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Overnight Open Thread (8 Apr 2016)
One unintended consequence of the war in Yemen: Al Qaeda now runs its own mini-state, flush with funds from raiding the local central bank and levying taxes at the local port.
h/t
Creepy People
What makes someone creepy? 95% of those surveyed thought creeps were more likely to be male. That's BS. I demand folks go to creep diversity sensitivity training to mitigate such incorrect thoughts. As for creepy occupations...Clowns came in first, followed by taxidermists, sex shop owners, and funeral directors, following McAndrew's hypothesis that occupations involving "threatening stimuli" like death or sex would be perceived as creepy.
When did sex become "threatening stimuli"? New Olympic Event Suggestion This should be an Olympic event. Inside the first-ever Special Operations Urban Assault Competition. 65 Rock 'N' Roll Songs
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 09:59 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: EC at April 08, 2016 09:59 PM (j8YpL)
Posted by: lindafell de spair at April 08, 2016 10:00 PM (xVgrA)
LOL!!!!
Let the butt-hurt flow!
Posted by: EC at April 08, 2016 10:02 PM (j8YpL)
When a sane and rational individual thinks of a Suicide Help line, the sane and rational individual will likely think of a suicide prevention line. The California Supreme Soviet is neither sane nor rational.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=11462
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 08, 2016 10:03 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: connecticut college women's basketball at April 08, 2016 10:04 PM (4aaDj)
Posted by: CDR M at April 08, 2016 10:05 PM (McoS+)
Exceptional
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 08, 2016 10:05 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 08, 2016 10:05 PM (1JnAL)
(Direct SMOD is not survivable at any level of prep)
Whooo-Hoooo! WEEKEND! Time to till the GARDEN!!11!1
Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2016 10:06 PM (6DMur)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 08, 2016 10:07 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Bruce Stringbean at April 08, 2016 10:07 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: April at April 08, 2016 10:07 PM (79ZSg)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2016 10:08 PM (6DMur)
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 10:08 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Jenk at April 08, 2016 10:08 PM (OtryE)
Never liked him so no loss to me.
Posted by: CDR M at April 08, 2016 10:05 PM (McoS+)
Lots of pissed off fans tonight. I'm not one of them either.
Posted by: EC at April 08, 2016 10:09 PM (j8YpL)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 08, 2016 10:07 PM (voOPb)
Somebody's got to do it, and it's probably interesting in its creepy way, and I'll bet the money is good.
Posted by: April at April 08, 2016 10:09 PM (79ZSg)
You may begin.
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 10:08 PM (MQEz6)
HOLY CRAAP! What was I studying?
Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2016 10:09 PM (6DMur)
9 Looks like more people want to play for the JV team these days.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 08, 2016 10:05 PM (1JnAL)
Who says the varsity has all the fun?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 08, 2016 10:10 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Randolph Bismuth at April 08, 2016 10:11 PM (encpo)
Posted by: antisocialist at April 08, 2016 10:11 PM (9n14Y)
Posted by: Bruce Springsteen: Hero of the Working Man at April 08, 2016 10:11 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: PabloD at April 08, 2016 10:12 PM (6zbVX)
Posted by: CDR M at April 08, 2016 10:05 PM (McoS+)
First four albums (1973-197
were great. Next one (1980) was very good.
Then the following 19 sucked donkey dick.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2016 10:13 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: connecticut college women's basketball at April 08, 2016 10:13 PM (4aaDj)
Posted by: Jenk at April 08, 2016 10:13 PM (OtryE)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 08, 2016 10:13 PM (wB8Tg)
---
April, I know a couple. Down to earth fun people who make a good living. Hard to believe you need a college degree. Something that should be a tech school career
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 08, 2016 10:13 PM (voOPb)
what your drink says about you:
================
Valu-rite: You float in the intermediate zone between the raw matter of the inchoate id and the hyperdefined veneer of critical theory. Also, you haven't had sex in 20 years.
Posted by: iforgot at April 08, 2016 10:13 PM (5o5ek)
Posted by: Bruce Stringbean
wrapped up like a douche.. seems appropriate
Posted by: Chitown-Jerry at April 08, 2016 10:13 PM (UpGcq)
If so, or if anyone sees him on a thread, please ask him to contact me at: nynjmeet at optimum dot net
Thanks.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2016 10:14 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: connecticut college women's basketball at April 08, 2016 10:13 PM (4aaDj)
Don't judge. That's what we've been told.
Posted by: EC at April 08, 2016 10:14 PM (j8YpL)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 08, 2016 10:14 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 08, 2016 10:15 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 10:16 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 10:16 PM (4aaDj)
Posted by: April at April 08, 2016 10:16 PM (79ZSg)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718469968833056768
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718470251806007296
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718470406856781824
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718470548590714880
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718470805533753345
Posted by: kbdabear at April 08, 2016 10:16 PM (R3XYv)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718471014292725760
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718471173470707712
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718471403767406592
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718471602120237058
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718471781682556930
Posted by: kbdabear at April 08, 2016 10:18 PM (R3XYv)
================
Scotch: You have learned the meaning of life and don't want to ever learn it again.
Posted by: AD at April 08, 2016 10:18 PM (M18S9)
They released more video and you see her looking at her phone and the killer come up behind her while he pulls out a knife.
The only solice is the killer limps away so at least the poor thing hurt the monster.
But bad news, he's 17 so the death penalty is out.
Posted by: Lauren at April 08, 2016 10:19 PM (hbefS)
Posted by: Cankles 2016! at April 08, 2016 10:19 PM (H9MG5)
Posted by: Jim at April 08, 2016 10:21 PM (McRlu)
Posted by: Bruce Stringbean at April 08, 2016 10:21 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 08, 2016 10:10 PM (voOPb)
Why sit on the bench for the varsity team when you can play on the JV team.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 08, 2016 10:22 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2016 10:23 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 10:25 PM (hVdx9)
I drink 1 on my birthday.
Haven't had a birthday in about 10 or 15 years ...
Posted by: Adriane the Drinking Critic ... at April 08, 2016 10:27 PM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Lauren at April 08, 2016 10:19 PM (hbefS)
There should be exceptions to every rule!
Posted by: Hrothgar at April 08, 2016 10:28 PM (wYnyS)
Posted by: Kreplach at April 08, 2016 10:28 PM (WVvzl)
Posted by: Adriane the Drinking Critic ... at April 08, 2016 10:28 PM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 10:28 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 10:29 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 10:30 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Kreplach at April 08, 2016 10:28 PM (WVvzl)
Lime juice for the scurvy and alcohol for the alcohol!
Posted by: Hrothgar at April 08, 2016 10:30 PM (wYnyS)
Posted by: Josephistan at April 08, 2016 10:32 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: the littl shyning man at April 08, 2016 10:33 PM (U6f54)
Next one (1980) was very good.
Then the following 19 sucked donkey dick.
Yes, rather exactly.
If those first five albums happened in your teens Bruce gave you something existential.
Whatever he did to squander his talent and fame after that doesn't take away from what he meant at the time.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 08, 2016 10:33 PM (1xUj/)
victim class. Springsteen's next album will be all about that.
The Ghost of Caitlyn Jenner
Posted by: tu3031 at April 08, 2016 10:33 PM (qJhUV)
. . . Incohate grunting and abrupt breaks into falsetto range, often near pitch with a backing band.
That's what classic rock is all about.
(Yes, I'd walk out on you, I generally change the station now. You are out of key. Go back to Jersey.)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2016 10:33 PM (6DMur)
Posted by: rickl at April 08, 2016 10:34 PM (sdi6R)
Local chain, Spec's Liquor, sells a brand that's also found in FL at the ABC chain.
http://tinyurl.com/zyztdlp
Tom Sims, 80 proof, 4 year aged Straight Kentucky Bourbon.
Very similar flavor profile to Jim Beam, but at only $21.50, walk out price, per 1.75 ltr., it's a bargain.
And, it's appreciably smoother[/I) than the aforementioned Jim Beam, too. No apologies needed for this one, it's a very good everyday Bourbon.
Cheers!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 08, 2016 10:34 PM (McRlu)
Posted by: Emmie, fun to be around at April 08, 2016 10:34 PM (rRHdN)
Posted by: the littl shyning man
I've liked it for the most part.
Posted by: Aviator at April 08, 2016 10:34 PM (c7vUv)
Posted by: Roxy Raye at April 08, 2016 10:34 PM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 08, 2016 10:34 PM (voOPb)
My current drink is a Red Stripe. Still celebrating beer day.
I think this means I need a doobie, some reggae music, and dreadlocks.
I have none of these. Well, I do have some reggae in the MP3 catacombs... somewhere...
Posted by: mindful webworker - shaken, not stirred at April 08, 2016 10:35 PM (5a8XA)
Posted by: Emmie, fun to be around at April 08, 2016 10:35 PM (rRHdN)
Posted by: Josephistan at April 08, 2016 10:35 PM (7qAYi)
St George Chile vodka: just drink it
St George Terroir gin: just drink it, or 6:1 with Carpano Dry
Good Mezcal: maybe a drop of Yuzu bitters
Good tequila: maybe a drop or two of orange bitters
For the last two, a drop of liquid Splenda to make a fake low-carb cocktail.
Whiskey is just whiskey. Drink it. Though I do like a good Sazerac. Oddly enough, the Sazerac brand of rye is about the best choice for this excellent drink.
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 10:36 PM (iMxBJ)
Mine has fallen out and it won't go back in.
Posted by: Roxy Raye
I hear you. My uterus keeps sliding down like an old pair of gym socks.
Posted by: Hillary at April 08, 2016 10:37 PM (c7vUv)
I hate understanding this, but you need to know.
Why begging does not work with predators.
1) They get off on it in some way
2) It convinces them you are less than human and are ok to murder
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 10:37 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at April 08, 2016 10:37 PM (/WPPJ)
Posted by: Jim at April 08, 2016 10:37 PM (McRlu)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 10:37 PM (9ym/8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joZqH7lv8HA&nohtml5=False
I find this hilarious.
Posted by: rickl at April 08, 2016 10:37 PM (sdi6R)
If the description is accurate then it's the knid of bourbon I enjoy. I have grown tired of the spicy, sharp flavors of some of the newer brands. If I want spice, I'll drink rye.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2016 10:37 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 10:37 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Jim at April 08, 2016 10:39 PM (McRlu)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 08, 2016 10:39 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 10:39 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Hillary at April 08, 2016 10:37 PM (c7vUv)
Pssttt.... It's called a pessary. Again, Nurse here.
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 10:40 PM (4aaDj)
Posted by: Hillary at April 08, 2016 10:37 PM (c7vUv)
Ditto
Posted by: Obama at April 08, 2016 10:40 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: CDR M at April 08, 2016 10:05 PM (McoS+)
Springsteen had some good songs in his early years. But he has become such a Liberal Fascist douchecanoe, that nobody should buy his shit or patronize his shows anymore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2016 10:40 PM (UsLZp)
Posted by: Emmie, fun to be around at April 08, 2016 10:41 PM (rRHdN)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at April 08, 2016 10:41 PM (/WPPJ)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 08, 2016 10:39 PM (vBeA5)
These days, I have to ask, do you mean altercation or alteration?
Posted by: Hrothgar at April 08, 2016 10:41 PM (wYnyS)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 08, 2016 10:39 PM (vBeA5)
Need to me to come back to Vegas? I'll have your back
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 10:41 PM (4aaDj)
Posted by: Hillary
*****
Aaaaand projectile vomiting even after blood is all that comes out...
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 10:41 PM (hVdx9)
Discovered that combo one long night after the Coke ran out. Preferred it ever since. Got some Bajan co-workers hooked on it, too... and they really know their rum drinks.
Posted by: standing with one hand on hip, foot on a barrel (but not THE Barrel) at April 08, 2016 10:42 PM (H9MG5)
Posted by: CMU VET at April 08, 2016 10:44 PM (ejB0r)
Posted by: Lauren at April 08, 2016 10:19 PM (hbefS)
Tanned, rested, and ready.
Posted by: Judge Lynch at April 08, 2016 10:44 PM (UsLZp)
Posted by: Socrates at April 08, 2016 10:44 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 10:44 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Roxy Raye at April 08, 2016 10:45 PM (DW+jj)
"@smod2016 1 hour ago
BREAKING: States rush to pass transgender bathroom laws in a last-ditch effort to protect their residents from Bruce Springsteen's music."
Posted by: Thrawn at April 08, 2016 10:45 PM (s87AC)
Or will the SJWs keep going with unlimited energy?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 08, 2016 10:45 PM (kBIIG)
Ah.....the Ur comment.
From this sentiment all Moron comments spring.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2016 10:46 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: Thrawn at April 08, 2016 10:47 PM (s87AC)
Posted by: HornyFemaleDolphin at April 08, 2016 10:47 PM (5Z+8V)
Posted by: Obama at April 08, 2016 10:48 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 10:48 PM (0mRoj)
Since always.
Posted by: HornyFemaleDolphin at
****
You didn't complain to me IYKWIM.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 10:48 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 08, 2016 10:45 PM (kBIIG)
SJWs always double down.
The virtue signaling I'm seeing about NC is out of control in some parts of social media.
