tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44519993013220803292024-02-06T23:55:54.737-08:00Oregon Beer SnobThis is a place for beer, politics and random geeky shit. Despite the name we are actualy not snobbish at all around here.OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.comBlogger291125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-1743211537887327952023-12-14T12:03:00.000-08:002023-12-14T12:06:29.332-08:00Music and Things and Stuff and Such As<p>What the hell, might as well post something since it's been over 4 years, eh?</p>
<p>I'm still around. Occasionally lurking/commenting over at LGM and checking in on what's left of the ol' blogroll every now and then. The bloggerverse isn't what it used to be, but it's still not dead. Figured I'd keep this place from dying entirely too. Maybe I'll keep posting, maybe not, who the fuck knows? It was sad to watch the slow demise of Sadly, No! but hey, what can you do? Many of the old regulars there show up now and then at LGM and other places, so it's nice to see those nyms when they show up.</p>
<p>Anyway, I've been to a few good shows this year, so that was neat. Got to see two nights of Phish in Seattle last April. Those shows aren't availble on the ute oobs but a bit of the next one down in Berkely is. Here you go:</p>
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<p>Saw Goose in Eugene for the first time a couple weeks after the Phish shows. They were decent. It was at a relatively small venue (The McDonald Theater, an old art deco theater from the 1920s, owned by Ken Kesey's family) so that was a plus. Here's one of the songs from that show:</p>
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<p>Tool played in Eugene in October and a buddy had an extra ticket so got to see them too. It was nice to finally see Tool. I'd never seen them but had seen A Perfect Circle in Eugene a few years ago. Very different crowds than those at the jam band shows like Phish and Goose. No Nitrous Mafia selling balloons outside after the Tool show, and no discarded balloons littering the sidewalks for blocks because the fucking wooks can't be bothered to find a trash can. People suck, a continuing series. Can't say I was sad to see the lack of idiots blacking out on the sidewalk after huffing a bunch of nitrous balloons. That scene can die a quick death as far as I'm concerned.</p>
<p>Other than that, still just a working stiff. Maybe I'll retire some year soon, that would be nice. We'll see. Did a bunch of camping this year, got a new camper van and have been enjoying how nice that is to travel and camp in. Riding my mountain bike a bunch. Had a minor health scare a couple years ago (well managed now, no big deal now) like so many others of this aging blogosphere. Nothing like the occaisional health scare to remind you that you shouldn't miss out on all the fun shit there is to do in this stupid country, even as the idiots in the GOP are doing their damndest to take it all away from us.</p>
<p>Ah, yes. Politics. In 2023, in are we really this fucking close to becoming fascist, America? Yeah, there's that too. Trying to still stay involved but also trying not to obsess too much about shit I can't control, or how shitty people are, or how horrible war is or... or... or... Yeah, you get it the idea.</p>
<p>Well, on that cheery note, if anybody is still around and reads this, I hope you're doing as well as you can. If you happen to want to leave a comment and let me know you're still around, please do.</p>
<p>Until next time, if there is one.</p>
<p>OBS</p>
OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-32076127654998370822019-06-12T14:32:00.000-07:002019-06-12T14:32:01.014-07:00Remember when?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_EbhUeUDs3Y/XQFu3_jb3-I/AAAAAAAAA3s/0xZBEJEgHb4xN9nKSLoXDnNFDc8kK0FQACLcBGAs/s1600/remember.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_EbhUeUDs3Y/XQFu3_jb3-I/AAAAAAAAA3s/0xZBEJEgHb4xN9nKSLoXDnNFDc8kK0FQACLcBGAs/s320/remember.png" width="320" height="293" data-original-width="1440" data-original-height="1320" /></a></div>
<p style='font-size:80%'>(From <a href='http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/821/'>Diesel Sweeties</a>)</p>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-10474965318975327302017-04-25T10:02:00.000-07:002017-04-25T10:02:24.419-07:00Gone.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_UhvuZXtT_E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-11034955686097978122017-02-13T13:07:00.002-08:002017-02-13T13:07:56.140-08:00Morose Monday<h2>This song is 50+ years old.</h2>
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Well I'm about to get sick
From watchin' my TV
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
And when it's gonna change, my friend
Is anybody's guess
So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
Wednesday I watched the riot . . .
Seen the cops out on the street
Watched 'em throwin' rocks and stuff
And chokin' in the heat
Listened to reports
About the whisky passin' 'round
Seen the smoke and fire
And the market burnin' down
Watched while everybody
On his street would take a turn
To stomp and smash and bash and crash
And slash and bust and burn
And I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
Well, you can cool it,
You can heat it . . .
