Happy national liqueur day! Some stand out favorites include limoncello, Bailey's Irish Cream, kahlua, and frangelico. Jager can take a hike. And fuuuuuck 99 bananas. While the 99 fruit liqueurs are potent and make for some great jello shots, I have.... weird.... memories of polishing off my liquor cabinet in college before moving out of state and sucking down the only thing left, 99 bananas. I think this board was on the receiving end of it. See also! National mammography day. Ladies check your boobies. If you aren't sure how let @Rush-O-Matic give you a how-to. Then go see a medical professional because it requires actual equipment and I don't think his exam comes with a sonogram. Global Cat Day: Let's see your pussycats. Happy Friday ladies and gents. Try to stay out of trouble.
Best food advice my mom's British boyfriend ever gave was having heated Grand Marnier as a desert with coffee at dinner. Restaurants will put in a brandy glass and set it on a cup of boiling water to warm up. Pairs nice with coffee or cappuccino after a meal. Crazy eyes. She has them.
Misread that as "liquor" and am on my second Woodford Reserve. Oops. Put a couple of New York Strips on the grill along with potatoes. I'm pretty happy with the results. Now to finish this drink and watch some football. Drink up, my fellow idiots.
This dude takes Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstrat paint job REALLY seriously. I can't believe I watched 45 mins on how to paint EVH's guitar. It was incredibly fascinating.
Our two balls of fur A couple of years ago I took one of my neighbors to my bar, the bartender there started feeding us free shots, and my buddy wound up drinking way too many shots of 99 bananas. When I dropped him off he weaved his way to the front door and, according to his wife, projectile vomited all over the bathroom. She was pissed at me for awhile after that.
The one saving grace of all of social media is YouTube deep dives (and accidental or hacked noodz). Speaking of social media. I have a girl Ive been talking to and snapchat and facebook videos are her first language. It's motherfucking hard to shoot a decent looking video with a phone. Shes a wannabe singer and karaoke fiend. I tried making a snapchat video of me lip synching a song and after about 5 tries I gave up embarrassed for myself. You really got to put some thought and work into making something look decent.
Last card went into the slot today. Set complete, all 752 cards in the '71 Topps set, all of them high end, all but a handful have 4 sharp corners and look fresh out of a pack. Value at auction would fall between $4000-7000. I probably have close to a second full set of cards that I upgraded because of a bumped corner or centering issues. 1971 is a stone cold bitch to put together in a high end set. Yay me. Funny enough, I got an unsolicited offer on my property today. That $4000 low-end estimate for a binder of cards? Yeah, they didn't even offer me enough to place a bid. I wish they'd given me their phone number so I could call and yell at them for being greedy, cheap ass morons.
I effin hate social media for the qualities it brings out of people, but there is definitely skill and finesse involved in marketing yourself successfully. The really talented ones make it look easy.
I’m watching Ratched on Netflix, and I was surprised to see Vincent D’Onofrio as the governor. I’ve always been a fan of his acting. But it looks like he’s prepping for the lead in the biography of William Howard Taft.
He put on some lbs to play Kingpin on Daredevil. I guess when it got cancelled he forgot to stop eating.
A little more card porn... My 1962 set. Officially, it's a 598 card set. But, there was a run of cards in the second series that the printer didn't add magenta dye to and all the cards ended up with a green tint, so I figured I needed a set of those to go along with the correctly colored cards, plus all sorts of weird variants through out the set. I'm not really sure what final number of cards that pushes a "Master set" to, but I'm about 10 cards shy of finishing it. No idea what a master set would auction for, I've never seen one. This set is right there with the 1971 for difficulty in putting together high end cards, those wood grain borders chip easily and show any wear and the whole set has centering issues. ...and my 1961 set. I'm 3 cards away from finishing this set. Unlike the other two sets, this one has white borders and it's a bit easier to put together a higher end set if you can find cards that are centered. The down side is the high number cards are incredibly hard to find and expensive as hell. And the set has 5 Mickey Mantle cards. Those are just stupid expensive. I'd guess my set when finished (I need 3 high number cards...Al Kaline All Star, Ken Boyer All Star, and Pirates team card) would auction in the $3000-5000 range.
https://www.theidiotboard.com/threads/wdt-misting-day-nsfw.254950/page-5#post-643003 I guess this pretty much confirms my cousin's involvement in a gang. Worn to his funeral. I didn't go because I live hours away. This seems disrespectful to the family, that life got him killed and these men flaunted it in front of the rest of my family. Put on a fucking suit and leave that shit elsewhere, don't walk by a kid's mother wearing that. My cousin was the one that is knelt down in front of the old man.
Lighting is EVERYTHING. Hardly anybody knows what key grips and best boys do on a movie set, but they are the reason why you can see anything at all.
So I’ve been one to check the board without logging on, just out of laziness...and all this evening I’ve been line “why the fuck does it say there’s new posts, but I can’t see anything?!?” now I’m gonna roll the dice...do I need bleach for my eyes? Or a good pair of hedge trimmers?
Eddie and Les Paul: Eddie was an innovative player, but more then anything he was an entertainer. It's easy to cop his chops, but to get out there and actually be entertaining doing it, that doesn't happen often. Factor in that he was probably shit faced during the performance, and it's even more impressive.
Watched UGA and Alabama last night. One of my friends asked me what's the difference between spiking the ball and intentional grounding when Bama had 3 seconds left on the clock before halftime, UGA was in the locker room and Saban whined and got his field goal attempt. It made me realize how much I hate Alabama. God damn it. Go Dawgs. At least Georgia Tech looked like a middle school team against Clemson. It is not a great sports weekend for the state of Georgia apparently.
They got that thing down with 3 seconds on the clock. I did not expect to ever argue college football here.
Nothing beats a BLT with homegrown tomatoes. I’m going to miss these until next August. Our dishwasher crapped out, and due to COVID, supposedly, we can’t get a new one until a month from now. I’m going to have to get used to hand washing all our dishes for awhile. In addition, I removed our 4 window air conditioning units today, the largest of which I had to lug up a flight of stairs. Apparently it’s always 1957 in the Misanthropic house. Republicans should love us.