04/15/2006 Entry: "Saturday Night Thread."

SNT, baby. If it's not too late, I hope.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 04/15/2006 10:34 PM EST

Should I watch Saturday Night Live tonight?

Chestnuts roasted by LuLu @ 04/15/2006 10:35 PM EST

I miss dyeing easter eggs - damnit it was so fun... I should make some sort of vegan easter egg coloring kit. That would rock

My previous plan of finding wooden eggs to paint kinda fell by the wayside. Besides, it's not the same as coloring.

I wonder whatever happened to Vegan Mike?

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 04/15/2006 10:50 PM EST

Just finished watching King Kong on DVD. That's probably one of my top 8 favorite movies.

Chestnuts roasted by Reid @ 04/15/2006 10:56 PM EST

"Should I watch Saturday Night Live tonight?"

It's Lindsay Lohan hosting for the third time in less than three years.

Yay, my first SNT.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff S @ 04/15/2006 11:01 PM EST

SNL = Lindsey Lohan and Pearl Jam. It's always worth to watch the first part... sometimes they surprise you. It seems like a movie night. I just watched Magnolia, and Se7en for the first time... Oh yea. Pleasure overload.

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 04/15/2006 11:03 PM EST

It's never too late for SNT, WOO!

Alright, good night everyone.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 04/15/2006 11:03 PM EST

You could always buy plastic eggs and paint them with regular paint, Ryane.

BTW anyone catch JLU tonight?

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 04/15/2006 11:08 PM EST

I think I'm gonna have a Coke Blak tomorrow morning.

Chestnuts roasted by Paul @ 04/15/2006 11:11 PM EST

On Easter Unwrapped on Food Network, they profiled a guy who makes Peeps sculptures.

I'm watching SNL.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 04/15/2006 11:13 PM EST

I made cookies to give my uncle for Easter and to thank him for taking me out to dinner for my birthday. Then I'm going to pass out. I've been going all day, and I'm not used to long hours at work anymore.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 04/15/2006 11:17 PM EST

SNL has been pure garbage since 1996, IMO. There was a slight glimmer of hope when Amy Poehler joined the cast, but it soon faded.

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 04/15/2006 11:18 PM EST

Sometimes SNL throws us some entertainment (i.e Natalie Portman). But yea, it definitly sucks. But I watch anyway, hoping for a moment.

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 04/15/2006 11:21 PM EST

saturday night live hasn't been since that one time, when well.. they were actually funny.. - you remember the time, don't you?

does anybody wish they were a kid again so we could score an easter basket full of goodies and rejoice?

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 04/15/2006 11:23 PM EST

Haha. My basket is on the dining room table and full of pink plastic grass. The Easter Bunny is bringing me goodies. Maybe you've just been a naughty boy and the Easter Bunny isn't bringing you anything.

PBBBTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 04/15/2006 11:28 PM EST

Hey, I'm still scoring that basket, with a little bit of Kingdom Hearts II on the top. I love my parents, err giant rabbit, guy/jesus.

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 04/15/2006 11:28 PM EST

Well we got the marble dying set, the glitter dying set and then some other set...none of them are really worth anything.

Hey Matt maybe you could do an summary of the most crapass Easter Egg Dye kits out there and how they turned out.

Chestnuts roasted by rimmie @ 04/15/2006 11:40 PM EST

SNL isn't funny right now. But I think Chris Rock said it best when he hosted a number of years ago: SNL is funny for a while, then it sucks for a while. Then it gets REALLY funny for a while, then it REALLY SUCKS for a while. Etc. It's an endless cycle.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 04/15/2006 11:41 PM EST

I will always watch snl, I think. I just wish Comedy Cental still played old reruns, the ones on E! just aren't the same. And dang, Pearl Jam is worth watching it for tonight.
On another random note, I just got back from watching the Twins beat the Yankees. I don't join in fully in the extreme hate and jeering of NY during the game, but it is something to see it live when they get beat.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 04/16/2006 12:00 AM EST

I gave up cookies for lent, and I made sure to stay up until midnight so I could eat the delicious Tagalongs my mother brought me yesterday. All this, only to discover that somehow, they are "peanut butter patties" with 0 grams of trans fat and GROSS.

So not worth it.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 04/16/2006 12:08 AM EST

I miss Easter baskets and egg dying, I bought two egg kits today at work and have since lost the spirit, I guess cause I don't have anyone to do them with me. =/ I still enjoy the candy and novelties(plush peeps!)though.

