MetaChat - I lost the bet.

MetaChat is an informal place for MeFites to touch base and post, discuss and chatter about topics that may not belong on MetaFilter. Questions? Check the FAQ. Please note: This is important.

06 February 2006

I lost the bet. →[More:]
*sigh* and my Birds made too many mistakes and now I owe the guy in the office 9 beers. Of course, he didn't say what kind of beer. I sent him an email last night telling him that 9 PBR's were comin' right up! If he insists on Guinness, which is what we were inbibing when the bet was made and probably what he meant by 'beers', then I'll just buy him all 9 pints at once and he will have to drink them then. (He's not as liquid-adaptable as jonmc - he usually takes 2-3 at a sitting.) [evil laugh]

In other news, I liked the FedEx commercial best. The rest were pretty meh. The stones looked good, but geez we got our satisfaction about 164 bars before the song ended.

post by: chewatadistance at: 08:10 | 14 comments

but geez we got our satisfaction about 164 bars before the song ended.

I was amazed at how crazy-happy the fans on the floor were. For that tired old song. I mean, really. I wonder whether they were paid fans and just part of the show.

posted by Doohickie 06 February | 08:46

I was disappointed Keef didn't hit anyone with his Tele.

posted by Hugh Janus 06 February | 09:09

That was the only part I watched. Once it was determined that Keef was not going to clock anyone I went back to doing my homework for accounting class.

Then I watched most of Grizzly Man before netflix screwed me over. Dude got eaten by a bear, a plot twist which I could see coming in the first 2 minutes. No money rode on the outcome of any of these things. I am saving all my betting for the roll around of horse racing season and my triumphant return to Belmont.

posted by Divine_Wino 06 February | 10:05

D_W: The Discovery Channel was showing Grizzly Man this past week. You could've saved your rental money.

*shudders at the thought of D_W heading home and finding blood on the walls, torn clothing on the floor, and a bruin sitting on the couch shouting, "Hi! You called for a documentary?"

posted by Smart Dalek 06 February | 10:29

I don't have cable and I pay this Russian dude to sit outside my house and shoot any bears that try to gain entry without permission. I am the opposie of the Grizzly Man in many regards.

posted by Divine_Wino 06 February | 10:31

Illest line:

"We took four garbage bags worth of people out of that bear."

posted by Divine_Wino 06 February | 10:31

His story was all over the intarweb; did you expect a different ending?

If so, watch Eight Below. It's a movie about the true story of sled dogs that were temporarily left in Antarctica but then the next boat never got there due to bad weather, so the dogs had to spend the winter there fending for themselves, becoming Japanese national heroes in the process. In real life, though, only two of the dozen or so dogs survived; in Disney, the story has a happier ending. (Is that too much of a spoiler?)

posted by Doohickie 06 February | 10:53

No Doohickie, I choose to be jocose. I knew he got eaten by a bear, they drop that little bomb about 3 minutes in and on the cover copy. I'm violating one of my two main rules right now, specifically explaining a joke. The other rule is don't assume bears are not going to eat you.

Those bears were beautiful though, just amazing.
The part where the two males fight over the female bear is incredible, it looked like two giant humans wrestling, like real greco-roman style wrestling. Uncanny.

posted by Divine_Wino 06 February | 11:01

I was amazed when I went to Yosemite to read the 'instructions' in the cabin about what to do if you see a bear.

(a) hold your jacket over your head to look bigger
(b) make a noise, yell, etc.
(c) throw stones at it
(d) if the above doesn't work stand still

WTF? So I've attracted its attention by waving my jacket over my head and yelling at it ("Woo hoo! Over here!"), pissed it off by throwing stones at it and they expect me to stand still??!!

posted by essexjan 06 February | 13:13

I think (d) really means "if the above doesn't work, don't bother running."

posted by Hugh Janus 06 February | 17:06

I tried watching GM twice on Discovery Channel this weekend. Oh my fucking god, there were 3 minutes of commercials for every 5 minutes of the documentary. Utterly Unwatchable. Fox recently purchased most of Discovery, so expect to see more crap coming from that channel. DW, you did the right thing.

I think the guy pretty much did a "suicide by bear" thing.

posted by Hellbient 06 February | 17:38

Really, hellbient? Thanks, I will just delete it off the TiVo and put it on my Netflix list.

posted by matildaben 06 February | 17:49

That would've livened up the Stones show at halftime Sunday, no question. A Bear!

I can't get no....AIEEEEEEEEEEE!

(rending sounds)

posted by Lipstick Thespian 06 February | 19:23

I thought I read once that Yellowstone rangers advised male campers not to whack it while in the park b/c the smell of semen could attract bears. I have no idea if that's true, tho.

posted by trondant 07 February | 00:15

← The Utah Baby-Namer. || Hey, Janice! →

HOME || REGISTER || LOGIN