On last night’s OOT, Guggi triggered a memory of my own favorite party, and I posted this:
The best party I attended was in Amarillo Texas. Two dozen guys from around the country showed up for a 3-day foosball tournament. Ohio, Texas, Montana and a couple of other states were represented. The entry fee covered food, beer, rock and roll, and trophies. Seven kegs rolled that weekend.
Foosball teams were chosen from a hat, and the games were set up like a pool. First place went to Danny Rat and the Saint; 2nd went to brothers Dog & Weasel; Rockin’ Roland and I pulled in at 3rd place.
All us trophy winners came from the same high school, having played in the same basement. Fun times.
Thank God we didn’t have the internet. =)
As for the foos table above, that would make for a never-ending game unless you had several balls zipping around at the same time. And speaking of balls, it’s time for The Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: foosball, Overnight Open Thread, party
Now that’s the Foosball table from Hell…
DAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMN
@ Da_Beerfreak:
I must admit, I never had enough eye-hand coordination to play on a regular foozball table. So, I will just watch the games tonight.
If that is not some kind of PhotoShop, the idiot who built that needs to be SEAL Team 6′s next target!
Calo wrote:
Back in tech school friends and I would play Foosball every Friday night at a local bar. Lots of good times. (and a few beers)
@ AZOlddog:
It’s real. I think it was built for a commercial advert.
@ Bunk X:
It sure seems real – I studied the photo to see if I could find a repeating pattern.
Strange table!
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
We played almost every weekend at Dog & Weasel’s house in high school. Their parents had decided to move to Baton Rouge, gave their sons the keys, told them to get jobs and left.
Eliana wrote:
It’s real. Click on the picture, or go here.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Beer and foosball help me remain sane through college.
there are a very very very very few things that i am very very good at.
foosball was one of them.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
6 players a side?
coldwarrior wrote:
I was never very good at foosball, but I was and still am pretty damned good at drinking beer.
Bunk X wrote:
doriangrey wrote:
Dallas; 1971-72. Me and my buddy Dub trolled the bars of Oak Lawn and Lemon Avenues for the the best game, etc… Played foosball for beer against all comers and held the table for hours. We were natural born foosballers.
@ doriangrey:
All the practice I had in HiSkool paid for my games and beer in the college bars. I could take on two players by myself without much trouble.
OT– For all you audiophiles, I spotted this awesomeness earlier. It comes with this laughable PC disclaimer:
“WARNING: Historical recordings may contain offensive language.” LOL
@ doriangrey:
the berlin air safety center hosted the beer winter olympics in ’88
we beat the berlin polezei team and brit raf team and german nationals.
final score was ridiculous. america. yep!
coldwarrior wrote:
I think that table would be more fun with just 3 per side. Keep jumping back and forth.
I never got the “snap” down to be effective in front, but I was the iron goalie on defense, and could carom the shot.
@ Bunk X:
i am counting stations…i guess you could do it with less than 3?
coldwarrior wrote:
Us damned yanks got some skillz…
doriangrey wrote:
! the fallout from that was epic.
hmmm….
listening to some song and dance man on the TheBlogmocracy youtube chanel
@ huckfunn:
What happened to your gravatar? That’s what I looked like in 1975!
coldwarrior wrote:
No doubt, I just cannot see the Germans or limies being ok with being drunk under the table by Americans. I know it was a rather sore point when it happened to them where I went to college.
coldwarrior wrote:
He’s pretty good, has some made composition skills.
@ coldwarrior:
When I was playing 1 on 2, I’d just leave my own men up and shoot through them. Occasionally I’d jump to the front line for a quick kill, but I’d drop back pronto.
@ doriangrey:
2M beer bong
acey ducey drinks
darts
shot of beer a minute (singles)
Bunk X wrote:
That pic is 1971… on one of my better days. My Uncle Sam shanghied me off the streets about a year later and saved my life.
@ coldwarrior:
We heard about that over at Field Station, there were more than a few beers and other beverages lifted in your direction!
doriangrey wrote:
no doubt!
@ Bunk X:
Playing the amateurs was fun… They’d always spin the rods and lose control.
AZOlddog wrote:
VINDICATION!!!
we got in sooooo much trouble for that.
coldwarrior wrote:
LINK OR DIE.
@ coldwarrior:
Brits bitched at our place thinking we would diss the MP’s! They forgot that in the US Forces the MI and MP would fight like Brothers!
