Walking Through History

Walking Through History - [Weirddave]

Today I got to do something extraordinary: Today I walked in the footsteps of the first Europeans to set foot on North America. Today I visited L'Anse Aux Meadow.

L'Anse Aux Meadow is the site where Leif Erikson* established an outpost in the new world over 1000 years ago. It is on the very northern tip of Newfoundland, Canada's easternmost province (which presents its own problems, see Getting There). Erikson sailed from Greenland about the year 1000, skirted Baffin Island, came south along the beaches of Labrador and put ashore at L'Anse Aux Meadow to establish a camp. L'Anse Aux Meadow is situated in an easily located cove between the vast timber strands of Labrador and the resource rich maritime provinces (Vinland). The land is bog, which had the twin advantages of being an ideal building material for halls and huts, and providing bog ore which the Norsemen smelted into crude iron. Somewhere between 60-90 Norsemen and women lived and worked here for about a decade before abandoning the outpost.

In 1960, Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad, following clues from historic Viking sagas, arrived in Medee's Cove. The locals directed him to "Indian mounds" where their children played. Ingstad's excavation, and one that followed sponsored by the government of Canada, conclusively proved that Vikings had established a settlement in North America 500 years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue. In 1975 L'Anse Aux Meadow was designated a national historic site, and in 1978 UNESCO declared that it was a world heritage site.

Today, there are several things to do at L'Anse Aux Meadow. There is a visitor center with a small museum and gift shop. Norstead, a reconstruction of a generic Norse settlement is nearby. Right next to the mounds in the meadow they have reconstructed several of the buildings exactly as they would have appeared 1000 years ago.

And then there is the actual site itself. Unlike any similar site I have been to, L'Anse Aux Meadow is completely open and accessible. When you go to Jamestown, for example, you don't see Jamestown, you see a reconstruction. Jamestown was on an island. You can't go there. Here, you're walking exactly where the Norsemen walked, you're looking at exactly the coast they looked at. Maybe it because of my love of history, but I definitely got a thrill up my spine and a tear of awe in my eye. Was this a bucket list kind of trip? I was in Newfoundland for a wedding, so yes. There was no way I was going to get to The Rock and NOT see L'Anse Aux Meadow. Sinking my fingers into the same muskeg that Leif Erikson trod was amazing. My wife is of Icelandic descent and has traced her direct lineage back to Erik the Red, so for her these aren't "ancestors" they're ANCESTORS. It's definitely worth doing, but getting there, aye, there's the rub.

Vikings stood exactly here and saw exactly this (minus the modern bridge and plaque) 1000 years ago!

Getting There

You can fly into Gander, but it's expensive AF and you'll have to make a jillion connections and live in airports for 2 days. Driving from the US means taking I-95 as far as it goes, then transiting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to North Sydney. There you get on a ferry for an 8 hour trip to Port Aux Basque. Do it overnight and splurge for a cabin (trust me on this). Even then, you can't get into Port Aux Basque if it's too windy (a not uncommon occurrence in the North Atlantic). Our ferry sailed in a circle off Port Aux Basque for 12 hours until it was calm enough to go in, costing us a whole day (you don't drive at night in Newfoundland because the island is infested with moose and you'll hit one). There is no WiFi on the ferry.

From Port Aux Basque it's 699 kilometers to L'Anse Aux Meadow, 699 kilometers of 2 lane highway with lots of potholes. If you love scrub pine and birch, you'll be in heaven. It's very pretty, and Gros Morne National Park, which you'll go through about halfway, is gorgeous. The drive is miserable when it's raining, and it's always raining in Newfoundland. As a bonus it was 2 degrees C today. After you've seen L'Anse Aux Meadow ( a day at most ) you have to do it all over again going the other way. The local hootch is a rum called Screech that aspires to be Val-U-Rite. On the plus side, the locals are friendly, if occasionally unintelligible, and I ate 6 lobsters in four days, so yum.

If you find yourself in Newfoundland, you must go to L'Anse Aux Meadow. If you're thinking of going, my advice would be to take an RV and make it a leisurely trip across the Maritimes. Take 2 weeks off and really enjoy yourself.

*Funny story about Leif. When he returned from L'Anse Aux Meadow to Greenland, he found that he had been removed from the village rolls and could no longer vote. When he complained, they checked their records and told him "We're sorry, we must have taken Leif off our census."

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:20 PM

Comments

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1 Don't think every been there

Posted by: Skip at June 17, 2016 07:31 PM (d9qXV)

2 Were the Vikings standing sideways?

Posted by: andycanuck at June 17, 2016 07:33 PM (PLnZs)

3 Wonder why they didn't go to a southern beach instead.

Posted by: Skip at June 17, 2016 07:34 PM (d9qXV)

4
So, I read your post. Are you stupid or something?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 07:34 PM (p4UlV)

5
I keed, I keed!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 07:34 PM (p4UlV)

6 Rotate the pictures.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at June 17, 2016 07:35 PM (rwI+c)

7
Driving from the US means taking I-95 as far as it goes, then transiting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to North Sydney.

Just remember that Canadians drive on the other side of the road, and all signs are in Pig Latin.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 17, 2016 07:36 PM (kdS6q)

8 Re andycanuck 2: They were drunker than usual.

Posted by: CayleyGraph at June 17, 2016 07:36 PM (d10jJ)

9 Looking for the site of the Green Midget Cafe where they have spam, eggs, bacon, sausage and spam.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 07:36 PM (p4UlV)

10 This is why they always tell you to hold the phone sideways.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at June 17, 2016 07:37 PM (rwI+c)

11 If you find yourself in Newfoundland, you must go to L'Anse Aux Meadow.

Like there is anything else to do.

Posted by: Skip at June 17, 2016 07:37 PM (d9qXV)

12 *flat stare for the pun*

That is absolutely amazing. Even I, hater of Outside that I am, want to see that.

(you don't drive at night in Newfoundland because the island is infested with moose and you'll hit one)

Which will ruin your day and the moose may or may not notice something bumped it.

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah, count me out. at June 17, 2016 07:38 PM (dEQP3)

13 Like there is anything else to do.

Get on the dole.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at June 17, 2016 07:38 PM (rwI+c)

14 I should have married a Canadian...actually we may become Canadians if my sister and dad die before I go home....

I'm looking at a place in Nova Scotia.

Posted by: sven10077 at June 17, 2016 07:40 PM (g8Hfr)

15 See... even the Vikings didn't like Canada...

they didn't stay...

Posted by: Don Q........ at June 17, 2016 07:40 PM (qf6WZ)

16
O Canada anthem fail

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aesn-cFrYUY

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 17, 2016 07:42 PM (kdS6q)

17 Leif Erickson was a gay ginger. Thats what I heard. Could be wrong. But look at him....he screams hipster.

Posted by: Mimzey at June 17, 2016 07:42 PM (aRUb8)

18 Yawn. Looks like it's already been pillaged.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 07:42 PM (HgMAr)

19 >> off our census

Was there a lever involved?

Posted by: speedster1 at June 17, 2016 07:42 PM (vUcdz)

20 Ace took that picture and it looks fine to him.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 07:43 PM (HgMAr)

21 I have often wondered how different things would have been had they stayed to any degree. Imagine the Indians slowly exposed to European diseases and developing the resistance and having an Iron Age culture by the time the Spaniards arrived.

I'm thinking the Aztecs would have called a Thing to discuss what to do about Cortez.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at June 17, 2016 07:43 PM (rwI+c)

22 Saw an interesting documentary recently. Apparently they have discovered a second viking site somewhat south of there.

Posted by: HH at June 17, 2016 07:43 PM (DrCtv)

23 That reminds me. I have to mow my roof.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 17, 2016 07:45 PM (IqV8l)

24 Hey, I wrote this on an iPad bouncing from pothole to pothole on the way south. I uploaded it at a Tims in Deer Lake. You're lucky you got pictures at all. (I see someone fixed them, thanks whoever. Posting from an iPad has its problems)

I'm checking in from the Tims in Port aux Basque (Canada is a country of wilderness, interspersed with oases of WiFi in buildings labled "Tim Hortons") before getting on the ferry back to Nova Scotia.

Posted by: Weirddave at June 17, 2016 07:45 PM (GP37f)

25 Do they hire Mexicans to mow their roofs?

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 07:46 PM (HgMAr)

26 This looks like a good place!

Posted by: King of Swamp Castle at June 17, 2016 07:46 PM (JO9+V)

27 Farley Mowatt wrote a book called The Farfarers about pre-Celtic people from northern Britain and the Orkneys settling Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland long before the Vikings. Hey, maybe, who knows?

Anybody ever read The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley? Fascinating but ultimately depressing story of the doomed colonies on Greenland, settled in a warming period and shut off from the home country when the mini ice age hit.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 07:46 PM (jR7Wy)

28 15 Posted by: Don Q........ at June 17, 2016 07:40 PM (qf6WZ)

Lacking firearms they likely got a different welcome than the Pilgrims.

Horrywood made a laughable film on it, but the Injuns in that neck of the woods would have been hard asses.

