What are you going to do? Bleed on me?

This spoof video is for Mahoney.

Is it time for another Keith Vigoda photo?

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Good! More beer for the robots!

Who would you rather drink beer with?
Al Gore or a robot?

Is Abe Vigoda still around?

The last of the cores to be plucked from from the borehole were dated to be about 2.7 billion years old, or roughly 32 million times older than Abe Vigoda.

Context here.

The Godfather
Sally Tessio: Can you get me off the hook, Tom? You know, for old times' sake?
Tom Hagen: Can't do it, Sally.
Sally Tessio: Tell Michael I always liked him. This was strictly business.
Tom Hagen: He knows that.

Abe Vigoda .... Salvatore "Sally" Tessio
Robert Duvall .... Tom Hagen

Don't you miss the prescience of the early '80s National Lampoon?

A shortcut to riches is to subtract from one's desires

Plutarch

Overcoming Procrastination...

More tomorrow.

64 If....

As Paul McCartney Day here at The Hubbub continues, we can't let this day pass without acknowledging, with some irony, the "Paul is dead" hoax. The hoax/rumor states that Paul McCartney was actaully killed in a car accident in 1966 and replaced with look-alike Willam Campbell.

How many "clues" can you name? I'll get it started:

1. Abbey Road album cover is a funeral procession: John is the Preacher, Ringo is a Pall Bearer (or undertaker), Paul is the Deceased, and George is the Grave Digger.

2. Abbey Road album cover clue #2: The license plate of the VW Beetle in the background reads 28IF. Paul would have been 28 that year.

3. Sgt Pepper's cover appears to be a scene at a grave side.

4. A younger incarnation of "The Beatles" are in the Sgt Pepper's cover photo dressed in black and apparently mourning.

5. "He blew his mind out in a car. He hadn't noticed that the light had changed." A Day In The Life reference to the accident.

6. Billy Shears is a play on Billy's here, a reference to William Campbell.


OK, you all take it from here. I know I took all the easy ones, but it's my post.

Posting is cheap...

So is talk. So is selling your soul. Been enjoying Richards' 1988 album all day on the phonograph. Do I have sympathy for the devil? Hell NO! But I did pass by him on the way in. Hey, is it time for another Keith Richards photo? The photo below was taken when he was 64. The guy does not age!

Happy 64th Birthday Paul McCartney

The most anticipated birthday in the annals of rock music arrives today with the 64th birthday the great Sir Paul McCartney.

Incredibly, sadly, John and George, half of the Beatles are already gone, but Paul McCartney, the most popular songwriter in the history of recorded music is with us still, recording and performing.

Happy Birthday Paul.

You know the tune, sing along.

When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out 'till quarter to three, would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four?

Hmm------mmm---mmmh.
You'll be older, too. Aaah, and if you say the word, I could stay with you.

I could be handy, mending a fuse, when your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside, sunday mornings, go for a ride.
Doing the garden, digging the weeds, who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty four?

Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight if it's not too dear. We shall scrimp and save.
Ah, grandchildren on your knee, Vera, Chuck, and Dave.

Send me a postcard, drop me a line stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say, yours sincerely wasting away.
Give me your answer, fill in a form, mine forever more.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty four?

This is Post # 101...

101

Do they have Sticky Finger Brown Ale?

For many in the Poekicker circle, this is clearly an understocked fridge.

This is The Hubbub's 99th post since its April debut...

The next post BETTER be a really, really good one! Clever and witty and smart and all that. Just understand the great responsibility YOU have in creating the 100th post!!!!!

Winged Foot, U.S. Open Host, Claims "Mulligan" Birth...

June 16 (Bloomberg) -- Winged Foot, in Mamaroneck, New York, where the second round of the U.S. Open is under way today, claims to be the U.S. birthplace of the Mulligan, golf's "do-over" shot that gives weekend duffers a second chance without adding a stroke to their score. The concept was introduced to U.S. golfers at Winged Foot in 1937 by Canadian-born hotelier Michael J. Morrissey, who was often referred to erroneously - usually during arguments or disagreements over money - as David B. Mulligan.

