The Pizza War. The Pizza War never ends. For a while in the 80’s, the dueling forces of Chuck E. Cheese and Showbiz Pizza waged a battle for the hearts of hungry children with A+ report cards everywhere. The two … Continue reading That’s Showbiz, Night Thread (8/2)
Hello everyone. The purpose of this feature is to highlight and plug the variety of discussions around the Avocado and encourage everyone to “go outside” the OT and / or PT. Please take the survey about the OT, and discuss the … Continue reading The Pluggers, August 2019 – GO OUTSIDE (the PT and OT)
Petticoat was a short lived (1966-1976) magazine for the swinging London woman! This issue comes to us courtesy of fellow Avocado Ben, who was kind enough to send this and next week’s issue to me all the way from England! … Continue reading Let’s Read Petticoat, April 1972!
Inspired by today’s XKCD and hat tip to Rocketships_over_Japan (aka Naturalcynic), lets talk about unpopular movies you actually like. Follow Randall’s guidelines and maybe discuss what you like about the movie. Continue reading Unpopular Positive Opinion Challenge Thread
Let’s have some august GIFs for August 1- Post a SFW (or spoilered) gif 2- Identify the source 3-??? 4- Profit! Continue reading Identify This Gif
The game is simple! Post a few lines of INTENTIONALLY MISHEARD lyrics and let others try to guess who performed the song! For example, you might go for Nine Inch Nails’ “Head Like A Hole” by posting: Bred like a … Continue reading Name That Band! (By these intentionally misheard lyrics)
Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Shuffle Thread, your favorite place to show off your shuffles! Today, only you can save us… not … Continue reading Save the Weekly Shuffle Thread!
Greetings Guacs, and welcome to the Day Thread for August 2nd, 2019! Because community feedback is valuable, and we want to make the site the best we can for you fine folks, we’re running a survey about the Open Threads … Continue reading The August 2nd Day Thread Wants You to Fill Out the OT Survey
Come one, come all, come and fill out a survey about Open Threads! Avocado Open Thread Survey Like our Politics Thread survey this is our opportunity to reach out and gather information from our users to make some of the … Continue reading The Open Thread Survey
Friday FORE! with the Family Circus Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Fri 8/2/2019)
Welcome to a series that I am continuing. I am going to go through Neil Gaiman’s now-classic series The Sandman Issue #17 Title: “Calliope” Artist: Kelley Jones and Malcolm Jones III Collected in: Dream Country Plot: Author Richard Madoc has … Continue reading Classic Comic Canon. The Sandman. Issues 17-20
Hello! It’s Friday. There’s new music, you know how his works. I don’t really know Clairo but, I know people are excited for this debut. Slaughter Beach, Dog (former member of Modern Baseball) has a new one out that I’ll probably check … Continue reading Friday New Music 8/2
It’s time for another round of Muppet Casting,where we take a famous production and ask, if Jim Henson’s Muppets made their own version of it (in the vein of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island), which Muppets would … Continue reading Muppet Casting on Broadway: Hamilton
Welcome back to Franchise Festival, where we explore and discuss noteworthy video game series from the last four decades. Older entries can be found here. This week we’ll be paging through the mouldering tomes which comprise The Legacy of Kain‘s historical corpus. … Continue reading Franchise Festival #64: The Legacy of Kain
Hey, all; Happy Friday- Nothing really to say this week, save for I am wiped; and I imagine I’m not alone. I saw a lot last week about some new jobs for some of you, and some positive changes for … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 8/2/2019 – Open Table
Can the first person here each day create a Results thread so it’s always first when sorted by Oldest? That will make it much easier to track results. Quiz Type: Forced Order Or visit the quiz here. Remember to post … Continue reading Triviacados: Friday, August 2, 2019
Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! What a week, huh? So much debating! It was like, a mass of people, just debating with each other. You might even call it… A large group of debaters. Debatists. Whatever! Democracy! Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Wins All The Debates
This is the finals for the Current Years of video games encompassing all games released post-2012. Please vote for one game in each pairing. This round will close 10pm Sunday night. Unsurprisingly, it’s come down to this: the generation’s … Continue reading Best Video Game Tournament – Current Years – Finals
“Finally, my big break is here!” Hodag was enthused heading to the Dusk 2 Dawn convenience store , for the supposed filming of a documentary. It all seemed a little sketchy, as the ad in the paper had simply said … Continue reading WW 97 – Werewolf Falls (Day 4)
[By Mars Five: Originally Posted 12/4/2016] This movie was a vehicle for the celebrated movie star George Arliss. “Who?” I wondered—but the joke’s on me because George Arliss was an extremely successful stage actor, who went on to be an … Continue reading NOT AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX: “The Working Man” (1933)
[By Mars Five- Originally published 9/4/2016] Let’s set some parameters. Netflix is a glorious invention and has more good movies available than I could watch in a lifetime. But as Blaise Pascal once remarked, “All of humanity’s problems stem from … Continue reading Not Available on Netflix: Springtime In The Rockies (1942)
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