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Overnight Open Thread (2-2-2016)
But whatever, lies are powerful things, for the stupid.
-- Ace, one thread down
"I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
think I'm just happy..."
-- Kurt Cobain, who was not happy
How About We NOT Nuke the Danes
So after Trump accused Cruz of cheating and stealing Iowa from him Cruz struck back:
Now I know we're all down on the Scandis and are thinking sure why not nuke'em - they're Scandis after all and it's important that President Trump show the world he means business. But allow me to make the case for why the Danes shouldn't be nuked.
I work with a lot of Danes and yes they've absorbed far too much of PC pieties, have a solid dose of European unearned smugness, and are prone to the usual Scandi tendencies (the Laws of Jante have more sway than the Danes like to admit) . But all that being said they're by and large decent, moral people. And they're also very, very much into being Danish and Danish nationalism though they tend to be quiet and discreet about it. The Danes like being Danish and doing Danish things. And are happy about it.
They also know they are a small vulnerable country and therefore don't have the luxury of being careless like Sweden, Norway, Germany, etc. when it comes to maintaining their national identity. That's why they've been so forceful and determined from the start to keep the recent waves of immigrants out of their country. And PC pieties aside if it came down to it, I believe they would fight and do whatever is necessary to maintain their existence.
Further reasons:
1. Denmark is a pork-based society. There are more pigs than people in Denmark and they're one of the largest producers of pork in the world. They're also the largest consumers of pork per person in the world. Also: Danish bacon.
2. Alone among European countries in WWII the Danes saved nearly all of their Jews and rejected the Nazi's anti-Jewish policies.
3. Danish pastries.
4. They're still fighting the good fight and resisting new occupiers: Danish City Makes Pork Mandatory on all City Menus in Backlash Against Muslim-Friendly Pork-Free Menus. As WeaponsMan says, Danes Eat Pork: Deal With It.
So in conclusion: the Danes should not be nuked.
It's Come to This: Jeb Bush Begs Unimpressed New Hampshire Crowd to 'Please Clap'
If all Trump achieves in this election is to drive Jeb out of the race, he will still have done the GOP and the country a service.
RSM on the Epic Trolling of @RooshV
- Question 1: If feminists say pick-up artists hate women - for this is what "misogyny" means - isn't it fair to assume that Bill Clinton is also a woman-hater?
- Question 2: If men who repeatedly succeed in seduction are condemned by feminists, does this condemnation not also apply, by an obverse principle, to promiscuous women whose behavior justifies the boasts of PUAs?
So men who seduce women are bad, bad, bad and also rapists. But women who seduce men are merely affirming their natural feminine sexual freedom and fighting back against the patriarchal mores of our culture. Got it.
Also see reference to HST and Kazika, The Mad Jap.
If You Major in STEM, It Doesn't Matter Where You Go to College
We find no statistically significant differences in average earnings for science majors between selective schools and either midtier or less-selective schools. Likewise, there's no significant earnings difference between engineering graduates from selective and less-selective colleges, and only a marginally significant difference between selective and midtier colleges.
.That said, the earnings picture is very different for other fields. Outside of STEM, it matters tremendously where a student receives a degree.
Well even a chemical engineering graduate from West Podunk State University almost certainly knows something and has some skills. Not so much for a WPSU sociology or business major.
The Atlantic: Why Do Americans Work So Hard?
How will we all keep busy when we only have to work 15 hours a week? That was the question that worried the economist John Maynard Keynes when he wrote his short essay "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren" in 1930. Over the next century, he predicted, the economy would become so productive that people would barely need to work at all.
Well the writers propose several reasons but they all overlook two key factors: American society is very competitive and Americans by nature are aspirational.
Now if American companies only had to meet 1930 levels of production and product features and if Americans were satisfied with living a 1930s quality of life, then yes the 4-6 fold increase in productivity would mean that a 15-20 hour workweek is all that is needed. But neither is true.
Business is competitive and it only takes a slight edge to eventually squeeze out the competition and likewise people's compensation tends to be based on performance relative to peers and other companies' workers rather than absolute performance. So you can get ahead by working just a little harder and longer and being just a bit more productive. And most Americans want to get ahead.
The prosperity Keynes predicted is here. After all, the economy as a whole has grown even more brilliantly than he expected. But for most Americans, that prosperity is nowhere to be seen-and, as a result, neither are those shorter workweeks.
Actually the prosperity is all around us - from the heated, electrified multi-thousand square feet house you're living in to the variety of cheap, fresh food available year-round to the magical display device you're reading this on to your reliable, safe automobile in the driveway to the twenty years on average of extra life we all enjoy. I think a 1930s American would have been willing to work even 70-80 hours a week to live our future royal lifestyle. In a sense we're getting off easy with only 40.
Why The NFA Gun Laws Make No Damn Sense
As was discussed last night it's hard to make sense of NFA laws since they don't follow the normal rules of logic. For example it's perfectly legal to buy a pistol or revolver - and even build it up into a rifle by adding a long barrel and then a stock. But if you take a rifle or shotgun and remove the stock and cut the barrel down to pistol-length, you just committed a 10 years in pound-me-in-the-ass federal prison plus a $10,000 fine federal offense.
Thus in the case of AR-15 pistols you can have two completely identical guns but with one being fully legal while the other is a major NFA violation - all depending on the initial state of the receiver (pistol vs rifle) and how it was built up.
So why are these laws so crazy and illogical? Well the answer is that the 1934 NFA laws are actually the inconsistent remnants of the very first attempt to effectively ban handguns:
The National firearms act of 1934 originally lumped in handguns with full auto firearms. It is clear that the Roosevelt administration wanted to subject pistols and revolvers to the same draconian regulations and taxes that machine guns were finally subjected to. Congress simply would not go along. It was a step too far for even the heavily Democrat Congress of 1934.
Once you understand that licensing of handguns to the point of prohibition was the major target of the legislation, the reason for including short barreled rifles and shotguns becomes clear. What is the point of banning handguns if any person can buy a rifle or shotgun, a hacksaw, and make a functional pistol in fifteen minutes from that rifle or shotgun?
So with handguns essentially banned it also makes sense to ban/regulate any other guns modified into handgun-ish forms as well. Except that handguns weren't banned which leaves us with the illogical mess of laws we have today.
Steve Martin on Does God Exist?
From an 1998 essay in The New Yorker:
Does God exist? This ancient question just won't go away. Since human history began, as soon as someone thought he had the answer, someone else came along to challenge it. The question endures, and now rests in the ether, waiting to spring on college students, retreating after the age of thirty, surfacing for the odd cocktail party, and reemerging with full force in the "philosophical years." But before we discuss this complicated question, let me introduce myself. I'm Toby, the talking horse.Being a talking horse leaves me with plenty of time to ponder these big issues. No one rides me, because I just tell them to get off. So there's a lot of standing time. Sometimes I sing at night, to pass the hours; sometimes I court the little beauty in the next pasture, Lily. Sometimes I develop powers, which is fun. In fact, right now you are not reading this; you only think you are. You are actually calling your bank by Touch-Tone phone and transferring all your money to my account.
Mostly, though, I do anagrams in my head, like many other horses. When you see a horse standing in a field staring at you, he's really rearranging letters in his head: "tide, diet, edit. ..." It's a horsy thing to do. So the first thing I do with a question as big as the one we're talking about is pass it through my head and rearrange the letters. "Does ... odes ... " Not much there. Then there's the obvious "god ... dog," and the fruitless "exist." Engaging in this little neurotic exercise enables me to move on to the next step.
Ask yourself this: Do I really need to know the answer to this question? I think if you are honest with yourself, you will realize that a yea-or-neigh answer wouldn't really change your life much. Although a neigh might free up a lot of time now spent worshipping. In fact, I don't imagine God is really keen on worshipping. You can take it from me, Toby the talking horse - he's as humble as the next God, and a simple thank-you is all that's required.
It's not about the song. It's never been about the song. It has always been about the coda.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Arson Wells at February 03, 2016 11:25 PM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: Old Blue at February 03, 2016 11:26 PM (9iR5/)
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 03, 2016 11:26 PM (UnJ7w)
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Posted by: Arson Wells at February 03, 2016 11:27 PM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: Blano at February 03, 2016 11:27 PM (heN73)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2016 11:27 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: two of spades (promotion pending) at February 03, 2016 11:27 PM (XzlVc)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at February 03, 2016 11:27 PM (BK3ZS)
This is not a pithy title, but what anthropology graduat student Michael P. Oman-Reagan state's he is trying to do.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=11045
Posted by: The Huntin' Hat at February 03, 2016 11:28 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 03, 2016 11:29 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 03, 2016 11:29 PM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 03, 2016 11:29 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: two of spades (promotion pending) at February 03, 2016 11:29 PM (XzlVc)
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 03, 2016 11:27 PM (UnJ7w)
I nailed the first 5 spots on a thread yesterday. I was pretty proud of myself.
Posted by: Blano at February 03, 2016 11:29 PM (heN73)
Posted by: Blano at February 03, 2016 11:29 PM (heN73)
You're my Tom Brady baby!
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 03, 2016 11:30 PM (UnJ7w)
What are you going to do with a field of corn stubble?
Posted by: that guy who sees the forest not the trees at February 03, 2016 11:31 PM (F1pUT)
Posted by: denouncing myself for that lame joke at February 03, 2016 11:32 PM (H9MG5)
Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2016 11:32 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 03, 2016 11:32 PM (WOyz5)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 03, 2016 11:32 PM (+vBuN)
Maet, very clever. ISWYDT.
Maet, very clever. ISWYDT.
Maet, very clever. ISWYDT.
etc
Posted by: mindful webworker - I get you, babe at February 03, 2016 11:33 PM (ACs58)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 03, 2016 11:33 PM (JaLUs)
I was talking about this with a ginger midget today. We imagine Barbara sitting him down fairly soon:
"Yes, dear, you are a Bush and this gives you certain advantages. But remember that your father and brother are also Bushes and, more importantly, I am a Bush.
You will stop sullying our name".
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 03, 2016 11:33 PM (1xUj/)
I got Joos, babe!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at February 03, 2016 11:27 PM (BK3ZS)
The good joos or the bad joos?,
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2016 11:33 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: two of spades (promotion pending) at February 03, 2016 11:34 PM (XzlVc)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 03, 2016 11:35 PM (WOyz5)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at February 03, 2016 11:35 PM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2016 11:35 PM (voOPb)
That lovely young lass in the corn field, if she is hunting migratory waterfowl needs better camo.
And on the hours of labor per week. IF we set the minimum wage to one million dollars an hour, you only have to work one hour a year to be a millionaire.
But if someone else works two hours a year that person will have twice as much as you. And if someone works eight hours a day, why that person would be wealth beyond calculation, and the person who works 12 hour days, seven days a week, well, you can see the progression.
By the way, Keynes' book 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money' can loosely be described as 'stud piles'.
Posted by: Stef van der Filus at February 03, 2016 11:36 PM (q8UYR)
But now it is.
Posted by: denouncing myself for that lame joke at February 03, 2016 11:32 PM (H9MG5)
***
Dammit, you WILL not talk like that about my future third ex-wife.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 03, 2016 11:36 PM (lutOX)
I doubt though that we'd see our local hardware store carrying Guns & Ammo the way it was in the olde days. But that's only because of the big box stores muscling out all the smaller, less efficient individual nuts n' bolts emporiums, much less the good, but lesser chains like Western Auto.
