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poker night.jpg

Poker Night (From A Streetcar Named Desire)
Thomas Hart Benton

Strangely, I see some parallels with Caravaggio. The exaggerated musculature, the dark but vibrant colors, the obvious sexuality.

Yeah...I'm a Moron.

From The Whitney Museum....

In 1947, Thomas Hart Benton was commissioned by Hollywood producer David O. Selznick to create an original painting based on a scene in the film version of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, A Streetcar Named Desire. The work was a gift for Selznick's first wife, Irene, a theatrical producer responsible for bringing the play to Broadway in the same year. Poker Night captures the sexual tension and violent undertones in the relationships between Blanche DuBois, a down-and-out Southern belle (holding up a mirror), her sister, Stella (leaning over the armchair), and Stella's husband, the hot-tempered, childlike Stanley Kowalski (wearing a white undershirt). It documents one of the play's most dramatic and memorable moments, when Blanche taunts a drunk and angry Stanley with her petty provocations and refined airs.

Posted by: CBD at 09:35 AM




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1 Gold !!

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 09:27 AM (c6/9Q)

2 Stellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllla!

Posted by: Stanley Kowalski at May 05, 2017 09:28 AM (IqV8l)

3 guess no one saw the 'hash check' ...

Posted by: geezer_der_mensch at May 05, 2017 09:28 AM (Ng5NT)

4 I see some high beams there. Whoa

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 05, 2017 09:29 AM (mpXpK)

5 *Looks around, takes Martell X0 off top shelf, pours a double*

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 09:29 AM (c6/9Q)

6 cold, rainy here in Alabamistan...so there's that!

Posted by: geezer_der_mensch at May 05, 2017 09:29 AM (Ng5NT)

7 Larceny's Friend

Posted by: Mega at May 05, 2017 09:29 AM (wzHH1)

8 Sixth!!@

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 05, 2017 09:29 AM (vRcUp)

9 Top ten!!!

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 05, 2017 09:30 AM (vRcUp)

10 I'd say that's a TGIF party

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 09:30 AM (c6/9Q)

11 and they filter in...

Posted by: geezer_der_mensch at May 05, 2017 09:30 AM (Ng5NT)

12 Very nice, good composition and keeps the feeling of the theater.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 05, 2017 09:30 AM (hLRSq)

13 I have never seen Streetcar, neither the play nor the movie. The closest I have ever gotten is The Simpsons parody musical, Streetcar!

Irene Selznick was the younger daughter of film mogul Louis B. Mayer.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 09:31 AM (X6fMO)

14 always liked Benton - lots of motion in his paintings - very American

Posted by: geezer_der_mensch at May 05, 2017 09:31 AM (Ng5NT)

15 And you can recognize the actors from the film.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 05, 2017 09:31 AM (hLRSq)

16 I AM GROOT.

Posted by: GROOT at May 05, 2017 09:31 AM (QCc6B)

17
Careful with those, Blanche. You'll poke someone's eye out.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2017 09:31 AM (XWkhW)

18 I have never watched that movie but Vivien Leigh played Blanch and she was a brunette. Did she really show high beams in that movie like that? It was 1951after all and I'm sure the censors would have at it up.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 05, 2017 09:32 AM (mpXpK)

19
Poker???



I just met her!!

Posted by: Old Guard American Communist at May 05, 2017 09:32 AM (8XRCm)

20 Birth of the "wife beater" shirt?

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2017 09:32 AM (x9c8r)

21 NINE!!

Posted by: Len Goodmen at May 05, 2017 09:33 AM (J+eG2)

22
.....and we're off with the socks.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 05, 2017 09:33 AM (8XRCm)

23 "The exaggerated musculature, the dark but vibrant colors, the obvious sexuality."

the BOOBIEHS!!!

also you forgot to mention Karl Malden hanging out there, sticking his face under the lamp.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2017 09:33 AM (V2Yro)

24 finally, a touch of depravity

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 05, 2017 09:33 AM (oGRue)

25 It's interesting when you think that Benton was Pollock's teacher. Some Pollock experts say you can still see some of Benton's influences in Pollock's later work.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2017 09:34 AM (nwqNw)

26 just looks like a bunch of deplorables to me. typical white people.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 05, 2017 09:34 AM (KP5rU)

27
14 always liked Benton - lots of motion in his paintings - very American

Posted by: geezer_der_mensch at May 05, 2017 09:31 AM (Ng5NT)






I'm partial to Barbie Benton, myself. Va-Va-Voom!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2017 09:34 AM (XWkhW)

28 Alternate title: four fags, two trannies.

Posted by: Austin Powers at May 05, 2017 09:34 AM (vRcUp)

29 Mr Cur, thou must be somewhat old to know who SHE is!

Posted by: geezer_der_mensch at May 05, 2017 09:35 AM (Ng5NT)

30 why does the wife beater have vulcan ears?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 05, 2017 09:35 AM (oGRue)

31 The sniper is hiding under the table.

Posted by: dantesed at May 05, 2017 09:36 AM (88xKn)

32
29 Mr Cur, thou must be somewhat old to know who SHE is!

Posted by: geezer_der_mensch at May 05, 2017 09:35 AM (Ng5NT)







Us 29-year-olds are uncommonly knowledgeable about pop culture.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2017 09:36 AM (XWkhW)

33 "Some Pollock experts say you can still see some of Benton's influences in Pollock's later work."

What, did Benton drink way too much and puke on a canvas one hangovery morning?

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2017 09:36 AM (V2Yro)

34 finally, a touch of depravity

==

correction - finally, a touch of depravity before 10PM


Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 09:36 AM (c6/9Q)

35 That isn't Brando in the wife-beater, it's Matt LeBlanc! How YOU doin'?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llamabutcher at May 05, 2017 09:36 AM (VvjLK)

36 spoiler alert: The guy in the red shirt dies

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 05, 2017 09:36 AM (oGRue)

37 Never seen SND, don't want to, but was told the reason Blanche is lives ng off her sister is that she had been a school teacher and seduced one of her students. How little is new. Also was told Stanley rapes her. I guess it's victim shaming, but based on the pictured scene it seems inevitable that he would.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 05, 2017 09:36 AM (sEDyY)

38 And you can recognize the actors from the film.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 05, 2017 09:31 AM (hLRSq)

Yeah, does look like Brando and Malden..were they in the stage production?

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2017 09:37 AM (x9c8r)

39
correction - finally, a touch of depravity before 10PM


Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 09:36 AM (c6/9Q)







So what you're saying is that Teh Horde is slackin'.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2017 09:37 AM (XWkhW)

40 That can't be Malden, the nose is too small.

Posted by: dantesed at May 05, 2017 09:38 AM (88xKn)

41 OF COURSE - Diego Rivera !

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 09:39 AM (c6/9Q)

42 What is Gaston from Beauty and the Beast doing there?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 05, 2017 09:40 AM (oGRue)

43 Was there a TV production of Streetcar, maybe on Playhouse 90? Or am I misremembering?

Posted by: grammie winger at May 05, 2017 09:40 AM (DLIpz)

44 34 finally, a touch of depravity

==

correction - finally, a touch of depravity before 10PM

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after 10, it's more of a grab. we're gentler till the alcohol kicks in

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 05, 2017 09:40 AM (oGRue)

45 The painting was done long before the movie was made.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 05, 2017 09:41 AM (9etuL)

46 Why yes. This is just like a Caravaggio.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:42 AM (sBOL1)

47 Change the melanin levels and I would swear this was painted by J.J. Evans.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at May 05, 2017 09:42 AM (+FSld)

48 I have never watched that movie but Vivien Leigh played Blanch and she was a brunette. Did she really show high beams in that movie like that? It was 1951after all and I'm sure the censors would have at it up.


Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 05, 2017 09:32 AM (mpXpK)


Couldn't find a pointy-nippled pic for you, Vic.

There's this, though:

http://tinyurl.com/kfh7p65

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 09:43 AM (X6fMO)

49 Love this painting and also one of my favorite movies.

Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at May 05, 2017 09:43 AM (zRZaJ)

50 Rumor has it that Caitlyn has a set of pokies just like that. Not bad for a 70year old.

Posted by: Fritz at May 05, 2017 09:43 AM (2Mnv1)

51 Careful with those, Blanche. You'll poke someone's eye out.

---

The nips and the elbows are both danger zones.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 05, 2017 09:43 AM (oGRue)

52 There's an update out for Pale Moon. It just hit my new computer so I'll take a break and see if it will update XP.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 05, 2017 09:44 AM (mpXpK)

53 never could figure our why anyone would desire a streetcar

Posted by: the toaster at May 05, 2017 09:44 AM (oGRue)

54 Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at May 05, 2017 09:45 AM (72PAC)

55 I like it - has that muralist expanse

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 09:46 AM (c6/9Q)

56 The painting was done long before the movie was made.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 05, 2017 09:41 AM (9etuL)

Ok I'm confused....the painting was done in '48, based on a scene from the movie, which was released in '51?

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2017 09:46 AM (x9c8r)

57 Liquor in the front

Poker in the back

Posted by: Rick in SK at May 05, 2017 09:46 AM (FZYNt)

58 the other girl seem oddly attentive to Blanche's armpit.

Posted by: the toaster at May 05, 2017 09:46 AM (oGRue)

59 I've seen neither the play nor the movie, so I don't know what's what, but if I had a sister, I wouldn't let her lounge around in lingerie while my husband was playing poker with the boys.

Frankly, it doesn't look like much poker playing is happening.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:46 AM (sBOL1)

60 Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:42 AM (sBOL1)

You too? It's uncanny!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 05, 2017 09:47 AM (9etuL)

61 Poker. Yeah, poker. That's what's going on in this painting.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 05, 2017 09:47 AM (KUaJL)

62 I enjoy the art thread, but I really wish the post could include the year of the work. A lot depends on the context in art history for some of these.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 05, 2017 09:47 AM (DuH+r)

63 Those winnings should be taxed at 90 percent.

Posted by: President Chuck Schumer at May 05, 2017 09:48 AM (UOJLJ)

64 Nope, will not do XP so Pale Moon has abandoned XP

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 05, 2017 09:48 AM (mpXpK)

65 Ok I'm confused....the painting was done in '48, based on a scene from the movie, which was released in '51?

---

once you factor in the price of the time machine, this movie still isn't profitable.

Posted by: Hollywood Accountants at May 05, 2017 09:48 AM (oGRue)

66 I really wish the post could include the year of the work


I think that would be helpful...

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 09:48 AM (c6/9Q)

67 Morning all.

I see the lady in the blue dress is a bit...chilly.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 05, 2017 09:48 AM (Jcg9Q)

68 What a hack.

Posted by: Jackson Pollock at May 05, 2017 09:48 AM (DdGS0)

69 "...petty provocations..."

This about Trump, again?

Posted by: socalcon at May 05, 2017 09:48 AM (Roy2Z)

70 TGIF! Looks like the folks in the painting got an early start. It's 5 o'clock somewhere, amirite?!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 09:49 AM (NOIQH)

71 Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2017 09:46 AM (x9c8r)

Based on the play, which came out a year or two earlier.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 05, 2017 09:49 AM (9etuL)

72 61 Poker. Yeah, poker. That's what's going on in this painting.

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And Blanche isn't bluffing, she's really holding a pair.

Posted by: Hollywood Accountants at May 05, 2017 09:49 AM (oGRue)

73 I'm partial to Barbie Benton, myself. Va-Va-Voom!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2017 09:34 AM (XWkhW)

I once saw her in a snow suit at a beer stand outside of Aspen, Colorado. Oy vey.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 05, 2017 09:49 AM (Jcg9Q)

74 Guys, it says right up there that this painting was commissioned in 1947.

You need to look at something else besides Blanche, methinks.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:49 AM (sBOL1)

75 Whoa...some nips amirite?

Posted by: Jackson Pollock at May 05, 2017 09:50 AM (DdGS0)

76 Art Deco is a favorite of mine. Architecture and furnishings too.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 05, 2017 09:50 AM (g4YTo)

77 Based on the play, which came out a year or two earlier.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 05, 2017 09:49 AM (9etuL)

Read the Whitney blurb again.

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2017 09:50 AM (x9c8r)

78 Liquor in the front



Poker in the back

Posted by: Rick in SK at May 05, 2017 09:46 AM (FZYNt)

and then they got me on tax evasion !

Posted by: Al Capone at May 05, 2017 09:51 AM (c6/9Q)

79 Yeah MP4, I didn't think they would have showed high beams like that in 1951. But what is funny is that they showed full frontal nudity in the 20s before the Hayes code hit.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 05, 2017 09:51 AM (mpXpK)

80 FROM THE WHITEY MUSEUM?!?!

Posted by: Al Sharpton at May 05, 2017 09:52 AM (DcuIu)

81 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEOHFbhWiG0

Posted by: JackStraw at May 05, 2017 09:52 AM (/tuJf)

82 I like the poker night painting with the dogs better. The one dog looks much more like Brando.

Posted by: Strobe at May 05, 2017 09:52 AM (gbWkA)

83 David Selznick: The Jared Kushner of his time.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 09:52 AM (mbhDw)

84 75 Whoa...some nips amirite?
Posted by: Jackson Pollock at May 05, 2017 09:50 AM (DdGS0)


Right behind the Krauts.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 09:53 AM (mbhDw)

85 Nips ahoy!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 09:53 AM (PY9jH)

86 As a Concern Christian, I am appalled that Blanche is being sexualized like this! Someone paint a burka over her stat!

Posted by: runningrn at May 05, 2017 09:53 AM (4lzaU)

87 But what is funny is that they showed full frontal nudity in the 20s before the Hayes code hit.

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don't blame me, i luvs the titties too

Posted by: Rutherford B Hayes (Z) at May 05, 2017 09:53 AM (oGRue)

88 Great painting! Great play! Great movie!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2017 09:53 AM (fDdVG)

89 The interior design is so...drab. Needs more gold.

Posted by: Ivanka at May 05, 2017 09:53 AM (UOJLJ)

90 I was just looking up the artist, and he's the one who did that Flood Disaster that CBD put up here last year, with the wacky out-of-proportion house and people.

