What the…
So, Grimace is problematic in the McDonalds genre. He arrived on scene in 1971, but he was an asshole, who stole people’s milkshakes.
Needless to say, that didn’t ingratiate him to the population. A scaly, four armed purple fucker stealing shakes? Makes the Hamburglar look like a quirky neighborhood dude.
Usher in Grimace 2.0. A neutered, fuzzy purple dufus with obvious signs of Downs Syndrome. He happens to like milkshakes and Happy Meals.
“It was time for his transformation. “We changed him to a soft, plush, two-armed blob of a sweetheart who only wanted McDonald’s milkshakes and to hang out with Ronald,” Bergold Jr. said.” It’s Jack Nicholson after his lobotomy.
Yeah, Ronald’s “Best Friend”.
So Grimace continued on for a few years as the simpleton sidekick of Ronny. And then he kind of faded away.
Well, we now know why. It took 50 years and we never saw it. Grimace went from villain, to autistic, ahem “sidekick”, to full on QUILTBAG mascot!
This has obviously been the plan all along. How little we realized the depths the left would go to undermine our culture. Grimace, the Down’s Syndrome Dufus. Poor bastard never stood a chance.
Cursed with a terrible name.
Yeah, I never understood how they chose it. All the other names make sense. But not his name.
It’s painful watching MSM trying to make this happen.
So what happened to Spongebob? Cancelled? Outed as binary or something?
He’s awfully square.
Air hose Bob pants?
/old moniker
I have ignored McDonalds for so long that I have no idea what Grimace is supposed to represent.
“What’s available at the next exit?”
“McDonalds and Denny’s”
“Nothing edible? We’ll have to move on”
Hey now! Denny’s puts out perfectly cromulent breakfasts all day.
No one goes to Denny’s on purpose; you just end up there somehow.
Usually that is when I’m visiting my mother. I want to make sure she gets out of the house for a while, but the town she’s in doesn’t have too much in the way of anything.
I thought that was Waffle House?
I make a point of visiting Waffle House anytime I am in the south/altantic coast.
That is the cheap breakfast bomb!
A friend of mine calls that place WaHo. I have grown increasingly fond of that place and its hashbrown bowls. I put a different sauce in each quadrant: Ketchup, mustard, tabasco, and worchestershire sauce.
It’s a perfect storm of umame.
Wrong! Only after drunk debauchery
’tis true.
And I prefer Denny’s to Perkins. Not sure if that’s saying much, but there it is.
Perkins was the place if you wanted disgusting amounts of food. You could get the omelet, and for the toast, get two giant pancakes. No idea if they still do that… I’m pretty sure I can no longer eat that amount of food either.
Perkins is the place I stop if I pass through Erie Pennsylvania. I don’t know how it became habit, but it is what it is.
Sounds like Golden Nugget. I ate at one in Chicago many times after comedy open mic nights. I must have gained about 20 pounds in the 3 years I lived in the Windy City. I gained 30 pounds during the year I lived in Texas.
Perkins was a huge treat growing up.
Almost as much as Ponderosa.
Denny’s, Perkin’s, IHOP, Waffle House.
It’s hard to fuck up breakfast.
IHOP is good. I live too far north for WaHo.
Favorites from days gone by; Village Inn, Country Kitchen, Sambo’s.
There is a Village Inn across the parking lot from my therapist’s office building. It’s always packed. I’ve been tempted to go plop my ass down and wait for a table, but … it’s always packed. Ain’t nobody got time for dat.
OMG. I thought Village Inn was kaput. I may have to come visit you.
You should! And not just for the Village Inn. For the Bryants and Gates and Slaps, too! Also, Go Chicken Go, whose chicken and rolls are suboptimal, but their gizzards are *chefs kiss*.
I’m getting fatter just thinking about it.
Not that way you perverts!
The last visit to Denny’s, July 17, 1997, Niagara New York.
“So, how was everything?”
“Where do I start” The eggs were runny, the toast was burned, the coffee was cold and bitter … ”
I didn’t leave a tip.
