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Overnight Open Thread (New Year's Eve Edition)

Well, here's hoping 2017 is a good year. We'll get an idea of where it's gonna go by the end of January I imagine when we get a new President.

Government Cares

Those of you that still believe that government cares for you, I give you this example of why they don't. EPA to Alaskans in sub-zero temps: stop burning wood to keep warm.

Champagne Lesson

5 things you should know about the champagne you'll drink tonight. For example, the bubbles are basically yeast farts.
h/t NDH

Dance With The Dead

Pretty good sound.

Cyber Knowledge

The MSM has much to learn when covering cyber issues. The somewhat dubious "Russia hacked the Vermont power grid" story. Jeez, the infected computer wasn't even connected to the power grid.

Merkel

This has been obvious to most people for some time, but what will Merkel do about it? Islamist terror is 'greatest threat' to Germany. She's already let in more than million refugees and migrants since 2015. Even if only 1% of those are jihadis, that's still 10,000 of them on the loose.

If Germany acts like Sweden, the problems will get worse. Afghan teens convicted of gang rape won't be deported because it's 'too dangerous' for them.

New Year's Resolution Generator

Celebrities

Why you shouldn't listen to celebrities about anything. How clueless celebrities convinced America self-punishment is fun.

Shailene Woodley, eats clay in the belief that it'll adhere to heavy metals and cleanse her body of them.

Clay is "one of the most healthy things you can put into your body," she told a blogger at the website Into the Gloss. "I first heard about the benefits of eating clay from a taxi driver. He was African and was saying that where he's from the women eat clay when they're pregnant." Woodley also told New York Magazine that she constantly drinks iced tea containing a packet of "instant chaga, a mushroom-based powder." "It tastes like dirt," she said. "But I like the taste of dirt."

Not sure I would call Tom Arnold a celebrity anymore, but he is breaking the law by encouraging hackers to hack into the MGM database for 'racist' Trump tapes.

Higher Education

Here's seven of the most absurd 'academic' studies of 2016.

Search Terms

Top Google search terms for 2016.


Cool Stuff

Pretty cool. Watch a meteor fly through the erupting Turrialba volcano.

Take a virtual ride in the cockpit on the F-4 Phantom's retirement flight.

Cat Video

Tonight's ONT brought to you by the best cat tweets of 2016:

Top cat pic via

Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to the cob of your choice or CDR M. Otherwise send tips to Ace.

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Comments

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1 Happy new year!

Posted by: madamemayhem (i wanna be sedated) at December 31, 2016 10:08 PM (yTnCT)

2 Hola, amigoz en loz intertuboz!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at December 31, 2016 10:08 PM (EzgxV)

3 I can relate to that kitteh...

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:09 PM (tHwdc)

4 resolution: read Rene Girard on mimetic rivalry and its resolution.

Islam needs a suffering servant.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 31, 2016 10:11 PM (TlcBW)

5 Happy New Year!

Barry who? Haaaaa ha haha I can't breathe! Haaaa!

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 31, 2016 10:11 PM (PHcLa)

6 top 10

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 31, 2016 10:12 PM (8iiMU)

7 Thank you for a wonderful New Year's Eve ONT, CDR M!!!


Now, off to chase links!

Posted by: cthulhu at December 31, 2016 10:12 PM (EzgxV)

8 To Ace and the CoBs, Thanks for the ice cream and Happy New Year to you all.

Posted by: Mr. Mxyzptlk at December 31, 2016 10:12 PM (GWVcB)

9 Nearly January, baby!

Peanut Butter Inauguration Time!



Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 31, 2016 10:13 PM (8iiMU)

10 I don't do gluten.

Posted by: Rootin' Tootin' Putin at December 31, 2016 10:14 PM (bc2Lc)

11 3
I can relate to that kitteh...


Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:09 PM (tHwdc)

I can relate to the dog.But I'm a cat person.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 31, 2016 10:14 PM (8iiMU)

12 Houston's resolution: if tempted to hire some beta football player from an alpha team, don't.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 31, 2016 10:14 PM (TlcBW)

13 Happy New Year Everyone! BTH..how you doing?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 31, 2016 10:14 PM (CyXSj)

14 "The MSM has much to learn..."

You could have stopped right there.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 31, 2016 10:14 PM (J8/9G)

15 Kateurday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/815254620725448704

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/815254691919593474

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/815254769266610176

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/815254847926714371

Posted by: kbdabear at December 31, 2016 10:14 PM (Ya7zs)

16 I really hoped o could choose "Quit quoting ABBA during sex" on that resolutions list. But alas, sex wasn't one of the
choices. Maybe next year.

Posted by: madamemayhem (i wanna be sedated) at December 31, 2016 10:15 PM (yTnCT)

17 happy new year to all morons and ettes.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 31, 2016 10:15 PM (KP5rU)

18 I've got to say - I just discovered this site and it is AWESOME. I'm a 49 year old Army veteran and making fun of Liberals/Progressives is one of my favorite hobbies. This is a great site! Keep up the good work!

Posted by: Augustus623 at December 31, 2016 10:15 PM (ITt4h)

19 Russia didn't hack the election. Hillary blew it fair and square.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 31, 2016 10:15 PM (PHcLa)

20 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 31, 2016 10:16 PM (SvLsV)

21 More Kateurday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/815254926700007425

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/815255013433823232

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/815255100524470273

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/815255187749306368

Posted by: kbdabear at December 31, 2016 10:16 PM (Ya7zs)

22 Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 31, 2016 10:14 PM (TlcBW)

Always have wondered how Houston would do if they had a real QB instead of the journeymen and riff-raff they've had.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 31, 2016 10:16 PM (J8/9G)

23 16 I really hoped o could choose "Quit quoting ABBA during sex" on that resolutions list. But alas, sex wasn't one of the
choices. Maybe next year.
Posted by: madamemayhem (i wanna be sedated) at December 31, 2016 10:15 PM (yTnCT)


That's really funny. Which ABBA quotes?

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 10:16 PM (iMxBJ)

24 hai dawg show. good to see you here

I am okay. watching the Houston Rockets spit out their bubblegum against the Knicks.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 31, 2016 10:17 PM (TlcBW)

25 If Germany acts like Sweden, the problems will get worse. Afghan teens convicted of gang rape won't be deported because it's 'too dangerous' for them.


This is what happens when you care more about criminals than innocent people. I just don't understand how people can be such dumb doormats.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 31, 2016 10:17 PM (+lVUW)

26 Howdy, Horde!

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 31, 2016 10:17 PM (nvMvs)

27 had to take wife to urgent care today. violent reaction to nuts. ate them her whole life, i'm happy things are looking up so far.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 31, 2016 10:17 PM (KP5rU)

28 Evening all.

I'm sick of babysitting these 19 year old punks on the Saturday night shift. They do what they want, and there's no consequences. Especially the thug. My boss can get someone else to be responsible for them. I'm done.

Posted by: Country Boy - stay deplorable my friend at December 31, 2016 10:18 PM (D2vc1)

29 "Start quoting ABBA during Grandpa's stories."

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:18 PM (tHwdc)

30 >>>Clay is "one of the most healthy things you can put into your body," she
told a blogger at the website Into the Gloss. "I first heard about the
benefits of eating clay from a taxi driver. He was African and was
saying that where he's from the women eat clay when they're pregnant."<<<



And we eat clay because, you know, we have so little fucking food!!!

Posted by: Starvin Marvin (of South Park fame) at December 31, 2016 10:18 PM (2xRDR)

31 I really hoped o could choose "Quit quoting ABBA during sex" on that resolutions list. But alas, sex wasn't one of the
choices. Maybe next year.
Posted by: madamemayhem (i wanna be sedated) at December 31, 2016 10:15 PM

That's really funny. Which ABBA quotes?
Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 10:16 PM


Fernando!!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 31, 2016 10:19 PM (SvLsV)

32 19: never say hillary and blew it in the same sentence please. thanks.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 31, 2016 10:19 PM (KP5rU)

33 Posted by: Augustus623 at December 31, 2016 10:15 PM (ITt4h)

Welcome.

Be sure to adhere to the AosHQ Style Guide, please.

And avoid Teh Barrel where possible.




Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 31, 2016 10:19 PM (8iiMU)

34 The Knicks: proving since 1970 that playing in a big market doesn't lead to success.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 31, 2016 10:19 PM (J8/9G)

35 Happy New Year Horde!


*confettis*

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 10:19 PM (dEQP3)

36 Take a chance on me!

(I don't actually quite ABBA during sex)

Posted by: madamemayhem (i wanna be sedated) at December 31, 2016 10:20 PM (yTnCT)

37 That's really funny. Which ABBA quotes?

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 10:16 PM (iMxBJ)
"Oh, Fernando!" ?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 31, 2016 10:20 PM (8iiMU)

38 I might once have quoted Prince during sex

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 31, 2016 10:20 PM (TlcBW)

39 *waves to Augustus*

We don't bite.

Mostly.

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 10:21 PM (dEQP3)

40 28
Evening all.



I'm sick of babysitting these 19 year old punks on the Saturday
night shift. They do what they want, and there's no consequences.
Especially the thug. My boss can get someone else to be responsible for
them. I'm done.

Posted by: Country Boy - stay deplorable my friend at December 31, 2016 10:18 PM (D2vc1)

You've been holding the banhammer on Saturday ONTs?!?!?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 31, 2016 10:21 PM (EzgxV)

41 >>>We don't bite.

Mostly.
Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 10:21 PM (dEQP3)<<<

Speak for yourself.

Posted by: the AoSHQ comfort spiders at December 31, 2016 10:22 PM (2xRDR)

42 There's a name for eating clay, it's pica, and its cause is malnutrition! Jeez. Let's all start doing things like third-worlders.

Posted by: kalneva at December 31, 2016 10:22 PM (vhW1R)

43 Happy New Year, Horde!

18 Augustus: Welcome!

Oh, almost forgot:

Hillary Clinton will never be POTUS.

WooHoo!!

Posted by: ibguy at December 31, 2016 10:23 PM (vUcdz)

44 *rolls around in The Ohio State University's loss*


Oh sweet mystery of life at last I've found you . . . .

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 10:23 PM (dEQP3)

45
The Paw Slapper vid makes me want a kitty.

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 10:23 PM (bFFPK)

46 I don't know who Shailene Woodley is, but I'm going to guess that she's a friend of that half-wit, Gwyneth Paltrow, or Tom Cruise, or Susan Sarandon, or any of the other entertainment industry geniuses who think they know better than medical doctors.

Same half-wits who hate Trump.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 31, 2016 10:24 PM (+lVUW)

47 23 16 I really hoped o could choose "Quit quoting ABBA during sex" on that resolutions list. But alas, sex wasn't one of the
choices. Maybe next year.
Posted by: madamemayhem (i wanna be sedated) at December 31, 2016 10:15 PM (yTnCT)

That's really funny. Which ABBA quotes?
Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 10:16 PM (iMxBJ)


My wife doesn't like it when I yell out, "Fernando!"

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 31, 2016 10:24 PM (nvMvs)

48 Happy New Year everyone! Thanks especially to Ace and Cobs. Great ONT CDR M.

2017 countdown to Obama eviction starts soon.

Posted by: gracepc at December 31, 2016 10:24 PM (OU4q6)

49 I looked at the New Years resolution chart quickly, and read "Freestyle Fapping" and I wondered what new thing you morons have invented. Need to get some sleep, I got the stomach virus last night. Not very fun for anyone interested.

Posted by: Picric at December 31, 2016 10:24 PM (s0VSd)

50 42
There's a name for eating clay, it's pica, and its cause is
malnutrition! Jeez. Let's all start doing things like third-worlders.

Posted by: kalneva at December 31, 2016 10:22 PM (vhW1R)

THAT'S FUNNY BECAUSE CLAY IS NOT FOOD, AND "PICA" IS A SCIENCE TERM MEANING 'SUPER TINY', AND THAT'S HOW MANY CALORIES YOU WILL GET EATING CLAY!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 31, 2016 10:25 PM (8iiMU)

51 I really hoped o could choose "Quit quoting ABBA during sex" on that resolutions list. But alas, sex wasn't one of the

choices. Maybe next year.

Posted by: madamemayhem (i wanna be sedated) at December 31, 2016 10:15 PM (yTnCT)

I, too, was disappointed at the lack of sex as an option.
But then, I usually am.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:25 PM (tHwdc)

52
And the oxygen we breathe is basically leaf farts of single-celled photosynthetic organism farts.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Irredeemable Cycling Stars (TM) at December 31, 2016 10:25 PM (BK3ZS)

53 Here's to defunding NPR, PBS, Planned Parenthood and the United Nations!

Cheers!

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 31, 2016 10:25 PM (PHcLa)

54 Looks like we all had the Fernando idea at the same time.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 31, 2016 10:26 PM (nvMvs)

55 "Try quoting ABBA during civil war reenactments".

Hmm. Now that's a resolution I can really keep...

Posted by: antisocialist at December 31, 2016 10:26 PM (W2wn0)

56 G'evening, all.

Hey, guess what day it is.














It's Trump Day!!!
















(Never gets old)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2016 10:26 PM (J+eG2)

57 The Paw Slapper vid makes me want a kitty.



Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 10:23 PM (bFFPK)

Makes me want a puppy!

("You got kitteh on my puppy!" "You got puppy on my kitteh!")

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:26 PM (tHwdc)

58 you know, once up on a time there was a nice she elf living in the forest, not bothering anybody, but the other elves kept teasing her about her fear of spiders.

eventually she was made immune to her fear and she became Lolth, the demon Queen of spiders.

so be careful here, morons.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 31, 2016 10:26 PM (TlcBW)

59 *gambols about all innocently*

"Try quoting ABBA during civil war reenactments".

Hmm. Now that's a resolution I can really keep...
Posted by: antisocialist at December 31, 2016 10:26 PM (W2wn0)


That sounds like it could be hilarious actually.


Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 10:28 PM (dEQP3)

60
Joe Biden's Four Food Groups -- clay, chalk and paste.

Eat well, 'Merica!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Irredeemable Cycling Stars (TM) at December 31, 2016 10:28 PM (BK3ZS)

61 I've got to say - I just discovered this site and it
is AWESOME. I'm a 49 year old Army veteran and making fun of
Liberals/Progressives is one of my favorite hobbies. This is a great
site! Keep up the good work!

Posted by: Augustus623 at December 31, 2016 10:15 PM (ITt4h)


Isn't it gratifying to find a place where you belong? Welcome to the Horde!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:28 PM (tHwdc)

62 Geez. That bald cat has wrinkly manboobs.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 31, 2016 10:28 PM (+lVUW)

63 You've been holding the banhammer on Saturday ONTs?!?!?


Posted by: cthulhu at December 31, 2016 10:21 PM (EzgxV)

Ha, not exactly.

If I had a banhammer, both my 19 y/o coworkers would have been long gone already. I can do nothing but try to correct, and I'm done discussing the obvious.

Posted by: Country Boy - stay deplorable my friend at December 31, 2016 10:29 PM (D2vc1)

64 18 I've got to say - I just discovered this site and it is AWESOME. I'm a 49 year old Army veteran and making fun of Liberals/Progressives is one of my favorite hobbies. This is a great site! Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Augustus623
-------------------

Sit. Stay a while. Welcome.
You have much to learn, young padawan.
We were all new here once. Except the Elder God - he has always been here.

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 10:29 PM (bFFPK)

65 32 Hillary knew how to hit all the wrong buttons. Better?

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 31, 2016 10:29 PM (PHcLa)

66 I see that O-hio State scored nothing versus Clemson.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 31, 2016 10:29 PM (TlcBW)

67 I am so ready for the new year.,.. 2016 wasn't the worst year I've ever had but it's time to scrape off Oblabo and see what Trump can do. I plan to start a quilt and (all y'all cross your fingers and say a little prayer for us) might just be able to get our house fixed before it falls down. Might even try to quit smoking.

Posted by: madamemayhem (i wanna be sedated) at December 31, 2016 10:30 PM (yTnCT)

68 ave, Auguste!

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 31, 2016 10:30 PM (TlcBW)

69 For those who have not seen, this is actually Donald Trump's New Year's Eve tweet:

"Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!"

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 10:30 PM (dEQP3)

70 Hey everybody!! Happy new year!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 10:30 PM (u8kLQ)

71 Here is the "News of the Week" compilation of the news.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=12926

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 31, 2016 10:30 PM (vBeA5)

72 welcome augustus. happy new year.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 31, 2016 10:31 PM (KP5rU)

73 "Shailene Woodley"

Is this a name with which I should be familiar? Must I?

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 31, 2016 10:31 PM (J8/9G)

74 alex, that DT tweet is *already* causing millions of liberal panties to become sorely twisted... ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 10:31 PM (u8kLQ)

75
The EPA pinhead is about to shut down the Ghostbusters' storage facility.

Smooth move, pencil neck...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Irredeemable Cycling Stars (TM) at December 31, 2016 10:31 PM (BK3ZS)

76 @58 eventually she was made immune to her fear and she became Lolth, the demon Queen of spiders.

so be careful here, morons.
---------------

Yeah, but is she hot?

Posted by: junior at December 31, 2016 10:32 PM (ZvmQn)

77 I've got to say - I just discovered this site and it is AWESOME. I'm a 49 year old Army veteran and making fun of Liberals/Progressives is one of my favorite hobbies. This is a great site! Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Augustus623

We should introduce him to SMFH.

Posted by: Country Boy - stay deplorable my friend at December 31, 2016 10:32 PM (D2vc1)

78 65; a little.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 31, 2016 10:32 PM (KP5rU)

79 75 Krebs

It's true: that man literally has no dick.

Posted by: ibguy at December 31, 2016 10:32 PM (vUcdz)

80 55
"Try quoting ABBA during civil war reenactments".



Hmm. Now that's a resolution I can really keep...

Posted by: antisocialist at December 31, 2016 10:26 PM (W2wn0)

"You are the dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen..."https://youtu.be/xFrGuyw1V8s


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 31, 2016 10:33 PM (8iiMU)

81 Augustus--Welcome. I'm new as well. Mostly erudite posts here and totally over my head. But you are military and will get the lingo and references.

I still don't know what being "barreled" is or how to avoid it.

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 10:33 PM (nQ10o)

82 alex, that DT tweet is *already* causing millions of liberal panties to become sorely twisted... ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 10:31 PM (u8kLQ)



I should not enjoy that nearly as much as I do The Ohio State University's humiliation but I am.


Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 10:33 PM (dEQP3)

83 Happy new year Ohio state!

Posted by: Backtoga at December 31, 2016 10:33 PM (/22Vh)

84 2016 sucked and blew. Maybe 2017 will be better. Maybe not.

And no NY resolutions for me. I used to make them but could never keep them. I figure if something is worth doing I'll do it when the time is right and I have my head together.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 31, 2016 10:33 PM (0mRoj)

85 Well...

Little sister called tonight. Our oldest brother (73) has bad cancer, among other problems -- mostly medical but apparently some doctor-aggravated -- with possibly just weeks to live, if that. He had problems at Thanksgiving (I didn't notice, sister did) but he hadn't known the extent of them.

Sister is flying in tomorrow to drive Mom (96) up to Kansas to see him. I won't be going, because I have raging contagious flu.

Brother has had a long and interesting life, not always easy, including being one of the earliest polio victims cured. He just announced at Thanksgiving that he and his long-time girlfriend were married. That announcement has a different color now, of course.

A prayer for his peace, and also for our mother's, would not be unwelcome.

And, yes, cancer sucks.

-----♥-----

Milady and I are going to sip some wine, watch some old fogie movies, and not think about the bodiless head of Dick Clark in a bell jar, dropping in Times Square - or was that a Futurama episode?

BBL8R or maybe next year.

Posted by: mindful webworker - of ye Olde Yeare webworkers at December 31, 2016 10:34 PM (5a8XA)

86 alex, LOL. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 10:34 PM (u8kLQ)

87 81: staying away from italics and not closing shit seems to be an issue.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 31, 2016 10:34 PM (KP5rU)

88 83 Backtoga

That's THE Ohio State....

Posted by: ibguy at December 31, 2016 10:34 PM (vUcdz)

89 81 Augustus--Welcome. I'm new as well. Mostly erudite posts here and totally over my head. But you are military and will get the lingo and references.

I still don't know what being "barreled" is or how to avoid it.
Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 10:33 PM (nQ10o)


When it's your turn in The Barrel, you'll know.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 31, 2016 10:35 PM (0mRoj)

90 The Paw Slapper vid makes me want a kitty.
Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 10:23 PM (bFFPK)


I'm betting that kitten is slapping puppy because puppy is a snorer. I had to share a motel room with my sister last summer. The woman snores like a freight train. I'm surprised people in the next room weren't knocking on the wall.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 31, 2016 10:35 PM (+lVUW)

91 Prayers up for you all, mindful webworker.

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 10:35 PM (dEQP3)

92 I am so ready for the new year.,.. 2016 wasn't the
worst year I've ever had but it's time to scrape off Oblabo and see what
Trump can do. I plan to start a quilt and (all y'all cross your
fingers and say a little prayer for us) might just be able to get our
house fixed before it falls down. Might even try to quit smoking.

Posted by: madamemayhem (i wanna be sedated) at December 31, 2016 10:30 PM (yTnCT)


It could be a Disappointment Quilt, and you could sew a square for every time you disappointed Obama, or every time Trump or the MSM disappoints you.
I, too, plan to quit smoking sometime in the next six weeks. Girding my loins.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:35 PM (tHwdc)

93 Mommy's All Right
Daddy's All Right
They just seem a little weird
Surrender
Surrender


Um, did Cheap Trick Cosby their parents so they could bone their girlfriend?

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 10:35 PM (iMxBJ)

94 Clemson's best chance to defeat Alabama is to outscore them.

*nods sagely*

Posted by: Grump928(C) ProLite 2200 at December 31, 2016 10:35 PM (LTHVh)

95 "I still don't know what being "barreled" is or how to avoid it."


God, I love this time of year.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2016 10:35 PM (J+eG2)

96 AtC, this was posted on the chess thread and OregonMuse thought you would appreciate:

http://bit.ly/2hFHzT4

Posted by: Darles Chickens at December 31, 2016 10:36 PM (u8Dsi)

97 Ah, New Year's Eve in the sunbelt;

80 minutes to midnight and it sounds like the Battle of the Bulge outside.

Posted by: kbdabear at December 31, 2016 10:36 PM (Ya7zs)

98 Heh, I feel like that cat on top.

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 10:36 PM (GsAUU)

99 Instead of just defunding the UN, we could change our policy to pay exactly the same amount as the country that pays the least.

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at December 31, 2016 10:36 PM (hALjw)

100 Things qdpsteve intends to do in 2017 that he didn't do in 2016, or ever before:

- Try Chicago deep dish pizza
- Try German food (www.rasselbocklb.com)
- Make at least three dishes from the Well Fed cookbook
- Lose at least 10 pounds, and keep it off (probably after I try the pizza and German food)
- Do serious exercise (walking) at least 300 days
- Do at least one solo overnight casino trip (probably to Pechanga)
- Ask a woman out for a date

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 10:36 PM (u8kLQ)

101 Hey everybody!! Happy new year!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 10:30 PM (u8kLQ)

Happy new year, Steve!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:37 PM (tHwdc)

102 AtC, this was posted on the chess thread and OregonMuse thought you would appreciate:

http://bit.ly/2hFHzT4

Posted by: Darles Chickens at December 31, 2016 10:36 PM (u8Dsi)



Heh. I saw that.

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 10:37 PM (dEQP3)

103 So sorry to hear, webworker. Just very sorry. Peace and strength.

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 10:37 PM (nQ10o)

104 I've always wanted to eat pizza on seven continents.

Posted by: Grump928(C) ProLite 2200 at December 31, 2016 10:37 PM (LTHVh)

105 Well...somewhere out over the Atlantic...2017 is coming at us at a 1000 miles per hour.



Gerd yer lerns.

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 10:37 PM (qUNWi)

106 Makes me want a puppy!

("You got kitteh on my puppy!" "You got puppy on my kitteh!")
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess
--------------

Ha!

(Sorry to bail on the Pet thread. I don't deal with loss well. It got a little too sad for me. As much as I love each and every Moron here, I can't reply to every lost pet post with blubbering...)

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 10:37 PM (bFFPK)

107 Thanks Miley!

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 10:37 PM (u8kLQ)

108 Just finished watching _Airplane!_ with my youngest kid. The number of things I had to explain to him was a little surprising.

Posted by: Trimegistus at December 31, 2016 10:37 PM (88x1C)

109 Happy New Year. I have a puppy laying on my chest

Posted by: Buzzion at December 31, 2016 10:37 PM (cAnNx)

110 So far, two.

Posted by: Grump928(C) ProLite 2200 at December 31, 2016 10:38 PM (LTHVh)

111 Woof.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 31, 2016 10:38 PM (TRzoP)

112 Antarctica has crappy pizza.

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 10:38 PM (qUNWi)

113 AtC, my Saturday Night Sideboob pics are tweeted in case you want to analyze for artistic value

Posted by: kbdabear at December 31, 2016 10:38 PM (Ya7zs)

114 So "Finally facing my Waterloo" is out during sex. huh.

Posted by: Bete: A Deplorable at December 31, 2016 10:38 PM (Ojki1)

115 AtC, my Saturday Night Sideboob pics are tweeted in case you want to analyze for artistic value
Posted by: kbdabear at December 31, 2016 10:38 PM (Ya7zs)


*scurries*

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 10:39 PM (dEQP3)

116
Top cat says, "What are you looking at?"
Bottom cat says, "Why are you looking at me?"


Middle cat says, "You are sleeping in my spot."

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 10:39 PM (SvQr3)

117 Happy New Year, y'all!

Doubt i actually wiil see 2017 until it is 8hrs old.

Posted by: tbodie at December 31, 2016 10:39 PM (xujhj)

118 *without

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 10:39 PM (bFFPK)

119
Apart from St. Gwyneth the Clueless, the listed celebrities and their recommendations article had me saying, "Who's he / she / it?"

New Year's Resolution -- if I devote as little as one second to learn who any of those ass clowns are, I'm disowning myself.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Irredeemable Cycling Stars (TM) at December 31, 2016 10:39 PM (BK3ZS)

120 I, too, plan to quit smoking sometime in the next six weeks. Girding my loins.


Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:35 PM (tHwdc)

Did you try the 'vape' route yet?
My parents smoked 2packs/day forever so I never had the desire, thank goodness. However, I know a few who have done vapor thing successfully. At least you stop breathing in the nasty smoke right away. Then you can work on weaning yourself off the nicotine.My $0.02 from the sidelines, for what that is worth.
Good luck in your quest!



Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 31, 2016 10:39 PM (8iiMU)

121 "Happy New Year. I have a puppy laying on my chest"

What's a dead guy need a puppy for?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2016 10:39 PM (J+eG2)

122 So "Finally facing my Waterloo" is out during sex. huh.

You can depend on me.

Posted by: Grump928(C) ProLite 2200 at December 31, 2016 10:40 PM (LTHVh)

123 Happy New Years morons and thanks for always being there for me when I needed prayers or just a shoulder. You all are awesome. May 2017 be the best year ever for us all.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at December 31, 2016 10:40 PM (CNHr1)

124 81 I still don't know what being "barreled" is or how to avoid it.
Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 10:33 PM (nQ10o)


Never post anything from Microsoft Word. I did, and I can still smell that sticky stuff on that one part of the floor.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 10:41 PM (iMxBJ)

125 Happy New Year, friends. Thank you for letting me in.

What is "barreling?"

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 10:42 PM (nQ10o)

126 A prayer for his peace, and also for our mother's, would not be unwelcome.



And, yes, cancer sucks.






Milady and I are going to sip some wine, watch some old fogie
movies, and not think about the bodiless head of Dick Clark in a bell
jar, dropping in Times Square - or was that a Futurama episode?



BBL8R or maybe next year.

Posted by: mindful webworker at December 31, 2016 10:34 PM (5a8XA)

Prayers for his peace, and that of you and his loved ones.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:42 PM (tHwdc)

127 What's a dead guy need a puppy for?


The puppy is also dead, but it comes with your choice of toppings.

Posted by: Grump928(C) ProLite 2200 at December 31, 2016 10:42 PM (LTHVh)

128 There are only two kinds of Morons - those who have visited The Barrel, and those that will.

Posted by: Rhubarb Ranch at December 31, 2016 10:42 PM (VfCmK)

129 I still don't know what being "barreled" is or how to avoid it.
Posted by: Libertarianwannabe
------------------

Oh, you'll find out soon enough.
Wait 'til someone teaches you to bold, do italics & such.
(Hint - the barrel is where we keep the good liquor & the classy nude magazines)

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 10:43 PM (bFFPK)

130
I still don't know what being "barreled" is or how to avoid it.


You don't avoid the barrel, you embrace it. Re-examine your assumptions, kiddos.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Irredeemable Cycling Stars (TM) at December 31, 2016 10:43 PM (BK3ZS)

131 There are two types of Morons, those with guns and ... hey..wait.

Posted by: Grump928(C) ProLite 2200 at December 31, 2016 10:43 PM (LTHVh)

132 WTF just happened?

Posted by: Buckeyes at December 31, 2016 10:44 PM (GsAUU)

133 never mind

Posted by: Grump928(C) ProLite 2200 at December 31, 2016 10:44 PM (LTHVh)

134 Happy New Years all.

Posted by: Flyboy at December 31, 2016 10:44 PM (2Dtm0)

135 Barelling is like wassailing.


But in a barrel.

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 10:44 PM (qUNWi)

136 Woot Woot ONT

Up early today. Doubt if I will see midnight EST.

So.
Happy New Year you Morons.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 31, 2016 10:44 PM (voOPb)

137 So we finally have a SMOD/Yellowstone Caldera campaign spot once it's too late...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon without a basestar at December 31, 2016 10:44 PM (vyqqu)

138 WTF just happened?


Is that a condom hanging out of your ass ?

Posted by: Grump928(C) ProLite 2200 at December 31, 2016 10:44 PM (LTHVh)

139

IS it true the blog will change format at midnight?

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 10:44 PM (SvQr3)

140 136: same to you mh.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 31, 2016 10:45 PM (KP5rU)

141 Top Google search terms for 2016.

Pretty sad, I'd heard of one of the actors (Brad Pitt, of course) and none of the actresses.

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 10:45 PM (29QcC)

142 A friend asked me to check in on and feed her Cavalier puppy. Thing is cute as can be. Tiny head and legs with a big old fluffy body. Funny looking. Well I fed her and then let her out to go potty which she did. Then I let her run around a bit outside. She then proceeded to go back and eat her poop. YUCK!!! I've never had a dog that did that. I know it's not uncommon. No more kisses from that puppy......

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic misogynistic redneck at December 31, 2016 10:45 PM (JNDQi)

143 WTF just happened?


I don't know but you might want to file a report.

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 10:45 PM (qUNWi)

144 IS it true the blog will change format at midnight?

Minx 0.8 alpha will be a facebook format that uses Disqus to comment.

Posted by: Grump928(C) ProLite 2200 at December 31, 2016 10:46 PM (LTHVh)

145 Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:09 PM (tHwdc)


Hey Miley,

Listened to 33.33333 today.
A wonderful album. Thanks.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 31, 2016 10:46 PM (voOPb)

146
A prayer for his peace, and also for our mother's, would not be unwelcome.

And, yes, cancer sucks.
-------------------

Done, MWW.
And yes, Fuck cancer.
(Ain't ready to talk about it yet...)

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 10:46 PM (bFFPK)

147 Is buzzion still dead? Does he get rejuvenated at midnight or is this a more permanent arrangement?

Posted by: madamemayhem (i wanna be sedated) at December 31, 2016 10:46 PM (yTnCT)

148 Wonder how long it's been since the Suckeyes got beaten that bad?

Posted by: Country Boy - stay deplorable my friend at December 31, 2016 10:46 PM (D2vc1)

149 144 IS it true the blog will change format at midnight?

Minx 0.8 alpha will be a facebook format that uses Disqus to comment.
Posted by: Grump928(C) ProLite 2200 at December 31, 2016 10:46 PM (LTHVh)

Oh HELL no.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 31, 2016 10:47 PM (0mRoj)

150 129 (Hint - the barrel is where we keep the good liquor & the classy nude magazines)
Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 10:43 PM (bFFPK)


You lie!

Posted by: Joe Wilson at December 31, 2016 10:47 PM (iMxBJ)

151 I went apeshit at Jeffrey Wells again today...but I feel as if I did it in a "smarter" way, in that I did it to him at Twitter, not his blog. He posted a link to yet another obnoxious hateful anti-Trump-voter post, and off I went like a firecracker.

Well, about a week ago, Wells was upset because... he didn't get VIP access to Sundance Film Festival this year, like he has in years past. So in one of my response tweets I wrote, "enjoy your special Sundance access in January... oh wait, you lost it because you've shown you're an unstable Stalinist loon!"

Sometimes I know where to stick the knife in...

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 10:47 PM (u8kLQ)

152 "Minx 0.8 alpha will be a facebook format that uses Disqus to comment."



Ah......I love progress.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2016 10:47 PM (J+eG2)

153 Antarctica has crappy pizza.

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 10:38 PM (qUNWi) fnord (qUNWi)


Frozen pizza is never quite as good.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 31, 2016 10:47 PM (wB8Tg)

154 IS it true the blog will change format at midnight?

Minx 0.8 alpha will be a facebook format that uses Disqus to comment.

Posted by: Grump928(C) ProLite 2200 at December 31, 2016 10:46 PM


--------------------------------

YES!
We'll finally get rid of all the socks.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 10:47 PM (SvQr3)

155 Public Service Announcement for the newbs (who are all welcomed and embraced even if all of the embracing isn't strictly consensual).

The Barrel is the place to which those who commit crimes against the blog are banished. These crimes are principally failing to close bold or italic tags and causing the formatting to ruin the next several posts.

Adventurous crimes include copying from MS Word, which ruins a lot of things. The best blog offenders manage to copy an entire thread and repost it in a single post. (This is most hilarious when the thread is over 200 posts long).

The punishment for blog offenses is being sent to the Barrel in order to feel shame and also contend with much ick, bitey things, sexual misuse, and an aesthetically unpleasing experience.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 31, 2016 10:48 PM (mgbwf)

156 Greetings from 2017. Here, in the future, some things have changed.


All vehicles have 3 wheels and flame decals. Including trains and buses.


The phrases... "Hotsy totsy" and "Bushwa" are popular.


We have sexbots now, but most of them are pretty skanky and hit you up for crack on the street.


Codpieces are all the rage.


Still waiting for flying cars.

Posted by: otho at December 31, 2016 10:48 PM (lmIoG)

157 Minx 0.8 alpha will be a facebook format that uses Disqus to comment.

Posted by: Grump928(C) ProLite 2200 at December 31, 2016 10:46 PM (LTHVh)


*panicked stampede from AoSHQ*

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 31, 2016 10:48 PM (J8/9G)

158 Alright, geezer, time to clear out.

Posted by: Baby New Year at December 31, 2016 10:48 PM (TRzoP)

159 Barreling s exactly like riding a bike.
Except the bike is on fire. And you're on fire. And everything's on fire and you're in hell.
Oh, and your feet stick to floor.

