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Overnight Open Thread (3 Mar 2017)

Just kill it already. ObamaCare's popularity is a myth - satisfaction craters to 22% as law continues to collapse.

Russians

This whole Russian thing is getting so ridiculous. Obama Administration officials set up Jeff Sessions' meeting with the Russian Ambassador. Oops.

Evidently, all that botox is interfering with Pelosi's memory. Photo contradicts Pelosi's statement about not meeting Kislyak.

Moving forward, it is painfully obvious that some serious house cleaning needs to happen in many departments. Did the Obama Administration try stacking the deck against Trump as the Justice Department? Of course they did. One wonders what information is flowing back to him now from the DoJ, IRS, NSA, etc.

It's not inconceivable that the pandemonium of an incoming Trump administration might have meant they would overlook a little-noticed change. Sessions could have recused himself thinking the old line of succession was intact, only to have Phillips appoint a rabid special prosecutor to go after the Trump administration on Russia the next day before the Trump administration could undo things. As soon as it was evident Boentes was going to be handling any Russian investigations, Schumer called on him to appoint a special prosecutor.

Hollyweird

Yeah, I don't think hiring a few more folks will stop ISIS recruiting. It almost comes off as a threat. Actor says put muslims on TV or they will join ISIS.

Vietnamese Tactical Stick

Internet of Things

Anything that is connected to the internet is vulnerable. Shock as poachers hack environmentalists' GPS signals to hunt endangered animals.

Lightning

A mystery with a shocking twist: death by indoor lightning.

Lemurs Getting Stoned

Hostile Work Environment

Instructor files 'hostile work environment' grievance because university let Milo on campus. I would argue that college is a hostile work environment for conservative, non-prog students.

FitBit For Your Schlong

This cock ring connects to the world's worst social network.

The sensor-laden ring isn't a condom itself, but sits over the base of your preferred prophylactic. Put it on, "get it on," and learn about metrics like the average velocity of thrusts, frequency of sessions, average skin temperature, and other details you probably don't need to know about. After bedroom activity dies down, you can pair the ring's data with the i.Con app via Bluetooth for further analysis.

Feminists

So, not a peep from the white dress crowd or those wearing pussy hats? Dem Congressman makes misogynistic joke, feminists silent. No one will take your silly asses seriously (already hard enough with the 'gina suits and pussy hats) if you can't be bothered to condemn one of your own for saying something that usually sends you fleeing to a safe space and/or into an uncontrolled rage on twitter or something.

Europe

This would probably hurt Europe more than us. EU calls for end to visa-free travel for Americans in swipe at Trump.

Dog Video

Tonight's ONT brought to you by what USAF bomber pilots would wear during a nuclear attack:

Top image via.

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Posted by: CDR M at 10:00 PM




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1 *Plants Flag*

-Never Tired of Winning

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 03, 2017 09:55 PM (6gk0M)

2 Ont

Posted by: morons, everywhere at March 03, 2017 09:55 PM (19RKp)

3 Dammit, Slap!

Posted by: morons, everywhere at March 03, 2017 09:55 PM (19RKp)

4 Thanks CDR_M!!!

Posted by: NC Ref at March 03, 2017 09:56 PM (SpeiC)

5 Oooooh, content!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at March 03, 2017 09:56 PM (kP16F)

6 I called the Corgis. Now off to read content.

Posted by: morons, everywhere at March 03, 2017 09:56 PM (19RKp)

7 Oh, great. 3 comments in top 6 and I'm wearing old sock.

Posted by: tbodie at March 03, 2017 09:57 PM (19RKp)

8 Young Frankenstein just beginning on TCM.

Posted by: logprof at March 03, 2017 09:58 PM (GsAUU)

9 NINE!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 03, 2017 09:58 PM (6gk0M)

10 From previous thread.
I just got my mini truck back and I suspect it has a vacuum leak. I just dropped about 1k on parts and $271 at the local mechanic's when I thought I had buggered something up (I hadn't).
It still idles too low in drive when stopped.

You getting a code?

I bought this one:
http://tinyurl.com/hfrtsx3

Posted by: Soothsayer 45
****

No code. Just idling at 200rpm in drive and while stopped.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 09:59 PM (hVdx9)

11 There are so many great comments by all y'all every day. My favorite today:



Well, some of it has to do with old fashioned
corruption and incompetence. The site of the airport is on land that
CO's biggest lobbyist owned - fancy that!
Then there's the fact that part of the land is geologically unstable.
My
favorite is the hideous bronco statue that the artist milked the govt.
extra thousands of dollars to finish that fell on him and killed him.





Posted by: Lizzy at March 03, 2017 08:13 PM (NOIQH)



Thanks Lizzy!!! You just can't make that stuff up and I would never have known if it wasn't for all y'all smart commentators.
.....The more you know.....

Posted by: NC Ref at March 03, 2017 09:59 PM (SpeiC)

12 That second flag found its mark nicely.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 03, 2017 09:59 PM (6gk0M)

13 Need some Lenten music?

Allegri's "Miserere" (Psalm 51 in Latin) by the incomparable Tallis Scholars:

https://youtu.be/NmWZIPri38Q

Posted by: logprof at March 03, 2017 09:59 PM (GsAUU)

14 read content and top 20. Woohoo

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 03, 2017 10:00 PM (lJW6d)

15 Oh, great. 3 comments in top 6 and I'm wearing old sock.
Posted by: tbodie at March 03, 2017 09:57 PM (19RKp)
-------------

I hope you at least have clean underwear on.

Posted by: bluebell at March 03, 2017 10:00 PM (sBOL1)

16 Oh, and thanks Sooth.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:00 PM (hVdx9)

17 Ah, the Suicide Squad soundtrack is available with Amazon Prime now.

Posted by: CDR M at March 03, 2017 10:00 PM (9I51B)

18 Must be a slow night. All the horde is out for a fish fry at their local supper club.

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 03, 2017 10:00 PM (lJW6d)

19 those goggles for use during a nuclear exchange would be useful when lena dunham comes in range wearing that bikini.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 03, 2017 10:01 PM (KP5rU)

20 Happy-ish Friday all y'all ...

Posted by: Adriane the Matrix Critic ... at March 03, 2017 10:01 PM (AoK0a)

21 Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 03, 2017 10:01 PM (KP5rU)

Hahahahahahaha!

Posted by: CDR M at March 03, 2017 10:02 PM (9I51B)

22 Thanks for another bang-up ONT, CDR M!

Posted by: ibguy at March 03, 2017 10:02 PM (vUcdz)

23 Does anyone else think Bush's paintings are terrible?

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 10:02 PM (M3DRt)

24 Every lemur must get stoned.

Posted by: Bob Dylan at March 03, 2017 10:02 PM (Tyii7)

25 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Hitler at March 03, 2017 10:02 PM (mtGE/)

26 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Hitler at March 03, 2017 10:02 PM (mtGE/)

Imposter!

Posted by: @realadolf at March 03, 2017 10:03 PM (d76uN)

27 >>Must be a slow night. All the horde is out for a fish fry at their local supper club.

Hopefully, Great White isn't playing there.

Posted by: Aviator at March 03, 2017 10:03 PM (/Nite)

28 Does anyone else think Bush's paintings are terrible?

No, I just think Bush is terrible these days. Just his New World Order persona shining through.

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 03, 2017 10:03 PM (lJW6d)

29 "Does anyone else think Bush's paintings are terrible?"

The paintings are OK.

He and his family are disgraceful.
Just my $.02 opinion.

Posted by: navybrat at March 03, 2017 10:03 PM (w7KSn)

30 Well, I think I'm gonna play a little Battlefield 1 for a bit.

Posted by: CDR M at March 03, 2017 10:04 PM (9I51B)

31 Yeah, I don't think hiring a few more folks will stop ISIS recruiting. It almost comes off as a threat. Actor says put muslims on TV or they will join ISIS.

Wait, you mean they're beheading people because they don't see enough Muslims on sitcoms?

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 03, 2017 10:04 PM (+lVUW)

32
No code. Just idling at 200rpm in drive and while stopped.

What car is it?

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at March 03, 2017 10:04 PM (aaGce)

33 **opens CDR M ONT**

Dave's not here, man.

Posted by: stoned lemur at March 03, 2017 10:04 PM (4nvOb)

34 A shame when a good lemur goes bad.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:04 PM (hVdx9)

35 Imposter!

piker

Posted by: @literallyadolph at March 03, 2017 10:04 PM (Tyii7)

36 If anyone has access to Kohler Dark Chocolate Brandy, try it in an Old Fashioned sweet. It is to die for.

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 03, 2017 10:05 PM (lJW6d)

37 There can only be one!

Posted by: @RealAdolfHitler at March 03, 2017 10:06 PM (FqgrG)

38 Damn! Could have been 1st, but stopped to read the content! Curses!

Posted by: MallardDuckLintBrush at March 03, 2017 10:06 PM (j80G/)

39 They were good boys.

Posted by: Lemur Moms at March 03, 2017 10:07 PM (Tyii7)

40 Willowed from the previous, so, a reprise:

Oh and I broke my toe this week because I am a total clumsy dork. That doorjamb was about six inches further to the left than I thought.

So, I went to this year's sales meeting with a broken toe and spent two days on my feet.

And they loved my new paint formulation which will theoretically make the company a shit ton of money. I'll see nothing in return. Because...work.

Blah.

Posted by: @DangerGirl




Bummer to hear that. Heal quickly. But...

Did you drive your self to the clinic, or did you have to call a toe truck?



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 03, 2017 10:08 PM (v5iqM)

41 Fish fry at the KC Hall every Friday until after Easter. That and everybody out drinking I bet.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at March 03, 2017 10:08 PM (d/z4P)

42 #BlackLivesMatter vs. Yakub's Soulless Albino Mutants

It would seem that a co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, Yusra Khogali, has "decolonized" her mind and embraced "alternate ways of knowing".. which apparently include Black supremacist pseudo-scientific garbage

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=13084

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 03, 2017 10:09 PM (vBeA5)

43 Geeze. I go and post a couple of really thoughtful comments, on the previous thread, and get willowed.

Dr. Ballard and Dr. Cade, their like we may never see again. RIP, gentlemen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 10:09 PM (WDdjT)

44 Penile Fit-Bit- More sh*t I don't need the govt. to know about me.
Or worse yet, a database online. Want to date THIS guy ladies? Check him, his package, and his performance out on line!

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:09 PM (hVdx9)

45 I hope you at least have clean underwear on.

Posted by: bluebell at March 03, 2017 10:00 PM (sBOL1)

Momma did teach me that much.

Posted by: tbodie at March 03, 2017 10:09 PM (19RKp)

46 EU calls for end to visa-free travel for Americans in swipe at Trump.

So what? When I went to Europe in 1990 I needed visas for at least some countries. I know that one of the countries was France. Since some European countries have had problems with terrorist acts, I happen to think that visas are a good idea.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 03, 2017 10:10 PM (+lVUW)

47 Geeze. I go and post a couple of really thoughtful comments, on the previous thread, and get willowed.

Dr. Ballard and Dr. Cade, their like we may never see again. RIP, gentlemen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
****

Burns like fire, doesn't it?

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:11 PM (hVdx9)

48 I hope you at least have clean underwear on.

Posted by: bluebell at March 03, 2017 10:00 PM (sBOL1)

Momma did teach me that much.

Posted by: tbodie
****

Unnnder-weeaarr? Whut's dat?

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:11 PM (hVdx9)

49 Hey everybody.

Welp, just discovered Papa Murphy's take-and-bake pizza. There goes my diet again.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:12 PM (u8kLQ)

50 Fart-Tubing is legal in Vermont and we do not want this to go away if Trump gets rid of the affartable HELLTHA CARE aCT. wE CALLS ON pRESDENT OBAMA AND hILLLARY cLITON ALONG WITH sINATOR sANDERS TO PROTECT THIS RITE FOR ALL vEMINT cIETRENS.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboror, VT at March 03, 2017 10:12 PM (WmgTn)

51 44. Heh....a hot woman is a far better advertisement for that. I never had so many 'nieces' as when it got around that I was seeing my angel, who was - by a wide margin - the most attractive woman at or near my former place of employment.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 10:12 PM (Ju3KR)

52 ObamaCare's popularity is a myth - satisfaction craters to 22% as law continues to collapse.
----------

It seems to be highly popular among those seeking to expand the central state's tentacles into every corner of our lives.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 03, 2017 10:12 PM (ZO497)

53 Mary's diving into the apricot schnapps early tonight.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:13 PM (u8kLQ)

54
Wait, you mean they're beheading people because they don't see enough Muslims on sitcoms?
---

Yes.

They hate us because there are not enough Muslims on tv.

That's why we hired Valerie Jarret's daughter.

If all tv and film productions were:

75% muslim (60% black muslim, 40% arabic muslim)
and
25% gay (50% male, 50% female, 80% black, 20% Hispanic)

America would have peace . Finally.

But the Nazi's who hold the purse strings will not go along with that. H8ers!!!

BTW, we've declared 2017 Muslim History year, be sure to catch our daily specials!

Posted by: CNN at March 03, 2017 10:13 PM (J5mC3)

55 That Vietnamese tactical training video shows will give Mexicans ideas how to climb US border fences!

Not that they need more than they already have...


Posted by: Kortezzi at March 03, 2017 10:14 PM (98FOO)

56
TKAW, what kind of car you have?

There's probably an online forum for your car. I find them to be very helpful.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at March 03, 2017 10:14 PM (aaGce)

57 Is that an authentic Vietnamese reggae soundtrack?

Cultural appropriation!

Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at March 03, 2017 10:14 PM (sdi6R)

58 TKAW! There wouldn't be an adjustment screw on the carburettor for the idle speed, would there?

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at March 03, 2017 10:14 PM (kP16F)

59 Bob Dole doesn't need to have his strokes measured

Posted by: Bob Dole at March 03, 2017 10:14 PM (mtGE/)

60 52.and the recent "popular uprisings" at town hall meetings.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 10:15 PM (M3DRt)

61 LMAO "What big knockers!"

Posted by: logprof at March 03, 2017 10:15 PM (GsAUU)

62 Bob Dole's having a going-longest-without-dying contest with Keith Richards. Bob Dole!

Posted by: Bob Dole at March 03, 2017 10:15 PM (u8kLQ)

63 If anyone has access to Kohler Dark Chocolate Brandy, try it in an Old Fashioned sweet. It is to die for.
--

I hear they make lovely faucets as well.

Posted by: shibumi at March 03, 2017 10:15 PM (J5mC3)

64
There wouldn't be an adjustment screw on the carburettor for the idle speed, would there?

Carburetor!?!?

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at March 03, 2017 10:15 PM (aaGce)

65 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 03, 2017 10:16 PM (KCxzN)

66 49; try the chicago. you can hear your arteries slamming shut as you enjoy. wear loose pants.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 03, 2017 10:16 PM (KP5rU)

67 It's not Obama. It's Valerie Jarret. Obama is perfectly happy to golf with celebrities, talk to interesting Italians and let Bill Ayers write another book for him.

Posted by: PBJ4848 at March 03, 2017 10:16 PM (PsdJu)

68 57. My angel listens to Vietnamese country music which is, as the kids say, a 'thing.' Cats being strangled to the sound of steel guitars......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 10:16 PM (Ju3KR)

69 around a year ago or so i said that obama's "fundamental change" of america was to fundamentaly politicize the federal bureaucracy as an arm of the left by stocking the agencies, the its, doj, spa, doe, hud, etc. with activists with a purpose. i asked what could be done about what is now called the "deep state":now at war with trump. one wag said abolish the agencies. point taken. but now you all see the seriousness of the problem, and we've only scratched the surface.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 03, 2017 10:16 PM (WTSFk)

70 Once when I was on the last plane out of John Wayne Airport in a thunderstorm, there was ball lightning in the cabin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 03, 2017 10:17 PM (EZebt)

71 Burns like fire, doesn't it?

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:11 PM (hVdx9)

Heh. I am used to posting snark, but I am capable of posting serious, thoughtful stuff now and then.

On your mini-truck, look for an idle "step-up" device. Many cars have a solenoid or vacuum dashpot, controlled by a solenoid valve, to increase idle speed if the engine is hot, or the A/C compressor is engaged.

I don't profess to be an expert, but sometimes having a second set of eyes on a problem will reveal the answer, so if you want to wheel the old wreck by my place in AJ, I'd be happy to have a look at it. And buy you a beer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 10:17 PM (WDdjT)

72 TKAW! There wouldn't be an adjustment screw on the carburettor for the idle speed, would there?


Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki
****

Not exactly. KA24e engine without curb idle adjustment IIRC.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:17 PM (hVdx9)

73 I've been waiting all damned day for a fart-tubing thread. *hic*

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at March 03, 2017 10:18 PM (Tyii7)

74 Is the Cock Ring fitbit New classes being taught at Orange Theory?

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at March 03, 2017 10:18 PM (jJHMW)

75 (... yes, i'm taking credit for something i noted on these pages some time ago. why not.)

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 03, 2017 10:18 PM (WTSFk)

76 mary took her filthy sandals off right next to the couch again. it's the fumes. or, one of her cats is helping herbtype.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 03, 2017 10:19 PM (KP5rU)

77 Fartable Healthcare was the plot to Swiss Army Man.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at March 03, 2017 10:19 PM (FqgrG)

78 Lemur has me beat.

Posted by: Candy Assed Baboon at March 03, 2017 10:20 PM (d4mMH)

79 chavez, will do. Thanks! :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:20 PM (u8kLQ)

80 Burns like fire, doesn't it?

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:11 PM (hVdx9)

Heh. I am used to posting snark, but I am capable of posting serious, thoughtful stuff now and then.

On your mini-truck, look for an idle "step-up" device. Many cars have a solenoid or vacuum dashpot, controlled by a solenoid valve, to increase idle speed if the engine is hot, or the A/C compressor is engaged.

I don't profess to be an expert, but sometimes having a second set of eyes on a problem will reveal the answer, so if you want to wheel the old wreck by my place in AJ, I'd be happy to have a look at it. And buy you a beer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
****

It doesn't have your standard curb idle adjust, but it does have what you mention. I did try that and no luck.
Hope I'm not being too unclear. 1997 KA24E.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:20 PM (hVdx9)

81 .the irs, doj, doe, hud. epa.

damn splchk.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 03, 2017 10:21 PM (WTSFk)

82 EU calls for end to visa-free travel for Americans in swipe at Trump.

So what? When I went to Europe in 1990 I needed visas for at least some countries. I know that one of the countries was France. Since some European countries have had problems with terrorist acts, I happen to think that visas are a good idea.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 03, 2017 10:10 PM (+lVUW)

The overwhelming majority of Americans will never go to Europe, and an increasingly large number of Americans don't give two shits about Europe anymore, myself included.

So do your little visa thing, asshats.

Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:21 PM (Jcg9Q)

83 Mary once fart-tubed too close to her compost pile. Took five big strong volunteer firefighters to combat the blaze.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:21 PM (u8kLQ)

84 And AOP, thank you. I may yet take you up on that.
E-mail is sybarite2.
Hotmail.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:21 PM (hVdx9)

85 If all tv and film productions were:

75% muslim (60% black muslim, 40% arabic muslim)
and
25% gay (50% male, 50% female, 80% black, 20% Hispanic)

America would have peace . Finally.

But the Nazi's who hold the purse strings will not go along with that. H8ers!!!

BTW, we've declared 2017 Muslim History year, be sure to catch our daily specials!
Posted by: CNN


You left off transgenders, you filthy trannyphobic bastards!!!!

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 03, 2017 10:21 PM (+lVUW)

86 According to data collected on my schadenboner -ring, I need to wear that USAF pilot nuke mask during sex.

Posted by: jwpaine at March 03, 2017 10:22 PM (hoJm7)

87 My penile Fit-Bit keeps saying "TILT"!
Is that a bad thing?

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:23 PM (hVdx9)

88 I'd love to go to Europe, but I don't want to get my head chopped off or my wife gang raped.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at March 03, 2017 10:23 PM (A4HOq)

89 So do your little visa thing, asshats.

Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:21 PM (Jcg9Q)


I've got a Discover Card. Will that be good enough?

Posted by: Adriane is Easily Confused ... at March 03, 2017 10:23 PM (AoK0a)

90 Tilikum, not 'til it starts beeping.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:24 PM (u8kLQ)

91 "Carburetor"! Right...

http://preview.tinyurl.com/hyccqpq

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at March 03, 2017 10:24 PM (kP16F)

92 Casual Friday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/837710792292200448

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/837710902807887872

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/837711030042181640

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/837711121821892609

Posted by: kbdabear at March 03, 2017 10:24 PM (AOrEZ)

93 Tilikum, not 'til it starts beeping.

Posted by: qdpsteve
****

Which is right before it explodes.
EEK!

