425 - Nothing Says Hawaii Like Red Solo Cups!, Is There A AAA For The Information Superhighway?, Sparkly Animated Memories, and Playing With Your Organs

[1:46 PM] Mr. Silver:

Oh Family Feud...

(host) "Name something you'd need for a classic Hawaiian theme party!" 

"Lei!"  (Ding!)

"Pig roast!"  (Ding!)

"Tropical drinks!" (Ding!)

"Grass Skirts!"  (Ding!)

"Lawn chairs!"

(host) "... Lawn chairs... Special Hawaiian lawn chairs..."

"YEAH!"

(X!!!)

[1:47 PM] Mr. Blue:

"Hundreds of uninvited Japanese!"

[1:47 PM] Mr. Brown:

“Spam!”

[2:07 PM] Mr. Silver:

Don't know about you, but I sometimes translate bandwidth caps to gasoline.

"You take a long trip, you have to buy more gas. Difference is you can't just run out of bandwidth out on the net and get stuck."

Just imagine if you could

[2:14 PM] Ms. Rose:

" You can never run out of bandwidth--as long as you can pay for it.”

[2:14 PM] Mr. Silver:

How embarrassing to be pulled over the side of the Information Superhighway til you can get a gallon of bandwidth from somewhere.

[2:15 PM] Ms. Rose:

Wait. I see where you're going with this.

[2:15 PM] Mr. Silver:

What if everyone passing you on the net got to watch you, stuck on your last page, waiting for a GB.

[2:18 PM] Mr. Blue:

"Wow, look at Mr. Brown over there in the Pornhub car."

I guess he'd be stopped at the Pornhub store, in that scenario

[2:20 PM] Mr. Silver:

(Flashing lights, filthy animated gifs)

(mom) "Turn your heads kids.  BILLY!  You heard me!"

(dad) "Poor guy...right at the intersection.  I think I'd die..."

(mom) "That's why I always say I want at least half a tank of bandwidth."

[3:03 PM] Ms. Rose:

I bought a new sparkly from one of the vendors there. Really wish I saved my money and didn't buy the jams and the corn bag and the pack of greeting cards. But they had SPARKLIES!

Now I am out of cash and relying once again on my abilities to persuade Mr. Oleo not to look at my budget. :(

But... SPARK-EL-LEEEEEEE! :]

[3:04 PM] Mr. Blue:

What are sparklies?

[3:05 PM] Ms. Rose:

"Honey, we need to look at your budget."
Turns wrist and flashes shiny bracelet, effectively blinding Mr. Oleo.
"What was I just saying? Hmm...uhh...something about video games?"
"Yes, darling. Look away from the light.”

Sparklies, like in “The Secret of NIMH”. You've seen this cartoon, yes? With Jeremy, the crow?

Anything that shines and catches your eye, as you pass by. Powerful sparklies cause a person to go find cash, and then come back to the stand to purchase.

This also happens in malls, plazas, Walmart, and any place that sells sparkly things, or has ethereal lighting.

[3:08 PM] Mr. Silver:

"Mrs. BRIZ!  I GOTTA have that SPARKLY!"

[3:08 PM] Ms. Rose:

YES!

One of my fave fictional characters, EVER.

[3:09 PM] Mr. Silver:

https://www.google.com/search?q=jeremy+sparklies&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji6fiu5tPQAhUQ0IMKHX4nBqsQ_AUICCgB&biw=1099&bih=736

[3:09 PM] Ms. Rose:

If you read about the recording of the voices in that movie, there are some interesting facts.

Like, I was probably 5 and I still knew that "Jeremy" was the meatball guy from the commercials. (Dom DeLuise).

No Title

The wise owl: JOHN CARRADINE DID HIS LINES IN ONE TAKE, ON PAINKILLERS. 

[3:14 PM] Mr. Silver:

It's on his tombstone

"Dom DeLuise - Jeremy and the Meatball Guy"

Carradine's owl was terrifying

[3:15 PM] Ms. Rose:

That movie is SO great. Also because it was from one of the first "Disney rebels."

[3:15 PM] Mr. Blue:

Never saw it, I don't think

[3:15 PM] Mr. Silver:

It's quite good

Departs a bit from the book to add more tension, but who cares?

[3:15 PM] Ms. Rose:

OMG, Mr. Blue. Just watch it. Endure it. For meeeeeee (and the meatball guy).

[3:15 PM] Mr. Silver:

Hehe

Yes

[3:16 PM] Ms. Rose:

NIMH = National Institute of Mental Health (which was lost on many patrons, but the organization still exists.)

[3:16 PM] Mr. Silver:

Bluth did some amazing stuff in it...like whole frame animations, which are insane...

[3:16 PM] Ms. Rose:

YES!

