Nothing Going On Right Now
4:03 p.m., Tuesday May 9th.
Nothing going on right now over here. How about over theres by you?
Randomness Going Back to 2005
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Keane @ Gibson, 5/11/07
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SXSW ’09: Camera Obscura @ Mohawk Patio
nothing going on right now. :(
it was “b”…next
The hilarious thing about Big Love is that people in Utah–Mormons and otherwise–do, in fact, talk that way. Oh my heck!
So you acknowledge the current version uses a three-peg Destroyer. Now let’s review our bet.
Was it
a) how many pegs does a Battleship destroyer have? or
b) how many pegs does your irrelevant 30-year old Battleship destroyer have?
So quick we are to cite the 1990/2002 copyright-renewed Hasbro PDF. Little good it will do you, friend. Little good it did Hasbro. Little good it did Milton, and little good it did Bradley. They foibled years ago and hope to cast a blind eye to it now, presuming the impressionable youth of America, 1970s would let it slide.
“Shit. The Destroyer was too small to be a Destroyer. He had a big name to compensate for his wee-size,” said they behind closed doors.
You know and I know they changed the name of the boat without telling anybody. I can draw up on thousands. Thousands, Ron. Thousands of references citing the Destroyer with two holes, my defeated-yet-dogged friend. There is little you can do, save hang your head in defeat. I will settle for that, for starters. Following that I would expect to begin discussions of my compensation.
I will be compensated.
An ebay auction is the best you got? Let’s go straight to the source.
3 PEGS, BITCH.
Thank you, senor burritoman, for that stellar sleuthwork. I stand by my statements: (1) Destroyer had two pegs. (2) Ron is a lying son of a bitch. (3) I did not ‘mod’ my own 1970s gamepiece; however, I did perform a few ‘mods’ on Ron’s car at lunch.
In other news, like-minded ‘mod’ fans might want to make their way to Hangar 1018 downtown tonight for the $5 xbox faceplate mod post-e3 extravaganza, featuring all your favorite artists. More details here (someplace).
Who had 2 pegs and who had 3? See below. This guy seems to be a retro boardgame expert and has the vintage destroyer down as a 2-pegger, but then image doesn’t really look like a destroyer. So it is possible that the name and the boat design didn’t match up in the old game. Hope this helps complicate things!
http://cgi.ebay.com/BATTLESHIP-GAME-PART-2-HOLE-DESTROYER_W0QQitemZ8751458722QQcategoryZ7317QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Sounds like you’re staring down the losing end of this wager. Please remind me what our bet was. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t “how many pegs does Ryan’s 1970s mod Battleship destroyer have?”
That is an outright lie you son of a bitch.
Ryan, you’re living in the past. Our bet is based on the current off-the-shelf version of Battleship.
I would like to speak to somebody who has a milton bradley battleship game in hand immediately, please.
that_owl… ? MFV? … Jez? … Pete?….One of you has to have a 1970s battleship lying around. Let’s talk.
MFV, when I called you the message said your mailbox was full.
Oh, sure! Chitchat amongst yourselves. Don’t return my phone calls or anything.
And too many glasses of milk. Do people really drink milk when they are stressed out?
Jez- I hear you on the Big Love. At what point does the ‘Well it’s better than most crap on TV’ cease to be a valid excuse? Real clumsy writing and way too much acting going on. I bailed after 1 1/4 episodes myself. I can’t believe they renewed it for another season.
You watch Big Love because of the music.
At the moment I am contemplating this ever-present quandary: Why do I continue to watch Big Love? The acting isn’t that great, the writing isn’t all that interesting (though I’ve never before heard more “Golly’s!” on HBO) and the plots are not really that compelling. So why do I persist?
Speaking of Destroyer, can anybody definitively confirm whether the destroyer piece in Battleship was a two or a three peg boat? Ryan and I have a substantial bet on this.
Nick– give us a report on the show. I have a great Destroyer tune coming up on a “podcast” mix I’ll put up shortly.
And nice grab, Pete. I was listening to Indie right when he was playing that but did not hear the answer.
Hit the 5 around 8pm and you’ll be fine. Or else take off half day and kill time out there. That’s how I do a weeknight Angels game.
I won the “name that tune” cell-phone-ring contest that T.K. did to give away tickets to Kill Hannah tomorrow. (The answer was “Killers,” by Iron Maiden.)
Of course, the tickets are for tomorrow night, and the show is in Santa Ana. Do I really want to sit on the 405 for that? Signs point to “no.”
…..just the long and winding road.
Destroyer sank my battleship.
Just getting excited about Destroyer tonight!