McLaughlin Memorial

[boyst]

 

Most definitely Real World. You're showing your age.

nah. I don't watch either. I did watch real world. A few seasons, at least.

 

Real world was 90's. And true life was 2000's. You typed real life, hard to figure which you meant.

 

And real world mixed with survivor was the town fall. The breaking point was TLC

[3rdand12]

Jane, you ignorant slut!

There must be a prize for this recollection of Dan.

Question 3: Bladerunner

damn. like minds.

 

1. Darby, because Gilmore won't be here after this season.

2. Paris Hilton -- got famous for doing nothing except ten minutes of amateur porn; spawned a generation of copy cats.

3. Trading Places; Mozart’s ‘Mariage of Figarro'

4. Nick Folk's 53 yard FG on MNF following a recovered onside kick. That's how the Bills should win their first SB, on a long FG.

5. Pat Buchanan calmly explaining to Eleanor Clift why she's wrong.

Every show. it was awesome

OFT11 - crying laughing right now! I use to watch that PBS show from time to time for the comedy. People B word about O'Reilly, or the HBO guy, they have nothing on McLaughlin.

 

For all of you under 40 or who have no interest in politics, you need to look up this guy. He was over the top back in the day.

 

Sorry for the family. He provided entertainment and education for years and years on PBS.

 

Not even going to try and answer those questions as I know my responses will be responded with "WRONG, next Question"

well done indeed

Edited August 18, 2016 by 3rdand12

[OGTEleven]

1. Schmidt

 

2. Jersey Shore

 

3. Local Hero

 

4. The Hail Mary from Fergie to Hooks

 

5. The McLaughlin Group. Get Carvey to moderate.

 

 

1. I hope not. I remember the days when Moorman was our best player. I'm an optimist. WRONG!!!!!!!!

2. There are so many to choose from for this question. So far everyone has chosen WRONG!!!!!!!

 

3. CORRECT. 1 point for you. Bonus question. Only Taro T can answer for a point and he only gets one try

 

Which Dire Straits song would make a better radio talk show theme than anything out there today? Hint: Guitar outro. Hint 2: It would also make a great closing song for an episode of The Blacklist if you used the whole song.

 

4. Another question with a lot of great choices. Also all WRONG!!!!!! so far.

 

5. WRONG!!!!!! Dana Carvey makes jokes. This is serious business. This question is a little hard and probably not a great one. I may end up giving hints. Regardless of that I repeat WRONG!!!!!!!

 

1. Gillislee

2. Barack Obama

3. Star Wars: A New Hope

4. The kick. MAKE THE DAMNED KICK GO THROUGH DAMN YOU

5. Cthulu

 

 

 

1. Now way. WRONG!!!!!!!!

2. I said cultural symbol of cultural decay not cause of political and economic decay. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!! (And lighten up if anyone was mad at that answer)

3. Are you 9 years old? WRONG!!!!!!!!

4. Yawn. WRONG!!!!!!

5. Explain this WRONG!!!!!! answer.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

 

 

1. I hope not. I remember the days when Moorman was our best player. I'm an optimist. WRONG!!!!!!!!

2. There are so many to choose from for this question. So far everyone has chosen WRONG!!!!!!!

 

3. CORRECT. 1 point for you. Bonus question. Only Taro T can answer for a point and he only gets one try

 

Which Dire Straits song would make a better radio talk show theme than anything out there today? Hint: Guitar outro. Hint 2: It would also make a great closing song for an episode of The Blacklist if you used the whole song.

 

4. Another question with a lot of great choices. Also all WRONG!!!!!! so far.

 

5. WRONG!!!!!! Dana Carvey makes jokes. This is serious business. This question is a little hard and probably not a great one. I may end up giving hints. Regardless of that I repeat WRONG!!!!!!!

