YSaC, Vol. 807: La Copa de la Muerte

2010 October 2

next your child’s game to the next level


Would you like for the childs to be really good at the sport or sports they play

if so then that RILEY FAST help them get there

We are here to help anybody that needs hlep with getting their childs at the level their childs want to be

The better in shape and the better skilled a person is in a sport the more fun it becomes

so you want your child to be good and having alot fun playing sports

Thank GOD! I’ve been waiting for someone to help the Childs get better at the sport or sports they play.

I know they’ve been dead 6 and 16 years respectively, but with all the zombie stuff the kids are into these days, that’s just no excuse. They need to get better at the sport or sports they play. Please speculate amongst yourselves as to what sports those might be.

So in the immortal words of George Carlin, “Remember, kids… if you play a sport? Go ahead.”

Thanks for this one, MB!

150 Responses leave one →
  1. 2010 October 2
    Is.An.Avatar permalink

    OMG! RILEY FAST has an Internet site.

    Cannot be the same person that wrote the CL spot – or could it………

    Adores: 9
    • 2010 October 2

      That site was comprehensable. Either Riley hired someone to do the website, or Riley FAST is the Avon/Amway of the fitness world and this guy is an independent agent.

      Adores: 7
      • 2010 October 2
        Is.An.Avatar permalink

        ♫ Ding Dong ♪♪ RILEY FAST calling………

        Adores: 8
        • 2010 October 2

          I’m thinking “Riley Fast” is not something you want to be when dealing with the opposite sex.
          But that could be something you ladies WOULD want, say, 0500ish and it becomes apparent that it is “Together T-shirt Time”.

          Adores: 7
      • 2010 October 2
        Bombdude permalink

        That site was comprehensable.

        I dunno Christina, maybe they just had a better gooder proofreader for the site.

        Boot Camp
        Do you like being outside when you work ?
        Do you like hard physical training and still have fun ?
        Do you like to learn new creative way to workout ?
        If you answer yes to all three question then Boot Camp is right for you

        Adores: 4
    • 2010 October 2
      Meredith permalink

      That middle picture, when seen in context of the pictures with children, is making me uncomfortable. I don’t like to think “Sweat glistening on chiseled abs” when I think “Children’s sports”. It looks like a post for “Intimate Encounters”.

      Adores: 10
    • 2010 October 2

      If you go all the way to the bottom of the site, they are located on Gay Street.
      Not that there is anything wrong with that.

      Adores: 9
      • 2010 October 2
        ToBScholarly permalink

        Not just on Gay street. But an APARTMENT. So Sparky is asking us to send our children to his apartment to get exercise?

        I think not.

        Adores: 7
        • 2010 October 2
          Meredith permalink

          At least it’s not a van…DOWN BY THE RIVER.

          Adores: 11
      • 2010 October 2
        Lola permalink

        Gay St. is an actual street in the West Village … I’ve been by there … and you know, there aren’t a lot of kids around … hmm.

        Adores: 8
        • 2010 October 2
          Meredith permalink

          So, I just have to ask. It’s in the West Village…are there a lot of homosexuals on Gay Street?

          HAVE to ask.

          I lived in Dallas about 12 years ago (my gosh, has it been that long???). There was a street in the center of the “gay district” (so said by my gay coworker) named Nutbutt. Nutbutt street…seriously. I mean, who in the world had this as a last name and thought “You know, I’ll keep it.” The sign was stolen almost monthly.

          Apparently it was changed to Acorn St. the year I left.

          Adores: 9
        • 2010 October 2
          Lola permalink

          Gay St. is totally in the gayborhood. It’s only a couple of blocks from the Stonewall Inn, if you know anything about that. I have a friend who works in that area and who is gay and consequently we’re often there when we’re hanging out (that area, not specifically Gay St.).

          NUTBUTT? REALLY? That’s so terrible/great you can’t make it up. I love it.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 2

          I didn’t know you had lived in Dallas, Meredith. And I didn’t know about Nutbutt either and I’m very familiar with Oak Lawn. It’s really the only neighborhood I’d live in in Dallas. Pity, the housing prices are sky high in that area.
          Personally, I think the most appropriate name goes to Harry Hines Blvd,where the strip joints/massage parlors are.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 2
          CapnMac permalink

          Especially since every one, visitors and locals alike, pronounces “Harry Hines” as “Harry Hinds” (and that before a night down to the “Steak Pit”–more commonly known as the “Snake Pit”; thinl “Bob’s Country Bunker” from Blues Brothers).

