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Thursday Overnight Open Thread (2/2/17) Groundhog Day Edition
Happy Groundhog Day!! At this point in time The ONT is surprised it isn't a National Holiday. Lord knows the UPS doesn't have enough holidays and Congress should just leave town, permanently.
Residing in the Upper Midwest, Spring should hit about Memorial Day weekend.
Quotes of The Day Quote I
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.-W. J. Vogel
Quote II
You can't get too much winter in the winter. -Robert FrostQuote III
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter. -John Burroughs
Spring. It can't be far away.
Average annual extreme winter minimum temperatures in the United States
Maybe politicians should stay out of the Winter Season forecasting business.
De Blasio and the groundhog are both rodents. One survived being dropped on his head. The other didn't. This damn politician tasted so bad, he was only worth one bite.
Well, this is a doozy. Everything you might know about the universe might be wrong. Is science ever settled?
Talk about a reality check: The entire universe could be a "vast and complex hologram," scientists reported Monday. Also, even more unsettling, what we think of as reality may be just an illusion. "Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field," said study co-author Kostas Skenderis of the U.K.'s University of Southampton.
The ONT's guess, if it were a betting organization, this is not going to go well.
The Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910, and for over 100 years, it has been an organization where boys have learned how to become men. With its decision Monday to allow transgender boys into its ranks, the organization has changed that simple mission. No longer will admission into the program depend on a child’s birth certificate or biological sex. The BSA will now accept anyone purely based on how this young person or his parents decide to identify the individual. A century of tradition is now gone thanks to leftist ideology. These days, it seems as if hundreds of years of tradition and culture are being erased by about 30 years of extreme liberal social engineering.
Education, new and improved? 2nd grade reading textbooks today compared to 1879.
After locating a popular modern second grade reading text, The Superkids Hit Second Grade, I used Accelerated Reader’s text analyzer to measure the reading level of the book’s first lesson. It came in at 2.0 – right on target for a child just entering second grade. So far so good. But running the first lesson of the Second Eclectic McGuffey reader which my friend’s 2nd graders were using didn’t make the modern text look so impressive. In fact, a student hitting 2nd grade using the second McGuffey textbook would be starting the year at a 3.7 reading level – the level of a 3rd grader in the seventh month of the school year!
Yay!!!! Kommon Kore
The Morons are a diverse group, grade school grads, high school grads, vo-tech grads, college grads, doctorate grads. Everyone is different. We need teachers, garbage collectors, electricians, brain surgeons. The left has been pushing for universal education. Not everyone is cut out for college.
But according to social critic Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945), America’s egalitarian push for higher education for all was doomed to failure from the start. According to Nock, it was doomed to failure because not every person is capable of higher education. Why? Two reasons, both of which run contrary to the assumptions of those who think everything can be controlled and determined by systems. One, human beings are endowed with free will, and not every person will choose to discipline themselves in the way necessary to receive instruction. No amount of tinkering with a system can substitute for the all-important element of a student’s free choice to become educated.
While we are on education, did anyone hear Rush on Tuesday discussing the Statue of Liberty? Very educational. Further insight into the Statue of Liberty.
The poem means the USA is willing to open their shores to people yearning for freedom not simply avoiding persecution, war or to attempt to bring about a political change via terrorism or any other means. This is saying we don't welcome people to establish colonies of their old world countries here on our shores. The entirety of the poem is a rejection of the ways of their former countries and a celebration of the new colossus that is the USA.
First marriage was between man and a woman. Currently it's between a man and a woman or 2 people of the same sex. Next? Who knows. University of North Florida pushing the life style of polyamory. What's next, toasters and love seats?
The workshop, “Polyamory vs. Cheating: Lessons from a Former Serial Monogamist,” will be taught by a representative from the “Relationship Equality Foundation,” which purports to “provide outreach, education, and support for those involved in or seeking relationships with non-traditional structures.”What a fine use of tax payer dollars.
Kids might not read better now than years ago. But, they sure can take some awesome photographs. National Geographic International Children's Photography Contest winners. Did you ever get into photography? What was your first camera? Your humble Cob's first camera was a Kodak Instamatic X-15 that used 126 film cartridges. My how technology has improved. Wish we could say the same thing for mankind.
Technology. What were some of the predictions from 100 years ago. Coal would no longer be used in 2017. Damn if Obama didn't try to make that prediction come true.
Some, however, foresaw a future that stood at the cusp of possibility; like the writer who wrote a piece for the Lincoln Evening Journal called Looking Forward. In it, he describes 2017 as a world that is no longer dependent on coal for energy. The author envisioned a future where technology would be able to harvest energy from the sun and run it through pipes for electricity. Obviously, we’re not quite there yet.
Next on the agenda. Europe. The ONT is not trying to discuss politics per say. But the American people have spoken. And Europe is short on ears and long on mouth. Perhaps they should shut the f*ck up. Review our system of government and the fact that we have bailed their sorry asses out for decades. The EU appears to be at war with the US.
President of the European Council Donald Tusk has joined Verhofstadt in denouncing the Trump administration in a letter to European heads of state, clearly conveying the ranks of EU bureaucrats are closing. According to Tusk, unity is necessary since: “Particularly the change in Washington puts the European Union in a difficult situation; with the new administration seeming to put into question the last 70 years of American foreign policy.”
While the EU is flapping its jaw and Hollywood moonbats are freaking out. One actor has spoken some common sense. Wonder when he gets crucified.
The Left has their collective thong bunched up in an uncomfortable position. The Trump Immigrant Executive Order to blame. Where was their outrage when Israelis couldn't enter 16 Muslim countries?
A total of 16 nations around the world prohibit entry to Israeli citizens. And, as some commentators have pointed out, this group includes six of the seven countries targeted by Trump’s action. Photos showing the list of the 16 nations — including Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates and YemenThe ONT's guess? Being unable to travel to Bangladesh won't burst anyone's bucket list. Hooters is changing. Guys will be servers now as well. Our friends to the north have some active accountants. Euthanasia could save big bucks. No whammys.
And last week researchers from the University of Calgary calculated that when euthanasia reaches the level of Belgium and the Netherlands, the country’s health system could save up to up to C$139 million every year. “Medical assistance in dying could reduce annual health care spending across Canada by between $34.7 million and $138.8 million, exceeding the $1.5–$14.8 million in direct costs associated with its implementation,” they wrote in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Keep this fellow out of Canada.
This could qualify of for a feel good story of the day award. After we read about the value of life, it's wonderful to see a touching story like this. Not all government workers are hardhearted. Fireman adopts baby girl he delivered. h/t rhomboid
We've all wished to be rich at least once in our lives, haven't we? If you were loaded what would you do? Would you buy an island? A desert compound? Falcons? A Saudi Prince has a boat load of money. And he spends it on his falcons.
This is a recent shot from an Airbus A330 of some of a Saudi prince's 80 falcons getting ready to fly the easy way. Falconry and competitive bird sports are all the rage with the affluent in the middle east, and birds can cost up to $250,000 apiece. A plane seat for a bird costs around $650, and they also have to have their own passport. Still, 80 falcons? That seems like a lot. When you're rich a rich prince when do you know it's time to stop buying falcons and start buying dragons? That was a trick question, the answer's four -- just like upgrading from houses to hotels in Monopoly.
Falcons? These kids are into pigeons. Join The Group.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 09:51 PM (89UPP)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 09:51 PM (89UPP)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 02, 2017 09:51 PM (rH4JY)
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Posted by: ibguy at February 02, 2017 09:53 PM (vUcdz)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 02, 2017 09:54 PM (IcT7t)
But you can't eat lunch naked in the winter.
Posted by: Walter S. Burroughs at February 02, 2017 09:55 PM (rH4JY)
Treatment begins
From Hubby late this morning:
Radiation treatment at 12:50 pm. She took first dose of temodar this morning with no side effect. Don't know result of CT scan yet. If no hemorrhage she can go on avastin.
Please keep praying hard.
Posted by: ibguy at February 02, 2017 09:56 PM (vUcdz)
...Thanks, I will be at Lowe`s all week!
Posted by: DeWalt for dummies at February 02, 2017 09:56 PM (TrcDm)
Posted by: logprof at February 02, 2017 09:57 PM (emDjj)
Posted by: logprof at February 02, 2017 09:57 PM (emDjj)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 09:58 PM (tHwdc)
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Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 02, 2017 09:59 PM (lMp+G)
I think that tattooed woman was going to be Hillary's pick for chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts... :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 09:59 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: logprof at February 02, 2017 09:59 PM (emDjj)
This was the guys logic: our contributors care about trans bathrooms so the Sierra Club needs to care about trans bathrooms.
Also: white taxpayers breeding in the US: very bad. killing gaia
illegal immigrants breeding: totes cool with gaia.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 02, 2017 09:59 PM (J5mC3)
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at February 02, 2017 10:00 PM (MCEs2)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 02, 2017 10:02 PM (lMp+G)
I've seen it before, but it still makes me laugh.
Posted by: ALH at February 02, 2017 10:02 PM (Z56vq)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 10:02 PM (89UPP)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 02, 2017 10:03 PM (lMp+G)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 02, 2017 10:03 PM (lMp+G)
Posted by: Punxsutawney Phil at February 02, 2017 10:03 PM (Vog7R)
Yeah, that Boy Scouts thing is not good, but THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at February 02, 2017 10:04 PM (I5q3y)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 10:04 PM (voOPb)
If my Groundhog Day was to be stuck with Andie MacDowell's character for eternity, I'd know the gods hated me
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 02, 2017 10:04 PM (lMp+G)
I don't live in a place where I have to shovel snow constantly. For me, snow removal is an occasional thing, but for about eight or nine months of the year, yard work is incessant and relentless.
Posted by: rickl at February 02, 2017 10:05 PM (sdi6R)
___
Ok tilted kilt it is then. Linkee for what a tilted kilt might look like.
http://tiltedkilt.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/bg_tilt-girls.jpg
Anyone else thirsty suddenly?
Posted by: Obligatory at February 02, 2017 10:05 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 02, 2017 10:05 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at February 02, 2017 10:05 PM (nDcc3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 02, 2017 10:06 PM (FHY7H)
Posted by: ibguy at February 02, 2017 09:56 PM (vUcdz)
Quadrupling prayers for your sis and you and the entire family, (((ibguy))).
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 10:06 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: ibguy at February 02, 2017 10:06 PM (vUcdz)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 02, 2017 10:07 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Walter S. Burroughs at February 02, 2017 09:55 PM (rH4JY)<<<
And we've told you numerous times that you can't in the summer either, perv.
Posted by: the local constabulary at February 02, 2017 10:07 PM (I5q3y)
Tucker Carlson is impressing me. I barely heard of the guy before the Trumpening but since then he's been kicking glute.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
Ten years ago he was on MSNBC.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2017 10:07 PM (IqV8l)
I've always kinda thought this way, since I was just a wee lad just learning about physics for the first time.
There's no real sense in which there is any "there" there, behind matter or energy. It's all just increasingly more abstract descriptions of behaviors, not of "things".
Then I read a bit of philosophy here and there, and it's a commonly occurring idea in that realm as well.
It's actually one of the trains of though that lead me to abandon atheism and embrace religion (Christianity)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2017 10:07 PM (sK2fh)
"Six weeks would be fucking awesome."
Love the movie though...except for Andie McDowell. Sheesh, she is tedious. Were it not for her, Groundhog Day would be my all-time favorite movie. As it is, it's somewhere in the teens. Right ahead of Better Off Dead, and just behind Revenge of the Nerds.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gentleman Drunkard at February 02, 2017 10:07 PM (nM8MY)
Posted by: logprof at February 02, 2017 10:07 PM (emDjj)
Posted by: ibguy at February 02, 2017 10:07 PM (vUcdz)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 02, 2017 10:07 PM (Gv7El)
Posted by: flyover at February 02, 2017 10:08 PM (SVz6E)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 02, 2017 10:07 PM (vBeA5)
I think that's what Reavers are scared of.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 02, 2017 10:08 PM (FHY7H)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 10:04 PM (voOPb)
Enjoy your continued shoveling!!!
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 10:08 PM (89UPP)
I don't live in a place where I have to shovel snow constantly. For me, snow removal is an occasional thing, but for about eight or nine months of the year, yard work is incessant and relentless.
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mowing lawn once a week, plus weeding and week wacking.
shoveling snow?
only when it snows.
Winter > all other seasons
/and I'm in Michigan, a state with Winter, not winter.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 02, 2017 10:08 PM (J5mC3)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 02, 2017 10:08 PM (lMp+G)
Or an Anschutz bolt action in .22 Hornet.
That's what I used when I was a kid hunting woodchucks...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 02, 2017 10:08 PM (rF0hx)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 02, 2017 10:09 PM (LTHVh)
Everything old is new again. Was it in the late sixties, seventies when Open Marriage was the new thing? A couple of counselors/professionals were running all over promoting it as the answer to cheating. Of course, a short time later, the same couple announced that, big surprise, it led to divorce.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 02, 2017 10:09 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 02, 2017 10:09 PM (LTHVh)
http://sayitwithbeef.com/shop/
You'll have to wait till next year though they seem to be sold out already.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 02, 2017 10:09 PM (W6Ch1)
Posted by: ALH at February 02, 2017 10:09 PM (Z56vq)
Posted by: ibguy at February 02, 2017 10:09 PM (vUcdz)
As a child I hated mowing the lawn with a passion
Now? I enjoy mowing, and taking care of 9 different flower beds
I love puttering after work in the yard after work
But.....
To each their own
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 10:09 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
Ten years ago he was on MSNBC.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
===
He needed the money.
Whoah!
Posted by: Andrew "Dice" Clay at February 02, 2017 10:09 PM (Gv7El)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2017 10:10 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: The Garbone at February 02, 2017 10:10 PM (9dH/8)
Posted by: rickl at February 02, 2017 10:10 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at February 02, 2017 10:10 PM (FtrY1)
Posted by: ibguy at February 02, 2017 09:56 PM (vUcdz)*
Just so you know, yes.
Posted by: tbodie at February 02, 2017 10:11 PM (r1DzX)
Everything old is new again. Was it in the late sixties, seventies when Open Marriage was the new thing?
Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2017 10:11 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 10:11 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2017 10:07 PM (IqV8l)<<<
And only wore bow ties.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at February 02, 2017 10:12 PM (I5q3y)
Aww, c'mon. You won't even concede a lousy 3-D Matrix? I'd like to have the option of driving by my favorite noodle shop one day.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 02, 2017 10:12 PM (1CroS)
I'll get you punk
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 10:11 PM (voOPb)
I'll be concerned and looking out for you about midJune.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 10:12 PM (89UPP)
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 02, 2017 10:09 PM (+lVUW)
Not so new. Chesterton wrote about "free" love. He thought the idea was silly.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 02, 2017 10:12 PM (FHY7H)
===
Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the
hog out, and they used to eat it.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 02, 2017 10:13 PM (Gv7El)
Tucker Carlson is impressing me. I barely heard of the guy before the Trumpening but since then he's been kicking glute.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
Ten years ago he was on MSNBC.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2017 10:07 PM (IqV8l)
20+ years ago he was on CNN
A bow tie wearing young twerp who would sit in for Bob Novak on Crossfire
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 10:13 PM (voOPb)
An Argus C3. And I ended up running a darkroom for a little while. You learn some neat stuff.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 02, 2017 10:14 PM (w+Jhj)
Posted by: Grey Fox at February 02, 2017 10:14 PM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 10:14 PM (voOPb)
going to beat it to town early tomorrow.
then home sweet home.
thnx again MH.
Posted by: concrete girl at February 02, 2017 10:15 PM (p0xM7)
They're not talking about Idealism at all, just "Hey, we rammed a bunch of noise through a buttload of filters and transforms, and some crap came out and we made up some cockamamie new cosmology out of it"
whoopdie doo.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2017 10:15 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Mohammed at February 02, 2017 10:15 PM (rGg+5)
Posted by: ibguy at February 02, 2017 09:56 PM (vUcdz)
Thoughts & Prayers
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 02, 2017 10:15 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: t-bird at February 02, 2017 10:15 PM (TqmC9)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 10:14 PM (voOPb)
Btw, go check twitter.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 10:16 PM (89UPP)
Winter > all other seasons
/and I'm in Michigan, a state with Winter, not winter.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 02, 2017 10:08 PM (J5mC3)
*clink*
Posted by: rickl at February 02, 2017 10:16 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Von Ribbentwat at February 02, 2017 10:16 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: Flyboy at February 02, 2017 10:16 PM (R3Jti)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 02, 2017 10:16 PM (Gv7El)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob, 'Hobo, the other white meat' at February 02, 2017 10:17 PM (PjWy4)
Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at February 02, 2017 10:17 PM (P8951)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:17 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Zombie Philip Dick at February 02, 2017 10:17 PM (XcOXh)
Posted by: Phil Connors at February 02, 2017 10:17 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at February 02, 2017 10:18 PM (TdErL)
Clever. And filling.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at February 02, 2017 10:18 PM (FtrY1)
But.