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:24 PM (hVdx9)

94 I can quit anytime I want.

Posted by: Lemur at March 03, 2017 10:25 PM (XoldI)

95 >>Once when I was on the last plane out of John Wayne Airport in a thunderstorm, there was ball lightning in the cabin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho

Sounds like St Elmo's fire.

Posted by: Aviator at March 03, 2017 10:25 PM (/Nite)

96 17 Ah, the Suicide Squad soundtrack is available with Amazon Prime now.
Posted by: CDR M at March 03, 2017 10:00 PM (9I51B)

About the only thing good in that movie. That and Margot Robbie's smokin' bod.

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 03, 2017 10:25 PM (0mRoj)

97 More Casual Friday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/837711231536541697

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/837711346561089539

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/837711467025731584

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/837711571925282816

Posted by: kbdabear at March 03, 2017 10:25 PM (AOrEZ)

98 Once when I was on the last plane out of John Wayne Airport in a thunderstorm, there was ball lightning in the cabin.
Posted by: San Franpsycho


Dang I'm good!

Posted by: Sully at March 03, 2017 10:25 PM (u8kLQ)

99 I note Cloggenstien's descent into madness continues unabated...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at March 03, 2017 10:25 PM (kP16F)

100 Ok ONT. I need to sleep. See you when I see you. You have all my love.

Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 03, 2017 10:26 PM (+eR2D)

101 85. Not so. As with the tragic actors of ancient greece, swapping masks from scene to scene, they can swap genders episode to episode.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 10:26 PM (Ju3KR)

102 I'd love to go to Europe, but I don't want to get my head chopped off or my wife gang raped.
--

I'd say Eastern Europe is probably the safest choice.

Posted by: shibumi at March 03, 2017 10:26 PM (J5mC3)

103 Tilikum, that'll require six strapping young men from the local volunteer fire department to put out.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:26 PM (u8kLQ)

104 Margot Robbie's Sexualized Ass is a Problem.

Posted by: Jezebal at March 03, 2017 10:26 PM (FqgrG)

105 We need a visa and 'Syrians' don't?

Suit yourselves...

Posted by: t-bird at March 03, 2017 10:26 PM (/wWB4)

106 Vy sank you.

Posted by: JAS at March 03, 2017 10:27 PM (4sHXv)

107 I've got a Discover Card. Will that be good enough?

Posted by: Adriane is Easily Confused ... at March 03, 2017 10:23 PM (AoK0a)

Can I borrow it? Mine are all tapped out, and there's some great gun deals out there right now.

Your cooperation in this matter is appreciated.

Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:27 PM (Jcg9Q)

108 The whole W thing has really got me down.
I supported him, I volunteered, I sent him $.
I had to. I didn't want to see a President Kerry. Or Gore.
I have a signed Christmas card from him.
I've shaken hands with his dad.

One of the wisest men I ever met said "Never fall in love with any politician, they will break your heart every time."

Truer words were never spoken.

Posted by: navybrat at March 03, 2017 10:27 PM (w7KSn)

109 89. Players' Club! Who loves ya, baby? - Savalas.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 10:28 PM (Ju3KR)

110 Zettai, Mary's descent into dementia has been made possible by numerous generous grants from the Wild Turkey Group and the wide-ranging family of DeKuyper Schnapps flavors. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:28 PM (u8kLQ)

111 102 I'd love to go to Europe, but I don't want to get my head chopped off or my wife gang raped.
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Don't take your kids to Rotherham, England.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 03, 2017 10:28 PM (+lVUW)

112 Juan Williams in a dither. Said the plan was hitting 90% OVERJOY.

Posted by: pat at March 03, 2017 10:29 PM (4MSOz)

113
You really don't want to mess with that adjustment screw or mess with the TPS because all you're doing is manually raising the idle same as stepping on the gas pedal.

The Issue still remains.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at March 03, 2017 10:30 PM (BE4Rh)

114 There are parts of France I regularly visit.
We even have another visit coming up.
My wife studies art. I like to speak French. Like our host.
It doesn't all suck.
Mostly parts of Paris, you can just write them off.
The same thing will happen here.
Oh, wait, is already happening.
We may have slowed it down a bit.

Posted by: navybrat at March 03, 2017 10:31 PM (w7KSn)

115 No Europe this year. Canada and Alaska, Victoria will be by British experience. Polite people, great English, Irish, and Scottish bars, pubs, and restaurants.

Posted by: pat at March 03, 2017 10:31 PM (4MSOz)

116 More Lena Dunham pics!

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at March 03, 2017 10:31 PM (Aw2/v)

117
Rinkerby
my new, all time favorite, place name.

Even better than some of those weird British places.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 03, 2017 10:31 PM (v/2ie)

118 It doesn't have your standard curb idle adjust, but it does have what you mention. I did try that and no luck.
Hope I'm not being too unclear. 1997 KA24E.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:20 PM (hVdx9)

Got it! I am familiar with the predecessor to that engine, the NAPZ 22, which had a carburetor. Yours is sequential port EFI. Sounds like whatever is supposed to set the curb idle at 650 RPM (or whatever the spec is) isn't doing its job, and the engine is falling back to the idle speed set by the rest position of the throttle.

I would look closely for any sign of an idle air bypass, or idle throttle positioner, and try to determine if such a thing, if found, is functional. If it's not setting a code, then presumably the ECM is getting normal signals from the sensors that tell it to go into idle mode, so the problem most likely lies with whatever actuators are invoked.

Best I can do from here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 10:32 PM (WDdjT)

119 Posted by: kbdabear at March 03, 2017 10:25 PM (AOrEZ)

Great work as always, kb.

Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:32 PM (Jcg9Q)

120 My face hurts.

Posted by: Nanzi Pelosi at March 03, 2017 10:32 PM (uSlc8)

121 I look at that cute photo of the dog and toddler on the seesaw, and all I can think about is which of them is going to be an asshole and jump off fast so the other goes down hard on his butt.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 03, 2017 10:32 PM (+lVUW)

122 Nb, did you live overseas?

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 10:33 PM (M3DRt)

123 121 I look at that cute photo of the dog and toddler on the seesaw, and all I can think about is which of them is going to be an asshole and jump off fast so the other goes down hard on his butt.
Posted by: nerdygirl


The things you learned at Catholic school.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 03, 2017 10:33 PM (+lVUW)

124 Bob Dole's Fitbit Cock Ring never has a Hard Drive Crash.




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 03, 2017 10:34 PM (v5iqM)

125 177. Meh, it's not Twyng or Market Snodsberry. - B.W. Wooster

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 10:34 PM (Ju3KR)

126 Sounds like St Elmo's fire.
Posted by: Aviator at March 03, 2017 10:25 PM (/Nite)

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Probably related. Isn't St. Elmo's fire attached to a structure?

This was a ball of free-floating electrical discharge about 18 inches across. The freaky thing was it lasted about 30 seconds and we were all strapped in for takeoff. The flight attendants were seated facing me, and they were going nuts. Screaming that everyone should stay seated!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 03, 2017 10:35 PM (EZebt)

127
First thing to do is eliminate the possibility of a vacuum leak.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at March 03, 2017 10:35 PM (BE4Rh)

128 I'm amazed by the Vietnamese tactical stick. It's such a simple idea, but I'd never thought of it.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 03, 2017 10:36 PM (97XyN)

129 Listening tonight to a little country station out of a little town in Central Texas, wishing I had a little piece of property out there all to myself. Me, my whiskey, and the radio. Someday.

Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:36 PM (Jcg9Q)

130 Tired of the Dems whining about the Russia and Trump. For years they have been going on about how there is no election fraud. They lose an election and won't shut up about it. But, IDs are still a bad idea.

Muslim complaining about there not being enough acting jobs in England for Muslims. Go join ISIS, their new cannibalism diet sounds great.

http://louderwithcrowder.com/ isis-cannibalism-non-muslims/

remove the space after the backslash.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 03, 2017 10:36 PM (v3DL/)

131 88 I'd love to go to Europe, but I don't want to get my head chopped off or my wife gang raped.

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How do you feel about getting swindled by a gypsy?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 03, 2017 10:37 PM (uSlc8)

132 How do you feel about getting swindled by a gypsy?
Posted by: Cicero


Hey, that reminds me of a song!...

Posted by: Cher at March 03, 2017 10:38 PM (u8kLQ)

133 I'd tell you to shut up Cher but my mouth is still full of pine needles.

Posted by: Sonny at March 03, 2017 10:38 PM (u8kLQ)

134 Good evening, everyone. First week of classes is down and I'm already swamped with reading and homework. I did manage to go out on Wednesday to see a burlesque show in Santa Monica. The group that put it on brought in a live band, which was nice. Also, since the venue was small, I stood at the bar about ten feet from the stage. A couple of girls got up on the bar as part of their performance and crawled around right in front of me. One of the performers looked like Bebe Neuwirth. I like Bebe Neuwirth.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 03, 2017 10:39 PM (Tnhbr)

135 129 Listening tonight to a little country station out of a little town in Central Texas, wishing I had a little piece of property out there all to myself. Me, my whiskey, and the radio. Someday.
Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:36 PM (Jcg9Q)

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It's good to have a plan. Whenever I suggest a future some place other than SF, Mrs. Franpsycho starts getting the sadz B

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 03, 2017 10:39 PM (EZebt)

136 Probably related. Isn't St. Elmo's fire attached to a structure?

This was a ball of free-floating electrical discharge about 18 inches across. The freaky thing was it lasted about 30 seconds and we were all strapped in for takeoff. The flight attendants were seated facing me, and they were going nuts. Screaming that everyone should stay seated!


Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 03, 2017 10:35 PM


It doesn't sound like St. Elmo's Fire. "Ball Lightning" probably. Very weird. Have seen it myself and it's very much a WTF? spectacle. Catching it indoors or inside a plane would be very freaky and disconcerting.

Posted by: otho at March 03, 2017 10:40 PM (lmIoG)

137 Remember a few weeks ago, I brought up "Hot Yoga"?

Turns out it's popular in my area, I guess. A *second* hot yoga studio has opened in my neighborhood.

Any of the ettes here ever tried it? Seems to be a female thing.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:40 PM (u8kLQ)

138 In what has been called a "visa war," the European Union's parliament on Thursday called on the bloc to force American tourists visiting Europe to first obtain visas because the U.S. excludes five EU countries from its no-visa policy.

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Yes, do it. I double-dog dare you.

Posted by: Dr Abortion at March 03, 2017 10:40 PM (R+30W)

139 >>Probably related. Isn't St. Elmo's fire attached to a structure?



This was a ball of free-floating electrical discharge about 18
inches across. The freaky thing was it lasted about 30 seconds and we
were all strapped in for takeoff. The flight attendants were seated
facing me, and they were going nuts. Screaming that everyone should stay
seated!



Posted by: San Franpsycho

Actually can look like that.

Posted by: Aviator at March 03, 2017 10:40 PM (/Nite)

140 This was a ball of free-floating electrical
discharge about 18 inches across. The freaky thing was it lasted about
30 seconds and we were all strapped in for takeoff. The flight
attendants were seated facing me, and they were going nuts. Screaming
that everyone should stay seated!



Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 03, 2017 10:35 PM (EZebt)


Gotta be careful. It could have been a portal. That's why I always pack my crowbar in my carry-on.

Posted by: Gordan Freeman at March 03, 2017 10:41 PM (Tnhbr)

141 It's good to have a plan. Whenever I suggest a future some place other than SF, Mrs. Franpsycho starts getting the sadz B

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 03, 2017 10:39 PM (EZebt)

Well I have a goal, the plan to attain it is still a bit fuzzy.

Was the Mrs. born there?

Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:41 PM (Jcg9Q)

142 Remember a few weeks ago, I brought up "Hot Yoga"?


Turns out it's popular in my area, I guess. A *second* hot yoga studio has opened in my neighborhood.


Any of the ettes here ever tried it? Seems to be a female thing.
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I know a gay guy who goes to hot yoga.

Posted by: shibumi at March 03, 2017 10:41 PM (J5mC3)

143 Any of the ettes here ever tried it? Seems to be a female thing.

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Guys can do it too. All you need are some men's yoga pants and a nice pair of Crocs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 03, 2017 10:42 PM (uSlc8)

144 Visa deal could kill European tourism, bluster they will not actually do.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 10:42 PM (M3DRt)

145 shibumi, the joke I told last time:

The Hot Yoga studios actually make money *two* ways. They make money from the women who take the classes, *and* they make money from the guys in the secret room next door who pay to watch the super-sweaty hot yoga women through a two-way mirror. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:43 PM (u8kLQ)

146 Watching Hacksaw Ridge. Damn it's good.

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 03, 2017 10:43 PM (0mRoj)

147 >>Guys can do it too. All you need are some men's yoga pants and a nice pair of Crocs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

Do you have to tuck?

Posted by: Aviator at March 03, 2017 10:43 PM (/Nite)

148 Heh...I live in Texas. From June to October, I do 'hot qigong.'

Freakin' trendoids.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 10:43 PM (Ju3KR)

149
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 03, 2017 10:39 PM
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J.J. Sefton told his story about meeting Bebe Neuwirth on a morning thread a couple of days ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 03, 2017 10:43 PM (EZebt)

150 Stoned lemurs...

Heh.

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 10:44 PM (CRotO)

151 Read the content and still managed top 200

Posted by: thathalfrican - at work at March 03, 2017 10:44 PM (nDcc3)

152 Bob Dole's Fitbit Cock Ring never has a Hard Drive Crash.









Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 03, 2017 10:34 PM (v5iqM)

Because Bob Dole uses Lyft!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 03, 2017 10:44 PM (tHwdc)

153 Cicero, I've read about Hot Yoga.

From what I found, the room is heated up to 107 degrees... and the classes are a freaking 90 minutes long!! Even the water in your water bottle is probably hot by then!

I would literally be a puddle of sweat and a few bones by the end of my first class. Think I'll skip it, thanks.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:44 PM (u8kLQ)

154 There wouldn't be an adjustment screw on the carburettor for the idle speed, would there?


Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at March 03, 2017 10:14 PM (kP16F)


On the cockring fitbit? Oh my!

Posted by: Mr. Sulu at March 03, 2017 10:44 PM (JO9+V)

155 148 Heh...I live in Texas. From June to October, I do 'hot qigong.'

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Almost scared to ask what that is...

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 10:45 PM (CRotO)

156 Stoned lemurs...

Heh.

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 10:44 PM (CRotO)

*waves to the young lady in Killeen*

Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:45 PM (Jcg9Q)

157 Hey Jim : )

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 10:45 PM (CRotO)

158 145. And the guy next to him says, 'I dunno. It's always something different. Last week, it was a guy fucking a chicken.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 10:45 PM (Ju3KR)

159 Wait. Was tonight the beginning of the 'When We Rise' thing'?

I saw an ad earlier, and was struck by the fact that everyone in it seems to be a confirming stereotype. Oh, the irony.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 03, 2017 10:46 PM (ZO497)

160 Qdp maybe hot yoga ain't your thang but I can't recommend yoga or Pilates enough.

Posted by: thathalfrican - at work at March 03, 2017 10:46 PM (nDcc3)

161 I just need to quit my job(s), and stay here all day, every day. I miss so much. Dammit.

Posted by: kalneva at March 03, 2017 10:46 PM (vhW1R)

162 Palpatine, I'm sure in some areas, "Hot Yoga" just means "doing yoga outdoors."

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:46 PM (u8kLQ)

163
Was the Mrs. born there?
Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:41 PM
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Yeah, parents and 2 of her grandparents. And our kids.

They all think I'm the strange one. But it's them. It's all of them.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 03, 2017 10:46 PM (EZebt)

164 thathalfrican, thanks.

I have read that the yoga poses help with back pain and sciatica.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:46 PM (u8kLQ)

165 *waves back to the country boy up in the DFW AO*

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 10:47 PM (CRotO)

166 Reps. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) and Walter Jones (R-N.C.) signed a letter urging the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee to request the Treasury Department provide Trump's tax returns from the last decade.

This is the information the Democrats think they can use to impeach Trump. Why are these Republicans colluding with them?

Posted by: Bill Wynn at March 03, 2017 10:47 PM (OUYFk)

167 Yoga pants are a great invention.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 10:47 PM (M3DRt)

168 Palpatine, yikes ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:47 PM (u8kLQ)

169 155. Qigong when the a/c just doesn't do a thing. Qigong - sorta like tai qi, but much slower, and heavily formalized.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 10:47 PM (Ju3KR)

170 Qdp, yoga can repair a lot.

Posted by: thathalfrican - at work at March 03, 2017 10:47 PM (nDcc3)

171 >>>Guys can do it too. All you need are some men's yoga pants and a nice pair of Crocs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 03, 2017 10:42 PM (uSlc<<<

**downward falling shelf**

Posted by: an Ewok in Crocs doing hot yoga at March 03, 2017 10:48 PM (4nvOb)

172 i'd be leery of hot yoga.....breeding ground for bacteria

Posted by: phoenixgirl..spring training at March 03, 2017 10:48 PM (0O7c5)

173 And I have to say in the years Obama was campaigning and serving as President I just never hear any stories about Obama's kindness and generosity. Granted, maybe I wasn't looking for that, but did any old friends show up at the convention to say what a great guy he was as they did with Romney? Nope.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2017 10:48 PM (fDdVG)

174 @19 those goggles for use during a nuclear exchange would be useful when lena dunham comes in range wearing that bikini.
---------------

I think only Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses would require the necessary level of protection.

Posted by: junior at March 03, 2017 10:48 PM (nsZ+m)

175 phoenixgirl, yup.

I'll bet that rooms smells great by the end of class too.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:48 PM (u8kLQ)

176 thathalfrican, yup. I'll probably try some poses eventually. The city has some low-cost classes. Thanks.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:49 PM (u8kLQ)

177 148 Heh...I live in Texas. From June to October, I do 'hot qigong.'

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Almost scared to ask what that is...

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 10:45 PM (CRotO)

I took one for the team just in case. Link in nic. You can click it.

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

Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:49 PM (Jcg9Q)

178 I'll bet that rooms smells great by the end of class too.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:48 PM (u8kLQ)
it can't be pleasant

Posted by: phoenixgirl..spring training at March 03, 2017 10:49 PM (0O7c5)

179 'hot qigong' is safe to google.

The awesomeness of the horde is ... um ... awesome.

Come for the politics, stay for the language and vocabulary lessons.

Hot yoga, cold yoga, yoga is all too much for me. I would settle for being able to get up from the floor without assistance from local fire departments and paramedics.


Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 03, 2017 10:49 PM (v/2ie)

180 Try DDP yoga if possible

Posted by: thathalfrican - at work at March 03, 2017 10:49 PM (nDcc3)

181 Oops link NOT in nic.

Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:49 PM (Jcg9Q)

182 174. Best defense from the ravenous bug-blatter beast.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 10:50 PM (Ju3KR)

183 Idle speed on a 97 Nissan is a small screw/nut at the base to the throttle body,IIRC, been a few years.

It's by the throttle linkage, loosen the nut and adjust to spec tighten and you should be good to go.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 03, 2017 10:50 PM (X35Yt)

184 Skandia, LOL, same here :-)

Nowadays I have to *plan* how I'm going to lift myself off the floor, if I have to get down there.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:50 PM (u8kLQ)

185 The next Big Lie they say about Jeff Session will piss me off.

I wasn't pissed off before? Comparatively, no.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 03, 2017 10:51 PM (VdICR)

186 Plus I want to read all my books. Retirement can't come fast enough, hope I live long enough to enjoy it.

I know I told you guys at the outset about building a house for MIL to live in for five - seven years and then we would move there. Property hers that we got deeded early. OMG. Great idea! / I will try to be how God wants me to be, but boy howdy.

Posted by: kalneva at March 03, 2017 10:51 PM (vhW1R)

187 DDP. Got it, again thanks. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:51 PM (u8kLQ)

188 I took one for the team just in case. Link in nic. You can click it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSQlPMXHozo
Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:49 PM (Jcg9Q)

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Ok, breathing exercises while doing squats.

Got it.

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 10:51 PM (CRotO)

189 They all think I'm the strange one. But it's them. It's all of them.



Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 03, 2017 10:46 PM (EZebt)

Yes, it is them.

Despite my occasional comment about your state, I do sympathize with you Kallyfornia 'rons who find yourself in that situation. Can't imagine.

Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:52 PM (Jcg9Q)

190 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2017 10:48 PM (fDdVG)

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That is true. I remember the personal testimonials from the 2012 convention. Seemed genuine to me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 03, 2017 10:52 PM (EZebt)

191 Valu-Rite vodka to be banned from Canada soon. Morons hardest hit.
See the sock link.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 03, 2017 10:52 PM (nlbfN)

192 Don't eat the brown millipede.

Posted by: Public Address Lemur at March 03, 2017 10:52 PM (XoldI)

193 Who in the hell wants hot yogurt?

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 03, 2017 10:52 PM (IDPbH)

194 I know I told you guys at the outset about building a house for MIL to live in for five - seven years and then we would move there. Property hers that we got deeded early. OMG. Great idea! / I will try to be how God wants me to be, but boy howdy.

Posted by: kalneva at March 03, 2017 10:51 PM (vhW1R)

Sorry, I forgot where (you'd move that is).

Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:53 PM (Jcg9Q)

195 Hot yoga, cold yoga, yoga is all too much for me. I would settle for being able to get up from the floor without assistance from local fire departments and paramedics.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 03, 2017 10:49 PM (v/2ie)

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In early January, after being in a hospital bed for 2 weeks, I actually had to call when I hit the floor going between wheelchair and mobility scooter. Most embarassing.

Posted by: Flyboy at March 03, 2017 10:53 PM (v0mnF)

196 @102 I'd say Eastern Europe is probably the safest choice.
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There was an English-language parody article a few years back talking about how Romanian officials were overjoyed that they'd actually gotten a couple of Islamic Refugees. Turns out the refugees had been trying to get to Hungary so they could get to the richer European countries, gotten horribly lost, and somehow ended up in Romania.

Posted by: junior at March 03, 2017 10:53 PM (nsZ+m)

197 Once when I was on the last plane out of John Wayne Airport in a thunderstorm, there was ball lightning in the cabin.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Dang I'm good!

Posted by: Sully at March 03, 2017 10:25 PM (u8kLQ)

I have never seen ball lightning, but I have seen a plasmoid (essentially a sphere of plasma). I was on a drilling location, and happened to be walking across the lease, with the shacks on my left, and the rig on my right. Crew was working on an electrical panel, more or less facing me, about 50 yards away, on the rig. There was a brilliant flash, a loud bang, and this ping-pong ball sized sphere of brilliant white light came bouncing towards me, and went Poof! and disappeared before it got near me. I could have easily dodged it, since it was wasn't moving fast. No trace left. There was about a half-inch hole burned in the shell of a 480 volt 3-phase plug. They replaced the plug, and the socket, and all was good again.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 10:53 PM (WDdjT)

198 Who in the hell wants hot yogurt?
Posted by: Jack Sock


Cinnamon really improves it.
She dances at Fritz's on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30... :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:53 PM (u8kLQ)

199 From a bit up thread... George W. Bush is not an artist, and saying so is Really, Really stretching the definition of "art."

Posted by: shibumi at March 03, 2017 10:54 PM (J5mC3)

200 Vietnamese Tactical Stick

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That's nuts. I think I'd rather try chewing on a millipede before climbing a wall with that thing.

Posted by: Dr Abortion at March 03, 2017 10:54 PM (R+30W)

201 /sock

Posted by: Dr Abortion at March 03, 2017 10:55 PM (R+30W)

202 Nice grouping.

Posted by: Frederick Frankenstein at March 03, 2017 10:55 PM (Tn/tP)

203 Sigh. Let's try that again.
/sock

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 03, 2017 10:55 PM (R+30W)

204 The overwhelming majority of Americans will never go to Europe, and an increasingly large number of Americans don't give two shits about Europe anymore, myself included.

So do your little visa thing, asshats.
Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:21 PM (Jcg9Q)

115 No Europe this year. Canada and Alaska, Victoria will be by British experience. Polite people, great English, Irish, and Scottish bars, pubs, and restaurants.
Posted by: pat at March 03, 2017 10:31 PM (4MSOz)

--In the spirit of "buycotting," you can consider nations pushing against the EU. The UK had Brexit. I *highly* recommend the Lake District. It's stunningly beautiful: the mix of natural (moors, fells, lakes, Aire Farce, Scafell Pike, Borrowdale) and man-made (dry-stone walls, trails that run riot through both public and private lands, the village of Grasmere) with nary a muzzie in sight. One day when I was hiking there, I saw two lovely ladies in equestrian attire riding their horses, and I chatted with them. I remarked that before then all I had seen in the Old Country was London. One of them said, "This is *proper* England." I could not hold back my smile.

Victoria is beautiful as well, and while pricey, it is also small, so you can take in the sights in a short time.

. . . and then there's eastern Europe. I would love to see Budapest some day, maybe never will. But I have seen Prague, Vienna, and Bratislava, and none of them disappointed.

Don't look down on all of Europe just yet. There's still hope. Trump, Brexit, Cubs, Leicester City . . . what's next?

Posted by: logprof at March 03, 2017 10:56 PM (GsAUU)

205 Idle speed on a 97 Nissan is a small screw/nut at the base to the throttle body,IIRC, been a few years.

It's by the throttle linkage, loosen the nut and adjust to spec tighten and you should be good to go.


Posted by: irongrampa
****

Thank you. It was already set to specs when I played with it.
My adjustments made no difference.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:57 PM (hVdx9)

206 188. And elaborate hand and arm motions and footwork.....all at super-slow speeds. A very gentle and healthful sort of exercise. I always warm up and cool down with it when I'm doing sabre and kindzhal practice. Per Chinese theories, it's not healthful to exert yourself to the point of sweating - burns up jing (life force).

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 10:57 PM (Ju3KR)

207 Posted by: shibumi at March 03, 2017 10:54 PM (J5mC3)

Your guys hate is ugly.

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 03, 2017 10:57 PM (IDPbH)

208
In other internet news, a new cell phone safety study suggests that you should not sleep with your cell phone.







There is a joke there but the punch line eludes me.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 03, 2017 10:57 PM (v/2ie)

209 Think Ace has ever tried Hot Yoga?

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:57 PM (u8kLQ)

210 @174 174 @19 those goggles for use during a nuclear exchange would be useful when lena dunham comes in range wearing that bikini.
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I think only Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses would require provide the necessary level of protection.


/sigh

Posted by: junior at March 03, 2017 10:58 PM (nsZ+m)

211 Any of the ettes here ever tried it? Seems to be a female thing.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:40 PM (u8kLQ)


My stepdaughter does it. Her skin is gorgeous.

Posted by: Emmie at March 03, 2017 10:58 PM (xVuS6)

212 It's rotten I tell you! Rotten!

Posted by: Frederick Frankenstein at March 03, 2017 10:58 PM (Tn/tP)

213 Emmie, she enjoys it??

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:58 PM (u8kLQ)

214 @208 In other internet news, a new cell phone safety study suggests that you should not sleep with your cell phone.
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What about if you and your phone really really really love each other?

Posted by: junior at March 03, 2017 10:59 PM (nsZ+m)

215 The only long trip I have plan in the next few years is to Oregon. There is a golf resort there called Bandon Dunes. Otherwise I hate flying and will stick to the East Coast. I've been to Europe. Like to go again but not enough to actually pursue it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 03, 2017 11:00 PM (tT/X6)

216 i'd be leery of hot yoga.....breeding ground for bacteria

Posted by: phoenixgirl..spring training at March 03, 2017 10:48 PM (0O7c5)

That hot, not am I.

Posted by: Yoda at March 03, 2017 11:00 PM (WDdjT)

217 211. A good sauna or banya can do just as well. Secret of my boyish good looks. :-)

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:00 PM (Ju3KR)

218
Sorry, I forgot where (you'd move that is).
Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:53 PM (Jcg9Q)

Moving from Eastern WA back to Western WA, home of the stupid Washingtonians. Don't know if I can do it. My kids and grandkids are there, though. The libtards and the traffic! May just sell that house after MIL is done with it, and build a house here. I could have a mansion for the price!

Posted by: kalneva at March 03, 2017 11:00 PM (vhW1R)

219 And I read today, a sequel is in the works for... OMG...
"Mary Poppins."

The title (so far): "Mary Poppins Returns."

Emily Blunt plays the title character, played by Julie Andrews in the original. Dick Van Dyke and Angela Lansbury supposedly are making cameo appearances, and it's supposedly shooting right now.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:01 PM (u8kLQ)

220 Facials?
Never mind.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 03, 2017 11:01 PM (nlbfN)

221 TKAW, you've got everything set to specs... There's your problem!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at March 03, 2017 11:02 PM (kP16F)

222 206 188. And elaborate hand and arm motions and footwork.....all at super-slow speeds. A very gentle and healthful sort of exercise. I always warm up and cool down with it when I'm doing sabre and kindzhal practice. Per Chinese theories, it's not healthful to exert yourself to the point of sweating - burns up jing (life force).
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 10:57 PM (Ju3KR)

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Doing graceful hand movements, huh?

*imagines trying to perform graceful hand movements while manning a .50 in full battle rattle in the turret of an MRAP going 40 mph, sandblasting your face in 120+ degree temps, on an IED infested highway.*

yeah, about that no sweating thing...

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 11:02 PM (CRotO)

223 Diisney World must be planning a Mary Poppins ride.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 11:03 PM (M3DRt)

224 I've always thought that Mary Poppins was kinda hot. And Emily Blunt is cute.

Posted by: Gordan Freeman at March 03, 2017 11:03 PM (Tnhbr)

225 In other internet news, a new cell phone safety study suggests that you should not sleep with your cell phone.

$hit no!!!

If the sofa finds out, no one might find either one of you for 3 months ...

Posted by: Adriane is Easily Confused ... at March 03, 2017 11:03 PM (AoK0a)

226 Posted by: Puddleglum at March 03, 2017 11:00 PM (tT/X6

From what I heard from friends, pain in ass to get there.

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 03, 2017 11:03 PM (IDPbH)

227 *renders proper .mil hand-salute to SMFH*

Damn good to seeya here, ma'am!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 03, 2017 11:03 PM (v5iqM)

228 You must have been the tallest one in your class.

Posted by: Blindman at March 03, 2017 11:03 PM (Tn/tP)

229
This is the information the Democrats think they can use to impeach Trump. Why are these Republicans colluding with them?

Posted by: Bill Wynn


Probably because you're lying as usual.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at March 03, 2017 11:04 PM (BE4Rh)

230 88 I'd love to go to Europe, but I don't want to get my head chopped off or my wife gang raped.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at March 03, 2017 10:23 PM (A4HOq)

++++

Come on. Don't be so provincial. You want to get the full experience when you travel to other cultures.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 03, 2017 11:04 PM (R+30W)

231 222. I didn't say it was a sound theory.....

**overlays slit trench with logs and three feet of sandbags.**

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:04 PM (Ju3KR)

232 Thanks, Jim. : )

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 11:04 PM (CRotO)

233 231 222. I didn't say it was a sound theory.....

**overlays slit trench with logs and three feet of sandbags.**
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:04 PM (Ju3KR)

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Heh.

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 11:05 PM (CRotO)

234 No; I don't think George Bush' artwork is bad. It isn't what I'd choose, but I think he's rather skilled at it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2017 11:05 PM (fDdVG)

235 So do your little visa thing, asshats.
Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 10:21 PM (Jcg9Q)


I had planned a nice trip to Europe for next year. I've also pretty much lost interest in going. It's turned into a dangerous Muslim shithole.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 03, 2017 11:05 PM (TdMsT)

236 Victoria is awesome! But I haven't been there for a while, like twenty years. Damn I'm old. But I've been there three times, and visited Butchart gardens each time. Lovely. So much to do. Make sure you visit Craigdarroch Castle!

Posted by: kalneva at March 03, 2017 11:06 PM (vhW1R)

237 This is the information the Democrats think they can use to impeach Trump. Why are these Republicans colluding with them?
--

Outside of the Uniparty thing where Republicans don't really have to work because they want to always be the minority party, there's this:

Democrats- professional politicians
Republicans- professional politicians

Trump- NOT a professional politician

If Trump succeeds, he will prove that our political Mandarins are useless and they could potentially lose their cushy gigs. So Trump must fail to prove only politicians can run the country

Posted by: shibumi at March 03, 2017 11:06 PM (J5mC3)

238 212 It's rotten I tell you! Rotten!
Posted by: Frederick Frankenstein at March 03, 2017 10:58 PM (Tn/tP)

--LMAO, I'm watching as well. Never gets old.

Posted by: logprof at March 03, 2017 11:06 PM (GsAUU)

239 Hot yoga is amazing. Want to detox? That's the way to do it! The endorphins are plentiful; the euphoria long-lasting. The worries you walked in with will lie in a 5-gallon sweat puddle beneath you when all is said and done.

Ode to Hot Yoga

Posted by: stacyaw at March 03, 2017 11:07 PM (sPwat)

240 I was going to make espresso!

Posted by: Blindman at March 03, 2017 11:07 PM (Tn/tP)

241 stacyaw, well okay then...

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

242 In other internet news, a new cell phone safety study suggests that you should not sleep with your cell phone.



$hit no!!!



If the sofa finds out, no one might find either one of you for 3 months ...

Posted by: Adriane is Easily Confused ... at March 03, 2017 11:03 PM (AoK0a)


The toaster is a bunny boiler.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 03, 2017 11:08 PM (JO9+V)

243 >>My stepdaughter does it. Her skin is gorgeous.


How you gonna put it on the tee like that?

On the ONT, even...

Posted by: garrett at March 03, 2017 11:09 PM (oXKWd)

244 233. The Red Army guys I knew talked about being 'ironed' to make them lose their fear of tanks. They'd force them into reinforced trenches and drive tanks over them.

'It didn't work,' was the consensus opinion.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:09 PM (Ju3KR)

245 Mommy!

Posted by: Frederick Frankenstein at March 03, 2017 11:09 PM (Tn/tP)

246 I once tried to cook an egg between two mobiles... It didn't work.

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at March 03, 2017 11:10 PM (kP16F)

247 It doesn't have your standard curb idle adjust, but it does have what you mention. I did try that and no luck.
Hope I'm not being too unclear. 1997 KA24E.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:20 PM (hVdx9)

Got it! I am familiar with the predecessor to that engine, the NAPZ 22, which had a carburetor. Yours is sequential port EFI. Sounds like whatever is supposed to set the curb idle at 650 RPM (or whatever the spec is) isn't doing its job, and the engine is falling back to the idle speed set by the rest position of the throttle.

I would look closely for any sign of an idle air bypass, or idle throttle positioner, and try to determine if such a thing, if found, is functional. If it's not setting a code, then presumably the ECM is getting normal signals from the sensors that tell it to go into idle mode, so the problem most likely lies with whatever actuators are invoked.

Best I can do from here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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It doesn't have your standard curb idle adjust, but it does have what you mention. I did try that and no luck.
Hope I'm not being too unclear. 1997 KA24E.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 10:20 PM (hVdx9)

Got it! I am familiar with the predecessor to that engine, the NAPZ 22, which had a carburetor. Yours is sequential port EFI. Sounds like whatever is supposed to set the curb idle at 650 RPM (or whatever the spec is) isn't doing its job, and the engine is falling back to the idle speed set by the rest position of the throttle.

I would look closely for any sign of an idle air bypass, or idle throttle positioner, and try to determine if such a thing, if found, is functional. If it's not setting a code, then presumably the ECM is getting normal signals from the sensors that tell it to go into idle mode, so the problem most likely lies with whatever actuators are invoked.

Best I can do from here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
*****

I just looked at it, and I noticed the throttle cable is very frayed. In fact, I need to replace it ASAP.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 11:10 PM (hVdx9)

248 *waves to SMFH*

Took a chance with the Patterson contest. Will see what happens.

Hand salutes? Got an old Vietnam USAF H-3 crew chief working door duty at my Wally World. Knows am USAF also. Today he tries to render a proper hand salute just to mess with me. *sigh* Your arm and hand should form a straight line with nary any curve, well so he salutes with hand curling. *rolls eyes* Lucky for him, did not give as punishment detail a quest to acquire fifty gallons of prop wash.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 03, 2017 11:11 PM (wkJHs)

249 Hey garrett!!

I just now threw you 15 bucks on PayPal for the Big Country and Bonnie Raitt LPs. Thanks!

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

250 Whew. Hacksaw Ridge was a great movie. Mel Gibson is one hell of a director.

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 03, 2017 11:11 PM (0mRoj)

251 213 Emmie, she enjoys it??
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 10:58 PM (u8kLQ)


She stays very fit, takes good care of herself, and her main fitness routine is hot yoga. I assume she enjoys it.

She also does some Crossfit type stuff.

I just remember being amazed one day about how luminous her skin was and she attributed it to the hot yoga.

Posted by: Emmie at March 03, 2017 11:11 PM (xVuS6)

252 Yeah

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 03, 2017 11:11 PM (MZcWR)

253 Emmie, okay. That's two recommendations for it here then.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:12 PM (u8kLQ)

254 /cheer

Got a job.

The pay isn't as good as some of the others I was hoping to get at various points, and the contract may very well only last for three months. But it's a job. And that means it's better than unemployment and public assistance. I start on Monday.

Posted by: junior at March 03, 2017 11:13 PM (nsZ+m)

255 I have seen some random Bill Paxton trivia lately. He directed the "Fishheads" video and promoted the crap out of it. He also was in Pat Benatar's Love Is a Battlefield video as one of the dancing gangsters

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 11:13 PM (M3DRt)

256 There are about 7 Mary Poppins books so they could be making the movies for years. I just hope they don't "politically correct" them all up, but it's Hollywood so they probably will.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2017 11:13 PM (fDdVG)

257 never seen an engine that will idle at 200 rpm in 40 years of doing this but a vacuum leak will make your idle speed high, not low

Posted by: MAx at March 03, 2017 11:13 PM (/RZxG)

258 Qdpsteve, I think she is also trying to avoid/fix some minor injury issues. She was a cheerleader and occasionally has some muscle/tendon tightness or imbalance. She does yoga to help.

Posted by: Emmie at March 03, 2017 11:14 PM (xVuS6)

259 My husband became Medicare eligible March 1. The road to coverage is torturous. Twist and turns and multiple policies. End result? I'm still stuck with shit Obamacare coverage because there is nothing to choose from in my parts and we now pay an additional $237 per month for healthcare.

Fuck you Democrats and you weak kneed, pants pissing so called Republicans.

Posted by: mpfs, Pirate Wench at March 03, 2017 11:14 PM (nNo+Q)

260 >>>My stepdaughter does it. Her skin is gorgeous.





How you gonna put it on the tee like that?

On the ONT, even...
Posted by: garrett at March 03, 2017 11:09 PM (oXKWd)<<<




And no one's asked for pics yet either. Everybody give that up for Lent?

Posted by: an indifferent penguin at March 03, 2017 11:14 PM (4nvOb)

261 Posted by: junior at March 03, 2017 11:13 PM (nsZ+m)

Glad to hear that. Thanks for letting us know.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2017 11:14 PM (fDdVG)

262 254 /cheer

Got a job.

The pay isn't as good as some of the others I was hoping to get at various points, and the contract may very well only last for three months. But it's a job. And that means it's better than unemployment and public assistance. I start on Monday.
Posted by: junior at March 03, 2017 11:13 PM (nsZ+m)

Congrats!

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 03, 2017 11:14 PM (0mRoj)

263 204: Your absolutely right about the Lake District. Also the SW part of England. Cornwall and Devon are beautiful. The Cotswold are lovely also. I was stationed there for 3 years. Traveled around a bit.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 03, 2017 11:14 PM (tT/X6)

264 253. Telling ya - it's the sweating does it for the skin. Sauna or banya - three cycles of heat and cool, with lots of water in between.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:14 PM (Ju3KR)

265 244 233. The Red Army guys I knew talked about being 'ironed' to make them lose their fear of tanks. They'd force them into reinforced trenches and drive tanks over them.

'It didn't work,' was the consensus opinion.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:09 PM (Ju3KR)

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No, it doesn't.

Standing beneath one on the washracks is kinda cool, but having one come towards you, and cowering in a trench while it rolls over you is not something that I'd want to experience...

Now, me actually driving the tank over some ISIS fucks cowering in a trench brings a smile to my face.

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 11:14 PM (CRotO)

266 TKAW, you've got everything set to specs... There's your problem!


Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki
****

I know. a 133k vehicle wants what it wants, which may not be factory specs.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 11:15 PM (hVdx9)

267 @254. Congrats. Good attitude.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 03, 2017 11:15 PM (GX63o)

268 256 There are about 7 Mary Poppins books so they could be making the movies for years. I just hope they don't "politically correct" them all up, but it's Hollywood so they probably will.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2017 11:13 PM (fDdVG)

Mary will be a tranny. Or one of the kids will.

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 03, 2017 11:15 PM (0mRoj)

269
219 And I read today, a sequel is in the works for... OMG...
"Mary Poppins."

The title (so far): "Mary Poppins Returns."


And she's a he!

But not yet chopped!

