Bag of Randomness

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  • The season three premiere of ‘The Americans’ aired last night and some sort of self-improvement program called EST was featured.  That’s one part of the 80’s that I never heard of, but I think it’s some sort of thing that’s commonly parodied in fictional television and cinema.
  • Letterman had Ben Schwarts on as a guest last night.  You may know him best from ‘House of Cards’, ‘Parks and Recreation’, and ‘House of Lies’.  He actually started his career as a page for Letterman and then moved his way up helping to write jokes for Dave’s monologue.  What a grand moment that must have been for him to be a guest on the show last night.
  • A lot of news outlets had a fascination with the guy that kept the Boston Marathon finish line clear of snow.  I guess the Dallas equivalent would be that white X on Elm Street in front of Dealey.  #DallasStrong
  • I took a quiz on celebrities and their education yesterday, and had no idea that Montel Williams was the first African American enlisted Marine to complete and graduate both the Naval Academy Prep School and Annapolis.  And while I knew Cindy Crawford was the valedictorian of her high school class, I wasn’t aware she studied chemical engineering at Northwestern University, albeit just for one quarter, which leads me to believe that Northwestern doesn’t use the traditional semester schedule.
  • Barry over at LiberallyLean had a post about a Facebook ad that displayed after viewing the product earlier on another website.  Too bad he didn’t watch the ‘Parks and Recreation’ episode that aired the day before the post, he would have gotten a good laugh.
  • I saw a clip of Oscar Isaac in his new movie A Most Violent Year and he looked just like Al Pacino.
  • Damn you Sony Pictures for keeping Spidey from the Avengers – ‘Visual Guide to Marvel Character Movie Rights’, An Infographic Showing What Movie Studios Own Which Characters
  • Excluding Fords, the most popular car in Texas is a Mercedes.  Check out other fun automobile related stuff here.
  • Wreck ’em – Giant snow penis demolished at Texas Tech University as students protest
  • I like Katy Perry’s music, it’s just real fun, but I have a feeling people will be complaining of a lot of lip-synching during her Super Bowl halftime performance.
  • I bought a Weber charcoal starter cannister and was amused that the UPC looked like a Weber grill.
  • Some people would prefer to say “UPC code” but that would’ve been redundant, because one would actually be saying “Universal Product Code code”.  And that reminds of a long series of angsts my friend Jimi would go into about people who say such as ATM machine and PIN number.  It wasn’t until yesterday I learned there’s actually a name for that, RAS syndrome.
  • Jimi would also take the redundancy to another level.
    • Tuna fish – do you need to put fish at the end, is there any other kind of tuna out there?  I mean, it’s not like there is a tuna vegetable or animal that it can be confused with.
    • Cheddar cheese – Is there another kind of cheddar that’s not cheese?
    • Hot water heater – It just needs to be water heater.
  • Today’s dose of ‘MURICA!
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10 Responses to Bag of Randomness

  1. RPM says:

    Excluding Fords, the most popular car in Texas is a Mercedes.- Thank you, thank you, thank you. I hope all you Chevy lovers, my Brother In Law in particular, pay close attention to this because I've been saying it for years. Chevy is NOT the prefered vehicle of Texans! (Proud C300 & F3Fiddy owner).

    Tuna fish – do you need to put fish at the end, is there any other kind of tuna out there? – YES! Cactus tunas are the edible "pear" of the prickly pear cactus. They are dang tasty, too!

    Is there another kind of cheddar that’s not cheese?- You don't know many black people, do you?

  2. Jason says:

    I was at dealey this weekend, and took a picture from the street up to the window. I don't care what R. Lee Ermey says, there's no way in hell some chucklehead with an old Italian bolt action rifle made that many shots that well.

    I'm with the above poster on the tuna. All parts of the cactus are edible, by the way. Well, except the thorns, I guess. Liquor made from it is pretty fantastic, too.

    You're one step closer to that smoker. BBQ camp must have escalated that priority.

    The water heater thing is one of Barry's problems.

  3. Buddy Patton says:

    I know a person who says she is going to “unthaw” something. She then gets mad when I tell her that if she is going to “unthaw” it she is going to freeze it.

  4. b_caesar says:

    Most common is "Rio Grand River" – highest achiever at the School of Redundancy School.

  5. towski says:

    Was the guy in the 'murica picture concerned that anyone looking at him would think he was from anywhere else?

  6. The Donald says:

    Regarding the RAS – depending on your audience, it's sometimes necessary to use the redundant term for clarity. Using PIN number obviates confusion with "pen" or "pin"; UPC code sidesteps the possibly awkward "UP code". I can't see a valid defense of ATM machine, unless you're talking to a flight controller or a Cisco geek.

    MR – I did not know about the cheddar.

    Jason – Almost 20 years ago, I handled the Carcano that had been used in Ollie Stone's movie. At that time, my opinion would've been the same as yours. But I later gravitated to the view that it's kind of like the old Datsun I drove in college – to the inexperienced, it was easy to miss a gear with the clunky manual transmission. Familiarity through practice, however (muscle memory, if you will), made shifting second nature. The shot wasn't particularly distant, and LHO certainly had a working knowledge of compensating for above-, and below-, level aiming.

    • Jason says:

      No way man. He had only recently mail ordered the rifle from Chicago. And the target was moving. He fired, chambered a round, and re-acquired a moving target two more times, one being a head shot, in 6 seconds? Not a USMC flunkie. I'm pretty good with a rifle, but I just don't think he could have done it.

      Besides, there is some pretty compelling evidence that the rifle may not have been his. Pictures of him holding it look like they were doctored.

      Plus, my grandmother's boss at the time said he heard a different shooter from a different angle. He died in a one-car accident soon thereafter. Yes, I know that sounds crazy, but I believe her. She said he was seriously spooked and wished he hadn't reported it, then he was dead.

      I'm slightly to the left of Oliver Stone on this one.

      b-Caesar, I think because the name if the river is The Rio Grande, you can appropriately add river to the end in English. But hey, I still call the Brazos the Brazos de Dios.

  7. ALEC says:

    Weber grill-Best investment I ever made. Congratulations, you are now a grown a$$ man. What's next a Rolex?

    • Geeding says:

      I mislead ya and should have been more clear. I haven't pulled a trigger on a smoker yet, I just bought that charcoal starter cylinder. For the heck of it, I tried to modify my somewhat decent gas grill to be a smoker as an experiment, but it failed because I didn't use enough charcoal and wood.

  8. Dude says:

    Ahhh… the deliciousness of conspiracy theory. Where the absence of hard evidence only "proves" there's a cover up. If only other arguments in life could be settled so easily.

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