From time to time, as long as I can remember, he has spoken of the 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 as just THE car. He would have been 15 when they came out, the first high compression engine out of Detroit. Granddad either had one or wanted one, I don't remember which, but it has always had the top spot in dad's pantheon of cars. He'd never buy himself one, of course, even though he could afford to, he's not one to spend money on frivolous things. Ever since I was a teenager, I thought "Man, someday I'll buy one of those cars for dad". It's been kind a a quiet, out of reach dream of mine forever, something that sure would be nice to do, but probably not possible or practical.
Today I gave my dad a 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket 88. Here's a picture of dad with his new car: https://twitter.com/GingyNorth/status/827226518292140032.
I bought it two weeks ago, in Illinois. Gingy and I drove 1700 miles in 36 hours to look at the car, and we bought it on the spot. We had it shipped home, and this morning it was delivered. I surprised him with it around noon. Now dad can go for Sunday drives with his best girl in his very own Oldsmobile Rocket 88. Maybe they'll even find a malt shop.
Today was a good day.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (QGamW)
illegal immigrants breeding: totes cool with gaia.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 02, 2017 09:59 PM (J5mC3)
I hope Sierra Club gets a bunch of club membership cancellations as of tomorrow as a result of that bozo.
Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (P8951)
Sure you can. Just do it indoors.
But not at Chik-fil-A.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (IcT7t)
Wonder if any of them can give us a chance against the Patriots.
Posted by: Arthur Blank at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (I5q3y)
Does this mean I'm not going to need glasses?
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 02, 2017 10:20 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 10:20 PM (0mRoj)
Yep. Such as moving like a robot in complete darkness and without dropping, spilling, or mis-orienting hours of work, some of it irretrievable and irreplaceable.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 02, 2017 10:20 PM (1CroS)
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (QGamW)
Very cool.
My dad did something similar a while back. He bought a 54 Ford Coupe and had it fully restored...then gifted it to my grandparents on their 50th wedding annv. It was the same make/model my grandpa owned when he and my grandmother were dating and then first married.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 10:21 PM (89UPP)
Err, on second thought it doesn't end well in either scenario.
It think I've had too much scotch.
Posted by: Kreplach at February 02, 2017 10:21 PM (+lv+r)
Clever. And filling.
==
Maybe at first.
Then comes the cleaning. And the rearranging. And then The Decorating.
And then they start trying to rearrange you.
And then comes The Hating.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 02, 2017 10:21 PM (Gv7El)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 02, 2017 10:21 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Grey Fox at February 02, 2017 10:22 PM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Muldoon at February 02, 2017 10:22 PM (Dy5Cx)
Posted by: concrete girl at February 02, 2017 10:22 PM (p0xM7)
Best thing I recall was from 2003. Iraq war. One of their reporters - Bob Arnot (?) - was a physician, and a pilot, and spoke Arabic. Um - a little different than your average "journalist" these days, huh?
I recall one live report (I'd watch it around the clock when the short kinetic phase was under way) where he was pressed into service by the Marines he was with for both his language, and medical, capabilities.
Pretty awesome.
And that reminds me of another, darker chapter from another network at that time. I think it was CNN's Sanjay Gupta - also a physician, surgeon or neurosurgeon (?) - was pressed into service to help with the head wound of a soldier (or something close to that). Of course he jumped right in and did his best. I'm not making this up - there were bouts of "ethical" hand-wringing by other "journalists" over this.
Anyway, things were different 1,000 years ago, in 2003. Well, some things.
P.S. MisHum, I actually mentioned the fireaman/adopts/rescued girl story in a recent ONT, saw it somewhere else that night.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 02, 2017 10:23 PM (QDnY+)
Now dad can go for Sunday drives with his best girl in his very own Oldsmobile Rocket 88. Maybe they'll even find a malt shop.
Today was a good day.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (QGamW)
Cool!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0
Posted by: rickl at February 02, 2017 10:23 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Sheik Ilderim at February 02, 2017 10:24 PM (IqV8l)
Err, on second thought it doesn't end well in either scenario.
Posted by: Kreplach at February 02, 2017 10:21 PM (+lv+r)
In the long run, etc. etc.
It's a danged miracle we're even here in the first place though.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2017 10:24 PM (sK2fh)
darkness and without dropping, spilling, or mis-orienting hours of work,
some of it irretrievable and irreplaceable.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel"
Yes, you do learn to plan ahead.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 02, 2017 10:25 PM (w+Jhj)
100 Multiple wives? Ah, spread the sandwich assembly burden.
Clever. And filling.
==
Maybe at first.
Then comes the cleaning. And the rearranging. And then The Decorating.
And then they start trying to rearrange you.
And then comes The Hating.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 02, 2017 10:21 PM (Gv7El)
Okay, but I still get sandwiches, right?
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at February 02, 2017 10:25 PM (FtrY1)
Posted by: Yeeha at February 02, 2017 10:26 PM (NPLj5)
Posted by: Kentucky kid at February 02, 2017 10:26 PM (OXwWO)
This could qualify of for a feel good story of the day award. After we read about the value of life, it's wonderful to see a touching story like this. Not all government workers are hardhearted. Fireman adopts baby girl he delivered. h/t rhomboid
If it was a cop, the squirming, screaming baby would have been arrested for disturbing the peace, battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 10:26 PM (0mRoj)
Rev. George L. Fox
Rabbi Alexander D. Goode
Rev. Clark V. Poling
Father John P. Washington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Chaplains
http://www.fourchaplains.org/the-saga-of-the-four-chaplains/
Posted by: hogmartin at February 02, 2017 10:26 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 02, 2017 10:27 PM (Vog7R)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew
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Oh yes. They will come on a plate. With chips. And a napkin.
And a strange and curiously frightening smile.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:27 PM (Gv7El)
If one ponders implications of relativity and an expanding universe this idea isn't all that bizarre as you might suppose. Around every point in the universe is a bubble defined by a boundary at which the expansion of space from that point reaches the speed of light. That boundary resembles an event horizon of black hole in that an observer at the central point will never witness an object actually crossing the boundary because of time dilation. Instead, the observe will see the object slow down and the radiation it emits red shifted to lower and lower frequencies. The lower frequencies means the observer can no longer place the precise position of the object -- and when the frequencies reach the width of the universe the object is for all meaningful purposes exists spread along the entire boundary.
It sounds kind of bizarre, but the real kicker is that for a distant point in space, we ourselves exist on that boundary. To an observer that might be at that point our existence takes place entirely on the 2-dimensional surface that surrounds them and defines the horizon of their universe.
Posted by: mpthompson at February 02, 2017 10:27 PM (I/SRC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0
LOL. I forgot to link the song! The Rocket 88 was also the subject of what is generally regarded as the first rock and roll song, which Rickl linked.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:27 PM (QGamW)
That's why you got the hat tip
************
Weirddaves story is another feel good story
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 10:28 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 02, 2017 10:28 PM (jK8Z7)
Posted by: Original Jake at February 02, 2017 10:28 PM (VBsKP)
Don't forget the groundhog who bit the tar out of Mayor Mikey Bloomberg.
Posted by: Beverly at February 02, 2017 10:28 PM (HRUrF)
Posted by: JROD at February 02, 2017 10:29 PM (Ax5Cx)
409 Clever people getting paid money to say clever things. Minimally viable politics is an analogy to software /product development in a lean or agile fashion. A minimally viable product does just enough to get people to use it and catch on, and fund future developments and operations.
As with all analogies, you get feature creep. One, people want more. Two, the people who make stuff want to keep getting paid to make stuff. So, new features. Is Word 2016 better than Word 2013 better than 2010 better than 2007 etc etc etc?
That's why there are paradigm breakers who are disruptive over time, you get some bloated thing with lots of features which have many individual adherents, but clog things up for the main body of users. So what they end up doing is hiding all the small constituent features off in the margins
That's kind of where we are with politics. You never roll back feature sets. You go with a new product.
Posted by: blaster at February 02, 2017 10:29 PM (HV1LS)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:29 PM (Gv7El)
Man, what a fantastic teammate who can also lead. The guy oozes class
Posted by: Yeeha at February 02, 2017 10:29 PM (NPLj5)
Some would even say it's impossible we're here.
But then again we're here, so it's merely improbable.
Posted by: Kreplach at February 02, 2017 10:29 PM (+lv+r)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 10:29 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 02, 2017 10:03 PM (lMp+G)
Edge of Tomorrow = Groundhog Day + Starship Troopers
Posted by: Iowa Bob at February 02, 2017 10:30 PM (80HyY)
Posted by: Mr. Wednesday Night at February 02, 2017 10:30 PM (ismre)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 02, 2017 10:31 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: mpthompson at February 02, 2017 10:31 PM (I/SRC)
Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (P8951)
I hate to say it, but he may get a lot of contributions. This freak-show garbage is the space that Sierra, PETA et al live in.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 02, 2017 10:31 PM (VdICR)
116 Okay, but I still get sandwiches, right?
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew
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Oh yes. They will come on a plate. With chips. And a napkin.
And a strange and curiously frightening smile.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:27 PM (Gv7El)
Wow! Chips! Sign me up!
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at February 02, 2017 10:31 PM (FtrY1)
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (QGamW)*
"Good for you Weirddave" is inadequate to your accomplishment. Yet it is the best I've got.
My apologies.
Posted by: tbodie at February 02, 2017 10:31 PM (r1DzX)
https://www.noozhawk.com/article/021712_joe_guzzardi_sierra_club
Posted by: vivi at February 02, 2017 10:31 PM (11H2y)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0
LOL. I forgot to link the song! The Rocket 88 was also the subject of what is generally regarded as the first rock and roll song, which Rickl linked.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:27 PM (QGamW)
With bonus Bettie Page footage in the video, even.
Posted by: rickl at February 02, 2017 10:31 PM (sdi6R)
Like " you don't really need that", " your breathing is annoying" and that headaches can last for years.
Imagining that multiplied by more than one?
Makes my stomach hurt.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:31 PM (Gv7El)
It's very sad. I've seen other young ladies like this who were very pretty until they ruined their faces with tattoos and other garbage. Total waste.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 10:32 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Original Jake at February 02, 2017 10:32 PM (VBsKP)
Posted by: Yeeha at February 02, 2017 10:32 PM (NPLj5)
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Or...as we said when I was a kid, "Suppose one thing, suppose another, suppose a jackass is your brother."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2017 10:32 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: Pepe, Moar Pleaae. at February 02, 2017 10:32 PM (O6j88)
complex hologram," scientists reported Monday.
Kewl, dude. When I hold the card this way, the hologram has these assholes burn down their own section of town!
Posted by: teenager from the 26th dimension with his 1st credit card at February 02, 2017 10:32 PM (nlbfN)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 10:29 PM (0OG8D)
A watery tart threw a scimitar at him...
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 02, 2017 10:33 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2017 10:33 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:33 PM (Gv7El)
Clever. And filling.
==
Maybe at first.
Then comes the cleaning. And the rearranging. And then The Decorating.
And then they start trying to rearrange you.
And then comes The Hating.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her!
That reminds me of that old joke about the 3 stages of marriage.
Stage one is House Sex, where the newlywed couple has sex in every room of the house.
Stage two is Bedroom Sex, where the couple has sex once a week in the bedroom.
Stage three is Hallway Sex where the couple says, "F**k you" as they pass in the hallway.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 02, 2017 10:33 PM (+lVUW)
Apparently they had planned to buy a 30-second ad to air during Super Bowl LI. They found out the cost of the ad would be the same amount of money... as giving all of their employees an extra paid day off work.
So they chose... to give their employees the paid day off.
Hmm. Anyone here think this was a good decision? A bad one? I personally think it was an okay decision.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:34 PM (u8kLQ)
Makes my stomach hurt.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:31 PM (Gv7El)
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Just ask a married guy if he wants multiple wives. Don't bother listening to the answer, just watch his expression.
Posted by: Flyboy at February 02, 2017 10:34 PM (R3Jti)
Indeed. Her exterior projects her inner turmoil.
Posted by: mpthompson at February 02, 2017 10:34 PM (I/SRC)
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It's already happening in Britain.
Next up: pedophilia.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 02, 2017 10:35 PM (J5mC3)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 10:36 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2017 10:36 PM (oVJmc)
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Yeah.
Stage three starts around the second bite of wedding cake.
Stage four is staying together for the kids.
Stage five is well the kids are gone what the hell do we do now.
I am dreading stage 5.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:36 PM (Gv7El)
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From Boswell's 'Life of Samuel Johnson'
"After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- "I refute it thus."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2017 10:36 PM (ZO497)
She's really come into her own as part of MAGA
I think she has something big coming up in her future. Maybe she will win the VA senate seat.
Posted by: Yeeha at February 02, 2017 10:37 PM (NPLj5)
Read something interesting today about the Kraft Heinz company.
Apparently they had planned to buy a 30-second ad to air during
Super Bowl LI. They found out the cost of the ad would be the same
amount of money... as giving all of their employees an extra paid day
off work.
So they chose... to give their employees the paid day off.
Hmm. Anyone here think this was a good decision? A bad one? I personally think it was an okay decision.
Posted by: qdpsteve
Terrible Decision!
Posted by: Don Draper at February 02, 2017 10:37 PM (XcOXh)
It's those Reptilians from the other side of Mars.
Posted by: Don at February 02, 2017 10:37 PM (NPutB)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 10:38 PM (0OG8D)
That's hawt.
Posted by: Widowed Octogenarian at February 02, 2017 10:38 PM (1CroS)
Quit that job for one of the worst jobs in my life. *sigh*
That's how I roll. Ass over teacup.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 02, 2017 10:38 PM (71e+w)
OK, I think I'll contemplate that while I take a nap. Tired here. May be back later.
Be well all you Morons.
Posted by: Farmer at February 02, 2017 10:38 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2017 10:39 PM (oVJmc)
It's those Reptilians from the other side of Mars.
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You obviously are not caught up on Ancient Aliens.
The Reptilians live deep within the earth. Duh.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 02, 2017 10:39 PM (J5mC3)
She is gonna be a great Senator.
Now if we can just get Sarah to knock off Murcokeski in Alaska.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:39 PM (Gv7El)
Andie MacDowell
She was something special
Posted by: Yeeha
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Yeah. No.
YMMV
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2017 10:39 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 02, 2017 10:35 PM
No, I think it's going to be animal love. Say, with the goat in the backyard.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 02, 2017 10:39 PM (jK8Z7)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at February 02, 2017 10:40 PM (FtrY1)
Like " you don't really need that", " your breathing is annoying" and that headaches can last for years.
Imagining that multiplied by more than one?
Makes my stomach hurt.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:31 PM (Gv7El)
Multiple divorces, alimony payments and complete financial and emotional ruin? No thanks.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 10:40 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles
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I do not think that any of the ads do. It's corporate ego at work.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2017 10:40 PM (ZO497)
I am dreading stage 5.
I saw an interview with a couple that had been married for 70-some years. They said, with totally straight faces, but huge twinkles in their eyes, that they were just staying together until all the kids were dead. Loved it.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:40 PM (QGamW)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 02, 2017 10:39 PM (jK8Z7)
Well, I mean, how else would you fuck a goat but in the backyard?
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 10:41 PM (89UPP)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at February 02, 2017 10:41 PM (kP16F)
She was something special
Posted by: Yeeha at February 02, 2017 10:32 PM (NPLj5)
In Sex Lies and Videotape she was something special.
In Groundhog day she was replaceable.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 02, 2017 10:42 PM (71e+w)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 10:29 PM (0OG8D)
A watery tart threw a scimitar at him...
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 02, 2017 10:33 PM (vBeA5)
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of meteorology!
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 10:42 PM (0mRoj)
See. Now they get life. I'm a bit envious.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 02, 2017 10:42 PM (1CroS)
It was a good decision for the employees at least.
I often wonders why some companies that are entrenched in consumer use and mindshare even bother advertising.
Posted by: Kreplach at February 02, 2017 10:43 PM (+lv+r)
Wow! I could do this all freakin' day, man!
Posted by: teenager from the 26th dimension with his 1st credit card at February 02, 2017 10:43 PM (nlbfN)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2017 10:43 PM (IqV8l)
Each HOA is different and has their own set of rules
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 10:43 PM (voOPb)
You could do it in the front yard so the neighbors could applaud your choice.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 02, 2017 10:43 PM (IcT7t)
observer at the central point will never witness an object actually
crossing the boundary because of time dilation.
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It actually is an event horizon. A cosmological horizon. If you're familiar with GR, see "de Sitter space", and nice toy model of an expanding universe, which you get with zero matter but with a cosmological constant. It makes a very simple solution (relatively speaking, for GR) to the field equations but gives you all the features of an accelerating expanding universe.
The notion of metric expansion is a coordinate one, not real/invariant, just one way to coordinatize the space-time. It admits a static coordinatization, known as Static de Sitter coordinates.
This looks exactly like an inside-out black hole. Rather than that an event horizon at small radius, and everything falling in, you have a space inside surrounded by an event horizon at a large radius.