Posted by: Thrawn at April 08, 2016 10:48 PM (s87AC)
92 Lady Funeral Director who handled my Mom's funeral was very good looking.
Posted by: CMU VET at April 08, 2016 10:44 PM (ejB0r)
.............
As a hospice nurse I have permission to call a death. We have 2 funeral homes in town and one of them is run by a deaf lady. Good for her but it's torture when I call in a death and have to wait for the teletype for her to read it. I have the hand gestures now after 20 yrs to communicate with her but you can always add another hour to call in the home. I got side tracked sorry., Shes not good looking
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 10:48 PM (4aaDj)
All the while, poor Bruce was hopping mad that the rubes weren't listening to the lyrics.
We really let him down on that one.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 08, 2016 10:48 PM (8AdYN)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 08, 2016 10:45 PM (kBIIG)
Eh....defending PayPal is a losing proposition for them when the obvious answer is that PayPal does business with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. There is no defense to that charge.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2016 10:48 PM (Zu3d9)
Ol' Red, that Okinawa vet I'm mentioned before, apparently had some fun with her back in his wild heyday. He wasn't the kind to just name names, but he'd drop hints. He said she had very cold hands. But what she could do with those hands and other body parts apparently made up for it.
When I was about 20ish, I saw that women, and old lady, at something, right after one of Red's tales. Gave me the creeps. I could see it. I could still see she, at 80 or whatever, still was eyeing the young bucks.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 10:48 PM (DW+jj)
Easy really -- include it on the ballot, and just don't count the ones that can't name the three branches of government. They'll never know the difference anyway.
Plus, then Donald can't vote for himself.
Posted by: TallDave at April 08, 2016 10:49 PM (74ZYB)
Posted by: Thrawn at April 08, 2016 10:48 PM (s87AC)
They are making more and more about less and less. Doesn't look like strength.
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 10:49 PM (iMxBJ)
The interview is embargoed until Sunday, but Wallace thinks it is going to be the big thing being discussed on Monday.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 08, 2016 10:49 PM (kBIIG)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on the phone at April 08, 2016 10:50 PM (dtDur)
Posted by: Emmie, fun to be around at April 08, 2016 10:41 PM (rRHdN)
Convention delegates to the county GOP convention.
To go, you had to fill out a form in triplicate during the caucuses. There was an option to pre-register, and a lot of people either thought or were explicitly told they didn't have to fill out the form in triplicate in person. Turns out that they did... and that that information wasn't getting out clearly (buried in an e-mail notice doesn't really count. They had until the end of last month to get the papers in and pay.
As of the middle of last month, nearly one thousand people hadn't done so yet.
If they show up not realizing this, they will be turned away.
To make matters worse, the county party is run by establishment types (the county chair is being accussed of kickback from the casino holding the convention), who are opposed by the state party which is run by Ron Paul style fanatics (the state chair is a former Vegas councilman who resigned due to some shady land deals... and considering the former mayor was a mob lawyer who played himself in the movie "Casino"...).
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 08, 2016 10:50 PM (vBeA5)
PSA: it looks like Starz is free for next week if you have DirecTV. Outlander and Black Sails, plus probably some other cool stuff I haven't found yet.
Posted by: DC in River City at April 08, 2016 10:50 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at April 08, 2016 10:50 PM (epLS9)
Posted by: CMU VET at April 08, 2016 10:44 PM (ejB0r)
Is that rigor mortis or are you just happy to see me?
Posted by: Lady Funeral Director at April 08, 2016 10:52 PM (EY6Re)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on the phone at April 08, 2016 10:50 PM (dtDur)
If I could do it all again I would have run away to Alaska. When I was ten.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 10:52 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: April at April 08, 2016 10:52 PM (79ZSg)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at April 08, 2016 10:50 PM (epLS9)
Maybe. Ronald McDonald is looking better to me today. Just tried frying potatoes in beef tallow, and...damn if they weren't incredibly tasty! The clown was onto something.
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 10:52 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Roman Polanski at April 08, 2016 10:52 PM (5Z+8V)
When MTF trannies started demanding access to women's bathrooms.
Posted by: Basement Cat at April 08, 2016 10:53 PM (3C9q2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2016 10:53 PM (UsLZp)
Posted by: Epobirs at April 08, 2016 10:54 PM (IdCqF)
.................
Lucky for you all I have a very good book waiting for me. I could bore you all night with coulda shoulda's.
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 10:54 PM (4aaDj)
Meanwhile, there is not one case of women trying to get into the mens' bathroom. This, too, is understandable.
Besides, anyone who attends sporting events know that the latter happens all the time, and the reaction is never unfavorable.
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 10:55 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Basement Cat at April 08, 2016 10:53 PM (3C9q2)
Massachusetts Tranny Federation?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2016 10:55 PM (UsLZp)
If NC just ignores all the screaming and shrugs their shoulders at things like PayPal, will all of this get forgotten once the next squirrel runs through the yard?
Or will the SJWs keep going with unlimited energy?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 08, 2016 10:45 PM (kBIIG)
-----------------
SJWs thrive on attention and conflict, wither under neglect and ridicule.
Posted by: iforgot at April 08, 2016 10:55 PM (5o5ek)
Posted by: jacke at April 08, 2016 10:55 PM (i8Shl)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 10:56 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2016 10:48 PM (Zu3d9)
They are being logical and consistant once you realize what the underlying single standard is behind their double standard.
It is the same logic that says a Swedish lesbian being raped by a migrant deserves it and will defend her migrant rapist.
It's all about "intersectionality" where race, gender, &c. intersect to result in people oppressing each other according to the idea of "kyriarchy". Basically the migrants are oppressors in that they are cis-heterosexual males, but the women who are raped are the oppressors because they are White and from (what is left of) Western Civilization.
According to the hierarchy of oppression, the migrants being brown and Muslim carries more weight that a woman being female or lesbian.
In effect, the farther from the basis of Western Civilization you are, the more morally pure and oppressed you are.
Posted by: The Kyriarchical Hat at April 08, 2016 10:56 PM (vBeA5)
As if one could understand any lyrics vomited out by Bruce Springsteen.
Posted by: April at April 08, 2016 10:56 PM (79ZSg)
And your little dog Toto too~!
*BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM*
Posted by: thug cop at April 08, 2016 10:56 PM (A/3fN)
Now, add that saturated fat is NOT the problem with the clogged arteries and all that shit.
The dietary advice of the last 30-40 years has been complete bullshit, and has probably done more harm, caused more lard ass syndrome and early death and tons of medical bills that just about anything else.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 10:56 PM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 10:56 PM (hVdx9)
Wut?
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 10:57 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 10:56 PM (hVdx9)
Why?
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 08, 2016 10:58 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 10:56 PM (hVdx9)
Say what? Are you a replicant with a definitive preprogrammed life span or something?
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 10:59 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 10:56 PM (hVdx9)
Well, between the Burning Times and the Happy Fun Camps, you're probably right.
Posted by: rickl at April 08, 2016 11:00 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:00 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 10:56 PM
.................
yes that's weird. I'm in my 40's as well. I hope to make it at least to my 60's. But then again I think, hmmm I'm 46 and if I make it to 92 my life is half over. That's an eye opener. What have I done, What have I accomplished? I have spent over half my 46 years taking care of others and not myself. I may start to look after me a bit I think
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 11:00 PM (4aaDj)
And your little dog Toto too~!
*BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM*
Posted by: thug cop at April 08, 2016 10:56 PM (A/3fN)
As long as you get to go home safe at night. The lives, property and pets of others are a very distant second place consideration.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 11:00 PM (0mRoj)
I watched a couple of episodes of Cops tonight. I felt better about myself
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 08, 2016 11:01 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Javems at April 08, 2016 11:01 PM (yOqwj)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 08, 2016 11:01 PM (YJmuy)
Posted by: helpful Moron at April 08, 2016 11:01 PM (H9MG5)
Not everyone wearing a badge is a "good guy" and not every "bad guy" is looking to do something to you.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:01 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: rickl
****
Yup. Call me a pessimist.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:01 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:00 PM (hVdx9)
So move off the tracks, dummy!
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 11:01 PM (0mRoj)
Paypal knows they are sinners in the Cult of PC that rules Democrats, that's why they in particular must wield the whip with most harshness and least mercy.
It doesn't matter to SJW if Saudi Arabia stones homosexuals or Iran hangs the victims of child molestation for their unchastity.
The issue is not whether .1% of the American population doesn't get to use the public bathroom they feel they belong in. The issue is power.
There is no hypocrisy in a police state, there are only those who are punished and those who are not.
Posted by: TallDave at April 08, 2016 11:01 PM (74ZYB)
Wallace thinks it is going to be the big thing being discussed on Monday.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 08, 2016 10:49 PM (kBIIG)
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We-e-eelllllllll.
Posted by: iforgot at April 08, 2016 11:02 PM (5o5ek)
Posted by: jacke at April 08, 2016 11:02 PM (i8Shl)
PUT YOUR FEET TOGETHER!!!!
Some parts need more protection than others....
Posted by: Don Quixote at April 08, 2016 11:02 PM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: Javems
****
Love me some f'd up humor!
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:02 PM (hVdx9)
https://twitter.com/RonBaalke
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 08, 2016 11:03 PM (SEXy3)
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 11:03 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:03 PM (hVdx9)
Just read that Canada Dry is going to introduce a new "Extra-Canadian" version of its famous ginger ale brew. They say you'll be able to tell it's "extra-Canadian" by the pic of Ted Cruz's face on every can.
[ducks]
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 11:03 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 10:56 PM (hVdx9)
Do you have some unusual reason to believe this?
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:04 PM (EzgxV)
Just not seeing a bright shining future for people like me/us.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:05 PM (hVdx9)
Wallace thinks it is going to be the big thing being discussed on Monday.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 08, 2016 10:49 PM (kBIIG)
...............
Luckily I wore reflective clothes tonight when out running and no illegal jumped me from out of the ditch or I too could be big news on Monday. We can all dream right/
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 11:05 PM (4aaDj)
version of its famous ginger ale brew. They say you'll be able to tell
it's "extra-Canadian" by the pic of Ted Cruz's face on every can.
Very fuckin' funny, asshole.
Posted by: Chester A. Arthur at April 08, 2016 11:05 PM (YJmuy)
Ancho y Tamarindo
1 1/2 oz Ancho Reyes ancho chile liqueur
1/2 oz lime juice
4 oz Jarritos Tamarindo soda
lime wedge and ancho chile power for garnish
Highball glass over ice.
Not bad.
Posted by: Aviator at April 08, 2016 11:05 PM (c7vUv)
During the whole Zimmerman-Martin imbroglio, you have no idea how often I heard it said around the SF Bay Area that Saint Trayvon Of The Bloodied Hoodie "... couldn't possibly have beaten up or threatened the life of a grown man. He was only seventeen!"
Posted by: torquewrench at April 08, 2016 11:05 PM (noWW6)
There is a lot of partying going on at Fishlips tonight.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 08, 2016 11:05 PM (kBIIG)
Cheer up, lass. Don't go all prematurely Thelma & Louise on us.
Wait till your mid 80s, at least, before you drive offa the cliff, m'kay?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 08, 2016 11:06 PM (McRlu)
But any rate, and this was a female doc, told of some guy coming in with something rammed up his ass. She had to go fishing to get it out. Then a few days later he came back in the ER, again with something stuck up his ass.
She figured out he was getting off on her, and her specifically fishing things out of his rectum. He had figured out her shift and when she was working there, and then would ram something up there and come in for treatment and request her.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 11:06 PM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 11:03 PM (iMxBJ)
..............
Do it.............If she's up at 5 you will know she has ambition!
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 11:07 PM (4aaDj)
Posted by: Wasted Black Pixels at April 08, 2016 11:07 PM (Fy9KA)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:07 PM (hVdx9)
I'm 40 and probably around 2/3s done. Cancer around 60 on my mom's side has been a big killer. It's either that or I live to 80 but have lost my mind, which is my dad's side.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:08 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 11:08 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 11:08 PM (0mRoj)
Let's see... Disney, Cuomo, PayPal, Springsteen... I think there's more I'm forgetting? ... and no boys in the girls' room.
Haven't seen a downside to this NC law yet. Be nice to have it passed here.
Posted by: mindful webworker - man! at April 08, 2016 11:08 PM (5a8XA)
Posted by: Roxy Raye at April 08, 2016 11:09 PM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
****
Alzheimer's on both sides here. Plus 6-7 concussions thanks to football.
Then there are my political beliefs...
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:09 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:07 PM (hVdx9)
Meh. Stick around and see what comes next. People are more interesting than you imagine.
Or just talk to some people 15 years older than you, and ask if they would have happily given up the last 5 years.
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 11:10 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2016 11:10 PM (5Z+8V)
The dead giveaway was when she pulled a fine chardonnay, bouquet of roses and box of fine chocolates out of there, I'd bet.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 11:10 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 11:10 PM (0mRoj)
Now if you could just sell them for a buck each, the IRS would be all over you.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 08, 2016 11:10 PM (YJmuy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joZqH7lv8HA&nohtml5=False
I'm not a fan of rap music, but this is fucking hilarious.
Posted by: rickl at April 08, 2016 11:11 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:04 PM (EzgxV)
SMOD, chaos, 9-Dash Line War, Littl' Un's provocations...who knows?
