Happy New Years Yinz!
I get to be off the next couple o’ days so it will be college football, food, a few adult beverages, and much school work.
I’m 62/107 overall $2050/$1000…so I don’t ned to make any crazy bets to break even. Might bet just one game, the LSU v UCF event.
So, in the background of my days will be the following:
Stanford at Pittsburgh – Hyundai Sun Bowl – Mon, Dec 31, 2:00 PM ET – The Tree are a 4 point favorite. I like to think that my Beloved Panthers can cover. But I’m not betting any money on it.
#22 Northwestern at #17 Utah – San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl – Mon, Dec 31, 7:00 PM ET – The Cats are a 7 point dog at Da ‘Utes. The Cats can cover, and even win outright if they show up.
#18 Mississippi State at Iowa – Outback Bowl – Tue, Jan 1, 12:00 PM ET – The Bulldogs are a 7 point favorite, Iowa covers.
#11 LSU at #8 UCF – Playstation Fiesta Bowl – Tue, Jan 1, 1:00 PM ET – It’s a pick ’em and I pick the Tigers to put this second level UCF team in it’s place. I’ll put $100 on that.
#14 Kentucky at #12 Penn State – Vrbo Citrus Bowl – Tue, Jan 1, 1:00 PM ET – K is a 6.5 point dog, PSU Covers.
#9 Washington at #6 Ohio State – Rose Bowl Game Presented By Northwestern Mutual – Tue, Jan 1, 5:00 PM ET – THE GRAND-DADDY OF THEM ALL. The Rose Bowl. The Big 10 and the Pac-12 take this game VERY SERIOUSLY. As they should. Washington is getting 7, the Buckeyes cover.
#15 Texas at #5 Georgia – Allstate Sugar Bowl – Tue, Jan 1, 8:45 PM ET – Texas is getting 13 and G does not cover.
Happy New year. Some good bowls this year , but a huge gulf between the big dogs, Bama & Clemson.
It annoys me to death, but it is a fact.
How to close the gap? Is it 1. Recruiting, 2. Coaching 3. Both.
I vote number 3.
If it was just weather, USC would be a monster
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/heres-the-list-the-five-most-insane-unhinged-and-dangerous-liberal-actions-of-2018/
OT, but interesting. A ranking of the five nuttiest things done by the left this year.
I can think of at least five more worthy contenders.
Raise your hand if you saw this coming:
@ lobo91:
oh please! yes! run!
@ lobo91:
“Warren will be one of the more impressive … Democratic candidates come 2020 — with a better stump speech than Joe Biden,
A BETTER STUMP SPEECH THAN JOE BIDEN??!! “You wanna see the puppies in my van?” is now the standard for a stump speech??
https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1079763573642010629
@ eaglesoars:
i cant wait!
In case you missed it: Dana Loesch at CPAC rips the MSM
Isaac Asimov’s Predictions for 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_4xkkIKW2c
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/trump-issues-fewest-regulations-ever-record-low-unconstitutionality-index
my panthers are up by 3 at the half.
Best laugh I have had for a long time.
Went to my local little Walmart, not one of the big superstore ones but the just grocery places.
Stood in line for a checkout that a very nice lady I have known for years was operating. When it was my turn and she looked up she was genuinely pleased to see me but I could tell she was not having a good day. I am like that, I have this strange and very unwanted ability to feel other peoples emotions.
I said to her “are you OK”
She replied “I am having a bad day”
Well…. then I made her laugh, in fact as I am typing this I am laughing again.
I said “You may be having a bad day, but what about the man in front of me you just served. Nine bags of peanuts and five big bags of lifesaver candy, and two jars of hemorrhoid cream”
I was then laughing so much I forgot the twelve thingies of peach yogurt he bought.
LOL that was all he bought, peanuts, candy, yogurt and hemorrhoid cream.
It made my day having a laugh with someone, and I hope it cheered her up.
