tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36765752011-07-28T19:50:15.804-06:00king of all fools"I am the king of all fools; join me!"Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-8024560686968193452010-02-21T04:27:00.000-07:002010-02-21T04:28:14.165-07:00TestTest- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhoneTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-71828470807740468222008-01-30T14:52:00.000-07:002008-01-30T14:55:32.499-07:00Joe FailTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-58417505328872675172008-01-25T18:54:00.001-07:002008-01-25T18:54:07.679-07:00Old JoyThis is probably the best movie I've seen in a while. I spent the day at home after calling out sick and finally got around to watching it on Tivo. Here's a short description:‘Old Joy’ is the story of two old friends, Kurt (Will Oldham) and Mark (Daniel London), who reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade mountain range east of Portland, Oregon. OLD JOY is a minimalist story of Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-19952721326453091152008-01-10T13:30:00.000-07:002008-01-11T11:21:18.801-07:00Town Talk Gems of the weekI CALLED TO comment on the vast majority of people who phone into the Town Talk line. They absolutely reflect every ill society faces today: the lack of civilization, the lack of courtesy, the big-me-little-you idea that most of them have. Why don't they take a look at themselves instead of criticizing everybody else? And for the person complaining about their elderly neighbor, the elderly man Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-78131551211433943772008-01-10T12:47:00.000-07:002008-01-10T12:48:36.912-07:00I Got What America Needs Right Here Sometimes I'm a little stupid, maybe, a little slow in the head, so I'm wondering if you can help me get something straight.....onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;margin: 10px 30px !important;padding: 5px;overflow: hidden !important;zoom: 1;}.onion_embed img {border: 0 !Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-69562579147819155402008-01-10T10:38:00.000-07:002008-01-10T10:40:32.418-07:00My Top Ten Albums of 2007(in no particular, but roughly in order of preference.)Bruce Springsteen - MagicBishop Allen - Broken StringOkkervil River - The Stage namesJosh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh RitterBand of Horses – Cease to BeginWilco—Blue Sky BlueEditors—An End Has A StartWhite Stripes—Icky ThumpArcade Fire—Neon BibleSpoon—Ga, Ga, Ga, Ga, GaTerrence Blanchard—A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-33020076093292651182008-01-09T06:51:00.001-07:002008-01-09T06:51:32.867-07:00Wed, Jan 9, 2008 - 13.00 mi [Cycling]Wed, Jan 9, 2008 - 13.00 mi [Cycling]13.00 mi in 00:45:00 hours at 17.33 mi/h on Schwinn 105p Exercise Bike. [Cycling] Posted from My Cycling LogTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1727155215273206222008-01-08T08:07:00.000-07:002008-01-10T10:46:21.240-07:00Cycling Goals 2008This is the first year I have ever made any "cycling goals", since I just started to really get into this biking thing in 2007. I didn't realize that a lot of bike folks set yearly mileage goals until the past couple of week, when people were posting theirs over on Bike Forums. I have no idea of what I'm capable of as far as yearly mileage, so I'm just going to post the list of goals that I'm hadTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-19114788564050525422007-12-27T11:03:00.000-07:002007-12-27T11:11:08.762-07:00Town Talk gems of the weekHERE WE GO AGAIN. Heaven forbid your dog barks at all for crabby old neighbors like ours who call the St. George Police. Yes, that's right. I've had the police dispatched to my house a dozen times all because of an old man next door who wants to go to bed at 7 p.m. on Saturday. See you in court with your psycho friends. They do say birds of a feather flock together. You know they do make Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-13090940761979703532007-12-24T16:02:00.000-07:002007-12-24T16:05:13.501-07:00Scared Of SantaTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-63655391352216198372007-12-21T11:31:00.001-07:002007-12-21T11:31:44.346-07:00Tom Waits - Christmas card from... (live)Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-30174141607858486142007-12-20T12:56:00.000-07:002007-12-20T13:06:48.197-07:00Town Talk Posts of the WeekIN RESPONSE TO Hoosier heaven I have been going to Branson, Mo., for shows for more than 30 