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 October 2
          Meredith permalink

          I used to waitress right at the entrance to Oak Lawn, and when I’d get off work, the only places open other than clubs were right along the main street there. It was so nice to feel safe sitting outside with your friends drinking coffee and eating cupcakes at 2am, so I always wanted to live in that area. Course, as was pointed out, you pay far faaaar out the ass for that feeling of safety.

          *Again, unintentional sounding wrongness there. (My computer says that “wrongness” is a real word, but grey and falsetto are not. huh.)

          Oh, and Christina, wanna guess where I lived and went to school? Oak Cliff, baby!!! I like that when my friends claim they have lived or worked in “the ghetto”, I can point out that scenes from “The first 48” often take place on the street I used to live on…dead body finding and all.

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 October 2

          Meredith, I have some sad news for you. In the last five years Oak Cliff has become a hipster haven. I’m not kidding.
          It’s a shame, there were some nice old victorian style houses that were affordable.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 2
          CapnMac permalink

          In 1984, I was working swing shift at Oak Lawn, between Lemmon and Cedar Springs, over near Turtle Creek. This was as yuppie-fied a place as Dallas in the 80’s could be.
          During the day, that is.
          At night, it tried to be Market St in San Francisco.
          Really odd to go to work at 1500 amid yuppie scum, and slog until almost 0200.
          “Lunch” at 1800 equally unique.
          Do not miss those days at all.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 October 2

          Cap’n, Oak Lawn is still yuppie scum, but now it’s gay yuppie scum, which, in my hypocritical mind, makes it acceptable. That, and it’s probably the only neighborhood in Dallas that still subscribes to the traditional mixed use definition of neighborhood. I like the idea of walking 2 blocks to the store, rather than driving 2 blocks because one of the cross streets is 5 lanes of traffic with Dallas drivers.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 2
          Meredith permalink

          The idea of Oak Cliff being a hipster haven just seems soooo odd. I went to the Bible school over there, and I have lovely memories of weekly holdups at the McDonald’s on the block, a friend getting shot in a drive by…walking home from church, bodies being found at the end of our sports field, sadly usually children. The one time I ever tried to use public transportation, I ended up literally running for my life and hiding on campus from a group of guys.

          There would be nights when my roommates and I would be sitting in our apartments and hear helicopters going over. Then spotlights in the yard. Then we’d hear people running by. It was just another night of the cops chasing someone through the neighborhood. “Keep your doors LOCKED at ALL TIMES.” was part of the first campus tour, because people would try to get into any open door if they were running away. Had many nights where we’d wake up in the middle of the night to someone trying to get the bars off the windows.

          How my parents ever let me go there, I do not know. It was a great life lesson, though.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 3
          CapnMac permalink

          Was funny to be over there, there were all the up-scale places on Cedar Springs, like Black-Eyed Pea-and also hookers around the bars, too.
          The Eithiopian Room was two blocks from where I worked. But, everything was $2 more per plate them at Lunch. Was a decent Tex-Mex joint on Lemmon almost on turtle Creek, they had thick, home-style flour tortillas. Also, a decent BBQ joint in a former IHOP too.

          Most of that is gone, now. The architect’s office did not last much past the 90’s. No great loss.

          Adores: 0
    • 2010 October 2
      Litarider permalink

      I can confirm: that is the correct site. I know because I submitted the ad.

      Riley Fast is located in Phoenixville, PA a rust-belt suburb of Philadelphia.

      Adores: 3
  2. 2010 October 2
    Grampdaddy permalink

    And each kid gets a special t-shirt just for signing up with ‘RILEY FAST’, ‘cuz it’s more good if its’ funner when your better and gooder…

    Adores: 10
  3. 2010 October 2
    nonsensicalcat permalink

    You want to hlep my childs? That doesn’t sound good.

    Adores: 10
    • 2010 October 2
      MandaB permalink

      “Hlep” is usually the sound you hear at 3am right before your childs gets sick all over the bedroom floor. If you don’t believe me, ask Grampdaddy.

      Adores: 14
      • 2010 October 2

        So my husband is right, there really isn’t any difference between raising children and dogs. I don’t think that’s going to he’ll his “let’s have a baby” case much.

        Adores: 6
        • 2010 October 2

          I just noticed my phone auto corrected hlep to he’ll.

