Random thoughts that are pointless and too dumb to say anywhere else thread: 2012

[Baldkin]

Every time I see one of torts' posts in the optimism thread, I read the post in my head as though he is talking like Freeway.

I don't know why. I just do.

[OglivieHomePerm]

My wife watches the local morning news show each day. I try my best to avoid it, but sometimes I get sucked in. This morning, they were doing a satellite interview with some C-List celebrity. I thought something looked just a bit "off" with the interview. The timing between the questions and the answers was just not natural. At first I thought it was just satellite delay...but then I started to think that it might not be "live". Do local shows like that receive a video copy of the "celebrity" answering scripted questions that the interviewer must follow?

 

I guess that makes sense...so that "Johnny Neverwas" doesn't have to do the same interview dozens of times to promote his new sitcom...but something about it just rubs me the wrong way.

[TheCrew07]

So ever since I got my driver's license when driving at night overhead street lights and business signs (the left on all night kind) turn off as I'm driving underneath or driving by. So for the better part of the last 20 years this has been happening...

 

I mention it now because it happened to me 3 times in the 25 miles it took me to get home after the Packer game tonight. Does this regularly happen to anyone else or am I bucking some freakishly high random probability rate to continue have this happen to me?

[RightFieldCoder]

It means you stay up too late.

[Baldkin]

So ever since I got my driver's license when driving at night overhead street lights and business signs (the left on all night kind) turn off as I'm driving underneath or driving by. So for the better part of the last 20 years this has been happening...

 

I mention it now because it happened to me 3 times in the 25 miles it took me to get home after the Packer game tonight. Does this regularly happen to anyone else or am I bucking some freakishly high random probability rate to continue have this happen to me?

 

You're Dumbledore, aren't you....

[Gobias Industries]

So ever since I got my driver's license when driving at night overhead street lights and business signs (the left on all night kind) turn off as I'm driving underneath or driving by. So for the better part of the last 20 years this has been happening...

 

I mention it now because it happened to me 3 times in the 25 miles it took me to get home after the Packer game tonight. Does this regularly happen to anyone else or am I bucking some freakishly high random probability rate to continue have this happen to me?

Happens to me all the time too.

[berniebrewer4life]

Starting today, whenever I'm unsure of anything, I'm just going to throw my arms in the air and signal Touchdown.

[Thurston Fluff]

Did you ever meet someone that made you wonder if they are a really smart dummy or a really dumb genius? Like how Yogi Berra could say something so stupid yet make sense and you don't know if they are that dumb or that smart.

[NeedMoreFans]

My next door neighbor is a very old, frail lady. We have been in our house three years, and I have only seen her...never met her. Twice this week, I have seen her use her car to get her mail. Her driveway is maybe 40 feet long. If you can't walk to get the mail, should you still be living in the house?

[Thurston Fluff]

My grandma is 94 and lives alone. She can hardly walk the length of her driveway. All her kids worry about her but also worry that making her move would possibly kill her as well. She is terribly afraid of nursing homes. The stress of being put in one might be enough at her age. So they take turns going over there and spending the say with her. Getting old isn't for the timid.

[hawing]

Getting old isn't for the timid.

Oh, great.

[JimH5]

I'm 50, and if I make it to 94 I might think differently, but I can see wanting to hang on at home as long as possible.

 

My dad is turns 80 next year and he and his wife live in a condo and get along ok.

 

My maternal grandfather lived into his 80s and he knew his limits and didn't drive at night.

 

I would would want to live life on my own terms, even if that meant driving for the mail.

[1992casey]

You'd think that a wheelchair or something similar would work better than a car, but to each her own.

 

It might be a nice gesture on the part of the neighbors to offer to pick up her mail and bring it to her door.

 

The ideal situation would be able to be able to afford to live out one's life at home with frequent or even live-in assistance. Convincing someone that it's time for help is another story, though.

[pitchleague]

Thought about this on Sunday while driving home from church . . .

 

Had the Brewers won the pennant last year, beating the Cardinals and sending them to the Worlds Series, would the crowd have just cheered as normal and such or would they have stormed the field ala 1982?

 

What do you think? I'm guessing that the police would have intervened as best as possible but some people would have attempted to re-create that iconic moment in Brewer history. I don't think that hundreds would have made it but I bet some would have.

 

That would have been cool, however, had they done it (win the pennant, that is. Okay, storm the field as well.)

[Patrick425]

Thought about this on Sunday while driving home from church . . .

 

Had the Brewers won the pennant last year, beating the Cardinals and sending them to the Worlds Series, would the crowd have just cheered as normal and such or would they have stormed the field ala 1982?

 

What do you think? I'm guessing that the police would have intervened as best as possible but some people would have attempted to re-create that iconic moment in Brewer history. I don't think that hundreds would have made it but I bet some would have.

 

That would have been cool, however, had they done it (win the pennant, that is. Okay, storm the field as well.)

 

No way they would have stormed the field, or have been allowed to storm the field. That "iconic moment" in Brewer history was not at all unique to the Brewers or Milwaukee. It happened every October in any city where the home team clinched the series on their own field. It was just expected and no one tried to stop it. I use to love watching that and I'm not sure when or why it ended (I'm sure because of safety reasons they cracked down on it).

