KOEB Meeting -- 03/08/06: The Hammer Falls Edition

[Patsy Stone]

Is that the GSB suit?

[bleever]

1. I HOPE the levees will be better.

But somehow I doubt they will be.


:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

3. Now there you go again...

Doubting the administration. Why do you hate America?

:hi:

[bleever]

16. I hate my freedoms.

:crazy:

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

24. Oh, then stick around

We're throwing them out at record pace. :grr:

[Berry Cool]

4. Hi, bleevster!

Keeping an eye on us tonight, eh?

[bleever]

18. Yep.

Not promising it's the good one though.

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

2. Yes it is, Patsela.

:hi: Thank goodness someone else started the thread finally...I killed mine!

Anyway, live from Tampa, it's Keith! :loveya:

[Patsy Stone]

6. It's more gray than I thought.

But still one of those "What color is it?" colors.

[ralps]

5. Hi Patsy, Hi Everyone, Imagine having 40% republicans voting against you

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Berry Cool]

7. Well, I think 100% of Republicans would vote against me

but that's because I disagree with just about everything they say!

Good old Chuckie Schumer. You can always count on him to shake things up.

[SharonRB]

8. Hi, everyone

I've been trying to make my plane reservations for NY in April for the march and the site keeps locking up on me after I select my seats. I guess I'll have to try again later.

[Patsy Stone]

9. Too many DUers doing the same

Probably. :hi:

For an Orthodox Jew, where's Jack's yarmulke in those clips they showed?

[WolverineDG]

14. He wasn't wearing a hat

in that golfing buddy pic.

:hi:

dg

[bleever]

29. Isn't a yarmulke the exact opposite of a golf visor?

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

33. LOFL! n/t

[bleever]

49. Phew, you got it.

I know plenty of people who would just look at me funny if I said that.

:)

[Patsy Stone]

58. Farbisseneh Goyim.

It would actually be perfect to wear them together. The visor's missing link. What, btw, is a visor's unique purpose? Why don't I want to wear the rest of the baseball cap?

Please, assume I'm not a 75 year old woman from South Florida when answering.

[bleever]

95. Behold:

[Patsy Stone]

99. Is that enough?

Really? For an entire fashion movement? What about the ones with paint, or rhinestones and stud designs? For Black Tie golfing? :)

[bleever]

106. Hey, this guy needs to golf too:

[Patsy Stone]

102. Andanotherthing

What's a man's excuse?

[bleever]

111. See above.

:rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

113. I did.

And I concede that point. Even if you tell everyone you come from France, you need to shade your eyes from the sun. :rofl:

ed: better.

[gkhouston]

127. snort. Points to bleever. n/t

[gkhouston]

126. maybe it was a minimalist yarmulke, pinned far back on his head?

:shrug: I knew a Sikh grad student who wore a mini-turban when he played basketball with his buds. I kid you not.

[SharonRB]

21. Everytime I select my seats, it locks up and I can't do anything else

This time I waited until after the confirmation went through to select my seats and it locked up again. So, now I have my reservations, but my seats aren't what I want.

[Berry Cool]

11. Wow, that old picture of Abramoff makes him look like a different

person.

OK, so maybe it's mean to make fun of his hat. But sheesh. It's hard to sympathize with such a rat.

[WolverineDG]

17. NOOOOOOOOOooooooo

You can't be having problems!! You have to get to NYC! :cry: It won't be the same protestin' without you! :cry:

dg

[SharonRB]

28. Well, I think I'm okay now, except for my seat selection

I was able to use miles, so I figured what the hell, I may as well go. I have to take Thursday off now, too, though. I get in around 1:30 on Thursday and leave at 4:20 on Monday. If I have to cancel, it will only cost me $50.

[WolverineDG]

30. Once again

we'll be arriving about the same time. LOL! :)

dg

[SharonRB]

38. Maybe -- we'll see if we can get it right this time!

Just pray I don't get cancelled again. Part of the reason I'm taking the flight I'm taking rather than an earlier one is that it has a 70% on-time record and the one a couple of hours earlier only has a 40% on-time record. I didn't want to take a night-time flight, so now I'll have to take the day off.

[WolverineDG]

45. So, wanna join us at the Yankee game?

:)

dg

[SharonRB]

47. LOL -- our posts crossed.

I just posted about this.

[SharonRB]

46. I just checked to make sure everything was done correctly,

and in spite of the fact that it locked up, I've got the seats I wanted.