Restroom hijinks galore in the year's laugh riot / feel good movie!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 03, 2017 11:15 PM (v1g1+)

270 How you gonna put it on the tee like that?

On the ONT, even...
Posted by: garrett at March 03, 2017 11:09 PM (oXKWd)


Also, she's a ginger.

Posted by: Emmie at March 03, 2017 11:16 PM (xVuS6)

271 My KA24E idles at 500 RPM. Should be 700-750 rpm IIRC.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 03, 2017 11:16 PM (hVdx9)

272 junior, congrats!

Emmie, good to know. Hmmm.

Fenelon, I've read that some of P.L. Travers' books are *extremely* un-PC by today's standards; they may have to be whitewashed somewhat. Supposedly one of them even depicted a black family from Africa moving into Mary's tony London neighborhood. (Not a joke.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:16 PM (u8kLQ)

273


What can I say, I like hot yoga qdpsteve

Posted by: stacyaw at March 03, 2017 11:16 PM (sPwat)

274 Who in the hell wants hot yogurt?
Posted by: Jack Sock
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People that eat millipedes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 03, 2017 11:16 PM (ZO497)

275 The pay isn't as good as some of the others I was hoping to get at various points, and the contract may very well only last for three months. But it's a job. And that means it's better than unemployment and public assistance. I start on Monday.
Posted by: junior at March 03, 2017 11:13 PM (nsZ+m)

=======

*fist bump*
Contrats!

Posted by: Flyboy at March 03, 2017 11:16 PM (v0mnF)

276 Or worse.. Mary Poppins Pierced and Tatted Otherkin

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 03, 2017 11:16 PM (wkJHs)

277 Thanks, guys.

It's appreciated.

Posted by: junior at March 03, 2017 11:17 PM (nsZ+m)

278 265. Yep. Or an armed and armored engineering vehicle with a plough blade in front. Just drop the blade and bury 'em where they stand.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:17 PM (Ju3KR)

279 Yo - Stevie.


Thanks.

I just scored a sweet old Marantz Cassette Deck, today.

All cleaned up and running fine, so far...

Posted by: garrett at March 03, 2017 11:17 PM (oXKWd)

280 Krebs and Insomniac, geez. Wouldn't surprise me.

Saw a pic of Emily Blunt playing the role. Still looks like a woman, anyway.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:17 PM (u8kLQ)

281 Here's a hot Yogi who's gonna vote Republican:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oj2I40_fYo

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 11:18 PM (WDdjT)

282 Took a chance with the Patterson contest. Will see what happens.

Hand salutes? Got an old Vietnam USAF H-3 crew chief working door duty at my Wally World. Knows am USAF also. Today he tries to render a proper hand salute just to mess with me. *sigh* Your arm and hand should form a straight line with nary any curve, well so he salutes with hand curling. *rolls eyes* Lucky for him, did not give as punishment detail a quest to acquire fifty gallons of prop wash.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 03, 2017 11:11 PM (wkJHs)

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LOL!

You must be the only zoomie that knows how to salute.

Will keep my fingers crossed for ya.

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 11:18 PM (CRotO)

283 Ace driving an ACE over a few of the liberal press, that would be one happy Ewok.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 03, 2017 11:18 PM (wkJHs)

284 Junior, you are building up momentum for something awesome!

Posted by: Emmie at March 03, 2017 11:18 PM (xVuS6)

285 Kalneva, we are going up to Aberdeen area this weekend to scout out places to retire to. Husband wants to be on the coast. Prices are cheap in Aberdeen and Raymond. We're scouting Oregon too but not as much that we like. At least the counties we're looking at are conservative.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 03, 2017 11:18 PM (Lqy/e)

286 Was it here at the HQ or somewhere else I'd read about how the movie Hacksaw Ridge strayed a bit from the actual events? I recall the part where Doss was hit in the arm by a sniper was left out of the movie because it seemed unbelievable...

Anyway, great movie of a story that needs to be told!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at March 03, 2017 11:19 PM (kP16F)

287 garrett, nice!

Would love to find one of the 1980s model Technics decks with Dolby B, C, HX Pro, *and* dbx. I know there were a few with all four of those features.

(Wanted to buy one new back in the day at Federated Group, but I could never work up the discipline to save the lousy 300 bucks.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:19 PM (u8kLQ)

288 >>I think she is also trying to avoid/fix some minor injury issues. She was a cheerleader and occasionally has some muscle/tendon tightness or imbalance. She does yoga to help.


We're gonna need you to make sure the Light Meter on her Webcam is Properly Calibrated.

Posted by: garrett at March 03, 2017 11:19 PM (oXKWd)

289 Lake District is very primordial.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 11:19 PM (M3DRt)

290 Housecleaning. We had other terms for it.

Posted by: Fouqui at March 03, 2017 11:19 PM (TppKb)

291 271 650-800 is what I look for
suspect idle speed control motor
AOP is correct about that mechanical stop setting but it's usually at about 400 does the engine run good?

Posted by: MAx at March 03, 2017 11:19 PM (/RZxG)

292 stacyaw, hey, I'm not one to judge.

You don't wanna know some of the stuff I like. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:20 PM (u8kLQ)

293 Way to go junior!!

Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 03, 2017 11:20 PM (Jcg9Q)

294 qdpsteve:

Have you done yoga before?

If not, going hot yoga right away might be a bit risky.

Also, the gay friend who goes has a heart condition, and his doctor told him to take it easy with the hot yoga for a while. So keep that in mind as well.

Posted by: shibumi at March 03, 2017 11:20 PM (J5mC3)

295 Merde.

Posted by: Fouquier-Tinville at March 03, 2017 11:20 PM (TppKb)

296 "Obama re-wrote the order of succession at the Justice Department".

So, can't Trump re-write it again?

Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at March 03, 2017 11:20 PM (rft/I)

297 283. You kidding? Ewoks can't reach the pedals on a speeder......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:20 PM (Ju3KR)

298 Or worse.. Mary Poppins Pierced and Tatted Otherkin
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 03, 2017 11:16 PM (wkJHs)


Don't give 'em no ideas, Gov'

Posted by: Adriane the Literary Critic ... at March 03, 2017 11:21 PM (AoK0a)

299 Those HX Pro Decks are sweet. Sony made a few models.

Too bad that tech hit right as everyone jumped on the CD bandwagon.

I have a Dragon that is the shit...but it needs a trip to the NakDoctor, who is expensive.

Posted by: garrett at March 03, 2017 11:21 PM (oXKWd)

300 So, can't Trump re-write it again?
Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at March 03, 2017 11:20 PM (rft/I)

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Yes. He did.

Posted by: Flyboy at March 03, 2017 11:21 PM (v0mnF)

301 @297 You kidding? Ewoks can't reach the pedals on a speeder......
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Platform shoes

Posted by: junior at March 03, 2017 11:21 PM (nsZ+m)

302 Zettai, in fairness, just about any biopic or fact-based movie messes around with the facts. Events are skipped or ridiculously simplified, numerous people are combined into single characters, etc etc etc etc etc.

Real life events rarely match with professional screenwriting and filmmaking standards, alas.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:22 PM (u8kLQ)

303 Telling ya - it's the sweating does it for the skin. Sauna or banya - three cycles of heat and cool, with lots of water in between.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:14 PM (Ju3KR)

Have a friend in Alberta who is of Finnish heritage. He has a wood-fired sauna on his farm, built by his grandfather. I have been in it; cooked up to a red glow, and then go outside, and roll in the frsh snow, naked. Then back in the sauna. It really does get the poisons out of your system.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 11:22 PM (WDdjT)

304 278 265. Yep. Or an armed and armored engineering vehicle with a plough blade in front. Just drop the blade and bury 'em where they stand.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:17 PM (Ju3KR)

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Introducing the Grizzly:

http://tinyurl.com/zu2ys8x

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 11:23 PM (CRotO)

305 300 So, can't Trump re-write it again?
Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at March 03, 2017 11:20 PM (rft/I)

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Yes. He did.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 03, 2017 11:21 PM (v0mnF)



Trump re-wrote or rescinded it?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 03, 2017 11:23 PM (TdMsT)

306 301. True. I'd forgotten. Those would fit in a messenger bag, no problem.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:23 PM (Ju3KR)

307 The whole EU problem with the visas that is "Trump's fault"?

Seems ol Barky was too busy with Reggie's dick up his ass to do his job.

http://tinyurl.com/zufvzcr

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 03, 2017 11:23 PM (1JnAL)

308 LMAO "What big knockers!"

Posted by: logprof at March 03, 2017 10:15 PM (GsAUU)



They should've been in my latest issue of Big 'Uns!!!

Posted by: Al Bundy at March 03, 2017 11:23 PM (SpeiC)

309 It's time to get

Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 03, 2017 11:23 PM (JmsQ5)

310 Got rid of my tapes and gear when DATs were introduced. Almost all of mine were GD, though.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 11:23 PM (M3DRt)

311 1997 is primitive obd2 and might not throw a code on a bad ISC

Posted by: MAx at March 03, 2017 11:23 PM (/RZxG)

312 It really does get the poisons out of your system.

Great!

Now how do we get Nancy Pelosi in there?

Posted by: Adriane the Political Critic ... at March 03, 2017 11:24 PM (AoK0a)

313 shibumi, I have not done yoga of any kind before, but I probably will in the near future. Thathalfrican has been recommending it, and I've read how it helps with back pain and sciatica, both of which are issues I am dealing with. I definitely would not leap right into the hot stuff.

So, will keep you posted. Thanks. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:24 PM (u8kLQ)

314 Trump re-wrote or rescinded it?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 03, 2017 11:23 PM (TdMsT)

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He EO'd the order, reversing O'Bumbles EO.

Posted by: Flyboy at March 03, 2017 11:25 PM (v0mnF)

315 Congratulations, Junior!

We are fighting Medicare again. I put my husband on my insurance for about two months. I wanted him to have other options if his hip needed work. Then we cancelled it when I got different insurance. Medicare decided they weren't paying for his medical bills. We called several months ago and we're told it was straightened out. But they are still bouncing his bills. More calls today. I am not looking forward to dealing with this stuff.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 03, 2017 11:25 PM (Lqy/e)

316 303. Yep. Nature's own remedy. But, Tengri and Kek preserve us, you can always tell who's a smoker or a drinker or overly fond of heavy spices on the first firing......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:25 PM (Ju3KR)

317 garrett, oh man. I remember those Nakamichi decks.

Kyocera also used to have some sweet machines. Although I love CDs and the modern stuff, I still miss tape technology.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:25 PM (u8kLQ)

318 Thanks SMFH. Could not believe my store had this song play over the speakers today. Was shocked that anyone at Wally World knew who Concrete Blonde was.
https://youtu.be/OdpTcvSn8HQ

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 03, 2017 11:25 PM (wkJHs)

319 255 I have seen some random Bill Paxton trivia lately. He directed the "Fishheads" video and promoted the crap out of it. He also was in Pat Benatar's Love Is a Battlefield video as one of the dancing gangsters
Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 11:13 PM (M3DRt)

--That is some deep, deep trivia. I first saw "Fish Heads" on ALTV.

Posted by: logprof at March 03, 2017 11:25 PM (GsAUU)

320 286 Was it here at the HQ or somewhere else I'd read about how the movie Hacksaw Ridge strayed a bit from the actual events? I recall the part where Doss was hit in the arm by a sniper was left out of the movie because it seemed unbelievable...

Anyway, great movie of a story that needs to be told!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at March 03, 2017 11:19 PM (kP16F)

I've heard that as well, that there were actual events which simply beggared belief so they left them out of the movie to make it more believable.

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 03, 2017 11:25 PM (0mRoj)

321
and here's Yogi Oki Doki in the creepiest video you will ever see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cNf4kv_9QE

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at March 03, 2017 11:25 PM (BE4Rh)

322 A friend of my father's told the story of being trapped in a foxhole while a n. Korean tank (a T-34?) tried to grind it down. At one point the tank backed off to take a look, and he scrambled.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 03, 2017 11:26 PM (ZO497)

323 so, is this the yoga thread?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 03, 2017 11:26 PM (KP5rU)

324 Most of my tapes arre Dead / San Fran Bootlegs.

Lots of really good 1st and 2nd Gen stuff that I can't ever think of ditching.

Most all the others are LP dubs from my Jazz collection.

Posted by: garrett at March 03, 2017 11:26 PM (oXKWd)

325 DAT tapes and machines should have had a chance. Still pissed at the RIAA for killing them.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:26 PM (u8kLQ)

326 Hot yoga is awesome. I always feel like I'm 1" taller after every session!

Posted by: NC Ref at March 03, 2017 11:26 PM (SpeiC)

327 Regarding the actor urging more inclusion of Muslim folks in television and movies: if your co-religionists feel excluded, then that is the fault of your co-religionists for not integrating into the culture of the countries into which you immigrate. Your countries of origin are so effed up that you seek to move, but you want to import that culture to your new country? Really?

ANd you are so obtuse that you do not even conceive there just might be a bit of trepidation from your hosts that things might be a bit troublesome with that?

Posted by: GrapeApe at March 03, 2017 11:28 PM (MutLO)

328 NC Ref, that's three recommendations. Thanks. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:28 PM (u8kLQ)

329 Thanks SMFH. Could not believe my store had this song play over the speakers today. Was shocked that anyone at Wally World knew who Concrete Blonde was.
https://youtu.be/OdpTcvSn8HQ
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Until I mentioned them here, I thought I was the only one who had ever heard of Concrete Blonde.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 03, 2017 11:28 PM (ZO497)

330 Now how do we get Nancy Pelosi in there?

Posted by: Adriane the Political Critic ... at March 03, 2017 11:24 PM (AoK0a)

She is so dessicated, that she would probably burst into flame if placed in a sauna.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 11:28 PM (WDdjT)

331 qdpsteve, how goes the script writing?

Yoga? One of the others in writing group has started to take yoga and decided to show off. Uh their flexibility was not all there and when I showed how limber I was got as answer 'I hate you'

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 03, 2017 11:28 PM (wkJHs)

332
I eat a lotta yogurt these days.

The Greek Yogurt type.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at March 03, 2017 11:29 PM (BE4Rh)

333 Found a place here that services them reasonably. They still sound great.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 11:29 PM (M3DRt)

334 254 /cheer

Got a job.

The pay isn't as good as some of the others I was hoping to get at various points, and the contract may very well only last for three months. But it's a job. And that means it's better than unemployment and public assistance. I start on Monday.
Posted by: junior at March 03, 2017 11:13 PM (nsZ+m)




Heartfelt congratulations and best wishes!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 03, 2017 11:29 PM (TdMsT)

335 289 Lake District is very primordial.
Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 11:19 PM (M3DRt)

--Borrowdale is like Middle Earth. It is no wonder that Wordsworth and Coleridge were so inspired by that mystical corner of the world.

Also, George Washington's paternal ancestor was from the Lake District, Keswick IIRC.

Posted by: logprof at March 03, 2017 11:29 PM (GsAUU)

336 Anna, LOL.

The script writing is going well, thanks for asking, although still no feedback from Mike.

In the meantime I am leaping into finishing another full-length screenplay, the dark comedy about teenagers trying to (ironically enough) make a movie, that is based on some actual experiences I had from 1986 to 1988.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:30 PM (u8kLQ)

337 I think 2018 definitely is looking good for getting started on producing an actual movie.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:30 PM (u8kLQ)

338 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 03, 2017 11:28 PM (ZO497)

I know them from Joey.

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 03, 2017 11:31 PM (IDPbH)

339 314 Trump re-wrote or rescinded it?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 03, 2017 11:23 PM (TdMsT)

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He EO'd the order, reversing O'Bumbles EO.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 03, 2017 11:25 PM (v0mnF)



Praise God and all the little fishes.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 03, 2017 11:32 PM (TdMsT)

340 I'm amazed by the Vietnamese tactical stick.

It's brilliant. But I might be more comfortable jumping out of a perfectly airplane.

Posted by: t-bird at March 03, 2017 11:32 PM (ZIFyZ)

341 Actor says put muslims on TV or they will join ISIS.

Honestly, I have no problem with this idea -- as long as a majority of the gay, lesbian and transgender roles go to muzzies. Let's see how that plays in the Ummah.

/Be careful what you wish for, Ahmed.

Posted by: RickZ at March 03, 2017 11:33 PM (zRegE)

342 304. That ACE is bunk-worthy......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:33 PM (Ju3KR)

343 DAT tapes and machines should have had a chance. Still pissed at the RIAA for killing them.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:26 PM (u8kLQ)

A friend of mine worked for Geophysical Services Incorporated as an observer doing marine seismic. He told me one of his colleagues had managed to use the 9-track digital tape recorder (half-inch reel-to-reel tape) in the recording shack, to make amazingly clear audio recordings, back in 1980-something.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 11:33 PM (WDdjT)

344 Mike Hammer, it was the 'Bloodletting' song that got me interested. Just the whole attitude and vibe of that song caught my attention.

https://youtu.be/sLABwwmKdyc

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 03, 2017 11:34 PM (wkJHs)

345 304. That thing is bunk-worthy.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:34 PM (Ju3KR)

346 Would appreciate prayers for this rally going on tomorrow since it's not all that far from me. I'm not going because I'm not feeling well and not sure my car would make it it, but I do have a concerns that some idiot leftists will show up to make trouble:

A rally sponsored by People$Trump will be held tomorrow at Neshsaminy State Park in Bucks County.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2017 11:34 PM (fDdVG)

347 AOP, wow. That is cool. Digital machines like that were hard to come by back in the 1980s, anywhere.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:34 PM (u8kLQ)

348 Sorry;. Make that People4Trump

Rally is in PA.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2017 11:35 PM (fDdVG)

349 Yogi Oki Doki is going to be giving me nightmares for a week!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at March 03, 2017 11:36 PM (kP16F)

350 I remember one of the big selling points of digital tech in the 1980s: "no more tape hiss!"

But the tradeoff was that no provision was, or is, made whatsoever for overmodulation. In analog you get a popping/farting sound, in digital you get deafening shrieks.

So for digital, you *always* have to under-record if you want to avoid those issues. A little annoying but at least Audacity has an "amplify" feature that lets you fix it in post, as it were.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:37 PM (u8kLQ)

351 DAT tapes and machines should have had a chance. Still pissed at the RIAA for killing them.
Posted by: qdpsteve

Yes, I was using them for data collection. I was very expensive to have to go back to dedicated data recorders.

Posted by: LBJ the legacy at March 03, 2017 11:39 PM (zZb/S)

352 Tascam, French co, had all the home machines. Sony had a Walkman size DAT/pcm player/recorder you could get a patch from whatever live recording source you wanted.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 11:40 PM (M3DRt)

353 AOP, wow. That is cool. Digital machines like that were hard to come by back in the 1980s, anywhere.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:34 PM (u8kLQ)

Well, the tape recorder was a digital tape drive, reel-to-reel, used to record the digitized signal from the array of hydrophones towed by the ship. The guy figured out how to do an A to D conversion from an audio source, and feed the digits through the system to record it on the big drive. And then a D to A conversion for playback.

Of course, it was a whole rack of equipment, back then.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 11:40 PM (WDdjT)

354 If Trump succeeds, he will prove that our political Mandarins are useless and they could potentially lose their cushy gigs. So Trump must fail to prove only politicians can run the country
Posted by: shibumi at March 03, 2017 11:06 PM (J5mC3)


I am a cynical person, and have never ascribed to conspiracy theories. But something is going on world-wide that involves the elevation of Muslims and the silencing of non-leftists. What ever is happening involves the collusion of both "progressives" and deep state GOP.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 03, 2017 11:41 PM (TdMsT)

355 Make that People4Trump

There ARE NO PEOPLE FOUR TRUMP! GOT IT, YOU BASTARD? THEY ARE ALL SUBHUMAN WORMS WHOSE WORKS DESERVE NO COPYRIGHT PROTECTION! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

Posted by: Disney at March 03, 2017 11:41 PM (TppKb)

356 qdpsteve, good luck. Those experiences were about home-made special effects that set the gazebo afire?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 03, 2017 11:41 PM (wkJHs)

357 and here's Yogi Oki Doki in the creepiest video you will ever see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cNf4kv_9QE
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at March 03, 2017 11:25 PM (BE4Rh)

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Sure, I'm gonna let my kids (or grandkids) watch a pedo yoga instructor and a racist rooster.

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 11:41 PM (CRotO)

358 Donald Fagen, yup.

A friend of mine who recently passed away, whom I knew from Lakewood public access TV, was an audio technician for Mattel in Southern California. Was a gadgetholic like me.

