The Unofficial Badmovies.org Random Thought Thread!

[ER]

These. Early. Morning. Masses. Are. Going. To. Be. The. End. Of. Me. Why can't I have a kid who likes sleeping in?

Life is full of wonder and adventure when you are a kid. Everything (except doing chores your folks make you do) has this insanely attractive sheen that turns a kid's brain into scrambled eggs from giddiness and excitement.

Be thankful that your kid cleaves to something that is steeped in regimen, structure, and order. Even though it is a bit wearing on you, maybe it is a good thing in the long run that she finds wonder in the intricate dance that is Mass. It may serve her, and you possibly, well somewhere down the road.

Then again, after examining structure as a child, she might become a total anarchist hellbent for hedonism when she hits her teens. If that happens, you will remember these days with fondness.

Wise you are.

[Rev. Powell]

Girl just keeps popping back into my life, then disappearing. Today she just showed up on my doorstep, hadn't seen her in months.

[ER]

Girl just keeps popping back into my life, then disappearing. Today she just showed up on my doorstep, hadn't seen her in months.

Is...she by any chance trying to sell you thin mint cookies?

[javakoala]

Mmmm...thin mints.

[Flangepart]

I am of the opinion that Rutabagas are planning the downfall of the produce industry, due to a lack of respect.

[Rev. Powell]

Girl just keeps popping back into my life, then disappearing. Today she just showed up on my doorstep, hadn't seen her in months.

Is...she by any chance trying to sell you thin mint cookies?

Sadly, no. She's giving away heartbreak for free.

She broke a rule at her sober living facility and panicked and came to me. I convinced her to go back and apologize and take her punishment. She tried but when we got there no one answered the door or the phone. She wouldn't leave a message so I called and left one for her. We went out to breakfast and she was freaking out. I told her to wait for the facility to call back but she was having anxiety attacks and begged me to take her to a homeless shelter. 20 minutes after I dropped her off the facility called back. I have no way to get back in touch with her to tell her its OK to go back. She'll be back on my doorstep in a few months with a new crisis, I can almost be certain.

[AoTFan]

(re: The Monster Squad)

One thing that bugs about this film, even when I was younger... did it have to be a FEMALE virgin that said the words to open the portal?  I'm assuming it had to be, even though (IIRC) the movie never explicitly specifies it.  If not, were they trying to imply that all these 11-12 year old boys weren't virgins?  Even for the 80s, that's a stretch. 

[ER]

Stayed in tonight and played Axis & Allies, and everyone split mid-game and left me to put all the pieces away. Hey, I was THAT close to developing the A-bomb and turning London to ash, get back here!!  

[ER]

Out two hours at mid-day so I'm stuck at work til six, all alone here, thinking weird thoughts like how I didn't get "Left Twix/Right Twix" til someone explained it to me.

I also am thinking of creating a comic book space man called Ronald Raygun. He died a long time ago but as an icon he's somehow more powerful than ever. Guess no one would ever believe that superpower though.

I heard a joke today: What was John Lennon's last hit? (The pavement.)

[AoTFan]

I just ate a red pear. I'd never had one before. Anyway, it kind pretty much tasted like a regular pear except slightly more tart. Not 100 percent sure, I mean, might have to eat both at once to make sure, but that what I can tell so far.

Anyway, just thought you should know.

Not the actual pear.

[Rev. Powell]

Just killed my first mouse.

[Trevor]

Just killed my first mouse.

Ohh, Master Splinter, nooooo....... 

[ER]

Had to get my son out of a tree yesterday, no worries, I love climbing trees, but my foot got stuck in a fork just as I leaped down the last six or seven feet, and I ended up landing WHOMP right on my back, knocked the wind out of me, shoe still stuck in the tree, but it's all good. My cousin gave me some special herbal medicine to get me through.  Interesting night.

[Alex]

Somehow got roped into helping organising the xmas do for work, which all things considered is going to be interesting. My first thought was "I wonder if they are having a freeform jazz exploration night at the Drouthy Cobbler (a bar in Elgin with pretensions of culture. The price list alone has put me off actually attending any of its events. Plus I hate freeform jazz explorations). Lucy is also on the committee along with another woman I don't know called Zoe.

Since everything has to be politically correct (vitally important that, can't win a war if you aren't politically correct) I can't suggest anything really out there. Hell, I wonder what they'd do if I even just mentioned the night out about 7 years ago when one of my workmates lost his wedding ring while we were on a 3 month course down in Norfolk.

He got it back eventually. He'd lost it inside a stripper. I don't know how exactly as I was in a different bar where they were handing out free drinks and I never got around to asking him.

Not as bad as the guy who blew all his life savings when he got drunk with two prostitutes in Las Vegas though. They had a card reader and he kept buying drinks without actually looking to see just how much he was paying for everything so he lost somewhere around £8,000 ($12,000 at the time).

I wonder how he explained that one to his wife when he got home?

Heh, now I am remembering an incident from my first posting. Our phone extension was very similar to that of the med centre and occasionally we'd get a wrong number for them. I have no idea if anyone ever called the med centre to enquire how their turbo pipe was doing or not. Anyway, this day I answered the phone with the usual speel "Hello this is SAC Corbett, TPF Electrical Bay" and the man on the other end of the phone clearly not having listened to a word I said, identified himself as a flight lieutenant on 15 sqn then started this long confused and paniced tale about how he'd been on a deployment, had sex with some random woman and now thought he had picked up some STD from her. He went on for around three or four minutes going into great detail of everything he had done, and everytime I tried to interupt him he kept talking over me. Anyway eventually he asked what he should do and I said "Next time either don't cheat or if you must wear protection sir, and possibly phone the medics instead of the engine bay."

Silence fell for about 20 seconds, and then the phone went very dead.

Anyway,  I'll have a look for something that vaguely celebrates one of many holidays stolen from other religions about some guys birthday (before a few months later they celebrate the same guy being nailed to a plank of wood, go figure), then when you celebrate it without involving said guy you are somehow contributing to a war against their holiday. Yeah, right. I don't mind people celebrating christmas, but telling me that I am somehow destroying your holiday or going on about the true spirit of the holiday... /rantend.

Heavy rains forecast tonight, so its our combat uniforms for tomorrow just in case we need to go deal with flooding. Also got an appointment with the very distracting nurse tomorrow. Will be making a determined effort not to look at her legs.

Anyway, got a busy night tonight. I am reading to my younger brother and sister via the phone (going to finish off the Captain Underpants books I started with them when they were up visiting), then running a D&D solo adventure for Tina as her thief attempts to go rob a wealthy merchant.

And I figure thats enough random rambling anyway.

[AoTFan]

"He wears tan shoes with pink shoelaces
A polka dot vest and man, oh, man
Tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band"

Holy crap, I think someone is dating a pimp!