His style for a lot of his stuff is -- I don't know the right word, where is Kris? -- not exactly whimsical, but sort of wobblyish.

I would make a lousy art critic.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:53 AM (sBOL1)

91 Sorry, I'll give this one a pass. Not a fan of Benton and have never liked the style -- always seems vaguely 'muscular socialist' grim to me.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 05, 2017 09:53 AM (MIKMs)

92 More nips than an Utamaro woodblock!

Posted by: josephistan at May 05, 2017 09:54 AM (7HtZB)

93 Not a big fan of this one, even though it IS reminiscent of JJ Walker.

Posted by: Fried Baloney Sandwich at May 05, 2017 09:54 AM (xgKhT)

94 don't blame me, i luvs the titties too
Posted by: Rutherford B Hayes (Z)

Bully!

Posted by: Teddy R at May 05, 2017 09:54 AM (FZYNt)

95 46 Why yes. This is just like a Caravaggio.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:42 AM (sBOL1)


Especially the nips, amirite?

Posted by: Jackson Pollock at May 05, 2017 09:54 AM (DdGS0)

96 @Bluebell,

The Whitney description is interesting, but it doesn't make much sense. The play came out in 1947 or 1948, and the movie wasn't released until 1951.

I doubt they sat on the movie for 3 years, so the painting is probably based on Benton's impression of the play.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 05, 2017 09:54 AM (9etuL)

97 Stanley has a freakishly large hand.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 09:54 AM (PY9jH)

98 87 But what is funny is that they showed full frontal nudity in the 20s before the Hayes code hit.

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don't blame me, i luvs the titties too
Posted by: Rutherford B Hayes (Z) at May 05, 2017 09:53 AM (oGRue)


"EWWWWWW!"

- - Chris Hayes

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 09:55 AM (mbhDw)

99 Guys, it says right up there that this painting was commissioned in 1947.



You need to look at something else besides Blanche, methinks.





Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:49 AM


What?! And lose all of our Moron-cred?

O/T, a friend wants to introduce me to a friend of hers by the name of Stella. Why is it that ASND was the first thing to come to mind?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 09:55 AM (p+Wdc)

100 murals, heirs to frescoes

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 09:56 AM (c6/9Q)

101 More nips than a Tokyo apartment block.

Posted by: Strobe at May 05, 2017 09:56 AM (gbWkA)

102 O/T, a friend wants to introduce me to a friend of hers by the name of Stella. Why is it that ASND was the first thing to come to mind?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

cause there are no pron stars named Stella?

Posted by: Rick in SK at May 05, 2017 09:56 AM (FZYNt)

103 85 Nips ahoy!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 09:53 AM (PY9jH)

---

Ma'am
**salutes***

Permission to lead a boarding party. She appears to be puppy smuggler. I think we can take her as a prize.

Posted by: Rutherford B Hayes (Z) at May 05, 2017 09:56 AM (oGRue)

104 Art Devo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2017 09:56 AM (IqV8l)

105 Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2017 09:50 AM (x9c8r)

I think that The Whitney blurb is wrong.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 05, 2017 09:56 AM (9etuL)

106 Not a big fan of this one, even though it IS reminiscent of JJ Walker.

Posted by: Fried Baloney Sandwich at May 05, 2017 09:54 AM (xgKhT)

Dy-no- mite!

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2017 09:57 AM (x9c8r)

107
"He ain't no J.J. Sefton."

- - Reginald Marsh

"Yup."

- - Edward Hopper

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 09:57 AM (mbhDw)

108 Ooh la la la

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at May 05, 2017 09:57 AM (hMwEB)

109 So, does anybody remember that term Ace made up a few weeks ago re : the story about the dog on the flight?

Grumble-something?

It's bothering me that I can't remember it.

Posted by: Hikaru at May 05, 2017 09:57 AM (WDCYi)

110 I see the lady in the blue dress is a bit...chilly.

---

looks a bit nippy in there

Posted by: Rutherford B Hayes (Z) at May 05, 2017 09:57 AM (oGRue)

111 Looks like what I would imagine a night of poker at any Moron's house would look like.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 09:57 AM (J+eG2)

112 CBD, I understood that. The description says the painting was commissioned in 1947, the same year the play had hit Broadway. So I was assuming the picture was based on the play.

A couple people had commented that it would be nice to know the date of the painting, so I was just pointing out that it apparently was 1947.

Maybe I'm the one who needs more coffee??? I'm only on my first cup!

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:57 AM (sBOL1)

113 106 Not a big fan of this one, even though it IS reminiscent of JJ Walker.

Posted by: Fried Baloney Sandwich at May 05, 2017 09:54 AM (xgKhT)

Dy-no- mite!
Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2017 09:57 AM (x9c8r)

Ernie Barnes.

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

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 09:57 AM (mbhDw)

114 cause there are no pron stars named Stella?

Posted by: Rick in SK at May 05, 2017 09:56 AM


I'll defer to your encyclopedic knowledge.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 09:58 AM (p+Wdc)

115 Grumble-something?

It's bothering me that I can't remember it.
Posted by: Hikaru at May 05, 2017 09:57 AM (WDCYi)
-------

Grumbleflaunt.

I think.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:58 AM (sBOL1)

116 Let's see. Blog link today is Shit Midas new bio but I hope it gets hits.

Super rainy.
Puppy is napping but I dread having to take him out to potty in all the wet.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at May 05, 2017 09:58 AM (hMwEB)

117 Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:53 AM (sBOL1)

I'm not sure what the word is for his style, either. He's considered a Regionalist or "American Scene Painters" and is sometimes put in a group with Grant Wood (American Gothic) and Rockwell. But their styles are vastly different, so the association is not shared by everyone.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2017 09:58 AM (nwqNw)

118 Looks more like Jessica Tandy to me-who originally Played Blanche DuBois on Broadway than Vivien Leigh in the movie. VL was good but i think Jessica tTndy would be more the way I envision the part

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2017 09:58 AM (fDdVG)

119 New study: Swearing makes you physically stronger.

I call BS. I should look like Charles Atlas if this were true.

Posted by: Under Fire at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM (UOJLJ)

120 93 Not a big fan of this one, even though it IS reminiscent of JJ Walker.
Posted by: Fried Baloney Sandwich at May 05, 2017 09:54 AM (xgKhT)

That's it!!! I knew this reminded me of something, and it's the murals from Good Times.

And sadly, CBD, this does not remind me of a Caravaggio.

Posted by: moki at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM (V+V48)

121 As a member of the Public Transit-Community, the streetcar did not get enough lines or screen time. And why are these champions of energy savings and urban planning always overlooked at Oscar time?

Posted by: Gene Shallnot, SJW Movie Critic at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM (Ndje9)

122 Just wait until some SJW decides to re-make "Streetcar."

You know it's coming.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM (PY9jH)

123
Wait, Nipsy Russell is dead?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM (mbhDw)

124 >>Sorry, I'll give this one a pass. Not a fan of Benton and have never
liked the style -- always seems vaguely 'muscular socialist' grim to me.


"Muscular socialist' - good description for it.
Not my cup of tea, either.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM (NOIQH)

125 A Streetcar Named Desire opened on Broadway in 1947, with Jessica Tandy as Blanche, Brando, Malden and Kim Hunter as Stella. The London version had Leigh in it.

The movie came out in 1951.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM (X6fMO)

126 O/T, a friend wants to introduce me to a friend of hers by the name of Stella. Why is it that ASND was the first thing to come to mind?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 09:55 AM (p+Wdc)
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Maybe you should be thinking Stella Stevens.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM (sBOL1)

127 "I'll defer to your encyclopedic knowledge. "


Stella May

Stella Cox



Told to me by a friend

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM (J+eG2)

128 Grumble flaunt similar to humble brag.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM (g4YTo)

129 male gaze!

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at May 05, 2017 10:00 AM (wvCEt)

130 122 Just wait until some SJW decides to re-make "Streetcar."

You know it's coming.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM (PY9jH)


A High-Speed Rail Named Moonbeam.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:00 AM (mbhDw)

131 There wasn't one streetcar in the play!

Posted by: Sheldon Cooper, PhD. at May 05, 2017 10:00 AM (gbWkA)

132 114 cause there are no pron stars named Stella?

Posted by: Rick in SK at May 05, 2017 09:56 AM

I'll defer to your encyclopedic knowledge.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

If the stripper line up was:

Amber
Tiffani
Brittany
Raquel
Stella

would you stick around to see Stella?

Posted by: Rick in SK at May 05, 2017 10:00 AM (FZYNt)

133 California lawmakers taxing their imaginations.

The proposal says that California-based companies that launch spacecraft will have to pay a tax based upon "mileage" traveled by that spacecraft from California. (No, we're not exactly sure what this means, either). The proposed regulations were first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, and Thomas Lo Grossman, a tax attorney at the Franchise Tax Board, told the newspaper that the rules are designed to mirror the ways taxes are levied on terrestrial transportation and logistics firms operating in California, like trucking or train companies.

http://tinyurl.com/jw8qcbj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 05, 2017 10:00 AM (Nwg0u)

134 >>O/T, a friend wants to introduce me to a friend of hers by the name of Stella. Why is it that ASND was the first thing to come to mind?

Stella Artois. Always Be Beering.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 05, 2017 10:01 AM (/tuJf)

135 >>New study: Swearing makes you physically stronger.


Why don't they just settle it once and for all and do a study that "confirms" that everything the Left does is good for you, and everything the Right does indicates you're crazy?

This crap science is so tiresome.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 10:01 AM (NOIQH)

136 Maybe you should be thinking Stella Stevens.


Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM (sBOL1)


Or Stella Artois

Posted by: Kindltot at May 05, 2017 10:01 AM (AuaS3)

137
His style for a lot of his stuff is -- I don't know the right word, where is Kris? -- not exactly whimsical, but sort of wobblyish.

I would make a lousy art critic.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:53 AM (sBOL1)

Especially the...oh never mind.

I'm not sure when an artteest does not attend to prospective and detail, if its 'style' or they just suck at perspective and detail. I exhibited figure drawings at art shows awhile back and becuse they did not have faces, I was analysed by the viewers that 'perhaps women were just bodies to me' and other armchair psych. Those who spoke to me about it were disappointed when i said 'I'm not good at drawing faces'.

Posted by: Jackson Pollock at May 05, 2017 10:01 AM (DdGS0)

138 I'd definitely poker.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 10:02 AM (0mRoj)

139 I see similarities with Salvadore Dali. Everybody looks like they're melting.

Posted by: Agent Cooper at May 05, 2017 10:02 AM (cB6N/)

140 131 There wasn't one streetcar in the play!
Posted by: Sheldon Cooper, PhD. at May 05, 2017 10:00 AM (gbWkA)


I prefer the Toonerville Trolley myself.

"KATRINKA! KATRINKA!!!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:02 AM (mbhDw)

141 122 Just wait until some SJW decides to re-make "Streetcar."



You know it's coming.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM (PY9jH)





A High-Speed Rail Named Moonbeam.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:00 AM (mbhDw)

All male cast - Brad Pitt as "Blancherd". He needs to resuscitate his career at this point anyway.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 10:02 AM (c6/9Q)

142 Lower the high beams sis.

Posted by: Strobe at May 05, 2017 10:02 AM (gbWkA)

143 Stella May

Stella Cox



Told to me by a friend

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Just guessing, but i bet Stella will...

Posted by: Rutherford B Hayes (Z) at May 05, 2017 10:02 AM (oGRue)

144 Kris, funny you mentioned Grant Wood. That's what popped into my head when I saw Benton's The Lord is My Shepherd picture. It looks quite American Gothic.

It's the whole sort of wobbly thing that I can't name. Do you know what I mean, if you look at his stuff?

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 10:02 AM (sBOL1)

145 Dangit JackStraw, how can I blaze like a star at night when you type faster than I do?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 05, 2017 10:02 AM (AuaS3)

146 138 I'd definitely poker.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 10:02 AM (0mRoj)


"Liquor In the Front . . ." etc.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:03 AM (mbhDw)

147 >>Just wait until some SJW decides to re-make "Streetcar."

With a homosexual couple, or maybe a transgender Stella....

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 10:03 AM (NOIQH)

148 Maybe you should be thinking Stella Stevens.





Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:59 AM


*consults teh Google*

Hmm....much better.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 10:03 AM (p+Wdc)

149 If the stripper line up was:

Amber
Tiffani
Brittany
Raquel
Stella

would you stick around to see Stella?
Posted by: Rick in SK at May 05, 2017 10:00 AM (FZYNt)


I tell ya, I would not miss Bubbles.

Posted by: Jackson Pollock at May 05, 2017 10:03 AM (DdGS0)

150 Super rainy.

Puppy is napping but I dread having to take him out to potty in all the wet.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at May 05, 2017 09:58 AM (hMwEB)


Let me tell you about my weird night.

Woke up around 5:00 a.m. with a mosquito buzzing my head, which has never happened in this house since we moved in. Husband was sound asleep and kitty wasn't on the bed. I got up to find some mosquito repellent in the laundry room, and as I rounded the hallway corner, the door into the house from the garage was open, as was the garage door!

I freaked out, looking for kitty, and she came running from outside. So now the house has mosquitos, and husband slept cluelessly until I informed him of his leaving the doors opened this morning. How the hell does anyone do that?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:04 AM (PY9jH)

151 144 Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 10:02 AM (sBOL1)


"May the Lord Grant Wood to those in need."

Levitra, Chapter 10 Verse 2

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:04 AM (mbhDw)

152 >>Dangit JackStraw, how can I blaze like a star at night when you type faster than I do?

Great minds and all that.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 05, 2017 10:04 AM (/tuJf)

153 139 I see similarities with Salvadore Dali. Everybody looks like they're melting.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at May 05, 2017 10:02 AM (cB6N/)

Very hot & humid down there.

Posted by: josephistan at May 05, 2017 10:04 AM (7HtZB)

154 115 Grumbleflaunt.

I think.



Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 09:58 AM (sBOL1)

That sounds about right.

Somebody on my twitter feed was doing it yesterday, and it was driving me nuts that I couldn't throw that term back at them.

Posted by: Hikaru at May 05, 2017 10:04 AM (WDCYi)

155 O/T, a friend wants to introduce me to a friend of hers by the name of Stella. Why is it that ASND was the first thing to come to mind?

