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Offseason Looms as Georgia Bulldogs' Sports Year Comes to a Close

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the offseason in Bulldog Nation.

On Sunday, the Georgia men’s golf team played for the national championship in the NCAA finals and the Bulldogs baseball team attempted to extend its stay in the Corvallis Regional, but both Red and Black squads came up just short, despite valiant efforts. As the current site header attests, this leaves us with just two events on the Georgia sports calendar before the 2011 football season kicks off in the Georgia Dome on the night of September 3, as the track and field team will participate in the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, from Wednesday, June 8, through Saturday, June 11, and in the USA Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore., from Thursday, June 23, through Sunday, June 26.

Then, the void begins.

So, what do you want to talk about in the meantime? Let us know by voting in the poll below.

Go ‘Dawgs!

Poll
Where should we focus our attention now that the spring sports seasons are coming to a close?
Wall-to-wall football; all football, all the time!
96 votes
Plans for the Second Annual Dawg Sports Sacrificial Goat Roast.
2 votes
How much we rock.
2 votes
How much we suck.
11 votes
How much we need to fire somebody, and which somebody it ought to be.
7 votes
All things recruiting.
5 votes
Recruiting, but not oversigning.
6 votes
Oversigning, but with civility.
0 votes
Oversigning, but with personal insults galore.
1 votes
Basketball, now that we've gotten our hooks into Kyle.
4 votes
Soccer. (I'm being serious.)
5 votes
Soccer. (I'm being sarcastic.)
6 votes
All things Uga.
14 votes
All things grammar.
4 votes
Is there any chance we could go back to including a picture of Kristin Davis with every posting?
12 votes
Butter and the weather (a/k/a "DavetheDawg Wednesdays").
1 votes
"Every Day Should be Cocktail Thursday."
10 votes
Brisket v. pork: a debate for the barbecurious.
20 votes
All open comment threads, all the time.
2 votes
None of the above. (I have explained in the comments.)
3 votes

211 votes | Poll has closed

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Well, what do you know...

… as of right now, Soccer has 100% of the votes. (All one of them.)

by vineyarddawg on Jun 6, 2011 9:49 AM EDT reply actions  

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Put your hand down Fine Young Cannibals reject Wayne Rooney. You are a soccer player. Yours is not the sport we wish to talk about this summer.

/happens to know that Sligo Rovers is on a bit of a run here lately.
//Misses the American football bad enough to watch buffered ESPN 360 bowl replays.

by MaconDawg on Jun 6, 2011 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions  

Jealous?

I think it’s only appropriate for Everton to develop a drunken jerk who needs a hair transplant at 25.

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Jun 6, 2011 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions  

Both one of our best and worst developments.

In our defense, lots of people from Liverpool are wankers, but only a small proportion of them are Everton fans.

by vineyarddawg on Jun 6, 2011 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions  

well played

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Jun 7, 2011 8:15 AM EDT up reply actions  

Wayne Rooney is a wanker.

You shut your stupid face! Wait until Wesley Sneijder comes in to link up with Wazza next year. It’ll be damn near the only credible threat to Barca in Europe besides whatever ridiculous scheme Mourinho comes up with.

Tune every heart and every voice,
Bid every care withdraw;
Let all with one accord rejoice,
In praise of Old Nassau.
In praise of Old Nassau we sing,
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Our hearts will give while we shall live,
Three cheers for Old Nassau.

by Anthony Pace on Jun 7, 2011 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions  

I didn't say he wasn't a great player.

I said he was a wanker. The two are not mutually exclusive.

See also: Peter Crouch (though the “great player” thing might not apply in his case).

by vineyarddawg on Jun 7, 2011 6:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

Peter Crouch is a slag

But for Wazza, all is forgiven with his play in the second half of the season.

Tune every heart and every voice,
Bid every care withdraw;
Let all with one accord rejoice,
In praise of Old Nassau.
In praise of Old Nassau we sing,
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Our hearts will give while we shall live,
Three cheers for Old Nassau.

by Anthony Pace on Jun 8, 2011 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

Me want mor grammer!

"Insert witty and/or funny quote here" ~ The Person Who Spoketh Said Quote.

by Jman781 on Jun 6, 2011 10:07 AM EDT reply actions  

What does Charlie Sheen have _not_ in common with UGA ?

