[9:33 AM] Mr. Blue:
This is like the Aldi, off-brand version of the Goodfellas crew
"Tony the Wig", "Mustache Pat", "Skinny Joey"
[9:38 AM] Mr. Brown:
Love the names
[9:38 AM] Mr. Blue:
One guy's nickname is "Patsy". Isn't that a negative connotation in gangster lingo?
"Over here's Patsy... and that guy over there is Johnny Tucktail.... and then we have Jimmy the Confidential Informant. We called him that on account of he was a confidential informant."
[9:42 AM] Ms. Rose:
Franceso "Sammy Shark" looks like he may have eaten a few sharks.
[9:43 AM] Mr. Blue:
"We called him that on account of he ate like a basking shark."
[9:44 AM] Ms. Rose:
Skinny Joey just belongs on an 80's After School Special.
Richard "Richie" LaCava, 67, is charged with one count of not being able to come up with a fun nickname.
[9:44 AM] Mr. Blue:
LOL
[9:45 AM] Mr. Silver:
"and then there was "Big Liability" Langostino."
[9:45 AM] Ms. Rose:
Hahaha!
[9:46 AM] Mr. Blue:
lol
[9:46 AM] Mr. Silver:
"Frankie 'Fed Infiltrator' Fancone has not been charged."
[9:48 AM] Mr. Blue:
There was a gag on The Simpsons that turned into reoccurring characters
Mob boss Tony: "Someone's been talkin to the feds!"
Franky Carbone lookalike: "We've narrowed it down to Johnny Tightlips and Mickey the Squealer."
Later episode. Johnny Tightlips gets shot...
"Johnny, where ya hit?"
"I ain't sayin' nothin'."
"What do I tell the doctuh?"
"Tell him to go suck a lemon."
[9:48 AM] Mr. Silver:
lol
[2:31 PM] Mr. Brown:
Ok, so this southern guy asked where we started our company
I explained we started in Pennsylvania
He said he “don't like Yankees!”
[2:45 PM] Mr. Blue:
He doesn't like winners
Of course I doubt many of us stop tracing much of our lineage back to the Civil War,
so I guess it's association by geography.
People in the North tend to trace their lineage back a lot further than a short historical period.
Hence most people down south pick their nationality as "American", rather than around here where it's Scots/Irish/German whatever
Look where "American" is prevalent.
[2:47 PM] Mr. Brown:
Yep
Only the simple-minded southerners are upset about “yankees” anyway.
[2:48 PM] Mr. Silver:
They are indoctrinated by the stupid to remain stupid
Like my Mormon nieces and nephew
They all did, ultimately, well or exceptionally well in school.
Yet Saturday, at their mom's 3rd wedding, Mrs. Silver overheard them making fun of Bernie Sanders and Bernie followers and how they were voting for the only good candidate: Trump
How can it happen? How do intellectually superior kids NOT figure out that Trump is poison, Republicanism has been bad for decades, and Mormonism has always been a fraud?
[2:56 PM] Mr. Brown:
Vote Johnson
Libritarian
Wow, I should be able to spell that
[2:58 PM] Mr. Silver:
Libertarianism? Speaking of pseudo-intellectual cults...
[2:56 PM] Ms. Rose:
Did someone say something about Mormons?
[2:58 PM] Mr. Silver:
Indeed I did
Even a modicum of interest and a willingness to type in a web search on the topic, you start finding out how screwed up it is.
Is there some segment of Sunday school that uses negative enforcement and electric shocks to convince good little Mormon boys ... and their girls I guess ... that their version of Jesus will melt their eyeballs if they look anything up?
[3:06 PM] Ms. Rose:
When I was married, it was called "The Popcorn Tree" song.
[3:06 PM] Mr. Blue:
Faith is rewarded
Blind faith even more so!
[3:07 PM] Ms. Rose:
As you know, Mormon women are only allowed to achieve a rank as high as Sunday School teacher. So Trey's mom filled me in on all controversial songs during her tenure.
[3:08 PM] Mr. Silver:
"Their girls" was ridicule, of course.
[3:09 PM] Ms. Rose:
It was actually quite accurate, seeing as how one Mormon man can "have" several girls (or wives). :P
[3:10 PM] Mr. Silver:
Yes
You don't get to go to Heaven without a husband, girls.
He can go...but FU
[3:11 PM] Ms. Rose:
Trey's mom was like, "Look at how they miscontruded [sic] The Popcorn Song on YouTube!"
Hmmm. All the "Mormon brainwashing" sites appear to be blocked here.
[3:14 PM] Mr. Silver:
(Report to IT) "Was blocked due to company policy: Religious/Religion. This is Mormonism I'm looking up."
[3:20 PM] Mr. Blue:
Heh
(Mr. Silver here. Sadly Ms. Rose has left us so I never got to ask what was “miscontruded” about the song. I went out to research it – Youtube et al – and the only conclusion I could draw is that [its implied] Mormons think it's literally a song about popcorn growing on a tree.)
