They say that Baseball is a game of adjustments. For a pitcher, the third time through the order is crucial. As you lose a little heat, you have to spot the ball better, throw more breaking balls. For a hitter, a couple of times around the league and the scouting reports let opponents know that you have trouble with a slider on the outside corner. In order to survive, you have to be able to adjust.
And, we have reached a point where the FNCMFPECDAA has been around the league a couple of times. Before the FNCMFPECDAA reaches drinking age, it’s a good idea to sit back, do some soul searching, pause, and reflect. A good time for some self analysis. See what works what doesn’t work maybe, make a few adjustments.
Errrrr…….
Look. I’m going to be square with you. We’re all friends here, right? Well, except for that one guy. Here’s the deal. Over the last few weeks, there were a couple of times when I came up with the topic for the FNCMFPECDAA then, later that night, during the third set, I had a scary thought; “Oh, no! I think we’ve already done that one before! They’ll have my ass, run me out of Joe Bald on a rail! Luckily for me, it wasn’t the case but, the worrying did cause me to blow a few intros. So, I vowed to go back through each of the previous FNCMFPECDAA’s and make a FNCMFPECDAA database. Fact is, it took more time than I thought so, this version of the FNCMFPECDAA is much like what the screenwriters of a sitcom or a batch of wrinkle rockers do when they need to mail one in. It’s a flashback episode, a greatest hits compilation, a montage, a re-hash, a summer re-run.
So, we will now take a look back at our previous episodes and various highlights from each, mostly taken out of context. For the sake of simplicity, all quotes from Pat will be credited “PD”, even though the comment from the original post may have been under one of his entertaining and creative pseudonyms.
#1 Elvis Presley or Bob Dylan?
Bob Dylan is a fantastic musician, but Elvis is perfect for emotion; for sentimental, for the freedom of joy.
As for banana and peanut butter… well, it’s potassium and protein, but I don’t want ‘em together.
Jayne d’Arcy
#2 Guns N Roses or Led Zeppelin?
Zep.
Gary
I believe Cher will still be alive in 2010. So, Cher.
Sans Direction
#4 Black Sabbath or The Dixie Chicks?
Dixie Chicks. They have way better architecture than Black Sabbath.
J
#5 Merle Haggard or Bob Marley?
I prefer to take my reality with a dose of reality. People who smoke dope up tend to eat all the fondue and dance rather poorly. They usually don’t know beans about architecture.
J
Ringo Starr always seemed to be above that. He isn’t “just” a drummer, he’s a musician.
Jayne
#7 “Walk Hard (The Dewey Cox Story)” or “Walk The Line”?
I say “e’nuff jokes about chinese, they’re doing the best that they can!!!!! I cant take anymore– jus’ shut up about them and the elephants in the city… I love chinese!!!!”
PD
#8 Neil Diamond or Neil Young?
They didn’t have to rotoscope coke out of Neil Diamond’s nose in The Last Waltz. That decides it for me.
Sans Direction
The rest of the night is a blur even after all of this time - the audience thought we were great, wouldn’t let us stop playing (I took three solos in “Johnny B Goode” - and I only knew one!) and we became instant stars. We were invited to go across the street to continue the party where we were given huge tumblers of whisky. We eventually escaped in the early hours of the morning.
So, Neil Young (Don’t get me started on the number of hours I spent as a lonely depressed teenager in my room listening to his acoustic stuff)Gary
#9 Robin Trower or Brad Paisley?
This is the old “implicit affects the explicit, causal argument …”
Without going hog wild, I will simply say, all Brad Paisley has to do is reverse engineer what Robin Trower has already done, much like Einstein’s reverse-engineering natural physical laws of conservation to come up with relativity
PD
It’s like a comparison of a satellite to a barn dance…
PD
Coldplay is like Roger-era Pink Floyd without the core themes. Radiohead is like Roger-era Pink Floyd with a big dollop of post-Goo Sonic Youth.
Sans
Preliminary report is that throughout your 20 or so individuals in cage match-ups so far are all similar in one area: they are all searching for Oz… but seem unwilling to go to Munchkin Land for spruce-ups, rehearsals and production role playing, and a “big dollop of post-Goo Sonic Youth,” before the big intro to Wiz@Oz.
PD
Jazz would win every time when you’re inundated by city lights. As soon as you can see the stars, watch out for the bluegrassers, ‘cos they’re waiting for you in the darkness.
Kenski
In places where the banjo comes out to play, you rarely have to worry about folks wandering up on stage to join in, because they’re all in the parking lot, jamming with each other.
Sans
The only harp player I ever met was so slack that he never turned up for any of the sessions I arranged - and I’ve never met a banjo player.
