The Question Thread

[Turd Ferguson]

anyone else think aunt jemima is the shit?

I think Thomas Jefferson sired 12 children with her. Thats what my great great great grandpa said.

[hellbilly]

Where did I leave my goddamn sandals?

At least this isn't an issue of knowing where one's towel is...

I guess y'all ain't hip.

"Knowing where one's towel is" :

... a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy y'see.

[anarchir]

Where did I leave my goddamn sandals?

At least this isn't an issue of knowing where one's towel is...

I guess y'all ain't hip.

"Knowing where one's towel is" :

... a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy y'see.

IRL I'm a frood, and a user on here is named Trillian, so yeah, we are as hoopy as they come.

[Rillion]

Yeah, I know.

Holed up in Jackson MS tonight.  Tragedy nearly happened when somebody failed to secure a herd of longhorn cattle outside of Tyler, TX.  The whole bunch of them plus a donkey buddy decided it would be a brilliant idea to go explore the big speeding metal things going by on I-20.   Luckily the speeding metal things didn't collide with bovine flesh at high velocity, at least not while I was there.  I worry occasionally about hitting a deer....the possibility of hitting a cow had never occurred to me. 

Got a late start so no fun on the Mississippi river....maybe on the return trip. 

[BonerJoe]

I hit a rabbit going about 80mph once. That nearly tore my spoiler off.

[Rillion]

I hit a rabbit going about 80mph once. That nearly tore my spoiler off.

Your spoiler?  Did it flip up when it passed under the car or something?

I just spotted this on my hotel door.  I didn't know such laws existed:



Pretty sure there are hotels in Mississippi which charge more than $200 a night.  Why are they allowed to, but not the one I'm staying in apparently?

[BonerJoe]

Whatever they call that decorative piece of plastic that is under the front of the car.

The maximum rate is for that particular room. That's the disaster/event rate...heh.

[Bill Brasky]

Exceeding that would be price gouging, if seventy million people suddenly moved north from a cataclysmic event.  

That document would prevent unlawfulness. 

[Bill Brasky]

No, not prevent.  Prohibit. 

Its a writ, not a shield.

[Bill Brasky]

Its a proclamation.

[BonerJoe]

We'll slap your wrist, we promise.

[Bill Brasky]

Its a picture of Barbara Streisand.

[Rillion]

Whatever they call that decorative piece of plastic that is under the front of the car.

Oh.  I know what you mean, but I don't know what the hell that's called.

The maximum rate is for that particular room. That's the disaster/event rate...heh.

This room has a king bed, sofa bed, bar with sink and mini fridge, and microwave in addition to the standard stuff.  I can imagine someone being quite happy to spend more than $200 for it even if there wasn't a hurricane on their ass.  That seems pretty messed up that they wouldn't be allowed to even if they wanted.

Of course, it's late and I've been driving all day, then had a few beers, watching election coverage on MSNBC which would break anyone's brain.....basically I'm none too bright at this point. 

[hellbilly]

They're "Splash Guards".

[davann]

How much per bird does a turkey farmer(?) make?