Remember you could buy guns with the Western Auto name stamped thereon? And Montomery Wards (Western Field), Sears (Ted Williams) and so many others.
But it would be cool if Target had a gun department. You could buy a Target pistol, there.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 03, 2016 11:37 PM (McRlu)
"Help me inhale, I'll mend it with you,"
"We'll float around and hang out on clouds"
"then we'll come down and have a hangover"
" Have a hangover"
"I think I'm dumb."
"I think I'm dumb."
I love that Nirvana song.
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 03, 2016 11:37 PM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: iforgot at February 03, 2016 11:37 PM (YOxw1)
Dial This Number Next Time You Get a Telemarketing Call, Then Watch Chaos Reign
The Jolly Roger bot, designed to lead telemarketers down a rhetorical maze to keep them busy until they're at their wits' end while you go on about your day.
Next time someone calls you for sales purposes, simply tap "add call." Dial 214-666-4321. Merge the calls. Then the Jolly Roger Telephone Co., a voice recording that will frustrate and confuse that telemarketer, will take over.
The robotic script is designed to trick someone into trying to engage it for as long as possible. Along with affirmatives like "yes" and a curious "OK," it mixes in questions like "Sorry, could you start over? Who's this? Why are you calling?" It also goes off on entire tangents and distractions, leading annoyed salespeople to try and find lucidity and understanding in a totally lifeless recording.
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Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 03, 2016 11:37 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at February 03, 2016 11:37 PM (Saqzi)
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2016 11:37 PM (cXiMR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 03, 2016 11:37 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Duncanthrax the Bellicose at February 03, 2016 11:37 PM (sOhww)
Saw an ad for LifeAlert tonight. Good ol' C. Everett Koop -- what a card!
Wait a minute... that's going backward in time...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at February 03, 2016 11:37 PM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 03, 2016 11:38 PM (+lVUW)
He's incorrect.
It's not the 'stupid' that accepts lies. It's the willing. It's the emotionally invested, those that have a premise fixed in their mind. Any challenge is an anathema, a heresy to be destroyed.
How About We NOT Nuke the Danes
I'd like to see more data, first.
*strokes non-existent beard
Well even a chemical engineering graduate from West Podunk State University almost certainly knows something and has some skills.
English major: YOOOO NEED A COMMMAAAAA~! And, racist.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 03, 2016 11:39 PM (wCF3s)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2016 11:39 PM (q2o38)
...Senate Joint Resolution 26, was authored by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The official purpose of the bill is to authorize the use of military force against the Islamic State. However, its vague language would give Obama sweeping new controls of the U.S. military and de facto martial law powers, the very power that gives authority to the chief executive to suspend elections in a time of crisis...
George Hewes, The Black Sphere
http://bit.ly/1TFphfl
Posted by: mindful webworker - and he would in a heartbeat at February 03, 2016 11:39 PM (ACs58)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 03, 2016 11:40 PM (+vBuN)
Posted by: Krispy Kreme Christie at February 03, 2016 11:40 PM (H9MG5)
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 03, 2016 11:40 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 03, 2016 11:41 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2016 11:41 PM (cXiMR)
Peanut butter sugar cookies
with cream cheese frosting
what can I say, it's all I have left.
Posted by: Stef van der Filus at February 03, 2016 11:41 PM (q8UYR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 03, 2016 11:42 PM (iHjB5)
Posted by: mindful webworker - arrrgh at February 03, 2016 11:43 PM (ACs58)
Not familiar with that. Penus Up Azz?
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 03, 2016 11:40 PM (+lVUW)
***
Pick-Up Artists...
Terrible louts and bounders, the lot of them. no respect for women or themselves - just terrible, terrible human beings.
Here, let me buy you and drink and i'll tell you all about them.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 03, 2016 11:43 PM (lutOX)
PUAs = Pick-up Artists. People who claim if you just follow their script, you can "get women."
Generally considered to be more like con artists.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2016 11:43 PM (ntObR)
He's in "quiet time." The bride passes to the next eligible Moron in this case.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 03, 2016 11:43 PM (+vBuN)
Posted by: zombie sigmund freud at February 03, 2016 11:43 PM (WOyz5)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2016 11:43 PM (ntObR)
R.I.P. MCA Adam Yauch
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 03, 2016 11:43 PM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 03, 2016 11:41 PM (+lVUW)
***
Straight to the couch? Well, that's a bit forward of you, don't you think?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 03, 2016 11:44 PM (lutOX)
I'd like to see him try.
Actually, no I don't, but you know what I mean.
Posted by: East Bay KG at February 03, 2016 11:44 PM (YUrE9)
I missed that. Chemjeff is dead, too?
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 03, 2016 11:44 PM (1xUj/)
Ah, now I don't feel quite so dumb about my typo so early in the overnight threat.
Posted by: mindful webworker - loosely threaded at February 03, 2016 11:44 PM (ACs58)
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at February 03, 2016 11:44 PM (hwnMi)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
Well, GGE is hooked up, so Ace
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2016 11:45 PM (cXiMR)
Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2016 11:45 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2016 11:46 PM (cXiMR)
We can stop right there. The guy really want's to get Barry's attention. To the point he's getting ****** in the &@! by midnight.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 03, 2016 11:46 PM (+vBuN)
After several months of not being able to go, and in the hope it wouldn't mess up my diet, I went back to my fave cajun restaurant in Orange County today, Ritter's Steam Kettle Cooking.
I had their bouillebaise, which is tomato/leek/saffron soup loaded with crab, shrimp, clams, and whitefish, heat level 7 (out of 10). Very tasty although now I'm dealing with some nasty heartburn.
And... I got to meet and talk with Chef Ritter himself. Really nice guy. He has 3 locations thus far and hopes to have another 3 open within a year. I mentioned to him that I'd love to see him add fried chicken to his menu, but he made the very good point that he just couldn't do it without having to make so many changes, the quality of his food would go down.
rittersskc.com
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2016 11:47 PM (ntObR)
Said no one ever.
Posted by: eleven
Thousands of meth-heads disagree
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2016 11:47 PM (cXiMR)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2016 11:47 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 03, 2016 11:47 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Dr. Stig Helmer at February 03, 2016 11:48 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2016 11:48 PM (qUNWi)
They don't appreciate you, they are incapable of even suspecting the depths of wisdom and beauty in your souls.
I'm hosting a small seminar - more of a meeting of equals, a get-together for good and decent people who abhor the arts of seduction - this weekend at my place......
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 03, 2016 11:48 PM (lutOX)
You make a convincing argument. Okay ... We won't nuke the Danes. You're not going to stop me from carpet bombing France with Hand-e-wipes, though. Those smelly frogs really bug the shit out of me.
Posted by: The The Donald at February 03, 2016 11:48 PM (zc3Db)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/694990547958763521
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/694990678720430080
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/694990816880807936
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/694990955485741056
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/694991099761442816
Posted by: kbdabear at February 03, 2016 11:48 PM (0ZqK6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 03, 2016 11:49 PM (sl+zA)
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 03, 2016 11:49 PM (dULJN)
My niece has a chemical engineering degree from a West Podunk University. She went to a nearby university, lived at home, and worked part time all four years. She graduated with no student debt, works for a Intel, and gets regular promotions.
I doubt if going to a more prestigious university would have made any difference.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 03, 2016 11:49 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Dr. Stig Helmer at February 03, 2016 11:50 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2016 11:50 PM (ntObR)
I'm quite found of crawfish etouffe made with a nice dark roux, myself. Something about burnt gravy that is so satisfying.
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 03, 2016 11:50 PM (UnJ7w)
I spoke in-artfully. He's not official or anything like that but he's been getting a lot of flack lately.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 03, 2016 11:50 PM (+vBuN)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2016 11:50 PM (ntObR)
My niece has a chemical engineering degree from a West Podunk University. She went to a nearby university, lived at home, and worked part time all four years. She graduated with no student debt, works for a Intel, and gets regular promotions.
I doubt if going to a more prestigious university would have made any difference.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 03, 2016 11:49 PM (+lVUW)
***
Is she single?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 03, 2016 11:50 PM (lutOX)
Watching the only Total Recall that I ever will watch. Cheese 'n' rice, Ahnold sure sucked at delivering punny lines...
Too bad no one had the foresight to drop his best line from Kindergarten Cop into the script -- "It's not a tumor!" He'd never have made it twenty yards into Mutant Junction before its inhabitants set upon him and tore him to shreds.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2016 11:50 PM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 03, 2016 11:51 PM (YsLaz)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 03, 2016 11:51 PM (WOyz5)
Posted by: The The Donald at February 03, 2016 11:48 PM (zc3Db)
The French are on their own.
And also have their own nukes.
Posted by: Maetenloch at February 03, 2016 11:51 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at February 03, 2016 11:51 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2016 11:47 PM (cXiMR)
Everybody knows meth-heads love Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Duh.
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 03, 2016 11:52 PM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 03, 2016 11:52 PM (+vBuN)
Funny how so many cajun places have such a hard time getting up to speed. Ritter's is the very first full-service cajun cuisine restaurant I've ever seen in SoCal that's managed to stick around.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2016 11:53 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: hogmartin at February 03, 2016 11:53 PM (NA5LM)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 03, 2016 11:53 PM (zc3Db)
I spoke in-artfully. He's not official or anything like that but he's been getting a lot of flack lately.
OK, I thought Fenelon might have got him with a stray typo.
Or he ate one of his own steaks.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 03, 2016 11:53 PM (1xUj/)
Posted by: hogmartin at February 03, 2016 11:53 PM (NA5LM)
The one in Nigeria?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2016 11:54 PM (q2o38)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 03, 2016 11:54 PM (+vBuN)
The laws of Thermodynamics don't change just because you went to University of Cincinnati instead of Purdue.
Posted by: buzzion at February 03, 2016 11:54 PM (zt+N6)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/hr3c5d8
Posted by: The Psychic Hat at February 03, 2016 11:54 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: navybrat at February 03, 2016 11:54 PM (8QGte)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 03, 2016 11:53 PM (zc3Db)
***
Gotta agree. I can tell, just by looking into those eyes, that she's different than other girls, but most men don't see it.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 03, 2016 11:54 PM (lutOX)
We gotta nuke somebody, we're Americans. That's what we do, that's all we do.
Hell, if we can't nuke'm, we'll send in USAID subcontractors.
Posted by: Stef van der Filus at February 03, 2016 11:55 PM (q8UYR)
2. Alone among European countries in WWII the Danes saved nearly all of their Jews and rejected the Nazi's anti-Jewish policies.
Nope. Not the only European nation. Finland told the Nazis to fuck off when they began pressuring the Finns to hand over their Jews. In one case, a Finn bureaucrat handed over a handful against official government policy (less than 10, if memory serves) and the Finns freaked out in protest. Nearly brought down the government.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 03, 2016 11:55 PM (o98Jz)
I spoke in-artfully. He's not official or anything like that but he's been getting a lot of flack lately.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
And giving it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 03, 2016 11:55 PM (FkBIv)
Now I realize the guy was on disability, scraping some cash off the top, and selling weed. But, damn that was good food for a 9 year old white boy.
