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Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?
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Volpone
Zombie Hunter
I have little regret about picking Louisville when I decided to leave Portland, but if I did it over there's a decent chance that I'd pick Cincinnati. Weather is about the same, not any farther from my relatives, and you've got Louisville, Lexington, Columbus, and Indianapolis under 2 hours away. Louisville's got Nashville and St. Louis, but they're 2.5 and 4 hours away, respectively. 90 minutes is much more practical for a day trip and you get 4 cities for that with Cincy. And I could wear an ironic "WKRP Radio" T-shirt.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
I've always wondered what Hull looks like.
whisky
Boobie inspector
Not like that, although it's was pretty warm there too
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Zombie Hunter
Thoughts in a supermarket checkout line: I don't like change. They had a suntan lotion endcap. When I was little SPF went from 3 to 12, IIRC. That was it. If you wanted more SPF than 12 you had to use tinfoil or latex house paint. They had SPFs up to 70 in the display and I think I've seen higher. What's the point? Marketing, I guess.
I love competence. It is so sexy to me. I had possible the greatest checker today. Now there are 2 variables to the checkout: The cashier (and the bagboy if you want to get technical) and the buyer. You can have the fastest cashier and if the buyer wants cigarettes and lottery tickets and can't figure out how to use their debit card, etc, you're going to have a bad time in the line behind them. Conversely, the buyer can be on the spot and if the checker can't figure out how to scan items or check out produce--or the bagboy is more interested in getting a date with another employee or when her next break is--the line is gonna move slow. Now I consider myself a pretty good buyer. I put stuff on the belt so its easy to grab and its barcode is oriented toward the scanner. I get my card in and ready to go while products are still being scanned. For something big like dog food, I'll put it on the side of the cart closest the checker, with the barcode pointed right at her so he can scan it with the little gun. Well today this lady was shit hot. She didn't ask me how my day was going or tell me her name at the start, she didn't tell me to have a nice day when she gave me my receipt, she just TCB. She was so fast that she'd scanned the dog food before I even realized it. I was set to move the cart down to the bagboy but I remembered the dog food. Then I had a subliminal image of her picking up the gun so I asked and yes, she'd already scanned the item. In fact I realized she was better than halfway through my stuff and I still hadn't even scanned my loyalty card. It was hard to because she was scanning things so fast there was barely a break. I did manage to get my credit card in before she was done, but only just. Didn't even have to tell her the card was already in or anything, she was done and slapping a receipt in my hand--and then out to the end of the aisle to help the hapless bagboy pack everything up. Amazing. I'm getting a little hard just thinking about it.
I love competence. It is so sexy to me. I had possible the greatest checker today. Now there are 2 variables to the checkout: The cashier (and the bagboy if you want to get technical) and the buyer. You can have the fastest cashier and if the buyer wants cigarettes and lottery tickets and can't figure out how to use their debit card, etc, you're going to have a bad time in the line behind them. Conversely, the buyer can be on the spot and if the checker can't figure out how to scan items or check out produce--or the bagboy is more interested in getting a date with another employee or when her next break is--the line is gonna move slow. Now I consider myself a pretty good buyer. I put stuff on the belt so its easy to grab and its barcode is oriented toward the scanner. I get my card in and ready to go while products are still being scanned. For something big like dog food, I'll put it on the side of the cart closest the checker, with the barcode pointed right at her so he can scan it with the little gun. Well today this lady was shit hot. She didn't ask me how my day was going or tell me her name at the start, she didn't tell me to have a nice day when she gave me my receipt, she just TCB. She was so fast that she'd scanned the dog food before I even realized it. I was set to move the cart down to the bagboy but I remembered the dog food. Then I had a subliminal image of her picking up the gun so I asked and yes, she'd already scanned the item. In fact I realized she was better than halfway through my stuff and I still hadn't even scanned my loyalty card. It was hard to because she was scanning things so fast there was barely a break. I did manage to get my credit card in before she was done, but only just. Didn't even have to tell her the card was already in or anything, she was done and slapping a receipt in my hand--and then out to the end of the aisle to help the hapless bagboy pack everything up. Amazing. I'm getting a little hard just thinking about it.
Colonel Kira's Left Tit
Bearded Belly of Bajor
I get the same thing. Phantom doorbells or knocks, a phone chiming even though the sound is shut off. Random home invasions. Fun times!Things that woke me up at 5am this week. One honk of a car horn. THE ONLY HONK WAS IN MY HEADThree knocks. THERE WAS NO ONE KNOCKING
Colonel Kira's Left Tit
Bearded Belly of Bajor
You probably can't get away with this anymore, either.
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
Can you bring Bomb Pops on an airplane? They're not liquid--unless you let them melt, then they'd be banned as liquid. And they have "Bomb" right in their name. But technically they should be fine. I'd be tempted to book a cheap flight somewhere I don't want to go just to see how the TSA monkeys deal with it.
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
2 things I like from the Daniel Craig Bond movies: Besides finally getting to do "Casino Royale" and doing a decently movie-fied version of the novel, they used a lot of elements from the books that had been wasted in the earlier movies. (The stairway fight from "Casino Royale" is a nod to a stairway fight in "Live & Let Die".) The other things is Craig's characterization of "Fuck it. The plan has gone to shit so it's time to start improvising."
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
...although as late as...1999?--"Austin Powers 2"--you still probably could. That said, it's almost as IP infringement-worthy as that...chili? sloppy joe?...commercial that got Clara "Where's the beef!?" Peller fired by Wendy's.
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Zombie Hunter
The problem with comic books is you can't YouTube them. If you want to watch an iconic bit from "The Shining" or "The Untouchables" or "Gilligan's Island" or whatever, you can pull that up. But if you want to watch the scene from Matt Wagner's "Batman -vs- Grendel" where Batman saves the girl, you've got to dig out your comic boxes.
That said, I gotta break out the boxes, because Google image searches remind me there's so much awesomeness over both minis (there's a part 2) that I need to reread them.
That said, I gotta break out the boxes, because Google image searches remind me there's so much awesomeness over both minis (there's a part 2) that I need to reread them.