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DBD 7.03.09 Day Without A DBD


Hey all, BearStage here.  If you know me, then... you probably live in the East Bay.  Horrible jokes aside, I've noticed that it's already 12:35 Pacific Time, and there's no DBD!  I noted this is in the 4th of July thread.  I was going to do nothing - I swear.  Then Yes We Cannon sarcastically asks if I volunteered... and that got me thinking - which is never a good thing. 

Star-divide

So this really should just be a day where we don't have a DBD - but I just can't let that happen, can I?  I mean, didn't you see A Day Without A Mexican?  Ok, me neither, but I really wanted to, the premise was really interesting.  I worried that CGB as we know it might fall apart if we didn't have a place for people to spout off endlessly about absolutely nothing, with the occasional glimmer of something that slightly resembled cogent discussion.  The board as we know it might grind to a screeching halt, forcing Twist to actually do something meaningful at work!  The horror, man, the horror!!!

Of course, it also occurred to me that the reason we don't have a DBD today is that everybody and their mama is either out of town or not at work.  Considering that this is the day closest to the actual July 4th holiday, this would be the day that offices give you off of work.  We know Twist is probably halfway to Santa Barbara by now.  Rishi has surely drowned in barrel of cheap rum.  Rollonubears is wishing he was on the East Coast.  And I... don't have rehearsal til 8:00pm tonight, so I'm wasting the day writing a DBD that by all rights shouldn't even exist.  I predict no more than 10 replies - and that's on the high end.  

Of course, there won't be any replies at all if I don't offer up a topic of discussion!

...

...

...

Okay, we're trying something different today.  There is no topic of discussion today.  There isn't even supposed to be a DBD today, and since this DBD shouldn't exist, how can there be a topic of discussion?  Whoa.  Yeah - I just blew your mind.  Talk about anything you want - talk about the weather, talk about politics, talk about how much this DBD sucks dirty hosewater.  Take your pick.

My prediction stands - more than 10 replies, and I will be shocked.  Go nuts (and Bears)!

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by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 3, 2009 1:29 PM PDT reply actions  

I kind of hope he dies.

All aboard the Jahvid Best rickshaw!

by rollonubears on Jul 3, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions  

Mission accomplished!

by Yes We Cannon on Jul 3, 2009 2:08 PM PDT reply actions  

we could discuss my upcoming plans to colonize Cal. UCLA-North! Acronyms everywhere!

by Harsha on Jul 3, 2009 2:10 PM PDT reply actions  

Oh, so Twist leaves for one weekend, and you lot think you can waltz right in? Well, I’m still here, and so is YF and HT. We at CGB are colonizers, not colonizees, and I say “No!” to acronyms. It’ll take more than a comically fake moustache to sneak past our defenses.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 3, 2009 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions  

Does “No!” mean “Not Onyourlife”?

Also, unless another group of people tried a midnight Half Dome height fairly recently, we have mutual acquaintances.

by Yes We Cannon on Jul 3, 2009 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions  

If you know indians in the bay area, we probably do have mutual acquaintances. Where did you get the idea I’ve done a midnight Half Dome trip?

by Harsha on Jul 3, 2009 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions  

small community up here. or at least, large community that gets together in large groups.

by Harsha on Jul 3, 2009 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions  

Are you serious? There are fuckloads of Indians in the Bay Area. I’m pretty sure they don’t all know each other.

by HolmoePhobe on Jul 4, 2009 9:11 AM PDT up reply actions  

damn apparently responded to you 3 times in 4 random places. stupid computer. i’m calling it a day. happy 3rd of july everybody.

by Harsha on Jul 3, 2009 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions  

Actually, one of the people in my group was a former cannoneer (what do you people call yourself anyway? CannonComm?), so I’m pretty sure we do have a mutual acquaintance.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 3, 2009 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions  

understanding fail. cannon wasn’t talking to me :P

by Harsha on Jul 3, 2009 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions  

It’s understandable, you did go to UCLA.

Kidding!

by Yes We Cannon on Jul 3, 2009 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions  

so am i. it’s a connected community. i’d say there are no more than 3 degrees of separation amongst the norcal indian community.

by Harsha on Jul 3, 2009 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions  

How many to the North Texas Indian commuinity?