Posted by: antisocialist at December 31, 2016 10:48 PM (W2wn0)

160 qdpsteve,
That's cute the way you think you're only going to have to lose about 10 pounds after eating German food.
Let's see: bratwurst, bratkartoffeln(fried potatoes), cabbage with brown sugar bacon and bacon grease, potato salad with brown sugar bacon and bacon grease, thick dense bread, strudel, noodles with lots of butter, pork, lots of pork. and every kind of sausage you can think of.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 31, 2016 10:48 PM (+lVUW)

161
Joe Biden's Four Food Groups -- clay, chalk and paste.

Play Doh tastes better than regular clay.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 31, 2016 10:49 PM (IqV8l)

162 *is

Posted by: antisocialist at December 31, 2016 10:49 PM (W2wn0)

163 I am so ready for the new year.,.. 2016 wasn't the worst year I've ever had but it's time to scrape off Oblabo and see what Trump can do. I plan to start a quilt and (all y'all cross your fingers and say a little prayer for us) might just be able to get our house fixed before it falls down. Might even try to quit smoking.
---

2016 was probably the worst year I've had since I lost my Mom almost six years ago. Lots of emotional stuff, some not so good work stuff, but no bad health stuff. So it could be worse.

Quitting smoking is the best thing you could ever do for yourself and the people who love you.

I'm thinking about taking tango lessons.

Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at December 31, 2016 10:49 PM (beK/c)

164 2016 couldn't go out without taking one more. RIP William Christopher aka Father Mulcahey from MASH.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at December 31, 2016 10:49 PM (CNHr1)

165 "Is buzzion still dead? "

He says he isn't.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (J+eG2)

166 Long long ago in a Galaxy far away, when I wan in the US Navy on board an aircraft carrier, an airshow was put on for some visitors. Two F-4's were several miles out and came straight at the carrier when at about 1 or 2 miles from us they pulled up, headed straight out in a spiral until they were out of sight. Then the sound wave it and it was AWESOME!
It was off the coast of Cuba, close enough for the Cubans to see, a little nose tweak to Castro.

Posted by: lynndh at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (DaWUf)

167 We'll finally get rid of all the socks.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 10:47 PM (SvQr3)

Over our dead bodies you will!!

Posted by: Fappers Union Local 666 at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (D2vc1)

168 I'm going to have to spend some time tonight on Youtube re-watching the "Night of Tears".

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (hALjw)

169 Ha!



(Sorry to bail on the Pet thread. I don't deal with loss well. It
got a little too sad for me. As much as I love each and every Moron
here, I can't reply to every lost pet post with blubbering...)

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 10:37 PM (bFFPK)

It did get sad, and I always shed a few tears when I connect with a pet death. But God created puppy and kitten videos to give us hope.
Or was that rainbows?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (tHwdc)

170 I'm resolving to give up all vestiges of hope for 2017.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (0mRoj)

171 100 Things qdpsteve intends to do in 2017 that he didn't do in 2016, or ever before:
- Try Chicago deep dish pizza
- Try German food (www.rasselbocklb.com)
- Make at least three dishes from the Well Fed cookbook
- Lose at least 10 pounds, and keep it off (probably after I try the pizza and German food)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 10:36 PM (u8kLQ)


I think you've invented a new genre: the self-contradictory New Year Resolution. Let me try:
- Bone Lena Dunham
- Give up projectile vomiting

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (iMxBJ)

172 *So "Finally facing my Waterloo" is out during sex. huh.*

Momma Mia!

Posted by: tbodie at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (xujhj)

173 IS it true the blog will change format at midnight?

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 10:44 PM (SvQr3) fnord (SvQr3)


Yeah, but it's midnight New Zealand time.

So it's like 5 hours and 13 minutes off from PST.

Well, New Zealand is 5 hours, Pixy is 5 hours 13 minutes.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (wB8Tg)

174 Buzzion will NEVER get in the cart.



I admire his stick-to-it-ivness.

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 10:51 PM (qUNWi)

175 76 @58 eventually she was made immune to her fear and she became Lolth, the demon Queen of spiders.

so be careful here, morons.
---------------

Yeah, but is she hot?
Posted by: junior at December 31, 2016 10:32 PM (ZvmQn)

If you're a leg man, yeah...

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at December 31, 2016 10:51 PM (a3sfz)

176 2017 is the year of the scalp weasel.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 31, 2016 10:51 PM (cAnNx)

177 Great new stores and restaurants coming to the Barrel Mall in 2017:

- Bed, Bath and BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- Slightly Used Condoms
- Amy Schumer's Super Spanxatorium
- Ick-Fil-A

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 10:51 PM (u8kLQ)

178

162 *is

Posted by: antisocialist at December 31, 2016 10:49 PM (W2wn0)


*be

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 31, 2016 10:51 PM (J8/9G)

179 happy new year

saw that fantastic beasts movie

not bad, good effects. basically a magical terrorist story with goofy animals

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 10:52 PM (8ReTf)

180 Goals for 2017
-Physical-
315 squat
405 deadlift
16 min 2mile
weight down to 200 lbs.

-Mental-
Finish Grad School w 3.8 GPA
Complete the Russian course in Duolingo
Take a blacksmithing class
Finish two month-long courses at Lindy Groove.

-Professional-
Find a position in the Guard or Reserve.
Find work after grad school.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 31, 2016 10:52 PM (FYrz1)

181 Splunge, true. Between the new foods and the losing weight, I figure 10 pounds is the most realistic goal to shoot for.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 10:52 PM (u8kLQ)

182 Children born under this sign will have slightly larger than average hands. And believe all their ideas are Huuuge and spectacular

Posted by: Buzzion at December 31, 2016 10:52 PM (cAnNx)

183 "Is buzzion still dead? "

He says he isn't.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (J+eG2)

You gonna believe a dead guy?

Posted by: tbodie at December 31, 2016 10:52 PM (xujhj)

184 AtC, my Saturday Night Sideboob pics are tweeted in case you want to analyze for artistic value

Is Sideboob 1 Leryn Franco, the javelin thrower?

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 10:53 PM (29QcC)

185 Russia didn't hack the election. Hillary blew it fair and square.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 31, 2016 10:15 PM (PHcLa)

Well, I know one thing she didn't blow...

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 31, 2016 10:53 PM (MiBfH)

186 YES!
We'll finally get rid of all the socks.
Posted by: Floyde Farthengton
-------------

The socks are fun, but Father Time, please, I beg of you, can we banish the "First!" thing?

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 10:53 PM (bFFPK)

187
Happy New Year, jackwagons!

Hillary Clinton will never be President!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 31, 2016 10:53 PM (LuZz8)

188 I'm thinking of trying Heroin in '17.

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 10:53 PM (qUNWi)

189 Buonasera fappers. Just got back from a party with a bunch of tipsy old hens telling off-color anecdotes of celebrity encounters. These respectable matrons were once go-go dancers and stewardii, and oh my.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 31, 2016 10:53 PM (NTQtb)

190 178

162 *is

Posted by: antisocialist at December 31, 2016 10:49 PM (W2wn0)

*be
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 31, 2016 10:51 PM (J8/9G)

*k

Posted by: antisocialist at December 31, 2016 10:53 PM (W2wn0)

191 spent the afternoon going to gun stores...

so, winning!

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 31, 2016 10:53 PM (e6JCS)

192 If you're headed towards the bathrooms, in one of the darker corners of the blog, there is an unlit corridor -- quite easy to miss. Should you decide to follow it, once past the closets where the blog's format codes are kept, you eventually come to a eerie place with a large barrel, glowing slightly from uneven patches of phosphorescent fungi.



If you chance to utterly botch the commenting conventions on the blog, a giant hand materializes out of the ether of a thread -- which then grabs you by the nape of the neck and deposits you inside said barrel.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 31, 2016 10:53 PM (EzgxV)

193 Did you try the 'vape' route yet?




Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 31, 2016 10:39 PM (8iiMU)

I was planning to just quit cold turkey. It's the mental part that always gets me. I've gotten past the nicotine part before. Hadn't considered vaping. We'll see how it goes.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:54 PM (tHwdc)

194 I'm resolving to give up all vestiges of hope for 2017.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (0mRoj)

Well I for one am looking for some positive things to happen in 2017.

Hell, I already have a woman in love with me. Unfortunately she's married, but hey I guess ya gotta start somewhere.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at December 31, 2016 10:54 PM (D2vc1)

195 And we eat clay because, you know, we have so little fucking food!!!

Posted by: Starvin Marvin (of South Park fame) at December 31, 2016 10:18 PM (2xRDR)

Eat clay, shit bricks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 31, 2016 10:54 PM (MiBfH)

196 Happy new year, horde, and thanks for everything. This will be a blessed year, I think.

Posted by: kalneva at December 31, 2016 10:54 PM (vhW1R)

197 183 "Is buzzion still dead? "

He says he isn't.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (J+eG2)

You gonna believe a dead guy?
Posted by: tbodie at December 31, 2016 10:52 PM (xujhj)

He's in denial.

Posted by: antisocialist at December 31, 2016 10:55 PM (W2wn0)

198 If you're headed towards the bathrooms, in one of the darker corners of
the blog, there is an unlit corridor -- quite easy to miss. Should you
decide to follow it, once past the closets where the blog's format codes
are kept, you eventually come to a eerie place with a large barrel,
glowing slightly from uneven patches of phosphorescent fungi.



There's a Grue.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 31, 2016 10:55 PM (LTHVh)

199
Did anyone see the Magic Scalp Weasel's tweet for New Years?

"Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do.
Love!"

Heh. Does that man know how to troll or what?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 31, 2016 10:55 PM (LuZz8)

200 Prayers up, mindful. (I'm not so strained I can't return prayers for others!)

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon without a basestar at December 31, 2016 10:55 PM (vyqqu)

201 Was the "Night of Tears" the 2016 presidential election night? If so I have devoted about 20 hours to the study and review of the reaction of the media.

Again: The unbearable deliciousness! And new servings every day!

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 10:55 PM (nQ10o)

202 Didn't the Barrel actually start off as some sort of top-secret CIA/NSA project?

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 10:56 PM (u8kLQ)

203 There's a name for eating clay, it's pica, and its cause is malnutrition! Jeez. Let's all start doing things like third-worlders.

Posted by: kalneva at December 31, 2016 10:22 PM (vhW1R)

The elite don't get pica.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 31, 2016 10:56 PM (MiBfH)

204 "You gonna believe a dead guy?"

Normally no


But he seems sincere.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2016 10:56 PM (J+eG2)

205
Well kiddos, I'm gonna avoid the witching hour.

I'm told that at that time we'll all awaken from the trance in which we've been since November 9 and Hillary Clinton is really on a glide path to her inauguration as President on January 20, 2017.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Irredeemable Cycling Stars (TM) at December 31, 2016 10:56 PM (BK3ZS)

206 There are a couple of people who went into the barrel and didn't come back.

We don't talk about them, mostly.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 31, 2016 10:56 PM (wB8Tg)

207 Apart from St. Gwyneth the Clueless, the listed celebrities and their recommendations article had me saying, "Who's he / she / it?"

New Year's Resolution -- if I devote as little as one second to learn who any of those ass clowns are, I'm disowning myself.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Irredeemable Cycling Stars (TM) at December 31, 2016 10:39 PM (BK3ZS)

St Gwyneth is the one who thought her role was equal to Iron Man in the movies and she deserved the same pay.

And perhaps not by chance, she was also left out of the second Avengers film and Captain America: Civil War (really Avengers 3) when a scene or two of her might have actually worked...but nope, she was gone.

Not that she would have been able to even stand in the shadow of Brian Dennehey who turned in the masterful performance as the Civil War in the film.

Posted by: Bete: A Deplorable at December 31, 2016 10:56 PM (Ojki1)

208 I was planning to just quit cold turkey. It's the mental part that always gets me.


Two words: Allen Carr.

https://www.allencarr.com/

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 31, 2016 10:56 PM (LTHVh)

209 193 I was planning to just quit cold turkey. It's the mental part that always gets me. I've gotten past the nicotine part before. Hadn't considered vaping. We'll see how it goes.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:54 PM (tHwdc)


Note to everyone with banning power: cut Miley some slack for a while.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 10:56 PM (iMxBJ)

210 81 I still don't know what being "barreled" is or how to avoid it.

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 10:33 PM (nQ10o)



Never post anything from Microsoft Word. I did, and I can still smell that sticky stuff on that one part of the floor.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 10:41 PM (iMxBJ)

Ditto for cutting and pasting from Facebook.
That was a horrible 2 hours and I'm still trying to sanitize my feet from a double-Barreling from November.
I recommend a hazmat suit. Or avoiding formatting issues altogether.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:56 PM (tHwdc)

211 And mindful web worker: prayere for your brother, you and your family.

Posted by: tbodie at December 31, 2016 10:57 PM (xujhj)

212 >>>170 I'm resolving to give up all vestiges of hope for 2017.
Posted by: Insomniac

just don't give up that sense of humor you've got.

Posted by: concrete girl at December 31, 2016 10:57 PM (TD/W3)

213 194 I'm resolving to give up all vestiges of hope for 2017.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (0mRoj)

Well I for one am looking for some positive things to happen in 2017.

Hell, I already have a woman in love with me. Unfortunately she's married, but hey I guess ya gotta start somewhere.
Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at December 31, 2016 10:54 PM (D2vc1)

Heh. It would be nice for positive things to happen in 2017, but hope leads to disappointment so I'll just take things as they come, if they come at all.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 31, 2016 10:57 PM (0mRoj)

214 Years ago when my dad had a dog (an adopted stray) named Nellie, he read a book about testing doggeh intelligence. One of the tests was to put a treat under cling wrap and see how long it takes the dog to figure out to remove the wrap to get the treat. My dad watched in amazement as she ate both the treat and the cling wrap, and shook his head at how stupid she was.

Next day he was in his basement room, with a window that looks out over the back yard where the dog was. Then he looked out and wondered "Why does my dog have two tails?" as she was pooping out the cling wrap.

At the time I looked up that golden retrievers were ranked #3 among breeds in intelligence, and I remarked to my dad that Nellie was the reason they were not #2.

Posted by: Buckeyes at December 31, 2016 10:57 PM (GsAUU)

215 The punishment for blog offenses is being sent to the Barrel in order to feel shame and also contend with much ick, bitey things, sexual misuse, and an aesthetically unpleasing experience.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 31, 2016 10:48 PM (mgbwf)

Not to mention the spiders

Posted by: kbdabear at December 31, 2016 10:58 PM (Ya7zs)

216 "Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do.
Love!"



Hah!! is that real?

This guy is growing on me ever day.

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 10:59 PM (qUNWi)

217 you eventually come to a eerie place with a large barrel,
glowing slightly from uneven patches of phosphorescent fungi.


There's a Grue.

====

and a florescent Velvet Elvis with sticks of incense in front of it.

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 10:59 PM (8ReTf)

218 @198 There's a Grue.
---------------

Nah. There are some places that even Grues won't go.

Besides, the light from the phosphorescent fungi scare them off.

Posted by: junior at December 31, 2016 10:59 PM (ZvmQn)

219 (Hint - the barrel is where we keep the good liquor the classy nude magazines)

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 10:43 PM (bFFPK)


I've been there. It's where they keep their excrescences. Also unidentified stuff of all kinds. It's always dark, so you never know.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 10:59 PM (tHwdc)

220 @186 Chi , I didn't do that tonight.. mostly because I figured by the time I hit post I would be 53rd or something.. I very rarely get to a thread first. I'm always surprised by it when I do.

Posted by: madamemayhem (i wanna be sedated) at December 31, 2016 10:59 PM (yTnCT)

221 *And we eat clay because, you know, we have so little fucking food!!!

Posted by: Starvin Marvin (of South Park fame) at December 31, 2016 10:18 PM (2xRDR)

Eat clay, shit bricks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 31, 2016 10:54 PM (MiBfH)*

Wait, that makes sense.

Posted by: tbodie at December 31, 2016 10:59 PM (xujhj)

222

Allways nest your bold italicans, that way a missed closing tag fubars the whole blog and it takes intervention by a superuser who has the keys.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 10:59 PM (SvQr3)

223 Only 20 days until Black Jesus is gone !!!

Posted by: Mary Dipshitz from Idiotsboro, VT at December 31, 2016 11:00 PM (as33F)

224 Those of you that still believe that government cares for you, I give you this example of why they don't. EPA to Alaskans in sub-zero temps: stop burning wood to keep warm.

LOL. The most sparsely populated state in the Union ... not even as many people in Alaska as in friggin Rhode Island - the idea that Alaskans burning wood has any measurable effect on anything is laughable.

The people at the EPA, and on up the chain to Barky, should all be jailed.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 31, 2016 11:00 PM (zc3Db)

225 These respectable matrons were once go-go dancers and stewardii, and oh my.
---
did you get any phone numbers?

asking for a friend...

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 31, 2016 11:00 PM (e6JCS)

226 Easiest way to avoid the barrel is to occasionally include HTML code in your comments.



The more, the better.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2016 11:00 PM (J+eG2)

227 At the time I looked up that golden retrievers were ranked #3 among breeds in intelligence, and I remarked to my dad that Nellie was the reason they were not #2.

Posted by: Buckeyes at December 31, 2016 10:57 PM (GsAUU)

And Clemson is the reason why you're no longer #2.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at December 31, 2016 11:00 PM (D2vc1)

228 IS it true the blog will change format at midnight?

Minx 0.8 alpha will be a facebook format that uses Disqus to comment.

Posted by: Grump928(C) ProLite 2200 at December 31, 2016 10:46 PM

Ah, cause that worked so well for HotGas.

Perhaps we can try a land war in Asia instead?

Posted by: Bete: A Deplorable at December 31, 2016 11:00 PM (Ojki1)

229

First!

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:01 PM (ALE60)

230
Only 20 days until Black Jesus is gone !!!
Posted by: Mary Dipshitz from Idiotsboro, VT


Where's he going?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 31, 2016 11:01 PM (IqV8l)

231 As an elderly woman who, in 19th century British terminology, is "on the shelf," I would suggest a different tactic re: resolutions.

Potential moron resolutions:

-do not vomit on boss
-stay out of jail
-do not have sex while driving a car/SUV/bus/boat/other
-keep black helicopters from flying over house
-refrain from getting "mark of the beast" microchip
-do not get face tattoo

And for those who want to be "positive":

-be a better servant to you car
-be a better pal to you dog
-smile more at spouse/children/ random strangers
-eat higher quality chocolate
-be more tolerant of mentally ill libtards

/yeah, I know the last one is pretty impossible...



Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at December 31, 2016 11:01 PM (beK/c)

232
But seriously....


First comment of 2017! (

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:01 PM (ALE60)

233 Happy New Year from Texas.

May we all have God's blessings in the new year.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 31, 2016 11:01 PM (C9pBZ)

234 At the time I looked up that golden retrievers were ranked #3 among breeds in intelligence, and I remarked to my dad that Nellie was the reason they were not #2.
Posted by: Buckeyes at December 31, 2016 10:57 PM (GsAUU)



Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/5iTTNRE-njM

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 11:01 PM (dEQP3)

235 Eat clay, shit bricks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 31, 2016 10:54 PM (MiBfH)*

Why didn't I think of that?

Posted by: Pharoah at December 31, 2016 11:02 PM (D2vc1)

236 /Suckeyes sock

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:02 PM (GsAUU)

237 227 At the time I looked up that golden retrievers were ranked #3 among breeds in intelligence, and I remarked to my dad that Nellie was the reason they were not #2.

Posted by: Buckeyes at December 31, 2016 10:57 PM (GsAUU)

And Clemson is the reason why you're no longer #2.
Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at December 31, 2016 11:00 PM (D2vc1)


The Buckeyes were pretty much the definition of #2 tonight

Posted by: Buzzion at December 31, 2016 11:02 PM (cAnNx)

238
Time check?

This comment was posted at exactly 11:08:00...

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:02 PM (ALE60)

239 Not to mention the spiders
Posted by: kbdabear at December 31, 2016 10:58 PM (Ya7zs)


Also, having to listen to the collected orations of the Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton *cackle*

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 31, 2016 11:03 PM (J8/9G)

240 I kinda feel sorry for the new kids.
Guys (& gals), eventually, you learn most of the inside jokes and memes here. What is acceptable and what is not. Who is who, etc.

But, I guess we were all new, fresh faced virgins once...
Sit down, put a glass under the usb port and have some wine. Stick around, ring in the new year with us, and know that you have found the end of the internet.

It doesn't get any better than this, so stop looking.

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 11:03 PM (bFFPK)

241 RIP William Christopher.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 11:03 PM (u8kLQ)

242 -do not have sex while driving a car/SUV/bus/boat/other

That would knock out about half of my proudest accomplishments.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 31, 2016 11:04 PM (mgbwf)

243 225 These respectable matrons were once go-go dancers and stewardii, and oh my.
---
did you get any phone numbers?

asking for a friend...
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 31, 2016 11:00 PM (e6JCS)
---
Seasoned dames like these aren't on the market for very long!

One amusing anecdote involved closing down an airport due to a dildo-stuffed suitcase vibrating down the runway. Yes, the bomb squad blew it up.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 31, 2016 11:04 PM (NTQtb)

244
Hello Young People, It's Hillary Clinton Again

https://youtu.be/llkIkLRF26M

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Irredeemable Cycling Stars (TM) at December 31, 2016 11:04 PM (BK3ZS)

245 Potential moron resolutions:

-do not vomit on boss
-stay out of jail
-do not have sex while driving a car/SUV/bus/boat/other
-keep black helicopters from flying over house
-refrain from getting "mark of the beast" microchip
-do not get face tattoo


Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at December 31, 2016 11:01 PM (beK/c)



YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 11:05 PM (dEQP3)

246 Where's he going?

He said it's time for a break! Poor guy has been vacationing himself to the bone.

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:05 PM (TqmC9)

247 That EPA article is pretty infuriating. It also mentions that the initial ruling was in 2008, which was before Obama took office.

The EPA needs to be burned to the ground. It is beyond reform.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2016 11:05 PM (sdi6R)

248 It's 2017 in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and PEI.

Happy New Year, eh!

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:05 PM (GsAUU)

249 240 It doesn't get any better than this, so stop looking.
Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 11:03 PM (bFFPK)


Yeah, that's true, isn't it?

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:06 PM (iMxBJ)

250 Your wishes of happy new year are offensive to me and must stop. This New Year you wish well on is based on a racist misogynistic homophobic bigoted Gregorian calendar designed by a cisnormative paternalistic religion. We should all follow the Chinese calendar it is based on inclusivity and cute animals.

Just wait, the SJWs will figure this out soon enough and I'll sound like a prophet.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 31, 2016 11:06 PM (dnWSK)

251 The Barrel is ancient--beyond ancient; it predates the blog, the Web, the Internet itself; some say it is an artifact of dark science and magic, borne of the war between Humans and Clowns at the dawn of time; some say it predates time itself.

None dare try to learn more, lest they be cursed to become its keeper.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon without a basestar at December 31, 2016 11:06 PM (vyqqu)

252 picked up Resident Evil's PTR-91, which needed to have the bullet button replaced...

but, if we hadn't picked it up today, we would have never seen it again, because #Failifornia.

then i went to another toy store, and DROS'ed the Steyr HS in 460... it's YUGE!

http://www.ammo-one.com/460Steyr.html


Posted by: redc1c4 at December 31, 2016 11:06 PM (e6JCS)

253 happy newyear, fellow morons. I hope 2017 is the best year yet. One of my goals is to stop procrastinating. I'll come up with the rest of them tomorrow.

Posted by: vivi at December 31, 2016 11:06 PM (11H2y)

254 Hey, our defense gave up fewer points than Michigan!

Posted by: THE Ohio something-or-other at December 31, 2016 11:06 PM (TqmC9)

255 One amusing anecdote involved closing down an airport due to a dildo-stuffed suitcase vibrating down the runway. Yes, the bomb squad blew it up.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 31, 2016 11:04 PM (NTQtb)


"We get vibrating suitcases all the time. 95 times out 100 it's an alarm clock, but every so often it's ... a dildo. Of course, we never say 'Your dildo', implying ownership. We always say 'A dildo'."

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 31, 2016 11:07 PM (zc3Db)

256
This comment was posted at exactly 11:08:00...
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:02 PM (ALE60)


This site uses an atomic verge and foliot clock.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 31, 2016 11:07 PM (J8/9G)

257

they grow a lot of potatoes on Prince Edward Island

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:07 PM (ALE60)

258 *It doesn't get any better than this, so stop looking.
Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 11:03 PM (bFFPK)*

^This^

Posted by: tbodie at December 31, 2016 11:07 PM (xujhj)

259 It doesn't get any better than this, "

Indeed. Adult beverages, fireworks, and Texas weather.

Pretty much perfect.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 31, 2016 11:07 PM (C9pBZ)

260 do not have sex while driving a car/SUV/bus/boat/other

That would knock out about half of my proudest accomplishments.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 31, 2016 11:04 PM (mgbwf)

A rowboat worked for me.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at December 31, 2016 11:07 PM (D2vc1)

261
What caused the potato famine?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:07 PM (ALE60)

262 That EPA article is pretty infuriating. It also mentions that the initial ruling was in 2008, which was before Obama took office.

The EPA needs to be burned to the ground. It is beyond reform.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2016 11:05 PM (sdi6R)


The EPA needs their hallways ... or they'd have nowhere to shit.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 31, 2016 11:07 PM (zc3Db)

263 My moron resolution is to not drink an entire bottle of rum in one night. It didn't turn out well for me in 2016.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 31, 2016 11:08 PM (FYrz1)

264 They were good boys. It would be hard on them.

Posted by: Swedish Lemmings at December 31, 2016 11:08 PM (Tyii7)

265 None dare try to learn more, lest they be cursed to become its keeper.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon without a basestar at December 31, 2016 11:06 PM (vyqqu) fnord (vyqqu)


Don't believe anything that guy says. This is a *great* job!

Posted by: Keeper of the Eternal Barrel at December 31, 2016 11:08 PM (wB8Tg)

266 Happy New Year! Hoping all of you are blessed with love, happiness and health!!!

Posted by: flyover at December 31, 2016 11:08 PM (SVz6E)

267 *waves to Augustus*

We don't bite.

Mostly.
Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 10:21 PM


Augustus, What AlextheChick says is true.

As far as it goes.

What she hasn't said is that she maintains a list. And puts people on it.

For mentioning things like squirrels.

Or spiders. Big fat hairy ones, or little tiny squirmy ones, it doesn't matter.

Especially don't muse about how they might feel, skipping lightly upon the skin whilst you lay immobilized and blindfolded.

That could get you listicled.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 31, 2016 11:08 PM (DMUuz)

268 RIP William Christopher.

Posted by: qdpsteve


What? You're shitting me, 2016 got Father Mulcahy?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon without a basestar at December 31, 2016 11:08 PM (vyqqu)

269 Up early today. Doubt if I will see midnight EST.



So.

Happy New Year you Morons.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 31, 2016 10:44 PM (voOPb)

Happy New Year, Mis. Hum.! Thank you for the Pet threads and the wonderful, yuuuge and luxurious ONTs of 2016.
Which reminds me - thank you for this lovely array tonight, CDR M!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 11:08 PM (tHwdc)

270
@243

Someway, somehow, sometime, I'm going to work that into a conversation.

I expect the name of the facility will never be made public.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 11:08 PM (SvQr3)

271 *waves to Eris*

I do believe it's time for more wine.

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 11:08 PM (dEQP3)

272 a giant hand materializes out of the ether of a thread -- which then grabs you by the nape of the neck and deposits you inside said barrel.

It's kind of like Legend Of Zelda, but smellier.

So it's like losing at Zelda and knocking over your bong on top of your bag of cheetos, and then getting up to clean up the mess and letting fly a large fart - which you know you can't trust - and then it's all live streamed.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 31, 2016 11:08 PM (6FqZa)

273 People who are new to the blog could do worse than to scroll down, way down, looking at the sidebar, until you reach the mother lode of Paul Anka links. Explore.

Then Google "Ace of Spades Kaboom" (not with the quotes) to see a more recent explosion of Ace-ness.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:09 PM (iMxBJ)

274 The EPA needs to be burned to the ground. It is beyond reform.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2016 11:05 PM (sdi6R)


No, that would be ecologically unsound.

They should be recycled.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 31, 2016 11:09 PM (wB8Tg)

275 YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!
--

These are just suggestions.

Who knows, maybe the day you got your face tattoo and mark of the beast implant, threw up on your boss because you got seasick after having wild sex while driving the boat after your stint in jail caused by the hostage situation at your house might be the best day of your life. Who am I to say?

Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at December 31, 2016 11:09 PM (beK/c)

276 Happy New Year, Greenland!!!!

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 11:09 PM (qUNWi)

277
216 "Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do.
Love!"


Hah!! is that real?

This guy is growing on me ever day.

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 10:59 PM (qUNWi)







Yup, it's real.

http://tinyurl.com/h98p6mg

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 31, 2016 11:09 PM (LuZz8)

278 It's the first of 365 days in 2017 that Hillary Clinton will never be president.

Posted by: Guam tipper at December 31, 2016 11:10 PM (/DvFd)

279 Brother Cavil, yup. Sad.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 11:10 PM (u8kLQ)

280 More wine?

Er, ok. Who's got an open usb ?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 31, 2016 11:10 PM (C9pBZ)

281 170 I'm resolving to give up all vestiges of hope for 2017.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 31, 2016 10:50 PM (0mRoj)

One of my favorite Onion articles was on the man who had lost all hope only to be crushed when finding out the losing of all hope was actually a form of hope, and so he hadn't.

Then The Onion moved to NY, became a solidly lefty shill and maybe died? Not sure, haven't cared in over a decade.

Posted by: Bete: A Deplorable at December 31, 2016 11:10 PM (Ojki1)

282 261
What caused the potato famine?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite
------------------
I'm going to guess a type of weasel.
Or Lena Dumdum.

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 11:10 PM (bFFPK)

283 Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 31, 2016 11:08 PM (DMUuz)


*narrows eyes*

SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 11:10 PM (dEQP3)

284 Thank you Miley and others for the barrel-splaining. I will avoid at all costs.

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 11:10 PM (nQ10o)

285 "Adopting a hairless cat is like hiring a naked old fat man to walk around your house and never thank you for anything."

-----------

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Naked Fat Guy on an Ottoman at December 31, 2016 11:10 PM (eeTCA)

286 "We get vibrating suitcases all the time. 95 times out 100 it's an
alarm clock, but every so often it's ... a dildo. Of course, we never
say 'Your dildo', implying ownership. We always say 'A dildo'."
---

Yeah, my boss makes me carry her/his dildo in my luggage. I can't say no... you know how it is.

Posted by: random airline passenger at December 31, 2016 11:10 PM (beK/c)

287 Hey Miley,



Listened to 33.33333 today.

A wonderful album. Thanks.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 31, 2016 10:46 PM (voOPb)


Awww, Mis. Hum.! A final gift before the New Year - affirmation of my sweetie. Thank you. He wrote some classy stuff, didn't he?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 11:10 PM (tHwdc)

288 What caused the potato famine?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite


Brawndo.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 31, 2016 11:11 PM (zc3Db)

289 I do believe it's time for more wine.

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Victory Tits at December 31, 2016 11:08 PM (dEQP3) fnord (dEQP3)


(shoves bottle of Chateau Lafite through the USB port)

(USB3 so you won't have to wait as long)

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 31, 2016 11:11 PM (wB8Tg)

290 Having made a random selection from each column, I now have my New Year's resolution:

Avoid using the word 'derivative' when complaining about Civil War re-enactments.

I think I can do that. I think.

Well, I'll try.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 31, 2016 11:11 PM (Nox3c)

291 @261. Potatoes.

Posted by: madamemayhem (i wanna be sedated) at December 31, 2016 11:11 PM (yTnCT)

292
Well, here's to a Leftist Famine in 2017!

/raises glass

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:11 PM (ALE60)

293 What caused the potato famine?



A blight, and color-blindness.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 31, 2016 11:12 PM (LTHVh)

294 Whenever the lefty sniveling gets too annoying, I watch this video:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jys8ztx

And then I laugh for a good five minutes, not in a nice way at all. A cruel way.

Posted by: Trimegistus at December 31, 2016 11:12 PM (88x1C)

295 Not quite the retirement of the Mighty F-4 Phantom, just it's final manned flight in American service. She's still flying with South Korea, Iran, Japan, Greece & Turkey.

Posted by: josephistan at December 31, 2016 11:12 PM (7qAYi)

296 What caused the potato famine?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite
-----------

Technically, the Peruvians caused it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 31, 2016 11:12 PM (ZO497)

297
What caused the potato famine?

===

taters wouldn't eat

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 11:12 PM (8ReTf)

298 USB3 so"

Usb 3.1.

Gallon per minute...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 31, 2016 11:12 PM (C9pBZ)

299
I like 'blight.' It's way underused.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:13 PM (ALE60)

300 Well, fuck.

Probably best I stayed home. Half afraid it would be MY number up it I hadn't...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon without a basestar at December 31, 2016 11:13 PM (vyqqu)

301 *Who knows, maybe the day you got your face tattoo and mark of the beast implant, threw up on your boss because you got seasick after having wild sex while driving the boat after your stint in jail caused by the hostage situation at your house might be the best day of your life. Who am I to say?
Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at December 31, 2016 11:09 PM (beK/c)*

For the newbies, this is why we love the 'ettes.

Posted by: tbodie at December 31, 2016 11:13 PM (xujhj)

302 Evenin' everyone, and Happy New Year!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 31, 2016 11:13 PM (IcT7t)

303 261 What caused the potato famine?
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:07 PM (ALE60)


(looks around for Cochran; coast looks clear)

Is "too drunk to farm" a thing?

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:14 PM (iMxBJ)

304 A friend sent me a bottle of Nut Crusher Peanut Butter Porter in the mail- for some reason. The bottle survived, but I'm not sure the taste did.

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:14 PM (TqmC9)

305 285 "Adopting a hairless cat is like hiring a naked old fat man to walk around your house and never thank you for anything."

-----------

This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Naked Fat Guy on an Ottoman at December 31, 2016 11:10 PM (eeTCA)


Do I need to repost the morons on parade compilation?

Posted by: Buzzion at December 31, 2016 11:14 PM (cAnNx)

306 Heh, History showing a documentary on Trump.

All the funnier since the Sunday before Election Day it showed a documentary that Nostradamus predicted Hitlery would win.

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:14 PM (GsAUU)

307 The Irish just got too drunk to plant fucking potatoes.

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 11:15 PM (qUNWi)

308 The best blog offenders manage to copy an entire
thread and repost it in a single post. (This is most hilarious when the
thread is over 200 posts long).




Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 31, 2016 10:48 PM (mgbwf)

The other night I managed to cut and paste an entire thread of almost 900 posts. Fortunately I realized this before I hit 'post.' I closed the browser and composed myself before opening a new one.
It could have been fatal. The Barrel is that...bad.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 11:15 PM (tHwdc)

309 (looks around for Cochran"

Look out for Muldoon. The puns will get you...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 31, 2016 11:15 PM (C9pBZ)

310 Whenever the lefty sniveling gets too annoying, I watch this video:



http://preview.tinyurl.com/jys8ztx



And then I laugh for a good five minutes, not in a nice way at all. A cruel way.