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jun 6, 2011 11:08 AM EDT reply actions  

Why is this even a question?

The UGA athletics program has just experienced two of its worst years in recent memory. How can the topic be anything other than how much we suck? I declare this the summer of self-loathing!

Just as an aside, we’re from Georgia, so pork should always win over brisket. If you pick brisket, then you’re a Texan and a closet Longhorn. Not that there’s a problem with that, but I was just wondering if any of you brisket eaters could tell me what time it is in Texas?

Sic 'em Dawgs

by ClassicCityDawg on Jun 6, 2011 12:15 PM EDT reply actions   1 recs

Agreed.

Though one of my summer projects is to learn how to smoke a decent brisket.

by MaconDawg on Jun 6, 2011 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

It's really not very difficult...

…but finding the right paper is paramount.

"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell

by DavetheDawg on Jun 6, 2011 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

I enjoy a good brisket now and then

But I agree that it is not Georgian. however, sometimes it’s good to get to other flavors.

That said, BBQ discussion could include the various rubs and sauces and determining which base is best for which kind of ’Q. When it comes to pulled pork, it better be vinegar based. Anything else is just wrong.

Also, given that we are all supporters of Georgia and most likely Southern (by the Grace of God), we can all agree that there requires no debate as to the difference between barbecuing and grilling/cooking out. I have been known to get quite vocal about that point around my Yankee friends.

by The984 on Jun 6, 2011 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

The best BBQ...

… requires NO sauce. It is perfectly slow-cooked in its own juices, and the natural flavor of the meat is so heavenly that it is an abomination to miscegenate the meat with any sauce at all.

For all other pulled pork, however, vinegar-based is the way to go. Not too sour, though… vinegar-based doesn’t mean pucker-inducing.

by vineyarddawg on Jun 6, 2011 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

I will respectfully disagree with that when it comes to pulled pork sandwiches

Pulled pork on its own? Yeah. Agreed. I was distinctly thinking of sandwiches, but I did not make that clear.

Agreed on the level of vinegar though.

by The984 on Jun 6, 2011 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

I respectfully disagree with a vinagery sauce for pulled pork )

there is no agreement in BBQ, its called personal preference. The only thing I think can be a fact is grilling and true BBQ are not the same. However, the English language is not stagnant – BBQ to many folks means a family or social gathering, paricularly in the warmer months, out of doors, with food. “Going to a BBQ” doesnt mean going to a 18 hr low and slow BBQ Pork. So, the word has many meanings to many people.

Yankees are always wrong though. )

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jun 6, 2011 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

Your last line goes in to a theory of mine...

A Southern drawl can be quite difficult to comprehend for those not from ‘round here. But while yankees think it’s a sign of our stupidty, to me, it’s almost code. We can speak English around them, and we can understand what each other say while they can’t.

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Jun 6, 2011 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

Some of these things are matters on which reasonable persons can disagree.

Barbecue versus grilling is not one of those things. Sauce? I think so. I will accept a well-made sauce in any of the varieties used around the country. I prefer mustard, and my least favorite would be the sweet tomato stuff some people use. But again, I’ll try nearly anything.

And honestly, the sauce is just a little something extra when serving and should not be confused with being a part of the cooking process.

Speaking of which (cooking, that is), I had some nice butt for supper last night — marinated overnight the evening before in some lime juice, cilantro, garlic, a bit o’ onion, and some Sazón Goya. Rutabaga and peas on the side, thanks, with some boiled peanuts to snack on throughout the day.

by NCT on Jun 6, 2011 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

All right, new segment:

NCT standing behind a window pretending to polish nonexistent panes of glass until we ask in unison, “Hey, NCT, what’s for supper?”

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 6, 2011 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

YUM, YUM! I need some wire-rimmed spectacles, I reckon.

I went to the DeKalb Farmer’s Market this weekend and loaded up, especially green peanuts. I keep telling myself I’m going to dive into some of the more exotic, international offerings they have there, but I always come out with the same stuff I used to pick as a child on the patch of Hall County land out the Clark’s Bridge Road that my grandparents planted every year.

by NCT on Jun 6, 2011 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

you so live in my old stomping grounds.....

