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Foist!
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 04, 2016 10:43 PM (OF/aZ) 2
Is this thing on?
Posted by: Octiparan at September 04, 2016 10:44 PM (f1/cC) 3
At last!
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 04, 2016 10:44 PM (OF/aZ) 4
I'm conscious for an ONT! Yay!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 04, 2016 10:44 PM (jR7Wy) 5
This is better than a three-barreled shotgun!
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 04, 2016 10:44 PM (OF/aZ) Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 04, 2016 10:45 PM (kdS6q) 7
Huh? I read and still first 10?
Posted by: Farmer at September 04, 2016 10:46 PM (o/90i) 8
Joe Cocker rocks.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 04, 2016 10:46 PM (0tfLf) 9
Hola all.
Posted by: Country Boy at September 04, 2016 10:46 PM (i7sL+) 10
Can't believe I've spent so much time on the blog today. It's just getting dark and realized I haven't mowed the yard. I better get a beer and worry about it.
Posted by: Octiparan at September 04, 2016 10:47 PM (f1/cC) 11
Erev tov, y'ins!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at September 04, 2016 10:47 PM (kP16F) 12
I like Joe Cocker. I think he is dead though.
Posted by: L, Elle at September 04, 2016 10:47 PM (6IPEM) 13
Stuff
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 04, 2016 10:48 PM (IqV8l) Posted by: The Political Hat at September 04, 2016 10:49 PM (vBeA5) 15
I don't have air conditioning in my apartment - who do I sue?
Posted by: josephistan at September 04, 2016 10:49 PM (7qAYi) 16
....semantic... if you're on the MA coast, Long Island, or the NJ shore, just stay away from the water for the time being. [tmi3rd] "
Great! (opens bottle off rum, pours water down drain.) Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid cooks at September 04, 2016 10:49 PM (yIIdQ) 17
For anyone interested, there is a channel on my cable called Comet. It has cheesy sci fi and horror movies. It looks like they are going to have Mystery Science Theater 3000 on Sunday nights from 8-1 A.M.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 04, 2016 10:49 PM (+lVUW) 18
ND has the lead and Texas is self immolating.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 04, 2016 10:49 PM (20X6f) Posted by: Jim at September 04, 2016 10:50 PM (v5iqM) 20
There we go!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 04, 2016 10:50 PM (UpGcq) 21
how-to-make-love-according-to-a-guide-from-1936
A sneering hipster asserting his smug superiority over his great grandparents. Quick question for you asshat, what's the divorce rate of your generation vs 1936, huh? And oh yea, how many world wars have you won? Posted by: Weirddave at September 04, 2016 10:51 PM (N8hFs) 22
Wait a minute - I thought air conditioning was literally as big a threat as terrorism. Now it's a basic human right? Oh well, you can't expect consistency from people who look at Calvinball as a guiding philosophy.
Posted by: josephistan at September 04, 2016 10:51 PM (7qAYi) 23
How to woo a chic, do's and don'ts from 1936.
________ Yessiree, that Jesse Owens fellow sure runs lickety-split, but I'll show you some gold-medal-caliber ballroom dancing. That'll be an Olympic sport someday. Come on, dollface, let's cut a rug! Posted by: FireHorse at September 04, 2016 10:51 PM (lh7g2) 24
All Hail Eris, did not click on the Burning Man link... so what was the Barbie Death Camp?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 04, 2016 10:52 PM (XNHOq) 25
Did being a douchebag work as well in 1936 as it apparently does now?
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at September 04, 2016 10:52 PM (0mRoj) 26
Aloha, and it's lookin' like a great ONT!!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at September 04, 2016 10:54 PM (LBql+) 27
Hit over head with club, drag by hair to cave. Pancakes in morning.
Posted by: Ogg at September 04, 2016 10:55 PM (T+xcT) 28
http://tinyurl.com/ho3zzah
Hope this pic doesn't roger the thread like my other one did. Because it's lovely. Posted by: Octopus at September 04, 2016 10:55 PM (Z4WiE) 29
so what was the Barbie Death Camp?
Posted by: Anna Puma ________ I'm guessing Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon." I'm going from admittedly faulty memory and I'm too lazy to look it up. (Then again, it could be Kelly's closet. You know, Woody's fiancée on "Cheers.") Posted by: FireHorse at September 04, 2016 10:55 PM (lh7g2) 30
Quick question for you asshat, what's the divorce rate of your generation vs 1936, huh? And oh yea, how many world wars have you won?
Posted by: Weirddave at September 04, 2016 10:51 PM (N8hFs) And how many children have been deserted by their baby daddies today, compared to 1936? Remember the good, old days when almost all men assumed that it was their obligation to be full time fathers to their kids? Posted by: nerdygirl at September 04, 2016 10:55 PM (+lVUW) 31
Any man complains about the heat gets a day in the box.
Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at September 04, 2016 10:55 PM (Q+fEG) 32
25 Did being a douchebag work as well in 1936 as it apparently does now?
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at September 04, 2016 10:52 PM (0mRoj) Wearing an onion on your belt helped. It was the style at the time Posted by: josephistan at September 04, 2016 10:55 PM (7qAYi) 33
Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics
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Remember the good, old days when almost all men assumed that it was their obligation to be full time fathers to their kids?
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 04, 2016 10:55 PM (+lVUW) Of course these days there's about a 30% chance that one or more of the kids the man's raising with his wife aren't his... Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at September 04, 2016 10:57 PM (0mRoj) 35
What weight motor oil do you use in your hair in 1936?
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 04, 2016 10:57 PM (JO9+V) 36
"Deadly Heat" in U.S. Prisons Is Killing Inmates" on death row? I don't see the problem.
Pro tip: if you want A/C, don't commit a felony. Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 04, 2016 10:57 PM (SRKgf) 37
Read the content.
Posted by: Sixkiller...TEXIT at September 04, 2016 10:58 PM (y0er3) 38
Hola all.
Posted by: Country Boy ________ Buenos noches! (I'm not Latino. I have no right to appropriate words from the Spanish language. I condemn myself.) Posted by: FireHorse at September 04, 2016 10:58 PM (lh7g2) 39
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Also in 1936 the government wasn't subsidizing single moms to crank out bastard children.
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at September 04, 2016 10:59 PM (0mRoj) 41
24 All Hail Eris, did not click on the Burning Man link... so what was the Barbie Death Camp?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 04, 2016 10:52 PM (XNHOq) --- It looked like a scale reproduction of a concentration camp, except with Barbies! (Klaus Barbies?) Transgressive! Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 04, 2016 10:59 PM (jR7Wy) 42
Totally O/T... I'm always behind on threads, but for the most part I read all the comments. The running jokes, the prayer requests, the food, books and pets. You morons are good folks.
Posted by: Beth M at September 04, 2016 10:59 PM (kiy9d) 43
I remember my Grandfather talking about a chaperone when he was serious about my Grandmother.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 04, 2016 10:59 PM (dKiJG) 44
37 Read the content.
Posted by: Sixkiller...TEXIT at September 04, 2016 10:58 PM (y0er3) Well that's your problem, and I'd appreciate if you didn't make it ours. Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at September 04, 2016 10:59 PM (0mRoj) 45
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A sneering hipster asserting his smug superiority over his great grandparents.
His great grandparents turds were worth more than the sneering hipster's existence. Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 04, 2016 11:00 PM (SRKgf) 47
[You heard of Manifest Destiny? That's when you take what you can when you can. The greasers took it from the redskins and we took it from them. And I'm gonna take it all from you, Jack, and not just because I can. But because this is my destiny. Los Angeles is my fucking destiny, you motherfucker. ]
Good evening, everyone. I'm at a place where there are 5 yorkies and every 2 minutes they all start barking insanely at glass-shattering pitch and volume, over and over and over and over and over. I'm damn near to going insane. Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 04, 2016 11:01 PM (5o5ek) 48
35 What weight motor oil do you use in your hair in 1936?
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 04, 2016 10:57 PM (JO9+V) I don't want no FoP goddammit! I'm a Dapper Dan man! Posted by: Ulysses Everett McGill at September 04, 2016 11:01 PM (yIIdQ) 49
Miss my hammock trees at our old place. Two huge oak trees set perfectly apart. Took many an afternoon nap there despite the squirrels dropping acorns on me every once in a while.
Posted by: Octiparan at September 04, 2016 11:01 PM (f1/cC) 50
Hello.
I'm rather sad that Nadal was just eliminated from the US Open. Now I gotta say good night. Y'all behave now, hear? Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2016 11:01 PM (Om16U) 51
There was plenty o' steppin' out, divorce, and desertion back in the good old days.
This is just anecdotal, from my parents and grandparents, but still... Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 04, 2016 11:02 PM (jR7Wy) 52
42 Totally O/T... I'm always behind on threads, but for the most part I read all the comments. The running jokes, the prayer requests, the food, books and pets. You morons are good folks. --------------------- Waal, I can't take credit for much of that, but for what little I can I humbly thank ee. Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 04, 2016 11:02 PM (5o5ek) 53
Hey everybody.
And how many children have been deserted by their baby daddies today, compared to 1936? nerdygirl, I'm not saying you're wrong. There's been a lot of moral breakdown in America (and elsewhere), everywhere, since 1936. OMG. Having said that though... I've often wondered how much we *really* know about American society pre-1970 or so. Before then, it seems journalists were not only overall less political, but more focused on the "big stories" and big events; I don't think there was nearly as much societal/sociological navel-gazing, or journalists asking "what's the divorce rate look like? What's happening to kids who get abandoned by their dads?" On top of which, they had their systems to deal with these things and they were largely accepted and uncontroversial. Society accepted that kids with bad or absent parents ended up in orphanages or group homes, or ended up with other relatives; it was accepted that "just a few" women and men get divorced, and a lot of people never admitted it if they were divorced; and topics such as alcoholism, drug addiction, and of course things like homosexuality (or what they would have called "deviant sexuality" or worse) were taboo to both talk and write about. I also got a bit of an education about this back when I was working in a public mental institution; before 1970, you could be institutionalized for, among other things, being a drug addict or being gay. It wasn't something families *or* the media of the time talked about; it was too controversial and, again, "taboo" of a subject. Nobody wanted to drop their circulation numbers especially, with regard to the leading newspapers and magazines (how most people got their news pre-TV and radio). Anyway, just wanted to throw that out there. Just because there's a lot of stuff the media didn't report pre-1970, doesn't mean it wasn't out there; and again, that's NOT the same thing as saying the American family was always in as advanced a state of decay as it is now, alas. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:02 PM (OKox0) 54
All Hail Eris, that is what I kinda figured. Some never grew out of their childhood issues of dissecting/mutilating/maiming someone's Barbie dolls. Dan Rather grade courage there.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 04, 2016 11:03 PM (XNHOq) 55
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If I hadn't'a read the content I coulda been, well, um, something like 14th. Oh, the missed glory! Posted by: mindful webworker - pandemonium! at September 04, 2016 11:03 PM (5a8XA) 56
51 There was plenty o' steppin' out, divorce, and desertion back in the good old days. --------------- Same here from my ancestors' anecdotes. I guess there was more social pressure to keep it on the down-low. Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 04, 2016 11:03 PM (5o5ek) 57
50 vm
If you're still here: G'night, ma'am, and as I tell folks all the time: behaving badly is still behaving.... Posted by: ibguy at September 04, 2016 11:04 PM (mNO2i) 58
What iforgot said, but he could say it in 10 words. It took me 200. Sigh.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:04 PM (OKox0) 59
Watching Tora! Tora! Tora! After 70 minutes of buildup, it's now early Sunday morning, Dec 7 . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 04, 2016 11:04 PM (JO9+V) 60
54 All Hail Eris, that is what I kinda figured. Some never grew out of their childhood issues of dissecting/mutilating/maiming someone's Barbie dolls. Dan Rather grade courage there.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 04, 2016 11:03 PM (XNHOq) --- It would be cool if Summer Kamp Barbie had a pink Kubelwagen with daisy stickers all over it. Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 04, 2016 11:05 PM (jR7Wy) 61
HAY qdpsteve, did I miss your procedure? Or your appointment for your procedure? (I've had a busy week.) Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 04, 2016 11:05 PM (5o5ek) 62
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:02 PM (OKox0)
It's probably the kind of data one could glean from US Census and marriage/divorce/birth records. But a lot of work to do. Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2016 11:05 PM (Om16U) 63
The alt-ctrl is sex crazed!1!
Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at September 04, 2016 11:05 PM (Tyii7) 64
25 Did being a douchebag work as well in 1936 as it apparently does now?
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at September 04, 2016 10:52 PM (0mRoj) It worked for FDR, but most ordinary American douchebags were apt to get punched in the face in 1936. Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands&&&&&so there at September 04, 2016 11:05 PM (P8951) 65
That guy writing the article about "making love in 1936" actually courting and wooing a woman sounds like he's offended that the people from back then wouldn't like that he let's his girlfriend do him with a strap on.
Posted by: buzzion at September 04, 2016 11:06 PM (bMG0w) 66
G'night, ma'am, and as I tell folks all the time: behaving badly is still behaving....
Posted by: ibguy at September 04, 2016 11:04 PM (mNO2i) You found the loophole. You wouldn't happen to be a lawyer, perchance? Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2016 11:06 PM (Om16U) 67
Horns looking pretty darned good.
Posted by: reliably perspicacious Hopped Up On Something at September 04, 2016 11:06 PM (buzvm) 68
Chunky McDumbth of LGF has not aged well, and yet there are no photos available since the above shot. What manner of pannus are you hiding behind, Charles?
http://tinyurl.com/zd6vntj Posted by: Octopus at September 04, 2016 11:06 PM (Z4WiE) 69
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:02 PM (OKox0)
There has always been rot, but rot being celebrated as health is a new thing. Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 04, 2016 11:06 PM (HalrA) 70
iforgot, LOL. I haven't made the phone call yet. Will do it Tuesday, I need to get it done.
And @votermom, that's a good point. Those numbers would leave out so much of the whole story, though. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:07 PM (OKox0) 71
It worked for FDR, but most ordinary American douchebags were apt to get punched in the face in 1936.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands&&&&&so there at September 04, 2016 11:05 PM (P8951) True enough, I reckon. Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at September 04, 2016 11:07 PM (0mRoj) 72
Cato, and that seems to have come to us along with the great trend of navel-gazing American society does to itself nowadays, thanks to its media.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:07 PM (OKox0) 73
Texas retakes the lead...YESSSSSSSS!!!!
Posted by: Octopus at September 04, 2016 11:07 PM (Z4WiE) 74
Tip O' The Hat, Folks.
L,Elle, I wanted to reply to one of your comments downstairs. I don't want to drag pet thread stuff up here, though. Let's just say that I was pretty pround of Poopyhead today. Posted by: Chi at September 04, 2016 11:08 PM (vXUHK) 75
Unpossible run.
Posted by: reliably perspicacious Hopped Up On Something at September 04, 2016 11:08 PM (buzvm) Posted by: ibguy at September 04, 2016 11:08 PM (mNO2i) 77
holy crap, all we need now is the band to take the field
Posted by: random lurker at September 04, 2016 11:09 PM (+tRIN) 78
Texas scores a TD and takes the lead, briefly. They get an extra point blocked, ND runs it back. Game tied. A fun weird game.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 04, 2016 11:09 PM (20X6f) 79
There has always been rot, but rot being celebrated as health is a new thing.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 04, 2016 11:06 PM (HalrA) Sounds about right. Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at September 04, 2016 11:09 PM (0mRoj) Posted by: tu3031 at September 04, 2016 11:09 PM (qJhUV) 81
Blocked extra point, interference on Texas bench...game tied, 35-35! Shut up!
Posted by: Octopus at September 04, 2016 11:09 PM (Z4WiE) 82
@ iforgot, used to have 5 Yorkies at the same time. They never did the bathing crazy barking stuff for no reason. They were a pack and you didn't mess with the pack including the 75 lb. Malinois.
I miss them terribly. Posted by: Octiparan at September 04, 2016 11:10 PM (f1/cC) 83
"My bonnie has tuberculosis....
My bonnie has only one lung.... He spits up phlegm and corruption....." Posted by: 1936 courtin' song at September 04, 2016 11:10 PM (yIIdQ) 84
37-up...okay, I'm Iron Fist Drunk. lol
Posted by: Octopus at September 04, 2016 11:11 PM (Z4WiE) 85
Trying to make Barbie Desert Peach? Bet Ken would look smashing in that Hugo Black designed uniform. And give him a truncheon to compensate for his shortcomings...
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 04, 2016 11:11 PM (XNHOq) 86
Irish receiver needs to fumble at this point to make it weirder.
Posted by: reliably perspicacious Hopped Up On Something at September 04, 2016 11:11 PM (buzvm) 87
between notre dame/texas and japanese ninja warrior i don't know what is kookier.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 04, 2016 11:12 PM (WTSFk) 88
That's gotta set the record for shortest time a lead was held.
