@heartny
I loved that show but it’s funny because I don’t remember the Bee!
I DO remember getting my craft on though. I must’ve been 4-5yrs old and I made my first DIY walking boot things with cans and string to mimic the ones they had.
(I hope this doesn’t sound negative, I’m honestly just curious.)
When did <famous person> forum topics turn into the driving game? Did I miss a memo, or am I just insufficiently hip to know when the cool things are going to happen?
@llangley@xobzoo, I too am genuinely curious, in the opposite. I’ve found myself, through complete and total ignorance, in the “rando” category participating in the driving game version of the famous persons game. Can somebody give me a 30 second overview of how it used to be before it morphed into tootsie rolls and tattooed rap/country singers?
@llangley@PeacefulEasy@xobzoo Well, the Driving Game still exists, it’s just for music. The “random associations” thing started when someone posted a topic headed “Kelly Clarkson” but then nothing else. So we all got into providing silly content until that filled up, and then several subsequent threads have been started to carry on.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, the George Washington of Italy, who led the army that unified Italy. After that war, Garibaldi approached Abraham Lincoln with an offer to lead the Union Army in our Civil War, but Lincoln offered him a position only as a major general which Garibaldi refused.
@ybmuG So this was interesting - after you posted this I went into a deep rabbit hole reading up on Gary Oldman. Then tonight, The Late Show was completely devoted to Colbert interviewing Gary Oldman in London! It was a hilarious interview; if you haven’t seen it it’s worth checking it out.
@Kyeh@ybmuG Aftter all of the wackjobs that Oldman had portrayed brilliantly, I thought it was priceless when he was cast as Lieutenant Gordon in a Batman flick; literally the only sane, down-to-earth named character in the entire movie.
@Kyeh The employees are always nice, the prices to Italy and France are usually the lowest among the airlines that aren’t the “who?” budget ones, they don’t charge for a checked or carry-on bag to Europe, the Dublin airport where I change planes is easy to get around, and best of all it’s a 5 1/2 hour flight from Boston to Dublin so I don’t go stir crazy on the plane, followed by a two hour-or-so flight to Italy. Once I flew their business class and it was fabulous: true lie flat seats, really good food, plenty of room. It was like first class on other airlines.
@heartny Oh, I wonder if we were both posting at the same time? And mine beat yours by a split second? I added the video after posting the image, too, so I was changing it up for a few minutes.
@PooltoyWolf I searched “Fenris” hoping to find exactly that - actually was a bonus to find a photo of two of them! In fact, I think it was from your inflatable-of-the-day thread.
@llangley I could never figure out why every single eight-track tape would fade out before changing tracks then fade back in. When I used to record my own, I absolutely could handle the loud mechanical track change in the middle of a musical phrase and much preferred that to the fade-out-click-fade-in.
@llangley In the 70s, a lot of songs faded out at the end rather than ending with a chord, for example, but the eight-track thing I’m talking about was different. Each track on an eight-track tape was so short that a song might need more than one track, so the song would fade out in the middle of it just before a track change then fade back in after the track change. Of course, that’s not how the song was written or supposed to be played.
Rick Fresco
@yakkoTDI Toby didn’t like that (he’s nestled up beside me but he started to twitch when I played it!)
Rick Astley
@heartny Excellent choice.
/image egg roll
/image Tootsie Rolls
@troy Huh? (I guess we posted simultaneously - but I don’t get this connection?)
@Kyeh In response to the topic!
@troy Okay - I kind of figured it was that - it just didn’t connect to the image above it!
Rickey Smiley - Tootsie Roll
Rickey Smiley - Tootsie Roll
Jelly Roll
/image Jello Biafra
(Real name: Eric Boucher)
Eric The Half A Bee
/image Romper Room Do Bee
@heartny
I loved that show but it’s funny because I don’t remember the Bee!
I DO remember getting my craft on though. I must’ve been 4-5yrs old and I made my first DIY walking boot things with cans and string to mimic the ones they had.
Oo-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be
B.B. King
(I hope this doesn’t sound negative, I’m honestly just curious.)
When did
<famous person>forum topics turn into the driving game? Did I miss a memo, or am I just insufficiently hip to know when the cool things are going to happen?@xobzoo it didn’t, really. Some rando (
) started a thread and it Just. Took.
Off.
@llangley @xobzoo Right. The Driving Game still exists but it’s got stricter rules; this one’s looser and sillier.