Maybe I'll take in that Yankees game with you, but I'm going to talk to my aunt and my friend and see when I can get together with them before I make any other plans. I may tag along with you and Irma a bit. I've got a lot more time this trip to do other stuff.

[Patsy Stone]

78. Glad I saw this post

before I responded to the other. Ooh, a Yankees game -- lucky all of you! Enjoy, and please boo at Derek Jeter for me. Thanks. :)

[Patsy Stone]

50. It didn't seem to actually

work out that way last time, though. I wish you both much better luck. DG, I wish you First Class. :)

[WolverineDG]

73. I know it didn't

but at least we all ended up in NYC & not Timbuktu! & thanks for the wishes of First Class. :)

dg

[crispini]

10. Hello ya'll!

I get to be here!

[Patsy Stone]

12. Yay!

Missed you, girl. :hi:

Have you seen "Local News Keith" at all this week?

[crispini]

23. Not yet, this is a totally weird look for him.

It's kinda wild! It's a whole new KO!

[Patsy Stone]

32. He's realllly close to the screen.

As I said last night, I keep waiting for him to throw it to the weather guy. :)

Happy to be back home?

[crispini]

48. That's it! it's the camera.

One angle, no swooping, and he's really close. It does make a big difference. Countdown set and camera people are way cooler.

[Berry Cool]

59. Well, of course it's the camera.

They take one camera, zoom it in really close and for the most part keep it trained there nice and tight. They also don't have that little screen that swoops in and out of sight on this set like in Secaucus, so all the graphics have to be chyroned in.

They did this in LA, too, when he did those shows while in town for Leno. Same thing at 30 Rock. It's like whenever he's not actually at MSNBC, he gets stuck with a one-camera set and not a lot of special effects.

[bleever]

83. What is "chyroned"?

[Berry Cool]

97. It means they have to superimpose the graphics on the screen

as opposed to them being on the screen they swoop in and out on the MSNBC set. Just like the numbers and headers at the bottom of the screen and the MSNBC bug. They're always that way.

[bleever]

101. Thanks, Berry. nt

[Patsy Stone]

65. Yep

I'll recap our collective observations from the last few nights:

He must have left his razor at home. Combine that with local news makeup and lighting, a sunburn, local news camera angles and a set which was the pride of 1986, and there you have it. :)

Much, much cooler. :loveya:

[crispini]

75. Yes, that set -- is --- interesting to say the least.

It's kinda florescent or something.

[bleever]

93. You have to see it when they pull back.

The backdrop is heavy on the padded leather column look.

Gives me a kind of Reagan-y feeling in the back of my head and neck.

[Berry Cool]

98. I'm not sure if he left his razor at home or it's just bad makeup.

He always shaves if he's going to be on TV. The only truly scruffy Keith pictures are Vacation Keith pictures.

[bleever]

114. Maybe they borrowed a makeup artist from Hanna-Barbera.

[gkhouston]

123. LOL, where's Wilma?

Maybe he's been shaving first thing in the morning but not again right before air-time because he has other (baseball) things (baseball) to do (baseball) and he figures the local news set-up is going to make him look different anyway, so what the hell?

[Berry Cool]

13. Hurray for crispi!

I'm bugging out for now--see you all After the Show!

[crispini]

25. Hey Berry!

:hi:

[WolverineDG]

20. Yay Crispy!

Glad to see you for the live thread!! :hi:

dg

[crispini]

27. Hey Wolvie!

Good to see you! :hi:

[WolverineDG]

34. Glad to hear

because I feel like a persona non grata in the Texas forum. :cry:

damn cuellar.

dg

[crispini]

51. Ah, don't worry about it.

I think people get a little too tinfoilhatty about election fraud sometimes. Other than that, how was your election day? I was really disappointed about Bar getting in a runoff. WTF?

[WolverineDG]

72. It was fine otherwise

I hope Bar gets the word out this month to set herself apart from that other guy. He didn't do any campaigning that I could see, yet still pulled in a lot of the vote.

dg

[crispini]

77. He never campaigns, he just relies on his name.

What a jackass.

[WolverineDG]

81. We should pitch in & do some billboards

or ads or something. THE GENE KELLY YOU THINK YOU'RE VOTING FOR IS DEAD!

:evilgrin:

dg

[crispini]

91. Gish.

Stupid freaking voters. :eyes:

[bleever]

22. Welcome, ms. crispi.

It's "Local News" Keith this week.


Tonight I'm not sure he got to shave.