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jun 6, 2011 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions  

Actually, I just moved ...

I didn’t move far, though. I’m even closer to downtown than I was before. So the same grounds are being stomped, essentially.

by NCT on Jun 6, 2011 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

I grew up in Home Park, my Mom still lives there.

We may have had this discussion before – you have mentioned midtown several times.

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jun 6, 2011 6:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

We haven but no worries.

I’ve left Midtown for the Castleberry Hill Historic District. It’s awesome.

by NCT on Jun 6, 2011 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

the sazon is indeed your friend.

I use the marinade you describe on grilled pork tenderloins, only with the additional of some cumin and honey. In my mind it’s as good a proof as there is that God doesn’t want us to be vegetarians.

by MaconDawg on Jun 6, 2011 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions  

Mustard > Vinegar > Spicy Tomato Based > “Northeast GA Tomato Based” >>Water>Gloppy Tomato Based>>>>Mayo>>> Sweet, Gloppy Tomato Based>Ranch

by UGAVike on Jun 6, 2011 6:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

lol @ "Northeast GA Tomato Based"

Tune every heart and every voice,
Bid every care withdraw;
Let all with one accord rejoice,
In praise of Old Nassau.
In praise of Old Nassau we sing,
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Our hearts will give while we shall live,
Three cheers for Old Nassau.

by Anthony Pace on Jun 7, 2011 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

I go no sauce during/immediately after smoking.

From there I hit the occasional sandwich with any number of sauces (mustard, vinegar and tomato). I even (and I can’t believe I’m admitting this) sometimes enjoy a slather of Blue Plate mayonnaise on a pulled pork sandwich. Hey, you take off the white wig! Stop judging me!

by MaconDawg on Jun 6, 2011 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

/Hangs on to wig.

//Continues to judge.
///Judgment is righteous.

Tankertoad is universally right that there is no agreement in barbeque. Except that he’s wrong about everybody in the world agreeing that you are wrong.

by first and thom on Jun 6, 2011 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

what you did there - I see it

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jun 6, 2011 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

A good stew is key for me

Brunswick stew is what really distinguishes Georgia barbeque from what we see in other parts of the country. Not having yet perfected my own recipe and living most of the year in Mississippi, I get bad cravings for a good bowl every time I eat a pulled pork sandwich. Aside from my mother, who makes the best Brunswick stew in Georgia, I really like the stew they serve up at Holcomb’s in Greensboro and Sprayberry’s in Newnan. BTW, if you ever get the chance to eat at Sprayberry’s, order the Lewis Grizzard special, and thank me later. Old Clinton’s in Gray may have some of the best pulled pork I’ve ever tasted, but the stew is just Godawful.

Sic 'em Dawgs

by ClassicCityDawg on Jun 6, 2011 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Sprayberry's

And take the extra trouble to drive into town instead of going to the one out on I-85 (assuming it’s still open). I’ve had mixed results at both locations, but the one in town has a higher batting average.

I know I’ve mentioned it before (I do early and often), but I’ve yet to spend time anywhere that has a higher concentration of good quality barbecue joints than Columbus, Georgia. Barbecue is one of only two things I miss about living there.

by NCT on Jun 6, 2011 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

My theory on Columbus barbecue...

…is because of its close proximity to Alabama. Hell, I’m from GA and my personal preference is for Alabama pork barbecue. Especially the Golden Rule, with a fried peach pie. #diabeetuscoma

by Dawglicious on Jun 6, 2011 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

Columbia, SC has some quality Q in several places...

although I was most pleasently surprised with it’s multiple fine offerings of Asian cuisine (Thai, Vietnamese, and Korean primarily).

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Jun 6, 2011 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hm. Columbus, too, on the Asian (figured it was the Infantry presence).

So basically what we can conclude is that crappy places named in honor of the man falsely credited with discovering the New World are more likely to have good barbecue. I am going to assume “in the South” also applies unless someone from Ohio’s capital surprises me. But I suspect some decent ’cue can be found in CBM.

by NCT on Jun 6, 2011 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

If it's Columbus too...

we’ve found an agreement on the source. It’s the same as I was told in Columbia, being that they have Ft. Jackson, and that is American military personnel returning home with Asian wives, who either they or their family need something to do.

