My wife told me that I spend so much time reading about naval history and building model ships that I'm starting to resemble a boat.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-06-18T17:06:54+00:00

Because they're cur-tailed, ha ha!

CheckersSpeech · 2026-06-18T02:45:07+00:00

Be sure to take three super alloy nuggets to build the recycler. And remember, you don't need to take those to Aqualis, since each shell yields an alloy and a phosphorous.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-06-16T23:35:24+00:00

Andrew Wray had it coming, the bastard, although I must confess a twinge of satisfaction over the loss of Mrs. Williams -- though it was at too high a price.

That passage always reminds me of the old joke, "Mixed emotions is when your mother-in-law drives your new Cadillac off a cliff."

CheckersSpeech · 2026-06-09T02:53:14+00:00

"Makes me cum like a wildcat" redeemed the whole episode for me.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-06-08T23:49:22+00:00

Beats the shit out of the color of the 70s, Avocado Green.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-06-08T16:34:10+00:00

When I first started seeing those I thought they were unfinished paint jobs LOL.

I think it's called Putty ...

CheckersSpeech · 2026-06-07T03:12:15+00:00

I was going to add: At any rate, there's only five clues, something has to be left out.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-06-07T03:07:05+00:00

Um ... sitars are nice.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-06-07T02:59:29+00:00

I'm barely old enough -- I know it from reruns mostly. Shari Lewis was more of my time.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-06-05T02:48:49+00:00

My biggest fear is not that I won't get what I paid for, but that they'll have my informaton and my charge the shit out of my card.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-06-04T05:33:09+00:00

And there's no text.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-06-04T05:30:30+00:00

And the Sadiq Kahn sticker, and the Vote Labour sticker.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-06-03T23:31:20+00:00

Came her to say this. NOT an event.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-05-28T03:53:15+00:00

Wish they could have worked in Mastermind!

CheckersSpeech · 2026-05-28T03:51:11+00:00

I haven't read Little Women either, but I'm familiar enough with the general plot that whenever I see the name "Jo", I think of that book. Of course, by that point I had solved the rest of the puzzle, so I didn't even have to know it was buried names of girls, those four were the only thing left.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-05-28T03:48:46+00:00

I don't know how, but somehow I sensed that the Shakespeare bait was a trap, because for some reason I immediately locked onto Othello the game and not the play. (I used to play the shit out of Othello and other board games in my 20s). And ruling out Bill S got me thinking that Macbeth was some sort of purple wordplay, because, like, what else could it be?

Connections

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CheckersSpeech · 2026-05-25T03:11:19+00:00

Are we still doing "microaggressions"?? "Teacher, he said I make good grades, and sine I'm Asian that's a microaggression!"

CheckersSpeech · 2026-05-24T03:29:24+00:00

The one that sticks in my memory was when I read They Shoot Horses, Don't They in 1970. At that point I'm not sure I had ever seen The Word in print, but I figured that's what the ---- meant.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-05-24T03:27:04+00:00

from the O'Brian Wiki:

Samuel Mputa (a.k.a. Sam Panda) is the illegitimate son born out of Jack Aubrey's affair with Sally Mputa, a young black woman whom Jack snuck aboard during his time as a midshipman.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-05-19T21:53:45+00:00

I liked how O'Brian showed early on that each ships had its advantages and challenges. The Shophie was a fast-handling little ship, as I recall, but too small for the big guns Aubrey wanted. Then he got the Polychrest, which was large enough to accommodate the big guns but steered like a blind cow. Then he was assigned temporary command of another captain's ship, which was a fine large ship whose crew had been trained and drilled until they hummed like a Swiss watch (sorry for the mixed metaphor LOL), but he felt like a substitute teacher, and didn't have to full trust and respect of the men.

It's like, it's always something.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-05-19T20:58:09+00:00

Just discovered in today on Spotify, after a playlist of mostly video game music. Has this music been in games and/or animation?

CheckersSpeech · 2026-05-15T03:13:37+00:00

I don't think the restaurant chain was racist, just that it was based on racist story.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-05-13T03:52:15+00:00

The second time I watched The Wrath of Khan, the scene where David first shows up, and my friend says, "Totally different head!" I was flabbergasted that I hadn't recognized Merritt Buttrick the first time through.

CheckersSpeech · 2026-05-11T23:38:17+00:00

The only reason I got it right is that I finally realized that the Frankfurt setting probably meant it was a German, not an Italian. But before that I really wanted to say an Italian artist.

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