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June 17th, 2008 · 68 Comments
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1 steve // Jun 17, 2008 at 9:23 pm
FIST! to the Lakers!
2 Bitsey // Jun 17, 2008 at 10:02 pm
It’s so true.
And if they’d have won, there’d be riots. So.
(Is Boston burning yet?)
3 Gina // Jun 17, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Nah. Sixth sports championship since 2002. We’ve got it down pat.
4 Bitsey // Jun 17, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Apparently so.
Congrats!
5 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 18, 2008 at 6:18 am
Basketball?
What, did something important happen?
6 JohnnyBoy // Jun 18, 2008 at 8:25 am
I won a dollar. People were betting so I bet a dollar…I do not follow basketball at all, I avoid basketball like the plague…maybe I’d start watching it if they used a medicine ball for a ball
or if Arena Football used Midgets
7 joshpincusiscrying // Jun 18, 2008 at 8:42 am
ahhhh, we’re used to disappointment here in Philadelphia.
8 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 18, 2008 at 9:15 am
Disappointment and deliciously creamy cheese products.
9 JohnnyBoy // Jun 18, 2008 at 10:00 am
“In Philadelphia, it’s worth Fifty Bucks”
Bo Diddley – Trading Places
10 DavidinBerkeley // Jun 18, 2008 at 10:47 am
As a practicing* gay man who is unclear on the joke, I’m guessing this is sports-related.
*I haven’t gotten it right yet.
11 DavidinBerkeley // Jun 18, 2008 at 11:08 am
And since content has sometimes left the topic, I will ask:
How do you keep squirrels from munching on the apples on a tree? A friend is trying to save the crop on his backyard tree and is in a tiny war with them. (No life-altering chemicals or body-strewn-battlefields, if at all possible.)
12 JohnnyBoy // Jun 18, 2008 at 11:50 am
Feed them other things, then they’ll be full and won’t scrounge
13 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 18, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
14 Bitsey // Jun 18, 2008 at 12:11 pm
If you find out, let me know. I’m having the same war with birds trying to eat my apricots.
On another tangent, I just read that Lucas Grabeel wants to play Kurt Cobain. While that’s pretty ridiculous, does it mean that Ashley Tisdale will want to play Courtney Love!? That would be fabulous. (Pun intended.)
15 pal Jacky // Jun 18, 2008 at 12:26 pm
my mighty Pekingeses are 15lb squirrel killers. Actually, they do chase them away, but any bigger animal like possums scare them. My suggestion is for your friend to get a dog. Unless your friend already has a dog, then it a wimpola dog and they need to upgrade to a killer breed like a pekingese.
16 pal Jacky // Jun 18, 2008 at 12:31 pm
off topic, the mayans were a pretty backwater civilization given everything we know about them today except for one thing, their calender. It is perhaps the greatest practical joke of the western hemisphere. Did their realize 500 years ago that crackpots and halfwits would actually think that the world would come to an end when the calander became outdated? Normal decent real calanders have to be changed once a year and only during Y2K did any nut job predict doom.
17 izzatso // Jun 18, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Was it the Mayans who played that game where they tossed their enemies’ decapitated heads thru a hoop? Now that’s a ball game I’d actually watch. Just trying to tie in the conversations.
18 joshpincusiscrying // Jun 18, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Philadelphia Cream Cheese isn’t manufactured here.
Just more disappointment.
19 JohnnyBoy // Jun 18, 2008 at 2:03 pm
New York Brand Texas Toast is made in Ohio
20 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 18, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Mars bars are made on Earth.
21 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 18, 2008 at 2:11 pm
And while we’re on the subject, trip this: I just had a French Dip on an Italian roll with a side of German potato salad. All meal components originated from somewhere in Southern California.
…except for my drink. It was a Coke, and it came from Mexico.
22 Scott // Jun 18, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Kobe! Kobe! Bwahahaha!
23 pal Jacky // Jun 18, 2008 at 2:26 pm
That is great sport. And I think it is only a matter of time before human sacrifices come back. Maybe the mayans were more advanced than I first thought. But they were conquered by those dirt back conquistadors.
24 izzatso // Jun 18, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I sacrifice my brain every time I watch The Next Great Country Star. Hope conquistador hats make a comeback.
25 pal Jacky // Jun 18, 2008 at 2:48 pm
also, this is kind of from the last discussion. I’m slavic and hungarian on my father’s side and polish Jew and texan on my mom’s. I can’t stop and get offended everytime one of those groups is insulted. Okay the last few years I’ve hidden the fact my Maternal grandpa (who is 96) is from texas.