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2016 11:55 PM (cXiMR)
Posted by: eman at February 03, 2016 11:55 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2016 11:56 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: buzzion at February 03, 2016 11:54 PM (zt+N6)
*prepares to find the laws of thermodynamic unconstituional*
Posted by: SCOTUS at February 03, 2016 11:56 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 03, 2016 11:56 PM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2016 11:54 PM (q2o3
Nah, the toys where you give them to a bunch of Viking children and years later they come up with an amateur manned suborbital rocket program.
http://copenhagensuborbitals.com/
Posted by: hogmartin at February 03, 2016 11:56 PM (NA5LM)
My niece has a chemical engineering degree from a West Podunk University. She went to a nearby university, lived at home, and worked part time all four years. She graduated with no student debt, works for a Intel, and gets regular promotions.
Congratulations and good for her! I went to an engineering school myself and while I majored in Chemistry, I had many good friends in the ChemE program. As far as I know, every one of them were hired in '76, when the economy was going to shit and ushering the Age of Jimmuh.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2016 11:56 PM (BK3ZS)
You're not going to stop me from carpet bombing France with
Hand-e-wipes, though. Those smelly frogs really bug the shit out of me.
Posted by: The The Donald at February 03, 2016 11:48 PM (zc3Db)
--------------------------------
See, the other night I was asking what we should ask of Europe when they come running to us for help with their Muslim invaders.
For starters, we could make all the French take a bath.
Posted by: iforgot at February 03, 2016 11:57 PM (YOxw1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2016 11:57 PM (ntObR)
And we're the bartenders!
Posted by: Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski at February 03, 2016 11:57 PM (89T5c)
All this monitor displays is a black box with two cat eyes glowing in it. I thought it was demon cat.
Posted by: Stef van der Filus at February 03, 2016 11:57 PM (q8UYR)
Posted by: Stef van der Filus at February 03, 2016 11:55 PM (q8UYR)
Mmm . . . I wonder, what if we send the contractors in first?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2016 11:57 PM (q2o38)
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It is from last night. I think.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
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Considering that it's from Groundhog Day...
Posted by: Chi at February 03, 2016 11:57 PM (ENe42)
Now they say you can get it from having sex with a mosquito.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 03, 2016 11:57 PM (FkBIv)
No, Fenny's kill count is still at one.
Until.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 03, 2016 11:58 PM (+vBuN)
Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2016 11:58 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2016 11:58 PM (ntObR)
Well even a chemical engineering graduate from West Podunk State
University almost certainly knows something and has some skills. Not so
much for a WPSU sociology or business major.
The laws of Thermodynamics don't change just because you went to University of Cincinnati instead of Purdue.
Posted by: buzzion at February 03, 2016 11:54 PM (zt+N6)
Where the "quality" and stridency of your SJW rhetoric would be vastly different.....
Posted by: cthulhu at February 03, 2016 11:58 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: eman at February 03, 2016 11:58 PM (MQEz6)
So, anybody in the Horde get Zika yet?
Now they say you can get it from having sex with a mosquito.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 03, 2016 11:57 PM (FkBIv)
Dood, that sucks.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 03, 2016 11:59 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 03, 2016 11:57 PM (FkBIv)
Uh Oh... Gulp.
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 03, 2016 11:59 PM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 03, 2016 11:59 PM (1xUj/)
The map included:
North Pakistan
The Islamic Republic of North Algeria
New Turkey
Bosnian Sultanate
and so on.
Spot on. Scary. And sad.
Posted by: shibumi, RIP USA at February 04, 2016 12:00 AM (osB7c)
Posted by: Stef van der Filus at February 03, 2016 11:55 PM (q8UYR)
Mmm . . . I wonder, what if we send the contractors in first?
Posted by: Kindltot
We can give them beacons.
Posted by: Jean at February 04, 2016 12:00 AM (cXiMR)
Seems kinda shady.
Posted by: eman at February 03, 2016 11:55 PM (MQEz6)
On and off again they were merged with Swedn, for the longest time they held the Southermost portion of Sweden, known as Scania.
To summarize how the Swedes think of Scania:
http://satwcomic.com/swedish-politics
Posted by: "A Hat bit my sister..." at February 04, 2016 12:00 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: two of spades (promotion pending) at February 04, 2016 12:00 AM (XzlVc)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 04, 2016 12:00 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 12:01 AM (qUNWi)
I know you have a prodigious memory, so:
At the next SWOHMoMe, remind me to tell you about my eldest's experience re engineering and UC vs Purdue.
Posted by: speedster1 at February 04, 2016 12:01 AM (vUcdz)
Posted by: Bill Swerski's Superfans at February 04, 2016 12:01 AM (Pwh6H)
All this monitor displays is a black box with two cat eyes glowing in it. I thought it was demon cat.
Posted by: Stef van der Filus at February 03, 2016 11:57 PM (q8UYR)
I have a black cat who will sit on the patio and stare at me through the glass patio door. At night, all I will see are two yellow eyes, and at times a pink tongue.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2016 12:01 AM (q2o38)
Posted by: Kenny Trump at February 04, 2016 12:01 AM (u5gzz)
Posted by: iforgot at February 04, 2016 12:02 AM (YOxw1)
Yeah, except this Roosh V guy didn't merely seduce women. He outright bragged to raping a couple of drunk women while in Iceland.
Posted by: fly gal at February 04, 2016 12:02 AM (h6JMd)
Well done on the clock and repeated date at the top of tonight's ONT, Maet!
Gotta confess that I refreshed the page one time because I had a WTF? moment wondering how my stack had reverted to last night.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2016 12:02 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 04, 2016 12:02 AM (oFSUK)
Terrible louts and bounders, the lot of them. no respect for women or themselves - just terrible, terrible human beings.
Here, let me buy you and drink and i'll tell you all about them.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 03, 2016 11:43 PM (lutOX)
Oh, brother. SJW's just get dumber and dumber. Here's the thing. And I'm saying this as someone who, in my younger days, used to go clubbing. If you don't want to be approached by pick up artists, you don't go to the clubs. Every young, single person knows which bars to go to if you want to meet members of the opposite sex. Man hating hags, DON'T GO TO PICK UP BARS.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 04, 2016 12:03 AM (+lVUW)
Posted by: eman at February 04, 2016 12:04 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 04, 2016 12:04 AM (1xUj/)
And we're the bartenders!
Posted by: Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski at February 03, 2016 11:57 PM (89T5c)
***
Heaven forbid. No, i'll be there, I'll keep you safe, girls....
But do wear feel free to wear your yoga clothes, ladies - I've always been interested in learning.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 04, 2016 12:04 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Scooby Doo at February 04, 2016 12:04 AM (Pwh6H)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 04, 2016 12:04 AM (hlMPp)
♪ They say our love won't pay the rent ♫
Posted by: Sonny & Cher... again at February 04, 2016 12:04 AM (oFSUK)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 04, 2016 12:04 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2016 12:05 AM (+vBuN)
Posted by: Jean at February 04, 2016 12:05 AM (cXiMR)
https://tinyurl.com/gpwvr2g
Whereupon Karl Denninger of the Market Ticker chimed in: "I'll Bite"
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231078
Math is involved.
Posted by: rickl at February 04, 2016 12:05 AM (sdi6R)
We're skilled at teaching our little brown friends how to do the jobs we were paid to do last week ...
Posted by: Adriane the Engineer Way Back When A Few Weeks Ago... at February 04, 2016 12:05 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: iforgot at February 04, 2016 12:05 AM (YOxw1)
Posted by: buzzion at February 03, 2016 11:54 PM (zt+N6)
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True. But why would anyone consider doing that?
Posted by: RioBravo at February 04, 2016 12:05 AM (NUqwG)
But I hear, people tell me this, I don't know, but I hear he's bringing his mother in to help him campaign.
That's terrific. Barbara seems like such a nice lady. Very classy lady. And even at her age, she's gotta have more energy than Jeb.
Also, she looks terrific with a pearl necklace.
Posted by: D. Trump at February 04, 2016 12:05 AM (H9MG5)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
You aren't the only one.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 04, 2016 12:06 AM (FkBIv)
Why is Andrea Tantaros in the cupboard?
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 04, 2016 12:04 AM (1xUj/)
***
THAT'S where she got to.....
Wiley little minx - she likes to be chased....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 04, 2016 12:06 AM (lutOX)
I have a black cat who will sit on the patio and stare at me through the glass patio door. At night, all I will see are two yellow eyes, and at times a pink tongue.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2016 12:01 AM (q2o3
I had a black kitty named Katya who used to wake me up by sitting on my chest. I'd open my eyes and in the dim gray light see a black form with two pointy black ears. It was like being molested by Batman.
I still have confused feelings about this.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 12:06 AM (NA5LM)
Point is. It's not the guy's fault if you're dumb.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 04, 2016 12:06 AM (+lVUW)
100 Buzzion
I know you have a prodigious memory, so:
At the next SWOHMoMe, remind me to tell you about my eldest's experience re engineering and UC vs Purdue.
Posted by: speedster1 at February 04, 2016 12:01 AM (vUcdz)
Word was, around the City of LA Engineering staff, if you wanted an Engineer for research -- you recruited from Berkeley; but if you wanted one whose bridges wouldn't fall down, you'd recruit from Cal Poly.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 12:06 AM (EzgxV)
If you're Grisha Perelman, you can post your proof of a theorem - literally, as in really literally - from your mother's attic, and it won't matter what school you went to if you're right.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 04, 2016 12:07 AM (6FqZa)
120 So, anybody in the Horde get Zika yet?
Now they say you can get it from having sex with a mosquito.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 03, 2016 11:57 PM (FkBIv)
Pitching or catching?
The More You Know... * audio sparklies *
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2016 12:07 AM (BK3ZS)
LOVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!1!!!
Posted by: Jeb "two quarters short of a roll" Bush at February 04, 2016 12:07 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Jean at February 04, 2016 12:05 AM (cXiMR)
***
I've done it. Hell, girls are where you find them.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 04, 2016 12:07 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2016 12:08 AM (+vBuN)
I still have confused feelings about this.
Posted by: hogmartin
*nods in agreement*
MAAAAATT DAMON
Posted by: MATT DAMON at February 04, 2016 12:08 AM (Pwh6H)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo doesn't even know anymore at February 04, 2016 12:08 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: iforgot at February 04, 2016 12:09 AM (YOxw1)
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 12:09 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Fritz at February 04, 2016 12:10 AM (BngQR)
Posted by: Mike Murphy sitting in the corner showing Donald Trump what for at February 04, 2016 12:10 AM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 04, 2016 12:10 AM (8PbKi)
5. Running naked through City of Hall of Flint, MI
4. Touch a kleenex once used by Lena Dunham
3. Eating at Marcos' Mediterranean Mosquito Churrascaria, conveniently located right between the 605 and the 5
2. Traveling through Detroit during the wet season
1. If Bill Clinton blows a kiss at you
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 04, 2016 12:11 AM (ntObR)
You can meet girls at the titty bar. Not as learned generally, though.
Generally.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2016 12:11 AM (+vBuN)
Posted by: iforgot at February 04, 2016 12:09 AM (YOxw1)
I saw him in Fredericksburg before that sampling peaches on the side of the road.
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:11 AM (UnJ7w)
You can meet girls at the titty bar. Not as learned generally, though.