Axe Victim
To play on stage with you, at your hard-fought gig, a side-wing harp-blower must be screened by the Harp Nazi with a U F to C…. even if you have only one ball.
PD
Oh! Did you mean the bands?
Sans
#15 The Grateful Dead or The Allman Brothers?
Aw c’mon Jack, whilst this would appear to be easy for me (Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead) I also love The Allmans
Gary
and there you have it! Now: Feel free to drop on me wee head the 20-ton Monty Python anvil… I suppose I deeeserve it!
PD
Part of me really wants to go with that. Part of me does.
Sans
#16 “America The Beautiful” or “The Star Spangled Banner”?
The Star Spangled Banner was “borrowed” from “Anacreon in Heaven”, an old English drinking song. “Anacreon” is actually easier to sing because the first 3 notes are tonic, but after a few gin and tonics, either version becomes singable.
J
My question is thus: What kind of drunkards does England have that they can have the toughest song as a drinking song?
Sans
I love the Faces more than any other band. They are my true number one but I hope to God they dont’ screw it up by re forming now, as wrinked old men with a wicked glint in their eyes. Dear oh dear oh dear. Please don’t let it happen!
Who is Phish?
Axe
#18 Muddy Waters or Howlin’ Wolf?
…there will be no winner here… just a promise of natural phenomena… on a dark, dark night with only a sliver of moon, and a midnight frog gig, catfish wrestle down on the mud banks of the pond… with three bottles of 6 hour aged moon shine… a lantern haloed by frenetic insects, a pistol and a bat.
…two very quiet guys becoming louder and louder until 2 AM when they wander back to the house muddy and joyous, where the midnight ramble begins. All the laid out people rise like Lazarus and start up the party all over again.
One skins the frogs n’ cats, the other stomps, And whatever we bunch of armchair blue curmudgeons say won’t amount to a hill o’ beans at breakfast time.
PD
#19 John Lydon (A.K.A. Johnny Rotten) or David Crosby (A.K.A. Melissa’s Baby Daddy)?
“Hey, I’m a happy guy. When I get an idea I want to pursue it immediately because there is a certain surge of muse juice right at that point [laughter].”
PD
This is not a love song!
This is not a love song!
This is not a love song!
This is not a love song!
This is not a love song!
This is not a love song!
This is not a love song!
This is not a love song!
This is not a love song!Ever feel cheated?
Sans
This only proves you can find someone list/statistic/site that will say anything.
J
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Tags: FNCMFPECDAA, Friday Night Cage Match/Fondue Party/Evolving Conversat
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
“The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.” Bennett Cerf.(American Author, Publisher, Editor and Founder of Random House. 1898-1971)
Link | August 1st, 2008 at 7:25 pm
J wrote,
Tonight’s match is a pretty tough pill to swallow and if I’m reflecting on the total picture, I’d say that Elvis was probably the best pill-swallower of the whole bunch. He’d probably have eaten his cat, too, providing he could corner the poor thing.
Mmmmm…tasty fries!
“The modern-day composer refuses to die.” –Edgard Varese (1883-1965)
Link | August 1st, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Editors and Journalists at MooPig Bureau Headquarters have Linked Up and Squared Off!!
Yeah, some confusion led to a grudge match amongst staff and contractors at MPW International. There have been some fatalities. It has spread now by way of Conference calls with grudge matches in all of MPW offices in 42 countries…
Spreading like a California wildfire; “It was triggered last evening when some insiders at MooPig Wisdom took issue with who is the better commentator in the popular ‘Friday Night Cage Match/Fondue Party/Evolving Conversation/Dancing About Architecture Vol. 20′ critical review” said one reporter from Missouri.
It started from inside out with many groups arguing, but has leveled to just two persuasions: partisans on both sides of the aisles and incontinental divides, agreed this morning to make a list of the top 5 with one as the supreme best. But consensus did not stop the balkanizing issue.
It was also unanimously agreed to publish said list only when Octagon mixed martial arts and dirty boxing cage matches between offices at MPW, is over. Negotiations have ceased and matches have been going on since the decision has a rather heat sensitive trigger. Surprisingly to many onlookers the women’s coalition has been winning 4 out of 5 matches.
MooPig will update the blog-o-sphere as developments hit benchmarks. You might be interested also to learn that the Texas office got its ass kicked royally by the London office in early eliminations… “Our boys and girls just plain ran out of gas!” said one source close to Bush.
Any related news should be posted here at Pribek.net… Back to you Timisoara.
Link | August 2nd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Pribek wrote,
keep us updated on this potential powder keg, moo.
I’ll check in later. I’m gonna spend a couple of hours developing my brand, if you catch my drift.