He actually had a Sony DAT Walkman and showed it off to us a few times. I was so envious. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:42 PM (u8kLQ)

359 SMFh - I've mentioned before one of those old GPW dudes who was a combat engineer in a penal battalion. They used to hunt tanks with those ptrs41 rifles, satchel charges, mines wired to a board, molotovs, and sheer desperation. 'Better than a bullet in the head,' as he said. 'We might survive killing a tank. '

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:43 PM (Ju3KR)

360 348 Sorry;. Make that People4Trump

Rally is in PA.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2017 11:35 PM (fDdVG)


Where in PA?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 03, 2017 11:43 PM (TdMsT)

361 I had to have some surgery recently. Simple outpatient procedure. $2000 out of pocket, right when I also need to look for a new place to live.

Thanks, Obama.

I have recently managed to get pre-approval for a small mortgage loan, though, so it's not all grey skies for me, at least. I might not end up becoming a hobo, and being hunted by Ace for my pelt.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 03, 2017 11:43 PM (0OG8D)

362 BTW-- where has Miley been? Granted I can't visit here 24/7, but as a retiree ( very very young) I do check in several times a day.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 03, 2017 11:45 PM (TdMsT)

363 He actually had a Sony DAT Walkman and showed it off to us a few times. I was so envious. :-)

Obviously wasn't convincing enough to contrive crap good enough to record said individuals on their private Falcon Jets, or by now you'd have had a lordship.

Posted by: Disney at March 03, 2017 11:45 PM (TppKb)

364 Neshaminy State Park, Bensalem

http://tinyurl.com/jsa2e59

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2017 11:45 PM (fDdVG)

365 Well, any computer, or even a smart phone is now a DAT machine; except there is no tape, just a memory chip. So the entire process of converting a signal to a magnetic field, impressing that field on a domain of tape, and then reading it back (rinse and repeat a few thousand times per second) is rendered redundant.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 11:45 PM (WDdjT)

366 Trump- NOT a professional politician

Trump- NOT a Lawyer!!!!!!

Posted by: LBJ the legacy at March 03, 2017 11:46 PM (zZb/S)

367 357 and here's Yogi Oki Doki in the creepiest video you will ever see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cNf4kv_9QE
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at March 03, 2017 11:25 PM (BE4Rh)

Somebody check his crawlspace.

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 03, 2017 11:46 PM (0mRoj)

368 I have one and the big ass battery you had to have to record a show as long as a GD show.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 11:46 PM (M3DRt)

369 My socks stick like one of those digital-dingus recorders. Short of biting it off, what can I do?

Posted by: JEM at March 03, 2017 11:47 PM (TppKb)

370

Thanks, Obama.

I have recently managed to get pre-approval for a small mortgage loan, though, so it's not all grey skies for me, at least. I might not end up becoming a hobo, and being hunted by Ace for my pelt.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 03, 2017 11:43 PM (0OG8D)


Glad a loan came through, friend.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 03, 2017 11:47 PM (TdMsT)

371 Obama, FISA, and timing.

http://tinyurl.com/hhwsd39

Didn't realize that Obama got a FISA warrant to spy on Trump during election. Or that they had tried and been turned down 4 months before in June 2016 before the convention even.

Posted by: geoffb5 at March 03, 2017 11:47 PM (d3wbb)

372 "EU calls for end to visa-free travel for Americans in swipe at Trump."

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*LOL!*

Posted by: America at March 03, 2017 11:48 PM (CRotO)

373 SMFh - I've mentioned before one of those old GPW dudes who was a combat engineer in a penal battalion. They used to hunt tanks with those ptrs41 rifles, satchel charges, mines wired to a board, molotovs, and sheer desperation. 'Better than a bullet in the head,' as he said. 'We might survive killing a tank. '

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:43 PM (Ju3KR)

Get enough fire happening on the outside of a tank, for enough time, and the poor bastards inside will die from from oxygen deprivation, before they are cooked.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 11:49 PM (WDdjT)

374 Ah, the George Washington ancestral town is Bowness-on-Windermere:

http://tinyurl.com/hgqpsat

Posted by: logprof at March 03, 2017 11:49 PM (GsAUU)

375 #370: Thanks! I'm not quite out of the woods yet, though... I still need to find a place I can afford with that loan.

Baby steps.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 03, 2017 11:49 PM (0OG8D)

376 Somebody check his crawlspace.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 03, 2017 11:46 PM (0mRoj)

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And his freezer...

Posted by: America at March 03, 2017 11:49 PM (CRotO)

377 Get enough fire happening on the outside of a tank, for enough time, and the poor bastards inside will die from from oxygen deprivation, before they are cooked.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 11:49 PM (WDdjT)

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Yeah, good luck with that.

Posted by: M1A2 SEP at March 03, 2017 11:51 PM (CRotO)

378 Anna, my experience in the 1980s?

Short version (or, as short as I can make it, I can literally go on for hours about it):

I got involved with Lakewood public access TV. At the same time, it was already up and running and they had started an Emmy-style *awards ceremony*, to honor producers who were already there, and had produced especially high-quality programming. (Bear in mind, "high-quality was a VERY relative term for what we were doing.)

I had to have some surgery in the summer of 1986, and while recuperating in bed at home, I watched these awards... since they were for Lakewood, they were called, I kid you not, the "Woody Awards." (And yes, I have two of them from later on. But back to the story...)

Well, one of the winners was a sister-brother team. Won't list their last names, but their firsts were Mara and Stan. And guess what? I thought Mara was literally a vision.

Well, I was a student at Long Beach City College and didn't feel "ready" to join public access TV in Lakewood... but I did want to learn more about production and filmmaking. So I took an Intro to Film Production class at LBCC, starting in August 1986.

I walk into the classroom on the first day, and who is sitting in there already? Mara. I literally almost fell down.

I was afraid to talk to her. I finally did though, three weeks later. We hit it off! Then the following week, she brought Stan, who announced he wanted to do a movie using Lakewood's public access equipment.

The following year I (a) joined Lakewood public access, (b) started working with Mara and Stan on their movie, and (c) suffered from the worst hopeless crush ever on Mara, who promptly fell for a jerky guy from the Lakewood High School wrestling team, and was an extra in the film.

The rest I can finally summarize somewhat: the shoots became too much like parties; Stan turned into Michael Cimino and spent way too much time shooting; the city went nuts when other producers complained, and confined him to one last shoot to finish, which Stan (and the rest of his followers, including me) were not happy with.

So we got to our last shoot, at Artesia High School in Lakewood. Stan wanted to shoot a final scene for the movie, which took place on a then-brand-new Honda scooter.

Then two more things went wrong: (a), Stan kept us there ALL NIGHT even though he wasn't supposed to, shooting. And (b), Mara-- joyriding on the scooter with friends, before it was to be used in the shoot... SMASHED this scooter into a brick wall at the school. So it was unusable, more or less.

What happened from there? Mara found out about my crush and became afraid of me; her boyfriend started threatening me; and Stan spent another long period of time trying to edit the thing.

To this day I've never seen the finished product. And I ended up definitely not-friends with Stan and Mara later on, for reasons that I will explain in another post on another night.

Sorry for the wall of text. Again believe it or not, this is the *short* version.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:51 PM (u8kLQ)

379 There are also pro Trump rallies in other states tomorrow. Main Street Patriots:

http://tinyurl.com/jyatfuf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2017 11:51 PM (fDdVG)

380 10 No code. Just idling at 200rpm in drive and while stopped.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale


Obviously, your truck objects to be driven by a carnivorous sea creature.

Can't say that I blame it either.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 03, 2017 11:51 PM (rTD9p)

381 Anna - I've been reading a bit about the Westland Whirlwind, thanks to a book from AOP (review to come on the Book Thread).

Interesting aircraft. It's often said that the A10 is the only plane designed around the guns, but I always mention the P-39, and I'm thinking that maybe the Whirlwind fits that category also.

Anyhow, too bad that plane didn't have the engines it deserved.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 03, 2017 11:51 PM (ZO497)

382 Obama re-wrote the order of succession at the Justice Department".



So, can't Trump re-write it again?

Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at March 03, 2017 11:20 PM (rft/I)

I believe they did because Sessions explicitly announced the guy who would be handling the investigation is the guy who was written out of succession by TFG.

Posted by: redbanzai at March 03, 2017 11:52 PM (FTXAT)

383 373. Yep. The routine was - blow off a track, dodge the mg and try to torch it. Not as easy as it sounds, amd it doesn't sound easy at all. Biggest fear was they'd have buddies show up before you finished.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 03, 2017 11:52 PM (Ju3KR)

384 367 357 and here's Yogi Oki Doki in the creepiest video you will ever see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cNf4kv_9QE
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at March 03, 2017 11:25 PM (BE4Rh)

Somebody check his crawlspace.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 03, 2017 11:46 PM (0mRoj)



My God. Who thought this show was a good idea?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 03, 2017 11:53 PM (TdMsT)

385 qspsteve, title it Blood on the Lens, Tears on the Mic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 03, 2017 11:54 PM (wkJHs)

386 378 Sorry for the wall of text. Again believe it or not, this is the *short* version.

Posted by: qdpsteve


For that much text, I at least want to hear about a successful blowjob. From Mara, from Stan, your psychiatrist, whomever.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 03, 2017 11:54 PM (rTD9p)

387 There seem to be a lot of people in support of Trump in Florida as people in that state have about six or seven rallies planned:

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2017 11:55 PM (fDdVG)

388 Ah, the George Washington ancestral town is Bowness-on-Windermere:

http://tinyurl.com/hgqpsat

Posted by: logprof at March 03, 2017 11:49 PM (GsAUU)

Heh. There is a neighborhood in Calgary (used to be a separate village) called Bowness, along the Bow River, upstream of the city proper. My first home in Calgary was there, a little rented dump on Bowness Road.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 11:55 PM (WDdjT)

389 386 378 Sorry for the wall of text. Again believe it or not, this is the *short* version.

Posted by: qdpsteve

For that much text, I, at least, want to hear about a successful blowjob. From Mara, from Stan, your psychiatrist, whomever.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 03, 2017 11:54 PM (rTD9p)

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*wipes screen*

Posted by: M1A2 SEP at March 03, 2017 11:56 PM (CRotO)

390 375 #370: Thanks! I'm not quite out of the woods yet, though... I still need to find a place I can afford with that loan.

Baby steps.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 03, 2017 11:49 PM (0OG8D)


I'll put that to prayer for you.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 03, 2017 11:56 PM (TdMsT)

391 Off what's-on-my-bucket-list sock.

Posted by: SMFH at March 03, 2017 11:56 PM (CRotO)

392 My socks stick like one of those digital-dingus recorders. Short of biting it off, what can I do?
Posted by: JEM
-----------

I keep a can of Sock-B-Gon close by. It works fine...as long as I remember to spritz my NIC from time to time.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 03, 2017 11:58 PM (eeTCA)

393 Anna and Gnu, LOL.

Wish I had a pic of Mara. She *was* good looking, at least. 21 and Cubana.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2017 11:58 PM (u8kLQ)

394 I was nice of Obama to provide a list of the us attorney's to fire.

Posted by: LBJ the legacy at March 03, 2017 11:58 PM (zZb/S)

395 And there are other locations in PA, Lady Libertarian. Check the "Main Street Patriots" site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2017 11:58 PM (fDdVG)

396 Qdp, adapting. Get an oppo sub receiver for all the digital music now. Really good investment

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 03, 2017 11:58 PM (M3DRt)

397 But something is going on world-wide that involves the elevation of Muslims and the silencing of non-leftists. What ever is happening involves the collusion of both "progressives" and deep state GOP.
---

I was not aware of the conspiracy world for a long time. And then I started listening and to be honest, the conspiracies make more sense than the "official explanations."

Soros. One World Government. Starting in Europe. Those who cooperate will be the NWO Mandarins.

How is this done? Breeding out the nationalities of Europe. Rape their women, subjugate the men; muslims will father a brownish race that will not have a high iq and be controlled.

How else do you explain the fact that there are minimal women/children/elderly "refugees?" Only military age men.

Also, I have an indie dollar store nearby that sells lots of stuff from Syria. But... how? They're in a war and people are fleeing. But they are still able to manufacture soap and candy.


Posted by: shibumi at March 03, 2017 11:59 PM (J5mC3)

398 Prothonotary Warbler, I left you a reply at the end of the last thread.

Posted by: Weirddave at March 03, 2017 11:59 PM (QGamW)

399 Whirlwind was not the only 'missed it by that much' from Westland, take a look at their post-war Wyvern ...

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 04, 2017 12:00 AM (wkJHs)

400 People celebrate Lent?

When I was brought up, de house-proud wimmens were ashamed if lent was found in their house!

Posted by: hambone at March 04, 2017 12:00 AM (g6yUI)

401 How else do you explain the fact that there are minimal women/children/elderly "refugees?" Only military age men.

Also, I have an indie dollar store nearby that sells lots of stuff from Syria. But... how? They're in a war and people are fleeing. But they are still able to manufacture soap and candy.

---

Women and children are at home.

Making soap and candy.

Posted by: SMFH at March 04, 2017 12:00 AM (CRotO)

402 I was nice of Obama to provide a list of the us attorney's to fire.

Posted by: LBJ the legacy at March 03, 2017 11:58 PM (zZb/S)

Yes it was... isn't it wonderful when they aren't even pretending their unbiased anymore?

Posted by: redbanzai at March 04, 2017 12:01 AM (FTXAT)

403 Heh. There is a neighborhood in Calgary (used to be a separate village) called Bowness, along the Bow River, upstream of the city proper. My first home in Calgary was there, a little rented dump on Bowness Road.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2017 11:55 PM (WDdjT)

--The Bow River is another beautiful body of water.

According to the Wiki article (ugh, I need to remember to use Infogalactic), the origin of the name has something to do with bulls grazing.

I do remember that Buttermere (IMO the most beautiful District lake I saw) meant Lake of Boethius.

The Lake District truly has some of the coolest toponyms in the world.

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 12:01 AM (GsAUU)

404 *wipes screen*

Posted by: M1A2 SEP at March 03, 2017 11:56 PM (CRotO)

That is a pretty impressive tank, SMFH! I presume it carries on-board air for the crew to breathe in the event of a fire or gas attack by hostiles?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:01 AM (WDdjT)

405
Women and children are at home.


Making soap and candy.
---

[slaps forehead]

Of course! If they weren't employed making soap and candy, they could flee! Why didn't I think of that?

Posted by: shibumi at March 04, 2017 12:03 AM (J5mC3)

406 AOP, yup. I remember some of those racks.

Disney, uh, okay ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:03 AM (u8kLQ)

407 So outrageous

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:03 AM (M3DRt)

408 Donald Fagen, will take a look, thanks. :-)

I know Oppo does great region-free bluray players.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:04 AM (u8kLQ)

409
BTW-- where has Miley been? Granted I can't visit here 24/7, but as a
retiree ( very very young) I do check in several times a day.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 03, 2017 11:45 PM (TdMsT)

Hi Ladylib. I'm not much of a daywalker, so you'll mostly see me on the ONT. Sometimes I just lurk with nothing to contribute. Or traumatized, as I was last night. Too. Much. Dunham. Urk.
------------
For that much text, I at least want to hear about a successful blowjob. From Mara, from Stan, your psychiatrist, whomever.


Posted by: GnuBreed at March 03, 2017 11:54 PM (rTD9p)

Now all I can think about the sadness of failed blowjobs. I mean, wtf, GnuBreed?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 12:05 AM (tHwdc)

410 GnuBreed, the best I can report about me and Mara? We got to eat lunch at Penguin's frozen yogurt once. Rainy day in February 1987.

If I knew then what I know now, I could have figured out it was her "let's always be friends" blow-off.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:05 AM (u8kLQ)

411 Night all. Be well.

Posted by: Flyboy at March 04, 2017 12:05 AM (v0mnF)

412 278 265. Yep. Or an armed and armored engineering vehicle with a plough blade in front. Just drop the blade and bury 'em where they stand.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine


No need for a blade.

1. Drive up to and stop on top of position
2. Pivot steer right
3. Pivot steer left
4. Style points: Back up 1/2 vehicle length, then drive forward to tamp down

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at March 04, 2017 12:06 AM (di1hb)

413 404. I had the idea it had its own atmospheric purification system thay kept it over-pressure to avoid such problems. Hell of a system.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:06 AM (LLNhE)

414 I'm out too. Didn't get much done in my 2 days off, but whatever. New workweek starting tomorrow.

'Night all.

Posted by: Country boy - etc. etc. at March 04, 2017 12:06 AM (Jcg9Q)

415 Bill Paxton's passing must have had some people checking out a lot of really good 80s action and sci-fi. Including a pre-titanic James Cameron.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 04, 2017 12:08 AM (VdICR)

416 It is a combined player/sub.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:08 AM (M3DRt)

417 Good night, Country Boy!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 04, 2017 12:08 AM (0OG8D)

418 No need for a blade.

1. Drive up to and stop on top of position
2. Pivot steer right
3. Pivot steer left
4. Style points: Back up 1/2 vehicle length, then drive forward to tamp down
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
--------------

The Rachel Corrie Waltz?

I condemn myself.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 04, 2017 12:08 AM (ZO497)

419 Thanks a lot Mike, now I'm hungry for pancakes. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:09 AM (u8kLQ)

420 Thanks, Lady Libertarian and Weird Dave! Your prayers and encouragement are much appreciated.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 04, 2017 12:09 AM (0OG8D)

421 413 404. I had the idea it had its own atmospheric purification system thay kept it over-pressure to avoid such problems. Hell of a system.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine


Filtration and overpressure. Still need the O2 from outside.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at March 04, 2017 12:09 AM (di1hb)

422 N.S. told a story about one amazing ambush. They fired their smgs and by pure luck hit the commander, who was looking out the top hatch. They threw grenades and one of them got a hole-in-one. They lost no men and took no wounded, which was, he said, unusual.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:10 AM (LLNhE)

423 Coincidentally, Ang Lee's next movie is called The Sadness of Failed Blowjobs.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 04, 2017 12:10 AM (VdICR)

424 Thanks a lot Mike, now I'm hungry for pancakes. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:09 AM (u8kLQ)



Its always a good time for pancakes.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 12:10 AM (aMlLZ)

425 421. True. Hmm......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:11 AM (LLNhE)

426 Evenin' everyone. Finally done with work stuff.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2017 12:11 AM (IcT7t)

427 413 404. I had the idea it had its own atmospheric purification system thay kept it over-pressure to avoid such problems. Hell of a system.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:06 AM (LLNhE)

---

It does.

Posted by: SMFH at March 04, 2017 12:11 AM (CRotO)

428 Do the people who can afford to comment here during work hours work for the government or iis everyone a paid pundit and have their own blogs?

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:12 AM (M3DRt)

429 I had the idea it had its own atmospheric purification system thay kept it over-pressure to avoid such problems. Hell of a system.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:06 AM (LLNhE)

Keep a big fire going long enough on the exterior of the tank, and something will give. IR gunsights will be blinded; engine can't take in clean air. Crew might survive for a long time, but be unable to fight effectively. (assuming, of course, that the entire tank is wholly enveloped in fire, which would be difficult to do with a few Molotov cocktails) Several barrels of napalm might do it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:13 AM (WDdjT)

430 @296 So, can't Trump re-write it again?
------------------

He did.

And it's suspected that he got tipped off that something might be up with the Justice Department succession when Yates staged her little event.

Posted by: junior at March 04, 2017 12:13 AM (nsZ+m)

431 Do the people who can afford to comment here during work hours work for
the government or iis everyone a paid pundit and have their own blogs?


Define "work hours".

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2017 12:14 AM (IcT7t)

432 428 Do the people who can afford to comment here during work hours work for the government or iis everyone a paid pundit and have their own blogs?
Posted by: Donald Fagen


Me, I am a telecommuter. Long as I make my internet meetings and deadlines, my hours are pretty flexible. Sometimes I come here in during the day when I need to let a problem percolate in my brain housing group.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at March 04, 2017 12:15 AM (di1hb)

433 Do the people who can afford to comment here during work hours work for the government or iis everyone a paid pundit and have their own blogs?

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:12 AM (M3DRt)

Some of us are "retired" or "between assignments", or gainlessly unemployed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:15 AM (WDdjT)

434 Do the people who can afford to comment here during work hours work for the government or iis everyone a paid pundit and have their own blogs?
---

I thnk most here are too competent to work for the government.

As for myself, I'm pretty much self employed.

Posted by: shibumi at March 04, 2017 12:15 AM (J5mC3)

435 10 to 4.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:15 AM (M3DRt)

436 428. Heh....I'm a small business owner with a full-time gig on the side. So, yeah, I guess you could say I work for the gov't.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:15 AM (LLNhE)

437 Well going to toddle off and write, lets spin up another music video to get the Morons drooling.

https://youtu.be/ub2CerpWmaM

Don't burn the blog down.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 04, 2017 12:15 AM (wkJHs)

438
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 12:05 AM (tHwdc)


Hi Miley! Glad to know you are here!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:16 AM (TdMsT)

439 409 Now all I can think about the sadness of failed blowjobs. I mean, wtf, GnuBreed?