Posted by: sven10077 at June 17, 2016 07:46 PM (g8Hfr)

29 a little late with the roof joke.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 07:47 PM (HgMAr)

30 Do we have any known Canadian horde members?

Posted by: Skip at June 17, 2016 07:47 PM (d9qXV)

31
I like Lox better than Nova Scotia. Is it nearby?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 07:48 PM (p4UlV)

32 25 Do they hire Mexicans to mow their roofs?
Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 07:46 PM (HgMAr)

In Norway, they use goats. So the new Muzzy influx is a win-win!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 07:48 PM (p4UlV)

33 30 Do we have any known Canadian horde members?
Posted by: Skip at June 17, 2016 07:47 PM (d9qXV)

Andy Canuck.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 07:49 PM (p4UlV)

34 Do we have any known Canadian horde members?
Posted by: Skip at June 17, 2016 07:47 PM (d9qXV)

****

A number of them, although Alberta Oil Peon is the only name I can draw out right now.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at June 17, 2016 07:49 PM (jw4+G)

35 And then the peaceful genderfluid queer natives drove out the evil imperialist White people throught the power of Social Justice!!1!

Posted by: A.P. History textbook at June 17, 2016 07:50 PM (vBeA5)

36 From my childhood (and Gingy's) as morning cartoon fillers. (1:04 hand-drawn animation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6S_q5mRHPA

There was another specifically about L'Anse Aux Meadows but I can't find it.

And one about the Irish arriving first...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phZjdn0pGzU

Posted by: andycanuck at June 17, 2016 07:50 PM (PLnZs)

37 This is all about white people. Trigger warnings! Oppression! H8ers!!!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 17, 2016 07:50 PM (GILMl)

38 but the Injuns in that neck of the woods would have been hard asses.

Posted by: sven10077 at June 17, 2016 07:46 PM (g8Hfr)

Speaking of Injuns. When are they going to thank the white man for saving their asses from going the same way as the Neanderthals? They had reached the end of their evolutionary potential. Other human genetic lines had continued to evolve. They stopped at hunter/gatherer/nomad. Just an opinion..others may feel differently.

Posted by: Mimzey at June 17, 2016 07:51 PM (aRUb8)

39 Gingy, of course.

Posted by: lindafell de spair in Texas at June 17, 2016 07:51 PM (xVgrA)

40 And of course St. Brendan arriving in his coracle...

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 07:51 PM (jR7Wy)

41 Place is pretty camouflaged.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 07:52 PM (HgMAr)

42 So, Australians live upside down and Canadians live sideways?

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2016 07:52 PM (sdi6R)

43 24 I uploaded it at a Tims in Deer Lake.
I'm checking in from the Tims in Port aux Basque
Posted by: Weirddave at June 17, 2016 07:45 PM (GP37f)

I'm sensing a three here. Admit it, you're really on Tim's tour. Have you pinpointed the location of the best Tim bits, or will your odyssey continue?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 07:52 PM (DAPBv)

44
So, Eskimo Pie. Cultural appropriation or a sex position?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 07:53 PM (p4UlV)

45 OT: The Kuntboy parodies continue...

http://tinyurl.com/joubf6q

Posted by: Country Singer at June 17, 2016 07:53 PM (GUBah)

46 And they probably lost the Superbowl there too, multiple times.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 17, 2016 07:54 PM (6Ll1u)

47 See you later on the ONT.

I need a drink or five as I'm almost seeing upright again.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 17, 2016 07:54 PM (PLnZs)

48 WeirdDave, have you express-shipped TimBits to Alex at each stop along the Trail of Beers? It's in the gentlefappers' unwritten agreement.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 07:54 PM (jR7Wy)

49 47 See you later on the ONT.

I need a drink or five as I'm almost seeing upright again.
Posted by: andycanuck at June 17, 2016 07:54 PM (PLnZs)

Don't get paranoid but we're all looking at you sideways.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 07:54 PM (p4UlV)

50 "There is a visitor center with a small museum and gift shop."
.................

Cool. Do they sell battleaxes and Viking helmets?

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 07:55 PM (HgMAr)

51 Theme!!!!! Fuck you auto cucumber!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 07:55 PM (DAPBv)

52 Of course one of the major problems with coming to a new land or continent is that you don't know the flora or fauna. So unless you get to be friendly with the locals, eating could probably be a real deal breaker as to whether you stay or not.

And if the locals are hostile, pretty much SOL.

Posted by: HH at June 17, 2016 07:55 PM (DrCtv)

53
I feel stupid, but what are Timbits?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 07:55 PM (p4UlV)

54 Beebs! Are you visiting our area any time soon?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 07:55 PM (jR7Wy)

55 I feel stupid, but what are Timbits?

Donutholes.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at June 17, 2016 07:56 PM (rwI+c)

56 Get back to Diplomacy! England is getting tired of waiting for Doomsday.

Posted by: A-Hole at June 17, 2016 07:56 PM (Qe/9h)

57 55 I feel stupid, but what are Timbits?

Donutholes.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at June 17, 2016 07:56 PM (rwI+c)

Ach, so. Where might they be purchased?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 07:57 PM (p4UlV)

58
Ah, Tim Horton's.

Ok.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 07:57 PM (p4UlV)

59 Where might they be purchased?

In America's Hat.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at June 17, 2016 07:58 PM (rwI+c)

60 48 WeirdDave, have you express-shipped TimBits to Alex at each stop along the Trail of Beers?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 07:54 PM (jR7Wy)

Will the ravage be waiting on his front porch when he gets home if he doesn't? Does Gingy get a pass, or is she supposed to be making sure Dave takes care of The Empress?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 07:58 PM (DAPBv)

61 "Everybody knows that the Vikings were Muslim. Therfore. First!"- President Nobel Obama

Posted by: Cactus of Liberty at June 17, 2016 07:58 PM (qlpyb)

62 I hear that they lost the Superbowl there too, maybe a few times.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 17, 2016 07:58 PM (SjPMU)

63 They bailed on their settlement too? Another underwater mortgage crisis?

Posted by: The Lost Colony at June 17, 2016 07:59 PM (JO9+V)

64 Or maybe t-shirts that say:
I Froze My Ass Off And All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 07:59 PM (HgMAr)

65 61 "Everybody knows that the Vikings were Muslim. Therfore. First!"- President Nobel Obama
Posted by: Cactus of Liberty at June 17, 2016 07:58 PM (qlpyb)

Fran al-Tarkenton hardest hit (multiple times).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 07:59 PM (p4UlV)

66 Sounds like the Vikings got there the easy way.

Posted by: t-bird at June 17, 2016 07:59 PM (tA/XW)

67 The two greatest words in the English language: Hot Now.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at June 17, 2016 07:59 PM (rwI+c)

68 Are the pictures still sideways, or right size up? They look OK on the iPad.

If they're wrong, there's nothing I can do about it here, which annoys the perfectionist in me (along with capitalizing "aux" and leaving the "s" off of meadows).

Posted by: Weirddave at June 17, 2016 08:00 PM (GP37f)

69 Suck it, Columbus.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 17, 2016 08:00 PM (8ZskC)

70 Thanks Weirddave, it's really cool. I doubt I will make it up there-I have traveled everywhere else in the world, but I have never been to Canada. Now it's kind of a quest not to go there.

Nothing against Canada, just the principle of the thing.

Posted by: Moki at June 17, 2016 08:00 PM (ezHMO)

71
Leif Erickson, intrepid explorer.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002063/

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 17, 2016 08:01 PM (IqV8l)

72 38 Posted by: Mimzey at June 17, 2016 07:51 PM (aRUb

Eh...they're human they just uninvented the wheel....

If we are discussing cultural darwinism yeah they chose some stagnation...of course democrats say the same about you and me.

I am a tiny part Sioux my great grandpa was a 1/2 breed.

I am sort of jealous of the life they had 300 years ago.

Posted by: sven10077 at June 17, 2016 08:01 PM (g8Hfr)

73 One theory has it that the Vikings were finally driven out by pissed off Eskimos. They hated that name, Eskimos.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 17, 2016 08:01 PM (8ZskC)

74 54 Beebs! Are you visiting our area any time soon?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 07:55 PM (jR7Wy)

Unless somebody organizes that MoMee that Gushka & I were going to be the SURPRISE guests at, nope.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 08:02 PM (DAPBv)

75 WeirdDave, have you express-shipped TimBits to Alex at each stop along the Trail of Beers? It's in the gentlefappers' unwritten agreement.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 07:54 PM (jR7Wy)

*waits patiently by door for boxes to arrive*

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah, count me out. at June 17, 2016 08:02 PM (dEQP3)

76 It's really nice on that side of the world.

Posted by: freaked at June 17, 2016 08:02 PM (BO/km)

77 Cool pics WD!

Now for the real Canadian anthem...."Oh, Spam for Lunch".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmhoKUuUZU

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 17, 2016 08:03 PM (ej1L0)

78 76 It's really nice on that side of the world.
Posted by: freaked at June 17, 2016 08:02 PM (BO/km)

I read that as "Off-World Colony."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 08:03 PM (p4UlV)

79 looks like they might need a little global warming

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:03 PM (HgMAr)

80 Andycanuck you sonofabitch, you just made me cry at Tim's.

Posted by: Gingy at June 17, 2016 08:03 PM (GP37f)

81 Sure, the Vikings got to the New World first but they went to the part that didn't have all the gold and jewels and shit.

Posted by: Hernan Cortez at June 17, 2016 08:04 PM (8ZskC)

82
The NFL is contemplating establishing a new franchise in Newfoundland to be called the "Newfoundland Skraelings".

Would we expect blowback over the name?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 17, 2016 08:04 PM (BK3ZS)

83 11 If you find yourself in Newfoundland, you must go to L'Anse Aux Meadow.