Posted by: Trimegistus


First they ignore you...then they laugh at you...then they fight you...
...then you win.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon without a basestar at December 31, 2016 11:15 PM (vyqqu)

311 Do I need to repost the morons on parade compilation?

Need? No.

Want? Probably.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 31, 2016 11:15 PM (IcT7t)

312 The Nuts thing, if you eat a lot of nuts it can create tiny holes in your intestines and case inflammation and you can get really sick, My Brother In Law had to quit eating chunky peanut butter and he was in the Hospital for two days craping his brains out.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 31, 2016 11:15 PM (dKiJG)

313 Shailene Woodley is a pretty girl. Stupid and vapid but pretty. She was in those Divergent flicks. I saw the first one on TNT months ago. It was ok. She is pretty. Typical SJW Hollywood type. Full of sound and fury but dumber than a box of rocks.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 31, 2016 11:15 PM (pY+s4)

314
A Happy New Year to each of you--may this year surpass all your expectations.

Posted by: irongrampa at December 31, 2016 11:16 PM (X35Yt)

315 May all of you have a great 2017 filled with many blessings.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 31, 2016 11:16 PM (s7hQ/)

316 Time check?
This comment was posted at exactly 11:08:00...
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:02 PM


The leap second adjustments patch to Minx 0.7 alpha is still being tested by the lab gerbils.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 31, 2016 11:16 PM (DMUuz)

317 Happy New Years from deep in the environmentalist paradise of commie-occupied Southern California!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 31, 2016 11:16 PM (TRzoP)

318 Alright, geezer, time to clear out.

Posted by: Baby New Year at December 31, 2016 10:48 PM (TRzoP)


Get off muh lawn, Poopypants!

Posted by: 2016 at December 31, 2016 11:16 PM (tHwdc)

319 The Irish just got too drunk to plant fucking potatoes.

The women could have done it after church, but they were too pregnant.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 31, 2016 11:16 PM (LTHVh)

320 One thing that has cheered me today is this thought: Obama thinks, he really thinks, in his NPD way, that when he continues to talk after Jan 20, when he will have no power, that his words will continue to matter. I am so looking forward to his discovering how untrue that is.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:16 PM (iMxBJ)

321 *Do I need to repost the morons on parade compilation?
Posted by: Buzzion at December 31, 2016 11:14 PM (cAnNx)*

YES!

Posted by: tbodie at December 31, 2016 11:17 PM (xujhj)

322 307 The Irish just got too drunk to plant fucking potatoes.
Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 11:15 PM (qUNWi)


The Irish are drunk enough to try to burn mud. Thank God peat is found in Celtic countries.

Posted by: josephistan at December 31, 2016 11:17 PM (7qAYi)

323 This comment was posted at exactly 11:08:00...

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:02 PM (ALE60)

---
as with FGL in days of yore, the blog clock and reality are a tad dissonant.

fruit cup, anyone?


Posted by: redc1c4 at December 31, 2016 11:17 PM (e6JCS)

324 Shailene Woodley is a pretty girl. Stupid and vapid but pretty. She was in those Divergent flicks. I saw the first one on TNT months ago. It was ok. She is pretty. Typical SJW Hollywood type. Full of sound and fury but dumber than a box of rocks.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 31, 2016 11:15 PM (pY+s4)


I think she sounds pretty smart for a dirt-eater.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 31, 2016 11:17 PM (zc3Db)

325 The neighbor kids are celebrating the new year by riding a snowmobile in circles around their house. Not a constant noise but it is getting annoying.

Since a little part of this circle is my yard. Does "GET OFF MY LAWN" count when it has a foot of snow on it?

Posted by: Willy J. at December 31, 2016 11:17 PM (W6Ch1)

326 The other night I managed to cut and paste an entire thread of almost 900 posts. Fortunately I realized this before I hit 'post.' I closed the browser and composed myself before opening a new one.
It could have been fatal. The Barrel is that...bad.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess
---------------

Do you realize how easily one can do this from a phone.
I've come >this

Yeah, new guys - baby steps...

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 11:18 PM (bFFPK)

327 Shall we TRUMPet in the New Year ?

Posted by: seamrog at December 31, 2016 11:18 PM (hVvzu)

328 qdpsteve,

That's cute the way you think you're only going to have to lose about 10 pounds after eating German food.

Let's see: bratwurst, bratkartoffeln(fried potatoes), cabbage with
brown sugar bacon and bacon grease, potato salad with brown sugar bacon
and bacon grease, thick dense bread, strudel, noodles with lots of
butter, pork, lots of pork. and every kind of sausage you can think of.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 31, 2016 10:48 PM (+lVUW)

Dunt forrget ze Vienerschnitzel!

Posted by: 2016 at December 31, 2016 11:18 PM (tHwdc)

329 It could have been fatal. The Barrel is that...bad.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 11:15 PM (tHwdc) fnord (tHwdc)


The Barrel isn't just a monster... it's a teacher.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 31, 2016 11:18 PM (wB8Tg)

330 11:23:35

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2016 11:18 PM (sdi6R)

331 "But, I guess we were all new, fresh faced virgins once...
Sit down, put a glass under the usb port and have some wine. Stick around, ring in the new year with us, and know that you have found the end of the internet.

It doesn't get any better than this, so stop looking. "

So is this the Restaurant at the End of the Internet?

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 11:18 PM (nQ10o)

332
The women could have done it after church, but they were too pregnant.

Or too busy getting teh pregnants.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:18 PM (ALE60)

333 OK, so the blog is 5 minutes slow, give or take.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2016 11:19 PM (sdi6R)

334 They were good boys. It would be hard on them.

Posted by: Swedish Lemmings at December 31, 2016 11:08 PM (Tyii7)

Lemming Meringue pie. My favorite!

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 31, 2016 11:19 PM (MiBfH)

335 230
Only 20 days until Black Jesus is gone !!!
Posted by: Mary Dipshitz from Idiotsboro, VT

Where's he going?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 31, 2016 11:01 PM (IqV8l)

Black heaven to sit at the right hand of God the Black Father.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 31, 2016 11:19 PM (0mRoj)

336 re Nostradamus on History Channel, the first thing any history student using apocalyptic as a source learns, is that the moment apocalyptic goes WRONG, that's the point when the apocalypse was written.

Some student will one day dig up that History Channel episode, and will immediately be able to tell that it was published a week or two before Hillary lost.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 31, 2016 11:19 PM (6FqZa)

337 22:24:45

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 31, 2016 11:19 PM (LTHVh)

338 Anybody seen some gerbils?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Richard Gere at December 31, 2016 11:19 PM (DMUuz)

339 324 Shailene Woodley is a pretty girl. Stupid and vapid but pretty. She was in those Divergent flicks. I saw the first one on TNT months ago. It was ok. She is pretty. Typical SJW Hollywood type. Full of sound and fury but dumber than a box of rocks.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 31, 2016 11:15 PM (pY+s4)

I think she sounds pretty smart for a dirt-eater.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 31, 2016 11:17 PM (zc3Db)

I wonder if we can get these people to literally eat paste?

Posted by: josephistan at December 31, 2016 11:20 PM (7qAYi)

340 Should I watch the Sense8 Christmas special or go outside and smoke a cigar in the cold?

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 31, 2016 11:20 PM (FYrz1)

341 328 Dunt forrget ze Vienerschnitzel!
Posted by: 2016 at December 31, 2016 11:18 PM (tHwdc)


Yeah, I'm calling out Vienerschnitzel. All that stuff nerdygirl mentioned tastes great. Breaded, fried pork patties do not, no matter what you do with them. I'm looking at you, Austria and Japan.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:20 PM (iMxBJ)

342 To end the old year here is Morons on Parade!

Now passing the reviewing stand, I don't know these people. Anyone in the booth? The program says "Ace of Spades HQ Blog Kazoo and Harmonica Marching Mand", but they don't seem to be marching, and it isn't much of a formation. Can't tell what they are playing but you have to admire their enthusiasm, especially the kazoo section. They are playing their hearts out.

Are they really in the parade? or have they infiltrated the event? Anyone know.

Wait, here comes security now. It looks like the band is forming up into a symbol.. wait... ok, no, we can't show you that on camera. Security is trying to get control off... there is fire! There is fire coming from the bagpipe sections, look out.... oh the humanity people are on fire!

What? Fire eaters? Spitting flaming vodka? Seriously? The flames have driven security back. Now the have unfurled a pirate flag. Who are these people?

Wait, they are getting out crossbows and longbows, and are starting to skuffle amongst themselves.

I heard one of them yell "Shit just got real."

Wait, I just heard another one yell:

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THINGS WERE ALREADY GETTING OUT OF HAND!


"Some of them seem to have donned Confederate uniforms, while others are wearing Union blue."


One of them just shouted 'Messenger Bags are gayer than Crocs' for some reason.


Another just yelled in response:

"I saw Messenger Bags open for the Green Crocs at the Pink Flamingo in 1986!"

'All the while there's a lone, naked, fat man sitting on a White Ottoman to the very left of the stage.

Is his inclusion symbolic?

Your guess is as good as mine, Bill.'

Wait, standing next to the man on the ottoman is another man... is he dressed as a dildo?! Orange, with jagged brown stripes across the front? What the f*ck is that!?!

I got nothing, Bill.

"Wait now someone is walking around passing out pudding cups. And they're all opening them, but I don't see any spoons. What are they...

Oh, God no. Cut to commercial! Cut to commercial!"

Now... they are setting fire to a skull (what did they cover it with?) and another is dressed like a robot and he is humping the air!

It's a complete madhouse down here. We need to get the national guard down here!

Posted by: buzzion at December 31, 2016 11:20 PM (cAnNx)

343 so anyway, i have this dead raptor in the refrigerator...

any thoughts on now to tan the skin for making hat bands and such?

seems like a shame to just let the coyotes and buzzards eat everything.

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 31, 2016 11:20 PM (e6JCS)

344 I wonder if we can get these people to literally eat paste?

Posted by: josephistan at December 31, 2016 11:20 PM (7qAYi)


It's gluten-free.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 31, 2016 11:21 PM (zc3Db)

345 Not a constant noise but it is getting annoying.

Isn't it time for you to be watering your lawn?

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:21 PM (9Q5BJ)

346 The Clock is Ace's way of beating the derivatives market.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 31, 2016 11:21 PM (J8/9G)

347 Pretty sure "avoid shouting loudly at anything"

Actually... I have two somewhat serious resolutions in mind:

1. Become much more selective about the people I let into my life; aka "avoid those with potential personality disorders."

2. Remember that even if I like my clients, they are clients, not friends. Be nice, but stay businesslike and neutral.

Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at December 31, 2016 11:21 PM (beK/c)

348 285 "Adopting a hairless cat is like hiring a naked old fat man to walk around your house and never thank you for anything."

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 31, 2016 11:21 PM (Ojki1)

349 " The Barrel is ancient--beyond ancient; it predates the blog, the Web, the Internet itself; some say it is an artifact of dark science and magic, borne of the war between Humans and Clowns at the dawn of time; some say it predates time itself."

Vic was a young man when the barrel winked into existence.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2016 11:21 PM (J+eG2)

350 Since a little part of this circle is my yard. Does "GET OFF MY LAWN" count when it has a foot of snow on it?


Well...they are vandalizing your snow.

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 11:22 PM (qUNWi)

351 The socks are fun, but Father Time, please, I beg of you, can we banish the "First!" thing?

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 10:53 PM (bFFPK)

Then you'll have to deal with sloppy seconds.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 11:22 PM (tHwdc)

352 Actually, this is a 2016 retrospective. Now they're talking about "the hack."

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:23 PM (GsAUU)

353 OK, this year I'm going to open the champagne a little before midnight, so I can drink champagne *at* midnight.

As opposed to opening the bottle at midnight, so I don't actually get to drink it until afterwards.

Letting my hair down here. Pulling out all the stops. Whee.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2016 11:23 PM (sdi6R)

354 Second cheerful thought: Dave Barry's Year in Review comes out tomorrow.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:23 PM (iMxBJ)

355 Was reading about christmas ghost stories. apparently it used to be a thing. christmas carol and a winter's tale being some of the few left to popular culture. long nights, i guess.

aside from that, an odd tale. I kind of think Fenelon would like it:

https://is.gd/MQTWEH

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 11:23 PM (8ReTf)

356 After watching both games, I'd set the line at Clemson by 9.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 31, 2016 11:23 PM (LTHVh)

357 Vic was a young man when the barrel winked into existence.

Bullshit. Nothing's that old.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 31, 2016 11:24 PM (IcT7t)

358 Here's something that's bugged me for nigh on to 40 year:

When the moon was formed, it was only about 22,000 miles from earth. Earth's rotation about it's axis back then, took only six hours. So...at some point in the misty, damp, moist, dank, humid, oppressive, steamy, pre-pubescent Vic past, while the length of the earth's day, and the average distance of the moon increased, there should, for a few million years anyway, been a period of time where the moon was in a geosynchronous orbit around earth.

Right?

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at December 31, 2016 11:24 PM (/D+kc)

359 344 I wonder if we can get these people to literally eat paste?

Posted by: josephistan at December 31, 2016 11:20 PM (7qAYi)

It's gluten-free.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 31, 2016 11:21 PM (zc3Db)

Well, there's some good news...

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at December 31, 2016 11:24 PM (a3sfz)

360 I beg of you, can we banish the "First!" thing?


It would be easy enough to post a few comments with each new thread. You could even name them "Skip" and just get it out of the way.

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:24 PM (8zL5i)

361 Hell, I already have a woman in love with me. Unfortunately she's married, but hey I guess ya gotta start somewhere.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at December 31, 2016 10:54 PM (D2vc1)


You got unstuck from her, and that was YUUUUGE. 2017 is a fresh chance for all who need it.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 11:24 PM (tHwdc)

362 331
"But, I guess we were all new, fresh faced virgins once...

Sit down, put a glass under the usb port and have some wine. Stick
around, ring in the new year with us, and know that you have found the
end of the internet.



It doesn't get any better than this, so stop looking. "



So is this the Restaurant at the End of the Internet?

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 11:18 PM (nQ10o)


More like a cross between a pub and an insane asylum -- but, yeah, that's kind of the idea.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 31, 2016 11:25 PM (EzgxV)

363 That hairless cat seems to have bitch tits. Poor thing.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 31, 2016 11:25 PM (s7hQ/)

364 It's a complete madhouse down here. We need to get the national guard down here!
Posted by: buzzion at December 31, 2016 11:20 PM (cAnNx)

Totally stoled this the other day...

you know, for evidence and whatnot.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 31, 2016 11:25 PM (/dwhI)

365 I always hated NYE, I was always alone, went out with friends but I never had a date and envied those that got a kiss on NYE, then in 2000 on a family trip a friend and Nurse that was traveling with my Dad and I always had a crush on said she liked me more than a friend and planted a big kiss on me, I think my Dad was in on it and we have been together ever since. Our first Date was the Orange Bowl. I had given up, for those alon on NYE never give up.

Stay Safe tonight.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 31, 2016 11:25 PM (dKiJG)

366 358 Here's something that's bugged me for nigh on to 40 year:
When the moon was formed, it was only about 22,000 miles from earth. Earth's rotation about it's axis back then, took only six hours. So...at some point in the misty, damp, moist, dank, humid, oppressive, steamy, pre-pubescent Vic past, while the length of the earth's day, and the average distance of the moon increased, there should, for a few million years anyway, been a period of time where the moon was in a geosynchronous orbit around earth.
Right?
Posted by: Sticky Wicket at December 31, 2016 11:24 PM (/D+kc)


Ace of Spades HQ. Come for the smart military commentary. Stay for the astrophysics.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:25 PM (iMxBJ)

367 Letting my hair down here. Pulling out all the stops. Whee.
---
I'm having a glass or two of tropical V8 Splash with some grenadine in it.

/oh yea, total wild thing. Did I mention I'm watching The Producers?

Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at December 31, 2016 11:25 PM (beK/c)

368 363 That hairless cat seems to have bitch tits. Poor thing.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 31, 2016 11:25 PM (s7hQ/)


Your point being?

Posted by: Alex Rodriguez at December 31, 2016 11:26 PM (iMxBJ)

369 Hopefully, 2017 will swiftly herald in the start of a new job for me.

Looking for work sucks.

Posted by: junior at December 31, 2016 11:26 PM (ZvmQn)

370 Was reading about christmas ghost stories. apparently it used to be a thing.

Frightened lasses like to snuggle.

Posted by: Jean at December 31, 2016 11:26 PM (2RVmA)

371 339
324 Shailene Woodley is a pretty girl. Stupid and vapid but pretty. She
was in those Divergent flicks. I saw the first one on TNT months ago. It
was ok. She is pretty. Typical SJW Hollywood type. Full of sound and
fury but dumber than a box of rocks.



Posted by: Puddleglum at December 31, 2016 11:15 PM (pY+s4)



I think she sounds pretty smart for a dirt-eater.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 31, 2016 11:17 PM (zc3Db)



I wonder if we can get these people to literally eat paste?

Posted by: josephistan at December 31, 2016 11:20 PM (7qAYi)


You do know what "pasta" means in Italian, right?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 31, 2016 11:26 PM (EzgxV)

372 where the moon was in a geosynchronous orbit around earth.

Only if the Earth slowed down from six hours to 24 before the moon got further than 23,000 miles away.

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:27 PM (8zL5i)

373 Two words: Allen Carr.

https://www.allencarr.com/


Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 31, 2016 10:56 PM (LTHVh)

Thanks Grump - I was planning to avail myself of this therapy.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 11:27 PM (tHwdc)

374
why does FOX have commie-ass anti-semite Ban Ki Moon on it's New Years Eve special?

gah

"Should have shot your ass in Inchon when I had the chance"

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 31, 2016 11:27 PM (zu88C)

375 Had a Bloody Mary & watched MST3K's "Mitchell." Now watching "Night Gallery." I went to a New Year's Eve Eve party last night, so I don't feel too bad about staying home tonight.

Posted by: josephistan at December 31, 2016 11:28 PM (7qAYi)

376 Just to prove I read the content- Alton Brown had belching yeast on his show often.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 31, 2016 11:28 PM (s7hQ/)

377 (Snap, crackle, hiss)

Now hear this, now hear this!

This is, as you know, a Smart Military Blog.

Horde-wise, this means two things:

1. The only time that matters is Zulu time. Time checks should be performed appropriately.

2. It's 1700 somewhere. Phrased more formally, the sun is over the yardarm somewhere.

That is all.

(Crackle, hiss)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 31, 2016 11:28 PM (DMUuz)

378 LOL, Conan #66, the Argosian guards telling Brythunian jokes.

"How many Brythunians does it take to start a fire? Three - after all, one of them has to rub the other two together"

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 31, 2016 11:28 PM (6FqZa)

379 So the peoples republic of Burlington got hit by a Russian virus ? How ironic !!

Posted by: Mary Dipshitz from Idiotsboro, VT at December 31, 2016 11:28 PM (as33F)

380 I beg of you, can we banish the "First!" thing?

====

it came in with the LGF people

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 11:28 PM (8ReTf)

381 355 Was reading about christmas ghost stories. apparently it used to be a thing. christmas carol and a winter's tale being some of the few left to popular culture. long nights, i guess.

aside from that, an odd tale. I kind of think Fenelon would like it:

https://is.gd/MQTWEH
Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 11:23 PM (8ReTf)


--Don't you know the verse from "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"?


There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of the
Christmases long, long ago

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:28 PM (GsAUU)

382 Sticky,


Maybe, depends on how excentric the original orbit was

Posted by: Jean at December 31, 2016 11:28 PM (2RVmA)

383 Happy New Year morons!!

Posted by: Bosk at December 31, 2016 11:29 PM (Gk6KH)

384 Visualize the apes in 2001 around a giant barrel.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 31, 2016 11:29 PM (IqV8l)

385 Happy New Year to the Horde.

Two reasons to celebrate -
1) Barry is leaving soon (not soon enough, but there you go)
2) Hillary will not be president

That'll do for today anyway.

Posted by: dissent555 at December 31, 2016 11:29 PM (GdgAM)

386

Conservation of Angular Momentum : It's a law of physics.

As the moon receded, being coupled to the erff by the force of gravity, the erff's rotation would have to slow down because if there is one thing we do here, it is obey the law.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 11:29 PM (SvQr3)

387 333 OK, so the blog is 5 minutes slow, give or take.
Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2016 11:19 PM (sdi6R)

Ah, it's gone wibbley again. No it certainly isn't leakage from a time machine that Ace certainly does not have. Not at all. Just give me a bit to get the time machi...er blog clock back in line.

And run if you see raptors, but remember those are just alexthechick's, not temporal radiation leaking out.

Posted by: The Doctor at December 31, 2016 11:29 PM (Ojki1)

388 379 So the peoples republic of Burlington got hit by a Russian virus ? How ironic !!
Posted by: Mary Dipshitz

The Trotskyist malingering bastards always get the axe

Posted by: Jean at December 31, 2016 11:30 PM (2RVmA)

389 369 Hopefully, 2017 will swiftly herald in the start of a new job for me.

Looking for work sucks.
Posted by: junior at December 31, 2016 11:26 PM (ZvmQn)

Yes. Yes it does.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 31, 2016 11:30 PM (0mRoj)

390 When the moon was formed, it was only about 22,000 miles from earth.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at December 31, 2016 11:24 PM (/D+kc) fnord (/D+kc)


Well, it's not quite the same, but someone did a video of what a moon 420 kilometers up would look like.

https://youtu.be/oBDZtt0vWD8

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 31, 2016 11:30 PM (wB8Tg)

391 I'm having a glass or two of tropical V8 Splash with some grenadine in it.

/oh yea, total wild thing. Did I mention I'm watching The Producers?


Dear God, I hope the neighbors survive your revelries.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 31, 2016 11:30 PM (IcT7t)

392 369 Hopefully, 2017 will swiftly herald in the start of a new job for me.
Looking for work sucks.
Posted by: junior at December 31, 2016 11:26 PM (ZvmQn)


Amen. It's a weird thing. If you're looking for work, you're questioning whether you're valuable -- if you were valuable, wouldn't the first interviewer who set eyes on you snap you up? But mostly they don't. Then you get employed, and your evaluation of your worth is in fine shape because your worth is self-evident, and you're desperate to find some additional competent people to hire, and they seem really hard to find.

Weird. It seems to go to the very heart of how our egos work.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:30 PM (iMxBJ)

393
Looking for work sucks.



Posted by: junior

----

hang in there bro.

Job hunting is a hell of an effort but it will make you a better person stretching your capabilities and your boundaries.

The end of the road is worth the trip!

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 31, 2016 11:31 PM (zu88C)

394 "it came in with the LGF people"


Moi?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2016 11:31 PM (J+eG2)

395
Had a Bloody Mary & watched MST3K's "Mitchell."

The uncut version of Mitchell makes a lot more sense but isn't anywhere near as funny.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 31, 2016 11:31 PM (IqV8l)

396 So, in case any of you were wondering when the Fiancee was going to have me pop the cork, clink glasses, and drink champagne to celebrate the new year....it's when the new year set foot in North America.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 31, 2016 11:31 PM (EzgxV)

397 I'm guessing Obama will stop golfing when he'said no longer president. It won't be important to him then.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 31, 2016 11:31 PM (s7hQ/)

398 why does FOX have commie-ass anti-semite Ban Ki Moon on it's New Years Eve special?

"Should have shot your ass in Inchon when I had the chance"

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her!

Yeah, the interval was more than a little nauseating.

North Korea ready to launch nukes on an ICBM, and they are all worried about Paletinians and Israelis living together.

I sincerely hope that John Kerry dies a slow and exscrutiating death. He is a lying, traitorous jerk.

I hope Barack Obama lives a long time, and sees everything he ever did totally repudiated and dies in anonymity and humiliation.

But frankly, the course the country is on, that is probably not going to happen. But it should.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at December 31, 2016 11:32 PM (S6Pax)

399 I'm hungry.
Who's cooking? Anything, really.

I'm thinking of biscuits & the homemade sausage Sis brought me for Christmas. I didn't bother asking what the meat was.

And, big disappointment - grocery store was sold out of black-eyed peas by 1pm today. So I have to track some down first thing tomorrow (I need all the good luck I can amass).

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 11:32 PM (bFFPK)

400 nope didn't know that verse logprof

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 11:32 PM (8ReTf)

401 Morons On Parade: HYSTERICAL!

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 11:33 PM (nQ10o)

402 Finally got a full time job in 2016 after 5 years looking. Maybe I can meet that special someone in 2017 after - more than 5 years of looking

Posted by: josephistan at December 31, 2016 11:33 PM (7qAYi)

403 380 I beg of you, can we banish the "First!" thing?

====

it came in with the LGF people
Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 11:28 PM (8ReTf)


And I remember when Chuckles started banning people for saying "First". He was already pretty ban-happy by then, though.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2016 11:33 PM (sdi6R)

404 The "First" stuff is all over the internet and has been forever. You're never going to be rid of it.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 31, 2016 11:33 PM (cAnNx)

405
I'm guessing Obama will stop golfing when he'said no longer president. It won't be important to him then.



He won't need an excuse to slip away for a sip of penis and a Kool anymore.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 31, 2016 11:33 PM (LTHVh)

406 Happy New Year to everyone! The locals here in South Los Angeles are gearing up for their fireworks display. I look forward to the next four hours of Piccolo Pete's, firecrackers and whatever the hell else they smuggled across the border.

Posted by: I Be That Chick at December 31, 2016 11:33 PM (S/qwI)

407 Visualize the apes in 2001 around a giant barrel.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 31, 2016 11:29 PM


Celebrating having survived Y2K?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 31, 2016 11:33 PM (DMUuz)

408 Well, it's not quite the same, but someone did a video of what a moon 420 kilometers up would look like.

https://youtu.be/oBDZtt0vWD8



Ohhhh....I liked that.

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 11:33 PM (qUNWi)

409 someone did a video of what a moon 420 kilometers up would look like.

Massive earthquakes every ninety minutes (well, long than that, the center of the moon would be much further away)

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:33 PM (8zL5i)

410
376
Just to prove I read the content- Alton Brown had belching yeast on his show often.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 31, 2016 11:28 PM (s7hQ/)

Could be worse -- yeast activity ends when the little yeastie-beasties drown in their own piss. About 6-8% for beers, and 12-14% for wines.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 31, 2016 11:33 PM (EzgxV)

411 EPA to Alaskans in sub-zero temps: "Stop Living."

No problemo senior EPA spokes-hole. We've been out of wood for some time now. Very nasty winter. Come inside, come inside! Can we make you more comfortable?

And later as bluish smoke poured from the chimney top, every family member regaled in tales of olden times.

Posted by: Corona at December 31, 2016 11:34 PM (xVq5B)

412

I will confess to a little frisson of delight when I get to post 'first'.

Does that make me a bad person?

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 11:34 PM (SvQr3)

413
If not for the LGF people, the population of this blog would literally plummet. Wondered from time to time just how many there are, counting lurkers?

Posted by: irongrampa at December 31, 2016 11:34 PM (X35Yt)

414 Only if the Earth slowed down from six hours to 24 before the moon got further than 23,000 miles away.

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:27 PM (8zL5i)



Well. There goes a good sci fi story idea. Perhaps I can recycle it as fantasy.....which, I believe, is how these things progress.

Failing that, I'll stick in some clowns, somewhat dodgy adolescent sexual innuendos, and change my name to Stephen King.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at December 31, 2016 11:34 PM (/D+kc)

415 I hope Trump reaches out to his golf course buddies and makes sure Obama has so many free rounds, that he can't do any malignant crap for three years.

Posted by: Jean at December 31, 2016 11:34 PM (2RVmA)

416 Sticky: Must have been true for a while. Note that the Martian moon Deimos and Saturn's un-named innermost moon are both pretty close to being in synchronous orbits.

It would be pretty cool, really: there'd be much less tide, just a permanent high tide under the Moon (and on the opposite side).

One interesting paradox is that you'd never see a full Moon in the sky. At sunset (as seen from the point directly below it on Earth) it would be a half Moon, then three-quarters, but then it would blink out as it entered Earth's shadow. It would leave the shadow past full, then shrink down to half at dawn. Then during the day it would dwindle to a new Moon, and there would be a daily eclipse at noon.

Posted by: Trimegistus at December 31, 2016 11:34 PM (88x1C)

417 397 I'm guessing Obama will stop golfing when he'said no longer president. It won't be important to him then.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 31, 2016 11:31 PM (s7hQ/)


Did he ever play golf before he was president? Serious question.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2016 11:34 PM (sdi6R)

418
I hope Barack Obama lives a long time, and sees everything he ever did totally repudiated and dies in anonymity and humiliation

You never call anymore.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 31, 2016 11:34 PM (s7hQ/)

419 Anybody seen some gerbils?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Richard Gere at December 31, 2016 11:19 PM (DMUuz)

*hiding and shuddering while painting large "Not Gerbils!" signs*

Posted by: Pixy's hamsters at December 31, 2016 11:34 PM (Ojki1)

420 The "First" stuff is all over the internet and has been forever. You're never going to be rid of it.
Posted by: Buzzion


Well, you've been to the Hereafter, so I guess you would know that.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at December 31, 2016 11:34 PM (S6Pax)

421
When Bork was borked, the Republicans just sat there like wimps. The Democrats had been rotten, but they really reached a new low with Bork and the Republicans, who had been a permanent minority for decades, had no idea how to handle it.

Things, I think, are different now. At least Trump will be different.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:35 PM (ALE60)

422 Your wishes of happy new year are offensive to me
and must stop. This New Year you wish well on is based on a racist
misogynistic homophobic bigoted Gregorian calendar designed by a
cisnormative paternalistic religion. We should all follow the Chinese
calendar it is based on inclusivity and cute animals.



Just wait, the SJWs will figure this out soon enough and I'll sound like a prophet.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 31, 2016 11:06 PM (dnWSK)

Cease mansplaining immediately or I'll summon Lena Dunham to this thread. And maybe Yoko.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 11:35 PM (tHwdc)

423 Dear God, I hope the neighbors survive your revelries.

She's the one on the snowmobile.

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:35 PM (8zL5i)

424 Is there First! on The Other Side?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 31, 2016 11:35 PM (LTHVh)

425 "Wondered from time to time just how many there are, counting lurkers?"

*raises paw*


One......

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2016 11:36 PM (J+eG2)

426 If not for the LGF people, the population of this blog would literally plummet.

===

nah

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 11:36 PM (8ReTf)

427 395
Had a Bloody Mary & watched MST3K's "Mitchell."

The uncut version of Mitchell makes a lot more sense but isn't anywhere near as funny.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 31, 2016 11:31 PM (IqV8l)

Maybe the boys at RiffTrax will do a live show of the theatrical cut of Mitchell.

Posted by: josephistan at December 31, 2016 11:36 PM (7qAYi)

428 EPA dudes should reconsider that rule after Trump relocates their HQ to somewhere on the Noatak

Posted by: Jean at December 31, 2016 11:36 PM (2RVmA)

429 Morons pointed me to Shoe On Head in a recent thread, and I've been watching a couple of her videos. One explores fake hate crimes (a couple on our side, alas), and the absolute best, which appears at 10:50 in the video linked below, is a gay dude who claims Trump supporters threw a bottle at him. He looks awful, just covered in blood like you wouldn't believe...but his white Apple watch, on his bloody wrist is utterly unstained.

Turns out the guy does horror movie special effects for a living.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjmz9K59a7E

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:36 PM (iMxBJ)

430 Could be worse -- yeast activity ends when the little yeastie-beasties drown in their own piss. About 6-8% for beers, and 12-14% for wines.

I believe that was the eighth drummer for Spinal Tap.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 31, 2016 11:36 PM (FYrz1)

431 I'm hungry.
Who's cooking? Anything, really.

I'm thinking of biscuits & the homemade sausage Sis brought me for Christmas. I didn't bother asking what the meat was.

And, big disappointment - grocery store was sold out of black-eyed peas by 1pm today. So I have to track some down first thing tomorrow (I need all the good luck I can amass).
Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 11:32 PM


Sends some Texas Caviar through the USB port to Chi. (Made w/fresh, not canned.)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 31, 2016 11:36 PM (DMUuz)

432 "Well, it's not quite the same, but someone did a video of what a moon 420 kilometers up would look like."

Did the pick 420 because that's what it looks like when they get stoned?

Posted by: Willy J. at December 31, 2016 11:37 PM (W6Ch1)

433 One amusing anecdote involved closing down an airport due to a
dildo-stuffed suitcase vibrating down the runway. Yes, the bomb squad
blew it up.



Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 31, 2016 11:04 PM (NTQtb)




Before packing your dildo, always set it to airplane mode.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 11:37 PM (tHwdc)

434 I will confess to a little frisson of delight when I get to post 'first'.

Does that make me a bad person?


Well, using 'frisson' sure isn't helping...

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:38 PM (hBig8)

435
There is nothing admirable, helpful, hopeful, positive, peaceful or salvageable about the UN.


Kill. IT.


with. FIRE.



#mynewyearswish

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 31, 2016 11:38 PM (zu88C)

436

Nope, not eating anything named 'Texas Caviar'. Not after learning that a bag of dicks is a real thing.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 11:38 PM (SvQr3)

437 Happy New Year. Let us pray that 2017 holds as much promise as we hope it will.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at December 31, 2016 11:38 PM (hVdx9)

438
I still like and watch the original MST3K of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (with Joel), but I also bought the Rifftrax version of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. It's even better than the original.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:38 PM (ALE60)

439 If not for the LGF people, the population of this blog would literally plummet. Wondered from time to time just how many there are, counting lurkers?

Posted by: irongrampa at December 31, 2016 11:34 PM (X35Yt)



I came here from LGF. It was about the time he was going nutso about global warmening, and banning people for questioning it.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at December 31, 2016 11:38 PM (/D+kc)

440 379 So the peoples republic of Burlington got hit by a Russian virus ? How ironic !!
Posted by: Mary Dipshitz

But is the Coat Factory OK?

Posted by: Bete: A Deplorable at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (Ojki1)

441 Okay. I'll bite. Who are the LGF people?

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (nQ10o)

442 Anyone have a decent weblink for the ball drop

Posted by: Jean at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (2RVmA)

443 424 Is there First! on The Other Side?
Posted by: Grump928(C)
----------------

Have Buzzion ask Abel, maybe?


The "First" stuff is all over the internet and has been forever. You're never going to be rid of it.
Posted by: Buzzion
-----------------
My internet browsing consists of here and Weasel Zippers. And I learned to never go into the sewer that is Zippy's comment section.
So yeah - I can avoid it.

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (bFFPK)

444 nerdygirl, just saw your note. Good point.

Maybe I should stay away... I *need* to lose weight.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (u8kLQ)

445 Massive earthquakes every ninety minutes (well, long than that, the center of the moon would be much further away)

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:33 PM (8zL5i)

With the Moon that close, Earth probably would not even have continents. The yuuge tides would keep the surface in a fluid state.

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (MiBfH)

446 430
Could be worse -- yeast activity ends when the little
yeastie-beasties drown in their own piss. About 6-8% for beers, and
12-14% for wines.