@Kyeh @xobzoo we should resurrect that…
@llangley @xobzoo
@Kyeh @llangley @xobzoo This is like the driving game on easy mode
@llangley @xobzoo, I too am genuinely curious, in the opposite. I’ve found myself, through complete and total ignorance, in the “rando” category participating in the driving game version of the famous persons game. Can somebody give me a 30 second overview of how it used to be before it morphed into tootsie rolls and tattooed rap/country singers?
@llangley @PeacefulEasy @xobzoo Well, the Driving Game still exists, it’s just for music. The “random associations” thing started when someone posted a topic headed “Kelly Clarkson” but then nothing else. So we all got into providing silly content until that filled up, and then several subsequent threads have been started to carry on.
Hopefully not too much of a jump…
@ybmuG … I don’t get it …
@Kyeh It’s Negan’s bat Lucille from The Walking Dead - link to BB King’s guitar Lucille
@ybmuG Ohhh - I never watched Walking Dead. Thanks, I’d never have guessed.
Just a Friendly Game of Baseball.
Savannah Bananas
️
/image banana for scale
@heartny Or this one
@werehatrack I almost ordered this one a few times, but once I added shipping it was more than I wanted to spend on a banana.
Prunella Scales as Sybil Fawlty
Harvey Scales
/image Harvey Wallbanger
/image Giuseppe Galliano
Giuseppe Garibaldi, the George Washington of Italy, who led the army that unified Italy. After that war, Garibaldi approached Abraham Lincoln with an offer to lead the Union Army in our Civil War, but Lincoln offered him a position only as a major general which Garibaldi refused.
@ybmuG So this was interesting - after you posted this I went into a deep rabbit hole reading up on Gary Oldman. Then tonight, The Late Show was completely devoted to Colbert interviewing Gary Oldman in London! It was a hilarious interview; if you haven’t seen it it’s worth checking it out.
@Kyeh @ybmuG Aftter all of the wackjobs that Oldman had portrayed brilliantly, I thought it was priceless when he was cast as Lieutenant Gordon in a Batman flick; literally the only sane, down-to-earth named character in the entire movie.
Alech Taadi
/image hot toddy
/image Hot Chocolate
/image count chocula
Milky Cereal
The Milky Way
/image Sakuma drops
@pakopako not included: trauma
/giphy grave of the fireflies
Rufus T. Firefly
@ybmuG
/giphy serenity now
/youtube i want it now, willy wonka
808 State - Nephatiti
The connection is sampling Willy Wonka.
Candy Samples (adult film actress)
Candy
I Want Candy
/image Malcolm McLaren
/image Vivienne Westwood
Carnaby Street
Baker Street
@heartny I love that song.
Street Life
/image Randy Crawford
/image Randy Newman
/image Danny DaVito
@Pavlov a double? He’s “short people”!
Danny Bonaduce as Danny Partridge
/image Danny Boy Song
Aer Lingus
@Kyeh My favorite airline!
@ItalianScallion Really? Is it just especially good?
@Kyeh The employees are always nice, the prices to Italy and France are usually the lowest among the airlines that aren’t the “who?” budget ones, they don’t charge for a checked or carry-on bag to Europe, the Dublin airport where I change planes is easy to get around, and best of all it’s a 5 1/2 hour flight from Boston to Dublin so I don’t go stir crazy on the plane, followed by a two hour-or-so flight to Italy. Once I flew their business class and it was fabulous: true lie flat seats, really good food, plenty of room. It was like first class on other airlines.
@ItalianScallion Good to know!
/image Kerrygold
/image baking with Julia butter
Irish Soda Bread
@Kyeh I’m going to make an espresso now and have a piece of Irish soda bread with it…
Baking soda
Trying to keep it Irish for today!
Irish cream scones (recipe here)
/image Guinness cake
@pakopako Oh yes!!
@pakopako Yummm!
/image Guinness World Records
Alec Guinness
/image Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Not the version i was intending (the 1979 miniseries with Alec Guinness), but a fun long-distance double with Oldman
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ybmuG I assumed you’d done that on purpose, and thought “how clever!”
Josiah Bassey - Soldier Man
Count Basie
Shirley Bassey
(I didn’t know she’s Welsh!)
@Kyeh I tried to post an image for Shirley Bassey three times, but kept getting a broken image so I deleted them. Wonder why?
