Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, August 18, 2015

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  • KFC decided to switch Darrell Hammond for Norm Macdonald as the new Colonel.  I have a feeling KFC is doing a bit and we’ll see someone else in the coming months.
  • It’s always a struggle to figure out where to park at Lowe’s or Home Depot.  I’m never quite sure if I’m better off parking closer to the entrance or the exit.
  • Many may already know about Cheap DFW, a website that lists inexpensive flights from both DFW and Love Field, but if not, here you go.  It also provides links for Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.
  • I can’t recall how WifeGeeding and I got into this conversation, but she said anytime she hears the word “Remington” she thinks of bullets because her father is a hunter.  For me, I think of electric shavers, because my father had one, though I never saw him use it.  I’m sure for someone else, they probably think of Pierce Brosnan.
  • Random movie memory – Chevy Chase in Fletch Lives getting out of a fight with a biker gang because he pretended to be related to the Harley in Harley Davidson.  R. Lee Ermey, the drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket played a televangelist and the female lead was the first wife of Bruce Springsteen.  And here’s a hot movie opinion, Fletch Lives was much better than Fletch.
  • I love Barry over at LiberallyLean.com, and he’s entitled to post whatever he wants on his on blog, but there’s been a flood of Baylor football posts as of late and the season hasn’t even started.  If this continues I’m going to start a Kickstarter campaign to develop a browser plugin to filter all those references out and replace them with tweets from Justice Don Willett.
  • MONEY – 50 Best Places to Live 2015 – Coppell, TX comes in at number eight
  • Dallas Eater – 16 Essential DFW Ice Cream Destinations
  • If you fear heights, you may not want to look at this GIF.
  • George Zimmerman unveils Confederate flag painting to benefit ‘Muslim free’ gun shop owner
  • When the kids want a bubble bath, I confess, sometimes I use Simple Green.
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Bag of Randomness for Monday, August 17, 2015

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  • BoyGeeding received his yellow belt and DaughterGeeding received her orange belt on Saturday.  Personally, I think the instructor graded on the curve for BoyGeeding and some others.
  • “Mike” from ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul’ made a special appearance on the latest episode of ‘Mythbusters’.  He also made a special appearance on last week’s  ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’.
  • Somehow the song “I Don’t Know Much” by Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt came up in conversation, which caused me to look up some stuff on Wikipedia.  I’m not sure why it surprises me, but Nevill is now 74 years old.  As for Ronstadt,  I forgot she’s suffering from Parkinson’s disease since December 2012, which left her unable to sing.  But I may have been more surprised to learn she was once engaged to George Lucus.  Furthermore, her grandfather made major bucks as he invented the first electric stove and the flexible rubber ice cube tray.
  • Aaron Neville is definitely in my top-five list of people in which you expect a totally different voice from their physical appearance.  Mike Tyson is also on that list,
  • Even though Disney didn’t provide a timetable, they did announce two massive Star Wars parks at both Disneyland and Disney World.  Star Tours is also getting a makeover.  The latter article also provides some details on a season makeover for both parks when the new movie comes out.
  • Earlier this month I mentioned that the owner of the escaped anaconda recently died and his family invited the public to a swimming party at the neighborhood clubhouse after the funeral.  Yesterday I learned his family has a GoFundMe page and it airs a lot of sensitive personal stuff:
    • The page is set up by the widow, but the material was written by her parents.
    • He committed suicide and they state he had severe addictions to drugs, alcohol, and gambling; and he left the family penniless and quit rehab numerous times.
    • He helped form a company but later quit as the CEO.
    • They state he abused his wife mentally, physically, and verbally, even trying to choke her to death, and ran from the cops fleeing out of state.
    • They claim his business partners are refusing to offer any financial help.
  • To be honest, I didn’t feel very comfortable posting all that stuff above, and I guess that means I probably shouldn’t have, but since they made that information public and I basically summarized it, well, that’s my weak defense.
  • Seventeen-year-old ‘Modern Family’ star Ariel Winter recently underwent breast reduction surgery, going from 32F at age fifteen, to a 34D.  Many might recall, Soleil Moon Frye, the young girl that played Punky Brewster, went from 38DD at age fifteen to a 36 C at age sixteen.  That PEOPLE magazine article states that boys used to make fun of her by calling her “Punky Boobster”.
  • Imgur – What being an adult feels like
  • Buzzfeed – Pittsburgh Steelers Linebacker James Harrison Sent Back His Sons’ Participation Trophies Because He Wants Them To Earn “Real” Ones
  • People in Northwest Arkansas finally got a taste of Whataburger and they completely lost their minds
  • The Washington Post – Chinese companies face culture shock in countries that aren’t like China
  • Donald Trump was giving children at the Iowa State Fair rides in his helicopter and told one he was Batman.
  • Dale Hansen had an hour-long special in which he interviewed Mark Cuban, and Hansen asked Cuban about his Jewish heritage.  Cuban stated he had family, grandparents I think, that died in the Holocaust.  That made me wonder how improbable it must have been to imagine back in that time that one day a descendant would own an NBA franchise with a German as his top star.
  • A new Chrome plugin that allows you to watch a movie at the same time with friends across multiple devices.
  • ‘The Brink’ has been a very enjoyable watch.
  • It was a bit of a surprise to see WFAA on last night’s ‘Last Week Tonight’.  It was during a segment on televangelists.  Heck, Robert Tilton even made an appearance and he’s still at it. It’s more amazing these people actually have an audience.
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Bag of Randomness for Friday, August 14, 2015

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  • Ten years ago tomorrow marks the first post I made on this blog.  It was nothing but a test post, and here we are.  I’ve now spent a little more than a quarter of my life running this thing.
  • I’m suffering from a stomach bug.  And for you TICKET listeners, the great equalizer has paid a visit.
  • Tomorrow also happens to be my mother’s birthday, she would have been sixty-seven.  When she died, fellow blogger LiberallyLean posted some very kind thoughts on his blog.  His commenters, on the other hand, are something else.
  • Before last night’s Cowboys preseason game, there was a Jason Witten special.  His grandfather stated that when he dropped to the third round of the NFL draft, he was so made the tore the door off the hinges.  That’s surprising, he seems the type to have been mild mannered all his life.  I always loved how he continued his rookie season after breaking a jaw.  Here’s a great pick of Witten with a very swollen jaw.
  • I’m one of those that enjoy watching preseason games, tracking those players that are trying to earn a roster spot.
  • When I listen to Brad Sham call Cowboys games, I imagine a thin man, but the man actually is a bit heavy.
  • Buzzfeed – The Director Of “Frozen” Says Tarzan Is Anna And Elsa’s Little Brother – There’s another theory that the sunk ship Aerial explores is tied to their parents.
  • Buzzfeed – This Is What Happens When You Come Out As A Gay Christian Rock Star
  • A couple in Pennsylvania took their five-foot-boa for a swim at the local river and it got away.
  • Inside Industrial Light & Magic’s secret Star Wars VR lab – ILMxLab isn’t just exploring the future of entertainment… they’re already making it
  • The vacuum tube might be making a comeback and be the future of technology.
  • The Internet was abuzz yesteday about how creepy and scary the Goodnight Mommy movie trailer was.
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At first, I thought he was trying to be Walter White

 

Meet Okilly Dokilly – the world’s first (and presumably last) Ned Flanders themed metal band.

Formed last month, the Phoenix-based group were unearthed by Adelaide street press Rip It Up and pretty much embody everything you could possibly want from a band dedicated to all things Flanderino. They dress like Ned. They talk like Ned. And they are all called – you guessed it – Ned.

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