Posted by: Miley, the Duchess


Well, I can relate a few of those type stories myself.

But this isn't about *me*.

Actually, I wish I *had* a recent failed BJ story to tell.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2017 12:16 AM (rTD9p)

440 Anna, did I answer your question about the movie? ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:16 AM (u8kLQ)

441 10 to 4.

Heh. OK, you run with that. I wish I only worked 6 hours a day.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2017 12:16 AM (IcT7t)

442 Maybe my story could be classified "failed attempt to eventually get a failed blowjob"

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:17 AM (u8kLQ)

443 Trump has tweeted he wants an investigation of Schumer and Pelosi. Those tweets should have been headlines. When Obama wanted an investigation he got one.

If he doesn't put them on the defensive soon they will own him.

Posted by: gNewt at March 04, 2017 12:17 AM (V+C3K)

444 Do the people who can afford to comment here during work hours work for the government or iis everyone a paid pundit and have their own blogs?
Posted by: Donald Fagen
------------

Koch Bros. send checks. It's a great gig.


Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 04, 2017 12:17 AM (ZO497)

445 I think this got willowed, so re-post:

https://youtu.be/NmWZIPri38Q

For your Lenten a capella Renaissance music needs.

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 12:17 AM (GsAUU)

446 A failed blowjob is better than no blowjob at all.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 04, 2017 12:18 AM (0OG8D)

447 As for myself, I'm pretty much self employed.

I wanted to work for myself at one time. Could never get through the interview process.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2017 12:18 AM (IcT7t)

448 I am allowing for startup/shutdown time.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:18 AM (M3DRt)

449 Coincidentally, Ang Lee's next movie is called The Sadness of Failed Blowjobs.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 04, 2017 12:10 AM (VdICR)

The Unbearable Sadness of Failed Blowjobs, or, He Had No Exit Strategy.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 12:19 AM (tHwdc)

450 446. Pfft! That's loser talk! Beejers are for closers.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:19 AM (LLNhE)

451 I am allowing for startup/shutdown time.

Switch to SSDs, cuts that way down.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2017 12:19 AM (IcT7t)

452 Do the people who can afford to comment here during
work hours work for the government or iis everyone a paid pundit and
have their own blogs?

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:12 AM (M3DRt)

Some of us are just unemployed.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 12:19 AM (tHwdc)

453 Oh and one more thing I just have to share about Mara, that drove me literally almost crazy:

You know how I'm big on women in tights and stockings? Mara was *always* in tights. Usually with a skirt, but she wore them under everything, even leggings. She wore heavy makeup too.

One time I got invited over to her and Stan's house and Mara was just lounging around... in hose and shorts. Good grief.

It was the 1980s, but I *never* knew any woman who wore hosiery as often as Mara did.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:19 AM (u8kLQ)

454 428 Do the people who can afford to comment here during work hours work for the government or iis everyone a paid pundit and have their own blogs?
Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:12 AM (M3DRt)



Fairly recent retiree here, and yes I have worked for govt. I was the scold that bitched at everyone about waste, duplication, and the need to give taxpayers value for their hard-earned dollars.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:20 AM (TdMsT)

455 The Unbearable Sadness of Failed Blowjobs, or, He Had No Exit Strategy.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 12:19 AM (tHwdc)

The story of Bill Wynn's life! Sad.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:20 AM (WDdjT)

456 #448: I presume you're still never gonna do it without the fez on, though.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 04, 2017 12:20 AM (0OG8D)

457 446 A failed blowjob is better than no blowjob at all.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 04, 2017 12:18 AM (0OG8D)


What on earth is a blow job?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:22 AM (TdMsT)

458 https://youtu.be/NmWZIPri38Q

For your Lenten a capella Renaissance music needs.
Posted by: logprof
---------------

Have that on CD.
Can NOT go wrong with the Tallis Scholars

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 04, 2017 12:22 AM (ZO497)

459 >>>Do the people who can afford to comment here during
work hours work for the government or iis everyone a paid pundit and
have their own blogs?

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:12 AM (M3DRt)<<<

Nah. We don't visit here during work hours.

While were safely on tax payer provided equipment, and not our own computers, we're watching porn!

Posted by: govt. employees at March 04, 2017 12:22 AM (4nvOb)

460 I presume you're still never gonna do it without the fez on, though.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 04, 2017 12:20 AM (0OG8D

Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOotsq4soug

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:23 AM (WDdjT)

461 @457 What on earth is a blow job?
--------------------

You know how sometimes on a hot day the fans break? And so someone needs to keep the cool air circulating in the room so none of the workers go psycho from the heat and start killing their co-workers?

Posted by: junior at March 04, 2017 12:23 AM (nsZ+m)

462 Please do not post a picture of Lena Dunham doing hot yoga in tight yoga pants without a trigger warning.

Posted by: colfax mingo at March 04, 2017 12:23 AM (+ucSt)

463 Actually, I wish I *had* a recent failed BJ story to tell.


Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2017 12:16 AM (rTD9p)

OK, now I'm curious. Tell me in extreme detail or abbreviated form, I don't care which, what a failed blow job consists of.
Asking for a friend, since I've never been party to such a disaster.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 12:23 AM (tHwdc)

464 456, that's a new frontier.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:24 AM (M3DRt)

465 429 I had the idea it had its own atmospheric purification system thay kept it over-pressure to avoid such problems. Hell of a system.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:06 AM (LLNhE)

Keep a big fire going long enough on the exterior of the tank, and something will give. IR gunsights will be blinded; engine can't take in clean air. Crew might survive for a long time, but be unable to fight effectively. (assuming, of course, that the entire tank is wholly enveloped in fire, which would be difficult to do with a few Molotov cocktails) Several barrels of napalm might do it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


1. Gunner's sights
2. Driver's periscopes (front half of his hatch is good enough.
3. Crack that nut open!

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at March 04, 2017 12:24 AM (di1hb)

466 What on earth is a blow job?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:22 AM (TdMsT)


The Fake News Media coverage of the Obama Administration.

Posted by: RickZ at March 04, 2017 12:25 AM (zRegE)

467 Please do not post a picture of Lena Dunham doing hot yoga in tight yoga pants without a trigger warning.

Posted by: colfax mingo at March 04, 2017 12:23 AM (+ucSt)

You can find that video clip in Wikipedia under the heading "peristaltic action".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:25 AM (WDdjT)

468 43 Trump has tweeted he wants an investigation of Schumer and Pelosi. Those tweets should have been headlines. When Obama wanted an investigation he got one.

If he doesn't put them on the defensive soon they will own him.
Posted by: gNewt at March 04, 2017 12:17 AM (V+C3K)


I have that fear as well, but I have to remind myself that Trump created a corporate empire and knows how to get what he wants.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:25 AM (TdMsT)

469 OK, now I'm curious. Tell me in extreme detail or abbreviated form, I don't care which, what a failed blow job consists of.
Asking for a friend, since I've never been party to such a disaster.


Ahem...

*OW! OW! OW! It's bleeding!*

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2017 12:26 AM (IcT7t)

470 466 What on earth is a blow job?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:22 AM (TdMsT)

The Fake News Media coverage of the Obama Administration.
Posted by: RickZ at March 04, 2017 12:25 AM (zRegE)

And of the candidacy of the Frail Beast?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:26 AM (TdMsT)

471 What on earth is a blow job?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:22 AM (TdMsT)

Shirley, you aren't serious?!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 12:26 AM (tHwdc)

472
Have that on CD.
Can NOT go wrong with the Tallis Scholars
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 04, 2017 12:22 AM (ZO497)

--That is an awesome CD. I learnt of it from my buddy at FSU. I also did not know who Thomas Tallis was until then. And Allegri's masterpiece was so awesome that the Vatican made it a state secret.

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 12:26 AM (GsAUU)

473 #460: I was actually making a reference to this song, because Donald Fagin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCdKBHdPz30

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 04, 2017 12:26 AM (0OG8D)

474 OK, now I'm curious. Tell me in extreme detail or abbreviated form, I don't care which, what a failed blow job consists of.

Woman starts to engage, then throws up.

And I wouldn't blame her. If I were a woman I wouldn't give them. They sound hideous to me, even if they feel great for the guy.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:26 AM (u8kLQ)

475 453. My angel is like that, but she doesn't wear make up. She wears those tights and tunics type things quite a lot, but always wears shorts as well. Very modest, my sweetheart is, until the time for modesty passes.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:27 AM (LLNhE)

476 Palpatine, aaaarrrrgggghhhh ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:27 AM (u8kLQ)

477 Alberta Oil Peon,

Thanks for letting me know what not to search for on Wikipedia. I can now come out of my safe space.

Posted by: colfax mingo at March 04, 2017 12:28 AM (+ucSt)

478 461 @457 What on earth is a blow job?
--------------------

You know how sometimes on a hot day the fans break? And so someone needs to keep the cool air circulating in the room so none of the workers go psycho from the heat and start killing their co-workers?
Posted by: junior at March 04, 2017 12:23 AM (nsZ+m)



Ahhh--so many descriptions. So little time.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:28 AM (TdMsT)

479 471 What on earth is a blow job?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:22 AM (TdMsT)

Shirley, you aren't serious?!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 12:26 AM (tHwdc)


I have led a delicate and chaste life.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:30 AM (TdMsT)

480 NOT

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:30 AM (TdMsT)

481 476. Sorry.....not sorry. Let's hope she never wises up.

Can't wait for Monday after Easter. I pop the question then.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:30 AM (LLNhE)

482 1. Gunner's sights
2. Driver's periscopes (front half of his hatch is good enough.
3. Crack that nut open!

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at March 04, 2017 12:24 AM (di1hb)
***********************

Sounds like a job for the Super Paintball Gun.

Posted by: gNewt at March 04, 2017 12:31 AM (V+C3K)

483 477 Alberta Oil Peon,

Thanks for letting me know what not to search for on Wikipedia. I can now come out of my safe space.
Posted by: colfax mingo at March 04, 2017 12:28 AM (+ucSt)

--Eschew Wikipedia.

Infogalactic:

https://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 12:31 AM (GsAUU)

484 *OW! OW! OW! It's bleeding!*


Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2017 12:26 AM (IcT7t)

OK, got it.
I had the great good fortune, while a virgin (and I mean an "extreme virgin") to have had a graphic dream about how exactly to give a blowjob. I'd never even met a penis face-to-face.

Or eye-to-eye, as it were.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 12:31 AM (tHwdc)

485 Palpatine, let us know how it goes

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:31 AM (u8kLQ)

486 1. Gunner's sights
2. Driver's periscopes (front half of his hatch is good enough.
3. Crack that nut open!

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at March 04, 2017 12:24 AM (di1hb)

Well, I maintain that if you keep the outside environment of a tank hot enough, for long enough, you will either kill the crew, or make it incapable of fighting effectively. Would it be easy to do? No.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:32 AM (WDdjT)

487 457. 'Member Castle Anthrax? It's what happens after the spankings.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:32 AM (LLNhE)

488 And Palpatine, what's for your lady to wise up about?

IMHO it's the smart women wearing hosiery. They really improve the look of most legs.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:33 AM (u8kLQ)

489 Do the people who can afford to comment here during work hours work for
the government or iis everyone a paid pundit and have their own blogs?


I wouldn't encourage anyone who works for any government to post here from work hours using Govt internet or WiFi.

That stuff is monitored

Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 12:33 AM (WQX/u)

490 It is very strange how you google someone famous and name net worth always is near the top of the search choices. Who searches for that?

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:33 AM (M3DRt)

491 485. She knows it's coming then. Her family do, as well. They didn't tell me I couldn't come for dinner that day, so I think it's a 'go.' But Lenten season, I have to stay away.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:34 AM (LLNhE)

492 Well G'Night, Horde.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:35 AM (TdMsT)

493 Woman starts to engage, then throws up.



And I wouldn't blame her. If I were a woman I wouldn't give them. They sound hideous to me, even if they feel great for the guy.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:26 AM (u8kLQ)

Wow. Learning a lot here tonight.
I think that like many things that give pleasure to a loved one, you're motivated to learn.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 12:35 AM (tHwdc)

494 488. Heh. I meant wise up about me.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:35 AM (LLNhE)

495 IMHO it's the smart women wearing hosiery. They really improve the look of most legs.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:33 AM (u8kLQ)
***********************

Especially the non-panty hose type with the seam up the back.

Posted by: gNewt at March 04, 2017 12:35 AM (V+C3K)

496 Palpatine, reminds me of an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond.

(Ray's brother Robert pops the question to his girlfriend Amy's father, who responds "no.")

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:35 AM (u8kLQ)

497 Well G'Night, Horde.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 04, 2017 12:35 AM (TdMsT)

Good Night to you, too, LL.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:35 AM (WDdjT)

498 Oh come on, a blow job is when someone drys their hair with a hair dryer.

Posted by: colfax mingo at March 04, 2017 12:36 AM (+ucSt)

499 Anyone going to jazz fest this year? Stevie Wonder is playing 2nd weekend.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:36 AM (M3DRt)

500 gNewt, yup :-)

Miley, agreed but there's limits. There's tons of ways a woman (or a man) can comfort (and excite) a lover sensually, without putting... that... into her mouth.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:37 AM (u8kLQ)

501 Original studio version of Tallis Scholars' "Miserere"

https://youtu.be/YDOENZediM8

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 12:37 AM (GsAUU)

502 I'm having whatever Putin is having *hic* my apologies for lack of contributions but goodnight and I'll try to let the dog bounce me in time for the EMT.

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 12:38 AM (TppKb)

503 There is no such thing as a failed blowjob. Just keep at it, success will come.

Posted by: NC Ref at March 04, 2017 12:38 AM (SpeiC)

504 I came back for the blowjob discussion?

I love this place.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at March 04, 2017 12:38 AM (nDcc3)

505 496. Shut up! Shut up! I'm at the three year mark with her and her family, and I think they're resigned to it. Her father, the Colonel, likes me, however.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:38 AM (LLNhE)

506 There's tons of ways a woman (or a man) can comfort (and excite) a lover sensually, without putting... that... into her mouth.

Well, that escalated quickly!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at March 04, 2017 12:39 AM (kP16F)

507 Palpatine, bring him some fried chicken... ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:39 AM (u8kLQ)

508 Senor, you have a blow job for me? I have an almost-new leaf blower.

Posted by: Jose Sinpapelas at March 04, 2017 12:40 AM (WDdjT)

509 Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:37 AM (u8kLQ)

False. It's awesome.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at March 04, 2017 12:41 AM (nDcc3)

510 401 How else do you explain the fact that there are minimal women/children/elderly "refugees?" Only military age men.

Also, I have an indie dollar store nearby that sells lots of stuff from Syria. But... how? They're in a war and people are fleeing. But they are still able to manufacture soap and candy.

---

Women and children are at home.

Making soap and candy.
Posted by: SMFH at March 04, 2017 12:00 AM (CRotO)


Syria's land mass, 71,500 square miles.
Missouri's land mass 69,800 square miles

Most of Syria is peaceful and no fighting, and I bet those areas are where the "refugees" are coming from.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 04, 2017 12:41 AM (1JnAL)

511 OK, now I'm curious. Tell me in extreme detail or abbreviated form, I don't care which, what a failed blow job consists of.
Asking for a friend, since I've never been party to such a disaster.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 12:23 AM (tHwdc)


[ahem]

Once upon a time there were a man and a woman who loved each other very much, and to show their love they also got piercings.
The woman was very proud of her ability to do such things as tie cherry stems in a knot with her tongue, so she got a tongue stud.
The Man thought he should be extra proud of something and so he got himself a Prince Albert.
Then one day, when they were playing placing tab "A" into slot "M", well, the modifications interacted badly and then there was panic and that was followed by a trip to critical care, and many sniggering interns later, someone wound up with stitched seams like a football, and there were recriminations and hard feelings.
And the man was happy the woman didn't get braces too.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 12:41 AM (WQX/u)

512 496. Shut up! Shut up! I'm at the three year mark with her and her family, and I think they're resigned to it. Her father, the Colonel, likes me, however.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine
*****

Seriously, good luck. If he likes you, then you must be doing something right.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 04, 2017 12:42 AM (hVdx9)

513 507. I always bring bourbon or scotch, shashlik, and cigars when I come calling for Sunday dinner.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:42 AM (LLNhE)

514 Another Lenten favorite:

Henryk Gorecki's Third ("Symphony of Sorrowful Songs")

(Make sure the lights are LOW when listening to this one.)

https://youtu.be/36qSWd83WXs

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 12:43 AM (GsAUU)

515 Miley, agreed but there's limits. There's tons of ways a woman (or a man) can comfort (and excite) a lover sensually, without putting... that... into her mouth.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:37 AM (u8kLQ)
**********************

Wait, wait, wait, no, no, each sex has mutually assured pleasure points and it is a natural thing to want those points pleasured and to want to pleasure your partners points.

Posted by: gNewt at March 04, 2017 12:43 AM (V+C3K)

516 Well, I maintain that if you keep the outside environment of a tank hot enough, for long enough, you will either kill the crew, or make it incapable of fighting effectively. Would it be easy to do? No.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Esp. If you don't knock out the radio

Posted by: Jean at March 04, 2017 12:43 AM (zZb/S)

517 Posted by: gNewt at March 04, 2017 12:43 AM (V+C3K)

Precisely, it's why some genius thought of the 69

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at March 04, 2017 12:44 AM (nDcc3)

518 * stumbles into main hall and reads: *

498 Oh come on, a blow job is when someone drys their hair with a hair dryer.
Posted by: colfax mingo


o_O

* sidles back out onto the porch looking for keg *

Posted by: mindful webworker, cautiously at March 04, 2017 12:44 AM (FTf+m)

519 507. Heh...took me a minute. Get him addicted so he and the family crave it fortnightly, eh?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:44 AM (LLNhE)

520 And the man was happy the woman didn't get braces too.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 12:41 AM (WQX/u)


Minimalist beejers for the win!

Posted by: RickZ at March 04, 2017 12:44 AM (zRegE)

521 I always bring bourbon or scotch, shashlik, and cigars when I come calling for Sunday dinner.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:42 AM (LLNhE)

You know something? Seems to me that even if the proposed marriage never comes to be, and I hope that it does, you should cultivate and maintain the Colonel as a friend. Because he sounds like an awesome man.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:45 AM (WDdjT)

522 Just a friendly reminder -- Steak and a BJ Day is coming soon.

March 14th.

Plan accordingly.

I plan to weep.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2017 12:46 AM (rTD9p)

523 Miley, the Duchess,

I am one of those guys who wants to go straight to the wet enterance of the jade palace so no need to dream. If that was too graphic, I apologize. I've been married to my sweetheart for 49 years. She was a virgin, me barely experienced. We still have a wonderful sex life although the frequency is not what it was 20 years ago. We just take more time before enjoying the union of flesh.

Posted by: colfax mingo at March 04, 2017 12:46 AM (+ucSt)

524 #490: Well... I ain't sayin' she's a gold digger...

Posted by: Kanye West, who voted for Trump, by the way... at March 04, 2017 12:47 AM (0OG8D)

525 521. I think that's a given. He's a remarkable man, a good man, and I think he and I understand each other.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:48 AM (lutOX)

526 513 507. I always bring bourbon or scotch, shashlik, and cigars when I come calling for Sunday dinner.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:42 AM (LLNhE)

--Have you proffered brandy cigars?

I discovedred the hard way that cigars are like booze insofar as a neophyte fails to pace himself and ends up with a NASTY hangover, like I had with a brandy cigar (and not even a whole one, just stealing a few puffs).

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 12:48 AM (GsAUU)

527 Hmmm...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:49 AM (u8kLQ)

528 He was 11, excellent cover.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=svRLmb7ivPQ

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:50 AM (M3DRt)

529 I discovedred the hard way that cigars are like booze insofar as a neophyte fails to pace himself and ends up with a NASTY hangover, like I had with a brandy cigar (and not even a whole one, just stealing a few puffs).

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 12:48 AM (GsAUU)

That nicotine sneaks up on you, if you are not used to it. Broke my arm, it did.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:50 AM (WDdjT)

530 AOP kill da thred!

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 12:53 AM (GsAUU)

531 Worst failed blow job?

When I found out I couldn't bend over that far.

What? Why you lookin' me like dat?



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 04, 2017 12:53 AM (v5iqM)

532 I have a dear friend who tried to press cigars on me: and we are talking Ghurkas and Churchills and such.
I used to smoke Camels and roll my own, and I always felt so guilty smoking a $15 cigar that tasted to me like burning eiderdown quilts.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 12:55 AM (WQX/u)

533 Oy. I drop back in and everyone's talking sex. I'm no prude as you know but it makes me feel even more pathetic ans lonely. It's been...well, a long time. Gah. I'm going to bed. Goodnight kids.