Posted by: Country Boy at September 04, 2016 11:12 PM (i7sL+) 89
Same here from my ancestors' anecdotes. I guess there was more social pressure to keep it on the down-low.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 04, 2016 11:03 PM (5o5ek) Of course. But there's a lot to be said for suppressing anti-social tendencies, by which I mean things that tend to undermine the stability of society. Nowadays we mainstream them, if we're not exalting them. People farted then, too, but everyone acted as though they were unaware of that fact. Now we're expected to comment favorably on the fragrance and musicality of such. Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 04, 2016 11:13 PM (SRKgf) 90
Horndogging and the messes is causes has been going on since time immemorial. There are cycles all through history of prudishness vs licentiousness.
There are Moron quality dirty jokes and innuendo in Shakespeare which are lost on us today due to the language changes. Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 04, 2016 11:13 PM (DW+jj) 91
Song covers? I just tweeted this out about an hour ago.
I fell in love with this band then found out ten minutes later their lead singer left them. https://youtu.be/xH-_9cwdLug Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 04, 2016 11:13 PM (SEXy3) 92
I thought the marching band refused to yield the field?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 04, 2016 11:13 PM (XNHOq) 93
Trying reeeaaaallly hard to have sympathy for the poor, *uncomfortable* convicts....
....nope, can't do it. Tough sh*t, guys. Posted by: JQ Flyover at September 04, 2016 11:13 PM (044Fx) 94
Irish punting. Probably will be a pass attempt by the punter that will be intercepted, fumbled, and then a penalty of some sort.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 04, 2016 11:14 PM (20X6f) 95
Anna, LOL.
One thing I've always found surprising about "American Pie," Don McLean *really* went after Mick Jagger in that song ("Jack Flash"). Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:15 PM (OKox0) 96
Well, that punt was uneventful. Boring.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 04, 2016 11:15 PM (20X6f) 97
My Grandfather was put into an orphanage with his two brothers because his mother died and the Father didn't know what to do with the, this was in what 1910. A relative came and got him but not his brothers because they used him as a field hand and he could work and made him sleep in a corn crib. Finally a cousin came to visit and was appalled by his living conditions and took him with her. As soon as he could he joined the Navy became an electrician.
Thier was talk that one brother ran off to Philly during Proabition and you didn't ask him what he did to survive. Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 04, 2016 11:15 PM (dKiJG) 98
There are Moron quality dirty jokes and innuendo in Shakespeare which are lost on us today due to the language changes.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 04, 2016 11:13 PM (DW+jj) I was in "Midsummer" in college & one of the jokes was about French crowns having no hair at all, which was a syphilis joke. One person in the audience actually got it & guffawed at the line. Posted by: josephistan at September 04, 2016 11:15 PM (7qAYi) 99
Those Texas girls are nice.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 04, 2016 11:15 PM (20X6f) 100
This Foreman kid's looking pretty good.
Posted by: random lurker at September 04, 2016 11:16 PM (+tRIN) 101
Farting has apparently been a keen source of merriment for us humans since time immemorial. There was a jester in the court of some English monarch way back whose claim to fame was the ability to fart at will.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 04, 2016 11:16 PM (DW+jj) 102
You want air conditioning? Stay the fuck out of jail dumbass!
Posted by: buzzion at September 04, 2016 11:16 PM (bMG0w) 103
Sure people had extramartial and premartial affairs and got divorced in 1936. It's just that there were consequences if word got out and people who violated social mores took that risk. Having an adulterous affair could cost you your reputation and career. It was risky.
Now it's not. What's a healthier society - one that frowns upon having kids out of wedlock and divorce and adultery or one that says "meh. whatever." Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands&&&&&so there at September 04, 2016 11:16 PM (P8951) 104
Farts? The Japanese have a religious fable built around farts. An old man was farming and had nothing to eat, he was Buddhist but there was this songbird. He killed the bird, cooked it, ate everything but the bones, and then gave the little bird a proper burial while asking Buddha to forgive him for eating meat. Well then he started to fart farts that said words. At first everyone would laugh at the old farmer until a traveling Buddhist priest heard one of the farts and declared them holy farts because the words from the fart were praising Buddha.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 04, 2016 11:17 PM (XNHOq) 105
Those Texas girls are nice.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 04, 2016 11:15 PM (20X6f) Sure are. Posted by: Country Boy at September 04, 2016 11:17 PM (i7sL+) 106
From the "hot prisons" link: "I realize that there is a
Fixed it for him. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2016 11:18 PM (oqkO3) 107
Texas doesn't like success. They are going backwards.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 04, 2016 11:18 PM (20X6f) 108
Now it's not. What's a healthier society - one that frowns upon having kids out of wedlock and divorce and adultery or one that says "meh. whatever."
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands&&&&&so there at September 04, 2016 11:16 PM (P8951) Now our society promotes, celebrates, encourages and subsidizes these things. Posted by: Insomniac at September 04, 2016 11:18 PM (0mRoj) 109
oy. i hate college football overtime. phoney baloney.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 04, 2016 11:18 PM (WTSFk) 110
And Texas is fucking up.
Posted by: buzzion at September 04, 2016 11:18 PM (bMG0w) 111
kbdabear's Sunday Swimwear ...
Several of those outfits don't look like they'd actually work too well for, you know, swimming. Not that that matters. And the very last one gave me a content warning. Wonder how that's calculated? Number of skin-tone pixels? Posted by: mindful webworker - pandemonium! at September 04, 2016 11:18 PM (5a8XA) 112
101 Farting has apparently been a keen source of merriment for us humans since time immemorial. There was a jester in the court of some English monarch way back whose claim to fame was the ability to fart at will. ------------------ "The Famous Fart," one of the Arabian Nights tales. Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 04, 2016 11:18 PM (5o5ek) Posted by: josephistan at September 04, 2016 11:19 PM (7qAYi) 114
I may be in the minority, but I support air conditioning in prisons. I know several people who have served time in Texas state prisons and all of them say that the heat is the most brutal part.
I'm not for turning prisons into country clubs or anything like that -- going to prison shouldn't be a vacation, but it also shouldn't be needlessly harsh. Posted by: Michael the TEXIT Hobbit at September 04, 2016 11:19 PM (nvMvs) 115
Patrick, exactly. Some "experiences" just weren't shared... with anyone. Especially journalists.
In 1936, if you picked up a newspaper, you read about: - What was going on in Washington - The status of manufacturing and trade - Local events, both recent and upcoming Today when you pick up a paper, you read about: - The latest in inner-city gang warfare - Tim, a student at the local high school who just came out as gay - The children supposedly being jeopardized by local social welfare budget cuts - Catholic Church sexual abuse allegations ... etc etc. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:19 PM (OKox0) 116
I'm thinking Texas might squeak out a win here.
Binge watched the entire season of The Expanse today instead of mowing the lawn. My excuse is a bad cold. I recommend the series. Hard SciFi well done. Posted by: reliably perspicacious Hopped Up On Something at September 04, 2016 11:19 PM (buzvm) 117
42 Totally O/T... I'm always behind on threads, but for the most part I read all the comments. The running jokes, the prayer requests, the food, books and pets. You morons are good folks.
Posted by: Beth M -------------------- I've been here over a decade. I'm still not caught up. Jump in late, read backwards, skip the inane junk and come up with a witty pun. Works for most of us. I've tried to quit this place 1/2 dozen times, but it just isnt in the cards. I'll be here annoying people until ace hangs it up. Posted by: Chi at September 04, 2016 11:20 PM (vXUHK) 118
Looks like OT but the way this game has been,,, Hail Mary!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 04, 2016 11:20 PM (20X6f) 119
Ever read Rablais? Joke after joke about farting, pissing and crapping.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands&&&&&so there at September 04, 2016 11:20 PM (P8951) 120
re prison heat - Sheriff Joe, Americuh's Sheriff via his minions killed a woman in an outside metal cage:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/z2t7649 And no one was charged. And he just won reelection easily. (sorry but this guy pisses me off mightily; I'd like to see him penned up in an outside metal cage in 107 degree temps. for a month or two, and yes in this case I'm rooting for the DOJ to take his asshole self down) Posted by: GnuBreed at September 04, 2016 11:21 PM (gyKtp) 121
And the very last one gave me a content warning. Wonder how that's calculated?
I don't know how the 2nd one in #13 didn't give me a warning. Holy hips, Batman. Posted by: not ready for that jelly at September 04, 2016 11:21 PM (nw9BH) 122
116: Yep, once The Expanse got going, it was very good. A little slow at times but it was worth sticking around for it. Solid show.
ND wimped out and there will be OT. C'mon, a Hail Mary thats intercepted and right before Texas scores he fumbles. Posted by: Puddleglum at September 04, 2016 11:22 PM (20X6f) 123
In keeping with the "hot" theme, here's Ella Fitzgerald singing "It's Too Darn Hot".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMWW4R1ZBM Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2016 11:22 PM (oqkO3) 124
108: even when out of wedlock children were frowned upon, it happened. they even had night deposit slots at orphanages.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 04, 2016 11:22 PM (WTSFk) 125
Anyway, just wanted to throw that out there. Just because there's a lot of stuff the media didn't report pre-1970, doesn't mean it wasn't out there; and again, that's NOT the same thing as saying the American family was always in as advanced a state of decay as it is now, alas. I just found out that my dad (born in 1934) was a (full term) "preemie" born 6 months after my grandparents were married. Uh-huh, guess we all know what happened there. Granddad married grandma though, and they stayed married for 60 year. Seems better to me. Posted by: Weirddave at September 04, 2016 11:22 PM (N8hFs) 126
- The latest in inner-city gang warfare - Tim, a student at the local high school who just came out as gay - The children supposedly being jeopardized by local social welfare budget cuts - Catholic Church sexual abuse allegations ... etc etc. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:19 PM (OKox0) Tim being gay won't cut it anymore. Now its got to be that Tim identifies as Tina, and how awful all your daughters are for not wanting "her" to use the girl's restroom. Posted by: buzzion at September 04, 2016 11:22 PM (bMG0w) 127
Oh well, you can't expect consistency from people who look at Calvinball as a guiding philosophy.
Posted by: josephistan at September 04, 2016 10:51 PM (7qAYi) Wrong. In Calvinball you only get to change a rule if you MAKE a goal Posted by: Kindltot at September 04, 2016 11:22 PM (e9hKK) 128
Opps , it's Rabelais. The dude was a monk and his works are full of bawdy jokes.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands&&&&&so there at September 04, 2016 11:23 PM (P8951) 129
buzzion, LOL. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:23 PM (OKox0) 130
101 Farting has apparently been a keen source of merriment for us humans since time immemorial. There was a jester in the court of some English monarch way back whose claim to fame was the ability to fart at will.
LePetomane built a career on it, and that among those sophisticates, the French. Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 04, 2016 11:23 PM (SRKgf) 131
Weirddave, exactly.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:23 PM (OKox0) 132
Also, look up "pre code" Hollywood. This was a brief period when talking pictures first came out when there was no censorship code. They were as "good" as any today. Sex, drugs, hot babes in skimpy attire, and everything.
They occasionally run some of them that still survive. I remember one with Barbara Stanwyck. She got my motor running. Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 04, 2016 11:23 PM (DW+jj) 133
I also think the reason so many marriages way back when were so stable...
Let's be honest, there *was* major cultural/social pressure to stay married; it was what honorable people did. They stayed and worked it out, they didn't just fly the coop. "Think of the children!" So they stayed and they worked things out somehow. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:24 PM (OKox0) 134
Farts sound funny, smell funny, and come out of one's butt. Of course they're going to be the inspiration for jokes.
Posted by: josephistan at September 04, 2016 11:25 PM (7qAYi) 135
115 Patrick, exactly. Some "experiences" just weren't shared... with anyone. Especially journalists.
In 1936, if you picked up a newspaper, you read about: - What was going on in Washington - The status of manufacturing and trade - Local events, both recent and upcoming Today when you pick up a paper, you read about: - The latest in inner-city gang warfare - Tim, a student at the local high school who just came out as gay - The children supposedly being jeopardized by local social welfare budget cuts - Catholic Church sexual abuse allegations ... etc etc. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:19 PM (OKox0) Remember that being a reporter didn't require a degree in those days. I liked watching the old movies about reporters, like MY GIRL FRIDAY. Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 04, 2016 11:25 PM (dKiJG) 136
Holy hips, Batman. Posted by: not ready for that jelly at September 04, 2016 11:21 PM (nw9BH) Oh that reminds me. One of DC's next animated movies on video is going to be Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders. With Adam West, Burt Ward, and Julie Newmar voicing their characters. https://youtu.be/5r6a8bOahFQ Posted by: buzzion at September 04, 2016 11:25 PM (bMG0w) 137
In anticipation of Monday
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/selection-du-weekend-207-23.jpg Posted by: Anna Puma at September 04, 2016 11:25 PM (XNHOq) 138
Patrick, yup.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:26 PM (OKox0) 139
I hate elevators!
Posted by: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at September 04, 2016 11:26 PM (JO9+V) 140
re prison heat - Sheriff Joe, Americuh's Sheriff via his minions killed a woman in an outside metal cage:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/z2t7649 And no one was charged. And he just won reelection easily. (sorry but this guy pisses me off mightily; I'd like to see him penned up in an outside metal cage in 107 degree temps. for a month or two, and yes in this case I'm rooting for the DOJ to take his asshole self down) *** That's sickening Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 04, 2016 11:26 PM (SEXy3) 141
Remember that being a reporter didn't require a degree in those days. I liked watching the old movies about reporters, like MY GIRL FRIDAY.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 04, 2016 11:25 PM (dKiJG) The Front Page ... either version. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 04, 2016 11:27 PM (zc3Db) 142
I do not fart and otherwise have no need for an asshole.
Posted by: Kim Jong Un at September 04, 2016 11:27 PM (yIIdQ) 143
122 116: Yep, once The Expanse got going, it was very good. A little slow at times but it was worth sticking around for it. Solid show.
ND wimped out and there will be OT. C'mon, a Hail Mary thats intercepted and right before Texas scores he fumbles. Posted by: Puddleglum Yeah. Almost turned it off but it got going and I couldn't stop. Really like the actor who plays the cop. He's been in some great SciFi. Funny, everyone in the thing is a better actor than the lead. >>>>>>>>Texas leads. Posted by: reliably perspicacious Hopped Up On Something at September 04, 2016 11:27 PM (buzvm) 144
This TX/ND game is a roller coaster.
Now, let's see what ND does with their half of the O.T. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at September 04, 2016 11:27 PM (v5iqM) 145
Song covers? I just tweeted this out about an hour ago.
I fell in love with this band then found out ten minutes later their lead singer left them. https://youtu.be/xH-_9cwdLug Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 04, ***** They did that wrong. The band breaks up when the drummer dies from alcohol poisoning and choking on his own vomit. Well, shit, now what are they going to do? That is my all time favorite Zeppelin song. I would never imagine that an all girl band could pull off a decent cover, but that was pretty good. I like how they're wearing all white. Nice touch. Posted by: L, Elle at September 04, 2016 11:28 PM (6IPEM) Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at September 04, 2016 11:28 PM (Tyii7) 147
Looks like Burning Man is heating up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8_CLY3fAo The fire keeps spinning off dust devils or something. Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2016 11:28 PM (sdi6R) 148
133: about half the plots of the old alfred hitchcock show were the husband or the wife killing the other because they couldn't get a divorce.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 04, 2016 11:28 PM (WTSFk) 149
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 04, 2016 11:15 PM (dKiJG) ---------------------- Very similar tales from my ancestors, many of whom would have been taken from their parents nowadays, and justifiably. We've made progress in some regards. My grandmother and great-uncles and aunts told me stories that could match the insanity of today's social experiments. Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 04, 2016 11:28 PM (5o5ek) 150
OMG could this game get any crazier?
Posted by: reliably perspicacious Hopped Up On Something at September 04, 2016 11:29 PM (buzvm) 151
I've read that linguists have reconstructed from the Proto-Indo-European two distinct words for farting: one for farting loudly, and one for silently... As we all well know, the crudest terms in most current languages have very deep origins and have changed little over the ages!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at September 04, 2016 11:29 PM (kP16F) 152
Did being a douchebag work as well in 1936 as it apparently does now?
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at September 04, 2016 10:52 PM (0mRoj) Wearing an onion on your belt helped. It was the style at the time Posted by: josephistan at September 04, 2016 10:55 PM (7qAYi) Ask Vic. Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 04, 2016 11:29 PM (P/kVC) 153
Buzzion, that Batman animated movie looks like it will be a riot.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 04, 2016 11:29 PM (XNHOq) 154
132 Also, look up "pre code" Hollywood. This was a brief period when talking pictures first came out when there was no censorship code. They were as "good" as any today. Sex, drugs, hot babes in skimpy attire, and everything.