I boycotted Denny’s for several years, after sitting at the counter for 20 minutes or so an didn’t even get noticed, at the counter! I think I’ve been in one since then, near White Sands, that was a 45 minute wait for food but the place was really jammed
Pictured
(That diner actually is a Denny’s. I’ve eaten there but it’s no where near as memorable)
I vaguely remember the 70s incarnation but yeah the entire advertising oeuvre of McDonalds has always been so stupid I hated it even as a child.
I had never heard of Grimace until now. I don’t get out much, I guess
One thing that’s been chewing at me recently is QUILTBAG now stealing (stole?) the word “pride”. It couldn’t be called “Gay Pride” anymore, since gays seem to now be the minority within the group, so it’s like they (and their allies) just said, “Fuck it; we’ve coopted plenty of other words in the English language, let’s take “pride” too!”
It was colloquially called “Pride” back in the 80s, long before the alphabet expanded beyond G and L.
Of course, it was only a day – a weekend at most. I honestly have no idea how or when it got expanded to a fuckin’ month. That crept up out of nowhere.
Yeah, I guess the month+ long time frame, along with the incessant media coverage has a lot to do with it. Still, it seems like there is nothing colloquial about it anymore. It’s just plain “Pride”.
It really entered my consciousness on my trip to Germany to visit my step-daughter. She is a major ally, and while she isn’t preachy, she will absolutely let you know she’s an ally if it comes up in any way. I was there mid to late May, so the big month was fast approaching. To her -and now I’ve noticed many progressives- “Pride” was practically the name of the month.
I mean, we were in a bookstore and she spied a small section of rainbow merch: “Ooooh! They have a Pride section! I’ll be right back!”
Brussels; there was some rainbow stuff up around the old city near our hotel, and she was so interested and yet confused; “But Pride isn’t until next month…do they start Pride early here?”
In a chat not long after I got back: “I went downtown today and it just happened to be Pride!”
Time marches on and language changes, I guess.
She’s hetero?
Yeah… I’m… baffled. That just tells me it’s become a religion.
I remember the beginnings of that whole “ally” crap. Nobody asked for your “allyship”. Puke.
Yes. Totally cis-hetero.
She is the most empathetic person I’ve ever met. And I mean that in all sincerity. Mix that with working for a mega-corp and that has inundated her with all sorts of DEI for nearly 20 years, and you have a woman who gets excited about buying a pair of rainbow shoelaces so she can wear them when she marches in the next Pride parade.
But she’s not alone. Her husband and some of their straight friends all go marching through MSP every June, virtue-signaling as hard as they can. And they certainly aren’t the only ones.
Wow, I can’t even.
I would neither expect nor want my closest heterosexual friends to be so… demonstrative. It really rubs me the wrong way.
I feel like I’m living out of time or something. I don’t recognize a lot of things.
“Some of my best friends are…” 🙄
Welcome to cultural appropriation.
Whaaaa? You don’t want to be the Magical Gay Best Friend?
She once gushed about how her team was possibly the most diverse at headquarters. Gave us a rundown of the ticked boxes that everyone had. No word on if they were actually any good at their jobs.
G’bless for being able to deal with that.
I don’t think I could. I have never met anyone so obsessed.
The crazy part is they are cool to hang with. Her and her husband are more like drinking buddies than step’s. Hell, they are both concealed carry holders, so they’re not completely lost. 🧐
Like I said, she is (thankfully) not at all preachy. We just avoid topics we assume we’ll disagree on, and enjoy each other’s company.
There was a quote in Starship Troopers about “pride.”
Paraphrased, “Did you do it?”
“No”
Then why are you bragging about “Pride?”
Even George Carlin had comments on that, again from memory, “Irish Pride? What the fuck did you do except being born Irish?”
Also Carlin: “Being Irish isn’t a *skill*!”
Yeah… that language battle was lost long before “Pride” came on the scene.
Er… “Gay Pride”, that is.
I prefer the Norm Macdonald version.
Didn’t they just arrest some pedo who was bringing a Grimace milkshake to his motel meetup?
Great advertising, there
A childhood friend of mine had an extensive collection of Happy Meal toys. It’s probably worth a few hundred bucks at least if he still has it. I was impressed with how much effort he put into making his collection complete.
When the movie Congo came out, the Taco Bell toys were jungle creatures where you could switch the front and back halves to make various chimeras. My favorite was to put the blonde-maned, blue lion front onto the back half of a crocodile. I didn’t collect the whole set, but I did have the gorilla and the warthog. I called it my Dr Moreau playset.