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Jun 6, 2011 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

CCD -

I must agree with you about Brunswick stew and Georgia. I have seen it in few other places, and it was usually pretty horrible outside the state. GAWD I miss that stew.

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jun 6, 2011 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

I was always curious about the difference between stew and hash...

as I’ve come to learn, hash is thicker, while stew is waterier and has more veggies, which I should have known from the descriptive title “stew”.

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Jun 6, 2011 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

The two are as different as night and day.

It’s kind of like asking what’s the difference between the West Coast offense and the Single-Wing offense. Both have 11 football players on the team, but the way you put them together and the end product are as different as they can possibly be.

by vineyarddawg on Jun 6, 2011 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'm learning that as I get older...

but it took a while.

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Jun 7, 2011 8:16 AM EDT up reply actions  

so clearly

i need to pull out my recipe and fix some for the goat roast…….

I can bake like a demon.

by podunkdawg on Jun 6, 2011 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

2nd

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jun 6, 2011 6:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

Totally right there with you.

Oh, yeah, we don’t suck anymore!

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 6, 2011 6:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

I cannot stess strongly enough . . .

. . . how absolutely mission-critical Brunswick stew is to any barbecue experience.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 6, 2011 7:01 PM EDT up reply actions   2 recs

My paternal grandfather never cooked a day in his life...

… but damn if he didn’t make the best brunswick stew you would ever have tasted in your life. (Sadly, however, he had no written recipe and never let anyone watch him make it, so his stew passed with him.)

There’s a BBQ trailer that parks in downtown Watkinsville every Friday and Saturday from 11 to about 6 or so. Their Q is on the “good” side of “ok,” but their Brunswick stew is worth getting a gallon. The flavor is exceptional, even if it has a little too much actual meat in it for my personal liking.

by vineyarddawg on Jun 6, 2011 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yep...I've had their stew before

and it is mighty fine. In fact, when I was home last year I bought some, froze it, packed it up and somehow got it past TSA.

That’s a shame about your grandfather’s recipe. My aunt passed on a few years ago and with her went the best divinity recipe ever. You had to watch her make it to get it right.

"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell

by DavetheDawg on Jun 7, 2011 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

Old Clinton and Holcomb's are among my favorites as well.

Like you I’ve wondered why Old Clinton’s stew isn’t better. It may just be a matter of preference, but I’ve never been impressed with it.

by MaconDawg on Jun 6, 2011 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

The stew at Country's in Columbus ...

It grew on me after a while. It’s a little soupy, but it has nice shreds of meat in it, plus chunks of tomato along with the other vegetables. The stew at Smoky Pig (also Columbus) just might be Castleberry’s, but the pork’s so good, I honestly don’t mind atall.

by NCT on Jun 6, 2011 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

Stew?

It’s called hash. and it’s served on rice.

by UGAVike on Jun 6, 2011 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

Not what I was taught...

… the hash I grew up with was typically made with game meat, normally rabbitt and deer, and it was a lot thicker than Brunswick stew.

Sic 'em Dawgs

by ClassicCityDawg on Jun 6, 2011 7:16 PM EDT up reply actions  

hmm

Ours was made with leftover pork. So I just did a little research and have seen people make it from beef, chicken, pork or game (or any combination thereof). Interesting. Definitely thicker than stew though.

by UGAVike on Jun 6, 2011 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

I have never had a hash that I would confuse with stew.

- Brunswick Stew is, at its most basic, a thick soup with chunks of meat and various forms of vegetation (only corn and maybe potatoes and okra if it’s good).

- Hash basically uses similar ingredients, but is typically much heavier on the potatoes and does not have a significant liquid component. Hash is typically served on a plate, while brunswick stew is usually served in a bowl.

We might just be talking about definition of terms, here, and what your people call “hash,” I would call “stew.” I think the general accepted definition, though, is the one that I use.

by vineyarddawg on Jun 6, 2011 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

I may be equally mistaken, . . .

. . . but vineyarddawg is using the terms “hash” and “stew” in the manner that I use them, as well.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 6, 2011 8:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yall are correct.

