371 - Dorky Darths, "20MPG City / 27MPG Highway / 34MPG Roller Coaster", An Indo-European Punchline In Need Of A Joke, and "Prince Repellant Lived Nastily Ever After...In Exile"

[12:39 PM] Mr. Blue:

So the villain in “The Force Awakens” is going to be named Kylo Ren

[12:42 PM] Mr. Silver:

"Dahhhh, gee Ren.  That's really Dark side.  You're gonna get in tr- *SLAP!!!!"

"Shut uuuuuup!!!! Yoooo EEEdiot!"

(Note, this was obviously before the film came out, so I didn't know the tempers of the two Rens were going to be quite so similar. - Mr. Silver)

[12:43 PM] Mr. Blue:

LOL

[12:43 PM] Mr. Silver:

https://www.google.com/search?q=kylo+ren+and+stimpy&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CB0QsARqFQoTCJ3_l62_0cgCFYOQDQodmfsBfA&biw=1125&bih=758

[12:44 PM] Mr. Blue:

That didn't take long

[12:44 PM] Mr. Silver:

Nope

Exceptionally poorly considered, really

[12:44 PM] Mr. Blue:

The name?

[12:53 PM] Mr. Silver:

Well how many "Ren"s can you think of?

Drop a name like Kylo Ren (and Stimpy) in front of a bunch of geeks and the association was probably complete as soon as the first neuron fired.

[12:47 PM] Mr. Blue:

How about a Kylo Ren / Rilo Kiley meme?

It doesn't look like it's been done yet

(Still hasn't to this date, looks like – Mr. Silver)

[12:51 PM] Mr. Brown:

Darth Stimpy

Loky Ner

Renky Lo

Kyloren

Nekylor

Wow. Its hard to make it cooler with what they started with

Bad all around. LOL

[1:00 PM] Mr. Silver:

Darth Chalupa Boing, Dark Lord of Perth Amboy

[1:04 PM] Mr. Blue:

Emperor Good Boy

[1:12 PM] Mr. Silver:

Darth Nice

Darth Blase'

[1:14 PM] Ms. Rose:

Princess Slaya'!

[1:14 PM] Mr. Blue:

Darth Bashful

[1:14 PM] Ms. Rose:

"Bring me #YOLO and the Cookie..."

[1:15 PM] Mr. Silver:

Princess Hoth White and the Seven Darths

....Hmmm...it IS Disney...

Ren is the Huntsman...sent by the evil Sith Queen to destroy she who is darker than her...according to an ancient Sith holocron she talks to.

[1:15 PM] Ms. Rose:

Luke WhyStalkHer?

[1:16 PM] Mr. Blue:

Jar Jar Spinks, played by Leon Spinks

[1:19 PM] Mr. Silver:

Can box Chewbacca in a big...slow...old man fight scene

[1:23 PM] Mr. Blue:

Darth Pall Mall… The pack-a-day Sith lord

[1:27 PM] Mr. Silver:

Nice

"Be Darth smart!  See your doctor if you've experienced heart palpatinations, anakin in the chest, or have a family history of high Dark Side pressures."

[1:30 PM] Mr. Blue:

LOL

[1:31 PM] Mr. Silver:

(Jokes that were awful, but that vaguely worked... 1 Darkside point to me)

[1:36 PM] Mr. Brown:

Darth Father

[1:36 PM] Ms. Rose:

Bovril-Wan Can-o'-beans

[1:39 PM] Mr. Brown:

Darth Cunnilingus

[1:40 PM] Mr. Silver:

Darth Father is rather funny

"Ben!  Why didn't you tell me?"

(Ghost Kenobi) "What Luke?"

"Darth Vader is my father."

"No he's not...It's German...Vater...Darth Father."

"OOOOOoooohhhhhh!!!!!" 

Darth Dubya

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/here-are-50-despicable-things-george-w-bush-did-before-and-after-911/

[1:58 PM] Mr. Brown:

Darth Gen Tso

MY FORCE, AND MY CHICKEN, IS THE SPICIEST IN THE GALAXY

[1:59 PM] Mr. Blue:

LOL

[2:39 PM] Mr. Silver:

So I have this car tracking thing from my insurance company

Got a report recently

I'd mentioned before I've gotten into this whole idea of coasting to save gas and wear.

This is my gas mileage:

City: 22MPG  (manufacturer rating: 20)

Highway: 34MPG (manufacturer rating: 27)

[2:43 PM] Mr. Blue:

I get 21.4 mpg and I do not baby it

Do you coast in neutral or in gear?

