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Sunday Overnight Open Thread (1/8/17) I Mailed It In Edition

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Quotes of The Day

Quote I

If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions. Rand Paul


Quote II

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Winston Churchill


Quote III

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. Mike Pence

-Even not so great men.-

Quote IV

The act of saying "Fuck you" to any mortal man who would claim dominion and authority over you is the first act of a free man. Not a free man on paper, but a free man in fact. Ace


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Does this look like your desk? It's time to do something about it. Tomorrow, Monday January 9th is National Clean Off Your Desk Day.


On this day in history, January 8th, 1964 LBJ declared "War on Poverty" We lost. Waive the White Flag and lets start over again. Welfare wan't meant to be a generational inheritance.


Have you ever heard the phrase, "Because of _______________ we can't have nice things? Well, it appears to be a world wide issue. h/t CBD

THE STREAKERS OF MACHU PICCHU
"Don’t get naked here" used to be an unnecessary addition to the rules at Machu Picchu. Now they print the request on the back of each ticket.

Peruvian authorities don't know how Machu Picchu got on the "naked tourism" list, but they are eager to get it off. Park attendants have seen so many backpacker behinds that they’ve officially labeled nudity at the site a “threat” to cultural heritage—and are considering banning foreign tourists to the site without official guides.

If you're traveling in Asia and sight seeing isn't your thing. You can always have elevator races. High speed elevators and the cut throat business environment. h/t CBD


Are you handy? Looking to make a little extra money? This might be the website for you. Patents that have expired. Here's your chance not to be looking over your shoulder in the workshop.


The ONT Musical Interlude


On this day in 1956 Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" single goes #1 & stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)

Just a good song, with a different take.

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Here at the AoSHQ we joke about the "Pajama Boys" of the world and the kids that live in their parent's basements. Why do they live there? Is student debt an issue? Interesting study behind young adults boomeranging home.

College completion rates have a stronger association with the boomeranging effect than student loan debt. Young adults who did not finish their two- or four-year college have at least a 40 percent higher risk of returning home than those who graduated, likely due to limited options to find a job without a degree.

The authors also found that young adults who have successfully transitioned into adult roles, such as those who are co-habiting or are married, or are homeowners, as well as those who have found success in the labor market, are less likely to move back in with their parent(s).

Political correctness. It points us to a not so pretty picture.

In a well-known paper written after World War II, the philosopher Karl Popper laid out a stark dilemma for societies: they can settle members’ disagreements only through argument or violence. Totalitarian and utopian societies are those that opt for the latter. They prefer the use of force to the more uncertain process of argument.

The society that embraces argument over violence, by contrast, is what Popper called the “open society.” The American system was conceived as one such open society, but, as many of its early thinkers warned, if Americans lose the virtues that make an open society possible, they will open the way to tyranny.

See Quote IV again.


Apple a lifesaver, Windows not so much? MacBook may have saved man in Ft. Lauderdale shooting.

A bullet travelling toward Steve Frappier’s back was stopped by his backpack and the aluminum frame of his Apple MacBook. The man told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday, “The backpack saved my life. [I] dropped and the backpack was still on my back and I was turned in such a way where that at one point when the shooter shot toward my direction … there was a bullet that ricocheted.”


Science doesn't always have to involve curing cancer, debating climate change or a host of other topics in the news these days. Sometimes it can be as simple as music.

On a Friday night in December, I sat in a small room with 33 other audience members, each of us accompanied by a dancer in black. The dancers pulled out blindfolds and covered our eyes, and for a brief moment, all was dark and quiet and freighted with anticipation. Then, as a chamber ensemble began to play Claude Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, the dancers began to “play” the music on our bodies.

When the music soared, the dancers lifted our feet to mimic the sense of weightlessness. When the music was playful, they tickled our forearms. And when it pressed in intensely, the dancers squeezed our shoulders and rocked our heads.

At times, they held scents near our noses, and wafted a wind across us, and even pressed evocative morsels of food into our mouths—truffle cheese with pop rocks, fizzing as the music rose—as if our entire bodies could be recruited into feeling the mad sensuality of Debussy’s work. As if the idea was to bring us inside the music itself.


Not all Geniuses reside in Florida. Arizona woman fought the law. And of course, the law won. Genius Award Winner.


Waste of taxpayer's money or Today's Feel Good Story of The Day? You decide.


Here is another decision on a possible feel good story of the day. Is he an enabler or is this a Feel Good Story of The Day?

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Comments

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1 Doh!

Posted by: homer simpson at January 08, 2017 10:37 PM (lJXY3)

2 As I previously announced, Yoko's appearance in the ONT has been postponed.

Posted by: Col. Cathcart at January 08, 2017 10:37 PM (DMUuz)

3
Isn't a newspaper or a tv news channel referral to a man or woman who is pretending to be the opposite gender as the gender they're pretending to be Fake News?

You're damn right it is!

Every time the press (print or television) reports that "a man is having a baby!" it's FAKE NEWS.

Every time the press calls a woman a man and vice-versa, it's FAKE NEWS. It's a LIE. It's FAKE.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 10:37 PM (FYB4N)

4 Oh, no! I didn't take my sock off first so it doesn't count.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 08, 2017 10:37 PM (lJXY3)

5 Howdy Ya'll.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 08, 2017 10:37 PM (w+Jhj)

6 Yay, cthulhu's back!

Posted by: andycanuck at January 08, 2017 10:38 PM (lJXY3)

7 Welcome Yoko-free ONT!

Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 10:38 PM (iMxBJ)

8 Evenin' everyone.

Got jury duty tomorrow.

Posted by: Blanco Basura #Free Cthulhu (with full price purchase of Azatoth or Nyarlathotep) at January 08, 2017 10:39 PM (IcT7t)

9
Yay, cthulhu's back!

Again!?!

Now what happened??

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 10:39 PM (FYB4N)

10 Top 10?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at January 08, 2017 10:39 PM (C9pBZ)

11 Have you ever heard the phrase, "Because of _______________ we can't have nice things?

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 08, 2017 10:39 PM (+lVUW)

12 Suuuure...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at January 08, 2017 10:39 PM (C9pBZ)

13
I pronounce it CHOOLOO.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 10:40 PM (FYB4N)

14 Adjusting for the third time tonight.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 08, 2017 10:40 PM (IcT7t)

15 How do you say "Hey, watch this!" in Mandarin?

Posted by: Afroman at January 08, 2017 10:40 PM (2sozY)

16 Howdy, Horde!

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 08, 2017 10:40 PM (nvMvs)

17 Grrrr, latop has been frozen so I have to use my Fire.

Still easier than using my phone.

Posted by: logprof at January 08, 2017 10:41 PM (GsAUU)

18 Evening all.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 10:42 PM (D2vc1)

19 Stealing from the master, Dave Barry, I would attend that "listen to music blindfolded while people mess with you and make fart smells" concert only if that were one of the demands of the kidnappers who had taken my loved ones.

Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 10:42 PM (iMxBJ)

20 There was a misunderstanding. Which, hopefully, has been rectified.

Glad to see you back, your frightfulness.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 08, 2017 10:42 PM (IcT7t)

21 There be content! Thx, Mis Hum.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 08, 2017 10:42 PM (gAXee)

22 Why?

Posted by: Jerry Lewis at January 08, 2017 10:42 PM (wcSGs)

23 Category: Wish I'd Said It First --

"Everyone remembers where they buried a grudge."

Posted by: voiceover at January 08, 2017 10:42 PM (9QWo+)

24 Nope he's banned again.

Posted by: buzzion at January 08, 2017 10:42 PM (cAnNx)

25 Oops. I was concentrating so hard on making sure I don't embarrel myself again that I forgot to make my comment. My dog is why I can't have nice things.
Special covers on my new sofa and there is still some dog fur near the end.
New laptop, I just noticed a couple of dog hairs clinging to the screen.
I had bought a really nice folding cover for my Kindle Fire, so of course there's dog fur in the crease.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 08, 2017 10:43 PM (+lVUW)

26
Modest proposal: anyone banninated, but who is a regular whose exile is likely to be short-lived, commuted, whatever, upon their return, shall provide a brief executive summary of WTF it was all about. Or, if review up in the booth shows it to have been an arbitrary or unjust bannination, the hammer-wielder will provide said executive summary.

Hey, I said it was modest.

After 100 rounds of 38spl (158g round-nose lead, 4.2 grains of Trail Boss, for those who care), I'll be back to see if my proposal has earned me calumny and ridicule, or kudos and enconium.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 08, 2017 10:43 PM (QDnY+)

27 Nope he's banned again.
Doh!

Posted by: homer simpson at January 08, 2017 10:43 PM (lJXY3)

28 Certainly not first.

But absolutely, not last.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 08, 2017 10:43 PM (v5iqM)

29 Uh, I don't see him.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 10:43 PM (nUdSA)

30 I've been behind a couple of people at the grocery checkout that could use a visit by that guy with the shower truck.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 08, 2017 10:43 PM (w+Jhj)

31 I will clean off my desk in the exact moment that I can afford to forget where everything is.

Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 10:43 PM (iMxBJ)

32 Evening everyone!

Miss Tammy, I've finally found a blacksmithing class close enough that I can go. I'm hoping to sign up for a one-day class early next month, and then start going on a regular basis to their open forge days.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 08, 2017 10:44 PM (FYrz1)

33 "they are eager to get it off"

Phrasing!

Posted by: peter dinklage at January 08, 2017 10:44 PM (6FqZa)

34 re: last pic


Who the hell took that picture outside my house?!

Posted by: Dingy Harry at January 08, 2017 10:44 PM (WidQN)

35 Top 10?
Posted by: Anon a mouse

What do we have for these contestants, Bob?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at January 08, 2017 10:44 PM (S6Pax)

36 Apropos of LBJ and the War on Poverty, here's one for Mets fans: LBJ came to visit New York in 1964 to sell his Great Society program, and Casey Stengel was quoted as saying, "He [LBJ] wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team [the '64 Mets]."

Quoted in Baseball Almanac, http://tinyurl.com/6mjxnm

Yeah, some of us are still suffering from Baseball Withdrawal Syndrome.

Posted by: Basement Cat at January 08, 2017 10:45 PM (3C9q2)

37 But there's no dog fur in The Barrel, they say.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2017 10:45 PM (DMUuz)

38 Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 08, 2017 10:44 PM (FYrz1)

You know the drill love...pics or it won't have happened!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 10:45 PM (nUdSA)

39 Modest proposal:
Ira and cthulhu got into a fight about what tasted better in taco shells: Irish papist babies or Scottish nonconformist ones???

Posted by: andycanuck at January 08, 2017 10:46 PM (lJXY3)

40 I think "gesundheit" every time i read Cthulhu.

Posted by: tbodie at January 08, 2017 10:46 PM (LTE9d)

41
Well, tonight was Columbo, the 2nd Run (ABC) night, showing the second episode of the Season 8 as they call it. A twerpy little douche of a director and SFX man kills an old buddy of his who just learned of and is about to expose the fact that the the little twerp let his sister die after an accident filming her, rather than let that taint his budding career.

And we saw Dog tonight, Columbo's comical basset hound. I'm sure that wasn't the original Dog. :-) I wonder how many Dogs he went through.

I like Columbo better with the older Falk, he's more quirky and cranky. And his face has lots more character.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 08, 2017 10:46 PM (DW+jj)

42 Nope he's banned again.
Posted by: buzzion


Well you should not feel so all alone

Everybody must get stoned!


Stuff Bob Dylan once said, a long time ago, in a country far, far away

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at January 08, 2017 10:46 PM (S6Pax)

43 Ok, why would you want to go naked at Machu Piccu? High altitude?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2017 10:46 PM (92kX2)

44 So, Cooth is gone?

Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh at January 08, 2017 10:46 PM (kP16F)

45 On this 8th day of January in the Year of our Lord 2017, I did absolutely nothing of import or consequence.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 10:46 PM (0mRoj)

46
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 08, 2017 10:45 PM (3C9q2)

Indeed.

The Void sucks, no?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 10:46 PM (nUdSA)

47 You know the drill love...pics or it won't have happened!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 10:45 PM (nUdSA)


Of course. The shirtless ones will have to wait until I'm down to 210lbs or less, unfortunately.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 08, 2017 10:47 PM (FYrz1)

48 off (slightly) shorter sock

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 08, 2017 10:47 PM (6FqZa)

49 @29 Uh, I don't see him.
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He had posts up. They're gone now.

Posted by: junior at January 08, 2017 10:47 PM (j+Rx3)

50 I'd like to send a special shout out to LBJ on this day in history.

Fuck you, you rotten piece of shit.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 10:47 PM (nDcc3)

51
Is this a new banishment or the old one?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 10:48 PM (FYB4N)

52 Girl, what's a little dog hair? Ya gotta take the very little bad with all the wonderful good!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 10:48 PM (nUdSA)

53 Hey ya'll. What's going on AshvilleRobert, I'm trying to remember you had something going on.

And to the GG, F... Meryl Streep. She may be a great actress but I will never go see another movie of hers. Of course I prolly never have at the theater. Point is the bitch won't get a dime out of us.

Posted by: Farmer at January 08, 2017 10:48 PM (o/90i)

54 Does this look like your desk?

No, not enough dust on it.

Posted by: rickl at January 08, 2017 10:48 PM (sdi6R)

55 So, Cooth is gone?

Banned but sleeping.

And I have to adjust again, darnit.

Posted by: Blanco Basura #Free Cthulhu (with full price purchase of Azatoth or Nyarlathotep) at January 08, 2017 10:48 PM (IcT7t)

56 50 I'd like to send a special shout out to LBJ on this day in history.

Fuck you, you rotten piece of shit.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 10:47 PM (nDcc3)

And it was Elvis who had to die on the toilet, of course.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2017 10:49 PM (92kX2)

57 Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 08, 2017 10:47 PM (FYrz1)

Noooooooooo!

You surely remember that I cannot abide a skinny man?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 10:49 PM (nUdSA)

58
Elvis Costello is mort?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 10:49 PM (FYB4N)

59 50 I'd like to send a special shout out to LBJ on this day in history.
Fuck you, you rotten piece of shit.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 10:47 PM (nDcc3)


Before my time. Was he worse than Carter?

Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 10:49 PM (iMxBJ)

60 I'm OK paying for the dog to be rescued.

I'm also OK for paying for the rescue of an ice fisherman ONCE.

After that... you're stupid and you deserve to be billed.

That way you'll think about going out ice fishing in the wrong weather.

Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 08, 2017 10:50 PM (J5mC3)

61 *Monday January 9th is National Clean Off Your Desk Day.*

Anybody screw with my piling system gets fired!

Posted by: tbodie at January 08, 2017 10:50 PM (LTE9d)

62 50 I'd like to send a special shout out to LBJ on this day in history.

Fuck you, you rotten piece of shit.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 10:47 PM (nDcc3)

That's putting it mildly. He not only destroyed but reversed the gains black families had been making up to that point. I hope he is being eternally cornholed by the barbed cock of Satan.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 10:50 PM (0mRoj)

63 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 10:45 PM (nUdSA)

Now that I've got that married woman out of my hair, what's going on with your cousin?

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 10:50 PM (D2vc1)

64 (cont. from previous thread) Audi Murphy won Sheriff's ranch in pker hand, and has Sheriff's approval to run the place. Miss Missle-tits, Sheriff's daughter, still pretends to hate the gunslinger...

Posted by: Gunsmoke! 1955 at January 08, 2017 10:50 PM (Mt8T4)

65
Are you telling me that fights broke out in Jack In The Box thread from earlier today?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 10:50 PM (FYB4N)

66 58
Elvis Costello is mort?
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 10:49 PM (FYB4N)

I do love how this blog rolls.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2017 10:50 PM (92kX2)

67 Noooooooooo!

You surely remember that I cannot abide a skinny man?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 10:49 PM (nUdSA)


I know! But I need to get back down to a reasonable weight if I want to try and get a position in the Guard or Reserve.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 08, 2017 10:51 PM (FYrz1)

68 Anybody heard how Pookie and Pookie's girl are doing? Kind of worried about that young couple.

Posted by: Subterranean JT at January 08, 2017 10:51 PM (qG0hz)

69 So what did Cthulu do that deserved banning? I always miss the fireworks.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 08, 2017 10:51 PM (nvMvs)

70 MSN headline just now...

US Tanks roll into GERMANY to protect against Russian Invasion...

/looks confused, tries to find the Russian German border...

Posted by: Don Q. at January 08, 2017 10:51 PM (qf6WZ)

71 Blanco, I wore a NRA polo and was never interviewed. Bring a book.

Posted by: Picric at January 08, 2017 10:51 PM (s0VSd)

72 LBJ. Hard to believe Texas was once solid Democrat. Took awhile to take off the blinders from the Civil War.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 10:51 PM (IDPbH)

73 Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 10:49 PM (iMxBJ)

Before my time too but I know his history with blacks. Enough for me, fuck him sideways.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 10:51 PM (nDcc3)

74 Sigh.

My first taco was at Jack in the Box decades ago. It was magical.

Then they moved out of the state and I don't think I've had one since.

Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 08, 2017 10:52 PM (J5mC3)

75 You surely remember that I cannot abide a skinny man?



Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 10:49 PM (nUdSA)

Pffft you'd really like me then.

But tomorrow I begin the path down to 220.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 10:52 PM (D2vc1)

76 So Coothie is banned still?

Did Ira show up in the thread?

Does Cooth think Tim is Ira?

I am not trying to be a shit-stirrer, I am just gob-smacked by all this, it makes zero sense.

Cooth didn't insult anyone's wife, for fuck sake. I have never even heard him insult Bill Clinton's wife in a rude way.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 10:53 PM (nUdSA)

77 Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 10:50 PM (0mRoj)

Yup

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 10:53 PM (nDcc3)

78 You remember George Will famously calling Trump a "coarse and vulgar man"? Well LBJ was likely the most coarse and vulgar man to ever hold the office.

He got a kick out of summoning aides to speak with him on the crapper taking a dump. It was a power thing.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 08, 2017 10:53 PM (DW+jj)

79 70 MSN headline just now...

US Tanks roll into GERMANY to protect against Russian Invasion...

/looks confused, tries to find the Russian German border...
Posted by: Don Q. at January 08, 2017 10:51 PM (qf6WZ)


I hope January 20 gets here before WWIII does...

Posted by: rickl at January 08, 2017 10:53 PM (sdi6R)

80 I'd like to send a special shout out to LBJ on this day in history.
Fuck you, you rotten piece of shit.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 10:47

Some special anniversary?

Posted by: Farmer at January 08, 2017 10:53 PM (o/90i)

81

Tim, as Tim in Illinoise?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 10:53 PM (FYB4N)

82 Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 10:52 PM (D2vc1)

I like you just fine.

220 sounds perfect. Don't go getting all crazy.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 10:54 PM (nUdSA)

83 I was forced to sign up for the Expired Patents Weekly email compilation. Thanks a lot.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 08, 2017 10:54 PM (LTHVh)

84 So what did Cthulu do that deserved banning? I always miss the fireworks.

He was banned a while back for accusing commenters of being a certain stalker. He was unbanned on the condition that he not mention said stalker. He supposedly broke that condition.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 08, 2017 10:54 PM (FYrz1)

85 Took awhile to take off the blinders from the Civil War.

YM Reconstruction.

Texas didn't have much in the way of Union invasions, and they mutually agreed after the war that Sam Houston was right and that aiding the Confederacy was a big stupid folly.

But when they invited the Union troops in - which they did, because too many Texan men had died in other states, so the state was falling apart - the Union troops lorded over the place like it was conquered land. Texans don't like that.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 08, 2017 10:54 PM (6FqZa)

86 Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 10:52 PM (D2vc1)
190 for me

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 10:54 PM (nDcc3)

87 Ha! Judging from the first two pictures I was expecting Misanthropic Humanitarian to be spelled out using pictures.

Posted by: Pepe at January 08, 2017 10:54 PM (tPC7s)

88 68 Anybody heard how Pookie and Pookie's girl are doing? Kind of worried about that young couple.
Posted by: Subterranean JT at January 08, 2017 10:51 PM (qG0hz)


Pooky's Girl talked a lot about what happened on the last thread. Praying morons need to keep praying.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 08, 2017 10:55 PM (nvMvs)

89 Civil war / Reconstruction

220 / 221

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 10:55 PM (IDPbH)

90 The Void sucks, no?

The 2017 Phillies might suck even worse, although the infamous Phillies Phold of 1964 would be hard to beat-- proof that LBJ's malignant influence corrupted the entire NL East that year.