          Adores: 7
      • 2010 October 2

        [Puke blasting corey] The last cat that I had would come into whatever room held humans and would say “Marly, marly, marly” *pause* “MARLY, MARLY, MARLY!” in a crescendo until undigested Cat Chow (TM), mouse, and cockroach reentered atmosphere. Then he would saunter off while my now ex-wife blew chow onto whatever she was currently sitting in.
        [/Ahh… Memories…]

        Adores: 15
        • 2010 October 2
          Lola permalink

          Smedley, I cannot remember the last time this site made me laugh so hard (and this site does make me laugh). A kabillion doors. It isn’t the story, per se, as I have cleaned my share of cat vom, but the delivery …

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 October 2
          Meredith permalink

          Did you shout back “LIFE IS BUT A DREAM”???

          Adores: 11
        • 2010 October 2

          Well, thank you, Milady…

          And here it is, several hours later, and I just now saw what you did there, Meredith.
          Time to rub some beer on my intellect.

          Adores: 4
  4. 2010 October 2
    nonsensicalcat permalink

    When did “next” become a verb? Did I miss the verbing of “next”?

    Adores: 7
    • 2010 October 2

      Actual comment heard in the grocery store not too long ago:
      “Hey! he said next person in line! I was next! You can’t just next youself!”

      Adores: 18
      • 2010 October 2
        tmh permalink

        ” You can’t just next youself!”
        made coffee shoot out of my nose -not a first while reading YsaC, but the 1st time it got in my eye.

        Adores: 8
        • 2010 October 2

          I take it you’ve never been to a Gallagher show, then.
          Rain slicker and safety glasses are de rigeur for safe, enjoyable
          viewing of the antics here.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 2

          *slow fist pump ala Kip Dynamite*
          Yessssssss!

          Adores: 8
    • 2010 October 2
      Windrose permalink

      I next, you next, he/she/it next, they next, we next.

      I nexted, you nexted, he/she/it nexted, they nexted, we nexted.

      I have nexted, you have nexted, he/she/it have nexted, they have nexted, we have nexted.

      Who wants to conjugate poodle?

      Adores: 9
      • 2010 October 2
        Meredith permalink

        All of this “next” is making me vexed.

        Adores: 6
      • 2010 October 2

        I thought the past tense was I noxt/you noxt/they naxt.

        Adores: 5
      • 2010 October 2
        dan permalink

        Poodleo – I poodle (Or is that iPoodle?)
        Poodles – You poodle
        Poodlet – He, She, It Poodles
        Poodlemus – We Poodle
        Poodletis – You (pl.) Poodle
        Poodlent – They Poodle

        Adores: 17
        • 2010 October 2

          You forgot Mudpoodle, the act of being a dirty dog.

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 October 2
          sarajean80 permalink

          Plures ianua Ostrimu pro!

          Adores: 9
        • 2010 October 2
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Past tense – Poodle

          Present tense – Piddle

          Future tense – Puddle

          Repeated frequently.

          Adores: 13
        • 2010 October 4
          tigprincess permalink

          @dan – kudos for the Latin declension. Took me back to schooldays.

          Adores: 0
  5. 2010 October 2
    Meredith permalink

    I don’t know what levels the Childs want to be at, but I’ve heard that Julia is a level 23 Paladin. I think those stats carry over after death.

    Adores: 12
    • 2010 October 2
      CapnMac permalink

      The HP for having learned whisking at Cordon Bleu are nearly unimaginable

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 October 2

        HP= Health Points, or
        HP= Hit Points?

        I am stuck in Poke-Land, where HP= Health Points.

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 2
          sarajean80 permalink

          In game-speak it’s hit points. Since the Childs are living-impaired they probably don’t have to worry about health points much anymore.

          Adores: 8
        • 2010 October 2

          I believe the term is “Decomposition Enhanced”.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 2
          Lola permalink

          Decomposition Enhanced is my Fury in the Slaughterhouse cover band.

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 October 2

          You sure know how to turn a boys head, young lady.

          Adores: 3
    • 2010 October 2
      linnee permalink

      I’m embarrassed to admit that it took me a few seconds to figure out why there was a picture of Julia and Paul…

      Adores: 3
  6. 2010 October 2
    camille permalink

    I have a deep and abiding fondness for Julia Child, but I just don’t believe that cooking should be categorized as a “sport.” And while she was quite skilled, I don’t know that I’d describe her as better in shape.

    Adores: 8
    • 2010 October 2

      Cooking isn’t a sport? You’ve never been to my kitchen. 🙂

      *Granted, it’s more like Ninja Warrior or American Gladiator.

