Random Thoughts

[kphoger]

share a chocolate fondue fountain with strangers

Sounds kinky.

[jeffandnicole]

Golden Corral is yucky on two levels:  1) The food selection is very low quality and 2) The clientele tries to spread germs as quickly and in as mass quantity as possible, sometimes through their kids.

I don't know who would want to share a chocolate fondue fountain with strangers.

They're not strangers; just friends who haven't met yet.

[Max Rockatansky]

Golden Corral is yucky on two levels:  1) The food selection is very low quality and 2) The clientele tries to spread germs as quickly and in as mass quantity as possible, sometimes through their kids.

I don't know who would want to share a chocolate fondue fountain with strangers.

They're not strangers; just friends who haven't met yet.

I seem to recall a certain sewer dwelling clown once made this argument.

[Max Rockatansky]

My wife is missing her Beats Headphones and only just realized it today.  She checked her air tag and they are showing at Terminal B at San Jose Mineta International Airport.  I'm guessing that I'll likely be planning day trip activities around the Santa Cruz Mountains for next weekend.

As an aside, I don't think that I've personally ever lost anything at the airport.  At least nothing that was worth possibly making a three hour drive to go get from a lost and found collection.

[kkt]

I think he was making a poop joke. Excessive food leads to excessive poop.

Oh, I know.  It just seems that some people think throwing it in the trash and eating it in the restaurant are the only two options.

I would like to be the sort of person who efficiently utilizes leftovers, but for most foods I find them unappetizing. So functionally the options are eat it in the restaurant, throw it in the trash, or refrigerate it for a week and then throw it away.

A lot of the time when I go out for dinner it's before a show, and I am not going to have a place to refrigerate the leftovers for 3-4 hours and I don't really want to lug a box of leftovers to the theater with me, so it's garbage.

One of the few perks of living in the cold part of the country is that in winter your car makes a perfectly acceptable fridge.

True... but if I'm going to dinner and a show downtown, I'm taking the light rail, not the car.

[kphoger]

As an aside, I don't think that I've personally ever lost anything at the airport.

In December 2001, my dad and I flew from Wichita to El Paso (via DFW), then a taxi across the border, then an intercity bus to Cd Chihuahua, then another to Creel.  Stayed at a hostel, then took a third-class bus to Batopilas next day.  The paved portion was actually via shared Suburban, and the then-gravel portion was by old used school bus with guys riding on the roof with the luggage.  85 miles, 5½ hours.  We hung out around town, and we got to know the owner of the hotel we got a cheap room in.  (Word around town is that he used to be Mexican mafia, but had since retired.  Their daughter was in town from college in Cd Chihuahua for Christmas break, and he would read to her and his wife out loud in the evenings—Leo Tolstoy, as I recall.)  Went on a couple of hikes, including down to the mission at Satevó and then hitched a ride back to town in the back of a pickup.  Saw a lot of Tarahumara in their traditional clothing.  New Year's Eve had a dance in the town square—guarded by police with sawed-off shotguns to make sure nobody was dancing without paying the entry fee—with every man in a cowboy hat and every lady in a fancy dress, everyone drinking beer like no one's business (it was a dry county except for New Year's Eve, so people came from far and wide to drink it up).  At midnight, the music stopped and everyone piled into the church for Mass—drunk or sober.  Caught the bus again at 5am on New Year's Day, did the reverse trip north.  Stayed the night in Juárez, flew out of El Paso next day.  It was quite the adventure, the two of us.

On the way down, I left my camera in the bus seat when we got out at Cd Chihuahua.  No way to take pictures.  That's the worst thing I've ever lost on a trip.

[Scott5114]

On the way down, I left my camera in the bus seat when we got out at Cd Chihuahua.  No way to take pictures.  That's the worst thing I've ever lost on a trip.

I left a camera in a rental car once. I guess it slid under the passenger seat, so I didn't see it when I was collecting my things from the car. By the time I realized where I must have left the camera, enough time had passed that the car had almost certainly already been rented to someone else.

[Max Rockatansky]

Some of the bot comments on the Gribblenation Facebook page are fun to read.  Generally the bots present a female persona which reply to male commenters asking for them to send a personal message (with some implied sexual undertones).  The prospect of a large pool of thirsty attractive women being interested in rural highway corridors is unintentionally comical.

[Scott5114]

The prospect of a large pool of thirsty attractive women being interested in rural highway corridors is unintentionally comical.

good place for u kno what



...Attractive landscape photos.