 

 

1. Now way. WRONG!!!!!!!!

2. I said cultural symbol of cultural decay not cause of political and economic decay. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!! (And lighten up if anyone was mad at that answer)

3. Are you 9 years old? WRONG!!!!!!!!

4. Yawn. WRONG!!!!!!

5. Explain this WRONG!!!!!! answer.

 

5. Dude, it's Cthulu. Only some sort of communist wants Cthulu to die.

[Steve O]

I haven't done much more than lurk (and a few music threads) for quite a while but some of the old timers may remember the McLaughlin threads. I haven't done one in forever but I saw that John McLaughlin passed away and it reminded me so I thought I'd do a tribute thread to say RIP.

 

Basically, I ask 5 questions and you try to answer them. I'll then let you know if you're right or WRONG!!!!!! McLaughlin SNL style.

 

 

I try to be as mean as possible so don't be offended. Whoever answers any question correctly first gets the point for that question.

 

Questions

 

1. If you excluded Sammy Watkins, Tyrod Taylor and Gilmore, who would be the Bills 2016 MVP based on what McLaughlin thinks will happen this season?

 

2. What is the worst symbol of American cultural decay in decades (so many to choose from lately)? Be specific or you'll be WRONG!!!!!!

 

3. What is the greatest all instrumental movie soundtrack in the last 40 years? The winner of this question will get one chance at a bonus point.

 

4. You can pick a play from Bills history to be the winning play in the Bills first Super Bowl victory. What play do you choose? (Note that it does not have to happen against the same team and that it could even be a play that the Bills lost on but they would win this time). Do NOT pick the Home Run Throwforward or you will be suspended from this game.

 

5. What should not die just because McLaughlin did?

1) LeSean McCoy

2) Agree with Dr Who, Caitlyn Jenner

3) Prefontaine

4) Back to back catches by Roland Hooks vs New England 1981 (I didn't leave that game early). The catch before the Hail Mary was one of the best ever. http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2011/6/30/2250253/best-moments-in-bills-history-no-21-roland-hooks-hail-mary-catch

5) Have to copy Dr. Who again...conservatives on PBS.

Edited August 18, 2016 by Steve O

[OGTEleven]

1. Goodwin -- he will stay healthy and establish the deep threat that will allow Sammy to be moved to variable positions x,y, and z, as well as create more running room after the initial point of contact.

 

2. Caitlyn Jenner -- the glorification of the trangender movement, aside from any perhaps legitimate issues of gender dysphoria, is at base a radical rejection of natural norms. Nature is conceived as a neutral being lacking inherent value. What can be measured and weighed is "objective and real" following the lead of Galileo, Newton, and Descartes, whilst aesthetic and moral judgements are treated as purely subjective and therefore outside a criteria that can be "imposed" from the outside. Any form of heteronomy is understood to be a from of fascist coercion. This is partly a legacy of Kant, but it has been radicalized, popularized, and dumbed down so that any judgement of "aberration" is now bigoted and any form of eccentricity is now a heroic gesture towards freedom and self-expression, so long as overt violence towards others is avoided. The banal cultural truism that enjoins the Caitlyn Jenner effect is an intensified version of "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." One cannot call Andy Warhol a clever sophist for marketing kitsch consumerism or Marcel Duchamp's urinal a joke at the expense of intellectual pretension or the endless egoism of the selfie generation a narcissistic indulgence of the vulgarly shallow; one must celebrate it or be deemed a narrow and provincial moralist.

 

3. Chariots of Fire

 

4. Jack Kemp to Charley Ferguson with 28 seconds left to beat the Patriots in 1963. Old school helmets and last minute defeat of the Pats before the era of privileged, whiny cheating.

 

5. Conservatives on PBS?

 

1. That would be good news but is WRONG!!!!!!!!

 

2. WOW!!!!!! That was a long winded and philosophical way of saying you are too young to remember Renee Richards. WRONG!!!!!!