[crispini]

31. LOL, he does look totally different

[ralps]

Ok Which of you all e-mailed Keith complaining about the florida

set??? :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SharonRB]

26. Hi, Crispi

We've missed you.

:hi:

[crispini]

35. Hey Sharon.

Good to be here!

[WolverineDG]

15. Not sure

but in this light, it doesn't look that bad.

:hi: Pats!

dg

[Patsy Stone]

120. You know

it doesn't. But, still, it's a confusing color.

[bettyellen]

19. semi driveby....... hello ladies!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[WolverineDG]

36. Hi BE!

Hope to see you again in about a month & a half! :loveya:

dg

[Patsy Stone]

37. Girl??

Whereyoubeen? :loveya:

[bettyellen]

62. quitting smoking- it's day #10 !!!!

:loveya:
and how are YOU!

[SharonRB]

67. Congrats, BE!

Keep up the good work.

[crispini]

68. Congrats! One day at a time!

Keep on keepin' on! :hug:

[Patsy Stone]

70. Mazel Tov!

I am doing very well! Busy, but good.

[bettyellen]

84. thanks all of you, it's been tough some days, and a cakewalk others..,.

but everyday i feel a bit better.
glad to see y'all again!

[Berry Cool]

74. Good for you, betty!

Keep it up!!!

[SharonRB]

39. Hey, be

Hopefully we'll have more time to talk in April. I just made my reservations. I get in Thursday early afternoon and leave Monday late afternoon.

[bettyellen]

69. yes, cause i won't have to run out to smoke...

10 days, no cigs. :)

[gkhouston]

128. good for you, be!

:yourock:


May you be rewarded with recumbent cleanliness. :7

[Patsy Stone]

40. For speaking Yiddish, Keith

:loveya:

Who among us was one of the 30 kvetches?

[gkhouston]

129. not guilty

unless bitching in here counts as email. :-)

[seito]

41. Hi guys

It's been a busy week. :hi:

[bleever]

52. For you? Or the forces of evil?

:hi: WP.

[Wetzelbill]

42. I shouldn't say this but, that teacher who slept with her student.....

is actually pretty hot.

I am going to go eat some coleslaw and lobster now. :)

[Berry Cool]

76. And if it were a hot man sleeping with his female student

no one would question its being abuse.

[Wetzelbill]

92. oh it's abuse either way

I was just saying she's attractive. You don't usually get the image of a sick person being attractive. Something like that always conjures up the image of some creepy looking predator. Just goes to show that stereotypes are pretty meaningless.

[Berry Cool]

103. Sure does mean stereotypes are meaningless.

The bad guys don't all wear black hats like Abramoff...:rofl:...if only they did!

[Wetzelbill]

105. I used to wear a black hat

:)

but I'm more ambiguous. Kinda bad and kinda good. :)

[Berry Cool]

79. Loved the Bubba reference.

Too much.

Question about these alien Keith sets: Why is it that when you turn on your local news, their camera angles aren't as limited as Keith's are when he has to use these sets? I mean, mine aren't. They actually have at least two cameras, and they pull back and stuff.

Not to mention which, the sets look like the Starship Enterprise and not something from 1986.

[gkhouston]

130. well, there's more variety and modernity in Houston, too,

but we're a larger market than Tampa. Maybe there's no money in local television advertising in the Tampa area. Or it could be that bitter experience has taught Keith to keep it simple vis a vis the camera shots when he's on the road.

[bleever]

43. The stolen rug: "It really tied the room together."

:rofl:

The Big Lebowski reference.

[Patsy Stone]

44. Okay, so this weekend

on the drive to and from Orlando, so many people were towing their big fancy bikes to Bike Week.

Towing.Their.Bikes.

Poseurs. :)

[Berry Cool]

53. You said it, Patsela!

Hey. Keith gave you your Friday night marijuana ref two nights early!

But why no script toss tonight? What's up with these losers in Tampa? Why won't they let Keith toss his script anymore?

(And no, I didn't kvetch.)

[gkhouston]

131. they don't have anyone there to collect his pages?

:shrug:

Hmm... if Patsy's getting her dope reference tonight, does that mean that KO expects O'Reilly to do something stupid Yet Again and KO wants to leave a little time open on the Friday show for a different kind of dope reference? :crazy:

[crispini]

54. He looks awfully red around the mouth.

Is that lipstick or what? :rofl:

[SharonRB]

55. Dupe - self-delete

[SharonRB]

56. I just noticed that.

And it looks like he has fake tanning stuff on.

