Random Thoughts

[Ceir]

No more prank calls and plenty of scam calls. I think I'd prefer the prank calls.

Pretty much.

Learned a useless fact when I dropped this thought elsewhere as well - Bart's last prank call on the Simpsons was apparently in 2018, which is far more recent than I would have expected. Then again, I haven't watched anything Simpsons in a decade or so; it stopped being funny a long time ago.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Was listening to some Weird Al today. Playlist hit "Phony Calls".

Setting aside the song dating itself severely with references to 7-digit phone numbers and the Yellow Pages, it strikes me: in the age of the cellphone, prank calls are nigh extinct (not necessarily a bad thing). Everything has caller ID and visible numbers, nobody (that I know anyway) actually picks up a number they don't recognize...heck, the song has a clip of one of Bart's prank calls from The Simpsons, and the show dropped that bit how many years ago?

No more prank calls and plenty of scam calls. I think I'd prefer the prank calls.

[Ceir]

Was listening to some Weird Al today. Playlist hit "Phony Calls".

Setting aside the song dating itself severely with references to 7-digit phone numbers and the Yellow Pages, it strikes me: in the age of the cellphone, prank calls are nigh extinct (not necessarily a bad thing). Everything has caller ID and visible numbers, nobody (that I know anyway) actually picks up a number they don't recognize...heck, the song has a clip of one of Bart's prank calls from The Simpsons, and the show dropped that bit how many years ago?

[Nunavut Pants]

The current one is illuminating a lot of things I wish weren't there to see...

[Ceir]

New fortune cookie wisdom: "Even a dumpster fire illuminates something..."

[Ceir]

And the studios have come full circle as they are not making old animated movies as live action movies.

And the world was poorer for it.

[catcul]

Have you ever heard of a Shark eat moths?

Somehow, my apartment had been overrun with moths. I set up these fly traps, but they are not enough. So, I decide to vacuum up the moths.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Things I've learned from having the retro cartoon channel on as background noise:
- Hanna-Barbera made way more "talking animal with alliterative or rhyming name" characters back in the '60s and '70s than I realized.
- Similarly, studios in the '90s made way more "these Classic Cartoon Characters But As Little Kids" shows than I realized.
- Heck, they'd make anything into a Animated Series in the '90s. Mr. T, Police Academy, ALF, Beetlejuice...

And the studios have come full circle as they are not making old animated movies as live action movies.

[Ceir]

Things I've learned from having the retro cartoon channel on as background noise:
- Hanna-Barbera made way more "talking animal with alliterative or rhyming name" characters back in the '60s and '70s than I realized.
- Similarly, studios in the '90s made way more "these Classic Cartoon Characters But As Little Kids" shows than I realized.
- Heck, they'd make anything into a Animated Series in the '90s. Mr. T, Police Academy, ALF, Beetlejuice...

[catcul]

Why would anyone want a bottle opener on the bottom of their shoe? Why would you want a bottle next to something that has been going through dirt, mud, sand, or other things?

[Ceir]

Just took the dog for a walk, pretty sure I saw two box elder bugs fuckin' like nothing matters.

Get a room you two.

Only two? They're fricking (and fucking) everywhere this year where I live.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Just took the dog for a walk, pretty sure I saw two box elder bugs fuckin' like nothing matters.

Get a room you two.

[Seanette]

When the front bumper of your dick-em-up truck is way high and the rear bumper is damn near plowing the asphalt.

Oh, extra-strength stupid as applied to vehicle mods, then.

[dalesys]

"Carolina squatting"?

When the front bumper of your dick-em-up truck is way high and the rear bumper is damn near plowing the asphalt.

[Seanette]

Carolina squatting your clapped-out Chevy Colorado is definitely a choice. One that probably involved many substances, illicit and otherwise. I don't want to know.

"Carolina squatting"?