Posted by: Basement Cat at January 08, 2017 10:55 PM (3C9q2)

91
Big Bother is watching?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 10:55 PM (FYB4N)

92 220 sounds perfect. Don't go getting all crazy.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 10:54 PM (nUdSA)


I was at 228 on Friday. The Army wants me at 189, which ain't happening. I figure that if I can get down to 205-210, I'll pass the tape test.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 08, 2017 10:55 PM (FYrz1)

93 I've never eaten at a Jack in the Box. I've never seen one in Florida, come to think of it.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 10:55 PM (0mRoj)

94 Pffft you'd really like me then.



But tomorrow I begin the path down to 220
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I actually said this to my doctor:

I realize that at some point in the future, I'm going to get a horrible disease. That disease will cause me to lose a large amount of weight. Once I get over the disease, I will be my ideal weight.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure she put some special notes on my chart in regards to that statement.

And was suitably horrified.

Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 08, 2017 10:55 PM (J5mC3)

95 Anybody heard how Pookie and Pookie's girl are doing? Kind of worried about that young couple.

Posted by: Subterranean JT at January 08, 2017 10:51 PM (qG0hz)

I never heard what actually happened to Pooky. Can I get a Cliff Notes version?

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 10:55 PM (D2vc1)

96 I saw the funniest headline - must have been on one of those 'spoof" websites - Obama gave himself a medal! What a scream! I'm surprised the SJW's didn't jump all over it, since that's the kind of thing the President For Life of some Third World country would do. Right?

Posted by: vivi at January 08, 2017 10:56 PM (11H2y)

97
I saw the funniest headline - must have been on one of those 'spoof"
websites - Obama gave himself a medal! What a scream! I'm surprised the
SJW's didn't jump all over it, since that's the kind of thing the
President For Life of some Third World country would do. Right?
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I'm not sure that was fake.

Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 08, 2017 10:56 PM (J5mC3)

98 Some special anniversary?
Posted by: Farmer at January 08, 2017 10:53 PM (o/90i)

--Didn't read the content, eh?

A Moron through and through.

Posted by: logprof at January 08, 2017 10:56 PM (GsAUU)

99 93 I've never eaten at a Jack in the Box. I've never seen one in Florida, come to think of it.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 10:55 PM (0mRoj)

Mostly out west from what I have seen. Not terrible, I used to like their Ultimate cheeseburger.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2017 10:56 PM (92kX2)

100 Well.... I suppose I could amuse myself with the content in cooth's honour! bbl.

Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh at January 08, 2017 10:57 PM (kP16F)

101 I'm not sure that was fake.
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 08, 2017 10:56 PM (J5mC3)

It wasn't.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2017 10:57 PM (92kX2)

102 May I ask another question that sounds like I am harping, but don't mean to be?

Why is it such a big deal if Coothie has a bee in his bonnet about this?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 10:57 PM (nUdSA)

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

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=12936

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 08, 2017 10:57 PM (vBeA5)

104 When I was a kid me and my buddies would go to the top of the World Trade Center just to ride down the express elevator. It went so fast there were a few seconds of weightlessness that was a huge thrill.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2017 10:58 PM (EZebt)

105 I realize that at some point in the future, I'm going to get a horrible disease. That disease will cause me to lose a large amount of weight. Once I get over the disease, I will be my ideal weight.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure she put some special notes on my chart in regards to that statement.

And was suitably horrified.
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 08, 2017 10:55 PM (J5mC3)

LOL.... I'm 57 years old... 6 ft tall... 220 Lbs....

Last time my Doctor bitched about my weight, I asked him if he'd rather settle it by a foot race? bike race? Snow Skiing? or by how much weight we could lift?

He hasn't mentioned it since...

Posted by: Don Q. at January 08, 2017 10:58 PM (qf6WZ)

106
rememberberry that song that went like this:

PAR-A- NOIA SELF DEE-STROYAAAAAA!

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 10:58 PM (FYB4N)

107 104 When I was a kid me and my buddies would go to the top of the World Trade Center just to ride down the express elevator. It went so fast there were a few seconds of weightlessness that was a huge thrill.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2017 10:58 PM (EZebt)

Made you feel all funny in the privates?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2017 10:58 PM (92kX2)

108 The powerful shouldn't bully the powerless, h8ers.

Oh and if it wasn't for us sophisticated foreigners in Hollyweird making quality entertainment here, all you'd have to watch is football and MMA.

Peace and love (you deplorables).

Posted by: Meryl Strep at January 08, 2017 10:58 PM (E/ibL)

109 88 68 Anybody heard how Pookie and Pookie's girl are doing? Kind of worried about that young couple.
Posted by: Subterranean JT at January 08, 2017 10:51 PM (qG0hz)

Pooky's Girl talked a lot about what happened on the last thread. Praying morons need to keep praying.
Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 08, 2017 10:55 PM (nvMvs)

It was distressing just to read about it. I really hope they get all the help they need.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 10:59 PM (0mRoj)

110 Made you feel all funny in the privates?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2017 10:58 PM (92kX2)

Anyone know the physiological reason for that, btw?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2017 10:59 PM (92kX2)

111 70: my son is in Germany and their primary mission is protecting the Ukraine, although son was recently in Jeruselum, too. I can't wait for sanity to return.

Posted by: LASue, now even more deplorable at January 08, 2017 10:59 PM (CLKfs)

112 Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 08, 2017 10:55 PM (FYrz1)

The Army wouldn't take my cousin Jeremy til he got down to 300.

The boy was 6' 10 and looked kinda weaselly to me when he hit that.

189 seems awfully thin. How tall are you?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 11:00 PM (nUdSA)

113
And there's a little green man in my head...

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:00 PM (FYB4N)

114 I realize that at some point in the future, I'm going to get a horrible disease. That disease will cause me to lose a large amount of weight. Once I get over the disease, I will be my ideal weight.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure she put some special notes on my chart in regards to that statement.

And was suitably horrified.
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 08, 2017 10:55 PM (J5mC3)

Heh. For me to fit the bullshit BMI charts I'd have to get gastric cancer.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 11:00 PM (0mRoj)

115 Hey again everybody.

I hear that tonight at the Globes Meryl Streep came out against humans eating Jack-In-The-Box tacos. Traitorous bitch!!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:00 PM (u8kLQ)

116 I ate at a "Jack in the Box" in Nashville TN, several years back. Let's just say it tore through my colon faster than Rosie O'Donald at a buffet. Good food, but the after effects were not pleasant.

Posted by: Picric at January 08, 2017 11:00 PM (s0VSd)

117 Gee, I've always loved "Wichita Lineman" but that video makes me sad since I know Glen Campbell is suffering from Alzheimer's. Such a talented musician and singer. I hope to live to see the day that a cure for that terrible disease is discovered.

Posted by: Tuna at January 08, 2017 11:01 PM (JSovD)

118 Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2017 10:59 PM (92kX2)

Yes! A continuation of the sex talk last night....now I just gotta find TKAW, Chi, Miley and bebe...........

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:01 PM (nDcc3)

119
oh, it appears I've bollixed up the lyrics to yet another song I've liked for decades.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:01 PM (FYB4N)

120 189 seems awfully thin. How tall are you?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 11:00 PM (nUdSA)


5' 10".

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 08, 2017 11:01 PM (FYrz1)

121 These anti-Trump meltdowns are the most amusing things Hollywood has done in a long time.

Posted by: josephistan at January 08, 2017 11:01 PM (7qAYi)

122 LOL.... I'm 57 years old... 6 ft tall... 220 Lbs....

Last time my Doctor bitched about my weight, I asked him if he'd rather settle it by a foot race? bike race? Snow Skiing? or by how much weight we could lift?

He hasn't mentioned it since...

Posted by: Don Q. at January 08, 2017 10:58 PM (qf6WZ)

56 y/o.......6'2" tall......260 at the moment.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:02 PM (D2vc1)

123 May I make a suggestion??

Why yes Mis. Hum. please make one.

If you have a problem with bannings, take it up with Ace and keep it off the ONT.

Just a suggestion

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 08, 2017 11:02 PM (In888)

124 Yeah why did climbing the rope in gym make my nuts tickle?

I gots to know.

Posted by: eleven at January 08, 2017 11:02 PM (qUNWi)

125
All these years I've been hearing/singing the Kinks' Destroyer a bit wrong.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:02 PM (FYB4N)

126 Thanks for the ONT, Mis Hum.

I have to retire early tonight though, after a fine dinner and a great football team.

Yay, Pack!!

(Cowboys next week - Yikes!)

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 08, 2017 11:02 PM (P8951)

127 189 is ridiculous for 5 10. You'll be skinny.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 11:02 PM (nUdSA)

128 124 Yeah why did climbing the rope in gym make my nuts tickle?

I gots to know.
Posted by: eleven at January 08, 2017 11:02 PM (qUNWi)

Because you forgot your gym shorts.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (0mRoj)

129 Now it's stunning and brave again to insult the President and, more importantly, those low-brow flyover cows who supported him, in Hollyweird.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (E/ibL)

130 Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:02 PM (D2vc1)

i honestly thought you were in your mid 30's based off of your comments

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (nDcc3)

131 I mean a great football game.

I was not entertaining a football team tonight - I leave that to Sandra Fluke

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (P8951)

132 Tuna, I love that song too.

A few months back I asked the Horde whether Glen was singing about a lineman for the phone company or the power company. No one could agree.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (u8kLQ)

133 Yes! A continuation of the sex talk last night....now I just gotta find TKAW, Chi, Miley and bebe...........


Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:01 PM (nDcc3)

Dammit, I always miss the good chats.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (D2vc1)

134 Watched the Magnificent Seven. Going in I was very doubtful on the casting of Denzel Washington as the Yul Brynner character.

Have to say the script writers and director made it work very well. Two thumbs up ,

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (IDPbH)

135 130 Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:02 PM (D2vc1)

i honestly thought you were in your mid 30's based off of your comments
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (nDcc3)

He's young at heart.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (0mRoj)

136 Alrighty then.

Goodnight, y'all.

My best to yankeefifth and flyboy.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (nUdSA)

137 52 Girl, what's a little dog hair? Ya gotta take the very little bad with all the wonderful good!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor

Yup, I've accepted reality, I can have a dog, or I can have a perfectly clean house. I've chosen a dog.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 08, 2017 11:04 PM (+lVUW)

138
music trivia!


by the time I reach Phoenix, where will she be??

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:04 PM (FYB4N)

139 115
I hear that tonight at the Globes Meryl Streep came out against humans eating Jack-In-The-Box tacos. Traitorous bitch!!!
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:00 PM (u8kLQ)


Sounds like celebrities are running out of causes, if that's all they got. What, Jack-in-the-Box is guilty of cultural appropriation?

Posted by: rickl at January 08, 2017 11:04 PM (sdi6R)

140 At least a beagle will never borrow my car and crash it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 08, 2017 11:04 PM (+lVUW)

141 138
music trivia!


by the time I reach Phoenix, where will she be??
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:04 PM (FYB4N)

In bed with your best friend.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 11:05 PM (0mRoj)

142 Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:02 PM (D2vc1)

i honestly thought you were in your mid 30's based off of your comments


Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (nDcc3)

Wow....thank you!!

Still young at heart.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:05 PM (D2vc1)

143 70 MSN headline just now...

US Tanks roll into GERMANY to protect against Russian Invasion...

/looks confused, tries to find the Russian German border...
Posted by: Don Q.



Gulp.....

Posted by: Poland at January 08, 2017 11:05 PM (pY+s4)

144 Tammy,

I know. When I was in I was 200-210, and I look back now and I'm amazed at how thin I look. Luckily more of that weight now is muscle.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 08, 2017 11:05 PM (FYrz1)

145
In bed with your best friend.

I don't think that's how the song goes.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:05 PM (FYB4N)

146 140 At least a beagle will never borrow my car and crash it.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 08, 2017 11:04 PM (+lVUW)

They're very good drivers.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 11:05 PM (0mRoj)

147 MISSTAMMY come back MISSTAMMY!

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:05 PM (cPsPa)

148 Trump 1, GM 0
Citizen journalist 1, National Laughingstocks and their layers of fact checkers 0

It seems that GM has been caught in an out and out lie about where many of the Cruze cars are manufactured that are sold in the US, after Trump tweeted about them being sold in the US without consequence. And of course the MFM dutifully reported the GM claims without a drab of fact checking. Oopsie! #stillnottiredofwinning

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=56911

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 08, 2017 11:06 PM (gAXee)

149 Farmer, Did Streep shoot off her big, stupid mouth about Trump at the Golden Globes?

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 08, 2017 11:06 PM (+lVUW)

150 145
In bed with your best friend.

I don't think that's how the song goes.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:05 PM (FYB4N)

Oh. It's not a country song then?

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 11:06 PM (0mRoj)

151 Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:05 PM (D2vc1)

welcome.

Shit now I feel old ha

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:06 PM (nDcc3)

152 Evil rustler plot revealed! Murphy plans to take herd over the mountain instead of down the valley. Too late, herd scattered. Cora the whorehouse/saloon owner is in on it. Evil banker has legal loophole, sez Murphy doesn't own Sheriff's ranch!

Posted by: Gunsmoke! 1955 at January 08, 2017 11:07 PM (Mt8T4)

153 Is that a green glowing cat underneath that desk?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2017 11:07 PM (IqV8l)

154 who let MissTammy go?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:08 PM (cPsPa)

155 A brief appearance tonight. All I have to say is...
http://preview.tinyurl.com/zv2xf7u

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 08, 2017 11:08 PM (hVdx9)

156 A few months back I asked the Horde whether Glen was
singing about a lineman for the phone company or the power company. No
one could agree.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (u8kLQ)

Was he on the county payroll, or was the county his job's territory?

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2017 11:08 PM (XoldI)

157
Murphy plans to take herd over the mountain instead of down the valley. Too late, herd scattered. Cora the whorehouse/saloon owner is in on it. Evil banker has legal loophole, sez Murphy doesn't own Sheriff's ranch!

Is this an episode of Downton Abbey?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:08 PM (FYB4N)

158 152 Evil rustler plot revealed! Murphy plans to take herd over the mountain instead of down the valley. Too late, herd scattered. Cora the whorehouse/saloon owner is in on it. Evil banker has legal loophole, sez Murphy doesn't own Sheriff's ranch!
Posted by: Gunsmoke! 1955 at January 08, 2017 11:07 PM (Mt8T4)

I always liked the term "Sportin' women" for prostitutes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2017 11:08 PM (92kX2)

159 by the time I reach Phoenix, where will she be??


What is your velocity and what is her velocity?

Posted by: eleven at January 08, 2017 11:08 PM (qUNWi)

160 At my usual intellectual level.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 08, 2017 11:08 PM (hVdx9)

161 149 Farmer, Did Streep shoot off her big, stupid mouth about Trump at the Golden Globes?
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 08, 2017 11:06 PM (+lVUW)

WZ has the details
https://tinyurl.com/gtczd3c

Posted by: josephistan at January 08, 2017 11:08 PM (7qAYi)

162 davidt, song never explains that. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:09 PM (u8kLQ)

163 Night all. Have to get up and go to work in 5 hours.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2017 11:09 PM (92kX2)

164 159 by the time I reach Phoenix, where will she be??


What is your velocity and what is her velocity?
Posted by: eleven at January 08, 2017 11:08 PM (qUNWi)

Laden or unladen? African or European?

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 11:09 PM (0mRoj)

165 US Tanks roll into GERMANY to protect against Russian Invasion...

Sharp words between the superpowers. Tanks in East Berlin. And now, reports the BBC, rumors of a satellite blackout. It's enough to spoil your continental breakfast.

Posted by: the opening crawl for the game TRINITY at January 08, 2017 11:10 PM (6FqZa)

166 108 The powerful shouldn't bully the powerless, h8ers.

Oh and if it wasn't for us sophisticated foreigners in Hollyweird making quality entertainment here, all you'd have to watch is football and MMA.

Peace and love (you deplorables).
Posted by: Meryl Strep



Funny, since I watched football, basketball, and then hockey instead of that Narcissist Circle jerk tonight.

Posted by: Poland at January 08, 2017 11:10 PM (pY+s4)

167 "Farmer, Did Streep shoot off her big, stupid mouth about Trump at the Golden Globes?"

Do pigs shit in their sty?

Posted by: Tuna at January 08, 2017 11:10 PM (JSovD)

168 Witchita Lineman is one of my favorite songs.

Posted by: Mike at January 08, 2017 11:10 PM (c056A)

169 off Poland sock

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 08, 2017 11:11 PM (pY+s4)

170 MUTHA FUKA FIRST !!!!!

Posted by: Original Jake at January 08, 2017 11:11 PM (jrFgU)

171 So what did Cthulu do that deserved banning? I always miss the fireworks.

He was banned a while back for accusing commenters of being a certain stalker. He was unbanned on the condition that he not mention said stalker. He supposedly broke that condition.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 08, 2017 10:54

He really wasn't that bad but maybe I mssed something.
OK, now I get the 2nd banning. It really was conditional that he stop mentioning Ira and didn't.

In Cooth's defense he never accused anyone of being Ira. Just mentioned the name. I think after the trauma he has been thru he should be unbanned.

Posted by: Farmer at January 08, 2017 11:11 PM (o/90i)

172
What is your velocity and what is her velocity?

It's not a math problem!

btw, the fancy formula for velocity is distance over time, or V=d/T.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:11 PM (FYB4N)

173 ok that was a real big mis

Posted by: Original Jake at January 08, 2017 11:11 PM (jrFgU)

174 by the time I reach Phoenix, where will she be??

-----

Riding with Death on the wings of a dragon

Or is this not a metal song?

Posted by: josephistan at January 08, 2017 11:11 PM (7qAYi)

175 Modest proposal: anyone banninated, but who is a regular whose exile is likely to be short-lived, commuted, whatever, upon their return, shall provide a brief executive summary of WTF it was all about. Or, if review up in the booth shows it to have been an arbitrary or unjust bannination, the hammer-wielder will provide said executive summary.

Hey, I said it was modest.

After 100 rounds of 38spl (158g round-nose lead, 4.2 grains of Trail Boss, for those who care), I'll be back to see if my proposal has earned me calumny and ridicule, or kudos and enconium.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 08, 2017 10:43 PM (QDnY+)




yeah, that seems like a great way to get rebanned.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:12 PM (cPsPa)

176 So - we had a little get together earlier today for my older brother's b-day (65 which makes me feel old) and his daughter's December college graduation. It took her 7 friggin' years! She told me that's not unusual these days - what is unusual is for kids to finish in 4.

I don't get it. Considering what college costs nowadays, why drag it out so long? I didn't want to spend 7 years in college - I wanted to finish up and get on with life. I knew people who finished up in 3 and a half or even 3 years, and college wasn't nearly as expensive then.

The upside I guess, is that she majored in accounting and not Womyn's studies and Queer Art or something.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 08, 2017 11:12 PM (P8951)

177 @171 In Cooth's defense he never accused anyone of being Ira. Just mentioned the name. I think after the trauma he has been thru he should be unbanned.
-------------

Apparently he thought he was unbanned when the thread started.

Posted by: junior at January 08, 2017 11:12 PM (j+Rx3)

178 trump
trump
trump

deport
deport
deport


build da wall
build da wall
build da wall


winning!

Posted by: Original Jake at January 08, 2017 11:12 PM (jrFgU)

179 Wichita Lineman is one of the first songs I remember hearing on the radio. I was eight or nine years old.

Posted by: rickl at January 08, 2017 11:12 PM (sdi6R)

180 Shit now I feel old ha


Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:06 PM (nDcc3)

I always thought you were a kid too. You're not? Didn't you just get married?

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:12 PM (D2vc1)

181 Wichita Lineman - electric company lineman! ("Searchin' in the Sun for another overload...")

Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh at January 08, 2017 11:12 PM (kP16F)

182 May I humbly request healing prayers from the Horde?

My 53 year old baby sister has been experiencing increasingly serious memory issues, culminating in a fender bender blocks from her home, and she couldn't remember where she was.

