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Robert Archibalt Graafland, "A Girl Reading in a Hammock" (1910)

Posted by: rdbrewer at 10:02 AM

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1 Nice.

Posted by: HH at May 26, 2015 10:03 AM (Ce4DF)

2 She sure is wearing a lot of makeup for "reading in a hammock".

Posted by: jwpaine at May 26, 2015 10:04 AM (0bXhD)

3 Looks so soothing. I wish I had a yard where I could put a hammock.

Posted by: nnptcgrad at May 26, 2015 10:05 AM (5MOhI)

4 Hopefully the 'tard wont follow us here.

Posted by: steevy at May 26, 2015 10:05 AM (mGBKM)

5
I gotta say, a hammock makes for a shitty sniper hide, even if ghillied up. Tough to get a steady shooting position.

And by the way, yeah I'd hit it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 26, 2015 10:06 AM (lpeQC)

6 I wonder what she's reading.

Posted by: @JohnTant at May 26, 2015 10:07 AM (PFy0L)

7 This picture of relaxation and safety is only a construct of this girl's mind, a mental "safe space" if you will, that she has created to shield herself from the horror of the nonstop raping of all wymyn that occurs every second of every day.

Posted by: Feminist art critic at May 26, 2015 10:07 AM (2Ojst)

8
Hammock Girl. Raising awareness of the oppressive patriarchy since 1910.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 26, 2015 10:07 AM (NHQQx)

9 6 I wonder what she's reading.
Posted by: @JohnTant at May 26, 2015 10:07 AM (PFy0L)

Victorian-era pr0n.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 26, 2015 10:08 AM (2Ojst)

10 Is that a cook book she's studying?

Posted by: Gustav at May 26, 2015 10:08 AM (pmv/9)

11 How come anorexia is considered a mental disease regard to body perception but transgender desires to slice off your penis is celebrated?

Also, Bruce Jenner's declaration that he is fully heterosexual despite his desire to become a transgender woman should damage the demands for equal access to locker rooms and restrooms.

Posted by: Cruzinator at May 26, 2015 10:08 AM (8cSVB)

12 Damn that looks relaxing. And the hammock looks good too.

(The veal you must try. Yes.)

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at May 26, 2015 10:08 AM (RD7QR)

13 I can't see the art but would prefer to be a girl reading in a hammock rather than a girl reading the internet at work. (if this confounded rain would ever go away, that is).

Also, from the last thread, I just want to say that catfish pie would be gross because catfish is too mushy.

Posted by: Lea at May 26, 2015 10:08 AM (lIU4e)

14 Is that a cat in her lap?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2015 10:08 AM (TOk1P)

15 14 Is that a cat in her lap?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2015 10:08 AM (TOk1P)

No, she's just happy to see you.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 26, 2015 10:09 AM (2Ojst)

16 All I see is rape. It's Rapey Tuesday correct? And that isn't a "cat"

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:09 AM (zOTsN)

17 14 Is that a cat in her lap?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2015 10:08 AM (TOk1P)

I thought it was a blanket. And the sniper is in the grass under the hammock.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at May 26, 2015 10:10 AM (RD7QR)

18 She'll be out of that hammock and on the porch like a flash when she sees that rain a-coming.

Posted by: Eromero at May 26, 2015 10:10 AM (go5uR)

19 "Bruce Jenner in Repose"

Posted by: Insomniac at May 26, 2015 10:10 AM (2Ojst)

20 Pre-rape or post? Painting the patriarchy pollutes prandial peace.

Posted by: Emma Sulkowicz at May 26, 2015 10:10 AM (FCsIb)

21 Women could read in 1910?

Wow. Another feminist myth totally busted.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 26, 2015 10:11 AM (iAUf+)

22
Hetero sexual as in Bruce still likes women.... Or heterosexual as a woman now likes men....?

I need a scorecard now for this crap.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 26, 2015 10:11 AM (uiVGU)

23 Hammocks were the mattress of 1910

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:11 AM (zOTsN)

24 Why are there red tassles on a hammock? They seem superfluous.

Posted by: Gustav at May 26, 2015 10:11 AM (pmv/9)

25 How come anorexia is considered a mental disease
regard to body perception but transgender desires to slice off your
penis is celebrated?

Also, Bruce Jenner's declaration that he is fully heterosexual
despite his desire to become a transgender woman should damage the
demands for equal access to locker rooms and restrooms.

Posted by: Cruzinator at May 26, 2015 10:08 AM (8cSVB)

It is generally noted that a significant majority of individuals who identify as transgender remain interested in the opposite (now same?) sex. In other words, if Brucella still likes the ladies, he would be typical of men who desire to become women.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2015 10:11 AM (TOk1P)

26
You think it's buggy in the shade where she's at? Otherwise, it looks ideal.

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 26, 2015 10:11 AM (iQIUe)

27 She'll make a nice snack ... but not too much. Must save my appetite for the Jane D'Oh main course.

Tasty. So tasty.

Posted by: The Lurking Spider at May 26, 2015 10:12 AM (iUJ9v)

28 All I can see is rape. And a kitteh. But mostly rape.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 26, 2015 10:12 AM (h4vJk)

29 Oh, isn't that peaceful.
Would love to be in a hammock reading a book right now, too.....

Posted by: Lizzy at May 26, 2015 10:13 AM (XTnol)

30 There's a kitteh? It must be huge.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at May 26, 2015 10:13 AM (RD7QR)

31 29
Oh, isn't that peaceful.

Would love to be in a hammock reading a book right now, too.....

Posted by: Lizzy at May 26, 2015 10:13 AM (XTnol)

I don't know, looks stressful on the back.