I believe that was the eighth drummer for Spinal Tap.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 31, 2016 11:36 PM (FYrz1)

How cold is it in San Diego? Would you smoke the cigar if you were back in Colorado?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (EzgxV)

447 I'm thinking of biscuits & the homemade sausage Sis brought me for Christmas. I didn't bother asking what the meat was.

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 11:32 PM (bFFPK) fnord (bFFPK)


Sausage. Gravy. On. Biscuits.

I like eggs with it, but that's up to you.

I mean, you could have sammiches, too. Kind of like Polish hotdogs.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 31, 2016 11:40 PM (wB8Tg)

448 439 I came here from LGF. It was about the time he was going nutso about global warmening, and banning people for questioning it.
Posted by: Sticky Wicket at December 31, 2016 11:38 PM (/D+kc)


That was about the right time to question whether bicycling is healthy for the mind, however healthy it might be for the body.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:40 PM (iMxBJ)

449 Okay. I'll bite. Who are the LGF people?

Reptilians.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 31, 2016 11:40 PM (IcT7t)

450 There's a blog at a place that's called Ace.

'Ettes say that it's a wonderful place.

Morons are loons, but none largely loom.

As the punster known 'ere as Muldoon.




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 31, 2016 11:40 PM (v5iqM)

451 "Not after learning that a bag of dicks is a real thing."

Everyone knows this!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2016 11:40 PM (J+eG2)

452 ... or I'll summon Lena Dunham to this thread.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 11:35 PM


Can I come as I am, or do I have to get dressed first?

Posted by: Lena Dunham at December 31, 2016 11:40 PM (DMUuz)

453 441 Okay. I'll bite. Who are the LGF people?
Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (nQ10o)


*raises hand*

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2016 11:41 PM (sdi6R)

454 out of curiousity i was looking up new years food, something i seem to do every year, and which i always pass on having

anyway, pork, beans, greens, ring-shaped breads, and salmon. there ya go.

i had a grocery store sammich because fuck everything

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 11:41 PM (8ReTf)

455 it came in with the LGF people"

Moi?
---
or moi?

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 31, 2016 11:42 PM (e6JCS)

456

Have you heard the news?








Hillary Clinton will NEVER be President.


Happy New Year !!!

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 31, 2016 11:42 PM (zu88C)

457 438
I still like and watch the original MST3K of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (with Joel), but I also bought the Rifftrax version of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. It's even better than the original.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:38 PM (ALE60)

I might watch "Fun in Balloonland" Tomorrow. Granted, it takes place on Thanksgiving, but it's still a parade in philadelphia, so I think it's appropriate.

Posted by: josephistan at December 31, 2016 11:42 PM (7qAYi)

458 How cold is it in San Diego? Would you smoke the cigar if you were back in Colorado?
Posted by: cthulhu at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (EzgxV)


45 in Santa Paula where I live. Cold enough that I don't feel like going outside. And if I was in Colorado Springs I would not be outside smoking a cigar. Or I'd be downtown at my normal haunt, which has a heated outdoor patio.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 31, 2016 11:42 PM (FYrz1)

459 Is there First! on The Other Side?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 31, 2016 11:35 PM (LTHVh)

*sigh* Yes. *grumble*

Posted by: Able, son of Adam at December 31, 2016 11:43 PM (Ojki1)

460 Hillary Clinton will NEVER be President.

Happy New Year !!!


...but you repeat yourself.

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:43 PM (hBig8)

461 Did the pick 420 because that's what it looks like when they get stoned?

Posted by: Willy J. at December 31, 2016 11:37 PM (W6Ch1) fnord (W6Ch1)


Altitude of the ISS. International Space Station.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 31, 2016 11:43 PM (wB8Tg)

462 To Barry don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out MOFO !!!!

Posted by: Mary Dipshitz from Idiotsboro, VT at December 31, 2016 11:43 PM (as33F)

463 441 Okay. I'll bite. Who are the LGF people?
Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (nQ10o)


It's a blog that went as sour as it's possible for a blog to go (sorry, Andrew Sullivan, you get the silver). Better not to spell its name out here, nor ever mention the full name of its proprietor (if it's still going, haven't checked in years), he used to love to track that sort of thing. But Google should be able to sort this out for you.

For the record: read it for years before the ensouring, probably signed up for an account, never posted anything with it.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:43 PM (iMxBJ)

464 Okay. I'll bite. Who are the LGF people?

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (nQ10o)

I was one. Same nic.

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 31, 2016 11:43 PM (MiBfH)

465 I came here from LGF as well.

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:44 PM (GsAUU)

466 Okay. I'll bite. Who are the LGF people?

===

its just blog history. AOS has been around a long time. People come here in waves sometimes. LGF refugees were the last big wave. Now maybe its Hot Air.

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 11:44 PM (8ReTf)

467 442 Anyone have a decent weblink for the ball drop
Posted by: Jean at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (2RVmA)


--New Year's Eve in Paris > New Year's Eve in New York

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:44 PM (GsAUU)

468 "Altitude of the ISS. International Space Station."

I liked the stoned theory.

Posted by: Willy J. at December 31, 2016 11:45 PM (W6Ch1)

469 I was an LGF regular, but didn't start posting here in earnest until this past year.

Posted by: josephistan at December 31, 2016 11:45 PM (7qAYi)

470 452 ... or I'll summon Lena Dunham to this thread.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 11:35 PM

Can I come as I am, or do I have to get dressed first?
Posted by: Lena Dunham at December 31, 2016 11:40 PM (DMUuz)

Is that were you look into the mirror and repeat her name three times?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 31, 2016 11:45 PM (s7hQ/)

471 Well thank you Duncanthrax!


436
Nope, not eating anything named 'Texas Caviar'. Not after learning that a bag of dicks is a real thing.
Posted by: Floyde Farthengton
----------------
It's not what you're thinking.
I actually ran across a recipe today that included pickled artichoke hearts - sounds really good.

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 11:45 PM (bFFPK)

472 The moon was once part of da earf. Sumpin big hit us and whacked off a big chunk and a bunch of junk that coalesced into da moon.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 31, 2016 11:45 PM (dnWSK)

473 I was one. Same nic.

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 31, 2016 11:43 PM (MiBfH)

Off, lame ducksock!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 31, 2016 11:46 PM (MiBfH)

474 Can I come as I am, or do I have to get dressed first?
Posted by: Lena Dunham at December 31, 2016 11:40 PM (DMUuz)

I don't care where you...

No, no I just can't finish that line.

Posted by: Rocky Horror Picture Show fan at December 31, 2016 11:46 PM (Ojki1)

475 I still like and watch the original MST3K of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (with Joel), but I also bought the Rifftrax version of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. It's even better than the original.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:38 PM (ALE60)




The Mystery of Spider Island was always my favorite.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at December 31, 2016 11:46 PM (/D+kc)

476 472 The moon was once part of da earf. Sumpin big hit us and whacked off a big chunk and a bunch of junk that coalesced into da moon.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 31, 2016 11:45 PM (dnWSK)


HE'S TALKING ABOUT HIS BUTT.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 31, 2016 11:46 PM (iMxBJ)

477 Who are the LGF people?

-----------------

Deplorables. All those who have been banned and exiled from other blogs. Ace is the only place that will allow us to comment. Once banned from Ace, there is no other place to go on the internet.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 11:46 PM (SvQr3)

478 The 420 thing about marijuana apparently goes way back. For instance, Bob Dylan's 1966 song "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35," or the "Everybody Must Get Stoned" song.

12 x 35 = 420.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 11:46 PM (u8kLQ)

479 This barrel place, does it have belching and farting yeast?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 31, 2016 11:46 PM (s7hQ/)

480 oooooh F bomb on FOX

...oops

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 31, 2016 11:47 PM (zu88C)

481 The LGF people come from the Barrel.


They are spawned from the footskin cells of the unfortunate italics transgressors.

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 11:47 PM (qUNWi)

482 I read a book where a comet collided into the moon and the people on the moon base try to escape from the moon base.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 31, 2016 11:47 PM (dKiJG)

483 Okay. I'll bite. Who are the LGF people?

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (nQ10o) fnord (nQ10o)


There once was a music and news blog that became a War On Terror blog after 9/11, and was quite popular and got some news coverage and stuff.

At some point, the guy running it got into a tiff with some of his anti-jihad allies, especially in Europe, and it took the form of a kind of anti-Christian thing at first, and then calling people proto-Nazis, and then banning most of the people on his blog, and then preaching to the few remaining about how "the right" was all crazy and evil.

Odd time.

A number of the refugees landed here, or had already been here for a while.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 31, 2016 11:47 PM (wB8Tg)

484 oooooh F bomb on FOX

...oops




Who who who???

Posted by: eleven at December 31, 2016 11:47 PM (qUNWi)

485 Too much anti-hibernianism here.

Happy New Year, ya blaggards.

Posted by: seamrog at December 31, 2016 11:47 PM (hVvzu)

486 commie anti-semite Ban Ki Moon will be dropping the ball in New York.


Sad!

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 31, 2016 11:48 PM (zu88C)

487 I am a HotGas castaway. Facebook turned on and I checked out, never to return.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 31, 2016 11:48 PM (dnWSK)

488 I was never LGF see? Just different pasts. More of the old timers here left altogether for other sites, too. it happens. Makes me wonder if the sites make for certain cultures, or do the cultures make the sites, like wandering tribes of commenters....

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 11:48 PM (8ReTf)

489 This barrel place, does it have belching and farting yeast?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 31, 2016 11:46 PM (s7hQ/)


High tolerance yeast would be more interesting.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at December 31, 2016 11:48 PM (/D+kc)

490 Who are the LGF people?


They are the Autumn People. Where do they come from? The Tubes. Where do they go to? The Barrel.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 31, 2016 11:48 PM (LTHVh)

491 478 The 420 thing about marijuana apparently goes way back. For instance, Bob Dylan's 1966 song "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35," or the "Everybody Must Get Stoned" song.
12 x 35 = 420.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 11:46 PM (u8kLQ)


C'mon. Really?

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:48 PM (iMxBJ)

492 478 The 420 thing about marijuana apparently goes way back. For instance, Bob Dylan's 1966 song "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35," or the "Everybody Must Get Stoned" song.

12 x 35 = 420.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 11:46 PM (u8kLQ)

--I thought it was about a group of HS students meeting after school at 4:20 to get high in CA.

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:49 PM (GsAUU)

493 Wait.....that's no moon!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 31, 2016 11:49 PM (dnWSK)

494 Apparently Mariah Carey's lip sync went wacky.

Posted by: josephistan at December 31, 2016 11:50 PM (7qAYi)

495 Wait.....those aren't pillows!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 31, 2016 11:50 PM (dnWSK)

496 Is Sefton gonna start a new countdown? This many days since the Haggard Harridan hasn't been president. I guess that would be a count-up.

Posted by: kalneva at December 31, 2016 11:50 PM (vhW1R)

497 Better not to spell its name out here, nor ever mention the full name of its proprietor (if it's still going, haven't checked in years), he used to love to track that sort of thing. But Google should be able to sort this out for you.

Fairly certain he tried getting people to support him on Patreon or some other crowd funding site.

The results amazing.



Posted by: Bete: A Deplorable at December 31, 2016 11:50 PM (Ojki1)

498
Who who who???

Posted by: eleven

===

A seriously drunk huge, drunk scary, drunk ginger drunk dude in Miami.

You go for a bar crawl, you might just get some rated R material kids.


Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 31, 2016 11:51 PM (zu88C)

499 Thank you Merovign

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 11:51 PM (nQ10o)

500 Some about 420 different chemicals in cannabis?
I used to know, but forgot where it comes from.

"I was gonna look it up, but then I got high..."

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 11:52 PM (bFFPK)

501 Is that Mariah in the bottom picture?

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2016 11:52 PM (5sOEp)

502
So the blog comments are time stamped six minutes late that means you have to post your midnight comment six minutes late so it shows up on the blog at zero hours local.

Who will be first?

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 11:52 PM (SvQr3)

503 Heh, just saw Kellyanne recounting Huma calling her for Hitlery's concession phone call.

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:52 PM (GsAUU)

504 other old timers
masturbatin pete
wicked pinto

they're like, i dunno, sighting bigfoot when they come through.

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 11:52 PM (8ReTf)

505 OK, I finished my beer, so it's time to open the champagne.

I have the Korbel 4-pack, so that each mini-bottle is exactly one glass. One or two bottles is as much as I can do in one sitting. A full-sized bottle would be wasted.

I'd like to buy Moet if it came in 4-packs, but it doesn't.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2016 11:52 PM (sdi6R)

506 Three minutes.....

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at December 31, 2016 11:53 PM (/D+kc)

507 happy new year everyone

Posted by: phoenixgirl, Happy Christmas at December 31, 2016 11:53 PM (0O7c5)

508 Actually, Moon at 420 kilometers makes no sense. Orbits of celestial bodies are computed from center of mass, which is substantially equal to the geometric center of a spherical planet. Moon's radius is 1738 km, so it could not orbit at 420 km. It would have to orbit at 2158 km to have it's nearest part 420 km above us.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 31, 2016 11:53 PM (MiBfH)

509 Community activist gonna go back to community activating, only with a huge microphone and a sycophantic media salivating to get him on ait

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 31, 2016 11:53 PM (dnWSK)

510 It seems like a lot of former regulars here bolted after The Trumpening.

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:53 PM (GsAUU)

511 I met a lizard from an antique blog
Who said: `Two vast and rusted spokes of steel
Stand in Culver City. Near them, in the bog,
Half sunk, a chubby visage lies, with peel
of cheeto bag, and sneer both cold and bland...'

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 31, 2016 11:53 PM (6FqZa)

512 Happy Almost New Year, all you deplorable grey box friends! I still have 2 hrs and 3 mins to go.
2017 has to be better than shitty 2016. The only good things that happened were the Cubs and Trump.

Posted by: L, Elle at December 31, 2016 11:53 PM (6IPEM)

513 I would imagine that an early anti-MJ city law somewhere was code 420, or something like that.

It could also have come from "Reefer Madness." (OMG, clips of that monstrosity were everywhere on cable TV back in 1983-84.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 11:53 PM (u8kLQ)

514 Singing fucking Lennon's "Imagine" while the ball drops.


FUCK YOU HIPPIES.

GOD BLESS AMERICA. AND HER DEAREST FRIEND ISRAEL.

I hope this ghey kindergarten shit is gone in 20 days.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 31, 2016 11:54 PM (zu88C)

515 441
Okay. I'll bite. Who are the LGF people?

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 11:39 PM (nQ10o)

Long ago and far away, there was a blogger who played bass, had a ponytail, rode bicycles, and took pictures of oil rigs. With a pedigree like that, it was somewhat startling that he noted that Islamic jihadists were a clear and present danger to anything approaching civilization -- but, such was the obviousness of this point and the complete stonewall among the MSM and other blogs, his blog became extremely popular.
The blog was named Large Grey Filaments, thus "LGF".
Around the time that pjmedia was founded, the blogger seemed to have some sort of a stroke and completely changed personalities. Things that he would have highlighted six months previous got buried; things he would have rightfully scoffed-at six months ago got put on the front page. Where it had been a free-for-all in the comments, people were being banned right-and-left if they failed to completely agree with the blogger's new position, even if it completely contradicted the blogger's old position of a minute-or-two before.
This led, inevitably, to the great LGF diaspora.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 31, 2016 11:54 PM (EzgxV)

516 502
So the blog comments are time stamped six minutes late that means you have to post your midnight comment six minutes late so it shows up on the blog at zero hours local.

Who will be first?
Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 11:52 PM (SvQr3)


Yeah good luck trying for that. You'll think you have it timed perfectly and then you'll see that three people not even trying for it beat you.


Happy New Year.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 31, 2016 11:54 PM (cAnNx)

517 Happy New Year to the Horde from paris! Leaving for home later this morning - we were out and about last night near the Eiffel Tower and lots of police and military presence but the gangs of migrant youth were alarming. They were roaming around; loud and rather obnoxious speaking Arabic and heckling women.

Posted by: IC at December 31, 2016 11:54 PM (Psyg0)

518 LGF was so 2004. I was unceremonially banned. Never looked back. Then again, Hot Air had a hot chick called Bethany working for them. She left. Never looked back. Now where did I leave that butterscotch pudding?

Posted by: Corona at December 31, 2016 11:54 PM (xVq5B)

519 HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!

Posted by: Evilpens at December 31, 2016 11:54 PM (y3aQB)

520 Happy New Year from Kentucky.

Posted by: Catwrangler at December 31, 2016 11:54 PM (n5l0F)

521 1 guess what my FGL nick was...

and, when i looked a few months back, i still had a valid log on.

i just stopped poasting there.

kinda like Patterico's place. haven't been back to see if he's still in full unhinged #NeverTrump mode

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 31, 2016 11:54 PM (e6JCS)

522
It's raining lightly here.

I'm just wondering...do you know any rainy day people?

They always seem to know when it's time to call. Rainy day people don't talk, they just listen. Rainy day lovers don't lie when they tell ya they've been down there too.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:54 PM (ALE60)

523 Happy New Year Horde!

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2016 11:54 PM (5sOEp)

524 It seems like a lot of former regulars here bolted after The Trumpening.

===

Aye. Here's to old friends, where they be.

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 11:55 PM (8ReTf)

525 I barely visit HotAir any more, you learn more from the comments than from the article, except this blog of course.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 31, 2016 11:55 PM (dKiJG)

526 My gawd, the tongue baths these taling heads are giving Baraq.

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:55 PM (GsAUU)

527 Smell ya later, 2016

https://icq.com/___/friendship/static/card_16961_rs.swf

Posted by: kbdabear at December 31, 2016 11:55 PM (Ya7zs)

528 I am a HotGas castaway.

It's a pretty rockin' place. Their top blog article from four hours ago already has 17 comments on it.

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:55 PM (/wWB4)

529 Happy New Year from somewhere in the Eastern Time Zone of the United States.

Big fucking deal.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at December 31, 2016 11:55 PM (S6Pax)

530 It seems like a lot of former regulars here bolted after The Trumpening.
Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:53 PM (GsAUU)
*****
They'll come back once Trump makes America great again.
I hope so at least. And Ace seems like he has been happy lately with all his GAINZ!! and healthy new lifestyle and outlook so maybe he'll bring back the banned too

Posted by: L, Elle at December 31, 2016 11:55 PM (6IPEM)

531 Happy New Year to those on the East Coast!

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:55 PM (GsAUU)

532 HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Posted by: Trimegistus at December 31, 2016 11:55 PM (88x1C)

533 Happy New Year on the east coast! May this year be even better! {{{}}}

Posted by: Infidel at December 31, 2016 11:55 PM (VtLx6)

534
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!


Not.Yet.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at December 31, 2016 11:55 PM (ALE60)

535 I don't care where you...

No, no I just can't finish that line.
Posted by: Rocky Horror Picture Show fan at December 31, 2016 11:46 PM


Well, really, that's no way to behave on your first day out. But, uhm, since you're such an exceptional beauty, I'm prepared to forgive you.

Posted by: Lena Dunham at December 31, 2016 11:56 PM (DMUuz)

536 It's actually New Years right now here, so -
Happy New Year, horde.

Posted by: Chi at December 31, 2016 11:56 PM (bFFPK)

537 YAY!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 11:56 PM (tHwdc)

538 478 The 420 thing about marijuana apparently goes way back. For instance, Bob Dylan's 1966 song "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35," or the "Everybody Must Get Stoned" song.

12 x 35 = 420.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 11:46 PM (u8kLQ)


This is literally the first time I've heard that, and I was listening to Bob Dylan and smoking weed in the 70s.


***

Oh, and Happy New Year! Midnight occurred while I was typing.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2016 11:56 PM (sdi6R)

539 Happy New Year, everyone!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at December 31, 2016 11:56 PM (Saqzi)

540 Oh yeah I forgot about his little fight about pajama media.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 31, 2016 11:56 PM (cAnNx)

541 Anybody know how much Michelle Malkin received from Salem Communications, when she sold the Hot Air site a few years ago?

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 11:56 PM (u8kLQ)

542 Happy New Year horde. Hillary will never, never, never be in charge of anything. Especially us!

Posted by: Subterranean JT at December 31, 2016 11:56 PM (qG0hz)

543 Theres fireworks going off, big stuff not backyard

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2016 11:56 PM (5sOEp)

544 Happy New Year!!!

Wishing you all health, safety, love, peace, happiness and prosperity!

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at December 31, 2016 11:56 PM (nQ10o)

545
Time is relative.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 11:56 PM (SvQr3)

546 happy new year everyone

Posted by: phoenixgirl, Happy Christmas at December 31, 2016 11:53 PM (0O7c5)

Same to you, PG!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 31, 2016 11:57 PM (MiBfH)

547 ....holding my breath.....

Is Betty White still alive?

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at December 31, 2016 11:57 PM (/D+kc)

548 rickl, really??? I thought for sure you'd know the backstory on that.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 11:57 PM (u8kLQ)

549 Whats 4 minutes between friends?

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 31, 2016 11:57 PM (zu88C)

550 Time is relative.


If it's your MiL, it seems like forever.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 31, 2016 11:57 PM (LTHVh)

551 For those lucky enough to be there, what's 2017 like?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 31, 2016 11:57 PM (IcT7t)

552 Happy New Year, my friends!

Posted by: joncelli at December 31, 2016 11:57 PM (1FhAQ)

553 Happy New Year to the East Coast 'rons and 'ettes!

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at December 31, 2016 11:57 PM (P8951)

554 Wow two communists on stage.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 31, 2016 11:58 PM (dnWSK)

555 Lots of fireworks going off outside. So far no bullets coming down through my ceiling.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2016 11:58 PM (sdi6R)

556 Happy New Year..:trying for that elusive midnight posting.

Posted by: IC at December 31, 2016 11:58 PM (Psyg0)

557 Sticky Wicket: Betty White is still alive, but she's been wearing a full coat of armor non-stop since October and shouting "2016 ain't gonna get me!!!1!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 11:58 PM (u8kLQ)

558 Happy new year right coast.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 31, 2016 11:58 PM (dnWSK)

559 515 Where it had been a free-for-all in the comments, people were being banned right-and-left if they failed to completely agree with the blogger's new position, even if it completely contradicted the blogger's old position of a minute-or-two before.
This led, inevitably, to the great LGF diaspora.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 31, 2016 11:54 PM (EzgxV)


Don't forget -- he would hunt down his commenter's comments on other blogs, and ban them for those, too, if they disagreed with his new turned-180-degrees positions. You didn't have to disagree with him on his own blog to get a ban.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:58 PM (iMxBJ)

560 those people in the future, about 200 miles east of here, are having new years right this second

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at December 31, 2016 11:58 PM (8ReTf)

561 Hour early for me but.

Happy New Year!

Posted by: Willy J. at December 31, 2016 11:58 PM (W6Ch1)

562 Is Betty White still alive?
Posted by: Sticky Wicket

If you call that living.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at December 31, 2016 11:58 PM (S6Pax)

563 Never get tired of winning in the New Year

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2016 11:58 PM (5sOEp)

564 551, so far I'm just sleep deprived Blanco..so pretty much the way 2016 started.

Posted by: IC at December 31, 2016 11:58 PM (Psyg0)

565 Happy New Year Pets Thread!

Posted by: Corona at December 31, 2016 11:59 PM (xVq5B)

566
Bye BYE BARKY YOU GIANT MONKEYS ASSHOLE>

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 31, 2016 11:59 PM (zu88C)

567 I'm so jealous. You guys are already in Year One of The Trump.

Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:59 PM (kCDOM)

568 551 For those lucky enough to be there, what's 2017 like?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 31, 2016 11:57 PM (IcT7t)

It's Bigly

Posted by: Buzzion at December 31, 2016 11:59 PM (cAnNx)

569 551, so far I'm just sleep deprived Blanco..so pretty much the way 2016 started.

OK, so it's not any worse. That's a good start.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 31, 2016 11:59 PM (IcT7t)

570 The last full year of Obama comes to a close.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:59 PM (iMxBJ)

571 The blog is a few minutes in the past.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at December 31, 2016 11:59 PM (P8951)

572 First?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (LTHVh)

573 happy new year, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (SvLsV)

574 Time is money.


2017 is going to be money, baby.

Posted by: eleven at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (qUNWi)

575 548 rickl, really??? I thought for sure you'd know the backstory on that.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 31, 2016 11:57 PM (u8kLQ)


The whole "420" thing was after my time. We never used it back in the day. I have no idea what it means.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (sdi6R)

576 Damn it earthcam wouldn't show ball drop

Posted by: Jean at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (2RVmA)

577 /oh yea, total wild thing. Did I mention I'm watching The Producers?


Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at December 31, 2016 11:25 PM (beK/c)

So was I! It occurred to me that it was made only 23 years after the end of WWII. That would be like, how long the World Wide Web has been around.
1994 wasn't that long ago. Was it?
<wanders down the dark hallway to find the restrooms>

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (tHwdc)

578 Happy New Year!
Eat drink and be merry, God has saved us from Hillary. 2017 is going to be a good and eventful year. Bolster up those shoulders it's full bore ahead.

Cheers!


Posted by: gNewt at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (eNqiW)

579 The blog is a few minutes in the past.

Time dilation, all packets are routed through a black hole.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (IcT7t)

580 But totes excited for 2017 - bigly and yuge, baby!!

Posted by: IC at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (Psyg0)

581

The year the calendar rolled over from 1999 to 2000, was the year I got into a big argument with friends over what year started the new millennium.

That year I watched the cable shows of fireworks from all around the world.

So, it's already 2017 somewhere.

Anyone notice anything different?

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (SvQr3)

582 Happy New Year in Pixy time!

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (sdi6R)

583 Start packing your bags, Obama!!!

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (nQ10o)

584 Hearing more explosions than on July 4th.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (IqV8l)

585 The blog is a few minutes in the past.
Posted by: Donna di deplorable


Ace of Spades is kind of like a Jethro Tull song.

Living in the Past.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (S6Pax)

586 So do we get T shirts for this?



Or what?

Posted by: eleven at January 01, 2017 12:01 AM (qUNWi)

587 570 The last full year of Obama comes to a close.
Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:59 PM (iMxBJ)

Thank you, God! In a few weeks, he'll only be able to issue stupid mouthfarts not EOs.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:01 AM (P8951)

588 Isn't "420" April 20th, Earth Day?

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2017 12:01 AM (kCDOM)

589 It (the moon) would have to orbit at 2158 km to have it's nearest part 420 km above us.

Then it'd look like rings rather than a moon. If the moon were closer than ~10000 km, it would be inside the Roche limit and it would break apart.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2017 12:01 AM (UzBQ4)

590 Grump wins it this year

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2017 12:01 AM (5sOEp)

591 530
It seems like a lot of former regulars here bolted after The Trumpening.

Posted by: logprof at December 31, 2016 11:53 PM (GsAUU)

*****

They'll come back once Trump makes America great again.

I hope so at least. And Ace seems like he has been happy lately
with all his GAINZ!! and healthy new lifestyle and outlook so maybe
he'll bring back the banned too

Posted by: L, Elle at December 31, 2016 11:55 PM (6IPEM)

I miss arhooley.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:01 AM (EzgxV)

592 585 Ace of Spades is kind of like a Jethro Tull song.

Well, obviously

Living in the Past.

Oh. Thought you meant Aqualung

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (S6Pax)

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:02 AM (iMxBJ)

593 Happy New Year, Horde!

And a Happy New Year it will be because Hillary Clinton will never be POTUS!

Posted by: ALH at January 01, 2017 12:02 AM (Z56vq)

594 Anyone notice anything different?

===

my ankle itches but i dont think that means anything

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:02 AM (8ReTf)

595 Actually, Moon at 420 kilometers makes no sense.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 31, 2016 11:53 PM (MiBfH) fnord (MiBfH)


The nearest point of the moon at the same distance as the ISS.

The video explains it, I just didn't post all that.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 12:02 AM (wB8Tg)

596

Twenty days.


Twenty damn days.


Pack your shit and get out of our house you freeloading lazy-asses!

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 01, 2017 12:02 AM (zu88C)

597 Happy New Year to all the great Morons and Moronette's of the East Coast!!!




-- you know who you are....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:02 AM (EzgxV)

598 So, it's already 2017 somewhere.

Anyone notice anything different?
Posted by: Floyde Farthengton

I have a runny nose, but then I just ate a big bowl of ice cream.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at January 01, 2017 12:02 AM (S6Pax)

599 Or his inordinate fear of having the men in black visit him if you made comments that scared his minions.

Personally, I think he hooked up with a younger chick and she demanded he be a lefty

Posted by: Jean at January 01, 2017 12:02 AM (2RVmA)

600 Don't forget -- he would hunt down his commenter's comments on other blogs, and ban them for those, too, if they disagreed with his new turned-180-degrees positions. You didn't have to disagree with him on his own blog to get a ban.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:58 PM (iMxBJ)


Chuckles used to post my comments from Hotair all the time. He had some weird "This Week at Hotair" post where he would choke at the unreasonable hate and evil that was being bandied about in the Hotair comments. He didn't pick my best comments, but I did like the ones he chose. That was back when that trout character was coming to hotair to post stuff and then Chuckles would bitch about that, too. Hotair folded like a cheap suit to that stuff.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 01, 2017 12:03 AM (zc3Db)

601 Pack your shit and get out of our house you freeloading lazy-asses!

Now you sound like Mama Basura.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 01, 2017 12:03 AM (IcT7t)

602 Anyone notice anything different?


There's a smell....like....ozone.

Posted by: eleven at January 01, 2017 12:03 AM (qUNWi)

603 Now here comes a few weeks of writing the wrong year on checks, memos, etc...before I get used to writing 2017.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:03 AM (P8951)

604
As of January 28th, thus ends the Chinese Year of the Monkey, which is good because I hate fucking monkeys.

The new Chinese new year, 2017, will be the Year Of The Rooster. The rooster.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 01, 2017 12:03 AM (ALE60)

605 HNY Ya'll.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 01, 2017 12:03 AM (w+Jhj)

606 The last full year of Obama comes to a close.
Posted by: Splunge

Somewhere there are people crying about that.

Sad, really. That anyone would be stupid enough to care about that sack of shit.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at January 01, 2017 12:03 AM (S6Pax)

607 583 Start packing your bags, Obama!!!

----------

His shit is already packed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2017 12:03 AM (TRzoP)

608 Then it'd look like rings rather than a moon. If the moon were closer than ~10000 km, it would be inside the Roche limit and it would break apart.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2017 12:01 AM (UzBQ4)

True, dat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 12:04 AM (MiBfH)

609 Don't forget -- he would hunt down his commenter's comments on other blogs, and ban them for those, too, if they disagreed with his new turned-180-degrees positions. You didn't have to disagree with him on his own blog to get a ban.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2016 11:58 PM (iMxBJ)


for a while he was banning people who were over here. Completely off his nut.


You know what I regret most though? I forgot to check his failed blog on 11/8 while Trump was curb stomping Hillary's fat drunken face.

My guess though....his for sale 2017 photo calendar features lots of nooses.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at January 01, 2017 12:04 AM (/D+kc)

610 Wonder if Momma Mooch will still be living at Baraks house now w that hes paying for it.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2017 12:04 AM (5sOEp)

611 551 For those lucky enough to be there, what's 2017 like?
Posted by: Blanco Basura
--------------

Smells like gunpowder and sausage.
Not unpleasant in the least.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 12:04 AM (bFFPK)

612 581
So, it's already 2017 somewhere.

Anyone notice anything different?
Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (SvQr3)


Lots more explosions than there were an hour ago.

I'm assuming that they're just celebratory fireworks, and the civil war hasn't begun yet.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2017 12:04 AM (sdi6R)

613
and still no hear from Ricardo Kill?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 01, 2017 12:04 AM (ALE60)

614 Pack your shit

*spock eyebrow*

Posted by: Reggie Love at January 01, 2017 12:04 AM (LTHVh)

615 So what are the Obamas going to steal from the White House that they have no right to?

Posted by: Buzzion at January 01, 2017 12:05 AM (cAnNx)

616 Pack your shit and get out of our house you freeloading lazy-asses!

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 01, 2017 12:02 AM


I can see the headline now: "Billionaire white real estate developer evicts black family from public housing"

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2017 12:05 AM (SvLsV)

617 New Year tweet from The Donald!

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at January 01, 2017 12:05 AM (nQ10o)

618 -- you know who you are....
Posted by: cthulhu

Are you talking to me?

ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at January 01, 2017 12:05 AM (S6Pax)

619 Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 01, 2017 12:00 AM (LTHVh)



First commenter of 2017 is "first"
You should frame that

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 01, 2017 12:05 AM (dnWSK)

620 Trump Tweeted something awesome and Presidential. RIght on time for the New Year.







Barry is probably out sucking some dude's dick.


So there you go.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 01, 2017 12:05 AM (zu88C)

621 540
Oh yeah I forgot about his little fight about pajama media.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 31, 2016 11:56 PM (cAnNx)


There's so much to remember that it really can't be described. It's like watching a train wreck where one of the locomotive's wheels goes spiraling off and wrecks a signal tower -- they are important details, but the steam boiler going boom is the one you'll mention.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:05 AM (EzgxV)

622 I made meatball sammies and blueberry crepes. Only 10 here. Fireworks going and people on corner were chain sawing for a big bonfire, in city limits. heh. Im stuffed, night horde. {{{2017}}}

Hitlery will NEVER be POTUS!

Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2017 12:05 AM (VtLx6)

623 Happy New Year, fappers and fapperettes! If I'm lucky, 2017 won't suck anywhere near as much as 2016...

Posted by: Insomniac at January 01, 2017 12:05 AM (0mRoj)

624 Eh...al the NeverTrumpers can stay gone for all I give a hoot.


But then no one axed me.

Posted by: eleven at January 01, 2017 12:06 AM (qUNWi)

625

Okay, here my goals for 2017:

Start my first business.
Learn to exercise.
Get my first girlfriend.
Buy the Nintendo SWITCH.
Meet my wife.

...gonna be eventful!

Posted by: Serious Cat at January 01, 2017 12:06 AM (ADIwO)

626 Some loud fireworks in the distance, here in AJ.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 12:06 AM (MiBfH)

627 Her Majesty is down at the kennel, locking the dogs in for the night and trying to calm everyone down. Sounds like the Battle of Verdun here.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 01, 2017 12:06 AM (J8/9G)

628 The new Chinese new year, 2017, will be the Year Of The Rooster. The rooster.


===

https://is.gd/4umr5S
did you see that trump rooster?

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:06 AM (8ReTf)

629
The new Chinese new year, 2017, will be the Year Of The Rooster. The rooster.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite


They come to snuff the rooster.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2017 12:06 AM (IqV8l)

630 603 Now here comes a few weeks of writing the wrong year on checks, memos, etc...before I get used to writing 2017.
Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:03 AM (P8951)


I'm usually pretty good about that for the first couple of weeks, then I start slipping up.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2017 12:06 AM (sdi6R)

631 Have you seen Jack in the Green?

Where the hell is Jack in the Green?

And who the hell is this guy?

Where the fuck is Jack in the Green?

Posted by: Paul Anka doing Tull at January 01, 2017 12:06 AM (g9txO)

632 His shit is already packed.
Posted by: Cicero

Ah.

I see what you did there.

Golf clap.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at January 01, 2017 12:06 AM (S6Pax)

633 604
As of January 28th, thus ends the Chinese Year of the Monkey, which is good because I hate fucking monkeys.

