Episode 263: Shout-outs, Where’s BOB?, Pet Stories, What’s Up With That?, Thing That Doesn’t Fit, Stennie’s (Less Than) Surprising Fact, Bet’s Three-Fer, New Favorites, Fuck Offs and You Rules, Extras included with the Hucklebug DVD Box Set.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed Sierra Rein, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra, “Movies” bumper by Duke, “New Favorite” bumper by Krizzer.
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Bet – no, no, no. You don’t SNIFF anything with the netti pot. You POUR. Try it. You’ll like it. I do. I also don’t believe your creepy PSA. Regular water is just fine. If you can drink it, you can put it up your nose.
By the way, I’m listening to the podcast right now in lieu of writing cover letters. How on EARTH do people get motivated to apply to jobs, knowing full well that you’re not going to hear squat from 99% of the jobs you apply for?
“I tried Blazing Saddles and it didn’t work.”
Oh Buster! I’m glad nothing was wrong with him. Maybe he was practicing for the part of a lame kitty in a movie.
Buster probably had a muscle cramp – I had a kink in my neck that lasted for days and I was pretty miserable. Just woke up, got out of bed, and it hurt.
And Bet, maybe it was your accent, but when you said something to the effect of (re: the neti pot) “My mother tried to put it in her ear”, I thought you said “My mother tried to put it in her REAR.” I was so confused why a grown woman would put a neti pot up her ass. Then when Stennie asked if mom expected the water to come out “the other side,” my mind just couldn’t handle it. A few seconds later, I figured out what Bet actually said, but in those few moments…OY!!! :):):)
Thanks for the M5 plug!
The appropriateness of using “an” before a word beginning with an “h” has been dependent on the pronounciation of the word in a given dialect. If the “h” is silent in the dialect, then “an” is appropriate. If the “h” is audible, then “a” is appropriate.
(References ready for the onslaught.)
Ladies,
Regarding your recent topic of films that deserve a remake, how about films that could be adapted for the Broadway stage? We’ve seen so many in recent years and now Woody Allen is joining the club: http://www.thewrap.com/media/article/woody-allen-adapting-bullets-over-broadway-musical-well-guess-35673
Have a great weekend and enjoy the Oscars! I’m predicting it will be a “black & white” evening….
“Draw Every Day” is my attempt to draw something every day for this year. I haven’t been *really* trying to draw for years and I’ve missed being creative in that way. “Ballpoint Adventures” doesn’t count since I don’t consider stick-figure-drawing to be really trying (I’m thinking of Truman Capote saying “that’s not drawing that’s dragging your pen across the paper” or, as he actually said “that’s not writing, that’s typing.”). The stuff I’m doing now is mostly ink with almost no pencils, so I am learning to turn mistakes into unmistakes. So far, I’m pretty happy with how things have come out.
Yeah, Stennie’s right, Bet–I’m really not a Facebook guy. I visit sometimes, and update my status with my blog posts, but not much else. Twitter’s my favorite because it’s so simple. Even when they stupidly move stuff around, it doesn’t take that long to figure out where it is. With Facebook, I feel like I’m Indiana Jones every time I have to spelunk into the settings or change my user icon.
Thanks for your powerless caffeine sympathies, ladies! I’m drinking more today. Hopefully it’ll kick in aaaaany moment now!
I keep hearing about this show called “Doubtin’ Abbie.” At least, that’s what I *hear*. I know it’s “Downton Abbey” but I think I’d rather see a show about a woman who gets everything right but comes across so quirky that everyone doubts her because they’re all lame. OK, maybe it wouldn’t be a brilliant show, but at least it wouldn’t be about rich white English people. :/
I hope everyone checks out my drawings–I’d love some thoughts on them. I’m thinking about putting together a compilation of them as an ebook or magazine on Magcloud. Since Siskita plugged Marquee Five, I hope you don’t mind if I plug my book “TheKey Chronicle Book 1” and the first issue of thepete.mag. “TheKey Chronicle” is an adventure/conspiracy novel series that I’ve written and am slowly self-publishing. thepete.mag is a photo magazine I put together after being inspired by compliments from my mom about my photography–she got the first copy as a Christmas present 🙂 The first issue is a retrospective of 2011 from my point of view and I plan on doing new issues every 2 months. Check out http://thepete.com for links to buy ’em! If you like them, I could use some reviews and stars on Amazon for “TheKey Chronicle” and on Magcloud for thepete.mag, myself! 😀
I loved your Hucklebug DVD extras–but I have one suggestion. Subtitles for when Bet’s accent perplexes us city-folk. Like Siskita’s problem with Bet’s mom using the neti pot on her rear and, one of my favorite HB moments, “I knew it was you, Frito!”
Crap, now I’m hungry for corn chips. I am so suggestible!!
Ahh…episode 264…..26 is for(4) Bet’s birthday! Happy almost Birthday Bet!
Two suggestions for the Hucklebug DVD extras — pictures of listeners (which you suggested) but also with pictures of their pets and an episode (or partial episode) where all the cuss words are beeped.
2510 Monument Avenue, Apt 6 was indeed the address of the apartment Trish and I lived in when we first moved to Richmond……probably my favorite address ever. I can not believe that you remembered that, Bet, and I have a big confession to make. I do not remember you visiting us there. You really did? Seriously? Was I there that weekend? What the heck did we do?! (You can email me; you don’t have to waste precious HB time to indulge just me.)
I thought of another sitcom to bring back but casting it might be as big a challenge as casting a new To Kill a Mockingbird and that would be The Odd Couple. It came to mind today when I was interviewing a patient who worked for a company called Felix and Oscar!
And lastly, when I was swimming the other day I saw a bobbie pin on the bottom of the pool and thought of the podcast. By the way, the Brits call them “Kirby grips.” (Kirby is the UK manufacturer.)
BREAKING NEWS!
Whiskey is awesome in hot chocolate!
I forgot that I had a spitting story. Janet grew up in a London suburb called Wealdstone near Harrow. There is a huge immigrant population living there now, with the majority being from the Indian sub-continent. I was standing at a bus stop and an adult immigrant male let a big ol’ disgusting one fly right there on the sidewalk. An older English woman turned to him and said “WE do NOT do that in this country!” It was great.
Stennie, to avoid you being put off by all the over-gushing about Downton Abbey, I’ll limit my recommendation to the four words that make it appointment television for me: Hugh Bonneville full-frontal.
Bet, you take your sweet time and do what you have to do with the DVDs. I’m looking forward to them, of course, but there’s something oddly satisfying about knowing they’re out there and they’ll get here when they get here. Please don’t make yourself (more) hinky over them.
Oh shoot! I just started the episode, and I’m not going to finish it in time to comment. So I’ll just say I love you both. I’d be done listening by now if it weren’t for that darned Rockband.
Crap — meant to write this sooner, but…maybe you’re running late on podcasting. I thought of you guys today as I finally saw one of those memorial things on the back of a car. I swear it looked like someone had a shovel sticking out of a grave and it said ‘RIP Mom and Dad”. WTF?