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 04, 2017 12:55 AM (0mRoj)

534 AOP kill da thred!

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 12:53 AM (GsAUU)

Sniffs armpit. No problem there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:55 AM (WDdjT)

535 Strobes had a great cover of this as well...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w6yFq0qMaHw

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 12:56 AM (M3DRt)

536 there are two movies that were not highlighted in Bill Paxton's body of work that I thought defined my generation. Commando with Arnold (Bill was the Navy Sonar Operator) and Navy SEALs (Petty Officer Dane call sign God). That movie also had my favorite long range rifle - Barrett M82 mil des M-107 .50 cal BMG.

Posted by: Quilters Irish Death at March 04, 2017 12:56 AM (fmsIy)

537 526. I've had those, and they're nice. But he and i are both experienced nicotine junkies, so, no worries.

One of my favorite stories about the Colonel: I took my angel shooting and he came along, as was the custom with us at the time - chaperone, dontcha know.

I was teaching her how to fire her CZ52 - I'd gotten her one for her birthday, after watching her bat her eyelashes at me every time we would fire mine.

The Colonel asks to fire my pistol. He empties the magazine in a nice, tight group, and says, 'It's a good pistol. If you miss, the blast will make him deaf, and the flash will blind him and set his clothes on fire, and then you can beat him to death with it.' It was the first time he'd ever joked with me about anything.

My angel, by contrast, loves that round.

She presses the trigger - bang! **fireball** school-girl giggle. Adorable.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 12:56 AM (lutOX)

538 I am buying this one for sure:

'War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy.

The survival of every country, government, and individual is ultimately dependent on war - or the ability to wage it in self-defence. That is why, though it may come but once in a hundred years, it must be prepared for every day. When it is too late-when the bodies lie stiff and people weep over them-those in charge have failed in their duty.

Nevertheless, in spite of the centrality of war to human history and culture, there has for long been no modern attempt to provide a replacement for the classics on war and strategy, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, dating from the 5th or 6th century BC, and Carl von Clausewitz's On War, written in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.

What is needed is a modern, comprehensive, easy to read and understand theory of war for the 21st century that could serve as a replacement for these classic texts. The purpose of the present book is to provide just such a theory.

http://tinyurl.com/hk5nbjo

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 12:59 AM (GsAUU)

539 I used to smoke Camels and roll my own, and I always felt so guilty smoking a $15 cigar that tasted to me like burning eiderdown quilts.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 12:55 AM (WQX/u)

I have never been a smoker, if you define smoker as one who has a tobacco habit. But I do like the flavor, and sensation on the palate of a good cigar, once in a blue moon. I don't inhale, because if i did, I'd get the spins, and hurl.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:59 AM (WDdjT)

540 I have never been a smoker, if you define smoker as one who has a tobacco habit. But I do like the flavor, and sensation on the palate of a good cigar, once in a blue moon. I don't inhale, because if i did, I'd get the spins, and hurl.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:59 AM (WDdjT)


Nobody inhales cigars, if you can do that you can probably space walk without a helmet. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 01:01 AM (aMlLZ)

541 Miley, agreed but there's limits. There's tons of
ways a woman (or a man) can comfort (and excite) a lover sensually,
without putting... that... into her mouth.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 12:37 AM (u8kLQ)

"That." Hmmm... My dear departed had a miserable, awful, un-sex life with his ex. It was my extreme pleasure to make up for those awful decades.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 01:02 AM (tHwdc)

542 540. I dunno. I still have an occasional pipe of brown Irish twist, and, yeah, i do inhale. Doesnt take much - just a few light sips - and I get the nic-cups.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 01:04 AM (LLNhE)

543 Hmmm
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 01:02 AM (tHwdc)


I like that part also.

Posted by: gNewt at March 04, 2017 01:05 AM (V+C3K)

544 You can't have a fulfilling sex life without blowjobs? Really???

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 01:05 AM (u8kLQ)

545


Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 01:02 AM (tHwdc)

You're a good woman and he was a lucky man.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at March 04, 2017 01:06 AM (nDcc3)

546 Honestly obamacare lite seems like a win win. We rob the left of favorable optics of a new dying pathos story nightly ad infinitum, cut costs by slashing the stupid provisions in obamacare, and then once costs are much more in line, then gradually reducing the subsidy over time.

Honestly, donald trump is the man who can bury democrats forever. If we give liberals what they want which is repubs cutting out all subsides, they can and you better believe will blast every msm channel with poor people dying because rich evil monopoly caricature president trump took their insurance away from them.

Posted by: Dantemxii at March 04, 2017 01:06 AM (RYhka)

547 Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 01:05 AM (u8kLQ)

No.


Well, yeah, but where's the fun in leaving that part out? I'm being serious.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at March 04, 2017 01:07 AM (nDcc3)

548 You can't have a fulfilling sex life without blowjobs? Really???

If that's what the lady says, who are we men to argue?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2017 01:07 AM (IcT7t)

549 If women wanna give them, fine.

But l'm just saying. If I were a woman, I wouldn't want to give them. I'm not a woman so it's a moot point anyway.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 01:07 AM (u8kLQ)

550 You can't have a fulfilling sex life without blowjobs? Really???

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 01:05 AM (u8kLQ)


No clue, not into testing the theory either.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 01:08 AM (aMlLZ)

551 AoSHQ - Come for the commentary on armor, stay for the Dear Penthouse Forum letters.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 04, 2017 01:08 AM (ZO497)

552 What is needed is a modern, comprehensive, easy to read and understand theory of war for the 21st century that could serve as a replacement for these classic texts. The purpose of the present book is to provide just such a theory.

http://tinyurl.com/hk5nbjo
Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 12:59 AM (GsAUU)

Uh, there are plenty of books written about modern War.... especially the whole canard (IMO) of 'Ethical War' which has infected the US military.

Ethical War.... or why our enemies no longer fear us...

Posted by: Don Q. at March 04, 2017 01:08 AM (NgKpN)

553 551 AoSHQ - Come for the commentary on armor, stay for the Dear Penthouse Forum letters.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 04, 2017 01:08 AM (ZO497)

Dear Penthouse, you won't believe this... but there I was at an SCA event taking off my armor, when....

Posted by: Don Q. at March 04, 2017 01:09 AM (NgKpN)

554 537. Took her out to shoot the pps43 today. She burned through a hundred rounds, easily, and giggled Every.Single.Time she pressed the trigger.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 01:09 AM (LLNhE)

555 Hahaha. Via Hotair, which I won't link, comes this lede --

"Baggage": Schwarzenegger quits "Celebrity Apprentice" over Trump

Bwahahaha *wheeze* -- A few days ago, PDJT and Arnold engaged in a bit of a twitter war over the viewer ratings of this show. Hint, they are way down since the Terminator took over. Now he's gone.

#stillnottiredofwinning

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2017 01:10 AM (rTD9p)

556 Well let's bungle in the jungle
well that's all right by me
I'm a tiger when I want love
I'm a snake if we disagree

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 01:11 AM (u8kLQ)

557
I have never been a smoker, if you define smoker as one who has a tobacco habit. But I do like the flavor, and sensation on the palate of a good cigar, once in a blue moon. I don't inhale, because if i did, I'd get the spins, and hurl.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 12:59 AM (WDdjT)




One does not inhale a premium, or really, any other cigar. The tobacco varieties are grown for flavor and texture only, and not to be "smooth", going down the ol' windpipe.

The flavors can be incredible, and even the texture of the smoke itself can vary greatly between blends.

Cigars exactly parallel wines, that there are concentrated and priceless growing regions, famous cultivars, insanely talented blenders, master rollers, vintage years and an endless variety of interplay between all that, and more.

If I can learn someone's tastes in foods, drink, snacks and desserts, I can likely choose for them, a cigar which they'd find acceptable to their individual palate.

Throwing an expensive cigar at someone, is like giving a newbie a Magna-Blaster 88 Magnum.

Might thrill you, might scare the shit outta them, though.

Introducing someone interested in the art of the cigar, also parallels the shooting world.

Just as the .22 LR is a gentle, easy, non-overwhelming cartridge for the beginner, so also are the milder cigars such as Macanudo and such.

Giving someone without a mature tastes in cigars, a Cohiba or Ghurka, is just plain foolishness, a waste of money, and likely results in turning a likely enthusiast into an ardent rejector of the Fellowship of the Leaf.

Reminds me. I've gotta order in some new El Cubano Cigars. My humidors runneth under.




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX


Posted by: Jim at March 04, 2017 01:11 AM (v5iqM)

558 Nobody inhales cigars, if you can do that you can probably space walk without a helmet. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 01:01 AM (aMlLZ)

Heh. The arm-breaking incident, I was in Nicaragua, at a villa owned by my sis and her hubby. We were setting off fireworks for new years, rockets and mortars and such. They sell awesome fireworks there. I was using a cigar, and quite a fine one, as a punk to light the fuses, and I launched a rocket, and it went in the wrong direction. I took a step forward to better view where it landed, in case remedial action was required, and toppled over. Did I mention that I was standing in a terraced garden? I put my right arm out to check my fall, and landed right on it, on the next lower level of concrete wall. I knew instantly that I had busted something, as I could feel the broken bones grating in my wrist.

Tona beer might have been involved, too. The doctor in Managua was great. I had a steel pin sticking out of my wrist for 6 weeks. Arm is fine now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:12 AM (WDdjT)

559 Uh, there are plenty of books written about modern War.... especially the whole canard (IMO) of 'Ethical War' which has infected the US military.

Ethical War.... or why our enemies no longer fear us...
Posted by: Don Q. at March 04, 2017 01:08 AM (NgKpN)

--Classical Just War Theory was imbued with profound rumination, debate, and exegesis of the Bible and Fathers of the Church.

"Ethical" War is mostly about Teh Feelz and Why Do They Hate Us?

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 01:13 AM (GsAUU)

560 A book that is worth reading, whether one agrees with the author or not:
Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War Paperback

pricey.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 04, 2017 01:14 AM (ZO497)

561 QDP, did you have this show? This circulated on dat. Really great..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDOFpvI30k

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 01:15 AM (M3DRt)

562 #511 EEK!

--------

Posted by: gNewt at March 04, 2017 12:43 AM (V+C3K)

Precisely, it's why some genius thought of the 69


Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at March 04, 2017 12:44 AM (nDcc3)

See, the thing with 69 is, you can't focus on both at once - either your technique suffers, or your focus on your own pleasure is interrupted.
----------
#531 I actually knew a guy who could do that. The contortions he had to go through were hilarious. Plus, he was incredibly skinny which was even funnier.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 01:16 AM (tHwdc)

563 Donald Fagen, never had a DAT recorder or player. I know Stevie Wonder has done some great stuff. Thanks for showing it to me.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 01:18 AM (u8kLQ)

564 77 is better than 69. You get "ate" more.


/ancientschoolyardjokes



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX



Posted by: Jim at March 04, 2017 01:18 AM (v5iqM)

565 Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 01:16 AM (tHwdc)

I can focus on both, I've gotten good at it. It's the future bride that has the issue lol.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at March 04, 2017 01:18 AM (nDcc3)

566 Posted by: colfax mingo at March 04, 2017 12:46 AM (+ucSt)

You both are blessed with great good fortune! Alas, I don't have enough years left to know that joy. But I did have bliss with my Mr. for 8 great years. That's more than something - it taught me what is possible.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 01:21 AM (tHwdc)

567 Bwahahaha *wheeze* -- A few days ago, PDJT and Arnold engaged in a bit of a twitter war over the viewer ratings of this show. Hint, they are way down since the Terminator took over. Now he's gone.

#stillnottiredofwinning
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2017 01:10 AM (rTD9p)

--I think McCallum recapped that on FNC. DJT gave Ahnold a good ribbing. Did not know the new Apprentice got canned already.


Oh, and Jim, succinctly put about cigars. I am sooooo not ready for the heavy ones. I envy my dad. He loved (I put in past tense not because he has passed, but that it has been years since I have seen him fire up a 'Stog) his cigars, and his Scotch --he explained that it takes years to grasp the myriad varieties and vintages of wine, but Scotch is more georgraphically concentrated and not quite as daunting-- but I'm a terrible lightweight in the cigar department.

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 01:21 AM (GsAUU)

568 Ok, so the fit bit for your 'bit': that's kind of anti-'participation trophy' thinking, isn't it? The dude at the bottom of the Performance list, certainly won't be in a safe place as he see the data record of his ineptitude....

Posted by: socalcon at March 04, 2017 01:23 AM (UXScn)

569 Tell me, logprof, are you in forestry or mathematics? I know you spent time in in Van-a-peg.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:23 AM (WDdjT)

570 567. I'm lucky - the Colonel likes what we used to call 'guinea stinkers' - those italian cigars made with fire-cured tobacco. Nice and cheap and tasty.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 01:24 AM (LLNhE)

571 I had a bass player that loved....loved cigars. He was always buying them, so over the years I acquired a taste for good cigars. First off, I was never a high society type (really, no shit, lol), so I don't give a shit about what spoon or fork I use at dinner, because all that upper crust etiquette shit never interested me. Give me a cigar and I'll light the damn thing like it was a cigarette.

years ago I was on a cruise, and I went to the cigar room with one of these aficionado types. the dude manning the smoking room strolls over with a tray, and wants us to put our cigars on the tray, and then he walks away. The conversation goes like this-

I look at the guy that's with me and I said where the hell is he going with the cigars?

Oh he's going to prepare them.

Prepare them for what, fucking space travel?

He's cutting them and warming them up.

Yeah I could have done that, he's just flaming the end.

yeah but his lighter has special gas.


Um ok, is there a frigging sacrifice somewhere in this ritual?

I mean damn...I never knew lighting a cigar was such a big frigging deal.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 01:25 AM (aMlLZ)

572 Ok, so the fit bit for your 'bit': that's kind of anti-'participation trophy' thinking, isn't it? The dude at the bottom of the Performance list, certainly won't be in a safe place as he see the data record of his ineptitude....

Posted by: socalcon at March 04, 2017 01:23 AM (UXScn)

The "NR" rating from Cocksumer Reports, it burns!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:26 AM (WDdjT)

573 568.

**east german judge holds up a 7**

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 01:26 AM (LLNhE)

574 Palp....you wanna sometime gift the Colonel with a nice box of cigars, I've got the hookup for you down here on the coast.

Manny Lopez of El Cubano Cigars, makes some of the finest on the planet, bar none.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 04, 2017 01:26 AM (v5iqM)

575 Um ok, is there a frigging sacrifice somewhere in this ritual?

I mean damn...I never knew lighting a cigar was such a big frigging deal.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 01:25 AM (aMlLZ)

There's a Bill Clinton joke there, somewhere, crying to get out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:27 AM (WDdjT)

576 569 Tell me, logprof, are you in forestry or mathematics? I know you spent time in in Van-a-peg.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:23 AM (WDdjT)

--Ha, neither logging nor logarithms. Logistics. [Got it from an old list serv for logistics academics]

The nick is an anachronism, since I have not been a prof for over 2.5 years.

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 01:28 AM (GsAUU)

577 574. Duly noted. Heh....my outlay in terms of booze and smokes and weapons for that family.....guess the whole bride-price thing is still real.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 01:30 AM (LLNhE)

578 A beautiful woman is like a fine cigar.

Posted by: Bubba Clinton at March 04, 2017 01:30 AM (uSlc8)

579 --Ha, neither logging nor logarithms. Logistics. [Got it from an old list serv for logistics academics]

The nick is an anachronism, since I have not been a prof for over 2.5 years.

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 01:28 AM (GsAUU)

I have a friend who does logistics, who is quite the liberal, but a truly fine person who I would trust implicitly. He lives in Washington State.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:31 AM (WDdjT)

580 A beautiful woman is like a fine cigar.

Posted by: Bubba Clinton at March 04, 2017 01:30 AM (uSlc


The older they get the nastier they taste?

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 01:32 AM (aMlLZ)

581 qdp, this is another non-GD great one that was traded a lot...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MF2-6xVqQlk

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 01:32 AM (M3DRt)

582 I skip all the ritual on the cigar lighting, save for the following.

Don't apply the flame to the cigar, and start sucking on the damn thing. Sucking in the butane fumes is not a good thing.

Just apply the heat, and toast it till it's well and truly lit.

Second, first couple puffs, are out through the cigar, and not drawing the smoke with a pull.

Gets rid of the last of the butane by products.

Then, just enjoy.

No need for Holy Cedar Strip wooden lighting matches, warming it up, etc.

All that ritual might make sense at the Davidoff store at their palatial London showroom.

Not so much at the cigar lounge on a cruise ship. Geez.

Smoke 'em if you've got 'em!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 04, 2017 01:33 AM (v5iqM)

583 The older they get the nastier they taste?

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 01:32 AM (aMlLZ)

Uh-oh.

(seeks cover)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:33 AM (WDdjT)

584 The older they get the nastier they taste?



Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 01:32 AM (aMlLZ)



Uh-oh.



(seeks cover)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:33 AM (WDdjT)


If not well kept they start to dry out and crackle.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 01:35 AM (WQX/u)

585 Not so much at the cigar lounge on a cruise ship. Geez.

Smoke 'em if you've got 'em!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 04, 2017 01:33 AM (v5iqM)

Of course, butane, if it burns with enough oxygen present, leaves nothing but CO2 and water vapor as combustion products.

Zero sulfur, zero phosphorus, zero nitrates, zero chlorine, etc.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:37 AM (WDdjT)

586 If not well kept they start to dry out and crackle.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 01:35 AM (WQX/u)

Like Hillary? Dried-out and cackling.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:38 AM (WDdjT)

587 Ye who light cigars with butane products are godless heathen!
You first light a nice dry piece of cedar, and that is what you use to light a cigar properly.
You do not introduce noxious products to your cigar.
For heavens' sake, it's like I don't even know you people...

Posted by: navybrat at March 04, 2017 01:38 AM (w7KSn)

588
You can't have a fulfilling sex life without blowjobs? Really???

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 01:05 AM (u8kLQ)

Well, who am I to say how other people conduct their sex lives?
But I was be disappointed indeed, were I to find a new love and discover that he didn't enjoy blowjobs. Because I love to give them. Yeah, I know, TMI.----------------------


Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 01:02 AM (tHwdc)

You're a good woman and he was a lucky man.


Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at March 04, 2017 01:06 AM (nDcc3)

I was the lucky one, thathalfrican. He was the greatest blessing of my lifetime. It was an honor and a privilege to be his wife.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 01:38 AM (tHwdc)

589 From the last thread, where I dozed off...

No Escape with Ray Liotta about the futuristic Devil's Island prison, or No Escape with Owen Wilson about the revolution in the unnamed asian country?

I assume the latter. I think that was a clever idea for a movie. It's horror, it's a thriller, yet it's all grounded in very real reality. This stuff does happen.

Yes Ace, you got it, the Owen Wilson one.

Of course, the Social Justice Warriors savaged it for suggesting that a developing nation might suddenly descend into chaos and that westerners would be targeted.

Interesting backstory on the movie. I think the scripter got the idea because this actually happened to him, when the coup in Thailand happened. I don't mean the thriller chases, of course. But the fear of "What the hell are we going to do?" and the fear that as a westerner he might be targeted.

I think they filmed in some other country near Thailand. But they didn't want to say which one. I think wikipedia says they used two different Asian scripts for signage, to disguise where this was supposed to be happening.

Didn't love the "International Running Dog Capitalists" did it explanation -- why does this need an explanation? More interesting (and scary) to prove NO EXPLANATION. "Sometimes shit just happens for no rhyme or reason" is an inherently scary thought.

But of course they had to put that in to appease the SJWs, who were not appeased at all, and attacked the film as anti-asian and xenophobic and Privileged By Whiteness.
Posted by: ace at March 03, 2017 10:56 PM

It ended up not being too bad a flick. IMO

Posted by: Farmer at March 04, 2017 01:39 AM (o/90i)

590 If not well kept they start to dry out and crackle.


Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 01:35 AM (WQX/u)


yeah they burn like sparklers. I had that happen when I kind of forgot about the humidor. I think I got some cigars in my humidor that I had for probably 15 years. I think its time to burn them. I'll have to wait for warmer weather so I can do it outside. I get away with some serious shit, but If I lit a cigar in the house the wife would slice my face off.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 01:40 AM (aMlLZ)

591 Of course, butane, if it burns with enough oxygen present, leaves nothing but CO2 and water vapor as combustion products.

Zero sulfur, zero phosphorus, zero nitrates, zero chlorine, etc.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:37 AM (WDdjT)



You buy Ronson butane, you get with it the impurities, non-butane contents, etc.