'Cause, baby, I don't need it . . .
Take your TV tube and eat it
'N all that phony stuff on sports
'N all the unconfirmed reports
You know I watched that rotten box
Until my head begin to hurt
From checkin' out the way
The newsman say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so-and-so
And further they assert
That any show they'll interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place blows up
They will be the first to tell,
Because the boys they got downtown
Are workin' hard and doin' swell,
And if anybody gets the news
Before it hits the street,
They say that no one blabs it faster
Their coverage can't be beat
And if another woman driver
Gets machine-gunned from her seat
They'll send some joker with a brownie
And you'll see it all complete
So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white
Well, I seen the fires burnin'
And the local people turnin'
On the merchants and the shops
Who used to sell their brooms and mops
And every other household item
Watched the mob just turn and bite 'em
And they say it served 'em right
Because a few of them are white,
And it's the same across the nation
Black and white discrimination
Yellin' "You can't understand me!"
'N all that other jazz they hand me
In the papers and TV and
All that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
Because the color of your skin
Just don't appeal to him
(No matter if it's black or white)
Because he's out for blood tonight
You know we got to sit around at home
And watch this thing begin
But I bet there won't be many live
To see it really end
'Cause the fire in the street
Ain't like the fire in the heart
And in the eyes of all these people
Don't you know that this could start
On any street in any town
In any state if any clown
Decides that now's the time to fight
For some ideal he thinks is right
And if a million more agree
There ain't no Great Society
As it applies to you and me
Our country isn't free
And the law refuses to see
If all that you can ever be
Is just a lousy janitor
Unless your uncle owns a store
You know that five in every four
Just won't amount to nothin' more
Gonna watch the rats go across the floor
And make up songs about being poor
Blow your harmonica, son!
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OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-25477378966311978922017-02-10T14:55:00.000-08:002017-02-10T15:14:06.194-08:00Shitgibbon Friday<p>This delightful term has been everywhere during the recent troubles, but gained additional prominence when a Pennsylvania state senator tweeted it this week. <a href='https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/the-rise-of-the-shitgibbon/'>This article</a>, which includes the tweet is definitely worth a read in general, but an especially interesting thing to me is the first comment, claiming credit for the term:</p>
<blockquote>Hi, I wrote the Veep line [Ed: he's talking about the show, discussed in the article]. It was originally “spunk-faced shitgibbon”, a phrase I used in a 1988 column in New Musical Express and have put in most of my writing since. PS I’m not Scottish and have nothing to do with bootlegging. all the best David Quantick</blockquote>
<p>[Harvey]Now we know .............. the rest of the story[/Harvey]</p>
<p>Oh yeah, here's a picture of one in the wild, for reference/future use:</p>
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<p>(Click to enlarge. Source photo: <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hylobates_lar_-_Kaeng_Krachan_WB.jpg'>Kaeng Krachan -- Wikimedia commons)</a></p>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-86667466732217720042017-01-25T17:35:00.000-08:002017-01-25T17:35:08.750-08:00Punching Nazis, a visual guide<p>In case anybody had questions, or perhaps even <i>concerns</i> about such things, this might help:</p>
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<p>You're welcome.</p>
<p>(Sadly, not mine, blatantly stolen from Imgur user <a href="https://imgur.com/user/RobotsWKnives">RobotsWKnives</a>. Many thanks, anonymous knife-wielding robot!)</p>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-90227589135973790122017-01-20T11:30:00.000-08:002017-01-20T11:30:19.633-08:00Shorter Hugh "Eww" Huwitt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ehh_wWWEKqQ/WIJkxjbAhtI/AAAAAAAAA10/HRO9HSUXSkANa2zAL2_ThC2oLnWNnpW-QCLcB/s1600/heww.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ehh_wWWEKqQ/WIJkxjbAhtI/AAAAAAAAA10/HRO9HSUXSkANa2zAL2_ThC2oLnWNnpW-QCLcB/s320/heww.gif" width="320" height="292" /></a></div>
<p>Really it's more like "almost verbatim" Hugh Hewitt: <a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-time-to-relax-about-trump/2017/01/19/f9aba24a-ddbb-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html'>"You can't stop it, so you might as well lie back, relax, and enjoy it."</a></p>
<p>Also, too: I'm back. I'll try to be funny. We'll see.</p>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-27776975218202362202016-11-09T10:31:00.000-08:002016-11-10T13:02:48.711-08:00"WTF?" A poem.<p>I wrote a sort of poem-like thing for you. You're welcome.</p>
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<p></p>
<h3>WTF?</h3>
<p></p>
We tell fables<br>
wanting to feel<br>
we're truly free.<br>
<p></p>
Well, that's finished.<br>
We're totally fucked.<br>
Welcome to fascism!<br>
<p></p>