They occasionally run some of them that still survive. I remember one with Barbara Stanwyck. She got my motor running. Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 04, 2016 11:23 PM (DW+jj) Some of the early Tarzan movies had some nude scenes and had Jane skinny dipping, it was a body double but still. Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 04, 2016 11:29 PM (dKiJG) 155
Song covers? I just tweeted this out about an hour ago.
I fell in love with this band then found out ten minutes later their lead singer left them. https://youtu.be/xH-_9cwdLug Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 04, If any of them are distraught over it I would be willing to console them. Posted by: buzzion at September 04, 2016 11:30 PM (bMG0w) 156
I must say, college OT is exciting. It's not "football" as I know it, but it is exciting.
Posted by: Weirddave at September 04, 2016 11:30 PM (N8hFs) 157
Being "Right" or "Far-Right" has advantages... nobody has a fantasy about being seduced by someone wearing Birkenstocks and a ponytail.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 04, 2016 11:32 PM (P/kVC) 158
And the original Batman movie is on Netflix.
Posted by: buzzion at September 04, 2016 11:32 PM (bMG0w) Posted by: L, Elle at September 04, 2016 11:32 PM (6IPEM) 160
I looked it up. That pre-Code Stanwyck film was "Baby Face", 1933. Barbara played a woman who used sex to advance herself.
SHe was the daughter of a bootlegger during Prohibition and ran a speakeasy. He'd been whoring her out since she was a teenager for money. He father gets killed when his still explodes, and the only man she trusts advises her to start using men, rather than letting them use her. It was as dark as anything produced today, and was basically an R-rated movie by today's standards. Hint, they knew as much about sex and the use and abuse of it as any today. Further hint. Humanity has always known this. Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 04, 2016 11:32 PM (DW+jj) 161
I want to meet the guy who was contemplating his farts and thought, "I want to light that mother fucker on fire."
This man is a distrurbed genius. Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2016 11:32 PM (/tuJf) 162
The Front Page ... either version.
I like that one better, couldn't remember the name of the movie. Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 04, 2016 11:32 PM (dKiJG) 163
My laptop is going to die during the 2nd OT. Sheesh.
Posted by: Country Boy at September 04, 2016 11:33 PM (i7sL+) 164
re prison heat - Sheriff Joe, Americuh's Sheriff via his minions killed a woman in an outside metal cage: http://preview.tinyurl.com/z2t7649 And no one was charged. And he just won reelection easily. ---------------------- What gets me about Sheriff Joe's games with inmates is that he does this to people who are detained while awaiting trial. They haven't been convicted of anything but they're being baked and starved as punishment just for winding up in detention. Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 04, 2016 11:33 PM (5o5ek) 165
I want to meet the guy who was contemplating his farts and thought, "I want to light that mother fucker on fire."
This man is a distrurbed genius. Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2016 11:32 PM (/tuJf) He got bored with cow tipping, one thing led to another. Next thing you, life of the frat parties. Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 04, 2016 11:33 PM (P/kVC) 166
*****
They did that wrong. The band breaks up when the drummer dies from alcohol poisoning and choking on his own vomit. Well, shit, now what are they going to do? That is my all time favorite Zeppelin song. I would never imagine that an all girl band could pull off a decent cover, but that was pretty good. I like how they're wearing all white. Nice touch. Posted by: L, Elle at September 04, 2016 11:28 PM (6IPEM) Just imagine an all female Def Leppard cover band, and explaining to the drummer half way through she's gonna have to give up an arm. Posted by: buzzion at September 04, 2016 11:34 PM (bMG0w) Posted by: Puddleglum at September 04, 2016 11:34 PM (20X6f) 168
This man is a distrurbed genius.
So is the first guy who saw a lobster and thought "I know, I'll put that in my mouth!" Posted by: Weirddave at September 04, 2016 11:34 PM (N8hFs) 169
I'm not for turning prisons into country clubs or anything like that -- going to prison shouldn't be a vacation, but it also shouldn't be needlessly harsh.
Posted by: Michael the TEXIT Hobbit at September 04, 2016 11:19 PM (nvMvs) Well, you could build nice cool underground prisons in hollowed-out salt domes, but then the fuckers would whine about not getting any sunlight. If you can't serve the time, don't do the crime. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2016 11:34 PM (oqkO3) 170
I'm sorry we have soldiers in MOPPS (sp) gear in the ME even in crazy temps. I have zero sympathy for convicts having to sit on their asses in heat.
Posted by: PaleRider at September 04, 2016 11:36 PM (Jen0I) 171
the word "fart" is onomatopoeic. it has cognates in nearly every language.
i mentioned this at a dinner once and an iranian (i.e. persian) there disputed that until he admitted after some discussion that in persian slang there's a similar word. Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 04, 2016 11:36 PM (WTSFk) Posted by: reliably perspicacious Hopped Up On Something at September 04, 2016 11:36 PM (buzvm) 173
I'm sorry we have soldiers in MOPPS (sp) gear in the ME even in crazy temps. I have zero sympathy for convicts having to sit on their asses in heat.
Posted by: PaleRider at September 04, 2016 11:36 PM (Jen0I) Hear, hear! Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 04, 2016 11:36 PM (zc3Db) 174
Weirddave, LOL.
Jim Gaffigan has a whole bit about how God must shake his head when He sees the stuff us humans have decided is fit for culinary consumption. "I gave you perfectly good steers and chickens, and you're gonna eat the CRAB?!?!?" ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:37 PM (OKox0) 175
Just imagine an all female Def Leppard cover band, and explaining to the drummer half way through she's gonna have to give up an arm.
Posted by: buzzion at September 04, 2016 11:34 PM (bMG0w) That's...that's so MEAN! *sobs* Posted by: Michelle Fields at September 04, 2016 11:37 PM (0mRoj) 176
Evenin' everyone.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 04, 2016 11:37 PM (T/cxb) 177
What gets me about Sheriff Joe's games with inmates is that he does this to people who are detained while awaiting trial. They haven't been convicted of anything but they're being baked and starved as punishment just for winding up in detention.
*** Even the guilty are only sent to prison to separate them from society and to take their freedom as punishment. It's not suppose to be a sentence of unspeakable cruelty. To lock someone who's obviously mentally unwell in a cage, and leave her their after she begs for water, after she defecates herself, and after she passes out, requires a callousness to life that calls for them, too, to be separated from society. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 04, 2016 11:38 PM (SEXy3) 178
I miss them terribly. Posted by: Octiparan at September 04, 2016 11:10 PM (f1/cC) ----------------------- 5 yorkies. Well, I'm sorry you miss them. I'm tellin' ya, it's crazy-making in this house. One of them alone is louder than all the people in the house combined. Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 04, 2016 11:38 PM (5o5ek) 179
Found a source on Proto-Indo-European farting (c. 6000 BCE!):
http://languagehat.com/loud-vs-silent/ Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at September 04, 2016 11:38 PM (kP16F) 180
Apropos of farts and bathroom humor, Mozart was quite the potty-mouth, too. Here is a link to recordings of three of his dirty songs:
http://tinyurl.com/noj4l89 The first one can be translated into English as "Kiss my @ss." Posted by: Basement Cat at September 04, 2016 11:39 PM (3C9q2) 181
I've tried to quit this place 1/2 dozen times, but it just isnt in the cards. I'll be here annoying people until ace hangs it up.
Posted by: Chi at September 04, 2016 11:20 PM LMAO. You do know that Tucker's exploits are a major feature of the ONT? T Posted by: Farmer at September 04, 2016 11:39 PM (o/90i) 182
Remember that being a reporter didn't require a degree in those days. I liked watching the old movies about reporters, like MY GIRL FRIDAY.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 04, 2016 11:25 PM (dKiJG) It was a trade, not a "profession" and beginners basically apprenticed to seasoned journeymen. Arguably, it was a better system. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2016 11:39 PM (oqkO3) 183
Never forget when my wife farted in front on me for the first time, she put me to shame. We were getting ready to leave for dinner she said hold on and she let out the loudest fart I had heard and she lets go. I choose well.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 04, 2016 11:39 PM (dKiJG) 184
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"I gave you perfectly good steers and chickens, and you're gonna eat the CRAB?!?!?" ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:37 PM (OKox0) Yeah, that gigantic seagoing tarantula sure looks yummy! Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2016 11:39 PM (sdi6R) 185
Even the guilty are only sent to prison to separate them from society and to take their freedom as punishment. It's not suppose to be a sentence of unspeakable cruelty. ------------------ That is true. You go to jail AS punishment, not FOR punishment. Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 04, 2016 11:40 PM (5o5ek) 186
Read the review of the 1936 pamphlet "how to make love", and I'll take the advice of the author Hugh Morris over the advice of the hyphenated male who reviewed it.
Posted by: DFCtomm at September 04, 2016 11:40 PM (q5sde) 187
As someone who did MOPP4 at White Sands in the summer, yeah that stunk Donkey Kong balls.
But lets not make broad generalizations shall we? If there is credible threat to the well being of the inmates then something should be done to ameliorate it before someone croaks. But just because one inmate whines to their lawyer about being hot is not a reason to install the Mega-Cooler on the cooler. Posted by: Anna Puma at September 04, 2016 11:40 PM (XNHOq) 188
Texas wins. Damn entertaining game. Didn't care who won but glad I watched. Really fun.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 04, 2016 11:40 PM (20X6f) 189
182 Remember that being a reporter didn't require a degree in those days. I liked watching the old movies about reporters, like MY GIRL FRIDAY.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 04, 2016 11:25 PM (dKiJG) It was a trade, not a "profession" and beginners basically apprenticed to seasoned journeymen. Arguably, it was a better system. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2016 11:39 PM (oqkO3) I think that would be true for a lot of things. Posted by: Insomniac at September 04, 2016 11:40 PM (0mRoj) 190
>>So is the first guy who saw a lobster and thought "I know, I'll put that in my mouth!"
It's not a bug, it's a crustacean! Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2016 11:41 PM (/tuJf) 191
Thank God that game is over. It was killing me.
Hook 'Em. Posted by: reliably perspicacious Hopped Up On Something at September 04, 2016 11:41 PM (buzvm) 192
This weekend showed that the top 25 preseason rankings should be taken with a lot of salt.
Posted by: Vendette at September 04, 2016 11:41 PM (jOi+y) 193
Just imagine an all female Def Leppard cover band, and explaining to the drummer half way through she's gonna have to give up an arm.
Posted by: buzzion at September 04, 2016 11:34 PM **** I shouldn't have laughed at that but I'm bad just like you. But, hey, at least the band sticks together. I read stuff that about them that admitted that their drummer was nearly useless bc they rigged his drum kit up in a way that barely required him. I thought that was sweet that they wouldn't let him quit. Compare that to Van Halen. I always thought that break up was bc of David Lee Roth. Apparently, Eddie is a total dick. It was all him. Same with Sammy. All Eddie's doing. Posted by: L, Elle at September 04, 2016 11:42 PM (6IPEM) 194
Even the guilty are only sent to prison to separate them from society and to take their freedom as punishment. It's not suppose to be a sentence of unspeakable cruelty.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 04, 2016 11:38 PM (SEXy3) Their aren't sent to prison just to separate them from society, and taking their freedom isn't the whole of their punishment. That's why there used to be sentences of hard labor and why there are death penalties. Further, prisoners can legally become slaves of the state. Slavery was not abolished. It was only reserved as punishment for crimes. These prisoners were not put into the cages just for fun. They did stuff to end up there. The articles mentions prisoners refusing to return to their cells. That's life. As to this particular case, she was just waiting to be transported. Blame the hospital for not picking her up. 4 hours in the sun in 107 temps is not a big deal, anyway. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 04, 2016 11:43 PM (zc3Db) 195
rickl, LOL.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:43 PM (OKox0) 196
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"I gave you perfectly good steers and chickens, and you're gonna eat the CRAB?!?!?" ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:37 PM (OKox0) Yeah, that gigantic seagoing tarantula sure looks yummy! Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2016 11:39 PM (sdi6R) One does have to wonder sometimes who thought cooking up and eating certain things would be a good idea. Personally I'm glad others blazed the trail on lobster and crab, because I love the stuff, but if you were seeing either one of those critters for the first time your first thought wouldn't be "mmm, dinner!" Posted by: Insomniac at September 04, 2016 11:43 PM (0mRoj) Posted by: Octopus at September 04, 2016 11:45 PM (Z4WiE) 198
Compare that to Van Halen. I always thought that break up was bc of David Lee Roth. Apparently, Eddie is a total dick. It was all him. Same with Sammy. All Eddie's doing.
I've seen some interviews with Hagar and he has some very choice words about Eddie. Sammy don't hold back. Always like Hagar. Posted by: Puddleglum at September 04, 2016 11:45 PM (20X6f) 199
As to this particular case, she was just waiting to be transported. Blame the hospital for not picking her up. 4 hours in the sun in 107 temps is not a big deal, anyway.
*** Well then you and I will just have to disagree on what constitutes cruelty. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 04, 2016 11:45 PM (SEXy3) 200
What gets me about Sheriff Joe's games with inmates is that he does this to people who are detained while awaiting trial. They haven't been convicted of anything but they're being baked and starved as punishment just for winding up in detention.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 04, 2016 11:33 PM (5o5ek) I expect most of those people are repeat offenders and cannot raise bail because they have skipped on bail at least once before. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2016 11:45 PM (oqkO3) 201
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"I gave you perfectly good steers and chickens, and you're gonna eat the CRAB?!?!?" ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 04, 2016 11:37 PM (OKox0) Yeah, that gigantic seagoing tarantula sure looks yummy! Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2016 11:39 PM (sdi6R) One does have to wonder sometimes who thought cooking up and eating certain things would be a good idea. Personally I'm glad others blazed the trail on lobster and crab, because I love the stuff, but if you were seeing either one of those critters for the first time your first thought wouldn't be "mmm, dinner!" Posted by: Insomniac at September 04, 2016 11:43 PM (0mRoj) You have to wonder at all the trial & error that went into early cuisine. Thag: "Is that poisonous?" THUD Grog: "Yup." Posted by: josephistan at September 04, 2016 11:46 PM (7qAYi) 202
Well then you and I will just have to disagree on what constitutes cruelty.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 04, 2016 11:45 PM (SEXy3) Yeah. Pretty much. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 04, 2016 11:48 PM (zc3Db) 203
I kinda want to go to Burning Man and just take lots of mild hallucinogens and bike around at night on my groovymobile like a pre-Code Dr. Seuss story.
Oooooh, we should have a MoMee at Burning Man! We're totally their key demographic! Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 04, 2016 11:48 PM (jR7Wy) 204
I remember reading about some wind turbines near a prison in the UK and at sunset the blades shadows of oslating (is that the right word) light would literally drive the inmates insane. The company had to switch off the turbines at sunset.
I saw a YouTube video of a house that has the same problem, it would drive you insane. Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 04, 2016 11:48 PM (dKiJG) 205
Some of you may be interested in "The Code", the censorship code of American movies. It started in earnest in 1934.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1915 that free speech did not apply to motion pictures. Yes, you read that right. States started setting up censorship boards. NY was the first state to do so, I think. Anyway, Hollywood adopted the Motion Picture Production Code to stave off government censorship. That SC ruling has since been overturned, of course. Films before the Code, which were full of sex (and these sold well, as it always does, but it fired up a backlash), drew the ire of politicians and religious leaders. And it wasn't so much the sex. They potrayed politicians as bumbling corrupt idiots, religious leaders as hypocrites and all that. They didn't like that. Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 04, 2016 11:49 PM (DW+jj) 206
Compare that to Van Halen. I always thought that break up was bc of David Lee Roth. Apparently, Eddie is a total dick. It was all him. Same with Sammy. All Eddie's doing.
Posted by: L, Elle at September 04, 2016 11:42 PM (6IPEM) Saw an interview of EVH (youtube iirc), asked him what/who he listened to. Said he only listened to his own stuff. He didn't look like he was joking Posted by: random lurker at September 04, 2016 11:50 PM (+tRIN) 207
i mentioned this at a dinner once and an iranian
(i.e. persian) there disputed that until he admitted after some discussion that in persian slang there's a similar word. Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 04, 2016 11:36 PM (WTSFk) You don't think it might be because Persian is an Indo-European family language? Posted by: Kindltot at September 04, 2016 11:50 PM (e9hKK) 208
I saw a YouTube video of a house that has the same problem, it would drive you insane.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 04, 2016 11:48 PM (dKiJG) --- Was it on the lovely Miskatonic River? Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 04, 2016 11:50 PM (jR7Wy) 209
I'm certain our early ancestors were well accustomed to eating insects and spiders from the land... When even larger, meatier creepy-crawlies were found at the shore, they knew exactly what to do!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at September 04, 2016 11:50 PM (kP16F) 210
Four hours in 107F temps is a very big deal as someone's whole body and brain are roasted.