Posted by: Thrawn at April 08, 2016 11:11 PM (s87AC)
The dead giveaway was when she pulled a fine chardonnay, bouquet of roses and box of fine chocolates out of there, I'd bet.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 11:10 PM (ntObR)
Worst case: a ring.
Even worse: in a jeweler's box.
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 11:11 PM (iMxBJ)
So he quit smoking, went sober, started jogging on the local track.
6 months later he had dropped 50 lbs, looked great, clean and sober, the whole bit.
Doing his run one day he keeled over dead. Age 45.
I think about him a lot.
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 11:11 PM (8QGte)
Posted by: Roxy Raye at April 08, 2016 11:09 PM (DW+jj)
How about hockey pucks?
Posted by: New Jersey Devils at April 08, 2016 11:12 PM (UsLZp)
Or just talk to some people 15 years older than you, and ask if they would have happily given up the last 5 years.
Posted by: Splunge
****
Not giving up. More preparing than anything else. I'll not go quietly, but the direction seems to be downward.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:12 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 11:13 PM (ntObR)
Or just talk to some people 15 years older than you, and ask if they would have happily given up the last 5 years.
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 11:10 PM (iMxBJ)
.................
Mr k is 15 yrs older than I am. I will ask tomorrow but I suspect I know the answer.
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 11:13 PM (4aaDj)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joZqH7lv8HA&nohtml5=False
I'm not a fan of rap music, but this is fucking hilarious.
Posted by: rickl at April 08, 2016 11:11 PM (sdi6R)
It's Andy Samberg's music group The Lonely Island. Same guys that did "Like A Boss" and "Jizz in my Pants."
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 11:13 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: The Kyriarchical Hat at April 08, 2016 10:56 PM (vBeA5)
Unless it is a minority male that is a college or professional athlete. At that point they become white, unless the "system" is exploiting them, and then they revert back to minority status.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 08, 2016 11:14 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 08, 2016 11:14 PM (kBIIG)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:14 PM (9ym/8)
Even worse: in a jeweler's box.
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 11:11 PM (iMxBJ)
................
Even worse a little folded note... "do you like me? Yes or no."
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 11:14 PM (4aaDj)
Posted by: Roxy Raye at April 08, 2016 11:14 PM (DW+jj)
Yeah, likewise.
"When the Maet's away, the mice will play."
I really wanted to put "primary political commenters" instead of mice, but it would've just ruined the rhythm, y'know?
Posted by: mindful webworker - man! at April 08, 2016 11:15 PM (5a8XA)
Posted by: Jean at April 08, 2016 11:15 PM (cXiMR)
Posted by: Insomniac
****
Quiet desperation...
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:15 PM (hVdx9)
I reckon some day I'll get old enough to die. Can't bitch, it happens to all of us.
But I'll be havin fun right up to that instant.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 08, 2016 11:15 PM (P/8aq)
But any rate, and this was a female doc, told of some guy coming in with something rammed up his ass. She had to go fishing to get it out. Then a few days later he came back in the ER, again with something stuck up his ass.
She figured out he was getting off on her, and her specifically fishing things out of his rectum. He had figured out her shift and when she was working there, and then would ram something up there and come in for treatment and request her.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 11:06 PM (DW+jj)
Which, of course, is a perfect lead-in for the old joke....
Guy goes to the ER, has a dildo removed from his ass. Comes in a week later with the same complaint. This time, the doctor puts on the gloves, peeks in, grabs the first non-human thing he finds and pulls out a red rose. Guys still squawking, doctor fishes around....pulls out another red rose. ...and again... ...and again...
Finally, the doc thinks that's all of 'em, looks over at the debris table and says, "you had a dozen red roses stuffed up your ass...."
And the patient gasps out, "read the card!"
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:16 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:17 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Roxy Raye at April 08, 2016 11:14 PM (DW+jj)
Hmmm, maybe discarding sabots?
Posted by: New Jersey Devils at April 08, 2016 11:17 PM (UsLZp)
Posted by: April
Good point.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 08, 2016 11:17 PM (8AdYN)
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 11:03 PM (iMxBJ)
Is this "connected" via telephone, or will they actually go out on a date with you?
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:18 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2016 10:55 PM (UsLZp)
Monsieur Turdeau's Fanbois.
Posted by: Basement Cat at April 08, 2016 11:18 PM (3C9q2)
I know whatcha mean. I'm in my seventh decade, and it's strange to think that in another seven decades I may have to think about moving on...
Posted by: mindful webworker - eveybody lives forever more or less at April 08, 2016 11:18 PM (5a8XA)
http://usat.ly/1S2hsyt
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 08, 2016 11:18 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 11:18 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:14 PM (9ym/
.............
I don't. Again the ever critical Mr k laughs at me when I talk about getting a gun. He thinks I'm overreacting. My thinking is this..........should someone ever come into our home in the middle of the night he would be hiding under his pillow,. I basically am the man of the house and I feel I should be smart enough to protect us.
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 11:19 PM (4aaDj)
Well, you don't know, Insom'.
Never know who you helped, who you influenced, what you may have done that had domino-effects on other people.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:19 PM (9ym/8)
Ouch.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
****
Saw a comedian I still quote to this day.
Some people fear Alzheimer's. Not me. I look forward to it.
A new woman every night.
Every time is my first time.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:20 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:04 PM (EzgxV)
SMOD, chaos, 9-Dash Line War, Littl' Un's provocations...who knows?
Posted by: Thrawn at April 08, 2016 11:11 PM (s87AC)
All it takes is a few people deciding that they'll personally do something about it.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:20 PM (EzgxV)
So he quit smoking, went sober, started jogging on the local track.
6 months later he had dropped 50 lbs, looked great, clean and sober, the whole bit.
Doing his run one day he keeled over dead. Age 45.
I think about him a lot.
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 11:11 PM (8QGte)
Alcohol is a preservative.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:21 PM (EzgxV)
Well, you don't know, Insom'.
Never know who you helped, who you influenced, what you may have done that had domino-effects on other people.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:19 PM (9ym/
******
One screening of It's a Wonderful Life is prescribed here.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 08, 2016 11:21 PM (/ZRJR)
Global Warming!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 08, 2016 11:22 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: April
I do like Dancing In The Dark, though.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 08, 2016 11:22 PM (8AdYN)
That too, but I was more thinking about being out......walking, jogging.....like this girl at UT.
Not to say anything against Mr. K but I think I would.
Crazy. Shit. Happens.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:22 PM (9ym/8)
http://usat.ly/1S2hsyt
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 08, 2016 11:18 PM (vBeA5)
"Up to" includes zero. Not defending Hastert, but that's weasel-wording by the prosecution.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2016 11:23 PM (UsLZp)
Posted by: mindful webworker
****
I wish you luck.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:23 PM (hVdx9)
Every time is my first time."
Hehehehe.
That's a bright-side way to think about it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:24 PM (9ym/8)
gun. He thinks I'm overreacting. My thinking is this..........should
someone ever come into our home in the middle of the night he would be
hiding under his pillow,. I basically am the man of the house and I feel
I should be smart enough to protect us."
Wise.
In addition to weaponing up, there are a bunch of things that can be done to discourage nighttime break-ins, make them harder for the perp, and increase your odds should a confrontation occur.
Perhaps ace and the cobs could run an occasional thread on security.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 08, 2016 11:24 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 08, 2016 11:24 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: irongrampa at April 08, 2016 11:24 PM (P/8aq)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 08, 2016 11:25 PM (UbeIw)
Posted by: The Political Hat
What is it with these guys who were Speaker of the House?
Oh, gotta run John Boehner, Paul Ryan and are are sponsoring a cub scout troop.
Posted by: Harry Reid at April 08, 2016 11:25 PM (c7vUv)
Posted by: Josephistan at April 08, 2016 11:26 PM (7qAYi)
Kidney stones was one of 'em. One old codger was laughing. He was in terrible pain and looped up nearly out of his mind on opioids. They were going to use one of those ultrasonic stone buster things, and lowered in a little pool with a harness, with him otherwise nearly buck naked. He remembers this, and only this. He started hollering in pain. His wife was around, I think and told the details of the story.
One of his nuts had got caught under the strap of the harness and was being crushed. The nurse quickly looked when he started hollering, then lowered him down, and expertly fished that nut out and put it back in a safe zone.
And my father, embarrassed to death, but laughing, talks about the nurses just reaching and grabbing his pecker and putting it in the neck of the urinal bottles when he had to pee.
The bad thing is, when you're in the condition where nurses handle your junk like that, you're too sick or out of it or in pain to even think about enjoying it. And without Viagra, most of the guys couldn't enjoy it even if they were in top shape.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 11:26 PM (DW+jj)
That would be interesting. The off Gun Threads or Prepping Threads occasionally wander off into this territory but that would be a good thing to discuss.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:26 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: 20,000 Lesbians having sex at April 08, 2016 11:26 PM (9mTYi)
http://usat.ly/1S2hsyt
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 08, 2016 11:18 PM (vBeA5)
Amateur.
Posted by: Harry Reid at April 08, 2016 11:26 PM (EY6Re)
That's a bright-side way to think about it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
****
I borrowed this from someone here I think.
I told my fiancé' if I am diagnosed with dementia/Alzheimer's to take me out to the mountains on a freezing cold night and leave me.
Then again that is assuming I live that long.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:26 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 08, 2016 11:24 PM (zOTsN)
"Up to four" means "maybe one, less than five."
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:27 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:28 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 08, 2016 11:28 PM (UbeIw)
Posted by: Josephistan
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This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: NC HB2 at April 08, 2016 11:28 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 11:19 PM (4aaDj)
Wow, your husband sounds like a loser.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 08, 2016 11:28 PM (fC9RO)
216 "My thinking is this..........should someone ever come into our home in the middle of the night...."
That too, but I was more thinking about being out......walking, jogging.....like this girl at UT.
Not to say anything against Mr. K but I think I would.
Crazy. Shit. Happens.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:22 PM (9ym/
.............
I agree. I get up at 5 and go a couple miles down a dark hiway with my dog. I really wouldn't trust her either to protect me. I will look into it
And just in case anyone thinks I'm too hard on Mr k remember this is the guy I made watch the Fox debate with me. Halfway through he looks over and says I think I like that guy, that's who I'm gonna vote for. I double checked with him and finally had to say " Uhh that's Brett Baier"
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 11:28 PM (4aaDj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2016 11:23 PM (UsLZp)
No shit. The prosecutor should know exactly how many.
Posted by: CDR M at April 08, 2016 11:30 PM (McoS+)
Then again that is assuming I live that long.
Posted by: Tilikum
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No ice floes available?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 08, 2016 11:30 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at April 08, 2016 11:30 PM (/WPPJ)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 08, 2016 11:30 PM (UbeIw)
That's a bright-side way to think about it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
****
I borrowed this from someone here I think.
I told my fiancee if I am diagnosed with dementia/Alzheimer's to take me out to the mountains on a freezing cold night and leave me.
Then again that is assuming I live that long.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:26 PM (hVdx9)
There are things that don't happen all-at-once, and may be diagnosed at any point along the way. You don't want to be up on some mountaintop saying, "really??? because I forgot to put the seat down???"
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:30 PM (EzgxV)
Don't know if you'd think it counts, but all the Morons* and 'ettes have meant a lot to me, and to each other, I'm sure.
*Except that one guy, but not you.
!
A few things to do... BBL if I can.
Posted by: mindful webworker - sedimentally at April 08, 2016 11:31 PM (5a8XA)
True. I don't know. It's possible. It's just the thought of there having been no real meaning bothers me more than the thought of death.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 11:31 PM (0mRoj)
Global Warming!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 08, 2016 11:22 PM (9mTYi)
Man, it's been unseasonably warm here. Locals are talking about planting their gardens this weekend, an event usually scheduled for the May 24 weekend. I was in the yard, changing the water pump in #2 Suburban, and had to shed my sweatshirt, because too warm.
I saw a mirage today, too. Driving home from town at sunset, and about a mile into the 3-mile trip, I see the Rocky Mountains in front of me clear as day. Except you can't see them from here, below the horizon. So I went another mile past my corner, to the next high ground, and on the far western horizon was a thick bank of cloud. But the top of the cloud bank was wispy and ill-defined, not at all like the sharp mountain profile I had just seen. I think what I really saw was the shadow of the front range, cast onto the cloud bank by the setting Sun at the precise right position to do that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2016 11:31 PM (UsLZp)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsqZl3VqoM4
Somehow, I didn't know about these guys until now. That's a shame.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at April 08, 2016 11:31 PM (jV8Mq)
Posted by: Molly k
-------------
There is a lot to be said for innocence.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 08, 2016 11:31 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Molly k
****
Molly, take it from someone who could have been the guy breaking into your home, you DO NOT want to be at their mercy. People will say I am scaremongering. I am telling you the worst case scenario which statistically is low.
With that said, do you feel lucky?
The people I grew up with enjoyed inflicting pain and suffering on others. They had all kinds of ways of justifying it too.
Better to have and not need...
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:32 PM (hVdx9)
Women can be rather petty and vindictive about such things.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 11:32 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: megyn kelly at April 08, 2016 11:33 PM (UbeIw)
I told my fiancee if I am diagnosed with dementia/Alzheimer's to
take me out to the mountains on a freezing cold night and leave me.
