[10:45
AM]
Client
- Abplanalp, Betsy
[10:45
AM] Mr. McGreen:
LOL,
K...
[10:45
AM]
"Ok,
Ms. Ab- … A-B Plan-... Abplaplap..."
(I
know how to say it...just not how to read it...or something)
[10:49
AM] Mr. McGreen:
If
the name is that hard, I don't say it.
[10:50
AM]
I'm
guessing its "Ab-plannalp"
[10:51
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Do
either of you want a bearded dragon with all the stuff that they
need?
Free
I
bet Silver Jr. does. I don't know him but kids like lizards.
[10:51
AM] Mr. Blue:
Sounds
made up.
[10:51
AM] Mr. McGreen:
My
bearded dragon?
Or
the name?
[10:51
AM] Mr. Blue:
Abplanalp is
the surname of a family originating on a mountain
named Planalp above Brienz, a village in the Swiss Alps near the town
of Interlaken, attested in August 1306 and probably dating to the
late 10th century when an avalanche occurred on the mountain.
[10:52
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Oh
[10:52
AM] Mr. Blue:
The
guy that invented the aerosol valve was named Abplanalp.
It
says most Americans shorten it to Planalp, which is a palindrome.
[10:54
AM] Mr. McGreen:
You
cant spell planalp without... Nevermind...
[10:55
AM]
(expert)
"One would think Germanic, but it's a Spanish truncation of "Pee
El Anal Pee". Its...not a genealogy of good fame..."
[10:55
AM] Mr. Blue:
Heh
[11:28
AM]
"Execute
'Plan Alp'!"
[11:33
AM]
Oh
yes..1st break. Turn on TV...switch from Fox News to CNN.
Go to BR. Back. Gump is now there and the TV is back on
Fox News. Tweet from The Rump that if they can't get a good
replacement health care act through, they should just repeal AHA and
figure out a replacement later.
Gump
"They need to get rid of that piece of crap as soon as
possible!"
(some conversation on the drain that is insurance)
Gump
"What they REALLY need to do is get RID of health insurance
altogether! You know what would happen then?"
[11:35
AM] Mr. Blue:
LOL
I'm
pretty sure I'd need to hold doctors hostage for their services.
[11:35
AM]
(Unable
to get a word in, thinking - "10s of millions of people will die
or be crippled from easily treatable stuff that they can't afford to
fix?")
Gump
"Everyone will be a lot more careful and we won't need
it!"
"...
(pretend to check watch) Welp...gotta go back. Later!"
[2:24
PM] Mr. Brown:
Single
day ticket is $40.99 to Colonial Williamsburg.
[2:28
PM] Mr. Blue:
This
says you don't have to pay
[2:29
PM]
(Mr.
Brown to shady guy loitering near Colonial Williamsburg entrance)
“Excuse me, where do I get tickets to get in?”
(looks
around) “Uh...right here, Mac.”
[2:30
PM] Mr. Brown:
Right
You
can walk around but can't get into things without a pass.
[2:30
PM] Mr. Blue:
Oh
okay.
Makes
sense.
[2:30
PM] Mr. Brown:
So
I would not have been able to take the tour of the mansion.
Jamestown
is the same.
We
did not see the reenactments though - kids got tired before then, so I
might go back for that.
LOL
[2:49
PM]
"Good
parts version" of colonial America.
I've
always kept that in mind since being in the SCA. It is "the
good parts" of the Middle Ages. You don't want the rest.
[2:50
PM] Mr. Brown:
Brown
Jr. got to see blacksmiths make some tools.
[2:50
PM] Mr. Blue:
That's
cool.
At
Williamsburg or Jamestown?
[2:50
PM] Mr. Brown:
Williamsburg.
We
did not go to Jamestown.
[2:52
PM]
(CW
cast member holds out hand) "Sorry sir...it's $2 extra apiece to
watch the teen boy read the Bible out loud for 4 hours while the
girls cook, sew, and clean lamps."
[2:53
PM] Mr. Blue:
LOL
What
a miserable time.