Hash and Stew have always been either/or in my experience. Every BBQ place/family seems to serve one or the other, but I’ve never been to a place that serves both. That is where I was coming from when making the comparison between the two.

by UGAVike on Jun 7, 2011 7:43 AM EDT up reply actions  

I must not have that refined a tongue...

cause brisket or pork, mustard, ketchup or vinegar, I really don’t care. Good meat is good enough for me. I can taste it in all sorts, and still smile.

So sir, I vehemently disagree with some of what you say and submit that there is no such thing as “wrong” when it comes to well prepared Q.

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Jun 6, 2011 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

Agreed sir...

made ribs a few weeks back. Wife started complaining about how it shouldn’t take so long. I hung my head in shame.

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Jun 6, 2011 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

If you're like me, you lost interest in the Women's College World Series . . .

. . . when Georgia lost in the super regional, but the first game of the WCWS finals is on ESPN2 right now, and top-seeded Arizona State has taken a 7-0 lead on fourth-seeded Florida. The Gators are looking to become the first SEC team to win an NCAA softball championship.

I trust I am not alone in taking the position that, while conference pride may come into play when, say, LSU is playing in the Cotton Bowl or South Carolina is playing in the College World Series, there is absolutely no set of circumstances, emergency or otherwise, under which any denizen of Bulldog Nation would want the Florida Gators to win a national championship in anything.

Accordingly, if the Sun Devils hold on to win tonight, would folks be up for a Gatorfreude comment thread for tomorrow night’s game at 8:00 p.m. on ESPN2, when Florida will be facing elimination?

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 6, 2011 9:04 PM EDT reply actions  

All right, seriously.

They’re down, 7-0, and the gals in the dugout are doing one-handed baby Gator chomps with their thumbs and forefingers, and a guy in a Gator-head hat is waving a flag in the stands.

Yeah, I want these people to get thumped.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 6, 2011 9:12 PM EDT up reply actions  

If you're not watching this game, you should be.

Arizona is up, 9-0, and, because it’s the finals, the mercy rule isn’t in effect.

RedCrake, pop some popcorn.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 6, 2011 9:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

Now 10-0.

I love that the Gators, whose across-the-board run to the top began when they hired an alumnus away from the Duke Blue Devils, are getting routed by the Arizona State Sun Devils.

Maybe Satan is sending a signal that he’s finally ready to come lay claim to Jeremy Foley’s immortal soul.

Seriously, that’s the only plausible explanation for the last 20 years, right?

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 6, 2011 9:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

11-0 and my 17-year-old Gator fan son is moaning...

like I was when Baylor was in town. (I honestly did try to raise him right, though).

by Ohio-On-The-Gulf Dog on Jun 6, 2011 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

Florida just put a home run on the board in the top of the seventh.

Arizona State still leads, 14-2, though.

So, how do folks feel about a game thread tomorrow night?

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 6, 2011 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE I MISSED THIS.

Such a beautiful, thorough beatdown of the Sunshine State Saurians, and I was completely oblivious to the magnificent event.

I’m all for a Gatorfreude thread tomorrow night. But, then again, I just hate Florida more than the average man.

(I hate Florida.)

by vineyarddawg on Jun 7, 2011 12:42 AM EDT up reply actions  

All right, that's enough of an endorsement for me.

I’ll put up a thread to open at 8:00 or shortly before, even if it’s just vineyarddawg, me, and tankertoad saying, “Dude.”

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 7, 2011 1:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

Fair warning:

The USA’s first soccer game in the Gold Cup begins at approximately 8:00, as well (on Fox Soccer Channel… 619 on DirecTV). So I might have to multi-channel this evening.

by vineyarddawg on Jun 7, 2011 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

We'd just send a "C" team like last time...

… and get embarrassed like we did against Spain.

Geez, the leaders of US Soccer really do some bonehead things sometimes.

by vineyarddawg on Jun 7, 2011 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

all those votes for wall to wall football - and we talked about everything but.

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jun 7, 2011 12:38 AM EDT reply actions  

So... how 'bout that Big Bad John?

And that Isaiah Crowell?

Think they’re going to be big contributors?

by vineyarddawg on Jun 7, 2011 12:44 AM EDT up reply actions  

sorry, too busy tweeting pictures of my clothed crotch.