Like there is anything else to do.

Posted by: Skip

Nothing to do? I'm having a Quad rum and sprite zero (all out of value-rite, not sure what happened to it) , a cup of Tim's Dark Roast, reading AofS comments and watching Eric Bolling on the Factor.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at June 17, 2016 08:05 PM (QdAXQ)

84 I love this. Thanks, WeirdDave.

Posted by: KT at June 17, 2016 08:05 PM (qahv/)

85 You can fly into Gander

It's good for the goose.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 17, 2016 08:05 PM (8ZskC)

86 Unless somebody organizes that MoMee that Gushka & I were going to be the SURPRISE guests at, nope.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 08:02 PM (DAPBv)
---
Yeah, somebody dropped the ball(s) (or is too busy playing with his).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:06 PM (jR7Wy)

87
Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House.

You could stick your head in a toilet, darling.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 08:06 PM (p4UlV)

88
Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House.
You could stick your head in a toilet, darling.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

That would be refreshing. For the rest of us.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 17, 2016 08:07 PM (IqV8l)

89 Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House

Lord knows we could use it.

Posted by: White House janitor at June 17, 2016 08:08 PM (BO/km)

90 *looks at fourth picture*

They landed on Guam??!?

Posted by: Hank Johnson at June 17, 2016 08:08 PM (eakac)

91 33 30 Do we have any known Canadian horde members?
Posted by: Skip at June 17, 2016 07:47 PM (d9qXV)

Andy Canuck.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Hellooooo.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at June 17, 2016 08:08 PM (QdAXQ)

92 45 OT: The Kuntboy parodies continue...
------
Ok, that was the funny!!!!

Posted by: lindafell de spair in Texas at June 17, 2016 08:08 PM (xVgrA)

93 Did the castle fall over and sink into the swamp?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 17, 2016 08:08 PM (8ZskC)

94 L'Anse Aux Meadows is Scandi for "This Place Freaking Blows".

Posted by: t-bird at June 17, 2016 08:08 PM (tA/XW)

95 >>>85 You can fly into Gander

It's good for the goose.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 17, 2016 08:05 PM (8ZskC)

No, it really isn't......AFLAC!!

Posted by: The Goose at June 17, 2016 08:10 PM (eakac)

96 What's funny is that 10 days ago, I was in Cabo San Lucas, you can't get further away from here than that and still be in North America.

Cabo was a touch warmer.

Posted by: Weirddave at June 17, 2016 08:10 PM (GP37f)

97 91 Posted by: Dirks Strewn at June 17, 2016 08:08 PM (QdAXQ)

Sue me. He's the only one I know.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 08:12 PM (p4UlV)

98 86. Yeah, somebody dropped the ball(s) (or is too busy playing with his).
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:06 PM (jR7Wy)

Well why the hell did you let Bannion escape like that? Everyone said he was the organizational genius. I heard he moved out here? Maybe he'll put together an epic meet here and ya'll can come out. And you know, Disneyland is always an option girlfriend. Especially since the booze flows freely at California Adventure.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 08:12 PM (DAPBv)

99 Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House.
.................

Maybe she should lay off the tamales, or light a match.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:13 PM (HgMAr)

100 They allow Canadians in here now? Since when did the rules change?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 17, 2016 08:13 PM (8ZskC)

101 Moochelle, regarding my previous post, I have two words for you:

Chocolate swirlee.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 08:13 PM (p4UlV)

102 Now that's a destination. Certainly better than a Caribbean cruise. After I win the lottery, it will go on my list, somewhere after buying my ranch in Idaho and building my underground house.

Posted by: Eromero at June 17, 2016 08:13 PM (zLDYs)

103 Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 08:12 PM (DAPBv)
---
I am always up for a "Disney adventure".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:14 PM (jR7Wy)

104 Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 08:12 PM (DAPBv)
---
I am always up for a "Disney adventure".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:14 PM (jR7Wy)

105 Double post! Lucky!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:14 PM (jR7Wy)

106 Pretty cool WeirdDave.

Don't know if I could get Golflady to go.

The stuff you learn at the HQ.

Posted by: Golfman - Conservative Refugee seeking asylum at June 17, 2016 08:15 PM (9HX7k)

107 You could have been standing on the exact spot where a thousand years ago a Viking farted and blamed it on the guy next to him.

Posted by: eman at June 17, 2016 08:15 PM (mR7Es)

108 Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:13 PM (HgMAr)

Thanks for that. Ugh.

Posted by: Golfman - Conservative Refugee seeking asylum at June 17, 2016 08:16 PM (9HX7k)

109
Speaking of Injuns. When are they going to thank the white man for saving their asses from going the same way as the Neanderthals? They had reached the end of their evolutionary potential. Other human genetic lines had continued to evolve. They stopped at hunter/gatherer/nomad. Just an opinion..others may feel differently.

Posted by: Mimzey at June 17, 2016 07:51 PM (aRUb

In Louis L'Amour's Last Of The Breed, a USAF pilot Joe Mack (who happens to be Sioux) is captured when his experimental plane is forced down, taken to Siberia and interrogated by the KGB. The KGB man immediately plays the "White Man Took Injun Land" card. Which Mack throws back into his face, basically saying that the white man didn't steal anything that we didn't steal beforehand. Plus, it's still his country, Injuns are just as much a part of the USA as the white man etc.

Always loved that part......along with the ending "This was once a custom of my people...."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 17, 2016 08:17 PM (LuZz8)

110 They allow Canadians in here now? Since when did the rules change?

They're passing. What with speaking English and all that, you can barely tell them apart.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at June 17, 2016 08:17 PM (rwI+c)

111 Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House.
.....................

Good. We wouldn't want the flies to get out.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:17 PM (HgMAr)

112 I've read there may be another Viking settlement in Newfoundland at Pointe Rosee...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 17, 2016 08:17 PM (kP16F)

113 103 I am always up for a "Disney adventure".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:14 PM (jR7Wy)

Come on out! Colorado Alex is joining the SoCal contingent at the beginning of August.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 08:18 PM (QYqsP)

114 The Viking colonies in Greenland fared better. The last written record was from 1408, and the colony may have struggled on into the mid-1400s.

https://tinyurl.com/zvuq8a8

In 1492 there were probably people in Europe still alive who had been born prior to the Greenland colony dying out.

Oh, and the colony probably died out because the climate got colder and more inhospitable. I'm sure they wouldn't have minded some global warming.

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2016 08:18 PM (sdi6R)

115 Do we have any known Canadian horde members?

Posted by: Skip at June 17, 2016 07:47 PM (d9qXV)

Andy Canuck.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Hellooooo.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at June 17, 2016 08:08 PM (QdAXQ)

Also, Alberta Oil Peon

Posted by: Country Singer at June 17, 2016 08:18 PM (GUBah)

116
It has neither the same degree of difficulty to get ther nor the same historic context, but Mrs. Krebs wants to get out to the tip of Keweenaw Point in Upper Michigan sometime. Now all we need to do is find some place that rents 4WD high riding vehicles and we're off.

There are some great agate locations in that vicinity, I'm told, but they're on the bottom of Lake Superior.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 17, 2016 08:18 PM (BK3ZS)

117 Well, if you like historical stuff and you are in that general part of the world, you might want to check out the Fortress of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia. It is the only thing like it in North America.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at June 17, 2016 08:19 PM (QHgTq)

118 One pic was still sideways for me.

Another chance to exercise the recently-learned ctrl-alt-right to view.

&

I thought the footnote said it would be a funny story about Leif.

&

Seriously, thanks for the travelogue, WD.

Posted by: mindful webworker - slight of foot at June 17, 2016 08:19 PM (5a8XA)

119 One of the sagas mentioned a Viking lass showing her boobs at the locals and scaring them off during a skirmish.

Posted by: JHW at June 17, 2016 08:19 PM (kn0BL)

120 Cool article, but you can absolutely go to the actual Jamestown site. Conventional wisdom said that it had been reclaimed by the James River, but in the 90s they discovered that most of where the fort stood was still, in fact, above water. Went there a couple years ago with my kids and watched as they excavated a storage hut. They had excavated the chapel a few months earlier and proudly pointed me to the spot where Pocahontas and John Rolfe were married. Very cool stuff.

Posted by: bworei at June 17, 2016 08:19 PM (zZNYZ)

121 Come on out! Colorado Alex is joining the SoCal contingent at the beginning of August.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 08:18 PM (QYqsP)
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July and August are busy for me. Any chance of a Halloween Disney meetup? I've always wanted to see the Magic Kingdom all spooked up for All Hallows Eve.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:19 PM (jR7Wy)

122 Vikings are Newfies? How about that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 17, 2016 08:20 PM (EZebt)

123 There are some great agate locations in that vicinity, I'm told, but they're on the bottom of Lake Superior.

It's not so bad here.

Posted by: The Edmund Fitzgerald at June 17, 2016 08:20 PM (8ZskC)

124 115 Do we have any known Canadian horde members?