      Adores: 10
      • 2010 October 2
        Windrose permalink

        Iron Chef pretty much proved that cooking is a sport, and there is money to be made in the televising there of.

        Adores: 6
        • 2010 October 2

          My not so secret ambition is to go head to head with Bobby Flay in Kitchen Stadium. Don’t know why, but I just want to knock that perma-smirk off his face.

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 October 2
          LimeLolly permalink

          That’s not what I want to do to Bobby Flay!

          I could use me some cooking lessons! 8)

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 October 2

          Glad I didn’t say Mario Batalli 😉

          Adores: 3
      • 2010 October 2
        Meredith permalink

        HERE SHE IS FOLKS, ALL THE WAY FROM THE AFTERLIFE, THE THRILLA WITH VANILLA…..ZOMBIE JUUUUUUUUUUULIA CHIIIIIILD!!!

        Adores: 18
        • 2010 October 2
          sarajean80 permalink

          “Today’s special ingredient is… BRAAAAINSSS!”

          Zombie Julia Child would kick Bobby Flay’s ass and then turn the judges, Alton Brown, and the Chairman into zombies. They would then barbecue Bobby, which is probably the way he would want to go.

          Adores: 12
        • 2010 October 2
          Artsy Computer Geek permalink

          … quickly looks in Is.An.Avatar’s cook book ….

          I’ll take that challenge! Bobby can’t be that different from a capybara, can he?????

          Adores: 8
        • 2010 October 2

          How would Alton Brown Zombie be any different than Alton Brown not.a.zombie?

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 October 2
          BrainStew permalink

          I assume Zombie Alton wouldn’t randomly become heroin addict thin. Also, he would have an episode named after me! (Or ThoughtfulBouillabaisse, which I am still considering as a permanent name change…)

          Adores: 12
        • 2010 October 2
          ToBScholarly permalink

          I am sooo glad to hear someone else say that. I was just watching Iron Chef two nights ago and was frightened of Alton’s appearance. He is looking rough.

          Hey Alton – eat a burger.

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 October 2
          CapnMac permalink

          Dunno about AB.

          First, there was that very unfortunate haircut last year.

          But, from his appearance of late, I suspect some sort of consumptive illness is being dealt with.

          Which makes me sad.

          He’s still the Bill Nye of cooking.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 October 2
          BrainStew permalink

          I love how AB has become a cooking science icon, especially considering I saw an interview with him where he said he was never any good at science.

          The weight loss could have been from anything. Could have been network pressure and then he went a bit overboard, could be a side effect of a prescription drug, who knows.

          On a lighter note, could you imagine the money he’d make on before and after photos for a weight loss plan/drug? Cha-ching.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 October 2
          Meredith permalink

          He says it was because he was overweight and unhealthy. I personally liked the more robust Alton better, and the first time I saw him thin I thought he was sick, but I do think he’s flippin adorable.

          He started out as an actor and makes no bones about being an actor first, but falling into his role of “Bill Nye of the Kitchen”. I have become a better cook after some of the episodes, now that I know why certain things will combine one way but not another, or how to fix something I may have otherwise thrown out.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 October 2
          CapnMac permalink

          Finally catching up to Iron Chef America; woo!hoo!
          It’s MahiMahi, or as I know it, Dorado.
          Yum.

          Adores: 0
    • 2010 October 2

      Zombie or not, Julia Childs could probably still kick some or all of our asses. You did know she was an operative for the British equivalent of the CIA during World War Two, didn’t you?
      Probably has some confirmed kills in there.

      **Cue inevitable death-by-food quips**

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 October 2

        I thought she was in the French Foriegn Legion. Either way, any women taller than me has got to be kick-asstastic.

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 2

          See? Someone else who would have been a better father figure than Nicolas Cage in “Kick-Ass”.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 2

          How tall was she, anyway?

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 2

          6’2″, and we were both wrong, Smedley, she was in the OSS. She enlisted because she was to tall to join theWAC.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 October 2

          And that should read too tall. It’s Saturday, I don’t have to think. That is my excuse.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 2

          I bow to your research-fu.

          Adores: 2
  7. 2010 October 2

    “…really good at the sports or sports they play. ”
    See, this makes sense to me because I’m not really that good at sports, but I excel at the sports I play because I’ve had a lot of acting experience. In fact, I’m going to be starring as Shaquille O’Neal in the 2011 summer blockbuster, Titanic III: Mermaid Got Game.