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by TwistNHook on Jul 5, 2009 5:28 PM PDT up reply actions  

That man could use a hobby.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 3, 2009 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions  

what? competitve facial hair grooming isn’t enough?

by Harsha on Jul 3, 2009 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions  

oh, is he on the professional circuit? well, then, by all means, carry on.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 3, 2009 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions  

World Beard and Moustache Championships 2011

You too can be a part of this international competition in 2011 (however, unless you’ve been growing and grooming a beard without cutting since 2000, I’m fairly certain you’re at a disadvantage)

by Harsha on Jul 3, 2009 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions  

I am growing a beard right now. Can I enter the young’uns category?

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by rollonubears on Jul 3, 2009 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions  

Theres a friend of a friend who apparently just won Freestyle Beardunder the name Jack Passion. Or somehting.

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by TwistNHook on Jul 5, 2009 5:28 PM PDT up reply actions  

I’m saying it’s a connected community. I’m indian, didn’t have a whole lot of indian friends when i was in socal, and now i know more than 40 i’d consider friends, let alone random acquaintances. there’s like 2-3 degrees of separation, max.

in general, i’m not saying a whole lot.

by Harsha on Jul 3, 2009 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions  

I heard a rumor that CBKW was around to help, too!

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by TwistNHook on Jul 5, 2009 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions  

I can’t hear you over the sound of me vomiting.

All aboard the Jahvid Best rickshaw!

by rollonubears on Jul 3, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions  

The Ultimate Opportunist

by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 3, 2009 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions  

Oh, and I have seen A Day Without A Mexican. It’s definitely worth checking out.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 3, 2009 2:15 PM PDT reply actions  

Apparently there may be a swine flu outbreak at the camp I was going to. So… bullet dodged?

All aboard the Jahvid Best rickshaw!

by rollonubears on Jul 3, 2009 2:45 PM PDT reply actions  

Plus, I am always wishing I was on the east coast. Particularly the south. Boy, do I love the south.

All aboard the Jahvid Best rickshaw!

by rollonubears on Jul 3, 2009 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions  

Seems pretty… selfish? Very odd.

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by rollonubears on Jul 3, 2009 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions  

That doesn’t sound like a move someone would make if they’re going to run in 2012. She could’ve at least finished out her term.

The Ultimate Opportunist

by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 3, 2009 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions  

I mean, say what you want about her, but if the people elected her and want her to run their government, she shouldn’t just blow them off. Doesn’t make sense.

All aboard the Jahvid Best rickshaw!

by rollonubears on Jul 3, 2009 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions  

It sounds like something is gonna come out that she doesn’t want to come out, and she’s resigning to head it off at the pass. Seemed like it to me, since her announcement was so damned cryptic.

CGB: Wasting Your Potential, Your Time, & Your Life Since 2006.

by BearStage on Jul 3, 2009 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions  

History will not be kind to Sarah Palin. She is a farce. Dear lord, if they had won, it would be hell. Europe would hate us even more.
Matt Damon put it best.

All aboard the Jahvid Best rickshaw!

by rollonubears on Jul 3, 2009 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions  

History will forget Sarah Palin. (Really, how many failed presidential candidates can you name off the top of your head? History will be all like “Sarah Palin? Wasn’t she the one with the… ummm…”)

Also, man, who cares about Europe? I mean, I don’t even think Europe cares about Europe. Which is fine, because they aren’t always all “yeaaaaaaaaaaah let’s invade some sovereign nations because we are the righteous nations of EUROPE,” and that’s probably for the best. But still, “because Europe thinks it would be a bad idea” is pretty low on my reasons not to do stuff.

by AERose on Jul 3, 2009 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions  

Well the rest of the world would hate us more, which is kinda hard to do.

All aboard the Jahvid Best rickshaw!

by rollonubears on Jul 3, 2009 6:10 PM PDT up reply actions  

John C. Calhoun. Daniel Webster. William Jennings Bryan. Eugene V. Debs. Barry Goldwater. Michael Dukakis. Bob Dole. John Kerry.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 3, 2009 6:34 PM PDT up reply actions   1 recs

Right, that makes you a geek.

by AERose on Jul 3, 2009 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions  

This is a Cal blog. What did you expect? :]

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by rollonubears on Jul 3, 2009 8:18 PM PDT up reply actions  

Never have truer words been spoken.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 3, 2009 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions  

Al friggin Gore

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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jul 3, 2009 8:56 PM PDT up reply actions  

If Palin counts, so does Hillary.