I spoke with her husband, a physician, and they are both concerned that it may very well be early-onset Alzheimer's (family history there).

I'm hopeful that it's something less serious, more amenable to treatment.

That they have a 16 year old daughter isn't helping.

Posted by: ibguy at January 08, 2017 11:13 PM (vUcdz)

183 The day opened with celebrities creaming themselves with a Farewell Obama video, and closed with anti-Trump derangement at the GGs.

Posted by: logprof at January 08, 2017 11:13 PM (GsAUU)

184 I didn't even know the Golden Globes were on tonight.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 08, 2017 11:14 PM (P8951)

185 Have to say the script writers and director made it work very well. Two thumbs up ,
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (IDPbH)


Wifey and I enjoyed it, too Denzel is just plain good. We were surprised it didn't do better at the box office.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 08, 2017 11:14 PM (nvMvs)

186 Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:12 PM (D2vc1)

I'm 32, soon to be married.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:14 PM (nDcc3)

187 He really wasn't that bad but maybe I mssed something.
OK, now I get the 2nd banning. It really was conditional that he stop mentioning Ira and didn't.

In Cooth's defense he never accused anyone of being Ira. Just mentioned the name. I think after the trauma he has been thru he should be unbanned.


Posted by: Farmer at January 08, 2017 11:11 PM (o/90i)



That's what makes it weak. Someone less petty would have recognized that as a throwaway line and let it go.

Posted by: buzzion at January 08, 2017 11:14 PM (cAnNx)

188 The upside I guess, is that she majored in accounting
.........
The rules changed some years ago and an accounting degree for someone wanting a CPA is now min 5 years

Posted by: Original Jake at January 08, 2017 11:14 PM (jrFgU)

189 Murphy's other oldfriend shows up in town meets with Cora and Murphy. Wondering who will kill the other, they say...

Posted by: Gunsmoke! 1955 at January 08, 2017 11:15 PM (Mt8T4)

190 Posted by: ibguy at January 08, 2017 11:13 PM (vUcdz)

Prayers on the way.

Alzheimer's runs in our family too, as does cancer.

I fear Alzheimer's even more.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 08, 2017 11:15 PM (P8951)

191

You just reminded how much I miss Metalocalypse.

Great cartoon. I do c-c-c-c-cocaine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUh2EYX-RPE



Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:15 PM (FYB4N)

192 132 Tuna, I love that song too.

A few months back I asked the Horde whether Glen was singing about a lineman for the phone company or the power company. No one could agree.

Phone company, pretty sure. Haunting song.

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at January 08, 2017 11:16 PM (nQ10o)

193 It took me five, because I transferred after my first year, losing a bunch of credits, and then tried to make it up by overloading myself my first year at my new school... with the predictable results.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 08, 2017 11:16 PM (FYrz1)

194 so fiat is thinking of builiding a $130,000 grand wagoneer. good job obama, selling chrysler to the italians.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:17 PM (cPsPa)

195 I'm 32, soon to be married.


Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:14 PM (nDcc3)

Gotcha, so I was close, had you pegged in your 20's.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:17 PM (D2vc1)

196 Some special anniversary?
Posted by: Farmer at January 08, 2017 10:53 PM (o/90i)

--Didn't read the content, eh?
A Moron through and through.
Posted by: logprof at January 08, 2017 10:56

What? We're supposed to read the content? That is making this blog too much work.

I usually do, too lazy tonight after a long day of work. I'm tarrdh and just here for shits and giggles.

Posted by: Farmer at January 08, 2017 11:17 PM (o/90i)

197 The rules changed some years ago and an accounting degree for someone wanting a CPA is now min 5 years
Posted by: Original Jake at January 08, 2017 11:14 PM (jrFgU)

Well, that makes sense then, I guess, since she changed her major.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 08, 2017 11:17 PM (P8951)

198 Wiki says the guy who wrote Wichita Lineman was inspired seeing an Oklahoma telephone lineman, who were county employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_Lineman


Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2017 11:18 PM (XoldI)

199
Wichita Lineman - electric company lineman! ("Searchin' in the Sun for another overload...")
Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh


But he hears people in the wires?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2017 11:18 PM (IqV8l)

200 Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:17 PM (D2vc1)

If you ever saw me in person and I was fully shaved? I look like I just graduated highschool.

Well maybe not that young anymore but still in college.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:18 PM (nDcc3)

201 Jack in the Box tacos are yummy if, and it's a big if, you aren't an authentic taco snob like us in So Cal. However I was raised east coast years ago and the damn thing tastes like the Old El Paso taco kits my mom would treat us to occasionally on Friday nights. So for sentimental reasons, that crappy dog meat, American cheese and inauthentic sauce on a hard shell gives me a warm feeling and I remember my sweet mom. RIP.

Posted by: keena at January 08, 2017 11:18 PM (RiTnx)

202 I'm tarrdh and just here for shits and giggles.
Posted by: Farmer at January 08, 2017 11:17 PM (o/90i)

That's what Jack in The Box is for. Well, not so much the giggles part.

Posted by: josephistan at January 08, 2017 11:18 PM (7qAYi)

203 By the time he got to Phoenix "she'll be rising."

Posted by: Ruthless at January 08, 2017 11:18 PM (ro5Th)

204 Gotcha, so I was close, had you pegged in your 20's.
Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:17 PM (D2vc1)

Phrasing!

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 11:18 PM (0mRoj)

205 Mr. McBeevee!

I miss him. My only true friend.

Posted by: Ron Howard at January 08, 2017 11:19 PM (DW+jj)

206 That's what Jack in The Box is for. Well, not so much the giggles part.
Posted by: josephistan at January 08, 2017 11:18 PM (7qAYi)




doesn't jack in the box have food concession in the barrel?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:19 PM (cPsPa)

207 Murphy fights 5 men, gets gun arm broken, has it bandaged by little miss missile-tits. Murphy gathers herd, tries to take the herd to town. Evil bad guys light fires to scare the herd!

Posted by: Gunsmoke! 1955 at January 08, 2017 11:20 PM (Mt8T4)

208 >>>156 A few months back I asked the Horde whether Glen was
singing about a lineman for the phone company or the power company. No
one could agree.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (u8kLQ)

Was he on the county payroll, or was the county his job's territory?

---
lol
i thought it had to do with the railroad

Posted by: concrete girl at January 08, 2017 11:20 PM (9n9b6)

209 118 Yes! A continuation of the sex talk last night....now I just gotta find TKAW, Chi, Miley and bebe...........
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:01 PM (nDcc3)

You rang?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 08, 2017 11:20 PM (otmJ4)

210 You rang?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 08, 2017 11:20 PM (otmJ4)




why are you quoting john kerry?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:21 PM (cPsPa)

211
By the time he got to Phoenix "she'll be rising."

Finally!

Great sad song.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:22 PM (FYB4N)

212 206 doesn't jack in the box have food concession in the barrel?
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:19 PM (cPsPa)


Chipotle won that contract recently. But don't expect the over-the-counter food. Think dumpster, and a week of aging.

Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 11:22 PM (iMxBJ)

213 Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 08, 2017 11:20 PM (otmJ4)

nooooiiiiiiiiceeee

sex talk died off pretty quickly, someone was asking if anyone from the horde knew why you get that weird feeling in your nether regions when you hit that weightless feeling going down fast.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:22 PM (nDcc3)

214 It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds, and the inkstains that are dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my memory, it keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory, and for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheat fields and the clotheslines and the junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman's crying to her mother 'cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face, and the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walking on the back roads, by the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from a gurgling cracklin' cauldron in some trainyard
My beard a roughening coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands around the tin can, I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
that you're waiting from the back roads by the rivers of my memories, ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:22 PM (u8kLQ)

215 Da white wimmen. Where dey at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at January 08, 2017 11:22 PM (TRzoP)

216 147 MISSTAMMY come back MISSTAMMY!
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:05 PM (cPsP

Yeah. Wtf, I just got here!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 08, 2017 11:23 PM (otmJ4)

217 Telephone wires don't sing and whine -- electric lines do, though!

Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh at January 08, 2017 11:23 PM (kP16F)

218 192
That song came out while I was a sophomore in college. My friends and I played it constantly. Glen Campbell had a way with lyrics. Great musical sense. I had no idea at the time what a real guitar talent he was.

Posted by: Tuna at January 08, 2017 11:23 PM (JSovD)

219 Since we're doing GAINZZ stuff, I've been doing 24 hour intermittent fasts for about 12 days (and one 30 hour one). I started at 235# (I am 5"11" but have a large frame) and have lost two belt notches so far. (Don't have a scale, so going by the way my clothes fit.) Aiming to get down to 220 which has always been a pretty comfortable weight for me. I am 76, so getting off my lawn would be a good strategy.

Posted by: Ruthless at January 08, 2017 11:24 PM (ro5Th)

220 The one and only Clint Eastwood movie I've never seen (and never intend to) is the one he made with Streep.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 08, 2017 11:24 PM (gAXee)

221 Yeah. Wtf, I just got here!
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 08, 2017 11:23 PM (otmJ4)





they had one job

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:24 PM (cPsPa)

222 217 Telephone wires don't sing and whine -- electric lines do, though!

Artistic license, perhaps. Song lyrics only make sense if the wires are phone wires.

Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at January 08, 2017 11:25 PM (nQ10o)

223 190 Donna

Thank you. Me, too.

Posted by: ibguy at January 08, 2017 11:25 PM (vUcdz)

224 With no slight intended on the excellent ONT content -- that millennials video in the sidebar is amazing. The guy is completely sympathetic, and completely has their number. He seems super-smart.

Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 11:25 PM (iMxBJ)

225
By The Time I Get To Phoenix...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCoUqU4gg3Q

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:25 PM (FYB4N)

226 After all this Jack In the Box talk, I'm gonna have to go try some this week.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:25 PM (D2vc1)

227
Mr. McBeevee!

I miss him. My only true friend.
Posted by: Ron Howard


He goes through the trees wearing a silver hat.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2017 11:25 PM (IqV8l)

228 >>>217 Telephone wires don't sing and whine
---
They can sing in the wind.

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2017 11:25 PM (XoldI)

229 With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
Attributed to von Neumann by Enrico Fermi, as quoted by Freeman Dyson in "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" in Nature 427 (22 January 2004) p. 297

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2017 11:26 PM (e8kgV)

230 226 After all this Jack In the Box talk, I'm gonna have to go try some this week.
Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:25 PM (D2vc1)




you should make a point not to read articles about herpes and guys getting gangraped in prison.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:26 PM (cPsPa)

231 Shower truck is a great idea. Now the government will regulate him out of existence and replace it with government funded shower trucks at 10 times the cost.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2017 11:26 PM (dnWSK)

232 226
After all this Jack In the Box talk, I'm gonna have to go try some this week.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:25 PM (D2vc1)

If you like cheesecake, try theirs.

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2017 11:26 PM (XoldI)

233 Da white wimmen. Where dey at?

Taking down their Christmas decorations.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 08, 2017 11:26 PM (IcT7t)

234 Turn that herd! Cross the river! Miss missle-tits loves Murphy.

Posted by: Gunsmoke! 1955 at January 08, 2017 11:26 PM (Mt8T4)

235 By the time I get to Phoenix.... Used to sing that song and plunk on my old Guild flattop. Great days when folk was still a thing.

Posted by: Ruthless at January 08, 2017 11:27 PM (ro5Th)

236 Oh, oh, telephone line, give me some time, I'm living in twilight

Posted by: ELO at January 08, 2017 11:28 PM (7qAYi)

237
I'd say that would make my top 5 saddest songs list.

Other sad songs?

Definitely this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LVXR6rjXs


(it's Mr Bojangles, if you didn't already guess)

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:28 PM (FYB4N)

238 I carefully monitored the previous thread for any insinuation that my virtue might be in question. It was a close-run thing.

Posted by: Miss Kitty at January 08, 2017 11:28 PM (97XyN)

239 If all you know Glenn Campbell for is "Rhinestone Cowboy" then you've missed a lot. It was his big cheesy pop hit but the guy was an amazing musician and singer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2017 11:28 PM (39g3+)

240
Normal people would think The Wreck of The Edward Fitzsimmons is sad. I don't. I think the song is hilarious.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:28 PM (FYB4N)

241 so, when you wear long underwear, do you wear underwear beneath them?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:29 PM (cPsPa)

242 "The one and only Clint Eastwood movie I've never seen (and never intend to) is the one he made with Streep."

No great loss. It was awful. Never could understand why Eastwood wasted his time on it.

Posted by: Tuna at January 08, 2017 11:29 PM (JSovD)

243 237
I'd say that would make my top 5 saddest songs list.

Other sad songs?

Definitely this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LVXR6rjXs


(it's Mr Bojangles, if you didn't already guess)
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:28 PM (FYB4N)

That is one of the saddest songs ever. Baby Jane by Leon Russell ranks number one on my sad song chart.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 11:29 PM (0mRoj)

244 Patents that have expired.
------------

AR-7 patent = expired.

Go for it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2017 11:29 PM (ZO497)

245 214:
Glen Campbell's daughter Ashley and The Band Perry both have great renditions of Gentle On My Mind.

Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2017 11:29 PM (CLKfs)

246 I carefully monitored the previous thread for any insinuation that my virtue might be in question. It was a close-run thing.

You were a whore. But you got out of the business and bought the Longbranch, so...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2017 11:30 PM (39g3+)

247 215 Da white wimmen. Where dey at?
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at January 08, 2017 11:22 PM (TRzoP)

Park City, Utah and Aspen, Colorado.

Posted by: Pepe at January 08, 2017 11:30 PM (tPC7s)

248 And....Jack in the Box makes their shakes out of real ice cream. I'm looking at you McDs! They are delicious! Don't even ask the calorie count.

Posted by: keena at January 08, 2017 11:30 PM (RiTnx)

249 @242 No great loss. It was awful. Never could understand why Eastwood wasted his time on it.
-----------

Was that Bridges of Madison County? I understand it was an adaptation of a novel that was popular at the time.

Posted by: junior at January 08, 2017 11:30 PM (j+Rx3)

250 His dog up and died. He up and died. After twenty years he still grieves.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2017 11:30 PM (IqV8l)

251 who wants sad stuff? sad stuff is the nitrogen of stuff.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:30 PM (cPsPa)

252 231 Shower truck is a great idea. Now the government will regulate him out of existence and replace it with government funded shower trucks at 10 times the cost.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2017 11:26 PM (dnWSK)


There's a true story about that, from San Francisco. Someone pointed out that it was hard to find bathrooms in San Francisco. So they figured they'd put some Porta-potties on the street. Nice inexpensive solution, right?BUT...that wouldn't work for people in wheelchairs, so they had to be big porta-potties. BUT...if you put big porta potties on the street, homeless people would just sleep in them. So you have a really fancy Porta-pottie that opens its door automatically after 20 minutes. Now they are super-expensive, but they spent a huge amount of money and put them out there. The junkies immediately recognized them as the perfect place to shoot up. They were sold for pennies on the dollar.

Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 11:30 PM (iMxBJ)

253 241 so, when you wear long underwear, do you wear underwear beneath them?
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:29 PM (cPsPa)

I do so I can wear the long underwear more than once before washing.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 11:30 PM (IDPbH)

254 Murphy must drive the herd over the burned moutain, in order to make the delivery deadline. Kisses Miss missile-tits!!!

Posted by: Gunsmoke! 1955 at January 08, 2017 11:31 PM (Mt8T4)

255 LASue, will look for those. Thanks!

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:31 PM (u8kLQ)

256 The saddest song ever written. George Jones is a bastard for even singing this, it just rips me up inside.

https://youtu.be/ubKUP8c0FHE

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2017 11:31 PM (39g3+)

257
I started at 235# (I am 5"11" but have a large frame) and have lost two belt notches so far. (Don't have a scale, so going by the way my clothes fit.)

That's the way to do it -- the scale is meaningless, mostly.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:31 PM (FYB4N)

258 Jack in the Box is terrible food, but they have a huge menu of crap to make up for it. Sort of.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2017 11:32 PM (39g3+)

259 30 226 After all this Jack In the Box talk, I'm gonna have to go try some this week.
Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:25 PM (D2vc1)




you should make a point not to read articles about herpes and guys getting gangraped in prison.
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:26 PM (cPsPa)

That turned dark fast.

Posted by: Pepe at January 08, 2017 11:32 PM (tPC7s)

260 Farmer, Did Streep shoot off her big, stupid mouth about Trump at the Golden Globes?
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 08, 2017 11:06

She never mentioned his name, but she roundly condemned him for "her community". Bitch, who really doesn't understand the country that made her a millionaire.

It's her free speech right to take this stage and use it for politics. It's my right to never buy anything this leftist idiot puts out for sale.

Posted by: Farmer at January 08, 2017 11:32 PM (o/90i)

261 Brendon Small is making a Galaktikon II album next year. The first one is sell-produced non-Metalocalypse music.

Galaktikon

https://youtu.be/6_FhwS43IYE?t=4m3s

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 08, 2017 11:32 PM (VdICR)

262 I started at 235# (I am 5"11" but have a large frame) and have lost two belt notches so far. (Don't have a scale, so going by the way my clothes fit.)

That's the way to do it -- the scale is meaningless, mostly.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:31 PM (FYB4N)




you lost notches in your belt? how do you get unfucked?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:32 PM (cPsPa)

263 Glen Campbell could at least actually play the guitar...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh0F2sMcr_4

Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh at January 08, 2017 11:32 PM (kP16F)

264 Saddest song but one of my favorites is Almost Home by Craig Morgan.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 11:33 PM (IDPbH)

265 213 why you get that weird feeling in your nether regions when you hit that weightless feeling going down fast.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:22 PM (nDcc3)

What's the point of going down if it's so fast you achieve weightlessness? Nobody is going to enjoy that. Not to mention inducing hurlishness.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 08, 2017 11:33 PM (otmJ4)

266 Jack in the Box tacos are yummy if

...you grew up eating expired cat food and rotted pork for every meal and don't know any better

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2017 11:33 PM (39g3+)

267 you should make a point not to read articles about herpes and guys getting gangraped in prison.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:26 PM (cPsPa)

Too late.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:33 PM (D2vc1)

268 Islams biggest prob is they don't celebrate women
no boobehs
no smiles


just rape and violence

Posted by: Original Jake at January 08, 2017 11:33 PM (jrFgU)

269 oh, it appears I've bollixed up the lyrics to yet another song I've liked for decades.
---

Well, I recognized the song you were referencing immediately.

So.. I think it's all good.


Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 08, 2017 11:33 PM (J5mC3)

270 you lost notches in your belt?

Well, OK, I didn't LOSE them, but I can wear my belt two notches tighter. Nitpicker.

Posted by: Ruthless at January 08, 2017 11:34 PM (ro5Th)

271 248 And....Jack in the Box makes their shakes out of real ice cream. I'm looking at you McDs! They are delicious! Don't even ask the calorie count.
Posted by: keena at January 08, 2017 11:30 PM (RiTnx

Large Baskin Robins Milkshake is 7 bucks and 2000 calories. But it's the bomb.

Posted by: Pepe at January 08, 2017 11:34 PM (tPC7s)

272 If you like Glen Campbell and don't mind crying, watch "I'll be Me". It's on Netflix.

Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2017 11:34 PM (CLKfs)

273 249
Yup. Book was crapful also. I thought Eastwood's involvement in the movie would somehow improve upon the novel. I was mistaken.

Posted by: Tuna at January 08, 2017 11:34 PM (JSovD)

274
That weird feeling when you drop in an elevator? It's due to the upset of your balance system and is all related to motion sickness, sea sickness, and vertigo. You've got these little "rocks" in your ears that tell your brain which way is down, and respond to inertial forces due to acceleration.

Now, your brain also uses visual clues, naturally using your surroudings as a reference frame. When you're inside an elevator, you experience some little inertial "blips", which the balance system detects. But your visual reference frame doesn't agree that you're moving.

The result of that is motion sickness and related. If you go into space, once in free fall, you're gonna be weightless and you'll get "space sickness", until you adapt. The "vomit comet" is a training thing which first introduces one to longer than momentary weightlessness.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 08, 2017 11:35 PM (DW+jj)

275 I do so I can wear the long underwear more than once before washing.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 11:30 PM (IDPbH)




yeah, that was my thought to though I had a hunting buddy who would go long johns only. guess it didi not matter since he probably only had one pair of underwear and one pair of long johns and was not the type to do laundry weekly.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:35 PM (cPsPa)

276 "Gentle on My Mind" was written by the late great John Hartford.