    Adores: 13
    • 2010 October 2
      Meredith permalink

      Oh, does that star Helena Bonham Carter as a vampire mermaid hybrid, too? And a CG mermaid sidekick voiced by Gilbert Gottfried?

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 October 2

        Helena landed the role of Kobe Bryant based on her creeperificness.

        Adores: 1
  8. 2010 October 2

    This is an advertisment for a new game show were Gary Burghoff has small children play sports in Korean war era minefeilds.

    Next on O’RILEY FAST, Dodge Ball of Doom!

    Adores: 4
  9. 2010 October 2
    MandaB permalink

    It’s nice to see that the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can’t Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too finally has some sports teams!

    Adores: 13
    • 2010 October 2
      Meredith permalink

      The GOODERS!!!

      Oh, I’m sorry I forgot the school letters. I meant the DZCFCWCRGAWLTDOSGT Gooders!

      Adores: 6
  10. 2010 October 2
    Grampdaddy permalink

    I’m gonna start my own venture, and I’m offering all you YSaC folks a chance to get in on the ground floor. The potential is ENORMOUS and YOU can be a part of it. Here’s the scoop:

    GRAMPDADDY’s HALF-FAST TRAINING!

    We’re devoted to getting your childs to sum level that makes them gooder at something they do, or don’t do, on a hole new level. Shlep you childrens to suckseed in their chosen activities. Relive your desire to be a sports hero at you’re childs’s expense….

    Remember, if your child is better than others, they can torment all the other failures. If they isn’t gooder, they can be tortured and maimed for life, or until they have completed years of therapy. GRAMPDADDY’s HALF-FAST TRAINING! can reduce that burden on you’se children and you.

    Remember, if it isn’t HALF-FAST TRAINING, it isn’t GRAMPDADDY’s !!

    Adores: 17
    • 2010 October 2

      Reminds me of the Super High Intensity Training I got in boot camp.

      Adores: 3
    • 2010 October 2
      MandaB permalink

      Grampdaddy’s HALF-FAST training werked 4 mee!

      Adores: 10
      • 2010 October 2
        LimeLolly permalink

        Can you still sue if you get a ‘family discount’?

        Adores: 2
      • 2010 October 2
        Meredith permalink

        I can suckseed and so can you!!!

        *That was a VERY unintentional line crossing, but oh boy, it sounds bad.

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 October 2
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Meredith – always be very proud of your suckseeding. Some people never do, and they just give up, grow old, and become bitter.

          Adores: 2
    • 2010 October 2
      NotMyName permalink

      Notice that GRAMPDADDY’S HALF FAST TRAINING can reduce the burden, but not prevent it. No offense Grampdaddy.

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 October 2
        Grampdaddy permalink

        None taken. It is obvious that you are struggling with feelings of sports inadequacy and your comment was a cry for help. I would be more than glad to make a HALF-FAST attempt at remedying the situation. Remember NMN, it isn’t how well you do, it’s how goodlier you is getting to be, even if you is not, cuz you are always better than even those who aren’t as better, but might be.

        Always hold your head highly and then you won’t be troublified by your shoe strings being tied to something and when you fall, pick yourself up and say, “What the fudge made me trip!”, and since you holded your head high, you won’t see your shoes lacings is tied together and you’ll trip all over again and everyone will laugh and chortle “Ha-Ha!” but you’s won’t care because you has excelled at GRAMPDADDY’S HALF-FAST…. something. Always keep your vintage Crisco secured.

        I hope my wisdom has brought you a sense of piece.

        Adores: 6
        • 2010 October 2
          MandaB permalink

          Yep. ^That’s my dad^. Explains everything, doesn’t it?

          🙂

          Adores: 3
  11. 2010 October 2
    MandaB permalink

    Hlep! By The Beatles

    Hlep, I need somebody,
    Hlep, not just anybody,
    Hlep, you know I need someone,
    Hlep!

    When I was younger, so much younger than today,
    I wanted play childs sports in more better ways.
    But it wasn’t having fun, I play like kind of turd,
    Then I find the Riley kind and keep up with the herd.

    Hlep me if you can, I can’t slow down
    And I just keep running round and round and round.
    Hlep me, [ERROR, LYRIC NOT FOUND]
    Won’t you please, please hlep me.

    Adores: 24
    • 2010 October 2

      “Hlep me keep my dog out of the pound”?