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because Stella Maxwell plays for the other team?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 05, 2017 10:04 AM (oGRue)

156 I'm not sure when an artteest does not attend to prospective and detail, if its 'style' or they just suck at perspective and detail. I exhibited figure drawings at art shows awhile back and becuse they did not have faces, I was analysed by the viewers that 'perhaps women were just bodies to me' and other armchair psych. Those who spoke to me about it were disappointed when i said 'I'm not good at drawing faces'.
Posted by: Jackson Pollock at May 05, 2017 10:01 AM (DdGS0)

See, if it was me, I would have said that you were eliminating the faces in an effort to make the figures more universal. So that they became whoever the veiwer wanted them to be. But "can't draw faces well" works too.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2017 10:04 AM (nwqNw)

157 Whoa - don;t mess with China:

https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/
860050193550643200

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 10:04 AM (NOIQH)

158 Sorry, didn't finish -

So, unless Selznick was commissioning Benton to paint a scene from the nonexistent film version of a play that he had no connection with and had no hand in producing, the Whitney's blurb is wrong. It would have been a gift from Selznick to his wife (they were separated at the time and divorced in 1949) and based on the play, not a nonexistent movie.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 10:05 AM (X6fMO)

159 Stella Artois. Always Be Beering.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 05, 2017 10:01 AM


I am slacking, aren't I?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 10:05 AM (p+Wdc)

160 "Muscular socialist' - good description for it.
Not my cup of tea, either.

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That's my nickname

got any carbon neutral free-range herbal tea?

Posted by: pajamaboy at May 05, 2017 10:05 AM (oGRue)

161 Ok people in boxes. Time to do stuff.

Have a good one.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 05, 2017 10:06 AM (/tuJf)

162 Fox reporting a U. S. spec op killed in Somalia.

Prayers for the poor family. Somalia needs a MOAB.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:06 AM (PY9jH)

163 129 male gaze!

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you caught us?

Posted by: Shep Smith and Chris Hayes at May 05, 2017 10:06 AM (oGRue)

164 158 Sorry, didn't finish -

So, unless Selznick was commissioning Benton to paint a scene from the nonexistent film version of a play that he had no connection with and had no hand in producing, the Whitney's blurb is wrong. It would have been a gift from Selznick to his wife (they were separated at the time and divorced in 1949) and based on the play, not a nonexistent movie.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 10:05 AM (X6fMO)

Probably written by a millennial with an art history degree from some diploma mill.

Posted by: josephistan at May 05, 2017 10:06 AM (7HtZB)

165 "How the hell does anyone do that?"

Any chance that you had uninvited guests last night.


Not unheard of for someone to gain access through an unsecured garage door, then into the living area through an unlocked inner garage/kitchen door.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:06 AM (J+eG2)

166
See, if it was me, I would have said that you were eliminating the faces in an effort to make the figures more universal. So that they became whoever the veiwer wanted them to be. But "can't draw faces well" works too.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2017 10:04 AM (nwqNw)

Damn. If you had coached me Kris, I might have sold something! Lol.

Posted by: Jackson Pollock at May 05, 2017 10:07 AM (DdGS0)

167 It's the whole sort of wobbly thing that I can't name. Do you know what I mean, if you look at his stuff?

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 10:02 AM (sBOL1)

Do you think that everything looks like it's depicted at a Dutch angle? I could see that. I think what Benton is trying to do here is mix traditional realism with contemporary Modernist uses of color and line, like the Futurists, for example.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2017 10:07 AM (nwqNw)

168 160 "Muscular socialist' - good description for it.
Not my cup of tea, either.

---

That's my nickname

got any carbon neutral free-range herbal tea?
Posted by: pajamaboy at May 05, 2017 10:05 AM (oGRue)

sotto voce
We've secretly replaced pajamaboy's carbon neutral free-range herbal tea with hot piss. Let's see if he notices the difference.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 10:07 AM (0mRoj)

169 Any chance that you had uninvited guests last night.


Not unheard of for someone to gain access through an unsecured garage door, then into the living area through an unlocked inner garage/kitchen door.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

we don't come in through the doors

Posted by: crabs at May 05, 2017 10:07 AM (FZYNt)

170 Jeff Goldblum (who is not dead, apparently) and Danny DeVito to star in an Amazon comedy series about a Simon and Garfunkle-like duo who hate each other who are forced to reconcile.

http://tinyurl.com/mbfgk56

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 05, 2017 10:08 AM (Nwg0u)

171 Off Pollock sock...

Posted by: Can Bob at May 05, 2017 10:08 AM (DdGS0)

172 What I mean about putting the year in the title would be like this:

Poker Night (From A Streetcar Named Desire) (1947)
Thomas Hart Benton

Saint George And The Dragon
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael) (1483-1520)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 05, 2017 10:09 AM (DuH+r)

173 Amber
Tiffani
Brittany
Raquel
Stella

would you stick around to see Stella?

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hell, i'd flee the solar system

Posted by: Harry Mudd at May 05, 2017 10:09 AM (oGRue)

174 we don't come in through the doors

Posted by: crabs at May 05, 2017 10:07 AM (FZYNt)


Tell me about it.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 05, 2017 10:09 AM (X6fMO)

175 Stella Dallas

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2017 10:09 AM (IqV8l)

176 170 Jeff Goldblum (who is not dead, apparently) and Danny DeVito to star in an Amazon comedy series about a Simon and Garfunkle-like duo who hate each other who are forced to reconcile.

http://tinyurl.com/mbfgk56
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 05, 2017 10:08 AM (Nwg0u)


"Very original."

- - The Sunshine Boys, 1975

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:09 AM (mbhDw)

177 Damn. If you had coached me Kris, I might have sold something! Lol.
Posted by: Jackson Pollock at May 05, 2017 10:07 AM (DdGS0)

One of the lesser-known benefits of an art history education is the ability to BS at will.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2017 10:10 AM (nwqNw)

178 I once met a girl named Stella,
she was quite a looker I tell ya.
I thought she'd be really good,
then I checked under the hood,
and found it she was really a fella.

Posted by: Country Boy channelling Muldoon at May 05, 2017 10:10 AM (Jcg9Q)

179
Star Jones?

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 05, 2017 10:10 AM (MIKMs)

180 Stella Galaxy?

Posted by: Strobe at May 05, 2017 10:10 AM (gbWkA)

181 and husband slept cluelessly until I informed him of his leaving the doors opened this morning. How the hell does anyone do that?



Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:04 AM (PY9jH)


Someone seems unclear on the concept of "alcohol".

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 05, 2017 10:11 AM (z79tQ)

182 Do you think that everything looks like it's depicted at a Dutch angle? I could see that. I think what Benton is trying to do here is mix traditional realism with contemporary Modernist uses of color and line, like the Futurists, for example.
Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2017 10:07 AM (nwqNw)
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Oh boy. You lost me starting with Dutch angle. I'm not talking about this picture (if that helps), but rather all the images I got when I searched his name. Everything seems to be rolling hills, wacky perspective, etc.

Also, now I see the problem with the Whitney's description - I thought it just said it was commissioned in 1947 based on the play, but it specifically mentions the film. I DO need more coffee!

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 10:11 AM (sBOL1)

183 178 I once met a girl named Stella,
she was quite a looker I tell ya.
I thought she'd be really good,
then I checked under the hood,
and found it she was really a fella.
Posted by: Country Boy channelling Muldoon

This is the story of Obama

Posted by: Rick in SK at May 05, 2017 10:11 AM (FZYNt)

184 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 10:05 AM (X6fMO)

12 Very nice, good composition and keeps the feeling of the theater.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 05, 2017 09:30 AM (hLRSq)


That's what I was trying to say - it looks like a set from a play,

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 05, 2017 10:11 AM (hLRSq)

185 "....and that my friendshhh, is how stella got her groove back !"

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 10:11 AM (c6/9Q)

186 Any chance that you had uninvited guests last night.





Not unheard of for someone to gain access through an unsecured
garage door, then into the living area through an unlocked inner
garage/kitchen door.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:06 AM (J+eG2)


We're in a secure community. Husband has forgotten to pull the door into the house securely before. And has forgotten to close the garage.

We're just lucky we weren't awakened by a racoon or fox. I saw a racoon crossing the street in broad daylight a few days ago. Sort of ambling. Not a good sign.


There was a widow out here who was awakened by a newly adopted kitteh batting at something under her bed. Her two dogs were asleep on the bed. She looked under the bed, and there was a water moccasin stretched out under her headboard. The brave old lady grabbed a broom, "herded" the snake (which fortunately was smallish) into her bathroom, and managed to flush it down the toilet (I'd never use that toilet again).


{{{shudder}}}

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:11 AM (PY9jH)

187 139 I see similarities with Salvadore Dali. Everybody looks like they're melting.

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Maybe Indy was transporting the Ark in the streetcar.

Posted by: Harry Mudd at May 05, 2017 10:11 AM (oGRue)

188 If Obama were in this painting, he'd be the dude in the hat with his back to the girls, clearly angry that the other guys aren't paying enough attention to the game.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 05, 2017 10:12 AM (KUaJL)

189 SJW remake: "A Subway Named Rape"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:13 AM (PY9jH)

190 So now the house has mosquitos, and husband slept cluelessly until I informed him of his leaving the doors opened this morning. How the hell does anyone do that?

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he wasn't clever enough to blame the cat?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 05, 2017 10:14 AM (oGRue)

191 I never saw Streetcar.

That was back when Hollywood was trying to be all arty farty.

Every actor in sho biz copped a southern accent at some point in the 50's.

Posted by: eleven at May 05, 2017 10:14 AM (qUNWi)

192 Anna Puma--if you check in here--more on your story title.

OMG, it's about a gem! There's your title. If a stone is in a museum, it's famous enough to have a name. The Canary Diamond Caper. The Rajah Ruby Caper. The Satin Sapphire caper. Etc.

Pinch of Larceny is a fine title, but it carries a suggestion of food to me. You don't want to mislead the reader.

Posted by: Wenda (sic) at May 05, 2017 10:14 AM (Kr0FZ)

193 177 Damn. If you had coached me Kris, I might have sold something! Lol.
Posted by: Jackson Pollock at May 05, 2017 10:07 AM (DdGS0)

One of the lesser-known benefits of an art history education is the ability to BS at will.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2017 10:10 AM (nwqNw)


Actually a very valuable skill. I did OK in medical sales because as my dad called it 'a gift to gab. But you would actually sound cultured and intelligent. I mostly told dirty jokes to nurses.

Posted by: Can Bob at May 05, 2017 10:14 AM (DdGS0)

194 Blanche has some sharpies there.

Posted by: eleven at May 05, 2017 10:14 AM (qUNWi)

195 If anyone is in New York this weekend, you can see Classical Greek art for free at the Onassis Center. And Christie's Rockfeller Center begins its exhibition of Impressionist & Modern art, also for free. You can see paintings by Monet, Renoir, et al that may never been seen in public again.

Posted by: josephistan at May 05, 2017 10:14 AM (7HtZB)

196 If Obama were in this painting, he'd be the dude in
the hat with his back to the girls, clearly angry that the other guys
aren't paying enough attention to the game.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 05, 2017 10:12 AM (KUaJL)


Please keep your BO references for after 5PM. Thank you for your cooperation.

Posted by: Art Thread Loudspeaker at May 05, 2017 10:15 AM (c6/9Q)

197 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 09:57 AM (mbhDw)

Thanks J.J.....learn something here evey day.

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2017 10:15 AM (x9c8r)

198 Stella Stevens (who was Marilyn Monroe's roommate at one time):

http://tinyurl.com/mzsycb3

Stella Dallas, starring Barbara Stanwyck:

http://tinyurl.com/mftzfsx

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 10:15 AM (X6fMO)

199 And Christie's Rockfeller Center begins its exhibition of Impressionist & Modern art, also for free. You can see paintings by Monet, Renoir, et al that may never been seen in public again.
Posted by: josephistan at May 05, 2017 10:14 AM (7HtZB)
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Oh wow, josephistan, how I wish I could go. Are you going?

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 10:16 AM (sBOL1)

200 The nice thing about the Dutch angle is that you can swing back the top part and get air into the house, but keep the bottom closed to keep the dogs and cows out.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 05, 2017 10:16 AM (AuaS3)

201 Erie Barnes.
Thanks, j.j. he a fair amount of album cover, apparently. Even that iconic Marin Gaye one.

Posted by: Fried Baloney Sandwich at May 05, 2017 10:16 AM (xgKhT)

202 J.J.

So, is it just me or has Ain't It Cool News gotten a whole lot worse in terms of shoving politics in places where it doesn't belong recently? Or have I just not been paying enough attention over the last few years?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 05, 2017 10:16 AM (/prE6)

203 "If Obama were in this painting, he'd be the dude swish in
the hat with his back to the girls, clearly angry that the other guys
aren't paying enough attention to the game him.


*Suggested edit*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:16 AM (J+eG2)

204 I'm really disappointed we didn't have time to make it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art while in NY last weekend.

We managed to spend an afternoon at the 9/11 museum (which was heartbreaking and enraging at the same time), take in "Present Laughter" at the St. James, and visit the top of the Freedom Tower (which is so worth it!).

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:17 AM (PY9jH)

205 Dogs Playing Poker

Posted by: floridacracker at May 05, 2017 10:17 AM (ykpj4)

206 Schadenboner!

Spooked by Trump, Central American immigrants turn to Mexico

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 05, 2017 10:17 AM (Nwg0u)

207 Is this before or after the rape?

Posted by: Fritz at May 05, 2017 10:17 AM (2Mnv1)

208 'Just the Tip' of Larcency

Posted by: Patton's Ghost at May 05, 2017 10:17 AM (f04Jh)

209 If Obama were in this painting, he'd be the dude in the hat with his back to the girls, clearly angry that the other guys aren't paying enough attention to the game.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 05, 2017 10:12 AM (KUaJL)


Cmon man. Back to the women dude and the one grabbing another bottle are the only two sensible ones in the room. A vixen who comes into a mans area to disrupt and titillate (swidt?) is up to no damn good and should be shown the door or ignored.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 05, 2017 10:18 AM (z79tQ)

210 Posted by: Fritz at May 05, 2017 10:17 AM (2Mnv1)

Before. She has to admitted to a rest home for psychiatric care after the rape.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2017 10:19 AM (fDdVG)

211 The painting conveys desperation. Just like the movie.

Contortion. Darkness. Conflicted posturing. Similar to Chenavard's painting of Dante's Inferno.