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

Here's Glen and John performing it together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svI0X19AFfQ

Posted by: rickl at January 08, 2017 11:35 PM (sdi6R)

277 Normal people would think The Wreck of The Edward Fitzsimmons is sad. I don't. I think the song is hilarious.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:28 PM (FYB4N)

Fitzgerald, big guy.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:35 PM (D2vc1)

278 I lost nachos in my belt. But I found them, eventually.

Posted by: Michael Moore at January 08, 2017 11:35 PM (iMxBJ)

279
Islams biggest prob is they don't celebrate women

no boobehs

no smiles


just rape and violence
---

But it works for them, beause they've been inbred for hundreds of years, and their method of raising children is, at best, highly, highly disfunctional and borders abuse.

So really, in their world, the rape and the violence is a feature not a bug.

Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 08, 2017 11:35 PM (J5mC3)

280 isn't weightlessness achieved by going up?


is this a physics test?

Posted by: Original Jake at January 08, 2017 11:35 PM (jrFgU)

281 249 @242 No great loss. It was awful. Never could understand why Eastwood wasted his time on it.
-----------

Was that Bridges of Madison County? I understand it was an adaptation of a novel that was popular at the time.
Posted by: junior at January 08, 2017 11:30 PM (j+Rx3)

Let me guess. An Oprah book club pick?

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 11:36 PM (0mRoj)

282 I am alone. But that's okay, it's the way of the world. Or at least my world. Such as it was.

G'night.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 08, 2017 11:36 PM (MZcWR)

283 Government Shower Trucks?

Germany had 'em first.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 08, 2017 11:36 PM (v5iqM)

284 bebe, I knew when I pressed post I should have specified

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:36 PM (nDcc3)

285 Ibguy, prayers are sent for your sister and her family. For you too.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at January 08, 2017 11:36 PM (V+03K)

286 Dairy Queen makes great milkshakes. Just be careful around their food, I got so sick from DQ meal I thought I would die from dehydration puking so hard.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2017 11:36 PM (39g3+)

287 277 Normal people would think The Wreck of The Edward Fitzsimmons is sad. I don't. I think the song is hilarious.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:28 PM (FYB4N)

Fitzgerald, big guy.
Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:35 PM (D2vc1)

Edmund, as well.

Posted by: ELO at January 08, 2017 11:37 PM (7qAYi)

288 Never could understand why Eastwood wasted his time on it.

Might have been a moneymaker so he could do his own thing, but I don't know. Favor to Meryl Streep, maybe.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2017 11:37 PM (39g3+)

289 Government Shower Trucks?

Germany had 'em first.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 08, 2017 11:36 PM (v5iqM)




yep, that is exactly where that goes.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:37 PM (cPsPa)

290 too many Texan men had died in other states,

-
John Bell Hood literally gave an arm and a leg.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 08, 2017 11:37 PM (Nwg0u)

291 240 Normal people would think The Wreck of The Edward Fitzsimmons is sad. I don't. I think the song is hilarious.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:28 PM (FYB4N)


You may have a point.

As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most

So you're saying it was big, right?

With a crew and good captain well seasoned

Salt? Pepper? Thyme?

Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 11:37 PM (iMxBJ)

292 Never could understand why Eastwood wasted his time on it.

Might have been a moneymaker so he could do his own thing, but I don't know. Favor to Meryl Streep, maybe.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2017 11:37 PM (39g3+)




so he could schtup streep.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:38 PM (cPsPa)

293 Edmund, as well.

Posted by: ELO at January 08, 2017 11:37 PM (7qAYi)

Damn, missed it.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 08, 2017 11:38 PM (D2vc1)

294 Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 08, 2017 11:35 PM (DW+jj)

I think all of the amusement parks have the falling elevator ride. I'm sure there are some puke stains around each one.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 11:38 PM (IDPbH)

295 Quote V
=======
"Evil seeks to maintain power by suppressing the truth."

-- Mister Spock, "And The Children Shall Lead"

Quote VI
=======
[In response to Obama's Pentagon Medal:] "Sounds about right for a president who bombed 7 nations and
became the first in U.S. history to be at war every single day of his
eight year administration."

-- Ron Paul

Posted by: ShainS at January 08, 2017 11:38 PM (mt8X9)

296 290 too many Texan men had died in other states,

-
John Bell Hood literally gave an arm and a leg.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 08, 2017 11:37 PM (Nwg0u)

I know exactly how he felt.

*sobs*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 08, 2017 11:38 PM (0mRoj)

297 With a crew and good captain well seasoned

Salt? Pepper? Thyme?
Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 11:37 PM (iMxBJ)

Salt.... of course...

Posted by: Don Q., retired Salty Sea Dog at January 08, 2017 11:38 PM (qf6WZ)

298 286 Dairy Queen makes great milkshakes. Just be careful around their food, I got so sick from DQ meal I thought I would die from dehydration puking so hard.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2017 11:36 PM (39g3+)

Don't be silly. Food poisoning at the DQ is an American rite of passage.

Posted by: Pepe at January 08, 2017 11:38 PM (tPC7s)

299 Bridges of Madison County sold millions of copies. It was a piece of crap about a Nat. Geo photographer and a farm wife who had an affair while her husband and children were away at the State Fair.

Posted by: Ruthless at January 08, 2017 11:39 PM (ro5Th)

300 Posted by: ShainS at January 08, 2017 11:38 PM (mt8X9)

Blind squirrel, acorn.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:39 PM (nDcc3)

301 More Campbell guitar work...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUBhE00h9U0

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2017 11:40 PM (XoldI)

302 286 Dairy Queen makes great milkshakes. Just be careful around their food, I got so sick from DQ meal I thought I would die from dehydration puking so hard.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor



I LOVE Dairy Queen. I've never had any issues with any food there. DQ's are hard to locate here in NoVA but they are every where in PA. Love them.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 08, 2017 11:40 PM (pY+s4)

303 Prayers sent, ibguy

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at January 08, 2017 11:40 PM (di1hb)

304 Don't be silly. Food poisoning at the DQ is an American rite of passage.
--

Never had it at DQ.

However.... I had a really bad experience with McDonalds that ended up with a car ferry being delayed. Will not eat there to this day.

Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 08, 2017 11:40 PM (J5mC3)

305 wait
an elevator dropping out from under you is now weightlessness?



how?

I get love in an elevator but not this

??

Posted by: Original Jake at January 08, 2017 11:40 PM (jrFgU)

306 284 bebe, I knew when I pressed post I should have specified
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:36 PM (nDcc3)

What did you think I was going to do with a low hanging curve like that? I'm shocked no one else is running with it. It's like I don't know you people anymore.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 08, 2017 11:40 PM (otmJ4)

307 Sheriff and little Miss missile-tits think Murphy can make delivery on time over the mountain! Disgruntled cowhand plots with evil guys otherwise...

Posted by: Gunsmoke! 1955 at January 08, 2017 11:40 PM (Mt8T4)

308 299 Bridges of Madison County sold millions of copies. It was a piece of crap about a Nat. Geo photographer and a farm wife who had an affair while her husband and children were away at the State Fair.
Posted by: Ruthless at January 08, 2017 11:39 PM (ro5Th)

In other words, American mommy porn.

Posted by: Pepe at January 08, 2017 11:41 PM (tPC7s)

309 meh, done with dq, buffet owns it now.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:41 PM (cPsPa)

310 She never mentioned his name, but she roundly condemned him for "her community". Bitch, who really doesn't understand the country that made her a millionaire.

-
"Her community"? Bubble-headed big mouths?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 08, 2017 11:42 PM (Nwg0u)

311 Will not eat there to this day.

It only takes the once, that's for sure.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2017 11:42 PM (39g3+)

312 DQ is the home of the Blizzard.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 11:42 PM (IDPbH)

313 Never could understand why Eastwood wasted his time on it.

Might have been a moneymaker so he could do his own thing, but I don't know. Favor to Meryl Streep, maybe.


Probably lost a bet and did the movie so he wouldn't have to sleep with her.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 08, 2017 11:42 PM (IcT7t)

314
In other words, American mommy porn.
Posted by: Pepe at January 08, 2017 11:41 PM (tPC7s)

With Merrel Streep instead of a MILF.....

Posted by: Don Q., retired Salty Sea Dog at January 08, 2017 11:42 PM (qf6WZ)

315 11:48

Posted by: Original Jake at January 08, 2017 11:42 PM (jrFgU)

316 304 Don't be silly. Food poisoning at the DQ is an American rite of passage.
--

Never had it at DQ.

However.... I had a really bad experience with McDonalds that ended up with a car ferry being delayed. Will not eat there to this day.
Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 08, 2017 11:40 PM (J5mC3)

I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you.

Posted by: Pepe at January 08, 2017 11:42 PM (tPC7s)

317 312 DQ is the home of the Blizzard.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 11:42 PM (IDPbH)


So is Buffalo, but they have the good sense to brag about their chicken wings instead.

Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 11:43 PM (iMxBJ)

318 Roy Clark could play guitar...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxDQQDF6j0Y

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2017 11:43 PM (XoldI)

319 "What's going on AshevilleRobert, I'm trying to remember you had something going on."

Yeah, I was taking out the garbage for pickup tomorrow, if they make it out in the snow ice.

Other than that, I'm just trying to keep my head above water, so to speak.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 08, 2017 11:44 PM (w+Jhj)

320 314
In other words, American mommy porn.
Posted by: Pepe at January 08, 2017 11:41 PM (tPC7s)

With Merrel Streep instead of a MILF.....
Posted by: Don Q., retired Salty Sea Dog at January 08, 2017 11:42 PM (qf6WZ)

I was thinking more along the lines of the 50 shades target audience and Ace.

Posted by: Pepe at January 08, 2017 11:44 PM (tPC7s)

321 hunh

the church that Charles Martel is buried in is surrounded by moslem ghettos near Pairs according to Mark Steyn

Posted by: Original Jake at January 08, 2017 11:44 PM (jrFgU)

322 A few months back I asked the Horde whether Glen was singing about a lineman for the phone company or the power company. No one could agree.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (u8kLQ)

Since one line line of the song is "searchin' in the sun for another overload", I will go with power lineman, since telephone lines aren't subject to overloads.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2017 11:45 PM (bG+ug)

323 OK, nice spending some time with y'all but it's bedtime here in the Mountain West. Nighty nite.

Posted by: Ruthless at January 08, 2017 11:45 PM (ro5Th)

324 #314, Don Q

Thread winner?

Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh at January 08, 2017 11:45 PM (kP16F)

325 285 Mrs JTB

Thank you so much.

We lost our mother to AD almost 9 years ago. Just can't imagine losing my baby sis to it now.

Really hoping and praying it's something else.

Posted by: ibguy at January 08, 2017 11:45 PM (vUcdz)

326 I was thinking more along the lines of the 50 shades target audience and Ace.
Posted by: Pepe at January 08, 2017 11:44 PM (tPC7s)



50 shades of doctor doolittle

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:45 PM (cPsPa)

327 Nighters Rons and Ettes. Off to bed to watch Archer and fall asleep.

Posted by: Pepe at January 08, 2017 11:45 PM (tPC7s)

328 Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:22

OK, are you Irish or just kinda weird?

I forget, must take notes here at AOSHQ.

Disclaimer: may be too drunk to take notes mostsome nights.

Posted by: Farmer at January 08, 2017 11:45 PM (o/90i)

329 Murphy plans ambush! Night-time shootout, badguys lose! Cow herd to railhead, maybe in time...

Posted by: Gunsmoke! 1955 at January 08, 2017 11:45 PM (Mt8T4)

330 Sad song? Tom Waits -'Martha'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2017 11:46 PM (ZO497)

331 Roy Clark was amazing on the guitar. I've said this before, but I grew up thinking Hee Haw was corn pone lame and knew nothing about Buck Owens or Roy Clark except those guys that told stupid jokes. I never knew how amazing both of them were as musical legends and now I wish it was back on because I love those old dumb jokes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2017 11:46 PM (39g3+)

332 Jake,

You're standing in an elevator. It drops. There is no force countering gravity on you. You are briefly weightless, or weigh much less than you normally do, until the elevator reaches it's normal speed. Which will happen very quickly.

When you go up, you will be briefly feel more than 1g, as you must be accelerated upwards against gravity.

If you jump off a building, you'll be in free fall briefly, until air resistance becomes appreciable, which happens fairly quickly, IIRC.

When you jump up and down, you usually don't get that funny feeling, because your visual input agrees with your balance system that you are moving.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 08, 2017 11:46 PM (DW+jj)

333 Nighters Rons and Ettes. Off to bed to watch Archer and fall asleep.
Posted by: Pepe at January 08, 2017 11:45 PM (tPC7s)



the subliminal effects of that cannot be good for you.


night.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:46 PM (cPsPa)

334 Good night Horde

Posted by: josephistan at January 08, 2017 11:46 PM (7qAYi)

335 Murphy plans ambush! Night-time shootout, badguys lose! Cow herd to railhead, maybe in time...
Posted by: Gunsmoke
-----------

Does Murphy wear a white hat?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2017 11:47 PM (ZO497)

336 282 I am alone. But that's okay, it's the way of the world. Or at least my world. Such as it was.

G'night.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 08, 2017 11:36 PM (MZcWR)

Dude. I feel you, just remember you have us.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 08, 2017 11:47 PM (0mRoj)

337 Shibumi's Sunday Night Confession.

Please do not think too poorly of me.

In 2015, I quit a gig where I was on retainer. I'm not upset I quit; it was the right thing to do, and I got to tell the boss who was the biggest problem exactly what I thought. That was satisfying.

BTW, I have excellent verbal skills and took debate in high school and college. They do not have those skills.

Because we're in the same industry, I was required to have contact with them last year. It was horrible for problem boss, who sounded like he was having a breakdown when I had to talk to him.

Fast forward to this past summer/ fall. I have a fairly physically demanding part-time summer gig. It was the summer of sciatica and bursitis. Then... we found out this fall, the venue was closing. Did I mention my car now has a cardiologist?

Well, the week after Christmas, I sent the idiots a note saying that I would be available to do freelance work for them, and that since we'd have minimal contact, we would be unlikely to have the same issues we had in the past.

Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 08, 2017 11:48 PM (J5mC3)

338 Farmer: Italian and Irish extraction.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:48 PM (u8kLQ)

339

Remember my 'guaranteed' prediction: Lions will fire Jim Caldwell tomorrow.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:48 PM (FYB4N)

340 very artsy interlude in "Flaming Star" while Delores Del Rio plays a Kiowa going out into the western windiness to die in her night gown

Posted by: booknlass at January 08, 2017 11:48 PM (hNFnI)

341 184 I didn't even know the Golden Globes were on tonight.
Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there


Most people no longer watch that crap, and guess why. Do those people honestly think that we all sit around with baited breath, waiting to hear them spew their political views?

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 08, 2017 11:48 PM (+lVUW)

342 His dog up and died. He up and died. After twenty years he still grieves.

-
Mr. Bo Bama? Hell, he ate the damn dog!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 08, 2017 11:48 PM (Nwg0u)

343 Sounds like celebrities are running out of causes, if that's all they got. What, Jack-in-the-Box is guilty of cultural appropriation?

Posted by: rickl at January 08, 2017 11:04 PM (sdi6R)

Seriously, we need to find a way to fund some mouthy asshole to buy a ticket to events like that, so that when Meryl Streep pops up and lets a clanger like that escape her piehole, he can jump up and shout, "Jesus Christ, Meryl, you're a stupid cunt!" Of course he'd get thrown out, but it would be totally worth it.

(and not just Meryl; there's a plethora of moonbats of both genders to which it's applicable)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2017 11:49 PM (bG+ug)

344 Ibguy, Sincerely hope it is not alzheimers. Lost my dad to that tragic disease in September.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at January 08, 2017 11:49 PM (V+03K)

345 The arc of history is bending away from Obama.

Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 11:49 PM (iMxBJ)

346 "Since one line line of the song is "searchin' in the
sun for another overload", I will go with power lineman, since
telephone lines aren't subject to overloads.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"

I'm sorry, all circuits are busy. Please hang up and try your call again later.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 08, 2017 11:49 PM (w+Jhj)

347 Woof. Seriously.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 08, 2017 11:50 PM (TRzoP)

348 303 Iron Mike

Thank you so much.

Posted by: ibguy at January 08, 2017 11:50 PM (vUcdz)

349 Seriously, we need to find a way to fund some mouthy asshole to buy a
ticket to events like that, so that when Meryl Streep pops up and lets a
clanger like that escape her piehole, he can jump up and shout, "Jesus
Christ, Meryl, you're a stupid cunt!" Of course he'd get thrown out, but
it would be totally worth it.



(and not just Meryl; there's a plethora of moonbats of both genders to which it's applicable)
---

That's a crowdfunding project I could get behind!

Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 08, 2017 11:51 PM (J5mC3)

350 Watched the Pianist today for the first time. Made me very angry.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 11:51 PM (IDPbH)

351 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2017 11:49 PM (bG+ug)
I hate the awards shows because they seem like they are accepting awards for curing cancer.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2017 11:51 PM (IgBFP)

352

And later that night when his lights went outta sight
Came the wreck of the Ronald McDonald

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2017 11:51 PM (IqV8l)

353
#332
my CNS must not get it

but thanks

Posted by: Original Jake at January 08, 2017 11:51 PM (jrFgU)

354 Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/818149815313952773

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/818149898084380673

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/818149981542551552

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/818150060001292289

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/818150138887733250

Posted by: kbdabear at January 08, 2017 11:52 PM (Ya7zs)

355 More Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/818150251739680769

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/818150346551869440

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/818150435097866240

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/818150520439377920

Posted by: kbdabear at January 08, 2017 11:53 PM (Ya7zs)

356 350 Watched the Pianist today for the first time. Made me very angry.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 11:51 PM (IDPbH)


Is that the one with the guy playing a piano on roller skates? Or the one where I was hoping that Holly Hunter, who I usually really like, would just drown already and get it over with?

Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 11:53 PM (iMxBJ)

357 I hate the awards shows because they seem like they are accepting giving themselves awards for curing cancer.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2017 11:53 PM (eeTCA)

358 208 >>>156 A few months back I asked the Horde whether Glen was
singing about a lineman for the phone company or the power company. No
one could agree.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:03 PM (u8kLQ)

Was he on the county payroll, or was the county his job's territory?

---
lol
i thought it had to do with the railroad

-
I thought he was selling coke.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 08, 2017 11:53 PM (Nwg0u)

359 So, which seems like the most WTF idea for an anime:

1st, Saving the world by stripping young female cosplayers of their clothes in public; or

2nd, A Japanese "Salaryman" reincarnated as a magic wielding Aryan proto-NAZI loli?

Posted by: What the Hat? at January 08, 2017 11:54 PM (vBeA5)

360

This is a mailed in comment.

Posted by: otho at January 08, 2017 11:54 PM (lmIoG)

361 * DQ Blizzard. Order it with vanilla ice cream, Heath Bar & Oreo Cookie. It is drool-worthy.

* Jack in the Box. Order "off menu". Ultimate Cheeseburger with Bacon, on Sourdough bread. You'll die happy as your heart valves slam shut as you finish the thing.

* I've yet to find fast food fries as good as the olde McD fries, done in beef tallow. They should tell PETA to fk off, and go back to the tallow. Their sales would skyrocket.

* 58, 5'10", 211 lb, getting back down to 190. Porked up over the holidays. My own damn fault, my own good cooking. And plenty of it!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 08, 2017 11:54 PM (v5iqM)

362 The mu.nu server must be in its own time zone. 2004, I think. Must have missed a few quantum leapseconds.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2017 11:54 PM (dnWSK)

363 Wichita Lineman?


Lumberjack.

Posted by: eleven at January 08, 2017 11:55 PM (qUNWi)

364 I didn't even know the Golden Globes were on tonight.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 08, 2017 11:14 PM (P8951)

I always thought they were on Sophia Loren's chest.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2017 11:55 PM (bG+ug)

365 @359 1st, Saving the world by stripping young female cosplayers of their clothes in public; or
-------------

Isn't this basically the plot of the video game Akiba's Trip?

