Internet wormholes

[Vombatus]

Three pages and No mentions of Pornhub?

Might have been deleted.

And I might have had nothing to do with it.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Yep. I'll go looking for one guy, which will lead me to five other guys, then the teams, then the all-time lists, etc., etc. Racing-reference, too.

Didn't ESPN make a play to buy all those websites many years ago? Hard to believe they've never been monetized.

I'm almost sure ESPN tried buying them and Forman resisted. And thank goodness for that.

 

[Sea Bass]

Three pages and No mentions of Pornhub?

That site is mentioned in the Internet Cornholes thread.

 

[Bubbler]

Tonight, my wife and I watched the "Chaos" documentary on the Manson killings. Spoiler alert! The CIA did it! It was pretty batshirt ... which director Errol Morris seemed to recognize by counter-pointing much of the conspiratorial shirt.

It piqued my curiosity, so I looked up the Project MKUltra CIA program that allegedly lit the fuse for Manson back in the Haight in the Summer of Love. One of the doctors mentioned was a man by the name of Jolly West, who worked with LSD and mind manipulation, etc., and who was a part of Project MKUltra.

So I click on his Wikipedia page and he lived a fascinating life. Worked for the CIA, he was appointed as Jack Ruby's psychiatrist when he worked at the University of Oklahoma (CIA!), and he killed an elephant by dosing it with acid. (Which is terrible, but would be one heck of a conversation starter.)

He later worked at UCLA for many years. There was a header for "Lance Rentzel" in that part of his life.

Lance Rentzel? The wide receiver? The dude who was a go-to for NFL Films in my youth? West knew Rentzel from their mutual time at Oklahoma.

I click on it. I was aware that Rentzel twice exposed himself to minors during his playing career. It cost him his marriage to Joey Heatherton.

What I was not aware of was that Rentzel lived in the Playboy Mansion in the late 70s. He allegedly walked around with his deck out at Hef's joint in full view of others and jerked off in front of Hef's primate cage.

West studied him and surmised that Rentzel (who is still with us) had problems due to multiple concussions. So West identified a sort of proto-version of CTE.

Charlie Manson to Lance Rentzel pleasuring himself to pioneering CTE prognosis. It was a wild ride.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

A guy gets his ID back and immediately starts bringing up seven-year-old threads. That's @TheSportsPredictor's bit, Bubs! Don't you forking forget it, retro noob!!!

 

[Bubbler]

A guy gets his ID back and immediately starts bringing up seven-year-old threads. That's @TheSportsPredictor's bit, Bubs! Don't you forking forget it, retro noob!!!

So do I go in my time machine to fetch a beer? I'm not sure of the protocol here.

One of the delights, I guess, of the new site are the suggested threads at the bottom of the page. That's how I came into contact with that seven-year-old thread. Otherwise, I'd have started a new one.

Right now I've got a 2024 thread, one 2021, two 2020s and one 2018 underneath this post right now. Internet is the common word in all of them.

Alan is an AI bot! It's SkyNet!