Chestnuts roasted by Realm @ 04/16/2006 12:16 AM EST

Well, I may eat my words, because I thought the cartoon by robert Smigel and the digital short were both hilarious. The rest of the show is still not that funny, though...

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 04/16/2006 12:21 AM EST

I dyed eggs. It was cool.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 04/16/2006 12:21 AM EST

Yes, the robert smigel cartoon was great. I'm on the fence with Laser Cats. What the fuck was that...

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 04/16/2006 12:37 AM EST

I remember my mom never wanted a mess when we were kids, so instead of dying easter eggs, she bought the plastic easter egg wraps.

For those of you who don't know, they were a plastic sleve, usually with a cartoon character on it. You'd put the sleeve around the egg, dip it in boiling water for 5 seconds. And, it would shrink to fit the egg tightly. They were kind of neat, but still not as fun or messy as using real dye.

Chestnuts roasted by Greg @ 04/16/2006 12:50 AM EST

well.. My girlfriend gave me a cute big cuddly peeps pillow, one of the yellow chick ones, if there on sale on monday im gonna get a yellow bunny so he can have company :3

Chestnuts roasted by DashiKun @ 04/16/2006 01:26 AM EST

Yes, I used the egg wraps as well. Not as special but less messy.

INTERESTING DISCUSSION PROPOSAL: How many of you out there actually believed in the Easter Bunny at one point? I never did; I just played along to get the goodies.

And now for the Link of the Night:

http://www.sonicandfriends.com/satamvids.html

The entire Sonic SatAM series! :o

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 04/16/2006 01:29 AM EST

I was at the 24-hour supermarket late tonight and all the good easter candy was bought. Bags of bad candy were scattered like toys in a nursery.

I guess it's smart to sell it at 75% now rather than 50% on Monday.

Chestnuts roasted by JRH @ 04/16/2006 01:32 AM EST

tv is the spawn of satan, but not mtv, not wondershowzen - that is a gift from God

Chestnuts roasted by doc bong @ 04/16/2006 01:38 AM EST

Tetsu - Well, I'm not sure the paint would stick to normal plastic eggs. :/ But, that's ok. Hopefully I'll be more prepared next year.

Mattman - I've been playing Kingdom Hearts II for a while now - I think I have just about every world unlocked, except Aladdin and Lion King. The worlds are WAY too short, but it's pretty sweet, none the less. Highlight so far - seeing Sephiroth!

Hmm, I don't really think I ever believed in the Easter Bunny. I'm not sure though, but I did believe in Santa.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 04/16/2006 01:48 AM EST

Personally, I was never into DYING eggs. I always got the "Doc Hinkle egg painting kit" (basically just food-coloring and q-tips) and actually PAINTED the eggs.

Actually, I just did that this afternoon. At any rate HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!

Oh, and I agree with Chris Rock about SNL (and Steve Martin who said much the same thing once while hosting).

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 04/16/2006 01:51 AM EST

Well I know White-Out sticks to plastic, so I imagine some kind of paint would.

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 04/16/2006 01:52 AM EST

Happy Easter, everyone!

In answer to the questions, I believed in the Easter Bunny until I was seven or eight. I still get Easter baskets, usually filled with homemade candy. (The homemade stuff just tastes better somehow.) My family used both dye and shrink wraps, but I haven't dyed eggs in about 18 years. And yes, I remember when SNL was funny, but it is now much of the suck.

Did I miss anything? ;p

Chestnuts roasted by Kieran Alexis @ 04/16/2006 02:42 AM EST

You can dye eggs and not eat them, can't you? I mean, we usually didn't, the vinegar in the dye makes them taste a little funny. Plus we always dyed way more than we could ever eat before they went bad. Or are you vegetarian/vegan out of moral reasons that include using the eggs in some way?

If you know someone who will eat a giant omlet, you could do hollow eggs (use a tack to make a hole in either end, blow the insides out). I guess you could do that with the hard boiled ones too.