Posted by: junior at January 08, 2017 11:55 PM (j+Rx3)

366 Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 11:51 PM (IDPbH)


I almost bawled during that movie, tough to watch for me.


On that happy note, night horde.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 08, 2017 11:55 PM (nDcc3)

367 Jim do you type that sig line every time?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2017 11:55 PM (dnWSK)

368 I'm phoning this one in. Is that still a thing?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 08, 2017 11:55 PM (TRzoP)

369 "And later that night when his lights went outta sight

Came the wreck of the Ronald McDonald"

The searches all say they'd have made Hamburglar Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her

Posted by: Willy J. at January 08, 2017 11:56 PM (W6Ch1)

370 They should tell PETA to fk off, and go back to the tallow. Their sales would skyrocket.

I think it had more to do with selling their product around the world in places like India than any protests by some splinter group. They wanted them vegetarian. But overall all their product is worse. Dry buns, high school cafeteria fries, tasteless burgers, its just a waste of money. only thing that's the same is fillet-o-fish

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2017 11:56 PM (39g3+)

371 361 * I've yet to find fast food fries as good as the olde McD fries, done in beef tallow. They should tell PETA to fk off, and go back to the tallow. Their sales would skyrocket.
Posted by: Jim at January 08, 2017 11:54 PM (v5iqM)


You can buy beef tallow. You can buy a french fry cutter that attaches to your counter with suction cups. Put the two together, double-fry the fries, and you will have French Fry magic. I'm not speculating, I actually did this, and it was heavenly.

Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 11:56 PM (iMxBJ)

372 "Wichita Lineman" is by Jimmy Webb, a fantastic American pop song writer.

Posted by: navybrat at January 08, 2017 11:56 PM (w7KSn)

373 few thoughts
I like the original Point Break better than the remake


I really like the original Red Dawn but in a lot of ways the remake is a better movie

Posted by: Original Jake at January 08, 2017 11:57 PM (jrFgU)

374 I didn't even know the Golden Globes were on tonight.

Posted by: Donna
-----------

Me either. I thought that they were already dead.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2017 11:57 PM (ZO497)

375 Shit, I missed the golden globes? Said nobody.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2017 11:57 PM (dnWSK)

376 364 I didn't even know the Golden Globes were on tonight.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 08, 2017 11:14 PM (P8951)

I always thought they were on Sophia Loren's chest.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2017 11:55 PM (bG+ug)

Yeah.... really sounds like it should be an award for the top Paid Stripper... or best Porno....

Posted by: Don Q., retired Salty Sea Dog at January 08, 2017 11:57 PM (qf6WZ)

377 I saw Breakaway open for Glen Campbell in Reno in '80.

That's cause I was in Breakaway.

It was a two week stent. He was high as a kite.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2017 11:57 PM (3myMJ)

378 220 The one and only Clint Eastwood movie I've never seen (and never intend to) is the one he made with Streep.
Posted by: GnuBreed


Yeah, I screwed up and bought a ticket to that debacle. It was a romantic story about a ho who cheats on her husband because he and the kids take her for granted. She didn't feel appreciated. It would have been much better if Clint had said to her, "Grow up, bitch."

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 08, 2017 11:57 PM (+lVUW)

379 Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 11:53 PM (iMxBJ)

Don't know if you were joking, but it's the one about the Warsaw Ghetto as told by a famous Jewish pianist.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 11:57 PM (IDPbH)

380 364 I didn't even know the Golden Globes were on tonight.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 08, 2017 11:14 PM (P8951)

--------

Hollywood smugfest. I watch, so you won't have to.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 08, 2017 11:57 PM (TRzoP)

381 Murphy takes herd to railroad and gets paid! Sheriff wants him to marry Miss Missile-tits! Cora and Johnny work for evil banker. Johnny shoots Murphy's backshooter, the evil banker. Sheriff grins, Miss Missle-tits kisses Murphy.

The End

Posted by: Gunsmoke! 1955 at January 08, 2017 11:57 PM (Mt8T4)

382 344 Mrs JTB

So sorry for your loss - what a horrible disease.

If there's any silver lining, it's that there are more treatments available now than when Mom had it.

Posted by: ibguy at January 08, 2017 11:57 PM (vUcdz)

383 navybrat, yup.

Webb also wrote "MacArthur Park."

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:58 PM (u8kLQ)

384 The Golden Globes Awards confirmed by suspicions that this years awards shows are going to be 4 hour versions of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Posted by: kbdabear at January 08, 2017 11:59 PM (Ya7zs)

385 AOP is right. Conservatives need our own Stuttering John to suicide bomb these stupid fucking events.

Plus it would be entertaining as shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 08, 2017 11:59 PM (89T5c)

386 Best movie review evah!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2017 11:59 PM (ZO497)

387 379 Don't know if you were joking, but it's the one about the Warsaw Ghetto as told by a famous Jewish pianist.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2017 11:57 PM (IDPbH)


Oh. I was joking, but not intending to joke about something like that. I thought you were talking about some movie I remember seeing promos for, where a guy was playing the piano while he and the piano kept moving around the whole time. I think he was in a cruise ship. Sorry if I gave offense.

Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 11:59 PM (iMxBJ)

388 I bet a significant portion of domestic food poisoning is due to software serve ice cream machines.

Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2017 12:00 AM (2RVmA)

389 "Her community"? Bubble-headed big mouths?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 08, 2017 11:42 PM (Nwg0u)


Well, her community is her, her husband, their coterie that takes care of appointments and business things, and the hired staff that takes care of the CT estate for her.
The army of domestics and gardeners, you know. They all agree that Trump is horrible, and will deport them. But they are obedient so it is a good deal. So much more observant of the small things, and a much better deal that the staff at Brentwood.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 09, 2017 12:00 AM (xNowh)

390 Gunsmoke used to have some big stars guest-star. Anybody famous play Miss Missle-tits?

Posted by: davidt at January 09, 2017 12:00 AM (XoldI)

391 369 "And later that night when his lights went outta sight

Came the wreck of the Ronald McDonald"

The searches all say they'd have made Hamburglar Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
Posted by: Willy J. at January 08, 2017 11:56 PM (W6Ch1)

They might have gone large
or they might have super sized
but the syrup was out
so it sprayed water....

Posted by: Don Q., retired Salty Sea Dog at January 09, 2017 12:00 AM (qf6WZ)

392
Webb also wrote "MacArthur Park."
Posted by: qdpsteve
-------------

Aw geeze... just shoot me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 09, 2017 12:00 AM (ZO497)

393 Other sad songs?

Whiskey Lullabye by Brad Paisley.
Guy catches his woman screwing another man and drinks himself to death. Then she drinks herself to death out of guilt.
At least they didn't have a dog that drank itself to death. That would have been too sad.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2017 12:01 AM (+lVUW)

394
only thing that's the same is fillet-o-fish
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Which went way up in price.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 09, 2017 12:01 AM (IqV8l)

395 Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 11:59 PM (iMxBJ)

Oh no offense. Actually I didn't want to offend as at aos you never know when someone is asking serious question or making a joke.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 09, 2017 12:02 AM (IDPbH)

396 doesn't jack in the box have food concession in the barrel?
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 08, 2017 11:19 PM (cPsPa)


No, the people who ate there recently do.

Posted by: jwpaine at January 09, 2017 12:02 AM (hoJm7)

397 58, 5'10", 211 lb, getting back down to 190. Porked up over the holidays. My own damn fault, my own good cooking. And plenty of it!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
..........
dude
5'10-210 are not bad numbers if you are strong

what is your Dead Lift?


Pro tip:
you want to grow old peacefully?

get strong, Rippetoe Strong

all the ailments of old people , other than memory, are lack of strength issues

Posted by: Original Jake at January 09, 2017 12:02 AM (jrFgU)

398 The Pianist was a well done depiction of the Nazi occupation of Poland. Very hard to watch.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 09, 2017 12:02 AM (TRzoP)

399 nerdygirl, I literally LOLed. ;-)

Surprised there isn't already a country song, "My Dog Drank Itself To Death..."

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 09, 2017 12:02 AM (u8kLQ)

400 th

• Clean off your desk day??? Need more like a week, at least.

Waive the White Flag and lets start over again.

You mean weave the White Flag and lus't start over, right?

(My inner Schoolmarm is drunk tonight.)

can't have nice things

Like webpage listicles that don't require Javascripple to be on. Too bad. I might've liked to have read the list.

Patents that have expired.

I was a bit concerned and confused, until I realized it said patents, not parents...

...As if the idea was to bring us inside the music itself.

Meanwhile, their partners were picking pockets and rifling through purses...

Happy evening you Morons you!

Posted by: mindful webworker - I coulda been #1 if I had been here earlier... at January 09, 2017 12:02 AM (0mP7b)

401 393 nerdygirl

I laughed out loud - Thank you!!!

Posted by: ibguy at January 09, 2017 12:02 AM (vUcdz)

402 @361....

To many Trumptacular Celebration Libations are the culpret brother......

There are far, far.....worse things. ;-)

As an aside..... Hardee's finally got on the fuckin ball and startin offerin egg on their Chicken biscuits.....with Swiss and BACON of course.....
But for years that was our "custom" special.....
TasteBudTacularness to MAX!!!!!.

Hope All's Well in HordonLand.....

Best to everyone......

Posted by: Hillbillyking at January 09, 2017 12:03 AM (YMv4j)

403 @393 Whiskey Lullabye by Brad Paisley.
Guy catches his woman screwing another man and drinks himself to death. Then she drinks herself to death out of guilt.
At least they didn't have a dog that drank itself to death. That would have been too sad.
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PETA sued to make sure that the dog verse was left off of the album.

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:03 AM (j+Rx3)

404 388: You know your stuff!

Posted by: LASue at January 09, 2017 12:03 AM (CLKfs)

405 Achh: 389.

Posted by: LASue at January 09, 2017 12:04 AM (CLKfs)

406 book is always better than the movie.

original is always better than the remake.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 09, 2017 12:04 AM (cPsPa)

407 332 When you jump up and down, you usually don't get that funny feeling, because your visual input agrees with your balance system that you are moving.

So, if you close your eyes on in an elevator or on a roller coaster...?

I suspect the short duration of the zero g is why.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at January 09, 2017 12:04 AM (di1hb)

408 398 The Pianist was a well done depiction of the Nazi occupation of Poland. Very hard to watch.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 09, 2017 12:02 AM (TRzoP)

Thank you.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at January 09, 2017 12:04 AM (GsAUU)

409 I always thought they were on Sophia Loren's chest.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2017 11:55 PM (bG+ug)

They were my friend.

Posted by: tbodie at January 09, 2017 12:05 AM (LTE9d)

410 I broke a bass E string on Friday. Today a replacement set came in the mail (they are not sold separately) and I quickly broke that one too.

I filed down a burr on my bridge saddle, and took a trip to Guitar Center, my least favorite place. I was pissed off the entire time. I'm out fifty bucks because I broke strings that are ten times the diameter of the ones I should be worried about.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 09, 2017 12:05 AM (VdICR)

411 book is always better than the movie.


original is always better than the remake.


Posted by: yankeefifth at January 09, 2017 12:04 AM


Not always. Usually, though.

Posted by: otho at January 09, 2017 12:05 AM (lmIoG)

412 @406 original is always better than the remake.
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With the occasional exception.

The Maltese Falcon and Ben Hur come to mind.

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:05 AM (j+Rx3)

413
Gunsmoke used to have some big stars guest-star. Anybody famous play Miss Missle-tits?
Posted by: davidt


The movie Gunsmoke he is watching has nothing at all to do with the TV series Gunsmoke.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045847

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047736

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 09, 2017 12:05 AM (IqV8l)

414 The remake of Flight of the Phoenix was dreadful.


Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 12:06 AM (qUNWi)

415 406 book is always better than the movie.
original is always better than the remake.
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 09, 2017 12:04 AM (cPsPa)


Dammit, I know I should be able to come up with counterexamples for both of these. All I can manage at the moment is this: wasn't the Bogart Maltese Falcon a remake?

Posted by: Splunge at January 09, 2017 12:06 AM (iMxBJ)

416 Lost in Space was way better than the tv show.

Which isn't really saying much.

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 12:07 AM (qUNWi)

417 y'all realize that the Charlton Heston Ben Hur is a remake?


Posted by: Original Jake at January 09, 2017 12:07 AM (jrFgU)

418
Omega Man is also a remake, no?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 12:07 AM (FYB4N)

419 People say that Blade Runner was better than Philip K Dick's story, but I haven't read it, so can't say.

The Shining might have been a bit better than the book.

Posted by: Splunge at January 09, 2017 12:08 AM (iMxBJ)

420 The Maltese Falcon is better than the film, mostly because they miscast the girl and left out his explanation why he does what he does.

But there are films better than the source, yeah. Blade Runner, for example.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 12:09 AM (39g3+)

421 Heh, the Game of Thrones episode of South Park is on now. It's much funnier now that I've seen GoT.

Posted by: logprof at January 09, 2017 12:09 AM (GsAUU)

422 I'm sorry, all circuits are busy. Please hang up and try your call again later.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 08, 2017 11:49 PM (w+Jhj)

Heh. But an overloaded power line might have physical manifestations, like glowing red hot. A telephone line never carries enough current to fail from that cause.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2017 12:10 AM (bG+ug)

423 @420 The Maltese Falcon is better than the film, mostly because they miscast the girl and left out his explanation why he does what he does.
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My comment above wasn't a reference to the novel. The film version with Bogart was (iirc) the third film that had been made of it.

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:10 AM (j+Rx3)

424 418
Omega Man is also a remake, no?


3 movies.
First one was Last man on Earth, Vincent Price
Then, Omega Man, Heston
Latest remake is I am Legend (title same as the novel), Will Smith

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at January 09, 2017 12:10 AM (di1hb)

425 wasn't the Bogart Maltese Falcon a remake?
Posted by: Splunge at January 09, 2017 12:06 AM (iMxBJ)


No, it was a surprisingly close rendering of the original novel by Dashiel Hammett. Hammett was the prime writer on the screenplay too.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 09, 2017 12:11 AM (xNowh)

426 The Thing was better
The Champ was better
Reboot of Judge Dredd was better.

Can't think of any others.,

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 09, 2017 12:11 AM (IDPbH)

427 Mary Astor reminded me of my grandmother.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 09, 2017 12:11 AM (IqV8l)

428 All I can manage at the moment is this: wasn't the Bogart Maltese Falcon a remake?

Sort of. They made two really godawful versions before it and mangled the story immensely, so much so that they weren't really the Maltese Falcon.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 12:11 AM (39g3+)

429 'Night, Horde. Early day at hospital for grandbaby's surgery

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at January 09, 2017 12:11 AM (di1hb)

430 @425 No, it was a surprisingly close rendering of the original novel by Dashiel Hammett. Hammett was the prime writer on the screenplay too.
--------------

Bogart's version was the second time that it had been released as a film (I said third above, but that's incorrect). So yeah, it was a remake too.

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:13 AM (j+Rx3)

431 Heaven Can Wait was good but so was Here Comes Mr. Jordan.

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 12:13 AM (qUNWi)

432 a-dios

Posted by: Original Jake at January 09, 2017 12:13 AM (jrFgU)

433 "I broke a bass E string on Friday."

Do you play with a pick?

Posted by: navybrat at January 09, 2017 12:13 AM (w7KSn)

434 Then there was The Black Bird.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 09, 2017 12:13 AM (IqV8l)

435 429 Iron Mike

Prayers for a successful surgery, and a quick and full healing for the little guy.

Posted by: ibguy at January 09, 2017 12:14 AM (vUcdz)

436 "The Thing(1982)" is better than the Howard Harks one. I think the recent "True Grit" is better than the original... on points.

"The Thing(1982)" is actually better than the book "Who Goes There"... which takes some doing, though it's a close call. "Full Metal Jacket" is better than "The Short Timers".

Posted by: otho at January 09, 2017 12:14 AM (lmIoG)

437 369 "And later that night when his lights went outta sight

Came the wreck of the Ronald McDonald"

The searches all say they'd have made Hamburglar Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her

laughed myself sneezy.

Glen Campbell played guitar for some of the best music in the 60s and 70s--as part of the Wreckin' Crew, I think it was called. saw that in a Netflix docu. i really like the lyrics to Gentle on My Mind; they're poetic.

Posted by: booknlass at January 09, 2017 12:14 AM (hNFnI)

438 I heard that the Departed was a remake but I don't know if it's the same title. I thought it was loosely based on Whitey Bulger.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 09, 2017 12:14 AM (IDPbH)

439 * Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 08, 2017 11:28 PM (FYB4N)
Other sad songs?
(it's Mr Bojangles, if you didn't already guess)*

About 45 years ago my parents took me to see Sammy Davis Jr. at a theater in the round place. I will never forget his rendition of that song. It was superb. I was only about 15 and the mannerisms, the way he did the song with line breaks - almost speaking it - the oh so natural dance steps...Sammy made me really feel what it was like to be as old as I am now.

Off to my youtube saved Favorites.

Posted by: cfomahm at January 09, 2017 12:14 AM (RfzVr)

440 AOP is right. The identity of the Wichita Lineman is settled science!

Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh at January 09, 2017 12:14 AM (kP16F)

441 Howard Hawks, I mean...

Posted by: otho at January 09, 2017 12:15 AM (lmIoG)

442 well, I admit I was wrong about that. It wasn't the first. Merely the best.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 09, 2017 12:15 AM (xNowh)

443 Thanks, ibguy! He's in good hands and the procedure is not complex. His Mom's is scared to death, though. More to follow in the morning or afternoon.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at January 09, 2017 12:15 AM (di1hb)

444 dude
5'10-210 are not bad numbers if you are strong

what is your Dead Lift?


Pro tip:
you want to grow old peacefully?

get strong, Rippetoe Strong

all the ailments of old people , other than memory, are lack of strength issues

Posted by: Original Jake at January 09, 2017 12:02 AM (jrFgU)




Last few years, my dead lift has been an 80 lb. bundle of roofing shingles, which are tough to wrangle, cause they're flexible, lack a handle, are clumsy to carry up a ladder, and leave ya painful at the end of the day.

After that skylight fall a year ago September, my right shoulder is compromised. I've built it back up to where I can sling 50 to 70 lb. pieces of luggage, repeatedly. But hurt at the end of the day.

My core is still strong, my balance, arm strength and leverage across my frame are well above standard. And I have off-the-chart hand strength, even now.

My legs are still in great shape. Ladders will do that for ya. Back in High School, I could max out the leg press on the Universal machine. 950 lb. And I weighed 155 at the time.

Riding bicycles constantly and everywhere, all over the hills in San Diego, CA tend to put some legs on you. And, I've stayed in shape pretty much my whole life.

I'll get my 38 in. waist back down to 34", and be very happy.

I wear a 48 regular suit, and even if I lose down to 190, that'll likely only drop to a 44 at the smallest. Likely stay at 46. Shirt is 18 neck, 33-1/2 sleeve. I have to buy 'em with 34 sleeves, and get 'em taken up a bit to fit just right.

Bicycling is my best all around workout. I need to get me one, again.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX



Posted by: Jim at January 09, 2017 12:15 AM (v5iqM)

445 Yeah if you haven't seen it, check out The Wrecking Crew on Netflix. Its amazing stuff, and there's a scene with a girl singing just her vocal parts on Gimme Shelter and its bone chilling.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 12:16 AM (39g3+)

446 Speaking of Ben Hur, did anyone see the remake that was released last year? Just how bad was it?

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:17 AM (j+Rx3)

447 > 390 Gunsmoke used to have some big stars guest-star. Anybody famous play Miss Missle-tits?
Posted by: davidt at January 09, 2017 12:00 AM (XoldI)

I have no idea who this actress was. She was shorter that Audi Murphy and had straight black hair, along with a magnificent, in your face rack. This was the first and only 2 hr movie episode of Gunsmoke! after it was a radio show, and before it became a regular tv production. As far as I know, its the only one starring Audi Murphy.

Btw, James Arness was hired only after John Wayne turned the role down and recommened Arness.

Posted by: Gunsmoke! 1955 at January 09, 2017 12:17 AM (Mt8T4)

448 Speaking of Ben Hur, did anyone see the remake that was released last year? Just how bad was it?


It had rap music.