[Molandfreak]

The prospect of a large pool of thirsty attractive women being interested in rural highway corridors is unintentionally comical.

good place for u kno what



...Attractive landscape photos.

I mean if 50 Shades of Grey can turn some people on...

[Max Rockatansky]

The prospect of a large pool of thirsty attractive women being interested in rural highway corridors is unintentionally comical.

good place for u kno what



...Attractive landscape photos.

I mean if 50 Shades of Grey can turn some people on...

I can't imagine someone of the opposite sex ever saying "whip out your big road sign, show me how green it is!"

[Scott5114]

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[Max Rockatansky]

Funny enough, I recall my grandparents using the term "hanky panky" regularly to reference martial infidelity.  Out of the many Old Tyme phrases out there I think that one had some staying power.

[kkt]

The prospect of a large pool of thirsty attractive women being interested in rural highway corridors is unintentionally comical.

good place for u kno what



...Attractive landscape photos.

I mean if 50 Shades of Grey can turn some people on...

I can't imagine someone of the opposite sex ever saying "whip out your big road sign, show me how green it is!"

oooh, show me your cutout shields!

[Max Rockatansky]

The prospect of a large pool of thirsty attractive women being interested in rural highway corridors is unintentionally comical.

good place for u kno what



...Attractive landscape photos.

I mean if 50 Shades of Grey can turn some people on...

I can't imagine someone of the opposite sex ever saying "whip out your big road sign, show me how green it is!"

oooh, show me your cutout shields!

Dating profile:

-  Single female, college educated, gainfully employed seeking relationship with a male porcelain highway sign collector.  Hobbies include county collecting and watching transit YouTube channels. 

[kphoger]

I want a man with a big mob-rule map. — said no woman ever.

[Rothman]

Funny enough, I recall my grandparents using the term "hanky panky" regularly to reference martial infidelity.  Out of the many Old Tyme phrases out there I think that one had some staying power.

Had a boss back in the late 1990s that was fuming about sexual improprieties in his workforce.  "I'll tell you what was going on! HANKY PANKY!" he boomed, in his Tennessean accent...

[TheCatalyst31]

I want a man with a big mob-rule map. — said no woman ever.

I've met a good number of straight couples who collect counties together at Extra-Miler Club meetings, and usually not because the men are dragging their wives along either. (Plus plenty of women who come on their own, of course.) Some of my hobbies make me feel like the only woman in the room, but county counting isn't one of them.

[Big John]

Funny enough, I recall my grandparents using the term "hanky panky" regularly to reference martial infidelity.  Out of the many Old Tyme phrases out there I think that one had some staying power.

Had a boss back in the late 1990s that was fuming about sexual improprieties in his workforce.  "I'll tell you what was going on! HANKY PANKY!" he boomed, in his Tennessean accent...

[Max Rockatansky]

I want a man with a big mob-rule map. — said no woman ever.

I've met a good number of straight couples who collect counties together at Extra-Miler Club meetings, and usually not because the men are dragging their wives along either. (Plus plenty of women who come on their own, of course.) Some of my hobbies make me feel like the only woman in the room, but county counting isn't one of them.

My wife has attended several road meets.  The reason she has is because a couple of them have intersected her interests in specific cities.  At least two dozen of you have actually met her once.  She is definitely not by any means a road enthusiast.

[kphoger]

I want a man with a big mob-rule map. — said no woman nine women ever.

I've met a good number of straight couples who collect counties together at Extra-Miler Club meetings, and usually not because the men are dragging their wives along either. (Plus plenty of women who come on their own, of course.) Some of my hobbies make me feel like the only woman in the room, but county counting isn't one of them.

Corrected.  Thank you.

[Scott5114]

Buried in the forum's settings is an option to have it alert you when it is your own birthday. You know, in case you forget.

[D-Dey65]

If one consumes too much food it becomes "excessive waste" eventually.

Just taking it home and eating it as leftovers another day means it's not being wasted at all, though.

I think he was making a poop joke. Excessive food leads to excessive poop.

Oh, speaking of poop, you just reminded me of this;
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xgcgj0Eq3EA

[Takumi]

What happens if you cut a vampire's head off? If they can only be killed by a stake to the heart, does that mean they'd still be alive, just disconnected? I asked my wife this question last night, and she said the vampire would likely eventually just die of starvation.

[formulanone]

What happens if you cut a vampire's head off? If they can only be killed by a stake to the heart, does that mean they'd still be alive, just disconnected? I asked my wife this question last night, and she said the vampire would likely eventually just die of starvation.

First Law of Vampirnamics: It can live perpetually off of its own blood.