Things fly apart -- there is a rip tide, as it can be called. Things fly away and freeze at the cosmological horizon, the inside out version of the classic Schwarzschild black hole.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 02, 2017 10:43 PM (DW+jj)
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It's already happening in Britain.
Next up: pedophilia.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 02, 2017 10:35 PM (J5mC3)
They've been working on that for a long time.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 10:44 PM (0mRoj)
Good points, although I think Frito-Lay's "Ultrasound" ad for Doritos made them money as a result of getting it run during Super Bowl L.
Of course, no doubt due mainly to the fact that bloodthirsty assholes at Planned Parenthood complained about it "humanizing the fetus," causing conservatives in turn to show F-L tons of support.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:44 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: devout moslem at February 02, 2017 10:44 PM (nlbfN)
No, I think it's going to be animal love. Say, with the goat in the backyard.
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Already legal in a bunch of states .
Look up zoophilia and the law.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 02, 2017 10:44 PM (J5mC3)
Remember her? I'm not a tattoo fan at all, but she is beautiful and those are the best face tattoos I've ever seen.
Definitely a 1 on the binary scale.
Posted by: rickl at February 02, 2017 10:45 PM (sdi6R)
See. Now they get life. I'm a bit envious.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 02, 2017 10:42 PM (1CroS)
Lucky fucks, having a lifelong, happy relationship.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 10:45 PM (0mRoj)
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Damn, I guess you don't have garages down in Florida.
Posted by: Flyboy at February 02, 2017 10:45 PM (R3Jti)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:45 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: gNewt at February 02, 2017 10:45 PM (NPutB)
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Already legal in a bunch of states .
Look up zoophilia and the law.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 02, 2017 10:44 PM (J5mC3)
Hell no. God only knows what kind of ad banners would start showing up.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 10:46 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 02, 2017 10:46 PM (DMUuz)
After all, the primary purpose of laws against incest is to prevent inbreeding. If it's a gay couple of relatives, they're not gonna produce children together, anyway, so that outdated relic of an excuse to deny them their love no longer has any real meaning, see?
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 10:46 PM (0OG8D)
I didn't tell my hubby my morbid thoughts. He thinks them already; it'll just bring him down to vocalize. I love that guy, and yes, he has bad breathe and snores, and sports an extra 20 lbs. Also, plays too much golf! He doesn't philander and when he heads to bed, he kisses me good night.
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at February 02, 2017 10:46 PM (RHjCR)
Posted by: otho at February 02, 2017 10:46 PM (lmIoG)
If *we,* the ONT members, were somehow magically provided the money to make and run an ad promoting ourselves and this blog, that we could run during Super Bowl LI...
what do you think would be a great ad? What would the ad look like?
Thought experiment. Would love to hear your ideas.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:47 PM (u8kLQ)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/827221828917682177
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/827221909880393728
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/827221984387989504
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/827222069561683968
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/827222170464026625
Posted by: kbdabear at February 02, 2017 10:47 PM (Ya7zs)
Election night on FBN was delightful. His grin was a mile wide. He'd seen what was coming, and he relished every bit of it, and hasn't stopped.
Posted by: Yeeha at February 02, 2017 10:47 PM (NPLj5)
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 02, 2017 10:48 PM (JO9+V)
falcons getting ready to fly the easy way. Falconry and competitive
bird sports are all the rage with the affluent in the middle east, and
birds can cost up to $250,000 apiece. A plane seat for a bird costs
around $650, and they also have to have their own passport. Still, 80
falcons? That seems like a lot. When you're rich a rich prince when do
you know it's time to stop buying falcons and start buying dragons? That
was a trick question, the answer's four -- just like upgrading from
houses to hotels in Monopoly.
I bet that plane stank to high heaven. Why? Because each falcon has one carrion.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:48 PM (QGamW)
20#? You must make nice sammiches
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 10:48 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Pale Ale at February 02, 2017 10:48 PM (M3DRt)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:47 PM (u8kLQ)
No ad that would ever properly convey the HQ and the Horde could make it past the various network and govt censors.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 10:48 PM (89UPP)
I do not think that any of the ads do. It's corporate ego at work.
Another reason I'm a failure at life. I don't think like that.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2017 10:48 PM (oVJmc)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/827222792412213249
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/827222997287178242
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/827223096134344704
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/827223182138601473
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/827223259590586368
Posted by: kbdabear at February 02, 2017 10:48 PM (Ya7zs)
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 02, 2017 10:49 PM (1CroS)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 10:49 PM (0OG8D)
If *we,* the ONT members, were somehow magically provided the money to make and run an ad promoting ourselves and this blog, that we could run during Super Bowl LI...
what do you think would be a great ad? What would the ad look like?
Thought experiment. Would love to hear your ideas.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:47 PM (u8kLQ)
I'd just give us all a day off.
Posted by: Iowa Bob at February 02, 2017 10:49 PM (80HyY)
Thought experiment. Would love to hear your ideas.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:47 PM (u8kLQ)
Guns. Boobs. Man-bun heads on pikes.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 10:50 PM (0mRoj)
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And...
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That Oldsmobile is not a "car"... It's an automobile!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki
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*fistbump*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Oldsmobile owner at February 02, 2017 10:50 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:50 PM (Gv7El)
Posted by: Pale Ale at February 02, 2017 10:50 PM (M3DRt)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:50 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 02, 2017 10:50 PM (71e+w)
Not sure how to pay for all those shoes...
Posted by: t-bird at February 02, 2017 10:51 PM (eeTCA)
what do you think would be a great ad? What would the ad look like?
My ad would be 'THE NFL SUCKS AND ROGER GOODELL IS A WINDOW-LICKING IMBECILE.'
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2017 10:51 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Pale Ale
Not so! Dobbs is way off on this one.
Rubio's makes great fish tacos!
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:51 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: joey biden at February 02, 2017 10:51 PM (nlbfN)
Who declared Punxsatauny Phil to have authority over the seasons? I didn't vote for him! He's not my groundhog.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch!
==
This comment is my current favorite, ever. I love it.
It is chock full of win.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:51 PM (Gv7El)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (Lqy/e)
Trying to represent this place in a TV commercial would be like trying to film a sharknado meeting WWII in a cage match held in zero G.
Nobody would have any idea what was going on, but it would be spectacular.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (IcT7t)
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Well, lace wigs and assless chaps probably wouldn't be best...
Let me think about it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Oldsmobile owner at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (ZO497)
Let's also imagine we have enough money to either (a) bribe the FCC or (b) pay the fine. ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Paolo at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 02, 2017 10:28 PM (jK8Z7)
And that is how we got slavery.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (P/kVC)
And daddy may drink but he doesn't drink because of tattoo girl. Chances are he doesn't even know about tattoo girl and, if he does, you can bet he doesn't care.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (Nox3c)
Perhaps we could run that as a text message below a :60 clip of a classic Led Zepplin performance.
/see, making tv ads isn't that hard.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 02, 2017 10:53 PM (J5mC3)
We'd need 90 seconds or a minute at least.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:53 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki
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*fistbump*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Oldsmobile owner at February 02, 2017 10:50 PM (ZO497)
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Yep.
*adds bump*
Posted by: Flyboy at February 02, 2017 10:53 PM (R3Jti)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:53 PM (Gv7El)
Good night, Horde, and pleasant dreams of progressive schemes being thwarted.
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at February 02, 2017 10:53 PM (J8/9G)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 10:41 PM (89UPP)
You people have restrictions on that kind of thing?
Posted by: Abdullah Mohammed at February 02, 2017 10:54 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2017 10:54 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:54 PM (u8kLQ)
Most of the "love wins" crowd will balk at that. But guess what. At some age of the mother, 38 I believe, the chances of birth defects in her child equals that of direct brother-sister incest reproduction, and then exceeds it as the age increases.
So if you hold that the only logical reason to ban incest is to prevent genetic problems, then you should hold that it should be made illegal for a woman over 38 or so to give birth.
Most people wouldn't do that, thinking that's tyranny. And that shows that's not the real reason for banning incest. We think it's sick. The same way we think bestiality is sick, and used to think homosexual acts were sick.
You will find these "love wins" types get very uncomfortable when forced to follow this logical path.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 02, 2017 10:55 PM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:55 PM (Gv7El)
Well, we had it unloaded a street over from where my folks live. A lady walking her dog stopped to look at the car and asked me what it was. I said "This IS my father's Oldsmobile"
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:55 PM (QGamW)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles
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I do not think that any of the ads do. It's corporate ego at work.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2017 10:40 PM (ZO497)
--Will Rogers:
"If companies would spend as much money improving their product as they do advertising it, they would not need to advertise their product."
Posted by: logprof at February 02, 2017 10:56 PM (emDjj)
There were also complaints that the missionaries in Europe married the attractive converts, leaving the (paraphrasing) 'less attractive' ones to make the journey to Utah as singles exp citing to change that state after arrival.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 02, 2017 10:56 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Buzzion at February 02, 2017 10:56 PM (8dgCO)
Indeed, that pretty much how I interpret it. I don't have a good understanding of the math, but I've long contemplated the popular writings of Leonard Susskind's on the subject.
What we perceive to be "the universe" is but a minuscule 3D space-time bubble on a 2D surface that defines vast bulk of the actual universe.
Posted by: mpthompson at February 02, 2017 10:56 PM (I/SRC)
Posted by: kalneva at February 02, 2017 10:57 PM (vhW1R)
Posted by: Brunette the 'Ette at February 02, 2017 10:57 PM (adsVM)
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (QGamW)
That's just the sweetest thing, Dave! Brought tears to my eyes.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 10:57 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: mallflower on the range at February 02, 2017 10:57 PM (b7fwp)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2017 10:57 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:47 PM (u8kLQ)
Like Kate Upton's Game of War ad with but more jiggly
Posted by: kbdabear at February 02, 2017 10:57 PM (Ya7zs)
Another reason I'm a failure at life. I don't think like that.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles
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I vigorously protest any suggestion that anyone who has an interest in this place is a failure. That's bullshit.
If you're here, and not one of the Trollish, then you are one of ours , which is very, very different than 'failure'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Oldsmobile owner at February 02, 2017 10:57 PM (ZO497)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n01Q_GYsEU
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 10:57 PM (89UPP)
Twice.
Posted by: Brunette the 'Ette at February 02, 2017 10:58 PM (adsVM)
Funny thing about that Matthew McConaughey story. He was also one of those actor types who did the "I Will Survive" anti-Trump video.
The two positions aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
Besides, anyone who gets stoned and bongos in the nude can't be all bad.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 02, 2017 10:58 PM (cuZZW)
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (QGamW)
The definition of a good day.
Evening all.
Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at February 02, 2017 10:59 PM (D2vc1)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 10:59 PM (89UPP)
--Will Rogers:
"If companies would spend as much money improving their product as they do advertising it, they would not need to advertise their product."
Conning a sucker is a lot easier than quality.
Another reason I'm a failure at life....Can't think that way.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2017 11:00 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: logprof at February 02, 2017 09:59 PM (emDjj)
Whatever. Edgar Rice is the only Burroughs who matters.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2017 11:00 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Weirddave
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Once in a lifetime, perfect opportunity.
OTOH, a millennial would have said, "Huh? What's an Oldsmobile?"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Oldsmobile owner at February 02, 2017 11:01 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2017 10:54 PM
Somehow, that the drill is an IKEA drill would need to be conveyed.
Would the cursing be human or Ewok?
Would the sound of collapsing wood be antithetical to the average schadenboner and button status around here?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 02, 2017 11:01 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Stringer Davis, also an Oldsmobile owner at February 02, 2017 11:01 PM (H5rtT)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 10:50 PM (Gv7El)
Could be, but what a dismal way to look at life. I hope your home life improves soon. We never control anything but our own attitude.
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at February 02, 2017 11:02 PM (RHjCR)
Posted by: logprof at February 02, 2017 11:02 PM (emDjj)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 02, 2017 11:02 PM (TnUKj)
which the expansion of space from that point reaches the speed of light.
Travel twice the speed of sound, it's easy to get burned.
Posted by: dr crosby stills-nash at February 02, 2017 11:02 PM (nlbfN)
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 02, 2017 11:02 PM (1CroS)
Twice.
Posted by: Brunette the 'Ette
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Hmm. Was it...naughty ?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Oldsmobile owner at February 02, 2017 11:02 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: dr crosby stills-nash
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In space, no one can hear you scream.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Oldsmobile owner at February 02, 2017 11:03 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: Obligatory at February 02, 2017 10:05 PM (aZq03)
I have never been in a Tilted Kilt, but I see they now have a location in L.A. (that's Lethbridge, Alberta, for the uninformed)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2017 11:04 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 02, 2017 11:04 PM (nQ10o)
If it's an illusion, why isn't it a better one, instead of a cold, uncaring, miserable place to be?
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 11:05 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 11:05 PM (Gv7El)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 02, 2017 11:04 PM (nQ10o)
Well, when a Moron loves a Horde very much....
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 11:05 PM (89UPP)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:34 PM (u8kLQ)
I doubt a Super Bowl ad (or not) will have much effect on their sales.
Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at February 02, 2017 11:06 PM (D2vc1)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 11:06 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: gNewt at February 02, 2017 11:06 PM (NPutB)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 02, 2017 11:04 PM (nQ10o)
It's a very stimulating conversation.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 11:06 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 02, 2017 11:07 PM (1CroS)
====
"We"
heh.
Yeah. She says that too.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 11:05 PM (Gv7El)
For once I'm going to bite my tongue.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 11:07 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 10:48 PM (89UPP)
If I wrote a radio ad that truly portrayed the spirit of the HQ, the FCC would be knocking on my door.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, King Of Karaoke at February 02, 2017 11:07 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki
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*fistbump*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Oldsmobile owner at February 02, 2017 10:50 PM (ZO497)
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Yep.
*adds bump*
Posted by: Flyboy
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*bump*
Posted by: Ralphie's dad at February 02, 2017 11:07 PM (ZO497)
257 --I think you meant William S. Burroughs
Posted by: logprof at February 02, 2017 09:59 PM (emDjj)
Whatever. Edgar Rice is the only Burroughs who matters.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2017 11:00 PM (WDdjT)
2MB hard drives FTW!!!!!
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 02, 2017 11:07 PM (cuZZW)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2017 11:00 PM
Dude. You're alive, ergo you are successful at life.
You come from hundreds of generations of people who were successful at same. YOU are proof of that.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 02, 2017 11:07 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Pale Ale at February 02, 2017 11:08 PM (M3DRt)
Posted by: phoenixgirl...25 days until spring training at February 02, 2017 11:08 PM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 11:05 PM (0mRoj)
Because the programmer is an idiot?
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, King Of Karaoke at February 02, 2017 11:08 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at February 02, 2017 11:06 PM (D2vc1)<<<
Right. Everyone already knows you buy their ketchup to put on your hotdogs.
Posted by: an indifferent instigating penguin at February 02, 2017 11:08 PM (I5q3y)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2017 11:00 PM
Dude. You're alive, ergo you are successful at life.
You come from hundreds of generations of people who were successful at same. YOU are proof of that.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 02, 2017 11:07 PM (DMUuz)
Out of millions of desperately swimming sperm, you were the fastest!
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 11:08 PM (89UPP)
of the sound of a drill, followed by much cursing and the sound of
collapsing wood.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2017 10:54 PM (oVJmc)
I'm telling Shelvey on you!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:09 PM (tHwdc)
Twice.
That happens when the copied text has unicode characters. The HQ is old school, it only understands HTML. In posts by Ace or the COBS, that's what causes the black diamonds.
You can "wash" the quoted text through the unicode to HTML converter here: https://www.charset.org/html-special-characters and then paste it into the comments box. You'll find that unicode characters have been changed to HTML - It'll look like this ---> #82 20; (Without the space, that's HTML for the quote symbol). Simply replace the HTML text with the correct character in the comment box here, and Bob's your uncle.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 11:10 PM (QGamW)
Posted by: michael scott at February 02, 2017 11:10 PM (nlbfN)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 02, 2017 11:10 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: I'd watch that at February 02, 2017 11:10 PM (wpC7C)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 10:46
Oh please. I would think the election of Trump would put and end to that. Maybe I'm wrong.
Posted by: Farmer at February 02, 2017 11:10 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! 3 at February 02, 2017 11:11 PM (Gv7El)
Posted by: mpthompson at February 02, 2017 11:11 PM (I/SRC)
Today was a good day.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (QGamW)
Congratulations, WD? Was he surprised?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2017 11:11 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: BC
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Yeah. Fending off those other assholes was bitch. And the water that day was acidic as hell. Can't believe that I made it.
Posted by: The Iron Sperm at February 02, 2017 11:11 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 02, 2017 11:12 PM (nQ10o)
And they'll be available in #TwoWeeks.
Posted by: Paul Anka at February 02, 2017 11:12 PM (I5q3y)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 11:05 PM (89UPP)
...and the pants come off...
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:13 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 11:13 PM (QGamW)
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Why thank you qdpsteve!