26 izzatso // Jun 18, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I was KIDDING! I wasn’t really offended. And to demonstrate how we are all one, my grandma on my father’s side was half Hungarian. The circle o’ life is now complete. I’m even wearing a cowboy hat as I type.
27 Doug // Jun 18, 2008 at 7:46 pm
David, spray the apples with paraquat. You’ll get the last laff, believe me.
28 pal Jacky // Jun 18, 2008 at 8:16 pm
actually my grandfather is pretty amazing. He had one of the first open heart surgerys in the 1960’s and he is still alive. He still lives in his own home (wth full time help)and his money won’t run out for another 40 years(at about $120,000 a year. ). of course, every year he lives my inheritance goes down about $12,000. But I’m hopin’ he outlives me, so it doesn’t matter all that much.
29 pal Jacky // Jun 18, 2008 at 10:52 pm
one thing about the Italians is that they think their shit doens’t stink when it comes to classical music. What crap. Vivaldi was outclassed by Bach, Rossini by beethoven, verdi by wagner, puccini by R. strauss and Respighi by anyone else alive at the time. This of course, is just directly comparing Strauss’ operas to puccini’s. Strauss wrote so much more than that.
30 coasterboy // Jun 19, 2008 at 4:19 am
Beatrice foods is no longer in Beatrice, Nebraska.
It moved to Ohio. Little known fact: It was the largest black owned business in America for many years….
31 coasterboy // Jun 19, 2008 at 4:21 am
Why is it that on the West coast you have a Denver omelette, but in the East coast you have a Western Omelette? Why are Garbonzo beans on the Left coast, but Chick Peas on the East coast?
32 Doug // Jun 19, 2008 at 4:33 am
For the same reason that I’m 1/2 rock’n'roll, 1/2 country, and 1/2 western, coasterboy.
Beware the manbearpig!
33 Stretch99 // Jun 19, 2008 at 10:04 am
OFF TOPIC II
I will be at Dodger Stadium Saturday 06/21 promoting the upcoming movie version of Mamma Mia.
Come to the game – sing along!!
34 DavidinBerkeley // Jun 19, 2008 at 11:11 am
In other news….
The Burger King in London, England is selling a $200 burger.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,368901,00.html
35 IsraeliSchmali // Jun 19, 2008 at 11:21 am
Ooo…but it still looks like the rest of Burger King’s crap on a bun.
Why do we call it “pop” and everyone else calls it “soda”?
36 Stretch99 // Jun 19, 2008 at 12:15 pm
“The Burger King in London, England is selling a $200 burger.”
…dont you mean a 200 lb burger?
37 Infinite monkey // Jun 19, 2008 at 2:13 pm
basketball jones!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIbp5C-5WXM
38 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 19, 2008 at 4:22 pm
IsraeliSchmali, we don’t call it “pop”. Almost no one calls it “pop”.
Ninety-year-olds in Wisconsin call it “pop”.
39 Doug // Jun 19, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Them’s fightin’ words, Speedy! The entire population of Michigan, and most mid-western (mid-eastern?) states calls it “pop”.
Soda is a white powder.
40 JohnnyBoy // Jun 19, 2008 at 5:47 pm
NY says Soda
Most if not all of the South says Pop
New England varies, sometimes within miles
41 Stretch99 // Jun 19, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Coke is a white powder
and a soda – so go figure
42 Andre // Jun 19, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Hellman’s/Best Foods?
McCormick/Schilling?
Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr.?
I’m reminded of the first day on my first trip to Australia. I went to a pizza place and among the toppings for the “California” pizza was “capsicum”. I’m a native Californian and I didn’t know what the hell that was. “Nobody better put capsicum on my pizza!” Turned out it’s Aussie-speak for “bell-peppers”.
P.S. I, too, will be at Dodger Stadium Saturday along with Stretch(99?) to promote “Mamma Mia”, which goes to show I’ll do almost ANYTHING for free Dodger tickets…even sing ABBA songs. AND we’ll be out in the pavilion, which means no beer to wash away that “saccharine-pop” taste.
43 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 19, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Soda is a white powder? So is Coke. *Ba-dum-bum*
But seriously Doug, you seem to have forgotten that the flyover states don’t count. The mid-west needs to stick to what it does best: growing corn, producing asinine bumper stickers, and going to church. We educated folks in the real world will decide the vernacular.
…I keed, I keed. Really, I love the mid-west. My favorite rapper is from the mid-west.