The new Chinese new year, 2017, will be the Year Of The Rooster. The rooster.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 01, 2017 12:03 AM (ALE60)

DAMMIT!!!

Posted by: The Chicken at January 01, 2017 12:07 AM (0mRoj)

634 624
Eh...al the NeverTrumpers can stay gone for all I give a hoot.


But then no one axed me.

Posted by: eleven
===


*double fistbump*


Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 01, 2017 12:07 AM (zu88C)

635 Oh well back to sleep, good night horde.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2017 12:07 AM (5sOEp)

636 I'm usually pretty good about that for the first couple of weeks, then I start slipping up.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2017 12:06 AM (sdi6R)

\
The older you get the longer it takes you to adjust to writing the new year. When it gets to the point that it takes you over a year to adjust to the new year ... you're done.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 01, 2017 12:07 AM (zc3Db)

637 Some loud fireworks in the distance, here in AJ.

Been hearing them in my neighborhood, too. Pretty sure of which neighbors it is. The ones that think a polka beat is "Mexican" music.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 01, 2017 12:08 AM (IcT7t)

638 Not going to make midnight... Starved myself all week to get into a little black dress for a wedding tonight. Well I got it in and guess what .. they had a taco bar !! Between the hot peppers I shovelled in and the exertion of getting out if the dress im beat. Happy new year ALL. You're the bestest

Posted by: Molly k. at January 01, 2017 12:08 AM (pjIHX)

639 603 Now here comes a few weeks of writing the wrong year on checks, memos, etc...before I get used to writing 2017.
Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there
------------------

I heard a rumor that there were two people that still wrote checks.
So, my Mom and you. Got it.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 12:08 AM (bFFPK)

640 At some point, the guy running it got into a tiff with some of his anti-jihad allies, especially in Europe, and it took the form of a kind of anti-Christian thing at first, and then calling people proto-Nazis, and then banning most of the people on his blog, and then preaching to the few remaining about how "the right" was all crazy and evil.

Odd time.

A number of the refugees landed here, or had already been here for a while.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 31, 2016 11:47 PM

Oh, this sounds like our new business plan!

Posted by: NRO at January 01, 2017 12:08 AM (Ojki1)

641 My, think of how sad and scared o many leftists must feel right now, with the age of Obama coming to a end and the Trumpenhitler coming in to put them all in camps and start WWIII.

Just think of how Hillary must feel - this was going to be her year. She thought she'd be planning her reign right now and instead she's wandering the woods in Chappaqua and drinking vodka tonics while watching "the View."

Ponder that - and laugh and pour yourself another drink and thank God!

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:08 AM (P8951)

642 Golly, I go to empty the litter pan, and *zap*, it's 2017. I can't turn my back on you people for a moment.

*tipples a shot of Wild Turkey into glass*
Anyhow, to absent friends... backhoe, and Angler... others.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2017 12:08 AM (ZO497)

643 its actually the Year of the Fire Rooster, which is auspicious. Awakening. The dawn. Strength and energy and fight

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:09 AM (8ReTf)

644 Serious Cat: the Nintendo Switch looks awesomesauce.

I'd like to get the Lumix GH5 camera. But we will see...

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 01, 2017 12:09 AM (u8kLQ)

645 Molly k. at January 01, 2017 12:08 AM

You can tell us more. We won't mind.
Have you posted selfies yet?

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 01, 2017 12:10 AM (SvQr3)

646 They come to snuff the rooster.

You know, he ain't gonna die.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 01, 2017 12:10 AM (IcT7t)

647 "Pack your shit and get out of our house you freeloading lazy-asses!"

I'd love to have a big group of people outside the WH when he leaves for the last time, yelling "GTFO of our house!"

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 01, 2017 12:10 AM (w+Jhj)

648 617 New Year tweet from The Donald!
Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at January 01, 2017 12:05 AM (nQ10o)

--What did it say?

I don't twat.

Posted by: logprof at January 01, 2017 12:10 AM (GsAUU)

649
Ponder that - and laugh and pour yourself another drink and thank God!

Posted by: Donna di deplorable

SANK YOU DONNA , I WILL DO THAT

*SMOOCH!!*

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 01, 2017 12:10 AM (zu88C)

650 "The new Chinese new year, 2017, will be the Year Of The Rooster. The rooster."

Moe Syzlack - "Eh, I was born a cock...and I'll die a cock."

Posted by: Corona at January 01, 2017 12:10 AM (xVq5B)

651 627
Her Majesty is down at the kennel, locking the dogs in for the night and
trying to calm everyone down. Sounds like the Battle of Verdun here.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 01, 2017 12:06 AM (J8/9G)


Awwww, the poor pups!

Because dogs can hear higher frequencies than humans, fireworks sound noisier to them.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:10 AM (EzgxV)

652 >>>L, Elle

so what fancy shindig are you at?!

Posted by: concrete girl at January 01, 2017 12:11 AM (TD/W3)

653
https://is.gd/4umr5S
did you see that trump rooster?


That's hilarious!
It seems like a compliment, in a Chinese weird and wacky tradition sort of way.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 01, 2017 12:11 AM (ALE60)

654 449 Okay. I'll bite. Who are the LGF people?

Reptilians.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 31, 2016 11:40 PM (IcT7t)

Did the Reptilian secret headquarters move to the new Denver International when Stapelton closed?

Posted by: Fox 2! at January 01, 2017 12:11 AM (brIR5)

655 It's 11:11 here, my wife's favorite time. Can we stay up to midnight?

Doubt as we are old. LOL.

Posted by: Farmer at January 01, 2017 12:11 AM (o/90i)

656 My, think of how sad and scared o many leftists must feel right now, with the age of Obama coming to a end and the Trumpenhitler coming in to put them all in camps and start WWIII.
Just think of how Hillary must feel - this was going to be her year. She thought she'd be planning her reign right now and instead she's wandering the woods in Chappaqua and drinking vodka tonics while watching "the View."
Ponder that - and laugh and pour yourself another drink and thank God!
Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there


Donna, see for yourself how the leftards are reacting. It's delicious!!!

http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2016/12/thanks-bumblefucks/

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 01, 2017 12:11 AM (u8kLQ)

657 Just write "17" on the back of your hand with a red hot paper clip.



You'll remember.

Posted by: eleven at January 01, 2017 12:11 AM (qUNWi)

658 I heard a rumor that there were two people that still wrote checks.
So, my Mom and you. Got it.
Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 12:08 AM (bFFPK)

still pay for a few things with checks. My hair stylist accepts only cash and checks.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:12 AM (P8951)

659 L, Elle

skinny MollyK


concrete girl


SMOOCH ! SMOOCH ! SMOOCH !




* passes out *

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 01, 2017 12:12 AM (zu88C)

660
its actually the Year of the Fire Rooster, which is auspicious. Awakening. The dawn. Strength and energy and fight

It's odd you know so much.
Only a CHINESE SPY would know this much about Chinese New Year.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 01, 2017 12:12 AM (ALE60)

661 its actually the Year of the Fire Rooster, which is auspicious.

If my c**k were on fire, "auspicious" is the last thing I'd consider the situation.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2017 12:12 AM (UzBQ4)

662 Happy New Year, all you miscreants that don't have anything better to do than be on this blog tonight.

Pretty sad! And here I am too.

2016 was a pretty lousy year for me. I hope that 2017 is better. It can't get too much worse.

Best wishes to all of you. Keep the faith. Keep up your hopes. Donate money to Ace, and eat Kaboom! cereal.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at January 01, 2017 12:12 AM (S6Pax)

663 Do the Chinese have a Fire Rooster instead of a Dalmatian?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2017 12:13 AM (IqV8l)

664 Happy New Year, morons.

For the record, when that bint began squawking out "Imagine," I muted her and put on "The Great Southern Trendkill" by Pantera. Seemed to do the job.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 01, 2017 12:13 AM (jV8Mq)

665 Happy New Year, fellow Morons.

I can't believe I've been hanging around here for over a decade.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 01, 2017 12:13 AM (wfDW1)

666 After two cheerful thoughts about 2017, here's one not so cheerful:

It's possible that this is the year that Great Britain trades a great, admirable, worthy Queen for a really douchey King.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:13 AM (iMxBJ)

667 Oy!

Posted by: Adriane the Medical Critic ... at January 01, 2017 12:14 AM (AoK0a)

668 I heard a rumor that there were two people that still wrote checks.




Bought a new desktop, paid with a check. Poor guy didn't know what to do with it. Couldn't get it to 'process'. Ended up getting a call from the Bank, and the FBI.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 01, 2017 12:14 AM (SvQr3)

669
It certainly was the year of the monkey, wasnt it?

Harambe.
The monkeying around of the Fake News.
The monkeys in the GOP.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 01, 2017 12:14 AM (ALE60)

670 Just think of how Hillary must feel .

Freaking tanked! *hic*

Prost!

Posted by: Hillary! at January 01, 2017 12:14 AM (ysprU)

671 20 more days until Obama's Apple Pay account no longer draws on your paycheck, and mine.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:15 AM (iMxBJ)

672 It's possible that this is the year that Great Britain trades a great, admirable, worthy Queen for a really douchey King.
Posted by: Splunge


King Charles, the douchey King!!

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at January 01, 2017 12:15 AM (S6Pax)

673 Happy New Year, all you East-Coasters!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 12:15 AM (wB8Tg)

674 Eric Trump's first tweet of the year features the great Sylvester Stallone.

Who says that Hollywood hates Trump and no one will support him?

Posted by: TickledPink at January 01, 2017 12:15 AM (smD62)

675 @658 still pay for a few things with checks. My hair stylist accepts only cash and checks.
-----------------

Ditto my landlord.

Posted by: junior at January 01, 2017 12:15 AM (ZvmQn)

676 *tipples a shot of Wild Turkey into glass*
Anyhow, to absent friends... backhoe, and Angler... others.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2017 12:08 AM (ZO497)

(raises glass of rum and cola) I will drink to that, Mike.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 12:15 AM (MiBfH)

677 Happy New Year everyone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:16 AM (92kX2)

678 The new Chinese new year, 2017, will be the Year Of The Rooster. The rooster.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite
-------------------
I bought a big bottle of wine for the evening.
Decided on Rex Goliath, because of the rooster on the label and the incoming Year of the Rooster.

And, it's a decent merlot for the price.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 12:16 AM (bFFPK)

679 ... or I'll summon Lena Dunham to this thread.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 31, 2016 11:35 PM



Can I come as I am, or do I have to get dressed first?

Posted by: Lena Dunham at December 31, 2016 11:40 PM (DMUuz)

Yes, and bring cake. But not the cake that's been in your bathroom.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 12:16 AM (tHwdc)

680 Happy New Year to the entire deplorable horde...may 2017 be the best year yet!

Posted by: antisocialist at January 01, 2017 12:17 AM (W2wn0)

681 @660 It's odd you know so much.
Only a CHINESE SPY would know this much about Chinese New Year.
---------------

So...


You're saying that it's one of those Chinese Honey Traps that we've heard so much about?

Posted by: junior at January 01, 2017 12:17 AM (ZvmQn)

682 >>>Living in the Past.

uncle rico

Posted by: concrete girl at January 01, 2017 12:17 AM (TD/W3)

683 I cannot believe how many warning labels were on the champagne bottle. And foil. And cork.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:17 AM (EzgxV)

684 Finally getting around to watching the Walking Dead....just started season 4.....

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic misogynistic redneck at January 01, 2017 12:17 AM (JNDQi)

685 So the damn clock is off again? Ima gonna fire those hamsters.

Posted by: CDR M at January 01, 2017 12:17 AM (9I51B)

686
20 more days until Obama's Apple Pay account no longer draws on your paycheck, and mine.
Posted by: Splunge


Oh yeah?

http://tinyurl.com/7zk84fc

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (IqV8l)

687 So Donald Trump gets inaugurated in the "Year of the Fire Rooster?"

Maybe there's something to this Chinese astrology after all . . .

Posted by: Trimegistus at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (88x1C)

688 Not sure the context uptread, but LGF = Little Green Footballs.

It's another blog that some of us here used to hang out at, before the proprietor there, Charles Johnson, went crazy and switched from conservative to liberal (or more like switched back to liberal).

Zombie is probably the most well known of the LGF refugees.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (wfDW1)

689 588 Isn't "420" April 20th, Earth Day?
Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2017 12:01 AM (kCDOM)

Lenin's birthday.

Posted by: Fox 2! at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (brIR5)

690 People say it's a bad idea to drink whiskey after Champagne (ok, Alsace Cremant, I'm not made of money).

Those people just don't understand New Years Eve. Or Thomas Hardy Sazerac Straight Rye Whiskey.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (iMxBJ)

691 Finally saw Deadpool tonight. Not too shabby.

Posted by: CDR M at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (9I51B)

692 682 >>>Living in the Past.

uncle rico

--------

Her name was Lola
She was a showgirl

Posted by: Barry Manilow at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (TRzoP)

693 Happy New Year to all EST morons, and others lying east thereof (Bermuda and Ascension Island, pipe up now).


Right here is a perfectly fine place to be. Most of us have done our share of partying and carrying on in the past. Nice wine, rainy cool outside, warm inside, gonna light a fire, enjoy the last night of a beautiful lit-up Christmas tree, nice tunes on the computer speaker thinggy. Some bubbly in a few hours, if the boss and I can stay up.


Ouch, not real cliffhangers there in the college football games. But I imagine the final will be exciting. Congrats to winners, sympathy to losers.


Best to ace and Cdr M and the cobs and the horde.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (QDnY+)

694 You're saying that it's one of those Chinese Honey Traps that we've heard so much about?
Posted by: junior at January 01, 2017 12:17 AM (ZvmQn)

I'll volunteer to trip those dastardly honey traps!

I want to face the peril!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (92kX2)

695 Although this may speak to why the Academy hosed Stallone for his Oscar last year. It's all starting to make sense.

Posted by: TickledPink at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (smD62)

696 Adios cigarettes.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (s7OCY)

697
Happy New Year!!!!

Next up?


Inauguration and EVICTION Day!!!!


Then?

April 15th The Year of Restoration of Tax Sanity, Year 1 , A.T.


Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (zu88C)

698
Kept telling you to hold the head HIGH and cherish your country for what it is under the filth laid on it by the left.

You did, and look what happened. Because we're Americans.

Now I will tell you this is the start of the beginning to restore our beloved country to that shining city on a hill.

We'll witness it--and WILL prevail, because as Americans we are denied the option of failure.

You may agree with the above or laugh at me, your choice.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (X35Yt)

699 653
https://is.gd/4umr5S
did you see that trump rooster?

That's hilarious!
It seems like a compliment, in a Chinese weird and wacky tradition sort of way.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 01, 2017 12:11 AM (ALE60)


That is freaking hilarious!

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2017 12:19 AM (sdi6R)

700 684 Finally getting around to watching the Walking Dead....just started season 4.....
Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic misogynistic redneck at January 01, 2017 12:17 AM (JNDQi)

You got past the farm season? Better than I could manage.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:19 AM (92kX2)

701 I cannot believe how many warning labels were on the champagne bottle.

We must protect us from us.

Posted by: The 53%ers at January 01, 2017 12:19 AM (Tyii7)

702 It certainly was the year of the monkey, wasnt it?

===

Metal Monkey

====

Harambe.

Metal = Lead

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:19 AM (8ReTf)

703 Resolved: Unsalted tortilla chips are an abomination and must be killed with fire. Any objections?

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at January 01, 2017 12:20 AM (1FhAQ)

704 662 Happy New Year, all you miscreants that don't have anything better to do than be on this blog tonight. "

Meh. I was never crazy about going out on NYE even when I was much younger, so it doesn't bother me to be here tonight.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:20 AM (P8951)

705 696 Adios cigarettes.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (s7OCY)

Congrats man. Try to make it as long as possible, but if you need to smoke something, try an e-cig. That is what I did and I have not had a real cigarette for 5 years now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:20 AM (92kX2)

706 It's possible that this is the year that Great Britain trades a great, admirable, worthy Queen for a really douchey King.
Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:13 AM (iMxBJ)


--Kinda eerie, since she just recently passed Victoria as the UK's longest reigning monarch.

Posted by: logprof at January 01, 2017 12:21 AM (GsAUU)

707 Heh. I like to mail checks because of the latency of the process. Some would call it 'kiting', I call it 'good financial management'. In most cases, the postmark date is accepted as date of payment, so one can gain a couple of days.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2017 12:21 AM (ZO497)

708 703 Resolved: Unsalted tortilla chips are an abomination and must be killed with fire. Any objections?
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at January 01, 2017 12:20 AM (1FhAQ)

Seconded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:21 AM (92kX2)

709
Veni, Vici , Vino

I came I saw I drank.

Night, you gorgeous , sexy Horde. If I was so toasted I'd...



Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 01, 2017 12:21 AM (zu88C)

710
Metal Monkey

====

Harambe.

Metal = Lead



oh man that is wild!

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 01, 2017 12:21 AM (ALE60)

711 I Love This Bar Blog

by: Toby Keith, altered by Jim, SND.

We got Morons, we got typers,
Banned trolls, socks and losers.
An' we got yuppies, we got bikers,
An' we got , thirsty hitchhikers.
And the 'ettes next door dress up like movie stars.

Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, I love this bar blog.
We got vetrans, we got shooters,
Broken hearted fools and suckers.
An' we got hustlers, we got fighters,
Early birds and all nighters.
And the veterans talk about their battle scars:
Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, I love this bar blog.

I love this bar blog,
It's my kind of place.
Just walk in through the front door,
Puts a big smile on my face.
It ain't too far, come as you are.
Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, I love this bar blog.

I've seen short skirts, we've got high-techs,
Blue collar boys and rednecks.
An' we got lovers, lots of lookers,
An' I've even seen dancin' girls and hookers,
And we like to drink our beer from a mason jar:
Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, I love this bar, yes I do!

I like my truck, (I like my truck),
An' I like my girlfriend 'ette, ( I like my girlfriend),
I like to take her out to dinner,
I like a movie now and then

But I love this bar blog,
It's my kind of place.
Just trolling around the dance floor,
Puts a big smile on my face.
No cover charge, come as you are.
Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, I love this bar blog.
Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, I just love this ol' bar blog.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston,TX

Posted by: Jim at January 01, 2017 12:21 AM (v5iqM)

712 Posted by: irongrampa at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (X35Yt)

Happy New Year! To your great credit, you kept the faith when I faltered and fell into despair.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:22 AM (P8951)

713 Resolved: Unsalted tortilla chips are an abomination and must be killed with fire. Any objections?


I don't know aboot that but unsalted butter is teh nasty.

Posted by: eleven at January 01, 2017 12:22 AM (qUNWi)

714 676
*tipples a shot of Wild Turkey into glass*

Anyhow, to absent friends... backhoe, and Angler... others.



Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2017 12:08 AM (ZO497)



(raises glass of rum and cola) I will drink to that, Mike.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 12:15 AM (MiBfH)


Indeed. To those we hope to see again, in a better place....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:22 AM (EzgxV)

715 683 I cannot believe how many warning labels were on the champagne bottle. And foil. And cork.
Posted by: cthulhu
-----------------

I'm actually surprised you can get it in a bottle out there, and not one of those recycled mylar bags or a box.

What flavor, anyway? Dom? Moet? Krystal?

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 12:22 AM (bFFPK)

716 Happy New Year 'rons and 'ettes!!!!

Posted by: Mr. alu Fods at January 01, 2017 12:22 AM (f0Lz0)

717 653 That's hilarious!
It seems like a compliment, in a Chinese weird and wacky tradition sort of way.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 01, 2017 12:11 AM (ALE60)


It could be. Most likely, they're just having fun. Chinese culture is great that way. But yes, there does seem to be some respect there, combining Trump with Year of the Rooster to come.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:22 AM (iMxBJ)

718 Didya see Trump's New Year tweet? (probably already discussed ad nauseam above, but ....)


Anyway, funny in Teh Donald sort of way - mentioning "losers" and his defeated opponents. Kinda wish he'd kept it totally positive (with very subtle snark), but whatever.


Twitter is a forum appropriate to the (liliputian) stature of his predecessor, more than him, but at least under Trump there are certain to be some hilarious moments there.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 01, 2017 12:23 AM (QDnY+)

719
It's another blog that some of us here used to hang out at, before the proprietor there, Charles Johnson, went crazy and switched from conservative to liberal (or more like switched back to liberal).

Zombie is probably the most well known of the LGF refugees.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM (wfDW1)

--You're supposed to call him Calhser Jshonon.

Posted by: logprof at January 01, 2017 12:23 AM (GsAUU)

720 Hah...nice Jim.

Posted by: eleven at January 01, 2017 12:23 AM (qUNWi)

721 Time is relative.
Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at December 31, 2016 11:56 PM (SvQr3)

Lunchtime doubly so.

Posted by: Ford Prefect at January 01, 2017 12:23 AM (Ojki1)

722 this is the year that Great Britain trades a great, admirable, worthy Queen for a really douchey King.

He's going to fuck it up for his kids. I mean, even worse than he already did.

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2017 12:23 AM (kCDOM)

723

I find it very invigorating to see 1/1/2017 on the computer clock. 2016 was sooooo bad. And now it's over, it's history.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 01, 2017 12:23 AM (SvQr3)

724 >>>642 Golly, I go to...
Posted by: Mike Hammer

we thought you were out walkin the cat

Posted by: concrete girl at January 01, 2017 12:24 AM (TD/W3)

725 Happy New Year to Ricardo wherever you are.

Posted by: eleven at January 01, 2017 12:24 AM (qUNWi)

726
*eyes Wild Turkey*

That bird seems haughty. I think it is taunting me.

*takes another shot*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2017 12:24 AM (ZO497)

727 Yes, the Horde has helped keep me sane over the past eight years. Thanks to you all.

Posted by: Trimegistus at January 01, 2017 12:24 AM (88x1C)

728 713 Resolved: Unsalted tortilla chips are an abomination and must be killed with fire. Any objections?
I don't know aboot that but unsalted butter is teh nasty.
Posted by: eleven at January 01, 2017 12:22 AM (qUNWi)


Whoa now. Baby, bathwater. Unsalted butter is great for cooking. If you put it on your toast, sprinkle some salt on there.

But yeah, unsalted tortilla chips should not exist. It's like "unsalted grits" or "unsalted popcorn." These words just do not go together.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:25 AM (iMxBJ)

729 I want a porcelain Trump Rooster as a good luck piece for my mantle in 2017

Posted by: Willy J. at January 01, 2017 12:25 AM (W6Ch1)

730 Why the talk about Charles becoming king this year? Has the queen talked about abdicating? She seems to be in pretty good health.

Posted by: Trimegistus at January 01, 2017 12:25 AM (88x1C)

731 under Trump there are certain to be some hilarious moments there.

I love that he does absolutely nothing anybody else would do or has done, and yet he always seems to hit the mark. Rock on, Donald.

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2017 12:26 AM (HwVbl)

732 676 *tipples a shot of Wild Turkey into glass*
Anyhow, to absent friends... backhoe, and Angler... others.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2017 12:08 AM (ZO497)

(raises glass of rum and cola) I will drink to that, Mike.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---------------

Raises glass.
*if I may be so bold, I'll throw Joffen onto that list.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 12:26 AM (bFFPK)

733 Happy New Year to Ricardo wherever you are.
Posted by: eleven
------

Yeah, I continue to worry about him.

--
we thought you were out walkin the cat
Posted by: concrete girl
---------

Shit. I knew there was something I forgot.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2017 12:26 AM (eeTCA)

734 *662 Happy New Year, all you miscreants that don't have anything better to do than be on this blog tonight. " *

We are Ron's & Ette's. This is where we thrive!

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2017 12:26 AM (xujhj)

735 730 Why the talk about Charles becoming king this year? Has the queen talked about abdicating? She seems to be in pretty good health.
Posted by: Trimegistus at January 01, 2017 12:25 AM (88x1C)


She's missed some must-do events in the very recent past. Hope it's a passing thing.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:26 AM (iMxBJ)

736 All right, time to use the remaining 1 1/2 hours of 2016 (Mountain Time) to watch some video.

Posted by: logprof at January 01, 2017 12:26 AM (GsAUU)

737 Trump should prominently display a Trump Rooster at all public appearances.

That's how to deal with this kind of thing: they can't mock you if you adopt it as a mascot.

Posted by: Trimegistus at January 01, 2017 12:27 AM (88x1C)

738 But yeah, unsalted tortilla chips should not exist. It's like "unsalted grits" or "unsalted popcorn." These words just do not go together.
Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:25 AM (iMxBJ)

Unsalted french fries. *shudder*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:27 AM (92kX2)

739 i was under the impression it was not going to be charles but prince whats his name. not him, the other one. with the babies

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:27 AM (8ReTf)

740 The elite don't get pica.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 31, 2016 10:56 PM (MiBfH)''

They use Courier.

Posted by: Fox 2! at January 01, 2017 12:27 AM (brIR5)

741 707 Heh. I like to mail checks because of the latency of the process. Some would call it 'kiting', I call it 'good financial management'. In most cases, the postmark date is accepted as date of payment, so one can gain a couple of days.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2017 12:21 AM (ZO497)

I was an expert at kiting checks in my younger, poorer days. My bank was in DC and I found out that for some reason it took a full 5 days for them to process checks I wrote to stores in Northern Virginia - so I'd drive from DC to the Giant supermarket in Alexandra to get groceries if both pantry and bank account were bare.

Never once bounced a check.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:27 AM (P8951)

742 713
Resolved: Unsalted tortilla chips are an abomination and must be killed with fire. Any objections?





I don't know aboot that but unsalted butter is teh nasty.

Posted by: eleven at January 01, 2017 12:22 AM (qUNWi)


Unsalted butter costs the same as salted butter. Salt costs less by weight than butter. Why buy the adulterated product? Buy unsalted butter and add salt to taste -- you'll save money.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:27 AM (EzgxV)

743
Resolved: Unsalted tortilla chips are an abomination and must be killed with fire. Any objections.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at January 01, 2017 12:20 AM (1FhAQ)


Throw on the pyre unsalted pretzels, popcorn and shelled nuts.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 01, 2017 12:28 AM (J8/9G)

744 Raises rye glass.

To those who passed on, to those who left, to those who were banned, tonight you are all remembered, and your best moments here celebrated.

(drinks)

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:28 AM (iMxBJ)

745 Porcelain Trump Rooster - made in the USA. A screaming entrepreneurial opportunity.


Beats the s**t out of all that Obama memorial plate crap (jeesh, every now and then I remind myself of the depths of America's self-degradation the last 8 years - I think we are inured to much of it, but it's still a jaw-dropping thing to behold).


And I can see one of those porcelain roosters on the Resolute desk. The new occupant definitely has a sense of humor.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 01, 2017 12:29 AM (QDnY+)

746 Why the talk about Charles becoming king this year? Has the queen talked about abdicating? She seems to be in pretty good health.

==

not lately

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:29 AM (8ReTf)

747 Never once bounced a check.
Posted by: Donna
------------

It's all in the timing. I've written a bazillion bad checks, that never bounced.

Desperate men do desperate things.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2017 12:29 AM (eeTCA)

748 25 minutes and I'll be brought back to the present.

Posted by: Soona at January 01, 2017 12:30 AM (Fmupd)

749 705

Congrats man. Try to make it as long as possible, but if you need to
smoke something, try an e-cig. That is what I did and I have not had a
real cigarette for 5 years now.




Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:20 AM (92kX2)

Hear, hear. I finally gave up menthol cigarettes by switching to e-cigs with a cinnamon/menthol juice. Unfortunately, e-cigs are in the process of being banned via regulation--for the children or some shit.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 01, 2017 12:30 AM (jV8Mq)

750 703 Resolved: Unsalted tortilla chips are an abomination and must be killed with fire. Any objections?
Posted by: joncelli


Depends on the salsa they inherit.

I love me some salsa restarante from Smart and Final.

There's more than enough salt for the entire family on one serving.

So no, table that fucking motion.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2017 12:30 AM (FQ0rq)

751 743 Throw on the pyre unsalted pretzels, popcorn and shelled nuts.
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 01, 2017 12:28 AM (J8/9G)


Except almonds. Those need no salt at all.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:30 AM (iMxBJ)

752 Finally saw Deadpool tonight. Not too shabby.


Posted by: CDR M at January 01, 2017 12:18 AM


Loved it. Not a cinematic masterpiece, but thoroughly entertaining and stayed true to the spirit and execution of the original comic. As an old school Deadpool fan, I had serious reservationsl about the flick. But, it delivered in style.

Posted by: otho at January 01, 2017 12:30 AM (lmIoG)

753 "Unsalted butter is great for cooking."

Yep. I never buy salted butter.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:30 AM (P8951)

754 715
683 I cannot believe how many warning labels were on the champagne bottle. And foil. And cork.

Posted by: cthulhu

-----------------



I'm actually surprised you can get it in a bottle out there, and not one of those recycled mylar bags or a box.



What flavor, anyway? Dom? Moet? Krystal?

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 12:22 AM (bFFPK)


Cheap. It was for the Fiancee (I'm a big believer in "Wine is red" as well as "....and doesn't fizz.") and she only drank about three shots' worth.

I've had all sorts of good champagne, but for the two of us when she's sleeping early....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:30 AM (EzgxV)

755 I like to mail checks because of the latency of the process.


---

Nothing says you have to pay by the due date. You can pay late, and the vendor will add a 'service charge'.

You can be a slow pay, as long as you pay, and pay up when they ask you to, if you answer the phone when they call, like you are getting senile and just forgot.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 01, 2017 12:31 AM (SvQr3)

756 well, hell.

Buncha HTML strike throughs and changes did NOT show up in the above.

I hope at least that the spirit of the effort made it's way through the HTML fog.

And, twenty minutes to midnight, here on the Texas Gulf Coast.

The year of The Trumpening, only twenty minutes out.

This is gonna be good, y'all.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 01, 2017 12:31 AM (v5iqM)

757 Why the talk about Charles becoming king this year? Has the queen talked about abdicating? She seems to be in pretty good health.
Posted by: Trimegistus at January 01, 2017 12:25 AM (88x1C)


I do enough baking that I just buy unsalted butter and add a big of salt when necessary.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 01, 2017 12:31 AM (FYrz1)

758
I realized tonight that my neighbors are idiots.

The midnight fireworks started at 12:04.

WTF?

Do they not own a clock?

Did they not estimate how long it would take for the fuse to reach teh firecrackers?

Do they not understand back timing?

/losers...


Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at January 01, 2017 12:31 AM (beK/c)

759 I want a porcelain Trump Rooster as a good luck piece for my mantle in 2017

Posted by: Willy J. at January 01, 2017 12:25 AM (W6Ch1)

A Trump Rooster and a Beckoning Cat, together, should bring good joss to any household.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 12:31 AM (MiBfH)

760 Cheap. It was for the Fiancee (I'm a big believer in "Wine is red" as well as "....and doesn't fizz.") and she only drank about three shots' worth.

I've had all sorts of good champagne, but for the two of us when she's sleeping early....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:30 AM (EzgxV)

All alcohol is good once you are drunk.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:32 AM (92kX2)

761 Further, you know what 'unsalted tortilla chips' are actually called.

THey're call unfried tortillas.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2017 12:32 AM (FQ0rq)

762
Here's to the man I was
Here's to the man I am

Here's to the man I someday will be
Here's hoping he's better than me

Posted by: Mike Cross at January 01, 2017 12:33 AM (ZO497)

763 someone did a video of what a moon 420 kilometers up would look like.

Massive earthquakes every ninety minutes (well, long than that, the center of the moon would be much further away)
Posted by: t-bird at December 31, 2016 11:33 PM (8zL5i)

Every 45 minutes. You would get it on the near and far sides.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 01, 2017 12:33 AM (VdICR)

764 Is the Queen salted?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2017 12:33 AM (IqV8l)

765 Do they not own a clock?

Maybe they're on Pixy Time.

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2017 12:33 AM (9Q5BJ)

766 757 Why the talk about Charles becoming king this year? Has the queen talked about abdicating? She seems to be in pretty good health.
Posted by: Trimegistus at January 01, 2017 12:25 AM (88x1C)

I do enough baking that I just buy unsalted butter and add a big of salt when necessary.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 01, 2017 12:31 AM (FYrz1)


I am impressed by your quote fail, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:34 AM (iMxBJ)

767 744
Raises rye glass.



To those who passed on, to those who left, to those who were banned,
tonight you are all remembered, and your best moments here celebrated.



(drinks)

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:28 AM (iMxBJ)

I will drink to that. *clinks glass on monitor frame*

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:34 AM (EzgxV)

768 Happy 2017 article over at ZeroHedge:

"I'm a former lifelong Democrat, stating here a clear and incontestable fact: Barack Obama is a failed President. "

It then goes to list, in detail, all the failures.

Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at January 01, 2017 12:34 AM (beK/c)

769
I think unsalted butter will go rancid. I think that is why it's salted, from before the days of refrigeration.

I've heard of drinking tea in Mongolia that is flavored with unsalted, rancid butter.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 01, 2017 12:34 AM (SvQr3)

770 739 i was under the impression it was not going to be charles but prince whats his name. not him, the other one. with the babies

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:27 AM (8ReTf)



That would be the smart thing to do since Prince Tampon is a muslim loving cocksucker. But Britain's government is definitely a European government and I very much doubt they would decide to skip over him, since that would be the smart thing to do.

Posted by: buzzion at January 01, 2017 12:34 AM (cAnNx)

771 This is what I get when I try commenting while watching Netflix.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 01, 2017 12:35 AM (FYrz1)

772 It's all in the timing. I've written a bazillion bad checks, that never bounced.

Desperate men do desperate things.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2017 12:29 AM (eeTCA)

Yep. Of course, I couldn't do that now, since grocery stores process your check immediately.

The last time I wrote a check in a grocery store was about 8 months ago because I had left my debit card at home and I really kinda hate putting groceries on my credit cards. I got the stink eye from the millennial in line behind me, 'cause it took, like, 30 seconds longer to pay.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:35 AM (P8951)

773 Yeah, Elizabeth has been a very classy figure over a period, largely, of decline for the UK (most of it self-inflicted).


And one of the last prominent links to WWII, an era when even princesses did real military jobs.


A corgi-owning friend said the queen is letting her flock/gaggle/pack/flamboyance of corgis decline through attrition - with an eye on her own timeline. Typically responsible and classy, but sad.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 01, 2017 12:35 AM (QDnY+)

774 That would be the smart thing to do since Prince Tampon is a muslim loving cocksucker. But Britain's government is definitely a European government and I very much doubt they would decide to skip over him, since that would be the smart thing to do.

===

not on the muslim basis though. Becoz divorced, I think.

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:36 AM (8ReTf)

775 I am impressed by your quote fail, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:34 AM (iMxBJ)

Shhh! We were just going to let it pass unremarked. Like farting when speaking with the Pope. Or when Ace posts busty lesbian porn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:36 AM (92kX2)

776 Years after adopting him, I'm finding out that my old gigantic cat is afraid of fireworks going off outside. Huh.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 01, 2017 12:36 AM (jV8Mq)

777 Charles will never be king, and Hillary will never be president. What a time to be alive!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 01, 2017 12:36 AM (dnWSK)

778 >>>756 This is gonna be good, y'all.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn

yes Sir !