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 12:17 AM (qUNWi)

449 438 I heard that the Departed was a remake but I don't know if it's the same title. I thought it was loosely based on Whitey Bulger.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 09, 2017 12:14 AM (IDPbH)

--It was a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs.

Posted by: logprof at January 09, 2017 12:18 AM (GsAUU)

450 Full circle.

James Arness played The Thing in the original.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 09, 2017 12:18 AM (IDPbH)

451 349 Seriously, we need to find a way to fund some mouthy asshole to buy a
ticket to events like that, so that when Meryl Streep pops up and lets a
clanger like that escape her piehole, he can jump up and shout, "Jesus
Christ, Meryl, you're a stupid cunt!" Of course he'd get thrown out, but
it would be totally worth it.


I don't think they sell tickets to those things. But, from what I understand, they need to keep the seats full so that when the camera pans over the audience, you aren't seeing empty seats. IIRC they either use volunteers or paid people to sit in a seat when one of the actors leaves to go onstage or for a potty break.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2017 12:18 AM (+lVUW)

452 Kidding...I didn't see it either but I wouldn't be surprised.

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 12:18 AM (qUNWi)

453 Every Sunday when I tune in Austin City Limits, the 'music' is shit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 09, 2017 12:18 AM (ZO497)

454 426 The Thing was better
The Champ was better
Reboot of Judge Dredd was better.

Can't think of any others.,
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 09, 2017 12:11 AM (IDPbH)

Dredd with Karl Urban was a better film than Stallone's Judge Dredd, by several orders of magnitude.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2017 12:18 AM (0mRoj)

455 MSN headline just now...

US Tanks roll into GERMANY to protect against Russian Invasion...

/looks confused, tries to find the Russian German border...
Posted by: Don Q.

-------

Gulp.....
Posted by: Poland at January 08, 2017 11:05 PM (pY+s4)




For anyone bored but wondering about all that, I'll leave this here: https://tinyurl.com/jsnybob

Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 09, 2017 12:19 AM (GUBah)

456 @447 I have no idea who this actress was. She was shorter that Audi Murphy and had straight black hair, along with a magnificent, in your face rack. This was the first and only 2 hr movie episode of Gunsmoke! after it was a radio show, and before it became a regular tv production. As far as I know, its the only one starring Audi Murphy.
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According to Wiki, the part of Rita Saxon was played by Susan Cabot.

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:19 AM (j+Rx3)

457 Gunsmoke wouldn't have lasted a single season without Ruth...

Posted by: Zettai R'lyeh at January 09, 2017 12:19 AM (kP16F)

458 Ibguy, Sincerely hope it is not alzheimers. Lost my dad to that tragic disease in September.
Posted by: Mrs JTB at January 08, 2017 11:49

I remember that Mrs JTB. Glad I could maybe help you on that trip.

Now I've got my Dad to worry about. He might be showing early signs or maybe I'm just paranoid.

Posted by: Farmer at January 09, 2017 12:19 AM (o/90i)

459 Im a bastard but I secretly hope Hillary falls at the inauguration. She probably will stroke out again.

Posted by: James the worst of the deplorable at January 09, 2017 12:19 AM (jxw6R)

460 I hate the awards shows because they seem like they are accepting awards for curing cancer.
Posted by: CaliGirl


Yeah, they really do wallow in self-importance, don't they.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2017 12:19 AM (+lVUW)

461 All right, time to hit the hay.

Back to work tomorrow. *SIGH*

Good night, y'all!

Posted by: logprof at January 09, 2017 12:20 AM (GsAUU)

462 171 He accused me of being Ira

Posted by: MAx at January 09, 2017 12:21 AM (/RZxG)

463 You ever wonder while cruising the shelves at Wal-Mart one particular question. When it comes to Ramen Noodles, where do they get Oriental Flavor?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 09, 2017 12:21 AM (cNlI+)

464 @449 It was a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs.
----------------

Speaking of which, my local game store has a card game that appears to be based on the original Hong Kong film. It's called "Internal Affairs". Looks like it might be interesting, though since I'm jobless and broke at the moment I won't be checking it out for now.

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:21 AM (j+Rx3)

465

"And later that night when his lights went outta sight

Came the wreck of the Ronald McDonald"





The searches all say they'd have made Hamburglar Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her



Ha!

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 12:21 AM (FYB4N)

466 Is that the one with the guy playing a piano on roller skates? Or the one where I was hoping that Holly Hunter, who I usually really like, would just drown already and get it over with?
Posted by: Splunge at January 08, 2017 11:53 PM (iMxBJ)


So, "Titanic", only with a piano?

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2017 12:21 AM (+lVUW)

467
My name is Iva
I'm and engine driver.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 09, 2017 12:21 AM (IqV8l)

468 463 You ever wonder while cruising the shelves at Wal-Mart one particular question. When it comes to Ramen Noodles, where do they get Oriental Flavor?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 09, 2017 12:21 AM (cNlI+)

Hoboken.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2017 12:22 AM (0mRoj)

469 It had rap music.

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 12:17 AM (qUNWi)

Are you fvcking serious?

There is no hope for the world....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 09, 2017 12:23 AM (rF0hx)

470 I play with a pick, but I broke the string while tuning. On Friday I bought a new bridge on ebay (I just want one saddle, not the whole thing). Then I bought new strings and a tiny set of files that can get in and fix the sharp edge of the saddle. That's why I was so annoyed today when I broke a new one.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 09, 2017 12:23 AM (VdICR)

471 469 It had rap music.

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 12:17 AM (qUNWi)

Are you fvcking serious?

There is no hope for the world....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 09, 2017 12:23 AM (rF0hx)

Did the chariot wheels have spinning rims too?

Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2017 12:23 AM (0mRoj)

472 i really like the lyrics to Gentle on My Mind; they're poetic.
Posted by: booknlass at January 09, 2017 12:14 AM (hNFnI)




That's one of my staple karaoke songs. Love that one.

Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 09, 2017 12:23 AM (GUBah)

473 That Gunsmoke was 1953.
Missile Tits was Susan Cabot

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 09, 2017 12:23 AM (ZO497)

474 Farmer: Italian and Irish extraction.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 08, 2017 11:48 PM

That sounds like a LOT of fun! Be well bro.
T

Posted by: Farmer at January 09, 2017 12:23 AM (o/90i)

475 JT Marlin upgrades Hollywood Celebrity Smugness to STRONG BUY

Posted by: JT Marlin at January 09, 2017 12:24 AM (TRzoP)

476
For anyone bored but wondering about all that, I'll leave this here: https://tinyurl.com/jsnybob

Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 09, 2017 12:19 AM (GUBah)

Then... uh... wouldn't it be just a bit smarter to deploy in Poland? Kind of about 425 Miles closer to the potential front?

Seeing as how Poland IS a member of NATO?

Posted by: Don Q., retired Salty Sea Dog at January 09, 2017 12:24 AM (qf6WZ)

477 I don't think they sell tickets to those things. But, from what I understand, they need to keep the seats full so that when the camera pans over the audience, you aren't seeing empty seats. IIRC they either use volunteers or paid people to sit in a seat when one of the actors leaves to go onstage or for a potty break.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2017 12:18 AM (+lVUW)

I am sure that someone who had some inside knowledge of Hollywood could finagle a good seat, especially with a little funding. Make a donation to some star's favorite charity, maybe?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2017 12:24 AM (bG+ug)

478 Farmer, thanks. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 09, 2017 12:25 AM (u8kLQ)

479 He accused me of being Ira
Posted by: MAx at January 09, 2017 12:21 AM (/RZxG)


Does this require a response?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 09, 2017 12:25 AM (xNowh)

480 Rap music in Ben Hurl????

Everyone associated with that movie needs to be sent to the galleys.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 09, 2017 12:25 AM (cNlI+)

481
It had rap music.

Speaking of, Scorsese's Gatsby was atrocious.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 12:25 AM (FYB4N)

482 I was kidding...kidding.


I have no idea what the music was.


But it's kinda sad that it's actually believable.

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 12:26 AM (qUNWi)

483 Dredd with Karl Urban was a better film than Stallone's Judge Dredd, by several orders of magnitude.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2017 12:18 AM (0mRoj)

Absolutely!

I really enjoyed the new one. The old...not so much.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 09, 2017 12:26 AM (rF0hx)

484 @480 Everyone associated with that movie needs to be sent to the galleys.
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Or dragged behind a chariot. Take your pick.

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:26 AM (j+Rx3)

485 479 Nope. Real sad what happened to him.

Posted by: MAx at January 09, 2017 12:26 AM (/RZxG)

486 Does this require a response?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 09, 2017 12:25 AM (xNowh)

No...it does not.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 09, 2017 12:27 AM (rF0hx)

487 To add to the "Edmund Fitzgerald" discussion. I like most of Gordon Lightfoot's music. But have *always* hated that song with a passion. A few years back I got tix for hubby and I to go see him and I told my husband that I would be going to take a bathroom break when he did that one so I could avoid it. (Knew he would play that one - we are in Michigan so no brainer it would be a finale/encore)

Well by gosh he did it acoustic and I did not leave. It was fabulous. Nothing like the commercial radio version.

Posted by: cfomahm at January 09, 2017 12:27 AM (RfzVr)

488 y'all realize that the Charlton Heston Ben Hur is a remake?

Posted by: Original Jake at January 09, 2017 12:07 AM (jrFgU)



Omega Man is also a remake, no?

3 movies.
First one was Last man on Earth, Vincent Price
Then, Omega Man, Heston
Latest remake is I am Legend (title same as the novel), Will Smith
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at January 09, 2017 12:10 AM (di1hb)


In both cases, all of the movies were adaptations of literature.

Posted by: The Literary Hat at January 09, 2017 12:27 AM (vBeA5)

489 @481 Speaking of, Scorsese's Gatsby was atrocious.
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Gatsby is always atrocious, imo. I've never understood why people love the novel. I had to read it over and over and over again in school and college, and I hated it just as much the first time I read it as I did the last time I read it.

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:27 AM (j+Rx3)

490 Hector in the Iliad got dragged behind a chariot dead thrice around Troy.

So behind a chariot is too good a fate for those idiots.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 09, 2017 12:28 AM (cNlI+)

491 I play with a pick, but I broke the string while tuning. On Friday I bought a new bridge on ebay (I just want one saddle, not the whole thing). Then I bought new strings and a tiny set of files that can get in and fix the sharp edge of the saddle. That's why I was so annoyed today when I broke a new one.


Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 09, 2017 12:23 AM


It shouldn't be doing that. You using electronic tuner to zero in? What type of bass is it? Make-model-age.

Posted by: otho at January 09, 2017 12:28 AM (lmIoG)

492 Then... uh... wouldn't it be just a bit smarter to deploy in Poland? Kind of about 425 Miles closer to the potential front?

Seeing as how Poland IS a member of NATO?
Posted by: Don Q., retired Salty Sea Dog at January 09, 2017 12:24 AM (qf6WZ)



Germany already has the land for multi-national training on a large scale. It's been a long time since there was that level of joint training, so everyone's a bit rusty. Really what this amounts to is a new version of REFORGER.

Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 09, 2017 12:28 AM (GUBah)

493
It was fabulous. Nothing like the commercial radio version.

Really?
I'll take your word for it, but I can't imagine it being a huge difference.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 12:28 AM (FYB4N)

494 @490 Hector in the Iliad got dragged behind a chariot dead thrice around Troy.

So behind a chariot is too good a fate for those idiots.
------------------

Who said anything about being dead?

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:28 AM (j+Rx3)

495 Ben Hur had a magic negro in it as well from what I read. He taught Ben Hur all he knew!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 12:28 AM (39g3+)

496 Rap music in Ben Hurl????

Everyone associated with that movie needs to be sent to the galleys.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 09, 2017 12:25 AM (cNlI+)


Worked for Shakespeare...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73tjF0bzAi4

Posted by: The Shakespearian Hat at January 09, 2017 12:29 AM (vBeA5)

497 Pic of Susan Cabot, just for reference, yikes : http://tinyurl.com/jbu29r5

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 09, 2017 12:29 AM (ZO497)

498 Country Singer, those lyrics would be a challenge to sing, I'd think. I think my favorite karoke song is "good lovin gone bad" by bad company. Or "addicted to love" by robert Palmer....

Posted by: booknlass at January 09, 2017 12:30 AM (hNFnI)

499 Ben Hur is about me.

Posted by: Chaz Bono at January 09, 2017 12:30 AM (GsAUU)

500
Someday we'll know why Morgan Freeman needed to be cast in all these movies..

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 12:30 AM (FYB4N)

501 Interesting docu on Vlad Putin. The bit where he stops the toast to victory and the fallen and puts down his glass and reminds those present of the work to be done is moving. And him with the Kursk widows... no words in any language.
https://youtu.be/ecEK6llcucA


Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 09, 2017 12:31 AM (hpBLm)

502 Posted by: cfomahm at January 09, 2017 12:27 AM (RfzVr)


Ever since I heard this version, every time anyone mentions Gordon Lightfoot I can't help be start laughing.


NSFW for lyrics: https://youtu.be/uWrgDAskBMY

Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 09, 2017 12:31 AM (GUBah)

503 497
Pic of Susan Cabot, just for reference, yikes : http://tinyurl.com/jbu29r5

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 09, 2017 12:29 AM (ZO497)

Holy Intercontinental, Batman!

Posted by: Robin at January 09, 2017 12:31 AM (XoldI)

504 When it comes to Ben-Hur, third time is the charm since there were two separate silent movie versions before the Charlton Heston garnered 11 Academy Awards.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 09, 2017 12:31 AM (cNlI+)

505 In the Blue Ray cut of Omega Man you can make out the cars moving on the expressway in the background.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 09, 2017 12:32 AM (IDPbH)

506 Well, her community is her, her husband, their coterie that takes care of appointments and business things, and the hired staff that takes care of the CT estate for her.
The army of domestics and gardeners, you know. They all agree that Trump is horrible, and will deport them. But they are obedient so it is a good deal. So much more observant of the small things, and a much better deal that the staff at Brentwood.
Posted by: Kindltot


Be fair, if it weren't for the illegals, they'd have to pay a lot more for the servants.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 09, 2017 12:32 AM (+lVUW)

507 The Ramon Novarro "Ben-Hur:Tale of the Christ" was the first, and best. The chariot race scene? spectacular. Don't watch it if you love horses, though.

Ibguy: your family's in my prayers.

Posted by: voiceover at January 09, 2017 12:32 AM (9QWo+)

508 I'm sorry MAx, I misunderstood what comment you were referring too. Sorry if that seemed provocative.


Posted by: Kindltot at January 09, 2017 12:33 AM (xNowh)

509 Country Singer, those lyrics would be a challenge to sing, I'd think.
Posted by: booknlass at January 09, 2017 12:30 AM (hNFnI)



Once you have the timing and phrasing down it's pretty easy. It took me awhile.

Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 09, 2017 12:33 AM (GUBah)

510 I like both The Thing movies.

The remake is John Carpenter plus some groovy SFX.

The original had better dialog & character development and was minimalist in its SFX...

Posted by: Adriane the Movie Critic ... at January 09, 2017 12:33 AM (AoK0a)

511 Gatsby is always atrocious....
Posted by: junior at January 09

Agreed. it feeds the idea that it's desirable to be vapid, rich, cruel, and dishonest. Elites!

Posted by: booknlass at January 09, 2017 12:34 AM (hNFnI)

512 Zootopia was all about diversity. Ugh.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 09, 2017 12:34 AM (TRzoP)

513 His dog up and died. He up and died. After twenty years he still grieves.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2017 11:30

Am I on the pet thread? Did bojangles dog up and died? I'm lost here.

Which is not unusual. Be well all. I'm off for another drink, who knows if I make it back tonight.

But I lurve ya'll. Somma the smarter summa bitches I've seen around the net.

Posted by: Farmer at January 09, 2017 12:34 AM (o/90i)

514 I liked the remake of The Body Snatchers better.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 09, 2017 12:35 AM (IDPbH)

515 This chick on Austin City Limits is yodeling/jazzing 'Killing Me Softly"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 09, 2017 12:35 AM (ZO497)

516 Booty Snatchers was good too.

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 12:36 AM (qUNWi)

517 I liked the remake of The Body Snatchers better.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 09, 2017 12:35 AM


Yep.

Posted by: otho at January 09, 2017 12:36 AM (lmIoG)

518 Germany already has the land for multi-national training on a large scale. It's been a long time since there was that level of joint training, so everyone's a bit rusty. Really what this amounts to is a new version of REFORGER.
Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 09, 2017 12:28 AM (GUBah)

But when we were doing Reforger, East Germany was right next door.... not a couple of countries away...

and we were training IN the terrain we were going to defend...

Annnnnddddd... most of those Joint training areas? are no longer available from what I hear...

Posted by: Don Q., retired Salty Sea Dog at January 09, 2017 12:36 AM (qf6WZ)

519 *snickers loudly*

It cost $100 million to make the 2016 Ben-Hur.

Worldwide it only took in $94 million.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 09, 2017 12:36 AM (cNlI+)

520 G'night everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 09, 2017 12:37 AM (IcT7t)

521 501. Most shocking is how obviously dain bramaged Yeltsin was..... I had forgotten how badly he spoke. And Vladimir Valdimirovich speaks amazingly good nemetskii....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 09, 2017 12:38 AM (hpBLm)

522
Yeltsin is still alive?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 12:38 AM (FYB4N)

523 I wonder if Trump is going have to pull a coup d'etat and depose Obama before the JEF can start a war with Russia/

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2017 12:39 AM (bG+ug)

524 516 Booty Snatchers was good too.
Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 12:36 AM (qUNWi)

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Booty Snatchers 2: Five Alarm Fuckfest took the series in a wholly unexpected direction.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 09, 2017 12:39 AM (TRzoP)

525 @522 Yeltsin is still alive?
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Palp posted a YouTube link up above. I'm guessing that Boris shows up in it.

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:39 AM (j+Rx3)

526 I think it had more to do with selling their product around the world in places like India than any protests by some splinter group. They wanted them vegetarian. But overall all their product is worse. Dry buns, high school cafeteria fries, tasteless burgers, its just a waste of money. only thing that's the same is fillet-o-fish
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2017 11:56 PM (39g3+)

Which they only have during Lent!

Posted by: Shep at January 09, 2017 12:40 AM (brIR5)

527 @523 I wonder if Trump is going have to pull a coup d'etat and depose Obama before the JEF can start a war with Russia/
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I suspect that if Obama tried to start a shooting war at this point, the military would balk.

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:40 AM (j+Rx3)

528 Posted by: Don Q., retired Salty Sea Dog at January 09, 2017 12:36 AM (qf6WZ)


Some of the area is still used, IIRC. Also, I believe there are plans for other training in Poland as well. Part of the thought behind (I think) in them going to Germany is so the MSM can't say we're "massing on the Russian border (and they'll be talking about Kaliningrad)", even though they'll insinuate it anyway.

Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 09, 2017 12:40 AM (GUBah)

529 Kitty has landed on my lap, and is subjecting me to a vicious cuddling.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2017 12:41 AM (bG+ug)

530 Watch out for snakes!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 09, 2017 12:41 AM (IqV8l)

531 522 & 525.

Yeltsin died in '07. May he rest in peace.

A good man with many faults

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 09, 2017 12:41 AM (hpBLm)

532 Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 09, 2017 12:31 AM (GUBah)

That was funny as hell and now I'll probably hear those words from now on. Thanks (not a sarcastic thanks a real one)

Posted by: Willy J. at January 09, 2017 12:42 AM (W6Ch1)

533 Kitty has landed on my lap, and is subjecting me to a vicious cuddling.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Momentarily, I thought this was more Gunsmoke commentary.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 09, 2017 12:42 AM (ZO497)

534 Yeltsin probably has some alcohol caused brain damage.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 09, 2017 12:42 AM (IDPbH)

535 @526 needless to say, local Booger Kings are off my list of acceptable fast food stops.
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We used to have a BK not far from where I live.

It is with great amusement that I occasionally contemplate the fact that the local BK (part of a chain that once had "rainbow" wrapping on burgers in celebration of LGBTQ) got replaced by a Chik-Fil-A.

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:42 AM (j+Rx3)

536 530
Kitty has landed on my lap, and is subjecting me to a vicious cuddling.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2017 12:41 AM (bG+ug)

Whoa...