Then again that is assuming I live that long.
Don't even think about it!
Posted by: Flagstaff Solid Waste Dept. at April 08, 2016 11:33 PM (YJmuy)
So he quit smoking, went sober, started jogging on the local track.
6 months later he had dropped 50 lbs, looked great, clean and sober, the whole bit.
Doing his run one day he keeled over dead. Age 45.
I think about him a lot.
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 11:11 PM (8QGte)
Alcohol is a preservative.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:21 PM (EzgxV)
And tar gives a protective coating to your lungs.
Posted by: rickl at April 08, 2016 11:34 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 08, 2016 11:24 PM (zOTsN)
Let me guess. You don't read the fine print in the boobeh creme ads?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2016 11:34 PM (UsLZp)
Posted by: cthulhu
****
Heh. I am pretty darned good at putting the seat down. Well trained I guess. Heck, I am even better at putting the cap back on the toothpaste than she is.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:35 PM (hVdx9)
GD, Hammer, it's like you freakin' live in Maine or something.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:35 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: name at April 08, 2016 11:36 PM (AG7GB)
..............
You just convinced me. I sleep on the couch in the living room just past the front door. I really am the first line of defense in this house. We have 5 doors that can get into this house but this is the most obvious.
Posted by: Molly k. at April 08, 2016 11:36 PM (4aaDj)
Welcome to 99.9% of the world, mon ami.
Even people who were kings 300 years ago are just obscure trivia questions today.
Posted by: AD at April 08, 2016 11:36 PM (M18S9)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 08, 2016 11:37 PM (dBmVV)
The reaction drill is still the same, but a modern M67 has a much greater chance of fvcking you up even if you react correctly and in time. Those things are fairly terrifying and put out WAY more shrapnel than the old pineapples.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 08, 2016 11:37 PM (Wckf4)
how hangs it?
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 08, 2016 11:37 PM (dBmVV)
Gloomy and full of existential angst.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 11:38 PM (0mRoj)
This is going to sound stupid (because it is) but I can't remember that last time I had a cold or really bad allergies.
Just doesn't happen.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:38 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: zombie louis xiv at April 08, 2016 11:38 PM (UbeIw)
I still have to clean up all the twigs and branches from the lawn. This lawn will look like a vacant lot before I get a chance to mow it, at this rate.
Posted by: rickl at April 08, 2016 11:38 PM (sdi6R)
Even people who were kings 300 years ago are just obscure trivia questions today.
Posted by: AD at April 08, 2016 11:36 PM (M18S9)
Even so, there are people who love obscure trivia. So it all matters to someone, at some time.
Posted by: Josephistan at April 08, 2016 11:38 PM (7qAYi)
How you doin'?
Posted by: Gord at April 08, 2016 11:39 PM (UbeIw)
Posted by: Eeyore at April 08, 2016 11:39 PM (NeFrd)
So he quit smoking, went sober, started jogging on the local track.
6 months later he had dropped 50 lbs, looked great, clean and sober, the whole bit.
Doing his run one day he keeled over dead. Age 45.
I think about him a lot.
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 11:11 PM (8QGte)
Alcohol is a preservative.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:21 PM (EzgxV)
And tar gives a protective coating to your lungs.
Posted by: rickl at April 08, 2016 11:34 PM (sdi6R)
A couple of extra pounds makes for an easier recovery from a bout of food poisoning....
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:40 PM (EzgxV)
I see a very ugly time ahead and I have played enough paintball, laser tag, etc. to understand I am not Rambo or the lucky type.
Not after sympathy or empathy.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:40 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 08, 2016 11:40 PM (dBmVV)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:35 PM (hVdx9)
I was total crap at putting the seat down. Then I put in these "soft close" seats when I had to replace toilets. Now I'm damn near perfect. Somehow when it's just a little flipping motion, with no needed regard for consequences, I just always do it.
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 11:40 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Eeyore at April 08, 2016 11:39 PM (NeFrd)
Thanks for noticing us...
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 11:41 PM (0mRoj)
261 "And tar gives a protective coating to your lungs."
This is going to sound stupid (because it is) but I can't remember that last time I had a cold or really bad allergies.
Just doesn't happen.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:38 PM (9ym/
I take zinc supplements regularly -- and have had far fewer colds and flus since I started doing so. Of course, my liver is probably galvanized......
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:41 PM (EzgxV)
Watched a Kenda episode recently where a guy found a box of old pineapple grenades in an old garage. Just moved into the property and was sorting through old junk left behind. He started playing around with them apparently thinking they were replicas. But they weren't.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:41 PM (9ym/8)
BUT, I figured I wouldn't live much past 30 for some reason. I figured that in spite of all my family dying mostly from chronic issues and old age I didn't have long to last.
SO I failed to plan accordingly.
Plan on living to be 90 and make sure you have things to do and goals to make and ideals to believe and fight for. You may not make it to five-score and ten, but you will have a better chance if you do something other than sit around and mope.
Now that I have been encouragingly uplifting I am going to drink whiskey and think of the lady I have just started dating.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2016 11:42 PM (6DMur)
Posted by: Eeyore at April 08, 2016 11:39 PM (NeFrd)
Me too!
Posted by: Lars von Trier at April 08, 2016 11:43 PM (yJwni)
Posted by: Eeyore at April 08, 2016 11:39 PM (NeFrd)
I'd make a suggestion, but you wouldn't listen.
No one ever does.
Posted by: marvin the paranoid android at April 08, 2016 11:43 PM (UbeIw)
Finally got it into the shop last week. My friend called me out to lift, laughing. "Well" he said, "at least I won't have to charge you a disposal fee."
Crappy cellphone pic:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/jp8s3mk
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 08, 2016 11:43 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:41 PM (EzgxV)
Your liver needs exercise like anything else. Bonus: usually your elbow gets a workout too.
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 11:43 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Josephistan at April 08, 2016 11:26 PM (7qAYi)
They have been doing it for over 150 years.
SC couldn't host any college bowl game or NCAA basketball tourney games for the past 15 years because of the Confederate flag. Before 2000 they did. Think the reason for the change in the Confederate flag had anything to do with Gore being swept in the South?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 08, 2016 11:43 PM (1JnAL)
So, enjoy today.
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 11:43 PM (8QGte)
Posted by: Josephistan at April 08, 2016 11:38 PM (7qAYi)
I've been leaning towards the idea that the right actions are what matter, because results are a crapshoot, and no matter how successful and influential you are, it will all eventually be forgotten and washed away like footsteps on a beach.
Posted by: AD at April 08, 2016 11:43 PM (M18S9)
See there? Just like that you've made somebody's day better and you didn't even know it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:43 PM (9ym/8)
The other night you asked if I can see Reynolds Mountain from my house. Yes I can. We're on the east slope of Spivey Mountain, and have a great view of the opposite side of the French Broad valley.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 08, 2016 11:43 PM (9ltS8)
Is his name 'Lefty' by any chance, Ricardo?
Posted by: andycanuck at April 08, 2016 11:44 PM (UbeIw)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:45 PM (9ym/8)
In my experience people in their 40's considering their mortality are doing so because they're sensing that they need to start making their health a priority and they're rationalizing an excuse for not addressing it responsibly.
All I can tell you as a former 40-year-old is that being old is no fun when you're sick and I coulda saved myself alot of very real misery if I had stepped up healthwise back then.
Posted by: MAx at April 08, 2016 11:45 PM (LAliD)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:45 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 08, 2016 11:45 PM (dBmVV)
laughing. "Well" he said, "at least I won't have to charge you a
disposal fee."
Since the job was half done, did he knock 50% off the labor?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 08, 2016 11:45 PM (YJmuy)
a month ago. I had dropped by the local guy I use to do exhaust work,
and he was always too busy to get to it, so I put it off. It was getting
pretty wheezey and loud, but not (by my standard) overly loud.
Finally got it into the shop last week. My friend called me out to
lift, laughing. "Well" he said, "at least I won't have to charge you a
disposal fee."
Crappy cellphone pic:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/jp8s3mk
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South"
Worst case of muffler termites I ever seen.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 08, 2016 11:46 PM (9ltS8)
Posted by: AD at April 08, 2016 11:43 PM (M18S9)
Agreed. If it matters at the time, it matters. Why should some historian 300 years from now get to decide that?
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 11:46 PM (iMxBJ)
With that said, I wouldn't bet on it.
I raise a glass to you.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:47 PM (hVdx9)
I see a very ugly time ahead and I have played enough paintball, laser tag, etc. to understand I am not Rambo or the lucky type.
Not after sympathy or empathy.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:40 PM (hVdx9)
Let's just say that I'm not about to take Mal's pledge....
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:47 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
****
Alzheimer's on both sides here. Plus 6-7 concussions thanks to football.
Living is bad for your health. There are no guarantees that you will die young or live old. I come from family lines that live a while. One side smoked heavily and were mean drunks and yet lived into there 90s. The other side lived into there 90s also minus the drinking and smoking. Good genes I guess.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 08, 2016 11:47 PM (FY0Rj)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:48 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:41 PM (EzgxV)
I buy a product, sold here in Canada, called Cold FX. It's an extract of ginseng, plus other herbs. It's not a cold cure, but it does seem to stop a cold dead in its tracks if you dose up with it at the first sign of a sniffle or a scratchy throat. Just last Tuesday, I was getting set to ride to Portland, OR, with a buddy for the big swap meet. Woke up with that dread scratchy throat. Took 3 capsules of Cold FX right away, 3 more at mid-day, 3 in the evening, and the same routine the next day. Scratchy throat went away, cold never materialized.
I have had this experience often enough now for it to be more than coincidence. I am convinced the stuff works to prevent a cold if I take it as soon as the first indications of a cold present. Leave it too late, and it does nothing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2016 11:48 PM (UsLZp)
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 11:49 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert
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I've been up there a number of times, to fuss with radio repeaters located at the top. Yup. Nice views there.
We do not live on Reynolds. In point of fact, the entire development is on my S-List. We live just below, but above Merrimon. In Lake View Park.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 08, 2016 11:49 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Yo! at April 08, 2016 11:49 PM (N9VHf)
Posted by: Eeyore at April 08, 2016 11:39 PM (NeFrd)
Me too!
Posted by: Lars von Trier at April 08, 2016 11:43 PM (yJwni)
Ditto. I guess.
Well, as cheerful as possible.
Maybe.
Posted by: Leonard Cohen at April 08, 2016 11:49 PM (T/5A0)
effort to protect their residents from Bruce Springsteen's music."
---
Hahahaha.
So true. Springsteen has painfully long shows (4+ hours) and punctuates the shows with the most bizarre grimaces on his face. Not pleasant to watch.
Maybe he should visit a doctor?
Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at April 08, 2016 11:50 PM (MrV8Y)
Posted by: Puddleglum
****
Cause of death? Life.
Genes are a hell of a thing.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:50 PM (hVdx9)
In answer to a question from earlier in the day - yes, bars still have sugar cubes, or at least the three we visited all did.
I see a lot of 'woe-is-me' sorta stuff here.
Perspective: I've got PD and dementia, and when the meds don't work, I shake like an iced-down chihuahua in a north wind and can barely remember where my feet are.
Is this depressing? You betcha.
Ever make me wanna eat my gun? Yeah, pretty regularly there, for a while.
Make me wonder what, if anything, it all means? Of course. I'm a fool, not an idiot.
But for all that, I have to carry on. I don't know why, but I do.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 11:50 PM (lutOX)
Posted by: The Penguin at April 08, 2016 11:50 PM (ufy6O)
Posted by: Eeyore at April 08, 2016 11:39 PM (NeFrd)
They're ok, I guess.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 08, 2016 11:50 PM (FY0Rj)
It's not really meant that way, I guess, but "Tower of Song" always puts me in a good mood.
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 11:51 PM (iMxBJ)
On a phone.
Posted by: Yo! at April 08, 2016 11:51 PM (N9VHf)
@283
I can't believe you two haven't met. You live like 8 blocks from each other.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill"
Supposedly the next gun show at the Ag Center we are going to meet there.
Which would be Sat May 14.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 08, 2016 11:51 PM (9ltS8)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:51 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Chi at April 08, 2016 11:51 PM (ufy6O)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 08, 2016 11:51 PM (dBmVV)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert
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Yeah. You know how you see exhaust bits lying on the side of the road every now and then? Well, one of them is mine. I never heard the thing fall off.
Turns out that the cat makes a pretty fair muffler.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 08, 2016 11:51 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at April 08, 2016 11:52 PM (MrV8Y)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:53 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at April 08, 2016 11:53 PM (xUVR8)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
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A good bit more than that, but easily within artillery range.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 08, 2016 11:54 PM (9mTYi)
Even people who were kings 300 years ago are just obscure trivia questions today.
Posted by: AD at April 08, 2016 11:36 PM (M18S9)
Probably true unless they gave themselves Prima Nocta.
Posted by: Edward Longshanks at April 08, 2016 11:54 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 08, 2016 11:54 PM (YJmuy)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 11:55 PM (EzgxV)
Uncle Palpatine, you got no choice in the matter.
It's your JOB to carry on.
