Ink Superstitions....

[mbankirer]

Using bright ORANGE Iroshizuku Fuyu gaki to be assured the Broncos WIN!

 

"It's only weird if it doesn't work!"

Super Bowl here we come!

[RobertS]

Well, I guess it worked.

[Newjelan]

Who/what are the Broncos? What is the Super Bowl?

[martinbir]

Who/what are the Broncos? What is the Super Bowl?

 

+1

[lapis]

Okay, I give up, what's it all about???????????

[grainweevil]

Some little local sporting event, I think.

[Sasha Royale]

Eighty thousand screaming fanatics fill an arena to watch gladiators brutalize one another, over a leather pouch of no value. One would not have expected a Japanese brand of ink to have such degree of influence. Formerly, only certain brands of American beer have enjoyed this supernatural power.

 

Every culture has its eruptions of insanity. In the USA, NFL football is such an annual eruption. My dear mother has suffered this affliction since 1960. There is no cure.

 

Pray for us.

Edited January 20, 2014 by Sasha Royale

[warblerick]

Using bright ORANGE Iroshizuku Fuyu gaki to be assured the Broncos WIN!

 

"It's only weird if it doesn't work!"

Super Bowl here we come!

Well, for me then it was weird. I was using various purple inks all through December, and my beloved Baltimore Ravens didn't even make it into the playoffs!

 

But I was very happy to watch Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos win yesterday and head to the Super Bowl! Go Broncs!!

[Chi Town]

No, no Fuyu gaki is a Chicago Bears color! Only to be used when they play.........This is why my bottle lasts so long

[mbankirer]

No, no Fuyu gaki is a Chicago Bears color! Only to be used when they play.........This is why my bottle lasts so long

I suppose your Cubbies' color ink also lasts...seemingly forever!

[johntdavis]

Eighty thousand screaming fanatics fill an arena to watch gladiators brutalize one another, over a leather pouch of no value. One would not have expected a Japanese brand of ink to have such degree of influence. Formerly, only certain brands of American beer have enjoyed this supernatural power.

 

Every culture has its eruptions of insanity. In the USA, NFL football is such an annual eruption. My dear mother has suffered this affliction since 1960. There is no cure.

 

Pray for us.

 

 

Well played.

[inkstainedruth]

I suppose your Cubbies' color ink also lasts...seemingly forever!

(So you're all saying I need to be using black and gold inks next season?)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

I flew to the states, where I was trapped in a cheap motel with limited TV channels for a month due to legal problems. The rental car had a six cylinder motor; which is more needed in the US to get into interstate traffic (drop it into second & burn rubber) than in Germany where they have merging into the autobahns. So the cost balanced.

 

24 hours a day, they had the draft of collage football players into the pro league; for weeks and weeks before the draft. A couple of quarterbacks...the guy in charge of the ball, who often throws it to the wrong guy. , Named Luck and RG Something the third were the main stars of the draft. Both became starters their first year.

 

Worse than football(soccer) freaks the US is about it's Throwball.

The Broncos are Denver's football team.

 

An aside, both Baseball and Football are long boring games. They make a fortune to play, and to pay for that you have to watch 1 1/2 hours of commercials in the games.

Not fast and flowing like soccer....I imagine basketball is well also over it's traditional time run two minutes, rest a minute of commercials....can't run the other team off it's feet like in the old days.

 

Baseball use to be a 60-90 minute game (now 3 hours or more)....I loved it. I was a playing batting coach on a German under league, American HS level when I was 48 (low leagues allowed 1 American on the field at a time, the top league (semi-pro for 4 players...collage level allows 2 Amie's.).

 

After being in Germany most of my life I am not use to watching so many commercials interrupting a game.

When in the states for a few weeks in the Summer 10 & 15 years ago, after 6 innings of baseball (some two hours) (a stick ball game) I flipped the channel and found Chinese cooking so much more stimulating.

 

American football is best watched at HS level, in the game still is two 30 minute half's with a 15 minute half time pause, a 75 minute fast game. Collage games now take as long as pro. 75 minutes use to be pro games back when some folks still had B&W TV's. A man on the Line could be worn down by the more dominate man on the other side, so plays could be made through the tired man late in the game. Today with a 3 hour game, with oxygen bottles on the side line; no one can be worn out in the 4th quarter. For every minute of the game you get a minute of commercials.

 

Super bowl is worse, for 4 hours, they interrupt the best commercials in the world with game breaks. What really upsets me is in Germany, they are not allowed to show the commercials at 3 in the morning. So we get to see what is happening on the field. You have two teams standing around in large ovals, waiting for a play break. I seldom can last more than an hour...one quarter. I stopped wasting sleep time years ago. Oval watching is not really a great sport. Curling is so much better.

 

Back in the middle ages when Bert Starr was quarterbacking the Green Bay Packers, in the first Super Bowls, a quarter was still 15 minutes, on account of Vince Lombardi, the mean crazy God of all drill sergeants, made sure his abused, and terrified of him team, had the vigor to wear down the other team in the almost non stop compared to today, 75 minute counting half time game.The Last quarter belonged to Green Bay.(I was a Colts fan.) No OX2 bottles on the side line.....no spoiling one's viewing of commercials with silly game breaks like today....

God what were they thinking back in the bad old days, only a 10 minute lead in and a 5 minute lead out and all that over in only an hour and a half. They had super fast commercials, done when the chains were moved.....hum, gee every ten yards a commercial even then. One's memory can be selective.