      Adores: 5
    • 2010 October 2
      Windrose permalink

      So so funny! I love it. Especially the Error message. 8)

      Adores: 2
    • 2010 October 2
      ToBScholarly permalink

      Best comment ever.
      But not so fond of the earworm…

      Adores: 1
  12. 2010 October 2
    Stephanie permalink

    So glad they’re offering sports help and not reading comprehension…

    Adores: 5
    • 2010 October 2
      BrainStew permalink

      They did manage one comprehensible line (though it could be that they intended to write something totally unreadable and messed up) which is more than I would usually expect.

      Adores: 2
    • 2010 October 2

      You don’t need both sets of skills. Look at Wayne Rooney.*

      *Actually, don’t – you won’t like it.

      Adores: 3
  13. 2010 October 2
    CapnMac permalink

    Well, many of you would have more adores, but, IE will not load the site without “Errors on Page.”

    So, there’s no “+1” to press. If I comment, pressing “Submit Comment” will return that perenial favorite “400 Bad Request <hr> ngicx” message.

    Oh well, perhaps, after I get back from the bank, thigs will have improved. If not, perhaps, I’ll ask the minions to set some bots out to investigate.

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 2
      Grampdaddy permalink

      Capn – for what it is worth: I’m running Win 7 and using either FF or Chrome on a laptop and have had NO problems for as long as I’ve been coming here. I have a desktop running Ubuntu with FF and Chrome and have not had a problem with either browser on it either.

      I have no idea if this will give you or anyone else any clues about the problem you are having, but I hope you are able to get it cleared up – you don’t need the frustration.

      Aaron – don’t know if this is any help to you. Thanks for working on a solution though.

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 October 2
        Bombdude permalink

        And I must be Grampdaddy’s early reincarnation, because he just described my multiple setups, exactly. I have never seen an error or issue on this site (except when I accidentally clicked on a +1 twice too fast and got a popup “Cheatin’ huh?”).

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 2
          sarajean80 permalink

          I must be on the other side of the looking glass because I’ve got a desktop running Windows with Chrome and FF and a laptop with Ubuntu. Never had a problem with either, but my work computer sometimes gives me grief when I’m using IE.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 2

          And Grampdaddy says, “Lay off the doughnuts.”

          Adores: 2
    • 2010 October 2
      Is.An.Avatar permalink

      Wow – truly a perverse diverse group we have………

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 October 2
        Grampdaddy permalink

        IAA – you were probably more right the first time.

        Adores: 3
    • 2010 October 2
      CapnMac permalink

      Desktop runs XP with whatever the current SP is. Normal browser choice is FF at whatever the current edition is of that. The alternate browser is IE (8.x if memory serves).

      Tablet is running XP for Tablet. With FF 5.x (which just packed up, first time ever on the Tablet. Now using IE 7.x on the tablet.

      Connection to internet is wireless G to Tablet; DSL modem to router to desktop by CAT5 direct. Yet, it still seems to act like a connection, a router connectivity, issue.

      Still frustrating, never knowing when a button press will blank the screen, leaving only the 400 Bad Request error page.

      Adores: 0
    • 2010 October 2
      Bombdude permalink

      And Grampdaddy says, “Lay off the doughnuts.”

      In Soviet Russia, doughnuts lay off me…

      Adores: 3
  14. 2010 October 2

    Hi, this post is an attempt to replicate the error that some of you are experiencing when posting comments. If you have experienced problems posting comments or accessing the site, please respond to this comment with date and time you experienced the problem.

    Adores: 9
    • 2010 October 2

      This is legit, guys. My hosting company is trying to figure out what’s going on. If you get error messages, let him know!

      Adores: 7
    • 2010 October 2

      Does the Llama Nun* know you are playing on this street?

      *Bees in a Z-Snap formation.

      *Edit- Way ahead of me. I cry pardon, gunslinger!

      Adores: 6
    • 2010 October 2
      Lola permalink

      The hell? How do we know you’re not a spamtroll, Aaron? We need Ostri-mu imprimatur on this.

      Later edit: Speak, and it shall be granted! Cool. OK, will do. Bees be upon you.

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 October 2
        Meredith permalink

        I just love how quickly we close ranks.

        No errors here, thank goodness.

        Adores: 7
    • 2010 October 2

      I haven’t had a browser error with Firefox (latest version, don’t know the number at the moment) since last week (401 error after posting a comment), but the mobile site is working better than ever so please don’t change that!

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 October 2
        Windrose permalink

        Last summer, I were habbing a whole mess o’ trubble wit da error messages and such. Then I found Riley FART (Fix And Repair Tings). I no longer have errors wit da message and I can adores whom so ever I wanna. Try it and you will see. Now gimme back my beers.