The term Mulligan has crossed from golf into everyday life and earned a spot in Webster's New World Dictionary. The practice, which is also referred to as a "breakfast ball" when used during early morning rounds, is against the rules and draws a penalty if used in competitive play. It's almost always used only on the first tee, when a golfer hits a poor shot. Usually, a player's partners have to agree to grant the free stroke. Morrissey (aka Mulligan) brought the term to the U.S. from Canada, where he was a member at several clubs, including the St. Lambert Golf Club in Quebec, according to the U.S. Golf Association, which runs the Open and oversees the sport in the U.S. and Mexico. Morrissey (aka Mulligan), who was president of the Windsor Hotel in Montreal, would rush to the course a few minutes past noon in order to be back to the hotel before 6 p.m., according to a letter sent to the USGA in 1985 by M. Donald Grant, former chairman of baseball's New York Mets and a cousin of the late duffer. The same approach occurred at Winged Foot.

"He was a very fast dresser, and when he would reach the first tee, because of his rushing, he would invariably top his drive," wrote Grant, who often drove Morrissey (aka Mulligan) to the course. Morrissey (aka Mulligan) would then hit another ball, which he called a "correction shot," according to the USGA. "All his friends ever did was snicker and let him get away with it," Grant wrote. The term began to spread when Charles Gordon, a friend playing in Morrissey's (aka Mulligan) group, topped his drive one day. "As we all started to leave the tee he said, Wait a minute boys, I'm going to take a "another drive,"" Grant wrote. "But that wasn't all that funny," Grant added, "so Gordon changed it to take a "Mulligan."" "Laughter abounded," wrote Grant. "Thereafter, all of us did it and it grew like wildfire."

While Mulligan remains the widely accepted terminology, a very small number of what might be deemed "geneological purists" to this day refer to a second tee shot as taking a "Morrissey."

A Poekicker Practice Dummy Perhaps?

courtesy of kelldog

FODOR'S Guide to HELL

When to go: Anytime your number's up or, if you have collected thirty silver pieces, you can go straight to the front of the line.

How to get there: There are many ways to arrive, some of the most popular are.....

1. Murder, rape, suicide or breaking any of the saltier of the Ten Commandments
2. Attending any Ozzfest or Woodstock 1999
3. Driving a Hummer
4. Intentionally stepping on a crack to break your mama's back
5. Wearing a T-shirt of Che Guevara licking Mother Theresa's ear
6. Kicking puppies
7. Sleeping with Gene Simmons
8. Voting
9. Buying David Duke a drink
10. Owning and enjoying Keith Richard's solo albums

Things to Do:

1. The River Styx: The rancid smell and floating bodies really make you feel you've arrived in style. Don't forget to pay the ferryman! Cost: one soul or 10 copies of Sluts and Slobs magazine.

2. Satan's Summer Palace: Wow! Talk about too much of a good thing! It gets pretty hot so dress light. If you can, try to go during the off-season, but anytime it's great to catch a glimpse of the castle built from unbaptized babies' souls!!

3. The Pond: Come on in! The caca's great!! Always filled Lip-deep! Waders don't miss your chance to enjoy this eternal favorite. Just remember the local credo: "Don't make waves!"

4. Caligula's Coloseum of Carnage: Rome was never like this, boy! Kill 'em, Screw 'em, Gut 'em and then Screw 'em again!!

5. Sisyphus Hill: Need some exercise? Help him out! Roll that boulder! It never gets old and he never gets tired.

6. Hitler's Hero Hut: Feeling hungry? Tell the Fuhrer to make you a six-foot Italian Hero with three kinds of cheese, five meats (all thinly sliced) and with the works. Then when he's done yell at him and tell him you didn't order this with provolone, Dammit, and make him do it all over again from scratch. At last when he's done, tell him you're not hungry anymore, shove it in his face and then kick him in the balls. The line can get long but it's well worth the wait.

Enjoy you're trip and please, if you find anything else we failed to mention. Write us!

This site is turning into The Hohum...

Hohum as in it's getting VERY BORING!!! <--Hey Slag! This is my original contribution; you said the rules were one original post for every five linked posts.

Now, here's a link insert to this original post, something to ensure better post writing by all (or just me): Strunk and White's Elements of Style -- the online version!

Go ahead! No, go ahead!! Say what a hohum post this was in the Comments section below. DO IT! Just DO IT!!

BIG News of the day...

I think this effectively sums up the key news of the day.

Bonus question:
A figure of historical importance died on this day (June 8th) in 632. Do you know who it was?

Sopranos Line Of The Week

While holding a war conference and general bitch session about Tony Soprano, acting boss of the New York crew, Phil Leotardo complains, "He told me I look like the Shah of Iran!"

















Phil Leotardo

























Shah of Iran

Forget the Summer Ale, why not Poekicker's Ice Cream?

