Zero Mostel – Fears of Zero, from episode 202 of The Muppet Show.
Grab your popcorn, put your feet up on the coffee table, and try to keep the spitballs off the screen please. This is Late Late Night FireDogLake, where off topic is the topic … so dive in. What’s on your mind?



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zed?
Whaddya know…my first zed in years. Hi, Suz!
shadow! well done!!! how was your day?
Pretty good! The fireworks tonight around here are crazy….you’d think the Cards won the Series or something. :-)
Hola, Suz, you are a good friend for sure, thanks for being there!
*laughing* i saw the tail end of last night’s game and from the 7th inning stretch on for tonight’s game. how long do ya think they will celebrate?
bg! aw shucks, thanks hon. i wish i could have actually been there with ya instead of being there in spirit only. now’s nm tonight?
At least until Sunday. And then every weekend for a while. I’m not into baseball, and I still followed tonight’s game. They take #OccupyBuschStadium real seriously around here!
Pretty good here. One of the women who had lost her beautiful cowgirl boots in jail got them back. . .there was an undercover cop who was at the jail and heard her story, saw the boots later and grabbed them up for her. He gave her his card and told her that she should let him know if there was any kind of imposter that was looking to give a bad name to Occupy. That’s kinda cool, eh?
I don’t think he was totally just trying to game her, or am I too trusting?
i’m not much into it either — didn’t even realize the world series was being played until i saw a tweet from a guy i know who is not known for hyperbole who proclaimed ‘best world series game … ever’. figured i had better see why he was so excited.
it was forking spellbinding
perhaps he realized he is a 99er. i like the fact he gave her his card for reporting provacatuer or other troublemakers instead of his trying to get her to inform on occupy. i think it was probably legit
evening, Suzzzz – firegods
I should say that he was in plain clothes when he was at the jail, he’s not undercover, I suppose. But yes, I think we have a lot more 99ers than anyone has imagined yet.
Oh, and I love the Muppets tonight, very good.
last night’s Game 6 or tonight’s Game 7, Suzzz?
agreed. and it could be something as simple as he saw a pretty woman who interested him and he wanted her to know how to get a hold of him… just in case
thanks bg…
ppd! it was game 7 tonight. how was your day?
Aloha, Suz and lln pups…!
Yep. She was a damsel in distress over those boots. I was about to cry myself. We were a tired mess, all of us, at that point.
aloha tut — how’s your bug treating ya tonight?
bg, all you Occupiers are heroic. I can’t really go packing off to occupy, but I do send a few bucks wherever and whenever I can. We are all behind you! That may not mean much when you have zipties around your wrists, I know…
good day, thanks — I didn’t see tonight’s game, but last night’s #6 was one of the best sports events that I’ve ever seen.
what shadow said
6 was so good it made me want to watch 7. so glad to see the rangers taken down a peg or two… just like the yankees
It is heroic to be in the streets with gas, sticks, and guns. . .We were not at any risk of anything much besides discomfort and total freaking boredom. But I think it is useful to the movement, and it was a small sacrifice, honestly.
what made tonight the best game ever was showing Texas the door — Go ahead and secede, make my day.
sam meets zero
Nighters everyone, keep the faith! We are the 99%.
g’nite bg
night, bg!
It’s time for me to take off, too…for a change, I’m drooping at the keys! Night, all!
g’nite shadow
if i was a rich man
dean and zero
zero and muppets — simple folks
Kicking my okole…! 8-(
The little Momma had asked the Better Half last nite if we could watch the munchkin today, I told ‘em both it wasn’t such a hot idea this morn, but, they blew me off…! I’ve been trying to keep my distance from the little guy, torturous as it is…! I fervently hope he doesn’t catch it…! 8-(
wash your hands a lot dood. and try to avoid breathing on him.
you can admire him from afar until you feel better
Is Zero Mostel the portly version of Marty Feldman, or what!?!
Suz!
newton! how was your day today?
All good here in the BA. Hazy sunshine. Very ‘Autumnal’.
How’s the PNW?
rainy. picked up a wee bit more than 1/2 inch today. started to clear up a wee bit ago and tomorrow is supposed to be nice
Glad to hear the PNW (Pacific North-Wet) is finally living up to it’s rep.
i don’t mind the rain now that i’m no longer wearing a banana suit trying to mimic a non-functioning trafic light in the rain
Yes, and remember to wipe or cover doorknobs. A fetish of mine when we’re doing chickens.