As to the man and his jars of medical stuff and all those peanuts, happy new year!
A nice opening of the New Year. We’re going to fly by something called Ultima Thule – strange name – the farthest object we’ve ever explored, about 4 billion light years. ETA 12:33 am Tues morn Jan 1 (I’m assuming all times given are EST, the article doesn’t say). NASA is going to live stream. Here’s the info
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6542639/NASA-team-makes-final-preparations-historic-flyby-farthest-object-visited.html
@ eaglesoars:
Oh, and Brain May has written a guitar anthem for the event. Who knew he’s also an astrophysics guy?
LOL 2019 is not going to be a good year.
Cannot find my phone.
It is also my alarm clock.
Going to need it on 2nd January 2019 to wake me up at 7am so I can get to work.
If I do not get to work on time I will lose my job.
LOL, I don’t give a flying fuck! Phone can stay lost….
Note to my friends. DO NOT CALL ME to help me find it. 🙂
@ eaglesoars:
[raises paw]
@ lobo91:
Who’s a good boy?!
Queen guitarist Brian May talks about building The Red Special guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS6bPFoCIkc
@ rain of lead:
he built it by hand because he didn’t have the money to buy one
After retirement The Red Special should by hung next to the Mona Lisa.
rain of lead wrote:
Necessity is still the Mother of Invention. {{rain}}
eaglesoars wrote:
You mean… Dr Brian May, the Astronomer?
https://www.space.com/5692-queen-guitarist-publishes-astrophysics-thesis.html
Some of us old Rock Star’s aint exactly as dumb as most folks think…
@ doriangrey:
I understand Eddie Van Halen is also an inventor
Happy New Year to the blog that always punches above its weight!
It has had a remarkable track record of being able to sort the wheat from the chaff all these years. A toast to yinzes and to absent friends who pass through here.
I sincerely think that 2019 will be rocky because we have mostly bad leadership in the world. People are fighty, frighty, and flighty.(I speak a form of Engrish) “Free speech” is very expensive because you can be sued for it. Or worse, you can become a pariah. We are all going to adapt to accelerated changes. I intend to whine. You have been warned. 🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
And then there’s Tom Scholz…
yenta-fada wrote:
huzzah!
New Year’s Eve in Hong Kong.
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1079770418096017408
lobo91 wrote:
who?
lobo91 wrote:
Ah yes, Dr Tom Scholz, PhD in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. The man who invented Digital Audio Recording.
eaglesoars wrote:
Just some crazy old keyboard player…
eaglesoars wrote:
… as was Zeppo Marx. He invented the Marman band, a band clamp used in aerospace applications: http://www.marx-brothers.org/biography/zeppo/inventions.htm
@ AZfederalist:
Hedy Lamarr. Something with radio signals, can’t remember exactly what. Switching frequencies according to a one-time code to encrypt them, I think.
@ AZfederalist:
and cardiac monitors?
nice.
@ eaglesoars:
Perhaps you’ve heard his work:
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/12/31/some-party-pooper-made-us-strategic-command-delete-its-awesome-new-years-tweet-video/
@ Twitchy
This is pretty interesting. But the most interesting part to me is their reference to Charles and LGF.
the missouri v oklahoma state game was some serious smash mouth old school football.
@ RIX:
@ AZfederalist:
It was used, for example, to support the atomic bombs carried on the Enola Gay.
YIKES!
lobo91 wrote:
sheesh. I feel so – worthless.
RIX wrote:
That’s some very cool video/sound effects Charles grabbed. Good to see he’s sometimes useful.
@ lobo91:
Yup, and Charlie is still around. Bet that it is really weird over there now.
eaglesoars wrote:
He has his moments.
eaglesoars wrote:
🙂
RIX wrote:
We were just talking about him the other night at WZ. Actually, we were talking about his little minion, Kilgore Trout, and the way he used to go to other sites in the middle of the night and post offensive comments so he could take screenshots of them and claim that they allowed it.