Perhaps you could mold tofu into roundish shapes and dye it? It takes color pretty well. Seems like with the right additional ingredients it could be made to hold its shape. Tofu is magical, you can make it do anything.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 04/16/2006 02:49 AM EST

wow, re-reading my post I really come off as a bitch. Sorry about that, it wasn't intended that way.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 04/16/2006 02:52 AM EST

Possibl alternative translations of SNT:

super natural thunder
silent nuclear threat
Swiss nudes thrill
starry night trite
smart nefews trick
small navel thread
single nickel trickle
smoking nerds tinkle
stepping nightly thrice
spiders never tickle
stalwart Nicole traps
suddenly new traffic

or in the words of Eddie Furlong in T2 "Then you can make combinations." Alright, that's enough of a waste of time. Not that I'm doing anything productive anyway, nor do I have a chance to be otherwise.

Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 04/16/2006 03:00 AM EST

By the by, when will the acronyms stop? Pretty soon we'll live in a world inhabited only by acronyms. No one will remember what KFC or IHOP serves, etc etc. Blimey!

Just a pet peeve I suppose.

Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 04/16/2006 03:02 AM EST

i don't ever remember actually believing in the easter bunny or santa claus, shit by 2nd grade i was startin to really question the whole "God" thing (i hadn't heard of atheists yet)

but for some reason i do remember around kindergarten/1st grade age thinkin there was a part of town where cars talked and raced..

Chestnuts roasted by doc bong @ 04/16/2006 03:19 AM EST

Pretty soon we'll live in a world inhabited only by acronyms. No one will remember what KFC or IHOP serves, etc etc. Blimey!

yea word like the SAT now officially stands for "S A T".. crazy

Chestnuts roasted by doc bong @ 04/16/2006 03:23 AM EST

Happy Easter everybody!
Yes, I did believe in the Easter Bunny at one point. I think I was kind of on the fence for some reason, but then I left him a note and he wrote me back. His signature was a picture of his face. That he drew. That was when I believed, then one day I noticed that the Bunny's writing looked a lot like my dad's. I think I was over it by then.

And speaking of the Bunny himself, I was hanging out with a few friends baking cookies last night (Friday), and one of my friends said she "ran into the Easter Bunny" and he had "a surprise" for us- coloring books and crayons. So funny! But I do have a nice picture of a bunny sitting on top of a unicorn that says "U is for Unicorn." Awesome.
I did have some of those plastic egg wraps one year- they were Little Mermaid-themed and they rocked.

Also- Laser Cats! Yes!

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 04/16/2006 03:52 AM EST

OOOH YEAH FOURTY THIRD POST

IM ON A ROLL

Chestnuts roasted by BENNO @ 04/16/2006 05:37 AM EST

Uuum... totally unrelated to anything in any ways... But, i read the basket case review, and, how to put this, missed the nipple with that x-e logo.

Chestnuts roasted by dudefromfinland @ 04/16/2006 05:50 AM EST

Happy Easter, all. My plans for the day include a big family dinner followed by my only Easter tradition: an annual viewing of "Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter" at my brother's house.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 04/16/2006 07:24 AM EST

Yeah, yeah...I'm going to Hell when I die, but at least I'll have most of you fine folks as company.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 04/16/2006 07:26 AM EST

oh yea Easter that's today right

Chestnuts roasted by doc bong @ 04/16/2006 07:28 AM EST

lunch lunch lunch lunch i eat SNL for lunch

Chestnuts roasted by cooldude180 @ 04/16/2006 08:15 AM EST

I don't honestly remember if I believed in the Easter Bunny. I do remember believing in Santa Claus, though, so I suppose I might have.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 04/16/2006 08:19 AM EST

He came from Heaven
Two stakes in His hands
To fight the vam-pi-res
and drive them from the land

Chestnuts roasted by Kid Nicky @ 04/16/2006 08:22 AM EST

I was a die-hard believer in the Easter Bunny...and boy did it burn when I found out the truth. I think the chapter in Superfudge when the older brother questioned Santa opened up the world of adulthood for me.

(I still get baskets of goodies though! More Peeps than you can shake a stick at this year.)

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 04/16/2006 08:25 AM EST

For some reason, I never did actually believe in the Easter Bunny, and I knew the the Tooth Fairy was my parents, but I distinctly remember praying to Santa Claus for a Nintendo when I was six. And did that jolly bastard come through? Of course not, because the corn harvest was crap that year. And in an interesting twist, I didn't realize that St. Patrick was real until sixth grade.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 04/16/2006 09:19 AM EST

Happy Easter everyone! Here's to lots of candy!