Posted by: Festus at January 09, 2017 12:43 AM (XoldI)

537 I liked both versions of the Body Snatchers, the original and the remake with Donald Sutherland. The original was a little more creepy, to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 12:43 AM (39g3+)

538 so, how come, when it is 10 degrees outside right now, my weather app tells me the hi - lo range for today is 26 - 39?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 09, 2017 12:43 AM (cPsPa)

539 526 I'm surprised they ever clean the thing.
Yeah someone did a study and found the soda dispensers have more bacteria than the toilets

Posted by: MAx at January 09, 2017 12:43 AM (/RZxG)

540 Has = Had

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 09, 2017 12:43 AM (IDPbH)

541 Kitty has landed on my lap, and is subjecting me to a vicious cuddling.

Yeah, she does that to me, too.

Posted by: Sheriff Matt Dillon at January 09, 2017 12:43 AM (39g3+)

542 Judge Dredd is a poor man's Demolition Man.

Today I was going to watch Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Instead I watched Army of Darkness.

The similarities between Jones and Ash seem obvious now. They don't have virtues, and they can be horrible or obnoxious. But they have standards that will contrast with the environment. They are a nemesis to evil not because they are good or smart, but because they are tenacious and hard to kill. They weather mischief and produce their own above the environment.

These qualities work to benefit Raiders and Crusades, but are campy in Temple of Doom. The camp in Army of Darkness is off the charts, but of course that's why I like it. For Ash to go into a pit to face evil incarnate, and for the encounter to immediately devolve into WWF antics is the greatest thing for anyone who's twelve at heart.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 09, 2017 12:44 AM (VdICR)

543 535. Heh...ya think? The reds had good treatments, but there's only so much medicine can do.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 09, 2017 12:44 AM (hpBLm)

544 501 Interesting docu on Vlad Putin. The bit where he stops the toast to victory and the fallen and puts down his glass and reminds those present of the work to be done is moving. And him with the Kursk widows... no words in any language.
Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine,

have you seen Russian Ark? very memorable

Posted by: booknlass at January 09, 2017 12:44 AM (hNFnI)

545 Kitty gave me a stiff leg.

Posted by: Chester Goode at January 09, 2017 12:44 AM (IqV8l)

546 Momentarily, I thought this was more Gunsmoke commentary.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 09, 2017 12:42 AM (ZO497)

Now, the dog is jealous.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2017 12:44 AM (bG+ug)

547 Posted by: Don Q., retired Salty Sea Dog at January 09, 2017 12:36 AM (qf6WZ)



Afterthought on that subject: I'll have some more insight on after this coming week, which will be a long, shitty one of meetings. Depends on what gets said and what I can talk about.

Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 09, 2017 12:44 AM (GUBah)

548 535 Yeltsin probably has some alcohol caused brain damage.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 09, 2017 12:42 AM (IDPbH)


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That's a damned lie.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 09, 2017 12:44 AM (TRzoP)

549 Yeah someone did a study and found the soda dispensers have more bacteria than the toilets

The ice machine is worse. Trust me.

When I worked at the convenience store, every night at closing I'd heat water to boiling and clean the fountain heads on the soda dispenser, as well as the back and the tray. They get nasty in a hurry unless you do it.

But there are parts of the ice machine that are basically unreachable without pulling the entire device apart. Slime mold builds up badly in there. Which is why most places lease the things and just replace them after a while.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 09, 2017 12:45 AM (39g3+)

550 bush to blame for yeltsins death?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 09, 2017 12:45 AM (In888)

551
Yeltsin is mort, after all?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 12:46 AM (FYB4N)

552 When it comes to Ben-Hur, third time is the charm since there were two separate silent movie versions before the Charlton Heston garnered 11 Academy Awards.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 09, 2017 12:31 AM (cNlI+)


I'm only familiar with the silent version with Francis X. Bushman

Posted by: The Not-so-Silent Hat at January 09, 2017 12:48 AM (vBeA5)

553 Country Singer

That is funny. Thank you.

Posted by: cfomahm at January 09, 2017 12:48 AM (RfzVr)

554 Yeltsin is mort, after all?

Posted by: Soothsayer

*?*

Posted by: Mort at January 09, 2017 12:48 AM (ZO497)

555 I have a 2014 Epiphone Thunderbird. 4 string.

Oh how the bass playing Morons(tm) came out of the woodwork when the subject of 5 and 6 string basses was brought up one day.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 09, 2017 12:49 AM (VdICR)

556 Le mort d' Boris.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 09, 2017 12:50 AM (TRzoP)

557 I have a 2014 Epiphone Thunderbird. 4 string.

Oh how the bass playing Morons(tm) came out of the woodwork when the subject of 5 and 6 string basses was brought up one day.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 09, 2017 12:49 AM (VdICR)


8-string bass owner and player here...

Posted by: The Bass Hat at January 09, 2017 12:50 AM (vBeA5)

558
Posted by: Mort

Are you *the* Mort from the Bazooka Joe wrappers?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 12:50 AM (FYB4N)

559 399 Surprised there isn't already a country song, "My Dog Drank Itself To Death..."

Posted by: qdpsteve


Needs moar pickup truck.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 09, 2017 12:52 AM (gAXee)

560 Huh.

Just learned one reason to actually check on the Golden Globe results. Apparently Deadpool is up for Best Comedy/Musical and Best Comedy/Musical Actor.

Would be hilarious if it won, though I'm pretty confident that the majority of the voters would rather slit their own wrists than allow that to happen.

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 12:53 AM (j+Rx3)

561 needless to say, local Booger Kings are off my list of acceptable fast food stops.


Posted by: redc1c4 at January 09, 2017 12:39 AM (hrmq/)

Burger Kings are hideous.
We have a Burger Whop right next to the McDs. Every time I pass, there are *zero* cars at the BK. The McDs *always* has a line.
I'm surprised that site is still around.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 09, 2017 12:53 AM (8iiMU)

562 Please, just please, it's "bated" breathe, not "baited" breathe. The breathe is held, it doesn't have a worm on it, or a piece of cheese. Is autocarrot responsible for this? I see it so often, I don't know.

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at January 09, 2017 12:53 AM (dEr3l)

563
I'm only familiar with the silent version with Francis X. Bushman
Posted by: The Not-so-Silent Hat

I wrote about that at 507. LoveloveLOVE that version!! Bushman is a great villain.

Posted by: voiceover at January 09, 2017 12:54 AM (9QWo+)

564

"best comedy"?

I didn't know such a category existed.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 12:56 AM (FYB4N)

565 You sure it's not, "Bait Breathe?"

Posted by: Huma at January 09, 2017 12:56 AM (XoldI)

566 , it's "bated" breathe,

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Next, you will claim that it is "Music has charms to soothe the savage breste.."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 09, 2017 12:58 AM (ZO497)

567 And it's "breath" not "breathe". :-)

I learned long ago that gods will always conspire to make me err when I dare correct someone else's grammatical error.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 09, 2017 12:58 AM (DW+jj)

568 Next, you will claim that it is "Music has charms to soothe the savage breste.."
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

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Susan Cabot could use some of that music.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 09, 2017 12:59 AM (ZO497)

569 Batin' Breath?

Posted by: Frito at January 09, 2017 01:00 AM (XoldI)

570 Anybody there?

Posted by: mnw at January 09, 2017 01:00 AM (HayJi)

571 Please, just please, it's "bated" breathe, not "baited" breathe. The breathe is held, it doesn't have a worm on it, or a piece of cheese. Is autocarrot responsible for this? I see it so often, I don't know.

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at January 09, 2017 12:53 AM (dEr3l) fnord (dEr3l)


Same with breath / breathe.

I think people just see misspellings on the internet so often they lose the ability top spell.

Or they just want to "tow the line" (like with a boat).

"Hare's breath" is funny, too (hair's breadth).

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 09, 2017 01:00 AM (wB8Tg)

572 Baited breath is how you catch a yellowtail.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 09, 2017 01:01 AM (TRzoP)

573 8-string bass owner and player here...
Posted by: The Bass Hat at January 09, 2017 12:50 AM (vBeA5)


Octave set up? Or does it shoot flames from a double neck?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 09, 2017 01:01 AM (VdICR)

574 Oh, and Anna:

http://bit.ly/2j8lJVo

That's a Quora answer on "oriental flavor" ramen.

I suspect that, like most internet copy recipes, it's only vaguely like the original.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 09, 2017 01:01 AM (wB8Tg)

575 I learned long ago that gods will always conspire to make me err when I dare correct someone else's grammatical error.
Posted by: publius
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I wrote a Letter to the Editor, critical of grammar used by the paper. Of course, I made a mistake in the damn letter.

The Editor of the Opinion section personally called me to point out my error.

Shot myself in the foot, I did. I'm still bleeding.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 09, 2017 01:03 AM (ZO497)

576 Or does it shoot flames from a double neck?
Posted by: BourbonChicken


Only when the player has big hair and is wearing spandex.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 09, 2017 01:03 AM (u8kLQ)

577 Don't see many dead squirrels-- if not, why not?

Posted by: mnw at January 09, 2017 01:06 AM (HayJi)

578 The Ho came to me with baited breath. I think it was Jack Daniels.

Posted by: Willy J. at January 09, 2017 01:06 AM (W6Ch1)

579 489 Gatsby is always atrocious, imo. I've never
understood why people love the novel. I had to read it over and over
and over again in school and college, and I hated it just as much the
first time I read it as I did the last time I read it.



Posted by: junior


I OWN a copy of that dreadful thing, and I *still* haven't made it more than a 1/4 way thru it.

Then again, my Give-A-Shit meter has been in the shop for ages and they still can't find the glitch that causes it to not twitch on any of the characters within said novel.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 09, 2017 01:08 AM (gAXee)

580 The battle over "bated" vs "baited" is likely lost, anyway. The form of bate used there is obsolete and survives only in this familiar "bated breath" idiom, which was The Bard's handiwork, as so many are.

It's a short form of "abate", dropping the unstressed syllable, so one could say "abated breath".

The verb "bate" also describes birds flapping their wings to try to fly off after a scare.

And someone wrote a poem about a cat with baited breath. The cat ate cheese so that its breath would attract the mice. The cat truly had baited breath.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 09, 2017 01:09 AM (DW+jj)

581 I didn't even know the Golden Globes were on tonight.
Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 08, 2017 11:14 PM (P8951)
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Hollywood smugfest. I watch, so you won't have to.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 08, 2017 11:57

Jules is very into movies so we usually watch the GG. It's a load of crap, but at least you see what the enemy is up to.

Posted by: Farmer at January 09, 2017 01:10 AM (o/90i)

582 @582 Jules is very into movies so we usually watch the GG. It's a load of crap, but at least you see what the enemy is up to.
---------------

So you might know then -

Did Deadpool win anything?

Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 01:11 AM (j+Rx3)

583 578 Don't see many dead squirrels-- if not, why not?
Posted by: mnw at January 09, 2017 01:06 AM (HayJi)
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That's a good question.
A damned good one.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 09, 2017 01:11 AM (Nox3c)

584 In honor of one of the greatest little men that ever lived (and my apologies for misspelling his first name)

Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 - 28 May 1971) was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, receiving every military combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism. Murphy received the Medal of Honor for valor demonstrated at the age of 19 for single-handedly holding off an entire company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, then leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy

Posted by: Gunsmoke! 1955 at January 09, 2017 01:12 AM (Mt8T4)

585 I thought Gadsby was directed by Baz Luhrmann. All of his movies are cancer. Except Australia, which I liked despite being straight.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 09, 2017 01:13 AM (VdICR)

586 There are actually Bridges of Madison County in Winterset Iowa. When they filmed the movie there......it took them forever to find a place to film it. No family in the county wanted to be associated with the immorality of the storyline.

That's what all of my relatives told me

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at January 09, 2017 01:13 AM (CyXSj)

587 "Don't see many dead squirrels-- if not, why not?"

The Clammpets moved in nearby?

Posted by: Willy J. at January 09, 2017 01:14 AM (W6Ch1)

588 It's a short form of "abate", dropping the unstressed syllable, so one could say "abated breath".

The verb "bate" also describes birds flapping their wings to try to fly off after a scare.

And someone wrote a poem about a cat with baited breath. The cat ate cheese so that its breath would attract the mice. The cat truly had baited breath.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 09, 2017 01:09 AM (DW+jj)

Of course, if one stops and thinks about it, the term "baited breath", except in your cat example, is sort of meaningless. But "bated" breath, meaning one's breath is held, makes sense in the context in which it is usually used.

But I guess many people have never seen it in print.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2017 01:14 AM (bG+ug)

589 568 And it's "breath" not "breathe". :-)

I learned long ago that gods will always conspire to make me err when I dare correct someone else's grammatical error.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 09, 2017 12:58 AM (DW+jj)

You're right, good grief how embarrassing. Who's a Moron? (Raises hand.)

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at January 09, 2017 01:15 AM (dEr3l)

590 lots of funnies tonight guys
keep up the great work

Posted by: concrete girl at January 09, 2017 01:18 AM (9n9b6)

591 Gatsby:
Sophomore year of high school, instead of the 5 novels we were supposed to read in the second semester we spent the entire time on _The Great Gatsby_. 10 page paper, and "presentations" to the class. The whole semester.

32 years later I still remember that teacher's name.

The best part was she had some color imagery theory which was contradicted by the last page of the novel.

When this was pointed out to her, she said "That must have been an oversight on Fitzgerald's part"

Posted by: Chuck C at January 09, 2017 01:19 AM (h99GH)

592 There are actually Bridges of Madison County in Winterset Iowa. When they filmed the movie there......it took them forever to find a place to film it. No family in the county wanted to be associated with the immorality of the storyline.

That's what all of my relatives told me

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at January 09, 2017 01:13 AM (CyXSj)

There's a Madison County in southern Montana, too, and indeed it has bridges. In fact, one of the towns is named Twin Bridges.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 09, 2017 01:20 AM (bG+ug)

593 Goodnight all, thanks for the great chat tonight!

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 09, 2017 01:22 AM (u8kLQ)

594 #578, " Don't see many dead squirrels-- if not, why not?
Posted by: mnw at January 09, 2017 01:06 AM (HayJi)"

Most of the ones I see are dead in the road, and I always figured the must have fallen off the power line while crossing the road. All those amazing leaps and wire climbing etc., they must miscalculate sometimes, right? Well, a couple of years ago my daughter & I were doing something or other on our place. We'd stopped to talk for a moment when there was a Thud! and right beside us, close enough to touch without taking a step, was a crippled squirrel. It had just fallen out of a tree and busted itself up. It disappeared a few hours later, I figure one of the local predators got it.

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at January 09, 2017 01:24 AM (dEr3l)

595 Maybe deep at night, when the humans are sleeping and the coyotes are drunk, the squirrels bring out their little shovels and dig itty-bitty graves for the departed.

Or maybe not.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 09, 2017 01:24 AM (Nox3c)

596 8-string bass owner and player here...
Posted by: The Bass Hat at January 09, 2017 12:50 AM (vBeA5)

Octave set up? Or does it shoot flames from a double neck?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 09, 2017 01:01 AM (VdICR)


Similar to this, though not as fancy a model:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_fqXkTjLkQ

Posted by: The Bass Hat at January 09, 2017 01:28 AM (vBeA5)

597 We had a goldendoodle that would go out during storms and come in soaking wet to bring us baby squirrels that had been blown out of their nests. Did he hear them?

We would take them to a woman who had the resources and knowledge to raise them until they could be released.

As far as I can tell, their biggest defense is that they're incredibly cute.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at January 09, 2017 01:28 AM (GzDYP)

598 "Hoist(ed) with his own petard" is another one of those idioms that came from The Bard, and no one hardly knows what that means. Many say "hoisted on his own petard".

Look it up, and you'll see ol' Shakespeare had a double meaning. It was a fart joke.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 09, 2017 01:30 AM (DW+jj)

599 So, I actually read the almost-600 comments.

Sometimes I wonder why I do it (OCD aside), but there's community news (cthu, pookysgirl, et al) I'm glad to catch.

Hard to comment when far behind, though. Like...

Golden globes... I was gonna mention that kbdabear swimwear pics provided all the golden globes we need, but someone beat me to that, sorta, with a similar reference of Sophia Loren. Ah, well, no great miss.

Enjoyed the "Gunsmoke" review.

In the "remake was better" department, there's A Christmas Carol. No, not that one. The other one. No, the other other one....

Substitute "Frankenstein" or "Dracula" in there.

And with that dreadful dump of collected "thoughts," I'm checking out for the night.

Play nice, avoid mice, and crossing the road look both ways twice.

Posted by: mindful webworker - time flies with ketchup at January 09, 2017 01:33 AM (0mP7b)

600 And who was born in Winterset Iowa as Marion Wayne? The trash trucks there even have an image of him on their side.

I'll watch one of his movies any fricking day

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at January 09, 2017 01:34 AM (CyXSj)

601 585 In honor of one of the greatest little men that ever lived (and my apologies for misspelling his first name)

-
Well, Audie Murphy was no John Kerry.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 09, 2017 01:36 AM (Nwg0u)

602 Berkeley Breathed is pronounced with a long e, vs the possible 'eh' sound.

What this means, I have no idea.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 09, 2017 01:39 AM (gAXee)

603 "In honor of one of the greatest little men that ever lived"

Finely some recognition.

Posted by: Robert Reich at January 09, 2017 01:41 AM (W6Ch1)

604 "Tow the line" is one that annoys me slightly. There's at least an argument for how someone might think it was correct.

"Mute point" annoys me more. "Moot" and "mute" aren't even homophones, for Haruhi's sake.

"For all intensive purposes"... that's when I give up.

Posted by: mikeski at January 09, 2017 01:43 AM (UzBQ4)

605 I am Cthulhu.

Posted by: Spartacus at January 09, 2017 01:50 AM (NnnZy)

606 "Mute point" annoys me more. "Moot" and "mute" aren't even homophones, for Haruhi's sake.

A mute point is when you know the speaker is wrong but you don't care enough to speak up ...
:-)

Posted by: Adriane the Pithy Saying Critic ... at January 09, 2017 01:50 AM (AoK0a)

607 "For all intensive purposes..."
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Man, that bugs the crap out of me, too.

Vaguely connected: I hate it when sportstalk guys say "amount" when they mean "number". "Number" is a thing you can quantify -- like tackles or rebounds.
"Amount" is not quantifiable -- like noise. Or beer.

Unless you mean "Beer, bottles of".

Posted by: voiceover at January 09, 2017 01:56 AM (9QWo+)

608 I am Cthulhu.

ppphhhhtttttttttt

Posted by: Farticus at January 09, 2017 01:56 AM (v5iqM)

609 607 A mute point is when you know the speaker is wrong but you don't care enough to speak up ...

Is that like a 'yoot' point, or perhaps a 'yute' point? In either case, you're about to be snowballed by an agent of irregardlessness.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 09, 2017 01:56 AM (gAXee)

610 Hoist(ed) with his own petard" is another one of those idioms that came from The Bard, and no one hardly knows what that means. Many say "hoisted on his own petard".

Look it up, and you'll see ol' Shakespeare had a double meaning. It was a fart joke.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 09, 2017 01:30 AM (DW+jj)

Perhaps the Bard meant a fart joke. When I was younger, I
always thought a petard was a nautitcal term, like a halyard.

But no, I later learned a petard was a short-fused, directionaly shaped black powder charged bomb, placed against an enemy's castle wall or door. To be hoist by one's own petard meant being blown up by your own incompetence!

Posted by: Jean-Luc Petard at January 09, 2017 01:56 AM (Mt8T4)

611
Get Smart is on.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 09, 2017 01:58 AM (FYB4N)

612 Did Deadpool win anything?
Posted by: junior at January 09, 2017 01:11

Oh yeah, a butt load. Might be worth watching...when I can get it for free.

Now where are my pets...Kahlua, Butterscotch...

Posted by: Farmer at January 09, 2017 01:58 AM (o/90i)

613 Funny misused words by Sofia Vergara at the Golden Globes. Nice Dress too.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/gtnh927

link to dailymail

Posted by: Willy J. at January 09, 2017 01:59 AM (W6Ch1)

614 "Number" is a thing you can quantify -- like tackles or rebounds.
"Amount" is not quantifiable -- like noise. Or beer.