You know, we can always edit shots of Kate Upton dancing into the Zepplin video... to .. um... make it "artistic."
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 02, 2017 11:13 PM (J5mC3)
Posted by: Sancho at February 02, 2017 11:13 PM (VXbIB)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 02, 2017 11:05 PM (89UPP)
...and the pants come off...
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:13 PM (tHwdc)
Flag on the play! Pants should not have been on in the first place!
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 11:13 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at February 02, 2017 11:14 PM (e8kgV)
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That's what she said!
Posted by: michael scott at February 02, 2017 11:10 PM (nlbfN)
Mmmm hmmmm.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 02, 2017 11:14 PM (nQ10o)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:14 PM (u8kLQ)
No
And did you see spring link above fold?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 11:14 PM (voOPb)
Here is the mea culpa, from the guy who wrote the line. It has Shatner, Shatner's daughter's lady bits, and a lot more.
http://tinyurl.com/h3lorrw
GM had well and truly lost its...
way.
Posted by: Stringer Davis, also an Oldsmobile owner at February 02, 2017 11:14 PM (H5rtT)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 02, 2017 11:15 PM (71e+w)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 11:13 PM (0mRoj)
I was referring to the underwear...
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:15 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 11:13 PM (0mRoj)
I was referring to the underwear...
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:15 PM (tHwdc)
Oh my.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 11:16 PM (0mRoj)
They claim poor sales, but FB friends want to boycott.
Admittedly Nordstrom is easy to boycott as I can't afford anything there anyway ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:16 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at February 02, 2017 11:17 PM (I5q3y)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:15 PM (tHwdc)
Oh my.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 11:16 PM (0mRoj)
Have I traumatized you, Insomniac?
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:17 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 02, 2017 11:18 PM (6n332)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 02, 2017 11:18 PM (W6Ch1)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (P/kVC)
Burnt, there is actually a very strong parallel. Read Lincoln's Cooper Union speech and make the appropriate substitutions.
https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/cooper.htm
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 02, 2017 11:19 PM (jK8Z7)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 11:19 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:15 PM
What is this underwear you speak of?
Posted by: Scots Highlanders at February 02, 2017 11:19 PM (DMUuz)
<cue Nelson Muntz laugh> HA HA!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:19 PM (tHwdc)
from when his dad was about 15. My dream car also comes from when I was
close to that age a 1970 Buick GS. Makes me wonder what dream cars will
be for young males today.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 02, 2017 11:18 PM (W6Ch1)<<<
Pfft. We don't wanna drive. That's dangerous when holding our mug of cocoa. I dream of Lyft.
Posted by: Pajama Boy at February 02, 2017 11:19 PM (I5q3y)
Posted by: Original Jake at February 02, 2017 11:20 PM (VBsKP)
******
Nothing says awesome as in Mini-Cooper
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 11:20 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: rickl at February 02, 2017 10:31 PM (sdi6R)
She gets dressed so cheerfully!
Posted by: Emmie at February 02, 2017 11:20 PM (xVuS6)
Posted by: logprof at February 02, 2017 11:20 PM (emDjj)
Posted by: Scots Highlanders at February 02, 2017 11:19 PM (DMUuz)
The Scots Highlanders always have long threads.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:21 PM (tHwdc)
Also second/ditto the praise for Laura Ingraham.
Posted by: RM at February 02, 2017 11:21 PM (2MdLo)
I liked the design, it sounded like a fun drive, everything. Of course I *never* see any of that model on the road anymore and haven't since about 1984, so I guess it wasn't the most reliable.
I also remember loving the BMW that Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) drove in "Moonlighting." I've noticed those couldn't be found on the roads only a few years later too, though.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:21 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 11:21 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (Lqy/e)
I'll have to see if there is a pic online.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 02, 2017 11:22 PM (nQ10o)
The original VW Bug was never that much to look at either.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:22 PM (u8kLQ)
https://youtu.be/45PDbowUh8c
Not really awesome, but somewhat quicker than stock.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 02, 2017 11:22 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at February 02, 2017 11:23 PM (nFdGS)
Because I can.
And I know this thread is going to get very long while I'm doing it.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:23 PM (tHwdc)
And they'll stay there, too. We had a rough patch in January, but it's all worked out now.
Go Flames!
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 11:23 PM (QGamW)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 11:25 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Original Jake at February 02, 2017 11:25 PM (VBsKP)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at February 02, 2017 11:25 PM (kP16F)
Posted by: beavia at February 02, 2017 11:26 PM (lmIoG)
Or punts.
Maybe an AOSHQ version of "Ow, my wherever, throat, kneecaps?"
Figure 2 seconds per, 15 people shown..probably need more ad time.
Posted by: Blake at February 02, 2017 11:26 PM (WEBkv)
As a 15 year old
As a 25 year old and multiples of 10 to my current age
I never fucking wanted any VW or Audi product
Now a 64 Corvette would make me smile and a 68 Firebird ragtop would give me a chubby
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 11:26 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 02, 2017 11:26 PM (nlbfN)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 11:26 PM (0OG8D)
Guess ma readung skillz nead some werk!
Though in my cringe-worthy sycophantic defense I would point out that you are putting up historic, yuuuge, classy, luxurious, really the best ONTs, thus making my oversight more understandable.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 02, 2017 11:26 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: butthead at February 02, 2017 11:27 PM (lmIoG)
unauthorized-Trump-flag
Posted by: Original Jake at February 02, 2017 11:27 PM (VBsKP)
As the songs of birds are heard and butterflies flit through the glen, we hear a blood curdling scream. Suddenly, a hobo pushing a shopping cart, rushes through the Glen, bleeding from 1/8th inch drill holes. Screaming, Noooooo! He abandons the cart and tries to flee but trips over his bed roll and lands hard on the ground.
Appearing on top of a downed tree is an Ewok wearing a hobo skin, a messenger bag, and carrying an IKEA drill. He shouts of his victory. "Yubba, Yubba!!"
He leaps upon the fallen hobo and dispatches him with a shelf that was hidden in his messenger bag. After a quickly dressing the hobo, he reaches into the bag and pulls out a bottle of Valu-rite. He finishes the bottle, drops it, and passes out.
We focus on the bottle label. Ace of Spades, HQ, Valu-rite.
Scene fades back to the fluttering Jolly Roger flag. The announcer speaks. "Valu-rite. The drink of Morons and ettes. Available where longbows and crossbows are sold".
Fade to black.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 02, 2017 11:27 PM (ShwM+)
I've read the 1967 Corvette was considered quite the revolutionary car. How so?
Was it the fuel injection? Have heard it was one of the very first cars to offer it standard.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:27 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 02, 2017 11:27 PM (VdICR)
but the Oldsmobile song for Dave's dad, and the generation before him too, was this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFruHQJeaRg
which was just a little racy for its time - 1905.
Same singer who did "Get Out And Get Under" and "Under the Anheuser Busch" which would make an OK football ad I guess, if GaGa died.
Think they've eaten the Clydesdales yet?
Posted by: Stringer Davis, also an Oldsmobile owner at February 02, 2017 11:27 PM (H5rtT)
They got lucky last night
Posted by: Devan Dubnyk
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 11:27 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:28 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 02, 2017 11:28 PM (nQ10o)
Somehow I didn't know the Four Chaplains story.
Humbling, and amazing.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 02, 2017 11:28 PM (QDnY+)
That right there is deserving of a post of it's own. It's deserving of an Instalanche. It's deserving of being linked throughout the breadth and width of the dextrosphere, such as it exists in however many pixelated dimensions may fit onto a screen.
And somewhere out there, is a Mensch of the Year award with Weirddave's name, already engraved on the plaque.
Helluva thing, to blow-out any possible competition with nearly eleven months remaining in the year, but there it is.
I'm pouring a bourbon, so that I may toast Weirddave's beautiful gesture. And him. And another toast to the parents who obviously did things right with their boy, all along the way.
I'm beginning to think that we're seeing some evolution in process, that Teh Horde is a self-improving, self-selecting sub-species.
There are some truly superior folks hangin' out 'round these parts.
Humbling, too. But only in all the right ways of that word.
To Weirddave, this drink....
SALUTE!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 02, 2017 11:28 PM (v5iqM)
Newsweek headline: Milo gets schooled at Berkeley.
These people really don't want what they think they want.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at February 02, 2017 11:28 PM (GzDYP)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:29 PM (u8kLQ)
Richard Widmark, pushing McCain down a flight of stairs , strapped into a wheelchair
Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 02, 2017 11:29 PM (CL76w)
Heh, that would give it a twist. Either that or some Ludwig Van.
Posted by: I'd watch that at February 02, 2017 11:30 PM (wpC7C)
Nevermind
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 11:30 PM (QGamW)
As the songs of birds are heard and butterflies flit through the glen, we hear a blood curdling scream. Suddenly, a hobo pushing a shopping cart, rushes through the Glen, bleeding from 1/8th inch drill holes. Screaming, Noooooo! He abandons the cart and tries to flee but trips over his bed roll and lands hard on the ground.
Appearing on top of a downed tree is an Ewok wearing a hobo skin, a messenger bag, and carrying an IKEA drill. He shouts of his victory. "Yubba, Yubba!!"
He leaps upon the fallen hobo and dispatches him with a shelf that was hidden in his messenger bag. After a quickly dressing the hobo, he reaches into the bag and pulls out a bottle of Valu-rite. He finishes the bottle, drops it, and passes out.
We focus on the bottle label. Ace of Spades, HQ, Valu-rite.
Scene fades back to the fluttering Jolly Roger flag. The announcer speaks. "Valu-rite. The drink of Morons and ettes. Available where longbows and crossbows are sold".
Fade to black.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 02, 2017 11:27 PM (ShwM+)
Thread winner
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 02, 2017 11:30 PM (nQ10o)
It looks super cool. That's all I've got.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 02, 2017 11:30 PM (8cEQL)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 11:05 PM (0mRoj)
Maybe the Universe is just a vast and complex mammogram, and we are the lumps.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2017 11:30 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 11:30 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Blake at February 02, 2017 11:30 PM (WEBkv)
Images of all the great liberal heroes and pundits of the last 10 years, being slowly fed into a wood chipper that's marked "ONT."
While, yes, "Singing In The Rain" plays. Gotta give that nod to Stanley. ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:31 PM (u8kLQ)
Dudes, by the time the games count, MisHum will be wearing shorts, Obamacare will be repealed, and The Wall will be half-way completed.
As the old timer says to the young kids in the locker room at hockey scrimmage - "I don't watch hockey until Memorial Day". Never, once, eliciting any appreciation of the acid sarcasm referring to a ridiculously over-long season.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 02, 2017 11:31 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 11:32 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:33 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 11:34 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Pale Ale at February 02, 2017 11:34 PM (M3DRt)
Because I can.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:23 PM (tHwdc)
Be sure to set up the live webcam.
Posted by: rickl at February 02, 2017 11:34 PM (sdi6R)
Images of all the great liberal heroes and pundits of the last 10 years, being slowly fed into a wood chipper that's marked "ONT."
While, yes, "Singing In The Rain" plays. Gotta give that nod to Stanley. ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:31 PM (u8kLQ)
Ooooo. I like this one, too.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 02, 2017 11:34 PM (nQ10o)
Yeah, I would say things have changed. But those cameras were affordable by almost everyone, the film could be easily processed in a bathroom, and they provided decades of family memories.
Posted by: JTB at February 02, 2017 11:34 PM (V+03K)
Reminds me of a similar story - from the forums at the CMP, I think.
Guy was able to find the Garand his father carried (WWII or Korea, forget), by serial number (CMP had it), got it, cleaned it up, and presented it to him at a veterans' event or reunion. Few dry eyes resulted.
Since WD is a Garand-owner his own sef, this fits right in.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 02, 2017 11:35 PM (QDnY+)
These people really don't want what they think they want.
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Oh, I think they do.
They had their empty suit Obama and power.
They want the power back.
However.. they really haven't thought about "p*ssed off southern boys who have been shooting since they've been 5, veterans and generally angry Northerners with guns."
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 02, 2017 11:35 PM (J5mC3)
I've been invited to a suite next Weds for Wild/Blackhawks game should I say no since it isn't close to Memorial Day?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 11:36 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: The Dude at February 02, 2017 11:36 PM (/Kwzr)
Val-u-rite vodka is a real thing. $8 for a .75L bottle.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 02, 2017 11:36 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: JTB at February 02, 2017 11:37 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 11:20 PM (voOPb)
I would happily have a real Mini-Cooper, as made by BLMC, with the 1275 engine in it. But not one of those BMW-made abortions.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2017 11:38 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:33 PM (u8kLQ)
Thanks qdpsteve.
My college degree was radio-TV which I never got to use. It was fun to see if I remember anything from those long ago years.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 02, 2017 11:38 PM (ShwM+)
or Trump as James Cagney and McCain as the grapefruit target from this movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4R5wZs8cxI
Posted by: Willy J. at February 02, 2017 11:38 PM (W6Ch1)
Posted by: Phil Connors at February 02, 2017 11:38 PM (TRzoP)
Talk about losing friends in a hurry.
Posted by: Bill Wynn at February 02, 2017 11:38 PM (fcb/2)
On top of which, EVERYTHING in media production has changed since I graduated (198
. I'm just now trying to relearn it all.Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:39 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Bill Wynn at February 02, 2017 11:38 PM (fcb/2)
Looks like the lemon party let out early.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 02, 2017 11:40 PM (TRzoP)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at February 02, 2017 11:41 PM (kP16F)
Giving your dad motor vehicles does not always work out so well. I gave my dad a motorcycle when he was 52. The guys on the construction site made fun of him for being an old man(!) on a motorcycle, so he rode it a few times and then meh.
Some years later, on the verge of old age (both of us, I guess) I got the deuce. He drove a deuce from LeHavre to Metz, and I thought the two of us would be doing a lot of MVPA stuff. Couple of shows, couple of parades, and that was it. Still managed to have some fun with it though.
Posted by: Stringer Davis, also an Oldsmobile owner at February 02, 2017 11:41 PM (H5rtT)
Do you ever wonder what people like her do for a living? Or even sadder, what do they do for enjoyment?
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at February 02, 2017 11:42 PM (o7l6R)
Posted by: Pale Ale at February 02, 2017 11:42 PM (M3DRt)
That is a very moving story; I had not heard of it until about four years ago. It had additional meaning for me now that I have a friend who was a military chaplain.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2017 11:43 PM (fDdVG)
I actually have to bestir myself to figure out a game or two of the local minor league team to go to. Various groups of friends want to go.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 02, 2017 11:44 PM (QDnY+)
Just Gary and me. Workjnv up songs for me to play guitar on. Two of his, Promised Land and Almost Tried, and two covers, For What It's Worth and When When You Say Nothing At All.
Already doing another one of his.
On Promised Land, if I can pull it off, I'll be keeping a beat on kick drum and hi-hat, playing guitar and taking two of the three solos on harmonica.
Eat your heart out Jimmy Fadden. Ok, maybe not,,, but still
Posted by: teej at February 02, 2017 11:44 PM (3duqG)
Warbler, the lens is always covered with a post-it. Even James Comey says to do that, and he should know.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:44 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: JTB at February 02, 2017 11:44 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: Bill at February 02, 2017 11:45 PM (FbFKQ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:27 PM (u8kLQ)
Chevy offered fuel injection in '57, not '67. It remained available for a year or two at most. Was not quite ready for prime time. Those early Rochester FI rigs are highly sought-after collectibles, now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2017 11:45 PM (WDdjT)
Time for Donald to pack it in and head back to the golf course, I guess.
We warned you!
Posted by: rhomboid at February 02, 2017 11:45 PM (QDnY+)
Forty Six degrees north latitude and spring doesn't get here until mid May or so, for some values of 'spring'.
That's - let me do the math here, feb,mar,apr - ok twelve to fourteen weeks. Sure there will be warm afternoons, warm being defined as above freezing in the sunlight, but it takes weeks of warm afternoons to melt the snow when it refreezes at night.
Posted by: Zack Lee at February 02, 2017 11:46 PM (8HZp0)
The announcer speaks. "Valu-rite. The drink of Morons and ettes.
Available where longbows and crossbows are sold".
Fade to black.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 02, 2017 11:27 PM (ShwM+)
I'd pay to watch that commercial.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:46 PM (tHwdc)
Woo-hoo, and stuff.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 11:46 PM (0OG8D)
Is that like an infinite series of reflecting mirrors, or something?
Posted by: rhomboid at February 02, 2017 11:46 PM (QDnY+)
On top of which, EVERYTHING in media production has changed since I graduated (198. I'm just now trying to relearn it all.
Yeah, I'm a 1984 grad. I wanted to do documentaries for a living. You know, get paid to travel the world and meet chicks.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 02, 2017 11:47 PM (ShwM+)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 02, 2017 11:48 PM (ptQdD)
Woo-hoo, and stuff.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 11:46 PM (0OG8D)
I own my own car, so I have no use for Uber or Lyft.