As for capsicum… Well, that’s just a vocab deficiency. As a hot sauce aficionado, I know that capsicum is the genus of plants under which all pepper-type plants fall. Though if someone told me they were putting capsicum on my pizza, I would probably assume it to be hot pepper. Thanks to my hot sauce aficionado-ness.
44 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 19, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Okay, here we go. I finally found the map.
http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html
As we can see, a vast chunk of the country, concentrated in the flyover area and extending into the north and north-western states, falls into the “pop” category, California, Arizona, and a chunk of Nevada, along with much of the east cost, falls into the “soda” camp, while the dumb shits in the South call their Sprites “Cokes” for no apparent reason. Perhaps this has something to do with the location of the Coke production facilities.
Of note, however, is that lone splotch of “soda” in Missouri and Illinois. Why would an area right on the border between the “pop” dorks and the “coke” retards go for “soda”? An interesting anomaly, don’t you think?
So there you have it. At the end of the day, it seems that the majority of America goes for “pop” or “coke”, while the important parts of America go for “soda”.
To paraphrase noted gasbag Penn Jillette, “The most popular song of all time is ‘Candle in the Wind’ by Sir Elton John. Popular sure don’t make it right!” Jillette was talking about the prevalence of religion in that quote, but it applies to other important issues as well. Like what we call our carbonated beverages.
45 Doug // Jun 19, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I live in Alabama (for the time being…my agenda involves getting my ass outta here and back up to Michigan in a few short years). Down here the yokels say “gimme a coke”, and the waiters say “what kinda coke? We got Sprite, 7-up, ARNG (orange), and even Pepsi-Coke. But we plum outta Coca-Cola coke.”
Damn, I just spilled arnge coke all over my step-ins.
46 pal Jacky // Jun 19, 2008 at 8:29 pm
‘Candle in the wind’ is the most popular song of all time? really, I’m skeptical about that. Where’s the data. Of course if penn jillette says it, it has to be true.
When I was groing up a local sushi resturant had a ‘gardena roll’ which featured advocado in it. Now sushi everywhere has ‘california roll’ with advocado.
An idiot once bragged to me that ELP’s ‘pictures at an exhibition’ was the most popular version of the mussorgsky warhorse. Of course, on the surface the statement is true. There have been at least 300 recordings of the classical versions since Koussivitsky’s 1937 orchestral one so statistics can be manipulated.
47 pal Jacky // Jun 19, 2008 at 8:33 pm
FYI if you want a cheap kick butt digital recording check out Kucher on Naxos. He also gives both original and rimsky korsakoff versions of ‘night on bald mountain’. Of course the most listened to version of that piece is Stokovski’s butchering that he put in the original ‘fantasia’ It is also the coolest sequence in the video game ‘kingdom hearts’ as you fight the devil himself.
48 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 19, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Kingdom Hearts had amazing music. An incredibly talented composer like Shimomura putting her own spin on well-known Disney songs, along with all of the Uematsu-y Final Fantasy style music it inherited… damn, that’s just a great soundtrack.
The music that plays in Hollow Bastion is vintage FF, as is that choir piece that plays near the beginning and end of the game. “Destati”, I think it’s called.
And of course they made beautiful use of Uematsu’s “One Winged Angel” during the bonus fight with Sephiroth. Almost makes up for the fact that Lance Bass did Sephiroth’s voice.
49 JohnnyBoy // Jun 20, 2008 at 6:05 am
I guess I haven’t been deep south enough to hear that coke abberation
but deep enough to have heard what I’d order as a “Coke” called a “Co-Cola”
50 Stretch99 // Jun 20, 2008 at 7:50 am
What no BEER?!!!! How can you sing Dancing Queen without beer!!!!!!!!
see ya Saturday Andre!!!!
51 Scott // Jun 20, 2008 at 8:52 am
Pop, coke, soda? Everybody in New England knows that stuff is rightly called TONIC.
52 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 20, 2008 at 9:14 am
Sorry Scott, tonic is carbonated water with quinine. Nothing more, nothing less.
We may argue about “soda”, “pop”, “sweetened carbonated canned beverage”, or whatever, but tonic is tonic is tonic.
Don’t argue. I’m a licensed member of the IBA. I know my shit. At least when it comes to cocktail components, I know my shit.
53 JohnnyBoy // Jun 20, 2008 at 9:27 am
That’s a variation I’ve never heard.
