Jan 01 2010

Tournament Of Roses Parade Open Thread

What?  You up?

You didn’t party hard enough!

Well, time to grab your Bellinies and hangovers (out of peach nectar?  Mimosas then) and stare bleary eyed at vegetable covered cars, horses, and marching bands.

On broadcast your two choices are NBC and ABC.  Travel Channel has been carrying the pre-parade preparations since 9 am as has TLC.

Next door on Discovery you have the far more entertaining Mythbusters Marathon, but maybe that’s just me.  History Channel is doing Ice Road Truckers and Cartoon Network Looney Tunes.

Of course my great regret is I don’t get BBC so I’m totally missing their Doctor extravaganza.

As my act slowly comes together I’ll bang up some Bowl threads at inappropriate moments and if I have a chance some of your New Year’s essays.  Tomorrow I’m planning on partying down myself so you’ll have to make your own amusument.

Sunday I would suggest that you spare your blood pressure, turn off the TV, and come up with your own Top Ten reasons for why the ‘Oh Noes’ really sucked.

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  1. Me?  Bloody Marys thank you very much.

    • TMC on January 1, 2010 at 16:57
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    before I went to bed. I looked at the NYT and saw that once again due to prosecutorial errors that a law student wouldn’t make, the Blackwater (Xe) criminals get a free pass to commit murder.

    Maybe a hot shower will make me feel cleaner after reading that.

    I think I’ll have that Bloody Mary now/

    • Robyn on January 1, 2010 at 17:08
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    So we watch the Tournament of Roses Parade every year.

    It’s a poor knock off of the Portland Rose Festival‘s Grand Floral Parade, but it’s okay.

  4. here’s a pretty tall trumpeter.

    And who cares about High Definition?

    I agree with the broadcasters who have recently begun advertising that it’s simply a scam to drive people to cable.

  5. Don’t they have one of these every year?

  6. that’s an eagle.

    Or a Phoenix.

    Still, made me look.

    Marines do a Street Drill.

  7. 65 Street Dancers!

    Throw me sumpin’ mista!

  8. It’s prosecco + pomegranate juice.  Ms. ds likes it, had it in a restaurant, because of etoh and onset of senescene we cannot recall what you call this drink.  Anybody know?  And no, googling “prosecco + pomegranate” does not yield a satisfactory answer.  We don’t think it’s called “Tintoretto”, desite this.

  9. and kid goes off to visit grandma with her Aunt a little later.

  10. my local npr.  I hate parades.

    http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=A…

  11. And a Gorilla shaking his head.

    I’m on NBC by the way, my dad just called to tell me what a good job TLC is doing with the coverage, but I figured broadcast so you can sing along if you like.

    Ooh, horsies.

  12. I have older cars than that Caddy in my car show.

    Suck.  On.  That.

  13. in High Def looks much thinner and sicker.

  14. A big fucking lump with pictures of football players.

    Thumbs down dudes.

  15. Is it just me or do most of the floats suck this year.

    I mean seriously.

  16. Phoenix Sat TV.

    At least interesting, the only animation comes from actors.

    Followed by Amish people waving.

    You know, you arrange it so almost everyone wins something, like a caucus race.

    Hey- Animation Award!

    A Plane that twists?

    LAME!

    • Robyn on January 1, 2010 at 17:44
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    …we watch in commercial free on HGTV.

  18. I mean this is like Formula One without Fuel Strategy!

  19. Big theme this year is doing pictures.

    Also less talk about what flowers are used for the colors.

  20. No, a whole float!

    • TMC on January 1, 2010 at 17:50
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    The 10 Commandments   scary stuff this year

  22. So, Robyn, what you mean is just a few companies make all the floats.

    Well that explains the lack of imagination.

    • TMC on January 1, 2010 at 17:52
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    yup you’re bombing

  24. Some Parrot!

    And not a bad float.

  25. Another float that doesn’t suck.

    Or maybe my standards are getting lower.

    • TMC on January 1, 2010 at 18:01
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    best part of the parade. Just magnificent animals

  27. And they gave Animation to Twisting Plane?

    There’s no fucking justice!

    • TMC on January 1, 2010 at 18:04
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    with wings on the front lawn. Dr. TMC found it in K-mart. Looks cute next to the lighted Cow and lobsters. Drove the daughter nuts though

    • TMC on January 1, 2010 at 18:07
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    OK that cute

  30. See, this is why I watch.

    • Robyn on January 1, 2010 at 18:08
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    • TMC on January 1, 2010 at 18:11
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  33. South Pasedena.

    President’s Trophy- City of Cerritos.

    Not so bad.

    Carnival of Venice was my All-State piece.

    When I played it for Leonard Falcone he said I was hopeless and should find another hobby.

    • TMC on January 1, 2010 at 18:13
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    on the Venetian Ladies

  35. Cal Poly.

    Zooming Bird with Ragtime

    Shameless music that will grab your son,

    Your daughter,

    With the arms of a jungle animal instinct!

    Mass-staria!

    Friends, the idle brain is the devil’s playground!

  36. Well, that will take some forgetting.

  37. Origami Dragon with Wizard.

    Um… why did Twisty Plane win Animation again?

  38. Striking colors.

    Why don’t you assholes tell us how they got those blues?

  39. ucc should put up an outside ice thread.

    • TMC on January 1, 2010 at 18:36
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    from a farm in VA on the Shanghai Expo float. Very Berry red

  41. Is there a fucking parade going on or what?

    Bunny eyes on ABC.

  42. So late, but they have flower talk!

    • TMC on January 1, 2010 at 18:44
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    The bue is Blue “Status” not sure on the (spelling)

  44. You’ll want a good sushi chef for sure.

  45. is like a cock suck to capitalism.

    NBC has evidently decided to go all hockey all the time without warning.

    Scouting has been taken over by Mormons, who I’ll just remind you are no more Christian than Muslims.

  46. I’ve marched against the Danvers Band.

    Kicked their ass too.

    • TMC on January 1, 2010 at 18:57
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    Navy pilots..Gives me chills still.

    • TMC on January 1, 2010 at 18:59
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    I liked the snow sledding dogs best.

    • Robyn on January 1, 2010 at 19:01
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    The most boring Rose Parade I can remember.

    • TMC on January 1, 2010 at 19:01
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    That’s it for TV until 2:30 and the Vienna Philharmonic

  51. discovered Bellinis…. What can I say I live in Memphis. I am pretty irrelevant.

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