Conveniently, they released that movie the very next year. They could have simply recycled all the promotional toys.
Yeah but have you seen the Grimace Shake trend? There’s some funny people out there
That sounds like bad drugs. Like something you might witness on the streets of north Philadelphia.
Internet be weird.
I liked my interpretation better.
Attention whores are so 2022.
The hit counts on some of these videos is so astounding to me. I guess that’s the rush. Similar to your interpretation in some ways.
I never feel so old as when I read stories like that.
Preach, brother.
Aal i know about Grimace is we had a few of the glasses you could collect (set of large actual glass tumblers, ca 1980?). They all broke except the Grimace glass and that one was somehow indestructible. It was still around when my parents finally moved in 2005 but got donated cuz they were tired of it hanging around.
It sounds to me like Grimace is being profiled. Just because the purple teletubby was gay doesn’t mean that Grimace is.
Does that mean Purple Drank is gay now, too? Gonna be a lot of confused homies.
Hm, maybe Travon Martin was trying to rape Zimmerman.
I… uh… no?
Tinky Winky! 👛
https://priceonomics.com/the-outing-of-tinky-winky
This is pretty wild.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/997022417
Grimace would shoot it.
Huh. That thing is less than an hour away from me.
Who here is crankin’ tha hog?
My latest musical discovery: The Barbie song in the style of 6 composers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRfsibwR5x4
Thanks!
And party on Wayne,
🍻
Chromatic zigzag
Depression
Awesome
That was so cool the subtitles were spot on! I laughed my ass off,
Tall cans, my friend.
Tall. Cans.
*bonk*
BRAVO!!!11
So cute! The marginalia makes it.
I am impressed.
“Right hand shows off” <—lol
Much better than that 12Tone hack.
Crankin’ at the abortion clinic
HM!!!!
Sup?
I think about you every time I see this sign on the roadway
https://image.bayimg.com/kabflaaen.jpg
You still walk among us!?!
Sloopy was only off by 7 days
https://twitchy.com/sarahd/2023/07/25/rochelle-riley-x-nazi-flag-n2385707
Some goober in Seattle or Portland had a fit over a neighbor’s Norwegian flag, because they thought it was a Confederate flag.
Well Oslo is in southern Norway so the country has a southern capital. Coincidence? I think not.
LOL!
I’m such a rube I actually didn’t see it coming.
The X11 similarity was too obscure.
My new book is coming along well. I’m up to 6,000 words after a week of writing. I’d prefer to write at least 2,000 words per day, and I think I can do that eventually. It’s an autobiography with commentary on other subjects. My goal is to reach 80,000 words, which is the typical length of a published book. The longest book I’ve written so far is 45,000 words long.
Have you participated in NaNoWriMo?
https://nanowrimo.org/
I think the saddest aspect of this generation is how desperate some segments of the population are to be affirmed by mega corporations.
But I will be trying a Grimace shake.
I already had one.
You probably think that’s a First, don’t you? How pathetic.
Did it make you gay or just a firster?
Every page hit contributes to one’s well-being.
The History of Adults Blaming the Younger Generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC3kBsRpkZQ
Grimace the Groomer?
They should have stuck with the theme of facial expressions for the names the other characters: Rictus, Scowl, Frown, Poker…
Groomace
Every kid I know thought Ronald McDonald was gay from the day he was introduced. Retired from clowning around, he does good things with the Houses where parents of kids in hospitals can stay during their kid’s treatments.
I miss McDonald’s of the 70s and 80s.
It was just better.
https://youtu.be/N7radb0Vl9k
Would.
Tallow fries, molten fried apple pies, Hamburglar, fun Playlands. I hear you can still get the fried pies in Hawaii and the original Downey location.
Damn. Those pies were amazing.
I probably eat at McDs once every year or so, Usually at an airport and usually a sausage McMuffin.
I wonder what would happen if they went back to the old ways.
I’ve never been to Jollibee, but they seem to have fruit (not apple) pies, which I assume are not merely baked.
Those fries were world class and the pies were nice too. MacD’s ain’t what they used to be but at least they still have the Big Mac. I still like to eat one or two of those a month just for old time’s sake.