All aboard the Jahvid Best rickshaw!

by rollonubears on Jul 3, 2009 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions  

actually, neither of them count as presidential candidates.

1) Sarah Palin was a Vice-Presidential candidate, not a Presidential Candidate.

2) The assumption is that we’re only talking about people who were the final candidate for their respective parties. So no Hillary either.

CGB: Wasting Your Potential, Your Time, & Your Life Since 2006.

by BearStage on Jul 3, 2009 11:49 PM PDT up reply actions  

Walter Mondale. Thomas Dewey. George H.W. Bush. Jimmy Carter. Richard M. Nixon.

OH DAMN.

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by BearStage on Jul 3, 2009 11:40 PM PDT up reply actions  

John McCain.

CGB: Wasting Your Potential, Your Time, & Your Life Since 2006.

by BearStage on Jul 3, 2009 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions  

Well, obviously.

CGB: Wasting Your Potential, Your Time, & Your Life Since 2006.

by BearStage on Jul 3, 2009 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions  

well, now, if we’re going to starting listing Presidents who, at one time or another, lost a Presidential election or a reelection campaign, we’re going to get a whole list of fairly famous names. John Adams. John Quincy Adams. Theodore Roosevelt. William Howard Taft. Grover Cleveland. Etc. Etc.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 4, 2009 12:58 AM PDT up reply actions  

Well, he didn’t specify. All he said was “failed presidential candidates.”

I submit that Nixon should count, ’cause at the time that he failed to become President (1960), he had yet to become President (unlike the others I listed).

even if he doesn’t, Mondale, McCain, and Dewey still count.

Pwnage!! (regarding the original question)

CGB: Wasting Your Potential, Your Time, & Your Life Since 2006.

by BearStage on Jul 4, 2009 1:13 AM PDT up reply actions  

In any case, it’s true that any given mind probably contains a few to a few dozen failed presidential candidates, but I stick by my original argument that they, like Sarah Palin will be in time, have been forgotten by history. Names live on, but what can you tell me about Dewey other than that he was the 2007 USC to Truman’s 2007 Stanfurd? I submit: not much.

by AERose on Jul 4, 2009 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions  

But how many fialed VICE presidential candidates can you name?

PS Recd for William Jennings Bryan and Eugene V. Debs.

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by TwistNHook on Jul 5, 2009 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions  

Geraldine Ferraro. John Edwards.

So there :-p

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by BearStage on Jul 5, 2009 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions  

John Bricker, FTW!

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by Ohio Bear on Jul 6, 2009 6:44 AM PDT up reply actions  

Ross Perot! (Giant sucking sound!)
Walter Mondale
Al Gore

by LeonPowe on Jul 3, 2009 6:37 PM PDT up reply actions  

Also Matt Damon FAILED right off the start by fronting like Palin actually had a chance at the White House. Way to be a vacuous ninny, Matt!

by AERose on Jul 3, 2009 6:10 PM PDT up reply actions  

yeah I think at the time he said that, we were getting the old white women/man demographic going crazy for this “sharp, cute, family-values, down-to-earth mom that loved America.”

"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark

by carp on Jul 4, 2009 6:40 AM PDT up reply actions  

Looks like you're not the only one who thinks so:

 Following Palin’s announcement, the Democratic National Committee blasted what it called her “bizarre behavior.”

“Either Sarah Palin is leaving the people of Alaska high and dry to pursue her long shot national political ambitions or she simply can’t handle the job now that her popularity has dimmed and oil revenues are down,” DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse said.

“Either way, her decision to abandon her post and the people of Alaska who elected her continues a pattern of bizarre behavior that more than anything else may explain the decision she made today.”

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by BearStage on Jul 3, 2009 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions  

Guys I love Sarah Palin

Everything she does is a fucking circus. Most entertaining thing to come out of the political world in my lifetime.

by AERose on Jul 3, 2009 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions  

Yeah, and this video is the icing on the cake.

The Ultimate Opportunist

by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 3, 2009 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions  

Twist isn’t here to get us to stop talking about politics. LET’S GO CRAZY! COLBERT-STEWART 12!!!!!! AL FRANKEN FOR SUPREME LEADER!!!!!!!! BARACK FOR CAPTAIN OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!!!