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<p>(image credit -- KC Green, <a href="http://www.gunshowcomic.com/">Gunshow</a>)</p>
</div>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-88348718454522294522016-11-07T15:43:00.000-08:002016-11-07T15:43:12.564-08:00Outsourcing<p>I'm outsourcing today's post to <a href='http://xkcd.com/'>XKCD:</a></p>
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<p style='text-align:center; font-size:0.8em;'>(tap/click/whatever to embiggen)</p>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-19451823037388252512016-10-31T11:38:00.001-07:002016-10-31T11:38:57.413-07:00Boo!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.imgur.com/Bq8Fhzx.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://i.imgur.com/Bq8Fhzx.gif" width="320" height="180" /></a></div>
<p>Happy Halloween! May none of your candy be Necco® Wafers.</p>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-71810735207384187442016-10-18T14:35:00.002-07:002016-10-18T15:54:01.710-07:00Timeless Tuesday<h3>(Alternate title: Happy Spooktober)</h3>
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<p>They just don't make cartoons like they used to. Also, get off my lawn.</p>
<p>If you want to skip ahead, the best part is a very surreal rendition by Cab Calloway of "St. James Infirmary" at the 4:18 point.</p>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-17074484825893154372016-10-10T12:38:00.000-07:002016-10-10T12:38:06.475-07:00Newly Discovered Video...<p>...of Brave Sir <strike>Robin</strike> Ryan's brave stance against the Rapey Orange Shitgibbon:</p>
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<p style='font-size:80%'>(Found/stolen from <a href="http://imgur.com/gallery/UhA7bfa">here.</a>)
<p><b>Edited to add:</b> WTF HAPPENED TO MY BLOGROLL!? GAWDAMMIT BLOGGER!</p>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-44224587854270999802016-08-22T14:50:00.001-07:002016-08-22T14:50:45.465-07:00Here Be Dragons<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6uF1-YhCOf8/V7tzGCfjepI/AAAAAAAAA1I/Vv86Zmk7NT0yIOXSmHIyvZ9_DS7efZ82gCLcB/s1600/dragonite-med.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6uF1-YhCOf8/V7tzGCfjepI/AAAAAAAAA1I/Vv86Zmk7NT0yIOXSmHIyvZ9_DS7efZ82gCLcB/s320/dragonite-med.gif" width="180" height="320" /></a></div>
<p>I'm gonna check out for a while. I've recently discovered it's way more healthy both mentally and physically for me to wonder around outside and catch imaginary monsters with my phone, instead of obsessing about the real-life monsters involved in this stupid fucking election. I'll be back... oh I'd guess about Wednesday, November 9th. Yeah, that sounds like a good, completely random day.</p> OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-69914403067031679892016-08-05T09:33:00.001-07:002016-08-05T09:34:13.374-07:00Friday Funnies<p>Ok, this actually is from Tuesday, but I just got around to reading it. From <a href="http://harpers.org/blog/2016/08/weeklyreview2016-08-03/">Harper's Weekly Review</a>:
<blockquote><p>President Barack Obama gave a speech in which he said that he saw “Americans of every party” pledge allegiance “under the same proud flag,” and a protestor outside the convention attempted to stomp on a burning American flag and lit herself on fire. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced that he wouldn’t endorse Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan for reelection, kicked a crying baby out of a rally in Virginia, asked Russia to steal U.S. State Department emails, reportedly asked three times during a national-security briefing why the United States shouldn’t use nuclear weapons, and said he wanted to hit a “little guy” so hard “his head would spin.” <b>Researchers in the United Kingdom discovered an orangutan that mimics human conversations.</b></p>
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<p>The em<b>pha</b>sis is mine — usually they end with a clever non sequitur. I wonder why they didn't this time...? </p>
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<p>Used to be able to get this at the local bottle shop any time, then it caught on and became sought after and (more) expensive. Happy to have been able to grab one today when given the chance.</p>
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<p>I think somebody took this ad campaign just a little <i>too</i> seriously.</p>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-43176692716959692492016-06-24T08:59:00.005-07:002016-06-24T08:59:56.071-07:00Auto Erotic<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oazgisGp2GU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-57245914872406691292016-06-20T09:57:00.000-07:002016-06-20T09:57:22.550-07:00You Are On The Fastest Available Route<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FdyknT4uchM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-37459667648153991932016-06-10T09:58:00.002-07:002016-06-10T09:58:29.081-07:00Sabotage<p>I just saw <a href="https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/CleanedUOSSSimpleSabotage_sm.pdf">this</a> unclassified OSS (CIA) document about sabotage techniques during WWII and although it's not new, it's new to me, so I figured I'd share. </p>
<p>If you don't feel like reading a PDF (or visiting the CIA website), I've provided a screenshot of the best part, page 28/29:</p>