Obligatory.
Morning, Glibs.
It’s an office day… 🙁
Sup?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5fBdpreJiU
🎶🎶
Me, I guess.
Time to start my commute. See you guys when I’m at my cube.
Good morning, U and Sean!
Reliable Coworker is due back today, not a moment too soon. Boss is on vacation for the rest of the week, not a moment too soon.
That mean peace and quiet?
Not entirely, but certainly quieter and … peacier?
Good morning, ‘bodru! How are you and yours?
we are ok. I think we have a better plan and less frantic.
Sell in spring.
Gives us time to polish. Real Estate Agent has trouble getting comps for our house.
As of now, cant make the plan work. So we pack and purge some more. will do landscaping, making sure sheep don’t eat it.
Just loose time….
That sounds like a good idea and better timing.
I thought only the appraiser had to worry about finding comps for properties.
well this guy is probably one of the better REA i have seen. If you cant get good comps to establish price, how can bank?
Morning.
Hey, there. How’s it going?
I’m in my cube, the annoying neighbors haven’t gotten in to work yet, so it’s nice and quiet.
Sweet! Worth getting up and in early?
No.
I just stopped myself from pouring diet dew on my salad instead of the dressing.
😕
Could’ve been worse. You could have taken a big swig of the dressing.
I drank Paul Newman’s vinaigrette by the teaspoon as a kid. And in adulthood I sometimes have salad for breakfast. Traditional breakfast foods are so dull.
Traditional breakfast foods are too heavy, and often greasy, to start the day with.
Oh, I love traditional breakfast foods but rarely eat breakfast, at least not for a few hours after I get up. (I make an exception when traveling.) “Breakfast for dinner” is a fine, fine thing.
And to reprise the restaurant discussion from upthread, Perkins is awesome for breakfast/brunch/breakfast for dinner. Bob Evans used to be great, but since the corporation sold off the restaurants, some of the quality of service has slipped.
Ah, Perkins, my go-to breakfast when traveling. A Mammoth Muffin to go makes the driving more pleasant.
I found out that those don’t even contain Mammoth! False Advertizing!
Or too carby/sweet.
I got to try Village Inn once somewhere in the desert stretch of Route 66 a few years ago. I remember that the menu was more interesting than Denny’s et al.
Only in Alabama where the Tusks ate looser.
There are apparently no Village Inn locations in Ohio, Indiana, or Kentucky. The only Village Inn I recall locally was a pizza place that hasn’t been around since I was a kid.
Mornin!
Mornin’, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie! What’s shakin’?
Mornin’. Survived yesterday’s deluge. 15 minutes of the heaviest rain I’ve seen in a long time, some minor flooding in a neighboring town but my backyard was spared.
Whew! That debris in your stream may have been cleared away just in time!
Nah. What he didn’t tell you is that he built an Ark under his back yard, so it just lifted his whole property up until the waters subsided.
Boo. You Ararat.
Have I mentioned how much I hate Baldor?
Parts lookup is effing impossible.
Yeah, tough to look up anything when the site won’t load. Did they actually pay someone to set up their website?
They got bought out by ABB (Swedes) and then they buried the information.
Generally speaking, all electric motor manufacturers suck donkey balls when it comes to parts breakdowns, but ABB/Baldor is a special kind of horrible.
It sounds like a place in Middle Earth where you wouldn’t necessarily want to go.
Here I was thinking it was the herald of Ragnarok
“Ragnarok” always reminds me of that Muppet spin-off show.
What about Fraggle Roll?
With a bit of butter, it hits the spot.
Now, if that series had lasted long enough, they could have done a Fraggle Rock Ragnarok episode.
I’d pay to watch that.
And since it was musical, they could have done the Fraggle Rock Ragnarok Rag!
Isn’t The Degradation of Grimace one of those 19th C. BDSM “classics?”
Hope Rhy is OK. This was pretty nasty.
https://nypost.com/2023/07/26/nyc-storm-floods-crowded-subway-car-topples-trees-in-microburst-of-70-mph-winds/
I get the impression that he avoids leaving his apartment, much less going on the subway.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/tucker-carlson-interviews-rapper-ice-cube-latest-twitter/
I need to watch that.
Vax-suspicious, IC. Dunno about TC.