Posted by: Gustav at May 26, 2015 10:14 AM (pmv/9)

32 It is generally noted that a significant majority of individuals who identify as transgender remain interested in the opposite (now same?) sex. In other words, if Brucella still likes the ladies, he would be typical of men who desire to become women.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2015 10:11 AM (TOk1P)

Okay, now you're just fuckin' with us.

Posted by: jwpaine at May 26, 2015 10:14 AM (0bXhD)

33 I looks awesome

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:14 AM (zOTsN)

34 Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2015 10:11 AM (TOk1P)

And as I pointed out this should be the bar for transgendered males to use female facilities. Bruce Jenner happened to make public that fact.

Posted by: Cruzinator at May 26, 2015 10:15 AM (8cSVB)

35 Ginger in a hammock.

Nice and Rapey.

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at May 26, 2015 10:15 AM (nqiq9)

36 Bruce is a Trans lesbian then?

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:15 AM (zOTsN)

37 No meerkat in here? Good.

Hammock Girl looks like she dozed off. I'm thinking laudanum.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 26, 2015 10:15 AM (7ObY1)

38 >>I don't know, looks stressful on the back.

Not with the right hammock.
Growing up we had one on the front porch, hidden by some lilac bushes (so: privacy). It was the best.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 26, 2015 10:15 AM (XTnol)

39 I wonder what she's reading.
Posted by: @JohnTant

50 Shades of Grey.

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 26, 2015 10:15 AM (OmZNe)

40 Hammock Girl looks like she dozed off. I'm thinking laudanum.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 26, 2015 10:15 AM (7ObY1)

*raises hand*

I would like some laudanum.

Posted by: alexthechick - Oh please intervene SMOD at May 26, 2015 10:16 AM (mf5HN)

41 she's got a hammock on her back to protest the rape culture

Posted by: Bigby's Pregnant Hands at May 26, 2015 10:16 AM (Cq0oW)

42
Alien: Nostromo ambient engine noise on a 12 hour loop.

https://youtu.be/U4p1mZnKkhc

"Jonesy. Jonnnnnesy!"

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 26, 2015 10:17 AM (kdS6q)

43 Very pretty. And a reader. My type of girl.

And 1910 is my type of year, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 26, 2015 10:17 AM (zF6Iw)

44 40 Hammock Girl looks like she dozed off. I'm thinking laudanum.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 26, 2015 10:15 AM (7ObY1)

*raises hand*

I would like some laudanum.
Posted by: alexthechick - Oh please intervene SMOD at May 26, 2015 10:16 AM (mf5HN)

My knee would like me to cut in front of you in the laudanum line.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at May 26, 2015 10:17 AM (RD7QR)

45 She'll make a nice snack ... but not too much. Must save my appetite for the Jane D'Oh main course.
Tasty. So tasty.
Posted by: The Lurking Spider at May 26, 2015 10:12 AM

Just stay on your own turf, bub.

Posted by: The Face-Sized Spider in AtC's Closet at May 26, 2015 10:18 AM (h4vJk)

46 43
Very pretty. And a reader. My type of girl.

And 1910 is my type of year, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 26, 2015 10:17 AM (zF6Iw)

LOL!

Posted by: Gustav at May 26, 2015 10:18 AM (pmv/9)

47

41
she's got a hammock on her back to protest the rape culture
'You better put some ice on that'
Where was all the outrage when Paula Jones was raped by Clenis?

Posted by: some random meathead - sorta choked up at May 26, 2015 10:19 AM (XVOlz)

48 *raises hand*

I would like some laudanum.

I have a camping book written about 1920 (Horace Kephart's classic "Camping & Woodcraft") that recommends having laudanum in one's first aid kit. The book also has cannabis under the heading of "useful plants" (for rope making, not smoking.) How times have changed.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 26, 2015 10:19 AM (7ObY1)

49 >>>Okay, now you're just fuckin' with us.<<<

No, it makes sense. It's like Prince Charles wanting to be Camilla's Tampax.

Posted by: Fritz at May 26, 2015 10:19 AM (ty633)

50 The several paintings of her trying to get into the hammock and ending up on the ground were never shown to the public.

Posted by: eman at May 26, 2015 10:19 AM (MQEz6)

51 My KNEE would like me to cut in front of you in the laudanum line.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at May 26, 2015 10:17 AM (RD7QR)

Careful. AtC can punch THAT high.

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at May 26, 2015 10:19 AM (nqiq9)

52 >>>>>>And 1910 is my type of year, too

in the next year, colt would change the world

Posted by: Bigby's Pregnant Hands at May 26, 2015 10:20 AM (Cq0oW)

53 On the bright side, a hammock is a helluva lot easier to lug around than a mattress when it comes time for graduation season attention whor .... errrrr, awareness protests.

Posted by: Jaws at May 26, 2015 10:20 AM (Jktp1)

54 51 My KNEE would like me to cut in front of you in the laudanum line.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at May 26, 2015 10:17 AM (RD7QR)

Careful. AtC can punch THAT high.
Posted by: 1bulwetweft at May 26, 2015 10:19 AM (nqiq9)

She'll use your scrote for a speed bag.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 26, 2015 10:20 AM (2Ojst)

55 The several paintings of her trying to get into the hammock and ending up on the ground were never shown to the public.

Posted by: eman at May 26, 2015 10:19 AM

It was the laudanum speaking.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 26, 2015 10:21 AM (h4vJk)

56 BTW, I just ordered a new hammock! Thank you to the art for reminding me, because if I don't get one now it will be hard to find them until spring next year. My old one is falling apart.

