Random thoughts that are pointless and too dumb to say anywhere else thread: 2011

[Funketown]

Good riddance. Dippin' Dots were a disgrace to ice cream.

[logan82]

That's a shame, I liked Dippin Dots.

[Teatoe993]

The future aint what it used to be.

[mothershipconnection]

There was still a Dippin Dots at the Fort Worth Zoo and my wife and I used to make snide jokes about the future as we walked by. Even though I don't like their product and haven't bought it since the mid-90's, I feel sad that part of our zoo-going tradition will be gone.

[RightFieldCoder]

I've had plenty of Dippin Dots in my day. It was a great way to get a souvenir helmet bowl. Ever since they started selling the ice cream of the future in a regular paper cup, I stopped buying them.

[Invader3K]

My wife and I just put our house on the market about a week ago, and have an open house scheduled for this Saturday. This morning I wake up to find a leak coming from the vent in our first floor bathroom. Talk about bad timing!

[pitchleague]

I just saw the funniest commercial ever. It was for T-Mobile with a bunch of elves loading up phones and stuff on Santa's sleigh.

 

Anyway, the tagline was the tune of "Walking in a 4G Wonderland!"

 

But it didn't sound like "4G" to me OR my wife.

 

Sounded more like "Walking in a Orgy Wonderland!" I kid you not, we're still laughing.

[mothershipconnection]

I heard the exact same thing when I first saw that commercial. Reminded me of the South Park episode about Broadway musicals.

[DatHoser]

Shrek 2 did an homage to This is Spinal Tap and it took me this long to notice.

[JimH5]

I love the classic Fiat 500. The new one is probably way more reliable & safer--but it looks like an egg. And there's no way that Jennifer Lopez drives one.

[GAME05]

you and i just drive down streets like it's any other day, but Jennifer Lopez drives down those same streets and gets inspired!

[Invader3K]

you and i just drive down streets like it's any other day, but Jennifer Lopez drives down those same streets and gets inspired!

And also engages sports mode in a highly populated urban neighborhood!

[LouisEly]

I thought the whole point of replacing "Don't Walk" on crosswalk signs with a red hand was so that people who couldn't read English knew that it meant DO NOT CROSS.

[ABQPacker]

I am scared. What if I do all I can and it doesn't work.

[Baldkin]

I am scared. What if I do all I can and it doesn't work.

Use more duct tape.

[Patrick425]

This is more of a random question than a random thought, but I have wondered about this for the last 3 or 4 years and have never asked anyone until now. What are those thin bands that many football players wear (especially at the college level) around their upper arms and/or calves? I can't imagine any possible reason or benefit for wearing those.

[Baldkin]

This is more of a random question than a random thought, but I have wondered about this for the last 3 or 4 years and have never asked anyone until now. What are those thin bands that many football players wear (especially at the college level) around their upper arms and/or calves? I can't imagine any possible reason or benefit for wearing those.

Do you mean the band that goes just below a guy's knee?

That's actually a patella strap, and, per Amazon:

 

Knee Pro-Tec provides compression on the patellar tendon, helping spread

pressure uniformly across the patellar tendon, reducing discomfort and

irritation. This compression may also help stabilize your patella,

improving its tracking. In addition, Knee Pro-Tec absorbs stress to the

knee, reducing vibrations in the femoral groove.

[pitchleague]

no, I think he means those white bands of what looks, to me, like athletic tape that has twisted up into just a thin strip of tape encircling the arms just below the biceps.

 

like these: http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n116/pitchleague/index.jpghttp://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n116/pitchleague/images-2.jpg

 

and then, I found this: Why do football players wear bicep bands?

[Patrick425]

Thanks for the link pitchleague, that is kind of what I thought. I can maybe see some sort of purpose for the one in the picture that Baldkin posted (maybe being the operative word in that sentence). However, watching some of the games in recent years, again mostly the college games, I see many players wearing bands that are even thinner than the ones posted in the pictures in pitchleague's post. Some that are no wider than a rubber band or vacuum drive belt.

[JimH5]

Stalin's daughter had ties to Richland Center?!

 

That's something I did not know.

[GAME05]

Stalin's daughter had ties to Richland Center?!

 

That's something I did not know.

i thought it was New Glarus. she operated a crafts store, but now she's pretty old and lives in a home.

[JimH5]

Not anymore.

 

http://www.jsonline.com/news/obituaries/stalins-daughter-dies-had-lived-in-richland-center-j837ubs-134628588.html

[dadofandrew]

I saw her name on a list of seniors last year. No idea it was Stalin's daughter, of course. I heard it on the radio this AM and immediately it rang a bell.

 

Of course I can't tell you what I had for lunch, but...

 

FYI, her name was Lana, as was a college friend of mine. That's why it sticks out, as well as being on top of the page.

[ABQPacker]

Today's my birthday. It seems like the meaner and more aloof I become at work, the better my co-workers treat me.

[RightFieldCoder]

I logged in to BF.net quick from a different work computer. Outside of the IT dept (we all run Firefox or Chrome) all of the computers run IE 7. These forums look horrible.