Sucks once in a while, but there it is,
Posted by: irongrampa at April 08, 2016 11:55 PM (P/8aq)
Posted by: Mike Hammer"
If the shit show ever goes down, We have a terrific defensive position up here. I plan on using the towers on Spivey to observe everything for miles and miles if that happens.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 08, 2016 11:55 PM (9ltS8)
Which would be Sat May 14.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert
---------------
Hmm. Must check calendar. I have a reunion in May, down at Myrtle Beach.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 08, 2016 11:55 PM (9mTYi)
Monica was great at that.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at April 08, 2016 11:53 PM (xUVR
She's not alone.
Posted by: Huma "I'm with Her" Abedin at April 08, 2016 11:56 PM (iMxBJ)
God knows what I think about him and I think I know what he thinks of me.
We're pretty okay.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:56 PM (9ym/8)
I will tell y'all that you need to get that colonoscopy done for your 50th birthday gift to yourself. They found colon cancer in me first time. Three weks later all gone: thanks Doc!!!
Shittin' in a bag would totally suck. Just do it.
Posted by: MAx at April 08, 2016 11:56 PM (LAliD)
He does look like he's soiling a diaper when he's on stage.
Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2016 11:56 PM (xUVR8)
Posted by: JEM at April 08, 2016 11:56 PM (o+SC1)
I'm more fun in person. Swearsies!
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:56 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Lars von Trier at April 08, 2016 11:57 PM (yJwni)
It's your JOB to carry on.
Sucks once in a while, but there it is,
Posted by: irongrampa at April 08, 2016 11:55 PM (P/8aq)
That is the whole thing in a nutshell, right there.
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 11:57 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 08, 2016 11:57 PM (yJwni)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 08, 2016 11:51 PM (dBmVV)
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9
Notice God does the cleansing. You are not expected to "clean yourself up" first.
Posted by: Emmie, fun to be around at April 08, 2016 11:57 PM (rRHdN)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/jp8s3mk
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 08, 2016 11:43 PM (9mTYi)
Gee, a virtual muffler!
I had to fix an exhaust leak on the same Suburban. Turned out to be nothing more than loose nuts on the donut flange that holds the head pipe to the manifold. Thought I would need a new donut, but it seemed to be intact. Got the nuts off the studs OK, put anti-seize on the studs, tightened everything up, and woo-hoo, no leak.
But I will need a new water pump, and both the tensioner pulley and idler wheel for the serpentine belt are noisy, as is the alternator bearing. So I get to replace all those. And I probably ought to replace the brake hard lines on the rear axle, as they are encrusted with rust.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 08, 2016 11:57 PM (UsLZp)
Uncle Palpatine, you got no choice in the matter.
It's your JOB to carry on.
Sucks once in a while, but there it is,
Posted by: irongrampa at April 08, 2016 11:55 PM (P/8aq)
***
Family motto is "One day more."
Yeah, I'm carrying on, having fun when it's fun, gritting my teeth when it ain't.
What else can one do?
And everyone, but everyone, is in the same spot, even if they don't know it yet. Me? I'm lucky to be going through the ravages of extreme old age when I'm young and strong enough to bear them. How people in their 80's can take this, I'll never know.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 11:58 PM (lutOX)
Don't be. The time is "interesting" but the things you can do with are even more so.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 11:58 PM (9ym/8)
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That is certainly true. There's only one easy way up there. The rest is steep, and fairly exposed.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 08, 2016 11:58 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Spawn of Mayhem at April 08, 2016 11:58 PM (C+vbB)
>> and punctuates the shows with the most bizarre grimaces
>> on his face. Not pleasant to watch.
Not to mention the fact that it's all been money-grubbing crap since about the mid '70s.
I've hated almost every bit of his fatuous garbage I've ever heard, the band and the music's often been great but the lyrics are utter crap and the vocals over-mannered bullshit.
Posted by: JEM at April 08, 2016 11:58 PM (o+SC1)
Posted by: Morrisey at April 08, 2016 11:59 PM (FkBIv)
As for eye contact with dogs and horses, not sure. I do have trouble with eye contact with humans though.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo, brought to you by carls jr at April 08, 2016 11:59 PM (iQF50)
I'm a Ph.D in licking of outlets. If you need any pointers, just give me a wink.
Posted by: Roxy Raye at April 08, 2016 11:59 PM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
****
Always take the high ground.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:59 PM (hVdx9)
I will tell y'all that you need to get that colonoscopy done for your 50th birthday gift to yourself.
Posted by: MAx at April 08, 2016 11:56 PM (LAliD)
And for God's sake, make sure you get a doctor to do it!
Posted by: Josephistan at April 08, 2016 11:59 PM (7qAYi)
If I could, I would. Nothing like a weekend in Vegas......or thereabouts.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:00 AM (9ym/8)
Like Dennis Prager says, being happy is not just a good thing in and of itself, it is a moral imperative.
Illegitimi non carburundum
Posted by: navybrat at April 09, 2016 12:00 AM (8QGte)
The text on the Churchill family crest? "Faithful but unfortunate."
Posted by: Splunge at April 09, 2016 12:00 AM (iMxBJ)
Actually, any Mideastern economic refugee will suffice.
Posted by: JEM at April 09, 2016 12:00 AM (o+SC1)
But the tailpipe always needs work.
Posted by: andycanuck at April 09, 2016 12:00 AM (UbeIw)
Of course the nekomimi computer character was actually a dirty old man...
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at April 09, 2016 12:01 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Chi at April 09, 2016 12:01 AM (ufy6O)
Posted by: Spawn of Mayhem at April 08, 2016 11:58 PM (C+vbB)
First our neighbors, then the world
Posted by: Roman Proverb at April 09, 2016 12:01 AM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Morrisey at April 08, 2016 11:59 PM (FkBIv)
And you never will. Because you suck.
Posted by: Splunge at April 09, 2016 12:01 AM (iMxBJ)
Monica was great at that.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at April 08, 2016 11:53 PM (xUVR
She's not alone.
Posted by: Huma "I'm with Her" Abedin at April 08, 2016 11:56 PM (iMxBJ)
I love to lick the outlet!!!
Nothing better for you than tossing some salad!!
Posted by: Rep Barney Frank at April 09, 2016 12:01 AM (1JnAL)
Are you telling me the guy with the vacuum cleaner hose and a GoPro isn't legit?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 09, 2016 12:01 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
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A good bit more than that, but easily within artillery range.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South"
According to google maps, ~ 4.44 miles as the crow flies.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 09, 2016 12:01 AM (9ltS8)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:01 AM (9ym/8)
I'm a Ph.D in licking of outlets. If you need any pointers, just give me a wink.
Posted by: Roxy Raye
****
You owe me a watch. IYKWIM
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 09, 2016 12:02 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Spawn of Mayhem at April 08, 2016 11:58 PM (C+vbB)
No doubt. But I roast my own coffee, and the best Yemen coffees are f*cking amazing.
Posted by: Splunge at April 09, 2016 12:02 AM (iMxBJ)
"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name" John 1:12
Our job = accept the gift
God's job = make you His child
Posted by: Emmie, fun to be around at April 09, 2016 12:02 AM (rRHdN)
Posted by: Morrisey
****
You are the quintessential whiney bitch.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 09, 2016 12:03 AM (hVdx9)
>> thereabouts.
https://www.springmountainmotorsports.com
Posted by: JEM at April 09, 2016 12:03 AM (o+SC1)
"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name" John 1:12
Our job = accept the gift
God's job = make you His child
Posted by: Emmie, fun to be around at April 09, 2016 12:02 AM (rRHdN)
Red-headed stepchild feels closer to the truth.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 09, 2016 12:03 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Dr. Nick Riviera at April 09, 2016 12:04 AM (7qAYi)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo, brought to you by carls jr at April 09, 2016 12:04 AM (iQF50)
Oft quoted but I can't confirm, Sir Winston's last words being "I'm so bored with it all" as he lie in bed, moments before passing.
The guy was a stick of dynamite.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:04 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo, brought to you by carls jr at April 09, 2016 12:04 AM (iQF50)
Any Republican who is not excitable these days is not paying attention.
Posted by: Splunge at April 09, 2016 12:05 AM (iMxBJ)
>> and a GoPro isn't legit?
A twenty-year-old "underage" Muslim refugee with a hard-on can do the job for a tiny fraction of your Obamacare premium.
Posted by: JEM at April 09, 2016 12:05 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
****
You'd think the booze would tamp that down a bit.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 09, 2016 12:05 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:01 AM (9ym/
***
Parkinson's Disease.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:05 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:06 AM (9ym/8)
>> weren't creepy lobbyist types. It was fun. Some were
>> pretty excitable though.
Suppose I ought to look for some of those around here, but we all basically walk around in emotional niqabs.
Posted by: JEM at April 09, 2016 12:07 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:07 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 09, 2016 12:07 AM (hVdx9)
The guy was a stick of dynamite.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:04 AM (9ym/
Soldier, statesman, author, artist. A central figure in the major events of a nearly a century. The original Most Interesting Man in The World
Posted by: Dr. Nick Riviera at April 09, 2016 12:07 AM (7qAYi)
I'm more fun in person. Swearsies!
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 11:56 PM (hVdx9)
If you extend that time frame, I'd be up for it. Was just there in February.
Posted by: Splunge at April 09, 2016 12:08 AM (iMxBJ)
I told her about Angela Merkel in Germany. That her policies have not made life better for the women in Germany; because non-German men have migrated in to... well, you know.
So here I am in my room alone again. How does *that* work
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo, brought to you by carls jr at April 09, 2016 12:08 AM (iQF50)
Posted by: JEM at April 09, 2016 12:05 AM (o+SC1)
Bonus is that his dick is still covered in goat scamper juice, so he won't charge you for lube!
Posted by: Obamacare Platinum Plan at April 09, 2016 12:08 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:01 AM (9ym/
***
Parkinson's Disease.
And I'll be 43 this year, which explains why I am doing all I can to live as well as I can while I can. I recommend this to all, irrespective of their health or lack thereof.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:09 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo, brought to you by carls jr at April 09, 2016 12:09 AM (iQF50)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:04 AM (9ym/
Soldier, statesman, author, artist. A central figure in the major events of a nearly a century. The original Most Interesting Man in The World
Posted by: Dr. Nick Rivier
****
The man is greatly underappreciated in his country and historically.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 09, 2016 12:09 AM (hVdx9)
Haven't you heard?
Pointing out the obvious is now a hostile act.
Posted by: navybrat at April 09, 2016 12:09 AM (8QGte)
Now, where's my Great Dane, Rimmy? Here, boy......Oooops. There you are.....
Posted by: Roxy Raye at April 09, 2016 12:10 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Chi at April 09, 2016 12:10 AM (ufy6O)
Pointing out the obvious is now a hostile act.
Posted by: navybrat at April 09, 2016 12:09 AM (8QGte)
*****
When lies rule the land, the telling of truth is a treasonous act.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 09, 2016 12:11 AM (YLidQ)
The levodopa - some it makes gamblers, but the handsome and charming ones, it makes womanizers.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:12 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Splunge
****
Wish I could extend it, but then someone else would have to disappear. Oooo, did I say that out loud?
Damn.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 09, 2016 12:12 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 09, 2016 12:03 AM (0mRoj)
Due to my father who didn't show acceptance and was very hard to please, I have always kind of felt God only accepted me due to a technicality. He had to because of His promise and He was honoring the offer to every one else, so He may as well accept me too.
Through the years, He has shown me that He really does delight in me. He used my husband and other circumstances to teach me this. I'm slowly starting to trust His love.
Posted by: Emmie, fun to be around at April 09, 2016 12:12 AM (rRHdN)
Aha, so they get wired on coffee and tear through the deserts like explosive energizer bunnies. What they don't know yet is that Im all jacked up on mountain dew
Posted by: Spawn of Mayhem at April 09, 2016 12:12 AM (C+vbB)
In the morning I shall be sober.
Posted by: W. Churchill at April 09, 2016 12:13 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Spawn of Mayhem at April 08, 2016 11:58 PM (C+vbB)
Slice of Yemen?!?!?!? I thought those shitbags were selling me a slice of lemon!!!!
Posted by: Al-Qaeda leadership at April 09, 2016 12:14 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: zombie winston churchill at April 09, 2016 12:14 AM (UbeIw)
Posted by: Winston Churchill at April 09, 2016 12:14 AM (yJwni)
In the morning I shall be sober.
Posted by: W. Churchill at April 09, 2016 12:13 AM (hVdx9)
***
Why stand when you can sit?
Love that the guy drank when he took his daily bath, and was a napper. There's a lot there worthy of emulation.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:14 AM (lutOX)
Some neck!
Posted by: zombie winston churchill at April 09, 2016 12:14 AM (UbeIw)
Subtlest reference to The Godfather ever?
Posted by: Splunge at April 09, 2016 12:15 AM (iMxBJ)
My God, man. I can't blame you. I hope to Hell you do live it up. Every day.
I'm sorry if I was a little hard on you early on.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:15 AM (9ym/8)
Winston in reply: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd take it.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 09, 2016 12:16 AM (DW+jj)
Love that the guy drank when he took his daily bath, and was a napper. There's a lot there worthy of emulation.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine
Sadly, they do not make men like Winston anymore.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 09, 2016 12:16 AM (hVdx9)
Ah but a lemon by any other name is still as sour and devastating to the palate
Posted by: Spawn of Mayhem at April 09, 2016 12:16 AM (C+vbB)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:15 AM (9ym/
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Heh. you said "hard on."