years now and there isn't one that I haven't enjoyed. I'm going to Powell Hall this weekend, but I enjoyed the Branson shows just as much and I think Andy Williams still looks like a human being. TO THE OLD person that bashed Branson, Andy Williams and Hoosiers, I suggest a very large daily glass of prune Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-88791274686116786872007-12-20T12:13:00.001-07:002007-12-20T12:50:13.705-07:00"Town Talk" explainedTown Talk is a feature that started in the Suburban Journals in the St. Louis area. I used to enjoy reading the crazy letters to the editors that were occasionally published in the opinion section of this free rag. Usually it was an assortment of weird conspiracy theories, racists diatribes, random rants form cranky septuagenarians, and lame quips from would be Erma Bombeck and art Buchwald Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-90737108654839889042007-12-20T11:55:00.000-07:002007-12-20T12:12:12.525-07:00REBOOT!I guess I try to re-start the Blog thing. I made a failed attempt to start one a few years ago, as you can see from the previous posts, but I don’t think I ever had a clear idea on what to write about. But now, I think I’m a little more inspired by a few recent happenings in my life, so I’ll take another whack at it. One of the big happenings is that about 10 weeks ago I became a father, so Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1130995514535934442005-11-02T22:13:00.000-07:002005-11-02T22:25:14.546-07:00TOWN TALK POSTS OF THE MONTHI have received my new TV Guide, the bigger and better TV Guide they advertise now. And I just love when you want to find out what's on a certain channel. It says various programming, then at the bottom of the page it says for 24-hour local listings and channel numbers please visit the TV guide on the computer. If I had online maybe I would do that, but not everyone can afford a computer and Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1126558569846088782005-09-12T14:40:00.000-06:002005-09-12T22:15:39.416-06:00Town Talk Posts of the WeekHOW ARE WE supposed to keep revenue in Arnold when you go to a grocery store on a Sunday afternoon and they are out of T-bone and porterhouse steaks? Then you go to another grocery store and they are out of the same. Then you just give up and go to a resturant and they are out of roast beef. Only in Arnold.WHOEVER CALLED IN about the men who grab their crouch, every time I see them doing that I Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1101629345998910082004-11-28T01:47:00.000-07:002004-11-28T01:09:05.996-07:00Whoa! Wha'ppen? Town Talk Posts 'O the MonthTHIS IS FOR the person that called in about the scary, dirty, half-naked people at Westfield Mall at South County. I agree with you as far as the scary ones and dirty ones go, but I think you should leave the half-naked ones out there because it will give somebody like me an incentive to go to the mall.
MANY WOMEN SHOULD never wear slacks or shorts. If they would look into a long mirror with a Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1101630527734200892004-11-28T01:26:00.000-07:002004-11-28T01:31:01.793-07:00Nip it! Nip it in the bud!Attaboy Dubya!Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1101629649805341492004-11-28T01:14:00.000-07:002004-11-28T01:15:27.903-07:00Pic of the Day23 Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095978718152241962004-09-23T16:07:00.000-06:002004-09-23T16:33:28.936-06:00Town Talk Posts of the WeekYears ago the City and County Journal newspapers in St. Louis started a feature called "Town Talk". Basically the idea was that instead of making people have to write a letter to get their thoughts published in the paper, they would just let readers call a phone number, leave a message on a machine, and the paper would publish whatever they had to say. Sounds good enough until you consider the Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095977192959940092004-09-23T16:06:00.000-06:002004-09-23T16:07:43.656-06:00Image of the DayTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095976655172205622004-09-23T15:55:00.000-06:002004-09-23T16:05:41.506-06:00I hope she keepsemfrumfloppenOktoberfest Barbie comes with her own jugs
August 23 2004 at 10:57AM
A Munich designer has turned Barbie into a beer-swilling, sausage-eating German.James Waldron, head designer for the fashion label Rena Lange, has created a special Oktoberfest Barbie wearing an Alpine dirndl dress - complete with beer jug.
