2024.02.13 07:00 - Superbowl Adverts

The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams ㋡
Riddle Sideways: Hope you are feeling all better
   --BELL--
Adams Rubble: Hello Riddle :)
Adams Rubble: Good morning
Adams Rubble: not better but doctors working on it

Adams Rubble: snowing away here
Adams Rubble: Sorry about your team going down. They waged a very good battle
Riddle Sideways: heard on radio that your coast is getting big storms
Riddle Sideways: boo hoo,
Adams Rubble: watched the game yesterday. without the garbage it took less than 2 hours
Riddle Sideways: it was up to the last moment
Adams Rubble: sort of a repeat of what happened to the iggles last year so we can comisurate
Riddle Sideways: However, Superbowl adverts are the only ones to ever watch
Riddle Sideways: some Really stupid ones
Adams Rubble: missed them all :)
Riddle Sideways: and some that you really had to know trivia to get what they were doing
Adams Rubble: finally watched the 1984 Apple commercial
Riddle Sideways: you might go search for a couple of the Jesus adverts
Riddle Sideways: they were good
Riddle Sideways: there were at least 2
Adams Rubble: How has your pratice been?
Adams Rubble: practice
Riddle Sideways: been doing more long meditations
Adams Rubble: _/!\_
Riddle Sideways: odd after all the short 9sec or 90 sec ones for years
Adams Rubble: Hello Agatha :)
Riddle Sideways: HiHi Aggers
Agatha Macbeth: Good to see you Adams
Agatha Macbeth: Hope you're better
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Rid
Adams Rubble: no but my doctors are working on it. Trying to stay healthy enough to shovel snow this afternoon
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Agatha Macbeth: Snow use
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Riddle Sideways: that takes Big exercise
Adams Rubble: the shoveling I did to feed the birds this morning was snow use
Agatha Macbeth: You look wrapped up anyway
Agatha Macbeth: Not one flake here this winter
Agatha Macbeth: Just rain and wind
Riddle Sideways: no flakes here either
Adams Rubble: we were mild until this polar vortex descended upon us
Adams Rubble: it might be a difficult few weeks
Riddle Sideways: wondering if our atmospheric river effect travels and become your polar vortexs
Agatha Macbeth: Vortices :p
Adams Rubble: the winds split into two streams
Adams Rubble: the one that went north lossed the polar vortex
Adams Rubble: The southern branch might be what is bringing the moisture
Adams Rubble: exucse me a few moments. I'll be back
Agatha Macbeth: Ok Arnie
Agatha Macbeth: How's Riddel?
Riddle Sideways: ok, fine, pretty good, hanging in
Agatha Macbeth: That's the spirit
Riddle Sideways: weather wise, just stayed inside and watched the rains
   --BELL--
Agatha Macbeth: The superb owl didn't go well for your boys I hear?
Riddle Sideways: ever roofer we called last year was too busy to come fix 9 tiles. So, we had a leak
Agatha Macbeth: Oops
Adams Rubble: back
Agatha Macbeth: WB
Adams Rubble: oh no about leaks
Riddle Sideways: no, the game went wrong in the last minutes of overtime
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Adams Rubble: SF played a good game
Agatha Macbeth: If only Joe Montana was still still going...
Riddle Sideways: you also missed an advert about the Eagles flying around.
Agatha Macbeth: Eagles?
Riddle Sideways: no idea what the ad for supposed to be for
Agatha Macbeth: Don Henley?
Riddle Sideways: Adams watched the game without adverts
Riddle Sideways: not Those Eagles
Agatha Macbeth: Oh
Adams Rubble sings "Fly Iggles Fly"
Agatha Macbeth: Up up to the sky
Agatha Macbeth: No that was robin
Riddle Sideways: up up and away, in my beautiful ...
Agatha Macbeth: Fokker
Adams Rubble: "...score a touchdown one two three..."