Thanks for the selection.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 05, 2017 10:19 AM (4AVeu)

212 Before. She has to admitted to a rest home for psychiatric care after the rape.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

This girl has been poked more times than a pincushion

Posted by: Rick in SK at May 05, 2017 10:20 AM (FZYNt)

213 So, RMBS, are you going to meet Stella? Nosy minds want to know.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 10:20 AM (sBOL1)

214 200 The nice thing about the Dutch angle is that you can swing back the top part and get air into the house, but keep the bottom closed to keep the dogs and cows out.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 05, 2017 10:16 AM (AuaS3)

Make sure the air your letting in was not caused by the Dutch oven though.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2017 10:20 AM (nwqNw)

215
189 SJW remake: "A Subway Named Rape"
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:13 AM (PY9jH)


And insist on staging it in New Orleans, "Chocolate City", with all actors in full wet suits and SCUBA gear.

"Stewwwwwwwwwwwa! *glub, glub, glub *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 05, 2017 10:22 AM (pNxlR)

216 We managed to spend an afternoon at the 9/11 museum (which was heartbreaking and enraging at the same time)

Speaking of that, didn't one of the Horde mention, earlier in the week, about being at the museum and overhearing two arabs joking about flying into the second tower? I never caught the end of that story.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 10:22 AM (X6fMO)

217 You lost me starting with Dutch angle.

-
Don't look it up on Urban Dictionary!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 05, 2017 10:22 AM (Nwg0u)

218 202 J.J.

So, is it just me or has Ain't It Cool News gotten a whole lot worse in terms of shoving politics in places where it doesn't belong recently? Or have I just not been paying enough attention over the last few years?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 05, 2017 10:16 AM (/prE6)


I assume you mean Hot Air? I have not clicked over there in over two years, even when Ace links to them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:22 AM (mbhDw)

219 Speaking of that, didn't one of the Horde mention, earlier in the week, about being at the museum and overhearing two arabs joking about flying into the second tower?

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*fumes*

I probably would have gone to jail and you guys would be hearing about me on CNN.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 05, 2017 10:23 AM (8XRCm)

220 204 I'm really disappointed we didn't have time to make it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art while in NY last weekend.

We managed to spend an afternoon at the 9/11 museum (which was heartbreaking and enraging at the same time), take in "Present Laughter" at the St. James, and visit the top of the Freedom Tower (which is so worth it!).
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:17 AM (PY9jH)


You were THIS close >

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:23 AM (mbhDw)

221 "Speaking of that, didn't one of the Horde mention, earlier in the week, about being at the museum and overhearing two arabs joking about flying into the second tower? I never caught the end of that story."

I thought that was Jane, at the Vietnam Wall in DC.

But, I could be wrong.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:24 AM (J+eG2)

222
This Close >___<

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:24 AM (mbhDw)

223 Contortion. Darkness. Conflicted posturing. Similar to Chenavard's painting of Dante's Inferno the Hillary campaign.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 05, 2017 10:24 AM (Nwg0u)

224 Haircut time. Later.

Posted by: Country Boy channelling Muldoon at May 05, 2017 10:24 AM (Jcg9Q)

225 You lost me starting with Dutch angle.



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Don't look it up on Urban Dictionary!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Yeesh. Dutch angel is even worse.

Posted by: Dang at May 05, 2017 10:25 AM (8b+oT)

226 224 Haircut time. Later.
Posted by: Country Boy channelling Muldoon at May 05, 2017 10:24 AM (Jcg9Q)


Which one you getting cut?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:25 AM (mbhDw)

227 225 Yeesh. Dutch angel is even worse.


Posted by: Dang at May 05, 2017 10:25 AM (8b+oT)


*Screams Internally*

Posted by: Hikaru at May 05, 2017 10:26 AM (9TK8E)

228 The Dutch Angle is a movie about a gang heist of tulip bulbs. The plot was stolen and made into Ocean's Eleven.

Posted by: Strobe at May 05, 2017 10:26 AM (gbWkA)

229 why does the wife beater have vulcan ears?

Hey!

Posted by: Puck/Satyr at May 05, 2017 10:27 AM (joFoi)

230
Speaking of that, didn't one of the Horde
mention, earlier in the week, about being at the museum and overhearing
two arabs joking about flying into the second tower? I never caught the
end of that story.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 10:22 AM (X6fMO)


That was me. There is a video on a wall that is kind of easy to walk past, but my husband and I saw it. It is one I've never seen, just a few seconds. A reporter is typing on his laptop as smoke is coming out of the first tower, then suddenly the second plane flies into the second tower and disappears into a fireball. It was stunning. We stood and watched it at least eight times. My husband moved on to another exhibit, and as I was turning to join him, three Mideastern looking young men arrived and began watching the video, putting their hands over their mouths and laughing and speaking to each other in whispers. I was shocked, and looked around for a security guard and couldn't find one. I told my husband about the incident, and we tried to find the guys, but they had disappeared into the crowd.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:27 AM (PY9jH)

231 I thought that was Jane, at the Vietnam Wall in DC.

But, I could be wrong.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:24 AM (J+eG2)
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I think it was JJ, in front of the bull statue on Wall Street.

I could be wrong too.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 10:27 AM (sBOL1)

232 So it WAS Jane that I remembered.

Just the wrong location.


Batting' 500 is pretty good around here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:28 AM (J+eG2)

233
We managed to spend an afternoon at the 9/11 museum (which was heartbreaking and enraging at the same time),


Jane, how could not have stepped outside for just a sec and visited Hillary's most solid supporter, the bollard against ehich she leaned just seconds before being tossed into the Scooby Van "like a side o' beef"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 05, 2017 10:28 AM (pNxlR)

234 It was Colonel Mustard at Mt Rushmore.

Posted by: eleven at May 05, 2017 10:28 AM (qUNWi)

235 Anna puma, thought for a title if you're still looking

Petite theft

?

Posted by: Toddler at May 05, 2017 10:28 AM (YfOsp)

236 Dutch Angle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_angle

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2017 10:28 AM (nwqNw)

237
Heh. I love my job.

We're going to the shooting range today just for the fun of it.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 05, 2017 10:29 AM (8XRCm)

238 Stella Stevens (who was Marilyn Monroe's roommate at one time):



http://tinyurl.com/mzsycb3



Stella Dallas, starring Barbara Stanwyck:



http://tinyurl.com/mftzfsx

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 10:15 AM


I seem to have unleashed a fountain of Horde-sourced knowledge, here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 10:29 AM (p+Wdc)

239 I think it was JJ, in front of the bull statue on Wall Street.

I could be wrong too.

Posted by: bluebell
__________

That was me in front of the Michelangelo statue of David.

Posted by: Low Information Ex-President at May 05, 2017 10:30 AM (j+dfT)

240 Just as an aside, my laptop is in the shop for repair.

So Mrs VIA is kind enough to let me use hers.

Of course hers doesn't have Adblock plus, or Ghostery loaded.


Good god, is Aces home page mess of ads, which I normally never see.

Glad to see that he is generating income at least.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:30 AM (J+eG2)

241 Barky was probably disappointed that Michelle, in fact, did not have a penis.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at May 05, 2017 10:31 AM (wvCEt)

242
Ghostery is the shizz.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 05, 2017 10:32 AM (8XRCm)

243 230 Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:27 AM (PY9jH)


If I had witnessed that, it would not have been pretty.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:32 AM (mbhDw)

244 Jane, how could not have stepped outside for just a
sec and visited Hillary's most solid supporter, the bollard against
ehich she leaned just seconds before being tossed into the Scooby Van
"like a side o' beef"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 05, 2017 10:28 AM (pNxlR)


Oh, I visited it all right. As we were about to cross the street, I said sorta loudly, "Isn't this the spot where Hillary nearly faceplanted?" My comment was met with scowls. heheheheheheh

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:32 AM (PY9jH)

245 Dutch Angle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_angle
Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2017 10:28 AM (nwqNw)


Like all the bad guy's lairs and fight scenes in Batman

naner-naner-naner-naner, naner-naner-naner-naner . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at May 05, 2017 10:32 AM (AuaS3)

246 Most of those places had signs reading "Liquor in the front, Poker in the rear"

True fact, even if it is total bulshit!

Posted by: Killerdog at May 05, 2017 10:32 AM (decDW)

247 I never saw Streetcar.



That was back when Hollywood was trying to be all arty farty.



Every actor in sho biz copped a southern accent at some point in the 50's.

Posted by: eleven
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You! Why you don't even know what you're sayin'! You're mad, I tell ya! Mad! This whole world's gone mad and I can't take it anymore! And ain't it remarkable how I can ramble on and on in this scene with no one telling me to pipe down or shut the fuck up like in real life? I'm going to soliloquy the shit out of this scene, I tell ya!

Posted by: Dang at May 05, 2017 10:32 AM (8b+oT)

248 241 Barky was probably disappointed that Michelle, in fact, did not have a penis.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo
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Objection--assuming facts not in evidence.

Posted by: Furious George at May 05, 2017 10:33 AM (j+dfT)

249 199 And Christie's Rockfeller Center begins its exhibition of Impressionist & Modern art, also for free. You can see paintings by Monet, Renoir, et al that may never been seen in public again.
Posted by: josephistan at May 05, 2017 10:14 AM (7HtZB)
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Oh wow, josephistan, how I wish I could go. Are you going?

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 10:16 AM (sBOL1)

I'm going up to take my mom to the Frick Collection - they have an exhibition on Turner that will be closing soon. We might try to see those as well. Or go to the Strand.

Posted by: josephistan at May 05, 2017 10:34 AM (7HtZB)

250
Dutch in cinematography is to set up the camera not 90 degrees to the action. It makes the action seem off balance, anxious and tense.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:35 AM (mbhDw)

251 My husband, not an emotional guy, got more and more choked up in the museum. I got angrier and angrier.

As we were nearing the exit, there is a Billy Jeff quote on a wall (down near the floor, clearly hoping most people will miss it) saying something like the reason he didn't go after bin Laden was because "innocent women and children could have been killed."

That was the final straw for my husband. He pointed to the quotation and loudly said, "YOU FAILED AT YOUR JOB, YOU COWARD!"

Everyone turned and stared, and we left before we were thrown out.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:35 AM (PY9jH)

252 "Ghostery is the whizz."
*Fist bump*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:36 AM (J+eG2)

253 249
I'm going up to take my mom to the Frick Collection - they have an exhibition on Turner that will be closing soon. We might try to see those as well. Or go to the Strand.
Posted by: josephistan at May 05, 2017 10:34 AM (7HtZB)


I just might have to go myself.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:36 AM (mbhDw)

254 Every actor in sho biz copped a southern accent at some point in the 50's.
____________________________________

They could use more of that today.

For example, how is it that in The Walking Dead, which is set in Georgia, none of the characters have a southern accent?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 05, 2017 10:36 AM (4AVeu)

255 Well, chores call. Later, horde.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:36 AM (PY9jH)

256
Oh, I visited it all right. As we were about to cross the street, I said sorta loudly, "Isn't this the spot where Hillary nearly faceplanted?" My comment was met with scowls. heheheheheheh.


You go, Jane!

Somewhere in NYC there has to be an enterprising street vendor who can cobble together a weebly-wobbly looking cardboard cutout of Hillary, lean it against said bollard, and offer passersby the opportunity to have "your picture taken with Hillary". Just gotta be!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 05, 2017 10:37 AM (pNxlR)

257 >>>>So, is it just me or has Ain't It Cool News gotten a whole lot worse in terms of shoving politics in places where it doesn't belong recently? Or have I just not been paying enough attention over the last few years?

Fat Harry has been shedding staff faster than his falling ad revenue. Many of the overly political articles are written by none other than the fat homunculus Harry himself. In the past most of the content was provided by staffers who could actually form a coherent sentence.

Posted by: GROOT at May 05, 2017 10:37 AM (QCc6B)

258 " Well, chores call. Later, horde."


Can't you just let it go to voicemail?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:37 AM (J+eG2)

259 Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 05, 2017 10:27 AM (PY9jH)

Animals.

Good thing I wasn't there. I'd have shouted, "Do you think that's a fucking joke, Mohammad? Do you?" and let the chips fall where they may.

I'm so sorry for you.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 10:37 AM (X6fMO)

260 So, RMBS, are you going to meet Stella? Nosy minds want to know.


Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 10:20 AM


LOL No idea, yet. My friend is playing matchmaker and she's only spoken to me so far to see if I might be interested. The young lady lives outside of Atlanta, so this might be a tad difficult logistically. Still, I'm game.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 10:38 AM (p+Wdc)

261 Ha ha Guardians of the Galaxy sock fail.

Posted by: Max Power at May 05, 2017 10:38 AM (QCc6B)

262 What is this "Ain't It Cool News" you are all referring too?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:38 AM (mbhDw)

263
Oh, I visited it all right. As we were about to cross the street, I said sorta loudly, "Isn't this the spot where Hillary nearly faceplanted?" My comment was met with scowls. heheheheheheh

Posted by: Jane D'oh
_____________________________________

OW!!

HEY!!!

Yeah,, but did you find her shoe?

*spins around, grabs mic*

HEY!!!


Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at May 05, 2017 10:39 AM (HSmrB)

264 Still, I'm game.


===

Tell her you comment on a Smart Military Blog (TM). She'd be impressed !

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 10:40 AM (c6/9Q)

265 The Rainmakers first album had some Benton artwork.


http://tinyurl.com/mypaucr

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2017 10:41 AM (IqV8l)

266 241 Barky was probably disappointed that Michelle, in fact, did not have a penis.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at May 05, 2017 10:31 AM (wvCEt)

Let me be clear: All indications were that she was hung like a horse. But I refuse to be bound by the previous conventions of tranny-ness.