We always make deviled eggs with our decorated masterpieces (what else ya gonna do with all those hard-boiled eggs?). We' not alone in this are we? A friend just looked at me like I was crazy when I made the suggestion.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Boligarky @ 04/16/2006 09:24 AM EST

What is the name of the popular egg dyeing kit? I think it begins with a "P" but I cant remember and my mind is failing me. My parents would let me pick out the egg dyeing kit every year and I usually chose this one because it had little cut out Easter themed standups on the back and cutesy bunnies and chicks on the package. One year we bought that and the plastic wraps. I remember there being Bambi/Thumper themed ones and some with bunnies and butterflies... very pretty and made attractive eggs.

Never did really believe in the Easter Bunny. It just wasnt Easter without a stuffed bunny, some peeps, and a chocolate rabbit of some sort. The worst though was the year a cousin of mine came up to visit for Easter and what was topping HIS Easter basket? None other than TMNT for the NES. A freakin VIDEO GAME for EASTER !! I was devestated after that... LOL the year afterward I did score a Disney movie for Easter, it was 101 Dalmations I think. Either that or the Little Mermaid. Cant remember. My mom would always find cool stuff to put in my basket though like Easter colouring books, stickers, pretty stationary, sometimes a small inexpensive piece of bunny/butterfly/spring themed jewerly.

Chestnuts roasted by Kittycatgirl @ 04/16/2006 09:44 AM EST

Kittycatgirl:

You're thinking of "PAAS"

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 04/16/2006 09:50 AM EST

I wonder is PAAS is an acronym for something?

Those of you complaining about acronyms should stop. In everyday life they aren't too bad. However, I work for a contractor for the Navy, and the number of acronyms we use is ridiculous. For the first few weeks I usually had a blank look on my face at meetings, because I had no idea what anyone was talking about. I got dragged into a teleconference with some bigwigs on my second day, and they thought I was an idiot because I was constantly asking what "SBTC" (Shielded Basket Transfer Container) or "FROD' (Functional Requirements and Objectives Document) stood for.

All that changed when someone took mercy on me and gave me a copy of the BLOA (Big List Of Acronyms).

Chestnuts roasted by spaz307 @ 04/16/2006 10:09 AM EST

Oh, and happy Easter everyone!

I honestly can't remember if I believed in the Easter bunny, which is kind of sad. However, I grew up in a pretty religious home, so the Easter bunny wasn't really a big deal at my house.

I did believe in Santa up until sometime between Christmas in 1st grade and Christmas in 2nd grade, so I suppose there's a good chance that I believed in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. I do remember the look of surprise on Mom's face when she came to tell me the truth about Santa and I told her I'd already figured it out. I then asked why she and Dad had lied, when they had taught me lying was wrong. Boy, that was awkward

Chestnuts roasted by spaz307 @ 04/16/2006 10:14 AM EST

I TOTALLY believed in the Easter Bunny- my parents were great. On Easter, I would awake to a huge gift basket on the floor of my room. I would munch on that until my little brother came in- then we would use the basket to hunt for the CHOCOLATE all over the house.

You had to move quick, or else the windowsill chocolates wouldn't make it...one year we found melted eggs a few days later hidden between two towels in the bathroom. Oops.

What about you guys? Any egg hunt accidents?

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 04/16/2006 10:16 AM EST

The Yeti,

Nah, that's hardly Hell-worthy. Now, if the annual Easter movie were "Critters 2: The Main Course"...

Chestnuts roasted by Monte @ 04/16/2006 10:21 AM EST

I really wanted to go to the mall this year and get a photo of the Easter bunny sitting in my lap, but I never got around to it what with the computer and car breaking. It's a ghetto mall, they'd of probably let me do it.

And with that, I need to go file my nails because they're getting too long and I'm hitting 2 keys at once. o.O

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 04/16/2006 10:29 AM EST

I don't know if I ever believed in the Easter bunny. If I did then I was young enough that I don't remember it.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 04/16/2006 11:30 AM EST

Heathens! How can you all deny the existence of the Easter Bunny. If he's not real, then who the hell left my Easter basket chock full of delightful treats and colored eggs this morning???

Chestnuts roasted by earthwormgoddess @ 04/16/2006 11:32 AM EST

Mara: It's ok, no bitchiness taken. But nah, I don't really want anything to do with real eggs. I'm vegan for both my health (by choice, it's not forced because of a medical issue or anything) and for the moral aspect of it also.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 04/16/2006 12:08 PM EST

Dammit, I wish I posted the new Easter entry before the SNT, because there's loads of Easter fun in the comments here. Oh well. :/

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/16/2006 12:48 PM EST