The dirndl is the traditional dress worn by women in Bavaria and the Alps. Waldron saysTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095865260963566172004-09-22T09:01:00.000-06:002004-09-22T09:04:48.900-06:00Image of the Day
In Memoriam
Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095862632773977372004-09-22T08:17:00.000-06:002004-09-27T11:27:36.450-06:00Russ Meyer, RIP
Roger Ebert, One Time collaborator gives to obit:
King of the funny skin flicks
September 22, 2004
BY ROGER EBERT
Russ Meyer is dead. The legendary independent director, who made exploitation films but was honored as an auteur, died Saturday at his home in the Hollywood Hills. He was 82, and had been suffering from dementia. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia, said Janice Cowart, a Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095823916106513102004-09-21T21:31:00.000-06:002004-09-21T21:32:54.416-06:00Image of the DayTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095810482762934712004-09-21T17:33:00.000-06:002004-09-21T17:48:02.763-06:00"Give into the dark side of the force, you nob!"Here's everything you need to know about the new Star Wars DVD's, including how to find the "Easter Eggs" and screenshots comparing the new version with the original.
Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095787085712975062004-09-21T11:18:00.000-06:002004-09-21T12:47:06.603-06:00Night of the Living RednecksI know Britney Spears wedding has been all over the news and late night TV but some of the details are too rich not to repeat:
(after the Ceremony")...the wedding party and guests changed into made-for-the-occasion velour sweat suits, which were party gifts of a sort. Women got pink ones that read "Maids" and "Hot Mama" on the back, while men got white ones that read "Pimps" and "Pimp Daddy" onTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095545238677891042004-09-18T16:07:00.000-06:002004-09-18T16:08:26.306-06:00Image of the DayTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095544568404176272004-09-18T15:56:00.000-06:002004-09-18T16:06:10.070-06:00Never Burn a ClownIt may be one of the best stories every written and you can read it all here. It's from the Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children series.
From the Back Cover: "...A gang of desperate clowns on a joyride. Alongs the way they find Brutality, Madness, Death and Love."
Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095542900507609132004-09-18T15:23:00.000-06:002004-09-18T15:29:49.030-06:00AsshatOf course, there's hundreds of 'em, but this latest Bushism really cracked me up.
"Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these Hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat."—Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2004
Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095389761071750782004-09-16T20:56:00.000-06:002004-09-16T20:56:25.880-06:00Image of the DayTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095386586558374372004-09-16T20:03:00.000-06:002004-09-16T21:11:02.203-06:00Oh Otis, you lovable, pathetic drunk
The Modern Drunkard examines the alchoholic culture of Mayberry.
This summer I got stranded in the town of Salem, MO when the alternator on my truck screwed the pooch. Salem is a Mayberryesque little town that serves as the gateway to the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. Salem also happens to be the home town of the legendary 60's bluegrass band The Dillards, who played, along with Denver Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095305823679470512004-09-15T21:33:00.000-06:002004-09-15T21:46:54.260-06:00Town Talk Posts of the Week (Bonus Edition)(Here's the original post, in case you don't know what's this is all about.)
TO THE NEWLYWEDS who just moved in next door: I know you now have a license for what you're doing, but please keep it down or close your windows at night. It's hard making up excuses for all the noises to our kids.
HERE'S A SIMPLE solution for the abortion problem. Single people stop having sex. Let's return to Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095286967780545482004-09-15T16:22:00.000-06:002004-09-15T16:23:59.776-06:00Image Of The DayTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095286253344071682004-09-15T16:05:00.000-06:002004-09-15T16:12:14.583-06:00Magically DeliciousHomer: You mean you'll never eat pork?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa:
No.
Homer: Bacon?
Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal.
Homer: Right lisa, a "magical" animal.
I love bacon. I love the smell of Bacon. I could eat bacon all the time. I'm not asamed, I wear my love of bacon on my sleeve. Yep, I sure do love bacon.
Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095281751793213582004-09-15T14:55:00.000-06:002004-09-15T16:00:37.200-06:00Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095281610873474772004-09-15T14:41:00.000-06:002004-09-15T16:17:41.140-06:00"Here comes the story of the Hurricane"That's the spirit!
New Orleans Tourists Take Ivan in Stride
ALLEN G. BREEDAssociated Press
NEW ORLEANS - Stranded in the French Quarter, Shirley Gould figured the best way to prepare for Hurricane Ivan was to drink a hurricane.