Hope you start feeling better.
hey openhope — how’s the sound tonight?
Evening Pups!
That Zero clip is tres scary…. and Bravo for bgrothus!
Can you believe it snowed in Amarillo today and is fixing to sock the Northeast with a good oldfashioned Nor-easter…!
hey sunny — how ya doing tonight? i read somewhere that the head writer for the muppet show wrote it for zero in the style of poe’s the raven… can’t find where i forking read it… sheesh
How ’bout an Occupy London song, Steps of St. Paul’s? Free, while downloads last.
hey raven — how ya doing?
Wonderful!
Sleepy. We’ve moved to a new place: a rented house on a hill in Seattle, with about ten years of deferred maintenance.
Glad you liked it!
You find SO much amazing stuff, I’m surprised you can backtrack at all.
Couple of Sats ago you blew my mind straight into bizarro world. The next morning I retraced the links and hooted for hours.
nice views? are you getting a break on the rent in return for doing some of that deferred maintenance?
do ya recall which cartoon it was or was it a muppets you were reading the next day?
Hand it to Zero – the man knew how to open.
hold me touch me *laughing* that hand to his face as she went in the room….
Yes to both of those, and it’s so much more room than the apartment, the management of which was turning toxic anyway. We’re pretty happy with the place.
yay! most excellent raven. are you still coming down to pdx every now and then or mainly staying in the seattle region now
Christopher Robin and Christopher Wren… genius!
Thanks.
tis about time for me to turn back into a pumpkin peeps. tomorrow i’ll be making member calls along with the MET team. if your phone rings — answer it – it could be me :)
thanks for letting me hang out with ya tonight. hope to see ya tomorrow night for cartoons.
g’nite all
It wasn’t one or two, but a whole series… very late on a (prolly) sat night a couple of months ago. I’ll find it.
Wet but happy. We all got together at my folks for Mom’s b-day. 3 generations plus our daughter’s boyfriend.
It was stilted until I told a joke a wonderful woman [ Ann, 97 yrs old] taught me. The Little Old Lady and the Banker’s Balls.
It was ribald and hilarious, from then on it was a lively night! Talking politics, Amy Goodman and Chris Hedges interview with Charlie Rose. Debating the merits of finding one ounce of human understanding and compassion for the police actions against Occupy with my 17 yr. old nephew, who hasn’t seen the Police Action up close. It got quite passionate and resolved itself in a really friendly way.
‘m going to have to write that joke down for you all.
Better yet, Ann could write hat joke for us. She’s still taking 2 writing classes a week and editing her autobiography.
The world needs a good Bankster joke to go viral.
Here’s a link to the lyrics and a brief explanation..
Also, a link to talis kimberley’s blog
Hey, I apologize for being a dinosaur who can’t link.
I have a new Youngblood favorite comedian/social commenter Lee Camp and his Moments Of Clarity. leecamp.net
Damn, I love the youngbloods. I had to lower my donation to Amnesty International to shift serf dollars over to Lee Camp.
Sending him another stipend tomorrow to keep his voice on the InterToobs.
Disclaimer: I am not his mother. I saw his Moment Of Clarity by accident, randomly searching the web instead of doing more productive things.
Best “time kill” I’ve had in ages!
Dammit,Suzanne, I’m doing ending monologues on your thread again.
Guess “canning season” is over. no more night shift intensity.
It’s a real anchor you’ve built with LLN.
thank you
p.s. I love the Fears Of Zero.
Good morning, pups. We have just Mr. Blow and Mr. Nocera this morning since Ms. Collins is off today. Mr. Blow, in “America’s Exploding Pipe Dream,” says numbers don’t lie. The United States gets low scores in a new report on social justice. Mr. Nocera tells us “What the Costumes Reveal,” and that a New York “foreclosure mill” law firm celebrates Halloween by mocking those who lose their homes.
Here they are.
The coffee and tea are ready, and since it’s rainy outside I thought that French toast waffles would perk me up. It’s going to make for a very cramped church fair, since all the tables that would have been out on the lawn will have to be moved inside if it keeps up, but the radar seems to show the rain almost passed. Fingers crossed… Have a great day.
I do get down to PDX every now & again–maybe sometime I’ll see you then.