Everyone knows the name “Enola Gay” but nobody remembers “Bockscar”. Sad….
Same as everyone knows about the “Mayflower”, but nobody remembers the little ship “Speedwell”
I do, I appreciate all members of the team.
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah Kilgore was Charlie’s special agent for a while. I recall that he went over to Breitbart? And posted really racist stuff in the dead of night. There were no Admins around so he claimed that they were ok with it because it took so long to take them down. Then those two had a falling out. If I recall Charlie got too nuts for Kilgore.
lobo91 wrote:
he showed up in my twitter feed the other nite for some reason. Saying something stupid and snide.
In other news: Don’t Use Underwear Sales As An Economic Indictor, China Warns
Ok, if you say so. (This is apparently Greenspan’s fault)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-30/chinese-media-dumps-underwear-recovery-narrative
As an aside about 8 or 9 years ago when I was really into the LGF shit my Possumy senses sensed that Kilgore Trout was of the feminine gender.
In 2010 I had my shit together and was good at things. Now I can’t even put my pants on the correct way in the morning.
I have the 2010 and 2011 shit archived somewhere, I really had a strong feeling Kilgore was a female.
Maybe I was wrong then and are wrong now, but Kilgore showed many feminine traits. Artistic, creative, musical instrument repair, greenhouse, growing kale and many other things.
The kilgore trout “felt” like a female Internet person to me.
I tend to be able to “feel” Internet people when I try…
@ Possum:
Or it lives in mom’s basement and all that was a lie
TA DA!!
Happy New Year
and God Bless us every one…………
@ eaglesoars:
indeed.
eaglesoars wrote:
Spread spectrum radio communication
LOL here in Houston they are all out of fireworks.
Now they are firing guns into the air.
This place is a fucking zoo.
@ lobo91:
I smell last minute tax deductions.
@ doriangrey:
Saw that. Asimov predicted the obvious, missed the nebulous.
@ doriangrey:
So how “dumb” are they on a scale of 1 to whatever.
@ Possum:
Bockscar, no. Speedwell, yes.
Happy Belated New Year Everyone!!
Bunk X wrote:
Bockscar was the name of the plane that dropped the second atomic bomb.
On Nagasaki
happy new year y’all
Happy New Year to all. May 2019 bring more liberty and a better understanding of what makes America great.
Bunk X wrote:
Depends on how dumb you think we are… Now, don’t get me wrong here, some of us really are way dumber than you could possibly imagine. Just not all of us.
Possum wrote:
Hmmm, I always thought it was called Boxcar…
@ doriangrey:
Some days…really dumb!
Oliva Series O and a nice cappuccino.
It is a happy new year.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/01/01/tolerance-snl-alums-cnn-new-years-resolution-is-to-make-sure-the-republican-party-dies-video/
@ Twitchy
Happy New Year. When good cone heads go bad.
@ RIX:
That show was amazingly funny…back when they had talent
The girls are doing some cytology with drawings with their new microscope.
SCIENCE!!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
It was great back in Teheran day. Now the writers and cast are way under par.
I think that the demise started when Tina Fey got some creative control.
@ RIX:
THE day
doriangrey wrote:
No, I believe it was Bockscar that dropped Fat Man
I’m so glad I don’t have to teach English as a 2nd language. It sucks as a first.
RIX wrote:
Checked the comments over there; they got the obvious and obligatory Dan Ackroyd retort in several places.
RIX wrote:
when Chevy Chase left. Tina Fey was still in diapers I think.
@ doriangrey:
Nope:
this movie is getting hella coverage on the rose parade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_(2019_film)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/why_was_a_muslim_doctor_who_vowed_to_poison_jewish_patients_working_at_the_famed_cleveland_clinic.html
why indeed?
rain of lead wrote:
Ummm, because Diversity is our greatest strength?
rain of lead wrote:
I haven’t seen the previous movies but the cast sounds great
We watched a Netflix movie the other nite, Box w/Sandra Bullock. The premise doesn’t sound particularly believable but it was a REALLY good movie, recommended.
eaglesoars wrote:
sounds right, but they had some decent years in between.