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jun 7, 2011 1:05 AM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

"clothed crotch"

Just a note: I think it’s necessary to pronounce “clothed” in that phrase with two syllables — you know: for poetic purposes.

by NCT on Jun 7, 2011 8:49 AM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

I don't know what it is, but . . .

. . . nothing makes me laugh like a junk joke from tankertoad.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 7, 2011 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

I bring out your inner Beavis.

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jun 7, 2011 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions  

I have some breaking news regarding the football team

If yall are curious. My fiance works in a building on campus and was walking by the practice field and has reported that it “smells like boy.”

More when it breaks.

by UGAVike on Jun 7, 2011 9:59 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

Ah yes, the smell of teeshirts which can stand up by themselves . . .

and recite the opening lines of the Iliad in the Homeric Greek. I know that smell. It smells like . . .victory.

by MaconDawg on Jun 7, 2011 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions  

That's funny.

This is awful, but that comment right there brought Kim Cattrall to mind. What a career.

by NCT on Jun 7, 2011 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions  

[Looks at ceiling]

[Howls at the moon]

That is all.

by MaconDawg on Jun 7, 2011 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

For clarification purposes

She thought it stank around the practice fields, I think Cattrall would have intended something different with a similar statement.

by UGAVike on Jun 7, 2011 11:28 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

Never underestimate our collective ability . . .

. . . to take absolutely anything off on a tangent!

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 7, 2011 11:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

Consider it clarified.

I also offer some clarification: I in no way intended to liken your wife to any of the characters Cattrall has portrayed in her illustrious career (if anyone can name more than three without looking her up, I’ll be impressed).

by NCT on Jun 8, 2011 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

Sex and the City, the green eyed sacrifice/Kurt Russell’s love interest in Big Trouble in Little China, and Guttenburg’s love interest in Police Academy 1.

/admission, I had to look up Kurt Russell as my mind was wanting to say Kurt Douglas and I knew that wasn’t right.
//Feels really, really stupid for mixing up the star of Ben Hur with the star of Tango and Cash

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Jun 8, 2011 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

hey, don't dis Russell.

Kurt Russell’s got a lot of things going for him:

- Survived being a child and teen star (a Disney film staple through the ‘60s and ’70s)
- Gilligan’s Island
- Several solid film appearances, including Escape from New York, Silkwood, and Overboard (which brings us to)
- Goldie Hawn.

by NCT on Jun 8, 2011 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

I wasn't knocking the man...

but Douglas is kind of a different level imo.

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Jun 8, 2011 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wait, you said more than 3...

can Sex and the City 2 count? I’m sure there’s a couple craptastic 80s movies I’m forgetting.

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by Mr. Sanchez on Jun 8, 2011 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

You can't use Sex and the City 2

At least, I assume she played the same character in both movies (and the television show). If she played a different character in the sequel, then sure, go for it.

By the way, I’m impressed with all both who participated. I haven’t seen most of the Star Trek films, so I didn’t get that one. Like much of the film version of Bonfire of the Vanities, I forgot about her. I knew but forgot she was in Police Academy. I was unaware of her appearance in Big Trouble in Little China.

The only three that came to my mind were (1) Porky’s; (2) Mannequin; (3) Sex and the City.

by NCT on Jun 8, 2011 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

Dang!

I’m kicking myself for forgetting “Mannequin”! No, wait . . . come to think of it, I’m not.

How much of “Star Trek”—-the television series (plural) or the motion pictures—-have you seen? I’m a huge “Star Trek” fan from way back, but I don’t know at what point it’s too late for you (or anyone) to become a Trekkie.

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by T Kyle King on Jun 8, 2011 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions  

I've seen every episode of the original series most (if not all) multiple times.

And I’m reasonably conversant in them. I haven’t watched a single episode of any of the later series. I saw the first movie (chick with the shaved head, right? and V-ger?); I saw the second (if it was the one where Chekov got a bug in his ear in the beginning). I think that covers my exposure. I have nothing against the franchise, and I probably would like the later series and films, but I just never made it a high enough priority.