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<p>I've also taken the liberty of cleaning up the OCRed text for easy reading:</p>
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<li>General Interference with Organizations and Production
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<li>Organizations and Conferences
<ol>
<li>Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.</li>
<li>Make "speeches," Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your "points" by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate "patriotic" comments.</li>
<li>When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible - never less than five.</li>
<li>Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.</li>
<li>Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.</li>
<li>Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision</li>
<li>Advocate "caution." Be "reasonable" and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable" and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.</li>
<li>Be worried about the propriety any decision -- raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.</li>
</li>
</ol></li>
<li>Managers and Supervisors
<ol>
<li>Demand written orders.</li>
<li>"Misunderstand" orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.</li>
<li>Do everything possible to delay the delivery of orders. Even though parts of an order may be ready beforehand, don't deliver it until it is completely ready.</li>
<li>Don't order new working materials until your current stocks have been virtually exhausted, so that the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown.</li>
<li>Order high-quality materials which are hard to get. If you don't get them argue about it. Warn that inferior materials will mean inferior work.</li>
<li>In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.</li>
<li>Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw. Approve other defective parts whose flaws are not visible to the naked eye.</li>
<li>Make mistakes in routing so that parts and materials will be sent to the wrong place in the plant.</li>
<li>When training new workers, give incomplete or misleading instructions.</li>
<li>To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.</li>
<li>Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.</li>
<li>Multiply paper work in plausible ways. Start duplicate files.</li>
<li>Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on. See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.</li>
<li>Apply all regulations to the last letter.</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
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</ol>
<p>If any of it looks familiar, you too have worked in a modern American office. From sabotage to standard operating procedure in 70 short years. PROGRESS!</p>
<p>Obligatory soundtrack for this post:</p>
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OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-90472778801672405822016-06-02T09:08:00.000-07:002016-06-02T09:08:12.056-07:00Put Your Guns Away<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4HNTumQN6wo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-29753599106580952182016-05-17T15:30:00.002-07:002016-05-17T15:36:17.613-07:00America! The Beer!<p>I'm sure you've all heard the exciting news that InBev is renaming <a href="http://oregonbeersnob.blogspot.com/2015/02/superb-owl-re-cap.html">Budweiser</a> to <i>America!</i>. What some of you may <i>not</i> have heard is that they've got an innovative new can coming too. For the first time ever, a manufacturer has been able to boldly leverage the synergies of cheap, flexible LCD screens, thin, disposable/recyclable batteries, and an innovative new bonding agent, to come up with the first animated GIF beer can!</p>
<p>Oregon Beer Snob Industries, LLC®™©☺ is proud to announce a sneak preview of the first can that will be released:</p>
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<p>Other designs may be forthcoming, but it'll be hard to top this classic embodiment of the 'Murican spirit. Drink up, assholes!</p>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-77367057359415316762016-05-04T13:06:00.000-07:002016-05-04T13:06:02.804-07:00For no particular reason whatsoever<p><a href="https://i.imgur.com/3Azimxo.gif"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/3Azimxo.gif" width='308' height='205'></a> <br><span style='text-align:center;'>(click for embiggenation)</span></p>
<p>I can't resist an <a href="http://oregonbeersnob.blogspot.com/2015/10/arrooo-breaking-arrooo.html">I told you so</a> for all the naysayers. I even won a beer bet on this -- the only good thing to come of it.<p>
<p>Also, too: this felt good. Futile, but good:</p>
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<p>So, what are everybody's plans when Preznit Trump is elected? I think I'mma build a wall around my house, and make my neighbors pay for it.</p>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451999301322080329.post-68829232436578839462016-04-29T10:33:00.001-07:002016-04-29T10:33:38.624-07:00WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eghqMcVxyr4/VyOavPXXeVI/AAAAAAAAAxY/YsH_HYCJs38moKHX_5kkDQPF0xElj8FxACLcB/s1600/zk.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eghqMcVxyr4/VyOavPXXeVI/AAAAAAAAAxY/YsH_HYCJs38moKHX_5kkDQPF0xElj8FxACLcB/s320/zk.gif" /></a></div>OBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com2