 

3. That song is constantly mocked in sitcoms. WRONG!!!! (and already answered correctly by Taro T).

 

4. Good one as many have been. Not heart stopping enough. WRONG!!!!!

 

5. NOPE!

3. Risky Business

 

 

3. WRONG!!!!! in so many ways.

 

5. Dude, it's Cthulu. Only some sort of communist wants Cthulu to die.

 

 

I didn't say he should die, he's just not the answer to that question. Maybe if I do another one I'll make him an answer. Maybe I can work him and Martina McBride into the same answer somehow.

1) LeSean McCoy

2) Agree with Dr Who, Caitlyn Jenner

3) Prefontaine

4) Back to back catches by Roland Hooks vs New England 1981 (I didn't leave that game early). The catch before the Hail Mary was one of the best ever. http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2011/6/30/2250253/best-moments-in-bills-history-no-21-roland-hooks-hail-mary-catch

5) Have to copy Dr. Who again...conservatives on PBS.

 

 

#3 is already answered, #1 and #4 are good but WRONG!!!! choices and agreeing with Dr. Who has thus far proven WRONG!!!! in this thread.

[thebandit27]

I haven't done much more than lurk (and a few music threads) for quite a while but some of the old timers may remember the McLaughlin threads. I haven't done one in forever but I saw that John McLaughlin passed away and it reminded me so I thought I'd do a tribute thread to say RIP.

 

Basically, I ask 5 questions and you try to answer them. I'll then let you know if you're right or WRONG!!!!!! McLaughlin SNL style.

 

 

I try to be as mean as possible so don't be offended. Whoever answers any question correctly first gets the point for that question.

 

Questions

 

1. If you excluded Sammy Watkins, Tyrod Taylor and Gilmore, who would be the Bills 2016 MVP based on what McLaughlin thinks will happen this season?

 

2. What is the worst symbol of American cultural decay in decades (so many to choose from lately)? Be specific or you'll be WRONG!!!!!!

 

3. What is the greatest all instrumental movie soundtrack in the last 40 years? The winner of this question will get one chance at a bonus point.

 

4. You can pick a play from Bills history to be the winning play in the Bills first Super Bowl victory. What play do you choose? (Note that it does not have to happen against the same team and that it could even be a play that the Bills lost on but they would win this time). Do NOT pick the Home Run Throwforward or you will be suspended from this game.

 

5. What should not die just because McLaughlin did?

 

1. Dan Carpenter

2. Social Media

3. Last of the Mohicans--this is fact, not opinion

4. The opening play from the Bills' 2015 season--where Matt Cassel takes the snap, fakes to Tyrod, and flips to Shady who runs for a loss.

5. Dana Carvey

[OGTEleven]

 

1. Dan Carpenter

2. Social Media

3. Last of the Mohicans--this is fact, not opinion

4. The opening play from the Bills' 2015 season--where Matt Cassel takes the snap, fakes to Tyrod, and flips to Shady who runs for a loss.

5. Dana Carvey

 

1. Bad hair, high winds and long extra points are a toxic mix. WRONG!!!!!

2. Yet another good but WRONG!!!!! choice.

3. WRONG!!!! and already answered.

4. It would be hard to win the Super Bowl on that play and I don't want to see Matt Cassel ever again. WRONG!!!!!!!

5. I don't want him to die but WRONG!!!!!!

To recap 3 is Local Hero, 5 was probably a bad question so I may just give the answer soon, we're all around 2 but it hasn't been hit, I'm surprised nobody has hit 1, and 4 will be great if it happens, think hard about that one.

 

A couple of hints might be that a play similar to 4 happened this year but it did not involve the Bills, 5 involves how McLaughlin's show was different from a lot of political talk you hear on shows today. I can't give hints for 1 and 2 without giving it away. 2 should be so easy.

[Taro T]

1. I hope not. I remember the days when Moorman was our best player. I'm an optimist. WRONG!!!!!!!!

2. There are so many to choose from for this question. So far everyone has chosen WRONG!!!!!!!

 

3. CORRECT. 1 point for you. Bonus question. Only Taro T can answer for a point and he only gets one try

 

Which Dire Straits song would make a better radio talk show theme than anything out there today? Hint: Guitar outro. Hint 2: It would also make a great closing song for an episode of The Blacklist if you used the whole song.

