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Bender Bending Rodriguez

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  1. I really liked the Clooney interview. The pranking stories were great, especially the painting one. He always comes off as a regular dude living the absolute dream life and is never too cool to acknowledge how awesome it is. 

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  2. On 12/6/2020 at 12:53 AM, Mack Tripper said:

    Chicken and Egg Roll on Shepherd 

    My wife and I had a townhome in midtown from 2005-15. For about a 6-7 year stretch our Sunday routine was to order hangover mop up combo fried rice, general tso and some egg rolls for take out. Good times.. 

  3. Listened to a podcast about this movie last week. Old man Marley wasn’t even in Landis’ original script and was added late per the recommendation of the director. He felt the movie needed something more than the mom trying to get home to her son.

    Another interesting tidbit was Warner Bros was the original studio to green light the movie, but only at a $10M budget. Landis went back and forth with them claiming the movie was more of a $12-14M budget kinda movie. They refused to go above $10M and on the eve of production, 20th Century Fox said they’d give the movie a $16M budget, so the movie switched production houses. Home Alone went on to make over $500M. 

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  4. 7 hours ago, NWBuck said:

    OK, as a counterpoint to the other thread... What's your least favorite song of the season?

    This could be one that is OK and has been played to death, one that is musically terrible, or one that you just absolutely hate. It could be a song that you enjoy otherwise, but a particular version just grates on your last freaking nerve.  These could be "standards", hymns/carols, or even "novelty" tunes.

    Here's the start of my list:

    • Hymns- We Three Kings (such a freaking dirge), O Little Town of Bethlehem (just atrocious, musically)
    • Standards- 12 Days of Christmas (seriously, we get it. You like birds), Frosty the Snowman (saccharine bullshit)
    • Pop- All I Want For  Christmas Is You (perfectly fine, beat to death), Last Christmas (terrible when it was written, and now part of too many "ironic" holiday gatherings), Wonderful Christmastime (serious earworm, no thank you)
    • Novelty tunes- Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer (my grandmother was killed in a car wreck on Christmas day, so... yeah), Christmas Shoes (Patton Oswalt's take pretty much summarizes my thinking on this POS), The Chipmunk Song (I didn't mind this until Patton ruined it for me as well)

    OK, Surly Scrooges... What have you?

    This sent me down a two hour Patton Oswalt rabbit hole. Pos rep. 

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  5. This thread gives me the biggest walking through a 1991 local movie rental store feeling that I can remember. Great stuff. My contribution is the 1979 ensemble cast greatness of Scavenger Hunt.   
     

     

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  6. 19 hours ago, deadshank said:

    One of the many infuriating trivialities and indignities of COVID - 19 is having to put up with this crap when you get your greasy cheeseburger and fries fix on.  
     

    I want regular salt & pepper shakers and a squeeze bottle of ketchup.  

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    Yeah, I think I’ve had my fill of Tabasco in a ramekin. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, RollLeft said:

    Had Tejas Chocolate for lunch on Thursday.  Brisket and ribs were really good.  All sides sucked.  Beans, posalad, cornbread cass, cole slaw.  Not one worth the money.   Buy more meat. 

    Went for the first time myself on Thursday and had the exact same experience, except sausage instead of ribs. Meat was fantastic, the sides were interesting and not terrible, but not as impressive as the meat. I’ll go back if around that area again. 

  8. I woke up one night this summer around 3am to my wife screaming at me in the kitchen. Startled, I started asking her what was going on. She said a loud noise woke her up. Turns out I was pissing in the guest bathroom and ripped the shelf above the toilet off the wall, which sent a bunch of stuff crashing to the floor. Piss and debris was everywhere. I have no recollection. It’s happened before, but not that bad. 

  9. I deleted my Twitter and Facebook apps on my phone about a month ago and couldn’t be happier about it. I still have a profile, just deleted the apps making it a minor pain to access either. I found myself getting too angry about things that simply didn’t deserve that real estate in my brain. I vastly overrated how much I would miss the constant streams of information. 

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