        Adores: 7
        • 2010 October 2
          Is.An.Avatar permalink

          The only problem I’ve had with my posts is that I cannot take them back (delete them) after I’ve sobered up.

          Edit: this one being a prime example………

          Adores: 8
    • 2010 October 2
      BrainStew permalink

      Last night I was having an issue with the editing function. I would click edit, the post would come up, I’d change something and click save. Then it would spend forever ‘Saving…’ and never actually save. It cleared up with time, though. I’m running FF 3.6.10 on Vista.

      Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 2

      I’ve had 400 Bad Request errors repeatedly. They happen about once a week, and every time, the only thing that fixes it is to clear not only cache and cookies, but also authenticated sessions and configured accounts. I generally use the site on Flock, which is based on Firefox. I also sometimes use the real Firefox and get the same issue.

      Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 2

      I’m going to post this and see whether or not I get an error. 6:03 PM

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 October 2

        Yup, I got an error. I’m using FF, right now, might need to clear some stuff.

        Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 2
      CapnMac permalink

      Today, apx 1340; then again, circa 1600-1700.
      Above is Win XP using IE 0. (FF would not connect even to YSaC home page)
      Tried again circa 1940-200. then shifted platform.
      Changed to Tablet PC using XP Tablet; & FF 5
      Ran from circa 2130 to 2140.
      Charged browsers circa 2210. (to IE 7)
      Fingers crossed.

      Managed 2 edits, too

      Adores: 0
      • 2010 October 2
        CapnMac permalink

        On editing, the editor sometimes indicates a different amount of time remaining than is allowed.

        I’ve lost count of the number of times I have tried to edit, only to be told either the time had expired, or that I did not have edit rights.

        Adores: 0
  15. 2010 October 2
    Miss Nomer permalink

    I must have used up all my cleverness yesterday, because I have nothing to contribute but a great love of Julia Childs. I would love it if Julie and Julia had all the Julie parts cut out, and was just an entire movie about Julia. She was an amazing cook and an amazing woman, and I LOVED the affection and respect between her and Paul.

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 October 2
      Is.An.Avatar permalink

      Did you know Julia was a spy during WWII? Here is a great Vanity Fair article that sums up her most interesting life. What an interesting lady!

      Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 2
      Windrose permalink

      Missy, I loved her early days at the school. She was so confident appearing, and so funny. At least, as portrayed in the movie. 8)

      Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 2

      Just got back from Wallyworld, and there were no less than three DVD’s that featured Julia. The “Julie and Julia” movie was in the $3.75 rack. I did not go to look for Julia Child movies, they just caught my attention. Does that sound too defensive?

      Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 3
      Meredith permalink

      Julia Child is one of my role models. If you look at her life overall, it seems pretty amazing and impressive. But she was what you’d call a “late bloomer” and much of her life she felt like so much less than the women around her. I actually cried watching the Biography of her. She didn’t succeed at pretty much anything the first time she tried it, but she kept at it. Her story gives me a lot of hope that I can still make something of my life.

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 October 3

        Meredith, you get an Amen, a hug, and a big boost of confidence. You’re still young, you’re one of the wittiest commenters here, you’re absolutely adorable, and you survived bible school in da ‘hood. Seeing as there are far more Sparkies in the world than Merediths, I’d say you’ve got a lot to look forward to.

        Adores: 2
  16. 2010 October 2
    Skye permalink

    Guys, I wouldn’t be so fast to say that the website is legible and therefore can’t be the featured poster:
    http://www.rileyfast.com/Nutrution.html okay, the link as well as the title of the link on the home page both say ‘Nutrution’. In the tips, there is discussion of ‘Strach Containg’ foods and ‘Consumtion’ of ‘vegatables’. I like the random capitalization of misspelled words.

    Good job there!

    I never have any comsumtion of strach containg foods of vegatables, personally.

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 October 2
      Bombdude permalink

      I was thinkin’ the same thing reading the Boot Camp page…

      Adores: 4
    • 2010 October 2

      Well to be honest, I only read the first paragraph on the home page. Combine that with the fact that I can’t spell worth a damn anyway and you probably shouldn’t take my word for it.
      As for consumtion of vegetables, well, at least it wasn’t consumating with vegetables.

      Adores: 1
  17. 2010 October 2
    Bombdude permalink

    Congrats to Miss Nomer for not sucking!!!

    That’s right folks!! She’s in The Box!!