Posted by: concrete girl at January 01, 2017 12:36 AM (TD/W3)

779 768 Happy 2017 article over at ZeroHedge:
"I'm a former lifelong Democrat, stating here a clear and incontestable fact: Barack Obama is a failed President. "
It then goes to list, in detail, all the failures.
Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at January 01, 2017 12:34 AM (beK/c)


And no link? OK, it's ZeroHedge, but still.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:36 AM (iMxBJ)

780 775 Shhh! We were just going to let it pass unremarked. Like farting when speaking with the Pope. Or when Ace posts busty lesbian porn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:36 AM (92kX2)


With this Pope, would it even matter?

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:37 AM (iMxBJ)

781 769
I think unsalted butter will go rancid."

Never happened to me. I keep the box in the freezer and take out a stick and put it in the fridge as needed.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:37 AM (P8951)

782 771
This is what I get when I try commenting while watching Netflix.





Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 01, 2017 12:35 AM (FYrz1)


Go down the dark hall and look at the barrel. You don't have to go in, but it should be on your mind while commenting with Netflix.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:38 AM (EzgxV)

783 Only at the HQ: the great salted/unsalted butter debate rages to close out the year, along with learned speculation on British royal succession and, of course, talk of booze.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 01, 2017 12:39 AM (QDnY+)

784 I guess he'd be King Charles Le Douche, which is French for 'third', but I thought that they wanted to give it to William.

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2017 12:39 AM (9Q5BJ)

785 Years after adopting him, I'm finding out that my old gigantic cat is afraid of fireworks going off outside. Huh.
---

I made a fire in the fireplace for the first time since I got my cat.

She was so freaked out it wasn't funny. It took a day and half or so before she stopped being terrified of shibumi, queen of fire.

Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at January 01, 2017 12:39 AM (beK/c)

786 Happy New Year all. I'm off for a nap, talked to Dad and he will be here in a few days, coming from TX.

Be well in 2017! Our midnight comes in a few minutes now...

Posted by: Farmer at January 01, 2017 12:39 AM (o/90i)

787
I've heard of drinking tea in Mongolia that is flavored with unsalted, rancid butter.
Posted by: Floyde Farthengton
------------

Clay is the thing to put in your tea.

Posted by: Shailene Woodley at January 01, 2017 12:39 AM (ZO497)

788 I realized tonight that my neighbors are idiots.

The midnight fireworks started at 12:04.

*WTF?

Do they not own a clock?

Did they not estimate how long it would take for the fuse to reach teh firecrackers?

Do they not understand back timing?

/losers...*

Things you learn on a Smart Military Blog.

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2017 12:40 AM (xujhj)

789 Resolved: Unsalted tortilla chips are an abomination and must be killed with fire. Any objections?

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at January 01, 2017 12:20 AM (1FhAQ) fnord (1FhAQ)


Nah, I can see them being used as an ingredient, like butter in baking, where you want to have the *right* amount of salt every time.

It should be *clearly* marked, though, so you don't make that mistake.

Unsalted butter costs the same as salted butter. Salt costs less by weight than butter. Why buy the adulterated product? Buy unsalted butter and add salt to taste -- you'll save money.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:27 AM (EzgxV) fnord (EzgxV)


I don't think I'd save money re-churning and re-packaging the butter - then again, I use butter for things other than baking.

Slightly less so butter than say canned goods or meat - but still, adding your own salt later simply doesn't have the same result.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 12:40 AM (wB8Tg)

790 Go down the dark hall and look at the barrel. You don't have to go in, but it should be on your mind while commenting with Netflix.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:38 AM (EzgxV)

These are your comments:

Thoughtful, insightful comment by Mike Hammer

These are your comments on Netflix:

I AM A SHAPELY PINK PONY!!!! -MUMR

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:40 AM (92kX2)

791 to make it as long as possible, but if you need to smoke something, try an e-cig. That is what I did and I have not had a real cigarette for 5 years now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:20 AM (92kX2)


No can do. I just gotta quit. Time to conquer my last, great vice.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at January 01, 2017 12:41 AM (s7OCY)

792 17 minutes and the big "Chicago gun deaths this year" counter gets reset to zero.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at January 01, 2017 12:41 AM (ocw+t)

793 Did the Reptilian secret headquarters move to the new Denver International when Stapelton closed?

It's out there. Just get on the train and ride it past the third terminal.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 01, 2017 12:42 AM (IcT7t)

794 If one has about 25 minutes; this is a fun anime that is about pirate treasure, pirates, ronin with surprising skills, a boy with a treasure map who's been kidnapped, a mad scientist, plus a cat-woman who is a very sharp operator.

Buta - https://youtu.be/G6w1J5ESblQ

Happy New Year everyone.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2017 12:42 AM (x0mWT)

795 775
I am impressed by your quote fail, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:34 AM (iMxBJ)



Shhh! We were just going to let it pass unremarked. Like farting
when speaking with the Pope. Or when Ace posts busty lesbian porn.



Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:36 AM (92kX2)


Hell, everybody does that! http://preview.tinyurl.com/jpg9xmc

Posted by: Josh Marshall's stained keyboard at January 01, 2017 12:42 AM (EzgxV)

796 No can do. I just gotta quit. Time to conquer my last, great vice.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at January 01, 2017 12:41 AM (s7OCY)

Good luck. Don't get too drunk at a wedding. I once quit cold turkey for 5 1/2 years, and that is what got me that time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:42 AM (92kX2)

797 She's been holding on to keep that idiot from the throne.

Posted by: gNewt at January 01, 2017 12:43 AM (eNqiW)

798 781 769
I think unsalted butter will go rancid."
Never happened to me. I keep the box in the freezer and take out a stick and put it in the fridge as needed.
Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:37 AM (P8951)


Butter can certainly go rancid. Salt delays that, but it doesn't render it impossible. So you smell your butter if you're in doubt. It's not like rancid butter is hard to detect. Mostly it only happens if I forget about butter for a while (long story) or fail to respond to the onset of warm weather by making use of my refrigerator. NBD.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:43 AM (iMxBJ)

799 Headless - "heyjackass.com"


In every respect (site, and topic) a thing utterly unique to America, and inconceivable a short time ago.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 01, 2017 12:43 AM (QDnY+)

800 792 17 minutes and the big "Chicago gun deaths this year" counter gets reset to zero.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at January 01, 2017 12:41 AM (ocw+t)

Are you sure the counter is not just rolling over?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:43 AM (92kX2)

801 And no link? OK, it's ZeroHedge, but still.


Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:36
---
Happy 2017 Splunge. And to the rest of the Horde:

http://tinyurl.com/zjwqktn

Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at January 01, 2017 12:43 AM (beK/c)

802 APPY NEW YEAH

Posted by: MTF channeling Eddie Murphy at January 01, 2017 12:43 AM (Ppvh7)

803 I want to second the toast to absent friends. Seems like the Obama admin was the time I lost the most. May they all be in God's embrace.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at January 01, 2017 12:43 AM (1FhAQ)

804 801 Happy 2017 Splunge. And to the rest of the Horde:
http://tinyurl.com/zjwqktn
Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at January 01, 2017 12:43 AM (beK/c)


Thank you Shibumi. A Happy New Year to you, and to all of the Moron Horde.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:45 AM (iMxBJ)

805 *and, of course, talk of booze.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 01, 2017 12:39 AM (QDnY+)*

Crown, FTW!

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2017 12:45 AM (xujhj)

806 minutes and the big "Chicago gun deaths this year" counter gets reset to zero.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew
-----

Assuming that it hasn't been hit by a stray slug.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2017 12:45 AM (ZO497)

807 781 769
I think unsalted butter will go rancid."

Never happened to me. I keep the box in the freezer and take out a stick and put it in the fridge as needed.
Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:37 AM (P8951)


I do that, and also take part of a stick and leave it out on the counter at room temperature in a covered butter dish. That's for spreading on my bread. Refrigerated butter is lousy for sandwiches. It seems to last for a few days without any problem.

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2017 12:45 AM (sdi6R)

808 I guess he'd be King Charles Le Douche, which is French for 'third',

==

they name themselves whatever. Its a new state of being, after all.

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:46 AM (8ReTf)

809 Things you learn on a Smart Military Blog.
--

I worked in local tv for about 15 years. Timing things to the second is everything, and when things aren't timed correctly, it makes me crazy. The fact that the mass at my former hiippie church was too loose (long pauses between readings and such) was one of the reasons I had to quit.

But mostly the hippie thing.

Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at January 01, 2017 12:46 AM (beK/c)

810 and still no hear from Ricardo Kill?
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 01, 2017 12:04
****
I remembered that I have his email and wrote him. He never replied. I'm worried something bad happened to him.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 01, 2017 12:46 AM (6IPEM)

811 Good luck. Don't get too drunk at a wedding. I once quit cold turkey for 5 1/2 years, and that is what got me that time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:42 AM (92kX2)


Fittingly, the ESPN John Daly documentary is on the tube while I'm on this blog.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at January 01, 2017 12:46 AM (s7OCY)

812 791

No can do. I just gotta quit. Time to conquer my last, great vice.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at January 01, 2017 12:41 AM (s7OCY)

Understood. But, I'll just put it out there that you can get e-cig juice with 0 nicotine...

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 01, 2017 12:47 AM (jV8Mq)

813 776 Years after adopting him, I'm finding out that my old gigantic cat is afraid of fireworks going off outside. Huh.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik
-----------------

The pup isn't afraid of them, but he's not a fan at all. He's been running outside all day to bark at the neighbors to "knock that shit off!"

Luckily, it's nowhere near as bad this year as previous years. Maybe the tweakers three houses down finally got evicted?

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 12:48 AM (bFFPK)

814 Top 5 searched actors on Google:

1. Brad Pitt
2. Tom Hiddleston
3. Adam Driver
4. Jesse Williams
5. Tom Holland

The only person on this list I've heard of is Brad Pitt. It really is a new golden age in Hollywood.

Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at January 01, 2017 12:48 AM (rft/I)

815 minutes and the big "Chicago gun deaths this year" counter gets reset to zero.

===

and the car crash death count signs

its their version of the ball dropping

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:48 AM (8ReTf)

816 RK stops in sporadically.
It's been a couple weeks since I've seen him though...

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 12:50 AM (bFFPK)

817 789
Resolved: Unsalted tortilla chips are an abomination and must be killed with fire. Any objections?



Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at January 01, 2017 12:20 AM (1FhAQ) fnord (1FhAQ)



Nah, I can see them being used as an ingredient, like butter in
baking, where you want to have the *right* amount of salt every time.



It should be *clearly* marked, though, so you don't make that mistake.



Unsalted butter costs the same as salted butter. Salt costs less
by weight than butter. Why buy the adulterated product? Buy unsalted
butter and add salt to taste -- you'll save money.



Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:27 AM (EzgxV) fnord (EzgxV)



I don't think I'd save money re-churning and re-packaging the butter - then again, I use butter for things other than baking.



Slightly less so butter than say canned goods or meat - but still,
adding your own salt later simply doesn't have the same result.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 12:40 AM (wB8Tg)

You don't have to re-churn it -- and you get to choose where the salt ends up. If you want toast with the salt throughout the toast, put the salt on the bread side of the butter; if you want to taste the natural sweetness of the butter in the bread with a tang of salt, put the salt on top of the butter; if you want horrible gastric symptoms that make you wish you were dead, forget to use gluten-free bread.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:50 AM (EzgxV)

818 5 minutes!

Posted by: Soona at January 01, 2017 12:50 AM (Fmupd)

819 Never happened to me. I keep the box in the freezer and take out a stick and put it in the fridge as needed.

---

you can make hotel butters, such as herbed or with cinnamon, roll those up tight in wax paper, long tubes. stack em in the freezer

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:50 AM (8ReTf)

820 Be well you Morons.

Wife, doggies and cat are in bed and I'll find them to start 2017 right. I think we'll all be sleeping thru the start of 2017.

T

Posted by: Farmer at January 01, 2017 12:51 AM (o/90i)

821 814 Top 5 searched actors on Google:
1. Brad Pitt
2. Tom Hiddleston
3. Adam Driver
4. Jesse Williams
5. Tom Holland
The only person on this list I've heard of is Brad Pitt. It really is a new golden age in Hollywood.
Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at January 01, 2017 12:48 AM (rft/I)


Tom Hiddleston was Loki in The Avengers. After that, I'm lost. But I'm assuming that you mean only male actors. Because the list ought to look really different if both sexes are included.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:51 AM (iMxBJ)

822
774 That would be the smart thing to do since Prince Tampon is a muslim loving cocksucker. But Britain's government is definitely a European government and I very much doubt they would decide to skip over him, since that would be the smart thing to do.

===

not on the muslim basis though. Becoz divorced, I think.

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:36 AM (8ReTf)



But will that matter now that since his previous wife is dead?

And its pretty funny to deny someone the throne because of divorce when the Church of England was founded in order for the King to keep divorcing his wives.

Posted by: buzzion at January 01, 2017 12:51 AM (cAnNx)

823 "The only person on this list I've heard of is Brad Pitt. It really is a new golden age in Hollywood."

Or Pot Metal age.

Posted by: Willy J. at January 01, 2017 12:51 AM (W6Ch1)

824 you can make hotel butters, such as herbed or with cinnamon, roll those up tight in wax paper, long tubes. stack em in the freezer
Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:50 AM (8ReTf)

Suuuuuure. "Herbed" or "Cinnamon". Pot and what, heroin?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:52 AM (92kX2)

825 Wishing everyone a great 2017!

Posted by: gingeroni at January 01, 2017 12:52 AM (GIqnq)

826 Also to all lurkers out there, now is a good time to delurk. Everyone is happy tonight and hopeful about the new year ahead bc Trump will make America great again.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 01, 2017 12:52 AM (6IPEM)

827 I imagine all the classic rock station are going to be playing Billy Joel's 1976 classic "Miami 2017 ( Seen the Lights Went Out on Broadway)" all day tomorrow.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 01, 2017 12:52 AM (8HGb7)

828 "The only person on this list I've heard of is Brad Pitt. It really is a new golden age in Hollywood."

Or Pot Metal age.


I was thinking pyrite.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 01, 2017 12:52 AM (IcT7t)

829 @814 Top 5 searched actors on Google:

1. Brad Pitt
2. Tom Hiddleston
3. Adam Driver
4. Jesse Williams
5. Tom Holland

The only person on this list I've heard of is Brad Pitt. It really is a new golden age in Hollywood.
------------------

Tom Hiddleston plays Loki in the Marvel movies. And he's become very popular with the ladies as a result. He also appears to have lots of fun with the role, which helps.

I only know of Tom Holland because he was in the last Batman movie. I think he's been in other stuff, but I don't know what off the top of my head.

Posted by: junior at January 01, 2017 12:53 AM (ZvmQn)

830 Because the list ought to look really different if both sexes are included.

----

There were sections to the most searched for thing. The female actors I had never heard of and wondered if that was why they were the most searched for search terms, no one knew who they were.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 01, 2017 12:53 AM (SvQr3)

831 Posted by: buzzion at January 01, 2017 12:51 AM (cAnNx)

dunno man. it was in some UK mags, her decision to do so. Not sure if true or what.

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:53 AM (8ReTf)

832 So, Happy New Year from flyover, middle America! Love y'all.

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2017 12:54 AM (xujhj)

833 also, supposed to happen this spring

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:54 AM (8ReTf)

834 "I was thinking pyrite."

Don't you think that's a Little foolish.

Posted by: Willy J. at January 01, 2017 12:54 AM (W6Ch1)

835 Just dropped a deuce in an Odessa, TX truck stop and saw that someone had used an enormous amount of T.P. and threw each piece of (soiled) butt wipe on the floor.

Just sharing...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Posted by: Clintonstain at January 01, 2017 12:55 AM (kQor7)

836 There were sections to the most searched for thing. The female actors I had never heard of and wondered if that was why they were the most searched for search terms, no one knew who they were.
Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 01, 2017 12:53 AM (SvQr3)

What was the female list?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 12:55 AM (92kX2)

837 So, Happy New Year from flyover, middle America! Love y'all.
--

Thanks for your help with Trump this year! Those of us who are normal in the eastern time zone appreciate it! Happy 2017!

Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at January 01, 2017 12:55 AM (beK/c)

838 G'night, T.
Happy New Year to you and yours.

And, Happy New Year to the CentralTZ Morons & 'ettes.
(Slapweasel? Slapweasel? Bueller?)

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 12:55 AM (bFFPK)

839 HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE MIDDLE OF AMERICA!

It may not be morning in America again, but the dawn is due.

Posted by: mindful webworker - of ye Newe Yeare webworkers at January 01, 2017 12:55 AM (5a8XA)

840 Happy New Year to my fellow Central Time peeps!

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:55 AM (P8951)

841 810
and still no hear from Ricardo Kill?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 01, 2017 12:04

****

I remembered that I have his email and wrote him. He never replied. I'm worried something bad happened to him.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 01, 2017 12:46 AM (6IPEM)


This is why it's important to do MoMes, important to have backchannel, important to have folks you can trust know where you really are (not necessarily with the same people). If we're not looking out for each other, who is?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:55 AM (EzgxV)

842 Happy new year, fellow Morons!

Posted by: Average Guy at January 01, 2017 12:55 AM (8aO2d)

843 Oh and Happy New Year central time.

Posted by: Willy J. at January 01, 2017 12:56 AM (W6Ch1)

844 Nicorette, it's plenty of nicotine the rest is mental.
My cardiologist forced me to quit, I'm so thankful he did.

Posted by: gNewt at January 01, 2017 12:56 AM (eNqiW)

845 fireworks so i guess its time

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 12:56 AM (8ReTf)

846 Happy New Year to Central Moron Timers!!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:56 AM (EzgxV)

847 Looks like Pixy is about 5 minutes off on the comments clock.

Now, how many weeks before you quit writing "2016" on checks and the like?

Posted by: mindful webworker - of ye temporal gripers at January 01, 2017 12:57 AM (5a8XA)

848 Happy New Year, Horde!


From MoronoGalvestan!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 01, 2017 12:58 AM (v5iqM)

849
First

.. attempt to cut and paste html
Hold on to yer butts. (Obscure quote from Jurassic Park)

1 Meghan Markle
2 Marion Cotillard
3 Jodie Sweetin
4 Daisy Ridley
5 Brie Larson

I guess I could google them.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 01, 2017 12:58 AM (SvQr3)

850 Yay!! I'm back in the present.

Posted by: Soona at January 01, 2017 12:58 AM (Fmupd)

851 You mountain time people and West Coasters - you're so damn pokey, bitterly clinging to 2016 while the rest of the world has moved on!

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 12:58 AM (P8951)

852
It may not be morning in America again, but the dawn is due.
Posted by: mindful webworker


No fucking shit.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2017 12:58 AM (FQ0rq)

853 hrew each piece of (soiled) butt wipe on the floor.


Those are the Mexicans. They don't have enough water pressure or volume to flush paper. They expect a bucket next to the toilet.

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2017 12:58 AM (eeTCA)

854 817 if you want horrible gastric symptoms that make you wish you were dead, forget to use gluten-free bread.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:50 AM (EzgxV)


YMMV? Yikes, that gluten sensitivity thing must suck. After leaving the NE, I had a long quest to find an edible rye bread that ended only when I found Acme's New York Rye. If I'd added restrictions, I might be still searching.

Say, it's the New Year, so I will share my recipe for my perfect Breakfast sandwich.

Two slices Acme New York Rye, or your closest local substitute.
Really good butter, like Kerrigold Unsalted
Really good sliced ham, like Fra'Mani Rosemary ham
Two really good eggs, like you'd get from someone local who has chickens.
A good lilvely mustard. I like that one made from spent beer brewing grains whose name I forget.

Toast Rye Bread. Butter heavily.
Fry eggs over easy or medium, your choice. Season with salt and pepper
Fry ham in butter, adding thin slices of emmenthaler in two layers to cover; cover pan and let melt.
Put some ham/cheese on each buttered bread piece. Spread one side gently with mustard. Add fried eggs from pan.
Combine the slices to make sandwich and eat. It will be messy, more or less depending on whether you cooked the yolks, but either way, it will be wonderful.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:59 AM (iMxBJ)

855 @849 First

.. attempt to cut and paste html
Hold on to yer butts. (Obscure quote from Jurassic Park)

1 Meghan Markle
2 Marion Cotillard
3 Jodie Sweetin
4 Daisy Ridley
5 Brie Larson

I guess I could google them.
---------------------

4 is the female lead from 'The Force Awakens'. Don't recognize the others.

Posted by: junior at January 01, 2017 12:59 AM (ZvmQn)

856 Catching up...

alexthechick #91: Prayers up for you all, mindful webworker.

Many thanks, friend. Hoping you have a great year.

Posted by: mindful webworker - of ye temporal gripers at January 01, 2017 12:59 AM (5a8XA)

857 I know Marion Cotillard and Daisy Ridley.

Posted by: eleven at January 01, 2017 01:00 AM (qUNWi)

858 *Yay!! I'm back in the present.
Posted by: Soona at January 01, 2017 12:58 AM (Fmupd)*

Now to get back to the future -DT

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2017 01:00 AM (xujhj)

859 2016 sure was an Anus Horribilis. Happy New Year!

Posted by: Hope Solo at January 01, 2017 01:00 AM (eeTCA)

860 Marion Cotillard... isn't she a hot french chick?

Where's Kate Upton or Christina Hendricks?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:01 AM (92kX2)

861 For the Horde, the Woodbridge Dog Disaster:

A sad tale of mixed signals.

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

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 01:01 AM (MiBfH)

862 minutes and the big "Chicago gun deaths this year" counter gets reset to zero.


---------

I guess we'll find out the final count for 2016 tomorrow.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 01:01 AM (tHwdc)

863 My work here is done ... BLEH! *dies*

Posted by: Marion Cotillard in Dark Knight Rises at January 01, 2017 01:01 AM (VdICR)

864 trump
trump
trump

deport
deport
deport

Posted by: Original Jake at January 01, 2017 01:01 AM (jrFgU)

865 I only know of Tom Holland because he was in the last Batman movie. I think he's been in other stuff, but I don't know what off the top of my head.


Posted by: junior at January 01, 2017 12:53 AM (ZvmQn)



I think you're thinking Tom Hardy, who played Bane and Mad Max. Holland is the new Spider-Man.

Posted by: buzzion at January 01, 2017 01:01 AM (cAnNx)

866 Mila Kunis has a nice ass.

Posted by: Soona at January 01, 2017 01:03 AM (Fmupd)

867 864 trump
trump
trump

deport
deport
deport
Posted by: Original Jake
--------------

OK. I have to ask - what is it with this?

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 01:03 AM (CZsVo)

868 Happy New Year, Central Americans!

Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2017 01:03 AM (sdi6R)

869 849
1 Meghan Markle
2 Marion Cotillard
3 Jodie Sweetin
4 Daisy Ridley
5 Brie Larson
Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 01, 2017 12:58 AM (SvQr3)


These are very strange ways to spell "Jennifer Lawrence."

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:03 AM (iMxBJ)

870 @865
I think you're thinking Tom Hardy, who played Bane and Mad Max. Holland is the new Spider-Man.
---------------

D'oh, you're right.

Too many Toms.

Actually, I'm surprised one of the Chrises didn't end up on the list (Chris Pine, Chris Pratt, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth; there might be one or two more I can't think of off the top of my head).

Posted by: junior at January 01, 2017 01:03 AM (ZvmQn)

871 863 My work here is done ... BLEH! *dies*
Posted by: Marion Cotillard in Dark Knight Rises at January 01, 2017 01:01 AM (VdICR)

Right. She was hottish, but Anne Hathaway in the catsuit stole that show.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:05 AM (92kX2)

872 Tom Hardy was excellent in Inception, and also carried an entire movie all by himself, just talking on the phone while he was driving his car. Now that's an actor. Don't remember the name of the movie.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:05 AM (iMxBJ)

873 854
817 if you want horrible gastric symptoms that make you wish you were dead, forget to use gluten-free bread.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:50 AM (EzgxV)



YMMV? Yikes, that gluten sensitivity thing must suck. After leaving
the NE, I had a long quest to find an edible rye bread that ended only
when I found Acme's New York Rye. If I'd added restrictions, I might be
still searching.



Say, it's the New Year, so I will share my recipe for my perfect Breakfast sandwich.



Two slices Acme New York Rye, or your closest local substitute.

Really good butter, like Kerrigold Unsalted

Really good sliced ham, like Fra'Mani Rosemary ham

Two really good eggs, like you'd get from someone local who has chickens.

A good lilvely mustard. I like that one made from spent beer brewing grains whose name I forget.



Toast Rye Bread. Butter heavily.

Fry eggs over easy or medium, your choice. Season with salt and pepper

Fry ham in butter, adding thin slices of emmenthaler in two layers to cover; cover pan and let melt.

Put some ham/cheese on each buttered bread piece. Spread one side gently with mustard. Add fried eggs from pan.

Combine the slices to make sandwich and eat. It will be messy, more
or less depending on whether you cooked the yolks, but either way, it
will be wonderful.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:59 AM (iMxBJ)


That sounds really tasty. My comment was really sort of an inside joke with Merovign -- he's got serious dietary restrictions whereas mine are more like, "that's icky."

Know someone who is allergic to everything in the botanical lily family -- onion, shallot, garlic, chives, green onion, spring onion, etc. As in, cook on same grill + eat something + five minutes => projectile heaving.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:05 AM (EzgxV)

874 @814 Top 5 searched actors on Google:

1. Brad Pitt
2. Tom Hiddleston
3. Adam Driver
4. Jesse Williams
5. Tom Holland

The only person on this list I've heard of is Brad Pitt. It really is a new golden age in Hollywood.
------------------


Adam Driver played Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He also plays Lena Dunham's (shudders) boyfriend in Girls.

Jesse Williams plays a doctor on Grey's Anatomy. He is now an activist/SJW for Black Lives Matter. He's from Chicago, Illinois; he bitches about racial injustice and police brutality against blacks but ignores the black on black violence in his home town.

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 01:05 AM (S/qwI)

875 Actually, I'm surprised one of the Chrises didn't end up on the list (Chris Pine, Chris Pratt, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth; there might be one or two more I can't think of off the top of my head).
Posted by: junior at January 01, 2017 01:03 AM (ZvmQn)

How quickly they forget. *sigh*

Posted by: Christopher Reeve at January 01, 2017 01:05 AM (92kX2)

876 Happy New Year, Central Americans!
Posted by: rickl at January 01, 2017 01:03 AM
******
Since when did you become open borders? Why are you wishing all the illegal Central Americans a Happy New Year?
:-)

Posted by: L, Elle at January 01, 2017 01:06 AM (6IPEM)

877 This is why it's important to do MoMes, important to
have backchannel, important to have folks you can trust know where you
really are (not necessarily with the same people). If we're not looking
out for each other, who is?


Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:55 AM (EzgxV)

Yes, and I sent a hot photo from my youth to Chi, who never even answered back. wtf, Chi?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 01:06 AM (tHwdc)

878 How quickly they forget. *sigh*
Posted by: Christopher Reeve at January 01, 2017 01:05 AM (92kX2)

Right?

Posted by: Christopher Plummer at January 01, 2017 01:06 AM (92kX2)

879 Libertarianwannabe #103 So sorry to hear, webworker. Just very sorry. Peace and strength.

Thanks ... um... LWB? (Lib? Wannabe?) Life is hard and short, but has its wonders. My brother showed me many of the wonders.

And, welcome to the manic club that is AoS commenters. You seem to have just fit right in. Wanning to be libertarian small-L or Libertarian kook candidates?

Posted by: mindful webworker - look! the year! it's all new and shiny! at January 01, 2017 01:07 AM (5a8XA)

880 Mortimer must have passed out after he kissed us l,elle and molly.

Posted by: concrete girl at January 01, 2017 01:07 AM (TD/W3)

881
The thought occurs to me that one could gain some insight, perhaps, from the demographics of search users and terms they search for. Especially if one had access to all the search engines (or at least the big three) and could cross reference with demographic data.

I can see how that data could be valuable. Perhaps an academic skilled in analyzing data could apply for a government grant and tell us what could be learned by studying our search behavior.

Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 01, 2017 01:07 AM (SvQr3)

882 You don't have to re-churn it -- and you get to choose where the salt ends up.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:50 AM (EzgxV) fnord (EzgxV)


If I'll pay a buck more for Tillamook or LoL instead of the store brand because of *flavor*, I'm probably not going to worry about 5 cents or whatever for having to spend time managing the salt myself.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:08 AM (wB8Tg)

883 @874 Adam Driver played Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
------------------

Is that his name? IIRC, he's a former member of the USMC, and supposedly a pretty good guy in real life.

Posted by: junior at January 01, 2017 01:08 AM (ZvmQn)

884 >>Mila Kunis has a nice ass.


Indeed.

But, it could be more decadent.

Posted by: Mia Malkova at January 01, 2017 01:08 AM (g9txO)

885 And, welcome to the manic club that is AoS commenters. You seem to have just fit right in. Wanning to be libertarian small-L or Libertarian kook candidates?
Posted by: mindful webworker - look! the year! it's all new and shiny! at January 01, 2017 01:07 AM (5a8XA)

Who you calling ko.... hey, what were we talking about?

Posted by: Gary Johnson at January 01, 2017 01:08 AM (92kX2)

886 *Mila Kunis has a nice ass.
Posted by: Soona at January 01, 2017 01:03 AM (Fmupd)*

After much research and fact checking I judge this as true.

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2017 01:09 AM (xujhj)

887 Temporarily AWK whilst I change into my 2017 outfit.

Meanwhile, Arlo & Janis for New Year's Eve
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2016/12/31

Posted by: mindful webworker - look! the year! it's all new and shiny! at January 01, 2017 01:09 AM (5a8XA)

888 happy new year horde

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 01, 2017 01:09 AM (R5HRU)

889 Is that his name? IIRC, he's a former member of the USMC, and supposedly a pretty good guy in real life.
Posted by: junior at January 01, 2017 01:08 AM (ZvmQn)

Yes, that's him.

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 01:09 AM (S/qwI)

890 Happy New Year mis amigos de los intertubos!!! May 2017 bring you much boobage!!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at January 01, 2017 01:09 AM (zQz1L)

891 I think I just got a contact high from that sock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:09 AM (92kX2)

892 874
@814 Top 5 searched actors on Google:



1. Brad Pitt

2. Tom Hiddleston

3. Adam Driver

4. Jesse Williams

5. Tom Holland



The only person on this list I've heard of is Brad Pitt. It really is a new golden age in Hollywood.

------------------





Adam Driver played Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He also plays Lena Dunham's (shudders) boyfriend in Girls.



Jesse Williams plays a doctor on Grey's Anatomy. He is now an
activist/SJW for Black Lives Matter. He's from Chicago, Illinois; he
bitches about racial injustice and police brutality against blacks but
ignores the black on black violence in his home town.



Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 01:05 AM (S/qwI)


Wait -- the guy that played Kylo Ren was an actor? Like, someone who regularly acts for money? I thought he was some schmo off-the-street brought in for some cinema verite.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:09 AM (EzgxV)

893 Wow. Just ended, a 10 minute long solid barrage from the fairgrounds.

(Every year: No fireworks in City limits, doncha know? sez the cops.)

Now the local neighborhood family shows begin.

Posted by: Ginger, lime, vodka at January 01, 2017 01:09 AM (cJDvr)

894 884 >>Mila Kunis has a nice ass.
Indeed.
But, it could be more decadent.
Posted by: Mia Malkova at January 01, 2017 01:08 AM (g9txO)


Yeah, it could have, like, a tongue sticking out of it.
(passes out)

Posted by: Miley Cyrus at January 01, 2017 01:09 AM (iMxBJ)

895 Know someone who is allergic to everything in the botanical lily family -- onion, shallot, garlic, chives, green onion, spring onion, etc. As in, cook on same grill + eat something + five minutes => projectile heaving.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:05 AM (EzgxV)

I feel terribly sorry for that person. Almost every soup recipe on the planet begins with cooking a diced onion in oil until it's soft.

And how do you make pasta sauce without garlic?

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 01:09 AM (P8951)

896 Yes, and I sent a hot photo from my youth to Chi, who never even answered back. wtf, Chi?
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess
----------------

Honestly? I'm still speechless. I *typed/deleted more than once, because I like you WAY too much to accidental offend you.

Believe me gentlemen, Miley is a clockstopper. Beautiful is not an adequate word...

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 01:10 AM (CZsVo)

897 Time for the old folk. Our ritual family gathering tomorrow--always fun.


Remember, y'all,we are Americans so that head is held HIGH--even more so now.

Work to do now that the cleansing has begun. All of us have a part.

Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 01, 2017 01:10 AM (X35Yt)

898 *Yes, and I sent a hot photo from my youth to Chi, who never even answered back. wtf, Chi?
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 01:06 AM (tHwdc)*

Post a link here. The rest of us Rons won't be so rude as to not answer back!

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2017 01:11 AM (xujhj)

899 Wasn't even aware of this. Good news, courtesy of Rueters -

"A federal judge in Texas on Saturday issued a court order barring enforcement of an Obama administration policy seeking to extend anti-discrimination protections under the Affordable Care Act to transgender health and abortion-related services.

The decision sides with Texas, seven other states and three Christian-affiliated healthcare groups challenging a rule that, according to the judge, defines sex bias to include "discrimination on the basis of gender identity and termination of pregnancy."


http://tinyurl.com/hzb9p7g

Posted by: junior at January 01, 2017 01:11 AM (ZvmQn)

900 Believe me gentlemen, Miley is a clockstopper. Beautiful is not an adequate word...

Pics or... oh, never mind.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 01, 2017 01:12 AM (IcT7t)

901 If we're not looking out for each other, who is?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:55 AM (EzgxV)
*****
This is very true. I spent most of the night stranded at a Wendy's in the middle of nowhere in WY bc my very new rental car decided not to start. I had to wait 2 hrs for a wrecker and Beckoning Chasm stayed on the phone with me the whole time to keep me sane. He's the best

Posted by: L, Elle at January 01, 2017 01:12 AM (6IPEM)

902 Honestly? I'm still speechless. I *typed/deleted more than once, because I like you WAY too much to accidental offend you.



Believe me gentlemen, Miley is a clockstopper. Beautiful is not an adequate word...

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 01:10 AM (CZsVo)

Silly boy. I don't offend easily. And Miley from 1977 thanks you - she had no idea she could have such an effect on a man.
22-year-olds can be really clueless.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 01:13 AM (tHwdc)

903 *Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at January 01, 2017 01:10 AM (X35Yt)*

Goodnight IG!

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2017 01:14 AM (xujhj)

904 Stolen from Facebook:

I think Russia hacked Ohio State and since my team didn't win I don't think I'll be able to work till Tuesday. And I feel Alabama would be unfit to be national champion.