I’m a moderate science fiction fan. Both of my brothers are big science fiction fans — at least they were when we were growing up. There’s a snarky joke there. So I picked books up from time to time that they left lying around. It’s how I found Dune and Stranger in a Strange Land. The older of the two is the same age as the U.S. space program, basically, so he always had a fascination with that stuff.

by NCT on Jun 8, 2011 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah, it's hard for me to explain to people even a few years younger . . .

. . . than me how huge an impact the space program had on many of us of that generation. When I was eight months old, my father woke me up and carried me out into the living room to watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. I have no memory of it, of course, but I can honestly say I saw the moon landing live. Like many young men of my generation, my childhood aspiration was not to be a policeman or a baseball player, but to be an astronaut.

I’d recommend watching the third through sixth “Star Trek” films. “Next Generation” may be a bit much to bite off at this point, but finishing out the movies with the original cast ought to pave the way nicely for the J.J. Abrams “Star Trek” reboot, which I enjoy more with each viewing.

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by T Kyle King on Jun 9, 2011 8:32 AM EDT up reply actions  

I'll put the films nearer the front of the film stove (so to speak)

I’m about halfway through watching the Firefly series — I was interrupted by my recent relocation and haven’t picked it back up again. I share living quarters with one who is much less of a sci-fi fan than I (although we’re about even when it comes to westerns, which describes Firefly as much as science fiction does), so a lot of viewing material has to be slipped into an unpredictable schedule when it can. You know how it goes: one has limited capital to spend with insisting that certain things be watched, so one must choose carefully regarding both time and content.

Having a couple of years on you, I have vague recollections of the moon landing. In addition to being compelled to view that event, I also have a specific recollection of being forced to watch Nixon resign — an event for which I was old enough to form more solid memories but that was much less interesting.

By the way, CST had a somewhat extensive collection of Major Matt Mason toys, which were a space-age analog to GI Joe. That stuff was cool.

by NCT on Jun 9, 2011 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions  

I sympathize.

My wife has only limited interest in science fiction, much as I have only limited (read: no) interest in many of the shows she wants to watch. We’ve been working our way through “Smallville” on DVD.

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by T Kyle King on Jun 9, 2011 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

What I came up with . . .

. . . were (1) “Sex and the City,” (2) “Star Trek VI,” (3) “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” and, of course, (4) “Porky’s.”

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by T Kyle King on Jun 8, 2011 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

This just in -

Derek Dooley has been contacted about shower practices. More news at 6.

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jun 7, 2011 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

All right, where's the button to "rec" every comment from UGAVike's on down?

There’s got to be a “straight-party ticket” option where you can recommend an entire sequence of comments in succession.

Seriously, that’s some quality commentary right there. We give good thread around these parts.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 7, 2011 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

Who else voted for "Every Day Should Be Cocktail Thursday" with me?

/looks at vodka
//looks at mountain dew
///“You need three ingredients for a cocktail. Vodka and Mountain Dew is an emergency.”
////sighs

Tune every heart and every voice,
Bid every care withdraw;
Let all with one accord rejoice,
In praise of Old Nassau.
In praise of Old Nassau we sing,
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Our hearts will give while we shall live,
Three cheers for Old Nassau.

by Anthony Pace on Jun 7, 2011 4:36 PM EDT reply actions  

How about this weekly rotation?

Pessimism Mondays with Tankertoad & Depressive Kyle
Cooking with Gas Tuesdays –
DavetheDawg Wednesdays – butter & the weather
Cocktail Thursdays
Soccer Fridays with Vine & Friends
Football Weekends

I can bake like a demon.

by podunkdawg on Jun 7, 2011 5:20 PM EDT reply actions   3 recs

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jun 7, 2011 7:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

kittens > soccer

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jun 7, 2011 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Agreed, . . .

. . . and I wouldn’t like cats even if I wasn’t allergic to them.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 7, 2011 7:46 PM EDT up reply actions  

By the way, last night ...

Baked chicken (halves) featuring barbecue sauce, skillet corn, baked beans (from a can, alas, and stove-heated, not actually baked), and leftover yella squash with onions. Of course, all things were cooked with liberal use of bacon, except dessert: store-bought lemon meringue pie.

by NCT on Jun 8, 2011 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

I love it that, with 197 votes cast, . . .

. . . the only answer with no votes is “oversigning with civility.”

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jun 7, 2011 9:05 PM EDT reply actions  

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