All aboard the Jahvid Best rickshaw!

by rollonubears on Jul 3, 2009 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions  

Don't blame me

I voted for Kodo. (Man is Rollonubears even old enough to get that reference?)

by AERose on Jul 3, 2009 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions  

Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 3, 2009 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions   1 recs

Time to break out the boards with nails in them

The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS

by norcalnick on Jul 3, 2009 6:41 PM PDT up reply actions  

I strongly encourage everyone to drop $20 bucks and buy an American flag to post outside your house/duplex/condo/aparment/cabin/double wide/single wide/tent/lean-to/newspapers/cardboard. Don’t forget to take it down at night, let it touch the ground, and don’t fly it in bad weather. Otherwise you’ll hear the door bell ring and a Korean War vet will be standing in his undies with a rifle pointed at your unibrow. Go USA and blow Kim Jong-Il’s sunglasses off.

"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark

by carp on Jul 3, 2009 4:26 PM PDT reply actions  

I prefer BURNING AMERICAN FLAGS


When they’re worn out and need to be retired in the traditional manner

The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS

by norcalnick on Jul 3, 2009 6:45 PM PDT up reply actions  

What if

my American flag cost 50 RMB and was made in China?

(best 50 RMB/$7 USD I’ve ever spent. It’s been waved at the 9 different Olympic events, an Inauguration Party, and it’s now hanging in my apartment window next to my Cal flag)

by LeonPowe on Jul 3, 2009 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions  

Is that really the best 50 RMB/$7 USD you ever spent? On a flag? I mean c’mon. What about all the hookers and blow?!?!?

Supreme Leader Ayatollah TwistNHook!

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by TwistNHook on Jul 5, 2009 5:38 PM PDT up reply actions  

You can't

blow and hookers for under 100RMB anymore. Inflation you know.

by LeonPowe on Jul 5, 2009 5:46 PM PDT up reply actions  

You clearly dont know the right places. Ill help you out next time Im in Wherever It Is You Liveistan.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah TwistNHook!

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by TwistNHook on Jul 5, 2009 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions  

When the hell are you coming to Pitcarin Island?

by LeonPowe on Jul 5, 2009 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions  

Yknow. Wheneve.r

Supreme Leader Ayatollah TwistNHook!

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by TwistNHook on Jul 5, 2009 8:31 PM PDT up reply actions  

Bring me

a copy of latest issue of california magazine. mine seem to be getting stolen by the desedants of the bounty muntineers.

by LeonPowe on Jul 5, 2009 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions  

I only subscribe to UCLA Alumni magazine. Scientifically guaranteed to make you 10% smarter!

Supreme Leader Ayatollah TwistNHook!

www.CaliforniaGoldenBlogs.com

by TwistNHook on Jul 5, 2009 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions  

You sucribe to

UCLAAM? OMG I am sooooooooooooo jealous. WWCRND?

Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!

by GoldBlooded on Jul 5, 2009 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions  

If you call CAA, they will send you copies of the back issues you missed (if they have copies), free of charge.

CGB: Wasting Your Potential, Your Time, & Your Life Since 2006.

by BearStage on Jul 5, 2009 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions  

eh

I wasn’t serious. I think the CAA is the best organization in the world at tracking people down. My parents didn’t even have my new address . . .and my CAA California Magazine and donation request showed up 3 weeks after I moved in.

by LeonPowe on Jul 6, 2009 2:58 AM PDT up reply actions  

Is your address 1 Pitcairn Island?

Supreme Leader Ayatollah TwistNHook!

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by TwistNHook on Jul 6, 2009 7:47 AM PDT up reply actions  

No

I live over on Fletcher Christian Lane.

by LeonPowe on Jul 6, 2009 8:12 AM PDT up reply actions  

Yeah, they have secret magical powers. I’m privy to them, but not allowed to disclose them.

CGB: Wasting Your Potential, Your Time, & Your Life Since 2006.

by BearStage on Jul 6, 2009 8:07 PM PDT up reply actions  

heh…that should be “don’t let it touch the ground.” My troopmaster must be rolling over in his grave. Or his bed. Not sure if he kicked the bucket yet.

"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark

by carp on Jul 4, 2009 6:42 AM PDT up reply actions  

Careful – he might come after you with a bow and arrow.

CGB: Wasting Your Potential, Your Time, & Your Life Since 2006.

by BearStage on Jul 4, 2009 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions  

:)

"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark

by carp on Jul 5, 2009 8:07 AM PDT up reply actions  

That video is awesome. I don’t know who came up with bowfishing, but only in Texas…

by paleodan on Jul 5, 2009 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions  

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