Posted by: rickl at February 02, 2017 11:48 PM (sdi6R)
A screen (totally black) with James Earl Jones narrating the following:
They were alive, but there was no life within. Their days and nights were filled with despondent typing on blogs of no consequence and fearing death due to terminal ennui. There was no hope.
(A small dot of light appears on the screen, at first dim. Slowly it brightens and grows to a full white screen as JEJ continues speaking.)
There then appeared, as if from nothing, a light. A light that slowly grew in dimension and illumination. Drawing all those who saw it closer and closer to its warm embrace. Melting away the icy prison of death that entombed their hearts.
Those bindings that imprisoned their thoughts are suddenly severed by a fiery sword. Free at last, they drink in the wisdom that flows freely from the only true source of life.
(Screen fills with ACE in giant capitals. Below the web address flashing on and off.)
Not quite there. Needs more plagerism. Less sense.
Posted by: Hack Commercials Writer at February 02, 2017 11:49 PM (FtrY1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:49 PM (u8kLQ)
Well said, sir!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:49 PM (tHwdc)
I'm a deplorable. I own my own pickup truck.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 02, 2017 11:51 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Pale Ale at February 02, 2017 11:52 PM (M3DRt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2017 11:52 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: rickl at February 02, 2017 11:34 PM (sdi6R)
Absolutely. Here's the link.
http://tinyurl.com/hq7hegm
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:53 PM (tHwdc)
I don't have a car, myself, but I'm pretty good at using the public transportation system here in the Denver area when I need to go somewhere outside my immediate neighborhood.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 11:53 PM (0OG8D)
I'm a deplorable. I own my own pickup truck.
I'm irredeemable. I own large SUVs.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 02, 2017 11:53 PM (ShwM+)
Back last year when the incredibly idiotic "talk about race" nonsense was barfed up by the Starbucks top management, I tormented some young employees - who didn't really know much about it. And who, to their credit, pretty much rolled their eyes about it.
And this was after the dingbat CEO had his bizarre, mindless "create jobs by humming and having positive thoughts! eleventy!" "jobs" initiative.
It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant, effectively unintelligent, and lacking in socratic knowledge so many successful business people can be. And Schultz doesn't have the excuse of being a fairly unworldly youngster, like the Facebook kid.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 02, 2017 11:54 PM (QDnY+)
I would bet on "cutting" for enjoyment
Posted by: Chuck C at February 02, 2017 11:54 PM (h99GH)
Posted by: teej at February 02, 2017 11:54 PM (3duqG)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:54 PM (u8kLQ)
Numbah One across the finish line.
http://tinyurl.com/jfvhcur
Posted by: torquewrench at February 02, 2017 11:57 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: teej at February 02, 2017 11:57 PM (3duqG)
Posted by: rickl at February 02, 2017 11:48 PM (sdi6R)
Well, it sure doesn't bother me that Uber and Lyft are "abandoning" Trump. Their entire business model is basically a means of commoditizing ride-sharing to help unemployed or under-employed people make a few dollars.
If Trump is successful in getting Americans back to work in full-time productive jobs, both Uber and Lyft will take a big hit in both ridership and driver participation.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2017 11:57 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:58 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 02, 2017 11:58 PM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 02, 2017 11:48 PM (ptQdD)
I'd damn near kill for a very minty, restored and mildly modified P-1800 wagon.
Modern brakes, dampers, bushings and other movement and wear items. Find the best match for aftermarket, modern electronic ignition package. Do the mods to the head so that running unleaded wouldn't be an issue.
A few interior upgrades, such as modern, fully adjustable seats, steering column and some good audio hiding behind a vintage-look faceplate.
That's damn near the ideal Shooting Brake in my book, right there. The only one I'd like more, Mercedes never made, it exists nowhere but my fevered imagination.
Cars like that are lotto dreams, at best. But fun lotto dreams, so I'll keep on enjoying 'em.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 02, 2017 11:58 PM (v5iqM)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 02, 2017 11:59 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 02, 2017 10:28 PM (jK8Z7)
But not for Mormons.
Posted by: Fox2! at February 02, 2017 11:59 PM (brIR5)
The odd thing that muddies the waters a bit - in his otherwise idiotic message, Schultz said they would target former employees of the US in war zones (translators, etc.). Which is of course a good thing. But seems like it would be a wrenchingly uncool thing to airheads like the Starbucks people, who were presumably like Code Pink or a lot of AOSHQ commenters about Iraq.
In any case there's little chance any employees will have any better understanding of refugee process, immigration, intelligence, or any other relevant topic than their CEO.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 03, 2017 12:00 AM (QDnY+)
I don't see how Islam can be allowed polygamy and the Mormons can not.
At least, not in my lifetime, presuming California doesn't declare independence and break up the Union when other geographic/demographic regions try the same thing.
Of course, since the US was formed on the idea of religious freedom - freedom to practice your religion as you see fit - except for the Mormons. Well, it's a matter of who can make the bigger ruckus and who gets tired of the chaos.
Posted by: Zack Lee at February 03, 2017 12:00 AM (8HZp0)
Posted by: that's what it sounds like at February 03, 2017 12:01 AM (wpC7C)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2017 11:57 PM (WDdjT)
--Yes. ^^^ +1
Posted by: logprof at February 03, 2017 12:01 AM (GsAUU)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 03, 2017 12:02 AM (MZcWR)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 03, 2017 12:03 AM (vBeA5)
He really is one of the most pathetic, and contemptible, public figures.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 03, 2017 12:03 AM (QDnY+)
I would bet on "cutting" for enjoyment
Posted by: Chuck C at February 02, 2017 11:54 PM
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Yeah, cutting and drugs for fun.
And then collecting SSDI for a living.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 03, 2017 12:06 AM (Nox3c)
Posted by: Max Power at February 03, 2017 12:06 AM (QCc6B)
you knew better you lousy kangaroo fuckers. hope the asian hordes, and whores flood your stinking filthy continent with more vile and violent things than you, your ancestors, and every poisonous murderous thing that inhabits your continent.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:06 AM (cPsPa)
Available where longbows and crossbows are sold".
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Available where longbows are sold and crossbows are given away.
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 03, 2017 12:07 AM (PqqkK)
Hey! NO blink tags!
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 03, 2017 12:07 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2017 12:07 AM (qUNWi)
Wait - you're talking about the US? About the US "judicial" system? You don't see how such a screaming absurd contradiction would occur?
I think you've been borrowing ace's time machine.
In what's left of the US today, what you describe would be 10 min. work for Anthony Kennedy's junior clerk.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 03, 2017 12:07 AM (QDnY+)
Meh. I'm exaggerating. I wouldn't mind having a minty piece in the stable, but I wouldn't seek one out.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 03, 2017 12:07 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 03, 2017 12:08 AM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: S at February 03, 2017 12:09 AM (YtzJ5)
First camera was a Kokak Brownie Reflex. It wasn't mine, exactly; belonged to the family. I had a Japanese copy for a short time, and a Japanese Miranda Sensorex which was loaned to a semipro camera guy who broke it for me. I've had too many cameras to remember them all, especially by name.
Currently use a Nikon D90 which I like very much. Just wish I was rich so I could buy all the new Nikons. I like Nikons.
Posted by: Zack Lee at February 03, 2017 12:09 AM (8HZp0)
IPD is a large business in Portland, OR, catering to vintage Volvos. What you want to do is very much do-able, and they cater to that sort of market. I have a friend who is a Volvo nut, and have been to IPD's store myself.
The wagon is the P1800ES, and they aren't that expensive. And you could get by with stock Volvo seat in good condition. Volvos had about the best seats in the industry during that time period. I believe some seat types were made for them by Recaro.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 12:10 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: JROD at February 02, 2017 10:29 PM (Ax5Cx)[/l]
What optic did you use?
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 03, 2017 12:10 AM (di1hb)
Thought experiment. Would love to hear your ideas.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:47 PM (u8kLQ)
Guns. Boobs. Man-bun heads on pikes.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 10:50 PM (0mRoj)
Valu-Rite. Hobo pelts. Ewoks. Breastesses.
Posted by: Fox2! at February 03, 2017 12:11 AM (brIR5)
Posted by: the barrel at February 03, 2017 12:11 AM (nlbfN)
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it's in the more equal clause of the constitution, or Animal Farm. Same diff.
(rum is now having an effect)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 03, 2017 12:12 AM (PqqkK)
Posted by: the barrel at February 03, 2017 12:12 AM (nlbfN)
Mine was a Pentax K1000. Ex took a hammer to it when we divied up stuff.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 03, 2017 12:13 AM (di1hb)
Posted by: goat farm at February 03, 2017 12:13 AM (nlbfN)
**Wide shot of bedroom. Camera pans in from behind an elderly man sitting on the edge of his bed**
**The shot keeps zooming in over his shoulder, a computer screen comes into view across the room**
**Camera snaps to the screen, emblazoned with the AoSHQ header. The first headline on the page recount Donald Trump's immigration EO. The Second is Donald Trump freezing DC hiring. The third is more Trump winning, capped off with "... and Hilliary Clinton will never be President".**
** Camera cuts back to the face of the elderly man sitting on his bed. He looks down to his hand grasping a little blue pill. Old man flings pill across the room**
"Don't need this anymore!" he exclaims with a wide smile on his face.
**Camera pans out to a front shot of elderly man, lap covered by the bed sheets, pitching an incredible schadenboner tent.**
**Screen goes black, bold white lettering appears reading "Ace of Spades HQ E.D. Relief**
**End**
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at February 03, 2017 12:13 AM (I5q3y)
(rum is now having an effect)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 03, 2017 12:12 AM (PqqkK)
We really are living it these days.
Who the hell decided that Muslims have all of the rights and everyone else gets the shaft?
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at February 03, 2017 12:13 AM (X52ZZ)
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I think you insulted someone there. Still woking out hoo.
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 03, 2017 12:14 AM (PqqkK)
Kodak Retina IIc (small "c"), 35mm German made piece of picture taking mechanical jewelry. 50 mm. f/2.8 Schneider-Kreusach lens, leaf shutter with X-synch to 1/500 sec.
Lens standard would fold behind outer door, back into the body of the camera, making it a very compact, easy to carry, handy to keep around camera.
I ought to get one before the collectors drive the prices up on the things.
http://tinyurl.com/zbwdb3v
And yes, that was the gateway drug that led me to taking two years of Occupational Photography in school, then a 3rd year as a teacher's assistant, helping with the year-one course, for credit.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 03, 2017 12:14 AM (v5iqM)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 03, 2017 12:16 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Max Power at February 03, 2017 12:06 AM (QCc6B)
Hysteresis. I will crudely define it as the inertia of events. The word has real meaning in physics.
I expect Hooters was expecting The Bitch to win the election, and was positioning themselves to survive the new wave of Feminist puritanism.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 12:17 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 12:17 AM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 03, 2017 12:18 AM (PqqkK)
Nordstrom is based in Seattle.
Ivanka had some classy shoes. I had a pair in my closet I loved until my cat had a major accident in there, on them.
Hmmmm, is my cat a Democrat?
Posted by: keena at February 03, 2017 12:18 AM (RiTnx)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2017 10:39 PM (oVJmc)
They know an ad would increase sales, but virtue signalling will get them more coverage than their ad.
Every news channel FNC, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, FBN, Bloomberg, will all have a story about what Heinz is doing. Your local news will have a story on it. Your local morning radio stations will have a story on it. ESPN will have a story on it. USA Today, WSJ, NYT, WAPO, LATimes, and your local newsrag will have a story about it. Might not get as many eyeballs as being on the Big Game, but the virtue signalers will absolutely love it.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac and Irredeemable at February 03, 2017 12:18 AM (1JnAL)
They consider putting on the "costume" and extracting yuge tips to be some sort of great manipulation and revenge.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 12:18 AM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: JROD at February 03, 2017 12:19 AM (Ax5Cx)
Couple things--don't think I'll be posting on the day threads any more--way too much gloom and doom for my taste.
But what a young ton of content here MH, ya outdid yourself. THANK YOU.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 03, 2017 12:20 AM (X35Yt)
Eventually had a bunch of 35mm equipment and a nice darkroom when I was in my 20s. Then got robbed and it was all gone and with the Yen then at a high to the dollar couldn't replace it so dropped it all. Still have the book my dad gave me to get started though.
http://tinyurl.com/hfqojrn
Posted by: geoffb5 at February 03, 2017 12:20 AM (d3wbb)
Posted by: S at February 03, 2017 12:09 AM (YtzJ5)
I'm only okay with it if the person requesting it is of sound mind and judgment, is legally capable of signing a contract for it, and only the person receiving it can request it. Not a person with the power of attorney, no doctor or family members deciding for you, etc.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at February 03, 2017 12:20 AM (X52ZZ)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:20 AM (cPsPa)
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Muhammed. Nailed It.
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 03, 2017 12:20 AM (PqqkK)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 03, 2017 12:21 AM (PqqkK)
Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2017 12:21 AM (qUNWi)
And then collecting SSDI for a living.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 03, 2017 12:06 AM (Nox3c)
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not to mention collecting STDs for a hobby...
Posted by: redc1c4 at February 03, 2017 12:21 AM (YZH0v)
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shouldn't it be called Old-anasia?
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 03, 2017 12:22 AM (PqqkK)
pact with obama to trade their filthy jihadi refugees with us in
exchange for taking people who were in costa rica for some reason. we
should spit in their faces and curse them all for making a deal with a
man that obviously hates his countrymen in right before or after the
election in which his successor from another party was named.
you knew better you lousy kangaroo fuckers. hope the asian hordes,
and whores flood your stinking filthy continent with more vile and
violent things than you, your ancestors, and every poisonous murderous
thing that inhabits your continent.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:06 AM (cPsPa)
A-effin-men, Y5!
How's the cold? Are you feeling better now? You certainly sound feisty!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 12:23 AM (tHwdc)
Uh.....Gypsy?
Posted by: eleven at February
google translate does not have romana or romany or gypsy.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:23 AM (cPsPa)
Thank you IG, that means a lot to me.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 12:24 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2017 12:24 AM (qUNWi)
Have I traumatized you, Insomniac?
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:17 PM (tHwdc)
No, but I did need to adjust my collar a bit. Whew!
Posted by: Insomniac at February 03, 2017 12:25 AM (0mRoj)
A-effin-men, Y5!
How's the cold? Are you feeling better now? You certainly sound feisty!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess
Miley! Well we are on the mend. General feeling of misery is gone, now working on hacking the remainder of the infection out of mu lungs. screaming everything, angrily, as I type seems to help.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:25 AM (cPsPa)
I am only average, and at college, everyone else is smarter than me.
Being average, the only jobs I could get were average jobs paying average wages, and I bought an average car on credit. That was when I learned how difficult it was to pay off debt. So I took out a student loan to better myself with higher education and doubled my income to average.
Now I am retired. Too soon old, too late smart.
Posted by: Zack Lee at February 03, 2017 12:26 AM (8HZp0)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:27 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Laugh at a joke, get another joke free! at February 03, 2017 12:27 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: concrete girl at February 03, 2017 12:27 AM (p0xM7)
https://sites.google.com/site/contraptionsinphoto/kodak-35-rangefinder
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 12:28 AM (WDdjT)
That was one of the themes in one of my favorite comic book series, Planetary. Really worth the read.
Posted by: Noah Bawdy at February 03, 2017 12:28 AM (kI9U5)
Not a fan, although it is my current state.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 03, 2017 12:29 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 03, 2017 12:30 AM (nQ10o)
>>>we really need Peaches to hurl some invective at the kangaroo fuckers
for me. no one does invective like Peaches. First exchange I ever had
with her at the HQ she spit on me. sigh, those halcyon days.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:27 AM (cPsPa)<<<
Peaches will be back when we win on Sunday, right? I mean, she has to stop by for that? So, I'll be right here waiting.
Posted by: Tom Brady at February 03, 2017 12:30 AM (I5q3y)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 12:31 AM (voOPb)
interestingly, the difference between scientists and climate changers is that the former admit how little proof there is for their theories.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:31 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: most deplorable Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at February 03, 2017 12:34 AM (Iy6JT)
TEETH GRINDING
EYE SQUINTING
SHOULDER FLINCHING
STOMACH CHURNING
Latin: learn it or don't
Posted by: mindful webworker's inner English Teacher at February 03, 2017 12:34 AM (7imgO)
They consider putting on the "costume" and extracting yuge tips to be some sort of great manipulation and revenge.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 12:18 AM (u8kLQ)
Hey guys! Welcome to Raisins! I'm Lexus, and that's Mercedes, and that's Portia!
I'm so glad you guys showed up, everyone else has been lame!
Posted by: Lexus at February 03, 2017 12:34 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: concrete girl at February 03, 2017 12:36 AM (p0xM7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 12:17 AM (WDdjT)
Feminist Puritanism. I've never heard the movement defined so aptly.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 03, 2017 12:36 AM (nQ10o)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 12:37 AM (u8kLQ)
All creation exists at the moire-patterned intersection of patterns, material, mental, spiritual, and personal.