Posted by: Skip at June 17, 2016 07:47 PM (d9qXV)

Well, for as much mention as he gets around here, I'd have to surmise that Tim Horton is an honorary 'ron?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 17, 2016 08:20 PM (v5iqM)

125 111Good. We wouldn't want the flies to get out.
Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:17 PM (HgMAr)

Tfg's pets? The ones that crawl all over his face at press conferences?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 08:21 PM (QYqsP)

126 107 You could have been standing on the exact spot where a thousand years ago a Viking farted and blamed it on the guy next to him.
Posted by: eman at June 17, 2016 08:15 PM (mR7Es)

/\|[]\/^-_

"He who smelt it dealt it, in Runes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 08:21 PM (p4UlV)

127 119 One of the sagas mentioned a Viking lass showing her boobs at the locals and scaring them off during a skirmish.
Posted by: JHW at June 17, 2016 08:19 PM (kn0BL)
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I think it's because she beat her breast with a sword like a good Berserkeress, with lots of whoopin' and hollerin'.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:21 PM (jR7Wy)

128 Just a note, you can visit the original Jamestown Island. There is also a separate reconstructed version with a nice museum. Some of Jamestown has been reclaimed by the James River but there is still the old church and some foundation stones. They have a small museum displaying the artifacts that have been dug up over the years.

Posted by: Fredlike at June 17, 2016 08:22 PM (AHd0y)

129
07 You could have been standing on the exact spot where a thousand years ago a Viking handed his flagon to a compsnion while saying, "Hold my mead. Watch this!" ~~farted and blamed it on the guy next to him~~.

Fixed.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 17, 2016 08:22 PM (BK3ZS)

130 Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House.
...............

Get your hubby Mooch, he's good with stuff like that and umbrellas.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:22 PM (HgMAr)

131 Did you see Ricky, Julian, Bubbles, Jim, Randy, and Cyrus?

Is Sunnyvale everything they say it is?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at June 17, 2016 08:23 PM (1JnAL)

132 "To hell with this icebox. Let's check out Normandy."

Posted by: A Viking at June 17, 2016 08:23 PM (8ZskC)

133 121Any chance of a Halloween Disney meetup? I've always wanted to see the Magic Kingdom all spooked up for All Hallows Eve.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:19 PM (jR7Wy)

Absolutely! The Halloween party (separate night admission, I get discounts with my pass) has pretty much turned into my birthday party.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 08:24 PM (QYqsP)

134 OT: over at Zero Hedge, a story about the Orland killers Father.

Met with some in the State Department, has pictures in the White House Press Room and may have met with Preezy O.

Has also been called a "CIA asset."

Interesting.

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at June 17, 2016 08:24 PM (AHDxb)

135 Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House.
.................

Damn, was she going to jump?

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:24 PM (HgMAr)

136 Absolutely! The Halloween party (separate night admission, I get discounts with my pass) has pretty much turned into my birthday party.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 08:24 PM (QYqsP)
----
Oh man. This could be a thing.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:26 PM (jR7Wy)

137 Really, has there ever been a First Lady who griped so much? I can't remember ever reading about complaints at all over living in the White House. She's a doozy.

Posted by: washrivergal at June 17, 2016 08:26 PM (CFc5L)

138 He's a Viking and he's okay...

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 08:26 PM (hVdx9)

139 119 One of the sagas mentioned a Viking lass showing her boobs at the locals and scaring them off during a skirmish.
Posted by: JHW at June 17, 2016 08:19 PM (kn0BL)
......................

Aha! We may have tracked down Nancy Pelosi ancestors!

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:28 PM (HgMAr)

140 136 Oh man. This could be a thing.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:26 PM (jR7Wy)

Heh, you haven't lived until you've seen Grimm skip down Main Street.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 17, 2016 08:28 PM (QYqsP)

141 "I am sort of jealous of the life they had 300 years ago.

Posted by: sven10077 at June 17, 2016 08:01 PM (g8Hfr)"

Yeah. The thing I am most jealous about is sitting in an uninsulated hut in a snow storm hoping that the food doesn't run out before we all starve to death.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at June 17, 2016 08:28 PM (QHgTq)

142 Freydis Eiriksdottir "Heroine or Ogress" Pregnant, called the men cowards and chased the Injuns and pulled out her boobs and held a sword against them. Injuns ran away.

http://tinyurl.com/jjg59m9

Posted by: JHW at June 17, 2016 08:28 PM (kn0BL)

143 "Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House."

Go ahead and fix that. Theeeeeer's no reason why they did such a racist thing.

Posted by: Sniper at June 17, 2016 08:28 PM (hVdx9)

144 Seen on a sign:

The End is Near

(Half hour Earlier in Newfie)

Or is Newfie a microagression, now?

Posted by: Fox2! at June 17, 2016 08:29 PM (brIR5)

145 >>Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House.

I thought she spent most of her time in the Underwater Grotto.

Posted by: garrett at June 17, 2016 08:29 PM (0LGIH)

146 I'm thinking they left because they were tired of their wives nagging them all the time to mow the roofs and trim the gutters..

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:30 PM (HgMAr)

147 141
Yeah. The thing I am most jealous about is sitting in an uninsulated hut in a snow storm hoping that the food doesn't run out before we all starve to death.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at June 17, 2016 08:28 PM (QHgTq)

Luxury. We used to dream of an uninsulated hut.

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2016 08:31 PM (sdi6R)

148 107 You could have been standing on the exact spot where a thousand years ago a Viking farted and blamed it on the guy next to him.
Posted by: eman at June 17, 2016 08:15 PM (mR7Es)

============
In some York archaeological museum they have Viking shit. And man was it YUGE!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 17, 2016 08:31 PM (iQIUe)

149 Vikings had established a settlement in North America 500 years before Columbus

-
Italians, always a day late and a dollar short.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 17, 2016 08:31 PM (Nwg0u)

150
Here ya go, viking turds:

https://goo.gl/gLghpY

You're welcome.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 17, 2016 08:32 PM (iQIUe)

151
I thought she spent most of her time in the Underwater Grotto.
Posted by: garrett at June 17, 2016 08:29 PM (0LGIH)

That poem irritates me to no end. It absolutely makes no sense. How are the apes getting the crunchy figs, swimming underwater (no less) into a grotto, because a cave would not have fruit trees. But then Ace says that it makes you think.

Posted by: washrivergal at June 17, 2016 08:33 PM (CFc5L)

152 Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House.
.....................

Got to head north and west to the woods where mating takes place.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:33 PM (HgMAr)

153 I saw L'ans aux Meadow open for Husker Du in 1986.

Posted by: whatmeworry? at June 17, 2016 08:34 PM (dZGNV)

154 'viking turds'

Shows what a diet of Spam will do for ya.

Posted by: White House janitor at June 17, 2016 08:34 PM (BO/km)

155 Gander is a Canadian AF base right?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 17, 2016 08:34 PM (SjPMU)

156 I've had a little Eskimo, a little Indian, and a little Viking in me. But I was drunk and in college so it does not count.

Posted by: Cactus of Liberty at June 17, 2016 08:34 PM (qlpyb)

157 I'm thinking they left because they were tired of their wives nagging them all the time to mow the roofs and trim the gutters..
Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:30 PM (HgMAr)

"Honey, I told you I would take care of it. No need to remind me every month about it!"

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at June 17, 2016 08:34 PM (jw4+G)

158
1100 years old, 7 " long, and riddled with hundreds of parasitic eggs.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 17, 2016 08:34 PM (iQIUe)

159 150
Here ya go, viking turds:

https://goo.gl/gLghpY

You're welcome.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 17, 2016 08:32 PM (iQIUe)
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Even their poop looked like weapons.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:35 PM (jR7Wy)

160 I can't even open an umbrella. Sigh.

Posted by: Prez'nit Toonces at June 17, 2016 08:35 PM (Tyii7)

161
She: The Bjornsens put fresh straw on their roof yesterday. When are you going to get around to doing ours?

He: as soon as I finish eating this lutefisk * under his breath *, nag.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 17, 2016 08:37 PM (BK3ZS)

162 You know what they don't show at the Jamestown museum?

All the cannibalized bones. It was starving hellhole.

Posted by: retropox at June 17, 2016 08:38 PM (Q8t4v)

163 Bruce, them's some crappy museum exhibits.

Posted by: JHW at June 17, 2016 08:38 PM (kn0BL)

164 >>That poem irritates me to no end. It absolutely makes no sense.

To quote the great EoJ - "FIGS DON'T CRUNCH!".

Posted by: garrett at June 17, 2016 08:38 PM (0LGIH)

165 143 "Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House."

Go ahead and fix that. Theeeeeer's no reason why they did such a racist thing.

I think Jimmie Earl did that. Along with setting the temperature on the AC so high that the heat came on.

Posted by: Fox2! at June 17, 2016 08:38 PM (brIR5)

166 I'm listening to Boards of Canada, "Music is Math".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:38 PM (jR7Wy)

167 I bet they were smelly.

Posted by: Weasel at June 17, 2016 08:38 PM (e3bId)

168 There's an archaeologically verified Viking graffito scrawled on a wall in a Roman palace. They got that far south.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 17, 2016 08:39 PM (noWW6)

169 Those vikings were very, very white.

Posted by: Prez'nit Toonces at June 17, 2016 08:40 PM (Tyii7)

170 Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House.
.................

Putting that Harvard education to good use, I see.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:40 PM (HgMAr)

171 Where's AtC?

Tv is showing a video of masses of spiders raining from the sky in Southern Brazil.