 

I was actually at that game in 1982. My friends and I were in the left center field bleachers and we jumped that wall as soon as Cooper caught that throw from Robin.

[bullox]

I've been watching too many space documentaries.

 

What if our perceived big bang was the internal explosion of a supernova resulting in a black hole? Meaning, everything inside that particular black hole was our universe. We can't see outside it because light doesn't escape. Astronomers are able to look back in time pretty close to the big bang, but they unable to see what happened immediately following the big bang because it's just a mass of white hot plasma. Could this be matter from a different universe being crushed and recycled, which later cooled and became our universe?

 

I'm sure there's a simple explanation of, "No, because ______." I don't know enough to prove or disprove it.

 

Random thought...

 

 

So it might actually be true:

 

Science mumbo-jumbo

 

The article came out a few months before my post but I hadn't seen it until now.

[1992casey]

I've wondered if the Wisconsin Avenue parties would reoccur if the Brewers made it to the World Series. I'm guessing probably not. I can't envision all that public drinking (on the streets and in vehicles) being allowed today. Law enforcement probably wouldn't allow drivers to leave their vehicles while they're sitting in the lane of traffic either.

[JimH5]

Whenever I read a Dick Vitale tweet, I imagine him saying the words he has just typed.

 

He is the only person for whom I cannot separate his voice from his written words.

[Patrick425]

I've wondered if the Wisconsin Avenue parties would reoccur if the Brewers made it to the World Series. I'm guessing probably not. I can't envision all that public drinking (on the streets and in vehicles) being allowed today. Law enforcement probably wouldn't allow drivers to leave their vehicles while they're sitting in the lane of traffic either.

 

 

Well, I think it would happen...just not on Wisconsin Ave. It would now be on Water St. (just like when the Packers won the Super Bowl). Water St. was really the night time destination area in 1982 as it is today. Many of the "popular" bars were located closer to WI ave (Park Ave, Papagalo - spl?). Wisconsin avenue was still viewed as THE street downtown during that period.

[greeg35]

Whenever I read a Dick Vitale tweet, I imagine him saying the words he has just typed.

 

He is the only person for whom I cannot separate his voice from his written words.

 

I get the same effect from Chris Rock on twitter :-)

[Patrick425]

When the Fonz' statue was installed on the River Walk in Milwaukee a lot of the "Artsy types" in the city rolled their eyes and turned there nose up at it. Yes...it's very cheesy and perhaps not really an "Art piece". However..

 

I work right about a half a block away from it and pass it all the time. Many times, especially in the Summer months, when I pass it there are people having the picture taken with it. I also have had people stop and ask me if I know where the Fonz' statue is (just had a group ask me today as I was walking to lunch). As the Fonz' himself would say...I think that's pretty cool.

[jerichoholicninja]

When the Fonz' statue was installed on the River Walk in Milwaukee a lot of the "Artsy types" in the city rolled their eyes and turned there nose up at it. Yes...it's very cheesy and perhaps not really an "Art piece". However..

 

I work right about a half a block away from it and pass it all the time. Many times, especially in the Summer months, when I pass it there are people having the picture taken with it. I also have had people stop and ask me if I know where the Fonz' statue is (just had a group ask me today as I was walking to lunch). As the Fonz' himself would say...I think that's pretty cool.

 

I was actually just there yesterday. My family wanted to get their picture taken with it. I don't get it. It's a statue.

[thebruce44]

I've wondered if the Wisconsin Avenue parties would reoccur if the Brewers made it to the World Series. I'm guessing probably not. I can't envision all that public drinking (on the streets and in vehicles) being allowed today. Law enforcement probably wouldn't allow drivers to leave their vehicles while they're sitting in the lane of traffic either.

 

It happened in 2003 when I was in school at MU and we made it to the Final 4.

[Patrick425]

I've wondered if the Wisconsin Avenue parties would reoccur if the Brewers made it to the World Series. I'm guessing probably not. I can't envision all that public drinking (on the streets and in vehicles) being allowed today. Law enforcement probably wouldn't allow drivers to leave their vehicles while they're sitting in the lane of traffic either.

 

It happened in 2003 when I was in school at MU and we made it to the Final 4.

 

 

Well...that's a little different in that WI avenue cuts right through the Marquette campus.

[thebruce44]

I've wondered if the Wisconsin Avenue parties would reoccur if the Brewers made it to the World Series. I'm guessing probably not. I can't envision all that public drinking (on the streets and in vehicles) being allowed today. Law enforcement probably wouldn't allow drivers to leave their vehicles while they're sitting in the lane of traffic either.

 

It happened in 2003 when I was in school at MU and we made it to the Final 4.

 

 

Well...that's a little different in that WI avenue cuts right through the Marquette campus.

 

It went down to the lake, almost 2 miles, with a parade of students and fans dividing the city up during rush hour and people getting out of their cars to join in.

 

What am I missing, where where the old parties on WI Ave that you guys were talking about?