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 2
      BrainStew permalink

      Congrats Miss Nomer! I knew you would be awesome once I saw your choice of avatar.

      Adores: 1
  18. 2010 October 2
    Windrose permalink

    OT true life comedy drama: Chthulhu and I just went grocery shopping, and picked out a seafood sauce for the bay shrimp (YUM!). He said, “There’s no shelf tag with the price.” He then picked up the jar of sauce, and said, “January.” I said, “Put it back, honey! We can’t afford a whole January!”

    Okay, maybe you had to be there. 8)

    Adores: 5
    • 2010 October 2

      You are a wise woman, Windrose. Check the paper tomorrow, the sauce might go on sale for a February.

      Adores: 2
  19. 2010 October 2

    I think a record has been broken today. We have, for the most part, stayed on topic, and the line has nary a scratch on it.
    WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!? 🙂

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 October 2
      Grampdaddy permalink

      Penis….

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 October 2

        Crap, you beat me…

        Hey, I’ll play straight man. I’ll set ’em up, and you can whack ’em off.

        Adores: 6
  20. 2010 October 2
    Grampdaddy permalink

    Don’t know, Smedley – that’d be a hard on to beat.

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 3
      BrainStew permalink

      But isn’t everything a hard on to beat? At least eventually…

      Adores: 1
  21. 2010 October 2
    Grampdaddy permalink

    OK christina – hope you feel better now!

    I suppose it could be that the line has become so well lubricated that things just slip right in and the line isn’t aware that it has been violated – repeatedly.

    Adores: 2
    • 2010 October 2

      I dunno, Grampdaddy, I was thinking the line was getting a bit rusty here, what with no greasy Mexican entrees or puppies with a fondness for cooking oils being about. I’m just glad you’re here now, being an old man of sixty, I’m sure you have some ointment, snake oil or V05 styling cream to shine it up with. 😀

      Adores: 1
  22. 2010 October 2
    AndieJD permalink

    I got nothin’ today, friends, and Mr. JD is waiting patiently to kill stuff using our lone home computer (I know, how prehistoric), but I did have to congratulate our new friend Miss Nomer on her not suckingness. Enjoy your time in the box!

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 2

      Andie, it took me a very long time to figure out that Mr. JD was waiting to use the computer for gaming purposes. I originally read that as Mr. JD took your computer out hunting, then I thought he was using the computer to arm HamCan’s Laserbeam of Doom™.
      Yep, somebody needs to lay off the coffee and Bailey’s.

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 October 2
        CapnMac permalink

        Nah, just need to shore more <G>

        Oh, and Godiva liqueur is devine in coffee.

        Adores: 0
    • 2010 October 3
      BrainStew permalink

      Get thee to a laptopery: why wouldst thou be a
      breeder of killers? I am myself of two laptops;
      but yet I could accuse me of too few ‘tops that it
      were better my mother had not borne me: I am very
      informed, snarkful, web2.0-y, with more bookmarks at
      my beck than I have tabs to put them in,
      occasions to peruse them, or time to eye them
      in. What should such fellows as I do crawling
      between net and inter? We are techy knaves,
      all; become one of us. Go thy ways to a laptopery.

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 October 3
        CapnMac permalink

        Bravo (not the NBC network, either <G>)

        Adores: 0
      • 2010 October 3
        BrainStew permalink

        Dear Shakespeare,

        I swear I love you Mr. Shakes; sorry to deface one of the greatest dramas ever written. Hope you’re not mad, and I’m also sorry about that version of Hamlet with Ethan Hawke, even though I was not personally responsible.

        Much love,

        BrainStew

        Adores: 2
  23. 2010 October 3
    Windrose permalink

    Miss Nomer, Punchity Punch Punch! Is this your first time? I know it won’t be your last.

    G’Night, Oak *sound of gunfire* Cliff!

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 3

      *sound of gunfire immediately followed by sound of Mr. Winkey opening a can of PBR*

      Adores: 1
  24. 2010 October 3
    Smackie Girl permalink

    So Foodpeople opened a sports camp?

    Adores: 1
  25. 2010 November 23

    Hahaha cristina pareces un hombre en esa fotoo que asco pobre perro que esta a tu lado & no me refiero a tu papa no xdd jajaja fea!

    Adores: 0
    • 2010 November 23
      Lola permalink

      No matter what language we use here, anacleto, we play nice. Make a note of it.

      No importa cuál sea el idioma que usamos aquí, anacleto, jugamos bien. Tome nota de ello.

      Adores: 1

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