Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?

I'm tired of looking for the Spam thread, so I'll just say right here that there are 58008 reasons I love women.

Even if reincarnation is possible, it is not possible to have been both GEN Douglas MacArthur and GEN William Tecumseh Sherman in your past lives. MacArthur was 9 or 10 years old when Sherman died.

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When I was a kid I would dig massive holes to look for old bottles. Back in the old days people buried their trash, so I did find a few cool ones. Nothing valuable but I did find a couple Edison oil bottles that I think were used on trains. They were very small bottles, so idk.

One of the rocks is some kind of fossil that I can't remember the name of. It's whitish, but has these bubble looking nodules. Also a couple pieces of petrified wood.

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My boss/friend and his friend/my coworker do antique resale so I looked into the marbles more closely. Go for $4-5 on eBay. So say maybe $2 each wholesale. So if I spend some time online, looking for someone nearby that buys old marbles, drive there, haggle with them, etc, I'm looking at a haul of maybe...$10-20. Or I could set up an eBay account, take photos and if someone is interested, buy packaging and postage and mail them off to gross maybe $20-40. In other words, worth less than the time and effort it would take to try to get money for them. So instead they'll sit in an ashtray on the coffee table and be a pretty and mildly interesting conversation piece.

(And the house was built in 1938, so in my imagination they're from the Great Depression/WWII. But basic research suggests they were made in Mexico in the late 1970s/early 1980s--basically about the time kids stopped playing with marbles and started playing Pac Man at the mall arcade.)

Fantasy Island is pretty gross when you think about it. On today's MeTV episode we have good old Ralph Offenhouse trying to blackmail Carol Lynley because he knows she used to be a hooker, but she's engaged to a schoolteacher and straightening her life out and then the other guy comes out and says he's in love with her because he slept with her when she was a hooker, and she doesn't remember that part. Meanwhile, Mr. Khan is in the background egging this whole thing on.

AAAAH!!! I'm afraid to say this on Facebook because I don't want it taken down, but "World Gone Wild" is on YouTube for free:


Classic late-nite cable fare in the early '90s, it is a Mad Max take on "The Magnificent Seven" with Adam Ant as the baddie and Bruce Dern as the closet thing it has to the Yul Brynner character.

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Fantasy Island is pretty gross when you think about it. On today's MeTV episode we have good old Ralph Offenhouse trying to blackmail Carol Lynley because he knows she used to be a hooker, but she's engaged to a schoolteacher and straightening her life out and then the other guy comes out and says he's in love with her because he slept with her when she was a hooker, and she doesn't remember that part. Meanwhile, Mr. Khan is in the background egging this whole thing on.

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"Fantasy Island" is one of those shows that you think they can reboot and make work. And they've tried it at least twice, but it really needs to happen in the early 1980s, produced by Aaron Spelling, and starring Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaiz--with a Love Boat style cast of Special Guest Stars.

"Gunsmoke" tonight on West. Fun. Because the Baddie looks familiar. Is he?... He looks like... The drug dealer in "Romancing the Stone" that has the "Little Mule" Jeep. No, not that. El Guapo in "The Three Amigos." And the longer you watch it, the more you're sure it's all the same actor. And it was. Mando, in the "Gunsmoke" episode, "Hidalgo" was El Guapo in "The Three Amigos," and also the drug lord in "Romancing the Stone."

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"Fantasy Island" is one of those shows that you think they can reboot and make work. And they've tried it at least twice, but it really needs to happen in the early 1980s, produced by Aaron Spelling, and starring Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaiz--with a Love Boat style cast of Special Guest Stars.

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And that's why it followed The Love Boat on Saturday nights... half the allure was seeing if your favorite second rate actress was going to be on an episode of either show.

My favorite was Melinda Naud. I used to talk to her on Facebook years ago until she started talking nutty shit. She told me and some other interesting little bits of trivia about shooting Fantasy Island... most of which I don't remember now. And she was still hot.