Posted by: Lea at May 26, 2015 10:22 AM (lIU4e)

57 No prob ... I'm a one-woman spider. And Jane's plenty of woman for me.

Especially when she's sleeping. And in the shower. And those awkward, defenseless moments while dressing.

Face ... I gotta' tell ya' ... when she's REALLY concentrating, and I drop down JUST THIS CLOSE to her neck. Man. Ain't nothing like it this side of heaven.

Posted by: The Lurking Spider at May 26, 2015 10:22 AM (iUJ9v)

58 See , this troll could be on DU or KOS yukking it up over dead fetuses and humping Obama's leg hoping for a pat on the head.

But instead it chooses to waste it's bandwidth here. With intelligent and decent people.

I wonder what it will pull out of it's pants and smear in the comments section next?

Let's watch.

Posted by: some random meathead - sorta choked up at May 26, 2015 10:22 AM (XVOlz)

59 There is zero doubt my MILs assisted living is flooded. None. I can't get to her

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:23 AM (zOTsN)

60 Growing up we had one on the front porch, hidden by some lilac bushes (so: privacy). It was the best.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 26, 2015 10:15 AM (XTnol)

Oooh! that sounds nice. Mine is in the front yard so I can see all my neighbors but whatever. I can also see the lake.

Posted by: Lea at May 26, 2015 10:24 AM (lIU4e)

61 Face ... I gotta' tell ya' ... when she's REALLY concentrating, and I drop down JUST THIS CLOSE to her neck. Man. Ain't nothing like it this side of heaven.

Posted by: The Lurking Spider at May 26, 2015 10:22 AM

Brb. Bunk.

Posted by: The Face-Sized Spider in AtC's Closet at May 26, 2015 10:24 AM (h4vJk)

62 #58 the troll never has fun, won't talk about artwork or hammocks

Posted by: Gustav at May 26, 2015 10:24 AM (pmv/9)

63 The title of that book is "Feminine Hysteria - causes and effects"

Posted by: Roy at May 26, 2015 10:25 AM (VndSC)

64 >>>See , this troll could be on DU or KOS yukking it up over dead fetuses and humping Obama's leg hoping for a pat on the head.

What did I miss?

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at May 26, 2015 10:25 AM (O7MnT)

65 Girl enjoying a life of bourgeois leisure in 1910 while oppressed workers slave away in the family-owned fruitgum company.

Posted by: FireHorse at May 26, 2015 10:26 AM (8TqNO)

66 People are kayaking in front of her place

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:26 AM (zOTsN)

67 Hector wussed out and won't talk about books or cats with the rest of us.

Posted by: Gustav at May 26, 2015 10:26 AM (pmv/9)

68 >>>Okay, now you're just fuckin' with us.<<<

No, it makes sense. It's like Prince Charles wanting to be Camilla's Tampax.

Posted by: Fritz at May 26, 2015 10:19 AM (ty633)

Oh lordy, no. It doesn't make sense. Neither does slicing off one's Congressman Anthony. Still, that's what everyone says. Men who transgender to women still like women. Is it true? Hell, I don't know.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2015 10:26 AM (TOk1P)

69 The title of that book is "Feminine Hysteria - causes and effects"

"And How To Combat It"

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 26, 2015 10:27 AM (OmZNe)

70 My knee would like me to cut in front of you in the laudanum line.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at May 26, 2015 10:17 AM (RD7QR)

I'm sorry you're about to fall into that meat grinder.

Posted by: alexthechick - Oh please intervene SMOD at May 26, 2015 10:27 AM (mf5HN)

71 Also happening in 1910: on February 8th, William Boyce founded the Boy Scouts. If he only knew what would happen a hundred years later...

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 26, 2015 10:27 AM (PtTYB)

72 Or pie.

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:28 AM (zOTsN)

73
And in Art -- with a well deserved capital "A" -- a Planet of the Apes gorilla solider using a trident while fighting against an octopus:

http://tinyurl.com/n2r5k7a

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 26, 2015 10:28 AM (kdS6q)

74 Girl enjoying a life of bourgeois leisure in 1910 while oppressed workers slave away in the family-owned fruitgum company.

So THAT'S the Wrigley's broad!

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 26, 2015 10:28 AM (OmZNe)

75 Thunderb ...

... I'm flying into a jobsite in Houston today. Without giving me too many details - is there a particular section of town that you'd like me to check out ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at May 26, 2015 10:29 AM (iUJ9v)

76 ThunderB, prayers for your MIL and the others in her living facility.

Posted by: @votermom at May 26, 2015 10:29 AM (5AvFV)

77 Prayers for TX morons in general, at least those affected by the rain.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at May 26, 2015 10:30 AM (RD7QR)

78 #75 Find a Churascos and get a steak. They're amazing.

Posted by: Gustav at May 26, 2015 10:30 AM (pmv/9)

79 People are kayaking in front of her place
Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:26 AM

O_o

Prayers for her safety, Thunderb.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 26, 2015 10:30 AM (h4vJk)

80 In 1910, George Vee becomes King of England after the death of his father, Edward Stark Vee-eye-eye.

Posted by: American College Student, $100,000 in debt at May 26, 2015 10:33 AM (PtTYB)

81 Where was all the outrage when Paula Jones was raped by Clenis?

I'm old enough to remember Bob Dole's campaign against the Syphilitic Hillbilly, when he cried - in response to various Clinton illegalities and scams - "Where's the outrage?"

The MFM turned it into a "get off my lawn" moment.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 26, 2015 10:33 AM (zF6Iw)

82 She might be reading The Emerald City or Howard's End both written in 1910. Don't know if this painting chosen because of it but the Boy Scouts were founded in 1910. And in honor of hockey playoffs, the Ottawa Senators swept Edmonton to win the Stanley Cup in 1910.