@ rain of lead:
Disgusting.
So I just stumbled on this thing where folks were sayin how much they hated Gretta Van Fleet…
What a bunch of jack asses. Gretta is a damned fine band…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86_vnQc1oBE
@ doriangrey:
i play them VERY VERY loud…my dad even likes them!
lsu v ucf
idiot threw a punch into a guys facemask, broke his hand and got ejected.
moron.
i learned much when playing rugby. especially that when cheap-shotted, don’t retaliate immediately. we were playing the french and every time i threw the ball out of the scrum, their scrumhalf would tackle me and throw a punch. i let my team captain know who then informed the ref. the ref was brit, they hated us because we beat them a lot. so he did nothing.
this continued, ok…then, late in the game their scrum half got pinned under the pile. i stomped hard on his face with my metal cleats.
payback is a bitch.
Allegheny County Police are continuing their investigaton into the death of a New Jersey man whose body was pulled from the Ohio River near Emsworth on Monday morning.
Drew Camoosa, 48, of Little Egg Harbor Township, was discovered in the river, according to the medical examiner’s office. Police said in a news release that Ohio Township police and paramedics responded to the Emsworth Locks and Dams around 10:30 a.m. and found a man floating face down in the river.
Camoosa was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
An investigation is ongoing.
well…someone was sleeping with da fishes.
more rain than seattle.
https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/14458328-74/rainfall-record-set-for-region
i need some booze.
coldwarrior wrote:
We set a new record this year – by over 2 feet. I’m growing barnacles between my toes
@ eaglesoars:
i’m just happy it isnt as frigid as it was last year
rain of lead wrote:
the question is – where did she go? You don’t want that one anywhere near patients. Altho – and CW will correct me if things have changed – nurses know who the fuck ups are and eventually this stuff gets taken care of. Usually. Which, I guess, begs the question of how she got as far as she did
My BFF is retiring from nursing this summer. She started a camp for burn kids, I think she’s going to focus on that.
coldwarrior wrote:
It doesn’t get ugly here until Feb. I remember maybe 3 Christmases w/snow
eaglesoars wrote:
we can get doctors removed. we have our ways.
Happy new Year! here hoping rains cornbread comes out! have a blessed happy , healthy,prosperous year!
@ momcat:
Well hello! Happy New year to you too! LOOOOVE the hat!
@ eaglesoars:
I have spring and summer thoughts to get through this wet cold winter.
the rose bowl, the Grand-Daddy of them all.
i have to root for Ohio State. as much as that pains me. Its a big 10 thing.
I miss hearing Keith Jackson call that game…watching that game with grampy…Pasadena does it right.
this is why college ball is so wonderful
@ coldwarrior:
damn, run run run
BUCKEYE!
nice!!
@ rain of lead:
Indeed
This day is when I miss my granddad. He’s been gone more than 20 years. On new years day…football at his house. The CSM in his chair.
And endless great food from grammie.
And .25 cent bets….
@ coldwarrior:
I miss my best fried who passed a few years ago
for years, on new years day all day football and beer
geez that is such a tiny little football field
ohio is beating Washington like they owe them money
@ rain of lead:
The games.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/major-cringe-elizabeth-warren-live-streams-from-her-kitchen-robotically-drinks-a-beer-video/
@ Gateway Pundit
you have to see this. Lizzie Warren is just a regular gal, hangin in the kitchen, chuggin a beer. Riiiiight.
the refs want W to win
@ RIX:
I think AOC has changed the game
dayum
never seen a punter fuck up like that
This is gonna be lit
Congresswoman Hopes Reparations Bill is Path to ‘Repair Some of the Damage’ Caused by Slavery
Sheila Jackson Lee (big surprise) wants people who have never been slaves to take money from people who have never owned them.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/congresswoman-hopes-reparations-bill-is-path-to-repair-some-of-the-damage-caused-by-slavery/?fbclid=IwAR3Xq6JH3k-kZJW6BwbeHG07WrRIBBs8iKRttRQWmqpSwBmYJCsj4BvfC7A
because.