Heat stroke is not a fun thing to experience, ask me how I know? After passing out from another MOPP4 event, just came out after two hours and trying to stay hydrated in 90+F temps with humidity in the 90% range. I was trudging to the simulated decon area still in chemical ensemble but mask off. Said I felt light headed. Next thing I remember was waking up in the clinic with an IV in each arm as they pumped fluids back into my body. Posted by: Anna Puma at September 04, 2016 11:52 PM (XNHOq) 211
So is the first guy who saw a lobster and thought "I know, I'll put that in my mouth!"
Lobsters are high-end cuisine now, but were low-end when the Puritans first landed. They only ate these seagoing cockroaches out of desperation. Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 04, 2016 11:53 PM (SRKgf) 212
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You have to wonder at all the trial & error that went into early cuisine. Thag: "Is that poisonous?" THUD Grog: "Yup." Posted by: josephistan at September 04, 2016 11:46 PM (7qAYi) And plants, too. The leaves of this plant are good to eat but the roots will kill you, while the roots of that plant are OK but the fruit is poisonous. Who could keep all that straight? Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2016 11:53 PM (sdi6R) 213
If they don't want to be treated like animals, then they shouldn't have committed the crime. No sympathy. As for the people who are just being detained: They must have done something wrong to get put in jail. No sympathy for them either. Our Constitution shouldn't apply to any of them. Let them rot.
So say some of my older relatives. Then these same relatives get tickets for not wearing their seatbelts. But this, you see, is a sign of justice gone amok. And I laugh, and they don't get why. Posted by: FireHorse at September 04, 2016 11:53 PM (lh7g2) 214
Saw an interview of EVH (youtube iirc), asked him what/who he listened to. Said he only listened to his own stuff. He didn't look like he was joking
Posted by: random lurker at September 04, 2016 11:50 PM ****** I saw that too. I think rdbrewer or JohnE linked it in the sidebar. Yeah, the gist of it was Eddie saying Why would I listen to anyone else when I'm the best. Big primadonna and ungracious. He pretty much dumped on everyone he wasn't related to in that piece. It was cringeworthy. Posted by: L, Elle at September 04, 2016 11:53 PM (6IPEM) 215
Lobsters are high-end cuisine now, but were low-end
when the Puritans first landed. They only ate these seagoing cockroaches out of desperation. Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 04, 2016 11:53 PM (SRKgf) Some colonial codes had limits to how many days a week you could feed your indentured servants sea-bugs. Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 04, 2016 11:54 PM (P/kVC) 216
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re prison heat - Sheriff Joe, Americuh's Sheriff via his minions killed a woman in an outside metal cage: http://preview.tinyurl.com/z2t7649 And no one was charged. And he just won reelection easily. (sorry but this guy pisses me off mightily; I'd like to see him penned up in an outside metal cage in 107 degree temps. for a month or two, and yes in this case I'm rooting for the DOJ to take his asshole self down) *** That's sickening Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 04, 2016 11:26 PM (SEXy3) Sheriff Joe is one of those guys the establishment is out to get. I wouldn't put what he is being accused of past him, but also wouldn't put it past the powers that want him in jail himself to lie about what happened. I wouldn't believe either side in that shit show. Posted by: DFCtomm at September 04, 2016 11:54 PM (q5sde) 217
Hammock: "It's like a giant net for catching lazy people." I just read that in Jim Gaffigan's stage-whisper.
Journalism: It was a trade, not a "profession" and beginners basically apprenticed to seasoned journeymen. Arguably, it was a better system. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2016 11:39 PM (oqkO3) Telling a smug national reporter that he need not go to school for a trade that believes itself to be a profession would be delightful. Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 04, 2016 11:54 PM (VdICR) 218
And plants, too. The leaves of this plant are good to eat but the roots will kill you, while the roots of that plant are OK but the fruit is poisonous. Who could keep all that straight?
Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2016 11:53 PM (sdi6R) I can tell. Posted by: Chuck Darwin at September 04, 2016 11:55 PM (SRKgf) 219
And plants, too. The leaves of this plant are good
to eat but the roots will kill you, while the roots of that plant are OK but the fruit is poisonous. Who could keep all that straight? Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2016 11:53 PM (sdi6R) How does anyone keep it straight now? They were cavemen, not stupid. Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 04, 2016 11:55 PM (P/kVC) 220
Telling a smug national reporter that he need not go to school for a trade that believes itself to be a profession would be delightful.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 04, 2016 11:54 PM (VdICR) Or to tell him that he belongs to the world's oldest ... trade. Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 04, 2016 11:56 PM (SRKgf) 221
159 Okay, Chi, spill.
What did Mr. Tucker do today? I'm dying to find out. Posted by: L, Elle ----------------- Oh, nothing special at all, really. His buddy Oocho the doxie stopped by today. Remember, no leash (I doubt I could find it right now). After 45 minutes of chasing each other around the front yard, Oocho decided to wander off, but we didn't notice until I heard Tucker whining. He was sitting at the property line, but wouldn't cross it. Just let us know that "Timmy fell down a well." "Where is Oocho?" Took Mike a good 30 minutes to round up the hotdog. I usually give Tucker t minutes and say F it - hell come home when he's tired & hungry. Posted by: Chi at September 04, 2016 11:56 PM (vXUHK) 222
Compare that to Van Halen. I always thought that break up was bc of David Lee Roth. Apparently, Eddie is a total dick. It was all him. Same with Sammy. All Eddie's doing. Posted by: L, Elle at September 04, 2016 11:42 PM (6IPEM) It's both, they fired the bassist because he was playing in Sammy's band and it pissed them off, so they had Eddie's fat son Wolfgang who never played the bass in his life be part of the band and play bass. He never said a bad thing about them for all those years and he goes off and plays with Sammy and they fire him assholes Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 04, 2016 11:56 PM (dKiJG) 223
Lobsters? Just ponder who desperate and starving the Acadians of Louisiana had to have been to look at mudbugs and go "Hey Beaudreaux, yew think that thing any good to eat?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 04, 2016 11:56 PM (XNHOq) 224
60 minutes aired or replayed a sob story about a guy who was convicted of a murder and later cleared but spent 30 years on death row in LA (state). 60 minutes danced around the fact - but the state is refusing to give him compensation for wrongful imprisonment because he was an accessory before and after the fact to the robbery where the victim was killed; if I read between the lines correctly.
I know I'm supposed to be outraged on behalf of the poor *innocent* prisoner but I just can't make myself feel it. I'm just like. "damn you set up the robbery, you took part of the loot, you are not fully innocent and I don't care if the years on death row was a much harsher sentence than you would have gotten if only convicted of the accessory stuff. Posted by: PaleRider at September 04, 2016 11:56 PM (Jen0I) 225
Nite all. We had a great time last night w/ old friends. I worked today and tomorrow is my big vacation day. Yay!
Be well all! Posted by: Farmer at September 04, 2016 11:57 PM (o/90i) 226
The first oyster eater was a brave man. That or starving.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 04, 2016 11:57 PM (JO9+V) 227
Lobsters are high-end cuisine now, but were low-end when the Puritans
first landed. They only ate these seagoing cockroaches out of desperation. There was a group of prisoners in the Revolutionary War who rioted because they were given almost nothing but lobster to eat. Posted by: Weirddave at September 04, 2016 11:58 PM (N8hFs) 228
Time for bed. Goodnight Horde
Posted by: josephistan at September 04, 2016 11:58 PM (7qAYi) 229
There was a group of prisoners in the Revolutionary War who rioted because they were given almost nothing but lobster to eat.
Posted by: Weirddave at September 04, 2016 11:58 PM (N8hFs) Probably raw and no butter. Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 04, 2016 11:59 PM (P/kVC) 230
I remember reading about some wind turbines near a prison in the UK and at sunset the blades shadows of oslating (is that the right word) light would literally drive the inmates insane. The company had to switch off the turbines at sunset.
I saw a YouTube video of a house that has the same problem, it would drive you insane. **** Shadow flicker. This would make me insane after a while. https://youtu.be/MbIe0iUtelQ Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 05, 2016 12:00 AM (SEXy3) 231
Oooooh, we should have a MoMee at Burning Man! We're totally their key demographic!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 04, 2016 11:48 PM (jR7Wy) I don't think we as a group could generate that toxic level of smug and self importance. Also, aren't they tobacco and firearms free? Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 12:00 AM (e9hKK) 232
RE: Prisoners,
I've been sketching out an essay in support of bringing back whipping posts for punishment of misdemeanors and non-violent crimes. Seems like it would be a lot more humane than crowded overheating prisons. Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at September 05, 2016 12:00 AM (FYrz1) 233
60 minutes aired or replayed a sob story about a guy who was convicted of a murder and later cleared but spent 30 years on death row in LA (state). 60 minutes danced around the fact - but the state is refusing to give him compensation for wrongful imprisonment because he was an accessory before and after the fact to the robbery where the victim was killed; if I read between the lines correctly.
I know I'm supposed to be outraged on behalf of the poor *innocent* prisoner but I just can't make myself feel it. I'm just like. "damn you set up the robbery, you took part of the loot, you are not fully innocent and I don't care if the years on death row was a much harsher sentence than you would have gotten if only convicted of the accessory stuff. Posted by: PaleRider at September 04, 2016 11:56 PM (Jen0I) If he was an accessory both before and after the fact, doesn't that put him under the felony murder statute? In that co-conspirators to a criminal enterprise share the guilt if a murder takes place. Perhaps the guy was technically guilty of felony murder, but was mis-charged in the original trial. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2016 12:01 AM (oqkO3) 234
Saw a show about Van Halen. They were about to go on tour and Michael Anthony, the bass player, went on the band's website for some details about the schedule. He saw "Wolfgang Van Halen, bass" on the main page. That's how he found out he was fired. He made a phone call to confirm it - yep, he was out.
Posted by: FireHorse at September 05, 2016 12:01 AM (lh7g2) 235
Raw lobster is nasty!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at September 05, 2016 12:01 AM (kP16F) 236
Shadow flicker.
This would make me insane after a while. https://youtu.be/MbIe0iUtelQ Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 05, 2016 12:00 AM (SEXy3) Rather have an apartment next to the tracks. Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 05, 2016 12:01 AM (P/kVC) 237
I remember watching some Charlie Chan movie with my Dad and at the end they showed Charlie pleading with the audience about a law where you couldn't show movies on Sunday's
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:03 AM (dKiJG) 238
Rather have an apartment next to the tracks.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 05, 2016 12:01 AM (P/kVC) Caint says that's a good idea. Posted by: Old Coot in the Clint Eastwood flick at September 05, 2016 12:04 AM (JO9+V) 239
Rather have an apartment next to the tracks.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 05, 2016 12:01 AM (P/kVC) There is a plantation of those bird choppers to the north of Peon Manor. The nearest of them is a full two miles away, and I can neither see nor hear them from the house, for which fact I am thankful. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2016 12:04 AM (oqkO3) 240
Some people know I have been attending the Eastern Orthodox Church (This one is of the Russian variety) when i get chance. It is the most "high church" service i have ever attended. and I've been to high Episcopalian and Anglican services The priest must wear out his arm from all the censing (Is that the proper word?) he does. The liturgy is mostly sung-between the choir and the priest. It is very lovely although going to from a Protestant service to an Eastern Orthodox one is like going to another culture. It is a very conservative church. They don't even have girls as altar servers.
At any rate, some nice woman in the church sends out the daily prayers and liturgy readings. I try to read up on them beforehand. if I can I couldn't go to the Vespers service this Saturday, but one of the people they were remembering was Blessed John "The Hairy" Fool for Christ at Rostov (1580) I guess I'm easily amused, but I laughed so hard at the name and his picture as an icon (He is indeed very hairy) that my husband came out to ask me what i was laughing about. One of the interesting things is that the liturgy is so very formal and yet they have these little down to earth rather touching names for their holy people. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:04 AM (6HqlZ) 241
meant to say high church Anglican and Roman Catholic services.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:05 AM (6HqlZ) 242
Interesting premise for a movie - Shadow Flicker.
A series of grisly murders bedevil and terrify a town. Only in the early morning or late afternoon does some fiend rend apart towns people. Who could it be? It turns out the wind farms did it and the culprit? The whole town, because not just one person was affected by the strobe effect of the blades against a low slung Sun. Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2016 12:05 AM (XNHOq) 243
Shadow flicker.
This would make me insane after a while. https://youtu.be/MbIe0iUtelQ Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 05, 2016 12:00 AM (SEXy3) Looks like somebody didn't NIMBY vigorously enough. Posted by: random lurker at September 05, 2016 12:06 AM (+tRIN) 244
226 The first oyster eater was a brave man. That or starving.
Posted by: Count de Monet --------------------- Probably starving, and saw some critter eating one. That's my theory. I grew up and have lived on the Chesapeake Bay - (mumblety) years now. I can eat an oyster when everyone else rejects it as overdone. Or in a good Rockefeller. Raw? Yeah, NO. Posted by: Chi at September 05, 2016 12:07 AM (vXUHK) 245
Rather have an apartment next to the tracks.
*** I've lived about 150' from tracks and you do actually become mute to it. That flicker thing, I can't imagine I'd ever get used to it. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 05, 2016 12:07 AM (SEXy3) 246
Also, aren't they tobacco and firearms free?
Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 12:00 AM (e9hKK) ---- That is hilarious, given the brobdingnagian piles of ganja smoked and the amount of fire spewing forth. Anyway, we need a venue to wear our AoSHQ holographic onesies. Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 05, 2016 12:07 AM (jR7Wy) 247
Shadow Flicker, their was a documentary on Netflix about wind turbines and the effects it had on communities.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:07 AM (dKiJG) 248
Interesting premise for a movie - Shadow Flicker.
A series of grisly murders bedevil and terrify a town. Only in the early morning or late afternoon does some fiend rend apart towns people. Who could it be? It turns out the wind farms did it and the culprit? The whole town, because not just one person was affected by the strobe effect of the blades against a low slung Sun. Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2016 12:05 AM (XNHOq) I will direct this! Posted by: M. Night Shymalamadingdong at September 05, 2016 12:08 AM (JO9+V) 249
Oooooh, we should have a MoMee at Burning Man! We're totally their key demographic!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage Great idea!! Show up in a mid-70s era Ford pickup, playing Hank Williams Jr. REALLY LOUD, with Confederate Flag waving in the back. That would be entertaining. Make sure the gun racks inside the truck have actual guns on them. :-) Posted by: Puddleglum at September 05, 2016 12:08 AM (20X6f) 250
My niece is a corrections officer in the Houston area. She's been doing it for about two years now, and I'd say that a job like that adds calluses to your heart. And they grow thicker as the years add up there.
PS They are hiring; they are always short staffed. Need a job? The Niece is forever pulling double shifts there. PSS Read Three Felonies A Day, if you'd like to know how close each and every one of us is to prison ourselves. On the wrong side of the bars. Unless your name is Clinton. If you've ever noticed someone 'of interest' getting arrested for something completely different than the interest, that there is a clue that there is ALWAYS something they can charge you with. Posted by: GnuBreed at September 05, 2016 12:08 AM (gyKtp) 251
I've been sketching out an essay in support of
bringing back whipping posts for punishment of misdemeanors and non-violent crimes. Seems like it would be a lot more humane than crowded overheating prisons. Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at September 05, 2016 12:00 AM (FYrz1) I have been wondering about the costs and death rates of long-term imprisonment versus medically induced comas. Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 12:08 AM (e9hKK) Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 12:08 AM (e9hKK) Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 12:09 AM (e9hKK) 254
David Lee Roth had a huge ego...but apparently not as huge as Eddie's.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on the all-night request line at September 05, 2016 12:09 AM (rJUlF) 255
Chi, that's actually impressive. Tucker waiting at the property line is Wow. I've been working on off leash training with mine. 2/3's of the time she will come when I call her. The other 1/3 are incredibly frustrating bc she will hear the command, stop in her tracks, look at me, and then decide Nah and take off. I'm so jealous when I see people walking their dogs without a leash. I don't trust mine enough to take the risk of doing that anywhere outside of my own house
Posted by: L, Elle at September 05, 2016 12:09 AM (6IPEM) 256
I expect most of those people are repeat offenders and cannot raise bail because they have skipped on bail at least once before. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2016 11:45 PM (oqkO3) -------------------- Most probably are, but I recall an incident of someone (or ones) who were in on suspicion, too poor to make bail, and they got that treatment, and it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Yeah, some of those detainees before trial might be guilty, but it's the principle. Sheriff Joe is saying that just by virtue of being in jail, the inmates deserve lousy treatment. Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 05, 2016 12:09 AM (5o5ek) 257
Blessed John "The Hairy" Fool for Christ at Rostov
--- FenelonSpoke, I Googled his image (or icon, if you will) and he doesn't seem any hairier than your typical Williamsburg hipster. Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 05, 2016 12:10 AM (jR7Wy) 258
So is the first guy who saw a lobster and thought "I know, I'll put that in my mouth!"