Posted by: Cruzinator at May 26, 2015 10:33 AM (8cSVB)

83 They have evacuation plans. I am assuming they executed them. My MIL is only about 7 minutes from me but her place is literally on the bayou, and they got about 13 inches of rain in less than 24 hours

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:33 AM (zOTsN)

84 Posted by: ScoggDog at May 26, 2015 10:29 AM (iUJ9v

Third Ward.

Posted by: Cruzinator at May 26, 2015 10:35 AM (8cSVB)

85 Starting to find bodies in cars

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:36 AM (zOTsN)

86 Weird, with everyone saying the BSA was founded in 1910, I just had to check it.....

Posted by: Gustav at May 26, 2015 10:36 AM (pmv/9)

87 In 1910, boxer Jack Johnson defeated James J. Jeffries for the heavyweight boxing title, sparking the infamous Consonant Riots by those outraged by the over-representation of the letter J in the boxing world.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 26, 2015 10:37 AM (PtTYB)

88 Hillary turned the State Department into a Clinton Foundation vending machine:

http://tinyurl.com/lj2bcvu

Money in - weapons deals out.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 26, 2015 10:38 AM (BZAd3)

89 Girl enjoying a life of bourgeois leisure in 1910 while oppressed workers slave away in the family-owned fruitgum company.
Posted by: FireHorse at May 26, 2015 10:26 AM (8TqNO)

Love in your tummy. It's a beautiful thing.

Posted by: jwpaine at May 26, 2015 10:38 AM (0bXhD)

90 Is that a Boy Scout?

Posted by: Hairy Reed at May 26, 2015 10:39 AM (9zQve)

91 89 Girl enjoying a life of bourgeois leisure in 1910 while oppressed workers slave away in the family-owned fruitgum company.
Posted by: FireHorse at May 26, 2015 10:26 AM (8TqNO)

How does that old Commie agitation poem go? "The golf links lie so near the mill..."

Posted by: Citizen X at May 26, 2015 10:39 AM (7ObY1)

92 People often underestimate the power of moving water.

A cubic meter of water weighs one ton.

Cars and trucks can easily be tossed around like toys.

Posted by: eman at May 26, 2015 10:40 AM (MQEz6)

93
If you are in your car and the water rises above your tail pipe and your engine is on, you can dies of monoxide poisoning.

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 26, 2015 10:41 AM (iQIUe)

94 If Paula Jones had known to start humping (heh)around a mattress, we wouldn't be in the position we are now in.

Posted by: Emma Sulkowicz at May 26, 2015 10:41 AM (FCsIb)

95 Weird, with everyone saying the BSA was founded in 1910, I just had to check it.....

In the US. Incorporated Feb. 8th, 1910 under the laws of the District of Cesspools. (DC)

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 26, 2015 10:42 AM (OmZNe)

96 92 People often underestimate the power of moving water.

Yep. I've been nearly washed downstream in ankle-deep water many times while hiking.

And living near Niagara Falls, the stories of people dying because they didn't understand or willfully ignored the power of the water are far too numerous.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 26, 2015 10:42 AM (7ObY1)

97 Girl enjoying a life of bourgeois leisure in 1910 while oppressed workers slave away in the family-owned fruitgum company.

Those top-40 hits don't make themselves, you know.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at May 26, 2015 10:43 AM (oVJmc)

98 "A cubic meter"

What's that in real units of measurement?

Posted by: jwpaine at May 26, 2015 10:43 AM (0bXhD)

99 ... I'm flying into a jobsite in Houston today. Without giving me too many details - is there a particular section of town that you'd like me to check out ?

You might want to take note of the places that AREN'T underwater. That's an important consideration when buying a home in Houston.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at May 26, 2015 10:44 AM (0RdKg)

100 1910 is also nearing the end of the golden age in America. The advent of the progressive era is rushing on and WWI is just over the horizon. There will be a brief interlude by Silent Cal but he will be the last of the really conservative Presidents that were able to get the legislation he wanted. RR tried but he was never able to get what he wanted past congress.

We have been downhill pretty much ever since.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 26, 2015 10:45 AM (GpgJl)

101 A cubic meter of water weighs one ton.
>>>

Is that a metric tonne or a real ton? Or maybe a metric shit ton?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 26, 2015 10:45 AM (tf9Ne)

102
98 "A cubic meter"

What's that in real units of measurement?
Posted by: jwpaine at May 26, 2015 10:43 AM (0bXhD)

A cubic pint weighs one-twentieth stone?

Posted by: eman at May 26, 2015 10:45 AM (MQEz6)

103 99
... I'm flying into a jobsite in Houston today. Without giving me too
many details - is there a particular section of town that you'd like me
to check out ?

You might want to take note of the places that AREN'T underwater.
That's an important consideration when buying a home in Houston.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at May 26, 2015 10:44 AM (0RdKg)

Oooo, I'm keeping that advice for the next time I buy a house.

Posted by: Gustav at May 26, 2015 10:45 AM (pmv/9)

104 It's people in trucks driving under over passes not realizing how high the water is. Driving straight into deep water, drowning

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:46 AM (zOTsN)

105 No, a cubic foot weighs one-twentieth fuckton?

Posted by: eman at May 26, 2015 10:46 AM (MQEz6)

106 I've had it waaaay past up to here with lefties not only mocking red state flood victims, but BLAMING them for the floods, because global warming.

They know nothing of science and climate. TX has always had extreme weather, and always will.

Moreover, red staters are responsible for the main reason, fracking, why the US has cut its carbon emissions.