 

4. Another question with a lot of great choices. Also all WRONG!!!!!! so far.

 

5. WRONG!!!!!! Dana Carvey makes jokes. This is serious business. This question is a little hard and probably not a great one. I may end up giving hints. Regardless of that I repeat WRONG!!!!!!!

 

 

1. Now way. WRONG!!!!!!!!

2. I said cultural symbol of cultural decay not cause of political and economic decay. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!! (And lighten up if anyone was mad at that answer)

3. Are you 9 years old? WRONG!!!!!!!!

4. Yawn. WRONG!!!!!!

5. Explain this WRONG!!!!!! answer.

That's a toughie. The Q itself narrows it down to 80% of their catalog. And the 1st clue leaves it at ~55% of the catalog. Don't watch much network TV 'cept for CBS @1PM on Sunday in the Fall/ early Winter, so the 2nd clue was no help.

 

When in doubt, always go w/ Telegraph Road.

[OGTEleven]

That's a toughie. The Q itself narrows it down to 80% of their catalog. And the 1st clue leaves it at ~55% of the catalog. Don't watch much network TV 'cept for CBS @1PM on Sunday in the Fall/ early Winter, so the 2nd clue was no help.

 

When in doubt, always go w/ Telegraph Road.

 

 

Like Martina McBride, Telegraph Road is never technically wrong, but in this case the desired answer was On Every Street.

 

I got to see him last fall and he had just started playing it again after 23 years. Below is a clip of the show I attended. Outro starts about 3:45. It throws in Speedway At Nazareth so enjoy.

 

 

If you haven't checked out every bit of his post Dire Straits you owe it to yourself.

Edited August 18, 2016 by OGTEleven

[Taro T]

Saw him in a tiny theater near Filly in '01 about 2 weeks after the Sabres knocked the Phlyers out.

 

Awesome show. Opened w/ Calling Elvis & the last song before the encore was Telegraph Road. He did Speedway at Nazareth in that show as well.

 

Wore my replica Gilmour. Never got flack until leaving, then caught a LOT.

 

Definitely someone worth seeing play live. No fancy light show, just a truckload of awesome guitarists w/ a bit of accompaniment.

 

Have about 11 of his solo CD's + DS's Sultans of Swing which has a '96 solo set of his as the 2nd disk.

[4merper4mer]

I haven't done much more than lurk (and a few music threads) for quite a while but some of the old timers may remember the McLaughlin threads. I haven't done one in forever but I saw that John McLaughlin passed away and it reminded me so I thought I'd do a tribute thread to say RIP.

 

Basically, I ask 5 questions and you try to answer them. I'll then let you know if you're right or WRONG!!!!!! McLaughlin SNL style.

 

 

I try to be as mean as possible so don't be offended. Whoever answers any question correctly first gets the point for that question.

 

Questions

 

1. If you excluded Sammy Watkins, Tyrod Taylor and Gilmore, who would be the Bills 2016 MVP based on what McLaughlin thinks will happen this season?

 

2. What is the worst symbol of American cultural decay in decades (so many to choose from lately)? Be specific or you'll be WRONG!!!!!!

 

3. What is the greatest all instrumental movie soundtrack in the last 40 years? The winner of this question will get one chance at a bonus point.

 

4. You can pick a play from Bills history to be the winning play in the Bills first Super Bowl victory. What play do you choose? (Note that it does not have to happen against the same team and that it could even be a play that the Bills lost on but they would win this time). Do NOT pick the Home Run Throwforward or you will be suspended from this game.