Buy it from King or Colibri, and they're PURE butane, filtered from here to kingdom come, and very benign in the cigar lighting process.

I trust what's in my own lighters. Others, are...suspect.

The worst? The novelty, "oversize Ronson" type wick lighters.

Like sucking on straight kerosene, via cigar.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 04, 2017 01:41 AM (v5iqM)

592 587. Colonel uses kitchen matches, but then, we're not having high-dollar smokes.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 01:42 AM (LLNhE)

593 Ye who light cigars with butane products are godless heathen!
You first light a nice dry piece of cedar, and that is what you use to light a cigar properly.
You do not introduce noxious products to your cigar.
For heavens' sake, it's like I don't even know you people...

Posted by: navybrat at March 04, 2017 01:38 AM (w7KSn)

Pshaw! Cedar is a fine wood, but it contain essential oils that are inimical to animal (and insect life). Burning cedar vaporizes some of those oils, and gets them into the cigar smoker's bloodstream. Cedar poisoning is a thing, really.

Best way to light a cigar is off a coil of nichrome wire heated by six volts of electricity from the cigar lighter socket on a '51 Studebaker Commander. Windows down, fender vents open, cigar glowin', you are styling.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:44 AM (WDdjT)

594 559 ..about Teh Feelz and Why Do They Hate Us?
~~~~~
Oh, I know why they hate us. They hate us because they are more perceptive than we are. They see our society as failing since 50% have no core principles (and want to get everything for free) and the other half is futile in exercising control over these folks.
Solution? Wipe em all out!

Makes sense to me.

No core principles, two examples: (1)Demanding free speech for their ideas, while shouting down the opposition. (2) wanting choice (flaunting that desire) but wanting it all-- i.e., achieving a degree in women's studies, then decrying that their not paid the same as men... hey, cookie, you made your choice, live with it!

Posted by: socalcon at March 04, 2017 01:45 AM (UXScn)

595 I think in life I smoked everything that burns, be glad I don't lite the damn cigar on the stove. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 01:45 AM (aMlLZ)

596 Well, AOP, you are one up on me.

Posted by: navybrat at March 04, 2017 01:46 AM (w7KSn)

597 Hmm, blow jobs and good cigars, I'll have to revisit this thread in the morn. Nite all, be well.

Posted by: Farmer at March 04, 2017 01:47 AM (o/90i)

598 A good InfaRed laser would be the ideal cigar lighter.

Direct energy transfer, with no non-cigar combustion by-products in the process, whatsoever.

Just hold the cigar well away from your face, and be careful to not point the lighter at your hands.

That said, it'd be funny to see all the idjits with obvious IR lighter facial scarring at the cigar events!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 04, 2017 01:51 AM (v5iqM)

599 594 sorry, apologies to all 'rons and 'ettes. My niece posted an idiotic Huffpo piece on FB on how Emma Stone's 'underboob' cover shot of some mag ( they still have those?) has stareted a fierce debate of Emma's allegiance to the fight for feminism and gender equality.

That makes me think, if everyone were transgender, wouldn't that 'equality' kerfuffle go away?

(I had to read it...underboob, ya know)

Posted by: socalcon at March 04, 2017 01:51 AM (UXScn)

600 Well, AOP, you are one up on me.

Posted by: navybrat at March 04, 2017 01:46 AM (w7KSn)

Heh. I wish. I do have a couple of '51's but neither is able to go down the road. But the first car I ever owned was a '51 Champion (six cylinder), and it was a joy to drive it. Stylin', indeed. And in comfort, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:51 AM (WDdjT)

601 Pshaw! Cedar is a fine wood, but it contain essential oils that are inimical to animal (and insect life). Burning cedar vaporizes some of those oils, and gets them into the cigar smoker's bloodstream. Cedar poisoning is a thing, really.


Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:44 AM (WDdjT)

I used to work with Spanish cedar a lot with the classical guitars for necks, linings, and back bracing. Damn that is some nasty ass shit. That dust gets anywhere near your mouth and you'll taste it for hours. Even when fully cured, if you slice a piece and let it sit for a week or so you will see little areas where the oils seep out of the pores. I started using mahogany instead.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 01:54 AM (aMlLZ)

602 I can focus on both, I've gotten good at it. It's the future bride that has the issue lol.


Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at March 04, 2017 01:18 AM (nDcc3)

Yes, I think we can all agree that the woman needs to be paying more attention.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 01:56 AM (tHwdc)

603 Well, when you guys find mahogany strips for lighting my cigars, let me know where to get them. LOL!

Posted by: navybrat at March 04, 2017 01:57 AM (w7KSn)

604
77 is better than 69. You get "ate" more.





/ancientschoolyardjokes







Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX


-----------

How did I get to be so old without hearing that before?!

The ONT - always educational!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 01:58 AM (tHwdc)

605 Well, I am off to sleep. The rum and cola done snuck up on me and made me sleepy. Good thing, the cold is about gone.

Night, Horde. Be well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 01:58 AM (WDdjT)

606 International Practical Shooting Confederation of Russia:

Beethoven's Ninth, Old McDonald, and other favorites, performed by Glock-wielding Rooshian:

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

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 01:59 AM (lutOX)

607 Well, I'm going to crawl into the metaphorical humidor, and pull the lid down over myself.

Have to age for another six hours before the next day begins.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 04, 2017 02:00 AM (v5iqM)

608 The older they get the nastier they taste?

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 01:32 AM (aMlLZ)


Ahem.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 02:06 AM (tHwdc)

609 Goodnight all, happy weekend. Thanks for the great chat.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 04, 2017 02:07 AM (u8kLQ)

610 606 International Practical Shooting Confederation of Russia:

Beethoven's Ninth, Old McDonald, and other favorites, performed by Glock-wielding Rooshian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNFlAzVhSVw
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 01:59 AM (lutOX)

--Nice.

. . . aaaand the leftards want us to believe that those guys are our mortal enemies. Keep it up, asshats; Trump and Putin are both smarter than a whole lecture hall full of Ivy League lightweights, and you're gonna get pantsed.

Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2017 02:08 AM (GsAUU)

611 610. Indeed. Two smart men, in charge of two great nations.....what a time to be alive. I look forward to years - decades - of friendly competition and cooperation. Could be a lot of fun, and good for the world.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 02:12 AM (LLNhE)

612 A good InfaRed laser would be the ideal cigar lighter.



Direct energy transfer, with no non-cigar combustion by-products in the process, whatsoever.





Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 04, 2017 01:51 AM (v5iqM)

Or a Tesla lighter. Crossing the streams.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 02:16 AM (tHwdc)

613 Such a geek - I'm watching the Apollo 11 launch, the one with the Pilgrims' Chorus from Tannhauser. Gives me goosebumps every single time, and can't hear that bit of music without thinking of NASA.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 02:19 AM (LLNhE)

614 Ref USAF bomber pilots.
In the 1950s and 60s they wore pirate style eyepatches. so they could still fly after one nuke flash. They also had thermal curtains over the cockpit windows that would reduce the flash. They were probably flying on instrutments mostly so the loss of visibility wasn't critical. I suppose when USAF switched to low level penetration tactics the thermal curtains had to go!

When you see the training videos for 1950s and 60s bomber pilots telling them how a nuclear war would play out you're stupefied.

Posted by: Arthur Kimes at March 04, 2017 02:32 AM (2Sbr5)

615 <pokes thread>

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 02:42 AM (tHwdc)

616 <pokes thread>

It's not dead, it just smells that way.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2017 02:43 AM (IcT7t)

617 The Daily Mail is reporting the Rex Tillermon is concerned that if the US backs out of the Paris climate agreement, it will damage international confidence in "America's commitment to diplomatic promises'.

Tillermon should heed Trumps words that he is the leader of the US and will put the US first. Those diplomatic promises Tillermon is so reported to be worried about were made contrary to the interests of the US. They were based on lies and/or deceit.

Also, reports that Ivanka takes the same positions (for whatever reason she may have, I don't care) will lead to become a mark of disgrace that could undermine all of the goodwill she currently has from supporters of her father.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at March 04, 2017 02:43 AM (9xIiZ)

618 615 & 616.

Three way split on the take?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 02:48 AM (LLNhE)

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2017 02:50 AM (IcT7t)

620 Three way split on the take?

Keep mine, I don't want to have to explain where it came from.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2017 02:51 AM (IcT7t)

621 I'm fried and my browser is wigging out.

G'night everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2017 02:52 AM (IcT7t)

622 620. Woo-hoo!

Miley! More fillings for us!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 02:53 AM (LLNhE)

623 It's just mostly dead.
"To blave..."

Posted by: Miracle Max at March 04, 2017 02:53 AM (Neixe)

624 It's not dead, it just smells that way.


Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2017 02:43 AM (IcT7t)

Good thing I didn't lick it, then...

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 02:55 AM (tHwdc)

625 Miley! More fillings for us!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan!
No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 02:53 AM (LLNhE)

Yay! You take the right pocket, Uncle, and I'll take the left.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 02:58 AM (tHwdc)

626 Oh, and by the way, Uncle, what an awesome birthday gift for your love.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 02:59 AM (tHwdc)

627 Thank you, Miley. I've never loved a girl enough to give her a Warsaw Pact firearm.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 03:07 AM (LLNhE)

628 626. Spendy, but worth it.....getting harder and harder to find one that hasn't been blued at the arsenal and/or shot all to hell.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 03:08 AM (LLNhE)

629 I hope some day to fall in love with a man who will buy me an engagement gun. I already have enough diamonds.

Something in a nice Sig. Or a 1911.

It has to say, "I love you THIS much."

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 03:21 AM (tHwdc)

630 630. Heh....the only engraving on hers is in Czech, unless you count the grips (had the bakelite replaced with checked black walnut), and the shiny red dot by the safety. Parkerized grey, heavy as hell, and solid steel, otherwise.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 03:29 AM (LLNhE)

631 The colonel liked the one he fired, but prefers his 1911. 'Finest combat handgun in the world,' he says of it, and I'm not gonna argue.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 03:33 AM (LLNhE)

632 Only two things I don't like about it - low magazine capacity, and that crappy heel-catch for the magazines. Still, they're great pistols, and that Tokarev is one sizzling little round.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 03:36 AM (LLNhE)

633 A suggestion for Vic. I recall from cold weather training drinking warm jello. High in calories, and liquid. A package of jello is a cup or two of liquid, and nearly 400 calories.

Posted by: somejoe at March 04, 2017 03:40 AM (bEHhv)

634 I've only fired four shots with a 1911, but was amazed at how accurate it was. Made even me, a beginner, look good.

Weasel's been training me with his Sig P239 9mm, and I'm very fond of it. Jim says, though, that I need to try a LOT of 9mm's before I find the one for me. Like true love, you know it when you find it.

The latter is my simile, not Jim's :-)

I have a liberal classmate on FB who is utterly freaked out by this gun stuff. It gave me evil pleasure to post a video of me firing an AR-15. Which was actually much easier to sight with than the Uzi.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 03:43 AM (tHwdc)

635 That jello idea is a good one for Vic, if sugar is OK for him. I drank some warm once when I was a kid, and it was thick and fruity and sweet. Quite yummy, in fact.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 03:48 AM (tHwdc)

636 Error! Error! A package of jello seems to actually be 320 calories, pudding is 400.

But in any case it might be a useful suggestion.

Posted by: somejoe at March 04, 2017 03:48 AM (bEHhv)

637 >>>FitBit For Your Schlong

The readings on my ClitBit will beat any man's FitBit.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 04, 2017 03:49 AM (vRcUp)

638 634. Atta girl! Slap's got quite a good reputation as a teacher. The uzi - was it the carbine model with the wooden stock?

(Very 'jelly,' as the kids say.)

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 03:50 AM (LLNhE)

639 What got me into the east bloc weapons was how very cheap and very good they were. Of course, supply started to dry up by shortly after 2000 or so. Now, it's nostalgia, stubbornness, and familiarity that keep me shooting them. My two pistols were built in '54. I've got spare parts, thank goodness, but someday I'll need a machinist's help, I know.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 04:07 AM (LLNhE)

640 "the only engraving on hers is in Czech"

Oh, I didn't mean literally, I meant, it would make a statement.

------

Atta girl! Slap's got quite a good reputation as a teacher. The uzi - was it the carbine model with the wooden stock?



(Very 'jelly,' as the kids say.)

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan!
No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 03:50 AM (LLNhE)

Oh, not Slap - the other Weasel. Don't know where slapweasel lives.
Not a wooden stock.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 04:08 AM (tHwdc)

641 But in any case it might be a useful suggestion.

Posted by: somejoe at March 04, 2017 03:48 AM (bEHhv)

Pudding is always useful, one way or another.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 04:11 AM (tHwdc)

642 Tilikum Killer Assault Whale,

Not sure if your Nissan is set up the same as a late 90s Honda Civic 5 speed, but it almost sounds like the issue I had with my idle air control valve, sitting at a light with my foot on the brake, the idle would drop from around 900rpm to between 100-200 rpm , right on the verge of stalling, if I set the parking brake and pumped the brakes a few times the idle would come up, I ended up taking my IACV apart and cleaning it out and have had no further issues, I've also read that if you have vacuum assist brakes and the vac line to the assist is old and leaky, it can cause the same sort of symptoms, YMMV , just some things to check I guess.

Posted by: Bob in Houston-Vast Right Wing Basket of Deplorable! at March 04, 2017 04:11 AM (/Kwzr)

643 640. Ahhh.....getting my weasels mixed up. My dream is to get my hands on a real ppsh - the first time I saw one (on The World at War) it was love at first sight. A man can dream......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 04:12 AM (LLNhE)

644 Never Enough.

Just the name of the song. Your complaints will be handled by the standard method of "look squirrel".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1KF7R-0nwg

Posted by: somejoe at March 04, 2017 04:14 AM (bEHhv)

645 Well, that's fairly exotic! You licensed for such, Uncle?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 04, 2017 04:17 AM (tHwdc)

646 645. No. I suppose I could start the process, but to what avail? Even if I had the cash for such a gadget, I could never justify purchasing it.

Closest i have is a polish remanufactured pps43, semi-auto only. It suffices.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 04:20 AM (LLNhE)

647 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1KF7R-0nwg

Posted by: somejoe


Is that Patti Smith from the Mirror Universe? *hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 04, 2017 04:21 AM (vRcUp)

648 Alternate title to the piece on poachers hacking environmentalist tracking devices: "Humans Gotta Human."

Oh - and do they make that fitbit for schlongs thing "magnum sized"?

Posted by: Publius Redux at March 04, 2017 04:22 AM (tKcL+)

649 "Is the FBI Director being forthcoming enough with the intelligence committees?" Mitchell asks. Sen. Coons replies, "I think it's important that the outcome of that counter-intelligence investigation be fully shared with the intelligence committees, both in the House and the Senate.

"There are transcripts that provide very helpful, very critical insights into whether or not Russian intelligence and senior Russian political leaders, including Vladimir Putin, were cooperating, were colluding with the Trump campaign at the highest levels to influence the outcome of our election. And if that information is stonewalled or hidden away and if we are not able to get that on the Senate intelligence committee, House intelligence committee then I think that has real consequences for our democracy."

Sen. Coons then urged Director Comey to complete the investigation and share all of the "products" with the intelligence committees. Andrea Mitchell then asked Coons to clarify what he was saying. "Do such transcripts exist? Is that what you're saying?" she asked.

"I have not seen them. I believe they exist," Coons replied.


... what ever happened to separation of church and state ?

Posted by: undocumented SMOD at March 04, 2017 04:32 AM (e8kgV)

650 Oh - and do they make that fitbit for schlongs thing "magnum sized"?

Posted by: Publius Redux


If the fitbit does not fit, it ain't worth shit!

Posted by: Johnny Cock Ring at March 04, 2017 04:33 AM (vRcUp)

651 I won't take odds that Coons won't be claiming "stonewalling" when the proof of Russians colluding with Trump don't show up.

Posted by: undocumented SMOD at March 04, 2017 04:35 AM (e8kgV)

652 New Sec. of the Interior Rides Horse to First Day on the Job

http://preview.tinyurl.com/hd2bqoq

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke arrived on horseback for his first day of work Thursday.

Zinke joined the U.S. Park Police at their stables on the National Mall and then rode a 17-year-old Irish sport horse named Tonto to the Interior Department headquarters. Nine other park police on horseback accompanied the former Montana congressman and Navy SEAL.

Interior Department spokeswoman Heather Swift said: "Secretary Zinke was proud to accept an invitation by the U.S. Park Police to stand shoulder to shoulder with their officers on his first day at Interior."

Zinke posted photos on social media. At the department, he was greeted by hundreds of federal workers, including an Office of Indian Affairs employee from the Northern Cheyenne tribe from Montana who played an honor song on a hand drum.

Posted by: RickZ at March 04, 2017 04:39 AM (zRegE)

653 "Sen. Coons then urged Director Comey to complete the investigation and share all of the "products" with the intelligence committees..."

Before or after some committee members are charged with collusion.

Posted by: Davod at March 04, 2017 04:41 AM (FWznJ)

654 Alternate title to the piece on poachers hacking environmentalist tracking devices: "Humans Gotta Human."

Oh - and do they make that fitbit for schlongs thing "magnum sized"?

Posted by: Publius Redux


Ecofascists make it very difficult not to side with the poachers. And if the animals go extinct, that's just natural selection in action. The planet will survive.

Posted by: Johnny Cock Ring at March 04, 2017 04:42 AM (vRcUp)

655 It is illegal to smuggle weapons into Sweden, but items classified as explosives are fair game. Criminal gangs are taking full advantage while politicians struggle to figure out how to change the law to reflect current trends.

The number of attacks may seem relatively low, with an increase from 10 detonations in 2015 to 27 last year, according a police report released Monday. Police still warn that the trend stands out among "comparable countries" without an ongoing war.

The report says grenades have become the weapon of choice for criminal gangs for their availability, cheap price and low risk of prosecution.

Posted by: undocumented SMOD at March 04, 2017 04:47 AM (e8kgV)

656 Pretty friggen quiet here! What did you bastards do?

Posted by: NativeNH at March 04, 2017 04:55 AM (8xFjn)

657 I fully expect a "head fake" on Climate Change from Trump.

The NYTimes was reporting that there is conflict over dumping the Paris Accords on Climate Change within the Administration.

But I see this as nonsense.

It seems the easiest way out of the Paris Accords is to pull out after 3 years. It has already been a year so 2 years from now is the easiest time to get out. In the meanwhile ...

Posted by: undocumented SMOD at March 04, 2017 04:56 AM (e8kgV)

658 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 04:58 AM (HDU3V)

659 655. Grenades......

Well, that's one way of doing it, I guess.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 05:01 AM (LLNhE)

660 Nobody wants to even get close to the ebil?

Posted by: @realadolf at March 04, 2017 05:26 AM (d76uN)

661 /off nazi sock.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 05:26 AM (d76uN)

662 .....4

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 05:30 AM (d76uN)

663 ......3

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 05:30 AM (d76uN)

664 ......2

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 05:31 AM (d76uN)

665 .......................1

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 05:31 AM (d76uN)

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 05:31 AM (d76uN)

667 Tim for the win.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 04, 2017 05:32 AM (VdICR)

668 You may now continue with your regularly scheduled early morning activities.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 05:32 AM (d76uN)

669 I took one for the team.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 05:34 AM (d76uN)

670 Sweden learns one of the great truths also known by the ancients: "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."

Posted by: Publius Redux at March 04, 2017 05:37 AM (tKcL+)

671 Just submit the climate deal to Congress

Posted by: Jean at March 04, 2017 05:38 AM (zZb/S)

672 "Sweden has a hand grenade problem" was new to me, and one of my biggest WTF moments in politics this year.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 04, 2017 05:39 AM (VdICR)

673 Sweden's main problem, which leads to all the other problems, is out of control progressivism. There are not enough people left in Sweden who know what freedom means, much less have experienced it.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 05:43 AM (d76uN)

674 Speaking of Sweden...

http://raedwald.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/swedish-

establishment-still-same-nazis.html

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 05:47 AM (d76uN)

675 666

LOL

Posted by: Heidi at March 04, 2017 05:58 AM (dmiod)

676 EMT nood

Posted by: Bruce at March 04, 2017 05:58 AM (8ikIW)

677 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 04, 2017 06:12 AM (J+eG2)

678 Wasn't just bomber pilots who wore the PLZT goggles. Wore them on tanker flights, too. The case they came in also had an eye patch so you could cover one eye - then after the bad bright lights, you could lift the eye patch and you still had a good eye with which to see.

Posted by: GWB at March 04, 2017 10:47 PM (KlGDT)

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