Random thoughts that are pointless and too dumb to say anywhere else thread: 2011

[DatHoser]

Cowboy background gone

Bad karma start on Tuesday

Good karma haiku.

 

EDIT: Well that sure didn't work.

[BMuch]

I received a credit card offer at my office. I'm assuming a buddy must have signed me up for something because the offer states "Nobody's a bigger Astros fan than you! Show your love of the game with the Astros Extra Bases credit card."

 

I guess I will pass since I don't have enough time in the day to check both Brewerfan . net and Astrofan . net.

 

The Astros are in trouble if I'm the biggest Astro fan.

[mothershipconnection]

I get offers like that too, but with the Devil Rays. I've never purchased anything, including tickets to a game, or registered anywhere that would indicate I'm a Tampa fan.

[hawing]

I sometimes get business credit card offers at work, but the one that puzzles me most is the quarterly DirecTV shill - sent to me at the library.

[stalton]

At the game on Thursday they showed a women on the big screen with the sign that read "Go Randy #8" It has been killing me and buddy trying to think who she could be referring too. Ryan Braun, Shane Victorino and Tim Masthay. I don't recall any of those ever being referred to as "Randy". Another Diego moment in the waiting, perhaps?

[jjgott]

[RightFieldCoder]

I got a telemarketing phone call at 9am on a Sunday once. They wanted to sell me new siding. Besides being a horrible time to call, they were calling my college dorm room phone.

A woman in the AirTran Airway Porch on Sunday was wearing a Zing!Boom!Tarrarel! shirt from the BF.Net store. I think that is why we won. I would have said hi, but I'm too shy.

[Baldkin]

I got a telemarketing phone call at 9am on a Sunday once. They wanted to sell me new siding. Besides being a horrible time to call, they were calling my college dorm room phone.

A woman in the AirTran Airway Porch on Sunday was wearing a Zing!Boom!Tarrarel! shirt from the BF.Net store. I think that is why we won. I would have said hi, but I'm too shy.

I was wearing mine about 9 rows up in 104!

[berniebrewer4life]

Bernie, you are absolutely right about that. Nothing ever changes at the WalCoFair. We lived in Delavan from 1988-1998, and went once or twice most of those years. Then we were away from the area for most of 12 years, and when we returned, it seemed that nothing had changed at all. Same vendors set up in the same spaces. Same rides. Maybe the biggest pumpkin one year will be bigger than the previous, but that's about it. To me, it's the perfect fair. You can see it all in a day and not feel totally worn out.

agreed. Traffic is pretty light most days as well.

[Patrick425]

Ok, I just realized that up until today (I'm 45), I have misheard a line in the song "Taking it to the Streets" by the Doobie Brothers. At the end of the song they keep singing the line "Taking it to the streets" over and over. After each time they repeat that, Michael McDonald sings a response. After one of them he sings "We'll discuss it further". I always thought he was singing "Rural Wisconsin farmer". Don't ask me why. It's a song about poverty. Thought maybe he was making some sort of political statement about the plight of the farmer.

[hawing]

We could probably spin off a thread just on mis-heard lyrics.

 

One of my students ran over a squirrel while on his bicycle. He said the squirrel just ran down a tree and into his path. The squirrel survived, or at least didn't die instantly.

[1992casey]

We could probably spin off a thread just on mis-heard lyrics.

 

Definitely. Mis-hearing lyrics isn't anything to feel bad about. It's not like you're mis-quoting Shakespeare or anything like that.

[DatHoser]

"Therrrrre's a bathroom on the right."

[tristarscoop]

As a kid I used to sing "Down in the Boombox" instead of "Down in the Boondocks"

[GAME05]

hold me closer Tony Danza.

[hawing]

I'm trying to regard this last month of the 2011 regular season as a good opportunity to practice patience. I'm giving myself a solid B so far.

[mothershipconnection]

"Cuz she was blinded by the light

Wrapped up like a douche in the aroma of the night".

[1992casey]

Yeah, that's pretty much the poster child for mis-heard lyrics. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

For what it's worth, they go like this:

 

Blinded by the light,

revved up like a deuce,

another runner in the night

[NeedMoreFans]

My wife's birthday was back in June. For her birthday, I decided to buy tickets to Billy Elliot in Madison. They weren't on sale yet, so I created "vouchers" for them and I would buy them when they went on sale. It was announced that the Madison stop would be delayed, and it will be coming in July, which is after her NEXT birthday. I have decided to go buy her a 1/4 birthday present to make up for the fact that she could not enjoy her gift this year.

[Patrick425]

I discovered Pandora 2 or 3 years ago. I enjoyed it. Someone told me about Grooveshark about a year or so ago. I tried that for a few days and I just found the other suggestions they would play for the artists I entered were a bit too broad and then it would play some really "deep cuts" from the artists that I did enter. I don't necessarily mind that to an extent. I do enjoy hearing other music than just a groups A singles. I don't mind hearing the B songs or possibly a few C songs, but for the most part some of the other songs are not remotely popular for a reason and I rather not have to sit through them or have to click to skip them.

 

I think Pandora is pretty good at matching artists that are similar to the ones you enter. For example, I added Asteroid Galaxy Tour the other day (that I discovered through the Heineken commercial) and I'm really liking the other artists that they are also playing on that channel. Yes, you do get more repeats than you do on Grooveshark, but you get a lot less completely off the wall songs that no one has ever heard of (for good reason).

[jjgott]

Never thought I would see a straight up 0% on Rotten Tomatoes but "Bucky Larson" has achieved that honor.

[1992casey]

A company is going to offer us the ability to hear streamed music via light bulbs.

 

Giinii Audio Bulb mixes iOS dock with light bulbs

[Thurston Fluff]

Game geeks 1, scientists 0.

 

Ok so they did it together but I thought it was cool that online gamers solved a decade old scientific problem in a matter of weeks.

[hawing]

Wouldn't it be nice if Chris Capuano could help out the Brewers today? (hawing said hopefully)

[MJLiverock]

For all the bicyclists who are afraid of helmet head and are fashionistas.

 

http://news.discovery.com...lates-safety-110920.html