Generally.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2016 12:11 AM (+vBuN)
***
Street smart vs book smarts....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 04, 2016 12:12 AM (lutOX)
In all of human history, which female has been masturbated to the most times?
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 04, 2016 12:12 AM (Dii8C)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 04, 2016 12:12 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: iforgot at February 04, 2016 12:09 AM (YOxw1)
His hair was perfect.
Posted by: rickl at February 04, 2016 12:12 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 03, 2016 11:50 PM (lutOX)
Nope. Got snapped up right away.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 04, 2016 12:13 AM (+lVUW)
I married a girl who started as a one-night stand. Got the two best sons out of the deal, too.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 04, 2016 12:13 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: iforgot at February 04, 2016 12:09 AM (YOxw1)
I saw him in Fredericksburg before that sampling peaches on the side of the road.
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:11 AM (UnJ7w)
***
Last seen leaving Seguin, heading for Marion, the poor bastard.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 04, 2016 12:13 AM (lutOX)
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[]i]O.J. Simpson and Bill Cosby are twin devils!
Years before O.J.'s ex Nicole Brown was brutally slain in 1994, she confessed he'd once brutally "date raped" her.
Now, The National ENQUIRER has learned the imprisoned ex-football star supplied Quaaludes to his pal Cosby, who's confessed to giving women the drug for sexual encounters!
Maet, I think you read it wrong. The piece is saying that OJ once date-raped Nicole and also that OJ supplied Cosby. If they were really saying Cosby raped Nicole, they would have been unambiguous about it.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 04, 2016 12:14 AM (R+30W)
It was like being molested by Batman
George Clooney Batman with nipped body armor or Ben Affleck Batman with the sadz?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2016 12:14 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: shibumi, RIP USA at February 04, 2016 12:14 AM (osB7c)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2016 12:14 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 04, 2016 12:12 AM (Dii8C)
That one's easy, that broad that farts in her sumerian husband's lap, you know what's her name.
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:14 AM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 03, 2016 11:50 PM (lutOX)
Nope. Got snapped up right away.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 04, 2016 12:13 AM (+lVUW)
***
Dammit.....
Rain-check?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 04, 2016 12:14 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 04, 2016 12:14 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: RioBravo
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Uh... how much time have you spent in W. Lafayette, Indiana?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 04, 2016 12:15 AM (oFSUK)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 04, 2016 12:15 AM (6FqZa)
You are so shallow. So bereft.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2016 12:15 AM (+vBuN)
Posted by: iforgot at February 04, 2016 12:05 AM (YOxw1)
Dammit, I Forgot! Second is STEAK KNIVES
Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2016 12:15 AM (q2o38)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 04, 2016 12:15 AM (oFSUK)
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47 months!
Posted by: RioBravo at February 04, 2016 12:16 AM (NUqwG)
Every red state would start something similar. And, in the process invalidate NFA34 -- because the State CAN issue you a machine gun AND grenades. The fact you made a generous donation to the State coffers not withstanding.
Posted by: Jean at February 04, 2016 12:16 AM (cXiMR)
It was like being molested by Batman
George Clooney Batman with nipped body armor or Ben Affleck Batman with the sadz?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2016 12:14 AM (BK3ZS)
I couldn't tell. It was just body, shoulders, head, and pointy ears looming over me, all black. Plus I guess Batman says "myeoooowr" which I don't know if that's canon.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 12:16 AM (NA5LM)
>>>Is that D Trump sock actually a sock, or is it really him?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo doesn't even know anymore at February 04, 2016 12:08 AM (6FqZa)<<<
Come on. Why would I be here?
You've got some very nasty people here. Very nasty. When I'm President, I'm gonna get a lot of experts, a lot of very smart people, and I'm gonna build a wall, a yuuuge, glorious firewall around this place so I can make the Internet great again.
I mean, really, I hear Ace used to do nasty things to Marco Rubio's garbage. Bad!
Posted by: D. Trump at February 04, 2016 12:16 AM (H9MG5)
Posted by: buzzsaw90
Helen of Troy or Shamhat.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at February 04, 2016 12:16 AM (Pwh6H)
Cleopatra?
Posted by: shibumi, RIP USA at February 04, 2016 12:14 AM (osB7c)
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.
Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche
How statue-like I see thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand!
Ah, Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy-Land!
Posted by: The Poetic Hat at February 04, 2016 12:17 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: iforgot at February 04, 2016 12:09 AM (YOxw1)
I saw him in Fredericksburg before that sampling peaches on the side of the road.
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:11 AM (UnJ7w)
***
Last seen leaving Seguin, heading for Marion, the poor bastard.
- - - -
I just saw him checking into the Motel 6 in Walla Walla.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2016 12:17 AM (YsLaz)
One in the running would probably be Farrah Fawcett, and that famous poster from the 70s. I remember that one well. Of course, I didn't hit puberty until somewhere around '79 - '80 or so, but I do remember that iconic poster.
I imagine ol' Marilyn Monroe loosed quite a tide of spooge in her day as well.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 04, 2016 12:17 AM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2016 12:18 AM (+vBuN)
A Jong for Jeff
"My Ride's Here"
I was staying at the Marriott
With Jesus and John Wayne
I was waiting for a chariot
They were waiting for a train
The sky was full of carrion
"I'll take the mazuma"
Said Jesus to Marion
"That's the 3:10 to Yuma
My ride's here..."
The Houston sky was changeless
We galloped through bluebonnets
I was wrestling with an angel
You were working on a sonnet
You said, "I believe the seraphim
Will gather up my pinto
And carry us away, Jim
Across the San Jacinto
My ride's here..."
Shelley and Keats were out in the street
And even Lord Byron was leaving for Greece
While back at the Hilton, last but not least
Milton was holding his sides
Saying, "You bravos had better be
ready to fight
Or we'll never get out of East Texas tonight
The trail is long and the river is wide
And my ride's here"
I was staying at the Westin
I was playing to a draw
When in walked Charlton Heston
With the Tablets of the Law
He said, "It's still the Greatest Story"
I said, "Man, I'd like to stay
But I'm bound for glory
I'm on my way
My ride's here..."
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2016 12:18 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 12:18 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: david bowie, space oddity at February 04, 2016 12:18 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 04, 2016 12:18 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: iforgot at February 04, 2016 12:19 AM (YOxw1)
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 12:20 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2016 12:20 AM (+vBuN)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 04, 2016 12:18 AM (hlMPp)
***
[choked whisper]
Never heard of him.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 04, 2016 12:20 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2016 12:17 AM (YsLaz)
Why do I suddenly have the urge to mail a letter there? Something from my childhood but I can't remember it.
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:20 AM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: RWC
----------------------
We're just . . . trying to make sense of it all right now.
Posted by: iforgot at February 04, 2016 12:20 AM (YOxw1)
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:20 AM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: Fritz
----------------
Yeah, I really, really fcuked up.
Sorry.
Posted by: Zombie Rachel Carson at February 04, 2016 12:20 AM (oFSUK)
silencers and full auto are $200
AOW is $5 I think , not sure on that
Posted by: jake at February 04, 2016 12:21 AM (HLUeE)
Hey, I thought you were gonna do last night all over again complete.
Thanks for sparing us.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 04, 2016 12:21 AM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 04, 2016 12:18 AM (hlMPp)
He went down to the border to greet new illegals with bags of Doritos, but he ran out after 20 minutes and they ate him.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 04, 2016 12:21 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Fritz at February 04, 2016 12:21 AM (BngQR)
Witness protection in Waziristan.
Apparently his body double has been sighted at various motels and waffle shops.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 04, 2016 12:21 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 04, 2016 12:18 AM (hlMPp)
He tried crossing the border he claims we all want guarded by military personnel every 50 feet with shoot to kill orders.
Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2016 12:21 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: iforgot
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Was it DDT related?
Posted by: Zombie Rachel Carson at February 04, 2016 12:21 AM (oFSUK)
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 12:21 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 04, 2016 12:22 AM (hlMPp)
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since it's you, i expect it will be completed in #1weeks
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 04, 2016 12:22 AM (Dii8C)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 04, 2016 12:22 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 12:22 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 12:20 AM (qUNWi)
Nah it'd be something odd, like the third girl on page 78 of the Sears Summer Catalog.
Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2016 12:23 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Ripley at February 04, 2016 12:23 AM (0vsws)
You don't think he used too much cayenne pepper on that roast chicken, do you?
OMG, that's it!
Someone musta told him to choke that chicken to death. And, he wasn't quite clear on the concept?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 04, 2016 12:23 AM (McRlu)
.That said, the earnings picture is very different for other fields. Outside of STEM, it matters tremendously where a student receives a degree.
***
Because if you study STEM you are learning valuable skills. If you study something else the only thing of value you are earning are connections - and the connections at a top tier college are worth more then the ones at a community college...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2016 12:23 AM (5LOno)
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 12:21 AM (qUNWi)
Cheer up buddy. Everybody plays the foil now and again.
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:23 AM (UnJ7w)
I still have confused feelings about this.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 12:06 AM (NA5LM)
She's checking to see if you you were still breathing, because she gets to eat you after you die.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 04, 2016 12:23 AM (+lVUW)
Forgot where I was for a second
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 04, 2016 12:24 AM (hlMPp)
---
do you mean left-wedge, up-wedge, double-right wedge, left-wedge?
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 04, 2016 12:24 AM (Dii8C)
Has to be someone who's image was everywhere.
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 12:22 AM (qUNWi)
***
Norma Desmond
Posted by: Max von Maerling at February 04, 2016 12:24 AM (lutOX)
Heard he was into foam parties in South Beach. By "heard" I mean "read", as in "in his own book 'American Son'". books.google.com can take you there.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 04, 2016 12:24 AM (6FqZa)
Not looking forward to the nuclear mutant hogs rampaging out of the ashes.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 04, 2016 12:24 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 04, 2016 12:24 AM (FkBIv)
Dresden Codak is indescribable and heady.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 04, 2016 12:24 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: navybrat at February 04, 2016 12:24 AM (8QGte)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 04, 2016 12:24 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 04, 2016 12:22 AM (YJmuy)
Good evening white trash.
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:24 AM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: RWC
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Right.
Because taking it if she wasn't running would be just fine, but if running, then immoral.
Has malleable values that one.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 04, 2016 12:25 AM (oFSUK)
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 12:25 AM (NA5LM)
Yeah, I really, really fcuked up.
Sorry.
Rachel Carson
___
Well, Rachel, at least people don't remember me for falling flat in my predictions.
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at February 04, 2016 12:25 AM (5LOno)
Good evening, good people.
Quick stop to say hello.
And leave you with the exhortation that because we are Americans, the head is held HIGH, most especially in these times.
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 04, 2016 12:26 AM (P/8aq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 04, 2016 12:24 AM (FkBIv)
If we're going that way: I dare you to find a pristine VHS of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Phoebe Cates coming out of the water.
Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2016 12:26 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:27 AM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 04, 2016 12:24 AM (FkBIv)
***
That depends...are we counting spontaneous hands-free?
Posted by: Max von Maerling at February 04, 2016 12:27 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: navybrat
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Heh. It was a girlfriend that showed me that if you fold that carton just right, the maiden looks more interesting.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 04, 2016 12:27 AM (oFSUK)
One in the running would probably be Farrah Fawcett, and that famous poster from the 70s. I remember that one well. Of course, I didn't hit puberty until somewhere around '79 - '80 or so, but I do remember that iconic poster.