Posted by: buzzion at January 01, 2017 01:14 AM (cAnNx)

905 897 Remember, y'all,we are Americans so that head is held HIGH--even more so now.
Work to do now that the cleansing has begun. All of us have a part.
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at January 01, 2017 01:10 AM (X35Yt)


Good night. Really appreciate your repeated reminders of what America and Americans should be. It has been an inspiration during the dark times, and will continue to be now that the sun is rising again at last.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:14 AM (iMxBJ)

906 Has anyone seen Laurie David's Cervix lately?

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 01:14 AM (S/qwI)

907 gotta turn in. long drive back to ny tomorrow

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at January 01, 2017 01:15 AM (8ReTf)

908 Post a link here. The rest of us Rons won't be so rude as to not answer back!

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2017 01:11 AM (xujhj)

I don't have any photobuckety things.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 01:15 AM (tHwdc)

909 895
Know someone who is allergic to everything in the botanical lily family
-- onion, shallot, garlic, chives, green onion, spring onion, etc. As
in, cook on same grill + eat something + five minutes => projectile
heaving.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:05 AM (EzgxV)



I feel terribly sorry for that person. Almost every soup recipe on
the planet begins with cooking a diced onion in oil until it's soft.



And how do you make pasta sauce without garlic?

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersandsand so there at January 01, 2017 01:09 AM (P8951)


Believe you me....I was very relieved when relationship statuses changed and I no longer had to worry about dining with this person, much less cooking for her. It's not that I wished her ill, but to try to protect her from that kind of ill was a huge PITA.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:15 AM (EzgxV)

910 Has anyone seen Laurie David's Cervix lately?

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 01:14 AM (S/qwI) fnord (S/qwI)


Her gynecologist?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:16 AM (wB8Tg)

911 896
Yes, and I sent a hot photo from my youth to Chi, who never even answered back. wtf, Chi?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess

----------------



Honestly? I'm still speechless. I *typed/deleted more than once, because I like you WAY too much to accidental offend you.



Believe me gentlemen, Miley is a clockstopper. Beautiful is not an adequate word...

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 01:10 AM (CZsVo)


See, here's another great justification for backchannel....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:16 AM (EzgxV)

912 Believe you me....I was very relieved when relationship statuses changed and I no longer had to worry about dining with this person, much less cooking for her. It's not that I wished her ill, but to try to protect her from that kind of ill was a huge PITA.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:15 AM (EzgxV)


Cooking for her? For a person like that it's always BYO.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 01, 2017 01:17 AM (zc3Db)

913 874 Adam Driver played Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He also plays Lena Dunham's (shudders) boyfriend in Girls.
Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 01:05 AM (S/qwI)


Wow. I did not know that. When I saw TFA, I wondered how he so perfectly captured the douche-victim personality. I wonder no longer. He had practice.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:17 AM (iMxBJ)

914 Her gynecologist?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:16 AM (wB8Tg)

LOL...good one Merovign. How have you been?

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 01:18 AM (S/qwI)

915 Believe you me....I was very relieved when relationship statuses changed and I no longer had to worry about dining with this person, much less cooking for her. It's not that I wished her ill, but to try to protect her from that kind of ill was a huge PITA.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:15 AM (EzgxV) fnord (EzgxV)


I tell people I'll just manage my own food, but most people tie in food and socializing so tightly that they'd rather just not invite you than have you there and not eating.

I'd rather see friends and not eat than eat and not see friends, but the latter is more likely to happen.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:18 AM (wB8Tg)

916 897
Time for the old folk. Our ritual family gathering tomorrow--always fun.


Remember, y'all,we are Americans so that head is held HIGH--even more so now.

Work to do now that the cleansing has begun. All of us have a part.

Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.


Posted by: irongrampa at January 01, 2017 01:10 AM (X35Yt)


May The Lord keep and bless you, IG. You give us reason to sit straight in our seats.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:18 AM (EzgxV)

917 *I don't have any photobuckety things.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 01:15 AM (tHwdc)*



Our loss, Miley.

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2017 01:18 AM (xujhj)

918 Jordan Peterson:
A New Years Letter to the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEFt20qe0o

An insightful summary of the problem with the totalitarian left.

Posted by: Off the reservation at January 01, 2017 01:18 AM (uqnYW)

919 See, here's another great justification for backchannel....


Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:16 AM (EzgxV)


I tried. What can I say?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 01:19 AM (tHwdc)

920 I once cooked for an "illium-sensitive" (I think that was the term) person. It can be done, in Chinese cuisine. But yes, I felt very sympathetic. Seems like a horrible fate, for someone who has good tastebuds, as this person did.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:19 AM (iMxBJ)

921 First rogering of 2017!

Posted by: Reggie Love at January 01, 2017 01:19 AM (bc2Lc)

922 901
If we're not looking out for each other, who is?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 12:55 AM (EzgxV)

*****

This is very true. I spent most of the night stranded at a Wendy's
in the middle of nowhere in WY bc my very new rental car decided not to
start. I had to wait 2 hrs for a wrecker and Beckoning Chasm stayed on
the phone with me the whole time to keep me sane. He's the best

Posted by: L, Elle at January 01, 2017 01:12 AM (6IPEM)


I can see BC doing that. He's a good guy.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:20 AM (EzgxV)

923 I don't have any photobuckety things.

I've dropped a few things on tinypic, no account needed.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 01, 2017 01:20 AM (IcT7t)

924 First rogering of 2017!

Posted by: Reggie Love at January 01, 2017 01:19 AM (bc2Lc)

No shit?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 01:21 AM (MiBfH)

925 It is kind of fascinating watching the progs get their Russia hate on. They hate them now. Not when they were a monolithic, heartless dictatorship that enslaved and killed millions of people.

Now, because they hacked the DNC emails.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:21 AM (92kX2)

926 OMG-- Greg Guttfield is doing a special on Trump now and it's actually pretty funny. And positive. Didn't intend on watching it, and I can't turn it off...

Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at January 01, 2017 01:21 AM (beK/c)

927 LOL...good one Merovign. How have you been?

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 01:18 AM (S/qwI) fnord (S/qwI)


Crappy year, but I'm within spitting distance of having a really big project done (well, ready for the big step) - *and* I may have a really experienced mechanic to go over my old car sitting sadly in storage (oddball car and the nearest specialist is 120 miles away).

Hopefully will be a better year.

You?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:23 AM (wB8Tg)

928 912
Believe you me....I was very relieved when relationship statuses
changed and I no longer had to worry about dining with this person, much
less cooking for her. It's not that I wished her ill, but to try to
protect her from that kind of ill was a huge PITA.



Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:15 AM (EzgxV)



Cooking for her? For a person like that it's always BYO.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 01, 2017 01:17 AM (zc3Db)


Died-in-the-wool political prog. You got the memo, and if she vomits on your carpet it's your fault.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:23 AM (EzgxV)

929
Now, because they hacked the DNC emails.
---

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure it's not true.

The guy that was killed in a "robbery gone wrong wink wink" that Assange mentioned was probably behind it.

Not the Russians.

/Dems: not good with details.

Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who is tired of dealing with crazy people at January 01, 2017 01:23 AM (beK/c)

930 Part of the fun of this year we are now in, is watching people who didn't "get" Trump before, start to get him. Then they smile and have fun.

Not that I'm holding out for Williamson...

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:23 AM (iMxBJ)

931 924 First rogering of 2017!

Posted by: Reggie Love at January 01, 2017 01:19 AM (bc2Lc)

No shit?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 01:21 AM (MiBfH)

May be the alcohol talking, but I found that hilarious.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:23 AM (92kX2)

932 *First rogering of 2017!

Posted by: Reggie Love at January 01, 2017 01:19 AM (bc2Lc)

No shit?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 01:21 AM (MiBfH)*

I wouldn't say that.

Posted by: SCOAMF at January 01, 2017 01:24 AM (xujhj)

933 Now, because they hacked the DNC emails.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:21 AM (92kX2)

Which they probably did. But they were also hacked, and made public, by non-Russians.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 01:25 AM (MiBfH)

934 I once had a total SJW type call me 45 minutes before dinnertime, saying "no salt, no MSG."

"No MSG" -- no problem.
"No Salt" -- big problem, especially with that little notice. I don't even remember how I got out of that one, but she went home well fed, somehow.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:25 AM (iMxBJ)

935 FUCK YOU, 2016! STILL STANDING!!!!!

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon without a basestar at January 01, 2017 01:26 AM (vyqqu)

936 OMG-- Greg Guttfield is doing a special on Trump now and it's actually pretty funny. And positive. Didn't intend on watching it, and I can't turn it off...


Was Gutfeld a NT? I couldn't tell from bits and pieces that I saw.

Posted by: eleven at January 01, 2017 01:26 AM (qUNWi)

937 919
See, here's another great justification for backchannel....




Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:16 AM (EzgxV)


I tried. What can I say?


Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 01:19 AM (tHwdc)


I'm humorously poking at Chi. I don't really expect him to send me anything he has in confidence from you, nor should you expect I send him anything I have in confidence from anyone else.

But if you were to indicate that Chi should send me something.....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:26 AM (EzgxV)

938 Now, because they hacked the DNC emails.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:21 AM (92kX2) fnord (92kX2)


Russians invade Crimea? Meh.
Russians hack the WH in 2014? Meh.
Chinese hack OPM in 2015? Meh.
Russians purportedly hack DNC and Podesta? Actually meh.

Lose the election? LOSE OUR SHIT! BACK TO THE COLD WAR!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:26 AM (wB8Tg)

939 895 Know someone who is allergic to everything in the botanical lily family -- onion, shallot, garlic, chives, green onion, spring onion, etc. As in, cook on same grill + eat something + five minutes => projectile heaving.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:05 AM (EzgxV)

I feel terribly sorry for that person. Almost every soup recipe on the planet begins with cooking a diced onion in oil until it's soft.

And how do you make pasta sauce without garlic?

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 01:09 AM (P8951)



Pretty nearly me, except for garlic.

I can cook very, very, very, very, very finely diced onion down into a soup or sauce. To the point where it dissolves. Then it doesn't bother me.

The crunchy cell-walls that give a plant the ability to remain upright, aka: cellulose. That's the problem.

Long as I cook it down into nothingness, it's less of a problem.

Garlic powder? Not a problem.

I can cut onions all day long, never shed a tear. Want 'em sautéed? Not a problem.

Want me to eat 'em?

Call an ambulance.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 01, 2017 01:26 AM (v5iqM)

940 Not that I'm holding out for Williamson...
Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:23 AM (iMxBJ)

A lot of the NeverTrumpers got into that game for pride's sake. They will stay there for Pride's sake, even if he does well.

There is a reason it is one of the Seven.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:27 AM (92kX2)

941 Crappy year, but I'm within spitting distance of having a really big project done (well, ready for the big step) - *and* I may have a really experienced mechanic to go over my old car sitting sadly in storage (oddball car and the nearest specialist is 120 miles away).

Hopefully will be a better year.

You?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:23 AM (wB8Tg)

What kind of oddball car, Mero? I have a few of those.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 01:27 AM (MiBfH)

942 I feel the same way, BrotherC. I really thought I wouldn't make it 2017 at times bc things looked so bleak.
We made it!! Yay us!

Posted by: L, Elle at January 01, 2017 01:27 AM (6IPEM)

943 *Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon without a basestar at January 01, 2017 01:26 AM (vyqqu)*

Brother Cavil, you just keep on keeping on.

Posted by: SCOAMF at January 01, 2017 01:27 AM (xujhj)

944 "No MSG" -- no problem.
"No Salt" -- big problem, especially with that little notice. I don't even remember how I got out of that one, but she went home well fed, somehow.
Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:25 AM (iMxBJ)

*nudge, nudge*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:28 AM (92kX2)

945 Miley,
I'll send you a pic of me to not reply to...

(Can't fin the one pic from 1977 that I know I have somewhere - I was driving a big Ford tractor on a farm in the UP)

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 01:29 AM (CZsVo)

946 Crappy year, but I'm within spitting distance of having a really big project done (well, ready for the big step) - *and* I may have a really experienced mechanic to go over my old car sitting sadly in storage (oddball car and the nearest specialist is 120 miles away).

Hopefully will be a better year.

You?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:23 AM (wB8Tg)


I can't complain. I had a pretty good year; I am looking forward to 2017 being even better.

I am headed back to school to become a nurse...that should be interesting.

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 01:29 AM (S/qwI)

947 I am headed back to school to become a nurse...that should be interesting.

Please allow me to be the first to say, "Hellooooo nurse!"

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 01, 2017 01:31 AM (IcT7t)

948 What kind of oddball car, Mero? I have a few of those.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 01:27 AM (MiBfH) fnord (MiBfH)


Probably newer than yours. Second-gen RX-7 with a lot of customization.

All the specialists here moved to the Bay Area and towing is expensive (even with AAA+).

The car sat for a while, and these things run hot and tend to fry electronics in the engine bay.

I might have to sell it, in which case running is pretty essential - not worth much but some of the parts are.

Would rather keep it, if I could fix it. Can't do the work myself because of the heart problem

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:31 AM (wB8Tg)

949 Goodnight horde and happy New Year!

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 01, 2017 01:32 AM (P8951)

950 I am headed back to school to become a nurse...that should be interesting.

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 01:29 AM (S/qwI) fnord (S/qwI)


I meet a lot of nurses in my job (my job is "heart patient). Grinding job, but still a lot of nice people.

I guess it helps that I'm not bleeding all over them (as they like to say during my occasional ER visits).

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:33 AM (wB8Tg)

951 All the specialists here moved to the Bay Area and towing is expensive (even with AAA+).

The car sat for a while, and these things run hot and tend to fry electronics in the engine bay.

I might have to sell it, in which case running is pretty essential - not worth much but some of the parts are.

Would rather keep it, if I could fix it. Can't do the work myself because of the heart problem
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:31 AM (wB8Tg)

I always liked that body style, although I liked the third gen one better than the previous.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:33 AM (92kX2)

952 MSG is one of those things. If you were allergic to it you'd probably not have made it, as your body makes it.

BUT if you get sick when you put it on your food, don't put it on your food.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:34 AM (wB8Tg)

953 948 Probably newer than yours. Second-gen RX-7 with a lot of customization.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:31 AM (wB8Tg)


Oooh, nice. I had a third-generation for a long time and absolutely loved that car. But yes, finding people competent to work on rotary engines is a horrible problem. Bet that's a really fun car, though. Mine was.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:35 AM (iMxBJ)

954 Except almonds. Those need no salt at all.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 12:30 AM

There I was, happily munching from a bag of raw almonds while looking for some recipe..when up pops a formula for Chipotle Honey Roasted Almonds. Had to try it. Here's the result:

Pop one into your mouth and begin to chew, the first taste is toasted almond, a little smoky, sweet and salty. When you are just about finished chewing, there's a pop of heat at the end. Makes you think, hmmm, that was interesting, lemme try it again. Pop in another. Same result. The sensation's addictive. Interesting thing is, the heat always appears last, never overwhelms, never gets any more intense.

I'm thinking I'll be buying almonds year round and fixing them this way.

Happy New Year all you Morons. Thank you for teh funneh, the insights, and for remembering those who are no longer here. A toast to you all....and back to mostly lurking.

Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 01:35 AM (5x9My)

955 I always liked that body style, although I liked the third gen one better than the previous.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:33 AM (92kX2) fnord (92kX2)


My Mom bought the car in 86, and I bought it from her in the 90s (I also bought a Stealth Turbo from her, if that gives you any idea about my family and cars). The whole driveline has been replaced but it has other problems.

I'd love an FD (93-95, or -00 in Japan), if I could afford it and if the vacuum hose system was completely new, replaced with viton hoses, and zip-tied.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:36 AM (wB8Tg)

956 947
I am headed back to school to become a nurse...that should be interesting.



Please allow me to be the first to say, "Hellooooo nurse!"

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 01, 2017 01:31 AM (IcT7t)


You have to love the Horde.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:37 AM (EzgxV)

957 I'm humorously poking at Chi. I don't really expect
him to send me anything he has in confidence from you, nor should you
expect I send him anything I have in confidence from anyone else.

But if you were to indicate that Chi should send me something.....


Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:26 AM (EzgxV)


Very honorable of you both. Chi has my blessing to share it with you. I sent it because he was going on and on about Natalie Wood, and my mom said I looked like her at that age.
She never got to be my age. Maybe we'd resemble each other.
Nah, I don't do makeup or youthening stuff like Hollywood types , so she'd look much better, I think.

I wrestled a bit with tinypic, had to upload the adobe update, shit crashed, and I lost interest. Maybe another time.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 01:37 AM (tHwdc)

958 Got a friend who's lactose intolerant. Occasionally I'll ponder what a nuisance that must be. Cheese is *everywhere* in Western foods (which makes a certain amount of sense, since the tolerance mutation is believed to have started in Europe).

Got another one who's allergic to glucose and a couple of other items that I don't recall off the top of my head. Occasionally she'll post on Facebook about a reaction that she had after eating something that she didn't realize she shouldn't have.

Posted by: junior at January 01, 2017 01:37 AM (ZvmQn)

959 Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 01:35 AM (5x9My)

The problem I have with Chipotle is the weird twang to the taste of the pepper. I much prefer the 'cleaner' taste of cayenne. I can't stand habenero either because of the funny aftertaste.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:38 AM (92kX2)

960 Oooh, nice. I had a third-generation for a long time and absolutely loved that car. But yes, finding people competent to work on rotary engines is a horrible problem. Bet that's a really fun car, though. Mine was.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:35 AM (iMxBJ) fnord (iMxBJ)


The only reason you ever have to slow down for a corner is visibility.

The third gen was basically a race car with lights in legal places.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:39 AM (wB8Tg)

961 My Mom bought the car in 86, and I bought it from her in the 90s (I also bought a Stealth Turbo from her, if that gives you any idea about my family and cars). The whole driveline has been replaced but it has other problems.

I'd love an FD (93-95, or -00 in Japan), if I could afford it and if the vacuum hose system was completely new, replaced with viton hoses, and zip-tied.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:36 AM (wB8Tg)

Nice. Your Mom likes curvy cars. I do too. One thing I hate about modern cars is that they have a tendency to be a bit too straight edged for my taste.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:40 AM (92kX2)

962 I meet a lot of nurses in my job (my job is "heart patient). Grinding job, but still a lot of nice people.

I guess it helps that I'm not bleeding all over them (as they like to say during my occasional ER visits).
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:33 AM (wB8Tg)


I volunteer/shadow nurses at the VA hospital in West Los Angeles. Most of the nurses are nice, but there are some nasty ones. I plan on being one of the nice ones. (smile)

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 01:42 AM (S/qwI)

963 960 The third gen was basically a race car with lights in legal places.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:39 AM (wB8Tg)


I took it autocrossing once. I would have continued if it weren't a case of three hours of setup, 60 seconds of fun. Anyway, when I got there, the conventional wisdom was "if you want to do autocross, you should have a Corvette or an RX-7."

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:42 AM (iMxBJ)

964 Jill Stein, keeping it crazy:

http://tinyurl.com/jtcrex2

I mean, do they really ever hear themselves? They talk like crazy, completely disconnected from reality, people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:43 AM (92kX2)

965 Please allow me to be the first to say, "Hellooooo nurse!"

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 01, 2017 01:31 AM (IcT7t)


You have to love the Horde.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:37 AM (EzgxV)


You really do and I do. (smile)

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 01:43 AM (S/qwI)

966 Got a friend who's lactose intolerant. Occasionally I'll ponder what a nuisance that must be. Cheese is *everywhere* in Western foods (which makes a certain amount of sense, since the tolerance mutation is believed to have started in Europe).

Got another one who's allergic to glucose and a couple of other items that I don't recall off the top of my head. Occasionally she'll post on Facebook about a reaction that she had after eating something that she didn't realize she shouldn't have.

Posted by: junior at January 01, 2017 01:37 AM (ZvmQn) fnord (ZvmQn)


Celiac disease (gluten) intermittently causes milk sensitivity, though usually not to butter or hard cheeses. It can catch you off guard. Cheese is like at the center of my happy food circle.

When I found out about this, it was a nightmare. No one told me Quaker Oats was basically processed with wheat and cross-contaminated. Welches' Grape Soda had wheat in it (WTF), no longer. Doritos also removed wheat from Nacho Cheese Doritos, which is nice, but the new Prego canned sauce has wheat flour in it.

Especially since I'm *also* allergic to one of the gluten-grain substitutes, I *always* have to check labels on *everything*, including gluten-free stuff.

People love to get me stuff I can't eat.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:43 AM (wB8Tg)

967 I plan on being one of the nice ones. (smile)

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 01:42 AM (S/qwI) fnord (S/qwI)


Well, that's, um, nice. I hope.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:45 AM (wB8Tg)

968 The problem I have with Chipotle is the weird twang to the taste of the pepper. I much prefer the 'cleaner' taste of cayenne. I can't stand habenero either because of the funny aftertaste.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:38 AM


This was my first experience 'cooking' with chipotle. The great thing about these sorts of recipes is, you can substitute whatever suits your fancy. Just takes a bit of experimentation to figure out how much is enough.

Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 01:47 AM (5x9My)

969 Celiac disease (gluten) intermittently causes milk sensitivity, though usually not to butter or hard cheeses. It can catch you off guard. Cheese is like at the center of my happy food circle.

When I found out about this, it was a nightmare. No one told me Quaker Oats was basically processed with wheat and cross-contaminated. Welches' Grape Soda had wheat in it (WTF), no longer. Doritos also removed wheat from Nacho Cheese Doritos, which is nice, but the new Prego canned sauce has wheat flour in it.

Especially since I'm *also* allergic to one of the gluten-grain substitutes, I *always* have to check labels on *everything*, including gluten-free stuff.

People love to get me stuff I can't eat.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:43 AM (wB8Tg)

Food development can get a bit crazy. Also, I am not sure what the threshold for triggering an issue with celiac is, but if an ingredient is less than 2% of the total make up, it does not need to be listed on the ingredients- the only exception there is with one of the 'big 8' allergens.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:47 AM (92kX2)

970 959
Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 01:35 AM (5x9My)



The problem I have with Chipotle is the weird twang to the taste of
the pepper. I much prefer the 'cleaner' taste of cayenne. I can't stand
habenero either because of the funny aftertaste.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:38 AM (92kX2)

I find it best to have a range of powdered peppers to play with, so you can blend them for your specific application. The ones I regularly use are pasilla, paprika, california, de arbol, hot new mexico, cayenne, and chipotle. Of these, chipotle is the one that is farthest from "playing nice" with other flavors.
Incidentally, pasilla pulls any type of soup to 'warm and earthy' without admitting to being a chili. As an example, it is a nice stealth enhancement to an English-style beef-and-barley soup.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:49 AM (EzgxV)

971 All this talk of salted/unsalted butter and whatnot - I feel that this is obligatory:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-51YGkoQruU

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 01:50 AM (CZsVo)

972 Probably newer than yours. Second-gen RX-7 with a lot of customization.

All the specialists here moved to the Bay Area and towing is expensive (even with AAA+).

The car sat for a while, and these things run hot and tend to fry electronics in the engine bay.

I might have to sell it, in which case running is pretty essential - not worth much but some of the parts are.

Would rather keep it, if I could fix it. Can't do the work myself because of the heart problem

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:31 AM (wB8Tg)

I have messed with first-generation RX-7's and appreciate the Wankel engine, but I would not claim expertise in them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 01:51 AM (MiBfH)

973 I took it autocrossing once. I would have continued if it weren't a case of three hours of setup, 60 seconds of fun. Anyway, when I got there, the conventional wisdom was "if you want to do autocross, you should have a Corvette or an RX-7."

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:42 AM (iMxBJ) fnord (iMxBJ)


Yeah I've done SCCA meets where I didn't even get to drive.

For some years in the 90s, the top ranks in some classes were *all* Corvettes and RX-7s. You see more stuff like Elises and Porsches.

But in some classes, the RX-7 is still there. About a year ago someone in SCCA said something like "the standard answer to what the best car to run in SCCA (local levels) is the Miata - except when it's the RX-7."

It also depends on cost and maintenance and that a lot of RX-7s can't really qualify for stock classes because a lot of the turbo control system on 3rd gens is often replaced, and the 2nd gens can be a nightmare to smog (in CA, anyway).

Partly because you pretty much have to tell the tech where *everything* is.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:52 AM (wB8Tg)

974 959 The problem I have with Chipotle is the weird twang to the taste of the pepper. I much prefer the 'cleaner' taste of cayenne. I can't stand habenero either because of the funny aftertaste.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:38 AM (92kX2)


Chipotle, yeah, it's not just smoked Jalapeno, there's vinegar or something in there. It's awesome in the right application, but not something to substitute for other peppers. I have a Texas chile recipe (ground beef, so purists might not approve) in which those canned Chipotles with Adobo sauce are just right.

And I agree, Habeneros are too fruity, I don't use them, except for Habenero sauce in the chicken wing sauce. My perfect flavor pepper is Serrano, but the Thai peppers are about perfect too, if you can deal with their heat. For Chinese, those Tsien Tsen dried peppers are great, but I throw one or two dried Thai peppers in there too, for heat. Cayenne I reserve for NO cooking, or random blasts of heat from the powder.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:52 AM (iMxBJ)

975
I have messed with first-generation RX-7's and appreciate the Wankel engine, but I would not claim expertise in them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 01:51 AM (MiBfH)



As I understand it, the EPA is the sworn enemy of the Wankel engine.

Does make one wonder how it's development might have evolved, save for the pushback against it from Leviathan?



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 01, 2017 01:55 AM (v5iqM)

976 But in some classes, the RX-7 is still there. About a year ago someone in SCCA said something like "the standard answer to what the best car to run in SCCA (local levels) is the Miata - except when it's the RX-7."

It also depends on cost and maintenance and that a lot of RX-7s can't really qualify for stock classes because a lot of the turbo control system on 3rd gens is often replaced, and the 2nd gens can be a nightmare to smog (in CA, anyway).

Partly because you pretty much have to tell the tech where *everything* is.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:52 AM (wB8Tg)

Miatas are a lot easier to maintain I would guess. I have a 2001 Special edition (BRG with wood steering wheel and gear shift) and only last year did I have to replace the battery- it was the factory original (14 years is not bad.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:55 AM (92kX2)

977 Well, it's midnight here in Apache Junction, and the fireworks barrage is in full swing. Kind of cool. Doggie is asleep on MY bed.

Happy New Year, Horde. And without Hillary in the White House, how can it not be?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 01:57 AM (MiBfH)

978 Chipotle?
Don't think I ever tasted it until Cooth sent me a Christmas gift with various powdered chilis (last year? Year before?).
I've used almost all of the Chipotle - it's certainly my favorite of the bunch. I put a little in almost everything.
Yes, deviled eggs, too...

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 01:57 AM (CZsVo)

979 All right, it's now 2017 here in El Paso.

Alas, no reports indicating that George Soros croaked in 2016.

Posted by: logprof at January 01, 2017 01:57 AM (GsAUU)

980 Happy New Year MountainTZ hordelings!

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 01:58 AM (CZsVo)

981 Food development can get a bit crazy. Also, I am not sure what the threshold for triggering an issue with celiac is, but if an ingredient is less than 2% of the total make up, it does not need to be listed on the ingredients- the only exception there is with one of the 'big 8' allergens.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 01:47 AM (92kX2) fnord (92kX2)


The Euro-standard is 200 Parts-per-million, but a lot of research indicates that's several times too high. Some tests show damage as low as 6ppm.

That's *per day*.

Part of the problem is that it's not *one* condition, it's several lumped together, and some of them have other triggers and symptoms.

Basically, food is a minefield. Bon appetit!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 01:58 AM (wB8Tg)

982 How big, speaking of physical dimensions, is the engine in a Miata? Friend of mine has a Triumph Spitfire, and is contemplating an engine swap to something more modern.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:00 AM (MiBfH)

983 Home, praise God, all pets safe and sound. Catching up on comments....

nerdygirl #160: ...bratwurst, bratkartoffeln(fried potatoes), cabbage with brown sugar bacon and bacon grease, potato salad with brown sugar bacon and bacon grease, thick dense bread, strudel, noodles with lots of butter, pork, lots of pork. and every kind of sausage you can think of.

I'm hungry!

Posted by: mindful webworker - breaking 2017 resolutions already at January 01, 2017 02:00 AM (8Unxl)

984 And I agree, Habeneros are too fruity, I don't use them, except for Habenero sauce in the chicken wing sauce. My perfect flavor pepper is Serrano, but the Thai peppers are about perfect too, if you can deal with their heat. For Chinese, those Tsien Tsen dried peppers are great, but I throw one or two dried Thai peppers in there too, for heat. Cayenne I reserve for NO cooking, or random blasts of heat from the powder.
Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 01:52 AM (iMxBJ)

A friend and I are working on a business concept, so I drove down to a hot sauce convention in Louisiana this year. I tasted hot sauce for work for 7 years, so not much gets to me. Nothing there really lit me up- until I came to the "Angry Irishman" booth and tasted his "Why?" sauce.

That stuff was hot, not the hottest I have ever tasted (that goes to a concoction an R&D guy was working on at my last job for use in chili) but it was pretty well up there. It was a combination of Naga Jolokia, Trinidad Scorpion, and Carolina Reaper.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 02:01 AM (92kX2)

985 984 That stuff was hot, not the hottest I have ever tasted (that goes to a concoction an R&D guy was working on at my last job for use in chili) but it was pretty well up there. It was a combination of Naga Jolokia, Trinidad Scorpion, and Carolina Reaper.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 02:01 AM (92kX2)


I fold.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 02:03 AM (iMxBJ)

986 A friend and I are working on a business concept, so I drove down to a hot sauce convention in Louisiana this year. I tasted hot sauce for work for 7 years, so not much gets to me. Nothing there really lit me up- until I came to the "Angry Irishman" booth and tasted his "Why?" sauce.

That stuff was hot, not the hottest I have ever tasted (that goes to a concoction an R&D guy was working on at my last job for use in chili) but it was pretty well up there. It was a combination of Naga Jolokia, Trinidad Scorpion, and Carolina Reaper.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 02:01 AM (92kX2)

I bought some "Dave's Insanity Sauce" once, and it was pretty hot. How does it fit on the scale?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:03 AM (MiBfH)

987 As I understand it, the EPA is the sworn enemy of the Wankel engine.

Does make one wonder how it's development might have evolved, save for the pushback against it from Leviathan?

Posted by: Jim at January 01, 2017 01:55 AM (v5iqM) fnord (v5iqM)


The RX-8 (Renesis rotary engine) was officially a Phase II Low Emissions Vehicle.

I don't know if that means the problem was solved, but as big a problem as the fact that earlier motors burn a lot of gas (and thus produce more emissions) is the fact that, despite the design's simplicity, mechanics get *so* lost.

It would be nice to see more, but even the Renesis got poor mileage compared to competitors, and didn't cost less. And the new turbo fours have pretty good power and more torque. I think they lost in the market honestly (though the market is not as well-informed as theory would prefer).

On the other hand, I saw a four-rotor (2.6l) with almost 1700 horsepower, so there's that.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 02:05 AM (wB8Tg)

988 so as it ever resolved if north American Indians ate the entire buffalo, including the butthole?



I don't think I was in the thread long enough to learn the answer.

Posted by: Original Jake at January 01, 2017 02:05 AM (jrFgU)

989 I stopped the hottest chili chase some years back. Ultimately, I want to enjoy the flavor as well as have my sinuses loosen up :-)

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 02:06 AM (tHwdc)

990 Incidentally, pasilla pulls any type of soup to 'warm and earthy' without admitting to being a chili. As an example, it is a nice stealth enhancement to an English-style beef-and-barley soup.


Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:49 AM


Pasilla? Sounds versatile and interesting. Can you get it in the regular grocery stores?

Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 02:06 AM (5x9My)

991 My brother has a 1982 RX7 sitting in his pole barn. Low mileage time capsule that is cool because Wankel but not worth much money wise.

Posted by: Willy J. at January 01, 2017 02:06 AM (W6Ch1)

992 Let me be clear. I am willing to stay in the Whitey House for another one to two years to smooth the presidential transistion - as an advisor to the joint chiefs of staff. I have to keep my kill list and pardon list up to date. Chris Tingles has said he will endorse my stay. May you have a terrible new year. Good evening.

Posted by: Barkey O at January 01, 2017 02:08 AM (4acWK)

993 On the other hand, I saw a four-rotor (2.6l) with almost 1700 horsepower, so there's that.

...

dats a lot of juice for the weight/size

Posted by: Original Jake at January 01, 2017 02:08 AM (jrFgU)

994 All right, time to turn in so as to continue the football binge tomorrow.

Good night, dear Horde, and take heart, for Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States.

Posted by: logprof at January 01, 2017 02:08 AM (GsAUU)

995 982 How big, speaking of physical dimensions, is the engine in a Miata? Friend of mine has a Triumph Spitfire, and is contemplating an engine swap to something more modern.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:00 AM (MiBfH)

I am not sure. It is a 1.8L engine (1840cc according to the web.)

Here is a discussion thread where a guy is trying to fit a 1.6L NA Miata engine into a spitfire:

http://tinyurl.com/zd4myxd

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 02:08 AM (92kX2)

996 That stuff was hot, not the hottest I have ever tasted (that goes to a concoction an R&D guy was working on at my last job for use in chili) but it was pretty well up there. It was a combination of Naga Jolokia, Trinidad Scorpion, and Carolina Reaper.

He's one of those guys that uses pepper spray for fap lube, isn't he?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 01, 2017 02:08 AM (IcT7t)

997 Happy New Year horde - not a lurker, but I don't post that much.

2017 will be a very challenging year. I wonder - for better or worse?

Of course - no Hill is a great start

Posted by: vertov at January 01, 2017 02:09 AM (QReAN)

998 Pasilla? Sounds versatile and interesting. Can you get it in the regular grocery stores?

Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 02:06 AM (5x9My)

I had a stuffed pasilla pepper as a dinner entree at a local bar&grill a few days ago. It was good.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:09 AM (MiBfH)

999 I don't have an upper end on the "hot" scale, as long as the flavor exceeds the heat.

But those chilis or peppers that are naught but "hot", but not much in the flavor department?

Let the cops turn 'em into pepper spray.

And I concur with the previous. Cayenne Pepper is damn near magic, in all of it's forms and variations.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 01, 2017 02:09 AM (v5iqM)

1000 Whoops, had a computer freeze.....



HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE MOUNTAIN HORDE!!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 02:10 AM (EzgxV)

1001 990 Pasilla? Sounds versatile and interesting. Can you get it in the regular grocery stores?
Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 02:06 AM (5x9My)


That's like asking "how many Mexicans live in my area?"

Here in the North Bay, the answer is a definite yes.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 02:11 AM (iMxBJ)

1002 How big, speaking of physical dimensions, is the engine in a Miata? Friend of mine has a Triumph Spitfire, and is contemplating an engine swap to something more modern.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:00 AM (MiBfH) fnord (MiBfH)


It's been done many times. Either modify the front crossmember or bulge/cut the hood slightly at the front-top of the engine.

https://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=564586

A lot of the swaps seem to be older Miata engines, probably for the same reason a lot of RX-7 V8 swaps use iron blocks - effers are penny-pinchers!

It was funny cruising the forums for both RX-7 and Stealth drivers. The RX-7 people (especially 1st and 2nd gen) would be like "how can I do this with spit and bailing wire?"

The Stealth guys (and to a lesser extend 3rd gen RX owners) were like "hey, I just had a carbon-fiber replacement made for the entire rear substructure to save weight!"

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 02:12 AM (wB8Tg)

1003 That's like asking "how many Mexicans live in my area?"

Here in the North Bay, the answer is a definite yes.