Posted by: stace at May 26, 2015 10:46 AM (CoX6k)

107 And living near Niagara Falls, the stories of people dying because they didn't understand or willfully ignored the power of the water are far too numerous.
Posted by: Citizen X at May 26, 2015 10:42 AM (7ObY1)

==========

Not just the power but how you can slip on the algae that grows on the bottom or that the water is so cold that your feet and legs go numb and you lose balance. Problem in yosemite where you can be far from the falls, wade into ankle deep water, and be sweept downstream and over.

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 26, 2015 10:47 AM (iQIUe)

108 Is that a metric tonne or a real ton? Or maybe a metric shit ton?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 26, 2015 10:45 AM (tf9Ne)

*throws flag*

15 yard penalty for illegal use of math on a math free blog

Posted by: wrg500 at May 26, 2015 10:47 AM (kQBSd)

109 Southwest part of Houston floods. West u, bellaire, meyerland, all flood. But not like this. They are saying this is worse than Ike

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:47 AM (zOTsN)

110 Today is the House vote on TX campus carry. I'm so excited, I'm going to livestream it, but I have a Dr. appt that might disrupt that.

Posted by: stace at May 26, 2015 10:47 AM (CoX6k)

111 Girl reading in a hammock? OK. I suppose it says a lot about me that I was thinking that could make for an interesting porno.

Posted by: maddogg at May 26, 2015 10:48 AM (xWW96)

112 That's silly. The only way to even measure a cubic meter of water is to turn it into ice, and everyone knows ice is a lot heavier than water.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2015 10:48 AM (TOk1P)

113 "A cubic meter"
What's that in real units of measurement?
Posted by: jwpaine

A cubic pint weighs one-twentieth stone?
Posted by: eman

Does the witch float?

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 26, 2015 10:48 AM (OmZNe)

114 Ice is heavier than water. Yep, the bottom of the Atlantic is covered with icebergs, everybody knows that.

Posted by: maddogg at May 26, 2015 10:49 AM (xWW96)

115 Houston is called the Bayou City. This is part of the deal

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:49 AM (zOTsN)

116 That person of indeterminate gender is committing micro aggressions against all of the people who can't read or afford a hammock or clothes or books. Wouldn't true social justice require such a person to use their tongue to sweep the dirt from the foot paths of those who didn't win life's lottery?

Posted by: An Observation at May 26, 2015 10:49 AM (Xqhl+)

117 Calling it a 100 year rain

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:50 AM (zOTsN)

118 Feel horrible for the family that got swept away. Father survived but the mother and 2 little girls died.

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 26, 2015 10:50 AM (iQIUe)

119
*hasn't read the comments but promises to*

I rename this painting "post-orgasmic bliss".

*scurries back to comments*

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 26, 2015 10:50 AM (JtwS4)

120 Ice is heavier than water. Yep, the bottom of the Atlantic is covered with icebergs, everybody knows that.

Posted by: maddogg at May 26, 2015 10:49 AM (xWW96)

It's true! How much water displacement does a cubic meter of ice cause? A lot, that's how much. And how much water displacement does a cubic meter of water cause?
Duh, none. It's already water!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2015 10:51 AM (TOk1P)

121 117 Calling it a 100 year rain
Posted by: Thunderb
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When they start saying it's a "forty days and forty nights" rain, then really start worrying.

Posted by: Roy at May 26, 2015 10:51 AM (VndSC)

122 A girl reading about hamhocks?

Posted by: Furious George at May 26, 2015 10:51 AM (UlJ3l)

123
Saw a clip where a dumbass reporter called father of the killers of the DC family. Father hangs up. Reporter calls back and dad says, what can I say? what can I say? and hangs up again.

Story is titled: Father of killers speaks out!

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 26, 2015 10:51 AM (iQIUe)

124 1 gal of water weighs app 8 pounds. If you want to get the specifics for various temperatures you need a set of steam tables or a Mollier Diagram.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 26, 2015 10:51 AM (GpgJl)

125 Big run on frog sized life preservers in Texas.....

Posted by: maddogg at May 26, 2015 10:52 AM (xWW96)

126 What happened to Vic?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 26, 2015 10:52 AM (e/33/)

127 124 1 gal of water weighs app 8 pounds. If you want to get the specifics for various temperatures you need a set of steam tables or a Mollier Diagram.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 26, 2015 10:51 AM (GpgJl)

Pressure is also involved in the steam tables.

Posted by: maddogg at May 26, 2015 10:52 AM (xWW96)

128 It's people in trucks driving under over passes not realizing how high the water is. Driving straight into deep water, drowning

Posted by: Thunderb at May 26, 2015 10:46 AM (zOTsN)

Damn.

Are they not able to close roads because it happened too quickly or what?

Posted by: Lea at May 26, 2015 10:53 AM (lIU4e)

129 you need a set of steam tables
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Al Gore has those for his climate model conferences. Loaded with buffet food.

Posted by: Roy at May 26, 2015 10:53 AM (VndSC)

130 127 Pressure is also involved in the steam tables.

Posted by: maddogg at May 26, 2015 10:52 AM (xWW96)

Yes, but if we are talking about TX then you can assume normal atmospheric pressure at 14.7 psia.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 26, 2015 10:54 AM (GpgJl)

131 A girl drowned in Texas as she drove home Saturday night from her prom. Horrifying story.

Posted by: NCKate at May 26, 2015 10:54 AM (zGDNi)

132 Rand Paul Plays Race Card On NSA

Says it will lead to "racial profiling"

Weasel Zippers

This guy is as bad as the progressives.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 26, 2015 10:55 AM (rDqRv)

133 126
What happened to Vic?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 26, 2015 10:52 AM (e/33/)

I'm here but mostly lurking.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 26, 2015 10:55 AM (GpgJl)

134 One cubic foot of water contains 7.48 gallons of water, weighing in at 62.31 pounds. You may now continue.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at May 26, 2015 10:55 AM (evdj2)

135 Also, as everyone knows, ice floats. It is buoyant, so it creates the illusion that it is lighter than it really is. Water of course, does NOT float, so it has the opposite effect of appearing heavier than it really is.

