"I of course expect that you will want to name the little bugger after me!”
Eighteen-ish years might seem like a long time, but as any upper-middle-aged surf fan knows, it goes by in the blink of an eye. It seems like only yesterday that Mick Fanning won his first-of-three Association of Surfing Professionals trophies.
That lightning strike still tingling.
Bede “White Fijian” Durbidge’s Pipeline win, of that same year, as fresh in the memory as… whoever won last year.
Yes, time moves fast and before we all know it there will be a young man, or woman, with the first name “Huckabee” making his or her own Championship Tour debut.
As the Iran War, or Ramadan War as its being billed in Iran, stretches into its fifth day, the prospect of a new forever war are brightening. U.S. President Donald J. Trump and his Sec. of War Party Pete Hegseth are very bullish on the business being wrapped up quickly, five-ish weeks tops, but who could forget when former U.S. President George W. Bush’s Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared, “Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that…It won’t be a World War III,” ahead of the Iraq invasion back in 2002.
That operation lasted 20-odd years.
Trump, Hegseth et. al. continue to be bullish about Epic Fury, declaring the U.S. is “winning” though other reports suggest things might not be so rosy, The Islander Newspaper, for example, examining satellite footage shared by The New York Times and surmising that Iran has crippled U.S. communications across the region.
“Iran didn’t just strike US bases. It mapped the communication and coordination layer that makes American missile defense function as a unified system and then it peeled it apart, base by base, across five countries simultaneously. Thirty years of studying exactly how the American military machine sees, communicates, and coordinates and then, when the moment came, going straight for the eyes.”
Oops.
Back to Huckabee, though. U.S. diplomatic staff across the Middle East are either being evacuated or told to shelter-in-place. The ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, seeing a wonderful silver lining in the sulphur-filled skies for a baby boom. In a memo to staffers, the jolly fella informed them they will be spending extended time together and if that “results in the birth of your next child in about 9 months, I of course expect that you will want to name the little bugger after me!”
A no brainer.
Huckabee Jones 2043’s World Surf League Championship Tour Rookie of the Year?
Huzzah.
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Huckabee is an evil bastard
If there’s one thing that can bridge the divide between the two parties it’s war. They both are addicted to it.
Jesus fucken chriist what the actual fuck. I go to work one fucken day and miss a thread like this. Probably karma
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All this talk about badges..
I didn’t think I had any badges, ‘cept my own rusty sheriff’s badge.
Now I seem to have a ‘Gerry Lopez Softtop’ badge, which confuses the heck outta me.
Whatever.
@Dogsnuts
Want to finger my badge?
Hows Tom goin?
aint seen him round these parts lately.
Busy.
He got sick of all the shitfights on here a while back.
Fair enuff
Fuck how good was 2007 Mick?
I remember thinking he was gonna win that year and everyone thought I was wrong.
Bummer to see him just turn into a real estate mogul. Can’t blame him however.
In Australia you’re either a property mogul or you’re on the bones of your ass. Up or down. Very American style society.
Not true.
you guys follow US into every mess
Our little cousin! We’re so proud <3
My impression was that people didn’t have to worry too hard about healthcare though and even the most “broke” person I’d meet could still fuck off for two weeks on short notice to Thailand. There’s all sorts but you’d know better than I would D. Wouldn’t you say y’all have a better deal on average than the typical seppo?
Aus and NZ are cooked. The dream is over. Unless your dream is warrnambool or ashburton
Or Crib point! Go cribby! Just keep your car locked at all times !
Really really i miss dsas twas so out there but somehow comprehensible like if let your eyes unfocus for a bit you see more clearly
Would it be fair to say that Huckabee was homeschooled?
probably not. he graduated magna cum laude
nah means ya just really old!
or do ya wanna fuck……..my strayan cunt contribution!
You may get banned mentioning the banned
If they ban Brutus I’m out
wot?