Posted by: Barack "it's a man, baby" Obama at May 05, 2017 10:41 AM (RD7QR)

267 Still, I'm game.


===

Tell her you comment on a Smart Military Blog (TM). She'd be impressed !


Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 10:40 AM (c6/9Q)


It would be even funnier if she turned out to be Masturbatin' Pete.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 10:42 AM (X6fMO)

268 Drama queen much?

Caveat: Link to HuffPo.

http://tinyurl.com/kcud6kq

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 05, 2017 10:42 AM (Nwg0u)

269 262 What is this "Ain't It Cool News" you are all referring too?



Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2017 10:38 AM (mbhDw)


Some site about Movie/Hollywood stuff, I think

Posted by: Hikaru at May 05, 2017 10:43 AM (WDCYi)

270 Still, I'm game.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 10:38 AM (p+Wdc)
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That's the stuff, RMBS.

I have my dress for the wedding all picked out.



Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 10:43 AM (sBOL1)

271 It would be even funnier if she turned out to be Masturbatin' Pete.



Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 10:42 AM (X6fMO)

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 10:43 AM (c6/9Q)

272 268 Drama queen much?

Caveat: Link to HuffPo.

http://tinyurl.com/kcud6kq
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 05, 2017 10:42 AM (Nwg0u)

Oh good Lord.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 10:43 AM (0mRoj)

273
267 It would be even funnier if she turned out to be Masturbatin' Pete.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 10:42 AM (X6fMO)


"In a world..."

Posted by: Six Degrees of Ace of Spades HQ at May 05, 2017 10:44 AM (pNxlR)

274 Morning all. Late start driving to Oklahoma City. Stopped at Chich-fil-A to get my h8 on!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2017 10:44 AM (rTZKG)

275 LOL No idea, yet. My friend is playing matchmaker and she's only spoken to me so far to see if I might be interested. The young lady lives outside of Atlanta, so this might be a tad difficult logistically. Still, I'm game.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 10:38 AM (p+Wdc)

Are you certain about the "lady" part? Can't be too careful these days.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 10:44 AM (0mRoj)

276 Maduro's bully boys getting down and dirty in Venezuela.

https://youtu.be/4xrwFdW77uc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 05, 2017 10:46 AM (Nwg0u)

277 272 268 Drama queen much?

Caveat: Link to HuffPo.

http://tinyurl.com/kcud6kq
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 05, 2017 10:42 AM (Nwg0u)

Oh good Lord.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 10:43 AM (0mRoj)

The full on hysterics that these people are experiencing over the 0-care rejiggering make me think that maybe it's not as bad as I fear.

Posted by: josephistan at May 05, 2017 10:46 AM (7HtZB)

278 Poker? I barely even know her!

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 05, 2017 10:47 AM (Fb9aZ)

279 Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 10:43 AM (0mRoj)

The rage/crazy spiral tachs up some more. I wish the Democrats luck* in riding the whirlwind.


*Didn't say what sort of luck.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 05, 2017 10:48 AM (hLRSq)

280 If it hasn't been mentioned already, in the original Broadway production, Blanche was played by Jessica Tandy.

In other words, you're looking at Miss Daisy's nipples.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 05, 2017 10:48 AM (kQrwm)

281 Poker? I barely even know her!


Posted by: Publius Redux at May 05, 2017 10:47 AM (Fb9aZ)

howdy !


Posted by: Temporal Flux at May 05, 2017 10:49 AM (c6/9Q)

282 Are you certain about the "lady" part? Can't be too careful these days.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 10:44 AM


Normally words to live by. In this case, my sources are trustworthy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 10:49 AM (p+Wdc)

283 http://tinyurl.com/kcud6kq
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 05, 2017 10:42 AM (Nwg0u)
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Hyperbole at its finest. Check out the comments; they all think this is just great, for the most part. Scariest one is from a doctor (alleged) who says he couldn't have summed up the cruelty of this legislation better.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 10:49 AM (sBOL1)

284 OMG. One of my co-workers is wearing a tiny little sombrero. I feel so triggered!!!111!!!1

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 05, 2017 10:50 AM (uhftQ)

285 David, what were you thinking? I can't hang this in my house. You can see her nipples, for God's sake. What will my friends say?

Posted by: Irene Selznick at May 05, 2017 10:51 AM (tHwdc)

286 That's the stuff, RMBS.



I have my dress for the wedding all picked out.









Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 10:43 AM


You never know...there could be hope for us older single 'rons.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 10:51 AM (p+Wdc)

287 Hyperbole at its finest. Check out the comments; they all think this is just great, for the most part. Scariest one is from a doctor (alleged) who says he couldn't have summed up the cruelty of this legislation better.



Dr is from Cambridge. He should know firsthand about gov run healthcare.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2017 10:51 AM (rTZKG)

288 >>http://tinyurl.com/kcud6kq


Anyone who does that is mentally unstable and/or didn't love the deceased.

What kind of idiot do have to be to use the remains of a loved one to score political points. We have reached Idiocracy.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 10:51 AM (NOIQH)

289 We have reached Idiocracy.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 10:51 AM (NOIQH)
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We've been soaking in it for eight years.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 10:53 AM (sBOL1)

290 >>>262 What is this "Ain't It Cool News" you are all referring too?

Movie and entertainment news with a hipster Geek vibe. Lots of comic-con type stuff. Once very, very popular with that set, now in a steep trajectory downward.

Posted by: Max Power at May 05, 2017 10:53 AM (QCc6B)

291 "We have reached Idiocracy."

One of my favorite documentaries.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:54 AM (J+eG2)

292 If you didn't catch this. Detailed explanation of TrumpCare.

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dennis-prager-radio-show/e/50055921?autoplay=true

Prager H1: Dennis talks to Betsy McCaughey, senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths... Dennis talks to Ami Horowitz, video journalist. Ami and PragerU have embarked on a new partnership to bring Ami's informative and provocative videos to a bigger audience.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 05, 2017 10:54 AM (fceHP)

293 It's like monsoon season here ,geesh.

Posted by: steevy at May 05, 2017 10:54 AM (r/0kC)

294 What comes after Idiocracy?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2017 10:54 AM (IqV8l)

295 You never know...there could be hope for us older single 'rons.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 10:51 AM (p+Wdc)

Maybe for you, and I wish you all the luck in the world.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 10:54 AM (0mRoj)

296 http://tinyurl.com/kcud6kq


Anyone who does that is mentally unstable and/or didn't love the deceased.

What kind of idiot do have to be to use the remains of a loved one to score political points. We have reached Idiocracy.



Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 10:51 AM


Not sure which is worse...the idea, or the hyperventilating hyperbole of both the idiot and the HuffPo author. "Watched in horror..." AYFKM?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 10:55 AM (p+Wdc)

297 We have reached Idiocracy.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 10:51 AM (NOIQH)


Ma'am, you missed that stop two stations ago.
Next stop is Black Obelisk. Please pick up your hurling-bone at the exit as you leave.

Posted by: Crazy Train Conductor at May 05, 2017 10:55 AM (z79tQ)

298 Anyone who does that is mentally unstable and/or didn't love the deceased.

What kind of idiot do have to be to use the remains of a loved one to score political points. We have reached Idiocracy.



Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 10:51 AM (NOIQH)


They're not just waving the bloody shirt, but also what was wearing it.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 05, 2017 10:55 AM (hLRSq)

299 288 >>http://tinyurl.com/kcud6kq


Anyone who does that is mentally unstable and/or didn't love the deceased.

What kind of idiot do have to be to use the remains of a loved one to score political points. We have reached Idiocracy.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 10:51 AM (NOIQH)

Except in Idiocracy they were just, well, idiotic but not malign.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 10:56 AM (0mRoj)

300 >>We've been soaking in it for eight years.

Yeah, bluebell, I guess we have...



Thanks for the Prager link, artisinal 'ette!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 10:56 AM (NOIQH)

301 You never know...there could be hope for us older single 'rons.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 10:51 AM (p+Wdc)



Maybe for you, and I wish you all the luck in the world.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 10:54 AM


Thanks. And remember, we're pullin' for ya. Keep your stick on the ice.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2017 10:56 AM (p+Wdc)

302 What comes after Idiocracy?


Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2017 10:54 AM (IqV8l)


Sit back a spell, the Democrats are going to show us soon. I think they call it "Lunaticocracy."

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 05, 2017 10:57 AM (hLRSq)

303 title of the painting: alcohol makes men gender fluid........

Posted by: phoenixgirl... at May 05, 2017 10:57 AM (0O7c5)

304 The Leftist viewpoint is so dominant and it is everywhere.Facebook ,Youtube,movies ,magazines and TV (now even sports).We can look past it but imagine the kids,who also get it pounded into their skulls every day at school.Oh,it's in video games now too and of course books.

Posted by: steevy at May 05, 2017 10:57 AM (r/0kC)

305 What comes after Idiocracy?

-
The Four Horsemen.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 05, 2017 10:57 AM (Nwg0u)

306 294. Zardoz!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 10:58 AM (TwwWO)

307
From "People of Color Bear the Brunt of Fast-Food Explosion" at HuffPo --

But it's often overlooked that urban, African American neighborhoods have been disproportionately targeted by the continued expansion of fast-food chains.


Nary a mention of similar targeting of said neighborhoods by Planned Parenthood abortion mills wimmen's health clinics.

Imagine that.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 05, 2017 10:59 AM (pNxlR)

308 So I watched some of Grey's Anatomy with Mrs VIA last night.

[ X ] Heterosexual female with incurable medical condition who wants to have sex with as many men as possible before she dies? And an understanding medical Staff who supports her goal

[ X ] Lesbian Doctors who describe their desire to have sex with each other.

[ x ] Crazy Christers who will deprive their child of life saving medical care because....well...they're Christians. And because of that, they are crazy


Another show that can eat a bag of dicks.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:59 AM (J+eG2)

309 I like this painting. Not much of a film or stage buff, but there a few that stand out and Streetcar is one of them. Paintings fits with my mental image.

And this is OT and pinched from Morning News

105
*ponders*

A Pinch of Larceny[i/i] or A Nick of Larceny


Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2017 07:45 AM (PRRXR)

I like A Pinch of Larceny. Short and sounds good. And I like the multiple definitions of pinch. 2 cents.

Posted by: gracepc at May 05, 2017 10:59 AM (OU4q6)

310 Zardoz!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 10:58 AM (TwwWO)


Is that where Sean Connery walks around in a red diaper? Because I'll take the Four Horsemen instead.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 05, 2017 11:00 AM (hLRSq)

311 Knew it was Benton at first glance. I did not know he did any work for Hollowwood though.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 05, 2017 11:01 AM (TOk1P)

312 >>Except in Idiocracy they were just, well, idiotic but not malign.


True.
There's something disgusting about not treating someone's remains with care, about thinking that they are just another political tool to smite your political boogeymen. It's really telling how far gone their humanity is that they would do this.

Then again, these are the same people who regularly pelt Republicans and police with their own urine, feces. Toddler-level aggression.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 11:01 AM (NOIQH)

313
Another show that can eat a bag of dicks.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:59 AM


Aren't all modern TV shows like that?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2017 11:02 AM (IqV8l)

314 297 We have reached Idiocracy.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 10:51 AM (NOIQH)


Ma'am, you missed that stop two stations ago.
Next stop is Black Obelisk. Please pick up your hurling-bone at the exit as you leave.
Posted by: Crazy Train Conductor at May 05, 2017 10:55 AM (z79tQ)

Hurlingbone sounds like some snooty British name. "Announcing His Lordship Farmington Richtwit, Earl of Hurlingbone."

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 11:02 AM (0mRoj)

315 artisanal 'ette, thanks for that Prager link. I'm listening to it right now.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 11:03 AM (sBOL1)

316 280 If it hasn't been mentioned already, in the original Broadway production, Blanche was played by Jessica Tandy.

In other words, you're looking at Miss Daisy's nipples.

You're welcome.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 05, 2017 10:48 AM (kQrwm)

I used to work at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, which back in the 40s-60s was the tryout venue for Broadway plays before they debuted in New York, and they have a big still photo of that performance.

Posted by: josephistan at May 05, 2017 11:03 AM (7HtZB)

317 The Earl has a petty bone.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2017 11:03 AM (IqV8l)

318 Then again, these are the same people who regularly pelt Republicans and police with their own urine, feces. Toddler-level aggression.

-
Everything They Need To Know They Didn't Learn In Kindergarten

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 05, 2017 11:04 AM (Nwg0u)

319 >>So I watched some of Grey's Anatomy with Mrs VIA last night.


Ugh, don't watch any Shonda Rimes shows, VIA!

She's the one who just joined the PP national board as a reward for so helpfully pushing pro-abortion stories in her shows, including having the "Scandal" lead have an abortion while Silent Night plays in the background. Serious SJW.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 11:04 AM (NOIQH)

320 [ x ] Crazy Christers who will deprive their child of life saving medical care because....well...they're Christians. And because of that, they are crazy


Another show that can eat a bag of dicks.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:59 AM (J+eG2)

Ignoring the fact that mainstream Christians have nothing against modern medicine. Christian Science and Jehovah's Witnesses are different stories.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 11:04 AM (0mRoj)

321 Earl of Hurlingbone."

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 11:02 AM (0mRoj)


Heh. That shall now be my Porno name.

Posted by: Crazy Train Conductor at May 05, 2017 11:04 AM (z79tQ)

322 "Aren't all modern TV shows like that? "

Is it Last Man Standing, with Tim Allen that has a conservative bend to it?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:04 AM (J+eG2)

323 314. New alias surname - chosen.

Palpatine Hurlingbone, of the Somerset Hurlingbones.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 11:04 AM (TwwWO)

324 Another show that can eat a bag of dicks.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:59 AM

I have an antidote - "turn it off" button. What posses people to watch this shit ? It's not like it is required.