Posted by: @votermom at June 17, 2016 08:40 PM (7lVbc)

172 170 Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House.
.................

Putting that Harvard education to good use, I see.
Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:40 PM (HgMAr)

She went to Hardware, not Harvard.

(true Momma Sefton story)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 08:41 PM (p4UlV)

173 Torque, didn't they get to Sicily?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:41 PM (jR7Wy)

174 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 17, 2016 08:42 PM (KCxzN)

175 Hey AJ!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:42 PM (jR7Wy)

176 Torque, didn't they get to Sicily?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:41 PM (jR7Wy)

The Normans were Vikings. They had Sicily and Naples, as well as Normandy and England.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 17, 2016 08:43 PM (8ZskC)

177 One theory has it that the Vikings were finally driven out by pissed off Eskimos. They hated that name, Eskimos.

-
Rancher Eskimos have Eskimoos.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 17, 2016 08:43 PM (Nwg0u)

178 Hail, Eris

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 17, 2016 08:43 PM (KCxzN)

179 138�He's a Viking and he's okay...
He sleeps all night, and he drinks all day

Posted by: Skip at June 17, 2016 08:43 PM (d9qXV)

180
173 Torque, didn't they get to Sicily?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:41 PM (jR7Wy)

Ues, and they established a kingdom there. Similarly, they got into Russia and made it all the way to Constantinople.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 17, 2016 08:43 PM (uVmqw)

181 141 Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at June 17, 2016 08:28 PM (QHgTq)

The Jihadist shitheads were about 300 years off...

Not fun but livable.

Posted by: sven10077 at June 17, 2016 08:43 PM (g8Hfr)

182 There's an archaeologically verified Viking graffito scrawled on a wall in a Roman palace. They got that far south.

-
Is it a dick joke?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 17, 2016 08:44 PM (Nwg0u)

183 Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House.
.................

Secret Service had to put her down with a tranquilizer dart.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:44 PM (HgMAr)

184 If I had a son, I'd name him Leaf.

Posted by: Prez'nit Toonces at June 17, 2016 08:46 PM (Tyii7)

185 So will the JEF import Syrians to live in the Great White North?

Posted by: torabora at June 17, 2016 08:46 PM (hOExK)

186 >>>Today I got to do something extraordinary: Today I walked in the footsteps of the first Europeans to set foot on North America.

My people trod the pristine fields and forests centuies before the white man came with his diseases, his fire water, his killing machines, his slavery and his pollution.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at June 17, 2016 08:46 PM (JuvA7)

187 Posted by: Mimzey at June 17, 2016 07:51 PM (aRUb

Um, no.

Posted by: eman at June 17, 2016 08:47 PM (MQEz6)

188 "Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House."

So Moochelle, do you blame the slaves that built the WH?

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 08:47 PM (hVdx9)

189 Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House.

With the windows closed, though, she can clear a room in no time!

Posted by: t-bird at June 17, 2016 08:48 PM (eeTCA)

190 the white man came with his diseases, his fire water, his killing machines, his slavery and his pollution.

And worst of all, privilege.

Posted by: Prez'nit Toonces at June 17, 2016 08:48 PM (Tyii7)

191 The Secret Service just doesn't want the neighbors hearing all the yelling and screaming, Mooch.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:49 PM (HgMAr)

192 Is it a dick joke?

Is there something funny about the name ... Biggus Dickus?

Posted by: Pontius Pilate at June 17, 2016 08:49 PM (rwI+c)

193 My people trod the pristine fields and forests centuies before the white man came with his diseases, his fire water, his killing machines, his slavery and his pollution.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren
*****

Your people trod the fields with the slaves of the tribes you defeated in order to steal their land...

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 08:50 PM (hVdx9)

194 After working in the glass industry for 30 yrs, and on many govt jobs. I could tell you about all the very special glass that goes on federal building, but I won't because I'm not a CBS reporter and the law applies to me apparently.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 17, 2016 08:50 PM (SjPMU)

195 182 There's an archaeologically verified Viking graffito scrawled on a wall in a Roman palace. They got that far south.

-
Is it a dick joke?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 17, 2016 08:44 PM (Nwg0u)

Worse, "For Good Time, Call Laggy"

I'm gonna cut Floki's nuts off when I see him.

Posted by: Lagertha at June 17, 2016 08:51 PM (1JnAL)

196 I just tuned to Himself giving his speech in Texas (on YouTube) and there's a scrolling river of Twatter rantlets on the side. "Trump will gas the Jews!".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:51 PM (jR7Wy)

197 192 Is there something funny about the name ... Biggus Dickus?
Posted by: Pontius Pilate at June 17, 2016 08:49 PM (rwI+c)

No, why are you discussing my husband?!

Posted by: Incontinetia Buttus at June 17, 2016 08:51 PM (DAPBv)

198 Heh. Email I received

Delayed Shipping Notice

As all of you probably know, the renewed fervor over gun control and the threat of political action created by the horrific event in Orlando Fl. over this past weekend, have created a dramatic surge in gun sales.

Due to the overwhelming number of orders received over the last few days, our shipping department is now running about 5 days behind and that delay may even increase as the orders continue to pour in. Please know that we are working overtime and weekends to do everything in our power to expedite these orders.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at June 17, 2016 08:51 PM (rwI+c)

199 191 The Secret Service just doesn't want the neighbors hearing all the yelling and screaming, Mooch.
Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:49 PM (HgMAr)

Esther from "Sanford and Son" or the Shirley Hemphill from "What's Happening."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 08:51 PM (p4UlV)

200 193 Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 08:50 PM (hVdx9)

Quite the Amerinds were not Tolkeinian elves...they were get this "people"

Posted by: sven10077 at June 17, 2016 08:51 PM (g8Hfr)

201 198 Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at June 17, 2016 08:51 PM (rwI+c)

That there is what you'd call "anecdotal."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 08:52 PM (p4UlV)

202
I am sort of jealous of the life they had 300 years ago.

Posted by: sven10077 at June 17, 2016 08:01 PM (g8Hfr)

I have a bit of Injun in me too.

You're most probably jealous of the life you imagined they had 300 years ago, in your mind, it's always better than it was.
Just sayin.

Posted by: Mimzey at June 17, 2016 08:52 PM (aRUb8)

203 My people trod the pristine fields and forests centuies before the white man came with his diseases, his fire water, his killing machines, his slavery and his pollution.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren

Can we send the Casinos a bill for all the people that died because of tobacco?

No?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at June 17, 2016 08:53 PM (1JnAL)

204 When he complained, they checked their records and told him "We're sorry, we must have taken Leif off our census

I hate u.

Posted by: eleven at June 17, 2016 08:53 PM (qUNWi)

205 196 I just tuned to Himself giving his speech in Texas (on YouTube) and there's a scrolling river of Twatter rantlets on the side. "Trump will gas the Jews!".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:51 PM (jR7Wy)

I personally look forward to a nice 95 octane from my blonde combover overlord.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 08:53 PM (p4UlV)

206 Took away our native tongue
Taught their English to our young.

Posted by: Lizzy "Eagle Eyes" Warren at June 17, 2016 08:53 PM (BO/km)

207 172
She went to Hardware, not Harvard.
.................

Guess she skipped the day about latches.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 08:54 PM (HgMAr)

208 "Is it a dick joke?"

The markings are partially obscured, so a complete translation can't be done.

The first few words, in Old Norse, are reportedly:

"But first, you will".

Posted by: torquewrench at June 17, 2016 08:54 PM (noWW6)

209 Quite the Amerinds were not Tolkeinian elves...they were get this "people"

Posted by: sven10077
****

Such savages.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 08:54 PM (hVdx9)

210 Which hut was the bar?

Posted by: eman at June 17, 2016 08:55 PM (MQEz6)

211
Esther from "Sanford and Son" or the Shirley Hemphill from "What's Happening."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 08:51 PM (p4UlV)

Patrick Ewing from Georgetown and NY Knickerbockers.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at June 17, 2016 08:55 PM (1JnAL)

212 Which hut was the bar?

All of them.

Posted by: eleven at June 17, 2016 08:55 PM (qUNWi)

213 The first few words, in Old Norse, are reportedly:

"But first, you will"

That's where the early usage of "Leif Blower" began.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 17, 2016 08:56 PM (BO/km)

214 Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at June 17, 2016 08:55 PM (1JnAL)
OK, that made me laugh.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 17, 2016 08:56 PM (egOGm)

215 Whoah, Trumpy called the Orlando terrorist a "sonuvabitch".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:57 PM (jR7Wy)

216 Whoah, Trumpy called the Orlando terrorist a "sonuvabitch".

The bitch that bore him is in heat again.

Posted by: eleven at June 17, 2016 08:58 PM (qUNWi)

217 I thought Jean Batiste DuSable discovered L'Anse Aux Meadow, right before he discovered/founded/built Chicago?

Posted by: CrustyB at June 17, 2016 08:58 PM (Hnglq)

218 Half-breed, that's all I ever heard.

Posted by: Prez'nit Bono at June 17, 2016 08:59 PM (Tyii7)

219 In addition to the email about shipping delays, I got an advertisement about 1960 Polish model milled AK47 barreled receivers with matching bolts for a very reasonable price. (I would have bought one on credit since my recreational fund for this month just got burned on a new laptop for Mrs92

The email came at 6:40PM. I click over at 6:45 and ... sold out.