As an old chum once commented, "I can't believe some trippy hippie in the 1960s had it right when he said, 'It's all vibes, maaaaan!'"
Posted by: mindful webworker's fourth chakra at February 03, 2017 12:37 AM (7imgO)
beat you...i've got two
Posted by: concrete girl at February 03, 2017 12:27 AM (p0xM7)
Ha.... I own a Camaro.... that eats Priuses...
And I'll admit, I don't always downshift as I pass people.... I just do it to the ones who are Greenies, so I can here Gaia cry as I blow past them!
Posted by: Don Quixote at February 03, 2017 12:37 AM (qf6WZ)
But compared to Weasel, JROD, Iron Mike and a few others around here, my "pretty good" with a rifle looks more and more like a spastic six year old shooting the air-powered machine gun shooting an insufficient number BBs at the five pointed star at the arcade.
My "pretty good" is one hole, tight cloverleaf, 5 shot groups at 100 yards.
I can hit Appleseed silhouettes at 600 yards with an iron sight M-96 Swedish Mauser.
But, the finer tricks of precision rifle marksmanship at the longer ranges these guys shoot? Doping wind, spin, temp, humidity, mirage...
That's all smoke, mirrors and black magic, as compared to my meager skills.
I respect the hell out of them for their shooting prowess. And would love work my ass off being coached by any one of 'em for a weekend's shooting clinic.
Holding sub 1 MOA at 100 yards, is no longer an uncommon skill. I'd like to grok that ability out to at least the 1,000 yd. mark.
Bucket list.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 03, 2017 12:37 AM (v5iqM)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 12:37 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: JROD at February 03, 2017 12:19 AM (Ax5Cx)
I just re-stocked a Rem 700 in 338 Win. Need better glass than I own. It's all 300 yd class. That project nears completion. The AR should be ready to shoot within a week.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 03, 2017 12:38 AM (di1hb)
they advertise their strippers and their brunch?
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:38 AM (cPsPa)
ONE RIFLE PER HOUSEHOLD
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE
...This person also had a bumper sticker on their car reading "Bernie: Not For Sale."
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 12:39 AM (u8kLQ)
BTW, Iowahawk announced he's quitting social media.
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 03, 2017 12:16 AM (vBeA5)
WHHHHHAT?!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 12:39 AM (tHwdc)
HMMPH! Chopped liver over here, just minding my own business. Yup. Miiiinding my own buuuusness.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 03, 2017 12:39 AM (QGamW)
TEETH GRINDING
EYE SQUINTING
SHOULDER FLINCHING
STOMACH CHURNING
Latin: learn it or don't
Posted by: mindful webworker's inner English Teacher at February 03, 2017 12:34 AM (7___O)
Politics is too much with us at this point in history. It's is unavoidable. Best that feelings be released among sympathetic friends.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 03, 2017 12:39 AM (nQ10o)
Excuse me.
I will make sure your refund is sent directly
Maybe it will cover the stomach churning meds you need
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 12:39 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:40 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: concrete girl at February 03, 2017 12:36 AM (p0xM7)
A Seville wasn't a real Cadillac. It was just a badge-engineered Chevy Malibu, more or less.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 12:40 AM (WDdjT)
*HAH!*
So... what are you bastards on about tonight?
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 12:40 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 03, 2017 12:40 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 03, 2017 12:41 AM (ptQdD)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 03, 2017 12:41 AM (nQ10o)
Posted by: yankeefifth
Y5, LOL.
The local "free" liberal newrag, OCWeekly, that I've told you all about before? Gustavo Arellano, ed-in-chief?
Every year they do a list of the best restaurants to get different kinds of food, their Top 100.
Their top place to get sushi was... I'm not kidding... at a strip club buffet in Orange County.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 12:41 AM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:25 AM (cPsPa)
Well, then - keep up the good work!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 12:41 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 12:42 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
just being a brat MH
sorry pal
Posted by: concrete girl at February 03, 2017 12:42 AM (p0xM7)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:43 AM (cPsPa)
they advertise their strippers and their brunch?
South of the Border
(That's a joke for anyone who has driven I-95)
Posted by: Weirddave at February 03, 2017 12:43 AM (QGamW)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 12:39 AM (u8kLQ)
He's already been bought, so true, dat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 12:43 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: lily at February 03, 2017 12:44 AM (Qm82t)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 12:44 AM (voOPb)
**Wide shot of bedroom. Camera pans in from behind an elderly man sitting on the edge of his bed**
**The shot keeps zooming in over his shoulder, a computer screen comes into view across the room**
**Camera snaps to the screen, emblazoned with the AoSHQ header. The first headline on the page recount Donald Trump's immigration EO. The Second is Donald Trump freezing DC hiring. The third is more Trump winning, capped off with "... and Hilliary Clinton will never be President".**
** Camera cuts back to the face of the elderly man sitting on his bed. He looks down to his hand grasping a little blue pill. Old man flings pill across the room**
"Don't need this anymore!" he exclaims with a wide smile on his face.
**Camera pans out to a front shot of elderly man, lap covered by the bed sheets, pitching an incredible schadenboner tent.**
**Screen goes black, bold white lettering appears reading "Ace of Spades HQ E.D. Relief**
**End**
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at February 03, 2017 12:13 AM (I5q3y)
Just love this so much!
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 03, 2017 12:44 AM (nQ10o)
What was it...a house on Lake Champlain?
I could be bought for that.
Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2017 12:44 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro (Soon to be Obamaboro) Vt at February 03, 2017 12:45 AM (Fbj4h)
The local "free" liberal newrag, OCWeekly, that I've told you all about before? Gustavo Arellano, ed-in-chief?
Every year they do a list of the best restaurants to get different kinds of food, their Top 100.
Their top place to get sushi was... I'm not kidding... at a strip club buffet in Orange County.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February
heh. well this place has billboards all along the freeway, some of which show a huge platter of scrambled eggs being held in front of an even larger set of juggs. mmmmm steamy hot egg boobs. not sue which is less appealing, boobs that are covered in egg steam or eggs that are covered in boob sweat?
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:45 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 03, 2017 12:41 AM (ptQdD)
Only on "all you can eat fish & chips Friday".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 12:45 AM (WDdjT)
(That's a joke for anyone who has driven I-95)
Posted by: Weirddave
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I don't get it.
Posted by: Pedro at February 03, 2017 12:45 AM (ZO497)
(That's a joke for anyone who has driven I-95)
Posted by: Weirddave at February 03, 2017 12:43 AM (QGamW)<<<
IT'S FUNNY 'CAUSE THEY HAVE BILLBOARDS UP ALL OVER THE PLACE FOR FIREWORKS!!!
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 03, 2017 12:46 AM (I5q3y)
They claim poor sales, but FB friends want to boycott.
Admittedly Nordstrom is easy to boycott as I can't afford anything there anyway ;-)"
Well, they'll miss me ---
Posted by: lily at February 03, 2017 12:46 AM (Qm82t)
i had one, i looooved it.
1977 gray with black interior.
z28 rims with the tires turned inside out.
super fast.
built like a tank.
Posted by: concrete girl at February 03, 2017 12:46 AM (p0xM7)
I could be bought for that.
Posted by: eleven
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More than that, an estate. Former summer camp.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 03, 2017 12:46 AM (ZO497)
which show a huge platter of scrambled eggs being held in front of an
even larger set of juggs. mmmmm steamy hot egg boobs. not sue which is
less appealing, boobs that are covered in egg steam or eggs that are
covered in boob sweat?
It's a subtle way to let you know you can get a glass of milk with your breakfast.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 03, 2017 12:46 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 12:48 AM (voOPb)
I could be bought for that.
Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2017 12:44 AM (qUNWi)
Maybe the lake monster will eat him. One can always hope.
Champy ain't no Ogopogo, but then, who is?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 12:48 AM (WDdjT)
Stayed at my Mom's the last two nights. Ran across this in the morning paper:
Ask Amy: Couple is confused by polyamorous friends (Denver Post)
http://bit.ly/poly-amy
My husband and I recently discovered that our closest friends (another couple) are having an open relationship. They say they are "polyamorous."... We found out because the husband was hanging all over another woman very publicly at their annual party. ... expecting their first child soon, and have asked us to be the child's godparents. ... I am struggling. I know what I am feeling is wrong and that I shouldn't care what they do. ... I thought I was a better and more accepting person.
AAAAAHHHHHHHGGGHHH!
At least "Ask Amy," however simplistically, properly focused on what is best for the children. Hint: It ain't adultery.
Posted by: mindful webworker's moral indignation at February 03, 2017 12:48 AM (7imgO)
The first camera I bought for myself was a Pentax K1000, like so many other young people. The damn things were basic but utterly reliable and indestructible. I suspect the only way to wreck it would be to drop it in the lava in Mt. Doom. And some of those Pentax lenses were as good as any on the market. Sigh! Memories.
Posted by: JTB at February 03, 2017 12:49 AM (V+03K)
they advertise their strippers and their brunch?
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:38 AM (cPsPa)If it's the one that advertises on I-75 with a sign showing a silhouette, with the words "Strippers/Need we say more?" in yellow and black, they're in Georgia.
Cafe Risque near Gainsville, also on 75, also does extensive advertising, though not as much as they did 30 years ago. It could be embarrassing to see their signs saying, "We dare to bare.... All"
Posted by: Fox2! at February 03, 2017 12:49 AM (brIR5)
http://www.ocweekly.com/best-of/2016/food-and-drink/best-seafood-restaurant-7599870
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 12:51 AM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 03, 2017 12:51 AM (IcT7t)
Holding sub 1 MOA at 100 yards, is no longer an uncommon skill. I'd like to grok that ability out to at least the 1,000 yd. mark.
Bucket list.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Took me two weeks of the MTU whacking me on the head with cleaning rods. If you can routine shoot sub MOA @100, you got the prelim skills nailed.
1. Know your ammo
2. Know distance. We didn't have handheld LRFs back then.
3. Know the wind. Handheld anemometers make that somewhat easier (we tossed a fistful of grass in the air). But you still only "know" it at the firing point. Downrange is harder
4. Optical path bending. The mnemonics we got was "lights up-sights up". How much can be acclimation to local environ.
5. Dope card: precalc that shit: range,wind, & elevation difference. Determine conditions, look it up, dope the scope.
6. You can worry about air density, but it matters more with a large elevation diff between zero and engagement than a change in weather. Think zeroing near sea level and then going shooting near Denver. Or add it to your dope card and take baro reading.
7. Of course, fundamentals.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 03, 2017 12:52 AM (di1hb)
I went once with friends because one guy was getting married and someone thought it would be fun. I don't get the attraction. The waitresses were meh and the food sucked.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 03, 2017 12:52 AM (97XyN)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 12:51 AM (u8kLQ)
"This sushi smells like fish!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 12:52 AM (WDdjT)
The Fucktards keep on bein themselves and thereby ensuring their impending doom. My Face hurts from grinnin so much!
As an aside.....I own businesses here in Almost HEAVEN, an I've always felt a distinct responsibility to hire those that Work. It tickles the shit out of me to Reward those that Earn/Deserve it.
I NEVER have a shortage of qualified applicants for positions that need to filled, (when they open up, cause, frankly, turnover is very low)... but when it happens, sumthin interestin occurs....
I can only fiscally hire so many people.....and yet so many qualified folks need jobs.......
The situation above FORCES me to work smarter and harder to grow my businesses.....therefore guaranteeing employment/improved life to my fellow West Virginian's. Simply because they've EARNED/DESERVE it.
I'm negligent if I don't do my fuckin upmost to do right by them.
As His Hairness has shown.....helping Fellow Americans First resonates far and wide.
All the BEST to the Horde of 91 weeks......y'all have EARNED/DESERVE it.
Winning never, ever gets old.
Posted by: Hillbillyking at February 03, 2017 12:53 AM (0zLPA)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:54 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 12:55 AM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 12:55 AM (voOPb)
Holding sub 1 MOA at 100 yards, is no longer an uncommon skill. I'd like to grok that ability out to at least the 1,000 yd. mark.
Bucket list.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Took me two weeks of the MTU whacking me on the head with cleaning rods. If you can routine shoot sub MOA @100, you got the prelim skills nailed.
1. Know your ammo
2. Know distance. We didn't have handheld LRFs back then.
3. Know the wind. Handheld anemometers make that somewhat easier (we tossed a fistful of grass in the air). But you still only "know" it at the firing point. Downrange is harder
4. Optical path bending. The mnemonics we got was "lights up-sights up". How much can be acclimation to local environ.
5. Dope card: precalc that shit: range,wind, & elevation difference. Determine conditions, look it up, dope the scope.
6. You can worry about air density, but it matters more with a large elevation diff between zero and engagement than a change in weather. Think zeroing near sea level and then going shooting near Denver. Or add it to your dope card and take baro reading.
7. Of course, fundamentals.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
Or get a kestrel with Nick's stuff built in, then you can drink and shoot.
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2017 12:55 AM (2RVmA)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February
we must have gone to the same one.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:55 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Tastes Almost As Good As Kaboom was not a successful tagline at February 03, 2017 12:56 AM (wpC7C)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 12:56 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: irongrampa at February 03, 2017 12:57 AM (X35Yt)
G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!
*static*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 12:56 AM (6gk0M)
Sweet dreams!
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 03, 2017 12:57 AM (nQ10o)
Posted by: redc1c4 at February 03, 2017 12:57 AM (YZH0v)
Cafe Risque near Gainsville, also on 75, also does extensive advertising, though not as much as they did 30 years ago. It could be embarrassing to see their signs saying, "We dare to bare.... All"
Posted by: Fox2! at February
You had it first. yeah that is the one. We made road trips from the great white north down to fl and you always knew you were getting close when the cafe risque signs started.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:58 AM (cPsPa)
Every box included a "I'm so proud of our first female president" commemorative pin free.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 12:58 AM (u8kLQ)
Winning never, ever gets old.
Posted by: Hillbillyking at February 03, 2017 12:53 AM (0zLPA)
I wish you had work up here in NoVA, Hillbillyking!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 12:58 AM (tHwdc)
i had one, i looooved it.
1977 gray with black interior.
z28 rims with the tires turned inside out.
super fast.
built like a tank.
Posted by: concrete girl at February 03, 2017 12:46 AM (p0xM7)
New ones are fun...
I've got a 2013 LT2... 6 speed stick... 6 cylinder which after mods puts out right at 350 HP...
Corners really well, but you have to keep the revs up...
Sun roof... and a Heads up Display...
REALLY fun to drive...
But strangely... back in the early 80's I owned a 1977 Z-28... which cornered like shit... and had LESS Horsepower... LOL...
Posted by: Don Quixote at February 03, 2017 12:59 AM (qf6WZ)
Keep track of your record of Awesome for contract negotiation time with ol' El Supremo........
Posted by: Hillbillyking at February 03, 2017 12:59 AM (0zLPA)
I intend to shoot the next postal match. Multiple targets and use most of the handgun battery I have here.
Most memorable shot: Reh deer, Range 204, Grafenwoehr, Germany, about 2 AM. 1 rd, 25mm TPDSFS-T, 1800 meters. Neck shot (called thusly, too). Forestmeister took it to an orphange.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 03, 2017 01:00 AM (di1hb)
Posted by: JTB at February 03, 2017 12:49 AM (V+03K)
The Retina IIc was the first camera I'd bought for myself.
Second was a Pentax Spotmatic SP II. 42 mm screw mount lens, otherwise, pretty much the same machine as the K-1000. But the Spotmatic had a nifty, cancelable, self-timer, too.
Had the Pentax "K" mount have been engineered for a larger rear lens element, it might have dominated the market. Sadly, the held it to the 42 mm "Universal" screw mount dimensions, which doomed it to eventual oblivion. Even though it was successful for that first decade or two.
The idiot-geniuses at Nikon, have managed to make the "F" system bayonet mount work, with lenses from the early '60s "F" mount lenses, all the way to today's mega electronic automatic everything systems.
Canon could not pull that off, having to abandon their frankly, brilliant pre-auto focus system, which actually "wore in" with time and wear, vs. "wear out" and have to be discarded or rebuilt.
The Nikon Df, is for me now, the Holy Grail of digital SLRs.
It works like a 35 mm, Nikon FE. Same analog controls on top. Full digital magic on the back of the camera. Not cheap, of course. Same full frame sensor as Nikon's top end pro SLR, too.
Not cheap. But. Nikon.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 03, 2017 01:00 AM (v5iqM)
Posted by: Hillbillyking at February 03, 2017 01:00 AM (0zLPA)
His wife run that out of business to?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Why not? I mean, she got a $200,000 severance package after torpedoing the college.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 03, 2017 01:00 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: Hillbillyking at February 03, 2017 12:53 AM (0zLPA)
WV is fortunate to have you!
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 03, 2017 01:01 AM (nQ10o)
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my only claim to fame w/ firearms competition is being state champ 3 years running with the M-60...
even Resident Evil shoots better than me most days.