Science, man. This is science. Don't mess with it.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2015 10:55 AM (TOk1P)

136 Drivers are supposed to "turn around, don't drown" in flood waters. Unless they are libtards, then it's "Free Autographed Obama t-shirts, straight ahead".

Posted by: Roy at May 26, 2015 10:55 AM (VndSC)

137
If only we could harness the power!

https://goo.gl/is150m

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 26, 2015 10:56 AM (iQIUe)

138 She was part of our first focus group.

Posted by: Pawleys Island Hammocks at May 26, 2015 10:56 AM (NPgvx)

139 Loved the Atlantic article on why the Iraqi military won't fight.
BOOOOOOSH!

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 26, 2015 10:56 AM (m3iiU)

140 Its the deadliest month Baltimore has seen in more than 15 years. More than two dozen shootings over the holiday weekend alone have city police working around the clock.

Detroit is gonna have competition soon

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 26, 2015 10:57 AM (rDqRv)

141 In 1910, boxer Jack Johnson defeated James J. Jeffries for the heavyweight boxing title, sparking the infamous Consonant Riots by those outraged by the over-representation of the letter J in the boxing world.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 26, 2015 10:37 AM (PtTYB)

Have you heard about the big strong man?He lives in a caravan;
Have you heard about the Jeffries - Johnson fight?
Oh, what a hell of a fight!
You can take all the heavyweights you got -
We got a lad who can beat the whole lot;
He used to ring the bell in the belfry -
Now he's gonna fight Jack Dempsey!

That was me brother Sylvest' (what's he got?) -
A row of forty medals on his chest (big chest!) -
He killed fifty bad men in the west -
He knows no rest (speak of the man! Hell's fire! Don't push, just shove - plenty of room for you and me!)!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 26, 2015 10:57 AM (zF6Iw)

142 Just a hit and run. Jeebus, this idiotic crap about "disbanding the Iraqi military" is among the most fanatically embraced myths - which is saying a lot - of modern times.

The Atlantic article in the dump was such sophomoric crap.

The Iraqi military self-disbanded (duh), could never have been the basis for any real, new military (for many reasons that are obvious), and the only "mistake" made in 2003 was not to put a significant, selected portion of the former core of that military behind wire, indefinitely.

Well, gotta go. Imagine, a former superpower run on nothing but mediocrity and mythology - it's a miracle I tells ya.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 26, 2015 10:57 AM (QDnY+)

143 136 Drivers are supposed to "turn around, don't drown" in flood waters. Unless they are libtards, then it's "Free Autographed Obama t-shirts, straight ahead".
Posted by: Roy at May 26, 2015 10:55 AM (VndSC)

And the first 100 arrivals get a free dick flavored ice cream.

Posted by: maddogg at May 26, 2015 10:57 AM (xWW96)

144 A hogshead of water weighs 659lbs.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 26, 2015 10:57 AM (evdj2)

145 Vic
Ok. Caught something about you having a bruise or something hope you are alright.

Horrible catching up flooding stories. Are all the rons & ettes accounted for?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 26, 2015 10:58 AM (e/33/)

146 Drivers are supposed to "turn around, don't drown" in flood waters. Unless they are libtards, then it's "Free Autographed Obama t-shirts, straight ahead".

Wonder just how much trouble you'd actually get in by hanging those signs?

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 26, 2015 10:58 AM (OmZNe)

147 145
Vic

Ok. Caught something about you having a bruise or something hope you are alright.

Horrible catching up flooding stories. Are all the rons ettes accounted for?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 26, 2015 10:58 AM (e/33/)

Yeah, one of my porch rockers collapsed on me during the weekend and it bruised the crap out of my ribs on the right side from front to back.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 26, 2015 11:00 AM (GpgJl)

148 Thanks to a recommendation on the book thread, I'm reading Hard Luck Hank: Screw the Galaxy. Hank's favorite insult when he's getting ready to shoot someone is, "Eat suck, suckface!"

I assume this girl is also reading that book.

Posted by: Brian Williams at May 26, 2015 11:00 AM (vk+Kb)

149 Water doesn't float when it's at 39 degrees F. Then it sinks in colder or warmer water.

The temperature at the bottom of deep lakes is 39F.

It's magic.

Posted by: Roy at May 26, 2015 11:00 AM (VndSC)

150 If only we could harness the power!

https://goo.gl/is150m
Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 26, 2015 10:56 AM (iQIUe)

"The following media may have sensitive material"

WTF?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2015 11:00 AM (t//F+)

151 There is zero doubt my MILs assisted living is flooded. None. I can't get to her

Posted by: Thunderb

Oh no, that's terrible. Have you heard any news?

Posted by: Moderate Salami at May 26, 2015 11:01 AM (/Ho8c)

152 She needs to get her lazy ass inside and make me a sammich!

Posted by: Drill_Thrawl at May 26, 2015 11:01 AM (JOG+K)

153 >>>It's true! How much water displacement does a cubic meter of ice cause? A lot, that's how much. And how much water displacement does a cubic meter of water cause?
Duh, none. It's already water!
Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2015 10:51 AM (TOk1P)

Show-off.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2015 11:01 AM (WIUGG)

154 Damn, sinkhole at DFW, according to facebook...

Posted by: Lea at May 26, 2015 11:01 AM (lIU4e)

155 electric cars can go through floods like nobody's business

heh

Posted by: Bigby's Pregnant Hands at May 26, 2015 11:02 AM (Cq0oW)

156 Yeah, one of my porch rockers collapsed on me during the weekend and it bruised the crap out of my ribs on the right side from front to back.

