Hooray for rotten weeks ending with a please-God-let-it-be-good weekend. This here's your all day, all night Saturday Thread. If anyone's around, that is.
Down here in Brazil we’re having a three day weekend as well, monday is Labor Day. Not that it matters, since I’m swamped with work anyway…
Actually, this is the third holiday weekend in a row for us. There was the Easter weekend, then last friday (21st) we had one that celebrates a war hero (nowadays we know his story is bull, so they should be switching the celebration to the discovery of Brazil which is the nest day, but whatever), and now Labor Day. After this 3 weeke holiday-palooza, we’re holiday-free till June, on Corpus Christi, another 4-day weekend.
Chestnuts roasted by Roddy @ 04/29/2006 7:39 AM
*grumble grumble*
I’ve still got work to go to in less than an hour…
Chestnuts roasted by FangsFirst @ 04/29/2006 7:50 AM
I’m going to the local used book store today. Last time I was there, they had the Gremlins novelization as well as the activity book. And I think they had some Goof Troop videos, too.
Chestnuts roasted by Hey I'm Jeff @ 04/29/2006 9:55 AM
matt…you still reading this thread? Well.. if you are, just thought to let you know I live close by. Wanna chill sometime?
Saturday Morning Thread! We should’ve been watching cartoons together.
Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 04/29/2006 10:04 AM
There allready WAS a Brenda Starr movie! she was played by Brooke Sheilds.
You guys should check out the band Totally Radd!!!,especially their song "Dressed Up".
Chestnuts roasted by kidnicky @ 04/29/2006 10:11 AM
LOL that sounds familiar, I must have had that in mind subconciously. I’d actually like to see a live action Chickweed Lane, or maybe a CGI Pibgorn…has anybody optioned Get Fuzzy yet?
This morning I have to go interview some people for a final project and my inner agoraphobe is freaking out. I’m very gregarious with coworks and customers but unfamiliar situations are no fun. The rest of the weekend will be cramming/writing, but at least it ain’t working.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 04/29/2006 11:11 AM
I was just recently mistaken as Batman by a six-year-old. Evidentally he thinks Batman wanders the streets on the weekend wearing a t-shirt with his emblem on it. It made my day.
Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 04/29/2006 1:30 PM
And thus did Jedoc sayeth unto his people: "Blarg."
And the people did all reply, "Word."
Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 04/29/2006 1:39 PM
I was thinking about hitting a yard sale or two this morning, but the deluge currently outside put a damper on that, so I came to work.
All-day/all-night SNT? Must be a good place, look at all the truckers eating inside.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/29/2006 2:08 PM
Why not do a survey? What discontinued/hard to find foods (grocery or restaurant) do you miss the most?
I miss It’s Pasta Anytime. Just nuke the pasta and sauce for 3 minutes and it tasted better than anything from a can. I want this back.
Starburst licorice: The only licorice I could stand. They came in various flavors and were delicious.
PB&J cookies: Basically, a sandwich cookie with PB&J. LOVED them as a kid.
Wendy’s Dave Deluxe- Best burger ever. A huge bacon cheeseburger that had grilled onions along with mayo and kethup. The bread was slightly different too.
McDonald’s McClub- Probably a test product that failed since I only had it once. Basically, take a hoagie bun, put three patties, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, and had something that tasted like a combination Big Mac Sauce/Cheese Whiz on it. Awesome.
Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 04/29/2006 2:54 PM
It’s a boring rainy day here. I played Animal Crossing until my batteries ran out, ran to the post office, and now have one of the Harry Potter movies on in the background.
The thing about some of those McDonald’s luxury products is that they are not the kind of things that they would be good at. Remember the Arch Deluxe? That bombed because people who had it thought it was like an amateur’s attempt at making a luxurious-type burger.
In relation to Matt’s wonderful ebay sales he reminisced about a few days ago… I present this ebay auction (not mine) which I found to be quite humorous. Enjoy (click on my name)
Chestnuts roasted by Double G @ 04/29/2006 5:01 PM
I am taking the night off I pulled almost an all nighter last night with the girl and friends lots of drinking games..loud convos at the bar and of course a little of the Marinating of the nether rod In the squish mitten
Chestnuts roasted by Justin @ 04/29/2006 5:03 PM
Here’s another one: Hardee’s fried chicken. It lasted a long time, then just disappeared. We ate that all the time plus it was cheap. Better than anything from KFC.
Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 04/29/2006 6:00 PM
The stuff I miss the most is the short-lived cookie flavored milk mix. I think Nestle made it, and it rocked, tasting like an Oreo milkshake, but obviously much easier to make. So delicious. I find it hard to believe such a great concept disapeared so soon. Seriously, COOKIE milk! I’d take that over the strawberry variant any day. I’ve been looking at the store ever since (this had to be the late 90′s), waiting for it’s return. Oh, and I don’t know how many people care, but TV Land is running a 48 Hour Miami Vice marathon this weekend. They seem to be replaying the eps about 3 times each, so you can catch everything if your interested. I am a huge Vice fan, and have both the DVD releases so far, and even though they are showing a lot of the season 1 & 2 stuff, there is still about 10 hours worth of uncovered eps, so my DVR is very busy this weekend. If you want to do it "old school" though and see the eps in original order, I have to warn you that they are liberally jumping around in what they are showing. They have included some of the best eps though, including the finale, and the "lost" ep.
Chestnuts roasted by Rob @ 04/29/2006 6:28 PM
I remember Hardee’s fried chicken. I also remember that my family stopped buying it because I bit into a piece one time and it was bloody. Not just a little stray clot either, but enough blood to have the horrible, bitter taste of chicken blood ooze into your mouth. It goes without saying that it was not a pleasant experience.
I’m gonna have to admit that I miss Pepsi Blue. It was pretty good stuff (in my opinion) and it made awesome floats with vanilla ice cream.
Also, I don’t know if they still make Dunkaroos or not, but I haven’t seen them lately. I loved those things!
Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 04/29/2006 6:40 PM
Happy Saturday evening, everyone. I’m so fucking damn glad it’s here, though I’ll probably end up crashing waaaay sooner than I want to. I worked until 9:30 last night, got home about 10, then had to be BACK in there at 6am to work another 8 and 1/2 hours. Means I got up at 4:30. Isn’t there some kind of law against schedules like that!? There should be. Fuckers. I’m cranky.
We got Over the Hedge toys in at work recently. There is a truck of some sort, that does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, and comes with 2 tiny little figurines that just sit there. There’s a pack of 4 figurines, too, and there is also some "beanie" type plushies, and bigger ones that talk. They crazy squirrel says that he can belch the alphabet, and proceeds to do A, B, and C. the movie looks cute, but those toys just don’t do anything for me. :/
Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 04/29/2006 6:42 PM
Well, I am off to go to the Prom. It is like something out of Greek Mythology. Guy doesn’t go to his own prom so he is sentenced to go to every prom every year until he retires.
Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 04/29/2006 7:27 PM
Ya know, I feel sorry for the month of August and it’s lack of a holiday…at least in the States.
Chestnuts roasted by Ragnarok @ 04/29/2006 7:32 PM
Rob: Hershey’s still makes a cookies and cream milkshake, I think. Plus, there’s Twix, Milky Way, and 3 Musketeer milkshakes. They’re not bad.
But I don’t care for those Starburst smoothies. They just have a strange taste I can’t describe.
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I’m so fucking damn glad it’s here, though I’ll probably end up crashing waaaay sooner than I want to. I worked until 9:30 last night, got home about 10, then had to be BACK in there at 6am to work another 8 and 1/2 hours. Means I got up at 4:30. Isn’t there some kind of law against schedules like that!? There should be. Fuckers. I’m cranky.
Down here in Brazil we’re having a three day weekend as well, monday is Labor Day. Not that it matters, since I’m swamped with work anyway…
Actually, this is the third holiday weekend in a row for us. There was the Easter weekend, then last friday (21st) we had one that celebrates a war hero (nowadays we know his story is bull, so they should be switching the celebration to the discovery of Brazil which is the nest day, but whatever), and now Labor Day. After this 3 weeke holiday-palooza, we’re holiday-free till June, on Corpus Christi, another 4-day weekend.