Posted by: Temporal Flux at May 05, 2017 11:05 AM (c6/9Q)

325 Temporal Flux fluxed me

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 11:06 AM (c6/9Q)

326 I saw the Hurling Bones open for Black Obelisk at Stonehenge '68.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 05, 2017 11:06 AM (dvTVo)

327 325 Temporal Flux fluxed me
Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 11:06 AM (c6/9Q)

Your lucky it was brief and not an Aeon.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 11:06 AM (0mRoj)

328 Although, 'Somerset Hurlingbone Qan' would be my official title.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 11:06 AM (TwwWO)

329 Poker Night? More like Pokies Night.

Posted by: The Editorial Board of National Geographic (Classic Edition) at May 05, 2017 11:06 AM (j0ch/)

330 What comes after Idiocracy?

SMOD

Posted by: dantesed at May 05, 2017 11:06 AM (88xKn)

331 New alias surname - chosen.

Palpatine Hurlingbone, of the Somerset Hurlingbones.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 11:04 AM (TwwWO)


Would you be related to Cedric Hurlingbone, of the Shropshire Slashers?

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 05, 2017 11:07 AM (hLRSq)

332 Morning all. Trump impeached yet?

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 05, 2017 11:07 AM (O2RFr)

333 323 314. New alias surname - chosen.

Palpatine Hurlingbone, of the Somerset Hurlingbones.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 11:04 AM (TwwWO)

Nice. Need to work in a "the third" and you're golden.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 11:07 AM (0mRoj)

334 They could use more of that today.

For example, how is it that in The Walking Dead, which is set in Georgia, none of the characters have a southern accent?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 05, 2017 10:36 AM (4AVeu)


Huh? All the British actors they hire do southern accents just fine.

Now, I haven't watched the current season, but it's not set in Georgia anymore. They're in the DC area.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 05, 2017 11:07 AM (TOk1P)

335 Temporal Flux fluxed me

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 11:06 AM (c6/9Q)



Your lucky it was brief and not an Aeon.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 11:06 AM (0mRoj)

The Force was with me

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 11:08 AM (c6/9Q)

336 331 New alias surname - chosen.

Palpatine Hurlingbone, of the Somerset Hurlingbones.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 11:04 AM (TwwWO)


Would you be related to Cedric Hurlingbone, of the Shropshire Slashers?
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 05, 2017 11:07 AM (hLRSq)

Manchester Hooligans

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 11:08 AM (0mRoj)

337 331. Ahhh... cousin Cedric. A sharp lad, that one.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 11:08 AM (TwwWO)

338 >>What comes after Idiocracy?

Let's take a look at Venezuela, or Sweden, or Germany....

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 11:08 AM (NOIQH)

339 Mroning Horde. Boy, what a week.

Posted by: Infidel at May 05, 2017 11:09 AM (uKRys)

340 Morning all....I miss anything interesting?

Posted by: Tami at May 05, 2017 11:09 AM (Enq6K)

341 "Let's take a look at Venezuela, or Sweden, or Germany....""



Maybe time for a quick peek at Revelation?


I often wonder.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:10 AM (J+eG2)

342 337 331. Ahhh... cousin Cedric. A sharp lad, that one.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 11:08 AM (TwwWO)

As sharp as the top of the Queen's Guard's hats, eh wot?

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 11:10 AM (0mRoj)

343 New alias surname - chosen.

Palpatine Hurlingbone, of the Somerset Hurlingbones.




Cousin! Fancy meeting you here!
Posted by: Dick Throwabone of the Savannah Throwabones

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2017 11:10 AM (o+pgY)

344 cartoonish. Like A Streetcar Named . . .

Posted by: simplemind at May 05, 2017 11:10 AM (xVRrG)

345 Another show that can eat a bag of dicks.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:59 AM

Aren't all modern TV shows like that?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2017 11:02 AM (IqV8l)


Not really, no.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 05, 2017 11:11 AM (TOk1P)

346 Well helloooooooo chizzle-tits!

Posted by: Corona at May 05, 2017 11:11 AM (OYxyz)

347 Getting closer.

Now how about that 'VARGAS GIRLS' expose?

Posted by: Meremortal at May 05, 2017 11:12 AM (3myMJ)

348 Last Man Standing is pretty good, VIA.
I don't watch it regularly, only in syndication - and that occasionally.
But it's funny. Plus, Nancy Travis. Rawr!

Posted by: Fried Baloney Sandwich at May 05, 2017 11:12 AM (xgKhT)

349 Well, I sent in a sample to Ancestry.com and guess what? I'm a member of the nobility! On your knees, serfs!

Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke at May 05, 2017 11:12 AM (dvTVo)

350 New alias surname - chosen.

Palpatine Hurlingbone, of the Somerset Hurlingbones.




Cousin! Fancy meeting you here!
Posted by: Dick Throwabone of the Savannah Throwabones



*snort*

Posted by: Tobias Strokebone at May 05, 2017 11:12 AM (QQ+il)

351 348 Last Man Standing is pretty good, VIA.
I don't watch it regularly, only in syndication - and that occasionally.
But it's funny. Plus, Nancy Travis. Rawr!


I watch it too. I highly recommend it...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 05, 2017 11:12 AM (O2RFr)

352 333. Excellent!

https://goo.gl/images/IriuXJ

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 11:13 AM (TwwWO)

353 I powerwatched Season 1 of The Expanse over the last two days. Very enjoyable.

Posted by: Tobias Strokebone at May 05, 2017 11:13 AM (QQ+il)

354 And speaking of conservative TV shows, anybody know when season 4 of 'The Last Ship' is going to start?

Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke at May 05, 2017 11:13 AM (dvTVo)

355 OM Hurlingbone - The CIA says thanks for your registration sample.

Posted by: Strobe at May 05, 2017 11:14 AM (gbWkA)

356 Well, I sent in a sample to Ancestry.com and guess what? I'm a member of the nobility! On your knees, serfs!


Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke at May 05, 2017 11:12 AM (dvTVo)

Good Lord, my dear fellow, I heard Prince Phillip is stepping aside. I don't suppose you would consider stepping in ?

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 11:15 AM (c6/9Q)

357 352 333. Excellent!

https://goo.gl/images/IriuXJ
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 11:13 AM (TwwWO)

Hah!

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 11:15 AM (0mRoj)

358 If it hasn't been mentioned already, in the original Broadway production, Blanche was played by Jessica Tandy.


http://tinyurl.com/n4aeokx

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 11:15 AM (X6fMO)

359 So I watched some of Grey's Anatomy with Mrs VIA last night.

[ X ] Heterosexual female with incurable medical condition who wants to have sex with as many men as possible before she dies? And an understanding medical Staff who supports her goal

[ X ] Lesbian Doctors who describe their desire to have sex with each other.

[ x ] Crazy Christers who will deprive their child of life saving medical care because....well...they're Christians. And because of that, they are crazy


Another show that can eat a bag of dicks.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 10:59 AM (J+eG2)


Noodling around the channels last night and was met with ads for a show now on HGTV about two gay men who are rescue designing for people who just can't stand their homes anymore. Oh, and the gays are a couple and have a little baby they bought from somewhere. The ad still shot shows the two of them kissing the baby and the baby's horrified expression, which sums up my opinion of the show.
I find it so incredibly telling that HGTV cancelled a prospective remodel show of two brothers who had actively donated and supported a organization fighting gay marriage before the SC decision. The brothers had zero plans to feature their views in the show, other than they would not agree to do remodels for gay couples living together. Obviously, HGTV feels their gay audience needs remodel shows they can relate to , since remodeling is all about featuring your alternative lifestyle, not the remodel itself.

Then , I happened across an ad for a new TLC episode of Say Yes to the Dress, that will feature a man who is "marrying" his wife's friend . Yes, there will be three of them. Only a matter of time before that is legal, so why not get ahead on this, they have already featured lesbians coming in for wedding attire.

Not to mention the stupid cooking contests featuring kids having to come up with recipes in fifteen minutes using gummy worms and onions.

TV is pretty much worthless most of the time.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 05, 2017 11:15 AM (bJ+bK)

360 349
Well, I sent in a sample to Ancestry.com and guess what? I'm a member of the nobility! On your knees, serfs!


Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke at May 05, 2017 11:12 AM (dvTVo)

Nigerian Prince?

No, you can't have my banking acct. number.

Posted by: Tami at May 05, 2017 11:16 AM (Enq6K)

361 357. It is cinco de mayo - spanish for gringos get to drink, too.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 11:16 AM (TwwWO)

362 artisanal 'ette, thanks for that Prager link. I'm listening to it right now.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 11:03 AM (sBOL1)


you're welcome

cleared up some of my questions

I liked the caller who had a child with epilepsy, that Prager's guest took.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 05, 2017 11:16 AM (fceHP)

363 Morning all. Trump impeached yet?

Posted by: It's Me donna


We and eh will anything from asthma to cancer and the list goes on - on the alphabet. Trumpcare uh, has put Zoe's future at risk.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at May 05, 2017 11:17 AM (HTdUD)

364 Well, I sent in a sample to Ancestry.com and guess what? I'm a member of the nobility! On your knees, serfs!


Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke at May 05, 2017 11:12 AM (dvTVo)


You could at least say "please."

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 05, 2017 11:17 AM (X6fMO)

365 It is cinco de mayo - spanish for gringos get to drink, too.

-
Wake me when it's Cinco de Spanko.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 05, 2017 11:17 AM (Nwg0u)

366 I'm watching Speedy Gonzales cartoons and eating turkey sammiches with mayo in honor of cinco de mayo.

Posted by: Strobe at May 05, 2017 11:17 AM (gbWkA)

367 Refined airs = boobehs? OK

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2017 11:18 AM (0deF2)

368 Henceforth I shall be Lord Insomniac Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 05, 2017 11:18 AM (0mRoj)

369 >>And speaking of conservative TV shows, anybody know when season 4 of 'The Last Ship' is going to start?


OM, it was just announced that production has been delayed - the lead actor is battling depression. So you'll have to wait a bit...

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 11:19 AM (NOIQH)

370 I'm watching Speedy Gonzales cartoons and eating turkey sammiches with mayo in honor of cinco de mayo.
Posted by: Strobe at May 05, 2017 11:17 AM (gbWkA)

LOL...

Waiting for Trump to stop into a Taco Bell.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 05, 2017 11:19 AM (bJ+bK)

371 I could maybe get a job as the Court Jester for the Hurlingbones, yes?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:19 AM (J+eG2)

372 I watch it too. I highly recommend it...
Posted by: It's Me donna at May 05, 2017 11:12 AM (O2RFr)


Two thumbs up for Last Man Standing. It's clever, well written, and all the characters are likeable, even the kneejerk progressive son-in-law.

Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke at May 05, 2017 11:19 AM (dvTVo)

373 >>Henceforth I shall be Lord Insomniac Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy.


OK, this is all starting get a bit fancy with all those poppinjay-sounding names. Is this place going to start requiring pants?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 11:20 AM (NOIQH)

374 I could maybe get a job as the Court Jester for the Hurlingbones, yes?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:19 AM (J+eG2)


No, but we do have several openings for pissboys.

(Oh, wait, that doesn't sound good...)

Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke at May 05, 2017 11:21 AM (dvTVo)

375 What comes after Idiocracy?



-

The Four Horsemen.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 05, 2017 10:57 AM (Nwg0u)

I've got $20 on 'Pale Horse' in the third.

Posted by: Roland THTG at May 05, 2017 11:21 AM (baYK5)

376 Mary Hartman is dead?

Posted by: That deplorable guy who always asks... at May 05, 2017 11:21 AM (Tyii7)

377 I've always relied on the kindness of strangers.

Posted by: Blanche DuBois at May 05, 2017 11:22 AM (ZO497)

378 Dad is pretty big into the ancestry.com thing. He has our family tree mapped out to the first century AD. One of my ancestors was a Welsh warlord named Arthur, so I got that going for me. Now I just need some moistened bint to lob a scimitar at me and I'm good to go.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 05, 2017 11:22 AM (kTF2Z)

379


Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke

Feh.

Posted by: Lord Spatchcock at May 05, 2017 11:22 AM (326rv)

380 OM, it was just announced that production has been delayed - the lead actor is battling depression. So you'll have to wait a bit...

TV Guide says that seasons four and five were being shot back-to-back.

And that Season four is in the can already, so as not to impact the season premier, which should occur as scheduled.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:22 AM (J+eG2)

381 OMG NOOOOOOOKO!

Porn star's underwater shoot goes horribly wrong when SHARK takes a bite out of her leg

From Drudge

And you thought tentacle porn was bad.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 05, 2017 11:23 AM (Nwg0u)

382 I've always loved the Hurlingbones.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 05, 2017 11:23 AM (Tyii7)

383
Then , I happened across an ad for a new TLC episode of Say Yes to the Dress, that will feature a man who is "marrying" his wife's friend . Yes, there will be three of them. Only a matter of time before that is legal, so why not get ahead on this, they have already featured lesbians coming in for wedding attire.
---

I used to watch Say Yes to the Dress because it's mindless.

This season, they've gone full SJW, and now have a gay black guy as a consultant, in the fitting room with the ladies. A few episodes they had a "transgender" getting married, but really, I think he was a cross dresser. Or maybe a female impersonator. It's all about the Agenda now, which means I have turned it off.

Posted by: shibumi at May 05, 2017 11:23 AM (8zWAk)

384 "No, but we do have several openings for pissboys.

(Oh, wait, that doesn't sound good...)"

Sad trombone

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:23 AM (J+eG2)

385 It's clever, well written, and all the characters are likeable, even the kneejerk progressive son-in-law.

Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke


I can only deal with him in small doses. The wife, still hot. Hard to believe she was the 'mom' in Three Men and a Baby all those decades ago.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 05, 2017 11:24 AM (HTdUD)

386 So, yesterday was May the 4th be with you and today is cinco de mayo. Why hasen't holloywood made a Star Wars movie with an all mexicao cast? Speedy Gonzales meets Darth Vader.

Posted by: Strobe at May 05, 2017 11:24 AM (gbWkA)

387 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:22 AM (J+eG2)

Thank you for the update.

Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke at May 05, 2017 11:25 AM (dvTVo)

388 No, you can't have my banking acct. number.


Posted by: Tami at May 05, 2017 11:16 AM (Enq6K)

Already have it

Posted by: NSA at May 05, 2017 11:25 AM (QPdNE)

389 >>Then , I happened across an ad for a new TLC episode of Say Yes to the
Dress, that will feature a man who is "marrying" his wife's friend .
Yes, there will be three of them. Only a matter of time before that is
legal, so why not get ahead on this, they have already featured lesbians
coming in for wedding attire.