[3:17 PM] Mr. Silver:

And it was one of those films "for kids" that gets so intense it'd leave them crying from the emotional overload

[3:17 PM] Ms. Rose:

The actual mother mouse's name is Mrs. Frisby. But they had to change it to Brisby...because of that plastic flying disc.

I know we all mention a lot about watching something at some young age, then you go back and watch it again and it's ALL different. I cried when I was 5. I cried when I was 25. I cry still. It's kinda sorta THAT good. :)

I also remember seeing The Fox and the Hound in theaters (much to parents' dismay, as it caused me to "adopt" every stray animal in a mile for the next 10 years).

[3:22 PM] Mr. Silver:

Heh

[3:23 PM] Mr. Blue:

I think I always get it confused with Ferngully, which I didn't like

[3:24 PM] Mr. Silver:

I didn't either

(Memory of my early “responsible adult” majority in the video store - walking up to the counter)  "These were in the kids section" (puts Watership Down and Bakshi's Lord of the Rings on counter)

[3:25 PM] Mr. Blue:

LOL

[3:25 PM] Mr. Silver:

(moth-brained clerk) "So? They're animated."

"You have ANY idea of the horrible stuff that happens in these movies?"

[3:28 PM] Ms. Rose:

Watership Down is also awesome. But I only read the book (many times).

[3:33 PM] Mr. Silver:

I've also read it many times

And the rabbit research project he used, et al

Great book

Good and nasty movie

Which, well, is appropriate

Because they are rabbits and nasty stuff happens to rabbits

And they really do beat the living crap out of each other in the wild.

[3:34 PM] Ms. Rose:

I kid you not. The very first time I lit up a Marlboro (and then went on to smoke forever and ever) I thought to myself, "These are those 'white fire sticks the gentleman carry' from Watership Down." :(

[3:35 PM] Mr. Silver:

I'm out

I'm not going to stop running...just heading home

[3:35 PM] Ms. Rose:

(rofl)

[11:08 AM] Ms. Rose:

She went in to surgery at 10:10. (Because I guess surgeons schedule their days in 10-minute increments?) Waiting for dad to text updates.

[11:10 AM] Mr. Silver:

(10:09:58 Nurse with stopwatch) "Aaaaand GO!"

[11:21 AM] Ms. Rose:

"Scalpel!"..."Stopwatch!"..."Tray for the removed organs and stuff!"

[11:21 AM] Mr. Silver:

"Turn up the Dr. Kildare music and put more surgery stuff around!"

[11:22 AM] Ms. Rose:

I told mom she should ask for her kidney in a jar of formaldehyde. She laughed, sort of.

[11:22 AM] Mr. Silver:

If she gets it, get some googly eyes for it.

[11:23 AM] Ms. Rose:

(rofl)(rofl)(rofl)

[11:23 AM] Mr. Brown:

I thought about that when I got my appendix out

[11:23 AM] Mr. Blue:

I guess it's a waste hazard thing so they pitch it

[11:23 AM] Ms. Rose:

I asked them to give me my gall bladder when I had that out.

[11:24 AM] Mr. Blue:

It's not something they can just throw in the garbage either, so I'm sure there'd be some kind of regulations about handing it over to the patient too

[11:24 AM] Mr. Brown:

Stuff gets cremated sometimes

[11:24 AM] Ms. Rose:

They did not let me take my gall bladder home, but they did show it to me before tossing it in the "hazardous waste" can.

That, or they just have a stock of visually-appealing organs that they show to patients post-op, when they're still stoned on the good drugs.

"Is that my gall bladder?!"
"Well, it is A gall bladder...from someone. Now, close your eyes again..."

[11:25 AM] Mr. Brown:

I saw pictures of my friend's liver

[11:26 AM] Mr. Silver:

"...on the "shrine" wall on the maniac that got him."

[11:26 AM] Mr. Brown:

He doesn't have sirocis, or how ever you spell that stuff

He has some genetic issue that caused damage

[11:27 AM] Ms. Rose:

Cirrhosis.

[11:28 AM] Mr. Brown:

It was all lumpy, supposed to be smooth

[11:28 AM] Ms. Rose:

I met a guy in AA once who had his liver transplanted with a new one (due to cirrhosis) and he kept drinking for several years.

Imagine being on the donor list when you have every intention to keep drinking/destroying your new liver.

One day at a time, my ass.

I use his story as an excuse. I don't have a drinking problem until I've gone through at least one or two livers from donors.

:P

[11:30 AM] Mr. Brown:

Yeah, he should get one last

[11:30 AM] Mr. Blue:

I believe, though, you can donate livers indefinitely

Like I can give 70% of mine and it'll grow back and then I can give again later

[11:30 AM] Mr. Brown:

True, it does regenerate

[11:31 AM] Mr. Blue:

I'd never do that though, because it's mine and I want it

[11:32 AM] Ms. Rose:

But I am a sharing, caring person. Give me all of your organs!