Similarly, "less" vs. "fewer", which is also a frequent sportscaster mistake.

You have fewer countable things, and less of an uncountable thing. The losing quarterback did not throw "less touchdowns" than the winning one.

Posted by: mikeski at January 09, 2017 02:02 AM (UzBQ4)

615 "Tow the line" is one that annoys me slightly. There's at least an argument for how someone might think it was correct.

There is a sign placed along I-90 near Madison, SD. It offers 24 hour Toe Service!

Posted by: Jean-Luc Petard at January 09, 2017 02:03 AM (Mt8T4)

616 I am Cthulhu.

Posted by: Cthulhu at January 09, 2017 02:01 AM (hrmq/)


I am a cream filled pastry!

Posted by: John F. Kennedy at January 09, 2017 02:06 AM (vBeA5)

617 In honor of one of the greatest little men that ever lived"

Finely some recognition.
Posted by: Robert Reich at January 09, 2017 01:41 AM (W6Ch1)

Well, he was only 5 ft 4".

Posted by: Jean-Luc Petard at January 09, 2017 02:07 AM (Mt8T4)

618 From the Dailymail link for Sofia Vergara I posted. Miss Sloane (a movie no one saw) got a GG award. Reason 5489632 You got Trump.

Posted by: Willy J. at January 09, 2017 02:09 AM (W6Ch1)

619 offers 24 hour Toe Service!

24 hours? Foot fetishism is serious business...

My favorite Interstate billboard is this one:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/j8bwbnv

Posted by: mikeski at January 09, 2017 02:10 AM (UzBQ4)

620 Particuley or something instead of particularly.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at January 09, 2017 02:10 AM (GzDYP)

621 608
.... I hate it when sportstalk guys say "amount" when they mean "number". ....
Posted by: voiceover at January 09, 2017 01:56 AM (9QWo+)
----------------------
Yep. Also using "less" when it should be "fewer."

But the nails-on-chalkboard word for me is "differential" used in place of "difference."

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 09, 2017 02:10 AM (Nox3c)

622 "I could care less."

Well, if you could, that kind of ruins the point, doncha think?

Or, did you think at all?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 09, 2017 02:11 AM (cm1Bl)

623 The English prof in me is grooving on tonight's grammar-peeves portion of the thread.
It's like a kiss on the lips with tongue.

Posted by: voiceover at January 09, 2017 02:14 AM (9QWo+)

624 GG awards

Miss Sloane (guns are bad)

Dead Pool (Guns are fun)

Seems a wee bit hypocritical.

Posted by: Willy J. at January 09, 2017 02:15 AM (W6Ch1)

625 It's a doggy dog world.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 09, 2017 02:18 AM (TRzoP)

626 Six of one twelve dozen of the other.

Posted by: Willy J. at January 09, 2017 02:20 AM (W6Ch1)

627 "Disinterested" and "uninterested" do not mean the same thing, modern usage notwithstanding.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 09, 2017 02:20 AM (TRzoP)

628 https://www.google.com/amp/
www.mitchellrepublic.com/content/
local-toe-service-sign-featured-nbc%3Famp

Posted by: Jean-Luc Petard at January 09, 2017 02:23 AM (Mt8T4)

629 To "beg the question" does not mean to "raise the question" but they're used as if they were synonyms.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 09, 2017 02:24 AM (TRzoP)

630 Something I run into regularly that's more annoying is not the sayings
posted above that people essentially spell phonetically online. It's
the people using $12 words they have no clue the meaning of trying to
appear "smart".

Posted by: Willy J. at January 09, 2017 02:35 AM (W6Ch1)

631 627 It's a doggy dog world.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 09, 2017 02:18 AM (TRzoP)

Well, it IS, but that's not what that meant.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 09, 2017 02:36 AM (cm1Bl)

632 632 Something I run into regularly that's more annoying is not the sayings
posted above that people essentially spell phonetically online. It's
the people using $12 words they have no clue the meaning of trying to
appear "smart".
Posted by: Willy J. at January 09, 2017 02:35 AM (W6Ch1)

Oddly, I do not find the opposite to be true. When people mispronounce $12 words, it usually means they read them but have not heard them pronounced. And that's probably okay.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 09, 2017 02:38 AM (cm1Bl)

633 $12 words? Bloody inflation. Why when I was a boy, you could get fancy words for only a dollar or two. Maybe 4 bits if there was a sale.

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at January 09, 2017 02:39 AM (dEr3l)

634 When people mispronounce $12 words, it usually means they read them but have not heard them pronounced.

That's me. Voracious reader as a kid. I was probably in my twenties before I learned "debacle" wasn't pronounced in the same way as "miracle" and "spectacle".

(Among dozens of others I don't remember.)

Posted by: mikeski at January 09, 2017 02:41 AM (UzBQ4)

635 632 Something I run into regularly that's more annoying [:]It's
the people using $12 words they have no clue the meaning of trying to appear "smart".

A club I use to beat my college students with. "Stop writing stuff like, 'The weight of cumbersome fatigue overtook me, so I felt it incumbent upon me to recline.' Just say, 'I was tired so I took a nap.' "

Posted by: voiceover at January 09, 2017 02:44 AM (9QWo+)

636 $12 words? Bloody inflation. Why when I was a boy, you could get fancy words for only a dollar or two. Maybe 4 bits if there was a sale.

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at January 09, 2017 02:39 AM (dEr3l)

Probley Bush'/Trump's fault.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at January 09, 2017 02:44 AM (GzDYP)

637 ...can we still talk about "sad songs" if we get here late? Because I'd like to say https://youtu.be/vDdv0ItSefk .

Posted by: mikeski at January 09, 2017 02:44 AM (UzBQ4)

638 "Oddly, I do not find the opposite to be true. When people mispronounce
$12 words, it usually means they read them but have not heard them
pronounced. And that's probably okay."

My problem is built more on people I interact with over time. One of the guys I work with is exactly as you describe. I have no problem with him. It's the ones trying to act smarter/more schooled than they are that bother me.

Posted by: Willy J. at January 09, 2017 02:45 AM (W6Ch1)

639 Apparently Vince Vaughn has been caught with Mel Gibson with a "WTF" look at moonbat Cheryl Streep's anti-Trump rant at the Golden Globes...

Posted by: The Not-so-golden Hat at January 09, 2017 02:53 AM (vBeA5)

640 Probley Bush'/Trump's fault.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at January 09, 2017 02:44 AM (GzDYP)

Oh yes. Bigly!

Posted by: Jean-Luc Petard at January 09, 2017 02:56 AM (Mt8T4)

641 The Not-so-golden Hat at January 09, 2017 02:53 AM (vBeA5)

A Fool's Gold Cap ?

Posted by: Adriane the Pithy Saying Critic ... at January 09, 2017 02:57 AM (AoK0a)

642 635
$12 words? Bloody inflation. Why when I was a boy, you could get fancy
words for only a dollar or two. Maybe 4 bits if there was a sale.

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at January 09, 2017 02:39 AM (dEr3l)

You wanna make $14 the hard way?

Posted by: Al Czervik at January 09, 2017 03:11 AM (8iiMU)

643 Antidisestablishmentarianism FTW !!!!!

Posted by: Adriane the Pithy Saying Critic ... at January 09, 2017 03:16 AM (AoK0a)

644 20 bottles of beer on the wall, 20 bottles of beer...

Posted by: Adriane the Pithy Saying Critic ... at January 09, 2017 03:16 AM (AoK0a)

645 Roses are red,
Beer bottles are on the wall,
Perfect time to say,
Good, Sloshin' night, all y'all ...

Posted by: Adriane the Pithy Saying Critic ... at January 09, 2017 03:18 AM (AoK0a)

646 Night all.

Here is an acoustic version of "Seriously Mysterious" by The Sword:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R74uBcHWOgY

A wise man and A fool
Who should serve
And who should rule
Everything happens as it should
So Take a look around
And ask yourself
Do I see nothing good
All you worldly wizards
In Your ragged finery
Never having nothing to say
What will you do
What will become of you
When your magic fades away
Getting by by staying high
And Waiting for the light to come
To save us from damnation God sent his only son

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 09, 2017 03:20 AM (vBeA5)

647 In a well-known paper written after World War II, the philosopher Karl Popper laid out a stark dilemma for societies: they can settle members' disagreements only through argument or violence.

An argument without any meaningful language to take place within is just a sick joke. The English language has been so perverted and degraded by our courts and politicians that only a total fool would opt to use it to settle anything.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 09, 2017 03:20 AM (zc3Db)

648 That nice man running the shower truck would likely be the first one gunned down by the sharia toting fanatics. No mirrors allowed. No naked washing. No trans-gender BS. Good intentions lead to heartache. It never fails. It's better to try and fail, I suppose, than to just look the other way.

Just as an aside, I wonder just how hot that truck gets in the summer time, and how cold is it in the winter. What is the temperature of the water that comes out of a fire hydrant. If I know my human beings, someone will sue him out of existence real soon.

Posted by: goon at January 09, 2017 03:38 AM (EaQ6/)

649 But the nails-on-chalkboard word for me is "differential" used in place of "difference."

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 09, 2017 02:10 AM (Nox3c)

++++

That one grates on me too. For some reason, mechanics are especially prone to that mistake. When I hear them talking about the differential, I patiently explain that the correct term is difference, but they just look at me like I'm the idiot.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 09, 2017 03:50 AM (R+30W)

650 Cheryl Streep?

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Takin' My Time on my Ride at January 09, 2017 03:51 AM (ul9CR)

651 602
585 In honor of one of the greatest little men that ever lived (and my apologies for misspelling his first name)



-

Well, Audie Murphy was no John Kerry.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 09, 2017 01:36 AM (Nwg0u)

Nor was he Brian Williams.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 09, 2017 03:51 AM (jK8Z7)

652 That one grates on me too. For some reason, mechanics are especially prone to that mistake. When I hear them talking about the differential, I patiently explain that the correct term is difference, but they just look at me like I'm the idiot.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 09, 2017 03:50 AM (R+30W)

=======

Uummm....a differential is a part on a rear wheel drive car. Not sure if you were joking or not with that one....

Posted by: Flyboy at January 09, 2017 03:55 AM (9mjK1)

653 I thought I was pretty obvious. Guess I should have dropped a /sarc tag.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 09, 2017 03:58 AM (R+30W)

654 Some "Beastly" bonus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKwNqy4FgXA

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 09, 2017 04:00 AM (vBeA5)

655 I thought I was pretty obvious. Guess I should have dropped a /sarc tag.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 09, 2017 03:58 AM (R+30W)

=====

You probably were. I am only 1/2 cup into this pot of coffee, so....

Posted by: Flyboy at January 09, 2017 04:01 AM (9mjK1)

656 "The wise man and the fool"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSehWj14Z0

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 09, 2017 04:21 AM (vBeA5)

657 Good morning horde, nedz coughy

Posted by: Skip at January 09, 2017 04:27 AM (5sOEp)

658 So cooth is gone again?

My! People come and go so quickly here!

'Morning, you filthy horde.

Posted by: creeper, lost in the Witopia web at January 09, 2017 04:28 AM (rUovc)

659 Always something...

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 09, 2017 04:30 AM (vBeA5)

660 And something...

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 09, 2017 04:30 AM (vBeA5)

661 And something...

And something...

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 09, 2017 04:30 AM (vBeA5)

662 And something...

And something...

And something...

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 09, 2017 04:30 AM (vBeA5)

663 ...

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 09, 2017 04:31 AM (vBeA5)

664 270 1/4 hrs left for Barak to F up the world

Posted by: Skip at January 09, 2017 04:44 AM (5sOEp)

665 So this morning I woke up and noticed light around the edges of the closet door. Thinking I'd left the closet light on I opened the door, only to find three of those battery-operated window candles I had forgotten to turn off when I removed them and stuck them in a transparent tub. The tub was emitting a friendly glow.

Posted by: creeper, doing the Witopia crawl at January 09, 2017 04:44 AM (rUovc)

666 In honor of Barack only having 270 hrs left to F up the world I bring you McRib girl..

With bonus pink hair.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVg5P8uZmU0

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 04:46 AM (qUNWi)

667 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04s448a5_OU


This lady is crazy. Scratchy TP.

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 04:52 AM (qUNWi)

668 Also cherry/berry pie for breakfast

Posted by: Skip at January 09, 2017 04:55 AM (5sOEp)

669 Very disturbing story I remember the first time at LI from 10 yrs ago of double rape and murder. Somehow it wouldn't be treated any different today.

Posted by: Skip at January 09, 2017 05:01 AM (5sOEp)

670 {sigh} I killed the bottle of Bailey's yesterday and discovered that the liquor stores are closed on Sundays. If you've got an ounce or two hanging around would you please pour it into a USB port for me? Naked coffee is not doing it.

Oh! OH! I know what to do. I'll just have Vic pick me up another one.

Posted by: creeper, doing the Witopia crawl at January 09, 2017 05:05 AM (rUovc)

671 Morning all- Less than 700 comments and I don't have to lurk. Over 700, refresh happens about time for the EMT.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 09, 2017 05:17 AM (u7BfR)

672 Who broke the blog?

Posted by: golfman at January 09, 2017 05:54 AM (48QDY)

673 Hello?

Posted by: Subterranean JT at January 09, 2017 06:02 AM (qG0hz)

674 Haz da interwebz froz?

Posted by: Subterranean JT at January 09, 2017 06:03 AM (qG0hz)

675 It's not broken...it's just a bit slow this morning.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 09, 2017 06:03 AM (rF0hx)

676 Posted by: Cthulhu at January 09, 2017 03:31 AM (hrmq/)


What the fuck????

Posted by: Chi at January 09, 2017 06:06 AM (H5/XI)

677 Cthulhu has run off with the blog!

Posted by: Subterranean JT at January 09, 2017 06:10 AM (qG0hz)

678 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 09, 2017 06:18 AM (u82oZ)

679 Creeper, I have some Everclear, 190 proof. You may want to dilute it.

Scotty, Prepare USB for transfer. Energize.

There you go.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 09, 2017 06:22 AM (u82oZ)

680 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2017 06:28 AM (J+eG2)

681 Good Morning VIA.

How's Baltimore and environs doing today? Calmer than last year?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 09, 2017 06:31 AM (u82oZ)

682 Looks like time to get ready for work.

22 ℉, so a good start.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 09, 2017 06:33 AM (u82oZ)

683 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 09, 2017 06:36 AM (8Oxmc)

684 I'm expecting a huge surge in interest in mixed martial arts the next few days. Trump should arrange a match at the inauguration

Posted by: Ripley at January 09, 2017 06:37 AM (1BQGO)

685 Any update on when Cher is departing the planet?



Should be about any day now.

What with her promising to leave if Trump wins, and all.

Maybe she can take Streep with her.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2017 06:47 AM (J+eG2)

686 Posted by: Cthulhu at January 09, 2017 03:31 AM (hrmq/)


What the fuck????


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

Cthulhu has run off with the blog!



There's nothing there at 3:31.

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 06:51 AM (qUNWi)

687 Maybe she can take Streep with her.

Can Oprah go with them?

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 06:52 AM (qUNWi)

688 "Any update on when Cher is departing the planet?



Should be about any day now."

She has to finish her movie about how Trump poisoned the water in Flint, Michigan and killed all the the kids there. Then she is packing her bags.

Posted by: Ripley at January 09, 2017 06:54 AM (1BQGO)

689 There's nothing there at 3:31.

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 06:51 AM (qUNWi)

Not anymore.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, who wants to know why cthulhu has been banned yet again at January 09, 2017 06:55 AM (tHwdc)

690
Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor
Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor
Bath ducky is leaking
Bath ducky is leaking

Posted by: Commandante Fredo of The Resistance at January 09, 2017 07:00 AM (BK3ZS)

691 The McRib Girl is talented. Good marketing skills, too.

Posted by: Gem at January 09, 2017 07:00 AM (uaHyk)

692
Snowflakes cut diamond
Snowflakes cut diamond
You may laugh but it happens
You may laugh but it happens

Posted by: Commandante Fredo of The Resistance at January 09, 2017 07:02 AM (BK3ZS)

693 Whoops. I'm inadvertently in the middle of Fredo's poetry slam.

::begins snapping fingers::

Posted by: Gem at January 09, 2017 07:05 AM (uaHyk)

694 ::begins snapping fingers::

Little boy
With your nose pressed against the window
There are no jelly donuts for you today
Only death.

::snap snap snap::

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Takin' My Time on my Ride at January 09, 2017 07:06 AM (ul9CR)

695 Morning, all. Cthulhu banned again?

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 09, 2017 07:09 AM (Dhht7)

696 Morning, all. Cthulhu banned again?


Apparently. I like Cooth.

Hopefully things get worked out.

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 07:13 AM (qUNWi)

697 Well, temps warm to 28 today. I may take down Christmas lights this afternoon if my knee behaves.

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2017 07:16 AM (8ikIW)

698 "This man is slightly unhinged, if I can say that, and he's a malignant narcissist. He cares very much about what people think of him."

Guess who this quote is about and who said it and win a free trip to the EMT.

Posted by: freaked at January 09, 2017 07:16 AM (BO/km)

699 The McRib Girl is talented. Good marketing skills, too.

She's focused and has a plan.

I'm rooting for her. The pink hair and cluelessness is cute.

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 07:16 AM (qUNWi)

700 "This man is slightly unhinged, if I can say that, and he's a malignant narcissist. He cares very much about what people think of him."


Beck talking about his cat?

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 07:18 AM (qUNWi)

701 Whomever coined the description of Meryl Streep as "Rich Little with tits" was spot on. I am so fucking tired of pampered, illiterate children pretending that they're Hans or Sophie Scholl.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 09, 2017 07:19 AM (X6fMO)

702 Or the cat talking about Beck?

Posted by: Ripley at January 09, 2017 07:20 AM (1BQGO)

703 Michael Moore talking about the Trump

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2017 07:20 AM (8ikIW)

704 And just BTW, in case anyone didn't mention it, someone upthread mentioned the Bogie Maltese Falcon script as being from the pen of novelist Dashiell Hammett. Not true - the script was actually by John Huston.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 09, 2017 07:21 AM (X6fMO)

705
Beck talking about his cat?

Posted by: eleven at January 09, 2017 07:18 AM (qUNWi)
_______________________________

I'm pretty sure this is correct..

Posted by: Kudzu King at January 09, 2017 07:21 AM (HSmrB)

706 Whomever coined the description of Meryl Streep as "Rich Little with tits" was spot on. I am so fucking tired of pampered, illiterate children pretending that they're Hans or Sophie Scholl.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Would that make Sofia Vergara, Ricky Ricardo with tits?

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2017 07:22 AM (8ikIW)

707 EMT arriving on track two!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2017 07:22 AM (dSqvH)

708 EMT up

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2017 07:22 AM (8ikIW)

709 Bruce wins! Your free ticket will be awarded after a short seminar about some fantastic vacation rental properties. Would you like some coffee?

Posted by: freaked at January 09, 2017 07:23 AM (BO/km)

710 Rescuing a dog is never a waste of time or money.

Posted by: Limey at January 09, 2017 07:24 AM (tfeas)

711 Would you like some coffee?

Posted by: freaked

I find I can write my name faster after a few beers.

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2017 07:28 AM (8ikIW)

712 Hola amigos de internet. Bonita pared.

Posted by: MTF at January 09, 2017 07:33 AM (X4ZNp)

713 One of the most aggravating thing about the ABCD listers and the news speakers regarding their NeverTrumpism is the hypocrisy behind it. They were perfectly content with rubbing elbows, invitations to family functions, taking Trumps money, hells bells even taking photos with Trump, all with two thumbs up and 'what a great guy' prior to his election.

Now all this... vitriol. I know rich and powerful people have a different set of societal games they play, but how on earth do they walk any of the bullshit back after all this? Do they expect the Trump family to forgive and forget?

Worse yet, they destroy Trump, what signal have they sent to the opposition the next round? Could get messy.

Posted by: Usedtocould at January 09, 2017 07:34 AM (VCqKl)

714 I dislike the woman rolling her eyes comment. If a woman is so into showing her contempt for her husband, it bleeds over into all aspects of their life and will make for a miserable marriage.

Posted by: ejo at January 09, 2017 09:38 AM (il4FI)

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