[bleever]

60. That's definitely not the lipstick for Keef.

:)

[gkhouston]

132. I didn't notice this, but my eyes have been pretty bleary

the last few days. (Got new glasses and they screwed 'em up; new new ones are forthcoming. :eyes:) Maybe the set design guy also does their makeup?

[Berry Cool]

66. It's hard to figure whether it's bad lipstick or whether Keith

just has a bad lip-chewing habit or cold sores or something.

[bleever]

57. O - kay...the kid was traumatized

by sleeping with his hot teacher, but not so much that he needs counseling...



:rofl:

[Wetzelbill]

64. every male's fantasy

sleeping with your hot teacher. Psh... :)

[Berry Cool]

71. It may be a fantasy

but when they're underage, it's still abuse.

[Wetzelbill]

88. oh definitely

No matter how adult the kid thinks he is, the teacher crossed a big line. Someone that young is mentally not ready to be in a situation with an authority figure like that. Total breach of trust and ethics.

[Patsy Stone]

96. I quote Van Halen

Got it bad.
Got it bad.
Got it bad.
I'm hot for teacher.

:hi:

[Wetzelbill]

104. I plead the fifth

Oh Mrs. Ellison... where are you now? :)

[Wetzelbill]

61. oh wow, sexual predators like that myspace guy

is absolutely spooky. It's bad stuff.

[crispini]

63. This MySpace story is wild.

Can't believe these teens actually caught a molester.

[Wetzelbill]

82. women have a lot to deal with

I was thinking about that earlier on this year, having to worry about sexual predators etc. I would think it might be hard to differentiate between a smooth talking guy they are attracted to and they could have something with, be it a one-night stand (we all have our moments) or something more, and say some guy who is charming, attractive, but might totally change when they get alone. I think that would be scary, being physically at the mercy of somebody like that. Then these online predators too, it's just a bad situation. Women have to be careful in a way that guys really don't have to.

[Berry Cool]

107. Why, Bill, I think you have just had a "click" moment.

By which I mean, a moment of consciousness being raised. You have realized something about women. Yes, it IS hard for us to tell the good guys from the bad sometimes...harder for some than for others. And some women do a lot of wishful thinking.

Yes, the world is quite unfair in that women have always had to be more careful than men. And if we should fail, and something bad happens, we're the ones who usually get the blame.

[Wetzelbill]

119. I had a gender, race and ethnic class

a few years ago. It opened my eyes to many things. Since then I have taken a lot of time to learn more about feminist issues. I'm constantly thinking about that stuff, correlating them to minority issues (I'm an American Indian) and so forth. Lots of interrelated human rights issues there. Women deal with stuff like an unrealistic and harsh ideal of beauty, oppression a a woman, minority woman and/or a woman or minority woman in the workforce. It's pretty ugly out there. Witness a guy like Rick Santorum, I mean seriously, where do these guys get off saying stuff like they do? It's ludicrous. Not to mention Dems are always all too willing to sell women's rights up the river for political gain, even though Dems are the ones who are supposed to be fighting for those rights. Lots of these guys coming up with "strategy" when Roberts and Scalito were both nominated just made me sick. Like the promotion of Bob Casey, an anti-choice candidate, running as a Dem against Santorum in PA. The Corporate Media and DNC practically handed this guy the primary over a year ago. Meanwhile, what good does a guy like that do for half of our country? Nothing, because he's anti-rights for that half of the country. Doesn't sound like a good choice to me. It sickens me. Truly does.

[crispini]

80. Why on earth do they walk like that?

Why can't they just stand up? :shrug:

[gkhouston]

133. I'm wondering if there's something weird with their sense of

equilibrium that makes standing up seem too disorienting. :shrug:

[Patsy Stone]

85. Oh, good luck, Diane!!

I love her. And you know she's not a morning person. Which makes me love her more. :loveya:

[SharonRB]

87. I love her, too,

but I hope Bob Woodruff recovers fully and comes back.

[Berry Cool]

109. If there's been one good thing about this week's news so far

it's Woodruff and how he is recovering, slowly but surely. Heartening to see.

[Patsy Stone]

86. I don't need a court order

to stay away from Hasselhoff. Although, he does have that "Mango" thing about him. :shrug:

[WolverineDG]

110. Here's why there should be a restraining order

against David Hasselhoff:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4841259

:rofl: oh god, this still cracks me up.

dg

[SharonRB]

WTF!

No kidding -- I couldn't even watch the whole thing.