I imagine ol' Marilyn Monroe loosed quite a tide of spooge in her day as well.
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raw total. I can't imagine it's anyone current as there are now so many options to choose from, even with higher population and (i presume) higher jizz rates.
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 04, 2016 12:27 AM (Dii8C)
I guess I'm his punching bag or something."
Dude, shut up. You always make great comments. Don't stop doing what you do You nail shit. Like a MoFo. Hit me back. It's fun.
Quit crying.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2016 12:27 AM (+vBuN)
Posted by: navybrat
If you fold the carton just right.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 04, 2016 12:27 AM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 04, 2016 12:27 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 04, 2016 12:25 AM (oFSUK)
*insert cackle here*
Ohhhh Mike.
You're part of the VRWC. They even have bigger donors now.
*yes, she said that
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 04, 2016 12:27 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Zombie Rachel Carson
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Damn Donald Trump? Very possibly.
Posted by: iforgot at February 04, 2016 12:27 AM (YOxw1)
Heh. VHS tapes would wear out at the spot they were paused too frequently.
Or so I'm told.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 04, 2016 12:27 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 04, 2016 12:27 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 04, 2016 12:28 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2016 12:28 AM (voOPb)
Yeah, you could get cartons, cut the image of the knees, move it up a little. Voila.
Posted by: navybrat at February 04, 2016 12:29 AM (8QGte)
I've been pondering a philosophical question for the last week, and
can't think of a better group to come up with the solution. to wit...
In all of human history, which female has been masturbated to the most times?
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 04, 2016 12:12 AM (Dii8C)
If I were putting money down, I'd go with Farrah Fawcett. But I grew up in a simpler time....
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 12:29 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 04, 2016 12:18 AM (hlMPp)
Valdosta,Ga. authorities have confirmed that a Waffle House patron has succumbed to an allergic reaction brought on by a Ted Cruz combo platter...!
Posted by: two of spades (promotion pending) at February 04, 2016 12:29 AM (XzlVc)
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:30 AM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 12:30 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: jake at February 04, 2016 12:30 AM (HLUeE)
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at February 04, 2016 12:25 AM (5LOno)
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(backing out of room quietly)
Posted by: Al Gore at February 04, 2016 12:30 AM (YOxw1)
*yes, she said that
Posted by: RWC
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Yeah, I heard it. "Pumping that cash in..", sez she who just received $6,000,000 from George Soros.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 04, 2016 12:30 AM (oFSUK)
Posted by: Fritz at February 04, 2016 12:21 AM (BngQR)
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even more that Raquel Welch?
Part of me thinks it might have been some 1940's pinup girl. All those GIs overseas needing something to live for.
o, and japanese sex-bots can't be counted
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 04, 2016 12:30 AM (Dii8C)
Posted by: derit at February 04, 2016 12:31 AM (OC+TJ)
Posted by: jake at February 04, 2016 12:31 AM (HLUeE)
In all of human history, which female has been masturbated to the most times?
___
That
Is
Gross
Seriously people haven't you got better things to masturbate to...err..to go do?
Oh, hey Reggie, ready for a little pickup action? I'll be skins this time...
Posted by: Barack Obama at February 04, 2016 12:31 AM (5LOno)
Until.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 03, 2016 11:58 PM (+vBuN)
That we know of.
Posted by: Blano at February 04, 2016 12:31 AM (3eoPa)
In all of human history, which female has been masturbated to the most times?
Womenz or goats? Given their, er, proclivities, I'm guessing there have been quite a few hot nanny goats that "moved" many a muzzie to rampant and frequent bouts of onanism.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2016 12:32 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2016 12:32 AM (+vBuN)
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ahhhh....Cat People
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 04, 2016 12:33 AM (Dii8C)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 04, 2016 12:33 AM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Judge Reinhold at February 04, 2016 12:33 AM (Dii8C)
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 12:33 AM (qUNWi)
One in the running would probably be Farrah Fawcett, and that famous poster from the 70s. I remember that one well. Of course, I didn't hit puberty until somewhere around '79 - '80 or so, but I do remember that iconic poster.
I imagine ol' Marilyn Monroe loosed quite a tide of spooge in her day as well.
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raw total. I can't imagine it's anyone current as there are now so many options to choose from, even with higher population and (i presume) higher jizz rates.
Posted by: buzzsaw90
If we move forward out of the stills -- theres the girl in the AC/DC Shook Me All Night video
Posted by: Jean at February 04, 2016 12:33 AM (cXiMR)
Posted by: navybrat at February 04, 2016 12:33 AM (8QGte)
No contest. Raquel Welsh.
Posted by: Fritz at February 04, 2016 12:21 AM (BngQR)
Raquel Welch was movies; Farrah Fawcett was TV.....
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 12:33 AM (EzgxV)
It's so open in fact, you can almost see the tapeworm.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 04, 2016 12:34 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 04, 2016 12:34 AM (1xUj/)
Every red state would start something similar.
Not just red states, blue states, like Michigan, also. In '08 Obama made a point of telling Michigan democrats that he wouldn't go after their guns. The fools bought it.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 04, 2016 12:34 AM (+lVUW)
It's so open in fact, you can almost see the tapeworm.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 04, 2016 12:34 AM (ntObR)
Brainworm, surely?
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 12:35 AM (NA5LM)
Posted by: eman at February 04, 2016 12:35 AM (MQEz6)
The Hord is slippin I'm telling ya
Posted by: jake at February 04, 2016 12:31 AM (HLUeE)
Ahem. Comment 249
Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2016 12:35 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 04, 2016 12:35 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 04, 2016 12:22 AM (Dii8C)<<<
Maybe I should just buy this place. I could make this place so classy.
Merchandise. You'll have shirts. And hats. I know this really terrific
place that can make some really classy hats. It won't take two weeks.
Forget it. I know people. Really good people. Experts.
And forget about the hamsters, I'd replace them. Gone. We'll bring in cheetahs. We'll have these pages loading so fast you'll say, please, please, Mr. Trump, I can't handle all the content. Lets go back to the rodents.
And I'd make a list. Lot of bad people here. They can't stay. They have to go. So I'll make a list. And send them back to Hot Air. They have to go. Maybe some of the good ones can come back... but I could really make this blog great again.
Posted by: D. Trump at February 04, 2016 12:36 AM (H9MG5)
It's so open in fact, you can almost see the tapeworm.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 04, 2016 12:34 AM (ntObR)
I do believe that is called the Event Horizon.
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:36 AM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: MTF at February 04, 2016 12:37 AM (LA2U/)
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2016 12:38 AM (qqwYn)
I have once again proven that I cannot travel by airliner without catching something that increases sinus fluid production. If it had a value I would apply for a patent.
Oh, and yep, I've tried all those preventative measures that are supposed to work for everyone -- with the exception of bringing my own oxygen.
Posted by: jc at February 04, 2016 12:38 AM (iRJ+A)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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You can smell the sin on her breath.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 04, 2016 12:38 AM (oFSUK)
Posted by: Adriane the Engineer Way Back When A Few Weeks Ago... at February 04, 2016 12:39 AM (AoK0a)
I'm gonna need a bigger Hot Tub.
Posted by: Heather Thomas at February 04, 2016 12:39 AM (qqwYn)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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You can smell the
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 04, 2016 12:38 AM (oFSUK)
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 12:39 AM (NA5LM)
Posted by: jake at February 04, 2016 12:39 AM (HLUeE)
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:40 AM (UnJ7w)
If I were putting money down, I'd go with Farrah Fawcett. But I grew up in a simpler time....
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 12:29 AM (EzgxV)
At first I thought it had to be someone in the internet age, because we are surrounded by images today like never before. But on second thought, no, there are so many different options to choose from today.
The Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth pinups from the 40s would be good candidates, but as someone said, the total population was much smaller then.
So I'm zeroing in on the 70s and 80s, when mass-market cheesecake/swimsuit/centerfolds were at their zenith, before the internet allowed for fragmentation and niche interests.
Farrah Fawcett is as good a guess as any. That poster was *everywhere* in the late 70s. Although she didn't particularly float my boat.
Posted by: rickl at February 04, 2016 12:40 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at February 04, 2016 12:40 AM (Pwh6H)
may your health return pronto,
Like the Lone Ranger & Tonto ...
or, something like that ...
Posted by: Adriane the Engineer Way Back When A Few Weeks Ago... at February 04, 2016 12:40 AM (AoK0a)
Now, that suggests a masturbatory measure for above. How much spooge, per man on average, does a particular babe induce. Or what it the total volume all together of everybody she provoked.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 04, 2016 12:40 AM (dvuhZ)
rickl, the liberal love affair with the militia clause is silly. If
they somehow packed the Court and passed some law restricting ownership
to militia members -- then guess what -- we'd all join State militias. I
was a member of the South Carolina Unorganized Militia; and was issued
an M-14. It could have been a SAW; and would be if the liberals went
down that path. I was NOT a resident of SC either, I was paying out of
state institution.
Every red state would start something similar. And, in the process
invalidate NFA34 -- because the State CAN issue you a machine gun AND
grenades. The fact you made a generous donation to the State coffers
not withstanding.
Posted by: Jean at February 04, 2016 12:16 AM (cXiMR)
All men between the ages of 17 and 45, with some exceptions (clergy, members of the regular armed forces or National Guard) are members of the unorganized militia of the United States. 10 USC 311
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/311
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 04, 2016 12:42 AM (5f5bM)
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:42 AM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: speedster1 at February 04, 2016 12:42 AM (vUcdz)
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 12:42 AM (NA5LM)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 04, 2016 12:42 AM (Dii8C)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 04, 2016 12:42 AM (oFSUK)
Someone should ask Vic... since Abe Vigoda isn't around anymore.
Posted by: certain he'd know at February 04, 2016 12:43 AM (H9MG5)
Now, that suggests a masturbatory measure for above. How much spooge, per man on average, does a particular babe induce. Or what it the total volume all together of everybody she provoked.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 04, 2016 12:40 AM (dvuhZ)
***
Holy Hell, Hannah!
Guess I could raise the Titanic......
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 04, 2016 12:43 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 04, 2016 12:43 AM (sl+zA)
I found out about a *lot* of good games there.
It wasn't monetisable(?) though, so he dropped it after a year.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 04, 2016 12:43 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Peter North at February 04, 2016 12:44 AM (qqwYn)
Posted by: Fritz at February 04, 2016 12:21 AM (BngQR)
Jane Mansfield probably ranks right up there.
Posted by: Blano at February 04, 2016 12:44 AM (3eoPa)
Man overboard! Man Overboard!
Posted by: Fritz at February 04, 2016 12:45 AM (BngQR)
Posted by: Cicero
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I'm only doing this if my rank is retro'd. Not pulling any more KP, no shit burning either.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 04, 2016 12:45 AM (oFSUK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)
Or Metamucil.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 04, 2016 12:45 AM (FkBIv)
Has anyone tried to eedfeat an NFA violation based on membership in the 10 USC 311 Militia?