Posted by: Weirddave at September 04, 2016 11:34 PM (N8hFs) Starvation undoubtedly was the driver there. Oysters were also considered poor man's food in the 19th century. Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands&&&&&so there at September 05, 2016 12:12 AM (P8951) 259
I have been wondering about the costs and death rates of long-term imprisonment versus medically induced comas. -------------------- You and whoever wrote Minority Report. That prison made me shudder a wee tad. Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 05, 2016 12:12 AM (5o5ek) 260
Well the state can't prove now if he set up the robbery. It was stated as the state thinks he *knew* the robbery would happen. At the start of the segment 60 minutes said he admitted he sold some of the stolen jewelry if I heard right. The actual robber that killed the jeweler confessed decades later. The state prosecutor did not say anything about accessory but for me reading between the lines it is felony accessory to the robbery where the jeweler was killed.
Posted by: PaleRider at September 05, 2016 12:12 AM (Jen0I) 261
All Hail Eris if the Horde did crash Burning Man ala Lord Humongous the hipsters would be screaming in fear like gelded cats
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2016 12:12 AM (XNHOq) 262
60 minutes aired or replayed a sob story about a guy who was convicted of a murder and later cleared but spent 30 years on death row in LA (state). 60 minutes danced around the fact - but the state is refusing to give him compensation for wrongful imprisonment because he was an accessory before and after the fact to the robbery where the victim was killed; if I read between the lines correctly.
I know I'm supposed to be outraged on behalf of the poor *innocent* prisoner but I just can't make myself feel it. I'm just like. "damn you set up the robbery, you took part of the loot, you are not fully innocent and I don't care if the years on death row was a much harsher sentence than you would have gotten if only convicted of the accessory stuff. Posted by: PaleRider at September 04, 2016 11:56 PM (Jen0I) Now if the original offender had killed some aging CBS "journalists," they would have had a rather different take on the story. As would I. Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 05, 2016 12:12 AM (SRKgf) 263
253 I've been blowing tags all night.
I think I shouldn't post while drinking Pisco and apple juice. Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 12:09 AM (e9hKK) Watch it with the teeth! Posted by: tags at September 05, 2016 12:13 AM (ACqhm) 264
Great idea!! Show up in a mid-70s era Ford pickup, playing Hank Williams Jr. REALLY LOUD, with Confederate Flag waving in the back. That would be entertaining. Make sure the gun racks inside the truck have actual guns on them. :-) Posted by: Puddleglum at September 05, 2016 12:08 AM (20X6f) --- Blow their minds by having an enormous rainbow Confederate flag. Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 05, 2016 12:13 AM (jR7Wy) 265
245 Rather have an apartment next to the tracks.
*** I've lived about 150' from tracks and you do actually become mute to it. That flicker thing, I can't imagine I'd ever get used to it. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse You do get used to it. I've lived right next to a subway station for years, that also is a major bus hub so there is always traffic going in and out. Doesn't bother me at all. Posted by: Puddleglum at September 05, 2016 12:13 AM (20X6f) 266
Huh? You haven't called me!
I'm right here! Posted by: Strikethrough Tag at September 05, 2016 12:13 AM (vXUHK) 267
261 All Hail Eris if the Horde did crash Burning Man ala Lord Humongous the hipsters would be screaming in fear like gelded cats
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2016 12:12 AM (XNHOq) --- Right?! Tell me you aren't intrigues at the idea. Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 05, 2016 12:14 AM (jR7Wy) 268
I pity the hairy fool.
Posted by: Mister Golf Tee at September 05, 2016 12:14 AM (IqV8l) 269
Could you shoe-horn a 428 into a Ford F-100? Plus the sound system from Hell?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2016 12:14 AM (XNHOq) 270
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 05, 2016 12:10 AM (jR7Wy)
They probably cleaned him up for the Icon. :^) I just imagine these Russian people in the 1500s saying "Yes, "Blessed John" is such holy man but he's so very hairy. I occasionally write to the priest regarding my observations on the service. He probably thinks I'm insane (one of the insane people who laughs a lot ;^) but he doesn't go out of his way to avoid me at services-yet. I don't laugh during services. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:14 AM (6HqlZ) 271
254 David Lee Roth had a huge ego...but apparently not as huge as Eddie's.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on the all-night request line at September 05, 2016 12:09 AM (rJUlF) And what was basis for those huge egos? Had they cured cancer? Had they come up with unified field theory? No. They were retards who entertained other retards. We could teach chimpanzees to play guitars. And apparently, have done. Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 05, 2016 12:15 AM (SRKgf) 272
259:You and whoever wrote Minority Report. That prison made me shudder a wee tad.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky I think Philip K Dick wrote Minority Report. Posted by: Puddleglum at September 05, 2016 12:16 AM (20X6f) 273
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:04 AM (6HqlZ)
I have attended Eastern Rite Catholic Church, it's very nice. I love how they do communion the bread and wine are mixed and the priest uses a spoon, you tilt your head back and open your mouth. Also they can marry, it's the Roman rite where priests can't marry. Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:16 AM (dKiJG) 274
re Burning Man: we might scare the billionaire Hipster wannabees, but the mescaline fueled fully tatted and pierced artsy folk are probably more than we really want to deal with.
Posted by: blaster at September 05, 2016 12:16 AM (ACqhm) 275
No. They were retards who entertained other retards. We could teach chimpanzees to play guitars. And apparently, have done.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 05, 2016 12:15 AM (SRKgf) --- Just think of the Townsend windmills a gibbon could do! Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 05, 2016 12:16 AM (jR7Wy) 276
I think Philip K Dick wrote Minority Report. Posted by: Puddleglum at September 05, 2016 12:16 AM (20X6f) --------------------- It was based on a book by him, but I don't know how loosely. I haven't read any Philip K Dick! Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 05, 2016 12:16 AM (5o5ek) 277
Jay Guevara - "I shoulda learned to play dem drums"
Alas Sting never grokked what Dire Straits was talking about either. Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2016 12:16 AM (XNHOq) 278
Hello everyone.
So a few hours ago I was kicking around Gun Broker and saw some of the new LLama 1911's on there for $440. What surprised me is that it at least looks like they have decided to jump into the 1911 close market. In the past there was much that did not interchange. Almost bought one, but I already have a gun on the way locally. Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at September 05, 2016 12:17 AM (hVdx9) 279
Right?! Tell me you aren't intrigues at the idea.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 05, 2016 12:14 AM (jR7Wy) *** Sign me up. My life's been pretty boring lately. Posted by: Captain Whitebread on the all-night request line at September 05, 2016 12:17 AM (rJUlF) Posted by: blaster at September 05, 2016 12:18 AM (ACqhm) 281
iforgot, Philip K. Dick was a great, great writer.
Only problem is, it's tough to find PKD fan clubs. There was one years ago but things didn't work out like they should have, probably because it was called "I Love Dick." :-P Posted by: qdpsteve at September 05, 2016 12:18 AM (OKox0) Posted by: Captain Whitebread on the all-night request line at September 05, 2016 12:18 AM (rJUlF) 283
Wait, I think Jay Guevera just called me a retard.
Posted by: L, Elle at September 05, 2016 12:18 AM (6IPEM) 284
Hey AoP do you have lurking in your back 40 a sad 23 window VW Type 2 that could be resurrected into the anti-hippy Bus with a fire-breathing V-8 stuffed in it?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2016 12:19 AM (XNHOq) 285
I think Philip K Dick wrote Minority Report.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 05, 2016 12:16 AM (20X6f) I thought that movie was ridiculous. People were talking about how it was so deep, philosophically, handling crime before it happened ... and then I saw the movie and it was all based on friggin fortune-tellers. And to make it worse, it was just downhill from there. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 05, 2016 12:19 AM (zc3Db) 286
271 >> And what was basis for those huge egos? Had they cured cancer? Had they come up with unified field theory?
Posted by: Jay And neither has anyone else. I'm just sayin'... Posted by: GnuBreed at September 05, 2016 12:19 AM (gyKtp) 287
So a few hours ago I was kicking around Gun Broker
and saw some of the new LLama 1911's on there for $440. What surprised me is that it at least looks like they have decided to jump into the 1911 close market. In the past there was much that did not interchange. Almost bought one, but I already have a gun on the way locally. Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at September 05, 2016 12:17 AM (hVdx9) Llama is back? Maybe I can actually get magazines for my micro now... Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 05, 2016 12:19 AM (P/kVC) 288
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:16 AM (dKiJG)
Yep and people kiss the chalice after they partake. One thing I find very touching is that they have a big basket of bread in the back (It's unconsecrated) that anyone can take a piece of. At one of the early services I was at someone came up and brought me bread. it makes it welcoming for those of us who are Christians but can't partake of the Eucharist. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:19 AM (6HqlZ) 289
279 Right?! Tell me you aren't intrigues at the idea.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 05, 2016 12:14 AM (jR7Wy) *** Sign me up. My life's been pretty boring lately. Posted by: Captain Whitebread on the all-night request line at September 05, 2016 12:17 AM (rJUlF) --- You can be DJ Whitebread! Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 05, 2016 12:20 AM (jR7Wy) 290
So are these Assault Llamas with rapid fire cud and things that go up???
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2016 12:20 AM (XNHOq) 291
You can be DJ Whitebread!
Posted by: All Hail Eris Meh, not ethnic enough. How about DJ Sourdough? Or-- I know, you can be DJ Pumpernickel! ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 05, 2016 12:21 AM (OKox0) 292
No. They were retards who entertained other retards. We could teach chimpanzees to play guitars. And apparently, have done.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 05, 2016 12:15 AM (SRKgf) Fame and lots of money and chicks for free will do that to a young guy. I heard today about some 19 year baseball player getting a massive contract from (I think) the Dodgers. I think you'd have to be an exceptional person not to let it go to your head at that age. If I had suddenly made millions at age 21, I'd like to think I wouldn't have become an asshole, but I do know I would have spent a lot of it on stupid things, because I spent money on a lot of stupid things at 21. Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands&&&&&so there at September 05, 2016 12:21 AM (P8951) 293
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:16 AM (dKiJG)
The priests can marry, but I think you have to take a vow that if your wife dies you won't remarry. Archbishops cannot marry. They don't seem to have Bishops. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:21 AM (6HqlZ) 294
Only problem is, it's tough to find PKD fan clubs. There was one years ago but things didn't work out like they should have, probably because it was called "I Love Dick." --------------- They should have called it "Phil me." Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 05, 2016 12:21 AM (5o5ek) 295
Fading fast. Good night Rasta warriors.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 05, 2016 12:21 AM (jR7Wy) 296
And if you get divorced you're orders are revoked or if not revoked you can't serve as a priest anymore.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:22 AM (6HqlZ) 297
Catch you on the flip-side Eris, I need to scoot and write.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2016 12:22 AM (XNHOq) 298
@292 The say cocaine is God's way of telling you you make too much money.
Posted by: blaster at September 05, 2016 12:22 AM (ACqhm) 299
285: Yea, the movie was meh. It was a Spielberg flick and he is a pretty shallow thinker.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 05, 2016 12:22 AM (20X6f) 300
I have attended Eastern Rite Catholic Church, it's very nice. I love how they do communion the bread and wine are mixed and the priest uses a spoon, you tilt your head back and open your mouth. Also they can marry, it's the Roman rite where priests can't marry.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:16 ****** Was it a Byzantine Mass? I have been to a few of those but 2 1/2 hrs at Mass is kind of deal killer for me. Very beautiful, solemn Mass with a sense of the sacred preserved. Posted by: L, Elle at September 05, 2016 12:22 AM (6IPEM) 301
Good night Anna. Hope we've generated some ideas.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 05, 2016 12:23 AM (jR7Wy) 302
I'm out. Be well Horde.
Posted by: PaleRider at September 05, 2016 12:24 AM (Jen0I) 303
I'm getting sleepy, horde, goodnight.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands&&&&&so there at September 05, 2016 12:24 AM (P8951) 304
re Burning Man: we might scare the billionaire
Hipster wannabees, but the mescaline fueled fully tatted and pierced artsy folk are probably more than we really want to deal with. Posted by: blaster at September 05, 2016 12:16 AM (ACqhm) We should bring extra ammo, then, and practice volley firing ahead of time. Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 12:24 AM (e9hKK) 305
See? When Eris leaves, the party breaks up.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 05, 2016 12:24 AM (jR7Wy) 306
Meh, not ethnic enough. How about DJ Sourdough? Or-- I know, you can be DJ Pumpernickel! ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 05, 2016 12:21 AM (OKox0) **** Keep with the Southern theme. DJ Cornbread. Posted by: Captain Whitebread on the all-night request line at September 05, 2016 12:24 AM (rJUlF) 307
Eris - SF story. Some idiots still want to 'honor' Burning Man by hosting a mini-festival after the quake? Might work it in somewhere.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2016 12:24 AM (XNHOq) 308
A relief that I don't dream of electric sheep.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 05, 2016 12:25 AM (VdICR) 309
Most probably are, but I recall an incident of someone (or ones) who were in on suspicion, too poor to make bail, and they got that treatment, and it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Yeah, some of those detainees before trial might be guilty, but it's the principle. Sheriff Joe is saying that just by virtue of being in jail, the inmates deserve lousy treatment.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 05, 2016 12:09 AM (5o5ek) Yes, some innocent (for certain values of "innocent") people may get caught up in the Maricopa County justice system and have a bad time of it. Guess what? Truly innocent people every single day suffer death, injury, bereavement, or financial loss at the hands of criminals, many of which eventually wind up in Sheriff Joe's hospitality centers. I have a house in Pinal County, not even a mile from the Maricopa County line. It got burgled, and I lost hundreds of dollars' worth of tools. If the shitbird who did it (and I have a pretty good idea of his I.D.) were to wind up dead of heat stroke in a Maricopa County jail, I would shed nary a tear about his cruel fate. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2016 12:25 AM (oqkO3) 310
164 That's a mother-fuckin' LIE. They AREN'T being starved. Why should they be more comfortable than the poor people who have to work to pay for their incarceration and/or the people they victimized? Posted by: MAx at September 05, 2016 12:25 AM (0uuiT) 311
CW, LOL. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 05, 2016 12:25 AM (OKox0) 312
I grew up and have lived on the Chesapeake Bay - (mumblety) years now.
I can eat an oyster when everyone else rejects it as overdone. Or in a good Rockefeller. Raw? Yeah, NO. NOT OF THE BODY! NOT OF THE BODY! We reject you. Oysters on the half shell with a little fresh horseradish root grated on them are one of the prime reasons this is the Land of Pleasant Living. MMMMMMMM,OYSTERS..... Posted by: Weirddave at September 05, 2016 12:26 AM (N8hFs) 313
265 245 Rather have an apartment next to the tracks.
*** I've lived about 150' from tracks and you do actually become mute to it. That flicker thing, I can't imagine I'd ever get used to it. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse You do get used to it. I've lived right next to a subway station for years, that also is a major bus hub so there is always traffic going in and out. Doesn't bother me at all. Posted by: Puddleglum at September 05, 2016 12:13 AM (20X6f) My dorm room in college had airplanes flying overhead, the College had a beacon on campus somewhere and they used it to line up for landings. It sounded like they were going to hit the building, after a while you get use to it. Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:26 AM (dKiJG) 314
I just had an epiphany because of you, L,Elle. Thank you.
Maybe I should go into dog training? It's weird, but when I walk over to Shirley's, I stop at the curb & make him sit for a hot minute. I can't swear to it, but I think he's learned to look both ways before he crosses the street. Posted by: Strikethrough Tag at September 05, 2016 12:27 AM (vXUHK) 315
Could you shoe-horn a 428 into a Ford F-100? Plus the sound system from Hell?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2016 12:14 AM (XNHOq) Easily. Same FE-series block as the 390 which came stock in many of them. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2016 12:27 AM (oqkO3) 316
there is ALWAYS something they can charge you with.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 05, 2016 12:08 AM (gyKtp) And that's just the way the Government likes it. Posted by: DFCtomm at September 05, 2016 12:28 AM (q5sde) 317
one last thing: hammocks look more comfortable than they are. i find i sagged too much in the middle and felt kind of doubled on myself. not enough support to be comfortable for long periods.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 05, 2016 12:28 AM (WTSFk) 318
Posted by: L, Elle at September 05, 2016 12:22 AM (6IPEM)
Well, this Eastern Orthodox is Byzantine. They put all the vestments on the Archbishop as part of the Ordination service-of a Deacon and they said "Catechumens" depart!" I'm not exactly a catechumen and I didn't depart. :^) nobody else did either The priest said to me later, "I am impatient with the fruitful Byzantine show" which was another thing that made me laugh. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:29 AM (6HqlZ) Posted by: Dr. Varno at September 05, 2016 12:30 AM (GdFQh) 320
Hey AoP do you have lurking in your back 40 a sad 23 window VW Type 2 that could be resurrected into the anti-hippy Bus with a fire-breathing V-8 stuffed in it?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2016 12:19 AM (XNHOq) Sadly, no. Hard to find any Transporters in any condition, other than fully-restored ones with 5-digit price tags on them. By the way, my '73 Super Beetle project did a circuit of the yard yesterday, under its own power. Close to being road-worthy. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2016 12:31 AM (oqkO3) 321
Goodnight, everyone. Enjoy your day off tomorrow if you have one.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on the all-night request line at September 05, 2016 12:31 AM (rJUlF) 322
I think I have velcro feet. Stupid socks stick to me daily.