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:17 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 09, 2016 12:18 AM (UbeIw)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 09, 2016 12:16 AM (hVdx9)
Such men emerge when the times call for them. Britain in the 30's was a pacifist society. One celebrated fellow said that if the Nazis arrived on Britain's shores, they should be asked what they wanted, and it should be promptly given to them.
Prosperity does have its hazards.
Posted by: Splunge at April 09, 2016 12:18 AM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Josephistan at April 09, 2016 12:19 AM (7qAYi)
there is a great book called Distory out in the world somewhere that the madame gave me in which all of Churchill's great slams are documented. you should check it out
Posted by: Spawn of Mayhem at April 09, 2016 12:19 AM (C+vbB)
Posted by: Winston Churchill at April 09, 2016 12:20 AM (yJwni)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:20 AM (9ym/8)
3 minute video linked in my sock.
Posted by: andycanuck at April 09, 2016 12:18 AM (UbeIw)
Ah. New to me. Thanks.
What I was thinking of was: "Some story. Some Luca." More of a big deal in the book, where you eventually learned the story. In the movie, it was a throwaway line.
Posted by: Splunge at April 09, 2016 12:20 AM (iMxBJ)
Every single day. Thank your maker in whatever way you can.
I am not a young person and I have been to a lot of funerals of people way younger than me. It's never an easy thing to do.
Tomorrow is promised to no one.
Posted by: navybrat at April 09, 2016 12:21 AM (8QGte)
Well, neither do I. Say, you're have American, right?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:21 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 09, 2016 12:21 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Winston Churchill at April 09, 2016 12:20 AM (yJwni)
I try not to think of him much either, but he keeps interfering in my life.
Posted by: Emmie, fun to be around at April 09, 2016 12:21 AM (rRHdN)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:22 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 09, 2016 12:22 AM (UbeIw)
Sometimes,I'm amazed to have lived into my 70's.
Survived one war and a hell of a lot of "here,hold my beer" episodes.
Still wouldn't trade any of it.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 09, 2016 12:22 AM (P/8aq)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 09, 2016 12:22 AM (yJwni)
Posted by: Emmie, fun to be around at April 09, 2016 12:23 AM (rRHdN)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 09, 2016 12:23 AM (UbeIw)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:23 AM (9ym/8)
I'd be carefully sizing up that door for sturdiness. There are some tricks to beef them up.
Put a motion detector outside. Slave an inside outlet to it. Lamp and stereo on the inside outlet. Movement outside? Lights come on and there's noise. Serves both to alert you, and convince goblins outside to go away.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 09, 2016 12:24 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2016 12:25 AM (6DMur)
Sometimes,I'm amazed to have lived into my 70's.
Survived one war and a hell of a lot of "here,hold my beer" episodes.
Still wouldn't trade any of it.
Posted by: irongrampa
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And you're appreciated here more than you could possibly know.
I raise my glass to you, sir.
Posted by: Chi at April 09, 2016 12:25 AM (ufy6O)
Even people who were kings 300 years ago are just obscure trivia questions today.
Posted by: AD at April 08, 2016 11:36 PM (M18S9)
Probably true unless they gave themselves Prima Nocta.
Posted by: Edward Longshanks at April 08, 2016 11:54 PM (1JnAL)
See! Even if people *do* know you, it could be because some guy just came along 700 years later completely making shit up about you.
Posted by: AD at April 09, 2016 12:26 AM (M18S9)
Posted by: Monty Python at April 09, 2016 12:28 AM (8AdYN)
Posted by: Josephistan at April 09, 2016 12:28 AM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2016 12:25 AM (6DMur)
If you have that kind of money, Obama and his ilk will find a way to tax it.
Posted by: Splunge at April 09, 2016 12:29 AM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 09, 2016 12:30 AM (yJwni)
As always, remember, we are Americans, so the head is held HIGH--most especially now.
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 09, 2016 12:30 AM (P/8aq)
We still doing coffee somewhere?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:31 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Winston Churchill at April 09, 2016 12:20 AM (yJwni)
I try not to think of him much either, but he keeps interfering in my life.
Posted by: Emmie
Heh.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 09, 2016 12:31 AM (8AdYN)
And on Chamberlain: An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last; He looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe; and: He always played the game, and he always lost it.
And on some other pol: He occasionally stumbles across the truth, but hastily picks himself up and carries on as if nothing ever happened.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 09, 2016 12:32 AM (DW+jj)
Survived one war and a hell of a lot of "here,hold my beer" episodes.
Still wouldn't trade any of it.
Posted by: irongrampa
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And you're appreciated here more than you could possibly know.
I raise my glass to you, sir.
Posted by: Chi
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I second that
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 09, 2016 12:32 AM (hVdx9)
You stuff one freakin' hobo and everyone has an opinion.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 09, 2016 12:33 AM (sl+zA)
We are at those times. You need a real "break glass in time of war" character.
I have one or two.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:34 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: AnnaS at April 09, 2016 12:35 AM (P+I7L)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 09, 2016 12:33 AM (sl+zA)
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I know, right?
Everybody loves the Plains Indians, but Heaven forbid we try to preserve OUR way of life.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:35 AM (lutOX)
His response was: "Tell him I'm on the privy and can take only one sh!t at a time."
Posted by: Splunge at April 09, 2016 12:36 AM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: AnnaS at April 09, 2016 12:35 AM (P+I7L)
Better yet, what is the likelihood you are being lied to by someone with a political axe to grind, and wants you to grind it for him? For free?
Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2016 12:38 AM (6DMur)
It could be. I can't doubt anything. You'd like to think Rush and Levin and are above the payola, but, they got bills too.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:38 AM (9ym/8)
Blended this year's limoncello just now. Meyer lemons (peels of 8 or so) in Smirnoff 100-proof vodka for 57 days. Peels removed, vodka run through cheese-cloth, then simple syrup added (2 parts syrup to 3 parts vodka ratio).
Been doing this for several years (Meyer lemon tree in the back yard - lemons are picked, and peels removed and placed in vodka in under 20 min., so no loss of oils/flavor). Usually it's spectacular - better than the real thing from Italy.
This year's vintage had a darker color. Have to wait til tomorrow, take out of the freezer and sample to see how this year's tastes.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 12:39 AM (QDnY+)
and others get paid handsome sums from PACs to support a candidate and
bash another. I was disappointed to hear that. Could it be true? Am I
just a Pollyanna?
Saw the same stuff. They claimed to have nailed Erickson, and just imply the rest are on the take.
Give it a few days to shake out, right now it sounds like conspiracy theory fodder.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 09, 2016 12:39 AM (YJmuy)
This year's vintage had a darker color. Have to wait til tomorrow, take out of the freezer and sample to see how this year's tastes.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 12:39 AM (QDnY+)
***
Lovely.
Do you ship?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:41 AM (lutOX)
They lived a good life. Genders, roles, responsibilities were laid out. You lived by your word. You ate what you killed, and, anybody coming into your lodge owed the lodge.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:41 AM (9ym/8)
I had soju once, but I can't remember what it tastes like.
I suspect it tastes like you should be using it to sterilize needles.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2016 12:41 AM (6DMur)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2016 12:41 AM (6DMur)
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I had a soju-binge last Friday night. It was what she knew and was familiar with.
Yeah....
East Asia might have produced some amazing cultures, but good booze eludes them.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:43 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:46 AM (lutOX)
Priceless! LOL
Posted by: navybrat at April 09, 2016 12:46 AM (8QGte)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:43 AM (lutOX)
Yup. I've had expensive MaoTai. Not as fancy as what Nixon drank with Mao, but still pretty high-end.
It tastes like the cheap stuff, except milder, and does not smell what you would call good. Any decent whiskey would kick its ass.
Posted by: Splunge at April 09, 2016 12:46 AM (iMxBJ)
And the supply's limited, and my local friends who know about it wait for their cut each spring.
An ONT moron has tasted the preserves made from the same tree's fruit, a retaliation for an unprovoked and generous gift of ceeegars from Central America.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 12:47 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: concrete girl at April 09, 2016 12:48 AM (ceWrl)
Posted by: torquewrench at April 09, 2016 12:24 AM (noWW6)
:::scribbles furiously:::
any other ideas?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 09, 2016 12:48 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:48 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: name at April 09, 2016 12:49 AM (AG7GB)
Posted by: Splunge at April 09, 2016 12:46 AM (iMxBJ)
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Conversely, it took me about five years to learn how to make a decent pot of tea. I suppose every culture has things like that - huge blindspots and shortcomings.
Makes me proud to be a Westerner - we can and will take anything and everything from anywhere and everywhere.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:49 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine,
Can't even protect it from destruction because racism.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 09, 2016 12:49 AM (8AdYN)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 12:50 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 12:50 AM (9ym/8)
Remember, the Chinese had bronze casting and gun powder before the rest of the world, but even with the Jesuits to teach them in Macao, even up through the Boxer Rebellion the Chinese were not able to cast decent cannon.
Distilling may be a victim of similar mindset
Try shifting her to Raki or aguardiente. I found a lot of women do like that anise flavor and with Raki she gets to play with the cloudiness from dribbling ice water into it (Louching)
The lady I am seeing is Korean but she is also tea-total, so soju is out.
She does make a chili paste that is to die for, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2016 12:50 AM (6DMur)
Posted by: name at April 09, 2016 12:51 AM (AG7GB)
Posted by: AnnaS at April 09, 2016 12:35 AM (P+I7L)
Starting at the beginning of the primary season through the general election in a Presidential year, rumors and "concerned voters" appear out of the woodwork. Ignore them.
Be very wary of the ones that are concerned, Christian, conservatives the most.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 09, 2016 12:51 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 12:50 AM (QDnY+)
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Never drank with japanese. Chinese, mostly, with a smattering of Koreans and the occasional Vietnamese.
I'd expect the Japanese to have better stuff.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:52 AM (lutOX)
But most of us only want to get sex from a small part of the population (maybe half for the kinkiest, down to "one" for the happily married who wish to stay that way), and death from none of it.
441 You ate what you killed
A few bison stampedes notwithstanding...
Posted by: mikeski at April 09, 2016 12:52 AM (BKBr8)
True or not, the main takeaway that should be taken from this election cycle is that the Infotainment ratings-whores who worship at the altar of Neilson should be regarded no more seriously than the daily horoscope- "for entertainment purposes only".
Whether they sell out in exchange for cash contributions or cheap, easy ratings by pandering to the lowest common denominator is irrelevant. They're not in the Principle Business, they're in the Entertainment Business and should be considered as such.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 12:52 AM (KRwzj)
I've long toyed with ideas like mixing the limoncello with club soda, maybe straining through some fresh crushed mint or something, for a warm-weather cocktail.
Hmmm - what would THAT cocktail say about me?
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 12:52 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
Don't see Rush listed in her comment.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 09, 2016 12:53 AM (8AdYN)
She does make a chili paste that is to die for, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2016 12:50 AM (6DMur)
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They do have some damned fine food, don't they?
The Future Empress is from Vietnam - those people do mop it up to some extent, and their cuisine is, in my experience, at least, uniformly excellent, provided you don't ask what is in it.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:54 AM (lutOX)
Churchill sent a reply, thanking him graciously for the tickets, and said, "Regret unable to attend opening due to prior engagement. Will attend second night, if there is one."
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 09, 2016 12:55 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 09, 2016 12:55 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 09, 2016 12:55 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 12:52 AM (QDnY+)
***
That you're a man of nice judgment. Sounds like just the thing for an August afternoon.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 12:56 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 09, 2016 12:57 AM (9mTYi)
Churchill supposedly said, "I don't blame you."
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 09, 2016 12:58 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 09, 2016 12:59 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: Lauren at April 09, 2016 12:59 AM (hbefS)
Posted by: AnnaS at April 09, 2016 12:35 AM (P+I7L)
FWIW, Levin denied it and said because of that accusation (he's accusing Roger Stone of passing it around), he's switching to #NeverTrump.
Posted by: AD at April 09, 2016 12:59 AM (M18S9)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 12:52 AM (KRwzj)
*****
Really now?
See, I think the biggest takeaway from this cycle is that GOP Establisment squishes created the conditions for their candidates to get killed early, and for Trump and Cruz to be the only viable candidates left because
Posted by: Tim in GA at April 09, 2016 12:59 AM (YLidQ)
Posted by: rhomboid
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I'm just disappointed that they didn't have a Mason jar of clear whiskey.
It says that you're a contented redneck.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 09, 2016 01:00 AM (9mTYi)
Levin is the ONLY one who defends our US Constitution at every turn, and explains WHY in layman's terms we should be all defend it.
Levin has been very fair in his treatment of all of the candidates. He has pointed out when candidates who call themselves conservatives, aren't, such as when Trump came down on the side of ethanol in Iowa.
Levin has had an open invitation for the Donald to come on his show, any time.
Levin, like myself, has given Trump every opportunity to advance his cause, I've looked the other way dozens of times while Trump has said the dumbest things ever uttered by any human aspiring to political office, and instead, Trump insults us, his supposed constituency.
Posted by: navybrat at April 09, 2016 01:00 AM (8QGte)
Ha. We did the exact same thing.
