Greetings, Avocados! It’s been a busy few months since the last State of the Avocado. For some, like the many wonderful people we’ve seen come in from Pajiba’s comment section, this is your first time seeing a SotA; please don’t … Continue reading State of the Avocado: 9/20/2019
Introducing today’s contestants: – Heather, an attorney from New York, did a rim-to-rim hike of the Grand Canyon; – John, a ghost writer from California, was stalked by Japanese deer; and – Jason, a math teacher from New Mexico, lost … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Sept. 20
Hey, all… <sigh> Anyway… Back on the horse, back in the saddle; back at my desk, listening to ’em prattle. Truth be told, while I would of course much rather still be on vacation, there’s something to be … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 9/20/2019 – …I’m Off A Boat.
Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Shuffle Thread, your favorite place to show off your shuffle! Your shuffle better make the cut… because CUT is our word of the day! Share your favorite songs with the … Continue reading The Weekly Shuffle Thread Makes the CUT!
Cybertron. Big ol’ ugly chunk of metal drifting through space, and the homeworld of the heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons. According to Flint Dille – screenwriter for the show – the original plan for Transformers: the Movie was that Cybertron … Continue reading The Cybertron Day Thread (September 20, 2019)
The Strip Club gets the puck out of here Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Fri 9/20/2019)
Hello! It’s Friday, there’s new music, so, get ready. It looks like we’ve got some cool stuff – Chastity Belt (pictured) release their 4th album, Vivian Girls return after an 8 year break, Brittany Howard goes solo, Tove Lo probably continues doing her thing, Blink … Continue reading Friday New Music 9/20
Welcome to a series that I am continuing. I am going to go through Neil Gaiman’s now-classic series The Sandman Issue # 41 Title: Brief Lives Part 1 Artist: Jill Thompson & Vince Locke Collected in: Brief Lives Plot: On … Continue reading Comic Book Canon: The Sandman. Issues 41-43
This is the round of 16 for the final tournament encompassing all eras of video games! Please vote for one game in each pairing. This round will close 10pm Sunday night. From the previous round: The most upvoted game was Super Mario Bros. … Continue reading Best Video Game of All Time, Round of 16
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 meticulously typing out the first half of the Ultima story, covering roughly 1980 … Continue reading Franchise Festival #68: Ultima (Part One)
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, September 20, 2019
Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! Stay tuned to find out how Dastardly Donald manages to wiggle his way out of spilling national secrets, unsolicited and unprompted, to non-allied foreign powers. He’s like a kid that can’t resist gushing about … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Blows a Whistle
This review contains mild thematic and story spoilers. Ad Astra Per Aspera: “A rough road leads to the stars.” Until five cycles around the Sun had passed for me, it had never occurred to me that not having a father … Continue reading Movie Review: Ad Astra
Here’s a spot to post your reactions to Ad Astra. Enjoy! Continue reading Spoil Sports: Ad Astra
As Tom Breihan observed, things would’ve been a whole lot different if they’d just let John Rambo die at the end of First Blood. We wouldn’t be talking about the sequel that comes out this week (Rambo: Last Blood), for … Continue reading The Night Thread draws First Blood (9/19)
We’ve got three potentially strong releases this week, with all of them having a chance of opening to more than $20 million. Continue reading Box Office Oracle — 09/20/2019-09/22/2019
Oof, a tough one to close out an otherwise mostly brilliant third series. On a cold Friday morning, on the northern England estate of Harrington Pace, a hunting party consisting of Our Man Hastings, Poirot, and six or seven Identically … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S03E11 “The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge”
Instructions! Ask questions about anything that might require a bit of thought or research. The OTs and PTs fly by so quick not many eyeballs might catch your query. Put them here and they last all week. Check back to … Continue reading Avocado Reference Desk – 28
What a week that sure was. We have an absurd amount of upside down parody in this league right now, with ten teams being either 2-0 or 0-2, which has to set some kind of bizarre record. Multiple teams are … Continue reading Avocado Week 3 Fantasy Football
Remember to try to bring football live thread style stuff back here! Bang on that like and subscribe button! If we comment hard enough maybe Teti will come back! Wanna see what’s playing where? Check out this helpful link … Continue reading Weekly NFL/CFB Live Thread
It’s the night of the big game and the school flocks to the football field. Axe Fischer sits down in the bleachers with his trumpet, ready to play the school’s fight song. He gets ready for his big moment, but … Continue reading Werewolf 101 – Homecoming (Day 4)
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