Posted by: Jean at February 04, 2016 12:45 AM (cXiMR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 04, 2016 12:43 AM (sl+zA)
***
That's. Just. The. Way. It. Fucking. Is.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 04, 2016 12:45 AM (lutOX)
Q: "With all those deployments, how long has it been since you've had sex?"
A: "Let's see.....I'd say since about 2005."
Q: "That's awful. All that time -- the loneliness -- the lack of companionship contact....."
A: "I dunno -- by my watch, it's only about 2130 now...."
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 12:45 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:42 AM (UnJ7w)
What part of Texas are you in again? I'm always up for a free meal and/or drink.
Posted by: Blano at February 04, 2016 12:46 AM (3eoPa)
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enough to capsize Guam
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 04, 2016 12:46 AM (Dii8C)
Posted by: speedster1 at February 04, 2016 12:42 AM (vUcdz)
Seriously, who has time to count?
Howdy roonz and roonettez!
Posted by: GGE of the Working Horde, NC Chapter at February 04, 2016 12:46 AM (30qi/)
Posted by: jc at February 04, 2016 12:47 AM (iRJ+A)
Posted by: Blano at February 04, 2016 12:46 AM (3eoPa)
West Texas, Mid/odessa area.
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:47 AM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: Max Power at February 04, 2016 12:48 AM (QCc6B)
Posted by: RioBravo at February 04, 2016 12:48 AM (NUqwG)
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2016 12:48 AM (qqwYn)
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:48 AM (UnJ7w)
>>In all of human history, which female has been masturbated to the most times?
I'm gonna need a bigger Hot Tub.
Posted by: Heather Thomas at February 04, 2016 12:39 AM (qqwYn)
Heather Locklear would be another good guess. It would logically be someone from the period where there was heavy media saturation concentrated on very few networks. Too much earlier, and it'd only be people who saw the movie; too much later and the amount of chicken-choking would start to get divided over too many media sources.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 12:49 AM (EzgxV)
a performance art project of a guy masterbating his man juice onto the page of the Koran where Mohamed did sex to his 9yo wife?
or?
using Korans for the soles of your boots?
or?
Sending Kleenex with Koran passages written on each sheet so those German 13 year olds can stuff their bra's with?
??
Koran dipped in urine? elephant dung?
Posted by: jake at February 04, 2016 12:49 AM (HLUeE)
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 12:49 AM (NA5LM)
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 12:47 AM (UnJ7w)
Hoping to get around Texas this year. So much to see.
Posted by: Blano at February 04, 2016 12:49 AM (3eoPa)
Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2016 12:50 AM (zt+N6)
242 The Indian maiden on the carton of Land O Lakes butter.
Posted by: navybrat at February 04, 2016 12:24 AM (8QGte)
Dammit, that store clerk told me that a container of yogurt had been spilled on those cartons! Little lying crapweasel...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2016 12:50 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2016 12:50 AM (qqwYn)
Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2016 12:50 AM (zt+N6)
Do the dead still get stiffies?
Posted by: Blano at February 04, 2016 12:50 AM (3eoPa)
Being the law abiding citizen of Murphy's law that I am ... it could be worse.
But I don't have the sniffles, yet.
Have a penstemon that is about ready to bloom & some lavender in the garden...
Big kitty is doing much better - cast came off. Clean bill of health.
You?
Posted by: Adriane the Engineer Way Back When A Few Weeks Ago... at February 04, 2016 12:51 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 12:49 AM (NA5LM)
Avionics tech, worked on Tomcats and Hornets. By that time I was a Hornet guy. Retired as an AT1 in 2005.
Posted by: GGE of the Working Horde, NC Chapter at February 04, 2016 12:51 AM (30qi/)
Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2016 12:50 AM (zt+N6)
***
Rule 16: There are no girls on the internet
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 04, 2016 12:51 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Gilligan at February 04, 2016 12:51 AM (Dii8C)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at February 04, 2016 12:52 AM (Pwh6H)
Posted by: Ralph at February 04, 2016 12:52 AM (DKDOJ)
Posted by: Max Power at February 04, 2016 12:52 AM (QCc6B)
Posted by: Blano at February 04, 2016 12:52 AM (3eoPa)
So 1.9 quarts per year, about half a gallon. So, over your lifetime, you're gonna be filling a few 5 gallon buckets up.
More if you're into "Semenax" and similar "volume enhancement" products (whether they work or not, I don't know, wouldn't bet on it).
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 04, 2016 12:52 AM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Jean at February 04, 2016 12:52 AM (cXiMR)
Posted by: Max Power at February 04, 2016 12:53 AM (QCc6B)
Consider the following exercise. The average male ejaculate volume is
about 3-5 ml. Now, figure, over your lifetime from puberty to date, how
many times you've shot that lovin' spoonful. Add it up. You'll likely be
impressed.
Now, that suggests a masturbatory measure for above.
How much spooge, per man on average, does a particular babe induce. Or
what it the total volume all together of everybody she provoked.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 04, 2016 12:40 AM (dvuhZ)
IIRC, the band 10cc was named because it had four male musicians and the average ejaculate was 2.5cc.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 12:53 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Barack Obama at February 04, 2016 12:53 AM (Dii8C)
Posted by: Andrew Mendoza at February 04, 2016 12:54 AM (qqwYn)
Avionics tech, worked on Tomcats and Hornets. By that time I was a Hornet guy. Retired as an AT1 in 2005.
Posted by: GGE of the Working Horde, NC Chapter at February 04, 2016 12:51 AM (30qi/)
You left a year before I did (and retired, not a five-and-dive like I did). STS2/SS. Never did boomers, attack boats 4eva.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 12:54 AM (NA5LM)
Her image was everywhere at a time when there wasn't alot of competition.
She probably launched about a zillion ships.
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 12:54 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: jake at February 04, 2016 12:54 AM (HLUeE)
The unreachable one
Posted by: derit at February 04, 2016 12:54 AM (OC+TJ)
Eat more eggs.
Posted by: Fritz at February 04, 2016 12:55 AM (BngQR)
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2016 12:50 AM (qqwYn)
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Maybe Rick (Wicky) Wilson will show up.
Posted by: RioBravo at February 04, 2016 12:56 AM (NUqwG)
The unreachable one
Posted by: derit at February 04, 2016 12:54 AM (OC+TJ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXFuBuG03TU
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 12:56 AM (NA5LM)
Posted by: Blano at February 04, 2016 12:56 AM (3eoPa)
Posted by: eman at February 04, 2016 12:57 AM (MQEz6)
Mary Ann
Posted by: Gilligan at February 04, 2016 12:51 AM (Dii8C)
Plausible....or Agent 99 / Emma Peel....but I'm thinking it'd have to be later.....
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 12:57 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 12:57 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2016 12:50 AM (zt+N6)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE BY "SAUSAGE" YOU ACTUALLY MEAN PENISES!
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 04, 2016 12:58 AM (kpqmD)
The tattoo parlor's warm, and so I hustle there inside
And the grinding off the buzz-saw, "What you want that thing to say?"
I says, "Just don't misspell her name, buddy, she's the one that got away"
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 12:58 AM (NA5LM)
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2016 12:58 AM (qqwYn)
Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2016 12:50 AM (zt+N6)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE BY "SAUSAGE" YOU ACTUALLY MEAN PENISES!
Posted by: Amy Schumer at February 04, 2016 12:58 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 12:54 AM (NA5LM)
Nice. I hear tell there was always one in the battlegroup but I only saw it once, can't remember which boat, did one of those Hunt for Red October emergency blows close enough that we could see it. Payback for an air show maybe.
I was offered a chance to take the nuke test but passed. Probably wouldn't have been able to handle all the math anyway.
Posted by: GGE of the Working Horde, NC Chapter at February 04, 2016 12:59 AM (30qi/)
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at February 04, 2016 12:59 AM (kpqmD)
Posted by: Blano
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Decapitated, I think.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 04, 2016 01:00 AM (oFSUK)
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 01:01 AM (qUNWi)
Probably John Denver, too.
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2016 12:58 AM (qqwYn)
You mean Bob Denver rubbed a few out over John Denver?
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at February 04, 2016 01:01 AM (kpqmD)
Posted by: jake at February 04, 2016 01:02 AM (HLUeE)
Posted by: GGE of the Working Horde, NC Chapter at February 04, 2016 12:59 AM (30qi/)
You'd have been able to handle the math but the 12/12 in shipyard and the rest of the nuc trainwreck would have been something to endure. It was bad enough for us up front.
The EMBT blow is also not nearly as spectacular from inside as it looks outside. Major letdown. I joined up for a snappy uniform and a roller coaster!
: shakes tiny fist in rage :
Posted by: hogmartin at February 04, 2016 01:03 AM (NA5LM)
But everyone said she was beautiful even without her head.
Everyone said she was dangerous.
http://www.lyrics.net/lyric/1912334
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 04, 2016 01:04 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at February 04, 2016 01:05 AM (kpqmD)
True Story: Carl Reiner used to let junior, Rob, you know Meathead run around on the set as a teenager. He actually went up and grabbed MTM's ass in those pants.
MTM told that on Letterman one time a while back.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 04, 2016 01:05 AM (dvuhZ)
Anyway, before I turn in, I had started out to say back there at the start, that a dead ringer for Cankles is now appearing in ads for LifeAlert.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2016 01:05 AM (BK3ZS)
He actually calculated stuff like that. You should look him up.
He wrote a book called One Human Moment where he thought about how much of this and that the human race was producing at any moment of the day.
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 01:07 AM (qUNWi)
jc at February 04, 2016 12:47 AM (iRJ+A)
Being the law abiding citizen of Murphy's law that I am ... it could be worse.
But I don't have the sniffles, yet.
Have a penstemon that is about ready to bloom some lavender in the garden...
Big kitty is doing much better - cast came off. Clean bill of health.
You?
Posted by: Adriane the Engineer Way Back When A Few Weeks Ago... at February 04, 2016 12:51 AM (AoK0a)
====others than a little bug problem I am doing very well. too much to do but that is a good thing.
Posted by: jc at February 04, 2016 01:07 AM (iRJ+A)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 04, 2016 01:08 AM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Fritz at February 04, 2016 01:08 AM (BngQR)
Posted by: Ralph at February 04, 2016 01:09 AM (DKDOJ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 04, 2016 01:11 AM (ntObR)
I read those comments in trumps voice.
Gnight horde. Have a great Thursday.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 04, 2016 01:13 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Arson Wells at February 04, 2016 01:13 AM (UnJ7w)
ChemJeff was heading towards Brackettville - he kept muttering something about " Alamo Village" and John Wayne.....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at February 04, 2016 01:13 AM (Saqzi)
These endorsements are good tells if one is not familiar.
Posted by: Ralph at February 04, 2016 01:09 AM (DKDOJ)
Sounds like the fix is in.
Posted by: rickl at February 04, 2016 01:14 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2016 01:14 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at February 04, 2016 01:15 AM (kpqmD)
Later roonz and roonettez, fear no evil!
Posted by: GGE of the Working Horde, NC Chapter at February 04, 2016 01:19 AM (30qi/)
And along with everything else, I'm reading up on Arduino programming & tinkering ... Got a little experiment kit for myself for Christmas. : -)
If I crash the grid, I apologize in advance ...