Ricardo Montalban was the other allure of the show. I'd have been happy to hear him read from a phone book. His charisma was undeniable; no one but him could have been Khan.

Pervy Village Cherry was annoying as fuck to me, though many found him adorable. I would have loved to see an episode of all those native girls kicking the shit out of him and stepping on his face.

But we didn't get that episode.

You know who did like having his face walked on? The wrestler Tony Atlas. According to sources, Tony didn't walk until he was about 3, and he spent that time crawling around a house filled with women and all he could see was their shoes.

So now he pays women with really big feet to walk on his face and head.

Sometimes he films this, and has been known to no-show matches in order to indulge in his fetish, which he describes as non-sexual but rather something that keeps him humble.

Hey Tony, most people just go to church to remain humble.

An elite few pay some corn fed bitch to paddle them.

But you just have to be different.

I wonder if I could pay Melinda Naud to paddle me.

Anyone here believe that Billy Corgan really fucked a shape shifter?

He claimed a couple of times that Tila Tequila changed form on him.

Not during sex, but after.

Is Billy on the up and up, or is he just looking for attention?

Also a treat: Watching one of the Brady kids try to play an adult role.

I always lived for the way the theme song suddenly turned into a sea chanty for a few bars as Tattoo climbed up to the crow's nest to ring the bell..

Expendables 3 was on tonight. It had an hour left and there wasn't anything better on so I watched it. And I've got to say I actually understand the attraction of it or, say, the John Wick franchise. There isn't much of a story and a big suspension of disbelief is required, but the set piece stunt extravaganza action scenes make it worth watching. And, while none of the actors are people you think of in terms of Shakespeare or the Academy Awards, they are all solid and do well with the material they're given and are good together and fun to watch. Now I may have to watch a John Wick movie or two.

This isn't as funny as the dog with the sprinkler, but it did get a lol:

A quick story about the sleeping arrangements here. I think it's cute enough to not put it in my blog thread. I have a dog that's approaching 9 and a cat that's approaching 4. Got them both almost 3 years ago to replace a dog and cat that died within 3 months of each other a year earlier (after having them for 10 years). I take a nap after lunch because 1) I can, 2) who wouldn't want to take a nap after lunch and 3) the old cat used to like to take a nap with me after lunch. At first the new cat had no interest in taking a nap with me after lunch but the new dog loves the idea. And since she's 70#, I take my afternoon siesta on the bed instead of the couch. At first she will put her head on my lap for a bit before eventually curling up next to me so I can put my hand on her butt. This year the cat has decided he wants to do the afternoon nap too. So about 5 minutes after I'm settled in, the dog starts growling and acting menacing and I look up to see the cat, eyeing the bed. He'll hop up on the bed while the growling intensifies before picking a spot to snuggle up, purr and make biscuits before settling in himself. At this point the dog gives up on the growling. After about 10 minutes, the cat gets up and leaves.

At bedtime, the dog takes her side of the bed. (She used to lay across the pillows, but at some point in the past month she's realized I'm going to lay on one side of the bed so she's picked a side for herself.) Sometime after midnight I'll become aware that I have nowhere to put my feet because the cat has climbed onto the bed while we were sleeping and curled up against my feet. Then, when I've moved my feet, he stretches out and takes up the entire bottom of the bed on my side. Generally he'll get up and go back to the couch in the next room sometime between 4 and 6:30am, because he hates the alarm clock as much as my old dog used to. The dog, on the other hand, will lay there quietly snoring until I'm ready to get up, at which point she'll try to coax pets out of me and...you know when a dog has something bothering their ear so they'll rub at it with their paw? She does that, but apparently that's just her way of saying "I don't want to get up." She'll often try to extend the afternoon nap as well. Around the time I'm ready to get up, she'll lay her head on my again and won't move until I can coax her to get up.

All told, it's nice.