Link | August 2nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Powder Keg is right… It has been found out this hour that the first fisticuffs started in the Atlanta Offices at about 10:10 PM, right after “J” alluded to Elvis. Dan, an intern at ATL, turned to his colleague Vern and said, “This says here that Elvis #1 will probably come in first place.”
It seems a lot of cash is riding on the office lottos that began circulating around 5:10 PM earlier August 1st, after the Pribek.net Publishers put out the compendium.
We have a garbled transcript from the battle of words turn to medieval blood melee at Atlanta:
Side bar — the background music of the confused mingling in Atlanta is this recording, identified as Matt Monroe Charade
Back to you KDA…
Link | August 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Jayne d'Arcy wrote,
oooooooh reruns! What fun to relive these past F*@#$%^&& (whatsits)! You just really make Friday fun. Although, Doctor Who is good, too.
Link | August 2nd, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Civil War at MooPig
What is being touted as the Y-FNCMFPECDAAikkipediae Wars, an unprecedented battle is drawing to a close. Factions of the intra-international offices of MooPig Wisdom have tried to separate the Pig from the Bull.
They, in their opulent struggle, have nearly destroyed 42 offices and almost taken over odds-making in Vegas for the popular FNCMFPECDAA. What sums of money, no one is sure… but the body count and property destroyed rose to unbelievable tabs. Cage Matches between factions took the most toll….
Property and Casualty Tabs — MooPig Wisdom Offices Worldwide
Body Count: 42 Dead
114 injured and hospitalized
222 released with wounds
2 yachts sunk
24 fires started from Sterno at fondue gatherings
Looting at a Trailer Resort in Booger Hollow, Arkansas; and another in Hermann, Missouri.
We are trying to follow the “Green” at this hour. Early findings are staggering; with current money ratios, the figure in USD is $42,000,000 OTB. We promise Their list of winners for the FNCMFPECDAA #20 will be released at 11:59 Sunday evening EST.
Famous strike breakers have been called in for negotiations. Stateside, Herb, General Manager, from the Chicago Brick Yard, and Hans “You’re weird; You Dress Funny; You’re Short; and You Wear Makeup” Hooper abroad, arrived only to be both taken hostage by opposition groups.The Opposition Group is calling out Rupert Murdoch… but that is another issue altogether.
Back to you Ryan Adams and Cher…
Thanks for that Update, Chuck…
Link | August 3rd, 2008 at 9:05 am
Ryan Adams wrote,
Tonight’s weather will be dark, followed by a period of enlightenment. But tomorrow’s weather is another story. For that story, be sure to catch tonight’s Late Evening News.
Link | August 3rd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Pribek wrote,
Hey Ryan, your money’s no good here.
Link | August 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
“It seems that MooPig staffers went 359 degrees off their moral compass,” said one official.
The trouble has subsided to a point that the list of winners can now be published.
Italian Correspondent Agrassi Noel reports at this hour:
Place | Post | Top Picks
#5 12 – Kenski
#4 14 – Sans
#3 2 – Gary
#2 4 – J
#1 8 – Gary, First Place
Reserved Grand Prize: 16 – J and Sans
Trifecta is: 8 – 4 – 2, with 16 as Power Ball
League of her Own: 6 – Jayne
At 11:57 PM/ EST, these are the winners according to the scurrilous panel of heavy-drinking hooligans at a Pub in London near Hyde Park. Another day in the week of exciting lives of bloggers worldwide is DONE!
Link | August 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Police Called out in 42 Countries
MooPig Wisdom is up and running at this hour in [Safe Mode]
by Pat Darnell
Due to intra-office riots and highly volatile heat driven cage matches, employees are reaching out and touching each other, with fists and teeth. So far the battles have only been in the MPW Ent channels of virtual reality. Thanks for your patience.
FAQ
“What exactly is [Safe Mode]?”
:We do not know.
“What is causing the unprecedented internal strife at MooPig Wisdom Enterprises?”
:This unaffiliated post: FNCMFPECDAA #20
“Is this for real; or just another stunt to get us to read and write?”
:We might be quasi, but we’re not that quasi.
Link | August 4th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Pribek wrote,
quite the brouhaha
Link | August 4th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Yes, it has been a virtual hell; yet as fast as it blew in, it has blown out..
One last announcement, all winning tickets must be cashed in this Friday night at:
:Once there, see the Harp Nazi; you must say this: “I saw that you guys were going to be playing here on your little blog, I thought that thing about that guy [not] eating the cat was sort of funny”.
He will then direct you to the back room.
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Link | August 6th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Pribek wrote,
good, good. so things are back to normal, no?
Well, one things for certain, it blew.
hunh? is that Flemish? I got “branded”. What do you do when you’re branded?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKmJPnAGUJk
Link | August 6th, 2008 at 12:57 am