Episode 230: New intro courtesy of Duke! Bet’s new nickname, shout-outs, movies (Bet: Neal Cassady), New Favorites, Sad Story of the Week, What’s Up With That?, Fuck offs and You Rules, Top Five Signs We’re Getting Old.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra. Bumpers by Duke and Krizzer!
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Bet:
What do you think about Bet “ReedRocker” Bowles for a nickname? “weekender” sounds like a hooker name. sorry.
Stennie:
Thanks for the sporlers. I still think you should call the pillow Mr. Right Now….then the commitment is more deliberate and less “taken for granted.” I hope he is always good to you! And Ken wants me to take over for Andy Rooney, but I would have three empty minutes every week!!
As far as getting older..first of all, I’m so far ahead of you, you will always be my younger friend..so get over yourself.
Secondly, after this past weekend with some of my family, I was reminded of when I was younger and would sit in and hang out with my parents and aunts and uncles at holidays and family gatherings and listen to them complain about aches and pains and medical conditions….well, Sunday afternoon, I sat and listened to my cousin for 20 minutes talk about his latest health issue. Oh, God, Kill me know. I don’t want to recreate that part of my parents’ generation.
DID YOU SAY CD MIX???? 🙂
Are you wearing pants up around your neck? If not, then you’re not old.
Bet nicknames? How about?
The Incident
Toots
Scooter
Boo Boo
The Vibe
Chops (musical reference, not the pork variety)
Using musical terms, I suggest “Capriccio”, which is a “quick, improvisational, spirited piece of music.” Or “Forte,” since her laugh is so gloriously loud 🙂 Other than that, I don’t like The Shame – Bet should be only positive!!!
My Dad’s name is Paul! You gave him a You Rule!!!
I would DIE to hear Andy Rooney give a fuck off to someone 😛 And that iPod/Walkman thing is bizzare!!!
Oh and it’s true that ThePete and I never have arguments – we just yell a lot to make the neighbors think we’re not perfect 😉
Duke’s intro: Very cool! Nice work.
I bow to Aston Villa/am tired of the punk-ass Gunners play. Glad I couldn’t actually watch it.
Re: The Husband. When my wife was preggers, she bought herself a body pillow and adooooored it because it helped her sleep much more comfortably. All I know is that with a pregnant wife and a monstrous body pillow, my section of the bed became about 6 inches wide.
“The Big Hurt” is former Chicago White Stocking Frank Thomas. #themoreyouknow
Bet nicknames: Legs, Zambezi, Eskimo, Hellcat, Magpie
(I don’t know; none of these are good. Gimme a bit more time perhaps.)
Baby at the prom: Yeah, I agree. Bad idea. No babysitter, no prom. I do seem to recall a girl at my school with her baby in her senior picture in the yearbook. While I empathize for the teenage mom, it’s just not appropriate. Also, it just promotes the idea of kids as accessories. Booo.
How I know I’m getting old: My body is completely falling apart. Lingering injuries, bad back ALWAYS. But I don’t think I can beat Stennie’s Walkman or cemetery items.
I still like BE3T.
Also, thanks for the scarcity of “f..k” and its variants this week.
Re. straws: They did that so that kids could no longer shoot the wrappers into the air. No kidding!
Re. road rage: I try to remember something that I realizes, with the help of Albert, some time ago: ALL anger is nothing more than the insistence that other people act the way we insist they MUST act.
Re. the oil in my car: I’m leaving to get the oil changed now.
Adios.
What’s wrong with “Betster”? I just don’t want to expend the effort to call you something different. And you ARE the Betster. But I agree with the crowd – no negative nicknames please.
How do I know I’m getting old? Well.
– A lot of my sentences are starting to begin with phrases like, “when I was a kid,” or “back in the day,” or contain the words “used to.”
– I don’t even remember my natural hair color.
– I speak of things like records when I mean CDs and I still say Walkman as well on occasion, too.
– I have more than one doctor
– gravity.
And Duke’s intro is pretty awesome. Enjoying it doesn’t make me old. I just have the need to start sentences with “so” and “and.”
I’m only about halfway through, but I wanted to get on the board with a few thoughts.
Some (lousy) nickname suggestions for Bet:
– The Shambles (something about the way she said “shame” and “Bowles”)
– Queen Hink
– The Indemnity
– The Good Neighbor
Here’s a puzzler on the order of “can god make a rock so heavy he couldn’t lift it?”:
If Alan Arkin or one of his boys wrote a book, would Bet read it?
I’ll try to comment more if I finish listening before showtime. Otherwise, happy Apocalypse to all!