It Requires A Firm Tongue

It’s the note of triumph towards the end.

“Boi-toigle-goidle-doi-goi-loize.”
I’d have gone with bay-tel-gerz, but that doesn’t seem very fashionable. Parodies aside, the whole thing’s a bit of a shambles anyway. Wasn’t the word mis-transcribed from Arabic in the first place, even before the recent beetle-juice mangling?

Not that I give a hoot about the super bowl, but we can probably make book on when the San Francisco defeat will be blamed on misogyny, homophobia, and Teh Patriarchy™ because one of their assistant coaches is a lesbian.

Speaking of matters cosmic, has anyone been watching Star Trek: Picard?

because one of their assistant coaches is a lesbian.
OK…because I’m bored and waiting on a coworker…As has been our thing for a while, wife and I spent the day yesterday at an art festival. Such things generally attract the leftist types and etc., but didn’t even encounter so much as a snowflake even when I lit my cigar. Enjoyed a beautiful day. Outside the festival area, quietly behaving themselves was a Lizzie Warren group, but that was about it. When we got home, wife wanted to watch the entertainment parts of the (formerly) Big Game. The national anthem and halftime parts. So I was like, OK I’m good with it until they shove some political or PC crap in my face. The VERY FIRST commercial after the national anthem, etc. showed some football players in powder blue uniforms lining up for what looked like a field goal attempt, but you couldn’t see their faces. Not 0.5 seconds into this thing and I said to my wife, “The kicker is a girl”. She rolled her eyes and started to give me crap about how I was being the political one. Sure enough, it’s a commercial for women’s deodorant and not only was the kicker a woman, but the whole football team reveals themselves as women. Because of course.

Watchmen: I thought they were doing OK with this (I especially enjoyed the “origins” sequences) until about half-way through episode 8 whereupon the whole thing veered off the left side of the road into that wretched swamp of Woke Hokum, ending up half-submerged somewhere near the wreck of Dr. Who.
I suppose the signs were there from the beginning and it was just wishful thinking on my part; anyway, as the main show-runner has left we will thankfully be spared a sequel and so we should be grateful for small mercies.

Speaking of matters cosmic, has anyone been watching Star Trek: Picard?
My consumption of all things Trek is limited to letting it filter through Mike and Rich of RLM: https://youtu.be/hfQdf93e63I
“The kicker is a girl”
Back in the day I happened to be at one of my high school’s home games when our team played against a town that had let a girl pass muster to play with the boys. There was a definite undercurrent in the crowd of hoping the opponents never put her in a position to either tackle or be tackled. No one wanted to see a female get rag dolled by a member of our team, nor watch some slapstick attempt to half-ass bring her down without hurting her.
It occurred to me at the time that this dynamic might have been seen as advantageous by the other team’s coaches.

letting it filter through Mike and Rich of RLM
It’s fun watching Mike and Rich giving this more thought than the writers apparently did.

That’s a bold use of denim.
Where I live that’s known as a Canadian Tuxedo.

And I scored David’s avatar design for the first time. Nice!
Well, one of us is going to have to get changed.

Heh. It’s an outrage.

Has post Brexit Britain gone all No Blade Of Grass yet?
Should we send food parcels?
A bumper mango crop means the Flying Foxes around here are particularly succulent,
should I chuck a couple in with the TimTams?

…a Trump supporting drag queen…
You mean Giuliani?
https://youtu.be/MBKu9OJ8Ltk

There’s a proposed amendment for that.
https://www.change.org/p/the-united-states-congress-ejexit

Of the RLM crew Rich is easily the most famous in matters of fashion:
https://youtu.be/Ld-aisAWtmw

Betelgeuse, eh? You want culture with that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev1m2TFWdzo
Warning: 20th century classical music on other side of this link.

OK, they didn’t go for the sexism/homophobia angle, but the Chief’s win was obviously racist.

Speaking of matters cosmic, has anyone been watching Star Trek: Picard?
I was hoping there was going to be a crossover between Star Trek and Star Wars where the Gamorreans showed up in Star Trek uniforms so we could have Star Trek: Pig Guard….

Also: Fan Service is annoying.

…it’s gotten rather boring.
Oh, for the heady days when the half-black-on-the-left guy wanted to kill the half-black-on-the-right guy. Turns out that episode was actually a very sophisticated and subtle commentary on contemporary race relations…

It was only after I watched a re-run of The A-Team that I realized the magnitude of the sacrifices my father made when I was a boy. How he sat through an episode (while half-sober!) with my brother and I every week — well, words fail me.

What about Uranus?

It was only after I watched a re-run of The A-Team that I realized the magnitude of the sacrifices my father made when I was a boy.
Hey, that was damn good TV for the 1980’s. Helicopters would crash into the side of a mountain and the bad guys would come stumbling out, coughing, unarmed and surrender. Once you understood that it was Murdock who was the real brains behind the whole operation, it made a lot more sense. Well that and a few beers.