Posted by: redc1c4 at February 03, 2017 01:01 AM (YZH0v)
Posted by: Conservative Groundhog at February 03, 2017 01:01 AM (rH4JY)
http://___ur.com/gallery/ECGXkXN
Posted by: redc1c4 at February 03, 2017 12:57 AM (YZH0v)
Possibly. Can she shoot? OK with butchering in the kitchen?
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 03, 2017 01:02 AM (di1hb)
Winning never, ever gets old.
Posted by: Hillbillyking at February 03, 2017 12:53 AM (0zLPA)
I wish you had work up here in NoVA, Hillbillyking!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess
Hope his business is buying distressed property from fleeing gs12s.
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2017 01:03 AM (2RVmA)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 03, 2017 12:16 AM (vBeA5)
WHHHHHAT?!Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 12:39 AM (tHwdc)
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no surprise here: he said he was seriously thinking about doing that last year when he had a get together in North Hollywood last year...
nice guy and 2nd time i've met him here in So Cal
Posted by: redc1c4 at February 03, 2017 01:03 AM (YZH0v)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 01:04 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: JTB at February 03, 2017 01:06 AM (V+03K)
Or get a kestrel with Nick's stuff built in, then you can drink and shoot.
Kestrel and an LRF good to 1000m is a good bit of change...
We can dream.
Or sell some stuff
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 03, 2017 01:06 AM (di1hb)
I know the feeling.
Posted by: zombie Rachel Corrie at February 03, 2017 01:07 AM (rH4JY)
Maybe it will cover the stomach churning meds you need
Thank you, that's much appreciated. I don't want to be paying platinum-membership prices and seeing these them thar typos & stuff. perse
Nice post, btw. Meaty and free of carrots.
My computers are all breaking down rapidly - don't know how long I'll be able to stay virtually alive. Send Lassie! Tell her Timmy is in the well!
Posted by: mindful webworker's indiscriminate imaginings at February 03, 2017 01:07 AM (7imgO)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
With the old thermal viewer?
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2017 01:08 AM (2RVmA)
The Bridge On River Kwai
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 12:55 AM (voOPb)
AWESOME! Thanks for the tip, Mis.Hum.!
And a belated thanks for a bounteous ONT, as well!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 01:09 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Weirddave at February 03, 2017 12:39 AM (QGamW)
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it's spelled "bidness" n00b...
Posted by: redc1c4 at February 03, 2017 01:10 AM (YZH0v)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 03, 2017 01:00 AM (di1hb)
Three best shots, ever.
1. Trotting coyote at 150 yards. Rem 700, .30-'06, 150 gr. WW white box cheapies. Weaver K-4 El Paso duplex reticle.
2. Female bobcat, from South Texas blind. 210 measured yards. She was sniffing the gut pile from a buck I'd taken on that spot, 20 min earlier.
3. Same bobcat's 15-ish lb. yearling kitten. Came back to sniff at "what's wrong with Mom?".
Same Rem 700, but with 3x12x44, cheap Simmon's scope. Worked, but could only crank to 10x, as 12x was a shimmering joke.
I can shoot rifles. I lack advanced skills and knowledge in the art of riflery.
Oh, and AoP? You're a bad, bad man, for pointing me to that Volvo page. Which I have bookmarked. Dammit.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 03, 2017 01:10 AM (v5iqM)
Kestrel and an LRF good to 1000m is a good bit of change...
We can dream.
Or sell some stuff
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
LRFs I got. Need more land.
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2017 01:11 AM (2RVmA)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 01:11 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:40 AM (cPsPa)
About 15 years ago, the young ladies at work gave me a hard time because I had never been to Hooters, so one day when we went out for a staff lunch, they chose to take the boss to Hooters.
Food was awful. The waitresses were all nasty, most had guts bigger than their boobs, and were generally not even 12 packers. So it wasn't a surprise when the location shut down about 5 years ago.
But the worst part was the pathetic flirting that the waitresses were doing, even the young ladies with us from work were laughing at it. The two young ladies from work would have been better Hooter's girls than the actual Hooter's girls.
Posted by: Lexus at February 03, 2017 01:12 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: JTB at February
They used to volley fire the 45-70 at distant targets, so you just need some friends to make them squeal at a 1000.
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2017 01:17 AM (2RVmA)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
With the old thermal viewer?
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2017 01:08 AM (2RVmA)
Yep. M2A2.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf, tapping on a tablet at February 03, 2017 01:18 AM (di1hb)
At 700 hp, I wouldn't mind swapping one into my Focus.
goodbye 5-speed, hello repair
Posted by: wait, what? at February 03, 2017 01:19 AM (wpC7C)
I'm a deplorable. I own my own pickup truck.
I'm irredeemable. I own large SUVs.
I'm both of these. I don't own a Subaru.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 03, 2017 01:20 AM (nQ10o)
If you can routine shoot sub MOA @100, you got the prelim skills
nailed.
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or you could just stick with shooting TOW missiles at everything. <12" POA @ 3000 meters, if memory serves, and, with a HEAT warhead, it ought to.
Posted by: redc1c4, 11H10, long long ago at February 03, 2017 01:20 AM (YZH0v)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 01:21 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:40 AM (cPsPa)
About 15 years ago, the young ladies at work gave me a hard time because I had never been to Hooters, so one day when we went out for a staff lunch, they chose to take the boss to Hooters.
Food was awful. The waitresses were all nasty, most had guts bigger than their boobs, and were generally not even 12 packers. So it wasn't a surprise when the location shut down about 5 years ago.
But the worst part was the pathetic flirting that the waitresses were doing, even the young ladies with us from work were laughing at it. The two young ladies from work would have been better Hooter's girls than the actual Hooter's girls.
Posted by: Lexus at February 03, 2017 01:12 AM (1JnAL)
Eh. I've been to hooters maybe 3-4 times I think. The ones I've gone to were decent in the looks and food. It's just a case that going to hooters doesn't equal good food and hot women. Kind of like almost every other chain out there. Heck if there are multiple locations in a city you can probably hear about the good one and the bad one.
Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:22 AM (8dgCO)
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2017 01:22 AM (2RVmA)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 01:23 AM (cPsPa)
http://IMGur.com/gallery/ECGXkXN
Posted by: mindful webworker's indiscriminate imaginings at February 03, 2017 01:23 AM (7imgO)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 01:23 AM (cPsPa)
There's a time when you don't want hot women? Fag
Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:24 AM (8dgCO)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 03, 2017 01:25 AM (nQ10o)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 01:26 AM (voOPb)
That's silly. Boys don't have to learn, all they have to do is sit around and wait until they are 18. Only girls can truly learn how to become men.
Posted by: Chazz Bono at February 03, 2017 01:26 AM (rH4JY)
Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:24 AM (8dgCO)
Even The Dead want hot wimmins.
This Is The Over Night Thread.
/announcer voice
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 03, 2017 01:27 AM (v5iqM)
um...
wait...
I'm thinking....
Posted by: mindful webworker's unlikely scenario at February 03, 2017 01:27 AM (7imgO)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro (Soon to be Obamaboro) Vt at February 03, 2017 01:28 AM (Fbj4h)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 01:28 AM (u8kLQ)
AM. 1 rd, 25mm TPDSFS-T, 1800 meters. Neck shot (called thusly, too).
Forestmeister took it to an orphange.
---
had a Mustang CO in 1/18th Cav that told of the time he hit an animal (cow?) on a range in Germany with a HESH round when he was an EM on an M-60....
predictable results, and no donation of the meat.
the CA ARNG had a live fire back in the 80's on Ft Hungry Lizard where they very carefully ran off all the cattle, prior to the CALFEX, only to have them stampede back when the TF opened fire with everything they had....
end result: several 100 cattle dead or put down, and a small article in the LA Slimes.
not to mention a large payout to the rancher.
Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:30 AM (YZH0v)
If you can routine shoot sub MOA @100, you got the prelim skills
nailed.
---
or you could just stick with shooting TOW missiles at everything.
Real artistry is possible with those. You can double that accuracy if you can develop a light and smooth touch for the final 200 meter of flight. And it is good to learn to fly around things that can cut your wire, like fires and wrecks. Threading needles is a nice challenge too. Good for raising heart rates and blood pressures of superiors during peacetime shoots. $30k per missile, risky shot, etc
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf, tapping on a tablet at February 03, 2017 01:30 AM (di1hb)
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danke: i had forgotten about that Pixy fetish...
Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:33 AM (YZH0v)
the CA ARNG had a live fire back in the 80's on Ft Hungry Lizard where they very carefully ran off all the cattle, prior to the CALFEX, only to have them stampede back when the TF opened fire with everything they had....
end result: several 100 cattle dead or put down, and a small article in the LA Slimes.
not to mention a large payout to the rancher
Oh yes, a COWEX! Did one of those in 85, same place. Thought we'd have some bbq for dinner, until 105s then A10s had their turn.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf, tapping on a tablet at February 03, 2017 01:34 AM (di1hb)
With the old thermal viewer?
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2017 01:08 AM (2RVmA)
Yep. M2A2.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf,
The deer should have been about 1 pixel
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2017 01:34 AM (2RVmA)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 01:23 AM (cPsPa)
There's a time when you don't want hot women? Fag
Posted by: Buzzion at February
spoken from the mouth of one who has obviously never had hot women.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 01:34 AM (cPsPa)
More like "staying" than "getting."
Liberal, online, and strung out on schnappes martinis is no way to go through life, Mary.
Posted by: mindful webworker's bar guide at February 03, 2017 01:34 AM (7imgO)
um...
wait...
I'm thinking....
Posted by: mindful webworker's unlikely scenario at February 03, 2017 01:27 AM (7___O)
Sounds like I'm eating out twice that weekend.
Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:35 AM (8dgCO)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 01:23 AM (cPsPa)
It all depends upon your eating skills, sweetie.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 03, 2017 01:36 AM (cm1Bl)
Posted by: mindful webworker's aloha at February 03, 2017 01:36 AM (7imgO)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 01:36 AM (voOPb)
---
i wouldn't know... my BN got 1 missile/year, IF we were lucky. most years we got 0.
then i'd go to AD units on KPUP assignments, and find out they got so many missiles they got bored firing them and would just launch, then cut the wires after 5-10 seconds of flight.
2nd class citizens we were... same standards, but only a fraction of the resources.
Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:38 AM (YZH0v)
This Is The Over Night Thread.
/announcer voice
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 03, 2017 01:27 AM (v5iqM)
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Zombie Jerry Garcia at February 03, 2017 01:38 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2017 01:39 AM (2RVmA)
Lol, at least our current president doesn't eat dog unlike you president of color and big fucking ears
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 01:39 AM (voOPb)
Keep the heads HIGH, people--we're at least in the start of the beginning to restore our beloved country.
We'll prevail here just as we did in the election, because as Americans, we are denied the option of failure.
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 03, 2017 01:39 AM (X35Yt)
Posted by: Robert Frost, to Ariana Grande at February 03, 2017 01:39 AM (rH4JY)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 01:36 AM (voOPb)
---
they have medication for that sort of thing.... D)
Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:40 AM (YZH0v)
Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:22 AM (8dgCO)
The most remarkable thing about Hooters is that it is completely unremarkable. It's a sports bar with waitresses clad in what is basically cheerleader attire. It's not a whore house, and it's not particularly erotic at all. And the food is unremarkable, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 01:40 AM (WDdjT)
* innate talent.
* amenable to qualified instruction.
* experience.
* absolute ice running in my veins, proven in critical handgun situations.
* mental power over my failing eyeball muscles. I can force-focus my vision, even when it doesn't want to clearly "see" the reticle"
* breath and muscle control from hell. I can NOT pull the trigger, even with 90% pressure applied, if I don't like the sight picture in the scope.
What sucks?
High blood pressure, now. I have to double-meds, to cancel out the pulse-bounce in the scope, these days.
But any anarchist stupid enough to fuck off within 400 yards of my position? Won't matter but an inch, at most.
I don't have to be the best.
I only have to be good enough.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 03, 2017 01:42 AM (v5iqM)
Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:44 AM (YZH0v)
Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:22 AM (8dgCO)
The most remarkable thing about Hooters is that it is completely unremarkable. It's a sports bar with waitresses clad in what is basically cheerleader attire. It's not a whore house, and it's not particularly erotic at all. And the food is unremarkable, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 01:40 AM (WDdjT)
Which makes the feminist freak out over it rather pathetic. They've been acting like the girls are topless since the 90s. And yeah I would say the food is unremarkable. Just about like every other chain restaurant out there.
Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:44 AM (8dgCO)
With the old thermal viewer?
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2017 01:08 AM (2RVmA)
Yep. M2A2.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf,
The deer should have been about 1 pixel
He was a bit more than a mil wide. Turned the reticle brightness way down. Had a new barrel, one of the first fluted ones. Turned off the stab, too. Gun had tighter-than-spec dispersion. Stars aligned, etc.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf, tapping on a tablet at February 03, 2017 01:44 AM (di1hb)
I'm such an enduring figure in Poetry, they ought to call me Robert Fucking Permafrost. Not even global warming can melt my legacy!
Posted by: Robert Frost at February 03, 2017 01:46 AM (rH4JY)
Posted by: Jim at February 03, 2017 01:48 AM (v5iqM)
Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:48 AM (8dgCO)
down. Had a new barrel, one of the first fluted ones. Turned off the
stab, too. Gun had tighter-than-spec dispersion. Stars aligned, etc.
The hard-left Berkely fascist arsonists need to read this.
Read and understand it.
Posted by: implications at February 03, 2017 01:51 AM (wpC7C)
---
from the same idiots who said "let's go to Shakey's... they have a buffet!"...
#duh
Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:51 AM (YZH0v)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf, tapping on a tablet at February 03, 2017 01:51 AM (di1hb)
---
nevah happen GI!
they keep asking for things they do NOT comprehend or understand.
this will not end neatly or quietly.
Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:53 AM (YZH0v)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 01:36 AM (voOPb)
---
they have medication for that sort of thing.... D)
Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:40 AM (YZH0v)
Oh fuck. I'm gonna need a truss
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 01:54 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 01:54 AM (u8kLQ)
As I typed that, I knew it was beyond the scope of 99.375% of modern university "educations".
It's accurate, nevertheless.
Posted by: my aim is true at February 03, 2017 01:56 AM (wpC7C)
---
i'd eat them both out every day of the week...
Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:56 AM (YZH0v)
Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:48 AM (8dgCO)
Exactly. Those places could have interchangeable menus, and nobody would notice. (insert Fapplebees snark here)
When I was on course in Houston one time, I ate a lot at a TGIF in the Greenspoint area, because it was handy to Dresser Center, had tolerably good food, and they had that video trivia game, so I could occupy a couple of hours playing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 01:56 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 01:57 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at February 03, 2017 01:59 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 02:00 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 01:54 AM (voOPb)
---
but what kind?
STEM Morons want to know....
Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 02:01 AM (YZH0v)
I take it that moobs are a requirement?
Posted by: Michael Moore at February 03, 2017 02:02 AM (rH4JY)
But at Tchotchke's, the Jennifer Aniston clones wear 37 (at least!) pieces of flair.
Posted by: they also watch kung-fu movies with you in your cheaply-built townhouse at February 03, 2017 02:04 AM (wpC7C)
I take it that moobs are a requirement?
Posted by: Michael Moore at February 03, 2017 02:02 AM (rH4JY)
Back in the 90s they did have a joke campaign of "this is what hooters waiter would look like. "
Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 02:04 AM (8dgCO)
Posted by: Warren at February 03, 2017 02:05 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 02:00 AM (voOPb)
OK. On three...two...
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 02:05 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Adriane the Truss Critic ... at February 03, 2017 02:06 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 02:07 AM (voOPb)
I only have to be good enough.
As good as any. Better than some.
-- reputed slogan for a dairy (?) business in New England back in the day
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at February 03, 2017 02:08 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 02:08 AM (voOPb)
Ebony and Ivory, live together in perfect harmony.
Posted by: Barack Obama and Donald Tusk, singing at February 03, 2017 02:10 AM (rH4JY)
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/110687307
h/t Vox Day, who isn't sure if this is something or just trolling.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 03, 2017 02:12 AM (R+30W)
DNC boots candidate from chairmanship race for criticizing Ellison's Islamic faith
http://preview.tinyurl.com/zqtclmn
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 03, 2017 02:13 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 02:08 AM (voOPb)
1,2, C. SIGH
I need a hug. A big, deep...hug.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 02:14 AM (tHwdc)
Hooters trying out their new concept restaurant in Cicero, IL. Yeah, that's gonna work.
I'll take "Things You Would Never Dare To Do Back In Capone's Day" for $100, Alex
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at February 03, 2017 02:16 AM (BK3ZS)
this will not end neatly or quietly.
They understand "up to 10 years, $25000 fine for rioting on federal property". Or whatever it was.
Berkeley might understand "no arrests? No more Federal funding". I've never known a commie who didn't respond to money.
We are the last ones maintaining civilization and we should stand fast. They will respond fucking positively to such a cross-cultural outreach.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 03, 2017 02:17 AM (VdICR)
-You like boats, but not the ocean.