[WolverineDG]

115. Oh I did

It was like watching a train wreck. It's so horrible I couldn't stop watching it. :rofl:

dg

[SharonRB]

112. Dupe - self delete

[crispini]

116. Well we all know that the Europeans love cheese.

Good lord! :eyes:

[Patsy Stone]

118. Best.Video.Ever.

I totally missed this! :loveya:

Immediately forwarding to everyone I know.

[bleever]

89. "Germans love David Hasselhoff"

[Patsy Stone]

108. A god.

But: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_860540.html?menu=news.quirkies

[bleever]

122. LOL. Have I mentioned that I invented BOTH of the internets?

:rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

90. While he's here in Fla-la-la!

I think all the little fluffy stories and regular bits should all be Florida-based. Lord knows we have the material. My .02 :)

[Berry Cool]

94. OK, here's the KOEB question of the night.

Keith has it pretty cushy this week getting to be on vacation while he's working. If you could do your favorite thing in the world in your favorite place in the world while still doing your job, how would you have to swing it? Describe.

on edit: Oh, and I was glad to see him throw the wad tonight again, at least. Makes me smile.

[Wetzelbill]

100. oh please, these baseball managers and officials have turned

a blind eye to steroids until they were forced to do something about it. Even then Baseball has fought it.

This last 15 years or so has been the Juiced Player Era. Back in the old days they had the Dead Ball Era, then the Juiced Ball Era. The players have been so 'roided up for years it's pathetic that they even deny it. Partly the strong players union has kept the players safe from being tested for certain substances and so on. Playing dumb is not an option. These guys need to wake up and quit playing stupid on everything. It's all good when teams are winning and players are producing. But in the end, you have guys who cheated the game and who undermined the dignity and integrity of competition. That's a total shame.

[Berry Cool]

117. Yes, they did turn a blind eye. Keith holds their feet to the fire for it

and I'm glad he does.

I agree, it's a shame and their records should all be tossed out or asterisked.

[Wetzelbill]

121. I used to be a serious athlete

and was always an avid weightlifter. I know when people are drugged up, because I have seen people on steroids. I myself tried furanone, which isn't a steroid but was a gray area product that essentially just hadn't made illegal yet, and I felt a certain difference when I was on that stuff that wasn't natural. Later on it got banned because it was giving people heart seizures. I never had anything like that from it, but I have noticed ever since I took it, which was for about a month and a half, I have felt a little funny doing cardiovascular exercise. My wind was killed by that stuff, probably because it effects the strength of your heart muscles which in turn effects how quickly a person gets fatigued. Point being, these guys abused drugs way worse than that, so in the end, Baseball needs to look at the people who start coming down with brain tumors and other afflictions. It's obvious that these guys have been doing 'roids, I could tell several players were before it ever came out that they were on that stuff. It's not worth it to destroy your body in that manner, not for winning or records or anything, athletics is stressful enough without putting that shit in your body.

[Gogi]

124. My brother took up weightlifting and frequented a gym where professional..

wrestlers worked out. I know for a fact that he took a powder with a lot of things in it but the only thing I remember listed on the label is creatine. He died at the age of 40 of heart failure. He never did anything by halves, when he started bicycle riding he dropped his weight down below a healthy level, so who knows what else he did to bulk up in his weightlifting days.:shrug: :shrug:

BTW, which Native-American group do you belong to, Wetzelbill? Don't answer if I'm being too nosy.

[Wetzelbill]

125. oh it probably had to be something not too good

creatine doesn't do that to you, unless you just gorged yourself on huge amounts that a human shouldn't take. Who knows what it could of been? This stuff I mentioned, furanone, did that to people. It gave former Phoenix Sun Basketball player, Tom Gugliotta a heart seizure, almost killed him. He was never the same after that. He took it in an over the counter product too, like mixed in a powder, before it got banned. I wouldn't be surprised if he dabbled around with that stuff. It was legal at one time, so very easy to get. I got it in a stronger form, really a gray area though, because technically it was legal, but we all knew that it wouldn't be for long. It was a lot like GHB, one of the Date Rape drugs. Works similarly.

I am mostly Blackfeet, that's where I'm enrolled. I'm also Nez Perce (Flathead) and Chippewa Cree. Oddly enough, I look whiter than sin. :)

[Gogi]

134. Honey, I'm a green-eyed redhead who never tans...

you can't look any whiter than me! People ask me if I'm sick because I'm so pale all the time. In the distant branches of my family tree one of my ancestors was Cherokee but that's just of historical interest because it's too far back to matter. You concern me, Wetzelbill, I hope you've consulted a doctor.