Agatha Macbeth: Waitaminute how are Philadelphia involved? Now I'm confused
Adams Rubble: my understanding is that one of the -players was in a commercial
Agatha Macbeth: That's somehow unsurprising :p
Riddle Sideways: saw a commercial with birds flying in the air and zoom in had football players faces and helmits
Adams Rubble: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Oh wonderful
Agatha Macbeth: Tres gauche
Agatha Macbeth: Good to see adverising hasn't lost it's artistic nous anyway
Riddle Sideways: not for Gouche
Riddle Sideways: *Gouache spelting chalengged
Agatha Macbeth: Now I thought that was a type of painting
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Riddle Sideways: Agatha, how is your practicing going?
Riddle Sideways: /tries to get back to anywhere
Agatha Macbeth: Practice makes perfect :p
Agatha Macbeth: Or so they tell me
Agatha Macbeth: Com pa shun
Riddle Sideways: hmm, practicing badly makes ...
Agatha Macbeth: Imperfect?
Agatha Macbeth: One reason I never played the violin
Riddle Sideways: another reason was that there was no violin nearby
Agatha Macbeth: That was also a problem
Riddle Sideways: did get good at air-violin
Agatha Macbeth: Yehudi
Agatha Macbeth: Just noticed how noisy that water is
Riddle Sideways: yes. it is noisier today
Riddle Sideways: storm winds
Agatha Macbeth: My sound isn't up very high either
Riddle Sideways: volume got turned up here.
Riddle Sideways: and had some audio equipment fails last few days, so using laptop speakers
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Adams Rubble: there are times when it is hard to practice with all the distractions
Riddle Sideways: and owl is louder too
Agatha Macbeth: He's superb
Riddle Sideways: yes, the longer meditations now seem to have more distractions creep in
Adams Rubble nods
Agatha Macbeth: Flying monkeys
Adams Rubble: hard to remember the shorter ons=es and distractions hover over the longer ones
Riddle Sideways: ADD Adult Distraction Diseas... is that a monkey?
Agatha Macbeth: ADHD?
Riddle Sideways: that too
   --BELL--
Agatha Macbeth: I'm so glad we got Storm's bell back
Riddle Sideways: yes, nice bell
Agatha Macbeth: Informative too
Riddle Sideways: yesterday, they turned off our electric for a few hours to play with tree limbs and I wrote lots of dictractions to go research when power was back.
Riddle Sideways: not just need to lose that paper
Riddle Sideways: *now
Agatha Macbeth: Power to the people
Adams Rubble: I have been distracting with Benjamin West
Adams Rubble: bou bought books
Adams Rubble: but bought books
Agatha Macbeth: Dunno him
Riddle Sideways: of course you bought books ㋡
Adams Rubble giggles
Agatha Macbeth: How the West was bought
Adams Rubble: he aactually moved east to London and painted there
Agatha Macbeth: Oh a painter
Riddle Sideways: he painted Benjamin Franklin out flying a kite in the rain
Agatha Macbeth: Can't say I'm familiar
Adams Rubble: yes, very good
Riddle Sideways: how did you paint that?? won't the paint run in the rain?
Riddle Sideways: oh, Oils
Adams Rubble: also did some gouache drawings and used other media as welll
Agatha Macbeth: He seemed to have a thing for violence
Agatha Macbeth: Spears flying everywhere
Adams Rubble: he was a history painter
Adams Rubble: macho history
Agatha Macbeth: That explains it
   --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: ah, Gouache painting technigue and Gouache purses are spelt the same
Adams Rubble: thank you for being here Agatha and hosting Riddle
Adams Rubble: May you have a great week
Riddle Sideways: no no Thank you
Agatha Macbeth: Try to stay well ♥
Adams Rubble: thank you
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Riddle Sideways: be Well
Agatha Macbeth: Bye
Riddle Sideways: by All
Agatha Macbeth: Never confuse a cannelloni with a Canaletto
Agatha Macbeth: Or you'll eat a painting and hang an italian meal on your wall
Agatha Macbeth: Anyway...
Riddle Sideways: hmm, needs not so confusing words
Riddle Sideways: ok, off we go to some ... what was I going to do?
Agatha Macbeth: Look for that paper?
Riddle Sideways: ah thanks
Agatha Macbeth: Just as long as you haven't lost it
Riddle Sideways: need to just lose it
Agatha Macbeth: The bots are all out
Riddle Sideways: well, take care and see ya