Posted by: Adriane the Engineer Way Back When A Few Weeks Ago... at February 04, 2016 01:24 AM (AoK0a)
Too bad she didn't deck his ass.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 04, 2016 01:28 AM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Piercello at February 04, 2016 01:29 AM (RXfvh)
buzzsaw90: In all of human history, which female has been masturbated to the most times?
http://bit.ly/1R4yRYD
Posted by: mindful webworker - not me personally, though, at February 04, 2016 01:30 AM (eDmrZ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 04, 2016 01:31 AM (FkBIv)
Posted by: mindful webworker - perchance to what now? at February 04, 2016 01:33 AM (eDmrZ)
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He wants to do a re-enactment and let the Mexicans win.
I just said that to get my sock off before I turn in. I know that was him in the Waffle House.
Posted by: iforgot at February 04, 2016 01:34 AM (YOxw1)
tinkering ... Got a little experiment kit for myself for
Christmas. : -)
I, for one, welcome our new Adriane created robot overlords.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 04, 2016 01:36 AM (YJmuy)
And I went through the crappy Lucas lamp sockets, and soldered a ground wire onto each and every one, and brought the ground wires back to the ground bus in the harness, and soldered them to that. 4 bulbs on each side, 8 ground wires in total. But now all the rear lamps work, save for the two on the right side which had dead bulbs, but I bought some new bulbs this evening, so tomorrow that will be fixed. Easy work, physically speaking, but time consuming.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2016 01:39 AM (Z8fuk)
====others than a little bug problem I am doing very well. too much to do but that is a good thing.
And along with everything else, I'm reading up on Arduino
programming tinkering ... Got a little experiment kit for myself
for Christmas. : -)
If I crash the grid, I apologize in advance ...
Posted by: Adriane the Engineer Way Back When A Few Weeks Ago... at February 04, 2016 01:24 AM (AoK0a)
I, too, have been playing with Raspberry Pi's and Arduinos. To quote a Christmas movie: "Now, I've got a stepper motor. Ho, ho, ho...."
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 01:42 AM (EzgxV)
Now, Meathead claims that during some Dick Van Dyke Show reunion she came up to him and he apologized. "I'm sorry, I was young and you were just so beautiful....not that you're not still beautiful....uh, I uh".
Now, he claims that MTM's response was to turn around and bend over and tell him to go for it. He did and she said "Oh, Rob!", her famous line from the old show.
That's what he says.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 04, 2016 01:42 AM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 04, 2016 01:42 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: ThunderB at February 04, 2016 01:43 AM (zOTsN)
ONT is slow tonight. Kind of a slow day for me today. I wanted to repair
the cracked tail light lenses on this TR6 I'm playing with here, so I
went looking for acrylic cement. Had to drive all the way from AJ to
Phoenix to get it from a plastics dealer. But it got the job done. And
the RH lens had a reflectorized overlay missing. So I looked in a box of
miscellaneous parts that came with the car, and there was the missing
piece! Amazing, so rarely that happens. Glued it on, and both lenses
look pretty good. Cracks are still visible if you look close, but no
holes, or pieces missing.
And I went through the crappy Lucas lamp sockets, and soldered a
ground wire onto each and every one, and brought the ground wires back
to the ground bus in the harness, and soldered them to that. 4 bulbs on
each side, 8 ground wires in total. But now all the rear lamps work,
save for the two on the right side which had dead bulbs, but I bought
some new bulbs this evening, so tomorrow that will be fixed. Easy work,
physically speaking, but time consuming.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2016 01:39 AM (Z8fuk)
Saw an article today about a lot of rigs sitting in lots because they weren't economical with $30 oil. Can they be used for water wells? A whole crapton of CA water wells went dry last summer, and if the equipment is just sitting there, it maybe could get used for extending 250 foot water wells that ran dry to 750 feet.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 01:47 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 04, 2016 01:42 AM (1xUj/)
I am having fun with it. Yesterday I disassembled the rear brakes, freed up the stuck adjusters, and lubricated the surfaces on which the wheel cylinder slides (to center the shoes in the drum, and to allow the hand brake to work). I was sitting on a concrete floor, and despite using a chair cushion to sit on, my back was sure sore last night! Much better today; I did most of the work seated on a milk crate.
I am amassing a list of parts to order, heh.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2016 01:47 AM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 01:47 AM (EzgxV)
Yes, you could do it. Probably run you $50000 for that extra 500 feet, though. Get er done in about one day, and a day each to rig up and tear out. A double, triple or even a super-single rig would be massive overkill for deepening a water well. A service rig would be more appropriate; just a little bigger than your average water-well rig.
When I was working in Edson, we had water wells, several per location, to supply frac water to storage ponds. They drilled the water wells with, wait for it, water well rigs. Horses for courses.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2016 01:56 AM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2016 02:00 AM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: SMFH at February 04, 2016 02:02 AM (rlfds)
Heya cooth : )
Posted by: SMFH at February 04, 2016 02:02 AM (rlfds)
Howdy, howdy!!! How are things?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 02:13 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: SMFH at February 04, 2016 02:15 AM (rlfds)
Saw an article today about a lot of rigs sitting in lots because they
weren't economical with $30 oil. Can they be used for water wells? A
whole crapton of CA water wells went dry last summer, and if the
equipment is just sitting there, it maybe could get used for extending
250 foot water wells that ran dry to 750 feet.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 01:47 AM (EzgxV)
Yes, you could do it. Probably run you $50000 for that extra 500
feet, though. Get er done in about one day, and a day each to rig up and
tear out. A double, triple or even a super-single rig would be massive
overkill for deepening a water well. A service rig would be more
appropriate; just a little bigger than your average water-well rig.
When I was working in Edson, we had water wells, several per
location, to supply frac water to storage ponds. They drilled the water
wells with, wait for it, water well rigs. Horses for courses.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2016 01:56 AM (Z8fuk)
I was just thinking that when you had stranded assets going for five cents on the dollar, sometimes "crazy" ideas become clever. It sounds like I'm thinking of using a D8 to turn over a raised flowerbed, though.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 02:15 AM (EzgxV)
Or you could use it to make pancakes ...
Posted by: Adriane the Engineer Way Back When A Few Weeks Ago... at February 04, 2016 02:27 AM (AoK0a)
Things are fine.
How about yourself?
Posted by: SMFH at February 04, 2016 02:15 AM (rlfds)
Well, my New Year's thing this year was to try and get all the stuff I'm doing under control. Being a CPA, I'm making forms and developing processes -- but I'm trying to write stuff down so I don't get buried in interruptions of interruptions. It's starting to bite and ensure things happen -- but I still haven't recorded 90% of what I'm expected to do.
Of course, being the humorist I am, the forms for keeping track of projects are labelled "Task Performance Sheet" across the top....so I'm filing "TPS reports"....
I've got pretty close to 200 so far. If one is blocked, it has a post-it to say what blocks it. Some have attached stuff, some have reminders, some have notes about being partially done.
It's the same sort of thing that I have used to get out-of-control businesses under control.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 02:28 AM (EzgxV)
One well went dry. That fellow got a well digger in and they tried some stuff and eventually punched it deeper. He got water again.
But, the other close-by well then immediately went dry. He did the same thing, drilling deeper. The first well then went dry again.
At that point, they were about ready to start shooting. I think the solution was, at split cost between them, to drill the one a new well as far as away as possible, which fixed the problem. Once the dry spell was over, no problem again and both original wells were fine.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 04, 2016 02:33 AM (dvuhZ)
I remember the well wars years ago during a particularly bad dry spell.
There were some neighbors, a couple of them right to close together,
both with wells somewhat close together.
One well went dry. That
fellow got a well digger in and they tried some stuff and eventually
punched it deeper. He got water again.
But, the other close-by
well then immediately went dry. He did the same thing, drilling deeper.
The first well then went dry again.
At that point, they were
about ready to start shooting. I think the solution was, at split cost
between them, to drill the one a new well as far as away as possible,
which fixed the problem. Once the dry spell was over, no problem again
and both original wells were fine.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 04, 2016 02:33 AM (dvuhZ)
Again, boom-and-bust cycles are driven by malinvestment during the booms. Things that had every indication of being good ideas at the time but were undercut by subsequent events. These things must be ruthlessly repurposed and their debt ruthlessly written-off to market levels before we can have real recovery.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 02:39 AM (EzgxV)
Eddies got sox
desisted go ox
detoxed go sis
deeds six to go
Dodges exit so
Oddest ego six
Did stooge sex
Odd ex stogies
Odd egos exist
six dot geode
doe ox digests
And many others.
http://tinyurl.com/zd9o2mt
Posted by: bour3 at February 04, 2016 02:42 AM (5x3+2)
And, one thing that Obama's always going to have going for him -- he pissed away more money on stupid shit than anyone ever in history.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 02:45 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu
As others have noted multiple times; our problem isn't Oblamo.
Our problem is those that voted for him.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 04, 2016 03:15 AM (wCF3s)
Posted by: rabidfox at February 04, 2016 03:25 AM (EW9tX)
Posted by: somejoe at February 04, 2016 03:31 AM (vlgjM)
http://tinyurl.com/gvsz3c9
VR headset and, uh, a controller you plug into required as well as a rig to run the software.
Promising if you really are tired of harpies, shrews and gold diggers or just really don't want to meet the next new ex wife.
Dunno if I'd go there, the unpredictability of reality still has its enticements and some things just can't be duplicated.
YMMV
Posted by: Gmac - Waiting on Colombus #two weeks my aching ass and screw Soothie, he asked for it at February 04, 2016 03:34 AM (4pjhs)
I needed to find out the email address of a high-falutin' mucky-muck in a prestigious publication, because I wanted to pitch a story idea to that person directly.
Y'see, in every media organization, at the top echelon there are softies -- bubble-world coddled editors who their entire careers have been surrounded by their friends and clique-ish colleagues, and the default answer for any story idea coming from this inner circle is "Sure -- sounds good!" 'Cause everybody's on the same team and are all good chums.
But the organization can't let such softies come into direct contact with the public, because then every wannabe gatecrasher will pitch them ideas and the softies will be handing out "Yes"es like a big fool and suddenly the inner circle is too crowded with hoi polloi newcomers.
So inevitably -- in every single media organization -- there evolves phalanxes of lesser editors and interns whose entire jobs are to say "No" to any random wannabe writer who has the gall to pitch an idea to the publication. There are often more than one layer of "No men" (well, "No women" is more accurate), so that even if you somehow get through the first line of defense, you get mowed down by the second line.
I'm been in the writing trenches long enough to know the brutal reality of getting published: It's usually not how good you are, but who you know.
But if you're not part of the limousine liberal elite, it's hard to break in to the clique. So you have to be creative -- which I am.
Currently I have about six literary identities, all running simultaneously, so I'm managing six different writing careers at once. Works out pretty well -- when one of them has a dry spell, the others pick up the slack.
"Zombie" -- my "political" identity -- is only one of them. I've got various nonpolitical identities as well.
But a special identity I launched a year or two ago is one I pay special attention to: It's a semi-political writer identity that is NOT a self-confessed self-outed conservative. In other words, I'm passing as a moonbat, or at least as someone who plays along with the de rigueur progressive schtick.