 

It was once a game played by men; who calmly handed the ball to the ref after making a touchdown as if they did it all the time.

They not spike the ball, do orgasm moves, or silly dances.....or trash talk an opposing player; like they had just climbed Mt. Everest and would never do anything like that again in all their lives; acting like the intellectual TV he's watched was American Morality Play-fake wrestling....He'd been called for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Today it's played by trash. Defiantly not something one would want an impressionistic young son to watch.

 

Nejelan, you haven't missed anything, a good game of Rugby is much, much faster, even if I don't know much about it. I did watch the European Jr. Championships held in my village. Rugby is a game played by gentlemen, American football shows what America wants in a manners norm, to the world....trash-talk, & orgasm moves.

As an American I think that sad.

 

No I'm not going to watch it, even if I'm a Bronco's "fan". .. I might be able to name two players on each team, the Seahawk's have a guy named Wilson, the Bronco's one named Manning; who broke all the records this year.

 

There I was, trapped in a motel, being forced to watch all 65 shows of Navy CIS or watching the Draft. CIS and Draft watching was equally boring. Now, I do turn on the football com to see how RG what ever and Luck are doing. It's easy to become brain washed. Pretty soon, I was reading what was happening in 'football' on the com; wasting time, when I should have been on FPN; doing something.

 

I do hope the Americans/Canadians have a good time watching the Commercial Bowl, the best in the world.

In the morning, I'll wake up and say Dam, the Sea-hawks won. The best defense vs the best offense; mostly the best defense wins.

Edited January 21, 2014 by Bo Bo Olson

[inkstainedruth]

Bo Bo, you should do what my husband does, Steelers fan that he is, to make actually *watching* the games bearable. He sets up the timer to record them on the DVR box, then starts watching about an hour or so into the game. He fast forwards through the ads (and the talking heads stuff, and the replays, and the penalty marker decisions by the refs, and the halftime report...) and just watches the actual plays of the game. Occasionally he will rewind briefly to rewatch -- or to show me -- something really interesting or unusual (often, in the case of the Steelers this will include commentary from him on the order of "Oh, look at the bottom of the screen where Polumolu comes out of *NOWHERE* to stop the receiver in the upper left corner of the screen!")

As for the Superbowl, most years it's only worth watching for the commercials, especially the ones at halftime. The only times recently I've watched it live is when the Steelers are playing (which generally means we're at a party at someone else's house), or one time a few years ago when the NY Giants were playing the New England Patriots, and we were at my brother-in-law's house in CT, and Steve's nephew wanted to watch the game.

I've learned to like football. In Pittsburgh, you don't really have a choice. But I actually *like* watching baseball better. Someone please tell who this year's matchup teams are (haven't really been playing attention since the Steelers didn't make the playoffs) -- I don't really like the Broncos, but I'll root for them if the other team is worse; it's sort of like "My two favorite teams are the Steelers and whoever plays Dallas/New England/Chicago/Baltimore/Cleveland" (Okay, that last is sort of a joke, because Cleveland has never gotten as far as a Superbowl appearance; or, as we say around here in Pittsburgh: "That's one [aka Superbowl ring, given to all the players on the winning team] for the OTHER thumb!" ). No offense to any Browns fans on FPN, but, well, you know.

Now if only someone could explain the rules of (a) rugby -- which seems to make no sense; or ( cricket -- which makes even less sense....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Vendome]

I'm using lots of different coloured inks but to no avail. Manchester United still haven't sacked David Moyes and replaced him with a big team manager.

So much for ink superstition!

[Bo Bo Olson]

Deleted, the dead horse got up and took a coffee break.

Edited January 22, 2014 by Bo Bo Olson

[ethernautrix]

If I had been paying attention, I could have coached the 49ers from the virtual couch. I'm sorry, San Francisco. Or, should I say, Santa Clara?

 

 

Or, more on topic, I'm not using red and gold inks, although Noodler's Cayenne might qualify. I'm using a few shades of brown: Conway Stewart Kingsand, Caran d'Ache Grand Canyon, Noodler's Walnut, Pelikan Brown - none of them gold. MAYBE THAT'S WHY.

Edited January 22, 2014 by ethernautrix

[flyingfox]

And I was just thinking that the new bottle of Faber-Castell Moss Green that I picked at Philly Pen Show is an exact color match to the color of Eagles back in the days, before they adapted the new, silvery bluish green. Hmmm- maybe it means something for real, for the next season!!! Did I crack the code?? Fly, Eagles, Fly! E-A-G-L-E-S, Eagles!!!!!

[Gloucesterman]

Who/what are the Broncos? What is the Super Bowl?

 

A superbowl is a very large bowl of ice cream, filled with about two gallons of ice cream, and all kinds of sweet ice cream condiments like fudge, caramel, whipped cream, nuts, sprinkles, cherries, etc. At least that's what the old ice cream parlor named "Roland's" use to call their super deluxe dessert back in the 1960's. Oh, and the outrageous price for all that sweet gooey stuff. $4.50 USD!

[UkeDan]

If I had been paying attention, I could have coached the 49ers from the virtual couch. I'm sorry, San Francisco. Or, should I say, Santa Clara?

 

THAT's why the 49ers lost... shame on you.... ;-) (Is the Levi's stadium in Santa Clara???)