@heartny Oh, I wonder if we were both posting at the same time? And mine beat yours by a split second? I added the video after posting the image, too, so I was changing it up for a few minutes.
@Kyeh Troublemaker.
Don’t call me Shirley.
@ItalianScallion “Call me anything you like except early in the morning or late for dinner.”
(Badumm tssss …)
@Kyeh (thinking to myself) “Uggh. And he’s going to here all week…”
@ItalianScallion Who’s “he?”
@Kyeh Ummm… The person who wrote “Badumm tssss …”?
@ItalianScallion
That would be me,
but I’m not a he.
(Tee hee.)
@Kyeh I’m so sorry! It’s not the first time I’ve gotten the gender wrong here and I’m sure it won’t be the last!
@ItalianScallion
No problem.
Call Me
Call Me Maybe
You can call me Ray
@heartny One hit wonder RJJJ.
/youtube Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
/image Al Pacino
Aldebaran
/image Ford Taurus
/image Ford’s Garage restaurant
Lol…I just ate there!
Bacon old-fashioned
@llangley Coffee ice cream in a bacon cup with chocolate sauce and a poor attempt at creating an elegant presentation. (from my kitchen in 2015)
@ItalianScallion nice!! How’d it taste??
@llangley It was 10/10! I think I’ll make one today with the vanilla ice cream I have.
@ItalianScallion
Sounds delicious! You may like this food vendor at this year’s Florida State Fair…they weren’t open yet
@llangley Deep fried chocolate bacon. Found nowhere else other than a state fair!
Ford Timelord!
/image 1964 Ford Mustang
Mustang Sally
/image Sally Field
Field of Dreams
Dreams by Fleetwood Mac
Paging @yakkoTDI …
Mack Gray
/image Gray’s Anatomy
Hmmm. Wrong Gray.
Gray’s Anatomy
/image gray wolf
Wolf
@PoolToyWolf
@Kyeh Those are my inflatables (Fenris and Kaiser) in my backyard! Lmao where did you find that photo?
@PooltoyWolf I searched “Fenris” hoping to find exactly that - actually was a bonus to find a photo of two of them! In fact, I think it was from your inflatable-of-the-day thread.
@Kyeh Ha, that makes sense! I should share more inflatables…
@PooltoyWolf You should!
@Kyeh @PooltoyWolf New thread: Pool inflatables: what have you got?
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh Don’t mind if I do!
/image Kaiser Roll
@ybmuG Theme from Rocky XIII, “The Rye Or The Kaiser”
@werehatrack “Stay away from the tuna. It smells funny tonight!” Classic advice!
Old Time Rock and Roll - Bob Seger
Oops. Just realized I messed up on posting the video the right way. Oh well. You can click on the link if you want to see it.
@ItalianScallion I blame you.
@yakkoTDI That makes two of us.
Bob James
/youtube James Gang - Funk 49
Grand Funk Railroad
Funicular railroad
Almost a double
Rodney Dangerfield - Funiculi, Funicula
@ItalianScallion Respect!
/youtube R-E-S-P-E-C-T
/image Blues Brothers
8 bit Blues (Chicago to LA to NY)
/image 8-track tape
@llangley I could never figure out why every single eight-track tape would fade out before changing tracks then fade back in. When I used to record my own, I absolutely could handle the loud mechanical track change in the middle of a musical phrase and much preferred that to the fade-out-click-fade-in.
@ItalianScallion I never noticed that. Didn’t albums also fade out?
@llangley In the 70s, a lot of songs faded out at the end rather than ending with a chord, for example, but the eight-track thing I’m talking about was different. Each track on an eight-track tape was so short that a song might need more than one track, so the song would fade out in the middle of it just before a track change then fade back in after the track change. Of course, that’s not how the song was written or supposed to be played.
/image Lear jet
Bill Lear invented the 8 track.
Track 8 at Boston’s South Station
Driver 8
Magic 8 Ball
/image Magic Johnson
Okay, this thread’s getting too full to open, so here’s a link back to Desi Arnaz - the “I Love Lucy” Orson Wells magic stunt:
@Kyeh Bravo!!!
@ItalianScallion Thanks!
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh is there a new thread somewhere?
/showme a lost linking thread in psychedelic claymation
@mediocrebot THERE it is!
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh @llangley New thread posted. Link below.
New thread is up.
Patrick E. Baker
https://meh.com/forum/topics/patrick-e-baker