Either that, or I am a dryer. Posted by: Chi at September 05, 2016 12:31 AM (vXUHK) 323
293 Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:16 AM (dKiJG)
The priests can marry, but I think you have to take a vow that if your wife dies you won't remarry. Archbishops cannot marry. They don't seem to have Bishops. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:21 AM (6HqlZ) The Orthodox churches chose their Metropolitans from the monastics. Posted by: Fox2! at September 05, 2016 12:32 AM (brIR5) 324
286 271 >> And what was basis for those huge egos? Had they cured cancer? Had they come up with unified field theory?
Posted by: Jay And neither has anyone else. I'm just sayin'... Posted by: GnuBreed at September 05, 2016 12:19 AM (gyKtp) No, but that means we're all on the same basis, and no one has the basis for arrogating great value to himself - least of all some high school dropouts who play a guitar, for God's sake. Let's downshift: how many lives had these worthless assholes saved on the surgical table? Surely we can agree that some surgeons have saved some lives, yes? These musicians probably can't spell "surgeon." Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 05, 2016 12:33 AM (SRKgf) 325
Mjc - slept every night for two years in a hammock. Quite comfy, once you learn how to do it. You lie diagaonally, as ot were, the the central axis.makes all the difference.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at September 05, 2016 12:34 AM (rqp/Z) 326
>> I think I have velcro feet.
Try a velco fly. You need just enough of that sticky stuff to hold the seams on your fine blue jeans. Ain't never a catch, all ya gotta do is snatch. Through the velco fly. Posted by: ZZ Top at September 05, 2016 12:34 AM (DW+jj) 327
Posted by: Fox2! at September 05, 2016 12:32 AM (brIR5)
That would make sense. Thanks. I read a lovely book on devotional practices for individuals by the monks of New Skete,- Eastern Orthodox monks and nuns in NY state. They also have a bog about raising dogs-which they do to make money, I haven't read the dog book. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:35 AM (6HqlZ) 328
Was it a Byzantine Mass?
No it was Maronite Church, we were invited because my Dad was with the Knights of Columbus and they did an Honor guard. If I could I would switch but only woman are allowed. Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:35 AM (dKiJG) 329
bog=book
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:35 AM (6HqlZ) 330
Gonna turn in early tonight folks, thanks for the great chat and happy Labor Day! :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 05, 2016 12:36 AM (OKox0) 331
325: wow. i guess i can see that. i'll try it should the opportunity arise. thanks for the tip!
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 05, 2016 12:36 AM (WTSFk) 332
The Orthodox churches chose their Metropolitans from the monastics.
Posted by: Fox2! at September 05, 2016 12:32 AM (brIR5) And here I thought the choice in Metropolitans was whether you got a Nash one or a Hudson one. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2016 12:36 AM (oqkO3) 333
If I could I would switch but only woman are allowed.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:35 AM (dKiJG) Only women are allowed to do what? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:37 AM (6HqlZ) 334
re Burning Man: we might scare the billionaire Hipster wannabees, but the mescaline fueled fully tatted and pierced artsy folk are probably more than we really want to deal with.
Posted by: blaster at September 05, 2016 12:16 AM (ACqhm) Not necessarily. What are the coordinates of their position? Alert the publishers of IQ tests that they may have to renormalize scores on short notice. Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 05, 2016 12:37 AM (SRKgf) 335
Posted by: Strikethrough Tag at September 05, 2016 12:27
****** Assuming that is you, Chi, yes you should srsly consider taking up dog training, especially if you do it one on one instead of with a group. That was the sole reason I picked mine. She insisted that she come to my house to do all the training bc it's my puppie's territory. Once we got good at that, we met off my property. Just my opinion, but all the group classes don't seem to be effective. All the advice I have gotten from those of you that are master dog trainers matches what my own trainer has taught me. It requires a lot of patience with the owners though. My get and trainer have told enough stories about how frequent it is that owners defend spoiling their dogs and are scared of traumatizing the dog if they are firm and strict. I'm so guilty of that but at least I know it. Posted by: L, Elle at September 05, 2016 12:38 AM (6IPEM) 336
250 My niece is a corrections officer in the Houston area. She's been doing it for about two years now, and I'd say that a job like that adds calluses to your heart. And they grow thicker as the years add up there.
PS They are hiring; they are always short staffed. Need a job? The Niece is forever pulling double shifts there. PSS Read Three Felonies A Day, if you'd like to know how close each and every one of us is to prison ourselves. On the wrong side of the bars. Unless your name is Clinton. If you've ever noticed someone 'of interest' getting arrested for something completely different than the interest, that there is a clue that there is ALWAYS something they can charge you with. Posted by: GnuBreed at September 05, 2016 12:08 AM (gyKtp) Our pastor's oldest daughter is a nurse at one of the Dallas county jails. They're actually nice compared to the state prisons but she still has a broken heart over what many prisoners endure, especially sexual violations. She's a law and order conservative, too, not a liberal softie. You're very right that almost all of us could be put away in prison for a very long time if someone really wanted to punish us. Think of all the times the left has used the legal system against conservatives like Rick Perry, Tom Delay, and the folks who went undercover to film Planned Parenthood. Posted by: Michael the TEXIT Hobbit at September 05, 2016 12:39 AM (nvMvs) 337
333 If I could I would switch but only woman are allowed.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:35 AM (dKiJG) Only women are allowed to do what? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:37 AM (6HqlZ) women can change from one Rite of the Catholic Church to another, they assume that she is doing it in order to marry a man that's in that Rite. And only once. Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:40 AM (dKiJG) 338
No. They were retards who entertained other retards. We could teach chimpanzees to play guitars. And apparently, have done.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 05, 2016 12:15 AM (SRKgf) Here we come Walkin down the street We get the funniest looks from Every one we meet. Posted by: Hey Hey We're The... at September 05, 2016 12:40 AM (vBeA5) 339
338 No. They were retards who entertained other retards. We could teach chimpanzees to play guitars. And apparently, have done.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 05, 2016 12:15 AM (SRKgf) Here we come Walkin down the street We get the funniest looks from Every one we meet. Posted by: Hey Hey We're The... at September 05, 2016 12:40 AM (vBeA5) ...People in the barrel. Posted by: buzzion at September 05, 2016 12:42 AM (bMG0w) 340
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Posted by: Hey Hey We're The... at September 05, 2016 12:42 AM (vBeA5) 341
I realize this may be a sensitive topic but here's my take. I thin people who are unhappy with the politics in the RCC should perhaps consider Eastern Orthodoxy. They were all part of one church at one time. The breakup was called "The Great Schism" and happened many centuries ago. They don't have a single authority figure such as a Pope and don't believe in Papal infallibility. So many things theologically are very close to the RCC and they have a very high view of marriage and the sacredness of life.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:42 AM (6HqlZ) 342
Too late. Barrel for the Monkies.
Posted by: L, Elle at September 05, 2016 12:43 AM (6IPEM) 343
...People in the barrel.
Posted by: buzzion at September 05, 2016 12:42 AM (bMG0w) Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun ... Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 05, 2016 12:43 AM (SRKgf) 344
Llama is back?
Maybe I can actually get magazines for my micro now... Posted by: Burnt Toast **** "Llama is back?" Sort of. They only make the Max-1 and the little .380. I don't know if they will produce magazines etc. for individual sale. Someone bought up the company and moved it to the Philippines I think. Eagle Imports is who brings them in. Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at September 05, 2016 12:44 AM (hVdx9) 345
We're gonna need a bigger barrel.
Posted by: Roy Schnieder at September 05, 2016 12:44 AM (VdICR) 346
bog=book
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:35 AM (6HqlZ) Which was kinda funny, because isn't "God" "Bog" in Russian? Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 12:45 AM (e9hKK) 347
women can change from one Rite of the Catholic Church to another, they assume that she is doing it in order to marry a man that's in that Rite. And only once.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:40 AM (dKiJG) Really? If you were a man you couldn't go from a RCC to an Eastern Rite one for theological reasons? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:45 AM (6HqlZ) 348
Heh.
I never sleep! Posted by: The Barrel at September 05, 2016 12:45 AM (vXUHK) 349
Which was kinda funny, because isn't "God" "Bog" in Russian?
Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 12:45 AM (e9hKK) It is; I'll take your word for it. I don't read Russian. and i don't know what it is in translation/ Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:46 AM (6HqlZ) 350
Though the F-100 Hordemobile would be good to drive into the Burning Man mayhem, wouldn't a good 6x6 Deuce n' a Half be more well suited?
Picture it, with a Ma Deuce mounted above the cab, and a pair of Dillon Aero 7.62 minis mounted port n' starboard in the bed. Towing a water buffla' full of Val U Rite, and at the head of a convoy of Hoardly vehicular terrors of all sorts, sizes and styles. Horrors, mostly, cause they'd all be bristling with guns, booze, cigars and every kind of delicious Don't think they'd be all to eager to try to run us offa the grounds? Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at September 05, 2016 12:47 AM (v5iqM) Posted by: The Barrel at September 05, 2016 12:47 AM (vXUHK) 352
Me Wolverines are back, and so are the 'Horns.
Posted by: Octopus at September 04, 2016 11:45 PM (Z4WiE) Sorry, that made me laugh (former Wolverine fan here). Posted by: Country Boy at September 05, 2016 12:48 AM (Idu2i) 353
You're very right that almost all of us could be put away in prison for a very long time if someone really wanted to punish us. Think of all the times the left has used the legal system against conservatives like Rick Perry, Tom Delay, and the folks who went undercover to film Planned Parenthood.
Posted by: Michael the TEXIT Hobbit at September 05, 2016 12:39 AM (nvMvs) That's because we have obscured the distinction between offenses that are mala in se and mala prohibida (hope I got that second one right). The first category are crimes that are intrinsically bad, like murder and robbery. The second are administrative "crimes"; things that are only illegal because some legislature declared them to be. Drugs being the prime example. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2016 12:48 AM (oqkO3) 354
here are no hapax legomena
on the internets. Posted by: Dr. Varno at September 05, 2016 12:30 AM (GdFQh) Are you saying that if it is on the internets it is by definition polyphemetic? Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 12:50 AM (e9hKK) 355
I was a big Van Halen fan back in the day. I remember seeing an interview with Alex Van Halen right after they announced the split with Dave. Alex said at the time, Dave had a hit with his California Girls e.p. and decided to do his own thing and left the band. Years later he and Eddie changed the story to they fired Dave due to his big ego.
Personally, while I think Dave has an oversized ego, I think he got tired of Eddie's shit and left. Posted by: Darth Randall at September 05, 2016 12:50 AM (6n332) 356
That farting jester was Roland the Farter, and served in Henry II's court. He was given a manor and 30 acres for his services.
His signature routine was a dance that ended in jump, then a whistle, then a loud fart. Posted by: ZZ Top at September 05, 2016 12:51 AM (DW+jj) 357
His signature routine was a dance that ended in jump, then a whistle, then a loud fart.
Posted by: ZZ Top at September 05, 2016 12:51 AM (DW+jj) Did he train on a diet of Melbourne cabbage? Posted by: zombie Paul Boomer at September 05, 2016 12:53 AM (oqkO3) 358
Last line from Breaking Bad, S1, E1: Walter! Is that you?
Posted by: the littl shyning man at September 05, 2016 12:54 AM (U6f54) 359
Morning all. Out on the lake.
We have 4 boats backed up in a 2x2 thing tonight. In a cove for the night in Acworth, GA. Beautiful night, clear skies and a fingernail moon. We'll be going in about 10:00 in the morning, Cuz the lake will be insane by then. Life is currently very good. Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 05, 2016 12:55 AM (YLidQ) 360
355 I was a big Van Halen fan back in the day. I remember seeing an interview with Alex Van Halen right after they announced the split with Dave. Alex said at the time, Dave had a hit with his California Girls e.p. and decided to do his own thing and left the band. Years later he and Eddie changed the story to they fired Dave due to his big ego.
Personally, while I think Dave has an oversized ego, I think he got tired of Eddie's shit and left. Posted by: Darth Randall at September 05, 2016 12:50 AM (6n332) One of the guys on Bob and Tom once said "I've met David Lee Roth, and I've met Sammy Hagar. Man Eddie must be a dick." But I do figure that Roth has the ego you kind of expect from all lead singers. Posted by: buzzion at September 05, 2016 12:55 AM (bMG0w) 361
Really? If you were a man you couldn't go from a RCC to an Eastern Rite one for theological reasons?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2016 12:45 AM (6HqlZ) That's what I was told, so I could be wrong. You can attend mass etc but you are considered part of the Roman Rite. I don't remember who told me that. Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 12:55 AM (dKiJG) 362
Anyone here bought a Marlin Model 60 in the last few years ? If so, how was the quality. I was thinking about picking up one of the 50th anniversary models because I need another .22. Haha. I had one when I was young and it was great.
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 05, 2016 12:56 AM (dULJN) 363
Personally, while I think Dave has an oversized ego, I think he got tired of Eddie's shit and left.
Posted by: Darth Randall at September 05, 2016 12:50 AM ****** That's interesting. What I read is that he and Eddie fought over the direction of the music. Eddie wanted more of a sound that would appeal to a broader audience and that's where the synthed up music started but Roth wanted to stick with the rock sound of their early music. Eddie is a control freak and got the last say in everything. It makes sense that once Dave realized he could make it on his own, he left. Posted by: L, Elle at September 05, 2016 12:58 AM (6IPEM) 364
You're very right that almost all of us could be
put away in prison for a very long time if someone really wanted to punish us. Think of all the times the left has used the legal system against conservatives like Rick Perry, Tom Delay, and the folks who went undercover to film Planned Parenthood. Posted by: Michael the TEXIT Hobbit at September 05, 2016 12:39 AM (nvMvs) Just look at how the law "operates" in Communist countries, if you want a preview of life under the Hillary administration. Everything is illegal, and that's so the system has a pretext to convict you for anything if the Inner Party doesn't like you, or suspects that you're not wholly on board with the Glorious Revolution. Then it's off to "re-education". Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 05, 2016 01:00 AM (HalrA) 365
Talking about Van Halen, one of the last gifts I ever got from Mother was a Van Halen wallet in 84, I kept that thing for years, until it literally fell apart and I couldn't really use it anymore as a wallet.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 01:03 AM (dKiJG) Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 05, 2016 01:05 AM (dKiJG) Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at September 05, 2016 01:05 AM (rqp/Z) 368
I got interested in the topic of double entendre in Shakespeare and was looking. He made fart jokes, sex jokes, etc, etc.
He even joked about butt stuff, even analingus. There's a line in Rome and Juliet where Mercutio advises Romeo to find a girl who'll take it up the butt. Again, the language has changed so much that these are lost on us. Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 05, 2016 01:07 AM (DW+jj) 369
CBD doesn't hang out at this hour does he?
I have a great idea for for a food thread! - of course, it's 6 hours after I bought a big fat bottle of bourbon, so... Posted by: The Barrel at September 05, 2016 01:08 AM (vXUHK) 370
I like Notre Dame. Priests, boys and all that. All. That.
Posted by: Jerry Sandusky at September 05, 2016 01:08 AM (gwG9s) Posted by: The Political Hat at September 05, 2016 01:11 AM (vBeA5) 372
Just finished a 2"x2" lemon bar. There's three more in the pan. Will they survive the night?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 05, 2016 01:12 AM (T/cxb) 373
I dunno, I think inviting large groups of desert warfare re-enactors from the British campaigns through to 1940's North Africa would be entertaining.
Burning Man would develop 'acceptable levels of freedom' Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 01:13 AM (e9hKK) 374
"Anyone here bought a Marlin Model 60 in the last few years ?"
Even though they got taken over by Remington (ug), I haven't heard anything bad about them. Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 05, 2016 01:13 AM (/dFEo) 375
Bed calls. 'Night all.