[2:53
PM] Mr. Brown:
Some
of the people that work in these places are funny
[2:53
PM] Mr. Blue:
Anything
before the 1950s woulda been miserable really.
[2:55
PM]
Unless
you had some money... 1920s were great with money.
[2:58
PM] Mr. Blue:
Nod.
Money could've probably cured the crushing boredom of any time.
[2:59
PM]
I'd
gladly serve a term as an adult 1890 to 1929, I think
...in
the Northeast US, anyway...
[3:14
PM] Mr. Brown:
These
people trying to defend having a Confederate flag by saying it
acknowledges Confederate history in the US.
[3:14
PM]
Confederate
history belongs in museums, history books and period films.
[3:14
PM] Mr. Brown:
Its
just a dumb argument.
Of
course we should remember the history, but that does not mean waving
Confederate flags and such.
Then
there are others saying SOUTHERN PRIDE!
Ok...you're
proud of losing the war?
[3:16
PM]
Ah,
but it was a noble and valiant effort to keep a small number of white
people rich, everyone else poor and ignorant, and 1/3 of the
population enslaved - justified as the fight to preserve an idyllic genteel culture that was a contemporary myth.
Who wouldn't be proud of fighting for that?
(See: Red State Americans. See: Voting Against One's Own Interests.)
[3:18
PM] Mr. Blue:
Especially
people around Pennsylvania flying the Confederate flag.
If
you have Southern roots and are so proud of them, go back.
If
you're from around here, Pennsylvania was Union and the Union won.
[3:21
PM]
Such
a fuss over what was a really brief period in US history and 150 years ago.
Perhaps
I should buy a giant Cross of St. George and fly it from the back of
a huge luxury diesel pickup.
"England
will rise again, bitches!"
[3:21
PM] Mr. Brown:
FREEEEEEDOOOOOM!
[3:21
PM] Mr. Blue:
I'm
gonna do a whole Holy Roman Empire motif
"VIVA
LA HOUSE OF WITTELSBACH!"
Lots
of failed former countries to pick from. We should all pick one and
harrass people at birthday parties and stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_sovereign_states
[2:16
PM]
"Atomic
Blonde"...never heard about it.
Won't
be released for most of a month and has 3.5 stars on IMDB?
[2:19
PM] Mr. Blue:
Apparently
it already had a world premiere at SXWX
Usually
you get morons brigading ratings
So
you have like MRAs and woman haters probably down-voting it, and
white knights and feminists upvoting it.
Everyone
mad at the idea of lady Ghostbusters down-voted that before it was
even out.
[2:33
PM]
Yes.
Morons.
The
film industry is apparently looking at schemes to take out Rotten
Tomatoes
It's
like Netflix ratings.
[2:36
PM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
[2:36
PM]
Silver
Jr. commented "These ratings on the new MST3K movies keep
going down. They were really high at the start."
"It's
because of morons. MST3K movies aren't for everyone. But
every idiot who doesn't get the point - or gives up on any other
half-watched movie they are too dim to understand - are slapping “0
Stars” opinions on them. I rarely see anything that gets even 3
stars on Netflix. "Citizen Kane" and "Manos - The
Hands of Fate" are probably both 1 1/2 star movies on Netflix.”
"They
started high though."
"All
the MSTies were watching them. The series was
made for them. They paid for it. All their names were in
those huge lists in the credits at the end of episodes."
[2:42
PM] Mr. Brown:
Yes,
they should take away the ratings and just show previews. You decide
for yourself whether you should watch it or not.
[2:43
PM] Mr. Blue:
They
got rid of the Netflix ratings, I thought.
I
only see a thumbs up or down now, and a percentage on how well they
think I match with a program.
[2:44
PM] Mr. Brown:
I
like how Netflix does that.
“Based
on what you have watched or put in your list you may want to watch
this.”
Normally
works out
It
tells me Always Sunny is a 94% match
[2:55
PM]
I
haven't looked recently, to be honest.
(To
this day, my Netflix has star ratings...perhaps it's an option I haven't spotted yet. –
Mr. Silver)