[11:24 AM] Mr. Silver:
So it struck me as odd, over lunch, talking about wars and “eastern fronts” and “western fronts”, etc. We say these things but it really depends on which side you are on and which country
For instance...In WW 1 and 2 Germany, the Eastern Front was Russia/USSR
Whereas it would be the Russian/USSR Western Front.
Then I thought...
"I've never heard of the USSR having an Eastern Front against Japan in WWII."
Then I stopped to think about it harder
[11:34 AM] Mr. Brown:
Did we have a Southern Front during the Civil War?
[11:36 AM] Mr. Silver:
"I've never heard of them even FIGHTING the Japanese."
So I looked it up.
Basically, they fought the Japanese for several days in August of 45 before it ended.
[11:50 AM] Mr. Brown:
Haha
[11:51 AM] Mr. Silver:
It looked to be a big action, just really short.
[11:53 AM] Mr. Brown:
It would be like the North Korea war that is always coming soon
They start
BOOM
Over
NK is so dumb
[12:03 PM] Mr. Silver:
Yes
[8/10/2016 12:05 PM] Mr. Brown:
[8/10/2016 12:10 PM] Ms. Rose:
I guess he was finished with his toast rounds for the day.
[8/10/2016 12:10 PM] Mr. Silver:
"Saltones ojos de Cristo de Saltillo"
"Bug-eyed faithfuls and muppeteers come from all over the world to witness the miracle."
"Popularity of the site rivals even that of Our Lady of Marty Feldman in the UK."
[8/10/2016 12:14 PM] Mr. Silver:
(Toasts Ms. Rose's “toast”)
[8/10/2016 12:15 PM] Ms. Rose:
Hahaha!
[1:28 PM] Mr. Silver:
(watching pictures of empty Olympic pools, talking heads, and Michael Phelps all through my break) "Could someone swim, please?"
(Another victim of boring Olympic sport selection by the media) "Hmm?"
"Well, on my second break I always come down and it's always swimming or waiting for swimming."
"There's other channels and they're showing nothing but tennis."
"Ugh...you can watch tennis all year on TV. Where's the more obscure and interesting stuff people rarely see? There's tons of exciting stuff going on."
"I know!"
"When I came down this morning, they were talking on an empty golf course about Olympic golf. No one was even playing. Put the crew anywhere something is happening instead of boring the audience til they change the channel. Also, sorry...golf is a game, not a sport. Why is it in the Olympics?"
"I agree. It's just a game."
"It's like bowling...is there Olympic bowling? Can you be an “athlete” in the Olympics if you are a 300lb champion bowler who smokes?"
"Hehe! Yes!"
(adopts quiet commentator voice) "This is an important frame... He's taking an inspirational bite from his bacon double cheeseburger... He's wiping the grease off his hands and reaching for his ball... "
(sadly that was the end of my break)
[1:35 PM] Mr. Blue:
There's a lot of bogus sports
Walking is an Olympic sport
[1:38 PM] Ms. Rose:
I was just downstairs. Although there was actual swimming on TV for about 10 seconds, they cut to interview Phelps again. 3/4 of the screen is taken up by his shoulder blade/neck meat.
[1:52 PM] Mr. Blue:
Those gymnasts are pretty bulky too.
I know guys in their 30s that'd like to have the muscle mass some of these teenage girls have. Not all of course. Some have that typical gymnast frame, like Comaneci
[1:53 PM] Mr. Silver:
Michael “Neck-Meat” Phelps
[1:53 PM] Mr. Blue:
Swimming must be good for the back because their lats are huge
When they raise their arms they look like a threatened animal
[2:09 PM] Mr. Silver:
Watching swimming yesterday, we observed some poor girl a crazy 3-lengths behind. (watcher) "Must be rough, losing by that much in the Olympics."
(me) "True. Granted, even she can probably outswim anyone we've ever met."
That being said, we then watched her impossibly catch up that distance in a length and come in 3rd.
“Holy - !!!”
“Daaaamn...”
[2:10 PM] Mr. Blue:
I saw a thing where someone suggested they put one random person in every event, just to give some sense of scale
You just pick people by lottery and throw them in the swimming event
"And so our final, we have Phelps in first with a time of 1:15.12, Dmitry Romanov in second at 1:15.44, and pulling in the rear is Bob Schneider at 13:24.05"
[2:13 PM] Mr. Silver:
That would be good to watch.
People are pretty blasé about what is as close to superhuman as people are gonna get.
(Track & Field reporter) “Here are the results for Shot Put - 22.3M Ulf Timmermann... 2.3M Jim Smith. We'll be talking to Mr. Smith about his achievement after he comes out of the medical tent. Here he is! Mr. Smith! How do you feel about that throw?"
"Oww! JEEbus!"
[2:16 PM] Mr. Blue:
(Weightlifting commentator) “Another horrific injury just now... didn't catch the country or his name... looked middle eastern... elbow got torn to pieces on the Clean & Jerk.”
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