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Also, we still have A&W's in the states right?

Quote from: BBM on August 13, 2018, 03:00:32 AM

Quote from: CT III on February 04, 2016, 02:39:54 PM
Also, new theory that will probably be totally wrong: Wide Whale is somehow related to Dr. Dugong, who was murdered by the Monarch back in Season 3, and thus the animosity.

Correct! Also,  "I dressed-a myself like a Juggalo, sir!"

I hadn't even realized VB had started a new season until I saw this post and was delighted to find that my DVR was still set to record any new episodes of The Venture Bros. that showed up. So I watched the first 3 of this season and was not disappointed. Anything that goes deep on the Guild of Calamitous Intent and these character's pasts is gold to me, and that's basically what this season has started out with.

I did not realize that ginger ale was so tough to come by across the pond.

Still surprised he wasn't felled by a Hart Attack.

Ben Zobrist is baseball Marian Hossa. I don't know exactly what that means or how to justify the comparison, it just feels righ to me.

Quote from: SKO on May 08, 2018, 01:31:36 PM
It's amazing how this dude has gone all of the way from "dude you watch with a clenched butt because you never know when one of those 86 mph floaters is gonna get crushed" to "guy so routinely excellent we don't even bump this thread for an utterly effortless 8 inning outing." He's the best.

He's fulfilled our wildest dreams of being *looks back to the beginning of the thread* better than Randy Wells.

Jesus Christ are we all dumb.

Quote from: Wheezer on May 03, 2018, 04:34:47 PM
I need a notary who personally knows me. I have a friend with no ID other than an expired passport, and probably a birth certificate, whose father just died (I'm taking care of her cats), perhaps intestate. Anyway, there are predictable consequences. Probably next week. This place is overflowing with notaries public last I checked.

Sorry Wheez, I let mine lapse last year. Anybody else?

Quote from: Bort on April 16, 2018, 04:38:17 PM

Quote from: CT III on April 16, 2018, 04:22:39 PM
Corpse him up and send him home to mama.

That pneumonia killed him faster than Garfield kills lasagna!

Sorry...my wife thought that was gangbusters.

That's one of my all-time favorite Simpsons quotes to use that almost never gets a reaction.

Corpse him up and send him home to mama.

It's been some time since I read it, but what I still remember was Stilwell's constant issues with Chiang Kai-shek with their relationship deteriorating to the point where he advocated to DC to cut a deal with the Mao's Communists as he thought they were the better fighting force.

Also the phrase "illegitimi non carborundum" a printout of which currently hangs from the wall of my cube.

And finally, accidentally running across the movie 1941 on television a few years ago and realizing that Robert Stack's portrayal of Stilwell in that movie was so much what I imagined the real guy to be like that I wished we'd gotten a biopic with Stack in the role.

Quote from: flannj on April 04, 2018, 04:53:24 PM

Quote from: CBStew on April 20, 2010, 04:17:07 PM
Although "Guns of August" is perhaps her best known and most widely read book, I was stunned by "A Distant Mirror", about the final Crusade and its impact on European history.  Had that Crusade not happened, or had it ended earlier we would all be speaking French today.

*Dusts off cobwebs*
I knew there were long lost posts somewhere in the dark recesses of the Desipio fruit cellar about Barbara W. Tuchman.
I'm just starting "Stillwell and the American Experience in China".
Anybody here read it?

I know I'm late to the party here, but yes. Yes I have.

The Lodge can go straight to hell.

Also, in the same vein as Stew let me recommend "Crazy '08" by Cait Murphy. A very fun book with an epilogue that immediately brings you down by reminding you that the entire cast of characters is long dead.

I feel like an ingrate now, so thank you both for your sacrifice.

Also, I wanted to highlight it because it reminded me of the time that BC put the same team in both his "most underrated" and "most overrated" categories in a college basketball preview.

Never forget.

Now wait just a goddamned minute...

45 survivors of 2017 retired from competition

Shannen Doherty (5 picks in 2017)
Tom Brokaw (2 picks in 2017)
Abdelaziz Bouteflik (1 pick in 2017)
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (1 pick in 2017)
Alvin Yellon (1 pick in 2017)
Beverly Cleary (1 pick in 2017)
Brian Dennehy (1 pick in 2017)
Carissa Gleeson (1 pick in 2017)
Cher (1 pick in 2017)
Chris Berman (1 pick in 2017)
Chuck Gitles (1 pick in 2017)
David Thorstad (1 pick in 2017)
Domina Eberle Spencer (1 pick in 2017)
Doris Day (1 pick in 2017)
Erich von Daeniken (1 pick in 2017)
Estelle Harris (1 pick in 2017)
Frank Welker (1 pick in 2017)
Greg Gilbert (1 pick in 2017)
Henry Hermann Bauer (1 pick in 2017)
Jack Welch (1 pick in 2017)
Jim Lovell (1 pick in 2017)
Joe Ricketts (1 pick in 2017)
Kim Jong-un (1 pick in 2017)
Lamar Odom (1 pick in 2017)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1 pick in 2017)
Little Richard (1 pick in 2017)
Liz Sheridan (1 pick in 2017)
Maurine Meleck (1 pick in 2017)
Mikhail Gorbachev (1 pick in 2017)
Noah Bublé (1 pick in 2017)
Phil Spector (1 pick in 2017)
Pope Benedict XVI (1 pick in 2017)
Regis Philbin (1 pick in 2017)
Richard M. Daley (1 pick in 2017)
Richard Overton (1 pick in 2017)
Rod Carew (1 pick in 2017)
Rod Gilmore (1 pick in 2017)
Ruggero Santilli (1 pick in 2017)
Sinead O'Connor (1 pick in 2017)
Tex Watson (1 pick in 2017)
Tim Curry (1 pick in 2017)
Titus Young (1 pick in 2017)
Whitey Ford (1 pick in 2017)
Yoko Ono (1 pick in 2017)

Rolling over from 2017

Kirk Douglas (5 picks)
Donald Trump (3 picks)
George H.W. Bush (3 picks)
Dick Van Dyke (3 picks, +2 from 2017)
Bob Newhart (3 picks, +1 from 2017)
William Perry (3 picks, +1 from 2017)
Henry Kissinger (2 picks, +1 from 2017)
Jimmy Carter (2 picks, +1 from 2017)
Leah Bracknell (2 picks, +1 from 2017)
Stan Lee (2 picks, +1 from 2017)
Steve Bannon (2 picks, +1 from 2017)
Robert Mugabe (2 picks)
Bob Dole (2 picks, -1 from 2017)
Queen Elizabeth II (2 picks, -1 from 2017)
Ed O'Bradovich (1 pick, -1 from 2017)
Valerie Harper (1 pick, -1 from 2017)
Vin Scully (1 pick, -1 from 2017)
Billy Graham (1 pick)
Carl Reiner (1 pick)
Frank Welker (1 pick)
Herman Wouk (1 pick)
I.M. Pei (1 pick)
Jerry Lee Lewis (1 pick)
Johnny Lujack (1 pick)
Mel Brooks (1 pick)
Michael Madigan (1 pick)
Mike Donohue (1 pick)
Nick Nolte (1 pick)
Nigel Farage (1 pick)
Otis Rush (1 pick)
Ray Kurzweil (1 pick)
Rupert Murdoch (1 pick)
Shoko Asahara (1 pick)
Stan Mikita (1 pick)
Ted Nugent (1 pick)
Ted Turner (1 pick)
Terry Boers (1 pick)
Tommy Chong (1 pick)
Walter Mondale (1 pick)

*snorts* I hope somebody got fired for that boner.