Group 11 Results: [spoiler] Group 11 Champions: 20 Super Mario World Athletic 18 Earthbound Pokey Means Business! 17 Silver Surfer (NES) Level 1 16 Donkey Kong Country 2 Stickerbrush Symphony 15 Final Fantasy V Mambo De Chocobo 15 Mega Man … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1990-1995: Group 13
The national poet of Scotland and major figure of the country’s period of Enlightenment, Robert “Rabbie” Burns, was born on this day in 1759. Born on an Ayrshire farm, the young Burns found the hard work damaging to his health. … Continue reading The Rabbie Burns Day Day Thread (January 25, 2020)
Snowed in Saturday Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Sat 1/25/2020)
Monty: You wanna talk about Peru? Anna: not really. The ice cream place is closed for the winter and-oh, you mean the other one! Yes, I actually am very confused about Peru right now and I’m sure you know things … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Pays a Visit to Peru
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. Or visit the quiz here. Remember to post your results (as a … Continue reading Triviacados: Saturday, January 25, 2020
The Impeachment of the 45th President, Donald J. Trump, is underway. The rules of the impeachment include that once the articles are submitted that the Senate drop all other business in favor of this until it comes to a conclusion. … Continue reading Trump Impeachment: Day 5 + Sunday Talk Shows
Bring out your pets! Continue reading The Pet Thread Breaks the Rules
Here’s hoping your weekend is pretty…. chill. Continue reading The Mount Wario Night Thread (1/24)
Jim Hawkins must have stared upon it for near half a minute, sunk as he was in the mere stupidity of wonder, before terror woke up in his breast as sudden and startling as the crash of cymbals; and bounding … Continue reading Werewolf 114 – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Day Six
Richard Stanley returns with a clunky, campy Lovecraft adaptation. This is a spoiler-free review. In 1990 South African director Richard Stanley made a name for himself with the cyberpunk slasher Hardware, a delightfully trashy yet frequently beautiful woman-vs-murderbot flick. Several … Continue reading Review: Color Out of Space
Things slow down in a big way as two new releases look unlikely to make much of a splash. Continue reading Box Office Oracle — 01/24/2020-01/26/2020
Please welcome today’s contestants: – Ashwin, a data scientist from Pennsylvania, fell asleep at the Sydney Opera House; – Heather, a math teacher from Oregon, was her county’s sixth-grader of the year; and – John, a slot floor person from … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Jan. 24
As part of last month’s year-concluding Theme Park Thread, I mentioned that I’d like to talk more about non-Disney parks going forward, but that I sometimes had trouble getting quite as excited about Universal Studios and the like as I … Continue reading The Monthly Theme Park Thread Spreads the Love
Forget the foul weather outside and post gifs instead! The rules, as always, are: 1: Post a SFW (or spoilered) gif 2: Identify the source 3: ??? 4: Profit!!! Continue reading Identify This Gif!
Hey, all; Happy Friday – My boss is gone for 2 months. I have stayed late every night this week. My co-workers have a backlog of work going back to December. They don’t respond to my emails. They … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 1/24/2020 – Midnight Oil
Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Shuffle Thread, your favorite place to show off your shuffle! Today we’re calling all Balladeers to bring their songs of love and woe, because our word of the day is BALLAD! … Continue reading The BALLAD of the Weekly Shuffle Thread!
TV series have made the leap from the small screen to the big screen in recent years with some modicum of success, while others have fallen flat. A lot of people credit Wayne’s World and The Brady Bunch Movie for … Continue reading Movie Review – ‘Dragnet’ (1987)
Group 10 Results: [spoiler] Group 10 Champions: 22 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Hyrule Field Main Theme 16 Doom At Doom’s Gate (Roland SC-55 version) 16 Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Trouble Main … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1990-1995: Group 12
The Impeachment of the 45th President, Donald J. Trump, formally began this week and today is the fourth day of it. We’re in the midst of the House Managers working through their presentation and we’re starting to see the tensions … Continue reading Trump Impeachment: Day 4
Who can possibly forget that “Vindicated” was originally written for Spider-Man 2? Certainly not I. Here’s an oral history about the song for those of you who are curious: https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/dashboard-confessional-vindicated-spider-man-2 Continue reading The Day Thread is Vindicated (1/24)
Archie and Jughead are a bunch of jerks Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Fri 1/24/2020)
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