Posted by: Splunge at January 01, 2017 02:11 AM


Lol, well then it should be pretty easy to find here in E. Tn

Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 02:12 AM (5x9My)

1004 I bought some "Dave's Insanity Sauce" once, and it was pretty hot. How does it fit on the scale?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:03 AM (MiBfH)

Depends on the Dave's Insanity sauce it was. He makes really hot stuff. However, he is all over the scoville range. IIRC, his Dave's Private reserve was in the 1-2 Million SHU range (for comparison, Frank's hot sauce you get at the grocery can run from 800-1200.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 02:13 AM (92kX2)

1005 >>Irishman" booth and tasted his "Why?" sauce.

That stuff was hot, not the hottest I have ever tasted (that goes to a concoction an R&D guy was working on at my last job for use in chili) but it was pretty well up there. It was a combination of Naga Jolokia, Trinidad Scorpion, and Carolina Reaper.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


By all means,save us from the Carolina Reaper.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2017 02:13 AM (FQ0rq)

1006 978
Chipotle?

Don't think I ever tasted it until Cooth sent me a Christmas gift with various powdered chilis (last year? Year before?).

I've used almost all of the Chipotle - it's certainly my favorite of the bunch. I put a little in almost everything.

Yes, deviled eggs, too...

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 01:57 AM (CZsVo)

Glad you enjoyed 'em -- I try to do "occasional gifts" rather than link them to mass-market events.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 02:14 AM (EzgxV)

1007 SHU- Scoville heat units. It is a measure of how much capsaicinoids you have in something (an objective measure of how 'hot' something is.)

Pure capsaicin in crystal form is 16.4 million shu.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 02:16 AM (92kX2)

1008 990
Incidentally, pasilla pulls any type of soup to 'warm and earthy'
without admitting to being a chili. As an example, it is a nice stealth
enhancement to an English-style beef-and-barley soup.





Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 01:49 AM





Pasilla? Sounds versatile and interesting. Can you get it in the regular grocery stores?

Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 02:06 AM (5x9My)


Depends on your regular grocery store. If you're in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas -- you've got a good chance.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 02:17 AM (EzgxV)

1009 dats a lot of juice for the weight/size

Posted by: Original Jake at January 01, 2017 02:08 AM (jrFgU) fnord (jrFgU)


I'm not even sure that's the record. Saw a dyno slip for a 1.3L that was 1077 hp.

And it's believable, though that would not be a very driveable motor. I've seen 800hp 1.3L daily drivers.

The ragged edge is pretty high these days.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 02:17 AM (wB8Tg)

1010 Miley,
You should have an email to ignore, ma'am.

(I thought I scared you off there for a minute)

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 02:18 AM (CZsVo)

1011 SHU- Scoville heat units. It is a measure of how much capsaicinoids you have in something (an objective measure of how 'hot' something is.)

Pure capsaicin in crystal form is 16.4 million shu.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


Good thing there isn't a better measure.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2017 02:18 AM (FQ0rq)

1012 By all means,save us from the Carolina Reaper.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2017 02:13 AM (FQ0rq)

Heh, thankfully an enterprising soul at that convention had set up a gelato booth. The Milk and Honey did wonders to clean off that stuff.

Always reach for the sugar to get rid of spicy heat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 02:18 AM (92kX2)

1013 Okay, I made it up to comment #250, but I don't think I'll be able to make it through the next 1000 or whatever. I may skip and read to the end, or just close down for the night, but first:

Miley, the Duchess: Prayers for his peace, and that of you and his loved ones.

Chi: Done, MWW. And yes, Fuck cancer.
(Ain't ready to talk about it yet...)


Especially Brother Cavil #200: Prayers up, mindful. (I'm not so strained I can't return prayers for others!)

tbodie #211: And mindful web worker: prayere for your brother, you and your family.

(Hope I closed all those italicans correctly!)

Thanks, all, and any I missed. Means a lot.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's like a big ol virtual family and stuff at January 01, 2017 02:18 AM (8Unxl)

1014 997
Happy New Year horde - not a lurker, but I don't post that much.



2017 will be a very challenging year. I wonder - for better or worse?



Of course - no Hill is a great start

Posted by: vertov at January 01, 2017 02:09 AM (QReAN)


You've been around....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 02:18 AM (EzgxV)

1015 On the other hand, I saw a four-rotor (2.6l) with almost 1700 horsepower, so there's that.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 02:05 AM (wB8Tg)



I'm having nightmares of that in conjunction with the Suzuki RE-5 Wankel engine motorcycle.

http://tinyurl.com/aqrnh


Yee. HAW!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 01, 2017 02:18 AM (v5iqM)

1016 And, having finally escaped the clutches of the Demon Year 2016, I'm calling it a night. Tomorrow's problems for tomorrow, all.

After all that, 2017 can't help be a great year!

#MakeYourLifeGreatAgain

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon without a basestar at January 01, 2017 02:20 AM (vyqqu)

1017 Here is a discussion thread where a guy is trying to fit a 1.6L NA Miata engine into a spitfire:

http://tinyurl.com/zd4myxd

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 02:08 AM (92kX2)

Damn, that engine looks pretty darn bulky. Looks like they either had to alter the frame, or cut the hood for clearance. I know no engine swap is truly a "bolt-in" but the Miata does not seem to be a good fit for the Spitfire chassis.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:20 AM (MiBfH)

1018
Pasilla? Sounds versatile and interesting. Can you get it in the regular grocery stores?

Posted by: EyeTest
----------------

Look on the Mexican aisle.
You may find them in large bags - whole, dried - that you can grind yourself in a mini food processor or mortar & pestel. Should be cheap, too.
*if my ghetto Food Lion has them, you can find them easily.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 02:21 AM (CZsVo)

1019 Damn, that engine looks pretty darn bulky. Looks like they either had to alter the frame, or cut the hood for clearance. I know no engine swap is truly a "bolt-in" but the Miata does not seem to be a good fit for the Spitfire chassis.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:20 AM (MiBfH)

Here is another page on engines that can fit into a spitfire:
http://tinyurl.com/hrdorxr

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 02:23 AM (92kX2)

1020 Damn it Hillary you had one job. Oh well 2017 hopefully is the year.

Posted by: James the worst of the deplorable at January 01, 2017 02:23 AM (jxw6R)

1021 Looking at the newcomers, it occurs to me that I ought to again recommend my unauthorized, unofficial Ace of Spades Blog Commenters Survival Guide, which has a stack of updates I've still not yet included, but will surely get around to before this year is over.

"...technical tricks and techniques that are handy, and sometimes necessary, to know, in order to fully enjoy the experience."

http://bit.ly/aoshq-csg

Posted by: mindful webworker - at your service at January 01, 2017 02:24 AM (8Unxl)

1022 I'm having nightmares of that in conjunction with the Suzuki RE-5 Wankel engine motorcycle.

http://tinyurl.com/aqrnh

Posted by: Jim at January 01, 2017 02:18 AM (v5iqM) fnord (v5iqM)


Yeah, um, websites that yell at me as soon as I get there.

That's partly the fact that all browsers suck and you can't manage tab muting properly (basically mute every effer except a whitelist).

At least you got me to try out MuteTab, we'll see if that helps.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 02:24 AM (wB8Tg)

1023 cthulhu at January 01, 2017 02:18

Thanks - I consider that a pick-me-up

Posted by: vertov at January 01, 2017 02:25 AM (QReAN)

1024 Miley,

You should have an email to ignore, ma'am.



(I thought I scared you off there for a minute)

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 02:18 AM (CZsVo)

Got it, although I'm a prompt responder. Check yours, I sent one of me and Mr. D from 2013.
You have my permission to share with cooth, since he asked nicely. Right, cooth?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 02:25 AM (tHwdc)

1025 Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith


Shit, sorry 'bout that.

I'm off to the snoozer. But the RE-5 at mega horsepower.... you really don't wanna go there or ride that.

Leave the H.P. to the RX car folks, methinks.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 01, 2017 02:29 AM (v5iqM)

1026 Okay, who killed the thread, raise your hand.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 02:29 AM (wB8Tg)

1027 Sleep well, Jim!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 02:30 AM (wB8Tg)

1028 Note (possibly even accurate): "pasilla" and "poblano" are names both applied to the large/medium sized, fresh green chile - with the squared shoulder shape (sort of like a dradel), which are typically used for stuffing (chile relleno).


I believe AOP was speaking of stuffed fresh (green) chiles, which could be labeled with either of the above names (at least I have seen this pattern in both anglo and Mexican grocery chains in SoCal).


There is a dried pasilla - not sure if it's the same chile, but that is the one ctuhuluhwu is referring to (I think) when talking about seasoning stew. It is one of the three "trinity" of chiles in the classic mole poblano (pasilla, mulato, ancho).


There's a bit of fluidity and confusion in fresh/dried chile names for Mexican varieties - used to know the main ones but clearly have not been cooking enough real Mexican sauces (intend to do so in 2017). My mole poblano I used to make in the 80s/90s was so good, I'd have friends and work colleagues regularly ask about the next time I was going to make it.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 01, 2017 02:30 AM (QDnY+)

1029 * look around *

Posted by: 2017 at January 01, 2017 02:30 AM (FQ0rq)

1030 1026 Okay, who killed the thread, raise your hand.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 02:29 AM (wB8Tg)

I didn't do nuffim. I am going to head off though.

Happy New Year all!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 02:31 AM (92kX2)

1031 G'night everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 01, 2017 02:32 AM (IcT7t)

1032 Good night, all you people leaving before the bell tolls here!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 02:33 AM (wB8Tg)

1033 So Aetius, you're in the food science biz? Is it true that the varying "timing" of chile heat is linked to the different molecular geometries that capsaicin can take? That was the conventional wisdom years back. The difference between instant, sharp heat/sensation and delayed, "glow"-type heat - which can be seen regularly in foods with chile as an ingredient.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 01, 2017 02:33 AM (QDnY+)

1034 OK, like many others, leaving 'afore the stroke of midnight. Gonna enjoy the fire and tree with this nice Spanish cava, then hit the hay to read shortly after midnight. Rainy, don't expect much in the way of fireworks here. And fortunately this area has not culturally appropriated the historical recent tradition of gunfire at midnight, so no need to head to the concrete shelter.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 01, 2017 02:36 AM (QDnY+)

1035 Okay, who killed the thread, raise your hand.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 02:29 AM (wB8Tg)


Could have been me. But at least no Barreling!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 02:37 AM (tHwdc)

1036 All the ABSOLUTE BEST to everyone here. Y'all genuinely deserve it.

El Supremo is Fantastically Singular......without Him, well......really fuckin glad that's not the case. Thank Ya Ace.

The Horde......The Horde of Un-Fuckin-Surpassed-Tacular.....

Y'all are the engine and the Soul that make AoS go. It's remarkable. Gratitude......An Appreciation.

Have a Magnificent 2017.

Posted by: Hillbillyking at January 01, 2017 02:39 AM (zmIOR)

1037 Me thinks it was Mariah Carey

Posted by: 2017 at January 01, 2017 02:39 AM (FQ0rq)

1038 Depends on your regular grocery store. If you're in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas -- you've got a good chance.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 02:17 AM
----------
*if my ghetto Food Lion has them, you can find them easily.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 02:21 AM

Thanks! Am in E Tn. Maybe haven't seen any because I didn't know about them and have never looked. Sounds like the powdered version might be a good addition to a New Year's Day blackeyed pea chowder since I usually use at least one can of Rotel tomatoes in it. So..if I decide to brave the rainy-cold and venture out again before making the soup, we'll see if pasilla turns up.


Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 02:41 AM (5x9My)

1039 I want an app and interface where I can just close my eyes, lie in bed, and read and write comments on AoS.

Well, come to think of it, maybe not. Sometimes after blog-reading while groggy (groggy bloggin'), I'm doing this in my dreams and, while the comments of others are only mildly weirder than usual, my comments... just get messed up, longer and longer, rambling meaninglessly, pointlessly taking up more and more... um... uh...

So, another big Happy Year to everyone, and I'm going to quit. My Christmas Webworkshop video is linked in my nic ICYMI. Features my first wrap song. Feel free to leave comments or donate cash.

Posted by: mindful webworker - rusty old model A at January 01, 2017 02:42 AM (8Unxl)

1040 Here is another page on engines that can fit into a spitfire:
http://tinyurl.com/hrdorxr

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 01, 2017 02:23 AM (92kX2)

Ah, eHow. Kind of the Captain Obvious of "help" sites. And the Spitfire engine bay is not all that big. It looks that way because the entire front end flips up, but the space between the frame rails is quite small.

There just aren't that many late-model cars with a 4-cylinder engine and rear drive, anymore.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:42 AM (MiBfH)

1041 I believe AOP was speaking of stuffed fresh (green) chiles, which could be labeled with either of the above names (at least I have seen this pattern in both anglo and Mexican grocery chains in SoCal).


There is a dried pasilla - not sure if it's the same chile, but that is the one ctuhuluhwu is referring to (I think) when talking about seasoning stew. It is one of the three "trinity" of chiles in the classic mole poblano (pasilla, mulato, ancho).


There's a bit of fluidity and confusion in fresh/dried chile names for Mexican varieties - used to know the main ones but clearly have not been cooking enough real Mexican sauces (intend to do so in 2017). My mole poblano I used to make in the 80s/90s was so good, I'd have friends and work colleagues regularly ask about the next time I was going to make it.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 01, 2017 02:30 AM (QDnY+)


Yeah, the "pasilla" pepper I had looked a lot like the poblano peppers used for chiles rellenos.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:44 AM (MiBfH)

1042 There just aren't that many late-model cars with a 4-cylinder engine and rear drive, anymore.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:42 AM (MiBfH) fnord (MiBfH)


Cadillac ATS. Engine package is probably too big.

Hyundai Genesis, Subaru BRZ (horizontally-opposed), Honda S2000 (weird in a couple of ways).

Most small BMWs, though engine-related parts are pricey.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 02:47 AM (wB8Tg)

1043 It's getting late - I have to think about Monday, so I'd better turn in soon. But I'm hanging around at least awhile longer, to wish a fresh 'Happy New Year!' to the west coast 'rons and 'ettes.

Back in a minute - Miley's Calico just left a smelly one in the litter box.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 02:49 AM (tHwdc)

1044 [o]
Yeah, the "pasilla" pepper I had looked a lot like the poblano peppers used for chiles rellenos.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon/i]

One the most disappointing dinner orders sub'd chile relanos for 2 tacos rice n' beans.

Manos full of dissapointment.

Posted by: 2017 at January 01, 2017 02:50 AM (FQ0rq)

1045 Got it, although I'm a prompt responder. Check yours, I sent one of me and Mr. D from 2013
-----------------

I fucking HATE. as in ABHOR gmail.
I see that you replied, but it dumped your email into the "important" folder, so it took a minute to find...

I can see that you replied via the preview, but when I open that email, all I see is what I sent you!

Maybe resend without replying to my original? Just send me a test? With the pic?

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 02:53 AM (CZsVo)

1046 ...technical tricks...

Posted by: mindful webworker - at your service at January 01, 2017 02:24 AM

Thank you MW. I've bookmarked it. Will dutifully read...hopefully before earning myself a barreling.

Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 02:56 AM (5x9My)

1047 Cadillac ATS. Engine package is probably too big.

Hyundai Genesis, Subaru BRZ (horizontally-opposed), Honda S2000 (weird in a couple of ways).

Most small BMWs, though engine-related parts are pricey.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 01, 2017 02:47 AM (wB8Tg)

Which about makes my point. None of them bread and butter cars. Possibly some of the Japanese pickups?

I will measure up the Spit engine, and its compartment. Maybe the answer will be a four-banger from a front-driver, coupled to a suitable aluminum five-speed box. Buddy isn't looking for awesome horsepower, just a reliable engine that can cope with modern shitty fuel, and that basically means fuel injection.

I'd be tempted to try a VW Golf/Audi Fox 1600 with the old mechanical fuel injection. Those things were nearly bulletproof.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:56 AM (MiBfH)

1048 One the most disappointing dinner orders sub'd chile relanos for 2 tacos rice n' beans.

Manos full of dissapointment.

Posted by: 2017 at January 01, 2017 02:50 AM (FQ0rq)

Heh. I quite like chiles rellenos, and often order them if I'm at a decent Mexican restaurant.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:59 AM (MiBfH)

1049 Happy New Year from the Peoples Republic of California! The natives are setting off fireworks...yay! The next few hours will be filled with loud bangs, followed by the wailing of the fire engines' sirens as they rush to put out the fires. Good times!

Good night everyone and God bless you all and your family in this new year!

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 03:01 AM (S/qwI)

1050 Happy New Year from the Peoples Republic of California! The natives are setting off fireworks...yay! The next few hours will be filled with loud bangs, followed by the wailing of the fire engines' sirens as they rush to put out the fires. Good times!

Good night everyone and God bless you all and your family in this new year!

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 03:01 AM (S/qwI)

Already had that happen here in Arizona. Fireworks, interspersed with sirens. Some rain showers, too, which is probably for the best. Pretty quiet now, here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 03:03 AM (MiBfH)

1051 I am screwing this up so bad, when I wanted to be on the clock....


For all the Morons and Moronettes in my time zone -- HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 03:05 AM (EzgxV)

1052 Shit!
Happy New Year, left coasters!

Especially you, cooth - you hung up before I could say it!
I love you, man.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 03:05 AM (CZsVo)

1053 I fucking HATE. as in ABHOR gmail.

I see that you replied, but it dumped your email into the "important" folder, so it took a minute to find...



I can see that you replied via the preview, but when I open that email, all I see is what I sent you!



Maybe resend without replying to my original? Just send me a test? With the pic?



Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 02:53 AM (CZsVo)

Me too. I use it for work stuff, since apparently "they" have decided that it's respectable or acceptable or something. My main email is yahoo because Mr. D had yahoo and all of his website stuff is tied to that account.

Resent in a fresh email.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 03:06 AM (tHwdc)

1054 I'd be tempted to try a VW Golf/Audi Fox 1600 with the old mechanical fuel injection. Those things were nearly bulletproof.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 02:56 AM

This may or may not be of any help, but...
Last month I totaled my trusty '96 Mazda MX-6, daily ride for 15+ years. The engine is a fuel-injected 5-speed and is intact except for the radiator, which overheated and blew as I sat on the shoulder of the road after the wreck. It's got 248K on it, but has never leaked a drop of oil. I can't afford to put the money into it for the body work it would take to fix, but would love to find someone who could use what's left. It's got a lot of newer stuff on it..

Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 03:09 AM (5x9My)

1055 Heh. I quite like chiles rellenos, and often order them if I'm at a decent Mexican restaurant.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


There is just something that can't sub for two beef taco, rice'n beans.

A mouth full of sour cream and chiles isn't it.

Posted by: 2017 at January 01, 2017 03:09 AM (FQ0rq)

1056 1024
Miley,


You should have an email to ignore, ma'am.





(I thought I scared you off there for a minute)



Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 02:18 AM (CZsVo)

Got it, although I'm a prompt responder. Check yours, I sent one of me and Mr. D from 2013.
You have my permission to share with cooth, since he asked nicely. Right, cooth?


Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 02:25 AM (tHwdc)


I've seen one....trying to remember which singer that reminds me of....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 03:10 AM (EzgxV)

1057 Happy New Year from the Peoples Republic of
California! The natives are setting off fireworks...yay! The next few
hours will be filled with loud bangs, followed by the wailing of the
fire engines' sirens as they rush to put out the fires. Good times!



Good night everyone and God bless you all and your family in this new year!

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 01, 2017 03:01 AM (S/qwI)

Happy New Year to all of you hostages out there! Hide your doggehs and don't hand your beer to anyone and say "watch this!"

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 03:10 AM (tHwdc)

1058
1028
Note (possibly even accurate): "pasilla" and "poblano" are names both
applied to the large/medium sized, fresh green chile - with the squared
shoulder shape (sort of like a dradel), which are typically used for
stuffing (chile relleno).





I believe AOP was speaking of stuffed fresh (green) chiles, which
could be labeled with either of the above names (at least I have seen
this pattern in both anglo and Mexican grocery chains in SoCal).





There is a dried pasilla - not sure if it's the same chile, but that
is the one ctuhuluhwu is referring to (I think) when talking about
seasoning stew. It is one of the three "trinity" of chiles in the
classic mole poblano (pasilla, mulato, ancho).





There's a bit of fluidity and confusion in fresh/dried chile names
for Mexican varieties - used to know the main ones but clearly have not
been cooking enough real Mexican sauces (intend to do so in 2017). My
mole poblano I used to make in the 80s/90s was so good, I'd have friends
and work colleagues regularly ask about the next time I was going to
make it.



Posted by: rhomboid at January 01, 2017 02:30 AM (QDnY+)


The pasilla is sometimes known as the ancho poblano. It's confusing.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 03:11 AM (EzgxV)

1059 AOP,
Y'know what I would love to find?
One of those old diesel Rabbits or Rabbit pickups - something like 140mpg, bulletproof, and so ugly they elwere cute.

I bet it won't take much to hot rod it up, overfuel it so it rolls coal...

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 03:13 AM (CZsVo)

1060 I've seen one....trying to remember which singer that reminds me of....


Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 03:10 AM (EzgxV)

No idea, I'm hopelessly ignorant when it comes to music. Mr. D was the musician in the family. And the artist. And the engineer. And the IT guy. And the grillmeister.

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Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 03:14 AM (tHwdc)

1061 1052
Shit!

Happy New Year, left coasters!



Especially you, cooth - you hung up before I could say it!

I love you, man.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 03:05 AM (CZsVo)

Might be back -- still chasin' the end of the thread.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 01, 2017 03:15 AM (EzgxV)

1062 This may or may not be of any help, but...
Last month I totaled my trusty '96 Mazda MX-6, daily ride for 15+ years. The engine is a fuel-injected 5-speed and is intact except for the radiator, which overheated and blew as I sat on the shoulder of the road after the wreck. It's got 248K on it, but has never leaked a drop of oil. I can't afford to put the money into it for the body work it would take to fix, but would love to find someone who could use what's left. It's got a lot of newer stuff on it..

Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 03:09 AM (5x9My)

I would be concerned about the state of the engine if it overheated and blew the radiator. Did the cooling fans get destroyed in the wreck?

Where are you? Removing and shipping an engine and transmission can be costly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 03:16 AM (MiBfH)

1063 test

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 01, 2017 03:16 AM (vBeA5)

1064 Might be back -- still chasin' the end of the thread.
Posted by: cthulhu


How does avocado work for a fly bait, cabron?

Posted by: 2017 at January 01, 2017 03:16 AM (FQ0rq)

1065 Hmmm, apparently Pixy won't let me wish everyone a H@ppy New Ye@rs...

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 01, 2017 03:17 AM (vBeA5)

1066 Pics or not, Mr. D was an insanely lucky man.
Sounds like you hit the lottery, too.
Cherish that.

(What beach was that? Doesn't look local)

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 03:17 AM (CZsVo)

1067 Might be back -- still chasin' the end of the thread.
Posted by: cthulhu
----------------

At this hour, I think you'll catch us.
Besides, you're probably in better shape than most of us anyway.
But buy some long pants - it's cold here.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 03:21 AM (CZsVo)

1068 AOP,
Y'know what I would love to find?
One of those old diesel Rabbits or Rabbit pickups - something like 140mpg, bulletproof, and so ugly they elwere cute.

I bet it won't take much to hot rod it up, overfuel it so it rolls coal...

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 03:13 AM (CZsVo)

The same idea had crossed my mind. We in North America are being screwed out of a lot of fine Diesel-powered vehicles. Go to Central America. Nearly everything on the road is Diesel. Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, Mahindra, and some Chinese models, too.

My sister's car in Nicaragua is a 2000 Toyota 4Runner with a 3-liter 4 cylinder turbo-diesel. That sucker really puts out. I drove it quite a bit last year.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 03:22 AM (MiBfH)

1069
Pics or not, Mr. D was an insanely lucky man.

Sounds like you hit the lottery, too.

Cherish that.



(What beach was that? Doesn't look local)

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 03:17 AM (CZsVo)

Thanks Chi. Yep, it was a dual lottery. We took care of each other, but I think that was the hardest part of being without him - missing that "feeling taken care of" part. Many's the time I told him that if we were on the run through the woods with only the clothes on our backs, I would have everything - him.
Matunuck, RI is the beach, btw.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 03:24 AM (tHwdc)

1070 I shut the engine off as soon as I saw steam, so it was still running. The wreck damage was to the rear passenger side, no damage to front end.

I live in Tenn. so maybe impractical to consider shipping. Just thought it might be worth a mention.

Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 03:26 AM (5x9My)

1071 If you've talked dirty during sex you've quoted Prince. H N Y Horde.
Brought to you by a Clinton free White House.

Posted by: whatmeworry? at January 01, 2017 03:29 AM (dZGNV)

1072 I'm going to turn in so I can get up at a "reasonable" hour tomorrow.

Sleep well when you do, Horde!



And Hillary Clinton will never be President - but Donald Trump will, in 19 days.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 03:30 AM (tHwdc)

1073 G'night, Miss Miley.
Happy New Year.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 03:32 AM (CZsVo)

1074 Here you go, Chi, VW pickups (they are called Caddys) in Virginia:

http://vwtruckforsale.com/category/united-states/virginia/

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 03:32 AM (MiBfH)

1075 *bookmarked. Gracias, mi amigo.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 03:36 AM (CZsVo)

1076 *bookmarked. Gracias, mi amigo.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 03:36 AM (CZsVo)

Hope I didn't lead you astray. That site evidently mines Craigslist for ads, and some are Very old. Saw a Diesel pickup in Mesa that looked interesting...Wait, January, 2015?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 03:39 AM (MiBfH)

1077 I came here to kick ass and scroll down, and I'm all ... uh ... hold on.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 01, 2017 03:40 AM (VdICR)

Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 03:58 AM (5x9My)

1079 Good Morning Everyone. Happy New Year!

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Wargame Designer at January 01, 2017 04:03 AM (d76uN)

1080 Okay, just woke up.
Now to scroll up and read the last 50
Or maybe 30
Happy New Year gang

Posted by: teej at January 01, 2017 04:05 AM (gJ3Vg)

1081 Okay, just woke up.

Now to scroll up and read the last 50

Or maybe 30

Happy New Year gang

Posted by: teej at January 01, 2017 04:05 AM (gJ3Vg)

---
oh shit!

day walkers..... run for the hills!

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 01, 2017 04:10 AM (e6JCS)

1082 "...run for the hills."

Kinda looks like they did.
Okay, I'll go walkabout elsewhere so you folks can continue on.

Posted by: teej at January 01, 2017 04:17 AM (gJ3Vg)

1083 I shut the engine off as soon as I saw steam, so it was still running. The wreck damage was to the rear passenger side, no damage to front end.

I live in Tenn. so maybe impractical to consider shipping. Just thought it might be worth a mention.

Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 03:26 AM (5x9My)

Yeah, Tennessee is a little out of my orbit. I'm not liking the Miata engine as a possible transplant for the Triumph Spitfire. It looks like an install that only an enthusiast would love. Not what my friend is looking for.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 04:19 AM (MiBfH)

1084 I can't seem to fall asleep :-(

Can't stand to toss and turn.

Here's a clip of a New Year's party from 1955.

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2016/12/its-new-years-eve.html

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 04:19 AM (tHwdc)

1085 Oh, and Happy New Year to the daywalkers!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 04:20 AM (tHwdc)

1086 i'm going over to the_donald to see if they know where i can buy a Trump rooster.


Posted by: redc1c4 at January 01, 2017 04:21 AM (e6JCS)

1087 2017 is on like Donkey Kong! Happy New Year ya'll.

Posted by: Uncle Si at January 01, 2017 04:21 AM (PJAtA)

1088 I can't sleep, either. But I love cars!
Soon to have my 3 liter diesel VW bought back cuz emissions so officially in the market.
Oh, had a sweet '76 Spitfire.... wah not again.

Posted by: Justamom at January 01, 2017 04:25 AM (sVnbw)

1089
I think this is how I got blocked once, posting at the bottom of a dead thread

Posted by: Justamom at January 01, 2017 04:30 AM (sVnbw)

1090 Heh

"BREAKING: 17 US intelligence agencies confirm Russians hacked Mariah's Carey's NYE performance"

courtesy of the_donald reddit

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 04:32 AM (tHwdc)

1091 I think this is how I got blocked once, posting at the bottom of a dead thread

Posted by: Justamom at January 01, 2017 04:30 AM (sVnbw)

Keep poking it with a stick so it doesn't die.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 04:33 AM (tHwdc)

1092 1084 I can't seem to fall asleep :-(
----------------

Welcome to my world.

Good news is, less than three weeks of President MomJeans.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 04:34 AM (CZsVo)

1093 I think this is how I got blocked once, posting at the bottom of a dead thread
Posted by: Justamom


Nert yert.

Posted by: 2017 at January 01, 2017 04:34 AM (FQ0rq)

1094 I just checked. The nearest hill is 24.7 miles away from my House. I aint running that far. No way.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Wargame Designer at January 01, 2017 04:36 AM (d76uN)

1095 Yo!

I got to sleep but now, apparently, I'm back up. I suspect, from the Boulder drunks driving back from Denver.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 01, 2017 04:39 AM (6FqZa)

1096 1089
I think this is how I got blocked once, posting at the bottom of a dead thread
Posted by: Justamom
-!-------------

The ONT never dies it just gets a little funky come sun-up.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 04:39 AM (CZsVo)

1097 I bet Putin trolls all of us by publicly denying that he had anything to do with Mariah Carey's fail.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 01, 2017 04:40 AM (6FqZa)

1098 Well, time for me to hit the sack. Happy New Year to all Morons and 'Ettes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 04:40 AM (MiBfH)

1099 I miss the m-tv unplugged version of Mariah.
Except for the guy, who had a smooth voice, singing with her going all falsetto an incredible cover of I'll Be There.

Why'd she have to go all diva?

Posted by: teej at January 01, 2017 04:41 AM (gJ3Vg)

1100 I just checked. The nearest hill is 24.7 miles away from my House. I aint running that far. No way.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois'/i]


I'll allow it if you agree and convince several million of your neighbors that you don't actually live in the "mid" west.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2017 04:42 AM (FQ0rq)

1101 Ace was linked by Ed Driscoll at PJ Media http://tinyurl.com/gtxpzvg

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 04:46 AM (tHwdc)

1102 Not what my friend is looking for.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2017 04:19 AM


Roger and out. Happy New Year, y'all.

Posted by: EyeTest at January 01, 2017 04:47 AM (5x9My)

1103 I will never be able to unsee that cat pic.

Ever.

Mornin ya'll. And happy new year.

Posted by: Bayou City's Ipad at January 01, 2017 04:47 AM (4fOMF)

1104 Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2017 04:42 AM (FQ0rq)

Not sure where to tell em where I live. Anyhoo, sounds like too much work.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Wargame Designer at January 01, 2017 04:48 AM (d76uN)

1105 Okay, time to try to get back to sleep.
My turn to toss and turn.

Posted by: teej at January 01, 2017 04:50 AM (gJ3Vg)

1106
Welcome to my world.



Good news is, less than three weeks of President MomJeans.

Posted by: Chi at January 01, 2017 04:34 AM (CZsVo)

Remember his pitch in mom jeans? Back when Mooch still had hope?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 04:50 AM (tHwdc)

1107 I just checked. The nearest hill is 24.7 miles away from my House. I aint running that far. No way.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Wargame Designer at January 01, 2017 04:36 AM (d76uN)

Wow. I've literally only ever flown over country that flat, Tim.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 04:52 AM (tHwdc)

1108 18 Days, 19 hours, and then it will be nothing but memories of umbrella guy.

The Penguin would be so disappointed in his lack of skills.

waaack, waaaccck, wwaaaaccckkk!!!!

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Wargame Designer at January 01, 2017 04:54 AM (d76uN)

1109 Gonna give sleep another try, catch youse guys later.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 04:54 AM (tHwdc)

1110 Read the other day that the JEF's vacations cost us something like 86 million. Would really be nice if that's all the SOB and his Ho cost us.

Posted by: Bayou City's Ipad at January 01, 2017 04:55 AM (4fOMF)

1111 One way to troll the Democrats this year, inspired by a recent Instapundit post - bring back the 80s' pro-Russian protest songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 01, 2017 04:55 AM (6FqZa)

1112 Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 01, 2017 04:52 AM (tHwdc)

Just depends on what the definition of a hill is. Illinois is not totally flat where I am at. You have the Illinois River Valley and where I live now there is the Kickapoo Valley.

Now across the river there is a Valley in a Valley. The Mackinaw River Valley.

So if you are at the bottom of the Valley in the Valley, you can only go up.

Is that a hill?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Wargame Designer at January 01, 2017 04:58 AM (d76uN)

1113 I killed the thread.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Wargame Designer at January 01, 2017 05:21 AM (d76uN)

1114 Crap could have had a chance at 1k but wife had tablet so I layed around for a hour.
Happy New Year horde

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2017 05:29 AM (5sOEp)

1115 Happy New Year Tim and Skip.

Posted by: Catwrangler at January 01, 2017 05:31 AM (n5l0F)

1116 Happy New Year to you Catwrangler.

I was just about to get the Minister to come give last rights.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Wargame Designer at January 01, 2017 05:32 AM (d76uN)

1117 It has slowed down quite abit in here.

Posted by: Catwrangler at January 01, 2017 05:37 AM (n5l0F)

1118 A new day and year is apon us, be a killjoy to leftists everywhere.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2017 05:37 AM (5sOEp)

1119 2017 and Hillary will never be POTUS.

Posted by: Catwrangler at January 01, 2017 05:38 AM (n5l0F)

1120 Well, butter coffee and a New Year to all! Off to work this am. Later.

Posted by: Eromero at January 01, 2017 05:38 AM (zLDYs)

1121 Have a good day, Eromero.

Posted by: Catwrangler at January 01, 2017 05:40 AM (n5l0F)

1122 8 minutes till coffee, and my mistake, 1 k was at 2am. But cherry cream cheese donut awaits

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2017 05:40 AM (5sOEp)

1123 BBL got to go do my last rounds.

Posted by: Catwrangler at January 01, 2017 05:41 AM (n5l0F)

1124 Tried to read 2 articles at Slate but a big fake news story is Barak has deported more illegals than anyone.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2017 05:44 AM (5sOEp)

1125 And one more thing, the F4J Phantom in VF-84 colors is possibly the most beautiful airplane ever. Imagine VF-84 and the VF-41 Black Aces together spooling up to unleash hell on America's enemies. I was fortunate to live that VF-84 flight deck lifestyle for 2 years back in the 1960's. Nothing but memories and tattoos now.

Posted by: Eromero at January 01, 2017 05:47 AM (zLDYs)

1126 EMT up.

Posted by: HH at January 01, 2017 05:57 AM (DrCtv)

1127 Happy New Year 'rons and 'ronetts - all the best, keep your eyes open, your whit sharp, and your powder dry

BTW - is it me, or did Beck take a quad-extra helping of stupid juice, or, he's let his inner 'dickhead' surface?

Posted by: Fred Zeppelin at January 01, 2017 06:47 AM (mfjYD)

1128 Love me some of that Cat Belly Bacon.

Posted by: saf at January 02, 2017 09:42 AM (+zN6H)

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