There's a fever sweeping the nation.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at June 17, 2016 09:00 PM (rwI+c)

220 There's a fever sweeping the nation.

I'm a hell of a salesman, eh?

Posted by: Prez'nit Bono at June 17, 2016 09:01 PM (Tyii7)

221 "We're sorry, we must have taken Leif off our census"

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Did Leif change colors in the fall?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 17, 2016 09:01 PM (Nwg0u)

222
Twatter rantlets on the side. "Trump will gas the Jews!".

Beans!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 17, 2016 09:02 PM (IqV8l)

223 219 In addition to the email about shipping delays, I got an advertisement about 1960 Polish model milled AK47 barreled receivers with matching bolts for a very reasonable price. (I would have bought one on credit since my recreational fund for this month just got burned on a new laptop for Mrs92 The email came at 6:40PM. I click over at 6:45 and ... sold out.

There's a fever sweeping the nation.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at June 17, 2016 09:00 PM (rwI+c)

And the only prescription is more ~~cowbell~~ firearms!

Posted by: Insomniac at June 17, 2016 09:02 PM (0mRoj)

224 188 slave painters painted the goddamn windows shut!

Posted by: Weasel at June 17, 2016 09:02 PM (e3bId)

225 In addition to the email about shipping delays, I got an advertisement about 1960 Polish model milled AK47 barreled receivers with matching bolts for a very reasonable price. (I would have bought one on credit since my recreational fund for this month just got burned on a new laptop for Mrs92 The email came at 6:40PM. I click over at 6:45 and ... sold out.

There's a fever sweeping the nation.

Posted by: Grump928(C
****

The 1911 I was posting abou last night went up a tiny bit.
They had 150 in stock last night. Now? 139. It went from $421 and change to $425.59. 11 in 24 hours? Not bad.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 09:02 PM (hVdx9)

226 Which hut was the bar?
................

Don't know, but the bottom photo was taken from someone who just left it.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 09:03 PM (HgMAr)

227 Half-breed, that's all I ever heard.

Me too! Well actually one half of one half of one half of one half breed.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 17, 2016 09:03 PM (BO/km)

228 "That's where the early usage of 'Leif Blower' began."

::: groan :::

I actually have a leaf blower that I seldom use, because I can't stand the racket. Raking the leaves is far more relaxing, when I have the time for it.

But now I guess I will have to Viking-ify the thing! Wonder what the neighbors will think of me stomping up and down in the yard in a horned helmet shouting praise to Odin while clearing the leaves?

Posted by: torquewrench at June 17, 2016 09:03 PM (noWW6)

229 I thought that the Mooch was off to Carlsbad Caverns with the brats and the Knucklehead; you know, another taxpayer funded vaca for our poor overworked 1st Fambly.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 17, 2016 09:05 PM (gyKtp)

230 I just tuned to Himself giving his speech in Texas (on YouTube) and there's a scrolling river of Twatter rantlets on the side. "Trump will gas the Jews!".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 08:51 PM (jR7Wy)

He's going to kill his daughter and son-in-law?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 17, 2016 09:05 PM (GILMl)

231
You know what's weird? You can use the lyrics to Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good" with the music to Cher's "Halfbreed."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 09:05 PM (p4UlV)

232
There's a fever sweeping the nation.

He's got the fever for the flavor of a pringle.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 17, 2016 09:06 PM (IqV8l)

233 230
He's going to kill his daughter and son-in-law?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 17, 2016 09:05 PM (GILMl)

But that's not kill-kill.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 09:06 PM (p4UlV)

234
That's what the Injuns get for living on our land before we got here.....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 17, 2016 09:06 PM (LuZz8)

235 I think you took that miserable, cold, rainy, God-forsaken trip just to tell that dad joke.

Posted by: Motionview at June 17, 2016 09:06 PM (REufr)

236 Whoah, Trumpy called the Orlando terrorist a "sonuvabitch".

"TRUMP'S WAR ON WOMEN!"

Posted by: The MFM at June 17, 2016 09:06 PM (yddCj)

237 232
There's a fever sweeping the nation.

He's got the fever for the flavor of a pringle.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 17, 2016 09:06 PM (IqV8l)

I was thinking Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 09:07 PM (p4UlV)

238 I thought that the Mooch was off to Carlsbad Caverns with the brats and the Knucklehead; you know, another taxpayer funded vaca for our poor overworked 1st Fambly.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 17, 2016 09:05 PM (gyKtp)

Was that her mother getting off of Air Force One with Barry when he went to Orlando? Exactly why did she need to go there besides a vacation and to keep an eye on Barry hitting the gay clubs

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 17, 2016 09:07 PM (GILMl)

239 I went to a local gun sellers web site today to see if their AR type prices had jumped. Oddly they seem to be clearing out the ones from a specific maker.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/gpbfuld

Link to Fleet Farm

Posted by: Willy J. at June 17, 2016 09:08 PM (Yskl0)

240 The 1911 I was posting abou last night went up a tiny bit.
They had 150 in stock last night. Now? 139. It went from $421 and change to $425.59. 11 in 24 hours? Not bad.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 09:02 PM

which RIA 1911 is it Tilikum? is it new or used?

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 17, 2016 09:08 PM (KCxzN)

241 229 I thought that the Mooch was off to Carlsbad Caverns with the brats and the Knucklehead; you know, another taxpayer funded vaca for our poor overworked 1st Fambly.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 17, 2016 09:05 PM (gyKtp)

That poor dear, living in a cave hollowed out by slaves the way she does.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 17, 2016 09:08 PM (0mRoj)

242
The Fist Famiglia kicked everyone out of a national park. Everyone.

They are scum.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 09:08 PM (p4UlV)

243
I thought that the Mooch was off to Carlsbad Caverns

Those windows don't open either.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 17, 2016 09:08 PM (IqV8l)

244 Paul Revere and the Raiders were pretty horrible, a British poof singing about Indians, but they sold millions.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 17, 2016 09:09 PM (SjPMU)

245 Don't forget the loudspeakers playing Wagner torquewrenchensen

Posted by: freaked at June 17, 2016 09:09 PM (BO/km)

246 243
I thought that the Mooch was off to Carlsbad Caverns

Those windows don't open either.

Earthquake. Stalagtite. Some sympathetic vibrations required.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 09:10 PM (p4UlV)

247 The Fist Famiglia kicked everyone out of a national park. Everyone.

They are scum.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2016 09:08 PM (p4UlV)

But every time George Bush went home to his ranch it was a national disgrace according to the MFM

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 17, 2016 09:10 PM (GILMl)

248 "Vikings stood exactly here and saw exactly this (minus the modern bridge and plaque) 1000 years ago!"

I'm gonna have to call bullshit on this picture.

There is just no way that Vikings could have made it all the way to North America if they always had their heads cocked "quizzically" to the left!

And don't you DARE try to tell me that once they reached land they locomoted prone, on their sides, due to Norse tradition!

Thank you for sharing this Dave.

Posted by: Deety at June 17, 2016 09:11 PM (xPWMR)

249 You know what that town needs? Solar panels!

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 09:11 PM (HgMAr)

250 It's a tradition. I was a Berserk for King Harald Fairhair... I went berserk in every battle I ever fought for King Harald. So did my father and his father before him. But it's a responsibility being a Berserk. You must only let the red rage take hold of you in the thick of battle.

Posted by: Svens Dad at June 17, 2016 09:11 PM (xVvO7)

251 >>I thought that the Mooch was off to Carlsbad Caverns

She only went because she thought it was an All You Can Eat Buffet.

Posted by: garrett at June 17, 2016 09:12 PM (0LGIH)

252
Shirley Hemphill from "What's Happening."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Laverne and Shirley at Tanagra.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 17, 2016 09:12 PM (kdS6q)

253
Laverne and Shirley at Tanagra.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 17, 2016 09:12 PM (kdS6q)
----
Shakira, when the walls fell.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 09:13 PM (jR7Wy)

254 "Bigly"!

Shots!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 17, 2016 09:14 PM (jR7Wy)

255 Today is the 22nd anniversary of the OJ white Bronco chase.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 17, 2016 09:14 PM (SjPMU)

256 I thought that the Mooch was off to Carlsbad Caverns

Those windows don't open either.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 17, 2016 09:08 PM (IqV8l)
...................

If she cuts one in there we're all doomed. It could be an Extinction Level Event.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 09:14 PM (HgMAr)

257 When I win the Megamillions tonight, I will fly the horde in on my private plane.. Trump will be jealous..

Posted by: Chitown-Jerry at June 17, 2016 09:17 PM (UpGcq)

258 I thought that the Mooch was off to Carlsbad Caverns

The reports of Big Foot sightings in that area just spiked.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 17, 2016 09:18 PM (GILMl)

259 If she cuts one in there we're all doomed. It could be an ~~Extinction~~ ExStinktion Level Event.

Posted by: wth at June 17, 2016 09:14 PM (HgMAr)

FIFY

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 17, 2016 09:19 PM (v5iqM)

260 202 Posted by: Mimzey at June 17, 2016 08:52 PM (aRUb

I'm a history ed guy who refused to teach b/c of bullshit PC in curriculum.

I also like anthropology...people who think the Eskimos are cartoons from Chilly-Willy don't grasp they have tribal laws on dying order through starvation in a jam.