Hairy Reed already tried that excuse.

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 26, 2015 11:02 AM (OmZNe)

157 thunderb, does the facility have a webpage? They may have put out a message for concerned family or posted a new contact number, etc.

Posted by: NCKate at May 26, 2015 11:02 AM (zGDNi)

158 Natural disasters: where I grew up, as a kid, we lived in the mountais here we had earthquakes, landslides, and mining tunnel collapses. Then we minimum we moved to the coastal lowlands and had yearly floods.
In both places there were volcanos.
We moved to the USA and the first winter we got a record blizzard.

Never lived on flatlands, never experienced a tornado, and I aim to keep it that way.

Posted by: @votermom at May 26, 2015 11:03 AM (gTvCM)

159 Sorry to hear that Vic.

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 26, 2015 11:03 AM (e/33/)

160 Where did that girl go to get that nice perm? They had hair salons back then? With ghey hair stylists?
And it looks to me that whatever she was reading put her to sleep. That book is going to drop from her fingers in a few minutes.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 26, 2015 11:03 AM (hT0G4)

161 And it looks to me that whatever she was reading put her to sleep. That book is going to drop from her fingers in a few minutes.
Posted by: JoeF.
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She just had a CocaCola with real cocaine, so she'll be fine and dandy.

Posted by: Roy at May 26, 2015 11:04 AM (VndSC)

162 149 Water doesn't float when it's at 39 degrees F. Then it sinks in colder or warmer water. The temperature at the bottom of deep lakes is 39F. It's magic.
Posted by: Roy at May 26, 2015 11:00 AM (VndSC) I believe you mean 39 degrees C. Warmer at the bottom of a deep lake because it's closer to the center of the earth and all that magma. A deep lake may only be inches from the magma and in that case the temperature can be even higher. The 39C is only an average and should not be taken as the temperature of the bottom of a deep lake near you. Science--Bill Nye teaches it and I listen!

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at May 26, 2015 11:05 AM (BLFGI)

163 159
Sorry to hear that Vic.

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 26, 2015 11:03 AM (e/33/)

Thanks. I'll get over it. No more Chinese porch rockers from Walmart. This is the second one I have had to collapse.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 26, 2015 11:05 AM (GpgJl)

164 Geez, the air is so saturated in DFW, that it's a constant mist. Like a heavy fog, without the fog.

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 26, 2015 11:05 AM (OmZNe)

165 She just had a CocaCola with real cocaine, so she'll be fine and dandy.

The pause that refreshes....

Posted by: JoeF. at May 26, 2015 11:05 AM (hT0G4)

166 Ouch, Vic!
Ice, arnica, and maybe sue the porch rocker manufacturer.

Posted by: @votermom at May 26, 2015 11:05 AM (cbfNE)

167 1910 is also nearing the end of the golden age in America. The advent of the progressive era is rushing on and WWI is just over the horizon. There will be a brief interlude by Silent Cal but he will be the last of the really conservative Presidents that were able to get the legislation he wanted. RR tried but he was never able to get what he wanted past congress.
We have been downhill pretty much ever since.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 26, 2015 10:45 AM (GpgJl)

Roger that. I cry a lot (I'm an emotional basket case), but mainly because I never knew that America and it will never come again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 26, 2015 11:06 AM (zF6Iw)

168 166 Ice, arnica, and maybe sue the porch rocker manufacturer.

Posted by: @votermom at May 26, 2015 11:05 AM (cbfNE)

Not much profit in suing the Chinese.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 26, 2015 11:06 AM (GpgJl)

169 Apparently autocorrect has some extra words it's just throwing into my posts. Gah.

Posted by: @votermom at May 26, 2015 11:07 AM (cbfNE)

170 OT, but Chinese state media says war with US is "inevitable" if we keep pushing the Spratly's issue, as we are explicitly obligated by our treaty with Japan to do.

Somehow I don't think its the Spratly's that most interests the Chinese in all of this, its driving a wedge between us and Japan.

Moreover, is there any sentient being alive who doesn't understand its only because TFG is president that this issue exists?

Posted by: MTF at May 26, 2015 11:07 AM (FCsIb)

171 Yeah, one of my porch rockers collapsed on me during the weekend and it bruised the crap out of my ribs on the right side from front to back.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 26, 2015 11:00 AM (GpgJl)

Well, to be fair, Vic, Jesus didn't know you were going to live this long, or he'd have built a sturdier chair.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 26, 2015 11:07 AM (zF6Iw)

172 I'm waiting for the review on all of the flood prevention construction that was done after Allison . I'm assuming that it did it's job for the most part and prevented much more damage. Heck of a stress test though.

Posted by: Cruzinator at May 26, 2015 11:07 AM (8cSVB)

173 Not much profit in suing the Chinese.

You ben heah fo owa. You go now!
-Ho Lee Fuk

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 26, 2015 11:08 AM (OmZNe)

174 ISLAMIC PREACHER: MASTURBATING MEN WILL FIND THEIR HANDS PREGNANT IN THE AFTERLIFE

Hum? I'll go with pregnant hands in the afterlife for $500

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 26, 2015 11:08 AM (rDqRv)

175 Nevergiveup, they are supposed to go find exposed cat meat instead.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 26, 2015 11:10 AM (m3iiU)

176 My Son and I were headed back to my house from the hardware store last Saturday. When we turned into my neighborhood, there was an elderly lady standing out in her front yard and she yelled at us.
I stopped the truck and backed up to see what she was yelling about.
She said her husband was down and had been in the floor for over an hour. He has MS and is wheelchair bound, but he had fallen and the old lady couldn't get him back up. We introduced ourselves and my Son and I picked the old gentleman up and maneuvered him around and sat him back in his wheelchair. We lifted up his legs and sat them back on the footrests. They were thankful.
I can't really imagine the hardship daily life must be for them. God bless the suffering.

