At my current job we just talk about this active shooter stuff. At my previous one we actually had drills. And there was a "shooter" armed with a camera. If he got a pic of you, you were dead.
Ok, I'm off to surreptitiously record my co-workers
8:54am
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And to think Andy Breckman thought Ken had a vocation for weather reporting. Ken's real vocation is Hazmat reporting!
I can even picture Ken as a TV presenter dressed in a devil's costume and pointing to a map of the USA where there are number of fatalities, nuclear, fire and skull symbols instead of temperaturres, clouds, suns, and drops of rains.
8:56am
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Did I say rains of drops?! HA! I mean to say droprrains. No, wait. Rainsdrop? Forget it. Let the typo stay.
Back when "Doom" was big, I (from a distance) admired that it could be modified, but was concerned that someone might mod the levels into their work-place and the demons into their co-workers as Chapter 3 of going off the deep end—and this was before I ever heard the Big Bad referred to as a 'boss'.
True story, when we bought our house 4 years ago the chicken fat single came with it. I listened to it while I cleaned up 8 year old animal excrement and mouse droppings. It was great.
9:35am
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Andy Breckman to fill in for Ken is in my wishlist.
omg i remember "Chicken Fat" from when i was a kid too!
but had totally forgotten about it until now - THANK YOU, Ken!
where DO you find these gems???
ahhh, was just thinking that Preston really *should* collaborate with the Erotic Aerobics dude!
9:46am
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Yep. That's Arnold Lotsofletters.
9:46am
dfb:
firm he said firm
9:46am
Cecile:
I think Thomas Stork, Stork, Chris M., Clay, or Sue P. should fill in.
FABIO has an exercise recording???!!
i recall Bryce playing excerpts from "Fabio After Dark" but would loooooove to hear FABIO instructing us all about how to get fit, hah!!
Subvert normality. Punk is not sexual, it's just aggression. Destroy. Kill All Hippies. I'm not talking at you, I'm talking to you. Anarchy. Disco sucks.
Metallica / Nirvana / Danzig lied to me - they're not heavy at all!
10:22am
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Damn! I don't think I have heard the original Mother song! It looks like a disaster as from now on I won't be able to appreciate the original as this sucks so much!
@Bacon The covers album Danzig did a couple of years ago actually came close-- he does Everly Brothers, Elvis, and some biker movie soundtrack tunes (along with some more predictable hard-rock covers). It's obviously stupid, but listenably so.
Wow, Charlie sounded a little bit like Rodriguez there.
10:43am
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Nice avatar, Cliff.
And here I was thinking all my life Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier was the one who got killed. And guess what? She just played in WFMU's Monty Hall last week!
Indeed, I'm in the future. In a time zone way ahead of all of you This week John Maus is playing in Monty Hall. Last week was Laetitia. And et me tell you Laetitia stills sings pretty well.
A bit of natural language processing attempting to substitute for knowing colloquial German usage:
The first page of xHamster search results for „schlampen“ includes titles that associate that word about 60% of the time with words referring to specific sorts of sex acts (equally relevant to both 'whore' or 'slut', non-exclusively), about 30% with words referring to sexual desire (more toward 'slut'), and about 10% with words referring to payment—'rent' and 'pocket money'—that would be more related to 'whore'.
I'd say that indicates a great deal of ambiguity, but on balance more like 'slut' than 'whore' in the manner of and to the extent that those are differentiated in American English.
10:58am
melinda:
@steveo I used to hear "I Love Cecile".
10:58am
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Sebastian,
I can't hear you. You are one large comment away from me.
I hope that VCA offer isn't for a single animal, but if somebody has several dogs and/or cats. Or do their anal glands really get congested that often?
11:23am
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Ken,
Or what about instead of a fill-in doing something interactive with the little help of Andy's computer wizard son?
It's like the show you did when you played our comments using text-to-speech robots. We can vote for the next song to play, etc. In other words, leave the show to us, Ken, your faithful audience.
fill in related - did Jack Mello clear his schedule?
11:26am
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Thanks, Irwin, for the tip.
By the way, people, Irwin is going to play in one of the following weeks the Tom Wilson's episode where ROSKO, yes, Rosko the legendary DJ of the "Baby Jesus " and "Where Are You Mamma?" fame is the guest of his radio show! Can't wait!
What variation of "automated" and/or "puppet" (including automated puppet) of 7SD has not been tried yet? They've even had a puppet call screener IIRC.
The Lissie "danzig - mother" was ok.. but that lounge. Who played that Danzig?
11:30am
Morphe:
Ken, Simon wants to know if you have tasted dog vomit or wet, runny feces?? I tried to explain that it is not you speaking, but an actor, but I believe you will be shadowed by this.....
11:31am
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You probably know in Australia the cigarette packages have plain designs with no branding but gruesome pictures of the smoke effects in people's bodies.
But what you don't know is the cigarette adverts for radio in Australia they all start with the Anti-smoke track we just listened to.
According to OED, yes, that is the song. Per OED, "allusion to Bogart's frequent on-screen smoking, especially to the long drags he took on cigarettes."
@Morphe, this is a fill in by another, similar Ken, the only dissimilarity being this other, different, non station-manager Ken is a chain smoker who divides his time between smoking and handling maggots.
Senses of selfishness and excess evolved from the original 1960s use meaning “keep a joint in the mouth instead of passing it on”, recalling the actor’s signature practice of keeping a cigarette dangling from his mouth even while speaking. Other senses of “bullying” or “tough guy” also originated in the 1960s and recall the actor’s various movie roles.
Bogart also frequently took those long drags even when there was almost nothing left - so there was literally nothing left at the end of his drag. With a jazz cigarette, this would mean nothing more for the next person in the "fraternity of man." Hence Fraternity of Man's admonition.
You mean I'm not the only Ph.D. linguist 'round these parts?
11:40am
Dean:
Imagine if other film stars at the time were notorious for taking long drags on cigarettes. "Don't astaire that joint, my friend." "Don't grant that joint..." "Don't welles that joint..." "Don't brando that joint..."
Hahaha NotARealDoctor, so what did you do, phonology/phonetics or syntax/semantics? I started out on the S side of the split but went over to the P side
Quickly describe the etymology of the whole phrase! Whoever answer first is the REAL phD in linguistics in this comment list as there's only space for one!
11:48am
Dean:
Somebody should compile all the musical interludes from Henny Youngman live sets.
I went semantics/syntax - concentration in sociolinguistics, fascinating stuff. I heard Georgetown does a program regarding the development of language on the internet, I would love to go back and sit through some of those classes.