Ah, but the key is this: I slip in paradigm-changing conservatarian ideas, posing as "counter-intuitive" liberal thought. And it really infiltrates the psyche of leftist readers, because they are in "internalization mode" when reading words which they think are penned by a fellow traveler. When a leftist, conversely, reads words he knows to be by a conservative, he unconsciously puts on his "rebuttal filter" and automatically rejects the premise of everything he reads, and struggles to find a rebuttal for all points, if even merely to protect his own worldview.
Anyway, I've been carefully shepherding along this particular identity, building up a resume and reputation little by little, leapfrogging ever upward on the publication-prestige ladder.
So recently I came up with a really good story idea that would be a perfect fit for a pretty prestigious publication -- AND it would be a situation where I could slip in some sneaky concepts that would accelerate the corrosion of my readers' progressive ideology.
Problem is, this particular publication is so prestigious that they have probably three layers of rude Rejectors to keep people like me out.
My goal: to get past those Rejectors to the softie at the heart of every publication.
I spent how long researching how to do this? THREE WEEKS. Seriously.
I compiled a complete list of the entire editorial staff (that was quite the project in and of itself) and then spent days and days delving into their publicly accessible publishing history, and trying to pinpoint exactly what their role was at this publication (regardless of what their job title may have been).
After many many days I figured out who was likely to be the softest touch amongst those on staff who had top-level veto (or anti-veto) power.
Now here's the hardest part: The more prestigious the publication, the more difficult they make it to find the email addresses of those truly in charge. In fact, in most cases they make it flat-out impossible -- they NEVER publish the actual email addresses of the important decision-makers. Instead, the only publicize the addresses of the Rejectors.
So my goal became to find the personal email address of that softie. Except, as I realized after two days of searching, it simply does not exist online. Period.
And so, it was time to uncork my secret weapon: Social engineering.
First I reverse-figured the general format of the emails at this organization, which actually changes as you ascend the ranks. Low-level employees are firstname.lastname@company.com. But upper management level are firstname.[first-initial-only-of-last-name]@company.com. And finally, the holy grail, I found out, was that the toppermost bosses had [first-nickname-only]@company.com
With this info I figured out what the softie's email address ought to be, based on their ranking.
Next step: identify the stupidest, most naive newbie at the lowest level in the organization.
To achieve this, I just called up random people at random numbers all over the office and simply asked to be transferred to other random people, at each step noting down the apparent stupidity of each person I was talking to. Eventually, I identified the one person I thought was the crown idiot of the whole office.
So, with extreme cavalier nonchalance, this morning I called up the idiot, and said offhandedly, "Oh, I was trying to reach [top-echelon softie editor] -- but maybe you can help me. She asked me to send her an email, but is she still using nickname@company.com like before?"
The idiot, in all her idiocy (exactly as I had hoped) replied, "Oh, no, she now uses abc@def.com for internal communications."
Me: "Oh, that's right, I forgot. Thanks!" and hung up.
Bingo!
So then, having long ago prepared my pitch and honed it to perfection, I immediately sent it to the secret email address of the top softie, acting vaguely overly familiar like we had long been acquaintances (even though I had never interacted with her before).
Result?
15 minutes later she replied, saying "Yes," and accepting my pitch for publication.
Boom.
Now, I just write a killer article, and I'm on the inner track at this publication.
For me, this is big news. This is a pretty prestigious media outlet. It's known to be nearly IMPOSSIBLE to break into it. The only way is to know someone who already writes for them who recommends you to the publisher at a cocktail party. But with extreme diligence, I crashed the gates.
And my plan to brainwash America with crypto-conservatarian philosophies goes into high gear!
Posted by: zombie at February 04, 2016 03:37 AM (jBuUi)
Posted by: zombie at February 04, 2016 03:37 AM (jBuUi)
All one can do is put forth ideas or techings that are condusive towards sanity.
One person can not do everything, but only contribute towards sensibility.
At the least, one can but steal the sane in the hopes that some sanity is passed down.
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2016 03:49 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Adriane the Engineer Way Back When A Few Weeks Ago... at February 04, 2016 03:57 AM (AoK0a)
And my plan to brainwash America with crypto-conservatarian philosophies goes into high gear!
Posted by: zombie at February 04, 2016 03:37 AM (jBuUi)
All one can do is put forth ideas or techings that are condusive towards sanity.
One person can not do everything, but only contribute towards sensibility.
At the least, one can but steal the sane in the hopes that some sanity is passed down.
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2016 03:49 AM (vBeA5)
Doing God's work!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 04:13 AM (EzgxV)
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2016 04:31 AM (hk3Fb)
Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2016 04:33 AM (hk3Fb)
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2016 04:41 AM (gyKtp)
Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2016 04:48 AM (hk3Fb)
We had a steam kettle restaurant in the old now defunct Gulfport Grand Casino; I just loved their cream based soups with your choice of seafood added. Fairly spicy, and served over rice with garlic toast.
Shit, now I'm hungry.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2016 04:50 AM (gyKtp)
Nah, had nite owl guests over and they finally went to bed.
Last nite I didn't make it here at all, as I was at work.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2016 04:52 AM (gyKtp)
Posted by: Gmac - Waiting on Colombus #two weeks my aching ass and screw Soothie, he asked for it at February 04, 2016 04:57 AM (4pjhs)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2016 05:03 AM (vBeA5)
Got a robo-call from " "Let's all vote" asking if I was more/less
willing to vote fore someoe who pledged themself to one term....
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2016 05:03 AM (vBeA5)
One candidate who absolutely pledges to one term is SMOD -- just sayin'.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 04, 2016 05:05 AM (EzgxV)
Those two factoids apply just as easily to Washington DC.
Btw, the story of the girl who was fined for fending off a Muzzie rapist with pepper spray, wasn't she Danish? If so, Denmark has Muzzie rapists boldly wandering around that the government sides with.
So it's not at all clear they're better off than Germany. Haven't seen any stories like that out of Hungary. They really do seem to be taking the threat seriously.
Posted by: angela urkel at February 04, 2016 05:06 AM (sKJ+J)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2016 05:08 AM (vBeA5)
Bonus: I have a student and I will be graded on how much of my wisdom she retains.
Posted by: Spellcheck at February 04, 2016 05:13 AM (HKBpI)
All I ever found in cornfields was soon to be silage. And in the news:
A woman who was lost in a corn maze was discovered yesterday when the field was cut. Police are questioning the woman about the deaths of multiple scarecrow and zombie reenactors hired to scare patrons.
Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at February 04, 2016 05:19 AM (FtrY1)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2016 05:03 AM (vBeA5)
Ha!
I'd say watch out for politicians who make promises like that. History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes.
Posted by: Theodore Roosevelt at February 04, 2016 05:32 AM (e5/8v)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2016 05:46 AM (vBeA5)
Amazing how the left and right differ when it comes to ethics. When leftards infiltrate organizations, they go after things like public schools, so they can indoctrinate *children* and betray the trust of their parents.
Here, regardless of how you got access, you have the willing consent of the editor and will be presenting your ideas to adults (if liberals can ever really qualify as "adults").
Posted by: angela urkel at February 04, 2016 05:46 AM (sKJ+J)
http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/92c8f051-bfb5-4459-9464-0bb1185d0fc6
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2016 05:50 AM (vBeA5)
Woke up to let the dog out this early AM. While she was doing her business and taking her own sweet time as usual, she broke out into her "there's a stranger 'round here' bark".
And there he was, chemjeff, looking lost but skedaddling down the street.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2016 05:50 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2016 05:54 AM (qUNWi)
So the first thing I do with a question as big as the one we're talking about is pass it through my head and rearrange the letters. "Does ... odes ... " Not much there. Then there's the obvious "god ... dog," and the fruitless "exist."
You cannot spell "sexist" without "exist". Are we all sexists now?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2016 05:58 AM (BK3ZS)
And there he was, chemjeff, looking lost but skedaddling down the street.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2016 05:50 AM (BK3ZS)
Well, if she barked, it certainly wasn't you.
Posted by: Sherlock Holmes at February 04, 2016 06:02 AM (sKJ+J)
If the general comes down to Rubio vs. Clinton, I'll be writing in a vote for the first time ever. Ultimately pointless, I know. But ain't no way in hell I'm voting for Rubilito.
Oh, and fk the Brit Parliament in particular.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 04, 2016 06:04 AM (HMt16)
Posted by: fluffy at February 04, 2016 06:13 AM (AfsKp)
Sen Fred Thompson once had a reporter assault him with a pile of crap about George W. Bush, basically daring him to defend such a "horrible" President.
Thompson responded by pointing out that Bush had prevented "...two of the sorriest sum bitches to ever disgrace the Senate from becoming President."
Game. Set. Match.
Preventing Gore and Kerry from being POTUS is, alone, more than sufficient to add a bust of W to Mt Rushmore.
Posted by: Aarradin at February 04, 2016 06:18 AM (E1dWk)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2016 06:21 AM (vBeA5)
The difference is in the jobs you get AFTER you graduate. For a STEM major, you are expected to actually be able to accomplish something. For non-STEM majors, you generally are not.
So, for non-STEM your career is largely dependent on who you are, and more importantly, who you know. Which is really all elite schools are about - creating that peer-group for the socially acceptable in-crowd.
My company learned about a decade ago to NEVER hire an Ivy League graduate. We won't even interview one anymore. Waste of time. Once hired they 1) are shocked to discover they are expected to actually produce, and 2) They move on as soon as possible, always to a sinecure with no actual demands and more pay, that only an Ivy League grad could get hired for.
Posted by: Aarradin at February 04, 2016 06:24 AM (E1dWk)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 04, 2016 06:27 AM (ptqRm)
Posted by: angela urkel at February 04, 2016 06:29 AM (sKJ+J)
Posted by: WOPR at February 04, 2016 06:31 AM (LTDSy)
Posted by: WOPR
Given the extent to which they've sold us out, I feel nothing but bewilderment and rage. If he died of E Coli food poisoning after eating at Chipotle's I'd feel nothing but relief and amusement. Don't waste any sympathy on these sociopath fcukers.
Posted by: angela urkel at February 04, 2016 06:39 AM (sKJ+J)
(Looks out over vast motionless throng)
No one? Not a single one, then?
Posted by: Pastafarian at February 04, 2016 06:40 AM (pCf+a)
From an article about "rape culture" at UAlabama on "TheOtherMcCain", a feminist screech owl opined One doesn't have to be a scholar in feminist theory to realize...
Fifteen yard penalty and loss of down for using "scholar" and "feminist theory" in the same sentence.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2016 06:43 AM (BK3ZS)
457 If Kerry had been Prez, all school lunch trays would be mandated to have a separate compartment filled with Heinz ketchup.
Posted by: angela urkel at February 04, 2016 06:29 AM (sKJ+J)
Well, ketchup is a vegetable.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2016 06:45 AM (BK3ZS)
Here is "Blackbirds Fall" by Black Moth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrxFUWM6BrY
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2016 06:52 AM (vBeA5)
There has been a dramatic falloff in puff pieces regarding Scowlly McScolderson, FLOTUS and her supremely toned arms lately.
Is the sycophant press gagging at the prospect of having to dream up glowing reports for Shrillary's Glad(R) Trash Bag / Madame Mao couture?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2016 06:53 AM (BK3ZS)
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Posted by: Animal Mother at February 04, 2016 11:09 AM (uzNN5)
"Gog and Magog ate pork
In vertical New York
And next Monday began the war upon the Danes.
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