They were not our Brothers!
damn….song and dance man is really talented.
check the blogmocracy youtube channel
yinz…
(waiting for some dorian liks there)
@ doriangrey:
Says the leftcoaster surfer rocker dude who has nothing to do with yinz Yanks while he tools about in his ‘vette.
AZOlddog wrote:
they got smoked!
HAHAHAHAAHAH!~~~
Bunk X wrote:
go from here
Calo wrote:
you said ‘yinz”
@ coldwarrior:
Cool. Thx.
for those of you that missed this on friday night:
Calo wrote:
I wouldn’t exactly say nothing, since my grandfather was born on Nantucket, where our family has owned property since, oh, 1638.
@ coldwarrior:
It’s a NT2U corruption on my otherwise perfect grammar.
How are the twins?
I’m doing the Elwood Jive to this one.
@ doriangrey:
Touche, may I grovel at your ‘vet tonight and lick like tomorrow will never come? I promise not to talk a lot.
@ Bunk X:
Heh!
Just replayed that one.
coldwarrior wrote:
Well now that’s cool. I didn’t know we had a youtube channel. Hunting for it was a challenge. Is there a link to it on Blogmacracy?
Calo wrote:
the twins are beginning to make themselves felt.
they have heard some dorian, song and dance, dmb, and some steely dan tonight
@ huckfunn:
who the hell is that hippie?
@ huckfunn:
and its the channel that does this:
huckfunn wrote:
not if i can help it
Calo wrote:
Well, I don’t know, the vette was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, so I think that just might make it a southerner…
*looking around for Lobo –
HELP ME*
@ coldwarrior:
Wow… That is a totally awesome video.
@ huckfunn:
Oughta be. Not yet.
Calo wrote:
?
coldwarrior wrote:
Long gone for 40 years. That hair made a great heap on the floor of the Fort Polk barber shop.
doriangrey wrote:
they put some work into that one.
good stuff.
@ coldwarrior:
You might appreciate this:
coldwarrior wrote:
I wouldn’t hold my breath, I am currently frustrated half out of my mind because I cant seem to figure out this midi drum crap.
@ coldwarrior:
No talking about the twins until I get to feel Mamma’s belly! We should start referring to the twins as The Pogues. lol So, how are The Pogues doing??? lol I beat my son into submission and took back the computer.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yes, they really did, to bad music video’s are basically a dying art these days.
@ lobo91:
coldwarrior wrote:
Hmmm, so what you are saying is that the twins are going to grow up hating me eh?
Calo wrote:
Is this what you’re looking for?
huckfunn wrote:
indeed.
ther could have been a killer mullet made from that
@ lobo91:
we are going to a pirates game as they are above 500.
NoThreat2U wrote:
the pogues are jammin….
coldwarrior wrote:
Cool.
The Rockies lost again tonight.
@ coldwarrior:
From here on in I will refer to the twins as The Pogues.
doriangrey wrote:
exposed to tunes, thats all
now puti heard all the dmb en vitro and for her first year and then at 14 months went to the dave matthews show! she loved it!
Mournin’ Blues. (Couldn’t embed the player in my test.)
Testing new avatar….
@ coldwarrior:
Music is essential to a child’s development. Good thing to expose them to.
doriangrey wrote:
i think they did that as a final work. they might be done soon
@ coldwarrior:
Heh heh heh I prefer my Irish music to sound more like this.
coldwarrior wrote:
That would be to bad. Sounds like they are really starting to get good at song writing.
@ lobo91:
Yes -- thanks
Some Dropkick Murphys for you CW……
NoThreat2U wrote:
cúplach pougeaith
twin kiss….
@ NoThreat2U:
oh shit yeah!!!!
i have seen the dkm toooo many times!
now, spicy is one hell of a man!
@ Calo:
Now THERE‘s an 85-mph song!
doriangrey wrote:
social distortion is one of those bands that have been with me since i can remember. since 85.
@ Calo:
@ coldwarrior:
The idea of twins just tickles me. I can hardly wait to see them.
@ coldwarrior:
I am here to hook you up dude!!! Give my love to Momma and Puti.
@ doriangrey:
i would offer this as some good song writing from them\
for your viewing
Gee, I miss the old days when a band had at least one lead guitarist. Two lead guitars is mo betta.
@ doriangrey:
Ahh – high school romping. Twas so good to Van Halen.
Even if I didn’t know yinz.
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NoThreat2U wrote:
i need babysitters!
the logistics of the next 18 months id gonna be nasty
coldwarrior wrote:
I never really was able to connect with the punk music mentality, their songs just were not well written or produced, they were more about social statements and emotional expressions that I simply could not relate to.
