Hucklebug Episode 184: RIP Lynn Redgrave and Owen, shout-outs, movies (Bet: none; Stennie: A League of Their Own), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, More Questions from the book of Would You Rather?
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker, and Frank Sinatra.
Stennie, I think you linked back to last week’s episode instead of this week.
Damn it, I hate when I do that. Fixed.
Not sure about Kurt Russell’s acting chops? I only have two words—Stuntman Mike.
Stennie, I’m sorry to hear about your dad. Like you say, prostate cancer is survivable by a lot of people. Let’s keep up the positive juju. Get well soon!!!!!!
Bet probably has milo-on-the-knee syndrome from dogs bouncing on her leg. Doesn’t look like you’re ever going to the doctor Bet, so just invest in a full leg brace that runs from hip to heel.
Stennie, your story about the job vacancy that looked like your job is familiar. I had that happen to me too only it really was my job. I told them to stuff it. The guy they hired quit on them 2 months later.
Internet comments on news stories are amazing. No matter what the topic they degenerate into repubilcans slamming democrats and vice versa. The story can read “Kitten rescued from tree” and the first comment will be “Look at those damn lefty socialists spending your tax money like it was water. It’s time to impeach Obama NOW!!!”.
I watched your concert performance Bet. You were GREAT!
I’m bummed. Stennie didn’t post her hucklebug picture she took with the new camera.
I enjoyed the “Would you Rather” stuff just fine but I agree it’s better in small doses.
Good luck on your tripod Patrick. Fathers just can’t help bragging on their boys.
Thanks for the nice comments on my Avatar picture. Ever since I did it the world looks a lot more 3-D.
Here’s a “Would you Rather” from me. Would you rather try to step a 92 year old through the installation of a wireless network over the phone
or
Lay down in the driveway and have someone pour dirty motor oil all over you?
Really good show this week!
Sorry to hear about your dad. Good thoughts all around.
Thanks for the good wishes about the new addition. It’s a time full of emotions: excited, nervous, hungry. You know the drill.
Well, looky-who would stomp innocent frogs to death for dollars, but not mow down kittens? Is it because frogs are uglier? Aren’t we high and mighty??? Consider which method is quicker, i.e. more humane. HMMMM?
I think the point of the book is that everyone has their price; mine happens to be $2M. My conscience would suffer, but that’s some life-changing scratch right there. Also, I would’ve pimped my wife Demi Moore to Robert Redford for $1M. Heck, probably just for some Sundance Festival tickets.
Duke: no bout adoubt it: Motor oil. Might’ve even chosen that without the 90 year old.
I think you’re off on several of the “would you rather”s—they’re one night stands. Bryant Gumbel, Tom Selleck, Ben Affleck. If I have to have a second date, all bets are off though. Johnny Depp definitely smells. I think you’ve done the topic before, but “Celebrities who look like they smell?”
I would NOT mop up at peep shows for only $150k. The school teachers are all okay at $100k per. Also, where do I live? If I’m in NY or LA, 100k is not a lot of money—you still don’t live that well.
I’d live in the Hammer house—Escher’s house would probably give me vertigo or make me queasy because of the visual disconnects.
Can we all do the Grease show together? And who the hell pays mimes? Mimes are evil.
How do 100 bull frogs kill you? I don’t get that one.
Bet—you have channels that sign off with the national anthem? I thought everyone does infomercials now.
Patrick is just having fun with you. There is NO way anyone would purposely kill a kitten. Please.
Betster, quit complaining about moving the deadline for going to the doctor and just GO already. Please?!
OH, Fuck OFF Nick! What is his prognosis? Isn’t prostate cancer one of the ones that isn’t likely to spread to other places? Hands on the monitor for him! (For your dad, not for Nick)
“Rent Boy. Com” sounds like someplace you’d go to get a mowing boy.
Congratulations on the soon-to-be new addition, Patrick. Even though you claim to hate kittens (and I know you’re kidding).
Doesn’t Mike own Mufftown USA? He’d probably cut you a deal!
The “Los Suns” thing was done on Cinco de Mayo as their own protest. The proper translation is “Los Soles” (since the sun is a boy), which would’ve looked great on their unis. Their opponents, the Spurs, nearly played as “Los Spurs” in that game.
Btw, I’ve never seen A League Of Their Own.
You know who should get cancer? Nick the cancer, that’s who. That’ll teach him.
Robin Hood:
There are only three true Robin Hoods: Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, and Daffy Duck.
Here’s a quick game of “whom would you rather be”:
Thelma Lou or Helen Crump
Ginger or Mary Ann
Jennifer or Bailey
Laura Petrie or Mary Richards
Jo Anne Worley or Goldie Hawn
June Cleaver or Margaret Anderson
Morticia Addams or Lily Munster
Samantha Stevens or Jeannie
Carol Brady or Shirley Partridge
Just wanted to poke my head in and say ‘hey.’ And can I get You Rules for my wife and mother-in-law for their unwavering and Herculean love, support, and inspiration over the last three years of law school. I never would have made it without them.
Also, I suspect Stennie’s willingness to mop up after peep shows is less about the $150k and more about the likelihood of running into that Dirty Jobs dude.
Haha, I’m caught up but now I’m behind again! ARG!
Yeah, Mary Jo’s my favorite Designing Woman, too, if I had to pick one, but I kinda dug them all in different ways.
Glad you’ve seen “The IT Crowd,” Sten—I figured you’d love it and Bet, yeah, Stennie’s right, you’d get pretty much every joke, I’d guess.
I get hungry for Fritos every time you guys make that joke.
Bet do the procedure on your knee! The earlier the BETter!!
Sorry about your pop, Sten. I wish our government could start spending billions on cancer research instead of bailing out big banks and big business.
I love how Russel Crowe plays “Robin Hood: The Early Years”—what with him being in his mid-40s. Don’t get it. I’m with Mike, though I think he forgot the fox in the Disney version (as you ladies did not).
I think rentboy.com is for hiring guys to carry, not your luggage, but your *package*.
I don’t mind most commenters on the net, but there are far too many stupid people who feel the need to speak up. I recently had to turn off comments on one post on my lifestream because some idiot thinks we shouldn’t classify cancer as a disease, but instead classify it as a “natural cause.” >_<
“Swimming with Sharks” is much tamer than reality.
Answer to Duke’s “Would You Rather?” is: wifi. I’m a glutton for technological punishment. Besides, if I wanted to bathe in motor oil, I’d go jump in the Gulf of Mexico.