Ugh, yes. Just our entertainment programmers normalizing the idea in advance of the legal push for it.

SYTTD is a guilty pleasure of mine, and they have done episodes with a transgender and various lesbian couples that are trainwreck tv. The transgender guy picked a dress with an open back - and I learned that men can not only not fix their adams apple and man-hands with drugs/surgery, they can't make their back look feminine. Oh, my.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 11:25 AM (NOIQH)

390 373 >>Henceforth I shall be Lord Insomniac Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy.


OK, this is all starting get a bit fancy with all those poppinjay-sounding names. Is this place going to start requiring pants?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 11:20 AM (NOIQH)

Pants are for the commoners, dear lady.

Posted by: Lord Insomniac Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 05, 2017 11:26 AM (0mRoj)

391 What comes after Idiocracy?
=====================
A boy and his dog

http://tinyurl.com/mf8vtof

Posted by: simplemind at May 05, 2017 11:27 AM (xVRrG)

392 I'm watching Speedy Gonzales cartoons and eating turkey sammiches with mayo in honor of cinco de mayo.

Pat Boone: "Speedy Gonzales"

http://tinyurl.com/n23bwj5

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 05, 2017 11:28 AM (X6fMO)

393 A few episodes they had a "transgender" getting married, but really, I think he was a cross dresser. Or maybe a female impersonator.
--------

See, I am so not with it that I don't have any idea what's the difference between all those.

And, please no one put me any knowledge on that.

They just seem to keep making up new categories for things that are, at best, minor variations of the same malady. At least, that's what it looks like to this cisnormative person of the female persuasion.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 11:28 AM (sBOL1)

394 Heh, shibumi- the trans guy had an implanted rack, so he was at least partially committed to the change. Of course he chose a gown with a plunging neckline to showcase the tits.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 11:28 AM (NOIQH)

395 Watching TV, you'd think only gay dudes sell homes.

Posted by: josephistan at May 05, 2017 11:28 AM (7HtZB)

396 Noodling around the channels last night and was met with ads for a show now on HGTV about two gay men


Wait, wut? HGTV features homos?

From the TV in the gym locker room I have learned that everyone in Canada is apparently homosexual and looking to fix up their houses.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 05, 2017 11:28 AM (SRKgf)

397 The numbers are out.

Unemployment seems to have dropped.

Hugely.


And unexpectedly.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:28 AM (J+eG2)

398 Might as well join the family.

Posted by: Notorius Hurlingbone, Bfd. at May 05, 2017 11:29 AM (Tyii7)

399 I powerwatched Season 1 of The Expanse over the last two days. Very enjoyable.

Posted by: Tobias Strokebone at May 05, 2017 11:13 AM (QQ+il)


Yes it is. I looked into season 2, and decided I'll wait for it to come down in price from whatever it is now to my price range. Which is $0.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 05, 2017 11:29 AM (TOk1P)

400 Trousers

Posted by: Rutles at May 05, 2017 11:29 AM (IqV8l)

401 So, yesterday was May the 4th be with you and today is cinco de mayo. Why hasen't holloywood made a Star Wars movie with an all mexicao cast? Speedy Gonzales meets Darth Vader.

Posted by: Strobe at May 05, 2017 11:24 AM (gbWkA)



I watched a bit of the Force Awakens on cable last night. What a boring movie. The acting was very bad especially the limey girl. Justin Trudeau as Darth Vader Jr was too much of a pajama boy to be taken seriously and everything else was CGI. And they obviously went out of their way to make the cast as check the box diverse as possible.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 05, 2017 11:29 AM (auHtY)

402 Wait, wut? HGTV features homos?

Yup, My Husband calls it Homo Gardens TV ..


I denounce myself...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 05, 2017 11:30 AM (O2RFr)

403 HGTV features homos?

-
No, that's Home Fruit TV.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 05, 2017 11:30 AM (Nwg0u)

404 402 Wait, wut? HGTV features homos?

Yup, My Husband calls it Homo Gardens TV ..


I denounce myself...
Posted by: It's Me donna at May 05, 2017 11:30 AM (O2RFr)

Denounce your husband to the secret police and you might be forgiven.

Posted by: Lord Insomniac Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 05, 2017 11:31 AM (0mRoj)

405 Pants are for the commoners, dear lady.

Posted by: Lord Insomniac Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 05, 2017 11:26 AM (0mRoj)


That reminds me of the apocryphal sentiment attributed to a young English lord who had just had sex for the first time and announced that it was too good for the poor.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 11:31 AM (X6fMO)

406

A different perspective.

Mark Levin trashes TrumpCare, says obamacare was never repealed.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 05, 2017 11:31 AM (fceHP)

407 Just heard on the radio that St. Tray on is receiving a posthumous BS degree from some outfit called Florida Memorial University in -- get this -- Aerospace Science.

See? HE WAS TURNING HIS LIFE AROUND!

Posted by: That Deplorable SOB Van Owen at May 05, 2017 11:31 AM (IJX6l)

408 Viceroys Viscount, 3rd Earl of Vulgarities

Posted by: Strobe at May 05, 2017 11:31 AM (gbWkA)

409 OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke

I'm pretty comfortable saying that IRL, you could easily pass
yourself off as Lord Fappingstroke, especially in the British
Aisles. Probably on any UK website as well.

Those Brits they love their royalty, plus have a knack for strange names
so I think you're golden.

Posted by: shibumi at May 05, 2017 11:31 AM (8zWAk)

410 How soon till Disney rebrands Snow White as a lesbian.


And Frosty the Snow man is no longer caucasian?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:32 AM (J+eG2)

411 >>And, please no one put me any knowledge on that.


Bluebell, it was a wild episode to watch because of all the other people in the shop falling over themselves to celebrate this transgender getting a dress - the mom, friends (including other trans), the bridal shop staff. All the "Oh, I feel so proud of myself for helping this man pretend to be a bride!" moments were fascinating. Seems to be about people getting off on their own empathy and "tolerance."

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 11:32 AM (NOIQH)

412 Heh.....this fellow sounds like he could have been a 'ron.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 11:32 AM (TwwWO)

413 That reminds me of the apocryphal sentiment attributed to a young English lord who had just had sex for the first time and announced that it was too good for the poor.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 11:31 AM (X6fMO)

We don't want them enjoying themselves or *gasp* reproducing now do we, my good sir?

Posted by: Lord Insomniac Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 05, 2017 11:33 AM (0mRoj)

414 The numbers are out.
Unemployment seems to have dropped.
Hugely.
And unexpectedly.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice


Yes, but the acid test, 'Labor Participation Rate' is *still* tumbling.

Almost as if more people are entering the country every day, being counted, and not working. Seems like that's something someone should do something about.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 05, 2017 11:33 AM (HTdUD)

415 The Expanse is a book series, and a pretty good one. For the first three books, anyways.

I'd recommend reading them if you like the show.

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 05, 2017 11:34 AM (Rppij)

416 We don't want them enjoying themselves or *gasp* reproducing now do we, my good sir?

Don't worry we can take care of that

Posted by: Ye olde Planned Parenthood... at May 05, 2017 11:34 AM (O2RFr)

417 HGTV not as homo as you would think. So something had to be done .

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 05, 2017 11:34 AM (g4YTo)

418 I watched a bit of the Force Awakens on cable last night. What a boring movie. The acting was very bad especially the limey girl. Justin Trudeau as Darth Vader Jr was too much of a pajama boy to be taken seriously and everything else was CGI. And they obviously went out of their way to make the cast as check the box diverse as possible.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 05, 2017 11:29 AM (auHtY)

As someone else pointed out, the trick is to watch it as the Disney Princess Movie that it is.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at May 05, 2017 11:34 AM (fD1ST)

419 Storm Trooper lives matter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 05, 2017 11:34 AM (eZ0Cd)

420 Heh, shibumi- the trans guy had an implanted rack, so he was at least partially committed to the change. Of course he chose a gown with a plunging neckline to showcase the tits.
--
Thanks Lizzy. I couldn't remember where he was in his "change," just that I was appalled by the dress and the whole SJW thing.

Sigh.

Another thing that liberals have ruined.

Posted by: shibumi at May 05, 2017 11:34 AM (8zWAk)

421 Just heard on the radio that St. Tray on is receiving a posthumous BS degree from some outfit called Florida Memorial University in -- get this -- Aerospace Science.

-
Every bit as valid as Obozo's Harvard law degree.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 05, 2017 11:34 AM (Nwg0u)

422 "That reminds me of the apocryphal sentiment attributed to a young English lord who had just had sex for the first time and announced that it was too good for the poor. "

Sounds like when the Admiral asked the Master Chief if sex was fun, or work.

Master Chief responded that it must be fun.

Cause if it were work, they would have the Enlisted doing it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:35 AM (J+eG2)

423 Cinco de Mayo - A day for celebrating a French defeat.

otherwise known as any other day ending in Y

Posted by: IP at May 05, 2017 11:35 AM (2hqkh)

424 Noodling around the channels last night and was met with ads for a show now on HGTV about two gay men who are rescue designing for people who just can't stand their homes anymore. Oh, and the gays are a couple and have a little baby they bought from somewhere. The ad still shot shows the two of them kissing the baby and the baby's horrified expression, which sums up my opinion of the show.
I find it so incredibly telling that HGTV cancelled a prospective remodel show of two brothers who had actively donated and supported a organization fighting gay marriage before the SC decision.




Bingo. HGTV believes that two homos are to be promoted and two Christians to be removed from the air. The hell with them

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 05, 2017 11:36 AM (auHtY)

425 The painting: Dogs Playing Poker, Before Snickers?

Posted by: mindful webworker - arte critique at May 05, 2017 11:36 AM (l/Pix)

426 That reminds me of the apocryphal sentiment
attributed to a young English lord who had just had sex for the first
time and announced that it was too good for the poor.



Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 11:31 AM (X6fMO)

odd, history teaches us that young English lords lost it to busty beer wenches

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 11:36 AM (c6/9Q)

427 Cinco de Mayo - A day for celebrating a French defeat.


Also known as May 8 2017

Posted by: it's me donna at May 05, 2017 11:36 AM (O2RFr)

428 Just heard on the radio that St. Tray on is receiving a posthumous BS degree from some outfit called Florida Memorial University in -- get this -- Aerospace Science.

-----------

Which still makes him more of a scientist than Bill Nye

Posted by: josephistan at May 05, 2017 11:36 AM (7HtZB)

429 How soon till Disney rebrands Snow White as a lesbian.




And Frosty the Snow man is no longer caucasian?
--

Snow White will be a muslim lesbian.

As for Frosty, yeah, he can't be white anymore. He's going to have to be a gay muslim who has two daddies.

Posted by: shibumi at May 05, 2017 11:37 AM (8zWAk)

430 I've been watching the Son. A wall of Gatling guns would be better than the Great Wall of Trump.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 05, 2017 11:37 AM (eZ0Cd)

431 How soon till Disney rebrands Snow White as a lesbian.

Rule34dotXXX

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 11:38 AM (X6fMO)

432 407 Just heard on the radio that St. Tray on is receiving a posthumous BS degree from some outfit called Florida Memorial University in -- get this -- Aerospace Science.

See? HE WAS TURNING HIS LIFE AROUND!
Posted by: That Deplorable SOB Van Owen at May 05, 2017 11:31 AM (IJX6l)



What are the odds are late great savior could actually spell "aerospace science?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 05, 2017 11:38 AM (SRKgf)

433
odd, history teaches us that young English lords lost it to busty beer wenches
--

"underparlor maids" and "kitchen servants"

Posted by: shibumi at May 05, 2017 11:38 AM (8zWAk)

434 moments were fascinating. Seems to be about people getting off on their own empathy and "tolerance."
=================

Sanctimonious. Except their religion is progressivism. They have to make a literal "show" of it. So meta to have a show, about making a show of your 'enlightenment' which is really quite the opposite.

Every time I think there is nothing left to descend to, the culture trots out some fresh hell.

Posted by: simplemind at May 05, 2017 11:38 AM (xVRrG)

435 If we had a holiday for each French defeat we could all retire.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 05, 2017 11:38 AM (eZ0Cd)

436 I used to watch Say Yes to the Dress because it's mindless.

This season, they've gone full SJW, and now have a gay black guy as a consultant, in the fitting room with the ladies. A few episodes they had a "transgender" getting married, but really, I think he was a cross dresser. Or maybe a female impersonator. It's all about the Agenda now, which means I have turned it off.
Posted by: shibumi at May 05, 2017 11:23 AM (8zWAk)

I also watched it for not just the mindlessness and because most of us only get one time in our life to pick out the full bridal gown ensemble. So this was a way to relive that experience through someone else.

I have watched a few episodes this year and find most of them are either full out SJW, or have featured a bride who brings all of her bridesmaids, her parents, her groom and six cousins to the appointment.

I have to question how much of that is scripted and how much is real. I don't remember any of my friends, myself, or even my nieces taking a dozen people to a dress shopping appointment. Mother, maid of honor, possibly an aunt or the groom's mother(that used to be rare).

Posted by: Jen the original at May 05, 2017 11:38 AM (bJ+bK)

437 423 Cinco de Mayo - A day for celebrating a French defeat.

otherwise known as any other day ending in Y
Posted by: IP at May 05, 2017 11:35 AM (2hqkh)

Either you or IC will have to come up with a different nic. I'm easily confused.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 05, 2017 11:39 AM (g4YTo)

438 Yes, but the acid test, 'Labor Participation Rate' is *still* tumbling.
Almost as if more people are entering the country every day, being counted, and not working. Seems like that's something someone should do something about.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 05, 2017 11:33 AM (HTdUD)


Right. Prior to November, the Democrats were all about the low employment numbers and how wonderful the economy is under Obama, and they'd get snippy if you brought up the Labor Participation Rate. But since the EnTrumpening, they'll be all about the Labor Participation Rate, and lets impeach Trump serious you guys.

Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke at May 05, 2017 11:39 AM (dvTVo)

439 As someone else pointed out, the trick is to watch it as the Disney Princess Movie that it is.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at May 05, 2017 11:34 AM (fD1ST)



I watched it as the limey girl being the new Luke Skywalker and the mostest powerfulest Jedi ever. The black guy being the new Han Solo, diversity everywhere, Anthony Daniels didn't sound like his old self, Carrie Fisher looked like she died prior to making that movie, a lot of CGI that looked like a video game and a rehash of old Star Wars movie plots.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 05, 2017 11:39 AM (auHtY)

440 Is there any evidence St. Tray-tray could make change for a dollar without a calculator, much less solve even a 7th grade equation

Posted by: Moron Robbie at May 05, 2017 11:40 AM (fD1ST)

441 underparlor maids" and "kitchen servants"


Posted by: shibumi at May 05, 2017 11:38 AM (8zWAk)

yep, underparlor

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 11:40 AM (c6/9Q)

442 Either you or IC will have to come up with a different nic. I'm easily confused.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 05, 2017 11:39 AM (g4YTo)


IC needs to start calling herself Lady Hurlingbone.

Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke at May 05, 2017 11:40 AM (dvTVo)

443 Why didn't the Storm Trooper turn his blaster rifle sideways and fail to hit anything?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 05, 2017 11:40 AM (eZ0Cd)

444 I've been re-watching the BBC series World at War. I love the history and the interviews with German & Japanese high command and other principals. Plus the Krauts and Japs loose each time I watch.

Posted by: Strobe at May 05, 2017 11:41 AM (gbWkA)

445 What are the odds are late great savior could actually spell "aerospace science?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 05, 2017 11:38 AM (SRKgf)



What are the odds he could spell his own name?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 05, 2017 11:41 AM (auHtY)

446 421 Just heard on the radio that St. Tray on is receiving a posthumous BS degree from some outfit called Florida Memorial University in -- get this -- Aerospace Science.

-
Every bit as valid as Obozo's Harvard law degree.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 05, 2017 11:34 AM (Nwg0u)



Or the Ph.D. of DR. John Gray, Ph.D. (author of "Men are from Mars," etc.), who got his "Ph.D." from Close Cover Before Striking University after an intensive week of studies.

I guess it took a while for the check to clear.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 05, 2017 11:41 AM (SRKgf)

447 It's been five years since 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's life was stolen from him after he was gunned down while walking home from the convenience store by George Zimmerman, who was eventually acquitted of murder charges in his death. The case sparked national outrage and Trayvon, though gone, has never been forgotten. And now, this month, the Florida Memorial University is planning to honor Trayvon's lifelong dream of becoming a pilot by posthumously awarding Trayvon, who would be 22 if he were alive, with a bachelor's degree in aeronautical science during its annual spring commencement ceremony May 13.

Sky pilot Trayvon Martin.

http://tinyurl.com/n655xae

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 05, 2017 11:41 AM (Nwg0u)

448 Bluebell, it was a wild episode to watch because of all the other people in the shop falling over themselves to celebrate this transgender getting a dress - the mom, friends (including other trans), the bridal shop staff. All the "Oh, I feel so proud of myself for helping this man pretend to be a bride!" moments were fascinating. Seems to be about people getting off on their own empathy and "tolerance."
Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 11:32 AM (NOIQH)
------

And thus making a mockery of real marriage.

I'm glad all that stuff wasn't around when I was getting married. And I only went to a couple shops, because I couldn't find anything I liked better than my mother's wedding dress, so I wound up wearing that and was very happy. But I presume I'll have to go wedding dress shopping with my girls some day, and if we run into a scene like that, we'll be outta there so fast we'll leave a plume of dust.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 11:41 AM (sBOL1)

449 history teaches us that young English lords lost it to busty beer wenches


Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 11:36 AM (c6/9Q)


In Roman times, many of the serving girls working at a tabernae could also be taken upstairs and dallied with, for a price.

I can think of a few bartenders I know with whom I'd be willing to revive this custom.

In the spirit of historical inquiry, of course.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 11:41 AM (X6fMO)

450 I watched it as the limey girl being the new Luke Skywalker and the mostest powerfulest Jedi ever. The black guy being the new Han Solo, diversity everywhere, Anthony Daniels didn't sound like his old self, Carrie Fisher looked like she died prior to making that movie, a lot of CGI that looked like a video game and a rehash of old Star Wars movie plots.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 05, 2017 11:39 AM (auHtY)


All Star Wars movie plots are rehashes of old Star Wars movie plots.

Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke at May 05, 2017 11:41 AM (dvTVo)

451 Another look at Mikey "the Gentle Giant" Brown for a Nobel Peace Prize?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:42 AM (J+eG2)

452 Trayvon, who would be 22 if he were alive, with a bachelor's degree in aeronautical science during its annual spring commencement ceremony May 13.

Thing is he probably wouldn't have made it to 22 anyway...

Posted by: it's me donna at May 05, 2017 11:42 AM (O2RFr)

453 Star Wars... episodes 4,5,&6 are worth watching, as time killers. The rest are not worth the trouble. The early ones were not PC, and thus tolerable.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2017 11:43 AM (zSVEm)

454 450. Which are all rehashes of 'The Secret Fortress,' filtered thru Joseph Campbell's moronic pop-Jungianism.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 05, 2017 11:43 AM (TwwWO)

455 Posted by: Jen the original at May 05, 2017 11:38 AM (bJ+bK)


That reminds me, I need to buy a new remote. The "off" button is worn out on the present one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 05, 2017 11:43 AM (SRKgf)

456 >>I have watched a few episodes this year and find most of them are either
full out SJW, or have featured a bride who brings all of her
bridesmaids, her parents, her groom and six cousins to the appointment.


Yeah, this season has felt different. A lot of the brides' self-absorption is over the top. And the vocal fry - don't get me started about how prevalent that has become in newer episodes! Think the show has been on long enough that these brides are scripting out the event, the whole thing feels staged.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2017 11:43 AM (NOIQH)

457 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at May 05, 2017 11:44 AM (GwIKd)

458 Gunned down while walking home from a convenience store.Mmmkay..

Posted by: steevy at May 05, 2017 11:44 AM (r/0kC)

459 I saw Rob Roy last night. Odd looking cows.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 05, 2017 11:44 AM (eZ0Cd)

460 Graphic art, not fine art.

Looks like the opening to Good Times. Dy-no-miiiite!

Posted by: red speck at May 05, 2017 11:45 AM (RcEOo)

461 "or have featured a bride who brings all of her bridesmaids, her parents, her groom and six cousins to the appointment. "

In some cultures, that would be a total of her, and six other people.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:45 AM (J+eG2)

462 I have to question how much of that is scripted and how much is real. I don't remember any of my friends, myself, or even my nieces taking a dozen people to a dress shopping appointment. Mother, maid of honor, possibly an aunt or the groom's mother(that used to be rare).
---
Don't forget the gay best friend, the gay wedding planner, Dad, step-Dad, the groom, grooms best friend, grandmother and so on.

I suspect a lot more is scripted than we realize; I can't believe how bitchy some people are with the bride, and how inappropriate some of the dresses are.


Posted by: shibumi at May 05, 2017 11:45 AM (8zWAk)

463 Trayvon's lifelong dream of becoming a pilot


He probably had a lifelong dream of porking a blonde, too. What are they going to do about that?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 05, 2017 11:46 AM (SRKgf)

464 Star Wars... episodes 4,5,6 are worth watching, as time killers. The rest are not worth the trouble. The early ones were not PC, and thus tolerable.
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2017 11:43 AM (zSVEm)


For our anniversary last night, Mrs. Muse and I had a nice dinner out, then back to the homestead for dessert and a viewing of the "despecialized" version of Star Wars Ep., IV. A good time was had by all.

Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke at May 05, 2017 11:46 AM (dvTVo)

465 Right. Prior to November, the Democrats were all about the low employment numbers and how wonderful the economy is under Obama, and they'd get snippy if you brought up the Labor Participation Rate. But since the EnTrumpening, they'll be all about the Labor Participation Rate, and lets impeach Trump serious you guys.

Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke


I try to look at that number, your highness, not through a political filter, but only as a
[x] concerned conservative citizen
[ ] not concerned

It's continuously dropped through both Bush terms, both Obama terms, and I kinda hoped for at least a leveling off with Trump. It's still early, but adding tens of thousands of immigrants to the 'not employed' side of the equation every couple months is what I think is skewing the numbers.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 05, 2017 11:46 AM (HTdUD)

466 Tray-tray was once required to write an answer to the "what do you want to be" question, and he saw that the ink pen he had stolen earlier had "Pilot" written on it, and he knew he would get points for spelling it correctly before resuming making jokes about homosexuals and dreaming of getting high after class.

And now he's more of a scientist than Bill Nye.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at May 05, 2017 11:46 AM (fD1ST)

467 Oh, and I finally watched " Suicide Squad " last night. Jeesh, what a mess. Will Smith actually turns his niner on the side when he points it at someone. This is the " never miss" shooter guy...
Did not like one character in the mix.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2017 11:46 AM (zSVEm)

468 In Roman times, many of the serving girls working at a tabernae could also be taken upstairs and dallied with, for a price.



I can think of a few bartenders I know with whom I'd be willing to revive this custom.



In the spirit of historical inquiry, of course.



Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2017 11:41 AM (X6fMO)

I think this fine tradition is alive and well in some establishments, people tell me. The mob angle must adds piquancy to the experience.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 11:46 AM (c6/9Q)

469 Oh yeah, Trayvon was just minding his business when he was gunned down.
All that "forensic evidence" stuff was a lie concocted by whitey.
Lawdy I hate the left.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 05, 2017 11:46 AM (0x/TW)

470 I don't watch HGTV, but if want to see gay, try watching the PBS channel "Create".
Roy Underhill & Jacques Pepin are the most ma 's cline men on all day.

I swear, i think they actively search for the most effeminate male hosts they can find. I keep waiting for Rick Steeves & P. Allen Smith to hook up.

Posted by: Fried Baloney Sandwich at May 05, 2017 11:46 AM (xgKhT)

471 WW2=horney=baby boom

Posted by: Yo! at May 05, 2017 11:47 AM (GwIKd)

472 Impractical Jokers as wedding dress consultants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ5v3r86o9I

Posted by: josephistan at May 05, 2017 11:47 AM (7HtZB)

473 "Gunned down while walking home from a convenience store.Mmmkay.."

Seems to be a little bit of revision going on there.

But, just a little.
I'm sure just to make the sentence flow smoother.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:47 AM (J+eG2)

474 Venice bans kebab shops.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 05, 2017 11:47 AM (eZ0Cd)

475 452 Trayvon, who would be 22 if he were alive, with a bachelor's degree in aeronautical science during its annual spring commencement ceremony May 13.

Thing is he probably wouldn't have made it to 22 anyway...
Posted by: it's me donna at May 05, 2017 11:42 AM (O2RFr)



And even if he did, how many prisons offer courses in aeronautical science?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 05, 2017 11:47 AM (SRKgf)

476 "or have featured a bride who brings all of her bridesmaids, her parents, her groom and six cousins to the appointment. "

In some cultures, that would be a total of her, and six other people.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:45 AM (J+eG2)
-----------

I think I went to bridal shops twice - once with my mom, and once with my roommate (who was one of my bridesmaids; the rest of them were my sisters-in-law).

Man, I'm old.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2017 11:47 AM (sBOL1)

477 Venice Italy ?

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2017 11:48 AM (c6/9Q)

478 Swearing makes you physically stronger? Heading to the gym to do 10 reps of f#cks, 10 reps of $hits, and 5 reps of motherf#ckers.

Posted by: Popeye at May 05, 2017 11:49 AM (yOWG+)

479 nood ace.

Posted by: OregonMuse Hurlingbone, Lord Fappingstroke at May 05, 2017 11:49 AM (dvTVo)

480 >>>What comes after Idiocracy?<<<

Rapeocracy. It always comes back to rape, because they like rape.

Posted by: Fritz at May 05, 2017 11:49 AM (2Mnv1)

481 "and how inappropriate some of the dresses are. "

Don't get out much, do you.



Ten minutes at "The People of Walmart" will convince you that the word "Inappropriate" has been stricken from the dictionary.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 05, 2017 11:49 AM (J+eG2)

482 Rockville, MD: Rape charges dropped against two illegal immigrants. Child pornography charges remain.




Posted by: Tami at May 05, 2017 11:51 AM (Enq6K)

483 459 I saw Rob Roy last night. Odd looking cows.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 05, 2017 11:44 AM (eZ0Cd)

Supposed to be longed hair Highland cattle.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 05, 2017 11:52 AM (g4YTo)

484 Just heard on the radio that St. Tray on is receiving a posthumous BS degree from some outfit called Florida Memorial University in -- get this -- Aerospace Science.

See? HE WAS TURNING HIS LIFE AROUND!

Posted by: That Deplorable SOB Van Owen at May 05, 2017 11:31 AM (IJX6l)

Appropriate. That boy had a lot of aerospace between his ears.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2017 11:53 AM (0deF2)

485 459 I saw Rob Roy last night. Odd looking cows.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 05, 2017 11:44 AM (eZ0Cd)

Supposed to be longed hair Highland cattle.

Posted by: Jack Sock
****

Cow hippies?

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 05, 2017 11:55 AM (+aCe4)

486 Gunned down while walking home from a convenience store.Mmmkay..
Posted by: steevy
-----------
In many ways, this is the story of Michael Brown.

Oh, and BTW, hot off the press:
"Protester in Iconic Ferguson Photo Found Dead"

http://tinyurl.com/me9v4wf

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 05, 2017 11:58 AM (ZO497)

487 That reminds me, I need to buy a new remote. The "off" button is worn out on the present one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 05, 2017 11:43 AM (SRKgf)

I have completely given up on TV, but it seems to that a remote with huge (and luxurious) "mute" button, like a keyboard space bar, would be a hot seller. Fuckers usually hide it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2017 11:59 AM (0deF2)

488 That dress makes me want to live in a non-air-conditioned South. Those were the days! Sweaty people, shared suffering by the rich and the poor. A Utopia for sure. I think they call it Egypt?

Posted by: goon at May 05, 2017 03:57 PM (EaQ6/)

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