Just substitute Poekicker's "Whatever the Name is" Summer (or is it English?) Ale for Guinness Stout and go buy an ice cream maker.

Guinness Ice Cream
2/3 cup Guinness Stout
2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons full molasses
4 egg yolks
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup whole milk
1 cup heavy cream

In a small sauce pan, combine the Guinness and molasses. Place over medium high heat and bring to a boil and then immediately remove from heat.

In a large glass mixing bowl, combine the egg yolks with the white sugar and vanilla. Whisk together well. Next, stir in the milk and cream.

Slowly pour the beer into the milk mixture, combining thoroughly. Once combined, the milk mixture should have the same coloring as a crema on top of a shot of espresso.

Cover milk mixture and refrigerate for at least two hours, although overnight will allow the flavors to better intermingle.

Pour the mixture into your ice cream maker and follow the ice cream maker's instructions. Once complete, pour into a new glass or plastic bowl, cover and place in the freezer to further solidify.

Makes 1 pint

Interesting link...

Here's an interesting link!

5th Beatle And 1974 World Afro Champ Billy Preston Dead at 59

Billy Preston September 9, 1946 - June 6, 2006
















By the way, If you count Billy Preston, this is the second (dead) Beatle to share a birthday with a Poekicker.

Name That Brew

Is that smoke coming from the old Poekicker's Brewery?

Why yes it is! The smokestacks are pumping and the big brass brew kettles are boiling away again at the storied, but long defunct Poekicker's Brewery.

Slag, former co-brewmaster of the Poekicker's Brewing Company, is concocting a brew just in time for summer barbecue season. And the first new beer in lo these many years will be a delicious, warm, English Ale.

And this where you come in faithful reader. In the tradition of Name The Third Greatest Honorary Poekicker and that contests middling success, I bring you Name That Brew.

The one and only rule is that the name must follow the naming tradition established by previous Poekicker brews such as Hophead Soup and the award winning Sticky Finger Brown Ale.

I think everyone's get's the drift, right?

The winner will be announced July 4th and will receive six bottles of the of the inaugural brewing.

Good luck, now NAME THAT BEER!












Sticky Finger Brown Ale

Doctors Say Drink MORE...

A Danish study recently published in the British Medical Journal demonstrated that for men, the more they drank, the lower their risk for heart disease. One drink a week lowered the risk by about 7 percent, two to four drinks by 22 percent and five or six drinks a week by 29 percent. Those who drank every day had a 41 percent lower risk of heart disease than those who did not drink at all.

Key finding: Even among men who had up to 35 drinks per week, the protection persisted.

With women, the trend was different. One drink a week lowered the risk by 36 percent, but daily drinking lowered it by 35 percent. In other words, for women, alcohol consumption had a significant protective effect, but the frequency of drinking had none.

Full details here.

The train for happiness is late...

On this day, June 5th, in 1910, O. Henry died in New York City at the age of forty-seven.

"He never wrote a line of the new play, as far as can be determined. The producer never heard a word from or about him, until he heard that he was dead. Nor did many of Henry's old friends, Henry apparently preferring to unretreive his reformation quietly, by drinking himself to death
alone. This took a little over four months." - Steve King


O. Henry's Characteristic Death
Fun Fact: In 1894 William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) started a humorous weekly called The Rolling Stone.
Hubbub related: Here and Here

Heh...

Heh!
(Is that Librarian the Bilbo Baggins vocalist?!)

Hmmm...

Star Trek Symposium...

Deus Ex Machina: A long time ago at a college far, far away









Cribs spoof: Star Trek 2.0 (an E. Gaws contribution)









Painful: William Shatner sings "Rocket Man"









Cartoonishly painful: Stewie (who the Hell is he?) mocks William Shatner singing "Rocket Man"









I'm no longer a Star Trek fan: Leonard Nimoy sings "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"


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A Star Trek view on Net Neutrality.











(See also: The Hubbub's COMPLETE Net Neutrality Debate).

The 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs...

The 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs

Top 10 List:
1. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
2. Taxman - The Beatles
3. Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
4. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys
6. Gloria - U2
7. Revolution - The Beatles
8. Bodies - The Sex Pistols
9. Don't Tread on Me - Metallica
10. 20th Century Man - The Kinks

3D Sidewalk Art Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind...

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Couldn't get this song out of my head when I gave the Post a Title:
She's a killer queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime

Is it time for another Keith Richards photo?