Posted by: Lauren at April 09, 2016 01:00 AM (hbefS)
Posted by: Tim in GA at April 09, 2016 01:01 AM (YLidQ)
Forget parts of FDR's legacy - forget even whether FDR's personality was in fact so effervescent (though apparently it was) - just the metaphor is so perfectly brilliantly Churchill.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 01:01 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at April 09, 2016 01:01 AM (R5HRU)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine,
Can't even protect it from destruction because racism.
Posted by: AmeriDan
Better wording to begin above comment would be... Supposably not allowed to protect.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 09, 2016 01:01 AM (8AdYN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 09, 2016 01:02 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at April 09, 2016 01:02 AM (R5HRU)
Posted by: AnnaS at April 09, 2016 01:04 AM (P+I7L)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 12:52 AM (QDnY+)
***
That you're a man of nice judgment. Sounds like just the thing for an August afternoon.
i agree.
what it says about me is i love my roots, am able to mix, drink and maintain whilst grilling pre-game.
Posted by: concrete girl at April 09, 2016 01:05 AM (ceWrl)
Posted by: AnnaS at April 09, 2016 01:04 AM (P+I7L)
*****
Rush at least, and possibly Levin, are in the 10s of millions category. I find it laughable to imagine they were bought.
Stay Puft Erikson is nowhere close, but is so Establishment that he would do it for free. He fancies himself a GOPe Kingmaker.
Posted by: Tim in GA at April 09, 2016 01:08 AM (YLidQ)
Posted by: AnnaS
Thanks. I was going by what you had written, as I haven't seen anything on this yet. RK obviously has and knew Rush had been mentioned.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 09, 2016 01:10 AM (8AdYN)
It says that you're a contented redneck.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 09, 2016 01:00 AM (9mTYi)
***
Ahh..the mason jar.....
Grew up in WV. My first taste of liquor was in a jelly-jar, poured from a quart jar, kept in the freezer.
memories....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 01:10 AM (lutOX)
And Churchill goes, "In my experience, every time you see something that's big and works well, you tend to nationalise it."
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 01:11 AM (xq1UY)
There, he claims he saw Lincoln standing by the fireplace. He said he said, "Good evening, Mr. President. You seem to have me at quite a disadvantage." He said the Lincoln apparition just smiled and faded away.
Some damn European Queen, Willhelmina or something in 1942 was staying at the WH, and said she heard a knock on her bedroom door. She opened it, and said there stood Lincoln, with his stovetop hat. She fainted.
At any rate, I think even as late as Reagan, Maureen claimed to have seen Lincoln haunting the place.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 09, 2016 01:11 AM (DW+jj)
Beck is worth north of $100 million.
Posted by: AD at April 09, 2016 01:11 AM (M18S9)
Wish I could take credit for coming up with this one: a beat cop once told me that no one on either side of the law wants to walk in on a domestic incident in progress.
So if one is rigging up an audio system to come on in response to outside movement, record a furious and loud "argument" to play when it does.
"I hear someone outside! It's that disgusting slut you've been sneaking off with, I just know it! What are you up to now?"
"Shut up! She and I are just friends! And she's perfectly nice! Stop being such a jealous bitch all the time!"
::: sounds of breaking crockery and sobbing :::
Mr. Burglar will probably go try his luck somewhere calmer and quieter.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 09, 2016 01:11 AM (noWW6)
When Jimmy Carter eventually passes away, will a spectral killer rabbit roam the halls of the White House residence?
Posted by: torquewrench at April 09, 2016 01:13 AM (noWW6)
Whiskey and water (a little ice is allowed)
Whiskey and soda
Gin or vodka and tonic
Gin or vodka and soda
Martini (gin or vodka with a moment of silence for the vermouth)
Bloody Mary, but only before noon.
Boilermaker (if in an establishment where the floor is covered in peanut shells)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:15 AM (KRwzj)
Not bad. But 'Why the hell do you always clean your guns when they're loaded?'
kind of works for me.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 01:15 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: AD at April 09, 2016 01:11 AM (M18S9)
****
My bad. I only included credible talk show hosts.
Posted by: Tim in GA at April 09, 2016 01:15 AM (YLidQ)
Posted by: torquewrench
With his self admitted lustful heart, it will probably be a Playboy bunny.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 09, 2016 01:16 AM (8AdYN)
Whiskey and water (a little ice is allowed)
Whiskey and soda
Gin or vodka and tonic
Gin or vodka and soda
Martini (gin or vodka with a moment of silence for the vermouth)
Bloody Mary, but only before noon.
Boilermaker (if in an establishment where the floor is covered in peanut shells)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:15 AM (KRwzj)
***
Gin and bitters
Gin gimlet
Old-fashioned
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 01:16 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 01:16 AM (xq1UY)
That rabbit was the ghost.
http://www.atomicmoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/rabbit-2.jpg
Posted by: AD at April 09, 2016 01:17 AM (M18S9)
It looks like the social tide is turning: SJWs told "no".
http://preview.tinyurl.com/hdunxrf
Ohio State University listened to their demands, said no, and gave them a timetable. Those still around would be arrested and expelled.
Posted by: Arbalest at April 09, 2016 01:18 AM (FlRtG)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 09, 2016 01:20 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by Hollowpoint
My cock is 51 years old. It has a birthday in June.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 09, 2016 01:20 AM (8AdYN)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 09, 2016 01:21 AM (DW+jj)
Why Ace, who is now vacationing in the jewel of the Indian Ocean, Malaysia, can never be bought.
Rented, yes, just like a lovely beachfront villa in Malaysia.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 09, 2016 01:21 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: publics (not Breitbart publius) at April 09, 2016 01:20 AM (DW+jj)
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Do you really wonder about shit like that?
Because in all honesty, I try not to think of the JEFs sex life.
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 09, 2016 01:22 AM (rlfds)
Gin gimlet
Old-fashioned
I'll allow gin and bitters.
The latter two are disqualified on account of the use of sugar and/or fruit juice due to the fact that Prohibition and the resulting bathtub gin are no longer a concern.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:22 AM (KRwzj)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:22 AM (KRwzj)
***
you might have a point there.
But the gimlet - come on, The Long Goodbye.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 01:23 AM (lutOX)
And now this silly little string bean of a fairy wastrel inhabiting the place.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 09, 2016 01:26 AM (DW+jj)
There has to be a punch line to this one...
Soda water. The use of soda pop is an egregious violation with no recourse.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:27 AM (KRwzj)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at April 09, 2016 01:27 AM (hipNa)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:22 AM (KRwzj)
***
you might have a point there.
But the gimlet - come on, The Long Goodbye.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 01:23 AM (lutOX)
I haven't tried one since college, but my opinion of a gimlet was that it made otherwise acceptable vodka smell like rubbing alcohol.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 01:28 AM (EzgxV)
'Hello, Sweden speaking': Official hotline connects you with a random Swedish resident
http://tinyurl.com/z62psb3
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 09, 2016 01:28 AM (rlfds)
I haven't tried one since college, but my opinion of a gimlet was that it made otherwise acceptable vodka smell like rubbing alcohol.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 01:28 AM (EzgxV)
***
Needs to be gin, old boy, otherwise, it just isn't a gimlet.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 01:29 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 01:30 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 09, 2016 01:31 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 09, 2016 01:32 AM (YJmuy)
If things continue as they are with CA and the US, I might have to reload even more just to enforce "dry" evenings and make sure I'm not hiding in a bottle ......
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 01:32 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Snoop Dog at April 09, 2016 01:34 AM (1JnAL)
It's for when a gin and tonic is too sweet.
Gin and tonic is barely acceptable as it is because most tonic waters has way too much sugar in it.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:35 AM (KRwzj)
Whiskey and soda
Gin or vodka and tonic
Gin or vodka and soda
Martini (gin or vodka with a moment of silence for the vermouth)
Bloody Mary, but only before noon.
Boilermaker (if in an establishment where the floor is covered in peanut shells)
Posted by: Hollowpoint
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*!*
Whiskey, neat.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Sunny South at April 09, 2016 01:35 AM (9mTYi)
The very simple and primitive combo of cachaca, lime juice, sugar, and ice is a wondrous delight if you're on a spectacular beach in Rio Grande do Norte, looking out on azure water, perhaps with impossibly delectable gatinhas morenas in view.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 01:37 AM (QDnY+)
I haven't tried one since college, but my opinion of a gimlet was that it made otherwise acceptable vodka smell like rubbing alcohol.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 01:28 AM (EzgxV)
***
Needs to be gin, old boy, otherwise, it just isn't a gimlet.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 01:29 AM (lutOX)
As far as I can remember, gin didn't need any help to smell like an industrial product.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 01:37 AM (EzgxV)
That's how I ended up with a scope-sized deep cut on my forehead at the range when sighting in.
It turns out that mistakenly grabbing the box of 300 grain bullets when you're loading for 260 grain in a .454 Casull Ruger SRH is a bad idea.
Pro tip- cleaning patches work as bandages in a pinch.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:40 AM (KRwzj)
I used to stock Schweppes' Bitter Lemon, frankly because of Cmnr. Whitehead.
Seldom drink it now since I try to avoid sugar-stuff. Of all the liquids marketed as low-calorie or diet, which I'd rather avoid than force down, the diet zero-calorie tonic water is the one thing that really does not taste any different.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 01:41 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 01:37 AM (EzgxV)
***
And that's half the charm of gin, innit?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 01:43 AM (lutOX)
Gin and tonic is barely acceptable as it is because most tonic waters has way too much sugar in it.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:35 AM (KRwzj)
Just get tonic without sugar. It's what I use because I don't care for sweets.
Posted by: The Tonic Hat at April 09, 2016 01:43 AM (vBeA5)
I haven't tried one since college, but my opinion of a gimlet was that it made otherwise acceptable vodka smell like rubbing alcohol.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 01:28 AM (EzgxV)
***
Needs to be gin, old boy, otherwise, it just isn't a gimlet.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 01:29 AM (lutOX)
As far as I can remember, gin didn't need any help to smell like an industrial product.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 01:37 AM (EzgxV)
To be perfectly up-front, memories of experimentation with booze tend to be fuzzier than other memories -- especially when "successful" memories include "The Green Death" -- layered 80-proof green Creme de Menthe, clear 100-proof peppermint schnapps, and straw-colored 151-proof Bacardi rum in a shotglass. Freeze all three bottles in advance to make pouring easier, and (IIRC) pour top to bottom. Makes for a nice presentation, your breath is minty-fresh, and you get hammered.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 01:44 AM (EzgxV)
The day I give a fuck about what someone else thinks about my choice of booze is the day they cremate me.
*sips Port*
*flips all y'all the bird*
Posted by: DC in River City at April 09, 2016 01:45 AM (e+1S5)
The Rules are suspended whilst on vacation.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:46 AM (KRwzj)
Cowboy Lemonade....
EverClear and Lemonade in a blender....
Like a Lemonade slushy that knocks you on your ass...
Posted by: Don Quixote at April 09, 2016 01:46 AM (qf6WZ)
http://tinyurl.com/z62psb3
Posted by: SMFH
"Hello, may I speak with Mike Hunt? By the way, is your refrigerator running?"
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 09, 2016 01:47 AM (8AdYN)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 01:47 AM (xq1UY)
What *was* nice was starting to read King Rat short after take-off from Dulles, and finishing it just before landing in S'pore, and actually having a perfect view of the ruins of the Chang-i camp where the novel was set as we landed.
Dang. Just did a bit of web surfing and the nature preserve in Borneo I spent some time at back in '93 now has a fancy lodge and an aerial walkway. And I'm guessing you don't get to live/eat with the scientists or accompany them into the rainforest (day and night) while they're doing their projects. We just stayed in an available dorm room and spent all our time with the researchers. Really really lucked out to hit the Danum Valley preserve when I did.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 01:48 AM (QDnY+)
Could be. I may have had one Mai-Tai while in Hawaii. You won't know for sure, and it certainly wasn't at the Hideaway, where one drinks with Men.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 01:50 AM (xq1UY)
*sips Port*
*flips all y'all the bird*
Port isn't a cocktail and is acceptable in limited quantities, after dinner. Unless you mix it with Sprite. Which I have seen happen.
Given that it was a close relative I heroically refrained from physical violence and instead contented myself with mild mockery.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:52 AM (KRwzj)
Concussive blasts and water are not good combinations.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 09, 2016 01:54 AM (1D4Ef)
Yes, I actually have said this to a few young ladies, this song playing in my mind all the while:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrbAyHVVYgI
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 01:55 AM (lutOX)
Drives me up the fucking wall.
If I wanted my booze to be sweet I'd throw some Skittles in it.
On the rare occasions that I'm in the mood for a Gin and Tonic, I want it like I want my women- transparent and bitter.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:56 AM (KRwzj)
531 Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 01:44 AM (EzgxV)
Cowboy Lemonade....
EverClear and Lemonade in a blender....
Like a Lemonade slushy that knocks you on your ass...