@ eaglesoars:
My peeps are molly McGuire
Bring it
@ eaglesoars:
It’ll never end.
@ coldwarrior:
Mine are McCoys
coldwarrior wrote:
I agree.
Playing club rugby we were playing a team from west Sydney who were renowned for dirty play. There was a guy called ‘punch’. He was playing at #8 and involved in every bit of ‘biffo’. Like you we told the coach who told us to forget the score and the outcome of the game. The team task was to ‘get Poncho’ and remove him for the rest of the season. He got pinned under a heap of forwards and our fly half used his exposed arm as place kicking practice. Broke the tibia. Poncho was stretchered off and although we lost that match we never saw Poncho ever again!
@ coldwarrior:
Been watching a little College Ball myself on free Sky channels over Christmas.
Still can’t see what you guys see in it!
HEH
🙂
Welp, that’s the last of the M&Ms, so I guess it’s bedtime.
Night.
RIX wrote:
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dv0BrYYVAAApW4w.jpg
(I miss preview)
this makes me happy
@ Aussie Infidel:
looked him right in the eye,
STOMP
Aussie Infidel wrote:
its the best.
most of these cats wont see the bigs. they play for the love of the game. and they get a 4 year scholarship.
@ Bunk X:
yeah, I know, isn’t that what I said? somewhere upthread.
@ yenta-fada:
people are going to have so much fun with her. wait till they find out about her bullshit ‘research’ into bankruptcies (that she used to parlay the creation of the totally fraudulent CFPS)
k, nite.
@ Aussie Infidel:
its zen.
i played as rough as the brits wanted.
and guess what, i win that every time.
@ coldwarrior:
since the theme seems to be southern rock…
well here ya go
Blackfoot, “Highway Song”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR9sPqs8H2I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HlxcVT0u4c
DYIN
@ coldwarrior:
OMG…i almost chocked laughing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xGY4f8BISQ
@ RIX:
Nice catch. Yeah, Charles’ Magical Jazzy Ponytail is still flapping in the breeze, Tweeting inanities about Donald Trump every few minutes or so. So far our President has ignored the yapping #rumpswab.
@ lobo91:
https://thediaryofdaedalus.com/2016/09/18/on-the-anniversary-of-charles-johnsons-foray-into-astroturfing/
https://thediaryofdaedalus.com/2012/09/27/the-ruse-and-fail-of-little-green-footballs-part-v-the-turnaround/
@ RIX:
Hot Air, not Breitbart.
@ eaglesoars:
When Tina Fey came in, Chevy Chase was in diapers, I think.
@ coldwarrior:
The Missus and I have been watching Bad Blood.
@ coldwarrior:
The OSU game was blacked out in L.A. Televised only on cable, which we don’t have.
@ Bunk X:
the rose bowl was done right.
@ coldwarrior:
I didn’t get to see The Best Damn Band In The Land.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR1_hGkIU2c
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/globalist-trash-mitt-romney-steps-in-to-fill-jeff-flakes-shoes-trashes-trump-in-wapo-op-ed-before-he-is-sworn-in/
@ Gateway Pundit
Mittens begins the New Year in full quisling mode.
When he ran for president he sought and received Trumps endorsement as well as cash.
He bashed Trump hard during the campaign , but showed up at Trump Tower looking for a job.
He got Trumps endorsement for his Senate run and gladly accepted it.
But now he pens a hit piece in WaPo and vows to be a Jeff Flake like pain in the ass.
What a bum.
@ lobo91:
So the question is – did Chris Stevens know?