Real deal honor, you lived during free times and open pastures and explored with new eyes every discovery
Nah it’s just the badge for those of us with All-Timers disease…
Did you earn your toxic badge this week?
Such achievers here
Just yesterday!
Greazer
I just pretent those are a pair of pink bolt-ons.
Yo Neggie
Did you have any idea that you could become an active post over badges?
Guys are melting down over your reflections of their participation…. grown men.
If you’re wound too tight for the BG comment section, you’re wound too tight.
Feels like a two bag of popcorn kinda day. Entertainment of the highest 😂
You call him Neggie again and he’s likely to ban you.
And I think your interpretation of meltdowns are actually jokes.
thou protest too much
thou DOTH protest too much.
Thank you Shakespeare
do ya think Niggly is OK?
Maybe Negrotron?
Nigglytron….???
Niggles?
Ok here it is….Niggatron?
Mod Niggatron?
MC, not Mod.
Noahtron…he departs the Cs
Ramadumb
There is a Ryan Huckabee on the QS. Just sayin…
That’s who I thought this article was about.
I dunno how these badge things work. Does a Tower 9 badge means someone wants to fight me?
Honestly, I don’t really know what it means but its pretty fucking funny. You can just turn it off in your Disqus account if you want.
But your badges are so prestigious
I still have a newbie badge 2+ years in the Grit. Gonna have to ask Negs for something new.
I wouldn’t do that. He might give you a cats bumhole or a conferderate flag.
Ha I got a newbie badge and been saying dumb shit here 10 years
Just don’t drift up to Tower 10 Tom and you’re good
I’ve seen lots of talk about “meet me at Tower 9” and wondered if it was a legendary meet-and-fight spot
You ever see the film Highlander?
Tower 9 is where The Quickening happens…..for surfers.
“there can only be one”
In ottos mind.
One of the best parts about YouTube is all the classic surf movies on it. Almost all of the best, post-1990, are there.
Was watching a Taj interview last night and YouTube cued up the Volcom Psychic Migrations vid, which I’ve never seen before.
Epic Chile footage in there
Might be back to scoring aerials by ’43 and ‘Huck-it’ Huckabee takes the Tour by force.
Banned, really? Getting soft Negs.
Not doing yourself any favors mate.
Should just chill so we can all enjoy your sunny side….
Didn’t know we were dealing with manopausal fun police.
While he can take the occasional jab, repeated harassment tends to rub him raw. I know this from personal experience. Plus like the rest of us sometimes have, he probably had domestic issues going on at the time.
Maybe a cranky partner, or unhappy client, who knows?
But he does have the power to regulate in here and when he gets so inclined he is not afraid to use it.
Just look at it this way, he was a WSL judge. They aren’t always fair, or logical, or consistent, but in the end their call is final, and too much whining about it just puts you in a permanent penalty box.
Just use Kolohe as an example.
Hope you are getting some waves homie, I am still down and out.
In the real world, he was just fucking around and messing with me all in good fun.
Just like WSL judges do to Chloe.
I didn’t know Negs used to be a judge.👍
Now you know!
Was he really though? Only place I’ve seen that claim is BG but nothing that I can find on the interweb.
Thats a bit stalky. Never been a WSL judge either, don’t know where that one came from.
Any Floridians in the house?
Most interesting dude shapes boards in Satellite Beach and is a QS judge. Man the stories. I just walked by, invited in and two hours later I left his shaping bay.
Florida stories can be the best stories.
You get the full spectrum of cunts. I’ve had legends such as Kechele roll through our parts and then shit cunts such as some dude named Roach who used to ride for Rusty and surf with the Hobgoods. Pro surfing Cunt.
Surfed one or two magical boards out of FL, as well.
Gordo
Dude is a talk
Carves his own blanks out of a giant block of foam. ???
Such a good time, totally unexpected
dude, he’s marrying a greek chick and I’ve been warning him for nearly a decade.
Come on now, jokes go both ways.
Gotta give you that one.
Legend Huckabee Longshank Florence.