Part of me would like the solitude and maybe the chicks....maybe

Posted by: sven10077 at June 17, 2016 09:19 PM (g8Hfr)

261 244 Paul Revere and the Raiders were pretty horrible, a British poof singing about Indians, but they sold millions.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 17, 2016 09:09 PM (SjPMU)

Actually, they were American. You can sorta tell by the name.

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2016 09:20 PM (sdi6R)

262 Laverne and Shirley at Tanagra.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 17, 2016 09:12 PM (kdS6q)

----

Shakira, when the walls fell.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage
..............
Kanye and Kim,,, her booty wide..

Posted by: Chitown-Jerry at June 17, 2016 09:21 PM (UpGcq)

263 Actually, they were American. You can sorta tell by the name.

Posted by: rickl
......
Yes.. they were very American.. A Dick Clark Production!

Posted by: Chitown-Jerry at June 17, 2016 09:22 PM (UpGcq)

264 Nice travel story. I just now went there on Google Earth. StreetView is a little flaky, but at one point I was able to get onto the little pathways winding around the meadow. Didn't get any lobster though, thanks! I don't think someone should talk about lobster if they don't have enough for everyone ...

Posted by: goon at June 17, 2016 09:22 PM (WCaSy)

265 Lobster? LOBSTER??

Posted by: Big Mooch at June 17, 2016 09:25 PM (HgMAr)

266 I realized my mistake right after I posted, my brain showed me a picture of Peter Noon. And went with it, stupid brain.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 17, 2016 09:25 PM (SjPMU)

267
If she cuts one in there we're all doomed. It could be an Extinction Level Event.
Posted by: wth

Someone lights a match and it's Carlsbad Caldera.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 17, 2016 09:25 PM (IqV8l)

268 Barack and Hillary, not filled with shame. Barack and Hillary, while Benghazi burned.

Posted by: goon at June 17, 2016 09:28 PM (WCaSy)

269
In Louis L'Amour's Last Of The Breed, a USAF pilot Joe Mack (who happens to be Sioux) is captured when his experimental plane is forced down, taken to Siberia and interrogated by the KGB. The KGB man immediately plays the "White Man Took Injun Land" card. Which Mack throws back into his face, basically saying that the white man didn't steal anything that we didn't steal beforehand. Plus, it's still his country, Injuns are just as much a part of the USA as the white man etc.

Always loved that part......along with the ending "This was once a custom of my people...."

"In my life I will take two. This was the first".

Great book, great ending. Always sad he died before the sequel to The Walking Drum. Strange, he's an American western writer, and I think his non westerns are his best books (not that the westerns are bad, they aren't. Was it Sackett's Brand where the rancher kills Tell's wife and Sacketts come from all over for vengeance? "We sure hope Tell don't kill 'em all afore we get there!")

Posted by: Weirddave at June 17, 2016 09:34 PM (nF4Bw)

270 This might have been posted, the GOP "controlled" house failed to pass two pieces of legislation that would have banned illegal aliens from serving in the military.

This country is a sad, sad joke.

Posted by: Kreplach at June 17, 2016 09:34 PM (lgNzO)

271 I thought that the Mooch was off to Carlsbad Caverns

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That's racist and sexist. It should be Charlotte's With Her Bad Self Caverns.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 17, 2016 09:37 PM (Nwg0u)

272 Vikings in Newfie?

Sod off!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2016 09:38 PM (p2X2f)

273 "Which Mack throws back into his face, basically saying that the white man didn't steal anything that we didn't steal beforehand. Plus, it's still his country, Injuns are just as much a part of the USA as the white man etc. "

There was discussion here not too long ago of putting a Native American on paper currency.

Posted by: Random Dungheap at June 17, 2016 09:38 PM (9ym/8)

274 which RIA 1911 is it Tilikum? is it new or used?

Posted by: AltonJackson
****

Tombstone Tactical
New 1911
http://preview.tinyurl.com/zm98em6

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 09:38 PM (hVdx9)

275 Shit.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at June 17, 2016 09:39 PM (9ym/8)

276 Canton folderol

Posted by: derit at June 17, 2016 09:39 PM (ewfUZ)

277 Well I guess I know we're I was 22 years ago then.

Posted by: Skip at June 17, 2016 09:40 PM (d9qXV)

278 PBS had a documentary on the draft the other night, they left out the Korean war and was a big liberal commercial as soon as they got to 'Nam. So I turned it off.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 17, 2016 09:40 PM (SjPMU)

279 252
Shirley Hemphill from "What's Happening."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Laverne and Shirley at Tanagra.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 17, 2016 09:12 PM (kdS6q)

when the walls fell....

Posted by: Jean Luke Pickyernose at June 17, 2016 09:41 PM (qf6WZ)

280 270 This might have been posted, the GOP "controlled" house failed to pass two pieces of legislation that would have banned illegal aliens from serving in the military.

This country is a sad, sad joke.
Posted by: Kreplach at June 17, 2016 09:34 PM (lgNzO)

It is. It's not like the death of the Roman Empire is any great historical secret. Recruiting foreigners into the military didn't work out so well for them.

This is yet more evidence that the Federal government is actively hostile to the American people.

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2016 09:41 PM (sdi6R)

281 Great post. I got the same "thrill up my leg" when I stood on the purpose stone where Charlemagne was crowned.

We come from giants!

Posted by: PJ at June 17, 2016 09:42 PM (cHuNI)

282 Interesting post with much food for thought.

I'm still very thankful to be living in this present day and age. Indoor plumbing and a clean water supply are wonderful.

Posted by: ALH at June 17, 2016 09:46 PM (Z56vq)

283 Modern day Trojans don't need a horse.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 17, 2016 09:47 PM (IqV8l)

284 Regarding the sidebar article about the Constitution, I linked this the other night:

http://tinyurl.com/brjhz

#29 and #30 applicable to the article.

Posted by: Country Singer at June 17, 2016 09:49 PM (GUBah)

285 Tombstone Tactical
New 1911
http://preview.tinyurl.com/zm98em6
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 09:38 PM

buy it now
that's a really good price (even if it did just go up to $445)

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 17, 2016 09:49 PM (KCxzN)

286 Paul Revere and the Raiders were pretty horrible, a British poof singing about Indians, but they sold millions.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 17, 2016 09:09 PM (SjPMU)

Actually, they were American. You can sorta tell by the name.

-
My sister was the w orld's biggest Mark Lindsey fan. On a family vacation circa 1969, somewhere in Idaho, we had to find the house he was born in.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 17, 2016 09:50 PM (Nwg0u)

287 I'm jealous. I'm really into studying Viking history right now, and that looks fun.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at June 17, 2016 09:50 PM (FQKBL)

288 283 Modern day Trojans don't need a horse.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 17, 2016 09:47 PM (IqV8l)

Just latex.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 17, 2016 09:51 PM (0mRoj)

289 buy it now
that's a really good price (even if it did just go up to $445)

Posted by: AltonJackson
*****

Holy crap. It was $421 last night. It was $425.59 when I got home today.
Rather slick of them.
A couple weekends ago I bought an Anderson Mfg Ar-15 lower for $49.95. Today I saw it went up $5

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 09:53 PM (hVdx9)

290 I got the same "thrill up my leg" when I stood on the purpose stone where Charlemagne was crowned.

I'm sitting in a Chicago bathhouse experiencing the same thing, but I'm pretty sure Charlemagne was never here. Curious...

Posted by: Chris Matthews at June 17, 2016 09:53 PM (w/iDp)

291 269 ... Yeah, 'The Sackett Brand' is the book where Sacketts come from all over. It is a very satisfying story. Although 'Jubal Sackett' is about my favorite of the series. L'Amour had plans for a Sackett story in the American Revolution but never got to it. Too bad.

Thanks for the post. I remember the first news stories about the site. My hometown has a possible Viking connection so the news was even more interesting.

Posted by: JTB at June 17, 2016 09:55 PM (V+03K)

292 "http://preview.tinyurl.com/gpbfuld

Link to Fleet Farm"

Never heard of Korstog. Anybody know anything about them?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at June 17, 2016 09:55 PM (9ym/8)

293 Horrywood made a laughable film on it, but the Injuns in that neck of the woods would have been hard asses.

Posted by: sven10077 at June 17, 2016 07:46 PM (g8Hfr)

The Beothuk Indians in Newfoundland got extincted, but not by the Vikings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 17, 2016 09:57 PM (GSdpU)

294 "Indoor plumbing and a clean water supply are wonderful."

Ah. Yes. About that. We need to talk.

Posted by: Happy Fun Camp Activities Director at June 17, 2016 09:59 PM (noWW6)

295
Leif Erikson - son of that dirty commie, Red.

Wait.. have I got that wrong?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 17, 2016 10:02 PM (eeTCA)

296 Leif Erikson - son of that dirty commie, Red.

Wait.. have I got that wrong?

Posted by: Mike Hammer
****

Leif is to bone crushing as Red is to mewling quim.
Does that help?

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 10:03 PM (hVdx9)

297 WTF is everyone?

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 10:04 PM (hVdx9)

298 Tilikum: run, don't walk & get it

before the boating accident, I had the lesser variant of the same gun (standard hammer & trigger, wood grip panels) that I got at Cabelas for $475-ish

in RIA's world, the "FS" is for "full size"; it's 8+1, not 7+1 like a standard govt model

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 17, 2016 10:05 PM (KCxzN)

299 More Ramadan festivities.

http://tinyurl.com/j2trno7

Posted by: PJ at June 17, 2016 10:05 PM (cHuNI)

300 " Moochelle moaning that she can't open a window at the White House. "

Or hang laundry on the line.

