“The owners of the Tampa Bay FireSticks are pleased to select as Team Queen, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
“The longest-reigning monarch in British history, Elizabeth II became queen at age 25 upon the death of her father King George VI on February 6, 1952. Her coronation was on June 2, 1953. She was the only female member of the royal family to have entered the armed forces and was the only living head of state who served in World War II. Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor trained in London as a mechanic and military truck driver.
“Queen Elizabeth was also an adept rider. During her birthday celebration on June 13, 1981, shots rang out as Elizabeth rode her horse in a parade near Buckingham Palace. Marcus Sarjeant, a 17-year-old who idolized the assassins of John F. Kennedy and John Lennon, had fired six blank shots in the queen’s direction. Swiftly subdued by police, the teen spent three years in a psychiatric prison. Elizabeth, meanwhile, merely calmed her startled horse and resumed her procession.
“Known for her calm in dangerous situations, Queen Elizabeth was startled one night in 1982, when a psychiatric patient scaled a Buckingham Palace drainpipe and made his way into Elizabeth’s chambers. The sleeping monarch awoke to find a strange man perched on the edge of her bed, dripping blood from where he had cut his hand while wandering the palace’s dark corridors. As she was unable to alert the police, the Queen engaged the man in conversation for nearly 10 minutes about his personal problems and relationships with his children until a footman arrived to subdue the intruder.
“Queen Elizabeth was also a woman of deep Christian faith. Beyond serving as the "defender of the faith" and "supreme governor" of the Church of England, she was also patron for more than 600 charity organizations including the British Red Cross and Cancer Research U.K. to raise money for those who couldn't take care of themselves. "Borgen Magazine" calls her one of the most impactful philanthropists in the world. “For me the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life. I, like so many of you, have drawn great comfort in difficult times from Christ’s words and example.”
“We cede our place for the next pick of @JojoTheWhale.”
This is what it looks like when England succeeds. Be careful whay you wish for.
We start the day with @JojoTheWhale on the clock, @Young Sandwich on deck, @Lord Defect snacking on tampons on the lido deck, and pit falling into the pit on the lido afterdeck. Watch your step and mind the gap.
Fell asleep in the chair again last night. Freezing cold. I made it to bed eventually, and had a wild f***ing dream. I don't remember much of it, but I guess I was some kind of whistleblower. F*** alone knows where that notion came from - that is not my jam - but I found out some information about something, and I was in some kind of desperate situation, so I was going to blow the whistle. The corporation or whatever that I was going to whistle on sent Woody Harrelson, Terry Bradshaw and some other thugs to shut me up. Woody looked like his "Kingpin" character, only angrier and with greasier hair. I must have had that movie in mind for whatever reason, because when he went to hit me, I fought him off by swinging a prosthetic arm at his gut. Bradshaw was realistically fat, true-to-life obese, and his special move was a headbutt. He went to headbutt me the first time, and one of the other thugs said something like "Oh, don't do that, you'll kill him." But I avoided the hit, and did it again later, and he was so pissed that I started enjoying it. I don't remember the rest of the stupid shit that happened, but that part was satisfying.
I am finished with "Hole in Love," but if I weren't, I would be focusing extra hard on my soulmate tonight to improve the quality of my dreams.
I'm pretty sure that's MacGruber's Mazda. If it happened to be outfitted with a Blaupunkt head unit then it certainly was Mac's Mazda.As tempted as I was to take one of the various beat 'em ups I look back on fondly, Arcades could deliver experiences you cannot replicate on home consoles. That made me consider the fighting genre, but in order for that to really be fun, you need a line of people with quarters on the machine waiting to take the loser's spot. Next I thought of racing games and immediately remembered a machine of which there were so few made that most fans of the actual game don't know of its existence.
Ridge Racer itself is a momentous piece of video game history. It innovated not just in drifting-based game play that was unheard of in its time, but also in technical aspects. It was the first arcade cabinet to use 3D texture-mapped graphics, winning essentially every Western graphical award there was to win in 1994. At the very top of its pricing structure, sat Ridge Racer Full Scale, only a few dozen of which ever made it out of Japan.
The Full Scale version sat players in an authentic Mazda MX-5. To start the game, you turned the ignition key. You steered via the steering wheel. The pedals worked. So did the gear shift. As did the speedometer and tachometer. There was an in-vehicle audio system that included proper tire and engine sounds. They even had a system to blow air around the players to simulate motion.
@Young Sandwich Is ButtLunch a bad lunch or were you always ready to ascent to the Sexpos' throne?
What I didn't also mention in my write-up was QEII's sharp wit. While toasting her 60 years on the throne at a Commonwealth summit, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau commented that he was the 12th PM during her reign, she retorted "Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister of Canada, for making me feel so old!"
“The owners of the Tampa Bay FireSticks are pleased to select as Team Queen, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
“The longest-reigning monarch in British history, Elizabeth II became queen at age 25 upon the death of her father King George VI on February 6, 1952. Her coronation was on June 2, 1953. She was the only female member of the royal family to have entered the armed forces and was the only living head of state who served in World War II. Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor trained in London as a mechanic and military truck driver.
“Queen Elizabeth was also an adept rider. During her birthday celebration on June 13, 1981, shots rang out as Elizabeth rode her horse in a parade near Buckingham Palace. Marcus Sarjeant, a 17-year-old who idolized the assassins of John F. Kennedy and John Lennon, had fired six blank shots in the queen’s direction. Swiftly subdued by police, the teen spent three years in a psychiatric prison. Elizabeth, meanwhile, merely calmed her startled horse and resumed her procession.
“Known for her calm in dangerous situations, Queen Elizabeth was startled one night in 1982, when a psychiatric patient scaled a Buckingham Palace drainpipe and made his way into Elizabeth’s chambers. The sleeping monarch awoke to find a strange man perched on the edge of her bed, dripping blood from where he had cut his hand while wandering the palace’s dark corridors. As she was unable to alert the police, the Queen engaged the man in conversation for nearly 10 minutes about his personal problems and relationships with his children until a footman arrived to subdue the intruder.
“Queen Elizabeth was also a woman of deep Christian faith. Beyond serving as the "defender of the faith" and "supreme governor" of the Church of England, she was also patron for more than 600 charity organizations including the British Red Cross and Cancer Research U.K. to raise money for those who couldn't take care of themselves. "Borgen Magazine" calls her one of the most impactful philanthropists in the world. “For me the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life. I, like so many of you, have drawn great comfort in difficult times from Christ’s words and example.”
“We cede our place for the next pick of @JojoTheWhale.”
Challenging work day, just waded through a few days of tech support amidst a handful of picks, no write up time.
I like the guy, I like his approach allegedly comedic but often quite insightful approach that does the job better than serious interviewers/commentators and I like his railings against deep dish pizza (not because I hate it but because I appreciate his passion for pizza).
Interviews like this:
Team Talk Show Host - Jon Stewart
@mja , do you know what else is challenging? People who depend on the tag system for notifications and don't just send a message. Thank goodness you aren't one of those people.
Thatcher Venmo had a Scholastic Book Fair at his school last month. I used my lunch to meet HCette at it because I sure as shit wasn’t going to miss it.
Did you guys get the book club brochures every so often?