Posted by: maddogg at May 26, 2015 11:10 AM (xWW96)

177 Youre 45% more likely to be murdered in de Blasios Manhattan

Outstanding! Aren't progressives just grand?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 26, 2015 11:11 AM (rDqRv)

178 171 Well, to be fair, Vic, Jesus didn't know you were going to live this long, or he'd have built a sturdier chair.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 26, 2015 11:07 AM (zF6Iw)

Does that mean I can sell the pieces. You know, pieces of the "true rocker". I have the scraps piled up by my burn barrel if I can get a lot of money for them I'll get on e-bay.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 26, 2015 11:11 AM (GpgJl)

179 A hogshead of water weighs 659lbs.

Lastly through a hogshead of real fire!

Posted by: Mister Kite at May 26, 2015 11:11 AM (W5DcG)

180 Since our Second Amendment is the last thing that has been able to so far withstand the assault by the leftist burning of America , I have been checking into gun laws in the various South American countries as part of 'Plan B'.
Nazi war criminals were able to hide down there for years right?
Crazy times require crazy solutions .

Anyway registration is pretty much required universally but tragic boating accidents could (obviously!) happen in the large number of inland lakes or along the coast. Will need to translate 'shoot, shovel and shuttup' into Spanish.
Chile and Peru have received great reviews from several contacts. There is at least one remote cabin actually listed on Craiglist.

Socialism sucks but in SA they have a lot of practice with it and who knows, maybe it will take the occasional siesta.

Posted by: some random meathead - future South American?? at May 26, 2015 11:11 AM (XVOlz)

181 174 ISLAMIC PREACHER: MASTURBATING MEN WILL FIND THEIR HANDS PREGNANT IN THE AFTERLIFE
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Glad to know when the penalty phase kicks in.

Posted by: younger boys everywhere at May 26, 2015 11:12 AM (FCsIb)

182 "Black America would have done much better with a white president. You have let us down tremendously."
-------

Racist CEO Byron Allen

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 26, 2015 11:13 AM (fWAjv)

183
Off. Kerry Orozco's funeral live:

http://goo.gl/Vs5pas

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 26, 2015 11:13 AM (iQIUe)

184 ISLAMIC PREACHER: MASTURBATING MEN WILL FIND THEIR HANDS PREGNANT IN THE AFTERLIFE

Confucius was a muzzie? Who knew?

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 26, 2015 11:13 AM (OmZNe)

185 Those Phelps creeps were going to demonstrate at her funeral.

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 26, 2015 11:14 AM (iQIUe)

186 nood, Iraq

Posted by: m at May 26, 2015 11:15 AM (WIUGG)

187 So, how long do hands stay pregnant before giving birth?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Moderate Salami at May 26, 2015 11:15 AM (/Ho8c)

188 Hillary is selling a pantsuit t-shirt.

Be the first kid on your block to get one!

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 26, 2015 11:17 AM (fWAjv)

189 I saw Pregnant Hands in the Afterlife open for Nine Inch Nails in some London club back in 1993. Good show.

Posted by: @JohnTant at May 26, 2015 11:21 AM (eytER)

190 >>ISLAMIC PREACHER: MASTURBATING MEN WILL FIND THEIR HANDS PREGNANT IN THE AFTERLIFE

Gotta love the role of women and children in the afterlife - women are still treated like whores (re-virginized and given as a "reward" for jihadis) and children as a curse.
Totes bleak, even in the afterlife.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 26, 2015 11:21 AM (XTnol)

191 I think a lot of right-wing people get away with murder because the media doesn't call them out on it.

Bernie Sanders to red diaper baby John Harwood, MSDNC propagandist.

Posted by: MTF at May 26, 2015 11:25 AM (FCsIb)

192 191 oops- sorry. Forgot to credit HotAir for the Sanders quote.

Posted by: MTF at May 26, 2015 11:27 AM (FCsIb)

193 Geez, the air is so saturated in DFW, that it's a constant mist. Like a heavy fog, without the fog.
Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 26, 2015 11:05 AM (OmZNe)

Funny, but I thought the same thing when I ran an errand while ago. According to the radar, there's no rain in the area, but there's just a fine spray in the air, slowly making it's way toward the ground. It reminds of what I've seen in Ireland.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at May 26, 2015 11:36 AM (0RdKg)

194 A hogshead of water weighs 659lbs.

-
The Lord of the Flies weighs 659 lbs?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at May 26, 2015 11:45 AM (vk+Kb)

195 Monster lovers,

Cannibal in the Jungle on The Animal Planet Channel is pretty good. After I watched it I was disappointed to learn it was fiction. They had me going there for a while.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at May 26, 2015 11:49 AM (vk+Kb)

196
I'd hit it....

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 26, 2015 12:02 PM (HSmrB)

197 I've been raping in the hammock
All the live-long day.I've been raping in the hammock
Just to pass the time away.
Can't you hear the "dog-whistle" blowing,Rise up so early in the morn;Can't you hear the rapist shouting,"Dinah, you better blow my horn!"

Posted by: Mickey Shwarma at May 26, 2015 12:06 PM (sCHw2)

198 There's always room for Jello Pudding, and rape.

Posted by: Bill Cosby at May 26, 2015 12:16 PM (evdj2)

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