Or put a car up on blocks.

Or a couch on the porch.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 17, 2016 10:06 PM (ar1r/)

301
273 "Which Mack throws back into his face, basically saying that the white man didn't steal anything that we didn't steal beforehand. Plus, it's still his country, Injuns are just as much a part of the USA as the white man etc. "

There was discussion here not too long ago of putting a Native American on paper currency.
Posted by: Random Dungheap at June 17, 2016 09:38 PM (9ym/

The one that came up with popcorn would be cool.

Posted by: eman at June 17, 2016 10:07 PM (MQEz6)

302 before the boating accident, I had the lesser variant of the same gun (standard hammer & trigger, wood grip panels) that I got at Cabelas for $475-ish

in RIA's world, the "FS" is for "full size"; it's 8+1, not 7+1 like a standard govt model

Posted by: AltonJackson
****

If only I could justify it. I already have two 1911 style pistols. It really does look sweet tho.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 10:07 PM (hVdx9)

303 Never heard of Korstog. Anybody know anything about them?///

I've never shot one but have been looking at them for awhile mostly because I go to Fleet Farm for other stuff. Here is a decent review and history.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/h7yu6lh

Posted by: Willy J. at June 17, 2016 10:11 PM (Yskl0)

304 If an indian graces paper currency, would that mean that stores could see a return of wooden indians?

Posted by: derit at June 17, 2016 10:11 PM (ewfUZ)

305 Tv is showing a video of masses of spiders raining from the sky in Southern Brazil.

Posted by: @votermom at June 17, 2016 08:40 PM (7lVbc)

That's the Olympic spirit!

Posted by: The Hat-o-lympics at June 17, 2016 10:14 PM (vBeA5)

306 Tillikum - I think it was you - a few days ago during an impromptu gun thread that had broken out (imagine that) you asked about the Springfield XD's durability/reliability.

MWNP chimed in that he had quite a collection of XD/XDM/XDSs and that they had never had any trouble.

I've just had the one 9mm XD, but for several years. It's been 100% reliable. The company advises replacing the recoil spring after 3,000 rounds. I ignored that and suffered no consequences (occasional failures-to-feed have almost certainly been from under-charges in my reloads). Just recently I finally replaced the spring. But I'm guessing it was more like the 7,000-round mark.

Before I bought it years ago, there had been an interesting torture test run by someone. I think it was up to 50,000 rounds, with the predictable adventures - water, mud, freezing, not cleaned, etc. As I recall the XD fared very well in the test.

Just FYI. It's a great platform, has the nice 1911 grip angle, is extremely easy to field strip/clean, and comes in many flavors (all of which you, as a resident of a free state, may taste).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 17, 2016 10:14 PM (QDnY+)

307 Tilikum: run, don't walk & get it

before the boating accident, I had the lesser variant of the same gun (standard hammer & trigger, wood grip panels) that I got at Cabelas for $475-ish

in RIA's world, the "FS" is for "full size"; it's 8+1, not 7+1 like a standard govt model
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 17, 2016 10:05 PM (KCxzN)

I've been reading comments about this gun since last night.

Tell me again please why this is such a good gun? I've already done two impulse buys recently.

Posted by: Blano at June 17, 2016 10:15 PM (upmgM)

308 ONT Up

Posted by: Willy J. at June 17, 2016 10:17 PM (Yskl0)

309 Korstog? Never heard of them (cue Charlie Gibson voice). Then again, I just did the paperwork on my first AR lowers today, and am very new to the evil black rifle thing.

Dang. When I was doing my paperwork, a young guy was picking up his M-1 from CMP (he ordered just before the recent hiatus in sales by CMP). Nice Springfield, with beautiful/character-rich but fine GI wood. Was good to see a young'in getting one. He was pretty excited, I was able to advise him on some sites that provide excellent tutorials on M-1 inspection/cleaning/care.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 17, 2016 10:18 PM (QDnY+)

310 This might have been posted, the GOP "controlled" house failed to pass two pieces of legislation that would have banned illegal aliens from serving in the military.

This country is a sad, sad joke.

Posted by: Kreplach at June 17, 2016 09:34 PM (lgNzO)

Historically, was it not that service in the U.S. military was a path for a foreigner to earn U.S. citizenship?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 17, 2016 10:20 PM (GSdpU)

311 speaking of the olympics I heard the russian track team was banned for drug use. I immediately wondered if they did something to get caught because they didn't want to go to the zika infested hot mess.

And here is a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. ValJar arranged for the virus to be spread as revenge for Chicago getting passed over. -that would make a good Ludlum type suspense novel theme.

Posted by: Palerider at June 17, 2016 10:21 PM (dkExz)

312 Tillikum - I think it was you - a few days ago during an impromptu gun thread that had broken out (imagine that) you asked about the Springfield XD's durability/reliability.

MWNP chimed in that he had quite a collection of XD/XDM/XDSs and that they had never had any trouble.

I've just had the one 9mm XD, but for several years. It's been 100% reliable. The company advises replacing the recoil spring after 3,000 rounds. I ignored that and suffered no consequences (occasional failures-to-feed have almost certainly been from under-charges in my reloads). Just recently I finally replaced the spring. But I'm guessing it was more like the 7,000-round mark.

Before I bought it years ago, there had been an interesting torture test run by someone. I think it was up to 50,000 rounds, with the predictable adventures - water, mud, freezing, not cleaned, etc. As I recall the XD fared very well in the test.

Just FYI. It's a great platform, has the nice 1911 grip angle, is extremely easy to field strip/clean, and comes in many flavors (all of which you, as a resident of a free state, may taste).

Posted by: rhomboid
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Thank you. I have sort of had my eye on the XDs and I really appreciate people sharing their real world experiences with them.
I was against polymer firearms until the day I needed to grab my all metal Browning High Power after it had been in my car for 8 hours- during an AZ summer.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 17, 2016 10:21 PM (hVdx9)

313 Tell me again please why this is such a good gun?...

Posted by: Blano at June 17, 2016 10:15 PM

it's a lot of gun for the money; classic 1911 design; 8+1; well made

drawback: the parkerized finish does not play nice with the little copper rivet on the pocket of your jeans (operator error

)

sure, it's not a khimber or wilson combat, or any of the other big name brands. The purist would see it as "rough"; but it's a solid 1911 for under $500

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 17, 2016 10:31 PM (KCxzN)

314 293 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 17, 2016 09:57 PM (GSdpU)

They had a fairly specialized ecology that was disrupted by a 1-2 punch of migration and encroachment.

The Inuit and Mik'mak(?) IIRC crowded in as did honky.....

when Honky comes a calling in the pre-antibiotic era you are fucked I guess.

Posted by: sven10077 at June 17, 2016 10:40 PM (g8Hfr)

315 310 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 17, 2016 10:20 PM (GSdpU)

ABSOLUTELY of course back in the good old days being a foreigner meant you were forced into an immersive civics course on US history and government and the English language....

Obama teaches those classes now.....sweet dreams

Posted by: sven10077 at June 17, 2016 10:41 PM (g8Hfr)

316 My in laws went here a couple of years ago. I would LOVE to see it.

Just for fun, bing Leif's sister Freydis. Oh my goodness. She was a badass if the legends are true.

I use her name on my fake Facebook account.

Posted by: stace at June 17, 2016 11:15 PM (ozZau)

317 Ok that's good it's a dead thread so no one will know about my fake Facebook page.

Posted by: stace at June 17, 2016 11:25 PM (ozZau)

318 >>>317 Ok that's good it's a dead thread so no one will know about my fake Facebook page.
Posted by: stace at June 17, 2016 11:25 PM (ozZau)>>>

*completes hacking stace's fake Facebook page, posts nude photos of stace's Mom on page, and tweets the page to CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, WaPo, LA Times, and a host of other news organizations*

Posted by: That Effin' Guy at June 18, 2016 12:47 AM (8rmdN)

319 *completes hacking stace's fake Facebook page, posts nude photos of stace's Mom on page, and tweets the page to CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, WaPo, LA Times, and a host of other news organizations*
Posted by: That Effin' Guy at June 18, 2016 12:47

Hey, Mom's lookin' pretty good for her age!

Posted by: stace at June 18, 2016 01:27 AM (ozZau)

320 They shoulda named that place "Fist Of The First Men". That would've been cool.

Posted by: ericinva at June 18, 2016 06:22 AM (6MMI+)

321 When was the last time you went to Jamestown? Yes, the reconstruction is in a slightly offset area (though not all of it), but you can most certainly tour the actual archaeological digs. The church built over the site of the very first one still stands, and you can go inside and see the foundations of the original through plexiglass over the ditches.
You can most certainly walk exactly where those first English settlers trod.

Posted by: GWB at June 18, 2016 07:42 AM (fURpd)

322 What bworei said (@120)

Posted by: GWB at June 18, 2016 07:45 AM (fURpd)

323 Freydis Eiriksdottir ended up ax-murdering most of the settlers. This did not increase her popularity back home in Iceland.

Yeah, the other Norse should have run away when the Skraelings did.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at June 19, 2016 03:03 PM (Pcnjn)

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