New England is so variable, so I’m not surprised
54 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 20, 2008 at 9:32 am
Jesus Christ, I’m so disturbed by this. I mean, “pop” and “soda”, diametrically opposed as they are, are still generic terms. But when you start going to “coke” and (shudder) “tonic”, you cross a line. Both coke and tonic are specific, documented drink formulas. I mean, it’s like calling all automobiles “Ford Tauruses”.
55 Scott // Jun 20, 2008 at 9:40 am
Speedy Cerviche–That would be called Tonic WATER around here.
Hey! How to speak New England.
http://www.worcestermass.com/words.shtml
No wonder the rest of the country hates New Englanders.
56 JohnnyBoy // Jun 20, 2008 at 9:55 am
Here on Long Island , approximately half of those words being used would go unnoticed.
57 JohnnyBoy // Jun 20, 2008 at 10:01 am
I encountered the term “Jimmies” (meaning Ice Cream Sprinkles) in Atlantic City, a friends daughter worked at an Ice Cream Parlor, and she said I didn’t have to pay, unless I wanted Jimmies.
I said “what are Jimmies” and she said “Jimmies are extra”, and I said “No, what ARE they? ” and she said “Oh…25 cents extra !”
58 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 20, 2008 at 10:05 am
Scott… Why would I want to learn how to speak New England?
Man Scott, that site makes my teeth hurt. No offense, but some of those terms are incredibly annoying and asinine.
Hey, I love slang. I actively study slang. I enjoy learning and implementing strange and exotic slangs (I just got through immersing myself in Chi-town’s native argot, and I still find myself saying “sawbuck” every now and then…).
But goddamn… I could never bring myself to use that wikid retahded jargon. I would be far too embarrassed. Mind, this is coming from a guy who routinely spoke Nadsat and Carney throughout his high school career.
And just to be clear, I don’t think the rest of the country hates New Englanders. One of my bestest friends in the whole wide world was born and bred in Massachusetts. I never hated him.
Though to be fair, he never called soda “tonic”. At least not around me. If he did… well, I’m fairly sure I would have physically assaulted him, right then and there.
Wow, this whole discussion has really allowed me to discover a side of myself that I’m not all that fond of. BRB, antidepressants.
59 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 20, 2008 at 10:11 am
Ah yes, quite the amusing anecdote, JB.
Though among my group, “jimmy” is just another one of the many terms for the human wang.
As in, “Be careful around Pal Jacky. Yesterday he tried to touch my jimmy.”
60 JohnnyBoy // Jun 20, 2008 at 11:07 am
What WAS the Curse of the Bambino? Is it like The Mummy’s Curse (either Fukhenaton or Ra-Damn)?
61 JohnnyBoy // Jun 20, 2008 at 11:10 am
Speedy, is that similar to where many city names can be used to describe women’s breasts?
Like “She’s got some set of Rochesters” or “Get a load of the SantaMonicas on that one”
62 Scott // Jun 20, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Curse of the Bambino? Whatever that was it seems to have been transferred to New York along with Johnny Damon.
63 JohnnyBoy // Jun 20, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I always figured it was like “Fuck you, Ty Cobb” or something.
64 Andre // Jun 20, 2008 at 3:20 pm
In England (the old one) ” jimmies” (aka “sprinkles”) are known as “hundreds and thousands”. That’s just way too long.
65 pal Jacky // Jun 20, 2008 at 6:24 pm
in ‘final fantasy VII-crisis core’ for the PSP which I just finished sephiroth is voiced by what sounds like the movie trailer voice over guy. It is pretty awful. Not a bad little game, but Final Fantasy lite.
I’m playing ‘lost odyssey’ now and somewhere between Sakaguchi’s film school background and Uematsu unmistakable music style. It feels much closer to the real final fantasy games than anything square-enix has put out in awhile. Rumor is that it was going to be FFXI until they decided to go online with it and Sakaguchi quit in disgust. Can anyone name any other non ff games that have a female pirate? The main character is 1000 years old and lost his memory(cloud and Titus rolled into one). Magic is making a comeback after it being lost for years. We saw that in ffVI. It really makes FFXII seem like a cheap FF ripoff and this is the real thing.
66 IsraeliSchmali // Jun 21, 2008 at 7:25 am
Jimmy hats. Ta-da. I was born and raised in Maine and that slang website is a load of crap. Now I live in Michigan and they say pop when usually they mean Faygo.
67 tcotrel // Jun 22, 2008 at 11:22 am
Have you ever noticed how famous deaths come in threes?
Tim Russert
Cyd Charisse
The Los Angeles Lakers
68 Bitsey // Jun 22, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Down North Carolina way, they call every syrup-with-carbonated-water-beverage a Pepsi.
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