Posted by: Don Quixote at April 09, 2016 01:46 AM (qf6WZ)
My first year at the University of Casual Sun-Bathing, we had a blow-out party [that, incidentally, may have been the last -- every time we had one afterwards, there were new rules handed-down from the administration][IIRC, ours was the last party to have been held as a fundraiser] where older, more experienced, students showed how to make "party punch" -- it involved one of the standard iced tea/orange juice 4' tall, 1' across cylindrical metal semi-insulated dispensers. It started with a box of brown sugar and a jug of Hawaiian Punch -- and everything afterward was alcoholic. When it was full, the guys capped it and picked it up to shake it to mix.....and when they uncapped it to check, visible fumes were coming out of the container.
I sure-as-hell didn't drink any, but it was popular with the gals.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 01:56 AM (EzgxV)
*sips Port*
*flips all y'all the bird*
Port isn't a cocktail and is acceptable in limited quantities, after dinner. Unless you mix it with Sprite. Which I have seen happen.
Given that it was a close relative I heroically refrained from physical violence and instead contented myself with mild mockery.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:52 AM (KRwzj)
You have a close relative who drinks Port cut with Sprite????? Was he dropped on his head??
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 01:58 AM (EzgxV)
There are some openings for "frigid" or "with sweat running down the side"
but I'm going to let that go until I've thought it through.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 02:00 AM (xq1UY)
One nice twist on things is all the ports being made in CA, some with the traditional Portuguese grapes, but also with other reds. Have had some fantastic syrah and barolo ports.
Any port-lovers who happen to visit Lisbon simply cannot miss the Port Wine Institute. Was there a long time ago, probably hasn't changed much. Huge leather-bound port list (size of a phone-book, I think over 300 types by the glass), which you peruse while lounging in luxurious leather couches.
http://tinyurl.com/p6rpuzb
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 02:00 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 01:56 AM (KRwzj)
***
I like smooth, shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin. - Raymond Chandler's Marlowe.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 02:02 AM (lutOX)
http://tinyurl.com/p6rpuzb
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 02:00 AM (QDnY+)
Looks homey. The chairs are not rich Corinthian leather, I take it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2016 02:04 AM (UsLZp)
I bought a bottle after a winery tour while on vacation visiting my retired parents.
The cringe factor was too powerful to overcome, but they're at an age where no shits are given.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 02:05 AM (KRwzj)
I already hate pretty much everyone, so for my own sanity I'm just going to assume you're joking here. If not, lie to me.
Posted by: DC in River City at April 09, 2016 02:06 AM (e+1S5)
http://tinyurl.com/p6rpuzb
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 02:00 AM (QDnY+)
Looks homey. The chairs are not rich Corinthian leather, I take it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2016 02:04 AM (UsLZp)
***
Every time I have port, I flash back to that scene in 'On the Beach,' where the old-timers are lamenting the mismanagement that led to the club having more port than they can finish before the fall-out kills them.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 02:06 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 02:07 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2016 02:08 AM (UsLZp)
There are pretty respectable table-quality wines being made all over now, in all the places grapes were grown before Prohibition. But for close to 40 years after Prohibition, most all small local wineries made sugary headache formulas. People just didn't have a taste for what we call wine now. I went to a few small, family-owned wineries in California in the 60's, and that applied there too.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 02:10 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 02:11 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2016 02:08 AM (UsLZp)
There wasn't an apology anywhere on that page. What is Canada coming to?
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 09, 2016 02:12 AM (KRwzj)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 02:06 AM (lutOX)
Clearly, they were not trying hard enough.
But that book was such bullshit. Even in a massive nuclear exchange, people in remote places in the Southern hemisphere would not likely be killed by fallout for decades, if ever. Consider how few people were actually killed by the radiation plume from Chernobyl.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2016 02:13 AM (UsLZp)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 02:13 AM (QDnY+)
Hmm, I should probably negotiate a nuclear arms deal for- errr, I mean, with them...
Posted by: Guest Lecturer Barack Obama at April 09, 2016 02:14 AM (ANVXm)
Hardboiled and shiny: "She looked like she'd be a lot of trouble, for the right type. He looked like the type."
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 02:15 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 02:15 AM (xq1UY)
***
"She was a blonde to make a bishop kick through a stained glass window. Whatever you needed, wherever you were, she had it."
Chandler had a gft.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 02:17 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 09, 2016 02:18 AM (+YMhA)
I've searched the ONT for any posts by her for weeks & nothing.
Please say prayers for her.
Thank you.
Posted by: Carol at April 09, 2016 02:19 AM (sj3Ax)
Idaho, for example. Nobody ever expects to see *that* origin name on a label (and you probably still don't), but you will. Vineyard land prices in Washington state have driven the wine-growing activity further and further east. Just as northern CA vineyard prices drove activity up to Oregon and Washington in a previous wave.
Many important - even critical - things are going down the drain in the US, but the epicurean revolution, to include wine and beer, is raging along nicely. Speaking of which, have to pick out 2 or 3 craft breweries to try this weekend. Up to about 28 or so, only 80+ to go in this area alone.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 02:19 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 09, 2016 02:13 AM (QDnY+)
$3k in loonies is only a little north of $2K USD, these days. I don't know if that thing even could be licensed for the road, given how it's equipped. But if the Diesel engine were OK, it would worth the money for the parts alone. But bidders might go crazy on it, too. Judging by the pics, they have a bunch more of them. I will wait and see what this one sells for. If it goes real cheap, then I might bid on one of the others when it comes up for sale.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2016 02:20 AM (UsLZp)
I just love those, and there's an Alvis Saladin, too. But I found out they're not admired if you have any Irish friends.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 02:21 AM (xq1UY)
Chandler came to mind in re: the first wife.
I said to a friend, not long after we'd met, "She'd make a jazzy weekend, but as a steady diet she'd be wearing."
True, absolutely true.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 02:21 AM (lutOX)
Hardboiled and shiny: "She looked like she'd be a lot of trouble, for the right type. He looked like the type."
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 02:15 AM (xq1UY)
Fiat/Western Star, the latter being a truck builder in Kelowna, BC. I have a relative who used to work for them. Maybe I can get some inside information.
FIAT, IIRC, has a pretty good name in commercial vehicles.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2016 02:24 AM (UsLZp)
I just love those, and there's an Alvis Saladin, too. But I found out they're not admired if you have any Irish friends.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 02:21 AM (xq1UY)
Canadian Army used Ferrets, I believe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2016 02:26 AM (UsLZp)
"Gentlemen, if you please.
A toast to our wives and girlfriends, and to all those beautiful ladies who make life worth living.
May they never meet."
The bride was not amused.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 02:27 AM (lutOX)
Not exactly the deuce and a half I'm looking for...
Posted by: Spun and Murky at April 09, 2016 02:28 AM (NHQQx)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 02:29 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: Spun and Murky at April 09, 2016 02:28 AM (NHQQx)
A day late, and a ton short. It's a 1.5 ton.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2016 02:31 AM (UsLZp)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 02:32 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: Stringer Davis
In a Michael Chriton (sp) novel (I believe it was Timeline) it is mentioned that at one point in history, France's wine vines were dying due to something or the other. They had to import resistant vines from California.
I realize it's a work of fiction but he often added historically acurate details. Any truth to the vine story?
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 09, 2016 02:32 AM (8AdYN)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 02:34 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 02:34 AM (xq1UY)
"Root rot" is hell on blondes, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2016 02:36 AM (UsLZp)
Stringer, I'm at least half serious. Keep me in mind...
Posted by: Spun and Murky at April 09, 2016 02:37 AM (NHQQx)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 02:43 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 09, 2016 02:43 AM (8AdYN)
There are pretty respectable table-quality wines being made all over now, in all the places grapes were grown before Prohibition. But for close to 40 years after Prohibition, most all small local wineries made sugary headache formulas. People just didn't have a taste for what we call wine now. I went to a few small, family-owned wineries in California in the 60's, and that applied there too.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 02:10 AM (xq1UY)
The Romans developed several excellent strains of grape meant for table wines -- where "that was a good week" might be an appropriate comment. They were easy to grow, fast to ferment, and produced copious amounts of wine that was pleasant and easy to drink without much aging. Sangiovese, Tempranillo, and the Croatian ancestor of Zinfandel fall into this category.
On the other hand, up in Burgundy and Bordeaux, where the weather was more chancy -- they were developing high-tannin grapes that would produce wine that could be stored for years -- the Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Merlot, and others. Vintage became more important when there were more stored vintages to compare.
While a well-aged Cabernet beats a Sangiovese from last week hands-down, the underaged Cabernets sold today are generally less drinkable than Sangioveses from the same year.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 02:45 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2016 02:53 AM (UsLZp)
Posted by: Tim in GA at April 09, 2016 02:57 AM (YLidQ)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 02:57 AM (EzgxV)
Boo and all that stuff.
Posted by: Tim in GA at April 09, 2016 02:57 AM (YLidQ)
This must be some sort of "thing" with you.....I don't get it.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 02:59 AM (EzgxV)
In the 70's when I was first "drinking around," I got a strong notion that the real strength of French wine-making was not in the elite and expensive wines, but in the best cheap table wines in the world. But in those days, Hungarovin and the Yugoslavs were making good young reds too -- and if asked, they'd tell you how their vines were the same ones the Romans had, not some replacement.
Things have changed. From what I hear, all the serious French vineyards are now managed by plucky Australians. The Yugoslavs had a technology for "tablet wine," where they would dry -- perhaps it was freeze-drying -- right in the field, reduce the grape solids to a dry chunk, and re-hydrate it at the huge fermenting tanks. Icky, but, the product was pretty good, and I was sure it was coming to California. Haven't heard of it since the Balkanization.
The mainland Chinese had a system wherein microwaving was used to age the wine. The claim was several years worth in just hours. I never got any, so can't judge.
This may sound phony and over-industrialized, but bear in mind that when Cabs first got big, there were California makers putting oak sawdust in their barrels to speed up the process. I want to think they quit that, once they caught up. Don't really know. You'd never get away with that, Sir, in Bourbon country.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 03:05 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 09, 2016 03:06 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: cthulhu
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I became good friends with the couple that owned the Wine & Beer Warehouse next door.
M turned me on to every good beer on the shelf, while B took me through the wines.
Took three years, but I settled on favorites -
Corsendonk Monk's Plan Ale.
And Clos Du Bois Cabernet (I think '92). I bought a case. Loved that stuff. Couple years later, it was as rare as Pappy Van Winkles.
Posted by: Chi at April 09, 2016 03:07 AM (ufy6O)
In the 70's when I was first "drinking around," I got a strong notion that the real strength of French wine-making was not in the elite and expensive wines, but in the best cheap table wines in the world. But in those days, Hungarovin and the Yugoslavs were making good young reds too -- and if asked, they'd tell you how their vines were the same ones the Romans had, not some replacement.
Things have changed. From what I hear, all the serious French vineyards are now managed by plucky Australians. The Yugoslavs had a technology for "tablet wine," where they would dry -- perhaps it was freeze-drying -- right in the field, reduce the grape solids to a dry chunk, and re-hydrate it at the huge fermenting tanks. Icky, but, the product was pretty good, and I was sure it was coming to California. Haven't heard of it since the Balkanization.
The mainland Chinese had a system wherein microwaving was used to age the wine. The claim was several years worth in just hours. I never got any, so can't judge.
This may sound phony and over-industrialized, but bear in mind that when Cabs first got big, there were California makers putting oak sawdust in their barrels to speed up the process. I want to think they quit that, once they caught up. Don't really know. You'd never get away with that, Sir, in Bourbon country.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 03:05 AM (xq1UY)
About 40 years ago, there was a scandal about California wines being produced without any grape juice whatsoever....
Posted by: cthulhu at April 09, 2016 03:09 AM (EzgxV)
Not just true for wine, but bourbon and scotch too. But before they're in glass.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 03:11 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: Chi at April 09, 2016 03:23 AM (ufy6O)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 09, 2016 03:24 AM (YJmuy)
There may be some of those green chicks there. And Saurian brandy.
May your Force live long and prosper.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 09, 2016 03:26 AM (xq1UY)
There may be some of those green chicks there. And Saurian brandy.
May your Force live long and prosper.
Good idea.
Never give up! Never surrender!
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 09, 2016 03:28 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
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So, it's just mostly dead, then?
Posted by: Miracle Max at April 09, 2016 03:29 AM (ufy6O)
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Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2016 05:15 AM (9VEpl)
Posted by: Eromero at April 09, 2016 05:44 AM (zLDYs)
Friday morning was infuriating. I was serious tempted to do some real damage before leaving the stupid financial scam office that suckered me in for a job interview. They called on Thursday when I was napping and I failed to ascertain that they were one of the IT contract jobs I'd recently applied for. The clues were there, such as asking me to arrived in 'professional business attire', as if I owned any. I've never known anyone looking for workers on the blue collar end of IT who would make such a request. As it is I put on clothes I haven't worn in at least five years and only very occasionally before that.
The moment I stepped inside I knew something was wrong. This was some sort of financial services operation. They bring in dozens of possible recruits every year, hoping to find one or two guys with the capacity for evil to sell their crap. Legit companies don't recruit this way.
This was in North Hollywood, around Laurel and Victory. The general shoddiness and number of homeless and vehicles that hinted at containing those just a step above sleeping on the street. Yet only a short drive up Laurel is Studio City, an area practically dripping with money. Sometimes it annoys me living out in Castaic because of how far I have to drive before the slightest prospect of a job appears but at least anybody living on the streets is less obvious.
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Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)