I was raised by enlisted military people during the Vietnam war. I was never a part of the disaffected middle class overwhelmed by angst. My parents raised 5 kids on a second class enlisted sailors salary.
We may not have been dirt poor, but we weren’t middle class by any stretch of the imagination either. I saw a lot of violence growing up, but at the same time knew that compared to people living in the places that my dad or my neighbors were fighting we had it damned good.
@ doriangrey:
social distortion isn’t really punk, go listen to some and get back to me
my dad, a vietnam vet plays them in his garage next to mr cash.
@ doriangrey:
Shut up and sing DG.
I’m tired and don’t want your lectures tonight.
My creative juices are tapped out.
@ lobo91:
now see here, that’s dickie!
@ lobo91:
Can’t go wrong with the Allman Bros and Dickey Betts.
Calo wrote:
@ savage:
i have seen maiden 3 times.
and i am better for it!
@ huckfunn:
And three lead guitars are DA BOMB!!!
New gravatar test. It changed here but not at DoD for some reason. I probably effed it up somehow as usual.
@ coldwarrior:
coldwarrior wrote:
First time I saw them was at the Long Beach Arena in 1982.
@ doriangrey:
huckfunn wrote:
or psylisibis cubensis
@ doriangrey:
i used to play that tune in my headphones while on my 900rr ninja.
ahhh to be young and stooooopid again
dwells38 wrote:
there is a larger painting in the background
what is it
coldwarrior wrote:
Those were the days, my friend…
@ coldwarrior:
ahhh to be young and stooooopid again
@ doriangrey:
the cult
the pougues
the smiths
the cure
house bands in berlin. the cure and the pougues…talent
the cult
coldwarrior, ever drive a rig from St Paul to Duluth in a snowstorm with this song crankin??
Calo wrote:
savage wrote:
nope.
ever gone to sleep and listen to a glacier move?
coldwarrior wrote:
My favorite comment about that video from YouTube:
Amen.
@ coldwarrior:
no, there aren’t any glaciers on the flight line at Clark AB. haha
savage wrote:
there are in norway.
@ coldwarrior:
duluth is cold enough…
lobo91 wrote:
i’ve seen ABB 10+times…
aint no gaga goin on in that joint!
@ coldwarrior:
According to the artist it’s pen on charcoal with a little more photoshop processing. Which explains the sense of a separate background. The title is ‘As his mind dwells’. Appropo given my nic plus looks pretty cool.
the artist’s explanation: “i wanted to do some work with ink so i did 8D, i got majorly inspired by some great manga artists and i totally wanted to try it.
ink on paper with charcoal in the back (and a little help of photoshop to correct the colours and stuff xD )”
savage wrote:
arctic warfare school is cold.
just sayin.
@ dwells38:
very good, thx
@ doriangrey:
lemme just go over here and enjoy that.,
mornin all…DG ate some bad sushi/
coldwarrior wrote:
I do kind of like my music at 440 volts and 200 amps…
I was in Rome last year in January and we had ridden a tour bus up to Assisi (beautiful place, St. Francis, namesake of San Francisco). Afterward we were killing time in a little bar eatery that had a foosball table waiting for the bus. I was playing foosball with my then 10 yr old daughters and family. 3 rather robust looking local Italian stallion denizens came in and after awhile it was obvious they were waiting for us to get off the foosball table. They came up and suggested we play together. At first I thought things might get ugly. Instead I kicked their butts at foosball and they were backslapping fellows who ended up shaking our hands vigorously and wishing us well as we jogged off to catch the bus. I have been to Europe 3 times now and those are the nicest people. Everywhere. Even the French
coldwarrior wrote:
Burlington VT is pretty damn cold in February, too. Probably why the Mountain Warfare Training Center is nearby.
Although I was only there for the Tactical Information Operations course…
doriangrey wrote:
their drummer wears a ‘tsol’ shirt…my school.
@ dwells38:
Foosball is pretty cool even if somebody takes it a little too seriously because that is funny.
@ mawskrat:
@ lobo91:
i got ‘volunteered’ to go play up north. i would have preferred med beach school in the south of france
@ dwells38:
nice.
coldwarrior wrote:
Of course you got ‘volunteered’ nobody is dumb enough to volunteer for that on their own…
@ coldwarrior:
That school could have been located anywhere.
How it ended up there, I have no idea. It’s actually on the campus of Norwich University.
