Your Saturday Morning Strawberries Open Thread

Good morning!  If you woke up early today to catch the women’s final at Wimbledon I hope you didn’t spend too much time blinking your sleepy eyes, cause you’d have missed it.  Garbine “A Straight G” Muruguza rolled over Venus “She’s Got It” Williams in just one hour and fourteen minutes.  A competitive first set (where Muruguza fought off two set points) was followed by a laugher of a second, with a 7-5, 6-0 final result.

My plans for today include mowing the lawn and unpacking an Instapot, which is a pressure cooker that Dr. Mrs. Deadly, Esquire bought that can apparently do many things.  I’m not sure what’s going in it first – probably some variation on pork loin.  Which will be a vast improvement of the slab of salt (flavored with a sprinkle of pork loin) I had last night at Alimento.  It’s a restaurant here in LA that we’ve enjoyed quite a bit in the past, so I’ll be giving it a second chance, but it was pretty disappointing.  We were seated next to Michaela Conlin, who plays Angela Montenegro on TV’s “Bones”, which we used to watch until around 2010, when they added a baby to the cast, and…

…No!  No, nothing like that.  Anyhow, my wife and I agreed that she’s prettier in person.

Beerguyrob is back, so I won’t chew your ear off here (sorry, have been watching too much iZombie) but if you’ve got something you want to vent about (sorry, been watching too many HVAC instructional videos) here’s your chance!  Have a great day, folks.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
Law-abiding Raiders fan, pet owner, Los Angeles resident.
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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King Hippo

How much you reckon it would cost to bribe Nicaragua to take a dive? $75?

Brick Meathook

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

What the architect promised, what the engineer designed, what the contractor built.

Brick Meathook

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Original order.

Wakezilla

Just heard on the radio that Stallone said Creed 2 will likely be about Creed fighting Drago for revenge . So, my question is, who’s supposed to be the protagonist in that film? Surely not the late 20s boxer who went toe-to-toe with one of the best boxers in the world, who wants to fight a guy in his 60s.

Wakezilla

The good: My daughter loves Earth, Wind and Fire. The bad: When they came on while she was eating, she got up in her high chair and began to dance.

Romonobyl

You, my friend, sound like you’re gonna have your hands full for the next 20+ years. But in a good way!

ballsofsteelandfury

Re: the craft beer sellout thing.

I love Dr. Pepper and Guinness. They are both owned by huge corporations. Does that make them taste worse? No. Who gives a shit who owns the breweries if the quality is good?

Romonobyl

I can’t say I’ve ever mixed Guinness with Dr. Pepper. Maybe with a scoop of vanilla ice cream?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

A place I went sells Guinness floats, after trying it my suspicions were confirmed; keep the beer and dessert separate, IMO.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Nothing inherently wrong with it; for me usually I prefer to try something different, a different take. I also like to give my money to locally owned businesses. The larger companies will tend to suppress innovation and experimentation in preference to uniformity and the biggest selling styles. They will layoff or fires redundant tasks people like accounting and marketing people. So I do give a shit. It makes them taste worse if they have their people come in and cheapen processes and ingredients to fit there own buying and distribution efficiencies.

scotchnaut

A Dog’s Purpose or The Godfather Part 2?

Anyone? Anyone?

ballsofsteelandfury

Porn

Brick Meathook

The Godfather (1972)
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The Godfather Part II (1974)
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The Godfather Part III (2013)
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Romonobyl

A Dog’s Purpose made me cry.
Godfather Three also made me cry, only because I paid to see it.

scotchnaut

Is Talia Shire a mediocre actress or a great actress? I just don’t know.

ballsofsteelandfury

Meh, he won’t land far.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Don’t think that will stop until down by those tents…. but at least it would be a great ride.

Romonobyl

Must be at Fyre Fest.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

He’s a Raiders fan; he’ll enjoy it.

Brick Meathook

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Romonobyl

Glad Beerguystephan is back, we missed him!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

To bad Beerguyrandy is still on probation.

scotchnaut

/watching The Godfather

The transition that Pacino makes from son of the godfather to godfather is perfect [makes kissing noise]

Almost everything he did afterwards? [makes pfffffftttt noise]

/He did kill it in “Rain Man” though…

Romonobyl

Rain Man?

scotchnaut

I’m goofing around.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I would enjoy buying Michaela Conlin a nice coffee drink……

Then maybe fingerblasting her if the mood prevailed. Her Facebook page says she’s a squirter.*

*Could be misinterpreting.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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scotchnaut

A great, great scene in an amazing movie-but hold up! The more I watch it, the more I see the gas station owner as the 2017/8 Giants and Anton Chigurh as their (killer) schedule.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqMdQBox15s

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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scotchnaut

Why don’t Sarah Silverman age?

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scotchnaut

Look at me sucking!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Don T

The guy with Trudeau is the governor of PR. You can tell from his ass
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scotchnaut

Phode Risland?

ballsofsteelandfury

The old guy with glasses is definitely checking it out.

Romonobyl

He had some issues during his visit to Cuba.

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scotchnaut

Not exactly sure what’s going on here but I’m a fan…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYLU1aVP4Zg

BrettFavresColonoscopy
scotchnaut

THIS JUST IN-

The craft beer industry is no different than any other industry.*

*entrepreneur builds small successful business, is not capable of refusing multiple millions of dollars from behemoths in same industry.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Still depressing….. bet the IPAs get weaker.

scotchnaut

Ha! I was a huge supporter of Creemore Springs back in the day. As soon as they got some serious momentum going Molson threw a shit ton of cash at them. As Vonnegut would say, “So it goes”.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Other depressing notes;
https://www.cpr.org/news/story/anheuser-busch-buy-breckenridge-brewery

https://sandiegofreepress.org/2015/08/san-diego-brewery-may-be-selling-out-does-it-matter/

Still there are so many smaller, local breweries and the whole industry was partly due to a backlash of mediocre uniformity, so when one gets sold out there are others. Several claim the bought out brewery will be run the same; we’ll see how long that lasts.

Cheers.

laserguru

I had no idea that Heineken owned Lagunitas.
That’s actually pretty fucked up.

Romonobyl

I was in Indonesia last December, although predominately Muslim they do cater to Westerners with a national beer. It’s called Bintang and I thought it wasn’t bad, then I found out it too was made by Heineken. I drank it anyway considering the logistics, any breath of air feels good to a drowning man (I wrote that, feel free to use as needed).

Don T

Is there a more beautiful movie than “Hero”?* Do tell.
*The Jet Li one

blackroseMD1

Saturday plans, once I’m off work:

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scotchnaut

Did you know that Kid Creole was an original member of the Furious Five? Neither did I until about 20 minutes ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UWU2X7fk_8

laserguru

I took last Tuesday off from work to catch up on some projects. During that one day I…
Went to the bank the pharmacy, got new tires and an oil change, washed 2 loads of laundry, got a haircut, came home and vacuumed and thoroughly cleaned the house which all goes to say?

I am totally fucking off this weekend.

Apart from going to the gym, grocery store and making Sunday Gravy tomorrow.

When did I become efficient?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Rikki apologized so much in this post that he must be Canadian now.

Shogun Marcus

It’s pretty clouse. Not nearly enough ou’s though. Soury.