"Ivan's very strong," the Massachusetts woman said as she sipped an Ivan Hurricane at the Corner Oyster Bar, which altered the name of the Quarter's signature Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095195746567189992004-09-14T15:02:00.000-06:002004-09-14T15:04:06.260-06:00Image of the DayTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095189942905822812004-09-14T13:25:00.000-06:002004-09-15T16:20:35.166-06:00New Orleans, Home of the Hurricane
New
Orleans residents urged to leave before Ivan
9/14/2004, 11:41 a.m. CT
By CHEVEL JOHNSON The
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Warning that Hurricane Ivan will bring at least tropical storm-strength winds to the New Orleans area, officials urged residents Tuesday to evacuate the region.
The call by New Orleans city officials and those in the city's Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095180381578856112004-09-14T10:44:00.000-06:002004-09-15T21:42:13.886-06:00"I chill at White Castle 'cause it's the best"I miss White Castle out here in Denver and many a late, beer soaked night I've insisted "I'd kill everyone in the room for a White Castle right now" but I'd never go through with it. Honestly. So in a way, I admire this womans follow-through.
Woman
accused of killing cousin in fight over French fries
September 13, 2004 (Chicago)
A 19-year-old Chicago woman has been charged with murder for Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095173649085748882004-09-14T08:34:00.000-06:002004-09-14T15:13:14.306-06:00"There's an opera out on the Turnpike"The Smoking Gun brings us these complaints that were filed with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. It seems the the tollbooth opertors are a rather testy bunch. I like the one where a driver gets told "Tough Shit, Old Man!" for no apparent reason.
This is the third in a series. You can also check out Massachusetts and New York.
"You white people are a pain in the ass! Kiss my sweet black ass." Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095135010608164492004-09-13T22:10:00.000-06:002004-09-14T15:14:16.246-06:00Monkberry Moon Delight
Amazing Monkey Portraits
Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095134255551547252004-09-13T21:32:00.000-06:002004-09-14T15:29:18.363-06:00I'm old! Mind your own business!Years ago the City and County Journal newspapers in St. Louis started a feature called "Town Talk". Basically the idea was that instead of making people have to write a letter to get their thoughts published in the paper, they would just let readers call a phone number, leave a message on a machine, and the paper would publish whatever they had to say. Sounds good enough until you consider the Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095132034622709172004-09-13T21:17:00.000-06:002004-09-15T16:19:39.350-06:00Going off the Rails..."Fucking Crazies"
A furious row has broken out over claims in a new book by BBC broadcaster
James Naughtie that US Secretary of State Colin Powell described neo-conservatives in the Bush administration as 'fucking crazies' during the build-up to war in Iraq.
Powell's extraordinary outburst is alleged to have taken place during a telephone conversation with Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. The two Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095114436570603822004-09-13T16:27:00.000-06:002004-09-14T15:05:19.776-06:00Image of the DayTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095114273623123552004-09-13T13:55:00.000-06:002004-09-15T21:44:25.943-06:00I'm a Pepper, you're not a Pepper"One of my favorite soft drinks is Dr. Pepper and I usually ask for it by name. There are to distinct selling points to Dr. Pepper: One, my wife hates it so she dosn't doesn't ask me for a drink and two, apparently Spiderman drinks it.
My father seems to be an aficionado of cheap-ass Dr. Pepper knock-offs that he claims are just as good. I remember buying something called Dr. Diablo from the Tim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095032672281781352004-09-12T17:44:00.000-06:002004-09-14T15:06:30.163-06:00Image of the DayTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676575.post-1095031773813152952004-09-12T17:25:00.000-06:002004-09-15T16:25:19.136-06:00Portable Picnic PlayasIt's been a pretty boring weekend, but that's fine, I'm saving my energy & money for the GABF in a few weeks. Wife, Dog and I took a short drive up to Golden Gate Canyon State park. Some of the Aspens are beginning to turn and there's a little bit of snow on the mountaintops of the Divide.
On the way back we stopped by Eldorado Canyon State Park. It's a popular park so the picnic area was packedTim Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575263211407501785noreply@blogger.com0