Speaking of which, I have to wonder how many of the students there ever saw the place in winter before they decided to go there. I can’t imagine spending 4 years in middle-of-nowhere, Vermont, with sub-zero temperatures, just to get a Reserve commission.
VMI is much warmer…
@ Prebanned:
Yeah and that somebody was probably me! It’s just as a family man you find yourself in situations where you’re uncertain of people’s intentions and you need to be the protector, even if that means buying a little time so the fam can get out. If they’re very young you’re not that concerned because you figure they don’t know everthing I know. And if push comes to shove I’ll push harder. These dudes, I could not have taken. They were mid thirties, workiing class, physical dudes. If they’d wanted to be jerks they could’ve been. Instead they were nice, playful fellows with no ax to grind. Just lookin’ for a good foosball challenge. We all had a blast.
@ doriangrey:
social d sing about the angels
lobo91 wrote:
!!!!
@ savage:
The video footage right there is why the quality control in the aerospace industry is the strictest on earth, because when something goes wrong with a rocket or missile, the shit really and truly hit’s the fan.
doriangrey wrote:
see, cause of getting fucked over and volunteered, i can fight in cold weather\
i got air assault qualified at 10th mountain ft drum while in ng.
meh.
Well, I’m off to bed.
Night, all
Alrighty, with this last one I am out for the night, ya’ll take it easy and I’ll see ya on the flip flop…
Well… OK, one last one, dedicated to Lady Gaga…
@ doriangrey:
thanks for the tunes
mawskrat wrote:
yer up early
some dead…a killer sugar mags
Taxing private pensions (Ireland)…
http://www.businessinsider.com/irish-bombshell-government-raids-private-pensions-to-pay-for-jobs-program-2011-5
Coming soon to a country near/surrounding you. The prelude to simple confiscation.
ADDENDUM – Any more questions as to why the Second Amendment stance of a candidate is a black/white deal maker/breaker?
Iran is finally going to put the two U.S. hikers on trial today.
The U.S. is asking for a quick resolution, which may not be the best thing to request. Iran is known for being able to arrange hangings quickly.
They deliver the construction crane to the location of the prisoners so that they can be hoisted off the ground by their necks before the construction crane moves on to other business.
I’m having a hard time working up much sympathy for these folks who made a classic Darwinian bad choice…
“Hey! I’ve got an idea! Let’s go hiking along the Iranian border! What could possibly go wrong?”
Morons. Were they planning on the North Korean border for the next trip? How about Myanmar?
Wall Street Journal has been censoring the opinion text by True Finns party leader Timo Soini. In the text he explained why he opposes the bailout of the PIIGS-countries. If you want to compare the editing, go to following link:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread701842/pg1
Good morning everyone. That time again. Slowly catching up.
Good Morning Blogmocracy! Today is another glorious day in the reign of Emperor Barack Hussein I, Pasha of the United States and Defender of the
) had been planning to add same-sex marriages to its service to the country at the end of DADT despite numerous state constitutions and public votes afgainst such an “institution”. I say had because after great public outcry, they have reversed this decision. They say it is suspended pending further legal review. As you know, I am against using the Military as an engine for social experimentation, let alone “social justice”. The decision to have same-saex marriages, in contravention of US law, was outrageous. Just more of the type of public “morality” that the Left wants to force down our throats. I am glad to see that this decision did not stand. The other news is there’s not much other news. The Mississippi River is flooding, but it does that every ten or 15 years. It isn’t really a surprise. What is a surprise is that people rebuild on the exact same flood plain where they get flooded out. Your stubborness does not impress the River. And in Paki-land they are mad at us for snuffing Osama. Hate that for them. We need to end our subsidy of that corrupt regime for their giving safe-harbor to the world’s most infamous terrorist. What’s up with that? Did they think we wouldn’t find out? Or do they just think they’ve got us punked, and we’d just roll over and take it? Probably the latter, and it seems like it was a close call. Obama says it was a 55-45% decision. He could have almost flipped a coin. Decisive leadership that is not.
FaithUmmah! There are 545 Days until the 2012 Presidential Election! The big news today is on the Social front. The Navy (rum, sodomy, and the lash!Good Mornin All…..and you to IF/
Well work was still standing when I got in. Always good to see. What have I missed?
I don’t want to offend our sisters and brothers from Australia but the Lord Mayor from Sydney looks at that pic as if she comes directly from S&M-studio
@ Guggi:
It’s IceWeasel!
@ Iron Fist:
I doubt she has ever looked that good….