 

5. What should not die just because McLaughlin did?

1. Charles Clay

2. Illegal immigration. Specifically from Canada.

3. Natural Born Killers, Lara Croft, The Crow, Lost Highway and Tetsuo. All of them have Nine Inch Nails.

4. Ronnie Harmon play dropped by the other team.

5. I don't get it.

[OGTEleven]

1. Charles Clay

2. Illegal immigration. Specifically from Canada.

3. Natural Born Killers, Lara Croft, The Crow, Lost Highway and Tetsuo. All of them have Nine Inch Nails.

4. Ronnie Harmon play dropped by the other team.

5. I don't get it.

1. WRONG!!!!!!! But I hope he has a good year too.

2. Most people have been close on this one. Not you. WRONG!!!!!!!!

3. Seek help in the musical taste category. Already answered and you are WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. That would be a good way to get into the Super Bowl if the Patriots or Fish did the dropping. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5. Clearly. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OGTEleven]

OK it looks like it is time to wrap it up. RIP McLaughlin.

 

Answers

 

1. Robert Woods is going to have a great year and will only be under the players I listed as potential Bills MVP (opinion of course).

 

2. There are a lot of bad trends these days but none are worse than The Real Housewives of (fill in the blank). It is it's own subculture and it is disgusting.

 

3. Taro T got it with Local Hero

 

4. A repeat of the blocked field goal return against the Broncos would be an amazing way to win a Super Bowl in the last second. The Ravens did it to the Browns just this year.

 

5. This was a bad question but I can explain. The answer was

 

Seemingly uncivil discourse that was actually civil under the covers. I would have accepted similar answers.

 

What I liked about McLaughlin's show was that although there were strong disagreements and even yelling, there was a level of respect and courtesy. At some level, they listened to the other person. Shows like Hannity and O'Reilly and MSNBC's lineup leave me believing the people do not like each other and are more into making the other person look bad than trying to make their own point. There are exceptions on individual shows from time to time but most of the discussion is pointless and antagonistic. I never got that from The McLaughlin Report.

[Bullpen]

Hey OGTEleven! This is best version of the original video:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koFlWXgX52E

[GG]

OK it looks like it is time to wrap it up. RIP McLaughlin.

 

Answers

 

 

2. There are a lot of bad trends these days but none are worse than The Real Housewives of (fill in the blank). It is it's own subculture and it is disgusting.

 

 

WRONG!!!

 

The house wives wouldn't be on air if MTV didn't get the low brow programming on a decade earlier

[KD in CA]

WRONG!!!

 

The house wives wouldn't be on air if MTV didn't get the low brow programming on a decade earlier

 

But he's right that the housewives take it to a whole new level. Five cunty women sitting around sniping at each other, only to break away to one-on-one interviews every so often so each on them can recount all the sniping from her POV. Apparently this is what happens every single episode in every one of these shows.

[OGTEleven]

 

But he's right that the housewives take it to a whole new level. Five cunty women sitting around sniping at each other, only to break away to one-on-one interviews every so often so each on them can recount all the sniping from her POV. Apparently this is what happens every single episode in every one of these shows.

That's why I went with it. Other stuff preceded it but this is the lowest of the low.

[OGTEleven]

Hey OGTEleven! This is best version of the original video:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koFlWXgX52E

 

 

Nice. I don't know why Youtube never brought that one up with my search. That whole skit idea was great.

[Freddie's Dead]

RIP John McLaughlin, must see TV for over 30 years for me. You missed one thing OGT11, one question should have been in the form, "On a scale of 0 to 10, 0 being no possibility at all, and 10 being metaphysical certitude....". That said, my answers:

 

1. Erik Rodriguez Manuel, Jr. (yeah, I seddit!)

2. The Morton Downey Jr. Show (it started it all, Geraldo, Jerry, etc.)

3. Star Wars, AINEC

4. Easy, 3rd and 13 where Mark Ingram breaks 7 tackles for the first down (one tackle, just one, we win)

5. The McLaughlin Group show itself (tall order, Johnny Mac had more gravitas than the rest of them put together)

Edited August 20, 2016 by Freddie's Dead