[2:44 PM] Mr. Silver:

Neutral

[2:45 PM] Mr. Blue:

That seems like a big discrepancy between city and highway

[2:45 PM] Mr. Silver:

On the right stretch of road around here and no one behind me to ruin it, I've done a couple miles coasting...LOVE those

[2:45 PM] Mr. Blue:

The manufacturer rating is 7 mpg difference but you're getting 12?

[2:45 PM] Mr. Silver:

Rachel drives city, mainly, and my "average" ratings always visibly drop a ton afterwards. Which means I'm actually doing even better.

[2:45 PM] Mr. Blue:

Sometimes I’ll try to see how far i can coast UP hill if nobody's around

I'd imagine the base ratings get worse as a car ages too.

[2:46 PM] Mr. Silver:

Yup

It's a 2005

We set off on various errands and a trip to (town) and back yesterday.  The average she left it at was 22MPG. I got it to 25.5 by time we were done.

She won't try it, though, and I'm OK with that. Mistakes can happen, like forgetting the shift position and sliding to Reverse, or hitting the gas too early and jolting the transmission.

We've come to call a good starting coast: "Riding the Yellow"

"Ri-ide the YEL-low!"

"Wheeeee!"

For years, on the right sort of hill, Mrs. Silver and Silver Jr. and I (me alone long before) would raise our hands as if on a roller coaster and say "whee!"

Mrs. Silver did that in a car full of women, including Mr. Gray's wife, Mr. Yellow's wife, and another.

Mrs. Yellow, being a lovely mess of psychology, decided to show her mental stability and maturity by insanely and immaturely scolding her:

"We're adults!  We don't do such things!  Only teens and kids would do such things!"

With everyone else already smirking at this nonsense already, Mrs. Silver countered -

"Yeah? Well we like having fun in the car, so if you want to be old and boring, that's up to you."

(Me later) "She's pathetic...of course she's also completely screwed up."

Anyway, I decided the game needed a name, and there was an old amusement park pinball machine with a Coney Island theme ("The Cyclone"). Missions were classic rides...so a barker voice would shout out things like - "RI-ide the CY-clone!"

So I shout

"RI-ide the YEL-low!"

And we all go

"Wheeeee!"

[3:20 PM] Mr. Blue:

LOL

[3:22 PM] Mr. Blue:

A language isolate, Basque is believed one of the few surviving pre-Indo-European languages in Europe, and the only one in Western Europe.

Cool

[3:23 PM] Mr. Silver:

Yes

(considers a joke about another isolate Indo-Euro language being called “Indiglo” but can't come up with a punchline that uses “Basque-ing In-di-glo” since my post-work brain is a dirty dishrag)

[3:32 PM] Mr. Blue:

Heheh

[8:08 AM] Mr. Silver:

"Prince Abdel stated the bust was going to 'totally ruin the party this weekend'."  http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/saudi-prince-arrested-in-largest-drug-bust-in-the-history-of-beiruts-airport/

[8:16 AM] Mr. Blue:

Jesus, how many Saudi princes are there?

Just a couple weeks ago one was arrested in LA for all kindsa weird stuff

[8:18 AM] Mr. Silver:

A lot, actually...just looking that up.

[8:18 AM] Mr. Blue:

I guess you're right.. since the king can probably have multiple wives

[8:18 AM] Mr. Silver:

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/drug-smuggling-rape-and-torture-these-five-saudi-royals-did-things-that-would-get-them-executed-back-home/

Specifically: “The oil-rich nation is a theocratic monarchy which is rigidly controlled by the House of Saud, a royal family with thousands of members”

[8:26 AM] Mr. Blue:

Ahh

LOL "manservant"

“During Nasir Al-Saud’s trial it came to light that the man he murdered was also his partner.”

LOL

“The BBC noted that the 34-year-old prince spent more of his time in court arguing that he isn’t gay than he did denying the murder.”

[8:37 AM] Mr. Silver:

Hehehe

"And so, again, the Crown asks the defendant: In this relationship, were you primarily the prince or the princess?"

"Objection, m'lud!"

"Sustained!"

(BBC court correspondent outside The Old Bailey) "And so we hear that the so-called 'Bagdad Babe Baggin' Defense' with accompanying graph as presented by the Defense was deemed as irrelevant as the 'Totally Does Chicks' recordings of yesterday."

[8:49 AM] Mr. Blue:

Heheh

[8:55 AM] Mr. Silver:

Was it one of the Saudi's being a "diplomatic immunity" ass with the Ferrari in LA a couple weeks ago?

[8:56 AM] Mr. Blue:

Might have been

[8:56 AM] Mr. Silver:

No. Qatar.

[8:56 AM] Mr. Blue:

Ahhh

Same land mass, same culture. Hell probably even the same family

[8:57 AM] Mr. Silver:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-beverly-hills-ferrari-race-qatar-sheikh-20150921-story.html