I’m pretty sure Putin sees that. All he needed to do is look at Libya. It’s no use taking advantage for all the opportunities for graft she presented if she ends up burning down the house.
oh man. The Podesta group took at least $200k to lobby on behalf of Uranium One.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/925054296340692993
Here is Andy McCarthy’s take on the Manafort/Gates indictment
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453244/manafort-indictment-no-signs-trump-russia-collusion
The Paul Manafort indictment is much ado about nothing . . . except as a vehicle to squeeze Manafort, which is special counsel Robert Mueller’s objective
the details are quite illuminating
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh hell yeah – didn’t another guy dissolve his company right after Hildebeest lost the election? Some green energy group or such? Wonder how much THEY gave to the Clinton Foundation thinking some sweet deals/contracts would be in the offing.
@ eaglesoars:
I would be very interested to read Andy’s take Papadopolous plea agreement. As much as he can be a self-aggrandizing blowhard from time to time, I am going to be extremely interested in Mark Levin’s take on the two indictments and the plea agreement.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
oh jeez, I’d forgotten that. I don’t remember the names involved but there was some connection with John Podesta, IIRC
And Papadopolous forgot the first rule of giving answers: Always preface with “TO THE BEST OF MY RECOLLECTION”
Netflix is canceling House of Cards after season 6
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
how much do you want to bet he had no legal rep when he talked to them? No lawyer would let a client make such a rookie mistake.
eaglesoars wrote:
Spacey should put together a “Bobby Darin Tribute Show” because the Dude’s career is DONE. And it’s a shame. Until he started opening his damn mouth on politics, he was one of my favorites.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
How many people do you think are involved in the production of that show? At least a hundred? Out of work. And the premier of the first Swinestain production since that story broke, some movie about Amityville grossed – GROSSED – just over $700.
I’d like to say I’ve NEVER seen an industry self-destruct like this, but then I hear the NFL say: Here, hold my beer…….
Lies. Doesn’t everyone lie? Doesn’t the FBI lie? I am not sure why it is such a big deal to lie to the FBI? or have them lie to you? And as we see people now think Trump lies where Trump things he is negotiating and bluffing. Is a bluff or an unrealistic request or observation also a lie?
Gotta hand it to Assange. 3D chess.
The ‘thousands of Clinton emails’ WikiLeaks published were not hacked but obtained from the U.S. State Department via the Freedom of Information Act on 3 March 2016.
https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/925092596116021248
And gotta hand it to Trump. On his orders, black ops went into Libya and grabbed Mustafa al Imam, for his part in the murder of Chris Stephens, et. al.
“Our memory is deep and our reach is long and we will not rest…”
https://twitter.com/Scavino45/status/925087738008952832
this is beyond horror
EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Spacey’s father was ‘Nazi child rapist’ who hated the Jews and sexually abused his own son for years – and their mother knew, claims actor’s brother
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5032809/Kevin-Spacey-s-father-Nazi-child-rapist-brother-says.html
That is one gawd-awful story
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/10/30/latino_victory_fund_ad_depicts_ed_gillespie_supporter_terrorizing_minority_children.html
@ Real Clear Politics
Dem Hispanic group puts out really disgusting ad against Ed Gillespie.
@ RIX:
Dems gotta do what dems gotta do
rain of lead wrote:
And they did.
eaglesoars wrote:
They actually gave that movie away for free on Google Play a few weeks back, before the Weistein news broke and before it’s theatrical release. Makes you wonder.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/22895/mlb-player-who-knelt-during-national-anthem-gets-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=102516-podcast&utm_campaign=beingconservative