Posted by: Country Boy at September 05, 2016 01:13 AM (Idu2i) 376
In G-20 news,
There is no G-20 in Bingo! Not even that goofy retirement home bingo! El Presidente Obama toadies insulted by Chicom airport officials. Quote: This is our airport, you didn't build it! Back in line, Socialist running dogs! Herr Merkel ist eine verdammt gummipuppen. Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 05, 2016 01:14 AM (FtrY1) 377
Speaking of which, does anyone else suddenly find themselves researching various European camouflage patterns in the middle of the night because they are bored? I am starting to worry about myself.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 01:15 AM (e9hKK) 378
356 That farting jester was Roland the Farter, and served in Henry II's court. He was given a manor and 30 acres for his services.
Posted by: ZZ Top at September 05, 2016 12:51 AM (DW+jj) Damn, I'm in the wrong line of work. Posted by: rickl at September 05, 2016 01:18 AM (sdi6R) 379
There has been too suffering. There can be an end to the horror. Just walk away. Walk away and leave the distillery and that fat barrel-room full of whiskey, and I will spare your lives.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at September 05, 2016 01:24 AM (rqp/Z) 380
Thanks RK
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 05, 2016 01:26 AM (dULJN) 381
Well, I am ready to hit the rack. Night, all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2016 01:27 AM (oqkO3) 382
379: Heh!
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 05, 2016 01:29 AM (20X6f) 383
Time for a
Politicized (but delicious) Pumpkin Stew Recipe Tonight was "use up whatever's in the fridge to make a dinner" night, so having assessed what I have on hand, I decided to make a pumpkin stew. I have been growing some pumpkins on a vine in my yard, but one of the pumpkins kind of "died" on the vine somewhat prematurely, and was a bit yellowish and started to deflate and obviously was never going to reach full maturity. So I harvested it anyway and stuck it in the fridge., and thought I'd give it a chance as food. So here's what I did, along with the costs of each ingredient: Fried an onion (6¢ and a home-grown zucchini (0¢ and a mildly hot pepper (about 8¢ in a pan until they really got overly browned (on purpose). Then put some water (essentially 0¢ directly into the blackened pan and added the cubed and skinned pumpkin. Heat to boiling, start to simmer, then add in a sliced carrot (maybe 5¢ and some fresh pole beans from my garden (0¢. Finally, add in a can of diced tomatoes (59¢ and a handful of pitiful cherry tomatoes from the garden that also didn't mature properly (0¢. In a separate little pan, fry up the coup de grace, some "soyrizo" -- a chorizo made with soy protein instead of meat (it's really really good from a vegetarian's perspective) -- I used about 1/6 of a $1.99 package, or 33¢ worth. When it's really super-fried, put it into the stew. Simmer for about 30 more minutes at least so the flavors blend. Then, another key -- take it off the heat and let it cool down for at least 15 minutes. Enough to feed, basically, FOUR people. And all concurred with my assessment, that it was the most delicious pumpkin stew anyone had ever tasted! Also: Super-healthy. Total cooking time: 60 minutes. And finally, the political part -- Total cost: $1.11. (And more than half of that was a random can of diced tomatoes I had on the shelf, for which with a bit more effort I could have substituted some more of my own tomatoes. Without the can, it would have been 52¢ total.) Conclusion: If you put the effort in to do some home cooking, you COULD quite easily feed your entire family with healthy and delicious and copious food for far less than the amount the average welfare recipient gets every month. I'm not on food stamps, obviously, but whenever I see the annual ritual of Democratic politicians playacting like it's impossible to live on the food stamp allowance, I just know that it's all bullshit. Home-cooking skills are one of the keys to ending "poverty." In the "old days," folks with very little, money-wise, could still eat quite well. But such skills have almost completely disappeared from the average poor American household. Posted by: zombie at September 05, 2016 01:33 AM (jBuUi) 384
Huh. Smiley faces everywhere. Pixy has a very strange sense of humor.
Posted by: zombie at September 05, 2016 01:34 AM (jBuUi) 385
Oh, home is a good place to be, I say.
If I could, I'd probably be here all day. * Puddleglum: I've lived right next to a subway station for years... Doesn't bother me at all. Always liked the scene in Blues Bros where they go to the apartment right by the El tracks. Initially insane-making noise as the trains pass by constantly, it becomes kind of soothing... kind of. Out here at our place, the tracks are a little over a half mile away. Perfect for enjoying the whistling and rumbling, but not so loud and close as to be annoying. Posted by: mindful webworker - in engineer's hat at September 05, 2016 01:35 AM (QjxTy) 386
Didn't realize I was about 100 comments behind!
Posted by: mindful webworker - at a turtle's pace at September 05, 2016 01:36 AM (QjxTy) 387
Late to this topic, but a couple months back, wasn't there something on here about the oldest known joke - and it was about farting? (Too tired to search it.)
Posted by: mindful webworker - pphhhtttt at September 05, 2016 01:46 AM (QjxTy) 388
Always liked the scene in Blues Bros where they go to the apartment right by the El tracks. Initially insane-making noise as the trains pass by constantly, it becomes kind of soothing... kind of.
Posted by: mindful webworker - in engineer's hat at September 05, 2016 01:35 AM (QjxTy) I don't think the trains ever got soothing in Seven Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 05, 2016 01:47 AM (zc3Db) 389
385: Heh, I do indeed live next to an El. I can sit on my balcony and watch the trains pull in and out. There are a thin line of woods that buffer the sound somewhat and I'm about 200 yards away from the subway property. The buses are more annoying than the train.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 05, 2016 01:47 AM (20X6f) 390
Well, less than 200 yards from the Metro property. I'm really close to it but I don't live underneath it like Jake and Elwood.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 05, 2016 01:50 AM (20X6f) 391
Zombie, in 1989 the price for a cheap loaf of bread went to $0.50 a loaf and I swore I would never pay that price for a loaf of bread again (I am a prophet, I think)
I learned to make bread, I think I paid today $0.30 a pound for flour (in 50lb quantities), the yeast I buy in bulk and I could go the sourdough route if I wanted to. Once upon a time, being a good baker or a good cook was a mark of distinction I also do a lot of cooking because I enjoy it and it is cheaper to buy the fixings and do it myself, and I like learning. I have people ask me all the time why I cook this way. They usually eat what I bring, too. Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 01:50 AM (e9hKK) 392
There's a freight train line right behind the building where I work. I can hear it, but I don't notice it too much.
Posted by: rickl at September 05, 2016 01:52 AM (sdi6R) 393
Oh, and Zombie, I measured my Jerusalem Artichokes today. The tallest one is 10 - 1/2 feet tall. It is just putting blossoms on.
I have no idea why it is doing so well, Posted by: Kindltot at September 05, 2016 01:53 AM (e9hKK) 394
Yo, ONT! Have a safe holiday everybody!
Posted by: sinalco at September 05, 2016 01:54 AM (yODqO) 395
Suddenly, I realize it's been a long day and I'm dog tired.
The actual dog is outside barking and shows no signs of being tired at all. So, gonna brush tooth and sack out. Play nice, folks, and remember, tomorrow is Monday in name only. Posted by: mindful webworker - ssnnnrrrzzzz at September 05, 2016 01:57 AM (QjxTy) 396
387 Late to this topic, but a couple months back, wasn't there something on here about the oldest known joke - and it was about farting? (Too tired to search it.)
Posted by: mindful webworker - pphhhtttt at September 05, 2016 01:46 AM (QjxTy) ----------- "We don't get many Urukians in this bar..." Posted by: Disembodied Sumerian Punchlines at September 05, 2016 01:58 AM (4HySM) 397
There's a very strange auditory condition where I live:
Although I am about THREE MILES from the nearest train tracks, when the trains go by at night, under the correct atmospheric conditions, I can hear them extremely distinctly, as if they were right outside my window -- I can hear each wheel clickety-clack as they pass over the welded joints, etc. But, because it's three miles away, it's all very distant and quiet and attenuated. Yet still crisply clear. Meanwhile, in the intervening three miles, there is an entire urban landscape filled with car crashes and gunshots and frat parties and police sirens -- and yet I can't hear ANY of that, even though it's technically closer to me! Very weird. So in my case, I find the trains sounds soothing. Posted by: zombie at September 05, 2016 01:58 AM (jBuUi) Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 05, 2016 02:00 AM (/dFEo) 399
387 mindful webworker It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap." Posted by: Enmerkar of Uruk at September 05, 2016 02:04 AM (FlRtG) 400
393 Oh, and Zombie, I measured my Jerusalem Artichokes today. The tallest one is 10 - 1/2 feet tall. It is just putting blossoms on.
I have no idea why it is doing so well, Posted by: Kindltot Me too! This year, all my Jerusalem artichokes are also about 10 feet tall, even though I never tended to them in any way -- they just grew on their own. And just right today, they are just beginning to show their flower buds. So we're in the exact same situation! I have no idea why this year they are growing so much taller than last year. El Nino, I guess. In fact, they'e so big and there are so many plants that I have started to get worried about what to do with all those J-chokes. I have already begun researching additional ways to prepare them to eliminate (or attenuate) the intestinal gas situation. But sadly, apparently, it's much more difficult to deal with than I would prefer. There IS no good solution -- aside form the two that I stumbled upon (boiling in lemon juice, and pickling). Inulin is a harsh mistress. Slow cooking doesn't really solve the issue, despite the old wives' tales. "Cold storage" for six weeks can help (i.e. dig 'em up, but then purposely don't eat them for a month or two.) Posted by: zombie at September 05, 2016 02:06 AM (jBuUi) 401
Listening to tje staatskappel dresden recording of Strauss' Metamorphosen. Bastard is a genius - at the 13 minute mark, it sounds as if the higher strings will carry their variation of the theme, but you can hear the cellos and such on the lower scale begin their motif, and, by degrees, the higher strings shift to carry that motif. He builds your hope for some resolution where the ensemble will all carry a new variation, but he leaves you with the lower motif across all strings.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at September 05, 2016 02:09 AM (rqp/Z) 402
Watching Jonathan Strange & Mister Norrell.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 05, 2016 02:11 AM (VdICR) 403
Did anybody see that interview of Ben Carson by Chris Wallace where he asked Ben Carson if he thought he was being used as a prop?
Who asks a question like that? Wallace is a disgrace and he is one of the debate moderators. Incredible. Posted by: Kreplach at September 05, 2016 02:13 AM (+lv+r) 404
Posted by: Kreplach at September 05, 2016 02:13 AM (+lv+r)
--- So he basically called him a token. Huh. Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at September 05, 2016 02:14 AM (rlfds) 405
Devious Uncle, give us a link and I will listen. The only musical arcs I know that span over ten minutes are Wagner, Beethoven and Mozart.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 05, 2016 02:15 AM (VdICR) Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at September 05, 2016 02:18 AM (rqp/Z) Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at September 05, 2016 02:25 AM (rlfds) 408
Chris: I'm a doctor, I can see that carrying your white man's burden around all day is killing your back.
Polite way to say fu Posted by: Jean at September 05, 2016 02:29 AM (ngn8T) 409
Actual headline at CBS news when viewed with the dolpin browser on an iPhone...
"Trump vs Clinton: Anal..." Also it seems the revelation that the FAB claimed not to know what classification markings looked like has gone by the wayside without causing so much as a blip of discomfort for her. Posted by: Kreplach at September 05, 2016 02:33 AM (+lv+r) 410
And every single news site has articles criticizing or "analyzing" this or that position or move of Trump zero of Hillary.
It's as if Hillary doesn't exist as a Presidential candidate. Posted by: Kreplach at September 05, 2016 02:38 AM (+lv+r) 411
Well my thoughts turn to Tristan und Isolde Prelude. Since so many early-morning people are SMOD-curious, here's a clip from Lars von Trier's Meloncholia.
https://youtu.be/8LbCb592C0g Why settle for an extinction-level meteor the size of Texas when the Earth can be lovingly embraced by a planet twice the diameter? Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 05, 2016 02:52 AM (VdICR) 412
BC - Lars von Trier used wagner in his 'Epidemic' as well. Man knew how to use his music, that he did.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at September 05, 2016 03:07 AM (rqp/Z) 413
Though the F-100 Hordemobile would be good to drive into the Burning Man
mayhem, wouldn't a good 6x6 Deuce n' a Half be more well suited? Picture it, with a MK-17 mounted above the cab, and a pair of Dillon Aero 7.62 minis mounted port n' starboard in the bed and a quad 50 topping it off. Towing a water buffla' full of Val U Rite, and at the head of a convoy of Hoardly vehicular terrors of all sorts, sizes and styles. #FTFY! Posted by: redc1c4 at September 05, 2016 03:11 AM (eWPDq) 414
oh yeah... and Claymores on the sides and bumpers, just to clear the streets.
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 05, 2016 03:13 AM (eWPDq) 415
Thing about Strauss vs Wagner - Wagner's greatest works were more or less based in emotion fueled by imagination. Metamorphosen - this is the sound of mourning and the loss of all hope.
Mahler hailed Strauss as a genius, and Goebbels despised him good enough for me. Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at September 05, 2016 03:15 AM (rqp/Z) 416
Anyone besides me ever had bad things happen after a tetatnus booster? It's two weeks out and my arm and shoulder are still hurting - other joints too - at least where the tendons insert.
(My knees hurt, my heels hurt.) I expected to have a sore arm a few days and maybe a little tired or fluey, but weird tightness in my muscles set in. All of my teeth began to ache like I had run the 400 yard dash and tried to win. And shortly thereafter I had jaw spasms - almost took myself to the ER, because it was hard to talk and swallow. It got worse, my jaw clenched so hard I cracked at least one molar. Seems like the toxin might not have been perfectly denatured or something. Posted by: SarahW at September 05, 2016 03:15 AM (Sp1NT) 417
SarahW,
Read up on the complete (rare) side effects of tetanus boosters. It sounds like you may been having one of the severe ones. Trouble swallowing is one that usually "contact your doctor immediately". Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 05, 2016 03:21 AM (DW+jj) 418
Towing a water buffla' full of Val U Rite, and at the head of a convoy of Hoardly vehicular terrors of all sorts, sizes and styles. #FTFY!
I need a double-neck guitar that spews flames. Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 05, 2016 03:31 AM (VdICR) 419
402 Watching Jonathan Strange & Mister Norrell.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 05, 2016 02:11 AM (VdICR) The butler did it.... Posted by: Don Quixote at September 05, 2016 03:35 AM (qf6WZ) 420
Seems like the toxin might not have been perfectly denatured or something.
Posted by: SarahW at September 05, 2016 03:15 AM (Sp1NT) Go see a doctor. That definitely ain't normal. Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 05, 2016 03:50 AM (HalrA) 421
BC -
Today, we're hauling bourbon! - Bourbon!- Today, we're hauling Valu-Rite! - Valu-Rite!- Today, we're hauling hobo pelts! - Hobo pelts!- Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at September 05, 2016 04:29 AM (SE7A4) 422
Good morning everyone. We are about to embark on a 500 mile car ride from New England back to Virginia. I would appreciate any prayers for a safe trip that you might have time for. Good traffic would be a plus, but really all I care about is getting three generations of us home safely. Many thanks.
Posted by: bluebell at September 05, 2016 05:29 AM (A4pxH) 423
Bluebell, may traffic lights turn green as you approach, and may no one drive the speed limit in the left lane of a freeway.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 05, 2016 05:36 AM (u82oZ) 424
Good morning!
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere. Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 05, 2016 05:36 AM (u82oZ) 425
I have that Belushi Joe Cocker bit on a SNL DVD. Probably one of the best SNL skits of all time back when the show was not just good, but damn good.\
It is the major suck now. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 05:37 AM (mpXpK) Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 05:38 AM (MP6Qb) 427
So I haven't been here in days because I'm babysitting an injured duck and a geriatric dog. Also have just inherited a six-year-old guinea pig. Dr. Doolittle, where are you.
Hope you're all having a great Labor Day weekend that does not involve too much animal husbandry. Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 05:41 AM (MP6Qb) 428
Mornin'.
I wanted to follow zombie's recipe but I'm wondering where I can find pitiful cherry tomatoes. We only have admirable cherry tomatoes in NY. Are those a Cali thing? Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Some People Call Me Maurice at September 05, 2016 05:41 AM (WlGX+) 429
Been up up for hours,
Good morning horde Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2016 05:42 AM (0G2eQ) Posted by: bluebell at September 05, 2016 05:42 AM (A4pxH) 431
Bluebell have a safe trip, stop for short breaks often is my suggestion.
Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2016 05:43 AM (0G2eQ) Posted by: bluebell at September 05, 2016 05:44 AM (A4pxH) 433
If the temp drops much more before sunrise we will be down in the 50s here.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 05:52 AM (mpXpK) 434
Posted by: bluebell at September 05, 2016 05:42 AM (A4pxH)
You're welcome, bluebell. It was worse. I started out with two injured ducks...attacked by a weasel. One didn't make it butt the other did and left me her first egg yesterday. Dog and duck go home today, thank heaven. Safe travels, my Moronette friend. Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 05:55 AM (MP6Qb) 435
Time to warm up the tubes for VNN.
Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 05:57 AM (MP6Qb) 436
Good Morning Morons. Today is Monday, September 05, 2016 and commie day. On this day in 1891 Carnegie Hall (called The Music Hall at the time) first opened in New York City. Its first public performance included Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 05:58 AM (mpXpK) Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 05:58 AM (mpXpK) 438
New York officials screw up the emergency alert system and evacuate a portion of NY for the nothingburger Hermine.
http://fxn.ws/2bN8kNo Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 05:59 AM (mpXpK) 439
The current map for Hermine shows warnings for Long Island but it is not within the cone of elevated wind and the tracks shows is missing Long Island altogether. Hermine is essentially over.
http://bit.ly/2c1LeWi Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 05:59 AM (mpXpK) Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 05:59 AM (mpXpK) Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 05:59 AM (mpXpK) 442
Looks like Scankles threw Cheryl Mills under the bus as the "patsy" for the FBI in her cover-up.
http://nyp.st/2cb54Q Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:00 AM (mpXpK) 443
While the corrupt DHS agency is considering taking over the elections they themselves have been hacked.
http://bit.ly/2cgJjgm Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:00 AM (mpXpK) 444
CNN had first demanded that Dr Drew withdraw his comments about Scankles' bad health. He refused and that is why they fired him.
http://bit.ly/2cdsV1D Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:00 AM (mpXpK) 445
O'Choom tells British official that they will be going to the back of the bus for trade deals due to Brexit. He has only a few months left and when Trump enters the office Obama's name will have no more power than the vomit in the back alleys from winos in DC.
http://bit.ly/2c0K37F Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:00 AM (mpXpK) 446
TX Supreme Court justice applies some common sense to this same sex marriage crap.
http://bit.ly/2cdsYe0 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:01 AM (mpXpK) 447
Piss Wallace demonstrates his hate for Republicans and further affirms why I quit watching FNS after 1 episode.
http://bit.ly/2cc4xO1 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:01 AM (mpXpK) 448
Ramirez
http://bit.ly/1qd89lF That's it for today folks. Gee, and we thought yesterday was a slow day. I suspect tomorrow will be even worse. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:01 AM (mpXpK) 449
I see the Pixy clock is about 2 min off. I hit "post" for that first comment at exactly 0600.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:03 AM (mpXpK) 450
Quoth Vic:
"He has only a few months left and when Trump enters the office Obama's name will have no more power than the vomit in the back alleys from winos in DC." Nice thought, Vic. Made me go all warm and fuzzy. BTW, link on the Cheryl Mills thing at 442 doesn't go there. Didn't mean to hurry you. This is why I came in. Gave up trying to separate the wheat from the chaff myself. What's the point, when you do it so well? Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 06:05 AM (MP6Qb) 451
Vic, it showed up here at 5:58. Was going to say that my lead-in wasn't meant to hurry you.
Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 06:07 AM (MP6Qb) 452
And said that already. The hazards of giving up on sleep at midnight.
Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 06:07 AM (MP6Qb) 453
Many thanks Vic.
A great selection of links. The Texas ruling is significant. And pbho is a barking mad raving loony on anything foreign policy related. I kinda like slow news days. A happy country will have little "news". Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 05, 2016 06:08 AM (u82oZ) 454
Clock normally is off 3 minutes, can be as much as 5 or a hour.
Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2016 06:12 AM (0G2eQ) 455
I'm confused. Thought that Texas ruling was a dissenting opinion.
Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 06:13 AM (MP6Qb) 456
442 WAS supposed to go to the NYP but somehow the link from Drudge got shifted.
http://nyp.st/2cb54Q7 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:13 AM (mpXpK) 457
455
I'm confused. Thought that Texas ruling was a dissenting opinion. Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 06:13 AM (MP6Qb) It was, he put out some common sense, but common sense lost can't have that with lawyers. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:16 AM (mpXpK) 458
creeper
It's not great news, but it is resistance to a Leftist trope, and can be revisited later. It highlights the need to recapture the judicial system. Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 05, 2016 06:17 AM (u82oZ) 459
For those that have CBS Sports network, the craziest/toughest little guys in sports are on now. The PBR. No way in the world I'd ever have done this.
Posted by: weirdflunky at September 05, 2016 06:18 AM (Humwb) Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 05, 2016 06:18 AM (u82oZ) 461
Wow, piss wallace outdid himself. What an ass. Haven't watched his show in years.
Posted by: Infidel at September 05, 2016 06:19 AM (mvFsG) 462
458 It highlights the need to recapture the judicial system.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 05, 2016 06:17 AM (u82oZ) Not only are we not recapturing but Obama, with the help of Senate RINOs, is packing the courts even further with far left commies in black robes. Most of the appellate courts now have 3/4 majorities of Democrat zeolites who don't give a shit for the constitution. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:20 AM (mpXpK) 463
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 05, 2016 06:17 AM (u82oZ)
You're right. At least it wasn't a unanimous ruling. Texas is a heluva lot more liberal than people realize. Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 06:20 AM (MP6Qb) 464
Some kinda dog/coon/possom got in the trash last night so I have a bag across the yard to clean up after sunrise.
Not awesome. Posted by: weirdflunky at September 05, 2016 06:22 AM (Humwb) Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:22 AM (mpXpK) 466
463 Texas is a heluva lot more liberal than people realize.
Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 06:20 AM (MP6Qb) It is like most States, the large urban areas are all commie, the rural areas not so much. Its just that TX has so much more rural areas then most of the other States. CA does too but those areas there are mostly low population deserts. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:24 AM (mpXpK) 467
Vic, the big cities always come to dominate the state. We see that here in Iowa. It's all the rural areas can do to stave off the bureaucrats in Des Moines.
Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 06:27 AM (MP6Qb) 468
Well we are down in the 50s now. First time since early May.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:32 AM (mpXpK) 469
Same in Colorado. Boulder/Denver/Colorado Springs control the rest of the state now.
On a happy note, over at WZ, there is a story about Captain Hudner being honored. It will make it dusty wherever you are. Posted by: Infidel at September 05, 2016 06:34 AM (mvFsG) 470
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Well we are down in the 50s now. First time since early May. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:32 AM (mpXpK) Brrrrr. 63 (insert degree sign here) currently on the upper Mississippi. Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 06:35 AM (MP6Qb) 471
Very foggy and 53 at NY/PA border. Thanks for the VNN links, Sir.
Posted by: william at September 05, 2016 06:38 AM (JMJJs) 472
Posted by: Infidel at September 05, 2016 06:34 AM (mvFsG)
Nice story. Linky. http://tinyurl.com/hsewzuw Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 06:39 AM (MP6Qb) 473
Thanks creeper, I'm still a little fuzzy. Not firing on all cylinders yet.
Posted by: Infidel at September 05, 2016 06:40 AM (mvFsG) 474
Not firing on all cylinders yet.
Posted by: Infidel at September 05, 2016 06:40 AM (mvFsG) Me too; damn neighbor tried calling me at 2300 last night wanting more liquor. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:50 AM (mpXpK) 475
I'm sitting here nodding away. May have to take a nap
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 06:51 AM (mpXpK) 476
Good grief, Vic. Does he not know that liquor stores exist?
Neighbors here had a party. Gave up on sleep at midnight. Maybe a brief nap is in order. Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 06:51 AM (MP6Qb) 477
All hale Kim Jong Un...It's great to be the king! I like the cleaver ways Kim finds to get rid of some offical, anti aircraft gun, if true, which I sometimes doubt.
Some accounts suggest that Kim Yong Jin dozed off during a meeting with He Who Is Not To Be Trifled With. Although maybe Kim Jong Un instead found fault with the deputy's reported "disrespectful posture." Was he slouching? Pouting? Unclear. Posted by: Colin at September 05, 2016 06:52 AM (hIWCG) 478
Sounds like the neighbor needs their own liquor. I'm either going back to sleep or getting up and grab a beer to keep me company while I start the beans.
Posted by: Infidel at September 05, 2016 06:53 AM (mvFsG) 479
Some accounts suggest that Kim Yong Jin dozed off during a meeting with
He Who Is Not To Be Trifled With. BHO only wishes he could do this. I'm sure the press would be willing accomplices. Posted by: Infidel at September 05, 2016 06:58 AM (mvFsG) 480
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Good grief, Vic. Does he not know that liquor stores exist? Neighbors here had a party. Gave up on sleep at midnight. Maybe a brief nap is in order. Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 06:51 AM (MP6Qb) They are all closed here on Sunday, and besides when they are open they close at 1900. They can not seem to go to the store and stick up on Sat to be prepared for Sunday. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 07:00 AM (mpXpK) 481
Its a rare occurrence for me tosee the weekday EMT
Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2016 07:02 AM (0G2eQ) 482
Heh, Vic, maybe you should keep some stock on hand to sell at double the price. For those occasions when they 'run low' on supplies.
Posted by: Infidel at September 05, 2016 07:03 AM (mvFsG) Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 05, 2016 07:05 AM (UpGcq) 484
Na, cut it with water or cheap booze
Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2016 07:06 AM (0G2eQ) 485
I'm with Skip. Buy rotgut and give 'em that. Don't even bother to re-bottle it. Moochers don't deserve it.
Ugh. Cranky. Couch. Thanks for the news, Vic. Later, all. Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2016 07:16 AM (MP6Qb) 486
I just got done taking a nap. About 2 hours worth. I highly recommend naps, especially for us older folks.
zZZz............ Posted by: Tim in Illinois at September 05, 2016 07:20 AM (d76uN) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 05, 2016 07:20 AM (Z8DIA) 488
'Mornin.
Posted by: Weasel at September 05, 2016 07:25 AM (Sfs6o) 489
Any good childbirth jokes for Labor Day?
Posted by: fluffy at September 05, 2016 07:26 AM (eiFlk) 490
F'n left-wing commie pinko holiday, that's what it is!
Posted by: Weasel at September 05, 2016 07:27 AM (Sfs6o) 491
"Any good childbirth jokes for Labor Day?"
You were so ugly, your Momma dropped you and slapped the Doctor. bada bing!! Oh you meant good Jokes. Nope. Nothing here. Posted by: Tim in Illinois at September 05, 2016 07:29 AM (d76uN) 492
Almost done cleaning 5 lbs of beans for dilly beans. Living the fkn dream here.
Posted by: Infidel at September 05, 2016 07:30 AM (mvFsG) 493
492 5 lbs. That's a lot of beans.
Posted by: Weasel at September 05, 2016 07:31 AM (Sfs6o) 494
Good Lord, tell me about it.
Posted by: Infidel at September 05, 2016 07:33 AM (mvFsG) 495
On this Labor Day weekend, I realize nearly all my closest relatives work for some type of taxpayer supported job. School districts, local government, FAA, only a nephew works for a private company...I guess its this way in most families now.
Posted by: Colin at September 05, 2016 07:34 AM (hIWCG) 496
495, really? None of my family works for the govmt.
Posted by: Infidel at September 05, 2016 07:36 AM (mvFsG) 497
400 ... But sadly, apparently, it's much more difficult to deal with than I would prefer. There IS no good solution -- aside form the two that I stumbled upon (boiling in lemon juice, and pickling). Inulin is a harsh mistress.
Zombie, I've heard the skin contains the most insulin. Try peeling to reduce the "fartichoke" effect. Posted by: Dirty throttle body at September 05, 2016 07:36 AM (iLoHX) 498
Na, cut it with water or cheap boozePosted by: Skip
That's the best advice of all. Keep cutting it more and more each time. That way, you're not saying no, but giving a really good hint. Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 05, 2016 07:38 AM (ZFUt7) 499
What time does the EMT show up? And I get to see the Art thread (I know its not suppose to be but I look at it that way) first hand.
Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2016 07:43 AM (0G2eQ) 500
By the way China is treating Obama, you can tell they have decided they have us over a barrel. We're either going to roll over or get our clocks cleaned when we get in some limited conflict over China's expansion beyond their coastal waters.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at September 05, 2016 07:44 AM (Ee2nz) 501
Another vote for the sidebar SMOD election Ad..
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 05, 2016 07:44 AM (ptqRm) 502
Good Morning,
I haven't been here for months. I know myself & if I stop by for a minute, I'll be here hours. It's 58 degrees in Boston area. We had 20 days over 90 degrees. Another was supposed to be August 31, but the sun never came out. Hi Vic, Fluffy, Infidel, Creeper. I'm sorry if I messed anyone. Posted by: Carol at September 05, 2016 07:46 AM (sj3Ax) 503
Out in Ohio they sell name brand booze in the supermarket except it's low octane. Like half regular proof.
It's like wearing a condom. Takes all the fun away. Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 05, 2016 07:47 AM (ZFUt7) 504
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 05, 2016 07:49 AM (KCxzN) Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 05, 2016 07:50 AM (ptqRm) 506
Usted tiene que elegir a Hillary para ver como es accesible ella es.
Posted by: undocumented Tim Kaine at September 05, 2016 07:50 AM (e8kgV) 507
It's been a hot summer in the mid-Atlantic, that's for sure. I'm looking forward to fall.
Posted by: Weasel at September 05, 2016 07:52 AM (Sfs6o) 508
Out in Ohio they sell name brand booze in the supermarket except it's low octane. Like half regular proof.
It's like wearing a condom. Takes all the fun away. Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 05, 2016 07:47 AM (ZFUt7) I didn't know that, interesting. Sort of like 3.2 beer. I remember at Ft. Knox, the beer sold was low alcohol beer....?? Going to Germany, first glass of German beer nearly knocked me on my ass. Posted by: Colin at September 05, 2016 07:54 AM (hIWCG) Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 05, 2016 07:59 AM (fOgSR) 510
I'm back. Little brother called. I forgot where we were at now.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 08:00 AM (mpXpK) 511
Having a lot of problems with AOS page loads now.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 08:00 AM (mpXpK) 512
"Going to Germany, first glass of German beer nearly knocked me on my ass. "
Two Bottles of Weissen. Did me in. Posted by: Tim in Illinois at September 05, 2016 08:01 AM (d76uN) 513
Hi Carol, long time no see.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 08:02 AM (mpXpK) 514
Mmmmm, dilly beans .....
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 05, 2016 08:02 AM (Z8DIA) 515
Having a lot of problems with AOS page loads now.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 08:00 AM (mpXpK) Same here! Posted by: Hrothgar at September 05, 2016 08:03 AM (wCEn4) 516
dump up
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 05, 2016 08:04 AM (mpXpK) 517
Carol! Hello.
I never got back to you on Twitter. I've stayed off of it since they did away with Milo and only popped in to check on you. Good to see you! Posted by: Mama AJ at September 05, 2016 08:04 AM (gTQoY) 518
nood
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 05, 2016 08:06 AM (Z8DIA) Posted by: Carol at September 05, 2016 08:06 AM (sj3Ax) 520
{{{Carol}}} Nice to hear from you. 6am out west and I'm canning. Hope you are well. How are the roses?
Posted by: Infidel at September 05, 2016 08:07 AM (mvFsG) 521
The dump will barely load for me. Something is locking it up
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 05, 2016 08:07 AM (ptqRm) 522
So NYT is estimating that the Obamas' post-presidency books about how great they were as president and first lady will get them something in the neighborhood of $20 - 45 million.
Hillary Clinton got a reported $8 million for her first lady book, but IIRC, the publisher lost money on the book. Of course, she wasn't a "historic first" like the Obamas, so maybe that explains why publishers think so many more people will shell out money for the Obamas' books? Seems like a pretty risky proposition to me, but maybe they're counting on the Obamas putting clauses into their speaking contracts requiring the purchase of X number of their books, or perhaps they've made a deal with Hillary to require the government to purchase X number of their books (like Obama was having the government purchase copies of his books). Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 05, 2016 08:08 AM (NnYnv) 523
Actually, it's the main page, with the dump on it which will not get to the point that I can click on comments.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 05, 2016 08:08 AM (ptqRm) 524
Seems to have started with the book thread yesterday.
Posted by: Infidel at September 05, 2016 08:12 AM (mvFsG) 525
Sheriff Joe is a once-in-a-lifetime out here in AZ. He's tough but if you've followed him over the years he's withstood attack after attack and most if not all of the charges against him have been found exaggerated at best or outright fabricated at worst both via the media and courts. Obama, local dems and RINOs have been out to get him since the start b/c of his illegal immigration raids. Read the story of Danny's Car Wash out here - that was Joe's doing. I say long live Joe.
Posted by: Smitteh at September 05, 2016 08:15 AM (g9d8D) 526
If you can't take da clime,
don't do da crime. Posted by: AtlJim at September 05, 2016 09:38 AM (KtpTY) Processing 0.07, elapsed 0.0809 seconds. |
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