The Unofficial Badmovies.org Random Thought Thread!

[LilCerberus]

If I owned a sports team-I would make my name/mascot a athlete from a different sport.  Like, my baseball team would be called The Hockey Players.  My basket ball team would be the Hometown Baseball Players.  An my Hockey team would be called Basketball coaches

In my town, there's been a big stink going on for twenty years about how the government want to tare down an historic district to put in a new ball park....
I once mused about moving it to this space where there's an abandoned grocery store next to some undeveloped land not far from me...

If I could do that, I would name the new team for the neighborhood rather than the city, and I would name them The Ballists, and their logo would be Maskie The Mascot, only the mask would have a huge hole in the front because it's against the law to wear a mask in this state....

[Rev. Powell]

Just ate a hot pizza without burning the roof of my mouth. Win-win!

[LilCerberus]

RIP Prince (The Artist Formerly Known As Prince)

[ER]

I'm investing in whatever company makes purple caskets.

[LilCerberus]

RIP Joanie Laurer, aka wrestler Chyna

[Rev. Powell]

One of the unexpected benefits of marijuana legalization will be that, as its use grows mainstream, the obnoxious stoner subculture will die out.

[AoTFan]

If I had super-strength and got into a fight in a forest, I'd rip a large tree from the ground and swing it like a club yelling, "I've got wood!!"

[indianasmith]

More tragic news from the world of music today . . .

   Kanye West was found alive in his Beverly Hills mansion this morning.

[lester1/2jr]

watching movies after midnight is definitely better. I'm not sure why

[ER]

watching movies after midnight is definitely better. I'm not sure why

One theory on that, lester: according to psychologists, disbelief is most readily suspended the closer one is to entering a state of sleep. Hence when interrogating someone, make sure they're sleepy.

[ER]

If I owned a sports team-I would make my name/mascot a athlete from a different sport.  Like, my baseball team would be called The Hockey Players.  My basket ball team would be the Hometown Baseball Players.  An my Hockey team would be called Basketball coaches

In my town, there's been a big stink going on for twenty years about how the government want to tare down an historic district to put in a new ball park....
I once mused about moving it to this space where there's an abandoned grocery store next to some undeveloped land not far from me...

If I could do that, I would name the new team for the neighborhood rather than the city, and I would name them The Ballists, and their logo would be Maskie The Mascot, only the mask would have a huge hole in the front because it's against the law to wear a mask in this state....

In one of his later books, I believe it may have been his last book The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan did an interesting chapter on how the names given to sports team give an interesting window into cultural relativism, and he listed names of teams from around the world that just about make your eyes pop out, especially some from Africa and Asia. They mingle images of fertility, and bodily functions and...can come off as wistfully boastful.

[Leah]

More tragic news from the world of music today . . .

   Kanye West was found alive in his Beverly Hills mansion this morning.

[ER]

A loud Texan in a ten-gallon hat walked into a pub in Galway and announced, "We Texans have some hard drinkers among us, but I hear tell you Irish really take the prize in that department, so I'll tell you what. I'll put up $500.00 that none of you can take the Dallas Challenge, which is chugging ten shots of whiskey in a row, back to back."


There were some stirrings in the pub, some murmurings, but nobody stepped forward, and in fact one grizzled fella in a soiled overcoat even got up and quietly left the pub entirely.


"Thought so!' said the Texan, who whooped a yee-haw and began to boast to any who'd listen about how the Dallas Challenge had topped the Irish, but he'd no sooner begun his bragging than the little man who'd left the pub walked back in and came up to him.


"Would yer wager still stand, sir?" the Irishman asked the Texan. After being scathingly assured that it did, the Irishman said, "Then line up the whiskies, sir, line them up."


When the publican had sat ten brimming glasses of whiskey on the bar, the little Irishman proceeded to knock each glass back, slamming them in ten great gulps. When he reached the end, he seemed none the worse for wear, and impressed, the Texan dutifully handed over the five hundred dollars.


"Well that was something else!" the Texan admitted, "but tell me something, son, why'd you leave this here bar when I first made my challenge?"


"Oh," the Irishman said humbly, "I wasn't sure I could actually do it, so I went to the pub around the corner and chugged ten whiskies there to make sure I really could..."

[lester1/2jr]

Has Sally gone too far afield?

[Flangepart]

If sharks could talk, would they have an accent?