-You go to a lake in the summer with your family up in the mountains.
-There's a long wooden dock and a boathouse with boards missing from the roof, and a place you used to crawl underneath to be alone.
-You're a sucker for French poetry and rhinestones. -You're very generous.
-You're kind to strangers and children, and when you stand in the snow you look like an angel.
When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter.
-Phil Connors
Posted by: It's Groundhog Day!!! at February 03, 2017 02:17 AM (6gk0M)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/zjwjfwg
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 03, 2017 02:17 AM (vBeA5)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/j96e8jc
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 03, 2017 02:18 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at February 03, 2017 02:24 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: The Janitor at February 03, 2017 02:30 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: The Janitor at February 03, 2017 02:32 AM (6gk0M)
*remembers that this is better than cleaning-up after Regressives*
*avoids barrel*
Posted by: The Janitor at February 03, 2017 02:36 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: The Janitor at February 03, 2017 02:37 AM (6gk0M)
*remembers that this is better than cleaning-up after Regressives*
*avoids barrel*
Posted by: The Janitor at February 03, 2017 02:36 AM (6gk0M)
Demoted from mopping up the back room of the porn shop huh.
Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 02:37 AM (8dgCO)
-Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 02:37 AM (8dgCO)
It pays. Not well, but it pays.
Posted by: The Janitor at February 03, 2017 02:40 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 02:40 AM (tHwdc)
Demoted from mopping up the back room of the porn shop huh.
Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 02:37 AM (8dgCO)
The place where the stuff on the floor wrestles with you for control if the mop?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at February 03, 2017 02:41 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 02:41 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 02:43 AM (tHwdc)
Proofreading - yet another job Americans won't due.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at February 03, 2017 02:43 AM (BK3ZS)
Might as well make myself useful.
*sigh*
Posted by: Miley
which side of the tarp are you going to be?
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 02:43 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 02:46 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 02:46 AM (tHwdc)
++++
The gods were expecting a young virgin, but, well, ok.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 03, 2017 02:49 AM (R+30W)
*shows name-tag*
Nobody after three a.m. Eastern.
Ewok out front should've told ya'.
Posted by: The Janitor at February 03, 2017 02:53 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 02:54 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 02:54 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 02:55 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 02:55 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 02:56 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 02:56 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 03, 2017 02:57 AM (R+30W)
...which is how one winds-up in the barrel.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 02:58 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 02:59 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:00 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:01 AM (tHwdc)
Otherwise? I'm a simpleton.
-A Dunce, if you will.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:02 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:02 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:03 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:04 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:05 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:05 AM (6gk0M)
Holy carp!
*scrambles off the Barrel*
I was just fooling around. I really don't need effluvia before le weekend.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:08 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:09 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:11 AM (6gk0M)
Yes, this is the price I have to pay to watch Bridge on the River Kwai. Do they think that bald people stay up late at night?
Now what's this FixMeStick? Does it work?
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:12 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: mer at February 03, 2017 03:13 AM (or4l7)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:13 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:14 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:14 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:15 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:16 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at February 03, 2017 03:17 AM (d76uN)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:18 AM (6gk0M)
There's a lot more meat to Milo than dick jokes, and it terrifies the Left far more than HORROR girl terrifies me. She doesn't scare me, she just makes me sad. Sad for her. She's a cutter, but in a more socially acceptable form.
Great ONT, Mis Hum.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 03, 2017 03:18 AM (xpfRn)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 03, 2017 03:18 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:19 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Kapitanleutnant Thomsen at February 03, 2017 03:21 AM (FtrY1)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:22 AM (tHwdc)
-Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 03, 2017 03:18 AM (VdICR)
I was thinking about how to respond to this, but I'll jest leave it as-is, because there is nothing more to add.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:22 AM (6gk0M)
-Posted by: Kapitanleutnant Thomsen at February 03, 2017 03:21 AM (FtrY1)
I played Return Pong at a donut shop in 1983.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:24 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:25 AM (6gk0M)
Apparently large prostates stay up late at night, too.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:27 AM (tHwdc)
If you can't wonder aloud on the ONT in the middle of the night, then I just don't know where you can. Because there are Answers here.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:29 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at February 03, 2017 03:30 AM (d76uN)
Posted by: Older dude going without the flow at February 03, 2017 03:30 AM (FtrY1)
Gee, dude, that wouldn't just happen to encompass your particular world view most effectively? Yeah, I thought so. Canada has the best model, the EU is next, and the US's liberty and melting pot model runs a poor distant third.
Us peasants ain't buying your line of bullshit.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 03, 2017 03:32 AM (xpfRn)
But if I'm bothering you, I'll leave.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:33 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 03, 2017 03:33 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at February 03, 2017 03:35 AM (d76uN)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at February 03, 2017 03:37 AM (d76uN)
...and now I'm over it.
That happened quickly.
Welcome back to The Horde!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:38 AM (6gk0M)
*pulls down shade*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:40 AM (6gk0M)
I'm an idiot.
G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!
*static*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 03, 2017 03:41 AM (6gk0M)
I smoke like a chimney, and my freakin" PROSTATE decides to play Kill Me? Where's the justice in that?
Oh well, I wasn't using it much anyhow.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 03, 2017 03:42 AM (xpfRn)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at February 03, 2017 03:47 AM (d76uN)
We believe in the power of people working together: people from different backgrounds, nationalities, and beliefs, uniting to create a better everyday life for themselves and for one another
We believe that each of us has the responsibility to stand up for the dignity and rights of every individual, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other individual characteristic.
Posted by: voiceover at February 03, 2017 03:48 AM (xZnSc)
Exhausted from a long two days of cleaning up Previously TV. Here's a good thing to come out of it (besides getting lib nastiness deleted) -- have noticed in the last 24 hours, conservatives are come out of hiding & "liking" my posts.
Posted by: voiceover at February 03, 2017 03:53 AM (xZnSc)
Posted by: voiceover at February 03, 2017 03:54 AM (xZnSc)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at February 03, 2017 03:59 AM (d76uN)
Posted by: voiceover
Nah, you can post shit here at 3 am, confident that no more than 6 people (including Bob from NSA) will ever read it.
Bite me, Bob.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 03, 2017 04:02 AM (xpfRn)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at February 03, 2017 04:02 AM (d76uN)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois
I'm sure you could.
The question you should be asking yourself, is if I should?
Potentiality versus actuality.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 03, 2017 04:15 AM (xpfRn)
Why not? Won't make much difference anyway.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at February 03, 2017 04:22 AM (d76uN)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at February 03, 2017 04:28 AM (d76uN)
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2017 04:34 AM (Frvrc)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at February 03, 2017 04:35 AM (d76uN)
That must mean that people became much more interested in WHY he was being silenced by TPTB. And don't kid yourself, he was being silenced.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 03, 2017 04:38 AM (xpfRn)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2017 04:40 AM (Frvrc)
The wrong one survived, of course...
Such is the way of politickin'
Posted by: J. S. Bridges at February 03, 2017 04:40 AM (DsGWS)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2017 04:42 AM (Frvrc)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 03:19 AM (tHwdc)"
If you type and delete his name three times...
Well...just don't. That's all I'm sayin'.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 03, 2017 04:44 AM (vbvxt)
http://tinyurl.com/hzphl2j
He talks about the riot on Jan 25th at the Milo event. It seems like the police aren't doing what needs to be done for whatever reason. We saw it first when the BLM people took the stage some month ago. This is making me furious.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 03, 2017 04:45 AM (VdICR)
Fuck you, grass, the mower doesn't get used until March at the earliest.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 03, 2017 04:46 AM (xpfRn)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2017 04:47 AM (Frvrc)
Posted by: Bob at February 03, 2017 04:49 AM (qG0hz)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/gpskwp5
(fireandreamitchell.com)
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 03, 2017 04:51 AM (xpfRn)
Read something interesting today about the Kraft Heinz company.
Apparently they had planned to buy a 30-second ad to air during
Super Bowl LI. They found out the cost of the ad would be the same
amount of money... as giving all of their employees an extra paid day
off work.
So they chose... to give their employees the paid day off.
Hmm. Anyone here think this was a good decision? A bad one? I personally think it was an okay decision.
Posted by: qdpsteve
Actually, I'm pretty much o.k. with that - especially when you consider that that's definitely the only even half-way intelligent thing anyone's ever heard of with even a faintly-remote connection to Big Jawn F'in' Kerry; aka, "Johnny Ketchup-Boy", the Winter Soldjah Whiz-Fizzle (married to the Heinz fortune, y'know...)
Posted by: J. S. Bridges at February 03, 2017 05:00 AM (DsGWS)
Posted by: Subterranean JT at February 03, 2017 05:04 AM (qG0hz)
Posted by: vivi at February 03, 2017 05:14 AM (11H2y)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 03, 2017 05:15 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: fluffy at February 03, 2017 05:18 AM (jw2Xw)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2017 05:19 AM (Frvrc)
We open on a giant, nonsensical battle. Think Thunderdome meets Anchorman. A small, furry figure climbs a small cliff overlooking the battle.
Reaching the top, he speaks:
Nyub. (Hey.)
Nyub! (Hey!)
NYUB! (HEY!)
Yub Jub-Jub! (This is ONT!)
The scene shifts to Corgis. Not five Corgis, but a stampede of Corgis, like the Riders of Rohan in Return of the King. One Corgi races ahead of the mob.
Breaking away, he runs up marble steps into an ancient Roman/Greek-looking structure. Past rows of columns, until sliding to a halt in front of a statue of Brian Dennehy . Excitedly, he barks! The Subtitle reads: First!
Fade to black. The AoSHQ logo appears.
Posted by: Moron Films, Inc at February 03, 2017 05:25 AM (q1+kD)
We believe in the power of people working together: people from different backgrounds, nationalities, and beliefs, uniting to create a better everyday life for themselves and for one another
We believe that each of us has the responsibility to stand up for the dignity and rights of every individual, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other individual characteristic.
Well, good for you! * spoken in snarky voice *
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at February 03, 2017 05:27 AM (BK3ZS)
I'm still trying to revive my Mom after having introduced her to Shrapnel Face.
("How come no one wants to employ me?")
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at February 03, 2017 05:28 AM (BK3ZS)
They may prefer Chicken Of The Sea, but in a pinch they will settle for Chicken On The Floor.
Humans -- Large cans of catfood.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 03, 2017 05:33 AM (xpfRn)
Since Peter Jackson appears to be unable to make anything even remotely successful except for things from the Tolkienverse -- and even there his record is spotty -- why not turn him loose on Bored of the Rings?
Five nine is your height and 180's your weight
You'll cash in your chips around page 88
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at February 03, 2017 05:35 AM (BK3ZS)
Humans -- Large cans of catfood.
Enthusiastically endorsed by kittehs in households where an obese person living alone with many kittehs expired and the corpse wasn't discovered for days.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at February 03, 2017 05:38 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at February 03, 2017 05:39 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at February 03, 2017 05:42 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: teh kittehs at February 03, 2017 05:42 AM (jw2Xw)
Reclaims nickname in full
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2017 05:45 AM (BK3ZS)
* moons the barrel *
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2017 05:46 AM (BK3ZS)
He's not moving but doesn't smell like cat food.
I'm giving him 30 minutes.
Posted by: teh kittehs at February 03, 2017 05:46 AM (jw2Xw)
Y'know what else Ikea believes in?
Faux scandi names for their products in their full line of pressboard and balsa wood furniture.
Freaking poseurs
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2017 05:49 AM (BK3ZS)
I'm giving him 30 minutes.
* gathers other kittehs *
* begins multi-players rounds of "rock-paper-scissors" to see who gets dibs on the juiciest bits *
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2017 05:52 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2017 05:54 AM (Frvrc)
That's what you think it is when we are waving our claws around?
Humans are so cute!
** Chomp!! **
Posted by: teh kittehs at February 03, 2017 05:56 AM (jw2Xw)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but "rock-paper-scissors" played by kittehs would consist only of "rock" and "paper". Amirite?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2017 05:56 AM (BK3ZS)
right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos. Details of his promotional
tour, assuming there is one, are a mystery for now.
He is a Islamophobic, homophobic, right wing hater. No mention that he is gay, that doesn't fit the narrative.
Posted by: Colin at February 03, 2017 05:56 AM (PBLF0)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2017 05:59 AM (Frvrc)
Posted by: Kreplach at February 03, 2017 06:01 AM (+lv+r)
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2017 06:02 AM (Frvrc)
I recall the statement being that the curtain of fascism is falling in America but it somehow always manages to land on Europe.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2017 06:03 AM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 03, 2017 06:10 AM (xpfRn)
It's time to start attacking back.
Posted by: Kreplach at February 03, 2017 06:10 AM (IVZNX)
They hated his Black History speech...Also stop Gorsuch, Got his women's history month wrong, didn't mention the holocaust and the Jewish women..etc
meanwhile, 1 dead, 9 shot..
Posted by: Colin at February 03, 2017 06:13 AM (PBLF0)
Patton Oswalt gets his underoos in a bunch when he gets in a pissing match on twatter with a Trump (OMG) supporter,
Ends up geting the Trump supporter fired.
Posted by: Bruce at February 03, 2017 06:17 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Flyboy at February 03, 2017 06:23 AM (R3Jti)
It is what ticks me off more than anything when the media tries to tell me that science has "proved" something. Science proves nothing. It gives us the best explantation for something that we understand at the time. The fact that so many people fall for the "science is settled" shows me what a dismal science education our kids get.
Posted by: Quirky. Bookworm at February 03, 2017 06:23 AM (gppsv)
No kidding. Pitiful. Strikes me more like catechism class than science, the few youngsters I've talked to about sciencey-stuff.
Maybe the contrast is worse for me; I was a Sputnik-era kid, when they practically force-fed us the Scientific Method, etc. Went on to work in research and testing most of my life which is all about going where the data seems to lead you.
Don't get me started about "adjusting" raw data.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 03, 2017 06:34 AM (1d+CX)
We ain't played cowboys & fascists yet.
Yet.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 03, 2017 06:34 AM (W2Fol)
I'd like to avoid that, but we may not be given a choice.
Too bad the FBI can't arrest the rioters, get the phone date, use metadata to roll up the network, and save America.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 03, 2017 06:39 AM (u82oZ)
I can't recall ever hearing her speak up about politics.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 03, 2017 06:39 AM (Halhc)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 03, 2017 06:39 AM (u82oZ)
You're presuming the FBI wants to do that.
I am increasingly convinced the entire Federal Government would like nothing more than a Trump assassination in order to return to business as usual.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 03, 2017 06:48 AM (X6fMO)
I'd like a pony ... but I ain't holding my breath.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 03, 2017 06:50 AM (fiGNd)
"Too bad the FBI can't arrest the rioters, get the phone date, use metadata to roll up the network, and save America. "
Old-school !
Love it.
Only problem is they'd have to want to stop it, and I have zero confidence in that, or any other branch of the gummint, having any of that spirit left.
Well except PDT and direct appointees thereof.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 03, 2017 06:53 AM (1d+CX)
Posted by: EVLINC! at February 03, 2017 06:53 AM (y3aQB)
"I'm fine with Andie McDowell. I find her attractive, but more importantly she apparently lives a quiet life in the NC mountains. "
For a moment, I confused her with Minnie Driver.
Who I find to be an annoying twit.
But Andie?
Seems very nice.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 03, 2017 06:57 AM (J+eG2)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
There's no one better. He cut his teeth on this debating style on Crossfire decades ago and he presents and demands arguments in a friendly way, but can be curt if necessary.
Bill O'Reilly also argues and debates but Bill has a very superficial understanding of the issues and no firm ideological foundation. (Consider his minimum wage discussions and position). Kinda sad.
Tucker knows the issues and the facts thru and thru.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at February 03, 2017 06:59 AM (iWW0H)
right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos"
He's "incendiary" because he makes fun of lesbians, thinks fat people should lose weight, talks about his black boyfriends, and says he's tired of the left ordering everyone around.
Just think, that's what passes as "incendiary" in America in 2017.
But then in 2017 America, Don Rickles would be "incendiary " unless he limited his insults to conservatives.
You know how, when you were a kid, you always wanted to do the things your elders hated? If I were a 19 year old college kid, I'd find Milo's book irresistible for that reason.
Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at February 03, 2017 06:59 AM (P8951)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 03, 2017 07:04 AM (u82oZ)
Leftists in my FB feed --
#1: I feel like it's not safe to post some of my darker thoughts. I hate that.
#2: Girl I feel the same way I feel like I can't post anything any more.
#3: Same.
#4: Don't allow yourself to be silenced.
The intrepid #Resistance continues! Fight the power!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 03, 2017 07:20 AM (BK3ZS)
Is he describing a gang rape in Sweden
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2017 07:41 AM (2RVmA)
I read that to my wife. She said "Their tips won't be as good." I asked "Was that a 'p' or a 't'?"
Anyway, I guess we should be thankful, after all, that Playboy has dropped the nude picks.
Posted by: George LeS at February 03, 2017 04:55 PM (+TcCF)
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